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The Yankee.
Tilt REV. D, H. POJiEKOI’ ON THE CHARACTER OF THE
£ gR YANKEE.
Avery facetious and interesting lecture was
delivered on Tuesday evening, in the Taberna
cle, by Rev. D. R. Pomeroy, of Boston; sub-
F’ st, “The Yankee.” JIo said that, in order to
Cftini! understandingly on the subject of his lec
ture, it would be necessary to call their atten
tion to a ffiw historical facts. Those who dwell
in houses and know sciences and literature are
usually called civilized, and those who dwell in
tents are called savage. The Assyrians, Chal
deans, Medes, Persians, Greeks, and Romans
had their frequent wars of plunder and conquest,
and ‘whenever they came in contact with the
northern tribes they have given us memorials of
the people they have conquered. It has been
satisfactorily ascertained that three races had
passed Irom Asia into Europe. The first of
these waves of emigration were the Celts or
Cinnneri, who passed across the continent till
they reached the British isles. The second
wave of emigration was that of the Scythian or
Gothic race, some six or eight centuries before
the Christian era. The Celts vanished before
them from the page of history, except those
who had been in the west of the continent.
The Scotch, Welsh, and Irish were the descen
dants of these Celts. There is also more or less
of the Scythian element in France, Italy, and
Spain. The third wave of emigration into
Europe was the Sclavonic. But our present
purpose was with the second race, the Scythian.
The lecturer traced their course through the
various countries in Europe. In the second cen
tury there were three tribes of the Scythian race
in Jutland, who were called Anglo or Teutons,
from whom have sprung the Westphalians,
English, and Americans. Three hundred of
them lauded in Thauet, in the river Thames, in
the year 439, after the Romans had vacated Bri
tain. On the island they met a party of Celts,
when a scheme of intervention was made be
tween them—they invited more of their country
men. and afterwards erected the little kingdom
of Kent. In two centuries more they extermi
nated the Celts, and reduced them to bondage,
with the exception of the Welsh and Scotch.
Tho Saxon Heptarchy lasted till the eleventh
century, when the Norman element became
predominant after the battle of Hastings. These
Anglo Saxon and Norman worthies were bold,
hardy, indomitable, fierce, cruel and ferocious;
they were kindred in Wood with Goths.and Y isi
goths, Vandals and Ostrogoths, who had bat
tered down the blood-cemented walls of old
Rome. There is no evidence, however, that
they were savages, like the American Indians.
They had arts. They manufactured armor. In
the third or fourth centuries of our era they ap
peared in the page of history as pirates, and a
more cruei, bloody, and relentless horde never
disgraced humanity. They were the filibus
ters of those dim ages. The terror of their
name is hardly conceivable by us in these times
of peace. The conquest of England led them
to abandon their piratical habits; and then, in
the middle of the eleventh century, came the
Norman element; and finally,in the sixteenth
century, came the Protestant Reformation, all
sl of which had a great effect in civilizing them.
The lecturer then came down to the .Mayflower
emigration of the Pilgrims to the Plymouth
rock. They must contemplate the institu
tions—civil, social, political and religious—which
they founded, and then they will understand
how the people of New England are what they
are. What is a genuine Yankee I—that is the
question. He ns6d the term Yankee as deno
ting all tlie natives of New England and all
their descendants. lie would observe, in the
first place, that a true son of New England is a
very close observer. When lie travels he sees
every thing within the range of his vision, and,;
walking up Broadway for the first time, ho will
bo seen carefully scanning tho names on the j
signboards and on the doors. lie is very in
quisitive, too—there is always a question at the :
end of his tongue just to minister to his curiosi
ty ; in a railroad car he is quite annoyed, from
the fact that he can neither see nor hear to the
best advantage; on the steamboat, too, he will
tax his übiquity to the utmost prying into eve
rything; find him where you will, ho is a true,
well defined interrogation point. All the world
may laugh at him, hut still he is no fool, and he
will ask questions. Socrates was condemned
to drink the poison cup because he had examin
ed everything in heaven and earth; and if this ho
a capital offence, alas for the Yankee! He is,
however, capable of becoming a very gentle
manly person, though no conceivable art could
make him a Frenchman or a dandy. None but
a Yankee could give such a definition to the
word “dandy” as that which tnav he found in
Webster's dmtionary, V Yankee may have a
carriage and a servant, hut if you see that
servant in livery, then you may. he sure he is not
a Yankee. (Applause.) This love of plainness, j
simplicity, directness, has shorn our courts of
justice of all their ridiculous ceremonies. And j
even a Governor, if he should put on airs, would
find on the next general caucus that his friends
on the whole, were rather in favor of the princi
ple of rotation. In religion, too, he likes his
minister to speak in plain intelligible Saxon. In
dress, equipage, manners, speech, and religion,
he is a decidedly plain, blunt, outspoken, uncere
monious individual. In philosophy, the Yankee
belongs to the utilitarian school —not that of:
Jeremy Bentham. This philosophy be has not
derived.from books or universities—it was bom
with him, an integral part of liis nature.
There is lodged with the Yankee race a very
considerable amount of strong, plain, everyday
good sense. A son of New England has no i
special reverence for what is ancient merely be
cause of its antiquity, though it must be admit
ted he is often taken by anew theory or prin
ciple because it is new. Idle theories or dreamy
speculations are quite a drug in the market, and
they cannot help saying “What is the use It
is true, no doubt, that New England is in the
habit of contributing money, and men and wo
men, to some foolish idea; but then it is only
what she has to spare, and she preserves the real
gold for works of real value. The lecturer
commented upon the discriminating qualities of
the Yankee intellect; and for this sharp meta
physical acumen they were indebted to the pul
pit, the school house, and the open Bible. This
characteristic has been acquired by the great j
honor accorded to skill in figures; and there
are undoubtedly at this moment hundreds of
boys and girls striving to work out a difficult
problem in the rule of three, or square root,
who will hereafter be heard of in some grand j
railroad or other scheme in China or Africa. A
true A ankee has a strong sense of justice, which
makes him keenly alive to the injuries himself j
or others may suffer. If you touch him wrong- )
fully lie will make heaven and earth noisy with !
his clamors. This feature is Anglo Saxon, and j
Norman, and Scythian, too. Akin to this ele
ment in the New England character in his love !
of liberty. Our ancestors never bowed their
necks to the yoke of bondage. They knew
how to subjugate and rob, and make merchan
dise of other men, but they never were slaves
themselves. What would have been the con
dition of Ireland for the last hundred years if
shelnid only contained three millions of A ankees?
