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| COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR:
11ERSCHEL V. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN.
FOR CONGRESS:
Ft. DISTRICT JAMES 1,. SEWARD.
lid. DISTRICT A. 11. COLQUITT.
Illd. DISTRICT DAVID J. HAILEY.
lVth. DISTRICT W. B. W. DENT.
Vih. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN.
WEEKLY TIMES AND SENTINEL,
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
Anxious to do our part in preserving the liberties of
the people, and the institutions of the South, by elevat
ing to office in every department of the Government,
good and true Democrats, who will insist upon a rigid
„ adherence to the Constitution, we offer the
WEEKLY TIMES AND SENTINEL,
for catlt in advance, as fu.lows :
$ cts.
One copy till 2d week in October, 50
Five copies, “ “ “ 200
Ten copies, “ “ “ 400
Twenty copies, “ u “ 7 00
Fifty copies, “ “ “ 15 00
One hundred copies “ “ 25 t 0
We are just entering upon a canvass in which a
Governor, members of Congress, members of the Leg
islature, Judges of the Superior Courts, and a United
States Senator will be elected. Every man in Georgia
is deeply interested in the result. The contest will,
therefore, be a stirring one, and afli,rd abundant mate
rial for thought and diseussion.
We will spare no labor to make our paper the vehi
cle of the fullest information upon all points discussed,
and the earliest and most reliable news from all points
of the State during the canvass.
Every citizen is interested in the political opinions of
his neighbor, llis vote affects his life, liberty and
property.
We will devote our entire energies to the advocacy
of the claims of the Democratic candidates, under the
full conviction that the freedom of the States and the
preservation of the Union are involved in the success of
Democratic principles.
“Legion.”
We are pleased to observe that the “facetious editor
of the Enquirer,” as the Milledgeville Recorder terms
him, lias been supposed to say something very clever,
when, in answer to an enquiry for tho name of its new
party, it replied that it was “Legion.” We must con
fess that tlie wit of tho thing does not sparkle on the
Burfuce. and requires some research to bring out; and
after nil the digging and delving after it, we expect its
admirers would rather have a small lump of California
gold. Now “Legion” 1s a collective noun— very col
lective ; mid may be applied to collections o’ the most di
verse and variegated speeics of individuals. The new
party may, therefore, be a legion of patriots, or a legion
of famish, and seikeis after the reins of tbeState Govern
ment, utterly indifferent to political principles, so that the
legion have that prime quality of great numbers
There are legions of Angels, and we have heard of a
legion of Devils ; and the present legion of the En
quirer is the most essentially’ ringed, streaked and
spickled legion of politicians, that was ever sought to
be agglomerated in one body.
Here we have the author of the “Georgia Platform”
recommended to the people of Georgia, oil the ground
that that charming piece of tesselated work “only sav
ed tho Union, but did not save tho South !” Here we
have Ilamilenr Toombs, who swore his children so ter
ribly on that altar, only to stiow his children how easily
tremendous Vows were broken, offering to lead Georgia
to the rescue of Southern Rights I Oil eraekey ! Hero
we have the candidate for Vice Prtsident on the ticket
with Daniel Webster, the gentleman who said the
Buffalo Free Soilers “had certainly stolen the senti
ment from the Whigs ” —who quoted a joke from Swift
to ridicule “the clear ease of petit larceny.”
Vulre el natale Solum ;
Fine words Ii wonder where lie stole ’em :
here we have this gentleman, Jenkins and his friends,
turning up the whites of their pious eyes, because Mr.
Pierce has appointed some repentant Free Soilers to
some small offices ! Oh hypocritical legion ! and here
we have the Columbus Enquirer and the whole array
of tlie Legionary press, pitching into Gen. Pierce
lor tile same offence of appointing Northern men to of
fice. who have accepted the compromise of 1850. and
declared their willingness to abide by it —while these
same Legionaries went it tooth and nail, body and
breeches, and with the perfect abandon and enthusiasm
which only legionaries can get up for “our side,” fop a
mail who, in ic3B, put ill black and white as follows:
Buffalo, Oct 17th, 1838.
Sir—Your communication of tile 15th instant, as Chair
man of a commute,: appointed by tlie “Anti-Slavery So
ciety ol the county of Erie,” has just come to hand. You
solicit my answer to the following interrogatories :
Ist. Do you believe that petitions to Congress on the sub
ject of slavety and the slave trade ought to be received,
read anti respectfully considered bv the representatives of
the peoplo ?
&i. Are you opposed to the annexation of Texas to this
Union, under any circumstances, so long as slaves are held
therein 1
3d. Are you in favor of Congress exercising all the con
stitutional power it possesses to abolish the internal slave
trade between the States ‘1
dth. Are you in favor of immediate legislation for the
abolition ot slavery in the District < f Columbia !
I am much engaged, and have no time to enter into an
argument, or to explain at length my reasons lor my
opinions. I shall therefore content myself for the present bv
answering all your interrogatories in the affirmative, and
leave lor some future occasion a more extended discussion
on the subject. Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
... . MILLARD FILLMORE.
W. Mills, Esq., Chairman.
And here again we find this “Legion” standing on
a platform ! Ye Gods! and such a platform ! a plat
form, not a plank in which does not rise up and de
nounce its U big authors as renegades and apostates
front the Whig principles of“ 0 years’ standing -and
ravishers of some of the very best planks in the platforms
of the Democratic and Southern Rights parties. Thus
has “Legion” branded its own Whig brows with the
mark of apostaev from Whig principles— stamped error
upon its own teachings and preachings for years, and
now, having committed an enormous theft, stands on
the house tops and calls loudly on the people to admire
the virtue, the constancy, tho fixedness of purpose,
the fidehty to principle of this great nameless party.
‘'Little Jack Horner sat in a corner
To eat a Christmas pie,
I,UI1 ,U I j ll his thumb and pulled out a plum
And said, what a pretty boy am 1.”
“Legion”! beautiful legion i Pity that old Faistaff
were not alive to mode] Ills army alter it. A “legion’’
of fleeces, jumping belter skelter over every gap. where
Bellwether Toombs takes a jump. And albeit he
jumps right into the bowels of Whiggery as he did here
at Temperance Hall, and ripping open its bread-basket
exhibits to the eyeß cf Whiggcry itself what a horrid
repertory of corruption it Has been, during all this time
that lie Ims fed and they have patted it—even to the
nnwhiggiog of Whiggery—away they go, shouting and
hurraing, chucking up their hats, and damning the
Democrats all the same, for principles, against princi
ples, or without principles. Give us numbers, give us
legion, and principles be hanged, say they. Didn’t
Toombs make them drop Scott like a hot potatoe ? And
what was Scott but a Whig of the first water? How
was he worse than Ftlltnore, or Corwin, or Seward and
all those other Whig captains the “Legion’’ used to
swear by? And now what has he done ? Why, torn up
the Whig constitution—kicked away the Old Whig
platform and “spat upon ithoisted the Webster
Whigs with Jenkins for their candidate into the top
seats of the synagogue and told the Seott Whigs to
kick up, at I heir peril. Legion by the great boot f you
ought to call the party Toombs, and his coat of arms
should be adorned with the figure of a chameleon ram
pant—with the motto, yttrium et mutalile; and then
when he should conte to survey his “Legion,” the
modern Ilamilcar might wellexciaim :
* a a a leaf onstream,
Lhangelul as awaking dream,
I n°u many-headed monster thirg,
Uli wHo would witah to be thy k n^t”
The Enquirer’s party lacks all the qualities of a Le
gion. A legion has discipline jit is cemented by a
grand purpose and fixed principles; stability is its high
eat characteristic—its own inherent strength is its te-
liance—its looked shields are its invulnerable panoply of
defence—its stout short swords the instruments of its
prowess. It never steals from the cause against which
it is set to fight. It never takes nigh cuts to deceive
its foe, but marches in its strength on the highway to
meet them. A Legion flies but one flag and is true
to it. It never carries snares and nets to “catch birds
of every feather”—a legion in short is a power, a force,
combined of the morale of its cause, and the steel and
sinews of its physical material—and not a mob of stray
and platformless politicians, whose creed has been rudely
snatched away by the very Priests who taught it to
them, and who even without a name , are running about
and begging somebody for meicy’a sake to tell them
who they belong to, and where they are to go.
