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THE GEORGIA CITIZEN
pi BUSHD VF.RY FRIDAY MORNING BY
L F. W. ANDREWS.
Off, 1 ’* — h> Horne Building, Cherry Street,
Tio> D’>orf below Third Street.
per tun, in leaner.
iJii rli- ‘iii'iila it the regu xr charge will !*• Ow IbJlar
oart- ortr hundred wnrdm or f>-r tbe iruw-r
---. ■1 t r l* Cemls f*>r cadi loirition. Ail ad
tit- w t specified a*i to time, wlii be pul4ihed uuui
i- pi chin* ‘1 aeordin#rly. Alt tier *1 <ii>o>uit allowed
• h’ wboa*lvittofi iy the year.
1 -n! Bide with Comity Offic* r*.Dni£kist*.
a . rncers. Slcrchantis *ikl other*, who may wish to make
p nal an'i - ill L insetted tin
s hejHl nt the fallowing rates, viz:
i l ‘ ■ - •*£
{ 1 .1..rr: luiltT ftf t*i i fiarir 1 will be utile-’- paid
t ; ijvai i ‘.norfrnlwi t-nn than twelve months. Ati*
• ent* -t over ten line* will te cbkdrxeii jprp ruUt. Ad
, -t nt paid tor in advanx will be charged at the
“(Mmn Wic*-* of n rln ti i'e, will !>o eharzotl at the
iimwnrrfS ■ f camii.l.a,-, f<>r officel*. he pi<i f->r a
. B ual nu.i wh-n in*rt,it.
-lei>f J-an 4 anil Xejrrtw*. 1 y F t-rs, At'-nltii-tm
* . A!i i irtiurdiatu*. are required by law* e in a
-.in gi/eite. fitrty d*r prevhiUs tin- u.y of hale. These
Cut ‘ be held on the find Tuesilnv in the i.ttm'h, lietween
th- ten in the forenoon aid three In the fiern**ri,
at tWCourt-houat in the county in w hich the properly \* situ
wjih-M of Personal Propert* ust be advertised in like
Io Debtor* and C'rt'dhorw <-f an E>t:Ue must lie
pobßdird forty days.
\otiee 1 hal anplicarton will be made to the On 1 inary for
-i Land and Negrn .', must be pubiisiied weekly for
CiMtion* tor AdminldraMon, thirty days; for
LU “ *u rom Administration, U;tnthlv, >i.v inouihs; for
Dt‘"-!ion from tiuardiati**htp. weekly, forty days.
Hule* for porrulo* ins f Morteaiuw, monthly, sou
; 0.-; for establishing l >t ptipers, for the full spa-e of thru
n<<tith!; for compelling titles from exeeutors or adutinbrtrA
T’ where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full
pat oftaree months.
;R1 be c limit],
I'riglitcucd iuM-|ili's Prayer.
Bums was one of Nature's sweetest Poets. We
have no idea tliat when he wrote -Holy Willie's
ftsy, r.” lie thought its !:ingu:.ge would so” well suit
mv other ease. But it does. \ve give the last three
vt'ie-s almost verbatim—as they tit the ease and
iim lmon of Gor. Brown. Listen.
“Oh Lord, my God. that glilstongued .lAm.
My very heart and soul are quakin'.
To think how we stood sweatin’, clinkin'.
An” eshook *) wi’ dread.
While he with hmgm lips and snakin',
Held up hi*heed !
“Lord, in the day of Tensraare try him ;
Lord, visit them who did employ him.
And pass not in thy mercy hr ’em.
Nor hear i h-ir prayer;
But, for thy people's sake, destroy ‘em.
An’ dinna spare
“But, Lord, remetnlier me an’ mine,
Wi’ merries temporal ami divine.
That 1 lor gear and grae. uuty shine,
Exeelled oy nane ;
An’ a’ tire glory si tall I** thine.
.list*. Amem
[Atlanta .1 eorirvin.
Houdin the Conjurer.
Among the feats of Houdin, the not
ed Fiench conjurer, whose autobio-.
graph) has recently appeared in Paris,
the following is au instance of his nerve,
and of his full command of the art.—
Houdin visits Algiers and has a trial of
skill w ith the Marabouts or conjurers of
that country.
After having performed the trick, says
tie, of suffering an Arab to lire at me
with a loaded pistol, the ball appearing
msidean apple in my hand, 1 journeyed
into the interior, and there met several
Marabouts, one of whom told me that
he was not to be deceived.
’ W hy to ?’’
“Because I d.n’t believe in your
pewer.”
u Ah! indeed! Well then, if you
won t believe in my power, 1 w-ill com
pel you to believe in my skill.”
“Neither in one nor in the other.”
I was at this moment the whole
•rreth ot the room from the Marabout.
‘Stay ! I said to him ; ‘‘you see this
& vs-franc piece V*
“Yes.”
‘Close your hand firmly, for the
piece will go into it in spite of v our
self.’’
“lam ready,” the Arab said, in au
“Tedulous voice, as he held out his
-gitlv closed fist. I took the piece at
my fingers, so that the as
*“mb!y s/iight ail see it, then feigning to
l " row it at the Marabout, it disappear
e- at the word “Pass !”
