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CHRONICLE & SEN TIN EL. BY WILLIAM 8. JONES. OFFICE IK RAIL ROAD BANK BUILDING. daily, tri-weekly a weekly. TKB.MS—Daily Paper, to city subscriber*, per annum, in advance $6 Daily Paper, mailed to the country •• ...... Tri-Weekly Paper, « “ « “ -4 Weekly (a mammoth sheet) “ “ •• 2 CASH SYSTEM.—In no case will an order for (he paper be attended to, accompanied with the money, and in every instance when the time for which the subscription may be paid, expires before the receiot of funds to renew the same, the paper will be discontinued. Depreciatedlfonds received at value in this city. Judge Nlsbet’s Letter. Macon, Ga., Oct 17, 1850. Gentleman :—I am in receipt of your Jj* vor of the 14th inst., inviting me to a Maes fleet ing of “ the friends of the Union/’ t 0 be he at Kingston on the Bth of next month. Since 1 have had the honor of a seat on the Supreme Court Bench, I have attended no politicul meeting of any kind* believing U my 1 duty to stand wholly aloof, from the party con tests of the Stats. And 1 intend to pursue the same course so long as I am entrusted with the administration of the laws 1 ,ie question soon to be settled in our State, is however, no mere party question. It rise* above party, for it involves the integrity of the Union. In a contest which will vitally affect the cause of free government throughout the world —Christianity, civilization, education and the domestic security, and personal happiness of every citizen, I hold it the privilege—nay the imperious duty of every man to engage promptly, frankly and fearlessly I should not therefore, hesitate to accept your invitation, and mingle my councils with those of my fellow-citizens at Kingston, if offi cial engagements would permit. But they will not, for during the week in which the Mass Meeting is to be held, the Supreme Court holds its Fail Session at Milledgeville. I find it difficult, gentlemen, to realize the fact that there are in Georgia, at this moment, men of influential character and political posi tion, and presses of extensive circulation, 4 whose serious purpose it is to dissolve the Union.’ It is notwithstanding true. Two years, indeed one year ago. I would have scout ed such an imputation as a vile slander upon our great growing Stale. However metan choiy the truth, yet no sensible person can new fail to recognise it. That leading men, in a sister State, have for years, deliberately contemplated the dismemberment of the con federacy, I have long believed. Those per sons c«n now claim, and justly too, in a project so ingloriußs, the earnest co-operation of gen tlemen of high standing in Georgia, and some four or five of her presses. Georgia has been invoked to follow Carolina in her crusade against reason, common sense, and the Union, but a few of her son’s are listening to her in vocation, and enlisting under her banner. A banner, without the stars and stripes. That will I never do, until Southern wrongs become lar more aggravated than they now are. I am as intensely a Georgian as any man in Georgia. lam also the ci*izen of the wisest, most benign—most efficient government, that has ever yet been organized amongst men. I lore my native State and I also love the Pater nal protecting power of the Union. So long as I enjoy the rights which I at this moment possess as a Georgian, 1 shall honor and ad here to the Union. This disaffection to the Union is unfortunately not confined to this State and South Carolina. It pervades to some extent other Southern Slates. But lam sure that 1 am not mistaken when I say, that it is limited to ambitious and reckless leaders. The people are not prepared for disunion, or for any measure which looks to such a result. They are not prepared to break down a Go vernment endeared to them by the memories of the revolution, and necessary to them, on account of the numberless ‘ blessings which it guarantees.’ Warned by the ominous signs whi?h have been recently exhibited of popular disapproval, the agitators are now shrinking from the issue which they have labored for months to make, of Union or disunion; and with tamed and subdued zeal they tell us that they are now for constitutional resistance, and prospective measures of relief. They are not to be trusted. This is a ruse to get the power in the convention, and then to precipitate the slate upon some revolutionary action. Allow me to say, Gentlemen, that right here lies the danger. There is danger that the people may be deceived by these pretences. They are not to be judged by their present avowals, but by their past actions and declarations, and by the open oft repeated assertions of their organs. At the mass meeting in this city, one of the orators, less violent than others, ventured to praise the protecting power of eur country’s flag abroad, when he was interrupted with shouts of disunion—disunion! Secession has been, by their chief speakers and by the press openly and repeated avowed. What are we to believe; why we are to be. lieve that they intended and do yet intend eith er at once or at some early day to attempt the organization of a Southern C nfederacy There is no safety for the People, but to vote only for men pledged against aoy measure, which directly or remotely looks to a sever ance. Another of the arts of delusio is the promulgation of the idea, that secession, will not result in collision but may be, indeed will be, peaceful, in my judgement, such a thing is utterly out of the question. Wheresoever and whensoever, the laws