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HM'iitioiuiliji K Ixrjjuliltr. p : Vr» MES GARDNER. JR. TERMS: (if paid in advance) ... .per annumoo (if paid in advance) per annum.. 5 00 (if paid in advance) per annum . 2 00 Ri the Chronicle Sentinel ] Anti-Liquor Law Movement. IH —Mv article upon the above published !s>‘ week. ! notice. ' flk. " ;-.••• • • ■HHHPhar.d. in «ome p "i.e Inem!* H Bgncereformation. hv lee,. Vmn. are $r g : course as to obviate the constitu jjf. expressed—and, on the m Member of the •£ y-te % ’JEy <- >« *v ph tie ; Sr-" hat (’onvention. mj'y*' • * > R ‘ Wf .her. \ • v. I ; & as possible, permit me to to BEn with pleasure the course adopted g|/i of the county of Newton, on the if ’■ks® communicated to you by a corres P oHjfe same assumed name Fot although I' 1 ftlwith distrust any movement which If great agent ot reforma- I yet 1 profess t 0 | jr jt U•' w 81 ‘ §§? SB JfF I : BNBQHvoion-:] barriers <: S Heand present observedion. § Bpomdarity of sudi a lavs- with a mfu' people, and ■:'u,"'v l irv. will present obstaclel - > ts faithful execution without Uptrother impediments. FBiit t will now proceed to notice the article of A Member of the Atlanta Convention.” In it ; displayed considerable tact in repelling an ar nment. and much ingenuity in collecting uthoritjes. But on close examination it will e discovered that Impositions are more specious hap sound ; his arguments more plausible than rue. Fir-t, we differ upon what he deems an important f*et t He says, “we propose that the ..pgisiatnrf''pass a law prohibiting the retail o* irdentßpnts. except upon the condition that a Tonjorinv of all the legal voters of the county or [isfrict>give their assent to it.” On the other suppose that the Atlanta Convention jSAi. ,-yed to^ petition the Legislature simply to - existing 1 cense laws, and permit by people in their respective counties to by vote whether or not they were wil- H>r ardent spirits to he retailed, and to fix a that law for the violation of a wili of K.£HgHv. if they were opposed to re- g ■HeH&H.Iv difference is. in the former case 3HHHV retail unless a majority grer.t ti.err in the latter case they run retail prohibit them. Nowit seem ||Rßlgii the distinction is rather too nice and practical purpose Rn‘ a® B|pjg•;% , seem.s to a*t., • and think-' f 'na‘ ! i av> Hiriair fact upon \vb : cn r: v I o Brms it, jrests, and thmeby ralher Wtr, - 4* **ji IV ' fi-lt B ' • ‘Pm B B Bf l Rt- 7 i:. flflkhe J, J ; I 'd L. c &%&?&*' V»» a Hffßisniiwnou* liq'mr-. -shail I>- Pv license, au 1 'hat no licen- the licensing power is sat Leaflet where is allowc ■traffic fir»t cb.nn m , , , - from Hk ir > " 'a, C- , hwNS id.'. P. -> • V - iiidiiKiiio.'i Bfve h * pi, "c" * , feg« lie ;.. • - __ -- . N - i \ wF N j % - Blf - Wr" B - w/r W ■ :''B^l fei'- Bthe Legislature. ii * pN :. a ' - .’■ftiso** / L S ’ * - Skslature . >s ifi's' B fb * -,. i ’ * - ' ' ■ *.N, B & SfF > r . ~ W* njß aRp: ; e roof.:;, ’x*, *y* ’ fc_.u ;n. r‘ \ ' Boto N' * vote ! N : ' d'“f ' * m . ' | i - v B , - 1 Bf. ■ {i ’ B Bfe this - law. ;« n;- ! Hk . . ; :i. p^BMBBjBP^Sr B t Bjority *> u M ,at sci d* i - >,f But n|Bflß|^B^^H|Bhame Ba SpL. v ' >', _ -' p is N‘. s ' / * Emulation which is Hb therefore s flk B I x i" " '-e; *or 'it'- • in f rnanifestirig then vs t-'y “ A Mnoiber. 4cv.’ t v the law regulating the licensing Physician* in this State, as being analagous to the one under discussion. He says that law has been before our -Supreme Court, and its constitutionality was not called in question. He says, also, that lam a lawyer. Well, I have no advantage over him in that respect. But I am somewhat suprised that he did not discover wherein the law which fce cites, and the one under review, differ in principle. The "difference is this: In the law cited, the Legislature declared, in ef fect, that no one should practice medicine, un less licensed to do so by a Board of Physicians established by law , which Board can grant or re fuse license as they deem the applicant mental ly and morally qualified or not. The Board of Examiner* is a corporate body , established by the same legislative power which fixes the restraint, and imposes the penalty. In addition to that feature in the law, this Board are not at liberty to set from caprice, without any rule , and refuse i cense to an applicant merely because a ma jority might entertain some prejudice or person al hostility against him, or, which is more in point, because a majority might be unfriendly to the practice of medicine in general. They are to be governed solely in their decision by the rule prescribed by the Legislature, namely: the qualification of the applicant. Were they to act otherwise, and it could be ascertained, they would forfeit their franchise. No one will suppose for a moment, that if two applicants pre sent thejr petitions for license, are examined, and found equally competent, the Board would be at liberty to re use one and grant the other license. Why not, though, if the law is anala gous to the proposed liquor law ? In the latter law, as proposed to be enacted, two persons in adjoining counties, of equal qualifications in eve ry respect, paay ask for license, and one may ob tain his request and the other be denied. The truth is, there is a wide difference in the two cases, and a manifest want of analogy in many respects. The one depends tor force upon the will of a majority of the people unrestrained by law, the other is a living statute in force upon the statute book, put into full and successful operation by the Legislature, which Legislature has appointed a corporate Body ot ExamiueJs to pass upon the qualifications of applicants for li cense. under rules established by the law ma king power. But in reference to the decision by the Su preme Court of New York, which I quoted in my former article, perhaps “ A Member of the Atlanta Convention” is not so consoled by this time with the reflection that he has *' E Pluri bus Unum’s battery playing against himself ” I still quote it with confidence as containing the very principle for which I am contending. In rhat case the law depended for its force upon the will of a majority of the people. So in this.— But I will give him a little more authority, which I happened to discover after I sent my first article off to the press. I quote from Hon. Joseph Henry Lumpkin’s letter of the 26th May to the Temperance Banner. .