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MERCANTILE.
FAiypoir
BBSS AW & CLEMONS,
% HR ■ rwiin2 * desirable assortment of
A LADIES DRESS GOODS,
Hi*; of French. Jacuuet, Orjandlo. and
Wdtk Molins Grcnadiur and Tissue Silks,
Plata CU*sa i-'tntlards. Fancy color'd. Silk
Bir.'jr*. i;ahr*4ered Muslins. Sup. l''rouch
aaJ sc >tch Liueu and Siikdo;
c* alireuatliurs,tc.
T2*!Wr math a lot of MOURNING Silk and
I Rtrejei. Tiso Silks, pltin and figured
l -sct Lim and Mnsiin*, Dress llJkfa Grena
-4 uJ Crape Jsaawl*. Itc.
4RUKAW &. CLEMONS.
Mt. |S|S 20—Si
PIN I*4 1 AM) l.t-xaiOMN IIATS
A Large lot. just ten i*rd, by
_U BROKAW & CLEMONS.
Mas 9. ISIS. 20—St
4l T lllXlill l'.l'.
WYKHNUII CT!-ths and Casuinerc*, Silk and
5 riiim; Vctiii'*; plain aid Ki'-’d Linen Dril
|,n;.; Silk Warp Italian Cloths; Cashmaretts,
BKOKAW & CLEMONS.
Mia 9. ISAS 20 —81
CHEAP DRV GOODS.
1"*IE s■ vrifcrix aw offrrins tfarir stork of
-Li -•
•t VERY D)W PRICE'S I'OR CASH —Consisting
ia part, of the asaiai assortment —Printed Mnsiins,
Silk Ti—airs >ad Grenadines; JiekoneCs ; Gloves
and H‘ era—Bleac'ied and unbleached Shirtings
Mi Saert from 3-1 to 12-4 wide.
Also,
A large Mock es Fine an 1 Eitra Fine HHOAI)
riurilN ( ISSIYEKES, DKAP l>c ETE,
1.1 NKN 0K11.1.5. .Aw. &r.
Yard* of Light and Dirk Prints, at XctV-
Trk Ced and lc —from 6 to II cts. per yard
for CASH. MY GATT St HODGES.
May 9, ISAS 20—ts
Dimity, Furni
ture Calico, Mosquitoo Net
hsf, 12-t, 114. and 5-4 Sheetings. Furniture Fringe,
’ik t Damisk,Cotton Diaper, Doilin, Table Covers,
lloockahock Diaper, Bleached and Brown Homes
pnaa, “York Si lift,'* Ticking, Checks, Cottonades,
Itnped llomewpaas. Curtain Muslins; a full assort
as rot of Housekeeping Goods st
TERRY & GOULDING’S.
Miy t, ISAS. 19—ts
LIDII.S SIIOHUAM, linns
At TERRY A GOI’LDINGS.
Mu t . ISAS. 19—ts
GEORGE A. NORRIS,
HU Jut rrmtrd his entire piirrhase of
Spring aad summer goods, making a very
large Slack, embracing every variety of Fancy
aad Siip’e Dr, Goods, please call and see, our
ync- aad then decide where the cheap goods are.
April *, IMS.
\ I.VV BONNETS.
JI'ST receied,a large awuwtment. for sale by
April 25 GEORGE A. NORRIS.
M’NVIKR II ATS.
JI'ST rrrri'ol a targe Stk of Pananea I,eg
_ horn TVdaianJ P. Leaf Hat* for sale hv
Vpdtj GEORGE A NORRIS.
l>Kl><i CtMIIK
dkfß Madina. Ginchams. Harregcs, Lawns &c.
N V ne o,wthv of nil o<>nKleration.
Ap-il 25 ~ GEORGE A. NORRIS.
fLOTIIhGOPORIUM.
J. H. MERRY,
It. 1, Warrrn’s Arcade,
I few doors nhore the Post Office.
IS MS tKttIVISC 1 FILL SI mv OF
BE&DY-M&DE CL9THINS,
of nr i variety of style and fashion —and madq in
She best manner.
A so— rarats. Scarfs. Socks. Glores. Suspenders
Ha err, hhuts of every description ; HATS, CAPS,
| till Cotton I'mHrellas, Ac. &c.
Rf- The*, tiiwiU will positively be sold at a verw
•M in. PROFIT, for Cash.
Columbus, Mav 2. IS4S 19—3 m.
W. J. RIDGIIjL,
(farnrr/f of Eufawln. Asa.)
HIS tskra tkr Stsir tdoors hrlow nail k
. Moses, where he trill keep at all times, a
‘s i AI’LE DRY GOODS,
AND
GROCERIES.
•WITS. SHOES, BITS. SYDBLEKY, if. if.
tlw. a large and well selected stock o!
Nojm (iotxls, Blankets, &c.
A!! of w hich, he otR-rs at the lowest possible prices.
He will aim give liberal priceslbr COTTON aud
COUXTRT PRODUCE.
He * ~•-* that h:sold friends and the public gen
• !,. will call and examine his stock before pur
r t a'-dms. November 23, 1547. ts
VOOBRUFF i WUITf ELSEYi
f J HE jart irfriTfd an addilional supply of
n SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS,
hich can be found Shaw ls, Bunnets and
Bewrt Ribbons. Ginghams. Muslins, Calicoes, Ac.
t wl gn,l assortment of I* .A N AMA and LEG—
IIOKN lAT>. all of which they will sell very
low hr cash or approved credit.
W. k W. have a few patterns of very fine Bareg
•s. which tbet will sell tor about Half Price, rath
er than keep them over. LADIES call and see.
tor,l 2S. IMS. Is—ts
NSW SPRING AND SUMMER
DRY-GOODS AND CLOTHING.
r |'lE wtefribm bavin? just r turned from
J| w-York, ikl politelv cal! the attention of
the ladtc* t” their new Mock ot'Fronch, English and
twins Prints. French Lawns, Ginghams, Jaco
nett Mossliu, Cambrics. Swiss, Mol! and Book
M- i •:nm. Rtshstfs Lawns,Shawls, Scarfs, Neck Tics,
Liseat'amhrsc Handkerchiefs, all kinds of Hosiery,
• s-'lewdiJ assortment of fashionable Bonnets and
IlilCan., and nwmerons other articles, which for
h* ipaesn of price, and richness of style, cannot be
owrpassed m the City. Please call, we will be glad
a* >w our Goods! and then judge for yourself.
