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[From the Marietta Advocate .]
The Union Men of Cherokee County.
The undersigned, formerly members of the
■whig party, and subsequently of the late Union
partj% in justice to ourselves and to correct cer
tain erroneous impressions that have of late been
made upon the minds of some of our political
frier Is in this country, would respectfully offer
for their consideration the following statement
of facts and the reasons deduced therefrom, in
justification of our political course.
In oi'ier fully to understand the reasons why
we occupy our present position as supporters of
the administration of President Pierce, of Judge
Johnson for Governor, and of democratic can
didates and democratic measures generally, it is
only necessary to go back in our political his
tory to a time when we were all as union men,
acting, in harmony together. This was true at
the time of the assembling of the Union conven
tion, at Miliedgeville. in April 1852; at which
time it w ill te remembered the Union party i
had an overwhelming majority in the State. [
" There arose, however, a difference of opinion
in that convention, as to the propriety of the j
Union party’s sending delegates to either the j
national whig or democratic convention, both
of which were then soon to be held in Baltimore, 1
to nominate candidates tor President and "V ice
President. A majority of the convention, with i
Mr. Jenkins at their head, were opposed to
sending such delegates, and among other re
solutions, the following reported by Mr. Jen
kins, was adopted by 124 yeas to 29 nays,
which resolution was in thesejwords : “Resolv
ed That this convention at this time will take
no action in relation to the approaching Presi
dential election.”
This decision of the majority of the con
vention was unsatisfactory to a respectable
minority of its members, including the mem
bers from this county, who were Gen. Daniel
H. Bird, Geu. Allen Lawhon, Col. Littleberry
Holcombe and Lemuel J. Aired, Esq., and
who believed it was best for the Union party
of Georgia to send delegates to the national
democratic convention. Those who entertain
ed this view, withdrew’ and organised a separate
convention, styled a “Union democratic con
tion,” in Miliedgeville, on the 23d of April,
1852, the same day the Union Convention ad
journed.
This new “Union democratic convention” !
being organised, the President appointed a com- |
mittee of seven “to prepare and report busi
ness for the action of the convention ;” and
Gen. Daniel H. Bird of the county of Chero- j
kee, a prominent member of the old whig !
party, and at that time conspicuous in the Union j
party, was appointed and acted as one of that
committee. The committee reported the follow- !
ing resolutions :
Resolved , That upon the existing issues before 1
the country, we adopt and affirm the principles
of the National Democratic Convention of
1848.
Resolved , That the adoption of the compromise
measures by the last Congress, was in confor- !
mity with the principles affirmed in the forego- 1
ing resolution and so regarding it, we heartily '
• respond to an adoption of the following resolu- j
tions introduced by two of our Representatives
of Congress, and adopted by a decided majority
of that body, including two-thirds of the demo■ j
cratic membeis.
Resolved , That we recognise the binding effi- j
cacy of the compromises of the constitution, and j
believe it to be the intention of the people gen
erally, as we hereby declare it to bej ours indi
vidually, to abide such compromises and to sus
tain the laws necessary to carry them out—the
provisions for the delivery of fugitive slaves,
and the act of the last Congress for that purpose, 1
included ; and that w’e deprecate all further agi
tation of questions growing out of that pro
vision of the questions embraced in the acts of |
the last Congress, known as the compromise, i
and of questions generally connected with the
institution of slavery, as unneccessary, useless
and dangerous.
Resolved , That the series of acts passed during j
the first session of the 31st Congress, known as
the compromise, are regarded as a final adjust
ment and permanent settlement of the questions j
therein embraced, and should be regarded, main- !
tained and executed as such.
Resolved , That we will send twenty delegates J
to represent Georgia in the national democratic
convention, to oe held in Baltimore, in June
next, with a distinct understanding that the fore
going principles will be affirmed by that body, j
and that our delegates be instructed to present
and urge their adoption as the only sound and
reliable basis of action for the national demo- 1
cracy.”
In accordance W’ith the foregoing resolutions,
the convention appointed twenty delegates to
the national democratic convention ; and, as
will be seen by reference to the last resolu- !
tiou, not merely to represent the “Union Par
ty ” but “to represent Georgia;” and in the
sunie resolution, they were instructed to present
and urge their (the compromise measures) adop- j
lion us ike only sound and reliable basis of action \
Jor the . vnoNAL Democracy.” Wishing to
state nothir g but facts, and at the same time to
furnish evidence of the truth of every state- j
merit made in this circular, tor the details of the
action o. the two Miliedgeville conventions
above referred to, we cite the reader to the j
‘Constitutional Union,’ published at Marietta, !
on Thursday, the 29th April 1852, and the
‘Chronicle & Sentinel published at Augusta, of
Wednesday, May the sth 1852, both of which j
Journals, at, that time, were Union organs.
We cordially approved of the resolutions
thus reported by the committee of rseven, of
which Gen. Bird was a member, and hear
tily sanctioned his course as our leader in car
rying us into the National Democratic par
ty: If we have changed at ail, it was at
this point. We had confidence in the judg
ment of Gen. Bird and Gen. Lawhon, who
had been our acknowledged whig leaders in
the county, and who were, at that time, ac
knowledged leaders of the Union party in the
county ; and we, too, were of op.nion with
them, and with the Hon. A. H. Stephens
and Hon. Robert Toombs, and with other
prominent whigs of the State, that the whig
party North was unsound upon questions af
fecting the dearest interests of the South, and
that it would be better for us to abandon it
and adopt the Democratic platform, which we
then thought, and still think, the safest for
the South.
Now, we appeal to the candid reader, have
we been consistent since we thus followed our
leaders into the democratic ranks, and by per
le)ma‘r! where they induced us to go
with- them ? YVe must confess that in thus
adopting the democrattc platform “of 1848” ‘
we did become a little “democratized •” for ’if ,
we adopted those principles in goo d faith and ,
not hypocritically, meiely to accomplish party ,
purposes, then, indeed, to be consistent from ,
that time ‘forward, we must adhere to those
principles, and suppoit men who are pledged \
to carry them out. And on the other hand, if ,
we were insincere in the course we then took \
we do notdeserve to be in any party. But we i
claim to occupy the former position. (
It will be remembered, that at the time the ,
Union democratic convention at Miliedgeville
adopted the principles of the national democratic
convention of 1848, it was not known what
platform ol principles the national democratic
convention of i 852 would agree upon, for the ,
latter did not assemble till June thereafter. But ,
ave j4 st . cause of patriotic pride and <
exultation on receiving intelligence from Balti- :
more when that convention did assemble, that it j
had adopted as its platform of principles, not \
only the identical platform of 1848, which the
Union democratic convention had embraced two *
months before at Miliedgeville, but, as we had !
