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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
SAffl’L B. CRAFTON,
COUNTV PRINTER.
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Presidential Frospeets.
The New York Herald, of Oct. 1., con
tains a table which exhibits the popular
vote in the State Presidential elections
which have occurred since 1824. Takiuo-
these figures as its data, the Herald af-
teinpts to solve the problem, now enframin'*
the thoughts of so many—what will be the
issue oi the present canvass. The conclu
sion reached is that Pierce will bo elected
President by a “probable plurality of ninety
three thousand votes in the several States
and one hundred and eighty two electoral
votes in the Union.”
Now, we would particularly refer our
readers to the elections recorded in our ta
bles, together with the estimates fouude'd
on the figures which we make of the prob
able results ol the present contest between
Scott and Pierce, founded on the facts of all
the previous elections, is perfectly startling.
We can hardly credit it while wo set it
down; yet it is accurately calculated as
any preceding election result that has ta
ken place tor the last thirty years.
Tho defeat ot Mr. Van Buren in 1840
was prefigured by the Democratic defeat
ot 1838 and 1839; the triumph of Polk in
1844 was founded by the gradual-triumphs
in the Democratic State elections during
t the previous three years ; the great demor-
alizatiou of the Whig party was typified by
the conflicts between Gen. Taylor in 1848
was indicated in the defeat of the Demo
crats in the State elections in the precedin'* -
year. 1 3
According to all these incontestiblo faots
furnished by the history of tho past, wo
must arrive at the inevitable conclusion
that Gen. Pierce will be elected in the elee-
tion ot next month, by an overwhelming
majority. Every State election for tho last
three years, up to the recent elections since
the nominations have been made has inva
riably pointed out the gradual increase and
re-union of the democrats, as well as the de-
ciease in power and the demoralization of
the whig party throughout the Union.
There is more confidence placed by the
Southern States in the promises ard pledg
es of the democrats, under Pierce, than
there is in those of the whigs, headed by
Gen. Scott and steered by Wm. H Seward.
The new bom zeal ot the Van Burens of this
State, in favor of Pierce, does not even
eeem to detract from or lessen the confi
dence which the South places in the sound
constitutional principles of the Northern
democrats. The Van Buren free soil diffi
culty in 1848 was a sudden and personal
movement, contrary to the principles of his
whole life, and repented of as soon as per
petrated. Wm. H. Seward’s principles of
aboiition are at the foundation of his career,
his rise in public life, and his hopes for tho
future. Hence it is that the Southern
States, and those who are in favor of the
constitutional union of this great republic
have more confidence in tho inteority of
the democracy on these points, at this cri
sis, than in that of the whig party.
Such are the general views with which
we accompany these important and valua
ble tables of election results for the past
thirty years. According to all rational con
tusions, founded on facts and on natural
inferences, it would appear that General
ocoti has not the slightest chance of reach
ing the Presidency, and that all the milita
ry popularity attributed to him is an utter
and unqualified absurdity in the history of
politics in this country. Our elections have
been decided by other causes and springs
than those arising from military popularity
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA-
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In bills under §5 will bo received in pay
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Flections.
Tickets will be furnished at this office for
the approaching Presidential election at 50
cents per hundred, cash. Orders solicited.
Tlie Weatlier.
The past week has given us some of the
warmest weather that we have ever seen
at this season, the Mercury standing for
several days above 90, within tho last day
or two however, there has been a change
in the atmosphere, and to yesterday it was
begining to bo somewhat more pleasant.
On Saturday night we had very heavy
rains, and considerable wind which jit is
feared has done considerable damage to the
Cotton, as there was a great deal of it open
in the fields, the previous weather having
been such as to cause it to open faster than
it could bo gathered.
AST A friend has handed us the follow
ing simple mode of calculating tho contents
in bushels of any ascertained space. It will
be interesting and useful to formers in ma
king calculations of corn, grain, crops, &c:
To ascertain the contents of a crib or
barn, multiply tho length, breadth, and
depth in feet together, from that product
deduct one fifth, and the result will be the
contents in bushels. If strict exactness be
required,! ad d four and a half to every
thousand bushels found, or in that ratio.
