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Presidential Candidates.
1 our years ago the people of this cotin-
“'Cre called upon tri-ttiake a selection
from three Presidential candidates, each
one of whom had a history peculiarly his
own. Mr. Fremont, the nominee of Nor
thern Abolitionists, was by birth a South
ern man, and but for his nomination would
have been generally considered the extreme
opposite of a sectional partisan. A Uni
ted States officer, and one who had been
in active service for many years in a field
where a man would he apt to acquire large
and comprehensive views, one would have
expected Col. Fremont to he ultra only in
conservatism. No one had a better oppor
tunity afforded to recognize the power and
glory of our great Republic as a United
Confederacy—united in heart and purpose,
as well as confederate and political bands,
—and yet for the sake of a barren nomina
tion he consented to be standard-bearer to
a miserable faction. The party he repre
sented still exists, and in this later day has
engrafted upon its old root some apparent
ly national principles—the advocacy ot
protective tariff measures, for example—
hut it is still the same intolerant, sectional
and utterly hateful to every State South
of the line. As for Col. Fremont, he has
only earned the fate of all unsuccessful
candidates, and w ill he available for a nom
ination nevermore.
Millard Fillmore, the candidate of the
other wing of the Opposition, w T as a man
against whom no word could he spoken.—
His administration had been a complete
success, and he goes to this day by the ti
tle of the model President. The party lie
represented, whatever its faults and mis
takes, was essentially a national party. —
Its fundamental principle was devotion to
the Union, and there was not one word in
its platform that might not be cordially
adopted as well at one extremity of the
country as at the other. The rights of the
South, as against the North, and the in
terests ot the one section in opposition to
the interests of the other, were totally re
pudiated, and one of its war cries was
“Our country, our whole country, and no
thing hut our country !” Perhaps, if it
had been content with this cry, the party
would have lived a longer and a more use
ful life ; hut whatever may he its fate the
reputation of ito candidate is as spotless
to-day as ever.
The winner of the race of 1856 is about
to retire from the field—probably forever.
The only thing that Mr. Buchanan has re
ally dune, in his four years of service, lias
been to destroy the man who secured iiis
nomination. All the energies of his nature
have been given to the accomplishment ot
tin’s one purpose, and he lias succeeded.—
T ins much he intended to do, and he has
done it. But like Vunv< and the Dane, he
blew up the ship in which both his enemy
and himself sailed, and in killing Mr. Dou
glas he lias demolished the Democracy.—
All the power of the Administration is en- !
gaged against the “regular” nominee, and j
the retiring President may congratulate |
himself hereafter upon gaining his revenge. ;
He has killed the one rat that troubled j
him, hut he has also burnt up his barn in !
doing it.
Whatever else the secession may mean,
it is clear enough that it means disunion
under certain contingencies. Mr. Breckin
ridge is the candidate of a party as openly
sectional as the Republicans themselves.—
The contest is not quadrangular. It is Bell
and the Union on one side, against two
separate disunion candidates. Breckin
ridge and Lincoln, though agreeing about
noihing else, agree in their contempt of the
compromises of the Constitution and in
their hatred of the Union. We are far
from believing that the election of any one
of the demagogues who have dared to tri
fle with our heritage, will have the effect
to wrest that heritage from us. The Un
ion is the property of the people, and can
not he destroyed by the pigmies who fancy
themselves giants. But whatever damage
may be done by the election of Mr. Lincoln,
the responsibility is clearly with the De
mocracy. They have two totally unavail
able candidates—and the plainest dictates
of reason should compel them to drop both
and unite upon Bell and Everett.—Balti
more A merican.
THE MACON COTTON PLANTERS
fair —Return of Hon. Howell Cobb.
