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Cotton in Algeria.
The attempts of England and France to free
themselves from the dependence they now labor
under, which compels them to look almost exclu
sively to the United States for Cotton, continue
to be sedulously and perseveringly prosecuted
Every now and then the English papers become
jubilant over the prospects that soms of their
colonies hold out, and visions of disenthralment
from the cotton vassalage they are under to-us,
color all dreams, and find vent in triumphant
paragraphs. So far, however, but little com
paratively speaking has been relized from the
many expensive experiments which have been
made. But something has been done; and there’s
no telling what that speaking will lead to, when
prosecuted aud sought after with unrivalled skill
and labor, ingenuity and research. A “constant
dropping will wear away a stone,” is an old and
true proverb; and a continual endeavor to raise
a supply of cotton sufficient for their wants, out
side ot the cotton region of this country and in
their own colonies, by England and France, may
yet result in the attainment of the desired ob
ject.
We have no idea that the cotton production
of the United States can ever he seriously damag
ed by the rival production of other countries.
Our advantages are too great, manifest and com
plete, to be impaired to any considerable extent,
much less overthrown, by any combination of
production that can be brought to bear against
us. We have the field to ourselves; and we can
keep it, despite all competitions, if we only cul
tivate our natural gifts, wisely and discriminate
]y, and with an eye single to sound improve
ment and judicious progression. But, in the
meantime, it is the part of wisdom to keep an
eye upon the movements of our competitors in
the production of our great staple, and note their
operations carefully, with a view of turning them
to our own advantage whenever expediency or
profit may hold out inducements.
At the present time our Gallie neighbors ap
pear to be in high spirits over the cotton pros
pects which toeir colony of Algeria holds out. 1
The French papers say that the production of
Tobacco and Cotton is being greatly increased
in Algeria. In 1850, only 300 acres were culti
vated. In 1852, 2000 acres—or nearly seven,
times as much as the year before. In 1353,
70.000 acres—or nearly 35 times as much as in
1852.
The French papers consider it a fired fact now,
that cotton will be very extensively and profita
ble cultivated in their colony and compare it in
richness to Australia and California.
This increase of production, or rathei cultiva
tion of acres ol land, with the snow white staple
of the South, is very great; and should it con
tinue for a decade, will very probably supply
France with a goodly proportion of the raw' cot
ton she needs. But, our French cotemporaries
have forgotten to tell us the product per acre !
This is a very important consideration—a vital
point—without being advised of which we are
■wholly unable to make up a correct opinion, or
anything like it, concerning the value of the
production thus vauntingly alluded to. If two
bales per acre were raised, the product would bfe
140,000 bales. If one bale, 70,000. If half a
bale, 35,000. Or, if a quarter of a bale, (which
is most likely.) 17,500. Taking the latter figure
as correct—and we can arrive
at no safe conclusion, and it is certainly high
enough, if not too high—some millions of acres
of Algerian soil will have to w'hiten annually
with the snowy product, before the cotton marts
of the earth will experience any sensation at all
from the introduction of the raw cotton from an
unexpected quaiter.
But, we care nothing about freign competition
in the cotton line. If the French colonies should
be able to supply France, and the English colo
nies to supply all of the looms of England, still
we should fear nothing, and care nothing, about
the rivalship or the competion, if we could in
duce the Southern people to adopt the proper
home policy—to become manufacturers , as well
as produiers. Heretolore, the manufacturers have
reaped the lion’s share of the profits arising from
the production ot cotton—manufactures residing
in the North and in England.
The South has built up Manchester, and all
of the manulacturing tow-ns in Great Britain.
The South has built up Lowell, and all the manu
lacturing marts of Massachusetts and the North.
Almost everywhere the fabrication of the raw
material of the cotton States has been a mine of
wealth to individuals and corporatians, foreign
to us both in interest and feeling, of incalculable
value. The mines of California, of Australia, of
the whole earth, pale into comparative insigni
ficance when compared to the immensity of the
profits which the manufacturers of England and
of the United States have made off of the raw
material of the cotton producing section of the
Union! Shall this untoward state of things
forever prevail ? Shall we forever remain “hew
ers of wood and drawers of water” to our more
enterprising brethren ? Are we to remain blind
to our own interests for all coming time ? Shall
we continue, as heretofore, satisfied with the
shell, while the manufacturers luxuriate and
grow fat upon the oyster? Shall we continue
to pursue the suicidal policy ot building up our
commercial enemies to our own detriment and
impoverishment ?
No—we trust not. We believe the “good
time” that has been so long coming for the bouth,
near at hand. We think we can see signs that
betoken an early breaking of the dawn. We
believe we discern indications of unprecedented
and stable prosperity in the distance, not very
far off, at that. We feel sure the day is ap
proaching when the loom will be brought to the
cotton , not the cotton sent off to the loom, some
three to six thousand miles distant. When that
auspicious era arrives—when home manufactur
ing-manulacturing, adjacent to, and in sight of
of the cotton fields, shall be in the full tide ot
successful experiment, the South need fear noth
ing from the production of cotton in other parts
of the globe, no matter if that production is
stimulated and encouraged by the most power
ful and wealthy of rival nations. Let the South
ern people make themselves fabricators as well
as producers, and they can afford to laugh to
scorn ail attempts at rivalship in the cotton
world. Nothing is necessary except to bring the
loom to the cotton. That done, the futuie is se
cure. Without it, the condition of the South
will be far different, and competitors, being at
the same time producers and manufacturers,
might be enabled to obtain a decided, if not a
ruinous advantage.— N. O. Bulletin.
