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Demooratio Meeting in LaOrange
LaGrange, May 18, 1853.
Pursuant to appointment, a number of
the Democratic party ot Troup county
met iu the Court House, at Lagrange, on
this day, for the purpose of sending dele
gates to the Gubernatorial Convention, I
to be held in Milledgeville, on the 15tk
day of June next, and also to appoint del
egates to the Congressional Convention
to be held at Newnati, on the Ist Wed
nesday in June.
Major George Heard was called to the
Chair, and Robert J. Bacon appointed
Secretary. The object of the meeting
was explained by the chairman, and on
motion, a committee was appointed to
draft suitable resolutions. The committee
appointed consisted of Messrs. Jas. Rus
sell, C. Pitman, J. Brittan, J. M.Flowers
and Thos> Greenwood.
The committee having retired, after a
short absence, returned and submitted
the following resolutions:
Resolved, That all past strife and dif
ferences upon temporary issees, between
the members of the old democratic party
should yield to the great fundamental
principles of the party, in accordance with
which this government has been adminis
tered, with but a few intermissions, for
half a century, and elevated to its high
position among the nations of the earth.
Resolved, That we regard the re-or
ganization of the Democratic party and
the cordial reunion of its wings on terms
of perfect equality, as essentia) to the pro
motion of its principles, and that we
deem the triumph of those principles as
essantial to the existence, happiness and
prosperity of the Union.
Resolved, That all persons, whatever
may have been their past political opin
ions, who now believe .in the correctness
of the principles laid down in the inaugu
ral address of President Pierce, and the
Baltimore Democratic platform of 1852,
are respectfully invited to unite with us,
and to them we will extend the hand of
political fellowship, and with them go
forth to battle under the glorious banner
of democracy.
Resolved, That we do appoint P. O.
Harper, Robert J. Bacon, “William A.
Spear, James H. Towns, and James A
Russell, as suitable delegates to attend
the convention to be held in Milledgeville
on the third Wednesday is June next, tor
the purpose of nominating a candidate for
Governor, and while we cannot but ex
press a decided preference for our old fel
low citizen the Hop, Hu A. Haralson
for that office; yet we will cheerfully a
bide the action of the Convention and
•gww the wominee our united and cordial
.-support.
‘Resolved, That we do appoint the fol
lowing gentlemen, Charles D. Pitman,
Thomas Arnold, Isaac Lana, Stephen
Willis, and Col. J. M. Flowers, as suita
ble delegates to attend the Congressional
convention shortly to be held in New
aan.
Resolved, That while we congratulate
the democratic party upon having at the
head of affairs a man of profound and dis
ciplined mind, of purest patriotism and
unflinching moral courage, yet our con
gratulations are mingled with the deepest
sorrow, when we remember the loss
which the democratic party and the coun
tty at large have sustained in the death
of our lamented Vice President, whom
for his personal and political integrity we
delighted to honor while living, and
whose noble, enlarged and manly soul
Jinked him to ue by ties which death it
self cannot sever.
On motion by P. O. Harper, it was
carried by the meeting, that any es the
delegates appointed to either of the con
ventions, finding it impossible to attend,
shall have power to appoint a substitute.
A motion was then made and carried,
that a copy of the proceedings of this
meeting be sent for publication to the
Federal Union, Times and Sentinel, and
Constitutionalist.
The meeting then adjourned.
GEORGE HEARD, Chairman.
Robert J. Bacon, Secretary.
Bibb County*
At a meeting of the Democratic citi
zens of Bibb county, called to appoint
delegates to the Gubernatorial and Con
gressional Conventions, held at Macon on
the 25th ult. the following resolution was
passed by a unanimous vote:
“Resolved, That while the preference
of the Democratic party of Bibb is clear
ly, decidedly, and warmly in favor of
Col. Henry G. Lamar, ‘and while they
hereby instruct their delegates to use
every honorable effort to secure for him
the Gubernatorial nomination, they will
cordially sustain any good Democrat up
on whom the choice of the Convention
may finally alight.”
Holloways Pills and Ointment.—An ex
traordinary cure. —Edward White, resi
ding at No. 45, Clement’s-lane, Strand,
was an indoor patient at King’s College
Hospital, for an abscess in the thigh, and
a wound nine inches long on the same
limb. He could neither bend his knee or
put his foot to the ground. He remained
at the Hospital fire months in bed, when
he was informed that nothing more could
be done for him; he was then carried to
his home, and commenced using the a
beve invaluable medicines; he is now, to
the astonishment of every one, soundly
cured, and can walk as well as he ever did
in his life.