He strongly suspected Ireland would not now
be as she is. This love of liberty enters large
ly into the elements of the New England char
acter. A true son of New England has a clus
ter of qualities which passes under the name
of enterprise. There is a well known Yankee
word, which is very significant of his enterpris
ing qualities, and that word is “gumption.”
When you see a young man, the morning when :
he is of age. starting into the world, with all his
goods, real and personal, tied in a bandana, and
not having the slightest doubt of his success, j
you may depend he is a Yankee. Who are j
—and when a President is wanted for any of
the Western colleges, whom do they send for ?
A Yankee. Subtract the Yankee from the
commerce and manufactures of the United
States, and what nave you left ? Give a Yan
kee, trained in the common school, it few acres
of granite rock, and he will not only make a
living, but grow rich and become a munificent
founder of colleges and institutions. From
the restless, roving Scythian propensity of the
Yankees, one might think they cared little for
their country, or for the graves of their fathers;
and yet, strange ns it may appear, they love
their New England home. Her rocks and val
leys, her streams and snows and piercing winds,
are ail very dear to them. They love to recall
the little babbling brooks, and the mountain for
est, and though impelled by a restless enterprise
to the farthest bounds of the green earth, there
is not one of them who does not hope to lie
down in death in some quiet nook of their own
New England. A villainous Yankee is one of
the most villainous ruffians in the world—prob
ably the worst men in the city, as well as some
of the best, are of New England origin. He
might, refer to otiicr traits of the Yankee, but
he knew that among their other qualities they
were by no means remarkable for their patience
under a long discourse. The lecturer then
concluded.
(Times anti Sentinel
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1853.
A Falsehood Exposed.
Montgomery, March 30, 1853.
Editors Times and Sentinel ;
Sirs : I understand from Mr. Wm. B. Wiley, Agent
Charleston and New York steamers, that small pox
prevails in Columbus, Ga., and gives as his authority,
the Editor of the Times and Sentinel.
Mr. Wiley is interested in diverting tho travel that
might pass over the Columbus route to Savannah and
New York, arid the above report is freely circulated
here on the arrival of the steamers from Mobile and at
tho railroad cars. Yours, fcc.
We do not know Mr. Wiley ; but wo beg leave to in
form him that if he is circulating the report that Small Pox
exists in Columbus, Geo., on our authority, he is guilty
of an unmitigated falsehood ; there is no case of Small
Pox iu this city and there has been none here for several
years.
Will the Montgomery papers please copy this article.
The Second Congressional District,
Our little article on this subject has created quite a
flutter in the Alabama Journal office. We did re
gret the use of the epithet “ babbling Journal,” as we
feared it might he understood in a bad sense ; but the
reply in question so fully confirms the appropriateness of
the term, that we are quite relieved from all uneasiness
as to its propriety. Instead of answeriugour questions,
we are told that we will ‘ ; be informed as soon as we
have any business to know,” —and the public are then
| advised in extenso of the history of one of the Editors
of the tmes and Sentinel for some yeai-3 past —all
of which gossip may well be classed under the head of
vain babblings .
The Journal seems to think we have grown to be “a
wise man,” and a “modest’ since we settled in
Columbus ; we are sorry we cannot return the compli
ment to the junior of the Journal. Il is residence in
j Montgomery has had no perceptible influence on his
| temper, or his politics—perhaps he was too old an of
| fender. We will, however, extend the courtesies of our
refined city to the young gentleman, and hope he may
prove as susceptible to its elevating influences as he
seems to think we have been. Come over Ben!
Tho Journal is very particular to inform the public
that Mr. Hilliard will not be a candidate for Congress
j —but does not say a word about the aspiring Moss. The
j Journal thinks this paper has no business to be asking
! tough questions about the 2d Congressional District, and
I as it is very lame at giving categorical answers, we will
j not trouble it with another—but will somebody be good
enough to explain this silence? Is Mr. Moss to run on
| the ticket of the Scott Party? Capt. Abercrombie, we
| believe, is not a favorite with this class of politicians, as
lie refused 10 vote for the ‘‘Old Hero.”
The Journal seems to think it the duty of an Editor
! t> confine his attention entirely to his own district and
: Slate, and that any reference to elections in adjoining
j States is an improper intermeddling with “the affairs
j of otliers.” This is a very narrow view of editorial du
! ties, and was no doubt acquired by too Jong a residence
in a small place and will be corrected by a longer resi*
i deuce in Montgomery—a city almost as large as Col
umbus—a residence in which has, according to the
Journal, produced so happy an effect upon us.
We will %rthcr apologise for our rudeness in med
dling “with the affairs of others” by stating that we
have a very large circulation in the Chattahoochee river
counties of the 2d congressional district in Alabama,
where Capt. Abercrombie is deservedly very popular,
and will be almost unanimously supported in the next
j race for Congress, whether he is nominated by the con-
I volition of the*Scott whigs or not.
We are sorry we are in such a humor for asking
j questions, hut we must repeat our query: what has be
come of the Whig Convention in the 2d Congressional
District, to nominate a candidate for Congress when
there is one already in the field ? Will nobody answer ?
Our Book Table.
Villettk, is the title of anew novel by the accom
plished author of “Jane Eyre.” The London Ex
atniner pronounces it to be a most admirably written
novel, every where original, every where shrewd, and
iat heart, every where kindly. For sale by A. C. Flew- ;
ellen.
Putnam's Monthly for April has come to hand. We ;
I think the present number fully equal to its predecessors, j
i The most interesting article perhaps is the further dis- j
; mission of the identity of the Rev. Mr. Williams and
Louis XVll—by Mr. Hanson. Call at D. F. Will cox's
! Book Store and get a copy.
The North British Review for February is filled
with solid, interesting and ably written articles.
The Illustrated Magazine of Art is anew monthly j
work which has attained a well deserved reputation.
The illustrations are numerous and pleasing, and the I
reading matter is of average merit. Published by Alex.
Montgomery, IT Spruce st, N. Y., at $3 per annum.
