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STATISTICS OF CRIME, NO. 3.
To His Excellency,
HOWELL COBB,
Governor, &c.
Another feature in the Statistics to which
I have,called your attention is the propor
tion of foreigners accused, to the natives.
This proportion is very large, being 12
97-100. or (discarding the minute fraction)
13 in every 100 offences.
In a calculation which I have made, bas
ed upon a statement which has been kindly
prepared for me under the directions of Maj.
factory, the worthy Principal Keeper of our
Penitentiary I find the ratio of foreigners
imprisoned there, to the number of Convicts,
natives of the- United States, as something
ie&s.
I take occasion here (while alluding to Ibis
Penitentiary record) to say that I hope in
come subsequent number to present the Sta
tistical results in the form of tables (similar
to these whieh I have presented in my first
No*) derived from this State Prison sum
mary, In the mean time, I shall refer to it
an aid of the observations I am making up-
*bn the Statistics which I have already pub
lished.
This record from our Penitentiary shows
the proportion of foreigners to be as 7
20-100 in every hundred,
v As a sort of disturbing force to the conclu
sions derived from this record, I find—by
the returns of the United States census of
1850 for our State—that there were repor
ted 85 convictions in the year, 66 of which
were natives, and 19 of foreigners. Also
that on the 1st of June 1850, there were in
prison 34 natives and 7 foreigners.
This exhibits a wonderful disproportion
■of foreigners to natives, taking into consider
-ation the relative numbers of the population
foreign and native; the convictions showing
one foreigner to about every 3 50-100 na
tives and the accusations 1 to about 5.
These returns, however, seem to be incom
plete, and derived from a portion of the
Counties only; and should not, therefore,
probably be taken into the account.
Let us then take the very lowest ratio,
exhibited viz: that shown by the record
from'our Penitentiary, where we have 7 20
100 foreigners bora out of the Union in ev
ery 100 convictions, Or 9 out of the whole
number, 125; aiid consider the subject with
reference to that proportion.
By the United States census returns for
our State, I find that in 1850 the foreign
population or number of our inhabitants
born out of the United States was 5907.
Since that time, this population has very
much increased. I find by the Sextons re
port for the city of Augusta, during the past
year, that the deaths and burials of foreign
ers in the city have considerably more than
doubled since 1850; and this population has
probably therefore more than doubled in
this place since that year.
The intelligent officer at present occupied
in taking the city census has satisfied me by
other facts which he has brought to my at
tention, that this population has more than
doubled in Augusta since that date. This
is also true, no doubt of other cities in the
Stale. The increase, however, is very much
confined to the towns, and is slight else
where.
On the whole I think that I shall not be
far from the truth in assuming that the num
ber of such persons in our state at present,
is very nearly 10 000.
Now according to the census returns the
free white population, of our State in 1850
was 521,438. From this, let us deduct the
number of the foreigners at the - time, viz:
5907, and we have in round numbers a na
tive white population of 515,000. From
total accused is as 3 to 100.
The No. of accused from born in the De
partment where tried, is to the whole, as
72 to 100. ' .. /•
The No. of accused born out of the De
partment, but in France, is as 23 to 100.
This Table shows many more natives ac
cused of crime; much fewer foreigners and
considerably fewer persons born in other
sections, of the,, country than with ns.
MessieaVs Beaumont et De Tocqueville
think, tb.at this result is owing to the fact,
tha.t tl\e population in France is “infinitely
more, sedentary” than with us There can
be Ho doubt, that this in part accounts for
the differences; but whilst it. does this, it al
so illustrates in part the difference in the
moral condition of the two countries, espe
cially when we take in connection with it,
the reflection, that the record which I have
presented and by which we make this com
parison, exhibits few or none of those revol
ting crimes which appear so prominently in
the criminal calender of the French.
Another very interesting feature of these
statistics is the comparative ages of persons
committing crimes. Our tables show, that
in this Judicial District 3 85-100 are be
tween the ages of 15 and 20. 46.15 100 be
tween the ages of 20 and 30. 28 85-100 be
tween 30 and 40, 7 69 100 between 40 and
50, and 13 46-100 between 50 and 60.