We ha.r also a good assortment of Beady Made
( tothtag. such as Coats, Vests, Pants, and anew
wre •! Keostarhed Linen Bosom Shirts, Drawers,
kr ~ PaoanM aod Leghorn lists. Boots and Shoes,
•o of winch we oCe'r at secy low prices, but to sat*
*! ‘••"•If, pleas* to call at
F.. It B. MF.XDHF.IMS
•itw.Vsrk (hrCoadt and Clothing Store, lour
doors abo so Messrs. Wade k Middlcbrook's Saddle
rs Snore. •
Ipwl *5, IS—sm
tiRtMJKRY AND STAPLE
J.B. BROOKS,
II mv Mrcias tt kh *fw Sterr n \Yrst tide
•rood Mint, three doors below Hill, Dawson
AC*,a
Well Mrctrd Slock •€ Goods,
•w winrh ho initrrUt attention of hia friends, and
He w,| ahm *>ve liberal p.*a for COTTON and
• f H xrtn produce.
try X. B.—Throe indebted to the late Srm of J.
* Brooks, sr* reoscstsd to call and liquidate
“rt aecoonta, which are in the hands ofthe under- [
e.-sed, J.B. BROOKS.
Po’-om'mr . IT. J— ts |
VOLUME VIII. j
BIOH3IA, MUS33S2S C3UNTY
To all Persons to whoa these Presents shall
come, firectinc-.
KSOW yr.thaiwf, Farish Cartrr, John IL
Howard, John 11. Htird, William L. Jeter,
George B. Smith, and John C. Leitner, have asso
ciated ourselves together as a body coporate, for
the purpose ofengiging in the business of Manu
facturing Cotton, Wool, nail Machinery ; and that
we have adopted as our corporate name, by which
we will aue and be sued, the “Coweta Falls Man
ufacturing Company,” and by which we will be
known and designated ; that we have subscribed as
our Capital Stock, the sum of sixty thousand dol
lars, f560,000.) which will be employed in the
business before mentioned.
farish cartf.r, y
JOHN H.HOWARD, £
JOHN B. BAIRD. I ~
WILLIAM 1.. JETER, > -=
GD). n. SMITH, o
J. C. LEITNER. J |
Signed in nresenre of
JOHN j! McKEXDREE, J. P.
GEORGIA, Muscogee County.—Personally
appeared before me. Farish Carter, President of the
Coweta Falls M inufactaring Company, and being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that the Capital
Stock of $60,000, ofaaid Company, has been actu
ally paid in, and is now employed in the business
of said Company, and that said capital consists of
the notes of specie paying banks, and property ne
cessary to carry on the bus ness oi said Company,
to the aforesaid amount 860,00'). cash valuation. *
FARISH CARTER, Pres dent.
Sw irn to and subscribed before me this 26th May,
ISAS. ROUT. 11. ALEXANDER, Judge D. C. C. C.
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY.—Recorded
in Clerk's office Superior Court of said county, in
Book J. page 23t. this2l th May, 1843.
E. J. HARDEN, Clerk.
May 30, IS4S. 24_2m
RQBTE
TO THE NORTH,
I7u BrnnchriPe, Columbia, Camden, Cheraw,
Fuyeilevil.'r, Raleigh and Petersburg to Balti
more.
A DAHiY LINE of Four Ilorsc Post Couches lias
... tL been established since July last, between Co
lumbia and Raleigh, at a speed of six miles the hour,
making the whole time through to Baltimore, only
twenty-four hour3 behind the Wilmington Steam
Boat Route.
Passengers ran secure seats in the Stages by
paying through from Columbia to Petersburg (fare
#21,) or by application to J. D. Mathews, Agent
of the Omnibus Company, Augusta, Ga.
Passengers wishing to take the Inland Route,
having through tickets to Charleston, can use the
same to Columbia without additional expense.
F.. I*. GUION & CO.
Columbia, S.C., Dec. 21, 1847. 52—6 in
N. B. The only Stage travel is from Columbia to
Raleigh.
SX2 TZ*
MADDEN & ADAMS,
HAVE removed their Marble Works so the
East side of Broad-st. near the Market-House,
where they wiil keep constantly on hand a choice
selection of
ITALIAN AND AMERICAN .MARBLE,
FOR
Grave Stones, Monuments, Tab
lets, Tombs, <fec.,
And solicit a continuance of public patronage.
They are determined to sell at a small advance on
New York prices, and lower than any establishment
in this part of the country. ALL ORDERS from
the Country attended to, the same as if ordered in
person.
03- ENGRAVING and CARVING done in the
best manner. PLASTER of PARIS and ROMA A
CEMEXT ’, always on hand, for sale.
April 11, 1348. 16—tlj
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, 4c.
OUB stork is large and well assorted, and in
order to realize on a portion of it, we are of
ering to sell at prices below the current rates by
wholesole or retail. In order to reduce our stock of
V- - ~) (Z 333 3
We are offering a fine article of sides at 6 to 6j
cents, in lots to suit purchasers.
MOODY, GRIMES & CO.
April 4, IS4S. 15—ts
FOR SALE.
r FHE subscribers having determined to remove
I West, now offer for sale their valuable plan
tation, containing 650 acres, situated in Barbour
county, Ala., on the road leading from Columbus,
Ga. to Clayton, Ala., and sixteen miles from the
terminus of the Union Springs and Notorsulga Rail-
Road, (w liich, as the entire Stock has been taken,
will soon be completed,) and twenty miles from Eu
faula. On this plantation are 200 acres cleared land,
mostly fresh ; a good two story dwelling with’ all
necessary out-hnuscs; anew and excellent gin
house and screw, with a well of fine water in the
yard, as w ell as plenty of running water in the fields.
Titles indisputable. The above premises will be
sold at $4 50 per acre, payable first of November
next, or at $5, h ilfat time above specified, balance
twelve mouths thereafter. Address,
D. W. HARRIS,
Cusseta, Alabama.
G. B. KEENER,
Ml. Andrew, Harbour co., A’a.
April 11, 1543. 16 —eowtf
NOTICE.
RUN, RUN, RUN lICRE, EVERYBODY•
STRAYED from my plantation in the
JjUjTx Bth district of Randolph county, Ga.
‘■ ‘I on the 1 Itli ult.twjbay MARE MULES.
One is a large mule, and upon close examiuation,
will be found to have only one good eye ; tna other
is a small animal. I will give a liberal reward to
have them stopped, with information of the same,
or delivered at my residence, 4 miles above George
town. JAMES B. SMITH.
May 30, 2S4S 23—U
LIFE GAN BE PROLONGED!!
OLD AGE PUT OFF!
AND M.DPS DAY S IN HEALTH EX
TENDED TO ONE HUNDRED YEARS J
NSW AKD VALUABLE WORE.