The United States Review is a monthly Democratic
paper which is designed to take the winds out of the
sails of the old Democratic Review, which has lost caste
with the old Fogies of the party by its violent and pro
scriptive course. Published at New York by T. A.
Foster, at $3 per annum.
Blackwood for March contains its usual variety. It
has dropped the slavery question for the present.
Editorial Convention.
We would be delighted to meet our brethren in Ma
con in May next, and cordially sanction and approve of ,
the call for a convention of Publishers and Editors.
We would, however, suggest the propriety of discussing
before hand, the objects and purposes of the convention.
What can the convention do to advance the interests of i
the craft ?
This is an important question, and demands more j
thought for its solution than we can give it just now.
We will suggest, however, one or two reflections which :
may call forth the sentiments of better informed persons, j
The crying evil in our profession is the credit system.
This ought at once to be abandoned.
Another drawback is the character and habits of
Journeymen Printers. The sober and industrious ought
to be protected against the idle, vicious and roaming ;
and we would suggest the propriety of employing no
Journeyman who cannot produce satisfactory evidence
of capacity aud character.
There are many other subjects of interest which con
cern us. but which are beyond the control, cs we con
ceive, of a convention.
Among these are the rates of advertising and sub
scription. Amount of circulation, size and location, must
necessarily produce a difference in charges. Nor do
we think any good result can flow from rules of eti
quette. If a man Ills not the sentiments, feelings and
culture of a gentleman, it is impossible to infuse them
into him by formal rules.. All such matters must be
left to individuals to settle between themselves, in the
various modes recognised by society as legitimate.
Who cun beat this ?
Our worthy Foreman, Mr. Samuel B. Harwell, on
Wednesday last, set up sixteen thousand ems, in ten
hours, in minion and brevier type —twelve thousand
solid and four thousand leaded. We think that a day’s
work to he proud of, and defy any Printer in Georgia
to beat it. This, however, is Sam’s ‘‘first jump,” and no
one need enter the lists of competitors, unless he desires
to be beaten, who cannot go 1000 better. Don't all
speak at once.
Air. James Hamilton, ol Columbus, Ga., Again.
The very able and interesting letter of this talented
young gentleman, which we copied some weeks ago
from the New Ilnven Register, aud in which was ex
posed the rottenness of Yale College n the subject
of slavery, has been published in the leading papers of
the South, and has attracted very universal notice and
commendation.
We expected some verdant young Southern gentle
man would be cajoled into the defense of “Alma
mater,” and have been constantly on the yui vive
since the appearance of Mr. Hamilton’s letter in an
ticipation of the fire of the enemy. It has at last taken
place and the match was applied by a Mississippi,
whose modesty or timidity lias induced him to conceal
his name. Quere : Is he a protege of Gov. Foote ?
“The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the
hands of Esau.” The sentiments are the sentiments of
Foote, nut the modesty which declines the pa-
ternity of the bantling belongs to a worthier man— per
j haps only a younger one. Tlie reply would be unwor
: thy of notice, coming as it docs from an anonymous
j correspondent who exhibits ueither talent nor tact in
his production; but r.s we may fairly assume that the
! grounds of defense arc those which the learned Faculty
| of Yale have assumed, it may deserve a passing notice.
The first point made in defense of Y r ale is that “the
Faculties of New England colleges are almost without
exception made up of New England clergy !”
The second is that “New England has youth of her
own to educate at this Institution.”
The third is that 4 "we knew before we left the South
that we were coming to a Northern Institution—an
Institution which, if it does not oppose slavery, certainly
cannot approve of it. Our well read parents knew
this.”
The facts stated by Mr. Hamilton are not denied.—
Yale is therefore a fount of Abolitionism. Her Pro
fessors will oppose the extension of slavery ever to a
dissolution of the Union, and have habitually of late
made it a practice to denounce slavery and the institu
tions of the South. This is the great fact which we
desire to hold up to the view of the Southern people.
Let them remember it and profit by it.
But what of tlie defense of this recreant son of the
South ?
“ The Faculties of the New England Colleges are
almost without exception made up of New England
I clergy /” And why are clergymen excused for their
, j abolitionism ? Is it not written in Ephesians, chap. 6,
. ! verse s—“ Servants, be obedient to them that are your
. masters, according to the flesh, with fear and trembling,
I*, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ?” And shall
j these hoary hypocrites be indulged in perverting the word
of God, and denying its truth, that they may gain profit
. by their false teachings ? God forbid! What then is
, the meaning of this excuse for the abolitionism of T ale.
, Would the recreant “Southron” assert that tlie Holy
I Scriptures condemn Slavery ?
C “New England has youth of her own to educate at
this institution .”
And why, pray, should New England youth be
, taught different principles from Southern youth ? The
Bible sanctions slavery, and the constitution protects it.
, The gtcutest and best divines and statesmen of New
j England have so taught. The names of Stuart and
Webster are quite as weighty authority on divine and
political questions as any on the catalogue of Y’ale Col
lege. What docs this excuse mean, unless it be intend
ed to convey the idea that truth and right are to be
I discarded by Presidents and Professors, in their work
of instruction, for what is popular and profitable ?
. i “We knew before we left the South that ice were
. j coming to a Northern Institution ” —that may be true,
but we will not believe that you knew you were going
j to an abolition conventicle where doctrines were
i taught which are alike destructive to the South and the
i Union. It is very true that “Northern” and “Aboli
’ tion” have become almost synonymous, but there were
I “a few names even in Sardis which had not defiled
their, garments” and the honored name of Yale was
: always regarded as first and foremost in this little gal
axy. But the glory has departed from Israel and
; Ichabod la written upon her door posts.
And who is this Mississippian who boldly defends the
-abominable practices of Y ale ? Where was he born ?
What is his name? He writes as coldly and cautious
ly as if he had spent the better portion of his life at
the North Pole ; or had had the genial currents of life
frozen by the winter of age. No young Mississippian
ever wrote such a production. No doubt some boot lick,
whose prospects for Collegiate honors rest rather upon
Ills toadyism than his talents, lias consented to adopt
, I tlie frozen bantling of one of the Professors of Yale, as
his own brain-child, and has thus doubly forfeited the
) confidence of the South. In this point of view several
innuendoes and assertions otherwise unworthy of notice
demand a rebuke at our hands.
