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Journal & Iflfsscngcr.
J. KNOWLES and S. ROSE,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
mb. HILLIARD IH HEW YORK
A meeLDg of ihc friends of the Uoiou and the
opponents of Black Republicanism was held at.
Cooper’s Institute, New York, on the night of thej
17th inst. The Journal f Cotnmrree says it wail
Urge and enthusiastic. Among the distinguisheifl
f|.eakers was the Hon. H. W. Hilliard, of Alabama!
We give his speech below* 1
Hun. H. W. Hilliard, of Alabama, was the
speaker. On coining forward, he was receiv
with a *tonr. of applause and choeen for klabam?
hjlliaro’s sprrcn.
He said that the contest now going on is not an
ordinary can rasa, it wears an aspect of far higher
significance, and more momentous resnlu lift
thn—rim to view in the background. (Ap
plause.) Bodies of men—disciplined, drilled,
inarching to the sound of martial music, bearing
not arms as yet, but torches—tread the street* ol
this great national emporium, and range their col
umns under the very sliadows of the statne of
Washington. For what purpose ate they trained*
Against what enemy are they to march ? One
sentiment pervades the whole body. They are
handed together for one purpose. They hat* the
f4outb, and thev will seek to overthrow the insti
tutions of the South. At this mom, nt an extraor
dinary number of citizens from the Southern
States Jare in JXew York ; they fill the hotels,
they throng the street* : they are in your
great trading establishments ; they come with the
confidence of a kindred people to visit and trade
with a kindred people, (great cheering), and yet
torches, borne by men who denounce their insti
unions ami seek to turn all the power of a com
mon government against them, glare upon them
at midnight, and the tread of disciplined battal
ions shakes the very paring stones as ibev march
in their training to prepare for a resistless assault
upon the rights and the honor of our section.—
Whatother object can they nave in view? It is
said that tliey desire to exclude slavery from the
Territories, when there is not a Territory open to
it to-day. Their object lies far beyond that—they
intend to crush oc: slavery in the States where it
exists. They procUim through the lips of their
great leader the ** irrepressible conflict.” They in
tend to trample the Constitution under their feet,
and to spread devastation through the slavehold
ing States. Tbcir war cry is as furious as that
which was tbuudercd by the legions who marched
under their banner* upon which was inscribed
Iftltwla ttt Carthago. This distinguishes the
present Presidential canvass from any that has
preceded it.
The speaker proceeded to examine the assertion
that our republican system is a failure, and refuted
it on all grounds. He also defined the distinction
between State rights and the rights of the general
government, and showed that the Slate rights
theory was the only one upon which the govern
ment could be administered.
With reference to the Republican party, the
speaker said that the South sees this mighty orga
nization spreading it* battalions all thfWugh the
Northern and Northwestern Staten. She bears
the tramp of men mustering to the overthrow of
her institutions. But she stand* undismayed, con
fident yet in the patriotic instincts of the Ameri
can people ; confident in the fraternal regard of
her Northern friends ; hot confident still in
her own self-respect and courage—for she never
will submit to be wronged and degraded, nor live
to see her institutions brought under the ban of
the government (Applause.) She borrows the
spirit of the national song of England, her mother,
and exclaims—
O Lord, oar God, arise,
Scatter our enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Prostrate their knavish tricks—
On Thee our hearts w w fix —
God save the State!
(enthusiastic cbeeriDg.)
We mu*t defeat this fierce, sectional league, and
save the government from tbeir grasp. Why
should the North be arrayed against the South ♦—
There is ample room on this continent for the ex
pansion and working of our system of civilization ;
systems which are not conflicting, but which are
admirably adapted to each other ; for we consume
vonr products, and we supply you with the materi
al for your iu Justry. (Applause.) Let the two
evsrems work side by side ; the North is already
powerful, and your population k rapidly increasing
by a steady stream of emigration which spreads
ail over your vast territory. Slavery will not go
where it *a not wanted ; it is governed by natural
laws— of soil and climate, and we are content to
leave it to it* natural expansion. Above a well
and, Sued parallel of latitude it cannot be profitably
employed. It is madness then, to seek to limit it
bv legislation, by usurpation, and inflaming the
North against the Sooth, and by proclaiming hu
manitarian doctrines, a? shallow as they are dan
gerous. To God’s providence this great interest
must Ire committed. He see* the sublime march
ot nations —He alone cau guide our steps ; and it
ia stupendous folly, as well as audacity, for onr
brethren of the North to pass away from the line?
of their own social system in the vain hope of
perfecting ours. I have said that it woold lie a
gross violation of the constitution to engralt upon
the government a policy hostile to slavery. It
would ■* more than this—it would be a flagrant
breach n* good faith. Does any man believe that
the federal government could have been construc
ted If it had been understood that it* power* were
to be directed against slavery in the State-. Why,
it was expressly stipulated in the constitution that
the foreign slave trade should not be prohibited
by the government for twenty years after its adop
tion * Why stipulate for the continued importa
tion of slaves for J ear *- if B *■ to Be the
policy of the government in future to eradicate
that institution in the States ? Why not forth
with cut off all further supply of slave* from
abroad ? Bo resolute were the framers of the
Constitution upon this point that the power to re
gulate commerce by a bare majority of the two
Houses of Congress was not granted until that
clause .0 reference to the importation of person*
from abroad was first secured. If, then, the gov
ernment could not have been constructed with a
distinct understanding at the time that it* policy
was to be directed against slavery, is if not both
unconstitutional and a flagrant breach of good
faith to seize the department* of that government
a govern mint common to all the State-—ami
turn - them against that system of labor in the
Footberu State? ? The Constitution provides for
the representation of slaves as an elementary part
of the machinery of the government; and it pro
hibit* the cutting off a still larger supply of slaves
from Africa for twenty years. How, then, can it
be asserted that thi* is oa anli-lavery government
in its nature, and that it was put upon the wrong
track forty years since i> admitting a slavehold
ing Mate into the Union ? Ought net the people
of the State to enjoy the privilege of framing
their own domestic institutions ? Can hostility
to slavery, upon the ground of it* being a moral
wrong,a* Mr. Siramonds asserts it to be, authorize
a statesman to direct the energies of a common
government against it, when the Cooctitutiton not
only confer* no suck power, but when Us provis
ions actually are made to perpetuate it ? I* not
this a direct appeal to the higher law f AH that
the South asks is that the Constitution be upheld ,
she demand* nothing but that the government be
administered in tbe spirit of that instrument.—
(Cheers.) Her enemies are the enemies of the
t onaututUw, and they can reach her institutions
only by trampling that under foot. Nhc does not
envy fiie prosperity of tbe North. She rejoices
in the increasing wealth and power of a kindred
people; she witnesses your rapid advancement,
y,Mir wonderful growth, with just pride, and she
bids you go on iu your course of expansion and
civilization ; she sees your splendid cities with
heartv satisfaction, and glories in your commerce
which” bear* the flag of tbe Republic to the remo
test seas of tbe globe ; she is content with her
om lot ; *be ask* no special legislation for her
benefit • all that she demands is a full participa
tion in the benefit* of a common government. *
lull recognition of her rights, and a dear vindica
tion of her honor. (Great applau-c.) Wronged,
degraded, excluded from the full benefit of her
own government, she will never consent to be, nor
will zhe suffer tier institutions to lie brought un
der lb* ban of that government. (Cheer*.) —
When we twrrcy the wide picture of national
power and glory and happtoeas, that spread* out
before us, we can hardly repreea our indignation
against tbo*e wild and wicked agitator*, who seek
to destroy it—and we exclaim in the language of
Milton’s nervous and earnest prayer, against the
enemies of the people of England, “ Leave n
not a prey to these unfortunate wolves, that wait
and think long till they devour thy tender flock- ;
these wild ixtar* that have broke into thy vine
yard, and left the print of their poHuting hoofs on
the souls of thy servant*. O let them not bring
about their wicked designs, that stand noa at the
bottmnksi pit, expecting the watchword to open
aud let out those dreadful locusts snd scorpions,
I U rein valve us in that pitchy cloud of infernal
darkness, where we shall never more see the light
of tby truth again, never hope for the cheerful
dawn, never more hear the bird of morning sing.’’
