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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA:
THURSDAY MIXING,...DEC. 23,1852.
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The Soil of the South, for 1853.
“We beg leave to call the attention of onr Ez- i
changes and readers to the Prospectus of this able j
monthly Agricultural and Horticultural journal, *
which will be found in another column.
The next volume will be greatly enlarged, its form
changed to that of an Octave, and its page* increas
ed from sixteen to thirty-two.
Messrs. Iverson L. Harris, J. Van Bur bn. and
Dr. Camak, of Georgia, will contribute regularly to
Its columns.
Messrs. Chambers, and Peaboi>v, the popular
Editors, who have conducted its Editorial depart
ment with so much ability, will continue their useful
fibers for another year.
The work has met with unparalleled success* hith
erto, and the publishers look to their old friends and
patrons for active assistance in their efforts to com
pensate themselves for their outlay in increasing the j
size, beauty and quality of their work, by swelling :
their subscription list to ten thousand names for the j
next year.
The cash system will be rigidly adhered to in fu- j
ture.and no subscription received except for the cur
rent volume. Tha new volume will be issued by j
the first cf January.
Southern Central Agricultural Fair.
The next annual Fair of the Southern Central i
Agricultural Association will be held at Augusta, j
Ga. That eity having agreed to raise $7,000, if ne
cessary. Three thousand dollars to he distributed;
in premiums, and four thousand to erect the neees- !
sary buildings, See.
Mr. Sonic and the Cuba Question.
Mr. Soui.e requests the Washington Union to
state that there is no foundation for the report, that j
by his representations, Mr. Polk was led to the at
tempt to purchase Cuba. Mr. S. went to Spain for j
the first time in 1840, on professional business, but j
had no communication with the Spanish Govern- !
nient in reference to Cuba, either officially or un- j
officially.
South Carolina I’ress Association.
The Publishers and Editors of South-Curolina i
have formed -tin association. The constitution pro
vides for an annual meeting, and for the perpetuity ;
of the association. R. W. Gibbs, of the Palmetto j
State Banner, was elected President. The only j
article of general interest in the proceedings of the j
Convention is the 3d section of the 4th article of the
Constitution, which is as follows:
Asa general rule, no papers shall be mailed fiom our
offices to new subscribers unless at least six months sir- -
scription lie paid in infra are, and all papers will be dis
continued (due notice having been eiven to the subseti
-1 bers) after the time paid for has expited.
We have for a longtime been impressed with the I
neccsshXp of eudi an organisation,. particularly of j
such a rulz in
our cotemporaries concur wiUmos in this opinion, j
The credit system is the bane of |vess.
Under it, the noblest enterprises have uufoJ-the :
loftiest aspirations have been blighted • the wawn&t i
patriotism lias been cooled. But so long as the!
Southern Quarterly Review, De Bow's Review , the 1
Washington Union, the Charleston Mercury and j
other leading Periodicals and papers adopt the credit j
system, it is utterly impossible for any one publisher j
in the South to adopt the cash system without int- i
minent hazard of a loss of a great part of his sub- j
seribcrs. We would unhesitatingly adopt it if we j
dared, but the experience of otic of our predeees •
sors in this eity, warns us of the danger of the ex- .
perinient.
This great evil of the credit system can only be 1
reached by concert of action among the publishers
of newspapers in the Southern States. The South
Carolina press has set us a worthy example. We i
hope to see it followed in Georgia.
There is hardly a p iper published in Georgia,
which does not lose twenty five per cent, of its .
subscriptions, either by the failure of subscribers to I
ptty, or in the expenses attending upon the collection 1
f dues. This necessarily increasts the cost of;
Southern newspapers to paving subscribers. The
public are therefore as much inti rested in the cash !
system as are the publishers. It is impossible for
Southern publishers to compote with Northern in
the size, excellence, and cheapness of their papers, •
so long as this I*s f,®s annually upon them. The
—'flK>in!t lost In subscriptions would fill their c -liimns
with Telegraphic intelligence and enable them to ,
give their readers the choicest correspondence from
every important city in the United States and Eu- ■
rope.
We have endeavored to remedy the evil by put- i
ting our cash price for our paper at two dollars, !
•while we charge thee dollars where a credit of;
twelve months is desired. We very respectfully ■
suggest to our cotemporartes to adopt the same rule.
Report of the Secretary of the Navy. |
This document occupies twelve columns in the
Republic. Even a full abstract of it would be in- |
conveniently long for our columns. We content
ourselves therefore with culling a few items of gen
eral interest from its mass of words, and refer those
of our readers who have a taste for the oily diction
of the Secretary, to the report- for full particulars.
The Navy is divided into six squadrons, which are
distinguished as the East India, (Com. Auleck) ;
the Pacific, (Com. McCaclev) ; the African, (Com.
Layalette) ; the Brazilian, (Com. McKeever) ;
the Mediterranean, (Com. Stringham) ; the Home,
(Com. Newton.)
The Japan Expedition is placed under the com
mand of Com. Perry, ahd its object is to force the
government of Japan to open her ports to Christian
nations, and to treat sailors ivhs are wrecked en her
coasts, with humanity and kindness.
Surveys are being or will shortly be made of the
interior of Africa, west of Liberia. We do not see
what connection there is between the Department
and this interesting country, unless it be that the
“ships of the Desert” have been assigned to it by
aome act of Congress, which has heretofore escaped
our notice. The coasts if China and Japan : Beh
ring's straits; the Arctic seas; the Pacific ocean
the sources of the Amazon ; the La Plata and its
thousaud tributaries, are aH to be looked at by our
thousand eyed navy—and all the rocks, currents,
falls, cascades, shallows, obstructions, are to be care
fully noted. This, however, is but a small portion of
the work laid out for the service in the Report of
the Secretary. This expose of what is being done
for the heathen, reconciles us to the survey which
some department of the government is having made
of the Sand-bars in the Chattahoochee and Flint
r>vers. We hope when all the obstruotfems to navi
gation which exi->t upon the faoe of the globe are
noted, that will have means and mo
ney to removiUhemj and that by that time, Pro
fessor Esrr, svlio also figures in the Report and is
“busy in the pursuit of bis Meteorological observa
tions, and his theory of storms, prosecuting his re
searches without abatement of zeal or assiduity,”
according to the Report, w ill have brought his “ob
servations” and “theories” to a successful termina
tion, and be able to raise a storm, or breeze, or gen
tle zephyrfat will, and drive our ships to any part,
without steam and w ithout accident.
