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1 Carrcniionifriirr.
LETTER FBO)I ALBANY.
Albany, July2Stli, 1851.
Dear Sir: —Tho lion. Howell Cobb was in our
L |)]nce last Tuesday, and there was a very large crowd
tout. I have been waiting the ‘Patriot’s’ account of it,
H:fcut not having had time, he has postponed it until his
jnext issue, thinking perhaps that he can make out a
lolerably plausible case by that time. You are usually
Isc barefaced, Colonel we would like to have a good speci
men—one that would do credit to the land of your
nativity, Yankecdom. Mr. Cobb informed us of one
[ thing, Colonel, which was really news, that you were
stript of your • Northern swndling clothes’ Don t
deny it Colonel, because he said so. If you do we will
fidoubt it. But excuse this digression, Colonel. Mr
fjCobb made a speech an hour long, which was truly
■defence against the unjust assertions which have been
feast upon him by such pretty sheets as the ‘Thunder
bolt of Northern freedom.’ lie is certainly a giant in
mind and not a Liliputian in body. He spoke an
hour, and according to previous arrangement, Col. Tift.
Sos the‘Albany Patriot,’ all tho way from the North.
followed him, but he did not reply—not he. He had
[freplied to such men as General \Y. and Colonel P.
(two of his Northern and such like brethren in time
past, and he had thought it was nothing to reply to a
speech ? He had a speech indeed to reply to. But he
arose notwithstanding to hear himself talk, and
I “Oh sacred truth ! thy triumph ceased awhile,
Well horse it did, for T. was on the stile. ’’
He looked like a fellow‘sent for and could'nt come.’
‘T could plaster over all’ (he said) ‘and make these fol
lows believe me, but this man Cobb is such a sharp fel
low he will tear down the plastering when he gets up to
reply, but I'll tell ‘em so fast that lie cant notioe but few
having only a half hour, and besides I'll make a few
personal allusions, so here goes.’
It was the only time I ever saw- the Colonel tired of
telling the ‘ critters lie asked about every five min
utes how much time be had left. He accused Mr. Cobb
of being an abolitionist and a traitor to the South, which
Mr. Cobb replied to in a style that the Colonel will not
forget soon, lie is a nice man, to charge a native
Georgian of being an abolitionist and traitor to bis
country.
I would ask this self-constituted champion and
.protector of Southern rights, a few’ questions? How
long have you been among us—and how long do you
tarry ? * Are you not worth thirty or forty thousand
dollars, and do you own more than 5 or 6 negroes ?
; You pretend to advocate non-intercourse and why do
you send your children to the Northern Schools? You
have had the audacity to accuse a native Georgian
of being a traitor to liis State, and you can’t object to
giving us some light on the subject, and particularly as
J you were nominated by the Fire-Eaters a few days
ago for the House of Representatives from Baker, and
very much against your will'.
Now whoisthe man to be trusted by us. one born
and educated among us, or one born and educated
among our enemies, as you call your Northern rela
ions and brethren. One who preaches and writes of
non-intercourse, and still patronizes Northern Schools?
Your professions are Southern, but your practice, ball!
, Do you know that Mr. Seward of the North, whom
{ you profess to hate so much, ever lived in Georgia and
got his start in the world by teaching the ‘young idea
how to shoot’ here in tills State. If you have any
Norlhern ex-pedagogues in your place, please remind
them that this is a part of Mr. Seward’s memory.
] Stranger things than this bave happened in the United
■ States, Colonel, and the weakness of poor human nature
-{if nothing else ) will warrant me in the assertion that
stranger still may come to pass. Where is my old
personal friend D. C. C. of the ‘Federal Ruin ?’—
Give him my respects and tell him we want him to
|-eomc down and take charge of a paper w'ith the fol
lowing motto, ‘ The truth only when it is forced upon
us, to he or not to lie, that is _ the question.’ Some
Intimate acquaintance of his lias suggested that the
tlbore motto was compatible with the old fellers nature,
education and practice. I don't know, but if so it
will all suit. BAKER.
For i/tc Georgia Citizen.
1 niou and Disunion.
It has been doubted, repeatedly, whether a republic
1 could be framed, with sufficient skill and wisdom, to
| give it that durability, which characterises governments
• of a different formation. The principal difficulty in main
taining the former seems to be in keeping on a prop
| er balance between consolidation on the one hand, and
‘ a consequent tendency to despotism ; and on the other,
ultra loeal influences requiring a species of freedom in
! consistent with any government at all. thus begetting
n spirit of evil import, destructive of the common
, Union, the PALLADIUM of man’s best interest, so
■aptly illustrated in the farewell address of the father
<*f bis country, —the IMMORTAL WASHING
TON.
“ Time hath, a wallet at his back,
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
A great sired monster of ingratitude;
Thoic scraps are good deeds past: which devoured
As fast as they arc made, forgot as soon
As done : to have done is to hang quite out
Os fashion.”—Siiakspeare.
I lam not sure that we are not approaching just such
a.crisis in our political system as the Greeks 432 years
1 before Christ, and 3572 years after Adam. We need
( not fear the increase in number of Slaves, if indeed it
were passible to confine them to the area of coun-
I try already prescribed for them by some. For in the
f very dawn of Athens, when her territory was not
1 much larger than three of our largest counties, her popu-
I lalion consisted of 20,000 free citizens, and 60,000
• slaves. This was about 800 years before Christ, and
’ never did country flourish as did this chivalric and no
i hie republic for four or five centuries. It was not the
I number of their slaves, that caused the destruction of
j the Republic of Greece about a century afterwards,
t On the contrary it was jealousy, pride and ambition,
1 engendering civil strife, among themselves, which six
• hundred years after the foundation of republicanism
ultimately engulphed them in the whirl-pool of destruc
tion. There were sixteen States of Greece and tliir
! teen Islands, all of which were subdued by internal dis
sention, exciting the awful spectacle of a confederacy
sinking exhausted from its own luxury and vices into
. the vortex and dark repose of DESPOTISM. Such
is unfortunately the fate and tendency of federated
governments more especially when they have grown a
j little rich, and the hearts of many are corrupt and cal
• lous. Ours is the last experiment of self government by
the people, and if we fail, what despondency will
| weigh down the hearts cf .all the friends of frec-
I dom in the earth ! . They will reproach us with their
j doom, -as th-y descend into a dark and hopeless night
I of despotism, and our shame shall be recorded on the
annals of the world, as an ungrateful republic, which
| has cast from her, the richest boon of heaven. Then
; it will be said of vs as of Rome, that ‘the mighty has
j eommited suicide.’ One hundred and thirty-three years
j before Christ, the internal quarrels of Rome commenc
■•ed, and in the short space of 96 years, Pharsalia, Phil
| jam and Actium inscribed on her tomb, the ‘Mighty
M istress of the World is fallen.’
