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gesticulating m the most violent and menacing
manner, thrusting the letter and his fist into iny
lace, 1 in ray fury seized whatever thing was
handiest (it was a stick of wood,) and dealt him
and instantaneous blow with all the force ihat
passion could give it. I did not know, or think,
or care, where I did hit him, nor how hard, nor
what the effect would be. It was on the side of
his head, and there was nothing to break the
force of the blow. He fell instantly upon the
pavement. There was no second blow; he did
not move. I stooped down over him, and he
seemed to he lifeless. Blood flowed from his
mouth, and I got a sponge and wiped it away.
1 got some amonia and applied it to his nose,
but without effect. Perhaps I spent ten minutes
in attempts to resuscitate him, but I found he
was absolutely dead. In my horror and con
sternation, I ran instinctively to the doors and
bolted them, the doors of the lecture room and
of the laboratory below. And then, what was I
to do? It never occurred to me to go out and
declare what had been done, and obtain assist
ance. I saw nothing but the alternative of a sue
ecssful movement and concealment ofthc body
on the one hand and of infamy and destruction on
the other. The tirst thing I did as soon as I could
do anything, was to draw the body into the
private room adjoining, where I took off the
clothes and began putting them into the fire,
which was burning in the upper laboratory.
They were all consumed there that afternoon,
with papers, pocketbook, and whatever they
contained - . I did not examine the pockets, nor
remove anything except the watch. I saw that,
or the chain of it, hanging out. 1 took it, and
threw it over the bridge as I went to Cambridge.
My next move was to get the body into the sink,
which stands in a small private room; by set
ting the body partially erect against the corner,
ami by getting up into the sink myself, I succeed
ed in drawing it up there. It was entirely dis
membored. It wasquickly done, asa work of terrii
ble and desperate necessity. The only instru
ment was the knife found by the officers, in the
tea chest, which I kept for corks. 1
made no use of a Turkish knife, as it was called
at the trial. That had long been kept on my
parlor mantelpiece in Cambridge, as a curious
ornament. My daughters frequently cleaned it;
hence the Marks of oil and whiting found on it.
I had lately brought it into Boston to get the sil
ver sheath repaired. While dismembering the
body, a stream of Cochituate water was runn
ing through the sink, carrying off the blood in a
pipe that passed down through the lower labor
atory. There must have been a leak in the pipe,
tor the ceiling below was stained immediately
around it. There was a tire burning in the fur
nace. of the laboratory. Littlefield was mistaken
in thinking there had never been a fire there, j
He had probably never kindled one, but I had j
done it myself several times. I had done it that j
day for the purpose of making oxygen gas. The j
head” and viscera were put into the furnace that !
day and the fuel heaped on. I did not examine at
night to see what degree they were consumed.
Home of the extremities were put in there, I be
lieve,onthat day: the pelvis, and some ofthc limbs
perhaps, were all put under the lid of the lecture
room table, in what is called the well—a deep
! ink lined with lead; a stream ofCochituate was
turned into it, and kept running through if all
Friday night; the thorax was put into a similar
well, in the lower laboratory, which I filled with
water, and threw in a quantity of potash, which
I found there. This disposition of the remains
was not changed till after the visit ofthc o I fleet's
on Monday. When the body had been thus ail
disposed ot” I cleared away all traces of u hat had
been done. I think the stick with which the fa
tal blow had been struck proved to be a piece
of the stump of a grape vine—say two inches in
diameter, and two feet long. It was one of sever
al pieces which I had carried in from Cambridge
tong before, for the purpose of showing the effect
of certain chemicle tluids in coloring wood, by be
ing absorbed into the pores. The grape vine,
being a very porous wood, was well adapted to
this purpose. Another longer slick had been
used as intended, and exhibited to the students.
This one had not been used. I put it into the
iKe. 1 took up the two notes cither from the
table or the lloor, I think the table, close by
where Dr. P. had fallen. I seized an old metal
lic pen lying on the table, dashed it across the
lace and through the signatures, and put them
,n my pocket. Ido not know why 1 did this
j-ather than put them in the fire, for 1 had not
considered for a moment what effect either mode
ot disposing of them would have on the mort
gage, or rny indebtedness to Dr. P. and the oth
er persons interested, and l had not yet given a
j.in"le thought to the question as to what ac
count I should give of the object or result of my
interview with Dr. Parkman. I never saw a
sledge hammerjspokenof by Littlefield; never
knew of its existence, at least I have no recollec
tion of it. I left the College to go home, as late
as six oclock. 1 collected myself as well as I
could, that I might meet my family and others
with composure. On Saturday, I visited my
rooms at the College, but made no change in
the disposition of the remains, and laid no plans
as to my future course. On Saturday evening,
j read the notice in the “Transcript,” respecting
his disappearance. I was then deeply impress
ed with the necessity ofimniediately takingsome
ground as to the character of my interview with
Dr. Parkman, for I saw that it must become
known that I had such an interview, as I had
appointed it first by an unsealed note on Tues
day,and on Friday had myself called athishous c
in open day, and ratified the arrangement, aii (1
had probably been overhearedby the manserv ‘
ant, and I knew not by how many persons. Dr.‘
I’, might have been seen entering my rooms, or
liow many persons he might have told by the
way where he was going—the interview would
in all probability be known, and I must be ready
to explain it. The question excited me much,
but on Sunday my course was taken. I woul<L
go into Boston anil be the first to declare myself
The person, as yet unknown, with whom Dr. P.
bad made the appointment. I would take the
ground that I had invited him to the College to
pay him money, and that 1 had paid it. Accor
dingly, 1 fixed upon the sum by taking the small
note and adding interest, which it appears I cast
erroneously. If I had thought of this course
earlier, I should not have deposited Pettec’s
check for SOO in the Chales River Bank on Sat-
urdav, but should have suppressed it, as going
so far to make up sum which I was to have pro
fessed to have paid the day before, and which
Puttee knew I had by me at the hour of inter
view ; it had i.ot occurred to me that I should
ever show the notes cancelled in proof of it, or I
should not have destroyed the large note, and let
it be inferred that it was gone with the missing
man, and I should only have kept the small one,
which was all that I could pretend to have paid.
