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BtHutton demand that liis conduct should be
investigated, at the instance of tho branch ot
the Government holding the power of im
peachment.
Resolved, That in the emergency in which
the State of Texas Is placed by her relations
with the General Government, she has the
sympathies of the people of Georgia, and
will have their aid and support in anv mea
sures she may adopt, to protect her honor,
her property and her political and constitu
tional rights.
Resolved, That we approve of tho wise
forbearance of the Nashville Convention, in
not presenting to the people a remedy tor the
meditated aggressions ol Congress on South
ern rights. That any proposition of that
eort might have been construed into an
effort to intimidate the public authorities in
their deliberations; and \ye approve of the
cours- of that body in adjourning over until
the action of the General Government, in
the delicate and interesting questions which
lei to its convocation by the people, should
ho known, and of a character to require its
re-assemblage.
Resolved, That we disapprove of the mea
sure known as the Clay Compromise for its
Intrinsic demerits, and its adoption in detached
parts will be as offensive, as its enactment as
a whole, and the pretence that it contains the
principle of ‘non-intervention’ is an attempt to
practice a gross fraud upon the people—for
it interposes to seize a portion of the Territory
of Texas in which it is known no free State
can be erected, and place it in the power of
the Government to force the formation of free
States thereon ; it interposes to convert Des
eret which had formed a Constitution which
respected the rights of the South, into a Terri
tory ; while it admits California, whose Con
stitution contains a direct aggression on those
rights.
Resolved, That the contest in which we
are engaged is no mere party warfare ; it is
a struggle for the Constitution and the Rights
of Freemen, against sectional and unconsti
tutional combinations, and we hail as breth
ren all who enter into it with zeal and firmness,
and with a spirit to “ask nothing hut what
is right and to submit to nothing that is
wrong.”
Resolved, That we cordially greet the able
and talented Delegation sent by our sister
State of Alabama to this meeting, and wel
come them to a participation in our delibera
tionSj and that we approve and applaud the
nohle manifestations of the people of their
gallant State in the cause of constitutional
right and liberty.
Resolved, That we recommend to the people
of Georgia, the patronage of the “Southern
Press” recently established at Washington, as
an able and independent advocate of the Con
stitutional Rights of the South.
Resolved, That we highly approve the ral
ly which Southern Members of Congress are
making in defence of our rights ; and we trust
that they will carry out in their full extent, their
Resolutions to oppose,by every constitutional
means, and to the last extremity, the offensive
and unconstitutional measures, which the
North seem resolved to force upon us.
Mr. Yancey, of Ala., was then loudly called
for, who addressed tho meeting with great
power for two hours, in defence of the Res
olutions reported bv the Committee.
Col. Cochran, of Ala., followed Mr.Yancey;
when, upon motion of Col. Henry G. Lamar,
the Resolutions were unanimously adopted.
The Convention then took a recess of one
hour—for the purpose of partaking of a sump
tuous Barbecue, which was served up for tho
occasion.
AFTERNOON.
Dinner being over, the President again
called the Convention to order; a considera
ble number responded to the call and assem
bled around the Speaker’s stand, where they
were ably and eloquently addressed by the
Hon. Walter T. Colquitt, Hon. Win. H. Stiles
and Judge John A; Jones.
On motion of Judge J. A. Jones, the
“Southern Press,” at Washington, the ga
zettes of this eity, arid all papers friendly to the
cause, were requested to publish the proceed
ings of this Convention.
Astor the usual vote of thanks to the Otii
cers of the Convention, the meeting then ad
journed.
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c. j. McDonald, 5 p “’
£• A- L. Lamab, . \ Secretaries.
I hos. Hardeman, jr.
Pine Knot Meeting.
The citizens of the sixth and tenth districts
of Muscogee county gave a free barbecue on
the ,‘llst August, the object of which was to
invite discussion on the great Southern ques
tion now so deeply agitating the public mind.
At a preliminary meeting the following offi
cers were appointed to preside over the meet
ing:—George Wiley, President. Hilliard
J. Williams, V. President. John D. How
ell, Secretary.
The President having called the meeting to
order, a motion was made for the appoint
ment of a committee of five citizens, whose
duty it was to report to the meeting suitable
resolutions for the action of the people. The
following gentlemen were appointed:—James
M. Renfro, Chairman; John R. Sturgis, Joel
Williams, Samuel Johnson, Henry J. Eelbeck.
This committee having retired, Major John
11. Howard was introduced to the meeting
and spoke for an hour with great force on the
encroachment of the North upon the South.
His speech consisted entirely of argument,
and was so conclusive that none of the op
position speeches touched it in its effects upon
the people present. On the conclusion of
Maj. Howard, the committee on resolutions
made their report, and laid before the meeting
the Following resolutions:
The continued agitation of the Slavery
question, in and out. of Congress, by the
people of the non-slaveholding States ot this
Union, has brought the country to a crisis in
its political condition, which demands of the
people, and of the people ol the South espe
cially, a free and unequivocal expression of
their opinions. Therefore,
1. Resolved, That the government of the
United States is a creature of the sovereign
Stales of this Union—sovereign and equal
when they formed it, and sovereign and equal
after it was established; and that any act of
the Congress of the U. States that tends di
rect lv or remotely to destroy the right of each
and any State to a community of interest in
its benefits, is a violation of the Constitution
and should not be borne.
2. Resolved, That the pretensions of the
North to exclude the South from an equal
enjoyment of the Territories acquired by the
blood and treasure of all , is such an act ot
injustice and inequality as we cannot, and
ought iiiit, to submit to, if we wish to main
tain our self-respect as freemen.
3. Resolved, That an attempt by Congress
to abolish slavery in the District of Colum
bia. and the inter-slave trade between the
States, would be a usurpation of power call
ing for the unqualified resistance of the slave
States.