This rule is founded upon the ratio which
a solid foot bears to a bushel, and will an
swer for practical purposes.
CERES.
Gov. Troup.—Telegraphic despatches to
tho Montgomery, (Ala.) papers say that
Gov. Troup of this State has accepted the
nomination of the Southern Rights party of
Alabama for Presidency. At Columbus,
in this State, they have nominated Jno. A.
Jones of Paulding and Tucker of
Randolph, as candidates for electors for
the State at large, aud Alex H. Cooper
of Columbus, as a candidate for elector in
that District, and recommend others Dis
triets to nominate for themselves.
The Tugaloo Movement.—The Cass-
ville standard, one of the Tugaloo instru
ments in Cheokee, has the most cheering
accounts from theconnties of Franklin, Hall
and Habersham. Gen. Wofford has taken
the stump, and is waking up passengers at
a'terrible rate. The Union men, says the
Standard, are just beginning to wake up to
the interest of,the party, that is to say, they
have just begun to smell the savory odor
from tho flesh pots of office, they have a
little sten of their own, and if it serves no
other good purpose will wake up their
drowsy fellow-sufferers once and a while,
and make them lend a hand to keep the
Union of tlie oth and 6th straight.
State Census.
The Milledgeville Re
corder says it hus been requested to call at
tention of the persous appointed to take the
Census, to the section in the Act which res
quires them to deposit their returns with
^ | *• ofs "p erior Courts fortbo
Harrison, and Taylor would never have el- ’ clifferent counties, to be certified to, under
evated any ot them to the Presidency with
out the combination of other political, so
cial, commercial and financial causes con
curring in those particular time and junc
?ures. The free soil vote, bereft of its Van
Buren influence, which gave it a factitious
importance in 1848, will be reduced - to its
natural dimensions. The contest will be
Bimilar in its general features and character
to those which have marked the historvof
the country for the last twelve years ; but
it will be the l§st contest between tho dem
ecratie and whig parties under these par
ticular appellations. If the democratic
party be triupbant—as every figure seems
to indicate it will—the whig party will sink
into total extinction. Hereafter it will be
ruled in conjunction with the abolition sec
tion, and William H. Seward, defeated in
carrying General Scott into the Presidency,
Will fall back on his orignal principles of ag
itation, abolitionism, and demagogucism,
out of which he sprang, and by which he
has reached his present position.
Who is to be the next President ? The
figures of thirty years past indicate that
Cun. Pierce, by the present combination
jnd complication of parties, will be elected
President over Genera! Scott,* by a proba-
ble plurality of ninety-three thousand votes
in the several Slates, and one hundred and
eighty-info electoral votes in the Uuion.
their hands and seals, before sent to the
Executive Department. They shouid also
be consolidated, showing the different ag
gregates.
The Fair.
The Seventh Annual Exhibition of the
Southern Central Agricultural Society will
be held at Macon commencing on Tuesday
next, the 19th inst., and will continue du
ring that week.
Of course a large number of people will
gather there, but we dare say that the ac
commodations will be ample for all who
go. The Fair Grounds are located in an
eligible part of the city, and the arrnange-
ments for the accommodation of Exhibitors
Yellow Fever aud Savanuah.
