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LETTER from nONTGOmERY.
Montgomery Ala., November 18,1850.
Dear Doctor : Your receipt for your most val
uable and interesting paper, with the back numbers,
is safe to hand. In a short time I think I shall be
able to send you twenty subscribers and probably
more, that is, if the mobocrats will let you breathe
the air of life itself. The way you have spilt the
ink upon them, hot and cold, is a caution to disor
ganisers. What a hopeful set of delectable gentle
men they are—the very pinks of perfection, and the
hvacinths of aromatic superfluities. It you shonld
become short of the little pecuniary attainments of
life, let them get up another mob, and we’ll roll out
a hundred subscribers to you or more if necessa
rv. I expect the Mobocrats would now be willing
to dismiss their cause of action and pay costs, and
for the present we will leave them alone in “their
glory.”
Even here, we are getting to be a very important
people, so fearful are some, that the law is not strin
gent enough —that they are concocting a kind of a
“States Rights Association.” and I presume very
shortly they will enact a statute to make men do
their duty and dissolve the Union at all hazards;
but there are thousands here who believe there are
so many patriots and good people in it, that it is like
unto a piece of India-rubber — great in elasticity ,
powerful in durability —and while such men as
Webster, Cass, Dickinson, Clay, and hundreds of
others are the shoemakers, we are willing to tread
the soles thereof and journey on in the good old
wy our fathers trod, and let Rhett Barnwell Smith
take pegged ones out of murrian hides for himself
and smaller crew. Though as South Carolina con
siders herself the continent of North America and
Charleston the Rome of the world, of course, she
must have the first smell out of the bottle of berga
mot, if not so, then this is no Union at all.
When we speak or think of this Palmettodom
chivalry, I am ready to exclaim first families, first
families of Virginia, whar, whar are you? You
used to be some, but now you did’nt.
But to return to our States Rights Association. I
see the names of some gentlemen in it, who, this
summer past, spent hundreds of dollars at the
North, right in the midst of those robbers, thieves,
fanatics and out-laws, and I presume the next thing
they will send their children to this den of demons
to be educated. They give aid and comfort to the
enemy, and then cry out disunion. Is not our wa
ter as pure, and our clime as salubrious as that of i
Nahant or Coney Island ? Beautiful specimens of
patriotism ! If any however have lived among the
i ankees and left without pay, I think they pursue
the better course, (for it’s a maxim in war to forage
upon the enemy.) By computation there were
$12,000,000 of dollars spent in the way of travel
and pleasure last summer north of Mason and Dix
on’s line. Stay at home tive years, and save $60,-
000,000 which would build 1200 Factories, —stop
Northern spindles, let their wharves rot, grass grow
in the streets of their cities, and by that time they
would beg you to take your infernal niggers, for
ney would be more intolerable to them than the
destroying angel in the land of Egypt, who had not
: lie sign the Lord had given them sprinkled upon
::e door post. I, Sir, am willing to go in goat skins
ni.d camel’s hair, and if the backs of these Disu
ionists are as tough as their consciences, I think
they can do the same thing.
I was more thau delighted to see the long list of
distinguished Democrats published in your last No.
These disorganisers and Nash mile Convention men
have fairly made the issue— Union or Disunion.
Now let them abide the consequences. When Geor
gia, as I believe she will, rolls in her thousands for
Union, xVlabama will echo the sentiment. I think
Alabama seven-tenths for the L r nion. I have just
received a letter from a very intelligent gentleman
in Cherokee, Ala., who says the great counties of
Jackson, Deltalb, St- Clair, Marshall, and Cherokee
are twenty to one, for the Uwkia.
The Fire-eaters here stil keep a kicking, and
with sticks, boys and a baker’s dozen, of high privates
and corporals, with a tremendous Noble President,
and Stentor like in voice, have done considerable
damage to our old Courthouse. I understand that
our Court of Oyer and Terminer has been directed
by our efficient and worthy Mayor, Robert T. Davis
Esq., to bring action for damages. I think before
tie first of January next they will see the fingers of
a many hand upon the wall— rnene mene tekcl uphar
&in.
We have quite a genteel set of Editors in our ci
ty, ail industrious and indefatigable, two with whis
kers and one without. I think when the two form
er hear from the Georgia elections, their whiskers
’ike their pens, will grow short, ink pale, and they
■nay reach a colon, or a semi-colon, but never a peri
od. to chronicle the news. The social, kind-hearted
Editor of the Journal delights in many paragraphs
in your paper, and is as carniverous upon a canvas
oack as most of us. Clitheral says “Johns’’ of the
Chambers’ Tribune will leave for Barnum’s Museum
as soon as State day is over in Tallapoosa, If he
does leave, the boys who play poker in his circuit,
v von know lie's Soli itor now.) will have one grand
jollification. If you were to see the Editor of the
Tribune, you would never take him to be an ‘Editor’
>r the census-man, or the author of Simon Suggs ;
but I tell you Mr. Editor, when he does set behind a
;Oose-quill, the ink fairly whizzes.
Our Circuit Court is now in session, Judge Robt.
Dougherty presiding. The Judge has lately gone
j] n the bench, and of course is newy but I think
ie bids fair to make quite a distinguished jurist.
