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From the New York Observer.
■Bfcctioiusoi and Polygamy.
rewlaiijns of the interior and total
of s< me of professedly religious
MRblishments have shocked the mind, and led
Bo inquiry as to the tendency of religious <:lelu-
Pion. It is hard to say whether knavery or >.>Uy,
whether fanati.‘ism or lustyhas more power over
the Mormons of Utah and the Peifectionists o!
Oneida; but the facts that are tow before the
world in reference to both .these communities,
are worthy of being studied as new chapters in
the hisb\ ‘ of modern imposture and delu
sion. -■ .
It is hazily known, but it is true, that there
‘s a weekly newspaper published in this im
mediate m ighbovhood, to advocate and propo
xate, Uie doctrine of the Oneida Perfectionists:
that in the community of those who are led to
embrace the system,.all the laws, both human
and divine, that are designed to regulate the
marriage relation, are set aside and denounced,
.while tie unrestrained indulgence of the hu
man pns-TOfts is practised, not merely as the
mferns to present enjoyment, but a means of
or eor help to holiness.
I'Po f,-under of this disgusting order of unit
• and idul'.erers, ; ft graduate of a New England
College,- a sti dent in two theological semina
viei, and no the editor of the paper we have
referred to above. Thecentreof this sect is in
ihe town of Lenox, Madison county, New York,
/ v here about 150 men, women and children,
live together in one house, with no distinction
V.f property, family or authority. Each one
does what seems good in his own eyes. The
]>ible is their nominal constitution, and hou
curiously they must follow its teachings, is evi
dent f.'oin the fact, that they disavow all sepa
rate or individual right
children.’ Literally, they have ‘all these things
in common.’ But the sect is by no means con
fined to Oneida and Madison Counties. lOig
York and Brooklyn, and in Newark, N. L
in many other places, there are groups of
tical members of this fouLbody, who under the
name s*.d guise of seeders after spiiitual enjoy
jiima, and j.roressing to be perfectly holy, are
ptgmg in a state of vile concubinage, and even
v. o 7 -c, such as is not even thought of among the
Mormon*.
■ rigidly maintained, and non-intervention in
■ ucd upon even at the peril of life. But in
B. Oneida Association, and in the boarding-
Buses established on similar principles in this
Binity these distinctions are utterly abolished,
■ the freest licentiousness practised as the
Best developments of holiness. We have
furnished with a number of certificates
Bied by females of this community, stating
at first they were fearful they were not do-
Kight, but the longer they have practised
system here pursued, the holier they
they grow. On the principle we sup
posethat where there is no law there is no
traufgression, they have abrogated all authori
ty but inclination, and they never sin, because
they uever do any thing but what they like.—
The reader may be amused at the practical
operation of the association of Lenox, as we
find it detailed in one of their reports.
The children are trained in a general nurse
ry, and ‘it is found to be altogether a more
comfortable task to take care of six in the new
way, than it had been to wait on one in or
dinary circumstances.’ ‘The only drawback
on the operation, was the temporary distress
of the mothers in giving up their little
ones to the care of others, which made occa
sion for some melodramatic scenes; but the
wounds were soon healed, and the mothers
learned to value their own freedom and oppor
tunity of education, and the improved condi
tion, of their children, more than the luxury of
a sicklv maternal tenderness.’ This is the lan
guage of the report.
The vv;*v tliev sleep is curious. One large
tor
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/
perse>fi must feel when contemplating the ‘in
terior life’ of this Oneida Association.
/When we now bear in mind that the per
sons thus living in this beastly manner, were
but recently members of orthodox, evangelical
churches, some of them well educated, and
most respectably connected, we cannot fail to
regard their history as in a high degree in
stiuctive, tending to show the danger of error,
and the infinite necessity of bolding fast to
truth.
Loose teaching from the pulpit and the press
is destructive to the principles. The only safe
ty is in steadfast adherence to the good old
fashioned morality of our fathers and mothers,
on whose principles the first half of the 19th
century has made no improvement.
RW The institution in Wallingford, in this
county, is a branch of this Oneida community.
— N. Haven Register.
Select the best Stock to Breed from.
A writer in the Rural New Yorker winds up
an excellent advisory article on the above sub
ject, with the following story, which is so truly
applicable to a large portion of our farmers,
that we cannot refrain from placing it before
them.
An aged and worthy neighbor, Deacon 8.,0n
meeting me said, ‘I understood, sir, that you
have been getting a splendid bull, of a breed
highly celebrated for milk.”
‘Yes, sir, I have,’ I replied.
‘Well, I have got a fine little cow, an excel
lent milker; but she is growing old, and I
want a heifer calf from her. What do you
charge ?’ “
‘Only one dollar, sir.’
‘One dollar dollar ! why it is a great
i
sHimU
v and the expenses of his
ng.’
1 must have a heifer calf.’
] The next spring he called at my gate and said
‘My cow lias got a calf; lam greatly disappoint
ed, it is not a heifer.’