The citizens of Savannah have been quite
astir’the'past week on account of three
sporadic cases of Yellow fever which were
detected in the city. The Courier first
made the'announcement, and thereby pro
cured for itself the censure of that class to
be fouud in every trading community, who
are continually tormenting themselves with
the fear that something will be done to the
injury of trade. They have quarreled and
grumbled at the Courier so much about it
and spectators will bo greatly improved that we in the country might have been led
over those of the last year/ For those who
can conveniently leave their homes, we
know of no place where they could more
profitably or pleasantly pass a few days,
and thus give their presence and support to
a society which is destined at no distant
day to wield a vast influence over tho agri
cultural interest of our section of the coun
try. Its influence has indeed already been
felt, though through the greater part of its
existence it has had to contend against the
carelessness and indifference of those whose
interests it proposes to foster and advance,
but its brighter days are now begining to
dawn and we hope they will brighten till
its benign influence is spread throughout
our State. Wo see that the Agricultural
Society of this county have appointed a del
egation. Tho Hon. Wm. H. Crawford will
deliver the Annual Address on Thursday of
that week, aud a Lecture will be delivered
sometime during the week by Col. Sumner
of South Carolina. Stock for Exhibition
taken on the Railroad free of charge, and
passengers at reduced fare.
•The im-
Tiie Presidential Campaign.
pending Presidential election, remarks Ion,
of the Baltimore Sun, is committed chiefly
to a few newspapers and a few politicians,
aud the people generally take little iuterest
in its result. T>ut it is proper to listen to
the occasional reports of the managers of
the campaign. On both sides, they have
already “counted out.” On the Pierce side
the strongest count, to wit: 182 electoral
votes.. On the Scott side, it is l79electo
ral votes.
The State of Maryland is claimed with-
great pertinacity byIboth,sides. New York,
where Scott was so for behind, as to be out
of sight, is now an even bet, in the consid
eration of shrewd and observing men of
both sides. On the other hand, Pennsyl
vania given up alraosbatone time to Scott,
s now confidently claimed by the Demo
crats, and even bets are made on its vote.
The state of popular feeling on the subject
is difficult of discovery, because there is
nothing depending on the issue that much
interests the people.
to believe that there was something more
serious in its appearance than was announc
ed. We are glad to learn however, that
so few cases have occurred in that city, and
of its total disappearance. At a meeting of
a board of.the Physicians on Friday, the
following resolutions were passed.
Resolved, That the Physicians of the
City hereby assure the public, that all the
cases of Yellow Fever, which have occurred
this fall, in the city so for as they are aware
(except a case which came direct from
Charleston, about the middle of August,
and which was carried to the City Hospi
tal,) were reported to the Board of Health
at its regular meeting, on the 6th of Octo
ber instant, which announted to only three;
and that there is no tendency to such dis
ease amongst us; and that, believing, if
that ‘disease should appear in an epidemic
form, it would be our duty to inform our
fellow-citizens ofit, we will report fully and
candidly to the Board of Health, any and
all deaths which may occur from it in our
practice.
Resolved unanimously, That it is the
opinion of the Physicians of the city, that
the number of cases of disease, as also the
severity of the ordinary climate .disease, is
le s than it was a month ago.
R. D. ARNOLD, Chairman.
J. B. Read, Sec’y.
We
Yellow Fever in the West Indies.-
Capt, Matthews, of the schooner Viola, at
Norfolk, from Turks Island, reports the fe
ver as being quite bad at St Thomas, sever
al vessels having lost nearly all their crews
at Turks Island ; several deaths occurred a-
mong tho shipping, and several seamen in
the hospital with the same, being brought
from Deraarara, where the yellow fever and
small pox are raging to an unsual extent.
Virginia. |
JtSOr A pert young lady was walking one
morning on th eSteyne, at Brighton, when
she encountere dthe celebrated Wilkes: You
see,” observed the lady, “I Lave come out
for A' little sun and air." “You had better,
^nadam,get a little husband first.”
Masonic Celebration in
The Masonic fraternity of Virginia are ma
king extensive preparations for celebrating
the centennial anniversary of the initiation
of George Washington, on the 4th day of
November next, at Lynchburg, Va., by a
public procession, oration, and a fair, to be
held on the evening of that day, the pro
ceeds of which are to be presented to the
Washington National Monument fund.
Savannah
A. military officer, one day while re
viewing his company, happened to be
thrown from his horse—and as he lay
sprawling on the ground, said to a friend,
who ran to his -assistance, “I thought I
jbad.improved ia horsemanship, bat I tin l
I have fallen off.
