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VOLUME 10.
THE GEORGIA CITIZEN
SE riBUSIin VERT FRIDAY MORNING BV I
L. F. W. ANDREWS.
OFFICE —In Horne a Building, Cherry Street,
T>ro Doors below Third Street.
Tlill'l*:—#i,JO per annum, in mlianrr.
VlurlU -mint* . tb- rffii ax cbarite will he Owe IS.'ir
p*-r t.t hn .deed vnjrd* *.r <**, f,r the rlrat me=r
ti i. a:nl K/ln #'<* for erh >uiw"oiu-nt in**rlin. All ad
vertemi t* not ato UomlwH iniMi*be<l uteil
f, H-id. n*l rharjre'l •ecordinelr. A litn-rai di*c mot allowed
to those who advertise by the year.
Lit’-ra! irun*tuiente mate oittu onr.ty tHßar-. DnijaclrtA,
Anrtioneet*. Mefttaata. and others, who may wish to inake
i*rfe'**l dial and Uu-ima. Cards iii be Inserted un
it, r tfciv head, at the tbUowinjr raten, viz :
For Fire Urns* per annum, 509
or'een lines, do g.o
For Ten linom do ltHKt
head fti—ment of this clmj will t< artrtsitted, unlew. jaid
for in advance, nor for a less t-rm titan twelve m* slits. Ad- i
iMMßrtttsol uver ten lute wUI be cttarired pr.irill. Atl
vcrti*nietit not ;-aid tor in advance wil. be 1 ti.vryed at the
UfclMorv \ulirrt jf m-er tern line*, will be charred at the
Inuoimrv ment V ‘u riUlater for oAee to be paid for a
the usual rates, adieu ht arttsl.
sales of I.and and Newoeo. * f Ixecitors. ACrttiiirtr*-
tr.rs and Guardian*, are nsimn-d i.y law hi be attverli.ed in a
ptihile gaziste, forty day* yrevitme to the day of •etle I fcese
tale* must l held on tbe Hist Taesdav :u the use'll, twtweea
the hours of tea la the foreßo<>n and thr> e in the afterct-ia. •
at te Couitjhausv tn the county in which the property isstlu
wale* of Personal Property nmsS be advertised in like
Aollce l ItelbtMf* and Creditors of an E-tate must It
#JwE*2 f rty
“ Ntttiee ‘hat apfeteaHofi will be made to the Ordinary for
to sell
’ niatlotis for XtSZev. of Adtnlnistn lon, tiirtv da?#; for
Jhseifcvdon r..m AdwiniMrutiou. amnthlr, -u month*; for
iAsmlwi n foil OnaMi.mrt.lp, s-eekli. f - . .....
Kales for PoreeitMi of tlorl.a ~ ■ nthlv. f.ui
f.srf daimsh i-*l rVrt*r- lorthefci ! spare ofthre
Pumtlwt for C-'OipetUn* lliJm rfon. executor- or aduiiniMrs
mb where a boad ba- been iimi ■*y tbe deswised, the full
|i*tf of three pppiths,
The Auroral Telegraph.
The following conversation be
tween the Boston an*! Portland op
erator* on the American Telegraph
Line Kill give our reader* an idea of
the effect of the Aurora Borealis ou
the working of telegraph wires :
Boston Operator (to Portland Op
■erator.y —“Please cut otf your bat
tery entirely from the Line for fif
teen minutes.”
Portland Operator.—‘‘Will do so.
it ts now disconnected.”
AAkmton. — •M in* is also disconnect
ed, and we are working wit it the
1 Aim >ral current. How do you re
ceive my writings ?”
Portland.—“ Better than with our
oaabalteries on. Current comes and
goes gradually.”
. Boston.—“My current is very
strong at times, and wo ean work
better without batteries, as the Auro
ra seems to neutralize and augment
our batteries alternately, making
current too strong at times for our
Belay magnets. Suppose we work
without batteries while we are affect
ed by this trouble.”
Portland—“Very well. Shall Igo
ahead with business ?”
Boston.—“\es. Go ahead.”
The wire was then worked for
about two hours without the usual
batteries, on the Auroral current,
working better than with the batte-i
ries connected. The current varied,
increasing and decreasing alternate- j
ly, but by graduating the adjustment
to the current, a sufficiently steady
effect was obtained to work the Line
very well.
Balloon Yoyaob to Elropk.—A J
monster Balloon, for T. C. Lowe,has j
just been completed in New York,
at the -cost of $25,000. It is intend’ 1
ed for a voyage to Europe in Octo
ber, and will carry six passengers, ‘
besides a letter and newspaper mail.
A description of it says :
Over six thousand )ards of the
best material has been used, and sev
enteen sewing machines have been !
employed on the work, and it is es
timated, have done the work that
would have required two hundred |
girls to perforin in the same time.
The aeronaut does not claim to have
invented any new system of balloon
ing, hut he lias been enabled, by the
assistance of friends, to construct a i
machine in which he is determined i
to test the practicability of a trails-i
Atlantic voyage. The entire height
of the balloon, from the bottom of
the loat to the top is 240 feet, and
its diameter 123 feet. The boat isa
life boat,4s feet in length, 8 feet beam,
and 4 feet deep, and will contain a
caloric engine for the purpose ofo
working a propeller on the screw j
principle. The* size of the car or bas
ket is 30 feet in circumference. It is
calculated that the propeller, which j
is placed in the bow of the will
enable the icronaut to raise or lower
the balloon at pleasure, and to keep
steerage way on it. The balloon
will contain about 700,000 enbie feet 1
of gas. and will weigh, with the ear,
ls>at, and their contents, about three J
tons, and will possess a lifting power 1
0f221 tons. It is expected to make
the voyage to Eunqc in two days.”