Th< re were 138 eases brought to this court, and a
bout 48 of the hungriest-looking lawyers you ever
’ eheld in an old dilapidated Courthouse. Our once
amiable but now blood-thirsty Attorney General,
A. A. Baldwin Esq., has been in such hot pursuit of
liood all this week, that he now looks like a lean
..nd hungry Cassius. Being a man for blood, he of
ourse belongs to the Fire-eaters. At some other
. me I will give you an account how the modest del
egates from this State appointed themselves to the
Nashville Convention^
A good many of our planter* are making eight
gs of Cotton to the hand yielding about SSOO.
v Great distress that! )
Our city is in a most rapid state of improvement,
>.nd I think, in a few years, will be one of the most
flourishing inland towns in the South.
I am more than anxious to be at your great Con
vention on the 10th proximo. If so, I shall stop a
cay or so, at that most elegant and superior hotel
■[ tby my old and much esteemed friend Mr. La
r, called the Lanier House. If Alabama will do
Georgia —build Railroads, open watering-pla
's for her people in summer, and busy themselves
i agricultural and industrial pursuits, educate their
hildren.stay at home and wear out their old clothes,
ad prohibit the bringing of slaves from other states
• f r sale, she will blossom as the rose, and not mourn
bke a howling wilderness by dissolution. In order
t(. do without Yankee notions and their manufac
. lures, we are getting up what’s called “An Old
Clothes Society,” and the man who has the oldest
r, at is to be elected President. I’m in for the race,
‘hough 1 have several formidable competitors and
ne or two Ex-Governors to start with. Some whigs
save joined the Fire-eaters. I suppose the wheels
f government went too-slow for them, and they got
n ;; hurry &c., though I will not censure their pa
iotism ; but there are some that I think I could
jci iV, or at least induce them to believe Congress
■’ hot violated the constitution in regard to Texas
ndary, California, New Mexico, Ac., and I think
3 ould satisfy the rapacity of some Abolitionists.
? r instance, I would give Abbey Folsom three good
from Kentucky or Tennessee, and I would
fi* up for the ethers, a snug office or to, appoint
one or two consuls to Key Byskane Pasquotank, or
some southern port which would be good for the
lungs, and send one or two as Governors to Califor
nia. I think by that means we could plead the
statute of limitations upon them, and save the U
nion.
And, Mr. Editor, what do you think, I saw not long
since, the daughter of one of our first families who
was educated North, and she came back with more
blue-stocking notions and philosophical enigmas
than you can conceive of. Because I could not ex
plain to her upon those principles why it was that
you could take a pin and pick out a buzzard's eye
nine times, and every time let him put his head un
der his wing, and in thirty minutes he would have a
good eye again, Well, I was nobody because I
could’nt explain it. She said that was nothing to
do at the North, and I truly hope every man or wo
man or guardian who send their children North to
be educated may become Buzzardized. There are
no submissionists in this country, and I think there
are but few men but what know and think that con
gress done wrong in passing the Ordinance of 1787,
and in the Missouri compromise, and the admission
of California so hastily; but they think upon the
other hand that secession is the poorest of the poor
for a remedy. It is a government that will vie with
any in the world—it is one which our lathers fought
sevenNoug years to obtain, and they told us to main
tain it. They and we have lived under it with un
exampled prosperity for seventy-odd years, and
there are plenty of good men w ho will march to the
rescue for its preservation. PINCKNEY.
LETTER from COLIUBES.
COLUMBUS, Nov. 24,1550.
Dear Doctor :—With a heart elated with the
hope of success of the great Union party, in the elec
tion of tomorrow, I again resume the pen of corres
pondence, but ere my letter is brought to light the
great political contest will be decided. My fondest
hopes may be blasted—my native State may be dis
honored—the glorious Stars and Stripes that I love
and adore may trail in the dust and be trodden un
der foot by mad faetionists. Ruin and desolation
may spread throughout the land, and the peace and
harmony of the country destroyed. “God grant it
may be otherwise,” is my prayer, and such will still
be my prayer, till the last gun is fired and the clear
ing away of the smoke of battle has revealed the
result. With us the contest will be warmer
and the battle will be waged with a greater de
termination, than in any other part of the State.—
Every scheme and art of electioneering tactics will
be brought to hear; but the Uniofi forces are al
ready marshalled for the field with the Stars and
Stripes waving from the mast head. The past his
tory of our country tells us that where that banner
floats, there is liberty, patriotism and Victory , and
at this day, it is the double distilled essence of folly,
to think otherwise. Last evening two meetings were
held in this city by the different parties, one of
which (and a glorious one) I attended. The Union
candidates, with one exception were present and ad
dressed the meeting in speeches that breathed the
fire ot 76. The repeated and unbounded applause
proved that the spark of patriotism and love of coun
try was not yet extinguished, but that it burned with
as bright a flame as that which fired the hearts of
the noble band on Bunker Hill. The speakers ac
quited themselves with all imaginable honor not on
ly to themselves but to the party they represent,
and tossing our caps in the air, with three loud huz
zas for the American Eagle, the meeting adjourned.