This is a grand struggle between nationalism and
sectionalism. The very existence of the I'nion is
involved in it; men of extreme opinions seek to
grasp the reins of government, and if they suc
ceed they will plunge the country into irretrieva
ble ruin. They must lie put down. (Tremendous
cheer*.) National men—statesmen —who stand
| tty the Constitution and lore the Union, and de
l.-ire to K-e the law enforced, they must be sustain
|e 1. and to their hands we must commit the gov
loruuient. (Renewed applause.! Hash men of see
[tiond views cannot govern this great country. A
(perfect illustration of what would follow is found
fin the clas-ics. Ph.'vton desired but for one day to
drive the chariot of the Sun ; he seized the reins
—in hu feeble bands tbe wild steeds flew from
their accustomed track. The universe wa* threat
ened with destruction, and not until a bolt flew
from the uplifted hand of Jupiter, hurling the im
petuous driver fuom his scat, could order be re
stored to nature. Better far to keep rash, section
al, incompetent men otU. of the scat of power,
than risk the task to the aroused majesty of the
American people ol restoring order and hurling
them from their place®. It is not the first time,
it is true, that the candidates for tlte highest offices
iu the republic have been taken from one section
of the Union, but it must be remembered that
this election is made to turn on a sectional issue ;
everv question ot legitimate national policy is ig
nored, and slavery is the ouly question discussed.
To take candidates now from one section —to pro
cUim war against another section —to renounce
the institutions of co-ordinate States —this is the
issue fie loro the country ; this the policy exhibited
to our view ; and it has never till now threatened
to take control of the government. It they come
into power it will be tin* beginning of the c-nd;
this government cannot be administered upon
that plan. The day that witnesses the ejection of
Mr. Lincoln, if that calamity i* to be visited upon
us, wilt witness a convulsion which shakes the
institutions of this country to their deepest foun
dations. Public contidcnee will expire-—stocks
aid go down—property of every description fall
-uddenly in value—commerce will feel the shock
.is if a storm had swept the sea and rent the fails
of mighty ships—and this grand republican sys
tem—this glorious confederacy of free and pow
erful St ales, seated in friendly alliance u{*ou a con
tinent over which the gorgeous ensign of the Re
pnhlic streams to-day, the symbol of peace, of un
ion, and of strength, will rock as under the throes
of an earthquake. The mariucr can discover with
his practiced eye the signs of tbe rising temptest,
and even in far upon the land a bird is sometimes
-een flying before the fury of the coming storm,
which threatens to sweep its billow y home ; and I
do not doubt that men of experience, sweeping
the horizon with their glasses begin even now to
read the signs of danger in sonic of those aspects
which the times disclose to their view, while they
escape the observation of a casual observer. I
have always been for the Union—l am for the l"u
----ion to-day ; but the beat friends of the Union may
be overwhelmed, as a faithful helmsman is some
times driven from his post by the fury of a resist
less tempest. Let us put down now, and forever,
sectional men ; they exult in the hope of victory;
they spread their fierce legions all about us, as
lieslie’s army shut in Cromwell ; let us, like that
grand old Christian soldier, rise in our impetuous
strength and cut their lines to pieces. The Union
must lie preserved ; glorious objects lie before
us ; our destiny as a nation is not yet fulfilled.—
Mexico, Cuba—those great problems—can only
be solved by us. Europe is just now rising under
the inspiring teaching of our example. Let us
accomplish the grand and beneficent objects of
our destiny as a nation (loud applause). Upon
you, gentlemen of the State of New York, de
pends everything at this crisis ; do not be dismay
ed by the magnitude of the task which lies before
you : think of your vast strength ; think of the
glory which will crown you, if, meeting the surg
ing billows which have just broken over the State
of Maine, you say to them, “ Hitherto shall thou
come and no farther, and here shall thy proud
waves be stayed.’’ It is glorious to see great
strength displayed in the beneficent work of sav
ing, and not of destroying. You can save a na
tion—you ean rescue the republic—you can cover
yourselves all over with glory. The|Lacedemonians
stood at the pas* of Thermopyi.w, and, dying, earn
ed iinmoiuiity ; they perished because they were
feeble ; they counted but hundreds against a host.
But you are mighty—you are invincible; rise to
the full grandeur of your position. Friends of
the Constitution, friends of libertv, friend* of tbe
republic, rise in the full majesty of your strength
and crush the enemies of your country. (Long
and loud continued cheering.)
Severe storm Fire.
There was a furions pale at New Orlerns on
•Saturday last. Nearly every, house in lialise was
carried away, and several lives lost, including C'apt.
Kinney, pilot of the New York and Havana Steam
-hip Company. The tearn-hip Galveston, and
ships Galena, Sliellield, and lirig India, and
schooner Toucey, hound out, weic all blown as
hore at the Passes.—Several tow boats are lying
high and dry at Milneburg. The terminus of the
Ponchartrain railway was submerged, and wharves
damaged. It is reported that all the wharves
and both houses on the Lake shore between New
Orleans and Mobile were swept away. The town
ot Biloxi is a mass of ruin.
