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conunr*. VRIDAT, Alow 10. IHOO
for piusidsht,
JOAN C. BRECKINRIDGE,
OF KENTUCKY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOSEPH LANE,
OF OKEUON.
BRECKINRIDGE ft LANE
electoral ticket.
STATE AT.LAROE:
Hon c. J. McDonald, of com>.
u II 11. JACKHON, ol ChMltom.
alter,ate,:
Hon. A. H. COLQUITT, of Bailor.
•• We. A. DABNEY, of Gordon.
FOR THE DISTRICTS:
j„, PETER CONE, of Bulloch.
2d. W. M. SLAUGHTER,of Dougherty.
3d. O. C. GIBSON, of Spaldin K .
4ih. HUGH BUCHANAN, of Coweta,
ith. LEWIS TUMI.IN, of Can.
6th. HARDY BTRICKLAND,of Forsyth.
7th. Wa. A. LOFTON, of Jaaper.
Blh. W. M. McINTOSH,of Elbort.
ALTERNATES:
lt. Y. J. ANDFaRSON, of Lawwif.
2d. C. A. EVANS, of Stewart.
3d. JM. SMITH, of Upaon.
4tli. G*. BULL, of Troup.
6tb. W. K MOORE, of ,
nth. C. It. BUTTON, of lUbertham.
7th. R. L. WARTIIEN, of Wacblogton.
hth. W. J. VABON, of Richmond.
Our fclwtoral Ticket
The Domocratio Convention which met at Mil
lodgovilie on the Bth iuat., bu aoeompliahod ita
mission and recoin mended to the suffrages of the
people of Georgia an electoral ticket wbioh to
day ap|ieara at the head of our oolumna. It oom
p rises a body of men who, for their fidelity to the
principles they represent, and their ability to
vindicate those principles, eminently deaerve the
confidence and support of their fsllow-oitlien*. -
They have all been In public life, are intimately
known to the people of Georgia, and It will be
the pride of every man who acoepti the doctrine
of the equality of every white citizen in the
common domain of tho Union, and wherever else
the federal flag floats, to aid in plaomg them iu
the position to which they have beou recommen
ded. They are worthy nubaltern* iu tho field
under the gallant standard bearers of the Demo
cracy, and aa certainly as a November un shall
rise upon the day of the conflict, its parting
beam* will gild their banners with the light of
victory.
Grnelt’s canard that Mr. Kverett wa* about
to withdraw from the canvass was authoritative
ly contradicted at the Hell and Everett oonven
lion, iu Trenton, by Col. Peyton, who said be
bad recoutly bad an interview with Mr. Kverett.
Ntarillng Karl: Worth) Mr Itrll t
In the compilation of Mr. Bell’s record, resent
ly published with his own endorsement and ap
proval, we find that ho absolutely voted against
an amendment by Mr. Seward, applying the Wil
mot Provi-o to Utah and New Mexico. As the
ad involved a surrender of all his prejudices, we
irult he will roeoivo due credit for it.
Choi* It ktu iims. —Tho New York Times, of a
late date, has an interesting item iu reference to
the prospects of the present crop, and it is hoped
that the saute cheering reports may be truthfully
rendered in rogard to the Southern portion of the
country, as of those State* referred to in the ex
tract below :
“According to (be returns already recoived at
the Census Bureau at Washington, the crop* in
all tho Northern and North western State* arc
immensely heavier this year. Iu Pennsylvania
they are represented to be nearly if not quite
double thoso of last year, and in other States they
will probably be correspondingly heavy. This
fully ooincidc* with what wo havo boon led to
ex poet from tho accounts which have reached us
from other souroes. The census returns, how
ever, sumo in very slowly, and it will probably
be some time before wo shall bo able to learn tho
full extent of our agricultural prosperity, al
though Superintendent Kennedy manifests a
commendable desire to satify tho public curiosi
ty on the subject at the earliest possible moment.
Zouaves ou the Revolution. —It soemsfrom
the following extract from sa old letter, written
by a continental soldier during the revolution,
that the South famished a company es Zouaves,
who wore not much inferior to the Chioago corps.
It is written from the army in Connecticut:
Our company arrived here last night very Ist©,
hungry and tired. Training is a good deal hard
er than old Squire Fell tell* us of. If he had
marched fourteen miles a day for three days and
carried bis prog, besides father's old French war
fusee, 1 calculate he’d nd he so encouraging to
us boys ; 1 don’t find fault, miud; I only wish to
let you known that we are not on a May par
ty-
At Miltord Tavern we were joined by two com
panies of soldiers from New lisven, a company
of “queer fellows,” as Jake calls them, from
the Southern Colonies. They are riflemen, and
are commanded by Col Cresap. They don’t use
any beds an we do, but sleep right ou the ground
in s row life the Indians do. Hut their antics in
military exorcise are of the ouriousest kind. They
K>aJ Hiul If*thill titles lyiug flat on their bel
lies. After that they tangle themselves all up in
a knot, and look just like a porcupine with their
guns sticking out all over them. But the won
dermost part of their notions is their hitting a
mark. Any oue of them can hit a small potatoe
t furty rods distance. You never saw anything
Itkt it. When we get to camp 1 will write more
about these riflemen, who would amuse the girls
if they could see them cut tbslr antics.
The Politics of Ike Krpubltra* Part),
The Democratic J| eiw> has a wall considered
article on the politics ei the Republioan party.--
The following extracts shows its present position
(pp. 416 and 417 :)
We say, then, that tho Territorial question be
ing no longer a living imho that Kausas no
longer Uarrassed and disturbed by Johu brown
and his confederates, and men of such agitating
propensities--the Republican party has beeu dis
robed, and the true character and legitimate de
signs ol the party, loug coucealed under the fas
cinating and popular plea of securing freedom in
Kansas, revealed. It ha* come to asautue its trus
position—the position which any political organ
isation must ultimately come to oocupy who make
th* question of slavery tbs only plank in their
platform—to-wit: a contest with the institution
of slavery as it sxisU in the States, undsr tbs wall
selected title of an “irrepressible conflict.” It has
buried deep in the past the only eemblance of
conservatism which it ever puseesaed, and now it
assumes an open, direct, and unequivocal antag
onism, to what ? Not, certaiuly, slavery in the
Territories, because that la an obsolete question,
but to the “tlavehulding aristocracy, the privi
leged class of the South.” Deny it who will, the
position of the Republican party it 110 longer ono
concerning slavory at its effects the Territories,
but it is slavery m it exists in the States. And
uow we desire to know, bocauae tbe acceptance of
the doctrines of uuiformity of the institutions of
the American l nion advanced by Mr. !
and the “irrepressible conflict” views as promul
gated by Senator Seward, universally by tha Re
publican organisation renders it their faith too,
what interpretation we can giro these declara
tioof. We conceive that the individual who ex
amines them carefully with an intellect unbiased
by partisan prejudices, must admit that they
meau that this systematic war upon slavery
must continue; that th© agitation, which was cre
ated unnecessarily and for tho advancement of
the interests of the Republioan party immediate
ly after the re|teal of th© Missouri Compromise,
must rage with increased fury until freedom is
triumphant and slavery i* humiliated before tbe
agitating element of the North. They mean that
so long as slavery exists within th* confine* of
the American confederacy there can be n© peace
—no cassation of that interminable strife which
has already divided the sentiments of the Amer
loan people, disturbed the tranquility of the pub-
Uo mind, and weakened, in a degree, thote bonds
that connect the “thick clustering stars of the
Union in one glorious constellation.'*
We say that such is the natural and Inevitable
result of the pseudo doctrines of thoso two Re
publican leaders, endorsed and sustained by the
organisation itself ; and, furthermore, that It is
the ultimate position which any political party
in this country must eome to occupy that makes
the question of slavery the basis of its creed.
Another Blavrr CaptuMD—MW Africans
at Na MAl?.—The British screw steamship Kar
nak, Captain Brownlees, from Nassau, N. I*. Ju
ly 28, arrived at New York on Thursday morn
ing. She brings elevon passengers, one hundred
hags of Coffee and some Specie.
Cacti kk or a Slaver. The K&rnak brings
intelligence of the landing at Nassau of the car
go of an African slaver. It appears that the slaver
was frightened by adistaul view of tks Karnak,
and in trying to escajie from her ran ashore.—
The following is the Purser’s statement:
“On Saturday morning, the2Hth July, Nassau
was all excitement, in consequence of the arrival
of three schooners, with about three hundred and
sixty Africans on board, in a complete state of
nudity. Three of the crew of the slaver were on
board one of the schooners, and from one who
spoko English it was ascertained that they had
mistaken the Karnak for a man-01-war steamer,
not knowing that u steamer plied between Nassau
and New York. We saw the slaver on the morn
ing of Wednesday, the 25th inst., at fi A. M.
Kbe ran in sboroat Abaco, but in consequence of
a gale tho previous day,they had lost most of their
canvass, and had not sufficient left to hear again
from the land. The vessel finally struck at Lan
yard t’av, on the Northeast coast of Abaco.
