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Ral Iroads and Railroad Negotia
tion.
The immense sums we are investing in
railroads naturally suggest apprehensions
from the more timid of our capitalists,
we are over doing the business. They that
can find no precedent for the safe expen
diture of such vast sums in works of a
permanent character, which will require
a long course of years to replace, by their
earnings, their original cost. This class
of persons, regularly, every year, figure
out to a demonstration, that a crisis is
before us, and that a disastrous revulsion
must soon overtake the majority of our
roaJs; involving a very great loss, by the ‘
depreciation in value of their stock, and in !
some cases of their credi s.
The reasoning by which these conclu
sions are arrived at ate as follows: “Ex
cessive investments in every kind of bu
s B'ss are certain to be followed, in the
end, by great losses, as all experience
proves.
“Now we are investing an unprecedent
ed amount in railroads, and those works
cannot escape the application of an uni
versal law in commercial affairs. This
is the manner in which a class among us
reason, and with a certain plausibility,
too, because as applied to nearly all other
transactions, their premises assumed, are
not correct in their application to rail
yvjuds. \Y ere it otherwise, our fonward
course would have been moving forward
with a constantly accelerating peace,and
with uninterrupted success. Never were
our railroads,mud every other interest in
the community, in so prosperous a condi
tion as at the present time. Every branch
of business is in full activity. This is
emphatically the case, with the most im
portant of all, agriculture, upon which all
others are based. There never was
a j er o 1 in which the aggregate produc
tion ofsoil was so gteat, nor when an e
<|ual quantity was produced with 9 the,
same amount of labor. The seme may be
■said of all other departments of industry,
and we are only saved from the i (con
venience of an excessive surplus ia a!',
by a regular and active foreign demand
for our great staples.
The fact is that as far as the great mass
of our roads are concerned, we passed the
the critical period long ago. This was
when the ..them were
simultaneously in progress; when they
were calling for vast sums of money t >
carry them forward, and before they were’
able to make any return upon their cost,
or to be of ant benefit to the community.
This was the period when a crisis threat
ened. Having passed it, the dangers
then, and at present anticipated, by cer
tain parties, are left far behind. New
ones may b*set us, hut not from what w'e
have done, but from what we may do.
We have now in operation in all the
States some 15,000 miles of railroads,
■which have coast say ; 500,000,000. Now
taking the net revenue of these roads,
and the incidental, which are tie main
advantages flowing from them, and there
is no doubt that those roads produce an
nually more than the entire expenditure
in new works. Assuming too, which is
not probably wide of the fact, that the
whole investment in the United States
•has'* more then replaced itself, by the re
vpnue it has yielded, and in the diminish
ed cost of trat sportation, and we not only
have our oiiginal capital in hand, for
new works, but we have in addition the
yearly income of our roads.
Here, then, is the great secret of four
presfutjprospority. -*We skall only’be
come the stronger as we advance, provi
ded we confine ourselves'to strictly!legit
imate and paying projects. Our roads
have made our people rich and’strong,
because they hive enabled them to avail
themselves of their resources. They
have given markets where none previ
ously existed, and have often saved half
the value of a crop, or so article of mer
chandise, bv the diminished cost of trans
potation. Our markets are often distant
a thousand miles from the producers and
from the great uniformity in the pursuits
of the great mass of people, a majority
of articles entering into consumption have
to be transported an equal distance.—
Railroads in the U. S., therefore, are not
only inuispensitile to the developement
of our vast resources, to the personal con
venience cf our people, but immediately
and in an extraordinary degree add to the ir
wealth. —American Railroad Journal.
LsrrEß FROM THE AMERICAN MINISTER AT
London. —The Hon. James Buchanan, in
declining a dinner, tendered through Wil
liam Brown, Esq , M. P., on behalf of the
Liverpool American Chamber of Com
merce, says:—
“For my part, I firmly bolicve.that the
unsettled questions known to exist between
Great Britain and the United States,
judged alone according to the value of the
material interests involved, are not worth
six months’ suspension of the trade between
the two countries. It is, therefore, great
ly to be desired that these questions should
1)C speedily, honorably and finally adjusted,
and that hereafter both nations should en
joy a smooth sea and cloudless sky for
friendly competition in all the pursuits
calculated to enlighten and benefit the
human race. The greatest revolution, so
far as the interest of commerce and man
ufactures is concerned, which has ever
been commenced among men, is that now
apparently iu successful progress in China.
Should this terminate in opening a free
access to that vast empire of three hun
dred millions of human beings, the United
States will have a harvest presented be
fore them, wliich, even with all their en
ergy, enterprise and resources, they will
scarcely be able to reap. Then will a no
ble and generous rivalry also spring up
between them, whicli shall contribute most
effectually to promote the cause of Chris
tianity, civilization, and freedom among
this ancient and strange people.”
