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“See How They Brag.”
Tho noted New-York Evening Post, ed
ited by the poet Bryant, a strong Pierce
paper and organ of’ tlie V an Buren 1 rec-
soil Democracy, brags lustily of the attach
ment and affiliation of Mr. 1 icrcc with
their Abolition fanatics, as shown by his
favors to them, and his numerous appoint
ments to office from the basest factionists in
the land.
In speaking of Massachusetts politics,
the Abolition Post exults as follows :
“ Coalition stock is rising fast in Massa
chusetts. Almost all the recent appoint
ments to office are of men who have been
prominent coalitionists, and friendly to
the election of Mr. Sumnf.r. The Cam
bridge post office, one of tho most valuable
in the State, has been given to a very wor
thy Democrat, who is not only a thorough
going coalitionist, but who voted steadi
ly for Mr. Palfrey, so long as tbe gen
tleman was a candidate for Congress.
The newly appointed Postmaster at Salem,
Mr. Bering, not only exerted himself to
elect Mr. Summer, but a few years ago,
WAS AN OUT-AND-OUT ABOLITIONIST. I
have in my possession a copy of an anti-
slavery pamphlet, which he wrote in oppo
sition "to the pro-slavery attacks of the Bos
ton Post on the English Government.
The new Postmaster at Gloucester is also
A THOROUGn-GOING ABOLITIONIST SO miicll
so, that he left the Free Democracy be
cause they were not sufficient anti-slavery
for him.
“ Several anti-slavery editors have also
lately received appointments—among them,
Josselyn, of Lynn, who voted for Mr. Van
Buren in 1848; Colby, of the Newbury-
port Union ; and Knowlton, of the W orces-
ter Palladium. Mr. Knowlton is ono of
the ablest and most popular Democrats in
the State. He made a very decided speech
in the Senate against tiie Fugitive Slave
Law, and is in high favor with the Free
Democrats. He is a member of the Con
vention from the anti-slavery city of Wor
cester.”
Well may the Freesoilers beast, they—
the men who intrigued to destroy the com
promise and the Fugitive Slave Law, and
deprive the South of its constitutional
rights—are selected by Mr. Pierce for flic
valuable and responsible offices of their sec
tion, to the repudiation of the National
Union Democrats—those who stood by the
Constitution and the rights of the whole
country. This is the man, Mr. Picreo, who
has brought again into place and power his
allies, the Van Buren factionists and Aboli
tionists.—Alabama Journal.
From the Georgia Courier.
Mr. Editor:—I preccive with regret
that an attempt is made by the “ Georgia
Citizen,” to induce the Scott Whigs to
throw away their votes in the Governor’s
election, on Mr. Berrien.
I have a remark or two to make on this
matter.
The first is, that Mr. Berrien, voting for
Mr. Jenkins will not, it is apprehended by
those who know him well, consider it any
compliment to receive votes when lie is no
candidate, and that too at the expense of
his most cherished friend.
The seeond is, that it would be more
manly for Scott Whigs, whose resentments
arc so unapp'easible and irrational openly
to vote for Judge Johnson, than by such
Indirection to assist him. The intention is
too transparent, to deceive any one.
The third is, That Doctor Andrews is
neither a National Whig, or Scott Whig,
but is a Lteion Democrat, a Scott Democrat,
and is with his peculiar notions, fighting,
(to use his own phrase,) "on Ms men hook ;”
he is therefore not a safe and proper advi
ser for a Whigs at all, and more especially
so, because he will not allow himself to look
calmly at Mr. Jenkins, without interposing
the person of Mr. Toombs.”
You and I are National Whigs, and Scott
Whigs, and have been unfalteringly Whigs
—not running off into Supplemental Con
ventions, or hacking them, or participating
in any intrigue, to make Mr. Cobh President,
(the first great cause of the dissolution of the
Constitutional Union party,) and have
therefore some right from our consistency to
ask our recent allies in the Presidential
campaign ; to commune with us in frank
ness and good feeling.
It is very evident, and has been for some
time that the National Whig party cannot
be re-established in Georgia. This con
viction has led many Scott Whigs to unite
in trying to revive and restore to vigor the
Constitutional Union party. In primary
Conventions they met, and appointed del
egates, and the delegates presented the
name of Mr. Jenkins, and expressly waiv
ed by their silence and acquiescence
any attempt to reform under the name
of Whig, with the view doubtless of stand
ing upon the Platform of 18-50 and 1851.
With what consistency Seott Whigs, who
participated in these things can repudiate
the action of the Convention and its nomi
nee, I cannot comprehend. It is with a
change of name—but the conduct of some
Whigs last year, repudiating Gen. Scott,
you and I condemned such bad faith, and
can we do otherwise than condemn the
Scott Whig, who imitates such an example.
I am a freeman every way, attached to
neither of the present party organizations,
hound by no Convention, for in no manner
have I participated in any or been repre
sented. But many very many of my Scott
friends have attended these meetings, and
assisted in sending delegates, and I say to
them earnestly as their true friend, to pause
and consider what their own principles of
action iast year demand of them this.
As to the Southern rights whigs, nearly
all of them in certain localities have put on
the Democratic Uuniform. I hope they
will have the modesty at least not to talk
of principle influeucing them in doing
this—for since Judge Johnson and Col.
Colquitt solemnly renounced in December
’51 tbe peculiar Southern doctrines which
led many whigs to act with them, and made
eager haste to get into the democratic fold
to share the spoils; it is difficult to perceive
how these whigs got where they are. Prin
ciple in leading them from the whig ranks
into the democratic ranks ! ! fough ! i ! No,
no ! Judgeships, seats in Congress, in Leg
islative offices &c., these arc the secession
principles which have influenced them.
And Scott whigs do you desire too to
get into the democratic ranks ?—are you
tired of a minority-do you want office too ?
