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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
TIIE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
SAM’L JB. CRAFTOA,
COUNTY PRINTER.
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BY MAGNETiCTELEGRAPE
(For the Savannah Courier.)
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL, of til8 AFitICA
New-York, May 19.
The steamship Africa has arrived, with
Liverpool dates to the 7th iust. The mid-
dliug grades of Cotton had advanced 1-16
and the market closed quiet, but firm. The
sales of the week are 55,000 bales, of which
speculators took 5,000, and importers 3,-
000. The following are the ruling quota
tions, viz: ^
Fair Orleans q 5.3.1
Middling Orleans 5 15-I6d
Fair Uplands c l-4d
Middling do 5 7- 8 d.
.. Trade in Manchester had considerably
improved. Consols 100 3-4 a 100 7-8
Rico was in fair demand, at a slight ad
vance. 3
ha vre market.
Havre, May—.—The sales of Cotton
Tor -the week amounted to 9,000 bales,
f he market had recovered from its former
'depression. Tres ordinaire Orleans, 95.
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
Kossuth has been fully exonerated from
all participation in the rocket affair.
The returns of the Board of Trade show
a large increase in the exports during April.
The Empress of France has entirely re
covered from her late indisposition.
Considerable disaffection has been man
ifested among the populace of Hesse Cas-
sel, growing out ot the Lite prosecutions
instituted by the government.
. Lresh political riots are reported as hav
ing occurred in Switzerland.
The affair of the Holy Springs is report
ed as having been settled according to the
wishes of Russia.
The Greek Patriarchiane is under dis
cussion—the Armaments have been stop
ped and the fleets recalled.
The Government of Persia is prepairing
for another expedition against Sterat, and
it is said the British embassador will de
mand his passports if the expedition pro
ceeds.
The steamship Africa passed the City of
Manchester on the 9th, America on the Sth
inst.
SMDERSYILLE, GEORGIA-
TUESDAY MAY 34, 1S5S.
S3T We are indebted to the lion. Jos.
W. Jackson, for an abstract of the seventh
census of the United States, containing a
great variety of useful and interesting infor
mation.
Jt~ir Col. J. S. Hook, will deliver an
Address at the close of the examination of
the pupils of Major Rudisill’s School.
$3T The approaching anniversary of the
American Independence will be celebrated
with appropriate ceremonies by the citizens
of Warrenton and vicinity ; Isaac B. IIuyf,
Esq., has been selected as the orator of the
day.
The occasion will be celebrated at this
place, I.H. Saffold, Jr. Esq., has consented
to deliver the address.
Emouent Ambrosial Elixir.—We are
indebted to Dr. J. Dennis of Augusta, for
a bottle of his Ambrosial Elixir, and have
used it in the troublesome matter of shaving
with a great deal of pleasure and comfort.
It is an excellent article and well worth the
attention of those who have to use the ra
zor on a tender face. Address the Doctor
at Augusta Geo., and see advertisement in
another column, he will send by mail.
(From the New Orleans Picayune.)
Letter from Mexico.
Mexico, May 4, 1853.
banla Anna is now fairly seated in the
chair of State, and is no wise slack in the
exercise of the extraordinary powers grant
ed to him by the revolutionists. His first
decree muzzles the press, and declares his
allegiance to the Church of Rome. Noth
ing is to be written or published condemn-
iug the acts of the Government, or against
the Roman Catholic religion. The priests
and monarchial party are in full power, and
have everything their own way, the liber
als having no representatives in either cab
inet or council.
Gen. Arista has been ordered to leave the
country forthwith, and is now on his wav
to Vera Cruz, to embark in the British
steamer for Europe, where it is rumored he
will be obliged to reside, or lose his prop
erty and his rank iD the army. It is said
that Santa Anna fears his residence in the
United States.
The 1 resident is rapidly increasing the
army by forced levies, and has introduced
a system of exact and severe discipline.
