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same conflicting viewg/nay unite ii sup
port of tbatadininistration.
In conclusion, we again express the
hope that other counties whpfe there are
st\\\ subsisting Democrajkic dissensions,
will follow the example of FloytW
Savannah Georgian.
Democratic Meeting.— Our readers will
find irt another place the proceedings of a
Democratic meeting in Floyd County.—
The resolution’s adopted by the meeting
are well calculated to prodwc; harm my
and concert in the ranks of the Democra
cy, Our Whig friends, as usual, arc pre
dicting discord and confusion in our par
tv, but We think they will be disappointed.
They may induce a few disappointed men,
by the promise of large pay, to find fault
and try to make mischief. But any Dem
ocrat that attempts to ruin the party, will
make a great mistake, instead of injuring
the party, he will ruiu himself.— Federal
Union.
Flotd Meeting.— The resolutions
adopted by the Democratic meeting in
Floyd county are republished in this
paper. An example so conciliatory in
spirit *<nd so honorable to the Democra
cy of Floyd commends itself to the De
mocracy of other counties. We hope
that a similar feeling will prerail else
where, and that no obstacle will be thrown
in the way of a cordial co-operation among
ail who are really Democrats in principle.
A difference of opinion upon an abstract
question about which there is no practical
issue, cannot, it would seem, produce a
division among those who agree upon all
practical questions now before the coun
t y Marietta. Advocate.
Spirit op tits. Democratic Press.—
From all quarters of the State we have
received the most gratifying responses to
the action of the Democratic meeting in
this county on the Ist inst. There may
be a little carping and quibbling, but this
we hope will speedily pass away, and the
Democracy at last settle down quietly oh
the basis of its cherished and long estab
lished principles. The Whig Press, it is
true, manifests its ancient hostility to any
movement that promises to harmonize and
consolidate the Democratic Party. They
have an interest in pandering to the pre
judices of the two sections of the Party,
tind fostering those bitter feuds that have
hitherto served but to distract and divide
it. We, therefore, expected that they
would curse and criticize the Floyd Coun
ty Resolutions. Those resolutions present
the only basis of an effective and pertna
vent organization, and for that single rea
son they have evoked the maledictions of
the Whig Press of the State. With the
Democratic Party united, it will inevitably
carry the State and nearly all the Con
gressional Districts, in the coming elcc
tiens; but if Democrats will suffer them
selves to influenced by Whig taunts or
•cajoled by Whig promises, we look for no
thing but disaster and defeat. We shall
resume this subject in our next issue.—
Home Courier.
The Griffin Jeffersonian , first, through
out the late attempts at re-organization,
of the democracy of Georgia, and as ex
treme an advocate of onr rights as any of
our own presses, as unwearied in its exer
tions to establish harmony and good will
among the friends of Pierce and King.—
The Editor says that the doctrine of seces
sion is not a practical question, but one
upon which different opinions may be held
Avithor.t impairing the harmony of action.
Jlc says:
“We nvc our hand- fa each other on (he Balti
more Platform-'e gave (hem far cordial recon
ciliation—both Ddesjaiinns were admitted to that
■ platform with equal rights and privilege?; both par
ticipated in the reconciliation—both rejarned home
and so reported to their constituents. Wliat more
docs any true and honest Democrat desire? Wliat
does or can lie promise himselfby kecpin<r lip lli*t
old feud—by keeping up the old quarrel when
there is nothing fa quarrel about?”
We were as anxious to terminate the
quarrel, if we could have done so without
a sacrifice of principle, as the Jeffcrconian.
We were unwilling to go into an organi
zation which asserted the doctrine of seces
sion, and indeed, the Jefferconian told us
we could not do so, without becoming “de
moralized slaves.” There is now less dif
ficulty. The party in Georgia must be re
organized, and if the proper spirit is mani
fested, all of the friends of the Baltimore
Democratic platform may unite in the re
organization. The Union men only ask fair
play. Shall they have it? Will the southern
rights men stand with ns on Pierce’s plat
form as a common ground? We can unite
upon that, as we have been from the first
ready “to extend the right hand of fellow
ship to all men, of whatever political per
suasion heretofore, who agree with us on
these fundamental princijdeg.” There we
stand yet, resolved to sustain those in and
out of the State who are true to these prin
ciples.—Con. Union.
