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Journal & |HfSsfngcr.
J. KNOWLES and S. ROSE,
EDITORS A.VD PROPRIETORS.
A NOBLE SPEECH
The *peecb of Mr. Crittenden at Nashville, was
one of those patriotic out-gnahing” from the great
ami pereuuial heart of this “old Qian eloquent,”
which is in pleasing contrast with the vaporiags ot
„s tionalbin. We give the following ex tract*. —
He saya% • *
I have already said that ibis election approaches
more fraught with public interest than ha* any
evtans election. There are circumstances exist
,ng ehurh make it ao. There m danger in parties
-—before there were but disputes. Before this the
strife’ was between parties with more questions of
political economy—and under the Constitution—
•imply abuses of gore rumen;—subordinate, super
ficial question* of right and wrong policy, but
now for the first time comes an election embracing
the consideration not ouly of all these minor ques
tions, but one rtthout the Constitution—one great
er than all the rest —the preserration of the Unibn
and the Constitution. That is the important ques
tion now. It is one for the consideration of every
man—one that should receive the consideration
of every patriotic heart. Every man in the com
munity is affected by it—the humble resident of
the cabin and the occupant of the palace, all are
alike interested in it* solution. What are all the
subordinate and superficial questions of policy to
the man of the lag-cabin? Nothing! 1 claim
myself to be a log-cabin man. Twenty years ago
I became one politically—l am one by birth—l
am one by affection—l am one by principle—the
log-cabin principles of twenty years ago are part
of my creed, and they should be that of every
man. Ail should be awake to the preservation of
that cabin of the Constitution. It is in that he is
Interested. That should be bis cabin—the free
man's humble, proud Constitution, and should be
as saured to him as tha White House to the Presi
dent. A great English statesman has said tha:
•* though the snow may enter at the roof and the
■wind pierce through the waßs of the cabin, the
President of the United States dare cot enter tbe
door of a freeman without permission.” The Con
stitution Is to you, a* a people, like the sacred
cabin of the freeman, and I summon yon and all ;
men of high and free aspirations to perform
f omptly the duty that preserves and protects it.
be preservation of this Union is that question,
and your vote assures its safety or aanc lions h- :
destruction! In the settlement of this question
the cartridge box is nothing—the ballot-box is the
great engine that conveys your will and your com
min if. To those commands legions bow dowu
and surrender. Assume then your dignity of.
freemen Elevate yourselves to tb>j performance
of this duty! It is no ordinary one! It is a
grand privilege you possess in performing such a
duty! You are the sovereign people! You may
be divided into factions and parties, bat you are
of one country, and though different aims mav
move you, there is but one end to be gained for L
ail—and that is the prosperity of the Union.— •’
Ti eee are no ordinary uinea, nor are ordinary
questionsinvolved in Una issue. The important
question now ia shall we have a united or a divided
coon try. All others sink into insignificance.—
Will yew teke your stand by our country* stand
ard or the dag of party t There is ‘no other
course for patriots bat to abjure common party, 1
1 nnciples and policies—they are no question* at j
alt—and rally to the support of the Uoiou. Can
any otie who calls himself a freeman sWp round
after having for pertizao schemes and party pur
poses voted with any sectional party whose pur
pose is the destruction of the Union ? 1 could
notT
The Union is in danger, and the reinedv is in
the hands of tha people! And where does this
mggr arise? Where does it come from? From
a sectional feeling at the North—sectionalism ot j
the worst and most sensitive character—of geo
graphical hues as well as opinion. On the other
side disunion threatens at the South. We here I
been warned again and again of this danger. AMj
our great and good men, who hare sunk with ai.
their honors and the blessings of n. nation to the •
*ve, have warned os to be guarded agaiust thU !
very danger, and we have been told that unless;
. oßn remedy was found it would sooner or inter j
uestroy us. The first and the last great man of i
owe laud have warned us of this terrible danger.
Who will deny that this discord exists among us *
No one will in the face of the undoubted facts.—
1 1 is great, threatening, and alarming. Men of set- 1
tub ambition—men who prefer their eountrv's de
struction to the non-attachment of their own sel
tlah ends—men for whom this mighty Republic is
not Urge enough, have pushed on the evil cause,
cod the spirit of disunion which has waited so
long is content to wait no more. And not only 1
m*m but States bare resolved thst in case of the
nod-pc r lor mance of certain acts or the commiaaion
of any overt act on the part of the Northern sec
tional party to divide the Union. Yancey advises
his political friends to take advantage of the oppor
tunity and be ready for disunion— to take adran
. tags of any unusual excitement among the people
in order to declare and proclaim disunion, it
frowned out boldly in the time of Gee. Jackson.
He was a man of will—a patriot, and he put it
down for the lime. But despite the threats of
Jackson twenty years ago, the spirit has still been
encouraged. I appeal to your knowledge and the !
facta. Bid they not assemble—did thev not dare
to meet here, in the home of Jackson, and hold
their disunion convention here in Nashville? I
will not deny that many of them are noble and
patriotic men, bat they are imbued with this one
fatal policy and purpose—they love a section rather
than their whole country. This is the character
of disunion it strife* to keep up appearance* with
the Democracy—calls itself Democracy and keeps
up to this hoar it* relations with Democracy—a
relation that is but shallow—hollow—superficial,
and which will be broken when the opportunitv
for which they watch is offered, when their pur
pose then is to precipitate the Southern section
into disunion.
On the other aide there exists a similar danger
from the Abolition part/ of the North. Though
of different sections, the two National parties have
one and the same end in view. Their candidates
are the representatives of sectional and disunion
pvties. All serve the same disunion policies. We
are surrounded as it were by a string of fire. And
what is the remedy * What is our duty * It is for
us of the Union party to take the golden path, and
standing between the sectional parties hold up oar
hands to stay the tumult. What benefits to the
Union follows the success of either party ? This
was the question the Conservative Union men of
the country asked of each other, and the constitu
tional Union Party was formed in the hope that it
would be the aeana of preserving peace. Patriotic
men, looking at the dangerous phase of this con
flict, asked themselves what benefit such dissensions
would be to the country. The two parties it is
true were not then standing in defined positions j
but the Unieo men saw the fearful aspect of thing*.
They saw that there was no hope for the coumrv
u either party. A patriot could find peace su'd
quiet in neither camp, but disunion in both. Wha:
a#lheir hope ? It was the Union party—the cnlv
hope of the Conservative Union men of the land ?
It is the party 1 think which bolds the banner of
peaces—which ••*, “let os return from theea vio
lent conflicts—let us take care *o observe the Con
tuituuo and the l nion, and to enforce the laws,’
sad m hen that ia done peace will be reatosed to
all.