The ordinary rate of speed per se
cond is as follows :
Os a man walking. 0 feet.
Os a good horse in harness, 12 feet.
Os a good sailing ship. 18 feet.
Os a reindeer in a sleigh on the
iee, 24 feet.
Os a race horse, 72 feet.
Os hare, locomotive, and hurricane,
84 feet.
Os sound, 1892 feet.
Os a caution hall, 1344 feet.
Os the earth's rotation at the equa
tor. 1521 feet.
Os the earth’s velocity in its orbit,
69,132 feet, or nineteen miles.
Ab<ht a Pn*.—‘-Patrick, widow Jlolony
telU me that you have stolen one of her
finest pigs. L- that so ?
“Yes yer honor.”
“What have you done with it ?”
“Killed it and ate it, yer honor ?”
“Oh, Patrick when you are brought face
to face with the widow and her pig, on the
judgment day, what account will you be able
to give of yourself wuen the widow accuaes
you of the theft”
_ “Did you say the pig would be there, yer
riverance !”
“To bo sure I did.”
“Well, thin, yer riverence, I’ll say, Mrs.
Malony, there's your pig.”
Antwerp. —This old city, whose
fortification seems to create so much
excitement in France, is the capital
ot the province of the same name in
Belgium. It is situated sixty miles
from the sea, on the right hank of
the river Scheldt, being twentv-sev-1
en miles from Brussels, and nearly
two hundred and sixty miles from
Paris. It is is still the centre of the j
foreign trade of Belgium, and has a i
population of ninety thousand; hut
in the sixteenth century* it was the ;
London of Europe, surpassing all
other cities in wealth and commerce,
and containing two hundred thous
and inhabitants, it has always been
fortified strongly, and regarded as a
place of much military importance.
It was taken by* the Spaniards in ,
L>7iaiid 1585, and by the French in j
1702 and 1704. Napoleon greatly
improved its harbor by constructing j
two large basins, in which ships can i
anchor in the river opposite the city* I
in from thirty-two to forty feet of
water at ebb-tide. It has many flour- 1
isliing manufactures, and the archi- \
tectural beauty of its churches and
public buildings make it very attrac-;
tive to the tourist.
By our hurt intelligence, Antwerp
was being strengthened in its forti
fications out of funds previously sup
plied, and the Belgian Chamber was
discussing the expediency of enlarg
ing the plans, with the prospect in
favor of that result. The Paris pa
pers state that should this he done,
an army of observation, really of
menace, consisting of <>9,000 men,
would soon le located upon the
frontier of France. Jt has been con
jectured that the root of the French
feeling in this matter lies in the {Risi
bility that Antwerp, in case of war
with England, would form the base
of British operations on the Conti- j
neat. But it does not yet clearly !
appear that the government of
France is so much interested in the j
question as news writers would have |
us suppose.
A Xori.k Sentiment. —“Let us
cling to the Constitution as the ma
riner clings to the last plank when.,
the night and tempest- close around,
him.” A noble thought and nobly
expressed by a great statesman now
deceased, but the sentiment should
he deeply engraven non tbe heart of
every patriot through nt the broad
extent of the Republic. XU (Con
stitution of our common county* is
the mighty .Egis behind which ’we
all take shelter, and to whose pvotee- 1
tion we are indebted. for the bless- I
ings, civil, religious and political,J
which we enjoy*. Let this shield be
removed from us—let* it lie battered
and broken by the missiles of taction
and fanaticism —and where then
would lie our glorious Union ? The
Republic would he scattered to.the
tour winds of heaven, and we u*mikA
soon become a laughing stock al<j a
derison among the nations of She
earth. No! no! Let us cherish
the Constitution as the of all
our earthly hopes, and pur
children to revere it. Let its frown
down the first attempt to weaken its
obligations, or to disregard ilia, in
junctions it imposes. It was the
work of our Revolutionary fathers —
formed by their wisdom, under the
guidance of Heaven—and should be
kej t sacred as a cherished memento
to their priceless toils and unsullied
patriotism. Let us cling to it astlio
hope of the world, the beacon light
to guide all nations in the pathway
of true freedom and rational libortv.
Let us cling to il for the regard wo
have for the memory of our mth||S ;
let us cling to it for our Wn protec
tion and the interests of our chil
dren ; let us cling to it as a jjHcelCss
boon from high heaven, and hand it
down, unbroken and utirtffffida, from
generation to generation, until the
last day of earth shall have come,
and time itself he swallowed up in a
never-ending eutenuity.
[Lancaster \P<ij TntrtThjcneer.
YALL'S OF THE EARTH Worm—-
The common earth-wonn, though
apt to le despised and trodden on. is
really a useful creature in its way.
Air. Knapp describes it as the natur
al maiiurer of the soil, consuming on
the surface the softer parts of decay
ed vegetable matter, and ©onveviug
downwards the more woody fibres,
which there molder and fertilize.
They perforate the earth in all direc
tions, thus rendering it permeable
bv air and water, both indispensible
to vegetable life. Aeeording to Air.
