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THE GENTR A L G K ORGlAN.
THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
SAM ’^ B* CRAFTOIf,
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ARRIVAL. OF TOR ILLINOIS.
fbe U. S. Mail s teamsliip Illinois, from
Aspiiiwdl, Navy Bay, November 4tli, amv-
ed at New Yofk c, Friday afternoon last.
Her dates from California are to the
October, four days later than, those
Stcu oj the West, via, Nicaragua.
The Isthmus was crossed from Panama
to Aspmwall m S 1-2 hours, and the Illi
nois made the passage from Aspimvall to
.New York m 7 days and 18 hours, although
having to contend with a head sea and
strong N.E. winds the whole passage. The
time made is loss than 23 and little over IS
SANBERSYILLE, GEORGIA.
TtJJCSRA'V'irOV.'23, ,1S52.
St. Mary’s Money
In bills under $5 will be received in pay
ment of demands due this office.
The Lecture by Mr. White on to
morrow evening will take place in the Court
room.
days from .Panama, from which place the
Illinois brings dates to the 4th instant.
Among the passengers is Lieut. Willis,
^■ who brings dispatches from Mr.
Clay, U. S. Charge a.t Lima, relative tu the
final settlement of the guano question, lie
also reports that Commodore McCauley
arrived at Callao on the 13th ult., from Val
paraiso. On the afternoon of the 2d, Val
paraiso was visited by a severe shock’of an
earthquake; the amount of damage was not
ascertained, but it was supposed to be verv
great, as the shock, on board of the -Raritan
was severely felt.
The Panama Railroad is doing a good
business. Ilie freight and passenger bus
iness, even in the present condition of the
road, has not only been large but profitable,
notwithstanding the frequent and heavy re-
paiis foi some time necessary. Hie arrange
ments for transporting passengers, though
not so comfortable as they might he, are
very secure, as well to baggage as to the
lives and limbs of the passengers. The
baggage is all ticketed, and duly entered on
way bills, and the company is responsible
for everything.
Lieutenant Gillis returns home from Li-
ma after an absence of nearly three vears.
He was sent there, it will he ren^pmbored,
Tempera nc e Lecture.—The Rev. Dab
ney P. Jones will deliver a Temperance
leeture at this place on Thursday the 16th
day of December. Those who are fond of
good jokes and a fine speech should attend.
Fine Cigars.
Mr. Ilarris Berlaek, Cigar Manufacturer
of this town will accept our thanks for a
■bunch of his fine cigars, manufactured from
the genuine Havana tobacco, they’ are well
made and of a fine material. The lover of
such a luxury need not be assured that they
arc a delicious article. Mr. Berlaek has a
variety in his line and sells cheaply, those
who arc fond of smoking, chewing, or snuf
fing would do well to give him a call. Ilis
shop is next door to Ainsworth & Slager’s
Store.
Historical Lecture.
The Rev. George White who is prepar
ing for Press a history of Georgia from its
earliest settlement, will pass through this
place to-moirow and will deliver a Lecture
at night on the subject of the American
Revolution in Georgia, and the men who
acted in it, to which the public generally
arc invited to attend. As to the Lecture,
we will say that it will be of the most in
teresting character, having had the pleas
ure of hearing Mr. W., on this subject, we
feel fully authorised to assure the public of
this fact. Mr. V Lite has devoted the past
ten years of his life entirely to this subject,
to superintend an astronomical observatory,j and is therefore, fully prepared to enlighten
the instruments of which were provided by
the United States Government.
The principal object to be attained by this I
astronomical expedition, was the determi
nation of the sun’s parallax by a new meth
od, distinct from that employed in the last
century, and which, from numerous simul
taneous observations in the other hemis
phere, promises to afford great exactitude
to this important centre of our planetary
system.
Ihe laoors of Lieutenant C., however,
have not been confined to this point alone,
in proof of which : YYC-;'may state he brings
.home with him some .40,000 observations
relative to the position of-stars surrounding
the south pole, for the formation of a new
catalogue-of stars; air extensive collection of
observations relative to. the motions of the
moon, and meteorological observations made
day and night for an uninterrupted period
of three years.
