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JOURNAL & MESSENGER.
J AMES T. NISBST AND SIM 111 ROSE;
EDITORS.
Married on the 10th up., in Kennebunkport, Me., by
Rev. 0. W. Hevwi od. Miss Amanda Mann to Mr A
R Nott, all of Reunebunkport. The following poetici
correspond crice is said to nave actually passed betwee
the above named couple, and to have been the bona fi
“proposal,” and “reply.” The fact that they wet
known to be inveterate jtunsters makes the staterne 1
more probable. The last statira, we presume, was a*
ded by our correspondent.
NOTT TO AMANDA.
“Oh that I could prevail, my fair.
That we unite nr lot!
Ob, take a man. Amanda Mann,
And tie a double ‘kuot,’
Your coldness drives me to despair
What shall I do ? ah. what!
For you I’in “Towing thin and spare—
For y ra I’m a ‘pin* XL4i.
If I should b ?ar that you had die*!,
‘Twould kill me on the spot;
Yet only yesterday I cried,
‘Ah! would that she were Nott!’
The ‘chords’ and ten drills of tny heart
Around thee fondly ‘twine’ —
Amanda, h?ai :his aching smart!
Amanda, oh be mine!
These very terms as I opine.
Suggest united lots;
Let’s tie, then, dear, these ‘cords’ and ‘twine,’
Into hymeneal knots.”
MISS AMANDA MANS’S REPLY.
“This life, we kuow, is hut a span,
Hence I have been afraid
That I should still remain A. Mann.
And die at last—maid.
And often to myself I say
On looking round, I find
There's Nott. a man in every way
Just suited to inv mind.
I fain would wisper him. apart.
He’d make me blest tor life—
If he would take me to his heart
And make A. Mann a wife.
Love not, my mother often says,
And so too. says the soug—
I’ll heed the hint in future days,
And loir 2\iU well and long.
Then oh I let flymen on the spot,
His chain arwuud me throw—
And bind me in a lasting knot
Tied with a single beau.”
And now I give myself to you.
And thus unite our lots—
Then tie those “cords and twine” into
A dozen little Notts.
Presidential Election.
The Election of Mr. Adams, over Gen. Jackson, :
President of the United States, by the House of Kepr
seututives. —The following is a most graphic sketch ai
picture of this memorable event in our* history. It
done to the very life, and shows the admirable wt.rkin
of our well balanced constitutional and republican s\
tern. In Europe, such a contest and such a re*ti
would have been attended with tumult, bloodshed, j*
baps revolution. But with us. the majesty of the co;
stitution aud laws of a tree country, asserted itself ov
the will of the people themselves, ;.nd peace frilly plno
the glittering prize ot the Presidency in the hands
the minority candidate, over the victorious General at;
popular faint ite The moral sublimity, of the spec
trie can scarcely he surpassed—it certainly has no it.
rallel in ancient or modern history —What A meric,
so dead to na noitstn and a souse of true glory, as
to he proud of his country ?
ll't'Ohi Arthur* lA,:;u OaztH- ’
John Quincy A iatns, his Election to tho Hot.
of It.-press-ntatives.
The struggle for the v a cant I’lc.-irtciitial ci.air .shook f
Union ; it kindles! strife and gave birth to parties uhi>
are not extinct among us; wiih these it is not niv pr
rince nor my purpose to meddle, but it was ui.v lot
see the issue of the contest, when it can:eto its hi.
and was decided, blow by blow, on the high places',
the field.—The hall of he House of Representatives •
hibited, on that eventful day. such a spectacle as liev
had been witnessed in this country, such as the woi
never saw Theic being three candidates tor the Frei
denev, and neither of them having received the conic
tutioual majority giving him a tide to ibe office, *L
crisis had arrived which, in all other countries, h
been decided by the swoid: but which, having be*
contemplated as possible by ;bat band of men,. inspir.
they surely were wiih a wisdom not their own, wl
framed our happy Government, had been provided t
by the peaceful expedient of taking the choice out of 11
immediate hands of the people, aud committing it .
their own representatives, acting, not as one amalgam
ted body, but in their se; ar.te capacity, as the dcieg
tions of the respective Suites; each united delegate <
casting one vote.
As the day appointed for the election approached, tl p
excitement of the public miiul became intense Was
ington was crowded. Nightly caucuses, aud most anx
oils calculations, occupied the leading men of each
the tree parties. So evenly were they balanced, th
after the most exact scrutiny had been gone throng
with, alter the probable vote of each individual man h.
been set down with as much care as if the result and
pended on his individal sad; age, it was concluded th
the result would possibh turn on a single vote: aud win j
the morning ot decision had actually come, it was g<- i
erally understood that the vote was in the hands ot
wealthy, upright, and amiable, but not verv firm
vigorous, member of the Nes York delegation. In
had given his promise to vote for Mr. Adams, but tl
eager, agitating, anxious question was whether be wou
remain ttrm to that pledge or not.
The Hall was prepaied for the process of the electio |
by placing seats tor the respective State delegaiioi
each having a sepera-e table, iu the semicircular opt
space in front of the Clerk s table. Before the hour t<
taking their seats there, they were to be seen waikii
about m little bands, or seated in groups, earnestly co
versing in a low tone, every mind being occupied in tl
result of the election. Each party was sanguine of ?u
cess. Bets were staked on a large amount. The mo
confident predictions were uttered, and by some of tl
excited and unscrupulous partisans without, rucst for
cious threats were uttered. A second Missouri conte
was expected. None counted ou less than forty balk
wigs ; some said the election would occupy weeks, pc
haps months, while others said that no choice would !
made, but that Congre-s would break up iu a rote.
To a patriotic mind i< seemed as if all the evil powc
who sought the ruin office Government had guthere
together at Wa>hington, and were hurling through tl
troubled air. Many persons carried concealed wcajion
as expecting some vu lent outbreak. The bar-rooms
hotels and eating houses were crowded with goes’
whose aspect boded no good to the country, or thepeui
fill progress of tie; government. Many* a heart ih
loved American regulated freedom trembieil in view
the untried experiment. now for the first time to be *
tempted. Amid such auguries ;he day of election cam
Every avenue leading to she Capitol was filled wiih pi
Ele, all whose faces looked iu otic direction, and wi
lled with one common expression of grave and inti
ested curiosity Into ibe galleries which surround a.
overlook the hall of Representatives not an addition
human beiug could by possibility be forced, aud tl
staircase, quite out ot sight aud hearing of what w..
passing within, were crammed with watching mult
tudes, hoping against hope, to gain, bv some gin
chance, or by dint of patience and of physical strengii
a glimpse at least of me exciting scene.
It had been proposed, in debate, on the day previon
that, during the election, the galleries of the hall shou!
be closed, as they could ai best accommodate but
handful of those who were anxious to witness th
scene: but Mr. McDulße, (then a prominent member •
the Douse.) warmly denied ihe right of Congress t
exclude people troci witnessing, if they so pleased, tl i
acta of their own representatives, in a matter, Mpccix
ly, so vitally affecting them ail. And when it was su r
gested that the admission of so great and excited
crowd would inevitably be productive of disorder, h
sprang up, and in tones which reached through the ha
and galleries, pledged himself for *• the orderly dejxir
meat of the people while looking on such a sceuoe.”- \
His appeal was too popular to be successfully register ii
and the doors were thrown open accordingly.
It was an imposing spectacle. The circular lobb i
outside the bar, (and into which none are admitted bi
privileged j>ersous whose right is specified by law.) l
well as the or open area behind the columns cl
the real'of the Speaker's seat were tilled with the men
bers of the Senate, Ex-Governors of Slates, mihtar
and naval officer.-,, . those only, however, who had re
ceived votes of thanks by Congress for meritoriou’
service, i foreign ministers and ihcir attaches. Judge-*
of the Supreme Court - . ; ji a word, with all whose euvi-J
ed distinction it wa> to pass the vigilant scrutiny of thi
door-keepers, now doubly vigilant, and all upon the qu\
vice. A restless movement of the members within th |
bar, and a general murmur like the alarmed burn *. |
bees when their Lives are disturbed, gave token of the
state of feverish anxie y which prevailed throughout
the body. Could a • ic ealing spirit have opened to
human view the hopes, the fears, the boiling passions,
which tumuliuated wi bin those fierce bosoms, how
would the painful inteiestsof the sceue have been vet
further heightened in intensity ?