When I contemplate the above which every school
; hoy, much less American citizen should have by heart,
f with the history of other republics connected .with that
of our own, I am filled with desire and yearning that
• our government may stand the test of time. And
| though we have the advantages of the beacon light of
i others to guide us safe into port, I sometimes tremble
•’ when 1 hear the reckless cry of secession, and discover
i the very same spirit and awful delusion among mv coun-
I trymen that fomented and set on fire civil commotion a
I century before their final .down fall. For rest well as
| sured, that the laws of government (t mean the na
i tural laws) and human nature in all ages are the same,
j nnd unless we change our course and cultivate a love
for our brethren in every part of this beloved
country, discouraging geographical distinctions with
hate of different sections on account of their supposed
opposition to our own selfish and local interest, the
worst is to be FEARED.
I ith much pain, too, I discover there are dema-
Ml’ogneß, wining to ride into power on the destruction of
K| l! ' !r countr ib :!s it was in days of old. An.l that a!
HL'’ “ ko should otherwise stand deservedly high, .wise 1
has occupied the chief seat at meeting, held for the
purpose of promoting civil discord ; and warring against
whaf the better half of their brethren , (nay I might j
say two thirds of them,) think and know, to be consti
tutional and right, should be set up and voted for by
many for the highest office of State is something that
will make another wrinkle in the face of time. llow
insulting too, that the friends of such candidate,
should have tho assurance to beard the supporters of
constitutional law and order, as submissionists, because
they are orderly citizens, submiting to the laws of their
country, at the same time that their candidate for Gov
ernor the Lion and Champion of the Cofin Regiment
at Macon and Nashville Convention, says in his letter
of acceptance,‘we must submit or acquiesce’ as I un
derstand him, ‘we have been grossly insulted, and
wronged by Congress, in the admission of California.
and the abolition of the Slave trade in the District of
Columbia and other kindred measures,’ and not inter
fere with the decision of the PtOPLE of Georgia in
the last Georgia Convention on the subject of the so
called Compromise. As he seems so willing now, to
abide the decision of the majority of the dear little
sovereigns, if elected, might we not easily infer that
the State or the mind of the majority had changed,
by putting in office a man of his known secession prin
eiples, and we thereby be juggled into the Disunion
ranks? Although lam a personal frieud of McDonald,
1 shall not risk him, this time. 1 cannot go for a se
cession Lilian man, or one who is not certain to concur
heartily in the settlement of the so called compromise,
and who has never been ready to sacrifice or even in
cur the risk of giving up the only safeguard of South
ern rights, the protection afforded by the Federal Con
stitution. lor it would be suicide in the extreme in
the South to think of strengthening the cause of slave
ry by dissolving tlie L nion, temporarily, or permanent
ly. It has been well said, that ‘a withdrawal at the
present crisis, from the L nion by the slaveholding
States, would beget revolution and perhaps, the im
mediate abolition of slavery,’ Whereas, if we cling
to it as the only hope of securing our rights against
the encroachment of our enemies, (if indeed in our
blind zeal we are not our own worst foes,) and of re
gaining our lost rights (if an}- thing has been lost by
tbe compromise incompatible with the common in
terest of all the State) there is a chance by gaining time
to husband our resources and accumulate wealth and
strength, to perpetuate the institution for many centu
ries, and perhaps forever, if God should not see lit that
we get tired of it and do all that is ever done towards
its abolition.
It is saal that the abolition of the slave trade in the
District of Columbia, is the entering wedge to free
the slaves in the States. It is wonderful that persons
here in Georgia, make so much a do about it, when
irotn the slave hollers in the District of Columbia you
hear not a word of complaint. And we must recollect
too , that the African slave trade was abolished num
bers of years ago, and the government has not thought
ot freeing the slaves in the States yet. Besides that
abolition of the slave trade that wc hear so much talk
about is nothing but what Georgia did a few years
ago in abolishing the slave trade by speculation—and
prohibiting the;, being brought into the State only by
persons bringing them for their own domestic use.—
The same law precisely passed Congress for the Dis
trict ol Columbia, and be it borne in mind that the
District of Columbia is dependent on Congress, and
her own representation in Congress with her own ad
vice and consent for the regulation of all her domestic
concerns, and other laws for the public good. If she
chooses through her Legislateur (Congress) to Jo what
we think we have a right to do by our own Legislature,
how dare we complain. It has been said lliat it will
be with us as it was with one of the West India Islands,
the subject of abolition will be talked of and the first
thing we know the General Government will free tlie
blacks among us, striking us like a clap of thunder on
a bright sun shiny day. Our government proposes no
such power as the government that set the West India
slaves free, it was done by a government possessing full
power to perfect such an end, as the act of liberation
amply proved. It has been objected that there is as
much cause of complaint now against our government
as there was against the British government before the
declaration of independence in 1776, that it was the
principle our fathers complained of and not the injury
they sustained. In the celebrated declaration of in
depende r e, there are no less tiian seventeen charges
of the most common and heinous nature set up against
the mother government; and among the rest are the
following: lie, (the government) has plundered our
Seas, ravaged our coast, burnt our towns, and destroyed
the lives of our people. He is at this time transport
ing large armies to complete the work of death and
desolation among us. Denying us the right of trial by
Jury. Taxing us without representation and against
our consent, Ve. Let us be on our guard,that whilst we
are so vigilant on deck, we do not spring a leak
in the bottom of tho Ship of Slate more dangerous
than some of those dangers that may prove to be ima
ginary ; and we be then suddenly overwhelmed from a
quarter and unguarded point to which little attention
has been paid. I for one shall not cast my vote for a
helmsman at this crisis, who from the tendency of his
conduct heretofore, has created doubts, by his connec
tion with the Nashville Convention or any other Con
vention, that lie would precipitately involve us in diffi
culty. Therefore I think Charles McDonald be lie
otherwise ever so good, is not the man, who is entitled
to the suffrages of the people, at a time so critical as
the present one.
