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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
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SANDERSYILLE.. GEORGIA
TUESDAY FEB. 34, 1853.
By Telegraph, for the Republican.
Arrival of tlie Canada.
New York, Feb. 18.
The British steamship Canada has ar
rived, with Liverpool dates to the 31st uit.
Liverpool Market.—Cotton.—Sales of
the week 69,000 bales. Quotations. Fair
Orleans 5 l-4d., middling 4 7-8; Upland,
fair 5, middling 4 3-4. There has been a
good demand, which has been freely met
by holders. Speculators took 16,000 bales
and exporters 9,000. Flour is in fair de
mand and holders firm—moderate sales
have been made to the trade of Western
Canal at 23s. Corn—Yellow 29s 6d.
"White 32s.
Found Dead.—William Cook, better
known as “Oochee Bill,” was found dead on
Saturday evening last, about four miles dis
tant from this place,* on the Long’s Bridge
Road. Coroner Hansel held an inquest
over his body, and a verdict was returned
that he came to his death by intoxication.
Paints, Oils, &o.—We refer our read
ers to the advertisement of Mr. John G.
Falligant, of Savannah, who deals largely
in paints, oils, window sash, blinds, doors,
&c. We feel assured that we can recom
mend his establishment as one worthy of
patronage. He is prompt in filling orders
and puts up good articles.
E3T The ladies of New York are about
to present Chas. O’Conner, Esq., with a
massive silver Pitcher, as a token of re •
spect for his efforts in behalf of Mrs. For
rest.
J3F* The Massachusetts Legislature are
talking about appointing an investigating
Committee in the matter of the free negroes
who were convicted and sold in Galveston,
a short while since, for attempting to ab
duct slaves. They were citizens of Massa
chusetts.
JtST The Vicksburgh Whig has made a
call for a Whig convention in Mississippi*
It says that 6000 Union Democrats have
no right to dictate to 25,000 Union Whigs,
and that the latter cannot be expected to
abandon and disavow their old principles.
MORE NEWS BY THE CANADA.
Liverpool, Jan. 31.
Cotton.—After the sailing ol the Pacific
the market became quiet, an .1 prices un
steady. The Franklin's advices subse
quently cause a brisk demand, prices re
vived and the market closed at the extreme
rates of the week. Should the next two or
three steamers from America continue to ad
vise active markets there, prices here will
improve. A large business has been done! ^ Liberia > U is said > is excellently well
at Manchester, at good prices. Sales of the ; adapted to the culture of cotton. Specimens
week, fifty-two thousand bales American from there are highly praised. It seems to
The New York Tribune announces
the failure of Messrs. Moulton, Hacker &
Helfer, in the dry goods trade, of that
city. Their liabilities are estimated at
! 8600,000.
Cotton
FRANCE.
The internal condition of Fiance is agi
tated by the Orleanist decrees, and the
public reprobation of these measures is
loudly expressed. A rumor was current
that the decrees will be modified and sub
mitted to the Senate for ratification. La
Patrie, however, denies, this statement.
Prince Jerome Bonaparte is appointed
president of the Senate.
Two thousand additional prisoners will
be transported to Algeria.
On the 30th ult, the President gave a
grand dinner to the English ambassador,
at which he expressed great regret that the
belief was prevalent in England that his
intention were hostile to that country. He
had lived there long enough to acquire re
spect for its people and institutions, and
had many friends theie.
England.—England was quiet when
the Canada sailed—the French war rumor
having been contradicted.
Singular if True.—The Delta makes a
very curious statement in reference to Gen.
Scott. It says that an offer was made to
Lira, when in the city of Mexieo, after its
capture, by several of the wealthiest persons
in the Republic to maintain him as Presi
dent of Mexico, with as much of his army
as would be willing to remain in the coun
try, until the government could be organ
ized, and peace, order and prosperity re
stored. As an inducement to accept this
offer, these gentlemen bound themselves to
settle on General Scott, the sum of one mill
ion of dollars.
be the intention to apply some attention to
its cultivation.