Mv single thought was concealment and safety;
everything else was incidental to that, I was in
no state to consider my ulterior pecuniary inter
est. Money, though I needed it so much, was
of no account with me in that condition of mind.
If I had designed and premeditated the homicide
of Dr. Parkman, in order to get the possession
of the notes and cancel my debt, I not only
should have deposited Pettee’s check the next
day, but should have made some show of get
ting and having the money the morning before.
I should have drawn my money from the bank
and taken occasion to mention to the cashier that
1 had a sum to make up on that day for Dr. P.
and the same to Henchman, when I borrowed
ihe Sib. 1 should have remarked that I was so
much short of a sum that I was to pay Parkman.
1 borrowed the money” of Henchman as mere
pocket money for the day. If I had intended the
homicide of l)r. P. 1 should not have made the
appointmen with him twice, and each time in so
open a manner that other persons would almost
certainly know of it; aud 1 should not have in
vited him to my rooms at an hour when the
College would be full of students and others, and
an hour when I was most likely to receive calls
from others, for that was the hour,just alter the
lecture, at which persons having business with
me, or in my rooms, were always directed to
call. 1 looked into my rooms on Sunday aiter
noon, but did nothing. After the tirst visit ol
the officers, I took the pelvis and some of the
limbs from the upper well, and threw them into
the vault under the privy. I took the thorax
from the well below, and packed it in the tea
chest, as found. My own impressiou has been,
that this was not done till after the second visit
ot the officers, which was on Tuesday, but
Kinsley’s testimony shows that it must have
i-cciTdoiiC sooner. The perforation of the thor-
ax had been made by knife, aat time of re
moving the viscera . On Wednesday, I putin
kindlings and made a fire in the furnace below,
having first poked down the ashes. Home of
the \iinbs, I cannot remember which or how
mauv, were consumed at that time. This was
the fast I had to do with the remains. The tin
box was designed to receive the thorax, though
I had not concluded where I should finally put
the box. The fish hooks , tied tip as grapples,
were to be used for drawing up the parts in the
vault, whenever I should determine how to dis
pose of the m, and get strings enough. I had a
confused double object in ordering the box, and
making the grapples 1 had, tefore, intended to
get such things to send to Fayal; the box to hold
the plants and other articles which I wished to
protect from the salt water and the sea air, and
the hooks to be used there in obtaining corral
line plants front tllbsea. It was this previously
intended use of them that suggested and mixed
itself up with the idea of the other application,
I doubt, even now, to which use they would have
been applied; I had not used the hooks at the
time ofthc discovery. The tan put into the tea
chest was taken from a barrel of it that had been
in the laboratory for some time. The bag of tan
brought in on Monday wr s not used, nor intend
ed to be used ; it belonged to mo by a quantity ob
tained by me a long time ago, for experiments in
tanning, and was sent in by the family to get it
out of the way. Its being sent in just at that
time was accidental, I was not aware that I had
put the knile in the chest. The stick found in
the saucer of ink, was for making coarse dia
grams on cloth. The bunch of tiled keys had
been used long ago by me in Fruit street, and
thrown carelessly by into a drawer. I never ex
amined them, and do not know whether they
would fit any of the locks of the college or not.
If there were other keys fitting doors with which
1 had nothing to do, I supposed they must have
been all duplicates, or keys of former locks left
thereby the mechanics or janitor. I know noth
ing about them, and should never be likely to
notice them amongst the multitude of articles,
large and small, collected in my rooms. The
janitor had furnished me with a key to the dis
secting room, for the admission of medical friends
visiting the College, but I had never used it.
The nitric acid on the stairs was not used to re
move spots of blood, but was dropped by acci
dent. When the officers called for me on Friday,
the 30th, I was in doubt whether I was under
arrest, or whether a mere strict search of my
rooms was to be had, the latter hypothesis being
hardly less appalling than the former. When i
found .that we went over Crages’ Bridge, I
thought the arrest’ most probable. When I
found that the carriage was stopping at the jail;
I was sure of my late. Before leaving the car
riage, I took a dose of strychnine, from my pock
et and swallowed it. i had prepared it in the
shape of a pili before I left mv laboratory on 23d.
I thought 1 could not bear to survive detection.
1 thought it was a large dose. The state of my
nervous system, probably, defeated its action
partially. The effects of the poison were terri
ble beyond description. It was in operation at
the college, and before I went there, but most se
verely afterwards. I wrote but one of the anon
ymous letters produced at the trial—the one
mailed at East Cambridge, The little bundle re
ferred to in the letter detained by the jailor, con
tained only a bottle of nitric acid, for domestic
use. I had seen it stated in a newspaper that I
had purchased a quantity of oxalic acid, which
it was presumed was to be used in removing
blood stains. I wish the parcel to be kept un
touched, that it may be shown, if there should
be occasion, what it really was that I had pur
chased. 1 have diawn lip, in separate papers,
an explanation of the use I intended to make of
the blood sent for on Thursday, the 22d, and of
the conversation with Littlefield about the dis
secting vault. I think that Pettec, in his testi
mony at the trial, put too strongly my words
about having settled with Dr. P. Whatever I
did say of the kind, was in hope I entertained
that 1 should btfable pacify Dr. I\, and make
some arrangements with him, and was said in
order to quiet Pettec, who was becoming restive
under the solicitations of Dr. Parkman.
After Dr. Webster had stated most of the facts
recorded above on the 22d May, this question,
with all the earnestness, solemnity, and author
ity of tone that Dr. Putman was. master of was
addressed him:—
“Dr. Webster, in all probability your days are
numbered ; you cannot, you dare not speak false
ly to me now , you must not die with a lie in
your mouth; so, prove to yourself that your re
pentance for the sins of your past life is sincere
—tell me the truth, then—a confidence to be
kept sacred during your life-time and as much
longer as my regard for the happiness of your
family shall seem to me to require, and the inter
est of truth and justice to permit. Search to
the bottom of your heart fertile history of your
motives, and tell me, before God, did it never
occur to you, before the decease of Dr. Parkman,
that his death, if you could bring it to pass, would
be of great advantage to you, or at least that per
sonal injury to him might possibly be the result
of your expected conference with him? Asa
dying man, I charge you to answer me truly and
exactly, or else be silent—had you not such a
thought ?”