And bow was that party formed? I was pres
* tn t, though not a member of that convention.—
there were no cunning politicians there? I saw
no designing demugoeoes there I I saw noble and
true men from all parts of the country glowing
With affection and love for her. 1 saw dejegau
Irom almost all the States—men of intelligence,
character, wisdom, property : and they met quietly
end wisely and made their nominations and their
nominees were men of official character, the pride
ot the land—men of private worth, whose sole pur
l>oee was to serve and save the Union and enforce
the great platform there adopted, and which stand
up in the simplicity of the American character,
announcing the great principles of government
abowt which we ail agree—the Constitution, the
Union, and the execution of the laws. They say
this is no platform. If executed, will any man
have a right to complain that hU rights have been
and. mnd him or injustice done ? If the power cm
nnced iu the Constitution and the laws is enforced,
w isl any man dare complain * Platforms are man-’
traps. Iho Prestfent who goes to his seat with a
platform goes with a yoke about bis neck. The
t onsttWtiOQ IS our platform, and he who under
takes to do more or m content to do less is not i
true man. (Applause. ] The Democratic partv,
after trying the plan for years, has with all it* clap
trap broken up and is divided. Its platform* wan
no* founded in lesson or truth— they served the
personal ambition of leaders of the partv, and there
was no truth in them.
The Union party arose to stay the war of fac
tiouo—for peace end not for war. It denounce*
no party or alique -nor doue it accuse, though
r” “ ough for that It unfurls tte
sa!2iy J DK>n “ dh ” no other th “
rmLJ* WLieh *0 protect the
- I. is tba party under which the lawn are
to he executed. This party has pledged itself to
that, and in ‘Joining that party you pledge your
selves to all that. To our Democratic friends 1
say, let ns be friends. This party has made no war
npon you. It conies to you to beg you to lay aside
all animosities of party for the sake of the country.
Comes to the aid of our common country—to the
maintainence of the Constitution which makes
U 9 all free. I>o you deny that you are for the
Union, the Constitution and the Enforcement of
the Laws ? Come, let us go locked in hands as one
family—as one party—recognizing no other. The
declared platform of the party to which we invite
you is the basis of pesce and the standard of patri
otism. Where onr country te so much concerned,
let alfmen of party think ponder, and reflect! It
is that serious,reflection that I want.
Look at the prospect. Can the election of Lin
coln furnish a pretext for the dissolution of the
Union. No. Either election will be sectional.—
Distraction or disruption must follow the success of
either party, it is for this party then, the Union
Constitutional party, to save the eouotry by the
election of its r ocninPes,. or at least to show that
the body at)d beert of- the conservative people of
the country are opposed to Disunion* and devoted
to the Constitution.
What are Disunionists ? Those men who dis
’ gnised call themselves Union men and arc in fa-
Ivor of the Union on certain coutingeucies—men
who ea j “ the Union is a very good thing ; I
tam not per s”—(a little Latin is put in) —“ lam
not per *e for a dissolution of the Union ; but
supposing the Government passes laws that I do
not like, am I to submit—am I to be disgraced ?
No ! let the Union perish first. The Union is a
good thing, but liberty is a better thing.” This
is the language of these men. Washington incul
cates an attachment to the Union, constant and
immovable. What was Henry Clay’s idea of a
Union man ? He said, “ For myself, I say now,
no matter what elements compose that party, I
will belong to the party that is for tße Union, for
the Constitution, and for the execution of the
laws. [Applause ] No matter who else joins that
party, lam of it.’ The Disunion spirit can only
-be quieted by the election of a Union conserva
tive man of that character—one constant and im
movable in his love for the Union. The Disunion
spirit end the effects of the success of e sectional
party can only be guarded agaiost by the election
of (be only Union ticket in the field—that of John
Bell and Edward Everett, the leaders of the party
whose platform is the Union, the Constitutuiu and
the Enforcement of the Laws. It is the only
party which represents the whole country. We
have Union men at the North odd Union men
here—men who will brace themselves for the ef
fort and save the country. If the election were
four months later I doubt not we would carry the
election by the popular vote. All conservative
men seek to know their duty, and knowiug will do
it. I feel no hostility to any man or party, but
claim a relationship with all. I claim all this vast
country ms mine—mine from sea to sea and from
the lakes to the Gulf—it is mine by this Constitu
tion of ours. This it is that makes your Tennes
see my Tennessee, and my country your country.
I would not part with one of you, for we are all
one people by this Constitution. And I call on
you to do your duty—it is plain before you !
.Think soberly of your duty and do it by voting
for Bell and save the Union, if we would all try
half as'bard to aid as we try to injure—half as
much to iove as we strive to hate our fellow-citi
zens, we should be a happy nation indeed. But
prejudice* exist. Let them exist no longer, but
stand by the country and claim those that love
and serve her, no mutter of what section, as your
friends and brethren. While standing up boldly
for your rights cultivate a patriotic spirit. That is
the minion of our party —the cultivation of a
high spirit of love and patriotism. The party ship
has been launche4 on tbe political wares with Bell
for your pilot and Everett to aid him. They are
men of too high and exalted characters for me te
Hatter, and I am of too high a character to de
scend to do it. They are men that have been
trusted with important duties, and they have pass
ed the ordeal of public scrutiny, and their charac
ter is without a stain. Bell has been charged
with being an abolitionist. Tbe charge is made
by men who do not believe it and I do not answer
them. lam not going to gratify a man with an
argument on a charge he doc* not believe himself;
aid those men who charge this are those Union
men per te —Union men tu certain contingencies.
Mr. C. then referred to the formation and con
struction of the Constitution, and drew a bright
picture of the liberty and prosperity enjoyed by
the country governed by It, and then referred as
follows to the result of e dissolution of the Union :
Tbe poor man would be taken from his cottage
and forced into the army, or with a soldier billeted
on him, would be forced to suffer insult to him Self,
aod perhaps dishonor to bis borne. The respect
of the world would be lost, our flag disgraced,
and the glorious title of an American citizen would
be no protection abroad. On the contrary, the
ships of the once respected and feared republic
v.ould skulk in out of the way bays and rivers and
Larbors and fear to meet a flag upon the open sea.
She would be seeking safety in secluded by-ways !
Falsify this, you who are of a people who have
been, and who are so great! The child is now
dwelling in some of your homes who will live to
see one hundred millions of freemen in this great
Valley of the Mississippi. I know I may not hope,
but I would to heaven I might behold that num
ber of freemen obeying tbe mandates of this
great Republic, and feasting on the blessings of
liberty. The time is ao near that, with a little
straining of tbe eye, I think I can behold the full
ness of the laud, all free, and all firing in harmo
ny and love! What a spectacle! Fit for the
witnessing of heaven and earth ! Shall we pre
serve this power for those millions—this power
greater than the Csesara ? Yes, let us do our du
ty and preserTe for the future end for ell time the
rich inheritance of an undivided and free country.
