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fSea, Taylor has been elected by the
Mfcfn of the American people, Preai
4nttf die United States. Asa Democrat,
am boar to the majesty of the power and
trill, though oar judgment refuses to ac
quietec in this case, in the wisdom of the
people. The people have not acted wise
ly (select a ruler without avowed princi
pks and without pledges to any course of
policy. It is not wise thus to depart from
a fiunlamrntal principle of a Representa
tive Government, and choose a chief-magis
trate, who for all practical purposes might
as well hsve been soax to the station upon
which he enters, unpledged to any policy,
and amenable alone to his own despotic
wifl in the administration of the Govern*
mat The Whig party have chosen
• King, rather than a Republican Presi
dent. Gen. Taylor will go into office
pledged to but two things: Ist to “ hold his
hand** in the exercise of the veto power,
generally ; and 3d, to bold it with especial
wfcmoe to the Wilmot proviso. He is
virtoafly pledged to let the Wilmot proviso
pear. To this pledge he owes his election.
It was this that made him acceptable to the
live soil Whig North; this is the fruit
which the Taylor triumph will bear to the
doomed and conquered South.
The late Whig triumph opens np a
thousand reflections, all tinged with gloom,
m the future. It is not our purpose to en
ter upon them now. We content ourself
fnr due present with saj’ing to our South
m reuders of both political parties, that a
day of fearful struggle or deep humiliation
is at hand, which it is our duty to warn
them to prepare for. We tokl you before
the eh-ction, that the triumph of Taylor
and Fflhuore and Whiggism, would be the
victory of free sdilism. Now, when no
vxto can be influenced by it, wc repeat the
deep conviction of our soul, that the seal
of exclusion of the Southern man and his
property is forever set to the territories of
New Mexico and California. The Wil-
OMt proviso, heretofore defeated by the aid
of Northern Democratic votes, will be so
defeated no longer. The South has spurn
ed them and their self sacrificing efforts in
our defence. The proviso will be passed
by a sectional rote. In the House by 50
■anjsriti ; in the Senate by the casting rote
fMillard Fillmore; Gen. Taylor will sign
it, and the South will pocket the burning
msuh, and foul wrong, or raise the red flag
f revdutiou and disunion. In our opin
ion, the li rat ahernat ire will be adopted.
We am svid body and soul to free soil, and
Geo. Taylor is the “ thirty pieces of silver,”
which is the price of our degrari ati< n. We
are no longer equal members of the co
partnership of States—equal in dignity, in
righto and in honor. We have sold our
birthright for a mess of lentils, and have
sm interest in the deep bays, the rich val
late, the k/ty mountains, the glorious ch
arts and einbowclled mineral wealth which
cover as with a diadem of gems, the eight
hand red thousand square miles of new do
■rtia on the Pacific ocean. Out blood and
ear money were conjointly and in a double
proportion, mingled with that of the North
an the acquisition. We helped to plant,
we tended and watered the vigorous off
shoot from the Republic, but we arc to have
none of the benefits to result from it. Our
etavehrMing lips are forbidden to taste the
luscious fruits which it bears. These are
ginemy predictions. Heaven send that
they he not realized. We pray that we
snv be proven by a brighter event, a false
prophet. But in these first moments of
pelitical defeat, when wc fed that the best
i Sew Si of the country, and especially of
the Sooth, hare been felled to the earth
whh the prostrate form of Democracy, we
nm ra no mood to trifle. We speak our
aoher convictions. The hour is at hand,
when Mr. Calhoun's king cherished idea
fa Southern party will be realized, or
the Southern States are ‘he degraded sat
telitoo mid vassals of the North.
One more prediction, and we adjourn the
ftukiul topic to the future. We wish the
friendi and admirers of Alexander Hamit
ten Stephens to nctc the prediction and be
hold its fulfillment twelve months after Gen.
Taylor is inducted in office. It is that his
■under of the Comprctnise, and his plan
of Southern defence will prove a miserable
failure and abortion—the fruit he has prom
ised the South will turn to ashes on our
hpa. His phm is, to refuse to vote for mo
ney to carry out the Mexican Treaty by
which we acquire the Territory, until Con
tras legislates slavery into that Territory.
Stephens, (we v.ish it to be noted) will be
Mftd dawn an this issue, by the same over
whelming Northern majority that will pass
•he WitaMt proviso. The Northern free
•aha, have not the remotest thought of
giving hadt the territory to Mexico. They
love land, they love the gold that glitters
in its boeocn—they will hare it, and they
will have it without slavery.
Mr. Stephens will ihco come home to
hii eoaatitneats and tell them “to be
mr, I voted against it, I threatened
m*i 1 protested, but they voted me down,
1 was in another of those “ minorities'’ in
wluch 1 have so often stood, and in which
t love to stand when the “ b’hoys are with
n*e,” but. 1 (bund, too late, that I was net
{"oagyess, and that when I told you, l wculd
ant rate a doQcr out of your pockets to
Wteg in this territory until your rights were
aitustd, you were silly enough to take
M boasting of what / would do, as a guar
antee of yoor security, although you knew
tlteaqr vote was only one voice out of 230.”
This will he the finale, and when too
tee, it will be discovered, that the murder
ad Compromise bill which opened the ter*
flterr to all. North and South, and referred
*1 disputed rights to the holiest tribunals
ipf the country; which forbade the Terri
torial trpslittim from legislating pro or
enu ob the subject of slavery; which kill
-44 the Wifcnot proviso, and which left the
South to stand upon its broadest rights as
•fserwrtrrd in ihr t*;n?tjtiili<n and to !*•
maintained by the Courts ordained for their
defence; we y, it will then be found,*
when too late, that the Compromise bill
would have fully protected our rights, or
was at least, the very best basis upon which
we could ever hope to place them.
Believing that Gen. Taylor stands pledg
ed to the North on this question, there is
but one hope of security left to the South,
and that is in her perfect, bold and undi
vided union, in the merging of all party
lines, distinctions and issues in the great
cause of Southern rights. We have but
little faith in the possibility of an Utopia of
politics and patriotism l : ke this; could it be
effected, however, the moral sublimity of
such a united stand in defence of so clear
a principle of right and justice, would ren
der us secure and invincible. The effort
will be made. The first step towards it,
has already been taken by the Taylor Dem
ocratic party of South Carolina. We are
for it, through evil and good, as the last
plank to save this section of the union from
sinking into indignity and vassalage.