‘I will step over with you, Deacon, and see
it. Well, sir, it is a noble calf. What size,
what length, what fine limbs, neat head, Arc.,
worth even now, as I think, a ten dollar bill.’
‘Oh, no,’ says he, supposing I was only con
soling him in his disappointment. In a few days
a gentleman from a northern county called to
purchase a bull calf. 1 said to him :
‘I have none, sir, not already engaged. But
my neighbor has a fine calf that will suit you,
and he will sell it, I presume, for six or eight
dollars; but I think a purchaser should give
him ten. I will go over with you, to see him.’
‘W e have called, Deacon to see your calf.—
I his gentleman wants to purchase one.’
The good man was alarmed at the first sen
tence.
‘I think I dpn’t want to sell him, sir.’
‘Oli, you will sell him, as you don’t want to
keep him, you will sell him at a suitable price,’
‘l—l—l think I shan't sell him. I can't sell
him.’
Shortly after, another applicant appeared aud
we called on the good man. ‘We want to see
your calf, sir. This gentleman wants to pur
chase.’ The old man fetched a sigh—
‘lie is gone, sir.’
‘Not sold, is he?’
‘\es. A stranger called, and I refused to
sell him. But he pressed ine so unreasonably
to name a price, that in order to get rid of him,
I said I would take sls for him, and he took
him in a moment. He is gone, sir.’
Meeting him a short time after ; ‘Well Dea
con,’said I, “you have not come yet with your
cow.’
‘Oh, no,’ he answered, ‘I have been to Sam’s
shop. He charges me only two shillings, and
you ask me a dollar,’
‘Well, Deacon, remember you are to have a
two shilii ng calf.’
The next season, passing hirnat Lis gate, 1
port, or they cannot take part in it in good faith.
And here it is that, as we have already said, the
only argument which is good enough to be even specious
in favor of the course proposed in Georgia, breaks en
tirely down. The Milledgeville caucus propose to use
the Baltimore Convention, while the inevitable result
must be, that they will only succeed in being used by
it. They will find themselves in the position of the
Irishman who caught the tartar. The Tartar will
neither come with them, nor let them come away by
themselves.
There is another consideration which deserves to be
taken into the account. The Union delega'esof Geor
gia are not expected to present themselves at Balti
more as democratic delegates. They are to go, if t his
silly plan is carried out, as representatives of the Uflibti
party. But in this character, how can they expect to
be received into a body which claims to be exclusively
democratic. We presume that they would not be re
ceived at ail, without an understanding that they lay
aside their character, and betray the party which elec
ted them. Or, in case they refuse to do this, we pre
sume that they could only be admitted to seats by cour
tesy, as a kind of embassy from a large body of elec
tors whom the convention might be disposed to concil
iate, but without the privilege of debate or vote. In
this case, they might sit as silent spectators of the pro
cess by which the south is to be sold ; but we imagine
that their position would little respectable, that it
would border on the ludicrM^^^#^^^
the Ij^B^^^BMMkcSou'.h
i;
a in :Ik.
g"u.er\, ami which “If* ’’ r-c. >v.
” •{ !>* o!’ Ge TLca, :!’ n..t ii\
tiv.- nui’ us ; an.i that is to lake t art in
national nominating conventions, but to watch tlil^HH
suits and choose between them, or it neeessery
both. By such a course, the injluenct of -tV - >uth
terted- much moe efficiently that) it’ wouiiibe”
through a set of delegates constituting a feeble minori
ty, bound to submit to a result which they have no power
to control. The Union party standing unpledged but
watchful—willing to support an unexceptionable nomi
nation, but certain to repudiate a bad one—will be felt
as an element of the body politic, which it will not do
to disregard. It will thus exercise a wholesome influ
ence over both conventions, and lead to greater caution
in the selection of candidates. Being at the same
time wholly untrammeled, it may proceed independent
ly, in ease of disappointment from both quarters, to
select its own candidates, and act in such a manner as
at least to vindicate its consistency, and its fidelity to
the constitution, whatever may be the prospect of its
success.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Plank Roads.
In view of the Plank Road meeting to assemble, in
this city, on the 25th inst. I have thought a collection
of some statistical information might be important to the
proper understanding of some of the various subjects
which will be submitted for the action of the Conven
tion :
CO§TOF PLANK ROADS.
The Syracuse and Central Plank Road, 16 miles in
length, cost .$1487 per mile, with lumber at $5 20 c.
perM. It has a single 8 feet track, txcopt on a few
°pots of yielding sand. The Romcand Oswego road,
62 miles in length, cost SBO,OOO or about SI3OO per
mile, lumber costing from $4 to 5 per M. It is ol
8 feet hemlock plank, 3 to 5 inches thick, with grades
cut down to 1 in 20 near river, and at the western end
where it is more hilly, to lin 16 1-2. The Utica
Northern road, 22 miles, cost $42,000, besides SBOOO
for right of way, over a turnpike, being nearly 2000
per mile, 5 miles being anew line cut through woods,
at an extra cost for clearing, of SSOO per mile. De
duct this and the average cost would be about SIBOO
per mile. A short road near Detroit, eight feet wide,
laid on a travelled roadway, cost, with lumber at
$6, per M. SSOO per mile.
