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VOLUME 10. THE GEORGIA CITIZEN -E PCBUSHD TEST FRIDAY” MORNIXO BY l. F. W. ANDREWS. (iffki! —/ Home h Building, Cherry Street, Txco Doors helovc Th ird Street. fEBNs: —B*,#o per annum, In ndtanrr. il<<‘rti*"'>”" nt * at til- repi'ar charge will l* One Dollar ■ irt of one hundrt'l vror l* or iter, (■•r the rtrrt inscr r in.i Fifty Cent* (or each subsequent Insertion. Ail ai vVrt’bem Dt* no* specißed as to time, will tie published un'il 1- .rt.id. and charged accordingly. A liberal discount allowed who advertise by the year. Literal arrangements made with County Officers. Druggists, A act. a leers, HcrcsanLs, and others, who may wish to uiahe ■ uiited contracts. Professi mill and llusiruo.s Cards will lie inserted un dcr this heal at the following rates, viz: for Fire 11m*. per annum * oo i y r Seven lilies, do si (A f.g Ten lines, do. leoo , adiertisement of this class mill be admitted, nnlese paid ‘ for in advance, nor for a less t-rm than twelve months. Ad- . rtisements of over ten lines will be charged pro rota. Ad- ! v! ois-meiits not paid lor in advance will be charged at the ~ j’llar rates. i Dhi uary Notices of over ten liner, will be ciuirged at the tnnoiiiieement* of candidates for office to be paid for a ‘ .1,,. isnal rates, when inserted. aalesof laind and Vearoes, by Executors, Ari-iinl-tm ten and Guardians, are required by law to lie advertised in a •chile g uette. forty days previous to the day of sale. These si.um*t I* held on the ring Tuesday in the inctith. between ‘ ttic lionrs of ten in the forenoon and three Iti the afternoon, 1 at the Court-house in the county in w hich the property is situ ated. Ji hales of Personal Property must be advertised in like nvi! ner, forty days yotiee to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must lie , jet Wish* tl fcrtv days. \otice ih it anplica'ion will lie made to the Ordinary for 1 leave to sell I said and Negroes, must be published weekly for tiro months. Citations for Letters of Administration, thirty days; for ! Pismission rnm Administration, monthly, six months; for Dismission from Guardianship, weekly, forty days. Hides lor Foreclosing of Mortgages, monthly, sou . mths;'-r establishing Ist papers, for the full spare of thre ! nmnths; tor compelling titles from executors or adiiiimstra- I 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.