May Heaven direct us in the choice of those we ele
vate to places ot influence and trust at this eventful
period in the affairs of our Nation ; when perhaps the
destiny of one ot the mightiest republics that ever ex
isted, depends mainly upon the course we pursue at
this inportant stage of American history. AVhile the
monarchy and foes of liberty in other countries are se
cretly rejoicingat the prospect, as they imagine, of the
fulfillment of their frequent prediction that we will
tall by the suicidal hand of sectional strife, internal
commotion and faction among ourselves, —the good
good and wise of our friends, every where, arc looking
on and trembling with deep solicitude, in doubt of til
issue of our fate.
If with a careful, prayerful spirit, filled with grati
tude to the dispenser of all good for many rich bless
ings we now enjoy, we investigate the grand political
questions before ns which immediately concern our
selves and posterity; putting the seal of disapprobation
upon all violent disorganizes atid hasty denouncers of
the acts of the assembled wisdom of the country, all
may yet be well. It, on the contrary, we suffer our
selves led off by sectional feeling, geographical parties,
and by restless aspirants to office, the base and design
ing, who are ever ready to take advantage of disaffec
tion and discord, fomenting the foibles of the people
with the view of elevating themselves to power, God
for our wickedness, may give us up to total blindness
and t!ie damnation of all the horrors of internal com
motion, anarchy and civil war, as a prelude to our final
destruction. Whereas it we look for guidance and sup
port above to the Supreme Intelligence, (who rears up
and throws down empires and nations at his pleasure ;
who guided our fathers in the dark hours of the Re
volution ;) in every tiling that we do politically or
otherwise, struggling at every point with the foe to
liberty, in whatever shape he appears, and thoroughly
educating all our sons and daughters in the soundest
maxims of virtue and true Americanism, then in
deed, we will be free and happy,and centuries to come
and perhaps never ending futurity will witness the cry
fi um the faithful sentinels on the wateb-tower of our
free and glorious America, ALL’S WELL : all's well.
and through our influence the whole wot Id becomes
one mighty republic, and from one end to the other
of its vast domain be reverberated that the secret of
self government is found!
W. M. S.
Fort Early, Dooly Cos. July 3, 1851.
For the Georgia Citizen.
The Riffht of a State to Secede.
“A 81-ESSING ON THE MAN THAT FIST INVENTED SECES
SION.’’
This question has elicited considerable discussion,
and it is very possible that a vast quantity of ink as well
as wind will yet be expended ia its examination. 1
believe that a State has the fight to secede from the
Union—that a County or District has the right to se
cede from a State—that a ward of a city or Magis
trates’ beat has the right to secede from a city, Countv
or District ; and that an individual has a right to se
cede from a A\ ard or County, i believe that a bus-1
baud has a right to secede from his wife, and the wife
to secede from the husband—in a few words, I believe
in tlie right of secession in its most contracted as well
as most extended sense. This, this is liberty—this is
the principle of Secession.
As the Districts or Counties are to the State, sol
regard a State towards the Union. The Counties arc
represented.in the State Legislature by Senators and
Representatives, the States are similarly represented
in Congress. The counties elect a Governor: the
States elect a President. The States are supported by
taxes levied and collected in the several counties—-the
l nion is supported by taxes, levied upon the foreign
imports of the several States.
It would be a tedious effort, and consume too much
time and room, to show in how many particulars, the
relations of the counties to the States, are similar to
those of the States to the Union. The same principle
is beautifully exemplified in the limitations of our Mag
istrates’ beats, or in the wards of our cities. I look
upon these things, ns the pervading spirit of the Re
public, as the conduits through which the stream of se
cession, like arterial blood, sustains the existence of the
country, which it acknowledges tho freedom and inde
pendence of its several parts. Destroy or deny the l ight
of a county to secede from the State, or a ward from a
city, and all that was achieved in the seven years war
in the Revolution, is but an empty bauble —there is no
real independence—-it is the shadow of freedom, but
the substance of despotism, that is left as our inheri
tance. “I would rather be a t-o-a-d and feed upon the
noxious vapours of a dungeon, than such a Freeman.
Nay, more, he who denies to me the right to make
tny house and lot an independent Republic, —to de
clare myself absolved from all allegiance or obligations
to the governments of a eity, of the State of Georgia,
or the United States, is an enemy to the sovereignty,
and the rights of the people of this country. “ All men
are created equal,” and whenever any power of gov
ernment becomes destructive of life, liberty, and tlie
pursuit of happiness, it is the right of the peo
ple, and equally tho right of one person ns of one mil
lion, to alter or abolish it, and to institute anew gov
ernment. It is true, that the isolated action of a single
individual and his family, might be attended with some
disadvantages, but if eight or a dozen neighbors, com
posing a square in a city, were to co-operate and form
a Republic, they would be invincible. The little Re
public of San Marino, amid the convulsions of Europe,
looked down from her lofty home in the Appenines,
and often entertained fears for her national safety, but
has remained secure in her independence. llow differ
ent is it here ? We deny tlie right of any power to
enforce upon us obedience so laws which we declare to
be null and void in their operation. Ours is a govern
ment which derives its ‘‘just powers from the consent
of the governed.’’ No force can bo employed here
to execute laws where the consent < f any citizen is with
held. The very idea of force being employed carries
with it all the principles of a despotism.
The States are the parties to the compact of the
l nion—the counties are the compact to the State—the
Magistrates’ Districts are parties to tho compact of the
counties—tho wards are the parties to the compact of
the city—and the people individually are the parties to
the compact of wards, Districts and counties. 1 know
that we are all swallowed up in tlie territory of tlie
L uited States; but apart from that there is tio such
thing as the United States, nor the State of Georgia.
These are artificial creations, and imaginary lines divide
them. If the territory of a ward, beat, county or a
State, is strictly to be represented in a county, Legisla
ture or Congress, there it should be by some of the soil
—if its people are to be represented, then it should be
done by 6ome of its citizens or inhabitants. In ibis
view, vve are all resolved down into sovereigns, or in
dependent integrals of a stupendous aggregation of free
men. As long as we all consent to be governed by
general laws, we are expected to conform to them.
Some opponents to secession and friends to tyranny
may say, that this government is not strong enough.
“ 1 believe this, on the contrary, the strongest govern
ment on earth. I believe it the only one, where every
man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of
law, and would meet invasion of tlie public order as his
own personal concern.” Jefferson thought so, and 1
coneur.