The Professor, shall we call him —says, “we have
no accusations of ingratitude or impropriety to urge
against the gentieraan’s views.”
Gratitude ? Does tho cold academician know noth
ing of gratitude to home, kindred, country, that he thus
talks about gratitude to Alma mater ? Are her claims
higher than heaven’s, country’s, truth’s ? Gratitude for
what ? He paid you for your instruction ; you deceived
him by your open false professions of loyalty to the Bi
ble aud the Constitution; you allured him into your
: lecture room and in the seclusion of that quiet retreat,
attempted to make him a traitor to his home and kin
, dred by imparting to him your infamous and deoeitful
fanaticism. He has exposed your hypocrisy —hinc
ilia lacryma.
i The learned Professor again says—“we are not de
: pendent on you ; we must have our inalienable rights of
free thought and free speech, even if we have to sacri
flee your small patronage,” Certainly, my dear sir, but
let vour “free thought and free speech” be honest
thought and honest speech; let the South know that Yale
is an abolition seminary, and we make no complaint.
It is this deception that Mr. Hamilton has exposed, and
for which we thank him. It is somewhat singular
that this most prominent part of his letter is not so
! much as alluded to by “A Southerner.” “He strains at a
cate and swallows a saw mill.” lie laboriously at
tempts to explain why Yale is abolition, but entirely
forgets even to apologize for the hypocrisy of seeming
to be otherwise. Again “A Southerner” says, “our j
very presence in New England is “prima facie ” evi
dence that we are not afraid of anti-slavery arguments
and influences.” The fourteen and sixteen year old
boys of Y'ale must be remarkably precocious young
sters! Not afraid of anti-slavery arguments. The
taunt is worthy of a Professor who has betrayed the trust
reposed in him by confiding Southern parents, and is
conscious of his own dereliction of duty aud unable to ex
cuse or apologize for it. What opinion of a youth of
sixteen is so well grounded that it cannot be undermined
by the larger experience of venerable Professors whose
I every word is received with the deference due to varied
j learning and exalted position 1
| We now leave this subject, with the fervent hope
| that Yale has forfeited the confidence of the South ;
1 and that in future our young men will be educated in
i our own colleges.
Nomination for Whig State Officers of Rhode
Island.
Providence, March 24, 1553.
A whig ticket for State officers is announced this
morning by the committee appointed at the late Whig
State convention. The nominations are as follows ;
For Governor —William W. Iloppin, of Providence,
-For Lieutenant Governor —Samuel Robinson, of
South Kensington.
For Secretary ofState—William R. Watson, of Pro
vidence.
For Attorney General—-Christopher Robinson, of
Cumberland.
For General Treasurer—Samuel B. Vernon, of New
port.
The nominations give very general satisfaction, and
the ticket is decidedly the strongest in the field, as it
perfectly unites and harmonises the whig party. — N.
Y. Herald.
The Death of Mrs. Fillmore,
•‘What shadows we are, and what shadows we
pursue 1”
The dreadful calamities which have followed swift
upon the heels of success in the lives of our public men,
teach, and were intended no doubt, by a kind Providence,
to teach, the American people the vanity of all earthly
pursuits. Harrison and Taylor, hardy veterans, who
had marched unscathed through storms of kails in the
front of battle to the glittering pinnacle of earthly grandeur,
suuk into the cold grave as soon as the laurel wreath
was placed upon their brows. The applause of admiring
millions had not died upon the ear of Polk, before he
was stunned by the hollow voice of death, before whose
pestilential breath his green honors were nipped as by
an untimely frost. • The swift winged lightning had
hardly announced to Pierce his election to the Presi
dency—aye, even among the congratulations of his
friends on his success, and when his heart beat high
with exultation, his darling boy, his “Absalom,” was torn
from his embrace, and his hearth and heart made deso
late, by a blow as unexpected as it was crushing. And
last of all, the grim monster li3s snatched from Fill-
MORe’s fond embrace the lovely form of her whose
smiles to him were light and life, and left him crushed
and beggared to plod his lonely way through a dark
and gloomy future, to tho tomb, even aimd the loud
notes of preparation to do him honor throughout this
broad laud. What te him*now is fame! The voice of praise
as well as of censure falls heavy and unmeaning upon the
ear of grief. . The hallucination of life is dispelled—
its honors are withered leaves—its wealth, the toys of
childhood—its hopes, delusions—its bright sunshine a
glittering mockery—there is nothing real but death—
it looms up before him—a horrid monster whose bale
ful shadow darkens the whole horizon of life—he sees I
it in the glittering lightning—he hears it in the rolling
thunder—and every passing breeze whispers death !
death ! 4 in whose dread presence the mightiest exclaim
with Wolsey—
“ This is the state ofman ; To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;
The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ;
And—when lie thinks, good easy man, full surely,
His greatness is a ripening—nips his root,
And then he falls as I do—
- I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory ;
But far beyond my depth ; my high blown pride
At length broke under me ; and now has left me,
Weary, and old with service,to the mercy,
Os a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Vain pompe and glory of this world, I hate ye.”
The Temperance Movement.
Every friend of the Temperance Reform, whether he
be for, or against the action of the Atlanta Convention,
must deprecate any movement which tends to bring it
before the people as a political issue, upon which par
ties and candidates shall divide and quarrel. We un
derstand that a proposition of this sort was submitted to
the Atlanta Convention, but that it was voted down with
great unanimity. In this, as in most other respects, the
Convention acted discreetly 5 and we understand from
, the leaders of the movement, that the greatest care will
be taken to prevent a squabble upon this question in
1 the coming canvass. Such a squabble we should re
l gard as a public calamity, and will set our faces stern
* ly against any candidate or party which shall attempt
• to lug it before the people. The question of license
T or no license, of liquor or no liquor, is not now in issue—
and it will be time enough to test the popularity of
! “Jonny Barleycorn,” when the people shall be called
on to vote for his banishment. This time may never
‘ come, and we would save the community from the
i long train of evils which will inevitably flow from a
. canvass in which the grog shop will be the central ques
’ tion, until there are other and better reasons for it than
I the success of this or that demagogue. The Atlanta
1 Conventionists will not ask the next Legislature to
abolish the liquor traffic— that question will be left in
• abeyance until tho people are permitted by Legislative
* action to vote directly upon it. The issue now before
the people, is whether the Legislature shall continue to
1 regulate tho system of liquor license, or whether it shall
be referred to the people in their corporate county ca
, paeity. This is the only question which can be legiti
mately made at present, and the community may well
f suspect the motives of a candidate for any office who
thrusts himself before them as the special friend either
of cold water, or hot liquor. Be sure, he is more inte
rested in his own aggrandisement than in the publio
welfare.
