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VOLUME 10.
THE GEORGIA CITIZEN
-E PCBUSHD TEST FRIDAY” MORNIXO BY
l. F. W. ANDREWS.
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ated. Ji
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nvi! ner, forty days
yotiee to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must lie ,
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Ur where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full I
space of three months.
Lpcliiitdlmii].
For the Georgia Citizen.
The Dew-Drops.
See iho pearly dew-drops, as glistens on yon flower, i
Remindiug one of youthful days and many a happy ;
hour.
See how it sparkles, as clear as diamond bright,
Tims it is in day’if—one scene of great
delight.
The rays of the morning sun so gently upon it shine,
A> slowly the arch of heaven its onward way doth
climb,
Lending its bright light to this pearly gem of morn;
Shedding beauty all around ; until at last “tis gone, j
Though vanished from our sight, the power still is {
there,
But changed in form, the virtue blooms, in every ;
flower fair.
Not one ray but wliat its mission has performed.
The dew-drop—a minister to the drooping plant j
transformed.
So in the mom of childhood, when all is calm. ;
serene.
The first dawn of reason upon its soul is seen.
Like the morking radiant dew, reminding one of !
Heaven,
Innocent and beautiful, sweet emblem of purity j
given.
As the morn of youth advances, still greater light ,
breaks o'er the mind
Shedding rays of knowledge to guide the feelings |
round the heart entwined.
But scarce has it yet attained, the meridian of its j
power
When like the pearly dew-drops, it has vanished in j
an hour.
And though to all seem lost, and hidden from the
eye,
It will again emit its rays, in brighter forms on high, j
And shed its knowledge to kindred souls, passed j
from earth away,
And shine in heaven a dew-drop fair, throughout
eternal day. VIOLET. j
For the Georgia Citizen.
Mrs. Goosey’s Shanghais
‘Mother, old Mrs. Partington’s gone
to settinT
‘On how many eggs, Susan ?’
‘Well, you know that tin box fnll of
pills you threw away, because pa
wouldn’t help you take ’em when you
were sick? well, she’s settin’ on that,
and on two brick bats, and one old sar
dine box!’
‘She’s an ambitious hen certainly!
Remove them out of her nest, Susan,
and put in fifteen or sixteen eggs.’
‘Aes’ni. But I'll let the box of pills i
stay, ms, you know she might hatch !
us out a little young doctor I might’nt
she V
‘Oh! dear! what a horrid idea! Go
and do as 1 bid you, Susan.’
‘Ma, ma,’ said Tite, pulling at his
mother's sleeve. ‘Ma, pleat he let her
thetou that thardine box, 1 want her to j
raithe thome. Ido love thardine’s P
Whether Tile’s petition was heard is
doubtful, for at that moment Mrs. G.’s
attention was directed to Paul, who en
tered the room with a sorrowful counte
nance, holdiug in his arms a half grown j
pullet.
‘Mother, I hope you won’t be angry, |
but 1 fear I have broken Lena Rivers’
ieg! She got caught in my steel trap
that I had set for rats, and while taking
her out accidentally did the deed. I’m
very sorry about it, I’m sure. Are you
angry, mother ?’
‘Angry ! you good-for-nothing gosh
>n! (Mrs. Goosey had a way ot calling
her children goshins.) Did you ever i
see me angry ? Go, carry that fowl to
the cook and tell her to fry it for supper,
and then do you come back immediately 1
and take your catechism and stay in that
room alone until tea time ! I’ll see if I
can’t put you to something better than
crippling all my finest shanghais !’
‘But, mother, I did’nt go to do it. and
you are angry now.’
‘I am not angry, Paul Goosey, and
you’d better not say so again, or it won’t
be good for you, you miserable siuner!
I am only very indignant, and I have a
fight to be. I think 1 Why, it was only
last week that you put iron spurs on
that rooster of yours, Billy Bowlegs,
and put him to fighting my Doesticks,
while you stood there Letting on him,
you wicked thing !’
ell, mother, if you had’nt found us
out, you might have had a rooster for
dinner that day ; for I’m sure Billy
would have left him ‘quivering in a dai
sy) as it was, Doesticks wasn’t much
hurt.’
‘Not much hurt! you impudent !
when those iron spurs, or whatever you
ca R them— (though where in heaven’s
name you ever saw any before, /don’t
r ow,) left holes all through him !
Don’t you deserve to be punished for
ft, m the world to come V
No ma’m, I dont! I’ve been punished
enough for it in this world !’
there was a half defiant expression in
nal s eyes when he made this emphatic
reply, hut it gave wav to one of fear
when his mother took him bv the shonl
j ders and wheeled him into the room to
study his catechism and get two Jong .
chapters in Psalms, by way of punish
ment for breaking ‘Lna Rivers’ leg.
An hour afterwards, Susan called her
1 mother out to tell her that ‘Little Dor
rith had come off with a brood of young
j shanghais, and that Minnehaha was hav
i ing fits again.’ I stole into the room to
see Paul, and found the little rat catcher
fast asleep with traces of tears visible on
! his eheeks.
j Poor Paul ! He got no chicken for
j supper that night! llis ‘indignant’
mamma refused even to let him have the
unfortunate leg he broke !