The Hon. Howell Cobb, of Houston,
President of the Cotton Planters’ Associ
ation, and of the Commission from that
body to Europe, arrived in town night be
fore last, direct from the Continent of Eu
rope, and favored us with a call early the
next morning. We were gratified to learn
from him that the object of his mission
has been accomplished. He has succeeded
even beyond his expectations in interest
ing the Continental manufacturers and
merchants, especially those of Belgium, in
the proposed foreign and domestic fair of
the Cotton Planters’ Association, in Ma
con, and has the most ample assurance not
only from the merchants and manufactur
ers hut also from the venerable Kingof the
Belgians, before whom he had a long audi
ence, that Germany shall be largely repre
sented ut the Fair, in all her departments
of manufacturing industry. The King was j
warmly interested in the subject the
Prince Royal also extended the full bene
fit of his influence to the enterprise, and (
the Belgian American Trade Company
have appropriated a considerable sum for
the purpose. Under their auspices Depots
for the receipt of goods for exportation !
have been established at Brussels, Aut-:
werp, Bremen and various other important
towns, from w’bence they will be shipped J
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES; --EISTINCT, DKE THE BILLOWS - ; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
THOMASTOX, GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, ls6o.
direct to Savannah, consigned to the house
of Brigham, Baldwin & Cos. We are also
] gratified to state in this connection, that
j upon learning that these positive arrange
ments had been effected for the shipment
of the goods, the President of the Central
Rail Road Company, Mr. Cuyler, made a
voluntary and entirely unsolicited proffer
to carry the goods over his Road to Macon,
the place of exhibition free of charge, and
return them for reshiprnent at Savannah
on the same terms, if they still ’•etnain the
property of the exhibitors. This public
spirit and liberality of the Central Rail
Road Company will he highly appreciated
by the Cotton Planters’ Convention and
all who are interested in the success of the
forthcoming Fair.
We learn from Mr. Cobh that he left
j behind him, Mr. Barbiere, of Memphis,
busily engaged in selecting goods adapted
to the Southern marker, ],rdposen
exhibition, and that it is the purpose of
the Belgian Company to establish in Ma
! con a permanent depot for the sale of goods
and the reception of orders to Continental
manufacturers.
Mr. Cobh will shortly submit to the
i Cotton Planters’ Convention and the pub
lic an extended report of the result of his
mission and the prospects of the direct
trade movement. Meanwhile let popular
interest be aroused on the subject of the
approaching Fair. It will probably he far
the largest and most interesting exhibition
of the kind ever made in the Southern
country. The most ample preparations
should he made for it, and Macon especi
ally should see to it that nothing is omit
ted to sustain her reputation for enterprise
and hospitality.— Macon Telegraph, 24 th
Inst.
Marietta Paper Mills. —Our first vis
it to this establishment was paid on Tues
day last, in company with Col. A. S. Ed
monson, one of the proprietors and busi
ness agent. The Mills are situated on
Soap’s Creek, half a mile above the Chat
tahooche, and some six miles from Mariet
ta. We had long known the mills, by re
putation, for there is not inanufactured in
the Union, it there is in the world, a supe
rior article ot paper, with the same range
iof stock and material ; hut we were not
, prepared to find an establishment so ex
| tensive, and so neat in all its appoint
j meats. In the business of the concern,
| some $50.0U() are invested ; a force of he
| tween 32 and 35 hands is employed, the
whole being under the superiutendance of
Mr. James Byrd, one of the proprietors
i and foreman, and a most efficient hand in
; his position.
There are, in the manufacture of paper,
: eight processes —picking, cutting, dusting,
boiling, washing, bleaching and heating,
j after which the paper is formed on the ma
i chines, and undergoes the pressing and
drying process, after which it is cut to the
required size, counted into quires, reams,
&c., folded and bundled for market. All
these operations, with the exception of
counting, are accomplished by machinery
alone. The whole machinery is driven by
two overshot wheels, of 40 horse power
each, with 12 foot buckets. Above the pa
per mills is a saw mill, with sufficient pow
er to saw all the lumber which can he
brought to it, and with appliances for grin
ding corn and other grains for the use of
the company. The situation is a most ad
mirable one, with a very fair supply of wa
ter, with 4 feet head, and 40feet fall with
in a distance of less than 300 yards. For
the bleeching process they use the water of
one of the finest springs we have ever seen,
which is carried in troughs a distance of
some 300 yards, with a fall of at least 50
feet within the distance. The spring is
unfailing, and its pure water, for bleaching
purposes, constitutes the secret of the beau
tiful white color which the paper of these
mills have ever been found to possess, and
which makes it so popular with printers.