THE ELECTION.
We publish to-day our Telegraph des
patches received since the election. Our
Democratic readers will learn from them,
how the flood of disastrous political intelli
gence has been pouring in upon us through
the week. Wc have no stomach at this
moment for arranging the details and clas
sifying the particulars of this defeat-cer
tain it is, we are essentially banged, lamm
ed, and licked through all the degrees of
comparison, and the entire family of moods
and tenses. Well Democrats, we cannot
help it, and to those of us who have done
our duty, there remains no self-reproach,
no rcgret3. The Whig party policy in the
campaign has completely succeeded. Thoy
played for Democratic votes to elect Gen.
Taylor, knowing they had not strength to do
it without them, and they have played suc
cessfully. It is now apparent that hund
reds and thousands of Democratic votes
have been noiselessly cast for Gen. Taylor.
We have been deceived in believing there
was no “spontaneous combustion” because
it could not be seen. But it appears there
was any quantity of the silent, subterrane
an fire, which has burned woollen in our
Democratic noses. Never mind—better
luck next time. Although the prospect
ahead is gloomy enough for the country,
let us not despair. Let us trust in the good
genius that has ever watched over our hap
py union from its cradle to its vigorous
manhood, let us hope that Gen. Taylor will
be the “Presidentcf the whole people, and
not of a party,” even though experience
negatives the probability, and come what
will, let us stand by our principles, be ready
at the first tap of the next long roll to be
at our posts, and never—never “ despair of
the Republic.”
MR. TOOMBS’ SPEECH.
The lion. Robert Toombs addressed a
large audience at the “Rough and Ready”
club-room on Saturday night. The speech
was moderate in tone and decidedly in the
Taylor vein of “ people’s President.” He
spoke of the success of Gen. Taylor as the
triumph of the people over—what ? Why,
over the candidate and party, four years
ago put in by the people. Presidential
elections are always the triumphs of the
people, because it is the people by whsse
potential voices they are always deckled.
He made one hit only, at Gen. Cass. He
declined discussing the Democratic candi
date on the well known maxim cf “dc
morluis , nil, nisi bonum say nothing but
good of the dead.”
We were not enlightened on the point in
which the South is most interested, and on
which wc went, as it were cx~cathedra, to
obtain light. He did not tell us, whether
Gen Taylor would or would net veto the
Wilmot proviso. He argued in that direc
tion, and told us, the General was a South
ern man, identified with us in interest, feel
ing, and all that; but lie did not make-r
----we thought he purposely avoided—the
avowal of that decided purpose on the part
of the Whig President elect, which had
been the declared ground of his support by
his own party South, and which had in
duced so many Democrats to rote for him.
He did declare however—and this is the
purpose of our notice of his speech—that
the South would never have a particle oj
interest in a foot of the Territory over
which it is sought to extend the WUmot
proviso. This is an admission highly im
portant and deeply significant, eoming from
the influential and authoritative source
that it does—from one of Gen. Taylor’s ear
liest and strongest Southern supporters,
from one of the chief architects of his po
litical fortunes.
First, it shows thatin the election of Gen. 1
Taylor, the South is not to reap its prom
ised rights in this new country. We
thought he was elected for that very pur
pose. Yet, four days after the election,
we find we are not to have a foot of inter
est in it. But, added Mr. Toombs, while
we can never enjoy that Territory, by ac
tual occupation with our slaves, our honor
is concerned in net being excluded by the
North, and when Sjuthern votes in Con
gress fail to protect that honor, in the lan
guage of Troup, he wculd call on his con
stituents to “stand by their arms.’’ Mark
the consequences of these premises.
Our henor and our interests are both
bound up in the Wilinct proviso. The
passage of that measure destroys both at a
blow. The law that excludes us and our
property, strikes at our honor and dignity
as equal members of the confederacy.
How can Mr. Toombs separate them ? Now,
wc agree with Ms. Toombs, that as a ques
tion of practical interest, that the proviso is
nothing. We agree that the South is con
tending only for a point of etiquette, and
we beliere as strongly as he conveyed the
idea on Saturday night, that the people who
yield to manifest wrong and indignity are
ready for the yoke. And now comes the
point to which we would arrest the atten
tion cf his auditors. If nothiug but the
point of honor was involved, why did he
not support the Senate Compromise bill of
the last session ? Admit, that that bill se
cured no valuable right, admit that it gave
us but the legacy of a bw-uit, yet did it
not save cur honor, by throwing open the
country to our tree admission, under the
Constitution and laws of the country ?
i J
Surely, the passage of that bill would have
secured the honor of the South, which
according to Mr. Toombs, is the only point
involved. Yet Mr. Toombs, denounced
the Compromise bill as “ an infamous sur
render”—surrender of what? He had just
told us we had no practical interest to sur
render.
Mr. Toombs’ own reasoning satisfied us,
more fully than ever, that the Compromise
bill should have been supported by all the
Southern members as a measure, saving
our honor, and as we believe, the last op
portunity that will ever be ottered in a
Congress with a Northern majority for sav
ing it. And now, according to the honor
able gentleman’s own showing, we have
either to pocket the affront of total exclu
sion, or fight.
MILLARD FtLLMORF.
The name of this candidate was left off
nearly all the Whig tickets voted in this
county. Our correspondents from different
parts of the State, advise us of the same
fact in their counties.
Were the Whigs ashamed of their can
didate ? or, only afraid that some squeam
ish voter might be displeased at the sight of
it?
No abolitionist has heretofore occupied”
so high a station in the Government as
Millard Fillmore. It is another illustra
tion of Mr. Calhoun’s solemn asseveration,
that since the black tide of fanaticism first
began to swell, its volume has been grow
ing and increasing without one svmpton of
abatement.
THE DEMOCRACY OF EARLY AND
BAKER COUNTIES*.
We cannot express our admiration of the
firmness and devotion to principles exhib
ited by these two noble Democratic coun
ties. In the midst of general defection,
surrounded by difficulties and obstacles,
these two counties have bravely stemmed
and buffeted the adverse current and in
creased their triumphant majorities.
