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EUROPEAN NEWS.
Further per Steam Ship Arctic.
The files from Liverpool to the 17th instant
by the steamer Arctie. have come to hand :
Great Britain —The Queen had terminated
her visit to Ireland, and has gone to her resi
• dence at Balmoral, Scotland.
The principal members of the cabinet remain
ed in London, awaiting the development of the
Turkish affair.
J. ar.d J. Alexander, commission merchants,
Derry, had failed; liabilities .£35,000.
The weavers of domestics by power looms, in
Manchester, have struck. Five mills, with 3,000
looms had been idle for some days, and three
mills with 2,000 more looms were to come to a
on the 7th. The operatives demand 10
per cent additional. The cotton skein dyers,
from twenty-two establishments, had also struck
work.
The harvest operations were proceeding rapidly
in all parts of Britain and Ireland. Weather, oif
the whole, fine.
The British ship Collector, from Callao, for
Liverpool, with 1,200 tons of guano, was lost in
the channel 25th ult. Crew saved by the Pro
mise, of Quebec.
The London Times bas been forbidden to cir
culate in any part of the Spanish dominions.
The extensive strike of collieis at the Dowlais
Iron Works is over.
One death is reported from Asiatic Cholera at
Liverpool. The victim was a Geiman emigiant
C who brought the disease from Hamburg.
v The Eastern Question.—Our information
on the Eastern question is as vague as ever. In
Britain the public appear to have decided that the
subject either is settled, or will be settled with
out more ado, and, therefore, little or nothing is
now’ said on the subject. At Paris (says a letter)
the opinion of many political persons is the
same as that expiessed by the Austrian and Rus
sian embassies, namely, that the Emperor ol
Russia will raise no objection to the modifica
tions made by the Porte in the Vienna note.—
But this opinion is not that which prevails
among the Russians recently arrived at Paris.—
Many ot them receive the assurances of the
evacuation of the Danubian provinces with de
rision. If we may believe certain letter writers
of the London press, a teeiing of annoyance is
gaining ground in France that the obstacles to a
final settlement should now rest with Turkey.
Mercantile men consider that the trade of the
allies of Turkey has been long enough obstruct
ed and injured by her difficulties. In these opin
ions the Emperor of France is said to share.—
The Times makes this important statement, if
true: “We have reason to believe that the
French Cabinet has already signified to the Sul
tan that the ulterior steps he may adopt, contra
ry to the advices of his allies, must be taken at
his own peril.”
From Constantinople, August 22d, it is men-,
tioned in correspondence that the Turkish Goy
ernment had issued a manifesto to the represen
tatives of the four Powers, in which it-t'tates
the reasons of its modifying the Vienna note. —i
The Manifesto is signed by Reschid Pacha,
begins by expressing regret that the note 4 pre
pared by the Porte itself had not heen accented
by the Conference.
The Porte professes itself greatly pained to
hesitate in the course of action indicated by the
four Powers. “But the Government of His
Majesty the Sultan, which had in the com
mencement of the affair been declared alone
competent to judge of questions relative to its
rights and independence, having, unfortunately,
not been consulted on th deduction ol the new
Note, was consequently placed in a difficult po
sition.” The Manifesto winds up with the
avowal that the “Government of the Sublime
Porte still awaits a solit. guarantee on the part
of the great powers against all interference in
future, and all occupation, from time to time, ol
the Principalities ot Moldavia and Wallachia.”
From Belgrade, August, 22d, a quieter state of j
public feeling was reported, and there was no
• Jongtu any lear ot ail outbreak. The despatches
that now' find theii way to the newspapers, from
th Piincipalities, are as studiously indicative of
peace as they formerly were of war. Among
the rumors was a doubtful one, that the Hospo- i
dars had decided to revolt together against the
Sultan, if he took any steps to supersede them.
Letters written by the officers of British ships,
atßesika Bay, say it was the general belief that
the fleet would return in the course of the pres- ;
eut i iontb to Malta.
France;—Numerous vessels had arrived at
’Marseilles, with wheat from Odessa.
Later accounts from the grain markets, re
ceived at Paris sth inst., announced that there:
had been large arrivals of English and American \
breadstuffs at Havre, and prices had consequent- j
ly declined by 2 francs per bbl. At Marseilles,
wheie prices had fallen in consequence ol the J
increased supply, quotations were again looking i
up. The Bordeaux markets were quiet, and at j
Nantes there had been a decline ot lrom 50 cents .
to l franc per hectolitre. At Strasburg the mar- j
ket was quiet.
The Emperor was to leave Dieppe for Bou-,
Iqgrie, on the 6th inst.
A seditious address was posted upon trie walls
of Rheims, during the night ot the Ist inst., but
t»o disposition to make a disturbance was mani
fest.
Prussia. —From Beilin, Aug 30th.—It was
affirmed that depending on its own resources
alone, there was no apprehension of scarcity in
Prussia, although the harvest h:d been, indiffer
ent. A destructive fire had happened at Lubec.
The Customs Conference had closed its dis
cussions, having made but an insignificant change
in the tariff.
German papers say that the Prussian Govern
ment had concluded not to interfere in the grain
trade by legal enactment.
Austria. —A letter from Vienna of Aug. 31, :
state that on that day an interview had been ap- j
pointed between the Turkish Minister, Arifi
Effendi, and the Russian ambassadoi. Tais I
meeting was looked on as a decisive proof that
all difficulties were settled, except such as nego- j
tiations could remove.
Italy. —The funeral of Bartholemi Battary, a
democratic priest, at Genoa, had been made the
occasion of a grand political demonstration. His
death was sudden, and a post mortem examina
tion of his body showed traces of poison.
