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The Memphis Convention. Latter
from Governor Cobb. —We find in the
Milledgeville papers the subjoined letter
from Gov. Cobb, in relation to the pro
posed Commercial Convention in Mem
phis, in June next:
Executive Department, >
Milledgeville, April l?th, 1853. j
I have received from a Committee of
the citizens of Memphis, Tennessee, the
following communication:
“The Commercial Convention, recent
ly held in the city of Baltimore, having
adjourned to# meet in Memphis on the
first Monday in June next, the under
signed have been authorized to make ail
necessary arrangements, that the same
maj’ pass offusefully and pleasantly.
“The various important subjects dis
cussed at Baltimore will doubtless be re
newed and examined with increased in
terest, with a view to practical events.
- “VVe have been commissioned by our
fellow-citizens to invite you to be present
on this interesting .occasion, and partici
pate in its deliberations.
“In discharge of the duties assigned us,
we have likewise to lequest your Excel
lency to appoint immediately a numerous
delegation of your most prominent and
enterprising citizens, to represent your
State in the adjourned Convention, and
that 3ou have the names of those dele
gates published.
“We take this occasion to tender to
you and the delegation from youT rState,
who maj’ visit us, a cordial welcome,
and the hospitalities of our city.”
The subject here brought to the atten
tion of the people of Georgia is interest
ing and important, and should receive
their prompt and favorable consideration,
In view of the difficulties which would
attend an appointment of Delegates by
the Executive and impressed with the
conviction that a sufficient interest will
be felt among the people to ensure their
action upon the subject, especially in our
commercial towns and cities, I have de
termined in response to the foregoing
communication to request the people of
the several counties, to assemble in pri
mary meetings at such time and place as
may suit their convenience, and appoint
delegates to represent the State in said
convention.
I would urge upon my fellow-citizens
to take the nctcasnrj Steps lO ensure the
attendance of a full and energetic repre
sentation. HOWELL COBB.
Santa Anna.
This renowned Mexican General has
arrived at Vera Cruz, on his way to the
city of Mexico, and last accounts left him
at his hacienda near Jalappa. Probably
by this time he is in the city of Mexico.
In contemplating this arrival, the Colum
bus Times and Sentincal makes the follow
ing remarks:
The arrival of Santa Anna in Mexico
has turned all eyes in that direction.—
Great events are foreshadowed by this
occurrence. The General is unquestion
ably the Great Mexican , and is yet des
tined to play an important part in the
history of this continent. He cherishes
an undying hostility to our Republic—
and his Mexicanism is a furious passion.
This hostility commenced at San Jacin
to, when and where his vaulting ambition
met with a fatal overthrow, and was con
firmed by the long succession of defeats
which followed him from Buena Vista to
the city of Mexico. Nor need it be
disguised that Santa Anna’s private pro
perty was wastefully and maliciously de
stroyed in many instances during the oc
cupancy of Mexico by our troops. He
has, therefore, private griefs to gratify as
well as national injuries to avenge. He
has but recently given vent to his fierce
antipathy against the United States,
through his agent Escober; and we may
therefore, reasonably expect that the
whole policy of his administration will be
inimical to the United States, and that
he will leave no opportunity unimproved
to inflict injury upon us. Whether the
lemerribrance of past defeats will deter
him lrotn open war with ,us we cannot
say. He may well regard the last war
as an unsatisfactory test of Mexican
chivalry. He was called to participate
in it unexpectedly and was forced to en
ter into battle with such munitions and
troops as lie could pick up on an
emergency. It is not unreasonable for
him, therefore, to hope that with an
army raised, equipped, and drilled under
his own eye, he might expect to retrieve
the misfortunes of the past, and plant the
Mexican standard on a field wrested
from the hated “barbariansof the north.”
We would not, therefore, he surprised if,
under the influence of wounded pride,
furious hatred and the hope of victory,
this boasted Napoleon of the West should
plunge his miserable people into another
war with the United States. The result
of such a contest cannot be doubtful.
The mongrel races of Central America
are no match for the stalwart men of the
north, and will he overcome in every
contest where numbers are at all equal.
Another war with Mexico will, therefore,
result as the last, in the defeat of the
Mexican arms in every battle, the sub
jugation of the whole country and its an
nexation to the United States.
Our citizens rushed to the last war
with a shout, and the brilliant success
which has attended the heroes who bore
aloft the flag of the country in that con
test, will stimulate every young man of
ambition to emulate their career—and
the United States will pour her armed le
gions through the gorges of her mountains
like a consuming flood.
It may be, however, that the remem
brance of Buena Vista will curb the ambi
tion of Santa Anna and turn bis attention
lrotn foreign war to the internal maladies
which afflict his distracted country.