In noticing the Rome resolutions, the
Constitutional Union makes the following
remarks:
The motive and object of these resolution!
we equally approve. When Gen. Fierce
was nominated, we united with a number of
Southern Rights men and presses, in en
treating a re-organization, at once, of his
friends in Georgia, upon the Baltimore
Democratic Platform. Nothing but stu
pid enmity prevented that consummation
in September last. The necessity again a
rise.s. Shall it not be done? Will a majority
of the Southern Rights party again listen to
the bitter passion of a few leaders, or allow
itself to be governed by the narrow selfish
ness of a few men whose conduct is at war
with the success of democratic principles in
Georgia? Or will the masses of the southern
rights men, meet the friends of Gen. Pierce
in Georgia, upon terms of equality, and
refusing to make the doctrine of secession
a test of democracy, invite a free and cor
dial Union of those who have at heart the
success of the principles embraced in the
democratic platform? The time is perhaps
now more propitious, and wo assure the
men of the opposite wing, that if they
come fairly and frankly up to the mark,
Cherokee Georgia will not fail to meet
them in all its strength and with its accus
tomed spirit.
Rut'juojf of the Democracy.—Wc note
with pleasure, efforts on the part of leading
men ot both the Union and Southern Rights
wmgs of the Democratic party, in different
parts of the State, to unite again, in solid
column, the Democracy of Georgia/
prom all sections, the signs are fayorable
to such a result —and now that important
elections are just ahead, aud much good
work to perform, in behalf of Democratic
principles, during the current year, wc
hope that 40 obstacle will be interposed.
to prevent the full and complete accom
plishment of this “labor of love.” At a
meeting Democracy of Floyd, on
the lst/mst. at Rome, Hon. John 11.
presiding, we notice that all the
proceedings arc characterized by a spirit
of conciliation, which canuofefail, if pursu
ed every where, throughout the State, to
restore harmony and the best good feel
ings amongst the ranks of the party.—
The approaching Spring Courts will afford
favorable opportunity for a movement of
the people in relation to this matter—and
we would respectfully suggest that meet
ings be held in every comity in the State,
during some time of their Superior Courts,
to take iuto consideration measures for
harmonizing the party. At that time, too,
steps should be taken for the appointment
of delegates to a Democratic State Con
vention for the - nomination of a candidate
for Governor, as well as fur District Con
ventions for the nomination of candidates
for Congress, &c. &e. And, then, with
the Democracy reunited, all will go
on “merrily 4 ” as in days of yore. —Georgia
Banner.
Health of Vice-Piesident King.
Our Key West letter of the Bth says:
The health of lion. Wm. It. King has
improved since he left Norfolk, lie is ev
idently stronger, his appetite has increas
ed and his voice is restored. Several times
he has been driven about the Island, ri
ding pleasant days as far as six or seven
miles. The weather since his arrival has
not been as pleasant as usual, but still it
has not prevented him from taking exer
cise in the open air. We cannot say that
his health has been permanently improved,
but there can be no doubt that he is far
better and stronger and coughs less than
when lie left Washington. On Thursday
Col. King and party went on board the
Fulton and started for Havana, but the
weather looking bad and a heavy sea run
ning outside, they returned, and anchoring
remained uutil the morning of the 6th,
when they sailed. It is the intention of
the Vice President to visit Santa Cruz,
and return to Key West if the climate of
that Island is not suited to his complaint.
Sav. Courier.
A letter from Key West, of the Ith inst.
published in the Savannah Republican,
I states that “ Vice President King left here
on the Gth for Havana, after a visit among
us of two weeks. His health had some
what improved, though he was still very
feeble. We understand it is his design to
go upon a sugar plantation of a gentleman
near Havana, who had invited him.”
The New Orleans Picayune learns from
a gentleman, just from Havana, that the
Captain General has sent a special messen
ger to Key West inviting Mr. King, Vice
President elect, in ease he visited Hava
na, to take up his quarters in the Cap
tain General’s palace. The Captain Gen
eral also requested the American Consul,
Judge Sharkey, to give him immediate no
tice the moment Mr. King should arrive
in the harbor of Havana.
Correspondence of the Savannah Courier.
Key West, Jan. 22, 1853.
Mr. Editor , —The wrecking season
has set in, and ships, brigs and schooners,
with their rich cargoes, are being brought
down daily from the reef by the hardy
wrecker, and we are beginning to reap
the benefit of their arrival by increased
business and an unusual activity in
every line of pursuit.
The lawyer has the salvage case to
present to the judge, and a good round
sum is his fee. Hein all cases receives
the sum of sl7 for filing the libel, ana
then three per cent on every dollar of
salvage decreed by the Judge. In cases
involving large amounts of property as
high as S3OO falls to his share of the
wreck.
The Commission Merchant or Ship’s
Consignee has many competitors in the
field. He has friends on the wrecking
vessels and the first boarder of the stranded
ship presents to the master the claims of
his merchant, and receives for his zeal a
handsome reward if he secures the consign
ment. The rates of wharfage and storage
on a bale of cotton are sl. The commis
sion allowed for receiving and disbursing
money on account of vessels and cargo is
5 per cent, and when the same is re-ship
ped or forwarded in the same vessel l-4th
per cent on the valuation of the cargo is
always ruleable. So the strife for these
fat pickings sometimes ranges high, even
to a fighting pitch.
