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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