The right ofa State to secede from the Union, or a
county from a State, or a ward from a city, is graphi
cally announced and sustained by the Virginia and
Kentucky Resolutions. Upon any infraction of a com
pact or contract of association, the parties have the
right to judge for themselves. Tha people are the
source of all power, and who shall deny to the people
that right, to institute new forms of government ? What
can be more truly republican than tho glorious
spectacle of a galaxy of sovereign Republics in Geor
gia 1 If only each county forms ail independent gov
ernment, wo can then have nearly one hundred, and
equal to three times the number of States at present in
the Union. No difficulties can grow out of such gov
ernments ; for we can form treaties of commerce and
friendship, and trade and live harmoniously. Evil dis
posed persons will not remain among us. Wo will
have a political millenitim, and can gratify the ambition
of all our people to be Legislators, Judges, Congress
men, Presidents, Foreign Ambassadors and Consuls,
and every other aspiration of their hearts, in the way of
official distinction and importance.
These are a few of the advantages of the right of se
cession—an ? the principle should never be yielded. If
the State of South Carolina refuses to break the link,
or Georgia ignobly succumbs, then “single handed ami
alone, 1 will put the ball in motion,” and dissolve all
connection with the city, county, State or national
Government. My house shall be mycasile, and I will
be Monarch of all I survey. The noble Bayard of the
South, noticing that I have unfurled his flag, liSercs
siion the remedy'’ will rush to my support, if ever a
ministerial gun shall flash near the confines of my Re
public. I wifi call upon the Southern Rights cohorts
in Georgia, upon the chivalry of South Carolina, upon
the high toned Alabamians, upon the gallant Quitman
is Mississippi: and particularly upon my ardent friends
in Scricen. But, I fear no interference with my na
tionality, this is not a government of force !
I know that there are some new minor points in this
question which are embarrassing to every honest and
intelligent mind. Perhaps it would be strange if it were
otherwise. Among these, the idea of sovereignty ap
pears to be the most perplexing. What is it? Strip it
of its garnishments, and let it appear in its naked, “un
housed and free condition” before us. It is intangible,
not to be seen, and is nothing, without an army and na
vy—ergo, if it the army and navy. Well, what con
stitutes the army and navy ? The people-—their sover
eignty, in fact, is with the people. The individual
States claim i t—-tlie United States claim it—and as there
appears to be a wrangle about rights, I put in my claim
before the distribution of the asserts of sovereignty
takes place. Every individual can do the same. 1
want nil of my share or more, and I want it in a parcel
to itself. If the Revolution has to be fought over again,
let the music strike up, and “all the pomp and circum
stances of glorious war” come thivkly studded with
misery, want, shattered limbs and brainless skulls;
weeping widows, and fatherless orphans. Let them
come; aye, multiplied by all the horrors f bloodv
scenes in other times, ten thousand fold, let them come.
“ A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, (and personal or
individual sovereignty) is worth a whole eternity of
bondage,” by the denial of the right of State secession,
county secession or individual secession. Parts consti
tute the whole. If my right is denied as an individual,
with what kind of plausibility can 1 be called upon to
sustain the rights of a ward, county or State ? “He
that dallies is a dastard : he that doubts is damned’’ on
a question of this character. There can be no compro
mise ; no “best that we can get” will do formes “54,
40, or fight,’’ is, and will continue to be my motto.
It is regarded as due to those with whom I have boon
so long associated, that my opinions on this important
question should he freely and unreservedly expressed.
I shall be prepared logo into separate nationality, at as
early a day after tlie election of my friend McDonald,
and the meeting of the Southern Congress, as maybe
compatible with my safety and happiness. In view of
the important change, this may be regarded as a prelimi
nary proclamation of my intentions,
ZEKE HOMESPUN.
P. S. Should the above views meet with co opera
tion, I shall be pleased to receive letters to that effect.
In no case will communications be received, however,
unless the postage is paid, as I am rather better supplied.
at tliis time, with chivalry, than funds.
7 IT I
For the Georgia Citizen .
“Our Southern Rights Association.’’
Dr. Andrews l feel like a penitent sinner, and
must make “ a clean breast of it: Some year ago, I
was rather ardent in my devotions to the cause of
Southern Rights and co-operated with a few others in
organizing an Association. It was rather an up-hill
business to gather a crowd, but we hired martial music
to make a noise, and drum up the friends of the South.
\\ e managed to collect about a dozen, and but oue or
two slaveholders honored us with their presence. We
called another meeting, to elect officers, and hear the
report of the Committee or. by-laws, Ac. Four persons
were there—meeting was postponed. Another meet
ing was called, and the drums engaged,—but it was a
dead failure—not a soul went! I contributed to pay
for music, candles, Ac., to sustain the rights, honor and
institutions of the South, and could not get up “ one
association.” The tiling fizzled out. Now if any per
son enquires about the Southern Rights Association of
—— county, we feel like wishing him “ down be
low.” Last fall I voted for a Southern Rights man
for the Convention—the action of the Convention met
my approbation, and I have washed my hands of all
connexion with Southern Rights Associations, and have
got upon the Georgia Platform, and will vote for Cobh
and the Union, if 1 live to get to tlie polls, ill October ;
and I am personally acquainted with many others who
intend to do the same. Disunion or Secession weak
ened me in the Southern Rights faith very much, and
it was some time before I was convicted that such was
the policy of the party. So I split my ticket at tlie elec
tion in November, and was determined to be half right
at least—but now, lain determined to be “all right’’
and will go alone for Cobb and the Union , as the best
means of promoting and securing Southern Rights.
ONE OF THE VOTERS.
THE GEOimiAICITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR.
MACON, CEO. AUG. 2, 1851.
UNION NOMINATION,
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. IIOWELL COBB,
OF CLARKE.
UNION CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES.
FIRST DISTRICT.
CHARLES 11. HOPKINS,
OF m’iNTOSII.
SECOND DISTRICT.
JAMES JOHNSON,
OF MUSCOGEE.
TIHRD DISTRICT.
ABSALOM H. CHAPPELL,
OF Dili 13.
FOURTH DISTICT.
CHARLES MURPHY,
OF DE KALB.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
E. W. CHASTAIN,
OF GILMER.
SIXTH DISTRICT
JUNIUS HILLYER,
OF WALTON.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
ROBERT TOOMBS,
OF WILKES.
Mr. €happelj’s Ajhm j/Ufeents.
Hon. A. IT.