The Chickasaw (Miss.) Banner has
put up the names of Millard Fillmore and
James C. Jones, as candidates for the Pre
sidency and Vice Presidency.
A Large Hotel.—The Metropolitan
Hotel, located on the site of Niblo’s Gard
en in the city of New York, cost $500,000
for the building alone; ard the cost of
furnishing it will be about 8100,000. Its
front on Broadway is 526 feet.
The Messrs. Leland & Brothers, of the
Clinton, will take charge of it, and it will be
opened early in the spring. They are land
lords what is landlords. If a man ever
stops with them he will never change his
quarters in New York.
New Post-Office.—The N. York Tri
bune learns from those who are we 11 inform
ed, that negotiations are ia progress be
tween the Government at Washington and
Alexander T. Stewart, a dry goods mer
chant of that city, which may result in the
purchase of the splendid marble store be
longing to Mr. S., to be fitted up as the New
York Post-office.
The Temperance people of N. York
are making a desperate struggle to get the
Legislature of their State to adopt the
Tins spl ndil offer, the “Maine Liquor Law,” which interdicts en-
i>eka says was declined by the General tirely the trade iatBat line,
with scarcely a moment s consideration. J
This story strikes us as altogether apoc
ryphal.
U. S. Senators.—The Legislature of
If such an incident really occurred ! ft-.-., „ , , . ,i TJ -nr
it is wonderful how it could have escaped; M.ss ,s sipp. have elected the Hon. Walter
. Sent,!, is noted for ^ROOKS, Union Whig, and
publicity so long. Gen. Scott is noted tor j
the free garrulity with which he speaks of
all things calculated to display his own
merits in the highest light. He could have
had no motive for keeping the seal of si
lence on such a transaction. Besides, it
must have been known also to some of his
officers, if not the entire army, and could
not have escaped publicity, in the thousand
the Hon. Ste-
tiien Adams, Union Democrat, U. States
Senators, from that State, the former to fill
the vacancy of Gov. Foote, the latter that
of Gen. Davis.
Singular Accident. — The Augusta
Constitutionalist & Republic of Wednes
day says : “A few days ago as a Mr. Bow
en, of this city, was in the act of loading a
six-barrel revolver, the pistol burst in his
hand, and drove a fragment of the barrel
into his left thigh, inflicting a painful
wound. At the moment of explosion,, he
was driving the ball down. What is sin
gular, is, that the force of the explosion,
though sufficient to burst the barrel, did
not throw the ball out of the barrel. On
examination, it was found that the barrels
NewYork Correspondence of the Central Georgian.
New York, Feb. 13. 1852.
Mr. Editor
The English papers brought by the Pa
cific ate full of - long articles on the proba
bility of a French invasion. The Times
treats it as a serious affair, and the foreign
correspondents of the London papers say,
that no pains are taken in Paris, to conceal
the wish of the Army, that the disgrace
suffered at Waterloo shall be wiped out by
the conquest of England.
Wonders will never cease. A Mr. John
McCormick announces his intention of
walking across a ceiling of polished Italian
were bored out of pieces of the common- marb ^ e > bbe New York Ampitheatre
on Monday night. His feet are to be up
permost, and he will thus resist all the
laws of gravitation. He affirms that his
discovery has cost him years of study.
This is the first time we have heard of him,
here; but he comes well recommended
from Pittsburgh.
Some people here are carious to know
how Greely can reconcile it with his con
science, to advertise spirituous liquors for
sale. Greely is the strongest teetotaller in
est cast iron.
This should be a caution to persons not
to buy cheap and worthless fire-arms, that
are often ftiore dangerous to the owner than
an antagonist.”
Letter from Mr. Stephens.—The Chro
The Indians in Florida.—The Jack
sonville News, of 14th says that it learns
from a a reliable source, that Capt. Jerni-
gan has received authority from Gov.
Brown to raise a company of fifty Mounted
Volunteers, for the protection of the settle
ment about Fort Garlin, and an order from
Capt J. for provision and stores was brought
to Jacksonville by the steamer Thorn from
Lake Monroe. This looks belligerent.