“No, never,” said he, with energy and feeling;
as I live, and as God is my witness, never! I
was no more capable of such a thought than one
of my innocent children. I never had the remo
test idea of injuring Dr. P. until the moment Iho
blow was struck. Dr. P., was extremely severe
and sharp—the most provoking of men—and I
am irritable and passionate. A quick handed
and brief violence of temper has been a beset
ting sin of my life. I was an only child—much
indulged—and I have never acquired the con
trol over my passions that 1 ought to have ac
quired early, and the consequence is all this.”
“But you notified Dr. Parkman to meet you
‘-at acertatn hour, and told him you would pay
him, when you knew you had not the money 2”
“No,” he replied. “I did not tell him I would
pay him, and there is no evidence that I told
him so. Except my own words spoken after
his disappearance, and after 1 had determined to
take the ground that I had paid him, those words
were of the miserable tissue of falsehoods to
which I was committed from the moment I had
began to conceal the homicide. I never had a
thought of injuria Parkman.”
Meeting in Meriwether County.
Gkeexville, July 2, 1850.
In accordance with previous notice, a very
large number of the citizens of this county, with
out distinction of party, met to-day in Greenville,
for the purpose of considering the slavery ques
tion and the Nashville convention.
On motion of Judge Joseph H. Gaston the
meeting was organized by calling Col John 11.
McMath (whg) and Col. Alfred Wellborn (dem.)
to the chair, and requesting Wm. L. Fletcher to
act as secretary.
The object of the meeting was then explain
ed by Col. Alfred Wellborn in a warm and thril
ling address.
On motion of Wm. M. Slaughter, Esq., that
a committee of six, composed ot three ol each
party, be appointed by the chair to report reso
lutions for the consideration of the meeting;
whereupon Wm. C. Jack, Freeman McLendon
and George A. Hall, (whig?,) and Dr. H. S.
Wiiiibish, J. G. Gaston, and Wm. M. Slaughter,
(dem.) were selected.
The committee retired for a short time and a
majority of live, through their chairman, Wm.
Slaughter, reported the following preample and
resolutions:
Whereas, the people of the non-slavcholding
States, having manilested a determined and in
creasing hostility to the institution of slavery as
it exists in the Southern States of the Union, and
it having become apparent that the long estab
lished and inestimable rights of the Southern
people were in imminent danger of being sac
rificed to that spirit of Northern encroachment,
which for the last few years lias been making
such a rapid advancement, threatning to strike
down and sweep away the great and inalienable
right of enjoying property in slaves, as recog
nized by the laws of every Southern State from
the earliest period of its history —a right solemn
ly acknowledged by the Constitution of the U.
States.
And whereas, in view of these menacing dan
gers to the property, peace and lives of the
people of the slaveholding Slate's, a genera!
convention of these States was deemed advisa
ble to take into consideration this state of ’hings
so lull of peril to the interests of the Southern
people.
The Southern Convention accordingly has
been held, and the result of the deliberations of
that convention is now before the people of the
South.
And, whereas, also, a united and harmonious
action upon the momentous question of South
ern rights by the Southern people without re
spect to political parties, is of the highest import
ance, and essentially necessary in order to main
tain successfully their honor, uphold their title,
and enjoyment of their property, preserve the
Union, and hand down to posterity the inherit
ance derived from their ancestors—
Be it therefore Resolved by us, a portion of
the people of Georgia, That we cordially ap
prove ofthc action of the Southern Convention,
recently held at Nashville, in the State of Ten
nessee.
Resolved, That the platform established by
the Southern Convention, evincing as it does, a
spirit of moderation, justice and firmness, fur
nished an equitable basis upon which .every
Southern man, whether whig or democrat, can
stand.
Resolved, That the adjustment of the Territo
rial question upon the basis of the Missouri com
promise, which has been recommended by the
Southern Convention, manifests a disposition
on the part of that body “to ask nothing but
what is right,” and while we entertain a similar
feeling, we are determined “to submit to nothing
that is wrong.”
Resolved, That the great question of main
taining Southern rights is of paramount import
ance to all mere party considerations, and their
preservation demands the united support and
concentrated action of the whole Southern peo
ple.
A motion for their adoption was then made
and seconded—but before the vote was taken,
Wm. C. Jack, Esq., arose, and submitted, as a
minority report, a series of ably and chastily
drawn up resolutions advocating the Clay com
promise as the platform of the South; and after
supporting them with a short and eloquent
speech, showing his sincere devotion to the
South and love of the Union, moved their ad
option as a substitute for the majority report.
Win. M. Slaughter, Esq., replied in opposition
to the substitute, and strongly urged the adop
tion ofthc report of the majority committee in a
speech fraught with eloquence and powerful
argument, and closed by moving that the sub
stitute be laid on the table.
A discussion then ensued, in which Rev. Phil
emon Oglutrec, Miles Scarborough and Wm. C.
Jack, Esq. participated, all making able speech
es in favor of the minority report, and express
ing their attachment to the South and love of the
Union.
Dr. H. S. Wimbish made a short, but forcible
reply—showing that there was no concession on
the part of the North to the South embraced in
the Clay compromise bill, and that the Missouri
compromise should be the ultimatum of the
South.
The last motion being in order, the vote was
taken, and the substitute laid on the table by an
overwhelming majority.
The majority report was then adopted in the
most enthusiastic manner, and almost unanim
ously ; there being only eight or ten votes heard
in opposition to its passage.
Col. John Cochran, a distinguished citizen of
Alabama, being present, was loudly called for.