Qorgona destroyed by Fire.
Panama papers to the 3d inst. have been
received in New Orleans by the Phil
adelphia.
The town of Gorgona was almost en
tirely destroyed by a fire which broke
owt about 3 o’clock, on the morning of
the 26th ult. in the transportation store of
Willacey t Cos. The only building left
was the office of Messrs. Van Ruunelfb
& Hiokiey. The Herald says:
All the hotels, transportation offices and
stores have been entirely destroyed, and
the losses will fall heavily upon the pro
prietors. We presume that business will
now be removed to Cruces, as the season
has so far advanced as soon to render
the Cruces road preferable for travellers.
It is said that the fire was set by a Car
thagenian, to destroy a young man who
slept in the store, aud of whom he was
jealous, the young man being intimate
with his wife. He was arrested and ta
ken a prisoner to Panama, where he
was in jail, awaiting examination. An
accomplice was wounded when being ar
rested and was left at Gorgona.
Lola Montez was al Panama on her
way to California.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
GRIFFIN, JUNE 2,1653.
‘Third Congressional District.
‘Ve waited long and patiently for some
one or some public meeting to mako a
suggestion as to the time of bolding the
Democratic Convention of the Third
Congressional District. But as no one
had a word to say on the subject up to
our last publication,—when, seeing the
time growing short, and feeling it to be
necessary that something should be said,
wa ventured to suggest Thursday the last
day in June. The suggestion is no sooner
made than the editor of the Macon Te/e
----graph finds his tongue, not however to
acquiesce, but, without saying why or
wherefore, to appoint another day, and
suggest the 13th inst., being next Mon
day week. Without having the slightest
disposition to be contentious over the
matter, we have two or three of what we
consider very good and substantial rea
sons for objecting to that time, and unlike
our cotemporary, we will proceed to give
them. In the first place, the notice is too
short, being less than two weeks from
the time it was first given; many of the
delegates are a week or more after the
date of publication in getting their pa
pers from the post office; some do not
take any paper at , all and have to
obtain their information second-handed,
which would still take more time; and
thus a number might not get the infor
mation until the Convention was over
and “the child christened.” Now where
|here is plenty of time, there is no ex
cuse for so much haste. Secondly, it
would be better and more satisfactory to 1
most of the members of the Democratic
party of this district that the Congress
sional nomination should be made after
the Gubernatorial, because it appears to,
be more fit and proper, and because the
determination of the one may measurably
bear upon the course of the members in
the other. Thirdly, the last day of June
will give the delegates plenty of time to
get the information, and prepare for leav
ing home; at the same time it will give
ample scope to the people to canvass the
pretensions of their candidates prior to
the election. In the fourth place, the
13th is only two days before the Guber
natorial Convention at Milledgeville, and
will unnecessarily crowd the two Conven
tions too near each other. And lastly,
as we have already appointed a time, and
have heard no reasons for altering it, and
can see no good one for so doing, we
think it would be courteous at least to
leave well enough alone. We see no
reason why the bare dictum of the Tele
graph should take precedence.
The Union Party.
Among genuine Democrats, the Union
pari.” is 60 profoundly dead and deeply bn*
ried, thfle the hand of resurrection will
never reach faf enough to bring it up a
again. And with it Arc intcrred£all the
political differences of opinlou among them
that gave it birth. But the Whig.? are
still harping upon a Union party. Not
exactly upon a Union party either, but a
Union Whig party. This they insist on
is highly necessary. Trac, a few spirited
and chivalrous gentlemen in Baldwin coun
ty, who dared to say their souls were their
own and they were accountable to no one
but the Supreme for their political actions,
made a demonstration recently in favor of
the “Great Defunct,” but the Recorder
quickly put its ban of disapprobation upon
the step, and no other county in the State
t has had the hardihood to follow the ex
ample.
We have never yet heard or known of
any political party being organized for
any other purpose than to espouse a dif
ferent set of principles and oppose another
party, and as the Democratic party has
planted itself upon the Baltimore plat
form, including the resolutions of ’9B and
the fugitive slave law, and espoused the
administration of Gen. Pierce, we suppose
it is to oppose this platform, these mea
sures and principles, and this administra
tion that the old Whig party is to be
vamped, bottomed, and made as good as
new again by these political cobblers, un
der the name of the Union Whig party.
Nay we need not suppose such a thing, for
such must be the case. There is no oth
er party, no other principles in action, no
other administration to oppose, at the
present.
