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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
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* not paid in advance,
$1 60
$2 00
**limp$es at Havana.
«Jh ic q ,T tKef0ll0V¥i ^ P^age from a
frn . 4 ' co “ munic ated to the South-
‘XfS ,X the Rev * J * R- Kendrick,
v i t . S1 1 * t ^ an< i of Cuba, for his
• whose return by the last steam-
er, in li>ll possession of the object of his
quest, has occasioned much joy to his par
ishioners. 1
THE VOLANTE,
A striking peculiarity of Havana, is its
iavonte vehicle, the volante, much resembling
the old-fashioned chaise that was formerly
u -!f. ,.^7 us » and antique specimens of which
still linger m town and country. A com
mon volante, with common appurtenances
—a poor little horse with his tail braided
and tied to the harness, and a tall, dirtv ca-
icsaro or rider—forms one of the mostgro
tesque and ludicrous spectacles imaginable.
d>ut when the vehicle is finely built and cov
ered with silver adornments, and when the
fat sleek horse, (or horses, for frequently
two are attached,) rejoices in a harness glit
tering with silver decorations, and when the
ebony calasero, wearing a coat rich in manv
colors, with his legs encased in huge boots,
the tops of which reach several inches above
his knees, and flourishes his huge silver
spurs, the sense of the ludicro.us is a good
deal subdued and mingled with feelings of
wonder and admiration. Such is, inlfact, I
the appearance of most of the private volan-
tes ot Havana, and when they are drawn
np in long lines on the paseo, or are seen
dashing along one of the great drives in the
neighborhood of the city, their air is very
distingue. A well appointed volante on
the battery in Charleston would create a
greater impression than Prince President
Napoleon in his latest royal republican
chariot. And this, I will say in addition, for
this singular vehicle, that is by far the most
comfortable conveyance that I have ever
met with. It is a genuine luxury to ride
in one.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA-
TUESDAY JUNE 8, 1853.
Democratic Nomination*
The Baltimore Democratic Convention
met on Tuesday last, and,after some “noise
and confusion” Gen. Franklin Pierce of
New Hampshire was, on the fortieth ballot ?
unanimously declared the choice of the con
vention, for the Presidency, receiving 200
votes.
The Southern States went for him in a
body, followed by Maryland, New York and
Pennslyvania.
The news occasioned great joy at Concord
and at Salem, Mass., in which cities the
bells were rung.
The Hon. William Rufus King, of
Alabama, was nominated on the 2d ballot
for Vice President.
A platform waspiesented to the Conven
tion, comprising the resolutions adopted
by the Convention of 1844, with others ap
proving in most decided terms of the com
promise measures, including the fugitive
slave law, and strongly deprecating all at
tempts to repeal or disturb any of said
measures. The resolutions were unani
mously passed, after which the Convention
adjourned sine die on Saturday last.
Pub. Documents.—We are again under
obligations to our able and courteous Re
presentative, A. H. Stephens, for a number
of Congressional documents, speeches, &c.
MUSIC ON THE PLAZA.
One of the pleasures of a sojourn in Ha
vana is found in the fine music which is dis
coursed on every pleasant evening in the
Plaza Des Armas, in front of the Captain
General’s Palace. This is not one of your
music once a week in Scudder’s balcony,”
such as was wont to regale the pedestrians
of Broadway, or music three times a week
on the Battery, such as we sometimes have
in Charleston, but something worthy of
the name. A magnificient military band,
composed of about fifty performers, is sta
tioned in the centre of the Plaza, and exe
cutes, in perfect style, a variety of difficult
and pleasing pieces. They commonly begin
witn operas and end with Spanish dances
which are charming from their simplicity
and thoroughly national character; they car
ry one straight across the waters to the olive
shaded hills and valleys of Old Spain. The
same band never plays on two consecutive
evening, but the various one, of which is a
large number, take their turn in regular
succession. While the music is giving out
its melodies, the Plazas is crowded with
promenaders. These are chiefly gentlemen
though now and then some senoras and
and some senoritas mingled with the throng,
making I am obliged to say, rather a sorry
figure with their mincing, ungraceful walls
As the music ceases, the crowd disperses,
and the Plaza is left in comparative deso
lateness.
