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VOL. XIV. THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN IS PUBLISHED EVERT THUUSDaT MORHIHQ BY WILLIAM CLINE, At Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per an. nam, or Two Dollars paid in advance. *.>VKIITISKMKNTS arv insrrrd nt OXE FOLIAR por sipinrc, for (lie first itisrrtion, anil FIFTY CENTS per square, for cadi insertion llirrcufter. A rcasontililo ilt'ditL-umi will tic made to those who advertise by the yea*. All advertisements not otherwise ordered, will l * continued till forbid. tCZr’SAT.ES OF T.ANfoS by Administrators, t ‘.xeenlors or Guardians are required bj law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between t!m hours ol ten in the forenoon and three in the nlternoon, at the Court-Hotle, In the county in which the land is situated. Notice of these sale, must be jziven in a public gazelle FORTY DAYS i.re”ion ‘o I lie da v of sale. •S 1 L Ks OF NECROF.S must Ire marie nt pub !'<• auction on the lirst Tuesday of the month, be ’ ween the usual hours of sale, at the place of pub s e sales in the comity where the letters Tesla **nlnry, o! Administration or Gnnrrliunsliip may I have been granted; first giving FORTY DAYS ‘•■>fice tli >root'in one of flic putrlic gazettes of this Fi \U\ and a! the court house who c such sates arc t<> f*e held. Notice for the safe of Personal Property must t-e given in like manner FORTY DJIYS previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate >irst he published FORTY DAYS. Notice ttint application will be made to the Court Ordinary fur leave to sell land must be pub lished lor TiVO MONTHS, Notice for leave to sell negroes must he po’> s'ie.l TITO MONTHS before any order ab* eopre shill be made thereon by tlie Court, CITATIONS for Leltcrs of Administration, must be published tiiirtt pats; for Dismission from Administration, monthly stx Moetiis; for Dismission from Guardianship, forty day?, Gules lortlio Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published MONTHLY FOR FOUR MONTHS, Cstilh lisbiu® i;ist papers, lor the lull space of three ■i iVTtL, for compelling'titles from Fxccutors 01 Admn istration, wheic a uond has ueen given hv I lie locenseil. Ilie lull space ofTHREF. MONTHS. II JU Wc commend the following article to the special attention of the Editor of the Millcdgcville Recorder, and also the little “bush fighter,” whoever lie may be, who writes in the last American Union over the signature of “Veritas.” These guerrilla politicians, last mentioned, we are not in the habit of giving much attention, for the reason that it only swells them into momentary importance, which the most of them but poorly deserve and can seldom sustain. .You can never subdue or van quish these little chirographers. Their obscurity proves their protection. Con vict them of lying, of false witnessing, of garbling, and of every other mean, un gentlcmauly and unprincipled business that can dishonor human nature, and whom do you convict? Nobody. Some obscure personage, writing under a ficticious sig nature, who will never own his real name, I-lit skulk off and vent his venom and spite under anew signature! It is only a waste of time and paper to give them the slightest importance, by noticing their prosy lucu brations, or answering their conglomera ted fustian. Broad assertion is all the most of them pretend to. A lively imagi nation is all they draw upon. Sound rea soning, facts, or the use of plain common sense, would not excite any merriment or laughter, and this currency is all they ex pect in pay for their stock in trade of vend able commodities. The most of them, however, arc of a calibre suited to Sandy’s intellectual “bore,” and he publishes their liebdoraedal contributions with avidity.— If tlie following article is not argument enough for “V eritas,” as we suppose it will not be,, he can find the balance of Judge Johnson’s vindication in the Charles ton Christian Advocate, which is “a sort f Methodist” newspaper, and yet speaks in the most commendable terms of Judge •Johnson’s address before the young ladies and visitors of the Macon Female College. There is one thing in this prodigy of learn ing,—we mean “Veritas,” dear reader— which we cannot pass without notice. It is his profound knowledge of names of the hooks written by the voluminous Sweden borg! Where he got the catalogue from we know not. But it is wonderful! lie mentions every book by name, and tells the reader to peruse them in order to come at Swedenborg’s opinions. Now it has been our goo 1 or sorry fortune—which ever “Veritas” pleases—to have actually looked at, not only the catalogue, but the volumes themselves. There are some twenty large octavos of them, and it would take a pretty close reader six months to get through them. Won’t there be a many a one who will read them? We have one word more to say to ‘\ entas ’in regard to our own religious notions, and then we have done with him, we expect forever. We have not got a very profound veneration for church creeds and articles of belief nohow; while on the other hand we believe them all pretty good if honestly maintained and sincerely carried out. Judge Johnson’s religion, whatever it may be, tells