The capacity ot the mills is some 75
reams per day, or about 24.000 yer year,
for all of which there is a ready demand.—
Indeed, orders have been accumulating to
such an extent that the proprietors have
found it impossible to fill them, and many
applications for regular supplies of paper
have been refused, much as it had to he
regretted. In the manufacture of this
quantity of paper there is consumed some ‘
35000 lbs of rags per day, or about 1,100,- j
000 per year. This supply is obtained
from various quarters, and. as is well known
is a cash article, requiring the disbursing
of a large amount of actual capital. The
freights paid by this company, alone, at
this point, amount to some $5,000, inde
pendent of that which accrues to the iState
Road, paid by other parties, and which
will fully equal the above.
We have not time to give a more exten
ded notice at present, and while acknowl
edgging our indebtedness to Col. Edmon
son and Mr. Bvrd for their courteous treat
ment, we close our brief notice with the
expression of our pride in their mills and
its management. — -Marietta Statesman.
— •
Opposed to the Reception of the
Prince of Wales, alias Lord Renfrew.
—We understand that our German fellow
citizens have it in contemplation to hold
a mass meeting of citizens opposed to the
intended public reception of “his royal
highness, the Prince of Wales.” The
evening has not yet been fixed upon, but
the matter lias been broached in the Ger- ,
man papers, and in circles over the Rhine.
The Germans have the good sense to see
the folly of a Republican people paying ,
public tribute to a foreign Prince.— Cin- j,
ciunati paper.
* ~ tfORDS AND ACTIONS.
“What is the reason” said a gentleman
of rather an enquiring mind, to us on yes
terday, “that these men, who so much hate
the northern people, and who seem anx
i°us to dissolve the Government in order
to get rid of affiliation with them, only
patronize establishments where northern
made goods are sold ? Look at them, sir,
in the streets, and they are dressed from
top to toe with Yankee goods, and so are
j their wives and daughters. Go to their
houses and you notice nothing hut Yankee
furniture in every room—if they go out in
the sun or rain they carry a Yankee um
brella—and they have got now so particu
lar, sir, that they cannot drink good whole
some southern water, unless it has got a
lump of Yankee ice in it. I told a gentle
man these things, sir, a few days ago, and
told me I was utterly mistaken, and
t ct> t he bought his clothes ready made at
a'store in his village. Os course, I replied;
I know it, and where does your village
shop keeper obtain them ? He said he
could not say, hut presumed he bought
them in New York. Ah, yes, but who
makes them ? 1 told him ; and I told him
they are made in the rural villages of New
England, and up the North river, hut al
ways, among the Abolitionists. Good gra
cious, squire, he said, would you have us
| all go in homespun clothes, and wear
southern boots and shoes, when we can
{get nicer clothes and shoes from the vil
lage? Then what are you making such a
fuss about dissolving the Government for?
He said the people of the South are the
most oppressed of all theearth, and are not
allowed to go to the Territories with their
property. I asked him how he would like
to have a law passed in Congress prevent
ing him from wearing Yankee clothes, and
using Y’ankee goods; and he said bethought
such a law would be unconstitutional.
“Yes, sir, he wanted to have his money
spent among the Yankees. He abuses
them, and then helps to support them lib
erally. In your city, sir, there are disun
| ionists, and watch them as they pass along,
and you will see Yankee goods all over
1 them. They won’t patronize any southern
I interest, hut they are zealously in favor of
i disunion—they talk about it in their Yan
; kee clothes, and call themselves great and
j reliable friends of the South. They look
i one way and row another. It’s so all over
i the country, sir.”
We intend to notice whether the obser
; vat ions of our old friend are correct, aud
, we invite our readers to a similar examina
; tion.— Aug. Constitutionalist.