TIIE BEAUTY OF THE COUNTRY.
I en can scarcely convey an adequate
idea of the beauty of the region surround
ing the city, especially when regarded in
contrast with the snow'-covered or frosty re
gions which visitors has just left at home.
As you pass beyond the city gates you soon
enter upon scenes rich and brilliant with all
the objects and hues that compose a ravish-
ing landscape. On either side, as you ride
along, are fields carpeted with grass of the
deepest green, or waving with young corn,
and diversified with trees and shrubs, and
all the luxurious glories of tropical vegeta
tion. Far as the eye can see stretch these
lovely prospects, now terminating in a gen
tle sloping hill, and now fading away in a
boundless plan, and rendered doubly soft
and sweet by the light of a sun that shines
with the mild radiance of a Northern June.
Stately palm trees, the still loftier cocoa, the
mango tree, with its dark rich foliage, the
slender Norway pine, are all around you.
Beautiful gardens all around the city are
open to your inspection, in which you mav
see, besides multitudinous flowers, the
orange tree, rich with its golden apples, the
panana, and plantain tree, bending under
the-weight of their curiously formed fruit,
and a nameless variety of fruit-bearino r
plants and shrubs. ‘ °
Important to Holders of Land Warrants.
—Hon. J. E. Heath, Commissioner of Pen
sions, states that, where a party dies before
the issue of his land warrant, under the act
of 28th September, 1850, the right to it
dies with him, unless there be a widow, or
-children who are minors at the time of the
passage of the act. If he left a widow, the
appleation may be renewed in her name;
or if none, then in the names of such minor
children. If there be neither widow nor
minor children, no right vests in anyone,
lhe act of 22d March* 1852, is silent as to
the right of the widow or children to re
new the application if the party dies before
obtaining the warrant. If the'claimant dies
a *-- r the issue of the warrant, the title there
to rests in the heirs in the same manner as
real estate, and can be assigned only by
those who could convey a tract of land de
scended from the ancestor.
l i jk, e . raHn w hogave a boy a shilling to
hold his shadow while he ascended a tree
o^k into tho middle of next week lias
tailed,
MSP In order togiveour readers asmuch
of the proceedings of the Baltimore Demo
cratic Convention as possiblej we cut our
editorial short. By the proceedings it will
be seen that there has been a large attend
ance, and, as a consequence, some confusion.
The difficulty in this State, it will be seen,
has been settled in favor of the State Rights
Democracy, in contradistinction to the
Union Democracy, the latter having been
excluded, as was also Gen. Commander of
South Carolina and Rantoule of Massa
chusetts. Who is ranked with the Free
Soilers now ? Cols. Holsey and Chapman
where are you ? If that Union delegation
will hold on till after the 16th inst., the
Fillmore Delegation of this State will help
them to bring their resolutions home.
School Examinntion.—We attended
with pleasure, the Examination of Maj.
Rudisill’s pupils on Wednesday and Thurs
day last, and cheerfully add our commenda
tion to that so unanimously expressed by
all who witnessed the exercises. We have
never heard a school bear a more thorough
and satisfactory Examination and which re
flected more credit upon pupils and teacher.
One of the Trustees informed us that it
was decidedly the best in every respect that
he had ever heard at the Male Academy.
A teacher that has secured for himself
such flattering and substantial testimonials
of skill and ability, should be well sustain
ed and patronized by the community. A
worthy and faithful teacher, such as Maj.
Rudisill, deserves the warm and cordial
support of every parent and guardian who
have sons and wards to educate.
His school opens again on the first Wed
nesday in July.
A Judge Acting a« Sheriff.