Arrest of a Mail Roller.—Mr. Hol
brook, agent of the Post Office Department,
arrested at Philadelphia on the 11th inst.,
the perpetrator of several mail robberies
committed at Baltimore The. prisoner is
John W. Coinegys, who, while employed
as a conductor of the Express train on the
Baltimore railroad, cut open the pouches
at different times, at Baltimore, and took
possession of drafts, after destroying the
letters containing .them. He hadohtaiued
cash u;>on drafts submitted by various New
York banks to Southern correspondents, but
payable in New York,- by opening an ac
count in a bank in Philadelphia, and depos
iting the drafts with forged endorsements.
When arrested, he had 87 570 in bills of
> j the public on a matter which has hitherto
received little or no attention, and with his
fund of information has gathered up a store
of anecdotes and romantic incidents con
nected with persons who acted in the revo
lution which are laughable and amusing,
those therefore, who wish to enjoy an hour
or so pleasantly should not fail to give him
a hearing.
The Book which Mr. White proposes to
publish is one of general interest to the
people of this State, as all doubtless wish to
familiarise themselves with the incidents of
its early settlement, and the price will put
it in the power of all to posess the work
The price will range from $5,50 to 84 ac
cording to the binding; a neat and dura
ble book may be obtained for the first
price which will be worth double the a-
mouut in any family. The subscription
payable on delivery of the book, which wil]
be some time in April or May next.
Mr. White will Lecture in Louisville on
Thursday night on the same subject, the
people of that town- and vicinity are re-
spectfullv invited to attend.
State Road Affairs.
We notice , that the people of Marietta
have become somewhat indiguant with Mr.
Wadley, for raising the freights on the State
Road, and very seriously challenge his in
tegrity in this matter. They resolve that
lie is in some way connected with the Cen
tral Rail Road and the city of Savannah in
raising the charges, and not acting for the
benefit of the State, and therefore advise all
persons trading at Marietta not to ship their
goods by way of Savannah. The Savannah
Republican denies flatly that that city, or
the Central Rail Road, has ever shared any
partiality from the Superintendant of the
State Road, and shows from the reports of
that officer to the Governor, that Savannah
and the Central RailJUoad has shared but
a small part of the business of the State
Road. It seems to us that the Superiu-
tendant is a dull and stupid fellow, if he has
the interest ascribed to him by the Marietta
people, and cannot make it tel! better in fa
vor of his interest, he is but a lame copart
ner and the C. R. R. ought to dissolve with
him, and pray the Governor to eject him
from the office. It is a matter of but little
interest to us in this part of the State how
the rates of freight arc fixed on that road,
but as tax payers we are decidedly in favor
of haviug them so arranged as to make the
concern as shy al >out the State Treasury as
possible, if higher rates are necessary to
make the road pay its own way, let them be
raised, and those who are especially bene
fited by the road will pay for it, as in justice
they ought, the Superintendaut of course is
to be the judge in this matter, and it will be
time enough to find fault with him, when it
is seen that bis policy has not subserved the
interest of the State, but not that of the
people along the line of the State Road.
with it. Before leaving this branch of the
subject, I will propound to Crab Grass a
few questions which may lead him to reflect
on this subject a little more maturely. Did
you or not, ever drink any well or spring
water impregnated with lime ? Iron ? or
sulpher? If yea, how did it get into the wa
ter. Did you or not ever drink any water
in which neither of these ingredients could
be detected by the tasLe, that was decidedly
had or unpleasant to the taste, and if yea,
why is it thus bad or unpleasant to the taste
itSF” Ihe Supreme Court of New Hamp
shire have declared the law passed by their
Legislature prohibiting the sale of liquor, as
unconstitutional.