The consignmeut of a ship no tv ashore
on the reef will pay the Consignee over
$9,000. The clerk of the Admiralty
Court also gets his fees, which are large
when salvage is great —h 9 receiving as
much as the lawyer. The District Attor
ney gets a fee. The United States Mar
shal, if cargo is sold, gets his per centage,
and the mechanic is paid well for his
work, cut of the cargo. All classes of our
population are directly or indiiectly bene
fited by the wrecks; and when news
arrives in town that a ship is ashore, you
will see more happy faces than in Wall
street when the Fancies have advanced.
Bishop Boone and the China Man.
—We have before announced the arrival
in our cily of the Right Rev. Bishop
Boone, accompanied by Tong Choo-
Keung, a young Chinaman. The Bishop
sailed from China in October, and after a
voyage of 115 days arrived in New York,
whence he sailed for this cily. We are
happy to state that his health has been
greatly improved by his voyage, but his
nervous system has been so seriously
deranged that his physicians positively
iorbid him to speak in public.
1 ong C hoo-Keung, who accompanies
the Bishop, is a very interesting young
man. He is twenty-one years of are—
is a native of 100 Chow, one of the lar
gest cities cf China, situated in the pro
vince of Keang-Soo, and is the son of a
Mandarin, recently deceased. This young
gentleman was brought by his father to
Shanghae, and placed with an English
meiehant, who seeing the capacity of the
boy, recommended his father to send him
to the Mission School, under the charge
of Bishop Boone. After being at school
two or three years he was baptised, and
has ever since lived a consistent Christian
life. When his course in the school was
completed, about twelve months since, he
became a candidate for Orders. He is
whofly unaccustomed to speaking, as the
Chinese never have any public addresses,
but bp Ims bpfn prevailed upqn lo speak
this evening, at Christ Church, with the
hope that hi* simple appeal to this Chris
tian community, io behalf of his country*
men, may not be in vain. We bespeak
for him a large audieucf.— Sav. Courier.
Coast Survey Office,
January 27, 1853.
Sir : Having reported, as the result of
a survey of Pot Rock at Hell Gate, New
York, after the blasting there, that the
rocks had been reduced from eight feet
mean low water to twenty and a half
feet, 1 have now the honor to state that a
subsequent survey by Mojo*- Fraser, o!
the Corps of Engineers, in charge of the
removal of the rocks in IIel! G.Ue untlet
the appropriation contained in a bill ap
proved August 1, 1852, showed but eigh
teen feet on this rook; and that me made
recently, and after additional blasting,
gives a depth at three points of less than
twenty feet; and the present lei.st depth at
mean low water on the rock a little over
nineteen feet. According to Major Fra
ser, “there is probably now but a very
small part of the rock higher than the
plane of twenty feet reference.”
1 would respectfully request au horitv
to publish this statement.
Yours, respectfully,
(Signed) A. D. BACHE,
Superintendent.
Hon. Thos. Corwin, Sec’y Treasury.
Freshet in the Tennessee. —The in
cessant and violent rains of Friday and
Saturday last, caused a very sudden and
we fear destructive rise in thfe river. On
Saturday night the water rose with great
rapidity, so that on Sunday it was neces
sary to employ all the force obtainable,
both men and horses, to remove the cot
ton from the reach of the water. Every
thing was hurry and bustle on the whul
during the whole day, and crowds of peo
ple were witnessing the exciting scene.
In spite of a few bales were
swept off, or as a bystander remarked,
were taken at current rates, but we be
lieve they were all, or nearly all overtaken
by the Molly Garth and secured below.
At 6 o’clock last evening the water was
within about 11 feet of high water mark
and within three feet of the freshet of ’oo,
and still rising slowly. A few tenements
on the banks have been invaded and the
occupants driven out, but we hoar of no
serious loss yet —Chattanooga Advertiser,
Bth inst.
Sailors Flogging Themselves —The
Norfolk correspondent of the New York
Herald lias the following : The United
States frigate Raritan is here, of which
you are aware. I have learned from one
of her officers, since the abolition of flog
ging in the navy, the men who were dis
posed to do their duty, seeing they were
compelled to do more than their own, in
consequence of a large portion of the men
being confined as punishment for neg
lect of duty, and various other offences,
took it into their heads that something
must be done to prevent the continuance
of such a state of things. They thete
fore formed themselves into vigilance
committees, and took upon themselves
the punishment ot all offenders by tuck
ing them up and giving them half a dozen
or a dozen with the cat, as the case re
quired, the officer of the deck being par
ticularly oblivious just about the time the
operation was performed.
De learn that a project is in agitation
at Tallahassee for dividing the State of
Florida. It is proposed by the advocates
of the plan, to unite that portion of the
State lying west of the Chattahoochee
river tq, Alabama, and that portion lying
between the Chattahoochee and Suwanee
rivers to Georgia, the balance to consti
tute the future .State of Florida. We ap
prehend the project will meet with siren
uous opposition, and that nothing will
come of it. —Albany Patriot.