Florida Election. — Tho
Courier of Saturday says, that the partial
returns from this State indicate the success
of the Democrats. Iu Leon county, only
one Whig member of the Legislature was
elected, and the majority against Mr. Cabell
for-Congress was 64 votes.
New Book Store.—The Savannah Pa
pers notices a new Book Store in that city,
owned by Col. S. S. Sibley, late of the Sa
vannah Georgian. His.Stock is spoken of
as being fi ver} 7 large, useful and handsome
collection. .
. lere are in the United States, of
Univei - 3alist societies, 1,091 ; of clergy-
)) and of chuidies,' 828.
No Politics.—The Macon (Geo.) Citi
zens says;that the Executive Committees
have mutually agreed to liave no political
discussions in that city daring the week of
the Fair.
Pulmanory Diseases.—The New-York
Evening Post says that the best physicians
now generally reccommend their patients
afflicted with pulmonic complaints, instead
of going south, to take a trip in a cool and
dry climate, where the temperature is more
equable than on the sea shore. A medical
man writing to the Boston Journal, from
Rock Harbor, Lake Superior, says it is the
country for those laboring under consump
tion, w - ho are not too far gone with the dis
ease. The air is so pure and dry that it
imparts elasticity to the spirits, and infuses
new vigor in the system. He has had the
charge of a small community of one hun
dred souls, and not one during the past
winter has had a cough. From November
to April not a drop of rain had fallen, and
although the temperature is much lower
than in tho Atlantic States, the people do
not suffer so much from cold as they do
where the climate is moister and the tem
perature higher.
Georgia Home Gazette — We *are
pleased to see this valuable and interesting
weekly, still being improved, it is an evi
dence that the Editors are meeting with that
success which they.so richly deserve. The
Gazette is by all odds the best LiteraJy
Journal that comes to this Office. Its col
umns are always filled with the best litera
ture of the country, and so varied as to
suit the tastes of all classes of readers, no
one can read the Gazette without apprecia
ting its high toned character and useful
ness; and the ability of its Editors, will com
mend it warmly to the people of Georgia
and surrounding States.
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[communicated.]
Mr t 'Editor : —I noticed in your paper
some weeks past, a communication signed
“A Democrat,” suggesting a compromise
ticket for Judges of the Inferior Court. In
this suggestion I fully concur, and believing
that it would be for the public good and be
approved by a majority of whig3 and Dem
ocrats, I would suggest a meeting of both
parties on the first Tuesday in November,
with the view to the formation of such a
ticket. A WHIG.
Sandersville, Oct. 5th’, 1852.
At a meeting of the Washington county
Agricultural Association, held to-day,
the following gentlemen were appointed
delegates to the pieeting of the Southern
Central Agricultural Society to be held at
Macon on the 19th inst:
A. E. Lawson, S. A H. Jones, English
Smith, James Gainer, Gen. Robison, A. O.
Haines, O. C. Pope, Wm. C. Riddle, E. C*
Williamson, Walter Dortch, E. D. Taylor>
Silas Floyd, S. B. Crafton, R. L. Warthen
John Ivey, Green Brantley, E S. Lang-
made, Mac E. Boatright, Jas. H. Gilmore, Eli
Whiddon, Col. Hardee, Daniel Harris, G.
Whiddon, Dempsey Whiddon, and John
Kittral.
R. L. WARTHEN, R. Sec’y.
Important from Havana.
The Cresxnt City Ordered from the Har
bor.—Her Mails and Passengers brought
to New Orleans.—Nfw-Ouleans, Oct; 6.
The Cresent City arrived at this port to
day. She reports that she arrived at Havana
on Saturday last, but that all communication
with the shore was forbidden by the Span
ish authorities of the Island, on the ground
that Purser Smith was on board .the steam
er. The Cresent City was ordered to put
to sea forthwith. Lieut. Porter, in com
mand of the steamer, entered his protest
against the action of the authorities, which
was, however, wholly disregarded, and the
Crescent City put to sea in a violent gale of
wind. She was thus obliged to bring all
her Havana passengers and mails to this
city.