Such a course, wisdom and patriotism
will both approve. The administration
of Mexican affairs is corrupt, property
and life are insecure, the roads ate infest- 1
ed with robbers, and the great mass of
the lower classes are hutied in ignorance
and vice. To cure these evils is a her
culean labor beyond the strength of one
man; but they can be mitigated, if the
despot will resolutely set about the work
in good faith and persevere to the end
V\e fear he has not the Roman courage
required for the undertaking—it requires
more than will enable .him to lead an
army to victory—but the* civilized world
will hail him as more than victor, if he/
shall have the virture to attempt it. (
The Cabinet.
Last week we had quite a stirring re
port, telegraphed ditect from Washing-,
ton City, that Mr. Pierce’s Cabinet, after a
brief existence oflittle more than a month,
had gone by the boarJ, by the resigna
tion of the principal functionary, Mr.
Marcy. It was nuts for the wings, but
alas! this bright aurora borealis in the
Whig hemisphere was dispelled almost
as soon as created. The following is the
explanation of the affair, given by the
Republic , Mr. Fillmore’s organ at Wash
ington:
W ashingtonGossip. —There was hard
ly more excitement concerning tire com
position of the Cabinet, manifested by
politicians hete on the day of inaugura
tion, than relative to changes in that
counc'l on the night before last, and yes
terday, until the Senate adjourned nine
die. The like hardly.ever was seen be
fore. Democratic supporters of the for
tunes of particular members of the Ex
ecutive Council were again ready to maul
all creation in their service. Even those
slowest to believe in fitful changes were
infected with the prevalent hallucination,
and prepared themselves to hear, by three
p. ui. of a regular earthquake in Cabinet
council, which had swallowed up Mr.
Marcy if not Col. Jeflerson Davis, tum
bled General Cushing into the Stale De
partment, Mr. Dobbin into the Attorney
Generalship, and thrown Stockton and
Weller from the Senate into the Navy
and War Departments. I repeat, it was
insisted all over Washington that such
had been the results of a sort of argu
mentative set-to, in a friendly way of
course, which had just taken place in
the President’s office-room on Saturday.
Some time on Saturday night the Ser
geant-at-arms of the Senate was called
up from his bed by a messenger from the
White House, and requested to lose no
time in preventing the departure of Sen
ators from Washington by early morning
conveyances, as the President had a
communication to make to the Senate
which required the presence of a quorum,
that might fail to attend unless he took
measures to prevent their departure.—
Senators Mason and Atchison a!s, oress
ed into the same service,
on Sunday night urging their brMfP
Senators not to take
might have been expected. -siTrli
in such quarters gave rise to
ment described above. The
Hards, who are so hard at it proohecy
ing Mr. Marcy out of the Cabinet—his
presence there being so exceedingly ilk
some to them—were the gentlemen w ho
originated the story on this occasion,
sending him to England-fondly imagining
that the President had at length seen his
error in oppointing Mr. Marcy, after that
gentleman’s late affiliation with those
shocking bad fellows, the Barnburners
They telegraphed the fact right off to the
New York Herald , and indeed right and
ieft over the country, and drank any un
mentionable number of extra juleps in
honor of their now- sure final triumph.
Well, 12 M. of yesterday arrived, and
a quorum of the Senate were of course
present, and the important Executive
communication was received. Going in
to secret session upon it instantly, (for
the Senators themselves were as terribly
bitten by the excitement of the day as
the letter-writers,) the mystery was soon
explained. ’J he President merely nomi
nated James Buchanan to England, anti
asked his confitmalion, Mr. B. bein<#
very properly indisposed to accept an
appointment which had not been acted
upon by the Senate. As no objection
could he made from any quarter to such
a set eel ion for such a post, Mr. Buchan
an was immediately confhmed when
the Senate adjourned sine die. The out
siders were very badly sold, most of those
who telegraphed news from hence being
among the number. The Hards patron”
ize these gentlemen extensively, stuffing
them on all occasions with all sorts of
anti-Marcy surmises.
Ihe President has been ur° r in ,r Mr.
Buchanan to accept the mission “to “Lon
don ever since the latter has been in
Washington, and indeed, before his ar
rival. (Jn Saturday morning early he
formally declined the offer, whereupon
the President notified the Senate’s com
mittee, waiting on him to know whether
he had further cpmmunication to make
to that body, that they might disperse.
I am not prepared to say what particular
occurences brought about the change in
Mr. Buchanan’s determination, further
than that like most young ladies he at
times fails to know his own mind. I
presume Miss Nancy refused, and then
relented; that’s all.
