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AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT, 7.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. H. V. JOHNSON,
Os Baldwin County.
FOR CONGRESS BTH DISTRICT.
J. J. JONES, of Burke county.
The Algerine Law.
As the merits of this law have for some time
been under full discussion in Georgia, and our
own position upon it been misapprehended and
misstated in the public press, and, as we are in
formed, in political discussions upon the stump,
we deem it proper to give all the publicity in
our power, to the following letter. It succinctly
defines our position, and indicates our views of
the principle involved in the law’.
\\ illedgeville, August 24th, ’53.
Editors Southern Recorder :
Gentlemen— Allow me to relieve myself
from the false position, in which you place me
before your readers in your issue of yesterday, in
reference to Mr. Jenkins and the Algerine Law.
I allude to the following sentence which I find
in an editorial in the Recorder headed “ Disgrace
lul and Malignant
‘•But what will the people of Georgia think of
the candor oi the Constitutionalist , when told that
the editor of that paper not only favored the law,
but upheld Mr. Jenkins in his participation in its
passage ?”
• It is not true, Messrs. Editors, that I favored
the law. The contrary is quite well known in
Augusta, and was equally well known as soon
as the facts that such a law was passed reached
Augusta, and became a topic of conversation
among the citizens, I very promptly and em
phatically expressed not only my dissent, but
my indignation at the passage of the law. I had
no opportunity of doing it sooner, for I had nev
er heard that such a law had been contemplated
until the news reached Augusta that it had been
passed. I had never seen or heard of the Peti
tion that had been sent to Milledgeville asking
for the passage of such a law, and the fact that
the proceeding, on the part of those who origi
nated the Petition, had been a clandestine one,
added to the feeling of indignation with which
the intelligence was received.
It is not true that I upheld Mr. Jenkins in
his participation in its passage. On no occasion
did I uphold, or defend or justify the law itself,
or Mr. Jenkins—so far as relates to his connec
tion with the law. I regretted that he defended
the law afterwards as right and proper. I never
did believe the law right or just, in principle or
detail. I considered, and still consider, that if a
citizen’s right to vote for Aldermen was to be
determined by the length of his purse, the rule
would often disfranchise the best, the most in
telligent and useful citizens. It so operated in
Augusts. If the principle were a correct one,
that only the citizen owning SI,OOO of real
estate, or paying $25 per annum in taxes should
be entitled to a vote, then he who owned
$50,000, of real estate, or paying $1,250 in taxes,
could claim that the principle should accord to
him 50 votes. I have ever been utterly opposed
to special privileges being conferred on men
founded on any such princiyle, even in munici
pal government. I have ever considered the
admeasurement of a man’s intelligence, and ca
pacity lor legislation, even in city matters, by
the length of his purse a mode, as fallible as it is
offensive to republicanism. These were my
sentiments in 1842. They are rny sentiments
now. When in 1842, Mr. Jenkins was a can
didate for re-election to the Legislature, I voted
lor him ; but I did so, not because of his partici
fation in the Algerine Law, but in despite of it.
voted for him because that one error did not
outweigh, in my estimation, his merits as a
man, and his capacity and usefulness as a citi
zen. and because I did not think it magnanimous
in his constituents to sacrifice him for it, regard
less of his past services. My vote was more
over influenced by sentiments of personal friend
ship, and admiration for his character and talents
—sentiments which I still entertain.
If there had been any doubt in my mind of
the repeal of the law, or any apprehension that
Mr. Jenkins would have sought to introduce the
principle of it in State polity, he would not have
received my vote.
It is because he has never sought or desired
this, r.or has his party done so, that I, early in
the canvass, disavowed any intention of assail
ing him, editorially, on the Aleerine Law; at
the same time I stated, not perhaps as fully as I
have now done, but quite distinctly, my opinion
of the law. Had that editorial been before you,
Gentlemen, this communication would have
been unnecessary.
I remain, very respectfully.
Your obed’t. serv’t.,
James Gardner, Jr.
Ed. of the Constitutionalist.
We have been content to adhere to our origin'
al purpose of not urging Mr. Jenkins’s agency
in the enactment of the law, and his position
upon it aiterwards, and at the present time, that
it was a just and proper law, as a good ground
of objection to his being elected Governor. But
vve feel under no obligations to abstain from dis
cussing the merits of the law itself, or from
opening our Columns to communications having
in view that object.
This declaration is due in sheer justice to the
citizens of Augusta, a large majority of whom,
■we believe, are implacably hostile to the law,
and to every law, founded upon the same princi
ple of special privileges, and franchises to proper
ty and wealth, which has been or may herealter
be enacted. The Chronicle <jr Sentinel , a paper
published in this city, has devoted its influence
to uphold and defend, not alone Mr.'Jenkins’s
participation in the enactment of the Algerine
Law, but the law itself. It has not only pub
lished editorials, in which the law is declared
right in principle, and wise and wholesome in
its operation, but it has opened its coiumns to
communications of the same tenor. Not only
has a correspondent, calling himself “ A Demo
crat,” availed himself of that medium, to gain
friends for the measure and the principle, but
even the aid of the ladies has been called into
requisition. A female correspondent of the
Chronicle has so lar unsexed herself, as to enter
the political arena to discuss the merits of a
question which more than any other in our re
collection inflamed the passions and stirred up
the manly indignation of our citizens.
She comes forward to enlist a.« a volunteer,
doubtless. We are unwilling to suppose that
she has been, under a political stress, ungallantiy
drafted by the Algerines into their service.
It was enough, surely, that the property hold
ers of the sterner sex £were disposed to fasten
on their less fortunate fellow-citizens, and did in
times past, fasten upon them a badge, as the lat
ter thought, of humiliation and degradation. It
■was enough that they, or those of them, who up
held the Algerine Law, should declaue that none
of their fellow-citizens, whom success in busi
ness, or speculations, or blind luck, or inheri
tance, or marriage, or some other fortuitous cir
cumstance, had not placed in possession of one
thousand dollars of real estate, or personal pro
perty to an amount sufficient to yield a tax of
% wenty-five dollars a year, were to be entrusted
■with any voice in the control of the finances, the
taxation, and the enterprizes of the city, involv
ing pecuniary liability, or 4 were to be entrusted
even with the humble privilege ot voting for
those who were to control these matters. This
yrai an imputation upon their intelligence, or
their justice, or their attachment to the true in
berets of the city, that galled and wounded
deeply enough. The fact, that though the
law no longher lives on the Statute Book, there
are numbers among us, who still think it ought
to be placed back upon it, is a trial now to their
pride and manly sensibilities. But when the
ladies step forward to justify the creation of a
special order among us founded upon wealth)
true manhood feels the sting to the hearts core,
and will cry out in |indignant remonstrance
against the proposition.