The Colton Crop.
The annual statement of tbe Cotton Crop of the
United States for tbe year ending August 31st,
1860, baa just been completed at the office of tbe
Shipping List. The crop i9 the larges; by far ever
made, the aggrgate being in excess of all but tbe
most sanguine estimate. We annex a compara
tive table of receipts, specifying from wbat source
they were derived:
Receipt* of Cotton at tho Port* of the If. State*.
1554-T 1667-8 1658-9 187.9-60
New Orleans 1.485.U00 1676,409 1,669,*74 3.139,495
Mobile 508,171 MX ,364 704,466 643,012
Florida 136,344 1*2,851 173.434 192,724
Him 9 146.2t5 I*AIK>2 259,4*4
Georgia 882.111 24,978 415,7>8 Ml ,219
3outh Carolina .89T,881 406,X51 430,653 61n,109
North Carolina *7,147 28,999 87,4V2 41J94
Virginia. Ac 265*27 84X29 118,33*2 165.688
Total crop*, bale* 2.939,519
The largest previous crop was last year, and tbe
next larger was tbe crop of 160-b.
Tbe total exports to toreign ports for the year
just closed were 3,774,173 bales, divided, in com
parison with previous years, as follows:
Total ex/tort* of 9otton from the United State* to
foreign port*.
1854-7. 15578. lsV-9. 1359-60.
Ta Great biilala.. 1,423*70 1,309,968 *019,26* 9,6*9,43*
I*o Franco .418,1167 *4,iV2 450,696 659,557
T.. N. ©f Europe.. *45,798 215,145 530,*12 295,072
To other tor. ports 164,6*7 161,844 221,448 220,03*
Total bale*-,....5, *52,667 8,59d,400 3,0*1,406 8,774,178
It will be seen from this that a very large pro
portion of the increased crop ha 9 been shipped to
Great Britain. An immense stock is now ou hand
at Liverpool, and this, in connexion with the anx
iety about the harvests, has kept the market there
very much unsettled and depressed.
The following will show the stock of cotton (in
h-tles; ou hand at the ditlcrent ports of the United
Stales on the Ist of September:
bluet oj Cotton on hau l in the United States.
1557. 1%58. 1859. 1660.
Kew OrlautM 7 4MI S),**o *6,u** 78.824
Mot:-: 4,604 10,486 *0,104 41,65*
liorkla. £6 Ou U-C s6l
TrSas 991 1,899 *,<555 5,16
Savannah an<l Augusta...4,B7B *,5 V 5 15,853 8,558
Coark.--.uu 5,644 11,715 17,68* 6,89?
VismLa. Ac 4*o o<> 375 4,508
N'e Yoik 16.778 25,110 48,45* 64,881,
Other Northern p0rt*.... 6,800 9,ftx* *0,4t8 k0,*04
Total bales ..... 49,25 e ltd,B*6 148,*87 K7JO6
The consumption of the United States is reached
by deducting the exports and stock on hand from
the know.) receipts to show the consumption iu the
Northern States, aim by estimating the consump
tion in the Southern States. The consumption at,
the South, 115,.Vi* bales, (including that burut at
the itorts,) ia to be added to the crop receipts to
make the total production. If this he done, and
we add stocks in interior towns, and deduct the
portion of the new crop received before Septem
ber Ist, (51,600 bale*,) we shall make the total
growth, of cotton tha last year in the United Slates
4,hi 1,800 bales. —Journal of Cummcree.
Judge Dorgj.4B was received at the ferry, at
Louisville, Kentucky, last Saturday, by fifteen or
twenty thousand-people. After dinner he address
ed a crowd, estimated at thirty thousand, at Pres
ton'* woods, near the city. He was warmly
charred throughout, and made some telling bits.
He fetid he could beat Lincoln it’ Breckinridge
would let him alooe ; and that he happened to
knom that Breckiusidge understood the Jvansa
bill and the Cincinnati platform precisely as he
did, and that upon such understanding he was
, elected Vice-President in
.VI ii ledge villa Railroad Convention.
MORNING HKSSION.
Hobday, Oct. Ist, 1800.
Tbe convention met this morning, President S.
D. Heard in the Chair ; W. Milo Olin, Esq., Secre
tary of the Board.
Tlie following gentlemen were appointed a com
mittee on proxies ? Messrs. D. C. Campbell, Henry
Moore, and T. M. Turner.
The convention then adjourned until 3 P. M.
AFTF.RNOON SESSION
8$ o'clock, P. M.
The convention met; the committee on proxies
reported as follows:
On examination the committee finds that seven
thousand nine-hundred and sixty-six shares repre
sented by proxy, and three hundred and thirty
five shares in person—total number of shares re
presented eight thousand three hundred and five.
Tbe report was received.
The Secretary read a report from the Chief En
gineer, Mr. G. U- Haxlehurgt, in which a variation
from the line (between Millcdgeville and Macon,)
suggested in the previous report, is proposed, by
which vaiiation Clinton will be left four and a
haff miles to the north, and the Ocmulgee be
crossed at a much more favorable point for con
necting with other railroads centering at Macon.
There are other advantages connected with this
change, which the Chief Engineer enumerates :
but he also mentions others connected with the
route by Clinton, which may counterbalance the
former. The road will be nearly direct, varying
but about five per cent from an airline. Only two
miles are to be let on tbe section between War
rentou and Sparta ; on which section a force of
about four hundred bands are now employed, and
as soon as the cotton picking season is concluded,
this force will be augmented. Twenty thousand
dollars are tbe estimates to date. Four engineers
are eugaged on the route, locating tbe line, Ac.—
It is hoped that the balance of the route will be
located by the middle of November, and, until
this is done, no complete estimate of the cost of
the road can be made ; the Chief Engineer, how
ever believes that the previous estimate of one
million eight hundred thousand dollars will be
more than ample. Tbe report was received.
It was then moved that the convention proceed
to elect a Board of Directors lor the ensuing
year.
The motion gave rise to some discussion rela
tive to the number of the Board, tbe points to be
represented iu it, Ac., Ac., whereupon, on motion,
the by-laws were amended so as to increase the
number of directors to twelve.
• Messrs T. M. Turner and J. K. Jackson were
appointed committee on election.
The convention then proceeded to the election
of a Board of Directors with the following result:
John P. King, Benj. H. Warren, 11. H. Cutn
raing, D. C. Campbell, TANARUS, M. Turner, W r . 11. Good
rich, J. E. Macmucphy, W. I). Bowen, J. D.
Stoughton, C. Snead, S. I). Heard, Robert Collins.
Mr. Henry Moore declined to be a candidate
for Director, in order to harmonize the conven
tion.