We perceive by the New York papers
that a detachment of U. S. troops’ num
bering 51, sailed from Fort Wood for Flor
ida, on Thursday last, in the bark Exact.
Utah.—Information from Utah Territo
ry to the 29th ult., represents that the au
thorities of the Territory have selected a
site for their capital, about a mile from
Chalk Creek, in Pauvan Valley, one hun
dred and fifty-one miles Southerly from the
great Salt Lake City. The site is reported
to be very favorable one. The new city is
to be called Fillmore , and the county in
which it is located Millard. The Deseret
News contains a letter, addressed by Judge
Z. Snow to the Editor, defending the Gov
ernor and the Legislature of the Territory
touching the questions at issue between
them and the retired functionaries, and
thence justifying his own action in opening
the Territorial Courts.
State Convention.—The Central Exec
utive Committee of the Democratic party
have designated the 31st of March as the
day for the assembling of the Convention
of that party. The object of the Convention
as it is known, is for the appointment
of delegates to the Baltimore Conven
tion, and to select Presidential Elector*
for the State.
J?®”The Hon. Stephen A. Douglass has
been named by Jackson Association of New
Orleans, as a suitable person to receive
nomination of the Baltimore Convention
for the Presidency.
NLT Tennent Lomax, Esq., has become
associated with the Columbus Sentinel. It
is now edited by Chambers & Lomax.
Graham.—We have the March No. of
Graham on our table. Subscription 83
per year in advance. Address George R.
Graham, 134, Chesnut street, Philadelphia.
N3P The Committee of arrangements
for the American Art Union Society have
announced that the drawing will positively
take place on the 30th of March next. Sub
scriptions will be received at this office.
Price 85.
■88P The Proprietor of the Marshall
House at Savannah, proposes to rent it.
OCU There was a riot at Cleveland, Chio,
a short while since, in consequence of the
discovery of some dead bodies near the col-
lege. The military was called out.
A telegraphic dispalch dated on the 17th
says This caused great excitement, and
to satify the public mind, a committee of
five citizens was appointed to go through
nicle & Sentinel publishes a letter from the the * buildin g and examine every part. At
1 dark, the crowd increased largely, and hun
and one letters, which the Delta, Picayune,; Hon. A. H. Stephens, to a friend in this
and other papers, furnished from their cor-j state, in which he savs that he is utterly
Respondents in Mexico, pending the war, or 1 opposed to the movement of the MillecUe-
mthe numerous histories, narratives, and tt , x ,, „ f
sketches, which Kendall, Sjmmes, Ripley, | e cano “ s ' n <= hel.evos that the Dn.on
Mayne, Reed, and the Mexican writers on i P ai ty ou gm to be preserved and occupy an
the “Other Side,” besides many others, 1 independent position towards the old par-
have subsequently given to the world. jties. ^
We cannot for a moment believe that I * ———
such an offer ever was made to “Old Cha-1 Habitual Drunkards.—The New Or-
pultepec,” but rather suspect tha- it is a leans Delta says that General Martin, Sen-
Roorback gotten up for electioneering pur- J a tor from Assumption, has introduced into
Fh°fn"T, th0,,gh ’ ®. fco " rs< \''« c ?“"» t regard ! tLc Legislature of Louisiana a bill inter-
Mobile Register. j dieting habitual drunkards. It proposes to
• — I place habitual drunkards in the same posi-
Cured of Drunkenness.—A Norfolk (Va,) ; tion, in regard to the manao-ernpnf nf 1 " ~l U 7“ ‘T 5 “‘ was msueu
paper says that a man not fifty miles from f S i V *, ^ • ^ , of then ; to a barber’s pole and carried about the
there, notoriously addicted ^to this vice- |P ,0 P ert y and farad y aftmrs, as that which , streets. The building was twice fired but
dreds, with lanterns, bludgeons, &c, were
congregated about the building. Every
door from the first to the fourth story, was
burst in by the committee, the mob occu-
pving the stairs, passages, &c., awaiting
their report.
