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BY JAMES GARDNER, JR.
OFFICE ON McINTOSU-STREET
THIRD DOOR FROM TUR NORTH-WEST CORNER OF BROAD
STREET.
Sales of I. AND by Executors. Administrators or Ousr
dians. are required, by law, to bo bold on the Grst
Tuesday in the month, between the hours ot ten in
the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court
House in which the property is situate. Notice of
th. sales mast be m a public Gaietto. blXr\
D IYS ra evious to the daj of sale.
Sales of NEGROES must bo at Public Auction, on the
‘ tir t Tues Liv of the month. between the usual hours
of sale, at the place of public sales in the county
where the Letters Testamentary, or Administration,
or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving
SIXTY DAY S notice thereof, in one of the public
Gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court
House where such sales are to be held.
Notice for the sales of Personal Property must be given,
in like manner. FORTY D AYS previous to day of sale.
Noti ■ to the Debtors and Creditors of an Estate, must
bo published for FORTY DAYS.
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Onlinarv for leave to sell LAND, must be published
for rwb MONTHS.
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TWO MONTHS, before any order absolute can be
given by the Court.
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Notice of the <ale of Land and Negroes by Ad
ministrators. Executors or Guardians, must be publish
ed EOKTY DAYS previous to the day of sale.
CZ?* Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate f
must be published FORTY DAYS.
I . JO?* Notice that application will be made to the .
% . T Ocdirarv fur leave to sell Land or Negroes. ;
~ W pnWAed TWO week! i
’< >ku«>»i ai»y>licaU«n tor Lwttersof Administra- »
A. iaaJnvvT bo pSW-hed THIRTY DAYS: and Let- j
ters of Dismissinu of Executors or Administrators. SIX ;
MON THS—Di •mission of Guardians. FORTY DAYS.
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tore, by the Act of 1852. by Executors and Administra- •
tors, at the discretion of the Ordinary, upon not less •
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or> a< un L r the old law. FORTY DAVS
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AUGUSTA, GA.
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13
Terras of the Weekly Paper.
One year, in advance $2.00
If paid within the year 2,50
At the end of the year 3,00
Cs<"Thc above terms will bo rigidly enforced.
Moderation in Victory.
The moderation displayed by the Democrats
of Georgia, in regard to their signal victory over
all factions. Scott Whigs, Webster Whigs, an d
Tugaloos, is not appreciated by portions of our
opponents. We presume they would be incapa
ble of exercising like magnanimity were posi
tions reversed, and that had the victory been
with them they would have indulged in a satur
nalia of coarse and vindictive jeering over their
prostrate adversaries. They cannot comprehend
the true and honorable motives prompting the
courteous forbearance of the " Fire-eating " De- j
mocrats, in whose “ conservatism ” the people I
have shown their confidence by giving their
Electoral ticket an overwhelming majority.
The Chron le if Sentinel, of yesterday, speaks :
as follows:
‘■The Vote in Georgia.—We learn from I
the Southern Recorder, that the entire vote !
polled for the ' Fire-eating’ Pierce and King *
ticket in Georgia, will fall 4,000 short of that
east last year for McDonald, when Cobb beat
him 18,000 for Governor. It is the knowledge ■
ol this fact, probably, that has given such a
quiet and subdued tone to the demonstrations of I
tne Fire-eating wing since the result. They
see the hand-writing still on the wall—and are j
admonished of the fall that awaits them in any .
contest when the conservative elements in
Georgia are aroused."
As a sufficient answer to the above, we sim
ply quote the following fiom that zealous and
indefatigable Democratic paper, the Pennsylva
nia,i. which contributed a full share to the De
mocratic victory in the old Keystone State. Its
“ quiet and subdued tone 11 does not arise from
any apprehensions of receiving a fall hereafter
from the "conservative dements 11 of which the
sc much, and exhibit so little wor
thy to be dignified by that name:
- Mjgs.isixut.—No quality of the human ,
heart is more to be admired than magnanimity. > (
The man who is magnanimous, in forgetting
the insults and indignities of those who have en- ; '
deavored to injure him, is one of humanity s i I
noblest specimens. Entertaining these views -
we recommend to our political friends, forbear
a nee to their fallen enemies. It is true, we j
have been maligned and abused without just
cause and without stint. Our principles, our
candidates and our party, have been called all I ,
that is low and vile,and that too, by a class of men
who affect to be virtuous and good. But what
need we care now for all this, since the justice of ‘
our cause and the virtue of our men have been |
vindicated, by the mighty voice ot an immense
majority of the American people. Let us look i
over the past, forget the jeers and groans, with s
which our exultant and triumphant enemy have
met us in days that have gone, at every turn. <
In view of our splendid victory we can afford
to be magnanimous ; we can afford to teach our
opponents a lesson in forbearance, that may |
benefit them in the future, and somewhat en
title them to their vain and arrogant claim of >
having all the intelligence and all the decency.” I
The Reverse.
It will be recollected by some of our readers
that when Gen. Harrison was elected President,
our Democratic Brother of the Boston Post, (who :
by the bye, is one of the cleverest and wittiest
fellows in the New England States.) lost sun- ;
dry hats, coats, pants, vests—and. if we recol- '■
lect right, even his regimental suit, (for he is a
regular Colonel by appointment,) on said elec- I
tion : he gave notice that, on a certain day, he
weuld pay off his creditors. So numerous were
they, however, that he instructed them to enter
one door and depart by another, to save time
an ! confusion. Just hear how different he talks
now :
u We don't care how’ often it rains now—
r ew hats enough on the Election, to last through 1
ever so many showers.”
Tn:. Congressional Vote.—The Tallahassee
Floridian of the 6th inst says : “ Considerable
anxiety is felt by our friends at a distance in
reference to the election for Congress in this
State. The report* Lave been so contradictory
as to leave the question as to who is elected in
uncertainty. We have it now in our power, '
however, to say that Mr. Maxwell is elected.
* His clear majority is 70 in Alachua, instead of
_ s 47, as heretofore counted. The Columbia and i
Nassau votes will be corrected, thus reducing ,
Mr. Cabell’s majority in those counties, and '
giving to Mr. Maxwell, as we have stated be
fu/e a.rnajpnl.• V; 1 " u nr votes in the
'“"'State. This includes’the amended returns in
Columbia and Nassau, which our friends assure
us are being looked after.
Presidential Election in Florida.—The I
same paper says : “So fir as Florida is concern- I
ed, there is no sort of doubt as to the result of the t
election on Tuesday last for President of the U. i
State. The State has gone fob PIERCE i
AND KING by a large majority No one dis- |
putesthis. although we have not the figures to .
demonstrate it. But such returns as we have
we furnish belo w. It will be seen that a won- ■
derful revolution has taken place, not only since ■
1848, when Taylor carried every thing before :
him, but even since the State election in Octo- |
her. Wakulla, for example, which gave Ward .
a majority of 5.5 over Broome, has now gone for |
Pierce by some 40 to 50 votes—and so it will ‘
lie found has it been withnearlyor quite all the :
counties in the State. We have very strong j
doubts if Scott has a majority in a solitary court- I
ty—but a shall know in a few days.”
N. Carolina Legislature.—On Thursday
Mr. Avery, of Burke, introduced a bill to incor
porate the North Carolina and Tennessee Rail
road Company, which was referred to the com
mittee on Internal Improvements and ordered to
be printed. This bill provides for extending the
Central road from Salisbury, N. C., to Knoxville,
Tenn, with a capital of three millions of dollars
of which the State is to subscribe two millions
whenever one million shall have been subscribed
by individuals. The provisions are the same in
this respect, as those of the charter of the Central
road.
Rosewood Trade.—lt is said thatfan attempt
is being made to lorrn a company at New-Or
leans for the purpose of entering into the rose
wood tiade. The projector owns a large tract of
land near Puatulco, in the State of Aajaca, on
the Pacific, about 210 miles from Acapulco, which
is covered with splendid rose trees from three to
four feet in diameter. It can be delivered for
■ shipment at a cost of §6 per ton, and is worth
between SSO and S6O pet ton of cubic leet
The rejKirt of the Boston Fite Department, for
the year ending August 31st,states the losses by
fire during that period to have been 8492 849
; of which $21.5,315 was insured. The principal
losses dining the year were by the burning of
Tremont Temple, on the 31st of March, and by
tkte Purchase street fire on the 10th of July. The
total loss by the Tremont Temple fire is estima
ted at $178,360, and the insurance on the same
$15,223. The loss by the Purchase-street fire is
estimated at $1.50,000, and the insurance on the
same $75,000.