The Savannah Republican of Thursday
gives the following account of the final exe
cution of the law, upon the stores of the
steamer Fanny, about which there has been
some quarrelling and* threatened resistance
to the law. The manly action of Judge
Jackson deserves all commendation, and is
a worthy example to all officers charged
with the ministry of the law:
“The illegal proceedings on board the
steamer Fanny Tuesday attracted the at
tention of the reflecting portion of the com
munity, it became evident that prompt and
decisive steps should be taken to enforce
the law and vindicate the character of the
city. The open and effectual resistance of
the law by a parcel of unbreeched Califor
nians, in a community distinguished for
order and soberness, was an outrage not to
tolerated. Consequently, Judge Jackson,
of the Superior Court of the Eastern Circuit
accompanied by Lieut. Col. Lawton, the
Commanding Officer of the Savannah Inde
pendent Volunteer Batalion, visited the
steamer at an early hour yestesday morn
ing. Judge Jackson informed the passen
gers that they had been guilty of a grave
offence in resisting the law. The stores of
the steamer had been legally attached and
advertised for sale, and he told them in
plain terms that the must and should be en
forced. It mattered not how unjustly they
had been treated by the owner and officers
of the vessel, nor how much claim they had
to the sympathy of the community, the
process of the court had to be executed and
the stores removed. In answer to an in
quiry, whether he would pledge himself
that some satisfactory arrangement should
be made for furnishing provisions to the
passengers, he said he had no pledges to
make and that the law admitted of no com
promise. The community was distinguish
ed for its liberality ; but he was not there
to make them any promises; he came sim
ply to warn them that the law should be
put in force and that immediately.
It was understood that the passengers
would offer no further opposition to the of
ficers, and Judge Jackson and Col. Lawton
left. Subsequently, Judge Jackson return
ed to the steamer with Sheriff Devanny.
There was considerable excitement on board
when he arrived, the passengers threaten
ing that the stores should not be removed.
Many of them gathered about him, gesticu
lating and swearing as if they intended to
offer him personal violence. It was no time
for parleying; so Judge Jackson boldly seiz
ed the ring leader by the collar, telling him
he was prisoner, and forcibly dragged him
ashore. The Judge once more returned to
the ship, and with his own hands arrested
three others and took them on shore. Find
ing they had a man to deal with, the re
maining passengers became wonderfully
quiet in a very short lime. Had Judge
Jackson yielded an inch in the outset, it is
believed the leaders would have thrown
him overboard.
The officers afterwards went aboard and
removed the stores of the steamer without
opposition. The persons arrested were sub
sequently committed to jail.
The conduct of Judge Jackson through
out this affair, reflects upon him the very
highest credit. Too much honor can not
be accorded to him for thus stepping for
ward and setting an example to officers of
the manner in which the law should be en
forced. It is hoped they will profit by his
courageous example, and hereafter when
the law is resisted, that it will not be neces
sary to invoke the aid of the posse comita-
tus, nor for the Judge to descend from the
Bench to perform their functions.”
Col. Benton in the Fie lb.—Col. Thos.
II. Benton, is a candidate for Congress in
the St. Louis (Mo.) District. It is anticipa
ted that the, war between the Bentonites
and Anti-Bentonites, will grow quite fierce
before the contest is ended. Old Bullion
is some in a bear-fight, or Congressional
race.
On Our Table.—The June No. of Gra
ham’s Magazine, Godey’s Lady’s Book,
price $3 per year; Georgia University Ma
gazine, of Athens, price $2 per year ; The
Student, a monthly publication, by Fowlers
& Wells of New York, at $1 per year, and
the Southern Cultivator for June. This is
one of the best Agricultural sheets in the
South, is dirt cheap and should be possess
ed by every farmer. Published by W. S.
Jones, at Augusta, Ga., at $1 per year.
*
The Reward of Valor.—No disposal
lias yet been made of the gold box which
General Jackson bequeathed to the city of
New York, for conferment upon him who
should be adjudged the most heroic of the
American invaders in the late war with
Mexico. A Committee of the Common
Council has been charged with the delicat
duty of determining who is most worthy to
receive this testimonial of valor, and a pe
riod three months distant has been fixed
within which candidates must present their
applications. The New York Commercial
Advertiser says that it should suppose that
the most deserving would be the last to
prefer his claim, since modesty and courage
are proverbially allied.
Tariff Movements at Washington.—
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, savs that at a
caucus, consisting of the Iron-masters of
Philadelphia, headed by Ex-Governor Por
ter, and all the Buchanan members from
Pennsylvania, but one, sundry propositions
were offered and agreed to for carrying all
the land bills now before Congress, and sub
stituting home valuations for the present
system of levying duties. This would in
crease the present tariff by about 25 per
cent, that is, it would add 10 per cent to 30
per cent ad valorem, and increase taxation
by about twelve millions of dollars per an
num. As a consequence of this agreement,
the Missouri Railroad Bill, it is said, passed.