. Tbs istimates for tkji. Navy for next y*r are,
$11,501,593 67—a small fortune Burely, but the
treasury is full and the Presidon: no doubt hopes to
have it fuller, when the Tariff is raised and specific
duties are substituted for ad valorem.
The Secretary congratulates the country upon the
success of the Naval School, and proposes to reorga- I
nize it upon the basis of the Military Academy—so !
that the Representative from each Congressional dis- !
triet shall nominate one scholar, the joint represen- j
tstion in Congress a given number, and the President !
a given number. The graduates of the school will
be promoted to the post of midshipmen as the grad- j
nates of West Point are appointed Lieutenants in j
the Arrny, if the Secretary’s Report is adopted, j
lie also propose* the organization of a Hydrographi
cal corps, whose organization and duties at sea shall j
correspond with those of the Engineers in the:
Army.
The Secretary urges upon Congress the adoption
of * penal code for the navy. The abolition of flog
ging has led to disorder, disobedience and mutiny, i
on board our ships. Even the best seamen refuse ;
to enlist until discipline is restored. The Secretary !
proposes to remedy the evil by increasing every
five years the pay of sailors who re-inlist by giving
them parchments on which is inscribed the sign
manual of the President, and writing their names
on a Regi.-ter. The whole project reminds us of
the code old spinster school mistresses adopt for the
government of unruly urchins, forgetting the while !
the wholesome precept of Solomon—“spare the rod j
and spoil the child.” The Cat is the best instruction ;
on board ship, and its sign manual leaves the most i
lasting impression. A re-enactment of the old law !
of flogging would be hailed as a public blessing, i
both by officer and sailor. They know the wants :
of the service better than the landsman. It it eru
el to strip Jack of his only recreation on ship board, ;
in order to appease the sickly philanthropy of a few j
chicken-hearted old men and maidens. The Score- j
tary recommends the creation of the rank of Rear
Admiral ; the abolition of that of Past Midshipman, !
and the substitution therefor of that Master.
Congregational Methodists.
A District Conference of this body of Christians
was held near Griffin, Ga., on Sunday the 11th ins;.,
and Absalom Ouletkee, J, M. Adams, W. 11.
Graiiam, Cary Cox, 11. Phinazee, and J. C. Pear
son, wore solemnly set apart to the office and duty
of Elders in tiie new Church, by Rev. Wm. Griffin,
Isaiah C. Wallace, and Aaron G. Brewer, of
the Methodist Protestant church.
Who are these Congregational Methodist ? What
are they, and whence did they spring? To these
enquiries, the Christian Telegraph , the organ of
the Protestant Methodists in Georgia, gives the fol
lowing answer :
They are a scion from the Methodists Episcopal
Church, who separated from that body in the course of
the present year, and who have organized a church un
der the title of “The Congregational Methodist
Church.”
It is composed of a number of Churches and preach- j
cs, who separated from the M. E. Church, on account
of its government and policy ; believing the government
of said church anti-scriptural, contrary to the practice
of the primitive church.as established by the Apostles j
of our Lord, and their immediate successors. And es- :
peoially incompatible with the civil institutions of our
tree and happy country. They could see no hope of re
forming that government without seceding from that
chinch, and, consequently, they withdrew from it.
They believed the doctrines of the M. E. Church to
In’ the doctrines of the Holy Scriptures, and they have,
therefore, adopted them.
They believed the Primitive Churches to be congre- !
Rational in their features of government and discipline, ]
and, consequently, they have adopted this form of Poli
ty in a limited sense, as their name indicates.
We are informed that this schism in the Methodist
Church is limited to a small number, and confined
within narrow boundaries in middle Georgia We
may well apply to them the lemarkable words of
Ijamaliel in reference to the first teachers of Chris
tianity V*®
“Refrnift from.those men, and let them alone; for
if this counsel or lUfe work be of men it will come
to naught:
“But if it be of God, ye cAUii' f )>ovci'Jirow it ; lest
haply ye be found even to fight agmnst God,”
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The Central Rail Road and Bailing
Company. ilk
The Savannah papers contain the last annual-Re
port of the President of this Company, and it is with
much gratification we observe the very great in-,
crease of business and general prosperity of their
Rail Road.
The aggregate earnings of the Road for the year
were $9-55,50S 28, or $197,300 42 more than that of
the previous year ; and the aggregate expenses for
the same period were $437,882 50 ; showing a net
profit of $507,625 7S. After declaring a dividend
of S per cent, on the stock for the past year, there
was a cash balance carried to the “Reserved Fund”
of $281,857 03. Tliisd. >es indeed show a prosper
ous condition of the company, and we learn from the
Savannah Courier that the stock is already worth
113. Die Eatonton Rail Road, which this Company
has agreed to take and manage at $14,000 per an
num, is to be finished by the Ist of February. And
in relation to the Roads which interest our commu
nity most, the President holds the following lan
guage :
The Branch of the Southwestern Road from
Fort Valley to the town of Butler, where it will
join the Muscogee Road, will be opened by the
Ist April next, when our connection with Co
lumbus will be perfect. The Road from Colum
bus to Opelika has all been placed under con
tract, and the grading will be finished by the end
of the ensuing year. In a few months hereafter,
we may expect our Railway connection to be
complete to Montgomery, Alabama.
Time and space will not enable us to proceed
further in the notice of this Report, but will close
with the remark that “what ear.’t be helped, must
be endured,” yet we trust that there will be no fur
ther postponement in the connection with the Mus
j cogec Road at Butler.
Small Pox in Talbot.