At Mobile the storm was severely felt. All the
wharves in the lower portion of the city were sub
merged. Duriug the gale Messrs. Pomeroy and
Marshall’s Lime Warehouse was burned. Several
steamboats were blown ashore. The brig Leghorn,
front Mobile to Pensacola, was also washed ashore.
The loss by fire and storm is estimated at live
hundred thousand dollars.
T be WldfAwakci, n *lilll:trj Organiza
tion.
Mr. Horace Greeley delivered a speech, reported
in the Tribune, at the dedication of the new Wide-
Awake Hall, in New York, on the 10th inst. Mr.
Greeley speaks of the Wide-Awake organization
as follows:
He bad been much interested in the Wide-Awake
movement from the first, for the great lack of the
Republican party h&sbeeu practical, active working
men. This was die most hopeful political move
ment of this country. The young men are begin
ing to feel their true power, and it shows them
what they arc able to do for their country, lit
looked on thi i at inaugurating a true military
ni of this country. It is time that the free
men of this country had learned to protect them
selves. Our standing army is composed mostly of
foreigners, aud Officered in most aristocratic man
ner, and he wanted to see this replaced by (hi*
new organization, and let the free and voluntary
military of this country have fair play; aud when
Government needs a half a raillllon of inen, let her
call for them ; with the same money aud the same
prospect that an army now have, and we shall
soon need no standing army. He felt more hope
for this organization because it comprises the young
men, and they have Liberty inscribed on their ban
ners.
The great work of the Revolution was not for a
day but for years; and he believed the time would
yet come when thit work trout J be fully accom
plished, and man tc c/toil to hi* brother mat i eve
rywhere, and justice aud right prevail. In this
belief, he bid them God speed in their work.
Thosk Qces*uk3. —The probabilities are that
Mnj. Breckinridge will take longer to reply to the
Norfolk questions than to the letter informing
him ot bis nomination by the Richmond Conven
tion. In his Ltc speech, it was hoped by his
friends that he would reply in a manly, straight
forward way, ala Douglas. But not so. With
the questions staring him daily in tho face in all the
papers for nearly a week before his speech, with
his Virginia electors’ pledge that he would answer
them anxiously awaiting to be redeemed, Mj.
Breckinridge waded through three mortal hours,
talking about everything aud nothing and still
failed to even so much as allude to Ine Norfolk
questions. Are we to have any answer to these
queries or not ? if not, then let the secession
prints at the South turn their batteries on tlieir
own leader, who virtually, by his silence, endorses
the answer made by Douglas at Not folk.
We charge that Breckinridge’s open refusal to
reply must l*e taken as au endorsement ot the
position ot’ Judge Douglas.— Washington Hi a ten.
Vov. Ulw Fighting in I lie Fnlon.
Nrw Yors, Sept. 15.—Governor Wise’s letter
in response to the imitation to attend the late
barbecue at Raleigh, is published. He sars:—
**For my own part I will not concede; 1 will not
secede; I will not acquiesce; I will not submit; I
will not compromise any more but I will fight in
the l uiuit as long as I can get a respectable or
hopeful plurality, or minority even, of firm, true
uieu to by me and with me for the Consti
tution and the country. In my negroes 1 have
property rights; iu the Buioi 1 hare political
rights, aud 1 will not be the coward or the slave
to give up the one in older to preserve the other,
and 1 will give up neither, but fight to the last
rather than eithei shall lie assailed or destroyed.
In any event, we are on the eve of a dissolution,
and the question is, simply, shall it lie peaceful,
only by our base submission to insult and outrage ?
if you will fight, the Union will be saved.” „
A !Vrw Political Organization.
During the progress of the present Presidential
campaign we have frequently called attention to
the very cool way in which it ha* been carried on.
The divided democracy are working like men who
swim against the tide, and hope to keep their heads
above the water only. Thcl nion movement is after
the manner of an undercurrent, and will find its ex
pression at the polls, rather than in any noisy de
monstrations before election. I pto a late (*eriod
we have heard little of political clubs, like the “ Log
Cabin' 1 hoys in IMti, the “ Young Hickory'’ ar.d
“ Henry Clay” associations of 1844. the “ Buena
Vistas” of 1848, the “Scott” and “Granite” clubs
of 1852, or the “ Keystone*” and “ Rooky Moun
tains ‘ of lßrt. Latterly, however, the new re
publican organization, “the Wide Awakes, have
gained largely in numbers —a circumstance due
rather to their unique equipment than to any par
tisan enthusiasm.
The Wide A wakes originated in Hartford Conn.,
about a year ago. A number of young men re
solved to keep “ wide awake” until the arrival of
Mr. C. SI. Clay, who was to speak in their city.—
They escorted the Kentucky “ martyr to his hotel
by torchlight, and alterward* fttfiued themselves
into a political club, adopting an a uniform a leath
er cajte, with caps to match. The Wide Awakes
parade only at night; those in the ranks carry
torches, while the officers have lanterns. The
Wide Awakes differ from other political chibs in
tire respect that t hey are regularly drilled in the
school of the soldier, and can at any moment ex
change their torches for muskets. Thus they have
two distinct organizations, and two sets of officers,
civil and military. After the nomination of Lin
coln some of the Wide Awake companies changed
their name and now’ call themselves “ Rail Split
ters” or “ Rail Maulers.” They are all alike, how
ever ; all drilled in the same way, and all wear
the same livery, looking like a cross between an
insurance patrolman and a policeman. The effect
of the drill of the Wide Aatvkes is perceptible in
the regularity of their marching and the uniformi
ty of their lines, which combine the light of their
torches and give a most picturesque appearance to
tueir parades, something like what we read of
the “ Feasts of the Lanterns” among the Chinese.
A* to the number of the Wide Awakes, we can
not form, ju-it now, even an approximate idea.—
Au eastern paper before us states that they para
ded i \ thousand men in Portland last Tuesday.—
At the Syracuse Convention some four thousand
Wide Awake* turned out to serenade Mr. Thurlow
Weed, ami in every considerable town throughout
the North and West the new fraternity flourishes
to a greater or less extent. In the South, we ap
prehend, Wide Awakes are not nuflfi*rous. In
fact, the Feast of Lanterns that their leaders would
probably assist at in that line of country would
probably be such as those the Paris sansculottes
treated the head monopolists to during the Reign
of Terror.
It was understood, in the first place, that the
Wide Awakes were organized only for the cam
paign, but now it is reported that they have been
drilled with a view to support Lincoln in case
there should be any interference from the South to
to preveut his inauguration, and that they intend
to consolidate themselves en permanence, like the
Know Nothings. Such an organization in the
hands of bad men, might do a great deal of harm,
and therefore it is well that partisan clubs always
carry within themselves the germs of dissolution.
