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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.