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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN. THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN SAUTJL B. CRAFTON, COUNTY PRINTER. TERMS—For the paper in advance If not paid in advance, $1 50 $2 00 T*e Atlanta Mass meeting Atlanta Sept. 18—4 P. M. The Union Democratic Mass Meeting convened in Paris Hall at 10 o’clock A. M President, Hon. R. M. Charlton: Secreta ries John W. Burke and A. W. Jones. Ap pointed a committee of thirteen, consisting of John H. Lumpkin, Henry R. Jackson J. J. SingletOD, W. B. Wofford, Lewis Tum- lin, T. H. Saftold, J. U. Horne, M. Sheats J. H. Welborn, Chas. J. Murphey, E. W Chastain, S. W. Bnrney, to report business Adjourned to two o’clock. Met pursu- an t to adjournment. Adopted report of ma jority committee with few dissenting voices which condemns the policy of the Southern Rights wing of the party in refusing to compromise the electoral ticket. Report is also against the nomination of another tick et. Capt. Wofford presented a minority report in favor of a new electoral ticket which was voted down almost unanimous ly. Judge Jackson made an eloquent ad dress in favor of the majority report and re union. Meeting was thin, not more than two hundred and fifty persons being in at tendance.—Sav. News. SAUDERSVILLE, GEORGIA- TUESDAY SEPT. 31, 1853. St. Mary’s Money In bills under $5 will be received in pay ment of demands due this office. To Correspondents.—We frequently receive communications containing an nouncements of deaths, marriages, &c. with a request to publish, without accompanying the same with the name of the writers. It ought to be well understood that we never admit such things in the paper unless re sponsible names are sent. This will account for the non-appearance of an obituary no tice from Burke. Letter of tbe Hon- A. Graham to fbe Southern Rights Committee of Alabama. Hillsborough, (N. C.) Aug. 25,1852. Gentlemen:—Your letter, propounding a series of interrogatories, at the instance of the Southern Rights Convention, of the State of Alabama, which assembled at Mont gomery on the 12th alt,, has been receiv ed. In reply, I have the honor to say, that 1 am by birth, education, residence, associa tion and interest, identified with the South. These, with roy past life, afford, in my opin ion, a better guarantee of fidelity to all her just rights than any declarations of abstract or speculative opinions, after I have been, by a Convention of my political friends, placed before the nation as a candidate for a high station. I desire to see an end to the agitation of slavery in connection with na tional politics, and I believe that by a faith ful adherence to the adjustment made by the Compromise of 1850, and the execution of Law as it has been carried out by the pres ent Executive Head of the Government, the country is destined to a repose and security on this exciting topic, such as it has not en joyed since the agitation commenced. While this appears to be the general state of public feeling in all sections, I can per ceive neither a necessity nor utility, on the part of the South, for a discussion o? the ex treme cases of apprehended injury comprised in your interrogatories, as among the prac tical questions of the times; such was the unanimous opinions of those patriotic citizens of the South who were delegated to the Convention by which I was nominated, and who require only an acquiescence in the compromise, as a security for their rights in the present juncture; and in that opinion I concur. I shall undertake to establish no new tests of orthodoxy, to fan the flame of local excitement in the one section or the other, hut, if elected will assume the powers devolved on me with an impartial mind, and a purpose to maintain the integrity of the Union, upon principles just, constitutional, and liberal towards all its parts. I am, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, WILLIAM A. GRAHAM. Messrs. Thos. Williams, J. A. Elmore, &c., Committee P. S.—The reception of your letter in the midst of my preparations for departure from Washington, and necessary engagements in the removal and establishment of my family at home, has occasioned a delay in its acknowledgement, which, I trust, will be ascribed to no feeling of disrespect. A friend in our office yesterday, who proposes great distinction for himself in the future, has taken the preliminary steps of giving a little boy a stick of candy. We note.the fact for the purpose of making the reference, should his hopes be realised. Our Merchants. Our merchants are receiving large and full supplies of fall and winter Goods, all of them from the Northern markets, and se lected with a skill and taste which their ex perience in the business, and knowledge of the wants of this market eminently befit them. It begins to look like busy times again, and