From a very general expression of
opinion on this subject, to which we have
lately listened, we believe that if the
question was put to a vote, three-fourths ‘
of the voters of Middle Florida would
be found in favor of uniting that portion
of the State to Georgia. By Middle Flori
da our readers will always understand us
to mean thesection between the Suwanee
and Apalachicola rivers.— Sav. Georgian,
Sth inst.
To the Reidets of the Gazette.
Ihe “ Georgia Home Gazelle ” appears
this week in anew and elegant dress—
attractive in appearance and greatly im
proved over, the former series. This ar
rangement has been made at much ex
pense, and with a view to render our pa
per more worth}’ of the increasing patron
age of the public. Our list is constantly
and steadily progressing. In all quarters
we have the highest assurance of good
will; —assurances, that cheer us on in our
efforts to give permanency to a Family
Journal at the South, worthy of the sec
tion, and of its intelligent and enterprising
population.
We have entered upon the present year
with bright prospects —“auspicious omens
cheer us”—and we intend to merit the
continued good will and good deeds of
our readers, by putting forth every ex
ertion to make the “Home Gazette” n
pleasant and readable Journal, free from
political pratizanship, and high toned ia
character. We hope to make the columns
of the paper interesting and valuable—to
render it a welcome weekly visitor to the
home and firesides of its readers. Our
“old subscribers”—the tried friends of
the paper, who have done so much forit
in the past —we trust will still continue
their patronage;—new subscribers are
invited to give us a trial and judge for
themselves ofthe quality of our entertain
ment and companionship. If they are
pleased, it will affird us pleasure to
continue the relation formed between us;
—if they find more to disapprove than
to approve, they can leave us at “the
parting of the ways.”
And once more, we would express our
grateful thanks for the manifestation of
kindness, which have so constantly been
bestowed upon us, and sincerely trust
that our paper may ever be found deseiv
ing of them in the future. We can only
say that every effort will be made on the
part of the Editor and Proprietors to
merit the approbation and secure the pat
ronaga of the public.
To our editorial friends in Georgia and
other Southern Slates, who have so gener
ally and so cordially recommended our
paper as being all it is intended to be—a
Family Journal and Home Newspaper
—we are under many and weighty obli
gations. We duly appreciate their kind
ness, and trust that the newspapers over
which they preside may each and all
secure a patronage commensurate with
their merits. The press of Geoigia and
of the Pouth have done much for us, and
to them we are deeply indebted for re
peated manifestations of good will.—Jiu
guata “ Georgia Home Gazelle.”
THE JEFFERSONIAN
GRIFFIN, FEBRUARY 17 1853.
Union of the Democracy.
Under this head we have selected the
sentiments of all the Democratic papers
which have spoken o:t the subject, pub
lished in this state, and which have come
to hand since our last issue. They are
commenced on the first page, and contin
uned over on the second. It will be seen
they embrace tQjfcjprinorc Democratic pa
pers, besides our own and the Southerner
and Courier, ajt Rome, whose sentiments
wc gave last week; and out of the whole
there is not one that does not heartily ap
prove the Rome resolutions. These pa
pers, without doubt, utter the sentiments
of the body of the Deinacracy of the State,
and should settle the question of union
and harmony in the Democratic ranks.
Marriage Notices.
There have been a number of marriages
in and about Griffin lately, as we under
stand, and some of onr readers may won
der why they have not appeared in our
paper. The cause is simply, they have
not been written out and handed to us.
We have reiterated again and again
our determination, not to run about town
after a marriage, hunting up the names of
the parties, the parson or justice, the time,
and all the other el ceteras that make up a
marriage notice. Whenever they are
handed to us, properly written out, they
are always published, if accompanied by a
responsible name. Otherwise, the parti**
need not it,
The Tennesseeans.
This talented and very genteel compa
ny of singers visited our city last week,
and gave a Concert of music on Saturday
night. Their singing was of a chaste and
polished style, free from the vulgarisms of
the day. There were no sable melodies nor
sable characters; the performance was of a
high and refined order. “The Child’s
Wish,” a solo by the, lady was exquisite.
Wc recommend them to the patronage of
an enlightened public.
Temperance Meeting.
We are requested to state that there
will be a meeting of the friends of Tem
perance, at the City flail, on Saturday
next,at 1 o’clock, P. M. to appoint del
egates to the Atlanta Convention of the
22d instant.
The Cabinet.
After all the speculations and arrange
ments which have been going on for the
last two moflhths, to form a Cabinet for
Mr. Pierce, a late Washington writer says,
under date of February 6th, that “as re
cently as a week ago, the President elect
had occasion to state, that he had not
fixed upon a single member of his Cabinet.”