Their members are composed of two classes ot per
sons—veteran partisans, who seek office, and
youug men, who join the chib from curiosity.—
Directly after election the first named class fall to
fighting among themselves, and, the novelty of
the thing having worn oft', the young men with
draw altogether. That the Wide Awakes will
meet the fate of their illustrious predecessors there
cau be no reasonable doubt. In the meantime,
as a guide to the future historian, we intend to
keep the public fully posted as to the rise nnd pro
gress of the new organization, and will throw
some light upon the doings of the Wide Awakes
in a few days.— X. Y. Herald.
It is a revolting reflection that Ashland, with ail
it* hallowed memories clustering around it, was,
P tUo occasion of John C. Breckinridge’s late
speech made the site or a >mrticcu „„<i n f
the Locofoeo party, that party, which, for more
than a quarter of a century, poured from its mouth
for the distruction of Ashland's great nnd immor
tal statesman, a torrent of lies equal in volume to
the flood sent forth from the mouth of the great
red dragon of the Apocalypse.
We wonder whether the old Locofoeo enemies
and villificrs of Henry ('lav gathering upon the spot
onced hallowed by his living presence, did not un
der the influence of the combined power of guilty
consciences and diseased fancies behold him stand
ing in the midst of them as they were in the habit
of seeing him pictured in 1844 in their newspaper
organs and electioneering handbill* a tall and
frightful image, with a demijohn as a head a
couple of gambling cards as ears, a quart bottle as
a neck, duelling pistols as arms, bowie-knives as
fingers, a whiskey-barrel as a belly, and a couple
of sign-post as legs, the latter convered all over
with printed enumerations of the crime* imputed
to the immortal man of Ashland.
How many of those, who ate this barbecue at
Ashland, would have ventured to open the gate in
the lifetime of Henry Clay ? The mass of them
would no more have dared to open it than the l’al -
ien Adam would have dared to open the gate oj
l'den, guarded by the eherubin and a flaming sword
that turned every way. —Louisville Journal.
■iou tat rukh out *Sectionalism.”
At tbe return of each quadrennial period in our
political history our Democratic friends were wont
to be very earnest in their adjurations against the
growth of the “ anti-slavery sentiment” at the
North, and to invoke the co-operation of all in be
half of the Democratic party, which they asserted
was the only party capable of “putting down
Northern sectionalism.”
These appeals have very sensibly diminished in
fervor and frequency during the present canvass,
thus evincing on the part of the Democracy a sense
of modesty which, however proper under the cir
cumstances, deserves to be signalized for its rarity.
It is suggested by some of our contemporaries that
the former assurance practised by Democrats under
this head has declined in consequence of the little
success which has been found to accompany their
efforts in crushing out “ Freesoilism,” as witnessed
by the following statistic* :
In the Presidential election of 1840 the anti
slavery vote was a littje over 7,000.
In four year* under President Tyler’* Adminis
tration, it increased to more than 62,000.
In four years under President Polk, it arose, in
the name of “ Frecsoil Democracy,” to 280,000.
In four years, under Presidents Taylor and Fill
more, notwithstanding all the agitations created by
the passage of the compromise measures, the fugi
tive slave law included, the Freesoil vote declined
to 158,000 in the w hole United States.
In Four years under President Tierce, the “ Free
soil Democracy” were superseded by the “ Repub
lican party,” which, for some canse was enabled to
poll 1,341,000 in the same States where Messrs.
Half and Jri.iAN, the Frecsoil candidates of 1852,
received little more than 150,000 votes.
The above from the National Intelligencer, pre
sents a strong argument in favor of Bell and Ever
ett.
Active TloveiikcntM of the ItepiiblicniiM.
The Republicans are “ moving heaven and earth”
to carry New York city. They had a procession
there Thursday night which was, singularly for a
political parade, composed of drilled men. The
Herald says:
No lees than forty-six hundred men paraded in
millitary array, each clothed in uniform, and each
bearing a blazing torch. As the procession passed
up Broadway, between eleven o’clock and midnight,
the scene presented was a most extraordinary one.
As far as the eye could reach there was a line of
livid light, not straggling here and there, as is
frequently the case with torchlight parades, but as
straight and regular as the company parts ot a crack
regiment of citizen soldiers. The Wide Awakes
have evidently been drilled by capable officers,
and were handled by their commanders with
thorough military precision. The turnout of Thurs
day was, however, a small affair, coir pa red with
the Wide Awake demonstration which is to take
place in this city on the evening of the third of
October. There are in the Northern and Eastern
States over four huudred and tweuty thousand
voters enrolled in the ranks of the Wide Awakes,
and it is purposed to have a general re union of the
dubs, and a grand parade, in which delegations
from all the principal cities and towns will partici
pate. •
Atrocious. —“ Betsy, my dear,” said Mr. fltubbs,
giving hi* wife a pair of damaged unmentionables,
“ have the goodness to mend these trowsers ; it
will be as good as going to the play to-night.”—
Mrs. Stubbs took her needle, but confessed she
couldn’t see the point. “How so?” said she.—
Why, my dear, you will see the wouderful ravels
in the faint -o'mint.” Mrs. Stubbs finished the job
and handing back the trowsers, told Stubbs, “that’s
darned good.”
Buy Ayer’s Ague Cure for Intermittenta,
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for a Cough, and Ayer’s
Pills for all the purposes of a Family Physic.
MACON, GEORGIA :
Wednesday, September 26, 1860.
Constitutional Union Ticket.
FOR PRFNIDENT,
JO J J N B.K la Is,
OF TBHNKWEE.
for vicE-pf:siirjrr,
KI)AVA li I) EV R a IST TANARUS,
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
PL A T F OHM:
“Tlie Constitution of the Connlry, the
Union 01 iite Mutes and (he Uutorceinent
ot the Lit tv*.”
ELECTORAL TICKET.
KOR THE STATE AT LARGE t
WILLIAM LAW, of Chatham.
If. 11. HILL, of Troup.
ALTERNATES:
II IN US IIUI T. ot Muscogee.
UA It NUTT A N Dlt U tVS, of Wilke*.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Samuel B. Spencer, of Thomas, Eleclor.
Edward B. Way, of Liberty, Ist. Alternate.
Dr. T. A. Parsons, of Johnson, Snd. Alternate.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Marcellus Douglas, of Randolph, Elector.
W. H. Robinson, of Macon, Ist. Alternate.
P. J. Strozier, of Dougherty, 2nd. Alternate.
THIRD DISTRICT.
L. T. Doyal, of Spalding, Elector.
John T. Stephens, of Monroe, Ist. Alternate.
Charles Goode, ol Houston, 2nd. Alternate.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
W. F. Wright, of Coweta, F.lector.
W. C. Mabry, of Heard, Ist. Alternate.
John M. Edge, of Campbell, 2nd Alternate.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Jonah R. Parrot, of Cass, Elector.