SIX Irrlnro on thr nsrs of Ihc Lnnrs: inns
es, pieveution, and cure of PULMONARY
CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, (or Phthisic,) and dis
eases of the Heart; on Ihe laws of Longevity ; and
on the mode of preserving Male and Female health
to an hundred years.—2S Engravings—324 pages.
By SAMUEL SELDOM KITCH, A. M.,M.D.
Just received and for sale bv
TARBOX k MARBLE.
May 16, IS4S.
TAKE NOTICE.
A LL persons indebted to the Late Firm of
XXWESSON BOOHER & STANFORD, are here
by requested to make immediate payment, as in de
fault thereof their accounts and notes will be placed
in an Officer's hands for collection. T. J. STAN
FORD, one of said firm, will remain in this place,
and can at all times be found at the old stand, for
the purpose of settling up the unfinished business.
He is alto authorized to settle the private business
ofj. M- Wesson aud D. L. Boohm.
J. M. WESSON,
D. L. BOOHER,
T. J. STANFORD,
June 6 IS4S. 24—3 t
PIANOFORTES.
MUSIC, &e.&r.
BRUNO &TviRGINS,
HATE now on hand, and offer for sate at their
their Stores at
Columbus, Gau, under the Bank of St. Mary’s.
Macon, Gtu, opposite the Washington Hall.
Montgomery, Ala-, under the Madison House.
A large assortment of Piano Fortes, from the
celebrated Manufactories of
J. CHIC MERINO NUNNS & CLARK,
LEMUEL GILBERT and others.
Pianos with Coleman’s impi'oved .-Kolian Attachment.
New aud Fashionable Music ;
Instruction Books forthe Piano, Guitar, Violin, be.
Ac.; Violins, Bass Viols, Guitars, Flutes, Clarinets,
Flageolets, Fifes, Drums, Mail Horns, Hunting
Horns ; Instruments for Brass Bands; Violin Bows;
fine Flutinosand French Accordeons; Seraphines ;
best Italian, English A French Violin Strings, and
all other articles usually kept in a Music Store.
#CT Also, a splendid assortment of fine
Gold aud Silver WATCHES,
Jewelry and Silver Ware; Silver Pla
a&.iM ted Candlesticks and Castors; Lamps, Giron
delles, Fancy Goods, Spectacles, Mathematical In
struments, Razors, Knives, Scissors; PISTOLS,
GUNS, and Walker’s Percussion Caps.
RST Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Musical
Boxes, REPAIRED and WARRANTED.—
Engrat iusr neatly executed. .
Feb. 59, IS IS 10—tjP®?
fUljje §|§oC#tts#£ filing®
fClje Cimeji.
COLUMBUS, GA.
TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1818.
I “ THE XVOLF IS SHEEP’S CLOTHING.”
The Philadelphia North American &
Gazette, continues to give daily, active “aid
and comfort” to the Wilmot Barnburners
of N. York, and the anti-Wilmct “ dissatis
fcct onists” of South Carcltna. It requires
all the ingenuity of this Whig “ Free soil”
Editor, to aggravate and dove-tail the caus
es of dissatisfaction of these two extremes.
If the “ Gazette” cannot succeed in har
monizing these grumblings of opposite ex
tremes, it makes manifest enough the vin
dictive hypocrisy of its own attempsto in
flame both sections into active hostility to
the Democratic Ticket, and an open es
pousal of the Whig cause. No better lec
ture can be read to the unseascnableness
of both cf these extreme wings—no surer
commentary on the fact, that their course
is playing into Whig hands, and tending
directly to a Federal triumph, can be found
than in the transparent sympathy of the
Noith American Gazette. This, more than
any thing that any true Democrat could
write or say, will open the eyes cf the
Democratic Barnburners cf N. York, and
the mercurial Democrats cf South Caroli
na. Both arc radical Democrats, and that
infatuation must be deep and blind, indeed
that dees not discover in the offerings of
the Gazette, a wooden horse filled with
armed enemies to their principles— Timeo
Danaos, dona ferentes. The double dis
satisfaction of the N. Y. and South Caro
lina defectionists is one cf the most singu
lar cf political phenomena. W 7 e hastily
adverted to the fact last week,and remarked
if the Barnburners had cause of displeasure
in the nomination of Gen. Cass, and the
platform of the Baltimore Convention, the
S. Carolinians, ought a priori, to have
been delighted with both—and, vice versa,
if the Carolinians were displeased, the
Barnburners ought to have been delighted.
Yet strange to say, these two ultra advo
cates of opposite extremes of opinion are
both mad. Could, we ask, a better token be
given, that the Convention has adopted the
middle ground cf wisdom and safety, on
which all may consistently stand—in the
language of the letter from the committee
conveying to Gen. Cass the information of
his nomination—“ A platform broad enough
“for all true Democrats to stand upon, and
“narrow enough to exclude all those who
4 ‘ may be opposed to the great principles of
“ the Democratic party.”
The Savannah Georgian falls into a simi
lar train of thought, and thus exposes the
inconsistency of the attitude of the two
wings North and South :
Both parties are wholly dissatisfied with the
proceedings and nominations of the convention.
The Barnburners oljrct to Gen. Gass because he
is anil-VVilmot, the South Carol'iiaus because he
is an'i-Southern. He was tile most objectionable
of all the candidates before the vonvensiun to the
Carolinian; he was the least acceptable to the
Barnburners. South Carolina would confessedly
have preferred Ms Woodbury to all other candidates
(except Calhoun of course;) yet it is equally true
(and we siy it in no disparagement of Mr. W’oodbu
ry. whom we regard as highly as any man) that
it has been frequently slated, and generally believ
ed, that he was the only one among the candi
dates for the nomination who could have secured
the support ol the Barnburners. Both of the dis
satisfied blanches have sneered at the Baltimore
convention. The organ of the one (the N. Y.
Evening Post,) says •• its doings do not represent
the will ot the Democratic party. It is entitled
to jus; as mnch consideration and no more, as if
it were an accidental meeting of persons on
lioard a steamboat, taking a vote to ascertain who
was the favorite candidate of the greatest num
ber of individuals present ” The organ of the
oilier (the Charleston Mercury) speaks of it in the
following would-be sarcastic language: “ And a
body thus constituted proposes to make a President
for the people of the United States! What a com
mentary on President-making conventions!” Both
parties of “ dissa/isfaetionists” have taken espec
ial umbrage at the action of the conven ion with
reference to itself; the one, because its delegates
were not allowed to rule the convention, and the
other because its State was so far degraded as to
have it a ipposed for a moment that she had con
ecrited to enter the convention at all. Upon both
hive the kindness and <iviliiies ofthe conv<n:on
been apparently lost.—ln vain were the Barn
burners admitted by a body, overwhelmingly anti-
Wilmot, to take their seats upon an equal foot
ing wilh “ the Old Hunkers”—as the main branch
of the party in New York has been denominated.