We regret to loam, says the Buena Vista Literary
Vademecum. that Maj. John W. G. Smith died at
; his residence in Talbot county, a few days since, of
; Small Pox. He contracted the disease while on a
I recent visit to Montgomery Ala., from a child, who
was in the cars with him, and who unknown to
Maj. Smith, had the disease. Maj. Smith was a
gentleman of high standing in society, and
, was universally respeeted and esteemed bv all
who knew him. Os refined and sympathetic feel
i ings, he fell a victim to the innate goodness of his
; heart ; for, in attempting to relieve the sufferings of
a helpless child he contracted the disease which ttr
j minuted his existence. He repre*sjped a few years
i since, the counties of Marion and Talbot in the
j Senatorial branch of our Legislature, and at the
i time of his death was inspectorof 2d Brigade. 10th
| Division, G. M. lie Ims jjfas left four orphan chil
j dren, together with hilfherous friends to mourn his
I We understandrhat great precaution has been ta
i ken to preverfftne spread of the disease, and as yet
no new eases have occurred. All communication
between persons at the house where the patient died
and, the eitizeus has been interdicted, and one of the
physicians who attended him, and the family of
‘Al.ij ."Smith, are not allowed to leave the house. We
hope the disease has been arrested.
Cholera. —We learu through the Albany Patri •
! ot, that this fell disease is raging at Apalachicola
Within ten days previous to the time the steamer
Henry left Apalachicola for Albany, seventy-five
deaths had occurred, and no abatemeut in the mal
ady was observable. This, for ao small a place, is a
startling mortality. The disoader is attributed to a
disease of the oysters, caused by the large and unu
sual quantity of fresh water poured into the bay by
the recent freshet. Cases of the same kind, and
traceable to the same causes, occurred a short time
sine* in Columbus.
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Washington Correspondence of the Sentinel.
Washington, December 10, 1852.
The season has opened here with great spirit both
on the Congressional and Theatrical boards, and
; while the honorable*, are acting well their parts in
j the Capitol, a French Troupe of Ballet Dancers arc
posturing at the National Theatre, for every thing
! is “national” now, and even your correspondent him
j self has not escaped “the soft impeachment-.” This
being the short session, and the era of incoming and
i outgoing, the crowd has rushed in with unparallel
[ed celerity. One week since you might almost have
tired a cannon down Pennsylvania Avenue without
j doing much damage—now it is almost as thronged
as Broadway, and the cry is. still they come. The
! influx is chiefly from the North, though a smart
- sprinkling of Southern arrivals is also perceptible.
I What these individuals, male and female, come for,
! would be impertinent to inquire, but it is shrewdly
; suspected that all do not come for mere amusement,
i Such caucussing and caballing and cajoling and wire
| pulling as prevails at present, can be imagined but
cannot be described, and it is very evident, even to
j the most unsophisticated observer, that Bennett s. oke
truly when he said that the Democracy were not
only unterrified, but hungry too. The increase also
in the number of that party, and the new lights that
have reached many benighted understandings
| since the election, constitute another curious subject
;of contemplation. Cabinet making also is a very
! fashionable amusement, and a harmless one, and di
j vides the attention of the politicians and the petti
l coats, with the very remarkable exhibitions of silk
I stockings and drapery at the Theatre. Did youev
ler see a genuine French Ballet Troupe? If not l
i would advise you to embrace the first convenient
, opportunity, but would not advise you to carry your
i female friends there, because Southern ideas of pro
* pr’ety and of feminine delicacy might not exactly
| square with the license that more civilized eommu
j nities tolerate. The artistes now here, are very fine
specimens of their class, and are rapturously applaud
ed for feats of posturing and pirouette ng which
would make a Georgia woman, educated at home,
seek safety in flight from that vulgar suffusion of
face termed a blush. If modesty be a quality that
highly adorns a woman, as our old copy books tell
us, that adornment is not to be enhanced by witness
ing the contortions of half nude dancers, arrayed as
“Salomon in all his glory” never was, and which his
dancing girls never rivalled. Os these dancers, Soto,;
the Spanish, is the most stately, Pouglatid, the
French, the most enticing, and Melisse, also French,
the most agile. All appeal to the passions, and
leave very little to the imagination. Seriously speak
ing. these exhibitions are equal to those of the ni d
el artists, and the wonder is that ladies of undoubt
ed modesty and propriety, can calmly sit night after
j night, and countenance such displays. The true dig
nity of womanhood suffers by it, and if they were
; wise they would shrink from encouraging such per
formances.
But a truce to this moralizing, which may convict
your correspondent of the crime of Social Old Fog
vism. But let us indulge the hope that it will be
verv long ere our homes are to furnish delighted
spectators to such spectacles, which may not ho in
i decent or immoral, but savor strongly of both.
On the Congressional boards the performances
have just opened, but it is probable that little will be
done this session beyond the passage of appropria
tion bills and preparations for the incoming Admin
istration. Its policy may be foreshadowed, howev
i er. in relation to domestic matters, though our Fur
j eign Relations will not be meddled with, if eireum
■ stances will admit of such abstinence. The Tariff
bill has already been taken up, and great diversity of
: opinion appears to prevail on that topic. The inovc
i merit came from a suspicious source, Mr. Brooks,
a New York Whig, proposing a diminution of du-
I iies on the ground of the enormous surplus revenue
! afforded by the present tariff. After all the Whig
j croakings about “ruin,” this looks curious, and coup
| h.-d with the recent Ministerial announcement in the
! British Parliament, proves the final triumph of free
j trade. The main matter is the way in which such re
; duetion is to be made. The fight on iron will be the
I hardest, and the iron masters are seized with a great
1 panic, and crying out more ruin most lustily. That,
! however, is now regarded much as the cry of Wolf
j was in the fable, and the pressure will be too strong
upon them to be resisted. All the Rail Road interests
“are strenuous for the repeal of the duty on Rail Road
and in view of the immineney of the danger to
the iron interest, the papers friendly to it are raising a
warning cry to Northern members, to beware of the
ytrith of their constituents, if they give way to it.
jPwjTeely hopes that “there are few or no Whigs,
elected when there was a national Whig party,”
who eaii “be induced to vote for the short, sighted
meditated.” Per contra prominent
Democrats declare the thing must and shall be.
Nous vi rrons. The Land Questions also will boa
bone of contention, though it seems more than prob
able that they wil) not pass. Mr. Pierce’s anteee-
I dents show most plainly that now or never, is the
word with them, and%o of Internal Improvement
schemes generally.