we hope it will work profitably to all hands. In the Dry Goods and Gro- cerv trade we do not believe that this place is surpassed by any village in the State, both as to cheapness and style of goods. The citizens of the county besides numbers of persons from adjacent counties do all of their trading here, and we have no doubt but that they find it to their interest to do We notice that Maj. Hodges is getting into his uew Store, and filling it up with a large supply of Dry Goods and Groceries. The store room is large and well arranged, and. well adapted to the transaction of his large and increasing business. See his ad- vertisement with those of Messrs. N. W, Haines & Bro., Lazeron & Newman, Ains. worth & Slager, and Z. Brantley. The latter deals altogether in family and far mers supplies, all of whom are worthy the notice of purchasers. Contemplated Revolution of Lower California.—The San Francisco Herald learns upon reliable authority that active preparations are on foot to proclaim the in dependence of Lower California and hoist the “Bear flag.” Don Manuel Castro, a native of Monterey, and late an officer in Mexican army, it is said, has been silently engaged of late in enlisting men in San Die go and the county of Los Angels, to proceed to Lower California and to proclaim the independence of that territory. Rumor has it that he has been quite successful, and that his followers are now daily making their way over the line in small parties, in tending to unite at some given point and march upon Santo Tomas and La paz. Ne grete, the head of the Mexican authorities in that country, is represented as a timid man, incapable of resisting a well organ- ed effort. His family have taken refuge in San Francisco from the impending storm. Castro is of the opinion that the few Mex ican troops in garrison at Santo Tomas and La Paz will join his standard so soon as he unfurls it. Counterfeit Notes—The Augusta Con stitutionalist & Republic of Wednesday last says ;—“Counterfeit notes of the South- Western Rail Road Bank of Charleston, of the denomination of $20, were received here yesterday, in a remittance from the country. In the genuine note the vignette is a ship. In this counterfeit the vignette is a female figure in a sitting posture, with a sheaf of wheat immediately on her right, and on the left end of the note a full length figure of Gen.. Washington, which is noton the true one. Maine Elections.—There was no elec tion for Governor in this State by the peo ple. The Liquor Law excitement is 3aid to have created great confusion in the candi dacy for that office. The Legislature is said to be democratic, and three Whigs and three Democrats elected to Congress. The N. Y. Tribune thinks this is good enough for Maine. Godey’s Ladv’s Book.—We have the October No. before us. It is a double num- The Wheat Crop.—We have reason to believe (says the Baltimore Clipper,) that the Wheat crop of Maryland this year, will not be much more than half that of last year. Various causes are assigned for this diminution. The long and severe winter, the fly, rust, &c. In some cases not ten bushels to the acre have been raised—in fact, scarcelv enough to cover actual ex. penses. But if the Wheat crop be defi cient, the vield of corn will be most abun dant—largely over that of the last year. But the most serious evil likely to be en countered by farmers, is the potatoe rot. We hear of large filds which have been en tirely destroyed and abandoned. In some cases the potatoes have been dug, in the hope to preserve them from the rot, but the effort has failed. In fact it was an in judicious course, as potatoes are more lia ble to rot in the atmosphere than in the ground. Mr. Webster’s Position.—In regard to the statement made in various quarters that Mr. Webster contemplates publishing an address to his friends, advising them as to the course which they ought to pursue, and urging them to refrain from using his name in connection with the Presidency, the Boston Courier says: “These statements are put forth by edi tors of Scott papers—gentlemen who op posed Mr. Webster’s interests at Baltimore, on grounds of private malice, and after wards exhulted in the result of tbe doings of the Convention. Mr. Webster has writ ten no letter upon the subject of tbe Presi dential election, nor will he do so in a “few days.” His friends have not solicited his advice as to how they should vote in No vember next, and as they have not, he will hardly volunteer it. All speculation and threats on the part of Mr. Webster’s ene mies are useless; they cannot break his silence.” Alabama Southern Rights Conven tion.