Not being able to get every thing, they Would
take nothing, and have met conciliation with
frowns, and kindness with sneers. In vain did a
convention (accused by the Charleston Mercury,
of being composed to a vast extent of Wilniot-men
and Abolitionists) endeavor to show courtesty*
kindness, respect and conciliation (no man living,
who is posseessed ol his sound senses,Van suppose
that any thing else was intended) to South Car
olina by allowing her, in the person of Gen. Com
mander, to cast nine votes upon every question
before it and in the fnal nomination of a candi
date for the Presidency. Not being able to get
every thing. South Carolina is unwilling to take
any thing, and meets conciliation with frowns
and kindness with sneers. There is a remarka
ble resemblance between the position ol these two
branches of the Democratic party. We say it
*• more in sorrow than in anger.” We say it
intending, to cast no disrespect upon our neigh
bors ovei the river. IVe certainly cannot be char
ged with particular interference in Carolina affairs,
or even with having ‘• patted” unfortunate Gen.
Commander upon the back, as has been the charge
against our unfortunate friced and contemporary
ot the Federal Union. But as S. Carolina claims to
he specially true to the South and hss spoken
through har papers in a manner which is ca'cula
lated to cast reflection upon others, we must be
permitted to suggest that, whether she be aware of
it or not, il her papers represent her aright, she
occupies a position towards the Democratic party
wonderfully similar to that of the Wilmot-proviso
Barnburners of New York, and is apparently a
bout to lend them her aid in their efforts to bring a
bout the overthrow of that party, which has rejec
ted the Proviso and voted it down in the Represen
tative Chamber, and the consequent triumph of its
opponent, the Whig, which hai universally and
unanimously at the Ncrth adopted the Proviso and
would, but for Northern Democratic votes, have
saddled it upon tLe nation in the present Congress.
The Bctlee Fixur.—Washington gave at
his military table, says the Boston Post, the toast
—The Butlers and their five sons”—alluding to
the grandfather and grandmother of the General
who succeeds Scott in Mexico.
All these five sons fought, and one was killed
in the revolutionary army; and after they enlisted
tha old father followed them. To the remon
strance of bis neighbors in the backwoods of Ken
tucky, the moUu r replied: “ Let him go; I can
get along wilhont him, and raise something to feed
the eoldiers besides.”—The grandmother was an
Irish emigrant The four revolutionary veterans
had fen tons, who were all in the last war.—Nine
of the family are engaged in the present war.
“THE UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1848.
From the Washington Union.
INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE.
We have the pleasure of laying before
our readers the letters which have passed
between the committee of Correspondence
appointed by the Baltimore Convention,
and the Presidential Nominee of that con
vention. General Cass’s reply is admira
ble. It will be seen that he plants himself
upon the noble platform of the resolutions
that were adopted at Baltimore. The fun
damental articles of faith wich they pro
claim are not, however, the creation of the
day. They were first adopted m 1840, re
adopted in 1844, and'are now once more
sanctioned by the delegated Democracy of
the late Baltimore Convention. It was the
platform on which James K. Polk placed
himself, and which he, “faithful to .its fires”
has zealously and energetically carried out
—true to all his principles, and true to all
his pledges. These principles will again
he adopted by the Republican party of the
Union ;and they will marshal the way to
victory in the coming campaign.
The additional resolutions expressive of
the feelings of the convention on the course
of the present administration, on the war
with Mexico, and on our sympathies with
the revolution cf France, have emanated
from a committee, at the head of which
stands Mr. Ilaliett, of Boston.—We can
not pay them a higher compliment than to
say that they are worthy of the nine other
resolutions which were adopted by the two
pjeccding republican conventions.
LETTER TO GEN CASS.
Baltimore, May 28, 1848.
Dear Sir —You are doubtless apprized
of the fact that a National Convention of re
publican delegates from the various portions
of the Union assembled in this city on the
22d instant, Lr the purpose of selecting
candidates for the two highest executive
offices of the United States. We are grat
ified in having it in our power to inform
you that the Convention with groat unan
imity, agreed to present your name to the
country for the office of President, and re
quested us to communicate’to you this nom
ination, and solicit your acceptance. In
performing this duty, which we do with
great pleasure, it is proper that the resolu
tions adopted by the Convention, and con
taining the principles upon which they be
lieve the Government ought to be admin
istered, should be laid before you. These
constitute a platform broad enough for all
true Democrats to stand upon, and narrow
enough to exclude all those who may be
opposed to the great principles of the Dem
ocratic party. That these principles will
meet with your cordial assent and support,
and be illustrated in your administration, if
called to this high office by your country,
we do not for a moment doubt; but feel
assured, that whilst you exercise forbear
ance with firmness, you will not fail to ex
ert your faculties to maintain the principles
and just compromises of the Constitution,
in a spirit of moderation and brotherly love,
so vitally essential to the perpetuity of the
Union and tfte prosperity and happiness
of our common county. We offer you our
sincere congratulations upon this distin
guished mark of the public confidence, and
are, with sentiments of high esteem and
regard, dear sir,
Your friend and obedient servants.
A. STEVENSON.
President National Convention.
KOBT. P. DUNLAP, of Maine,
J. H STEELE.of N. Y.,
CHESTER W. CHAPIN, of Mass.,
IRA DAVIS of Vermont,
B. B. THTJ!;STON, oF. L,
ISAAC TOIJCEY, of Connecticut,
G. E. WALL, of N. J.,
J- G. JONES, of Pennsylvania,
S. B. DAVIS, of Delaware,
B. C. HOWARD, of Maryland,
ED P. SCOTT, of Virginia,
W. N. EDW ARDS, ofN. C..
C. J. McDonald, of Georgia,
J. A. WINSTON, of Alabama,
J. C. McGEHEE, of Florida,
POWHATTAN ELLIS, of Mist.,
R. W. ENGLISH, of Illinois,
A. J. RAINEY,of Arkansas,
G. M. BOWERS, of Missouri,
C. G. ENGLISH, of Indiana,
J. LA R WELL, of Ohio,
THOS. J. RUSK, of Texas,
AUSTIN E. WING, of Michigan,
SOLO W. DOWNS, of Louisana,
THOMAS MARTIN, of Tennessee,
L. SAUNDERS, ot Kentucky,
JAMES CLARKE, of lowa
J. P. HEI.FENsTEIM, ot Wisconsin,
Vice Presidents.
To General Lewis Cass,
Washington City
[gen. cass's reply.]