Darwin s mode of expression, they
give a kind of nuder-tilluge to the
land, performing the same below
ground that the spade does above for
the garden, and the plow for arable
soil. It is, in consequence, chiefly
of the natural operations of worms
that fields which have liken over
spread with lime, burnt marl, or
cinders, become, in process of time
covered by a finely-divined soil, fit
ted for the support of vegetation.
This result, though usually attribut
ed by farmers to the “working
down” of these materials, ts really
due to the action of earth worms, as
mav be seen in the innumerable
1 casts of which the initial soil con
sists. These are obviously produced
bv the digestive proceedings of the
worms, which take into their intes
tinal canal a large quantity ot the
soil in which they feed and burrow,
and then reject in the form of the so
callcd easts. “In this manner.” says
Air. Darwin,” “a field manured with
marl has been covered, in the course
of 80 years, with a bed of earth av
eragiog 13 inches in thickness.
[Encyclopedia Britannia.
MACON, <4 A., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1859.
Gov. Brown and Ills Railroad
HaiiagHiiiriit.
BY COL. DANIEL 8 PBINtCF.
IVe have reliable information ihat the
following communication, that appeared
in the Home Southerner, of tlih of Jan.
last, was w ritten by Col. Print up.
Read it, aid show’ it to Brow n demo
crats:— Confederacy.
[communicated ]
Much lias been said, and many strong
and unmistakeable intimations have been
given by the present parties in power,
of the mismanagement, not to say cor
rupt management, of the Western &
Atlantic Railroad, under the administra
tion of Governor Johnson. Coming
from a source at the. head of the govern
ment of the State of Georgia, however
unworthy aiul untrue, gives them a
right, with a seeming sanction of author
ity, among ffie people, alike injurious to
the reputation of the preceding Admin
istration, as it is unjust a< and untrue upon
an investigation of the facts. Even
men bf distinction have made invidious
comparison between the present “able
management,” as they say, of the State
arid its former “ruinous man
agement;” and tiia't it was now a paying
road, and unless any future Governor
makes the road pay, he will be a “one
term man.” Such statements, emanating
as they do, (mm men of distinguished
abilities, and in whom the people have
confidence, would never have been ut
tered iti public had the truth been known,
and th# management of the State Rail
road, under the Government of Governor
Johnson and Spuiiock, been fully inves
tigated, and the facts properly devel-
oped*f
Who has brought to light any mis
management or corrupt managemet of
; the State Rulroad during the superin
tendency <>t James M. Spuiiock? Where
!is the evidence? Upon making h com
parn* ive statement of th i nett earnings
dining Mr. Spullock’s management of
the road, aid that of l)r. Lewis, we find
tnat it sums upin favor of Mr. Spuiiock.
I w ill take the statement laid down in
j an abb* article upon this subject which
j appeared in the (constitutionalist of N'ov.
”4th
j Paul by Spolloek, -.7 Paid by Lewis, ‘•">*
For new Engine*
and machinery §oi*,ftßG .S
! For new Car* ■'('>, i'.r.* 7,856
I P and debts prior Au
miniiuralion, lS',i,ft7<> 172,1 Id
j “ State Treasury 100,000 175,000
$142,801 $354,072
, A difference in favor of Spuiiock
!uf $87,889. This statement is correct
j as tar as it goes, but it does not give full
! jgs*ico to Mr. Spuiiock.
I)r. Lewis acknowledges in his report,
j page 4, that the supply of cross ties
! which he found on the road, was very
large; the supply of wood was also
! very large and ample, so much so, in
j deed that very little, if anything, was
I pa and for these two very necessary arti
ces by Dr. Lewis, duiing the first nine
I months of his administration; a saving
I to him at the expense of Spu Jock’s ad
ministration, of over $50,000, as I am
assured by parties who know the fact.
We rau-t go further. Add to the f (re
igning the difference of capital or means
each had to work upon. Spull* ck -hows
that h : paid during the y*ar 1857, the
I sum of $152 885 for new engines and
i cars. Dr. Lewis paid $7,850, a differ
i once of $145,029 in favi.r .f Mr. Spul-
I l„ck, and the mean* and equipment to
> that extent furnished to Dr. Lewis’
h ind, over and above what he himself
i ins furnished. But the $152,885 paid
[ for new engines and cars, was an advan-
J tiige of just that amount of equipment
Dr. Lewis, over and above what he
commenced on. The small amount paid
by Dr. Lewis for cars, and the repairs
of cars, show the high state ot perfec
tion of the equipment of the road when
Mr. Spulloek delivered its charge to Dr.
Lewis. Thus, the very essentials nec
essary to successful railaoad management
were all furnished to Dr. Lewis by the
firmer ad-iHiiistration. Is it not singu
lar that, under this view of the facts, so
much should have been said to the prej- j
udice of the former administration of j
the road. In any view we may take the
report of Spulloek and Dr. Lewis, so j
tar as thev make a correct exhibit of the j
nett profits to the State, there is a decid
ed showing in favor of Spulloek. The
increase o’ the income during the year
1857, was $29,442,42 over 185<i. The
income of the year 1858, compared with
the income of 1857, shows a of
$10U.807,97, Why this enormous de
crease ? Is it not to be supposed that
the manner of conducting Lite business
of the road has something to do with it?
Is it not probable that the withdrawing
from the road of a regular daily pas>eu
ger mail train would decrease the income
from that source as well as decrease the
expenses'?