Pshaw ! Sam, try it again.
The Conservative men ol Georgia and the Ad
ministration.
The Hon. Robert Toombs, who is the embodiment
of “the Conservative men of Georgia,” has uniformly
r declared in all his speeches that he sanctioned the In
augural Address of President Pierce, and would give
his Administration a cordial support if he adhered to
the principles therein set forth. The only instance of
departure from these principles specifically charged by
Mr. Toombs upon the Administration is in the appoint
ment of Abolitionists and Free soilers to the re
sponsible positions of Ministers to Foreign Courts. If
this charge be well founded, it constitutes a valid objec
tion to the Administration in the mouths of Southern
Rights men, though it would be only a political clap
trap when used by Messrs. Toombs and Jenkins, who
not only gave Fillmore’s Administration a cordial sup
port, but advocated the election of Webster to the
Presidency, both of whom w-ere Free soilers.
Is the charge however true ? The following is a list
of our Foreign Ministers: James Buchanan, Minister
i to Kngland—in the diseussion of the Wilmot Proviso
, he advocated the extension of the Missouri Compro
mise line of 36° 30’ to the Pacific ; Pierre Soule,
Minister to Spain, the eloquent Senator from Louisiana,
who has always been in the front rank in the defence of
Southern Bights; James Gadsden, Minister to Mexico,
an eminent citizen of jSouth Carolina, and a devoted
follower of John C. Calhoun ; William Trousdale,
Minister to Brazil, the candidate of the Democracy of
Tennessee for Governor in opposition to the Compro
mise Measures, and a brave soldier of the Republic
in the war with Mexico; Solon Borland, Senator
from Arkansas, and one of the leaders of the opposi
tion to the Compromise—-he also won laurels in the
Mexican war. To this long Jist of eminent men who
have, in every conflict with Northern avarice and am
bition, led the van of Southern resistance, we point
with pride and exultation as a palpable refutation of
the charge that our Foreign appointments have been
given to Free soilers and Aboliiionists. Indeed,
if Governor McDonald had had tho appointing
power he could not have fi led these high offices with
men more devoted to the South. In opposition to this
long array of men devoted to the South, our opponents
point to Peter D. Vroom, the Minister to Prussia, and
charge that lie is a Free soiler. No body seems to
know much about Mr. Vroom. The charge rests
with the N. Y. Evening Post, itself an abolition print,
but recently read out of the Democratic Par y by the
Washington Union , the supposed organ of the Admin
istration. We may therefore reject its testimony,
and believe upon the authority of his endorsement by
the President that he always has been opposed to Free
soilism, or has recanted Ids errors. It is also charged
that Jno. A. Dix lias been tendered the Mission to
France. This is only a Washington rumor, and they
are more usually false than true. Jno. A. Dix is not
Minister to France, and we verily believe never will be.
When ho is appointed, it will be time enough to blame
the President for it.
This charge then of appointing Free soilers and Abo
litionists to office, which is intended to be the chief
corner stone of the Conservative party of Georgia,
amounts to this ‘.President Pierce has given four of the
highest foreign appointments to ultra Southern men ;
one to the most conservative man at the North, who
has always stood square up to the rights of the South ;
and one to a man of doubtful position. This plain
statement of facts utterly condemns the sweeping charge
of the Conservatives that Abolitionists and Free soilers
have been appointed to the Foreign Missions. It is a
foul slander upon the character of a pure and Southern
Administration. Dcs|>erate men will catch at straws ;
on no other ground can we account for the fatuity of
charging Franklin Pierce with sympathy with Abo
litionists and Free soilers. His long public career has
been distinguished by hostility to them from the time
he stood by John C. Calhoun in Congress in his war
upon Abolition petitions to the hour in which he or
ganised opposition to Atwood, the Democratic nominee
fc r Governor of New Hampshire, because he tampered
with the foul fiends, and succeeded in defeating his elec
tion by elevating a friend of the South to the high
office.
No less conspicuous is his hostility to this despicable
faction at this late hour when he has reached tlie high
est pinnace of earthly grandeur. In a late issue of the
Washington Union , the metropolitan Organ of the
Democratic party, two papers, distinguished for the ex
tent of their circulation and the ability of their conduc
tors, have been proscribed for their Abolitionism, and
“denounced as abolitionists sailing under Democratic col
ors.” Let sound thinking men read the article below and
ponder well its contents before they are lured from
their association with a party so true to the South by
the deinagoguical cries of a faction more intent on
personal aggrandizement than the good of the country,
and which is yet reeking with the odor of a foul em
brace with a Free soil Administration.
[From the Washington Union.?
The New York Evening Post and the lSulfitlo
Republic.
The democratic party has suffered more from its asso
ciations for a few years past than from its oj>en enemies.
One of the great objects of the compromise, which was
effected in the Baltimore Convention in 1852, was that
for the future the party might be relieved from all con
nexion with those quasi democrats who claimed fellow
ship with us, but who were constantly furnishing material
to our enemies with which to assail us. The New York
Evening Post and the Buffalo Republic belong to that
class of hangers-on to the democratic party who sail un
der demoeiatic colors, but who are in reality the worst
enemies of the party. They are abolitionists, in fact, and
yet, claiming to be democrats, they have !urnish and the
main grounds upon which the whigs have kept up their
warfare. We deem it our duty to our party to repudiate
all sympathy or connexion with them, and, as far as our in
fluence gin’s, to denounce them as abolitionists sailing un
der democratic colors. They have never stood upon the
creed adopted by the party at Baltimore in 1852—they
do not now recognise that creed as tin* test of democracy—
an 1 for that reason it is an utter perversion of language
and a slander upon our party to call them democrats.—
They do not deserve the respect due to open and avowed
abolition journals ; for, whilst their abolitionism is their
ruling characteristic, they prove themselves dishonest in
professing to belong to a party which they know repudi
ates all sympathy or fellowship with abolitionism.
\\ e have been induced to make these remarks in view
of the late course of the Post and Republic in regard to
’he rumoml interference of Great Britain in converting
Cuba into a black government. Our views on this subject
have not had reference to the simple question of the eman
cipation by Spain of the Slaves in Cuba, but they have
looked to tin- policy of Great Britain in eventually filling
the island with free blacks, and converting it into a black
government, in furtherance of her scheme of breaking up
our coifederacy through the ageucy of the abolition agi
tation. \N e have looked at it as an effort on the part of
Great Britain, through her pretended philanthropy, to
make Spain, in the first place, subservient to her policy of
destroying our government; and having succeeded inin
trodueing into Cuban population of Iree blacks, then to
avail herself of it as the rendezvous and rallying point of
abolitionism. \\ e have regarded it as a scheme by Great
Britain, under the guise of humanity, to become virtually
the owner of ihe island ; and in this point of view, we
have declared that the administration cannot be too vigi
lant in watching tlie movement We have not assumed
to speak by authority on this subject, nor do we suppose
any authority could be necessary in a case which was al
ren Jy so fully and distinctly covered by the foreign policy
of the admin istiation as avowed in the Inaugural. The
Post and Republic place their opposition to these views
distinctly on abolition grounds, and for this reason we
deem auy further notice of their positions to be unneces
sary. We wash our hands of all further association or
connexion with these journals, and we treat them as stand
oig as clearly without the pale of the democratic party as
the New York Tribune or the National Km.