“A statute was passed by the Legislature of Delaware. 19th Feb ruary, 1847, providing that the citizens of the several counties in the State should decide by their votes whether or not the retailing of in toxicating liquors should be permitted fin said counties. And this, I understand, is of redress contemplated in this State. -N: was declared to be unconstitutional by f?;- Su preme Court of Delaware, on the ground t ’ s he Legislature could not delegate tlie-gSwei making laws to any power or body. 4(>t •> rhe case of Rice vs. Foster, reported in f/i*i e ii. - rington. 476.” N?»o “ To the act of 1846, passed in giving the citizens of certain counties fhedjfywei o decide, by a vote, whether the sale of ms and vinous liquors should be continued n certain counties, and imposing a penalty tor he sale of such liquors where a majority of the voters had been against such sale, was declared "o be unconstitutional and void, for the reason hat legislative power could not be delegated, *>ut must be exercised by the body created by he Constitution for that purpose. See Parker ’*. Commonwealth, 6 Barr’s State Reports, 507. In a late case in Vermont, these decisions were reviewed and overruled, and a contrary doctrine ■stablished.” And I will simply add, that the eason the decision was different in Vermont rom those in the other States alluded to, I pre sume. (I have not seen the decision,) is owing o the fact that the Constitution of Vermont is A little different in the clause which declares ;he proper repository for the legislative power, rom the corresponding clause in all the other state Constitutions which I have examined. 'TlTihe latter declare “The legislative power hall be vested, &e.” The former declares, ■ The supreme legislative power shall be vested, kc.” However this may be, my opponent mu?t idmit that the weight oi authority is on rny side »f the question. With these hastily penned houghts, 1 turn him over to other hands, ■nd him an affectionate farewell, and reeorn nend him to ponder coolly and dispassionately r he suggestions thrown out by Judge Lumpkin, n the latter part of the letter from which I have just quoted two paragraphs. In so doing, per perbaps ha may be both profited and instructed. E Pluribus Uncm. P. S'. As the above was written very rapidly, an impoitant thought was omitted in co nec ion with the Physicians’ law. 1 hope that the want of analogy between that law and the pro posed liquor law has been shown, even to the .-atisfaction of “ A Member of the Atlanta Con- VenJion.” There is a law, however, with f which, and the Physicians’ law, there is a close and striking analogy. And that is our present aw constituting the Inferior Courts the legal sgents to grant retail license. The Board of Physicians in the one, and the Interior Courts iri the other, occuppy similar potitions in reference ro the two laws. And the difference between our present and the contemplated law upon re siling, in a constitutional point of view, was shown in our former article. E. P. U. JiiMK 23, 1853. . Mr. Editor: —ln your paper of 22<i inst., is the following paragraph : “‘E Pluribus Unum’s re uly to * A Member of the Convention’ has been eceived, but is unavoidably deferred. Perhaps he may desire to withhold it, and reply to • Washington’ at the same time.” This is to inform you that he has no such de sire. When an anonymous writer, or one un der a fictitous name, so far forg-ets the rules of propriety, or if so blinded by prejudice, as to •hafrge the want of sincerity upon all who differ with him in opinion,and has the vanity to ridicule in able letter written by as distinguished a per on as Jndge Lumpkin—a man of purer morali ty, brighter intellect, or a more zealous advocate »f temperance, than whom, lives not in Georgia —I cannot reply to his article in a spirit which would interest the reading public. But I will -ay to you, Mr Editor, since you consider his argument unanswerable, that the same reason •na which he adopts to pio.e his second propo sition would establish the general proposition, that the Legislature have the constitutional right, at its next session, tq reveal every law upon our statute book, (when such repeal would not impair the obligation of a contract.) and pass an act authorizing the people in each, county "o adopt such laws upon every < subject as they may think proper.* If such oe the Constitution of Georgia, then sure enough is she the “ Em pire State” not only of the “ South,” but of the World. “ Washington” may be able to estab lish such a proposition to his own satisfaction, but he cannot find a presiding Judge, in my in Georgia, wko is deeply enough versed in legal lore, to comprehend the force ol his argu ment. E Pluribus Unum. The Flying Cloud.— This fine clipper ship has performed a prodigy of speed, as will be seen by the following extract from her log, received from her captain, J. P. Cressy, who was spoken *atsea by a New London vessel on the 15th May, in lat. 1 S , lon. 34 03 W.: “ Wind light—fine weather ; middle and lat ter part faint stud squally. Civil lime, this date, 15th of May, atS. i*. m., crossed the equator, iri lon. 34,20 seventeen days from Sandy Hook, or 408 hours, averaging nine lTnots for every hour sea. Passage shorter than ever made. Whole distance run, on str?i ;ht lines from noon to noon each day,is miles. No time since leaving have sky-sails been off the ship for over three hou. >, and Jhat only in one instance.” Lieut. Maury mentions several clipper ships that have approached this performance, but none that have equalled it. The Sea Serpent, in March, accomplished the distance in eighteen ; the Flying FNh and the,Samuel Russell, in No vember, each in nineteen days. The others named by Lieutenant Maury were “ out of their teens” before they crossed the line. So the Flying Cloud bears the palm. She belongs to Messrs. Grinned. Minturn & Co., and no doubt they feel proud, in a very modest and becoming way of course, of her “ overstepping the line” on the seventeenth day of the voyage.