The convention then adjourned. —Augusta Con
ttilufionalitt.
The Kenl Issue.
The real issue, says the New Orleans “Crescent,”
and tbe only issue of commanding magnitude, in
the present contest, is Nationality against Section
alism. It is whether we are to have a National
President and a National Administration, or a
Sectional President and a Sectional Administration.
This is the great question which overshadows all
others, and beside which all others sink into utter
mdgnificance.
It is not merely a waste of time, but it is trifling
with, the present peace and security and the future
destiny of this confederated Union of States, to
be discussing old obsolete issues, and reviving old
political disputes, in the presence of the imminent
danger of a Sectional Administration of this Gov
ernment. Compared with this great issue, all oth
ers put together do not weigh as a feather in the
scale. To see Southern men, at such a time of
petil as the present, angrily discussing the opinions
of Mr. Bell, or Mr. Douglas, or Mr. Breckinridge,
011 SOine Old exttuct issue of ton or twenty year*
ago, is something which can find its parallel ol fol
ly nowhere in the histor} of this or any other na
tion.
The freest, the happiest, the most prosperos
nation on earth, and one that has before it a great
er prospect of happiness and prosperity in the
future than any other nation that ever existed, is
menaced with a policy of government which is
based upon the presumption that one-half of the
people are to rule the other half, to interfere with
their domestic institutions, and to exclude them
from equal participation in the right 9, privileges
and benefits of the common government. This
is the danger that threatens us; but instead of con
certing means to avert tbe peril, we are gravely em
ployed in ascertaining whether Mr. Bell believed,
a third of a century ago, that Henrv Clay was
corrupt, and whether Mr. Douglas did or did not
advocate the doctrine of Squutter Sovereignty in
1848. Cannot tho people raise themselves above
such trilling and insignificant questions as these,
to comprehend the great and overshadowing issue
of the perpetuation of our government upon Na
tional and Constitutional principles?
Correspondence of the Baltimore Bun.
Washington, Oct. 8, 1860.
The visit of Baron Renfrew and his suite to the
President is to be considered as one of an unoffi
cial character, and it is to be attended with no
public demonstrations. But it is still to be regar
ded as an event of public interest. No event in
history would be more fruitful of suggestions than
the meeting of the hereditary monarch of Great
Britain and the constitutional President of the
great republic at the tomb of Washington.
A tine day the Baron and his party have had for
their entrance into the Federal city, and the public
grounds, refreshed by the recent rain, never looked
better. Fine weather, it is hoped, will prevail for
the week, and, at least, upon the day to be selected
for the visit of the Prince and the President at
Mount Vernon.
The royal visit to this country, and the interest
it creates, form a pleasing interlude in political ex
citements at this crisis. But another and a more
lasting impression upon the public miud, and one
which will endure after the ides of November, is
to be found in the unparcllelcd prosperity of this
country. Though the newspapers are full of poli
tics and terrific forebodings, the minds of the peo
ple arc engrossed in the eager pursuit of business,
which, in all its branches, and in every part of the
Union, was never more profitably prosecuted than
now. Even should Lincoln be elected, the atten
tion of the people will not be diverted for a day
from their customary pursuits.
The great Union meeting to be held in New York
next Monday, is to heal all the dissensions in the
Democracy, and consign to political oblivion all the
auti-fusionists, whether they be few or many. Not
ouly the President but Mr. Breckinridge himself
has approved of the project of the Cooper Institute
Committee, which Committee is composed of a
majority of Breckinridge men.
I learn that Mr. Yancey is to speak at the Union
fusion ratification on Monday. But there is much
better field tor his influence in' 1 tbe interior of
New York than in the city, and greater necessity
for its exertion there. ION.
A Rich Scene at a Portland Theatre. —The
Portland (Me.) Argus states that during the per
formance of the Octoroon, In the theatre in that
city, last Wednesday afternoon, in the scene where
Zoe is about to take poison, Mr. Nathan Wilson, n
wealthy rcsideut of Portland, and very rabid in his
anti-slavery views, astonished both audience and
actors by rushing upon the stage and raising Zoe,
(Miss Kimberly,) shouting out in a highly excited
manner: “ Ilold Zoe—don’t take it! I command
the underground railroad. Fly ! fly with me and
you are safe. Come to Canada, to the possessions
of Queen Victoria, and you will be free ! free !
free!” Manager Macfarland soon set things to
rights and the excited gentleman left the stage.—
In addition *o the foregoing. It is said that this was
Mr. Wilson’s first visit to a theatre. The charac
ter of the piece drew him thither, and his active
aboliflon sympathies lod him to make this ludicrous
“ first appearance on the stage.”
The Largest Receipt of Grain on Record.
The Buffalo Courier of last Saturday the 22d,
says : “ Within forty eight hours ending last even
ing, a fleet of over one hundred vessels, including
propellers, etc., have arrived at this port, contain
ing one miff ion three hundred and sixty-nine thou
sand three hundred and sirty-two bushels of grain,
and eight thousand six hundred and eleven barrels
of flour. Reducing flour, the aggregate is 1,412,-
417 bushels. The greater portion of this amount
consists of wheat, there having been imported,
within the time above specified, 1,216,485 bushels
of that product alone. On Thursday alone our
grain receipts were about 1,000,000 bushels.
Shockino. —The ball committee in New York
have been measuring the hall and calculated how
many ladies may be admitted. We find that ia
their callulations they allow each lady a circle ot
only five feet in diameter. Only five feet, and
expect a lady to be dressed to see a prince ! Have
the committee wives? Have they daughters?—
Nay, have they eyos? We need not ask whether
they have bearti after such a proceeding as the
above.
MACON, GEORGIA
Wednesday, October 10, 1860,
i lMl ieii n I—l eiau i ■mi
Constitutional Union TUket.
for president,
JOHN BELL,
OF TENNESSEE.
FOR TICE*pnESIDENT,
F. D TV A R D .F V F R F T TANARUS,
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
PLATF On M:
“ Tlte Constitution of the Country, tlie
I'nloia ot (lie Matc amt Hie Fu lore anient
of the Laws.”
ELECTORAL TICKET.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE :
WILLIUH LAW, of Chnthatu.
11. 11. IllLLi of Troup.
ALTERNATES:
111 M'S HOLT, of Mlutcogce.
fiARNETT ANDREWS, of Wilkes.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Samuel B. Spencer, of Thomas, Elector.
Edward B. Way, of Liberty, Ist. Alternate.
Dr. T. A. Parsons, of Johnson, 2nd. Alternate.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Marcellus Douglas, of Randolph, Elector.
W. U. 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, of Houston, 2nd. Alternate.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
W. F. Wright, of Coweta, Elector.
W. C. Mabry, of Heard, Ist. Alternate.
John M. Edge, of Campbell, 2nd Alternate.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Josiah R. Parrot, of Cass, Elector.
