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THE TMM E’S.
COLUMBUS, GA.
Wdnetdu) i October 9#, 184*-
Washington Bob, Esq., has resigned
his seal in lire SOih Congress.
GBOKGIA ELECTION.
The general result is summed up as fol
low# :
The Democrat# have a majority of Sin
the Senate.
‘Hie Whig majority in the House is 8—
Tbetc is a tie ill Madison county. If a
Whig is elected, the majority will be 10—
9- counties gives Crawford 1,412 mnjmily.
county to be heard from.
THE CITY OF COLUMBUS.
We aro infottned iliat the Montgomery
and West Point Rail-Road, soon to he com
pleted to Auburn, 35 miles from Columbus,
will certainly be extended to West Point,
and expetieuce proves, that the gap from
that point to one of the other of the Georgia
.Roads, v. ill, sooner ot later, inevitably, be
filled op. It will be the only gap iu the
steam communication between New Yotk
and New Orleaus. The good people of Co
lumbus, have uot yet deckled, whether this
Road shall come to this point, or passing us
by, at a tangent 35 miles distant, pour its
tribute of travel and ptoduce into the more
enterprising and there foie more deserving
laps of out Eastern citizens. The relative
benefits and disadvantages of the two sides
of this question, have soredy puzzled our
quid nuncs. Wc have attentively listened
to all the arguments, pro and con, and in
dustriously picked up the views thrown out
by others, in order to form an oj inion of our
own. The result is, a conviction, that the
interests of Columbus demand a strenuous
efiott on her part, to bring the road this way.
It may be admitted, to be a choice of evils,
and that a Southern inland town, is best ofi
without a Rail-Road within a hundred utiles
of it—it may be admitted as is warmly con
tended, that Augusta and Macon, arc in-
stances of tiie deleterious effects of Rail-
Roads upon the prosperity of inland towns
—that they tend to break up the wagon
trade, which is a difiusive one and extends
its benefits to a great many persons, and
thereby enhances population and the value
of real estate ; and that Rail Roads on the
contrary, throwing the business of a place
into the bands of a few factors, have an op
posite lendeucy. All this may be admitted
to be Hue ;—yet we believe, that there are
circumstances in the position of Columbus,
to mitigate these ordinarily |reruiciuu re
sults in her case ; and if they were to fol-
low iu their fullest force, that they would
ootbe sogteat as those that would certainly
follow ftom a road passing us by, at West
Point.
The great argument of the opponents of
a road ftom Montgomery to Columbus, and
thence to Macon, connecting with the Cen
tral Road to Savannah, is the loss of the
scagon trade. If any mail will take the
map of Georgia, and trace the ptobnble line
of the two proposed routes, he will find that
the one passing through Columbus, will di
vert far less ot the wagon trade than the
one through West Point.
The route for a Kail-Road from Colum
bia to Macon, is lluough M Uacogee amij
Marion, culling ofi a small corner of Tal-1
hot and thence into Crawford, or perhaps,
lower down through the upper part of Hous
ton. What wagon trade would Columbus
lose from that quarter by a Rail-Road? Front
its position, tho Matiun trade would he that
most likely to leave us—but the toad would
pass through the poorest part of that county,
and a mere sterile country and ono furnish
ing less wagon trade, can scarcely be found.
We should loso little if anything from Tal
bot, and nothing from Houston or Crawford,
because that trade already belongs to Ma
con, and it would not eliecl the trade ot the
fine cotton counties below us, Stewart, Ran
dolph, Sumter and Lee. Marion, then,
would be our loss on this side of the ac
count.
Let us see what we should lose the ether
way. That road would pass through the
heart of Chambers county in Alabama, pass
near the line of Harris, through Troup and
Meriwether, and together with the wagon’
and cotton trade of these prolific planting!
counties, would drain from us the trade of.
Coweta and Heard, a part of Talbot, and ,
the little we gel from the counties above
these. We have then, to ofF-selt the loss
of Marion and a pan of Talbot, with six
OF THE BEST COUNTIES that Itade with us.
This view of the subject is conclusive upon!
the point of the wagon trade. There are
other views which we shall reserve for
auother time.
ILLINOIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
The M. E. Coiffereuce of Illinois, at their
late session passed a preamble and resolu
tions as regards the division of the Church, i
very much the same as those adopted by j
Ohio.
1. They deny the constitutionality of the
action of tho M. E. Church south, at Louis
ville. and recommend their Southern Breth
ren to oppose it.
2. They sympathize with those of the
members of the church in the South who ad
here to the church.
3. The movements of the church Suuth is
a secession.
4. The Annual Conferenca is requested to
take charge of the ministers and people Suuth
who adhere to the church.
5. The course of Dis. Bond and Elliott is
approved.
Tlie New York News says :—The Mag
netic Telegraph between New Aork sod
Philadelphia will be completed by the lOlhof
November. The wires extend up to Fort
Washington, and across the North River un
der water —passing through New Jersey to
New Hope, and down the other side of the
Delaware River to Philadelphia. This line
will be completed between Philadelphia and
Baltimore by the first of December. Between
New York and Washington will then be
complete. Buffalo, New York and Boston
will soon bs united by line new way of com
tounication.
THE LEGISLATURE AND THR U. S.SEN
ATOR.