of the Union are obstructed, then and there will the Govern raeut attempt their enforcement. When that is attempted the seceding State, will be left the alternative of going back into the Union or of fighting. The former will brand her with igno miny, the latter will subject her to the perils of a contest, no matter who are her allies, in which the odds will be fearful'v, against her and out of which even it she comes victorious, she will be in a condition infinitely worse than she new occupies. At no time within the last fifteen years have the indications at Washing ton and at ihe North, in my opinion, been so favorable to Southern institutions as at this moment. The Northern mind is more favor ably disposed towards us than it has been. 1 do not speak of the abolitionist proper. We have nothing to hope from that relatively small and rabid crew. I speak of the people at the North at la*ge. Auti-slavery as a political element has lost ground wimia the last nine months. Congress has repudiated the Wilmot proviso and left slavery untouched in the Dis. arranged (he Tex | an quest-ion upon terms which her own repres- : entatives accepted and passed the most stringest | Jaw for the delivery of refugee slaves, whic. j the genius of the South could device. The action of Congress upon the whole is a South ern triumph. What is the complaint 7 Two causes of complaint are alleged. One found ed on the fact that California is admitted, with a constitution of her own making, excluding slavery; and the other founded on the conjec ture that the rendition bill will not be enforced. As to the former, California had the conatitu- , tional right to frame her constitution as suited her. The power of Congress over it, is limit ed to the right to see to it, that it is a republican constitution. She came in according to the j usage of the Government. She can change her constitution, when her interest demands it. and change it she will, so as to admit slavery, it slave labor proves profitable there. Sup pose she does not are we to revolutionize the Government and take the horrors of an inevi table civil war in order to lerce slavery on the shores of the Pacific at the point of the bayo net? The question may ho put to every voter of Georgia, wherein are you to be benefited by ail this? As to the latter, how much rea son, justice or magnanimity is therein procur r ing the passage of a law to suit ourselves, and then to taro round and denounce it, before it is tested, upon the ground that it cannot be enforced ! If a nullity, why were the whole Southern delegation so merely childish a* to vote for it! Were they dupes or did they get up an impracticable law, just to create a cause for disunion— neither lam sure. Our course as reasonable men is to gi ve a tna ’ a a * r trial. If it is resisted and rendered nu g then will be the time, to resort to measures of I redress. I believe that however it may be un neded at some points, it will be enforced. 1 P i. u aß been already, whenever attempted; ’ my opinion tbot the present administration : W j,i lend to its enforcement, all the legitimate I powers of the Government j f e el as much indignation at Southern i wrongs as most mell, 131,1 I trUßt not withstanding, that my common sense, my sense of what is just, my regard to religion, humaniry and liberty, above all my regard to my own happiness and that of my children/, will be spared me. If! were not benevolent enough to be a union man I still would be too selfish to be a diaunioniat. I will not wan l nly throw away my blessings. No people ever were, in the whole range of human histo ry, more blessed of God, than we are. Shall we peril what we are and what we possess for the remote and contingent good of disunion! A conflict with ihe Union, would visit the country with devastation, for three generations to come. If our ditiinion friends succeed —say that without bloodshed a Southern confederacy were organized. Would our condition be then improved ? Would our slave institutions be more secure 1 But I forbear. You perceive gentlemen, that I do not pretend to argue those propositions. My object is only, in the briefest space, to express opinions. I have but one more remark to makv. When Georgia deliberately, through the clear ly ascertained voice of her people, takes her final stand, I shall adhere to her fortunes, be they what they may. At this time, in my humble view of the matter, a disunion movement, would be equivalent to a causeless destruc ioa of too richest and most numerous blessings, with which Providence has ever yet crowned a People. Respectfully your friend. E. A. Nisbet. Messrs. Milner, Johnson, and Word, Cas viiie Georgia. Mr. Webster and His Position—Sub joined are copies of two letters referring in a very interesting manner to the political posi tion assumed by Mr. Webster at the moment when the late erisi* in the public affairs of this country began to assume a threatening aspect. Tiie Hon. Isaac Hill, of New Hampshire, we I need not remind the reader, has long been t prominent man in the Democratic ranks, and in that capacity has uniformly been an oppo nent of Mr. Webster in tha struggles of the two parties. But when the Union was in danger, he felt that bis country had strong er claims uponhim than his party, and he did not hesitate to express bis decided approbation of tho course of Mr. Webster in hi* efforts to avert the impending national calamity. Tho frankness aud magaknimity of Mr. Hill's be haviour. in ibis instance, do him the highest hooor, while they place iaan exalted light the enlarged patriotism of the groat statesman, who has been able to win so marked a tribute of praise from a plitical opponent: Boston Courier. Mr. Hill to Mr. Webster. Concord. N. H., April 17. 