Thos. G. McFarland, of Walker, Ist. Alternate.
Rich’d. W. Jones, of Whitdeld, 2nd. Alternate.
SIXTH DISTRICT,
n. P. Bell, of Forsyth, Elector.
McDaniel, of Walton, Ist. Utcrnate.
S. J. Winn, of Gwinnett, Alternate.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Dr. I. E. Dupree, of Twiggs, Elector.
B. T. Harris, of Hancock, Ist. Alternate.
M. W. Lewis, of Greene, 2ud. Alternate.
EIGHT DISTRICT.
LaFayette Lamar, of Lincoln, Elector.
John K. Jackson, of Richmond, Ist. Alternate.
Daniel E. Roberts, of Scriveu, 2nd. Alternate.
MACON MARKET.
A good deal of Cotton coming in. Sales at 9$
and los.
Cotton Statement for September 1860.
By the following statement, it will be seen that
our rccipis for the first month of the season have
been larger than usual, and 3294 over that of last
year.
Recipts in September 1860 9.664
“ “ “ 1869 7.170-lno. 2.394
Stock October lRt. 1800 8.168
“ “ “ 1859 3.999-Dee. 4.169
virus .fleeting.
We are requested to state that Dr. Ira E. Du
pree, Bell and Everett Elector .or the 7th District,
Hon. i. G. Foster, Col. A. 11. Kenan, and N. Cars
well, E-iq., will address the citizens of Wilkinson,
Twiggs, Jones and Baldwin counties, in Mass Meet
ing, lit Gordon, on the Central Rail Road, on
THURSDAY, the 18th of October.
COL. A. H KENAN
Will address the citizens of Macon on Friday
night next, at Concert Hall. Let all attend.
ARE YOU PREPARED READER,
To cast your vote for President and Vies Presi
dent of this Republic? I u less than four weeks,
you will be called upon to discharge this import
ant duty. The exercise of the elective franchise,
should always be deemed a sacred prerogative. —
Under existing cicumstances it is attended with
more than ordinary responsibility. A single vote
may decide the destiny of this Government. The
weal or woe of teeming millions may turn upon a
solitary ballot.
During the pending canvass, we have abstained
from the indulgence of all partisan bitterness.—
We have felt none ourselves—we Lave discourag
ed it in others. Loving the Government given to
us by God—cherishing with filial devotion “ the
more perfect bond of union ” formed by our patriot
fathers, we have felt that for once, party should
be forgotten, and all good men, with one accord
and one mind, in the spirit of concilliation and
concession, should rally to the rescue of our cher
ished hut imperilled institutions.
Believing, as we do, that the Union candidates
in every particular, are best qualified to meet the
exigencies of the times, and avert tbe fearful dan
gers that now environ us, we most cordially urge
their claims upon the [consideration of men of all
parties. Decide this question, reader, not as an
embittered partizan, but m a Christian patriot.
£3T’Ti>e appeal of “A Union Man,” ia worthy
of profound consideration. It came in too late
for us to say more than this to-day
NEW ADVEKi BEMENTS.
Who has $40,000 spare change to transfer to
the safe keeping of friend Grannis? We wish we
bad. Let those who have call upon him at his
new office.
See other advertisements in our paper to-day.
TEMPERANCE CHAMPION.
Is the name of anew paper, just started in At
lanta by Mr. W. G. Whidby, and devoted to the
cause of temperance. It is well filled with origi
nal and selected articles, and promises to be a
consistent and ablo advocate of the good cause.
We bespeak for it a wide circulation. Price $1.50
per annum, in advance.
THE REV. C. W. HOWARD,
Will please accept our thanks for a copy of his
admirable Address before the Literary .Societies
of Franklin College. His theme was the “ Life
and Character of Oglethorpe.” This finished
production we could desire to see in the hands of
every Georgian. We shall endeavor at some fu
ture time to give extracts from it.
PAINFUL RUMOR-
Our readers, like ourselves, will notice with
sorrow the rumor of the death of Mr. Irwin, the
present able Speaker of the Georgia House of
Representatives.
PREPARE YOUR BALLOTS.
nave our friends supplied themselves with Un
ion tickets ? This mutter should be attended to
in time, and every precinct well supplied. We
will furnish ballots at # 1,00 per thousand—or 60
eents per hundred. The money to accompany
the order.
HOW THE LEGISLATURE WILL VOTE
The Augusta Co7istitntionalist, referring to the
contingency of the election for President in this
State being thrown into the Legislature, where
there is understood to be a Breckinridge majority,
says We hold that all parties will stand by
the plighted faith of the Slate. We prefer to
risk the sound judgment of the Legislature of
Georgia to a coalition with either Bell or Breckin
ridge, for we arc satisfied that if the ten votes of
Georgia can elect either Breckinridge, Douglas or
Bell, the Breckinridge majority will so vote.”
This is the true position. Let the vote of Geor
gia go for the man that can be elected, in the final
resort over Lincoln.
THE TRUE FLAG.
This is the title of anew paper published In
Rome, Ga. Mr. D. H. Mason is editor and proprie
tor, and Mr, D, M. Hood, associate editor.
FIRES.
We regret to lenrn that the large Hotel at Stone
MouotaiD, owned by Afr. Alexander, wan destroyed
by tire on last Saturday (tight, together with a
portion of the (uraitur e. The property wo* partly
insured.
The Ninteenth Century learns that the Gin
bouse of Col. J. L. Woodward, of Culloden, was
burned on the seme night, with forty or fifty bales
of cotton an l four wagons. Loss $3 or |4,000.
The barn of Mrs. Hollinshoad, in M&enu county,
was consumed recently. A abort time before, she
lost her cotton-gin and a portion of her crop.—
One of her old servants has been confined under
the suspicion that he caused the fires.
We also observe that a gin-home, with a con
siderable portion of cotton was recently burned
in Newton. Now that there is abroad a spirit of
lawlessness and ineendiarvism, there can be no
doubt, and the greatest vigilance should be exer
cised—but in these dry times may not pipes and
tobacco, have something to do with the frequence
of fires?
GEORGIA AND OHIO
For some time public attention has been direct
ed to the construction of a railroad from Chatta
nooga to Danville, Kentucky, direct, by which
link Georgia will be brought within a few hours
ride of one of the leading provision marts of the
country. The people of Middle and Southern
Georgia are deeply interested in this movement. —
Nearly all our railroads would certainly be benefit
ted by the consummation of this project.