Case of Bad Leg of 1G Year’s Stand
ing cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills
Copy of a letter from Mr. Fredk. Wright,
chemist, 32 sidevvell street, Exeter. “ To
Professor llolloway, Sir:—l have the
pleasure to inform you that the demand
for your Pills and Ointment is rapidly in
creasing. Several remarkable and won
derful cases of cure by their means have
lately come to my notice. One in par
ticular, an old gentleman of this city,
who bad an ulcerated leg for sixteen
years, and had spent hundreds of pounds,
without obtaining relief, but was aft.*i
wards perfectly cured by the use of Hol
loway’s Ointment and Pills.”
Intemperance produces diseases, stupl*
£o3 the senses, aud brutilies the mind.
Communications.
SUFFRAGE.
Sir: The storm of battle is passed
over, and its noise, confusion and smoke
are rolling away, and now permit me to
make some few comments on this topic,
its origin, meaning and right. In the far
back ages of human life and action, but
few could express their thoughts or will
by writing. This art was known to few,
very few. Hence sensible and material
bodies were used to convey men’s inten
tions in the administration of public af
| fairs. This was peculiarly so with the Rc
! publics of Greece and Home in their carli
| cst existence. With the first, the mode
I of this expression was called ostracismos,
ostracism. With the last, suffragium,
suffrage. The Greek word signifies a
shell, because the Greeks used, iu voting,
in the Agora, pieces of shell of different
j form and color, to designate the candidate
1 for whom they voted, or to express their
j approbation or rejection of any public law
;or measure proposed to them. For the
same purpose the Romans used broken
pieces of earthen ware of certain shapes
and colors, which were called suffragia,
broken pieces, from the words sub and
frango, to break, which they handed in at
the Comitia or assemblies of the people at
the Forum, the place in Romo where all
public business was transacted by the peo
ple. Others derive the word from snff
rago, the joints of the limbs of animals by
which they are supported. The allusion
here is intelligible. The little square pie
ces of paper now used in voting allude, in
their shape, to the pieces of shells and
ware used by the ancients. At later ages,
little balls of different colors were used in
the elections. Hence the name of our
tickets, ballot, a little ball. The name
and meaning are changed by metonymy.
All this is now changed by metaphor, os
tracism, suffrage, ballot, simply means
vote or voting; and the right of suffrage*
means the right of voting f.-r whom one
pleases. Candidate, is derived from can
didus, white, pare, lie, who offered him
self to the people for their pnffragea, wore
a white robe, indicating thereby, both his
candidacy and purity of character and
patriotism. Nothing of this expression of
the will and choice of persons ever was
known in tyrannical or despotic govern
ments. These were and are, in all ages
and countries, direct abuses of human lib
| erty, and established by violence. On the
contrary, all governments founded on the
right of popular suffrage, are the protect
ors of human liberty, and founded by
consent, on the principles of equality, na
tural and social justice. We have no
whore any proof that God approved of
any other than free government for
man, his express image. When he permit
ted the Israelites to choose a king to rule
over them, it is expressly said in the Bi
ble, be did so, for their punishment—there
fore every nation reigned over by royal
and imperial men is under divine punish
ment, and e converso, people, who live un
der a republic, wiiose fundamental law is
framed by themselves, or their right of
suffrage freely exercised, are blessed of
Heaven. Now the question arises, Is this
right an inalienable one in man—inherent
in his nature —coming with him into life
at birth—as fire his right of life, liberty,
happiness and personal locomotion on
earth? Our declaration of Independence,
our Federal and S Late constitutions and
laws made in conformity thereto, made in
Conventions and Legislatures elected by
the suffrages of freemen, all affirm the
proposition. They do not grant but forti
fy and secure it. Consequently, all govern
ments, where this right is forbidden to, or
taken from the people, are an anomaly,
usurpations and violations of natural law.
Men, in wrong, have taken from people,
what God gave them. Then how ivroog
it is, for one man or any set of men to u
surp a dictatorial power over the mind
and will of others; or, over the popular
mass in exercise of the right of suffrage.
If such men had the power, how long,
think ye, fellow-citizens, would we have a
free government, or be freemen? Fair and
dispassionate argument to convince others
to our opinion respecting men aud mea
sures, I admit, savors nothing of offence
or impropriety, Avherc true patriotism is
the motive. But slander, rage, abuse,
scurrility, vituperation, low and vulgar
epithets, p-ofanity and blasphemy, hatred,
vindictiveness aud malice, in any shape or
form, in the heart or expression, look or
glance of the eye never converted a man to
truth or grace.