Why this pertinacious reiteration in the
Chronicle if Sentinel of the justice and propriety
ot the Algerine Law ? Are those for whom
that paper speaks in this community, dissatisfied
with the popular decision in 1842, as to whether
such a law should govern us, and do they now
seek a reversal of that decision ? Is the argu
ment le-opened by them in favor of the law, to
win converts to it with a view to its future re
enactment ? Do they desire the sense of the peo
ple of Augusta on this question, and do they ask
that the vote cast for Mr. Jenkins for Govornor
by them be taken as a test? Surely they can
not desire this, for they must be aware, that it
would be to that gentleman as disasterous a test
as it was in 1842. Is the fact that the law
was thus openly defended and justified by the or
gan or Mr. Jenkins in this city to be referred to,
after the election, in proof that our citizens are
converts to the argument, in the event Mr. Jen
kins should receive a majority of the votes at the
Augusta box ?
It is but right that our citizens should under
stand this beforehand.
We look upon that law as very different in
its character and operation, from what it has
been represented by some of the Whig papers.
The following passage, from an editorial in the
Albany (Geo.) Courier, justifying Mr. Jenkins’
support of it, contains so gross a slander upon
the large number of intelligent, upright, indus
trious and useful citizens, disfranchised by that
law, that we would be wanting in our duty to
them, did we not brand it as a falsehood.
The Courier says :
“ But admit, that he (Mr. Jenkins,) did vote
for the law, yet we cannot look upon it as any
great “ raw head and bloody bones.” It only
deprived loafers, gamblers and transient specula
tors in the City of Augusta, from assisting to
make laws, that in all probability they would
not remain long enough to see executed.”
Is it true, that all our citizens who are not the
fortunate possessors of one thousand dollars of
real estate in the city, or of personal property
enough to yield an annual tax of twenty-five
dollars, are either loafers, or gamblers , or tran- ,
sient speculators ? Did not the law deprive of
the privilege of voting lor Aldermen many—
probably the greater number—of our public
spirited volunteers, who were uninformed, arm
ed, and organized for the defence of the city, the
enforcement of law and order in time of danger
—and the protection of the property of these
very SIOOO real estate holders and the goods and
chattels of these $25 tax payers ? Did it not
deprive many of our hardy and self-sacrificing
firemen who, when the fire bell rings, by night
and by day, in the sweltering heats of summer)
and iu the chilling blasts of winter, drag their
engines through our streets, and man the brakes
and toil by the hour, to subdue the flames ? And
this too, when many of the SIOOO real estate
holders and $25 tax payers are in summer lux
uriating amid the cool breezes of northern lakes
and mountains, or, in winter, ensconced snugly
in their chimney corners or their warm beds ?
Did it not deprive many a worthy mechanic’
who daily toiled on his forge and anvil, at his
work-bench or at his shop board? Did it not
deprive men of intelligence and of industrious
habits, of every condition and pursuit ? Did it
not deprive, physicians and lawyers, and mer
chants, and merchants clerks, and book-keepers,
bank officers and bank directors, school teachers,
and clergymen 1 Did not the law, in its sweep
ing exclusion, deprive of the privilige of assist
ing to make laws, men who possessed every oth
er qualification for the task except money ? Did
it not,in the same blind manner, bestow the privi
lige on men, who possessed no other qualification
except money ?
The absurdity, of electing rulers and legisla
tors, or even voters according to this standard,
is shown by an old illustration which has been
recently applied to this very case, by Mr. Sew
ard, in debate with Mr. Bartow. It is this:
“ It a man own a jackass, and by reason of the
tax he pays thereon is entitled to a vote, and
does vote, and the day thereafter his jackass)
dies and he loses his privilege of voting which
voted, the man or the jackass ?”
Did we desire to elaborate the proposition that
the most sense is not always found where there
is the most money,and that there are many gifts
mental, moral and social, quite as valuable to a
community as money, the pages of history would
furnish ample illustrations. In thinking of
Moses, of Solon, of Lycurgus, the mind does
not readily recall thejlength of their individual
purses : nor in contemplating the value of Mag
na Charta, the Heabeas Corpus and the bill of
rights ; or dwelling upon the wisdom which is
stamped upon the framework of our Federal
system, does the schedule of the assets, real and
personal, of the immortal authors obtrude itself
upon our thoughts.
.Neither philosophers, or statesmen or scholars
or poets, have been always found in such close
juxtaposition with money-bags, as to suggest a
logical connection between mental capacity and
money. Croesus, Lucullus and Apicius, are re
membered only foi their wealth and its prodigal
expenditure. While Homer the begger,and Vir
gil, the protege of Micoenas, are immortalized by
their genius, Milton sold his great poem for £ls
sterling, while his publisher is remembered only
as having made ago«d bargain. Johnson, Gold
smith and Sheridan,produced their finest intellec
tual gems in poverty and pursued by bailiffs.
Neither Fox or Pitt showed any remarkable
turn for making money. Rittenhouse and Frank
lin were famous while they were yet poor
mechanics, and Arkwright and Watts, and Ful
ton and Whitney,achieved their greatness while
yet in the shadow of poverty. Gallileo and Co
pernicus, borrowed more light and knowledge
from the glitter of the stars,than of golden ingots.
Silas Wright, like Cincinnatus, labored on his
little farm, with his own hands, and died as he
had lived, poor.
Army contractors and camp followers gener
ally make more money than the Generals who
command the troops. In short, money making
and money saving are not received generally as
the highest exercise of intellect, and it is noto
rious that the greatest discoveries in science, and
the most useful labors in the service of States
and communities, have not been achieved by the
rich.