The majority in Early is 305, makir g
her the banner county of the District, while
Baker presses close on her heels in the
manly race of principle, and gives 293.
Well done Early and Baker. The meed
of applause and thanks is your due from
the Democracy of Georgia and of the Un
ion.
THE VOTE.
The Presidential election, so far as heard
from by Telegraph and other channels,
stands as follows:
Taylor.
Rhode 151and,....... 4
Connecticut, 6
New York,. t 36
New Jersey 7
Pennsylvania, 36
Delaware,.... 3
Maryland, S
North Carolina, II
Florida, 3
Kentucky, 12
Tennessee, 13
Louisiana, 6
Georgia, 10
Total, 145
Van Buren.
Vermont, 6
Doubtful.
Massachusetts 12
Cass.
Maine, 9
New Hampshire, 6
Virginia, 17
South Carolina, 9
Alabama, 9
Mississippi, 6
Texas, 4
Ohio, 23
Indiana, 12
Illinois, 9
Michigan, 5
Wisconsin, 4
lowa, 4
Missouri, 7
Arkansas,..../. 3
Total, 127
The Taylor column foots up 145 votes,
being one less than is necessary to elect.
In that column we have placed two or
three States not fully heard from, but which
are generally believed to have gone for
him. In the Cass column are a number of
North Western States, not heard from, but
generally conceded to Cass. We place
Massachusetts doubtful, in conformity with
the latest reports, which state that there is
no choice by the people. Vermont ap
pears to have voted •“ solitary and alone”
for Van Buren & Adams. In all human
probability Taylor and Fillmore are elect
ed. But a “scratch” ora miracle nmy
prevent it.
Vermont.— The Vermont
on the 31st ult., re-elected Hon. Win.
Upham (Whig) to the U. S. Senate for six
years from the 4th of March next.
John B. Dillon, who fled from Ireland to
escape arrest as an insurrnectionist, has ar
rived in New York city.
Tiie Spanish Difficulty Adjusted.—•
The difficulty between Mr. Saunders,
our Minister at Spain, and the Spanish
Government, arising out of the arrest of
his servant, has been settled. An imme
diate apology was made by the Ministry
and the required exemptions granted ; In
addition to which the offending officials
were dismissed. The Island of Cuba,
which the European Times supposes to be
in danger from this trifling occurrence, is
therefore safe !—[Baltimore Sun.
We learn (says the Baltimore Sun) that
advices from Mr. Bancroft, Minister of the
United States to the Court of St. James, an
nounces the gratifying intelligence that
the long tried efforts of our department, to
establish a, permanent reciprocal postal ar
rangement with Great Britain, have at
length been successful. It is understood
t hat, under this arrangement, postage on
letters weighing half an ounce, across the
Atlantic, will be twenty cents, to be paid
to the vessel performing the service, two
cents for delivery at the post-office, and the
additional inland postage of either country,
according to its tariff for distances.
There can be no doubt that our energetic
Posmaster General will put the arrange
ment into operation on soou as he learns it
has been commenced in England, without
waiting further legislative action, as he is
fully empowered by the act of27th of June,
1848, so to do.
Thus may all interested in the inter
course between the two countries rejoice
that the controversy is settled.
The Supreme Court. —This Court commen
ced its session in this place piece yesterday. AII
he Judges present. There are fifteen eases on
thr Docket tor argument.
several distinguished members of the bar of
this and contiguous Circuit*, are in attendance
upon the Court. Mr. Petigru ofCharleston, deliv
ered yesterday, an able argument in a case in
which the Bank of Charleston, is a party.
Federal Union.
A Posthumous Joke. —lt is stated ofa Vene
tian, a great .humorist, who died some years since,
that be made a provision of torches for his funeral,
which be caused to lie privately loaded with crack
era, and anticipated to a confidential friend .the
hubbub which would result from the explosion,
snd wldcb he calculated should take place in the
most inconvenient spots’ It is added that the re
sult verified the most sanguine expectations of the
projector.
The revolutions produced by genius in the world
of thought, naturally cud in actual revolution in
swirly.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
BY TELE6BAPB.
The following Telegraphic Despatches
have been received at this office. We put
them in type as fast as received:
Macon, Nov, 7, 1848.
We have the vote of South Carolina—
-129 for Cass & Butler, and 29 for Taylor
& Butler. The vote of Bibb is not count
ed, and there will be a Democratic gain.
Macon, Nov. 8, 11 , A. M.
The majority for the Democrats in Bibb
is between ninety and one hundred—the
Precincts not known to a vote ; the vote
is increased over the October vote about
three hundred—mostly Whigs from other
counies.
Augusta, Nov. 8,5, P. M.
Richmond (officially) Whig majority
three hundred and three. Chatham Whig
majority, one hundred and six. South
Carolina one hundred and two majority.
Macon, Nov. 8,9, P. M.
Democratic majorities, official. Bibb
one hundred, Pike fifty-three, Wilkinson
twenty-five, Twiggs eighty-four, Jons
eleven, Crawford, thirty-two, Cass re
ported 888, Cobb tour hundred and
fifty-four. Whig majorities, official—
Muscogee four hundred and seventy-four,
Upson three hundred and eighteen, Harris
four hundred and sixty-seven, Baldwin fif
ty-eight, Washington fifty-six, Houston
twenty-three, Effingham eighty-ttiree, Put
nam reported ninety-four.
Mobile, Nov. 8, 10 P. M.
Majority in this county for Taylor, about
one hundred and fifty—no change. Com
munication between New Orleans inter
rupted.
Macon, Nov. 9, 11 A. M., 1848.
Twenty-one counties heard from in the
State—Whig gains over Democratic in,
these, is, 274—our strong hold not heard
from—State doubtful. Taylor’s majority
in Philadelphia city and county, 9,731 —
in 20 counties in Pennsylvania, Taylor
gains are about 8,000 over Longstreth.
Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, N. Jersey, Pennsylvania, Del
aware and Maryland, all positively for Tay
lor. Ohio has gone for Cass by 7,000.
TayLr’s majority in New-York over all
competitors, 5,000. Virginia, Taylor gains
moderate.
Mobile, Nov. 9, 8 P. M.
