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lonrnal & |Hfssfngcr.
J. KNOWLES and 8. ROSE.
EDITORS AXn PROPRIETORS.
lO( : TH‘WCITERM Kill. KO AD.
Preddriil'a Krperl.
SOCTH-WIMS Mi RaIL ROAD Cos ,
Macon, Aug. 9, 1840. *
The Report of the Chielf Engineer and Snperin-
Undent, which accompany this ‘how very clearly,
the operations of the Road for the rear ending :i lat
July ait., ita condition and the condition of the
motive power:
The net aam earned for the Tear, After
paying all ordinary and extraordinary
expense, ia 385,012 29
„ To which may be added the amount of
Premium and Discount account, shewn
on Treasurer’s autement, 3,841 53
(388,853 82
The following amount have been paid, viz:
Feb. Dividend 4 percent.,.93,424 00
Interest on Bond*, 27,432 50
Annuity to City of Macon,. 1,250 00-gl 22,306 50
(266,547 32
And the Board has this day declared,
1. A Semi-annual Divi
der and of 4 der ct. 116,876 00
2. An extra Dividend of
6 per cent., 146,095 CO-$262,97 l 00
Leaving a surplus of. ( 3,576 32
In the last Annual Report, the Board said as
follows:
“ As the income for the year just ended, after
paying an extraordinary expense of (55,538.35,
has been (282,230.20, there cannot, in the opinion
of the Board, be any doubt whatever, of the ability
of the Companv to pay regularly to the Stockhol
ders at least eight per cent, per annum. It is
certainly reasonable to expect that the net income
ot the Road for this current year, after the pay
ment of ordinary expenses will be (350,000.00 —a
sum sufficient to pay all interest, aud dividend of
eight per cent and leave (90,000.00 at least to
meet extraordinary expenses.”
That expectation has been more than realized.
The debt of the Company is as follows :
Ist. 7 per cent Bonds, en
dorsed by the Central
Rail Road and Banking
Company, not converti
ble into dtock, falling dne
in 1861 *47,000 00
Falling due in 1862 55,000 00
2d. 7 per cent Bonds is
sued tor the Americas
extension, failing due in
1863 (11,000 00
Falling due in 1864 18,000 00
- “ 1865 14,800 00
Id. 7 per cent. Bonds is
sued for ext nsioo beyond
SmithviUe, falling due In
1867 (1,000 00
Falling due in 1877..... 4
m m i87!!!!! [
•* “ 188o!"’.’.J
Total funded debt (396,500 00
The Bonds of 2d class, amounting to (43,500.00
are now convertible into Stock, whenever demand
ed by the bolder*. Os the Sd class, (2M .000.00,
there are now convertible into Stock, whenever
demanded. (50,000.00, convertible after June, 1861,
(51,000.00. and convertible after June, 1865,
(140,000.00
The current debt of the Company, payable in
rash, is small, being
For balances dne other Companies, ,6080.70
For balances of Estimates not called for,. .1,249.80
For Dividends unclaimed, 4,588.00
For balances of Invoices of art'les pareh’d,. 5,500.00
> or balances due contractors, 2,494.00
(19,912.72
The funds of the Company have been constantly
loaned at 7 per cent, interest, Secured by Stocks.
The balance called for by the Treasurer's state
ment is (308.469.14. It consists of money on
haad and in Bank, (97,186.16, and Bills Receiva
ble, (221.282.98. The whole of the Bills Receiva
ble, except (6,994.55 will be paid, with interest
due and to grow due thereon ((2,809 17) on the
15th of August inst., (the time at which the Divi
dends declared to-day are payable.) The above
(6,994.55 a ill be paid on the Ist December next.
The interest made on loans amount to (72,350.10.
On the 15th inst. the amount will be (75,059.27.
The money has been paid on the Railroad, except
(45,498.14, the balance in hand after paying the
Divideuds declared this day.
Fonr hundred tons of Rails to continue relaying’
heretofore orders*!, have recently arrived. The
cost of the same—about (20,000.00 —will be paya
ble In the course of this month. The balance'of
Cash and Bills Receivable, after pajing the Divi
dends of to-day, as mentioned above, (45,498.14,
Is ample to pay the current debt and the cost of
the four hundred tons of Rails.
There being no longer any object in keeping
the extension accounts separate in the books, the
sum of $1,613.418.85—the cost of Road, so far,
bejond Smilhviile —has been added to the pre
existing account of cost of Road and equipment,
and hereafter the extension Stock as well as the
original Stock will appear in one account.
The whole coet and equipment, then, to 31st
nk., has been $3,770,425.34 as shown by the
Treasurer’s statement. This amount will be in
creased by the sum of $5,880.8*, being for esti
aatn not yet called for by Contractors and by
the further expenditure* hereinafter shown.
The Board, in their last Annual Report further
said to the Stockholders as follows:
“ At the end of another rear wc shall be at the
end of our labors in road building. The Capital
Stock of the Company and the bonded debt to
gether, will not exceed $3,400,000.00. The Road
and equipment, however, will bare cost more tban
$3,400,000.00. When the Road is fini-hed, or at
the beginning of the next official year, (Aug. IdCO.)
it will be the duty of the Board to consider the
propriety of issuing Stock, by way of Dividend, to
Stockholders, to such an amount over $3,400,000.-
00, as the value of the property mat exceed that
sum. That tbs proper*? can be placed at more
than $3,400,000.00 and stR! pay a certain Dividend
of eight per cent, seems to this Board rery clear.”
The bridge at Eufanla was omitted in that esti
mate of $3,400,000.00.
When tbe last Annua! Report was presented,
the Brock of tbe Company was stiD selling under
par. The Bovrd. as will he seen, from the whole
tenor of the Report, did not suppose that the hol
ders of bonds would, to sny great extent, conrert
them Into Stock. The burines* of the Company
immediately after August, 1869. wss rery prosper
ous, and the Stock went up rapidly in the market.
Tbe consequence of this was, that the holders of
Bond* converted them into Stock rapidly. The
amount of Capital allowed by law is $3,500,000.00,
and now, without the allowance by the Legislature
of a further increase of Capital, there cannot be a
Brock Dividend. This will be made apparent.
The Stock imoed. La, $2,921,900.00
Stock due to Contractor# for work
done 85,961.91
Yet to he i*ued to Contractors 15,917.36
There are Bonds which can be con
verted into Stock at tbe period be
fore stated 291,5 ‘iO.OO
$3,318,279.27
That the road with its equipment, is full y worth
$4,000,0(10, and would pay dividends of tight per
cent, per annum on that sum, with certainty, no
one can reasonably doubt.