— N. T. Com mercial, 25th, The Marriage Altar. Judge Charlton, in an eloquent Address be fore the Young Men’s Library Association, at Augusta, Ga.,thus sketches the Marriage scene: “ I have drawn for you many pictures of death ; let me sketch for you a brief, but bright scene of beautiful life. It is the Marriage Altar. A lovely female clothed in all the freshness oi youth and surpassing beauty, leans upon the arm of him to whom she has just plighted her faith, to whom she has just given up. herself forever. Look in her eyes, ye gloomy philosophers, and tell me if you dare, that there is no happiness on earth. See the trusting, the heroic devotion which impels her to leave country and parents, fora comparative stranger She has launched her frail bark upon a wide and stormy sea ; she has handed over her happiness and doom for this world, to another’s keeping ; but she has done it fearlessly, for Jove whispers to her that her chosen guardian and protector bears a manly and a noble heart. Oh, wo to him that forgets his oath and his manhood ! “ Her dark wing shall the raven flap, O’er the false hearted, His warm blood the wolf shall lap, Ere life bo parted. Shame and dishonor sit, On his grave ever ; Blessing shall hallow it Never ! oh, never !” We have all read the story of the husband who, in a moment of hasty wrath, said to her who had but a few months before united her fate to his—“ If you are not satisfied with my conduct, go, return to your friends and to your happiness.” “ And will you give me back that which I brought to you?” asked the despairing wife. “Yes,” he replied, “all your wealth shall go with you; I covet it not.” “Alas,” she answered, “ I thought not of my wealth—l spoke of my devoted love ; can you give that back to me?” “No !” said the man as he flung himself at her feet. “No! I cannot restore these, but I will do more—l will keep them un uusullied and untainted ; —I wilt cherish them through my life, and in rny death; and never again will I forget that I have sworn to protect an.l cherish her who gave up to me all she held most dear.” Did I not tell pou there was poetry in a wo man’s look—a woman’s word ? See it held the mild, the gentle reproof of love, winning back from its tempter an angry man. Ah ! if cre ation’s fairer sex only knew their strongest weapons how many of wedlock’s fiercest battles would be unfoi.ght; how much of unhappiness and coldness would be avoided !” An Incident. A rather verdant youth from far in the inte rior was, the other day, lounging through our streets, hearing the music, looking after the women, and seeing the sights in genera!—bear ing himself amid all these temptations as straight as a sapling and as independent as a wood-saw yer ft In the course ot his peregrinations, he papfiM one of the large hardware stores, and spied ip tbeMiFside a sign of “ Japanned Waiters for sign attiacted country’s notice, and way walked in and began to examine displayed through the store. Finally U P t° on e of the clerks, approxima- W#-Wuth to the clerk’s ear, and in a confi ”requested to be shown “ them air iggers.” v Jypan niggers!” exclaimed the clerk, “I doipMunderstand you.” ‘‘Don’t understand me? Vv'al, now I think ihat is cutting it rayther fat, stranger. Hevn’t pou got a board out the door thar painted, Japan waiters for sale ?” “ Oh, yes—no—yes, not exactly,” stammered the clerk, catching a glimpse of country’s trou bles; “ this is what you mean ; this is a Japan waiter,” handing him one from the counter. Country opened his eyes like an owl and sur veyed first the waiter and then the clerk. Fi nally. however, he broke out with— “ H—II and split shingles! If this ain’t a sell! I wouldn’t hev Bill Moody know it for a dollar. Look heje, stranger,” as soon as he could catch breath, “ them things is called tea-trays up in our diggins. I reckoned you hed to sell some of them fellers, the papers say the English buy in Chiner and carry to Cuba to work. These ’ore won’t do. And he left.— N. O. Crescent. Georgia and Alabama at the World’s Fair. It has been announced that the Crystal Palace in New York will be formally opened on the 15th July. From what we gather from the papers, the exhibition is likely to be one that will reflect erpditon the country at large. We are pleased to learn that Georgia agriculture, manufactures, and arts will be worthily repre sented there. A letter from a friend informs us. that the en terprising and public spirited proprietors of the “ Winter Iron Works” of Montgomery, Alabama, will also see that our sister State is not over looked in the great exhibition. At these works, so justly celebrated for their superior engines and machinery, a model engine, called the “ Southern Belle,” has been built, which is thus spoken of by the Montgomery Times of the 23d inst. The editor says— “ln the finish, proportions and material of the “ Southern Belle,” proper, can be approach ed by anything moulded or formed by thd hand of man. it is the beautiful engine hearing this subroquet, manufactured by the “Winder Iron Works,” for the World’s Fair, and exhibited to out citizens at the Factory on Saturday last, preparatory to its journey to New York. It will take a more practical pen than ours to de scribe the chef-da>uvre of Southern mechanism, but in general terms we hesitate not to say, that not only does it surpass any piece of large ma chinery that we have ever seen, but transcends in beauty of design, per'eefion of finish and a toat ensemble , any thing that we “ have ever dreamed of in our philosophy.” We expected something bordering upon the superb, when we learned that the proprietors of the “ Winter Iron Works” were aiming to contest the palm with our Yan kee brethren in the Mechanic arts, but we con fess we did not expect to see a Stationary Engine of forty-horse power, with the finish of a patent lever watch, with the brass resembling Gold, and Alabama Iron resembling English steel. But such is the fact, and Yankees must look to their laurels ! ! ! “Most of the material was gathered from the bowels of our mother earth, in Shelby and Ben ton counties, the design and execution through out a r e entire, the work of Montgomery artists and mechanics, even to the carving of the g ori ous American Eagle,which surmounts the whole, viewing with pride the efforts of Southern genius, and ready to battle for Southern mechani cal triumph.” “II beauty of design, qualify of material and perfection of fin ish is to decide the question of who is entitled to the first prize, the Yankees can take ‘our hat’ if they beat the “ Southern Belle.