Taylor’s majority in N. Orleans, includ
ing Algiers, 972, Whig gain 077. 7 Parish
es heard from, small Whig increase, result
uncertain, probabJy for Taylor; Mobile
county 200 Whig. Baldwin county vote
about equal. Eight counties heard from,
all Whig. All Whig strong holds show
a gain of two thousand for Taylor over
Polk. Alabama safe for Cass—s,ooo at
least.
Augusta, Nov. 11, 8 P. M.
We have sufficient returns to say, Geor
gia gone Whig by 1,500 to 2,000. Des
patches from the Washington Union yes
terday, says—Ohio, Indiana, Cass large
majorities. Every tiling North Whig, but
Maine, N. Hampshire, Vermont. Virgin
ia, Democratic 4,000.
Mobile, Nov. 13, 1848.
Alabama verbal accounts from 39 coun
ties, gives Taylor a gain of 7,000 on Polk’s
majority. If the thirteen to be heard from
gain 4,000, the State will be lost to Cass.
Nothing from Arkansas or Texas. Only
4 counties heard from in Mississippi—
small Whig gain.
RAIL-ROAD MEETING.
Al a meeting of the Company of One Hundred,
No. I, who have subscribed one hand each to work
on the Hail-Road during the year 1848, Col. Jas.
M. Chambkiis was called to the Chair, and H+n
vkt W. Naxck appointed Secretary. After a
‘few.remarks from Maj. John H. Howard, the fol
lowing resolutions were offered and adopted :
Resolved, That the subscribers form themselves
into a company and proceed forthwith to the elec
tion of Seven Directors, whose duty it shall be to
contract with the Directors of the Rail-Road, for
as much work as the hands of the Company are
capable of performing, and that the Company of
One Hundred receive in fayment Rail-Road Stock
for the labor of their bands.
Resolved, That the Directors of the Company
of One Hundred, No. 1, be authorized to call upon
each member of the Company from time to time,
for his quota of expenses necessary to support
the hands, for the purchase of implements, mules
and carts, the payment of overseers, and all other
expenses incident to the operations of the Company.
Resolved, That it shall be the duty of each mem
ber of the Company to clothe his own hand.
Resolved, That the Directors proceed without,
delay, in the preparation for the proposed work, by
tl.e purchase of the necessary mules or horses,
carts, wheel-barrows, spades, axes, and other neces
sary implements.
In accordance with the first resolution, the fol
lowing gentlemen were elected a Board of Direc
tors: Harvey Hall, Charles Cleghorn, John Banks,
George J. Pitts, 8. C. Lindsey, Dozier Thornton,
and L. T. Downing.
JAB M. CHAMBERS, Chm’n.
Harvkt W. Nance, Sect’y.
HmnopHOBJA.-THE Chloroform Treatment
The Newark Daily Advertiser ofTuesday gives
the particulars of a case of hydrophobia, in which
chloroform baa been administered with such decided
ly favorable results that a cure may we think be
reasonably hoped for. The facts are as follows:
The wife of Ed. Boroughs, of Camden (a daugh
ter of Francis Cooper,) wae bitten in the band by
a dog while protecting her child in August last.—
She thought little of it, as it soon healed. Some
ten days ago the hand commenced to swell, and
soon festered. On Friday night, the first syrap
tons of this appalling malady became apparent, and.
since then (as we learn by the Philadelphia Led
ger,) she has suffered as many as fifty spasms
The sight of water has invariably produced con
vulsions, and even looking at the glass in the win
dows of her room has produced the eame results.
Dr. Jackson of Philadelphia, and Dr* Fisler and
Cooper, of Camden have been in attendance.
Chloroform has been frequently administered to
other with beneficial results, and yesterday the pa
tieut experienced two spasma up to four o’clock
in the afternoon. She is peifectly sensible after
the spasm has subsided, and when she feels
another coming on, asks that the chloroform shall
be administered, declaring that it greatly mitigates
her sufferings. The sufferer is a lady of much res
pectability, age 25 years.
Since the abode was in type, we have received
the Philadelphia Ledger of yesterday, which states
that the application of chloroform has alleviate dall
the distressing symptoms, and that the patient is
at a fair way of recovery. She slept well on Sun
day ni'jht continued to improve during Monday
and was on TocsJay so far convalescut as to be
able to swallow milk without any recurrence of
the spasms with which she Was previously seized
at the were sight of water.—This is a very im;>or
tant case, end if a cure be accomplished, the facts
should be published by ivcrv newspaper in the
country.— True Sun.
THE MUSCOGEE RAIL-ROAD.
We take pleasure in recording anew
movement towards the construction of this
road, which bids fair to be an important
auxiliary in its speedy completion. Here
tofore, the efforts of Columbus have been
clogged by the belief that she could not
build the road. She has been calling in
vain on Hercules for help. She is now
determined to put her shoufder to the wheel,
and to put forth her utmost and most earn
est exerticns.
One hundred persons have agreed (be
sides their stock subscriptions) to subscribe
100 hands to work for 12 months. We
publish the list of names below. A list
for a second hundred hands has been open
ed, to which 55 names are already sub
scribed. This will doubtless be filled up
in a few days. This city will then have
furnished in private and corporation sub
scription, a quarter of a million of capital
and 200 hands for 12 months. It is pro
posed to raise similar lists in the counties
of Muscogee, Harris, Talbot and Upson,
in which it is hoped and believed that 300
hands can be furnished in the same way.
These added to the city hands, will make
500 hands added to the cash subscription
strength of the company, equal to $125,000
worth of work in grading.
The company at a late meeting has re
solved to push on the work with all their
means and energies immediately, and it
only needs that the public interested in the
work should second them heartily, to secure
at no distant day, a rand that will conne< t
the gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic, by
steam communication, regenerate our city,
and add to the improvement and advan
tage of the country through which the
road runs.
