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BY WILLIAM S. JONES
Chronicle and Sentinel.
A TIG- USTaTgA^
SATURDAY MORNING, SETT; 6.
SAMUEL BARNETT, Associate Editor.
Col. Henry D. Henning.
I his gentleman has been nominated, and
has accepted the nomination of the Disunion'
ists of the third district, as their candidate for
Congress. In announcing his nomination, we
took occasion to allude to his advocacy, last
year, of Disunion and a southern Confederacy,
and to express the opinion, that unless we
were mistaken in the man, he would notnow dis
avow those sentiments. That he continues to
avow them, we have abundant evidence from the
notices.ofhis speeches before the people of that
district, some extracts from which we propose to
subjoin, with such comments as we deem ne
cessary. In a recent speech at Lumpkin,
btuart county, says the correspondent of the
(Columbus Enquirer :
' ll Col. Benning commenced his speech by asserting
tliat the questions wh’ch are now before the people
■ are not the some questions that were before them last
year. That he wits a member of the Nashville Con
vention. and recommcn Jets the holding of a Southern
Congress, and that if it had met, and he had been a
member of it, he would have advised the formation
of a Southern Confederacy. He id not state that
he hai abandoned this Wes yet, but said that he was
upon the Georgia'platform. (• being the will of a ma
jority of the people last ' ar —and he felt himself
bound by that will, until- i c , , F a he could change
it. He considered the Aoj.ia,; measures of Con
gress more unjust than t. . , c .r u and parti
tion of Poland by Hie cc n , C t< o«-, (Austria,
Prussia and Ru:-- 1 That ..s A-A ho supported
Cren. Cass upon the • nte. . , p.<M Iple, and
voted tor Inin ri the G. ft, .i m\ 00. e i, - Oonven
tioo, and approved -f tt.lions that Con
ventmn He denounce :>t ti-urgia Platform, as
being committed to rfisumo.. ap», u>r«in eoatingen
cies, wlucii would inevitably u .pan in the course
of two or three years. v ne of wlinm -U, e repeal of
the Fugitive slave bin—he did not c asider a practi
cal question, and that ibe Southern Adamic States
were not as much interest In its preservation as the
bordering slave States, and that it was of no benefit to
U 3 i . He said that Cuba would soon apply for admis
leion into the Union, and that to refuse her application
would be sufficient cause for disunion,, according to
the Resolutions of the Georgia Convention.
.This is a pregnant paragraph. Ha admits
that he favored a southern Congress, designed
to establish a southern Confederacy, and ona ,
1 former occasion and perhaps on this, he also
declared himself in favor of obliterating all
State lines and establishing a grand consolidated
government! as better calculated to subserve
the rights, interests and liberties of the people
than a.confederacy of States. And this is the
candidate of the party in Georgia, who de
nounce the Union party as the consolidation
party ! When will wonders cease in the histo
ry of the disunionists of Georgia? Nor did
| he disavow that he still favored the establish
ment of his grand consolidated southern Con
federacy.
Ho had the cool effronteiy to declare also
that he was on the Georgia platform, and yet
denounced the compromise as “more unjust
than the dismemberment of Poland, by the
combined powers of Austria, Prussia and Rus
sia.” What a servile submissionist Col. Ben
njkg must be, to take his position on the Geor
gia platform, which declares that the State can
acquiesce in the compromise, (a . measure
which he regards so unjust and monstrous)
wi»hout dishonor. Col. B. had forgotten
doubtless that the Convention that nominated
him, resolved to acquiesce in the compromise
until it could be changed, and that in his letter
of acceptance he approved and endorsed that
resolution. This is the position which he oc
cupies on the Georgia Platform.
He was for non-intervention ia 1848, and
supported Gen. Cass, upon that principle, and
now that he his obtained non intervention in
A the adjustment, he is not satisfied. He was a
aealuus advocate of the Clayton Compromise,
and with his party denounced all who opposed
it as unsound on the slavery question, and yet
he opposes the present compromise. We
suppose he was ignorant of the consequence
(ff his. own policy. What a sagacious, far
sbeing statesman!
Notwithstanding he is on the Georgia plat
form, he denounces it because it pledges the
jU State to disunion, if the Fugitive Sia-'e law be
repealed or essentially modified i Not as frank
and manly as his friends Col. Stell and
Barksdale, who would vote for its repeal,
yet he considers it not a practical question, and
the Southern Atlantic States not much inter
ested in it; hence wo suppose be would be
quite indifferent on the subject of its repeal.
How very consistent! I revious to the ad
justment, the absence of such a law was one
of the principal causes of grievance with the
southern agitators, and the refusal to enact it
by Congress, in their opinion, would be good
causa for disunion ; and now they have got it,
its ropeal wlil be a ma ter of little conso
■ quence. Another cause of objeotion to the
Platform was, that the refusal to admit a State
into the Union because of the institution of
Slavery, was a contingency for disunion.