And when he knelt at his mother’s
knees to say his evening prayers, I fear
it was not with a spirit of thankfulness.
Mrs. G. did’nt ‘let the sun go down upon
Ihe r wrath she wasn’t angry, you know,
j but retired to re-t in ‘peace, charity, and
good will;’ and Paul slipped out at the
1 back door to set his everlasting trap.
Mollib Myrtle.
Direct Trade.
A sneering editorial of the Philadel
phia Bulletin on the <flints to establish
direct commercial relations between the
South and the continent of Europe, is
going the round of the Southern press,
j collecting various comments. We are
surprised that none of our contempora
’ ries have thought of setting the Bulletin
right on the subject of the “fairs” which
I it pretends to ridicule and treats as a
j hoax on the credulity of the Independ-
I ence Beige. A gentlemen now in our
! city informs us that he was a member of
the committee presiding over the indic
ation of the present enterprise. This
committe consisted of prominent Bel
gian merchants and manufacturers, all
representative men of their class, and a
j delegate from the Belgian foreign office,
i Requested to give his opinion as to the
; localities most proper for the contem
i plated exhibitions of Belgian products,
our informant stated that in his belief
| such exhibitions in any of our sea ports
i would attract little attention and effect
no practical good. On the other hand,
l he said, there were, in most or all of the
Southern States agricultural societies
, holding annual “fairs” which collected
; great numbers of planters, coming
j thither in many instances with their
wives and daughters, and from great dis
: tances. At these fairs premiums were
awarded to exhibitors, and many of the
’ articles exhibited were generally sold on
the spot. These fairs, he added, were
held in central localities of the respect
ive States, and the managers of them
would doubtless afford every facility to
foreign exhibitors presenting novel and
! additional attractions. Montgomery was
particularly mentioned in this connec-1
tion. The idea being eagerly accepted,
it was determined to carry it out practi
cally, and as the first introduction of Bel
gian manufactures to the planters of the
South to send assorted specimens tnatk
i ed at the lowest possible prices to the
various State fairs which are all held
within short intervals of each other.
The plan now approaching maturity, !
Macon, Ga., seemed for special reasons
the most elligible place for a first trial,
and an explanatory article giving an ac
count of these fairs and of the project
appeared in the Independence Beige, the
most important journal in Belgium and
l one of the most influential in Europe.
It is this article that has excited the rid
| icule of the Philadelphia Bulletin, which
! regrets never having heard of such fairs.
! Where the laugh comes in, our readers
will now be able to determine.
There are few subjects that possess a
higher claim on the sympathy and sup
port of Southern men, than this project
of direct trade with Europe. Unfortu
! nately, like many other great ideas, it
| has too often been the catchword of
| scheming adventurers or the air-castle
of impracticable and half crazy theorists.
So frequently have men of blemished
character been concerned in such enter
prises that solid business men in Europe j
| instinctively place their hands on their
j pockets at the mention of direct trade
j with the Sou*h. Recently, however, a (
; company has been formed in Belgium,
I composed of prudent capitalists and men
i of the highest standing in the merean-
I tile world. The government has prom
j ised its indirect support to the enter
i prise, as well as the co-operation of its
consular corps. Few speculations rest
; on a more solid foundation, or afford
! more reasonable expectations of sue
| cess. Belgium is the cradle of modern
manufacturers, and for its population |
: still holds the first rank in the world as j
’ a manufacturing country. From it Eng- |
land acquired her first cloth manufactures j
and the Belgian artisans who transplant
l ed this important industry on British
| soil, long enjoyed peculiar favors and
privileges at the hands of the govern
ment. The first fire arms were made in
Belgium, the first cannon was cast there
I and used by the Liegois in defence of
: their liberties. Even previous to that
i epoch the armorers of the Belgian Noth
ei lands had a world-wide reputation
scarcely equaled by the wondrous tales
iof Damascene ingenuity. To this day
cutlery and fire-arms are exported to an
} incredible amount, a great portion in an
unfinished state to England whence, after
receiving the last touch, they are re-ex
i ported as British goods. In the produc
tion of glass-ware, Belgium enjoys al
most a monoply and finds one of her
most important; marts in the United
States, ller iron works, also, are among
the most considerable in Europe. In
: the coarser fabrics of cotton she could
1 undersell the universe. M ith a dense
population and a consequent unlimited
supply of cheap labor, with the most
glorious industrial traditions of any na
tion in the world, with an amount of
hoarded capital that staggers the’ imagi
! nation, with the largest and most conven-
I I ient port on the Eastern hemisphere, with
MACON, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER O, 1859.
a railroad system approaching ideal per- j
lection, with a government the most lib
eral of constitutional monarchies and !
unrestricted freedom of the press, this ;
little country but yesterday called to an
independent national existence, not only
deserves our cordial friend<hip but ap
peals to some of our most delicate inter
ests as Southerners. It isan inheritance
of oui British origin lhat we look upon
every thing extra-Britamc with asortimf
contempt, and that Liverpool, Mauches- j
ter, Birmingham and London so com
pletely fill our eyes that we cannot per
ceive any thing beyond these places
worthy of more than secondary consid
eration.