High 1’rices.—At a sale of wines of the
lateJosiAH Lee—stuck broker—in Balti
more lately, fifty demijohns of various brands
of Madeira were struck off at prices ranging
from twenty four dollars to foUy-ninc dol
lavs per gallon; and cate lot of twenty-two
bottles commanded the extreme price of fif-
the Bank o! Both America, the produce' teen dollars and fifty cents per bottle: which,
ot stolen drafts. Comegys had opportune „^ . . , . - . ,
ties to commit the robberies, there beino- ! as ^ je American ob&cnes, at five bottles to
no mail agents attached to’ the express j ^ ie o a ^ cn >’ s afc ^ )e rat e of $77 50 per gal-
train. Hie prisoner confesses the crime, lion.
and acknowledges having destroyed many
drafts that he knew could riot be converted
into money. No m’oncy was found in the
pouches. The first discovery of the rob
bery was from finding a rifled pouch in a
sink attached to the United States Hotel,
Baltimore. The prisoner is connected with
a most respectable family in Philadelphia.
Finances of Georgia.—The money arti
cle of the N.E. Evening Post has the fol
lowing;
The debt of the State of Georgia is about
or under “three millions of dollars,” con
tracted for a railroad 140 miles long,
(through the only gap in tliep mountains
from Maryland to Alabama,) running to the
Tennessee river. The Western and Atlan
ticRailroad is owned exclusively by the State
of Georgia.. It is the only connecting link
in the railroads on the western side of the
mountains with the south and south-west;
and-, of course, none others can be built to
compete with it, without a charter from the
State. The income of the railroad has iu
creased 100 per cent, within this year, and a
double track will be absolutely necessary to
accommodate the freight and travel.
Railroads are made and being constructed,
both on the east and west, to connect with
it, and the Legislature has provided by tax
for all the interest on the debt and. expen
ses of the State, and appropriated the inter
est of the road to redeem the bonds.
It can be sold for four millions cash; and
the chief Superintendent thinks that the in
come will be. riel.from. 8. to 15 per - cent, on
the three millions; and, if the State be not
compelled to make'a double track (o aceorn-
date the increasing business of the road, the
Comptroller will be a purchaser-of the bonds
in less than two years. w
The interest aud coupons on all Georgia
stock have been 'regularly paid, and no State
or States e-an make be
ai- e. Yours, Ac.
JJ
The first show of the season fell in
Philadelphia on the 13th inst., The Bulle
tin speaks of it as “a light dry sprinkle, not
enough to whiten the roofs, but accompanied
with windy gusts that give assurance that
winter is coming in earnest, the wise ora
cles of venerable dames say that, from its hav
ing fallen on the 14th of the month, it is a
sign that we are to have fourteen snows.—
May their prediction be within, or at least
not exceeding the realization; for then it
will only be half as many snow storms as
we had in the bitter winter of last year,”
isfci'
Jr bonds than hers
G. B. Lamar.
Another Route to the Pacific.—Col*
Rntnsey has been recently exploring the
route included in the grant made to him by
the Mexican Government, to navigate the
river of Lacatula or Meseala, from the sea to
the boundary line of the State oi Puebla, a
distance of 450 miles—the latter point being
only about 350 miles from Acapulco, on the
Pacific. By this route the distance from
New Orleans to San Francisco will be per
formed in twelve days. ■
[for THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.]
Me. Editor: Sir, having noticed in your
paper some time back a proposition of some
friend that we select candidates from each
political party to fill the bench of our Infe
rior Court, I heartily acquiesce in said
proposition and proj>ose the names of our
worthy citizens Richard Warthen, Joseph
Bangs, E. C. Williamson, Jeptha Brantly,
and John Bland, as a suitable tieket.
LIMESTONE.
[for the central GEORGIAN,]
Mr. Editor:—In my communication of
the 6th inst., I promised at my earliest leis-
sure to reply to your correspondent Crab
Grass. I now propose to redeem that
pledge.
