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injury, under which no government is worth
preserving, and to avoid which any danger
should be encountered.
Resolved, That firm and concerted action is
necessary lor the protection of the Southern
States, and for purpose of effecting this, it is
expedient to organize an Association for Die
maintenance of Southern Rights, honor and tran
quility—the principles, rules and constitution of
which association are hereby referred to i com
mittee of twelve who shall be authorized to adopt
an address to the people of Floyd County, and
appoint a Committee in each district in said
county recommending to the people the forma
tion oi similar Associations throughout the conn- j
tv and State.
Resolved, That said Committee prepare a Con
stitution for this Association, and report the same
for adoption, at an adjourned meeting to be held
on Monday, the 9th September.
After the passage of the resolutions, Ihe follow- ‘
ing gentlemen came forward and enrolled their ;
names as members of the Association:
Col. N. Bass, A. K. Patton,
Mansfield Simmons, John A. Holt,
C. J. Jones, D. J. Sanders,
L. J. Hilhurx, J. Jo. Alsabhoox,
Wji. Johnson, \V;j. A. Choice,
John VV. Dodd, N. Maronky,
S. Fotcim, D G. Love,
W. W. Gibus, Thomas W. llickuy, ■
Benj. F. Pouter, William Garrett, ;
J. R. July, J. p. Shiiclky,
G. P. Hamilton, E. Morris,
L. A. Allen, Jas. M. .Mitchell,
Herbert Fielder, A. Jones,
Capt. A. Nelson, J. 11. Hood,
A. A. Anderson, James C. IJaire, j
Vv\ S. Cothran, W. B. Teriicxe,
W. C. Pope, Thomas Crowley,
M. A, Stoval, C. M. Shelton,
Tkl. Cuyi.er, James M. Spullock.
On motion of Cos!. S. Fouclie, all papers in
the state friendly to the object of the meeting be
requested to publish the proceedings.
The meeting then adjourned, to meet again in
the Court House, on the Offi of Septenber.
N. BASS, Chairman.
G. P. Hamilton, Secretary.
Southern Rights Meeting in Baker County.
At a large and respectable meeting of the citizens
ol Baker county, irrespective of party, held at
Newton in Baker county, on this day, 10th Sep.
On motion of Geo. W. Collier, Esq., A. B. Lawton
and John F. Spicer, Esqrs, were railed to the
chair, and John Lyon, Esq., and Dr. W. S. Law
ton, were appointed Secretaries. The object ofj
the meeting having been explained, the lion.
Lott Warren, Dr. John G. Byrd, and It. F. Lyon,
Esq. severally submitted resolutions lor llie con
sideration of the meeting.
On motion of the Hon. Lott Warren, it was
made the order of the day that each of the sever
al propositions shoo’d be taken up and acted
upon separately, and that the speakers should
be confined to ten minutes respectively. The
several propositions were then taken up in order,
and after being warmly and ably discussed by the !
Hon. Lott Warren, R. F. Lyon, P. J. Sirozier.
E. H. Platt, Richard Sims, Esq., Col. N. Tift and i
J)r. John G. Byrd, resulted in the adoption of j
the following preamble and resolutions, with j
amendments, &c., so as to obtain the cheerful
and almost unanimous support of the entire
meeting
The preamble, and 2d, 3d, 4th, bill and 6th r so
lutions were offered by Dr. J. G. Bvrd, the Ist
and 11th resolutions by Hon. Lott Warren, and
the 7th, Bth, 9th, 10th and 12th, by R. F. Lyon.
Esq.
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
The privilege we enjoy of peacably conven- !
ing, discussing and determining upon questions i
of interest and importance, is one which is ines- j
tunable, and in a government like ours while we j
so look upon it, it is with a determination that j
we will not abuse it. At this particular period, i
it is not only a privilege, but a duty paramount j
to all others which has assembled us, on account
of violations about being practiced against the I
Constitution, the aggressions which our North
ern brethorn are disposed to force against the .
Southern portion of our confederacy, which, if I
they are successful in doing, will not only show
a total disregard of our feelings and rights as ;
members of the same union, but will be tarnish
ing the escutcheon of our honor. Our country j
is shaken to its very centre, by the apparent ra
pacity and ambition of the non-slaveholding por
tion of tlio United States, b ing disposed to ap
propriate to its sole use and interest, the territo
ry lately acquired by the valor of American arms,
and with the treasures of the government, to the j
total exclusion of the slave-holding States.—The j
question of slavery and the subject connected j
within Congress, are those which now threaten
a dissolution of the Union: they should be met
with manly firmness and determination, but with
a spirit of moderation and conciliation. We
therefore,
Resolved, firs!, That the Territories were ac
quired as the property of the States, and their
citizens, and it is the right oi’ every citizen in
the United States, to become a citizen and in- i
habitant of the territories, atul to possess and j
enjoy there, any property known to the Consti- !
tutionofthe United States, as well slaves as of
any other kindand it is the duty of Congress ,
to provide, by law, for the protection and enjoy- i
meat of all property, held by all the citizens of
the several States in those territories, so long as
they remain in a territorial condition.
Resolved, That it is the duty of Congress to I
speedily settle and adjust the slavery question
upon Constitutional principles, alike fair to all j
portions of the Union, and we cordially desire,
and hope, that the wisdom and patriotism of!
Congress will soon etfect this.
Resolved, That the territories of the United ,
States, should be forthwith provided with gov
ernments, so that our citizen* removing to them
with property may be protected in the enjoy- !
meat of it, and all other Constitutional rights.
Resolved, That we approve of, and adopt, the !
Resolutions of the Nashville Convention, and
cordially recommend them to the support of the j
•Southern people.