“On tue arrival of tho Karnak at Nassau, no
tice wss given thut a schooner was on shore
there, when several of tho wreckers put off to the
spot, aud found another schoonor, laden with ice
aud railroad iron on shore there as well, but I
could not learu her name as none of the wreckers
who had gone to her had returned. The slaver
left the coast with four huudred slaves on hoard,
and hail lost about forty. They are all quite
young, many of them children, about fifty are
females. They wero suffering much from scurvy
and hunger; the Captain and mate are not yet
found; they say the funner cuthisthroat tho first
day out, and the mate shortly after was drown
ed. That, however, remains to be proved. They
had beeu out .'iff days.
The I’rlncc of Wales among (be Ladles.
The New York Herald discourses in the follow
ing irreverent fasion about the “Coming Prince,”
in rogard to whom ail tho feminine hearts of
Fifth Avenue Bnohdoui are in so terrible a flut
ter:
It seems that the Prinoo of Wales is a ladies’
man, and has produced a sensation among the
fair at Bt. Johns, by his winning attentions no
less than bis “particularly brilliant hazel eyes.”
He is quite a beau, and “a very graceful and ac
complished dancer,” as he proved by the way he
whirld elite ladies through the mazes of “poetry
in motion.” He set them right when they went
wrong, and every now and then he called out the
different figures of tho dances. His dancing was
“repeatedly cheered,” and every time lie danced
be took a different partner, half a dozen in all.
How they must have been captivated by so sweet
a prince, as he coiidessoudiugly “corrected their
blunders.” Probably the ladies of Newfound
land do not know much about such matters, and
the sex in Canada are but little in advance of
them. But when the I'riuc© come* here ho Will
find tbe ladies posted up-lullv acquainted with
all tho now figures and the most intricate steps.
They have purfeoSly at thoir foes’ end tho latest
jku from Baris, and perhaps may be able even
to teach his Royal High nos* something he does
not know. We advise the ladies, therefore, to be
prepared, armed at all points, that they may show
the Brine# Os Wales that they can dance bettor
than the damsels of tbe British Province*. Let
them also he ready to bo taken captive by tbe
“boyish” charms of nineteen year*. Th© Brince
is almost as young as Don Juan, who in bin travels
made suen havoo among hearts, he is iiko that
hero, iu being “handsome, slender, but well knit,”
and in having received a finished religious odu
cation, uuder pious tutors.
From the Mobile Register.
A Moment of Horror.
For twenty three yunrx, old Jake Willard has
cultivated thesoil of Baldwin county, uiul drawn
therefrom a support for self and wife. He is
childless. Not loug ago, Jake loft the house in
searob of a missing cow. His rout© led him
through au old worn out patch of day land, of
about six acres in extent, in the centre of which
was n well, twenty-five or thirty feet deep, that
at some time, probably, bad furnished the in
mate* of a dilapidated house near by with water.
In passing by this spot un ill wiud lifted Jake’s
“tile” from his heu<l, and maliciously wafted it
to tho edge of the old well, and in it tuinblod.
Now Jake had always practiced the virtue of
economy, and he immediately sot about recover
ing his lost hat. lie ran to tho well and finding
it was dry at the bottom, he uncoiled the rope
which he had brought for the purposo of captur
ing tho truant cow, and after several attempts to
catch tbe hat with a run.se, ho concluded to save
time by going down into the well himself. To
accomplish this, ho mado fast one ©ml of tho rope
to a stump hard by, and was quickly on his way
down tho well.
It is a fact, of which Jake wa* no less oblivi
ous than tho reader hereof, that Ned Well* was iu
the dilapidated building aforesaid, ninl thut an
old blind horse, with a bell on hi* ueck, who hud
boon turned out to die, wa* lazily grazing with
in a short diHtanco of tho wail.
The devil himself or some other evil spirit put
it into Nod’s cranium to have a little fun ; so ho
quietly slipped up to the horse, uiul unbuckling
the bell strap, upproached with slow and meus
urod “ling a ling” to the edge of the well.
“G—d dang that old blind horse!” said Jake,
“he’s cornin’ this way, sure, and ain’t got no
wore sense than to fall in hero. Whoa, Hall!”
But the continued approach of tho “ting-a
liug” said just u- plainly ns words that “Hall”
wouldn’t whoa. Besides Juke was at the bottom,
resting, befuro trying to “shin” it up tho rope.
“Groat JoruMuiem I” said he, “tho old cuss will
be a-top of mo boforo 1 can say Jack Robinson.
Whoa! G- and dang you, whoa.”
Just then Ned drew up to the edge of the well,
and with his foot kicked a little dirt into it.
“Oh, Lord!” oxolaimed Jake, falling upon his
knoos at the bottom, “I’m gone, now, whoa!—
Now 1 lay mo dowu to sloop w-h-o-u, Ball! 1
pray the Lord iuy soul to w Inn, now. Oh,
Lord, have mercy on mo !”
Bun could hold in no longer, nnd tearful thut
Jake might suffer from his fright, ho revealed
himself.
Brobuldy Ben didn't mako trucks with his heels
toward that well. May bo Jaku wasu’t up to the
top of it in short order ; and you might think he
didn’t try every night for two weeks to got a shot
with his rifle at Hen. Maybe not. 1 don't know.
Hut 1 do know that if Jake finds out who sent
you this it will bo tho last squib you'll get from
ENOCH.
August Alb, iB6O.
Douulam about knteuinu tiir Republican
Camp.- Wo have stated all along that Judge
Douglas and liis friends must, from “lb© logic of
circumstances,” take up a position iu tho Uvpuh
lican camp, aud that too at an early day. lit
proof us this, read tho Evening Journal's puff
of Judge Douglas's speech, aud then tho follow
ing from the Atlas A Argus
“If Judge Douglas’ principles are thus conge
nial to Republicanism, they are iu duty bound to
give him thuir votes. Ho is dearly the repre
sentative man of these principles.”
This shows that Kepublieanixm aud Douglas
isui will be ouo and tho sauio thing the day af
ter the polls close in November. The fallowing
we also clip from the Atlas and Argus
“Mr. Douglas remained in this city during
Saturday morning, and wa-* called upon at his
rooms by a large uuutbor of our citißuns. Among
those, who, without rotereuce to party, oourto
susly paid their respocts to the Senator, wore
Governor Morgan, Thurlow Weed, Esq., and
many other Republican*. Such interchange* of
eivilities among political upponents tend happily
to divest polities of personal asperity.”
This paragraph is significant, aud should alarm
every consistent Democrat in the State. I'he
Atlas-ites intend to sell out the Republicans at
au early day. A party which cannot carry a
tingle State must join a party that can. Douglas
must of necessity ground arms iu tbe Republican
camp. —Albany Standard.
The fallowing is au extract from tho minutes
of tho proceedings of the Hoard of Directors of
the Georgia Western Railroad Company nt a
meeting held August 2.
Atlanta, August 2. IMAU.
Resolved, That an instalment often per cent,
upon stock subscription* be called in. payable at
the office of the company, in Atlanta, on tho Ist
day of December next.
Resolved, That the Chief Engineer. L. 1).
Grant, Esq., be instructed to prepare, at tbe ear
liest practicable date, for a public letting u! the
grading, bridging and masonry of the first fifty
mils* of the road, commencing at Atlanta, of
whieh thirty days notice shall be given in the pa
persof this city, Augusta, Savannah, Charleston
Jacksonville, Ac., Ac.
Resolved, That the Bresident be authorized
to arrange witbth© lion. John B. King, new in
Karope, far the purchase of tho requisite quanti
ty of iron for the first fifty miles of the road.—
•N'oulAsf n Confederacy.
Forcible Rescue or Sherman M. Booth.-
Sherman M Booth, who wa* arrested in MU
waukie, Wis., some time siuce, and who has
been awaiting his trial in the Glover rescue case,
was taken from th© room of the Custom House,
where he was confined, at noon on Wednesday,
by ten armed ineu, who placed him in a carriage
they had in readiness, which drove off with him
into the oountry. The United State* Marshal
and his deputies were M dinner at the time.
The jailor was silenced by threats of violonre,
and locked up ic tho room in place of the pria- /
oner.
COLIMKIitI, SATURDAY. AltitlT 11. 1860
The Kaquirer Mr. Bel It Abemtoe llacinar.
“Now as to the porter of Congress to abolish
slavery in tbl District of Columbia. It is very
different from and mneb more amide than any
power delegated in respect to the Territories.
The constitution veets in Congress “exclusive
legislation in all oases whatsoever” over the Dis
trict of Columbia.”