Let us lock at this moment to England. Is it
to its hereditary house of Lords, to the Peers of
the realm by the right of primogeniture that we
look for her greatest statesman, and her bright
est intellects f
In a countryjlike ours,where merit is constant
ly springing up Jfrotn obscurity—where wealth
is constantly changing hands, and the rich and
the poor changing places—where the wealthy of
to-day are often the bankrupts of to-morrow,
social distinction, and official position should be
regulated by some ether standard, than the value
of one’s property or the amount of one’s taxes.
And if this proposition is true of States, it is not
less so of cities. For were distinctions intro
duced which the industrious poor think degra
ding, if they could not change the system, they
would abandon the city, and leave the rich alone
in their glory. And what would a city be with
out them ? What would become of its wealth
—its energy—its vitality ?
Mr. Jenkins not the Author of the Geor
gia Platform.
The fulsome adulation which it is thejeustom
of the Whigs to pour forth upon their candi
dates and great men, betrays the characteristic
proclivity of the Whig party to manworship.—
There is something offensive to Republican sen
timent in that morbid {tendency borrowed from
kingly {rule and aristocraticJforms,to exaggerate
men in high places into beings of such transcend
ent and unapproachable superiority, that com
mon mortals are expected to bow down to the
dust belore them in humble adoration. Demo
crats have a due sense of the public and private
virtues of great men, and are not slow to award
due praise to important public services. They
have had their great men as well as the Whigs,
and they have delighted to honor them —and of
ten, too, to place them in high office where it
was thought they would be uselul in carrying
out correct principles and policy. But they have
no taste for that sort of deification which would
bewilder them into the beiief that the chief end
of man, that is to say, of the common people, is
to shout hozannas to great men, and the chief
object in having high officers in a government
is to give them to the great men.
Daniel Webster, is familiarly known among
his worshippers as the God-like; and the can
didate of the anti-Scott Whigs for Vice-Presi
dent has, since the present canvass was opened,
been heralded to the world as the illustrious.
We feel no disposition to depreciate Mr. Jen
kin’s real claims to being ranked among th e tal
ented and distinguished citizens of our State and
country. Nor will we even quarrel with the
unquestionable privilege of the u ßepublican citi
zens ’’ to call him illustrious. We shall not find
fault even with the amiable enthusiasm of Mr -
Bartow for his illustrious friend, whom he glori
fies in the following terms, as reported of his
Effingham speech. “He was unambitious, hon
est, faithful and able—a most noble man —one
of the noblest of his species, with all the attri
butes of greatness, made in the image of his ma
ker, and true to this impress of Divinity .”
The orator, however, is reported to have said,
“Mr. Jenkins was the author of the cele
brated Georgia Platform —a model of ex*
cellence and patriotism. It had distinguished
Georgia among her sister States, and would hand
down his name to posterity.”
Nowhere we join issue with Mr. Bartow>
and with the Jenkins Whigs, generally,who are
settingup this monopoly for Mr. Jenkins of all
the honors of that paternity. The Preamble and
Resolutions constituting the Georgia Platform
was a child of many fathers—not the least of
whom was the Honorable Alexander H. Ste
phens. Mr. Toombs also is entitled to no un
conspicuous place in the paternal list.
We might call on others of the Committee of
Thirty-three who reported the Georgia Platfoim
to the Convention, as witnesses to the truth of
our statement. But we are willing to rest the
case on the testimony of these three gentlemen
—Messrs. Jenkins, Stephens and Toombs. Will
they testify to the following points.
We ask Mr. Jenkins,
First. Has he still in his possession the origi
nal manuscript which he carried up from Au
gusta to Milledgeville, or a copy of it, and he
here submitted to Messrs. Stephens, Toombs
and others, as a suitable Platform of Resolutions 1
If so, will he publish it as his idea of what the
Georgia Convention should do? If not, where
is the manuscript—who has it? If not in exis
tence, when was it destroyed?
Second. Did not Mr. Stephens strike out ma
terial and large portions of that aforesaid Pream
ble and Resolutions, and substitute suggestions of
his own mind, interlining them with his own
hand? Was or not Mr. Toombs present at the
interview when this was done, and did he not
also suggest various alterations and amendments?
Third. Were not others also consulted, and
were not their suggestions or some of them
adopted by Mr. Jenkins?
Fourth. Were not the Preamble and Resolu
tions, as privately fixed up and prepared by the
joint labors of Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Stephens, Mr
Toombs, and others, outside of the Convention,
submitted to the committee of thirty-three, and
in the committee discussed, amended and mate
rially altered? If so, in what particulars!
Were not the Preamble and Reso ; utions sub
mitted by Mr. Jenkins to the Committee ma
terially different from the Georgia Platform, and
in what consisted the difference ?
Fifth—Was the fourth Resolution, as contain
ed in the report of the Committee, or as amend
ed by the Convention, among the resolutions
submitted by Mr. Jenkins to the Committee ?
All the above questions we submit to Mr.
Stephens and to Mr. Toombs, equally with Mr.
Jenkins, except the first, which is addressed
more especially to Mr. Jenkins.
We challenge these gentlemen to answer these
questions? If they will not do so in writing,
they can do so on the stump, as they will have
frequent opportunities.
These questions are not put blindly and ex
perimentally. If these gentlemen will answer
them, their answers will prove our position,that
Mr. Jenkins is not the author of the Georgia
Platform. He is not entitled to the monopoly
of that honor.
The platform he submitted, first to his friends,
and next to the Committee, differed materially
and in essential points from that adopted by the
Convention. We speak from direct, positive and
reliable information. Let the gentlemen named,
or either of them, deny our assertions if they
can. Let any member of the Committee of
thirty-three deny it. Let the original draught
trom Augusta be produced. Let it, as amended
and submitted to the Committee, be produced !
Show up the documents.
If they are lost or destroyed, let the witnesses
testify to their contents, to the best of their
recollection !
Failing in this, the claim set up, which is to
hand down the name of Mr. Jenkins to posteri
ty, is silenced.
We freely accord to Mr. Jenkins his full meed
of credit for his share in the construction of the
Georgia Platform. At the same time we are
equally free to say,that if the construction had
been left exclusively to Mr. Jenkins, the plat
form he would have placed the people of Geor
gia, upon would not have been satisfactory to
them ; nor if satisfactory, would it have gained
for her that distinction among her sister States
that is claimed as the result of the Georgia Plat
form.