% dim opened his hand, and finding
- Q -g in it, shrugged his shoulders, as
“tosay ; “\ou see, I told you so !”
■ wa, well aware it was not there, but
• ‘is important to throw the Mara
is attention from his sash, | and fur
’ piirpo-e i employed the feint.
‘hat does not surprise m\” I re
.‘■•W. | threw the piece with such
‘-'vrgth that it went right through your
and has fallen into your sash.—
4 afraid I might break your watch
“•,.“® blow, 1 calledit io me. Ibre it
ai. i 1 showed the watch in iny
‘ - the Marabout qu ckly put his
to assure himself of the truth, and
quite stupefied at finding the fivc
-1 r ‘“ spectators were astounded.—
<eot them began ti lling their beads,
• ‘he Marabout frowned without say
*■ > word, and I saw he was spelling
- r seme evil design.
‘ht w believe in your p<vwer,” he
u ‘- “you are a real sorcerer;” and
“meg nie two pistols he he led cuo
‘•isi under his burnous, he added,
- u,c . house one of these pistols ; we
• 1 “'*d it, ands will fire it at you.—
Lave nothing to fear, for 1 saw you
return! this trick at your owu thea
} 1 was for a moment stagger-
I • ‘ought a subterfuge and found
- All eyes were fixed upon me, and
“ M v was anxiously awaited.
1 thought of au idea which
I ’ .‘ ,l save from my dilemma, at
, lrU) Porarliy. ‘'To-morrow morn-
Nkl{l “at eight o’chx k I will ah
I ’\ J t 0 lre at me the presence of
I ctu! were witnesses of our
Iv/ r e Marabout, surprised
I ]^ n 'Pl<&oce, assented, and sum*
■ - 1 - the company to be present.
I W?t. fc v n< * x t morning we had
| a ]*d on entering the hall we
1 “rxw/! 1 6 l^,e tt ue>t3 were absent,
it to J 1 m r ? at nun *ber of Arabs came
y y j sw ell the crowd.
I were handed me; I called
-*tr #r i^ 16 act l hat the vents were
f l le put in a fair
: T e , l‘ ow der and drove the wad
a • bullKs v**"**, i
which I openly put in the pig-
t>!, aiid which was then also coveied
with paper.
r J he Arab watched ail these move
ments, for his honor was at slake. We
went through the same movements with
the second pistol, and the solemn mo
ment arrived.
Solemn indeed it seemed to every
body, to the spectators, who were un
certain ol the issue—to Madame Houd
in, who had in vain sought me to give
up this trick ; for she feared the result;
and solemn also to me, for as any new
trick did not depend on any arrange
ments heretofore tried. I feared an error
—an act of treachery—l know not
w hat.
Still I posied myself fifteen paces from
the shiek, without exhibiting the slight
est emotion.
The Marabout immediately seized one
of the pistols, and on my giving the sig
nal, took deliberate aim at me. The
pistol wout off, and the ball appeared
between my teeth.
More angry than ever, my rival tried
to seize the other pistol, but I succeeded
in reaching it before him. “You could
not injure me,” 1 said, “but you shall
now see that my aim is more dangerous
than yours. Look on that wall.
I pulled the trigger, and on the newly
white-washed wall there appeared a
1.-Tvge patch of blood, exactly at the spot
where I had aimed. The Marabout
went up to it, dipped his linger In the
blood, and raising it to his mouth, con
vinced himself of the reality. W hen he
acquired this certainty, his arms fell and
his head was bowed upon his chest, as If
he were annihilated. Jt was evident
that for a moment he doubted everything
even the Prophets. ‘I he spectators
raised their eyes to heaven, muttered
prayers, and regarded me with a spe
cies of terror.
Political Suicide of Douglas.—
The Nashville Republican Banner
says :
It begins to Ik* a current impres
sion that Douglas must be added to
the list of political suicides. Harper
and copy right are like to end his
days. According to one of our spe
cial despatches his friends regard
his ease as a very critical one.
The Parkersburg on the
same subject, declared that Douglas
takes different grounds in the Har
per article from that which lie as
sumed in the Kansas Nebraska, dis
cussion, and adds:
If the. doctrines announced by him
are to be considered essential princi
ples ina Presidential canvass, provi
de! he is the democratic nominee,
we do not feel hound hy party rules
to support him.
The Xetrs of the same date con
tains a huge puff’ for Henry A. Wise.
The Columbia South Carolinian,
on the same subject, says :
Having cut loose entirely from
the South, and left without any issue
to win strength at the North, it is
plain to be seen that if the South
discards this idea of a Congression
al slavery code, Judge Douglas must
sink insignificantly between the two
great parties.
The Richmond Enquirer, at the
conclusion of a long article to the ef
fect that Mr. Douglas’ views are un
constitutional, says :
But we have much more to say
about this very flimsy essay, which
we regret to recognise as emanating
from the pen of an American states
man. We will not desist entirely
until we have shown it up in every
phase of the weakness of its fallacy.
The ('hicago Herald regards Doug
las’ “copyrighted communication in
Harper as a bid for black republican
votes, and considers that he will he a
formidable competitor against Sew
ard next year for the republican
nomination.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune suggests that Douglas would
l*e a g,K>d black republican candi
date, “if he could only be trusted.”