MATERIAL USED IN PLANK ROADS.
In Canada, pine, hemlock, tamernck, oak and wal
nut Have been employed.. In New York, hemlock
alone has been used, being the cheapest material t > he
obtained. Its defects are its perishable nature, and
which
i { -Tii
The impending ruin to the tfonmeree of Macon must
be arrested or farewell to hei trad: and prosperity. In
the beginning of an undertaking costing so much mo
ney as the plank road, great prudence should charac
terize the movements of theiieod* of the work. In
stead of two plank roads as lulled or by the Council,
I would recommend the b* Ming of four, viz.: the
Clinton, the Marion or Jets, rsonville, the Perry and
the Culloden. If they of benefit to Macon,
why extend them to section.# country lying beyond,
rivalling in production th* most firtile lands in the
State. I hope the plank rotd Convention will be nu
merously attended and that ireat good may flow from its
proceedings, not only to Mieon, but to the country et
large. . “ MACON.
LanierklloiiSe;-March 1 G. 1852.
Union IMecling in jrawford fount).
A meeting of the Cons.itutiona! Union Party of
Crawford county was held ft the Courthouse in Knox
ville, on the 10th March, 18>tt, when on motion of Da
vid S. Worsham, Esq., George Moore, Esq., was ap
pointed Chairman, and Join Hampton, Esq., was ap
pointed Secretary.
David S. W orsliam, Esq,, explained the object of
the meeting to be to appoint delegates to meet the Con
stitutional Union Party of Georgia in Convention at Mil
ledgeville. During his renarks, lie decidedly apposed
the policy of sending delegates to either of the Na
tional Conventions.
Samuel Rutherford, Esq, then offered the following
Resolutions:
That in accoidance with a request of a
of the Constitutioii.il Union Party ol Georgia,
in Milledgeville n January last, we appoint
—Bfc to meet the Ci rstitutional Union Parly of
dg | - v 'i 11 1 ', on the 22d of April next.
it is ‘fe <1 ‘-i led opinion ot tli •
1 - -• y
to either of the proposed National
Conventions^^
Resolved, That the Chrirman appoint a Committee
of nine, to select three suitable persons to'reprcsent the
Union Party of Crawford <ounty in the contemplated
Convention in MiUedgevHb.
The above resolutions wire passed with entire una
nimity, when Samuel Rutlurford, W. \V. Trippe, John
Carter. David G. W’orshain, John Stembridge, Fran
cis R. Turner, Benjamin Allen McCarthy
and John \V. Dent were Appointed the Committee of
nine. The Committee retfed and reported the names
of Dolphin Davis, Franeii R. Turner and \V. VV,
Trippe as suitable delegate?, which selections were una
nimously ratified by the trijeting.
On Motion of S. Rutherford, Esq., the proceedings
were ordered to be sent to the Journal & Messenger
and Georgia Citizen of Macon, with a request that
they he published, to let the position of the Constitu
tional Union Party of Crawford county be known.
On motion, the meeting then adjourned.
GEORGE MOORE, Chairman.
John Hampton, Secret;ry.
General Butler’s Letter to Mr. Blair is out,
dated Carrolton, Ky., Jan. 27, in which he approves of
the Resolutions adopted by the Kentucky (Dem.) Con
vention, Jan. 8, and which were submitted to him be
fore their adoption. These Resolutions were as follows:
1. Resolved , That the* Congress of the United
States has no power to control, regulate or Intel sere
with the institution of slavery as it exists in any of
the States.
2. Resolved , That Congress has no’power to pro
hibit a citizen ol any of the States, where slavery ex
ists by authority of law, from emigrating with and
holding his slaves, and inhabiting any territory ac
iquired.by the Wood and treasure of the whole people
and hold by the United States, for the benefit of all the
States.