There is one notable incident in the history of
the Convention which we call to the notice of
the gentlemen interrogated, presuming it will
refresh their recollection ot other facts going to
show that the Georgia Platform is not now
wholly in accordance with the views entertain
ed in the Committee by Mr. Jenkins.
The fourth resolution was so worded in Com
mittee as to embrace abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia by Congress as among the
causes which would, justify “ disruption .” Mr.
Jenkins strenuously opposed, in Committee,the
incorporation of this contingency among thes
causes. He contended that Congress had the
constitutional power to abolish slavery in the
District, and would probably, sooner or latter,
exercise it, and objected to the State being com
mitted to resistance, even, to disruption, for any
such cause. He ivas overruled , and the fourth
resolusion, with this contingency embraced in
it, was reported by the Committee.
It is very much the habit of the Whigs, not
only to put under contribution all the legitimate
capital belonging to and available for any of
their candidates, but to borrow from each other,
and to make use of the same capital for different
candidates, successively, to suit each exigency
as it may arise. For instance, Mr. Stephens, in
a recent speech in Augusta, claimed for Mr.
Jenkins the chief credit of having originated, ad
vocated and pushed through the State Railroad.
The Savannah Republican has recently been
blowing the trumpet very loud for Mr. Bartow,
Whig candidate for Congress in the Ist District,
on the same grounds. Yet it will be remember
ed, that on both occasions, when the Hon. Geo.
W. Crawford was a candidate for Governor, the
Whig; insisted that he was the leading origina
tor, champion and mainstay of that great State
enterprize. Having made all the use of the as
sertion they could in this case, they now seek
to relieve Gov. Crawford from the honors then
claimed for him, to help Mr. Jenkins through
this canvass. It is not to be doubted that if Mr.
Asbury Hull, or Mr. Andrew J. Miller, or any
other prominent Whig in the Legislature, cotem
poraneously with these gentlemen, had been the
candidate for Governor, he too would have been
lauded as the originator and champion of the
State Road.
This towering plutne is to be transferred, suc
cessively, from one Whig cap to another, to win
the gaze and catch the votes of the people, with
out much regard to original rights. But all this
time the Whigs do not breath the name of a
single one of the long array of intelligent and
patriotic Democrats whosejvoices and influence
were devoted so effectively to the cause of the
State Road.
So with regard to the State finances. The.
claim, above ail others, apart from party grounds,
which the Whigs urged in favor of Gov. Craw
ford’s re-election in 1845, was that he was a
great financier—that his financial talents had
achieved the redemption of our State credit from j
depression and dishonor, brought on it by the
Central Bank, and that he. pre-eminently over all
others in the State, had placed it on a sound
basis. The Democrats need only be reminded
of this to recalbdistinctly the leading features of
that canvass. But now this proud distinction,
so noisily claimed for Gov. Crawford, is sought to
be transferred from him to Mr. Jenkins. In
the same speech of Mr. Stephens at Augusta,
and no doubt in his speeches elsewhere, Mr.
Jenkins is brought forward as the great Necker
of our age and State, that won immortality by
the splendor of his fiscal achievements during
the same period of financial difficulty.
These clap-traps are treated by the Whigs as
convenient garments, fitting a welt one candi
date as another. With these, each one is decorated
and mustered through a campaign. When he
has fought through, they are cast off and fitted
on to the next comer. We presume we shall
have the pleasure of seeing several other Whigs,
or “ Republican Citizens ,” thus rigged out in fu
ture campaigns as they are successively put in
the field as candidates for Governor.
Had Mr. Stephens, or Mr. Toombs, or Sena
tor Dawson been the candidate for Governor,
there would have been no more impropriety in
claiming lor either, the exclusive honor of con
structing the Georgia Platform, than is now as
serted for Mr. Jenkins. Who can say but that
it may yet be invoked for these gentlemen on
some such future occasion.
“ Despotism of Party.”
Under this head the editor of the Georgia Cit
izen gives in his recent experience, and furnish
es the following amusing history of his sugges
tion of the name of the Hon. John M. Berrien
for Governor, and of the panic it occasioned
among the Webster and Jenkins Whigs.
Several weeks since, at the earnest and impor
tunate request of high-minded and worthy Scott
Whigs, we opened our columns to their com
munications, some in favor of Mr. Jenkins and
some in opposition—to the latter showing per
haps more favor than the former, because they
had no other medium of communication with
the public, while Mr. Jenkins’ friends had many
ways of being heard. It was, however, with
reluctance, that we conceded as much as we did
to those who beset us. In fact, we had person
ally no heart in the matter and cared not to be
come involved in the contest to be waged be
tween the partizans of Jenkins and Johnson.
Still, orr Press was free and independent, and
in obedience to the first principles of justice, we
could not exclude Scott Whigs from a limited use
of our columns.
It was also at the instance of a number of de
voted friends of this class, that in our paper of
Aug. 13th, we penned an article, suggesting the
name of the Hon. John M. Berrien as a suitable
person to be voted for, for Governor, by Scott
Whigs and others who did not like to vote for
Jenkins or Johnson, and intimating that snch a
vote for Mr, Berrien would be none the less a
“ compliment” to him, though not expected to
avail any thing towards his election. What
was the result of this amiable suggestion of ours?
We could not have anticipated the panic it oc
casioned in the Jenkins’ ranks. An express was
immediately sent from Augusta to Mr. Berrien’s
retreat in the shades of Habersham, urging upon
him to disclaim the “compliment” which the
“Citizen” had proposed to his honored name,
and such was the“ hot haste” in which his let
ter to the “ Editor of the Georgia Citizen” was
dispatched, that it actually appeared in one ot
the Augusta papers a day in advance of its ap
pearance in the Citizen of last week—a fact
which had it been known sooner, would have
excluded it altogether from our columns, by rea
son of the doubt thereby implied of our possible
want of justice and courtesy towards Mr. B. in
the matter of publication of his letter. This
may not, however, have been the act of Mr.
Berrien, but of the Press in question. It all
goes to show, at least, that the Jenkins men
were dreadfully alarmed at the suggestion of
Mr. Berrien’s name for Governor, and weie as
anxious as men ever were to put a stop to the
ball which we bad, in a playful mood, set rolling
in,upon them.
Nor was the panic confined to the Jenkins’
headquarters at Augusta. It so disturbed the
equanimity of some of our cotemporaries that
they have become abusive of the Citizen and its
Editor, and decry its influence and political con
si9tency.