“He can’t be trusted,” —there’s the
rub.
Douglas Discipline. —The Cin
cinnati Enquirer proposes to punish
Senator Clay lor his protest against
Douglasa>a Presidential candidate:
A Senator Overboard. —Sena-
tor Clay, of Alabama, has made a
speech at Huntsville, in that State,
in which he declared that he would
not vote lor Senator Douglas, or any
other man who entertains similar
views, even it” lie is nominated unaii
imously by the Charleston Conven
tion. There must also lie a Congres
sional slave code provision inserted
in tt.e Charleston Platform or Mr.
Clay will leave us. He further
‘fates that he is not, and never will
be, a national democrat. Alter
these declarations Clay should be
treated exactly as Hale and Trum
bull were—as a renegade to the par
ty. The doors of our organization
should he slammed in his face.”
13 eeciter Gets tiie Worst of it.
—A good j >ke is told of Beecher and
Park Benjamin. On one of their lectur
ing expeditions they were riding in the
same radway cat. Getting into conver
sion about preaching, Beecher was so
courteous as to ask Benjamin to come
over to Brooklyn some Sabbath morn
ing and hear him. ‘‘l do not know
where your meeting house is,” said
Benjamin; “how shall I find it?”
‘*oh,” replied Beecher, “all you have to
do is to come over one of the ferries and
follow the crowd.” “I would come,”
continued Benjamin, “but for one rea
son.’ “Ah! what is that?” asked
Beecher. “Because,” said Benjamin,
with a merry look out of his eyes, “I
make it an Invariable rule never to
go to any place of amusement on Sun
days.”
MACON, BA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1850.
From Teliaiiutepcc.
correspondence of n. o. crescent.
CornpHeation of the Tehauntepee Com
party.
Minatitlan, Mexico, Sept. 1.
I have again to inform you that
the various complications of the Te
| hauntepec Company are still further
| perplexed hy the action of the eom
pany and by tlie interference of the
! civil authorities of Juiehitan. When
Mr. Slidell departed I believe he left
Capt. Johnson in charge of the eeii-
I tral office at Chuela, but it appears
1 that the natives did not respect Mr.
I Slidell’s appointment, but went to
; Chivela, attached everything locked
up the houses, shut up theprovisions
and put a clincher upon any further
, use of the station by the Company.
! Capt. Johnson accordingly came
down t<> this place, and goos to New
Orleans hy this steamer, where I am
in hopes he will futill his promises of
opening the eyes of the directors hs to
I the character of the officers of the
company has entrusted with impor
tant Work on this Isthmus.
Gold on the Istfonun.
A party of miners started up the
river yesterday on the steamer Su
chil for the purpose of working the
mines near Chivela, in what are call
ed the Central mountains. In con
versation with one of the parties he
told me that he had worked the same
mines last year, and that after meet
ing with very’ good success, he was
tinally” compelled to abandon the suc
cess because the water gave out. He
thought that there was good dig
gings in the mountains, but the scar
city’ of people and water made it dif
ficult to work at times.
Indian Mounds and Traditions.
J observe in the Crescent an ac
count of large discoveries of gold
and silver images from Indian
mound-- on the Chiriqui, in the Re
public of New Granada. My atten
tion lias been called to the existence
of similar mounds in this Isthmus,
which are probably just as full of
wealth as the Panama tumuli. The
traditions of the savages of this coun
try represent that large quantities
of wealth have been buried hy the
poor Indians under the foolish hope
that when in the future the Spanish
race had been driven out. they might
return as disembodied spirits and en
joy the wealth their cruel oppress
or* had not allowed them to spend
while alive. This is a singular tra
dition, yet an old French merchant
who resides next door to me says that
it is corroborated by circumstances
at present which convince him that
the Indians not only have buried
money’ heretofore, but they do so
now. lie says they’ never take Ame
rican money into the country', but
invariably’ manage to exchange what
they may acquire for Mexican coin,
which they take into the country,and
which they never bring back. Be
sides, old Indians say that they have
been ordered to bury their treasures,
and they cannot offend hy neglecting
the order.
What is to be <lone ne.ct ?
The charter of the Habena expires
after two more trips,as does the mail
contract, and we are all anxious to
know what is to he done then. If
the company withdraws its steamers,
this Isthmus descends to discontent
and darkness again, for we sliall then
have nothing to do but sit down and
suck our paws. No papers, no boats,
no nothing ; it will be worse than
Egypt when you could cut the dark
ness with a jack-knife.
Rumors.
We have heard the report, which
is discredited, that Mr. Benjamin
brought or wrote good word from
Europe that he would get money.—
Next we hear that the Pacific Mail
Company will undertake the con
tract of carrying the mails over the
Isthmus, which has some believers ;
and then again it is stated that llar
gous A Cos., and a French house in
Mexico have contracted and intended
to do the work. It is working
against the Tehauntepee Company,
and that he intends to get the char
ter, it‘ possible ; but I believe the
Board of Directors of New Orleans
say that the concern shall not pass
into the hands of the North.
About Herman Cortez.
The original grant of land made
hv the crown of Spain to the mighty
conqueror of Mexico, is located on
the Isthmus, and is now in posses
sion of a very rich old Spaniard who |
lives near Chivela. The Tehaunte- j
pee road will cut it in two for dis* j
tance of over 20 miles.