The record from our Penitentiary furnish
es the follow Table:
Convicts between 15and 21, in every 10019 20.
~ ‘ do 35.20.
do 22,40.
do 12,00.
do 6,40.
do 4,80.
do
do
2] and 30
do
do
do
30 and 40
do
do
do
40and 50
do
do
tJo
50 and 60
do
do
do
60 and 70
do
100 00.
It appears by the record referred to, that
of the above that there are 13,40 who are
between of 18 and 21 or nearly 20 years of
age, and only 5 80 who are under 18.
A table is furnished by Beaumont and
De Tocqueville, at p p 281, 282 of their
work heretofore cited by me, showing the
ages of offenders in the States of New York,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecti
cut, as follows:
Prisoners less than 20 years old 1 in 10 or 10,00
do
between
20 and 30
1 in 2
or 10,00
do
do
30 and 40
1 in 5
or 20,00
do
do
40 and 50
1 in 9
or 11,11
do
do
50 and 60
1 in 25 or 4,00
The rest are above 60 years old.
A similar table is furnished by these wri
ters showing the ages of offenders in France,
as follows:
Convicts less than 21 years of age l in 5 or 20,00
do between 21 and 30 1 in 3 or 33,33
do do 30 and 40 1 in 3 or25,00
do do 40 and 50 1-in 8 or 12,50
do do 50 and 60 1 in 18 or 5,56
do do 60 and 70 1 in 46 or 2,17
The number above 70, they say is some
thing; but so small as to make record use
less.
In Chamber’s “Information for the Peo
ple.” I find the following table compiled for
England in the year 1838.
Offenders under 12 years old
1 58
do
between 12 and 16
9 92
do
do
17 and 21
29 13
do
do
22 and 30
31 24
do
do
31 and 40
14 75
do
do
41 and 50
7 02
do
do
51 and 60
3 00
above
60
1 58
Not ascertained
1 78
In the British Almanac for 1845.
a similar table for 1843, as follows.
I find
Offenders aged under 15 years
5 7
do
belweeu
15 and 20
22 7
do
do
20 and 35
24 3
do
do
25 and 30
14 9
do
do
30 and 40
16 4
do
do
40 and 50
8 1
do
do
50 and 60
3 5
do
above
60
1 9
Not ascertained
2 5
100 0
tween the French, and the American tables
which they exhibit, Beaumont and De Toc-
qneville at p 302. 2 vol. of their work, says,
that “it is the displacing of a year, which
causes the difference observable; a difference
only apparent.”
If this be so, there is indeed a very sur
prising co-incidence in'these results. Even
if they be wrong in this; still there remain
many striking features of similarity.
When we bring the English tables (above
given) into comparison with the others a
remarkable difference is observable, to the
advantage of the French and our own peo
pie.
We find from one of the above tables ta
ken from English authority that out of every
100 offenders, there are 20 63 100; or about
1 to every 2 12 under 2t years of age. Of
these 1 58 100 were under 12 years, and
9 92 100 or nearly 1 in 10, between 12 and
18. With us there are about 1 in 5 only
under 21; 5,80 100 or about 1 in 20, be
tween 15 and 18; and none under 15 years
old.
We have heard much about the number
of “juvenile delinquents,” in England, but
a comparison of their criminal statistics with
other countries exhibits this in so prominent
a manner, as to sadden and shock—as to
excite the wondering thought, of how it is
possible, that a bard thinking, practical, un
impassioned people like the English, in the
face of the stubborn and alarming evidence,
which this; and other features of their crim
inal statistics [such as the large number of
awfully brutal male offenders, the great pro
portion of female criminals, the deep de
pravity, and fiendish cruelty of some of
them] exhibit, as to the degree and extent
of their national immorality and depravity,
even as compared with Roman Catholic
France, and slave holding America, should
yet allow themselves, to shut their eyes in
extacies of “Uncle Tommitudes,” to their
miserable social condition to “thank God
that they are not as other men,” or even as
the poor slaveholder, to warn those unhappy
slaveholders, as does one of their greatest
men, Earl Carlisle in his prefare to Uncle
Tom’s Cabin not “to lay the unction to their
souls, that the common run of mechanics
and laborers in England are on a level of
suffering and degradation with the slave on
a rice swamp in Carolina, or at a sugar crop
time in Louisiana &c.”