Ho responded to the call in a speech remarkable
l’oc its cogent argument and thrilling eloquence.
Ho expressed his gratification at the passage of
the resolutions, and the exhibitation of the
Southern spirit which animated the meeting.—
Like a skilful surgeon he dissected the Clay
compromise bill, and proved that the South
would degrade herself to accept it, and called up
on all present to crush the voice of party strife
and plant themselves upon the platform erected
by the Nashville Convention. The Southern
lire already enkindled was fanned into a llame
by by his stirring eloquence, and he sat down
amid the loud and enthusiastic applause of the
multitude.
On motion of Dr. 11. S- Wimbish,
Resolved, That copies of the proceedings of
this mectina be sent to a few ofthc leading jour
nals of the State, without respect to party, with
the request that other journals copy.
On motion of Rev. Wm. Martin,
Resolved, That this meeting now adjourn to
meet again on the first Tuesday in August next.
JOHN H. McMATII, } ri .
ALFRED WELLBORN, { Chairmen.
Wm. L. Fletcher, Scc’y.
Decatur County Meeting.
A large and respectable meeting of the citizens
of Dectur county, (without distinction of party,)
convened at the Court-House, in Bainbridge, on
the Ist of July, to take into consideration the
resolutions of the Nashville Convention. Green
Mitchell was called to the Chair, and A. A. Allen,
requested to act ns Secretary. Cash. J. Mun
ncryln then introduced the following resolution:
Resolved, That we witness with pleasare and
hope, the unanimity and moderation ofthc Nash
ville Convention, and heartily approve the reso
lutions of that body. The Territories are the
common property of the people of the States,
and all are entitled to a full enjoyment of the
whole of them, without lot or hindrance. But
if the two sections of the confederacy cannot
hold occupancy with dispute, it is natural and
right that the Territories should be treated
property and divided between them, the rights
of both parties being adequately secured. That
in dividing the property, the Missouri Comprom
ise line, if not the most equitable, is an honora
ble division line, it having been adopted by our
fathers and acquiesced in by all panics, for near
ly thirty years. ,
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
On motion of J. Law, Esq., it was resolved that
the Proceedings of this meeting be published in
the papers of the district and of Alilledgevillo.
The meeting then adjourned.
G. MITCHELL, Chm’n.
A. A. Allf.n, Sec’y.
SOUTHERN MEETING.
On the fourth of July the following call
was circulated in hand-bill form.
PUBLIC MEETING.
The undersigned, citizens of Muscogee
county, are in favor of terminating thescc
tional controversy between the North and
the South, in regard to the territories, the
common property of both ; on the princi
pled’the Missouri Compromise Line ex
tended to the Pacific. We believe that as
common domain belonging to the States
of the Union, the citizens of Georgia have
an equal right with those of New York or
Massachusetts to remove to it and occupy
it with their property of every kind ; and
we cordially adopt the following senti
ments of a distinguished represetativefroni
Georgia, the Hon. Robert Toombs, and
will stand by him in their maintenance :
Island upon the great principle, that
the South has a right to an equal partici
pation in the Territories oi’tlie United States.
1 claim the right for her to enter them with
her property, and securely to enjoy it. —
She will divide with you ir you wish it, but
the right to enter all or divide, I shall nev
er surrender,” &c.
We deny, too, the right of Congress to
pass any law, the effect of which, may be
to emancipate slaves in the District ot Co
lumbia.
Entertaining these views, we invite our
Fellow-Citizens who are ready to unite
with us on these principles, to meet at
Temperance Hall, in Columbus, on Fri
day the sth of July, at 10 o’clock, A. M.
Owen Thomas, T F Wooldridge,
G E Thomas, P A Clayton,
J M Chambers, Van Leonr and,
J G Walker, F R Sapp,
T Sapp, W Smith,
LM Biggers, J P 1 illinghast,
L B Matthews, John Muliin,
M J Crawford, S F Grimes,
A Bryan, P F Lamar,
G W Llouglass, Clement Pace
J T M Diggers, A L Martin,
I’ W Bigger., J Thomaston,
H M’Coy, J T M’Coy,
D C Dawkins, Win N Jones,
L Davidson, C N Hartsfield,
C E Mims, J B Levy,
Wm A Chisolm, P Preer,
H A Thornton, W II Jackson,
J E Davis, W T Smith,
J D Stewart, J L Williams,
J McGehee, W A Bedell,
J Barrow, G B Terry,
WY Barden, W B Phillips,
F A Frost, A C Frost,
U B Frost, S B Harvell,
J H Butt, P J Tillinghast,
II Alangham, W P Baker,
WmJ Switzer, B J Spears,
J D Carter, G W Lively,
F M Gray, S T Austin,
A S Dent, J G Brewer,
J King, R Carter,
A G Kinds, J J Redd,
W C Gray, W Crew,
C J Williams, A H Cooper,
I Rose, W J M’A llister,
J Morris, J A Brokaw,
W G Clemons, J P Manly,
S A Billing, AY H Flevvellen,
II S Smith, J Warren.