For example, the Columbus Enquirer, a print
that took about six weeks after the nomination
to make up its mind to support Gen. Scott, last
year, denounces our suggestion of Berrien’s
nams as ** the poor miserable bamboozle of the
Georgia Citizen .” Perhaps our friend “ Sami
vel” knows what a “ bamboozle means as well
as the next man, but when he undertakes so to
denounce an act which is the right and privilege
of every citizen—that of nominating their rulers
—we rather think he has shown the “ cloven
foot” a little tco plainly for his own good.
The Chronicle & Sentinel exults over Mr.
Berrien’s letter, and says it “ shows how little
he sympathizes with the Citizen and those vho
have so adroitly , through its columns attempted
to place him in a. false position before the coun
try.” This is balderdash and lacks truth. There
was nothing artful or adroit in the suggestion,
nor was there any attempt to place Mr. B. in a
false position,” nor any intimation, whatever,
that Mr. B. would likely give his assent to the
movement.
The Athens Herald—that pink of consistency
in politics, is also down upon us as a changeling
and “ erratic’ 5 in our course, and says, falsely,
several harsh things about us, which we can af
ford to despise, because we know the iron rule
under which the Editor is now compelled to
write and speak. His necessity is that of
bread and butter”—a despotism which is gall
ing to some men, but not to him of the Herald,
from the easy way he wears his chains !
Again, The Georgia Courier, by its corres
pondent “Old Whig,” says that as “Dr. An
drews is neither a National Whig, nor Scott
Whig, but a Union Democrat, a Scott Demo
crat, he is therefore not a safe and proper adviser
for Whigs at all.”
Thank you, sir. Dr. A. has not presumed to
be the adviser of “ Whigs,” but only affords a
medium by which Scott Whigs who are not de
nationalized by the Toombs’ faction, may be
heard. He would indeed find it difficult to scare
up an audience of that sort, to hear any advice
he might have to give, as the title of Whig is
now disclaimed by most of the politicians of
the day. The Jenkins, Toombs party are not
Whigs, but have cut themselves off from that as
sociation. Who, then, are Whigs in Georgia ?
None but the anti-Jenkins, Scott Whigs, with
whom we co-operateu last year, and to whom,
on account of that association, we feel privileged
to say, what we have not hitherto advised—vote
not all—or if you vote, drop a ballot for the Hon.
Mr. Blank, or the Hon. Mr. Scattering.
To ‘‘he kind and respectful notice of the
Washington Gazette, we have only this reply to
make. If we are driven by the blood-hounds of
Party to vote against Jenkins, it will not be
from any remarks which the Gazette has made
on this subject.
The Charleston Courier of the 6th inst., says :
The late rains have caused considerable freshets
in the up-country. The Wat=ree, as we learn
from a note received by the Postmaster of this
city, from the Postmaster at Camden, was yes
terday said to be within*three feet of the great
August freshet, and was still rising. At Cheraw
the freshet in the Pee Pee, carried away about
one hundred feet of the telegraph wire, and not
withstanding the most strenuous exertions on
the part of the operator and contractor at that
place it was found impossible to get the wire up
yesterday, inasmuch as the river was still rising
and tae workmen could only cross at the hazzard
of their lives. To-day fresh efforts will be made
to resume direct communication with the North
and we trust, with succeis.
Subjoined is an extract fron a letter dated
Camden, Sept. 4, 18-53.
We have had much rain within the past three
days—including the present one—which I am
really fearful will do much injury to the growing
crops. Some fears are entertained for our river
low lands at this time.
The Postmaster General, in order to obtain
information in relation to the foreign mail ser
vice called tor under an Act of Congress approved
March 3d, 1853, has invited proposals for the
carrying of the mails between the United States
and Great Britain, and the Continent, Mexico,
Cuba, California, &c. The proposals lo be for
six years, and to conform to conditions set forth
in the advrrtisement.
A most terrible calamity "occurred on the
wharf at Wheeling last Monday week. Some
twenty kegs of gunpowder exploded, while be
ing removed from a dray. The carman was in
stantly killed, and another man severely injur
ed. The wharf boat was completely demolished,
two steamers were badly damaged, and hundreds
of dollars worth of windows were broken in the
vicinity
The steamer u Uncle Sam,” arrived at Valpa
raiso, reports that on the 28th of July she was
boarded by the captain of the brig Isabel, lying
at Port Famine, at which place she had put in
for water. The Isabel is owned by Lady Frank
lin, and bound to Behring’s Straits in search of
Sir John Franklin. Captain and all hands well.
By the way, a bottle, containing a letter, pur
porting to come from Sir John, and dated in
May last, has been picked up on the Irish coast.
Sir John is made to say he is detained on an is
land by the natives. Os course this is a hoax.
j At a recent trial of a newly invented Gas
! Regulator, in the works of the Screw Company,
j at Providence, R. 1., it was found to effect a sav
ing in the consumption of gas equal to thirty
nine per cent. Two accurate tests were made
| and both showed that without the regulator 1,-
j 800 feet were burnt in a specific time, whilst
j with but 1,300 feet were required, an equal
amount of light being obtained.
Black Snake, the celebrated Indian, now 106
years of age, is still hale and hearty, residing at
: Allegany Reservation, in Western New York.
| He was one of the most active of his tribe in
| bringing about a treaty in behalf of the United
j States, with Gen. Washington, at Philadelphia,
j in 1787.
The Whole World s Temperance Convention
; assembled in New York on Thursday. The
| speakers announced were Horace Greeley, Chas.
C. Burleigh, Mary Jackson, of England, and
Rev. Antoine L. Brown, with Maine Law and
other songs, by the Amphions, assisted by Miss
Fanny Wilder, of Boston. Among the evening
speakers were P. T. Barnum and Lucy Stone.
The efficacy of the signal system on railroads
was proved on Saturday last, on the Hudson Ri
ver road. An axle of a car in a train was dis
covered, near Oak Hall, to have become heated
to such a degree that it melted. Immediately a
brakeman jumped from the cars, exhibited the
red flag, and in a moment, for miles distant, red
dags were raised by the dagmen, notifying dan
ger. Trains approaching were warned and stop
ped until the disabled car was switched off, and
the train passed safely on its way.