With these data in view, although the
principles of the new Uuion Whig party
have not yet beef? promulgated, it is easy
to perceive what tjjpy arc. They are to
be arrayed against all Constitutional State
Rights, and of course all Southern Rights,
for these arc the cardinal doctrines of ’9B,
of the Baltimore Democratic Platform,
and of Gen. Pierce. They are to incorpo
rate the old federal Whig doctrines of con
solidation, of lavish expenditures, high
tariff, internal improvements by the fede
ral government, a United States’ Bank, a
paper currency and stamped and taxed
paper, for all these are heterodox to the
Democratic creed which they are argani
zing to oppose. That Whigs should hold
on to their old principles is no more sur
prizing than that a leopard should holdjon
to his spots, or an African to his epider
mis, but that any Democrat would join
this new party, with these principles, is
what we cannot believe. He never was a
Democrat who could commit such a po
litical enormity. lie never was embued
with Democratic principles who could fail
so deeply. He was one of the multitude,
following the disciples about for the
loaves and fishes, but was never a true be
liever in the Democratic catechism.
But what will the Union Whig party
do after organization? The Whig party
proper is extinct. This is addmitted on
all sides. “It is daily becoming more and
more evident,” says a late Northern co
temporary, “that the elements of northern
opposition to the administration will be
organized into a frecsoil political party,
with Win. 11. Seward and John P Hale
as leaders. The old Whig party cannot
unite its scattered fragments. The adhe
rents, respectively, of Fillmore and Seward
can no more intermix in a party combina
tion than oil and water will intermix. In
the State of New York three-fifths of the
Whigs have vastly stronger frecsoil than
Whig proclivities, and in most of the
Northern States, the same remark holds
good. It is manifest, then, that the hydra
of abolitionism, fanaticism, and disunion
ism, is about to rear itself as the dominant
opposition party in the country. This
monster of frightful mien—this party made
up of white abolitionists, black abolition
ists, and fugitives from slavery—this rab
ble of discord and destruction, is organi
zing its motley forces for a desperate as
- upon the Democratic party and up
on the Constitution itself.”
Is this new Union Whig organization
going to unite with this new National
party? We hope not; we believe not; we
cannot so far insult Southern Whigs, with
all their enormities, as to think it for a
moment. But where then will they go?
There will, we verily believe, be no other
National organization hereafter but De
mocrats and Free Soilers. Will they
still cry “Union!” “Union!” when this
vile horde organizes against the South?
Or will they remain a petty Southern
squad, sow disunion among her citizens
and throw stumbling blocks in the way of
her patriotic sons who shall march oat to
defend her when the onset is made?
Fighting the Devil with Fire.—Bring
on your Mediums. —We are sorry to find
so many divines admitting the spirituality
of the “Rapping” humbug, but charging
it to the agency of “Old Horney” and his
imps. We had an article of Rev. Alexan
der Campbell recently put into our hand
tor perusal, who takes this ground, and it
almost made us a Rapper outright; for
while it admitted the spirituality of the
matter, it did not afford the slightest
proof, other than analogy and inference,
that it proceeded more from wicked than
good spirits. We are sorry to say it,
but it is God’s truth, that the teachers of
Christianity, particularly at the North, are
the most credulous creatures in community.
There is not an ism in the whole modern
catalogue, however absurd, that has not
its believers and votaries among them.—
But here follows something tangible, some
thing that you can put your finger upon.
The celebrated conjurer and necromancer,
Professor Anderson, whom some have pro
nounced the very “Gentleman in Black”
himself, challenges “the whole spirit rap
ping fraternity,” its votaries, victims and
teachers, in the sum of 5,000 or 10,000
dollars, that they cannot produce a single
(knock, motion which he can
not accent f° r b y natural causes and
natural laws. We °o doubt the
Professor take3 the light position, and
will pick up the pile if his 2* cover
ed. The whole matter is reduced in
mind to the agency of electricity, and im
parted spirits have no more to do with it
than our old shoo. We admit, as we be
lieve, that many sincere and pious persons
have been deceived by it, simply because
they could not comprehend and understand
it, and took for granted what was told
them; but have they any apology now
for hugging their pride of opinion and
persisting in error, and can they hope to
escape accountability for it in the great
day when we shall all be brought to an
swer for the deeds done in the body? We
know how difficult it is for flesh and blood
to come out honestly and say, I have been
deceived; but better that, much better,
than be charged hereafter-—“Ye knew
your duty, but ye did it not.”
An Important Fact.