Business or Cincinnati.—The Cincinnati
Gazette estimates, upon apparently reliable data,
that the aggregate capital employed in the
wholesale business in that city is $10,920,000
and that over 10,000 persons fare directly em
ployed and supported by this important trade.
The number of dealers is between tour and five
hundred, of whom one hundred are wholesale.
Eulogist of Mr. Webster.—The Boston
city government have invited the Hon G. S. Hil
liard to deliver the eulogy before them o n Dan
iel Webster. Mr. H. has accepted the invitation.
Mr. Hilliard has proved himself not unequal to
his high theme. The time fixed for the delivery
of the eulogy is the 30th instant.
The Vote of Concord, N.H.—A telegraphic
despatch from Concord, N. H., the residence of
Gen. Pierce, says that his vote in that city was
912 instead of 612. as previously,reported. It is a
majority of 399 over Ven. Scott, and a gain of
297 since last March, and the largest vote ever
given to any man in that town.
Thanksgiving Day.—A day for thanksgiv
ing has been set apart in the following states: —
Mississippi, Oct. 14, New Hampshire, Nov. 11 ;
Maine, Nov. 25 ; Massachusetts, do.; N. York,
do.; Connecticut, do.; Rhode Island, do.; New
Jersey, do.; Pennsylvania, do.; Maryland, do.;
Ohio, do.; Georgia, do.; Florida, do.; Indiana,
do ; Kentucky, do.; North Carolina, do; Ala
bama, do.
I A short time ago, a young man, clerk in a
■ house in San Francisco, having $5,000 to spare,
’ sent it to China and invested it in rice. He
I sold the cargo (to arrive) at 22 cents per pound
j and made the handsome sum of $37,000 by his
operation. The purchaser.was a Chinaman; it
i so happened that the cargo arrived the very day
after it was purchased. The Chinaman made
1 $65,000 on his bargain. The large sum of $102,-
000 has theiefore, been cleared on an invest-
I ment of $5,000.
Betting on Time—A fine hoise and buggy
were disposed of by their owner, (a member of
our local Judiciary.) says the Mobile Register,
Oct. 29, for S7OO, payable on the first day ol
Scott’s election.—Most of our mercantile friends
think this the slowest paper ever negotiated.
It is e timated, says the Texas Slate Gazette,
that Col. J. B. Gilmer, a cotton planter in Caddo
Parish, Louisiana, will make and send to market
this year, three thousand bales of cotton. The
crop on Red River will be an enormous one from
the accouuts given of it.
The Boston Traveller states that since the Ist
of January, 55 ships 12 barques, and two brigs
have cleared at that port for California, with full
cargoes of merchandise. A large number of them
were clippers, built expressly for the trade.
During the month of October, 12 ships, 2 barques i
and 1 brig, cleared for San Francisco. There are
at present but 22 vessels in Boston harbor.
Declination of Rev. Dr. Hawks.—lt is sta
ted that the Rev. Francis L. Hawks, who was
elected to the bishopric if Rhode Island, with
the rectorship of Grace Church, in Providence,
has declined their acceptance. He will remain,
as at present, over Calvary Church, in New York
city.
Extensive Scratching.—ln the town of
Gloucester, Mass., Charles G. Greene and Benj.
F. Hal let, on the regular Democratic ticket tor
Electois on Tuesday last, received but 15 votes,
while the other names on the same ticket re
ceived 417 votes. In Beverly, they received
only 25 out of 224 votes cast. This [was done
by the friends of the late Mr. Rantoul, who feel
aggrieved at the above gentlemen for their
course towards him at the Baltimore Conven
tion.
A planter near Franklin, (La.) has ga'hered
this season eleven hundred and seventy-seven
bushels of sweet potatoes from three acres of
land—“ and left behind,” he says, “ enough to
fatten about forty hogs.”
According to the returns from the Turkish
Custom House in Smyrna, the imports there for
1851 amounted to §5,200,000, and the exports
for the same period amounted to §6,700,000.
The imports from America amounted to about
5500,000, of which about one.half was rum, coffee
and cotton manufacturers. The exports to Ame
rica amounted to about 3700,000 and were chief
ly dried fruits, opium and wool.
Profitable Cruise.—The barque N. D.
Chase, which arrived lately in the port of Beverly
Mass., after a cruise of one year in the South
Pacific,landed 420 barrels sperm oil, which was
immediately disposed of in Salem at 1.21 per
gallon.
The inauguration ot Gov. Lane, as Governor
of the Territory of New Mexico, took place at
Santa Fe on the 25th of September. He has
been cordially received by the inhabitants and
appearances indicate that under his administra
tion the peace and good order of the territory
will be insured.
Land Warrants.—The sales of land warrants
by the brokers at New-York are at §l5O for the
160 acres scrip, $75 for 80 acres, and §374 for 40
acres. The leading dealers buy at 145 a §147, 73
a §734, and at 364 a S36L
Land warrants are bought by the brokers in
Cincinnati at the following rates: 160 acres,§l4o;
80 acres, §7O; and 40 acres, §36. Few are being
offered.
Ho.w Gen. Pierce Received the News of
ms Election.—A letter from Concord, N. H..
to the Union, says the democrats of that place
became wild with delight on Tuesday night on
receiving the news of the election of Gen. Pierce
and that the president elect was apparenly the
only self-possessed, calm and quiet man in the
place on that night. He received the victorious
bulletins announcing his success with scarcely a
change of countenance, and soon after quietly re
tired to bed. The letter adds :
His habits are plain and unostentatious. His
practice yields him a large income ; and he is
generous to a fault. It is said in Concord by
those who know him well that he will spend
his presidential 525,000 every year. The health
of Mrs. Pierce is too feeble for housekeeping,and
so, with their only child, a smart boy of a dozen
summers, they board in the private family ol W.
Williams, a respctable citizen engaged in the
extensive manufactory at this place of coaches,
omnibuses, and railroad cars. The house is a
most beautiful frame building, shaded by a line
of noble old elm trees.
We attended the "South Church” (Congrega
tional or Presbyterian) last Sabbath, and Gener
al Pierce was there as usual, a regular and devo
ted attendant upon divine service. He left Con
cord on Wednesday alternoon for a day’s visit
to his brother at Hillsborough.
Miss. Gen. Pierce.—The Portsmouth (N. H.)
Chronicle states that General Pierce is about to
to take up his residence in Portsmouth. Ihe
reason for this step is understood to be that the
health of bis wife is benefitted by the sea air.
The Chronicle adds, that General Pierce, on the
4th of March, will carry with him to the White
House in Washington, one of the best of women
to be mistress of the National Mansion.
Ti e Anderson (8. C.) Southern Rights Ad
vocate of the 27th ult., learns that the Hon.
Jefferson Davis is dangerously ill, and that it is
feared,even should he recover, that his sight
will be lost.
We are happy to have it in our power to in
form the editor of the Advocate that Colonel
Davis’s health is nearly quite restored. He
made a political speech at a public meeting in
this city on Friday evening last, which was de
cidedly the best made here during the campaign.
—N. O. Delta,' (sth intt.
Tennessee Election.
The Nashville Union of the 10th instsays
“ Sixty-nine counties have been heard frorm
most of them officially, which give a whig gain
on Campbel’s majority, of 537?’
Campbell's majority was 1600 votes.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNjN<L NOX'EMBER 17, J 852.
The Tugalo Organs.
A surprising effect has been produced upon
the Tugalo organs by the utter repudiation on
the part of the people, of their factious effort to
distract the Democratic party, defeat its ticket!
and entail upon the State Treasury the expense
of an extra session, at the hazard of losing the
vote of the State to Gen. Pierce.
The Cassville Standard, edited by Wm. T.
Wofford, Esq., who was so industrious in nom
inating the Tugalo ticket, and urging its claims
upon the people, “is satisfied.” It says :
“The Result in Georgia.—We give a table
below, showing the result in this State as far as
heard from. It will be seen that not much over
two-thirds of the vote of the State has been
cast. The Southern Rights ticket for Pierce
has received about 35,000: the Union ticket for
Pierce about 6,000: the Scott ticket about 16,000:
and the independent ticket for Crittenden and
Fillmore about 5,000, amounting in all to about
62,000; and as there are 95,000 voters in this
State, it leaves the number of 33,000, who did
not vote. At this result, all things taken into
consideration, we are satisfied.”
The Marietta Constitutional Union, which de
clared during the canvass, that it would rather
see the Scott ticket in Georgia, succeed than
the Democratic ticket, is positively “well pleas
ed.” It says:
“The Union Pierce Ticket. —We are well
pleased with the vote given for this ticket. It
was simply and without formality, recommended
to the support of those who could not vote for
Pierce and King through Electors who were
open and avowed disurijpnists. It vis believed,
when the ticket was suggested in Atlanta, that
there were many voters in Georgia who would
not attend the polls unless such an Electoral
ticket should be presented. The result has am
ply justified the opinion then entertained.