Capt. Ingraham. —Commander Duncan H.
Ingraham is the son of the late Nathaniel Ingra
ham, of Charleston, S. C. Almost all his ances
tors have been in some way connected with na
val affairs. His father was an intimate friend
of Capt Paul Jones, and volunteered under him
on the first cruise of the Bonne Homme Richard
in 1779, and was in the desperate action with
the British frigate Serapis. His uncle, Capt. Joe.
Ingraham, U. S. N., was lost on board the U. S.
ship Pickering, which was lost at sea, and never
heard from aiterwards. His cousin, Win. In
graham, a lieutenant in the Navy, was killed at
It e age of 20. Capt. Ingraham married Harriet
R Laurens, of South Carolina, grand daughter
of Henry Laurens, President of the first Conti
nental Congress, who was captured and confined
lor a long time in the Tower of London. It is
a curious fact, that by intermarriage of bis pro
genitors, Captain Ingraham is related to some of
the most distinguished officers in the British
Navy, among whom we name Copt. Marrayatt,
C. 8., and Sir Edward Belcher, K. C. 8., now
in command of the Arctic Expedition.— Norfolk
Herald. .
The Religious Revival.—The religious in
terest that has for several weeks past pervaded
the various protestant churches of our city con
tinues uninterrupted. While there is an entire
absence of all excitement, there seems to be a
wide spread feeling of earnest inquiry and in
vestigation highly becoming the intelligence of
the seeker after truth, and the importance of se
curing a well grounded hope in the concerns of a
future existence. Morning meetings for prayer
and afternoon meetings for inquiry, are held
daily in several of the churches, and preaching
every evening. The Rev. Mr. Landrum, of
Macon, has come to the assistance of the Rev.
Mr. Ram bant, of the First Baptist church ; and
|'ae Rev. Dr. Cross, of Charleston, remains until
the ch se of the present week with the Rev. Mr.
Crumley, of the Methodist church. Both of
- churches are nightly taxed to their utmost
capacity with attentive audiences ; and it is be*
lieved at each assembling the fruits of the labor
expended are developed in rational inquiry, sin
cere conviction and hopeful conversion.—Savan
nah Georgmn, 28 th inst.
Vote for Governor in 1849.
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Emanuel 307 176 000 000 000 000
Glynn 38 94 000 000 000 000
Irwin 337 41 000 000 000 000
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Lowndes 430 419 000 000 000 000
Liberty 146 153 000 000 000 000
Mclntosh.... 133 79 000 000 000 000
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Thomas 311 416 000 000 000 000
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Lee 249 330 000 000 000 000
Muscogee 857 1039 OCO 0001 000 000
Macon 340 389 000 000 000 000
Marion 581 517 000 000 000 000
Pulaski 399 246 000 000 090 000
Randolph ... 769 777 000 000 000 000
Stewart 648 824 000 000 000 000
Sumter 577 662 000 000 000 000
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Crawford.... 404 377 000 000 000 000
Houston 681 568 000 000 000 000
Harris 441 748 000 000 000 000
Monroe 650 732 000 000 000 000
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Taylor 000 000 000 000
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Pike 895 719 000 000 000 000
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Tue Demonstration at New York.—As
already stated by telegraph, a large mass meet
ing was held at Metropolitan Hall, New York,
on Thursday night, for the purpose of adopting
a testimonial to Capt. Ingraham, approving of
his conduct in the Kosta affair. The meeting
mas immensely large. French, Italian, Ger
man, Hungarian, Swiss, and Cuban exiles, gath
ered in immense numbers, marshalled under
their respective revolutionary banners. Speech
es were delivered in French. Spanish, German,
and Sclavonian. During the proceedings a let
ter was read from Hon. Edwaad Everett, in
which, after expressing his admiration of Capt.
Ingraham’s conduct he says :
If the circular purporting to be addressed to
the Minister of Austria is authentic, that Gov
ernment complains of Capt. Ingraham’s act as a
menace of war and a violation of the neutrality
of Turkey. But in both respects the wrong and
the outrage were on the side of Austria. Kosta
was residing at Smyrnia, as we learn from Mr.
. j°u Wn, L Jnder tbe P rotection of a teskerete , grant
, “V t* l ® Turkish Government at the instance
of the American Charge d’Affairs, who i.teres
ted himseif in his favor because he had declared
' SrVS enr i?“ becom e an American citizen.—
, Whether this circumstance entitled him to such
1 Protection was a question for Turkey to decide
according to her laws and usages. Under these
circumstances, I cannot conceive that the Aus
trian Consul had any more right to send an arm
ed force to seize him, than we would have had
two years ago, to send an armed force up to Ku
tayah to seize the whole body of Hungarian re
fugees.
Important questions of law, both municipal
and international, present themselves in the
case, some of which are new. On these ques
tions—as our information of facts is incomplete
and unofficial—l reserve my judgement.
A letter was also read from Hon. R. J. Wal
ker, approving Capt. Ingraham’s conduct, and
asserting Kosta’s right to the protection of the
United States Government.
Travellers.—The steamship Augusta, which
arrived at our port eatly yesterday morning,
from New York, brought out 145 cabin passen
gers. V e notice that the steamship James Ad
ger, which left New York with the Augusta,
had 87 passengers for Charleston.— Sav. Rep..
28 th inst. * ’
I he flags of the shipping in port were yester
day flying at half mast, in honor of Capt. P
Wiltberger, of this city, whose remains were
brought from Nevr York on board the steamer
Augusta, which arrived yesterday morning.
lb.