I should here mention that Ben Baker was pres
ent and, being loudly called for, ascended the rostrum
and delivered the “best speech of his life.” Ilis us
ually bright eye glowed with the lustre of patriot
ism and his eloquent expression of sentiments in fa
vor of the perpetuity of the Union, told us that he
was adulterated with the blood of the revolution.-
Os the disunion meeting I can say nothing, but
have been informed that the great High Priest was
present and spake his ye,also_
ready for war. O’ Boston.
But for the present, I will leave politics and give
you the news of the city. Would mention that
for the past two weeks we have been kept in a state
of ferment. The minstrels performed every night
for a week to crowded houses, and a few days after
their departure, came off the Agricultural Fair,
which was undoubtedly the most brilliant affair of
the season. On the first day the weather was in
clement which prevented a great many from atten
ding, though at any time, crowds could be seen a
round the Ilall. The yard around the hall was fit
ted up for the reception of stock and the finest horses
and cattle I ever saw were exhibited. Tis unneces
sary to describe the things below. The great attrac
tion was above stairs, and to one unaccustomed to
Agricultural fairs, was truly, interesting. Here ev
ery sort of needlework and embroidery could be seen
consisting of mats, stool-covers, chairs, raised figures,
shawls, and several most beautiful dresses for chil
dren. Twould fill a common newspaper to enumer
ate all the different articles with a notice of each;
and I pass on to the paintings that lined the walls, all
the productions of home artists. The “Bath of Beau
ty'’ and “Soldier’s Dream” from the pencil of Miss
Dickson, were (in my opinion) the best offered for
exhibition, and the skill of the artist was admired by
every one. The “Good Samaritan” another beauti
ful and well executed painting from the same artist
was also much admired. Quite a large number of
other pictures w-ere exhibited painted with taste and
accuracy, but I observed several from juvenile artists
which shenved but little skill. To one like myself
not very well qualified to estimate the value of work
from either the pencil or needle, and being a bachelor
j besides—l am forced to say the ladies themselves
carried the day by storm. Visit the Hall at any
hour of the day, crowds of lovely women could be
seen filling every passage and corner of the room.—
None however (and I’m sorry) entered their beau
; ty for the silver cups—but were silent “lookers on
at the Fair” (not in Venice) knowing full well that
the association were unabie to distribute cups by
the gross ? With this imperfect notice of our great
fair and with these lines hastily thrown together I
close, not without mentioning, however, that “the
man with the standing collar” can get his premium
cup at the tin shop !
UNCLE TOBY.
LETTER from GRIFFIY.
Griffin, Ga. Nov. 26, 1850.
The Union preserved! Old Pike wide awake!
152 majority for the Union candidates ! !
Dear Doctor : —I hasten to inform you of the re
sult of the election in this county <fcc. The contest
was warm and boisterous, and resulted as above
in favor of the Union. This wa= far beyond our
most sanguine expectations. The Disunionists fired
their artillery most desperately at our candidates,
and particularly at Judge Cox. They employed ev
ery stratagem to defeat him in particular. How
blighted their hopes when it was known that old
Pike had refused to coalesce with Northern Fanat
ics and South Carolina Nullifiers, in dissolving this
great Confederacy, and that Pinckney B. Cox was
elected, their insane efforts to defeat him, to the
contrary notwithstanding !! Quite a number of
“bets” were lost by the Fire-Eating gentry on his e
lection. Some went so far as to wager that he would
be distanced 150 votes by their leading man !
Long faces, sour looks and biting conversation char
acterize the few feigned Union men, who have recent
ly taken upon themselves the name of Southern
Rights Men !
Mark the prediction that we carry the State by
30,000 majority and that the Disunionists will have
only about 30 delegates in the convention, and if I
was one of their eleet Delegates, I would refuse to
serve.
?n §i®llll ®nisii 9
“Georgia lead off and South Carolina follows.”—
This looks like it indeed!
In haste, your ob’t servant,
A. A, B.
A Voice from Talbot!
Belvieu, Talbot Cos. Ga. Oct. 26, 1850.
Mr. Editor :—I hasten to inform you that Geo.
W. B. Towns is beaten on his own dunghill, and at
his own game. Our glorious Union is safe so far as
the action of Georgia is concerned for “as goes Tal
bot Cos., so goes the State.” I send the state of the
Polls.
UNION REPUBLICAN DISSOLUTION FIRE
TICKET. EATING TICKET.
Cas tins, 764. Drane, 547.
Holmes, 740. Smith, 544.
Barksdale, 747. Perryman, 527.
Harvey, 746. Ellison, 527.
Cobb Comity, O. K.
Marietta, Nov. 26th, 1850.
Dear Doctor —A hard battle lias j ust been fought in
Cobb and victory perched on the Union banner! The Un
ion ticket is elected by 116 majority.
When it is remembered that Cobb has been claimed as
the Banner county by the disunionists ; and that they would
carry it by fonr or five hundred majority, it may be set down
as a most glorious victory ; and the fire-eaters as most glo
riously thrashed. Yours Truly, 11.
From the Fldfidian & Journal.
WAEILLA SPRING.
BY SARAH A. SMITH.
It was one of April’s most lovely days, when we
visited this remarkable Spring—deservedly cele
brated, as well for its grand and singular conforma
tion, as for its charming and ever-varying beauties.