with striking efficacy upon his heart and life. That is enough for us. For rn ivies of faith lei zealous bigots fight, JI; can’t he wring whose life is in the'nght. From the Constitutionalist & Republic, TH3OLOQY inthePOLITICAL FIELD. The whig press of Georgia has outraged every prmctple of fairness and propriety which twT an<l vindictive manner, in . v!,t y llave assailed Judge Johnson misrepresented his noliHoni „ • • slandered t,; c “r P olltlcal opinions and slandered his religious sentiments We fear not the result of B „ch intempcrauce ami injustice, believing fully malign,,,, t blown will b? Leaf down by t“c son,id indignation of a virtuous and Intel ligent people. It is time that political zealots who ihmk, qr act as if they thought, everything was fair in politics, and that success will sanctify any means used for its obtain mentj should be taught their error, and ®!)t #cotgi Jcffersctiian. the present canvass furnishes a fit oppor tunity for the people of Georgia to teach the lesson to the utter confusion of Judge Johnson’s defamers. The latest and most discretible assault made on him, Comes under an insidious guise' l —with an affection of candor poorly simulated, and under circumstances of un usual atrocity. It comes from a corre spondent of the Southern Recorder , a pa per once edited in a gentlemanly spirit, but which has fallen immehsely in respect ability since the withdrawal of its late ed itor, Col. Grieve, now Charge to Sweden. That correspondent is no other than its editor, and that editor no other than one who professes to be a Christian, and has even, we understand, officiated as a cler gyman. At the late commencement of Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Judge Johnson delivered a most able, chaste and elevated address, of which the Board of Trustees have spoken in the highest terms of com mendation. The correspondent aforesaid thus speaks of the address in the last Southern Recor der: “One more word about the Commence ment address. I believe I expressed re gret in my last, that the learned and wor thy speaker should have so liberally dif fused through his oration, the fascinating, but as I believe, fatal dogmas of Sweden borg. Judge Johnson has a right to en tertain whatever opinions, to him may seem most correct and proper, upon ques tions of this character as well as politics; but I must doubt very capitally, whether the occasion referred to was altogether appropriate to the. propogation of views among the young, which are held to be anti scriptural by a majority of those who are believers in the truths of revealed re ligion, and who have investigated the doctrines of Swedenborg. I trust these obnoxious portions of the address will be expunged before it reached the public eye. I am joined in this desire by many of his political and personal friends, who, like myself, admire and approved of the main body of the speech.” Now this assault is in the same spirit, and prompted by precisely the same mo tives which have called forth the slander tiiat Judge Johnson was a believer in spi rit rappings—a slander which has not the slightest foundation to excuse it, and which is yet shamelessly repeated in tho face of authoritative denial. So with reference to Swedenborgianism. What the peculiar dogmas of Swedenborg are, which the learned theologian of the Recorder deems anti-scriptural, and which he charges Judge Johnson with propoga ting, he docs not venture to specify. There were others present at the oration who were as firm believers in the truths of re vealed religion as himself, and quite as exemplary in the practice of its precepts. Yet their religious sensibilities received no shock—their orthodoxy perceived no challenge to religious combat. It was not the pious Christian whose convictions were alarmed, but the scheming politician whose venom was awakened. We hope the wish of the reverend cor respondent—a wish we do not believe any personal or political friend of Judge Johnson united in —will n<>t be gratified, that “the obnoxious portions of the ad dress will be expunged before it reaches the public eye.” That would be allowing the malignity of the correspondent to go undetected by the public eye, and there fore unrebnked. Let the whole address be furnished, and let the public judge be tween Judge Johnson, and him who char ges him with propogating anti-scriptural sentiments. This is a matter wantonly thrust before the religious community of the State. Let it decide as just men would decide it, and in the spirit, not of politicians, nor of sectarians, but in the spirit of true Christianity. Judge Johnson has been from his youth up, an exemplary < hristian—a consistent member of the Presbyterian church, hold ing to its tenets and obeying its require ments, and has lived a life of blameless morality and purity. Not the first act of his, inconsistent with the duties of a Christ ian, have we yet heard alledged against him. It is not in character with him as a man or a Christian, to avail himself of the delicate and honorable position as signed him at Macon, while addressing such an audience, to propogate doctrines and dogmas fatal to Christianity. We would respectfully urge upon Judge Johnson to take the field—appeal to the justic eand the good sense of the people make Ins appointments at convenient and accessible places to address his fellow citizens, and invite his assailants, and all others who choose to enter the lists, to meet him face to face before his fellow citizens, and then and there discuss with him all the political and religious questions on which they may choose to provoke controversy, Latest from Washington. Our special correspondent writes that President Pierce is determined to leave the subject of the proposed railroad to the Pacific an open question, for settlement by Congress, the different State tures, and tho people. In his message to Congress n.