Thos. G. McFarland, of Walker, Ist. Alternate.
Rich'll. W. Jones, of Whitfield, 2nd. Alternate.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
11. P. Bell, of Forsyth, Elector.
McDaniel, of Walton, Ist. Alternate.
S. J. Winn, of Gwinnett, 2nd. Alternate.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Dr. I. E. Dupree, of Twiggs, Elector.
B. T. Harris, of Hancock, Ist. Alternate.
M. W. Lewis, of Greene, 2nd. Alternate.
EIGHT DISTRICT.
LaFayptte Lamar, of Liucoln, Elector.
John K. Jackson, of Ricbmoad, Ist. Alternate.
Daniel E. Roberts, of Scrivcn, 2nd. Alternate.
COTTON MARKET.
A good deal of cotton is coming in. Trices
range from Bto 10$ cents. Demand good.
MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
The “contest between the Doctors” for Mayor,
to fill the unexpired term of Mayor Sparks, resign
ed, resulted in the triumph of Dr. M. S. Thomson.
The vote stood :
For Thomson, (deni) BTT ; For Harrison, (Bell)
348—majority, 20.
Mr. Boardman will accept our thanks for a
copy of the new nnd improved edition of Reese’s
Manual, for Ordinaries, Executors, Administrators
and Guardians. It is a very useful volume. Go
and get it.
He has also placed upon our table Ilarper’sMonth
ly for October—a capital number.
THE COSMOPLITAN ART JOURNAL,
Fr September, has come to hand with its ele‘
gant illustrations, engravings and choice reading.
We have also received the October number of
the Eclectic, which has a superb engraving of Gen.
Garibaldi, the man who is now shaking the despo
tisms of the old world. Let them shake.
THE PRINCE OF WALES
I* creating quite a sensation at the North, par
ticularly among the snobs. He received an invi
tation to visit the South, by several Southern gen
tlemen who were in New York, but in a graceful
letter, through Lord Lyon*, declined for want of
time.
THE CANVASS
In some portions of Georgia and in other States,
is progressing with considerable animation. At
the South we think Bell and Everett are steadily
gaining strength. Unless there is a Union of the
opponents of black republicanism at the north and
west, we see not how either Bell or Breckinridge
can carry a single free State. No cordial lusion,
we fear, can be affected in New York. It has
failed elsewhere.
It is gratifying to observe that, with few excep
tions, the canvass in our State has been conducted
in the spirit of moderation. We hope this spirit
will continue.
MR HILLIARD.
It has been announced that tt>is eloquent gen
tleman will address the citizens of Bibb to-morrow
night. Those who read his speech in onr paper
to-day, w ill want to hear more from the same gif
ted orator. That bold and telling speech in the
very camp of sectionalism, onght to give Mr. 11.
access to every Southetn heart.
andE 1 ” We are indebted to the liberality of the
Adams Express Company, for copies of the N. Y.
Evening Express, and the New York Herald of the
20th instant. Many thanks for their continued
kindness.
Tlie Chuuecllor ol (he State University.
Rev. Dr. Lipscomb, the newly elected Chancellor
of the University of Georgia, says the Athens Ban
ner, has entered upon the discharge of his duties.
lie preached in the Methodist Church last Sun
day morning to a large audience. His text was,
“lie that gathereth not with me, scattereth abroad.”
I)r L. possesses the rare faculty of mingling the
sterner truths of Christianity and the attractive
flowers of rhetoric iu an eminent degree.
We trust his labors will be crowned with success,
both in the University and among our citizens.
MACON COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT.
The fall term of this Court took place last week,
and, as usual, occupied but a few days. There
were but few civil eases on the docket—and no
criminal cases of any consequence.
Thos. P. Lorn wa? admitted to practice at the
Bar, after standing a first, rate examination. 11c
is a young man of talent, and gives favorable pro
mise of future distinction.
SUB-ELECTORS.
The following gentlemen have been appointed
Sub-Electors, for the county of Crawford ;
Maxwell’s District —A. J. McAffee.
Webb’s “ B. 11. Stroud.
Castleberry’s “ J. W. Robinson.
Beaseley’s “ (’ol. T. Raines.
7th “ Jonathan Ross.
fith “ . Jefferson Saunders.
3d “ Pickens Yarborough.
Hammock’s “ fc*. T. Feagin.
Citizen please copy.
A correspondent of the Augusta < hronicle,
of Talbot County, says that the negro, owned by
J. Wilkinson, who murdered Isaac Darden near
Gcueva, some time siuce and who wa* erroneously
reported to have been burnt by a mob, was tried
this week in Talbot Superior Court, found guilty,
and sentenced to be hung on the 19th October.
On Monday last, by vote of the citizens of Gris.
fin, the city subscription of s2f>,Goo to the Griffin
and Covington Road was transferred to the con
templated Madison Road.
The “ Old Gentlemen” of the Bell and Everett
stamp, whose heart is in the right place, have
formed a “Fossil Club” at New Orleans. Mr. Bar
nett, 83 years of aye, who done noble service in
the war of 1812, was elected one of the Yice-Pres
ideuts of the Club,
THE PROSPECT BEFORE US.
We are not alarmists. Our temperament is not
desponding, but hopeful. We confess, however,
to a growing apprehension for the stability of our
institutions. Nothing, we believe, but Divine in
terposition can save them from frightful disaster.
An overwhelming defeat of Lincoln and his re
tainers, may act as a temporary check or btake
upon the spirit of sectionalism, but like a pent up
flood or locomotive on an inclined plane, we fear
it is destined still to rush on with acceleiated and
maddened momentum to its awfully disastrous con
summation — the wreck oi the Republic and the
extinguishment of rational liberty.
Our apprehensions chiefly arise from the de
rooralization of our public men and the corruption
of the masses. In our own favored section, we
believe the people are sufficiently honest and pa
triotic to sustain the right, if their leaders would
permit them to do so. The freemen of the South
are instinctively conservative. Their pursuits are
those of independent husbandmen, who thrive
most under few and simple laws and stable govern
ment. As yet they have not become largely in
fected by those political and moral dogmas which
arc working gradually but certainly the most sedi
tious and agrarian results through the heterogene
ous elements that are pouring into the great free
West, which teems with desperate adventurers
from every part of the globe. An omen of no
favorable significance, is the uprising of a quasi
military organization, at the North, under the cog
nomen of “ Wide Awakes.” The simultaneous
appearance of this order, with the lawless avowals
of the Black Republican leaders, in regard to the
potency of the popular voice over the decrees of
the Supreme Tribunal of the country—rendering
its decisions powerless, unless sanctioned by the
popular will—is a very dark sign of the times.