Capt. Ingrapham, of the St, Louis, was still at
LaSpezzia.
Markets. — London Money Mo ?. Sept. G.—
It will be seen that we received no specie from
the United States last week.
The market for the English F mded Securi
ties is very heavy to-day, in ec.i ■ q ience of a
variety of rumors, all more or less connected
with the state of affairs in the East; and the job
bers are, in consequence, again somewhat un
easy as to the final settlement of the question.
Three o’clock—The Stock markets are all
very dull and fiat. Consols are 97* to T—Lon
don Paper., Tuesday , P. M.
Liverpool , September 6. —A prevalence ot fine
weather, with a high barometer, has given a
check to speculation in grain, and the advices
from France have also limited the inquiry for
shipments in that quarter. Many of the late
operatious have again been placed on the market,
and some eager sellers appearing, prices of wheat
have given away 3d. to Id. pei 70 lbs., and
flour Is. per bbl., the demand being confined to
the wants of dealers, and restricted in extent.—
Indian corn on the spot has not altered in value,
although in more limited request, but cargoes to
arrive were slightly easier to purphase.
Wright, Gandt Sc Co.
Latest by the Arctic.
The Turin Gazette publishes the law author
izing the Sardinian Minister of Finance to carry
out the convention with the Trans-Atlantic
company at Genoa, to establish steam commu
nication between Sardinia and America.
The rise in the price of raw silk had been
much felt by the manufacturers at Lyons, Nis
mes and St. Etienne, but fortunately for them,!
the large orders received from the United States
enable them to keep their operatives employed.
There are several failures of second-rate mer
cantile houses reported from Amsterdam, chiefly
in the oil and corn trade.
Three new cases of Asiatic cholera had ap
peared at Liverpool.
POLITICAL.
I Fromine nastangton Union, l&th inst.\
Senator Toomb3 and the Administration.
*****
It is a somewhat remarkable coincidence that
on the very day when Mr. Toombs was solemn
ly digging up the charge that Geri. Dix is a free
soiler and abolitionist, for the purpose of proving
the free-soil sympathies of the President, Gen.
Dix himselt was writing a letter to a gentleman
in Georgia branding the charge as unfounded.
We have published that letter, and it comes di
rectly and flatly in the teeth of Mr. Toombs’s
assertion. What Gen. Dix has thus written was
known to the President when he appointed him
to office, and without such knowledge he never
would have appointed him. The democrats of
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama put the seal
of their condemnation on this charge, upon the
authorized announcement that the President had
appointed no man to office who was known to
him, or believed by him, to be a free-soiler. As
a specimen of the view taken of this question at
the South, we give the following article from the
Mississippian:
“The appointments of the administration were
the points selected for its assailment by the
whigs in the recent State- contests. In Ten
nessee, where the democrats have elected their
candidate lor governor by an unexpectedly large
majority, Henry, the whig candidate, made the
presidential appointments the burden of his com
plaint. A like course was adopted in all the
other States. But the result is a triumphant
answer to their charges. The people of the
South have seen nothing in Mr. Pierce’s coiiKe
not entirely consistent with the Baltimore pWt
form : on the contrary, they have seen that the
effect of his discreet but straightiorward and
manly coutse has been to put down agitation to
an extent scarcely to have been expected. Let
the whig leaders in this State who are waging a
factious war against his administration profit by
the late of their confederates elsewhere.”
But we are not content to leave the matter to
rest upon southern democratic testimony, either
derived from the late elections, or southern jour
nals known to be as much devoted to the con
stitutional rights of the South as Mr. Toombs.
The New York Times, an able and influential
whig paper, gives to Mr. Toombs a rebuke which
is paiticu'arly worthy of notice. The Times
quotes the foregoing extract*)!' Mr. Toombs’s
speech, and thus comments on it:
‘Mr. Toombs does less than justice to three
very respectable gentlemen in this paragraph.
“1. ToHpn. John A. Dix, who, in his letter ;
to Dr. Gai-vin, has *iost explicitly declared him
self a fps'to abolitionism ; a friend to the Coin- ;
promise ; and upon the whole, a more strict con
structionist Jhan Mr. Toombs himself.
I ‘2. ToJlon. Peter D. Vroom, who has in no
instance, through a consistent political lile, ex
| hibit?A the slightest partiality tor Garrison and
his creatures. Baltimore never contrived a plat
form so awkward and shapeless that Mr. Vroom
Hesitated to mount it. He clave to General Cass
fin 134 S ; advocated the Compromise, both before
; and after its passage: and lent the whole force
of his character and name to repress the spirit of
opposition us manifest in the . first instance, in
New Jersey as anywhere else. No man less
properly merits the name Mr. Toombs lends him.
“3. To the President, who is thus acquitted of
| appointing any other abolitionists than such as
J may be included under “the examples not given;’
and should accordingly be discharged, cleared.”
There are point and force in this rebuke ad
; ministered to Mr. Toornbs by the Times: it
comes from a liberal whig, and, if we mistake
not, lrom one who occupied a somewhat similar
| position with Mr. Toombs himself in the late
I presidential contest. We desire especially to
call the attention of southern whigs to the lib
eral and conclusive testimony of the Times
against the charge that Gov. Vroom is affected
with iree-soilism. A more unfounded charge
was never made, and we aie astonished that a
gentleman accupying Mr. Toombs's position
j should have fallen into so gross an error.