In the dissecting room, situated in the
cock-loft, the committee found the bodies of
a man and woman partly dissected, and
a dr y good box filled with feet heads, trunks
and other portions of bodies. One of the
committee recognized the hands of his own
daughter by unmistakable marks. The
crowd then went in and ransacked the
rooms, casting their contents from the win-
! dows. A full length skeleton was lashed
hearing an uproar in his kitchen one eve i tbft ^ aw ass 'g ns to lunatics and minors, j extinguished by the authorities. The light
ning, had the curiosity to step, without noise, * Tbe y ar ® to have curators, with powers of ArtlI, ® r y and several military companies
to the door, to know what was the matter,! administration ; they are to be incapable of i out aad are ‘ on guard, as
when he beheld his servants indulging in! su i n „„ rb . in „ 8 J J i 7 t u“., r *^ th VL V ' la "* 0nt,es -
the most unbounded roars of laughter at a 1 * own name; I the mob has continued about the build-
couple of negro boys, who were mimicking j they cou,d not be merab ers of a coropora-, 1D g during the whole day, and fears are en-
himself in his drunken fits, showino- how ! ^ on ’ nor executor or administrators of an | tertamed of a renewal of the attack to-night,
he reeled and staggered—how he looked! estate. Suchwojldbe the legal effects of Sheriff has called on all good citizens
and nodded—how he hiccupped and turn- j interdiction,
bled. The picture which these children! „ —
of nature drew of him, and which had filled! Superintend ant of the C. R. Road.—
the rest with so forciblythat lie became a
to aid in quelling the riot.
New York, on paper, and goes in strong, in
his speeches, for the Maine Liquor Law.
One of the jurors who was engaged in
the late trial of the Forrest case, has pre
served his shilling, and had the following
inscription engraved upon it: “The fee re
ceived for six weeks’ duty as Juror on the
Forrest trial, and worn as a memento of the
perfect innocence of Mrs. Catherine N.
Forrest.”
Yesterday morning, I became unexpect
edly aware of the existence of a business of
a somewhat novel kind. As I am slowly
recovering from a very dangerous sickness,
my doctor advises me to drive seven or
eight miles out of the city every morning,
before breakfast; and, as I was returning,
yesterday, I was somewhat surprised to see
live or six carts approaching a large stone
building, each cart followed by some 150 or
200 dogs, which barked and yelled, and
sprang up round the carts, in a most furi
ous manner. The drivers had great diffi
culty in keeping them oft with their whips.
Cariosity impelled me to follow the carts up
to the building, through a gate of which
they enter* d, the dogs yelling terrifically
round the outer walls, when they found
themselves shut out. u Strange to say, they
took no notice either f me or my horse,
which is an old traveller, and used to
strange sights and adventures.
I got out of my buggy, tied my horse up,
went round to the front door of the build
ing, knocked, was admitted to the office,
and there saw one of the proprietors of the
concern, whom I had long known down
town, without thinking or caring what his
business was. He was a fine gentlemanly
! fellow, and that was all I wanted to know
of him. My friend blushed when he first
saw me, but immediately made an effort to
put the best possible face on the matter,
took my hand,, and offered to show me
round the premises.
We proceeded to the yard, where the
carts that had first attracted inv attention
had just emptied their contents, which were
nothing more nor less than some thous
ands of dead rats! The dogs were still
yelping outside, which fully accounted for
the miik in that Coaca-nut. My friend
proceeded to inform me, that he supplied
most of the leading dealers in New York
with fur, and that this fur was obtained by
him from Mr. Henry R. Costar of this city.
I should sav r rather, that the rats are ob
tained from Mr. Costar, and are skinned in
this establishment, which is owned by a
company that employ over thirty hands in
the various departments. I went over the
whole building, in several rooms of which,
the stench was intolerable, and, as a de
scription, the details of what I saw would,
I am sure, affect the appetites of many of
your readers. I will not attempt it. I will
remark, however, that when 1 asked my
friend how he disposed of the skinned car
cases, he shut his left eye, tapped his nose
with his right fore-finger, and remarked,
significantly, that there is, in every busi
ness, a thing or two that the proprietors
prefer to keep to themselves. He then
pointed to a door, through which I could
hear such a noise as is made by a farmer’s
wife, in making sausage-meat after a pig
has been killed—only much louder, as if
some scores of persons were engaged in
earning their bread by the sweat of their
brow. I must confess that I got quite
qualmish ; but my friend treated it as a
mere matter of business, and remarked,
pointing to the door, “No one but those
connected with the establishment is admit
ted there, or I would be happy to show you
in.” “How hardened a man will get to
any business,” thought I, as I drove home.