Il the Stockholders, at their next annual meet
ing, shall please to order tbe capital raised to four
million of dollars, and the Legislature shall allow
the increase, a stock dividend to the amount of a
sum sufficient to cover what has been taken from
profits of tbe road, can be made, with reliance up
on dividends at the rate of tight per cent, per
annum. The Board will apply to the Legislature
for an increase of capital, and they do not appre
hend that their request will be refused. But tb*
Board, upon mature consideration of the subject,
and alter hating consulted, informally, some of the
large Stockholders, are, unanimously, of opinion
that it will be best not to increase the capital by a
etoc dividend, even if we shall obtain the right to
incieaae. The Board believes that regular semi
annual dividends of five per cent, (ten per cent,
per annum) can be made oa a capital of $3,600.000,
and think that the stock, on that basis, would be
preferred to an eight per cent, stock on an in
creased capital. The Board has been gratified to
be able, to dav, to declare the usual half yearly
dividend of soar per cent, and to add to it the
handsome extra dividend of Jiee per centum. Con
sidering the receipt bv the’ Htockhoiders of this
extra dividend, tbe Board is fully convinced that
Ut* true policy Is ctfw I? the capital at $3,-
500.000 00—looking to dividends of ten per cent.
But the Board wiil obey the instructions of the
Stockholders in this respect, If it shall be their
pleasure to instruct.
Upon tbe conversion of the Bonds of the Com
pany into Stock and the issuing of Stock to con
tiactors, the capital stock will be (3,818,279.26.
There are Bonds not convertible into stock to tbe
amount of (102,000- which must be paid in cash
in 1861, 1862, but the Board desires to anticipate
the payment of them. The Board liaß agreed to
issue to the Central Railroad and Banking Compa
ny, one hundred thousand dollars of storit at par,
and it is intended to apply tbe money to the pay
ment of these Bonds. The Central Railroad Com
pany besides endorsing this Company's Bonds t* tbe
amount of (710,000 00, without any commission
or change whatever, when we were about to extend
oar roadi bc-youd Smithville to the Chattahoochee,
at the request of this Company, passed a resolution
to take one hundred thousand dollars of the stock
of this Company at par, whenever called on by this
Company to do so. Without this assurance, and
support from the Central ‘Company, the Board
would not have undertaken to extend the Road —
thus supported and encouraged they did not hesitate
to go on. This Board was glad of the opportunity,
therefore to show to the Central Company how
highly the liberality of that Company was esteemed,
by granting them one hundred thousand dollars of
Stock at par, alter the dividends of this day.
The board indulged the hope of reporting at this
time, the completion of the road and the settle
ment of the accounts for the same. There bus
been a little delay—which is satisfactorily explain
ed by the Chief Engineer, who gives the assurance
that tbe road will be opened to the river Chata
booebee, both at Fort Gains and Eufaula, within
thirty days.
There will be yet required, funds for the road,
as shown by the Chief Engineer’s report, to build
the bridge at Eufaula and to finish entirely the
road and depots, (233,264 14. This amount will
be payable in Stock, Bouda and Cash, in the fol
lowing proportions:
Stock (14,119 62
Bonds. 84,280 80
Cash 134,863 72—(233,294 14
It has been shown above, that upon the conver
sion of the Bouds of the Company into Stock, and
upon the issuing of Stock to contractors, the capi
tal stock will be (3,318,279 27. Add to this, (100,-
000 00 to be issued to the Central Companv, and
the amount will be (3,418,279 27. There will be
left a margin of stock yet to be disposed of, of (81,-
720 73. This stock can be sold at a premium, aud
tbe proceeds applied to the road, thus reducing the
above amount of (233,294 14.. . .(151,573 87
The Bonds to be issued as above.. .84,280 80
Will reduce the amount to (67,292 57
Which can be raised at anv moment, by a sale
of Bond*.
Then at this period, the Stock will be
f'dl (3,500,000 00
And the Bouds will be, 151,573 37
Making Capital and Bond debt to
gether,.. (3,651,573 87
Lpon this plan, the Bonds hereafter to be issued,
cannot be made c*snvtrtibJe t or the period of con
version must be postponed. The outstanding Bouds
which can be converted into Stock may not be con
verted—nevertheless, the result will be as stated,
that, at the close, if the estimates of the Chief En
gineer, be sustained, the combined capital stock
and debt will not exceed (3,651,573 37. In the
judgement of tbe Board, the interest aud dividend
of ten per cent, per annum can be paid on that sum.
It is due to Virgil Powers, Esq., the Chief Engi
neer, (and now Superintendent) to s%y, that bis
knowledge of his profession, his untiring energy,
good judgement and uprightness, have endeared
him to the President and Directors of the Compan v.
ilis management as Superintendent, has been high
ly saliofaciory. The Board takes pleasure in re
cognising the valuable services of the several assis
tants of Mr. Powers, in the construction ot the
road, the transportation and repair department
and tbe Company’s shops. All the officers of the
Company have discharged the duties respective!?
devolving on them to the satisiaction of the Boa*-d.
The account of Profit and Loss after the addition
thereto of the surplus of (3,576 32, before shewn,
will be (358,555 85. The last mentioned sum
shews the amount of earnings which from time to
time, (after paying dividends of S per cent, per an
num) have expended ou the road and its equipment
There should be added thereto, the sum of (24,-
072 05 —which heretofore has been carried to the
credit of co*t oi Hoad from forfeited Stock, making
(380,627 90. The opinion has been expressed,
that the road would certainly pay eight per cent,
per annum, on a capital of (4,000.00 vi 00, and that,
upon an increase of capital being allowed by the
Legislature, & stock divided to the amount of near
(400,00*), could safely be made. If that plan was
pursued, the item of “profit and loss” would be
wiped outjby the stock divideud. Upon the plan re
commended by the Road, the account of profit
and loss must be closed by carrying the same to
the credit of cost of Board—reducing the cost so
much. Then the Stockholders will be reimbursed
for earnings which have gone into the road—by
the holding of a ten per cent., instead of an 8 per
cent, stock.
Respectfully submitted.
R. R. Ci'Tlxr, President.
Hou. Willium C. Hive*.
The Hon. Wm. CL Rives, of Virginia, haviug
been invited to attend the Bell and Everett ratifi
cation meeting held at Lynchburg, in that State,
od the Bth instant, addressed to the committee of
invitation a letter, regretting his inability to be
present on the occasion, but pledging his warm
support to the cause of the Constitutional Union
party. He writes as follows:
41 1 have long had the pleasure of knowing, in
private as well as in public life, the eminent uhd
accomplished citizen* who bare been selected as
the candidates of the Constitutional Union party
for the two highest official trusts of the Republic.
When the manifold and conspicuous proofs they
have given of comprehensive and enlightened
statesmanship, of devoted patriotism, and of high
integrity in the discharge ot various and difficult
public employments are considered, even their
political opponents aid not questiou the passport
they have earned to the generous aud manly con
fidence of the nation.
If wc do not read aiuiss tbe signs of the times,
the period is not distant when the great conserva
tive principles they represent, by displacing pesti
lent aud unnatural sectional issue*, rein fusing into
the public councils the ancient and redeeming
spirit of national brotherhood and union, wili
prove the only human means ol averting the
downfall of the most glorious system of republican
freedom which ever rose upon the hopes ot the
world. So vital and paramount a cause, with
leaders so worthy of it, invokes the co operation
have been hitherto divided by transient shades of
political opinion, and has my earnest wi-hes and
prayers for it* success.”
Ot operale Ass ray.