The Enquirer “lakes lima by the fore
lock” in its prognostications of the courseof
rite Democratic State Senate in reference to
the election for U. S. Seoatoi. It takes for
granted that the Senate will refuse to go
into an election for that officer. What the
Senate will do remains to -be segn. And
the Enquirer takescouusel ftom itsowr. ap
prehensions, in condeming in advance, a
course of action which its frightened fancy
has conjured up. Or, perhaps, ihe'Enquir
! er judge* the Democrats from what it knows
the Whigs wouldjdo in litre circumstances;
’ upon the principle of “set a thief to catch a
thief.”
But, supposing the Senate should realize
the fears of the Enquirer, let us enquire
whelhei it would be so outrageous and un
democratic a procedure as the Enquirer
would make it.
In the first place, it is not necessary that
the election {Jo fill Judge Berrien's seat
should come on, at the next session of the
Legislature, aud on the score of propriety,
it may be done just as well at the succeed,
ing session. The new Senator will not take
lus seal uotil December 1847, and our next
Legislature (after the present) meets in
November 1847, so there will he no vacau
ey, before the Legislature of 1847 meets
and has time to elect. The argument as to
time, therefore, is nothing in favor of elect
ing this winter:
Ju the second place, Judge llcrtien,
notoriously misrepresents the political feel
ings aud opinions of the Stale of Georgia
upon every public question, particularly the
Tariff, the annexation of Texas and the a ho
lilioii of the Veto power. The elections es
1844 ate conclusive of this fact, and accord
ing to Whig authority, which they at least
cannot gainsay, the elections just passed do
not prove the conttary ; for even if they
have shown a popular majority of the Slate
in lavoi of Whigisin (whicti they do not, as
we shall presently show) the \\ bigs fought
the battle, so'ely upon State issues, and de
clared that the people were to decide, the
single question, “has G. W. Crawford made
a good Uovernot ?” And that Federal pol
itics had nothing to do with it.
By Whig shewing, (hen, the elections of
1844 were the fast authoritative judgement
of the people upon the principles which di
vide patliesin Fcdetal politics. It isccrtain,
that that judgement was an unequivocal
cuudemtiation of Judge Berticn.
Taking the Democratic view of the case,
the argument is still stronger. We say, that
the elections of this Fall show beyond dis
pute, that the Dc mucratic party has lost none
ol its strength since last year. Gov. Craw
ford owes hissuccess to several causes—lst
he was in office, and had “ made a good
governor” (wequote Whig authority, which
we have all along admitted) and the Whig
press humbugged many people with the
idea, that lie had perfotmed financial mira
clesfor the State, in the resuscitation of the
Central Bank, in the nppiecialion of its bills
and of State Bonds, and hail saved piles of
money to the Stale Treasury. Gov. Craw
lord, enjoying a solid popularity with the
people,—in office (a great advantage) and
having the benefit ofan unusually calm and
unexcited canvass, obtained many demo
cratic votes aud neutralized mote than he
; obtained. The Georgia Journal (W.) with
j a candor that docs itgreut credit,admits this
fact. In its comments upon Gov. Craw
ford’s re-election that paper says :
“ We feel too tlisl we ore under deep obligaiiotis
to many of our (upon Federal polities)i political op
ponents, who, justly approving ino udniiMslratton es
Governor Crawford, rallied to his. BOppnrt, despite
their attachments to, or the it.ilucncc of, paity. And
may it thus ever prove !”
The Gubernatorial vole'tlhcn, is cleatly.
no test of Federal Whig sttenglli in this
Stale. How is it, with llic'Lcgislature ?
It is to be jeinembercd that liijtiis the first
election miner the amended constitution,
widening the basis ol representation. The
Whigs were in power when the new Sena
torial Districts were organized, and every
body recollects the outcry raised against
them for so laying oil the 47 Districts, as to
give them (as they thought) a certain and
permanent ascendancy iu that body. In
spite oflhisgerrytnandeting, the Democrat
ic party has proved strong enough to over
come the oil.ls against them &. to elect a ma
jority ol 3 Senators.
Then look at the lower House. Here,
the Democratic parly suffered loss, by a
dopting the census of 1833 as the basis o(
apportionment, wbiclt gave two members to
some old Whig counties, which if the ac.
tual |K>pulatinu could have been represented,
would have transferred these members to
new Democratic counties. But, the Demo
cratic party could have overcome even this
disadvantage, had it not defeated itself by
divisions in its own ranks. Pulaski county
with a clear Dentociatic majority of 190
volets, Hulls with a maj'diiy of2oo, Walker
with 200, and Jasper with 70 tnajoiity, each
returned a Whig member. Had these
counties voted in accordance with their well
ascertained political principles, the Demo
cratic party would have held the power on
joint ballot.
With these facts in view, where is tlie
justice, die fairness, the propriety or the
shadow of a reason to demand of the
Democratic .Senate to go into an election
this winter, and send to the Senate of the
United Stales a man, who does now and
who, probably, will, Ibr the next eight years
misrepresent the people and the Slate !