The Hon. M. A. Cooper, always alive to the in
terests of our State as well as his own, writes to
the Atlanta Intelligencer as follows :
Looking into it, Cincinnati traces a Rail Road
in the right direction to Danville, Kentucky, and
find it has progressed there in the same direction,
to a point within about 150 miles of Chattanooga,
Tennessee, the terminus of the Western A Atlan
tic Rail Road and in 137 miles by Rail Road of
Atlanta, Georgia, the grand point of distribution
for Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama. To
secure this trade, she therefore has only to build
150 miles of Railroad, through a vastly rich min
eral region, easy of access, well supplied with wa
ter power and having inexhaustible mines of iron
and stone coal.
Is not Macon interested deeply in this move
ment ?
STATE ELCETIONS
Florida voted for Governor, Congressmen and
Legislators, on Monday last. The Democracy
has carried the State by a diminished majority.
The great struggle for Governor and Congress
men, came off in Pennsy vania on yesterday. Roth
parties made the greatest exertions. We await
the announcement of the result with considerable
anxiety, as it will indicate in some measure, the
prospout of carrying the State against Lincoln.—
We are not as sanguine as some that either New
York or Pennsylvania can he carried for the Union
ticket. Elections also occur, we believe, in Ohio
and some other States.
Hon. Jorrv J. Crittenden was so fatigued by
his labors at Nashville, and by the travel to that
city that he was unable to go on to Knoxville.—
Mr. Hill, Gen. Leslie Combs and other speakers
were on baud. Gen. Combs goes to New York to
eugage in the Union fight there, and to aid as far
as in his power the fusion ticket, against Lincoln
ELECTION IN RICHMOND COUNTY.
The election in Richmond county for a Senator
and Representative, on Wednesday last, resulted
in the election of John DavidsoD, Senator, and
Geo. T. Barnes, Representative, by a majority of
two or three hundred. They are both Douglas
Democrats. The vote was small.
VT The publication of the Savannah Express
lias been resumed and we received the first num
ber headed with the names of Douglas & Johnson.
Ambrose Spencer Esq., former editor, Again
conducts the editorial columns.
A MONEY PANIC
Seems to prevail, to a certain extent, in our own
as well as in other communities. It appears that
there have been some failures in New York. We
see no occasion for serious apprehension, unless it
is in the political aspect of the country. Let far
mers bring in their produce and pay up their debts.
Let the banks render all the facilities in their pow
er : above all, let a spirit of forbearanco and ac
commodation pervade all classes, and we will get
nlong quite well, doubtless.
Major Jon 11. Howard, of Columbus, has writ
ten a long letter to the Times uewspaper of that
city, in which he is quite severe on the Democratic
candidate for the Vice Presidency, Gov. Johnson.
He thinks disunion must coi/ic , and the sooner the
better. He feels no interest in the election of Presi
dent, and while he prefers Mr. Breckinridge, whom
he regards the best man in the race, yet he thinks
his election “cannot secure our rights.” He says,
and no doubt he is entirely honest in it, that
“DoroLAs and Johnson, as to the power of the
Government, stand with Lincoln” —that “there is
really no difference between” Lincoln and Dou
las, and he “ had as soon vote for one as the
other.” The Major looks to South Carolina to lead
off in the disunion scheme, “if she has not been
too much corrupted by the miserable, cowardly
doctrine of co-operation” —but if South Carolina
will not lead then he looks to Alabama and to
Georgia.
CJf* Wc .stated a few days ago says the Na
tional Intelligencer, that the Washington (N. C.)
Dispatch had declared for Bell and Everett. To
day we are pleased to chronicle another accession
to tho same good cause in the old North State.—
The Franklin (X. C.) Observer , hitherto neutral,
in changing its name to that of the M Western
Carolinian ,” announces that it will in the pending
canvass cordially support Bell and Everett.
WILLIAM WALKER.
Our exchanges bring us the particulars of the
closing scenes of the life of this misled man.
As soon as he entered the prison he was placed
in heavy irons, and being asked if he needed any
thing, replied with but one word—“ water.”
Soon after he sent for the chaplain of this port,
and, declaring his faith a Tinman Catholic, knelt
at the feet of the priest, in front of a small altar,
on which the glimmering light Ol some candles
faintly discovered an image of the Saviour.—
Amongst other things, he said to the chaplain 11 I
am resigned to die; roy political career is finish
ed.”
On the 11th inst., at seven o’clock in the eve
ning, Walker whs informed of the sentence of
death passed upon him, and his only reply to the
fatal messenger was his oaking at what hour he
would be executed, and if be should have time to
write.
On the 12th, at eight o’clock in the morning, the
condemned man was inarched to the place of exe
cution. He went with a crucifix in his hand with
out looking at any one, and listening to the psalms
which the priest was reciting to him. lie entered
the square, where, Ht the place of execution, the
troops were drawn up, and there, full of resigna
tion, pronounced his last speech : lam a Roman
Catholic. The war which I made on Honduras,
at the suggestion of certain people at Ruatan, was
unjust. Those who accompanied me are not to
blame. I alone am guilty. I ask pardon to the
people. I receive death with resignation. Would
that it were one for the good of society.
He died with extraordinary coolness. His re
mains were placed in a coffin, and rest in peace as
a perpetual example.
Late Panama News.
Niv York, Oct. B.—The steamship Northern
Light has arrived. She brought no passengers nor
mails, as the steamship J. L. Stephens failed to con
nect at Pannama.
There has been a heavy storm on the Pacific
roait.
Panama was invested by negro insurrectionists,
but they were repulsed. Five of them were killed
and fifteen taken prisoners.
The marines from the War steamer St. Mary’s
held the place and subdued the revolt. i
CORRESPONDENCE Os THE JOURNAL AND MESSENGER
mac on Count}'.
Messrs. Editors :—Permit me through your
columns to state to vou, and the people generally,
the political condition of this county. The Bell
and Everett, party are increasing rapidly and will
continue to do so, so long as we have such men
as the Hon. W. n. Robinson, and the Hon. Mai
cellus Douglas to address the people of the conn
try, and give them correct information concerning
its political condition. While on the other hand,
the Breckinridge party is growing “ beautifully
less” every day. The intelligent and enlightened
citizens of this county are not quite ready yet to
precipitate themselves into a revolutiou, and there
by produce civil war, discord, and bloodshed;
they cannot be duped and led about by tho nose
as easily as some hot-headed and cold-hearted fa
natics suppose ; we are a people who look after
our own interest with too scrutinizing an eve to
forsake our homes and firesides, to disturb our
tranquility, to destroy our civil and political liber
ties, and explode this government, and take in
their stead murder, desolaliou, warfare, and anar
chy, for such would be inevitably the result.—
Yes, such would most certainly be the consequence
if we were foolish enough to listen to, and imbibe
the warlike declarations and assertions of the dis
unionists. But still they cry disunion, disunion,
and prescribe it as the great Panacea, and the only
remedy which the South has to obtain protection;
if this be a fact the remedy is far worse than the
oppression which it is intended to relieve. In the
event we dissolve the Union, what will be the re
sult ? The disunionists say a most happy result.