-xt December he will mere ly give the result of the labors of the dif ferent exploring expeditions so far as known, without advocating any particu lar route or even the road itself. Gen. Pierce coincides in the opinion expressed in this journal at the time the debate was going on in Congress relative to the imposition upon the President of the ex traordinary duties of attending ito the sur veying of railroad routes. He is of the opinion that he was elected President of the United States, not President of rail roads, by the people. As; to the Cabinet, it is understood that its members are op posed, upon the ground of unconstitu tionality, to any project which will grant more lhan the mere right of way to the road. Under any circumstances, how ever, the people have determined that the road must be built. The only real difficulty in the way is the fixing upon the route.— Ezchange. A late decree has been issued by the Mexican government suppressing the title of sovereignty claimed by the States. GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER l, IS** From the Savannah Republican. Railroad from Griffin toJtecatur. The following article frow the New York Courier c$- Enquirer, will show the high estimation in which the projected railway is held in the city of New York. The Carrollton Railroad Company, part of the 1 line, is duly organized, and a large corps of Engineers, under Emerson Foote, Esq., of Macon and Western Company, is now on , the field between Carrollton and Decatur surveying the route. The party began a month ago at Newnan, and we learn that they found a highly favor able crossing of the Chattahoochee Ri ver, and route to Carrollton. The road is to he called North Alabama and South Atlantic Railroad. By this line, Savannah can be placed much nearer to Memphis than any other Atlantic city, and we ven ture to predict will receive by this line, in addition to her present receipts of cot ton, 100,000 bales of cotton from points in North Alabama. The building of the road from Griffin to Decatur, (less than 200 miles, ) and the road hence to Florida, (T7G miles, ) will place Savannah in a commanding position, and vastly improve the whole State ol Georgia. Railway System of the Cotton States.— The progress of railroad enter prise in the United States, appears to be without limit. New schemes are con stantly being urged upon the public, re quiring a boldness of conception and an investment of capital only equalled i>y the magnitude of interests involved, and ol resources to be developed. Under the name of‘‘North Alabama Railroad” an enterprise is now being prosecuted, in itself of little magnitude, but which, as a link in the air line between the two cities cf Savannah and Memphis, be comes of paramount importance not only to the cotton States, but also to the cities of the East trading with the Southwes', and especially to this city. Savannah lies in the centre of the cuive of the At lantic, between the southern shore of Florida and Cape Hatte r as, and is thefar thest inland point. An air line between that city and the city of Memphis, | offers the shortest practicable route for a Railway which shall affoid an Atlantic outlet for the commerce of the centia! portion of the Mississippi Valley. The distance, as the route is now located, is a trifle over 600 miles. The country over which it passes, has almost every variety ofsoil and climate, and lies rich in agricultural resources, water power and mineral wealth. The engineering difficulties to be overcome are few and comparatively trifling. The greater por tion of the line is now built, the remain der is in process of location and construc tion, and will be completed, we are in formed, in a few years. Its teininal city on the Atlantic is the most thriving upon the Southern coast, its terminal city on the Mississippi is the commercial centre of the Middle States of the Mississippi valley, from whose wharves steamers ra diate to no less than eleven different States, and which is said to export l-16th ot the entire cotton crop of the United States. Up to the present time, its ex ports this year have considerably exceed ed 200,000 bales. The through trade and travel between the North-east and South-west would suffice to confer upon this line, which for want of a name we will denominate the Sa\annah and Mem phis Railway, a national character.