Well, if such is the case and we must sep
arate, let me entreat you to act boldly and
as men, not ashamed of themselves-—go
and vote with open tickets for , Johnson, and
take your places in the line under him who
aspires to be “ the commander in chief.”—-
You will probably be placed under immedi
ate command of the Colonel of tlie celebrat
ed Coffin regiment. An Old Whig.
Pithy. A negro who was called on as a
witness in one of the courts of North Caro
lina, on being examined as to the nature of
an oath, was asked if lie knew wliat would
be the consequence hereafter if he swoie to
a lie. .
“Yes,” said he “ears off, and no snare m
the kingdom.”
Mr. Jeukiiis and Judge Johnson.
From our up-country exchanges we dis
cover that both candidates for Governor
are addressing the people in the Cherokee
counties. Mr. Johnson had some time
since, taken the field in his own behalf,
and was trying hard to explain away his
disunion and secession views as entertain
ed a year or so ago. It was necessary for
him to do so. It was necessary for him
to exhibit his present whereabouts ; and
to show when, and where, and how he got
where he now pretends to be. There was
another little matter. He is the devoted
supporter of the President, and the people
were becoming dreadfullyyafigKt'J with the
frcesoil, and other kind of appointments,
made at Washington. These matters it
was necessary to excuse, extenuate, and
whitewash, or Johnson was likely to die
or rather deader than any coon he ever
tried to kill.
Mr. Jenkins, though utterly averse to
canvassing the state, lias been induced to
do so in order to meet the sophistry, answer
the arguments, and refute the positions of
his competitor. This lie is in every way
able to do. With powers of oratory, not on
ly unsurpassed, but unequalled by any of
our distinguished statesmen, be comes to
tlie discussion of every subject with an in
telligence and honesty, a directness of pur
poses, and a high tone ot elevated feeling,
which win their way irresistably to the
hearts and judgments of his hearers. He
meets his opponent too, in the part of the
State, where he should first meet him; in
the Cherokee region. It is there that the
efforts of Mr. Jenkins, in the legislature of
the State, has personally benefited every
citizen. The Internal Improvements in
that section have converted a wilderness in
to a garden, and added a thousand fold to
the value of every man’s property there.—
But for the able, zealous, untiring efforts of
Cha’s J. Jenkins these improvements would
have never been completed,and the beauti
ful region now teeming with the productions
of a fertile soil and enjoyingthe facilities of
an easy and constant communication with
the Atlantic, would this day have remain
ed excluded from every' mart of commerce,
the people enduring the hardships of such
a positition, and their land, now so im-
mensley valuable, lying in the waste of the
wilderness almost worthless. This is all
known to the people there.
It is the proper place then for him to
meet his opponent. As they stand before
the intelligent voters of that section of the
state, the merits and services of the two
men will rise in beautiful contrast, and
the citizens, in spite of politics, will ask
themselves, what has Judge Johnson
ever done for this or any other portion
of Georga to entitle him to the high
est office in the State ? They will see
and hear Mr. Jenkins, whoso voice and in
fluence has, for fifteen years, been heard
and felt in the Legislative Halls, urging
forward the great works to which we have
alluded, and they will recognize him as
their friend in need.
But we would not have Mr. J enkins cease
from his work when he leaves that region.
We desire to see him meet and confront his
competitor wherever that competitor chooses
to harrangue the people. We venture to say'
that there is not a man in the State who
would not gladly listen to the views of a
statesman, distinguished, all through life,
alike for his honesty, his disinterestedness,
and his devotion to tlie great principles
embodied in the constitution and sanctifi
ed by the Union of our common country.—
His friends are proud of his talents, proud
of his moral worth, proud of his political
integrity, and proud of the fact that they
are not afraid for him to meet his opponent,
or any body else, in the collision of minds
and the high encounter of intellectual war
fare.— Columbus Enq.
A Short Catechism for the supporters of Judge
Johnson.
We do not like to he considered too in
quisitive, hut we really would he pleased if
some of the hot-headed advocates of John
son would answer the follow questions. If
they will, we pledge ourself that they' shall
not he published more than ono time, un
less the writer desires it:
Do you believe in the doctrine of non-in
tervention 1
Did you not assert that the Missouri
Compromise was a violation of the constitu
tion ?
Do you believe the constitution was vio
lated in the same way by the admission into
tlie Union of California as a State 1
Did you say with Gen. Cass, that the
people of the territories have a right to reg
ulate their own domestic concerns ?
Didn’t you believe in 1850 and ’51 that
the people of the territories had no right to
regulate their own domestic concerns ?
Did you not say with Mr. Polk, that the
Wilmot Proviso to the Oregon bill was con
stitutional l
Do you not now say the Wilmot Proviso
is unconstitutional ?
Did you not say' that the Mexican law
abolishing slavery in the new purchase was
repealed by the constitution ?
Do you not now say it is necessary the
Mexican law be abolished by an act of Con
gress ?
Does it not require Congress and the con
stitution both to kill it 1
Are you in favor of State Rights 1
AY ere you not opposed to the admission
of California when she exercised this right ?
Do you now believe that the admission
of California into the Union was Unconsti
tutional under the clause of the constitution
giving Congress power to admit new States?
Were you not willing to admit her as a
free State provided she Avould slice off a
little of her boundary ?
Were you not in favor of the Nashville
Convention ?
Were you not in 1850 with Mr. Rhett,
of South Carolina, on the doctrine ot se
cession ?
Did you not believe with Gen. Jackson
that in a republican government a majority
ought to govern 1
Didn’t you contend in 1850 that a ma
jority' ought not to govern ?
Did you not think once that a State had
a right to manage her own domestic affairs ?
Didn’t you think in 1850 that California
had no right to decide whether she would
recognize slavery or not ?
Were you not in favor of dissolving the
Union if the Wilmot Proviso passed into a
law, and Congress exercised power over
slavery in the territories ?