New Cotton.— Up to the 28th ult. only 59
bales of new Cotton were received at Mobile
against 1,796 bales at the same date last season.'
The Comet, w'hich has been visible in the
western horizon for some time past, is said to
have passed its perihelion and will not again be
seen in northern latitudes, but in the southern
hemisphere it will continue in sight throughout
the month of September, rising before the sun.
The Crops.
Alabama. —The following relative to the cot
ton crop we extract from the Marion Common
wealth, of the 27th ult.:
The universal cry now among the planters of
this part of the country is that the recent wet
weather has nearly ruined the cotton crop. In
many places the worm is playing havoc among
the cotton, and if the present weather continues
and the destruction goes on as it has commenced,
not even a fourth of a crop can be realized. In
many places, we are informed, that not only the
worm is destroying the bolls, but the grasshop
pers are literally eating up the weed also.
It has been raining in this section of the coun
try nearly every day since the Ist of July, and
the information we get from planters in the rich
cotton-growing lands of the county is, that if it
continues much longer, the cotton crops in those
regions will be a total failuie.
Since writing the above, we have received a
private letter from an intelligent planter near
Uniontown, in this county, where the largest
quantity of cotton is made, which states thatthe
cotton crop in that region is among the things
that were. The recent heavy rains have caused
the top crop of squares and young bolls to shed
off; and the boll worm has devoured, and is still
devouring, the remainder of the bolls not open
ed. It is the opinion of a large number of the
planters of the Canebrake, that it will be a mi
lacle if more than a fourth of a crop of cotton
will be realized in all that fine region of cotton
growing country.
The Tuscaloosa Monitor, of the 25th ult.,
says :
We have of late had some very heavy rains,
which must have an injurious effect upon the
cotton crop. Until a very recent period, the
prospect of a good crop was considered excellent.
We believe that but few of our planters have as
yet commenced picking. The corn crop will .
turn out much heavier than was expected. Few
doubt but that there will be a sufficiency made (
in this section.
Office of Board of Health,}
Mobile, Sep. Ist, 1853. J
Report of interments in the city of Mobile far
the twenty-four hours ending 6 o’clock p. m.
this day:
Os Yellow Fever 23
Os other diseases 9
Total 32
Os these 5 were from the Hospital, and 8 were
interred in the Catholic Cemetery.
Geo. A. Ketchum, Secretary.
The Mechanics’ Institute of Ohio, at Cincin
nati, have awarded their Diploma to Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral, the widely celebrated remedy
for Colds, Coughs and Consumption. This hon
or was richly merited by the Inventor of that
invaluable medicine which has secured not only
the above commendation, but also that of the
most eminent Physicians in this, as well as the
highest medical authority in other countries.
And what is a far greater encomium on its useful
ness, is, that it has won its way to almost every
fireside of the American People.
DIED.
At the Sand Hills, on Thursday, August 30th
Charles Jenkins, youngest son ol Rev E. P.,
and Elizabeth Rogers, in the fourth year of his
ago.
"And Jesus called a little child unto Hina”
Cmmnrrnal.
, , , • Augusta, Sept. 6—6, P. M.
The River.* is in good boating order, with six
feet water in the Channel.
Augusta Market, Sept. 7.
COTTON.—There is little or nothing doing in
old Cotton. Os the new crop about 130 bales have
come to hand, the bulk of which has been disposed
of at prices ranging from 9$ to 11 cents—princi
pally at 10j for Middling Fair. The quality of the
present crop so far received, is below that of last
year, and if the recent rains have extended ove r
tho Cottou region of G eorgia, the present crop will
be an inferior one as regards quality—tho sta
ple is good.
OF COTTON,
From Ist September , 1852, to the latest dates received
1353. 1852.
New-Orleans, Aug. 28 1,603,879 1,391,547
Mobile, Aug 26 ..518,832 525,965
Florida, Aug. 8 '. 177,922 188.404
Texas, Aug. 20 85,227 62,798
Savannah, Aug. 30 328,796 339.292
Do. Sea Islands 12,971 10,597
Charleston, Aug. 31 441,331 457^254
Do. Sea Islands... 19.843 19.379
North Carolina. Aug. 20. 18,710 15,771
Virginia, Aug. 31.... 25,833 16,267
Total. .V.. 3,233,344 3,027.374
* * 3,027.374
Increase. 1 : 205,970
GROCERIES.—Our market is now well supplied
with leading articles in the Grocery line, and mer
chants from the interior will find it to their interest
to purchase hers before going further. Several
orders have been sent back from New York and
filled in this market at prices in favor of the pur
chaser.
CORN.—Demand confined to City*wants. Sales
have been made this week at 60 cents by the quan.
tity. Retailing from stores at 65 cents, sacks in
cluded.
FLOUR. —Holders are stiller in their asking pri
ces. Augusta Mills finds ready sale at ss£ for su
porfino at wholesale and $6 as 6 J by retail. Fa
mily is selling at $7 a $8 at wholesale and retail-
Country Flour is selling by the quantity at $5 j,
and retailing at $6 a s6j- per bbl.
BACON —We have no change to notice. Hold
ers of a good article are stiff in their asking prices
—a 8£ the hog round. For shoulders the prices
vary from 7 to 8 cents, according to quality; and
for sides 9$ to 9J for ribbed; and 9| alO cents for
clear There is very little good joint meat in mar
kot.
BAGGING.—Stock on the increaso and most
holders are asking from storo, by the piece or bolt,
12 J cents. Bale Rope is looking up and is now
selling at 8£ a 8J cents.
COFFEE.—Prices are a little stiffer. Stock on
band good. Rio Coffee worth 10 a 10£ cents; ac
cording to quality.
MOLASSES. Stock of Cuba good. Holders
are selling from stores 24 a 25, according to quality.
SUGAR.—Stock on hand large, and principal
sales 5£ to 6£ for Orleans and Muscovado ; Porto
Rico 6£ to 7j ; Clarified 7J to BJ, according to the
grade.
SALT.—We have heard of no large transactions
this week. Thoro is but little in first hands and
the stock on sale is light. Retailing from stores at
1 45 and 1 50 per sack.
WHEAT.—There is a good demand for Wheat,
and good Red meets with ready sale at 80 a 90
cents, and prime White at sl.lO a $1.25 per bushel.
WOOL.—There is some domand for this article.