Under any circumslunces, an election to
an office, the term of which endures six
years, ought to tie as near as possible to tbe
psr'od when the tenure commences, in or
der that the Representative may reflect at
the time, the will and views of his consliiu
cncy. But, under present circumstances,
when it is morally certuin, that thu census
of 1843 will make the next Legislature
largely Democratic, nothing can be more
absurd titan to contend that the ptesent
accidental and meager Whig majority has
the right to elect a Senator. If a vacancy
were to be created—if there was a pressure
for time—it any inconvenience to the public
service were to accrue from the failure to
elect this winter, it would be a different
thing. But nothing of tin sort, can he pre
tended. Jt is a plain, open and naked ques
tion. W expect the slutcesofWhig abuse
will be Opeued niton the Senate if they take
this course. This is natural—nothing is
more exciting td ‘Whig politicians that the .
prospect of losing the spoils of victory, and
much as theyliave lampooned Gov. Marcy’e |
“to the victors belong the spoils” no party
was ever more greedy in lurningfhe doctrine
to practical and piofiiahle account. Rut,
if it is right to put off the election, let the
Whig Editors vapor. It is said “fair words
will not butter parsnips” and it is equally
true, that foul ones wont make right, wrong.
But we. have a Wing precedent on this
subject furuislied by the Legislature of
Tennessee—a case exactly in point. In
1843i both branches of the Tennessee I.eg
isiatuie were Whig. A vacancy was to be
filled in tbe Senate of the Uniiod States for
a term that would expire oil the 3d. of Al arch,
1843. The Legislature elecied Mr. Foster
for the unexpired term, but refused to anti
cipate the new term of 6 years,commencing
4th March, 1845, and postponed it until the
meeting of the Legislatuie, now iu Session.
The consequence was that Tennessee lias,
been represented in the Senate by Mr. Jer
nigau, only, since last March--a conse
quence of no impoitance, as the Senate has
not been in Session, except for a few days
to act upon Executive appointments. The
Tenuessee Legislature will elect a Senator
at its ptesent Session, and he will take his
seat at the first Session oft he 30lh Congress
in December. This is the exact counter
part of what will happen in Georgia in 1847,
if Judge Berrien’s place is then fil.ed by the
Legislature.
It was our purpose to have said nothing
on this subject, aud to have left the question,
so far as we ure concerned, to the Senatorial
body, where it belongs ; hut as the Enquirer
has bounced the Democratic Senate and
fired off its gun on one side of an apocryphal
state of facts, we thought it was just as well
to show what could be said on the other, and
checkmate the favorite Whig policy of
manufacturing public opinion, in advance
of the time, when it is to he made useful.
THE MAILS.
The new arrangement for transporting the
great mail from Atlanta to Chehaw by
LaGrange, went partially into effect, on
Monday la.-t. It will not he emitely com
plete, until the Ist. of November.
The Nottheru mail for Columbus will
he supplied from Lagrange. It will he due
here al 7 a. m. and close at 1 p. ni.
We are not yet advised, how Columbus
will he supplied from the West, whether
by Lagrange, or direct from Chehaw.
The uew arrangement is anything hut
satisfactory to our citizens, who complain
that a place of the commercial importance
of Columbus is left 45 miles off the great
mail track, while it is really the nearest
route.
It is hoped that the Central Rail Hoad
will so arrange their running time, as to
make it expedient lor the Department, to
send us our mails from Charleston by way
of Savannah, and thus furnish Columbus
with an unbroken chain of mail conimuuica
lion both East and West.
COLUMBUS GUARDS.
This Company turned out for their regu
lar monthly parade, on Monday afternoon.
The weathei was most tmprnpitimis, for the
rain fell iu torrents, and the streets were an
kle deep in a flowing tide of mud and wa
ter. The company were under arms, in
spile of the weather, front three o’clock, un
til sunset, and paid a visit to Girard, where
they met a hearty welcome from the citi
zens, tendered them in an appropriate ad
dress by Dr. Baker ; Lt. Davis , in command
replied in a brief aud neat speech, and af
ter receiving the hospitalities of Capl. Ab
ercrombie and Mr. Godwin, marched hack
to a lively aii ftom the Band.
TO PLANTERS—FALSE REPORTS.
We learn that it is reported iri the country,
that the Bridge across tbe Chattahoochee is
not fice to cotton and produce wagons. The
report is false, &all such pass free us hereto
fore. There is no change in the law upon
tliis subject.
FLOUR MARKET.
The Baltimore American ol 7th instant,
says —The lasi English news lias caused
an advance of twenty five cents per lhb. in
FJuur in the New York market.
lt will be seen that the Baltimore market
felt the effect of (lie news yesterday—the
advances on Wheats being five or six cents
per bushel, and on Flour 124 cents per bar
rel.
New York letters of Saturday evening
have the following notice of die slate of the
market there al the close of that day .-
‘‘The Sieamer news lias given additional
impulse to busiuess in produce. The bad
state of the crops has sent a large amount
of orders here lor bread stuffs, and in the
market to-day full 35 a 37 ets advance was
obtained in Flour; Genesee dull at $4, 62
on Friday sold at $4,875 4,91, and $5 ask
ed at the close; tbe sales were heavy.
The N. Y. Herald predicts that we are
soou to have an era of speculation not sur
passed by that 1845 and ’6. It says “ the
banks throughout the country are increa
sing their circulations and credits to an
extraordinary extent.”.