‘ instructed’ our delegates, ‘to present and urge’
upon that body, it had actually adopted and in
corporated into its platform, almost in the very '
words of the Miliedgeville resolutions, those very ‘
Union principles and compromise measures, for '
■ the triumph of which we had all of us, as union ]
men, so zealously contended during two years of •
the most intense political warfare ? 1
Our Union democratic delegation, appointed -
as above stated, attended the national conveu- .
tion at Baltimore, and assisted in the nomination !
of Gen. Pierce, Pres.dent. The Southern Rights J
democracy, with some Union democrats, had ,
also held a convention and sent delegates to the
National convention. Their delegates and ours
were all admitted to seats, and acted in concert
in making the nominations, and in constructing
and adopting the platform of resolutions. In
common with most of our Union friends, we
hailed the nomination of Gen. Pierce with pat
notic emotions, as he had always, while in the
national councils, been a constant defender of the
constitutional rights of the South; and in his
letter of acceptance we had additional proofs of
his being worthy of our confidence and support;
for he emphathatically said of the principles
adopted by the convention, that they “com
manded the approbation of his judgement.”
Ihe Southern Rights democrats had already
placed an electoral ticket in the field. The
Union men who supported Pierce and King,
thought themselves entitled to be represented on
the electoral ticket, but the Southern Rights
democrats, owing to some leeling which had
been gotten up, refused to yield the point; and
here a difficulty arose between the supporters of
the democratic nominees for President arid Vice
President. The Union supporters of the nomi
nees, at length determined to hold a convention
at Miliedgeville on the 15th of July 1852, to
put up an electoral ticket of their ow n for
Pierce and King. The Union party of Chero
kee met at Canton on the 6th ot July 1852, and
held a meeting ratifying the nomination of
Pierce and King, and appointed delegates to
meet at Miliedgeville in convention, on the
I 15th of that month, and instructed them to nomi
| nate a Union Electoral ticket pledged to vote for
j Pierce and King ; and also passed the following
I resolution:—
“ Resolved , That the Union party of Cherokee
county will use all honorable means to secure the
election of Pierce and King in November next.”
A committee of live, viz : M. A. Keith, YV.
H. Mahaffy, G. YV. Cook, L. J. Aired and S.
Jervis were appointed to select delegates to the
convention, and they reported the names of L.
Holcombe, W. P. Hammond and James McCon
nell. The meeting was addressed by Gen. A.
Lawhon, L. J. Aired, E«q., Gen. D. H. Bird, and
S. C. Dyer, Esq., “ urging the propriety and
consistency of the Union party supporting
Pierce and King for President and Vice Presi
dent.” (For the published details of this Can
ton meeting of July the 6th, we refer to the
Constitutional Union,’ under date of July 15th
1852.)
The Convention met at Miliedgeville and put
up a Union Electoral ticket for Pierce and
King, which was aiterwards withdrawn by the
central committee, and a new convention called
at Atlanta, lor the purpose of trying to make
some satisfactory arrangement ' between the
Union and Southern Rights friends of the nomi
nees, so that but one Pierce and King Electoral
ticket might be run in the State. Accord
ingly the Convention met at Atlanta; but no
arrangement could be made to effect the de
sired harmony, and a number of influential
j Union men, failing to accomplish the object for
l which they had come there, finally concluded to
J vote for the Electoral ticket then in the field,
i Other Union men of high standing and much in
fluence in the party, believing that an unkind
and unfair spirit had been exercised towards the
j Union party by the Southern Rights men in the
matter, put forih what was called the “Tuga
| loo” ticket, for Pierce and King.
) In the mean time Gen. Scott had been norrii
nated by the national whig convention ; and a
portion of the Union party of Georgia determined
to support him, and put forth an electoral ticket
; for that purpose—while another portion of the
old Union organization, by no means inconsid
j erable, and mostly confined to the middle and
; Southern parts of the State, refused to support
: either Pierce or Scott. And prominent among
j this class stood the Hon Charles J. Jenkins the
! present YVhig candidate for Governor.
In order that our Union friends may be en
abled to judge of the position
j Mr. Jenkins took in regard to the different nom
inees then before the people for President and
Vice President, and also of the course he recom
mended the Union party to pursue in future, we
insert in full his letter written at the time to P.
YV. Alexander, Esq., and published in the Au
gusta Chronicle & Sentinel, of Wednesday July
the 14th 1852.
I Augusta, Ist July, 1852.
My Dear Sir: —Your letter of the 24th ulfc.,
has been received, and but for a sense of courtesy
due to you, I should be tempted to ask you to
excuse me, for the simple reason that I have no
: fancy for filling a column in a newspaper. I
think it probable, comparatively few will agree
with me in opinion, but I give it to you for
I what it is worth.
With u stronger desire than ever before to ad
\ here to the national Whig party, and to give to its
nominees my feeble support , I have been unable
: to bring my rnind to the conclusion that I ought
ito vote for Gen. Scott. My objections have'no
relation whatever to the Southern question.
Satisfied with the Platform of the party, and with
his prompt, unqualified adhesion to it. I (eel
j profound regret that other difficulties interpose
between me and the ballot box. is it enough
that a candidate for the Presidency is an honor
able man, an intel'igent and accomplished gen
! tlemen, a successful general, and that he sub
j scribes the L hig creed ? If Gen. Scott can lay
claim to other qualifications than these, they are
not known to the mass of the people. There are
hundreds of thousands of American citizens hav
ing, in an equal degree, these qualifications, ex
cept only thatof which the sword and theepau
; lette are the symbols; the absence of which in
my poor judgement, operates no disparagement.
But there are other qualifications by no means
so common, which ought to be considered indis
! pensable. and which, without enumeration, will
present themselves to every reflecting mind.