Planters will find it to their interest to save
their wool and send it to this market for salo ; if
carefully handled, and washed, it will readily bring
25 to 30 cents.
EXCHANGE.—Our Banks are drawing on New
York and other Northern cities at £ per cent,
prem. for Sight Drafts.
FREIGHTS.—The river is now in good boatable
ordor. Wo continno to quote to Savannah 25c. per
bale, and to Charleston per Railroad, 50 cents
Not much offering to either point.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 3, P. M.— Cotton. —Tnere
was a little stir in the market to-day and the sales
reached 370 bales, 100 at 10£, and 270 at} 10
S A VANN AIIJEX PORT S—S opt. 3.
Per steamship Augusta, for Now York—34o
balesfUpland and 10 do. Sea Island Cotton, 10 do.
Domestics, 35 bags Feathers, 15 rolls Leather, 77
boxes Copper, andjsundry bales, boxes, bbls and
pckgs Mdze.
Per barque Flight, for New York —477 balos Cot
ton, 50 casks Rice, 276 balos Yarn, 80 bales Bag
ging, 100 bags Rice Flour, 33 Cotton Gins, 56 tier
•es Hams, 1 h’nd. Crockery, 1 cask, 3 trunks and 5
boxes Mdze , 12 casos Furniture, 2 balos, 1 case, 1
Buggy, &e
Per brig Robt. M. Charlton, for Boston—B6,ooo
foot Lumber.
Per sehr John W. Anderson, for Baltimore —24
bales Cotton, 200 sacks Salt, 17,650 feet Timbor, 3
bales Skins, 39 do. Yarn, 12 do. Domestics, 9 Box
es, 124 boxes Copper Ore.
Slipping jhrtrlUgrnrr.
arrivals from charleston.
Steam ship Union, Adams, New York.
Schr Louisiana, Foxwcll, Baltimore
Schr Truth, Creighton, Baltimore.
Sehr P. C. Ferguson, Roberts, Baltimore.
Schr Maria L. Davis, Davis, Jacksonville.
CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON.
Brig Wooster, W ooster, at Boston
Sehr Volant Cousins, at Boston.
Schr N. W. Smith, Hobart, at New York.
CHARLESTON, September6.—Arrived, barque
Franklin, Cook, Boston; schrs Aid, Stellor, Ha
vana; Gon. Taylor, Frisbie, Beaton.
Went to sea, ship Columbia, Erickson, N. York;
barque Edward, Patterson, New York.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 3.—Arr. steamship State
of Georgia, Philadelphia.
Clearod, barque Flight. Calhoun, New York; brig
Rabt. M. Charlton,jLightbourn, Boston; sehr Jno,
W. Anderson, Watson, Baltimore.
Went to sea, steamship Augusta, Lyon, New
York.
FLOUR AND CHEESE.
Q /\ BARRELS Hiram Smith’s Double Extra
OU Flour from New Wheat.
5 barrels Fresh Boston Crackers.
25 boxes Cheese. Just received by
aug 28 DAWSON & SKINNER.
ARPER’S MAGAZINE for September, just
received, and for sale bv
McKINNE & HALL,
aug 30 Book sellers & Stationers.
COILS ), and $ inch Kentucky ROPE.
OUU SCRANTON, SEYMOUR & CO.,
aug 8 No. 2 Warren Blook,
Mexican Mustang I
reputation of this\rn’; ,l ‘* ,lt —TV
creating daily; tho circle of its^n.f at 0r > is j'
bounded popularity is deponing and S® «'
the cases of pain, and suffering 1
lieved by its use, are multiply, ' ; a . n £uish,
beyond ail precedent. It goes Hkf » " d tn e>W»
healing on its wings.” " "' e an an gei, -J*
To persons who wish, we can for,,- >
residences of persons all over the mcs **l
have been cured of Rheumatism,SprS*?- *
and most loathsome Sores; as well £ &
eers and Wens—and of horses tW
ed of Spavins, Ringbones, S P H n tVin!? Wtl ep
evils, and hard bone Tumors on It Sand Poii
shoulders and back. Almost every le fc
out the country can testify to its :lir ou|
powers—and none of them wouKJI? 1
out tt. Owners of livery stables and
mes can save hundreds of dollars year * S r CO %-
this Liniment on their horses whenTv J by ««£
come galled, chafed, or crippW £ r tbe >’ 5
thousand accidents to which their r s
See advertisement in another column
t i P 24
m °st confirmedTrr~
_ most distressing disease,** ei «e
arises irom indigestion. All of us Z
troubled with this annoyiug symptom"tin
a general thing, wo do not atternm ♦" as « i#
until something serious intervenes medlc »t
a public monitor warn all our reader, C Wouli it
sin of neglect, and at the same time ,l a?ainat 'the
their notice Dr. Iloofland’s German lii?L° mm , ea< H
ginal preparation, as prepared by \) r n b Pri
son, No. ISOI Arch
seen cures effected through its iS, " e bay*
Weekly. dISA.I ’“ a " e "«'C
_ ; sept 7
S* vt ‘s General ’Sats.fcT^r——.
|° sa ? a,i Dealers in
' ermluge, and so also may the p rttt)r |“ hate,
they are daily receiving certificates 1 ‘ ors aß J,is
that to print thorn would fill a volume p^®' oo *
is tho use of further certificates to aim./- 1
has become so universal ? Le* th« no, aieino that
of its approvers suffice : * mes
Mr. Gecrge Maxwoli, of Augu«i a ru. „
has used it in his family with the berteE? C °
J. 11. Cutter, a respectable merchant <f t
villo, after having used others without r uis '
ministered a dose of M’Lane's Vermifuo,
completely removed the worms. *
It has also been used with success in th* r ,
of the following persons: "“““•Uttlie
Pittsburg and vicinity J as . Stratton
Avenue; Mary J.Stratton, Mior * a
Harshberger. Manchester; Margarett Lmcbav?