In the Senate, most of the time has been consu
med in the discussion of the contested, or rather
j the vacant seat from Kentucky. Avery nice con
stitutional point has been raised by the death of Mr.
Clay before the time designated for the termination
of his term expired, and there is a great deal to be
said on both sides, in addition to the many argu
ments already raised. Opinions in the Senate seem
pretty equally divided, and the decision of that body
!is still in nubibus. Mr. Dixon, (Whig,) elected by
the Legist -tare, claims the seat ; Mr. Meriwether,
j (Dem..) appointed by the Governor, does not con
test ; but the doubt is whether the election of Mr.
Dixon, under the peculiar circumstances, entitles him
to be sworn in as the sitting member. The Senate
has adjourned over for the week without even ap
proximating a decision, and Mr. Dixon, therefore, is
still disconsolately wandering outside of the bar, like
that Peri immortalized by Thomas Moore. Colonel
King has arrived and assumed lus seat. For a dead
i man, which the quid nuncs made him, he looks very
I lively, though his health seems delicate. In conse
| queuceof the rumor of his death, the Wisconsin
’ Electors did not vote for him simultaneously with
j Pierce, but adjourned over to ascertain the facts of
f the case. In fact obituary notices wore prepared.
: Long may the gallant veteran be spared to read
; these epitaphs—few men could risk that trial bet
j ter, for few public men command such respect and
regard as he. for public integrity and private merits.
The President’s Message was sent in with com
mendable promptitude on the first day. As you
will form your own judgment of it, any comments of
mine would be superfluous, but the common opinion
here is, that it is the best yet emanating from the
same source. This judgment relates merely to its
execution, not to its matter, which is but a re-hash
, of his former Message which slumbered so quietly on
the Speaker’s table last year. With respect to the
I Cuban question some new points are made, and while
I the country will approve of the President's decided
I rejection of the modest proposition of the tripartite
alliance, guaranteeing the undisturbed possession of
; Cuba to Spain, few will be found to concur in the
subsequent assurances given, or the suggestions in
■ relation to the subject. Contrasting the language of
| the Message with the course of the Administration
j in the Crescent City affair, or even the Law letter.
j it will be seen that the President now hikes higher
i ground, and admits that the course of Canedo was
i not justifiable, and that he has demanded reparation
from the Spanish Government therefor. This does
not tally with the treatment of Mr. Law, and pla
ces the Administration in a most Janus-faced posi
tion towards this subject. But consistency is not to
be expected from an Adraiaislration which never
was and never can be any thing like an unit. As
regards the President’s attempt to put the extin
guisher on the whole question of annexation, present
or prospective, the thing won’t do. It will require
stronger reasoning and more substantial obstructions
to stop that ball from rolling. The effort to work
on the fears of the South, will be futile, and the
new born anxiety for their interests will scarcely ex •
cite very lively emotions of gratitude.
It is deeply to be lamented that some Sonthern
papers are disposed to interpose obstacles to this
movement, for it is one of too ranch importance to
be prejudiced or decisively .determined on in advance
of proper information. The Republic and Intclh
geneef eagerly catch np and reproduce any such ut- |
terance* from the South, to fortify their own posi
tion and embarrass the action of the incoming Ad
ministration, and the sincerity and cordiality of their
friendship may easily be estimated. Li tus approach
this question coolly and calmly, and decide only up
on mature reflection and thorough inv<stigation. A
new vista opens before us, and these United States
should not be allowed to expand their area only
Northward. In this aspect, and with the fixed fact
of expansion staring us in the face, it behooves South
ern men to pause before taking up the cry of the
Administration organs, about the danger to the South
in such annexation.
Tiie New Mexico delegate, Weightman, made a
curious proposition to print St-00 copies of the Presi
dent's Message in Spanish ! Why not in Cherokee
also, not to mention Norwegian. The motion was
of course refused.
On Tuesday, Mr. Clemens gave notice that he
; would introduce a hill to confer the rank of Lieut,
i General on General Scott. It is supposed that the
victors will be generous to the defeated candidate
and give him this place.
In the House, the Tariff debate has got the pre
; eedence, and bids fair to occupy much of the time of
that body. The announcement of the death of Mr.
; Fowler, of Massachusetts, gave one day’s liolyday,
; and on the succeeding day, that of Mr Thompson,
from the same Stale, was made the pretext of asim
: iiar proceeding in the House, but not in the Senate.
The Supreme Court is also in session, and the
vacancy on that Bench is a prize for some Southern
jurist. The disgraceful riot in the Tammany Hall
! Committee room, which resulted in the death of Mr.
j Schell, its chairman, has created great disgust. The
Hunkers were driven out by tile Barnburners by
force of fist, and the telegraph of the day announces
the death ot the Chairman, whose skull was fractu
red in the fray. Others were also badly injured.
And this was at a committee meeting in Tammany!
j The Abolition organ, the Era , crows very loudly
! over tiie result of the last Presidential election,
: which it claims as a prodigious increase on the last
I test vote in 1844. It gives the comparative table:
1844. 1852. Gain.
Maine. 4.536 8,030 3,194
New Hampshire, 4,161 6,707 2,516
Vermont, 3,984 8.621 4 637
Massachusetts, 10,800 28,023 17,223
Rhode Island, 5 624 619
Connecticut, 1,943 3,160 1,217
New York. 15.812 26,000 10,188
Pennsylvania, 3,133 8.800 5,727
New Jersey, 131 259 128
Delaware, - 62 62
, Maryland, - 64 51
Virginia, - 60 60
N. Carolina, - 59 59
Kentucky, - 266 266
, Ohio, ‘ 8,050 31,782 23,732
Indiana, 2,106 6,934 4.828
Illinois, 3.570 10.000 6,430
Michigan, 3 632 8,000 4,368
Wisconsin, - 8,441 8 144
lowa, - 1,000 1,000
California, - 200 200
64,653 156,700 92,800
The returns of 1852 for New York, Michigan,
Illinois. lowa, California, and Virginia, are esti
mated ; the rest are official.