Resolved, That should Congress refuse to
recognize the Constitutional rights of the South- j
vrn people in the territories, then they should be ‘
“divided between the sections of the Union, so :
that the rights of both sections be adequately se
cured in their respective shares.’’ For this pur
pose we are willing to acquiesce in the Missouri
Compromise line of 30 deg. 30 min. North lati
tude extending to the Pacific ocean, and also be
cause the South has faithfully adhered to this
line, since its adoption.
Resolved, That in the threatened difficulty
between Texas and the Federal Government,
our sympathies are with Texas, from a firm con
viction of the justice of her claim, and in case of
a collision, which we deprecate, \v ith the Fed
eral Government, the South should fetd it an im
peritive duty to render Texas such assistance
as may be necessary to maintain her rights.
Resolved, That we view the appropriation of
ten millions of dollars, from the public Treasury j
for a relinquishment of the title of Texas to her
territory in New Mexico, as a violation of the :
rights of the balance of the Southern States, for it :
compels their contribution for the probable, al
most certain, conversion of Territory, that is
now slave territory, into free soil.
Resolved, That we deprecate a Disunion of;
the United States, and shall deeply regret that
Congress, by any unjust and iniquitouslegisla- |
tion, should drive the South, or any portion of
the States, to any such stringent measure, ar.d
in view of this feeling on our part, we earnest
ly desire, that the Convention when called, shall
devise some measure, meeting the action of Con
gress, by the adoption of virtual non-intercourse
with the North, or some other peacable and Con
stitutional measure, that will induce the North
ern people to cease their unnatural warfare on
us and our institutions—to do us that justice .
and atford us that protection to our property, in
the territories and elswhere which we and ii are .
entitled to under the Constitution, and articles ;
of our compact that will dispense with the nec
essity of a Disunion, which should be resorted to j
only after all other plans for an adjustment of
our rights have failed.
Resolved, That vve do not make this recom- ;
jwendation to trammel or restrict the action of
the Convention ; for we hope that they, in their
deliberations, mav take tbe widest and most
comprehensive view cf the questions that con
vene them, nor do we so to create disaffection,
but to heal dissensions among ourselves, and en
able the whole Southern people to come together
on one common platform, which is so essential
ly necessary to success in any proposed plan of
resistance to federal usurpations of Southern
Rights, and we do so, further, with a sincere and
| honest desire to save the L’nion if we can.
Resolved, i hat in case our suggestion is not
made the policy of the Convention: and they
should adopt some other, in their judgment bet
ter—whatever plan that may be, we pledge our
selves to its support, when ratified by the people.
Resolved, That should the Governor call a Con
vention cf the people ofGoorgia, bv authority of
the act oft! le last Legislature, it will be the duty ;
of tbe Convention, to submitt fairly to the people
for their ratification, any measure of redress that
may be adopted by the Convention, and that no
measure of redress adopted bv the Convention,
shall be of any force, unless ratified by a majori
ty of the people of Georgia, fairly expressed.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet
ing bejpub'ished in the Albany Patriot, the Macr n
and all other papers in the State disposed to fa
vor them.
Resolved, On motion of Lott Warren, that
the thanks of the meeting be tendered to the
Chairmen and Secretaries ol the day.
On motion, the meeting then adjourned.
A. B. LAWTON, )
J. F. SPICER, f Vnrnn -
John Lyon, ) ~ ,
W. S. Lawton, ( ’ ltc
Muscogee and Russel! Agricultural Fair.
In presenting the following List of Premiums,
the Board of Managers would remark, that ow
ing the lateness of the season, they have cur
tailed the Premiums offered for Cotton, Corn.
Y\ heat, Oats, Rye and Barley culture—-but Pre- |
j miums will be awarded to any of the articles
that may be presented at the Fair which shall
prove of superior quality. As soon as the pre
sent Fair is over, a Premium List for another
year wiil be published, and a premium offered
for the b<-st managed Farm; the best field of
Cotton, Corn, Oats, Wheat, Rye or Barley, and
a Committee appointed to report upon the
same.
The Board of Managers fondly hope, that ev
ery farmerwilhin reaching distance of Columbus,
v.'i.i take some part in swelling the tide ofAgri
| cultural improvement,and bring wateverhe may
; have of merit, whether in Stock, Implements,
Grains, Fruits or Flowers. The Managers are
j aware that there is but little time to prepare in,
j but ail will be upon the same footing, and unless
i tlie effort is made, we shall never know what
; Muscogee and Russel! can do. Discretionary
Premiums wiil be given for ail articles of merit
not mentioned in the list.
Especially are the Ladies cf Muscogee arid
Russel invited to bring specimens of their Pain
ting, Embroidery, Needle-work, and all the do
; inestic Arts, not forgetting their ornamental
i Plants and Flowers. Competent persons will
’ be appointed to take charge of the Ladies’ de
partment, to insure the safety of all articles sent.
The Managers appeal to the Agriculturist, the
; Manufacturer, the Citizen and the Mechanic, for
spec imeds of ail their various handy-work, and
: if they do not quite come up to the World's Fair
in London, they vrid open agate of improvement
at home.
The Premium Tent of tho Society will be
pitched upon the Fair grounds, and the premi
um Flag hoisted over it. Those gentlemen con
templating bringing slock will please communi
cate the same to the Corresponding Secretary at
least ten days before the Fair—that suitable stalls’
may be provided for them. All articles design
ed for Exhibition must be handed in on the
morning of the 18:h of November, distinctly la
-1.-lied with the owner’s name, that a record may
bo made of it.
REGULATIONS OF THE FAIR.