The port of Antwerp —atone time the
commercial metropolis of the w'orld and
the centre of exchanges—can hold over
a thousand of the largest ships, and is
accessible at all times and seasons of the
year. A railroad now approaching
completion will afford the shorest and
cheapest route to the cotton spinneries
of Switzerland, now supplied through |
Havre, and will, moreover, be the fhost |
convenient feeder of the railway net of;
South and Middle Germany. Every
other port of Northern Europe is block
aded by ice during the very season when
our staple is moving, while Antwerp is
wholly free from this annoyance. The
greatest statesmen, including the keen
sighted Napoleon, have acknowledged
its claim to be considered the natural
emporium of continental Europe. Its
perpetual extinction was one of the
principal conditions of the European
treaty of peace, and exacted by the
commercial jealousies of competing na
tions. Re-opened—after being closed a
hundred and fifty years—amid the grand
convulsions of the French Revolution
and the war of the fiist Empire, it yet
regained atone hound a proud position.
Si.me collossal American fortunes were
made there at that time, as that of the
Ridgeways of Philadelphia. At the
separation of Belgium from Holland,
the Great Powers, to compensate the
latter country, allowed it to he hamper
ed with a ntonstious tribute in direct
violation of the decrees of the Congress
of 1815. At this moment it is on the
eve of being relieved from all trammels,
and it offers itself to us as almost the
only country from which it has no con
flicting interests to fear. Let our people
well examine (he offer ere they reject it.
We are in possession of valuable statis
tics and information on this subject, and
shall recur to it again.— Mobile Register.
Gov. Brown- and his Secretary, j
—About the year 1851, Gens. Han
sel! and Rice brought an action of
ejection in favor of Mrs. Brewster,
administratrix of her husband's es
tate, of Cherokee county, in this
State, vs. John S. Rowland, in Cass
Superior Court, to recover what is
known as the Rowland Spring lot.—
11. If. Waters, the present Secretary
in the Executive Department of
Georgia, being the son-in-law* of
Brewster and his wife the heir-in
la w', was really the client of these
gentlemen. Mr. Row land employed
Joseph E. Brown, now Governor to
defend the suit. Brown, on the tri
al, produced the records of the Court
of Ordinary of Cherokee county, and
also the testimony of Mr. Posey
Maddox, at that time; a respectable
Baptist Minister of DeKalh county,
and of Mr. Gresham, and by them
proved to the perfect satisfaction of
the Jury and every by-etander that
a base forgery and mutilation of
the record had been perpetrated by
the said Henry H. Watters, and the
Jury, by their verdict, so found ! At
this trial, Joseph E. Brown made a
speech of an hour long, in which he
plainly and boldly charged Waters as
the perpetrator of the forgery and
mutilation, and commented upon
the undoubted evidence adduced to
convict him of both. Shortly after
the trial, Waters, being the Treasu-’
rer of Cherokee coirtity, privately
took his departure for Culiforna,
carrying with him some five hundred
dollars of the Poor Rchaool money be
longing to said county !
These are facts, stated to us by a
gentleman who was at the time em
ployed as Counsel in the suit against
Rowland, and w re. well known to Gov.
Brown when he took Welters to his bo
som and appointed him to office. The
reader will make his own comment
upon them.— Atlanta American.
We intend to elect our men in the
Third and Seventh by increased ma
jorities—we intend to gain the Sec
j ond and Eighth Districts and make
‘ a hard struggle for the Fourth—we
1 intend, also, to beat Gov. Brown in
the Cherokee country, and cross the
Chattahoochee with a majority for
Akin, and by sustaining Hill’s vote
in middle and lower counties, beat
Joe Brown just 2,000 votes in the
State. — American Unton.
There is a deal more truth than
boast in the statement of our friend
of the “American Union,” as will he
ascertained when the votes are
counted out in October. We dßsure
our friends of Middle and Lower
Georgia that, if they will sustain j
Hill’s vote in their sections, we will
elect Akin over Brown sure ! The
people of Cherokee Georgia were
never more thoroughly aroused in
favor of Akin. We assert that w hich
we know, and do not speak for Bun
comb. —Atlanta American.
Death of Mas. Quitman. —We
learn from a friend, says the N. Or
leans Picayune of Thursday, Aug.
26th, to whom the sad news was
this morning telegraphed, that the
widow of the late General Quitman
died on the evening of the 22d in
stant. We did not hear of the na>
ture of her disease,
From the Chronicle and Sentinel,
Wliy Democrats will Support
Col. Akiu.
|
Mr. Editor : The question is very
frequently asked of Democrats. Why
do jou support Col. Akin for Govern
or?