Third District as follows viz f
Knoxville, “ Tuesday,MU’ Aug- sth.
Irwinton, “ Aug. 9tb.
Zebalon, “ Thursday, Aug. 21st.
Thomaston, “ Thursday, Aug. 28tli.
Talbotton, ‘‘ Saturday, Aug. 30th.
Forsyth, “ Thursday, Sept. 4th.
Jackson, “ Tuesday, Sept. 16th.
The appointments left for Jasper, Jones and Twiggs
be will made hereafter. Col. Chappell will also hold him
self ready to attend at any place in the District, at which
arrangements may be made for him to address the peo
ple, not conflicting with the above appointments.
To (’o respondents.
Letter No. 2 from Madison, next week.
IJjf” Letter from the North, No. 10. Do. Do.
Anonymous communications not admissible.
CJF” The suggestions of a correspondent, from Griffin,
will betaken into consideration.
Pay up —Quite a large number of our subscribers
in town and country are in arrears to this office. We
hope that during the present dull season they will re
member to “do justly” to the Printer.
A Largo licet.- -Mr. William Collins has sent
us a specimen of Beet., which is hard to beat. It weighs
a fraction less than 4 pounds.
A Whole Hoff Secessionist.
We invite attention to the communication of “Zeko
Homespun” in to-days paper. He is one of the ultras
of the age, who does not stop one quarter of the way
on the high-road to dissolution—but goes the whole
figure for the “ abstract right’’ of secession, now so
much contended for by tlie Filibusters. This right
being admitted —not as a Constitutional provision, but
as a revolutionary resume of natural right, “Zeke's”
reasoning and conclusions a: e cogent and irresistible.
Our Campaign Paper.
We are now priming a very large edition of the
Citizen, with which to supply campaign and regular
subscribers, and respectfully solicit attention to the fact
that tlie paper will not be exclusively political, (as cam
paign papers usually are,) but will contain a variety of
other matter of use to most readers, which oWglit to
give us preference over smaller ephemeral publications.
Asa medium of advertising, too, tile Citizen has
now, with double the large circulation of last year,
double the facilities of bringing business notices before
the eye of the public. Add to this the well” known
readable character of our sheet, and the independent
position of the Editor, in the present canvass, which
calls for no defence from charges of political inconsis
tency, and no recall of of former denunciations of our
political standard-bearers,—and the Constitutional
Union party have every reason to induce them to fur
ther our plans and aid us in our labors, by additional
cash subscribers, advertising, &c. Small favors thank
fully received and larger ones in proportion.
To Mechanics.
The Address delivered before the State Mechanics’
Convention, together with the proceedings of that body,
have been issued in pamphlet form, and are now ready
for delivery to subscribers. Brother Mechanics ! Help
to distribute the documents, that the months of cavil
lers may be stopped, and the truth have free circulation
throughout the land.
Warm Weather.— f or a week past, the weath
er in this latitude has been rather fiery ill its tempera
ture tor the comfort of man and beast, the thermome
ter ranging from 96 to 100, in the shade, within doors,
through the day and evening. On Wednesday eve
ning we had a fine rain but it has had little effect in
moderating the excessive heat. In fact every body is
now in a “melting mood’’ and frozen water from Yan
kee ponds is an indispensable luxury. Even the Fire
Eatcis are crying out for more ice to cool their boilers
and prevent a dissolution of their respective sovereign
ties! Heigh ho! But it is. a sweltering, fizzing,
soethintf time that is horrible to endure!
Adjourned. —The Superior Court of Bibb ad
journed on Wednesday last, without being able to
dispose of half the business on the docket, though in
arduous session several weeks.
The cases of Ivy and Clifford have been arrested by
appeal to the Supreme Court, and the prisoners remand
ed to the County Jail.
In the case of the State vs B. Winehill, on a charge of
fraud, the jury could not agree, there being eleven to one
in favor of acquittal. The accused is therefore compelled
to remain till February, in prison, unless sooner released,
by Bail. YV e look upon this case as peculiarly hard, in
asrnuch as one Juror has had the power, not onlv to
defeat the judgment of his eleven peers, but to effectu
ally set aside the charge of the honorable Court itself,
which was, we learn altogether in favor of the defendant.
If such is the law and the right of the case, the Juror
aforesaid ought to have the most incontrovertible reason
for an obstinacy of opinion which is so despotic hi its
exercise.
Grand Jury Presentments.
The presentments of the Ist pnnnel of the Grand
Jury of Bibb county have caused no little sensation in
this community, and elicited some discussion, which
will probably redound to the public good. That there
has been bad management of the Education Fund and
great loss to the county thereby, seems to be generally
conceded, and we think it high time that the Trustees
of the Academy be called upon to make a showing. If
the funds have been diverted from legitimate objects or
any part thereof misappropriated, let the blame fall
where it belongs—upon the guilty and not upon the
innocent. Tile former Truste's owe it to themselves
to give the public all the information they possess on
the subject, so tint a proper judgment may be formed
in the case, and a proper remedy applied. Os all wick
ed betrayals of public trust, we look upon that which
robs the poor of the privileges and blessings of education
provided by the State, as the least excusable. If any
such betrayal lias been committed, let the wrong-doer
be exposed and punished.
Second District.
We 1 earn from a gentleman just upfrom Americas,
that on Tuesday last, the Union Congressional Con
vention for the second District, nominated JAMES
JOHNSON, Esq. of Columbus, as their Standard
Bearer, in the present canvass ! Col. M’Dougald, Gen.
Eli Warren, E. R. Brown, Esq. and. Win. 11. Craw
ford, Esq. bad each friends and supporters in Conven
tion, but after comparing notes, and calculating the rela
tive strength of these highly respectable gentlemen,
Mr. Johnson was nominated by acclamation as the
candidate of the Union party, for Congress, from that
District.
We understand that Mr. Johnson accepted the nom
ination, though with great reluctance, and only on its
being pressed upon him by the united voice of the Con
vention and his friends. lie will take the field imme
diately and keep it till the election.
Catoosa Springs.
Extract of a Letter to the Editor ,
Catoosa Springs, July 27, 1851.
Catoosa Springs is the most delightful, and magnifi
cent [dace in the Southern country. In fact it is not
surpassed in the variety of waters, or its fine accommo
dation, by Saratoga, or any other place in the United
States. I wish more of our low country people w'ould
emne up here. It would be more to their credit, and
more to their interest, than to run off to the North, to
spend their time and their money.