We take the above from a late article In the
Enquirer, in which It admitted that John Bell
conceded to Congress the power to abolish slave
ry In the District of Columbia. We regret that
we cannbt construe the above language otherwise
tban'as a defence of that position. We had thought
(and it delighted us so to think ,that our ootempo
rary was sincere in its repeated declaration that
it stood upon the “Georgia Platform.” One of
the contingencies mentioned in that platform, up
on the happening of which the people of Geor
gia solemnly declared their determination to re
tire from tho Union, is tho abolition of slavery in
ihe'JJietrict of Colombia by Cony rets. Can it he that
time has rotted this plank in that structure. Does
our neighbor consent to such mutilation ? If wo
are not mistaken as to the intention of the lan
guage above quoted, the Enquirer places its de
fence of Mr. Bell’s position on that clauso in the
Constitution which declares that Congress shall
“exercise exclusive legislation in all cases what
ever, ’’ over the District of Colombia. Now wil!
our neighbor contend,that, under this grant of
power, Congress may deny to .the peoplo of the
District the right to keep and bear arms, or the
right of trial by Jury ? We presume not. Why?
Becauso, in the language of the Hupreme Court,
in the Dred BcotU case, “these powers, and oth
ers, in relation to rights of person, are, in express
and positive terms, denied to the general govern
ment.” Yet, thoso are “cmos,” and must be in
cluded in the expression, “all eases whatsoever,’’
under the latitudinarian construction given it by
our cotemporary. But the Supreme Court, also
says, in immediate oonneetion with the above,
“and the rights of private property hare been
guarded with equal care. Thus the rights of
property are united with the rights of person, aud
placed on the same ground by the fifth amend
moot to the Constitution, which provides that no
person shall be deprived of life, liberty and prop
erty, without due process of law.” Again, the
Kaino high tribunal declares that “the right of
property in a slave is distinctly aud expressly af
firmed in the Constitution,” and, further, that
the only power ovor slave property wbioh the
Constitution confers upon Congress is “the pow
er coupled with the duty of and pro
tecting the owuer in bts rights “ Can it bo
maintained, after such a withering rebuke of the
pretension by the highest Judicial tribunal in the
land, that Congress has the shadow of a power
to touch the institution of slavery, with an un-
friendly hand, anywhere within its jurisdiction ?
Iu oouclusion, w© would liks to know of our
neighbor, whether, in Mr. Bell’s last compilation
of his record, there is oouteined a recantation of
this abolition heresy ? _
Ifrmocrallc State \narration
We wore present and witnessed the proceed
ings of tbe Democratic State Convention, wbioh
assembled at Milledgavilln on tbe Bth inst. It
wa* a grand demonstration far Breckinridge and
Lane. One hundred counties were reproseutod,
and tho enthusiasm for the noble standard bear
ors of the party, was eucuuraging to every friend
of truo principles. Electors for tbe State and
Districts were appointed, who will canvass every
slump in Georgia, if necessary, to secure s glori
ous viotory. Hon. Charlbs J. McDonald and
Hon. Hkniiv K. Jackson, names known to tbe
Democracy of Georgia, represent tbe Statu at
largu; while true and reliable men have been
chosen far the Districts.
The platform of principles adopted are those
recommended by the majority of the States of
the Union in the Charleston Convention, which
was afterwards endorsed at Baltimore, aud upon
which Brockinridge and Lane stand.** It is also
the same platform adopted by the recent Georgia
Opposition State Convention, which appointed
delegates to the Baltimore Convention, but which j
was unfartuutttoly ignored and forgotten (?) by
the delegates iu that National assembly. Upon
it are found, in Georgia, not only the truo demo
crats, but thu gallant men of tho Opposition, who
regard their pledges to co-operate with that party
which would endorse aud sanction it. Tho speech
Mr. Toombs before *b Convention was a fine
effort. The evidences are that Breckinridge will
sweep the State at tbe election.
MILLKIHiKVILLK (UKIGWPON DKN( K.
Millkduhvillr, Aug. Bth, Iktio.
Messrs. Editors: —Tho Democratic State Con
vention met here to-day. It was a largo ono and
much enthusiasm manifested for Brockinridge
nnd Lane. Gen. Williams, of Muscogee, was
temporary chairman, and presided with ease and
dignity. The permanent Bresident wss Mr. Va
son, of Richmond, a fine lawyer, who made a
short but graceful speech to tho Convention. Uo
has recently returned to his old homo, Georgia,
after an absence of twenty [years in Louisiana.—
Each District selocted itsjown doctor and alter
nate. In the seoond, Hon. Uorkrt E. Dixon, of
Muscogee, was chairman, who reported to the
Convention[tbe name of lion. Alyred H. Col
quitt, of Baker, us the unanimous choice of the
District for Elector for the State at Large, and
William M. Slaughter, of Dougherty, for Elector
and C. A. Evans, of Stswart, alternate for the
District. Each oue of tbe gentlemen named
übove, it was thought, would be active and seal
ous iu the canvass, speaking wherever their pres
ence was ueoessary. Five gentlemon were voted
far as Electors for the State at Large. Jaokson,
of Savannah, received two hundred and odd votes,
Gov. McDonald 202, Colquitt 165, Dabney, from
tho Mountain'Distriota, 85, Dr. Miller 45; u few
scattering. The Distriot appointments, we be
lieve, are spoakmg men, who will take the stump,
as tlioyjshould, for their candidates. t Tbe elector*
far the State at Large wilt doubtless do the name.
The dulegatea from the differereut counties report
few changes for Douglas ; in some counties not a
Douglas mau is to be found. On the other hand,
the Democracy havo received accessions from the
Opposition party, more thau [counterbalancing
the squatters. The very flower of the Opposition,
too; such men as Dr. 11. V. M. Miller, of Floyd,
who led the opposition rauks in the last campaign,
A. K. Wright, Esq., of Jeffersou, the lost Opposi
tion caudidaio for Congress in the Bth District,
and other prominent men. The speech of Mr.
Toombs before the Convention, was truly elo
quent. It© wauls the Hell flag to keep up in
Pennsylvania, as the suocesa of the Democracy
over Lincoln in the Btate depends upon it.
The Breckiuridge party are very sanguine of
a glorious victonr in October. P.
m •
IMwtta of Ju4gc IMchl B
lion. Ezekiel Pickens for many years oue of
the fridges of the Circuit Court of Alabama, died
at his residence in Mississippi, a few day# since,
lie was widely known throughout the State, far
Ids rigorous enforcement of the criminal law, his
tH'oentricitie* and his wit. With a strong natural
love of justice, he entertained the utmost repug
nance to seeing the guilty escape under cover of
a technical defence and innumerable are the an
ecdotes illustrative of this feature in his charac
ter. The future biographer of tho Bench of Ala
bama, will And a rich vein of material in the .in
cidents of his administration of justice. It was
he, who on being asked in some desperate case,
to charge the jury, that it was better for ninety
nine guilty men to escape, than far oue innocent
mau to suffer, gave the charge, but qualified it by
the very suggestive announcement that in tho
opiuion of the court, tbe ninety-nine guilty men
had already escaped. His confidence in faces
und heads, as throwiug light on tho oharactor*
of tbir posoasors, would have delighted the
hearts of Lavator aud Gall. His own charaoter
was irreproachable, and nobody doubted tho pu
rity of his purposes. In politics, he belonged to
the school of State Rights, and one of th© last
act* of his usefal life, was the writing of a letter
is a committee at Mobile, who bad invited him
to uddrees a Breckiuridge and Lane meeting,
lie declined the invitation on account of business
engagements, but declared his devotion to the
cause. Spirit of the South.
De*ui of J. uierilM,
We regret to hear that the reports which had
previously prevailed here, of the death of Mr. Jo
seph K. Merehon, are certainly true. He died at
Mobile on the 15th of June, in the 30th year of
hit age. Mr. Merthon was formerly the editor
and proprietor of a paper in Girard, Ala., and af
terwards a compositor in this and other offices in
Columbus, where he wa* raised and spent most
of hi* life, having learned the printing business
iu this office. His many friend* and acquaint
ances here will be concerned to hear of his death.
He leaves an Interesting family in Kuasell ooun-
Ity, Ala., and near relations in this city.—Enqui
rer, 8 1 h.
Democt atio Btat© Convention.
Mii.lkdoevii.lk Aug. Bth., J 860.
Col. W. McKinley, of Baldwin, Chairman of
the Executive Committee, called the Convention
to order.
On motion of Hon. I. T. Irwin of Wilkes,
Hon. C. J. Williams, of Muscogee, wan called to
tho Chair, for the purpose of organization.
On motion of Col. D. C. Cambell, Maj. H. J.
O. Williams, and J. N. Moore, of Baldwin coun
ty, were requested to act as Secretaries.
A call of the counties was then made- and the
following names were enrolled as delegates.
Appling Julian Jlartridf-e, proxy,
Baker—A. 11. Colquitt, Elijah l'earce, Thos.
Allen.
Baldwin —Wm. McKiuly, D. C. Campbell, S.
N. Boughton, V. O. Grieve.
Berrien- A. J. Liles.
Bibb-P. Tracy, L. T. Conner. J. It. Bran
ham. C. J. Harris, W. G. Harris, F. B. Bloom,
A. G. Boatwick, K. A. Wilcox, A: Ross, B. M.
Polhill.
