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MR. THURMOND’S LETTER. Jefferso*, Gi Sept. 4th, 1853. Mutrp. Clayton, Wofford , &o. Gentlemen! pleasure to be with you, end to mix and mingle with our fellow citizens of the mouttein region on that important occa sion, but it is impossible to do so. lam as much impressed with the importance of harmony in the democratic party, as you can possibly be, and would do any* thing reasonable that is within my pow er, that would have a tendency to bring about the happv result. 1 belong, as you are aware, to that wing of the party call ad “Union democrats,” and voted and went for the Tugalo movement in 1852, tinder an impression that we were not properly treated; but I never contempla ted or intended thereby to become a whig. I was taught, and so believed, that the Union party was not section al, and was intended to put down section al agitation—and so it was. But Messrs. Toombs, Stephens and Jenkins have at tempted to revive the Union, or rather th whig party, under another name, up on the idea of sectional agitation. Now *sr, that was not my understanding in 1850, when the old parties were broken up, and the Union party formed. I uni ted with whig Union men for the express purpose of of putting down sectional agi tation. Now, Mr. Toombs Js the very lasttnan in Georgia that should raise his voice in favor of the whig or a sectional party, for during the Legislature of 1851, when he, Judge Hill, Col. Holt and Mr. Jenkins, were all in the field a3 candi dates for the United Slates Senate, the whiga urged the claims of Messrs. Hill, Holt, and Jenkins, because they were in favor of adhering to the whig, and op posed to going into the democratic party; and Mr. Toombs was supported by dem ocrats, because he was in favor of send ing delegates to the democratic national convention, as the democratic party of the North was the soundest on the ques lion of slavery. And on the night on which the Union party held a caucus to nominate a candidate for Senate, Messrs. Bartow, Hill and others, tried to postpone the nomination, in order, as was general ly believed, to defeat Toomb’s nomina tion, and it was on the ground that he was in favor of going into the democratic party. But the caucus finally resolved to bring on the nomination, and did actu ally nominate Mr. Toombs; and he was eent for and came, and mounted the table and boldly proclaimed that the democrats of the North were the soundest on the question of slavery, and that he was in fa vor of acting with the national party which was soundest on the question, and even went so far as to intimate his preference for Mr. Buchanan for President. That was Mr. Toombs, the candidate for Sen atorial honors; well, Mr. Toombs was elected, and that by Union democrats, fori without the aid of the Union democrats ) in the nomination, he would have failed, rd well has he rewarded them for it. Again—just before the Legislature of 1851 adjourned, a Legislative caucus of the Union party was held, to determine what course the party should pursue in the then approaching President ll election. A committee of 24 was appointed, three from each Congressional district. The committee repotted io favor of sending delegates to ihe national democratic con vention, which was supported and advo cated by both Mr. Miller and Judge Mer liwether, and was adopted. Well, every union men in the State, I presume thought that would he the course of the Union parly of Gprrgia. Bui when the party met ia convention in Aptil, the Ajax of whiggery, Mr.-Jenkins, was there, and he had not forgotten the defeat Mr. Toombs had given him for Senator; and I presume one of those strong desires, as expressed in his letter, in July, there after, came over him, of adhering to the whig party, and it was mainly through his influence that that convention resolv ed not to send delegates to the Balti more convention. Mr. Jenkins, of all other union whigs in the Stele, ie the most objectionable in my view—for he not only done all in his power todefeat the project of send ing delegates-tb the democratic national convention, but'as suon as the candidates were nominated, he came out in a letter on the Ist of July, in which he expressed bin.self satisfied with the whig platform, and that he had “ a stronger dr.- tire than ever before, to adhere to the Nu tionl Whig parly, and to give to its nom inee \us feeble support. ‘ 1 That he did not oppose Gen. Scott on the Southern ques tion but because he was a military man, fcc. &c. That “Ac should be sorry , never- iheless , to Sit the Constitutional Union par ty, en mass, vote for ike democratic nomi i.” That, under existing circumstan ces, he would not ask his deinocrat.fi Union friends to abandon their former allies, nor wag he at all disposed to sep erate from his-.” That, “ there was no reasons to suppose that they conceived a new attachment to the whig party , and upon the closest self-examination , he did not perceive that he was at all democratized.” This j was his language in substance. lie then ttook the ground thai Union democrats might, nay, ought to return to their old