Judge Starves has recently made a re
port to the Executive Department of this
State, of the statistics of crime in the Mid
dle Circuit, over which he presides, for
the years 1850, 1851 and 1852, as far as
they have come under his notice in the
Superior Courts of that judicial district,
from which it appears that in every 100
cases tried, of all kinds, there have been
33 33-100 with which the evidence connect
ed the use of spirituous liquors as a cause;
or just one third. And in every 100 cases
of crimes against the person, there have
been 46 16-100 cases with which the ev
idence connected the lise of spirituous li
quors as a cause, By which it appears
that nearly ono half of tho crimes against
the person are more or loss attributable to
spirituous liquors.
In every 100 cases which have been
tried there have been Pleas or Verdicts of
Guilty, in 68 52
Verdicts of not Guilty in 31 48
100,00
We wish the learned jurist had continu
ed” his researches, estimated the cost of
prosecution to the State in theso cases,
given ns tho receipts into the State
Treasury for liquor licenses, and then
shown what it costs the people to sustain
the license system. Our opiniou is, that
twenty thousand dollar* would not defray
tho annual expense tp the State.
ror uioena. J
Near one hundrcl Negroes, says the
Dalton Times of the 26th ult. passed
through this city yesterday, on their way ‘
to Liberia. Many of them were stout j
hearty looking fellows, and would com
mand from eight to ten hundred dollars.
They were nearly all from Philadelphia,
Tennessee, and its vicinity. The Savan
nah Courier of the 28th ult. says, speak
ing no doubt of the same company:
We understand that ninety-five free
colored persons from the interior of Geor
gia and Tennessee, arrived on Thursday
afternoon last, on their way to Liberia - —
They arc under charge of the Rev. Mr.
Dyke, of and the Rev.
Mr. Smith, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, arc represented to be an orderly,
discreet, we£l disposed set of people. They
will sail in the brig Adaline, which has
been chartered by the Colonization Soci
ety, and whicTi is daily expected to arrive
at this city.
The Savannah Republican of a recent
date says:—“The fact is now well estab
lished, that Liberia is the place for the
free colored people of the United States.
At the North, they are a degraded and’
vicious population, at the South they are
objects of distrust among the whites and
of envy among the blacks. In Liberia
they arc the equals at least of those around
them, and may, by industry and sobriety,
become worthy citizens.”
We believe with the Republican that
Liberia is the place, and the only place
for the free people of color of the United
States. Our only fear is that the North
will pour her idle, degraded, and vicious
population of blacks, which they first
stole and then ruined, in such copious a
bundauee into the colony, as not only to
leven, butepoil the whole mass. The free
negro at the j South is bad enough, but
the negro loafer of the North (with few
exceptions) will be a dead weight and en
during colony for a long time
to come. Unless there be a large sprink
ling of the moral, enlightened (compara
tively) and industrious genuine slave pop
ulation of the South thrown in with them,
the colony will not be able to sustain it
self without white protection; or if it does,
and establishes a government based on re
publican principles, the slaves of the South
will have to be put in the offices of rule
and power. They would be the very fel
lows for such a motley association, for no
one exercises his authority with more de
termination than a Southern slave. Give
him the power, and he will make the “dar
key” toe the mark. There is nothing the
slave stands much in dread of as a
black driver, and their use is now almost
entirely dispensed with iu consequence of
their severe discipline.
The Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.—
The people of England are making as
great a parade over Mrs. Stowe, and a
bout as great fools of themselves, as those
of America jud over Kossuth a year or
two ago. Go the 7ih ult. she had a
grand reception among the grand people
at Stafford House, when the famous ad
dress of the women of England was pre
sented to her in the name of the ladies
by the Earl of Shaftesbury and respond
ed to by the Re’/. Mr. Beecher. The
address and parade was no doubt pleasing
enough to the vanity of Mrs. S but if re
port be true she is a real yankee woman,
and estimate* such things by what can
bo made out of them in dollars and cents.
A purse of sovereigns would have plea
sed her much better.
“Clara Moreland.”— This is a tale of
a(!ventures iu the far South West, full of
interest incidents, written out in an
easy and style. It is the best book
in that class of t!lat we ha ™ read
for some time past, with much
spirit, and some of the adveiio^r"-' 1 arc of
a most thrilling character. By Eml ”.so'y
Bennett, and'said to be his best produc
tion- - rWiiniXujl-by T. B. Peterson, 98
Ch*.;si/uut Street, Philadelphia. Price 50
cents in paper, or one dollar in cloth gilt.
Copies sent vo any one free of postage, on
receipt of remittance.