Minister to Spain.
The appointment of Pierre Soule, of
Louisiana, to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary at the court of
Madrid, will he regarded by the country
as an eminently judicious and appropriate
selection. For reasons which we need
not suggest, perhaps a higher order of
diplomatic accomplishments is requisite
for the competent representation of the
interests of this country in Spain than at
any other ot toe European courts. That
Mr. Soule is peculiarly and eminently
qualified for the mission to Madrid, will
be conceded by those even who enter
tain the most exaggerated estimate of its
importance. In the Senate Mr. Soule has
been distinguished for his familiar ac
quaintance with the foreign relations of
the country. The shifting complexities
ot European politics have, in an especial
manner, engaged his attention. He is as
perfect a master of the Spanish as of the
Wench language. V\ ith the advantage
ot these rare hut essential attainments,
and of that intellectual ability for which
Mr. Soule enjoys so high a reputation
throughout the Uniotr, he will not fait
to justify the choice of the administration
by a vigilant, prudent, energetic, and ef
ficient support of the interests of his
country. I hese interests could not have
been intrusted to a more competent and
faithful guaidian.— Washington Union ,
9th ins/.
The factories of Lowell consume between
eighty and ninety thousand bales of cotton
a year, about one sixth of the whole con
sumption of the United States. They al
so consume upwards of five million pounds
of wool in a year. There are lifty-one mills
in the city, employing a capital of thirteen
million dollars. The population of the
city is thirty-seven thousand, almost en
tirely subsisting, directly or indirectly,
through the disbursements of the capital
invested in the mills,
THE JEFFERSONIAN
GRIFFIN, APRIL 21, 1853,
To tlic Independent Voters of the
FLINT CIRCUIT.
Fellow-citizens: I am a candidate for
re-election to the office I at present have
the honor to fill.
JAMES n. STARK.
Meeting of the Friends of Fierce.
We arc requested by a number of the
citizens of this county,, to call a meeting
of the friends of Gen. Pierce’s administra
tion, to convene at the -Courthouse in
Griffin, on the first Saturday in May next,
to respond to the Rome resolutions, and
appoint delegates to the Conventions to
nominate, a candidate for Governor, mem
ber of Congress, and members of the Lc
islature.
Pike Democratic Meeting.
All persons favorable to the present
Democratic administration of the General
Government who reside in Pike county,
are requested to meet in Zcbulon ou the
first Tuesday in May next, for the purpose
of appointing delegates to the Convention
to be held in Milledgeville, to nominate a
candidate for Governor, and to select del
egates to represent the county in the Con
vention to nominate a candidate for the
third Congressional District; also to fix on
a time to nominate candidates for the
Legislature.
Democratic Meeting in Fayette
There will be a meeting of the Demo
cratic party, of Fayette county, in the
Courthouse at Fayetteville, ou the first
Tuesday in May next, to appoint delegates
to a Convention to nominate a candidate
for Governor —delegates to a Convention
to nominate a candidate for Congress, in
the fourth Congressional District. And
to call a county Convention, to nominate
candidates to the Legislature of Georgia.
The supporters of President Pierce’s ad
ministration, throughout the county, it is
hoped, will all unite and participate in
this meeting. Bv order of
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
April 11th, 1853.
|fej&emocra.tic Meeting in Henry,
will be a meeting of the Dem
ocratic party of Henry county, in the
Court House at McDonough, on the first
Tuesday in May next, to appoint dele
gates to a Convention, to nominate a can
didate for Governor—delegates to a Con
vention, to nominate- a candidate for Con
gress, in the fourth Congressional district
—delegates to a Convention, to nominate
a candidate for Judge of the Superior
Court of the Flint district. And to cal!
a county Convention, to nominate candi
dates to the Legislature of Georgia.
The supporters of President Pierce’s
administration, throughout the county, it
is hoped, will all unite and participate in
this meeting. By order of
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
April 4th, 1553.
Rail Road meeting.
The citizens of Fayette county are re
quested to meet in Fayetteville, on the
first Tuesday in May next, for the purpose
of holding a Rail lload Meeting, the'ob
ject of which will be explained at the time.
A full attendance is requested.
April 11th, 1853.
Memphis Convention.
As this Convention will be large, the
Delegates numerous, and it will by no
means be a money-making business on the
part of those who attend it, as each one
will have to pay his own expenses, would
it not be proper for the rail roads to put
the price of passage to the Delegates at
the very lowest figure? The rail roads
may be ultimately more benefitted than
any other interest by the Convention.