part}'allies. Well, ! must 6ay in the language of Jlr. Jenkins, that upon the strictest examination, I cannot come to the conclusion that I am at all Whig-ized, and shall, therefore, not vote for Mr. Jen kins. I shall take his advice, given when there was no reason to suspect him of demagoguoism to catch votes —I shall act with my old allies. I think that after Mr. Jenkins’ letter of the Ist of July, 1832, disbanding the Union party -and honorably discharging the rank and file, that he now comes with a-poor grace to ask Union democrats to vote for him. He i the last nan { should think- of voting fur. How any Union man ean think of voting lor him r is a mystery to me. Some Union democrats seem to think the question of accession is at issue in this contest for Governor—l cannot think so. 1 regard it as an old fashioned fight between whiggery and democracy, and it is so looked upon ami regarded by the | whig party beyond- the State, and will certainly be claimed as a whig triumph, should Mr. Jenkins be elected. Let the Jenkius party get the majority in the Legislature, and those Union democrats who are green enough now to act with them, will see who wdl be elected Uni ted States Senator. Will Judge An drews, Dr. Slaughter, or Col. Holsey be thought of? No, sirs; old fashioned wbigs, such men as Dawson, Dougherty, Urawfcrdj &r ILolt, wjil be elected. Let . Jeukins be inaugurated Governor, and who will he appointed to the Superin tending and to all other subordinate posts upon the State railroad? Who will be principal keeper of the Penitentiary? Who military store keeper at Savannah and at Milledgeville? Think you that the) will be democrats? I beg of Union democrats not to deceive themselves in such a manner. They will all be whigs of the “straitest sect ,” and those who hare not, upon the strictest self-examina tion at all become democratized. Gentlemen, you will please accept my thanks for your very kind invitation, and rest assured that although not ptesent, yet I am with you in feelings. I remain your most ohedient servant, SAML. P. THURMOND. Communications. For the Georgia Jeffersonian. Mr. Editor: I really have no wish to intrude myself upon your columus in the capacity of a querulous denunciatorycorrespondent: but I wish to indulge in a few remarks upon an article which appeared last week in that “most noble” of all Georgia hebdom edafs, the Lagrange Reporter. One of the astute editors, or perhaps one of the many supernumeraries, connected with that “fearful and wonderful” sheet, has penned an editorial concerning our Spal ding election, which I conceive to be not only very nneditor-like, but contemptibly dishonorable. In the first place, what business has the “Lagrange Ret or ter” with Spalding elec tions? Secondly, why misrepresent, a buse, slander and lie? In speaking of nominations here the ‘Reporter’ says—“the mass of the party eventually nominated William Crittenden for the House, and Col. P. W. A. Doyle for the Senate.”— Now, to quote a favorite saying of all the Union Conservative Republican Citizen Algerine papers, if the writer of that pen ned it ‘in ignorance he’s a fool, if he did it designedly he’s a knave 1 “The mass of the party” did not nominate Col. Doyle. It was a self-nomination, as every body ill Spalding knows; and, if the writer knows anything at all about the matter, he knows it too. If he has no knowledge upon the subject he has no business meddling with it. Again, in reference to Mr. Moseley, the article runs thus, —“Now if we had a rote in Spalding county, we would certain ly not vote for Mr. Moseley for three rea sons. First, because he professes to be a Union Whig, and yet leans towards the Re-united Democracy in order to catch votes; secondly, because he believes it un constitutional to make new counties, and of course it would be unconstitutional to vote for him to represent the r.ew couuty of Spalding; and thirdly, because he has not ail education sufficient to qualify him to fill any office. We make the broad as- sertion that the Rev. Wm Moseley can ) not compose ten lines (without assistance) and “spell” all of the words correctly.” There is a fable, Mr. Editor, of a cer tain dog in chase of a rabbit, and certain contingencies connected with the little word if prevented the said dog from catch ing said rabbit. The fable is applicable to the first clause of the above quotation. As to the first reasou why the writer (I ought to say ed itor or supernumerary) would not vote f<>r Mr. Moseley, that’s all a lmmbug.— The only ‘leaning’ we know anything a bout, is Mr. Moseley’s assertion that he would positively vote for Mr. Jenkins, and as to the rest of the ticket, he would, in accordance with his conscience, exclusive of partizan considerations, vote as he tho’t best. And what freeman is there in the land who does not claim and exercise the same glorious prerogative? As to the second reason —that’s a positive unmitiga ted lie, and if any body doubts it let him turn to pages 48, 55, 59, 65 and 69 of the Journal of the Senate for 1851—52. The third reason is, in substance, that the whig party for twenty-five years, has been supporting and sustaining, by their votes, voice and influence, a man who “has not an education sufficient to qualify him for any office;” that they have sent him to legislate for them seven times and to the electoral college once, only needing the erudite scribes of the ‘Lagrange Reporter’ to post them np on the subject of his utter incapacity. As to the “broad assertion” —shade of Webster!