Wo are the more solicitous on this matter as tho
next election is one of the most important ever held in
Georgia. A Governor is to be elected—a United
States Senator is to be elected—a Judge of the Superior
Court is to be elected—three of the most responsible
officers in tho Government. To the first, the honor of
our great State is committed, and many of her highest
interests. The second, represents the sovereignty of
Georgia in the Senate of tho United States, and the
critical condition of the country and of the South de
, mauds that he be a sound Republican and a true man.
1 To the third, are committed tho lives, liberties and pro
perty of the people, and none but an able lawyer, and
; an upright man, can worthily wear the pure ermine of
; justice. In such an election, a citizen ought to be
1 permitted to go to tlie polls and vote for the best men
and the soundest principles, untrammeled and uncon
trolled by any Tninor or local question.
i If the liquor question is dragged into the canvass,
it will swallow ? up all other issues, and the black bottle
and the pint cup will decide, in all probability, who
shall be Governor, Senator, and Judge. We have
therefore of set purpose avoided the discussion of the
; liquor question since our connection with this paper.
We are sorry our example has had no effect upou our
cotemporaries, and that sonic of our leading and most
influential papers are continually “Harping on my
Daughter.” We beg them to let the question rest un
til it is properly before tho country, and warn all aspi
rants for office to follow their example. In the coming
canvass our party will need its whole strength. Our
enemies will leave no art untried to divide and conquer
us. But if our legions will march with locked shields
to the contest, we are assured of victory.
Fire.
On Sunday, between 8 and 9 P. M., an alarm of fire
was given, and in a short time flames were discover
ed issuing from the Brick buildings, owned by Capt.
John Dillon, northeast corner of Jefferson and Brough
ton Streets ; and occupied as follows ;
On Jefferson Street. — A. Mero, Baker shop ; Lew
ell 11. Fiske, Shoe store; and John Riley, Grocery
Store.
On Broughton Street. — J. 11. & T. Bishop, Tin
ware Store; Neill McHugh, Dry Goods: and W. J.
j Hunt, as a Barber shop.
The fire, it is supposed, originated iu the store of Mr.
Fiske. The goods and furniture, generally, were saved
in a damaged state. The upper part of the buildings
were occupied as dwellings.
Mr. McHugh and Mr. Fiske were insured in the
Mutual Company of this city ; and Mr. Riley had an
insurance of $3,000 in the Liverpool and London Fire
Insurance Company. We did not learn whether the
others were insured. There was no insurance on the
buildings. The fire was confined to the block. — av .
Courier.
Western News.
We have New Orleans dates to the 25th inst., and
Mobile to the 26th inst.
Complete quiet has been restored west of the Sierra
Madre. except the state of Tamaulipas where Governor
Prieto has been deposed and Villa Sana made constitu
tional Governor by the State Legislature. Gov. Prieto,
however, holds on to his authority and has declared the
action of the Legislature null and void.
Three companies of Rangers have been discharged
recently on the Rio Grande, and it is said that many of
them have joined Carvajal, and that this scoundrel will
again invade the Mexican territory.
An arrangement had been made between the au
thorities of Vera Cruz and the General Government,
by which the former recognized the Presidency of Gen.
Lombardini.
Over two hundred of the leading men of Louisiana,
including Grimes, Miaou, Bradford and other distin
guished lawyers (whig and democratic) have recom
mended Judge Slidell for Chief Justice of the State.
The rates of fare from San Francisco to New York,
by the steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
have been reduced to SIOO in the cabin, and SSO in the \
steerage. j
Reorganization of the Union Party—Position
of Got. Cobb.
A few disaffected Democrats who have forfeited their
position with their own party by a renunciation of some
of its fundamental principles and a long continued and
bitter denunciation of its prominent leaders at the South,
and the unprincipled of the old whig party who play
the card that wins, no matter whether it is taken from
the hand or sleeve , have been attempting to galvanise
into life the effete body of the Inion Party iu Georgia.
The Journal $ Messenger very truly and forcibly re
marks in this connection that “there are as yet, in the as
pects of State and national polities, no issue upon which
such a party can be formed, and no necessity lor its
formation. The name of Union, prejudice against the
Southern Rights Democracy, and the dead issues of 1850,
are the basis upon which it is proposed to reconstruct a
Union Party. We will have nothing to do with such
a skinless, bloodless and lifeless organization.” ■ *
“We do not believe that such a re-organization can be
accomplished. The letter of Mr. Hull (in relation to
Gov. Cobb’s position) confirms our previously formed
opinion that the Union Democracy did not desire it,
and a large portion of the whig party, we know, never
have ceased to repent the first organization of the
Union Party. Where are the elements to give strength
to the resuscitated corpse of the Union Party ? ’
We take it that these hot shot will utterly demolish
the tottering walls of the “Union Hotel,” and that if its
doors are again re-opened by Holsey and Sanford, its
I customers will be invited to feast on empty dishes, and
that, unless they beat a swift retreat, they will be bur
ied beneath its tottering walls.
Governor Cobb was tho Atlas upon whose broad j
shoulders the Union organization rested. We learn
from Mr. Hull’s letter, an extract from which we pub- ;
lish below, that [he has withdrawn from the odious |
task and “now stands prepared to sustain the great
Democratic party to which he has always belonged,
and to fight as a private in the ranks, for the imperisha
ble principles of Jefferson, Jackson and Polk, and
which he hopes and believes will derive additional
strength and lustre from the administration of Franklin
Pierce.”
Mr. Hull says —
“But my object in writing is nut to discuss these mat
ters, but to disabuse your mind, and those of your readers,
as to the position of Gov. Cobb in that matter. Your
article gives me the opportunity of doing Gov. Cobb what
his magnanimity prevented his doing lor himself. I write 1
without his knowledge, and possibly what he would not |
permit if he knew it. But it is due to truth and justice j
that iiis position should be known. The writer of this ;
professes to be as well informed as any other man, as to j
the opinions, sentiments and views of Gov. Cobb, and 1 ■
affirm that which I know, when I say that the ticket j
which was put up alter the Atlanta meeting was brought
out against his wishes and advice, and against his car'-
nest efforts to prevent it.