Yes, a happy result it will be—such as a happy
war, pious bloodshed, equitable stealing and justi
fiable arson—tbi9 will be your happy result if you
dissolve the Union. A country in such a condi
tion as this where is its power to enforce its lawsV
Where is the power to prevent the commission of
wrongs ? Where is the power to bring about this
protection the disunionists speak so much of. It
is strange they didn’t think of these great protec
tion measures when Mr. Brown framed a bill for
that purpose and they voted against it. No, it fe
not protection that they want to dissolve the Union
for—it is power—here is the gist of the game.—
They have discovered their fatal error in bursting
up at the Charleston Convention when alas ! it is
too late. They have found by their rupture at
Charleston tint they thereby laid down the Rod of
Moses, and that they never can control this gov
ernment any more. And now their last lingering
rav of hope is to establish upon the ruins of the
once mighty but corrupt democratic party a South
ern confederacy. Old men and young men, ol
these happy Southern States—pause ! ponder and
reflect, before casting your votes—for upon those
votes depend the fate of your country. And on
your onward travel to the baliot box in Novern
ber, recollect there is a mighty issue pending be
fore the country—Union or disunion—and before
casting your vote, if you should be inclined to fa
vor the latter, stop, and think of your forefathers
—think of their toils, of their patriotism—of the
days of 76, and of the hardships and dangers they
underwent in securing for you a home in an inde
pendent and happy country. Then turn jour
thoughts homeward and to your country, and
think of your homes, of your cheerful wives and
prattling babes —of your fertile fields and pros
perous country, and then with a firm resolve and
the determination of a patriot, divide the word
disunion, and cast the first syllable into the fath
omless abyss of oblivion, and let the remaining
two stand in indelible characters upon your ticket,
and be buried in your soul forever in connects <a
with the other two necessary requisites, to-wit:
the constitution and the enforcement of tho laws
PRO PATRIA.
New York, Oct. s:b, 1860.
Tho prospect is encouraging. The combination
of all parties opposed to Lincoln is at last effected,
and Monday night, Bth inst., the people of this
city will ratify the harmonious action of the com
mittee which they themselves in mass-meeting
caused to be appointed. It is an auspicious si
of the times, when the machinery of politics proves
too complicated for the political engineers, and
they are obliged, as in this crisis, to call upon the
people to regulate affairs.
We are full of hope, and can regard even a de
feat in Pennsylvania next week with philosphical
composure. The influence of such a defeat (which
is only possible) would be to infuse into the com
bined opposition in the State, the only element
wanting to complete its unity, namely, spirit and
enthusiasm. Undoubtedly the apathy on the part
of the auti-Republicans in this State is referable
to the want of a definite pian for uniting the va
rious elements. A settled plan of union having
now been agreed upon, all parties can work know-
ingly and will work vigorously. The feeling
against Republicanism is deep-seated, and our
citizens are anxious first of all to defeat Lincoln.
ou need not fear that James T. Brady, in his
present course of opposition to the fusion move
ment, will injure the cause. The masses are in
the movement, and no one man may hope to stem
the torrent. If Yancey should come to aid the
straight Breckinridge ticket here, it would be the
finishing blow to that branch of the Democracy.
Their vote is estimated at three thousand. We
can afford them ten thousand, and still have a
large majority against Lincoln.
Inasmuch as the Wide Awake movement has
excited much general comment, let me say a word
or two of onr conservative sentiment on the sub
ject. It will work its own ruin. We are not
ready for war yet, and this organization has too
much a warlike semblance to meet a heartv re
sponse from the people. We do not therefore,
regard it as dangerous. Nevertheless, a connter
check to the movement is established in the asso
ciations of Minute Men; and if the worst comes
to the worst, whatever civil war may ensue will
rage entirely at the North. Apropos of this sub
ject, let me say that the demonstration of the
Wide Awakes Wednesday night, 3rd inst., was
decidedly a failure—for two reasons: First, the
“ fifty thousand” torches that had been heralded
for a month previous dwindled down to barely
ten thousand. (X. B. I myself could count but
seven thousand, and a friend with me could make
no more than eight thousand ) Secondly, there
was a marked absence of enthusiasm along the
entire route of procession, which has elicited the
general remark of its resemblance, on that account,
to a funeral cortege. The demons'ratnon has failed
of any effect, and that our votes in November will
show right well. CRACKER.
HARD TTMES
The Montgomery Mail says:
“ Never have such “ hard times” been known
here since 1837—hard times, too, that somehow
arise out of financial mismanagement. It is the
Banks and one set of brokers rs. another set of
brokers—in the face of the fact that Cotton ad
vances by every steamer. Next Monday is the
first, and alas 1 we fear several good, substantial
men will go down in the commercial melee, be
tween that and the fourth ! And this ought not
to be—and it would not be, bat for the cause
already mentioned, aggravated bv the antagonisms
of the several financial “ machines” of the city.
We can, however, only wait and hope—the gloom
ahead is impenetrable.
A Virginia Mother.— The Norfolk Day Book
says :
“ Mr. Upshur Quimby, a young gentleman, pass
ed through this city, on his wav to the University
of Virginia, having been prepared to enter Col
lege by the personal instruction of his widowed
mother, Mrs. Quimby, living in 4 Upshur’s Neck,’
on the Eastern shore of Virginia.”
Prince of Wales,
Washington, Oct. B.—-The Prince left for Balti
more this morning.
THE PRINCE OF WALES AT WASHINGTON
The Prince arrived in Washington on the 3d.
inst. He was received by the Government ofil
cials and President, iu a very sensible and unos
tentatious mauner. It is to be hoped that they
will not make themselves such 9nobs with regard
to him as they and the people of New York did
with regard to the Japan embassy. The National
Intelligencer says:
“ Baron Renfrew and Suite arrived in thi
city yesterday afternoon at four o’clock in a spe
cial train of cars. One of the first who alighted
from tho train was Baron Renfrew himself, unat
tended. lie was of course the mark of general
observation as he walked along the platform bv
the side of the train, considerately gratifying ike
natural curiosity of the crowds of both sexns
gathered along the tailings to behold the royal
visitor. He was soon, however, joined bv the
Duke of Newcastle, Earl St. Germains, Lord Ly
ons, her Britannic Majesty’s Representative near
the Government of the United States, and other
menders of the suite, who accompanied Baron
Renfrew along the platform to the large hall of
the depot, where Mr. Secretary Cass was'introduc
ed by Lord Lyons to the royal guest, Mr. Casa
saying that he had the pleasure, in the name'of
the President of the United Stales, of welcoming
his Lordship to Washington, and bv his permission
would accompany him to the Executive Mansion
There were also present and introduced Messrs’
Henry and Buchanan, the nephews of the Presi
dent, with the President’s private Secretary, who
on this occasion, it is understood, represented the
President’s family.