Therefore none but tyrants resort to such
means or modes of logic. Let error alone,
while truth and reason, and the results of
experience and the events of time remain
to combat it. Pity what you may think
an error in another, but never scorn, in
sult, abuse or injure him in estate or
character. Remember the exercise of the
right of suffrage is an act of the individual
will —to attempt to control the vote of a
freeman by violent force applied to his
fear, his person or business in life, openly
or covertly, is tyrannical, and destitute of
all magnanimity. When the Grand Sul
tans, the people, have made up and ren
dered their verdict, every good, law-abi
ding citizen should acquiesce, for the voice
of the majority is the only standard of po
litical truth in our liappv country. What
reason cannot do, violence should never
attempt. Above all, ministers of the Gos
pel should be careful not to inflict person
al objurgations on men. They are God’s
embassadors to men, to persuade—not a
buse them. None were ever converted to
grace by heaping on them disgrace. Their
office and power are found in Christian
morality, aud their evangelical mission, to
advocate and preach the same to every
creature. There they are at home and
truly noble, and tliere I greatly esteem,
honor and reverence them. Freemen
should never carry their political resent
ments and prejudices into the jury box
and temples of justice, for there, they are
not only in presence of men, but also of
their God, the fountain of all justice; nor
into the daily and ordinary transactions of
business and common civilities of life. To
do this shows an evil, uncharitable, illiberal
and intolerant spirit. \ ulgarisms are poor
logic, and those who use them mauifest a
scanty vocabulary, and paucity of ideas.
Satire, to be effecetive, must be pure in
thought, chaste in language, and keen
iu appliance. What wit is there in the
epithet “ticky-ass ” bestowed on opponents!
“Out of the abundance of the heart, the
mouth speaketh.” It is natural to sup
pose, that any one, who uses the phrase,
by his own experience, after trarapoosing
the woods, knows the inconvenience of
such affixes to his own seat of honor.
There is wisdom in apothegms, and one says
that the kettle, before its own is scoured,
has no right to say to the pot “blactAiss.”
i He, without sin, cast the first stone. As
: to political and other errors, let all re
member the m iXim observed by foxes in
their dormitories. When a mcolutic o
dour is perceived, they say -“Everyone
smell his own hole first.” For they well
know that the whole race was liable to stink
occasionally, hence the maxim. .Michael the
Archangel, durst not bring a railing accu
sation even against Satan himself Vet
men will do so against their fcllow-citizcus
for exercising independently the right of
suffrage. Who is the most modest, the
archangel or men? F. I). C.
For the Jeffersonian.
Mr. Editor: —Really, Dear Sir, I am
afraid that my time will be wasted, your
columns burdened and the public bored
whenever the LaGrange Reporter and its
billingsgate editorial* arc made the sub
ject of an article. I would fain pass over
with silent contempt the lucubrations from
the addlc-pated Trojan who presides over
its columns—but having been made the
victim (?) of a virulent editorial, and a
dogmatical question having been propoun
ded to me, I wish to give the latter a cat
egorical answer. lam sorry that I char
ged the editor with the lack of grammati
cal information; for I learn that, during
all of our Spalding Senatorial canvass, he
has been studiously applying himself to
Murray, although he unfortunately built
his editorial castles upon a Sandy founda
tion. To the editor I will say, that, as to
Maj. Cline’s failure to answer his demand
for my “veritable name” made “in the
terms of the law,” the editor of the Jeffer
sonian has been for sometime seriously in
disposed and confined to his chamber and
has not yet fully recovered. With em
phatic, italicized sarcasm, my good friend
Blakely dubs me “the itinerant journeyman
author W.” Now in retort I will not call
him a jackleg editor, for that would be
flattery direct and I dislike to soft soap my
friends. As to the charges against Mr.
Moseley, they have all proven abortive, as
all such shallow political artifices ever do,
especially when they arc preferred by
meddling tricksters and fraudulent inter
lopers. It is useless to repeat them, for
they have proved inefficient. Butte e ed
itor cannot prove a single one. If he
could he would have done it before. As
to the ‘-hundreds of the citizens of Spal
ding” who “does’ 1 know them to be true,
I think they acted in bad faith to their
judgment and consciences when they gave
him the benefit of their suffrages to the
tune of three hundred and seventy eight
votes when there were four candidates’ in
the field. I did not deny Mr. Moseley’s
incorrect orthography, because I knew
nothing about it; and, unlike my good
friend Blakely, 1 never make a positive
assertion upon a subject which 1 know
nothing about. I simply laughed at the
idea of Webster and Walker’s assassin pre
ferring a bill of indictment against anybo
dy for bad spelling. Tim idea was so ut
terly, so absurdly ludicrous, that I could
not forbear a few words of comment Like
a true yankee when he’s cornered, the ed
itor replies to my question by asking an
other. I shall not do so. I have the
same “right” still to make the charge I
preferred against him in my former article
The election is over, Mr. Editor, and I
dislike to recur to past events connected
with it, but as I have been asked a ques
tion I feel necessitated to respond. ‘ ‘Necds
must when the Devil drives.” 0,.e reason
I have for applying to him the epithet I
used, was lus positive and personally re
sponsible assertion that “the mass of the
Democratic party nominated Col. Doyle.”
Now if my mathematical friend of the Re
pot ter ‘calculates’ and considers eleven
democrats as the “mass” of the Spalding
Democracy and honestly believes so, why
then, of course, I will mitigate my “un
mitigated epithet” and pity his unfortu
nate delusion. If not, then vice versa.—
Mi’. II- was'first nominated by eleven of
the disapbuind democrats; then withdrew,
then announced !”tuself as re-nominated.