We are requested to state that a meet
ing of the citizens of Spalding county will
be held at Griffin on the first Tuesday in
May next, to appoint Delegates to the
Southern Cammercial Convention to be
held at Memphis in June next. Among
the objects contemplated by the Conven
tion are the following: ,
The establishment of a continental de
pot of cotton, in opposition to Liverpool.
The direct exportation of cotton by the
planter, thus doing away with middle mfcu,
middle warehouses, middle commissions,
middle insurances, and all that intermina
ble medium which eats up our substance
and concentrates our exports at Liver
pool.
To build up a Southern importing mar
ket, iu opposition to New York.
To establish, through rail-road alliance,
more sympathy with the great West and
North West, socially, commercially and
nationally.
To have one or more line of steamers to
Europe.
To induce emigration through Southern
ports, to pass to the West by a commu
nication always open, expeditious, and
cheap; or to settle ou our fertile lauds.
To stimulate mauufactures and general
industry.
To educate our children at home; to
spend our wealth at home.
To aim at commercial and industrial in
dependence.
The rail road from Griffin to Decatur,
will no doubt also come up for considera
tion.
The Season.
At this time of the year there is a gen
eral anxiety to know the prospects of the
ensuing erop. Irt this soetiou the Spring
sot in late, which, together with the large
quantities ol rain in the early part of the
season, have thrown the crops nearly n
month behind hand. The weather is still
cool; on Sctnday night there was appre
hension of a frost, though wo have not
heard of any. The crops arc growing off;
corn and wheat look well, the stands ol
cotton fair, and a late Fall promises abun
dance. Fruit also will be plenty, and the
sale of many a bottle of Jacob’s Cordial, -
to cure diarrhoea, coutractcd from the use
of unripe fruit, will be tin* consequence.
Well, we believe Dr. Bliss, of this place,
has a few bottles of the same sort left.—
See his advertisement.
The Fxamiuer—Vol. H.
This book, owned by Hon. John B.
Reid, has gotten astray somewhere in
Griffiu. The holder is requested to re
turn it to the owner, or leave it at this
office.
Boquet.— 1 his is the season of flow
ers, and the whole air is redolent of their
sweets. We do not gel as many boquels
as we use to, though we have not lost
one particle of our passion for the beau
tiful developments of Spring. But this
only makes what we do get the more
valuable and highly prized. Our kind
friend Mrs Charleys W. C Wright,
sent us a splendid one on Saturday, made
up with a taste of exceeding loveliness,
for which she will please accept our
r
Washington Ru mors.
Last week a rumor was prevalent, that!
there had been a line-up in the Cabinet, j
.vlr Marcy uad resigned, Mr. Cushing!
wo Id mice his place as Secretary of!
Mr Donin-j-j r.akvi Mr. Cushing’s j
place as A’.ion lev *. *eueral, and Com. i
Stocktoiftake the place of the latter as
Secretary of the Navy. The whole of
this precious rum #r is now contradicted
in the; Washington Union, as untrue.-
1 hat paper says there never was the
slightest foundation for the report of the
want of harmony in the Cabinet.
Editor’s Convention.
The Dalton Times , speaking of the
proposed Convention ot Editors in this
Slate, makes the following just and per
tinent remarks regarding, “jack-leg jour
neymen,” of a year or twu’s growth.
1 hey are the greatest nuisance of the
profession, and should never be employ
ed- Os those who are at present work
ing at the business tu the State of Geor
gia as journeymen, perhaps one-fourth
or more-,are of that class and character,
who have gone to offices and made en
gagements for three, four or five years,
perhaps begged hard to be taken in,
and after staying a year op eighteen
months, getting pretty slick about the
ribs and a tolerable stock of clothing
at their employer’s expense, close their
career as learners, walk off to another
office, and set up as journeymen. We
“ill enter into any suitable arrangement
with our brethren to drive such cattle
horn the,profession. We do not know
that any fixed time fop learning can he
named. Some hoys will Darn more in
two years than others will in five. But
whatever time may be agreed upon, if
not served out, the individual should be
excluded from all other offices. The re
marks rs the Dalton Tunes are as follows:
Should such a Convention be held, it
wouid take it at least ur.e week to get
through with llae business which would
property corue before it. In tire first
piace every publisher in Georgia should
agree to employ no journeyman who
cannot produce satisfactory evidence of
his Capacity and character. Halt the
jou:s ’ that are on the tramp are a dis
grace to the profession, and are not qual
ified to discharge their duties. * What is
the reason of this? Plain enough. They
“oik as an apprentice to the business,
probably not longer than twelve months,
and as soon as they are able to put up
<me or two thousand em’s per day, they
cut stick.” Some publisher will then
give them employment to stick type at
small wages tor a while, arid then they are
on tramp again. Consequently, they
are asjj ignorant of the printing business,
(save sticking type,) as. a hog is of the
spelling book ‘i hen, as before stated,
employ no man unless he can produce
•satisfactory evidence of his ability, and
by so doing we would stop two nuisan
ces runaway apprentices, and journey
man botches
We cannot agree so well with our
brother of the Times in regard to legal
advertising. H bile we coincide with him
that a discount to the officers of one-half
or more, as is frequently the case, is en
tirely too much, one-fourth we think is
not, and even one-third might be tolera
ted. Sheriffs, Ordinaries and Clerks fre
quently lose the tee altogether, and what
ever they may he obliged to pay the
printer is so much loss to them; others
they must indulge a long time; property
is often claimed and sales set aside after
advertising; these ate all losses to the
officer it he assumes the printer’s bill for
advertising, and he should be allow’ed
enough to at least save himself whole.—
One-fourth is little enough to cover these
contingencies.