The rumor among the leberos is, that he is
going to retake California and avenge the
wrongs of Mexico. No doubt we shall see
what we shall see.
Rumor says Spain will furnish Santa
Anna with 16,000 troops to carry out his
plans.-
^ 0U| ’ 9 » Cactus.
$3T A cold and dry season still prevails
through this section, those who have closely
observed the seasons for years past, think
the present a most singular one, we fre
quently have a very considerable modera
tion in the atmosplie e for a day or so, the
result of extreme heat, thunder clouds and
hail storms, but the present year the chan
ges seem to occur without any apparent
cause of that kind, and continue for days to
gether, how to account for it, we are utter
ly at a loss to imagine ; since Friday morn
ing, it has been singularly cold in the morn
ings, while at noon and thereabouts, the sun
has shone with its usual heat for the season.
If it continues much longer, fears may be
very rationally entertained for the safety of
the crops, we are assured by a number of
friends that the cotton begins to assume a
most drooping appearance.
Fatal Occurrence.—We regret to
learn that Washington Sowell of Scriven
county was accidentally killed on the 17th
inst., by a blow from the carriage tongue
of a timber waggon. The circumstances
as we have them from a gentleman of that
county, are these. Mr. Sowell and Mr.
Jacob Freeman of the same county had
gone into the woods on that morning for
the purpose of hauling timber, they had
succeeded in hoisting a piece on the carri
age, and started oft’ when the chain which
confined the tongue of the carriage came
loose, it flew over and struck Mr. S., on the
head and killed him instantly. Mr. Free
man who was near hirn at the time came
near sharing the same fate.
The Oldest Women in the World—A
few months ago, was reported in the Eng
lish papers the death of Mary Bolton, aged
one hundred and twenty-five years, and
claimed to have been, while living, the old
est woman in the world. To determine the
relative ages of women is at all times a
delicate, and sometimes a difficult underta
king. And except for the honor of the
State i n general, and the Williamsburg
District in particular, would not venture
upon the perilous experiment. Moved by
these considerations, however, we march
boldly up to danger, and assert that in the
State and District aforesaid, there i3 a ladv,
Mrs. Singleton by name, who possesses two
important advantages over the venerable
deceased above mentioned. The first is,
that she is now in the one hundred and
thirty-first year of her age, and the second
is, that she is yet alive and hearty. Her
mental faculties are still unimpaired, and
she retains all her senses, except that of
sight, of which she was deprived at the ad
vanced age ot ninety-nine } 7 ears, by an at
tacked of measles. Her bodlv energy has
exhibited no diminution for for many years
she still being able to walk briskly about
the room. She has outlived all her chil
dren, her oldest descendant, living* being a
grand-daugbter, over sixty years old We
have not learned the place of Mrs. Single-
ton’s nativity, but the greater portion ofher
life has been spent in Williamsburg. So
much for the district, said to be the sickliest
in the State. It contains, in pioportion to
its whole population, as many full-size
well-made, good-looking men, as any coun
ty of Kentucky. We announced, but the
other day, the death ot one of its citizens
at the advauced age of 108 years, and now
climax closes with another/ living, at the
age ot 431 years. Which of the mountain
districts, can equal this showing \ —Charles
ton Stdniurd dlh inst.
Death of Capt. P. B. Connelly.—We
regret to learn of the sudden death of Capt.
P. B Connelly of Jefferson county. He
died of apoplexy on Tuesday evening the
17th inst. lie had been out during the
day attending to his business, had returned
home and while in his yard fell dead. His
sudden and unexpected demise is a source
of deep regret to his numerous friends
throughout the State, and is a sad and af
flicting event to his estimable family. Capt.
C. had long been a citizen of Jefferson, and
shared largely the esteem and confidence
of the people of liis county. At the time
of his death he held the office of Senator
in our State Legislature, from the counties
of Burke and Jefferson.