One would think that instead of wasting
their energies in sympathy for people who
are so much less immoral, brutal and de
praved than themselves, and leaving such
to deal with their national ills as they best
can, they would bring all their resources to
bear upon the reform of those monstrous
social evils in their own system—which in
the voices of the weak and the helpless are
crying to Heaven for redress—would give
ali that they can spare of what Lord Carlisle
calls“the warmth of sympathy and ardor of
humanity” to stay the bloody hands of their
starving and brutal “common run” of adult
male criminals—and especially to hold
them up from injuries to helpless women
and infants—to save from famine, and cru
elty, crime and its consequences the miser
able little pauper children who swarm
throughout the Kingdom ; and to turn back
or away from an earthly hell of want, and
crime, and degredation, the broad and deep
stream of mothers and wives, sisters and
daughters, which has been so long pouring
into that dread abysm in England.
Very Respectfully,
Your Excellency’8 ob’t serv’t*
E. STARNES.
jSANDERSYILLE, GEORGIA-
TUESDAY JUNE 14, 1863.
A comparison of these statistics, coming
as they do from such different communities
among these 515,000 natives then, come of men, and at different periods of time is
the 116 native convicts in the Penitentiary, not a little useful. Such comparison serves
while frhm the 10,000 foreigners come the .very forcibly to show, the approximation To
9 convicts bora out of the United States, j accuracy of result, and consequent reliabili-
This it will be perceived gives one con-:ty of such statistical tables. By it, we find
viction of an native to every 4956, of the! what an English writer calls “wonderfully
native population, and one conviction of a uniform results as to age,” just where char
foreigner to every 1111 of the foreign pop-! acter, habits, structure of society, &c. may
ulation, or 4 of the latter to one of the for- j be supposed to operate least influence; and
m r, taking into consideration the relative just such variations elsewhere as serve to. a
proportion of the population foreign and certain extent, to illustrate the difference in
native. In this estimate, it will be seen, we! the character, habits and condition of the
m
have not taken into the account, the in
crease of the native white population since
1850.
I have not time to dwell upon the prac
tical reflections to which these results, give
rise, but must for the present leave them
with the reader.
Before taking leave of this subject, how
ever, I desire to remark, that Beaumont and
De Tocqueville in their System Peniten-
tiaire, &c., show that at the time when they
wrote, in the States of Massachusetts, Con
necticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and
and Maryland, the number of persons born
out of the United States, in the State {>ris
ods of these States, was as 14 in every 100
imprisoned, (Beaumont et De Tocqueville.
Systeme Penitentiaire and Par. Ed. 1836,
Vol, 2; P. 300,) a result very similar to that
which the record from this district as present
^ ed by me,shows, viz: 13 in every 100 impris
onments.
I find also from the same source, and same
page that in the States referred to, the num
ber 6f persons natives of the State in which
they were tried, m the State Prisons were as
53 m every 100 of all offences, and the num
ber of persons natives of other States of the
United States were as 33 in every 100;
while the record kept by me shows 55 na
tives of the State and 32 natives of ocher
States in every 100. tried—a result very
nearly coi ncident.
At the same place these writers compare
the number of foreigners tried JB France in
proportion to natives, with what is shown
(as above) as true of the United States, and
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The No
Fpuce,
to th
B&P The 3rd Quarterly meeting for the
Sandersville Circuit, will be held at this
place on the 4th Sabbath in the present
month, commencing the day previous.