This is the true test vote, as the Van Buren vote
in 1848 was known to be largely political,
i
In the course of its comments on the result, the
following significant remark is made, and the fact is
indeed worthy ot notice:
Not a single vote was given for Liberty in
; 1844, in a slave State. This year, Anti-Slavery
! electoral tickets were got up in five slave States.
The organizations were imperfect, tiie votes
| small; but a beginning has been made,
j At the close of the article, the Era speaks hope
! fully of the accessions to the power and influence of
its party by the disbanding of the Whigs, and pro
: claims the renewal of a greater agitation yet to come,
closing its advice thus:
Let it co operate, not amalgamate—co-oper
ate in localities with any par'}’, for a specific
gain to the cause of Human Freedom, but at
the same time maintaining its distinct and indc
| pendent position. Gaining power in this way,
by local successes, it may control the election of
1856, and etvrv the election of 1860.
llow pernicious and potent such a policy'will be,
all can sco. ANON.
Letter from Gea. Fierce.
The annexed letter, receive 1 from the President
elect, was read before the Democratic Executive
Committee of the city and county of Philadelphia, at
a meeting held recently in that city :
Concord. (N. II.,) Nov. 29. 1852.
Dear Sir : Your note, with a copy of the reso
j lutions of the Democratic Executive Committee of
tiie city and county of Phil alelplii i. passed Novem
ber 10th, came yesterday.—l am grateful for the
kindness manifested by inyf-11-wv-citizens in Penn
sylvania and elsewhere, but so far as my personal
wishes and inclinations are concerned, it would
gratify me exceedingly to go to Washington in the
most quiet woy possible. Indeed, I have no time to
devote to matters not immediately connected with the
duties and responsibility before me.
Having said thus much, I must leave what is fit
\ ting, proper, and desirable, to the taste and judg
ment of my friends. There is no probability that
I shall be in Philadelphia before the first of Feb
ruary, and it is quite possible mv journey may be
delayed till near the close of the month. I beg
to present to the Executive Committee of the eity
! and county of Philadelphia, and through them to
i the sterling democracy represented by that organi
zation, my grateful acknowledgments.
Your friend and obedient servant.
FRANK. PIERCE.
To John Miller, esq., Philadelphia, (Pennsylvania.)
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the city
and county of Philadelphia.
The above letter will strikingly remind the reader
! of the singular appropriateness and good taste ex
! hibited by General Pierce in everything that he has
| spoken or written since his nomination and election
He certainly has the happy faculty of saying just so
! much as is fit and proper to the occasion, and no
more nor less.
Hogs—Prices, &c.
! The market, says the Louisville Courier of the
I 27th ult., continues to be much stimulated, and the
prices of hogs and their product continues to ad
vance. Yesterday $4 35 gross was offered for a large
■ lot of hogs in Shelby Co s, and the current net
price here is $5 75 to 585 net. All the city pack
! era are in operation, and the number of hogs slaugh
tered up to last evening was about 25,000. We
; heard of a sale yesterday of 1,000 barrels of mess
| pork at sl6, and 1,000 barrels of prime lard at 10c.
Last evening a lot of 920 heavy hogs, from the
I hooks, sold at 7 cent.
By our Cinicnnati advices we learn that hogs are
now higher than ever before at the commencement
of the packing season. There is a continued de
mand East for the N. Y. market, and at points on the
railway 6 cents is paid. They are now, we believe, :
chiefly taken on, dressed, in which shape they are ■
worth 7 to 8 cents in New York.
The .number of hogs packed in St, Louis on the j
; 23d wan 4.200. Sales (5 50 net*. j
Congress.
According to the views expressed by the intelli
gent Washington correspondent of the New Y ork
Journal of Commerce, there is no probability that
any measure of prominent interest will be enacted
at tho present session. lie says :
u lt is the opinion of many of the leading mem
bers of both Houses that none of the great subjects :
of finance, and of the disposition of the public lands, ;
will l>e acted upon at the present session, though j
it is admitted that they are matte re of pressing im- ■
portance. The vote of the House on Mr. Brooks’ j
proposition, shows that there is no purpose in that
body to touch the subjects of the tariff or the
disposition of the surplus revenue. The Senate
have before them the great land bills, which
passed the House during the last session—to wit:
the bill distributing lands among the States,
called Bennett’s Bill, and the Homestead Bill ; but
it is the opinion of Senators that neither of them
will pass that body. Presidential electioneering car
ried them itt the House, but they could not be pass
ed in the Senate last session, and have still less
chance there now. It is the disposition of the
1 Democratic members to turn overall these great
: subjects to another Congress and to the uext admin
istration.
Colton Picking Extraordinary.
j The Matagorda (Texas) Tribune contains the
following report of two daya’ cotton picking in that
vicinity, for the authenticity of’ which the editor
j vouches. It is certainly the most extraordinary re-
I suit we ever heard of, and will doubtless astonish
i our readers:
! Cotton Picking on Caney.— A correspondent,
for the authenticity of whose statements we will
j vouch in every particular, sends us the following
! particulars of a test at cotton picking that recently
: came off on the plantation of Col. Thorp, on Ca
j nev, which we think figures a little ahead of any
| account we have yet seen published. In ease any
doubt should be expressed, of the accuracy of the
statements given, we will here say that we have the
corroborating evidence of tlie gentlemen whose
nain. s are mentioned below :
Col. John L. Thorp, John L. Groom, and Dar
win Thompson, E-'qrs., being planters on Caney
Creek, living near to each other, and having each
brag cotton pickers, co eluded to have a fair trial of
their respective hands: and a bonus of A1 6 was to
be given to the most successful hands. October the
11th being a fair, bright day, the competitors (four
i hands from each plantation) commenced work at
: sunrise on the. plantation of Col. Thorp, and ended
!at dark. One hour was lost by weighing the cotton,
!at 12 o’clock. Messrs. Morris and ilill, gentlemen
jof veracity, were the weighers of the cotton. The
following was shown to be the result of the day’s
work :
Col. Thorp's Four Hands.
Ned lbs. 880
Ben 850
Arthur 820
Bob 820
Total 3,370
Mr. Groom's Four Hands,
Aaron 720
Dave 785
Jim 675
Lewis 835
Total 3,015
Mr. Thompson's Four Hands.