Trouble at Atlanta.
A correspondent writing from Atlanta, under date
of the 31st ult. gives some details of the arrest in that
city of the celebrated Fugitive Slave Henry Long, for
robbing his master’s hotel of money Are. This fellow.
Long, it will be remembered, was recovered in New
York as a fugitive slave and taken to Richmond, Ya.
and there sold under bonds by the purchaser to remove
him from the limits of that State. lie was according
ly brought to Atlanta and sold to Capt. Lloyd of the
Washington Hall, who took him into his house as head
waiter !
The result is, that the negro has robbed his master,
besides being instrumental (on negro testimony) in get
ting up several meetings of the ‘colored society’ with
a view to insurrection ! Another negro, the cook of
the Hotel is implicated with Long, and they have both
been whipped and lodged in jail for further examina
tion. A white man is also implicated.
All this comes of opening wide the door, by the last
Legislature, for the slave traffic from other States,
by which all the vicious and abandoned negroes of the
border slave States are transferred to the extreme
South, to the great hazard of the public safety.
We regret that we have not room for the interesting
letter of our Correspondent in full, but the lateness of
its reception forbids.
Difficulties of Secession.
If one sovereign State lias a right to secede at
pleasure from the Union so has another. All
the States, new or old, are co-equal sovereign
ties. Accordingly, Florida, for which Uncle
Sam gave five millions of dollars, Lousiana, for
which lie gave fifteen millions, and California,
New Mexico, <Fc., for which one hundred mil
lions and more have been paid by the old gen
tleman, may each and every one, to-morrow,
secede from the confederacy, set up house on
their own hook, and cheat the United States out
of the whole amount ! Again, Louisiana may
closo up the Mississippi River against all the
Western States, and no one has a right to com
plain of the rank injustice and robbery! Pshaw!
What a silly thing is the boasted “ right of se
cession” even if it were conceded on all hands.
It is only an abstraction at best, which no sensi
ble man would ever think of carrying into op
eration, had he the power. It is the “shadow
of a shade,” a little bit thinner than moonshine ,
and yet we hear as much howling over it by the
secessionists of the day, as was ever heard from
a blear-eyed hound in its observations of the
pale-faced moon at midnight!
Howell ( o!>b OK Houston.
We pel'ct'ivy -t-he't ‘one Howell Cobb of Houston
county is <wHh favor of the secession side of the ques
tion _ “We do not know what was the occasion for his
appearance at this time, before the public, hut think
proper to notify the reader that Howell Cobh of Houston
and the lion. Howell Cobh, of Clarke, are two very dif
ferent men. The latter is the Constitutional Union
candidate for Governor. The former is a compiler of
Law Books, A'c. We make this statement, because
we have understood that some persons below have fallen
into the mistake of supposing our candidate for Gov
ernor is “ Howell Cobh of Houston” whom they are
unwilling to support for office! We say, “ let every
tub stand on its own bottom. ’’ The Hon. Howell
Cobb of Clarke county is the man whom the people will
delight to honor—next October, and not his namesake of
Houston, who is not a candidate for the executive sta
tion.
Fair at Atlanta.
Our readers will remember that the Great Fair of
the “Georgia Agricultural, Mechanical and Manufac
tural Association” will be held at Atlanta, week after
next, the 13th, 14th and 15th inst. Liberal pre
miums have been offered, and every arrangement made
fora brilliant exhibition.
Secessionists for the Union.- -Those rabid
disunion papers—the Republic and Constitutionalist, of
Augusta, have united in loving embrace. They have
gone for a consolidated government this time, and
no mistake ! It reminds us of the “ Boa Constrictor,”
swallowing the Moccasin “ sarpent”—only we don't
know which is the “Boa” or which the little snake !
Tile Cuban Insurrection. —The accounts
of the rising of the Cubans are so contradictory, that
we are unable to give any reliable information on the
subject to our readers. Rumors abound but authenticated
facts are 1 few and far between.’ AV hen we get any
news, except from Filibuster papers interested in get
ting up another crusade against Cuba, we will publish
it. Even the proclamati n found in to-day’s paper may
or may not be a forgery.. We do not vouch for its
authenticity, though it looks plausible enough.
7
The Case of Alberti and Price.
Two persons were recently sentenced by an infa
mous Judge Farsons of FJtiladelphia, one to a fine
of S7OO and eight years imprisonment and the other to
SIOOO fine and ten years imprisonment, on a charge of
kidnapping a child belonging to a woman slave who had
runaway from Maryland and was subsequently return
ed to service through a civil process sued out before &
Philadelphia Magistrate.
Alberti was acting as Attorney in behalf of the
owner of the fugitive slave, and, in every particular, in
accordance with the law. He was charged with kid
napping the woman's child, because the mother in
sisted on taking her child with her and he assented
thereto, after objecting in vain to her proposition.
Price was employed by him in the execution of his
trust.
1 his is the substance of the case as shown by the
testimony. Alberti never touched the child to remove it.
The woman’s master never laid claim to the child, born
in a free State, and exercises no control over it. Al
berti was actuated by motives of humanity alone, not
to separate, forcibly, the mother from her child, in the
delivery of the fugitive to her master. Nevertheless he
and Price were convicted and by Judge Parsons sen
tenced, ns above stated. And oh, what a sentence!
Such abuse from a Judge to a criminal never was be
fore heard. After tantalizing the defendants in the
most malignant manner and as if he had sentenc
ed them to instant death, he had the heartless effron
tory to say that if he had erred in his sentence it was on
the side of mercy ! Alberti is an old man and his
ten years sentence the J udge evidently thought would
out-measure the poor man’s lease on life!
All this took place in Philadelphia and we hear of no
voice being raised in that city of drab-colored Chris
tianity, agaiust the tyranny and cruelty of such pro
ceedings. Talk about the soundness of Buchanan and
Dallas aiid other politicians of Pennsylvania, on the
subject of'Southern Rights, after this, as much as you
please, but for our part, we think that degraded and
infamous Boston may now yield the palm of rascality
to her sister Philadelphia, without demur or objection.
Heaven’s withering curse, say we, upon all such hypo
critical Sodoms, for nothing short of a lava of liquid
damnation will suffice to purge them of their abomina
ble wickedness. And now what remedy has the South,
against Philudephia and her infamous Judge Parsons,
in such a ease ? We have only one, and that is to
withdraw all intercourse from her. Pass her by in all
business transactions, quit trade with her—cease pat
ronizing her institutions, her public Journals, and have
nothing to do with her heartless politicians. In this
way can we take sweet revenge far more successfully
than by Secession or any other treasonable act against
the Union.