All members ot trie Hosiery, arm at! who sbnf!
become members previous to or at the Fair, will
be furnished with badges, which will admit the
Ladies of his family to the exhibition at all tuner
during the continuance of the Fair. Tickets to
admit a single person 25 cents.
All Exhibitors at the Fair must become mem
bers of the Society, and have their animals or
articles entered at the business office, before ta
king them into the enclosure— except Ladies’
work —this will in all cases be admitted free.
Cl IAS. A. PEABODY,
Coir. Secretary.
LIST OF PRIZES
Os the Muscogee &. Russell Agricultural S ‘rie.
ty, to be given at the FAIR, on ths third Wed
nesday in A or. next.
For best acre S. Potatoes, silver medal. $2,00
“ “ bushel “ - - - Diploma.
“ “ acre Turnips, silver medal, - $2,00
“ “ bushel - - - Diploma.
“ “ Treatise on making and apply
ing Manure suited to Southern crops
and culture, sih er goblet, - - SIO,OO
For the best Treatise on cultivating Corn
in the South, silver goblet, - - 010,00
For the best Treatise on the cultivation
of Cotton, including the picking and
packing: silver goblet, - - SIO,OO j
For the best Treatise on the Farm, by a
youth of Muscogee or Russel, the
Birmingham medal, - $5. 00 |
For the best bag Cotton, grown in Mus
cogee or Russell, silver goblet, - SB,OO
F t the second best, - - - Diploma. I
For the best bushel Wheat, raised in
Muscogee or Russel - Silver Medal.
For second best, - - -
STOCK.
For the best fine wooled Sheep, Silver Medal.
“ “ Mutton “ - - “
“ Ox far the butcher, “ “
“ “ Cow. “ “ - “ “
For the best Georgia and Alabama raised
Jack, exhibited on the day, Silver
cup, - - - - ’ - $3.00
For the 2nd and 3rd best, - - Diplomas.
For the best Mule, age considered, silver
medal, - $2,00 j
For the best Stallion, four years old and
upwards, silver goblet, - - SIO,OO j
For the best 2 year old colt or filly, silver
cup, - - - - ‘ - - 8,00
For the 2d and 3d best, - - Diplomas.
For the best brood Mare with or without
colt, silver cup, - 8.00
For 2d and 3d best, ... Diplomas.
For the best Bull, (age considered,) silver
medal, 2.00
For 2d and 3d best, - Diplomas.
For the best Cow, (age considered,) sil
ver medal, 2.00
For 2d and 3d best, ... Diplomas.
Fortlie heaviest Hog, not over two years
old, silver medal, ... 2.00
For the best Boar, siiver’medal. - - 2,00
For the heaviest Pig, from six months to
a year o’d, silver medal, - - 2.00
*or tile best breeding Sow, silver medal, 2,00
TO TIIE MANUFACTURER AND ME
CHANIC.
For the best Plow for southern culture,
and of southern make, silver cup, $3,00
For the best road-waggon, Muscogee or
Russell make, silver cup, . - 8,00
For the largest collection of Agricultural
implements. - - - Silver Medal. !
For the best two horse Waggon, do. do.
make, silver medal, - 2,00 j
For the best six pairs of Negro shoes,
Geo. or Ala. make, silver medal, - 2,00
For the best piece of Factory Osnaburgs,
silver medal. ... - 2.00
For the best niece of Factory Sheeting
or Shirting, silver medal, - - 2,00
For the best piece of Linsey-woolsey, sil
ver medal - - ’ - - - 2,00
For the best Churn, silver medal, - 2,00
HORTICULTURE.
For best Treatise on raising Fruit of all
kinds in this section of country, sil
ver goblet, - . . SIO,OO
For the best specimens of Fruit for the
season, .... Silver Meda 1 .
For the largest collection of Vegetables.
silver medal, .... 2,00
For the best Bouquet of Natural Flowers,
silver medal, - 2,00
For the largest collection of Pot Plants,
with names, silver cup, - - 8,00
For the best Treatise on the culture of
Flowers, by a Lady of Muscogee or
Russel], silver cup, ... 8,00
DAIRY.
For the best specimens of Muscogee or
Russel Butter J not less than 5 lbs.,
silver medai, - 2.00
For the best sample of Cheese, of South
ern make, silver medal, - - 2,00
For the best Treatise on the manage
ment of the Cow in the South, sil
ver cup, - . . 8,00
[From the Republic Sept. 10.]
Interesting Correspondence.
The following interesting correspondence be
tween some citizens of Burke and the Hon. J.
McPherson Berrien it affords us pleasure to lav
before our readers and the public:
Alexander, (Ga..) Aug. 10, 1850.
Sir: Fully impressed with the belief that
your deliberately expressed opinion, upon the
principles involved in this crisis cf our public
affairs, would exercise a most momentous influ
ence upon the distracted counsels of the State,
we have taken the liberty of intruding upon
your leisure moments. In propounding the fol
iowing questions for your consideration, we
propose to make such a disposition cf your re
ply, (should you deem them worthy of one,) as
you. in your mature judgment, may consider
most conducive to the public Interests. We
feel no hesitation in expressing our decided
conviction, that a public expression of opinion,
on your part, would be directly instrumental in
harmonising the conflicting views prevailing to
so great an extent in the State of Georgia.
This conviction, thus farced upon our minds,
must be our apology for the liberty we have
I taken. Allow us to express our highest appro
[ halion of the stand you have taken in our be
| half.
.| I. If the bill reported to the Senate by the
committee of thirteen, known as the compro
mise bill, had becoma a law of the land, could
slavery have been extended to the Territories
acquired from Mexico?
2. Will not the claim ‘‘that Congress has the
right, and it is its duty to legislate to protect
slavery in the Territories,” yield, by implication,
the power to legislate against it?