— But the local products ot the tributary region are immensely great. On the north side of the central road will branch off six main lines of railway, with an aggre gate length of near 1200 miles, into Up per Georgia, North Alabama, the whole of Tennessee and Western Kentucky. On the south side also six main lines diverge to Southern Georgia, Western Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, with an aggregate length of more then a thou sand miles. These Railroads are ail con structed or will be speedily. To enumerate the local roads that will act as feeders to these main lines would be useless and tedious. It will suffice to say, that the product of the Slate of Geor gia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, w'estern Kentucky, and Ar kansas, will find first by someone of these main lines of railway, and afterwards by air line railroad—between Memphis and Savannah, the shortest and speediest route either to Europe or to this city. Mobile, New-Orleans, Vicksburg, Cairo and Nashville, will each be the terminus of a branch road from the main track be tween Memphis amt Stvaanah. It would be premature at this early date to speculate upon the nature and extent of the changes which will be made in the usual current of trade by the completion of this connecting link between the At lantic at Savannah and the M sdssipoi at Memphis. The most convenient chan nel for tLe commerce of this city with the South west, is now over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Baltimore is look ing to that road to obtain for herself the trade of the southwest, and undoubtedly, for a few years, it will be the main cham nel for the course of trade from the southwest to this city, and Baltimore will reap her full share of its benefits. But after the completion of the Savannah and Memphis Railroad, the trade of the south west, which is diverted from New-Or leans, will seek tho Atlantic at Savannah as naturally as any material substance obeys the law of gravitation. The mer chants of Memphis who are most inter ested in the matter, and should be the best judges of the comparative merits of different routes by which their commer cial exchanges are carried on, are alrea dy beginning to exhibit a decided preter ence for the one by Wheeling, Baltimore and the Ohio River, to tho Eastern cities The following extract from the circular of Messrs. David, Park & Co-, Cotton Brokers, of Memphis, exhibits, very fairly, the tendency of the commercial men of that city, to seek an Atlantic out let for their trade, in preference to the river route ppa New-Orleans. ‘‘Permit us now to invite your atten tion especially to the increased facilities of the .coming season for the transpoi t itiou of produce to the eastern markets, by the : way of the Ohio river and the railroad from Wheeling to Baltimore, and thence to. any eastern point. By this route pro duce will reach its destination either at Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York or Boston, in from fifteen to twenty da3 - s, I and even in shorter time, thus saving j much loss of time in any pro [ tluce purchased for the Eastern and ! Northern markets. This route will be, as we are informed, one of and expedition, and will be far preferable to the route by New- Orleans—the rates of freight, as well asinsurar.ee, being less than by sea—and great efforts are mil! i making this route altogether the cheap-! est and most expeditious for the transpor tation of produce to (the Eastern mar kets.” This diversion of the trade of the Wes! from New Orleans to the route via the Ohio river, the Baltimore and Ohio rail road, and the Parker Yein line of steam ers to this city, is being caused by the excessively tedious and expensive car rage via the Mississippi river to the Gulf. We can see no reasoa, however, why the Bal imore railroad should continue to be the highway for south western trade after a better one be opened. For a petiod of nearly three months, naviga tion upon the Ohio, between Wheeling and Cincinnati, has been almost suspend ed. The commerce of the country, bordering upon the river, has been entire ly stagnated by the inability of the small j boats, there running, to carry to market! even a small portion of the productions of the country, which were accumulated on the banks of the river. In consequence of this state of affiairs, the recent rise in the channel of the Oh'io Jias. been greeted with genera! rejoicing in the Ohio valley. One half of John Randolph’a celebrated speech about the Ohio, viz; that which relates to its dr3'ness in summer, has been very nearly realized during this season. The fact is that the Ohio will be com paratively deserted as soon as a better channel is afforded, and the Virginians who understand this fact, are urging the completion of the railroad from Norfolk to Louisville, Ky., a route which, when finished, will be a formidable competitor to the Baltimore road. It would be preposterous, however, to imagine that the trade of the south west! will ever ascend the Ohio river, when aj more safe and speedy route is afforded direct through an Atlantic port. Cotton or other produce shipped from Mis-issip | i t via YV heeling, would have to ascend the M.ssissippi ar.d Ohio rivers rather more than one thousand miles against a) powerful current, be transported to the railroad at Wheeling, transshipped again at Baltimore, and would reach its