$3T Judge Hillyer and Gen. Wof
ford, are opposing candidates for Congress
ill the 6th Constitutional District, the Gen.
is a Tugaloo, and the Judge a Union Dem
ocrat, who favors the re-union of the party
a» proposed by Governor Cobb. They are
both, says the Cassville Standard, warm
supporters of Gen. Fierbe’s administration ;
the cuutest will be for men, and not meas
ures. Wofford is a “warm supporter” of
A New One.—We learn from the pro
ceedings of a political meeting held in
Waynesboro, (which we see published in
some of our exchanges,) that the “Uuion
and Conservative party of Burke county
assembled on the 17th inst” and appointed
delegates to the Gubernatorial convention to
meet on the 4th Wednesday in June. ‘Who
is the Union and Conservative party’—we
never heard of it before, we know the ‘Un
ion party’ mighty well, but the ’totber fel
low—ho is the chap. Our excellent co
temporary, the Journal d' Messenger while
in nubibus some weeks since, spoke very
confidently of the closing up of the “Union
hotel,” we thought then our cotemporary
was mistaken, and now our impression is
confirmed, that instead of being closed up,
it will be slightly enlarged, shed rooms are
being attached for the accommodation of
all.
The delegates appointed to the Guberna
torial convention are Dr, T. A. Parsons,
Col. Gresham, Dr. Powel and Dr. Palmer;
to the Congressional convention, J. B.
Jones, G. W. Douse, J. A. McGruder, and
Wm. Nasworthy.
The Drougth in Florida. —The Talla
hassee Floridian, of the 14th inst., says:
“We have had an unusually long spell of
dry weather, and we fear the crops will be
short in this section. At this season Cot
ton is usually six inches high, blit we un
derstand that many of our planters have
only half, and some one-third of their crops
up. We heard one of our best planters say
that if the season continued favorable from
this time out, he did not hope for more
than half a crop. If the balance of the
coiton growing region has suffered as much
as we have, we have little expectations that
anything like an average crop will be made.
Our planters will have to husband their re
sources if they wish to make both ends
meet.
The Girard Railroad.—The Mobile
Tribune, of the 15th inst., says : “We are
glad to learn that 850,000, the amount ask
ed for by the Girard railroad from our citi
zens, was subscribed yesterday within a few
hours. This argurs well far the loan pro
posed to be obtained from the city, and may
be taken as an earnest that Mobile will see
that the entire road from the Cbottahoo-
chce to our bay, will be put through du
ring the next three years.
Judge Jackson.—A special dispatch
from Washington to the New York Courier
says ; “Judge Henry R. Jackson, of Geor
gia, cousin of Gov. Cobb, has been agreed
upon for a full mission. He was a lieutenant-
colonel in the Mexican war, and belonged
to the Union wing of the Democracy, but
advised the fusion with the fire-eaters in the
Presidential contest.”
Assault on Counsel.—The Mobile Tri
bune says: “On Thursday night an assault
was made in Montgomery, on the person
of the Hon. H. W. Hilliard, by J. S. Win
ter—the provocation being that Mr. Hil
liard acted as counsel in the case against
Winter, which was recently before the
Chancery Court, sitting in this city. It
seejns to have been a cowardly and brutal
assault.” %
JT£T The opening and connection of the
Roads between Savannah and Columbus
was duly celebrated on Friday last, a dele
gation from Savannah visited Columbus,
and were entertained in the most cordial
manner. The delegation reached Colum
bus in 13 running hours from Savannah.
Earthquake at Augusta.—A despatch
to Savannah states that an earthquake was
felt in Augusta on Friday morning about 5
o’clock, which lasted about two minutes, the
writer says, “the house I was in, rocked like
a cradle—no damage was done that I can
hear of.”
himself, the dev’l take the administration if
he can locate in the neighborhood of some
of the fleshpots of office—‘get out,’ Gen’l.
with your ‘warm support,’ you are like one
of your distinguished and humorous neigh
bors, who, having done all he could to save
the country from inundation and destruc
tion, and finding that it had a perverse way
of not being saved according to his notions
of political propriety and safety, candidly
declared it as his future purpose, to go for
his son ‘John’—that’s the game what pays.
g£T The thermometer ranged as high
as 93 1-2 degrees, in the shade yesterday
afternoon on the Bay.—Sau. News of Fri
day.