We learn that on Tuesday evening last a dis
ficulty occurred atGray’s Grocery in .Tune* county,
which resulted in the death of one person and the
severe and perhaps dangerous wounding of two
other*. The *etors in thi* affair, together with a
number of others had assembled for the purpose
of having a shooting match. A man bv the name
of Mattox and the grocery keeper, Grsy, hid a
quarrel, when a man named Luyt* made some re
mark about Mattox, whereupon Mattox raised his
gun, charged with buckshot, shot Loyd dead, lie
then ran into the grocery for the purpose of shoot
ing Gray, and Gray took refuge under the coun
ter, the bottom board of which was off m iking a
large orifice through which Mattox protruded his
gun and fired at Gray, but missed him. Gray then
arose and shot Mattox with a pistol it is thought
fatally woundiog him. A brother of Gray was also
shot by someone, and it is thought fatally wound
ed, Liquor was the cause of this difficulty.— liaihj
Telegraph.
MUvouri Politic*.
Br. Loci*, August 14.—The Bulletin publishes a
card, signed by Senators I’oik aud Grceo, declar
ing that their suggestions of a State Convention,
in which the friends of Judge Douglas should be
represented as well as those Democrats adhering
to the principles of the party united on the plat
form of the last Convention, has been rendered
nugatory by the opposition of the friends of Judge
Douglas, aud therefore submit to those Democratic
voters standing oil the Missouri platform, who are
resolved to defend and maintain the principles
enunciated at tle Breckinridge National Conven
tion in regard to the necessity of perfecting the
organization of the party, with the view of con
ducting the Presidential canvass in this Slate ener
getically and sucpessfnliy. They respectfully pro
pose the assembling of a Slate Convention.
Nobody denies the patriotism of Jou*
Btu..— Lou. Journal.
We deny it.—-N. C. Patriot.
We know you do; we meant you when we said
that nobody denied it.— Lou in mile Journal.
The Louisville Journal cars that Mr. Breck
inridge is buried, with a thousand feet of K< ntuekv
soil over him. tie threatened lately to unearth
Mr. Guthrie, but what except, the blast of tbe last: <
trumpet can wr unearth fcim ? j
The Conatitutional Union Party.
Henry Clay, in 1851, foreseeing just such sec
tional organization and just such sectional parties,
a? bave now arisen upon the distracting subject of
slavery, then led off in the following Pledge from
prominent members of Congress of both parties :
THE PLEDGE.
“ The undersigned, members of the Thirty-first
Congress of the United States, believing that a
renewal of sectional controversy upon the subject
of slavery would be bath dangerous to the Union
and destructive to its objects, and seeing no mode
by which such controversy can be avoided, except
by a strict- adherence to the settlement thfireof ef
fected by the compromise acts -passed at the last
session of Congress, do hereby declare their in
tention to maintain the said settlement inviolate,
and to resist nil attempts to repeal or alter the
acts aforesaid, unless by the general consent of
friends of the measures, and to remedy such evils,
if any, as time and experience may develop?.
“ And for the purpose of making this resolution
effective, they further declare, that they will not
support for the office of President or Vice Presi
dent, or es Senator or of Representative in Con
gress, or as member of a State Legislature, any
inan of whatever party, who is not known to be
opposed to the disturbance of the settlement
aforesaid, aud to the renewal, iu any form, of agi
tation upon the subject of slavery.
Henry Clay, H. A. Bullard,
lioweil Cobb, C. n. Williams,
1 . S. More-Lead, T. S. Raymond,
William Duer, 1. P. Phoenix,
Robt. L. Rose, A. H. Sheppard,
11. S. Foot, A. M. Sehermerborn,
Wm. C. Dawson, David Breck,
Jas. Brooks, Johu R. Thurman,
Thos. J. Rusk, Jas. L. Johnson,
A. U. Stephens, D. A. Bokee,
Jer. Clemens, J. B. Thompson,
Robert Toombs, Geo. R. Andrews,
James Cooper, J. M. Anderson,
M. P. Gentry, VV. P. Mangum,
Thos. G. Pratt, John B. Kerr,
Henry W. Billiard, Jeremiah Morton,
\\ m. M. Gwin, J. P. Caldwell,
F. E. McLean, R. J. Bowie,
Samuel Elliott, Kdm’d Dewberry,
A. G. Watkins, R. C. Cabell,
David Outlaw, Humphrey Marshall,
Alex’r Evans. Allen F. Owen.
Here is the pledge ; and now we call for Us re
demption. The Union candidates, Bell and Ever
ett, stand squarely upon that platform—tiiey plant
themselves upon the “settlement” of 1850 in
good faith, and are pledged to oppose any “ dis
turbance of that settlement” and “ the renewal,
in any form, of agitation upon the subject of
slavery.” That settlement has since received an
additional sanction in the decision of the highest
judicial tribunal of the land, aud they renew their
pledge to uphold it. What is more, no other can
didates stand ou that platform. One is for giving
it anew interpretation, and the other openly
avows his determination to demand additional le
gislation, thereby prescribing new conditions of
peace, and as a consequence “ renewing the agi
tation.”
Diwiinion itt-biikcd.
Every day the glorious news is coming in of
the trumph of right and the destruction of w rong.
In Alabama, iu the Montgomery district, the
very Louie of Yancey, the suicide ticket is beaten
in every comity.
In Kentucky, the home of Breckinridge, his
candidate for Clerk of the Court of Appeals is
beaten by nearly thirty thousand majority, in his
own home district, disunion is perfectly crushed.
In North Carolina, the Union ticket has gained
teu thousand, and will sweep the State in Novem
ber.
in Missouri, Douglas is triumphant, and the
suicide ticket only got about two thousand out of
over a hundred thousand votes.
From Tennessee, from Florida, from Arkansas,
from every whore, we catch the muttering-) of the
thunder that will overwhelm secession at the gen
eral election.
Poor Breckinridge has been made to father a
iniuon ii,* t i, don’t appear to like, for neither
he nor Lane have yet avowed Uicn<>i. M .Ibiuuion
tsts. They at present are simply hung out for
bait, but the shears of fate have clipped the line
that held them up, and that disunion sinker w ill
take them down as far as need be.
The secessionists have done evil—let them re
pent or sink.— Constitutionalist.
Analysing an Analysis.
During his speech before the seceders’ conven-
I tion at Milledgeville, Mr. Toombs is reported by the
| Southern llecorder to have said:
“He enlarged upon the former grievances of the
■ South, and said that if the South did not get pro
j tec tion lor her property, of whatever sort, in the
Union a id the Territories, he was for diavion,
I open unqualified disunion .”
Where docs the honorable Senator expect the
| “ protection” to come from ? Does lie refer to
Congress? Mr. Toombs has been a member of that
| body for more than twenty years, and he has never
j raised the alarm of “grievances” before, or de
! mauded Congressional protection. About two
months ago, when Mr. Buow.s, of Miss., urged the
passage of law in the Senate ol the United States,
(of which Mr. Toombs wsh and is a member) for
the “protection of southern property, of whatever
sort, in the Territoris,” Mr. Toombs voted against
I the bill.