At length the Speakers hammer fell, A dead silence
instantly prevailed, and the res|active delegations a
sen; bled and took their seat* around the table prepared
for them.
It was my privilege, from an elevated posi'ion on the
right of the’ cnair to enjoy a full view of ail the groups :
and I have preserved a rude and hasty sketch which 1
caught of their positions while the first ballot was pro
ceeding. Each delegation appointed one of their num
ber to act as Chairman, collect their votes, and report
the result. The delegations voted by pluralities V* ho
over, in each, received the most votes, was reporter as
the choice of that delegation. There were twenty-four
of the groups; and when the votes had been gathered
in each, they were called upon to report, which thev
did in succession, viva vo.e, commencing with Maine.
The silence was that of a sepulchre. Men’s breath was
suspended .is State after State uttered ita voice; and
oh.'can I ever forget the moment wheu the Speaker,
standing up in his place, declared a clear, sonorous
voice, that seemed to pierce throrgh bone aDd marrow,
that “John Qciscr Adams,” having received a majori
ty of the votes cast, was duly elected President of the
tlnited States for four years for the fourth of March,
Bex’- ensuing.”
Then arose such a shout from the galleries as seemed
to lift the very dome of the hall. Mr. McDuffie, (whose
eandMate Had bees defeated, wheaa eager h'-pas were
! blasted, and whose personal pledge for the good order
of the assemble was remembered by all.) sprang in
much excitement from the ground, and iu a voice that
rang above all the tumultuous plaudits of the specta
tors, cried, “Mr Speaker! I move that the gallery be
cleared !” The question was put and carried. “Yes,”
said a foreign minister to another who stood by his side
“but how are you goiug to do it?” A natural question
enough tor a European, ignorant-of the-country awl the
people. Here were no gourds; no gens d’nrmies; not
even a constable; how was the order to be executed?
He soon saw, and while he gazed, seemed penetrated
with speechless wonder. No sooner had the Speaker
given the order, “The Sergeant-at-Arms will clear the
y.illari-s,” than an active, Sender young man, of grace
ful form, and with a brilliant black eye. darted from bis
place, and mounting, il did-not sec how,) the broad
cornice which ruus ail round the hall in front of, end
below the breast work ol the galleries, motioned with
his arm to the dabk, dense, and almost suffocated mass
of human beings before him, exclaiming, “Gentlemen,
the Speaker orders the galleries tube cleared; you must
retire—clear the galleries.” And at his word, like a
ttock of quiet, passive sheep, whan the gate of their pen
is thrown open, out went the entire crowd, without a
word of complaint or remonstrance, and in an incredi
bly short time, not a a.-ul 'u, left behind. The foreign
minister lifted up his bands iu amazement, aud c-xclaim
-d. “What a government! What a people!”
.11 rs. Stowe in ('ark.
Skull and Skibberoen—Blnnieydnu* and Blackpool--
have invited the female Barn urn —the princess ot hum
bugs—to “that ocautitul city culled Cork” to an aboli
tion ovation.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin! Tather Pat’s Hut!
Uncle Tom well fed, well clothed, well housed, well
•doctored, aud, ia many instances, well educated!
j Father Pat dying iu a ditch utter being thrown out
ioi his birth spot —raging in a spotted fever—without a
| drop of water to cool lnsburmug tongue —without food,
j raiment, or modicine —wiibout sympathy or aid— save
t orn his penniil-ss peers- rotting, rotting, rotting away
| out of existence 1
Uncle Tom decently coffined and interred!
Father Pat thrown like a piece of carrion, into the
ped earth, a shrivelled remnant of skin hangiug about
: his bones, without a shroud, a coffin, a sigh, or a tear —
; he hungry dogs howling after aud tearing him from
1 ho earth at night, and holding a carnival over his pu
! .rid body!
Avc, inhabitants of Cork city, your white brothers
lying upon your waysides, the steps of your hall-doors,
.iu your streets, covered with vermin, fever maniacs,
! with parched lips and cancerous stomachs, bow dare
■ini interfere with American institutions—institutions
’bstered, fed, and supported by the cotton, rice and to
bacco lords—selfish and knavish hypocrite* they arc—
! of England.
Ave, take Mr?. Baniutn Slowe to Skibberecn and
Skull, show her the spot where the bones of your
xtndrcd lie bleaching—women and men honester, but
’ ter, and purer than you —t\ hire the “mere Irish’’ have
melted into the earth, “having been told, (according to
tie eminent and philanthropic Everett,) in the frightful
language of political economy that at thc unity tall*
A,VA nature s<> etuis far the human family tiere l* no
. r-.-r laid f’T than la Ireland,” and that “they have
•rt *■; A tfu <x*‘ 1 1 < find occupation, shelter, an-l bread, on
t foreign soil 2”
Aye, take Uncie Tom's historian to Father Tat’s
~rave- that jt-* of red damnation—remind her of the
I blood-bound banquet, the festering corpse, the howls
(of the famine-stricken, the blasphemous rax ings of the
i insane—and ask her should ror intermeddle for the
black. while you have whit* slaves by the millions,
>vhose condition • ou have done nothing—you do noth,
j ing- —to alleviate!
‘Fa her Fat starve* in a hut not fit for un aristocratic
.hog: give him a human dwelling.
Poor Father Fat is without food; give him to cat
• from “the daily table which nature spreads.”
Father Put i> ignorant, unenlightened; educate him,
’ and you will be blessed of God.
Do this—perform these duties—contribute to free |
yi ur own white slate called, by a mockery, a delusion ]
’ and a snare, a freeman; -and then you may fete Mrs. i
Stowe, I.ucy Stone, ;r Abby Folsom, and sympathise 1
with American bondsmen. whoui you propagate by j
\ j uri basing that cotton which they, tun they only, can j
pi educe.— Irish .! :h rican.
Mas. Stows in Fa ms.—The literary ladies of Paris,
have decided, it appears, to give a magnificent recep
tion to the authoress of “ LHcle Tom's Cabin.’’ A
deputation of the Parisian literary women will go to
■the p<-rt where she disembarks, to meet her. During
uer stay in Farall these ladies will be on duty, four
it a time, with the illustrious stranger, to keep her
company, talk for tier, write at her dictation, thoroughly
inform her of the mcenrs and usages of Paris, and be
her cicerone in her promenade and visits. Two ban
quets will be offered her—one on her arrival, the other
ion her departure. There will t>e none but ladies at the
table. The service* will be performed by male dotnex-
I tics, white, of Course. A ball will be given in her
i honor, to which men will be invited ; and lastly, she is
to lie requested to accept ail sorts of valuable presents,
including three complete toilettes, made iu the latest
. Parisian style.
Surreys for the Pacific Railroad.
In no joint of its domestic policy has the administration
more fully responded to the jiopular expectation than
in lac promptitude, energy, aud careful consideration
Aviso winch, under the direction of the War Department,
i the several surveying expeditions have been organized,
with n view to the selection of the best route tor rail
road com indication between the Atlantic and Pacific
jMirtious oi the territory of the Uuited States. These
several surveys are undertaken under the authority ol a
lav, passed at the last session of Congress, and the ear
nest attention of the Secretary of W ar has been given
to their organization in such a manner as to perform
most completely and effectually their itjqxirtaut duties.
Four expeditions, amply appointed aud under th*
command of skilful and experienced officers, are alt eady
in the held, and the report of their operations, sweeping
‘.he whole area of our territory between the Mississippi
and the Pacific, may be expected by the first of Februa
ry next. Ihe expeditious arc en rusted to chosen ofii
cers nf ihe corps ot engineers and of topographical en
gineers, to whose science ami skill the success of our
army m Mexico was so largely attributable. It is prob
ably not too iiiuib to say that no military organization
in the world can produce a corps more adequate to the
successful conduct of such a work
The nr.st of the e expeditions is unde; the command
of Major Stevens, late of the engineer corps, and now
go-, ei nor of Washington Territory, and has tor its ob
ject to survey the region stretching from the upper
Mississippi to I'uget's Sound. It proceeds from St.