J W Hurt, 1 H
J C Cook, 1 “
B A Soraby, 1 “
T Stewart, J “
J T Walker, 1 “
J T Flewellen, 1 “
A H Flewellen, 1 “
S C Lindsay, 1 “
N Nuckols, 1
P H Wildman, 1 “
T Ragland, 1 “
Kyle & Barnett, 1 “
Bradford & Snow, 1 “
Mrs N Boykin, 1 “
H Holt, 1 “
S J Hatcher, 1 “
C Cleghorn, 1 “
L Weems, 1 “
G J Pitts, 1 “
R B Alexander, 1 “
C Williams, 1 •*
G E Thomas, 1 “
W W Flewellen, 1 “
J Warren, 1 “
Ruse, Patten & Cos. 1 “
EB W Spivey, 1 “
Brokaw & Clemons 1 “
H L Bcnning, 1 “
J G Abercrombie, 1 “
W J Rylander, 1 “
M J Wellborn, 1 “
J R Jones, 1 “
W D Carnes, 1 “
A McDougald, 1 “
P McLaren, 1 “
W H Chambers, 1 “
D Dean, 1 “
J W Woolfolk, 1 “
D P Ellis, 1 “
W Wade, 1 “
W L Jeter, 1 “
M Barshall, 1 “
Wm M Lee, 1 “
J L Barringer, 1 “
A Iverson, 1 “
II Moffitt, 1 “
D Thoruton, 1 “
R A Ware, 1 H
R S Hardaway, 1 “
L T Downing, 1 “
J E Hurt, 1 “
C Mygat, 1 11
J H Howard, 1 “
A Fergurson, 1 “
W G Woolfolk, 1 “
S A Bailey, 1 “
A H Cooper, 1 “
Harvey Hall, 1 “
J B Terry, 1 “
W A Redd, 1 “
J K Redd, 1 “
H W Nance, 1 “
J L Mustian, 1 “
Hill, Dawson & Cos. 1 “
A A Lowther, 1 “
J S Smith & Cos. 1 “
D McDougald, 5 “
J A Urquhart, 1 “
A G Foster, 1 “
G W Hardwick, 1 “
H MGunby, 1 “
N McLcater, 1 “
K J Hardin, 1 “
J J Boswell, 1 “
J Forsyth, 1 “
J I Moses, 1 “
S G Jones, 1 “
R D S Bell, 1 “
J M Chamber*, 1 “
ET Taylor, 1 “
M Woodruff, 1 “
S M Ingersoll, 1 “
J E Dawson, 1 “
Greenwood St Cos. 1 “
J Ranks, 1 “
H C McKee, 1 “
A Abercrombie, 1 “
Pond St Willcox, 1 “
T M Hogan, I “
J Shivers, 1 “
Wm Parry, 1 “
JSt J Kyle, St Cos. 1“
W B Robinsin, 1 “
W E Jones, 1 “
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
OF GEORGIA.
TRESIDENT. GOVERNOR.
1818. 1847.
, * \ i A 1
W. D. W. D.
Majorities. Majorities. Clinch. Towns.
Appling, 106 160
Baker, 293 216 425
Baldwin, 58 317 315
Bibb, 100 602 665
Butts, 243 354
Burke, 383 590 370
Bryan, 112 69
Bulloch, ‘ 34 382
Chatham, 106 776 582
Clarke, 129 61- 437
Chattooga, 350 426
Columbia, 269 489 202
Crawford, 32 364 454
Cobb, 454 718 975
Cass, 525 731 1,341
Coweta, 759 645
Carroll, 362 705
Camden, 89 181
Campbell, 251 569
Cherokee, 594 977
Decatur, 391 885
DeKalb, 298 759 990
Dade, 68 286
Dooly, 222 371 517
Early, 305 215 368
Emanuel, 195 269
Elbert, 986 174
Effingham, 88 175 110
Favette, 417 644
Floyd, 45 569 600
Forsyth, 453 657
Franklin, 634 1,032
Gilmer, 297 786
Glvnn, 121 33
Greene, 688 796 131
Gwinnett, 736 711
Hancock, 190 456 321
Harris, 467 785 409
Heard, 355 452
Houston, 23 627 687
Henry, 115 888 878
Habersham, 446 784
Hall, 527 683
Irwin, 66 313
Jackson, 513 664
Jasper, 103 429 471
Jefferson, 504 519 93
Jones, 11 406 443
Laurens, 455 22
Lee, 320 206
Liberty, 185 142
Lincoln, 118 267 175
Lowndes, 425 355
Lumpkin, 530 973
Macon, * 383 321
Mclntosh, 125 117
Marion, 33 450 470
Monroe, 140 688 678
Morgan, 167 393 281
Murray, 502 949
Meriwether, 51 739 792
Muscogee, 474 1,039 - 853
Montgomery, 224 27
Madison, 336 365
Newton,* 545 913 442
Oglethorpe, 443 470 152
Putnam, 105 388 312
Pulaski, 219 307
Pike, 80 737 835
Paulding, 277 391
Richmond, 313 679 488
Rabun, 59 299
Randolph, 57 673 683
Sumter, 571 466
Stewart, 240 907 786
Scriven, 195 222
Tattnall, 291 76
Telfair, 183 162
Thomas, 441 330
Troup, 726 1,023 433
Talbot, 81 741 813
Taliaferro, j 333 360 68
Twiggs, 84 267 414
Union, 300 743
Upson, 318 011 356
Walker, 200 635 770
Waltci, 196 526 721
Ware, 205 205
Warren, 254 575 325
Washington, 56 612 558
Wayne, 62 81
Wilkes, 153 421 345
Wilkinson. 25 288 513
11,952 13,827
FOREIGN. __
ARRIVAL. OF THE STEAMER.
WASHINGTON.
Imp- rtxnt Intelligence—Another Prebtblc
Revolution in Berlin.
The splendid American steamer Wash
ington, Capt. Johnstone, arrived last night
from Southampton and Bremen, having
made the passage from the former city in
fourteen days. This arrival is not much
later, in point of time, than the Hibernia,
at Boston; but we have further and later
details of the revolutions in Germany, of a
most startling and ominous character.
The Washington sailed from Southamp
ton on the morning qf the 21st ult., being
compelled to wait until that time, on ac
count of the non-arrival of the French
mails until the night of the 20th. She
brings 105 passengers, and a large freight.
Among her passengers are Herr Gung’l
and his celebrated band of instrumental
performers, twenty-five in number.
At two P. M., yesterday, during a hea
vy gale from N. W., passed schooner Jus
tice, she having a signal of distress flying.