Webster State Convention. — The
Webster Whigs of Wisconsin have called
a mass convention of their friends in that
Slate, to be holden at Madison, on the 14th
inst., to elect a State electoral ticket, and
also to choose a candidate for Vice Presi
dent.
Another Cutrage on the American
Flao.—Advices from Havanna, received
at New York by the crescent City, state
that a passenger on board the Cornelia,
Capt. Ward, from New York, had been
seized under our flag, and lodged in one of
the Havana jails; also, that the letter bag
of vessel was taken and ransacked at the
office of tho Political Secretary. A some
what similar indignity was offered to the
Clnlde Harold, another American vessel, a
fe« days after, though none of her passen
gers were disturbed. Verily these Spaniards
are suffering for a castigation.
We observe that the Postmaster of. New
Crleans has sent the mails which the Cres
cent City should have left at Havana to
Mobile, for transmission by the steamship
Black Warrior to that Port. Much excite
ment.prevails in New Crleans relative to
the conduct of the Havana authorities, in
refusing admission into their port of the
Crescent City. A large indignation meet
ing was held Thursday evening at Banks’
Arcade.
A Georgia Piano at the 'Fair.—Th e
Augusta journals state thatMr. P. Brenner
of that city will exhibit at the ensuing State
Agricultural Fair, which comes off the pres
ent month, a very beautiful and elegantly
finished instrument, of his own manufacture,
which is said to be quite a creditable pro
duction, both as regards tone and finish.
SST A meeting of the Executive Com-
mitte of the Independent Third party is
to be held in Macon on Saturday evening
the 16th inst., at the office of the Journal
& Messenger.
gST W. A. McEwen, of Cincinnati,
charged with setting on foot an expedition
to revolutionize Cuba, was held to bail in
the sum of $10,000, last week, by Judg e
McLean, of the U. S. Circuit Court for Ohio’
His t rial is to take place at Columbus on the
third. Tuesday of this month.
Spanish Insolence—Outrage upon the
American Flag.—The conduct of the Span
ish authorities iu Cuba in not permitting
the Crescent City to land her mails or pas
sengers at that port, is only a manifestation
of the insolent arrogance of the petty despo
tism by which that lovely Island is cursed.
Our flag has been insulted, the l ights of our
citizens outraged, and our commerce ob
structed by the caprice of the Captain Gen
eral under the pretext that Mr. Smith, Pur
ser of the ship, is an obnoxious individual—
he is a republican and is supposed to sym
pathize with the oppressed Cubans. This
outrage is the legitimate result of the past
forbearance, we had almost said degrading
submission of our government and her rep
resentatives in Cuba, to the insults, outra
ges, and barbarities of the minions of Span
ish power who disgrace the name of govern
ment on the island. Does any one believe
that under similar circumstances, a British
steamer would have received similar treat
ment? No. Will our Government submit
to the last degradation that can be heaped
upon it? For the sake of our national fame,
we hope not. The time has come when our
natioual rights, honor and dignity, must be
asserted and maintained, or our name will
become a by-word and a reproach among
the nations. Our Government cannot lon
ger submit to these^pepeated annoyances
and indignities. The honor of our flag
must be maintained on our own continent
at least, and if this scion of Spanish despo
tism cannot exist in our vicinity without be
ing a source of continued annoyance, it
must be bauished to the Old World, there
to perish with the odious and rapidly de
caying system to which it belongs.
Texas Productions.