This may appear rather inconsistent on the part
of Mr. Toombs, and there are some persons who
will urge that it is so, and perhaps Mr. Toombs
may agree with them; but these are anomalous
times and the people in this country, living “un
der the most corrupt government on earth/’ must
console themselves with the refiection that they
\ who are above reproach. The “ last analysis” of
acoirupt Government is, that good men control
ins Legislative, Judicial, and Executive, Depart
ments. Some persons will make “ a note of this,”
to excite their risible faculties in their moments of
despondency." —Augusta Constitutionalist.
Mr. Bkli, and the Abolition or the Slave
Trade is the District or Columbia. —Many of
tbe Democratic organs assert that Mr. Bell fuiled
to vote on the bill for the abolition of the slave
trade in the District of Columbia. Mr. Bell voted
against that bill, and to place this matter forever
bevotid dispute, the Memphis Bulletin record* the
vote upou it:
—Baldwin, Benton, Bright, Cass, Chase,
Clarke, Clay, Cooper, Davis, of Mass., Dayton,
Dickinson, Dodge, of Wis., Dodge, of lowa, Doug
las, Kwing, Felch, Fremont, Greene, Gwin, Hale,
Hamlin, Houston, Jones. Norris, Seward, Shields,
Spruance, Sturgeon, Underwood, Wales, Walker,
Whitcomb and Wint-hmp—S3.
Nays —Atchison, Badger, Barnwell, Bkll, Ber
rien, Butler, Davis', of Miss., Dawson, Downs, Hun
ter, King, Mangum, Mason, Morton, Pratt, Sebas
tian, Soule, Turney and Yulee—l9.
Such shining Democratic lights as Cass, Dickin
son, Gain and Blight voted for the bill. They ate
all good Breckinridge men to-day. Why don’t
some Democratic saint or saints denounce these
fellows ?
Taking it Easy.— The Princeton Kentuckian
(Breckinridge) gets oil the following on the defeat
of its candidate:
The electtou returns show that Coombs is elect
ed Clerk of the Court the Appeals of this State, by
a majoriy of something less than a million votes.
’Tis said that, in some portions of the State a fel
low by the uame of McClerty received a few scat
tering votes.
Wonder if one John C. Ilteckinridge wiil “ take
easy” (he following inforiuatiou, which is likely to
appear in the Kentucky papers, somewhere bo
twen the Ist and 15th of November coming:
The election returns show that Bell has carried
this State, by a majority of something less than a
million votes. ’Tis said that, in some portions of
the States, a fellow by the name of Breckinridge |
received a few scattering votes.
The Lakis— Atlantic Fleet. —The Detroit Trib
an**, in a li e i*sue presents a fu 1 list bf the ves
sels from the Great Lakes which are now engaged
in the European and coasting trade. The list
compiles fifty aeron vessels es an average capaci
ty of three hundred and seventeen tons. We
know of nothing which more plainly marks the
enterprise of our countrymen thin the rapid in
crease of the tonnage on the Lakes, and the total
disregard of distance and danger evinced by such
men as the cap tit* nos the lit ile schooner lately
announced as having arrived at Constantinople
from Chicago. Tho aggregate capacity of these
vesseie in 18,085 tons. The Tribune says that in
quiries for vessels to load for Liverpool, Cadiz,
ChaiUston, Ac, are now quite common, and adds,
,it this had been predicted six years ago there is
not an old la!:er but would have smiled incredu
lously.” One of tbe steam-tugs belonging to the
fleet 44 is carrying cattle from Brazos to Cuba.
Sue is a nice linlo steamship, and has bad her
engine changed to a low pressure, and in ingeni
ous sell-condensing invention connected with it
for producing fresh water from salt.”
Mr. Speaker Pexninoton, of N#w Jersey, has de
clined being a candidate for the next Congress.
He will xerve out his present term.
MACON, GEORGIA :
Wednesday, August 29,1860.
asaaßW?**: ex: .;.ui iwtwin r> -aria
Constitutional Union Ticket.
FOIC PUESIOFNT,
JO EL IST 13 li JL X.,
OF TENNESSEE.
FOR VICESPBRSIDENT;
Rl> W A I) EV E RETT,
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
PLATFORM:
11 t; ; o Constitution of the Country* the
Union of t<* States and the Enforcement
of the haw*.”
Electoral ‘l’icket.
FOR STATE AT LARGE.
p n L ,r,’ °S!! a! “‘ f Electors.
B. 11. Hill, of I roup. )
Hines Holt, of Muscogee. ) . .
Garnett Andrews, of Wilkes. )
FIRST DISTRICT. ’ C
Suniuc ! B. Spc v jr, of Thomas, Elector.
F.J i .rd 13. Wm, oi'Liberty, Ist. Alternate.
L. of Johnson, 2nd. Alternate.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Mau-e’h:-. T>o*t Isa, of Randolph, Elector.
W. ii, itoliilisnn, of Macon, Ist. Alternate.
I’. J. ‘-trozier, of Dougherty, 2nd. Alternate.
THIRD DISTRICT.
L. T. Royal, of Spalding, Elector.
Jo u T. Stephens, of Alonroe, Ist. Alternate.
Charie r Goode, oi Houston, 2nd. Alternate.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
W. F. Wright, ot Coweta, Elector.
Heard, Ist. Alternate.
•Johu Al. Edge, of Campbell, 2nd Alternate.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Jo-'.ih R. Parrot, of Cass, Elector.
Thos. G. lui uitnd, ol VValker, Ist. Alternate.
Rich and. W. Jones, ot Whitfield, 2ud. Alternate.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
11. P. Bell, ol Forsyth, Elector.
McDatii l, of Walton, Ist. Alternate.
S. J. Wum, of Gwinnett, 2nd. Alternate.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Dr. I. E. Dupree, of Twiggs, Elector.
1C T. Harris, of Hancock, Ist. Alternate.
Al. W. Lewis, of Greene, 2nd. Alternate.
EIGHT DISTRICT.
LaFayoite Lamar, of Lincoln, Elector.
John i r . Jackson, of Richmond, Ist. Alternate.
1 Scriven, 2nd. Alternate.
‘S’mt; Dcmorratic Platform.
WU n I first entered Congress, in 1843, the ex
pen of the Government were ouly (30,000,000
per annum. The country had gone through the
experr ivo Mexican War with sir fit-three thousand
sold rs in the field, for thirty millions, and now in
time of peace, the estimates were seventy-three
millions ‘ He believed forty millions an abun
dance for the national expense.”— Hon. A. H.
Su Jiht’US.
“This Government., sixty-nine years of age,
scarcely out of its swfiddliog clothes, is making
more corrupt v t sos money in proportion to the
amor,ni coilect-.-d from the people, as I honestly
believe, (A an any other Government on the habit
aide globe. —//< n. Andri w Johnson, of Trim.
“ Before God I believe this to be the most cor
rupt Government on earth.” —Senator Toombs.
“ From the by-way? and the high-ways of the Gov
rr tin r< ‘’ ihcxs of corruption sends forth
l WHY ARE THE i’EO
PLE SO P.YTIFATf WHY SLUMBERS THE
INDIGNATION OF THE DEMOCRACY ?—Roger
A. Pryor.
•• h i\\ retl iu Colupar
v- lli'O.