Great activity is shown at ail the military posts *f
b ranee. Detachments of marines cm their way to Tou
lon pass almost daily through Paris. Orders have
been issued to all seamen ou leave of absence, whose
term of service has not yet expired, to proceed forth- ‘
with to Brest, and report themselves to the Admiral.
Orders to have been received at lion
fleur.
Increase of Advertising Patronage.
While all other interests are rejoicing in the in
crease of business which has flowed in upon the com
pletion of our Rail road and the commencement of oth
tr great enterprises of the same sort, by which Columbus
will be made the centre of the immense region lying
between Savannah and Mobile, we will be permitted to
felicitate ourselves at the brightening prospects which
are opening upon us. We are in propinquity to Savan
nah and our readers will trade in her stores. Mobile
will soon be our near neighbor, and our citizens will be
at her door. Commercial men will therefore see the
importance of introducing themselves and their busi
ness to the public through our columns; and farmers
and traders along the line of either road can find pur
chasers for tie ir lands and produce here as readily as
at their own doors.
An earnest of what will be, has already been receiv
ed. We call the attention of our readers to the card
of Messrs. Lockett, Long & Cos., who have recently
formed a copartnership in tho “shipping and forward
ing business,” and located in Savannah. They are well
known to our road* rs as prompt and efficient business
men, and will receive a liberal shs re of public patronage
from this section.
We also invite attention to Mr. Beckham's advertise
ment of bis valuable lands and negroes. Persons who
wish to make investments in this species of property
cannot probably do better than give him a call.
Oh Don’t !
The funny editor of the Lagrange Reporter wants to
know if the “ Times' 1 wasn’t a Fire eater and a Disun
ionist in 1850-51 ? and wasn’t llerschel V. Johnson a
Disunionist, etc., etc., at the same time ?
Well, neighbor, wasn’t you a Whig about three
weeks ago t and ain’t you now a “ Legion?” Answer
us that.
The Girard Railroad.
It is generally supposed that the subscription of one
million of dollars, by Mobile, secures the completion of
this great enterprise. There never was a greater blun
der. It is doubtful whether the Mobile subscription
ever will be made available to the sirard Road. In
deed it is certain that without a prompt and munificent
subscription by the city of Columbus to the work, it
will be lost entirely, and appropriated to securing a
connection between Mobile and Montgomery. The
Mobile subscription is clogged with conditions. At a
late meeting in that city, the following limitations were
annexed to the subscription :
3d. That the moneys or other means derived from
this subscription, be appropriated exclusively to the work
between this cit and a point in Butler county, at or near
Greenvilh . which appropriation and also the sale of the
bonds issued under this act, shall Ik; under the special
supervision and direction of the Mobile portion of the
board of 1 )irce ors.
4th. That tin* location of the road near and at the Mo
bile t rmintis, shall be under the side control uni direction
of the city of Mobile.
sth. That the authorities of this city be assured by the
most satisfactory evidence of the ability of the Company to
put the whole road in complete running order within
three years.
bth. That branches from Montgomery and Selma,
and other points in the State of Alabama, shall be per
mitted to join the road at any time and place they may
select, and that no discriminating charges shall be exacted
at any time, on any party of said road.
7th. That no bonds shall be issued by virtue of this or
dinance until the location of the rival shall have been
made by the cry, and tin Minor shall have been duly
notified by the said Girard Railroad Company that the
subscription is received and accepted, subject to the fore
going conditions.
It is perfectly apparent, therefore, that Mobile is not so
much solicitous about the completion of the Girard
Railroad, as f>r a Railroad from any quarter , which
will connect her with the Atlantic ocean. lienee, the
proviso in relation to “branch* s from Montgomery and
Selma, and other points in the State of Alabama/’—
She is bent on building a main trunk to Greenville,
but once thin point is reached, she will strike a bargain
with the best bidder. In order, therefore, to link Mo
bile on to the Girard Road, we must meet her at Green
ville. Nay, more, we must meet her there in three
years. Look at the sth proviso. She will do nothing
towards the completion of the Girard Road unless she
is “assured by the most satisfactory evidence of the
ability of the company to put the whole road in com
plete running order within three years.” There is no
mistaking this language. She requires us to respond
to her munificence, and place the early completion of
tho road beyond contingency, or she will dissolve all
connection with us, accept the proposition now being
rigorously urged to unite with Montgomery in building
a road from that city to Mobile, for which a charter
was granted by the last Legislature, and thus force the
Girard Railroad company to build its road alone and
unaided from terminus to terminus, or from a disadvan
tageous connection with the Mobile and Montgomery
Railroad at Greenville.
What is the remedy ? We answer, emphatically,
the city of Columbus ought to subscribe for three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars additional stock in
the Girard Railroad. There is no mistake ab tit tlie
proposition. She must do it or lose her vantage
ground. It is impossible for the Girard Railroad com
pany to build the road from Girard to Greenville with
her present means. Columbus can, however, do it
without trouble, without risk and without taxation.—
The corporation owns one hundred and seventy thou
sand dollars worth of Muscogee Railroad stock, which
is now selling at 1)5 cents on the dollar, and which will
heat par in a month. Let her sell this stock and is
sue her bonds payable in 25 years for one hundred and
eighty thousand more, and invest the proceeds in the
Girard Railroad. In three years the ears will run from
Mobile to Columbus in a day; and long, long before the
first bonds mature for which the city is liable, tlie stock
of the Girard road will be at par and can be sold and
the debt paid without the loss of a dollar to the city.—
But, though we make this suggestion, we have no idea
that the city of Columbus will plunge into this seeming
extravagance. She is a cautious city, and her council
is an exceedingly cautious body. Notwithstanding, we
think somewhat can be done by the city of Columbus.
It was generally agreed that the iron for the road as
far as Union Springs, a distance of fifty-two miles,
should be furnished by the city ; and by the estimates
then made, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars was
thought to be enough to accomplish this object ; and if
the bonds of the city had been promptly issued, the
iron could have been bought with the city subscription.
But unfortunately the issue of the bonds was delayed
a twelvemonth, and in the meantime iron had risen
100 per cent. The city subscription therefore will on
ly pay for one half the iron needed on the road as far
as Union Springs. The city is therefore in some sort
bound to double her subscription or fail to keep her
promise of providing the iron for the first 52 miles of
the road. This she can do either by selling her in
terest in the Muscogee Railroad or by the issue of her
bonds. Either mode would be acceptable to the Girard
Railroad company. This much the city of Columbus
ought to do, and we believe will do, hut here she trill
stop.
When the road reaches Union Springs, the full
benefit, of the enterprise will he realised by our com
mercial interests. All the trade that we can hope to
secure by the completion of the entire line will be se
cured as soon as the road reaches Union Springs.—
From that point westward, Mobile will be our success
ful competitor. By the completion of the road we would
gain somewhat by the trade it would bring through
our city and over the Muscogee road, and some slight
facilities would be afforded to our Grocers at particular
seasons of the year. But this interest is too slight to
induce us to hope that the city will strain her credit to
fill up the gap between Union Springs and Greenville,
when it is evident that other interests are more imme
diately interested in making the connection complete.
The city of Savannah, the Central, tlie South-western
and the M sc ogee Railroads, are all more immediately
interested in the completion of the Girard Railroad
than is the city of Columbus. If Mobile shall unite
with Montgomery in connecting these two cities by rail,
and the Girard road shall stop at Union Springs, the
immense western trade and travel which will seek the
Atlantic by Railroad will pass over the Montgomery
and West Point road, and the bulk of it be lost to Sa
vannah, the Central, the South-western and the Mus
cogee Railroads; whereas, by the completion of the
Girard road the whole of it will pass over this line and
pour its enriching flood over tho roads which connect
us with Savannah. We confess our surprise at the in
difference of these corporations to this great enterprise.