In a few minutes the party passed out, amidst
considerable cheering from the dense masses of
people, to the carriages in waiting, Baron Ren
frew taking the President’s open carriage with Mr.
Cass, the Duke of Newcastle, and Lord Lyons.
The rest of the retinue followed in other carria
ges of Secretaries Cass, Thompson, Cobb and
Toucey, and of Lord Lyons. The route taken
was along Indiaua avenue, in front of the City
Hall, and down Louisiana to Pennsylvania avenue,
and thence to the President’s House. In passing
along the streets Baron Renfrew frequently and
gracefully responded to the recognition of the
passing multitudes.
On arriving at the Executive Mansion the Presi
dent was in waiting to receive the party, when
Baron Renfrew was presented to the President by
Mr. Cass, and immediately the rest of the party
were introduced to the President by Lord Lyons.
It may be of curious interest to mention, with
regard to the personal history of the veteran Sec
retary of State who so worthily performed his
part in these international courtesies, that Mr.
Cass, according to the theory of the British Con
stitution, was born a British subject, his natal day
having preceded the treaty of peace of 1753.
He was also present at the coronation of the ex
alted Lady who so gracefully sways the sceptre of
the British Empire and whose t<on has just been
welcomed to the metropolis of our nation.
We learn, what indeed was to be expected,
that the Prince and party generally were much
tatigued with their long and continuous railroad
journey. In fact, the stay in Washington will be
more of a rest than the party have been enabled
to enjoy since coming from on shipboard.
The dinner party last evening numbered thirtv
our; the same number will be present this
evening. The dlnuer hour will be baif-past six,
>ud it has been found impossible, under the ar
rangements, to set the hour for the display of
fireworks before nine o’clock.
To-day it is understood that the Piiuce’s party
will pay visits to the Capitol, the Patent Office,
and such other objects of public interest as there
s ill be time to notice.
To-morrow the visit to Mount Veruon will he
made in the United States steamer Harriet Lane,
and, to make it as pleasant as possible, all casual
visitors will be rigidly excluded from the grounds
at Mount Vernon. For the rest of the day tho
Prince will be the guest of Lord Lyons, but will
return to the President’s house in the evening,
and leave thence for Richmond on Saturday morn
ing.”
Mr. Breckinridge, as we learn from the Louis,
ville Journal, has gone to the hill country of
Kentucky, in company with James B. Clay and
such choice coveys, and has regularly taken the
stump in his own behalf. He made two speeches,
in both of which he apologized for speaking, but
stated that he appeared to fill the order of his
friends, and that he always made it a rule to fulfil
all pledges his friends made lor him. At one of
his appointments Hon. John C. Mason, Douglas
Elector, remarked that it was high time he had
fulfilled the pledge of his Virginia Elector, Lamb,
who propounded the Norfolk questious to Doug
las, and pledged Breckinridge to answer them ex
plicitly. But Mr. Breckinridge, much to the dis
credit of his own fair fame, remains as dumb as
an oyster, and will not speak. The questions
were handed to at one of their appoint
ments, but he refused to put them to his candi
date, and it is said that Breckinridge wa9 instruc
ted, from Alabama, not to answer at Ashland pp
elsewhere.
Bcllaud Everett Sub-Electors for
Taylor Comity.
The following gentlemen have been appointed
Sub-Electors for the county of Taylor:
FOR THE COUNTY.
Col. JOHN W. SIMMONS.
FOR THE DISTRICTS.
Cedar Creek — W. H. Royal.
Reynolds —Dr. Alfred Coleman.
Pan Handle —C. J. Tickling.
C'arsonville —W. J. Mitchell.
Davisons —M. T. Edwards.
Dreadful Steamboat Explosion In Texas
—Several Georgians Injured or Lost.
The steamer Bayou City, Capt. Forrest, a regu
lar packet plying between Galveston and Houston,
exploded her boilers on the night of the 27th kill
ing seven and injuring some ten or twelve others.
Among the wounded, is the name of Mr. M. P.
Calloway, of Washington, Wilkes. He was slight
ly wounded in the foot.
The Galveston News of the 29th says: Mr. I.
T. Irvin, Speaker of the Georgia House of Repre
sentatives, was on board with a family of nine
negroes, and his brother-in law, Mr. O. 1,. Battle,
of Egypt, Wharton county. He was seen rush
ing aft, and it is believed he jumped overboard
and was drowned. None of his negroes were injur
ed.
Mr. Calloway, we learn, is a large planter, near
Washington, Georgia. He came over with Messrs.
Battle and Irvin, with a view to settling in Texas.
We learn that Cupt. Hall died last night.
Daily Recorder.
It is oar intention to issue again a Daily Recor.
der during the session of the Legislature, the
first No. to appear on Thursday, the Bth Novem
ber—the day after its meeting. Our Daily of the
last session bespoke its own praise and merits and
was an index of what may be expected at our hands
again, as we expect to have the aid of our former
able reporters, Messrs. Marshal aDd Miller. We
shall give as full, if not fuller reports of all
ot interest that shall be said and done as hereto
fore, and expect to send the paper off at the close
of each day, with that day’s proceedings, also con
taining the latest enrreut news of the day.
We gave last session the piost full and impartial
account of the debates in the Legislature that ap
peared, but were not repaid our expense. We
shall, notwithstanding make one more effort to see
whether the public desire such a record of the
proceedings of its Legislature, and are disposed to
sustain a Daily Legislature paper here.
The price of the Daily for the session, Is §1 —
that in advance—but a trifle in return for’ the la
bor bestowed.
Post Masters and others who may enclose us $5
in aqrancc, will have a No. sent gratis.
Will onr brethren of the press be so kina us to
insert and cull attention to our Daily?
R. M. ORME A SOX.
Daily Federal Union!
The Proprietor of the “ Federal Union” will
begin the publication of the
“ DAILY FEDERAL UNION,”
On Wednesday, the Ith dag of November, the First
Day of the Session. We have made arrangemen a
to get out a L e g is ‘ at i f e Journal, whjch shali be a
Correct record of the proceedings of both House#
of the General Assembly.
Terms: One Dollar. No paper sent without
the money. -
Our mail arrangements are such as to enable u3
to send off our paper, with dispatch and certainty.
It is hoped thut the public will give a liberal sup
port to the enterprise.
We have published a “ Daily” two Sessions, and
lost money by the operation.
We only make another attempt to see whether
the public care to hgve a Dailt Paper from the
seat Os Government.
Boueaxoy, wseex *