The lion. R. P. Trippe, Hon. C. Fecples, and
Col. J. T. S’ phens, will address the citizens of
Monro-- County at Colaparchee on Saturday the Bth
day of Seotemher next.
FIRE.
A\ e mu L regret to -ay, that the new and elegant
roidenio- of Dr. J. 11. Wiley, on College Hill, was
goo-timed on Monday morning. The fire com
menced ia rite attic, and was discovered about sun
ri-e. It had so far extended before the arrival of
the engines, as to be beyond their control, although
they kept it in check for about two hours; during
whit it time every portion of the furniture was re
moved itt good order—also every window, shutter,
doo , in ei ee, and every other moveable ar
ti e. The firemen nobly did their duty, at usual*
ami i ind. ’ -d to the cistern of Messrs. J. B
and W. A. Russ, for their supply of water. r *'his
was one of oa; handsomest residences. It was ful
ly i : : 1. The origin of the fire is a mystery, as
tha ’ion of the building was supposed to be
eecui. i beyond the entrance of any one.
OUR GRAIN MARKET.
Ve h"rn that within a few days past there
have been huge arrivals by uur railroads, of corn,
o.its, b-. 1 -y, rye and tlour. The Macon and West
ern Depot is crowded with it. Much has gone in
to our sum i ail d lucre were large shipments for
place- beyond. Most of it comes Irom St. Louis,
Cincinna ti, and other places in the far west. The
price of coin is here held at 95 cts. to (I,o*o per
bushel.
We spent a few days last week and this,
very pi asantlv at the Alonroe and Upson Catnp
nieciit: . A large number of preachers and peo
ple wr.t ii.- , nt, snd the exercises highly interest
ing and w trust profitable. We were gratified to
ob.-i rvc the entire abicnco of politics and the
prevalence of good order and good feeling. We
hop*’ the people will not suffer themselves to be
unduly and unpleasantly excited by political dis
cussions. It can only result in evil.
A GOOD INS. ITUTION.
‘L, will 1 ecu that our worthy townsman, E. C.
Granni: , l'.-q , has opened an Agency which will
doubt!< prove quite a public convenience. We
nee i not a re our readers that he is worthy aud
w ell qualified.
VI.7E GROWERS CONVENTION.
We -< tint mo Convention of vine growers at
Akin, uth (.’ itoli .a, was largely attended by del
ega from Georgia, North and South Carolina
and Ala 1 mi. nator Hammond was President
and addressed trie Convention.
Commit! s wen; appointed to report on the
wines exhibited, a id to examine the different va
rieties of ;.i pes and classify them acoording to
their qualitii - tor nine or table uses.
Many speeches were made. The “ Pauline”
grape seems to ii ve stood first on the list for the
table aud*for the wine.
30U1L. WESTERN GEORGIAN
The l.r-t Sumter Republican, says, that the last
issue ot that p iper, contains the salutatoiy of Rev.
A. A. R bin-on. It smells to ns rather too strong
of h-t -at. We wish tbe Editor however sue’
cess in nil he undertakes, save his disunion senti
ments. We welcome him to the chair Editorial,
and ho; <■ tint he “ ill have an easy time of it, but
wc fear th t he will be disappointed, for “ it is hard
o kick against the pricks.”
Tin- E itc Central Committee of the 1 nion men
of New Ham; diire are to assemble at Manchester
on Friday, the 81 t instant, for the purpose of
making am ~-incuts for a Convention to nomi
nate (-lectins to be supported by tbe Constitutional
Union party of that State.
AIR LINK RAILROAD
The Atlanta Lcnw olive mays that the city sub’
scrip’.ion of > ,t. .) ha* been withdrawn. \ arious
exceptions were filed to tbe proceedings, past
ind pr; at, of the Directors of the Company
Lioii, in tin* estimation of tbe City Council, war,
pant* them in this step.
IUOX AX AMERICUS,
The Rev. 0. 11. Coit’ has been elected by the
Board ot Trustees, unanimously, President of this
Institution, in place of the Rev. 0. LI. Fulton.
NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS.
We see complaints in many of the disunion and
sectional papers against Mr. Bell, because he does
not answer every question propounded to him by
committees and individuals of those parties. Now
it is well known, that not one of thpse questioners
wonld vote for him, !f he were to answer, what
ever his answers might he. What then is the use
of a rp ply ftom him? His life has mostly been
spent, in the public service; and by what that has
been, let him stand or fall : the Constitution is his
platform, and that i3 sufficient to satisfy his friends
and all reasonable men. One of bis opponents oc
cupies the unenviable and humiliating position,
that he could not safely travel through one halj
the territory he might be elected to govern, and
another sanctions sentiments that would have been
counted treason, in the days of Washington.
But it might be inquired often, who, and what
are these men, who question candidates for our
highest offices)? We once knew the leading man
of one of thoee questioning committees to have
been eowhided for stealing corn. The next lead
ing man, a twice excommunicated preacher. They
felt quite aggrieved at the neglect of not being an”
swered, umil they became aware that public atten
tion was investigating their antecedents. Many o
the present questioners will find themselves in the
same category, politically, if not morally.
CONNECTICUT.
The opposition to the Black Republican party
of that State, it is said, have agreed on the follow
ing compromise ticket for Presidential Electors.
The individuals named, are among the most promi
nent citizens of the State, and there can be very
little doubt of their election. The convention for
settling the question meets to-day.
John A. Rockwell, ) „ . r-
Dennis Kimberly, f Bell and Evecetl.
Loren II Waldo, ) ,
Origen H. Sevinour, j o,! £ n3 ’
THE DISCUSSION IN B ARNES VIILE.
We copy the following notice of the recent po
litical ineotiug at Rarnesville, from the American
Union. It shows the beautiful consistency of the
new fledged Democrat, in letting his zeal carry
him entirely beyond his knowledge of the antecc-j
dents of the leaders of his party. Let him reeon-S
eile such things first, aurl if he can place it
right,” let him go ahead.
“Wednesday wa” a great day in Barnesville.—
According to previous appointment, about 600 vo
ters mot to hear the discussion between Cols.
Leonard T. Doyal and A. D. Hammond.
Col. Hammond opened the ball and charged
John Bell with voting against the Missouri Com
promise, aud favoring the abolition of the Slave
trade in the District of Columbia.
To these two charges Col. Doyal replied, that
the Nashville Convention of which Charles J. Mc-
Donald was President and 0. C. Gibson was a
member, in their first resolution, declared that
a repeal of the Missouri Compromise would be
just cause for the South to withdraw from the Un
ion. Mr. Bell in obedience to this convention
which was held right at his door, voted against
the repeal. Now Col. Hammond is supporting
McDonald and Gibson, and denouncing Bell lor
doing what McDonald and Gibson told him to do.