.Inbe 870
Wat 715
Jackson 655
Mike 610
Total 2,880
From the foregoing figures y-*u will perceive that
Col. Thorp’s four hands averaged 842 1-2; Mr.
Groom’s 7,52 3-4 : and Mr. Thompson's 720 pounds
each. The second day's picking, on October the
i Bth, a fair day, was at the plantation of Mr. Groom,
and was as follows :
Col. Thorp's Four Hands.
Ned lbs. 1125
! Ben 1135
Arthur 900
1 Bob, 950
Total 4 110
Mr. Groom's Four Hands.
.Tim 6 r 5
Dave 105!)
Aaron 595
Lewis 835
Total 3,155
Mr. Thompson's Four Hands.
‘■ .Tahe 1185
; Wat 960
Mike 765
J Jackson 770
Total 3,680
Col. Thorp’s averaged 1 >27 1 2, Mr. Thompson’s
920, and Mr. Cream's 78S 3 4 pounds.
Messrs. Copeland, Hill, Morris and Sammons
were present at this picking ; tin* hands began at
sunrise and ended at sunset. If any slaves can
beat this they are welcome to the palm for cotton
picking.
Yours, * *
The total amount picked hv the twelve hands iu
the two days, is 20,210 pounds, being an average of
842 pounds to the hand per day. The four best
hands picked in th<- two days .880 pounds, averag
ing 985 pounds to the hand per day !
Boundary rktw kn Georgia and Florida.— We
j extract the following paragraph from the message
j of Gov Brown to the Florida Legislature now iu
session :
*‘ln obedience to the provisions of an act of the
| late General Assembly which made it my duty to
■ take such steps as I might deem necessary and pro
: per for the speedy settlement of the long p-nd tig
question of disputed territory between this State
, and the State of Georgia, which had been referred
to the Supreme Court of the United States for ad
judication, I sent David P. Ilogue, lisa., Attorney :
General of Florida, to the City of Washington, up
on the subject, with authority to employ, on behalf
of this State, such assistant counsel as he mieht con
| sider necessary. lain informed by Mr Ilogue that lie
j engaged the llon. a Reverdy Johnson, of Baltimore,
to whom a retaining foe has beet) paid, and that the
case will come on for a hearing at the next term of
the Supreme Court. The Attorney General's Re
| port will be found more full upon this subject, to j
which I beg to refer the General Assembly.”
I
Mr. Wadlev.—We understand that Mr. Wad- :
ley, Superintendent of the Western and Atlantic \
Railroad, is about to retire- from that office, and re- !
turn to the management if the affairs of the Central .
Railroad. We do not speak “by authority,” but we
have reason to place confidence in the correctness |
of the report. We do not know how others may :
regard it, but it strikes us that the present is rather
an inopportune moment for the Superintendent to :
throw up his office. Since the commencement of
the new administration, Mr. Wadley has planned i
| and set on font a vast amount of important work
connected with the State Road, the most of which
has but just been commenced, and which would
seem to require his furth'-r superintendence, during j
its progress, in order to be carried forward to sue- t
cessful completion. Mr - Wad ley’s resignation, at
this lime, can hardly fail to cause considerable em
barrassment to the affairs of the Road and prove se
riously detrimental to the interests of the State. ;
[Atlanta Intelligencer.
fpr A slave ease is to come before the Supreme
Court from Illinois, involving the validity of the law
of that State for the punishment of persons harbor
ing fugitive slaves, and aiding them to escape. The
Supreme Court has heretofore decided that Congress
li;i3 exclusive jurisdiction on the subject of the ren
dition of fugitive slaves ; and, this being the c: se,
the question is whether State laws on the subject
arc constitutional.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Mor*o* Movement.— A large expedition of Da
nish Mormons are embarking at Hamburg for New
Orleans.
Death or the Bet or Tunis. —Late advices
[ from Tunis announce the death of the Bey of that
place. The French and English fleets have gone
j there.
Firs. —On Sunday evening, about 6 o’clock, we
were startled by the cry of fire, and found it pro
ceeded from the dwelling of Mrs. John T. Lamar,
on Pine Street, which was entirely consumed. The
| spread of the fire was prevented by cutting down
! and removing a small kitchen, and by the active
! exertions of our citizens. Mrs. Lamar's furniture
i was all saved, though somewhat damaged in the liur
|ry of removal. We learn that Mrs Lamar’s dwel
| ling was insured in the Southern Mutual Insurance
Company at one thousand dollars.
The fire is supposed to be the work of an ineau,-
diary.— Macon Telegraph.
Valuable Plantation Sold. —We understand,
says the Augusta Constitutionalist , that the Rowell
Plantation, on the Savannah river, seven miles below
Augusta, containing seventeen hundred and two
acres, was sold by Judge Holt, a few days ago, to
Col. Turner Clanton, for forty thousand dollars, pay
able on the first of January.
Death of a United States Consul. —Harvey
Gleason, Esq., United States Consul at Cliagres,
| died'at Kingston, Ja., on the Ist inst.
Interesting Suit. —The Messrs. Spalding &
j Rogers have entered suit for damages against the
corporation o Baton Rouge, La., for the seizure
; of their Floating Palace, because they refused to
| take out a license. They will enter anew suit eve
ry day the Palace is di-tained ; and test the q-ne--
: tioii whether their exhibitions given on tlie naviga
ble waters of the United States arc li ible to pay for
i Sta’e and municipal licenses. It is said that they
are backed by the legal opinions of several U. S. and
i State judges, the attorney general of Louisiana, and
! other legal gentlemen.
The Vice President Elect. —lt is announced
by Telegraph that the lion. Wm. R. King is in so
feeble a stao of heath that he has temporarily with
- from his station as Presiding offie r of the
Senate, suggesting Mr. Atchison, of Missouri, as
his alternate. The latest dispatch, however, states
that his health is improving.
South Carolina Taxes.— Tin- following is an
abstract of the tax bi'l, as passed by the House of
I Representatives. Forty cents ad valorem, per
hundred dollars of lands ; one-half cent per acre
i on Catawba lands. Sixty c< nts on slaves. Two
j dollars on free negroes. Ten cents ad valorem.
| per hundred dollar* of city lots, lands, and buildings.