Bollock—B. E. Groover, J. 11. Wilkinson, J.
D. Deloach, W. W. Williams.
Burke—John I). Ashton, J. W. 11. Bell.
Butts—J. W. darkness, if. N. Byars.
Calhoun—J. H. Griffin, Dr. A. J. Speer.
Camden A. 8. Atkinson, Geo. Lang.
Campbell—C. P. Bowen.
Carroll—W. M. Ecbqjs, W. F. Colquitt, A. J.
Boggcss, alternate.
Cass—ll. B. McConnell.
Catoosa—L. M. Trammell.
Catham—A. R. Lawton, G. P. Harrison, Ju
lian Hartridge, C. C. Wilson.
Chattahoochee—J. O. Renfroc.
Clark—A. A. Franklin Hill, Jas. I. Colt.
Clay—M. Cl. Stamper, J. 11. Pittman.
Clayton—J. J. Hanes.
Cobb—B. A. Grist, Jesse Oslin, B. F. Bishop.
Columbia-—J. A. Walton, W. 11. Murray
Coweta—T. Kirby, S. W. Lee, W. H. W.Dent,
L. Griswold.
Crawford—W. C. Cleveland, J. C. llarvsy, J.
LeSueur.
Decatur—R. 11. Whitley.
DeKalb C. Murph y.
Dooly W. F. Brown, J. M. Hamilton, S. B.
Stovall, W. Cobb, A. J. Pound, J. Cobb.
Dougherty—W. J. Lawton, J. H. Hill, F. A.
Billingslca, D. F. Bailey, B. 0. Keaton, K. N.
Ely.
Kfliogham—lt. J. Christie.
Fannin —C. J. Welborn, proxy.
Fayette- Geo. C. King.
Floyd—H. Aycock.
Fulton -V. A. Gaskill, I>. PittmanJ J. 11,
Stoele, K. M. Taliaferro, B. C Yancy.
Glasscock—A. Kelly, Geo. W Kelly, L. Kelly,
G. H. Jones.
Glynn—T. N. Gardner, J. It. Troup, J. M
Guerard, proxy.
Greene - J. M. Houghton.
Gordon—A. T. Smith.
Gwinnett -11. P. Thomas.
Habersham -A. A. Franklin Hill, James I.
Colt, proxies.
Hall Jno. W. Hudson, proxy.
Hancock -W. Mclntosh Arnold, 1). L. Ryan.
Haralson —Jackson Cagle.
Harris—B. W. Lee.
Hart- -A. A. Franklin Hill.proxy.
Heard -P. A. Philpot, F. W. Grimes.
Henry- 11. Yanor, T. A. Ward.
Houston 11. L. Dennard, J. Hodges, Jit*. M
Irwin T. 0. Wicker.
Davis, W. J. Green.
Jasper—T. J. Smith, W. A. Lofton,JK. B Smith,
F. Jordan, Thos McKisic, W. McKisir, W. An
drews.
Johnson -H. M. Fortner, A. Powell, G. W. W.
C. Snell, J. L. Allen.
Jones -J. G. Barnes, T. J. Stewart, G. 11. I’
Finney, J. J. IS lire field, 11. J. Marshall, It. D
Lester, J. A. Woodall, J.T. Barron.
Laurens -Hugh M. Moore, H. B. McLendon,
M. J.Cooallv
Lee Fred H. Went.
Liberty W. Smith, D. M. B. Shepherd, B.
Dorsey, W. S. Norman.
Lincoln--J. T. Lockhart, 11. J. Harden.
Lowndes H. W. Phillips.
Lumpkin -J. 1). Field.
Macon Jno. A. Hunter, 1). L. Wicker, Geo.
W. Fish.
Marion M. If. Blanfurt), T. J. Matthis, W. M.
Drane, S. Monk.
Mclntosh Jan. M. Harris, L. Mclntosh, J. L.
Johnson.
Merriwethor J. J. Hussey, J. M. Williams.
Milton—Eli|McConuul, It. Webb, W. C. Ander
son.
Mitchell T. J. Colquitt, M* 8. Poore.
Monroe T. 0. Jacob, N. W. Newman, .1. If.
Dumas, D. T. Redding, J. J. Leary.
Montgomery 11. M. Moure, Y. J. Anderson,
Proxies.
Morgan—B. F. Whitfield, A. Partee, C. 11.
Andrews.
Murray P. 11. Colquitt, K. It. Harden, Prox
ies.
Muscogee K. J. Moses, C. J. Williams, P. 11.
Colquitt, R. K. Dixon, K. G. Dawson.
Newton 0. T. Rogers, .la*. Cook.
Oglethorpe J. T. Lofton, J. D. Lofton, I). C.
arrow.
It Paulding W. K. MoFvcr, 11. M. Whit*worth.
Pierce J. T. Wilson.
Polk Jus. M. Sparks, J. A. Blanc,■.
l'ulaaki—F. I. It. Brown, W. F. Conner, M.
Pollock.
Putnam I). It. Andrews, 11. W. Clark, B,
Batchelor, J. J. Winslelt, D. Made, Dr. Phillips,
S. S. Duaenbtrry, W. 11. Wingfield, J. T. Bow
doin, B. A. Kdinomlson, 11. C. Laurence, J. W.
Hudson, Col. J. Wingfield.
Quitman- K. D. Brannon.
Rabun —A. A. Franklin Hill, J. I. Colt, Prox
ies.
Randolph F. D. Bailey, 8. A. Thornton
Richmond D. M. Dubose, W. I>. Russell, W.
J. Vason, K. llowdrie, T. C. Cone, S. A. Atkinson.
Schley—M. 11. Bianford, Proxy.
Spalding 11. P. 1111, J. M. Campbell, W. M.
Cline, A. B. Burr.
Stewart— B. L. Kimbrough, Saut’l Ilcall, W.
M. Blackwell, R. C. Patterson.
Sumter—W. L. Johnson, A. C. Hornady, J. C.
Clark, Thos. Dobeuport, J. J. Hudson.
Talbot—T. S. lluuipton, 11. 11. Hammock, J.
11. Weeks, J. MoKinney.
Tattnall—A. W. Daley, Sami. Brewton.
Taylor—T. J. Riley, Thus. Fmuiorson, P. J.
Mullens.
Terrell—K. J. Spearman, C. It. Moo ten, J. Ir
win, B. llayne.
Thomas P. K. Love, Win. Cline, Win. Stegall,
J. Kubitshick.
Troup—G. A. Bull, H. O. Stanley, W W. Car
lisle.
Twiggs 1.. (I allaiuorc, W. L. Solomon, K. S.
Griffin.
Union—C. J. Wellborn, 8. Reid, E. S. Barclay.
Walton —Jas. B. Lowe, Luther Easley.
Ware- Julian Hartridge, Proxy.
Warren--J. F. Reid, T. M. Jones.
Washington—T. J. Wartben, Jos. Forbes, Ste
phen Mills, J. 11. Pittman, T. F. Orr, A. T. Ses
sions, R. It. Strange, 8. Mnith, L. B. Likins, P.
R. Tallialerro.
Wayne Henry K. Fort.
Wabater— Each Beelaiul, J. Stathnin, D. B.
Harrell.
Wilcox—Geo. It. Reid, W. 11. Brown.
Wilkes—Robt. Toombs, 1. T. Irwin, It. F. Jor
dan.
Wilkinson J. C. Bower, K. Cuunning, T. 11.
Porter, M. M. Uloodworth, B. O’Bannon, Dr.
Flemistor, 11. 11. Solomon, J. 11. Jones, .1. B.
Pitman, K. K. Kemp, Dr. Williams, J. Stinson,
W. C. Flemister, B. T. Gilbert.
Wbitfield -J. A. Glonu, U. R. Harden.
Worth—R. N. Fly, Proxy.
Mr. Fly, of Dougherty, moved that a commit
tee of one from each Dongressional District, be
appointed to select permanent officers for the
Convention.
The Chair appointed the following Committee:
K. N. Ely, ot Dougherty.
Julian Hartridge, ot Chatham.
V. A. Gaskill,of Fulton.
Ja. M. Trammell, of Catoosa
A. A. Franklin Hill, of Clarke.
W. A. Lofton, of Jasper.
1. T. Irwin, of Wilkes.
The committee made the following report
For President, W. J. Vason. L?ol Rich
mond. Vice-President* lion. J. W uigfield, of
Putnam, Hon. Chas. Murphy, of Del*alb, lion.
P. K. Love, of Thomas, and K. U. Harden, of
Whitfield.
Secretaries 11. J. G. Williams and J. N.
Moore.
1. The Committee recommend that the rules
of the llouae of Representatives be adoptudjfar the
government of this Convention.
2. That those counties untitled to three mem
ber* of tho legislature, have fire votes, and oth
er counties three votes, on all questions arising in
this Convention, and that the last Census bo ta
ken as a basis for ascertaining tho number of
members of the Legislature.