J Cox, A J Floyd,
II L Bass, J II Bass,
A l M Lester, H C McKee,
M Sapp, J A Roberts,
J ‘l’ Ballonger, D Tant,
C C Tompkins, J L’Morton,
P T Schley, LJ Wright,
A S Rutherford, R R Coetchius,
J A Chaffin, J AI Estes,
T Chaffin, J AI Everett,
J C Calhoun, John Hodges,
J P Ilenrick, W Beach,
F C Johnson, E L Gray,
P L Anderson, I) A Garrett,
B II Gronbeck, A Hunter,
lv A Ware, Jos Kyle,
W Barnett, J N Burnett,
H Desseau, J Kyle,
A 11 Burch, N J Peabody,
F A Jepson, D Hudson,
B F Malone, J Wootten,
N M Thornton, J G Walker,
LB Sapp, W W Smith,
‘l’ Sapp, T W Schoonmaker,
E J Hardin, W B Chisolm,
L M Durr, A G Lawrence,
Jas Baugh, A B Ragan,
H II Epping, S A Bailey,
J C Cook, W L Jeter,
J E Hurt, J Echols,
L Jackson, H Woolfolk,
J J Bosworth, AI J Kendrick,
G M T Keniro, J L Williams,
HT Jackson, A Averett,
E Massey, S Averett,
Jas Vinson, J DeGrand,
Wm Watkins, E P Rogers,
L B Randal!, J M McGrady,
J Lockhart, E Dozier,
A Smith, K Reese,
J Harris, II i hornton,
S R Andrews, W G Woolfolk,
Ij H Durr, J K Redd,
W A lletld, G J Pitts,
A Johnson, R B Murdock,
J H Howard, C S Harrison,
John Forsyth, John T Ector,
J T Niles, J C Mangham,
Charles Reps, R P Spencer,
11 A Thornton, J Al Davis,
J J Wiley, A A Averett,
J Massey, G J Massey,
Jas Cook, W V Pearse,
LJ McCall, J Morris,
E Watkins. W Bartlett,
Jas Martin, D Williams,
W W Cook, I’ C Vi gal,
P F Lamar, A Brvant,
J J McKendree, W Stapler,
B A Richards, R C Shorter,
p J Semms, W Cromwell,
A j Robinson, A M Walker,
E Barnard, J B Baird,
J I Bidgway, B Doles,
R Ellis,’ J A Jones,
VV II Chambers, E B Fishburnc,
B V Iverson, H Noble,
W M Jones, W S Smith,
W W Robinson, W Pace,
V L Averatt, J N Massey,
T J Coleman, E Cook,
J S Moore, H R Clem,
J W God win, G W 7 \ AVa tki ns,
J Gearder, AV Adkins,
P Dozier, D Pelt,
R G Parkman, P T Bugg, sr
G S Faison, Chancy Pomeroy,
A P Preer, H C Phelps,
D J Reessr-- N Mcßobinson,
A Iverson, ‘ L L Nance,
JML-Gfdtttngs. W 7 W 7 Williams,
H L Benning, J Backer,
W Amos, J J Hatcher,
B T Bugg, J P Bugg,
AI W Thwcatt, Jr E Morrell,
J Hunlv, V B Tommy,
A O Black mar, W E Jones,
A’J Robinson, S B Spencer,
B B DeGraflenried, Seaborn Jones,
T E Greenwood, . A B Backer,
F G Wilkins, D P Ellis,
J 11 Brittain, C A Bugg,
MW 7 Thweat, Sr J Ennis,
J Shores, John Isham, *
Robt. Hayes, A Fergerson,
Thos Hoxey, D F Thom,
A W Williams, C Cleghorn,
W K Schley, W J Ridgill,
R R Howard, H Moffet,
Jas R Jones, R C Forsyth,
Mr Moody, N B Love,
lIR Pierce, J A Girdner,
W J Kcllet, VV Doles,
T Doles, F M Doles,
D Perry, B T Dotten,
S Pickard, Thomas Dozier,
J AI Redding, Thos Davis.
A M Terry, Jas. G. Smith,
E G Thornton, J J McKindree,
EJ Harden, S R Andrews,
P Hazelton, V Dye,
J Hazelton, T M Thulkill,
J B Dozier, J L Grimes,
J a Huff, N Thompson,
HBPlott, D Huff,
J Shivers, C C Brooks,
C C AVillis, W R Russell,
K 11 Roberts, G W Smith,
J AI Russell, P Champion,
J Huff, J Aleacham,
C McFarlan, J R McFarlan,
J F Boyd, R W Barnes,
T II Kendall, J H Jones,
j Echols, J T Brown,
A J Pittmon, J AI Edwards,
W J Tinsley, W B Rockinore,
Note. —A large number of names which
have been handed to the Printer, have
been omitted for want of time to put them
in type. The gentlemen who have collected
the list, state that not more than half a doz
en out ot the hundreds who have been ap
plied to, refused to sign the call.
In consequence of the postponement of
the execution of Evans, who suffered that
day, until the afternoon, it was found ne
cessary to change the hour of the meeting
to the ‘forenoon, A hasty notice ol the
change 'do given, but huudicds were not
apprized of it. But notwithstanding these
untoward circumstances, at half past 10
o’clock, a meeting of four or five hundred
persons, the most respectable in material,
we have ever witnessed in this city, as
sembled in the hall of the new Temper
ance edifice.
On motion of A. 11. Cooper, Esq. the
Hon Grigsby E. Thomas was invited to
preside as President of the meeting, and
John Forsyth, Esq., was requested to act
as Secretary. On taking the chair, the
President stated the objects ot the meeting
in a warm and eloquent address.
Martin J. Crawford, Esq. offered to the
consideration of the meeting, the following
resolutions, which he cnforced with a spir
ited and effective speech, denouncing the
Clay Compromise and the President’s
plan as open surrenders of Southern rights
and honor, and sustaining the Missouri
Compromise as one, that, although not do
ing full justice to the South, the South was
willing to abide by, because it was a rati
fied bargain, and for the sake of harmony
and Union.
The resolutions are as follows:
Resolved, That the territory acquired
from Mexico belongs to the States of this
Union, as members of this confederacy,
and that in regard to it, we adopt the lan
guage of the Hon. Robert Toombs :
“ i stand upon the great principle that
the South has a right to an equal participa
tion in the Territories of the United States.
I claim the right for her to enter them with
her property, and securely to enjoy it.—
She will divide with you if you wish' it, but
the right to enter all or divide I shall nev
er surrender,” and that we will maintain
the positions thus laid down.
Resolved, That we would, for the sake of
peace and good neighborhood with the
North, and for sake of the Union, acquiesce
in a division of the public Territory upon
the Missouri Compromise line of 36° 3(f
extended to the Pacific, with a recognition
through Congress of the right of the people
of the South to enter the part below that
line with their slaves, and to hold them
there as property, but in nothing short of
this.
Resolved, That the Southern States
have a common interest in the District of
Columbia with the other States, and any
Law passed by Congress to deprive us of
the privilege of using or disposing of our
property within the same is a breach of
faith to the South and a positive violation
ot our rights.