Papineau has re-entered Canada, after an
absence of about eight years. He was w ilh
his lamiiy at last dates, and intended soon
to visit Montreal.
SOUTHERN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
The Charleston Mercury says —VVe are
requested by the editor of the Southern
Cluarterly Review, to state, that the number
ol that periodical, now due is rapidly pass
ing through the press, aud will he ready for
distribution among the subscribers, ihe first
week ol the enaui: g month. The deiay in
the issue oftho number, has been chiefly
owing to the Editoi’s absence from the city,
white engaged in extending the circulation
of the work. We are happy to learn that
the Review rests now, as il is believed, on
a permanent basis, having a very handsome
patronage and a largo list of able contribu
tors. From the character ol the writers
engaged on the forthcoming number, and
the subjects discussed, )of which we have
received an intimation) it may be expected
a rich and brilliant one.
NEW INVENTION.
Our friend and Townsman. Josephus
Echols, Esq , has received a very llatietiog
notice from ‘.he New York press, ol his in
genious iuvention called •'the •• Syphonic
: propeller” for propelling canal boats, by lire
action of the water itself. A model of his
machine was exhibited at the late fair of tbe
American Institute in ihe city of New York
aud it called forth the following compli
mentary notices.
From ihe N, Y. Herald.
11 Before entering the grand saloon, let us now step
round to the soon am, where we have soiue most ru
genioue ii.vtiiUOusaisplajed. One that wo suw in
operati.ru jcvterdsy struVk as as being the iaaoboth
nit ni of an idea which is destined lo woik great tm
prooeuieuis-in canal matters ; n was a machine. In
the working newfel it succeeds admirably, lite in
tended lo wTork by extending a smalt trough of water
along the side of the canal ,at the elevation of seve
ral teet from it To the side ot the best is attached
an upright tube, the low'd end of which, is curved so
as lo discharge water in a horizontal direction oppo
ei e to that io which the boat is to be propelled, the
reaction of die water d.echarged from Urn lubedrives
the boat forward, At the Irtish! of several feet die ;
tube is curved over in a directional right angles with |
the boa', terminating somelmle disiauec below the .
highest part at t.ie curve forming a siphon. When
a can and lias mice been prepari and lor tins invention, as
it may be ut a small cosi, i will obvyate tiro necessi
ty for lr -rse or steam power, it is the invention of
Mr. Echols,of Georgia.”
From die Son.
“GENERAL ECHOLS, of Gtorgia, t as a Circu
lar Cunal, with a model machine for propelling boats
by the poweru< tit ■ water used—cheap and available
—the invention of which will inscribe that gentleman's
name on the “foil ollanie,” among; t t ie lirsi spirits of
the age.
The subject of the above notice called open us this
morning and rays that he leels graielul fur tins un
bought compline lit bestowed upon him, but th.,t he
has no right to the title “General,” dun be has no
title, save drat conferred by ids being one of Ihe
Judges of a Court of secondary jurisdiction; that Ire is
not Gen. Robert M. b Chois of whom we have htard,
but only a rt la’ive ; and he seems to be fearful that
without this correction, pefsons who may hereafter
become nequau ted villi die facts vvouid suppose
that he line been n tiling retake advantage ol die rnrs
ink i an t be known by a title to .winch ho has no
cairn.”
Frotrr W'edi e.day's N. York Journal ofComnierce.
ARRIVAL OF TUG STKAtVI SHIP
GREAT BRITAIN.
The Great Britain arrived at Holme's Hole
at 1 o’clock on Monday, P. M., with loss of
fore-mast. She left Liverpool ou tire 27th
ult. Her news was carried by express to
Boston, ami is published iu an “Atlas Extra”
dated 11 o’clock yesterday forenoon.
The schooner David Coffin, of New Bed
ford, happened lo be in Holmes’ Hole, from
Philadelphia, with a cargo ol coal, and, at
dark on Monday evening, was alongside the
Great Britain, supplying her.
We'presume the G. B. will he here to
day.
We received the Atlas Extra, and other
Boston papers, atieu’ 5 o’clock tins morning,
by Hamden &. Go’s Express, which enables
us to insert the news in a part of our edition,
Cullen was dull—corn hiisk, and prospects
of largo importations from tins couutry. The
weather had not been favorable, and the crops
were defective, including potatoes. (Not only
was this the case in England hut lo a conoitl
eraule extent on the Continent.
DISTRESSING.
The Petersburg Republican of the 6th
tnst. says: The kitchen attached to the
premises of Mr. Newell, in the county of
Prince Geoigp, 0 or 7 miles from this place
ou the ltoad to Proctor’s Tavern, was burnt
to the ground on Sunday night, 2Slh till,
aud horrible to relate, four negtoes, a wo.
man and her infant child, and a very likely
hoy and girl the properly of Mrs. N. perish
ed in the flames. Before the firo was dis
covered the tenement was all in a blaz ‘,
and it is presumed that none but the g:rl
awakened in time to know the horrors ol
their situation. The remains of the woman
and child were I'outiJ where the lied ob
which they slept rested, those of the boy
near the fire place, where he slept, and
llmso of the girl at the door, by which it is
supposed she was endeavoring lo make
her escape when she was overtaken by the
11 .ones.
THE COTTON CROP.