Mr. F. H. West, ot Lee, moved that u commit
tee of three ho appointed to wait upon the Presi
dent to the Cftair—That Committee consisted of
Menure. Wait, of Leo, H lan ford, of Marion, and
Steele of Fulton.
The President on taking tho Chair, returned
hi* thanks in a few eloquent remarks, ami an
nounced the I'ouvention organized and ready to
proceed to buainoaa.
Hon. Hubert Touuibs of Wilke* moved that a
committee of throe from each Congressional
District be appointed to report tho business for
the convention.
The chair appointed tho following committee.
Nth Dist.K. Toombs, D. C. Harrow, J. D. Ashton.
7th “ D. C. Campbell, W. A. Lofton, T. 0.
Wicker.
fitb Dial. 11. P. Thomas, 1,. Early, J*. D. Field.
sth “ J Glenn, 11. H. McConnell. D. M. Tram
mell.
4th “ J. 11. Steele, J. J. Hussey, B. A. Grist.
3rd •• P. Tracy, W. J. Greene, D. T. ltedding.
2d “ It. J. Moses, M. B lan funk, W-J. Law -
tou.
Ist “ 11. M. Moore, A. S.Atkiuec n, J. T. Wil
son.
The Convention theu adjourned till 3 o’clock,
P. M.
„ 3 o’clock, P. M.
The Contention was called to order aud
The Committee of twenty-four made the follow
ing report:
I. Resolved, That this Convention approve the
entire action of the Delegates appointed at a Con
vention held by the Democratic party in this city,
in June last, at the Baltimore Convention.
2d. Resolved, That we heartily approvo the
declaration of principles adopted by the Demo
cratic party which met at the Maryland Institute,
and nominated John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky
and Joseph Lane of Oregon, for the offices of
President and Vico President of tho United
States.
3d. Resolved, That [the integrity, ability and
devotion to the Constitution displayed in the
splendid career of the Hon. John C. Breckinridge
commend him to our eonfldenco and prove him
worthy to bo the ruler of a freo people.
4th. Resolved, That in the Hon. Joseph Lane
wo rocognize a wisoand patriotic citizen who has
ever proved himself ready, willing and able to
serve bis country in peace and war, and we fully
approve bis nomination to the Vice Presidency
of the United States.
Oth. Resolved, That we embrace with our
whole hearts and trust with uur whole counsels
thoso noble patriots in tho non-slaveholding
States, who noithcr disheartened by treachery
nor overawed by majorities, maintain the truth,
and stand by the Constitution and the equality
of tho States, the only bond of everlastiug
Union.
Resolved, That the committeo do further re
commend that the Convention do now proceed to
the election of two electors for tho State at
large, the two gentlemen reoeiving tho majority
of votes to he declared the candidates. And that
tho Convention do immediately thereafter pro
ceed to ballot for two alternate electors for the
State at large.
And the committee further rocommcnd, that
the delegations of each Congressional district
shall name the elector for the districts, and the
alternates therefor—the nomination to bo sub
ject to the ratification of the convention.
A call of the counties was then made, which
resulted in the nomination of Electors for tho
State at Laiicc.
lion. C. J. McDonald, of Cobb.
“ 11. R. Jackson, of Chatham.
Mr. F. 11. West from Leo offered tho follow
ing resolution:
Resolved, That Hon. A. 11. Colquit, of Baker,
bn declared the alternate elector for Hon. C. J.
McDonald, and Hon. W. 11. Dabney, of Gordon,
the alternate elector for Hon. H. R. Jackson.
Which was unanimously passed.
Tho following nominations for electors for the
Congressional Districts were then made, and
unanimously ratified by the Convention:
Ist District—Hon. Peter Cone, of Bulloch.
Y. J. Anderson, Alternate.
2d Diat, lion. WM. Slaughter, of Dougherty.
Clement A. Evans, of Stewart, Al
ternate.
3d Dist.—Col. 0. C. Gibson, of Spalding.
Col. J. M. Smith, Alternate.
4th Dist. lion. Hugh Buchanan, of Coweta.
Gustavus A. Bull, of Troup, Alter*
nate.
6th Dint. —Hon. Lewis Tuuilin, of Cass.
W. K. Moore, Alternate.
6th Dist. Hon. Hardy Strickland, of Forsyth.
C. !!. Sutton, of Habersham, Alter
nate.
7 tli Dist. Hon. W. A. Lofton, of Jasper.
K. L. Wartben, of Washington, Al
ternate.
Bth Dist.—Hon. W. M. Mclntosh, of Elbert.
W. J. Vason, of Richmond, Alter
nate.
lion. Robert Toombs was then loudly called
for, anti responded in hi* truly eloquent style.
At the close of Mr. Toombs’ remarks, the reso
lutions reported by the Committee of twenty
four were unanimously adopted.
Mr. V. J. Anderson of Laurens, offered tho fol
lowing resolution which was adopted.
Resolved, That the Fxecutivo Committee of
the democratic party of Georgia appointed on the
th of June last, ho re appointed and continued
in office till the next Stale Convention of the
Georgia Democracy, and until their successors
shall be appointed; and if any vacancy should
occur prior to tho day of election in the Electo
ral Ticket this day nominated, either by death,
resignation or otherwise of both the principal and
alternate electors for any district or for the State
at large, that it shall bo tho duty of said Com
mute to fillßuch vacancy or vacancies.
Col. Frank Hill, of Clarke, offered the follow
ing resolutions, which were adopted :
Resolved, That in order for an efficient or
ganization. and to secure a thorough canvass of
each county, that, under the authority of this
Convention, there shall be appointed by the State
Executive Committee -a tub elector for each
county.
3d. That in tho event of a vacancy from any
cause, it shall ho immediately filled by tho Com
mittee.
Col. Murphy, of DeKalb, offered tho following
resolution which was adopted .
Resolved, That the State Executive Commit
teo be requested to notify the Electors and Al
ternates appointed by this Convention of their
appointments, nnd request their acceptance.
Mr. F. H. West, of Lee, offered the following
resolution which was adopted:
Kurolved, That the thunk* of this Convention
bo tendered to Col. W. J. Vason for tho able,
courteous and dignified uianner.in which he has
presided over its deliberations ; also to the S.v
rctaries for the able manner in which they have
performed their arduous duties.
On motion, the Convention adjourned.
W. J. VASON, President.
11. J. G. Williams, ) u
, v > Secretaries.
J. N. Moonu. j
Non-lnimrutlon squatter Sovereign')-
Mr. Dickinson, in his great speech at Cooper’s
Institute, in Now York, on the 18th of July, do
finod these term* with great clearness in a very
lew word*. Wo quote his remarks as follows:
Much has been said upon the subjects of non
intervention and equatter sovereignty, as it is
termed, and there has boon much more said upon
them than has been understood by thoso who
have said it. And it would bo well for the poli
tical magpipes, who clatter so flippantly on tho
subject, to learn their lesson before they prate it.
[ Laughter.] The two principles, which really
have no relation to each other, aud are entirely
different, have beeu strangely and unpardonably
confounded ; but 1 will stato the true definitions
of each separately. Non-intervention means
that thero should ba no intervention to extend or
prohibit slavery in the Territories, but that the
people of the States and Territories should bo
loft, while a Territory, to enjoy jnst such rights
as to currying their slaves with them when re
moving inti* the Territories or exclusion there
from, as it should be held by the Courts belonged
to them. Squatter sovereignty claims the sore
reign right of the pooplo of a Territory to ex
clude tho introduction of slavory into tho Terri
tory, by hostile Territorial legislation, regardless
of the construction given by the Constitution, by
the decisions of the Supreme Court, Before the
Dred Scott decision this was au open question ;
since that decision it is so no longer. The differ
ence is plainly this- -non-intervention by Con
gress and qualified popular sovereignty proposed
such Territorial legislation as should be in de
ference to, subject to, aud in harmony with tho
decisions of the Supreme Court upon the great
queatiou. Squatter sovereignty defies tho au
thority of the Courts, and asserts tho power of
the Territorial Legislature to exclude slavery
from the Territory by law, absolutely regardless
of the construction giveu to the Constitution by
tho Courts
Don't Tbr) ( lash.
“Few, at the South, deny the power of Con
gress to pass laws for the protection of slave
property in the Territories—/ certainly do not.”
HkRSCHKLL V. JOHNSON.
“It it difficult to conceive ho ic any person who
believes that the Constitution confers the right
of protection in the enjoyment of slave property
in the Territories, regardless of the wishes of the
|Mople and of the Territorial Legislature, run eat
iefy hie conscience and hie oath of fidelity to the
Constitution, in withholding such Congressional
legislation as may be essential to the enjoyment
such right under the Constitution.”
Stephen A. Douglas.
Take care, Governor, it strikes us you stand
a pretty fair chance to perjure yourself by tho
test proposed by your associate.