3. If the constitution confers “the right of
slavery to enter and occupy the territories of
the United States,” will the demand upon Con
gress to recognize that right in any and every
i territorial bill, be inconsistent with the doctrine
of non-intervention?
In submitting these questions to your consi
deration, to be decided upon, in the premises,
according to your discretion, we have the honor
to be, very respectfully,
James H. Royal,
JOS. A. SIIKUMAKE,
Rick'd S. Scruggs.
lion. Jxo. McPherson Berrien.
Washington, Aug. 31st, 1850.
Gentlemen : Laboring under indisposition and
pressed by engagements. I have not until now
been able to answer your letter. Presuming you
have kept a copy of it. I do not re-state your
questions—accept the following answers.
1. If the compromise bill should pass, slavery
will be excluded from California, to the provision
in her constitution, by which Congress will have
given validity—ns to Mexico and Utah,it will de
pend upon the quest! m whether the Mexican
laws are in force. 1 hold that they are not.—
They ara superceded by our own, as soon as
territorial government is organized—but others
entertain or propose to entertain a different
opinion—and the doubt thus evinced will prevent
slave-holders from carrying their property there
to encounter law suits. Congress ought, there
fore. to insert in any act which they pass on this
subject, a clause stating that the laws of Mexico
are not in force in those territories. We have
hitherto sought to obtain this in vain—a declara
tory clause.
2. I could answer this question generally in
the negative—Congress has authority, in various
cases, to pass laws in affirmance, and for the
protection of existing rights—while it lias no pow
er to annul them. Freedom of the press, trial
by jury, the right to be exempt from unreasona
ble seizures and searches, with others, are con
stitutional rights. Congress may pass laws to
facilitate the enjoyment of these rights while
they have no authority to annul or abridge them.
Ho, if the right to hold slaves is a constitutional
right, the power to remove any obstructions to
its enjoyment in the common territories of the
Union, would not draw after it the power to pre
vent its enjoyment there. In a word, Congress
may legislate for the protection of a right guar
anteed by the Constitution, but they cannot legis
late to destroy it.
3. The doctrine of non-intervention is not ap
plicable to the present state of things. Claytons
compromise bill proposed to establish territorial
governments for all the territory acquired from
Mexico. The effect of it would have been to
have opened the whole to the owners of slaves,
subject to 1 lie decision of the Supreme Court.—
It was to such a case only that non-intervention
could apply. But if Mr. Clay’s compromise bill
should pass, Congress would intervene by that
very act. to prohibit slavery, in the most impor
tant and valuable part of the common territory
—for all agree that the people who chanced to
be in California, had no right to declare this pro
hibition, and that their act is entirely null and
void until Congress shall give it life and validi
ty. It is the same thing as ifCongress had im
posed the proviso themselves. If California is
admitted with her present Constitution, Con
gress will have intervened against the South,
and cannot, therefore, with any show of justice,
plead non-intervention as an excuse for with
holding from the South, any act which may be
necessary to protect her in the enjoyment of her
Constitutional rights.
I hope these answers will be sufficiently ex
plicit to put you in possession of my opinions—
and while I believe that you attach too much im
portance to them, I have not felt myself at liber
ty to withhold them. In the present posture of
our affairs. 1 am very anxious that my fellow
citizens of Georgia should thorough - understand
their position, and mingling an ardent love of
the Union, with an unalterable determination to
assert their equal right# under the Constitution,
should calmly and steadily contemplate the con
sequences which may result from the decision
which they may adopt.
T shall be glad to learn that this letter lias
reached you. Respectfully yours,
J. McPherson berrten.
Messrs. James 11. Royal, Joseph A. Sheumake,
and Richard S. Scruggs.
Nor.-Intercourse.
This retaliatory policy, suggest ed at different
times by the jftesses and meetings throughout i
the South, seems to operate somewhat upon the i
nerves of our Northern friends. They do not :
profess,however, to be very much frightened, yet i
it is evident, from the numerous notices of’ it, j
that they deem it as a possible event. A cor
respondent of the New York Tribune, writing
from Baltimore, says:
“Letters from Georgia and Alabama mention
a league among many of the merchants there,
not to purchase goods at the North—the estab
j lishment, in fact, of a regular non-intercourse.—
j The same letters say that purchases to a large
] extent will be made in Baltimore, in the place of
Philadelphia and New York, as formerly. The
slave controversy is the cause of this move,
which cannot, however, be carried out to any
great extent In conversation with several of our
Baltimore wholesalemen, I learned that the dull
prospects of a fall trade are dying away, and
that they expect to make unusually large sales
j to Southern merchants, who have either arrived
or are on their way here. This looks, I must
confess, a good deal like a formidable non-in
tercourse, which, if ‘unanimously carried out,
might temporarily embarrass your large impor
ters. Some Southerners may avow their deter
mination not to deal in any way with the North,
but such a determination cannot hold long.—
Northern manufactures and importations must
be had- and if the present merchants of the
chivalric South were all to combine together not
to purchase from the North, they would soon
find tbrmidabie rivals enter the field and reap
golden harvests. There is a great deal of blus
ter and braggadocio in Southern composition
for which very large allowances must be made.”
There is not so much as this writer mav im
agine, especially in reference to this alienation of
feeling with regard to commercial intercourse
with tlie North. It requires not much more
goading to drive the Southern people to this
measure, and the North had better not under
take to ascertain how far we can be driven ere
we adopt this or disunion. As for the formida
ble rivals mentioned, vve are rather of the opin
; ion that this policy, once adopted, they would
lbe few and far between. They would pretty
soon ship for another market, and wc are very
j certain that it would require a large capital, anil
more brass and bravery than would be deemed
safe or expedient, for Northern rivals to come
and start a business with such a state of things
existing. The “chivalric South” can bear a
great deal, but one ofits component and elemen
tary parts is scorn for meanness, and this wri
ter may reiy upon it these formidable rivals
would bs reached in some way.—6’. Caroli
nian.