Gen. Jesse Speight of Mississippi, and a
cotton planter of much experience, gives it
as his opinion in a communication to the
Columbus Democrat, that the present cot
ton crop will not exceed 2,009,000 bales. —
He writes the communication from having
seen in the Albany Argus a statement to
the effect that the crop would prove a heavy
one,amounting to 2,509,000 bales, and in
timaies that the Argus is influenced by
“manifest misrepresentation, or the grossest
ignorance,” in its article.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
SOUTH ANU WEST.
Although me citizens of Columbus appear
to he woolly insensible lo the general spirit
of improvement, which in tiie Eastern and
Middle sections ol the State is giving birth to
great efforts for the devclopement of the re
sources of the country, it is nevertheless our
duty 10 keep them advised of what is going
011 upon tins interesting subject. And we
are not without hope, that at length, we may
catch the spirit here, and not ho entirely
outstripped in the generous race of progress
and improvement. With tins view, we in
vite attention to an article from tire Savannah
Georgian, prefatory to the arguments of Dr.
James Overton at a meeting in Nashville,
Tennessee, in favor of the great project of
connecting tiie Tennessee waters, by Rail
Road wilb tiie Atlantic. Georgia is to be
the principal highway for this magnificent
work, and her Slate roads, and private enter
prices are to furnish the chief means of its
completion. Columbus, like Savannah is
interested and should he represented in (lie
proposed convention, at Memphis. For
alt ho,’ remote ftom tiie line of proposed
communication, we arc not far enough re
moved, lo be beyond the icacliofthe influ
ences for good or for evil, which the success
of that scheme may exert. “A word to the
wise,” <{‘C.
There’ can he little doulit that the aggre
gate votes lor Senators will show that the
Democratic party is still the strongest to
Georgia, and we would respectfully suggest
to our friends of the Federal Union, tiie pu>-
prieiy of obtaining Irom ‘lie Executive De
partment, a statement of those votes lor pub
lication, in order that the correctness of this
opinion can I o ascertained. It would doubt
less be gratifying to their readers and tire
public. —Athens Banner.
OFFICIAL.
appointments ey the president
James B. Nauuders, collector of lire customs
at Mobile, Alabama, in the place of Collier H.
All ago, remove!.
James G. Lyon, as marshal of the United
States for the southern district of Alabama,
iu thu place of William Armistca-J, removed.
roi. SUE TIMES.
OUR COLLEGES.
Cer’aiuprcsses, haveof late,been abusing
tbe publi*mind by indulging iu unwarranted
strictures upon the system of Education
pursued in otir Colleges. Tbe Washington
United States Journal has led the way iu this
—a press which is straining after notoriety in
the political; as the New York Herald, in
the social world, by attacking every thing
great and good, that has a tendency to pre
serve the masses of our fellow citizens, ele
vated above that dark sphere of ignorance, in
which masked enemies can most successfully
work out their designs. In order to raise the
public mind to that degree of heated excite
ment, at which it becomes plastic jn their
hands, the class of presses of whienthe Jour
nal is the type, are continually dragging for
ward certain tmtitulions, winch they allege,
smack of Aristocracy, and calling upon the
people to “guard well their liberties.” The
greater number of these outcries, are so pal
pably absurd aud uninteresting in their na
ture, as to serve lire sole purpose of exciting
an honest smile. That, however, which is
j now the object of obloquy and abuse of these
I Demagogues is one of vast importance, uot
1 generally well understood, and so direct in
its bearmg upon tbe best interests of the na
tion, (hat the writer leels Inmsoif impelled lo
move, in Ins humble sphere, it) defence ol
it.
The charges preferred against our Colleges
are, first, that they luster an arrogant sell
conceit, totally at war with ideas ol popular
equality; Secondly, that they tend to excite
a teeling of superiority, in the gracuale, or in
plain terms to transform our Republican
youth into Aristocrats, Monarchists— or
worst of all, Whigs ! The first of these
charges is, to a ridiculous extent, shallow and
puerile, and can as well bo prelerretf against
the mere acquisition of knowledge, in any
mode ; for a proverb of the olden time truly
satlh, that
-’ Knowledge is prjud that he doth know so ranch.”
It is true that we now and then, see a youth
wl.ose reputation has been h raided by com
placent parents & partial friends, return Irom
College aud startle the quiet inhabitants of.
his native village, with the conscious stmt
bearing of “ Sii Oracle ;” buipibe
biaoßkntsU woly-our poor human iidUJrc, and
the exWWion of bile, the of the
is what!
Simply lo tlmkfticl that the jj|ogauco of the
Graduate woumts llie vatiuflof the villager.
But the folly of renders an at
tempt at as silly, for it is
plaiulhut the coucjflM|itber never affects
us, it conies iu our opinion
of ourselves. Jme that the
course ofatujy pursued In ouraßerary insti
tutions, mode students are pro- i
malice, is false iu its details RHab
surd m its promulgation, Its origin is u\li
eious, for what else is thu fixed purpose of
extracting evil from that, the whole design
aud tendency ol which is good ! Its piotnul
gation is absurd for wlwt else is the utter
ance of that which must.inevitably be noticed
and di.-proved! Its entire fals.ty wo will now
endeavor to dhow.