Singular Electric Effect.— The follow
ing extract from a lettei from Captain Tessier
of the ship Austria, to her owners, describes fan
effect of electricity which we do not remember
even to have seen mentioned before. It is of
some practical interest, and shows the necessity
ot isolating instruments on shipboard as much as
possible : — Chas. Mercury .
Liverpool, Sept. 2,1853.
My chronometer stopped, as I informed you,
on my last on the fourth day out from Charles
ton. The cause of it has been ascertained be
yond the possibility of a doubt. On its being a
taken to pieces, the balance spring was found t
heavily charged with electricity, and actually t
bent, and all the other works composed of steel
more or less injured. At the time it stopped
a heavy storm of thunder and lightning was
passing over the ship; the surrounding atmos- (
phere was in such a state of commotion that the
Austria fairly trembled in her every timber, and
we distinctly heard the lightning hiss as it struck
the water in rather uncomfortable promixity to
our sides. All our compasses were also slightly
injured, and had to be sent on shore for correc
tion, on the arrival of the ship in Liverpool.”
AUGUSTA, GA.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 30.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. H. V. JOHNSON,
Os Baldwin County.
DIST. FOR CONGRESS.
1— JAMES L. SEWARD, of Thcmas.
2A. H. COLQUITT, of Baker.
3 DAVID J. BAILEY, of Butts.
4W. B. W. DENT, of Coweta.
6E. W. CHASTAIN, of Gilmer.
7 THOMAS P. SAFFOLD, of Madison.
8— JOHN J. JONES, of Burke.
For Judge of tlie Northern Circuit,
COL. RICHARD M. JOHNSON.
We received no mail yesterday afternoon
from offices north of Charleston.
The County Candidates—Free Discussion.
One of the very best speeches w T e have heard
in a long time, we listened to on Wednesday
night at the Lower Market House. It was by
Col. John Mil ledge, one of the candidates before
the people for the Legislature. It was in reply
to Mr. Wm. A. Walton, and Mr. Andrew J.
Miller, also candidates, who preceeded him in
the order in which they are named. Mr. James
B. Bishop was in the chair, and the audience was
a large and attentive one. One good evidence
of the telling effect of the speech was that the
audience listened with the most kind and res
pectful attention, and repeatedly cheered the
speaker with loud plaudits. Another good sign
was that Mr. Miller felt the force of the speech
so sensibly, that at its conclusion he announced
that he would, at the City Hall on Saturday
night, reply to that part of it which referred to
himself.
The fact that Mr. Miller and Col. Milledge
were both members of the last Legislative, elect
ed on the same ticket and by the same consti
tuency, and both went into the Legislative cau
cus together at Milledgeville and both then and
there agreed to sustain the National Democratic
party, provided it adopted the Compromise mea
sures as a final settlement of the slavery agita
tion, and that in pursuance of this agreement
that party having adopted that Compromise in
its platform, both Mr. Miller and Col. Milledge
voted for Gen. Franklin Pierce for President,
and that Col. Milledge stands by his Adminis
tration, while Mr. Miller now opposes that Ad
ministration, constituted an interesting chapter
in politics, which is made moie piquant by the
personal comments of these gentlemen. The ex
act point of divergence in the respective opinions
of these two Constitutional Union gentlemen, we
cannot exactly locate, and must await Mr. Mil
ler’s exposition as to when he ceased to be dt~
mocratiztd. The political paths of these two
gentlemen who both took up their line of march
for the Democratic camp at the same time, di
verged at the Tugalo forks of the road. Buc they
met at the same ballot boi last November at frhe
City Hall in this city, and both voted for Gen-
Franklin Pierce for President—Col. Milledge in
the humble position of a private citizen—Mr.
Miller in the more conspicuous one of candidate
for Presidential Elector on a Pierce and King
Electoral Ticket.
Since then, a change has come over the spirit
of the political dreams ot Mr. Miller. He is
i now, and we presume was as far back as June
| last, an opponent ol the President of his choice.
1 How much farther back we cannot exactly spe
| cify. Perhaps before Gen. Pierce’s Inaugural
; Address—perhaps after. At all events, in June
i we find the Jenkins and Toombs Convention,
[ with which Mr. Miller sympathizes, declaring
both national parties, Democratic as well as
Whig, corrupt and faithless to its pledges. The
exact point of time, therefore, between Novem
ber and June, at which Mr. Miller’s democracy
j oozed out, we are unable to establish. Perhaps
1 when Gen. Dix w’as made Sub-Treasurer—per
, haps when Peter Vroom was appointed Minister
[ to Berlin—perhaps when one Win. Brown was
1 made a special Mail Agent—or when a Mr.
| Campbell was made Receiver of a Land Office
—or a Mr. Somebody, of the Ohio Plaindealer,
was made a Postmaster, or a Mr. Malooney or
Malony was put in some other office out in the
northw’est. But whatever the time, or howso
ever the process, Mr. Miller and Col. Milledge
now stand in opposite positions towards Gen.
Pierce and his Administration. The former has
turned his back on one he thought, a few short
months ago, worthy to be president. The other
still believes, as did Mr. Webster, Mr. Toombsi
and Mr. Stephens—yea, as did the immortal Cal
houn himself, the great pro-slavery champion of
the age—that Franklin Pierce is as safe a man
for the South as any man north of Mason and
Dixon’s line.
Col. Milledge is again before his constituency
for their suffrages. As to the fidelity, zeal, and
efficiency, with w hich he toiled to serve them in
the last Legislature, we have heard no two opin
ions. Even his present opponents will not as
sert that there was any lack of effort, any ne
glect of duty, any misconception of the wish
es or false judgment of the interests of his con
stituents. He was emphatically one of the most
punctual, perhaps we can say the most punctual,
member in his attendance in the discharge of his
duties. Early and late he was to be found at
his post, watching, with unerring assiduity, the
course of legislation, and sometimes, participating
in its debates, and guarding, protecting and advo
cating the rights and interests of his constitu
ents.