For the Mexican Service.
I understand that Col. Bruno von
Natzmer, ot filibuster notoriety, has
been ottered a commission in the lib
eral army of Mexico. Is Nicaragua ;
clefunet ? Where is Gen. Walker ?
Another attack on the Stages.
A letter from Tehauntepee gives
me the particulars of another ns- !
sault upon the company's stages hy I
armed robbers in the district of.Tui
chitan. Says the writer: “Affairs
here are in much the state as when
I wrote to you last. The Juichiteos
rob in the town, and the Patricio* in
the country. Last week one of the
stages that left Tehauntepee for Al
modoyo was pursued by the Indians
armed w ith muskets, hut the road be
imr good the driver outstripped the
red-skins.
From Oajaea.
A private letter from Tehaunte
pec says that when the news of Co
bos’ march upon that place was made
known, the Governor levied a con
tribution 0f5400,000 upon the citi
zens of frajaca to assist in the defence
of the town. The alarm in Oajaea,
as I have already written to you,
was useless, for Cohos broke down
before lie got twenty-five miles from
Orizaba.
From the Home Courier.
Conclusive Proof that if nil
freights were proportionately re
duced to the rate Hr. Tetris
charges himself on Pig Iron , then
all the freights on the State Road,
instead of yielding u a reasonable
profit ,” would actually lose to the
State over SIOO,OOO a year.
Voters of Georgia, read the following
indisputable proof prepared by our cor
respondent, “Squibob,” (who, by the
way, is a most worthy and influential
Democrat.) and see “what a Govern
or” we have got.
Editor Cockier : In your issue of the
?th inst., 1 wrote you an article, in
which 1 laid down the premise, that the
rate of freight paid by Dr. John W.
Lewis, Superintendent of the W. <Si A. j
R. R., would not pay the maintenance,
and this week I proceed to make that
statement good. In doing thi<, 1 will
state that the gross esrnings for 1858
was SBOO,OOI 07. and the cost of main
tenance $589,532 57, w hich gross earn
ings and expenses are taken from the
report of Dr. Lewis. Now, under the
regular rates of freight, as laid down in
the schedule, the gross earnings arising
from freights for the year 1858, was
| $513,113 58. In order to find out
whether Dr. Lewis had an eye to carry
ing out the resolution as passed by the
last Legislature, we must now see what
amount of money his reduced rates on
his Pig Iron, as applied to all other
freight passing over the Road, would
I produce, and according to my calcula-
I tion, it would yield $213,139 3(5. Now
go with me through the following table,
and then you will see whether or not
Dr. Lewi-.’ reduced rates will pay the
expense of transportation over the Road,
viz:
Amounts raised from pas- J
sengers, mails and from 5- $256,556 7!*
miscellaneous sources. J
] Amount received as assessed
from Dr. L's. redu'd fr'gt. 36
Making from all sources, $469,670 15
Deduct expense of mainten
ance for 1858, 8589,532 57
Deficit over earnings, $119,802 42
ISo you see that, at Dr. Lewis’ rates,
the Road would tall short of paying the
expense of maintenance, $119,8(52 42.
Dr. Lewis either intended to ship his
freight, in violation of the law, or else
he was ignorant of what the cost of
transportation was—one or the other
horn of the dilemma he is obliged to
take. Jf the former, he is unworthy
’ the trust reposed in him, if the latter, he
is unfit for the position he occupies.
Before closing this article, 1 will quote
the latter clause of the resolution, on
which Dr. L. and his friends base his
action, and which is as follows:
Provided, That no Iron shall be car- I
ried over the State Road, so low that
; the State will not receive a reasonable
PROFIT by its transportation .” Now
1 a>k any fair dealing man, if Dr. Lewis
and Gov. Brown, when they reduced the
rate of freight on “Pig Iron,” did not
know that they were placing it at less
than it would cost to transport it over
the Road, to say nothing of said Pig
Iron pay iug a ‘■'reasonable profit!” Dr.
Lewis, I am informed, has four furnaces,
I and it would not be unreasonable to sup
, pose, that he shipped two car loads of
Pig Iron per day. Allow 52 days for
| Sundays, would be (52(5 car loads per
annum, and by multiplying (52(5 by
I $15.20. the difference between the old
rates and Dr. L’s. reduced rates, we will
| have the amount he has pocketed per
annum, of the peoples’ money, and that
would be $9,515 00. Add to this his
salary of $3,000, and he gets for his
services as superintendent of the Road,
sl2 515 00, w hich would be $25,030 00
for his invaluable services for twoyears,
and as long as he should be allowed to
use the office of Superintendent for his |
own personal benefit. Were I to give
the difference also, between the freight
of the Etowah Company’s Iron ship
ments, then the rea ier would begin to
open his eyes at the corruption that has
been practiced in the reduction of freight
upon that article—it would certainly be
between $40,000 and $50,000, which
, shows in part, how Dr. Lewis fell SIOO,-
! 000 short of Col. Spullock's gross earn
! irigs.
Remember that Dr. Lewis’ reduced
rates of freight, if applied alike to all
other freight shipped over the Road,
would fall short of paying the cost of
maintenance, as per report of 1858,
I $119,862 42.