The timely expenditure of a very small amount of mon
ey now on the gap between Union Springs and Green
ville will secure to Savannah a Gulf connection in three
years, which will quadruple the money invested long
before she can hope to reach Pensacola or any other
point on the Gulf by any other route. We invite the
attention of the Savannah press to a discussion of this
very interesting subject; as we are sure, if the immense
advantages of this connection were properly considered,
there would not be a moment’s delay in its early com
pletion.
Death of (>eu. Shorter.
We have received the melancholy intelligence of the
sudden death, by Apoplexy, of Gen. R. C. Shorter, of
Eufaula, Ala. For many years a distinguished and use
ful member of society—his loss will he greatly felt by
: the community in which he has so long lived.
The Spirit of the South.
We regret to find in the last Spirit of the South
that E. C. Bullock, Esq., has retired from the editori
al chair of that paper, for the present. He thinks the
harmony of the party demands that that paper be neu
! tral in the contest between Clopton and Abercrom
bie in their race for Congress, and as he is decidedly in
favor of the election of Abercrombie, “for his recent
manly and Southern course,” he retires to a private
position, in order that he may be free to follow the con
victions of his judgment. The paper will in future be
edited by J. M. Buford, Esq We are not disposed
to quarrel with Mr. Bullock for the course lie has pur
sued. We know he has been actuated by the sincerest
convictions of duty. We are compelled to pursue a
diametrically opposite course. We give all praise to
Capt. Abercrombie for his patriotic position in oppo
sition to the faction which would have surrendered
Southern honor and interests to the abolition influences
which would have triumphed in the election of General
Scott to the Presidency ; but when the alternative .is
presented before us of giving our votes to a man who
stood up fearlessly for Southern Rights in the dark
hour of our terrible agony, and lias through life steadi
ly and consistently advocated the Democratic principles
which so signally triumphed in the election of Frank
lin Pierce to the Presidency, and another who wag
ed a bitter war upon both, and has only learned to ad
mire them since his own party lias given the clearest
indications of abolition tendencies, we cannot hesitate
in the course which honor and duty dictate. We go
for Clopton heart and soul. We regret that we have
not the co-operation of so able a man as Mr. Bullock
in this good work.
City Improvement*.
This evening, Columbus is to receive its first
gas light illumination. It will be a novelty that
will attract attention, and it is one of the marks of im
provement in the economy and convenience of living in
this city. After all that in said about Railroads, it is
local improvements at last that we are to depend upon
for the growth of this city in population and prosperity.
Internal development is what we need, and whatever
home enterprise tends to add an additional inhabitant
to the place, is the enterprise that we should cherish
and foster. It iscalculattd that one operative in a fucto
try, one artisan, mechanic or individual engaged in in
dustrious pursuit, is worth as much to the city as the
| sale of 50 bags of cotton—because one of these indi
i viduals spends as much money in the community as the
1 planter of 50 bales of cotton. Sea port towns derive
j their growth largely from foreign commerce—but what
i would even tlie city of New York he without the tliou
! sands upon thousands of persons who arc engaged in
i industry in that city ? Vast as her trade is—many as
are the heads and hands, and huge as is the capital rc-
I quired tooonduct her immense commerce—it may be
| safely said that New York owes half of her population
to the manufactures and arts that are carried on within
her limits. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Unveil are fine
examples of what industry does towards the augmenta
tion of population and wealth. Columbus has extraor
| dinary advantages in this respect, Beautifully located,
j with a salubrious climate, a fine surrounding country,
j a water power unparalleled and exhaustless, and with
| admirable and rapid communications to distant points,
there is no reason why an enlightened improvement of
her natural advantages should not double ami treble
the present population To accomplish this, it is a mat
| ter of the greatest importance that the water power that
wastes its riches by our door, should be placed in a con
dition for permanent and regular use. All doubts of
the stability of the works must be removed before capi
tal will be tempted to line the river bank with factories
of every species of fabric and commodity. This should
be done at any cost, and the city of Columbus should
sec to it, that it is done, either by the present owners
of the franchise—or if they cannnotor will not, by the
city itself, after having reclaimed the grant on proper
compensation to the present grantees. This water
power, rightly used, has in itself the elements of a
steady population of 10,000 souls.
Another thing wanted is, to invite population by im
provements in the economy, commerce and luxury of
living. We have gas—we now want an abundant supply
of pure water—and we want one or more good hotels.
In this last particular, it is difficult to estimate how
much this city has suffered for the last 15 years, and
it would be a curious table of statistics that would show
us at a glance, how many strangers have avoided Co
lumbus, or hurried from it, when obliged to coirte here,
on account of the discomforts of hotel accommodations.
Audit would be instructive to learn how much money has
been lost to the community from these circumstances.
Fruit.
Our friend, R. J. Moses, Esq., has sent to our sanc
tum a branch from a Nectarine tree, covered with rich,
red and ripe fruit. We wish we could daguerreotype it
to tho minds of each of our readers as it now sparkles in
our eyes.
But we despair; it is one of those good and beautiful
things of earth that need to be personally enjoyed
in order to be appreciated; and we now lay down
our pen to take one. Here goes reader, don’t
you wish you had one ? We are sure vie do.
We would not exchange the bunch of Nectarines be
fore us for the three golden apples of the Ilesperides
which Hercules bamboozled the stupid giant Atlas into
plucking for him ; for the apples we “read of,” but
the Nectarines we possess in full and actual fruit-ion.
We Columbus-ites are in luck. With Peabody on
one side of us, making us strawberries half the year, wa
tered from the spring of Ferine ; and our friend Moses,
imitating Maecenas ou the other, and growing peaches
of richer tint and flavor than ever melted on the palate
of Roman luxuriousness —we have nothing left to wish
for but health anti long life to these two worthy citi
zens, who are so much greater than the man who
made “two blades of grass to grow where but one
grew before,” as strawberries and peaches are better
than green grass.
We see, by the way, that fruit from the garden and
orchard of both of these gentlemen has appeared in
tho Savannah market; and the last Southern steamer
to New York carried out a number of baskets of peach
es to astonish the palates of some of the Gothamites.
The Watermelon.
Peabody must write a special essay upon Watermelons.
We, with some of our friends, discussed one in our
office the other day of his raising, which, by unani
mous consent, was the watermelon of the season.
It weighed thirty-five pounds—“red meat and black
seed”—and its size was its smallest recommendation.
It beat his Strawberries all hollow.
Como, Peabody, show us your hand upon Water
melons in the next number of “The Soil.”
The Telegraph —Elam Alexander, Esq., of Macon.
Ga., President of the Washington and New Orleans
Telegraph Company, declined a re-election at the late
annual meeting of the Stockholders, at Washington
city, and Mr. S. Mooney, of Charleston, has been elec
ted President of the Company in bis place.
A dividend of five per cent, from the profits of their
operations was declared, and tlie Report of the Presi
dent exhibited a satisfactory condition of the affairs of
the Company.— Sar. Rep.
Immense Lump of Gold. —The “Un ion” is informed
by Mr. Young, from Nevada, that on Friday last a
miner brought into that place a lump of gold, mixed
with quartz, which weighed forty-five or fifty pounds,
of which twenty-five pounds consisted of pure gold.
This magnificent nugget was dug on Hopkins’ Creek.
Consular Appointments. — Washington, July B.
The Republic announces the appointment of E. Wor
rell, of Delaware, as Consul at Matanzas, and J. L.
Nelson, of Maryland, as Consul at Turks Island.
Death of Mrs. Forsyth.