—That’s a'j.” The above engine was shipped to this city on its w 7 ay *o New York on Wednesday last. The route via Savannah was selected as the cheapest and best, and she “Southern Belle” will go from our port to New York on one of our steamers, probably the Florida, next Satur day.— Savannah News , 29 th inst Alabama Manufactures.—We had the pleasure, a few days since, of examining, for a brief moment, a splendid specin en of a Steam Engine at the Iron Works of this city, and de signed for the approaching Nation il and World's Fair, at New Y rk. It is termed the “ South ern Belle,” and is of about forty horse power. We have never seen any machine of the nature approaching it in accuracy of design or excel lence of finish. It would be an ornament in the drawing room or boudoir, such is the ele gance and polish of its workmanship. All its iron and steel work is of native Alabama mate rial. The Northern machinists must look well to their laurels, if they expect to maintain them against this unparalleled and beautiful offspring of the South. The Engine went on yeste day under the charge of our cotemporary Beattie, of the Times, who is qualified to do it justice.— Montgomery [Ala ) Journal The word “ Tariff” is taken from a fortress which is situated on the Straits of Gibraltar, a promonitory which, from its position, is adapted for commanding the entrance of the Mediterra nean Sea, and watching the exit and entrance of all ships. It was the '’ustom of the Moors to watch from this poiut all merchant ships going into or coming out of the Midland Sea, and is suing from this stronghold, to levy a certain fixed scale of duty on all merchandize passing in and out ot the Straits, and this was called, from the place where it was levied, “ tarifa,” or “ tariff,” and in this way we have acquired the word. to3titatiimfl!ist& Bepuhlic. aligl)BTa,7;a. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 1. FOR GOVERNOR, HON. HERSCIiEL V. JOHNSON. Os Baldwin County. Whig Humbug About Appointments to Office. The Whigs have always been notorious as croakers, and among their various aliases we suggest as singularly appropriate to them, es pecially at this juncture, that of The Croaking Party. They are constantly croaking about evils impending, and predicting all manner of cafastrophies to the country—even to the down fall of the Republic itself from Democratic rule, Democratic po'iey. and Democratic progress.— But still our countrymen continue prosperous, and our great and magnificent Republic continues to stride on under Democratic auspices in ever increasing power and grandeur, to the manifest terror of despotism, while it is the admiration and hope of oppressed nations. It stands out as the complete and model illustration of the ca ' pacity of man for self government, and the bea con light of hope to a down trodden*world. The croakings of the Whigs are but as the weight of a fly on the wheels of .our glorious ; onward destiny. Look for a moment at the ; Whig croakings of the past. The want of a ! National Bank was to destroy all mercantile en terprise and energy in our country, and over . shadow the land with bankruptcy. The Sub i Treasury was to be the cormorant monster that j would swallow all the specie of the country, and cause a deluge of worthless shin-plasters crea ting one currency, (gold an 1 silver,) for the gov ernment, and another, rag money, for the people. A revenue Tariff was to prostrate all manufac turing interests, and bring pauperism and starva tion upon our people. The absence of internal im provements by the Federal Government was to stagnate our internal commerce, and bring blight and mildew on our industry. The neglect of the Government to improve rivers and haibors, was to cause our own vessels to rot at our wharves, drive foreign commerce away to more friendly shores, and bring grass and weeds into the streets, and bats and owls into the houses of i our crumbling and desolate seaports. The flood j of foreign population pouring in upon us, and the unrestricted suffrage granted foreigners after a few 'years of residence, were to sweep away our liberties, and overthrow the social fabric. The continuance of the Veto power was to con vert our representative government into an olig j archy, and place a more than imperial sceptre in ; the hand of the people’s Chief Magistrate.— j The annexation of Territory was to make our I mighty Republic too alarmingly great—the sway | of the Confederacy too widely extended for it s i safety; and its swift destruction was time and j again croaked over and predicted in Whig Jour, uals. But in response to Whig croakings, she incredulous Democracy of the country— the peo ple—cried humbug, and time, experience, and his tory all write humbug ! humbug! humbug ! upon each of these Whig devices and imaginings. The only humbug now left to the Whigs in Georgia, having the slightest promise of availa j bility, is about President Pierce’s appointirunts !to office. The Whigs are reduced to this strait. I They are forced to pretend that they see great and imminent danger to the rights of the southern j states and to the stability of the Republic from a | few office-holders in subordinate positions. They j allege that there are four or five free soilers and j abolitionists in office under Gen. Pierce —asub- I treasurer, a post-master or two, a district attoi- I ney, and a Register of a land-office. This is, so | far as we have seen or heard, the extent of the ; alleged danger to the Union 1 Oh ! how appall | ing the danger! In what portentous proportions do these Catalines of the Confederacy, with the : robes of office around them, loom upon the hor -1 ror-stricken imagination! Oh! heart ot Free ! dom ! Oh! last Hope of mankind! Oh! Hum | bug! I The following is one of the resolutions of the ! late Whig Convention at Milledgeville : Reso'ved , That we adhere to the Report and Resolutions of the Georgia Convention of 1850. ; because we consider the principles therein pro j claimed are not less important to the mainte nance of the rights of ihe States than of the Union of the States ; and that we consider the rights of the Southern States as in great and im i mirient danger, and the principles of the Georgia ! Convention greatly jeoparded bv any political \ party whatever may be its name, which r-cog- I nizes Abolitionists and Freesoilers as worthy of public honors and