VVe are not only without evidence'that Gen.
Scott has these, but there is good reason to be
lieve that he has very decided disqualifications.
Will it be denied that he has a hasty, arbitrary
temper—an imperious self-will, impatient of all
opposition—overweening confidence in his own
judgement, an inordinate ambition ? Will it be
pretended that he has a clear, calm, well bal
anced mind, whose equilibrium cannot be easily
disturbed ? If not, is it wise, is it safe, to place
such a man, unaccustomed, throughout a long
and active life, to despotic military rule, at the
head of a republican government? I am con
strained to believe that he, as well as his oppo
nent, has been selected solely with reference to
availability, consisting of military eclat, and such
freedom from political reproach as results from lit
tle or no employment in the civil service of coun
try. Let those who think more favorable of the
nominee, or who are willing to take the respon
sibility of voting for him hap-hazard, do so. [
will not.
| 1 should be sorry , nevertheless, to see the Constitu
tional Union party , en masse , vctfe /br the Demo
cratic nominee. Certain events which followed
the April Convention of that party, were well
calculated to impair its stability and efficiency •
and therefore excite both regret and apprehen
sion, while there remained in prospect a proba
ble necessity lor its continued, distinct organiza
tion. But now that both of the National parties
have fully recognised and adopted the Platform of
that party , I think it would not only be consistent
with its past course , but promotive of the end of its
formation to dissolve d. That end is expressed in
a few words: “ acquiescence in the Compromise
measures—faithful execution of the fugitive slave
law — cessation from the slavery agitation The
coalition of the Constitutional Union party with
either of the national parties, would involve a
condemnation of the other, having reference to
the end above stated ; and that, too, in the teeth
of a recent pledge of co-operation in its promo
tion. This would be not only inconsistent with
the position of the Union party, but in the last
degree prejudical to Southern interests. “ Under
existing circumstances, I wsuld not ask my Demo
c> otic Union friends to abandon their former al
ics, noi am I at all disposed to separate from mine.
urc is no reason to suppose that they conceived a
p T y and TTi lhe
To ST % l Z
should not now separate in B d ,
bavng learned during „„ r |, n , f ass “ ciatio u*’
important lesson of mutual rasped and tolera
lion and ready at all times, hereafter, to re-or
gamae for the defence of our State institutions or
’ " eVer and ‘“'"ever
I cannot perceive upon what Union Whies
can predicate a preference for the democratic
over the Whig nominee. Both are objection
able. Both parties have required us (the peo
ple) to take too much upon trust—have pre
sumed too much upon our supposed insane
idolatry of military men, their titles and their
triumphs. If such things have been done here
ofore, and have deep tolerated, the precedents
are evil and only evil; and it is high time an
attempt were made to arrest this downward
tendency, which must inevitably result in de
grading the highest office under the constitutions
I If there were any hope of making a strong de
monstration bv bringing out another Whig can
didate at this late day, I should heartily concur
in the movement. But there are tew in the
country who are uncommitted by the nomina
tion, and perhaps fewer still who would be will
ing to vote for a candidate having no prospect of
SUCC6BS.
i I may be asked, what then shall we do—
stand aloof not vote at all? Better this than
f vote wrong. Those who feel it a duty to choose
between the two evils, or who cannot be con
\ tent with temp'.ry isolation will of course put on
the uniform and fall into ranks. Doubtless they
will have a good drilling, and one day or other, a
just appreciation of “ Scott’s tactics .” Frankly
confessing the discomforts of inactivity, I greatly
prefer it to the reluctant support ol either one of
the Great Availables.
Very respectfully, &c.,
C. J. Jenkins.
P. W. Alexander, Esq.
Now, on a careful perusal of the foregoing let
ter w r e come to the following conclusion: 1.
That Mr. Jenkins, at the time of writing that
letter, had a stronger desire than ever before to
adhere to the national whig party. 2. That he
would not vote for Scott. 3. That he was sat
isfied with the national whig platform. 4. That
he would be sorry to see the whole of the Union
party vote lor Pierce and King. 5. That both
the nationaf whig and democratic parties fully
recognized and adopted the platform of the Un
ion party of Georgia. 6. That he thought it
would be not only consistent with its past course,
but promotive of the end of its formation, to dis
solve it. 7. That he would not ask Union dem
ocrats to abandon theii former allies and that he
was not at all disposed to separate from his. 8.
That there was no reason to suppose that Union
democrats had conceived a new attachment to
the whig party. 9. That he, upon closest self
examination, did not perceive that he was at
all democratised 10. That he saw no reason
why the Union party should not then separate in
entire goou feeling, and rejoin their former allies,')
whether whig or democratic. 11. That if i
were probable a strong demonstration could be
made by bringing out another whig candidate,
he would heartily concur in the movement.
Mr. Jenkins having thus taken ground against
the nominees of both of the national parties, und
iu favor ot dissolving the Union party, it was
quite natural for some of his old whig friends to
act upon the hint thrown out in his letter, as to
another candidate for President; and to effect
his object a convention was soon held at Macon,
which resulted in the nomination of the late
Daniel Webster for President, and Charles j.
Jenkins for Vice President; and an electoral
ticket was put up for them. Mr. Jenkins, there
fore, not only opposed the election of Pierce and
King, but permitted his own name t» be run,
without the remotest hope of success, on an op
position ticket, the more successfully to secure
the defeat of the democratic nominees.
The course of Judge Johnson was very differ
ent at this crisis. It is true he had been a strong
Southern Rights man, and as such we believed
he was in error, and we warmly opposed him so
long as he persisted in that course ; but when he
yielded any further opposition to the compromise
measures and planted himself upon the Georgia
Platform, which he was the first prominent
Southern Rights man, in Georgia, to do; as will
be seen by the following resolutions, drafted by
himself, and adopted by a large democratic meet
ing in Miliedgeville on the 25th of November,
1851, we felt disposed to forget his past errors:
“ Ifosolved, That the questicn of smbiuission
to the Compromise is settled in this State; and
that it is the duty of the people in future, to
unite as one man in the inflexible determination
to maintain, to the letter, the position which Geor
gia has taken against all lurther aggression by
Congress upon tho institutions of slavery.