“I know that he wrote urgent letters to Judge Janies
.Jackson, at Carnesville, where General Wofford was du
ring Court, pressing upon him to see General W “fiord,
and endeavor by every argument to induce him to decline
running on that ticket, and accept the place on the regu
lar ticket, which he was then advised would be tendered
to him. So tar from his “sympathy and secret efforts,”
being for the “Tugalo Ticket,” he disapproved of the
movement from first to last, and his friends knew it.
“It is true that Gov. Cobb was in favor at Atlanta of a
different course from the one pursued. From the day
when the Union eleetoraf ticket was nominated at Mil
ledgeville, he had labored to bring about a compromise of
the ticket on terms which would secure cordiality and
harmony all the friends of Pierce and King.
“The Atlanta meeting was called at his suggestion, aud
for the purpose of promoting that object. Before assem
bled it had become obvious that our proposals of com
promise would not be responded to. Gov. Cobb proposed
in that case to nominate a ticket composed of those gen
tlemen of the other ticket, who had evinced a willingness
to arrange the matter, and to fill up the other places with
the names of Union Democrats, and call on the whole
Democracy of the State to rebuke by their votes the spirit
of proscription and persecution which had been manifested
by some of our Southern Rights brethern. This was his
whole course in the matter. The Atlanta meeting deci
ded differently, and in their decision Gov. Cobb acquies
ced, and gave, as 1 said before, no eneonargement what
ever to those who did not.
“Is it asked why he did not publicly announce that dis
approbation ? It would have been policy in him to do so,
but the noble and generous heart of Howell Cobb shrunk
from striking a blow that would wound his friends, even
though he thought them in the wrong. The list of names
advocating the movement included many who were his
best and nearest friends. They had stood by him through
sterm and sunshine, and though his sense of duty preveir
ted his aiding them, he was not the man to lift up his
hand against them. He has patiently borne all the vitu
peration and obloquy which has been heaped upon him
on that account, and still bears it.
“The time has come—now when then the election is
over—now when the new Administration is fully formed,
and the suspicion of seeking Cabinet offices can no lon
ger be aroused in the minds of the most uncharitable; that
his friends owe it to him to make his true position known
Gov. Cobb now stands prepared to sustain the great De
mocratic party to which he has always belonged, and to
■ fight as a private in the ranks, for the imperishable prin
ciples of Jefferson, Jackson, and Polk, and which lie
hopes and believes will derive additional stredgth and
lustre from the Administration of Franklin Pierce.
Respectfully. WM. 11. HULL.
Later Irom Mexico.
By the schooner Edward Bernard, the Picayune re
ceived full files of papers from \ era Cruz to the 19th,
and from the city of Mexico to the 15th inst.
With the exception of Vera Cruz, there seems to he
little feeling produced in Mexico by the publication of
Senor Escobar's report of his interview with Santa An
na. Several of the papers published extracts from it
after having had it some days, but without editorial re
marks of any kind.
In an article on the government of Gen. Lombardini,
the Siglo of the 15tli instant has the following : “In
fact, as yet no one can tell tlie final result of the revolu
tion. Every things depends on the course of the Gov
ernment of Santa Anna, and until this is known we
cannot know if domestic peace will be consolidated, or
if anarchy will be prolonged until the country is
consumed.”
Some difficulty having occurred in the formation of
a Cabinet, Gen. Lombardini determined to carry on the
Government through the clerks of the departments,
during the short interval that would intervene until the
return of Santa Anna.
Gen. Uraga had been appointed Minister to Spain.
It was said the Government had given him the Cross
of Angostura.
It was announced that Senor Robles hud resigned
the command of his division.
Pauperism in Massachusetts. —A new system for
the support of paupers is about to be adopted in Massa
chusetts. Each applicant is furnished with anew suit 1
of clothes, and told to go to work. If he pleads sick
ness, he is dispatched to the hospital, where, if he is
shamming, hospital diet soon brings him to his strength.
If he runs off with his new clothes, a description of the
fugitive is dsipatelied to the other almshouses, and if
he applies for relief to them, he is taken in and compell
ed to work, till he has paid for his outfit. This plan
seems to be well devised to keep persons out “f the
almshouse.
From Havana. —The Havana correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, under date of 21st inst*. says :
Your readers will regret to learn that out much es
teemed Vice President, Mr. King, is still in a very bad
state. In fact it is said that he has not materially im
proved since he went into the Interior, although as is,
I believe, generally the case with the diseases similiar
to that with which he is afflicted, some days he has
been far better than on others
The Jacksonville, Fla., Republican says that a diffi
culty occurred in Columbia county, Fla., about a fort
night ago, which resulted in some respects seriously
and fatally. It is related that Mr. John S. Goodbread
and A. S. Goodbread had a dispute with Mr. Henry
Pratt, about the latter setting a fence on fire and enter
ing the land of one of the Goodbreads. Shots were ex
changed between A, S. Goodbread and Henry Pratt, and
a second shot fired by the former entered among a
crowd of negroes and children, killing a negro woman
and wounding one of Pratt’s children.
Later from Buenos Ayres. —Accounts from Buenos
Ayres to the 20th of January have been received. The
city was still besieged, and the whole population was
under arms, endeavoring to drive off the insurgents.
There was no prospect of raising the siege.
Washington Affairs. —Capt. Easly will retain the
post of Commissioner of Public Buildings, in conse
quence of the active part taken by him in exposing the
Capitol extension frauds.
Elisha Whittlesey is also entitled to retain the eomp
trollership of the Treasury in consideration of his faith
ful guardianship of tho public moneys.
Mad. Dost wick’s Concert on Monday Night.
A large and fashionable audience was in attendance,
and every person present was much entertained by the
performances. Our most sanguine expectations were
more than realized. Mad. Bostwick’s voice ie rich,
melodious, of great compass and sweetness, and thor
oughly cultivated. Her assistants are accomplished
musicians. Mr. Thilow is a clever Pianist, Mr. Siedr
an excellent Flutist, and Mr. Apfy a splendid Violinist.
Little Miss Oliver astonished every body by the grace,
accuracy and brilliancy of her performances.