Were y*ou not in favor of dissolving the
Union in 1850 because Congress did not
exercise power over slavery in the territo
ries ?
Were you not in favor of secession in
1850 and ’51.
Did you not say that the compromise
measures were unconstitutional and that you
would not submit to them ?
Don’t you now agree that they are. con
stitutional, and yield a quiet submission
to them ?
These questions are asked with the hope
that some one will feel so far interested as
to answer them. If they arc not explained,
the people may take it for granted that the
present tire-eating party tliatsupports John-
son for Governor, are afraid or ashamed to
attempt it.—LaCrange Reporter.
From the Mucon Messenger.
n.vwKiNsviLLE, Aug. 20th, 1853.
Messrs Editors:—In order to meet tlie ca-
lumly now being circulated in this county,
in regard to my political position and that
my friends and the public, may be correct
ly informed, as to whether I am a change
ling in polities or not, I have been induced
to publish tho follwing correspondence :
Milledgeyille, July 7th, 1853.
Dear Sir;—“Being- desirous to know the state of
political feeling in your county, and knowing you
to be a leading and old standing Democrat, 1 take
the liberty of dropping these lines to ask informa
tion. In’this section the Democracy are entirely
united, and we entertain no doubt in carrying tlie
State. Our friends here are looking to you—know
ing your talents and influence, to lead off as usual, in
the organisation of the Democracy in your county.
Tlie Democracy are largely in the ascendency in
Pulaski, if united and aroused. Will you do me
the favor to drop me a lino by the return mail, and
give me your views on our prospects.”
With great respect, your ob’t. servant,
H. V. JOHNSON.
Hawkinsville, July 15th, 1853.
IIon. II. Y. Johnson :
Dear Sir:—Yours of the 7th inst., is
before me ; a sense of duty to you, and jus
tice to myself, impels me to attempt a reply.
You will spare mo the task of going into a
full detail of the different phases, features
and names, connected with the Union Par
ty, since the days of Clark and Troup, (as
you arc fully cognizant of them, and their
purposes and bearing,) hut suffice it in that
memoriable campaign, my suffrage, (the
first vote I was entitled to) was cast for
Clark. I was thus early initiated into Un
ion Party, (perhaps) inheriting my predi
lections from the counsel of a revered Fa
ther, who lived and died a Union man. 1
thus early embraced the doctrines and
principles promulgated and sustained by
that great political luminary, Andrew
Jackson. I have ever cherished, fostered
and maintained them to the best of my hon
est ability—I have been confirmed in those
principles, by a realization of the ends and
motives secured through their sacred and
wholesome influence—I have grown gray
a zealot in the faith ! I now behold my
children’s children, enjoying the highest
boon bestowed upon man ; secured and held
in reservation (as I conceive) by a faithful
maintenance and administration of those
very principles. Now my dear 6ir, how
stands the present issue ?
I beg to call your attention to the events,
which took place in the years 1850 and ’51.
The causes which produced them, I will
not here enumerate—they arc known to
you—but to the point. After a Convention
had been legally convened, all things duly
investigated, and acquiescence in the Com
promise recommended by that body, what
was the conduct of a port ion of the Democra
cy,aswell as aportionofthe Whigs in Geor
gia ? What was the issue then made ?
Union and Compromise by one party, and
Secesssion (the pernicious doctrine of
South Carolina) and annuling of the Com
promise by the other. The contest was
maintained in honesty ; brother rising up
against brother. Was not the cry extort
ed—“old party lines broken up,” surely
that announcement was made in tbe South
ern Rights Camp, and was echoed hack by
the Union Party. So they were broken
up in Georgia; and so they remain until
this day. A more momentous question
than modem AYliiggery, was then opened.
That question (in effect) is yet the turning
point, and the test by which coming
events are to be tried. Why do I arrive at
this conclusion ? So far as my knowledge
extends in this county, there is no material
change; the Whigs w r ho acted with the
Southern Rights Party, (in that event) stick
on to that party with a tenacity strong as
life, while the Union Party both Whigs
and Democrats stand firmly upon their le
gitimate ground, the Georgia, Platform and
Compromise measures, and principles.—
When ever oil and water may be made to
unite without some chemical agent then
perhaps, by the same law, will the prostitu
ted and bare name of Democracy unite
and reconcile the doctrines of Union and
Secession.
Sir, I am witli great respect, yours, Ac.
John V. Mitciiell.
SpcoiiJ District—Tiic lion. James Johnson.
It is natural for every man to feel a be
coming pride in the ability of his represen
tative, in tlie correctness of his political
principles, and in his devotion to that Un
ion which the most reckless have sudden
ly become afraid to abuse. This pride Ave
feel, in common Avith thousands of others,
in our late representative in Congress, avIio
has again been presented, by the undivid
ed A'oiec of his friends, for re-election. In
Congress experience and age may haA'e
given to some other members adv antages ot
position and influence which experience in
public life alone can give; hut in that
strength of mind, clearness of intellect,
power to grasp and judgment to deter
mine the great questions which, from time
to time, present themselves in that deliber
ative assembly, he has found and will find
few superiors. Nor is he deficient by any
means, as the most of his constituents well
known, as a sound, sensible, and eloquent
public speaker. With no pretentions to
the babboonry and tomfoolery that so sig
nally distinguishes the efforts of some of our
modern stump orators, lie uniformly addres
ses himself to the judgment and intelligence
of his hearers, and discusses on high broad
national grounds, the important issues which
he presents. It was in this way that our late
representative fought the battle and won
the victory in his first canvass, and in this
way he will fight and win it again.