Fires were not only comfortable, but ab
solutely indispensable "with us, the next
morning.
23T Tucker, the Engineer of the ill-fa
ted train at Norwalk, has been admitted t o
Bail iu the sum of $5000.
Death of Maj. Geo. L. Twiggs.—The
Augusta Constitutionalist of the 19th an
nounces the death of Maj. Geo. L. Twiggs,
a well known and prominent citizen in that
community.
>r. Underhill, a Spirit Rapper
&c., has been fined $200 for exhibiting his
nonsense at Rock Island, Illinois, without
license.
Another Murder.—A letter to a gentle
man in this place, dated Jacksonville, Tel
fair co., 10th inst., says.
“I am sorry to say to you, that not more
than fifteen minutes since, poor John Duff
was shot and killed dead. It seem that he
was shot sitting in his chair, and shot by
some person unknown as yet.”
[The sequel to this murder is perhaps
explained by stating the fact that Duff had
within a year past, as we learn, killed a
man in self defence, from Floriday by the
name of Williams, who assailed him iu his
own houee.]—Milledgeville Rec. 17th.
A learned Doctor of Divinity was accus
ed of rambling in his discourses, by oue of
his hearers to which replied :
‘If you ramble to the devil, I must ram
ble after you.’
m
[For the Central Georgian ]
A Few Words in Reply to “Piny
Woods Observer.”
“And are they angry?—I’ll excuse them too;
Well might they rage, i gave ihem but their
due—
And he, who now to sense, now nonsense lean
ing,
Means not, but blunders round about a mean
ing.”
Some of the objections you raise against
my arguments on the “Liquor Traffic,” are
incidentally answered in my last number,
though that had been in the hands of the
Printer some weeks before your article ap
peared. I will now reply to you briefly on
one or two points more. I should have
supposed that any intelligent man was suffi
ciently well acquainted with the general
character of our Legislature, not to require
special information upon a matter of stupid
ity. That “stupids,” (as you are pleased to
call them,) sometimes appeal in the Legis
lature, will hardly be denied by yourself;
but it should be borne in mind, that it is no
fault of theirs; while at the same time, a
very grave question may be raised, how far
your admired Retail Liquor Traffic, is re
sponsible for putting them there ? Does it
not occur to your mind that the abuse
sometimes of the elective franchise is a sin
that may be laid at the door of Retail dram
shops] I have seen men so drunk, when
in the act of voting, that they had to be
held up. What protection has the country
in such voting ? I leave you to answer at
your leisure.
I admit that your “stupids” in the Legis
lature, could of themselves, “do very little
harm.” But unfortunately for the credit of
intelligence, men who can do harm, are
found leagued with them. I take it upon
your faith, these “stupids” are liquor drink
ers. Let me therefore illustrate by a case.
This county, (Jefferson) sent up a memori
al to the last Legislature asking for her
citizens the Reform in the License laws, now
under consideration bv the entire State.
The Chairman of the committee on petitions
opposed the granting of the prayer of the
memorialists, on the ground, (it has been
stated) that it would injure his popularity
in his own county ! Now mark the insidi
ous influence of this liquor business. Here
was a Senator, (from Cass, I think) who
must needs consult his popularity in his
own county, as to what he should grant to
the citizens of another, when the subject at
that time, boro no relation to his constitu
ents whatever. Now the inferences may
be drawn from this, that his constituents
were a very liquor loving set, or that he
was a dram-drinker himself, and sought to
make his electors responsible for it. This
is certainly the most favorable construction
that can be placed upon his course. For if
drunkenness only prevails in his county to
a limited extent, then we see him consult
ing, not the opinion or wishes of the sober
and intelligent, but the selfish venality of
the (shall I use your own word “stupid?”)