It is situated about sixteen miles south of Tallahas
see, iu the midst of a forest of magnificent oaks,
whose branches are covered with dark and luxuri
ant moss. Ti e Spring rises from the centre of a
circular basin, whose diameter is about eighty or
one hundred yaids. On the south-east, there is an
j outlet about forty yards in width, forming the Wa
! kulla River. The b; sin is a solid rock, presenting
few or no irregularities on its regularly curved sur
face, and varying in depth from one to five hundred
feet. Tlie water flows from a large, and apparently
fathomless break, in the centre of this basin. The
whole might be aptly compared to an immense bowl,
with a portion of the bottom roughly broken out.
The water is so perfectly transparent, that a hun
dred feet below the surface, we could see an ordina
ry pin with great distinctness, and without any ap
parent diminution in size. Even at a greater depth,
the fish appeared almost in reach of your arm.
They were generally at rest or moving lazily a
long, as if conscious of their security, and filled with
admiration of their lovely home. When in motion,
they seemed green, azure, and gold.—lndeed every
tiling thrown into its transmuting waters immedi
ately emitted the most brilliant and beautifnl colors.
Among the curiosities of the place, we must not for
get to mention the collection of immense bones,
which may be clearly distinguished in water fifty
feet in depth. The bones are too large to belong
to the Elephant, and are the remains perhaps of the
species of Mastodon, known as the American Mam
moth.
The bank, on either side of the Spring, was cov
ered with vines and wild flowers, while clouds of
white and blue, as they floated by, were reflected in
the Spring below. Those were happy moments
spent by its side, listening to the low, soft murmur
of its waves, and translating their tones into the re
lation of some wild legend of the past, when the
Indian and the pale-face struggled for the posses
sion of this fair land. I looked into its deep blue
and mysterious depths, until my soul was lost in
deep intensity of feeling, and until all recollections
of the ppst and anticipations of the future, wstu v-, ’
like forgotten in the dreamy present. There was
nothing to mar the beauty of the scene. Although
a cloud would now and then obscure the sun, it was j
only that he might suddenly appear more bright i
and glorious than ever, and present to the enrap- i
tured gaze of the beholder, the enchanted Spring
in all its loveliness. —Our party were in a merry
mood, and began to express their wishes. One
wished that he were a fish, that he might live in
those sparkling and transparent waters. Another
desired to have a floating palace—fit residence for a
king—to glide at pleasure o’er the sunny waves.
Another desired no happier life than to be near this
delightful Spring, and when lie wished to dream of
aught that was bright and glorious, to look into its
crystal depths.
We must now, lovely Wakulla, bid thee farewell.
Thy flower-gemmed banks, thy floating clouds,
thy balmy breeze, and silvery waters, can never pass
from my memory.
A word relative to the origin of this mis-named
Spring. The lakes of Middle Florida have some
striking characteristics. They have generally a sub
terraneous passage through which they discharge
their waters. It is not uncommon to see large lakes,
covering an area of eight or ten square miles with
an average depth of ten or twelve feet, become dry
in a day or two. About four miles north of Tallahas
see, is the beautiful lake “Jackson. ’’ At the pres
ent time, about three fourths of what a few years
ago was the bed of the lake, is either under cultiva
tion or serves as a pasture for numerous herds of
cattle. From lake Jackson to the neighborhood of
the Wakulla Spring, there is a regular succession of
sinks or small ponds, which rise or fall with the lake.
This has led to the reasonable supposition that Wa
kulla Spring is the outlet of lake Jackson.
Tallahassee, May, 1850.
[communicated.]
The Piano Forte.
This instrument so far exceeds al! others for tho parlor,
and is in such common use, and is so complicated, and, in
many instances, so difficult to keep in order, and at the same
time, so very important, that it should bo in perfect order,
to have its powers fully developed, that a few hints on this
subject, it is hoped, will be acceptable to the readers of the
“Citizen.’’ Dampness has a greater influence on pianos than
many arc aware of. The little hammers that strike the
strings, are covered with various layers of leather or Buffing,
and if these are permitted to become alternately damp and
dry, they produce a harsh, wiry tone in a short time, by
loosing their elasticity, which is often heard in pianos that
have been used a few years. A piano should never stand a
gainst an outer wall, or be left open in damp weather, and
never over night, and should be kept covered with a large
heavy woolen covering. Many parts of the machinery, are
lined with cloth, which sometimes becomes moth-eaten, hut
never where the instrument is in daily use. If it is to be
closed during the summer months, it is well to put gum cam
phor on the keys, back of the front or name board, which in
most pianos comes out, by lifting upward, after raising the lid
or top. The cloth can all be renewed by a competent work
man, at a trifling expense. The strings should never he rub
bed, scoured, or handled in any way, by those professing to
be tuners. The strings never break in the centre, but against
the mettle pins at each end, consequently, the rust cannot be
got off at those points. No oil should ever be used on the
strings, or any part of the machinery •, this is ruinous. In
some few cases, oil may bo used about the pedals. Great
care should be observed in tuning the piano. The car may
be ever so much cultivated in melody and harmony, and be
able to detect a slight deviation from the right tune, yet the
person be utterly unable to put a piano in correct tune. The
least interval in playing, is a half tone, bnt the tuner has to di
vide a half tone into twelve parts, owing to the imperfection
of the instrument. Some idea may bo formed, how diffi
cult it is to tune well, when it is known that pianos have from
136 to 170 strings, and these stretching and giving under the
hands of the tuner, and at the same time, having to adhere
to the nice division of the scale above mentioned, and all to
occupy only an hour or two and then the instrument, not to
be seen by the tuner again, for months or years. There is a
err it difference in pianos staying in tune, some remaining as
l again as others, hence it must require great skill and
practice to tune and repair all the various pianos that are
made ; in fact, it requires more time and practice, than to be
come a fine performer. Nine-tenths of the professed tuners,
give themselves out as piano makers; thus making the peo
ple believe, that makers are the best tuners, not thinking
that a man may be a most perfect workman in machinery,
without having any ear for musie or tuning, ft takes- many
men to make a piano; someone part, and some auother ;
and tho tuner docs nothing but tune. No man is a good re
pairer by working in a manufactory; this is only acquired
by working on all the various pianos that arc made, and at
the ame time, he must be a patient and an honest man.