—sceptre of Walk er!—What is this I sec before me?” Blakely, of the ‘Reporter/ hurling edi torials at bad spellers. That’s one of the riches*, jokes ever perpetrated. ‘Pot call ing kettle black.’ ‘Satan rebuking sin.’— Pluck the beam out of thine own eye, &c. Mr. Reporter! Reader, examine the very issue itself in which this abortion of a charge is preferred against Mr. Moseley. Count the orthographical errors, note the grammatical faults. Asa lady of the revo lution said to Tarlton when he taunted her with the assertion that Washington could not write his own name, “he may not, Sir, but he knows how to make his mark;” Mr. Moseley may not be as excel lent a speller as the learned pundits of the ‘Reporter/ but he knows how to make his mark, and he’s going to make it too on the second of October. W. Communicated Hear it Yc Savans! Listen, oh Ye Sages! Mr Editor:—l noticed a communica- tion in the Jeffersonian of last week, pur porting to be from the pen of J. Y M. Packet, a whig. Now the people have made much inquiry who this political cen sor is, that writes such tv bold’ and know ing fist, dictating to the enlightened free men of Spalding county how they should vote in the next October election. His extravagant laudations of the claims of the Rev. Wm. Moseley, for the office of Senator; would seem, to the people, that he was a personage of some importance, and we wonder if he did not have the greatest cancer doctor in the world with him as his accoucher or granny, when he brought forth. He says that Wra. Moseley and Dr. Simmons are the only prominent candidates for that office. We would say to this young statesman, get that flea out of your ear—in your pregnant zeal for Mr. Moseley you had forgotten that the gallant Doyle, the regular nominee and standard bearer of the democratic party, is in the field, and who is proudly bearing our flag on to glory and to victory, side by side with the sterling Crittenden, and we think, the signs of the times, for the last ten or fifteen days, both in town and country, will warrant a handsome majority for Doyle and Crittenden. Democrats are waking up to a sense of duty, wiping the sand from their eyes, and ace now rallying to the banner of principle. The lucubration of Mr. J; Y. M. Puck-| ett forcibly reminds me of the fable of the donkey that robed himself in a lion’s skin and tried to frighten some bys, but in his attempt to roar he brought forth a dolo rous bray. The boys, in rep y, told him that he might have passed for a real lion, if he bad only held his tongue. Rut alas for you, we know who you are, Mr. Don key. We shou and not have given Mr. Puckett’s first born even a passing notice, but from the fact that the voters of Spa! ding county might know who they c<>u and get tickets from on the day of the election. We hope we will be excused for our brev ity, as the game is small and we don’t like to waste ammunition In conclusion, we would say to this young Solon, to re load his political gun and try again, as we are satisfied that it does more damage at the breech than at the mnzzle A DEMOCRAT. For the Georgia Jeffersonian. Double-handed Game. It is reported, and generally believed, that Dr. Simmons hes been wearing two coats. We are informed, that when he meets up with a Memorial man, that he favors the principle; but when he gets in company with an anti-liquor man, he is light in for the real old ba’.d-face, split head whiskey. Now, Jimmy, what has caused this change to come over the spi - I rit of your dreams? Are you actually converted, and determined to abandon your first love, or do you intend to de- ceive the people? Who put you in your piesent position? If not, come out and show your hand; do like Judge Wright— face the music—stand up to your first position though you die ny it. The old Judge is made the right way of the dirt; and if every man that has put his hand to the Petition will stick up to his pledge. Judge Wright will be the first Senator from the county of Spalding. Griffin, Ga. NUNCIUS. For the Georgia Jeffersonian. Dr. J. N. Sim morns This gentleman, as I understand, was nominated as the .Memorial candidate, for the county of Spalding, to represent the whig party as Senator in the next Gene ral Assembly. As he has been voting on both sides of the question, I deem it pro per and right to ask Dr. Simmons, if he has not, during the present canvas, said that he was a strong and ardent support er of the Memorial? And have you net at other times, when meeting with those who are opposed to the .Memorial, said, and affirmed that you was opposed to all such diabolical measures, and wou and do your utmost to defeat it? Did you not promise certain men in this place, who are strong Memorial men, that if you was elected