We desire not to disparage hia competitors, or
either of them; but we hesitate aot to assert,
that Richmond county has not had ant cannot
again have, among all her native sons, one who
has tried with more unflagging devotion to dis
charge his duty to her. She has manifested her
confidence in him once by a vote which showed
his ho.d upon her affections was over and above
party—was stronger than the strongest party,
ever organized in her borders. He has proved
faithful to her. Let her never prove ungrate
ful, or unmindful of him.
It has been the lot of Col. Milledge to encoun
ter, in the present canvass, some denunciation
from his old Constitutional Union co-laborera;
and more of embittered assailment than usually
falls to the lot of a man of bis personal amiability
and kindness of heart. His speech was chiefly
defensive on Wednesday night, and his defence
of his past course was convincing and trium
phant.
He said he arose to address his fellow-citizens,
then surrounding him, as freemen—born to the
same heritage, and bound up in the same des
tiny—freemen who had received from their re
volutionary ancestry the sacred right of voting,
not as party cliques and leaders should dictate,
but according to their own judgment and con
science—the right of voting tvhen they pleased l
and for whom they pleased. He said he had been i
assailed as a deserter from the Whig party—of
having been untrue to the principles upon which <
he had run and was elected in 1851, the only oc- ]
casion upon which he had ever been a candidate.
He appealed to the facts, and denied that he had
been nominated asaWhig, or canvassed for votes
as a Whig at that time.
There was then no such party in Richmond
county as the Whig party. It would have been
a fraud on the Union Democrats, whose votes
were sought to elect the Constitutional Union
ticket, to have asserted, after the election, that
the ticket elected was a Whig ticket, and the
triumph of that year a Whig triumph. The
Whig issues were obsolete—admitted and pro
claimed by the Whig leaders to be so. New
issues had arisen and a new platform erected on
which Democrats,as well as Whigs,were invited
to stand, and by the votes of Democrats, as well
as of Whigs, aided in the triumph of the party of
which he was a member, which went into pow
er with the legislature of 1851. The Standard
Bearer of that party, Howell Cobb, was a Demo
crat, and so avowed himself in the Canvass.
He never had been a Whig, and no one who sup
ported him claimed his election as the triumph
of Whig principles. The triumph of that year
was the triumph of the principles of the Geor
gia platform, the main plank of which was ac
quiescense in the Compromise measures—
Even Mr. Webster, whom many of his con
stituents then present, had early last year sup
ported for President, had declared among the last
opinions he had promulgated, that in November,
1852, the Whig party would exist only in his
tory.
And who was now the standard bearer of
the party of his accusers? Charles J. Jen
kins, who had run for Vice President, on the
ticket with Mr. Webster, against the regular
nominated ticket of the true blue old line united
Whig Party—Gen. Winfield Scott. Yet, in the
face of these glaring facts he, Col. Milledge, was
accused of treachery to the Whig party—of
having deserted the Whig party.
And in what attitude was Mr. Jenkins pre
sented to the voters of the County of Richmond,
and of the State of Georgia? A3 a Whig?—
Was the name Whig emblazoned on his banner ?
Was the name Whig mentioned in the platform
of the Convention that nominated him ? Did
that Convention proclaim Whig principles, and
call upon the Whigs of the State to rally under
a Whig banner, for the reorganization of the
Whig party? Not at all. The Convention re
pudiated the Whig party, as also the Democratic
party. It pronounced both National parties cor
rupt and faithless to their pledges. It called itself
| a party of Republican Citizens, Conservatives,
, Union Men, Georgia Platform Men. It did not
call its organization the Whig party. It was a
fitting time to do so. if it aimed to reorganize
the Whig party, for its standard bearer, Charles
r J. Jenkins, was of all men in the State, the
, most proper man,under whom to re-organize the
Whig party, if such had been their desire, for he,
s less than twelve months previous, had in a letter
, to Peter W. Alexander, of Savannah, declared
that hej felt then, an anxiety greater than
. ever before, to reunite with the National Whig
j Party—that he was satisfied with the Whig
j Platform, but his objections were to the man—
he did not intend to put on the Scott uniform.
r If the Whigs desired to re-organize the Whig
party, there were then listening to his voice true
Whigs of the old pannel, Scott men, who had last
year voted for Gen. Scott, the regular nominee of
their party. They were the men who could be
appealed to, to rally to the Whig banner, and
again fight for its name; its organization, and its
= principles. Had this appeal been made ?
But no. i he present canvass was opened with
no such purpose, according to their own show
ing. They had put out a candidate for Govern
g
or, and they had woven their net so as to catch
votes. They had interlaced its meshes so nice
I a»d fine that they calculated to catch all sort 9of
fish. They were to cast it out into the political
waters, and it they caught a sucker , good—that
j would help their cause. If they caught a perch,
’ g°°d. It a trout, good too. Union Whigs,
3 Webster Whigs, Scott Whigs, Union Democrats,
and Whig Pierce men—all were to be caught
f and drawn in, but the name of Whig Party was
s nowhere to appear in the process. His accusers
had themselves ignored the name of Whig Party
—had turned their backs upon it—and yet had
g the assurance to charge him with deserting that
party.