1850, Men. Daniel Webster :—Dear Sir. —For the last eight years, pariia'iy in ill health, i hare been aore a looker on than an active partici pator in the political movements of the day. I have at all times seen with deep regret, tho slavery agitation* in the halia of Congress, marring and mutilating, as they hare, much of the legitimate and proper action of that body. With the power of prophecy, the pre science of Washington fastened in letters of adamant, a rebuke on the spirit of disunion, which time can never obliterate. With this early impression fixed on my mind, I hardly need say that I have been gratified beyond measure with the course taken by the great statesman of the Senate, thus far, in the present session In relation to your senior in that body, du ring the days I was at Washington, I was struck with admiration at the temper which would not be provoked into controversy, when taunts were thrown as to the mainte nance of favorite theories and opinions. The death of Mr. Calhoun has proved that a great man may be wrong in many things and yet pass off as on a sea of glory. I was in the Senate Chamber on the exciting occasion of the reading of the last effort of that truly great, but as I hav* believed, long mistaken and now deeply lamented man. My old resentments in opposition to nullified lion were revived, and so expressed in the progress of that bearing, and 1 should on the impulse of the moment, have answered him in a different temper from that which you display ed in your great speech afterwards. On read ing ihe first imperfect report of it, I saw, at once, how much belter to the nervous dying man was your kindly answer than might have been my o &o. During the four weeks which I passed at Washington last winter, 1 will con fess to you that, at first, my concern on account of an anticipated alienation and disruption of our glorious Union, threw all parly differences into the back-ground ; it exceeded, if possible, the anxiety I felt when there seemed to be no chance of escaping a conflict of blood be tween one of the old noble Thirteen, and the Confedera‘ion, of which she was a part, some sev enleen years previous, lathe progress of these four weeks, 1 was pleased to perceive new evidences of attachment to the Union ; no less on the part of nearly every man com ing from a elave-bolding State, than on the part of those coming from States claiming to be free. 1 cime to the conclusion that not a mau in a thousand wished a disruption, and I lost no opportunity in this assuring my moat alarmed friends. Balmy only purpose in writing you this letter, is to say, that in defiance of what the press of either party may bear upon the sur face, all that is of value in the sound disorimi ■alien and good sense of the people will de clare in favor of the great principles of your late Union Speech in the Senate. lw author may stand upon that alone, and he will best stand by disregarding any and every imputation of alleged inconsistency or discrepancy of opinion or practice, in a pub lic career of nearly half a century. lata, with great respect, youreb’l serr’t, Isaac Hill. Mr. Webster's Reply to Mr. Hill. Washington, April 20, 1850. Hon Isaac HUl:—Dear Sir, —I regard such a letter from yon as that of the 17th of this ! mouth, as an extraordinary and gratifying ioci- | deni in my life. For along course of years, i we have belonged to opposing parties, capons- i ed opposite measures, and supported for high | office, men of very different political opin ions:. We have not, however, taken different views of duty, in respect to the maintenance of the Constitution of the United States. From | yonr voice, or your pen, any more than from ■ mine, there never has proceeded a sentiment | hostile to “ that Unity of government which constitutes us one people.” And now, when we are no longer yoaag P • a state of tilings has arisen seriously interrupt- I ing the harmony and mutual good will which j have hi.herto existed between different parts of the country, excited violent local animoai- . ties, impeding the regular and ordinary prog ress of the government, and fraught with mis chiefs of every description. And all this ha* its origin in certain branches of the Slavery question, which, an it appears to me, are either quits: unimportant in themselves, or clearly set- | tied-and determined by the Constitution j Aiil this I have seen with that keeu regret which yon have experienced yourself, and | whig h cannot but be a common feeling with J P*-- , • V>. (•; P" -- . '■'s% 2' i i all reflecting men, who are lovers of their eoun' try. To this unhappy state of the public mind, in lhave felt it my duty to address myself, notin the language of irri'ation, crimination or menace, but in words of peace, patriotic sympathy, and fraternal regard. My effort has been, and will be, to the full extent of mv power, to canse the billows of useless and dangerous domestic controversy to sleep, and be still. I am as fully aware as other men of what is te be expected from auch attempts In highly excited times, it is far easier to fan and feed the flames of passion and discord, than to sab due them : and in sueh liases, ha who counsels moderation isia danger of being regarded as failing ie his duly to party. These consequences I willingly meet, these dangers I encounter without hesitation ; be ing resolved to throw myself, with whatever weight may belong to me, unreservedly, into the scale of Union. Where Washington led, I am willing ito follow, at a vast distance in deed, and with anoqua', but no faltering steps. The speech which yon commend so much above its merits, I submit to the political party to which I belong, and to the wise and patrio tic men of all parties, in the generation in which I live; and 1 cheerfully leave it. with the prin ciples and sentiments which it avows, to the judgment of posterity, if I may flatter anything spoken or written by mo, will be remembered long enough to come before that impartial and augmt tribunal. I am, with great regard, Your obedient servant, Daniel Webster. Chronicle and Sentinel. AUGUSTA. GA • SATURDAY HORDING, MOV. 2, Judge Nisbet’s Letter, The letter of the Mon. E. A. Nisbkt, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Geor gia, to a Committee in Cass county, who in vited him to attend the Kingston Barbecue and Meeting, will attract the reader’s attention. Like every thing from him, it is a calm, dia passionate document, replete with sonnd prac tical sense, and abounding in patriotic senti ment. The Union Meeting in New York. The foil ,wing cal! for a great Union Meet ing in the city of New York on Wednesday next, is published in the papers of the 29th ult, to which about two thousand five hundred aamen are attached, and the journals add : c ‘ there are several thousand more for which they have not room.” The Express says: “ The signers, numerous as they are, could have been doubled, tripled, or quadrupled; but ‘enough is as good as a feast,' a*d there was r.o occasion for more. The signers embrace men of ail professions, although most of them are merchants ” “The undersigned unite in this call fora Public Meeting of their fellow citizens without distinction of party, who approve of the peace measures of the last session of Con gress—who are disposed to sustain the con stitution and laws of the country, and to maintain the Union, and for such action as Is best calculated to arrest the farther progress of political agitation in this section of the country.” The Excitement in Boston.—The Wash ington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, in a letter of the 29ih ult., remarks: “ Private advices from Boston render ii probable that a fugitive slave riot will come off to-morrow, or some day this week, and that the low will be enforced at all hazards, without any interference on the part of the federal executive. The marshal will summon a posse under the act, and the act will be enforced. — Wc shall see whether the Bostonians will coun tenance resistance to the law, and a practical nulli fication of the law. Theiraction will give tone to public' sentiment in all the Northern Stales on this subject. It is with them to decide the question whetb r tho law can be enforced or not. Mr. Win throp, Mr. Horace Mann, and Mr. Q,uincy, and Mr. J. G. Whither assert that it cannot be executed.” “On Friday night the mercury in Fahrenheit’s thermometer, pinched by the sharpness of the weath er, retreated down into the chilly regions of autumn, and allowed our old friend Jack Frost to take quiet possession of the fields and gardens of the vicinity, robbing them of their green mantles, and clothing them in seasonable russet. A hearty welcome to bis hoary visage.”— Mobile Register. Gentle reader, y** will doubtless understand from the above, that our accomplished con temporary of the Register, simply designed to announce the occurrence of a killing frost in that city on the 30th ult. Sensible.—The New York and New Jer sey Synod adjourned recently, after passing a resolution recommending obedience to the fugitive slave law, and refuting to entertain an amendment declaring the law unconstitutional. The Union Bank of Tennessee is about to establish a Branch at Chattanooga, which will commence operations shortly. Chattanooga. —The population of Chatta nooga, according to she census just taken, is 120 S. The bill of mortality for the year end ing first June last, was only six. Judge Berrisa’s Position. We copied yesterday from the Savannah Republican, a paragraph charging the disun ion ists or resistance party of Chatham with per petrating a "trick” in the nomination of Judge Berrien. The Georgian of Thursday made the following reply. “ We cannot paca over the insinuation thrown out in the Republican of ynlerday, that the uominatioa of Judge Berrien is only “* trick,” “to get the bene fit of his name and influence,” Let the Republican atteed to its own candidates, we will attend to ours. When Judge B rien d -lines the nomination it will be sufficient time for remarks. And if be should feel disposed to decline, we are satisfied It will not be four reasons that he does not agree in sentiment with the ne who nominated him. We are satisfied that our distinguished Senator is with us entirely upon this ionj. mant Southern question.” The Republican, of the same day, Thursday, contains the folio wing explanation of its para graph, of the day previous: “ lu our norice, yesterday, a I the nomination by “the Resistance parry” of the Hon. John Macpher san Berrien, we stated “that the leading gentlemen of that p rty were informed some days ago by a re lative of Mr. Berrien’s, who hud his authority for making the statement , that he could net consent to all / his name to be used as a candidate for the \ Convention by either party.” i Wears advised by the gentleman alluded to that i he did not act by authority