dram drinker :—leaving it also to be infer
red, that through the influence of liquor he
obtained a seat in the Legislature. How-
many members of the Legislature may be
in the like “category,” you are as well able
to determine as I am; and thereby obtain
a solution to your perplexity as to my mean
ing. It may be as well perhaps for me to
state to you here, that I have no very “itch
ing palm for office,” and that if I bad, I
should certainly not aspire to be the Repre
sentative of drunkenness, “and nothing
else.”
I beg leave to differ with you in the
opinion, that I contradict myself when I say
that the “dram seller is the only man who
has a right to say anything about it,” (the
Retail of Liquor,) for as the laws now
stand, such is the fact. The dram drinkers
so many of them as oppose the present
movement, side with them, to continue the
right where it now is. They act, (I did not
say they spoke) exclusively on this princi
ple. There is no contradiction there ; but
on the contrary, a fixed fact. And righ 1
here, friend “P. W. Olet me put a sober
question to you, and all moderate drinkers,
who oppose the present Temperance move
ment. In what does your opposition differ,
from that of the veriest drunkard in the
State ? Are you not in the same “catego
ry” with them ?
But while you may be said to “blunder
round about a meaning,” in one instance,
and then iu another’ to be so nice in detect
ing contradictions, that one might well be
lieve you could divide hairs,
“Between the South and South-west side.”
It is to be pitied you did not weigh well
your own words before you put them in
characters of life. Or was it, forsooth, the
result of a foregone conclusion, on your part
that, as individuals, the dram sellers and
dram drinkers, were wauting in respecta
bility ? And that you intended a sly cut
at your friends, when you remark, “That
when dram sellers and dram drinker are
admitted to have a right to say anything
upon the right to retail liquor, a respectable
portion of the community are within your
category.” Did you really meau, ray dear
sir, that they were respectable in numbers
only ? If that is the way you back your
friends, were I in “your category,” I should
say with Falstaff, “a plague upon such
backing.”
Equally unfortunate I consider you to
have been in your patriotic defence of the
“right of minorities.” Like the shadow of
a coming event, it developes a conviction
that the hour of overthrow to the dram-sel
ler is at hand. For they, and they alone,
comprise this “minority,” for whose “right”
you are so very tenacious. And what
is the right you claim for them ? Why,
to retail liquor at 6 l-4cte a drink. A very
questionable right I think ; and certainly,
not very legally obtained. But will you
tell me, my friend, when,, and where your
“Licensed Retailers of Spirituous Liquors,”
ever regarded the rights of a sober minori
ty- ? Under the cover of an iniquitous law,
they have pursued a business, regardless of
consequences, and are still pursuing it, that
produces upon individuals and communities^
untold calamities,
“And-crowds with crimes the records of man
kind.”
As a sober “minority,” we preached to
them “moral suasion,” they laughed in our
faces. The law protected them, and they
knew it. But as light and facts were devel
oped, through the gross immorality, result
ing from their trade, and by the high-hand
ed outrages continually practiced upon the
community, the true nature of this horrit>le
traffio become known to the people. And
now, when they are about to rise in the
majesty of their power to put down these
unjust laws that protect it, your dram sellers
and their adherents, are very clamorous
about the “right of minorities”—and very
liberal in their advice to us, to continue
“moral suasion.”
But it “won’t lake,” friend “Piney
Woods Observer,” we have gotten the “bull
by the horns,” and we mean to throw him
sooner or later. Therefore, if “your whole
p>roperty is invested in liquor,” you had bet
ter apply for a new license in time. For I
tell you now, all your cant and fustian
about the “right of minorities,” is perfect
nonsense—and will be treated as such. So
long as the Fallot Fox is untrammelled, the
minority has all the rights and privileges of
the majority; and we want to put that
grand source of our power and liberty out
of the reach of being abused by drunken
ness.