He sets out by referring to my position^
that the salts of manures on which plants
teed, are dissolved by rain water and filtered
off with said water, when there is a redun-
dency, in its passage through the strata of
the earth. He then says, “here arises a
question, where docs it deposit them ? Sure
ly notin its passage through the earth, the
same element in which it took them up;
and yet they are not found in the same ele
ment where it runs in to our wells and
springs.”
Ergo, the salts are not thus removed, if
at all. Now Mr. Editor, stick a pin there,
for I shall have occasion to refer you to this
point before I proceed far. He then goes
on to argue, that rain water in its descent
on the earth has in it ammonia, and if j
ploughed land will absorb five times as!
much water as unpioughed, it will of course I
take up five times as much ammonia, and it
is a fair inference, that he would have the
ammonia counter-balance the loss of the
salts of manures by filtration, if indeed
there should be any, but fails to tell ns how
much ammonia we might expect to receive
in a fall of one inch of water. This is im
aud from what cause?
Your correspondent next goes on to dis-
cautou the bcuefits of the green crop turn
ed iu—the humus formed, &e., &c., closing
with his quotation from Dr. Leibog. All of
which is very pretty in theory. But it is
said that one fret is worth a thousand the
ories. Hence I will give one in answer to
his theory.
Mr. A. being dissatisfied or doubtful of
the theory of turning in the green crop, de
termined to test the fact. Accordingly he
took four acres of land, all laying together,
and as nearly equal in fertility as may be ;
planted two in peas, and the other two he
let grow up in grass, The peas were culti
vated, and at maturity one of the acres were
ploughed in, the other, was allowed to re
main on the land all the winter undisturbed.
Also one acre of the grass and weeds was
ploughed in at full maturity, while the oth
er was allowed to remain undisturbed all
the winter as the unpioughed acre of peas.
Now agreeable to the theory of Crab Grass
these acres that had the green crop plough
ed iu should have beat the acre that were
not ploughed. But what says Mr. A. the
experimenter. He says all four of the acres
were prepared the same way next Spring.
MEMOBIAL.
To the Honorable, the. Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of Gear
gia.
The undersigned, your Memoralists, be
ing citizeus of Jefferson county, in the ex
ercise of a constituent right, do respectfully
present this memorial to your honorable
bodies, praying a due consideration of the
subject therein alluded to, namely: The
Laws regulating the Retail of Spirituous
Liquors in this State.
The citizens elected to, and constituting
members of your Houorable bodies, being
selected from the mass of their fellow-citi
zens, cannot be unaware of the existence of
a wide-spread aud increasing interest in the
subject of Temperance. It is a principle pe
culiarly characteristic in the social organiza
tion of our countrymen, to cultivate benev
olence—to cherish aud foster all institutions
calculated to raise the standards of morals,
and to ameliorate and improve the social
condition of mankind. To this end, among
many other enlightened means, wise, tal
ented, and good men, Lave associated them
selves together, that they might more ef
fectually, fully, and beneficially, accomplish
united, what individual eflbrt, however well
directed, would have failed to do. Our
country presents a vast number of such as
sociations of men, kuown as, and appropri
ately designated Temperance Societies.—
These Societies are formed Upon the sole
principle of discouraging the use of Spirit
uous or intoxicating Liquors, as a beverage
among their fellow-citizens. The benefits
resulting from their past labors are as yet,
rather of an individual or local character,
but sufficient, however, to hold out the
hope of realizing at no distaut day, all the
most brilliant anticipations of the ardent
minds and benevolent hearts, that have en
tered zealously upon this great work- As
sociated thus, with no allusion to civil or
religious opinions—with no wish to mingle
with, or promote political distinctions, your
Memorialists are only actuated by an ar-
authonzmg the Judges of the Inferior
Court of this county, and all other counties
desiring the same, to refuse the grantinq of
Licenses to Retail Spirituous Liquors in
any. District or Districts of the same
where the majority of the citizens of the
said District or Districts shall make known
their desire to that effect by Ballot.
Andyour Memorialist will even pray,& c .