At great risk, she was boarded, when it
was found that the Captain was sick, and
unable to leave his berth; and that the
vessel was half filled with water, her
pumps going continually. No one on
board being able to navigate her, the first
mate (J. P. Noyes,) of the Washington,
bravely volunteered to take her into port.
We also annex the following important
letters, received from our correspondents in
London and Bremen. All Germany, north
and south, is in the agony of a terrible and
bloody revolution,and Europe on the verge
of general war, and awful convulsion of
every element of society.
London, Oct. 20, 1848.
The Austrian Revolution , and Prepara
tions for a Terrible JVar on the Conti
nent.
The battle of democracy, if it has not
already been fought at Vienna, will soon
be decided. Upon its results will depend
the fate of Europe. Should liberty tri
umph, the fate of Ferdinand is sealed.
Like his brothers in misfortune, he may
hie to England, to seek an asylum in a roy
al palace, to reflect at leisure on the results
of his perverseness and treachery to his
people. Preparations for a dreadful con
flict are going on around the capital.—
The royal forces face a determined popu
lace, who will be aided by an approaching
Hungarian army, which will, ere this,
have closed on the rear of the savage
Croats. Speculation, on anything like
certain grounds, is at present impossib.e as
to the probable result, as the correspon
dence of the English journals is not to be
depended on, for giving an impartial ac
count of the real position and strength of
the contending forces. The principal dan
ger to bejapprehended to the popular cause,
is, first, the decision of the German Vicar
of the Empire, at Frankfort, to levy con
tributions of troops, from the various con
federated States, to march on Vienna, to
crush the efforts of its citizens. Prussia
has already been summoned to have its
levy ready for instant march, and it re
mains to be seen how far the liberals of
that country will approve of this proceed
ing, by allowing their departure on so
despotic a mission. The whole available
military force, stationed in the distant
provinces of the Austrian Empire, are
marching on the capital, and their place, it
is reported, is to be taken by Russian
troops, which are now crossing their fron.
tier, at the desire of the Emperor, who
seems imbued with a savage spirit, to
wreak the most determined vengeance on
the people. Before he can effect this,
however, immense difficulties must be
overcome- At present, the Diet of the
capitol is not in his interest, and any law
passed by it for the levying of taxes will
not enrich the military chest of Jellachich,
but of his opponents. Under these cir
cumstances, the invading forces hare no
other alternative but subsistance on forced
contributions, which are at all times pre
carious, even amid a neutral population.
Add to this, the vote carried in the Hun
garian Diet, by the most enthusiastic ac
clamation, that their country should fight,
and, if needs be, fall for the independence
of a city that gave them so strong a proof
of sympathy in their hour of peril.
More fatal still, to the last desperate ef
forts of the Emperor, is the news from Italy,
which announces that, when the tidings of
a revolt at Vienna reached Milan, the army
of Radetzky broke out into open rebellion,
and that a murderous conflict was raging
between its Hungarian and Croatian por
tions.
With all these conflicting elements, the
probability of success appears to be on the
side of those whom the royalist journals
call the insurgents. It was not necessary
to be endowed with any other power of
prophecy than such as common sense af
forded, to foresee the present events. The
wicked treachery of the Emperor and his
advisers, which became obvious as circum
stances favored his views, has brought
upon itself a proper retribution, which it is
to be hoped will be further realized by his
dethronement and exile—a fate he richly
merits. From the correspondence that
has been seized belonging to the late
Count Latour, some curious, as well as
treacherous documents, have been laid be
fore the world. By some of them, it ap
pears that one of the most determined ene
mies the people of Vienna had to contend
with, was the Princess Sophia. Lord Pal
merston is mentioned as being in union
with the Russian Emperor, as to the ne
cessity of a vigorous interference to put a
stop to what is termed the anarchy of a
savage faction ; but to this certain remarks
are added, by no means flattering to his
Lordship’s character. Should this inter
ference be carried into practice, especially
by a Russian invasion, there is not the
shadow of a doubt but the Germans will
rise, en masse, to repel them, and should
the issue appear doubtful, no power will
be able to restrain the French from rolling
their armies over the Rhine. It should be
borne in mind that, as regards the German
struggle, there is not room for that des
pondency which occasionally floats over
the mind, in speculating on the destiny of
France. The French,in their revolutions,
are soon up and soon down ; but the Ger
man square-heads, when once raised, there
is no putting them down. They will fight
to the last, and then will never give in,
but die on the spot. This was seen the
other day at Vienna, where the students
marched coolly across a square in the face
of showers of grape-shot, and took the ar
tillery that protected the war office, with
the bayonet. The French are equally
brave, but they do not show the same te
merity and determination of purpose—for,
if foiled at one point, they fly to another ;
whereas, the German takes a stand and
keeps to it, to conquer or die. The Times
calls loudly on the continental powers to
join issue in an Austrian invasion, to cut
down and root up democracy, for ever,
which it thinks there is now a good chance
of doing, as France has a ministry com
posed of members imbued with Thiers’
political principles, which are known to
favor monarchy. It is doubtful, however,
whatever might be the disposition of this
party, that the French army would carry
it out. On the contrary, it would be more
likely to give the signal to oppose it. A
strong reactionary feeling is already set
ting in against them, and to aggravate it,
the new Minister of the Interior has began
to seize the journals which condemn their
policy. In connexion with the present
disturbances in Austria, is announced the
determination of Charles Albert to take the
field again, to restore the tarnished honors
of his army. It seems, however, retarded
by the Italians calling into question both
his ability to do so and the sincerity of his
motives, should his efforts prove success
ful In the meantime, the policy of Italy
ought to be a patient auendance on the turn
the important events at Vienna may take,
and to profit by them accordingly.
From the Ala. Journal Extra.
SEVEN DAYS LATER from EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF STEAMSHIP AMERICA.
[Exclusively fortno Alabama Journal.]
Montgomery, Nov. 10, 3 p. m.
We have this moment received a Des
patch from our Baltimore correspondent,
announcing the arrival| of the Steamship
America at New York, after a rapid pas
sage of eleven days and a half. The news,
it till be preceived is highly
O’Brien has been transported for Jjte, as
well as Meagher, McMannus and O Donog-
Tho condition of affairs on the continent
of Europe is still most deplorable. ran
na holds out against the menaces and for
ces of the Emperor, and the Austrian peo
ple seem determined to resist to the last.