Strange that such objections should come from
a man who only last year favored disunion and a
j| southern Confederacy, and does not now disa
■ vow hispredilectionforihelatterandasaconse
quonce the former. Verily, Mr. Bjcnnino oc
cupies a distinguished position on the Georgia
■ Platform.
But to another extract.
“ He asserted i’ a' the i . , i.atiou of 1832 was
written by Edwa>4 Livi.it.'■‘an, fur. that Gen.Jack
sriii signed it as P..:-. Jr., i wo -un ever laving read
it — or knowing what wn ink. and th-ii. he after
wards repudiated it. 'ldas wasu very severe reflec
tion upon the sagacity, integrity and ratriotism of
Gen. Jackson. Such a charge is wa-nting in every
essential requisite cf truth to give it validity,—for
certainly a man must be very credulous and enter
tain but a very poor opinion of Gon. Jackson, who
can be made to believe, by bare insertion, that the
old Hero would have subscribed bis name to an Exee
iyj utive document of such tremendous consequences,
without hiving read it, or understanding what was
in it—it being undoubtedly the most important Exeo
• tive document that ever emanated from any adminis
tration since the birth of this Government. The
wbole history ot Gen. Jackson’s life, from beginning
* * * % iff ' *
to end proves eouclusively the falsity of iba charge.
, He was equally severe upon the Democratic party of
Ga. He said that they had tor a long time (seven
years I think) known Cobb and Judge Lumpkin,
to be tinctured with tree soilism and that the Chero
kee country was not as sound upon this subject as
she might be. This was a hard lick, upon the old
democrats; wbo had supported Cobb and I umnkin
for office, and I doot see for my life how h:s Demo
cratic friends here, can well digest this portion of his
epeeeh, for it directly charged tfiem, with having
knowingly and wilfully supported and sustained a
free soiler. He concluded by saying that the only
means of preventing South Carolina from going out
of the Union, was to elect McDonald Governor.”
As to who wrote Gen.JACKsoN’s Proclamation,
we of course do not know, nor is it important
at this period of time ; it is sufficient that he ap
proved and signed it, and it is not even proba
ble that he did not carefully scan so important
a paper. But that he ever “repudiated it," we
know to be untrue, and -no man is more familiar
with this fact than Mr. Benning, unless he is
wofnliy ignorant of a transaction, about which
he affects to speak so authoritatively. Gen.
Jackson never “repudiated'' a word ora sen
tance contained in that proclamation; no far
from it, ho distinctly roaffirmed it all—every
word of it, not only in the p rale ruled “ Counter
Proclamation" in the editorial columns of the
Globe, but alsqjn his meraage to Congress in
which he asked for the passage of the Force
Bill for which Johv Forsyth, Sr. voted. We
speak advisedly, for we are aware that it
has bean asserted that the -editorial article in
the Globe of that day, which was inserted by
authority, and which the disunionists for effect,
call “General Jackson’s Counter Proclama
tion," repudiated or modified tho Proclama
tion. So far from its doing either, it reasserted
every principle, and was only designed and
intended to explain that coitain passages di.l
not authorise the construction which had been
placed upon them by certain politicians in
Virginia and elsewhere. This was ail that
was intended by that-editoriil, and no impartial
man, who reads it carefully, will pretend to
assert that its does more, and we challenge
Mr. Benning to the proof.
We pas* over the reflection cast by Mr.
Benning oa (he fame and integrity of “Old
Hickory," and invito the attention of the hardy
yeomanry of the Cherok se counties to the
chprge made against of on
the southern question. Voters of Cherokee,
you owe it to yourselves and to your section,
to vindicate yourselves against this foul asper
sion against your loyalty to the South, and
you should not fail to overwhelm your tradu
cers.
Mr. Benning concluded by reasserting that
piece of highly concentrated peurility, that if
the people of Georgia would prevent South
Carolina from seceding, they must elect Mr.
Rhett's bugleman, Charles J. McDonald !
Thus, while Mr. Rhett and his disunion
agitators and followers iu South Carolina are
relying upon tho election of McDonald to
sustain that state in seceding, his followers in
Georgia have the cool impudence to tell the
people, that the election of McDonald will
prevent secession by that State?
Rhett— McDonald—Disunion.
Yesterday we established very conclusively
that Mr. Rhett did not speak unadvisedly of
the “bugle blast" of General Quitman ; and
the subjoined paragraph from the Rome
Courier leaves no doubt that ho understands
equally well the position of Gov. McDonald,
his Georgia bugleman. We commend this
paragraph to (he especial consideration of the
voters of Georgia, who are interested in know
ing the real position of Gov. McDonald. It
is known to you that he was a member, (Vice
Preside it) of the first, and President of the
second Nashville Convention—that ha favored
the assembling of a Southern Congress, the
object of which was, (as now avowed by its
advocates and supporters) to dissolve the
Union and establish a Southern Confederacy.