Bryant, the poet, who is now travelling
in the East, says the bigotry of the Turks
is fast relaxing, and they now “get drunk
like Christians.” We have heard from
other sources of this modern improvement
of the subjects of the Sublime Porte, and
should not be at all surprised to learn ere
long, not only that Young Turkey gets
drunk, but of her fast subjects contending
for a license from Government to pro
tect the sale of liquor, even in the face o f
a majority who may disapprove of it, and
insist on it as a constitutional privilege.
Virginia Election. —Virginia recently
held her Spring Elections for members of
Congress and the Slate Legislature. We
have not yet received the returns, only
in summary* reports by telegraph. A
majority of'the Congressmen elected are
Democrat*, and we presume of the Legis
lature we see nothing to thtcon
trary in any of the dispatches.
Ths Gardiner Case. —This tedious
case, after occupying the Court upwards
of a month, was submitted to the Jury
last week, who, utter being out two days,
were unable to agree, and were finally
discharged. Three ot the Jury were for
conviction apd nine for acquittal.
Presentments, —We publish the Pre
sentments of the Grand Jurors of Spalding
county for the second week in this day’s
paper, to which wfc beg leave respectful
ly to refer. We made a mistake last
week in itating that Gen. Daniel was
Foreman instead of Richard P. Ellis, Esq.
The General was not on the Grand
Jury at all. It was so stated to us by
one of whom we made
me ureat Kau rvoac.
That a great route to the Pacific by
Rail'Road will be built, and that right
speedily, is now beyond a peradventure.—
Young America has set his head upon the
matter, and he will carry it through, cost
what it may. Sixty millions is the esti
mate by the Southern route, seventy by
Missouri and eighty by the Lakes We
copied in our last an article from a Louis
iana paper, showing the advantages which
would result to the people of the Southern
Atlantic States from carrying the road al
ready commenced and in progress from
New Orleans, through the State of Louis
iana and Texas, by El Passo in New Mex
ico, to the Pacific ocean. This is what is
usually called the Southern route, tho’ there
is one still lower down, wjiich wou’d run
through a large portion of the territory of
Mexico. The Southern route is decidedly
the most convenient, eligible and direct in
the United States, being about four hun
dred miles nearer from shore to shore than
any other. It will always remain open,
unobstructed by the heavy snows of more
i northern latitudes. The mountain passes
arc more depressed, and would consequent
ly require less labor and expense to cut
through them. A company of intelligent
gentlemen, mostly from the Northern
States, are now prosecuting a minute and
thorough examination of this route in per
son, and we have no doubt a highly favor
able report will be returned.
If this route is chosen by the Govern
ment, as is most likely, there will as certain
ly be a branch leading off to connect with
Memphis; indeed the road to Memphis
will be the main stem, and that to New
Orleans the branch; and when a connec
tion is made between Memphis and De
catur, which is now in progress, and a
road built from Decatur to connect with
the Macon and Westerm road at Griffin,
the chain wijl be complete from Savannah
to the Pacific!
The following article, copied from the
New Orleans Picayune, shows that all this
is within the range of quite a reasonable
probability, and if not executed by Govern
ment, will be carried oat by individual en
terprise. Ten years, or a lcs3 time, may
accomplish the work:
Southern Route to the Pacific. —A
strennons effort will be made at the ensu
ing session of Congress, to obtain the a
doption of a Southern Route for the pro
posed Railroad to the Pacific -it being
generally understood that so immense a
highway can only be built by national as
sistance and under national auspices. The
South has, however, been so frequently
out gcneralled in all her attempts to wring
justice from Congress, that it may be fair
ly questioned whether, even should her
representatives succeed in demonstrating
the superiority of a Southern Route in the
cost and practicability of the enterprizc,
Northern and Western interests will not
combine to defeat her. It is to little pur
pose that Southern men stand forth and
argue to prove that a road which would
follow the track of the Opelousas route
and thence across Texas to El Passo, and
from El Passo to San Diego, would re
duce the distance nearly 400 miles less
than that to be traversed by the Western
route, and thereby diminish the cost of
construction one-fifth. Such reasoning
falls upon idle and inattentive ears. The
interests of locality and not the common
weal arc most apt to settle these questions.