But this too may be as false as the thousand
other rumors which have catenated from
Washington, all going to prove that if the
Cabinet is formed, Mr. Pierce has confided
his council to a very few, if any of his
friends.
“Spiiitual Rapping* ”
Wc refer our readers to an excellent let
ter on this subject, from the pen of Dr. J.
B. Jeter, of Richmond, Virginia, commu
nicated by Rev. J. 11. Campbell, pastor of
the Baptist Church in this city. It will
bo found on the first page, and read with
interest by all who have considered this
subject. We do not agree with the doc
tor in his deductions. While we both n
gree that there is something in tlicsc “man
ifestations,” we differ in this: The doctor
believes -thfife is something spiritual in
them, and it comes from the father of lies;
we believe there is nothing but pure elec
tricity, and the “manifestations” are bro’t
about by that subtle fluid, which pervades
all matter, not yet fully understood or
comprehended. Mesmerism is of precise
ly the same character, and wc as much be
lieve that Mcsmcr acted through the agen
cy of the spirits as any of the Mountaiu
Cove brethren. Why cannot the medi
ums write with a goose pen? It is said
they cannot, and yet the spirits, while in
this world, with few exceptions, never used
any other. The goose quill is no conduct
or of electricity.
A late New York letter, under date of
the 2d inst. to the Savannah Republican,
shows off this new* invention, ordiscovery
if you please, as follows:
As an every day proof of the popular
favor, which that most monstrous of all
modern humbugs—the spiritual rappings
—still manages to meet with in this city,
I cut the following advertisement from the
New York Tribunt of to-day:
SrmitoAL Mission.— Throe mediums on a spi
ritual mission lo Hiis city for a few days, arc now
stopping at Mengcrford’a Hotel in Duane st. near
Hudson st. They examine diseases, and prescribe
for the aam'qpHce SJ, For spiritual investigations
No matter how much of a humbug these
spiritual mediums may be, there is no hum
bug about the brisk business they are dri
ving at Hungerford’s. They have scores
of calls every day, I am assured, from full
grown men and women, who hand over the
dollars with an unsuspicious readiness pe
culiar to the Victims of misplaced confi
dence. It need hardly be added, that the
“mediums” in question are cute Maine
Yankees, and no more believe in the non
sense they dole out by the dollar’s worth,
than they believe that the moon is made
of green cheese. Fools and their money
are soon parted, you know, and as “alj
tlm fqols are uqk dead yet,” there is a good
prospect for an active business in the Rap
ping line for sonic time to come.
The editor of the Savannah Courier, in
noticing the celebration of the ■! anniversa
ry of the landing of Gen. Oglethorpe and
his party at Yamacraw Bluff, which was
the first permanent settlement of the whites
in Georgia, makes the following reflec
tions:
A century an£ a quarter has not yet
elapsed, and yet what a change has taken
place! Then, countless tribes of savages
held dominion over the mountains and
valleys. Now, not one of the Aborigines
remains within our borders. The last red
man in Georgia was a fireman on the first
locomotive that went dashing into the
mountains of Cherokee. The forests bare
fallen beneath the steady blows of tlie new
race, and Georgia now furnishes one-sixth
of the raw material which clothes the
world and has a taxable property’ valued
at four hundred millions of dollars. The
wigwams of the savage have given place
to the splendid palaces, magnificent man
sions, thrifty cities and lovely villages.—
With our steamboats, our locomotives and
our railroads we have abundant reason to
be thankful, and to look back to the “day
of small things” with hearts full of grati
tude to the far-sighted, sagacious and good
man who planned and executed the first
settlement of our now great and growing
State.
The Southern Democrat, printed at
Oglethorpe, of the Bth inst. says—“ The
editor is still confined to his room from a
severe attack of the Small-Pox. We can
not say with any degree of certainty at
what time he will be able to be at his
post. In the meantime the printers in the
office will exert every energy to make the
paper interesting to its readers. The
heavy afflictions which have visited the ed
itor and his family recently, are such as
to demand the sympathy of his friends and
the generous forbearance of his patrons,
for any short coming which may occur in
the publication of his paper.”
On the 10th instant, Mrs. Mary F. W.
May, consort of the Rev. P. L. J. May,
died at Oglethorpe, of Small Pox, aged
32 year:, i months and 21 days—and
on the day previous, Martha Leonora,
infant daughter of P. I* A and M, F, W.
May, aged 12 days.
Temperance Meeting in Henry.
At a meeting of a portion of the citizens
of Henry county, held on the Ith inst. the
following gentlemen were appointed dele
gates to tlie Temperance convention to be
held in Atlanta on the 22d instant :
Col. L. T. Doyal, Col. L. J. Glenn,
Rev. D. D. Duffy, Samuel R. Weems,
.John S. Bruce, Nelson Gray, William S.