Remember that Dr. Lewis, by his
reduced freights on “Pig Iron,” calcu
lating two ear loads per day, is pocketing
$9,515 of the people’s money, aside
from his salary of 83,000.
Remember, Tax payers of Georgia,
that you have to FOOT THESE BILLS.
SQUIBOB.
Prom the Troupville Watchman ( Democratic .)
A. T. M’lntyre. —The Opposition party
of Thomas county having reccommended
A. T. M’lntyre Esq., as the Opposition can
dicate for Congress in this District, and the
Opposition press having received assurance
of his willingness to assume the position
tendered him, Mr. M’lntyre may now be
considered regularly entered in the race
with the nominee ol the Wares boro Con
vention.
Since the dissolution of the Whig party,
Mr. M’lntyre has uniformly, we believe, vo
ted the American ticket, though we cannot
recall a single previous occasion when bis
name has appeared in connection with any
public action of that party, and in 1851 sup
ported Howell Cobb for Governor against
the Hon. C. J. McDonald. He is a gentle
man of sound practical judgment, and taking
every thing into consideration, we think the
Opposition have acted wisely in not aban
doning their championship to a volunteer.
Or. 11. V. M. Miller.
Among the partisans leaders of the
present campaign, probably the highest
plaee, in point of eloquence would be as
signed to the above named gentleman.
Dr. Miller, as is well known, is one of
the Professors in the Medical college at
Augusta, and most of his time, which is
not devoted to tho making of pills or at
tending to his numerous patients, has
probably been usefully employed iri
that institution. Nevertheless, without
having any of the advantages which on
ly a forensic training can give, lie has
created an impression by his lofty and
impassioned eloquence which has been
rarely excelled by the greatest of
tors, and which when compared to the
dull driveling speakers by whom he was
opposed, was truly marvelous. What
such a man might not have become, had
he devoted his whole time and attention
to a more congenial calling, it would be
difficult to conjecture. Much good as he
may have accomplished in his own pro
session, his selection of that as the fields
of his best efforts instead of the bar or
forum, was a misfortune to his country.
it is worth our reader’s attention to
hear him. After seeing or listening to
Joe Brown and the scrub politicians,
who act as his satellites, Dr. Miller ap
pears like an orator of a former genera
tion, and pha-autly convinces us that
our able men have not entirely passed
away.
From the American Union.
To mi Freud Shallow fork, of the luteliigeu
rnr.
Afreka Deestrick, )
Spalden conty, ga. j
Deer Swallowfork : I rite to yeu to
aske yeu to quit sinen yore name to yore
artikles what you puts in intelligeneur.
and tell yeu that that are lettur what
yeu published frum mi Deestrick is a
forgery, fer yeu rit it yoreself, and eve
ry body nose it. 1 must tell yeu, deer
swallowfork, that you is a makin yore
self ridikulous, and if you doant mind,
that Hanlitur what publishes the Amer
ican will tell that tale on yeu about
“Tom makin fun of yen doun here.—
Yeu doant no how they do talke about
you, cause yeu is a preecher and tells
so many liac. Dr. Sandus is gwine to
be lected and so is Mr. Dickerson, by
the biggest sort of majoritys. Dr. San
dus did vote for Ben Feril, and every
body loves him for it. It is a gittin
late, and 1 must close.
Yore much beluved frend,
J FEMES FLURTER.
N. B. They say Guvner Broune is
gwine to pint yeu Treasurer of the Stait
Rode if he is lected agin. 1 hope he
woantdo it, for, betwixt me and yeu, 1
doant bleve yeu is fit for the Tresurer
of a licker shop. Be shore and doant
sho this lettur to no body, for 1 doant
wont no body to no that 1 is bin riten
to yeu, cause tokes would think I is gitten
mity lo doim.
Who would have Thought It.
That the Empire State, a Democratic
paper, and many Democratic politicians
would have become the voluntary agents
of that vile abolitionist, William 11.
Seward, in spreading broadcast over
the Southean country, his abolition sen
timents 1
That Demociatic politicians would
have so far committed themselves to the
abolition sentiments of William 11. Sew
ard, as to be guilty of circulating his
speeches among the people ?
That Democratic politicians were so
hard run for capital to electioneer upon,
as to resort to Win. IT. Seward and try
to diffuse his abolition dogmas into the
minds of the southern people 1
That Democratic politicians would
have tied themselves on to the tail of
W. 11. Seward, and put him up as a
man to be believed in Georgia?
That Democratic politicians would
have so insulted a Si.uthern community
as to thrust into our midst, the rampant
abolition speech of W. 11. Sewaid, de
livered at Rochester, N. Y*. on the 25th
of Oct. 185 S.—J&.
Thomas Hardeman jr-
This gentleman who is the American
and Opposition candidate for Gmgress
in the Third District, addressed the
people, in Griffin, on Monday last. His
speech was a plain, dispassionate state
ment of facts, and sound, logical argu
ments, that every body could understand
—just such a speech as we like to hear
from those who a r e candidates for office.
If our Congress were filled with more
such men as Mr. Hardeman, we would
ha v e less gaseous displays, and more
business done, in less time, and at much
less cost to the treasury. The p- ople of
the Third District, will appreciate Mr.