Meanwhile, we learn from undoubted
authority tlia r a number of public spirited
and enterprising capitalists of the North
have taken this imtter into consideration,
and are determined that the claims of va
rious sections shall be properly investiga
ted. With this object a liberal amount
ha3 been subscribed and placed at the dis
posal of a corps of scientific gentlemen, fco
defray the expense of an actual survey;
and a party for this purpose are at pre
sent in our city, having reached here by
way of the river, and having already be
stowed some attention upon the towns on
the Mississippi, such as Memphis and
Vicksburg, which have been mentioned as
termini of the contemplated road. Among
the scientific gentlemen composing this ex
pedition are Col. Grant, Mr. Greeley, for
uiC r ly of the Boston Customhouse, and ex- 1
Paine, of Vermont. We undcr
cfonrf will proceed immediately to
Galveston, aii.d that thus far all the re
sults of their laborJ teud to impress them
favorably towards a C ot, thern route.
Should they ultimately conclude that this
route is decidedly the best, it is more
probable that private enterprise will bo
invoked to accomplish an object which na
tional injustice may possibly overlook.
Here is another article, from the Chat
tanooga Advertiser, touching on the same
subject:
Cotton', Railroads, Charleston’ or Sa
vannah vs. New Orleans. —A writer in
tbe North Alabamian, published at Tus
cumbia, says a good many things in favor
of Charleston and Savannah as the Cotton
[ Markets of North Alabama. He says that
“anew market is now opened to the plan
ners of the Tennessee Valley, to Charles
ton or Savannah, by the railroad. The
produce of the valley is about 15,000 bales
per annum, which pay to the carriers and
consignees, before it leaves the United
States, about five dollars per bale, making
a fee of $315,000 to contend for, between
New Orleans on one side, and Charles
ton, Savannah and Augusta on the
other. It is the opinion of tpany that the
railroad cannot successfully compete with
the river carriers to New Orleans. An
examination of the subject will show that
the item of freight is not all that is invol
ved in the questiou, The road is open
every week in the year Three-fourths of
the cotton Is picked and baled in the
months of September, October and No
vember, when the river is not open for
navigation. This is an item in favor of
the road. Cotton may be sent forward
only as it is advisable to sell, and thus ri
ver and fire insurance is saved. Returns
can be made in twenty days, and three
months’ interest made by having proceeds
in hand. Compressing for shipment costs
fifty cents per bale in New Orleans, be
cause the presses are costljr and labor high
in the city. This may be done along the
lines of the railroads at ten cents per bale,
as the laud would’nt cost SIOO, and cheap
sheds are only required. Agents from
the cotton mills oon buy and send forward
jp i oo,oou worth of cotton with #10',(TOO,
and this is in favor of the spinner. Sub
agencies wiH be established along the road,
where planters may sell, way and deliver
their crops, and saVe ten pounds per bale
in weight, which is a> dollar per bale-when
cotton is worth ten cents. The cotton
purchased may then be compressed on the
road for ten cents per bale, and without
further charges drayed from the railroad
to the ship bound for Liverpool. There
will be a telegraph along every line of
railroad, and thus spinners and growers
can be nearer together. A planter may
fairly sample his cotton, and send it to a
spiiner-at Savannah or Charleston by the
railroad, and by telegraph they may close
the contract, and one train bring up the
money and tfie next take back the cotton.
Insurance is less from the seaboard than
from NcW Orleans.
The voyage is shorter to Liverpool, and
the freight may be less. The chief and
main question is, will all the items taken
together be less when the cotton is deliver
ed at Lowell or Manchester, by the road
or by the river? The cheapest route to
the cotton mills is the route for the grow
er. This, combined with certainty and
dispatch, and not left to the uncertain ri
ses in the rivers, tend to place the advan
tages in favor of the road, even admitting
j that the freight alone may be more than
iby the river. Cotton traders can deal in
the article, by means of dispatch by the
road and by telegraph, when it would be
hazardous to do so and take the delays of
the river. The cotton itself can be made
the capital for a large business during the
season, commencing in September and
closing in April. There is no good rea
son why the spinners from Manchester and
Lowell may not come along the lines of
roads, buy their stocks, compress them in
the country, and ship directly to the mills.
Every dollar saved in charges is made by
the growers.
We shall conclude this article by exhi
biting the quantity of cotton shipped from
Memphis alone, since the first of Septem
ber last:
To New Orleans 153,213; to New York
589; to Liverpool 249; to Philadelphia
2,021; to Providence 4,021; to Boston
7,291; to Taunton 53; to Baltimore 675;
to St. Louis 838; to Cannelton 3,155; to
Rock Haven 306; to Cumberland River
42; to Louisville 825; to Lexington 111;
to Pittsburgh 7,375; to Reading, Pa. 141;
to Lancaster 262; to Harrisburg 1,264;
to Cincinnati 2,708; to Stubcnville, Ohio,
1,596. Making the total number of bales
186,732.