No, sir, if you wish to perpetuate the re
tail system, make it appear to the people
that Temperance injures them, and produ
ces crime and bloodshed, misery and wretch
edness ; woes, and tears, and anguish; that
it makes men become the inmates of jails,
penitentiaries, and lunatic- asylums, and
their wives miserable, that it brings their
daughters to shame, and their sons to infa
my—I say, make it appear that Temper
ance does all this; and that drunkenness
and retail dram shops, produce harmony?
peace, and good will among men; prevents
crimes, relieves wretchedness and woe;
clo.hes the naked, and ieeds the hungry ;
depopulates jails and penitentiaries; and
that to buy and sell liquor at 6 1-4 ceuts a
drink, is right and useful, and is required
for the public good—I say make it appear
that dram-shops does all that. And further
that drunkenness is an elegant and useful
accomplishment; that it adorns old age,
and fits youth for the duties and responsi
bilities of life ; and that it is one of the un
mistakable evidences of a gentleman ; make
it appear, also, that soberness is a low, vul
gar, and disreputable habit; that to be seen
constantly sober, is a violation of public de
cency. In short, my friend, just reverse the
order of morals, and all religious concep
tions, and you will have no further cause
imaginary or real, ever to make yourself
conspicuous again, in defence of a business
that turns sober men into drunkarks ; or of
putting forth so ridiculous an idea as that
of constitutions being made to protect mi
norities in immorality. H. R.
Woodlaw t n, Jefferson Co.
An immense pile of lumber taken
out.
and five men have been rescued alive—oue
with his leg badly crushed, and the others
seriously injured.
Three dead bodies have been recovered
one that of John Huflbrd, the master cal’
p - -’,^ ose . hea . d was completely crushed.
While digging ,n the rear, a man felt his
hand tightly clasped by one beneath the
ruins, and after clearing away, a bov was
discovered, who had been jammed in be
tween the timbers for upwards of an hour
The men worked hard to rescue him, the lit*
tie fellow bearing up bravely, though much
crushed and exhausted. He was at length
restored to the arms of his father, who stood
by in speechless agony, watching the efforts
ot the men. The boy’s name is George
Kinsky be is much injured internally
but hopes are entertained for his recovery
Ine hre department are now organized*
to work daring the night.
It is supposed that 15’persons are still
beneath the ruins, all of whom are doubtless
dead, as the ruins are piled up a thicS, sol
id mass, from the celler to the second story.
^tMuch excitement prevails throughout the
No more bodies are yet in sight.
[From the Savannah Courier.]
Shipwreck and Loss of Fife.
New York, May 17,-Tho British ship
William and Mary, from New York for
Aew Orleans, with emigrants, was lost on
3d inst. Site struck on a sunken rock, near
the Great Bahamas. Two hundred passen
gers perished. The captain, mate, crew and
two passengers were picked up at sea aud
brought into New York.
Another Dreadful Calamity
FALL OF A BUILDING IN BUFFALO,
AND GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
Buffalo, May 13.—A terrible calamity
has just occurred in this city. The building
on Main-street, occupied as a banking house
by Messrs. Robinson & Co. and Robert Codd,
while undergoing repairs, suddenly caved
in, the roof and every story being carried
through to the ground.
It is feared that 15 or 20 workmen, and
some persons occupying the upper story, are
buried beneath the ruins.
The utmost excitement prevails, and the
Fire Depat tment and a large number of cit
izens are clearing away the ruins as rapidly
as possible.
The front of the shops had been taken out
for repairs, and the building was. left with
out proper support.
Second Dispatch.
Five Rescued Alive—Three Dead, and Fif
teen others in the Ruins.
Buffalo, Friday Evening.—The build
ing was five stories high, and the entire in
side and back wall fell into the cellar, carry
ing the men who were at work on each sto
ry down with it.