We have still one other witness, whose testi-
I tnony will carry with it great weight from his
j peculiar relation to the whig party and the sec
tional question. The New York Tribune quotes
! the late letter of Gen. Dix, preceded by the fol
lowing comments and admissions:
j “Hon. John A. Dix, whose name appeared on
the Van Buren free-soil ticket in IS4S between
: tho»*-’pf Charles Francis Adam* and Seth M.
j Gates, being now a candidate before Pierce for
the French mission, has felt constrained to wiite
! the following letier to a southron. We give it
i with all the honors. There now remain of the
I democratic bolters of 1848 only John Van Buren
: and Benj. F. Butler uncommitted to the fugitive
| slave law, and we may be called to record their
i adhesion any moment, though it will doubtless
i be given sooner or later according as they shall
i discover anything within reach in the olfice line
\ that they happen to want.”
Mark the admission of the Tribune : “ There
j now remain of the democratic bolters of 1548 only
' John Van Buren and Benjamin F. Bathr uncom
! milted to the fugitive slave lau), ,J t'c. What a
commentary is this upon the grave declaration
of Senator Toombs that the President has been
false to the pledges of
southern democrats come it: solid phal
anx and repel the chaige—they gave to the
President a triumphant support, and They pay
the highest tribute to the wisdom of nis policy
in looking to the harmony and the par
ty as a leading object to be Accomplished. The
northern whigs step forward and admit that he
has been faithful to his pledges. But Mr. Toombs,
who neither regards the whigs or the democrats
as good enough associates for him, appropriates
to himsell all the real len’e of the Union, and
calls upon the people of Georgia to disregard all
this overwhelming evidence. He proclaims to
I his deluded followers%bat the Union is in dan
j ger. Listen to this second Webster:
“ The danger exists, is increasing and ought to
jbe diminished. Ones allow the enemies of the
j Comm omise to obtain control of the public offices ,
they will gradully force their way into the high
places of the then farewell to the
Union. With a irom the non-slave
holding States in dotßjousps of Congiess, what
guarantee has the South that its vital institution
will not be crushed ? The prospect of danger is
the time to avert it. A President with Ireesoil
sympathies, as evinced in his appointments to
office, is not a fit representive oi the Union—
blowing hot and cold at the same time. Profes
sions cost nothing, and often accomplish at great
deal ; but action proves the man, his g:it and
stature.”
“ A President with freesoil sympathies, as
evinced in his appointments!” The charge
stands rebuked by every word and every act of
the administration.
After having once more saved the Union, Mr.
Toombs dwelt awhile on “ home matters ’ —
and, after all, we suspect that he has much more
fears as to these than as to the Union. The idea
of seeing such a man as Judge Johnson elected
governor of Georgia seems particu arly offensive
to the senator. He repels it in a blaze of elo
quence which eclipses anything that®ever fell
lrom other lips but Webster’s. "He said, speak
ing of Judge Johnson :
“ A man of ability, of honorable character,
yet of contracted views, he is not the leader foi
the crisis : he is not the pilot to guide the ship
of State amid the storms and rocks of the politi
cal ocean, lashed into fury by the wild, malig
nant harpies who would deluge the land in
bloold to secure the downfall of southern insti
tutions. The reign of abolition, encouraged by
the President, will ruin the country. Let us
withdraw our gupportfrom the man who thus
mocks our sensibilities and disregards our wel
fare.”
How wretched must be the plight of that
cause which forces a man in the position of Mr.
Toombs—a senator of the United States—thus
to charge that “ the reign of abolition is cncour- .
aged by the President !” It is but one remove J
from the calumny of Foss and Fogg, which in !
the canvass assailed the President himself as an ,
abolitionist! Does Mr. Toombs imagine that ;
the people of Georgia will listen patiently to i
such an accusation l
Air. Toombs closed with a eulogy upon “ plain i
Chas. J. Jenkins" as the proper man for the
crisis. He spoke of him as the workman “ who
framed trie Georgia platform, who squared every
timber, fitted and nailed every plank in it,' - ’ and
; for this he should be placed in the executive
! chair. This is the first time that we have seen
j the construction of the Georgia platform attribu
| ted to Mr. Jenkins. Indeed, we have labored
tinder the impression that the Georgia platform
is but a substantial tianseript of the minority
project in the second Nashville convention, and
that it was framed, its timbers squared, and every
plank nailed, by a member of.that convention
from Tennessee, who has been supposed to have
strong southern sympathies. This is a matter of
historical interest, and we hope Mr. Toombs has
not ventured, without good authority, to rob a
Tennessee statesman of high distinction of his
! thunder for the purpose of giving strength to Mr.
Jenkins.
[From the Oglethorpe Democrat, 1 Oth intt ]
Hon. H. V. Johnson.
The Democratic party did honor to themselves
[ in selecting a standard bearer ot as high toned
j character as Judge Johnson.—Worthy, and well
1 qualified to adorn and giace the executive chair,
■ we have no doubt but the people will trium
phantly elect him to the highest station known
to the state. He is known to them as a high
toned gentleman, of commanding talents and
sterling integrity, who has never betrayed them,
and whose past life ii a sufficient guarantee for
his future course. He is a plain republican of
i the Jeffersonian school of politics, whose re
liance is upon the wisdom, the justice and patiio
tism ot the people. He is r.ot the man to con
centrate power in the few—he recognizes no
distinction in society, but regards the upright
and honest man, however humble his position
! may be, as equally entitled to a voice in the
; government, and to fill its offices of honor and
! profit. An economical administration of the
! government, low taxes, and opposition to cor
' rupt expenditures of the people’s money, are
j cardinal principles of his creed. Under his ad
ministration the state would advance in pros
iperity, and the development of the mighty re
■ sources that constitutes Georgia the Empire
j State of the South. No man has been better
abused than Judge Johnson, but a bitter reproof
j awaits his revilers at the ballot box, on the first
j Monday in October next. Defeat, however,
would not produce annihilation, for there is a
moral grandeur about his character, unknown to
the mushroom politician, worthy of all emulation.
| Like the eagle.—
I ‘Proudly careering his course with joy,
; Firar on his mountain vigor relying,
! Breasting the dark storm, the red bolt defying ;
Ilis wing on the wind, and his eye on the sun,
| He swerves not a hair, but bears ouward, right on.’’