public emoluments. Now, reader, who are those men who have had the effrontery to put forth this declaration— what have been their antecedents in regard to Free Soilers and Abolition is-s holding office— and what are the antecedents of Mr. Jenkins himself, their nominated candidate for Gov ernor, in this particular ? We premise, how T ever, by stating that of the few appointees to office under Gen. Pierce, alleged to be Free Soilers and Abolitionists, not one of them pioposes, or countenances, any in terference with the rights of the South as recog nized in the Cimpromise of 1850—not one of them opposes adherence to that Compromise, or refuses his assent to its faithful execution. In other words, not one of them but stands solemn ly pledged to and bound by the declaration of the Baltimore Democratic platform of 1852, as his creed and his rule of action—to wit: “ Resolved, That the loregoing proposition covers, and was intended to embrace the whole subject of slavery agitation in Congress, and 1 therefore, the Democratic party of the Union, j standing on the national platform, will abide by j and adhere to a faithful execution of the acts known as the compromise measures, settled by | the last Congress: “ the act for reclaiming fugi tives from service or lauor,” included—which act being designed to carry out an expres pro vision of tne Constitution, cannot with fidelity thereto, be repealed, or so changed as to destroy or impair its efficiency.” This is the recognized doctrine and sentiment of President Pierce and the National Democ racy, and as lone as that party is sustained by the people, the South has no ground to fear the repeal or non-execution of the fugitive-slave law r . Georgia is in no danger of being called on by Mr. Jenkins and his friends, nor by any other party, to “ disrupt the ties which bind her to the Union f as provided for in the bloody fourth res olution of the Georgia platform. This same Whig party which nominates Mr. Jenkins, for Governor, was last year divided between two tickets, for President and Vice- President of the United States. We shall not dwell now on the sentiments expressed on vaiious occasions by Gen. Scott, on the subject of slavery, and its abolition, n<..r upon the probabilities of of Free Soilers and Abo litionists holding office under him, had he been elevated to the Presidency. That is a topic wor thy of a .‘■eparate chapter. Nor will we here review; the history of the Whig partv from the accession of Gen. Taylor to the Executive Chair ; and his appointment of Free Soilers and Abolitionists to office, from seats in his Cabinet, down to the pettiest posts under Government. That also deserves a sep arate chapter. Nor will we here discuss, the abolition senti ments. ot Millard Fillmore, Whig Vice-Pres ident, and successor to Gen. Taylor, the black record of whose votes in Congress, side by side | with Giddings and Slade, against the South on j every question touching slavery, glares out from the Congressional Journals, to sear the eye balls of Southern Whigs. This also deserves a separate chapter. But we come to the recorded opinions of Daniel Webster, candidate of the Jenkins Whigs of Georgia, on whose ticket Mr. Jen kins ran for the Vice-Presidency. There was too much abo'itionism about the Scott and Gra ham ticket, both southern born men, for Mr. Jenkins and his friends, and therefore they must needs place Daniel Webster before the people as a more acceptable exponent of opinion—as a safer repository of the rights of the Southern States. What were his opinions on slavery? and what the promise of safety to the South and stability to the Union under his auspices? What the prospect under him of free soilers and abolition ists being excluded from office ? We furnish a few extiacts from his speeches : Extracts from Mr. Webster 1 s Speech , delivered at Abington , Mass., Oct. 10, 1848. “ A party has arisen among us calling itself the Free Soil party. The assumption of such a name by this party, reminds me of a joke made by Swift, or some other humorist, on a person who had made not a very tasteful use as a Latin phrase— Dulce et natale solum. Fine words, I wonder where he stoic 'em. “Reallv. the exclusive appropriation of the name of Free Soil by this party, w T as a very bold proceeding. They have certainly stolen the sentiment from the Whigs; it was a clear case of petty larceny. Are these men better lovers of liberty than we are? No! We are as good liberty men and anti-slavery men as they pro fess to be themselves. “ But what is the history of this so-called Free Soil party * Why, just this. Some years ago a schism broke out in the Democratic party of New York. This widened by degrees, and at length Mr. Van Boren put himself at the head of the smaller portion. When Silas Wright was nominated a second time for Governor of New York, the two parties had become very hostile to each other, and assumed the rival names of Hunkers and Barnburners, which ap pellation they continue to bear to this day. It appears, therefore, that this schism in the Demo cratic party is of rather long standing. There was an actual outbreak years ago among them, and all this before any question of Free Soil arose in that quarter, and before the Wilmot Proviso or any opposition to slavery as a party principle. Down to the period of the annexa tion of Texas, all the Democratic party followed the party doctrines, and went for the annexation, slavery extension and all. The opposition to this measure proceeded in the first instance sole ly from the Whigs. I say the Whigs alone, for it is notorious that no-body else, either in the East, West, North or South, raised a fi-ger against it. If such an effort was made, it was so inconsiderable that it attracted no notice till, by the efforts of the Whigs, the people were roused to a sense of their danger, and feeling of opposition to the extension of slave power Then, and not till then, the Barnburners seize' l upon this branch of Whig doctrine and attached it, to their policy, merely to give them a certain predominancy over their rivals. ‘'Originally, therefore, the Barnburners had no more to do with the doctrine of free soil than with the question of masonary or anti masonry. They only adopted it to secure an advantage over the Hunkers. But having appropriated this just sentiment, though still retaining