Fr >m the Decatur Journal
Griffin, Gee May 20, 1853.
W. D. Cook, Esq.
Dear Sir.—Since I left home 1
have attended the meeting of the friends
of our projected Railroad from Decatur
to Griffin, at Carrollton,and on my way
to that place, was happy to meet R. R.
Cuyler, Esq. the President of the Cen
tral Railroad, on tny journey, who attend
ed the meeting, and addressed the citizens
of Carroll county—the writer followed at
an humble distance. Mr. Cuyler is a
fine speaker, and possessed of a large
fund of information connected with the
internal improvements of the country, and
enjoys the confidence of the capitalists of
this section. I was happy to find him
such a strong friend to our project, and
in the confident assurance ot the road
being a profitable one for investment when
completed. The meeting passed off
with considerable spirit, and satisfied me
that the people of Carroll would come
up to our help. They will make the ef
fort to raise One Hundred Thousand
Dollars.
Mr. Cuvier left me at Newnan, on the
19th, where I addressed the people.—
There is a good state of feeling here, also
very warm friends, amongst the most
zealous is Col. Dent, an influential gen
tleman in Coweta county. This county
is wealthier than Carroll, and they will
use all necessary* and industrious means
to raise from one to 1200,000 Dollars.
At the meeting at Carrollton, several
delegates were representing various
counties in Georgia and Middle Alabama.
At Newnan 1 met a strong delegation
from Griffin, and at their urgent solicita
tion 1 consented to remain over one day
at this place, to address the people. Tbe
Superior Court was in session, and ad
journed at 11 oVock in the forenoon, for
the purpose of giving me an opportunity of
presenting the claims of the Road. The
Court-house was crowded. They listen
ed with marked attention, and here we
have a host of zealous advocates. At
all these places I have been received with
much kindness and attention. 1 think
Spalding county will at the proper time
raise one hundred thousand dollars—so
say the friends of the measure. The
eJb'ts, however, to raise stock, will not
genei*lly be made until charters are ob
tained.
I go to Savannah to-night by the cars,
for the purpose of employing an Engineer
to survey the whole route from Griffin to
Decatur—betwixt Marshall and Morgan
counties you must raise $1,500. ‘Hi*
whole expense of surreys w ill be about
$5,000. The balance of the money will
be made up in Georgia, and Talladega
and Benton counties, Alabama. They
appear to be much interested.
Let us go ahead. I think that this
Read is no longer a doubtful project, of
which I will fully satisfy you when I get
home. The only open question is, when
the road will be built. Yours,
\VM. MAILLER.
It will be ceen, from the letter of our
, esteemed townsman, Mr. Mailler, which
we publish to-day, that our favorite pro
ject of a Rail Road from here to Griffin,
Ga. is being warmly advocated by the
citizena of Georgia, many of whom we
expect to here with us on the occasion
spoken of, [the barbacue.j We wish to
see all the friends of internal improve
ments on that occasion. Ample prepara
tions will be made for their accommoda-
I tion.
It will be seen from Mr. Mailler’s let
ter, that an Engineer for the survey of
the route has been sent for, and that a
considerable amount must be raised in
this County—say from 800 to SI,OOO. I
It is suggested that this amount be raised
with the understanding, that those who
contribute clsim so much stock in the
road when completed. Decatur Jour.
We hope not, Mr. Journal. We trust
that whatever is subscribed for the sur
vey, will be subscribed as Paddy sub
scribes his papers of denizenship, to show
tnr goed “Mentions.” We have no i lea I
of one claiming e five, mother a ten, and
a third forty or fifty, subscribed for s sur
vey and purchased from others, to be put
in afterwards by way of stock. When*
the stock is subscribed it must be
paid in at a proper time without draw--
back. Suppose Col. Mailler were to
make out a bill of travelling expenses,
how much stock ought he to have? Sup
tpose*yo‘ ml we were to do the same
for time and labor in bringing this pro
ject before the people, how much ought
we to have? Suppose Col. Boggess, afW
Col. Dent, and a host of others that might
be mentioned, were to-presentbills of ex
penses, how much stock would'if take t'
satisfy them? It won’t do; stock is stock,,
and must not be inixeiUup with pocket
change.
We copy the following short article
from the LaFayette Tribune, edited by
the celebrated Johnce Hooper, author of
“Simon Suggs,” and a Whig member of
the late Union party in Alabama. \V e
consider him good authority in all mat
ters pertaining to that body.