•1. Resolved, That we” cannot stand by and
see the army of the United States removed
to Texas to maintain the boundary which
President Fillmore, without authority of law
and in violation of express treaty provisions,
has assumed to prescribe as separating that
State from New Mexico, and that the people
and State of Georgia should and will rise for
the rescue ot Texas at the report of the first
federal gun.
5. Resolved, That the boundaries of Texas
are those conquered by her prowess from
Mexico, defined in her treaty at San Jacinto—
defined by her constitution and laws—main
tained by years of occupation and hard-fought
fields—acknowledged by foreign powers—
the cause of the war with Mexico—and re
defined and re-acknowledged by the United
States as well as Mexico in the treaty of
Guadaloupc Hidalgo.
G. Resolved, That in regard to the territo
ries, the South must enter all on equal terms
with the North, or divide ; that we are willing
to divide on 36, 30,hut enter or divide u-e will .’j
7. Resolved, That should California be
admitted with her present boundaries, the
Governor of Georgia should instantly call a
Convention of the people, and that we will
stand to what that Convention proposes, “ at
all hazards and to the last extremity.”
8. Resolved, That the course of Hon. Howell
Cobb, of Georgia, meets with our unqualified
censure; that it is derogatory of his duty, as
a citizen and representative of a Southern
State, and that our thanks are due to our
Senators and other Representatives in Con
gress for every well stricken blow for South
ern Rights, and that we have only to regret
that they have not struck oftener and harder.
After the resolutions were read, Nicholas
Howard, Esq., moved as a substitute, a set
of Resolutions, which he read and asked to
be received. James Johnson, Esq., then
took the stand, and spoke for an hour. This
gentleman, certainly, argued his side of the
question with great ability, hut the stumbling
blocks lie found in the way on rising to the
great question of aggression on the South,
caused him to resort to sophistry and he involv
ed himselfin some contradictions. Henry L.
Henning, Esq., followed Mr. Johnson in a
speech, which, to judge from its effect upon
the meeting, was a great effort. There was
a silence —a straining of the eyes and ears—
of the audience to catch every word, except
when the’ speaker rose into eloquence upon
the wrongs of his country, and then there
would be an outburst of applause. Mr.
llenning continued for an hour, and was fre
quently cheered, particularly on his taking
his seat. A motion was then made to act on
the resolutions, but objections being made by
N. Howard, Esq., tho meeting adjourned to
dinner.
At 3 o’clock, the meeting organized again,
and Col. Alexander McDougald took the
stand, and spoke for half an hour. This
speaker appeared to labor to prove that tho
whole movement had for its object the break
ing up of the Whig party 7 ; lie seldom touch
ed the Southern question, and then very
slightly. Ilis speech contained more humor
than wit. Martin J. Crawford, Esq., now
took the stand in conclusion. There was a
sharp spurring between Mr. Crawford and
Col. McDougald, as to the latter’s position
with the Whig party, and the manner lie,
(Col. McD.) had acted on certain political
questions. ‘The questions of Mr. Crawford
became so pointed, that the Colonel objected
to them, and the subject was dropped, Mr.
Crawford proceeding with his remarks. Mr.
C. left a good impression on the minds of the
people of his ability, and they gave the evi
dence of it in their cheers on taking his seat.
The question was called for by all parties.
The first question was the reception of Mr.
N, Howard’s resolutions, as a substitute for
the original resolutions. A motion was made
to lay the substitute on the table,- and the
yeas and nays were sounded, which resulted
in a large majority of yeas. The minority
claimed a division which was agreed to, and
a division took place which showed but twelve
persons in opposition to the original resolu
tions. Tho question was then put on the
passage of the original resolutions, and they
were passed. The yeas was deafening. The
nays, weak and far between. On motion,
the meeting adjourned.
GEORGE WILEY, President
John D. Howell, Secretary.
The Tcias Question.—The Argument Briefly
Stated.
We find in tho Washington Union the
following brief, but conclusive, review of the
Texas Boundary question. Tho article sets
out with two propositions, to wit:
1. That, independent of the abstract jus
tice of the claim of Texas to the Santa Fe
country,, the United States has not “posses
sion” of that country adverse to the Texan
claim; and
2. That it is not true, in point of fact, that
Texas has attempted to wrest the possession
of the Santa Fe country from the United
States; and that it is trie, in point of fact,
that the United States authorities have wrest
ed the possession of that country from Texas.
It is well known that the country between
the Nueces and the Rio Grande was claimed
by Texas before the annexation. It is well
known that the country west of the Nueces
was represented in the convention which ac
cepted the joint resolution of annexation. It
is well known that Congress, before the war,
endorsed the claim of Texas to the Rio
Grande, by establishing a collection district
west of the Nueces, and that the President,
by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, had appointed a collector to reside
west of the Rio Grande; that General Tay
lor, commander of the army of occupation,
blockaded that river; and that an overwhelm
ing vote of both brauclies of the national
legislature declared in the declaration of war
that Texas extended to the Rio Grande.
These arc facts—facts which extend up to
the declaration of war; and now, if they do
not sustain our first position, then it must be
granted hereafter that wherever the troops of
the United States are permitted to plant their
feet, they acquire for the United States a
claim hostile and antagonist to the right of
the State in which they are admitted.
We pass now to the second proposition.
During the existence of the war, the Execu
tive of Texas wrote to Mr. Polk relative to
the occupation of the Santa Fe country, and
the temporary government established there
under the authority of Mr. Polk, as the com
mander-in-chief of the army. Mr. Polk, in
reply, informed the government of Texas
that this government, established under his
authority as commander-in-chief of the army,
would cease when hostilities ceased. That
did not surelv compromise the claim of Tex
as, or give the right of possession to the
United States. But this is not all. M hen
peace was made, by which Mexico gave up
her claim not only to Texas, but to ocher and
extensive territories, Mr. Polk withdrew 7 his
possession as commander-in-chief, and ac
knowledged that Texas had the right of pos
session to the Santa Fe country.