We hope Mad. Bostwick will favor us with another
concert.
Native Poetry.
We do not often trouble our readers with the rich
poetical gems of native growth, which it may surprise
them to learn are furnished in bacchanal prolusion from
the teeming minds of American Genius. But the fol
lowing are too good to be lost. “Lieut. W.D* b. i s
evidently an original hardy native breed, and only re
quires judicious cropping and culture to make an entire
ly new variety of the genus Poet. W e cheerfully do
our part by this rubbing to develope this native produc
tion, and hope our efforts in this direction will be duly
appreciated and seconded by our readers. Here are
the “lines.”
Disappointment of Man.
BY LIEUT. W. D. (i.
Dear woman like the butterfly,
Looks best before she is caught;
For then the tinsel of her wings,
Is changed as quick as thought.
Ah! the squalling of a baby,
And the scolding of wife ;
Must be the witching music,
Os all my future life.
Your flattery is delicious quite,
But then ? tis spread so thick ;
It chokes me ere I get a bit,
And makes my soul sick.
Man’s Folly.
BY LIEUT. W. D. O.
‘Twill take a wiser chap than you.
To trap the girl you’re after;
For at your nonsense when alcne,
She puffs her sides with laughter.
You’ve ridiculed time and again,
The very girl you’ll marry ;
But if you are a prudent man,
She’ll make you happy, very.
You think it very nice indeed,
To have a gay flirtation ;
But oh! beware, it often bring,
An old bachelor’s chilly station.
Corpus Giiribti Emigrants.—By the arrival of the
ships Golconda and Howard, from Glasgow and Liver
pool, over one hundred emigrants have arrived in this
city for Corpus Christi, Texas, having purchased lands
from Col. 11. L. Kinney’s agent in London. These
emigrants are of the first class, being emphatically an
agricultural people, and their improvement of the lands
in the Nueces Valley, which are the finest in Texas,
must greatly increase their value. Corpus Christi, we
understand, has improved, within the few past years as
rapidly as any town in Texas, and the greatest induce
ments are offered to emigrants to settle on these lands,
which are daily increasing in value. Col. Kinney is
now in this city, stopping at the City Hotel, where he
may be consulted by those who wish to purchase.—
: Delta,
Flection at New Orleans.
At the late charter election in New Orleans, for six j
Aldermen, and 26 Assistant Aldermen, there were but j
two whig assistant aldermen elected.
Salary of Judges.
The Legislature of La. has fixed the salaries of
the Judges of the Supreme Court at $4500. —
This is an example of liberality which we commend to
1 our next Legislature. The salary for a Judge of the
j Supreme Court ought to be high enough to command
the best legal talent in the State. Our present rates
: cannot tempt a first rate lawyer from his practice, if
he is a poor man—poor salaries will insure a succession
of poor Judges, and poor Judges give ample guarantee
of incorrect decisions.
Mr. G. P. Putnam has written an able and convinc
ing letter to the National Intelligencer , in favor of in
ternational copyright. Sucli a law, he urges, would not
increase the price of books, and would benefit American
authors quite as much as it would those of England. He
also thinks it would bo advantageous to American pub
lishers, who, as ho remarks, are generally in favor of
international copyright.
S\ Mshington Humor*.
George M. Dallas (ex-Yice l’uesident l it is said,
j will be made District Attorney of Philadelphia. The
i post is very lucrative.
Beth Barton, it is said, is likely, to get the plaeo of
j District Attorney at New Orleans,
i Mr, Reed,'a son-in-law of Gen. DntV Green, received i
his dismissal on the 12th.
We learn that our late Representative in Congress, |
Hon. James Abercrombie, passed through town on Sun- j
day last on his way to Pike court. — Spirit, of the I
South.
Pork. —A writer in a Cincinnati paper estimates
that unless pork rules above §l6 50 a sl7 per bbl. in
Now York city, from two to three dollars will be lost
on every hog packed in the Mississippi Valley this j
season.
The cost of running a passenger train from New !
York to Albany (one hundred and fifty miles) is about j
thirty-two dollars.
Tiie Methodists of this country have built churches I
i nearly at the rate of une per week during the eighty- j
j seven years of their existence as a denomination.
I A Washington correspondent of the Columbia Caro- !
linian says : ‘‘The Palmetto Armory, built to manufac
ture arms to fight the General Government, has re
ceived a contract from the War Department to make
arms for Uncle Sam.”
Numbers of Jamaica planters, impoverished by the
decline of property in tlio Island, have emigrated to
Australia.
Gen. I J . J. >" emmes has been unanimously elected
captain of the Columbus Guards, to fill the vacancy oc
casioned by the resignation ofCapt. Jons Forsyth.
Collector of Savannah. —John Boston has been
confirmed by the Senate as Collector of Savannah. i
Gov. Foote, of Mississippi, lias signified his intention to j
attend the Southern Commercial Convention, which is to j
be held at Memphis on the first Monday in June. He !
also appointed over two hundred delegates to represent!
the State in that body.
lif” Charles Lever, the Irish author, is at present ill
Florence, It is stated that there is scarcely a capita! of
Europe where he has not been, and where he does not
owe a bill 1 He is a lit tie over fifty years of age, and
the ahrewdest “Jeremy Diddler” of the ago.
N. P. Willis, it is said is a disappointed applicant for
the jiost of Secretary of Legation at Paris.
It iB said that a son of Senator Soule will be appointed
Secretary of Legation at Paris.
M. Caussidiere, prefect of the pelice of Paris for several
months, in the beginning of the French revolution of 1848
arrived at New A ork in the steamer Africa. He was
elected representative of Paris by 247,000 votes, and ex
iled in August JIB4B. The French citizens were to give
him a dinner last Saturday.
Dr. 11. Stone,an artißt of Washington, has nearly com- I
pleted a marble bust of Cbiet Justice Tanev, tor presen- j
tation by the members of the bar.
General Ilaskcll declines being the whig candidate for
Governor of Tennessee.
Thu New York Tribune says it has lieen suggests)
that a World’s Temperance Convention lie held in that
city at some during the approaching World’s Fair—say
in August next.
l.ater front Washington.
Washington, March 25.
Tiie U. >S. Senate adjourned for want of a quo
nun.
It is reported that President Pierce has requested
Mr. Whittelsey to withdraw his resignation as comp
troller of the Treasury.