We affirm, then, wi'liout fear of successful!
contradiction that, however, the imperfec
tions, attendant on our human nature, may af
lecl the practice oi our Colleges, theT theory
is in almost perfect adaptaiion lo republican
institutions & doctrines. Their constitutions j
resting llie supreme authority m a large num
ber of trus;ees ; tiieir discipline, winch iu
almost all places implicit reliance upon me j
Honor, or more properly, Ihe Moral rectitude j
of the student, and thus elevates and enlarges \
uis Ideas of duty aud right; the free inter-1
course ol tiv ir member aud consequent re- j
umval of sectional prejudice ; the observance j
ol impaitialjuNtiee to conferring honor on trier- j
it alone; and lastly iltesocieties, which they |
nearly all contain-—and which, above ail ‘
places on earth, are the tenest hot beds ol
republicanism, these each and all of them
.-tamp the charge with the brand oflalselmod.
But so powcrlul is the tendency toward lib
eral principles, in a body ot youth exposed to
me light of the sun of know.edge, thit eten
in Continental Europe, the students of Gor
i manv aud France have sanctified the Union
of Freedom an! learning by mtperisliaole
deeds, whilst despots hive be n forced to use
the bayonet and the cannon to oppose the
students principles and Ins swords. x\ud
shall it be sub, that m this more genial clime,
the same human nature exposed to the same
influence, produces tint fruit equally noble, 1
The principal count in tins charge, viz : that
the literature studied in the Colleges imbue
* the youth ol the country with Aristocratic
’ and Monarchical notions and principles, needs
| but a simple statement of facts to show its
incorrectness’ History bears us out in the
! assertion, that with the general study of the
! ancient classical literature lit Europe, began
| the developeinent ol liberal ideas. Indeed,
Ino one, who devotes even a small portion ol
I time to the perusal of the Histories ol the old
| republics, can arise liom it without a high
j reverence lor ires governments conducted by
i virtue and directed by the most exalted pat
riotism ; nor can the lives ol their great men
lail ol Inspiring the student with a portion ol
that love of country, which has rendered them
immortal. The gloom, anatchy & despotism
u Inch succeeded the gradual corruption ol
the people of these states are the most sol
emn and affecting lessons to the American
Patriot Democrat ; whilst the e ! oquence of
the times is universally admitted to be the
most Maj -stic, powerful and effective appeals
jin favor of human liberty that have ever is
sued from the mouth of man. These evi
dences are sufficient to show the tendency
Sos collegiate studies towards the lorimug
lof principles. Wltii regard to whiggery of
I colleges, if more whig parents semi their
children to College,’ than Democratic, why
j there will be necessarily more whig graduates;
J for the children, in ninety-nine cases out ol
I the hundred, follow in the footsteps of their
parenls. lt is rare indeed, that a student
i devotes sufficient time to the studv ol poht ics,
; lohave a change worked m his creed, and il
; there be any political apostjey it may with
more propriety, lie traced lo the disgust and
: despondency engendered after he has quit
j the College walls, whilst witnessing the toul
I cabals of designing and disappointed aspirants
by which his party is thrown into confusion
and dismay, and the cuurse which he loves as
■ the couutry, is subjected to defeat and de
struction. Did space permit it, we would
say something to the farmers and planters of
our Slate on a kindred subject, and if your
patience can enduro litis, we inay at some
lutore time induige our slight “cacoetihes
scribe ndi.”
OBSERVER.
Convention of Editors. —The American
Patriot says that several veterans of the Amer
ican pres?, vt ilhout distinction of party, are
preparing to call a “State Convention oj Ed
itors,’’ to meet at an early day. The objects
of this Convention will be to devise measures
for the elevation of the press in this country,
and THE EXCLUSION OF ALIEN EDITORS J also
lo dtaw up a inamlestu which will plainly
show Americans that they should withdraw
all support from objectionable presses, (as a
matter of duty to themselves, their country,
and posterity,) and tiansfer it to publications
controlled by Americans of moral worth and
talents.
Cassius M. Clay’s “True American” con
tains “an appeal (of eleven and half columns)
to Kentucky aud tiie World,” signed C. M.
Clay.
A wag remarked the other day that Big
Thunder was the most successful of all Anti-
Kerilere, having obtained a lease for life,
rent free.
GEORGIA ELECTION.
1844. 1845.
| President. \ Governor. | „
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COUNTIES. I : 3. REPRESENTATIVES ELECTED
: ‘ ?■ |
Appling, 15” 112 148 108 Mobley,
Baker 223 506 204 357 llenlz,
Baldwin, 324 307 315 m 268 Harris.
Bibb 700 862 65L 722 Armstrong, Strong.
Bulls,. 243 434 252 ! 375 Butchell.
Burke 566 411 549 332 Gordon, Royal.
Bryan 103 72 m. 16 ; Bird.
Bulloch 17 410 27 412 Goodwin.
Chatham, 817 835 700 715 Anderson, Ward,
Clarke,... 596 420 538 399 Hull, Stroud.
Chattooga, 284 324 300 1 330 Crook.
Columbia, 492 307 522 | 277 Fleming, Shockley.
Crawford, 377 454 m. 16 Green.
Cobb, 658 943 637 ‘ 835 Maloney
Cass, 655 1139 641 j 945 Smith.