Sixty cents p-.-r hundred dollars on facto:age. em
ployments, faculties, professions. Ten cents per
hundred dollars of amount of sales of goods, wares,
and Hu ri hand -e d* ducting therefrmn the amount of
stock on hand Ist January, and except ..Iso consign
ed goods sold and reiflMted for. Ten cents oil sales
of transient goods. Ten dollars per day for repre
sentations, shows, &e
The Atlantic and Gulf Road. —Messrs. Scre
ven and Roberts are still actively canvas :ng the
city for subscriptions to this new and splendid en
terprise, and at last accounts had raised sl9 ,200.
The survey will commence about the 20ih, and we
are pleas and to learn that F. I’. Hole mhe, Esq has
| been engaged to undertake this important initiative.
This Rail R >nd sno chimera, bat a future fact. We
can almost In ar the whistle of the locomotive already
and ere long the billows in the gulf will send over
j their greeting to the waves of the Atomic. Suc
i ccs to all concerned.
Death of tiif. Editor of the Crescent City.—
! New Orleans. Dec. i t. —John L. Carey, AssoHate
Editor of tlie New Orleans Daily Crescent, died to
day after a ft-w hours, illness. j Mr. C; rey bud re
moved to New Orleans and taken the position of
editor of tbe Crescent only a few weeks back lie
was formerly and for many years editor of the Bal
timore Daily American, which post he filled satis
factorily and with distinction. The suddenness of
his death would ind-cate that it was occa
sioned by an attack of one of those vi dent epidem
ics, cholera or yellow fever.] — Eds. Georgian.
O’ Preston King has laid before the House of
Representatives a bill, making it. a penitentiary of
f nee for any Government ‘ftieer, in or out of Con
gress to be interested in any claim against the Uni
ted States.
: i
O’ The Athens Herald of the 16th inst, says :
i The Georgia Annual Conference of the M. E. .
Church South, assembled in this place on yesterday
morning—Bishop Capers presiding. At the time
we go to press, we are not advised of the action of
; this highly respectable ecclesiastical body on any of
| the important matters which have been presented
for eonsid. ration. In onr next we shall be able t -
; give some account of their doings—the stations of
the preachers for tlie ensuing year, at least, if noth
; ing more.
j Sparta — Hancock County —The following is
j an extract from a letter to the editor, written by a a
i intelligent northern gentleman now on a tour
through the State, lie says :
”1 was yesterday in Sparta. The place betokens
j thrift and prosperity*. They have a large Factory
• now’ in successful operation, manufacturing coarse
sheetings, osnaburgs, and yarns. The latter are
sent to New York and Philadelphia markets. Tbe
last year, a now Hotel was erected at an expense
of SIO,OOO, and is one of the best in the State
Hancock county will yield upwards of 15.000 babe
lof Cotton this year The planters of Hancock are
some of them striving to improve the quality of their
cotton by planting good re -d m’y —and using much
care in cultivating, picking and ginning it. Tlie
last State fair test fist* the success of one a: least,
Wm. Smith. I understand he is now preparing ten
bales to exhibit at the World's Fair, in New
York.
i‘Mr. Joseph Cordon, a brother-in-law of his, has
made 80 this year, which he has sold at an average
of 10 3 8 cvnts in Savannah market.”— Savannah
News.
‘ Big amy. —Do not the United States laws agah s
bigamy extend to Sait Lake City ? Governor
Brigham Young has, in his splend and mansion in
that city, sixteen wives and thirty children.”
Prosecutions for bigamy would not come to much
before the Mormon judges reeemly appoint to
administer the U. S. laws among tlie saints,— Sav
News.
Handsome Djvidsnbs— The Board of Directors
of the Planters’ Bank of Savannah have declared
a semi-annnal dividend of six per cent., payable on
and after Thursday.
The Board of Directors of tlie Marine df Fire
Insurance Bank of Savannah, a semi-annual divi
dend of six per cent., on the capital stock of the
Bank, payable to the stockholders on demand.
O’ We learn from the Entaw Whig, that his
Excellency Governor C-dlier has appointed Edmund
W. Pettus, Esq., of Carrollton, Solicitor of the 7th
Judicial Circuit, in place of Daniel Coggin, deceas
ed. The Whig says, a better appo : ntm-nt, or one
that would give more general satisfaction, could not
have been made.
Thr Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad,—
The track on this Road is now laid to with a 12 or
15 miles of Tennessee river—or about 130 miles from
Nashville —and the work is rapidly progressing to
wards completion.
O” It is proposed by some of our exchanges, that
each State, through its legislature, should subscribe
SIO,OOO to the Washington National Monument. — [
Second the motion,
A Mail Rosser Caught.—TVe learn from the
Chronicle and Sentinel of yesterday, that on the
10th inst., J. D. Frierson, special agent of the Tost
j Office Department, arrested Cicero Mahaffery the
| mail carrier between Atlanta and Carrollton, on a
charge of robbing tbe mail. Mahaffery, subse
quently made a full confession ; among other tiling
: he confessed having stolen tbe half hills reniitt*J
to Scranton, Starke, and Davis, and Baker. Wilcox
& Cos., of Augusta, on the 10th of May last.—At
lanta Intelligencer.
U” An election of nine members of the Thirty.
Third Congress, to fill vacancies, took place in Mas
sachusetts on Monday, on which occasion seven
Whigs, one Democrat, and sue Free Soiler w ere
elected.
California El ction. — The vote polled at the
Presidential election was over 70.090, and th* De
mocratic majority was nearly 5,000. The entire
; democratic State ticket was chosen, including Me-
Dougatl and Latham for Congress. In the Wisla-
I ture the democrats have 20 out of 27 senators, and
; upwards of two-thirds of the assembly.
lOrect Trade at Mobile. —The Brig Clara ar
rived at Mobile last week, from Gothenburg, with a
full cargo of assorted Swedes iron. Tlie Mobile
Tribune states that this is the secohd cargo impor
ted by Messrs. G orge Westlild & Brothers, from
I wh.ch the editor infers that the business p.ivs.
j O’ Judge John A. Cuthbert, of Mobile, has
been appointed by tbe Governor, to the seat on tho
i Circuit Court bench made vacant bv Judge Gibbon’s
: transfer to the Supreme Court.—
Florida Indians. —A member of the Florida
I Legislature lias given notice of bis intention to in
| traduce a bill to extend the laws of the tate over
j the Indians within its limits. We sincerely hope
j tlie Legislature will exercise a little patience and dis
i eretion, and await the result of Gen. Blake’s efforts
to remove them. Another Florida war is indeed,
; to bo dreaded by all good and patriotic citizens.