It is with feedings of deep sorrow and profound sympr
t iy with the bereaved relatives, that we announce the death
r n Sunday morning last, of Mrs. Cura Forsyth, widow
of the Hon. John Forsyth,aged 62 years. This venerable
lady, so long known and esteemed in our community for
all the virtues of the enri-tian—her sympathy with the dis
tressed—her kindness to the poor—lter private and domestic
virtues endearing her to a largo circle of kindred and fiends,
produce? a feeling of gloom which leaves us unsolaced,
but in the reflection that her life was well spent, and at a
green old age, with her children and friends around her. she
has bid adieu to this life to reap her reward in a brighter
and better world.
For many years, Mrs. Forsyth has mingled in the social
circles of Georgia, the honored and loved relict of her dis
tinguished husband, who, when he was taken from us, lef,
us more, endeared to his widow, as having shared with
him through a long and eventful life the honors and fatigues
which public stations involve. Regarded wherever she
went with respect and veneration, she endeared all to her
self by a refinement and sympathy of deportment graced
with a Christian charity and meekness that makes tho lov
ly more loved, and the good the more revered.
The funeral sermon was preached yesterday morning by
the Rev. Mr. Scott, of the Episcopal Church, of which
she had long been a constant and dove ted member.
Buenos Ayres. —Accounts from Buenos Ayres to
the 22d of May announce that the Bolivian and Bra
zilian Ministers, finding it impossible to come to terms,
had broken off the negotiations for peace. The block
ade of the port by Urquiza bad been vigorously en
forced since the 13th of May. and was acknowledged by
all the foreign agents—vessels which arrived previous
to the 13th, however, were allowed till the 3d of June
to discharge. The Buenos Ayreans were making the
most strenuous exertions to defend themselves, and the
Legislature had authorized the issue of ten millions of
dollars in paper money (worth about six cents on the
dollar) for the purpose of prosecuting the war to the
last extremity. The importations of produce had en
tirely ceased, provisions and fuel were becoming scarce,
and it would be extraordinary if the inhabitants should
be able to hold out many months longer. Rumors
were current, that the Constituent Congress, in session
at Santa Fe, had deposed Urquiza, as Provincial Direc
tor, arid ordeied the siege to be abandoned under pen
alty of excommunication. But it is doubtful whether
the Director would pay any attention whatever to the
demands of the Congress ; indeed, at the latest dates,
it was reported that he was preparing to make a sys
tematic attack on the city ; if so, the unfoitunate people
are probably, by this time, again subject to his mercy.
[A r . Y. Herald.
The deaths in New York last week were 405, as re
ported by the City Inspector. This is a decline of 156
from the previous week. Os the deceased, 45 died of
cholera infantum, 39 of convulsions, 34 of consumption,
28 of dropsy in the head, 23 of diarrhoea, 6 of sun
stroke, and 14 of dysentery. Os the whole number,
222 were under two years of age.
Mr. John R. Johnson has been appointed by the
President, United States Marshal for the District of
Georgia, vice \\ . 11. C. Mills, resigned.
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
Mr. Editor: —The Mobile and Guard Railroad enter
prise is stronger at the Mobile end than at this end. This
is a fact that should attract theseiious attention of the city
of Columbus, and of all those who, living on the line be
tween Girard and Greenville, Ala., are interested m the
speedy construction of the work.
The million subscribed by the city of Mobile is. by the
terms ot the subscription, to he expended on the southern
end ot the route, between Greenville and Mobile. This
condition Mobile had a right to make, and exercised only
a common prudence in making. And this million, added
to the private subscriptions in the city of Mobile and in the
counties through which the line will pass, has rendered
the completion of the lower end of the route more certain
than the Girard end. What is the conclusion ? It is that
renewed and more vigorous efforts than have yet been made,
must be put forth to hold up our corner of the great work.
We must put our shoulders to the wheel—we must put our
hands in our purses. ‘l’his is the only way to carry for
ward great enterprises. Presidents, and Directors, and En
gineers, good wishes, ardent aspirations and warm lauda
tions will not answer the purpose. They will not turn up
a spadeful of earth, or produce a yard of excavation or em
bankment. There must be money in it—there must be the
power oraasociated effort applied to it. “Many mickles
make a niuckje ” and while no one man need break his
hack in the lilt ,if all hands take hold with a cheerful spirit
and good will, it is astonishing how much can he accom
plished. It requires, 1 understand, some $350,000 to 8400.-
000 additional capital to take the road to Union Springs
This is a big pile of money per se, but it is small in propor
tion to the magnitude of the resulting benefits. It will turn
30,000 bags of cotton to Columbus It will open a market
for Columbus goods, heretofore entirely closed to them. It
will bring thousands of people to our streets who are now
strangers to them. The time has come, Mr. Editor, to
make a great effort. The enterprise is started—all are sat
isfied that it is a great enterprise and hound to he a paying
one. Those who have put their hands to the plough must
not look back. Those who have done nothing must bo
appealed to to do their part of a great public duty. The
city of Columbus should come forward with its credit to
push the. work. There is no danger of loss. If the route
of a railway is a good one, credit can be not only safely
but profitably employed. If the writer possessed the credit
of the city of Columbus, and could raise a million of dollars
cm liis bonds at 20 years to invest in this road, lie would
not hesitate an instant to do it, not doubting that the stock
and profits would handsomely recompense him. The only
danger to a city subscription of this sort is to roads on bad
mutes. Ascertain that the route lies through a region pro
ductive of commodities for transportation and travel,
and there is no longer room for hesitation and doubt. 1
believe,sir, that the city of Columbus can, with entire safe
ty and with every reasonable prospect of handsome remu
neration, subscribe half a million of dollars to the Girard !
Road. This was the view taken in Mobile. The people !
there with perfect unanimity satisfied themselves that it was i
a paying route, and they were as ready to subscribe two ]
millions as one. They did cheerfully, and at once, sub- ‘
scribe for all that was asked.
Our Council, Mr. Editor, has proved itself to be a timid I
body. It lacks all the qualities of enterprise. Its policy is;
“masterly inactivity,” and it depends tor the approbation of :
the people upon its well established character for doing j
nothing. These are not the qualities for the times. This j
is a movement age ; and while all the world besides is put- j
ting forth its energies, our people are not pleased to see its ’
city authorities asleep like a great fat turtle on the waters j
which are heaving with the energy of grand cuterpri-es.
Mr. Editor, let our Alderinanic fathers Ik; waked up from j
this lazy sleep. Let the demands of the expanding age he I
thundered in their care, until Rip Van Winkle shall shake
the slumber of apathy from heavy eyelids and open them to
tlie light of gigantic progress, which bathes in its rays of
hope and civilization all around him. I suggest a public
meeting ot the people of Joluinbus, to speak their senti
ments on this subject. I know, sir, that the go-ahead spirit
is in our people as in others. I know that others feel
ashamed, as does the. writer, that Columbus has been ever
lastingly a laggard behind all her sister communities in the
spirit ol improvement. 1 know that we built the Muscogee
Road 5 years too late, and while we were talking about the
expense and the expediency, we lost trade, travel, interest
and money enough to have built another of the same length.
1 know that the people of Columbus do not wish their pres
ent and greatest enterprise to drag along its crippled exis
tence for ten years, when a combined and hearty pull will
put it through in three years ; and I know that al! we want
is a man of action and energy, like Maj. Howard—a man
who will take no negative to a true proposition, and who
practically adopts the Richelieu motto of “never say fail”
to arouse our people to an efficient action and crown our
gr.tiid enterprise with success.
I beg to enquire in passing, why the. Muscogee Railroad
has done nothing to encourage and help the Girard Road.
Do they mean to rest content with the branch feeder from
Opelika, and do nothing to open a trunk that will pour its
full tide of profits into its coffers ? Can this be the narrow
policy of the Muscogee Road ? Within a few days a con
centration of the various chartered interests of Alabama,
Mississippi and Tennessee has been effected, and a railway
fiom Mobile to New Orleans is now a fixed fact. The
Girard Road lies right in the track of transit over that road
for the trade and travel from Boston to San Francisco.