Living in Cherokee Georgia, as 1 do,
and having known Gov. Brown and Col.
Akin personally fur ten years, 1 propose
to answer that question for myself and
many other Democrats in this region
who will most cordially vote for Col.
Akin.
Because there is no political principle
involved in the contest whatever, that
can in any wise separate Democrats
and their opponents of former years;
there is then no violation of party prin
ciple.
Because the election of Gov. Brown
would only be a down triumph , and not
a victory of Democracy.
Bemuse Gov. Brown’s State policy
his been unwise, unsafe, and unstates
maniike.
Because Gov. Brown’s po-ition rela
tive to banks, if carried out, would
bankrupt the State—make the little sub
stance of the poorer classes an easy
prey to a few fortunate money holders,
and reduce them to starvation or serious
want.
Because Col. Akin is a sounder and
more reliable man, upon the State Rights
doctrine than Gov. Brown.
Because Gov. Brown refused to call
a Convention in obedience to the will
of the Legislature expressed, after
having taken an oath “faithfully to
execute the laws.”
Because Gov. Brown has not managed
the State Road in a manner to make it
pay as much money as he said he would
make it pay —as much money as it ought
to pay ; or as much money as Governor
Johnson, his predecessor, made it pay—
while he has fraudulently and falsely
represented to the people, with intent
to deceive them, that the Road was now
making several thousand dollars per
month more than it had ever done be
fore.
Because Gov. Brown’s recommenda
tion, relative to appropriations for CoL
leges and Common Schools, was a dem
agogueical flourish—calculated to squan
der the people’s money and humbug
the poorer classes to catch their sup
port".
Because Gov. Brown’s vetoes exhibit
him as he is —a senseless statesman ; and
a heartless one, as evidenced by his veto
of the bill for the relief of the poor widow
and her orphan children in Augusta.
Because Gov. Brown appointed 11. 11.
Waters, Secretary in the Executive De
partment, after having refused to give
him a certificate of good moral charac
ter, that he might obtain license to prac
tice law in the Supreme Court—after
implicating said Waters in a very un
fortunate transaction in connection with
a mutilation of the records of the Court
of < Irdinary of Cherokee County, to the
satisfaction of a special jury of Cass
County, in a suit wherein said Waters
was a party at interest, and Governor
Brown his opposing counsel. With this
knowledge, and with the testimony of
the whole country, that said Waters was
n, scoundrel, and unworthy the confidence
of any honest man, he appoints him to
an office near his person, thus regarding
him a ft companion.
Decause Gov. Brown has been guilty
of political corruption, bargain and in
trigue, to secure a re-election.
Because Gov. Brown has permitted
Dr. Lewis, his superintendent of the
State Road, to ship his own pig iron—
he being a large manufacturer of that ar
ticle—from Cartersville to Chattanooga,
88 miles, for 81.35 per ton, while at the
same time he charged others from Kings
ton to Chattanooga, 78 miles, $3.25 per
ton.
Because Gov. Brown is a small man
even among small men. 1 have known
him well for ten years, and 1 assert in
all that time he has not done one noble
disinterested act. ll.s whole soul has
always been absorbed with self; and all
his conduct governed by - selfishness.
And often has ho compromised his char
acter for honor and veracity to forward
personal ends.
Because I have been intimately ac
quainted with Col. Akin for ten years,
and know him, as do thousands in Cher
okee, Ga., to be a whole souled, generous
Christian gentleman, possessing abilities
as a lawyer and financier, second to no
mau in the State, one who in all his acts
and conduct is governed by noble im
pulses. A man who never stooped to
do a mean thing to secure promotion or
for gain; one who as Governor would
do honor to Georgia, his native State,
and who would stand unflinchingly by
her in the hour of trial, if trial come.
For these reasons, and others that
might be given, am 1 opposed to the re
election of Governor Brown.
I have been a Democrat for eighteen
years, and in all that time the Democrats
never have presented a candidate for my
suffrage that in my opinion was so un
worthy of it as Gov. Brown. I am no
disappointed office seeker—never asked
for, nor held a political office in my life,
and never expect to. These are only
the reasons of a private voter in the
ranks of the Democracy; and they are the
reasons which will induce thousands of
Democrats in Cherokee, Ga., to cast their
votes on the Ist Monday in October
next for Colonel Warren Akin, of Cass.
Cherokee.
Among the recent contributions
to the Washington Monument is a
block of carved marble, in which is
inserted a curiously curved head,
with this inscription beneath : ‘This
head was carved between two and
three thousand years ago by the an
cient Egyptians, for their temple,
erected in honor of Augustus, on the
banks of the Nile. Brought from
there by J. F. Lenman.”
From the Knoxville Whig.
(Douglas’ “Order of Mpartati*.”