One of the New England members, a demo
crat, who had received notice to attend the
caucus, spurned the proposition with indig
nation. fc ’
Death from Tooth-ache.—The Pough-
kepsie (N. Y.) Press, gives an account of a
singular death in that place, of a young man
apparently about 27 years of age. He came
to that place suffering under tooth-ache,
swelled face, &e.
but got no relief, and continued to suffer
most terribly till death ensued.
The Telegraph.—It is just sqvcn years
since the line of telegraph was completed
between Washington and N. York, and Pro
fessor Morse, sent his fiist dispatch from the
Federal to the Commercial Capital of t^ie
country. Since that time about fourteen
thousand miles of telegraphic lines have
been put up in the United States, and one-
half of these number of miles under the
superintendence of Henry O’Reilly, Esq.—
This fact tells more effectually than words
or arguments can, of the enterprise of those
engaged in this important and generally
prosperous undertaking. The associated
press in New York city, numbering seven
of the leading morning papers, pays at least
§70,000 a year for news to the various lines
leading to New York.
Dividends.—The Marine & Fire Insur
ance Bank of Savannah, have declared a
semi-annual dividend of six per cent. The
Central Rail-Road and Banking Company
have declared a semi annual dividend of
four per cent, and the Bank of Savannah
which has been in operation one year only,
has declared a dividend of five per cent.
MSP The census of France has been pub.
lished. The population is set down at 35,-
781,628, from which it appears that the in
crease since 1846 has been much less than
in former proportionate periods. The di
minution is accounted for by the emigra
tion to South America and California, and
by fewer marriages having been contracted
in the late troubulous times.
Hung.—Neal Dow, the originator of the
Maine Liquor Law, and Gov. Boutwell, of
Massachusetts, who recently signed a similar
law, were hung in effigy on the Boston
Common, the 28th ult., by the rum-sellers
—the Peter Brighams and George Tolivers,
as Hewlett has it.
By Telegraph for the Republican.
Arrival of the Arctic.
Charleston, May 31st.
The Arctic arrived at New-York on Sat
urday, at 10 o’clock A. M.
Liverpool Cotton market on the 15th,
eighteen thousand bales were sold, at ad
vancing rates—speculators and exporters
took ten thousand bales. On the 17th more
freely offered—business reaching ten thou
sand (10,000) bales, speculators and expor
ters taking three thousand (3,000) bales—
the extreme rates of the 15th barely attain
able. On the 18th seven thousand (7,000)
bales sold—twenty-five hundred to specu
lators, none for export. Market quiet, yet
steady, without noticeable change from pri
ces of the 15th.
For Breadstuff’s, there is a better feeling,
and a slight advance, with large sales.
The Asia arrived at Liverpool on the
15 th.
General newsm England unimportant.
Russia, Austria and Prussia, iu relation to
France, have detf rmined to uphold the treat
ies of 1814 and 1815.
France.—The meeting of the sovereigns
at Vienna has caused great trepidation at
the Tuilleries—spies have been sent to watch
their movements. Gens. Lamoriciere,
Bedeau, and Leflate, have refused to take
the oath of allegiance.
Manchester Markets, &c.—Business
in the manufacturing districts brisk.
At London money is abundant—Con
sols closed at 99 3-4 to 99 7-8.
The Recent Arrest of J. Wilson
Smith.
The New York Times gives the following
account of the arrest of J. Wilson Smith in
that city. In yesterday’s Times we briefly
noticed an important arrest made by officer
Poliard at Jersey City, the details of which
are as follows: The prisoner, named J.
Wilson Smith had control of a miserable
old steamship called the Fanny, lying at
New Orleans, and put her up for a voyage
to San Francisco. The passage tickets
were for §350 each, and sold over three hun
dred of the tickets, thus realizing §36,000.
The vessel was dispatched to sea in a leak
ing condition, and Smith then fled to the
North, with the funds in his possession.