[ From the Milledgeville Federal Union, 20th ms/.]
Mass Meeting in Jefferson, Jackson County.
A meeting of the people of the 6th Congres
sional District, was held at Jefferson, Jackson
Co., on the 15th inst., and notwithstanding the
i invidious report, that had gone forth, of its being
a decided failure, we confidently assert and be
lieve that there could not have been less than
Two Thousand persons present, and the unanimi
ty of feeling, and enthusiasm, for the Democia
tic cause could not be surpassed.
A laige number of the most distinguished gen
| tlemen of the party were in attendance, and ad
dressed the meeting. His excellency Governor
Cobb, Judge Johnson, our candidate for Governor,
and Gen. Wofford were of the number.
Governor Cobb was met by a large concourse
of people about ®th of a mile from the village
and escorted in.
An excellent band of Music from Franklin
was engaged, and duiing the march, discoursed
most excellent music. Enthusiastic cheers greet
ed him from all sides, and his reception was one
that certainly afforded him the most unbounded
pleasure, and also as certainly quieted all ap
prehensions, as to his personal and political popu
larity.
Judge Johnson addressed the meeting at con
siderable length, and in a most able and credita
ble manner, completely vindicated the principles
of the party who have chosen him to bear their
standard to the field on the Ist Monday in Octo
ber next. Judge Johnson was frequently inter
rupted by long and continued cheering from the
whole assemblage. He was followed by Gov.
Cobb, in his usual masterly and agreeable man
ner, urging upon the |)eopl of the District to
comxjtorw ird to the p'Ois, an d give their undivi
ded support to Judge Johnson, as a man eminent-
I ly capable to serve them, and whose distinguish
|ed services in various capacities, and his entire
| devotion to the party for years past, point him
| out as the man for the people, the whole people.
I have never listened to a more pleasing ad-
I dress, and the delight and appreciation in which
. it was received was shown by the most enthu
siastic applause.
Gen. Wofford also addressed the meeting in his
usual happy manner.
A very excellent Barbecue, was served up at
which all partook. The meeting was dissolved
in the most friendly manner—no disturbances
occurred to mar the good feeling and spirit which
| everywhere prevailed, and the occasion will
| long he remembered with pleasure, by those who
• had the good fortune to participate in it.
Uniox Democrat.
[ From the Athens Banner, 22d insf]
The Mass Meeting.
On Thursday, the 15th, the Mass Meeting, at
Jefferson, was held according to appointment.
About two thousand persons were assembled on
the ground, the day was propitious, the barbacue
was admirable, the crowd were enthusiastic, and
everything went off well.
The meeting was held in the beautiful grove
near the academy, Richard Pentecost in the
chair. Judge Johnson was the firstr speaker,
and occupied about two hours, in a masterly de
fence of the principles and policy of the Demo
cratic party, and a conclusive vindication of his
own position. It is the first time we ever
heard Judge Johnson on the stump, and we must
confess, that we had a very inadequate idea of
his powers as an orator. He is undoubtedly one
of the greatest popular speakers in this country.
As to his doctrines, we will only say, that if we
| know what genuine, national, Jacksonian De
: mocracy is then Judge Johnson is sound.
j How any Union Democrat could have heard
! his speech at Jefferson, and yet oppose him, pas
| ses our comprehension. Yet there was no un
| rnanly shiiking or dodging of past differences;
but a trank and dignified explanation, as of a
: misunderstanding among friends. The effect of
| his speech upon the crowd was unmistakeable.
| Many, who had come doubting, went away sat
; isfied. Some, who had come determined to vote
1 against him, were convinced, and openly avow
jed their change of purpose. Union and South
ern Rights men, Whigs and Democrats perceived
that on the platform where Judge Johnson
stood, every man in Georgia, opposed to local
and sectional issues, and wishing to associate
with a National party, ought to stand in this
crisis.
He was succeeded by Gov. Cobb, who devo
ted an hour to an argument, addressed principal
ly to the Union Democracy, showing that his
present position is a necessary consequence,
from that occupied by the Union party in 1850
and 1851, and that the jiosition of the Jenkins
party is utterly inconsistent therewith. On the
subject of the policy of the Administration, he
dwelt at some length. He admitted that some
objectionable appointments had been made, but
said that every administration had made such;
and that, considering the difficulties which sur
round the President of a country so vast as ours,
and the infinite diversity of interests and opin
ions, that a wise ruler must at least attempt to
conciliate, and his liability to be imposed on by j
false information, it is hardly to be expected
that errors in appointments will not be made.
As to the appointment of freesoilers, he drew a
j paiallel between the present and the late Ad- ;
j ministration, showing, that while both had up- ;
| iiointed men of that class, yet that Pierce has at
( least this advantage; that he proclaims to the
' world, that any attempt to renew that agitation,
'on the part of an office-holder, will be followed
by instant removal; which is more than Mr. j
i Fillmore ever said. Gov. Cobb used this argu-'
i tnent, not as an attack on Mr. Fillmore, whom
' u co " sil! «ed a patriotic and sound National
J ” “ig; but to show the influence which the exi-
I gencies, real or supposed, or nis position always
: bring to bear on the Executive.