From California.—We were glad to
meet in the streets tjie other day, our friend
Thomas E. Brown, who has been resi
ding for upwards of four years in Cali
fornia. He returns in good health, his nu
merous friends and acquaintances will be
glad to learn of his safe return.
The Weather, Crops, Ac.
The drought still prevails, and is fast
blasting the hopes of the people ; showers
it is true have been passing about, but
wherever they have fallen, they have been
exceedingly light, and they have missed by
far the greater number of places. No one
who has not been into the country, can ap
preciate the uneasiness that is beginning to
be felt by all classes; business of every sort
is dull and falling off, and cannot be reviv
ed but by brighter prospects than at pre
sent overspreads every department. There
are places where the corn looks tolerably
well, but generally it is small, and with the
most judicious culture, is withe ing, twist
ing and burning. Many suppose that even
with rain now, a sufficiency cannot be made
to supply the wants of the country. The
pea crop which is a matter of some impor
tance to our farmers, is likely to be short,
or entirely cut off, many not having had
ram enough to plant. With the cotton, the
drought has not been so calamitous, because
it does not require the same amount of rain
to make it, still it has and is suffering from
it. Where the cotton was planted early
enough to come up by the Spring rains, it is
doing as well as it could with such a season
as we have had since, but the commence
ment of the planting season offered so little
inducement to put it in the ground early,
that a majority did not commence planting
till the drought had set Id, and where it has
come up, bad stands are the consequence.
Taking altogether, the farming propects are
decidedly gloomy, and from every section
the complaints are the same. There are
some plantations where the crops are very
good, but like angel’s visits, they are few
and far between.
people.
We observe at a glance, in these tables,
how true it is, as Sir H. L. Bulwer some
where says, that such statistics everywhere
show, that the greatest number of crimes
are committed by persons at a period of life,
when the faculties are most developed, and
the passions most strong.”
But let us first compare the record as ta
ken from our Penitentiary with the French
table, and we will find with us, 19.20 100
offenders under 21 years of age, or about 1
in 5. In France we find 1 in 5. We have
with us, offenders between 21 and 30 years
of age 35 20-100, or nearly 1 to ,3. In
France, we find 33.33 100 or 1 in 3. With
us there are offenders between 30 and 40
years old 22 40 100 or something more
than 1 in 4. In France 25 100, or 1 in 4.
With us 12 100 are between 40 and 50 or
nearly 1 m 8. In France, 12 50 100, or
just 1 in 8.
If with the French, and our tables, we
now compare the table (as above given) for
the Northern States, we shall find a consid
erable difference in the first proportion sta
ted-, that is to say, of persons under 20 and
21 and this of course affects the ratio of the
next proportion, viz: the ages between 30
and 40. In the American table, we find
that the age taten is 20 years, -and in our.
Peniteatiary, and France, it is 21 years.
By the first, we find, that offenders in the
States men tioned, under 20 years old, are as
1 in 10, and between 20 and 30 as 1 in 2;
whilst with us, and in France, offenders un
der 21 are as 1 in 5, and between 21 and
30, as 1 in 3.
In commenting on this difference as b e -
Democratic meeting
Wilkinson.
Irwinton, June 7, 1853.
The meeting was called to order by Col.
Green B. Burney, on whose motion John
Freeman, Esq., was called to the Chair, and
A. V. McCardel requested to act as Secre
tary. At the request of the Chairman, Col.
A. E. Cpchran briefly explained the object
of the meeting. The following resolution
was offered by Col. G. B. Burney, and pass
ed :
Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a
committee of seven to select four delegates
to represent this county in the Democratic
Gubernatorial Convention to be held in
Milledgeville on the 3rd Wednesday in
June next;
The Chairman appointed the following
gentlemen the Committee under the forego
ing resolution:—E. J. Gilbert, Josiah H.
Jones, Thos. Jackson, Thos. H. Parker,
Bryant O’Bannou, Josiah Wynn, and Isaac
Lindsey ;-who selected the following gen
tlemen as delegates to said Convention :—
A. E. Cochran, J. F. Burney, James Taylor
and Bryant O’Bannon.