(Jan it bo expected that the income
from freights would be as great as when
no effort is made to keep up arrange
ments with connecting roads, in order to
divert the freights from other competing
routes ?
Other causes than the above may have
been assigned for the large decrease in
the income, but, up>n strict Inquiry, the
above will be found the main causes of
such an unusual deficit in the income of
the load for 18;8.
But we are told that it is important
that Spulloek paid nothing into the
treasury during the last three months of
the year 1857. Will they be so kind a’
to tell us how much Dr. Le vis pa>d into
the trea-ury the first two months of his
administration of the road? Will they
also inform us wh it became of the m ney
raised from the sale of iton, sold by
Dr Lewis for s*oroe $25,090 00 and up
wards ?
There have been efforts on the part of
Gov. Brown and Dr. Lewis to conceal
the true state of facts in regard to the
management of the road under Governor
Johnson’s administration. In evpry in
stance when there was a possible chance
to draw an invidious comparison to the
prejudice of Spuiiock s management of
, the road, it has been do-.e, and the .-ame
parad ;d before the public in vaunting
style us contemptible arrogance. Why
does G (V. Brown leave the impression
upon the public mind in his rec>nt spe
cial message to the Legislature, that ihe
•amount of Attorney’s tees then set f .rth,
Were under Gov. Johnson's udmuii.ira.
tion? Will Guv. Brown be so kind as
to inform the public whether or not h
him-elf allowed and ordered to be paid.
$7,750 00 of the Attorney's fees, which
he reported to have been paid since
1853, a Her the same had been rejected
and refused to be paid by Mr. Spuiiock ?
Why did he not state in Li-. message the
fact that the fees then shown to have
been paid since 1853, were paid in suits
nearly all of which had commenced, or
for causes arising, previous to 1853, and
for the results of w hich. Gov. Juhiison s
adrnmi-tration was in no way liable.
WillGuv. Brown explain why he al
lowed the ease vs. Hargrove At Etmon
son to go by default, as he did, thereby
loosing to the State several thousand
dollars, and now permits the odium of
the transaction to be palmed off on Gov.
Johnson? Perhaps Gov. Brown and
his agents conceive it to be necessary to
divert the attention of the public from
their own blunders. In doing this they
should be careful not to make it too pal
pable i hat they are circumventing the
truth by indirect means. It was wholly
unnecessary for their purposes, unless
they intended to elevate themselves at
the undue expense of others, who stood
by Gov. Brown in the hour of need, and
used every exertion, an<4all the means
in their power to elevate him to the Gu
bernatorial chair. The returns he has
made them, never could have been ex
pected from a man of elevated mind and
nobleness of heart, nor of a true and
Christian cbaiacter.
VINDICATOR.
From the Chronicle <V Sentine'.
The Cincinnati Platform i* Sli<*
Bill and file Kansas
Stiff i* tt Cincinnati Plat
form.
Mr. Editor: —In my former arti
cles. 1 showed beyond the question
of a doubt, that the Kansas bill and
Judge Douglas’ Territorial policy,
wore one and the same in principle
and tendency; and if adopted as the
settled Territorial policy of the conn
try, would crush out slavery in all
Territory belonging to the United
States. X now propose to go one step
farther and show that the Cincinnati
Platform is the Kansas bill, and the
Kansas bill is the Cincinnati Plat
form; and,that Judge Douglas, the
Kansas bill, and the Cincinnati Plat
form, all three agree, and most beau
tifully* and harmoniously work to
gether. How will Ido this ? Simply
by* quoting the resolution touching
the subject of Slavery as adopted by
the Democratic Convention at Cin
cinnati. In the published proceed
ings of that Convention, t page 20,
you will find the resolution spoken
of to read tints :—“ The American
Democracy recognize and adobt the
principles contained in tlu; organic law
establishing the Territories of Kansas
and Nebraska, as embodying the only
sound and safe solution of the Slavery
qaestion.”
Judge Iverson in liis speech at
Griffin, pronounced the Kansas bill,
“a cursed and wretched thing of uncer
tainties, and unmeaning generalities.”
Judge Iverson again said, “the Squa
tter Sovereignty elements of the Kan
sas hill lost the South Kansas.” lie
said he had advocated the heresy of
Squatter Sovereignty in the Kansas
bill. He said he did wrong; he ad
mitted, and recanted the error. Afr.
.1. J. Jones stands upon the t'incin- |
nati Platform, and the Cincinnati j
Platform reaffirmed and endorsed
the Kansas bill, “with all of its cursed
and wretched uncertainties and un
meaning generalities. ‘ Could any man
use stronger or more forcible lan- j
i guage than Judge Iverson lias done,
1 to express his repudiation and de
nunciation of the Kansas bill f Then
I according to Judge Iverson, Mr.
Jones stands upon a cursed and
wretched platform of uncertainties !
and unmeaning generalities.
For the Cincinnati Platform is an
exact copy of the principle in the
Kansas bill, on the subject of slavery
in the Territories. Then the Cincin
nati Platform and Kansas bill are
one in principle; a> and being one in
principle, both according to Judge
Iverson are cursed , wretched things of
uncertainties ana unmeaning general)
tins. And this is the Platform Mr.