0
Griffin, April 20 th,. 1853.
Pursuant to a previous call, a .Icrge
and respectable meeting was held at tiTe
Baptist Church on Monday the 1 Slh inst.
to obtain signers to a petition to the next
Legislature of Georgia, to pass an act
giving to the voters of the respective
counties the privilege to say, by theii
votes, whether they will have spirituous
liquors retailed in their county. And
then to the Militia districts, to say wheth
er it shall he retailed in their district.
Rev. Wm. J. Keith was called to the
Chair, and W. J. Jossev requested to act
as Secretary.
The Chairman opened live meeting with
prayer, and then explained the object of
the meeting in n few pertinent remarks.
After which, there were able addresses,
setting forth the unanswerable argument,
by the following gentlemen: Rev. J. Il’
Campbell, Col. Wm. L. Gondonand Rev.
J. B. Jackson-, wlqich W'ere received w'ilh
enthusiaiic applause. After which the
petition was presented for signatures and
one hundred and ninety tw-o names wore
subscribed in about half an hour. No
doubt many more would have been an
nexed but for the lateness of the hour,
and the disposition on the port of the au
dience to retire. The whole audience,
with very few exceptions, were in favor
l the petition. The meeting adjourned
me die IV. J. KEITH, Ch’mn. ,
. J. JussEy, fto’ry, /
Democratic State Convention.
The Savannah Georgian of last Friday
contains the following editorial:
Democratic State .Convention’—When
shall it meet?—We last week expressed
our concurrence in the suggestion, made
by the Federal Union, and approved by
several of our cotemporaries, that the De
mocratic State Convention be held on the
second Wednesday of June. We did this
for the purpose of preventing any dissen
sion or discussion, as to the time—though
individually prefering its postponement to
a later date. We now see that the Fed
eral Union has re-opened the subject, with
the remark that “since writing our article
of week before last, we have learned that
the second Wednesday in June is the day
after Sale Day in each county—as many
would be obliged to remain at home, who
would like to attend the Convention, for
the reason just stated, we think the third
Wednesday in Juno would be a better
day.
This extract we think, contains an ex
cellent reason why the Convention should
not be held on the second Wednesday.—
While the matter is undetermined, we
take the liberty of suggesting the fourth 1
Wednesday. By looking at the Alma-}
nac, it will be seen that the third Wed- j
nesday in June, the day last proposed by ,
the Federal Union for the meeting of our
Convention, comes oil the 15th of the
month, while the first Monday, the day of
the meeting of the Memphis Convention,
falls on die 6th. The two are thus brought,
within nine days of each other. Should 1
then the Memphis Convention be in scs- 1
sion, as is probable, four or five days, it !
will be inconvenient, to say the least, for 1
delegates from Georgia to return to their
homes in time to attend our State Conven
tion. The coming canvass, even should it
not open before July, will be quite long 1
enough and hot enough. “ j
As it is said the Executive Committee !
of the Democratic party consider them- ■
selves debarred by the statute of limita
tions from any further action, we suppose
the corps editorial will have to decide this !
question, as a Standing Committee in all j
such cases ex officio. We vote with the
Georgian for the fourth Wednesday. What
say our brethren?
The editor of the Corner Stone is con-!
sidered by many as an eccentric person
age if not an oddity, and yet he lias a
manner of walking right up to an object,
anti taking a fall and clear view of
it, of which but few other persons are ca
pable. The following thoughts on the
next nomination for Governor are certain
ly worthy of consideration:
The Next Governor.— We see that,
the Democratic papers are stirring the
question of the selection of a candidate for
Governor.. Among a great many names
they mention as those from whom the
choice is to be made, very little is said of
the present incumbent, Gov. Cobb. “Oh,
no, they Hover mention him.”