1 Alter he had concluded, Gen. Wofford made a
• short but spirited speech, in true Democratic
I style, and concluded by urging upon the party,
' u ascer ta'n, by inquiry, whether he or Judge
' "dlyer is the strongest candidate ; and, in view
ot the distracted state of the Congressional can
vass in the District, and the danger that, among
i Democratic divisions, a Whig may be elected”
' he exhorttd them to waive all personal prefer-
I ences and go for the strongest man.
1 Judge Hillver was present, but, from indispo
i sition, did not speak ; but merely rose, and ex
i pressed his entire concurrence in the request
made by Gen. Wofford.
I he crowd then adjourned to the dinner table,
where a plentiful repast was spread, to which
they did ample justice
A band of music from Franklin enlivened the
i meeting, and heightened the enjoyment of the
occasion. .
On the whole, it was a glorious day ; and its
effects will be seen in the election. Theenthu
s'astic applause which greeted Judge Johnson
31 j u G ° V - showed that Democracy is alive
and harmonious. Our friends may look out for
heavy majorities from the 6th.
Hon. J. P. King’s Letter.
Augusta, Sept. 7, 1853.
Gentlemen: —l have received your invitation
j to attend a Mass meeting of the democracy of
the Gth Congressional district, to be held at
Kingston on the 9th inst. It will not be conve
nient for me to attend, but for your invitation
you will please accept my thanks.
I do not consider the approaching election for
Governor of the State, as of great importance in
its immediate effect upon our State interests.
Our domestic policy is pretty well settled, and
both the candidates are able and experienced
men, well acquainted with the resources of the
State, and the wants of the people, and either of
them, is no doubt, in all respects, well qualified
1 j ‘A,'perform the duties of the office,
i In a national point of view, and in its influ-
J ence upon our federal relations, the approaching
: : election is vastly more important. Every year
! I added to our age as a nation, strengthens the
■ | conviction of the excellence of the institutions
' | under which we live. History furnishes no ex
• ample of such wonderful advances, in power,
prosperity and true national greatness. Rome
is often relerred to as the classic model of an
cient republics, yet we have advanced more in
seventy, than Rome did in seven hundred years ;
, the condition ot our citizens, individually, com
pared with other nations, is not less enviable.
I hey are prosperous, secure and happy, under
the combined influences of liberty and law.
Other causes may have contributed something
. to these great results, but they are mainly owing
i to the admirable form of our government, and
. the principles upon which it has been adminis
, tered. Such a government, hones'ly adminis
! tered, should be honestly sustained. We have
, some diversity of interests to reconcile, but these
will never breed disturbance or civil strile. un
, der a firm, faithful, and impartial administration
of the government. Such we have in theadmin
. iteration of Mr. Pierce, and are we not bound
, |by every obligation of duty to sustain him ?
r He has not been treacherous to his own section,
but his whole history is one of unwavering de
’ votion to the constitutional rights of all the
, States— the South included. He has been no
, holiday-friend to the South, but whatever the
political turns around him—whatever dangers
, seemed to threaten him at home, he has never
I lor 4 a moment hesitated between policy and du
ty. He is truly and consistently a national dem
> otrat; standing up firmly lor“ the rights of the
I States and the union of the States.” If not sus
. j tained by the South what encouragement do we
. I offer to a northern man to do his whole duty,
j under ail circumstances, to every section es the
. I country ?
1 cannot see the consistency of the present
, j organized opposition to the national adminisis
r | tration. They have dissolved the Constitution'
. j al Union party, as having accomplished its objects ;
. ' have discarded the time honored name of IVhig,
, and though appealing to Union men, have certain•
, ly the only sectional organization in the State.
i Wh'-t is the basis and object ol this organiza
,i. ‘f v* Vo secuur the execution of the comp-.v
. ,i#. Ti We vfJR told in* Ji.iy, 1852, that thru
object war. accom pJOMnL anil the Constitutional
. Union party was th<J®lore dissolved. Then the
, country was agitated by riots, rescues and for
i midable combinations, which rendered the exe
cution ot the law difficult and doubtful. Now,
all is comparatively quiet; fugitives are general
, i ly returned without difficulty, and if the com
; promise has been attacked in any other feature,
I am not apprized of it.
But the South is to be frightened because the
president has appointed some freesoilers and
Southern Rights tnen to office. When did free
soilers become so obnoxious to the Whig party
; of Georgia ? It may be safely assumed that the
whole whig party ol Georgia would have voted
lor Webster, Scott, Fillmore or Clay ? If they
i could not have united upon one of them — some
one of them, would have taken the whig vote.
Now, these distinguished statesmen were all, in
an abstract sense,either freesoilers or abolitionists.
Even Mr. Clay, a Southern man, not only re
peatedly committed himself against the further
extension of slavery, but actually introduced a
scheme for the abolition of slavery in his own
State; the whigs would have entrusted the whole
executive power of the government in the hands of
these gentlemen for a constitutional term, but or
ganize against danger, if a democratic president
appoints a freesoiler to a subordinate office, to be
removed al pleasure.
I don’t wish to deal harshly with these late
whig preferences. I would only ask a decent
respect for consistency. The South should make
no war on abstract opinion» upon the subject ot
slavery. This would be to disfranchise all
the citizens of the free States, and effect a disso
lution of the Union at once. We ask only that
our constitutional rights be respected.
But Southern Rights men has . been appoint
ed to office ; is this a subject of alarm to the South
—that requites a sectional organization to .meet
the danger ? I hardly think so. The fault
charged upon the Southern Rights men wa»,
that their Southern attachments ran into a dan
gerous passion. That they wonld sacrifice by
rashness what might be preserved and securer!
iby prudence. That their remedy was fraught
| with unmitigated evil, and no goed could come
ofit—in 3hort, that it was no remedy at all.