of Mr. Berrien la his i communication to ihe p rty, but upon his own res -1 ponc ’jility as the fiiend and relative of Mr. Berrien : who in bis absence undeuook to interpe ;c for the purpose of preventing a nomination, which, however ; it may have been met by Mr. Berrien, if it hud etna * nstod from his follow-citizens of Chatham generally, [ and unitedly, could not be acceptable to him whan tendered by cither parly of a community divided and distracted, at a crisis upon subjects, which evi dently demand union and harmony for the public good. We cheerfully put ourselves right in this matter by making this correction, it is to be presum ■ that Mr. Barrier! will soon make known his wishes | in regard te the nomination. , As Judge. B. is claimed as belonging to both j parties in Chatham, he will find it necessary te 1 relieve himself from the dilemma, by defining 1 his position, about which there seems se much doubt and uncertainty. Union Tickets. The friends of the Union, opposed to dis union, secession, or resistance to the late acts of Congress, have made the following nomi nations for delegates to the Convention from their respective counties: Oglethorpe — George R. Gilmer, Samuel Glenn, P. VV. Hutcheson, and Willis Wil lingham. Lumpkin. —A. M. Russell, H. W. Riley, Samvel Hymer, and R. H. Peirce. Upson. —Thomas Flewellkk, Rev. Wm. Crawford, Wm. A. Cobb, and A. J. M’Afkk. Twiggs. —H. Hughes, Dr. Thou. J. Johnson. Randolph — Hon. Wm. Taylor, John Hen drick, H. G. Johnson, B. H. Rice. Wilkes.^— R. Toombs, I. T. Irvin, Jr., John H- Dyson, Edw. R. Anderson. Washington. —R. W. Flournoy, Wm. Hall, G. S. l.angmade, John Duggan. Cobh —David Irwin, A. J. Hansell, M. G. Slaughter, N. JVf. Caulder. DeKalb —John Collier, Charles Murphy, William Ezzard. James M. Calhoun. Harris—G. Cranberry, Geo. Osborn, G. W. Cobb, Leonard Pratt. Marion. —Thomas Bivins, John G. Stokes Clark .—Asbury Hull, John Calvin Johnson, B. S. Sheats. Abram S. Hill. Monroe. —A. M. D King, Meade Lesueur, James S. Pinckard, Hiram Phinazee. Pike. —Richard White, John R. Jenkins, Andrew J. Beckom, Henry Smith. Muscogee. —Alex McDougald, Thomas F. Wooldridge, N L. Howard, Alex. C. Morion, Coss. —Col. L Johnson, L. Tumhn, W. Aikin, J. Wofford. Floyd —J. Walters, E Ware. Paulding. —Reese McGrigor, W. F. James Hancock. —Eli Baxter, James Thomas. Baldwin. —A. H. Kenan, Tomlinson Fori. Fayette. —W. B. Fuller, John O. Dickison. Green —W. C. Dawson, T. N. Pouilain, W. D. Weaver. R. H. Ward. Henry. —L J. Glenn, B. Petit. L. T. Doyal, D. L Duffer. Sumter —W. H. Crawford, E. R. Brown. Macon —Nathan Bryan, W. H Robinson. Crawford . —W. A. Matthews, Dolphin Da vis. Jones. —R V. Hardeman, Francis B. Has call Decatur. —Richaid Sims, J. P. Dickinson. Chatham. —R, D. Arnold, R. R. Cuyler, John E. Ward. F. S Bartow. Mclntosh. —Thomas Spalding, C. H. Hop kins. Glynn —F. M. Scarlett, James Hamilton Cooper. Pulaski. — W. B Reeves. Norman McDuffie. Cherokee. —Alien Lawhon, S. C. Dyer, M. Keith, J R Wikle. Lee. —Wiili* A Hawkins, Samuel D. Irvin. Lo'irens —C. B. Guyton, E. J. Blackshear. Jackson. —Giles Mitchell, S. P. Thurmond Chattooga —Dr. M- Montgomery, H. P. Wooue. Frost.—bur exchanges from Athens, Macon, Rome, and Columbus, Ga., and from Mobile and Montgomery, Ala., represent tho frosts of Saturday, ~unday and Monday mornings, the 26ih,27th and 28th ult. as having been sever* enough to destroy vegetation. A planter at Goshen, Cherokee county, Ala., in a letter to the Editor says: the frosts of those mornings killed the Cotton, and expresses the opinion that the crop of lliat section will not exceed two thirds of what it was last year. Killing Frosts.—The Macon Journal Messenger say* . —“ There have been som® killing Hosts since our last issue. The cotton plant has been very generally killed or so seri ously injured, -hat the bolls yet remaining upon the stalk, will not mature. The crop may now be considered as made, and we have no doubt that the yield will be even less than last year. Many planters inform us that there is bat little cotton left in the fields, the exces sive drought having prevented the fruit from maturing for many weeks past. The crop can not exceed 2,000,000 of bales.” “Stand up to the Rack,” dee. We have lived quite too long to be turned from our purpose by an adroit effort, says tb® Columbus Enquirer, to change tho real issu® before the people That issue was deliberate ly and insolently made at the commencement of the present excitement, and men were then furious for a fight and raging for disunion, who are now gentle as lambs and who could not. if you let them tel) the tale, be kicked out of the Confederacy. This kind of a change is apt to come over men who find that the people will follow no kind of leaders that are bent on the destruction of the Government. In this region, and we believe the same may be said of other portions of the State, there has been a gradual getting down stairs, until a man with a candle can scarcely find the whereabouts of many who a sb srt time since stood on the top most step, and lustily cried to the multitude, “Hail to the dissolution of the Union, and all glory to the Southern Confederacy.” Well, the boys have come down stairs, as before remarked, and what credit is due them for so doing 7 Had they been sustained by the people, would they not have rushed madly onto the consummation of their original pur pose, and would they have stopped short of that disastrous point to which all their schemes were so fearfully and so rapidly lending 7 And will they not now, if