To this Congress, Charles J. McDonald, in
an dddrcßs to the people of Georgia, urged
them to sond .delegates. Kuowing these things,
Mr. Rhett knew his man, and did not apeak
without authority as to the blast o! his bugle,
nor on a later occasion, when, he is 3aid to
have asserted that “his letter was understood—
that letter is intended for Georgia.”
Notb it Down. — It is known that Mr. Rhett of
South Carolina lias on more than one occasion com
plimented Gov. McDonald, and alluded to his co
operation in the formation of a Southern Confederacy,
and many have wondered why McDonald’s late
noncoimr itul letter to the Charleston co-operation
committee has been passed over in silence by Mr.
Rhett and bis organ, the Mercury. We are able
to give the public a solution cf this matter. A gen
tleman from South Carolina, who is a disunionist, in
conversation upon thirsubject the other day, eaid —
that when in the presence of Mr. Rhett, the charac
ter of Mr. McDonald’s letter was referred to on a re
cent occasion, Mr. Rhett remarked—“OA that is alt
understood ;.that letter is intended for Georgia"
or words to that effect. Now we oeg tlje people of
Georgia to mark well thm fact; for we have our in
formation from an undoubted source, and to pause
before they g've their votes to a man who would
thus trifle with their rights arid interests.
The Hon. T. W. Miller, Mayor of the
city, returned last evening from his Northern
tour, after an absence of several weeks.
The Hon. John Schnierle was re elected
Mayor of Charleston on Wednesday by a ma
jority of 52 votes over his competitor, T. L.
Hutchinson.
Mr. Cobb in Cherokee.
The following notice of the progress of
Mr. Cobb and the effects of his speeches
among the “ Mountain boys" are from the
Rome Courier :
Mr. Cobb’s Address— Our time barely
permitted os to refer to the very powerful
and argumentative address delivered by (his
gentleman in our city last week. Clear,
strong and eloqunt, unencumbered by tinsel,
1t went right home to the judgment, and has
produced the happiest effects— converting out
right some, confirming others arid convincing
all who are not hopelessly wedded to the
Nashville platform. Mr. Cobb’s conciliatory
and gentlemanly port‘and republican raau
ners, will make him friends wherever he goes,
and greatly strengthen the cause he so ably
represents and maintains. Wa say to the peo
ple every where, go out and bear him.
AUGUSTA, GA. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1851.
. I Mr. Cobb at SuMMERViLLfc and LaFay
f ettk. —A freind who was present, and heard
1 Mr. Cobb at Summerville ani LaFaye te, in
' farms us that an immense crowd attended
j at both of those places to hear him, and
that his speeches have already had a most hap
py effpet upon the people of Chattooga and
Walker counties At LaFayette the crowd
was immense, and the address of Mr. Cobb is
spoken of in the highest terms ofaiprobation.
Several new accessions to the Union ranks,
and the m aintains are in a blaze of enthusi
asm. To our friends bel jw, we eay —clear the
track, a ball from the “ Lookout ” has started
for the sea-board and will sweep everything
before it.
Personal.
The public will, I trust, pardon my calling
their attention to a matter purely personal,
which is rendered necessary by the pit ful at"
tack made upon me, through the columns of
the Constitutionalist, of yesterday, by James M.
Smythe. Had the circulation of that paper
been confined to the circle where vva are both
known, the article and author should havo met
with the contempt so richly merited. A* it
wil, however, be seen and read where neither
of us are personally known, it becomes neces
sary that I should notice it to correct soma
misstatements of facts contained therein.
As the readers of tho Chronicle &, Bent ncl
are well aware, there has appeared in it, a ee*
rids of ariic'es under the signature of “Doc
tor,’’ marked with unusual ability, the last of
which was published on Friday, tho 29th Aug.
ast, w hich called forth the following note :
Augv3ta, August 29th, 1851.
Da. Wm. S. Jones.—Sir s 1 demand cf you the
uau;e cf tha author of the article “Doetor,” which
appeared in the Chronicle & Sentinel of this date,
in order to demand of him personal satisfaction.
Respectfully, your ob’t. Ser’vt,
James M. Smythb.
Til's note was brought into my office by
Mr. James Gardner, Jr. When hs presented
it, I inquired, who it was from? He replied
Mr. Smythe. Presuming it was a call for the
author of “ Doctor,” I received and immedi
ately replied to it, giving the name of tho au
thor. Having folded and addressed tny reply,
I handed i?to Mr. -Gardner, who immediately
rose from his seat, as I supposed, to retire,
when he drew from a side pocket wh it ap
peared to be a letter, and presented it, saying,
“ Hero is another.” I inquired from whom?
He replied, “Tha same gentleman,” and as I
received it, I understood him to remark, “You
can reply toil at your leisure,” and immedi
ately allied out of the room.