i 3. Resolved } That \vc will abide by and maintain
the several acts recently ,t issed by the Congress of the
United Slates, known as the compromise measures, as
a final settlement of que'-juions which threatened the
harmony and integrity of llte Union ; mid that we will
■ktion of the principles
peclahy that which pro- 1
‘ constitution, fu
nvner*. reqii'i- ot
t and fail
rii
liefltion m the national
fove’.ient, upon objects
junconstitutional, and
t Corrupt use of public
• democracy of Kentucky are
n upon the principles of the
ll\ to a substitution of specific
n principle embraced in that
York —We arc gla.l to ob
t with a distinguished rcc* p
was waited upon hy the Hoard
ted to the City Mail, where lie
on behalf of the authorities
ngsland. Tile address of the
ic ful than eomplmi'-ntary.—
: said, in tendering to his Hx~
id civilities to which his emi
itle I him. lie added :
ickuowledge the distinguished
cd in your advocacy of those
ensured to our country peace
si u In n discord and disseinioii
f our confederacy,
in the most felicitous manner,
usiness of Georgitt had called
ent on to refer to the Adjust
the Mayor had adverted. He
Compromise Measures gave
nliappy and dislurbe*d country,
ised and the law of the land,
utional question, the response
>eople of this country in favor
the heart of every patriot in
■ occasion, I stood on this spot
j of tiiis State, in reference to
■n explained more particularly
I thought duty required me to
The recognition of the right of
or themselves tin* nature and
ions under which they prefer
onion on your part t > deliver up
erty ‘which may have escaped
he bottom of the Compromise
pie is now fully recognized by
, and is affirmed by the people,
nance of them can this Union
me.)
very friend of the compromise
arty now in the country were
in of the honor attached to the
strnent measure, and I would
lintenance of the constitution
e found to gratify the utmost
•ous rivalry among the political
to preserve those great princi
eeognized by the Government
pie. There is every reason to
) of this country will be more
s been. Ido not consider that
•ation depends on its military
ation in the hearts of the Ainer
reserve those ideas of freedom
nted in us by our fathers. (Ap
introdueed to several gentlemen
easant conversation ensued.
RS AND Passages. —The
assage* on which are ear
should be washed with a
lin<*n and flannel, and the
iled. This is an item for
imount of $26,000,000, are
into this country from Eu-
I that the duty on raw silk
silk manufacturing in this
H is making to have the dyty
Plank Road Meeting.
In pursuance of previous notice, a meeting was
held at Concert Ilall, March 13th, 1852. The lion.
E. L. Strohcekcr was called to the Chair, and A. R.
Freeman requested to act as Secretary. Tiie following
preamble and resolutions, offered by J, B. Ross, Esq.
were adopted, and the Chair in pursuance of the se
cond resolution, appointed the following committee,
viz : J. B. Uoss, George Patten, E. J. Johnson, T. G.
Holt, James A. Ralston, and Asher Ayres.
Whereas, There is in contemplation the construc
tion of a Plank Road from the city of Macon to the eity
of Albany; and, whereas, the construction of said
road will be of great benefit to this city, by the in
creased trade it will bring here, and to the citizens of
the counties through which it will pass, by the facili
ties of communication and travel afforded them, as
well as the increased value thereby created on landed
property, aud whereas, the moderate cost and ex
pense necessary to build said road will be an induce
ment to tlie eitizens of these counties to aid in its
construction, and as the monies they subscribe will be
disbursed in their communities, such monies will be
well, and to them, beneficially employed ; and, where
as, we are desirous of sustainining our share in the
expenditures—
Be it Resolved, That we heartily approve and
pledge our cordial supeort to the construction of a plank
road from Macon to Albany, and that in addition to
the funds to be raised by our exertions, for that pur
pose, we hereby call upon this city, in its corporate ca
pacity, to extend its aid and support for the successful
completion of this enterprise.
2. Resolved, That the Chair appoint a committee
of six persons, to call upon the citizens of this eity and
get their subscriptions, to the effectual carrying out of
this great object.
3. Resolved, That a meeting be held on this day
‘week,"the 2©ib of March, at Concert Hall, receive to
the report of the amount of subscriptions the commit
tee may have received, and to take such further action
in reference to the subject as they may deem advisa
ble.
4. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting
be published in the papers of this city, and that all pa
pers friendly to the projected road be desired to copy.
The following resolution, offered by Alex. R. Mc-
Laughlin and seconded by Jno. S. Iloge, was, after
some discussion, voted down :
Resolved, That it be taken as the sense of this
meeting, that the eity of Matron, in lier corporate ca
pacity, shall not be authorized to take more than
SIO,OOO in stock, in the proposed Plank Road under
taking.
The meeting then adjourned.
E. L. STROIIECKER, Ch’n.
A. R. Freeman. Sec’y.
GEORGIA j§| CITIZEN,
L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR.
MACON, GA. MARCH,2O, 1852.
Plailk Road Heeling.—There tv'll be a meet
ing to to-day at Concert Hall, to receive the report of
the committee appointed at the meeting of last Satur
day. Hour of meeting, wt- presume will be 3 o’clok,
P. M.
Fmnklin College.— We have received a copy
of the Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students
of this State Institution, for 1851 ‘52, from which we
getlier the information that there are now 151 Pupils in
actual attendance on tin* classes, 24 not having returned
the present session. The Catalogue is beautifully print
ed by Christy and Kelsea, Athens.