“ Resolved, That in view of the indications giv
en by tho Northern Democracy, to consider the
slavery question as finally settled by the Compro
mise, to enforee the Fugitive SlavoLawand to op
pose its repeal or material modification, Georgia
should be represented in the Baltimore Convention
to co-operato in such action by that body and tho
nomination of such candidates for tho Presidency
and YNce Presidency, a« will give vitality and efii
cacy to the compromise, secure safety to tho South,
and harmony to the confederacy.'’
But what, we ask, was Judge Johnson’s posi
tion. while Mr. Jenkins was opposing Pierce
and King ? He took the field boldly fa
vor, and was the first man on the electoral tick
et to publicly advocate a compromise of the
ticket with the Union men, and who offered to
yield his own place on the Southern Rights
tibket to a Union man.
VY’e zealously supported Gen. Pierce for the
Presidency. We approved of the resolutions of
the Baltimore Convention and of the sentiments
of his Inaugural address. I'he democratic conven
tion which nominated Judge Johnson laid down
the Baltimore democratic platform and the Inau
gulral address as their principles—Judge John
son plants himself upon those principles. Those
are our principles. And in further pioof ot this
fact, and of our consistency, we reler to a resolu
tion passed by the Union party of Cherokee
county,on the 4ih of April last, at a meeting in
Canton, jn which resolution, it is said, while
speaking of Gen. Pierce’s administration: “We
will not only stand by his administration upon
the principles, but receive, with unqualified
pleasure, his approbation of our course.” The
meeting which passed the resolution from which
the above is an extract, was presided over by
Frederick Freeman, and the resolution was re
ported by a committee of seven, viz: L. J. Aired,
D. H. Bird, James McConnell, John B Garrison
Martin Chamblee, Samuel Jarvis, and E L
Shuford. So it will be seen that the principles
above referred to, and upon which Judge John
son stands, are the principles which the Union
party ol Cherokee county pledged itself, so late
as April last, to support. These are not the prin
ciples of Mr. Jenkins. The convention which
nominated him refused to sanction them, but
adopted resolutions denouncing both the Nation
al parties, and organized themselves into a sec
tional party.’
but it is said that S. Right men are support
ing Pierce’s administration, and supporting John
son for Governor, and that we ought not to act
with them. It is true that a large portion of
them are so doing; but this is no reason why we
should abandon our principles. Indeed we wish
that all, both Union and S. Rights men, would
support Pierce’s administration and itsjprinciples
and such candidates only as do the same.
We then submit the question distinctly to
that portion of our Union friends in this county
who are now supporting Mr. Jenkins: Who is
it that is acting inconsistently ? We, who sup
port Judge Johnson for Governor and the other
democratic candidates who are not only pledged
to support but who still do support Pierce’s ad
ministration, or you, who are supporting a can
didate for Governor who is openly opposed to
the administration and to the principles upon
which President Pierce was elected ? Without
comment we leave the above simple statement
of facts to a discriminating public, believing that
we have nothing to fear in contrasting our po
sition and consistency with the position and con
sistency of those Union men, who in April
1852, went with us and with a number other
Union men who still act consistently with us,
into the National Democratic party and into the
support of Pierce and King, declaring the whig
party unsound upon the slavery question, but
who now do not blush to confess that they have
abandoned their position and gone back into the
old whig party which they so recently declared
corrupt and unreliable, and are trying to heap
odium upon us because we are not as changable
as they have shown themselves to be, and are
not prepared to abandon our principles at the
bidding of party leaders.
R- F. Daniel,
Wm. P. Hammond,
James McConnell,
L. M. Hoox,
Wm. Ward,
John H. Wood,
, John H. Gregory,
Cherokee County, August 1, 1853.
Relief for the Sufferers from the Epi
demic.—We have been requested by his Honor
the Mayor to mention, that he received by mail
yesterday, lrom a resident of Coltlmbia, a hand
some donation of $250 for the Howard Associa
tion, which he has duly remitted. The contri
butions received at this office yesterday for the
same benevolent object amounted to $594.50
making a total of $1,784.50. We perceive from
our list that some of the “ clerks on Atlantic
wharf ” have handsomely made up the sum of
SSB; and we would earnestly commend their
example to the notice of those on the other
wharves, and in the various stores in the city.
. j; re * he y individually to contribute only a
ri e .\ lt would amount in the aggregate to a
6 fi Um ’ we can assure our readers
f . f condition of New Orleans,
os any amoqnt, however large, can and
wiH be properly used by the Howard Associa
tion. The N. O. Crescent, of Thursday, does
not hesitate to declare that the fever is on the
increase; consequently the distress is aggravated
in proportion, and we must therefore reiterate
our hope that those who have not as yet sub
scribed will promptly do so, and thereby demon
strate that Charleston has not forgotten the
kind friends who came to her aid in the hour of
necessity.— Charleston Courier , 23d inst.
aXjgusta, ga.
WEDNESDAY MORNING... . AUGUST 24.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON.
Os Baldwin County.
We are gratified to learn that the Committee
in the different Wards, met with good success
yesterday, but there were numbers absent when
the Committees called, who no doubt would like
to contribute to this laudable object. Any do
nation left at this office will be promptly handed
over. Our citizens should bear in mind, that
when Augusta was almost destroyed by the
great April Fire, the citizens of New Orleans
promptly forwarded to their relief Five Thou
sand Dollars. There never was a better or
more appropriate time to refund, when her citi
zens are dying for the want of a little lively as
sistance.
Aid to New Orleans.
Those persons in the Third Ward, or else
where, who have not as yet, contributed to the
fund, in aid of the sick poor and destitute of
New Orleans, and who feel disposed to do so
can hand or send their donations to either of the
undersigued. It is Jdesirable that the amount
collected should be forwarded as early as possi
ble.
Robert' B Y Zack, m. D., I Committee.
Address to the Union Men of Cherokee.
In our columns to-day will be found the sen
sible and manly address of several Union Whigs
of Cherokee county, assigning the reasons why
consistency, patriotism, and self-respect impel
them to give to the administration of General
Pierce, and to the Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor, and to Democratic candidates and maxims
generally, their cordial support. Though in
tended immediately for the consideration of the
Union Whigs of Cherokee county, its facts and
reasoning will address themselves with force to
all those candid and patriotic Whigs in the
State, who, prior to the nominations of the can
didates of the two national parties for the Pre
sidency, became convinced that the Whig parly
North was unsound upon questions affecting the
dearest interests of the South , and that it would be
better for them to abandon it, and adopt the Demo
cratic platform , which they then thought , and still
think , the safest for the South.”