“ The vote for the Union ticket will exceed
5,000. It has carried the following counties,
and obtained a scattering vote throughout the
State : —Clarke, Jackson, Hall, Walton, Haber
ersham, Union, Gilmer, Wilkes, and perhaps
several others.”
Throughout the State it has received a very
scattering vote indeed.
From the following, taken from the Southern
Banner, it appears that in the 6th District, the
very hot bed of Tugaloism, where it was boast
ed that the vote would be almost unanimous for
the Tugalo ticket, the Democratic ticket has
beaten it 125 votes :
The Vote.— From the returns received, it’is
probable that, out of the one hundred thousand
voters in Georgia, not more than fifty thousand
have voted in the’late Presidential election.
In the 6th Congressional District, composed
now of the counties of Clarke, Jackson, Madi
son, Walton, Franklin, Hall, Lumpkin. Haber
sham, Union, Rabun, Gwinnett, and Forsyth,
the entire vote for Governor last year, was 12,-
874, of which McDonald got 4,368, and Cobb
8,506. This year the aggregate vote in the dis
trict has been only 7,692, or but little over half
the number of voters. Os this number the se
cession ticket has received 3,108, the Union tick
et 2,983, beinga majority of the former over the
latter of 125 votes, or in other words about an
equal contest between them. Whilst the seces
sionists have, as a general rule, turned out in
nearly their full strength, the Union d.-mocrats
in large numbers have refused to vote at all.
Take the county of Franklin as an example,
where is usually about 1000 democratic voters.
Last year the secessionists voted 4 15, and this
year 434—leaving about 600 Union democrats
ia the county, of whom only 157 voted for the
Union ticket—the balance refusing to vote.
The same remark may be applied to the large
counties ofUnion and Lumpkin.
It is gratifying to know that the secessionists
have made no actual gain in the distret, —that
our Union friends have not gone over to the ene
my. They have been only doubtfcl of the pro
priety of convening the legislature at an expense
upon the treasury, when they did not think any
great principle was involved. In this latter
opinion,however,we have ventured to differ with
them, and subsequent events will show, they
will yet have to make a struggle to prevent their
absorption by the secessionists.
The Union ticket, thus far has carried eight
counties, viz: Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Hall,
Habersham, Gilmer and Wilkes. It has received
5,452 votes, and will probably 6,000 —asutficilht
checking power, if properly managed.
The editor of the Banner is still a little wild
in his calculations. The future will show that
these editors who predicted 30,000 votes for the
TugaM f .-.-J, »- +>..
they have been in the past contest. Os the
votes received by the Democratic ticket, many
were given by Union Democrats —who viewing
the questions which had formerly divided the
Democrats of Georgia, as no longer at issue, like
sensible citizens, abandoned an opposition which
had dwindled into a selfish faction, controlled
by a few men ambitious of local influence and
office, and came in a proper spirit like democrats
and patriots to the support of the democratic
electoral ticket. This was the case all over the
State, and in probably every county in the State.
We instance, Judges Charlton and R. H. Jackson,
Judges Warner and John H. Lumpkin, the Hon.
Charles Murphy and E. W. Chastain, and many
other Union Democrats we might mention. —
(The Hon. Junius Hillyer’s position we cannot
designate. Will the Athens papers inform us ?)
This was also the case with many Union Whigs
also, who had become convinced that the Demo
cratic party was the safest party for the country.
There were many democrats—thousands of
them—both Southern Rights and Union men,
who did not go to the polls, chiefly because they
did not think it necessary in order to secure the
election of the Democratic ticket. The Tugalo
movement was such a ridiculous failure, except
in a few counties, that it excited no apprehen
sion.
The Southern Banner had as well disband for
mally and at once its little force. It cannot keep
it together long “as a checking power,” how
ever managed— to annoy the democratic party,
or to be a power in the State to be negotiated
and bargained with.
It will be abandoned by the people who have
been deluded into this false and factious position,
and who will unite with the democratic party.
The Tugalo party will become a party of disap
pointed leaders only, without votesand without
influence. Their antecedents prove them bad
managers.
Large Potatoes.
We have received from the Rev. E. P. Rogers,
a few Potatoes grown in Northampton, Mass.,
on the spot of his former residence, which
do that State far more credit than its politics.
They are truly superb specimens of that invalu
able edible. If the ideas of patriotism and duty
to the common bond of a common brotherhood
on the part of the people of Massachusetts, were
in like proportion, fanaticism would be over
shadowed there, and she would be again worthy
of the high place she once occupied in the sister
hood of States. But, alas, her greatest and best
men are like her potatoes—they are under
ground.
Our Volunteer Companies.
We are pleased to see the military spirit
springing up among our young men—they need
some recreation, and we know of none better
than the exercise of the soldier.
The Cliwh Jii/lea, under Capt. Wilson, para
ded yesterday afternoon in full dress. They
made a very handsome appearance, and their
evolutions and marching, would do credit to an
older company.
The ./Ingusia Guards, under command of Capt.
Dearing, paraded on Monday afternoon, and
proceeded on a Target excursion. The Pr'ze, a
Portrait of the Captain, was won by Private
Houseley, whose three shots averaged six inches,
beating two others of the company by Jth of an
inch, and others by 4to 1 inch. Ono-third of
the men, though shooting flint and steel mus
kets, put their three balls in the target.
After the firing for the first piiz.e, the non
commissioned officers and privates presented
a handsome Silver Goblet to be fired lor by the
officers, which was won by 3d Lieut. Burch.
This company has been recently organized
into an Artillery corps, and now numbers about
sixty men.
The deaths last week in New-York numbered
326, which is 25 more than those of the week
previous. 1 death is reported from cholera.B from
cholera infantum, 3 from cholera moi bus, 52 from
consumption, 20 from convulsions, 21 from drop
sy, 8 from dysentery, I) from diarrhma, 27 from
fevers, 9 from marasmus, 49 from inflamation,
15 from croup, and the remainder from’other
cornplaints. 77 of the above number were men,
50 women, 98 boys and 91 girls.
The Weather, &c.— been favored
with unusually mild weather this fall; and up to
Monday morning last, vegetation was not mate
rially injured by the frosts. We now have cool,
frosty nights. Cotton is beginning to come in,
and our merchants are doing a brisk business.
The river is in boating order, and the Georgia left
yesterday for Alabama.— Home Courier, llf/i
inst ■
] Fyom the Neto York Herald ]
The Rights of American Citizens Abroad—A Mo
del Diplomatic Note.
Nothing but the bustle and turmoil of a Pres
idential‘election would have prevented our
more than once referring to the correspondence
which took place, at the close of the last month,
between Geo. Law, Esq.. President of the Uni
ted States Mail Steamship Company, and Mr.
Conrad, Acting Secretary of State. The outrage
offered to the American flag, and the proprietors
of the Crescent City, by the colonial authorities
of Cuba, are quite fresh in the memory of our
readers. None of them have forgotten how the
Captain General deliberately assumed jurisdic
tion over an American citizen, and punished
him in Cuba, for acts committed in the United
States. We need remind no one that the gen
tleman thus prosecuted partially denied the
charges made against him. Nor need we ap
peal to the science of a lawyer to show that
even had the accusation —the publishing in the
United States of news collected at Havana
been substantiated, it did not amount to an of
fence of which any legal tribunal in a civilized
country could have taken cognizance. It is not
necessary that we should explain how this atro
cious act of tyranny, though levelled at a single
individual, was in reality most injurious to the
owners of a line of steamers plying between
Havana and this port, and the passengers on
board the Crescent City.
On the 6th of October, the agent of the steam
ship company addressed a letter to the Acting
Secretary of State, reciting the outrage, and in
quiring whether “whilst the steamers of other
nations are allowed • freely to enter the port of
Havana, and to maintain their commercial rela
tions and business intercourse unmolested the
Cuban authorities are authorized to forcibly ex
clude or nject American 'esseLK
those employed in postal service of lite UntrßK
States, upon idle assumptions, without contra
vening the treaty or postal arrangements be
tween the two governments and the maritime
rights of our citizens.” The letter remained
unanswered. It was a small matter perhaps to
the Consul, but Mr. Law and his associates had
embarked their capital in an enterprise, on the
faith of public treaties, and in full reliance on
the protection of this government, and our citi
zens, whose business required their presence in
Cuba, were sorely embarrassed by the exclusion
of the steamer from Havana. But, as we said,
these were very trifling inconveniences when
compared with the interruption of Mr. Conrad’s
silken leisure, or his participation in the absorb
ing turmoil ofa political struggle. A fortnight
elapsed, and, as the next steamer was to sail on
the 27th, the president of the company again ad
dressed Mr. Conrad, soliciting a reply to the
agent’s letter. This seems to have roused the
Acting Secretary. Silence was, perhaps, both
the most prudent and the least troublesome
course ; but Mr. Law put the matter in such a
light that silence would have become even more
expressive than words, Mr. Conrad was forced
to say something, and the following letter was
accordingly addressed to Mr. Law :
Department of State, I
Washington, Oct. 25, 1852. )
To George, Law, Esq., New York.