Washington, May 30, 1848.
Gentlemen: I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the
28th instant announcing to me that I have
been nominated by the convention of the
Democratic party its candidate for the of
fice of Preside nt of the United States, at
the approaching election.
While I accept, with deep gratitude,
this distinguished honor—and distinguish
ed indeed it is I do so, with a fearful appre
hension ofthe responsibility it may eventu
ally bring, with a profound conviction that it
is the kind confidence of my fellow citizens,
far more than any merit of my own, which
has placed me thus prominently before the
American people. And fortunate shall I be, if
this confidence should find, in the events
of the future, a better justification than is
furnished by those of the past.
I have carefully read the resolutions of
the Democratic National Convention, lay
ing down the platform of our political faith
and I adhere to them as firmly, as I approve
them cordially. And while thus adhering
to them, I shall do so with a sacred regard
to “the principles and compromises of the
constitution,” and with an earnest desire
for their maintenance “in a spirit of mod
eration and brotherly love, so vitally essen
tial to the perpetuity of the Union, and the
posperity and happiness of our common
country—a feeling which has made us
what we arc, and which, in humble reliance
upon Providence, we may hope is but the
beginning of what we are to be. If called
upon hereafter to render an account ofmy
stewardship, in the great trust you desire
to commit to me, should I be able to show
that I had truly redeemed the pledge thus
publicly given, and had adhered to the
principles of the Democratic party with as
much fidelity and success as have gener
erally marked the administration of the em
inent men to whom that party has hitherto
confided the chief executive authority of
the government, I could prefer no higher
claim to the favorable consideration of the
country, nor to the impartial commendation
of history.
This letter, gentleman, closes my pro
fession of political faith. Receiving my
first appointment from that pure patriot and
great expounder of American Democracy,
Mr. Jefferson, more than forty years ajro,
the intervening period of my life has been
almost wholly passed in the service of my
country, and has been marked by many
vicissitudes and attended with many trying
circumstances, both in peace and war. If
my conduct in the situations, and the opin
ions I have been called upon to form and
express, from time to time, in relation to
all the great party topics of the day, do not 1
furnish a clear exposition of my views res
pecting them, and at the same time a suffi
cient pledge of my faithful adherence to
their practical application, whenever and
wherever I may be required to net, any
thing further I might now say, would be
mere delusion, unworthy cf myself, and
justly offensive to the great party in whose
name you are now acting.
My immediate predecessor in the nomi
nation by the Democratic party, who has
since established so many claims to the re
gard & confidence of his country,* when an
nouncing, four years ago, hisacceptanceof a
similar honor, announced also his determi
nation not to be a candidate for re-election.
Coinciding with him in his views, so well
expressed, and so faithfully carried out, I
beg leave to say, that no circumstances
can pcssibly arise, which would induce me
again to permit my name to be brought
forward in connexion with the Chief Ma
gistracy of our country. My inclination
and my sense of duty equally dictate this
course.
No party, gentlemen, had ever higher
motives for exertion, than has the great
Democratic party of the United States.—
With an abiding confidence in the recti
tude cf our principles, with an unshaken
reliance upon the energy and wisdom of
public opinion, and with the success which
has crowned the administration of the gov
ernment, when committed to its keeping,
(and it has been so committed during more
than three-fourths of its existence,) what
has been done, is at once the reward of past
exertion and the motive for future, and, at
the same time, a guarantee for the accom
plishment of what we have to do. We
cannot conceal from ourselves that there is a
powerful party in the country differing from
us in regard *to many of the fundamental
principles of our Government, and oppo
sed to us in their practical application which
will strive as zealously as we shall to
secure the ascendancy of their principles,
by securing the election of their candidate
in the corning contest. That party is com
posed of our fellow-citizens, as deeply in
terested in the prosperity of our common
country as we can be, and seeking as ear
nestly as we arc to promote and perpetu
ate it. We shailsocn present to the world
the sublime spectacle of the election of a
Chief Magistrate by twenty millions of peo
ple, without a single serious resistance to
the laws, or the sacrifice of the life of one
human being—and this, too, in the absence
of all force, but the moral force of cur insti
tutions ; and if we shouid add to all this
an example of mutual respect for the mo
tives of the contending parties, so that the
contest might be carried on with that firm
ness and energy which accompany decided
conviction, and with as little personal as
perity as political divisions permit, we
should do more for the great cause of hu
man freedom throughout the world, than by
any other tribute we could render to its val
ue.
We have a government formed by the
will of all, responsible to the power of all,
and administered for the good of all. The
very first article in the Democratic creed
teaches that the people are competent to
govern themselves: it is, indeed, rather an
axiom than an article of our political faith.
From the days of Gen. Hamilton to our
days, the party opposed to us—of whose
principles he was the great exponent, if
not the founder—while it has changed its
name, has preserved essentially its identity
of character; and the doubt he entertained
and taught of the capacity of man for self
government, has exerted a marked influ
enced upon its action and opinions. Here
is the very starting-point of the difference
between the two great parties which divide
our country. All other differences are but
subordinate and auxiliary to this, and may,
in fact, be resolved into it. Looking with
doubt upon the issue of self-government,
one party is prone to think the public au
thority should be strengthened, and to fear
any change, lest that change might weaken
the necessary force of the government;
while the other, strong in its convictions
of the intelligence and virtue of the peo
ple, believes that original power is safer
than delegated, and that the solution of the
great problem of good government consists
in governing with the least force, and lea
ving individual action as free from restraint
as is compatible with the preservation of
the social system, thereby securing to each
all the freedom which is not essential to
the well-being of the whole.
Asa party, we ought not to mistake the
signs of the times; but should bear in mind,
that this is an age of progress—of advance
ment in the elements of intellectual power,
and in the opinions of the world. The
general government should assume no
powers. It should exercise none which
have not been clearly granted by the par
ties to the federal compact. We ought to
construe the constitution strictly, according
to the received and sound principles of the
Jefferson school. But while rash experi
ments should be deprecated, if the gov
ernment is stationary in its principles of
action, and refuses to accommodate its mea
sures, within its constitutional sphere—
cautiously indeed, but wisely and cheer
fully—to the advancing sentiments and
necessities of the age, it will find its moral
force impaired, and the public will deter
mine to do what the public authority itself
should readily do, when the indications of
popular sentiment are clearly expressed.
With great respect, gentlemen, I have
the honor to be, your obedient servant,
LEWIS CASS.
Hon. A. Stevenson, President of the .De
mocratic Convention, and the Vice Presi
dent’s of the same.