No event has transpired since, and no reason
now exists why, this conviction should not still
influence them. The Whig party North has
become no less unsound since. The Democratic
platform remains unaltered, and the National
Democracy still stands as firmly upon it, and in
their action conform to it. It is the creed and
the rule of conduct of all who support the
Administration. It is a creed, and embraces a
policy so obviously called for by the spirit of
our institutions and the wants of the country,
that thousands of patriotic men of all sections,
and all shades of political opinion, are rallying
to their support.
Ihe Union Whigs of Cherokee deserve all
honor for their manliness and their patriotism,
in abandoning old party alliances that their
judgments can no longer sanction, and adhering
to that they think s; the safest for the South V
Safety Switch.
We saw, a few days since, at the Georgia
Railroad, a very ingenious switch, invented by
Mr. William Colby, of this city, the object and
purpose of which is to keep the cars on the
track in spite of mismanagement on the part of
the person attending it. This switch is called
the Safety Switch, and no matter how adjusted
the car will remain in its proper position. We
were struck with its simplicity, and consider it
highly creditable to the ingenuity, skill, and in
dustry of its inventor, and hope that those who
are better judges of such things and their prac
ticability, than ourselves, will pronounce in its
favor, and that it may be the means of putting
money in the pocket of a worthy mechanic.
Success to the mechanics, and whenever in our
power we desire to give them a lift.
Tiie J\ew < omkt.— The Charleston Stan
dard, of the 23d instant, says: The citizens
ot Charleston and Sullivan’s Island are now
enjoying a fine view of the new comet, of M.
Klinkerfus, which is plainly visible to the
i naked eye, from 7J to 8£ in the evening. It
! may be seen at that time a little North of West,
| about 15 tle g- above the horizon, or, as the plough
| boy would say, about an hour high. The nu
j c^eus is bright, and the tail, which streams up
; wards, is easily seen by a good eye; with the
glass in common use on the Island, the bright
! ot the tail would be described in common
language as being three or four feet long.
I This comet was first noticed by M. Klinker
fus, at Gottingen, on the 10th of June last. On
i the 2Sth of July, at 52 minutes past 8, it was
I seen at tli e National Observatory at Washing
; f° n - Mr. Ferguson then fixed its position at a
little i\ori.h of a group of small stars in Leo
j Minor ; right ascension, 2 min. 44 sec.; declina-
I tion, 6 min. 24 sec.
Its perihelion passage is on the 27th of this
! month, before which time it will probably be
i slid brighter than now.
Its apprsximate elemenrs, as computed by M.
Bruhns, of Berlin, are as follows :
Perihelion passage August 21th, 213 M. time
Berlin.
Longitude of perihelion 310 deg. 31 min. 12 1
min.
Place of the ascending node 140 deg. 50 min
27.6 min. ’
Inclination 59 deg. 54 min. 23.1 min.
Longitude of perihelion distance, 9,491,256-
motion.
The American Almanac for 1853, though con
taining a long article on the recent discoveries
of Comets, makes no mention of this one, we
therefore couclude that it corned an unexpected
visiter to our side of space.
The citizens of Augusta had a beautiful
view ot this comet last evening. It was a
c.ear night, with not a cloud to obstruct the
view. With the naked eye, apparently about
tnree to iix yards of its tail could be seen.
A meeting was held in Monument Square,
Baltimore, on Thursday last, for the purpose of
organizing a Native American Party in that
city. Ihe call embraced an invitation to “all
favorable to Americans ruling America—to the
public schools as they are—to proper restrictions ,
upon foreign emigration—all opposed to the for
mation of secret political or military organiza- (
Lons of foreigners of one religious faith—to a «
union of Church and State—and to the recent ]
assaults on the freedom of speech by foreign- f
ers.” • s
The Sun says the meeting numbered some c
three or four thousand persons, t
F
We are proud to learn (says the Macon Tele
graph) that the report circulated some days ago
of the death of Gen. Lamar, of Texas, it not cor
rect. A letter from him has been received in
this city, dated on the 3d of August, which is
subsequent to the date of the report of his death.
First Bale of New Cotton. —The first
bale of new cotton was received in Macon on
the 20th inst., from the plantation of Mrs.
Martha Matthews, of Bibb county. It was
stored at the Warehouse of Mr. T. A. Harris,
and sold to Mr. D. R. Rodgers at lOJc.
Completion of the Albany and Northern
Railroad. —This work is now completed. The
first passenger train came over the road from
Eagle bridge to Albany on Tuesday evening.—
The city is in direct communication with many
important towns in Western and Northern Ver
mont.
The Great Gold Nugget.— The London
Times states, that the great Australian nugget,
recently exhibited in Leicester square, has been
melted and sold for £5,532 (nearly 27,000 dol
lars.) Its weight before melting was 1,615
ounces, and it yielded 1,310 ounces of pure
gold, or 1,466 of the American standard or
9-10ths.
A Washington despatch says, it is understood
that Mr. T. Butler King, who is new in that
city, has failed to satisfy Secretary Guthrie, in
relation to the charges recently published con
cerning his administration of the San Francisco
collectorship.
About forty ships are now on their passage
from various ports in the East Indies and Pacific
to Boston, most of them being from Calcutta
and Manilla. There are not so many vessels at
the East Indies as last year, in consequence of
the greater profit of guano freights. At the last
accounts there were upwards of one hundred
American ships at the Chincha Islands, or on
their passage to Callao from San Francisco.
Many of these were Boston vessels that would
otherwise have proceeded to the East Indies in
quest of business. Many of the first ships in this
trade from Boston are now trading with Guano,
and their homeward freights will run from 20 to
50 thousand dollars each.