—s m
Goino to Work.—The Electors of Alabama,
on tho different tickets havegono to work in good
style. In the 3d Congressional District, ap
pointments are made for every stump; embracing
all the days in this and the next month. Tho
Electors for the State at large have travelled ma
ny huudred rnilos, visiting every availablo point.
David W. Lewis, Esq., a prominent Opposi
tion member of tho Legislature, is out for Breck
inridge. He has led tho Opposition for many
years in middle Georgia. Also, Hon. W. T.
Haiku*, of Meriwothor, formerly Opposition
Senator from that county, and a young mau of
worth, talents and influence. Thus they come!
Campaign Documents.—Wo havo on hand
•till a number of pamphlets, containing the mas
terly review of the speech of Hon. B. 11. Hill,
delivered in Macon, June 30th, 1860, by aniein
bor of tho Opposition party of Georgia. It is a
sound document and worthy of distribution. We
have already received one order for a thousand
copies.
COLIMBIH, MOM DAI, AIGIBT 12. iB6O.
Alabama fount) Elections
The Opposition are trying to make capital out
of the few county elections held in Alabama.
Local causes and circumstances have controlled
the election, and no test has been mado of the
strength of any party. We are willing, however,
to interpret tho election as a partial test. In
Coosa county, for instance, tho Enquirer says,
the electionxhowa that the Douglas candidate for
Sheriff was victorious; that this “result proves
tho truth of the estimate mado by tho Montgome
ry Confederation, a few weeks since—that Doug
las would get tho highest vote in Coosa, Bell next,
und Breckinridge in the rear.” Will our cotem
porary lay before its readers this additional tes
timony which we havo from the most reliable
source; that there wen: pour Breckinridge can
didatein the field! This shows how strong the
Breckinridge party is in Coosa, where our co
temporary would have its readers believe there
was a straight out and out fight between the
Douglas, Breckinridge and Bell partic o .
In Autauga, the Breckinridge candidate was
elected, notwithstanding the neutrality of his
opponent until a few days before the election,
and the support be received from the Bell and
Douglas men.
In Chambers county—tho Tribune says the
coalition of the 801 l and Douglas parties elected
two Bell men, while tho Breckinridge party elec
ted live. That the election of one of the candi
didates was not claimed as a party triumph.
Wo give these items to show that the county
elections held in Alabama, and which are herald
ed abroad in the Opposition journals to discour
age the true Democracy, have littlo significancy
or bearing upon the main question at issue.
Hon. Howell Cobb and Hon Robert Toombs In
lolumbus
lion. Howell Cobb, the present Secretary of
the Treasury, mads an able and eloquent speech
at Teruperauce Ilall in this city on Saturday
morning, the 11 th inst. He tore away every prop
under tho feet of the Douglas men, and made a
patriotic appeal to all parties to unite under the
Breckinridge flag. Tho doctrine of non-inter
vention, squat ter sovereignty, and other questions
involved in the canvass, wero discussed with a
master band. The speech will long be remem
bered in Columbus. We thank Mr. Cobb for it.
In another issuo we may give the points of his
effort. Mr. Toombs spoke at night. His speech
was one granl round of thundering artillery.—
It was such a speech as the great leader in the
Senate is capable of making. Wo go to press
too soon to comment upon it. We promise our
readers an extended notice.
A Capital Admlislon Democracy Klgh’-
Ilon. Thomas Hardeman, Jr., tho present mem
ber of Congress from the 3d District of Goorgia,
has written a letter to the Harris county Enter
prise, in which he admits the Breckinridge party
to be right in saying that they “arc now seeking
to elbow us (opposition) from the platform we
(opposition party) long since erected !”
Very well. Why be pushed off? Wbv not
stand upon the platform erected by your party ?
The truth is, you got off to support John Beil.—
You were afraid to ask your National Convention
to adopt your principles [passed in your State
Convention. It may be you had ho friends in
tho Bell Convention at Baltimore, and upon this
ground, and this only, can we account for that
Convention repudiating your principles by adop
ting a platform that did not pledge protection.—
Besides, bow can Mr. liardemau stand upon the
Janus-faced Opposition platform, wticn be said
in Congress that he would support no candidate
who did not stand upon ono that recognized pro
tection ? Head his speech.
fiov. Jobn*on on the 1 nlon.
Whenever a politician takes up an idea to sub
mit to ail aggressions, he sings pa-ans of glory to
the Union. It is the beginning always of his
apostacy, and is a sure prelude to submission.—
We regret to find lion, llerschel V. Johnson,
who is now speaking at different points in Geor
gia.fallingjiuto the Uniondioo, at this the most im
portant period of our history. We havo yet hope
for him, when tho smoko of tho present battle
clours away. At Warrenton, bo is reported to
havo paid a “glowing cnlogism on the Union.”
What a Kell hi rotor uyi ot our t undidalc*.
At a Bell meeting recently in Tennessee, tho
Hon. N. G. Taylor, a Bell Elector, spoke os fol
lows of Breckinridge and Lane. We quote from
the Jonesboro Union:
In connection with, aud as an addendum to
this, wo give also an extract from a life ofßreek
iuridgerecently published showing what Mr. Clay
thought of our glorious young chiWftain :
“In his speech at Llizabethton, Colonel Taylor
eulogized Mr. Breckinridge, tho Democratic can
didate for I’rcsidcnt, in tho most extravagant
manner ; said that he wa9 his schoolmate at
college, know him well —and knew that ho wo*
•every inch a man.’ As for General Lane, Colo
nel Taylor remarked that he was a gallant sol
dier, a patriot, and a statesman, and on the bat
tle-field of Mexico won as distinguished honor as
any of tho heroes who shouted the charge or
flashed their swords in tho face of the enemy in
that memorable content.”
“A gentleman who was constantly with Mr.
Clay during his last illness, states that, upon go
ing into his room one day, he found Mr. Breck •
inridge sitting by the bedside of the/lying states
man, reading aloud to him. After Mr. Breckin
ridge loft the room, Mr. Clay said : —“That youug
man is serving now his first term in Congress ; I
perceive in him so much judgment and talunt, so
many of the elements of true statesmanship, that
I clearly foresee that he will yearly grow iuthc
confidence and esteem of his countrymen, and
eventually receive the highest honors it is in their
power to bestow.” “
Hr. llurhananN Addrr** to the Zouaves.
On the presentation of the Chicago Zouaves
at the Whito House, August 3d, the President
said :
“Citizen Soldiers : —I feel myself greatly hon
ored by this visit, and I extend to you a cordial
welcome. In a very eminent degree you are
beuefuctors of the country. Your excursion has
been prolonged. You have visited our various
cities, and 1 have no doubt your example bus in
fused jibe military spirit into tho ]>eople. I
have never seen anything like it in any part of
the world. You must have ex|>ended a groat deal
of labor to Arrive at tho perfection you have at
tained. The regular army of the United States
is comparatively small. It never can be very
large except in timeof war. What we havo is
admirable. Nothing can be better. But the
I*eople iu this country ‘must prepare themselves
to defend their own rights and liberties,and their
own firesides and their altar*. And whatever
tends to induce a military spirit among tho peo
ple, and render them capable of standing erect
againt the world iu anus, that is surely patri
otic, that is surely beneficial to the nation, to
the whole “country; and therefore in the caru
menccinent of these remark* I called you ‘public
benefactors.’ Tho facilities of locomotion with
which any number of rnoncan be transported to
a point of attack, bring tho army to the defence
of the country at any locality. If they are pre
pared, a* you are, to defend the country,’we may
defy a world in arms. I thank you, gentlemen,
for the honor you have done me upon this ‘occa
sion. I wish you, from my heart, prosperity
and happiness in every relation of life in which
you may be placed. I wish you peace, but if
war should come, I know where you will bo
found—that is, in the front rank, battling against
the enemy.”
Colonel Ellsworth made an appropriate re
sponse.
Revolt in tuk Mississippi Pkmtentiary.—
At ono o'clock, Mouday, July 23d. as the con
victs were being passed out of tho prison to thoir
work, on the outside of the walls (some thirty
being etnployod <>n the fctnalo prison now half
way erected—tho wagon gateway passing right
through the centre of the building,) a re
volt took place among the mou belonging to
the different shops, twenty or thirty of the most
desperate men leading it, who made a rush
at the innor gate, iu tho act of being open
ed by Mr. Cox, tho turnkey, and succeeded in
forcing their way out to the outside gate, which
has to remain open during the construction of
the building. About thirty of them succeeded
in passing the gate, but were met promptly by
tho six guards on duty, with a well directed vol
ley from their muskets, four of the convicts fall
ing wounded, tho balance rushing down tho river.
A Slaver Captured.—Lieut. John N. Maf
iitt, commanding l'. 8. steamer Crusader, report*
to tho Navy Department that be captured on the
on the 23d of July, near the Island of Anguilla,
one of the Bahamas, an American brig that had
the night previous landed a cargo of slaves on
the Island of Cuba.
Politics and Crops.
Murray County, Ga. Aug. 7, 1860.