I opened *nd proceed ed to read the follow
ing no
Augusta, August 29th, 1851.
Dr. Wm. S. Jonbs—Sir: Considering the atticle
Doctor,” which appeared in the Chronicle & Sen
tinel this morning, of such a character es to make
you, as the publisher of that paper, u party to the out
rage, 1 demand of you that satisfaction,for insertin'
it in your columns, Which is due from one gentle
man to another. *
This will be handed you by my friend James
Gardner, Jr., E*q.
Rerpectfully your obedient servant,
James M. SmYthb.
As soon as I discovered the naturo of its
content?, I rose from my seat to call Mr.
Gardner to return it to him, but he had pass
ed out at the front door of the office, a distance
of ntar sixty feet. I started with tha determi
nation of following him into the street, but
after proceeding a few steps, returned t> my
seat, thinking it of no consequence.
It is proper to remark, that if I had even
snspected the character of the communication,
I should not have received it. For I did not
imagine even that Mr. Smythe, who professes
to be so very anxions to obtai t personal
satisfaction, would have made such a call on
me, whose opinions on the suojectof duelling
he so well knew, one too, who bo asserts is “a
member of a respectable Church;" especially
after be had obtaiaed the name of the author a
reputable gentleman, whom he knew to be
neither the member of a Church or opposed to
a resort to the code duello. If the author of
Doctor had proved not to have been a re.
sponsible and reputable man, he might have
had some excuse for a call on me.
Thus the matter remained until Tuesday,
, the 21 inat., when Mr. Gardner aga : n called
and announced that be had a note for me.
I replied, you can take it back to the author,
and inform hitn, he must seek some other
channol to convey it. He remarked, I had
received notes through him. 1 admited the
fact, and stated I was induced to do so alone
because I supposed they had reference to a
demand for the author of “Doctor,” and I
did not wish to interpose the slightest obstruc
tion to Mr. Smythe’s obtaining hi* name. I
should however receive no more through him.
He asked the, reason. I replied, none of the
courtesies of life were exchanged between us,
and I regarded It a violation of etiquette and
usage for one so situated, to bear a note to
another with whom he did not speak. He
dissented from the correctness of n»y opinion,
and asserted that it was neither a violation of
etiquette or usage. I then peremptorily re
fused to receive it, and turned off and left him,
and he walked out.
On Wednesday the 3J inat., Mr. W. W.
Montgomery, with whom I was entirely unac
quainted, appeared in my office, and as I un
derstood inquired if I was Dr. Jones. I re
plied, Yes. He remarked he desired to see me
and I walked aside with him, when he inform
ed me he had a note for me. I inquired from
whom? He replied,Mr. Smythe. f told him I
should not receive it. He then made some
remark about“gentleman,” which I did not un
derstand distinctly; when I informed hitn I
could not argue the question with him, but I
would hold no correspondence, whatever,
with Mr. Smythe. He asked if I had any
objeotion to the channel through which the
note came T I inquired his name, when he
hesitated, seemed confused, and I added, is it
Montgomery ? He said yes, and 1 replied,
not the slightest objection. He then remark
ed, he supposed Mr. Smythe would be left to
pursue what course he thought proper, to
w hich I replied, that was a matter for his con
sideration. not mine.
I did not even tee the note which Mr. M. said
he boro, ani bow he could have understood
roe :o say that I did not consider myself re
sponsible for the article of “Doctor, ” I can
not imagine. 1 made no allusion whatever to
“Doctor" or his articles. The power press,
however, was going at the time, which mikes
very considerable noise, and Mr. M. may have
misapprehended me.
Apologizing to the public again for tres
passing upon their indulgence with a purely
personal matter; with this brief narrative of the
facts, premising that I have given the sub
stance (and generally as nearly a3 recollected
tho precise words) of conversations, I take
leave of Mr. Smythe, wi h the hope (hat
he v ill wear gracefully all the laurels an
intelligent public will award him.
W. S. Jones.
Tub Storm in Florida. —The subjoined ad
ditional particulars of the disastrous effects of
the late Storm in the vicinity of Tallahassee wo
clip from the Floridian of the 30th ult :
Further Particulars. —We learn the storm
was more violent North and Northwest than in
this vicinity. In Gadsden County, much dam
age has been done. About one out of five of the
tobacco barns has been demolished, and the cot
ton plants broken down and tho bolls whipped
off. In Quincy, the Masonic Hall, Mr. Wilson’s
and Mrs. Burnley’s dwellings, and the Baptist
Church, and several other were blown
down. Many other buildings were seriously
damaged. No lives were lost.
In Baiabridge houses were blown down and
several persons killed.