Berlin has again been th^ scene of blood-
And now to the despatch itself.
Baltimore, Nov. 9, 1848.
Eds. Journal:— I The Steamship Ameri
ca has arrived at New York, having sailed
from Liverpool on the 28th ult. thus ma
king another quick tripoflcss than twelve
davs. She brings one week later intelli
gence from England, and all parts of
Europe. . ,
The Cotton market at Liverpool had de
clined an eighth of a penny, but was im
proving at the latest date and closed with a
moderate demand. The sales for the
week amounted to 28,600 bales, ihe
quotations for Rice remain unchanged—
The London money market is firm. est
ern Canal Flour is quoted at 30s. Wheat
7s. 3d. to Bs. 4d. Indian Corn 31s. to 355.
6. Cornmeal 17s. per bbl. The Duty on
Wheat is advanced to five shillings per
quarter, and on Flour to three shillings per
bbl. Com is from 6d. to 2s. lower this
week. Pork has advanced from one to
two shillings per bbl. Lard has declined
two shillings per hundred weight.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Smith O’Brien, Meagher, McMannus and
O’Donoghue have been transported for life.
Ireland remains in a most deplorable con
dition, arising from the failure of the pota
toe crop.—Breadstuffs continue to arrive
in large quantities.
Gen. Cavaignac and the_ new ministry
have been defeated in the assembly by a
vote of 523 on some amendment clause re
lative to tl.e new constitution. After the
discussion had terminated it was decided
that the election for Pres dent should take
place on the 10th of December. This mo
tion was carried by a majority of 255.
Lamartine has declined running as a can
didate for Presidency.
Disturbances broke out at Berlin on the
16th ultimo, which were attended with
much Dss of life. The King refuses to
accept the resignation of the ministry.
The Diet at Vienna is still holding out,
and the people are unanimously resolved
to resist to the last.
Spain has been tranquilized by Monas
co’s return to Colonna.
The following is an extract from a letter,
from an officer on board the U. States steam
ship Princeton, dated
“Venice, Sept. 23, 1848.
“On the second day of our arrival, we
visited the President of the Venitian Re
public, by appointment made between the
Government and Captain Engle. We
were not prepared for the reception that
awaited us. The President occupies the
royal palace ; he was in a suit of black.—
The Secretary of the Navy, who is an Ad
miral, and the Secretary of War, who is a
General, were in full uniform. Officers<
were detached to accompany us to all the
places of interest. On the next day two
gondolas were sentforthe officers, in which
we were taken to the forts and batteries
which defend the city. We saw the hos
tile Austrians waiting the time for action
guns and cannon loaded.
“It would not be easy, if possible, to take
Venice by land. The only land commu
nication is by a rail road bridge of beauti
ful construction, three miles in length.—
One section of this bridge has been taken
up to prevent the approach of the Austri
ans. The President requested permission
for some of his officers to visit our ship.—
The Secretary of the Navy and the Gener
al in Chief came off to us in a srnalLsteamer
with about 30 officers. We got our ship
under way for them, and our Lehigh coal
burning without smoke astonished them
not a little. We lowered our pipe, and ran
up and down before the city, and when
abreast of St. Marks, saluted the Admiral
with the flag of the Republic at the fore.—
I think the Princeton will be remembered
here for some time.”
Can the Dead Win at Cards; — A
very curious law case cante recently before
a German court, arising from the following
circumstance: A gentleman sat at a faro
table in the town of Koethern, Saxony,
playing with the usual attention and si
lence. Several plays were made, and the
cards which the-gentleman continued un
changingly to put forward, won repeatedly.
The gold pushed towards the winner by
the croupier, however was not drawn in
by him, and after several more accumula
tions had made the pile inconveniently
large, the keeper of the bank rather angri
ly requested the fortunate man to take in
his money. With his eyes fixed on his
card, the player took no notice of the re
quest. *
“ Draw in your gold !” was again utter
ed by several around the table.
No answer.
“Monsieur! your incommode the other
players !” said the croupier.
The same motionless silence.
A person sitting next the offender took
hold of his hand. Jt was stone cold. The
winner was dead !
As the body was being removed, the
croupier drew back the money he had
shoved towards the dead player, alleging
that the game based uprn reciprocal en
gagement could not exist between the dead
and the living. The heirs of the defunct
presented themselves the day after, and
claimed the money, declaring that the win
ner had regularly commenced and contin
ued the game. The questian was carried
before the tribunal of Koethen, and will
probably depend upon the evidence as to
the point of time when the player ceased
to live.
Launch of the Tennessee. —The se
cond vessel of Samuel L. Mitchell’s line of
New York and Savannah steamships was
launched yesterday morning, from the yard
of\Vm. H. Webb, in the former city.—
She is an elegant craft of about 1400 ions,
and of an approved model. On deck she
is 210 feet, in the hold 22, and is 35 feet
broad, or similar in dimensions to the
Cherokee, with which she is to alternate.
The latter vessel has proved herself an ex
cellent sea-boat during the recent severe
gale at the South, as well as a rapid sailer;
but there is every reason to believe she
will at least be equalled by her associate.
The T. is designed to accommodate 200 pas
sengers below'decks. She will go to StiJl
man & Allen’s Works to receive her ma
chinery, and will be fitted out for sea by
the Ist of March.— [Phil. Gaz. 26th ult
The Chlqera. —The following table may not
be in opportune at the present moment: One day
a traveller met the plague going into Carlo, and
accented it thus : “ For what purpose are you en
tering Cairo 1” “To kill 3,000 people,” Some
time after, the same traveller met the the plague.,
again, and said,’ “ But you killed 30,000?” “Nay,”
lire plague replied, “ I killed but 3,000; tear
did the rest.” —[London Times.
From the S. Y. Courier & Enquirer, 2d inst.
The sad intelligence of the death at St.
Louis, of Brigadier Gen. Stephen Kearney
of the U. S. Army, is brought to us by the
telegraph.
He died on Tuesday last, 31st October
after seme months struggle with mortal dis
ease.
The army and the country mourn a gal
lant, modest and accomplished soldier, a
true hearted, earnest and unspotted citiz
ed.