Now, we have no interest in the matter,
and therefore have no right to dictate to
any body—but in our opinion, ho is not
only entitled to have his name considered,
but he is entitled to the nomination in
preference to any body else.
In the fk’3t place, we have never heard
any body complain that he did not make
a good Governor. In the next place, he
is as sound a Democrat as any man in
Georgia. On the score of politics, the eu
ly possible objection that wc know to lain,
is that lie is a Union man. We do not
see why that should, however, be any ob
jection with any of the supporters of Gen.
Fierce, seeing that he is not only a Union
man, but considers the compromise mea
sures strictly constitutional.
In the third place, he lias given as much
evidence, to say the least of it, of honesty
and sincerity, as any of them, for lie was a
Union compromise man from the begin
ning—and if the rest of the party were
ever any otherwise, they have been con
verted with a suddenness and thorough
ness, which proves, in its operation upon
them at least, the omnipotence of truth
—or something else.
In the fourth place, it will unite the par
ty—and this is no doubt the strongest ar
gument we have yet urged—but we have
a stronger one behind—it is, 1
In the fifth place—if lie wishes to lie
re-elected and they do not nominate him,
he can and will beat into lint any man
they can put up.
So looking over the whole ground, we
would advise them to come down to their
work at once. It ain’t worth while to
talk about any sacrifice of principle; for
so far as we can see they have none to
sacrifice—they have long ago swallowed
tbe camel, it is useless now to be hunting
up the shadow of a gnat to be strainin ,r
at.
We say they had better come down to
their work at once, because if they don’t
do it, ultimately they will owe to Cobb’s
magnanimity—and these sudden conver
tions do not look so well.
There will lie another advantage in it.
Some people doubt whether they ever did
want to dissolve the Union, or resist in
any shape. This step will satisfy every
body of their sincerity to the Union and
the compromise.
The New York correspondent of the
Savannah Republican furnishes the follow
ing statement of the salaries of the several
officers just appointed in that city by
President Pierce. The information was
no doubt obtained from the officers ap
pointed by Mr. Fillmore or Gen. Taylor,
just dismissed, and the amount made over
and above their salaries, by stealings, &c.
may bo all correct as applied to them; but
we trust Gcti. Pierce will see to it that
his appointees’ are confined to their sala
ries. We have no doubt he will.
Collector—Salary $6,000, (with pick
ings worth from $5;000 to $20,000 per an
num.)
Assistant Treas u r cr—S al ar y SI,OOO,
(two securities required, each $200,000,
No chance for prigging.)
Navy Agency—Salary $4,000. (Steal
ings worth about, as much more,)
Surveyor—Salary $6,000. (Pickings
probably worth $3,000.)
District Attorney—Worth $12,000 in
sharp hands.
Post Office—Salary $6,000. (He gets
incidentals, worth some $5,0*00 extra, A
good berth.)
Marshal—Worth SIO,OOO if turned to
account,
Cos!. Henry G. Lamar is announced in
a communication in the last Macon Tele
graph, as a fit and proper person to be
supported as the Democratic nominee in
the ensuing canvass for Governor.
Col. Allen Cociiuan, ill another com
munication, 13 designated to represent the j
Third Congressional district, in place of
Col. David J. Bailey, whose term of office
expired on the fourth of March last. It is }
stated in the communication, that Col. i
Bailey declines a second canvas l We i
presume this is a mistake. We understand ‘
Col. Bailey’s position to be this: He does (
not crave a re-nomination, yet having been ,
honored by the partiality of his personal i
and political friends with a seat in Con- (
gross heretofore, he would feel himself
(
bound to accept a re-nomination, if the
sense of the Convention called him to the
field in a second canvass for that office, i
We have no other object in making this
explanation, than to put the facts fairly ‘
. before the people. We make no objection )
ito Col. Cochran. He is a worthy man, ;
j and a Democrat dyed in the wool. He
; lias served in both branches of the Legis- !
laturc with credit to himself and honor to
his constituents. If he should be the
nominee of the Convention, we will take
the field for him cheerfully.
! lion. Wm. 11. Stißes is mentioned in
the Rome Southerner, by a correspondent,
ias a fit and proper person to fill the Gu
bernatorial chair.
Judge Lumpkin (says the last Rome
. Southerner) has positively declined being
| a candidate for re-election. The Rome Con
j tier says: We have it from a reliable source
that this distinguished geutleman will not
’again be a candidate for the Judgeship of
this circuit. It is his desire to go into re
tirement after the expiration of his Judicial
j term, but it is probable that lie will be
j warmly urged for the Gubernatorial noin-
I illation. We publish a communication on
this subject from an influential quarter.