Railroad and Terminus.— Wa learn that the
Railroad, which was washed up front the
Wharf to Holt’s Hotel, will be rebuilt by to
night. We were glad to hear that the damage
to the Company was not so great as at first sup
posed. 'fnc VVare-houses were very little in
jured. Five or six hundred dollars will repair
the whole loss, Wharf and all. The damage,to
goods in store is said to be not more than a
thousand or twelve hundred dollars.
ft Is painful to record tho losses of Mr. Spen
cer and Dr. Hines, whose stores Were neai by.
Their houses with all contents were swept oil.
They are recovering some goods but damaged
of course.
Cr3ps and Weather. —From every quarter
the crops are reported to be very geatly damaged
by the gale. Everything lies prostrated and in
extricably tangled. Scarcely'any planter we
have seen counts upon more than half a
crop of cotton, admitting the remainder of the
season to be good. The wea'her this week has
been rainy and not very warm, which is said to
be favorable to the cotton, though it must be
otherwise to ihe corn. The tobacco crop of Gads
den was well-n : gh destroyed—a great part of that
which was gathered being in houses that were
blown bown, and that which was standing being
mangled --eyond recovery.
The turpentine plantations also suffered very
severely."
The schooner Wm. 11. Pettes reached St.
Marks soon after the gMc, and reports the loss
overboard of her mate, Wm. Swede, a native of
Rhode Island. She was off Cat Island at the
commencement ot the storm, and reports further
that all the Light Houses along the coast from
there arc gone.
F'or the Chronicle if* Sentinel.
The Diseussion at Alexancler--Meggrg<
Toombs--Me IWllian— Stephens.
Messrs. Editors: —As I am not quite suiel
shall not be classed with “anonymous scrib- -
biers,” in which event, a portion of Mr. McMil
lan’s invective against them will fall upon my
devoted head, I feel inclined to deprecate his ire,
by begging his pardon for reporting the discus
sion which came off on Saturday last, the 30th
ult., at this place. As I feel dispossd, however,
“nothing to extenuate, nor aught iu malice to
set down,” I hope he will allow me to pass
scot-free. Why be afraid, or ashamed of the
truth 7 for though like others, I may have my in
dividual opinions, yet when reporting the views
or sentiments of others, I desire to speak the
words of “truth and soberness.” Trusting that
this pledge audits redemption on my part, will
secure me against his sweeping denunciation of
“anonymous scribblers,” I solicit lrom him tho
sane calm and dispassionate judgment of this
article and the writer, as he seemed inclined to
manifest in the discussion on Saturday last. I
ask no more; if tie is disposed to be just, not to
say generous, lie will not Burely accord me less.
The discussion was opened about 11 o’clock
by the Hon. Robert Toopibs, Col. A. J. Lawson.
andJas. H. Royal, Esq. presiding, and Dr. R. H,
Belt and J udge Davis acting as Secretaries He
sketched in a concise, rapid and masterly man
ner the legislative history of the country in con
nection with that great and momentous question
of such vital interest to the South, from the ad
mission of Missouri to its present settlement in
the passage of the Compromise Bills of ’SO. It
Will be impossible for me, in this brief notice, to
do justice to thi* able efiort of our distinguished
Representative. Let it suffice to say, in the
opinions of those best acquainted with him, it
was characterised by more than usual ability.
Tne following points were argued with the most
triumphant and happy success—the assertion,
recognition and adoption of the great republican
principle, which the South had conceded in the
ever memorable Missouri Compromise, and had
never been able to regain until the late settlement
of *50 —that a people forming a Constitution had
a rignt to decide for themselves their relationship
to slavery to tho entire exclusion of Congres
sional interference—Congressional non-interven
tion, (claimed by the bouth with such singular
unanimity) as the basis upoq which territorial
bills were framed—and tbefull guarantee of our
constitutional rights for the/ecovery of fugitive
slaves in the fugitive slave bill. These points
were most triumphantly sustained in an able ar
gument replete with that terseness of expression,
vigor of thought uud power of condensation so
characteristic of the extempore efforts of this dis
tinguished gentleman. At the termination of
his hour and a quarter, Mr. McMillan,his com
petitor, Qrose and in a speech of one hour and
three quarters, sustained with considerable abil
ity, the cause ot Southern Rights. He opened
with an admission most unfortunate for him in
this Section. He boldly declared that so far from
being on the Georgia Platform, he was in hos
tile opposition to it. He fearlessly pronounced
its pillars rotten, first, however, carefully remo
ving his choice for Governor (Charles J. Mc-
Donald) lest he should encounter sorno damage
in its fall, which he prognosticated (Querei how
can our Burke Iriends support him after tins
avowal?) He announced himself, however, for
the Constitution and Union of our fathers. (Is
that the masked battery ?) His main points
were—the recognition by Congress of the squat
ter sovereignty of California was virtually the
passage of the “Wilmot Proviso”—tho refusal
by Congress to remove the impediments to the
slaveholdei contemplated by Mr. Seddon’s
amendment, intervention against slavery —the
penalty in the bilj abolishing the slave trade in
the District, implied the power of Congress over