On the slave trade question, he proved by incon
testable testimony that Col. Hammond was the
guilty man instead of John Bell ; for Bell spoke
and voted against, it, atid it is oulv by garbling his
speech that they pretend to show that he was in
lavor of it. But as lor Col. Hammond he could
prove and would prove that he endorsed the act,
abolishing the slave trade in one of the Compro
mise measures of 1860 —the Cincinnati platform
endorses the Compromise measures of 1860, and
Col. Hammond by supporting Breckinridge, en
dotses the Cincinnati platform, so that Col. Ham
mond to-day is guilty of the very thing that he
falsely accuses Bell of.
The crowd, wc learn, was enthusiastic for Bell
and Everett and the calculation is that our cause
gained at least fifty votes from that day’s work.
GREAT MANUFACTURING TOWN-
In Lowell, Massachusetts, there are twelve cor
porations with an aggregate capital of $15,000,000,
owning fifty-two factory buildings, containing over
four bundled thousand spindies and twelve thou
sand looms, with other machinery in proportion ;
employing eighty seven huudred women and forty
two hundred men, manufacturing yearly more than
one hundred million yards of cotton cloth, twen
ty-five million yards of calico, twenty million
yards of bleached and dyed goods, one and a half
million yards of woolen goods, and over a million
yards of carpetings. Think of a strip of cotton
cloth a yard wide, and two hundred miles loDg,
made daily ! Enough in a year to go twice round
the globe, with ends five thousand miles to tie
with.
Now if the Union was dissolved and with all
the “ irrepressible” circumstances, therewith con
nected, would there not be some avenues for bread
closed, that have been sustaining the population of
this “great manufacturing town?’’ They have
better cause to look to this, than we, who supply
the material and purchase a large amount of the
fabrics, from which their manufacturer derive their
daily sustenance.
Senator Fitzpatrick at Home. —Tho Wetump
ka Spectator gives an account of a visit paid by a
number of citizens of that place to this distin
guished gentleman, at his residence, five miles
from Wetumpka. A procession was formed, which
advanced to the house, and three cheers were giv
en, with enthusiasm, for the Senator, who appear
ed on tho balcony and addressed his visitors upon
the questions of the day. In the course of his re
marks he expressed himself as follows upon the
subject of the candidates for the Presidency :
I know all of these gentlemen, except the Black
Republican, nud I trust iu God that you nor I will
ever know the time when he shall preside over the
destinies of this people. Ms. Bel! I have known
for several years as a Seuator from Tennessee; he
is a gentleman of great ability, of considerable ex
petiance in public affairs, and of high personal cha
racter. His political opinions and sentiment then,
and now differ from mine. Mr. Douglas is a man
of genius, great force of character, and many at
tractive qualities. 1 have always maintained with
him very kind social relations, ands will do him
the justice to say, that outside of his opinions and
doctrines on the Territorial question, no one
among Northern Democrats, has more boldly and
manfully sustained the constitutional rights of the
South upon the slavery question. But he has cho
sen to make an issue in the party and with the
South upon this question ; he has it the issue; it is
forced upon us, and wc must meet it or yield it;
and 1 tell you my friends, that the South, if she
would preserve her equality and the equality of
her citizens, cannot and never should surrender it.
Mr. Breckinridge is, in my opinion, a statesman of
the first order of intellect, of high culture, of un
blemished character, and unquestionable Democra
cy. Upon the grave issue before the country in
the maintenance of the principal equality between
all the states and their citizens, he stands with the
South; he is pledged to the maintenance of the
rights of every section, and if he should be elected,
htThas the integrity, and the courage to assert and
dofeud them. Agreeing with him entirely as I do,
I shall give him my support,
Mr. Fitzpatrick also said:
It is absurd, under such circumstances, to speak
of either of the candidates as being national nom
inees ; they may be national in their principles, but
certainly are not in their nominations; having to
make choice between them, I shall support that
one who most nearly approaches my principles,
and promises equality of rights to all the country.
To Corn Spkci latoks —The St. Louis F.vening
News suggests to speculators who may be inclined
to venture largely in corn for the Southern market,
under the idea that there is to be a groat dearth
there, that it will prove a grievous delusion, and
may be disastrous to their fortunes. “ There will
be some scarcity—enough to give healthy activity
to the trade —nothing more.”—Missouri has plant
ed this year, it is said, fifty per cent more corn
than ever before. Some of It is cut short, but the
greatest crop ever made stands on the ground.
Illinois boasts that she could feed the South for a
year, and the officers of tne Land Department ol
the Illinois Central Railroad, who have excellent
facilities for the collection of data, estimate that
the corn crop of Illinois this year will exceed “ one
hundred millions of bushels.” Many of the South
ern papers seem inclined to distrust the report of
a scarcity of corn in this region, although it seems
certain that the crop will be small.
BELL AND EVERETT MEETING.
A meeting was held in this city last night. As
it was organizod after our paper was put to press,
we cannot give anything but the preliminaries.—
It was called at the request of 339 citizens, whose
names are appended. Col. L. T. Dotal, the Elec
tor for the Third District, and C. T. Goode Esq.
Alternate was expected to address the meeting;
the principal object of which is to form a “ Bell
and Everett Chib.” 1 oung America is at work,.
and they will be often heard from, as well ns the
Old Fogies of the Harrison campaign of 1840. The
ball i9 in motion with a will that cannot be check
ed. Its course is irresistibly onward, to crush out
Black Republicanism, sectionalism and disunion
KBond, Washington Poe,
O G i>parks, A p Dennis,
Wm Holmes, W E Rav,
Se'h Cason, J W Whittington,
Charles Collins, 1 C Fowler
Henry Wood, T il Ray, ’
George Seymour, T J Willis
.1 W Groce, N G Glossen,
T 8 Green, jog Starnes,
R Birasoug, James Patrick,
L J Groce, j B Cumming,
Wm Groce, J Seymour,
E Johnson, j DeLoache,
\V 1 N-lson, J McAlpio,
Edw.n Hams, Wm. S. Holt,
J U R Washington, \y p Ooodall
I . Baac ,S'r? U ’ T J Swanson,
1 . 1 . j ’ Q w A Huff.
I r w ’ Sr ” - 1 D Huff,
E C Wiiliamson, rp;ii
Dr G Harrison, p n Greer
T Hardeman, J r ., \V A Beasim,
i 1’ Charles Wallev,
*; V rV. 1<! . W H Hol/endorf,
I II J Smith,
i TGHolt.jr., EP Strong,
j L Reagin, j Callowav,
I Henry Champion, j R Wood",
it S Fretman,
A M Mcrullers, B x English.
I V J L ?’u b . b !’ T A Harris,
’ J Shin holster, s \> Hunt(
! , L RC,arke * H P West cot t,
J l>aris Smith, jr.
I H S Simmons. G w g
> A P Simmons, Wm Johnson,
| Wm Herrington, D y little
| Radish. Julius Peter,
t H PMUcheH, (IB Rob. ns.
f ® 5 a o nS ’ J P Harvey,
i W Jttcfcson,
; M m Gibson, Q L Radford,
Massey, Q W Beasley,
S ? Bbilhps, Henry Aikin,
: * “J C' ,xe Jesse Cobb,
j i V (T r ’ JE Wells jr.
O W Massey, W D Rainey,
| WB Heath,
. M Stubblefield, W H Miller,
i Confer, J L Joiner,
: A P Collms, G Case
j 0 C Collins. J M Diaper.