you would do all in your power to have a thousand dollar tax levied on every groceiy keeper within the .Mate of Geor gia? Have you not said, that groceries were a great curse to our country, and that the Legislature ought to abolish them all from our country? It is said, and believed, that all these charges are true; and it is your duty, as a candidate, to let the people know your correct posi tion on those important subjects. A VOTER. For tiie Georgia Jeffersonian l . Be on ycur guard. I am informed that there are all kinds of false certificates against the Hon. V’ illiam Moseley, being circulated through out the county. By this disreputable and dishonest means, a portion of the Doyle and Simmonites, hope to gull the people into the support of their conglomerated candidates. Spurn them from you, my fellow-citizens, and hurl your indignant rebuke against a cause that has to be sus tained by such wretched expedients. It is reported, and generally believed to be true, that. Col. Doyle has* been induced to become a candidate by some of the Scott whigs, for the express purpose of trying to defeat Moseley and elect Simmons.— Who is, and has been, his counsellors in this matter? We believe, just such men as Dr. Simmons, who has been publicly assisting the Colonel in his speeches a gainst Mr. Moseley. What does all this mean?—Straws show which way the wind blows. This we suppose is the way that Col. Doyle intends making the Demo cratic party howl on the first Monday in October next. DEMOCRATS Griffin, Ga. For the Georgia Jeffersonian. Mr. Editor: I do not wish to be inquisitive; but be ing an individual of very humble capaci ties, compared with some of the luminaries in the present Senatorial candidacy, I wish to obtain a few items of information upon a diabolical subject broached by one of our Spalding constellations a short time since. I wish to locate Pandimonium. Is it not the Legislative Hall of the infernal regions? It seems to me that it is. And who was Moloch? Was he not one of the principal counsellors, and one of the most malignant of that unholy convoca tion? So, I think, Milton represents him, Can any Democrat, 1 would ask, vote for an individual who represents his party as possessed of a Pandimonium, and two of its most talented members as “the Molochs” of the infernal den? If anyone Democrat can, I don’t know who he is. And, yet, such a denunciation was indulged in by a mythological candidate last week. And if “temples, sanhedrims, Molochs and Pandemoniums” constitute his only capital; he bad better stand from under— A BRICK. Curious Co-incidence. —That while the Conservative presses are casting up on Gen. Pierce the odium of being an Abolitionist-Garrison, Greely, and their friends, are denouncing hitn as the Presi dent of the Slavery interest. About as unaccountable is the fact that some of those who, two years ago, drew up and passed the Georgia Plattorrii, and raved to plant the whole county upon it, should have so soon deserted their own princi ples, and now cry aloud that the finality cf the Compromise is not the test, that there is something more than that neces sary to render a N’orthern man sound i They are difficult to satisfy.— Alb. Pa- triot. MCIRRIOnPES, TBIAKEN in the best style of the ait—Dagneri JL reolvpe stock for sale. Watches and Jewel ry repaired in the best manner bv JOHN M. LUNQ.UTST. Hill!,.Griffin, G., Ang.2l,lSj.l. 31 — 1 y THE JEFFERSONIAN G-RIFITn. SEPTUMBER 29 , 1853 FOR GOVERNOR HEftSMEL \. JOHNSON* FOR CONGRESS DAVID J. BaILEV, third District. W. B. W. DEN I’, Fourth District. von representative, WILLIAM* CRITTENDEN. — ■ SELLING OUT. We refer our readers to our advertise rnent, and pafticuldrly request our breth ren of the proses to-give us a lift in getting off by giving the advertisement a few in sertions. Election Tickets. Wc will he pleased to execute any or ders sent to us for Election Tickets, at 60 cents per hundred, with a liberal dis count when a thousind or more are or dered. All orders must be accompanied by ihe cash or they will receive no atten | ‘.ion, either from town or country. > GRIFFIN LYCEUM. The next Lecture will be delivered on this (Thursday) evening, at candle light, in the Baptist Church, bv Allen* Flem ing. Proceedings of Council. Owing to a press of ottier matter we have been obliged to postpone publishing the proceedings of last meeting of Coun cil till next wetk. Ho for Jonesboro. Cars will start from Griffin to the Jones boro Mass Meeting, on Thursday morn ing, at 7 o’clock. Return again, leaving Jonesboro’ at 50r6 P. M C mie one, come all! Go l . Chappell, G >v. Cobb and Judge Johnson, Col. Dent, Col. Stell and Cl. Glenn, are expected to address the meeting. Grand Democratic Rally. A Meeting of the Democracy of De* Kalb county will he h**l-J in Atlanta, on Saturday evening, October Is*. Gov. Cobb, Judge Johnson, Hon. A. H. Cnap p-11, Col. Dent nod other distinguished Democrats will tie present and address the people on the political questions o* the day. A great time for the B'hoya. ‘I hr-Jonesboro’ Democratic Mass Meet- ing conies (iff to-day. W hig Barbecue in Griffin