An Indian mound was opened recently at
Wausau, near Big Falls, in Wisconsin. The
owner of the property dug down about six feet
to remove a stump, when he came accidentally
upon skulls and bones of extraordinary size, in
dicating the existence of a race of people of
superior growth, anterior to the Indians. The
bones were well preserved when found, but soon
crumbled when subjected to the air. Pieces of
earthen ware were also found. A strong reason
for supposing that they were not Indian remains
is, that they were not placed in the particular
direction which is always the case with the In
dian dead.
The Case of Mrs. Gaines.— The case of
Mrs. Gaines, in which she claims to be the right
; ful heir to a large estate in New Orleans, it is
said is again to come before the judicial tribu
nals. Mrs. Gaines, it is further stated, has lately
been in New York city, with a new and impor
tant witness, General Villamil, of South Ameri
ca, who, it is claimed, has a personal knowledge
of the principal /act necessary for Mrs. Gaines
to prove, which we suppose, must mean the fact
of the marriage, although this point is not sta
ted. Gen. Villamil is a native of Louisiana.
Hon. John A. Taliaferro, one of the relics of
that old fashioned race of Virginia gentleman
now becoming rapidly extinct, died at his resi
dence in that State on the 12th instant. Mr.
I aliaferro had attained an age of nearly ninety
years. He was for perhaps forty years a Repre
sentative of the Northern Neck District in
Congress, and was hardly ever defeated. Since
his retirement from Congress he has held some
public office in Washington, until a few months
ago, when he resigned it on account of ill
health.
Boots and Shoes.— There has been a very
material advance in the price of boots and shoes
within three months past, especially in heavy
work, and there will be a scarcity of desirable
goods and high prices throughout the fall trade.
The factories in New England were engaged la
ter than usual on spring orders, then followed a
rise in leather,and fully 20 percent, advance in
wages. Hides also continue very high and the
market bare — Eastern paper.
Illinois Central Railroad. —There are
now 8,000 men at work on this road. It is ex
pected to have some 30 or 40 miles completed
by the first of January next, and the whole dis
tance to the crossing of the Ohio and Mississippi
Road by the first of May ensuing. The Chica
go Press declares there is little reason to doubt
that the cars will be traversing the whole 700
miles of road comprised in the main trunk and
its branches during the year 1855.
A Boston Songstress. —Miss Hennsler, has
jt is said, produced quite a sensation at the Paris
conservatoire, where she has been under tuition
for eight months past. She sang before the
judges at the Concours, on trial for a prize, and
won the second access'd , viz : a certificate of
merit and proficiency. She is but seventeen
years of age.
Railroad Damages. —Dr. Almiron Pitch, of
Delhi, N. Y., has obtained a verdict of $5,813 56
damages from a jury in a suit instituted by him
against the New York and Erie railroad compa
ny, in consequence of injuries received by him
from an accident to a passenger train in which
he was travelling on that road.
Touched at Last.— Letters from the White
Mountains state that those frozen regions were
touched and melted by the late hot weather. A
letter from the Alpine House, at Gorham, says :
“ The thermometer here on Friday stood at 95
deg.; the ‘ oldest inhabitant’ never kn«w such
weather for more than a day.”
The preparations to construct the proposed
floating battery, at Hoboken, for harbor defence,
go forward apace. The c<sfFer-dam is I
the sides of the large excavation in which it is
to be built, are walled up, and steps have been
taken to commence the hull. The ground is ,
carefully fenced in, so that persons having no 1
business there, cannot intrude, even by looking. \
Letters have been received in Washington,
from the Rio Grande, bringing the painful in
telligence of the death of Thomas Walter Jones,
son of Gen. Walter Jones. He was attached to
one of the surveying parties of the Mexican
Boundary Commission, and was engaged in this
duty on the Lower Rio Grande, when the sad
accident happened which suddenly closed his
earthly career. He was drowned, by the up.
setting of a small boat in a squall,
Constantinople, from its admirable situation
on the B6sphorus, is the key of Asia, and the 1
principal entrepot of the Levant. The movement
of navigation in 1846 amounted in that port to
2,667,000 tons. Out of this number the Eng
lish flag reckoned for 505,000 tons, the Austrian
for 284,000, the French for 70,000, and those of
Sardinia, Naples, Tuscany, &c., for about 100,- j
000, the remainder belonged to the coasting
trade.
It is stated that Mr. George Copway, the Ojib
woy Chief, is on the eve of departure for the ex
treme West, for the purpose of collecting some of
the finest specimens of the Western Indian tribes
such as have the best intellectual and physical
development, with a view to exhibit them at
the World’s JTair. There will be fifteen or
twenty in all.
It is not only Turkey proper and her province*
of which Russia is wishing to appropriate con
siderable slices. Allusion has been already made
to the claims put forward by Russia on Persia.
She demands from that power, in payment of a
sum of $80,000,000 roubles due to her, the ces
sion of the province of Tauris, one of the most
important of the provinces of Persia, near the
shores o! the Caspian sea. The province is
worth more than $80,000,000 roubles. Russia
generously offers to pay Persia the difference
over and above.
Letters from Syra, of the 18th of July, men
tion that many Candiotes inhabiting the Cyc
lades manifested the intention, should Russia de
clare war against Turkey, to proceed to Crete
and excite their countrymen to insurrection.—
It was said that the authorities of Crete had
seized thirty casks of powder, and a quantity of
muskets, which a ship, carrying the Turkish
flag, had left in a grotto of the deserted isle of
Theodoros.
Merited Honor.— lt will gratify his many
friends in Georgia, to learn that the Columbia
College, in the State of New York, has, at its
last Commencement, which was the ninety
ninth Anniversary, conferred the Honorary De
gree of Master of Arts upon Dr. C. T. Quintard,
Professor of Physiology and Pathological An
atomy, in the Memphis College.
Sickness in Upper Georgia. —The Cassville
Standard, of the 18th,says:
“Fever and flux have swept off numbers of
individuals on the edge of this and in Gordon
and Gilmer counties. In a space of perhaps
not more than three militia districts, one hun
dred have thus died. Almost whole families
have been swept off, while almost all have suf
fered more or less.”
Office of Board of Health, )
Mobile, Aug. 19, 1853. J
The Board of Health finding much difficluty
in obtaining full reports of the prevailing dis
ease from the physicians of the city, have de
termined to report the interments for each day.
The public may rely implicitly on the published
reports, as the Board will receive full returns
from all the undertakers of the city.