Crime—North and South.
Police Statistics. —A message just sent to
the New \ ork Common Council by the Mayor
of that city, states the total number of arrests
there during the quarter ending June 30th, at
8,214, of which 3,003 were for intoxication; 1087
for disorderly conduct; 1196 for assaults, and
197 lor fighting. There are 5027 places of
sale for spirituous liquors of which 1541 are
unlicensed, and 1174 licensed. During the
quarter 11,059 persons were lodged in the
station house; 1747 lost children restored;
151 sick and injured persons aided; 42
rescued from drowning; 49 fires extinguished;
596 stores and dwellings found open and closed;
and $12,313 43 taken from drunken persons
and lodgers and restored.
If the total number of arrests in the city of
New York in one quarter amounts to 8,214, it
would be 32,856 in one year—or about one to
each fifteen inhabitants. But if vve leave out of
the total population, which is about 500,000, the
women and children,who constitute nearly three
fourths ot it, the number of arrests in one year
is more than one out of every five of the male ad
ull population! This is on the supposition that
the arrests, in the course of a year, are each of
different persons. No doubt many are arres
ted oftener than once a year, but, on the other
hand, many more escape detection and arrest
altogether.
We are not ignorant of the • melancholy fact,
that a considerable number of the persons arres
ted are women—white women! Perhaps one
fifth of the arrests are white women—and there
are some children.
It results, therefore, that the adult white male
population of New York, about one out of five
or six is guilty of criminal offence, annually—
and of the adult white women, about one out of
twenty—on an average!
The State of Virginia has nearly three times
as much population, black and white, as the city
of New York, yet, as vve learn from a very in
telligent gentleman from that State, who has re
cently made the investigation, the total number
of arrests for last year, for all offences whatever,
was only 1200, or only one out of 1175 inhabit
ants—so that in New York there arc eighty times
as many criminal offences as in Virginia lor an
equal number of persons.
But then vve shall be told that the slaves are
not arraigned by tho police, but are punished by
their masters. Well, there are about as many
slaves in the State of Virginia asof people in the
city ot New \ ork. Now, from what vve have
seen and learned, we have no idea that of the
two hundred thousand adult slaves of that State,
there are anything like 32.556, or one out of six
punished in any way whatever, once a year.
The institution of slavery prevents drunken
ness, assaults, thefts, burglaries, murders, a
motig the blacks—as well as starvation.
And if it be thus shown that there is less vice
and crime in a slave population, than in an equal
number of free white people in a great city, how
stands the comparison between the white people
of Virginia and New York? Why, the portion
of crime in Virginia, among the whites, is less
than one to a hundred in New York.
In one Judicial district in Virginia, of a hun
dred thousand people, our native district by the
way, and where the court sits twice a year, there
was at a recent term not a solitary charge oi’fcl
ony on the docket.
Yet vve hear men who pretend to be philan
thropists and philosophers, and even statesmen,
continually contending for reforming Virginia
institutions according to the models in New
York—yes, there are even Virginians that dis
tress themselves daily, because Virginia is not
like unto New York!
And these men propose to exclude Virginia
institutions from unsettled or Mexican territory
because they are unfit to go there, and inferior
to those of New York. And there are even
some Virginians so far gone as to be willing to
submit to it! We would like to know who they
are—and how many. —Southern Press.
Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
DECLINE IN COTTON.
[Telegraphed for tho Columbus Times.]
. Charleston, 8 o'clock, P. M., )
September 16, 1850. \
The steamer Canada arrived at Halifax
from Liverpool, September 7th.
Cotton lias declined one-eighth since the
arrival of the last steamer.
Sales of the week 30,800.
At New York, on the ICtli, the Foreign
news had no effect.
Cotton.— -Market prices the same.
The bill to abolish the Slave Trade inthe
District of Columbia, as introduced in the
original compromise, passed the Senate, yeas
32, nays 19.
[Telegraphed for tho Baltimore Sun.]
Further Foreign Intelligence.
BY THE STEAMER ASIA.
New York, Sept. 11, P. M.—The steamer
Asia reached her dock here at a little after
10 o’clock this morning. There is not much
additional news, beyond what has already
been forwarded. The Asia’s mails will reach
Baltimore to-morrow morning. She sailed
from Halifax at noon on Monday.
Louis Philippe died on the 20th of August,
at his residence, Claremont. He had been
made aware of his approaching end early on
the preceding day, in presence of the Queen,
and prepared for his final arrangements, after
first having a conversation with the Queen.
He directed, with remarkable clearness, a
conclusion to his memoirs. He then caused
to be summoned his chaplain, all his children
and grand-children who were in Claremont,
and in the presence of the Queen and family,
he discharged every duty of religion with the
most perfect Christian resignation.
Towards 7 o'clock in the evening, the i
fever came on, which continued during tho
night with much violence, and he expired at
eight o’clock on Monday morning, in the pre
sence of the Queen and family, among whom
were the Duchess of Orleans, Count de Paris,
Duke de Chartres, Duke and Duchess de
Nemours, Prince and Princess de Joinville,
Duke and Duchess de Aumale, Duchess Au
gusta of Sax Cobourg, and the other attend
ants of the royal family.
‘Fhe Peace Congress is in session at Frank
fort on the Maine. Copway, the Indian
Chief, was present, and made a speech. Mr.
Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, and
Emile Girardin, and also the bloody Haynau,
wno, Cobdin says, is liis couvert to peact 4 ,
were also present.
At Rome the conspirators against the Pope
have renewed the practice of throwing ex
plosive balls at his holiness while in !• is car
riage. Several persons suspected have been
arrested.
Nothing else of moment.
How did I Speak? —‘-How did voa like my
discourse to-day ?” asked a somewhat pompous |
and quite affected young clergyman of an old j
church-goer, a “man of mark” in the communi-!
tv, and whom-it would be necessary so consult I
in the selection of anew minister, in the place of!
a superannuated pastor: “how was my manner? j
—how did I speak ?”
“How did you speak ?” asked his interlocutor; ,
“why, you reminded me. in one respect, of Saint j
j Paul'.”
“Did I?” said the young divine, with evident j
! chuckling; “in what respect?”
“Y\ hy,” replied the other, “you spoke like a
i foci /”
The Knickerbocker says the young man didn’t
“settle” in that place.
Th Trustees of the Female Academy taka
pleasure in giving notice that thsy have this morning re
ceived a communication from Mr. and Mrs. Chapman,
j of Augusta, Geo., accepting their offer to tako charge
1 of that institution—and proposing to open the school on
the first day of October next.. Further particulars next
week.
Columbus, Sept. 10, 1350. 87
TO DENTISTS,
r PHE Subscribers keep constantly on hand, an ex
i -I. tensive assortment of STOCKTON TEETH.
A l?o. GOLD FOIL and DENTAL INSTRU
MENTS.
Golden Mortar. DANFORTII & NAGEL.
_Sept 1 19 33
Glass! Glass!
O*TA BOXES’ best French Window GLASS, and
I miJU Frame GLASS, of all sizes, jurt received by
DAN FORTH <fc NAGEL,
*Sept. 19 33 Golden Mortar.
DA3XTFORTH & NAGEL
ARE Agents for the sale of all tho most popular
LATENT MEDICINES now manufactured.
•Sign of the“ Golden Mortar.”
■Sept. 19 33
COD LIVER OIL.
JUST received a lot of fresh COD LIVER OIL,
fj prepared by Rutton, Clarke &-Co-. Warranted
Pure. DANFORTH &. NAGEL.
•Sept. 19 33 Golden Mortar.
A PLANTATION
And Negroes for Sale.
undersigned offers for sale a valuable PLAN
1. TAT ION, containing 409 acres, lying in this
County, four miles and a half north of’ Columbus.
There are 150 or 200 acres of open land under cultiva
tion . and well fenced. There are on the premises a good
dwelling, and all necessary out-houses, negro cabins,
gin-house and screw.
—also—
-15 or SO likely NEGROES, and PLANTATION
STOCK of every description.
The whole will be sold at private sale, if possible, or
if not sold before, at public outcry, in Columbus, on the
first Tuesdab in November next.
Terms : Twelve months credit.
WM. E. MEALING.
Columbus, Ga., .Sept. 19, 1350. 28
PATSY, a Cook, Washer and Ironer. with two child
ren, (both boys,) SAM and LAURENCE, Car
penters; JIM, a likely Mulatto, age 20years ; KATE,
house girl, age 16 years. The above negroes will be
sold low for cash. Apply to
DANFORTII & NAGEL.
S?pt. 19 33
BOOK BINDERY.
r |MIE undersigned may be found in his ROOM, three
JL doors South of the “Oglethorpe ,” at all hours
from morning to night. Persons wishing work done,
by paying tho Cash, can have it executed with elegance
and despatch. No work will be turned out till the
money is paid.
NATHAN GRAY.
Columbus, (Ga.,) Sept. 19, 1350. 33
DRUGS AND MEDICINES
AT WHOLESALE OR RETAIL.
THE Subscribers would respectfully call the atten
tion of Country Merchants, Physicians, and Plan
ters. to their large and extensive assortment of pure
DRUGS, MEDICINES. PAINTS, OILS and DYE
STUFFS, which are offered for sale at the lowest
market prices, either for cash or approved credit. Par
ticular attention paid to prescriptions.
Golden Mortar. DANFORTII & NAGEL.
Sept. 19,1850. 33 ts
KALOOLAH, THE ADVENTURES OF JONA.
ROMER. by Dr. Mayo, a work of thrilling
interest. For sale by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sopt. 19
OLIVER GOLDSMITH’S Complete WORKS.
For sale by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sept. 13
IJ'LDOR ADO.t.r Adventures in the Path of Empire,
-i i by Bayard Taylor. The best work which has
ever been written about California. For sale bv
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sept. 19
HOME INFLUENCE, a Tale for .Mothers and
Daughters; and Woman’s Friendship, by Grace
Aguilar. Both splendid works. For sale by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sept. 19
OLD KIT KUNCKER, a superior book to “ Simon
Suggs,” and by the same author. “ The Night at
the Ugly Man’s,” is more than worth the price of the
book. Foreale ordv at
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sept. 19
noticel
A LL City TAX PAYERS who fee! unable and
1 A unwilling to pay costs of Ji fa, will please to take
notice that I design closing the Tax BooK3 on the 20th
inst. J. L. HOWELL. Collector and Treasurer.
Sept. 5,1350 36 3t
SCHOOL.
MRS. IT. JOHNSON will resume her SCHOOL on
MONDAY next, 9th inst. A lew young ladies
can he accommodated with board.
Columbus, September sth, 1350. 36 3t
MRS. C AROLINE LEE IIENTZ will i
re-open her SELECT SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LA- j
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 j
and support.