, He had been charged with saying that as far
back as 1848, he had been preparing to leave the
r Whig and to join the Democratic party. What
, Whig party ? Had not that party even then,
in the City Hall ol Augusta, received its death
, stroke? And who struck the blow? Who
but the then Whig representative from the Bth
\ Congressional District, Robert Toombs? Did he
. n °t there in the very house of his friends, strike
' down and trample under foot Henry Clay, the
very soul and embodiment of the Whig Party?
Did he not there, fresh from Washington city,
p tell them that he would not vote for him
even if nominated by the Philadelphia Whig
Convention? That he had plotted and bar
gained with the abolitionists for their votes,
and was not to be trusted by the South !
1 hat the old Whig issues were obsolete, and the
great question for the South was the slavery
question, and that Gen. Taylor was the man
they should support? That it was true he knew
but little of politics, and had not cast a vote in
forty years, but that he was honest, and could be
trusted ? He was available, and they must look
to availability.
Who elected Gen. Taylor ? Who gave him the
vote of Georgia ? The Whig Party? No. It was
Taylor Democrats. Without their votes he
could not have been elected.
So far back, then, as 1848, the Whig Party
was in a state of dissolution—its old issues re
pudiated, or obsolete, and the slavery question
made the basis on which new parties were to be
formed.
Soon following his election came the territo
rial and fugitive slave questions, and the discus
sions in Congress resulted in the Compromise
measures. These measures were accepted in
Georgia as a linal adjustment, and the Georgia
Platform was framed to sustain that adjustment.
And who gave that Compromise to the country?
Was it the Whig party ? No. It was the Dem
ocratic party. And what was there in that
Compromise chiefly valuable to the South ? The
fugitive slave law. Who passed that law ? Was
it the Whig party ? How many Northern Whigs
voted for it ? Not one in the Senate, and but
three in the House? And what was Daniel
Webster’s position ? Did he advocate the law
as it stands on the statute book ? Was that his
bill? No. On the 3rd of June, 1850, pending
the Compromise, he introduced a bill into the
Senate providing atrial by jury to the fugitive
slave, iu the free State where he should bear
rested. And what sort of a trial would that have
been ? A mock trial, in which the verdict would
be made up before the jury went into the box,
audin which the Southern man would have no
chance for justice.
One other matter in conclusion. He had been
questioned in a discussion at the upper market,
if he had voted for Mr. Jenkins in 1842, and if
he had not voted for him since that time. He
was under great excitement at the time, and so
was his interrogator, and he had replied he may
or he may not have done so, and he did not recol
lect how often since 1842 he had voted for him.
At a subsequent meeting be had stated that in
1842, he had voted for Mr. Crawford and Mr.'
Lamar, and that he had since then voted twice
for Mr. Jenkins. He had been assailed in the
public prints, and by one of his competitors that
night, for duplicity, because he had, in 1849, writ
ten a letter urging Mr. Jenkins’ name for the
Legislature, and yet had sometimes failed, as his
Whig friends were now astonished to learn, to
vote for Mr. Jenkins. He would cheerfully
have furnished a copy of that letter to any one
who wished to see it. He was not ashamed of it.
He had good reasons, ol a private nature, known
to many of his auditors, why Mr. Jenkins’
nomination was desirable, and he desired it
in all sincerity. He had voted for Mr. Jenkins
n 1849, and in 1850. He was a gentleman he
esteemed, and whose services in the Legislature
he thought would be valuable to the city and
county.
But he did not recognize any set of men or par
ty leaders as having the right to dictate to him,
while a private citizen, how he should vote, or
demand of him to show to them a clean record of
votes, to please their taste. He was a freeman,
and would vote as he thought right, and he ac
knowledged no clique or party leaders as entitled
to claim accountability to them as to his mode
of exercising this sacred privilege of a freeman.
As weil might they set up a claim to be furnish
ed with a list of each of their neighbors house
hold goods and chatties—that when his fellow
citizens surrendered themselves up to this spe
cies of petty tyranny, and submitted to being
pulled by the arm, a ticket thrust in their hands
and be told, “You must vote this ticket,’' or
“ You must vote for this man, or that man,’!
they would no longer deserve to enjoy that ines
timable birthright of freemen.
Col. Milledge closed with a very handsome
and graceful pereoration, in which he expressed
himself ready to submit cheerfully to the deci
sion of his fellow-citizens, if they declined to
re-elect him, and would meet them the day after
with a smiling countenance, as he was devoid
of all ill will to any human being in the commu
nity. If elected, he would serve them faithfully
to best of his ability. He sat down amid pro
longed cheers.
The Augusta Hotel.
It will be seen by the Card of the proprietor,
that he is deter mined our citizens shall not suf
fer for the want of food. Not satisfied with
lunrhing his customers at 11 A. M., he will give
them another at 11 P. M. By the way, we are
glad to see that the Captain has secured the ser
vices of Mr. Coolidge, as a caterer for his Hotel.
Mr. C. is well known to the citizens of the in
terior, having kept a Hotel at Griffin, Stone
Mountain, and the Warm Springs. He is
gentlemanly in his deportment, seems to under
stand his business, and will no doubt give satis
faction to the patrons of the establishment.
Election Returns.
We publish in another column, for refer
ence the vote given in 1849, for Governor,
which we consider the best test vote,in govern
ing the apqroaching Gubernatorial eletcion. It
is the last vote given on strictly party grounds,
as between Democrats and Whigs.
The Webster Fugitive Slave Bill.
There being some dispute as to the character
of the Fugitive Slave Bill offered by Mr. Web
ster in the United States Senate, on the 3d of
June, 1850, we| lay it before our readers. We
quote from the Congressional Globe, Yol. 21
part 2, page 1111.