It is now understood, we believe, that a
combined and desperate effort is to he made
to defeat the Hon. James Johnson at tho
coming election. The friends of his oppo
nent, having no confidence in the ability or
political information of their candidate, are
importing into various parts of the district,
public speakers of every caliber, and bro
ken down demagogues of every class to aid
their feeble champion to his hopeless con
test. A motley crew of those itinerant con
trollers of public opinion, we see it pro
claimed, are to invade the respectable
county ofPulaski, as well as other counties,
to enlighten the dark minds and bend to
obedience the stubborn wills of the free citi
zens there. Judge Colquitt, with hisharum
scarum harrnngues and stale, worn-out,
vulgcr anecdotes, and others of lesser note,
with some of no note at all, are advertised
to make the the tremendous onslaught.
What part the young Colquitt is to play in
this insulting assult on the intelligence and
political integrity of the people in that
part of the district, is not stated. He per
haps will leav’e the brunt of the battle to
older and abler soldiers, content to wear the
honors of victory, if perchance victory
should unexpectedly declare in his favor.
And yet this battalion of public instruct
ors, so far as we understand, have frigliten-
nobody. They will be met by the friends
of Mr. Johnson in the various counties of
their missionary labors, and answered.—
What is better still, they will be met by
the stern rebuke of tlie citizens, who know
and feel that their late representative dis
charged all his duties whilst in Congress
with a disinterested devotion to their inter
ests, that the supporters and friends of
James Johnson will bestir themselves to rc-
boubled efforts, and bear him through the
canvass with more certain and triumphant
success than awaited him on a previous
trial.—Columbus Enquirer.
Calhoun and Toombs.
On Wednesday, the 17th ult., these two
gentlemen, says the LaGrange Reporter,
visited old Troup for the purpose of address
ing their fellow-citizens on the political top
ics of the day. Only a few days notice was
given that Calhoun and Toombs would be
here; hut notwithstanding this, our large
and commodious court-house was full of
listeners.
Mr. Calhoun was first introduced to the
meeting, and entertained the audience for
near an hour. His speech was just such an
effort as we anticipated—plain, comprehen
sive, and to the point. He reviewed the
history of politics for the last two years
with remarkable accuracy. He said lie
cheerfully supported Col. Murphy in 1S51
for Congress as a Union Democrat, and Avas
willing to support him again as a Union
man up to the A’ery day he declined being
a candidate; that he had only consented
to his name being run in the last nomina
ting Convention on account of the contin
ual solicitation of his friends ; that he had
Avithhehl his name from the Union Conven
tion that first nominated Col. Murphy, and
also had done the same in the lastConven-
tion that proposed his name; that he could
not see any good reason why Union Dem
ocrats should refuse to support him because
he had been a Whig, Avhen he and the
Avliolc Union Party had given their hearty
support to Col. Murphy as a Union Demo
crat. Upon the whole, the speech Avas an
able expose and vindication of Union prin
ciples. If Col. Calhoun continues to ad
dress his felloAV-citizens till the election, in
our opinion, the 4th Congressional District
will be redeemed from disunion sway again
to tlie tune of from five to six hundred
votes.
Mr. Toombs next came forward, and en
tertained the assembly for about an hour
and a half. He traced and exposed the
twistings and turnings of the fire-eating
party during the last two or three years so
closely, that the fire-eaters present seemed
to look daggers at him ! We have often
heard Boh Toombs speak, hut this Avas de
cidedly the most masterly effort Ave eA-er
heard fall from his lips. Well may the
citizens of Georgia be proud of a man en-
doAved witli such great national and politi
cal attainments, as their Senator in Con
gress. After much cheering at the conclu
sion of Mr. Toombs’ speech, the meeting
adjourned.
Scott Wiiigs.—The secession papers are
“ instant in season and out of season,” in
their exhortations, warnings, cautionings
and bcseechings of the Scott Whigs not to
A'ote for Mr. Jenkins and other Webster
men.
The said Scott Whigs tender their com
pliments to said secessionists, genei’ally,
and the Macon Telegraph in particular,
and beg leaA-e to give said secessionists the
most friendly assurance, that they, the said
Scott Whigs, knoAv Avliat they are about,
and what they are not about, viz: they are
about to A'ote for the friends of their coun
try in the person of Charles J. Jenkins and
other consen’ath'e men of Georgia, who
are candidates before them for office; and
they are not about to vote for Mr. Johnson
Avho lias a supreme contempt for the com
promise and the Georgia Platform, nor for
any other disunionist avIio affiliates with
abolitionists in the support of an adminis
tration which chooses the enemies of the
country to take care of the country.
[Atlanta Republican.
An Infamous Appointment.—In the
appointment of the notorious Belmont as
charge d'affiairs, from the United States, to
the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the pres
ent Administration, will receive no captious
opposition from this Journal; so long as
that action is American, though it may he
Democratic. But avc shall express our un
qualified disapprobation of all such appoint
ments as this. Belmont has no claims up
on this country for such a mark of distinc
tion. He is a A'ile Austrian, and took sides
against poor Hungary, in her struggle for
Nationality and Constitutional Indepen
dence. A A'ile Austrian aristocrat, a no
torious a»ri-American, his sympathies,
tastes, habits, affections, and anticedcnts,
are all with unprincipaled Austria. All
his AA'ealth is derived from Austria; and
the good hook teaches us, that where the
“treasure” is, there will he “the heart
also.”
We would like to knoAv Avhcther Presi
dent Pierce faA'orcd this appointment, or
whether the appointing poAver gaA'e Avay
to the “ outside pressure”? of old Marcy.
Certainly the leading Democratic members
of the Senate Avill refuse to confirm the ap
pointment of Belmont, over the heads of the
NeAv-York foreign pressure which may be
brought to bear.—Knoxville Whig.
Improvement in California.