Sir—Your letter of the 3d inst, has been re
ceived. As no intelligence has reached this de
partment from Cuba since that .which was
brought by your steamer, it has no means ot
knowing the intentions of the authorities of the
island, other than what you possess yourself, and
cannot, theiefore inform you whether mails or
passengers will be permitted to land there or
not. It may, however, be inferred, from the ,
past proceedings of the authorities, that mails
and passengers conveyed in the steamer Cres- ,
cent City will not be permitted to laud there, ;
in case the individual named William Smith should i
remain on board of her. lam sir, very respect- i
fully, your obedient servant, j
(Signed) C. M. CONRAD, <
Acting Secretary. <
This, we beg to assure our readers, is- a bona
fide despatch, addressed by the Acting Secretary
of State to an American citizen, who solicited
information which the department was bound to
possess and protection which the State was
bound to aflbrd. We hardly know whether to
admire the matter or the style the most. A
pretty colonial authority, in a country with
which we are allied by the most solemn entrea
ties, suddenly, without provocation, excludes an
American vessel from its ports; and the De
partment of State does not know, and apparent
ly does not care, anything about the matter.
Our treaties with Spain are openly, notoriously
violated, and the Department of State "cannot
inform” Mr. Law whether the violation is a '
accidental occurrence, or whether we are j
henceforth to consider the treaty as w’aste paper, I
and the United States at war with Spain. There
is a tone of pettish annoyance in the despatch,
which Innl's as th*»nah A-X.,: > «<
Law had taken an unwarrantable liberty in re
ferring to him at all on the matter. “What can
we tell you,” says Mi. Conrad, “about the rela
tions between the United States and foreign .
powers ! The Acting Secretary of State is the |
last person in the world to know anything about
foreign treaties. You may send your steamer to
Havana, or not, as you like ; but really, we have
too much to do to ascertain what is the nature
of our relations with Spain.” The concluding
sentence of Mr. Conrad’s letter sounds more
like a friendly counsel than a piece of official in
formation. The Secietary of State “cannot in
form” Mr. Law whether American vessels can
enter Cuban ports, but Mr. Conrad shrewdly
guesses that as the Crescent City had been turn
ed out before, she would be turned out again.
That is his private opinion, and knowing, as he
did! the supineness of his government, it was en
titled to every weight. If the harbor authori
ties of Liverpool, on the strength of private in
formation to the effect that Capt. Comstock or
Captain Nye had been heard to express decided
opinions on the rascally custom house of that
port, were to refuse to allow the Collins steam
ers to land their mails and passengers, Mr. Act
ing Secretary Conrad would, in all probability,
tell the indignant company that he “could not
inform” them what were the commercial rela
tions between this country and Great Britain,
and would guess that the offending captainshad
better not “try it again.”
We need to assure foreigners that our Secre
taries of State do not usually speak of respecta
ble citizens in the impertinent language used by
the Acting Secretary with respect to Mr. Smith.
Mr. Conrad may claim the honor ot having been
the first to designate, in an official despatch, a
worthy man and a gentleman as “the individual
named William Smith.” If we were to charac
terize this language as indisputable evidence of
the ill-breeding of “the individual named C. M.
Conrad,” the Acting Secretary would conceive
himself ill-used, and we should be justly censur
ed for our want of courtesy. We should, how
ever be guilty of no greater breach of decorum
than Mr. Conrad himself.
Topass from these trivial matters to consider
ations of more importance, Mr. Fillmore’s ad
ministration plainly declined, on the 25th of Oc
tober, to afford that protection to her citizens
which Great Britain, France and Austria, have
never denied to theirs. The Secretary deliber
ately let the country know, on that day, that our
merchant navy must light their own battles,
with the prospect of being apprehended as fill
busteros if they defended their own rights and
the honor of the national flag. It is painful to
refer to the fact—but it would be worse to allow
the country to remain in ignorance of it.
On the 27th the Washington Republic pub
lished an article, in which certain nameless par
ties were severely handled for having dared to
suppose that the administration had not evinced
a proper degree of spirit on the Cuban affair, and
it was gravely asserted that “high ground had
been taken” by the cabinet. On Monday, the
Acting Secretary of State not only shirks the
responsibility of his office,-anti- du. llntTttt p.u> -
tect our citizens, but absolutely pleads ignorance
of the whole matter. On Wednesday the gov
ernment organ protests, indignantly, that the
same Acting Secretary has taken “high ground”
on the dispute. Between the two, our readers
will have much difficulty in deciding which is
entitled to the greater weight. It the Republic
wasthe most politic, Mr. Conrad was, unques
tionably, the most honest.
Everyday furnishes new grounds for lament
ing the loss we have suffered in the death of Mr.
Webster. Had that great man still filled the
chair of State, when Mr. Law applied for pro
tection and redress, how different would have
been his reply. What a contrast between his
manly despatches, breathing the purest patriot
ism and the most sterling sense of honor, and the
contemptible effusion which bears the signature
of C. M. Conrad.
There is some satisfaction in * he thought, that
il he is tor ever taken away from us, the gentle
manly language which we are sure to find in
Mr. Everett’s political papers will soon obliter
ate all memory of the coarseness of his immedi
ate predecessor.
Frost.—A considerable frost, accompanied
by ice, fell at this place on Monday night last.
It is remarkable that the tenderest vegetables
were not killed by it. Another on Tuesday—
vegetation not yet killed.— Miens Banners, 1 1th
inst.
Marine Disaster.—About seven o’clock last
evening, as the steamer General Clinch, Capt.
R. C. Davis, was towing into this port, the ship
Forest State, Capt. I’ollister, from Portland,
Maine, she was run into near Cumming’s Point
by two schooners, supposed to be coasters. One
oi them struck her on the starboard side, near
the bow, cutting into the guard and tail walks,
and causing otherwise considerable damage.
What injury the schooners received, we have
been unable to ascertain.— Charleston Courier,
10th inst.
Mir. Webster and the Late Contest.—The
New York Journal of Commerce tells the follow
ing:
“For the greater part of the last year he was in
good spirits and in his usual health. Had he been
nominated as a candidate tor the Presidency, it
was his avowed purpose to resign his present
office and take a tour to tho South this lull and
winter. Had Mr. Fillmore been nominated he
has been heard to say that he would resign and
take the political field as tho advocate of Mr.
Fillmore’s election.”
. (From the N. O. Pic., "Ithiust.)
jjrrtral of the Orescent Olty Her Visit to Hava
na.—Full Account of the Difficulty.
Thf U, S. Mail steamship Crescent City, Hen
ry 1L Davenport, U. S. N., commander, arrived
■ hereth‘ s morning from New York, via Havana,
ii. eijbt days and thirteen hours, leaving the
lattes port at 9J o’clock, A. M. on the 3d inst.
Aithe Crescent City approached the Moro
the plot came off and inquired if Capt. Porter
or Pfof' r Smith was on board. Upon being in
forirtf‘l that the latter was on board, he declined
taking the ship in, and Capt. Davenport took
her in without his assistance. As soon as the
anchor was let go the Captain ol the Port came
alongside, and after learning that Mr. Smith
was on board, he stated that no communication
could be had with the shore until he returned
from a visit to the Captain General.
On his return he stated that the mails and
passengers for Havana might be landed, but that
110 other person would be permitted to go
ashore. Capt. Davenport then showed him a let
ter from the American Consul, just received,
which stated that the whole difficulty had been
settled by Mr. Conkling, except that Capt. Por
ter and Purser Smith would not be permitted to
land. The Captain of the Port said this was a
„isiak ;, that the mails and passengers for
Havasu ffijght be landed on this one occasion,
but tiiat if Air. Smith returned in the ship from
New 'hleans, no commnnication would be per
the shore; that’the Spanish Minister
at Wi liington had written to the Captain Gen
ertt ‘ ilut the Secretary of State bad assured
hiattb't Mr. Smith should positively not be
P>>t» Itedfo go out again in a steamer to Hava
na.®
' 31k: '■ told him there must be some
'!»°ut this, for that Mr. Smith was a
I ■■ tfs, and could
withotft let or hindrance
IFromraeU nited States Government. The Cap
tain of the Port went again to see the Captain
General, »nd the boat of the officers who were
to give permits to the passengers came along
side, but Capt. Davenport informed them that
no officer or other person could come on board
his ship until he learned the disposition and de
termination of the Cuban authorities. Capt.