In Senate, Monday, June 3, 1850.
Mr. Webster. Mr. President, at an early
period of the session I turned my attention to
the subject of preparing a bill respecting the re
clamation of fugitive slaves, or of preparing cer
tain amendments,! to the existing law on that
subject. In pursuance of this purpose. I confer
red with some of the most eminent members ol
profession, and especially with a high judi
cial authority, who has had more to do with
questions ot this kind, I presume, than any oth
er judge in the United States. After these con
sultations and conferences, as early as in Febiua
ry I prepared a bill amendatory ot the act of
1793, intending when a proper time came, to
lay it before the Senate for its consideration. I
now wish to present the bill to the Senate unal
tered and precisely as it was when prepared in
February last.
Mr. Dayton. I hope thrt the paper will be
printed.
The bill was then laid on the table and order
ed to be printed as follows:
A BILL amendatory of “An act respecting fugi
tives from justice and persons escaping from
the service of their masters/ 7 approved Feb
ruary 12, 1793.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America in Con
gress assembled , That the provisions of the said
act shall extend to the territories of the United
States; and that the commissioners who are, or
who may hereafter be appointed by the circuit
courts of the United States, or the district courts
where circuit courts are not established, or by
the teritorial courts of the United States, all of
which courts are authorized and required to ap
point one or more comissioners in each county to
take acknowledgements of bail and affidavits,
and also to take depositions of witnesses in
civil cause, and who shall each, or any judge of
the United States, on complaint being made on
oath to him that a fugitive from labor is believed
to be within the State or territory in which he
lives, issue his wariant to the marshal of the
United States, or to any other person who shall
be willing to serve it, authorizing an arrest of
the fugitive, if within the State or territory, to
be brought before him or some other commis
sioner or judge of the United States courtjwith
in the State or territory, that the right of the
person claiming the service of the fugitive may
be examined. And on the hearing, deposition
duly authenticated, and parol proof, shall be
heard to establish the identity of the fugitive and
the right of the claimant, and also to show
that slavery is established in the State from
which the fugitive absconded. And if on such
hearing the commissioner or judge shall find the
claim to the services of the fugitive, as asserted,
sustained by the evidence, he shall make out a
certificate of the material facts proved and of
his judgement thereon, which he shall sign, and
which shall be conclusive of the right of the
claimant or his agent to take the fugitive back
to the State from which he fled : Provided , that
if the fugitive shall deny that he owes service to the
claimant under the laws of the State where he was
held, and after being duly cautioned as to the solem
nities and consequences of an oath , shall swear to
the same , the commissioner or judge shall forthwith
summon a jury of t welve men to try the right of the ,
claimant, who shall be sworn to try the cause accor
ding to evidence, and the commissioner or judge shall \
preside at the trial, and determine the competency of
the proof. !
! Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That the
i commissioner shall receive ten dollars in each
i case tried by him, as aforesaid, the jurors fifty
cents each, and the marshal or other person serv
ing the process shall receive five dollars for serv
ing the warrant on each fugitive, and for mil
age and other service the same as are allowed
the marshal for similar services, to be examined
and allotted by the commissioner or judge, and
paid by the claimant.
The Hon. Thomas W. Newton, of Arkansas,
died suddenly at New York on the 22d inst.,
from the rupture of a blood-vessel of the brain.
The body has been embalmed, and sent on to
his late residence, Little Rock, Arkansas, for in
terment. Mr. Newton was for some time Mar
shal of the State of Arkansas and in 1846 rep
resented it in Congress. He was a brother of
Commodore Newton, of the Navy, the present
Commander of the home squadron.
[communicated.]
Col. John Milledge. a
This gentleman having ro-appeared before hi*
fellow-citizens as a candidate for re*election to
the Legislature, objections, as base as they are
utile, have been and are still being urged
against him, to lessen his claims in the pub
lic mind and to defeat his election. Once
their representative, it becomes the people of
Richmond to enquire into his legislative career,
rather than these degrading charges sought to be
established against him—to determine whether
he is ‘now, as the y once believed him to be,worthy
of the high position to which he aspires. During
that career, which was brilliant notwithstanding
it was brief, the evidence is abundant that he
proved himself worthy and capable in an emi
nent degree to discharge the duties of the proud
position to which a confiding constituency had
called him. Upon all proper occasions, we have
not only observed his name recorded among the
yeas and nays, but we have heard his eloquent
voice in advocacy of such measures as he be
lieved would redound to the honor of Georgia,
and to the interest of his own immediate con
stituency who had entrusted him with the pro
tection of their rights and interests. The charge
cannot be made and proved that in one single
instance he was iound sleeping at his post, or
derelect in the duty of a zealous and faithful re
presentative. Indeed his opponents make no such
charge. Theirs is of a different kind. On a
very large majority, il not all the subjects brought
before the last session, he acted and voted with
his then colleague, whose is now also a candidate
for re-election. But he was not alone known
as a member upon the iloor. Often called to pre
side in the Speakers chair, he evinced an ability
and dignity equal to the proper discharge ot the
arduous and perplexing duties ot a presiding of
fficer; and such was the satisfaction given by
him in this new position, that on more than
one occasion since the adjournment of the Legis
lature his name has been suggested in distant
sections of the State as a fit person to succeed
the lamented Meriwether, should the people of
Richmond again honor him with their confidence.