Shortly after, the commander of the old
craft was compelled to put into Savannah
with his vessel, as it was unsafe to proceed
on the voyage. Upon touching the wharf,
the Custom House officers seized the steam
er, on the ground of being unseaworthy,
and having on board an excessive number
of passengers. Some twenty of these pas
sengers managed to return to New York.
Among the number were Wm. Flinn, and
Miss Mary Collins, who paid the sum of
§700 for passages in the steamer Fanny.
They each made a complaint before Justice
Chambers, who issued his warrant for the
arrest of Smith, and he was taken into cus
tody, while on board of the Philadelphia
train of cars, which were about leaving the
depot. The accused was committed to the
Bergen Jail, in default of bail.
FOURDAYS LATER.
ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
DECLINE IN COTTON.
New York, June 3, a. m.
The British mail steamship Asia has ar
rived at Halifax, bringing Liverpool dates
to the 22d May. She has fifty three pas
sengers and §182,000 in specie.
In the Liverpool market cotton has de
clined 1-8 of a penny for Low Middling, but
the better qualities remain unchanged. The
market closed quietly on Friday, the 21st
with sales of 7,000 bales, 2,000 of which
were taken on speculation. The sales of
the week comprise 89,000 bales, speculators
taking 25,000 and exporters 10,000 bales.
Holders in Liverpool quote the decline
at fully 1-8 on all American qualities. The
imports during the last three weeks reach
357.000 bales. The stock in Liverpool is
502.000 bales.
The business in Manchester was less ac
tive, and prices slightly yielded.
Havre.—The Havre cotton market, after
the week’s excitement, closed quiet on the
19th May. The sales of the week reached
25.000 bales, and the market closed at an
advance of from two to three francs. The
imports of the week were 11,500 bales.
The stock is 90,000 bales, of which 87,000
bales are American.
We quote Upland at 67 83f. and Orleans
at 67 a90 francs.
ADDITIONAL BY THE ASIA.
New York, June 3.
Rice quiet; prices unchanged. Sugar
buoyant and held higher. Common Rosin
is quoted at 5s. to 5s. lOd.
The Disabilities Bill has been repealed in
the House of Commons. Lord Palmerston
had called the attention of Parliament to
the danger with which Constitutional gov
ernment is threatened in Spain.
France.—Odillon Barrot and other dis
tinguished prisoners have refused to take
the oath of allegiance to the President.
Three hundred more political prisoners
have been transported.
The Rothcliilds have taken the new Aus
trian loan of 25,000,000 florins.
The steamers Frauklin&nd City of Glas
gow had arrived out.
Early Cotton Blooms.—-The editor of
He had a tooth extracted The New Orleans Picayune, was shown
specimens of cotton blooms on the 26th of
May.
The Croup.
How to prevent it.—A correspondent of
the New York Mirror, a medical practition
er, in an article on this subject, says:
“The premonitory symptoms of croup is
shrill, sonorous cough. The patient is not
sick—has no fever, as oiten in a common
cold—is lively, perhaps even gayer than
usual; his hands are cold, his face not flush
possibly a shade paler than usual. The sol •
itary symptom may last for a few days with
no material increase or abatement and with
out attracting any notice, suddenly however
the disease, hitherto latent, bursts forth in
all its fatal fury, and too often continues its
ravages unchecked to the dreadful consum
mation. The remedies for this symptom
of croup are simple, and in most instances
perfectly efficient. They are; a mustard
poultice, or a strip of flannel dipped in oil
of turpentine, or spirits of-hartshorn, appli
ed to the. throat and nauseating doses of
Hives’s syrup, to be continued as long as
the cough remains. By this timely em
ployment of mild agents, 1 unhesitatingly
assert that a multitude of lives might be
saved every week that are now lost through
negligence and delay.”
[from the southern press, may 31st.]
TUe Washington Union and the
Georgia Democracy.
The following article speaks for itself.
We do not desire to revive or protract a
controversy with the Union after the retire
ment of the late editor and before the suc-
cssion, as we hope to find in the latter one
with whom we will not disagree. We are
not, however, at all surprised at the resent
ment of the Georgia Democratic delegation.
And the case is a striking illustration of the
manner in which things are sometimes done
by organs, and the value of that organ cen
sorship which the Southern Press has exer-
ciced.