MHT. Newspapers of the State friendly to
he cause, are respectfully desired to publish
the foregoing Memorial, that all may judge
whether there is anything in it, to which
Legislators should object, if the people wish
and ask for it.
COMMERCIAL.
y Cotton.—This article has been selling"^
our market for the past week at 9 9} and 9^ c -
SAVANNAH MARKET, Nov , 19.
COTTON.-Arrived since the 11th inst", 14,.
137 hales Upland (10,636 per Railroad, 3357
from Augusta and landings on the river, 104 via
Darien, and 40 per wagons, & c .) and 332 do
Aea Island. The exports for the same period'
amount to S,20.8 bales Upland and 94 do. Sea
Islands, viz: to Liverpool J ,651 bales Upland-
to Ir.este/06 bales Upland; to Antwerp 452
bales Upland; to Boston 610 bales Upland- to
ISew-York 3,156 bales Upland and 5l> do Sea
Islands; to Philadelphia 1,217 bales Upland*
to Bait,more 298 bales Upland; to Charleston
lib bales Upland and 35 do. Sea Islands—Jeav-
ing on hand and on shipboard not cleared a
stock of 34,804 bales Upland and 894 do. Sea
Island, against 15,969 bales Upland and 505 do.
Sea Islands at the same time last j ear.
Our last weekly report closed uprin airn
market. The same evening we received later
advices from Europe by the Canada. The Liv
erpool market was reported unusually active at
tin advance of Jcf., and, under the influence of
these advices,our market opened on Faiday at
an advance of \ cent; but buyers relusing tu
come in freely at these rates, the transactions
were limited to 4rr bales. On Saturday thw
market was firm—sales 1.664 bales.. On Moni
day, there was a good iuq t uiry > and before noon
2,200 bales changed hands at fall prices.: The
by the Atlantic, at hand about noon,
checked operations, and but little was sold for
the balance of the day. Prices were unsettled
on Tuesday and Wednesday, but with, a fair
demand, the sales were generally made at the
dent desire to promote their own happiness j f ates a3 ^ere paid before the arrival of the lit-
I -0 felkjw-fcitizetts, and to pro- £
planted iu the same way, and at the same j auu mai oi sueir ieirow-ciuzens, anu to pro
time, without manure, and cultivated in the; tect, as far as possible, themselves and their
same way. The acre on which the peas re- i children from the temptations, and demor-
mained all the winter undisturbed beat the I examples too often set before them,
acre that was turned over when the peas was
at full maturity. And the undisturbed acre
of grass and weeds beat the one that had
thegaass arvd weeds turned under at matu
rity.—Farmer's Register.
Now Mr. Crab Grass here is a fact in op
position to your theory, can you explain it
away ? Until yon do, your theory must re
main in doubt. I should not wonder if the
true cause of the perfect failure of the one,
and the success ol the other—in part at
least, depended on the position taken by
“A Book Farmer,” connected with other
in the fruits of houses, whose proprietors
a good inquiry—sales 1,097 bales. The mar
ket seemed to ha ve recovered what ^ had lost
in the two previous days, and, as there is but at
limited stock on. sale, closes firm at our quota-
have been licensed, under our present laws, j'of last we'ek. ^We q^otef* 1 ^ c '* rom our fi « uae8 >
to retail spirituous liquors.
In many parts of. the State, through the
exertions of citizens thus associated, large
communities have been redeemed from the
immoral, the Ioathesoine, and corrupting
influences of drunkenness. Such has been
the case particularly in the county in which
your Memorialists reside, and were an ar
gument or an example neeessary to show to
yot?r enlightened and Honorable bodies, the
elaims to the respeetful consideration and
granting of the prayer of your Memorialists,
we might cite yon to the accumulated bene
fits that have been reaped by wives and
facts which will be given when it is shown ^ cM(lren » wll «> were more than widows—
that ammonia, in solution inay pass off with
rain water through the strata of earth be'
low, and the salts of manures ia solution
does not. Yours, <fcc.,
A BOOK FARMER.
worse thai) orphans, before the restoration
of a father or a husband to the paths of
Temperance, and the position of a respected
citizen.