to-morrow. Democratic Mass Meeting at Atlanta on Saturday. General Election on Monday. We think we had a monstrous mean correspondent from Possum Trot meeting house last wetk, and if he thinks other wise we will prove it to him. lie knew i the contents of his letter was no concern of ours, and yet he forwarded it without paying the postage. Now if he is not an exceedingly mean man, he will vet send us that haJf dime without further charge Let us se* iftie will, As to publishing his epistle, we hope he does not suppose us so verdent as to publish fora man who is cheating us, and is so mean that he would rather make us pay five cents which we ought not to pay, than pay three cents himself which he ought justly to pay. Slessrs. King and Thurmond’s Letters. The first of these admirable letters is on our first page. The other we pub'ish in a preceding column on this page.— They are both copied from the Cassvillc Standard, and were written in reply to invitations to attend the Kingston meet ing. Messrs. King and Thurmond are both old Union Democrats. These let ters will amply repay for the trouble of perusing them. Arthur's Home Ala;aziae. ‘I his is rather an unpretending monthly, scarcely out of its teens, yet it now ranks among the best periodicals of the day. I< is true, it contains no flashy fashion plates, but when you search for good readable matter, you find it. We have before us the October number, being No. 4 of the second volume, and we had rather have that one-ruember thaw a volume of Godey or Graham. These “old fogies” will have to give place to “young America.” Mr. Jenkins’ popularity in Geor gl. In 1844 Mr. Jenkins was a candidate for Elector on the Clay Presidential whig ticket, and. received the smallest vote of the whole twenty candidates before the peo ple. Even in Richmond county Mr. Jenkins was the hindmost, and brought up the rear. The Lagrange Reporter wants a thou sand dollars to be taken from the State Treasury and given to an orator “who will enlist in favor of Mr. Jenkins for the next ten days;” but he does not like Gov. Cobb to be making addresses around the couritiy in favor of Judge Johnson. In this world of tisjly freex, Circumstances niter cases, Says the Reporter. But ho says, he is not a bit ulraid. “God forbid ihat I should ever go to the Democratic party.” This was Mr. Jenkins’ expression at Marietta, in a public address. Suppose he should he elected Governor, if that be a supposeable ease, think you he would gt> to the Dem ociats the offices within his gift? Not a step, to one of them. And yet it is said some Union Democrats are disposed to ’Jote for him, when thev have choice between’ him and Johnson, who will fairly divide the offices between U uion and Slate Rights mu. Deutli of JiriTge Kin?. It is with sincere regret that we an- nounce the death of the Hon> Angus M. I D. King. He died at Americus, on the • sth inst., after a lingering illness, of consumpt:on. He was for several years ! Judge of the Superior Courts of the Flint 1 Circuit, and discharged the duties of the’ office with credit and ability. He was a good citizen—a just and upright man, —and possessed social and amiable qual ities which endeared him to all who knew ‘ hitn. I Oar first On thfe drat page of this paper will be found an atticle in support of Col. Doyle for the Senate and Judge Crittenden for the House. In the four-handed game for the Senate we did not intend to take any part, nor do we now, further than to correct what are well known to he misstatements.— Had the LaGrange ReporUr kept his jaw to himself, he should have had no thing from us on the subject. Our rea ders must look over the communication on the first page, and our article on the second, and judge for themse ves. In the nomination of Judge Crittenden we concur most hetfrtily, as we believe does everybody else. He is a sterling man, full of kind offices, and friendly to all. We hope he will receive the cordial support of the People of Spalding county. Next is an extract from an address to the people of Georgia, by Hon. Robert McMjllin, in which the old Whig party is handled with gloves off. We hope no one who takes our paper will fail to pe ruse it. Then follows a letter from Hon. John” P. King, formerly U. S. Senator, now President of the Georgia Rail Road, ad dressed to the Committee of Invitation at the Kingston meeting. This is an admi rable letter, and wilt well compensate the reader for the time and trouble bestowed in perusing it. The next is an article from a Scott Whig writer in ihe Central Georgian, over the signature of One of the People. He ! shows up Toombs, Stephens and Jenkins, j the political trinity in the new Conserva- I the Republican Citizens party, in due form, and gives them to understand that as the Scott Whigs will have but little gain in the election of Jenkins, they will tak*? but little interest in tbe canvass to elect him. Last but not least, vve give the letter of M>. Joseph E. Brown, to which he adds a certificate signed by fill)-one name's of respectability in Cherokeecoun* iy, which throws a wet blanket upon the certificate contained in the Theological Roorback