[Chronicle and Sentinel.
\ Retailing in Florida. —A hill has passed the
| Senate of Florida, by 14 yeas to 2 nays, prohibiting
retailing in any district when a majority of the votes
a-e opposed the thereto. The Floridian expresses-
I the opinion that it will certainly pass the House.
i New Cure for Fever and Ague. —The Hants
: ville (Texas) Tern says :
“We had a call this week from Mr. De Berrv.
! of Grimes county, who we understand is about to
: publish a paper ip An lerson. From vno’ig other.
i toresting items of information wo gleaned fronn
j him, p- rhaps the following remedy for chills is iv..ri-)f
; printing : Take a raw egg break it in a tumbler;,
i cover with vinegar, and drink altogether an !i> m on
two before the chill’s time of calling. Mir. D>sus
he has s en it tried for years, and never saw a.
failure It may seem a hard dos.*, but it ‘iH-nol-Julf
: so bad as that villainous French invcistioiii quinine.”
i The Surplus Revenue.—The U lo’iliTgton eor
: respondent of the Baltimore Sun. M tile 13th inst..
says : “It is alleged that the surj his revenue will by
n-xt December amount lo forty millions, unless this
Congress should provide in advance for prerenriusr
jh. But, on tlie other hand, it is supposed that the
j next administration will employ the surplus in the
purchase of public debt at market prices, acting on
the sound principle that the stock is worth as m it-h
to the government as to any individual.”
To the Citizens of Cdimtlnis.
As the Jime is near at hand when you will be called
upon to elect a Mayor, for tlie ensuing year, I deem ii
proper to withdraw my name from the candidature for
that office, where the partiality of my friends had pla
ced it. and where, perhaps, I have suffered it too long
to remain. Did justice to rnv business relations allow
me to serve you, it elected, I might well be deterred from
tlie canvass, in consideration of the number of candidates
for the place, and the avidity with which the. office is
sought. I mint respectfully decline the canvass, and do
so with the mot grateful feelings for those warm friends
who have so zealously pressed me for the post.
F. G. WILKINS
Dec. 23, 1352. 52 It
City Officers.
Upon consultation with many of the citizens of Co
lumbus, we take pleasure in announcing the following
ticket for City Officers for the year 1353, irrespective of
political lines, and we confidently believe that they, if
elected, will serve We most seriously call upon every
good citizen to come forward and vote for this ticket
which, if elected, will lie an honor to our city, and re
dound to the welfare and prosperity of all its citizens.
For Mayor, Henry T. Hall.
I t Ward—Daniel Griffin, Harvey Hall.
2d do. Dr. S. A. Billing, Harvey W. Nance
3d do. John Johnson, Legrand Wright.
4th do. George J. Fitts.
sth do. Joseph L. Morton, Benjamin Weils.
Gih do. W. Cromwell, John Scaley.
Dec. 23, 1352. 52 ts
Mr. Editor: The gentlemen composing the following’
ticket, have consented to run for Mayor and Aldermen
of the city at the ensuing election . It is proper to say
that their names have been announced without coucer
of action with any party, and without an understanding
that they represent any individual interest of the city, to
the exclusion of others: or that they reflect the senti
ments of a partieuiar class of citizens. It is believed,
however, that their names and their direct interest in the
prosperity of the city, offer a satisfactory guarantee that
their official conduct will be entirely directed to tlx- pro
motion of ail her interests. CITIZENS,
Independent Citizens* Ticket*
For Mayor—Dr. Samuel A. Billing.
Ist Ward—L. M. Durr and F. G. V iikios.
2d do. William Ferry arid James t. Bozeman..
3d do. John Johnson and Win. A. Beach.
4th do. John E. Bacon and William Daniel.
sth do. Joseph Thomas and J. Pniden.
6th do. Win. Brooks and Win. Matheson.
For Marshal—
For Deputy Marshal—
For City Treasurer—Jordan L. Howell.
For Clerk—Calvin Stratton.
Dec. 23. 1352. 52 to.
tTW’ We are authorized to announce Hon. JOSEPH
L. MORTON a candidate for re-election to the office
of Mayor, in January next.
Dec. 2, 1352. 49 te
Wo arc authorized to announce W’UiU AIl If*
KI3I HROUGH as a candidate for Mayor al the next
election.
Nov. 25, 1852. 4 _l tc
13T WE are authorized to announce I). (• ItEE.V
SAULS as a candidate for Deputy Marshal, at th*
ensuing election.
Dec. 16, 1852. 51 t( '_
jgp* We are authorized to announce 11. NOISLE
a candidate for the office of Tax Collector, for Mu#-
cog£6 county, it thd election in Jiinuury next.
Nov. 25, 1852. 43 ,de
We are authorized to announce JAMES .M*
HUGHES a candidate lor re-election to the office of
City Marshal.
Nov. 25, 1852. 48 te
WE are authorized to announce ISAAC
.MITCHELL, a candidate for the Offiee ot Tax
; Collector, for Muscogee County, at the ensuing Janu
ary election.
Nov. 11, 1852. i 6 ..‘ e
We are authorized to announce ALEX. C.
.MORRISON as a candidate for Receiver of Tax
Returns of Muscogee county, at the election in Jan
uary next.
Oct. 21, 1852. 43 16 -
We are authorized to announce KOiIEUI
T. SIMONS a candidate for Marshal of the City, at
the ensuing municipal election.
Dec. 2, 1852. 49 ,e
IST We are authorized to announce John J •
McKendree and Jorditu L. Howell, the present
incumbents, as candidates for Justices of the f*<
1 the 773d or upper Town District, at the ensuing election,
j Columbus, Doc. 16, I*s*. 61 fe ’