Ours are not the national features, nor
the liberal,, enlightened institutions of our
country, and of the age, the models, by which
to inculcate virtue through immoral exam
ples. The Spartans sought to instruct aheis-
ex-
[fOK THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.]
Tlie Auti-Retailing Convention.
Mr. Crafiox. I see by the papers, that. youths in the habits of Temperance, bv
a number of Delegates to the late Temper- j posing the odious nature of drunkenness in
Low to Good Middling 9& a 9S
Middling Fair jy a _
■** u , 104 a—
Ihe sales of the week amounted to 7,788
ie bales, jit the following particulars;—L6at 8A, 3aL
g 8J, 1J 5 at 9, 34 al 159 at 9L 18 at 9j, 387 at
9i, 778 al 9§, 1,376 at 9$, 984 at 9£, 2^475 al ML
16 at 101-16; 829 aULGi, 579 104,1 at iOL
ond 12 at 11 cents.
Floor.—We hear, of sales of 100 bble^ BaltL
more, at 5£, 100 do. al 5g, arid 125 do^ af $54 ‘
Corn —There is but little now in the market
and no large sales have been made during lii*-
week. A cargo of good C*isl would ojcpbably
sell for 80 a 85 els-.
Hay.—-ITe notice sales of ISO bales Northern^
at $1| per hundred, 300 do. Eastern at $14..
Oacon —1 here.fias nut been, much enqtffry
chis week and the transactions have been only
by retail. We quote Shoulders at Sa.84..
Sides at 9 a 94.-vnts.
B AGcuac. —Gunny is selling at IT a II|cent§_
Balk Roeic.— We notice small sales ot Ken
tucky al 2 a ?q, and of Dillon's at 8 & 8£: Cts.
Lima: is retailing at 1$ a $Tf_
Salt.—Most of the cargo which arrived* this-
week was sent into tne interior. Some large
sales have been made of that previously receiv
ed, at 85 a 90 ct» per sack. — 8av. "Rep.
sale of. a,.*! the Ealing of Spirituous Liq.! raisCthe rrforra dfesol ” te -» n<t
r _ , restore the unfortunate inebriate to the po-
uors in this State. They strike at the root j s jtion in society, which his talents, his in-
of the evil. And it is certainly gratifying ] dustry, or his capital may entitle him—and
Tribute of Kesi>ecl-
Carmel Lodge, No. 150,
A- Y. Hi- JSuvember 16th 1852. ^
auce Convention held in Macon, passed two- t ^ e ' 1 ' Helots. Your Memorialists by a more
very important Resolutions, touching the! w [ se aa d en lightened bene\ oleiice, ^desire to
The unerring shaft ol death has pierced our
circle,and removed Irani earth to u world of
never ending duration, our beloved Brother
James M. i uI.som. God in his inscruiitbJtt-
- MH i... . . , providence, has in this astticting dispensation,
to the friends of Temperance, to see so large 1 ^ eac y our youths to avoid vice, by the j bereft this body of a slmMg light, and Masou-
aud influential a body of men, in delibera-1 ^ uItiv f fclon of ™ tU0US P rinci l ,les j ry everywhere, of a devoied'ami worthy broth-
.. ., . : ! But tins vour Memorialists find, from sad i er » and a disconsolate family- of a friend and
tu counci nioting m this matter, lhat - experience, cannot bedone, while your stat-! P rol * cto J r .whose place can never be. .supplied.