This Mr. Costar, I have since learned,
manages to catch so many rats, by the aid
of a chemical preparation known only to
himself, which, when placed in a house in
fected with vermin of any kind, induces
them to»come forth and eat it, when they
die in a few minutes. He has already
cleared many of our large public buildings
of rats, and a large number of citizens have
signed a petition to the Common Council,
to allow Mr. Costar*to clear the entire city
of rats, which lie offers to do at so much a
bushel, and to receive no pay until the rece
is exterminated from the city. One great
advantage of his preparation is, that it is
quite harmless in its effects upon human
beings, if taken by mistake. If Costar gets
the contract, he is under bonds to furnish
Genin, the hatter, with several thousand
skins a week. Genin will then dress them,
transmogrify them into tippets, say they
come from some'Russian place with an un
ground in favor of the Maine Liquor Law,
and advised the audience not to vote for
any man opposed it.
The numerous friends of Kossuth in this
city are anxiously awaiting his reply to the
letter of Mr, Szermere, now of Paris, but
formerly one of Kossuth’s cabinet. This
letter has created a profound sensation, here
among all circles, as Mr. Szermere is well
known to have been a most thorough re
publican, and to cling to his principles, in
his exile, with as much tenacity as ever.
The letters of Count Casimer Batthvani
and others created no excitement here, as
these gentlemen all avow themselves to be
aristocrats, but the grave charges against
Kossuth preferred by Mr. Szermere must
be refuted before any more funds of conse
quence are placed at the disposal of the
former. Yours truly,
PULASKI.
[for THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.]
TO
The Constitutional Union Party.
A little more than a year has .passed since
you organized as a party, to maintain the
Constitution and preserve the Union of the
States, the integrity of which was ruthles s-
ly assailed, by fanaticism both North and
South.
Wisely determining that the issues which
had hitherto divided you as whigs aDd
democrats, were of minor importance, com
pared with those then engrossing the pub
lic mind—which involved nothing less than
the peace, happiness and permanence of the
Republic—forgetting past party differences,
you assembled in convention, and, standing
upon the broad platform of the Constitu
tion, you determined to preserve the Union
as the ASgis of your political safety. You
sought no concealment of your principles,
but gave your banner to the breeze, upon
whose broad folds were inscribed, “The
Constitution, the Union.” Under this flag
you have lately passed through an arduous
and Host exciting campaign, and in the
election of your candidate for Governor,
achieved a victory almost unprecedented in
the annals of party.
Your opponents, in that contest, claim
ing to be the only true friends of the South,
and adopting the sectional name of “South
ern Rights,” came to the coutest with an
ardent zeal and an enthusiasm worthy a
better cause. Every argument was em
ployed, every stratagem of party warfare
put in requisition, and when truth was
found powerless to injure, the blackest
calumny (Vide handbill circulated in
this county the week before the elec
tion) was resorted to in order to insure
your defeat. You were denounced as “sub-
missionists,” “Federalists,” “Traitors to the
South,” &c., &c. Your standard bearer
had been selected because of his known de
votion to your principles, and the zeal and
ability which he displayed in his endeavors
to haimonize the conflicting elements and
still the turbulent waves of the political
ocean, whose angry tossings had threatened
fact that these only guardians of Southern
Rights, who would hold no fellowship with
either the great national parties, now as-
sumtng to be the real Simon Pure Demo
cracy, have determined, proh pudor to ask
to be permitted to “affiliate” with Northern
Democrats in the Baltimore Convention —
Jeru-sa-lem !—“What a fell i s there my
countrymen!” Can the annals of party
give us a paralell case of party prostitution?