Their attachment to the South was never ques
tioned, but their rashness was signally rebuked
by the sober judgement of the masses, and I was
glad of it. Like sensible men, they submitted
to this imposing judgment, and are now the
most quiet and orderly citizens we have. lam
sorry to see our Iriends the whigs, striving to
occupy their vacant place, by a sectional organi
zation.
The object of the president in making these
appointments has been national in character,
and pure and patriotic 'in motive. His object
has been to silence sectional complaints, and quiet
agitation He has wished to show his own con
fidence, in a general submission to the late
measures of adjustment. He has wished to
prove to every class of our citizens, and every
section of our country, that they have a common
interest in a common government. If he should be
disappointed in his instruments, he has the rem
edy in his own hands, and will doubtless apply
it. Will not the president be sustained by Union
Democrats l This class ol our citizens I have
considered as em nently patriotic. When they
believed the State in danger, they broke old
parties, and rallied around the standard of their
; country. They will do so again if the occasion
should require, but it will not be by sectional or
ganization, which they so lately contributed to put
down.
Much more might be said on this subject, but
■ I must come to a dose. Should the democratic
party be defeated on this issue, Georgia would
present rather a grange figure among her South
ern sisters. They are all quiet—having nearly
all recently decided that the South is perfectly
j secure, anil that the president has dime his duty.
i Will Georgia be found standiug “solitary ai d
— lß — gl — ————
alone” upon a platform hastily erected—with
her lance poised against enem'es nowhere to be
found, and prepared to meet dangers long since
parsed away ? Is our State prepared to cut so
ridiculous a figure ? I hope not.
Yours, very respectiully,
John P. King.
Messrs. Clayton and others, committee.
■
Dix va. Stephens.
We publish below, in juxtaposition, the letter
of Mr. Dix and an extract from the speech of
Mr. Stephens, on the annexation of Texas in
1845. Read them over carefully and then tell
us reader, if Mr. Dix is a freesoiler, what is
Alexander Hamilton Stephens, the represen
tative from Georgia, from the seventh district, in
Congress ?
Mr. Dix’s U tter, 1803. Mr. Stephens’ speech on j
Ist That lam not the annexation of Tex
aml rrover have been an us. 1646.
abolitionist in any sense “Nor do I wish “to
of that term. On the hoax’’ gentlemen from j
contrary, I have been other sections upon this
• an open and uniform op- point, as some have inti
ponont of all abolition mated. lam candid and
movements in this state, frank in my acknowledg
aud elsewhere, since ment. This acquisition
they commenced in 1835, will give additional pow
to the present time.— or to the southwestern
While in the Senate of seetion in the national
tho United States lop- councils; and for this
posed the extension of purpose I want it—not
slavery to iree territory that lam desirous to see
—a question entirely dis- an extention of tho “area
tinct from the interfer- of slavery,” as some gen
enee with slavery where tlemen have said its ef
it already exists. In the feet would be. lam no
latter caso, I havo stca- defender of sloven/ in
dily opposed all external the abstract. Liberty
interference with it. always had charms for
2d. That I have on all me, and I would rejoice
occasions, public and to see all the sons of
private, since ttaeFugi- Adam’s family,in every
tivo Slave Law passed, land and clime, in the
declared myself in favor enjoyment of those rights
of carrying it into oxccu- which are set forth in
tion in good faith, like our Declaration of In
every other law of the dependence as “ natural
land. and inalienable,'’ if a
3d. That I was in fa- stern necessity, bearing
vor of the union of the the marks and impress
democracy of this state, of the hand of tho Urea
which was consummated tor himself, did not, in
in 1850, continued in some cases,interpose and
1851 on tho basis of the prevent. Such is tho
Compromise Measures, case with States whore
and in 1852, on the basis slavery now exists. But
of tho Baltimore Plat- I have NO WISH TO
form. SEE IT EXTENDED
4th. That I have,since TO OTHER C 0 U li
the Baltiinero Convon- TRIES ; and if the an- j
tion, in June, 1852, re- nexation of Texas wore
peatedly given my pub for the sole purpose of
lfc assent to its proceed- I extending slavery where
ings and acquiesced in | it does not now, and
its declarations, as an | would not otherwise
adjustment of disturbing I exist, I SHOULD OP
quesiions, by which I POSE IT.
; was willing to abide. |
The Algerine Law.
Section -1. Be it enacted by the Senate and.
House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in
, General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by
ti e authority of the same, That on the Second
Monday in April next, and annually thereafter,
the citizens ot the respective districts in the city
[ of Augusta, having the qualifications hereinafter
i prescribed, shall, under the superintendence ol
the persons appointed to hold the elections for
. Mayor and members of Council, elect two Al
. ilermen to serve lor one year and until their
, successors are qualified.
. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no per
-5 son shall he allowed to vote lor Aldermen, who,
t in addition to the qualifications now required of
. voters, does not own real estate of the value of
. one thousand dollars, according to the annual
> tax assessment next previously made by the au
. tnoiity of the City Council; or has actually paid
, a tax to said city of twenty-five dollars on real
and personal estate, or either, within the same
; year preceding such election ; and no person shall
be elegible tor Alderman, who does not possess
t the qualifications herein prescribed for voters.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said Al
. dermen, when elected, shall take a similar oath
• or affirmation to that prescribed for members ol
) Council, before the Mayor ot said city ; shall
. form a separate board; appoint one of their body
chairman; meet at such a times as they may
. lip, and make all necessary rules for the transac
tion of their business; andif agy vacajjjv
jj'toard shall occur, t'ie same may be filled liy such
I* buctid.
. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said
. board of Aldermen shall have the control of the
. finances of said city; and that no loan of money,
or contract for the payment of money, shall be
made by the City Council of Augusta; nor any
, tax assessed by them, nor any salaries of officers
fixed without the concurrence of said board ol
Aldermen.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the
members of the City Council of Augusta shall
continue to exercise all the power now by law
vested in them, subject to the restrictions con
i tained in the fourth section ol this act.
Discussion in Walton.—The candidates for
, Governor met in debate, on Friday last, in Mon
roe, Walton county. We were not present, but
, are informed that the speeches ot both gentle
men were characterized by ability, frankness
, and courtesy. The effect was satisfactory to
the Democratic party of the county.
Able and eloquent as Mr. Jenkins confessedly
, is, he has evently met his match, and he nor his
, party made any capital out of the contest. The
r steady old Democracy of Walton recognised, in
Judge Johnson, the defender of their cherished
. principles, and were satisfied with his exposition
; of them.
We learned, moreover, that in the course of his
, remarks, he took occasion to speak of the riili
’. culous stories about “ contemptible pack,” “ buz
[ sards wouldn’t eat them,” and all that sort of
| stuff, all of which he pronounced false. A large
crowd was drawn fogether to hear the distin
guished speakers. —Athens Banner, 22 d inst.
Gov. Cobb.—The Jenkins papers have taken
a duck fit because Gov. Cob 1 .) has addressed his
fellow citizens on the qustions of the day. Noth
; ing to them could be more unwise. It is no
' doubt very distrassing to them for Gov. Cobb to
‘ pay a visit to the up country just at this time.
1 They had set their traps to catch Union Demo
crats, and sprinkled as little “Union” meal
under them, and Gov. Cobb has gone tip to ex
pose the cheat and put Union Democrats on
their guard against Coon claw’s ; hence the per
turbation among tha Webster Tertium Quid
Whigs. These same papers have taught the
people to think very highly of Gov. Cobb, and
the people will not be apt to turn somersets be
cause they do.
Gov. Cobb, because he is Governer, does riot
lose his right to defend himself against the mis
representations of the Whigs—his office does
not prevent him from an expression of his politi
cal opinions, at snch times, and on such occasions
as he pleases. Union Democrats can judge of
the extent of the love the Republican Citizens
bear them by reading their abuse of Gov.
Cobb. —Federal Union, 20th inst.
’ i
The Prospect.—ls the Democracy do thei
duty, Judge Johnson will be triumphantly elec
ted Governor of Georgia. The signs are omi
nous of a glorious victory. We hear the most
encouraging accxjunts from every quaiter. Even
in the strong hold of whiggery, the 7th and BLh
districts, our prospects are brighter than ever
before. There are hundreds ot whigs who can
not and will not vote for Mr. Jenkins, on ac
count of his Algerine Law'—they may not vote
for Judge Johnson, and will abstain from voting.
We have conversed with several whigs in the
last week at our very door, who will noP vote
for Jenkins on account of his Property qualifi
cation law. The State abounds with similar in
sances.—lb. y
Tiif. Loudon BRibGE.jp-We understand that!
the greater portion of the masonry of the railroad j
bridge at Loudon is now in the hands of the j
energetic contractors who have been engaged i
upon the bridge of the Memphis and Charleston |
road at Decatur. They have given an earnest
in the prosecution of that work, that they]
know how to “pile up the rocks."— K'ik-cvAc j
Register, 21 s! inst. I
[Front the Greenville (S. C.,) Mountaineer.]
: Public Folly—The Savannah Valley Rail
Road.
There are some things done by Sbites and
j communities, as well as by individuals, so un-
I w °ithy their average character for sagacity and
| proper conduct that it is difficult to account for
them on any other ground than the doctrine ol
1 urkish fatalism. Among suc'u anomalous, un
accountable things we rank pre-eminent the
chartering by the State of the Savannah Valley
Railroad Company, and the aid and comfork
which the road has received Irom Charleston,
through the Mercury and perhaps other prints ot
the city, though now we cannot specify them.
One would suppose that a State would be vigi
lant to guard the vested interest of herself and
citizens generally, when it could do so by sim-
I ply fusing to charter a company to destroy
: them. Rut the Legislature of South Carolina
j has not thus acted. The justification of general
] public good to counterbalance the public injury
! cannot be pleaded in behalf of the Savannah
| Valley Railroad. If ever there has been a super
j fluous Railroad chartered, this is one. Every
j district.it touches already possesses Railroads run
ning through them. Edgefield has two: one
1 running through her lower border, the old Ham
burg and Chaileston road; the other the Greeny
ville Road through the upper pait of the District.
Abbeville likewise may be said to have two
Railroads, the main trunk of the Greenville Rail
road running through her noith eastern length
and a branch from it to her center, the village ol
Abbeville. Anderson may be said, likewise, to
have two railioads traversing her territory: the
main trunk ol the Greenville load and the ex
tension from Belton to her-center at the Court
House. 'I l'u-.-e three districts, thus situated, are
all to have another Railroad, it seems for the es
pecial benefit ol Hamburg, forsooth, which means
j for the more particular benefit of Augusta, Geor
! gia.
But the beneficial results of the road thus lim
ited, are counterbalanced by the most general
and destructive effects, should it be built on the
interest of the State at large; but especially will
the results be serious and perpetually disastrous
to Charleston trade and commerce, consequently
to all the interest of Charleston.
In the first .place, let us consider the effects of
the Road on the interests of the State at large.