St. Patrick’s Day.—Thin Festival of Ireland's
patron Saint was duly observed in this city, on YVcd
by toy a
pr cession, Address, copper. Sc. James A. Xinbrt, j
K-j. wim the oral rof ‘day Waft M Logan, J
Esq p/t <,! and iH tin* n.'v-.istmj'. bv Ur. 11. *v, •
■ 1 _ * ‘ i
Greene as Vice IV. dent. After partaking of a bou
tiful entertainment provided by the gentlemanly pro- j
prietor* of the
lar Toasts were offered and entliusinsticaily received :
REGULAR TOASTS.
1. St. Patrick's Day. From the rising to the
setting Sun, Irishmen hail its return with pride and
affection, and feel in its commemoration a reunion
with their native land.
2. Ireland. —May thy glories like the clouds that
curtain the setting Sun, appear again with its rising,
and we will
Remember thee, yes while there’s life in our heart,
We will never forget thee all torn as thou art,
More dear in thy sorrow, thy gloom and thy showers
Than live rest of tire world in its radiant hours.” .
3. America. —The land where freedom flying
from the storms of despotism found a home. May the
exile ever receive a warm welcome on her hospitable
shores, and in the day of danger or of death may he
be ever willing and ready to rally beneath the ’Stars
and stripes,’ and prove by deeds his devotion to his
adopted home.
4. The Irish Exiled Patriots —May they soon ex
claim,
‘We tread the land that bore us,
Her green flag glitters o'er us.
The Irivnds we've tried
Are by our side
And the foe we hate before us.’
5. The memory of George Washington.
6. The President of the United States.
7. The Governor of Georgia.
8. The Hibernian Society of Macon. —lt has gath
ered around it hearts that will sustain the objects of its
creation and keep the flame of its benevolence ever lit
upon its altar.
9. The memory of Robert Emmet.
‘Oh breath not his name let it rest sn the shade,
Where cold and unhonored his relies are laid.
10. The Present.
‘As onward we journey, how pleasant
To pause and inhabit a while
How few sunny spots like the present,
That make the dull wilderness smile.’
11. The memory of Grattan Curran j- Burke —
Names raidant with the brighest jewels of patriot
ism and intelligence, ever growing in increased great
ness as they roll down the tile of time.
12. The memory of Thomas Moore. —The tears
of Ireland were crystalized by his genius and fell spark
lin'! ‘ll the pages of his melodies. Outliving his great
cotemporaries, well might he say,
When true hearts lie withered
And fond ones are flown,
Oh ! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone.
13. Woman.
‘Auld nature swears the little dears,
Her noblest work she classes O,
Her prentice hand she ti led on man
And then site made the lasses O.’
Tlie remainder of the evening’s entertainment was
interspersed with volunteer sentiment*, patriotic im
ptomptu speeches, anecdote, &c. till the small
hours’ of the night overtook the eo npany, and was
the signal for bringing the festivities to a close “v
regret that we have been unable to procure a copy of
the volunteer toasts offered on the occasion, in lime
for our present issue. Many of them were unique, pi
quant and racy, and were responded to, in a corre
sponding spirit.
Fisticuff.—Two members of Congress. Brown
and Wilcox from Mississippi, got into a souffle the other
day in the House and kicked up a considerable row.
The Sergeant at arms was ordered to arrest the culprits,
but before it was done both parties apologized to the
House, begged pardon anil were allowed to pass un
rebuked.
Political Inscriptions.— Tlie Washington Re
public speaking oi Douglas and Buchanan, says that
‘Douglas and the spoils’ is an inscription that will
laugh to scorn that of ‘Buchanan and rigid economy.’
In such a fight, the Republic thinks that ‘ten-cent Jim
my’ (Buchanan) will be ‘no where.’
Southern Medical Reformer. —No. 1.
vol. 1. of anew monthly Octavo of 32 pages, has just
been laid on our table, bv Mr. Christopher, otie of the
publishers. Its title will indicate its character— it be
ing the organ of the Botanical system of Medicine as
founded by Samuel Thomson and taught by the Pro
fessors of the Southern Boianieo Medical College, lo
cated in this city, one of whom, Prof. J. T. Coxe is
the editor. The number before us (the first of the
new series) is well filled with matters appertaining to
the Profession. Its typographical execution, quality of
paper, &e., are not, however, such as they ought to be,
and not, by any means, a fair sample of the printing
usually done in This may be owing to the
price paid being insufficient to allow of better workman
ship and material. If so, tlie proprietor will find it to
bis interest to improve tlie‘Reformer’ in this respect.
Bitterness. —ls the reader wishes to imbibe a
doubly-distilled decoction of gall and wormwood, into
bis mental sesophngus, let him read the Poetical contri
bution of l>r. Olivers, on our first page. The author
was a special friend of the lamented Edgar A, Poe,
whose character and feelings, while living, were rudely
trampled on by Mr. Clarke, the Editor of the ‘Knick
erbocker Magazine,’ New York, Hence, the intensi
ty of the hatred as manifested in the article furnished
by our correspondent, who of course, takes the respon
sibility, in such eases provided.