Resolved, That weeannot longershut out
eyes to the dark cloud which having been
slowly gathering for years past, now low
ers from the whole Northern heavens ready
to burst upon us in storm , and that m our
opinion the time has come when the peo
ple ot the South, mariners all embarked
in the same ship, should cease to be a di
vided crew, struggling among themselves
in the small business of choosing captains
of this or that uniform, and should instead
thereof become a united company of self
devoted brethren, emulating each other in
the sublime work of saving the vessel from
the storm.
On motion, it was further resolved, That
the city papers be requested to publish
these proceedings, and that copies thereof
be furnished to our Senators and Repre
sentatives in Congress.
Before the question was put, M. Thwcatt,
Esq., called the attention of the chair to
the tact that Col. Ilenry L. Benning, one
of the delegates from this District to the
Nashville convention was present, and
stated that the meeting would bo gratified
to hear from him.
Mr. Benning came forward, and in a
speech of an hour and a half, discusssed
the questions in issue with great power
and ability. The speaker had evidently
studied the momentous question deeply;
he laid bare all its hidden perils to the
South, and drew a picture of Southern sub
mission and abolition triumph, in the con
dition of the Slave States, 25 years hence
well calculated to arrest the solemn atten
tion of his auditors.
Before the question on the adoption of
the resolutions was put, Col. S. Jones de
sired to ask if there was any gentleman
present opposed to them. If so, he would
give way to him to speak. No one an
swering, Col. Jones made a few remarks
and called for the question. It was put
and unanimously carried. The meeting
then adjourned sine die.
G. E. THOMAS, Chairman.
J. Forsyth, Secretary.
FREE R4RBECFE.
The friends of the Missouri Com
promise, as the best means ot pre
serving the Union, and at the same
time, of protecting the rights of
the South, will give a FREE BAR
BECUE in the city of Columbus,
on the lGth of this month —next
Tuesday—and they respectfully in
vite the attendance of all the peo
ple of Muscogee county, without
distinction of party. A lull discus
sion of the great questions between
the North and the South may be
expected. The ladies are particu
larly invited to be present.
VAN LEONARD,
G. E. THOMAS,
11. S. SMITH,
H. L. EENNING,
J. N. BETHI NK,
WM. Y. BAItDEN,
A. IVERSON,
A. S. RUTHERFORD,
A. G. REDD,
H. W. NANCE,
D. THORNTON,
JOHN KYLE,
F. G. WILKINS,
J. 11. HOWARD,
J. R. JONES,
P. J. SEJI3IS,
OWEN THOMAS,
R. BASS,
PATRICK ADAMS,
GEORGE PITTS,
31. W. THWEATT,
S. T. AUSTIN,
J. 31. HUGHES,
31. J. CRA3VFOKD,
W. B. PHILLIPS,
W3I. L. STAPLER,
W3I. A. liEDELL,
Committee of Arrangements
Watches, Clocks, and Jevelry.
A. 11. DeWITT,
HAS received this week, a large and general assortment of Ladies’ and Gents’ GOLD WATCHEH,
also, Silver, Hunting, and other Watches; also the most fashionable and desirable JEWELRY
worn this season, consisting of Breast Pins, Bracelets, Ear Rings, Gold Thimbles, Silver Ware,
Plated Ware, Silver Card Cases, Gold pens, SONS OF TEMPERANCE Jewels, MILITARY
Goods generally ; together with a large assortment of other goods, received and on the way from
New York. For sale at his usually low and uniform prices.
Mr. WM. B. MOORE is permanently engaged in the Watch Repairing Department. Mr.
Moore, as'a Scientific Watch-Maker, has no superior North or South, as the many will attest who
have favored him with their work.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Music Boxes, Accordeons, &,c. repaired at shortest notice and the
lowest prices.
Engraving on Seals, Stamps, Keys, Silver Ware and Jewelry, neatly executed.
Call and see me at the old stand. ’ A. H. D.
Columbus, March 21, 1850. 19 ts
Spring and Summer Clothing!
WliLilf @!B 6 MffiSL,
Next door to Hill, Dawson & Cos. Broad St. Columbus, Ga.
ARE now receiving an extensive and well assorted stock of Fashionable Spring and Summer
Clothing, Gents’Furnishing Goods, Fashionable Hats and Caps, Trunks, Carpet Bags, Values, &e.
Also, the largest and most extensive assortment of
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, AND VESTINGS,
ever offered in this market, which will be manufactured in the latest styles, and warranted to
please. Those who favor us with a call, may be sure of getting Goods at reasonable and steady
prices.
OfT Persons wanting Cloths, Cassimeres, Drillings, Vestings, &c. by the yard, can bo
ccommodated, on the most reasonable terms.
JAS. D. WILLIFORD. JOS. H. DANIEL.
Columbus. March 14, 1850. 11 ts
Among the many blearing.-’ attendant upon improve
ments in the social condition and the advances of our
race in intelligence, is the prolongation of human life.
With the increase of intelligence has grown up a knowl
edge for the elements of health, and a regard for them,
and commensurately with the strides of science have we
acquired the means of arresting disease, and avert
ing its ravages. Notwithstanding the progress we have
made,statistics show that even now, one sixth of the
whole population die annually of consumption.
One of the most important discoveries of the age. in
ameliorating the condition of this large class of suffering
humanity, is
J)r. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry,
Nunda, Livingston, Cos., N. Y., Juno 20,1948.
Mr. S. W. Fowle—Dear Sir: Prompted by a sense of
gratitude from the benefits received from the use of Wis
tar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry, 1 submit the following state
ment: Previous to my taking the Wild Cherry, Iliad
been obliged to give up my business in consequence of a
severe affection of the lungs. In this distressed state I
was ordered to try the temedy for Consumption. 1 did
?o, and in the course of a few weeks, I was restored to
comparative good health, so that I have been able to
attend to ordinary business. Indeed, my present state ol
health far exceeds my most sanguine expectations.