they can gel the power, go back to their first love and carry out their odious views of disunion, secession, &c. as greedily as before t They wanted at first nothing but the power—and that they thought they had—logo fortvard and plunge the country in ail the untold and unimaginable horrors of intestine war and civil strite. Con vinced, as era brief but desperate struggle, that such a course would not be sanctioned by the popular voice, ; they have now changed their mode of warfare, and go for some kind of resistance, heretofore undefined and prob ably undefinable! The Convention which has been called is to do the resisting. Are wo to be told that it mat ters not what that body may ordain 7 Shall we be told that thousands of the public treasu ry is to be spent in concocting plans for the present or future dismemberment of this glo rious union 7 .That it is to assemble to make valiant threats of fulnre resistance against ag gressions that in all human probability may never be made 7 Or will that body meet and prepare for the calling of another Convention at Nashville, to frame our Constitution, ordain test-oaths for Southern men, and make all due preparation for a final triumph of the disunionists 7 We know indeed for what pur pos® the law permitted a call of the Conven tion but what it may do, should it unfortunate ly be composed ®f wrong materials, He who knows the future as well as the present alone can tell. Are the people then satisfied that, for existing evils, this government ought not to be destroy ed 7 Are they not convinced that the rights of the South are safer in the Union, than out of it? Can they see, if we are weak now, how we will suddenly grow strong, and assume the power of giants by a dissolution 7 These are plain questions, and it behooves every voter to ponder them well before the coming election. Wo know that none of tho candidates will dare avow that a dissolution is desirable ; no, not they. And in t..e Convention, will not proba bly vole direetly for the accomplishment of such an end. They dare not do it and meet the indignant frowns of their constituents ; ■ but they wid come up with their ultimatums [ sin* qua mans, and all such Latin nonsens*, i pledging ihe State te what never can b© per formed, and drawing her with all her brave and generous sons into positions from which they can never escape with honor, or with the Union. Away with such men. The daring disunronieta cnu and will bo mat and put down} tho more timid, but equally dangerous advo cates for secession, will be 'treated in the tame way. The present danger is that the people may be deceived, and that men will slip into the Convention professing great love for the Union and government of the country, who will, if they have the power, place us in the predicament above mentioned. The action of the last Congress is before the people. If in that action it has or can be shown that the honor of the South has been tarnished, or the Consiitulion of the country violated, it will be time enough to resort to measures of rediess which look to open re sistance. In our view of the mailer, there are but two kinds of resistance, one by the regu lar constituted authorities of the government acting within the line of their constitutional duties, the other by force and such revolution ary movements as set the Constitution at defi ance, and look to the destruction of the pre sent form of government. Look well, then, to what men mean when they dismount from the disunion hobby, and talk about resistance. It ail means the same thing, and tends to ihe same end. When ice get ready to resist the constitutional laws of the country, we shall be ready to dissolve the Union—and not before. Fugitive Slav* Law among thi ©ld Puritans. —A writer in the Boston Courier cites the following; “ It msy interest the readers of these papers, as a piece of curious antiquarian history, to know the origin of tho practice of restoring fugitives from service. In the articles of ccn federation between the United Colonies es New England—namely, Massachusetts, New Plymouth, Connecticut, Now Haven, &c. made in 1643; and made, as the preamb'e de clares, by those who ‘all come into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim, namely, to advance the kingdom of our Lend Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the gospel in purity with peace'—there is the following provision : ‘lt is a ! so agreed that if any servant run away from his master into any confederate jurisdiction in such case, upon certificate from ore magistrate in the jurisdiction out of which ths servant fled, er upon other due proof the said servant shall be either delivered to his master, or any other that pursues and brings such certificate or proof ’ “ Thus it appears that the rendition of fu gitives ftcm service in this country commenc ed more than two hundred years ago, and, . what is remarkable, ihe mode of proof pres cribod by the agreement of the Colonies ia precisely analogous to ora of the modes pro vided by the act of JBSO ; tne only difference between them is ihe more elevated character of the tribunal ‘in the jurisdiction out of which the said servant Hud,’ before which tha proof is cow to be made, and the greater cau tion ia the proceedings. I presume that die subjects es tki* compact between toe Colonies were rather white servants and apprentice* than negro slaves, which ia 1643 were proba bly very few in number. It was very com mon in those early times, more than at present, for master tnec&anies to take indentured *p prentices, wko, if they absconded, were (end note are) liable to be arrested and returned to their masters, as person-? held to labor or service in the State whence they fled.” The same rule now prevails ia regard to wh te fugitives as was adopted by the early Paruans of Now England ia relation to runa way?, and is applied by the law of 1850 (as it has been by the law of 1793) to fugitive slaves. A man charged with crime, and fleeing to another State, is surrendered up ors ’he simple certificate of an authorized magistrate, with out trial or inquiry into the reality of his guilt, or any appeal to the writ of habeas corpus. His guilt is left to be ascertained in the State from which the fugitive fled. But the North ern fanatics contend for a rule for runaway blacks different from that to which white runa ways are subjected, and are ready to tear the sacred Uuion asundorto effect their weak and wicked purpose. A new invention, by a Mr. Jordan of Liver pool, by which he proposes to substitute iron for the wooden framing of vessels, is attract ing a good deal of attention in that town. The inventor has taken out an American pa tent. It is stated that the Government has in contemplation the construction of a powerful squadron of steamers for the African coast, with a view of employing them to carry a monthly mail, and to act upon the slave pre ventive service. It is proposed that the fleet shall consist of forty vessels, and that one shall be detached from the station along the coast, monthly, to come home and return with the mails, thus establishing a regular monthly com munication with the African coast, aud effectu ally crushing the slave traffic. National Vessel for the World's Fair. —The President of the United States has authorized the Secretary of the Navy lo place a national vessel at the disposal of the Executive Com mittee having charge of the transmission of articles from this country to the Grand Indus trial Exhibition to be held next Spring in Lon don This will afford facilities to competitors of which, we doubt not, many will promptly avail themselves. As the time approaches for the holding of the Grand Exhibition, the in'erest which it causes receives almost daily a lively enhance ment. The first of the kind ever projected upon so large a scale, it has the attraction of novelty as well as that which arises from the solicitude felt in itandinits results through out the vast range of nations, communities, and individuals, who are in some way concern ed in it.— Balt. Amer. Franklin College. —The last collegiate terra of ibis institution, for the present year, closed on yesterday —There will be a vacation until the 16th day of January next, when the first term of the next year will commence We understand that the number of stndents in attendance is about one hundred and twenty. —Athens Banner. The Whale's Strength. —The roost dreadful display of the whale’s strength and prowess yet authentically recorded, was that made on the American whale ship Essex, Capt. Pollard, which sailed from Nantucket for the Pacific Ocean in August, 1840. Late in the fall es the sa me year, when in lat. 40 ol the South Pacific, a shool of sperm whales were discovered, and three boats were manned and sent in pursuit, The mate’s boat was struck by one of them, and he was obliged to return to the ship, in order to repair damages. While he was engaged in the work, a sperm, whale, judged to be eighty-three feet long, broke water twenty rods from the ship, on her weatner bow. He was going at ihe rate of about three knots an hour, and the ship at nearly the siino rate, when he struck the bow of the vessel, just forward of her chains. At the shock produced by iha collision of two such mighty masses of mailer, in motion, the ship shook like a leaf. The seemingly malicious whale dived aud pissed under the snip, grazing her keel, and then appeared at j aoout the distance of a ship’s length, lashing the i sea with his fins and tail, as if suffering the mos horrible agony. He was evidently hurt by the coliislion, and blindly frantic wkh in stinctive rage. In a few minutes he seemed to recover himself, and started, with greats speed, across the vessel’s course, to windward. Meanwhile, the hands on board discovered the ship gradu ally settling down at the bows, and the pumps were ordered to be rigged. While Ihe crew were working at them, one of them eried out —“God have mercy he conies again ” The whale had turned about forty rods from the ship, and was making for her with doable his former speed his pathway white with fn am Rushing ahead, he struck her again at th J T and the tremendous blow stove her in v?’ whale dived under again, and disap Dearst h . e and the ship foundeicd in five minute r ’ the firrt collision. But five out ofl ? were saved. 9Qt y, Dogs and Men.—We overheard two aenti mem m muslachis, as they walked Broad" talking about that dog who committed by springing from the fire tower recent* One remarked that the dog m UBt have insane to commit an act so singular, to* the other responded historically, savin*!?, remember reading that a man once ! from the Duke of York’s tower in * j and killed himself,” ,Q L «gUod, “Oh, that’s very likely,” said the first, “i e «„ tee how a man might commit such an i for a dog to make such a fool of himaJif • incomprehensible.” —N Y. paper. ’’ u opfdal Notices ' O-Rev. Mr. City, will preach in the Presbyterian Church Lecture Room, on Sunday, 3d inst., at the ‘s^ hours. ‘ Uai n2 A Card.