Amongst the late news from California
avc find the following highly encouraging
item in a San Francisco letter to the Jour
nal of Commerce. The letter bears date
on the 1st instant:
“Our city has become a City of Church
es, and the Sabbath day is regarded almost
universally as a day of rest. Society is
blessed Avith the presence of women, Avho
are hoav flocking to our shores in vast num
bers, bringing the children of the East to
bless and cheer the sterner sex. Gambling
is fast dying out. Houses that one year
ago Avould ha\'e rented for $3,000 to $5,000
per month for gambling purposes are hoav
offered for business marts at 81,000 to $1,-
500 per month. On Long Wharf, Avhere
one year ago there AA r cre over a dozen gam
bling houses, there is hoav hut one in opera
tion. The same may be said of other pro
minent localities. It seems now to be the
grand aim and strife of this people to do
good ; to contribute largely and freely of
their Avealtli for the upbuilding of the Re
deemer’s Kingdom in the land. May God
hasten it in his own good time and Avay !”
Railroao Curves.—A correspondent of
the Railroad Record is of opinion that cur
vature on railroads is-the main cause ef acci
dents, Avhcther by collision or othenvise.
Straight lines must be adopted, and though
at first more expensive, they are in the end
more economical, and are certainly safest.
Curves, the writer contends, should be limi
ted bylaw, and states that one degree curve,
or 5,130 feet radius offers as much resis
tance to a train as a grade of 10 feet to the
mile. Two degrees equal 15 feet; 3 de
grees equal 20 feet; 4 degrees equal 25 feet;
5 degrees equal 30 feet; 6 degrees equal
35 feet—that is, if a 6 degree curve he lo
cated on a level, it offers the same resis
tance to a train as would a grade of 35 feet
to the mile, on a straight line, The Avriter
contends that a railroad, at the present
time, that avII 1 not bear the expense of mak
ing it straight, had better he postponed un
til the funds are raised, as evidently, it is
too soon for the community for Avhich it is
intended.
“ First class in saered music, stand up.
Hoav many kind of metres are there?”
Three sir ; long metro, and short metre,
and meet her by moonlight alone !”
Thunder and Lightning.
Messrs. Editors—In your article in No.
45, on this subject, you say you “ have
come to the conclusion that for one A-erti-
cal flash of lightning that reaches the earth,
fifty are horizontal—dissipating in tho at
mosphere like the fibres of a A'ine spreading
out from the main trunk.”
I think you are correct in your eonclu
sion; tlie dissipation takes place in the
lower cloud surface. I have witnessod the
same thing when sailing above the lower
layer of clouds during the thunder storms,
In rain storms there are tivo layers of
clouds, and the heaviest discharges of
electricity takes place when the rain or
hail falls the fastest, from the upper through
the lower cloud. Noay when the rain falls
moderately, and the lower cloud is dense
and unbroken, the electricity carried down
by the drops is silently absorbed by the
croud vapor below, but when the rain fall
in torrents, and the lower cloud, through
Avhich it has to fall, is not very dense, and
is withal detached or broken, the yiolen
discharges ensue, generally in horizontal
directions, and Avlicn intensely heavy, they
will occasionally be driven entirely through
the loAver cloud, obliquely downwards, rend
ing whatever intercepts them, and ignitin
combustible substances.
Were there no lower cloud for the rain
to fall through, the earth would receive
slioAver of fire with the rain drops, as they
come in contact with it, during sudden lieav
y rains.
The reason Ave seldom ha\'e electrical
discharges in wintsr during settled rains, is
found in the sIoav and gradual formation of
the storm, thereby forming a complete and
dense loAver cloud, sufficient to absorb all
the rain-descending electricity as fast as it
touches it, without explosion.
John Wise.
Lancaster, Pa., July 27, 1853.
[The aboA'e is from Mr. Wise, the cele
brated aerial na\'igator of nearly tAvo hun
dred atmospheric voyages. He has paid
much attention to atmospheric phenomena
in his aerial voyages, and whatever he says
on the subject is worthy of much attention
A young lady of NeAV York, named Gil
mour, Avas killed by lightning on Saturday
Aveek, in the A'illage of Canterbury. She
Avas standing under the telegraph xedre Avhich
crosses the laAvn in front of Mrs. Cunning
ham’s house, Avhere she was boarding. The
Avire hangs near some ten feet of the ground
There Avas no rain at the time, though the
storm Avas raging at a distance ; the light
ning, it is supposed, struck the wire more
than a mile distant, followed its course
shattering all the posts, some to splinters
and a portion of the current Avas diverted
so as to kill the deceased. The raA'ages
of the lightning on the posts were visible
for a long distance beyond the spot AA'here
the fatality occurred. Several persons
w'ere stunned and prostrated, hut not seri
ously injured. The storm came up A'iolent
ly afteward.
Suicide by young Avomen is becoming
fearfully prevelent in NeAv England. Here
is a fourth case Avithinthe last three weeks.
We copy from the Bangor Mercury :
“ On Saturday eA’cning, about 5 o’clock,
Miss Laura A. Sealand, a girl of irreproach
able character, about 19 years-old, took an
ounce of arsenic, Avhich caused her death in
about five hours. The deceased left a let
ter, in which she stated her determination to
rid herself of life, and that she had procur
ed and mixed the poison. She ga\'e no
reason for the fatal act.”
^mitlicrn ilccorkr.
Mr. EA'crctt, late Secretary of State, is
generally knoAvn as a gentleman of exten
sive information, and one a\ t 1io will not
“ speak Avitout book” on important subjects
in\'ol\'ing statistical facts. From a compu
tation of his, it appears that the use of al
coholic beA'erages cost the United States
directly in ten years $120,000,000; has
burned or othenvise destroyed $5,000,000
Avorth of property; has destroyed 300.000
lives; sent 250,000 to prison, and 100,000
children to the poor house; caused 1,500
murders, and 5,000 suicides; and has be
queathed to the country 1,000,000 orphan
children.
Marietta.—Our city is and has been
gradually improving. It will continue to
do so if Ave may judge from tlie number of
Carpenters and Masons in the place. The
large and commodious brick church erected
by the Presbyterian congregation is nearly
completed. The neAV Court-house erected
by the county at a cost of about fifteen thou
sand dollars, Avail he finished probably in a
month or two. Numerous private residen
ces have been built in the course of the
present year. Our schools are amply pro
A'ided with competent and faithful teachers.