The Issues.
Under this head, the Albany Patriot says that the
question now before the people of Georgia is not Union
and Disunion (that is insulting to the common sense
of the people!) but ‘whether this is or is not a consoli
dated government in which the States stand in the
same relation to the General Government—that the
Colonies did to Great Britain ?’ Tift further says that
Georgia has already decided that she will abide by
the Compromise measures, and that the Union shall
not be dissolved on account thereof!
The Baker disunionists must then have an issue
amongst themselves which ‘all nations and the rest of
mankind’ have not heard of. In these parts it is Con
stitutional Union or Unconstitutional Secession ,
alias REVOLUTION—and nothing else! The idea
of consolidation is a humbug—a snare to catch wood
chucks, and a net to trap Owls. Let no wise man be
caught by any such nonsense!
I nfilirncss. —The Savannah News of the 29ih
July, has nearly a column of twaddle about the me
chanics’ Convention, all based upon the false assump
tion, that the mechanics have sought the ‘ prohibition
of slate labor, in the mechanic trades BY LAW!’
Now it is a fact which the ‘News’ ought to have known
before it indulged in sueli comments, that the mechan
ics’ Convention have neither sought nor intended to
seek/hny Legislative action whatever upon the subject
of sPye mechanics. They have ordered a memorial
to tlije Legislature on the subject of making mechan
ics Os the Penitentiary Convicts, but not a word
can be found in the proceedings of that body which
looks, even remotely, to Legislation as a remedy for
the evil complained of, in reference to negro mechan
ics. But the ‘News,’ not satisfied with this perver
sion of the objects of the Convention, must need quote
from the New York ‘Tiibune,’ some silly remarks
concerning the movement, with the palpable view of
fanning the prejudice which has already been falsely
gotten up against the mechanics! Is this fair, friend
ly, or honorable? Is it just to the mass of your own
subscribers and supporters to charge them, without
reason, with having‘moved in the matter of legal pro
scription of tlie blaeks from mechanical employments,
and to quote from an abolitionist print the false alle
gation that they seek also to ‘throw degradation upon
agriculture?’ Notwithstanding all your professions of
love and friendship for the mechanics, Mr. News, it is
apparent that you are either their worst enemy, or that
a desire to be on the strong side of interest Are. has
influenced your comments upon this subject. You are,
moreover, without a pretext for agitating the matter,
at the present time. The mechanics have not invited
controversy on the point, and yet you belabor it—go
out of your way to haul it into your columns, all the
while deprecating any agitation of the question as ‘im
politic!’ Arc. Verily, the mechanics of the State, in
view of your disinterested depreciation of their mo
tives and conduct, and your professions of friendship
may well say,‘save us from our friends, and we will
take care of our enemies.’
No Sir, we want no friendly advice from those not
called on to give us counsel. If mechanics choose so
to do, the evil of which they complain can be abated
without appeal to legal enactment. All that is neces
sary to be done, is for master mechanics to cease giv
ing instruction to negroes, and the evil will necessarily
die out of itself, in a few years. No legislative action
is necessary. None such is wanted or contemplated
by mechanics. Nor is there any disposition to discuss
the question in newspapers, or to agitate it in the
streets.
All this has, however, been done by others. Loaf
ing gentlemen around corners grow eloquent against
the mechanic! Fillgarlic Doctors write homilies over
the signatures of‘Southron’and ‘Salamander.’ in or
der to get up an excitement! But it is ‘love’s labor
lost.’ The honest mechanic is not thereby moved
from his purpose—which is, if possible, to elevate and
improve himself and liis class. He may be stigmatized
as an Abolitionist for opposing that which is the very
aim and efforts of fanatics, viz: the enlightening and
elevation of the servile race. He may be denied the
privileges of freedom of speech and of the press, but
all will not convince him that it is right for him to be
come the fellow of a funky negro, or his wife and
daughters the equal and fit associates of a greasy wench
of African descent !
Oxford folieffe.-- -Dr. Geo. F. Tierce has re
signed the the Presidency of Emory Collge, at Oxford,
and Prof. Alex. Means M. D. lias been elected to
fill the vacancy.
Tea Culture, &c
We invite the attention of our readers to the adver
tisement of Mr. Bonynge, in to-days s paper, concern
ing the introduction of ths 1 ea plant, Mango, Date. Cof
fee and various kinds of tropical fruits and vegetables,
into tliis State.
Open Bolls. —Air. Lawton has shown us an open
boll of cotton, from the plantation of Mr. .J. W. Carlisle
of Bibb county, who says that there is nearly a bale o<
the same sort now matured in one of his fields. The
“ first bale of the season” in this market, may there
fore be anticipated, a week or ten days earlier than
usual. We understand that the extreme drought, in
many pa. ts, has materially advanced the opening of the
bolls, though the quantity of the staple will, of course,
be much curtailed.
The Clarksville Union, of the 3th instant
says :
“From all parts of the country, we have the
cheering news that the farmers anticipate full
anti fair crops of corn and collon.”
Col. Tift vs Howeii_Cobb.
Reader, did you ever hear of the fable of the Gall’
nipper on the horn of the Elephant—of the fly on the
oach wheel who helped to raise the dust on the ave
nue, or of the bull-toad of the swamp setting up f or an
organist ? If you hav’nt, you might have°sen an apt
illustration of all such similes, at Albany, last week
wlu n Tift, the organ-grnder of McDonald, undertook
to discuss polities with Mr. Cobh ! One correspondent
says that Tift was so frightened at Mr. Cobb’s accep
tance of his challenge that his half hour was a very long
time coming to a close. He probably thought that .Ilf
Cobb would not meet him, (as he had declined meeting
other unauthorized exponents of Mr. McDonald’s sen
tiincnts,) and that he could, in this way, make a litfl,
more capital for himself and party, by vociferating
that Mr. Cobb shunned discussion! But, it was no g 0!