Davenport then addressed a letter to the U. S.
Consul, apprising him of the condition of things
and asking his directions.
The Captain of the Port returned, with the
permission of the Captain General for all the
passengers and officers ot the ship, except Mr.
Smith,to goon shore ; also again repeating that
if Mr. Smith returned in the ship from New Or
leans the ship would be placed in comunicado.—
Capt. Davenport then addressed the U. S. Con
sul again, staling the change which bad taken
place ; that tne passengers would exercise their
own discretion about landing; but as Capt. Por
ter, whose cotrse he entirely approved, was in
terdicted fromlanding, he would himself decline
the permissior granted.
Judge Shaikey, the U. S. Consul, came on
board, and hac a long and full conversation with
Capt. Davenport in reference to the pending
difficulties, aid the course to be pursued upon
the return o'the vessel from New Orleans.
The Captiin of the Port was, throughout the
several intffviews, extremely polite and civil.
As soon as the U. S. Consul learned that the
passengers/n transitu would not be permitted
to land, (recalled upon the Captain General, and
it was though his efforts and representations
that permission was granted them. A few of
the passeigers went on shore and spent the eve
ning. A tew moments before leaving the port
of Havang Mr. Morales (of the firm of Drake &
Co., the caisignees of the Crescent City,) came
on board, (nd stated, by authority, that if Purser
Smith wodd send a letter to the Captain Gene
ral denyiig the charge made against him, the
difficulty vould all be settled. Capt. Davenport,
in reply’, asured him that under no circumstances
could he alow Mr. Smith, or any other officer un
der his command, to address any communication
to the Cuban authorities upon the subject, as
Capt. Porter, an officer of unblemished reputa
tion, had or two previous occasions, under his
own signature, disavowed the charge.
(from the Natchez Courier.)
Thi Rot in Cotton--Its Causes.
The following communication from a most
estimable gpntleman of Marion county, Ebene
zer Ford, Esq., will be found deeply interesting.
Mr. F. has made a diligent personal examina
tion into the cause of rot in cotton, and his ob
servations xe, on that account, entitled to great
respect. Many theories have been broached
and speculations advanced the present fall upon
this subject; but tew of them, however, have
been based on anything more than mere opin
ion, or perhaps a cursory look at a cotton field.
Such appears not to be the case with the follow
ing. . . f ... ..1--. A._.
Ings oi ii wspecies of trie “ Piirew'Bug”—vary
ing in foi-ia and color. The drawings are color
ed, and appear to be exceedingly natural. We
shall be glad to show them to any friends inter
esting in the inquiry.
Spring Cottage, Miss. Oct. 12,1852.
Mr. G. M. Hillyer: Sir —Having noticed many
supposed causes, assigned by your and other cor
respondents, of the rot in cotton, and finding,
upon a strict examination as to the cause, that
all are at fault, 1 will, for information to the
planting community, give you a description of
the bug that pierce the cotton bolls and produce
the fomenting rot.
It is a varied species of, and very similar to,
in all leading particulars, the bug commonly
known as the China Bug. Hereunto apprend
ed, you have a rough and hastily-drawn sketch
and painting of five species, differing only in
form and color. All are alike armed with pro
boscis in length in proportion to the size of the
insect, which they carry unemployed on the
breast (as an assassin does his dagger.) When
turned down to the body, it is almost impercep
tible. When engaged at their mischief, they
throw the bill forward at will, and at right an
gles with the body, and commence feeling round
on bolls, as though to find a soft place, as a mos
quito, then drive it down to the core of the boll,
and draw it partially up and suck for a time ;
then dn ij it down again and suck; draw it from
the boll and wipe it over, and move round the
boll and pierce it again, or ffy to another. They
appear to be very wild; when approached, they
shy over crablike to the opposite side of the boll
or leaf and are to be found at their work of des-
truction only late of an evening or early in the
morning. Through the day, they are secreted
in the cotton bloom, under the covering of the
bull or forms, in clusters of leaves.
To establish the fact beyond a reasonable doubt,
I have marked bolls that were sound and healthy,
that I saw those bugs pierce, and examined
them from day to day until rotten. In fair, open
weather, the little, rusty, brown spot is apparent
in three to four days upon the boll pierced ; and
in about the same space of time thereafter, the
bolls marked were rotten. In rainy or cloudy
weather, the first perceptible evidence is a white,
mouldy spot upon the boll.
By observation, I have discovered that the in
fection imparted by those Bugs progresses much
more slowly in fair, open weather, than in rainy
and cloudy weather. And lam of opinion from
late observations, connected with my recollec
tions of the rot in cotton from 1818 to 1824, that,
when th? weather favors the operations of those
i insects, the rot spreads as an epidemic. Having
j observed many other insects, than those des
cribed heretofore, sucking the fomenting bolls
and Hying from boll to boll, by which I appre
hend the contagion may spread, as an epidemic,
and as I have observed during rainy spells many
diseased bolls, upon which 1 could find no evi
dence of their having been pierced by Bugs first
described, 1 conclude others may carry the in
fection.
, If any foUI doubt that flic Bu" described,
"fettsff Hw*.’ost cisastrous^-’""^"cotton, let such
but make the have done, and
they will doubt no more.'L, *
I have noticed an opinion entertained by
some, of an antidote in the importation or change
of seed. Fresh seed, or a change of seed, gives a
more abundant yield, doubtless. But it may
well be doubted, whether those insects will pay
any respect to seed, if they shall appear again
next season.
On examination of different crops or yields,
I where I could find no rot, I could find Bugs as
those described; anil where 1 found the rot, I
found the Bugs also. I have ’noticed further,
that where cotton has been planted several years
in succeesssion, the rot is more apparent. I have
also remarked some difference in the result as
between old and new lands.
Having discovered the origin of the rot, I ten
der information to the public, with the hope that
Providence may remove the cause, or that some
one may discover the remedy.
Very respectfully, your ob’t. serv’t.,
EBEN’R. FORD.
Tho Georgia State Fair.
Georgia Straw Culler.— The correspondent of
the Mobile Tribune; writing an account ot the
Georgia Fair, says:
Mr. J- E. Brown of the firm of E. T. Taylor
& Co.; exhibits a straw cutter, which was ad
mired by all wlio saw it. Mr. Brown wasthe
inventor, and has received for it a premium
from the New York State Fair; also a premium
from Canada, and a premium from this Associa
tion. Ris exceedingly simple in its operation,
and the tact of its having received a premium
over all Northern machines, recommends it to
planters. Its performance elicited from a cor
respondent of the National Intelligencer a very
likely and handsome notice. As it may be in
teresting to your readers to know what a North
ern man may say of Southern machines, I will
copy a portion of it. He (writes from the New
York Fair and speaking of Straw Cutters gener
ally; he says:
‘ One has made its appearance at the Fair ori
ginating in Georgia, from whence one would
least look tor a triumphantly successful inven
tion of this sort—which those who witness its
i operation unite in declaring it to lie. It is capa
ble of doing from three to five times as much
; work with the same driving power, as any other
machine ever before invented. At a trial re
. cently made, witli one man to feed and another
I at the wheel, in 15 minutes it cut oil sufficient
hay for ail the mixed food required in 2-1 hours
in a stable of 50 horses.
And the same writer says, in another place*:
Messrs. Morse & Nichols, manufactures at Sa
vannah, have something new and elegant in the
way ofa Mantlepiece. It is of cast iron, and
enambled to represent marble, and so well done
as to deceive the best judges. The same firm
also sent down some fine specimens of brass, tin,
and britannia ware. From Savannah 1 noticed
two iron safes, from D. Morris, and a Southern
stove invented by James Sullivan, of the same
place. It is highly recommended —and the es
tablishment should be patronised, if for no other
reason than because it is the first Southern in
vention in that line. And invalid’s chair is ex
hibiting by D. Furguson, of the same place. It
is a peifect curiosity, and so made as to accomo
date any position that a sick man could think of.
Cotton Gins were exhibited by E T. Taylor &
Co, Columbus, and O. W. Massey, Macon.
[Published by Request.]
[From the Alabama Slate Register.]
Tho late Dr. Thomas G-. Holmes, of Baldwin.