James Burke and Agnos Burke, Squirrel Wpi
Soid by Havilan J, Eislcy & Co. and w' *
Tutt, Augusta, Ga.; P. M. Cohen & Co r//
ton, S. G.; Hill & Smith, Athens, Ga; e' C
Madison; A. A. Solomons; Savannah; and
Druggists and Dealers in Medicine throughout^
Fept 7 12
The , Members ofThe KecdlV wl
, ra . en . s Society, are requested to meet
at the Presbyterian Lecture Room, this am
noon, at 5 o’clock. Punctual attendance k-J
cularly requested. d ‘
Oglethorpe
tion.—The Twenty fourth Ee®ul •
Monthly Meeting of this Association will beheidtt
the Drill Room on to-morrow, (Wcdnesdav
evening at 8 o’clock. Members will come m
parod to pay their instalments.
L. L. Antonv, Scc’v
_ se P® 2 o/u
Merchants. Sindy yonr luterVst!-
The Edgefield Advertiser, published
at Edgefield, C. IL, S. C., by W. F. Drrisof.,/re
spectfully offered the business public of Augusta
as an excellent advertising medium. Tho Adverti
ser has an extensive circulation in the district* ol
Edgefield and Abbeville—districts that invariably
trade in Augusta and the Warehou e. Coanm*
and other Merchants would doubtless find it tote
interest to acquaint the planters and the pcopli
generally of their whereabouts.
Ths terms of advertising are as moderate asam
other Journal In the State, and we therefore be
speak for the Advertiser, a liberal share of public
patronage. 1m .- e p>
AUGUSTA STEAM FLAWING MILLS,'
{Head of Mclntosh street, near the. Woyntim
Railroad Depot.)
DOORS. BLINDS, SASIIES,
DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES
MOULDINGS, PANELINGS, MANTELS
ORNAMENTAL SCROLL WORK
TURNING BRACKETS. FENCING, BOXES
&C., &C.
Os every size and of the newest do.-igns, made to
order at short notico.
Also—Worked FLOORING, CEILING and
WEATHER BOARDING.
Orders punctually attended to.
sep 2 d.ujfiui
Notice.— i'no Panner-nip fctwtof®
existing betwoen, C. P. McC.-: i,u and
the undersigned, in ths interest of the U. S Hotel,
is hereby dissolved. The business of the Hotel
will be conducted by the Proprietor and lie se.
aug 28 Jno. W. Spear.
Iced Soda Water.—This delightful
drink, together with a great variety of
choice Syrups, of the best quality, may be found at
the Druggist and Apothecaries Store of
aug 12 Wat. Haines, Broadstrwt.
11. G. Farrell’s Genuine Arabian
Liniment is a most extraordinary me
4-cine, the truth of which is placed beyond doubt
of tho vast sales of the article and the ma
ny euros feeing daily performed by it. which
previously had resisted all other medicines aid
the skill of the best physicians in the world. It is
composed of balsams, extracts and gums peculiar
to Arabia—possessing, in a concentrated form, all
their stimulating, anodyne, penetrating, unctuous
and revulsive properties, and the same which.age’
ago, were used by the “ Sons of the Desert," win
such miraculous success, in curing the disease; d
both man and beast.
Read the following remarkable euro, which
should of itself place H. G. FARRELLS ARA
BIAN LINIMENT far beyond any similar reme
dy. Mr. H. G. Farrell—Dear Sir; Actuated byi
sense of gratefulness. I submit the following u ®
instance of tho utility ot yo U great medicine. -<e
child, three years old, was su idenly attacked r.u
a terrible disease, which in less than six bo®
prostrated it to total helplessness. The limbs became
so rigid that not a joint could bo bent; the w®
turned black and cold and entirely deprived
feeling; tho eyes fixed, partially closed and a*;
| gother blind following this was deafness to »
j sounds; the spine became contracted and so cup r,
j that when lying on his back the head and the he®
j only touched. Indeed, the child presented e'*Jl
appoarance of being dead. Immediately on t-*
j attack, tho family physician was called in, ana l*
j three weeks he labored to restore it to feeling, f
i all in vain, although it was blistered a dozen tun*
and various rubefacient Liniments applied
consultation of physicians was then held, but to J
purpose, the case was then brought before tho Jh -'
cal Society, but nothing could be suggested wnic
had not already been done, and the doctor then to
me he could do nothing more. We then comm--'
ced applying your Liniment freely over the on"--
! length of the spine, and you may imagine a P
rent’s joy, when, after a few applications, retarmm
animation was apparent and it rapidly recover
withthe exception of the sight, which d d no i
come perfect for near a month. The c “
is now healthy and robust as can bo- /
other cases of same kind occurred previously l ?®-
neighborhood, all of which died, when there i
doubt if your Liniment bad been they wouM“
have recovetod. HENRY G. CLELA>
Peoria, March Ist, 1851. . 3 .
hook out for Counterfeits. —The public an* 1
tionod against another counterfeit, which has
ly madeit3 appearance, called W. B. Farrell
bian Liniment, the most dangerous of all «>*
terfeits, because his having the name o
many will buy it in good faith, without tne :
ledge that a counterfeit exists, and they ff “
haps, only discover their error when the sf u "
mixture has wrought its evil effects. . jj
The genuine article is manufactured olli y L o ie
G. Farrell, sole inventor and proprietor, am ..
sale druggist, No. 17 Main street, Peoria, ).
to whom all applications for Agencies inns,
dressed. Be sure you get it with the lette
before Farrell’s, thus —H. G. FARBEL "
his signature on the wrapper, and all 0
counterfeits. Sold by . ,<n
HAVILAND, RISLEY *
August*) v*-.
and by regularly authorized agents throng u
United States. , t u e .
fry Price 25 and 50 cents, and $1 P** »cJ
Agents Wanted in every town, vi s. . #o!
hamlet in the United States, in whicu o „ j 5
already established. Address IL tv- * ( , c aS to
above, accompanied with good * e ?f refl 3U <» Iti
character, responsibility, Ac. TTrf^'
No. 2 —Augusta bo-utn
Plank Read Office, * ir ,d
1853.—An instalment of ten fee cen ' ea bli
to be paid on the 14th September next. 0 t
to the By-Laws of said Corporation- . - ure r,
the Board. S. H. Olives, ißeerc^ 15
aug 25 office corner Mclntosh —'Cos
1 AU HOUSE, the l’
G. Fargo, Proprietor, (late 1?
S. Hotel, Augusta.* a l ,r ’ —y^ti <
«£* Marriage Invitations aim y lL i\i
Cards written byjhrterj*!^
Paid sor T )'^ )
COTTON and SnJtjJJg&J&P.
{an 20 ts Corner River and S