it would have been a wise policy to have done lutes now of force, gives to the will of a ! ^ f l,ou!< [ be admonished by^ this sad eveut
so earlier, I will not pretend to say—but, single individual, the right to Retail Spir- j tions, and of the sure approach of death, ai.u ,t*
sooner or later, the subject must have come ^ ^ uous Liquors against the known wishes of: awful consequences, and point our eyes in the
before the people; and I rejoice thatit has i
been put forth so openly, frankly, and fair-
or community in which he may choose to
locate. That the act of such a person is le-
ly; aud by a body of men so respectable* gal, your Memorialist do nut pretend to
not only in point of representative influence 1 1 doubt: But they appeal to the justice and
but in talent, judgment, and capacity, to 1 w ^ c ' m .°^. I ou . r . np nora ffie bodies to say
c t. •' l tl how far 11 IS right. W ith many, and es-
■torm. It. is hnt ■ •, , ... . i’ .
work out a great moral reform. It is but i
peciaily with those who traffic in Spirituous
justice, however, to say, that the position ; Liquors, the standard of right and wrong
taken by the 1st Resolution—namely :—: would seen to be humau law. But it is re-
That of advocating a Law, by whieh the ' sp'-'ctfully suhinitted to your consideration,
citizens of each countv may determine by ° n ^ as ^ Jaw-making power, but as
, , tl T - *, ./. . ,/ the conservators of the public good—that
vote, whether Liquor shall be sold within j all human law is fallible : And that wheth
Sardines.—The editor of the Manchester
Mirror says, from personal knowledge, that
the Bay dt Monterey, California, is literally
filled with this delicious fish. They are
said to be found there in greater abundance
than iri any Other part of the world.. They
are to be found not only at Monterey, but
in all the still waters 011 the coast from Pa
nama to Oregon.
Ihe Largest Tunnel in the world is in
Hungary, it extends from the shore of
the river Gran, near Za'jtiowitz, to the
Scheinnitzer Hill Mines, and is teu English
miles in iemrih.
- v - '■
■ a ~ ilife
whether we get as much in the one as we
loose in the other. While on this branch
of the subject, he says, “If the soil has noth
ing in it to fix the ammonia, it would be
volatalized with vapor of water, us well as
carried to the regions below with the ivater."
Now Mr. Editor go back to where you
stuck the pin, and compare his conclusion
;j» .1 , e ,. . .. , im tu —j to bcyu* uLta, seriously ancciiug tiic monus,
J ‘ ’ ie " a ei 0 ie sa s is supp tec j months ago, by a portion of the citizens of! the interests, and the well-being of society
by the same water which takes off the salts, j Jefferson county, as will be seen by the fol- i should not he trit?d by the divine law.
; lowing Memorial. Though hastily drawn
assumed its mortality. Brother Foleoh nas
born in Exeter,New Hampshire, in the year
J608, and remov.c 1., savannah, Ga., at about
the age of tvn »•»_!, w-orre he resided until 1843.
! Soon after hit arrival 111 Savannah, he became
a Mason, and devoted to the craft, he jiad
step by step worked his way up te the topmost
rounds of that mystic ladder. U
He was for many years Master of Solomon’s
Lodge in that city, and has filled trie criair of
the Grand Senior Warden of the Grand Lodge
of the State of Georgia.
it would be needless to say to the craft that
in him they have lost a bright and generous
Mason- Brother F. came to Gordon in this
cosuly in 1843, where he has ever-since resided.
He was one of the founders of tins lodge, and
much has it received from his enlightened lec
tures and work, and deeply does it mourn his
which is the infallible test of ri<rht and -and while ws drop the sympathetic tear
If by that standard itis found that j V our deceased biother, 1st
1 *“ - - throw a veil over his
up, after the Legislature had been in ses- j the traffic in Spirituous Liquor is immoral tf!“ £ Uir
sion some time, and but a very few days j is sinful, is injurious to the best interests of j BroUfrrT^was Sred
there, with bis exposition here, and you will n „„„ , ,* c ,
. . 1 „ ,’. J it may attach, therefore, to an early move
seethe inconsistency referred tom my note
of the 6th. In the first case he denies that
the salts of manurescan be thus wasted, and
in the next place he, says that this will be
the result with the ammonia, which ammo
nia, (b^r his own showing) is in solution,
and may and does pass off by filtration
where there' is no substance to fix it. And
yet the salts of manures, in like solution can
not pass off, or does not pass off because
they are not found in the water of our wells
ia human to err
consequently could be devoted to procuring; tbe community, and that tire Laws which j ora in the Masonic Burying Ground'Iif Rose
subscribers, yet nearly one hundred and fif- j sanc ^ on that traffic are equally so, it will be j Hill Genie try, in the City of Macon, aud our
if _ . I readily observed that it is not in the power 1 £ r * lelul ■ckuowl* dgementa ara due to the fra-
appended to It-nun.benng of m / h L aislati(m „ in ^ rfU.« CUjr for tteirsenerons conduct
to hit otherwise than immoral* ^For °" lh “ l
that great standard cannot be varied by the
convictions of men—it is fixed ai d un
changeable.