slavery—and the usual objections to the practi
cal operation of the Fugitive Slave bill. But
unfortunately for Mr. McMillan, he does not
seem to be w ell posted up as to his party’s opin
ions, for while to a Whig, the premises he laid
down would have been tenable and his argu-
ments legitimate, to him, who had always acted
with a party who held the very principles he as
sailed, as not only proper and orthodox,but essen
tially republican, they were destined to prove not
only useless, but in tne hands of so skillful and
adroit a debater as hiß opponent, would even be
turned against him with considerable force and
effect. As was expected, Mr 1 oombs in his re
ply referred him to his party’s endorsement of
Gen.’l Cass* principles In the Presidential cam
paign—the denial by the Democratic Convention
of *47 ’4B of the power to Congress to legislate
either for or against, mediately' or immediately,
direeffy or indirc Ytly on the subject of slavery,
denying the existence of any Mexican laws (im
pediments) to their exclusion ; that if the eman
cipation penalty was an entering wedge, it had
been one for the last fifty years, It being the law
of Maryland at the time of its cession—and that
Mr. Mason, a Southern Rights Senator, was
chargeable with the imperfection, if any, of tho
Fugitive Slave bill, as he drew it up. After this
triumphant vindication of his course, which was
loudly and lapturously applauded, the company
repaired to the table to partake of a barbecue
which had been prepared for the occasion. After
dinner the Hon. A. H. Stephens whose appear
ance before us was a most agreeable surprise,
(many of us not anticipating such a pleasure,)
took the stand. It was his first appearance be
fore a large portion of his audience which would
have been at least as large again as it was (about
four hundred) had it been certainly known that
he would attend with Mr. T. But how shall I
«e the effect he produced 1 Never has it
y fortune to listen to a more able, eloquent,
argumentative, thrilling and pointed speech;
never an orator before took such a hold upon my
feelings and judgment, There is a marked con
trast between the eloquence of this distinguished
Georgian and his colleague of the Bth Congres
sional district. While that of the latter is of
that rapid, strong and impetuous kind which fal
ling upon the ear in deep, full nnd mellow tones
hurries tho listener on by its vehemence,intensity
and seemingly inexpressible flow of thought,
that of the f rmer is characterized by a pointed
ness of application, a thorough mastery of the
subject, pathos of expression anJ a comprehen
sive power of analysis, which conveyed in those
peculiar fife-like notes (once heapd is never for
gotten) seldom fail to arrest the attention and
enchain the mental faculties uilil the subject is
presented in such a light as to render tho argu
ment almost irresistible in its power to convince.
His vindication of Mr. Cobb and tho Union
Constitutional party,in the opening ofhis speech,
from the senseless and ridiculous aspersions
cast upon them, was most triumphant. He
demonstrated most conclusively, that the Com
promise measures were in strict accordance with
the demands oi the South, as expressed in their
meetings fiom primary to legislative and con
ventional, and could be honorably acquiscedin.
His advocacy of the principles of (he U. G. party,
(the Constitution and the Union both,) made me
feel proud to be associated with a party which
could be deiended with such signal ability and
success. In the brief review of his course in
Congress, he had occasion to allude to the
denuncia'ion and vile abuse which was heaped
upon him, for daring to entertain the opinion
that the Mexican laws would continue in force
until repealed by Congress. I could not but feel
.he deepest compassion for some under the in
fliction of the severe and scathing rebuke, ad
ministered to them for the coarse and slander
ous epithets heaped upon him for declaring the
existence of impediments to the entrance of the
slaveholder into our acquired territories by the
same individuals who are now ready to dissolve
the government for refusing to romove these iden
tical obstructions, the existence of which they
denied with so much acrimony. The causticity
of his remarks excited no very pleasurable sen
sations in ihe breasts ol those who had exhibited
so little charity toward bim. Turning around to
those who had pronounced him “ unsound on
the slavery question,” he exclaimed “ unsound J ”
“unsound!" The tone of indignant reproach in
which it was uttered gave point to the irony and
sarcasm it conveyed. There are always to be
found some who, in their fancied security, are sure
to expose sooner or later the vulnerable points of
the mail of political infallibility , in which they
incase themseives, through which a skilful ad
versary is sure to inflict a rankling wound.
Leaving them to extricate themselves, as they
could, from their anomalous position, ho advert
ed to the action of Congress upon the territorial
question, proving most conclusively that in the
rejection by Congress of Mr. Seddon’s amend
ment forslavery, and Mr. Felch, against it, the
doctrine of non-intervention had been fully car
ried out. After a brief allusion to the extreme
stringency of tha provisions of the Fugitive
Slave bill, he concluded, with a most eloquent and
stirring appeal to tho honest and conservative
men of the country, in beha If of the Union
and the Constitution, and in vindication of the
honor and dignity of tho State of Georgia.