If the Union delegates of Georgia can be
admitted into the convention to represent
the Democracy of Georgia, why, then, the
whole system is a farce.
For the Southern Press.
Washington City, D. C., May 29,1852.
We the undersigned, delegates to the
National Democratic Convention, appointed
by the Democratic State convention of Geor
gia, which assembled at Milledgeville on
the 31 of March last, have just reason to
complain of the conduct of the Washington
Union, through whose columns gross injus
tice has been sought to be perpretrated
against the Democratic party of Georgia.
We therefore avail ourselves of the oppor
tunity afforded by our presence in this city,
for ourselves and our absent colleagues, and
in the name and behalf of the Democratic
party of Georgia, to protest against the con
duct complained of—and to claim of the
entire Democratic press and party of the
Union disposed to do justice in the matter,
a candid hearing of the case we now sub
mit to their consideration:
On the 22d inst., an article appeared in
the Washington Union, signed “A Union I
Democrat,” purporting to give an account
of the position of parties in Georgia, and to
discuss the relative claims of the two dele
gations from Georgia to seats in the Nation
al Democratic Convention, to assemble in
Baltimore on Tuesday next, in which arti
cle it is contended that neither of the two
delegations, are, of right, entitled to seats in
that convention, owing to alleged defects
m the party organization of both constitu
encies appointing them, and suggesting that
the convention should follow the precedent
of 1848, in the case of the two delegations
from New York, admit both.
The editor of the Washington Union
prefaced the article with some editorial re
marks from which we quote as follows:
“The Position qfthe Delegates from
Georgia to the Baltimore Convention.
—We insert the following communication,
signed “A Union Democrat,” not that we
wish to be understood as having formed a
definite opinion in regard to the delicate
subject which it discusses, but that the
friends of the Democratic party may see, in
good season, what are the difficulties likely
to grow out of the appearance at Baltimore
of two sets of delegates to the Baltimore
Convention, deriving iheir credentials from
two different party organizations, each
claiming to be Democrats.”
******
“The communication to which we refer
presents the case as understood by a Union
Democrats of Georgia. Doubtless its state
ment and view will be followed bv others of
a different character, which we shall cheer
fully publish. Our object is to enable those
whose province it will be to dispose of the
whole subject to be in possession’of such
information as will be reliable. It must be
the object of all true friends of the Demo
cratic cause to shape their action in such a
manner as to conciliate conflicting opinions,
as far as it can be done without a sacrifice
of any vital principle of party organization;
and we trust that the timely examination of
the true character of such opinions will ena
ble the convention to dispose of them in
such a manner as that the parties to them
will be reconciled, and return to their homes
with renewed confidence in the justice and
soundness of the democratic party.”
Confiding in these professions of impar
tiality and of a disposition bn the part of the
Washington Union to put those whose
province it was to dispose of the whole sub
ject, in possession of such information as
would be reliable, a Northern Democrat, a
gentleman of the highest respectability, an
ex Governor of one ofgthe New England
States, called upon the editor of the Union
and requested him to publish a*temperate,
respectful and unexceptionable article he
had prepared in reply to “A Union Demo
crat” and in which were set forth the real
tacts of the case, the grounds upon whiok
it is claimed that we are entitled of rieht i
seats in the National Covention as the Droi°
er representatives of the Democratic party 5
Georgia, and the fact that there is no other
Democratic organization existing in Genr
gia except the one we are appointed to ren
resent. It was desirable that this artiefe
should appear before the assembling 0 f th.
Convention and in the same paper in which
the ancle to which it was a reply appeat
ed, as there were many delegate, to that
Convention present in this city. The reason-
able request of this Northern Democrat
refused by the editor of the Washington
Union, and he was constrained, therefore
to seek publicity for it in the columns of
another paper of this city. The article ap
peared on the 28th inst. in the Southern
Press, signed “A Northen Man; and we re
fer to it in corroboration of all we have
heie otated, in regard to its character and
positions.
We take occasion to state that the arti
cle was written with concert or consultation
with the undersigned, or any of us, and its
publication was the first information to us
of its existance. It was a voluntary tribute
of a Northern Democrat to truth and justice
JAMES GARDNER, Jr.