Atlantic ixd Lisnrst Railroad. At a
meeting of the incorporators of this com pany at
Lagrange on the 16th in*t., the following resolu
tions were adopted:
Resolved, That the Atlanta and Lagrange Rail
load commence at Atlanta, or at some convenient
and suitable point on the Macon and Western Road,
notexceding twelve miles form Atlanta, and from
thence via. Newnan to Lagrange, in the most di
rect, best, and most practicable way.
Resolved, That the books be opened for the pur
pose of subscription for stock in said road, on the
first Tuesday in June next, at Lagrange, under the
superintendence ol John Douglass and J.M. Beall;
in Newnan, under the superintendence of B. H.
Conyers and J. W. Terrell; at Campbelton, un
der the superintendence of L. B. Watts and W.
P. Manifee. And that the amount of stock sub
scribed shall not exceed the sum of 100,000 dollars
at each place. And that H. West and J. Ray be
commissioners to superintend the receiving of
stock at Franklin and Corinth, not to exceed Fifty
Thousand Dollars.
Resolved , That the incorporators meet on the 6th
day of July next at Corinth, by 8 o’clock, in order
to further the object of the road, in reference to a
mount of stock subscribed, and giving necessary no
tice under the charter,dec.
This Road forms srti important link in the grest
chain of railroad which will connect Augusta with
the West, and which, when built, must bring-to our
markets the product of a vast and fertile region in
Georgia and Alabama,ihat now seek other markets.
Augusta is, therefore,deeply interested, in our o
pin ion, in the enterprise, and it behooves her and
the Georgia Railroad Company, to call into action
all their energies to advance it as rapidly aa possi
ble to completion. Chon + Sentinel.
Dobbs says that the reason tomcats are so
musical, is because they are all fiddle strings inside.
From tho Phils. Pennsylvanian, of tbe 27th olt.
GEN. LEWIS CASS.
The Democratic candidate for President
of the United States, was born in New
Hampshire. His father fought at Bunker
Hill, Saratoga, Princeton, Trenton, Mon
mouth, and Germantown.
General Cass early in life removed to
Ohio. Asa member of the Ohio Legisla
ture, he was prominent in arresting Burr’s
conspiracy.
In 1812, he was elected Colcnel of the
3d Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and was
“the first man who landed in arms on the
enemy's shores, after the declaration of
war,” leaping from his boat, says another
writer, in the eager courage which char
terized him. That enemy was a renown
ed and powerful one, on land and on ocean;
powerful beyond measure in comparison
with any we have since had, and we were
then younger and weaker as a nation, by
nearly half a century. He was soon after
wards promoted to the rank of Brigadier
General.
At the bridge af Aux Canards, where
the first blood of the war was shed, he was
highly distinguished; and there it was, as
the indellible history of that period records,
that the British troops, in conjunction with
their Indian allies, were first driven before
the American arms.
“Glorious priority!” says the same wri
ter, “to stand at the head of such a list—
to have heralded in, with the tap of his
volunteer drum from Ohio, the train of
splendid victories which our gallant coun
trymen won on land and on sea, over a foe
so renowned, and in a war so just! The
first victory was his; the first laurel was
his, and be it ever verdant.”
He did all that mortal man could do to
prevent Hull’s surrender, and nobly upheld
the Administration of Mr. Madison, under
all that the Federalists said and did to crush
it, in consequence of that disgraceful dis
aster.
At the battle of the Thames, he fought
as a volunteer aid to the commanding Gen
eral. “Where the shot flew thickest,”
says the writer already referred to, “there
was Cass-” Galloping up at full speed,
he was just in time to participate in the
impetuous charge led by Col. James John
son, which so completely routed Proctor
and the British regulars, while Col. Rich
ard M. Johnson routed and slaughtered the
Icdians.
Gen. Hariiscn, in his report of that vic
tor}', mentions, with honor, the name of
Gen. Cass, and does homage to his merit.
Ouropponents, surely, will not repudiate
such testimony.
Afterwards, while in command on the
North Western frontier, and as Governor
of Michigan, he rendered important mili
tary services to his country, the details of
which at this time would run into needless
length.
We propose now, at a moment when he
has just been placed before the nation for
the highest office in its gift, to recall only
the more important incidents of his long
and distinguished public career.
He was Governor of Michigan for the
unsually long period of eighteen years. —
If Augustus found Rome of brick, and left
it of marble, Gen. Cass found Michigan
little better than a desert, and left it among
the most thriving and prosperous of the
Northwestern territories.
In 1831 he was appointed Secretary of
War by Gen. Jackson. His administration
of the War Department, and the fresh dis
tinction he acquired as a member of Gen.
Jackson’s cabinet, are familiar to every one
at all versed in the politisal history of that
eventful period of national affairs.
On retiring from the War Department,
he was honored by the illustrious Jackson,
of whom he was the intimate friend, with
an additional and distinguished mark of
his confidence, by the offer of the Mission
to France, to which die was appointed in
1836. It is well known that Gen. Jackson
was very unwilling that Gen. Cass should
leave him, but the health of the latter was
broken down by the laborious duties of his
office, which compelled him to a change.
While Minister of the United States in
France, he highly distinguished himself by
his course in reference to the quintuple
treaty; and his celebrated pamphlet on the
right of search, and formal protest against
the French ratification of the treaty, were
evidence of his ability to grapple with the
highest questions of diplomacy, as the ear
lier portions of his life had shown how he
could grapple with the enemies of his coun
try in war.
His course on that memorable occasion
drew upon him the unsparing denuncia
tions of the whole Tory press of Great
Britain, whose schemes he frustrated, and
the unmitigated abuse of her orator, Lord
Brougham, “the powerful, though preju
diced and passionate peer, and furious A
bolitionist,” as he is described in a narra
tive of the transaction, being amongst the
most ferocious of his assailants.
On his return to his own country, he
was elected to the Senate of the United
States, by his adopted State of Michigan,
of which body he is at this moment one of
the most distinguished members and bright
est ornaments.
Such is our candidate. As Americans
and Democrats, we exultingly point to him.
Asa man, pure; as a citizen, virtuous ;
distinguished in war, in which his youth
was passed ; distinguished in peace, to the
public glories and duties of which, on a
wide theatre at home and abroad, his life
has been devoted ; a statesman, no less than
a warrior; trained in cabinets as well as
camps; ripe in experience the result of
thirty years familiarity with public affairs ;
an accomplished scholar, the productions
of whose pen have commanded admiration
by their beauty, while the logical deduc
tions of his mind have wrought conviction
by their strength; a Democrat, who does
not hesitate to avow his allegiance to the
Democratic creed in its full extent and
breadth; yet with no sectional or narrow
views; devoted to his friends, devoted to
country; ajdignified gentleman, distinguish
ed in private life by the blandness of his
intercourse, not less than by the charm of
modesty,—we challenge for him, without
fear, the closest scrutiny and keenest com
petition of any and every one whom our
opponents can name throughout their hete
rogeneous ranks.