Paul in the Terri'ory of .Minnesota, to the Great Ifend
of ihe Missouri river: thence ou the tale land between
the Missouri and Saskatchanan nvers to the moat avail- j
able pass in the Rocky mountains, surveying the best
passes in the Cascade range, and the Rocky mountains, j
from the It-th parallel to the head- waters of the Misaou- ;
ri It is part of tin- object of this expedition to deter
mine the capacity of the whole region of its survey to !
supply, ana of the Missouri and Columbia rivers to j
transport, the material* of the proposed railroad. Wei
learn that a satifactory report has already been received j
from Major Stevens, giving assurance that he is already i
engaged in his operations far beyond the western fron- 1
tier of ihe United States. He expected to leave St. t
Paul's before the first of June
A second expedition, under the command of Lieut, j
Whipple, is to survey the region of our western terri- :
torv adjacent to the parallel of 3'i deg. It will proceed j
fioiii the Mississippi along the head waters of the Ca- -
nadian, cross the itio Pecos, and enter the valley of the J
Rio del Norte near Albuquerque; thence through j
Walker’s Pass m the Rocky mountains, to the Pacific,
at .*o:ue {mint on the coast of southern California near
San Pedro, Los Angeios, or San Diego,
j A third expedition, under the com maud of Captain
Gunnisou, will pass through the Rocky mountains near
‘the head waters of the Del Norte, by way of the lleur
fano river, into the valley of the Green and Grande
rivers; thence westwardty along the Nicollet river of
[the Great ifasiu; thence north to the lotkc Utah, ser
ve; ing on a return route the best passes of the Wasaich
range through the coal basin into the forks of the
Platte.
’ A tourth expedition is to operate in California. Its
■ field is the region west of the Lower Colorado to the
ji’acific. This expedition, starting from Benicia, in
California, u >!! examine the {Misses of the Sierra Neva
da from the Sun Joaquin and Tulare valleys, together
with the whole country southeast of the Tulare lakes,
jto ascertain the best route between Walker’s pass, or
any other practicable passes in that region, and die
j mouth of the Gila, and from that point to ihe Pacific
at Sun Diego.
Each of these expeditions is instructed and fully pre
j pared to h-übject the region assigned to it to a careful
I scientific suivey, having reference not only to the ex
j animation of its capacity ftin railroad route, but also
•to all that may pertain to a thorough geographical
j knowledge of the country, including not only its topog
raphy, but its climate, soil and production* It is obvi.
|ous iha such survey*, apart from their main object,
j must contribute very largely to a more accurate rcten*
I title knowledge of this vast western domain of the Uni
ted States. The appropriation made by the last Con
gress for these surveys amounted to the sum of one
I nuadred and fifty thousand dollars, and it is intended
j strictly to confine the expenses of all the various expe
ditions to that amount.— Washington Cnion.
l lk Marvel’ is to be Consul 8t Venice. It
should be a good thing for him, tor New York is no
place for a literary man. Its habits, its whirl, its par
venu character, is slender culture, its engro-sing frivo
lities, are ali dangerous lor the literary health of a young
writer. lie is not to wri'.e ‘sweet books’ for the polka
partners and dancing men up town, but something for
men nnd women. That Mitchell cun do dial, ihe ‘lau-g
----ne'.te’ will bear witness, in that strange, wierd, silent
city ot the Adriatic, he will have tunc to think and
write vvorthilv. The past of a great commercial city
will instruct him in he deeds of tlie rising emporium
of to-day. The splendid and shallow extravagance ot
Broadway only dazzles Dear at hand ; the conventional
inode that copies all the follies ami none of Ihe virtues
of the old world, is powerless beyond its little circle.—
yi ic Bedford Jj rc ry.
Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, is said to have pro
jected anew Democratic paper, to be published m
vVashiugton city. If be will say once a week as good
x thing as he said to Douglas, just brfore the meeting ot
the Baltimore Convention, we will guaranty his success
she “little giant’’ was just then manufacturing friends
as fast as he could, And was “williug” to everybody.
Sauntering up to Tucker one day, and throwing his
arm familiarlv around him, he said:
••Well, frieud Tucker, what can I do for youT”
“When you are elected President,’’ said Tucker,
“come up to me in this way and I will tell you.”
Scarcitt or Cloths is tub English and German
Markets. —Agents from New Votk importing houses
ire now returning from Europe, having completed
heir arrangements with regard to the fall goods Thev
•eport a great scarcity of cloth, both in the English and
• ierman markets especially in Yorkshire; and that all
orders caused be tilled.
MACON, GEORGIA:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 185 C.
We would call the attention of oar city readers to the
advertisement of the Harmonic Minstrels, who open
to-night at Concert Hall; and to that of Messrs. Clark
& Bonnet, who propose to give a novel and interesting
musical entertainment on the 7th proximo.
Peaches.
The first ripe reaches we have seen this season, weir
of our own cultivation. They are known as the “ Early
Tillotson,” are of good size and excellent flavor. The spe
cial oiiject of this notice is, to itwjwire if any one in this
vicinity has had them to ripen, this season, earlier than
the 20th inst., if so, it is to be hoped that the fact will
be made known, as our friend Nelson, of the Troup
Hill Nursery, would no doubt, be glad to propagate
them for the public benefit.
Ifon. Washington Poe.
This gentleman has thought it necessary to can tra
il ict, over his own signature a report which has been
extensively circulated, to the effect that he was prepat
ing to remove from the State. The rumor originat'd
in the fact, that he has thought proper to remove his
family, during the summer mouths, to a northern city.
He hns no design whatever, to leave the State, c-r this
community, in which he has lived ever since be attain
ed his majority. See card in another column.
The administration it is said, sympathises with
the revolutionary movement in China, for the overthrow
of the Tartar dynasty; viewing its success, as the begin
ning of a more intimate, and free commercial intercourse
between China and the rest of the world. Hon. Robert J.
Walker, it is stated, has been appointed Commissioner
to the Celestials. A this juncture the post is an honor,
able and important one, and can-osdy be filled by a man
of ability.
General Dtx, a notorious Free Soiler, who has al
ready been appointed, Sub-Treasurer at New York, and
who was originally selected by the President, as the
head of his Cabinet, has been tendered the mission to
France. General Fierce clings very tenaciously, to this
Buffalo Platform man.
The Brunswick Road.
Front advices received by parlies iu this city, who arc
interested in this enterprise, we learn that President
Foote, now in England, has negotiated the bonds of the
Brunswick Railroad Company at par, and has conclud
ed a contract for iron sufficient to lay every mile ol the
road under ooutract, a part of which will be shipped
and cn route to Brunswick, before Mr. Foote embarks
for the United States.
To-morrow, the first unnual meeting of the stockhol
ders, since the organization of the Brunswick and
Florida Railroad company, takes place at Brunswick-
Large delegations front theSoutheru and South-Western
counties of Georgia, will be in attendance, composed of
men who have the means aud will, to build two hund
red ntdes of railway themselves; and their action
to-morrow, will place the building of the road beyond
doubt. Contractors, equal to the work they have un
dertaken, are now engaged in grading ilie road and lay
ing the superstructure; iron has been purchased for
the whole route, an engine now runs oipr a few miles
of the rood already completed, shrewd business men
who know their own interests, have subscribed largely
for the stock, and it is the very error of the moon, to
attempt to throw doubt or discredit, upon the comple
tion of the Brunswick Railroad.
David J. Bailkv has been nominated by a Conven
tion of Delegates, from six counties out ot tbe eleven
constituting the Thiid District, as a candidate for re
election to Congress. The proceedings of this t uti
vention, which we publish in another column, disclose
very little of what actually occurred, aud do not even
give the balloting* which resulted in the nomination oi
Col. Bailey. It ought to be known, perhaps, that other
gentlemen of ‘he District were urged as candidates, and
that if there had been a full representation front every
part of the District, the nomination of Col. Bailey neter
would have been made. But we do riot object to tho
action of the Convention. We art content that David
J. Bailey should be the man whom we defeat. He is
uusuiled for the position he occupies. W ithout reflect
ing at all ujicu his private character or worth, we say
he is unfit for Congress, and owes his elevation to it
to the District system, which in its operation throws
up a great deal of lumber. The eagle for the air. the
mole for the earth, the sloth for tbe tree, and men im
positions which they can till. This is the sentiment of
the people, and it is this which Col. Bailey must dread,
in his present candidacy.