I have not a word of “euroach to utter
against him. lie possessed id*e right and
he exercised it. No one can him
for pursuing whatever course he saw n't as:
to the candidacy, even if, iu his unfledged
Democracy, he pursued a course detrimen
tal to the interests of his party aud injuri
ous to the cause he professes to support.
As to the flourish of defiant trumpets and
despicable insinuations with which he clo
ses his editorial—l shall pass them by
with that contemptuous indifference which
their character merits and their author
ship deserves. This much, however, I will
say. That, as to the “pay” I recc ved for
repelling the attacks of a cowardlv scrib
bler upon an innocent honest and honora
ble man, it consists in the reflection that
I was acting in accordance with truth and
justice, and in the approval of my con
science, a remuneration which I fear Blake
ly never received for a single sentence he
ever penned. W.
PACIFIC RAIL ROAD.
To Southern Editors:
Gentlemen : —1 most respectfully call
your individual attention to the inevitable
suicide which must ensue to the Southern
States, because of your inexeensablc si
lence concerning the location of a Pacific
Railroad.
But two ideas (one to perceive and the
other to reflect a moment) are required to
show that this road should start from
Vicksburg, oti the Mississippi River, and
terminate at San Diego, on the Pacific
Ocean.
On this route are to be found the cli
mate aud soil, water and material for
building said Road ; but by anv more
Northern route, you .must surely see that
these important advantages do not exist.
On the contrary the Road, by a more
Northern route, must pass through the
Great American Desert, snow batiks in
the Rocky Mountains and a more frigid
climate; and through which food, materi
al and even water must be transported lor
a long distance and at au enormous ex
pense.
Besides these insurmountable disadvan
ges, yon are forced to the admission of the
future annual expense of keeping up a
road by any one of the Northern routes,
which must grow out of the frosting and
consequent upheaving of the road during
the winter months.
B.esides these natural barriers, against
a Pacific Railroad by any one of the seve
ral proposed Northern routes, it remains
a mooted question as to the duration and
depth of the snow banks, through the
mountains, during the winter.
But all these disadvantages grow into
insignificance when compared with the
great political influence, which this Road
will exert in favor of the North and against
the South, in case it should be tin-own
across Pacific by way of one of the
Northern
I seriously hope that you may
most favorable consideration to thesSincts
and to the data, viz : The differ
ence of distance, cost and time, for con
structing the road, ip favor of the South
ern route; the fact that Louisiana and
Texas will build that part of the road
which may pass through these tivo States,
(about, nine hundred miles) and the great
improbability of any suspension of busi
ness, on the Southern route, growing out
of either natural or artificial causes.
With all the advantages to the South,
and those in favor of the Southern route,
we would justly merit the desecration of
our institutions and ourselves if we allow
a Pacific Railroad to be built much North
of Vicksburg and San Diego, which are
due East and West from each other, and
with fewer Natural impediments to over
come; besides bein’ the sho test route,
between the two oceans, yet found.
I am both astonished and alarmed at
the suicidal indifference and silence so
strangely manifested by our Southern
“Sentinels,” on this important subject, so
vital to the best interest of the Southern
States; and upon which not only our best
interest but our National equality and very
evistcnce depends. Suppose, gentlemen,
that we make a great effort in this partic
ular to save ourselves, and not quite so
much to save this bless-ed and glo-n-ous
Union.
L. J McCormick, Prof Mat. £cc.
P. S.—The usual course of our Senators
and Representatives, in such matters, is
very censurable; for while they oppose
every thing like internal improvements,
by the General Government, they usually
so manage such cases as to let the North
get all the appropriations. lam opposed
to any unconstitutional act whatever; but
if Congress will even appoint a regular
built stealing committee, I am in favor of
getting our portion of the stealage The
, uuconstitutionality consists in the legisla
tion and not in the reception of what is
produced by it.
nilmslmmu
GRIFFIN. OCTOBER 13, 1353
SELLING OUT.
We refer our readers to our advertise
ment, and particularly request our breth
ren of the press to give us a lift in getting
off by giving the advertisement a few in
sertion'.
OUR EDITORIALS.
Our health has been such since the
General Elec'ion, as to make it impossi
ble for us to attend to our usual duties.
We have many things to say, but they
must be deferred for the presen’.
Upson Superior Court.
We are authorized to state that Upson
Superior Court lias been, by Judge Stark,
adjourned over until the Second Monday in
January next. Tnis is chiefly on account
: of the continued indisposition of Colonel
Gibson, we understand..
LYCEUM NOTICE.
The next Lecture will be delivered on
this L’ lnirsday) evening, at candle light,
in the Baptist Church, by Judge A. A.
Gaclding.
HotJ- W. W. Wiggins.