Yice President King arrived at Mobile,
j from Matanzes, on the 11th inst. audit
was expected would leave about the be’
ginning of this week for his home in
Lowndes county, Alabama. His health
had not improved.
Bishop Soule, at last accounts, had ar
rived at Panama, on his way to Califor
nia, to preside over the first Methodist
Episcopal Conference shortly to be held
in that State.
From the Dillon Time-*.
Editor Dalton Times:—As the time
is approaching vvffen the Democracy of
Georgia will be railed upon to select
from their list of worthy men, a standard
bearer for tbe insuing gubernatorial cam
paign, it behooves us to consider well
the mailer; and should there be one, uni
ting to all the qualifications fitting for tbe
exalted and responsible station, availabil
i ? y, he should be tbe man of our choice
“e all know, that in the coming contest,
we will have to meet and contend with
Webster-ism, Fillmore-ism, Whig-ism,
and probably as many other isms as there
• are letters in the alphabet. To do so
successfully, it will require, not only our
best men, as standard bearers, but tbe
concentrated effort of tbe whole Demo
cratic party.
in looking over our Stale for one who
will most probably meet tbe emergency,
no name in the list would more cordially
unite the whole Democratic party, than
J that of Gen. llu. A. Haralson, of Troup,
i Being every way eminently qualified
- for the place, and uniting thereto great
’ political and personal popularity, I am
■ of opinion that there has been no name
■ mentioned in connexion with the office,
i that would mote likely succeed. In the
i Cherokee counties, —the Gibraltar of
Democracy in Georgia,—the General is
- especially popular; and if he is otherwise
in any other portion of the State, 1 have
; never heard it. Should he be the nomi
nee of the Democratic Convention, his
election is sure.
Let the Democracy, then, go to work.
1 Hold your county meetings; appoint dele
gates to the convention; be sore to ap
point such men as will go. Let every
county in Cherokee, as well as every
’ other part of the State, he fully represent
ed; and Haralson will not only be the
1 nominee, but also the next Governor of
Georgia. DEMOCRAT.
> Ringgold, April 12th, 1653.
Sound Sentiments.
* We copy the following short article
j from the Savannah Georgian of the sth
. inst The “great and good Fillmore, of
blessed memory,” it is true, sent a special
message to Congress, advising a minimum
instead of an ad valorem duty by which the
tariff would have been advanced on many
articles fourfold, amounting to prohibition,
had Congress listened to Mr. Fillmore’s
suggestions, aud either the Georgian or
Mr. Fillmore must be wrong. But what
of that? Fillmore was a great President
—or else the Whigs do not tell the truth;
Revenue under the Democratic Tariff.
—The reader will find an important finan
cial statement, in an article copied from
the New York Courier, into to-day’s pa
per. One can’t read it without recalling
whig predictions of bankruptcy to the go
vernment as the result to flow from the
enactment of the Tariff of 1846! Now,
with annual receipts from customs amount
ing to fifty-seven millions, our opponents
complain, as they well may, of the enor
mous revenue which the government is
raising under the present tax law. Wc
heartily join them in these complaints, but
not in the remedy which they propose for
the evil. They would reduce the revenue
—and it can be easily done in that way
—by raising the duty, or tax, on many
articles of import so high as to exclude
them wholly from the country. Our poli
cy, on the contrary, is to diminish the
revenue by lowering the tariff. If three
hundred millions’ worth of goods are to be
imported yearly, let the government instead
of raising seventy-five millions of revenue,
laying a duty of 25 per cent, raise from thir
ty to forty five millions by a duty of from
10 to 15 percent. More than thirty mill
ions ought not tp be required to support
our government. Let by all
means, demand of the next Congress a re
duction of the tariff of 1846.
(communicated)
HON. CHARLES MURPHY.
Editor Jeffersonian:—' The time is ap
proaching vvheu the Democratic party of
the Fourth Congressional District, through
their delegates in Convention, will have to
nominate some person as a candidate to
represent the district in Cditgress. At
this particular time it is more important,
than ever before, that caution, prudence,
and policy, without any personal predilec
tions, should characterize the deliberations
of the contemplated Convention. None
of us have yet forgotton the furious con
test for supremacy carried on by the South
ern Rights and Union Democrats —a dif
ference in my judgment, with due defer
ence to the opinions of others, existing
more in name than any thing else. When
those series of measures known os the
compromise measures passed Congress,
there was but one voice, one feeling, ono
sentiment in the South; and that was, in
justice had been done us. Some in the
State of Georgia were in favor of immedi
ate secession; others were opposed to the
measure, believing it to be premature and
rash in the extreme; but were for adopt
ing some constitutional method, if it could
be done, whereby further aggressions could
not be made. YVlien their passions had
been assuaged and the wound inflicted up
on their sense of justice somewhat healed
by the reflection that we were united to
gether by a common religion, language
and ancestry, and by the glorious events
of the past; and the increased power and
renown that awaited us in the event of the
perpetual existence of the Union upon tbe
principles of justice and equality—when
all these things were considered, few if
any were for a dissolution of the Union,
and when the election for delegates to the
Convention came on, and some time previ
ous, with a few exceptions, the Democrat
ic party were for remaining in the Union,
and using the constitution as an instru
ment to quench Northern abolitionism and
freesoilism, and if they failed in that, to
resort to any means whatever necessary to
maintain their rights.