The Thg/aph, at last, answers the question which
we propounded to it several weeks ago, and which, it
its silence had continued, wc had determined to submit
to the people of Georgia, and await their response. Our
contemporary candidly and distinctly disapproves of
the appointments of Abolitionists to office ij) 1 resident
Fierce. This is valuable testimony. If show* that we
arc net alone r. our opposition to the act* of the Ad
ministration, but that we are supported and sustained
by its own friends and by its own press; and this dis
approval of the patronage policy of the Administration,
by a partisan Democratic press, is evidence of tlic fact
that the great mass of the thiukiugand reflecting voter*
of Georgia, have, upon this ground, already condemned
it. But as the Telegraph is in a candid mood, wc seek
a plain answer to another plain question, which has
been suggested by the action of the late Democratic
Convention. That Convention passed a resolution, de
claring that “the sentiments of the Inaugural Add ref ■
of President Fierce will meet with a hearty response
from the Democracy of Georgia.” We do not regard
this as an endorsement of tho bold, decided, Compro
mise principles of that address, mid we would know of
the Editors of the 7! It graph, both of whom were in the
Convention, aud one of them a member of the Commit
tee who req>ortcd the resolution, what is their construc
tion of thi* resolution, and w hether it was designed by
the framers to be a warm, cordial, aud unqualified ap
proval of the principles of the Inaugural. The lan.
gunge of the resolution does not justify this construction
aud it must be established, if established at all, by
aliunde proof. The Editors of the Telegraph, by their
whole political record, are committed against an en
dorsement of the principles of the Inaugural. If, then
this resolution was not designed to approve that ad
dress, and if it reflects the opinions of the Telegraph t
why does that press sustain the Administration ? It
does not approve the principles of President Puree, and
tpen!y disapproves his acts, affecting the questions con
nected with slavery. Why then does it sustain him ?
To the questions of the Telegraph, we have no diffi
culty or hesitancy in replying. We utterly disapprove
of any and all appointments of the Fillmore Administra
tion, which were tinctured with Free Soil and Aboli.
lion, though we roundly deny, that that administration
gave its putronage to the Free Soil, Higher Law, and
Abolition factions of its party, to the exclusion of the
sound, Conservative, Union, and Compromise portion of
it, as does the administration of President Pierce, which
the Telegraph so cordially sustains.
In the Eastern Judicial Circuit, there are three
candidates lor the Bench; Judge Fleming, Judge Hen*
ry, and the lion. Joseph W. Jackson. Judge Ilcury
li. Jackson, the present incumbent will not be a candi.
date for re-election, as lie has accepted the chargeship to
Vienna, tendered him by President Pierce.
The Georyio.i. of Monday, announces that the Hon.
Joseph W. Jackson, has withdrawn from the contest.
A Slight Mistake.
The Eufaula Shield, gives the following laughable ac
count, of the arrest of an United States Senator by some
of the citizens of that place, who were in pursuit of a
horse thief ’ We have bceu told that a mistake equally
ludicrous, was once made in tin* case of John P. King,
the distinguished President of the Georgia Railroad
Corporation, who, when Senator of the United States
from this State, was arrested by the police of Baltimore
as a pick-pocket.
“For several days past public attention in these parts
has been arrested by hand-bills, beaded in staring capi
tals “Stop the Rod or,” in which it was announced
that the advertiser, residing iu l’ond town, Sumter coun
ty, Ga., had been l obbed of a horse and buggy, b >tli of
which, together with the personal appearance of the
supposed thief, were minutely described. Now it so
happened that one day shortly after the unuonucemeni,
aforesaid, there came along through the western part ot
Randolph county, Georgia, Laid by the Chattahoochee
river, a horse, buggy, and man whose appearance cor
responded precisely with the published description. To
add to these suspicious circumstances, the man seemed
disposed to avoid ihe usual thoroughfares, and was
known to have inquired at various places for some Dear
by-way to a specified point. It was at once agreed by
some public spirited citizens that he could be none other
than the guilty party, and a chase was forthwith com
menced. After a hot pursuit of several miles, the bug
gy and horse were found quietly located, and it was as
certained that the supposed thief, was no less a person
that Hon Robert Toombs, who had just arrived at his
plantation in Stewart county, from a visit to his brother
in Randolph. The enterprising pursuers did not, it U
said, wait to “see the elephant, but hastily withdrew,
satisfied that appeur&nr** are wx*'iir* deceptive
! The candidates of the Southern Rights party of
j Georgia, for the office of Governor, is before the people,
and he who believes that such a candidate, upon such
a platform, can be elected, has little confidence iu the
intelligence of the people, and too much altogether in
their credulity. We can not, and will not believe, that
! the sheer force of party discipline, and of an empty
I party mime, can cause the people of Georgia to blot the
[glorious record of the last few years, and to surrender
j the exalted position which they occupy before the
Union, by elevating to the first office in their gift, a
man who opposed every step of the progress by which
that position was attained. Less than two years ago,
placing themselves upon the Georgia Platform, as the
just medium of correct Southern opinion, between the
iwo extremes of submission, and of resistance to
Northern aggressions, they declared their approval Os
the Compromise by an overwhelming majority ot
eighteen thousand votes, and branded as unworthy of
their confidence, and of their support, the party and
-.he men who refused to stand with them upon that
broad platform of principle. The action of the
people of Georgia upon ‘.he Compromise, in Con
vention in Is3o, gave direction to the public sentiment
of the South, rallied to their side a firm and unbroken
j phalanx of Soutlict n States, and gave to their State a
| controlling intlueuce in the politics of the South, and
,in the destinies of the Union. This action forced the
[two great national parties of the Union to endorse the
i Compromise, and to respect the rights of the South
under it, and to that action are wc indebted for what
ever of political good we enjoy.
This was but yesterday, and to-day they are called
upon by the action of the late Democratic Convention
|to blot this fair record—to reverse the position of the
[State upon the whole Compromise question and policy
[- and insultingly asked to vindicate the Nashville Con
tention, and the Disunion movement of 1830, by re
1 warding the men and the party who projected them
This is the issue presented to the people of Georgia—
presented in the Candidate, and in the Platform of ihe
Southern Rights party; and when we say that such a
Candidate, upon such a platform, can not be elected,
we rely upon the intelligence and honesty of the
people, und upon the fact, lhat a large majority of them
amid all tin changes of the last two years—stiil remain
i true to tho Compromise—still stand upon the Georgia
Platform, and still regard as agitators, and as enemies
| of the bust interests of the State, all those who opposed
|it in 18, :o, and dare not boldly to endorse it in 1853.
This controlling sentiment of the people, evidenced
by a majority of eighteen thousand of the voters of
Georgii, a few short months ago, has been disregarded
and outraged in the action of the Democratic Conven
tion. Where are tbe 57,047 voters of Georgia who sus.
tuined Mr. Cobb in 1851, and who were denounced by
Herschd V. Johnson, and by the men who nominated
him for Governor last week, as submissionists and as
traitors to the South ? And where iu this candidate
thi> great bolus of Southern Rights and Secession
which tkev are called upon to awalhm -do they find
any thing palatable to them ; or in the platform upon
which he has been placed, any thing which is a bona
tide endorsement of their political opinions ? The Con
vention re-affirmed the Baltimore Platform. That Plat
form. excepting the resolution which declares lhat the
Democratic party will “abide by aud adhere to” the
Compton ise, was mere sound, signifying nothing, aud
the Chairman of the Democratic State Convention who
reported it* Platform, Mr. Gardiner, of Richmond, nd
vocuu'i imieU ru'e to lire Compromise- went to the Bal
timore Convention ridiculing the recognition of its
finality—and upon his return, strenuously and zealous
ly contended, that that Convention did not design to
endorse or approve of the Compromise, but simply to
acquiesce in it as in any other legislation of Congress.
The Contention pretended to endorse the Inaugural
of President Pierce in the following words :
Resolved, That the sentiment* of ihe Inaugural Ad
dn *s of President Pierce, will meet a hearty response
from the j-eopl- of Georgia.
Not that they do, hut that they will, at some future
day. Who can regard this as a bonaJi-de endorsement
of the policy and principles of the Inaugural'? Is this
the language which partizans usually employ in ex
pressing cordial and warm approval ? and by this cun
ningly worded resolution, can the Union men of Geor
gia be entrapped?