Understanding the French language as well as her i
own, she is desirous to form classes in that branch, j
Those who wish for information respecting the school *
are referred to the following gentlemen: Dr. Wild- j
man, Dr. Pond, Judge Thomas Mr. Rogers, Dr. j
lloxey, Mr. Shot well, Mr. Clemons, &c.
Columbus, Aug. 15,1850. S3 ts
I PIERCE offers his LOVELY RESIDENCE
j * in Wynnton for sale, with 15 acre* of Land, in
cluding orchards, Lots and Woodland. Possession
given immediately, if desired. It is within six hundred,
yards of a Male and a Female Academy, both of meri- ■
ted fame.
Hug. 23,1350. 14 lm
ROOK AND PRINTING PAPER.
THE Rock Island Factory is now prepared to mako i
either of the above articles of the best quality, and i
of any size and weight desired. On hand, a first rate ar i
tide of Wrapping Paper. 1
D. ADAMS, Secretary.
UST Office in the South corner Room of the Ogle i
thorpe llouso.
Columbus, Feb. 28,1850. 9 ts
CARPETS^
JUST received a large lot of superior two and three
ply ingrain CARPETING.
JSROKAW & CLEMONS.
Sept. 12, 1850. 37 ts
NOTICE.
ALL persons are forbidden from trusting my wife, !
REBECCA AYNCHBACHER.on my account, i
as I shall pay no debts of her contraction from this date. j
SAMUEL AYNCHBACHER. j
September 12, 1850 37 ts ‘
REMOVAL.
REDD &JQHHSOH
TJAVE REMOVED to the NEW BRICK STORE, ONE DOOR ABOVE “J. ENNIS & CO.*
H ON BROAD STREET, which has been elegantly fitted up, and is now stocked with, a
| LARGE AND HANDSOME ASSORTMENT of
j STAPLE m FANCY DRY GOODS,
embracing Linens, Muslins. Swiss and Jaconet, Silks, Calicoes, Table Linens, Diapers, Bleached
J Brown Homespuns, Brown and Bleached 12-4 Sheetings, Osnaburgs, Kerseys, Blankets,
I HATS and SHOES. Also
A Lot of SADDLES and BRIDLES.
CUTLERY,
BAGGING,
ROPE,
TOBACCO, &c. &c.
We will bs pleased to see our old friends at oar new quarters, and as many more as may
favor us with their patronage.
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 19, 1850.
A. 11. OeWITT,
HAS received this week, a large and general assortment of Ladies’ and Gents’ GOLD WATCHES*
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 War*
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 andtha
lowest prices.
Engraving on Seals, Stamps, Keys, Silver Ware and Jewelry, noatlr executed.
Call and see me at the old stand. A. H. Ix
Columbus. March 21,1850. 12 ts
ntfleem n, ram rru, ersv ft CR\
Wlfeiyitw & SIMM*
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, Valises, &c<
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 ms with a call, may be sure of getting Goods at reasonable and steady
prices.
Persons wanting Cloths, Casgimcres, Drillinga, Testings, &c. by the yard, can be
cooinmodated, on the most reasonable term*.
JAS. D. WILLIFORD, JOS. H. DANIEL.
Columbus, March 14, 1850. 11 ts
A MATRON WANTED.
THE LADIES’ BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
OF COLUMBUS 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 loiter, post paid, directed to the Managers
of the Ladies’ Benevolent Society, Colurabu*
Geo.
August 8,1850. 82 ts
BROKAW ~~
HAVE just received a fresh assortment of plain and
figured SWISS MUSLINS; Swiss and Jaconet
EDGING and INSERTIONS; Thread and Laco;
LACE CAPES; Kid and Silk GLOVES. Linen
Cambric Handkerchiefs, Irish LINENS, &c. &c.
Also on hand a lot of printed Orsandix and
Jaconet Muslins, which will be told at kkiatlt
REDUCED PRICES.
CLEMONS.
Columbus, August 15, 1850. 83 ts
HILL & DAWSON
HAVF. on a hand a large and superior lot of BAG
GING,and ROPE, manufactured to order in St.
Louis and Cincinnati.
Also, heavy KERSEYS, manufactured by the Co
lumbus Factory, and sold at Factory prices—and every
description of Dry Goods, Groceries, Saddles, Hats,
Shoes, &e.—to which they invito the attention of their
friends and the public.
Columbus, August 1,1850. 31 8t
GREAT COUGH REMEDY!
AYER’S
Cherry Pectoral.
*
TOR THE CURE O T
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Whoop
ing-Coughs, Croup, Asthma and Consumption.
This truly valuable remedy for afi diseases of tho
| lungs and throat, has become the chief rdianee of the
j afflicted as it is the most certain cure known for the
above complaints. While it is a powerful remedial
agent in the most desperate and almost hopeless cases of
Consumption, it is also, in diminished doses, one of the
mildest and most agreeable family medicines for com
mon coughs and colds. Read below the opinion of
men who are known to tho world, and the world respect
their opinions.
From Professor Hitchcock.
James C. Ayer—Sir: I hnvo used your “Cherry
| Pectoral” in my own case of deep seated Bronchitis,
and atn satisfied from its chemical constitution that it is
an admirable compound for tho relief of laryngial and
bronchial difficulties. If my opinion as to its superior
character can be of any service you are at liberty to use j
it as you think proper.
EDWARD IIITCIICOCK, ft, L. D..