all the rest of the thirty-nine articles of the Locofoco creed, they now call upon the Whigs ol Massa chusetts to enlist under them ! I had almost said to be subsidized by them, only to give them the ascendency in New York politics ! For one. I propose to do no such thing. Ido not like the servic‘d. “ I repeat, that this Buffalo platform, this col lect of the Barnburners, contains no new thing that is good, it has nothing new which the Whigs of the Middle and Northern States might not adopt. But it is going too ( ar for that party to ask the Whigs of Massachusetts to carry that matter into their S f ate election. “ We shall know, gentlemen, that the Buffalo platform contains nothing in relation to this matter which does not meet the approbation and unqualified approbation of the Whigs of the Northern States. Now. suppose for argument’s sake, that we should join the Free Soil party, we should still he the Whig party under a dif ferent name, and that would he all. But these gentlemen propose to us to go a step further, which I allow would be making a great change —in short, thev propose to put Mr. Van Buren at the head of the Whig party.” Extract from Mr. Webster's Speech , at Buffalo , May 22d. 1851. “ My opinion remains unchanged, that it was not within the original scope or design of the Constitution to admit new States out of foreign territory; and tha for one, I npver would con sent; and no matter what may be said at the Syracuse Convention, or at an v other assemblage of insane persons. 1 never would consent , and never have consented , that there should be one foot ot slave territory beyond what the old Thirteen S f ates had at the time of the formation of the Union. Never ! never !! The man cannot show his face to me and say he can prove that I ever departed from that doctrine. He would sneak awav, and slink away, or hire a mercenary press that he might erv out, what an apostate from liberty Daniel Webster has become. He knows himself to he a hypocrite and a falsifier.” Referring to his speech at a public dinner in New York, in 1837, he says : “ I went out of my way on that occasion, for the purpose of showing what I anticipated in the attempt to annex Texas as a slave territory, and said it should be opposed by ti e to the last exteemity.” “And in Niblo’s Garden, in March, 1837, I made a speech. I said, on that occasion : “ Gentlemen—We all see that by whomsoever possessed, Texas is likely to be a slaveholding country, and I frankly avow mv entire unwil lingness to do anything that shall extend the slavery of the African on this continent, or add other slaveholding Spates to the Union. When I said that, I regarded slavery as a great moral and political evil. I only used language that has been adopted by distinguished men, them selves citizens of slaveholding States. I shall do nothing, therefore, to extend or encourage its further extension.” As another notable feature in the history of Mr. Webster, it may not be amiss here to state that while the compromise measures were pend ing before Congress, he introduced a fugitive slave bill in the Senate, which provided a trial by jury to the slave in the fme State in which he was captured—a bill which, if enacted, would have been as practical a nullification cf the clause in the Constitution securing the rendition fugitive slaves to their owners, as is the nullify ing act of the Whig State of Vermont. It was to a man holding these sentiments and declaring these purposes, that the Jenkins Whigs of Georgia would have confided southern rights in preference to General Pierce. And who is the General Pierce who has aroused the patriotic alarms of Mr. Toombs by a few appointments to subordinate offices, of men who once held opin ions corresponding with those entertained by Mr. Webster to the day of his death, and which Mr. Fillmore holds now—opinions which in fact are held by the entire body of the northern Whigs with whom the Jenkins Whigs were in loving affilia'ion last summer ! He is the same gentleman of whom Mr. Toombs said last summer, “ he was the safest man or the south on the slavery question north of Mason & Dixon’s line.” He is the same gen tleman whom Mr. Stephens lauded in terms al most as sweeping. He is the same gentleman of whom Mr. Webster said, that on the slavery question, he was as safe a man for the south, as was John C- Calhoun himself. He is the same gentleman of whom Mr. Mil ler said last summer, “he presents in his past Congressional and public life ‘os fair a record' upon the questions connected with the institu tiou of slavery as any man north of Mason Dixon's line." It was for this gentleman Mr Miller voted for President of the United States These Whig gentlemen may now, for partizan purposes, fartiously desire to build their party up in Georgia in opposition to the administration of a President thus vouched for by themselves— rekindle the flames of sectional strife, unsettle the public tnind in Georgia now calmly reposing upon an adjustment between the north and the south, which neither the President or the Demo cracy seek to disturb—become adgitators and scctionalists of the most infuriate class, rioting in the spirit of discord, conjured up by their own passions and for their own ambitious ends. But when they base their opposition upon fears for the Union from free soil and abolition appointments to office by such a President, it is a humbug too bad and contemptible to impose on any man of common sense. The honest sentiment of the country will rebuke the disingenuousness of such a pretence. The people of Georgia will vindi cate at the ballot box the scandalous imputation on the President of their choice. Fire. An alarm of fire was given last evening about 7 o’clock, by the ringing of the bells, and the streets were soon densely thronged with people rushing to the scene of action. The firemen, as usual on occasions when their efficient ser vices are needed, promptly repaired to the spot but fortunately! the fire was not of sufficient mag nitude to require their aid. A cask of Liquor only was consumed, it having taken fire from a lighted candle, which was brought in contact with the liquor while examining the stock in the store of Messrs Baker & Wilcox. No other damage was done. The planetarium invented by Thomas H. Bar low, of Lexington, Ky., and intended for the exhibition at the Crystal Palace, is now at Cin cinnati, at Greenwood’s foundry. Its mechan ism, although complex, is constructed on math ematical and astronomical principles, and is in tended to show the revolutions of the earth around its axis—the revolutions of the moon, of Venus and other planets, around their centres Tt is a moveable representation of the solar sys tem, illustrating the science of astronomy bj calculations derived from more than two thou sand years of observations. • The Tallahassee Floridian and Journal, of the 28th June, says, speaking of the action of the government towards the remnant of Indians it that State, that “ a reliable authority in Wash ington communicates the welcome intelligence that the President has recently expressed his determination to act promptly and energetical!