This, tlu-n, is the relation which the Platform bears
to ihe Compromise. The relation of the candidate is
easier determined. He has been distinguished in his
opposition to the Compromise party of the State, and
to the LiUeruess of that opposition be owes his recent
nomination. When iu the Union Convention of 1850,
the Georgia Platform—that able and hold expression of
conservative Southern opinion—was reported by the
Comtuinee of Thirty-Three, Judge Johnson was pre
sent as a spectator, and we quote from a letter of S T.
Chapman, Esq., (at present Editor of the Savannah
Courier, but at that time Editor of this paper,) to sbow
the feeling with which the Democratic candidate for
Governor regarded the Georgia Platform and its build,
ers:
“After the reading was completed, much gratification
was manifested by all presen . One or two Fite Eat
ers remarked to their personal friends, that they were
entirely satisfied with the Report. One only was heard
to condemn it. He was a distinguished Judicial fitnc
tionan u! the vicinage. During the reading, he gave
utterance to at least one groin —whether voluntary or
involuntary, 1 pretend not to say. After the applause
had cpii-cd* however, a gentleman approached him and
enquired “what he thought of the submissiouists now?'’
His reply was: “ I have a most thorough contempt for
the w;al pack r I give nearly, if not precisely, his
v. ords, and beg you to place them on record, because 1
think it altogether probable that in less than four years
this same distinguished official will beaskiug a renewal
of his commission of the very pack w hom he now pro
fesses to contemn. It is indeed unfortunate that the
countenances of some men so fully indicate the shade
->1 feeling which darkens the inner man. If the face of
this judicial bison was any index to the heart, then the
ermine has been sadly misplaced, aud the idea of the‘
whited sepulchre has been Fully realized.”
This is severe language, which we do not approve,
[though it is not more levelc than the remarks which
provoked it. We quote it to show the position which
j Mr. Johnson occupied in 1850, towards the Compromise
and the Georgia Platform, and their supporters, lie
’ proft seed tv pel a thorough conte nipt for the whole pack
[and reflected upon the intelligence, and the honesty oj
; every Union man in Georgia—of many who voted for
. him last week—and of thousands upon thousands of the
! citizens of Georgia, who must support him, if he is ever
| elected Governor of the State. Union meu ! look to the
Platform—look to the candidate, and to the contempti*
’ ble vote which Union Democrats received in the Con
jventiou of last week, if you want evidence of the fact
! that your principles were not recognized in it. Iteorgu
uized Democracy is a snare, in which the Union Democ.
racy, who are entrapped by it, will be slaughtered mid
like cattle in the shambles.
But we have a better and a stronger ground of ob
jection to the action of the Democratic Convention, one
which every true Southern man, whether he be Whig
or Democrat, Union or Southern Rights, must acknow -
ledge to be just. It has failed to endorse the principles
of the Inaugural, without which the Administration
i has no strength iu Georgia, but farther, it bus failed to
disapprove of the appointments of General Pierce, and
must be regarded as approving the policy of yi in-j ‘fire
to fie e Boilers and Abolitionists, llovv contemptible is
this position of Ihe Southern Rights party, clinging to
an Administration whose principles it dares not ap
prove, and whose acts it dares not disapprove; and
how dangerous to the safety and interests of the South,
j how demoralizing to Southern sentiment is this posi
; tion, which compels them to aet with those men at the
i North who have been the strongest opponents of the
[South, to break down the last entrenchment iu which
| Southern opinion Las fortified itself, and to place them*
selves, side by side, with its bitterest lbes. These
doughty defenders of the rights of the South, who do
nouuced Union men as submissionista and as traitors,
because they would not join them in a crusade against
the whole North, affiliate with the vilest party of the
North, recognize us brethren men who are not {Mire
[ enough for our communion, and reject the Compromise,
! which is the only basis upon which they should act
with Northern men.
The time bus arrived then, for the resistance party of
the State; the true Uniou anl Southern Rights Party
to raise its voice of protest against a political organ izuj
tion, which obliges Southern men to act with Abolition.
i.-Js—to become their apologists, and sustain an adminis
tration which gives them its protection, and its patron
• age. The time lias arrived when all true Southern meu
whose Southern Rights opinions, were not mere sound
and lury, signifying nothing, to place themselves upon
the Georgia Platform, to reaffirm the fourth resolution
1 of that platform, aud though, deserted by the par-excel-
J lence chivalry of the South to stand upon it, and then
abide the issue of the insane policy of the preseut ad.
’ ministration, which furnishes “materialaid” to our cue.
| mics, and hastens probably, the happening of one oi
. those contingencies, upon which, the people havi
(pledged themselves to resistance.
Another Convention meets to-day. We pledge to th<
p*enU> rs Georgia, in advance of its action, that it iviL
give them a stronger endorsement, of the principles of
the Inaugural of President Pierce, than the Covention o
last week; a tirm and decided disapproval of the policy of
the administration in it3 appointments, and a candidate
who better represents the Compromise sentiment of the
.State, with whom wc shall “turn the tables’ upon the
nominee of the Secession Democracy.
Au Elegant Extract.
The Times dt Bentinel ia responsible for the lolloping.
Old Dr. Blair would cail it bathos, but perhaps it is
more correctly characterized as a sj>eeime*.i of the high
ftrhUin style. The performance ought not to be judged
by the strict rules of rhetoric. It would be, too, a
grievous wrong to our Columbus contemporary, and a
reflection upon his intelligence, if we did not make some
allowance for the position in which he is placed, which
incapacitates him from forming, or at least expressing*
an opinion concerning the discomfited candidates for
the Gubernatorial nomination of the Democratic party,
which will bear scrutiny or criticism. His object was
to mollify them, and if he fails in the attempt it will
not be because he has been economical of fancy, but be”
cause he has, in the very extravagance of his eulogi
urns upon the killed and wouuded of the loth inst., too
plainly exposed bis object. Ho uses no neutral tint*
and it is not astonishing that his picture should be a
daub. The competitors of Judge Johnson were very
worthy men; all of them more to be dreaded ns the
candidate of their party than the one who was preferred
before them ; and one of them who received the con
temptible support of twenty-four votes, really a man o 1
intellect and of fitness for the office—but the qualitica
tious, talents, services and virtues of all of them com
bined, will scarcely justify such a flourish of rhetoric
as the following, particularly when we remember that
the writer announced in advance of the Democratic
nomination, that Henry R. Jackson, and thcother Union
Democrats whom he bedaubs, could not command his
support, unless they were willing to stultify themselves
by recognizing the right of secession, as maintained by
the Southern Rights party, to be a fundamental prin
ciple of the Democratic creed:
“Nor were his opponents inferior men. In the proud
array of candidates was Warner, the acknowledged
leader of the bar in Georgia—a man whose profound
learning would adorn the highest legal tribunal in the
world; and Haralson, a gentleman endeared to all clas
ses bv the blandness of his manners, the sweetness of
his disposition, the purity of his character and the
range of his attainments; and Lamar, whose name
is a war civ which stirs noble hearts to generous
deeds; and Starnes and Starke, whose virtues and
talents are subjects of universal praise; and Jack
son, u worthy kinsman and representative 01 one of
Georgia’s earlier and ablest Governors, whose muse
warbles no common melody, and whose chivalry was
the pride and boast of the gallant soldiers who partici
pated in the victories which placed the bannered stars
upon the Halls of the Montezumas.”
From the following, which we find in the New nan
Banner, it will be seen that the Hon Cuaui.es Murphy
who was recently slaughtered, by the Southern Rights
Democracy in the Congressional Convention of the
Fourth District, will be an independent candidate for
Congress. He doubtless looks to the Whig party of
the District for support. We trust he may never re
ceive it. Col. Murphy advocated the re-organization of
the Democracy, knowing that there was no principle
upon which such a re-organization could be effected,
and trusting his chances, of a return to Congress, to men
to whom he was bitterly opposed in 1350. He put him
self in their power. He submitted his claims to them,
and he was unceremoniously thrown aside as a useless
piece of lumber, and a Disunionist was preferred before
him. What right has he to complain? Who has he
to blame but himself? And to what can he attribute
his defeat, but to his own abandonment of his position
as a Uninn Democrat, and fraternization with a party
with whom, upon principle, he could not act ? It is
with an exceedingly bad grace that he can now appeal
to his Union allies for support, whom he abandoned in
hot haste, when, as he imagined, the alliance was no
longer profitable. The Whigs and Union Democrats
of the District should bring out their own candidate*
some Whig or Union Democrat, who has never surren
dered himself to the .Southern Rights Democracy, and
with him suffer defeat, rather than to take up one who
returns to them, because he is forced to do it, and by
supporting him, offer a premium for political tergiver
sation and inconsistency.