Report of interments in the city of Mobile
for the twenty-four hoursending 6 o’clock p. m.
this day : Os yellow fever, 7 ; other diseases, 2.
Total, 9. Os the interments of yellow fever, 2
were from the City Hospital.
Geo. A. Ketchum, Secretary.
The New Steamer St. John’s.—This fine
new steamer, which we have heretofore noticed
as having been built in this city, has been com
pleted. and is now ready to take her place in the
Florida line.
The St. John’s is in every respect a very su
perior boat. Having been built with especial
reference to the trade in which she will be em
ployed, her freight and passenger accommoda
tions will be found admirably adapted to the
business and travel between this city and Flori
da. Under the command of that experienced
and gentlemanly officer, Capt. Freeborn, she
cannot fail to become a favorite with the public.
It will be seen that on Thursday next the St.
John’s will make an excursion to St. Augustine,
touching at all the intermediate landings.
[Savannah News , 22 d inst.
Fire. —Yesterday morning about 5 o’clock a
lire was discovered in a small wooden house in
Curry Town, on Montgomery-street, which
with the adjoining tenement was entirely con
sumed. The property belonged to Messrs. E. G.
Wilson and R. D. Walker, and was insured to
its full value.— Sav. Rep., 22d inst.
Rains and Crops. —The abundant rains we
have had during the past month, has so com
pletely brought out, our previously unpromising
corn crop, as to b; nish all fear of a scarcity.
Although our farmers will probably not realize
an average crop, yet with the large quantity of
old corn still in the State, there must be an
abundant supply for all necessary purposes. The
Indian corn crop in Tennessee," Kentucky and
other Western States, we learn is A an immense
one. This, with the promising yield of peas,
sweet potatoes, and other minor crops, and our
rapidly increasing railroad connection with the
West, must make corn rule at very moderate
prices this fall and winter.— Macon Telegraph,
22d inst.
Arrivals at Stone Mountain House, Aug. 19.
Clark & Hitchcock, Proprietors.
Wm. W. Dunbur, Barnw r ell,S. C.
J. A. Hunt, Quito, Ga.
R. T. McCay, Rome, Ga.
M. Spence, Atlanta, “
W. R. Alexander, Lawrencevill, Ga.
Hugh Childs, Georgia R. R.
C. P. Lowe, Lady, and Serv’t, Augusta,
J. D. Rivors, Lady, Children & Serv’t, Gains
ville.
Wm. Y. Whitesides, G. R. R.
John Whitesides, do.
F. T. Gibbs, Houston, Texas.
Jas. W. Lumpkin, Charleston.
S. S. Allen, Cartersville.
J. J. Brown and Family, Alabama.
D. H. Moncreaf, Gwinnett Co.
H. F. Turner, Barnwell S. C.
T. G. Wallis, Gwinnett Co.
Jas. McLane, Charleston.
Wm. McLane, do.
M. J. Carswell, Burke Co.
Wm. Burrows, Lady, 3 Cnitdren, 2 Servants,
So. Ca.
J. M. Jones and Lady, Griffin.
Miss Towns, do.
Master Towns do.
J. Til key, do.
F. Phinizy, Augusta.
J. Caswell, do.
W. H. Mell, Oxford.
Miss Mell, Lafayette.
Medical Testimony cannot be Con
troverted.—One of the most startling
cases narrated of Dr. M’Lane's Vermifuge by Dr
John Butler, of Lowell, Trumbull county Ohio
The caso was that of a young lady who had toe’'
very sick for eight years, and had consulted a nun
her of physicians, who had troated it as ono
Prolapsus Uteri. Dr. Butler was then called in,
and for a time, believed with his predecessors that
it was a caso of Prolapsus. He was, however, soon
forced to the conclusion that his patient was sul
fering from worms, and afther much persuasion,
prevailed upon hor to take two doses of Dr.
M’Lane’s Vermifuge. This medicine had the ef
fect of removing from her a countless number of
tho largest sizo. Astor she passed them, her health
immediatly returned. She is since marriod, and ■
continues to enjoy excellent health,
aug 16
; ! fir f Family should them.
Wo speak of M’Lane’s Liver Pills,
which have become an indispensable Family Medi
cine. The frightful symptoms which arise from a
diseased Liver manifest themselves, more or loss, in
every family; dyspepsia, sick headache, obstruc
| tion of the menses, ague and fever, pains in the
I side, with dry, and hacking cough, aro all the re
sults of hepatic derangement—and for these, Dr.
M’Lane’s Pills aro a sovereign remedy. They
havo never been known to fail, and they should be
kept at all times by families.
Directions. —Take two or three going to bed,
every second or third night. If they do not purge
two or three times by next morning, take one or
two more. A slight beakfast should invariably
follow their use.
The Liver Pill may also bo used whore purging
is simply necessary. As an anti-bilious purga
tive they are inferior to none. And in doses
of two or threo, they give astonishing relief to sick,
headache; also in slight derangements of the sto
-1 mach.
Sold by Haviland, Risley A Co., and Wm H.
Tutt, Augusta, Ga.; P. M. Cohen A Co., Charles
. ton, S. C.; Hill A Smith, Athens, Ga.; E. C. Jones,
Madison; A. A. Solomons; Savannah; and by all
Druggists and Dealers in Medicine throughout the
South.
aug 23m, 12
Iced Soda Water. —This dolightful
!s*■ drink, together with a groat variety of
choice Syrups, of the best quality, may be found at
ho Druggist and Apothecaries Store of
aug 13 W«■ Haines, Broad street.
BV -TELEGRAPH^
Reported !,r the Con.tit .
* T rtt’vjy,
LATER PROM Ell Hop,
ARRIVAL
A R A B I A.
Charleston, Au° p , 23
The steamer Arabia arrived at New V
Tuesday, with later intelligence from F° ° n
Liverpool Cotton Market The ?
the week amount to 41,000 bales. The mi*"*
ing are the quotations : Fair Orleans 7d v?
tiling OR; Fair Uplands 6Jd., Middling '
6d Speculators took 6,000 and exporters 7« !
bales. The demand is moderate, and pric J ° 0
m favor of buyers; holders are press!'?*
stocks on the market. a ‘ heit
Trade at Manchester had considerably
proved. y ,ni *
Consols had advanced to 99J a 99|
The money market was tighter.