Editor Times : Thinking that a word from
this important section us our State, about politics,
tho crops, Ac., may not be uninteresting to your
numerous readers, I drop you a line in reference
to them.
Cherokee, you are aware, is the stronghold of
the Georgia Democracy, and her position upon
new political issues, determines the success of
that party, in any State canvass. I find that, in
many of tho counties I have passed through,
thero is among the people a decided sentiment in
favor of Breckinridge and LAno. Never before
bas there been so strong a Souther* Rights ele
ment in the Cherokee Democracy as now, or a
firmer resolve to resist encroachment upon our
rights of equality and liberty. Still, there is a
sprinkling of Douglas men hereabouts—men
who lead a forlorn hopo and follow the “ Little
Giant” with a jniaguiJed zeal. Tho Bell men
arc very few, and hardly have a place in tho
contest going on. In ‘act, tho candidacy of John
Bell is regarded here as a sort of hoax upon tho
people, and his name is seldom alluded to in a
political speech, unless for tho purpose of exci
ting a littlo meriment as to his ebaneoa for suc
cess. This may not be true of other sections of
the State, however. I only speak for the coun
ties recently visited, and from observations made
among the people of this part of the State.
On Friday last, there was an enthusiastic rati
fication meeting held in Spring Place, by the
friends of Breckinridge and Lane. The Demo
crats were out in full numbers. Tho people ap
peared deeply interested in the questions raised
for their decision at the ballot box, and showed a
resolute spirit to meet and resist the coming wave
of fanaticism before it should engulph the coun
try. Hon. J. W. 11. Underwood, the present
member of Congress from this distnet, mado an
able and eloquent speech, setting forth clearly
the issues of the canvass, and warning the coun
try of its danger, and of the rightful remedy.
In the course of bis remarks, Judge Underwood
alluded in complimentary terms to the “Ficc
haters,” paid a deserved tribute to the Southern
Right* party of 1831, and regretted that candor
compelled him to say that bis Unionism in those
stirring times was one of tho political errors of
his life. His eloquent appeals in behalf of the
young, sad gifted, and gallant Breckinridge
and the bravo and honest Joe Lane-—were en
thusiastically received.
Judge U. was followed by lion. W. 11. Dab
ney, of Gordon, a clear-headed gentleman, who
traced with a masterly hand the rise, progress,
and present fruits of abolitionism, and exhorted
Southern men against further submission. Ho
touched upon points that had been elaborated by
the first speaker. Capt. Colquitt, of your city,
being in the audience, was called out and deliv
ered a short, but effective speech. Capt. C. has
Ween active and zealous in the good cause, during
a brief sojourn in this section of the State, and
has mado many new and warm friends in Chero
kee. Ho was folio wed by Hon. E. 11. Harden of
Whitfield, who made a brief, but impressive and
effective speech, in defence of our cause. The
Democracy, you may rest assured, were thor
oughly aroused, und tho Douglas men discomfit
ed. The day passed off with much eclat to tho
Breckinridge party. Let South-Western Geor
gia stand by her colors, and a glorious victory
will be won in November. The voice of the peo
ple is for Breckinridge and Lane! Cherokee will
roll up her accustomed majority for our noble
candidates, for where the Democracy lose by the
Douglas disaffection they gain in accossions from
the ranks of the Opposition.
The crops are now looking quite promising.
Thero will be fair average crops of corn and
cotton made iu this section of the State, though
they were extremely backward a few weeks ago,
owing to tho late severe storms of wind and hail.
We have had plenty of rain in most places—just
in time to mako fair crops. Hot weather here, as
everywhere else, I believe—the therinometor.in
dicating 90 to 95 —as a general thing. The great
Meteor of Thursday night was seen here in all ita
splendor, and at once became tho theme of uni
versal and excited conversation. It made its ap
pearance coming from the South-East between
10 and 11 o’clock, A. M. J. j
Hon. J l\ Breckinridge no Kmanripatlonlsl.
An Error ( orrerted.
Newcastle, Kr., July 23, iB6O, j
lion. A. li. Meek: —Dear Sir: A sow days i
ago, 1 noticed an extract from a newspaper pub- 1
ltshed in Alabama, giving an account of a speech
raid to havo been made by a Douglas orator, iu
which tho speaker represented the Hon. John C.
Breckinridge as having been at one time an j
emancipationist. That distinguished gentleman j
is now in a position which forbids hi* noticing
misrepresentations of bis present or past political j
sentiments, and that duty necessarily devolves ou
his friend*. Such a statement made in Kentucky
where Major Breckinridge is well known, would
only subject its author to contempt. But made
ina diflerenJtSlate and amongst a people who have
no sympathy with anti-slavery sentiments, the
charge, if uncoutradicted, may injure him. The
Louisville Democrat, which is the principal squat
ter sovereignty organ in Kentucky, expresses the
opinion in a late number that the charge may be
true, because Major B.’s undo, tho Rev. Dr. Rob
ert J. Breckinridge, was an Emancipationist can
didate for the Constitutional Convention in this
State in 1849. What could havo been the object
of tho editor it Is impossible to determine, unless
it was to give color to a charge which hp must
know is untrue. It may bo that the editorial al
luded.Wwiil be garbled in your State so as to mako
it positive evidence that the charge is true. But
to the facts :
In 1849, Kentucky elected delegates to & con
vention to revise her State Constitution. Eman
cipation was one of the leading questions in the
election. In mauy parts of the State i* wu* the
paramount question, and this is certainly truo oj
Fayette county, where Maj. B. then resided and
now resides. That county was entitled to two
delegates. For the purpose of testing the ques
tion on its merits, it was agreed to form a ticket
consisting of a Whig and a Democrat to be run
as a pro-slavery ticket, and similar one to be run
ns an emancipation ticket, Hon. Hubert Wickliffe
deni., and Hon. A. K. Woolley, whig, wero selec
ted us the pro-slavery candidates; aud the Kev.
lr. K. J. Breckinridge and Samuel Shy, Esq.,
were the emancipation candidate;*. A similar ar
rangement was made in regard to selecting can
didates for the Legislatnrc to be elected at the
same time. Hon. John C. Breckinridge, Detn.,
and Dr. Price, Whig, were nominated a? pro-sla
very candidates for the*Logislature. Duriug tho
canvass, Messrs. Wickliffe and Woolley, wore
both attacked with cholera and the latter died.—
Gen. James Dudley was put on the ticket in his
stead, and Wickliffe and Dudley were elected.
Duriug tho illness of Wickliffe and Wooley, Dr.
Hreekinringe was making powerful speeches iu
behalf of his cause. Fearing the resequences of
permitting so able an advocate as Dr B. to go un
answered, and havo in tho county no other pro
slavery advocate who could participate in the
canvass and do justice to the cause, Major Breck
inridge was induced to temporarily abandon his
own canvass aud meet his distinguished relative
in debate. This he did to the entire satisfaction
of his friends. He spoke and voted against the
emancipation candidates.
In Kentucky the voting is done rtra rore, each
vote is recorded in favor of u candidate for whom
it is cast, aud the poll books aro preserved in the
County Court Clerk's offices of the respective
counties. By writing to the County Court Clerk
of Fayette county you can obtain Major Breck
inridge's vote in 1549 officially certified. The
facts which l have stated can be proven by a mul
titude of witnesses in Fayette county.
I regret the necessity of ever having to meet
unjust and false charges against a political
friend. Major Breckinridgo never was an eman
cipationist.
1 had hoped that in the South at least we would
havo honesty and fairness in conducting the
canvass.
If tho slareholding States are willing to relin
quish their equality in the Confederacy, let it be
done in in an open, manly way.
Very truly, yours
JAMES O. LEACH.
Duel tag
Within the past few months duelling has be
come a mania with our citizens. Almost every
difficulty that has occurred in Mocon within that
time has resulted in one party receiving a chal
lenge to mortal combat on the field of honor.—
Most of those affairs have been settled by the par
ties, without resorting to “pistols and coffee,” the
“scissors of Delilah, the tenpenny nail of Joel, or
the scimitar of Goliah,” but wo learn that a dif
ficulty occurred between two young gentlemen in
this city a few days since, and that one of the
parties challenged tho other, which challenge was
treated with cool indifference. Tho injured par
ty after waiting a few days and not receiving any
notice of tho iutention of the others despatched
another cartel by his second, and the challenged
party “pitched into” his antagonist's second, and
we learn, gave him several blows which we opine
were not very agreeable to the recipient thereof.
We would advise gentlemen to koep cool during
the dog days.—ifucen Telegraph.
jLrttfr Trom Thomas J. Judge, Esq.,
Edi. Mail: —On my return Lome, after an a)
sence of several weeks, I find a large number
letters to uie froth different gentlemen, and c m
mittens of invitation, soliciting mo to attend
beeuc • and mass meetings of the people, ot \
ous places, both in and out of the State, und
make addresses at them, in favor of the v ; •
Rights Constitutional candidates, Breckteridgi
and Lane. Having inode no response to thi <
several communications, in consequence ot inv
absence, and the days designated for the bolding
of most of the meeting having passed, 1 now,
lest ray silence might be misunderstood, ask lea\-
gratefully to acknowledge, through the medium
of your paper, the receipt of these invitation.*,
and to give assurance thut it would havo been a
pleasure to me, if I could, to ba\e been present
at them all, and to have rendered my feeble aid
to the noble cause of State Rights und State
Equality.