O. B. RICE.
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h. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
’ MACON, GA., NOV, M. 1850.
The Late Election.
We are entirely too happy, this week, to write long-winded
editoriuls on any subject. No one, in that perfect state of
mental felicity which we have enjoyed, since we have discov
ered the glorious truth that our glorious old Commonwealth
and still more glorious Confederacy of States are yet safe from
the lnnds of tho despoiler, is in a condition for any thing
but hallelujah out-pourings! Surely this is “ glory enough
for one day,” and we may well be excused for taking up the !
good old spiritual song of the “ Old ship of Zion,” and sing- j
ing “ with the spirit and the understanding also,”
“ It has carried many thousands,
And ’twill take as many more,
Oh, glory,” etc.
The State is safe from v iok?nee and misrule 1 The nation
is safe from anarchy and dissolution! This last refuge of
the down-trodden millions of the old world is still the il cy
nosure of all eyes,” nud the polar star of the weary pilgrims
that seek a place of rest from oppression and cruelty ! Thanks
to the honest and conservative portion of the community, nil
the efforts of factionists. evil minded and blood}’ men, to com
mit the State to tho wild schemes of nullification mid disso
lution, have most signally failed. Never was there a greater
route of “horse foot and dragoons.” Never was folly more
efficiently rebuked. Never did the cause of peace, honor,
moderation and justice meet with a more decided triumph !
Henceforth, Georgia is “ redeemed, regenerated and disen
thralled ” from the snares of demagogues and the schemes
of disorganizers, provided the victors, in the contest, do not
seek inglorious ease, and indulge in too much confidence in
their present strength. Let us all remember, that “ eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty.” And, now, that the great
l nion party of Georgia has been most efficiently organized,
let the details not be overlooked. County organization should
now be the order of tho day. City and municipal matters
should hereafter have, likewise, the same indelible impress ,
for onr triumph will bedimmed of its lustre and its glory, if
factionists and disorganizers can uow step in and reap there- |
wards which belong to the “ true and faithful ’’ of our own f
party.
Onr voice Is, then, for a thorough and systematic city,
county, State, and National Organization. See an extract
.of Mr. Clyty’s late speech at Frankfort, in ,
.nc c (i j;jjfr*rcßflstdowe<tr “I'i-rtfie L nion cons /fa- j
tivcsl o f the South unite with their brethren. North, Last and
WeJt, in sustaining tho pillars of the Constitution from demo
lition and the “Star-spangled Banner” of the Union from
desecration, by unholy hands.
811515 COUNTY ELECTION.
UMOV CANDIDATES.
M aeon. Ilnzzard. Rutland. Warrior. Total, j
R. Collins, 572 48 74 10 704
W. Poe, 560 49 74 9 692
A. P. Powers, 554 47 71 8 680
W. Scott, 533 46 72 9 G6O I
DISUNION CANDIDATKS.
R. A. Smith, 349 22 54 112 537
J. Rutherford, 339 20 59 112 560
Chs. Collins, 336 23 57 113 529
Leroy Napier, 319 22 53 109 503
American illcclianic.—This is a spirited, well con
ducted paper, published by an association of Mechanics, in
Athens. Ga., and edited by Mr. Charles G. Oliver. It is de
voted to the cause of the white mechanics of the South, and
should receive their undivided support, for its boldness of
speech in behalf of this class of our population and against all
schemes to place tho negro on the same level. The tone and
temper of this Journal are just what they ought to be, and
we hope that it will be generously sustained by those whose
interests it so ably subserves. Subscriptions received at this
office. Price $2,00 per annum.
BP———i—
New Store.— Mix ik Kirtland have fitted up,
with great taste, anew Boot and Shoe Store, in one
of tho new buildings opposite Washington Hall,
and have it well filled with goods in their line.—
See advertisement.
Ulurdcrs. —Royal 1 Wright was stabbed to death
in Columbus, on Sunday night last, by a man of the
name of John Robinson, who escaped.
Milton Tarver, Esq., of Macon Cos. Ala. came to
his death in the same manner, a few days since, at the
hands of a man of the name of John Hunt, who was
arrested next day, in Columbus, and lodged in jail.