Yours truly,
(Signed) JOHN BURNS.
XfftT None genuine, unless signed I. BUTTS on the
wrapper.
For sale by Dr. R. A. Ware, and Danforth & Nagel,
Columbus; J. A. & S. S. Virgins, Macon; S. Ken
drick, Bamcsville, Bowdre &, Woodson, Thomarton,
and Agcsju everywhere.
Dr. John E. Bacon
OFFERS his professional services to the public. lie
has had a large experience in the practice of Medicine
particularly in Obstetrics, and the diseases ol women
and children. Hi? office is next door below the Drug
Store of Danforth it Nagel, up stairs; messages left at
‘heir Drug Store will lie attended to. His residence is
‘lie one formerly occupied by the late Dr. Goulding, op
posite the Court House.
Columbus, Jan. 10. 1850. 2 Gm
WANTED TO HIRE.
A NEGRO WOMAN, who can cook, wash and
attend to household duties generally, may find a
good home by applying at THIS OFFICE.
July 11. 28 2t
POCKET BOOK STOLEN.
A large RED MOROCCO ROCKET BOOK was
stolen from my pocket at the execution ot Geo. W.
Evans on Friday last, containing a note made by B. F.
Grigg, for 8150, and payable Dec. 25, 1850, to Martin
Shoffner; an execution and a note against Fortunatus
Webb, for 826 and odd cents, payable to H. Turnage ;
the execution in mv favor ; a note made by Samuel Hy
att and Jefferson Hayatt, for"Blo,due and payable to me ;
a note by James Turnage, for 810, due and payable to
me; a note by Abraham Odom, for 816, payable to me
25th Dec. next; and the following accounts,to wit:
One against N. L. Howard, for 87 and odd cents ; one
against H. W. Nance, for 87 and odd cents; one against
itfoses Garrett, for between 816 and §2O. One against
Robert Reese, for §2 50. Also, a bundle of receipts.
Persons are cautioned against trading for any of the
above notes or accounts. A liberal reward will be paid
lor the recovery of the Pocket Boole and contents.
W. A SHOFFNER.
Columbus, Ga., July 11, 1850. 11 3t
Georgia, murcogee county.— Court of
- Ordinary July Term, lfcO —Rule Ni 67.—Where
as, Thomas McCartv, Adiam-trator with the will an
nexed of the estate gi 12*tr$MrCarty, deceased . hav
ing petitioned the dismissed from said Ad
ministration. It i? lOidcrod by the Court that all persons
concerned show caufp, if any they have, at the January
Term next ensuing of this Court, why the Administrator
as aforesaid should not he dismissed.
A true extract from the minutes of said Court.
JOHN JOHNSON, c. c. o.
July 11,1950. 28 Gm
Columbus and Greenville Plank and Turn
pike Road Cos.
TAKE NOTICE.
I>()OKS of Subscription for Stock in said Company,
) will be opened at the Commercial Exchange Read
inrr Room, on Monday and I uesday, the luth and 16th
of the present month.
By order of the MalCompanv^^
JOHN C. LEITNKR,
GEO. W. WINTER,
DAVID ADAMS.
July 11,1850. 28 ts
Literary Notice.
A. L. WINGFIELD Esq., of Madison, Ga., will
deliver the Atinual Address before the two Literary
Societies of Emory College, at the ensuing Com
mencement, on the 17th of July.
JOHN P. BARROW, )
A. F. HILL, > Com.
B. FRALEY. }
Oxford, Ga., June-18, 1850. 25 4t
RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS.
subscriber offers for sale probably the best col-
I lection ever brought here, comprising over
GSO VOLUMES .
Aniont them the following—Lives of British Rcform
f.r. Famlish Martyrology—Newton’s Cardiphonia—
The Life of John Bun van, or ; The Bedfordshire Tink
cr Professors of Christianity—Madagascar Martyrs—
Miller on Public Prayer—Men and Scenes before the
Flood—Causes and Cure of Skepticism—Short Daily
Texts—Bates’s Harmony of the Divine Attribute?—Old
Antony’s Hints—Providences Illustrated—McGill on
Secret Prayer—Learning to Think—The Three Ques
tion-7 What ami? Whence Camel? And Whither
I), , i’go?—Keith on the Prophecies—Pickte’s Christian
Theology—Bunyan’s Holy War—Alexander’s Lvi
dence-of Christianity—Doddridge’s Rise and Progress
Baxter’s Call—Edwards on Baptism—Noel on Baptism
—Calvin’s Institutes—Horne on Psalms—Haldane on
Romans —Bridges on the Christian Ministry Bridges,
on CXIX Psalm—Hodge’s History of Presbyterian
Church-Lime Street of the Inqua
tion—Life of Zuinglins—Life of Melancthon Life of
Newton, M’Cbeyne, Henry Martyn, Rowland Hill,
Hr \tilnnr Isabella Graham, Harlan Page, Buchanan,
fines B TayS Simeon, Jeremy Taylor, Howard the
Philanthropist, Cecil, Arminins, and othere—Anxious
Fnrrnirer—C’liamock on Regeneration—Destruction of
Jenklem-Millcr on Ruling Elders-Ditto on Creeds
—Ditto on Christian Ministry—Boston fourfold State-
Council of Trent—Jay’s Exercises—Tales of the Cov
enanters —Common Maxims of Infidelity—Hutory ol
Wvckiiflites —Butler’s Analogy—Walk about Zion—
Bible in Spain—McGee on Ephesians—M’Cheyne3..er
uions —Foster on Decision of Character—Christ our Law
—Davidson’? Connexion —Brownell's Commentary on
the Praver 800k —Stanton’s Church Dictionary Pal
mer’s Ecclesia -tical History-6Chinan s Reasonsi for
his Faith and Practice-Tl.e Churcli Idcntified-Dc out
Churchman’s Companion-Williams on the Miracle
Hobart’s State of the Departed—Steps to the Altar L
pfccopacy Examined Dyer on the Church
with many others impossible to name hue. Ail for
c ale low aj can be here.