Arrival of the Black Warrior.
New York, May 17.—The Black War
rior, arrived to day, with Havana dates to
the 12tb inst. Intelligence from Mexico
speaks of the arrest of Gen. Arista at Vera
Cruz and of the Common Council of Tampi
co. The latter had been sent to the city of
Mexico, because they had refused to ac
knowledge the authority of Santa Anna.
Twenty-four passengers cast away at the
wreck of the ship William and Mary, had
been picked up at sea by a British bark.
Democrat fleeting in the 35th Dis
trlct of Emannel County.
On the 7th inst., a large and respectable
portion of the Democratic party met in the
Court House, for the purpose of appointing
delegates to attend the Milledgeville Con
vention, to nominate some suitable and
proper person to be supported by the Dem
ocratic party of Georgia on the 1st Monday
iu October next, for Governor; also t®. ap
point delegates to attend the Swains borough
Convention, to be held on the 4th dfeiv off
July next, to nominate candidates for th&
next Legislature.
On motion ofS. M. Fortner, Map E Swaim
was called to the Chair, and Wm. W. Mix
on, Esq., requested to act as Secretary..
On motion of S. M. Fortner, the Chair
man was requested to explain the object off
the meeting, which he did r in a brief ami
satisfactory manner.
On motion a Committee of five was ap
pointed to draft resolutions- foa the action
of the meeting; whereupon, the Chairman
appointed the following gentlemen' a3 that
Committee:—S.M. IWtBen,. E. Powell, J.
M. Taplev, J. Wiggins, and R. B. Flanders;
who retired a short time and reported;
through their Chairman, J/. Wiggins*. Sr.,,
the following preamble and aesolations:
Whereas, the time is fast approaching
when the sovereign people of Georgia will!
be called upon to cast theiz votes for sorne-
of her noble sons to hold the- neia* of gov
ernment for the next two years*, we- feel!
deeply impressed with the duty we owe to*
ourselves and our country by placing only
such men in those responsible stations as-
will strictly carry out the doctrines so plain
ly marked out, and so recently set forth in*
the inaugural address of the President off
the United States:
Resolved, That we concur with the press,,
that Milledgeville be the place, andithe 3rd
Wednesday in June next, bv tlu* time of
holding said Gubernatorial Convention.
Resolved, That we appoint Maj. E. Swain
aud the Hon. G. W. Clifton, and recom
mend them to the other precincts of said
county, as our delegates to the Milledge
ville Convention.
Resoleed, That a Convention on the Dem
ocratic party of the county of Emanuel, to
be composed of four delegates from each
Militia District, be held in the town of
Swainsborough on the 4th day of July next,
to nominate candidates for the next Legis
lature.
Resolved, That we appoint the Rev. Isaac
J. Brinson, Thomas Casey, James Anderson,
A. Ricy Price, our delegates to the Swaiu-
borough Convention.
Resolved, That we hail, with pleasure, the
policy pursued by President Pierce as indi
cated in his inaugural address—our antici
pations are more than realized. So long aa
be acts upon the principles there laid down,
he will find the bone and sinew of the whole
country standing by him.
Resolved, That we urge upon all the pre
cincts of said county to call meetings forth
with, appointing their delegates to the
Swainsborough Convention, and show to
the world “and the rest of mankind,” that
the Democratic party of Emanuel connty,
however they have been divided, are now
and ever will be, united.
Resolved, In suggesting to the people of
Emanuel county the time and place for a
Convention, we disclaim any intention of
wishing to dictate or lead; but as evidence
of our abiding confidence in, and attachment
to Democracy, we have only to refer to the
vote of our precinct. We want yet another
chance to prove onr faith by our works.
On motion of R. B. Flanders, the above
resolutions were passed by acclamation.
On motion of E. Powell, Esq., the thanks
of the meeting were tendered the Chairman
and Secretary.
Resolved, That the proceedings of lh»
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