Mr. Marcy’s instructions are full upon this
point. They acknowledge fully and un
equivocally that the occupancy of the east
hank of the Rio Grande by the troops of the
United States w r as subordinate to the right of
occupancy of Texas—that the possession of
the United States troops was subordinate
to the right of possession of Texas, and
that the temporary government establish
ed by Mr. Polk must give w 7 ay to the
permanent authority of Texas. Thus the
whole question was settled, and the occu
pancy and possession both surrendered up to
Texas by tiie constituted authorities of the
United States. But this is not all. Mr.
Polk’s term expired, and that of Gen. Taylor
commenced. What did General Taylor do ?
Did he repudiate the conduct of Mr. Polk?
Did he affi rm that the possession of the Santa
Fe country had been wrongly and improperly
given up to Texas? Did he claim that the
United States had any rightful control over
that country ? Xo. Mr. Craw ford, his Sec
retary of War, acknowledged and confirmed
the course of Mr. Polk, and admitted that
Texas had a right to extend her jurisdiction
to the Rio Grande from its mouth to its source.
Under these circumstances, with her claim
fully recognized by the* United States— and
that., too, by a recognition which gave her
the right of posskssion —Texas undertook
peaceably to extend her jurisdiction over the
country to which her rights had been thus
recognized. She did not proceed with a
martial array, for she could not anticipate
resistance. She sent a commissioner—a
Colonel Neighbors—to organize, peaceably
and w ithout force, counties in the Santa Fe
country, and extend to them the benefits of
her laws. Colonel Neighbors met with no
resistance at first. The people acquiesced in
his action until he arrived at Santa Fe, where
the United States troops were posted. In the
mean time, these troops had received fresh
instructions from General Taylor’s cabinet.
Lieutenant Colonel McCall had arrived at
Santa Fe w r ith instructions, in the shape of
recommendations, to aid the people in estab
lishing a separate State government. That
was a direct repeal of the former instructions,
w'hich gave to Texas the rightful possession
of the cast bank of the Rio Grande; for it
cannot be pretended that the Executive could
acknowledge the right of Texas to extend
her jurisdiction over Santa Fe, while the
commanding officer was instructed to give
aid and comfort to a State organization hos
tile to that of Texas. That would have been
abetting insurrection and fomenting treason
against a State. It is clear, therefore, that
the military authorities at Santa Fe were, in
effect, ordered to resist Texas after Texas
WAS ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE IN POSSESSION
roth ry Mr. Polk and General Taylor.
They did resist, and Colonel Neighbors was
forced, by the interference of United States
troops, to leave the Santa Fe country. \Y 7 e
repeat, therefore, that the United States has
wrested, by force of arms, the Santa Fe coun
try from Texas; and that Texas is doing
nothing more than to make an attempt to
regain a possession of which she has been
deprived by the armed forces of the United
States. ‘Plie first hostile act has been com
mitted by the federal government; and Texas
has done and proposes to do no more than
to resist a violent spoliation, and to regain
what she has been deprived of by force.
[From tho N. O. True Delta.]
Late and Important from Texas.
Meeting of the Legislature.— By tho
arrival last night of the steamship Portland,
Capt. Boehner, w r e have Galveston papers to
tho 17th, and an extra of the Ntws and
Journal , dated Sunday evening, the 18th,
containing an account of the meeting of the
Legislature, and the message of Governor
Bell.
The Senate and House mot and organized
on the 12th, and on the 13th the Governor
delivered his message. Oil account of the
lateness of the hour, w r c must content our
selves with giving a brief statement of the
contents of the message. The Governor
commences by giving his reasons for calling
an extra session of the Legislature, viz: the
late events at Santa Fe. He then proceeds
to inform the Legislature of the proceedings
of Major Neighbors, the Texan Commissioner
to Santa Fe; the proceedings of Colonel
Monroe; his own proceedings, after receiv
ing Major Neighbors’ report, &c., and calls
attention to “ the unwarrantable assumption
of power by the Executive branch of the
Federal Government, in its direct interference
with the municipal affairs of a sovereign
State.
The Governor goes on to say 7 , that he has
deeply, and he trusts, maturely reflected;
that he anxiously desires to take no step
which will not command the approbation of
his fellow citizens; that the question, difficult
and embarrassing as it is, must be met bold
ly, fearlessly and determinedly ; not by furth
er discussion with, or supplication of, Federal
authority; not by longer reliance on a delu
sive hope of justice to Texas; but by manly
and determined action; by the prompt asser
tion and practiesd maintenance of the rights
of Texas, w'ith all the means at command,
“at all hazards, and to the last extremity.”
He then declares his conviction, that the
only course left to Texas consistent with
honor, and a just sense of what is due to her,
is the immediate adoption, by the legislature,
of “ such measures as are necessary for the
occupation of Santa Fe, w ith a force ample
to quell the arrogant and rebellious spirit now
prevailing there,” and “ to extend and firmly
establish the jurisdiction and the law sos the
State over it.”
He then says that if the adoption and en
forcement of these measures lead to a con
flict with those who, by Executive authority,
are unlawfully exercising the powers of a
government adverse to the interests of Texas,
he would regret the conflict and its conse
quences, but would be consoled by the re
flection that Texas had not sought it, but
endeavored to avert it, and that she w'ould
“ stand exonerated before the world, even
should that conflict shake to the very centre
the most glorious confederacy upon which
the sun has ever shone.”
He then recommends the Legislature to
“ authorize the Executive to raise, with as
little delay as possible, w ith power to supply,
at least, two regiments of mounted volunteers
for the contemplated move to, and occupancy
of, Santa Fe.”