} in the matter of the removal of the remnant o< Seminoles now remaining in the Peninsula o' this State. The gallant Harney, it is thought will be dispatched to Florida, if his services else- Where can be dispensed with. The governmenV could not make a better selection for the difficult and delicate service.” The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company have been subjected to SSOOO damage.' for breaking the leg of a passenger named Mas sino. The counsel for the plaintiff plead tba' the accident was the result of the negligence of the engineer, and the Jury’s verdict seems tc have been rendered accordingly. The wife of T. F. Meagher, according to lab advices, had arrived in London from Van Die men’s Land, and was with her husband's lathei the member for Waterford Mrs. Meagher wil 1 visit Ireland before sailing for America to rejoir her husband. Sun Strokes have been numerous and fatal i» many of the Northern cities, within the past te days. Many deaths have occurred also fron drinking cold water, when the system wa in a heated and fatigued state. Great cautioi is necessary to preserve health and life in sucl hot weather as we are now experiencing. The New York Commercial states that out o twenty-nine cases of “sun stroke,” or appo plexy superinduced by excessive heat, whicl occurred in that city, twenty-four resulted la ta 11 y. There were also seven deaths in Brooklyt two in Williamsburgb, twelve in Philadelphia and eight in Baltimore, on Wadneschiy last fron the same cause. So great a mortality frotr Couo-de soliel, was never before known. In 1840 the total wine crop of this countr) was only 124,000 gallons. In ISSO it was 221 - 249 gallons, being an increase of almost a hun dred per cent, in ten years. The amount im ported last year was 6,160.000 gallons—ar amount which our country will be able to sup ply for its own consumption in sixty years even at the present rate of increase. Sentence of Death —Lewis Montague, con victed at Petersburg, Va., of the murder o Thompson, has been denied a new trial, am sentenced to be executed on the sth of Augus* The prisoner made a speech to the court, ii which he admitted that he killed the deceased, but denied that it was his intention to commi’ murder He charged that Thompson had re peatedly threatened him, and abused his family and made an affecting appeal on behalf of his wife and children. Execution of John S. Wormley, for the Murder of his Son-in-Law — John S Worm ley was hung at Chesterfield Court House, Va, on Frulay last, for the murder of Anthony T. Robiou, his son-in-law. The execution was witnessed hy about 2.500 persons, whom the prisoner addressed for about a quarter of an hour. He confessed the murder of Robicu, remarked that under similar circumstances he would re peat the crime, and then gave an account of the facts which led to the unfortunale event. Masonic Celebration. —The festival of St. John was celebra ed at Worcester, Mass., on Friday, by the Free Masons, in an imposing manner. Fifteen hundred Masons were pres ent, including the Grand Lodge of Massachu setts and numerous subordinate Lodges. The oration was delivered by Philip C. Tucker, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Vermont. The Horse Trade has of late years assumed an importance in Philadelphia and New’ V ork vvhich few persons attach to it. A fact is mentioned by the Lancaster Independent Whig, which shows this strikingly. It is, that a single for warding house in that city, Messrs Pow! & Mishler, has. since the beginning of the present year, sent 1183 head ot horses, by railroad, to Philadelphia. So exceedingly great has been the growth of this city as well as New York, that the number of horses required for use is im mens.and constantly augmenting. Hard work, warm weather, disease, casualty, age, and other causes, diminish the number of our horses con tinually, and the chief supplies to re-place them and to meet the growing demand, are derived from the inferior of our own State, and the great West. — Phila. U. S. Gazette. Young Men on Imperial Thrones. —Some of the most important empires on the globe are now ruled bv young men. The Emperor of China, Hien Fung, is now in the twenty-second year of his age, and the third of his reign. It w’ill be recollected that he is of the Tartar or Tu-tsing dynasty. Prince Chu-kisin, of the Ming dyna ty, who aspires to the throne of China, is about nineteen years old. The Sultan or Shah of Persia, Nasser-ad-Din, is about twen ty years of age. Abdul-Medjid-khan, the Sul tan of Turkey, was born in 1823 —0 f course he is now little over thirty years of age. The Em peror Francis Joseph of Austria, is nearly twen tv-three, having been born in August. 