Hardeman, and elect him by a handsome
majority.— lb.
“We have lately seen men from the
mountains of Gilmer to the line of Flor
ida—from the Chattahoochee to the
Savannah and all speak confidently ol
Gov. Brown's success. The question
now is not will he be defeated, but how
large shall the majority be?’—['‘V,” of
the Atlanta Intelligencer.
Why, “Swallowfork,” we were un
der the impression that your master,
(Egotist Joe) had settled that question
long ago. lie said it w r ould be thirty
thousand —wouldn’t you be satisfied with
less ? At any rate, from present ap
pearance, we feel confident that you will
have to put up with about thirty-one or
two thousand less. — lb.
The New York Independent states
that the leading silk and fancy dry goods
auction house in that city sold last year,
on a credit of six months, the enormous
sum of $3,000,000 of foreign merchan
dize, consisting mostly of silks, ribbons
and printed goods. The total losses of
the house during that period were less
than $1,200. A safe and well managed
business that, and a credit equally to
tellers end buyers.
Gov. Brown’s Bank Letters.
We consider it exceedingly unfor
! tunate for Gov. Brown that lie should
have allowed any considerations ot
private friendship or per.-ona! popu
larity', to induce him to write the
letters now being published in the
newspapers, whereby’ lie i- mad.* to
occupy a very equivocal position. To
our mind, those letters do sugge-t to
the Bank officers of the State a mode
of evading the law < f 1857 ; for wher
that law clearly prohibited those in
stitutions from exacting more than 7
per cent, profit upon their transac
tions, the Governor tolls them that
they’ may’ deal exchange at the
“market price,’ which we all know is
just any’ price that the exigenci-s of
trade may demand, whether it he at
7or 10 percent. As the Executive
of the State, it was no part of his bu
siness to intimate that any tiling
short of a literal conf.nuance to the
provisions of law won and he right or
would receive his sanction. We are
satisfied that the more this matter is
discussed, the ivorse it will be for
Gov. Brown. He may’ innocently
have intended to assist the Bank of
ficers in their embarrassment, (and
that is the most charitable construc
tion that can he placed upon these
letters,) but he evidently knew that
he was transcending his official pre
rogative, in advis ng the hanks to do
that which was certainly an evasion
of tho spirit, if not the letter of t lie
law, or he would not have been so
solicitous to keep the correspondence
private.
There is no question that Gov.
Brown’s anti-bank policy’ received
the popular approbation—more, per
haps, from the apparent rigor of his
determination to do what he thought
right, than from any very enlighten
ed conception of the causes in issue
between him, as the State Executive,
and the suspending hanks. But w hen
it is known that he was privately
playing into the hands of the Banks,
while lie publicly’ condemned them,
there is plausible ground for ques
tioning his sincerity. The people
are not so stupid as to he entirely oh
livious to the inconsistency of his
course, and we repeat, the writing
of those letters was an unfortunate
circumstance for the Governor; an
attempt to jus-ify them, may work
his defeat. When we first heard of
their existence we doubted the truth
of the statement, but since the Gov
ernor has himself been forced to ac
knowledge their authorship, we can
do no less than deplore his folly in
writing them. They admit of no
defence, and we could not for a mo
ment excuse the attempt to defend
them. —Griffin Indepen/lent South.
Judge Iverson and his Oppo
nents.
The'sentiments uttered hy Judge Iver
son, in his Griffin speech were identical,
so far as they related to ihe South, with
those uttered in the Senate.
The Federal Union says the Griffin
speech was not only a ‘•failure, it was a
miserable blunder.”
The Atlanta Intelligencer said he was
“unworthy and unfit ’ f>r the office he
held, or words to that effect.
Turn over the old files of the Federal
Union and Atlanta Intelligencer, and see
what they said of the one delivered in the
Senate.
From the Federal Union.
“We have been unable to publish the
speech of Senator Iverson by reason of
the great space devoted at present to
the publication of the proposals of the
Government for (CARRYING THE
MAILS.) We have read the speech with
pleasure, and approve the strong South
ern Rights tone of it. It has met with
decided disapprobation from the Abolition
press of the North, and has been as de
cidedly approved and commended by the
press of the South. Mr. Iverson de
serves the thanks of all men at the South,
who believe they have rights and dare
maintain them, for his very able defence
c.f the South in the speech to which we
have referred.”
From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
“We see that the press, generally,
speuk very favorably of Senator Iver
son’s late speech in the Senate. Air.
Iverson speaks like a true Southerner,
and we have no fear that the interests of
the South will be neglected in such hands
as Senator Iverson's. We think he
rather underrated the credit of Senator
Hammond in New York and the amount
of Southern capital invested in Southern
enteipriscg. But these are small mat
ters. The speech taken as a whole is
worthy its distinguished author.
The Srv System. —The New Y'ork
Herald slates that a system of espion
age is exercised in this county, just as
despotic as that which is rife in France,
and perhaps more potent. This system
is carried on by means of mercantile
agencies, whose ramifications extend
throughout the whole country ; and any
one paying them for the privalege may
inspect from their books, the most secret
actions, including even the private mat
ters of southern merchants. Immedi
ately the clerk who has charge of that
particular section is called, and lays open
the private life of the Alabamaian to the
eye of the inquirer. Even his marital
relations are discovered and the kind of
beverage with which he regales himself,
as well as the condition of his finances.