Our whole city has been shrouded iu
gloom in consequence of the death of the
Hon. Wm W. Wiggins, who departed
this life at his residence in tins city on
Thursday evening last. Mr. Wiggins
had had but a few months residence in
this city, yet during that short lime, by
his urbane and gentlemanly bearing had
won the affections of ail who had the
pleasure of making bis acquaintance.—
I He was highly endowed by nature, im
-ror p 'd hv education, “with all good gra
ces fit to gi*ce a gentleman.” Col. Wig
gins was far above !he ordinary cast, of
men. In bis death the Su‘e loses a tal
ented and most energetic public servant,
and society generally a most valuable
member, ilisdeuh is universally de
plored. As an evidence of the value be
stowed upon bis worth, almost every
family in the city attended his funera 1 ,
which was much the largest ever seen
here. A (fiend has handed us an obitua
ry notice, which will be found in its pro
per pi ice, to which we refer.
Hcmadtable Hail Storm.
On Saturday evening, the Sth inst,
our city was visited with the most teiri
ble storm of hail and rain, which has ev
er been witnessed by ibe oldest inhabit
ant. It was preceded by low, muttering
thunder, such ks is usually the precursor
of a thunder slur.i. in mid-summer. It
fell in plenteous profusion for several
minutes, accompanied by torrents of rain.
The stones were from the size of a pige
on’s egg to that of a small rifle ball. The
leaves of the trees were torn olTin great
abundance, and the glass in the windows
of liouses was broken to pieces, to a very
great extent. VV a are happy to learn,
that no serious damage was done to the.
crops in the surrounding country, as the
storm was of very small compass. Such
phenomena are very unusual at this sea
son of the year.
Fayette Presen tin ents.
Vv<; uuUcr.stanil.tjig.Grand.lnrv oi l<'nvMc coin _
•y requested llhuV Proseiiiincnts'to lie published in
the two papers of this place. We have not yet
received Ihe copy; hut shall probably c tit in some
lonn or other by next week, ar which time the pr<-
senlmeins will be published in Ibis paper.
*American Union.
What Murray stuck that into his last
paper for we cannot divine, unless to work
off the bile at his political disappointments
after the election. Not two hours after
we received the Presentments of Fayette
we met his foreman in the street ami told
him we had them, that wo could not pub
lish them that week, but if he could they
were at his service. He said ho could not
either. The foreman knew where to find
them from that time out, and knew he
could have them at any time; and it is un
reasonable to suppose the communication
was not made to Murray.
THE ELECTION RETURNS.
Our health continues such that we can
not make out an elaborate detail of the
result of the late General Election. The
Federal Union of Tuesday last, gives the
returns of all the counties but Clinch
and Emanuel, made up partly from the
official returns and partly from other sour
ces where the official returns had not ar
rived at Milledgeville, which leaves to
Johnson, for Governor, a majority of a
few hundred votes. The voteof Clinch has
since come to hand, and appears to be a
majority of 155 for Jenkins. Emanuel
gave Gov. Towns 131 votes majority o
ver Judge Hill, and supposing the result
to he the same this year in favor of the
democratic candidate, Clinch and Etnan*
uel will r.ot much vary the table of the
Federal Union , and Johnson must un* 1
doubteuly be elected by a small majority.
The Third Congressional district is in
some doubt because of a mistake in the
returns from Harris ns published in the Or
gan at Hamilton. We believe Hailey is
elected So say the returns from Mil
ledgeviile.
I lie Elections have been close through
out, but upon the whole the democratic
party h tve achieved a glorio.is victory.
Ihe following we believe to bo the re
: suh:
Governor Elect ,
Hon. HEIISCIIEfi V. JOHNSON,
Representatives to Congress,
Ist District— James L. Seward.
2d “ A. H. Colquitt.
3d “ D. J, Hailev.
4th “ W. 13. W. Dent.
sth “ E. \V. Chastain.
Gth “ Junius Hillyer.
7th “ David A. Reese.
Bth “ A. 11. Stephens.
fiSaT 1 The six first named are Democrats.
The Legislature will be largely demo
cratic, probably by more than twenty rna
joritv.
Judges Elected— Win. H. Fleming,
Eastern Circuit; P. E. Love, Southern
Circuit; W. W. Holt, Middle Circuit; G.
Andrews, Northern Circuit; li. V. Har
deman, Ocmalgee Circuit; J. 11. Stark,
Flint Circuit; J. Jackson, Western Cii
cuit; T. Tiippe, Cherokee Circuit; E H.
Woneil, C battahoochie Circuit.
‘i’Ese Vote for Governor.
Johnson’s .majority.
Appling, 6G
I hiker, 509
Bibb, 94
Bulloch, 337
Butts, 20G
Camden, 179
Campbell, 300
Carroll, 4G5
Cass, GG
Chatham, 147
Cobb, 305
Coweta; 147
Crawford 52
Dade, 52
DoKalb, 304
Dooly, 201
.Early, 273
Fayette, 342
Forsyth, 202
Franklin, 905
Gilmer, 3G3
Gordon, 91
Habersham, 310
Hall, 179
Heard, 125
Houston, 42
Irwin, 27G
Jasper, G 5
Jones, 29
Liberty, 85
Lumpkin, 389
Mclntosh, 75
Meriwether, 99
Murray, 21G
Pauldimr, 173
Pike, “ 149
Rabun, 2GO
Randolph, 44
Striven, 84
Taylor, 140
Thomas, 202
Twiggs, 148
Union, JO
Walker, 13
Walton, 10?