—Dr. EDW. GIRARDEY tender* hia Pro easional services to the citizens of August and its vicinity. Office one door above Martin Frederick. 0 30-i iu O. MUNSON, A. M., M. D., SURGEON DENTIST, Has removed to the former res,. - dence of J. C. Caumichael, over I _ 1 Carmichael <4 Mean’s Hard-ware i Stor °' oIT-ly gfA. Mrs. E, O, Collins has returned Irora the North, and is now opening i&iaku ******* a handsome and fashionable assort- meat of MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS.— Among them will be found Rich Bonnet and Cap Ribbons, Flowers, Laces, Ttha, Embroidered Pocket Handkerchiefs, Embroidered Muslin Undereleeves, and Breakfast Capa, ilain and fancy Dress Caps, Drawn .-Silk, Satin, Neapolitan and Straw Bonne s[ black and white Lace Veils, Lace Capes, Silk find Cotton Roaches, Sil-t and Kid Elastics, Combs, Hair braids and Curls, Toilet Powder, Perfumes, Toilet Soaps, Hair Curling Fluid, Hair Restoraive, Hair Dye, &c. 018 * V Female School. —This Institution will commence, under the direction of Mrs. Doctor Cun ningham, in a suite of Rooms, nnxt below the Washington Hall, on the 7rh of OCTOBER, inr.t., where the usual branches A' an English education will be taught. Al-o, Music, French and Drawing, j Residence on Greene street. if The Prciteh Liiugnage taught gram matically by Mrs, Sabal, oppot c tha United itaU-e Ho:e!. Mrs. Sabal will take charge of a Class ia uny of the Seminaries or private families of Augusta, 08 O’ Oodge’i Beautiful Dagnerreaty|w Miniature*.—The undersigned would respectfully announce to the citizen*: of Augusta and vicinity, that be is now prepared to execute Miniatures of unjj rivalled beauty, by the aid of a ekyught. Groups and single pictures tak-.:n with the great est accuracy, and every improvement in the art. Pull instructions given in the art. Materials of all kinds for sale. Harrison's Quick Working Came rae for sale at New York prices, with freight added E. S. DODGE. Rooms next door to the Post Office. o2b 6m ■ 1 I—■.■■l. GREENWOOD & VOERIS, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Office No. Ilk, TcHoupltoulae-atreet. NEW ORLEANS. H. T. GREENWOOD. JOSIAH MORRIS, je2s-dly* WILLY Alii HUUTER, FACTOR, COMMISSION AND FOR WARDING MERCHANT, No. 94, Bay street, 09-6 we Savannah, Georgia. HAHDWICI* & COOKE, FACTORS AND COMMISSION MER CHAST s, BAY STREET, R. B, HARDWICK. } „ . „ . ro. cooks, $ Savannah, Georgia. DIED A Revolutionary Soldier Gone. Departed this life, at hia residence in Colombia county, on the 29th ult., after a lingering illness from Paralysis. Mr. Samuel Holliman, aged 87 year*. He was born in Johnson county, North Carolina, and came to Georgia with his parents in 1774, and settled within a few miles of Wrightsboro, where he has ever aince reaided. During the struggle for In dependence, Gov. Wright occupied a Port at thii place, where it was often contested by the tories, ami alternately held by each. In those days discrimina tion of parties and of men was palpable. Mr. Hol liman was a Whig, and rendered effective servica in many scouting parties, to the great annoyance and discomfiture of the tories, lo which, with many interesting incidents, he has often recurred, when speaking of those trying times. He raised a large and respectable family, lived a quiet and peaceful citizen, and died an upright and honest man, full of years, and honorable to a fault. H. W . M, CONSIGNEES. Per Geo. Steam Boat Co's Steamer Tennessee, with boat No. 9 —to J. B. Guieu, Agent—Mdxe. to C. A. Platt, J. R. Dow, George Robinson, J. ft 9. Hones A Co., John Bones, Haviland, Risley dk Co., Jesse Ormond, J. T. Botliwell, Gould, Hulkley <fc Co., Adams, Hopkins A Co., French & Butler, Howard <fc Gardiner, Baker & Hart, Hopkins, Kolb & Co., Buford, Beall ft Co., H. Moore, L. Roll, N. W. Hooker, S. W. Wright, B. P. Chew, Jeffera, Cothran &. Co., W. O. Price, and Agent Georgia Railroad. LAND BOUNTY AGENCY. THE subscriber takes this method of informing all persons interested, that be is prepared with all necessary papers te obtain Land Bounties for all those entitled under the late act of Congress to the same, with the utmost dispatch. Office at Lincointon, Lincoln county. n2-wtf B. B. MOORE. SWEET CHOCOLATE* in small stick*, for aale by n 2 PHILIP A. MOISE, Dniggiet. MERCER POTATOES. 2*l BI3LS. Mercer POTATOES, just receM *3 and for sale by n‘2-d4ftwl HARDIN & E3TE3. BUCKWHEAT CAKES can never be mad* well unless Preston & Merrill’s Yeast Powders are used. Ne excuse for bad bread, for d* eee CC:t " bra tod Powders may be had of n 2 PHILIP A MOISK, Druggi*b_ ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.—- Wlll sold, beibre the Court Hoase door in '- ja?BTl ’ Cass county, on ihe first Tuesday in January ne t lot of Land, No. 314, 14th district, 3d lection, con taining 73 acres. Sold os the estate of Steppe- • B&rnlery, lute of Warren county, deceased, oi benefit of the heirs. Terms cash. , JOHN M. BARKSDALE, AJm r-i de bonis non, with the will annexe November 2, 1850. NUMEROUS testimonials can tes«en*f‘ be efficacy of Dr. Howard’s Vegetable W* medy. It cures promptly without su-jec in g parent to any tronole. A fresh supply 8 . n'2 PHILIP A. MOISF, WANTED TO HIKE, A COOK, that can come well rccomme"‘ c J Per such, and of good character, verj wtgea will he given. Inquire at this omce. —^— A YENS’ CHERRY PECTORAL, for t»v gi oil PHILIP A. MOGB. ('Toffee.— 610 bags Rio, Java7«» d L»i l “ 9 J COFFEE, for . .le low by rQ 3 HAND. WILLIAMS AjV HAVE HBAD ACHE, wh *”Jj, "enuiofcephalic Snuff which is tad for the cure of this complaint, ean be wm* A „ 0198 , „,.,p*o