To A. B. Meek, Esq.— Dear Sir: As you
have taken a deep interest in whatever relates
to the History of Alabama, I do not know to
whom I can with more propriety address this
communication.
On the 19th of October 1852, at his residence
near Montgomery Hill, in the county of Bald
win, Thomas Galphin Holmes departed this
life. He was born at Silver Bluff, South Caro
lina, on the 21st January 1781. Upon that
Bluff, which fronts the eastern side of the Sa
vannah, his Giandfather, the Hon. George Gal
phin, establisheiEhimself as early as 1736. Mr.
Galphin was the most extensive and affluent
Indian trader up to the commencement of the
Revolution. From his trading houses at Savan
nah, Augusta and Silver Bluff, he was accustom
ed to send merchandise to all parts i. the Chero
kee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Creek nations, as
they originally existed. A patriot of the Revo
lution, he applied much of his wealth and all of
his influence to the attainment of our liberties.
The wife of Gov. Millege was his daughter, the
descendants of whom have lately shared the
proceeds of the Galphin claim.
Dr. Holmes, the subject of this notice, came to
the neighborhood in which he died, in the spring
of 1809. Near the ill-fated Fort Mims, he lived,
and was accustomed to engage in the exciting
amusements incident to a wild and frontier life.
He was full of vivacity, of wit, of courage, and
of bold adventure. He had been prominent in
the field sports of Carolina, and had brought to
this country some racers of matchless speed. In
Nov. 1810, he was in the Kemper expedition,
designed to take Mobile from the Spaniards, and
while encamped in the old fields of Minette Bay,
engaged in a desperate combat with a Dr. Pol
lard. Adventure often led him to the different
Indian nations. Ever ready to engage in des
perate enterprises, he was among the first to
march against the Creeks. He was at the bat
tle of Burnt Corn as a private in the company
of Dixon Bailey, and fought, side by side, with
that officer and Sam Dale. That disastrous con
fl.ct had the effect to drive all the Americans
into places of defence. Within the rude walls
of Fort Mims, Holmes was an assistant Surgeon
of a garrison consisting of over five hundred men,
women, children, Indians and negroes. I need
not describe that unparalleled massacre, for you
have read a minute account of it in the work
which I have recently published. You have
seen that Holmes was among the last to quit the
bloody place .- That, covered with the blood of
his neighbors, who one by one had fallen by his
side, he rushed through the enemy’s lines and
made his escape: That hi a place of precarious I
concealment he lay until nearly midnight, in the
midst of warriors who were in hot pursuit of 1
him : That he then retreated to the canebrake. 1
where he remained five days without sustenance, 1
and was finally discovered and carried to Mount 1
Vernon in a state of the greatest destitution.
You have further seen that he was the one who 1
cut down some pickets of the Fort, by which j
few escaped, or else, none could have told the
tale. !
Soon after the fall of Fort Mims,Dr. Holmes
accompanied Major Blue in an expedition which
took possession oi the country around the scene
of the massacre. He was next made Surgeon’s
mate in the 3d Regiment and marched with Col.
Russell to Fort Claiborne. I am not positive,
but I think he was in the battle of the Holy
Ground. I know that he was one of an expe
dition commanded by Capt. Denkins that went
in pursuit of Weatherford, nearly to Pensacola.
In the summer of 1814, Fort Montgomery was
erected, and from this post various mounted ex
peditions proceded against the Indians. One of
these was conducted by Col. William Peacock,
formerly a resident of the town of Montgomery,
in which Holmes acted in the double capacity of
trooper and Surgeon, and being well acquainted
with the country, not unfrequently lent his ser-
-11-f Tn all n>m»ai g ns
exposed to hardships and dangers tt no oruTnary
character. He also formed one of Capt. Devo
rough’s horse company, which scoured the coun
try around the Perdido. When Jackson march
ed upon Pensacola, Holmes was with his army.
But of all the arduous service he performed, none
was equal to that while under Major Blue. That
officer left Fort Montgomery with a large
mounted force in the winter of 1814. He
brought the Creek war to a successful termina
tion.” In doing this he was forced to scour the
swamps of Conecuh, and Escambia, and the
Hammocks of West Florida. He swam creeks
and rivers and made fatiguing and rapid marches
until late hours of the night—indeed he often
surprised the Indians several hours before day.
In all these difficult marches Holmes acted in
the character of both trooper and Assistant Sur
geon.
After the war Dr. Holmes became a perma
nent citizen of Baldwin county. He was much
respected by the inhabitants, and was esteemed
a good physician and useful citizen. Indeed, he
was a man of so much address and frankness of
spirit, that during the war, Gen. Jackson and
other distinguished officers were fond of his so
ciety. Gen. Wade Hampton made him a pre
sent of some handsome silver cups. In person
he was large and commanding. His face deno
ted much talent, and you would not be long in
his company without perceiving that he was
very intelligent. His voice excelled that of any
man with whom I ever conversed in its strong,
but not unpleasant intonations. In common
conversation he could be distinctly heard in
every part of his commodious house. I often
imagined, in riding with him in the woods, that
he could be heard conversing at the distance of
a quarter of a mile. Among his other accom
plishments which fitted him for the perilous life
to which I have merely alluded, 1 will state
that he was a most capital rider. In his manner
he was rather positive. He always delivered
his views with force and fluency. His memory
was of a most minute and retentive character.
He could commence with a narration of any ex
pedition in which he had been engaged and take
you to the end of it, in a manner so connected
and minute as to astonish you. In preparing the
History of Alabama it was my good fortune to
have found many old persons, of strong memo
ries, who imparted much information. As to
the recollection of the past, Holmes exceeded
them all. It makes me feel very sad to reflect
that they have nearly all left this world, and
that Holmes, too, is numbered with them. I
have some satisfaction, however, in knowing
that he lived to read the History which I have
published, about the success of which, he took
such a lively interest. I was not present at his
death, but have been informed by letters from
his kind neighbors, that he departed at peace
with God—at peace with man—and with the
fullest assurance of a joyful resurrection. A
few months before his death, he had become a
member of the Baptist Church.
Respectfully, your ob’t serv’t.
A. J. PICKETT.
Jilantgomery, Nov. 1, 1852.
[F/wn the Nashville American, Oth
Tennessee.
It is pretty certain that Tennessee is one of
the four or five States which have voted for
Scott. We are equally surprised and mortified at
the result. Tennessee, Vermont, and Masachu
setts for Scott 1 We had voters enough in the
State to have prevented this unnatural associa
tion, but they would not be aroused. J no. Bell
is a powerful man. Fifteen years ago he pledg
ed the State to stand by Massachusetts; and there
she stands, almost alone in the glory of sustain
ing Mr. Seward’s nominee.
Let us, in apology to our victorous democra
tic friends in twenty-seven States of the Union,
give a word or two of explanation. In no State
in the Union is military fame as omnipotent as
in Tennessee. Half our voters have been vol
unteers in the recent wars of the country, or are
the old Indian fighters of the State or their sons.
It is utterly impossible to prevent a large por
tion of these men from disregarding party, when
a General who has won battles is a candidate.
Tennessee is the “volunteer State,” and she will
vote for Generals.
Then, again, the men who control the whig
organization of this State were implicated in the
nomination of Scott, and it became a personal
matter with them to carry the State. Their
own political lives and fortunes were at stake,
and they worked with the energy of despera
tion. No such considerations of personal profit
and loss prompted the democracy; and the con
sequence was that ten times the effort was made
by tlie whigs which the democracy put forth.
While the State was shingled over with picto
rial lives of Scott from Washington, and while
their presses here were kept constantly running
in the production of copies of “the N. Boston
speech.” “ the Catholic test,” “Fierce against
the pensioners,” “Pierce and his abolition al
lies,’' &c., the democrats received no documents
from Washington, and our means of furnish
ing answers to whig documents were very limi
ted.
We expected too much, also, from anti-Scott
whigs. Many of our friends seemed to think
that they would do all the fighting for us, and
that we had nothing to do but to look on and
admire their skill.
We are very much disappointed at the result.
We hud every reason to be sanguine of carrying
the State, and we were so. It is lost. We re
joice at the brilliant success of the democracy of
the Union; but we have no share in the glory of
achieving it.
VOL. XXXI- NEW SERIES -VOL VII. NO 41.
A Kentucky Rifleman.
A British officer who was in the battle of
■ New Orleans, mentions an incident of thrilling
strangeness, and veryjdiscriptive of the West
ern hunter, many of whom marched to the de
fence of New Orleans as volunteers in the army
under the renowned Andrew Jackson :
We marehed, said the officer, in a solid col
umn of twenty thousand men, in direct line
upon the American defences. I belonged to
the staff, and as we advanced, we watched
through our glasses the position and arrange
ments of our enemy with that intensity an of
ficer only feels when marching into the jaws of
death, with the assurance that, while he thus
offers himself a sacrifice to the demands of the
country, every action to be successful or other
wise, will be judged with the most heartless
scrutiny.