Ware, 49
Wayne, 91
Whitfield, 127
Wilkinson, 114
9,154
. | jenkins’ majority.
Baldwin, 39
13 yam, 3G
Burk, 218
Chattooga, 60
Cherokee, 50
Clark, 147
Columbia, 123
Clinch, 155
Decatur, 150
Effingham, 71
Elbert, 871
Emanuel,, 5
Floyd, Go
Glynn, 39
Green, 707
Gwinnett, 25
Hancock, 220
Harris, 240
Henry, 108
Jackson, 33
Jefferson, 454
Laurens, 407
Lee, 81
Lincoln, 78
Lowndes, 22
Macon, 96
Madison, 99
Marion, 65
Monroe, 3G
Montgomery, 239
Morgan, 215
Muscogee, 74
Newton, 446
Oglethorpe, 38G
Polk, L3o’
Pulaski, 84
Putnam, 30
Richmond, 215
Spalding, 4G
Stewart, 46
Sumter, 51
Talbot, 117
Taliaferro, 2G4
Ta tn all, 291
Telfair, 3G
Troup, 029
Upson, 306
Warren, 162
Washington, 133
Wilkes, 294
8,952
Election New*.
Herschel V. Johnson, democratic
candidate and advocate of the present
National Administration, has been elect
ed Governor of Georgia.
The Legislature is no doubt Democrat
ic by a large majority, and William C.
Dawson will certainlyhe forced to vacate
his seat in the Senate of the United
States, in favor of some worthy member
of the democratic party.
Despite the shameful defection of the
democracy of Chatham, James Seward,
democrat, is elected to Congress in the
Ist District.
In the 2d District, against the most
overpowering odds, and in the teeth of
all the calculations of the knowing ones,
Alfred Colquitt, democrat, has been re
turned by a most flattering majority.
In the 3d district, some doubt still
prevails as to the result. On the one side
there has been a,sounding jubilee in For
syth on the part of the whigs, which
would seem to indicate the election of
Mr. Trippe. O.i the other hand, Mr.
Hood, of Milledgeville,. informs us that
the official vote elects Col. Bailey by 20
votes. But then again, we learn, that,
owing to some informality, a portion of
the democratic votes must be thrown out
of the calculation. One tiling- seems
certain, and that is that Col. Bailey has
received a majority of the votes polled.
We are disposed to consider his election
a fixed fact.
In the 4th District, Dent, Democstl
has been eleeled by a handsome tnajori
ty.
In the sth District, Chastain, De
mocrat, has been elected after a hard
fkht.
In the 6th District, Hillyer, Democrat,
is probably elected.
In the 7th and Bth Districts, Reese
and. Stephens, Whigs, are ol course, e- I
lected. These Districts, taken in con
nection with Upson county, are good
missionary ground, and need instruction
and reproof.
It will be thus seen, that the victory is
with the Democracy. A Democratic
Governor, a Democratic Legislature, a
Democratic Senator in reversion, and six
Democratic Congressmen—such is the
summing up
The race has been the most exciting
one on record, at and has in many instan
ces baffled all previous conjecture. The
2 ! District, which was generally conce
ded to Mr. Jenkins, has done noblv—it
has, more than any o.her section of the
State, contributed to the victory. The
sth District has acquitted itself miserably,
while the Gth, where the influence of;
Gov. Cobb is principally acknowledged,
has come up to the mark manfully- In
Cobb county, where Gov. McDonald re
sides, our majority is 315 —a result high
jlv fluttering In Telfair, Jenkins has a
majority, while the Democrats carried the
| members of the Legislature. In Newton,
I where Jenkins has a majority 0f437 votes,
I Lamar, Democrat, is elected to the Le
igislature. In Burke, Jenkins has a ma
j jority of more than 200, while Jones, De
i mocrat, goes to the Legislature. And in
! this way, the election has gone, in more
counties than we can now remember
Never have thei. been so many split tick
ets—never so many odd developments—
and never so exciting a contest.
Bibb county has nothing to brag of.—
The only consolation f-r us, is to com
pare our course with that of Chatham.
The balance is a little in our favor. In
Chatham, Paul Harrison, Esq. Democrat,
has been elected to the Legislature. The
result shows how sharp has been the con
test. Five hundred votes will probably
cover the majority of Judge Johnson. —
Twenty votes is the majority of Col.
Bailey. Air. Seward’s majority is little
more, and the race in the s;h and Gth
Districts has been unusually close and
exciting.
It is ungenerous to exult over a pros
trate foe. The new Union party is top
ped in the bud, and will trouble us no
mofe. It is enough for us to know that
the Democrats have elected their Govern-
I or—that they have six out of the eight
( Congressmen— and that the Legislature
is theirs hv an almost unwieldy majority.