Native son of New England, adopted son
of the West, pride of the Democracy of the
Union, again we hail him as our Candidate
now, and
“BY THE ALL HAIL HEREAFTER.
ty Next President of these United States.
Expanses of tm War. —A good Hit, —The
federal preM croak long and loud about the burth
en* in the shape of taxes that the Mexican war is
heaping upon the people. These expenses are
paid by the revenue derived front the tariff on
ibrign goods imported, and if the federal doctrine
be true —that foreign and not domestic citizen?
pay the dnty—vre should like to know how the
war can be a burthen to ua! The war costs
os nothing—foreign importers pay it all—if federal
logic be iroe —[Ohio Statesman.
It is a good sigh to see the color of heellb in
a man’s fsee: but a bsd on* to *e* h all consen
trtted in his now,
| NUMBER 25.
LETTEE OF PRESIDENT POLK,
Washington, May 18, 1818.
Dear Sir—From speculations which
have appeared in the public journals, and
from frequent enquiries which have been
made of me by many politicol friends, some
of them delegates to the nation democratic
convention which will assemble at Balti
more on the 22d inst., I am induced to sup
pose it may be the desire of seme of my
friends to propose my re-nomination as the
candidate cf the democratic party for the
office of President of the United States.—
Should you ascertain that such is the in
tention of any of the delegates, I desire,
through you, to communicate to the con
vention that I am not a candidate for the
nomination ; and that any use of my name
with that view, which may be contempla
ted, is without any agency or desire cn my
part.
The purpose declared in my letter of the
12th of June, 18-14, in accepting the nom
ination tendered to me by the democratic
national convention of that year, remains
unchanged, and to relieve the convention
from any possible embarrassment which
th<? suggestion of my name might produce
in making a free selection of a successor
who may be best calculated to give effect to
their will, and guard all the interests of
your beloved country, I deem it proper to
reiterate the sentiments contained in that
letter.
Since my election, I have often express
ed the desire, which I still feel, to retire to
private life, at the close of my present term.
I entertain the confident hope and belief,
that my democratic friends of the conven
tion will unite in the harmonious nomina
tion of some citizen to succeed me, who, if
elected, will firmly maintain and carry out
the great political principles embodied in
the resolutions adopted by the democratic
national convention of 1844—principles
which it has been the earnest endeavor,
and the constant aim of my administration
to preserve and pursue; and upon the ob
servance of which, in my opinion, mainly
depends the prosperity and prominent wel
fare of our country. On reviewing the
history of my administration, and the re
markable events, foreign and domestic,
which have attented it, if it shall be the
judgment of my countrymen that I have
adhered to these principles, and faithfully
performed my duty, the measure of my
ambition is full; and lam amply compen
sated for all’ the labors, cares and anxieties
which are inseparable from the high sta
tion which I have been called to fill.
I shall ever cherish sentiments of deep
gratitude to my fellow citizens for the con
fidence they reposed in me, in electing me
to the most distinguished and responsible
public trust on earth. It is scarcely neces
sary that I should add, that it will be no
less my duty, than it will be my sincere
pleasure, as a citizen, to unite with my
democratic friends in the support of the
nominees of the convention for the office of
President and vice President-of the Uni
ted States.
With great respect,
I am, your obedient servant,
JAMES K. POLK.
To Dr. J. G. Ramsey, of Tennessee.
TheNew-OrleansCrescent thus explains
the origin of the mystical names of
Barn-Borntrs'and Old Hunkers.
Our readers will perceive by the news
from Baltimore, that the proceedings of
the third day of the Democratic Conven
tion was taken up in hearing the argu
ments of the two factions of the party in
New York, as to their respective rights to
seats in the Convention. The names by
which these divisions of the Democratic
party are known, are peculiar and express
ive, but unless explained, would be very
apt to mislead strangers. The Barn-Burn
ers are by no means addicted to the crime
of arson, nor have they so far as we can
learn, evinced any general or decided an
tipathy to those very useful depositories of
the fruits of the earth’s fertility and man’s
labor, commonly called Barns. On the
contrary, being mostly farmers, they are
rather a barn-building and barn-preserving
race, than a barn-destroying people. Nor
must they be confounded with the ‘Anti-ren
ters,’ which is quite a distinct faction, hav
ing no affinity that we know of to any
branch of Democracj*. So far as we can
ascertain the facts of the case, they ob
tained their name in this wise: being rath
er radical in their political notions, they on
more than one occasion, attacked the old
usages of the party to root out what they
considered abuses. This displeased those
who had grown fat on the system of things
as they are, or were, and led to many se
vere rebukes of the reforming spirit.-
Among others, one day, in the New-York
Legislature, one of the old party described
the new as being “ about equal in wisdom
to the farmer, who in order to get rid of the
rats with which hisgraneries were infected,
burnt down his barn.” To this it was re
plied that “ they would certainly burn
down the barn if they could not get rid of
the vermin in any ether manner.” From
that time to this, the radical portion of the
New York Democracy have been known
as the Barn-Burners. The Old Hunkers
derive their name from a Low-Dutch word,
hunk; what the precise meaning of this
musical monosyllable may be, as defined
by the lexicographers of that ancient and
learned language, we do not know, as we
have not a Dutch dictionary at hand ; but
we do know very well what the old hunk
is, having been there some thousand times
when a boy; and it may be practicably
defined thus: Ist, the usual place or pest
in the play ground to which the boys run
when playing ball, hide and seek, etc.; 2d,
the old play ground itself; 3d, the corner
where the children meet to play—and in
this sense it is almost synonymous with
Kinderhook; and 4th, any usual place of
resort, particularly the most public corner
in a Dutch village. Figuratively and po
litically speaking, therefore, the Old Hun
kers are those who piay at the old corners,
resort to the old stamping-grounds, and.
abide by the old manners and customs. In
England they are known as Conservatives,
and in France they are the men of the old
regime —the fellows who never forget and
never learn any thing. Whether this lat
ter part is descriptive, of the New York
faction, we will not pretend to say, as the
expression of any opinion on oar part might
be construed by the over-sensitive into an
interference with party-matters—and par
ty-matters are never the cleanest or most
pleasant things to handle.
The following is the opinion of the Mont
gomery Journal (W.) of the Democratic
Ticket:
Although the ticket is weak, kere, we Jo not
disguise the fact, that it ie in other sections of
the country, the strongest that could be made, and
will require a strong ticket to beat it; the disnf
fections in New York we know by experience, will
be harmonized.