desti nations at Baltimore, ’Philadelphia, New York or Boston, according to the Mem phis Circular, in from 15 to 20 days The same produce shipped to this city, via Savannah, would, by a railway and and steamship enrr rtf about’ i:o! miles, reach here in one half of the above! time. Our readers can judge over which route the trade of the southwest will be most apt to pass. Mi*. Jenkins in Atlanta. ’ We listened with a good deal of inter est to the speech of Hon. C. J. Jenkins, on Friday evening last, for we were some what curious to know from his own mouth, how he could undertake to ex plain away a number of uncomfortable’ passages in his political history. Thej greater portion of his address was devo ted to what appeared to us a labored sedf-defence. After declaring, by way of preface, how unpleasantly situated he was, ('being obliged to speak principally of himself, ) and dwelling some time on the theme of bis own sincerit3 r , he went straightway into the Algerine Law. lie denied most g'.renuouslv that lie was the author of the bill, but admitted that he introduced it into the lower branch of the Legislature, and vote I for it. He went into an explanation of the nature of that law—arguing that it was a matter of very little consequence, inasmuch as every citizen, rich or poor, was left free to vote for members of Council, and the restriction of the right of suffrage that be introduced and voied for, only prevented the poor man from being eligible to, and voting for any person as a candidate for the board of Aldermen—which board of Aldermen was created only to serve as a check upon the Council —that it only had absolute control over all the financial operations of the city government. Mr. Jenkins did not tell his bearers that in all cities, financial measures, in their various ramifications, are by far the most irnpjr- j tant,and cover almost the entire opera-’ tions of the city government. Neither! did he go into a calculation to show his j audience how valuable would be the psi-j vilege of voting for members of Council.,! when (by tlie operation of this law) these, members of Council had been rendered as powerless as so many men of straw— the real power having been withdrawn from them and vested iu this beautiful little “Board of Aldermen”—to vote for a member of which “Board” it was first required that the voter should be worth one thousand dollars in real estate. “ The friends of the bill,” said Mr. Jenkins, •‘were studiously solicitous of preserving the right of suffrage.” Certainly, we wouid’nt foueh ii,e right of suffrage!— ou poor people can vote as much as you please, for menbers of Council, and if you own a thousand dollars w'orth of real estate, you may exercise the of treemen, and vote for the men wdto govern you, the board of Aldermen, wno regulate all the fiscal operations of the city. This is republicanism with a ven geance. Mr. Jenkins stands before the indepen dent voters of Georgia, asking the office of Governor at their hands, and yet open ly approves and defends the law common ly known as the “Algerine Law.” iu his speeyh on l< riJay night, Mr. Jenkins said: “Idid believe when that taw was passed, and do believe now , that it was a good law ” Now, in order that our readers may carefully examine the plain letter and spi rit of tltis law, and ju tge for themselves concerning the principles which Mr. Jen kins approves, we publish below the fol lowing section from the law itself: Section 2. And be it farther enacted , That no person shall be allowed to yo’.o for Aldermen, who in addition to the quali T ucations now required of voters, does not own real estate to the value of one thou sand dollars, according to the annual tax assessment next previously made by the authority of the City Council, or has act ually paid a tax to said city of twenty five dollars on real or personal estate, or either, within the same year preceding such election, and no person shall be eli gible as Aluerman, who does not possess the qualifications herein prescribed for I voters. —Atlanta Intelligencer. What Democracy is. It is well enough to refer to first princi ples occasionally, for the purpose of re freshing the memory of the old, and in structing the you hos the country. We have never seen Democracy better defined and the duties of the Democratic party more lucidly explained, than in the fol lowing article taken from the Ohio States man, Qct. 9th, 1844. - The sentiments are taken from a'&pecch of the Hon. George M. Dallas. “DEMOCRACY 13 Ist. The essential legal equality of hu man beings. 2d. The people the source of legitimate power. 3d. The absolute and lasting severance of Church and State. 4th. The freedom, and sovereignty', and independence of the respective States. sth. The Union a confederacy or com pact, neither a consolidation nor a cen tralization. \ 6th. The Constitution of the Union, a special written g ant of powers limited and defined. Again: Ist No hereditary office, nor order nor title. 2d. No taxation beyond the public wants. 3d. No national debt if possible. 4th. No costl)’ splendor of the adminis tration. sth. No procription of opinion nor of public discussion. 6th. No unnecessary interference with individual conduct, or property or speech. 