ty names were
among them many of our most distinguish
ed and influential citizeus. Whatever cred-
ment on the subject it certainly belongs to
the people of Jefferson county. And I
doubt not they will be found, at the proper
time, responding heartily to this truly praise
worthy and benevolent enterprise.
It is hardly necessary to say that the
granting of the prayer of the Memorialists
was refused. Though our Senator, P. B.
Connelly, Esq., who was a member of the
Committee on Petitions, exerted himself to
obtain for it a favorable report. But no
Your Memorialists, however, do not con
sider it necessary here to argue the point of;
and springs. I deem it unnecessary to ar-, .
.. . . , , Y * . i matter what its fate was then, or mav be
gue the point, as he has admitted my posi-1 at ; me to . . .* ’ , ., y
tion, until be first shows, that ammonia can
be thus wasted, and Ihe salts of manures] i^Yit’haYdone’ eUe^hUeUforit
oortnnt Vv hriri tL.it f., 1 — -L Y.: —'til I
cannot. When that fact is shown I will!
then show-, that the salts of manures may
be thus lost to plants without the water
in our wells and springs being impregnated
come—the cause and tlie prin
! ciples is one that must ultimately triumph
com
mends itself to the hearts and consciences
of the lovers of justice, good order, and
sound public morals. H. R.
the morality or immorality of the laws Li
censing the Retail of Spirituous Liquors : as
they do not wish to arrogate to themselves
the right of judging for other portions of the
State—but simply to set forth in this Me
morial their own wishes in regard to the al
terations they pray your your Honorable
bodies herein, to make in the aforesaid Laws.
Much labor has been spent, and much good
has been accomplished in our land in reform-
ing drunkenness: But your Memorialists feel
that no permanent and lasting good can be
accomplished without some Legislation on
the subject. They simply desire that right
undoubtedly belonging to all majorities, to
sag whether they will have Licensed Retail
ers of Spirituous Liquors among them, or
whether they will not. They therefore pray
your Honorable bodies that the acts now in
force be so amended or a new act passed
Resolved, That in token of our fraternal re
gard lor the deceased, we will wear the usual
badge of mourning for the space of thirty day*
and the Lodge room draped ior the same time!
Resolved, That we condole with the widow
and family of the dceeasetfin their irreparable
loss, and that the Secretary furnish them willt
a copy of these proceedings.
On motion of Brother A. E. Cochran, it was
ordered that the Masonic Journal, Journal &
Messenger and Central Georgian be requested
to publish the above obituary, With the request
that the Savannah and New Hampshire papers
will please copy.
A. E. COCHRAN, ) O
N. A. CARSEWELL, > |
WM. TAYLOR, >
J. M. LEAvrfT, Secretary.
Irwinton, G’a., Nov. 16th, 1852.
DIED.
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In this county on Friday night last, James
Russell Hunt, aged 24 years. The deceased
had been lingering for some time with Pulmo
nary Consumption of whieh he died. He was
buried on Sunday with Masonic honors, by a
portion of the members of Hamilton Lodge,
No. 58 which he was a i. embeje. He leaved a
Wife and child to mourn.hu loss. '
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