Defeat of their favorite son, Mr. Van Buren,
the first choice ot a majority of the delegates and
of tbe democracy of the Union, bv unfair means
in the Convention of’44, Created an excitement
there to which the present is nothing, yet it waa
all harmonized, and the democracy of the State
presented an unbroken front, and will, there is no
doubt, do the same in this canvass,
soaoesAX item*.
England.——The money article of the
London Herald says ?
M The matter which has created roost
uneasiness in the city during the after part
of the day is the announcement that an of-,
ficial order had been received from Paris
to put the whole line of the French coast
in a state of defence. It is apprehended
that the executive council anticipate somo
turn in the current of events which may
hazard the continuance of peace even with
this country. Judging from what has aL
ready occurred, the expressed determina
tion of the people and government of Eng
land net to interfere in the internal affairs
of France, affords no security that France,
will reciprocate with us upon this princi
ple more than France has done in reciprc
eating our free trade tariff. Some idea
can be probably formed of the intention of
the intention of the executive council after
Monday, 15th, when M. Lamartine pro
poses to answer the questions put relative
to Italy and Poland ; but it does net follow
that the council will possess the power of
acting upon their own conviction, should
they decide in favor of tire policy cf non
interference.
The continental accounts received to
day have not been considered more en
couraging. The proability of war is every
more imminent. The gen
eral feeling of uncertainty cn this head ex
ercised an unfavorable influence cn our
public securities, which produced a reac
tion of 1 per cent, in consols from the
highest price of yesterday.
Rome.— -The London Times of May 13
denies that the pope had been deposed am:
imprisoned by the people in the castle ol •
St. Angelo, and that a republic had been
proclaimed in Rome. Such was the last
report in Paris. It seems the people had
pressed him hard to declare war against
Austria. This he declined to do, in a col
lege of cardinals, whereupon his ministry
all resigned, but he refused to accept their
resignations. April 30, the municipality
wdnt in procession and advised his holiness
to abdicate. The civic guard took pos
session of all the gates of the city, and had
orders to let no one, whether priest or bish
op, or even the pope himself, leave the
town. It is said the refusal of Pius IX*,
was caused by the numerous protests of
German bishops who threatened him with
a schism should ‘jp declare himself the
enemy of Austria.
The Epocaofßome of May 1 says the
ministry had accepted their portfolios a
gain, and the people were questioning them
as to the terms. They received an evas
ive answer, which did but increase the
popular excitement; and serious conse
quences were apprehended. At the hour
of going to press, the Epoca informs us
that the post for Bologna had been stopped
at the gates by the people, for the purpose
of reading the despatches sent by Cardinal
Antonelli. Up to that hour no officical
proclamation had been published.
The Daily News publishes the follow
ing intelligence, dated Paris, Tuesday
morning:—“ On the 2d May, the pope, af
ter much resistance, had yielded to the de
mand of the people. The ministry re
mained in office, with the exception of An
tonelli, who, in the ministry of foreign af
fairs, will be replaced by Mamiani. From
Civita VeCchia, under date May 4, we learn
from Rome that the Tuscan and Sardinian
ministers have protested against the course
adopted by the pope. The General Duke
de Rignan has intimated to the pop# that
he cannot reckon on the civic guard. Sev
eral cardinals have attempted to fly, but
were conducted back to their palaces, which
were placed under surveillance.
France.— Organization of the new Gov*
ernmeut.
On the 6th Lamartine ascended the tri
bune, and read an account of the proceed
ings of the provisional government: “if
the people had saved the republic, the Al
mighty had blessed it.” On the 7th no
meeting of the assembly was holden. On
the Bth Gamier Pages reported the finan
ces, and Arago the army. Not less than
800,000 muskets had been distributed a
mongst the national guards, of which 160,
000 had been given to the people of Paris.
In case of war not less than 800,000 men
could be brought under arms. As to the
state of the navy, he declared that it had
been placed in a state to meet every even
tuality. At the same session the resigna
tion of Beranger was received, but the as
sembly refused to accept it.
On the 9th, after a speech from Lamar
tine, in which he showed a willigness to
remain in power, and a fixed desire that
Ledru Rollin should share it with him, it
was decided
For the ministry to be appointed by an ex
ecutive committee - * - - - - 411
For the ministry to be appointed by tha
chamber direct 386
-Majority -26
This result was received by loud cries o(
“Vive la Republique !”
On the 10th it was announced that Du
pont d6 l’Eure would not accept a seat in
the government, and the following execu
tive committee was chosen by ballot:—
Whole number of voters, 794 ; major
ity, 398
Arago - 725
Gamier Pages •••- 716
Marib - - - 703
Lamartine - 01;)
Ledru Rollin ------- 463
Mr. Wollowski presented a petition that
France aid the Polish patriots to resusci
tate ancient Poland; and, in answer to a
s; eaker on the petition, M. Lamartine>said
that when the cooperation of France was
necessary to Jtaly it should not be denied,
andthemember need not apprehend that
events of 1831 should occur again in eigh
teen hundred and forty eight.
On the 11th, the executive committee
announced the ministry, as follow Fo
reign affais, M. Bastide; war, M. Char
ras; finance, M. Duciere; justice, M. Cm
mieux; public instruction, M. Carnot ;
commerce, M. Flocon; public worship,
M. Bethmont ; public work, M. Trelat;
marine, M. Casy ; interior M. Recurt.
As to the new constitution tSterfc is nothing
yet but speculation.
There was a report at Paris that Ledru
Rollin had tendered his resignation. The
fete of concord remained fixed for the
14th.
It was rumored in Paris that the govern
ment had received information of the out
break of an insurrection in Madrid.
The account current of the Bank of
France is rather less unfavorable this week
than it has been for some time past. Thn
cash in the bank has increased two mil* ,
lions of francs, while the notes in circula
tion have decreawfltWimJlipns. The de
crease in the account cimim’We flie treas
ury is not so great as was thought it would
have been, while the deposits by the pub
lic have increased 4,000,000.
Advices from Paris of the 16th state that
an armed demonstration in favor of the
Poles was expected to take place on the *
13th. The rate of discount current at the
Branch Bank of France at Marseille/ wai
4 per cent.
“ The organization of the two new ar
mies of the Rhine and the Nord is being
carried on,” says the Messager, “with ac
tivity in the war office. The general offi
cers are appointed, and the regiments chr
sen. The two armies will occupy the linek
of the frontier from the, Manche to tha
Doubs, joining with the army of the Alp*.
These 3 corps will amount to ISO,OOO men,
and, in addition, an army of reserve if to
be formed,”