In view of the present aspect of the country we
believe it to be the imperative duty of the Consti
tutional Union men—and they are found in all
parties—of Christian men and patriots, to discour
age and discountenance all undue party excitement
and bitterness, and band together, it possible, to
secure the defeat of Lincoln—or failing to do this,
to restrain his administration within strictly Con
stitutional limits or eject it from power.
This, it is true, might involve the country in
temporary civil strife—but it would be a lawful
struggle for the supremacy and perpetuity of the
Government which we received from our patriot
fathers, as a priceless legacy to descend to us and
our children —a struggle in the Union for the Un
ion and the Constitution.
Whilst we believe the election of the Union
ticket will best conserve and perpetuate good gov
ernment, by allaying sectionalism, we have no
quarrel with our fellow-citizens who honestly differ
from us in sentiment and feeling.
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.
There are many open advocates of a dissolution
of the Union in the event of Lincoln’s election.—
The Breckinridge presses and leaders are particu
larly desirous of committing the people to this
movement. Should the secession ticket get a plu
rality in Georgia, our good old Union State will be
set down in favor of disunion. Let the people
look well to this. A writer in the Atlanta Intel
liyencer closes an article as follows :
“ How, it may be asked, is this Southern Con
federacy to be established, so easily, and so peace
ably ? The answer is easy ; the course is a very
plain one, and easily pursued.
On the ides of November next, when Jupiter j
hurls bis angry lightning along the wires and an
nounces the election of Lincoln, let the Southern
Senators and th Southern people at once declare
the fact, for it will then tie a fact, that John C.
Breckinridge is chosen the First president of the
Southern Confederacy. Let him select his cabinet
of Southern men, at once ; let him establish his
government ; the Senators and Representatives of
the South are already chosen for the time being ;
let an honest declaration of the causes that have
led to the separation he put forth to the world ;
let the South hold the North, as she holds the rest
of mankind—enemies in war, in peace, friends. —
Let this he done, boldly—immediately and with
determination ; and to mipport and maintain such
a confederacy the people of the South will pledge
their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor;
to defend it against attack or invasion from any
quarter they will yield up the last drop of their
life-blood.
Let Mr. Lincoln be the President of the people
who elected him. Let him discharge the onerous
duties of his office in peace ; and we of the
South shall respect him and his administration the
same as any other foreign court or power.
LAMBDA.
Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 21, 1860.
The Kingston itlavH IWectinfr.
Monday, the 17th, was the day set apart for a
grand masss meeting at Kingston, Cass county. —
Hon. William L. Yancey was present, and spoke
for three hours. We are informed, says the At
lanta Confederacy , by a supporter of Breckin
ridge, who was present, that the crowd was very
small—a mere squad—and that the speech of the
great Precipitator, fell like a shower hath upon
his disconsolate hearers. The course of Breckin
ridge and disunioD, all over Georgia, is like the
last key notes of the auctioneer— going , gone !
Such is flesh !
Dkmagogpkism —pure and simple demagogneisin,
says the New York Courier il’ Enquirer , never had
a more perfect exemplification than in Stephen A.
Douglas stumping it through the country begging
the people to vote for him. The clown tumbling
into the. i ing of a circus, and shouting as he lands
upon his feet, “ Here I am, how do you like me?”
does not excel, in physical contortion to gain the
applause of the multitude, Stephen A. Douglas in
moral contortion for the same end, when he turns
up ou the stump, shouting in effect, “ Here J am,
the Little Giant, about whom you have heard so
much ; how do you like me ; am I not just the man
for President.
Gen. WalKcr nutl Col. Hudler Shot.
Late advices from New Orleans state that Gen-
Win. Walker and Col. Rudler had been shot by
the Honduras government. General Walker’s men
were allowed to depart unmolested. So ends an
other act in this wretched fillibustering drama.
IVegrocM ami Lincoln.
A young friend informs us, says the Eufaula Ex
press, that some nights since, he overheard a crowd
of negroes talking together, iu one of the alleys of
this place, in which frequent allusions were made
to the present contest for the Presidency. He says
that one of them remarked, “ that a man who ran
for President before, was in favor of freeing the
slaves, and came near being elected ; aud that one
who is now running was in favor of the same thing,
and he would be], elected certain.” Our informant
could not make out who these negroes were, but
thinks they were Rail Road hands.
The New York Correspondent of the Charleston
Courier thus notices the meeting in that city ou
the 17th : “ The great speeches last evening were
made by Mayor Wood, who really surpassed him
self, the Hon. H. W. Hilliard of Alabama, and ex-
Gov. Morehead, of Kentucky. Mr. Hilliard was
particularly down ou Senator Seward of the North,
and the disunionists of the South. When lie re
marked with much warmth of expression, “ Leave
us of the South to deal with the Secessionists, aDd
you of the North take care of the Abolitionists,”
the whole immense assembly rose, cheered, waved
their hats and handkerchiefs, presenting a scene
that was startlingly grand and exciting. It was all
clap-trap, however,
THE NATIONAL AMERICAN,
Published at Atlanta, has become a Daily and
Weekly. Terms for the Daily, #6,00 per annum—
for the Weekly, $2,00. It is an able paper and
we wish it success.
Still They Com* !— Hon. William A. Ashley,
ofCouecuh, one of the Montgomery Mail’s Breeik-1
inridge mep, is out for Hell and Everett. •
(Csl'o\W,\CE OF THE JOTRAAL AS) MERGER.
Nkvv York, Sept. 21, 18C0.
The excitement of the week has been the mass
meeting of all opposed to sectionalism. Follow
ing close upon the demonstration of the Republi
cans, it has effectually silenced the boasting re
ports of that demonstration. Obliged to acknowl
edge the success of our meeting, it is amusing to
observe ihe Tribune, with apparent candor, states
that it was the largest political meeting held yet,
tree pi the Republican gatheiing of the previous
week. Tliis may do to tell the simple minded Re
publicans of New England, but to those who know
the overwhelming anti-sectional sentiments of New
York city such candor is ridiculous.
The speeches Monday evening were marked by
a sense impossible to be overlooked of the impor
tance of the present campaign and the responsi
bility resting upon the conservative masses. The
teachings of the Republican leaders were analyzed
and shown to be utterly subversive of the compro
mises that underlie our Union. In particular the
recent unmasked declarations of Wm. 11. Seward,
duriug his western electioneering trip, were exam
ined and held up to the public iu their naked radi
calism. The effect of that meeting has been very
marked. It had been apprehended that the fail
ure of the State Committees of the Douglas and
Breckinridge parties, respectively, to agree upon a
joint electoral ticket, might prove disastrous to the
Uuion cause. But the public confidence is restored.