The Schoolmaster’s in that Bed.—
A correspondent of the New York Waver
ly gives the following as one of the many
incidents that befall a “boarding round
schoolmaster
I had been teaching in Mason county in
this, the Sucker State, and this terra was
boarding round. One evening, after school,
one of my little scholars stepped up tome
and said :
“Mr. Jones, father said you would come
home with me.”
“Very well,” I replied, and forthwith
set out for my patron’s House, which was
distant some two miles. Now, he it known
James McHarry, for such was his name,
had two daughters—the pride and euvyot
the whole community. I had heard so
much about them that I was naturally
anxious to see them. It seemed, howev
er, that I was to be disappointed. When
we arrived I learned that the “gals” had
gone to a party the other side of the creek;
so I went to bed, execrating the luck which
deprived me of seeing them that night.
The night had well advanced when I
he ird one of the girls come home, and pas
sing into the adjoining room, she warmed
herself before some coals which were alive
on the hearth. It seems the old gentle
man and lady slept in the same room, but
1 was not aware of it then. Having warm
ed herselt she turned to leave the room,
when the old man spoke—“ Girls,” said he,
“the schoolmaster’s in your bed.”
“Very well,” said Sarah, and passing
through the room I slept in, went upstairs.
About an hour had elapsed, when I heard
Ju.dv, the other one, come. She stood at
the door a long time, talking with “her
feller,” then entered softly. Disrobing her
feet, she entered the room where I lay, in
her stocking feet, carefully undressed her
self, and coming to the side of the bed [ire
pared to get in. Now it happened that I
lay in the middle, and turning back the
clothes, she gave me a shake aud said in a
surpressed whisper :
“Lay over, Sarah.”
I rolled over and whipped the corner of
the pillow in my mouth to keep from ;
laughing. In she bounced, but the bed
would squeak. The old man heard it, aud
called out :
“Judy !”
“Sir,” was responded in a faint voice
from the bed beside me.
“The Schoolmaster is in that bed!”
With one loud yell and an “Oh, Heav
ens !” she landed on the floor, and fled
with the rapidity of a deer, up stairs. She j
never heard the last of it, I can tell you.
Goor for Heudebekt. —Everybody !
knows, or ought to, James Ileudebert. ex-
Consul to Lyons, a gallant French Whig, ,
whose devotion to the cause of Henry Clay i
Whiggerv is proverbial. Heudebert was
met by one of our fierce fire-eaters the uth- ;
er day, in Jackson, who in his boasting j<
way, remarked, “We’ll heat you to h-11,” ‘ j
“Sir,” said Heudebert, taking off his hat i i
and bowing, “I have not the least doubt :
of it, 1 am not going that way.”— Vieks - i
burg Whig. 1
A Collryf Scene.
While I was at. college, among a
number of new matriculants was one from
Green county, who was very “green” him
self. He came with exalted notions of
college, professors, &c., and manifested
the greatest amazement at every thing he
beheld. In conversation with him, “the
boys” were led to speak of his having to
declaim to the professor. He protested
| that he could never do that—never. They
: insisted that it would have to he done. He
said that was too much for him, and he
would pack up and go home. He was at
j length prevailed on to commit a piece to
’ memory; and, by way of giving him exer
cise, the boys, who had won his confidence,
would take him out to the woods, mount
him on a stump, and put him through a
rehearsal. They flattered his performan
ces from time to time, until he became
quite vain of himself and Ins effort ; in
deed, he was now as confident and boast
j ful as he had been doubtful and timid.
At length the day arrived to declaim be
fore the professor. There was a large class.
Several had performed their parts, and our
hero was called out. His courage had fail
ed him ; he looked pale and tremulous ;
his lips quivered. He took his stand, and
throwing his arms awkwardly about, be-
I gan in a stentorian voice, “Imagine toyour
selfaDemosthene.se addressing the most
learned assembly in Greece !” Here he
clapped his hands to his face and broke
forth in a wild booby wail, the tears gush
ing from between his fingers.