two weeks ago, and show/ conclusively that Judge Johnson’s Buz zard speech never was made. That it is a ‘‘weak invention of the enemy.” Be sure to read all these articled. Re-united Democracy tnr ft Stenr. The Rc-un ted Democracy of the new county of Spalding seem to 1 be in quite a snarl. The Union party made a harmoni ous nomination; but when the “Re-united” held their convention, there was a general scrummage for the nomination, tfhftfi re suited in the withdrawal of a portion of the party; but the mass of the party event ually nominated Win. Crittenden for the House, and Col. F. W. A. Doyle for the Senate. Either of these gentlemen would make competent democratic representa tives. —La Gra nrje Reporter. Wc extract the above article from the last week’s LaGrange Reporter. The candidates for Senate of this county live in Griffin, are our personal acquaintances, and we trust friends, as we arc theirs For this reason we determined, at the out set of the canvass, to have as little to say on the subject through the press as possi ble, bat to leave the whole matter to;cor respondents and stump orators. But here comes in an interloper from-another coun- j ty, and if we were to let his statement pass uncohtradictcd, it would be taken pro eon fesso, and Col. Doyle would be ShoWn round as the Democratic nominee as tri umphantly as a full-blooded stud li ; no, not a shirt button, but a nominated i candidate. We must therefore beg leave to correct an error or two, into which the LaGrange editor lias designedly or by in advertence fallen. First, then, there was no general scrummage in the re-united de mocracy, if wc understand what the edi tor means by the word scrummage The facts are simply those: The Democratic party held a meeting in this place on the first Saturday in August, and then and there nominated Judge Crittenden for the House, ou the first ballot, with but few dissenting voices. At this meeting there were 82 votes polled. They then resolv ed, by a considerable majority, that it was inexpedient to nominate for the Senate at that time, a.il then aljo i-nei. The mi nority, who were in favor of a nomination, called another meeting, to be held on the following Saturday, for the purpose of nominating for the Senate, at which meet ing, previous to balloting, it was ruled that all who were not in favor of nomina ting were not entitled to vote. On bal loting, sixteen votes were cast, eleven for Col. Doyle, and five for another gentle man. In a short address before the meet ing, at that time, Col. Doyle accepted the nomination; but afterwards, we think in the following week, in a newspaper com munication, he declined the nomination.— In a week or two after having thus de clined, he announced himself as a candi date tor the Senate without any public mut ing or nomination whatever. From this plain detail our readers can judge whether Col. Doyle is the nominee of the “mass of the party” or not. We regret that these things are so. We regret that we are called on to make this statement. Per sonally Col Doyle has not got a better friend in the county, one who would more cheerfully have supported him. had he been the regular nomiuec of the party. But if the above is a nomination by the “mass of the party,” and by it Democrats are bound to support Col. Doyle, we should like to know how the editor of the Reporter makes it out. It is beyond our cyphering. Ac cording to our humble conception Col. Doyle is an independent candidate, with* out any nomination whatever, the same as I Mr. Moseley and Judge Wright; for the only nomination he did receive he after j wards declined, and* he has received no i other one since. We do not wish to be understood to say aught in disparagement of Col. Doyle, or that the nomination was not made by democrats—on the contrary, wo believe the whole eleven votes were cast by Democrats; but we do mean to say, that the finmber of sent at the meeting who were rulßPout from voting far outnumbered the vo ters, and this made the nomination void —and if this had not been the case, Mr. Doyle made it void afterwards by volunta rily declining it. We admit farther that the friends of Col. Doyle had the perfect right to cast the votes they did, but the other portion of the meeting, who were ruled out from voting, are not legally, morally or equitably bound by their deci sion, because they were in the minority.— There is but one way of determining pub lic nominations. It is by a majority of the party present, and when you rule out a large majority from voting, yon cannot ex. pect them afterwards to be bound by your decision. Hon- Win. Moseley and Ourself, We have been referred to a number of times recently by our friends, to know what passed between Hon. Wm. Moseley and ourself in relation to the election of U. S. Senator, which will come off at the ensuing session of the Legislature. It is a short tale and can soon be told. We J presume Mr. Moseley can have no care |to keep it a seeret, and we are sure we {have none. It was simply this. Mr. Moseley made the remark to a third per son in our presence, that he was always ready and willing to answer any question of a public character which might be pro. pounded to him. Whereupon we asked, incase he should be elected, and the question of U. 8. Set a or came up before him between Gov. McDonald, Governor Cobb and Judge Warner, whom of those three would he prefer? We men’ioned no other names to him in connection with that office, either before, at the time or since; nor was Whig or Democrat, Union, Conservative, Red Republican, or any other party name mentioned in our ! short confab, and this is the only conver- I sa’ion we have ever had with Mr. Most-! ley on the subject of U. S. Senator.