Douglas and his partizai s in New
York, mostl y Free Soil Democrats, have
got up a Secret Order—if the reader
please, a secret political organisation —
intended to advance his claims to the
Presidency. The Pennsylvanian, a
leading Democratic paper in Philadel
phia, states that this order is to be ex
tended into all the other States, between
now and the time of the meeting of the
I Charleston Convention, so as to pack the
deGuaiions from every State. The or
ganization is known Y>y tlu name of the I
“Order of Spartans.” having signs, grip-,
and pass-words. The Pen sylvan ian says
it is a well organized secret political so
ciety, and has its agents out in other
States, paid by Douglas and his friends.
They avow themselves in favor of the
Cincinnati Platform “a* expounded by
the people's champion, Stephen A, Doug
las •” and the following is one of their j
resolutions made public in one of their
i organs at Bullalo, called the Republic,
where there is a branch of the order :
Resolved , That in order to make our
selves effective at the polls, we will act
as a unit in casting our ballot for men
who shall have been endorsed by this or
der.
Now, is this the party, whose leaders j
every where cried out against secret po \
litical organizations , in 1856, warning
the people against them, as dangerous to
civil and religious liberty? And is this
the same Douglas, who, while Senator in
Congress, spoke to a mass meeting in
Washington, denouncing the signs, pass
words and oaths ot the Know Nothings?
What an unmitigated pack of hypo
crites ! Governed by no principle,
they alone act in reference to the
j Spoils.
But they adopt the Cincinnati Plat
i t’orn* “a* expounded by Stephen A.
Douglas .” And here are the wolds in
which Douglas expounds one of its most
! important articles of faith:
i “A Territorial Legislature may
RIGHTFULLY excIudeSLAYERY by
: NON-ACTION and UNFRIENDLY
j legislation. ’
With this avowal of Abolitionism,
the Free Soil States are sending dele
gates to Charleston, instructed to go for
Douglas ! And the power and influence
of this secret organization and the charm
of its signs, grips, and pass-words back
: ed up wfith a love for spoils, will even
drive the State Rights Democracy of
Virginia, the Nullifiers of South Caro
; lina, the Fire-Eaters of Georgia, and
j the Slave-Trade Democracy of Alabama
and Mississippi, to the nomination of
1 Douglas. The corrupt and profligate
leaders of Democracy in Tennessee are
for Douglas now. They already endorse
the affirmation that “a territory may ex
clude Slavery by non-action; and the
nomination of Douglas at Charleston,
will open their eyes to see the potency
and truth of “unfriendly legislation;’
and by the time the canvass fully opens,
they will admit that “a territorial Leg
islature may rightfully exclude slavery!”
———
Jot* Brown Writes about Joe
Brown.
“Modesty is a quality that adorns a wo
man,” says the old proverb, but whether
his Excellency Joseph E. Brown boasts
I such an adornment, the reader must de
j termine after reading the following arti
: cle w hich we find in the Atlanta Confede
racy. It evinces a modest appreciation
of his ow n merits, quite aS refreshing as
the late Demonstration of Mr. Stephens
in this city :
Joe Brown Writes about Joe
Brown. —ln the fall ot 1855, Joe Brown
was a candidate for the judgeship of the
Cherokee Circuit. He was opposed by
Judge Irwin of Marietta. There being
much political excitement at the time,
the canvass partook of a political na
ture, and as much so as Joe Brown and
his friends could make it. This was
done for the purpose of securing Joe’s
election. Not having any legal mer
it, he appealed to the Demociatic
party which was largely in the ascend
ant in the district, to elevate him to the
bench. (It should have been a pillory.)
lie visited the city of Atlanta and ap
pealed to the editors of the Intelligencer,
to advocate the claimt of “CW. Brown ,
l of Cherokee.” They did so to some ex
-1 tent, but it was not satisfactory. The
capabilities, excellences, legal attain
ments, and superhuman qualifications of
“Cos/. Brown,” were not *et forth in lan
guage sufficiently explicit and cogent.
Whereupop “Cos? Brown” propo-ed to
j write an editorial about “Cos/. Brown.”
j This was assented to, and in the Intelli
j gencer of the 24th of Sept., 1855, can
! be found this rare gem of self inflated
laudation. For fear of nauseating the
public, we will only make one extract
|of the most modest character. Read
it:
“If he (Judge Irwin) had taken the
j open, candid and independent course
| pursued by Col. Brown , his opponent,
and avowed his sentiments without dis
guise or double dealing, he would not
now stand in the unenviable position he
j now oeupies before the community.”
* * * * “But the
trick is exposed, the people have learned
the secret, and on Monday next they will
I stamp the seal of their condemnation
upon it, and will elevate Col. Brown to
the Beuch—a gentleman eminently qual-
I ified, and one who is not ashamed of his
! principles, or afraid to avow them.”
Now, reader, reflect. The question
may be asked, upon what authority do
we make this charge ? We answer, that
the authority is incontestible. It is from
a gentleman who was connected with
the office of the Intelligencer at the time
the article was written. We challenge
an investigation.
This is the same, identical “ Colonel
Broicn ” that was accidentally nominated
for Governor.
Will the State of Georgia again dis
grace her fair escutcheon by the re-elec>
tion of this self-laudatory inflatus?
Great Meeting at Btrnesville-Tlioinas
Hardeman’s Speech.