Inm Fuundery Destroyed. — The IrotiFoumlery oi,
xtomstead & Cos., at Dorchester, Mass., has been
destroyed by lire. Toe loss is estimated at 9W
-000.
Death of Dr. Duncan. —lD. Duncan, ex-mornber
of Congress, from Ohio, died at Cincinnati, in conse
quence of injuries received by being run over by a
wagon.
Political I\ewsfrom Europe. —There had been a
great many executions at Pesth and Manfred.
The sequestration of property was being follow
ed up on an extensive scale in Lombardy ; the re
fugees had sought the protection of the Piedmon
tese government which had protested to the court
of Vienna.
The Queens of Eoglaud, France, Spain, Portugal
and Greece, were reported encienie.
Too Pope will positively go to Paris, to erovni
the Emperor, on the first of May.
The King of Naples was so severely wounded
by an assassin, that it was necessary to amputate
his leg.
Democratic Convention in Georgia.
‘Pile following suggestions from ihe Federal
Union meets with our approval :
It lias been the established usage of (he party to
leave with its Executive Committee the duly of
calling its Conventions. But, during the two years
pist, now issues have broken into the ancient par
ty organizations and temporarily disarranged their
system and government. The Executive Com
mittee that was appointed last year by the Conven
tion, held in this city for the purpose of nominating
an Electoral Ticket, is in some doubt as lo the fur
ther exercise of the power delegated to it by that
Convention. If such be true, in that event the duty
devolves upon the press, to bring the matter before
the Party for consideration. Believing that ihere
will be no official call for this Convention, and con
fident that the public mind is ready for the question.
we beg leave to suggest, that the Convention meet
in this city on the 2nd Wednesday in June next.—
We select this time as being most favorable to every
section of (he State, but are perfectly willing to
unite with the sentiment of the parly in this respect.
We hope our cotemporaries of the press will speak
out, and give us their views and suggestions in the
premises.
In making a call for a Convention of the Party,
wo hope the doors will be thrown open to all sin
cere friends of the present Administration, who are
disposed to act with it in good faith in the support
of a Democratic candidale for Governor.
New Applicant for the New York Collect orship.
Washington, March 24.
Wilson G. Hunt was to-day proposed to the
President for the collectorship of New Y ork
I The struggle now lies between him and Au
; gustns Schell—sure.
NOMINATIONS AND CONHK.M ITIONS—APPLI
CANTS FOlt OFFICII WORK IN THE CENSES
OFFICE, ETC.
Washington, March 24, 1853.
The President to-day nominated John Sli
dell, of Louisiana, as Minister to Central
America; Joseph Laire, as Collector at Pensa
cola, and Mr. Humphries, of Tennessee, as
Judge of that State.
Ihe Satiate confirmed Mr. Money penny, of
Ohio, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and
Judge Mason, of lowa, as Commissioner of
Patents. A considerable number of postmas
ters. registers and receivers of office were also
confirmed. •
“e hear of several removals of clerks in the
different departments.
Major Edward Cantwell, of \V ilmington, is a
prominent candidate for District Attorney of
North Carolina. Ihere is but one other candi
date, Gen. Mcßae, the former incumbent.
It is now said Col. Gorman will not be nomi
nated to the Land office this season.
The five examiners appointed to investigate
the affairs ot the Census office have reported
work enough yet to employ fifty clerks until
the next session of Congress, at least.
The President’s last public levee, this evening,
is thronged, and is a brilliant affair.
[From the N. Y. Tribune.]
Tlie Vacant Judgeship—The Spanish Embassy
—New York Appointments.
W ashington, March 22.
‘ Much to the disappointment of the Southern
( Union Savers, the Supreme Court vacant seat
has fallen to the lot ot the other wing of the
party. John A. Campbell, Esq., of Mobile, who
carries off that prize, was about the most ultra
Secessionist in all the Southern States during
j the late struggle in that quarter over the Gom-
I promise questions. I may truthfully add, that
j though comparatively unknown north of the
! Potomac, (for he has never been in either
I branch of Congress,) lie is about the ablest man
I connected with the ultra State Rights organiza
tion anywhere. That is, he is chock full of
, talent, genius, industry and energy, to say
; n °thing of his proverbial shrewdness as a pol’i
; tician, yet lie is sadly deficient in ballast. He
I fai ! B woefully to carry that in proportion to his
sail. Mr C. is about 45 years of age, not older
and was born in Georgia, whence he emigra
ted to Mobile on entering manhood. For the
last ten years he has been, deservedly, at the
head of the Alabama bar. During the \ash-
I ville Convention times he contributed to the
: 0 T . T cumnDUiea to the
i southern Rights Press the ablest, bitterest, and
most violent articles against the Union {perse
; if I am not much mistaken,) which grew out of
that never-to-be-forgotten controversy. If lam
| not greatly mistaken, Mr. Campbell was not an
applicant for the position, being urged on the
President in all probability chiefly by Col. Jes
ferson Davis His appointment will take cani
i tal, y m his Judicial District, wherein he is ex
ceedingly popular, and as a jurist and as a man
: lie commands the respect and confidence of
j eve T ony -notwithstanding theultraism ofhislate
j secessionist sentiments. Gen. Downs, of Lou
isiana, desired the place, in case he could not
command the Mission to Spain. The appoint,
ment of Campbell to it satisfies me that D will
obtain his first choice, as he is about the oulv
leading Union party Democrat in all the ex
treme South, who deserves and really enjoys
the entire confidence of the President. I have
no idea that Senator Soule entertains the
slightest notion of going abroad ; nor can I con
ceive that he would be sent to Spain under any
pressure in his favor, however enthusiastic the
resident may he in his admiration for certain
peculiar traits in his (Soule’s) public character.
He is decidedly too much of a genius for the
Administration’s purposes at the Spanish Court,
uhere our Representatives for the ensuing four
years may expect to have a far more exciting
time than will be encountered by either of his
colleagues at other European capitals. We
want no dashing diplomatist in that quarter—
no nmn of peculiarly brilliant points—but a
steady, safe going, long-headed, patient and
plodding man—one who carefully lpoks after
small matters appertaining to his duties, and
will, therefore, busy himself in uoting, collat
ing and keeping alive the little items of the ac
cruing account against Spain, which, in time,