By this means, those agencies have it
within their power to blast the prospects
of a southern merchant, and ruin his
character forever. The espionage prac
ticed by the French Emperor cannot do
more among his own people. In view
of tlie>e facts, southern merchants should
be extremely cautious as to whom they
deal with in the North. —Montgomery
Advertiser.
Black Republican Speeches
PUBLISHED AND CIRCULATED AT THE
SOUTH.
Os all the contemptible electioneer
ing tr eks and suicidal policies that
we have ever heard of, that of a
Southern press re-publishing North
ern Black Republican speeches and
disseminating them broadcast among
our people, is, in our judgment, the
most to lie reprehended. How will
that arch traitor to his country and
vilest of all vile Black Republicans.
William 11. Seward, gloat over the
fact, that his Rochester frecsoil speech
has been printed in a Democratic print
ing office in Griffin, Ga., and scatter
ed wide-cast among our black and
white population, there to diffuse the
insiduous poison of his ingenious but
corrupt mind ! Are our Democrat
ic friends so lost to all considerations
of propriety and duty, as to hazard
the interests of the South for a petty
local party triumph ? If the
Southern people had just grounds of
complaint that the postal depart
ment of the Government was one
prostituted to the vile purpose of
disseminating abolition documents,
wluvt must they say now that a
Southern press has undertaken to
relieve the abolitionists of all trouble
and expense in the matter, by print
ing and circulating these documents
for them! Mr. Seward himself
would never have dared to deliver
that speech to a Southern audience,
and yet a Southern press dares to re
print and circulate it ! We have in
deed fallen upon strange times.
It is no argument in favor of this
■ baneful precedent, to say that Mr.
1 Seward is urging on his Northern
party friends ilie duty to destroy the
Democratic party’ because, as lie as
sumes, it is the most formidable
obsticle in the way of Black Repub
lican schemes. That argument, if
true, is not pertinent to issues be
tween Southern men. The Democratic
party of the South is no more devo
ted to the interests of slavery’ than
any other political organization here.
All are alike sound, upon such a ques
tion, and that editor .r party’ lea icr
must be hard up for capital indeed,
who would insinuate that any con
siderable number of his fellow citizens
of the South are disl .yal to tlie insti
tutions of his section, or that a man
must necessarily’ desire the success of
i Black Republicanism, becau e he will
not consent to lx* dubbed a Democrat
and work in Democratic harness.
We hold it to be our duty’ to protest
against this system of electioneering,
as not only derogatory to the char
acter of honorable warfare, hut as
seriously detrimental to the best
interests of the South. Who knows
what pernicious influences these
widely disseminated abolition senti
ments may’ exert ? it is barely pos
sible that the seed may tall on soil
already more than half prepared to
receive it, spring up iu our midst and
hear hitter fruit; or it may, by some
means, find lodgment in the minds of
those, who fool.silly believe Billy
Seward regards their interest with
mure tender solicitude than their
present best friends. It was a grave
error ever to have invoked the aid
of this Northern Black Republican
in behalf of Southern political con
testants, and will not, we feel assured,
result in good to the party’ that has
sought to make capital ly it. We
condemned die circulation of Brown
low and Prvne’s book for the same
reason that we condemn the circula
tion of this speech of Wm. Jl. Sew
ard ; and at the last session of our
Legislature, if we are not mistaken,
a proposition was submitted to pro
hibit hy 1-tw, under a penalty of fine
and imprisonment, the circulation of
documents similar to the one under
consideration. Nor is it according
to our judgment, a good argument in
favor of the soundness of democracy
on the slavery question, for Wm. il.
Seward to say it is a pro-slavery
party. How long is it since our
Democratic friends have discovered
that this man’s assertions were to he
received as reliable authority, and
that an entire speech of his, made to
the Black Republicans North, was
a very proper document to be used
in behalf ot, or against Georgian-!
We toll them that the character of
their witness is sufficient to damn tin ir
cause. Like the Black Flag trick,
this Black Republican speech, will
work harm to the party’ that has
been so foolish as to avail themselves |
of it. — Independent South.
Mr. Nicholas M. Lewis for
Akin
We give below the letter of Mr.
Nicholas M. Lewis, of this town, giving
1 in his adhesion to Col. Akin and the
1 cause of the Opposition. Mr. Lewis
has ever been an uncompromising Dem
ocrat, and the last man whom we should
have suspected of deserting the ranks of
his party; but yielding to the call ts
truth and patriotism he cannot longer
march under its deceptive banner. Asa
politician Mr. L. is well posied. Per
haps no man in Troup county is better
acquainted with the politics of the State
and country'. Mr. Lewis says:
Mr. Editor: For the benefit of all
who are curious to know my political po
sition, and to save further interrogations,
let me say to you that I am anti-J<>e
Brown—anti-Stephen A. Douglas, with
his peculiar “Popular Sovereignty” dog
mas—anti-Black Republicanism, in every
shape and under every guise, and in
favor of any body who is or may be pine
ed in Opposition, for reasons good and
sufficient with me. N. M. Lewis.