In a subsequent portion of the message,
the Governor calls attention to the Compro
mise bill, and says that, “ however willing
Texas may have been, and may still be, to
dispose of a portion of her northwestern
territory, upon fair, equitable and honorable
terms,” he “ cannot believe that any party,
respectable for its numbers or intelligence,”
would be willing to accept such a proposi
tion as that contained in the bill reported by
the compromise committee of the Senate.
He then says, further discussion on the
question of the title of Texas can result in
no practical good, and he will not enter on
any. Further on, he says:
“ If n proposition had been made, founded
upon her acknowledged lights of territory, to
purchase from her that portion of it, lying
north of the 34th degree of north latitude,
and accompanied with a sufficient guaran
ty that the provisions of the joint resolutions
for annexation in respect to slavery should
be observed, the most respectful consideration
would have been given to it, and I risk but
little in saying, that a large majority of our
fellow-citizens w'ould have met such a pro
position in the most liberal spirit, and with a
sincere desire to accord everything reason
able and just that might have been asked in
reference to it.”
Then follows a recommendation that the
Executive be authorized to send to Santa
Fe “ a military force sufficient to enable the
civil authorities to execute the laws of the
State in that portion of tho territor3 r , with
out reference to any anticipated action of
the Federal Government, or regard to the
military power of the United States stationed
at Santa Fe.” This recommendation, he says,
he makes with more freedom, as ho cannot
conceive that such a measure will, or ought,
to give rise to any disturbances in the rela
tions of Texas with the Federal Government.
The foregoing abstract comprises all that
is most important in the message of tho
Governor.
It i.s hardly 7 necessary to say that, at the
time the Governor delivered his message, the
news of the passing of Mr. Pearce’s bill in
the Senate, had not been received. The
new r s of the engrossment of that bill w 7 as re
ceived in Galveston on the 17th, by the ar
rival of the steamship Maria Burt. The
Journal copies the bill, but makes no com
ments. The News says:
“ It is much to be regretted that this offer
to Texas, (which seems to be tho ultimatum
of our opponents,) should come to us, as it
does, with a threatening, and, as w 7 e think,
an insulting message from the President, re
specting Governor Bell’s letter to him. For,
however ready our citizens will always be
found to listen to a friendly and conciliatory 7
proposition for a sale of territory, they 7 never
can yield to terms accompanied with threats
of violence. These threats would inevitably
defeat all chance of acceptance by Texas,
if they should receive the slightest endorse
ment by Congress, and even as it is, they
will arouse a feeling of indignation through
out this State, not very 7 easy 7 to allay. We
will defer this message to our next.
“ It w'ill bo seen that one-half of the pur
chase money 7 , or five millions, is to be held
subject to the payment of that portion of our
liabilities for which our custom revenues w r ere
especially pledged. If by this reservation it
is intended that those creditors shall bo paid
in full, principal and interest, without regard
to the general provisions made by our own
laws lor their payment, then w r e may 7 antici
pate a serious difficulty from this discrimina
tion. Some of tho most meritorious of our
creditors are those who possess no such lien,
and we doubt much whether our people will
consent to relinquish the right of paying their
own debts in their own w 7 ay.
ARRIVAL OF STEAMER AMERICA.
1 Week later from Europe.
[Telegraphed for tho Baltimore Sun.]
Halifax, August 27 — 5 P. M.
The Royal Mail steamer America arrived
here at 5 o’clock this afternoon, bringing
dates from Liverpool to the 17tli and Lon
don to tho 10th inst.
ENGLAND.
Parliament has been prorogued by the
Queen.
Jenny Lind w 7 as giving concerts to crow
ded, even overflowing houses, at Liverpool,
and was to have sailed for New York, in the
Atlantic, on the 21st inst. Miss Charlotte
Cushman is also a passenger in the same
steamer. Mr. Wilbur is likewise a passen
ger. He is bearer of dispatches from En
gland and the Continent to tho American
Government.
The potato disease is spreading to a con
siderable extent in England and Ireland, and
it is generally admitted that it will tako a
large percentage off of the crop. The other
crops generally promise well.
Harvesting is now general, and tho weath
er is very fine for harvest operations.
Manufacturing Districts. —Advices from
the manufacturing districts are still satisfac
tory, although less business appears to be
done in Manchester. The same remark will
apply to business generally in every depart
ment of trade.
FRANCE.
The French General Assembly has adjour
ned, and the attention of the French nation is’
now principally 7 occupied by the progress of
President Bonaparte on his tour through the
provinces. With some few exceptions he
appears to have been very favorably received
by the people. Wherever he went excite
ment and commotion was produced in giving
him welcome.
DENMARK.
Some further skirmishes have taken place
between the Danes and Hollstiners, in which
the latter appear to have come off victori
ous.
There are ruin ofs of an approaching set
tlement of the quarrel between the two con
tending parties, under the auspices of Russia,
England and Franfee
Letters from Copenhagen report that the
King of Denmark has contracted a sham-mar
riage with a dress maker.
MARKETS.
Cotton Market.—The cotton market in
Liverpool has been rather dull during the
week, and lower and middling qualities have
declined an average of l-Bd. per lb. since the
10th inst.
The sales during the week amounting to
only 35,000 bales, of which speculators took
7,000 and exporters 14,000 bales. Fair and
other descriptions, aside from those above
mentioned, remain as quoted at the close of
last week.
Money Market. —The market for English
securities has not been so good this week.
On Monday there was a heavy demand and
prices declined. The fall at one period was
1-4 percent., but some reaction subsequently
took place, and the latest prices show a re
duction Os 1-8 per cent, on the closing quo
tations of the 10th inst. Prices of consols
fluctuated from 96 1-4 to 96 1-2 during the
week, closing at the sailing of the America
at 1-4 a 3-8 decline.
Stocks.— The papers give no report of
American stocks.