—The Hon. Geo. M. Troup of this BY TELEGRPH FOR THE REPUBLICAN. Arrival of the Niagara. New-York, Sept. 14. The Royal Mail steamship Niagara has arrived at Halifax from Liverpool, whence she sailed on the 4th inst. LIVERPOOL MARKET. Cotton—The sales for the three days, from tbe 1st of September, amounted to 20,- 000 bales, and for the week to 50,850 bales of which speculators took 13,000 and expor ters 5,450—leaving the balance, 32,400, to the trade. Dennistown’s Circular quotes Fair Orleans 6 l-2d, Middling Orleans 5 7-8d, Fair Mobile 6 l-8d, Middling Mobile 0 5-8d, Fair Uplands 6d, and Middling Up land l-2d. The stock in Liverpool, ex- eltwivepf that on shipboard, was 617,400 Imports of the week 27,400 bales Hancock Manufacturing Company.— We notice in our market some cotton fab rics from this establishment, which bear a fine comparison with any of the same sort that are offered for sale. Maj. Hodges has some 7-8 of unbleached shirting from this Factory, which is a fine, well made article. We are pleased to see^this Company going ahead with their work. Wagon loads of their goods pass through this place oc casionally. We hope that the intelligent and enterprising citizens of Hancock, who have put this work on foot, will meet with ample returns for the benefit they have con ferred on their State, by extending its field of industry in their community. If the same spirit which actuated our Hancock friends, in this matter could take hold of our people, it would add much to the industry and wealth of the county.— There is a plenty of capital in the county that could be called together for a purpose of this sort, if persons who admit the utility and benefit that such an enterprise would confer on the county, would get together and canvass the matter. A few industrious and enterprising men could do much for their county in this particular; besides greatly subserving their own interest. Will no one move iu the matter ? ber, accompanied with several fine engrav ings. We have not had time to examine its contents, but dare say they sustain the usual interest of the book. Price $3 per year in advance. Address L. A. Godey, Philadelphia. Laurens County.—A correspondent of the Milledgeville Recorder, puts down the majority in Laurens county for Webster and Jenkins, at between four and five hund red. They will receive the usual Whig vote of the county. Declined—Judge Law of Savannah has declined the position of Scott Elector, as signed him by the Macon Convention. His reasons are personal and private however, and he will give the ticket his support His place will be filled in a few days. State, has been nominated for tbe Presi dency, and Gen. Quitman of Miss., for the Vice Presidency, by the Southern Rights convention of Alabama which met at Mont gomery. The nomination was subsequent- ly ratified with great enthusiasm, and an electoral ticket appointed. All sides are represented now, by candi dates and resolutions, except the “Woman’s Rights conventionists.” When will they get their candidates out ? If they did not scout gallantry as too effeminate to be con sidered as a part of their rights, we should suggest that some of the numerous candi dates on the field, see them to their pla ces. > Additional per Niagara* , r ;v^ New-York, Sept. 14. ENGLAND. The fishery excitement is over. The harvest in England is said to be pro greying satisfactorily. The steamship South Carolina is offered for sale in Liverpool. FRANCE.. France announces to the French Merch ants that the Government will not protect them in loading Guano at the Lobos Island?. Louis Napoleon is about publishing a pamphlet defending himself against the as per.sicns of the English press. The French troops are Hot to be with drawn from Rome. Louis Napoleon has transferred his matrimonial attentions to the daughter of Prince Czartortsk. CHOLERA. The Cholera Unmade its appearance in Germany. . RUSSIA. ' .. Russians have burnt three Caucasian villages. Scott Mass Meeting at Atlanta.—As we expected, this turned out to be a slim affair, only a few hundred persons attending. The Citizen commenting upon it, says that the time was unpropitious, the Superior Courts being in session in a number of the counties, and the Rail Road Companies re fusing to reduce fare, &c. But the Citizen adds, and very justly we think, the main cause of the thinness of the attendance is doubtless owing to the fact that General Apathy has the chief command in the field of Georgia politics. The fact is, the peo ple are acting sensibly in this campaign ; thev are attending to their personal affairs^ investigating the claims of the candidates calmly and quietly at home, and will go to the ballot box in November all the better informed for it. We have always looked upon these mass meetings as senseless affairs, their party ef ficiency depending in the main upon the amount of ill feeling and bitter prejudice that could be engendered. If the same amount of money that is spent in getting them up, was laid out in documents and distributed among the people, the interest of parties and the country, would be much more rationally reached. Professor Mott.