7th. The civil paramount to the milita ry power. And again: Ist The representative to obey the in struction of his constituents. 2d. No favored class and no monono lies. 3d. The election free and suffrage uni versal . 4th. No public money expended except by warrant of specific appropriations. sth. No mysteries in government inac cessible to the public e) T e. Gth. Public compensation for public services, moderate salaries, pervading e conomy and accountability. This is the chart and compass by which liivj Democratic part}’ has arisen to its present strength, and the country to its high position in the ranks of the great powers of the earth. Read it, Demo crats, and cherish these great cardinal principles of the Democratic party. TZic Freesoil Appointments I>y Pierce and FiSlmore. The opponents of the administration are greatly outraged at the report that Mr. Dix, of New York, is to be appointed Min ister to France. Remember, Mr. Dix has not been yet appointed; and, so far as we know, there is only Whig and Freesoil evidence that he is to be. Yet General Pierce is to be condemned, and his admin istration repudiated by the people, on this* ground. If the Whigs could only get him out of office, and Scott or Fillmore—espe cially Fillmore, —in, what devoted pro slavery men wc should find filling all the places of honor under the General Govern ment! Suppose wc contrast one of these anti-Abolitionists whom Fillmore did ap point, with Dix, whom Pierce hasn’t ap pointed. Mind, the worst that can be said of Dix is, that like ninety-nine out of every hundred Northern Whigs, lie sup ported the Wilmot Proviso. Let us look a little at Tom Corwin, the immaculate Fillmore’s Secretary of the Treasury. We take our portrait of him from a brother Whig and brother Abolitionist, Cassius M Clay; “ A hen Mr. Clay was the candidate for the Presidency, in 1844, Thomas Corwin i and I spoke daily, for a long time, through Ohio, in company. The battle was fought in the North at least, upon anti-slavery “abolition” principles, the friends of 1 slavery perpetuation beir.g avowedly in ta | vor of the annexation of Texas, with a j view of keeping up a balance of power in i the Senate, by the acquisition of more I slave States; and the friends of Jefferso j nian Republicanism, holding that slavery ! was ail avil —tolerated —but to bo extiu i guished in due time—North and South : —standing for Clay and against Texas an i uexation. I came from a slave State, era ! bittered in my feelings against the slave ; party by recent personal and political con tests, yet in the speeches made by Thomas Corwin, the slaveholders were so heartily denounced that my sensibilities as a South ern man were continually susceptible. I ’ am an habitual reader of Win. L. Gam i son’s Liberator, aud Garrison never snr ! passed him in heart-felt hatred of slavery ! and slaveholders. His now slaveholding j friends will gather some idea of his abated . ! re when they reyipw bis celebrated speech in the Senate, where he awarded me and other yolunteers in Mexico his aspirations ot “bloody hands and hospitable graves!” ljnt what struck me as most remarkable in the “inimitable Tom” was his indulgence iu “whining, canting, and praying” in fyis speeches! I have been in the furor of re vivals, and the wild of the bi vouacked camp-meetings, and never did unctious Methodist parsons move me to tears, like the “inimitable Tom!” And to such extremes did “Tom” carry out his scriptural quotations that lie got to be a decided hero: and I severely criticised his want of taste—and wliafc was, to me, ir reverent as the slave-criticism would have me—almost blasphemy!” Can Whigs, who applauded Fillmore’s every act, read this sketch of one whom he took into his Cabinet, without feeling that they convict themselves of hypocrisy when they denounce Pierce’s appointments as Freesoilers.-— Sav. Georgian, 2 1st nit. From the, Dckalh Democrat. Os what is tlic Conservative Par ty of Georgia composed? Almost exclusively of Webster Whigs, i men who opposed Gen, Pierce’s election, • who now for the sake of consistency, or 1 for the sake of something else less eredita ! ble, feci it their bounden duty to oppose 5 his administrotion. And these men, or their presses and public speakers, seem laboring to produce the impression that their present hostile attitude towards the administration, is the result of certain ob jectionable appointments which Gen. Pierce has made in the distribution of the Gov ernment offices. Why, gentlemen, did you oppose Gen. Pierce before his election? Did you do it because he was going to make frecsoil appointments? Or was it not simply because he was a Democrat? Did not some of you who occupy high pla ces proclaim throughout Georgia, during ‘ the Presidential canvass, that Gen. Pierce was the soundest man on slavery Norih of Mason and Dixon’s line? If this was your opinion, why did you try to keep him from being elected? Why did yon vote for the dust of Webster, rather than support him? It was his democracy you voted a gainst, not his anti-slavery sentiments; and it is his democracy you now oppose.