Ou Monday last, the 22d inst., about one
thousand persons assembled at Barnt svilie
to welcome and hear the gallant candidate
for Congress, Thomas Hardeman, Jr., dt line
j his position upon the political issues of the
day. On motion, the Editor of the IHlot
was called to the chair. A committee con
sisting of F. Riviere, E. R. Hammell and J.
A. Smith, Esqrs., waited on C<>l. Hardeman
and escorted him to the stand, from whence
he entertained the immense audience with a
, speech replete with sound sense, noble prin
ciples, stubborn (acts, correct reasoning, and
enlivened occasionally with an anecdote
and pointed with biting truths. We regret
I that our limited space prevents us from
giving this excellent speech a more extended
notice.
Outside of politics there were things as
! sociated with this meeting which rendered it
an exceedingly interesting and cheering oc
casion—long to be remembered with plea
sure and profit. Out of the very large multi
tude, we heard not a single oath or angry
word uttered, and saw no person the least
excited with liquor. How far this pleasant
result was attributed to the presence of some
two hundred ladies whose beauty and virtues
shed their influence over the assemblage,
others, less a stranger than we, must deter
mine. Certainly if such scenes are common
in Barnesville, the people there and in the
neighborhood are far advanced iu Christian
ity and civilized refinement.
We should do injustice to our own feelings
if in this brief notice we failed to accord our
most heartfelt thanks to the members of the
Barnesville Brass Band (under their instruc
tor, Mr. Ryan, of Columbus,) for their po
liteness in adding to b_-auty and eloquence,
the fascinations of music. We hope each
and every one ol ,the Band (together with
the whole assemblage) will never miss a note
in the compasss of country, and ever keep
step to the mu-ic of Hardeman, Akin, the
Constitution and the equality of the States
under the protection of a government, hon
estly and wisely administered, for the good
of a people and not of a party. Vpson
Pilot.
Newspapers.
Consider how universal are news
papers in America. They penetrate
every nook and corner of society. No
other element of power has such a sphere.
The pulpit, the court, the lecture, com
pared with the newspaper,touch society
in but few places. The newspaper in
. America is universal. It reaches within
and without, from surface to core; it
travels everywhere, is bought by every
body, read by all classes, and is wholly
or nearly the only reading of more than
half our population. Its service to good
morals and to intelligence among the
people is incalculable. All the libraries
of Europe are not of as much service to
the nations as the newspaper is to this
American nation. Its power is growing.
Who would, twenty years ago, have
j dreamed of such a growth and power as
I has been developed ? But the next 20
| years will witness a greater. The editor
listo be schoolmaster. The best talent
find its highest sphere in tin editorial
room. Already that chair is more in
fluential than the bench or the platform.
No brain can act upon so many as that
which speaks by the- printing press of
the daily paper. Ink beats like blood
in the veins of the nation.— lndependent.
The Democrats have been claim
1 ing the election of Gen. Houston, as
Governor of Texas, for a Democratic
victory. Hear what the Huntsville
Item , a Democratic paper, published at
Houston’s home, has to say:
The Know Nothings have won Texas!
It is useless to deny the fact. Around
here, they are the most jubilant set of
| fellows you ever saw; nothing now’ will
| suitthem but t<> make Houston President
* of the Union ! nothing less comes up to
j their lofcy ideas; they even talk of his
getting the Charleston nomination! Why
should he not ? Two weeks ago, we
w'ould as soon have thought of flying to
the moon as that Sain Houston would be
Governor of Texas, yetthat impossibility
has come to pass, —Sam Houston is the
Governor elect of Texas! We shall
deem nothing impossible from this out.
Ben Hill at Forsvtii.— This popu
lar orator addressed a rousing meeting
of the people, at Forsyth, Tuesday last.
He spoke, we learn, for hours, and
held his immense auditory spell-bound
to the close. AYe hear of this best re
sults.
The truth is, the people are waking up
and becoming alive to the impositions
that have so long been heaped upon
them. There is “fire in the mountains,”
and the con flag lation is beginning its
inarch over Middle Georgia. May we
not hope that some spark will light up a
blaze in the South, and thus by sweep
ing over the entire State, purge it of the
! chafly demagogues that have so long be
strided and disgraced it. Let Chatham
and the First District awake from their
slumbers, and lend a willing hand to ihe
glorious consummation.— Sav. Rep.
The Democracy of Bibb have
refused a proposition lrom the Opposi
tion to run a compromise ticke?--rhey
taking the Senator and yielding the Rep
resentatives, or taking the Representa
i tives and yielding the Senator. This
was a reasonable proposition, that (had
it been acceded to) would have avoided
an acrimonious county contest, strife and
( bad feeling; and we can but hope the
party rejecting it may be beaten. None
but political demagi>gues could desire a
heated contest, where no public good is
|to be subserved by it. On what meat
: do thee party leaders feed, that the peo
-1 pie must be forced into unnecessary
I strife, simply to appease their vitiated
i appetites for excitement!— lnd. South.