HILL & DAWSON
HAVE on a hand a large and superior lot of BAG
GING, and ROPE, manufactured to order in St.
Louis and Cincinnati.
Also, heavy KERSEY S, manufactured by the Co
lumbus Factory, and sold at Factory prices—and every
description of Dry Goods, Groceries, Saddles, Hats,
Shoes, Ac.—to which they invite the attention of their
friends and the public.
Columbus, August 1, 1850. 11 8t
The Ngsllco.
DeGRAFFENRIED & ROBINSON havejustre
ceived a large lot of the above new Work, by
Wesley C. Hodges, which are for sale, at wholesale
and retail. Orders from Booksellers, Country Mer
chants. Ac. Ac. are solicited.
Columbus, March 14, 1860.
Tribute of Respect.
Company Room City Light Guards, )
August 23th, 1350. $
The death of Private Christian being announced,
Sergt. Broaduax, on part ot the Committee, reported
the following preamble and resolutions:
Again has an allwise and merciful God visited our
ranks with death. Another, whose position and cir
cumstances promised a long life, has been stricken down,
and lo! “ the present dead” again reminds us of our
mortality and dependence upon Him “ who formed us,
and whose we are.”
It is proper that we should, individually, take this
afflictive dispensation—the third within the short period
of four months—to heart, and draw such benefit there
from, as its contemplation is calculated to produce, and
it is also becoming to give a concise expression of tho
corps—therefore, it is
Resolved, That in the cUath of private Wm.B. Cmus-
TrAN, this company has lost an estimable, efficient and
worthy member—that we deplore, and deeply grieve the
melancholy event —and that we will wear the usual
badge of mourning for thirty days.
Resolved, That our tenderest sympathies be extended
for the condolence of his bereaved family in this their
irreparable affliction and distress” because he is not.”
Resolved, That these proceedings be entered on the
minutes of the Company, and a copy of them be sent
to his family, and copies also furnished the eitv papers
for publication. Lieut. CHANDLtR,
Sergt. BROADNAX,
Privt. KING.
Committeo.
A true extract from the mlnutoa.
Joel T. Scott, Secretary.
NOTICE!
ALL City TAX PA YERS who feel unable and
unwilling to pay costs of h fa, will please to take
notice that I design closing the Tax Books ou the 20th
iust. J. L. HOWELL. Collector and Treasurer.
Sept. 5,1850 36 St
SCHOOL.
MRS. H. JOHNSON will resume her SCHOOL on
MONDAY next, 9th inst. A lew young ladies
can be accommodated with board.
Columbus, September sth, 1850, 36 3t
ZX-p MRS. CAROLINE LEE lIENTZ will
re-open her SELECT SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LA
DIES on the Ist of October. She is especially grateful
to the friends who have sustained her during the past
session, and relies on the continuance of their kindness
and support.
Understanding tho French language as well as her
own, she is desirous to form classes in that branch.
Those who wish for information respecting the school
are referred to the following gentlemen: Dr. Wild
man, Dr. Pond, Judge Thomas Mr. Rouses, Dr.
Hoist, Mr, Shotwell, Mr. Clemons, &..
Columbus, Aug. 15,1850. tf
PINE \
TIIE exercises ,of Dm Academy - will bo'rs
sumed on September:. Tersis
for scholastic \
f. JOHN L. NXVITJS.
Colßibs, Aug, IS,tSSO. *l3 St
A MATRON WANTED.
THE LADIES’ BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
OF CQLUMBUS wishes to procure the ser
vices of a LADY who will take charge of the
FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM in this City on
the first day of January next. Applications may
be made, personally, to the Managers in this City,
or by leiter, post paid, directed to the Managers
of the Ladies’ Benevolent Society, Columbus
Geo.
August 8,1850. S3 ts
I PIERCE offers his LOVELY RESIDENCE
J in Wynnton lor sale, with 15 acres of Land, in
eluding orchards, Lots and Woodland. Possession
given immediately, if desired. It is within six hundred
yards of a Male and a Female Aeademy, both of meri
ted tame.
Aug. 25, 18*0. M lm
BROKAW
HAVE just received a fresh assortment of plain nnd
figured SWISS MUSLINS; Swiss and Jaconet
EDGING and INSERTIONS ; Thread and Lace;
LACE CAPES; Kid and Silk GLOVES, Linen
Cambric Handkerchiefs, u Irish LIN ENS,&c. &c.
Also on hand a lot of printed Organdie and
Jaconet* Muslins, which will be sold at greatly
REDUCED PRICES.
CLEBONS.
Columbus, August 15, 1850. 53 ts
BLACKSMITIIING BUSINESS.
THE undersigned having disposed of one-half of his
interest in the BLACKSMITH'S BUSINESS in
this city, to Win. Mahaficy, the business will be carried
on in future under the name of WM. MAHAFFEY
& CO.; and they solicit the patronage of all that are
desirous of having their work promptly and well done.
Partieular attention paid to HOftSE-SHOIi-
ING.
£L L. MOTT.
August 3 13 lm
THE undersigned having, as will be see* by tho
above notice, become associated with Mr. Mott in the
Blacksmith business, and having tho entire charge of
the business, is now prepared to execute any orders in
his line, and hopes to liavo a call from all his friend*.
WM. MAHAFFEY.
August 8 32
GREAT COUGH REMEDY!
AYER’S
Clierry Pectoral.
FOR THE CURE OF
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Whoop
ing-Coughs, Croup, Asthma and Consumption.
This truly valuablo remedy for all disease* of the
lungs and throat, has become the chief reliance of the
afflicted as it i* the most certain eure known for the
above complaints. While it is a powerful remedial
agent in tho most desperate and almost hopeless case* of
Consumption, it is also, in diminished dose*, one of tho
mildest and most agreeable family medicines foreom
mon coughs and colds. Read below tho opinion of
men who are known to the world, and the world reaped
their opinions.