On motion of T. N. Beall, Esq., the del
egates were authorized to fill any vacancy
that may occur in their number.
The following resolution offered by Mr.
J. H. Jones, and passed:
Resolved, That.it is the sense of this
meeting that the party hold a mass conven
tion at Irwinton on the first Tuesday in Au
gust next, for the. purpose of nominating
candidates for members of the next Legisla
ture, and all the friends of the present ad
ministration of the General Government are
invited to be present, and participate in that
meeting.
Mr. Thomas Jackson moved that our del
egates be requested to endeavor by consul
tation with the delegates to said convention
from other counties in this District to nom
inate a candidate tor Congress for the Dis
trict—which motion was carried.
On motion, the Secretary was required to
send the proceedings'of this meeting to the
Federal Union an& Central Georgian, with
a request to publish.
On motion, the meeting then adjourned
JOHN FREEMAN, Ch’n.
A. V. McCardel, Stc’y.
Railroad Accident.—On Tuesday night
the 7thinst., the down passenger train on
the Macon & Western Railroad was thrown
off the track by running over two cows;
the train was precipitated down an embank
ment, the baggage cars were crushed to
atoms, the mail guard was instantly killed,
any some five of the passengers seriously in
jured, among them the Hon A. H. Ste
phens, who had an arm broken, and suffer
ed from a contusion of the head, at the la
test accounts however, he was rapidly re
covering, and it was thought he was out of
danger.
jjg^*M. D. Jones, Esq., of Waynesboro,
has been selected to deliver the Annual
Address before the Literary Societies of the
Mercer Institute at Penfield, at the Com-
mencement in July.
He has also been chosen to deliver an
Address at the Commencement of the Geor
gia Female College at Madison.
Appointments for Georgia.—The fol
lowing appointments have been made for
Georgia: Solomon Cohen, Post-master at
Savannah, Robert McKay and Wm. McIn
tosh appraisers. James M. Smy the, Post
master at Augusta; Robert C. Forsythe,
Post-master at Columbus, and James A.
Nesbit, P. M., at Macon.
Mr. P. J. Punch, of the Savannah Geor
gian receives a chargeship.
Production of the California and
Australian Mines.—The New York Econ
omist thinks, that the production of gold is
perhaps even in greater amount than the
multiplications of paper. The Australian
fields are known to have yielded in thirty
days to February 5th, 1853, 275,308 oun
ces—$5,506,160—and there arrived in New
York from California in the same thirty
days, 6,618,319. Thus the two sources sup
plied to commerce over $12,000,000 in a
month, and succeeding months have not di
minished the average, as far as California
is concerned. The amount is near $15,000,-
000 per month actual receipts, or $180,-
000,000 per annum. Hitherto these vast
means have been rapidly absorbed by the
rising prices and increasing wants of com
merce and trade, and this absorption has
counteracted the influence of the goldupon
fixed property. This process will continue
but with less force ; and a more rapid in
crease in property valuation may be looked
for.
Result of the Virginia Election.—
The late election in Virginia has resulted in
returning an entire democratic delegation
to Congress. Charles S. Lewis, indepen
dent democrat, being elected in the 11th
district, over Snodgrass, nominated demo
crat, and Sterrett, whig. The Legislature
is also democratic in both branches, but by
a reduced majority. Edward J. Armstrong,
Archibald Graham and Thos. J. Boyd, all
democrats, (the last named independent*
having defeated Daniel, the regular demo
cratic nominee,) have been chosen to con
stitute the Board of Public Works. The
following is a list of the Congressmen elect:
First district, Thomas H. Bayly ; 2d, Jno.
S. Millson ; 3d, John S. Caskie; 4th, Wm.
O. Goode; 5th, Thomas S, Bocock; 6th,
Paulus Powell; 7th, Wm. Smith; 8th,
Charles J. Faulkner; 9th, John Letcher;
10th, Z. Kidwell; llth, Charles S. Lewis;
12th. H. A. Edmonston; 13th, Fayette
McMullen.
resolved in (heir majesty, to take the sub,
foot in their own hands. The Temperance
Societies, therefore, have done their work
according to their promise, and have now
only to decide whether they will act with
or against the people—whether, hating
brought about the state of things which
alone could effect their object, they will re
join in the glorious result, or mount over
and reject the boon heaven has bestowed!