Letter from Col. Murphy.
Decatur, June 15th, 1653.
Ja*. A. Welch, Esq.:
Dear Sjr: —l avail myself of vour kindness in offer
ing me the use of your columns for any communication
1 might deem proper to make, and ask you to announce
my name in the Banner as an iudt‘i*eiident candidate
for Congress in the Fourth Congressional District, at
the approaching election.
I had thought that 1 would submit my claims to a
Convention of ihe re-united Democracy, acting upon
tlitt |riiuu|>l*u i*f ths* 4.1*1 uulmaol Domocrnto, in which
you and I med to delight —leaving out of view the late
issues, and all prejudices thereby created against any
man because he was a Union mail, and willing to abide
by the laws of his country. But lam informed by the
best authority that no such Convention bos been held
in the District, nor will there be such a one between
now and next October. I must therefore trv to get
along without it. I suppose the people cau decide for
themselves, and that without juggling.
I bate the honor to be, with great respect, your obe
dient servant, C. MURPHY.
*.%f“ We find in the Savannah Republican of the 2‘ffh
inst, the following letter from Francis S. Bartow, Esq.
announcing that he is not a candidate for Congress, from
the Ist Congressional District, and giving the sensible
and unanswerable reason, that the “necessities of his
private interests,” forbid a compliance on his part, with
the wishes of those of his friends, who have urged him
to accept a nomination. We had hoped that as public
opinion, in advance of a nomination had designated
Mr. Bartow, as the opponent of Mr. Seward, he would
have found it compatible with liisowo interest, to grati
fy himself by serving the people of the District in Con
gress; but we are reluctantly compelled to recognize
the soundness, and justness of the grounds upon which
he buses his refusal.
.Savannah, June IS, 1553. ‘
T> th*- Elitors of the Savannah Rtpviilican:
Gentlemen :—My attention has been arrested by an
article in your paper of this morning, in which my name
is connected with a candidacy for Congress in this dis
trict The notice which you and the G-ort/iuin have be
stowed on me is, 1 think’, premature, for while 1 recog
nise the rig-lit of the public freely to canvass the merits
of those who arc aspirants for public places, vet those
who have not aspired, should be permitted the repose
due to private station. I would not now occupy this
space in your columns, but from the apprehension that
silence may be construed into an acquiescence on my
part in the proposed nomination. I am very grateful
for the kind feelings and good opinion which have
prompted your favorable suggestions, and those which
nave been made in your paper, from various portions
of the District, and I will not deny that I should feel
greatly honored in being selected as the representative
of this district in the National Congress. Circumstances
might exist, which in my conception of public duty,
would compel me to accept a public trust freely inq o
sed upon me by the people, but I have not beeu able to
discover any circumstance of peculiar interest, in the
present condition of public afliiirs, which ought to in
duce mo to disregard my own feelings. To those per
sonal friends, who, through the partiality of friendship,
have urged this nomination upon me, 1 have uniformly
said that the necessities of my private interests forbade
my compliance with their wishes; and, I might add with
cundor, my own. 1 have earnestly requested that the pub
lic attention should not be drawn to me in connection
with this office. I have still this favor to ask at the
hands of all, and have felt constrained to assure my
friends in this public way, that i atn not, nor can my
consent be obtained to become, a candidate for Congress.
1 am Respectfully,
Your Friend.
FRANCISS, RARTOW.
Death oi Rev. S. J. Cassels.
This melancholy event is thus noticed by the Savan
nah Georgian. Mr. Cassels will be remembered by out
community, as the pastor, for several years, of the Pres
byterian Church of this city. He was an accomplished
scholar, a finished theologian, and one <>f the most elo
quent preachers in the denomination to which be be
longed, befoie incapacitated by sickness for the duties
of the sacred desk:
It is with deep regret, that we announce the death m
om esteemed friend and fellow citizen, the Rev. S. J
Casskls, the Principal of Chatham Academy, who has
been for many years highly appreciated in this com
munity as an instructor of youth, and who before bis
removal to this city, was greatly esteemed by his de
nomination as un earnest, eloquent aid successful min
ister of the gospel. lie was a native of Liberty county
in this State, graduated with high honor at Franklin
College, and soon after entered the ministry of the
Presbyterian Church, having studied Theology under
Dr. W added, President of Franklin College. From ihe
first he took a high stand as a Preacher, and was called
during the course of his life to several prominent a.id
distinguished positions in the church, lie was a few
years ago compelled to give up preaching, by hi onchi is,
became a ei.izen of Savannah, and opened a schi ol < -r
the iustiuciiou cf you h. The academy of which he
had charge, when be died, with the efficient co-o, er.i
tion of the gentlemen whom he bad associated with
him, has attained its former popularity and celebrity as
an Educational Institution.
lie was a man of great energy of character, and in
cessant in his ctforts to do good, continuing to labor in
his school, and through the Press to set forth aud en
ibrce that truth which he had long preached, when his
11-health and bodily weakness would have afforded an
unple apology for rest and quiet. We deeply sympa
hise with bis afflicted tamily, and sincerely nope that
hey may enjoy the support and comfort of that teligion
whose power he so gloriously illustrated in his death.
—Savannah Qecrgiau, Junv
BUM <1 L .A IvA ILU.
Hon. William Mosely.
To the Voters <f the Third. Congressional Dis'rlct
As the time is close at hand when our Convcn-.ion
will meet to nominate a candidate for Congress, of this
District, I will as an humble citizen, and a voter, tik
the liberty to suggest the name of one whom I would,
with many others, both Whigs and Democrats, like to
see in the field. That man is the Hon. W ihium Mosely
of the city of Griffin; I believe that lie is now, the most
available man that can be run, and is as well qualified
to fill that high and honorable station a3 any man in
the District. I will say that be can beat any man in
Old Pike. Spalding, or Butts, for he is well known to
nearly every voter in the District, and is personally
popular with both Whigs and Democrats. But I am
willing to cast my vote for any conservative man, in op
position to the Southern Rights Party.
A UNION* DEMOCRAT.
Old Pike, June, 1553.1
Meeting iu Macon county.
Lamer, June 15, 1553.
At a meeting of the Union parly of Macon county
this day, held at the Court-house, Stepuen F. Miller
was called to the Chair, aud W. W. Cornu it appointed
Secretary.
The Chairman briefly stated the object of the meet
ing to be the appoiutuient of delegates to the Conven
tion soon to assemble at Miliedgeville, for the purpose
of nominating a candidate for Governor, and to the
Convention to be held at Americas in order to nomi*
nate a candidate for the second Congressional District *
to be supported by the Union Conservative party of th e
State, and of the District, respectively.
On motion of Col. W. J. Patterson,
Resolvtd, That a Committee of ten be appointed to
cousidei and report the names of delegates to each Con
vention.
The Chair appointed Col. W. J. Patterson, Dr. W.
N. L. Croeker, Asa Jolley, Dr. T. P. Oliver, Col. J. R-
W. Berry, C. 11. Young, Joseph Johnson, Hon. Gideon
Smith, S. C. Bryan, and B. Harris, Esq., as that Com
mittee.
After retiring a short time for consultation, the Com.
mittee, through their Chairman, reported Leroy M.
Felton, William 11. Robinson, and Philip Cook*
Esq’rs., as delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention,
and Dr. John R. Coox, Burwell Greene, and Wil
liam J. Patterson, Esq’rs., as delegates to the District
Convention.
On motion of W. W. Corbitt, Esq.
Resolved, That the delegates be authorized to fill va
cancies.
The report and amendment were then unanimously
adopted.
Ordered, That the proceedings of this meeting be
published in the Gear gut Journal and Messenger .
The meeting then adjourned.
STEPHEN F. MILLER, Chairman.
W. W. Corbitt, Sec’rv.
Whig Meeting in Marion.
A portion of the Whig party met at the Court-house
on the Bth inst., for the purpose of Dominating dele
gates to the Gubernatorial Convention.
Mr. Seaborn McMiciiael was called to the Chair*
and Dr. A. C. Hohnady was requested to act as Sec.
retary.