—Professor Valentine Mott, of New York, was recently honored by an election, unanimously, as an Honora ry Fellow of King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians, Dublin, Ireland. This is a great honor—Professor Mott is the twenty-sev enth recipient since its foundation in 1667. He is the only American among the Hon orary Fellows of that College. Duty of Turk’s Island Salt Reduced. —The Legislative Council ofTurk’s Island, at the last session, passed an ordinance to educe the export duty on salt from one cent to half a cent per bushel, which will go into effect on the first of January next. This, it is thought, will give a new impetus to the trade of this colony iu its great sta pie, salt, in addition to that which the com pletion of the light house at the north point of Grand Turk will give. Salt is said to be abundant at Turk’s Island at nine cents. Mr. William M. Thackeiy, the au thor of “Vanity Fair,” has been engaged to deliver a course of lectures at the Mercan tile Library, iu New York, during the com ing winter. He is expected to arrive from Europe in a few weeks, in company with the Hon. Abbott Lawrence. The course which he proposes to deliver, will be that which delighted the London public two winters ago. A brilliant humorist himself, his sketches of the “British Humorists,” his predecessors, are characteristic and accu rate, kindled and brightened by the clans of his own kindred genius. J3T The Webster mass meeting iu Bos ton, on the 15th, turned out to be a small affair, only about 300 congregated to honor the call. [communicated.] Re-Union of the Democratic Party. The Democratic canvass in Georgia has progressed, or been carried on, more upon the propriety of the present Electoral tick et, than upon the merits of the eminent statesmen whose names head the ticket.— For the success of the party, it is a lament able state of affairs, and the question is very naturally suggested, whose fault is it ? It is no part of my purpose to criminate or to deal harshly with those calling themselves Democrats, who did not see proper to join in the movement by which the present The Atlanta Reveille states that the Hon. Jno. McPherson Berrien, will support Scott audGrahara for President and Vice President. The Hon. A. J. Miller.—A letter from the Hon. A. J. Miller appears in the Ath ens Banner in whieh he declines being pla ced ou the electoral ticket proposed to be formed at Atlanta, and declares his deter mination to vote for Pierce and King “if a ticket be made at Atlanta.” Georgia Bonds in Demand.—The New York correspondent of the Savannah Re publican, states that $150,000 of Georgia 6 per cent bonds were sold in New York on the 11th inst., at 108, or 8 per cent pre mium. The same was offered for more, but holders would not part with them at that price. Cassius M. Clay has taken the field for Hale and Julian, the Free-soii candi dates in Kentucky. ticket was put forward, but to deal fairly with the question, and to submit a few sug gestions which it seems to me should strike the mind of every person with force and conviction. From the confusion consequent upon the campaigns of 1850 and 1851, the Democratic party was called to meet at Milledgeville on the 31st of March last.— No particular clique, or clan, or set of men were specified in the call, but Democrats— those who were bound to that party by ties of association and principle, and all who saw in that party the avowal and declara tion of principles long cherished and held sacred and paramount to every considera tion of previous party affinities, were called together to consult and advise upon the ap proaching Presidential compaigb. This was all fair and open-handed. The call was necessary to bring out the reliable elements of the party from the chaos which prevail ed, and it was urgently demanded by the necessities of the party, which by the ac tion of leading and influential men calling themselves Democrats, but in every way, doing tbeir utmost to destroy the party by raising the Union party over its honored head, by combining and conniving at the election of a Whig U. S. Senator in pre ference to able, Jong tried and deserving Democratsat the same time the official head of the State Government, claiming to be a Democrat, was attempting to organ ize Jbe party upon new tests, combining in its organization the destracting elements of what was then thought to be tbe disbanded Whig party. It was circumstances like these that impelled tbe call ; and subse quent events has proven it to have been a wise movement. In obedience to it county meetings werejjealled, and all who were not under the influences of the Executive and Legislative caucuses of the last session of the Legislature, attended, and sent dele gates to Milledgeville fully empowered to do everything to advauce the interest of the party. No one was proscribed from the meetings or from the delegations. Indeed in this county the leading movers in the the matter were Union Democrats. They declared that they had never yielded their allegiance to the Democratic party, but held its principles as sacredly to heart as though no cause of disturbance had ever occurred. Witness the action and remarks of Col. R. W. Flournoy and Gen. Samuel Robison, of this county, about that time. I presume that other counties did likewise.