The eleA'ated sitution, pure and bracing at
mosphere, and excellent Avater, hold out in
ducements to those in search of a healthy
location. On the whole it will he admitted
that no point in upper Georgia has greater
adA’antages as a place of residence.
\Marietta Advocate.
[From the New-Orlcans Bulletin.]
Rev. Mr. Clapp—The greeting which
this gentleman lias received from his fel
low-citizens upon his unexpected appear
ance yesterday, is the best test of tho esti
mation in which he is held by the commit
nity. Dr. Clapp has left his family at the
North and returned among us in the midst
of the pestilence, to render those services to
tlie sick, the dying and the dead, in which
lie has been faithfully employed for the last
thirty-three years.
Little do those in full health think of the
inappreciable A alne that the dying soul at
taches to the consolations of religion, ad
ministered by a faithful messenger cf the
Gospel. Many a troubled spirit has been
soothed, and the dark read through tho val
ley of death been made clear and radiant
by those seasonable words which the minis
ter of Christ has whispered in attentive and
listening ears, dull and and impei'A'ious to
the most tender expressions of 1oa*c and af
fection. One comforting Avord of hope is
then worth all the professions of friends and
kindred. Mr. Clapp will find many noble
coadjutors in his holy Avork. Wc arc proud
of our clergy of all sects and denominations.
They have stood their ground nobly and
manfully, and shoAved themselves true sol
diers of the cross.
Great Cricket Match.—1 he long-an
nounced match game of cricket between
the clubs of all the Canadas and the clubs of
all the States Avas commenced at Harlem
(New-York) on Wednesday. A large and
interested crowd assembled to enjoy tlie
sport and applaud the victors. Odds Avere
freely given in favor of the Canadians pre
vious to the commencement of the game;
hut the first day’s playing upset every bo
dy’s calculations. The States clubs won the
innings .and scored G2. The Canadians
came in and scoured hut 45. The Statesmen
went in for their second innings, and at six
o’clock in the evening had scored 4G, Avith
four Aviekets to go down. The game Avas
concluded on Thursday by tho Americans
beating the Canadian^ thirty-four runs. A
splendid dinner was given in the CA'c-nirg
by the NeAv-York and St. George’s Clubs
to the Canadians at Delmonieo’s.
Tuesday noame, September g, 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHARLES J. JENKINS, of Richmond.
FOR CONGRESS.
1st Hist.—FRANCIS S. BARTOW, of Chatham.
•2d Dist.—JAMES JOHNSON, of Alnsronee.
H Dist.—ROBERT P. TRIPFE, of Monroe.
4i!i Dist.—JAMES M. CALHOUN, of DeRalb.
7t!i Dist.—DAVID A. REESE, of Jasper.
Sth Dist,—ALEX. II. STEPHENS, of Taliaferro.
Election Law.
Our readers Avill find upon the first page of the
Recorder, the Iuav governing elections, passed at the
last session of the Legislature. We hope all inter
ested will give their attention to the requirements
of this act.
Save your Grass.
Tho late rains have given to every plantation a
liberal supply of crab grass. When cut green and
carefully cured, it makes excellent hay. W e ad
vise farmers to look after it, as it will save many a
bushel of coni next winter, and perhaps preserve
alive their stock.
Oar Prospects.
Intelligence of a most auspicious character comes
in to us from eA*ery part of the State. On yester
day we conversed with a highly intelligent gentle
man, just from Cherokee, avIio gives the most grati
fying information in relation to the canA'ass in that
region. He also saw Mr. Jenkins, Avho, Ave are
happy to hear, is quite hale and hopeful. But let us
not lose the victory by apathy and our OA-enveen-
ing confidence in the virtue of our cause and the
superior claims of our candidate. Let cA'cry man
be up and doing with his whole might.
Acknowledgment.
The Rev. W. J. Sasnctt has our thanks for a copy
of his very able address delivered before the State
Temperance Convention at Atlanta on the 30th of
Jnno last. Mr. Sasnctt deserves great respect for
his judicious zeal in this good cause, and we hope
his eloquent address will have a wide circulation.
Mr. Mitchell's Letter.
The pointed, pungent and withering letter of this
gentleman to Mr. Johnson, found in our papar to
day, will be read Avith exceeding gusto by the peo
ple in general and the union democrats in particular.
No wonder this epistle should haA-e sent this confi
dent expectant .of Executive robes in hot haste to the
Mountains. But he Avill find the “contemptible
pack” quite as hard to catch with “soft sodder’ in
that region as in Pulaski. How many similar epis
tles his Honor has despatched, and how many like
rebuffs he has received, the public will probably neA'
er knoAv. With the prescience of a seer, he seems
to foretell coming events, but if Ave rightly interpret
their shadows, he is likely to experience very soon,
the truth of the old adage that there “is many a slip
between the cup and the lip.”
Messrs. Toombs and Stephens.
Tiic'e able and eloquent champions of conserva
tive principles are doing noble, and valuable service
in the good cause. That their speeches are telling
upon the popular mind, is eA'ident from the abuse
they everywhere receive from the opposition press.
We hope they, and Holsey, and Sanford, and An
drews, and Slaughter and Chisholm, and Murphey,
and Tidwell, and other champions of our cause will
not cease their labors until victory is won and the
Republic once more safe.
Mass Heelings.
We observe that tho “Re-united” arc making ex
tensive preparations for humbugging the people,
particularly in Cherokee Georgia, Avhere they seem
to think the rank and file are essentially gullible.