With such antecedents, it is hard to believe that
his election is even a doubtful matter. But he
has not escaped the wrath of his opponents.—
Like those who have gone before him upon the
political stage, the shafts of his enemies, steeped
in the poison of malice and detraction, have
showered thick upon him. But, as yet, these
polluted missiles have found no resting place in
his patriotic bosom. He stands forth, if it be
the will of his countrymen, a martyr to the
cause of truth and principle. But why this op
position ? Simply becajse he has avowed him
self a friend, an uncompromising friend to the
present Administration. Without stopping to
enquire whether he is right or honest, he is
taunted on every side with the sneering remark,
tl You have changed ! changed i! changed !!!
Sad indeed must be the political prospects of his
accusers, if we must judge by the argument
used. Homeless ot success oy other means and
driven to desperation, they must resort to this.
This must be their excuse. Honest and intel
ligent men however, will not heed this charge
of changed! ohanged ! ! which is so stupendous
in the eyes of his opponents ; but the question
with them will be is he u honest, capable and
faithful to the constitution ?” Justice.
I
I w
[communicated.]
Mr. Editor : Allow us the use of your col
. umns, to bring before the citizens of Richmond
County the name of Hemy Johnson as a suita
f ble Representative in the next Legislature. No
, friend to the Administration of General Pierce
should hesitate to give Mr. Johnson his cordial
support; especially should every Democrat in
the county rally to the support of one who has,
through storm and sunshine, alike been a firm
and unw'avering disciple of the Demociatic
faith. Modest and unassuming, he has yet been
a zealous.—a working Democrat. Resiling in
> the country upon his farm, he has mingled in
none of the local city contests, squabbles, and
excitements. Yet, intelligent, observing, and
well informed, and thrown, from time to time,
with our business population and working men,
he knows their wants, their feelings, and their
rights. He is capable of representing them
fairly, and advocating them firmly.
In all the qualities which constiiute a good
citizen, a kind neighbor, and an honest man,
Henry Johnson has no superior.
The supporters of the Administration of Gen.
Franklin Pierce, both in town and country, will
not go into the ranks of his assailants for men
to represent them in the Legislature.
To all of these, Henry Johnson is recom
mended as in e/ery way a worthy exponent of
their opinions. Many Pierce Men.
Augusta, September 29, 1853.
Rf.v. J. G. Binney. —We learn (says the
Chronicle) with much pleasure, that the Baptist
board having charge of the department of educa
tion in Burmah, has made such arrangements, as
that the services of Mr. Binney are considered
not absolutely necessary; and he, being some
what disinclined to go again to that distant field
has accepted an invitation from the Baptist
Church of Augusta, to return to them, and may
be expected at an early day. We, therefore,
congratulate the church and community, upon
the prospect of the return of so useful a Pastor
and accomplished a gentleman.
Cotton in the South West. —The Thomas
ville Watchman of the 21st inst., says: “ The
cotton crop through this section will, it is be
lieved, be a short one. The continued and
heavy rains have filled the weed so full of sap
that a few hours of hot sun just after a rain,
parches it up. Add to this the rust, the boll
worm, and the caterpillar, all of which are doing
great damage, and you may judge the result ”
It is stated that with regard to the letter of
Lord John Russell on the Cuba question, Mr.
Marcy has long since taken occasion to commu
nicate the President’s views to Mr. Buchanan,
who will doubtless bring the matter promptly
and forcibly to the attention of the British Gov
ernment. The position of the administration
it is said, is decided, and does not differ material
ly from the views so admirably expressed by
Mr. Everett in his letter of the 17th inst.
Atrocious Murder.— A, correspondent wri
ting from Franklin county, gives information of
one of the most horrid murders we have ever
recorded. We extract the portion of the letter
giving an account of it:
‘‘There was one of the most atrocious murders
committed in the western part of this county a
few days ago, that ever was committed in any
community. A young lady of respectability
had been to a neighbor’s house, and returning
home was most inhumanly murdered by a negro
mpn belonging to a citizen of the county. It
seems that he strangled her with nitric acid,
violated her person, and most inhumanly beat
and bruised her other ways, dragged her into the
woods and left her dead, where she was found
on the next day. The negro is now in custo
dy.”—Southern Banner.
Homicide. —William Cook was killed by
Richard Adams (both of this county) in Jack
son county, at Delay’s, on last Friday. It seems
a number bad assembled there for a shooting
match, when some misunderstanding arose be
tween them; those present interfered and pre
vented them lighting, when Adams stepped back
and took up a ride and shot him through the
heart. He died instantly. Adams is in custody.
—76.
BY TELEGRAPH B®* 8 ®*
Transmitted to the ConstUmionaiut t- „
LAT Opp"
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WASHINGTON.
Nkw Yoa K) Sei)t o Q '
Liverpool Market.-Co«o*.-tiJ’
18 in favor of buyers, but holders are
sing sales. Sales 15000 bales. oc Pies-
FMour had advanced one shilling r
changed. orn un-
Russia has rejected the Sultan’s
and war is considered inevitable. ° n '
ihe cholera was progressing j n v ,
Money was tighter, Consols quoted at »e^
Secretary Marcy’s Letter.
„ Charleston, Sent on
The New York Herald publishes asyLj'
Secretary Marcy’s forthcoming letter
maintains that Kosta was seized within a
nationality of the United States, and that (
Ingraham’s interference was proper Re >
ses to give consent to Kosta’s being givJn ?'
the Austrian Consul at Smyrna, and insists Z
Austria shall place them in the same condithl
as when he was arrested.
Minister to France.
It is rumored that the Hon. John Y M
has officially received the mission to France' 18011
The Whig Convention of Massachusetts h
nominated Emery Washburn for Governor
The steamer Golden Age, left New York,
terday for Liverpool and Australia.