The professor, after a pause, said, en
couragingly, “Compose yourself and go
on.” This he took for imperative, and
struck off again: “Imagine to yourself a
Demosthee-e-ens, 800-00-uo-oo !” Some of
the boys sitting near encouraged him,say
ing to him, “Try again ; and if you can’t
go through with that piece, speak your
other speech.” Whereupon he started
out again : “Imagine yourself a Demosth
e-ens.” He paused a moment, and then,
with wildest mien and gesture—his clench
ed fists going like sledgehammers, he burst
forth.
“My home is on the rolling deep:
I spend my time in feeding sheep :
And when the waves on high is ruunin,
I take my bag and goes a gunuiu’;
I shoot great ducks in deep snake hules,
And drinks gin sling from two quart bowls!” \
At the conclusion of which ho rushed in
a frenzy to his seat, amid the deafening |
roars and cheers of the hoys, and to the ut- !
ter destruction of the Professor’s gravity. |
What We are Made Of.—The follow
ing is from an article by Oliver W. Hol
mes.
“It the reader of this paper live another
year, his self-conscious principle will have
migrated from his present tenement to an
other, the raw materials even of which are
not yet put together. A portion of that
body of which is to be, will ripen in the
corn of his next harvest. Another portion
of his future person he will purchase, or
others will purchase for him, headed up in
the form of certain barrels of potatos. A
third fraction is yet to be gathered in the
Southern rice-field. The limbs with which
he is then to walk will be clad flesh bor
rowed from the tenants of many stalls and
pastures, now unconscious of their doom. J
The very organs of speech with which he !
is to talk so wisely, [dead so t*loquently ; or
speak effectively, must first serve his hum- j
ble brethren to bleat, to bellow, and for all j
the varied utterance of bristled feathered !
barnyard life. His hones themselves are, j
to a great extent, in posse and not esse. — ,
A hag of phosphate of lime, which he has
ordered from Professor Mapcs, for his
grounds, contains a large part of what is
to he his skeleton. Aud more than all this,
and by far the greater part of his body, is
nothing at all hut water ; the main sub
stance of his scattered members is to be J
looked for in the reservoir, in the running
streams at the bottom of the well, in th<*
clouds that float over his head, or diffused
among them all.”
O
Fashionable Women.— Fashion kills
more women than toil and sorrow. Obe
dience to fashions is a greater transgression
of the laws of woman’s nature, a greater
injury to her physical and mental consti
tution, than the hardships of poverty and
neglect. The slave woman at her task will
live and grow old, and see two or three
generations of her mistresses fade and pass
away. The washer-woman with scarce a
ray of hope to cheer her in her labors, will
live to see all her fashionable sisters die
around her. The kitchen maid is hearty
and strong, while her lady has to be nurs
ed like a sick bahv. It is a sad truth that
fashion pampered women are almost worth
less for all the great ends ot human life.—
They have but little force of character ;
they have still less power of moral will,and
quite as little physical energy. They live
for no great purpose in life ; they accom
plish no worthy ends. They are only doll
forms in the hands of Milliners and ser- j
vants, to be dressed and fed to order. They
dress nobody, bless nobody, and save no
body. They write no books and set no ex
ample of virtue and womanly life. If they
rear children, servants and nurses do all,
save to conceive and give them birth And
when reared, what are they ? What do
they amount to but weaker scions of the I
stock ? Who ever heard of a fashionable
woman’s child exhibiting any virtue or |
power of mind for which it became emin
ent ? Read the biographies of our great
and good men and women. Not one of
them had a fashionable mother. They
nearly all sprang from strong minded wo- j
men who had about as little to do wiih f
fashion as with the changing clouds
Payable in Advance,
/ Shots from Prentice.
Gen. Lane’* advocates alledge that hi*
ignorance is hi*, misfortune and not hta
fault. That may “'be, twit, if the people of
Ihe L lifted States wefe to elect an igno
rant nian to the Presidency, it would be
their iault and not his misfortune.
Persons who looked at the moon hist
night and listened attentively, say that the
man in the moon rang his bell must vigor
oHslj from S till 10 o’clock, stopping only
whilst Gen. Coombs was shaking.
j V e know Mr. Keitt. lie is a warm
hearted man. He is a good fellow', lie is
! a pleasant companion. We like him. We
arc sorry he is a traitor. When he is hang
ed, we shun t l>e able to look through our
spectacles at that one. We shall turn our
head away.