A mass meeting is soon to be held at Kingston,
where a fearful onset may be looked for upon the
contemptible •pack of “fools or kv a res.” Whether
the hot meats and hotter speeches of 1853, undor
the new and decepti\ e banner, Avill be more effica
cious than those of 4850. at the same place, under
the old coftin banner, is yet to be seen. We ob
serve the programme of c xorcises includes music,
and we hope Judge Colquitt will be able to give
the old nasal twang to his favorite air, the “ Star
Spangled Banner.” It Avill ro\ - ive some very
pleasing recollections in the minds of Union men.
‘ His Excellency Goa-. Cobb and family, arri\-ed
in this city last e\-cning. from the North, and he will
leave this morning for Milledgeville. We regret to
learn that the severe indisposition of his family has
prevented his earlier return to the State; but now
that he is within its borders, we hesitate not to say
that he will respond to the calls of Democracy,
from AvhateA'er quarter made.”
We take the foregoing from the Augusta Consti
tutionalist of Wednesday last, It may be that Gov
ernor Cobh will so far forget the dignity of his sta
tion, and what is due to the tnasscs who delighted to
honor him in 1851, as to yield to the piteous ap
peals for help from those Avho at that time derided
and traduced him. We shall not belie\'C it until we
sec it. If, however, he should disappoint public
expectation in this regard, we hope he will be met
by some of those good Union Democrats, who re-
main true to their principles and associations.
Political Capital.
We stated a week or two ago, that there was no
Judge present to hold Court in this County, at the
regular term. The Union thinks Ave desired to
make political capital of the fact. That the public
interest as well as private rights have suffered by
the remissness (to use no harsher term) of some
body, ever}- one admits. Where the responsibility-
lies, Ave do not know. It is said, ho\A-ever, that
Judge Johnson’s resignation did not reach Mil
ledgeville until some eight or ten days before term
day. We know the Chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee was for getting up an indig
nation meeting on the occasion, from which avc in
ferred that there was carelessness somcAvhere.
New Books.
The Artist-Wife.—Tins is the title of a A _ ery
neat volume from the gifted pen of Mary Howitt,
and which ive can very confidently recommend to
those Avho desire to see woman in her true charac
ter—pure, eleA-ated, faithful, devoted. Stringer Sf
Totcnsend, ’ 222, Brodway, N. Y. For sale at tlie
Milledgeville Book Store.
We are also indebted to the same publishers for a
copy of a new and handsome volume, entitled “ The
History and Rudiments of Architecture.” This work
is highly commended by the press For sale at the
Milledgeville Book Store.
The Young Marooners—By F. R. Gould ing.—
Our readers may recollect that a communication ap
peared in our paper some Avecks ago, bringing to
favorable notice this interesting little volume. I
can noAv be had at Mr. White’s Book Store, and
should be found upon every book shelf. It is
made up of scenes and adventures on the coast of
Florida, and is altogether a most agreeable nar
rative. ^ ^ ■
3PThe P. M. General has established a Post of
fice at “Black Spring,” in the county of Baldwin
and appointed C. S. Haley, Esq., Post Master.
The name and site of the Post Office at Ether
idge, in the county of Jones, has been changed to ;
Blountsville,” and Sanford M. Tufts, appointed
Postmaster.
Gov. tobl» on Fire-E«« c ..
We understand his Excellency hs
ed to in the most pointed, pungent ?
strains, “to come up into Cheroki
ee aud i
to help re-unite the “rc-uniuT' and '"" ?
“harmonious.” Without stopping to
this great work of re-union is to be !i ri V r ’ ’ \
mated, and the Hon and the lamb join!.^ ”
nent Avedlock ; without calling i a q. J( . 3t ; ‘ D
cacy of such a request or the propriuy
to it, wc may perhaps be permitted t. -
hope, that should the Governor take ti ’
will regale his auditories with those, ‘. nn: P
trines which he made so familiar re
in 1851. Wo havo no idea that Gov. Coi
the stump, and therefore it is right; ,j
the people, especially the Fire-eater?. s ].‘
stand his position, as well as their own •
Press. We therefore give below son . - '
tracts from a letter of his Excellency .
the Committee of Invitation at Macon
casion of celebrating Washington’s bin!,,
place in 1851:
“The dangers which so universally threre,
months ago the peace and quiet of ti, 1
voh ing the very existence of the Union
avoided and turned aside; but it would k'tj
al blunder to suppose that they Lave
overcome and destroyed. So long ,4 "
which brought about these dangers.
to exist, so long will the duty of the w ;
nel remain to be performed. ’ So Ion-
ish spirit of fanaticism is found wan;,'.
Constitution,'*and the disunionist is af ,~.
poison the hearts of the people with a
tred to the Union of our fathers, so Ion-. I
gation rest upon all true friends of the [ , :
their hands and hearts in defending a e <) ■
try from he treasonable assaults of a
my.” J
*****
The professions of this “ Southern Biffin,
are strangely inconsistent with their wjV
known sentiments. They proclaim to ti p
their attachment and devotion to the IV ,
some instances claim to be^ts only tre 4 '
it not too strong a demand upon onrcredo : v -
of us to put confidence in their p- •
Whence originates their love of the i' j
the wrongs and injuries it inflicts upon 5 _ '
humiliation and disgrace they feel in , u l,imt ir
laws and government! They either d,
selves, or seek to impose upon others. I p,
impossible for any true-hearted man to fe.j . I
devotion for a government which, i ■ ;
oppresses and dishonors him. Let i ven- j r .
South imbibe the passions and pr- : xidict-<"7;..
peculiar friends of the Union, & it may 1 •, -
ly asked, How long will the Union witW
saults of its enemies 1 With whom do j, x
Rights men of Georgia sympathise in their
associations ? Beyond the limits of their men«
they knot-, no friends worthy of their confidi m- '
liance.* It is their pride and boast that ti,.'r • „
political association Avith any of our Norther -1
ren—the North presents no material for t : U —
ganization sound and honest enough to cn
their respect and induce their alliance. In.
ion with this view ofthesubject.it isapprr -
the day and occasion of your assemblac'c.^,';:.'
to ask of our countrymen to hearken to,
the father of his country ns it rises from '
warning them against tho dangerous and
tive tendencies of sectional organizations,
men Avho would seek through them to instil ir
hearts of the people, enmity against the Uu
their revolutionary fathers.