The Tote of Bibb. —There is one gratifying fact in
the result of the election, in this county, that is worthy of
note. Senator Napier, the “ big-gun ” of the Fire-Eaters
—the man of mark, physically and pecuniarily—and one of
the aiders and abettors of mob-law. is at the tail end ot his
own ticket! Mr. Smith, a young and comparatively un
known gentleman, has nearly distanced him. lie (Napier,)
is “like OVRothcru ill's horse.” lie “drives all before
him,” wjth a perfect vim , affording, in his present position, as
much gratification to “ uncle Titus” and others, of his own
party, as usually foils to the lot of humanity, in one day. Well,
it is not in our nature to crow over a fallen fix;, but it seems
to us proper to note this case, ;is a pleasing evidence, that col
lossal wealth and bull-frog swellings of aspiration do not al
ways succeed with an intelligent and virtuous community.
Politically, we think the Senator is a “ dead cock in the pit.”
“ Requiescat in pace.”
A Good Platform . —The New Orleans Bulletin sub
scribes to the following Platform, which the Editor thinks is
broad enough for every Southern man to stand on, flat-foot
ed. We think so too, and believe that something equivalent
to it will be adopted by the Georgia Convention, soon to as
semble :
“ While we are ready, on our part, to acquiesce in the leg
islation of Congress, we should have it perfectly understood,
and so declare, not by way of menace, but as the promulgation
of “ a fixed fact,” that if Congress shall undertake to legislate
aggressively upon our rights, by the abolition of slavery in the
District of Coinmbia, or the interdiction of the slave trade be
tween the States, or the enactment of the Wilmot proviso, or
the repeal of the fugitive slave law, we will not submit, but
will, with united voice, resist to * the last extremity.’”
Before and after the Electioe.
It would be amusing, were it not disgusting, to witness the
change which has already come over one, at least, of the
rabid disunion prints, since the returns of the late election
have commenced pouring in, on the Union side. The Savan
nah News, before the election, was notorious for its one-sid
ed publications and its disparaging comments upon Union
men and Union measures. It was specially caretul to dis
seminate every rumor calculated to prejudice the people
against the sincerity of those Northern men who showed a
disposition to see the Fugitive Slave Law executed; It bitter
ly denounced Fillmore’s late letter as unworthy of the Presi
dent. And lastly, on thu morning of the election it came out
with a fictitious telegraphic dispatch ridiculing the Execu
tive, &c.
But how is the tune changed in two days! In Wednes
day s edition of the News, the Editor has the assurance to
lickspittle the Union Candidates of Chatham as “intelligent,
patriotic, high-minded Southern men, in every way identi
fied with the true interest of the State,” and who, he be
lieves, will not ** rashly peril our political Union”! Great
Ctcsar ! lie also speaks lightly, in the same paper, of the
principles involved in the late contest, as “but the triumph of
one set of opinions of expediency over another”—and that
as the Union men “have drawn the line beyond which ag
gression will not be submitted to” the people of the North
must not imagine that there is “any lack here of attachment
to our Institutions” &c. &c. IIo! ho! hah! hah! hah!
If all this be so, why has the “ News ” not made the dis
covery sooner ? And why, if the late question was one of
expediency merely, labor so hard to fill the Convention with
men of his own kidney, who were known to be disposed, not
only to “ rashly peril our political Union,” but who are madly
bent on destroying it!”
The truth is, we suspect, that that 160 majority, in Chat
ham, against the “News,” has wrought the wonderful change
in its tone and opinions. He wishes still to be “Vicar of j
Bray,” let who will be King or Ruler ! But you can’t do
it. Sir. Nor will the Union men of Georgia sanction the I
policy indicated in the News, of falling back upon the old
party lines of Whig and Democrat, as set fortli in a cad for
a Democratic County meeting to nominate Candidates for \
Aldermen, which appears in that print. This is an exploded, |
obsolete idea. Whig and Democrat are no where. Union !
and Disunion is now the only issue, and the Union Demo
crats are not so green as to again coalesce with fire-eaters
and factionistis who play with bloody lines and Coffin
\ knapsacks ! The thing can’t be did , Major Jones! A gulf j
j more impassable than that between Dives and Lazarus, sep
! arntes the Union men from their opponents, and no coaxings
I nor honied words cam again allure the former to a fraternal
j embrace with their worst enemies. Thai's the .Music. Sir,
j which we mean to play, despite the tearsVof time-servers. ‘
place-men or men of Randolph’s 7 principles.—s loaves and j
2 fishes!
■
Insane Wen. —The Editors of the Columbus Tunes !
and Savannah Georgian are demented. The former is out in
a wrathful article against the Yankees, Irish, Dutch, Ac, of
Muscogee, with only a word of friendly token to the German
Jeics who, to a man, the Times says, voted on his side ‘The
Adjutant don’t half like the serenade of groans which the
Cuwbsllians got up for his benefit, on Monday night. \
“Cease viper, you bite a file” when you go off into such a
tirade against your fellow citizens, because they could not be
bought with the Charleston Bank money that your partv
handled so freely, in the campaign!