Gen. Kearney left Columbia College in
this city—being then a senior, in 18i2, to
enter the army. He was with the “allant
Scott at the disastrous affair at Queenstown
—and was there with his leader made pris
oner, and sent down the St. Lawrence to
to Quebec. We have heard Gen. Scott
speak of the deep depression which mark
ed the countenance and conduct of the
young Lieutenant while as prisoners, close
ly watched and strongly guarded, they de
scended together the St. Lawrence river.
All his hopes of distinction blasted at the
very outset of the war, and with no pros
pect before him but that of a prison, while
others would have the opportunity 0 f bat
tling for their country, the young man
brooded over his (alien fortunes, and had
morosely, almost fiercely, given himself up
to despair, when his General, then Lieut.
Col. Scott, perceiving as he thought some
negligence on the part of their guards,
when the party landed, as occasionally
they did, conceived a project of escape by
surprising and overpowering the guard.—
He found an opportunity of communicating
his hopes to young Kearney. An instant
change was effected in his demeanor and
countenance. He caught instinctively and
eagerly at the hope, and was ready to” cope
with any perils and odds, and any obsta
cles, for the chance of being restored to ac
tive service.
From a sullen, silent, moody youth, ho
became alert, observing, sprightly, the mo
ment a possibility of action was presented
to him. The occasion did not arise; but
the alacrity of the young soldier for the
unequal conflict—which, at best, it must
have been—was marked and remembered
by his commander; and from that day to
the fatal hour of Kearney’s death, there
was the most unserved confidence and trust
on the part of Scott, towards this compan
ion of his captivity.
Gen. Kearney has been in the army
ever since the war of 1812; serving for the
most part on the Western frontier of tho
United States. When the two dragoon
regiments were organized some years°a(r 0
Col. Kearney was selected to command
the Ist Regiment, and he held that com
mand until commissioned as Brigndeier last
year. The admirable state of discipline
and efficiency to which he brought that
regiment was attested by the extraordinary
march of near 1900 miles, which he mado
with part of the regiment in, we believe
1845, and by the not less extraordinary
march which, in the band of 100 of his
dragooiis he made last year from the Mis
souri river to the Pacific ocean—encoun
tering and overthrowing enemies, Indian
and civilized, greatly superior in number
and overcoming climate, hunger, deficient
supplies, and all the vicissitudes of sea
sons—with uniform success and unexam
pled constancy.
Returning from the field of war beyond
the Rocky Mountains, once asked
for service in the army of General Scott,
then operating in the valley of Mexico,
and absent though he had been for a long
period from home, hastened at once to this
new field.
Peace supervened before an opportunity
for the distinction he coveted, and would
have surely won, was given to him. He
came home unscathed by war, though not’
unhurt, for he was wounded in the conflict
of St. Pasqual—unbroken by fatigue, un
injured by of a bilfous fe
ver contracted on the Mississippi!
* He whom foreign climate and foreign
foes, and the chances of war had spared,
whose fervent aspiration it was that the
final hour might come to him, when come
it should, in the shock of battle, in the arms
of victory and beneath his country’s flag;
he was harvested for the grave by the lin
gering hands of disease. But he had al
ready written his name in the records of
his country’s glory, as he had upon the
hearts and in the affections of his friends
and fellow soldiers.
Stephen Kearney was in every sense of
the phrase a “ pretex chevalier ,” as thor
oughly without fear as without reproach
a gentleman always, and under all circum
stances ; of manners polished as those of a
courtier, and of heart more sincere than
ever courtier deemed of.
Gen. Kearney was born in Newark, in
New Jersey. He married iu the West,
and leaves a widow and several children,
with little other inheritance, we fear, than
the illustrious name, and the virtues of the
husband and the father they have lost.—
The nation, his brother soldiers, and his
friends will be mourners with them fora
common loss. But alas ! alas! for that
domestic household, of which the hope, the
prop, the stay and the ornament has thus
been snatched away.
“The Insolence of Office.” —We find
no complaint so universal as that of im
politeness, and even insolence, in persons
who happen to be in position to forget pro
priety and go unpunished. It is well to
bear in miud that politeness is exactly ns
cheap as rudeness; and that in the long
run it is much cheaper. Clerks in public
offices are especially remarkable in this
respect, as also officers of steam boats and
conductors on rail roads. It is a capital
method to make one’s self unhappy, to
treat every one upon whom he may confer
,a favor, with roughness and ill manners.—
An official may reply to a question which
is asked with all politeness, “I haven’t time
to answer questions,” as we heard one of
this class reply a few days since in a pub
lic office. In that reply were contained
four words more than would have answer
ed the query ; but the clerk chose to send
away a gentleman with an intimation that
he was impertinent, and to render himself
unhappy in the reflection that he had been
actually ungenllemantly.
The world would move nlongmuch more
easily than it now does, if the rules ofpol’-
teness and gentleness were better observed.
It drags along heavily when, as too fio
quently, the wheels lack the oil of kind
ness. It will be found in general, that, ex
cept when self interest directly promjti
the other course, men in public offices, par
ticularly clerks and those dependent on in
dividual nomination and not popular voles,
for their places, are the hibitual neglcctors
of the ordinary rules of etiquette. We
have always chosen to regard their con
duct in office as a fair test of their claim to
position out of it; and cannot regard any
man as a gentleman who finds any excuse
in any time or place for laying aside the
name.
In travelling, this is to be especially no
ticed. We had in mind the conductors on
the Erie Rail Road, and and we are in re
ferring to travellers for the evidence that
they are far safe more comfortable aincng
such men, than among the ijl-natured and
disobliging conductors on some other roads.
One of the former, a strange to us, iu n
conversation once said that he found it far
easier to be polite to all, even to those who
were actually impertinent—lie had tried
both courses and made up his mind which
to adopt.—[AT. Y. Jour. Com.
locsn Ai>tk\tvhkh.—Captain Baxter, ofthe
brig Venice picked up a boat containing a boy,
about twelve year* old, off Corrt>eaut, some ten
miles from shore, on Saturday Uat. The little fel
low had gone down to shore to sec a stcumboal
pags. and entering a boat to get a better view, the
wind being off the laud, hrvvna drKesi.imt to sea
ward. The little felloe’•a* brought to tlui*. r port
and sent home on a sieger on Sunday morning.’
Hufiilo Ejet)res*.