The people have decided in an open public
convention that the Legislature shall refer
it to them to say whether they shall have
retail establishments among them or not,
What other course could wisdom suggest
in thiscountry, where the people are soy*
ereign ?
Now to bring this argument to a point
let me ask, how could the object of the
Temperance societies be attained, except
through such a change of public opinion as
has occurred ? Just as long as indifference
to the subject shall allow grog-shops m ev*
ery vicinity just so long, of course, the
young and unwary will be the victims of
the diabolical influences exerted to con
tinue intemperance among us. Legislation
is, in this country, the necessary result of
public opinion: as well attempt to arrest
the downward flow of Mississippi’s waters,
as to resist the current of public opinion in
this country where the people rule.
Only one other matter now calls for at
tention in connection with this subject.' It
is this; A convention of the people was
called, was had, and has acted with entire
unanimity; and the question arises—where
does patriotism require good citizens to
place themselves—for or ag.-tiu-i tLis action ?
I answer, for it, If the convention has erred
in judgmeut, time will reveal the past; and
auother may correct the error, but until
then,.obedience is the duty of good citizens.
Such was understood to be the duty of the
Southern Rights party after the lata politi-
cal convention, and such duty has been
practically acknowledged.
The fear expressed by some, that if the
action of the convention be sanctioned, the
friends of Temperance may, by and by , ask
more, is idle—it matters not what they ask,
if the sovereign power of the country grant
it—it is all right, and good citizeus will
cheerfully submit. Nothing can be more
ridiculous than the fancy that the people of
this country is to be won by Temperance
Societies to injure themselves. Such wri
ters seem to me not to understand the sab-
33T The Editor of the New York Jour
nal of Commerce says that on Thursday, he
conversed with a Southern planter from the
Northern part of Georgia, who has come on
to engage men to work on his plantation.
“He has commenced harvesting, and re
quires additional help; but the enhanced
value of slaves since the Abolition agitation
places it beyond his ability to purchase a
larger supply, and white labor can be em
ployed more economically than that of hir
ed slaves.
j£g“The Democratic convention of New
Hampshire assembled on Friday last, and
nominated Mr. Burke for Governor. Reso
lutions from Edmund Burke censuring
some of the President’s appointments, were
introduced and caused great excitement.
JRST The riot in Montreal on Thursday
night last at Gavazzi’s Lecture had caused
great excitement in the city. The troops
were called out and fired twice on the mob,
killing and wounding a large number.
jUW A white man was sold for vagrancy
for the sum of twenty five cents, not long
since in Ogle county, Illinois. The pur
chaser not being able to make the change
loaf’ loaned him the amount.
Extension of the Eatonton Railroad.
—A meeting was held at Monticello on
Tuesday by a portion of the citizens of Jas
per county, in which iuiatory steps were
taken for the extension of the Eatonton
Railroad to that town. The people seem
exceedingly desirous of a connection with
Savannah, and are canvassing the project
with commendable zeal.
A letter from the Paris correspon
dent of one of the Boston papers state that
Mr. W. M. Thackeray was in Paris, that he
was highly pleased with his trip to the
United States, and that he intends to re
turn shortly with a .view of remaining per
manently.
J3T The Steamer Hancock, running be
tween Augusta and Savannah, was sold on
Tuesday last by the Sheriff of Richmond
county. She was bought by Col. T. M.
Turner of Sparta, at six thousand one hun
dred dollars.
jSSTThe Grand Jury of Essex county,
Mass,, have indicted the Boston and Maine
Railroad for causing the death of the son of
President Pierce last fall.
murderer,
Arthur Spring, the
was executed in Philadelphia on Friday
last. He died protesting his innocence ot
the crime of which he was convicted.