When the New Orleans and Mobile Road is done, from
Girard to Mobile will be the only gap. Who does not see
the vast importance of filling ir up l and who can calculate
the mighty flow of profitable business that will be attracted
to it ? L<rt us have action. CITIZEN.
[for thf. times and sentinel.]
Mr. Editor : The figures of my communication in Wed
nesday’s tri-weekly Times and Sentinel require correction,
and through an inadvertence are likely to convey false in
formation.
I said that from 8350 to 8100,000 additional aid to the
capital stock of the Girard and Mobile Railroad Company
was required to carry the road to Union Springs. This can
be effected with an additional capital of only §150,000 to
§200,000.
The resources of the company in round numbers are a?
follows ;
Resources applicable to the route between Girard and
Greenville, lit) miles, §1,300,000. Resources applicable to
the route from Greenville, to Mobile, including city of Mo
bile subscription,§l,4oo,ooo,-—makingthe total capitalofthe
company §2,700,000. To complete the road from Girard
to Greenville will require §600,000, and anew subscription
of from §350.000 to §400,000 will enable the company to
reach Greenville, using its credit fur the deficiency! And
this is what i should have said, instead of saying that it
would take the figures mentioned to reacli Union Springs.
Now, the real interest of the city of Columbus in thi
road does not, in the opinion of many persons, go beyond
Union Springs. If we tap that country and the road stop
there,it is supposed that we draw all the trade from that
direction which can be available to us. Although not giv
ing in to this contracted view of the question, 1 am willim?
to assume that Columbus should pat forth her power and
credit no further thi.n is necessary to reach that point
Mobile and her partners in interest along the line will
build from the Southern terminus to Greenville. The city
ol Montgomery, the M. and W.P. Railroad and the Geor
gia Railroad interests will be sure to fill the gap of 45
miles from Greenville to Montgomery, thus making a con
tinuous line of road from Mobile Bay to Augusta and
Charleston. There then remains a gap bet* een Union
Springs and Grecovi]Je. and that gap, the city of Savanna .
and the Railroad companies between Savanuah and tins
place, can never allow to remain open without a palpably
shortsighted disregard to their own interests. If they do,
the upper roads will always take the lion’s share of the bu
siness. This then would seem to be the natural division
of the burthens of this great enterprise. Mobile, having the
heaviest stake in it, takes the heaviest part of the work, (in
distance, at least, although a great part of the work is
th ough a country highly favorable for Raiiroad work J and
1 uilds the. 115 miles to Greenville ; Columbus builds 52
miles to Union Springs; and the Muscogee, South Western,
and Central Roads complete the chain by 80 miles of road
to Greenville.
There, arc some considerations why the last mentioned
companies and the city of Savannah should not be slow iu
taking hold of this project. This is a fast ago in which we
live. Men’s brains are teeming with projects, and they fol
low so fast on tin* heels ot one another, that the aspects of
the'enterprises of to-day may he seriously a fleeted and chang
ed by those of to-morrow. Thepeople of Savannah, alarmed
at the rising importance of Brunswick, and dreading the
rivalry of so near a neigubor, with so fine a harbor and
competitor for a vast trade from the same country that now
seeks its outlet at Savannah, are spending a great deal of
ink, and perhaps money, to counteract the efforts of the
Brunswickers and their friends to open channels tor this
trade to that port. Instead of running a road to tap the
Brunswick enterprises at the nearest point—and which, at
last, is the whole amount of defensive and counteractive
effort they can make—they speak of extending that road to
Pensacola. When they have completed this gigantic un
dertaking they will find that they have been working as
much for Brunswick as for Savannah—for Brunswick has
only to join that road to derive all the benefits from it that
Savannah can.
The great object of Savannah should be to reach the
Gulf of Mexico in the shortest time and by the most practi
cable route. P>y way of Columbus 300 miles of a route is
already in operation. The means for the remaining 230
miles is more than two-thirds provided for. Does it not
seem the dictate of reason to seize upon and help complete
this line at the earliest possible moment ? Let Brunswick
build railways where she pleases— to the moon or any of
the planets—Savannah will have done all the can do, to
draw trade from Westward of Brunswick when she lays
j down a rail between that city and her own port.
But there is another idea started, which is growing rapid
Iv into probability, and in this rapid age, may soon grow
into a reality. It is an air line from the city of Colum
bus to the port of Brunswick. In two years 00,000 bags
of cotton will be distributed from this point, and as Bruns
wick is 60 mile* nearer as a shipping port than Savannah, it
requires small skill in figures to show’ which direction this
trade would take. With such a road, and a branch con
necting this city w ith West Point, Brunswick would become
the shipping city of all of South- Western and Western
Georgia, and would compete with Savannah for the great
flux of trade that is destined to flow down the State Road
from and through Tennessee and the West With a road
hence to Brunswick, what would become of the Muscogee
Road, and how’ far would the profits of the South-Western
and Central Ronds be curtailed ? Nay, how dimmed would
be the now brilliant prospects of the ci y of Savannah,
which is just entering upon the fruition of its grand and
sagacious enterprise l Now, there is sometimes great wis
dom in taking “time by the forelock,” and instead of mak
ing nervous and spasmodic efforts to prevent a rival from
reaping a trade due her, by the legitimacy ot her natural
position, would it not be wiser in Savannah to secure and
lay fast hold of the prizes she has already done s-> much to
make her own ? Had she not fietter establish the Gulf
route hy her own road, the Muscogee and Girard and
Mobile loads,and hy so doing secure allies here to oppose
the direct line hence to Brunswick, and in so tar, do away
with the necessity of another line I CITIZEN.
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
Girard and Mobile Railroad.
Mr. Editor : As the great Daniel Webster once said
i in the celebrated debate with Col. HAYNEupon Foote’s res
; olutions, “it is necessary sometimes to pause and take an
j observation to see where we are.” &o. So do 1 think it
becomes the duty, as 1 fed it is the interest of the citizens of
: Columbus at this particular juncture, to look around and
! eoe how we are likely to be affected by the great railroad
| projects of the day. It is certain that railroads are destined
to wield a mighty and controlling influence in building up
and pulling down cities. Hence it is important for us as
| a commercial city to improve every opportunity to secure
their advantages. Columbus at this time occupies a strong
position. She has only to be prompt and bold, and suc
cess is certain. Let us glance at her position. The Mus
cogee road completed and in operation. The Opelika
road rapidly advancing. The Girard and Mobile road go
ing ahead at this end, and Mobile preparing to meet us at
the other. The subscription to tin* Eufaula connection
nearly made up. The New Orleans and Mobile road
i about being surveyed, and which will as certainly be built.
; These roads, when finished, will (with the Chattahoochee
i liver) give us decided advantages. Montgomery sees this.
Her people see that Selma, Columbus, and Mobile are
about to shut her out. Montgomery fears that the Opelika
| road will not s*op at that point, but will be extended into
tlu* rich counties of Talladega, Tuscaloosa and westwaid.
’ She sees the vast and rich productions on the lin* ot the
i Girard and Mobile road about to he snatched out of her
j grasp ; hence she is straining every nerve to prevent Mobile
! from aiding the road to Girard. She is doing all she can
to divert her late subscription of one million of dollars, and
i it is to be feared she may succeed. She has every motive,
j Self preservation is the first law of nature, and we may ex
; poet her utmost efforts to breakdown the Girard road.