New York, Sept. 29
Cotton.—The cotton market is dull »;«,
sales to-day of only 200 bales. 1
Death of Gen. Tallmage.
Gen. Joseph Tallmage died to-day, suddenly
Charleston, Sept. 29- p . m
Cotton.—Sales of the week 3100 bales at $1
to 11 cents. The market closes firm and at fan
prices. Good Middling 10J to 10| cents. The
receipts of the week are 3,200 bales. Stock n.
elusive of that on shipboard 8,360 bales.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier j
Baltimore, Sept. 28.— The Yellow Fever
Bermuda. —Advices have been received at B *
ton from Bermuda to ttie 13th inst, which
that the yeliow fever was prevailing a t St
George’s, and that out of two hundred convict'
fifty had died and one hundred and twenty hvJ
were sick. Nearly every one had been attacked
with the disease, and the total number of deaths
to the 13th instant had amounted to eighty one
Among the victims of the pestilence, which was
on the increase, was weregret to learn, John M.
Howden, Esq., the U. S. Consul.
Late from Liberia.—Letters from Liberit
of the 6th of August have been received The
bark Shirley arrived at Monrovia on the 29th of
J uly.
The Methodist missionaries at the different
points along the coast were in good health.
The Rev. Hr. Horne, the superintendent of
the Monrovia Academy, has suffered less from
the effects of the climate than any of his prede
cessors
Advices to this date say that the relations of
the Government with the native tribes on ail
sides are such, that it is thought lasting peace
may be expected, or if there be interruptions at
any time or place, it seems impossible that they
should be either extensive or ot long duration
“The international relations of the Republic
j are decidedly harmonious, and profitable as tir
j as we are able to take advantage of our t;eaty
! stipulations.”
The Weather and Crops.
| Alabama.—The Macon (Tuskegee, Ala.)
Republican of the22d inst. says: The late heavy
i rains which we have had, we fear have maten
| ally injured the crops. They have produced the
! worm and the rust, which together,have preyed
. extremely destructive. In some places, to be
| sure, they are worse than in others, but almost
i everywhere they are bad enough. The opinion,
j therefore, which we expressed some weeks ago,
j that the prospect for a good crop was pretty fair,
! is, at present, materially modified. We still hope
• that the tears of the planters may have magnlied
i the evil, but at the same time we knowthsta
: long spell of wet weather, at a time so critical
j to the plant, cannot but prove extremely preju
dicial.
The Reporter (Talladega, Ala.) of the 22d
says : We have had a great deal of rain during
the last few weeks. Our planters complain that
their cotton is almost irretrievably ruined—they
cannot make a half a crop. There is a good
deal of sickness throughout the country, caused
no doubt in a great measure by the singularly
wet summer and fall.
The weather for the last few days has truiy
been delightful. It is neither a wintry nor a
summer atmosphere we enjoy, but one that par
takes of the best qualities of both ; the brilliancy
and glow of summer, with just enough of its
W’armth to be agreeable, unites with the clear,
bracing temperature of winter, with just enough
of its coolness to be pleasant. The restorative
effects of this upon every man's body and spirit*
is visible in every person one meets, it impart
physical briskness, and mental cheerfulness,
while the evidence that business it recommenc
ing and the fever decreasing adds strong impulse
to these agreeable characteristics. So may l *
continue.— N. O. Pic., 25th inst.
It must be matter of congratulation for the
members of the Howard Association that their
duties in this city are reduced so as to alio l *’
them a little breathening time, at least so iaras
these duties are specially connected with the
city. Their infirmaries and all, except one®
convalescents, closed, and although applications
for relief must still give them occupation,the
calls on their time and attention from the sick
must be almost extiuct. We all must begiau m
this. It is to be regretted that the Howard.' 1
have such urgent need for their charitable ser
vices out of the city. They have been promp
in answering all such requests, and have no
doubt done a great deal of good among our strick
en friends in the interior.— lb.
(Eoinmrrrifll
SAVANNAH, Sept. 27, p. m.-Cotton.-IW
was some inquiry this morning, and tae
amount to 191 bales, as follows: 21 at 9J; *■'
10; 19 at 10*; 71 at 10*, and 61 bales at 10]
MONTGOMERY, Sept. 26.— Coiton.-lhen i»
a good demand for this article at advancing ‘
All our brokers are here now, and anxious to •
We quote Good Middling 9* te 9]; Middling
to Fair, 9* to 10c.
Stock on hand Ist Sept
Received past week * s o!!_so;w
Received previously
J 154
Shipped past week • • 7 g9
Shipped previously wo—^
Stock on hand Sept. 26, 1853
SAVANNAH EXPORTS-Sept. 27.
Per schr Francis Saterly for New lo
bales Cotton; 2 do. Cotton Waste; 640 bg>
Flour; 245 casks Rico; 16 do Dry Goods, ana
Shipping
CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON.
Sehr Peru, Morton, at Boston.
Schr Naiad, Billips, at Baltimore.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 29.—Arrived,
Tuttle, New York; schrsOeDtrosa, Sweeting.
Cartharena, Wilson, Baltimore. , s He*
Went to sea, steam ship Union, A ■ f' Kins-
York; brigs Emily, Davis, New \ orb; ton*
man, Boston; schr D. H. Baldwin, Fris >
more. .iusk>P
SAVANNAH, Sept. 28^-Arrived,
Augusta, Lyon, New York; bark rn fro®
Hoey, New York; brig J. A. Simpson, «r£».
Boston; sohr Lyon, Daisoy, from New for H«W
Cleared, schr Francis Satterly, Dev ,
York.