Anderson Comer, j K Knight,
J M Kent, C B Bond,
Henrv Kent p e t f Arnok |
Sam Peacock, J D Arnold,
* , C Martin,
M m Dillard, Burdick,
C Kearney, BS Mitchell,
.1 F Turner, T P Stubbs, jr.,
Jas Simpson, E M Calhoun
sawf awnre * O A Calhoun,
i, John Wise,
H E Richardson, w u-:. p ’
A Bedingfidd,
JW Ballard, Henry Stier,
John Holmes, Wm Kve>
D II Sullivan,
Edrnson, c Wellington,
J W Swanson, j W Woodruff,
A Odom, A y Beaton,
Thos Price. W II Paine,
II M Higgins, q Thompson,
A Rear " e J’- J P Hooker,
n w S'ISS D McCrary,
Barden, Chas Norrell,
\V L Groce, J*a. Yarborough,
t F„ Chas Thompson,
J A Mitchell, j j G v
- Dr f, J Gloss,
M m M Dnnn, p Kent
0“ ® u r. W R Jennings,
tVWT ’ C Beggarly, ‘
TJMaHaffey, Wm Varner,
DMcDermon, A M Smith,
TTStebbins D C Smith,
J WWelden W L Wootten,
RFOuslev EC Gilbert,
.tollUonejcut,
T P Clarke, Gilbert,
H S Pickett, T, h £l J *
M C Springer, M Thomas.
John Dunlap. Honeycut,
w'.W
.1 McisUno.', “ b “j
W II Farrington, ™ Rchardaon,
T A Brewer, ? A Troutman,
M V Davis, A 5*
B A Johnson, £ A M e.ls,
II L Jewett, C G Beavers,
Dr M R Freeman, G Forrester,
J H Smith. 4 Jack “ n >
Dr. W 8 Lightfoot, f * A'frcd,
J H Washington, P ,^., arke >
John M Stubbs, i'd^ C^ ooper,
John F Heath, J , T P ,A Dd ‘T?. n ’
J L Solomon, W C Lockett,
W S Hughes; J S NichoU,
E S Thompson, E L Shelton,
R T Chipman, W E Dense,
O W Scattergood, A H Wvche,
D Smith, W W Wagmm,
S Virgin, H J Sheffiels,
I) E Clarke, W s _ Ball "J,
W J McElroy, J s Gray bill.
W T Morgan, w m Hancock,
.1 F. Wells, T T Wyche,
R Fleming, luab Cham,
O p p o6i R K. llurst,
M A Wingfield, Jom B Griffin,
L Stone, A M Johnson,
C E Prudden, Jas Poindexter,
W R Phillips, M M Bishop,
Ff. Platt. J Gilpin,
F II Mirka N Gllpm.
W II Hicks, Ale* Richards,
Jas Cain, J* a Campbell,
G A Smith, K S uckcr.
Jas Faulk, E W Dofour.
J H Anderson, S W M alker,
A H Nathans, J Landham,
J T Wooten, G J Blake.
M C Holloway, W P Anderson,
J C C Burnett, A L Audotn,
A McCallie. J H i liomasson,
G G Wilbur, A R Fieeman,
C H Rogers, F B Brown,
W A Cherry, E E Brewer,
St ihen Colling H Freeman,
• Brinn, A Brydie
G D Law rence. M A \\ ingfidd.
A I’ Patterson, Alfred Wingheld,
Tvlcr Rogers, J J Harris,
Dr. R II Nisbet, G R! , arkcr *
.1 A Virgin, K W Pndgeon,
T L Holt *f n ° Bromley,
BP Dense, WCudb^
J S Pope, D R Woodrufl.
R C Wilder. P T Bartrnm.
Dr D W Hammond, J C Smith,
Dr. W F Halt, B P Freeman
A H Powell. T W FreemaD,
R Beasley, I C Plant,
Amos Benton, Jas Wdliams,
JnoE Jones, 8 G Mood,
J Knowles, Horace Bronson, Sr.,
Simri Rose, Fred Bates,
L F M T Andrews, Milo Freeman,
D T Drivers. D Mitchell,
J B Cooper. W T Uoll.ngsworth,
R B Barfield, Arthur Foster,
S 8 Dunlap, Thos Hill,
F H Murdock, B®l Johnson,
Wm Cason, R B Washington,
J W Parsons, Ha Jennings,
K C Grannisa, Dr B F. Bonner,
James Tranthan, R Bivins,
G T Rogers, Dr. Alfred Pierce,
N Allen, John Lowe, jr.,
G W. Causey, Wm Beggarly,
JT Cherry, Benj Beggarly,
Clifford Anderson, J W Crump,
G L Lsnman; J Simmons,
Dr B F. Griggs, J Youngblood,
.1 R Boon, T H Harris,
B II Rutherford, Wm Worsham,
J B Dennis, R R Bearden.
[Communicated.]
SOLICITOR HAMMOND.
Messrs. Editors. —l learn that this gentleman
j 8 now stumping for the democracy. He is in the
right place, and admirably suits the fragmentary
party ho has joined. No one regrets his departure
from the party that he so long bored, and no one
I presume cares the least for what he says about it.
Common propriety, however, should cause him to
return to the people a trust bestowed under the
expectation that it would not at least be used in
contravention of their wishes. THE THIRD
An Aoony ok Scspense. —The Lincoln papers
and political expectants are iu agony of suspense,
over the proposed co-operation of conservative
men in New York. They are sure somedody will
be cheated in the arrangement, and they feel solely
for the victim in advance. We do not know how
it may be about the cheating, but we have the best
evidence that the Republicans will be terribly dis
appointed, if the union is consummated. W on’t
the conservative meu of the State contrive to
quarrel just to please the Lincolnites ? It would
be cruel to beat them in New Tork, and thus
snatch the sweet morsel of power which they npw,
with open mouth, are waiting to receive.
MB. DOUGLAS.
He is probably in Virginia, at this time on his
way South, and is expected in Georgia, from the
12th to 15th September.
Nam Houston—Noble Sentiments,
We commeud the subjoined extracts of a letter
written by Gen. Houston, on the 31st July. They
are the sentiments of a patriot and statesman:
I have no aspirations for the Presidency, beyond
a desire to be useful to my country. If the part. I
have assumed in the past years has contributed to
bring before the people the question of Union or
Disiinion (for such is now the issue,) and to inspire
a determination to put down Disnnion iu the North
and South, ray ambition will receive more solace
than the Presidency could afford. Could Ibe the
means now of putting an end tosectioDai strifp, of
silencing the agitation on the slavery question, of
breaking down parties, based on geographical dis
tinctions, and of uniting my fellow citizens in sup
port of patriotic electors in the different States
trusting to their love of country to give the nation
a President and Vice President who would admin
ister the Goverment once again with honestv wis
dom, impartiality, aud with a regard for our na
tional honor, I would be willing to close my public
career, and find in retirement that happiness whieb
those high in station know not.
While I have expressed no preference for any of
the candidates now belore the country, I have at
the same time experienced the hope that the peo
ple would soon see whither they were drifting, that
the war of factions wouid cease, and that upon
some common basis they would unite and prevent
the triumph of either sectionalism or disunion.