That interest may be viewed in connection with
the millions of dollars invested by the State in
Railroads, and the guarantees afforded to the
building of Roads, and also to the interests the
whole State posse.-ses in the trade and prosperi
ty ot her own towns and cities. The Savannah
] Valley Railroad, he it remembered stretches
along the western border of the State in a few
miles of the river, separating us from Georgia,
and is thus considered a halt way Georgia road.
Further, by its length, extending from Anderson
to Augusta, (we give the town proper of its ter
mination, for Hamburg is only the suburb lite
rally of Augusta.) the Road will act like a light
ning conductor, carrying off'freight and passen
| gers and trade from the Greenville and Columbia
| Railroad, and all the Roads connected therewith
! and disgorge all the accumulated surplus of heavy
\ freights, as well as passengers, on the banks of
i the Savannah at Augusta, and thu? beget a
j splendid business for that city and the Railroad ,
J making from that point to the city of Savannah,
I and particularly a capital business for the steam
-1 boats on the river at Augusta in the bacon,flour
! wheat and corn of Tennessee, and the cottos
from Georgia aiukCarolina side of the Savannah, .
1 which has flowed down this skimming conduc
' tor. So great will be the concentration of hea
| vy freights at Augusta, by the operation of the
' j Savannah Valley Railroad, that the steamboat
j companies will be stimulated into wnpieeeden
j ted activity and enlargement of their means of
| transportation, so as to underbid effectually the
I j South Carolina Railroad on cotton, but more par
j j ticularly in the provision produce of the West,
| destined for foreign exportation. So absolutely
j will this be accomplished that we must here
bring in one of our capital arguments, as to the
I injury Charleston must receive from this road.
| Charleston can never expect to become a city,
’! for the exportation of provisions or assorted car-
J j goes as has been her ambition to be, and for
. J which she has been prodigal of expense and la
r j bor. The Savannah Valley Railrord termina
' ting at Augusta will, of course, receive at An
derson from the Rabun or Rtjjge Railroad
, vail the heavy produce of Tent, intended for
h'tbe seaboard lr >, rkyjseil .. 0ut..,.c ol «ve^.
the long anil cir :_ *i deflec
tina Greenvme o . Columbia Rail. ~
road. The Savannah river at Augusta offers far /
the cheapest means of shipment to the sea coast /
by the city of Savannah, from whence, therefore, \
all the heavy heights oi the Rabun Road will \
find their way to t the West Indies, Brazil, and \
eur own Northern cities, and to every other des
tination beyond Savannah, and Charleston will
only receive a sufficiency lor her own actual
consumption. The reasons are obvious, from •
the facts stated, but there is another fact which
proves that the heavy fiieghts irom the end of
the road at Hamburg and Augusta will take the
river route. There are several miles of heavy
and high grading on the South Carolina Railroad
near Aiken made to avoid the inclined plane,
which will have to be surmounted by all the
produce of the West intended 1 for the seaboard
which lands at Hamburg and *Ai<gusta, and
which will therefore seek the descending'flow of
the Savannah river in preference. The State ot
South Carolina has therefore pledged her million
and a quarter oi dollars to the Rabun Road, main
ly for the benefit of the Steamboat companies on
the Savannah river, and the city of Augusta arid
her railroad, and for the benefit ot the inter
nal and foreign commerce of the city of Savan
nah.
The City of Charleston has subscribed her
million of dollars lor the Rabun Road, and it is
with amazing and incredible lolly (through
some oi her citizens) favoring the Valley Road
that is to turn away the benefits of the Rabun
Road from herself to other recipients.
The State at large will suffer also by the great
damage to the Railroads already built by her ci
tizens, and in which the State has invi-fed near
a million of dollars, anther citizens u. u.y mil
lions. The South Carolina Railroad wi i suffer
greatly,and the Greenville and Columbia Rail
road, so far as the value of the stock is concerned, ‘
will be extinguished hopelessly and forever,
from the Broad River Bridge up, ior it is ceitain
that the trade and travel of the western part of
the State, irom Greenviii to Edgefield inclusive,
which now seeks the Greenville Railroad, will
betake itself almost entirely to the Savannah
Valley Railroad, as soon as that is finished, for
the simple reason that it will he a shorter and a
better route to Augusta, Charleston, Savannah
and New York, than the circumbendibus road by
Newberry and Columbia. The wit of man.
could not invent a scheme more injurious to all
the great and general interests of the trade and
capital of the State than the aforesaid Savannah
Valley Railroad, and that too, without an:
great compensating advantage to her people, for
it runs so near skimming along the line of Geor
gia that it cannot be called a State enterprise.
There is anly one hope of remedy for the evils
of the Savannah Valley Road, and it remainsjtu
‘ be seen whether the State has sagacity enough
in her councils to adopt this remedy.” It is°a .
1 measure which ought to be adopted, even with
! out regard to the question of the Valley Road.
I We mean the construction of a Railroad from
! Aiken connecting with the Greenville and Co
lumbia Railroad it) the vicinity of Cambridge, ir.
! Abbeville. Such a road would make the dis
tance to Charleston 10 or IS miles Jess than by
Hamburg, and forty miles less from Belton or
Anderson and Greenville, byway of Columbia
Such a Road might receive most, if not the
whole, of the Rabun Railroad freight (except •
that intended for the interval trade at Colum
bia,) at Cambridge, and land it on the South.
Carolina Railroad at Aiken, past the high grade
j where it could descend to Charleston more ex
peditiously and about as cheaply as it would from
Augusta by the river. Thus securing to ourex
| isting Railroads a heavy participation in the bu
j siness of the Blue Ridge Railroad, and to the
| city of Charleston the prize of the trade of the
West, beyond the hope of successful rivalry.—
j We have other reasons for our position in regard
to the Valley Road, equally cogent but have not
space to state them.