Gov. Brown—The Banks.
Here is a very serious charge against
i Gov. Brown, from the Rome “Cou
i ner.” We had heard of it before,
but were denied the privilege of lay- 1
ing it before the public, by our in- j
| formant, who did not wish to be,
i known as furnishing the information. |
! Just think a moment, citizens ofj
l Georgia : the Governor of your State
j privately counselling an evasion of the
law which he has sworn to see faith ful
ly executed ! But to the charge. —
Here it is :
What a Governor. —Every man
remembers what a tremendous war
, Gov. Brown made upon the Banks ,
two years since. They will remem
i her two that he forced through the
Legislature a very stringent law, re
; quiring the Bank Officers to make
oath to unheard of restrictions in
! their business.
If our information did not come
! from the most reliable sources, tve
. would’nt th ink ofbringing the charge
we are about to make, viz: that Gov.
Brow'll finding that the Banks were
about to kick up such a fuss as would
ruin him, actually wrote to some of
them and informed them of a plan by
which they coula evade his law. And
then the plan of evasion was the sil
liest thing ever thought of by mor
tal man. It was this, that the ofli
eers should make out their returns
one day, and then do Banking busi
ness until the next day after they
had sw'orn to their statement. Now
they were to swear they had not vi
olated the Law r since making their
last statement, and he tells them to !
regard the statement made the day he
fore as their last statement, and thus
evade the letter of the law.
This charge comes from a reliable ,
source, and if it is denied, we shall
expect to give the proof next week.
Col- Speer defending the English Bill!
We have it upon reliable authority,!
that Col. Speer, in his speeih at Zebu lon, j
I on the 13 h ult., “defended the English
Bill earnestly, and declared that it con- ;
i tairied no objectionable feature.”
Southern Rights men—lverson men,
do you hear that ? Air. Iverson, in his
speech in this city, denounced the popu
lar sovereignty doctrines of the Kansas-
Nebraska Act, as defined by Mr. Doug
las. The English Bill sustained Doug
las’ construction, (by giving the people
of Kansas the right to exclude slavery
after a pro slavery constitution had been
adopted and submitted to Congress,) and
Mr. Speer defends the EngiGh Bill!
Nor is this all—he refuses to say that
he is not the friend and advocate of
Douglas, or that he will not support him,
if nominated, for the PreGdency.
Is this the Candidate that Southern
Rights Democrats are preparing to elect j
I with their votes ? AVe do not believe !
! it. — Ind. South.
Iron Bands for Cotton Bales.— i
The N. Y- Courier and Enquirer says:
| Our attention has been called to an
abuse in the use of sheet iron bands on
cotton bales. Six bands which were
taken from a bale yesterday weighed
twenty-seven pounds—the cords usually
employed weigh only about six pounds.
The ddl’erence in this case amounted on
the value ot the cotton, to 1-2 to 3-4
cents per lb. We do not learn what
steps are proposed to stop this abuse, if
it may be so termed, hut we hear that
the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce
discountenances it.
Arrest of a Alail Eouber.— The
Memphis Bulletin of Sunday, Aug. 28th,
says: Lewis, alias Cobb, whose arrest
on suspicion of horse stealing was men*-
tinned by us yesterday, has been recog- j
nized by Deputy Sheriff Swan, of this *
! city, as Lcw’is A. Noble, an individual
i at present under indictment in one of
; the courts of Georgia for robbing the
mails. lie will be retained in custody
until the facts in the case are definitely
ascertained, or until a requisition for his
person is received from Gov. Brown, of
the above State.
Baltimore. —Two hundred ol*the best
citizens of Baltimore have signed a call
with the following heading:
The undersigned, citizens and business
: men of Baltimore, in view of the pres
i cut deplorable condition of affairs in our
j city, call upon all favorable to the resto
-1 ration of law and order, the purity of
j the ballot box, and the protection of le
; gal voters, to assemble with them in
j mass meeting, at Alonument Square, on
Alonday afternoon, the fifth day of Sep
tember, at four o’clock, to take into con
sideration such measures as the present
crisis may wariant.
The large body of land—B2,ooo
i acres—lately owned by Alessrs. Ander- t
i son & McClung,known as the “Hollings
-1 worth Survey,” and lying in the cotin
! ties of Highland, Randolph and Peodle-
I ton, Ya., has been sold lor $60,000, or
iBO cents per acre. The land has been
sold to a Northern Emigration Com
pany, whose design is to settle upon it.
The Providence Journal says
that Mr. Powell, whose picture%ff the
“Discovery of the Mississippi by De
Soto” adorns the rotunda of the Capitol
at Washington, has been commissioned
by the State of Ohio to paint the “Bat
tle of Lake Erie” for the Capitol of that
, State.
A letter from Raleigh, N. C.,
dated August 19th, says that about noon
i on that day a son of the Hon. Kenneth
Raynor, a fine promising youth, about
thirteen years old, was hunting with a
shot gun, in company with his brother,
several years younger than himseJf. Ihe
gun went off accidentally, the whole load
passing through the head of the older,
and producing instant death.