That there was a difference in regard to
the right of secession, and that ihe Dem
ocratic party wore nearly equally divided
upon that subject, I am frank to admit.—
The Southern Rights Democrats thought
1 a State, by virtue of her sovereignty, had
a right to secede peaceably from the Un
ion; but justice to the remainder of the
States required it should not be done, ex
cept to maintain her independence, her
sovereignty. Hence it would not be trea
son in a State or its citizens to go out of
the Union The Union Democrats, on
the other hand, thought that no State,
by virtue of her sovereignty, could go out
of the Union peaceably; but to go out
would be revolutionary in its character;
but in order to maintain her sovereignty
she would have a right to do so—a right
founded upon self-preservation, and that
legally the people of the seceding State
could not be held responsible, for they
would be obeying the mandate of the ru
ling authority in the State, and in no
sense morally could they be held a
menable, as it was necessary to their ex
istence as a free people to separate.—
Hence, under these circumstances, the
Union Democrats thought too it would
not be an act contrary to our allegiance
to go out of the Union. Practically then
there was little or no difference between
the two wings of the Democratic party,
sometime before the Convention. The
right of secession is a question which ought
, never to have been agitated, for few
thought seriously of going out of the Un
ion for wrongs already inflicted. We thus
, see there was no good ground for a divi
sion in the Democratic ranks; but it did,
’ and still does exist to some extent; but Mr.
( Murphy is not one of those who favors
this suicidal and family warfare, but so
I soon as the Democratic party in Con
vention in Milledgcvillc put forward a
i Presidential Electoral Ticket, he, forget
; ting practical differences only, and with a
zeal and ability highly commendable, ral
’ lied to its support, proving his devotion to
| those principles for which he had battled
, with all his power for thirty years.
; Considering then that a division in the
Democratic party should never have taken
, place, and considering too that Air. Mur
phy did all lie could to bring about an a
malgamation of the party, that our che
rished principles might be carried out;
principles in support of which he lias de
voted his whole life; I say, considering
these things, and the additional fact that
lie has made ns an efficient and worthy re
presentative, I ask each and every one if
lie is not entitled to our continued support?
. If he be laid aside on account of his honest
convictions, on account of his identity at
one time with the Union Democrats, I tell
the Southern Rights Democrats, being
one myself, that they will inflict a wound
of which the Democratic party of this dis
trict will not soon recover. Let him be
nominated, let him lie put forward as our
’ standard bearer and all past differences
will be forgotton, and victory perch upon
our standard. CONCILIATOR.
Greenville, Ga. April 18th, 1853.
Aerial Navigation. —Mr. Porter has
made several successful exhibitions of his
model seroport or flying ship at Carusi’s
Saloon, on which occasion the assembled
spectators manifested much excitement
of admiration and gratification, as the
steamer and its gay saloon and flying col
ors, sailed about the hall, floating in a;r,
and with the resemblance of several pas
sengers looking out at the windows of
the floating saloon On Friday afternoon
the pupils of several schools assembled,
and witnessed with manifest pleasure, ‘.he
phenomenon of a steam vessel sailing
through the air, propelled by an opera
ting steam engine.
We understand it to be Air Porter’s in
tention to exhibit his seroport in the open
air in a few days, for the purpose of show -
ing its capacity to run against a fresh
breeze of wind. If he succeeds in this
it will go far to convince the public of
the practicability of serial navigation on a
large scale — National Intelligencer.
I he Republic says:— To see this min.--
eature, sylph-like vessel, with its gay and
airy saloon filled with automaton passen
gers, (looking out at the window,) actu
ally elevated in the atmosphere, and pad
dling its way in anv direction by steam
power, according tq the dictates of its
own helm, tends to strengthen the hope
that the untiring projector of this means
of ©rial navigation may succeed in bring
ing it to a Practical result. Mr. Porter
appears tube sanguine that a machine on
this principle can be epusti acted, capably