Lord Bacon beautilully said: “If a
man be gracious to strangers, it shows he is
ii citizen of the world, and that his heart is
no island cut off from the other lands, but a
continent that joins them.”
NUMBER 27.
Mh.it has U*t. BroHu done taut mtiilrs
him to Ke-flertion.
We defy any man in the State to men
one single act. lie has done nothing for
the reason that the Legislature would
not assist him in doing anything. ILs
i recommendations to the Legislature,
were repudiated and scouted. Hisnian
’ agement of the S ate Railroad has been
’ shown to be a cheat, and a transparent
humbug. His ideas of State policy
have been laughed to scorn and kick
ed from the hails of legislation by the
very party that elected him. His
statesmanship is never mentioned only
fur the sake of contempt and ridicule.
And nothing can be said in his favor, only
that he is the ‘•'‘nominee of the party' 1
This is indeed a sensible consideration
fi >r the intelligent voters of Georgia.—
Joe Brown is the nominee, be it said, but
none of his party possess the courage to
espouse his cause. He is so poor that
none, no, not one will do him reverence.
: May his statesmanship improve and
respect for him'increase.
[Allan ta Confederacy.
Wm. C. Preston. —The Columbia
South Carolinian of Wednesday, con
tains the following gratifying intelli
gence concerning the health of this no
ble old patriot. It is a pity that such
men do not live a thousand years, in
stead of three score and ten :
The numerous friends of the Hon.
W. C. Preston, will be highly gratified
to learn that his health within these few
months has been belter than for some
years. He is expected the present
week by his friend, Judge King, at Flat
Rock, where be will spend a few days,
on his way to his home in this city.
Our Prospects in Cherokee.
There is no doubt but that Akin is
more popular in this section of the
State than ever any man has been for
Governor of Georgia. Carroll county
as we are informed, has out two sets of
candidates for the Legislature; one
Brown Democrats and the other Anti*
Brown Democrats, and the present pros
pect is that even in that strong Demo
cratic county, Ak n will get a large
majority. In Harralson also there are
two sets of Democratic candidates pre
sented for the Legislature. Joseph E.,
the bragging humbiigger, will hardly
have a chance to boast over the result
in this stronghold of the “unterrified.”
Polk county has a first rate Opposition
ticket for the Legislature, McGregor for
the Senate and Judge Hutchings for the
House. The Democrats on last Satur
day nominated a mixed ticket, W. F.
J lies, a Southern Rights Whig and
Akin man, for the Senate, and James M.
Ware an Anti-Brown Democrat for the
H ouse. It is believed that Janes will
not accept the nomination, In Floyd
county, if men vote as they now say
they will, Akin’s majority will exceed
two hundred, although Brown had a
majority two years ago of 122.
Cass county it is be.lieved will give for
Akin a majority of 40(>. Jn Chatooga,
Gordon and Whitfield we hear of large
gains for the Opposition.
[Rome Courier.
The Convenience of Pockets. —■
A gentleman who has just returned from
a popular watering place, tells the fol
lowing: He says he accompanied a lady
to the breakfast table, and noticing that
she had no spoon in her cup of coffee,
he ordered the servant to bring her one.
The ebony attendant very promptly ran
his hand into his breeches pocket and
drawing out a spoon, placed it In the
coffee. We did not see the above, but
our informant affirms that he did. We
tell the tale as it was told us.— Vicks
burg Whig.
This popular watering place is not a
thousand miles from Vicksburg, and our
neighbor of the Whig visits it frequent
ly. Not long since we overheard him
telling a friend of his who has been
married for several years, and who is
yet without “olive branches'’ to grace
his festive board, that the quality of the
water was extraordinary and highly ben
eficial to persons who were so unfortu
nately situated as him. For instance,
he said that a newly married couple oc
cupied a neatly furnished room at this
watering place; the lady enjoyed the
best of health, took a mineral bath every
day, and had a child every year. This
went on with regularity until the pledges
numbered seven. The husband then
died and the blooming widow mingled
the brine of her bereavement with the
pickle of her bath, deriving a sorrowful
consolation front both. The mysterious
now commences. Twelve months from
the birth of number seven, number eight
made its appearance, and twelve non’
from that happy event number nine
came into this breathing world. These
phenomena were ascribed variously to
the force of habit, the visits of ourneigh
bor, the strength of the waters, and the
weakness of human nature. — Vicksburg
Sun.
Foreign Bills of Exchange.— Attention
| was called, on Wednesday, to the result of
’ an appeal in the House of Lords which has
established that bills of exchange drawn by
a foreign or -colonial house on its Engl sh
correspondent?, and vice versa, are, in cases
of bankiuptcy, ho better than promissory
notes, provided any members of tbe dne”
(inn are partners in the other, since the
| holders will not be allowed to prove on
: both estate?. The decision has excited
? reat remaik, because not only is it contrary
to commercial usage, but it will have the es-.
feet ot impairing the marketability of the
| bills of all English bouses at home r.nd
abroad who draw upon their own actual or
supposed connections, and consequently of
throwing the exchange business m each
country into native hands. It is also cal
culated, when carried out to it&Jogical con
clusions, to give rise to technical perplexi
ties. The interests affected are of such ex
tent that some distinct legislation on the
subject will probably be attempted iu the
next session ot’ Paiiiaineni.
{London Times, >