How is this to be prevented? Columbus must arouse her-
I self; she must act promptly and boldly. The Girard road
; must go on—it must be built. Three hundred and fifty
j thou-and dollars more will secure it. Columbus must lend
; her credit for that amount. Yes, fora halt a million, if
I necessary. Let her dispose of her stock in the Muscogee
- road—this can be done at par, or nearly so—putting her
jin good credit,ami which will enable her to lend tier bonds
on long time, to the company, and my word for it, her
; stock in the road will more than pay her back the invest
ment. Has any one been injured hy the city’s subscrip
| tion to the Muscogee Road ? Not one, I presume. All will
j admit that the Girard anti Mobile Road is equally if not
; a more important road to us than the Muscogee. The
| stock will certainly be better. Columbus has it now in her
power to secure herself in her strong position. One from
which it will he difficult hereafter to dislodge her. 1 there
fore suggest that the Mayor, or his proxy in his absence,
j call a meeting of the city at an early day, to take this mat
ter into consideration 1 understand that several of our
ablest men will address the citizens, explaining the impor
! lance of this subject in all its bearing.
AN UP TOWN MAN.
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
j * * * “We do not say that Major Colquitt would not
| fight if it were necessary, wo only sty that as deputy pay
master he was not expected to fight. It was not his voca
tion. He was not sent to Mexico to fight, and didn’t tight.”
f Enquirer .
.The Enquirer is singularly unfortunate in the statements
of this paragraph. The truth is just the reverse of the state
ment. The fact is this : Maj Colquitt went to Mexico
| as an officer in the Pay Department, not to fight, hut when
! he got there he did fight. He was at Head Quarters at
j Buena Vista, when Santa Anna with a picked army of
| 20 000 men was advancing on Gen. Taylor with a handful!
of regulars and 4500 volunteers. The enemy was numerous,
the Americans few. Maj. Colquitt, although not in the
: fighting department of the army, felt that his countrymen
| needed all the help that was possible on that eventful day ;
; and he promptly volunteered his services as an Aid to Gen.
Taylor. Hisservices were accepted, and he served through
out the whole battle, by the side ol Gen. Taylor, except
| when dispatched by him on the more dangerous duty of
; carrying orders to the different regiments engaged over that
| wild field of carnage. If Gen. lay lor was exposed to peril
| and fought on that day, so did Maj. Colquitt, for while we
suppose that Gen. Taylor did not with his own hand “slay
i a Mexican” at Buena Vista, it will n the contended on that
j account that Gen. Taylor “did not fight” at Buena Vista,
j And while it is not likely that Maj. Colquitt killed any body
l with his own hand, his exposure to the most dangerous
| duty on the field of battle—that of Aid-de-Camp to the Gen
eral in command—entitles him to the mont of having
fought at Buena Vista.
The Enquirer could not have made a more palpable
mistake; aud as a friend of the Democratic candidate, I
am obliged to the Editor for bringing this subject before the
people. And I submit, if Gen. Taylor’s labors and perils
ou that memorable day entitled him, unfitted -as be confess
edly was by education and habit, to be made President of
this great Republic, that Major Colquitt hy the same token
earned tlie more humble place of a representative in Con
gress.
And now, Mr. Editor, since the Enquirer has thought pro
per to discuss with disparaging flippancy the claims of the
y-mng Democratic candidate, peirrut me to ask what has
tlie Hon. James Johnson ever done for his country or man
kind, to win lor him the applause of the public ? Show us
his monuments. Show us tlie first trace of hi? public spirit
on tlie annals of his District Did he ever volunteer to fight
the battle? ot his country ? Has lie ever done any thing as
a civilian to exhibit him in the light of an active, useful,
energetic and enterprising member of society ? What en
terprise ot a public character lias he ever headed or aided ?
When and where did he ever make a speech, or wield a
pen in behalf of any movement in which the community
ol which he forms a pait was interested ? I say as a public
spirited man his life has been a blank. Railroads/i’ole
graphs,Gas W orks, Water Works, all projects in short
which challenge the energies and stir the spirit of a soul that
sympathises with the well-being and progress of civilized
society, have all cot along without the slightest assistance
tiom Mr. Johnson. .Not that Mr. Johnson has not vivacity
euougli not that he has not talent enough to have enabled
him to make his mark, wide and deep,on the current events
ol the active times in which he lives—but all this vivacity
and ijll this talent has been exjiended on party polities,and
Mr. Johnson’s own private and personal affairs. And pray,
what has Air. Johnson done during two sessions ofCon
gress to entitle him to tho applause which your neighbor
bestows on him for “statesmanship.” <fcc. ? We ask again
lor his monuments in Mis field ol rfioit? Where are they?
Echo answers “where ?”
V\ e humbly think, Mr. Editor, that the Enquirer has cot
enough to do, to sustain with fact and argument, the puffed
up dimensions of its own candidate, without detracting
with sneers that illy become that Editor s lips, from the
modest reputation of the young Democrat who has been
called to the field of contest for Congressional honors.
Look to your own doors, aud beware that the fancied and
charmed invincibility of your candidate who has done noth
ing for society or for mankind, is not broken by a youth,
whose private character is t-potiess, and who has exhibited
pub io spirit and love of count; y enough to ride by the side oi
Zaeha.y Taylor, throughout the w’holc of the bloody day ot
Buena Vista. Prove your candidate’s claims to the admi
ration ot his countrymen—show* us his deeds. We ask for
one ol them—a single and w’hen you make the show
ing, we bar the production (1 tne only claim you can pro
duce—and that was that two years ago he deserted the
Democratic party and went over to the Wnigs. Jf this
makes Mr. Johnson great—then he is great —besides this, he
has done nothing. DEMOCRAT.
SrGovernor Cobh and family arrived in this
ctv Friday night, and left on Saturday in the
steamship Augusta lor Now York.— Sava/mah Re
publican lL h vast.
Mail Carrier Arrested. —The Augus'a Const itu
tionalist learns from J. 1). Frierson, Esq., the in
lefatigable Po-t Office that on ihe second
instant he arrested George Smith, a mail carrier oj
the route between Mi ledgeville and Covington, and
succeeded iu recovering a portion cf the money la
ten by him- Smith has been committed to jail iL
Milledgeville.
Democratic Meeting in Hibb— Union Demo
crats in it.
In noticing this meeting, whieli was held in Macon
on Saturday, the Georgia Citizen says ;
“We notice that Gen. J. \\ . Armstrong, a Union
Democrat, w’as president of the meeting, and that
C. B. Cok*, another Union Democrat, won appointed ~u
the Committee to report business. From a letter in th.
last Journal & Messenger, we perceive that Cos). A. 11.
ChapjM-11, another Union Democrat, has also given in his
adhesion to the re-organized dynasty. Thus we go.
The most of those in this section who were Constitutional
Union Den oerats iu 1850, and who then co-opeiati <1
with Jcnk.ns in erecting the ‘Georgia Platform,’ h; iV ,.
no confidence, whatever, in the political wisdom of those
who met at Milledgeville on the 22d June. Col. Chap
pell expressly repudiates the idea that the convention of
that day revived or rt-organized the Union Party of Geor
gia, and positively declines identifying himself with those
under whose banner he would inevitably find him. self in a
position of alliance w ith the National Whig Party and of
hostility to the National Democratic, to which lie lias
been long attached, and in which he siill has con
fidence.
“We are not prepared to say that Col. Chappell is in
error in his views of the ease, though his position with
the .Southern Rights Party is certainly not free from dii
ficuitics. He is honestly opposed to disunion sentiments
and yet finds himself co-operating with those who but
lately held them. Three years since he buttled manfully
ns a leader in behalf of the Union and the Constitution.
Now, he goes to the foot of the class in the Southern
Rights school, and must spell up, if he is not rt markably
favored above others of his stamp ! Well, this was all the
Colonel could well do, under tlie circumstances, unless
he stood aloof entirely from both parties. Mr. TootnU’
new sectional parly has certainly no fascinations for any
lover of the Rational Union , and we do not marvel at tie
Union Democrats refusing alliance with it.”