We have won a great victory, it now
behooves us to use it wisely.
Georgia Telegraph.
Tise Election Returns.
Last week the Telegraph has done an
unusual quantity of lying, and Madam Ru
mor has perpetrated so many false rep-orts
as to set at defiance all ca'culations. At
last however, we have arrived at some
thing like certainty, and onr table we think
, will prove nearly correct. There is however
some uncertainty still hanging over the re
ports from Emanuel and-Clinch. At any
rate we can with confidence announce that
Herschcl Y. Johnson-is elected Governor
, by a majority ranging between seven hun
, dred and one thousand: Seward is- effected
i in the first District, Colquitt in the second,
Bailey in the third,. Dent in the fourth,
Chastain in the fifth, and Hillyer in the
, sixth; in the seventh:’ the Whigs have
; elected Reese, a sort of a Whig, and iii
i the eighth Stephens. There is a majority
of Democrats in both branches of the Lc
, gislaturc. We hope in onr next to give
i the exact vote, and to be able to classify
i all the members of the Legislature. We
had intended to send enfi extras from day
to day with the Returns, but the reports
ramc in so contradictory that every day,
when wc had prepared?an extra, before we
had a chance to send them off, we would
learn that some of the reports were false,
and we would have to alter all our calcu
• tions. We thought it better not to send
our friends any information, than to send
them what they could not rely upon.
Federal Union, 11 sh insl.
President Pierce on the Pacific.
First, the Republican charges that
President Pierce and his cabinet are com
mitted to the construction by the Gov
, ernment of the gigantic rail road of 2,500
miles in length, reaching from the valley
ofihe Mississippi to the Pacific ocean;
and by way of alarming tax payers of
Georgia, the cost of the road is put down
at 200,000,000 of dollars. The charge
is made upon the allegation that Col. Da
vis, in his speech at Philadelphia, not on
ly declared himself in favor of the enter
prise, but announced that he spoke for
President Pierce as well as himself.—
I’he Republican also charges that Col. i
Davis’ speech passed through a second edi
tion for the purpose of undergoing such a
;yision as would quiet the constitution
al scruples of some democrats who were
displayed with the position assigned to
the President i.7 first edition. These
allagations, charges, }<! deductions are
sheer misrepresentations. 0 ->'• Davis
was not represented, in any report <->.* his
speech that we have ever seen, as speak
ing for President Pierce, except on a j
single point, and that was that he would j
sanction no exercise of power by the j
general Government that would interfere !
with the rights and jurisdiction of the j
State. In this particular, and to this ex-’
tent, and no farther, did Col. Davis
profess to speak for the President, and
the reports of his speech, as first publish
ed, as well as his revised speech, concur
in so representing the matter.
‘'lt is nut true that Col. Divis and Air. Gu
thrie declared themselves in favor ofihe
gigantic scheme as a government measure,
on the contrary, Col. Davis was explicit
in confining himself to a road lying with
in the territories of the United States; re
pudiating the idea that it had any power
to construct it within the State, and only
conceding to construct it within the ter
to”ies upon the assumption that it was
necessary as a means of defence. This
was tire lull extent of his concession, and
he gave no ground for the inference that
he was in favor of or would, sanction the
enterprise as a government measure, to
be carried out by appropriations from tne
treasury. He conceded that the govern
ment might give aid to a road through its
territories necessary for purposes of de
fence, but he gave no intimation as to the
building of such a road out of the treasury..
Tne President has in no way committed
himself to the Pacific railroad, and es
pecially does he stand uncommitted to
such an enterprise as a government un
dertaking; and to be paid out of the trea
sury. VVe have so announced on a for
mer occasion, and we repeat the an
nouncement — Union.
Where drums beat, laws are silent.
A nod from a lord is a .breakfast for a <
fool. ,
Powell’s Ctreat
The great historical picture by
of Cincinnati, representing the discovery
of the Mississippi by Hernando de Soto,
painted by order of Congress, being in
tended to fill the vacant pannel in the
Rotundo of the Capital at Washington, is
now on exhibition at New York? The
Herald gives the following description of
it
Mr. Powell bns selected the moment
when De Soto and his cavaliers from tb
hill got th<s first sight of the broad ex
panse of the father of waters, and if he
has not made the most of his canvass
that could be crowded into it without dis
cord, we are much mistake. - ). Beginning
in the centre, the mailed hero of the
picture, upon a fi.ry white horse, is stri
kingly conspicuous. Behind him are his
.-u ror.imite chiertains also on horseback,
splendidly caparisoned, according to the
Spanish warlike fa.shio, s ofth.it day. ! ,
the midst of them, upon a patient douk-y
;in regal harness, is a wh.te friar. The
! e ) es °f this party, with a general ex
! pression of intense satisfaction, ar e fixed
j u P on the liver, tlie friar having bis eves
j hands uplifted in devout thanks nv
i ing. Behind this group, to the left, fl
- low the mailed and heiinettd warriors of
the expedition, their bristling spears and
battle axes, in lengthened array, stretch -
ing hack until lost in the woods, thus
leaving upon the imagination a vivid im
pression of a powerful force still behind
.though invisible to the e>, e.