— Was it not, then, a fair representation of the Democratic party ? The Democratic party was then re-organized. If compromises were to be made, then was the time to have offered them. The door was wide open, the invitation ample and liberal, and he who could not then en ter its councils, was not a democrat at heart but was covertly seeking to destroy it, and rear another in its stead, as after events most clearly showed, else why the clamor in the Union pafty on the 22nd of April, when a democratic representation was dis cussed. and its subsequent disbanding upon the proposition to support Pierce and King.' I ask in all candor where would the democratic party be now, had its fate been left with those who are so loud for a reconstruction of the ticket ? Let the kis- torv of their political actions speak. They did every thing to embarrass the action of the party, and but for the prudent forecast of the convention of the 31st of March would now have triumphed upon its ruins* successive efforts were made to destroy it, but the National convention put their seal on its favor, this it was thought would be sufficient to condemn this crowd to silence aud if they were democrats, point them to their duty, but they return home only to re new their attempts to destroy the party, and having failed in every attempt to use the Union party for that purpose, they propose an armistice with terms of compromise, whether this will be acceded to, I know not. I trnstit will not. If it is, it will breed in calculable mischief, such as these men can not repair. The democratic ticket has sur vived their shnders, and if firmly pressed before the people will triumph over their machinations and apostacy If democrats refuse to vote for the present ticket, they do not act upon principle, and if tbeir wish es were acceded to would leave the field as soon as their anxieties for spoils could be satisfied in another quarter. Is there any prospect sir, that these men will co-oper ate with tbe democratic party in ihe can vass next year for Governor ? They may do it, but their past idiosyncrasies give a just cause of suspicion. Against the ac tion of the democratic party they have no just cause of complaint, if they are in an un likely predicament it is the work of their own hands, a misfortune from which they can retrieve tneraselves only by honest ser vice in the cause of democracy. SCIO. Washington co., Sept. 15, 1852. [communicated.] Wliat Meanelh these Things ? A few weeks ago, Mr. Editor, when Scott’s nomination was telegraphed to this State,; the Whigs swore lustily, and with fiery indignation scouted the thought that they should ever vote for him, a mere mili tary chieftain, and who was put forward by the Free-soil wing of the party. In vain were they implored by their more consider ate, and less perturbed brethren, to hold ou a little; not to grow so desperate, nor to make such rash promises, before they knew more about the General; in other words before they found out his good points ;— but they were restless fellows, aud swore the more terribly, and many even periled They no sooner get into this^ position than a subject of distracting interest is presented, and that was the “unity of the Whig party.” In the language of those who had been de ploying the forces, they wished them to be left in such a position after the canvass is over, that they could be got together under the old war-cry. We must not fight against each other say they, but let us all turn loose upon the common enemy. Accordingly the “independent” Editors— men who would forsake everythingjfor principle—come out in a bold and fearless way for Webster, ex haust all eulogy upon his intellect, and with a proud, self-complacent air, eall for a com parison between him and the other candi dates. Finding, however, that no body, cared enough about him to dispute or con firm what was said in his favor, and that they were really tilting against the wind, these self-same men—who recently thought Gen. Scott so horribly unfit and unsound— turn from the advocacy of the great de fender of Ihe Constitution, as he has been termed in latter days, to defend Gen. Scott from the assaults of his enemies; the mere military chieftain, whom they professe d to believe to have been nominated by the Free- soil wing of the Whig party. Why has this change come over them ? I know ©A but one reason, and that is tho “unity of the VVhig