Jones stepped upon. Does he feel
j proud of his position ? Does he
glory in standing on a platform and
defending a principle and policy that
Senator Iverson calls a cursed and
wretched thing ? —a policy full of un
certainties and unmeaning generali
ties 1 But Judge Iverson says the
Kansas bill lost the South Kansas. —
True, it did. Kansas, before the
Kansas bill was passed, was practi
cally a slave Territory. Yes sir—l
say African slavery was in Kansas,
practically there, there to all intents
and purposes: and that was the
; reason J udge Douglas was so anxi
ous to give the Territory of Kansas
; a government. He wished to destroy
slavery there ! He intended to do it.
He did do it.
Say to the Constitutionalist not to
be astonished when I say, Kansas, to
all intents and purposes, was a slave
Territory, and that it was made free
Territory by the Kansas bill. Per
haps the Constitutionalist will deny
it. If it does, it cannot front the
records of the country prove that
slavery* was not in Kansas \ ears he
fore that cheat and swindle, the
Kansas hill, was passed and put upon
the South, with its squatter sover
eignty “elements.” I quote from a
speech made by* Judge Douglas in
the Senate of the United States on
the 30th day* of January*, 1854. The
authority I give ougot to he received
by the Constitutionalist as good. Here
is what Judge Douglas said in the
Senate of the United States the 30th
Jay ot January, 1854: “/ know of
but one Territory of the United States
where slavery does exist—and that one
is where you have prohibited it by law,
and it is this very Kansas Territory
See Cong. Globe, vol. 28, part 1, page
279. I have given the book and page,
and defy any Douglas—Kansas hill—
Cincinnati Platform—man to dis
prove it from the record of the coun
try. T want no mans assertion that
it is not so. It is very easy to deny,
but it is another, and distinct thing
to prove what I say* is not so!
Think you, Mr. Editor, the Legis
lature and the people of Georgia
would have endorsed the Kansas bill,
had they known they were endors
ing a bill that would he the means of
making slave Territory, free Terri
tory ? Well, sir, it is a tact, and his
tory stands as an evidence of the fact.
It is written-in the past, and it is ir
revocable. The State of Georgia
believed she was endorsing the prin
ciple of non-intervention as held by
Calhoun, Berrien and Webster, and
which was the principle of non-inter
vention, and protection against Ter
ritorial legislation on the subject of
Slavery.
Here is what Mr. Webster said in
the Senate of the United States, 3rd
of January, 1850. lie proposed to
Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, the follow
ing, as a substitute for his resolution
touching that point: “Say that the
Territorial Legislature shall have no
authority to pass any law for establish
ing, or excluding slavery in the Terri
tory. That is very proper, because I
take it, that the meaning of the whole
is, that this question shall he left to
the people of the State to decide
after it becomes a Sovereignty by ad
mission into the -Union on the same
footing with the original States. It is
our duty to see, that the protection
of their persons and the security of
their property are all regularly provi
ded for—and to maintain them in
that State until they grow into sufti
cieut importance in point of popula
tion, to be admitted into the Union,
as a State, upon the same footing
with the original States.” See Cong
Globe, vol. 21, part 2nd, page 1118.
Thus spoke Mr. Webster in 1850.
The doctrine of non intervention in
1850 was a very different thing to
the doctrine of non-intervention in
the Kansas bill, put there in 1554.
Mr. Webster not only insisted upon
protection against Territorial Legis
lature on the subject of slavery, but
he went further and said it was the
duty of Congress to secure persons
and their property,in the Territories,
against t e inference from all quar
ters. That was what Webster called
non-intervention. Is it not astonish
ing that youtind men in Georgia op
posed to Congress passing laws to
protect slavery in the Territories ‘i
Mr. Webster felt it was his duty to
protect the Southern man in the
Territories in the right to hold his
property there. He was not like the
Constitutionalist, opposed to protect
ing property in the Territories. He
did not call it a slave code for the
Territories.
It is a little remarkable that, the
above sentiments were spoken in re
ply to and in opposition to Judge
Douglas and his Territorial doctrine,
as set forth in Harper’s Monthly
Magazine. What does the Constitu
tionalist think of Judge Douglas
now ? He plainly says to the people
of Georgia, through Harper, for Sep
tember, that the principles in Gen.
('ass’ Nicholson letter, is in the Kan
sas bill and Cincinnati Platform.—
See page of Harper 353. If Judge
Iverson is to be believed, if Judge
Douglas is to be believed, if all Die
Southern Democratic Senators in
Congress are to be believed, why
Mr. John J. Jones stands on a Squat
ter Sovereignty Platform.
Madison.
Douglas as an Independent Candidate.
The indications that Douglas in
ease of failing to coerce the Charles
ton Convention into giving him a re
gular nomination, will run as an in
dependent democratic candidate, are
confirmed by the following commu
nication in the Cincinnati Commer
cial. The letter of General Young
referred to recommended Douglas
to run on his own hook :
“Cape Girarpeu, Sept. 3,1859.
“Eds. Com. : Since enclosing you ;
the letter of General Young, of this i
place, to Senator Douglas, relevant |
to the Charleston Convention, I have ;
seen enough of his answer to said |
letter to learn that the Judge has !
inti united to his eloquent friends in !
these parts, that if the Convention ,
select another than himself, he will
bean Independent Candidate. This
will not surprise you much, I pre- j
sume. His recent letters and con- \
versations have exhibited strong
premonitory systems of this devel
opment. Such is the determined and j
inexorable devotion of his friends
that a stormy time may be antici
pated in the Convention. You are
at liberty to make whatever use of
this you may see fit.