But the consistency of this party is even
exceeded by its mociesty ; for, having, by
some sort of IJocus Pocus become Demo
cratic,—with what new-born zeal, how
like a “sucking dove”—it woos vou Demo
cratic Union men to “return” to the fold,
wanderers from the faith, you are invited to
return to your more consistent brethren:
arid as an incentive to this affiliation, you
are told that the Constitutional Union par
ty is dissolved;—and while in one breath
you are informed that it has accomplished
the object of its formation, in the next you
hear it ridiculed as a splendid failure—a
veritable humbug.
Those of you who have watched the
course of your Southern Rights neighbors,
can be at no loss, to account for the satis
faction with which the contemplated disrup
tion of thg Union party is hailed. The wish
is father to the thought. Strong in your
union to maintain great principles, you are
invincible, as your opponents have found,
and unless by cunning and fraud, you can
be divided, all hope of success to those who
oppose you, is cut off.
A few pertinent reflections and we are
done. What has become of the terrible
dangers which threatened the “South” dur
ing the late canvass, and which could only
be averted by the election of Southern Rights
men ?
If, as was proclaimed, “the South could
affiliate with neither of the national parties
north,” what has either of those parties
done siuce that time, that renders that affil
iation not only proper, but necessary ?
In conclusion, Union men, pause before
you affiliate with those, whose only object
is, to divide and conquor.
A UNION MAN.
National Whig Convention.—The New
York Tribune is opposed to the assembling
of a Whig National Convention. It says:
“We do not believe there need be any
Whig National Convention held ; we be
lieve any one which may be held will be
productive of mischief a'one. All the States
which are likely to go Whig at all—in
cluding Kentucky and Tennessee—will no
minate Winfield Scott by State Conventions,
if necessary, and choose Electors to vote for
him. And no matter how the delegates to
a Whig National Convention may be chos
en, it will nominate Gen. Scott for Presi
dent. Such a convention may do sundry
foolish and mischievous things—things cal
culated to embarrass the party in the pend
ing canvass and reduce Gen. Scott’s majori
ty—but no convention can be got together
of which a majority will vote to run the
ship on the rocks when they might just as
well cany her gallantly into port with the
signal of triumph streamirg at the mast
head.”
Leap J ear Party.—The young ladies
of Mifledeville and its -vicinity, availing
themselves of the privileges of the sex dur-
ing Leap Year, gave a party on St. Valen-
the destruction of the gallant old ship of j flP®’ 8 (V* 13th , ™ ,lanl ) . wh “* *•
State itself. Uoon the 10 their s P lnt SooA
. like creditable
Upon the platform oi your
principles as embodied in the resolu
tions of the late convention, it was at first
hoped that the friends of the country would
all stand ; but, strange to say, while it was
adopted by large majorities of several of the where a short
Titoors for Florida.—The Charleston
pronounceable name, and thus perhaps
. — — .— vr get from many a lady a high price for the
j Tbe Board of Directors of the Central Rail' Mercur > 7 Ra ys that the steamer Florida sail- hide of one of the quondam occupants of a
mRD, to ihe unspeakable joy Road have appointed Mr. McPherson B | ed that city on Wednesday for Palatka 1 ’
Milieu Superintendant of this Road, in the i ^^ a *) v,db Companies H. and I., U. S: Ar-
place of W. M. Wadley resigned. Mr. M., i dde, y» un der command of Capt. H. Swart-
r is highly spoken of by the Savannah pa-1 ^°1 t ’ lieutenants A, J. Cook, H. Benson,
of bis wife and children.
Many people drop tears at the sight of
distress, who would do much better to drop
x penees. ' '
pers.
C. R. P. Butler, J. Perry; 109 privates and
non-com missioned officers.
hole in her cellar kitchen.
There was a grand turn-out of the Tem
perance Alliance, on Tuesday night, at the
Metropolitan Hall. Nearly five thousand
persons were present, including about
twelve hundred ladies. The speakers were
nearly all clergyman, and they took strong
Southern States, and while in Georgia, the
Southern Rights party made professions of
regard for it, in the fierce and bitter strife
with which they warred against its framers,
is exposed the hostility to its principles
which they labored to conceal.