June 13’
GREAT COUGH REMEDY 1
AYER’S
Cherry Pectoral.
FOR THE CURE OF
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Whoop.
ing-Coughs, Croup, Asthma and Consumption.
In offering the community this justly celebrated rem
edy for diseases of the throat and lungs, it is not our
wish to trifle with the lives or health of the afflicted, but
frankly to lay before them the opinions of distinguished
men, and some of the evidences of its success, from
which they can judge for themselves. Wc sincereljy
pledge ourselves to make no wild assertions of false
statements of efficacy, nor will wc hold out any hope
to suffering humanity which facts will not warrant.
Many proofs are here given, and we solicit an inquiry
from the public into all we publish, feeling assured they
will find them perfectly reliable, and the medicine worthy
their best confidence and patronage.
FROM BENJ. SILLIMAN, M. D., L. L. D..ETC.
Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, tsc., Yale College.
Member of the Lit. Hist. Med. Phil, and Scien. So
cieties of America and Europe.
“I deem the CHERRY PECTORAL nnadmirabfe
composition from some of the best article? in the Mate*
ria Medica, and a very effective remedy for the class of
diseases it is intended to cure.”
New Haven , Ct. s Nov. 1, 1849.
PROF. CLEAVELAND,of Bowdoin College, Main
Write?—“l have witnessed the effects of your “Cher
ry Pectoral” in my own family and that of my friends,
and it gives me satisfaction to Ftate in its favor that no
medicine I have ever known has proved so eminently
faithful in curing diseases of the throat and lungs,”
REV. BE. OSGOOD.
Writer—“ That he considers “Cherry Pectoral” the
best medicine for Pulmonary Affection?ever given to the
pu| iic,” and states that “his daughter after being obliged
| u eep the room four months with a severe settled
u kh, accompanied bv raising of blood, night sweats,
cougtlie attendant symptoms of consumptions, com
menced the use of the ‘Cherry Pectoral,’ and had coia
pletoly recovered.”
HEAR THE PATIENT.
Dr. Ayer—Dear Sir: For two years 1 was afflicted
with a very severe cough, accompanied by spitting of
blood and profuse night sweats. By the advice of my
attending physician I was induced to use your “Cherry
Pectoral,” and continued to do so till I considered myself
cured, and ascribe the effect to your preparation.
JAMES RANDALL.
Ilampdcn ss. String field, Nov. 27,1848.
This day appeared the above named James Randal!,
and pronounced the above statement true in every respect.
LORENZO NORTON, Justice.
THE REMEDY THAT CURES.
Portland, Me., Jan. 10,1847,
Dr. Ayer: I have been long afflicted with Asthma,
which grew yearly worse until last autumn, it brought
on a cough which confined me in my chamber, and be
gan to assume the alarming symptoms of consumption.
I had tried the best advice and the best medicine to no
purpose, until I used your “Cherry Pectoral,” which has
cured me, and you may well believe me.
Gratefully yours. J. D. PHELPS.
Ifthero is any value in the judgment of the wise, who
speak from experience, here is a medicine worthy of the
public confidence.
Prepared by J. C. AYER, Chemist. Lowell, Mass.
tfW* Sold in Columbus, by Danforth &. Nagel, and
R. Carter, and by Druggists generally,
May 2. 18 3in
P. McLaren & Cos.
KEEP constantly on hand a large assortment of
GROCERIES;
LIQUORS;
WINES;
TOBACCO;
&.c. Ac.
And have just received a large supply of CIGARS direct
from Havana.
Country Merchants are especially invited to ex
amine our stock before purchasing elsewhere.
Columbus, April 11. 15 ts
FIVE HUNDRED VOLS. OF
New Miscellaneous Works.
AMONG which are the following: Puritan and his
Daughters; Los Gringos; Evenings at Wood
lawn ; Physician and Patient; People I have Met;
Battle Summer; Annals of the Queens of Spain ; Dana’s
Complete Works; Sacred Scenes, (bv Headley;) Wara
ga, or The Charms of the Nile; Sights in the Gold Re
gions, and Scenes in the West; just received and for sale
by J. W. PEASE,
Yellow Book Store, East side Broad Street.
Columbus, Feb. 21,1850. 8 ts
HAVANA CIGARS.
PRONOUNCED bv the best judges to be the finest in
the market. ELLIS, KENDRICK fy REDD.
51 ay 33, 1850. Late Ellis bf Gray.
DAGUERREOTYPE MINIATURES.
I. Id. SPAULDING
WOULD respectfully call the attention of the> citi
zens of Columbus and vicinity, to his beautifully
COLORED SPECIMENS. Mr. S. is enabled by
fiis process to make good pictures of children m from
eight to twelves seconds. Persons wirhing to set for
pictures should avoid white, light blue and pink dreae
es as much as possible. .. _
Persons arc invited to call and ret tor Specimens.
Rooms over Foster Ar Purple’s store.
Instructions given in the art, and persons fitted out on
most reasonable terms.
Columbus, June 20. jA 25 ts
WYNNTttN M ACADEMY.
TIIE will be resumed
on Thursday^'r!?f day of August, under the
direction of the feidersigned. Terms for schol
alstic year, $32. WM. F. PLANE-
July 4. 27 4t
WARM SPRINGS.
iLJI rpniS establishment,situated on Pine Moun
r-~aiß j tain, in Meriwether county, 36 miles from
Columbus, and the same distance from Griffin,
will be opened for the reception of visitors on the first
day of June.
63T A tri-weekly line of stages will runfrom Colum
bus and a daily ouc from Greenville to to the Springs.
’ JOHN L. MUSTIAN.
May 16, 1850. 20 tl,t Sept.
M WHITE SULPHUR -SPRINGS,
MERIWETHER COUNTY,GA.
THIS delightful Watering Place will be opened by the
FIRST of JULY, lor the reception of Visitors, under
the management ot MeCOMB A DUNCAN.
walker dDncan, m e. m’comb.
June 13,1850. U