The following gentlemen were appointed delegates
to the Gubernatorial Convention: Dr. A. C. Hornady,
Col. Wm. M. Brown, and Maj. Wm. A. Black, with
authority to fill any vacancy that may occur.
The following resolutions were then read and unani
mously adopted:
Resolved, That the Whig party be requested to ap
point three delegates in each Captain’s District, to
meet at Buena Vista on the second Tuesday in August,
for the purpose of nominating candidates for Senator
and Representative to represent this county iu the next
Legislature.
Jitsolcel, That we have abiding confidence in the
j patriotism, integrity and ability, of our present Repre
jsentative, Hon. James Johnson. We therefore unani
mously nominate him for re-election, and request the
other counties of the District who may approve of ibis
resolution, to place him in like manner before tiie peo
ple.
| Resolved, That the Journal A Messenger, Columbus
! Enquirer, and Literary Vade-Mecum, be requested to
j publish the proceedings of this meeting.
SEABORN McMICHAEL, Ch’n.
j A. C. Hornadt, Sec’ry.
j
The W ar Question—The Treasury.
There will be some tweutv-three millions surplus in
i the Treasury on the first of July, and this excess of re
* ceipts over ihe expenses, of fifty millions per annum,
1 will probably not he less than fifty millions at the end
iof the curreut liscal year, provided always that there is
‘no war, and that the Cabinet will go on with the reforms
and retrenchments which they have so happily com
! menced. The following exhibit will show the working
of the tariff of 1649 for the month of May, 1853, as
compared with the same month of the year prece
ding :
May, 1853. May, 1352
New York $2,632,000 1,316,n0t)
May 23 to June! 6r 8,465 May 29 to June 5 450, tK)O
{Boston 521,000 523,000
r Philadelphia 275,000 ISO, 1 *OO
| May 29 to June 5 59,"00 May 29 to June 5 5 ,000
I Baltimore 78,000 75,000
• New Orleans (t°
J Mav 28) 196,241 150,000
| Charleston 28,000 36,000
|
4,534,700 3,225,900
3,225,000
j .
j 1 month’s increase £1,279,.'06
i With such a flush of funds, the .V Y. Herald says,
; our government may with impunity proceed to nego
] tiate :or the purchase of another slice of Mexico, or they
I may plunge headlong into another war. It is this ple-
J thoric condition of the Treasury that suggests, as strong
lly as any thing else, ihe probability of a little more an-
I nexation; by diplomacy or by gunpowder Let Santa
Anna consider this financial view of the question before
j it is too late.
j Instructions to our Representatives Abroad.—
! Hon. Wm. L. Marcy, Secretary of State, has issued in
jatrnctions to our diplomatic and consular agents abroad,
I intended to effect certain important refbi ms in those
h branches of the public service. Hereafter our foreign
jj ministers are to transact their own business, and not
transfer to their secretaries the onus and responsibili
| ties of official signatures. For the future all our foreign
| legations are ordered to be opened every day, except
.Sundays, from 9 A. M. to 3 I’. M., for the acconmiotlu-
Itiou of American citizens, and American passports are
j to be vised gratis at the American legations, in all places
where there is one. All fees paid at a consulate are to
‘be reported to the State Department, under a penalty
■j of dismissal from office The secretary has also abolish
ed consular and diplomatic uniforms, in all cases where
they am be dispensed with. American ministers must
appear at foreign courts in the simple dress of an Ame
rican citizen, where they cau do so without impairing
their usefulness.
“The simplicity of our usages and the tone of feeling
among our people,” says the Secretary, “is much more
in accordance with Ihe example of our first and most
distinguished representatives at a roval court than the
practice which has since prevailed” No one but an
American is to be hereafter allowed to act as Secretary
. of Legation, and in this connection Mr. Murcy remarks:
“The correspondence between the government anil the
5 legations of the Uni.ed States must be guarded with the
! utmost secrecy even as relates to our own citizens To
submit it to the examination of a foreigner will be re
garded as an indiscretion in the offender, demanding
i immediate deprivation of office. The first duty of a
t subject is considered to be fidelity to his sovereign.—
? Foreign clerks may justly be regarded as unsafe deposi
: tories of the secrets of our diplouiacv in the legation
w here they are employed. The possibility that a reve
-1 lation of our secret State papers may occur iii this man
ner, is sufficient to excite fears on the subject, and re
j ptire the strict observance of the above instructions.”
!The Mauink and Fate Insurance Bank. —We learn
that .Mr. Edward Pudelford on Tuesday la>t. resigned
l die Presidency of this Institution, aud that Mr. Elias
I ileed has been elected bis successor.
Mr. Padeiford lias been tlie President of this Rank
4 or the last tificen years, during w hich liine bis admin
j st rat ion has reflected the highest credit upon the insti
- ‘.ution, honor upon himself for his skill and ability us a
t itiancier, and bus been attended with mauitest benefit
Imd advantage to the stockholders No banking insti
utiou in Georgia enjoy s a larger share of the people’s
j confidence, than does the Marine A F:re Insurance
’ Rank of Savannah, and no institution lias more prompt
j ty paid latge dividends to its stockholders,
j On ihe tli inst. the Rank declared a dividend of nine
, per cent, for ihe past six months, equal to eighteen per
I eat. per annum. It will be gratifying to Uie Stnck
i udders to learn that Mr. l’afielldrd s connexion with
i he Rank ceases only, in his official capacity as Piesi-
I lent, lie still retains a scat on ilie Hoard as a Director.
Judge Reed who succeeds Mr. Padeiford, has been
long aud favorably known as one of our best citizens
ind most successful merchants, and the public have
every confidence in his ability, to preserve the high
> credit and prosperous condition of the Rank —Sacunnuh
* Jiejtiiblkan, 16th iu.it.
[ Mount Verson.— We understand that Mr. John A.
Washington, the proprietor of Mount 1’ ru:i, has di
i posed ot that venerated mansion, with two hundred
j acres of the landed estutc, to a company comprising
; Northern and Southern men, for the large siun of two
hundred thousand dollars. To what purpose the pur
chasers mean to apply the property, we have not yet
iheurd; but we are very glad to learn that the terms ot
| sale reserve to Congress the privilege of taking it. Auo
. tlier and an irre vocable condition of the sale, is that the
! remains of General \\ :ishm"tO!! We tic'cr, under any
1 circumstances, to be removed from their-p; eseui r sting
■ place. We arc informed that the purchasers offered a
1 largely increased price to have tot sale tna .e absolute ;
1 but Mr. Washington replied that he would not tor any
‘ sum that couid be named place it out of the power of
Congress to make Mount Vernon the properly oi the
natiou. —National lat Uiynctr.
The Sloo Compauy has been formally put in posses
sion *f the Tehuantepec transit
Democratic State Convention.
The delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention , - .
Democratic Party, assembled in the liiiil of R, j , tg<i
tatives at 11 o’clock, A. M., on the 1 sth inst.
There were 2U9 delegates in attendance fro® 7v,
(on ities
Thomas J. Burnmy, of Mcrgan, was selected as p re
il-rst, and A. C. Morton, of Muscogee, aud Artl
Hood, of Gordon, Secre aries.
ihe following resolutions were adopted:
li‘*oh'td, That we recommend that ihe basis of
resention n future Conventions, be one for each „ - *
ty tor Sen .lor, uud two for each Renrescnfative *''?
estimated according to the present basis 0 | rep,..’
tun m ihe Legislature. 1 “
Jtesolvd, That it shall require a vote of fwo-*V : a
ot ihe entire Convention to nominate a candid-.,..'fir*
Party for Governor. ‘
Delegates from counties not fully represented a
authorised to cast the full vote to which their
were c ilied under the first resolution.
011 motion, the Con vent ion proceeded to ballot for *
candidate for Governor, and ou the h ballot, lj (r
ilbitsuHei. V. Johnson having received two-thirds of
the whole number of votes cast, was declared by the
President to be the choice of the Democratic Party f cr
Governor of Georgia.
