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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. %