For the President of the meeting Monday night,
Johnson J. Henry, having been impowered to elect
a committee of fifteen who should seek to arrange
a satisfactory fusion ticket, has appointed the com
mittee and the gentlemen upon it have already be
gun their labor. They are men in whom the citi
zens of New York have implicit confidence, aud
what ever may be the result of their deliberations
will be concurred in harmoniously. Thus the pol*
iticians are likely to be overwhelmed in the rising
of the people. The probability is that such a tic
ket will now be formed as wili secure the support
aud influence of the Breckinridge strength, and
thus the Republican success be materially damaged.
The Administration at Washington are greatly to
blame ia this matter. Let it be understood among
the Federal office-holders here that they may vote
as they please, without fear of being discharged
from employment, and the entire anti-Lincoln
strength could be at once concentrated on a single
ticket. If the administration persists in its pres
ent course, we shall have to work harder, but as
we shall have the influence of the leading Breck
inridge merchants to support us, we expect in any
event to defeat Republicanism. It is well, howev
er, to note bow plainly the Adrn inistration is now
playing into the hands of the Republican party.
As I have already said, the effect of the meet
ing Monday night has been very marked. Promi
nent Republicans have been heard since then to
declare that they were not altogether satisfied
w ith the course of the Republican leaders. What
Seward preaches to the radicals of the North West
w ill not add to Republican strength in conservative
New York.
So that we may not unreasonably expect a re
action to set in, which will eventually draw off
those conservative men who have been beguiled
by the fair representations of New York Republi
canism into support of principles that need only
to be upmasked (as Seward has himself now done)
to be abandoned. CRACKER.
CORRESPONDENCE.
We have been requested to publish the follow
ing correspondence, between Col. Bass, the Doug
las Elector, and Mr. Gibson, the Breckinridge Elec
tor, for this District, which will show why those
gentlemen do not canvass the District together :
Macon, Hth Sept., 1860.
Hon. 0. C. Gibson :
Dear Sir :—l met you at Perry, on yesterday,
7th inst., at your invitation, for the purpose of dis
cussiug the political issues of the day, and to
make further arrangements for canvassing the
third Congressional district. lof course expected
the canvass to be couducted on fair and equal terms
—such as are usual on such occasions, and was,
and am willing to adopt your appointments as
joint appointments. You stated in substance,
that they were your appointments, and that you
had, and would claim the right to control them,
and would expect to open and conclude at all of
them, Bhould you consent to a joint debate, and
proposed these as the teims of debate on yester
day, but said that yon would not make even that
arrangement for any other day.
Now it is usual on such occasions, to alternate
as to the opening and conclusion of the debate. —
I am willing to continue the canvass with you, on
these terms, aud if you accept them, please advise
me immediately, aud I will meet you, in that event,
in debate at Concert Hall, this evening, and shall
expect to open and conclude, as you had the open
ing and conclusion at Perry, on yesterday.
Respectfully,
Yours Ac.
N. BASS.
Macon, Sept. Bth, 1860.
lion. N. Bass :
Lear Sir: —As I told you on yesterday, your
proposition to make my appointments alike yours,
changes my plan, and to which I could not then
give my consent. Several reasons exist for such
a course ; it is not in my power again to visit the
counties, and as you must have seen plainly on
yesterday the discussion defeated me in cauvass
ing the questions with the completeness due both
to my friends and myself— again it does not enable
me to carry out the ouly purpose which induced
me to accept the appointment, and that was so
fully to discuss the graver issues before the coun
try as to do all in my power to promote Union in
the South, in defence of the rights of the South,
and which I regard to be desired above every
thing else.
Under these circumstances my sense of duty is
that I ought to continue to hold control of the ap
pointments I have made ; but in doing this it is
dup botli you and myself for me to declare my own
will to conform to your wishes upon all occasions
when I can do so, as I believe properly; and lam
pleased to be able to say it meets my approbation,
for you to open to-night with an hour, I will follow
w ith an hour and a half, and you close with half
an hour. Very respectfully, yours,
O. C. GIBSON.
Macon , Bth Sept., 1860.
lion. 0. C. Gibson :
Lear Sir :—Your note of this date is before me
and in reply I have to say, that I accept your terms
ns to the debate this evening, but respectfully de
cline them as to future debates, as I am unwilling
to rely upon contingencies in pelatjqn tbpreto sub
ject to your, control alone. Ido not consider such
terms fair and liberal.
Respectfully yours, Ac.
N. BASS.
Mr. Douglas is perfectly willing to stand on
the same platform upon which Mr. Buchanan and
Mr. Breckinridge were elected in 1856, aud as they
construed it. He said: “I have great difficulty
with my political friends in harmonizing upon
platforms, and have tendered them various pro
positions. 1 have tendered them the Florida plat
form of 1847, and they would not take it; the
Georgia platform of 1854, and they would not it;
the Alabama ultimatum of 1856, and they would*
not take it. I tender them now Mr. Buchanans
letter of acceptance of 1856,1; let it construe itself,
and see if we can harmonize on that; or I tender
Mr. Breckinridge’s speech of acceptance in Le xing
ton, in 185$, and let It construe itself. I will not
dot an i or cores a t.
A Lane with a Very Short TrRN in It.—Gen
Joe Lane, iu a speech at Concord, N. IL, during
the Presidential canvass of 1856, said;
“ The question of slavery is a most perplexing
one, and should not be agitated. \Ve should leave
it with the States where it constitutionally exists
and the people of the Territories to prohibit or
establish, as to them may seein right and proper.”
Gen. Joe Lane in his late sppeph iu the Senate
of the United States, said :
“ I do not believe the people of a Territory have
a right to exclude, or establish, or abolish slavery.
No such right is conferred on them by the Consti
tution.”
Mr. Marsh, the census-taker of Hardeman
comity, in this State, reports that in tfcp districts
which he has canvassed there are five Douglas
men to ope Breckinridge man.— Nashville Pat.
Later From Europe.
Viuporlnut Neu.
New York, Sept. 24.—The steamer Adriatic
with Liverpool dates to the 12th inst., has arrived
Liverpool Coitem Market. —Sales of three davs
including Wednesday the 12th 46000 bales Markets
bouyant with an advaxce of @ jd.
The General intelligence by the Adriatic is high
ly important and exciting.
Garibaldi with bis staff made a triumphal entrv
into Naples on Saturday, the Bth instant, araid the
joyful acclamation of the people. The excitement
and enthusiasm were intense.
A Provisional Government was immediately
termed and the Fleet and Arsenal placed under the
command of Admiral Bersano. Victor Ktnannal
King of Sardinia, was then proclaimed “ King of
Italy.” Naples continued tranpuil up to the latesi
dates. The Capitulation of all the Neapolitan ports
was expected immediately. The insurrectionary
movements were rapidly extending. Ancona was
in a state of seige.