OCT The Memphis convention lias ad
journed to meet in Charleston in April next.
ject before us, nor the character of the Gov
ernment under which we live. D. H.
[FOR THE CENTRAL GEQR&IAN.J
We beg leave to suggest the name of
Maj. Geo. Stapleton as a candidate- for
the Senate-at the coming October election
and that of Eli Me Gro an for the Bouse of
Representatives. YOTERSv
Jefferson County, Gat
New County Proposed.—The citizens
of Athens are moving in favor of a new coun
ty being formed, of which Athens shall bo
the judicial centre. A meeting was held on
the 28th ult., and steps taken to bring the
[subject before the next Legislature.
[FOR THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.]
Mr. Crafton:—Learning that the cold
water army are accused of violating a pledge
given in regard to the manner of conducting
the war against King Alcohol and his forces^
and that even some of the officers and sol
diers of this increasing host, seem willing to
concede the truth of the charge, I desire*
as one who has grown to be faithful in this
war against the monster, to enter my caveat
against the concession, and against the jus
tice of the charge itself.
It is alledged, there was a promise given
to conduct the war with moral suasion alone,
and that now the move to suppress the Re
tail Traffic, is in direct opposition to this
pledge. Let us see. It is conceded, by
the charge itself, that up to this time the
promise has been faithfully kept, we may
therefore confine our attention directly to
the present movement. To understand
which, we must recollect the occasion and
object of the Temperance organizations.—
The universal prevalence of liquor selling
and drinking, and the widespread mischiefs
and ruin consequent thereupon, were the
occasion, and the entire suppression of these
evils, was the object. Well, the conflict
has been waged with various success, until
victory has at last perched upon the banner
of reform—the people have been brought
jo the “sober, second thought,” and hsrve
[FOR THE. CENTRAL. GEORGIAN.[
Mr. Editor l—Allow me to. suggest tile
following Unioa Whig ticket for members
to the next Legislature from- our county i
For Senate, Lewis Bullard, for Mouse p^
Representatives, Elbert D* Tay lor and Jep-
tba Brantfy. R. W..
Washington Co..
Union! Meethi^
According to previous notice the Union*
party of Washington county met at ‘the*
Court house in Sandersville on. Tuesday the;
7th inst., for the purpose of selecting Dele
gates to the Gubernatorial Convention to.
be held in Milledgeville on the 29th inst.,
and Delegates to the Congressional conven
tion for the 7th Congressional District. Oil
motion of Col. O. C. Pope, William Hall?
was called to the Chair, and John B. Tur
ner requested to act as Secritary.
E. S. Langmade, Esq., being called on,
in a few brief remarks, explained the object
of the meeting. On motion the Chair ap
pointed a committee of five to report to the
meeting the names of suitable persons to
act as delegates to said Conventions. The
committee retired and after a short consul
tation suggested the following delegates.
To the Gubernatorial Convention^ Col.
O. C. Pope, William Hall, Dr. John B.
Turner, and Emanuel Brown, Esq.
To the Congressional Convention, Dr. E
C. Williamson, Dr. R. Y. Rogers, Silas
Floyd and James H. Gilmore Esqrs.
On motion the report was received and
adopted, and the delegati on authorised to
fill any vacancy which might happen.
On motion of E- S, Langmade, Esq., it
was resolved that the Central Georgian and
Southern Recorder be requested to publish
the proceedings of this meeting.
On motion of Lewis Bullard, Esq., It was
unanimously resolved that the meeting ad
journ to meet again on the 2ndSaturday in
July next'fpr the purpose of nominating
candidates to represent the county in the.
next Legislature.
WM. HALL, Chair.
John B. Turner, Sect’y*
An editor in Arkansas was latelyfshot in
an affray. Luckily the ball came against a
bundle of unpaid paper accounts m bis pock-
et. Even gunpowder could not get through
unpaid newspaper bills, and the editor sav
ed his life by the delinquency of his sub
scribers. •
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