It was a strange sight, that long range of
cotton bales—a new material for breastworks—
with the crowd of human beings behind, their
heads only visible above the lines of defence.
We could distinctly see their long rifles lay
ing over the bales, and the battery of General
Coffee directly in front, with its great mouth
gaping towards us, as they waited to devour
us, and the position of Gen. Jackson, with his
staff around him. But what attracted our at
tention most, was the figure of a tall man stand
ing on the breast-works, dressed in linsey
woolen, with buck-skin leggings, and a broad
rimmed felt hat, that fell around the face, al
most concealing his features. He was stand
ing in one of those picturesque and graceful at
titudes, peculiar to those natural men-dwellers
in the forests. The body rested on the left
leg, and swayed with a curved line upwards;
the right arm was extended, the hand grasping
the rifle near the muzzle, the butt of which rest
ed near the ton of his right foot, while with
bis hand he ra’sed the rim "of his hat from his
eyes, and seemed gazing from beneath intense
ly upon our advancing column. The cannon
of Gen. Goffee had opened upon us, and tore
through our ranks with dreadful slaughter ; but
we continued to advance, unwavering and
cool, as if nothing threatened our progress.
The roar of cannon seemed to have no effect
upon the figure standing on the cotton bales,
but he seemed fixed and motionless as a sta
tue. At last he moved, threw back the hat
rim over the crown with his left hand, raised
the rifle to his shoulder and took aim at our
group. Our eyes were riveted on him. At
whom had he leveled his piece ? But the dis
tance was so great that we looked at each
other and smiled. We saw the rifle flash, and
my right-hand companion, as noble looking a
fellow as ever rode at the head of his regiment,
fell from his saddle. The hunter paused a few
moments without moving the gun from his
shoulder, then re-loaded and assumed his for
mer attitude. Once moie the hat-rim was
thrown back, and the gun raised to the shoul
der. This time we did not smile, but cast short
glances at each other to see which of us must
die ; and when again the riffe flashed, another
of us dropped to the earth. There was some
thing awful in this marching on to certain
death.
Gen. Coffee’s battery, and thousands of mus
ket balls playing upon our ranks we cared not
so was a chance of escaping unscathed.
Most of us had walked upon batteries a hun
dred times more destructive without quailing ;
but to konw that every time that rifle was
levelled towards us, and the bullet sprang
from the barrel, one of us must as surely fall !
to see the gleaming sun flash as the deadly
iron came down, and see it rest, motionless, as
if poised upon a lock, and know, when the ham
mer struck and the sparks flew to the lull
primed pan, that the messenger of death drove
unerringly to its goal—to know this, and still
march onward, was awful.
I could see nothing but the tall figure stand
ing on the breast-work. He seemed to grow,
phantom like, taller and taller, assuming
through the smoke the supernatural appearance
of some great spirit. Again did he reload
and discharge his rifle with the same unfailing
aim ; and it was with indescribable pleasure
that I beheld, as we neared the American
lines, the sulphurous smoke gathered around us,
and shut that spectral hunter from my gaze. We
lost the battle ; and to my mind, the Kentucky
rifleman contributed more to our defeat than
anything else; for while he remained to our
sight, our attention was drawn from duties ;
and when at last we became enshrouded in
the smoke, the work was complete—we were
in utter confusion, and unable, in the extermi
ty, to restore order sufficient to make any suc
cessful attack.
So long as thousands and thousands of rill es
remain in the hands of the people, so long as
men come up Irom their childhood able, ere the
down appears on the chin, to hit the centre
of a mark, or strike deer at ope hundred
and fifty yards in Jsost -it.-.', par?; so bag
as there is a great proprtion ot the Republic
who live as free as the wild Indian, knowing
no leader but their own choosing; knowing no
law but that of right, and the honorable ob
servences of friendly intercourse, America is
unconquerable; and all the armies of the com
bined world, though they might drive them
from the seacoast and across the Alleghany
Mountains, would not be able to subdue the
free-souled hunter among the mountains and
great prairies and mighty rivers of the West.
A Country Wedding.
“Did I ever teil you of a certain wedding I
once attended ? Its history runs on this wise :
One stormy Thursday last winter, as I was go
ing to the Post Office. I was accosted by a young
man, or old boy. (I dont know which, but shall
leave you to judge,) with the inquiry, ‘I say,
mister, can’t ye tell me, sir, where Dominie
Soule lives?”
“I suppose I am the man you are seeking.”
The young man’s countenance changed. The
expression of intense anxiety passed away and
was succeeded by one of ludicrous bashfulness.
“Well, then, you’re Dominie Soule, be ye ?
Well, I want to see you a few minutes, if you’ve
no objection.”
“None at ail, sir. Be so kind as to walk into
my study with me, where we can attend to your
business by the side of a comfortable fire..”
Once in the study, he asked again—‘You’re
Dominie Soule,the minister, be ye?”
“I am.”
“Be ye all alone?” looking sheepishly at the
half open bedroom door.
“We are,” said I, as I closed it. I knew what
he wanted, but was wicked enough to enjoy his
embarrassment. After hitching and shuffling
and hemming awhile, he spoke out:
“Weil, I come for to get you to go and marry
somebxly to-night'”’
“Indeed, and how far is it?”
“O, it’s only just seven miles up here, you
know.”
I wanted he should go and get some one else;
it stormed furiously, and I did not teel like buf
feting a cold northeaster that night. But he
said—
“No, the old folks want you, and the gal wants
you, and so do I want you, an ! .he old folks
wouldn’t like it if we didn’t have you, you
know.”
“Well, if you must have me, I wish vou would
postpone it till better weather; I will then come
up and marry you.”
“O dear, that won’t do, no how, lor we’ve
postponed it once, and we wouldn’t postpone it
again for nothin.”
I then said to him, “sir, I’ll teil you what I
will do—it you will comedown here 1 will mar
ry you for nothing.”
“No, that wouldn’t do neither ; cause the old
folks wants to see us git married; and you must
come any way; you shan’t lose nothin.”
The poor fellow begged so hard I concluded to
go, and accordingly hired a horse and cutter; and
about five o’clock staited on my novel wedding
mission. I found the traveling exceedingly bad
all the way, and particularly so after I left the
main road. At length I reached the log house
in which the fair bride lived. Hitching my
hoise, went to the door and knocked, when a
stern voice bade me “come in.” Entering the
house, I was invited to sit down with all my
ovor-clothes on. I asked the old man if they
were going to have a wedding there that eve
ning. He said they were. 1 then looked around
to see if 1 could,.where the parties were coining
from. There was but one door to the house, and
that let out into the world. Very soon, how
ever, I heard a clattering up stairs, and, to my
astonishment, the bridegroom and bride came
down the ladder. He backed down, leading her
by both hands. They were seated.
“If you are ready for the ceremony, you will
please rise.”
They stared at each other, at the old folks, at
me, but sat s'ill. Twice I repeated it, and twice
was met by the same vacant stare.
“If you want to get married, stand up,” said I.
That they understood, and I proceeded to make
the twain one. When I came to this part of
the ceremony, the matter ran thus:
“Do yo take this woman,” &c.?
“Most sartinly, sir.’
“Do you promise to love her above all others,”
&c.?
“Why,” said he, “I’ve done so this good
while.”
1 almost foigot the solemnity of the occasion
in my efforts to suppress laughter. When I
came to the bride with this question, “Do you
take this,” &c.?
“He’s took me, hain’t he, for to be his wife;
he’s my husband, then, without my taking him.”
“Do you promise to love him, above all oth
ers,” &c.?
“I’l love him just as long as he loves me, and
that’s long enough.”
I smiled, but succeeded in governing myself
so as to conclude the ceremony, which through
out was of the same unique character. When
it was over, the bridegroom passed around a
bowl of good old strap, and then gave me a cigar.
J list as 1 was leaving, tie gave me some change,
which I put in a separate pocket to know just
how much I had. When I got home, I paid ten
shillings for my horse and cutter, and on count
ing my change, found that he had given me the
sum of six and sixpence. But, as he had said,
I didn’t “lose nothing”—the other three and six
pence I had in fun.
The amount contributed at the polls in New
Orleans in aid of the Washington Monument,
was §l,lOO.
“Marriage by Surprise” in Italy.—The
Florence correspondent of the London News
says:
I met in society a few days ago an English
lady, who had just been released from prison,
where she had undergone two months of soli
tary confinement for having contracted marriage
with a Tuscan officer in the manner termed
matrimoni di sorpresa, which may be considered
equivalent to a Gretna Green match in England.