Prom Professor Hitchcock.
.Tames C. Ayer—Sir: I have used your “Cherry
Pectoral” in my own cas® of deep seated Bronchitis,
and am satisfied from its chemical constitution that it is
an admirable compound for the relief of laryngial and
bronchial difficulties. If my opinion as to it* superior
character can be of any service you are at liberty to uses
it as you think proper.
EDWARD HITCHCOCK, L, L. D.,
President of Amherst College
From the “London Lancet
“Ayer's Cheery Pectoral” is one of the most val
uable preparations that has fallen under our notice. After
a careful examination, we do not hesitate to say wc have
a large appreciation of its met its and the fullest confi
dence in its usefulness for coughs and lung complaints.”
Dr. Brewster, of Windham ecu, Conn., sends us tlis
following testimony:
Dr. J. C. Ayer—-Dear Sir: I enclose you a certificate
from Mrs. Catharine K. Cady, a highly respectable lady
of this village, wife of Mr. Seth Cady, Deputy Sheriff,
Windham co., Conn. Tho cure in her case was very
prompt, and haS attracted general attention.
W. A. BREWSTER, M. D.
West KielinoLT, Ct., Sept. 28, 1843.
This may certify that I was afflicted with a very severe
cough in the winter of ’47-8, which threatened to ter
minate in consumption. 1 had tried many medicines in
vain, and was cured by the use of “Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral,” CATHARINE K. CADY.
Direct Evidence.
Dr. J. C. Ayer, Lowell—Dear Sir: Feeling under obli
gations to you for the restoration of my health, I send you
a report of my case, which you are at liberty to publish
for the benefit of others. Last autumn I took a bad cold,
accompanied by a severe cough, and made use of many
medicines without obtaining relief. I was Obliged to
give up business, frequently raised blood, and comd get
no sleep at night. A friend gave me a bottle of your
Cherry Pectoral, the u.=e of which I immediately
commenced according to directions. I have just pur
chased the fifth bottle, and am nearly recovered. I now
sleep well, my cough has ceased, and all by the use of
your valuable medicine. E. S. STONE, A. M.,
Principal Mt. Hope Seminary.
From Dr. Bryant, Druggist and Postmaster, Chicopee
Fails, Mass;
Dr. J. C. Ayer—Dear Sir : Enclosed please find re
mittance for all the Cherry Pectoral sent me. I
can unhesitatingly say, that no medicine we sell gives
such satisfaction as vour’s does ; nor have I ever sCen a
medicine which cured so many cases of cough and lung
complaints. Our physicians are using it extensively in
their practice, and with the happiest effects.
Truly yours, D. M. BRYANT.
Prepared by J. C. AYER, Chemist, Lowell, Maes.
Sold in Columbus, by Danforth & Nagel, and R.
Carter, and by Druggists aenerallr.
August 15 S3 3m
BOOKS! BOOKS!!
B. B. deCtRAFFMRIED,
* Book-seller and Stationer,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
AFFERS for mb a largw asssortment of BOOKS among which mar be found the following:—
Colton’s Lit® and Times of Henry Clay—Magauly’s History of England—lrving’s Complete
W orks—Lardner’s Lectures on Science and Art—Hildreth's History U. S.—Taylor’s History Spanish Lit’
erature—Prescott’s Conquest of Mexico and Peru —Lynch's Dead Sea Expedition—Prideaux Cotlnoiiou—
Scott s Lifo of Napoleon—Thier’s Consulate and Empire of Napoleon—Thier's French Revolution—Ban
croft’s United States—Modern British Essayists—Layard's Ninevah—llume’s History of England—
Keightley’s History of England—Allison’s History of Europe—Rollin’s Ancient History—Encycloprodia
of Religious Knowledge—Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Minck—Willis’ Proso Works—Willi*’
Rural Letters—Willis’ People I have Met—Dick’s Complete Works—Maria Edgeworth’s Novels and Tales—
Mary Howitt’s Talcs—Mrs. Sherwood’s Works—Los Gringos—Humbolt’s Cosmos—Robinson’s Army of
tho U. S.—Orators of France—Charms and Counter Charms—Hazlitt's Table Talk—Campbell’s Lives of
tho Lord Chancellors—Half Iloufs with Best Authors—Chalmer's Posthumous Works—Ripley and
Barnes’ Notes on the Gospel—Loyola and Jesuitism—Magoon’s Republican Christianity—Harris’ Mon
Primeval—Magoon’s Proverbs for tho People—Ripley, Jenkins and Mansfield'S History of the Mexican
War—Bayard Taylor’s Adventtrfcs in the Tath of Empire—Jeremy Taylor’s Holy Living and Dying—
Harris’ Proadamito Earth—Paget's Sermous—Seneca’s Morals—Old Humphrey’s Addresses—Malian’s
True Comic Writer—Leigh Hunt's Indicator—lmagination and Fancy, and Men, Women
and Books—Spirit of the Age—Daring Exploits—Yankeo Stories—Headley’s Napoleon and Marshalls,
Washington and Generals, Sacred Mountains, Cromwell and the Adirondoek—Mrs. Ellis’ Works—Loronao
Dow’s Complet® Works—Don Quixote —Arabian Nights—Milman’s History of Christianity—Young Man’s
Guido—Guid® for Young Disciples—Vicar of Wakefield—Margaret Percmd—Laneton Parsonage—Th®
Battle Summer —Woragaor Charms of tho Nile—The King of thellurons—"White Jackett, by Mellville—