Darby, A. Y. Paul, Rev. Solomon Odell,
Adam C. Sloan, Thomas M. Speer, Esq.
Henry Stokes, James L. Gaddy, James
P. Glass, James Patillo, Phillip Wolf,
Elijah Poster, F. M. Hail, David Knott,
P. B. Turner, Timothy S. Barham, W.
W. Cochran,,
Billy Bowlegs says he cannot comply
with his promises made at Washington,
because he was intoxicated during all
that time. Billy may apply the follow
ing fable :
“A mouse, ranging about a brewery,
happening to fall into a vat of beer, was
in imminent danger of drowning, and ap
pealed to a cat to help him out. The
cat replied : ‘lt is a foolish request, for
as soon as 1 get you out 1 shall eat you.*
The mouse piteously replied, that would
be far better than to be drowned in beer.
The cat lifted him out, but the fume of
the beer caused puss to sneeze, and the
mouse took refuge in a hole. The cat
called upon the mouse to come out : ‘Did
you n<>t promise that 1 should eat you ?’
‘Ah,’ replied the mouse, ‘1 did, but 1 teas
in liquor at the time.' 1 ”
Official Announcement. —The Wash
ington Republic of the 10th inst. says t
the certificates of the electors for Presi
dent and Vice President of the United
States were yesterday read, counted, and
registered in the House of Representa
tives, in the presence of the members of
the two branches of Congress The
President pro leva, of the Senate, who
presided on the occasion, announced that
Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire,
was duly electe I President, and Wm. R
King, Vice President of the United
Stales, for four years, commencing on
the fourth day of March next. In pur
suance of a joint resolution, subsequently
adopted,*Mr. Hunter whs appointed on j
- the part of the Senate, and Messrs Jones,
of Tennessee, and Hibbard, on the part
of the House of Representatives,. as a
committee to wait upon General Pierce
and inform him of his election.”
Dorne’s Gold Mine. —Mr. J. J.
Fields passed through this city on Tues
day last, on his way to the Dahlonega
Mint, having in charge $19,000 worth of
gold, from the mine of Wm. Dome, in
Ahbeville and Edgefield Districts, South
Carolina. This amount was the product
of the work of eight hands during the
month of January. During twenty and
a half days in December with, the same
number of hands, the yield was $20,590.
The aggregate yield of gold since the
commencement of the work in the mine,
about ten months ago, has been upwards
of $200,000. The quality of the gold
from this mine is said to be of a very su
perior order, and we understand that Mr.
Dome has some huge specimens in readi
ness for exhibition at the World’s Fair
next Summer. —Mania Intelligencer.
Tiie State Road —lmmense quanti
ties of produce have been coming down
the State Road for a number of weeks
past. During the last three weeks the
amount of corn transported over the Road
has averaged three thousand bushels per
day. During the same time the average
of Cotton transported over the Road has
been six hundred bales per day. Other
articles of western produce have been
constantly arriving in abundance. —Ibid
The Lemmon Slave Case. —The com
mittee of the Virginia Legislature, to
whom was referred the documents in
relation to the Lemmon slave case, have
reported that inasmuch as the decision of
Judge Paine is about to come before the
Supreme Court of New Yoik, and as the
legislature of the latter State has a bill
before it to repeal the law upou which
the decision is founded, they deem it un
advisable to express any opinion on the
merits of the decision at issue, but re
commend that the Attorney General of
Virginia, together with such other council
as the Governor may direct, prosecute
the appeal taken to the New York Su
pmiie Court. 1
The North Alabama Railroad.
On the first page of to-day’s Courier
will be found an important communica
tion, which appeared in yesterday’s Re
publican, suggesting the construction of a
railroad from Griffin, Georgia, in the di
rection of Decatur, Alabama, and Mem
phis, Tennessee. We copy the article
not only because of the soundness of its
reasonings, and the coirfcti ess of its
facts, hut because it developes identically
the same project which we have been
urging at intervals, for the last four or
five years, both in the columns of the
Macon Journal 4* Messenqtr and of the
Savannah Courier.
It is the evident policy of the Macon
and Western and Central companies, to
urge the proposed work forward with all
possible dispatch. The completion of
the Atlanta and West Point road, even
as far as LaGrange, has diverted from
Savannah almost the entire trade of some
of the richest counties of the State.—
These counties formerly traded at Griffin
now they go directly to Atlanta, Au
gusta, and Charleston. The immediate
effect of constructing the proposed new
road, would be to hring back the trade
and travel of those counties to the Cen
tral and Macon and Western roads, be
cause it would place them uinety miles
nearer by railroad to an Atlantic port,
and an equally good market. The same
argument W'ould hold good in regard to a
large portion of Northeast Alabama. In
deed the proposed road would open to
Savannah the entire trade and travel of
East Alabama, on a scale which would
defy competition from any quarter. Our
object at present, however, is not to
write an aiticle, but simply to call atten
tion to the one on our first page, and to
i beg the friends of railroad enterprise, to
weigh well the cogent arguments which
it embodies —A’ar. Courier.