Coweta 777 7-14 808 689 Berry, Perry.
Carroll, 355 767 394 655 Davis. “
Camden, 104 218 1 10 220 Villalonga.
Campbell, 205 543 214 474 | Carlton.
Cherokee, 517 813 533 700 i field*
Decatur 383 ! 346 403 322 Hines.
DeKulb, i SSO 967 577 762 Boon and Johnson.
Dade ! 46 1 247 44 1 240 IGeorge.
Dooly 269 507 m 163 Swearingen.
Early, : 211 419 152 j 292 Robinson.
Emanuel, i 107 231 ‘ .. . ! m. 11 Sumner, (Iridependant.)
Elbert ••••j 999 186 | 991 I 168 Barrett, Willis,
Effingham, I 193 87 246 i 111 Guyton.
Fayette, ! 412 705 428 631 ! Whitaker.
Floyd, 350 425 330 446 Yarborough.
Forsyth, I 454 j 731 .... tn. 158 Thornton.
Franklin, | 379 1059 352 921 Morris, Knox,
Gilmer, 219 ‘ 511 559 1 213 Cannon.
Glynn, i 92 23 112 j 19 Dubignon.
Greene, 780 i 132 791 115 Armstrong, Sanford;
Gwinnett 779 763 757 670 Martin, Whitworth.
Hancock, 515 : 330 507 307 Lewis, Bramly.
Harris, 845 ! 461 813 j 390 jCraw.brd, Jones.
Heard, 293 436 3! 3 398 Smith.
Houston 659 : 723 637 653 Bryan, Belvin,
Henry, 658 1 819 884 815 Arnold, Smith ,
llabeisliain, 323 i 967 ! m. 430 Kimsey, Cabtness,
Hall, 489 | 697 529 599 Uaugli, Thompson.
Irwin 21 223 111 102 Young.
Jasper, 438 ; 536 475 493 Wyatt, Barnes.
Jefferson 579 108 544 84 Stapleton.
Jones 397 45-5 * 424 445 Hutchins, Gray,
Lumens, 685 15 5b9 16 Robinson.
Lee, 335 ! 121 f 284 i 185 Ogliby.
Liberty 179 190 203 j 108 |Variiadoe.
j Lincoln 286 179 im. 94 Jennings,
I Lowndes : 427 362 ! 410 368 Mullen,
Lumpkin, 665 1 1254 916 556 Keith.
Macon 331 245 im. 107 Green.
Mclntosh 127 [ 114 j 109 124 Delegal.
Marion, j 417 | 256 : 469 349 Bivins.
Monroe 798 706 733 664 Lesseur, Fainbiougb.
Morgan, i 443 j 348 I 412 299 Harris, Prior.
I Murray 3u3 699 4.3 624 Kenan.
Meriwether, | 688 926 695 832 Ector, Rowe.
Muscogee,.. 1190 j 980 1071 851 Must.an, Upward.
Madison 317 327 338 334 A tie
Newton 1025 ! 553 896 471 Baker, Livingston.
Oglethorpe ! G 26 i 241 576 172 Smith, Lumpkin,
Putnam | 430 i 351 m, 107 Callaway, Peaison.
I Pulaski j 247 ‘ 457 245 376 Hansel.
Pik e ; 659 877 m. 144 Gaulding, Kendall.
I Paulding : 218 394 242 355 Lcadbelter,
Richmond i 903 j 647 747 474 |Jenkins, Rhodes,
’ Rabun, 33 ! 224 ?7 250 Greene.
I Randolph, ...j 606 735 575 650 Gutljord.
Sumter 650 j 444 544 440 Jenkins.
I Siewait, ‘ 892 813 904 690 Gau den. Stoke.
! Seri ven 257 i 278 141 ‘ 225 Cooper.
j Tattnall 338 ! 64 j 303 73 Cdlicm
Telfair ! 177 i 198 ‘■ 201 ; 174 Wilax.
I Thomas, | 318 ! 267 431 255 Ivey.
Troup I 1055 j 4.87 ! 1004 ; 441 Waker, Harris.
Ta hot,., 855 ‘ 912 862 j 794 Dixon. Owen.
Taliaferro, ,) 386 ; 67 411 54 Chapman,
Twiggs I 389 467 324 j 403 Garey.
Union, 237 | 554 m. 110 Union.
Upson ; 643 ; 384 649 ! 385 Crawford, Goode.
Walker, 417 686 537 I 584 Black.
Walton, 555 763 505 744 Jackson, Kilgore.
\V a 1 187 125 m. 15 Hilliard.
Warren 641 368 607 ) -372 \lllletsoo, Burson.
Washington* 629 595 62!) 50S Bullard. Ware.
Wayne 138 95 .... ln . 23 Stafford.
Wilkes 130 389 410 325 Robinson, liill,
Wilkinson, 387 560 423 I 032 Roger.
SENA T O R S
Ist Dist—Chatham county laikson.
21 “ Liberty and Bryan... ... limes.
3 1 “ Mclntosh and Glynn . ..Giguilliatl.
•lilt “ Camden and Wavne.. ..King.
till “ Ware and Lowndes.... W. Jones.
6th “ Appling &; Montgomery. J Moody
7ih “ Bulloch and Tattnall.. ..Cone.