Amy Herbert—Hawkstone—Nelson on Infidelity—Greenwood Leaves, by Grace Greenwood—Bible History
of Prayer—Oracles from the Poets—Jean Faul Ritcheu’s Fruit, Flower and Thorn Pieces—Zscliokko's
Tales—Th® Crescent and th® Cross—Flora's Lexicon, Interpreter and Dictionary—Festus—Jay’s and
Thornton’s Family Prayers—Proverbial Philosophy—Kennedy's Life of Wirt—Masonic Chart and
Monitor—Bryant’s Letters of ft Traveller —History of Texas—Charles Lamb’s Letters—Walker otf
Beauty, Marriage and “Women—‘Live and Let Live—T. S. Arthur's Tales—Hannah Moore's W orks—
Mr*. Beecher's Domestic Economy—Mrs. Beecher’S Domestic Receipts—Abbott’s Corner Ston®, and
Young Christian—Abbott’s Juvonilo Histories—Lives of Washington, Franklin, Penn, Jackson,
Marion and John Smith—Life of Mrs. Flctcllef, Mrs. Judson, Mozart, and Boswell’s Life of Johnson—*
Johnson’s Rassclas—Scottish Chiefs—'Thaddeus of Warsaw—The Three Spaniards—Notes from Ov®r
Sea—Rush, on tho Resurrection —Kingsbury on tho Sabbath—Book of the Church—Man and 11ls 1
Motives—The Soul and th# Body—Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life—Twins and Hearts—
Gheever’a Jungfrau—Diary of Lady Willoughby—Tho Crock of Gold—Wanderings find Fortunes of
German Emigrants—Melville’s Typee and Omoo—Chapman’s Sermons—Claims of the Country on Amer
ican Females—Mrs. Eliott’s Women of tlic Revolution—‘Victor Hugo’s Rhine—Headley’s Italy—The Owl
Creek Letters—Tho First of the Knickerbockers—Tho Amber Witch—The Biglow Papei*s—The Fores
ters—Jaunt Across tho Water, by J. J. Smith —American Tableaux—Greece of the Greeks—Mrs. Gout's
Memoirs of an American Lady—Michelet’s Lifo of Martin Luther—Michelet’s The People—Diekeru*’
Chiracs, Carol nnd Cricket, Oliver Twist, and Dombey & Son—History of Wonderful Inventions—Pauld
ing’s The Puritan and his Daughter—A Fable for Critics—Two Lives or to Seem nud to Be, by Mrs.
Mclntosh —Diary of a Physician—Nature nnd Revalations, by 11. 11. Von Arminge—Lock’s Essays—Le
gends of Montouk —Pclayo, th® Goth—and tho Poetical W r orks of Shakspeare—Byron—Milton—Moor®
—Scott—Burns—Tasso —Ossian—Dante —Longfellow—Willis—Young—Shelley—llalleck—Thompson—■
Bryant—llowitt—Pope—Montgomery—Milman—Keats—Cowper —Mrs. Sigourney—Mrs. Hemans—Mrs,
Wolby—Eliza Cook —Ann C. Lynch—Th* Poems us tho Milford Bard —Pollock and Poo’a. All of which
will bo sold on reasonable temue.
August 8, 1850. S3
Watches, Clocks, and Jevelry.
A. 11. MITT,
TJ AS received thi woek, a large and general assortrfient ofLadies’ and Gents’ GOLD WATCHF.SL’
also, Silver, Hunting, and other Watches'; also the most fashionable and desirable JEWELRY
worn this seaso,n, consisting ot Breast Pins, Bracelets, Ear Rings, Gold Thimbles, Silver Warn,
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 lrbrii
New York. For sale at his usually low and uniform prices. . . .
Mr. WM. B. MOORE is permanently engaged in the Watch Repairing Department 2£v.-
Moore, as a Scientific Watch-Maker, has ho superior North or South, as the many will attest whtf
hav® favorSd him with their work. f .
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Musi* Boxes, Accordeons, &c. repaired at shortest notice and tho
lowest prices.
Engraving on Seals, Stamps, Keys, Silver War© and Jewelry, neatly executed.
Call and see me at the old stand. , .. A. IL It
Columbus, March 21,1850. 12 ts
Spring anl Bummer Clothing.
iimirn k iii,
Next door to Hill, Dawsoii & Cos. Broad St. Columbus, Ga<
ARE now receiving an extensive and well assorted stock of Fashionable Spring and Summer
Clothing, Gnt’Furnishing Goods, Fashionable Hats and Caps, Trunks. Carpet Bags, Valisbd, dfcA
Also, th® largest and most extensive assortment 6f
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, AND VESTINGS,
ever offered in this market, which will be manufactured in the latest styles, and warranted fcj
please. Those who favor us with a call, may be euro of getting Goods at reasonable and steady
prices.
Persons wanting Cloths, Cassimcres, Drilling*, Tilings, <&o. by ths yard, can bq
• eommodaled, on the most rcauonabla term*
JAS. D. WILLIFORD. JOS. H. DANIEL.
Columbus, March 14, iS'SO. if ts
Muscogee Division, Rons of Temperance,
MEETS this evening nt 8 o'clock. The members
generally, and brethren of Chattahoochee Division,
arts invited to attend.
BOOK AND PRINTING PAPER.
rPIIC Rock Island Factory is now prepared to make
1 either of the above articles of the best miality, and
of any size and weight desired. On hand, a first rato ar
ficle of Wrapping Paper.
D. ADAMS, Secretary.
VST Offico in the South soruer Room of tlie Oglo
thorpe House.
Columbus, Feb. 23,1850. 9 ts
GODFREY & SOLOMONS,
Factors and Commission Merchants,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
iiLHu b. eoDratT, e. w. eodomok*.
S E7EKEICES.
Err. its. n. ETiss, lit. exitrEL xxthojit,
Savannah. Talhotton.
RIDGEWAY & GUKDV, *. OTjSLY h. SOW,
Columbus. Macon.
July 25 SO (sm.
Cdumbus and Greenville Plank and Turn
pike Road Cos.