The ‘Old Ploughman’ Speaks.— Rev. Hon
orable Win. Mosely,of Henry is out in the last Griffin
‘Union,’ against sending Union Delegates to the Balti
more Convention, and expresses himself in favor of
Mr. Fillmore for President, and Wnt. C. Dawson or
James C. Jones, for Vice President. He says : ‘A.
11. Stephens talks out of my own heart. Go it Alex 1
and 1 will be found standing by ‘you till my heels fly
up ; and theqrl wjll rise and come it again.’
Union Convention.
The following Delegates have been appointed to the
State Union Convention :
Bibb. —A. 11. Chappell, J. W. Armstrong, T. G.
Holt, J. J. Gresham.
Floyd. —John H. Lumpkin, Joseph Waters, \V.
T. Price, J. Knowles.
Dade. —Rob’t. 11. Tatum, Dr. A. J. Humphreys
Cass. —Lindsey Johnson, Wm. T. Wolford, Dr.
Win. 11. Felton, James Milner.
Gordon. —Belton O. Crawford, Hugh Gaston.
Crawford. — Dolphin Davis, Frauds R. Turner
and W. W. Trippe.
The Cuban Prisoners.—The ship Prentice ,
Capt. Woodbury, arrived at New York oil Saturday
last, bringing 95 of the Prisoners of the ill fated Cuban
expedition under Lopez.
Presidential Election.
The Pennsylvania Democracy go for Rnchanan by
two thirds, in Convention. Cass’ friends revolted at
the proceedings.
The Indiana Democratic Convention have put up
Gen. Lane as their candidate for President.
The Louisiana Democracy go for Cass. Douglass
had considerable showing but a resolution declaring
him second choice w as voted down.
The Indiana Whig Convention has nominated Gen.
Scott for President and John J. Crittenden for
Vice President. That is a “Kangaroo’ ticket—the
strength being in its hind legs.
-The Tennessee Whig Convention nominated Millard
Fillmore for President and James C. Jones for Vice
President.
The Ohio Free-Soil Convention have nominated
Senator Hale for President and Samuel Lewis for Vice
President.
The Kentucky Democratic Convention, it is reported,
has declared for Cass, but the report lacks confirmation.
Quite a Fluttering , —Our article of last I
week about a ‘screw loose,’ has screwed up certain gen
try almost t > tlie fighting point. As uncle Toby says,
‘‘Our army swore trrihly in Plunder*,’’ at the insim
valion’ that the police of the eity Were not successful
i(; keeping thr peace or preserving the good order of
the corporation. Well ’. w e mentioned no names, not
wishing to be personal, and will promise to keep quid,
hsMtntil'lsr provided the >flvinls wiH tnTfnfH-r do their
duty and all their duty. As one of those who helped
to put the Marshals in office, w e shall, however, feci a:
liberty to censure or commend, as occasion may i equire—
and if any one thinks to scare us out of this purpose,
all we have to say i*, they can’t come it.
Burhanan. Cass and Douglass.
There arc serious objections in the minds of South
ern men, to all of these distinguished gentlemen as
candidates for the next Presidency.
Buchanan was tlie author of a Resolution denounc
ing the extension of the institution of slavery. He is
the man also, who once declared ‘if he hud a drop of
democratic blood in his veins lie would let it out.’ He
also refused to pay taxes in Lancaster C., Pa., w hile In
was a transient resident at Washington eity_ lie also
aivocated the doctrine that tlie wages of American
laborers should be on a par with those of a like class in
Europe, to wit, ten cents per day. We reckon that
no man entertaining such sentiments can ever be elected
President of these Stat< s
Mr. Douglass was an opponent of the compromise
measures till they were passed. He is a Filibuster
Statesman who would undertake to regulate the affairs
of Hungary. Cuba, etectera, as a mat'.vr of duty, lie
also believes that “it is no violation of Southern
R.ghts to prohibit slavery'’ lie may therefore pass.
Mr. Cass is a compromise man, though afraid to
vote for the measure. He is also a progressive demo
crat who would be willing to undertake a crusade into
the dark regions of despotism to propagate Republican
ism by the sword. His Kossuth speeches show that he
is not as reliable and prudent a man as he-ought to be.
If the Baltimore Democratic Convention then de
sire to present an unexceptionable and available candi
date whom the Union Democrats of the South can
support, let them lay aside all three of these aspirants
and present Dickinson, Stockton or Butler as their
standard bearer.
And if the Whig Convention is wise, it will n<>t
nominate either Fillmore, Scott or \A ebster, but John
J. Crittenden of Kentucky, who is the only man. per
haps, in the Union, who can unite the strength of all
the others named and ruceessluily compete with any
opposition which may be started.