To the right, upon a platform, on rhe
immediate river bank, is a cluster of four
Indian tents, fantasticiillv frescoed with
barbaric devices. By the side of these
tents stand a group of Indian warriors, i iS
the most striking war costumes of their
tribe. An old chief is reaching forward
the pipe of peace to the wonderful inva
ders of his lands with an air and bearing
of profound humility. Another is look
ing on with fixed amazement at ihc lerri
i Ida intruders, white a younger warrior is
I resolutely gazing at De Soto v.ith deter
j mined stolidity. In front of these war
j riors are two Indian and tinsels, nearly na
ked, and finished to the highest or*dee!ion
tof Indian beauty, reclining upon ike
! ground, with some baskets of com, ducks,
| and other peace—offei ings K ing before
them, to the acceptance of which they
j are vainly endeavor ieg to gain De Soiw,
j for his eyes are fixed upon the Missis
sippi-
i In the immediate foreground to the
tight, a group of weatherbeaten and
j wounded soldiers are gathered. Some of
[them are pi wing a cannon in battery for
I the protection of the camp. O-e of these
I has a white handkerchief tied over an ug
! ly cut in bis forehead. Another old cam
jpaigneris sitting down, bandaging hi-:
{ damaged leg, while another, dusky an I
1 rusty with hard usage, is holding h:s i.e -
; met befo.e Ids eyes, while looking out
1 upon the great river, their outlet to the
I sea and to home. Next to this group in
; the foreground, is a pile of small arms of
ihe style of that time, some of the exact
patterns of which may now be seen at
the Chrystal Palace, sent over from the
1 ower of London by Queen Victoria.—
1 hese arms are resting upon the camp
chest, which is almost as strongly handed
with iron as one of our sd inlander sties.
To the right of this is a group of the min
isters of the Catholic faith, planting an
immense cross, formed of two puts of a
tree with the baik on, with a small figure
of tne crusified Savior n riled upon it.
! The holy brothers are lifting the cross
| into the hole which it as been dug to r -
ceiveit. One of them has Ins two fore
| fingers upon it, while reading from an
| antique book-the service of the occasion
i I he veterannvho has dug the hole, is rest
ing upon the ground, with his shovel hv
his side. Mvas, errtending alon o- the fore
ground of the picture; we have the whole
story of the Spanish conquests in Ameri
ca illustrated, in the cannon and the
cross, the cross always being planted arid
I consecrated, as the first duty of a Spanish’
; encampment, while the cannon and the
arquebus as unfailingly brought up in the
: rear.
Iu the background’ to the right, we see
the ample Mississippi, with the dim un
i measured country beyond it. Towards
I the opposite bank some green islands are
j visible, while far up, on this side, we de
fect another village of the redmen, its
j inhabitants apparently unconscious of tin*
! proximity of the dreadful invaders of
I thtir country.
I'he composition of this • picture, the
I grouping, the drawing of the fiures, and
the costumes, &e. the coloring, the light*
and the shades, to our judgment arc
charmingly harmonious and true. We
doubt not, from the three or four years
of study and labor of the artist, that eve
rything, including the royal banner, and
one or two Aloorisli warriors in this
picture, is historically true, and true to
nature. 1 o crown all, the lout ensemble
is full of life, spirit, chivalry, poetry and
bcau.’T* There is nothing awkward, or
heavy, Oi .strange about it; every thing in
it is easy, though intensely graphic and
spirited.
In reducing his figures below ihccolas-
sal size of those of the other pictures in
the rolundo, .Mr. Powell has gained an
immense advantage in space; and when
we consider that the picture is iu stand
only four feet from the ground, tie loses
nothing in its individual effect.
The gallery of the rolundo will now tie
complete. Its paintings, all of uniform
size, will consist of—
1. The Declaration of Independence.
2. The Capitulation ofSarK'oga.
3. The Capitulation at Yorkt >w<i.
4. Washington resigning Ins Commis
sion at Annapolis, all by Trumbull.
5. The Baptism of Pocahontas,, by
Chapman. G. The Embarkation of Pil
grims at Delft Haven, by Wier. 7. i tie
landing of Columbus by Vanderlyn. 8.
De Soto’s discovery of the Alisshsqipi, l>y
Powell.
The Pacific Railroad— Next Thurs
day week, (says a Washington letter wri
ter,) will show that capital for railioads
is abundant in New York. The fifty
millions of stock not yet taken in the New
York Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Com
pany will then be subscribed, and the
company organized. It is intimated in
the New York papers that Mr. R. J.
Walker’s subscription of ten millions was
reduced in amount, at the request of
parties who were-so ignorant of his re
sources as to suppose that be could not
raise the money to pay the first instal
ment. He made a financial mistake in
not taking the whole of the stock at once
and then organizing the company accor
ding to his own plan.