All the sympathies of the Southern BL-h;,
of Georgia are with sectional men. s eti
and sectional associations. It aspires mt;
more enlarged basis of a national organize; ,
a sister State the same issue is presented, in a
er and more startling proposition. There,the,
of immediate secession is proclaimed in
explicit terms. A dissolution of the Union !■']
garded as the only remedy that can be res r:
for existing grievances. It is urged upon her ■
pie with all the power and eloquence of i.
men. No one will deny that the tide of ul-_
sentiment is rolling Avith increasing volnrce n. 1
the entire limits of South Carolie;., needim, *
the alliance of a single neighboring State:
mine their policy for an immediate dissv:::
the Union.
In view of this important condition of thing
sister State, on our immediate borders, and k: ]
ing as we do that all the sympathies eft! '
Rights organization in our own State are
in the same cans i, it becomes the duty of vk
prudent men to regard with anxious and v.
care its varions movements. The open distuu naa
South Carolina and the Southern Rights pa.— j
Georgia, entertain a common opinion on the ( :
promise measures of the last session. Tb v
consider the action of the Government, in thl-
spect, as violative of their rights and honor
sequently regard an acquiescence in them s?
miliating and dishonoring. The one den u
immediate dissolution of the Union, as the unh
equate remedy, for the Avrong inflicted:
pursues a milder and more politic conre . wk 1
consciousness that, in the end, a similar r •. J
be reached. Thus it is that a feeling of - |
the Government is being diffused through our 'a;
preparatory to the occasion which w ill jostirji
open avowal in favor of disunion.
I have made this brief reference to th-
public opinion in the different sections of th
try on the slavery question, for the pur: -
show ing that the danger which so lately d. .
tlie Union, is not entirely overcome. It ;
our consideration tlie important inquiry—
the true policy to be adopted by the friends >■:
Union to aA-crt these dangers in the fa tun: k|
own opinion is, that the Union organization of G
gia, has adopted the true, safe and judicious r-
*****
Tlie L T nion organization of onr State h -
violently assailed, the motives ofits friend?ar.J I
porters traduced and misrepresented. This
expected, and furnishes satisfactory evidei ret
power and influence has already been felt
whose insidious assaults upon the Union lav
arrested by it. The Union men of Georgia
done much in the last six months for their renr. - .
but iheir labors are not yet over, and Itru
not rest from than untWjhey hare nuuh p/r..
peace and quiet they hare so nobly rontrd.utu' " :
about. I renew to them the offer of my hand end ^
heart in the. good cause. .
I am with great respect, Your very Ob’t 8-—: I
HOWELL C 1
Messrs. A. H. Chappel, and others Ccmnn"
We think the foregoing extracts define w.: t ?
cicnt explicitness the position and fee ling- : '
Cobb ; now turn we to Mr. Johnson, wh'pi |
and claims Mr. Cobh is called upon to adv
the stump, and we shall sec how beautifully E
nicus, how exquisitely concordant are the ?'■
feelings of these two great champions of -‘Ke-c-- 4
Democracy.”
Speaking of the political parties North, Mr J -
son says in his letter of 1850:
*“What then, is the first thing to be done ’ H ~
our steps we cannot, but we can terminat " I
CURSED ALLLANCES. Then, let thy
of our State Convention be the construction oi a *
Southern Rights Platform, on which may r-
and organized a trne Southern Rights IV.r"
watchword shall be uncompromisum hvstv’ij ‘j
men and all parties, either North or South, vk
only above suspicion, but openly and muguito- 11 f
favor of the Constitutional ngkts of the SoutH-
And yet these alliances, so accursed in th: 0
the gentleman in 1850, are earnestly covetec em
braced in 1852 and ’53, regardless of the
tility of some of his new allies to the Coa-suKU -
rights of the South, and even to the Comp-"'-'—
self.
But let us contrast the sentiments eft:;- •
ilemen upon Union men. Mr. J ohnson sa} - •
“ With such I have no sympathy—for ® ‘
have no respe ct. If their error he fuiind*"!
ranee, I pity them as FOOLS: if it be th*.
of designing ambition, I condemn
KNAVLb. _ .,
“ I look upon the whole pack with tlie C—
contempt.”
After reading the foregoing and the foil-
Avho does not see that Judge Johnson chiris. y
most ardent loA-e for Union men. Hhxt k- ,
most devoutly solicitous for the preserve.
“glorious Union” itself, as his gallant clui•
the coffin regiment used ironically to cad rt- *-
dent from the following extracts from fcL?
: j«ji ca
“ After all that Georgia has said and doce j
tive of hostility to the recent Acts of Congr*-^
determination not to yield to them a qu’.i-.j’ ....
sion, I cannot consent to the degradation l■. xj
in such submission. Again, by way ot ’ • if
public mind into a false security, they say
the Fugitive Slave Bill is repealed, t-w;:
be for resistance at all hazards and to .a- - ^
tremity. But when that day should ccn - ^
come it will, then they will say, has not - - .
ment flourished for more than six,y a
such a bill ? Why then hazard this gtonoiJ ^^
for a few fugitive slaves ? 4 hese prognos v. ^
fully justified by the history of the pas • [L
been vielJing inch by inch, and step by step^ ^
last fifteen years, until Ave have became I;
sensible to wrong and afraid to avow our nf .
acts of aggression, snclias these ot w ^leii
plain, had been perpetrated in DJL, - ,,3
would not have submitted thirty days, aim *^ oa ]t!
would have been tarred and feathered, w*‘ ^
have conselled submission. 0*rtendane. - . 2t f.
and continues to be.downv.ai.j-yieldHigP 1
Path,