In reference to this subject the Savan
nah Republican says:— It gives us much
pleasure to lay before our readers this
morning, the communication with the
above heading It is proper to state,
(though it is hardly necessary, in order
to strengthen the conclusion of this wri
ter,) that a friend oi ours has inspected
maps of the contemplated rou’e, with
every conviction of the feasibility of the
project. We do not propose to repeal
any of the arguments of this wtiler. Our
object is to draw the special attention of
the readers of the Republican to his com-’
munication. Probably even our mercan
tile men will find in it facts of great in
terest, of which some of them had hardly
befoie suspected the existence. All will
agree, we suppose, that the commanding
position of this port is becoming more
apparent, the more our maps are exam
ined. Scarcely anew enterprise can be
suggested in this or adjacent States,
which is not in some way destined to
bring tribute to our doors. Aud as time
goes on and our country is developed,
new branches of railroad, secondary to
the great lines, will gradually hut surely
swell the tide of our commercial pios
perity. Savannah has made, and is ma
king vast sacrifices for railroads, hut they
are destined to pour into her lap more
treasures than have ever gone out of it.
Washington Irving, (says a- eiyrula-*
ting paragraph,) while at jVroUMt Vernon
the other day, remarked that hir remem
bered seeing Gen. Washington 1 iii l New
York, when he was a child five years of
age, and while the General was passing
through the street, accompanied by a
crowd, young Irving was attended by his
nurse, an honest Scotch woman. ‘l'he
woman forced her way up to the Gene
ral, leading her child by ike hand, and
approaching, addressed him—“ Your hon
or, here is a bairn that is called after
you.” The General paused, and placing
his haml upon the hoy’s* bead, gave him
his blessing. Mr. Irving states that he
has a distinct recollection of the whole
scene.— which occurred in the year 1787.
This is a very pretty tale. It is a great
pity its chronology interferes so sadly
with its truth. It states that Mr. Irving
was then five years old, and that it oc
curred in 1787. That would make him
more than seventy yeais of age at this
time. He cannot be more than sixty-six,
if so old.
Singular Fact. —lt is a very remark
able fact in the history of the United
Stales, that none of the names among the
American elected Presidents had children.
No one who was ever re-elected- has- had
a son. Washington had no cUiiUVen—he
held office eight years. John Adams had
children—he was not re-elected. Jeffer
son had no children —he was re-elected,
and held office eight years. Madison
had no children, held the Presidency
eight years. Monroe had no son—held
office eight years. John Quincy Adams
had sons—-he was not re-elected. Jack
son had no children—he was re-elected.
Van Buren had children—not le-elected.
Harrison died. Polk had no children.
Taylor died. And now, among the great
names without children, is the next elec",
ed President after Taylor, President
Pierce, who, by an accident, is childless.
The Cotton Crop. —lt will be recol
lected that a certain firm in New’ York
last fall, advertised for estimates of the
Cotton crop. Each person sending an
estimate was required to enclose a five
dollar bill. The whole purse was to he
the property of the individual whoso es
timate comes nearest the actual result on
the first of September next. A New
York cotemporary says :
“The written opinions of 207 parties
scattered all over the United States, were
on the first inst. opened and recorded;
between the lowest and highest there
was found to be a range of 1,500,000
bales, while the average on the whole
was 3,119,000.”
Ireland is literally “going to grass.”
The great landlords are turning out their
tenants in order to lay the land down in
grass, for flocks and herJs. Sheep are
more profitable than men— sq i|iq latter
are turned out to die, while the former
are turned out to grow fat.
The reclaimed lands in Arkansas,
from leveeing the Mississippi, are enough
for a small Smte, or principality. More
than four millions of acres have been re
claimed, and the work done this season
and yet to be done, will give entire secu
rity, says the Memphis Enquirer, to the
whole coast, from the line to
St. Helena.’’ “• * ‘ * ’ “• ! * • ■•/
The Liquor Question in a Nut Shell.
—The position is this: “If the sale of
spirituous liquors is right, then it is
wrong to tax venders, and every man
ought to be as free to sell Spirits as he is
to sell Sugar, or Coff e, or anything else.-
But if the retailing is an evil, then the
Legislature is wrong in fastening the evil
on the people without their approval.-—-
They ought to say whether they will sub
mit to the evil or remove it.”
On Christmas eve a young girl, in the
district of Inverness, assembled her fiiends
to witness the celebration of her nuptials
with the lad who had wooed and won
her. At the appointed hour she received
the intelligence that her lover had altered
his mind. She was about to he attacked
with hysterics, when another popped the
question, was accepted, the marriage rite
was performed, and the lassie went on re
joicing iu Burns’ old stave,
A man’s a man fora’that.