The ballots were as follows:
IST. 2d. cl). ‘iTH. * TB
11. Y. Johnson 129 163 172 1-2
H. A. Haralson, 71 77 91 98 S’-
H. G. Lamar, 79 51 20
11. Warner, 24 16 3
H. R. Jackson, 3 5 8 3 ?
U, L. Benning
J 11. Stark, 3 15 12
E Starnes 3
Blank 1
A committee of 39, consisting of 3 from each Judi
cial District, appointed to prepare matter for Ihe action
of ihe meeting, submitted a report through iheir Chair
man, James Gardner, Jr., of Richmond, recommends
the Baltimore Platform, adopted by the National Dem
ocratic Convention of 1852, as an embodiment of the
creed and the sentiments of the Democracy of Georgia,
and concluding with the following :
lit solved, That the sentiments of the Inaugural Ad
dress of President Pierce will meet a beany 1 espouse
lrom tue Democracy of Geotgia, and sueng.heu the
assurance inspired by his past political hie iliat the
Constitution ot our eouutry at licme, and her lights
and honor abroad, will be maintained by his Adminis
tration.
Resolved, That the Democratic Party of Georgia
profoundly sympathise with iheir fellow democrats of
the United Stales in the great loss sustained by our
party and the country, ;u die death of the Vice Presi
dent, Wm. R. King of Alabama, whose distinguished
public services and blameless life, endeared him to she
American people, and whose memory will be cherished
while patriotism and virtue are houored among uieu.
The Report was unanimously adopted.
A Committee of Three was appointed to notify the
Hon. 11. V. Johnson of his selection as the Democratic
Candidate for Governor of Georgia, and to request his
acceptance
On motion an Executive Committee of eight was ap
pointed by the Chair, consisting of the following gen
tlemen :
William McKinley, of Baldwin, Chairman; 11. K.
Green, and Dr. Robert Collins, of Bibb; R. B. Hilton,
of Chatham; W. R. McLaws, of Richmond; Juba A.
Tucker, of Stewart; Joseph Walters, of Floyd; aud
Wm. H. Hull, of Clark.
The Convention then, after addresses by Messrs-
McMilien, Hillyer, Ramsey, Tucker, Crook, Flournoy,
aud Brown, aud after a vote of thauks to its officers*
adjourned.
Third District Convention.
This Convention met at Forsyth, on Monday, the 13th
of June, 1853, for the purpose of nominating a Demo
cratic candidate for Congress, from the Third Congres
sional District. The following Counties were repre
sented in the Convention, to wit:
Bibb —Messrs. Bailey, Newsom, Green, Speer, Cary.
Houston —Messrs Pringle, Hardeson.
Monroe-Messrs. Piuckard, Cochran, Lasseter, Poe.
Pike—Messrs. Greene, Gibson.
Spalding—Messrs. McCune, Lockhart, Critchton.
Upson —Messrs. Moore and Welborn.
On motion of Alexander M. Speer, Esq., John Bailey,
Esq., of Bibb, was called to the Chair, and 0. C Gib
son, Esq., appointed Secretary.
Mr. Cary offered the following Resolution, that was
adopted:
/. < irr !, That the Delegates from each county in the
District present, have the right to cast live votes for
their county.
Mr. Pringle ottered the following Resolution, which
was also adopted:
lit - lorl, That the Convention proceed to nominate
a candidate for the Third Congressional Dis rict by bal
lot, and that it take tvvotlnrda of the votes cast, to make
a nomination.
After two balloting*. Col. David J. Bailey, of Butts,
was unanimously nominated the Democratic candidate
for this District.
On motion of Mr. Speer,
The Chair appoint a committee of three, to inform
Col. Bailev of his nomination, and Messrs. Speer, Coch
ran and McCnne, were appointed that Committee.
On motion of Mr Pringle,
A committee of three wee appointed by the Chair to
draft resolutions, and Messrs. Pungle, Green, of Bibb,
and McCune, were appointed that Committee—who af
ter retiring, reported the following preamble and reso
lutions :
Whereas, the Democratic Party of the Third District,
having this day met in Convention, to nominate a Rep
resentative to Congress, and that duty being performed
with a unanimity, which gives promise of certain suc
cess to ourcause and candidate, there remains little else
for us to do, than to reiterate those principles lor which
we have so often contended and triumphed.
Be it therefore Resolved, That ihe principles of the
Democratic Party, as enunciated in Baltimore in Is 2,
are adopted by this Convention, and to acquiesce in
them is all that is necessary to constitute a true Demo
crat
2. Resolved , That in our nominee. Col. David J. Bai
ley, of Butts, we find a man of irreproachable character,
both public and private, and one in every way entitled
to the support of the Democratic Patty of the Thi and
District. With such a candidate and such principles,
we feel an abiding confidence in our cause, and there
fore present them to the public, claiming only that they
should be approved or condemned, as they may be
found most worthy of the one or the other.
On motion of Mr. Newsom, it was
R- solved, That the Report of the Committee be adop
ted by the Convention.
On motion of Mr. Lockhart, the Georgia Telegraph
and Georgia Jeffersouiau, are requested to publish these
proceedings. _
On motion of Mr. Cary, the thanks of fle Convention
were returned to the Chairman and Secretary.
The Convention adjourned sine die.
JOHN BAILEV, Ch’m’n.
0. C. Giesox, Sec'ry.
Copper and Gold Mixing in Virginia. —A new
mining company has been organized, called the Mat ,t
---sas Copper >1 ine, at Fauquiei county, Virginia. . . ’
mine is situated on the Blue Ridge, and is seventy mile*
from Alexandria, and extending o\er nine hundred
acres. The Manassas Gap Railroad passes through the
property, affoiding a diieet and easy commumiv ■ t
with Alexandra. It is said that the mine has beet:
veyed by Profs. B. Sillintan, jr., of New York, ate! .
L. Piggott, of Baltimore: and the ore ha* been uen dy
zed by Dr. Jas. R. Chilton and Prof, Sritmai. Their
1 neport.-Apeak forcibly in 1 tvor of tits mine. The ore
| yields 21.4*• per cen\ of copper, ;nd pyrites zV a :;•<> per
cent., while some specimens ol the vein had yielded H 9
l>er cent, of pure copper. A late letter from London
also has the following:
“A prospectus has made its appearance entitled the
London and Virginia Gold and Copper company, with
j a capital of £50,000 in £l shares. The estate selected,
which comprises about four hundred actcs near Mars
eille, in Virginia, is alleged to contain parallel veins of
copper, gold, and silver, and the terms of purchase are
£IO,OOO, £IO,OOO in paul up shares and £l",ooo further
in paid up shares its soon a< a dividend of 10 per cent,
shuil have been paid to the stockholdeis.”
Thk Capitol Extension. —Prof. A. D. Cache, U.
8. CoaM Survey, Prof J. Henry, President of ‘be
Smithsonian Institution, and Captain Meigs, U. S. Eh*
gincers, the committee appointed by Congress to su
perintend the enlargement of the Capitol, are now in
New York, and have visited Metropolitan Hall, Niblo’s
Saloon and Concert Room as well as several churches
und public buildings, for the purpose of ascer ainirg
the uccoustic merits, and viewing the architectural
beauties of each, to enable them to attain the greatest
perfection in the construction of the new Congress
llail, now building in Washington.
I'-rV Ole Dull’s Norwegian Colony of HO,OOO certs in
Potter county, Pa., is said to be highly pruspetous
The principal town, called Ghana, already contain®*
population of 7(h). Ole Bull has built himself a beau 1 ,
lul Norwegian cottage for u summer residence, and pro
poses to establish a polytechnic school in his colorv tor
ihe advancement ot ihe arts aud sciences generally to
be conducted by the most scientific men of Europe.—
His plan is to make if a civil and military sch< 01, to be
open for the youth of the Union, aud to connect tbe
sciences with the arts
Army Promotions. —The death of General Ri!. v i
is staled, promotes tbe following officers :
Lieut. Col. Plympton to be Colonel ; Major P Yorn
son to be Lieut. Colonel; Opt. T. L. Alexander Jo be
Major; Lieut. R S. Foote to be Captain ; Second LM’ b *
tenants Hetb and Boots to be First Lieutenants , m *
vet Second Lieutenant J. T. Shaaff to be Seconc L-cu
tenaut. Lieuts. Boots and Shaaff are natives of George
town, D. C.
The navigation of the Colorado river of .Tex®*
is the exclusive property of the Colorado Navigafi®
Company, ard, Congress having appropriated
fbr the improvement of the river, the United S a
Government has determined not to expend it lot 1 ‘
purpose, unless the company relinquish tbe monopoi. •
A meeting of the stockholders has been called in cos;
quencc. There seems to be no doubt oi the fcosib l > i
of removing the raft