party.” They are willing that free- soilism (for so they must look upon Scot^ or they belie their professions) should tri umph to maintain the “unity of the Whig party.” They dare not advocate the claims of Scott, but are willing to defend him against charges which they themselves brought forward and preferred against him in ike most solemn and formal manner. If this ain’t whipping the devil aroundi the stump, I should like to know what yon would call it. But these EcKtors have one excuse for this inconsistency, and which is somewhat singular, considering that the General has been so long knotvn to the country, and that js, that they did’nt know all of his good points, while they were honestly inveighing against his general bod character; they diu’nt frequent Washington City, and had not, therefore, learned that he was the THIRD man in the U. S. who advocated and approved of the compromise- measures. While they were abusing him so lustily, they did’nt know that he had made a speech to the Mississippi delegation. These things make a difference, of course, no matter how fraudulent the lie may have been by which this speech was coucocted, it would have served as a pretext for deceiving the people. Even uow, they publish it as a solemn truth, but for consistency’s sake they won’t advo cate the General’s claims for the presidency; yet they will defend him by that, speech whenever assailed, as being unsound on the compromise. That the General ever made such a speech I have no sort of con fidence ; it is a bare-faceci and unmitigated falsehood—one of the fables of the cam paign—and was intended to deceive tbe Southern people ; and they who publish it, know it. Mr. Stephens, who is now canvassing the State for Webster, and on that account is obliged to give his friends the reason for his refusal to support Scott, does not believe that Scott ever made such a speech, aud it seems to me that no candid man could be lieve it to be a genuine production; if it was, why did it not make its appearance at Washington City • There are papers there ready to puuiioii anything that would ben efit the sinking prospects of Scott, at tbe South. Why was it not known at Wash ington that Scott had made such a speech i The fact is, it was one of those “incidents iu his long life that underwent the strictest scrutiny,” without being found out, until the exigencies of the Whig party, in Tennessee and Mississippi, brought it to light. It will deceive no body but those who blindly be lieve. Mr. Stephens, in speaking of his ob jections to Gen. Scott, says: “His objection to General Scott, the whig nominee, was founded upon the reason of their souls upon the chances of casting such a ballot. It was then/ sir/ the day of Conventions, and a host of timid editors and popinjay politicians were ready to seek such places, where opinions could be manufactured to order ; indeed, they eagerly sought to raise any joint stock concern where political prin ciples and campaign tenets, could be had on easier terms than the usual honest home made stuff that men are apt to get at home. Accordingly they “meet and resolve, and resolve to meet again.” At first they were exceedingly alarmed for fear Gen. Scott would be elected and the efficiency of the Union party destroyed. They straightway say “there is no difference between Whigs and Democrats now ; all old issues are ob solete, and Gen. Pierce is as good a man as we could get,”—but the millennium had’nt come. The robes from this factory were not pure enough for a portion of the stockholders; they pull out, and set up business on the “independent” principle.— his nomination, upon the fact of his nomina tion under the circumstances under which is was effected. With regard to General Scott’t personal opinion upon the Compromise, he believed that he had very little, if any. His opinions, if he had any, were shaped and controlled by stronger feelings, and princi pally by his desire to be elected President. A Compromise platform was adopted by the Convention which nominated him—-Sixty- six men in that Convention voted against that platform. But Mr. Stephens regarded the records of Congress better evidence of the views of the party which nominated General Scott, than the action of an irre sponsible nominating Convention. In Con gress there was not a single Scott man from the North in favor of the execution of the fugitive slave law, or willing to regard the Compromise as a final settlement of the questions it embraced. Every Webster and Fillmore man, on the contrary, either voted for it, or was willing to acquiesce in it as a part of the great Plan of Adjustment. These facts show the tone and temper of the Par ty which nominated Gen. Scott. He receiv ed the nomination because he was not com mitted against this party. Gen Scott’s o- pinions upon the Compromise never were known in Washington City, before or ader