Eve r y arrival from Europe brings fur-’
ther news of the strange spread of Mor
rnonism The sect is certainly bent ypon
following out the injunction, to “go into
all the world and preach the Gospel [of
Smith]’ to every creature.” The last
number of the English Mormon organ is
much gratified to hear of the faithfulness
and zeal of Elder Matthew McCune aud
Teacher tVilliartl Adams, in spreading
the truth in Rangoon, by lecturing, social
conversation, anil the circulation of the
printed word.
Stopping Papers. —An Exchange says:*
“When a man gets mad and stops his pa
per, he always borrows the next number’
of his neighbor, to see if the withdrawal
of his patronage hasn’t killed the editdt
and diessed the columns in mourning.
This grows out of the fact that none try
to show their spite in this way but tho’
kind of people wflb iinagihti’ that theP
world rests on their shoulders ”
Satan Has Come !—A mechanic in
Russia is said to have succeeded in ma
king a steam man. It is probably one of 1
the most interesting inventions ever offer-’
ed to the public. It is a large colossal
statue, the feet of which are placed upon
wheels on a railroad, and he goes thun
dering over the couise, the smoke pufln-g
----out of his nostrils in a manner to give’
the appearance of Satan as pictured out
iu Revelations.
A Remarkable Family. —The Mauft
Intelligencer says, Mr. John Kennedy,
who resides some eight miles north of
Columbia, has 28 children living—al?‘
fully grown —74 grand children and 51
gresrt grandcbHdrerv— inall 143-! There
has not been a single death in the family 4-
since the year 1806.
Dobbs thinks that “Young America”
will “progress” until some “fast man”
invents a gun for shooting men from’
ibe Atlantic to California; where another
gun or guns will he ready to distribute
them to Oregon, the Sandwich Islands,’
Japan, and China. Balloons will be 100
slow.
Dreadful Mortality at Sea. —The. ship
Atlantic, of anil hound for New York,
from Liverpool, is in Hampton Ivoads,
having snflbred the most dreadful mortality
finsm* small pok, during the’ passage, among
the'etnigrants on board. There have been
sixty'deaths, and a number still suffering
from the disease.
Accident on the Georgia R-ah.ro a i*.
to the passenger train on the Georgia
Railroad, broke on Wednesday week a
few miles from Augusta, by which the
engine, tender and bagage were
thrown off the track, and a negro fireman
killed.
Severe Col O' —At Quebec on Thun*]
play week, the thermometers ranged 22 to
3f below zero, the latter being the lowest
point indicated by a registering tlieimo-’
meter upou the Cpe. In other exposed
places, the low piint of 31 degrees, is said
to have heer. reached.
Spirit Mappings. — According to
report of the Superintendent of the Ohio
Lunatic Asylum, there are at present
confined in that institution twenty-six
victims of the “spirit rappings” delusion,
the number being equally divided between’
males and females.
Washington, Feb. 11th.—John R
Thompson, Esq has been elected to tho
United States Senate 4 to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of Com.
Stockton. The Senate to day discussed
.in fbfl the Texas claims,and Sinner
I Houston* denounced in unmeasured term s
the speculation in the Bonds of the
State.
There are nine first-class vessels now
loading at New York for Australia; and
five others have cleared within a week,
there are not many passengers offering,
hut large quantities of provisions are going
out.
Twenty-eight ships left the port for
Liverpool in the month of December last
for Australia, carrying out 8,200 passen
gers, of whom 800 were cabin an i the
rest steerage paasengers. The vast east
ern emigration sensibly diminishes that,
to America.
The U. S. Mail steamship Georgia ,.
which sailed from New York for Aspinivalf
on Sunday, took out no less tliau nine
hundred and sixty passengers. Were any
serious accident to happen to her what
use would l)e her boats with such a crowd T
Nothing short of a miracle could perserve
the lives of hundreds.
Evils of Smoking.— A leading medi
cal practitioner at Brighton, England has
lately given a list of sixteen cases of pa-*
ralysis, pioduoed by amoving, which
came under his own, knowledge, within
the last six months.
Doctors Differ.—The Scientific Ameri
can doubts the success, of! the Ericsson, ljofe
air ship. It must he recollected that sci
entific men doubted the. practicability of
navigating the ocean by steam.
Col. May, U. S. A. who distinguished
himself iu the Mexican war, it is said is
about to marry one of the most wealthy
aud accomplished daughters of New York
—the scion of one of the steam, kings.
The Wire Suspension Bridge over the.
Falls of St. Johns river, at St. Johns, N. B.
has been completed. It is about an eighth
of a mile in length, and about 90 feet above
high water.
Gen. l’ierco, it is said, will leave CQucprd
for Washington, qn the 16th iupt, He
will proceed directly to the Seat of Govcrq
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