But the campaign ended in a defeat of
your opponents in Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi—no less joyous to the friends
of the Union than astounding to all others.
As your Southern Rights neighbors bad
made no tangible declaration of rights, as
there were no certain principles they were
unanimous in advocating, and as, while thev
professed to adopt your principles and stand
upon your platform, they labored to destroy
the one and decoy the other. You could
discover no other bond of union holding
them together than hostility to the Gov
ernment for past, and apprehended, future
grievances, and an entire distrust of both
the great national parties. In fact, this
latter, as formally announced by the Nash
ville Convention, was everywhere acquiesced
in by them—all affiliation with either was.
denounced as incompatible with the rights
of the South.
Two successive defeats, it seems, were
enough, not only, to damp the ardour, but
to annihilate the hopes of the mostsanguine;
and the death of the Southern Rights party
has been proclaimed, in Georgia, by those
party presses which were identified with it.
It is dead, we are told, and, although no
mourning columns, nor funeral eulogium,
have hallowed its memory, yet,nevertheless,
“it is dead.” The evident satisfaction with
which its decease is chronicled by its late
friends—the complacency with which its
“death” is regarded, is enough to excite
suspicion ; for the destruction of a party is
certainly not a subject for gratulation among
its members ; nor does its decease usually
create such evident satisfaction. But when,
with this we see a majority of this party,
without any disavowal of their late hersies,
without any formal renunciation of their
principles—laying aside their cherished cog
nomen of “Southern Rights,” and assum
ing another;—we are forced to conclude that
the principles of the party are the same.—
I he Leopard has not changed his spots, he
has only chaged his ground ; and the cloak,
Democratic, thrown ground Southern Rights’
shoulders, is only to conceal its principles
and thereby delude the unwary.
But this is still further confirmed by the
The Representative Hall having been
cleared of its chairs and desks, was hand
somely lighted and decorated with ever
greens; and the merry dance reigned,
time before, grave affeirs of
State were settled by the matter of fact
Representatives of the people. The Senate
Chamber was appropriated to the edibles,
which *vere of a quality to excite the alimen-
tiveness of an ascetic. If as some shrewd
feminine observer said; men’s affections
may be gained liuough the medium of the
stomach sooner than by any other means,
great must have been the execution done a-
mong the hearts of the gentleman on that
occasion.
Whether the young ladies exereised the
important privilege of “popping the ques
tion,” may doubtless be known by a future
reference to our Hymenial department; it
being understood that any un usual increase
in our announcements of that character,
w *ll indicate that they did, as it is not to be
supposed that any gentleman with a heart
in his bosom, could do otherwise than re
fer the fair questioner to his Pa, in such
trying circumstances.—Milledgeville Re
corder.-
Great Hunt in Florida.—The Jackson
ville News says:—“The party of gentlemen
from Camden county, Ga., who went up the
river on a “hunt,” about ten days ago,
—consisting of Major D. Bailey, Wm. Bai
ley, Dr. Barnard, B. B. Gowen, A. Dnfour,
D. L. Clinch and F. Clark, have sent a full
account of theirglorious success. We make
the following extract:
“Having had unusual good luck in our
hunt, I takepleasurein communicating to you
the glorious result. No party of hunters
have ever been so successful ss the hunters
from Old Camden. Our party—composed
of eight—encamped on the Haw Creeks,
and in six days’ hunting destroyed 48 Deer,
57 Turkeys, 1 monster Panther, and 5 Wild
Cattle. Dr. Barnard well deserves the
name of the famous Crocket, having killed a
Bear and captured two others, hazarding his
own life in the undertaking. Sargeant
Gowen killed 3 Alligators, 1 measuring
eighteen feet four inches’, he was a monster.
The credit of killing the Panther is given to
myself. A portion of our party returned
much sooner than we expected, owing to
the measles, which made 'its appearance in
camp. No doubt if we had all remained
we would have killed a much larger num
ber. Wehad the pleasure of passing our
friend W. Bailey through the ordeal of
sprinkling with blood, having killed his first
deer. I believe I have given you all the