Yours, respectfully, &c.,
“A. P, Johnson.*’ ‘
What are the Issues befoie ihe PCv
pie of Geori;.a.
Joseph E. Bioaii is thocandidate and
representative of what is claimed
to be the “National Democratic’ party
of iht State ot Georgia. We have uni
fbnnly acted with the National Demo
cratic party when such a party had an
existence : but when the dominant
Northern or controlling Ming became
denationalized and freesoil, to all intents
and purposes, we joined the Southern
Opposition party, whn h has for its re
presentative head in Georgia, Warren
Akin, a* candidate for Governor. We
repeatedly expressed our dissent
from the name -‘Opposition,” but as lar
as the principles are concerned, we can
not see anything that is objectionable or
in opposition to that which Southern
Democrats have advocated since the
days of John C. Calhoun.
Then, as a Calhoun Democrat, we
are unat.-le to see w herein the principles
of the Opposition party of G.orgia dif
f r in the smallest particle from the line
of policy marked out for the South by
Carolina’s greate*t statesman. Mr.
Calhoun’s Democracy and loyalty to the
South were never question* and, and ifhis
views and policy for tbe government of
the South were right, and fully accord
with the Opposition party f Georgia
in 1859, why should any democrat retu*e
to cast his vote for Warren Akin, the
representat.ve of this policy, and in op
position to a policy of which Joseph E.
Brown is the representative, and which
if not arrested, will not only nr ire firm
ly establish, but will hasten that servile
and abject condition which Mr. Calhoun
spent his great es s ence in trying to
arrest, and which condition he fure-.aw
and foretold.
Wherein, or in what particular, then,
we ask, does the Opposition party of
Georgia differ from the Calhoun or
Sou hern Rights Democracy ? It is
well known that Air. Calhoun and his
followers favored disunion under cer
tain contingencies. So does the Oppo
sition party of Georgia. Whal are
those contingencies ? It is only neces
sary to mention the denial to the South
of protection to her property in *he Ter
ritories, or the election of a Black Re
publican President. Either of these
contingencies are ample, justifiable and
sufficient causes for dissolution. And
by the election of Stephen A. Douglas
to the Presidency, we can see no differ
ence as to ihe proper course for the South
to pursue between him and a Black Re
publican.
The Opposition party of Georgia de
niand protection in the Territories, and
deny the right or tue justness that their
section shall be governed by the double
meanings of the Cincinnati Platform.
This as construed by Mr. Douglas and
the Northern wing of the Democratic
party,contains squatter sovereignty or
the privilege of adventurers to a Terri
tory exercising the right of suffrage in op
position to constitutional precedent and
to the detriment and exclusion of South
ern interests. Gov. Brown endorses a
party ano a platform which has for its
object the maintenance of the doctrine
of squatter sovereignty and other fea
tures inimical to the rights of slavehold
ers and Southern interests. Why then
should he receive the support of Demo
crats, when it is well known and has
been fully demonstrated that he is, by
nomination and alignment, the represen
tative of a party organization that is
claimed to be National, which, if effectu
ally held together, must, have, and will
legislate to the injury of the South ?
Independent of Gov. Brown’s align
ments, taken in a National sense, he, as
a man and as the Executive of this
Commonweal!h, is offensively objection
able. lie is, by nature and instinct,
incapable of representing an Executive.
His S'ate policy is devoid in-tolo of the
fir.-t smattering of statesmanship, high
toned sentiment, or enlarged liberality.
His policy has been so remarkable for
•‘heroic stupidity and conscientious jwk
assism” that the intelligent major ty of
Georgians have lost that re>pct for him
which is “due an Executive officer. lie
has made himself a scapegoat, a laugh
ing stock and a conspicuous jackass.
lie has attacked every usage of the
Democratic party, and used his best ef
forts to build f>r himself, upon the ru
ins of DenooCr vcy, a Brown party. IBs
vanity, ignorance, bigotry, sectarian ap>
pointments and studied purpose to de
ceive is nature’s index of the man. We
shall resume this subject in our next..
[Atlanta Confederacy.
Randolph County.
The Democracy, we umterstood, are in
a bcautilui muss in Randolph county, and
the harder they try to extricate theus> lvcs
the deeper they pot their feet in it. They
first nominated Mr. Brook3 tor the Senate,
and Messrs. Coleman and Taylor for the
House, acd these gentlemen accepted. Bet
.it a subsequent meeting they requested
these nominees to come down again, and
Messrs. Brooks and Coleman obeyed the
summons, but Mr. Taylor refused and holds
on to the station assigned him. In the
meantime there is an independent candidate
up for the Senate, and he declares that he
will run through. The party are in strait,
and no way of deliverance appears to have
been yet discovered. Let our friends down
there be on the alert, and see to it that Mr.
Di>ugl ts is not forgotten in the excitement
of this local fijrht of the tactions. We learn
that he wiil get a great many Democratic
votes in Raudo'ph, but the Opposition
should not rely on Democratic votes to elect
him—let them put their own shoulders to
the wheel,and Whigs and Democrats, make
a strong pull all together. — Col. Eng.
Death at Sea. —Mr. Benjamin
Kendry, of New Orleans, died on
hoard, the State of Georgia, Sunday
last, of heart disease, and was bur
ied at sea on Tuesday morning.—
Mr. K. appeared to be in very good
spirits and in the possession of his
usual health till within a few mo
ments of his death, when he com
plained of shooting pains in his chest,
’ and suddenly fell a corpse.