Panoramic !—That Garden of Eden man, who
left this city, week before la*, without paying his Prin
ter's Bill, has quit Savannah for Augusta. The typo
graphical fraternity and landlords will do well to be on
the look out for him, as lie is Master of his profession
of Skin-flint Jerry Didlerism.’ He is a gaunt, tall
individual, of cadaverous aspect, and of the ‘praise
God bare bone’ family. His voice, when quoting Mil
ton's poetry is something like what a Vermont paper
savs of the singing of Professor Soo Chune of the Chi
nese family—'it sounds like a eat in the last stages of
a pain in the bowels.’ What a miserable, poor devil
he must be, to abscond without paying the Printer. —
Pass him round !
Lady Subscribers. —AVe presume there is not an
editor or publisher in the land, who will not cheerful
ly endorse the following from the Boston Republican:
“ Women are the best subscribers in the world to
newspapers and magazines M e have been editor
now going on eight years, and we have never vet iOst
a single dollar by female subscribers. I hey seem to
m ake it a point of conscientious duty to pay the preach
er and the printer —two classes of the community
that suffer more by bad pay, and no pay at all, than
all the rest put together. Whenever we have a wo
man's name on our book, we know it is just as good
for two dollars and a half, as a picayune is for a gin
\Ve may have published the foregoing extract, but
if we have, it will bear a repetition, with a view to its
hearty endorsement by our own experience, of more
than a dozen years of editorial life. But the other
day, we received a five dollar bill front a lady of Ala
bama whose name has been on our books since 1847,
with an order to ‘ continue the paper to her address.
She is a sensible woman that knows liovv to appreciate
a good paper and makes it a matter of conscience to
pay for it, too, with pleasure , and not with reluctance.
We have many such lady patrons and without excep
tion, they are ever prompt to pay the printer
courage him in his toilsome duty. ’ *
Views of Mr. Douglass.
For the benefit of those ‘Southern Rights’ rnen ,k .
have been nibbling at the bait thrown out bv
‘or Douglass, we copy the following extract f ro m
speech of the Honorable gentleman, delivered in the
Senate b 13tU March, 1850:— (See c ££
al Globe, vol. xxii page 303.; °
Mr, Douglass then and there said, in rPr
the action of Congress upon the territorial nn ‘!***
1T IS NO VIOLATION OF SOUTHprv-
RIGHTS TO PROHIBIT SLAVERY Vv' RN
ern rights, to leave the people ,o decide’
for themselves. In this sense, no gee gran*, id?
tmn of the l nion i. entitled to any share of the Ter’
mor.es. Ihe Senator from South Carolina wall there
fore excuse me for expressing the opinion that all 5
h.s complaints under this head are predicated upon on,
great fundamental error-the error of tj
h.s particular section has a right to have a due *2
of the territories set apart and assigned to it.”
According to this, Congress may, i„ ,h e opinion of
this aspirant to the Presidency, prohibit slaver.
the territories and it is all right and proper ! l u j
be remembered, also, that Douglass did not
compromise measures till after the same were ,^ e j
and were generally approved. There is another fa, t
in connexion with this subject that ought to bej-ene
rally known. The Democratic Review lately t . a
out abusing Gen. Butler, of Ky, and charging him
with being the candidate of the Freesoil Faction „f
the Democratic party, tor the Presidency, his be
lieved, on pretty fair evidence, that Douglas, knew
and approved of that article in the Review before it*
publication. 11c recommended tlie Review m worthy
of patronage and his friend Richardson, cf Illinois, j’„
reply to Breckcnridge, of Ky., says, that lie telegraph
ed to the Editor of the Review requesting that smi,}
article should not be published ! The question arises—
how did the Senfttor know that said article was
to appear in the ‘Review,? or by what right had hr to
make such a request of the Editor, as to any particu
lar article forthcoming ?
Tiie inference is irresistible that lie had something t*
do with the conspiracy against the veteran Butler— hut
whether he will succeed in planting himself, thereby
in the affections of the South, remains to be seen, Wa
hazard nothing in saying that it will, more liltelv, be
another instance of “vaulting ambition o’er leaping it
self’ on the part of the ‘young Lion of the West’ as
his friends call him.
A Nut for Somebody to Crack.—Robert p, an .
toul, jr. M. C. from Massachusetts, and Delegate elect
to the Baltimore Convention said lately in the Iloase,
that B. F. llallct, the Chairman of the National
Democratic Committee, and himself were decided
Freesoilers. Also that in 1849, at the time of the
first coalition in Massachusetts, between the Democrat*
ai.d Freesoilers, this same Mr. Ilallet reported the fol
lo-ving Resolutions which were unanimously adopted!
“ Resolved , That we are opposed to slavery in anv
form and color, and in furor of freedom and mr
'soil wherever man lires throughout God's heritage.”
“ Resolved , That we are op|iosed to the extension
of slavery to free Territories, and in favor of theex
j ereise of all constitutional and n -eessary me: ns to re-
I strict it to the limits w ithin which it does or may exist
by the local laws of the Slat*.”