— ; Hitherto you have been content to use but one “masked battery,” bnt in the present desperate state of your fortunes, you at- ‘ tempt to mask your adversary’s battery as well as your own. You have ever disliked Gen. Pierce, because he was a democrat,, brought, forward by the great National Democratic party to hold the helm of State. You st ill dislike liim for the same reason, but dreading to meet him in battle with the glo rious flag of democracy waving prounly o ver him, you strive to throw about him the dark mantle of freesoil, a mantle long the every-day garment of some of your il lustrious dead, and which you now wish to make the people believe has been convert ed into the officiai uniform of Gen. Pierce. And what is all this for? Recollect you were against Pierce’s election because he was the democratic candidate. Why have you shift ed, or pretended to shift your ground?— Is it not on account of the respect you have for the feelings, or we should rather say, the desire you have for the votes of Union democrats? Have you not said to your- 1 selves, these Union Democrats helped to ‘ elect Gen. Pierce, —he is their man and 1 their President—he stood by them in the great conflict of 1850—and in fact is just 1 as they are- a thorough bred Uuion dem ocrat. * It will therefore be wretched poli cy to attack him for his democracy And yet your must gain some thousands of Un ion democratic votes, else Mr. Jenkins’ case is perfectly hopeless; for, unaided by demo crats of some sort, how could the Web ster whigs—a mere funeral guard—elect a Governor of Georgia? And were not these reflections, gentle men, the parent of the freesoil appoint menl idea? ‘ >Ve believe it was, and wc believe too, that Union Democrats will re. member that you were no more the friend of President Pierce before his appoint ments were made, than you have been since. To Union Democrats —As weconsid* cr that we are, and always have been a Union Democrat —aye, a full blood ed one, too, we claun the privilege of appealing to them at ibis time. We know’ that efforts are making to induce you to aban don, indirectly, your cherished principles; your prejudices to—you are told that new principles have been en grafted in the Democratic creed—that the right of a State to secede at will, is hence forth to be a cardinal principle of our party! It is true that there are men in the Democratic party that hold these views, but they hold them not as Democrats, but as individuals. We protest against the right of any man to proclaim the prin ciples of our party; that is left alone to i our national Conventions; and at our last i national Democratic Convention the plat form of our principles was distinctly set forth, and upon them Gen’l Pierce was elected, and he is-looked upon as the re presentative of our party; and until he deserts or abandons that platform all Democrats are bound to give him their adhesion and support. No one has charged Gen’l Pieice with an open de sertion of our principles, but he is blamed for appointing men to office whose ante cedents give no guarantee of their devo tion to the faith of the Democratic party. Admitting this to be true, and that they were impolitic, yet if he carries out in good faith the principles upon which he was elected, he will have discharged his duty, and there is no cause of complaint. Then we hold it to be the duty of alt Demoerats to support the Administration and its friends, and oppose its enemies. The enemies of Gen’i Pierce are the op ponents of the Democratic party; and in the approaching Gubernatorial election let no Democrat support Mr Jenkins — if he does, he indirectly abandons his party. Mr. Jenkins makes war upon the Administration —he thereby makes war upon the Democratic party; he is the enemy of our principles, open and avow ed. Let Union Democrats pause before they vote for Jenkins, if any have thought of such a thing. You cannot do so upon principle, and never let prejudices thus ‘govern your judgment. The principles of the Democratic party have not changed —they are the same now as in the days of Jackson, and we look upon him as having been nearer embodying its princi ples than any other man. We are a Democrat of the Jacksonian school, hon estly, sincerely and devotedly. Mr. Polk was one of his followers, and we have no doubt but that Gen,l Pierce will prove tube the same. — CassviUe Standard. First Bale of Nf.w Cotton. —The first bale of new cotton was received in this city on the 20th ult., from the plantation of Mrs. Martha Matthews, of Bibb coun ty. It was stored at the warehouse of Mr. T. A. Harris, and sold to Mr. D. R. Roigers at 10 1-2 cents. Macon Telegrajph. Advices from the Fishing Grounds, state that the British steamer Devastation had seized an American Fishing vessel, and it was feared trouble would grow out of it* Frealts of Lightnings ‘ It seems to us that lightning is now making itself felt much And more sensibly, than in former years ; while death by lightning, has become so common a • tiling, as not to attract attention unless oc curring under peculiar and unusual cir i cumstanees. Without stopping to. exam - ■ ine intq the causes of this sudden increased importance of the subtile fluid, we annex below, a paragraph or two, recording some of its late freaks. The Newark Adverti ser says:— “A writer