Gov. Brown and the Legisla
ture.
Let it be borne in mind that Gov.
Brown was elected by- the Democrat
ic party, that the Legislature was
composed of fully two-thirds of mem
bers of that party, still they* did not
sustain him in a solitary* measure of
any importance that he recommend
ed to that body.
First, they* overruled him in his
desire to put down the Banks, and
with them the commerce and prop
erty* of the country*.
Secondly, they* failed to carry* out
his recommendations to make large
donations to certain Colleges.
Thirdly, they refused to establish
Free Schools, as recommended by
him.
Fourthly, they* refused to give
State Aid to Railroads, as recom
mended by* him.
Fifthly, they* refused to establish
the Cobb Sub-Treasury, as recom
mended by* him, and which was to
prevent the circulation of any thing
under $lO and S2O bills ! and,
Sixthly, they refused to adopt his
recommendation requiring the pay
ment of Taxes and other dues to the
State in Gold and Silver ! All this
lie recommended, and all this his own
party* refused to do. What a Gov
ernor ! How influential ! How
strong in the affections of his own
party ! —Atlanta American.
Discovery of an Island. —The New Bed
ford Mercury learns by a private letter, that
Capt. R (here D. E diidge, ol the bark Ama
zon, ot Fairbaven, has discovered an island
in the Pacific Ocean, several hundred miles
from any laud laid down on the charts. The
letter was dated at sea, January 16, 1850,
and in it Capt. Eldrulge says of the island :
It is iu I*L 0 deg 45 min. north, and long.
176 deg. 34 mm. west, very low aud dan
gerous, and is, I expect, the last resting place
ot the crew ot some of the ships which have
been mi*sed in years gone by. 1 ran along
the lee side within pistol-shot of the beach,
but it was too rough to land; aud afeer con
vincing myself that there were no living
people upo the island, squared away again.
Ou the highest part of the island is a house
apparent y built Irom pieces ot a wreck,with
a llag-statt’ at one end, from which still dan
gled the halyard block. Near the house were
several little hummocks, each with a tall up
right stone upon it, evidently the graves of
the poor fellows who had escaped lrom the
wreck of their vessel, and died on tnis
dreary spot, where perhaps they had spent
months in vainly looking for a passing suii
to relieve them from their weary prison.
A Useful Crinoline. —A gentleman
whose attention was attracted by the
suspicious locomotion of a woman pass
im* from the store of one of the Alex
andrian merchants, yesterday, descried
the end of a piece of bacon projecting
below her dress. The merchant stated,
on inquiry, that he had sold her none.
The woman was thereupon brought
back, and charged with the thtfft, and,
although her proportions were undis
turbed and indicated nothing wrong, ex
cept the ridiculous fashion, yet the se
quel proved that she had concealed be
neath her crinoline a side of bacon,
which weighed thirty-five pounds! The
tharity ot ihe merchant, like the crino
line of the culprit, covered her sin, and
she wa* to’d to go and offend no more.
Washington States.
SoMNrniNG Worth Knowing. —Under
this hrad the Cincinnati Commercial says :
A day or two suice a wotkmxii, descending
a well which had been excavated on Brr
street, was overpowered by the noxious gas,
and became insensible. A light was let
down, and as immediately extinguished from
the same cause, when one of his comrades
proposed to descend to his assistance, but
was prevented by the foreman, who wisely
rt marked that one m*n could be rescued
more easily than a eouple. As speedily as
possible, he procured a quantity of ui slack
en lime, which he cast into the pit, and then
dashed down a pad of water. The good ef
fect was evideut in a brief space of time,
for a pull at the rope whs felt, and the man
was drawn to the surface, having fortunate
ly escaped any ill consequence from the
remeily which had been used to dispel the
carbonic acid gas.
Capt. llardeman at Wmitesville.—
We had intended to go to Whitesville
last Wednesday to hear the speech of
Capt. Thos. Hardeman, Opposition can
didate for Congress in the Third Dis
triit, but circumstances which we could
not control prevented. From a friend
who was there, however, we learn that
Mr. llardeman made a telling speech,
and gained friends. W e have assuran
ces tro.ii friends in that county, that
old Harris will do her duty nobly on
r he first Monday in October, and roll up
a rousing majority fir Akin and Harde
man, arid the Opposition ticket through
out. — West Point Citizen.
Hardly any mention is made in the papers
of this State about the Gulf and Ship Island
Railroad in Mississippi. The design of this
road is to build up the interests ot Mississip
pi. It proposes to run from the coast of
that State, somewhere near Mississippi Cily,
up through the centre of the State. A route
has al-eady been laid off to cross the South
ern Road about fourteen miles east of Bran
don. Some of the Mississippians feel a
State pride in this matter, as it is believed
that it will build up a State commercial me
tropolis which can successfully compete with
New Orleans and Mobile in the cotton trade,
by virtue of the flue port near its proposed
terminus on the coast — Livingston (Ala.)
Democrat.
Rather Severe. —A member of the Mis
sissippi Legislature, at one of its late ses
sions, introduced a bill to change the name
of a certain county in that State to Cass
county. One of the Opposition moved, as
an amendmr.nt, that the letter C be stricken
out of the proposed name. This motion
created some laughter at the expense of the
member offering. Nothing daunted, how
ever, he arose in reply and said, ‘Mr. Speak
er, this is the first instance that has come to
my knowledge in which a member has had
the assurance, upon the floor of any legisla
ture to propose to name a county after him
self’
26*
A Book lx.