SOLOMON COHEN
JAS. S. HOOK,
W. W. WIGGINS,
R. B. HILTON,
N. L. BASS,
JOSEPH STURGES r
O. J. MUNNERLYN,
A. K. PATTON,
W. H. STILES,
JOSEPH DAY,
O. WARNER.
meeting in Jefferson.
The Union Party of Jefferson county as
sembled^ this day at the Court-house in the
town ot Louisville according to previous
notice.
On motion of Dr.H. W. Hunter,L. B. Bos
tick, Esq., was called to the chair, and Jas
Fleming, Esq., appointed Secretary. The
object ot the meeting having been explain
ed, William 1. Jordan, Esq., offered the
tollowing resolutions :
Resolved, That the Union party of Jef
ferson county approve of the administra
tion of our present able, worthy and faith
ful Chief Magistrate, Millard Fillmore ; that
we will use all honorable means to have his
name placed before the people of these Uni
ted States as a candidate for the office of
President of the same.
Resolved, 1 hat to the end that the same
may be accomplished, we will unite with
the friends of Millard Fillmore, soon to as
semble in Milledgeville in convention, by-
sending two delegates to represent this coun
ty in said convention.
Resolved, That the chair appoint a com
mittee of five to select two suitable persons
to represent this coouty in said conventieD,
and that the delegates be authorized to ap
point alternates or proxies.
lhe resolutions were unanrmoosrv adop
ted ; whereupon the chair appointed Dr.
Hunter, Wm T.Jourdan, Henry B. Todd,
F. B. . Mountain and Jasper Vining, that
committee. The committee retired, and
after a short absence, returned and report
ed the names of George Stapleton and
Dr. L. C. Belt, delegates as aforesaid—
which, on motion, was agreed to.
Dr. Hunter then offeredi the following
resolution:
Resolved, That these proceedings be
signed by the Chairman and Secretary and
forwarded to the editors of the Savannah
Republican and Southern Recorder with »
request that the same be published ri* tficis-
respective papers, which was adopted.
On motion the convention adjournedL
L. B. BOSTICK, Ch’rr.
James Fleming, See’y.
Louisville, June 1, 1852.
Fata 1 Casualty.—During a shower of
rain, about three o’clock Friday afternoon,
which was accompauied with a' very severe
blow of a few minutes dura.ion, the frames
ot the dwelling bouse and Cotton Gin Fac
tory of Mr. G. Oglesby, which had just
been erected and partly shingled, were blown
down. In the latter several persons had
sought shelter from the shower, three of
whom, a white man, whose name we did
not learn, and two negroes, were caught by
the foiling timbers, and the white man in
stantly killed—the negroes escaped with
slight contusions. Tbe others succeeded in
making their escape uninjured.
, j Q( l u est was held Friday evening on
the body of William Brady, an Irishman,
who was kdled by the falling of a frame of
the Gin Factory of Mr. Oglesby, who found
a verdict m accordance with the facts.—
Chronicle tv Sentinel, 2d inst.
Found Dead.—An inquest was held on
the body of William Knight, found dead
on Friday, near Butler’s Creek, on the
Savannah road. The jury returned a ver
dict, died “by the visitation of God.” As
there were no marks of violence on his per
son, and he was very intemperate, he pro-
bably died of mania potUj as he was thought
to be laboring under it when he strayed off
from the city, two or three days before.—
Chronicle <& Sentinel, 2d inst.
> The workman who are engaged in dig
ging down the hill in the rear of the resi
dence of Noah Sturtevant, Esq., East Bos
ton, for the purpose of extending Border
street, have dug out several cannon balls,
which were buried in the earth to the depth
of two or three feet. They are eighteen
and thirty-two pounders. The hill slopes
towards and is directly opposite Breed’s
Hill, and it is conjectured that these balls
were fired from that spot at the time of the
battle of Bunker Hill.—Jumal.
The Southern Era notices the marriage
of Mr. John H. Strange, to Miss Elizabeth
A. Strange all of Albermarle 1 county, Va.
An exchange thinks that this is very strange,
but says no doubt the next event, of course
will be a little stranger!