The parties being much attached to each other,
although family obstacles prevented their im
mediate marrying in forma, they resolved to
adopt the plan above mentioned, which consists
in the couple presenting themselves before the
curate of the parish, and stating to him, in the
presence of two witnesses, that they are man
and wife. This forms a valid marriage accor
ding to the law of the church of Rome. The
lady in the present case being a Roman Catho
lic, sent to the curate to inform him that she
wished to confess, and requested him to name
the hour that would suit him to hear her. At
the hour named she repaired to the confessional,
and had fully engaged the priest’s attention,
when her lover, attended by two witnesses, sud
denly presented himself. The lady arose and
gave him her hand, the fatal words were pro
nounced, the witnesses attested, and the curate
became the unwilling instrument of ‘ marriage
by surprise !’ But although the marriage con
tracted in this manner is perfectly Valid, it is
punishable in Tuscany as a civil misdemeanor,
so that the law condems what the church Enac
tions. •
The officer was first confined in a military for
tress, deprived of his rank and dismissed from
the service, and then sent to expiate bis offence,
in a civil point of view, by two months solitary
confinement in the Muratte cellular prisons,
anil bis wife bait undergone a similar term in
another prison. Another instance or uiuo
occurred here recently, wherein the priest yeas
sent for as if to attend a dying person : but one
of the witnesses getting alarmed before the cu
rate arrrived, went down stairs and warned his
reverence that a snare was prepared for him.
The curate very indignantly sent for a couple of
gendarmes, and with them presented himself to
arrest the culpable parties. The other witness
got out of an upper window, and escaped over
the tiles ; but the bridegroom, nothing daunted
by the priest and his posse commitatus, and re
solved not to miss marriage for want of witnes
ses, addressed the curate in the usual formula :
“This is my wife,” said he, “and this is my hus
band ” responded the lady, “ and these two gen
tlemen,” resumed the bridegroom, pointing to
the two astounded gendarmes, “ are witnesses.”
The priest was done, and the marriage was va
lid.
Simple Division.
We heard a story the other night on the sub
ject of ‘Division’ that we thought ‘some’ at the
time, and never having seen it in print, we are
tempted to give our readers the benefit of it.
A Southern planter named P., pretty well to
do in the world now, was some twenty years
ago a poor boy on the eastern shore of Mary
land. One of the strongest and most marked
traits of his character was an inordinate love
of money. This however is characteristic of
the people of ‘them diggins,’ where they prac
tice skinning strangers during brisk seasons, and
skinning one another during dull times. In
due course of time P. was of age, ar.d thought
it about time to get married. He went to a
neighboring village, and in the course ot events
was introduced to a daughter of Judge B.
‘Dang fine gal,’ said the embryo speculator to
his friends who was gaining him an entrance
among the elite.
‘Very.’ ,
‘How much might Judge B. be worth ?
‘Why about $10,000,’ was the reply.
‘And how many children has Judge B V con
tinued the inquirer.
‘Only three.’
‘Three into ten goes three times and a third
over,’ mentally cyphered P. Here was a chance
—a glorious chance, and he improved it too.
He rnadejlove to the beautiful and unsophisti
cated daughter of the Judge with all the vari
ations. Strange to say—for he was as uncouth
a looking cub as ever went unlicked—his suit
prospered and they were married.
The honey moon passed off, as all other honey
moons do, and they were happy. The bride
was lively and chatty, and often made allusions
to her brothers and sisters. Startledata num
ber of names he thought should not be in the
catalogue of relations, one evening at tea, he
said—
‘My dear, I thought there was only three of
you ?’
‘So there are, by my Ma, but Pa’s first wife
had eight more.’
‘Eleven go into ten no times and narry one
over said the astonished P., who jumped up,
kicked over the cheir, end <wm»ne,l in perfect
agony, ‘l’m sold ! I’m sold ! and a d—m sight
cheaper than an old bell weather sheep, at that!
—Pittsburg Sunday Mercury.
Influence of a Newspaper.—A schoal tea
cher who hasjbeen engaged a long time in his
profession, and witnessed the influence as a news
paper uponjthe minds of a family of children,
writes to the editor of the Ogdensburg Sentinel
as follows:
I have found it to be a universal fact, without
exception, that those scholars of both sexes, and
of all ages, who have had access to newspapeis
at home, when compared with those who have
not, are:
1. Better readers, excelling in pronunciation
and emphasis, and consequently read more under
standingly.
2. They as better spellers, and define words
with greater care and accuracy.
3. They obtain a practical knowledge ofgeog
raphy in almost.half the time it requires others,
as the newspaper has made them familiar with
the location of the importantj places and nations,
governments, and doings on the globe.
4. They are better grammarians, for having
become familiar with every variety of style, in
the newspapers, from the common-place adver
tisements to the finished and classic oration of
the statesman, they more readily comprehend the
meaning of the text, and consequently analyze
its construction with accuracy.
5. They write better compositions, using better
language, containing more thoughts, more clearly
and connectedly expreessed.
6. Those young men who have for years been
readers of the newspapers, are always taking the
lead in the debating society, exhibiting a more
extensive knowledge upon a greater variety of
subjects, and expressing their views with greater
fluency, clearness and correctness in their use of
language.
The Confirmation at St. Paul’s Caurch.—
The Episcopal Rite of Confirmation was ad
ministed yesterday forenoon, at St. Paul’s
Church, Radcliffeborough, in the presence, of a
large Congregation. Between twenty and thir
ty young persons of both sexes were confirmed
by the Right Rev. Francis H. Rutledge, Bishop
of the Diocese of Florida, Rev. Dr. Hanckel, the
Rector, and Rev. Messrs. Wallace, Barnwell,
Gadsden, and others assisting in the services.
The interest and sacredness of the exercises
were heightened by the sweet strains of the
organ under the direction of Professor M. S.
Reeves. The Bishop’s address was brief, chaste
and impressive, and the whole ceremony of a
very imposing character —the clergy being ar
rayed in their official robes—the candidates,
(the female portion) in white—and the profound
silence and rapt attention of the spectators,
both within and outside of the Church con
tributing to render the scene one of deep solem
nity.—Charleston Courier.
The first Frost or the Season. —A slight)
Frost occurred in this vicinity on Sunday night,
the 7th inst. Except in low ground, its
on vegetation was very slight. On Monday”**'
night it was much more severe, and vegetation
is assuming the marks ot Autumn.— Macon
Messenger, 10th inst.
The Railroad Bridge.—The Bridge over
the Ocmulgee, connecting our Railroads, will
probably be in full use by freight trains to-mor
row. The laying down of the track across it
was completed yesterday.— lb.
Powers’ Bust of Calhoun.—We have been
kindly permitted to peruse a letter from Hiram
Powers, the distinguished sculptor, to a gentle
man in this city, in which he refers as follows
to his bust of Calhoun, which was purchased
some time since by a portion of our Congression
al delegation, and will be placed in the State
House at Columbia. Says Mr. Powers:
I have no bust in my studio which attracts so
much attention as Calhoun’s, if I except ideal
ones. Many have said that it would pass for a
bust of Brutus. One said: “ I should not like
to be judged by that man, unless my cause was
good.’’ Another said : “Heis a very stern man,
but good and amiable notwithstanding.” Neith
er of these knew whose bust it was.— Charleston
Mercury.
Frost.—We learn there was considerable frost
in this city on Monday night. The weather du
ring the past few days has been cool and bracing,
and from the temperature indoors last night we.
presume Jack Frost was about. He is very wel
come, so long as he does not become two familiar
with our noses. — Savannah News,loth inst:
Pitching into Greedy.—-The Albany N. Y.
Knickerbocker, ■ violent Whig paper, thus discour
ses concerning the Tribune man :
“So long as the Whig party looks ui>on Greeley
as one of the fathers of the church, and takes ev -
rv thing he utters for gospel, so long may they
expect to stand where they now do—among the
‘used up’and annihilated. General Scott was
not defeated by the Democrats, but by the New
York Tribune. The leaders which that paper is
constantly getting out on P ig iron, temperance
and satinet, woukT crush another Washington.
New Gold Co.ns.-A correspondent says,
rl.nl-“in the increasing difficulty about silver
change it is to be ho P ed that the next . I C ! ,n S ress
will substitute for the troublesome gold dollar, a
piece of the denomination of eighth eagle, or dol
lar and a quarter peice. An abundance of eighth
and quarter gold eagles, and pl nty of three cent
pieces, will do much to relieve the existing em
barrassment in making change.”