St It “ Sem en & F.tfingham... Mciiahagan,
9th “ Butke and Emanuel-. ..Reynolds.
10th “ Laurens and Wilkinson. King.
llili“ Telfair and Irwin Wilcox,
12th “ Decafoi and Thomas. ..Mitchell.
13ih “ Baker and Early Colley.
14th “ Randolph aud Stewart..Boynton.
15th “ l.ee and Sumter Crawlord,
16th “ Muscogee and Harris. ..Calhoun.
I7lh “ Houston and Macon lhldenness.
ldiii “ Talbot and Motion Sinead,
19lh “ Pulaski anil Dooly Whitfield,
20th “ Bibb and Twiggs .Chappell
21st “ Washington & .leffersun..Cin ry.
22d “ Iv chmorid apd Columbia. Miller.
”34 “ Warren and Taliaferro. Harris.
2411 r “ Hancock and Baldwin. ..Kenan.
Those in Italic.
‘PIIE MAILS.
The Postmaster General has just issued
an advertisement inviting proposals for
carrying 4he mails of the United States as
Inflows:
1. From Now York to Liverpool, in Eng
land, and buck:
Or to Bristol, in Freigland, and back ;
Or to Southampton, in Foreland, and
back.
2. From New York, by Cowes, in Eng
land, lo Antwerp, in Belgium, and back;
Or to Bremen, in Germany, and back;
Or to Hamburgh, iu Geimauy,anu back,
3. From New York to Havre, in Franco;
and back ;
Or to Brest, in France, and back.
4. From New Yuik to Lisbon, in Por
tugal, and back.
5. From New York by Havanna, in Cu
ba, to New Orleans, and back.
6. From New York, by Havana, to Cha
grpg, in Columbia, and back; wilb joint or
seperate offers to extend the transportation
to Panama, and up tbe Pacific to the mouth
of tiie Columbia, and thence to the princi
pal port in the Sandwiclt Islands;
Or from Charleston to the same, and
hack ;
Or Irom Pensacola lo the same and back ;
.Or from Mobile to the same and back ;
Or from New Orleans to the same and
back.
7. From New Orleans to Havana, and
back ; with an offer to extend to Kingston,
iu tiie island ot Jamaica ;
Or from Mobile to the same, and back ;
Or from Pensacola to the same and back;
Or Irom Charleston to the same, and
back, with an offer to supply Key West.
Proposals for commencing said routes at
any other United States port on the Atlan
tic, than as above named, will be consider-
ELECTED,
25th “ Junes and Putnam Hardeman.
20th “ Monioe and Pike Martin.
271 h “ Crawford and Upson... Brovvu.
28tli “ Meriwether and CowetaLee.
29th “Troup and Heard Ridley.
30lli •• Carroll and Campbell. .Beall.
31st ‘ Fayette and Henry Stell
324 “ Butts and Jasper Boddus.
33d “ Newton and Walton.... Hill.
34th “ Morgan and Greene.... Nicholson.
35th “ Lincoln and Wilkes... .Andetson.
36lh“Eiberl and Franklin... S W Allen
37th “ Oglethorpe & Madison .Long.
38th “ Clarke and Jackson-... ..Anderson.
39th “ DeKnlb and Gwinnett.. Murphy.
40th “ Paulding and Cass McGregor.
41st “ Cherokee and Cobb Lewis.
42d “ Forsyth and Hall Kellogg.
43d “ Habersham and Rabun.. Wofford.
44th “ Lumpkin and Union. ...Field.
45th “ Gilmer and Murray.... Chastain.
46111“ Walker and Dade Smith.
47th “ Floyd uud Chattooga ...Uackett.
are democrats.
“The best shot in either House of
Congress.” —We understand Mr. Clingman
in his late campaign against Mr. Graham, told
the people of the mountain district that ifthey
wished to put down fighting in congress and
immortalize their their district, they should
elect him ; for, said he, when I went to con
gress I was a poor shot, but alter my duel
with Yancey, 1 practised a good deal, and at
the close of the session was acknowledged to
be ‘the best shot in either house of congress.’
He intimated that no member would dare
misbehave when be was about, for fear of
being shot down. What a a pity this shoot
ing youth was not re-elected!— N. C. Jeffer
sonian.
In time of Peace prepare for War.—
Wo learn from the Kingston (Canada) Chron
icle, that warlike preparations on a large scale
are being made at that point. The front of
the splendid Town Hall, says the Chronicle,
is to be laid open to the Lake, by the pulling
down of Messrs. McPherson &. Crane’s store
houses arid the erection of a heavy battery.
The shoal in front is be secured by a large
Tower, which will be of great utility in a
naval point of view, as a mark for the harbor.
It is also proposed to erect a large Tower at
Stuart’s Point, and strengthen the works at
Fort Henry. The last steamer from England
brought advices that it was contemplated to
send out a large additional military force to
Canada, and also that the construction of
seventeen war steamers was to be undertaken
forthwith.
It iB stated that a gentleman in Brooklyn,
N.Y., is about to make a donation of $39,000,
toward establishing a City Hospital. Oao re
port says $40,000.
During the last month, Seplomber, the
Ameripan Bible Society issued more than 55,-
0 10 copies of Bibles and Testaments, averag
ing nearly 21100 per day.