Party names or party champions should sink into
insignificance, when the palladium of our liberties
is threatened. . lie blessings we erjoy, the Gov
ernment which our fathers gave ue, the Constitu
tion and the Union should be first in the hearts of
every patriot, and be who fails to sacrifice all else
to maintain these, is unworthy the name of Ameri
can.
I regard this contest as one in which the perma
nency of the Union is involved. I desire to see
Texas present a united front against the effort to
maintain here a sectional party; and tills end I de
sire to say, that it is my wish that the electors as
sociated with my name shall be perfectly free to
cast the eleetorial rote of Texas for any national
man, most likely to defeat either sectionalism or
disunion.
Having ever been opposed to Abolitionism from
the North, and sectionalism, and disunion and the
reopening of the African slave trade from the South,
I believe the defeat of these elements should be
the desire of every patriot.
I cahnot close this letter without acknowledging
a full sense of obligations to those friends who
have expressed a preference for me, upon principle,
over others. Their kindness has been gratuitous,
for I have not sought to iiiflutuce any iu favor of
my advancement, and their support is therefore
more highly appreciated.
I hope that in justice to my friends, those pa
pers which have published the report of my with
drawal will also give this let'er a place in their col*
mnns. Very truly, your friend*
BAM HOUSTON.
From the New York Day Book.
The Japanese Heard From.
Our whilom guests, the Japs, arrived at Porto
Grande, St. Vincent, on the 17th July, having
made the run from New York in the steam frigate
Niagara, in sixteen days. They were well and hap
py, and expected to reach their destination about
the middle of October. Tommy has sent a “ card”
to his friends in the United States, and which is
published in the Herald, as follows :
TOM Mr’s CARD.
You do not know how happy we were come to
visit to united States and exceedingly pleasant time
all over and so butiful country verry astonished as
the rail road train the Capital, the Patent office—
Smithsonian musium which has great many curiosi
ty there—the Balloons —beaut ful Steamboat —fire
engine—fire work—the theater—big ball Dance—
music—very fine sodior procession—march—Splen
did uniform building and pretty ladis &. A. 1 have
cried when I left New York, at thoughts ot leaving,
Captain Porter —S S Lee and— Dupont. Dr Mc-
DenallMr Let-land and Mr Guido Methan and great
many other friend. I expect return back again to
go to school at auopolish to study English & navi
gation, and then I can see all my friend again.
[Here the letter is signed in Japanese.]
TATEISH ONEJIERO.
Tommy.
A PRIZE FIGHT, MADE A FRIE FIGHT
The Louisville Journal gives the following, as
the result of a prize fight in that vicinity:
About half-pa9t ten o’clock Carney entered the
ring, where he remained several minutes, Madden
not appearing. He then left the ring, and übout
noon again entered it, when Madden followed.—
They took their corners, but soon changed, when
the friends of Madden began shooting right and
left. One ball struck near Carney, when he left the
ring aud made for his boat, the crowd running in
all directions., In the general feu de joie six per
sons, we understand, were wounded, aud two or
three cut with knives. The three boats landed
near the foot of sth street, an immense crowd be
ing assembled on the levee to witness the return
of the victor. The passengers rushed ashore, and
all as once pistol shots were heard, aud James
VYalsh fed pierced with five bullet or shot w ouuds,
and instantly expired. In the excitement it was
not known who thaassassin was, those iu the vi*
cinity scattering to escape random shots.
Fusion in New York.
The elections in the South, indicating beyond
question that Bell arid Everett are to carry a largo
majority of the Southern States, together with the
formation of a Uniou electoral licKei in this State,
by which those candidates may receive a part of
(he electoral vo;e of New York, has opened u path
of duty which no true friend of the peace, harmo
ny, and welfare of the country can tail to discern.
By a united and energetic rally of the friends of
the Union and Constitution the defeat of Mr. Lin
coln can be secured, followed by the elevation of
either Mr. Bell or Mr. Everett to the exalted sta
tion of President of the United Slates. We, there
fore, call upon every sincere supporter of Fillmore
in 1856; every elector who sympathizes with the
Union movement, and the thousands iu other par
ties who have declared that they would vote for
Bell and Everett if they could elect them, to rally
arouud the Union standard. In 1856, in the face
of defeat, wo rallied a gallant baud of 124,010; if
with the hopeful prospect of success before us now,
we cau poll 100,000 Bell men for the Union ticket,
the contest is won. We can do it if we wilL—
Already does the quickeniug influence of a bright
future stir the masses, and it will gather force and
power with each succeeding day. We conceive it
to be our duty, as well as that of everj good citi
zen, of every lover of peace and concord in the
land, when there is such a glorious opportunity to
contribute to the success of candidates whose elec
tion would every where be regarded as a harbinger
of better days, to do what in us lies to secure so
desirable a result. We shall, therefore, devote
our best energies from now till after the election to
secure the triumph es the Union electoral ticket ia
this State.— Lockport X. Y. Courier.
The two Stephens.
The Augusta Constitutionalist announced that
Judge Linton Stephens would address the citizens
of Richmond, at Augusta, on Saturday eveuing
last, in behalf of Douglas; also that Hon. A. 11.
Stephens will speak in Augusta on Saturday the Ist
of September, on the same side. It says that the
atter has accepted his appointment as Elector.
Toombs, also, was to speak in Augusta last Sat
urday night. “Things is working.”
Tribute of Respect.
Perrt, Ga., August 27th, 1860.
At a regular meeting of Houston Lodge, No. 35,
of Free and Accepted Masons, held on Friday, the
17th August, A. L. 5800, the following preamble
and resolution were adopted :
In the dispensation of an all wise Providence, it
has pleased the Great Architect of the Universe to
remove from among us our much esteemed and
worthy Brother, Wm. H. Miller: While we sub
mit with becoming resignation to the inscrutable
will of that Divine Master Builder, who best knows
when to call his craftsmen from the labors of the
terrestrial to the refreshment of the celestial Lodge,
the alfection we entertain for him demauds that we
pay a fitting tribute to his memory, whose loss we
are now’ called to deplore. Therefore,
Resolved, That we deeply lament his death as a
fellow-citizen, and as a brother of our Fraternity,
and feel that in him the poor and distressed have
tost a friend and the cause of humanity, ebaritv,
and benevolence a warm hearted advocate, both
by precept and example.
Resolved , That we are deeply impressed with
the affliction sent upon the bereaved family of the
deceased, and tender them our sincere sympathy
and condolence in the irreparable loss they have
sustained.
Resolved, That in testimony of our respect for
the deceased, we will wear the usual badge of
mourning for thirty days. That these proceedings
be entered in the minutes of our Lodge on a blauk
leaf set apart for that purpose, and that the secre
tary be instructed to transmit a copy of them to
the mother of deceased, and auother to his sister,
Mrs. E. A. Lewis; and that these proceedings be
puhlishedin the Journal and Messenger, ot thecity
of Macon. P. B. D. H. CULLJIR, W. M.
JosH S, Jobsonj Sec’y.