The following extract of a letter, written
by an intelligent planter of Texas, formerly
of Montgomery Co. Ala, to his friend in the
this city, may be relied on, implicitly. The
writer is well known to us, aud* we know
him to be incapable of any exaggeration in
it be the sagacious seller, who is looking to
a removal to the great South West. I con
sider my lands worth $20 per acre and
would not take it to day; and yet I only gave
$1 per acre, to begin my settlement with
and have since bought at much less rates*
lands lying adjacent to me. ’
You are mistaken about the lands in Ba.
ker County producing more cotton than our
uplands. My cotton has grown too large
and is too thick to make as much as it would
if the contingences could have been foreseen
which have produced this result. The dis^
tance between our rows is 5 feet and the
limbs of the cotton are so interlocked as to
make it difficult to get through it. I have
not an acre but would reach your shouldev3
on horseback. If we had had dry weather
in July and August, our cotton would have
done much better. Recently we have had
incessant rains^and cotton began sprouting
in the bole. The caterpillar made its ap
pearance two weeks since, and has spread
over about 25 acres. The damage is much
less than I anticipated. We are not so well
advanced in picking our cotton as we were
last year.. I have picked 51,000 pounds-
and have it ginned and packed, ready for
market. My son (W) measured and picked
an acre of his cotton on the 27th of August
and gathered 800 pounds. His form ^ad
joining my plantation, and cost $1 per acre.
My lands you have seen and know the
quality well. I am on neither creek nor
river, and hope never to cultivate any other
than our uplands, which saves us from all
apprehension when the flood gates are open
ed and the waters descend and disease
marches and counter-marches, up and down
our big rivers. Thrice safe is he who has
built among the bills and cultivates a more
moderate soil, as I have chosen to do in
coming ^o Texas.
In conclusion, I would advise you and all
your friends to come to Texas, and especial
ly Mr. G. and others of Twiggs, whose farms
1 examined two years since, presenting a
lamentable contrast with the; farms of thia
country. Yours, &c., G. W.
Letter of Messrs. Cuyler aud Hab
ersham.
The following letters from Messrs. Cuyler
and Habersham, of this city, to the N. Y.
Herald, will explain themselves. We need
only remark that they were drawn out. by
the publication, in the Herald, of a list of
persons falsely charged with being engaged
in a selieme for the revolutinizing of Cuba.—
Sav. Republican.
Savannah, Sept. 28, 1852.
To the Editor of the New York Herald ;
Sir:—In your issue of the 22a instant,
you have published my name in connection
with expeditions for revolutionizing the Is
land of Cuba. You say you “procured” the
list of names which you publish, and you
have had the temerity to class me with “an
inconsiderable section of the community
who ba*e no conscientious scruples, bu^who-
advocate, and seem to make preparation for
another fillibustero expedition.” I have to
say to you, that is a vile slander on me—a'
most unmitigated falsehood.
Te say that I feel deeply for the oppres-
ed of the earth, and desire to see every, na
tion as free as that in which my lot is cast,
is only to express what every citizen of this
republic feels iu his inmost heart. I sincere
ly trust that Cuba may, by the valor of her
own sons, be freed from the horrible despo
tism which is crushing her; but I am, and
ever have been, an open, undisguised ene
my, of expeditions from the United States,
raised to interfere with Ihe concerns of coun
tries at peace with this. I am well known
here, at ruy residence, to be no propagan
dist of liberty—no secret violator of the law*
of the laud, under the guise of that holy
name, but on the contrary to be a plain, or
dinary citizen, loyal to his country and obe
dient to its laws.
The administration of General Taylor and
of Mr. Fillmore have had my feeble suppor f ,
and hearty thanks, openly expressed, for the
stand which they took in reference to Cuba.
I hope I may never forget the lessons of “the
father of his country,” left as a precious leg
acy to the people, or the noble answer of
our present chief magistrate to the great
Hungarian. °
I cannot permit myself to think that Gen
eral Gonzales, who has freely enjoyed the
hospitalities of my house and family, (ex
tended to him most cheerfully, on a latter
of introduction from a friend, now a Sena
tor of the United States, to my son,) ever
his statements of the remarkable fertility of I gave you my name as one in the most
Singular Predicament of a Bank.—
The Commercial Bank, at Albany, was
closed on 2d irst., in consequence of the
officers being unable to unlock a new patent
lock on the front door. They were compell
ed to send to New York for the patentee.