in the Intelligencer communi cates a curious incident. A little girl was standing at a window, before which stood a young maple tree. After a brilliant flash of lightning a complete image of the tree was found imprinted on her body !’his is not the first instance of the kind, but it is a singular phenomenon.” The Fitchburgh Rcville noticing a re cent storm there, says:— “The atmosphere was so thoroughly charged with electricity that every metal lic substance was illuminated. A friend who was driving from West Fitchburgh, in the midst of the shower, informs us that as he was passing under the railroad bridge in that section, he was completely surrounded with electrical lights, every nail head in the bridge being brilliantly illumina ted, as well as the buckles on the harness of his horse, while the lightning played si lently along the iron bolts of the bridge, contrasting most beautifully with the in tense blackness succeeding each flash. He experienced several slight shocks, while passing the bridge.” Crops, &c. —Toe following items rel ative to the weather, health, crops, &c., we gleam from our exchanges from the interior: The Natchitoches Chronicle of the ISIlb inst , s.;ys; The warm weather of the preceding three or four weeks has operated most beneficially upon the cotton crop, and without soitip untoward circumstance our planters in this section will realize a fair crop. The Shreveport Southwestern of tl;e 10th inst., says: The river continues to decline The recent dry weather has greatly impruved the cotton in this parish, and gives pro mise that the crop will be a good one. A merchant in this place, just returned from a journey through Eastern Texas, informs us that with the exception of Harrison county the crops of cotton and corn will be larger in that section of country than at any time during the last three years. The Bayou Sira Ledger of the 13th inst., says: On Wednesday and Thursday evenings last we were blessed ivith fine shower.- of rain. AVe have frequently heard of late,that the cotton or boll worm has made its ap pearance for the year 1853. Some gen ilemen have earnestly requested us, in order to set the public mind right on this subject, to inform our readers that such is not the case. The worm alluded to is neither cotton nor boll worm, but is what entomologists denominate “grass worm.” A Texas paper in speaking of the crops, says: Our planters are now generally enga ged in picking, and all accounts encour age the hope of a very fine crop, at least one third larger than that of last year. Four bales of new cotton in all have been sold at Galveston for twelve centa per pound. They classed good middling. The Indianola Bulletin says: We felt alarmed some two weeks ago at vague rumors of the appearance of tire cotton worm, but rejoice to learn that they have entirely disappeared, and that throughout the twelve or fifteen cotton counties of the west, the cotton crop is very promising. We therefore antici pate a much larger crop than ever before made. The wheat crops of Central and North ern Texas are said to be excellent. Prairie hay has become an article of general use in Indianola, and is found to be very good and much cheaper than Northern hay’. Hallahaloo!— The Whigs are raising a tremendous hallahaloo over the appoint ment of a light house or light boat keeper iu North Carolina, who, the}’ say, is a mulatto, or at least has negro blood in his veins. The Republican went nearly into fits on the subject yesterday, and we fear, if not looked after by its friends, will do something rash before it can be relieved. We need hardly say that this is, in all probability, a Whig— Roorback. Our readers qndeistand the meaning of the term. It obtained currency during ibe Presidential campaign of 1844, when W hig papers published an extract from a book of American travels, written by an Englishman by the name of Roorback, containing that distinguished tourist’s de scription of a gang of negroes which he saw chaioed together in Tennessee, with the name of “J. K. Polk” branded on theire backsl On due examination, it was found that no such a fcQjk had ever been written. The story was an unadul terated lie. So we have no hesitation in pronoun cing the statement to which we have al luded—if in it is conta ned the charge that Pierce has appointed a mulatto to office in Nortn Carolina, knowing hiw to be one. That the administration may have been misled by its enemies into the appointment of a fellow having negro blood , is possible. It is said that the Rev. Dr. Ross, whose anti-abolition speech in the late New School Presbytesian As -1 sembly, made such an impression though-, out the Union, is one of this class, that is, his veins contain some negro blood. The President might very easily be misled in to the appointment of snch a man to a subordinate post. He, of ccur e, does not see one in five hundred of tie seekers upon whom he confers appoint ments—havirg to rely upon the state ments of others. What we mean to say is, that the stale* ment that he has appointed a free negro to office, knowing him to be a.free negro, is doubtless just as true as that James K- Polk branded with a hot iron, his name upon his negroes’ backs. Sav. Geo^fo No. 35.