1830. — He ascended the imperial throne in December 1848. These empires embrace more than one third of the population ot the world. We have the gratification to announce that the vote yesterday was decisive iri regard to tht halt million subscription of our city to the Ala bama and Fiorina Railroad. The vote in the several wa ! ds was— For the subscription 18.171 Against it 650 17 521 majority for it. The SIOO,OOO yet to be made jjfp by private subscription to enable the com pany to get the bonds ot the city, wilt soon be procured. —Montgomery Advertiser , 28 tk June. Matrimony and Friendship —Sam Slick, in his “ Wise-Saws,” says that the natur of matrimony is one thing, and the natur of friend ship is another. A tall man likes a short wife ; a great talker likes a silent woman, for both | can’t talk atypnce. A gay man likes a domestic gall, for he can leave her at once to nurse chil dren and make pap, while he is er joyin of him self at parties. A man that ain’t any music in him likes it in his spouse, and so on It chimes 1 beautiful, for they ain’t in each other’s way. Now, friendship is the other way : you must like the same thing in each other and be friends. A similarity ot tastes, studies, pursuits and re creations (what they call congenial souls;} a toper tor a toper, a smoker for a smoker, a horse racer for a horse-racer, a prize-figluer for a prize- , fighter, and so on. Matrimony likes contrasts , friendship seeks its own counterparts. MARRIED, On the 28th ult., by the Rev. Mr. Burges, Henry L. Murray Esp., and Miss F;. daughter o: E Lockhart, Esq., all of Lincoln cou .ty. Commcrrtol. Savannah Exports—June 28. Per ship State Rights, for Liverpool—3,237 bales Upland and 217 do. Sea Island Cotton. Savannah, June 28, P. M.— Cotton,— The sales to-day reached 177 bales, as follows : 9 at 9. 48 at 9|. 8 at 10J, 31 at 10], 29 at 10$. 10 at, 10J, and 42 bales at 11 cents No change in prices. S’ifijijJing Jiitdliarnirr. | Savannah, June 28.—Arrived, barque Evact, j Crumley, New York; brig Macon, Watkins, Now York : schrs. Cataract, Rice, New York : J. F To bia. Hand, Philadelphia; Satilla, Staples, Bulti- I aore. J Cleand, ship State Rights, Paxton, Liverpool. 9 Departed, steamer Oregon, Moody. Augusta. A Charleston, Jane 30.—Arrived, ship Austria, 9 Tessier, New York. 3 Cleared, steamships Southerner, Foster, Now ■ York; Isabel, Ro lins. Key West and Havana. I Went tosea, steamsh p New York ; 1 kino ship Sullivan, Mitchell, New York ; brig Vic- I toria, Julia, Barcelona. J ■— i ii ■ ■ wmmKaßmmmmmumm wzjrvmmtzm CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH OF JULY fl At 6 o'clock. A. M., the Procession will bo formed fl n front of the U. S. Hotel, under the command fl >f the Senior Commissioned Officer present. The 9 Procession will then move down Broad to Centre fl -treet, through Centro to Greene, and up Greene fl ■dreet to tho City Ilall Park, where, after prayer, 9 l .he Declaration of Independence will be read by 9 William A. Walton, Esq., and an oraticn deliv- fl arod by James G. Gould, Esq. The centre reserved for the Procession. Order of Procession. 1 Oglethorpe Infantry. 2 Irish Volunteers. 3 Augusta Guards. 9^9 4 Clinch Rifles. 5 Major General and Staff. 6 Brigadier General and Staff 7 Officers of tho 10th Regiment 8 Officers of the Army and Navy 9 Orator and Reader. 10 Reverend Clergy. 11 City Authorities. 12 Magistrates of the City and County. 13 Firo Companies. 14 Odd Fellows. 15 Rons of Temperance. 16 Cold Water Army. 17 Medical Faculty. 99 18 Students at Law. *J| 19 Young Mens Library Association. fl 20 Citizens Generally. After a benediction tho Procession will agai: j form and return up Greene-street to Campbell, through Campbell to Broad-street, and Broad to tho United States Hotel. At sunrise, and at sunset, a Federal Salute be fired, and a Na ional Salute at 12, M. The Rev. Clergy, the City Author ties. of the different Soeitics, the Fire Companies, cal Faculty and Students, the Students at Law, and the citizens generally, are respectfully to participate in the celebration of ihe day. H By order of the Corumitieeof A nangements. H june 29 3 H Likely Young Negroes at Private Sa V. I AT 1G ST AT E-ST R EET, and Hamburg, S. U. 98 Consisting of fl PLOUGH BOYS, 9 FELLOWS, NURSES. fl SEAMSTRESSES, WASHERS fl AND IRONERS. CHAMBER MAIDS, Ac. fl We will continue to receive throughou the season fresh supplies of Negrees, of every description, both at our office 9n . in Charleston, and Ham- burg. SPIRES A WILSOflfl Brokers and Commission Agents, No. 16 State-st, Charleston, feb 5 ft and Front-st. Hamburg, ’S^^^fl S'jiffini lloiirrs. 9 'Jit' Or 'ifi'if Terrapins will served up to-day, at 11 july 1 Lamback A Cooper. Black Leghorn* —A new style Leghorns for Gents’ and Youths’, received in large quantities. .98 may 8 __ J. Tayiqr, Jr. A Co, ® r ‘ ‘ * te **ier offers his Pro-#? | fessional services to the citizens of Au-l gusta and its vicinity. His residence is over tho* Drug Store of Dr. Tutt. 3m* mar 31 Professional Notice. —Dr Paul F Eve, having returned to re«ido in Au gusta, offers his services to tho community. Ser vants requiring operations, or special care, can bo accommodated on his lot. . 6m feb 4 ~ MARINE INSURANCE. Tho subscriber, as Agent of the COLUMBIA! V ’S. C.) INSURANCE CO . takes Fire and Marinoi Risks on tho most favorable terms. J. II ANDERSON, Agent, jan 14 ly Mclntosh street. The Bel Air Train will eommr 1 running on Monday, tho 27th i' Leaves Augusta at 6 p. in. juno 25 ts A » t u i - Kptflil Merlin* 1 The citizens ot Hancock arc in lavpr of reducing our Taxis, ’veiling o nr criminal Docket-depopulating oir ’ and saving the health and lives of ma jy * addicte(i t o the social vice, by getting the n# xt Legislature, to pass a law allow ng the several districts and coun- Ues. to have jurisdiction » this matter, either through their Courts or AW * iso , will ~o nre ne at the Court House in S p Ata on Monday,! e4th of July, at 3 o clock, y.. *,j t) to consult oponlv and freely on the subj eo t. t H e People. _J ,JUc22 d&c3 lit * Gilm an » Chemist and Drug. gist, Pennsv Ivania Avenue, City of Washington, Inventor and solo Proprietor of Gil- I mass Instantaneous Liqvid Hair Dye, tha | only ’.ostantaneous Hair Dye, which is permanent, f G ilman’s Liquid Hair Dyo is the only article now used in this city. Gentlemen who wear whis- , i k.ers or moustaches of » gray or reddish hue wish-f ( ing to attend a ball or party, can appear in a suit !of black, by dovo'ing one additional minute at J their toilet, in using the very celebrated article which heads tb?s notice — P/n/i/deJphia Ledger. 07?= This valuable Hair Dye is for sale by Phil- { ip A. Mms£, Druggist, 195 Broad street, under t..e August Hotel. a-.r to d&c3m lr Marriage Invitations and Visiting * Cards written by Master Ep. Willis -Cash laid for WOOLLF,N,~LINE N COTTON and SILK RAGS, by K, E CAMPFTFLD. M jan 20 ts Corner River and Jackson st. Fa. Itailroal, Augusta, Geo.. 21st May, 1853.—0 n and after Monday, 23d ins*'., a Passenger Train, will leave Aiken, daily, (Tuesday and Sunday except- d) at 8:30 a. m., and Hamburg at 5 p m.. until further notice. ( may 22 G. B. Lythgos, Gen 1- Sup. • •