People of Burke, will you lislen to the “words of
truth and soberness.” Aristides.
TELE GRAPHIC H E WS.
i ifta>mitteii f«rth« Chronicle A. S«atlatl
New York Market.
New York, Sept. 4.— Cotton has advanced a
quarter cent —1,200 balc3 sold. Miidling Orleans
9s, Uplands BJ.
Judge Woodbury is not expected to live. He is
very dangerously ill at Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire.
Fram the Charleston Courier—-By Telegraph
New Orleans, Sept. 4, 8.10 P. M. — Seven
hundred bales of cotton were sdd to-day, a
fnrther advance of an e ghth of a cent had
taken place. Middling was worth from 8| to
9 and Fair 10 cents Tobacco was s'eady,
Yellow Corn was <u <ted at 45, and white 53c.
The barqes Isnarden, Cap?. Adams, and
Fairmont, Capt. Doling ; cleared to day for
Charleston.
The city is perfectly quiet.
Additional per America. — Baltimore, Sept.
3.—The quotations for cotton were as followat
Middling Uplands 4Jd.; Fair Middling
Mobile 4&d
Flour has declined a shilling. Lard was firm
aud had advanced a shilling. Sugar had de
clined sixpence. Tea was firm.
United States Stocks were dull and un
changed.
Exciting meetings of the Caiholios had been
hell in Dublin on the I9th ult., and some vio
lence had occurred.
Prince Joinville probably would he a candi
date for me Presidency. The President had
abandoned his (rip to the Departments on ac
count of serious disturbances therein.
In the New York market 130 bales of Cotton
were sold at an advance of from an eighth to a
quarter or a cent.
From the Baltimore), American—by Telegraph
Cincinnati, Sept. I.— Davenport, a pub
lisher of school books, was arrested to-day,
charged with forging upon J. A. &M. P.
James & Co., and E Morgan & Co., and oth
ers of this city { forged notes for $20,000. The
notes were all discounted. Previous forgeries
had been redeemed at maturity.
Reading, Sept. 2.—The Democratic Con
vention of Berha county to day laid on the
table by a large majority, a aeries of resolution
favoring General Cass as a candidate for the
next Presidency.
Boston, Sept. 2.—The steamers Boston, from
Bangor, and the Norwalk jfor Nahant,came in
contact this morning about half past seven,
near Bird Island.
The latter had had her side stove in and went
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ashore on Bird Island flats where her passen*
K ers , were taken off by the steamer Jenny
Lind.
The principal damage to the Boston was the
starting of her cutwater.
Washington , Sept. 2.— 'Despatches were
reoeived at the Treasury Department last
evening, from the ooliector at New Orleans
announcing that an expedition of two thou
sand, men were preparing to depart fer Cuba.
Our Government has replied that if the men
are permitted to embark certain officers es the
Government will be held responsible.
Despatches have also been received from
Mr. Owen, the American consul at Havana.
He states that he made comp.aint to the Cap
trin General of Cuba, in reference to the insult
offered the U. S. mail steamship Falcon, while
on her way to that port, and was told by Gen.
Concha that the firing by the Spanish steamer
Habanero was an error,' and promised that it
should not again occur.
tonmirtial.
AUGUSTA MARKET
Friday, P. M.
COTTON. — The demand continues spirited, and
prices full. We hear of the sale to-day of a lot of
175 bales, Tennessee, classed Middling, at 7} cents.
Other tales were made at equally Rill rates.
New York Market.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Stocks are lower.
Flour is unchanged. Sales of 11,000 bbls. at
$3.81J a $3,874, for State brands, and $4 a $4,124
for Genesee.
Sales of Genesee Wheat at $1 04, and Michigan
white at 93 cents. Sales of 28,000 bushels mixed'
Com at 56 c ents.
Provisions are firm. Sales of new mere Pork at
sls 75 a $15,874* Sale 3of 300 bbls. Lard at 9|o
Groceries are steady. Sales of 200 bags Rio Cof
fee at 6 cts Porto Rico Molasses 26 a3O cts
Cotton has advanced Jc. since the arrival of the
Atlantic. Sales 1,200 bales.
Whiskey 23 cts.
* * 1— _ r
SljsjjjjutQ intelligent*.
SAVANNAH, Sept. s.—Arrived, bark Vernon,
Faye, New York; brig May Flower, Roes, Bermu
da; biig tEolus, Ballard, New Orleans; brig Roge
lira, Parker, New York.
CHARLESTON, Sept. s.—Cleared, scbr. Ze
phyr, Byers, Havana.
OBITUARY '
Obituary Notices, not exceeding Six Limb*
will be inserted in this journal without charge.
O'* But when such notices exceed Six Lines, the
excess will in all cases be charged at the rate of 50
cents ;er square of 12 lines.