Itt 1844 the Democrats of Tcnmatsee
; used to announce their candidates as £!-
r lows :
FOft PRESIDENT,
GEN AN DUE W JACKSON'S
friend, James K. Polk, of Tennessee.
As the hero of the Hermitage was the
| great patron of Mr. Polk, it would be ju
dicious lor Mr. Breckinridge to show a lii
| tie of the humility of a client towards his
particular patron. We therefore suggest
that the SecedeiV ticker be thus printed
THE DISUNION TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT.
WILLIAM L YANCEY S
friend, John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky.
The Value of Accuracy.— lt is the
result of every day’s experience, that stea
dy attention to matters of detail, lies at
the bottom of human progress ; and that
diligence, above all, is the mother of good
luck. Accuracy is also of much impor
tance, and an invariable mark of good
training in a man. Accuracy in observa
tion, accuracy in speech, accuracy in the
transaction ot affairs. What is done in bu
siness must be well done ; lor it is better
to accomplish perfectly a small amount of
work than to half-do ten times as much.
A wise mau used to say, “Stay a little,
that we may make an end the sooner.”—
Too little attention, however, is paid to
this highly important quality’ of accuracy.
Asa man eminent in practical science late
ly observed to us, “It is astonishing how
few people 1 have met in the course of my
experience who can define a fact accurate
ly.” \ et, in business affairs, it is the man
ner in which even small matters are trans
acted, that often decides nun furor against
you. With virtue, capacity, mid good con
duct in other respects, the person who is
habitually inaccurate cannot he trusted ;
his work has to be gone over again ; and
he thus causes endless annoyance, vexation
and trouble.
Curious Instance of Carelessness.—
A letter was received yesterday morning at
the dead letter .office in Washington, from
the Postmaster at Philadt Iphia, enclosing
a package, carefully sealed and stamped,
but without a word of direction on its face,
in which condition it had been dropped in
to the post box in that city. Upon being
opened it was found to contain watch
wheels and springs, enclosed in a tin box,
the whole package worth probably SSO. —
There was no writing with it, or other in
dication, as to who sent it, or for whom it
wrfs intended. The Postmaster at Phila
delphia has been directed to advertise thare
to ascertain the owner.— Washington Con
stitution, 2Clh.
Adventnrous Woman*. —A “lone wid
ow” from the State of Missouri, recently
arrived at Denver City, Pike’s Peak, hav
ing traveled alone from the Missouri river
to that ooint—her “train” consisting of a
yoke of oxen and wagon, a few hens and a
i quantity of provisions. She had taken
care of and driven her cattle without assis
j tance, arid made the trip without auuoy
| ance, either from Indians or white men.—•
! By selling eggs to emigrants at $2 peidoi
! en, she had accumulated considerable mon
ey, and from a small quantity of Hungari
! an grass seed, purchased at the river for 14
cents, she realized !*l4. She was about
50 years *of age. After remaining a tew
days, she went on toward California, where
! she once resided and now proposes to spend
her days.
following inscription is said to
have been found on the head-board at a
grave, in the Sparta Diggings, California :
“In Memory
of
John Smith, who met
a wierlent death, near this spot
18 hundred Sc 40 too—He was shot
by his own pistill
it was not one of the new kind
hut a old fashioned one
brass barel and of such is the
Kingdom of Heaven.”
j£^£T’ , “Jiiliu.s. why didn't you oblong
vc>or star at de sea side ?”
• •/
“Kase, Mr. Snow, dey charge too
much.”
“How to, Julius ?”
“Why, de landlord charged dl colored
individual wid stealing do spoons.”
It ia more easy to l>e wise for others than
for ourselves.— L n . Rod (ioucuuld.
trfT’ At a recent sale of old coins in
Philadelphia an old cent, date 1792, was
sold for $65,50.
If pride leads the van, beggar}* bringa
up the rear
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