Mr. Cobb recognized Col. T. as the organ-grinder and
allowed him to talk, in his presence, for a half hour
much to the amusement of the b’hoys assembled. The
privilege thus granted, was, perhaps, well enough. j n
this particular instance, but if the McDonald party w 'j*h
Mr. Cobb to hold political discussions, let them trot out
their standard-bearer himself, and we venture to *av
that he can be accommodated. It cannot be expected’
however, that Mr. C. will meet every whipper-snapper
4th rate lawyer in the State, who may claim
legcof controversy with hint, on the score of friendship
for McDonald, who, all the while, is sitting away up
yonder on a pair of dignity-stilts ! Besides the im
pudence of the assumption, Mr. Cobb will do the coun
try immense harm, by stopping to fight every windmill
thit may stand in his path. The crop of “ everlasting
great men” will thereby be marvellously increased
much to the annoyance of a common sense* public, who’
have to endure the spectacle of a frog swelling itself into
an ox, without any political cooper near by to prevent
an explosive catastrophe !
The Savannah Republican thus appropiately refers
to the assault of the renowned Colonel of the “Patriot”
upon Mr, Cobb:
“ Wu lta,n from the Albany Patriot that the editor of.
that paper encountered Mr. Cobb in a public discussiotr
at Newton and Albany. We know that the editor has
a pretty high estimate of his powers, but w must be
permitted to illustrate our idea of the encounter by the
following anecdote : A certain animal, grazing by the
wayside, discovered a steam engine making headway to
wards him, when he hastily mounted the track lor a
fight and boldly encountered the iron horse. Os course
our animal was instantly crushed to death. An honest
Scotchman, who was aboard the cars and bad witnessed
the scene, after pausing a moment in silence said “Well,
I think the poor fellow showed great bravery but d—u
bad judgment.”
Coy. McDonald—a Slanderer!
Now don’t bristle up, ye Fire-Eating crew, and look
daggers, because we use “ great plainness of speech'’
in the pr.sent instance, if never before. We mean to
prove what we say, and convict C. J. McDonald of
violating truth and “ bearing false witness against his
neighbor ’! 11 is excellency has long been suspected of
trickery in politics, but we could not have believed that
he would have gone so far out of his serpentine and
tortuous course, as to deliberately falsify facts and publish
the same over his own signature, to the world ! But lie
has done it—and nothing shorter! Now for the evi
dence. Look at his late reply to the Dahlonega
Committee. In that epistle, he charges, distinctly,
that the friends of the Compromise measures believe
in the doctrine that the lex loci or existing laws of
New Mexico and other acquisitions over-ride the Con
stitution and laws of the Union in these territories! So
far from this being the fact, we never have heard of
more than three or four individuals in Georgia who
ever entertained such views. Mr. Stephens and Toomlis
once entertained the doctrine, we believe, but even
they have repudiated them as untenable. But to make
so grave a charge and so false, upon the Union Party, is
coming it a little too strong, Governor, to make it pal
ateable to us. or creditable to you. You had better
quit writing letters, as you evidently get deeper into
the mire every plunge you make into your inkstand.
We move that a Committee of Safety be appointed,
who shall see to it that “ no more disclosures for the
public eye,” be permitted to appear, from the standard
bearer of the Fire Eaters, till after- the election. Oth
erwise, the race will be no race at all. McDonald won't
stump it before the people, and he should not bo allow
ed to make such awkward flourishes as that noticed, on
paper. If there is not a surveilance kept by his
friend-:, lie will certainly commit a political felo-de-se,
long before the ballot box gives him fits !
The Higher Law. —The General Congregation -
alist Association of Connecticut, at their late meeting in
Bridgeport, with but four or five dissenting votes, ex
pressed their judgement on this question as follows :
“Whereas, recent events have directed the attention
of our fellow-citizens to the relation of divine to human
law, and the duties of Christians in eases where con
flicts arise between them—therefore,
Resolved , 1. That to God as the Supreme Lawgiver,
unconditional obedience is due ; and that no law con
trary to Ilis will is binding upon us.
2. That human government is ordained of God, and
is designed to be the expression of Ilis will, and there
fore, as a general rule, binds the conscience of the citizen
to obedience.
3. That, in those cases, where, through human
ignoranc** or wickedness, the law of man conflicts with
the law of God, the latter is to be obeyed: and that
each ind ividual must decide for himself whether or not
there is such a conflict, his own conscience being the
supreme and final arbiter.”
According to these principles, the Apostle Pant erred!
sadly when he said that the “powers that be, arc ordained
of God,’’ and as su*-h, should be obeyed. The Saviour
of the world, too, spoke unwisely, when he commanded
his disciples to “ render unto Ca-sar, the things that
are Caesar's,’’ Are.
As to the “ higher law” conscience of these puri
tanical hypocrites, we have only this to remark, that the
conscience of a Musselman teaches him that “ there is
but one God, Allah, and Mahomet ishispn phot.” The
conscience of the Pagan teaches him to immolate him
self under the wheels of the idol Juggernaut, and his
wife to burn herself upon the funeral pire of her deceased!
husband ! And the conscience of a Yankee abolitionist
will permit him to excite civil war among the people,
to light the torch of an incendiary and lay waste the
fairest temple of liberty ever erected, in one wide
-spread conflagration and ruin ! fciueii is “ higher
law” nonsense, when stripped of its hypocritical disguise
and exposed to the gaze of a civilized and Christianized
World!
the crops.
The Memphis (Ten.) Enquirer of the 19th
instant, says:
“The reports as to the Cotton crop contin
ue to he more and more distressing. We saw
a gentleman yesterday from De Soto county,
Mississippi, who had ‘220 acres of Cotton, from
which he does not anticipate realizing thirty
bales. The Corn crop is for the most part
hopelessly ruined; as is also Colton on the rid
ges.’’
The Louisville Courier of the 19th, says:
“Our telegraph dispatches from Clarksville
and Nashville speak of the great drought pre
vailing near those places, and which threatens
great destruction to the Corn, Tobacco and
Cotton crops. We hear complaints ot the
drought from nearly every portion of Ken
tucky.”
The Nashville Banner of the 14th, says.
“The long season of dry weather has been
very injurious to the Corn crop in this country,
which will be unusually short. The Cotton
crop is in good condition and promises an
abundant yield. We learn that in Cannon, and
portions of Wilson and Rutherford, there have
been rains recently', and the Corn crop vu
heavy. In Giles'both the Corn and Cotton
crops are represented as being promising.
Crops in Arkansas. —Extract ofa letter to
the editor of the Little Rock Democrat, m
gard to the prospects of crops:
“I'ayetville, July 7. —The farmers have
raised tine crops ot wheat and oats, „ C
looks fine. Health of the people good.