TAKE NOTICE ,
I)OOKS of for Sfock in said Company,
> will be ope mil at the Commercial Exchange Read
ing Room, on Monday and Tuesday, the 15th and 16th
of the present month.
By order of the Corporators of said Company.
HAMPTON 8. SMITH,
JOHN c. LEITNKR,
GEO. W. WINTER,
DAVID ADAMS.
July 11,1850. ; >8 ts
P. McLaren & Cos.
KEEP constantly on hand a large assortment of
GROCERIES ;
LIQUORS;
WINES;
TOBACCO;
Ao.
And havfe 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. ts
UNION IRON FOUNDRY,
cOfUMBUS, GA.
rjMIE SUBSCRIBERS havingnearly completed their
l New Establishment, are now ready to receive orders
fbrlron or Brass Castings es allmecripfions Gin Gear,
Sugar Mills, Plates and Balls, Cotton Press Pulleys,
Racks and Ways, Rag-Irons for Saw Mills, Railroad
Wheels,Cast-iron Water-wheels and all castingsexecu- 1
ted with neatness and disprtch. Their Foundry is on O
glothorpestreet,opposite Mr. Jefferson’s sto-ie, where
persons wanting castings will please call and examine
their work. SAMUEL HEYS & CO.
N. B. All orders from the COUNTRY directed as a
bove, will meet with prompt attention. 11. &• CO.
July 16 29 3m
HAVING purchased ol Mr. J. H. Jax.vf.t, (who has
declined the Foundry business) the whole of his patterns,
Ac , they beg leave to inform the public, and particular
ly those in the habit of using Mr Jannev’s patterns, as al
so those who may have left patterns with him, that they
can find the same by applying to Samuel Keys, at the
Union Iron Foundry.
S. HEYS & CO.
Columbus, August 1, 1859.
BOO£SI
a E*AIMWO 18 THE FOOD 07 TIB ■ &.*
The Pierian Spring.’
* A little learning is a,dangerous thing,’
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring j
There, shallotb draughts intoxicate the brain,
But drinking largely sobers us again.”
JUST received a lot of School, Medical and MiecoT-’
laneous BOOKS,’ among which are the following,
viz: Biblical Antiquities—Sandford and Merton—Has
well’s Engineers’ and Mechanics’ Pocket Book—Now
Masonic Trestle Board—Julian, or Scenes in Judoa—
Zcnobia, or the Fall of Palmyra, a historical romance—
The Pastor’s Hand Book—Norton’s Elements of Scien
tific Agriculture—Meigs on r tm'alSs and their Diseases,
and various Works of Fiction in cheap form, by G. P. R.
James, T. S. Arthur, and others.. ~
Also, Tanner’s Travelling Map of Florida,. Buh
ner’s Pocket Map of Georgia,Sntf DeCordova’s Majp of
Texas, the accuracy of which is certified by theSepii
tors and Representatives in Congress from that State
and the Texan Commissioner of the General Land
Office. D. F. WILLCOX.
Aug. 22,1850. 34
COBB’S PENAL CODE.
JUST received and for sale at $2 50 per copy,,by
B. B. dcGRAFFENBIEu.
Aug. 22, 1850. 34
A COPYING PRESS;
AND Books fc ; r eopying Letters, for Sale by
D. F. WILLCOX.
August 8 32
REPORTS
OF tho Supremo Court of Georgia, volume 7,.f0r sale
by B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
August 8 32
RELIGIOUS PUBLICATION
THE subscriber offers for sale probably the best col
lection ever brought herb, comprising over
650 VOLUMES.
Among them the following—Lives of British Reform
ers—English Martyrology—Newton’s Cardiphonia—
The Life of John Bunyan,or; The Bedfordshire Tink
er—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 Attributes—Old
Antony’s Hints—Providences Illustrated— McGill on
Secret Prayer—Learning to Think—The Thr.ee, Ques
tions. What am I? Whence Camel? And Whither
Do I Go ?—Keith on the Prophecies—Fichte’s Christian
Theology—Bunyan’s Holy War—Alexanders Evi
dences of Christianity—Docfdridge’s Rise and PrdgrbV—
Baxter’s Call—Edwards on Baptism—-Noel on Baptism
—Calvin’s Institutes—Home on Psalms—Haldane on
Romans—Bridges on the Christian Ministry—Bridges
on CXIX Psalm—Hodge’s History of Presbyterian
Church—Limb Street Lectures—History of the Inqruai
tion—Life of Zuinglins—Life of Melancthon—Life of
Newton, M’Cheyne, Henry Martyn, Rowland Hill,
Dr. Milnor, Isabella Graham, Harlan Page, Bucbafttin,
James B. Taylor, Simeon, Jerenty Taylor, Howard th
Philanthropist, Cecil, Arminins, and others—Anxious
Enquirer—Chamoek on Regeneration—Destruction of
Jerusalem—Miller on RuKng Elders—Ditto on Creed*
—Ditto on Christian Ministry—Boston Fourfold Slate—
Council of Trent—Jay’s Exercises—Tales of the Cov
enanters—Common Maxims of Infidelity—History of
Wyckliffites—Butler’s Analogy—Walk about Zion—
Bible in Spain—McGee on Ephesians —M’.Cheynes Ser
mons—Foster on Decision of Character —Christ our Law
—Davidson’s Connexion—Brownell’s Commentary on
the Prayer Book—Stanton’s Church Dictionary— Pal
mer’s Ecclesiastical History’—Churchman’s Reasons for
his Faith and Practice—The Church Identified—Devout
Churchman’s Companion —Williamson the Miracles
Hobart’s State of tne Departed—Steps to the Altar—E
piscopacy Examined —Dyer on the Church, Ac , Ac ~
with many others impossible to name here All for
sale as low as books can be sold here.
D. F. WILLCOX.
June 13