COUNCIL CHAMBER, Macon, July 8, 1853.
At a joint meeting of the Macon Volunteers and
Floyd Rifles, tlie following preamble and Resolutions
were unanimously passed, and the undersigned were ap
pointed a committee to notify the Commanders of tfe
Military Companies of Columbus of the passage of the
same.
Lieut. BUTTS, ) Com.
Serg’t DIBBLE, > ot
Priv. TRACY, ) M. Volunteers.
Lieut. HARDEMAN, ) Com.
Serg’t HARRIS, V of
Priv. MIX, Floyd R llt,
Whereas, In this utilitarian age, the social relations
are almost forgotten and the obligations of society entire
!y overlooked in the selfishness of individuals. And
whereas, iu our recent visit to the city of Columbus, w<
have witnessed an exception to these generalities, in th*-
generous feelings and unbounded hospitalities of the citi
zens and Military of that beautiful city. Therefore, be it
Resolved, That to the citizens of Columbus (the ladies
especially) we are under lasting obligation? for their
untiring exertions to render our visit pleasant and agree’
able.
Resolved, That to the Military Companies of Columbus,
we owe a debt of gratitude we feel we can never repay,
for their wholesome generosity and unparalleled hospitali
ty manifested in every \v< rd and act during our sojourn
with them, and that for those acts of kindness we tender
them the grateful acknowledgments of soldier hearts.
Resolved, That for Capt. Hall, the Quarter Master of
the Camp, we will ever cherish the warmest emotions of
respect and gratitude for his generous nature—his ac v
comniodating disposition—his gentlemanly deportment,
and for his repeated acts of kindness towards our corps,
we will ever hold his memory in grateful remembrance.
Resolved, That our city papers be requested to copy
these resolutions, and a copy be forwarded to tlie Officers
of the Military Companies of Columbus.
I At a called meeting of the Macon Volunteers held at
| C* unci! Chamber, July Bth, 1853, the following reso
lutions were unanimously adopted, and a committee ap
pointed to notify Lieut. Hardeman and Mr. Dorsey of
their passage:
Resolved , 1 st y That the Macon Volunteers are deeply
indebted to Lieut. Hardeman of the Floyd Rff s for tlie
eloquent response delivered by him in behalf of the Floyd
Rifles and Macon Volunteers, t i the receptional address
del.vered by Capt. Cooper, of the City Light Guards, to
the two companies on their arrival at Camp Montgomery.
tlnd. That the Macon Volunteers her* by tender their
warmest thanks to Mr. Dorsey of the Planters’ Hotel for
his kindness and hospitality so cordially extended to them
on their return passage through Fort Valley.
Lieut. BUTTS, )
Serg’t. DIBBLE, > Committee.
Priv. TRACY, )
Card.
Rifles’ Armory, )
Montgomery, July 11, 1853. J
At tlie regular meeting of tlie Montgomery Rifles held
this evening at Military Hall, it was unanimously
Resolved , That a committee be appointed to draft suita
ble resolutions expressive of our hearty appreciation, as a
corps, of the liberal and thorough hospitalities which we
have recently experienced from the military and citizens of
Columbus, from Capt. Abercromoie and Col. Mott, of this
State, and from Chas. T. Pollard, Esq., President Moi.t
gomery and West Point Rail Road Company, and that
they publish the same in our city papers.
In complying with the above resolution, it affords the
committee both pride and pleasure, thus to be used as
“the medium” through which to assure our brother-sol
diers and our friends, of tho deep and lasting sense of the
many obligations under which they have placed us. It is
in vain to search for a social or festive scene tluit would
equal or compare with that through which we have just
p issed in our sister city. As soldiers we visited her—as
brothers were we met and welcomed—as friends were wo
entertained :—Therefore be it
Resolved , That between Columbus and Montgomery
there exists a firm and unshakeu bond of friendship, in a
military and social point of view—our hopes are fora last
ing continuance.
Resolved , That iu the military of Columbus we recog
nize the noble and generous impulses of soul which char
acterize the true man aud brare soldier.
Resolved , That to the ladies of Columbus and its vicinity
we feel ourselves under particular obligations for their
kind and successful efforts to render our visit pleasant,
and for throwing around it those sweet reminiscenses in
which Southern chivalry so much delights.
Resolved , That the citizens of Columbus, for their
united and untiring zeal to afford us pleasure during our
stay, possess our sincere thanks; we recommend them as
worthy of emulation.
Resolved, That we recognize in Capt. Hall the qualities
of a gentleman, a soldier, and a triend ; long will we cher
ish the memory of his services, so kind, so assiduous, while
Quartermaster at “Camp Montgomery.”
Resolved. That to Alabama’s long-tried and faithful
son, Capt. Abercrombie, wc feel ourselves deeply indebted
for the cordial welcome and entertainment given us at his
house in Russell county, and to G>l. Mott for his kindness
to our corps on the march to and from Columbus.
Resoloed , That the thanks of the Montgomery Rifles
are hereby tendered to Charles T. Pollard, Esq., Presi*
dent of tin.* Montgomery and West Point Rail Road Com
pany, and to his assistants, for the liberality and kindness
manifested to our corps on the trip to and from Opelika
Lieut. THOMAS C. POE, )
Lieut. R. C. FARRISS, > Com.
Skrg’t. J G. WALSH. )
[From the Mobile Tribune.]
Mobile and New Orleans Railroad.
Now that the company for carrying this enterprise in
to execution is fully organized and the work itself is as
suming importance, a brief history of it will not be unac
ceptable to our readers. The company was incorporate and
by the Alabama Legislature on the fourth of December,
1851, and by that of Mississippi on the 25th February,
1852. The first meeting of the corporators —Colin J.
Mcßae, P. Phillips, Benj. Towner, Win. F. Cleveland,
W. 11. Nevill, Joseph Krebs and James Sands—was
held in this city on the 23*1 of April last, P. Phillip? in the
chair and James Sands acting as secretary.
At that meeting it was resolved that books of subscrip
tion to the capital stock of said company be opened Upd
kept open under the direction of the secretary until fif
teen hundred shares of the stock should be subscribed
and paid for in cash, as provided for by tlie act of incor
poration. On the 26th of April the secretary reported
that the required amount had been subscribed for tmj
ten per cent, thereon paid in. The secretary w:is then
directed to notify the st ckholdvrs that the corporates
had discharged the duties assigned them by the charter
and were ready to deliver into their hands the books, pa
pers and moneys of the company.
At a meeting of the stockholders, held on the 2d of
May last, it was resolved that five directors for the man
agement of affairs of the company, should lie annually
chosen in the city of Mobile on the first Monday of May
;n each year. Not less than three directors to form a
quorum. The following named gentlemen were then
elected directors for the current year : Colin J. Mcßae,
Joseph Krebs, James Samis, Henry G. Humphries and
Win. F. Cleveland. The board organized and elected
Colin .1. Mcßae president of the company. It will thus
be seeu that the work is in able ami experienced hands.—
We look for the most prompt and energetic action on the
part of the board of directors, aud feel assured that neither
the stockholders nor the public will have for dis
satisfaction as to the progress of the enterprise.
The two charters granted by the State* of Alabama
and Mississippi are now in press and will be ready withiu
a few da s for graUrtous distribution.
Excommunication. —lt is reported that tho Presi
dent has repudiated the New York B tmbtirnei wing
of the Democratic party, and that ita adherents will
receive no more appointments.
Arrived Out. — The brig Zebrat, from New Or
leans, which pul in’o Savannah, last February, on
•ecouat of a fearful mortali’y among her passen
gers ami crew, after leaving the Miscissippi, arrived
it Monrovia on the 28th of March, ip forty days
rom Savanqah. There was no further sickness
>n board after the vessel lett hero, and her mneiy
.hree emigrants reached the fepublie in goed health.