The “Georgian’’ has the following unblushing statement; —
“Never was there an election carried with such corruption,
and with sucli open violations of all honest rivalry. There
was no “British gold” to pay the price of votes, but an a
bundanceof Northern Submission paper, the current value
of which was o’ less consequence than the price of cotton will
be to-day. It was a day. generous in the annals of the sub
mission party of Chatham county, and many will remember
the price of their vote. Tho election was purchased. Can
tlie Sitbmissionists deny it ? ”
The samo paper makes a gross attack upon th Union
Candidates of Chatham, all showing how bad the Editors
feel at being beaten.—Nothing more!
“BlnflTion B’hoys.”—Tin* following is a specimen ;
of the warlike spirit of the “chivalry” on the North side of
ttv* ltlv,r, ii-'j - !
litical gathering at liluff'ioii, to hear Mr. Coleock speak :
The lion. NY. F. Cideock, our guest—The Nullifier of'32 :
the Seccder of *SO: the Patriot always.
By Capt. J. J. Stoncy, (of the Committee) —T. P. Bar
num, of the New York Museum: lias he no vacant place
in his cabinet for rare monsters tVi ear the spotted negro,) for
the illustrious Clay and Foote ?
By John F. Carter —The South Carolinian who can kill
an old buck, or a turkey, at seventy Yards, is good for a Yan
kee at 81 3-4.
By NY. Pope, Jr—Our glorious Constitution immolated
oti the altar of fanaticism: May secession be the result, carried
by a dose of blue pills and sharp steel.
Boys, do you hear that ? These specimens Will show what
we arc to expect, if the Disunionists ever succeed in their
schemes. “ Blue pill* and sharp steel ” are the remedies
proposed. Besides, we notice that a memorial is now in cir
culation to the South Carolina Legislature, praying the State
to establish a Powder Factory and a manufactory for small
arms and cannon ! Langdon Cheeves has likewise moved in
the same way, in the Nashville Convention. He made a
war speech and offered a secession resolution ! And yet, we
are gravely told that these men and their coadjutors are as
good friends of the Union as their opponents. Can presump
tion and falsehood go further!
Alabama Slate Register.—w have received a
copy of a neat, new Tri-weekly paper, of this title, from the
press of J. 11. & F. T. Martin, at Mongomery, Ala. Its
polities will be Union and conservative. Messrs. Martin are
favorably known as the conductors of the Macon (Ala.) Re
publican, for years. Success attend them.
The Convention. — A more respectable body of men
could hardly be gathered in any State than that shortly to
convene in Milledgcville. For talent, high-toned dignity of
character and sound conservative principle, it cannot be sur
passed. We therefore anticipate much good from their de
liberations in council. We have abiding confidence that they
will adopt such measures as will show to the world, that the
State of Georgia is prepared, “in the Union or out of the
Union “ to assert her own rights and cause them to be respect
ed by other confederacies. May wisdom, from above, so
govern all their consultations, that the public weal may be
promotes! aud individual happiness advanced.
Illinois , —This State seems to be right on the Fugitive |
Slave Bill. A large meeting, at Springfield, was addressed
by Gen. Shields, in favor of tho execution of the law, when
the following Resolutions were adopted :
Resolved , That the measures embraced in the compro
mise bill including the Fugitive Slave Bill passed into laws at
the recent session of Congress, are entitled to, and receive,
the unanimous approval of the citizens of Sangamon county.
Resolved , That the fugitive slave law imposes no duty
upon the citizens inconsistent with the constitution of theU-
States, and that its execution will be acquiesced in by every
good citizen ; and that wo will in all the several relations, we
bear to the country, cordially and heartily aid in its execution.
Pennsylvania Judges. —. Judge Kane of Philadel
phia sustains the opinions of .Judge Grier, of the same city,
in relation to the Fugitive Slave Law. In a recent charge to
the Philadelphia County Grand Jury, Judge K. said:
“ Wc know that this law will he enforced here, fairly and
according to its terms ; and that it will be vindicated, no mat
ter what the personal character of the men who may assail
it, or what their profession or position in life, or their justin
fluences on other topics with those who arc about them. This
law , I repeat , will be enforced; and if broken , it will
be vindicated. The constitutional compact which was
made within these very walls , will never be repudiated
Acre.”
Col. Richard M. Johnson.- •This distinguished
Kentuckian and former Vice President of the United States,
died last week at Frankfort, where he was in attendance up
on the Ix-gislatuVe, He was ft gallant soldier and patriotic
citizen.
Samivel Wray.- --This remarkable individual, it g
said, lias been in sucli a bad way, since tlie election, that a
committee was appointed, from among his sympathizer,
friends, to sit up with him, on Monday night, until long after
the small hours set in ! The following is the hourly “R u ]; v
tin” which his Physicians instructed his right hand man and
secretary, Adonis Duck, Esq. to communicate to us by sjx c
ial express:
5 o’clock P. M. Nov. 25.
Patient seized with the “delirium triangles,” on account es
a severe physical and mental shock received from some ras
cally “abolitioners” down at the Courthouse! Ordered to
be put to bed, immediately, with a dozen hot-bricks to his
sides, one on the pit of his stomach and one to each of his ex
tremities, and to take every five minutes a stiff brandy toddv
to which a tablespoonful] of No. 7 preparation is to be add
ed.