ExSenator Hannegan
Severe Frost in Boston.—“There was,”
•ays the Boston Journal of the 3Qth ult.,
“a heavy frost in this vicinity last night,
which has undoubtedly set its seal upon the
further growth of dahlias,
vegetation generally
sunrise the mercury stood at 32 1-2 degrees.
In this immediate vicinity the temperature
WR3 about two degrees higher.”
j, tomatoes, and
In West Newton at
Acquitted.—
The Fountain (Ind.) circuit court failed to
find an indictment against Hon. E. A. Han
negan for the murder of Captain Duncan;*
so that he is now clear from all legal pro
ceedings.
Thanksgiving in Carolina.—His Ex
cellency. Governor Means, of South Caroli
na, has appointed Friday* the 29th inst., as
a day to be set apart for religious services
by the people, of that State.
EAT The English citizens of Boston were
to meet on Thursday last, to take measures
for a demonstration of respect to the mem
ory of Wellington. 1
up-country Texas Lands. It may, howev
er, as well be stated, that the Major is no
drone of a planter, and that to bis success
ful cultivation of the soil, he is indebted for
some considerable portion of his exhuberant
crops:—Macon Citizen. .
Montgomery Co., Texas, Aug. 29,1852.
Dear Sir:—f received your letter of the
9th inst., and was glad to hear you were all
well, and that your crops were so promising,
particularly the corn. You say your river
land will make 40 bushels of corn to the
acre and ask if my upland will .do it. One of
my near neighbors (Mr. R.) rode with me
in my corn a few days since, and thinks it
the best eared corn that he ever saw. He
is of the opinion that it will produce 75
bushels per acre, and what gives his opinion
weight is, that he is a Tennesseean. Sever
al of my neighbors estimate their corn crop
at 75 bushels to the acre, and I have offer
ed to bet that I will beat any of them. I
have given you the opinion of my neighbors,
and will now give you mine. I think I shall
average; from 60 to 60 bushels of corn in my
whole crop. To see whether I am right or
not in this, I intend to select an acre or two
and have them measured, and will let you
know the result. Onething is evident and
it ought to be known in the older States,
viz: we shajl have plenty of corn for immi
grants next year, and that two, at greatly
reduced prices. We*began very early (.Ju
ly) to use it, but the great quantity grown
forbids other than low prices. I am glad to
hear that lands have risen in Georgia,
though I doubt the permanency of the pres
ent prices and am inclined to think they
will recede, and no one be benefitted, unless
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mote degree connected with his plans or
views in regard to the Iibei ation of his coun
try. His conduct here was that of a gen
tleman, and for himself, as an exile from his
native land, under condemnation of death
for an alleged political offence, he had my
warmest sympathy; but he never received—
he never asked—any aid, advice, or counte
nance, from me in any of his plans. Ho
shall have my friendly feeling until I find
that there is perfect evidence of his forfeit
ure of it.
I know not where you procured vour list.
You have on it, let me inform you, the names
of gentlemen who have had no more to do
with theUuba movements than I have. Toall
you have done great injustice. For myself
I call upon you to give the authority on
which you have u;ed my name, and publish
this communication in your paper, with
your reply. I ask this as a plain act of jus
tice.
Your obedient servant, R. R. Cuyler.
Savannah, September 26, 1852,^
James Gorden Bennett, Esq:
Sir-—In the Herald of the 22d inst., un
der the head of “The Revolutionary Move
ment in Cuba,” my name appears as one of
those persons supposed to be thoroughly
enlisted iu the cause of Cuban emancipa
tion.
As an act of justice, I trust you will make
it public that my name has been used with
out any authority from me whatever, and
that I disclaim ever having had any con
nection with such movement.
Yours, very respectfully,
Wm. Waring Habersham.
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