President of Amherst College, j
From the “London Lancet ”
“Ayir’s Cherry Pectoral” is one ofthe most val
uable preparations that has fallen under our notice. After
a careful examination, we do not hesitate to say we have
a large appreciation of its merits and the fullest confi- j
denes in its usefulness for coughs and lung complaints.” j
Dr. Brewster, of Windham co., Conn., sends us the
following testimony:
Dr. .T. C. Ayer—Dear Sir: I enclose you a certificate
from Mrs. Catharine K. Cady, a highly repectable lady
; of this village, wile of Mr. Seth Cady, Deputy Sheriff,
i Windham eo., Conn. The cure in her cate was very
■ prompt, and has attracted general attention.
W. A. BREWSTER, M. D.
West Kilovolt, Ct., Sept. 23, 1845.
This may certify that 1 was afflicted with n very severe
! cough iri the winter of ’47-8, which threatened to ter
! mi nut* In consumption. 1 had tried many medicines in
vain, and was cured by the use of ’‘Ayer's Chf.rrt
| Pectoral.” CATHARINE K. CADY.
Direct Evidence.
Dr. J. C. Ayer, Loweil—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 could get !
! no sleep at night. A friend gave me a bottle of your
! Cjierry Pectoral, tho u.-e of which I immediately
! commenced according to directions I have just pur
i chased the fifth bottle, and am nearly recovered. I now
’ sleep well, my cough has ceased, and all by the use of
’ your valuable modicine. L. S. STONhj.A. 31.,
Principal Mt. Hope Seminary,
j From Dr. Bryant, Druggist and Postmaster, Chicopee
| Falls, Mass:
Dr. J. C. Ayer—Dear Sir : Enclosed please find rc
| mittanee for ail the Cherry Pectoral last sent me. I
I can unhesitatingly say, that no medicine we sell gives
: such satisfaction asyoups does; nor have I ever seen a
| medicine which curod so many cases of cough and lung
i 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, .Mass.
Sold in Columbus, by Danforth & Nagel, and R.
Carter, and by Druggists generally.
August 15 33 3m
[ Muscogee Division, Sons of Temperance,
| “Vf'EETS this evening at 8 o'clock. The members
! i.VL generally, and brethren of Chattahoochee DKdaon,
; % ~e invited to attend.
BOOKS!
W **ADIXa IS THE FOOD OF THE MlKDfff
The Pierian Spring.
“A little learning is a dangerous thing,
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring ;
There, shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
But drinking largely sobers us again.”
JUST received a lot of School, Medical and Miscel
laneous BOOKS, among which are the following,
viz: Biblical Antiquities—Sandford and Merton—Has
well’s Engineers’ and Mechanics’ Pocket Book—New
Masonic Trestle Board—Julian, or Scenes in Judea-
Zenobia, orfhc Fall of Palmyra,a historical romance—
-1 tie Pastor's Hand Book—Norton’s Elements of Scien
tific Agriculture—Meigs on Females 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, Bon
ner’s Pocket Map of Georgia, and DeCordova’s Map of
Texas, the accuracy of which is certified by the Sena
tors and Representatives in Congress from that State
and the Texan Commissioner of the General Land
Office. D. F. WILLCOX.
lug. 22,1850. 34
COMIPS PENAL CODE
JUST received and for sale at $2 50 per copy, by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
lug. 22, 1850. _____ 34
A COPYING PRESS,
AND Boohs for copying Letters, for sale bv
D. F. WILLCOX.
August 8 32
REPORTS
OF the Supreme Court of Georgia, volume 7. for sale
by B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
August 8 32
LIVING Orators of America and France, by Ma
goon. For sale hy
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sept. 19
HUMBOLDT'S COSMOS, “the greatest book of
the Age.” For sale by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sopt. 19
WT ASHINGTON IRVING’S Complete Works.
Y V For sale by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIF.D.
Sept. 19
HEADLEY’S Complete Works.containing his late
publication, Adirondack, or Life in tho Woods.
For sale by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
_Sept. 19
NT TO MEN OF THE REVOLUTION, by Mrs. Es-
V V let. Tho best production of the kind. For
sale by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sept. 19 _ _____
MISS LESLIE’S Complete Cookery Book,a new
and Improvod edition. For sale bv
B. B deGRAFFENRIED.
I Sept. 19
C‘ 1 HARLF.g DICKENS, (Boz.) Complete Works, in
J three large volumes. For sale bv
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
! Sept. 19 ■
lINDI, or Young Pilot of the Beflc Creole. Mrs;
j IJentz’s host production, handsomely bound.
For sale by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sept. 19.
F HI A RLE.S’ LAM B’SLiterary Sketches,by Talfourdj
V ) Lamartine’s Girondists ; Los Gringos, by Lieut.
Wise. For sale by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
.Sept. 19.
MEN. WOMEN and BOOKS’, by Leigh Hunt.
Poems of Amelia. For sale by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
&;pt. 19
POETS' of Ameriaa. Poets of England. The best
Compilations of Poetry now published. For sale
i hy
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
.Sept. 19
DOWNING’.? FRUIT and FRUIT TREES', a
book that every farmer should have. For sale at
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sept. 19 __
RIPLEY’S? War With Mexico, Statesmen’s 31 anna I,
from Washington to Taylor. Smollet’s Select
Works. For sale by
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sept. 19
I WOULD, also, osier a large and well selected stock
of CAP and LETTER paper, STEEL PENS,
best BLACK INK, and SCHOOL BOOKS of every
sort —cheap.
B. B. deGRAFFENRIED.
Sept. 13 Under the Post Office.
GODFREY & SOLOMONS,
Factors and Commission Merchants,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
JAKES E. eODFBET, E. W. SOLOMOK*.
BEFEJtESC ,
REV. JAS. E. EVAXS, **T. SAMUEL AXTKOXT,
Savannah. Ta.lbotton.
miDGEWAT & arXBTE, K. OUSLT & SOS,
Cohurnbue, Mncon.
July 25 39 6.