— j There Sandy, fill your crop with it, if you can. fcvery man Ills’Post. This is our last Lsue before the dav of 1 election. Next Monday will be the trial ! of strength between the friends of Gen. j Pieree and his opponents-—between the j friends of Democracy and of* Federalism —the friends of a reckless expenditure of money and a prudent economy of the public Treasure—the friends of a mod erate tariff and a high protective tax on j foreign imports—between frugality and extravagance the poor and the rich the plebeian and the aristocrat—the hum ble laborer and the bloated swell head the Algerine thousand dollar aristocrat and the poor militia man, mechanic and road vtfolker, wMio bfears the heat and burthen of the day. Aie you all ready? Let no man who values his citizenship, | his principles and his country, stay away from the polls. It is every one’s doty to vote. It is every one’s duty to stand up foi his principles, .'.nc aid in the councils of his country in the selection of upright and good men to fill her offices, dispense jus tice, do her legislation, and discharge her Executive trusts. Rally then to tbe polls, each'and every o ie. Let no one stay be lli id. Aid your poor neighbor who has not the means of conveyance. Stir up your lukewarm friend, who thinks thnt one vote will make no difference. Twice has the Governor of Massachusetts been elected by one vote within the last ten years. Texas was admitted into the U nion by only one vote. ‘The Mexican war whs declared by only one vote. The Missouri Compromise was passed by only one vote. These instances show the im portance of one vote, and of your vote, and of your neighbor’s vote. Vote the whole ticket. Let no one caj >le you in to voting for this, or the other one—to swap off—to trade. Vote your whole ticket, and your triumph will be a whole tiiumph. Every man go to the polls.— We desire to caution our friends against whig deception. 8 mie members of that party make it their bis in ess to coin and propogate falsehood, and for this purpose they will stickle at nothing, however gross, that they think they ean make you believe. Belieye nothing they may tell you. Ten to one it is the coinage of their own brain, without a word of truth. Go co the polls—3tick to your own can didates and your own principles, and your tr itiuiph is certain. We presented the name of Mr. Jenkins in the first place with every .hope of suc cess; in fact we were sanguine in his elec- tion. The numerous ill irges that have been alledged against him , have all proven groundless and abortive.— LaGrang-. Re porter. Go it, my dear Reporter! Then Mr. Jenkins did not support the Algeiine law after all—was not in favor of it in the Le gislature,and did not want poor people to have a thousand dollars before they should be entitled to vote for Aldermen in the city ot Augusta. The Reporter Ims dis proved it. It is all “groundless and a bortive.” Nor did Mr Jenkins vote against re -1 moving the property qualification in the constitution for Governor. It is tiue the record in tha proceedings.* of the Legisla- ture stands against him, hut the Reporter has removed it, and'it is all now “ground less and abortive.’ 1 Col. Nelsop’s brigade marched to Milledgeville, and asked for assistance to march against the enemies of their country. The Record says that Mr. Jenkins vbted “no,” but the Reporter says, if-has all been “proven groundless and abortive.’’ Well, the Reporter is great at proof, i ithe Mnlatto Roorback. Last Saturday’s Savannah Republican speaking of the reported appointment of a mulatto as kCCpef of the Long Shoal Light Boat, remarks, “wo wore utterly surprised to see respectable presses in Georgia apologizing tor,. imd excusing an appointment, the announcement of w hich they themselves believed to be true, or regarded as probable. ,f We were not* for we do not recollect of ever seeing, any; if tbe Republican saw them, it Wa# more than we did. But the Republican has to give in at last. At first he pretended to doubt the genuineness of the recantation, but the proof has been pushed so closely upan him, that he is obliged to acknowledge the truth, and admit that the report was nothing but a Whig Roorback. Tire Norfolk Beacon, a Whig press, thus nails the falsehood to ihe counter: ‘“The Amende Honorable ’ —Having copied, some time since, from tbe Iforth State Whig, a statement that a mulatto had been api o’nted to office in North Ca rolina, we now copy from that paper the following correction. Toe editor of tiro Whirl is a very careful and