6 o'clock P. u
Patient in a disturbed sleep—breathing stertorous,
modic twitchingsof the nerves, pulse full—decided Sargoin
eo-bilious diathesis.
7 o’clock.
The modic.ne beg us to operate—system relaxed, heavy
perspiration brought about, and general symptoms more favor
able.
8 o’clock.
No change visible. About tlie same in all respects.
9 o'clock.
Owing to the gathering storm, through the evening, the
patient again began to be restless, when suddenly an electric
shock of great violence brought on a violent spasm, which
it was thought, would prove fotal to the sufferer. Bibb C
160 majority for the Union w as the thunder that like to have
done his business. Symptoms very alarming.
10 o’clock.
Another electric shock from Savannah, with tlie thunder of
I 160 majority for Union, rendered it impossible for the Facul
ty to do any thing else than to hold him, to prevent him hurt
ing himself, Poise wnv wiry and up to 140 a minute; great
j contortions of the facial and frontal muscles and strong svmp-
I torn* of nervo-pbrenitia. More brandy toddy with a littie No.
I S administered.
11 o’clock.
A double shock of electricity was given at this hour w ith
a loud report from Augusta of 300 majority for the Union,
| and 171 do. from Muscogee! This capped the climax of tho
disease and fairly wore out the patient. The pulse snnk rap-
J idly and the patient went off into a collapsed state of political
cholera, —in w hich condition he lav until near noon next dav.
At length exhausted nature revived, the furred tongue was
gone, and nothing of tlie disease remained save an awful
| breaking-out about the mouth, when the hydrophobic satr
| jeet of election happens to be broached in his hearing!
, The patient now swears that he was deserted by all his
friends. The Fire-eaters, he says, had left him standing
where lie was, a week ago—“wishing that tlie whole and and
grocery of the Union was blown to Pluto’s regions ! ” Wo
fear that tiie case is irremediable, although the Faculty have
written* convalescent opposite “Samivel's” name.
P. tF. The public will see from the above the reason why
there was no report of the election in the Telegraph of Tuo*-
day last. There was “too much noise and confusion” in tho
Editorial Sanctum, to allow of any attention being given to
such trifling incidents.
GEORGIA ELECTION.
I
Below will lie found the result of Monday’s etiction, as for
iwny 1 i.-tre been able t ohtnin ti:. mi, -i*,.-’- ‘Telegraph und
Moil, np to the hour of going to press. return* v
official, but will not, we presume, vary much from tho trntli.
Bibb, Union Majority, KM)
Meriwether, “ “ 54
Baldwin, “ “ 45
Richmond, ** “ 400
Chatliam, “ “ jgQ
Muscogee, 44 “ 171
Crawford, “ ** oy
Upson. “ ** 350
Houston, “ ** j 75
Maeou, “ “ 300
Pike, to 152
Monroe, “ “ • 215
Talbot, “ “ ooy
Sumter, “ “ 480
Fayette, “ “ ]f,Q
Newton, “ “ J 350
Mclntosh, “ “ ]o;i
Marion, “ H 150
Harris, “ “ 4§o
DcKalb, “ “ 1131
Cobb, “ “ 116
Cherokee, “ “ 500
Gordon, u ]7q
Walker, “ “ 200
Cass, “ “ 400
Floyd, “ “ 400
Stewart, “ “ 230
Gwinnett, “ “ 350
Clarke, H * 350
Forsyth, “ “ 155
Washibgton, “ H 610
Wilkinson, “ “ 50
Wilkes, “ “ 40
Oglethorpe, “ “ 200
Henry, “ “ 630
Troup, “ “ 520
Green, ** M 500
Hancock, “ “ 225
Randolph, “ “ 185
Campbell, “ “ 40
Coweta, “ “ 134
Liberty, “ “ 100
Heard, “ “ 000
Columbia, “ ** 00(1
Waren, u “ 000
Taliaferro, “ u 000
Lumpkin, “ “ *OOO
Walton, “ 400*
Chattooga, “ all over.”
Pulaski, Decatur, Jefferson,Bryan, Bulloch mid EtEtig
luim, no opposition.
Burke—half and half.
Dooly, half and half.
DISUNION.
Scriven—no opposition.
Murray, 112 Majority.
Jones, 20 “
Twiggs, 160 “
Jasper, 75 “
Butts, 150 “
Early, 71 “
For the Georgia Cilices.
Scraps.
Some of our Fire-eating friends receive their late defeat
with a bad grace. A certain ruling elder in one of our
churches, is particularly affected, lie says that for the fu
ture he will not buy, eat, wear, nor have any thing about him
that is produced north of the Potomac. Did we not know
that lie would run his arm as far into the mud for a dime as
any other man, we would expect soon to hear that he had
cast his good old Bible into the street because of its northern
manufacture. Be careful Uncle Tommy, or you will be
caught in a fib, for those mint drops with the ‘‘.Eagle bird”
on one side are very tempting, and are not all manufactured
in these diggins. Besides, to carry out your principle, you
will have to repudiate even your parson himself, because his
religion came from a Pilgrim ancestry and is expounded by
Northern-born lips 1