Martin Walton,
when dying in the Stoi- Mans Skin.—
town made a confession o> M „i lvvaV[ngn
dictated a minute account ot
career, which was recorded by the
of the institution, The work was pun*,
ed in this city in 1837, under the title ot
‘•Narrative of the Lite of James Allen, alias
George Walton, alias Jonas Pierce, alias
James H. York, alias Burley Grove, the
highwayman. Being his confession to the
warden of the Massachusetts State Prison.*’
There is now in the library of the Atbaeue
nm a copy of this work, bound in a piece of
the skin of the deceased highwayman. —
The cover is in one piece, about tea by six
inches in size. It is as solt as washleatber,
but much whiter. —Boston Jour.
Death Caused by Vanity. —A French pa
px- relates the case of a young lady in Ly
ons, who was engaged to be married, and
was predisposed to corpulency. Some of
her young friends ridiculen her stout figure,
&c., which at the time only excited her
laughter. Her health subsequently declined,
ard she died rather suddenly. As there was
no apparent cause for such a quick death,
the account states, “with grief, the parents
resigned themselves to have a post mortem
examination. They then found what they
had never before suspected ; she was burned
up by acid, which she had taken unknown
to them, to stop the growing fatness, which
reduced her to despair. The young girl died
the victim of ridiculous vanity.”
The old mansion situated within the gar
rison enclosure at Baton Rouge, known as
the residence ol Gen. Taylor, whilst resid
ing in that city previous to his filling the
Presidential (hair, has, we perceive, been
torn down. That was wrong. The old
house should have been permitted to stand
as long as it could hold together, from the
interest attached to it. When the fort of
Baton Rouge was taken by the Spaniards
under Don Bernardo De Galvex, in 1 76,
this house was occupied by Col. Dixon, the
English commander ; it afterwards became
the residence of Don Bernardo, and long
alter the American flag waved over Baton
Rouge, wa3 occupied by Gen. Taylor. B’or
years it has been familharly known as the
house of the old hero of Buena Vista, and
we dare say but few were aware that it
was connected with other associations inter
esting in the history of Louisiana.
[ West Baton Rouge Advocate, 3 d inst.
The Philadelphia Rowdy is a ter
rible nuisance Hear how the poor
Dutch lanlord described his suffering
at the hands of one of these amiable
beings : “Ter rowdy corned in and
axed me to sell him some peer. I
tells him he had more as well do him
goot. He call me von ole Dutch liar,
and pegun, to broke two tumblers.
My vite she call for dc vateh ’ouse.
’Fore de vateh ’ouso got dare, de
rowdy he kick Hans Seruggle be
liint his pack kissed my taughter
Petsy before her face, proke all her
tumblers cep ter olt stono pitcher,
and spilt my vise and tedder peer
parrels down inter ter cellar.”
A Cure For Hycropiiobia. — A
Saxou forester Earned Gastell, now
of the venerable age of 82 years,
unwilling to take to the grave with
him a secret of so much importance,
has made public in the Leipsic Jour
nal the means which he has used for
fifty years, and wherewith, he af
firms he has rescued many human
being and cattle from the dreadful
death of hydrophobia.
Take immediately warm vinegar or
trepid water ; wash the wound clean
therewith, a few drops of muriatic
acid, because mineral acids destroy
the poison of the saliva, by which
means the evil effects of the latter
are neutralized.
Reply to Douglas. —We are indebt
ed to the Hon. Howell Gibb for an an
swer, in pamphlet form, to Senator
Douglas’s views of Popular Sovereign
ty, as expressed in Harper’s Magazine
for September. It is understood to be
from the pen of Attorney General Black,
and is a triumphant overthrow of the
Douglas heresy. In addition to the
arguments, it contains a scathing rebuke
of the Senator for bringing forward th
subject and agitating the public mind on
a question already settled, for the sole
purpose of forwarding his ambitious de
signs.—Sa v. Rep
Our Minister to Spain.— The death
<>f Robert Wickliffe, the richest man in
Kentucky, will, it is said, render neces
sary the return of o*l. Preston, now at
the Court of Madrid. The estate of
Mr. Wickliffe is enormons, and Mrs.
Preston, the wife of our Minister, is one
of the three heirs who inherit the whole.
The share of Mrs. Preston, added to the
present fortune of her husband, will
make Col. Preston one of the richest
men of the age.
Eagle Shot. —Mr. John L. Akins,
of this county, showed us a few days
ago, the claw of an eagle, which he
shot on Little River, a few miles
from this place. It measured from
tip to tip, with the wings extended,
six feet, and four inches, and weigh
ed seveu and a half pounds. The
shooting of an eagle, is quite rare in
sporting achievements of this part of
the country. The claw may seen in
our office.— Madison Visitor .
An American essel I ired on
from the Spanish !■ ort at Farifa.
—Boston, Sept. 10.—The bai que Ar
menia, trom Constantinople, which
arrived here this morning, reports
that, while passing the Straits of
Gibraltar, she was fired on twice,
from the Spanish fort at Tarifa.—
The first fire was a blank cartridge
and the second round shot, which
passed through her main-topsail.
Phelan, the Billiard Player,
Defeated. —Tho billiard match be
tween the celebrated players Phelan
and Joseph “VV hi to, which was play
ed on Monday evening last, resulted
in favor of White by eight points.
[. N. Y. News .