considerate editor, and we are satisfied would have j made no such statement except on w hat he might consule p good authority. Ihe Whig says: ‘•ln spite of all the prudence and cau tion which they can exercise, editors will sometimes be led into error- Sach was our case in regard to the appointment ot keeper of the Long Shoal Light Boat Instead of a mulatto having been ap pointed, as w’e were informed on most re spectable authori'y was the case, we learn from a letter from a friend in Hyde, and from another friend in this place who was in that county last week, that Cap'. Robert llill son lias been appointed to the Long Shoal Boat; that Capt. R. is a very respectable citizen of Hyde, one of (he acting Magistrates'of ihe coun ty, and that the appointment is the best which has been made in that region.— | Os course our informants weie misinform ed as to who bad been appointed to the j Long St.oal Boat.” The Reporter’s Roorback We have been noticing from week to week the political Roorbacks of the La i Grange Reporter, and being aware that ho j was in the hot-bed of Whiggery, where such things were expected of him, we let them pass for what they were worth. Bat iu his last paper he says—-‘lf we have ’charged Mr. Jo nson with disloyalty to | the Union, or with being an unfit man for ; the office of Governor, by characteristic I objections (?) without satisfactory proof :of tne same, wc do not know it.” O lie, | brother Blakely; come, come; the charges and attempt to make people believe them i are bad enough, but when you pretend to believe them yourself, the thing becomes too barefaced. Study law, Blakely, study law; why your cheek is hard enough to say any thing to gain a ea.se. You would make a most capital lawyer. You’ll beat Parson Knowles at a Roorback shortly. After saying a great deal about*fair dealing, showing the documents, addu cing the proof, and that kind of rigmarole, which has about as much application to his paper ft3 to a dog’s hind leg, he con tinues:—‘’lf we cannot convince mankind of an error by the proof of an assertion, how are we toestabli h any fact? In our columns to day will be found the certifi cate of eighteen respectable citizens of Cherokee county to establish the fact that Judge Johnson did use such langu.ne as we have often attributed to him, iu regard to Union men, and especially Union Dem ocrats.” Now here is the proof truelv, to the charge of which he speaks. But Mr. Blakely knows as well as we do, that there is a counter certificate of fifty-0110 equally respectable names to the contrary, while the whole charge contradicts the en tire end and aim for which Judge Johnson went to C herokee county. The charge bears upon its very face the stamp of ab surdity, and yet brother Blakely drinks it down and deals it out like hot coffee, and whines between draughts about his affec tionate amiability towards Judge Johnson. All safe, go ahead. The Cornet, according to the predic tions of Prof. Jewett, of North Carolina, who professes to have made comets his study for the last thirty years, was to have struck the earth, on ‘Tuesday the 13th, doing an immense and incalculable amount ot damage. In order that our readers may see what danger they have escaped, we give the essential part of the Professor’s communication; “The diameter of this comet (says Prof. Jewett,) is lOi),OOJ mites, and i-is velocity about 30,000 tnif s a minute;, consequently, its direct concussion would produce consequences disastrous in the extreme to all its inhabitants. But if it strikes the earth slanting, making an n cule plane with the angle of its surface, (which I think it will between the 34 and 13th September,) it will probaWv glance without actually carrying away any portion of the surface, bm only ver'v gieatly distuib it, and of course destroy all objects, animate or inanimate, which maybe in its course. It may become us un der circumstances like these to consider if there be any possible means ot avert ing the danger. I cannot find any tella ble data for calculations as to what part of the earth’s surface will be the first point ot contact. The number of victim* ot this dread judgement might probably he greatly decreased bv the removal of the inhabitants from that and placing them in comparative security on the op posite side of the globe; but hold no delu sions— i leave that matter in obscurity, because, as I said the data a;c insufficient. if the cordfifc should fiist stiike the water —say in the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean—it may cause a partial or deluge, as one didr in, the time of Noah, In that case the best plan would be to take to boats,- If it should strike on solid land, the evils to be apprehended would he multifarious. The concussion would extinguish life in a great many—the subterranean fires might be stirred up and made to burn so fiercely as to consume the whole world. At .all events, the axis of the earth would be chaugeJ so much that it would be necessary to remove the poles and place ts etn nearer the centre of bearing, draw new lines for the tropics and the equator; and those changes might place our coqrj.