These, gentle reader, are the politicians, with whom
some of the professed Union Democrats of upper Geor
gia seek to affiliat* in the Baltimore Convention! Will
the Cassville ‘Standard’ please inform us if this is n<>t
a good reason why Southern Union men should amid
any such rascally crowd as will be certain to assemble
at Baltimore ? We defy the friends of that prop, siiion.
to give half as good a reason why they ought to go
into that Convention. The only reason we have yet
heard assigned—that of controlling the Convention—
seems to us to be so childish and vain, that it is not
worth answering. Only think of it. Ten Delegate,
from Georgia, half of whom will he Whig,, are expect
ed to control a bodv of several hundred free-soilers,
secessionists, elect era ! Verily, some of m>r friend,
have got the ‘big-head’’ badly, if they seriously enter
tain any such idc/i.
One of ibf llonorables —The Cawwiiie st*< -
dard says that the ‘Hon. John Fonwtli. Editor of the
Columbus Times, writing from Washington, says.’
Ac. Where did tlie Editor get his Honorary 1 grer?
We only ask f <>r information, that wc may lane th
chances as they are passing ?
A Voice from the Mountains.
At a meeting of the Constitutional Union Party of
Dade county, Ga.,on the Ist in*t., the following, among
other resolutions, were adopted :
Resolved, That from the very nature of onr Gov
eminent, and from the nature of our representative
character, the people have a right to demand and to
know the principles and measures which shall govern
and be sustained by every candidate for office.
Resolved , That our Governme..t is a represenfa’iv.
Democracy—vet all power is in the hands of the Peo
ple ; and their representatives are but their agents,
bound by their will, rej-yonsible to them, and remova
ble at their will.
Resolved. That we approve of, and adopt the fifth
and sixth resolutions of the late Alabama Union Con
vention : that our delegates to the Milledgeville ( on
vention he inst rncted to consider them as the will ol
this meeting.”
[The Alabama Resolutions here referred to, are a,
follows :]
“ sth. Resolved, That an epoch has commenced
which requires us to forget past political differences,
to minister no longer to sectional discord, to contem
plate in all its grandeur, an undivided and harmoni
ous Union, and that actuated by this spirit, we ac
quiesce in the late Compromise adjustment, as a de
finitive settlement of the slavery question, and wi ►
1 insist on its being adhered to in good faith.
“ fith. R solved, That we think it inexpedient to
’ appoint delegates to represent us in either the 1 h m
ocratio or Whig National Conventions to nominate
candidates for President and A ice Presid’ lit of the
United States, and that this convention recommend to
, the friends of the Compromise measures of the late
Congress, the propriety of holding is the Oily *1
Washington, on the second Monday in June next, a,
National Union Convention, irrespective of old party
organizations, for the purpose of nominating catnli
dates for President and Vice President of the l filed
States pledged to the support and maintenance o.
those measures, as a final adjustment.”
A Capital Anecdote.
The ‘North Mississippi Union’ tells the following;
good story of at Irish Democrat, in those diggings'.
u Every one nearly in our town and county kn"a
Davy S., and that he is and always has ben a res*
old fashioned Democrat. In fact he took to it as natu
ral as a dock tnk< s to water, and stood up to it throng 1 ,
thick and thin, as stiff as a shingle and tight s a burr.
When the secession wing went <>ff, he did’nt go, not be,
he was not born in the woods to be scared by an owl
as the old saying is, nor was he to be Smled out ♦* hi*
principles, therefore he lifted up his voice (and some
times both hands) in behalf of the L nion, Since, ■ *
beaten an l chop-fallen old party fi ieuds have been - r >
ingto make it up w ith him and as they thought the best
means so to do, commenced claiming themselves .
the best Union men, exposing the so-called Mb -,
ticket, and winding up with the necessity of a re-or
ganization of the old party, lie coming into ’be r
ranks, &o. This proposition brought bint to •
and he gave them his opinion in short:
“ Be the sow 1 ov tne, look here now, ycr like ‘ht 1
tie b’v.* Yer see tlie little tlief ov the world sb ‘
lot of bins eggs out ov the nist, and when L
about to be caeht at his divilish trick, he p- s ,
back. Would he do to trust ?be the holy saints.
And do ye think I'd trust ye that's got caclu
nasty Disunion tricks, and now is trying *.o hi*
St. Patrick presarve tne from doing it all, a. a.-
Later from California.
Baltimore, March
Tlie steamship Daniel Webater, from 8..n lu , if
rived at New York to-day. She brings two w
intelligence from California, and Fur ‘ ,j: ‘
sand dollars in specie. . ,j jj 3 s
The revolution which was in progress m
been suppressed. ontii/O e
The San Francisco markets generally ■
changed. Flour is declining* rou- *• n
Accounts from the mining districts are o
character. Judge Tift is dead, f? ‘
Law has passed the Legislature. n 1 grl j *ar
btill continue in the settlements. ie mj oß i doi
debt of California, amounts to over
lars. No other news of importance.
Mr. Walker the newly elected l’
a tor from California, is a passenger od -