NUMBER 24.
“Bargain, Intrigue and Corruption”
Facts have recently come to our
knowledge, proving conclusively that a
I contract has been regularly entered into
between John W. Forney, of Philadel
| phia, and Mr. Sherman, a member of the
United States House of Representatives
j from Ohio, disposing of the two first
offices in the gift of the body of which
Mr. Sherman is a member. According
to the terms of this agreement, Mr.
Sherman guarantees to Mr. Forney the
votes of the Republican members of the
House for the Clerkship; and Mr. For
ney guarantees to Mr. Sherman the votes
of Messrs. Hickman and Swartze, of
Pennsylvania, of the Douglas Demo
crats from New Jersey, and of the three
Douglas Democrats from New \ ork—
Messrs. Clark, H&skin and Reynolds—
! for the Speakership.— Wash. Star.
Os such material is composed the great
Great National Democratic Parti/, now
seeking the endorsement and the votes,
of the people of Georgia. Forney was
first the pimp of Edwin Forrest, as our
readers will recollect, then the manager
in-chief for James Buchanan, now under
the control and in pay of a worse man
than himself, if possible—Stephen Ar
nold Douglas.
Col. Akin.—A Democrat’s Opin
ion.—The Ringgold Express, a De
mocratic journal, published near Col.
Akin’s home, thus speaks of him :
Col. Akin.— The Opposition Con
vention which assembled at Atlan
ta on the 10th nit;., put in nomina
tion Col. Warren Akin, of Cass, for
Governor. We speak only’ what ev
ery one in this section knows to be
I true, when we say* that no man of
the Opposition could have been
i found, who could carry* more votes
1 in this section of the State, than
Col. Akin. He is a man of undeni
able ability', and irreproachable mor
jul character. He has no political re
cord, having never taken an active
part in political affairs. He was an
! old line whig, bnt never belonged to
i the know-nothing organization, or to
; the American party, out was gener
ally’ know'll to be among its sympa
thizers. Since the death of the old
Whig party, he has always been
found following in the wake of those
opposed to the Demecracy, be they
whom they might. No party name,
therefore, would better suit him than
that of the party of which he is now
aeknow'led leader.
We are one among Col. Akin’s
many personal friends and admirers,
and we are exceedingly sorry that
jso good a man as he .is, should be sacri
| ticed to keep the party’ organization
j up—for we apprehend no candid per-
I son will pretend to deny, that he
’ who runs against Gov. Brown is
I doomed to defeat.
>tr
A New Orleans Printer Committed
j for Manslaughter. —W. H. C. King,
foreman in the composition room of
I the New Orleans Crescent office,was
examined in that city’ on Saturday
last, on a charge of murder and in
dicted for manslaughter. During a
: meeting of the New Orleans Typo
graphical Union, on the 3d of July',
Arthur McGill, (who was assistant
foreman in the same department of
the Crescent office,) and the accused,
had an altercation, during w'hich
McGill was stabbed by King in the
back, which resulted in the death of
; McG. on the Bth inst. The dying de
claration of McGill was not allowed
to be used in evidence, hut the testi
mony of several witnesses went to
| fix the act upon the accused, and he
was fully committed to take his trial
for manslaughter. He was admitted
! to bail in the sum of $2,500.
A Presidential Dictum. Mr.
John T. Johnson, lately* a Custom
house officer in Alexandria, Virginia,
publishes a card in the Gazette of
that city, explanatory of the cause
of his removal from office. It ap
pears that he voted for Mr. Shackle
ford for Congress, instead of Gov.
Smith. And, although Mr. Shackle
ford was a Democrat, yet the Gov
ernor w'as considered the regular
party candidate, and therefore Mr.
Johnson was ousted from his office.
It appears that he called to see the
President in regard to his removal.
Here is his ow'n account of the inter
: view :
The President informed us, that
I persons who hold office under his
Administration would be expected
to support the re-election of mem
bers of Congress w'ho were friendly*
to his Administration, regardless of
their antecedents. Opposition to
such a candidate,to be regarded as just
cause for removal.
| The hippopotamus of the Jardan
des Plants at Paris had a son last
1 year w hich she killed by pressing it
against the side of the tank. This
year another callow* hippopotamus
was born. He seemed at home in
the watery’ cradle provided for him,
yet when he had reached his fifth
day she brutally and unfeelingly
killed him, with her tusks. The
next scion of this family will be
“raised by hand” and aparj from the
cruel instincts of its mother.
y WIOATJON OF THE AIISSOURI RI
VKR steamboat has just return
i ed to St. Louis, from a trip up the
I Missouri river to Fort Benton, three
thousand miles from its mouth, and
only seventy* miles from the source
of the Columbia river. This is the
furthest point yet reached by steam
boat, and it is now* demonstrated, a
steamboat may, without any* difficul
ty*, go from Pittsburg to Fort Ben
ton and back. In truth, the intern
al navigation of the west is as yet in
its infancy.