The present ia emphatically the State Right d
era. At the end or a contest, the most heroic in
the annuls of American politics, the Constitution
al men of the Democracy succeeded in extorting
from thut party an enunciation of fundament'’!
principles the soundness aud purity <>! which ha\.
silenced cavil at tho South, and which must com
mand the approval of all State Rights politicians
of whatever iormer associationr, excepting -niy
that class whose limited ideas of public policy >i
not allow them to forget or sacrifice a name. Ir
is thus that I characterize this as the Era
State Rights. Whatever fate may await the j r
ciplcs always held dear by the South, they w.
have been fairly and purely presented t-> r l<
country, for acceptance or rejection wo shall a
have voted distinctly for or against the Equality
of the States, and for or against the Equality
all whito inhabitants thereof. The perpetuity"!
the Union framed by our father-, with all it- :it
tendant blessings depends upon the issue: m. i
every patriot should ardently hopo and w-t k :< r
a favorable result. If we succeed, a glorious : ,
turc awaits us —if we fail, with clear conacicnv
we can leave the eonsaqnences with God. In the
contest, 1 shall endeavor to discharge my duty,
full faithfully.
TJIOS. J. JUDGE.
Montgomery, Ala., August Tth, 1860.
Black Republicanism in Alabama ! Iv s
diakism in Montocmkry Cocnty ! -We under
stand that a few days since—last Sunday night
a harness-maker (whose name we did not lean
was detected at l’ine Level, ia this county,
ing improper convertntiou with slaves. Agu.i
on Monday night, he was watebed and • aught
at the same patriotic business. This the citizen
thought was imposing too much on good natur
and they took the scoundrel out’ stripped him
and gave him such a flagellation with a strap :i
will make his hide tipgle for many a day to com.
The miscreant would doubtless ha\e been bar::
ed, but for his advanced air<; his head being ver>
white except where it is bald. He is of low
urc, compactly built, and had been for a few day
in the employment, as a journeyman, ot Mr. Sha
ver, of Bine Level, lie was lrin some pou.’
North—where, precisely, in not known.
We protest against tho whipping of these p<
pic. They should be hanged, or not touched
After a while, when the Texas tricks shall bu.
been practiced bar*, our citizen* will
in the rope. Meantime, let those denounce Ik.
Legislature and Governor for buying arm
tinue to howl 1—- Mont. Mail.
The Great Eastern's Trip to Cape M a i
A dispatch from Cape May the 31st .-uy
The Great Eastern arrived here at - o'clock
morning. She ha* 2087 passenger*. Ono steam
boat accompanied her to the bar last evening
She got over the bar safely at 12 minutes !••
7 p. >n. high tide, and had two feet l< spur-
She tbeu started at full speed the band playin
At Sandy Hook the eighty ton anchor wa
secured with great difficulty, the bmp of tbce.i :
block having broken. It was replaced, when
the capstan was found to be too small for the < i
ble, the slack jot which was pulled out by r
weight of the anchor. Thi* jarred the buw
the vessel tremendously, a dozen time*.
The sea was very smooth and light, and i
vessel made a graceful roll of three degrees. l.:i:
was lost eight of at half past Bp. m. At t!
time the highland lights were, last seen, and the:
was a slight base ou the water, but a spin: ;,
moonlight overhead.
Among the passenger-, there wa* much grum
ling, in consequence of the scarcity of wat
This wa* caused by tho cock of a eompartm.
having been left open, flooding the icehouse a
store room#. A considerable quantity of } r
duce and provisions was injured by thi* ui.-u
and food consequently became scarce.
At night, five hundred persons slept on t
deck, which was rendered very unplea*:ur >
thick rain of cinders. The accommodate
were very meagre. Not motb than <OIO hundi
women wero ou board. On tho voyage, u
was sold at ten cent* a glass.
An indignation meeting was held on I ■•: 1r• i
and resolutions wero parsed censuring the din
tors for tho singular conduct of the • !:• . ;
; ward the passenger*.
j The Great Eastern sails for New York nr *
o’clock to-night, and will reach there at 6 o'-■'■.•
in the morning.
I First Babies.—A somewhat extended ob.-ci
1 vation and a solitary experience, has con vino I
us that first babies have a hard time. B.mi
mutt have two or three children before they know
what a baby is, know how to treat it, and acqu : <
patience sufficient to treat it properly. I’hc p.,. r
little fellows that have tho misfortune to c, 1 .
along first have to educate parents to their ta.-k.
and in the procc?* they get spanked, and shak*;
and abused. After a man lias three or four ch,
dren, he learns that whipping, or strikiug a cb 1 :
lees than two years of ago is barbarism. V.
know ono “paternal head” who struck hi*
child when only six weeks old, the a#* actua
believing that the child knew better than i” • -
nnd that he stopjied crying at that particular!
becauso ho struck him. We carry certain
tions of children and of family government n
married life, und tho first child is always the \
tim of these notion*. And not alone of these,
tho parents have not learned self-control, and
baby il whipped quite a* often beeau ;a the pare 1
is impatient or angry, as because it is vicious •
intractable. We inflict on our first children <
floggings wo ought to have for our own imj <
tieace or fretfulness. This pounding children
fore they become, in God’s eye, morally resp
Bible beings, id very strange buxine**. i’:ili. 1.
good people—unwearying patience! Don't, w a
to learn it until uno of your little one* shall
hidden under the daisie* !
The Speed op Wind Cloud*. The i
Courier of tho 14 th u!t., says :
“On Thursday, the 12th, at or * o’cl • k. .1 1 i
lent storm moving in axouthern direction, pi i
over this place, carrying with it dense bla \
clouds of dust, leaves, branches of tree.-., and a
sorts of trash, and doiug considerable damage in
it* course.”
We were in Cuthbert ou Maid day. At ab
six o’clock in the evening a dark cloud p*
over that place in a Southern direction, aceouip •
nied by a heavy wind and sorno rain On or
return to Bainbridgo we learned that a very da
cloud passed over Baiubridgc about sundown
the same day, accompanied with heavy wiud an
rain. We suppose this to be the same gale th
passed over the city of Home, Ga. If so, St tra\
ded the distance from Rome to llainbridgc, l.
tween one o’clock and sundown. Thi* will give
about 45 miles per hour. H.i u riiij, (00. i .id
eocate.
Saw two Sunsets in’ NE day. -A Gi. n.
Siuur.-One of the finest sights Prof. Steiner, the
teronaut, says that bo ever caw, was the view h<-
had of two sunsets, while on his balloon trip fr< i
Milwaukie, on the sth iust. He was at a certain
altitude tbo first time, when ho saw the suit .
down upon Lake Michigan, and then descended
to tho waters of tbo lake. Afterwards ho com
menced rising very rapidly, and soon reached
such an altitude that tbo fiorv orb ogam begun t >
rise, apparently, from tho Western wn'ers, nud
ere long ho was once more in full run!; :M. ’!
as ho descendod again, the sun sank beneath . ■
ters a second time, thus affording two sunset \ iew
in a single day. Tbo Professor say?, as the .-un
appeared to rise the second time, it was one :
the finest visions he ever wit nets cd, and the spt
lade w as one of the most magnificent description.
[Exchange.
tnlvmlty of ticorgia.
We learn that the Trustees of this ancient In
stitution havo re-organized tho Faculty in the
manner following:
Kev. A. A. Lipscoujb, D. I>., President and
Professor of Belles Lcttrca aud Oratory,
Kev. P. H. Moll, D. D. Moral Philosophy,
Ac.,
Wm. 11. Waddel, A. M-, Ancient Literature.
Wui. Rutherford, A. M. Mathematician and
Astronomer.
Rev. Jas. Woodrow, A. M., Natural Science
and Experimental Phiiosoghy.
Daniel Lee, M. D., Terrill Professor Agr ■
tore.
Wm. D. Walsh. A. M., Adj. Prof. JUthemati
cal aud Natural Philosophy.
Tnn conn Crop.—We are inclined to belit\e
that although tbo corn crop is short, it will not
prove so generally short as the published a
counts indicated sometime since. We have with
in a sow days heard of planters in this and .< me
of the neighboring counties who will not realize
more than one-third of an average crop ; of oth
ers who will realize one-half a crop : and of oth
ers still who will realize two-thirds of a crop ;
and many will produco enough for their oun
use, with proper economy in feeding. To ac
coudt for this we may assume that some planters
planted more liberally in corn than others: some
bad more rain than their neighbors: aud other
still cultivated their corn fields more skilfully
than the rest. However, some corn crops which
promised well at ono time, were partially des
troyed by hail storms.— Montgomery Mail.