Garabaldi found eighty millions of levres in the
Bank of Naples.
Russia has notified the powers that she desires
perfect concilliation and good understanding with
Austria. France has given notice that as .piotec
tor of the temporal authority of ihe Pope, she will
withdraw her protection ftom Sardinia, if Victor
Emauual lends his sanction to the scheme of Italian
unity and the acquisition of papal territories.
Latest. —The Sardinia Hag was flying in the
Neapolitan ports. A great panic prevailed at
Rome.
FOR THE JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
Fashions of tlie lllsanionists.
The overwhelming passions of Disunion men
are growing almost uncontrolable ; the nearer the
election approaches the higher their passions
grow. They foresee that they are ultimately
compelled to yield to conservation. They have
endeavored by numerous tricks and clap-traps to
deceive the people—and by painting what they
term the oppressions of the Southern people, in
the most horrible and tragical manner to the peo
ple of this Union, but this will not do, the people
of this Union bold the farewell address of ihe
Great Founder of our Liberties in too great esteem
to be misled by such follies and absurdities as they
pretend to preach. Being foiled iu their cunning
and farcical tricks to deceive and delude the people,
they have now come to the last and hopeless re
sort of branding and calling men traitors, who
will not join with them in their acts of conspiracy.
Branding Southern men—men born, reared and
educated in the “ Sunny South”—men who never
trod any other soil, but a Southern soil —men who
would stand by the South in her darkest days of
adversity—men who would not yield one inch or
surrender one right, that would clash with the in
terest of the South —men, who know no danger,
and fear no hardships, when the interest of their
coutry is at stake ; if such men as these are to be
branded as traitors, for advocating the principles
of the Union, the Constitution and the Enforce
ment of the Laws, the English language fails, and
the immortal lexicographer fails in endeavoring to
furnish an appellation adequate to describe men
who are ready and willing to disrupt the Union,
erase the glorious articles of the Constitution, cast
the Judiciary into oblivion, and involve this mighty
colossal and glorious Republic in bloodshed war
rapine and devastation. May a just God, who pre
sides over the destinies of nations, avert such an aw -
ful calamity, and may the Union, the Enforcement
of the Laws and the Constitution come under the
administration of the “ Noble and True” —John
Bell and Edward Everett. PRO PATRIA.
Death of 1.. O. Sliuimon, Evq.
This gentleman, whose illness we mentioned in
our last, died at his residence in this city, says the
Atlanta American, at about half-past 9 o’clock last
night. His funeral will take place this afternoon
at 4 o’clock. Mr. Simpson was one of our oldest
citizens, and was honored by bis fellow citizens
with various public offices. He leaves a widow
and five children to the care and protection of
those who survive him.
Douglas Ticket In the Field.
Breckinridge’s last hope of Florida is gone, says
the Florida Sentinel. Messrs. Peden, Culpepper
and Jones, are announced as Electors for the
“ Little Giant” iu this State. Gen. Peden has
opened the canvass in good earnest in the East.—
“ Alas ! poor Yorick.” Breck’s friends have’do
ted on little Florida, but now she slips from his
grasp. The tables are tu ued. It’s the Giant kil
ling Jack—no longer “ Jack the Giant killer.”—
The Douglas men of the State so long bullied an and
brow-beaten by the Yancey-Breckeuridge men,
have at last asserted their independence, and the
ides of November will show many a voter for the
Popular Sovereign. This ticket gives the State to
Bell without doubt. So much for Buckingham!”
Crops in Texas.— The West —A great deal of
misconception prevails throughout the old States
in regard to the condition of the people of Texas.
It has been reported generally that in consequence
of the failure of crops our people are lacking the
necessaries of life, while in fact enough grain has
been gathered for the use of our population, and
the late heavy rains ensure a crop of cotton. We
believe no portion of the Union is more prosper
ous than ours.— Austin State Gazette.
The Savannah Republican reports that Senator
Toombs made a furious speech in that city on Fri
day night last, which was condemned by men of
all parties. He was particqtyrly severe on the
Irish, and said : for Hat, J never asked you
to vote for me ; you go for Douglas, go on.”
Arrou Root.
We have received from Mesars. Zelin and Hunt
a package of Arrow Root, manufactured by Col.
Hallowes, of St. Mary’s Georgia.
According to the examination of several distin
tinguished chemists, it contains a large quantity of
nutritious matter, and is equal to the best quality
of the same article obtained from Bermuda, it is
an invaluable article for invalids and children. Xo
doubt this is a pure article, “ though it is home
manufacture,” Messrs. Zelin & Hunt have a large
supply on band for sale.
The Union Ticket in New York.
New York, Sept. 24.—1 tis understood that
the Union Ticket against Lincoln has been finally
arranged. There are to be six Breckinridge
District Electors, and Henry Randall for the State
at large in place of R. H. Walworth
er “ Qrestes A. Browuson,’’ says the New
York Evening Post , “one of the profoundest
thinkers and ablest writers of the country, and
who has always heretofore acted with the Demo
cratic parijf made a thorough-going Republican
speech at Elizabethport, New Jersey, on Thursday
evening. He not only commended the policy of
the party in regard to the freedom of the Terri
tories, but he eulogized the honest backwoodsman
ot Illinois.”
From the Scientific American, September 8,1559.
Spaj.mno’s prepared ti li e.— We have receired
several samples of prepared liquid glue, put up in
small bottles, by Mr. H. C. Spalding, 30 Platt-strcct,
Xew-York, anil have tried it in mending old fur
niture. It is a very convenient article for domestic
use, and deserves to be kept constantly on hand
in every household. It is also a convenient article
for pattern-makers and inventors in constructing
and repairing their models.
Four Breckinridge Electors in North Caro
lina have declined. Three of them (Haywood,
Keen and Bouldin,) have declared for Douglas,
and one (Henry W. Miller) for Bell.
HIARRIED,
In the Episcopal Church iu Atlanta, on the 13th inst., by
Kev Mr. Freeman, Dr. G. McDonald, of Macon, Ga., amt
Mrs. S. M LARQCffK, of Aiken, S. C.
At the residence of the bride s father, in Tails -
poosa county, Ala , on the evening of the fith inst., Mr.
Francis A. JOBSON, of Perry, Houston co., Ga., and M iss
Fidelia E. Hiooiss.
WANTED,
A SITUATION as Overseer on a large plantation M
South-Western Georgia.
I have an experience of 10 years in the business
Address V. A. CREECH, Herndon, Ga-
References : Col. 8. Newson, D. A. Jnman,jp *
Ga. sep