There is nothing definite in regard to th
Turkish question ; but it is believed that it v '
be peaceably settled, and that the Russians*!"
evacuate the principalities on the first of S '
tember. k
The steamer Franklin arrived at
Wednesday. otl
There is a steamer ashore on Nantucket Shoal
which is believed to be the Pacific.
Yellow Fever.
New Orleans, Aug. 22
The corrected statement of interments L
terday shows a total of 315. The mortality 1
fearfully increasing, and the deaths to-day show
a total of 283, including 265 by Fever.
Charleston, Aug, 23
From the Fishing Grounds.
Advices from the Fishing Grounds, state
that the British steamer Devastation had seized
an American Fishing vessel, and it was feared
trouble would grow out of it.
Cholera in Maryland.
At Cumberland ten deaths had occurred
since Saturday last. The disease, it is said. j s
becoming milder.
New Orleans, Aug. 23, p. m ,
Yellew Fever.
The interments during the last 24 hours were
258. of which 234 by Fever.
Later from Mexico.
A late decree has been issued by the Mexican
government suppressing the title ofsoverignty
claimed by the States.
Haro Y. Zamerez, late minister of the treaau'
Jy is dead.
Advices from Texas bring nothing definite
about the recent election.
MARRIED.
On the morning of the 7th inst., at 9 o'clock in
Cuthbert, Geo., by the Rev. A. T. Holmes, Mr. J.
D. Lennard to Miss Annie E. daughter of Col
William and Mrs. Rebecca C. James, all of the
above place.
©ctalifr Clcctimi.
Wc are authorized to announce
Col. Thos. E. Beall, as a candi
date for the Senatorial branch of the Legislature,
from Columbia county, at the approaching elec-
aug 24
Air. Editor: Please announce J.
Randolph Whitehaad, as a can
didate for Brigadier Goneral, 2d Brigade, Ist Di
vision, G. M., at the election in October next, and
oblige, aug 24 Many Voters.
Mr. Editor; — You will please an-
SfiK~*2s> nounco E. C. Glisson, Esq., astho ad
ministration candidate to represent the Burke
Senatorial District in tho next General Assembly,
and oblige. Many Voters.
aug 17
Mr. Editor-, You will please an
nounce B. L. Perkins, of Burke
county, as a candidate for the House of Represen
tatives to bo elected in October next, and oblige
aug 17 Many Voters.
ffi’ 1 Me are authorized to auiiounce Col
John Milledge, as a candidate for
re-election to the Representative branch of the next
Legislature. A Majority of Voters.
aug 14
fcT' M e are authorized to announce the
Hon. Edmond Palmer, as a candi
date for the Senate, to represent Burke county, in
the next Legislature. Numbers Enough.
aug 11
" e are an *borized to announce l)r.
G. B. Powell, as a candidate for the
Legislature to represent Burks county, in the next
Session. “Independent Voters.”
aug 11
ijl' To the Voters of the .Niorthern Judicial
Circuit.—The friends of the Hon.
Garnett Andrews, respectfully present him as
a candidate for Judge of said Circuit. Election
first Monday in October. aug 11
To the Voters of the Eighth Congres*
sional District.—The friends of the
Hon. Henry B. Todd, of Jefferson county, re
spectfully present him to the Voters of the Eighth
Congressional District, as a candidate, to represont
them in the Congress of the United States,
aug II
We are requested to announce
H. Whitfield, as a candidate for the
House of Representatives, in Jasper eeunty.
aug 11
Mr. Editor ; —Yon will please an
nounco Major A. R. Wright, of
Jefferson, as a candidate for Brigadier General,
for 2d Brigade, Ist Division g. m., at the election
in October next, and oblige Many Voters.
aug I td
We are authorized to announce RaM* j
R. R. Lawson, Esq., as a candidate for
Brigadier General, 2nd Brigade, Ist Division,
the election to take place on the Ist Monday i»
October next,
july 22 td
- J Congr?*sloniil District. —CcFLEt
VV. Young, the Scott and Pierce can
didato for Congress in the Bth Congressional D ,3 ‘
trict, will address tho citizens of this District to
[ tf ieir primary meetings at Waynesboro, on the first
( Tuesday in September, and at Augusta on the fir-*
Thursday in September, and on tho Saturday f° ! '
owing at Crawfordsvillo.
Cuyler W. Young.
■ Halcyondale, August 4, 1853. td aug'
f Wr. Editor:—You will please M'
i nounco John F. Lawson, Esq-, a s . a
l candidate to represent tho Burke Senatorial D*
trict in the next General Assembly and oblige
july 24 A Southern Rights Democßju^
Malcom D. Jones will be
as a candidate for the House of Bepf o "
sentalives from Burke county in the next Lcgtoto
ture by fjuly 3] Many Voters
“ Bring hither the poor, the uiaiutcd*
the halt, and the blined,” if you
have t]kem healed of their many infirmities- t , ,
boldly and fearlessly assert that tho Mustang
ment will positively cure Rheumatism. Let any
who are afflicted with that most painfnl comply
try it thoroughly according to the directions, » B ’
if they are not cured, wo will give them t&e
money back. What more can we say ? R
also cure tho Piles. Thousands have tried it-; an
all were cured. Bruises, Sprains, Sores, or EW
tions fade away as if touched by the mag l ®*®
wand. Its application to a Burn or Scald acts i
‘oil upon tho troubled waters.’ The tempest 0 ‘ P,
and agony is soon stilled, and tho patient is b us
to quiet and peaceful slumbers. ‘There is a »
or every wound,’ and that balm is the
Liniment. Every body that sells medicines
it for sale. ‘Hold your Horses f and if tfie -. j fl .
crippled, galled or sprained, use the Mustang
iment. 12 aug_w_
RSHAXITuOUSE, Say
G. Fargo, Proprietor, Uate ol
S. Hotel, Augusta.) apr 15 .—L
,1 1 *"•” I ■* 1 ■■' 1 viaitii’*
Marriage Invitations ana , s
Cards written by Master Em
PRINTS.— 400 pieces Merimac Prints, j° st r
ceived and for sale cheap. t tprS
aug 19 GRAY BROTHER-