Died suddenly, at his residence near Hamilton,
Ga., on (ha 2Gthof August, Col. Ben jam nr Hxnrt,
a native of Elbert county, aged 59 years.
The deceased was actively engaged, during a con
siderable portion ot his life, in the Military and Civil
service of his country, and of him it may be iastly
said, next to that God, whose religion be professed
and adorned by bis pious and exemplary conduct, hie
country, his whole country, was the supreme object
of bis affec'ions. In early manhood, prompted by the
generous impulses of an ardent patriotiam, he ruahed
to the defeme of his native land then menaced by
the “haughty Briton.” Notwithstanding hisyoath
fulness he received a Captain’s commission, and ac
quitted h'mself creditably in a six month’s campaign
mainly hi the sea-coast counties of Georgia. Hav
ing served out the term of his enlistment, and enjoy
ing the esteem and confidence of bis comrades in
arms, both of a higher and lower grade, he returned
to his home. But he could not be inactive in the
midst of such troublous times. Shortly afterwards
we find him jepelling the fierce night-attack of the
hostile Creeks oa Gen. Floyd’s gallant band a Xr
Camp Defiance. For his behavior in that severe en
gagement, he wae highly commended by the General
in command; yet such was his unaffected modesty
that he was never known, except when urged by in
timate friends, to allude to the distinguished part he
performed. He participated in numerous skirmishes
with our eavaye fees, end contributed greatly, by hie
daring ccurage and untiring activity, to proteot the
Georgia frontier against their predatory inroads—pos
sessing, in an eminent degree, the qualities of a skill
ful commander. Upon the cessation of hostilities, he,
like many other citixen soldiers, retired to private
life. Upon a subsequent occasion, however, he ren
dered important services as a prominent member of
Gen. McDpugaid’s staff. Fy his fellow nii»i»Q« ha
was frequently brnored with civil trusts of great
delicacy and responsibility. Several times was be
returned to the Legislature of the State, and for a
long series of years be was a useful and efficient
County Judge. In these stations his deportment
was blameless, indeed worthy of RU praise. The
deceased was for many years connected with the
Baptist Church, and it is no exaggeration to say, that
his daily walk was ■ striking illustration of the pre
cepts of Christianity. But it were a vain under
taking to attempt, in a meie obituary, an enumera
tion of the many excellencies of such a character, or
to present a satisfactory record of the worthy actions
of ao long and useful a life. It would be eqaaHy
vain to attempt an estimate of the pubic and private
loss which has been sustained. Hia family and
friends alike too sensibly feel that this bereavement
is as great as it was sudden. And in the depths of
their sorrow they can alone look with trustful hearts
to Him who “ tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.”
A kind and provident father, a public spirited citixen,
a gallant soldier, a disinterested Legislator, and a
just judge, he was s ummoned to his final tudit.
Long will the memory es the “ loved and lost” lin
ger about and hallow our Hearts and Homes. 8.
Georgia, Columbia county.—
IN THE COURT OF ORDINARY, SEP
TEMBER Ist, 1851. Present their Honors, Wil
liam L. Blunt, Jobiah Stovall, Albkrt G.
Dozier, and Moody Buht.
It appearing to the Court, by the petition of Rich
ard Goings, that William Tankeratey, of said coun
ty, deceased, did, in his life time, execute to said
Richard Goings his bond, conditioned to exaoite
titles, in foe simple, to said Richard Goings, for a
tract of Land containing seventy acres, situate in
said county, adjoining lands of A. H Collins, and
others. And it further appears that the said Wiliism
Tankersley hath departed this life without executing
titles to said lot of land, or In any way providing
therefor; and it appearing that the said Goings has
paid the full price thereicr, and the »sid Richard
having petitioned this Court t* direct William A.
Avary, administrator on the estate of said Tanker*-
ley, to execute titles to said tract offend, In conform
ity with said bond; It is therefore Ordered, That
notice be given, in terms of the few in such oases
made and provided, that all persons concerned may
file their objections, if any they have, why said
Avary. administrator as aforesaid, should not execute
titles to said tract of fend in conformity with said
Extract from the Minute^.
A. M. CRAWFORD, Dep. Clerk.
September 6, 1851. s6-lam6
Savannah Iron and Brass Foun
DRY.
IN CONSEQUENCE of increased facilities
together with the large additions to this Estab
lishment, the subscriber is onabled to furnish, at the
shortest notioe possible, STEAM ENGINES of any
sixe and power; BOILERS, of low and high Pres
sure; CASTINGS, of every description, and *
SHAFTINGS and MACHINERY in general, at
prices slightly in advanoo of Northern prices.
Steam GUAGE COCKS, Steam and Vacuum
GUAGES, GONGS and Steam WHISTLES, on
hand at all times.
No. 1, Scotch PIG IRON, and also Smith's
GOAL on hand, and for sale at the lowest market
mUw. A. N. MILLER,
12 Eastern;wharf, Savannah.