Union Candidate.— An up-country
friend has a communication in this paper,
recommending Thomas Gray Garrett,
; Esq. as a suitable candidate to be run
Iby the Union men of ibis district, f.r
Congress. The only objection to the
thing in Chambers is that there is no
Union party here. The Union Whigs are
fraternizing with the Southern Rights
land the Union Democrats have been
driven to coalesce with their fire-eating
brethren. All Democrats are now alike
to the reorganized Whigs of Chambers.
Trie Weather. —We have had some
good showers within the last forty-eight
hours, which has been of essential
service 4o the drooping vegetation.-
On Monday evening there was the ap
pearance of a fine rain along the range
of the Pine Mountain, from twelve to six
teen miles south of Griffin, and Tues
day we had a pretty fair sprinkle from
the east. On Tuesday night there wa*
a thunder storm from the east, wr h heavy
rain for upwards of an hour, ami there
was still the appearance of more min.
when our paper was put to press.
Appointments by the President.—The
President has made all his foreign ap
pointments of Ministers, Charges, and
Consuls. Judge Henry R. Jackson
goes as Charge to Austria. This Is the
only appointment from Georgia.
Representation by Proxy. —lt should
he remembered, says the Federal Union ,
by our Democratic friends throughout
the State, that the democratic Convention,
which met in March 1832, pissed a Res
olution that no county would be entitled
to a vote by proxy. This we think was
* judicious act, and must tend greatly to
strengthen the Convention, and make if*
action more generally iu accordance with
the sentiments af the party in every sec
tion of the State.
Here is the Resolution:
Mr. Gardner of Richmond introduced
the following resolution:
Resolved, That in all Canventinns of
the Democratic party hcreaf.er to he
held, we recommend that none be enti
tled to a vote in such Couven'ions except
duly authorised Delegates, who may be
present.
The Resolution was unanimously caj
ied.
Enterprise.. —Perhaps no stronger evi
dence can be adduced of the intrinsic
value and unrivalled usefulness of Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral, than the fact, that in
order to supply the demand the Propri
etor has been compelled to build an im
mense block, occupying a large part of a
square on one of our principal thorough -
fares, five stories of which is to be occu
pied by his Laboratory for the prepara
tion of the Cherry Pectoral alone. As
this article has now won its wav to the
public favor solely by its success in curingr
disease, this fact is some comment on its
virtue. Lnccll Advertiser.
Death of John R. Sturgis —lt is
with feelings of soirow that we record the
death of our late fellow citizen John R.
- Sturgis,Esq. Clerk of the Superior Court
of this county. For some weeks he had
been in rather feeble health. On Mon
day last he was prostrated by the rapid 1
! progress of the disease which had fasten
ed oq bis system, and on Sunday tnor
-1 ning about 2 o’clock, be breathed his lnsh.
He was a man of kind heart, amiable
disposition, and fine social qualities. The
1 responsible office bestowed on him by bis
fellow-citizens, tells of tbe estimation in
which he was regarded. At the oppning
of the Court on yesterday morning reso
lutions appropriate to the melancholy
event, was proposed, which we regiet
have been handed us at so late an hour,,
as to preclude the possibility of their
publication this week. They shall find
a place in our next.— Columbus Ji.iq .
Minister to Mexico.— The Washing
ton correspondent of the New York
Herald says: Gen. James Gadsden, of
South Carolina, Minister to Mexico, was
one of the aids of Gen. Jackson in the
war of 1812, and under the administra
tion of Mr. Monroe was nominated Ad
jutant General of the United States. H©:
was subsequently appointed Brigadier
General of the United States Engineers,
in the place of the celebrated Gen. Ber
nard, who returned to France; but after
holding the office a short period, he re
signed, and it was abolished at his own
recommendation. In his politics Gen.
Gadsden is a strong proslavery man, and
in 1850-’sl was a secessionist on the
negro question. He suggested the idea
to the South of establishing slavery in
California, by sending their slaves to the
southern section of that State, which he
considered well adapted to slave labor.
The Dahlonega Mint. —we heard
yesterday, (says the Savannah Courier,)
that the President of the United States has
i appointed Julius M. Patton, Esq. Super-
I intendent of the Mint at Dahlonega, vice
Jacob R. Davis, removed. Without in
terfering in any way with parties or
cliques in this matter, we may be allowed
to express our approbation of the act.—
Mr. Patton is a geotleman of great integ-*
rilv, and will make a capital officer.—
Having filled the position of Treasurer of
the State, he is extensively known, and
enjoys a large share of the public con
fidence. %
