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gOLUMBPS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY MORNING. SEPT. 13, 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR:
JiERSCHEL V. JOHNSON,
’ OF BALDWIN.
FOR CONGRESS:
Ist. DISTRICT JAMES 1.. SEWARD.
lid. DISTRICT A. 11. COLQUITT.
I lid. DISTRICT DAVID J. BAILEY.
IVth. DISTRICT W. 15. W. DENT.
Vth. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN.
Vllth DISTRICT THOS. P. SAFFOLD.
Vlllth DISTRICT J. J v JONES.
MUSCOGEE COUNTY NOMINATIONS.
FOR SENATE,
JOSEPH STURGIS.
FOR REI-RESENTATIVES,
ALEXANDER McDOUiiALD,
MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.
We to-day hoist the names of the standard bearers
of the Democracy. They were chosen on the 6th inst.,
at a meeting of the delegates selected for that pur
pose, which assembled at the Court House at 12 M.
Joseph Sturgis was nominated by acclamation, and
Messrs. McDougald and Crawford were chosen by a
majority of two-thirds on the first ballot, and on motion
the nomination was then made unanimous.
The ticket represents fairly the varied phases of po
litical sentiment whioh arc supposed to exist in the De
mocratic party j and if the friends of each candidate
will cordially support the others, the triumphant elec
tion of the ticket is a positive certainty. The candi
dates are all well known to the people of Muscogee ;
they are men of talent and known popularity and pledged
to the support of Pierce’s administration and the
great cardinal principles of the Democratic party. A
strong pull a long pull and a harmonious pull will he sure
to put them through.
Our Ticket Accepts.
We take pleasure in announcing to the public that
the candidates selected by the Democratic party of
Muscogee county have accepted the nominations ten
dered to them. They are now our standard bearers;
and their victory will be the triumph of the Democra
cy ; their defeat the overthrow of the Democracy. Let
every true and genuine Democrat buckle on his armor
and join in the battles The Democratic flag waves in
front of the array. It is inscribed with the time hon
ored principles for which we have so long contended.
The Equality of the States ; the freedom of the people ;
and a Constitutional Union.
The Conservative Nominees*
We understand that the Conservative party on Sat
urday last met in Convention and nominated Col.
Wales for the Senate 5 and 15. A. Thornton and Wil
liam Wooldridge for the House. The nominees
are clever gentlemen ; hut they are bound to he beaten.
The Judgeship.
By reference to his letter, it will be seen that Col.
Ilolt declines to be a candidate for the Judgeship in
this circuit. We think if he would allow his name to
be used, he would be convinced in October next, that
the people sought him for the office. An independent
judiciary, free from party control, is indispensable to the
liberties of the people. Will the people allow him to
decline ?
11011. James Johnson’s Congressional Career.
FIRST SESSION THIRTY SECOND CONGRESS.
On page 7, vol. 24, his name is recorded as a Rep
resentative of tins State of Georgia.
He presented, page 120, the petitions of James M.
Smith and A. 11. Shepherd, for indemnification for loss
es by Creek Indians in 1836, and submitted a motion
lo refer the petition of Moses Matthews for indemnifica
tion for losses in the Revolutionary W ar, to the commit
tee on Revolutionary Claims.
He moved, page 354, to reconsider a vote of the
House, calling for information in reference to our re
lations with Mexico.
He moved, page 491, to withdraw the memorial of
James Pitman from the files of the House.
He moved, page 685, that the House adjourn from
Friday to Monday, and withdrew his own motion when
the yeas and nays were called.
He asked, page 753, a question of Mr. Phillips.
lie answered, page 899, to his name on the call of
the House, moved to excuse Mr, llailey for absence,
and moved to lay on the table a motion to recommit the
Deficiency Bill to the committee of Ways and Means.
lie called for a separate vote, page 900, on an
amendment to the Deficiency Bill, and voted twice
against amendments of the same bill.
He objected to any special order, page 1015, and
called for the regular order of business.
Ho called for the yeas and nays, page 1049, which
were not ordered, and voted against an amendment of
the Senate to the Capitol Extension Bill, allowing the
architect to examine the claims of the workmen engag
ed on the Capitol to indemnity for loss of time during
the suspension of the work for want of an appropria
tion by Congress to carry it on.
He presented, page 1054, the memorial and petition
of the Georgia Legislature for a depot at the Sand Hills.
He called for the yeas and nays, page 1535, on a
bill making appropriations for the construction of certain
Roads in Minnesota.
He moved, page 1536, to lay an appeal from the de
cision of the Speaker upon the table.
He demanded the yeas and nays, page 1599, on a mo
tion to reconsider the vote of the House ou the Penn
sylvania Contested Flection.
Mr. Davis moved, page 1054, to postpone for two
weeks, a Bill appropriating certain lands and giving
the right of way to a Railroad in Indiana and Illinois,
when Mr. Johnson objected, called for the yeas and
nays, on amotion to lay said Bill on the table, and voted
to lay it on the table.
He objected, pnge 1743, to taking lip a Bill for
deepening the Mississippi river.
An amendment was before the H use, page 1754,
providing that no extra pay should be given to Officers
of the Government unless the amount to be paid and
the Officer to whom it was to be paid were specifically
mentioned, when Mr. Johnson moved to strike nut the
amendment on the ground that this was already law.
His motion was lost.
He insisted, page 1764, on taking up the regular or
der of business.
lie asked, page 1830, a question of Mr. Johnson, of
Arkansas, about some money due the Chickasaw In
dians.
He moved, page ISSO, for a call of the House.
He asked tho Speaker, page IS$4, if an amendment
was in order, and was told it was not.
He again rose, page 1901, to a question of order,
and was set right by the Speaker.
He moved, page 2051, to lay on the table a resolu
tion to engrave certain maps, which was carried, lie
also objected to closing the debate on the Civil and Di
plomatic Bill, as he wished to make an exposition of his
views on the Presidential election, whereupon Mr.
Stevens, of Fa,, moved to lay Mr. Johnson’s motion on
the table, and Mr. Orr, ofS. C., called for the yeas and
nays, that “the country might see who it was who
wished to waste time and delay public business,” and
Mr. Johnson, we are sorry to say, voted to “waste
time.”
lie objected, page 2240, to the previous question on
the Bill declaring the Wheeling bridge a lawful struc
ture, as he desired to speak on it; but he objected to
hearing two other gentlemen on the same subject.
On page 869, vol. 25, we again find the name of Mr.
Johnson. He asked Mr. Stuart a question about Mr.
Polk’s veto of the Rivet and Harbor Bill.
This is his first and only apj>earance in voL 25,
though it contains 1192 pages.
He made, page 1679, a few remarks upon the Boun
dary between the United States and Mexico, and moved,
unsuccessfully, to amend an amendment in relation
thereto.
He moved, page 1730, to substitute Trieste for Liv
erpool, as the Eastern terminus of the Collins Line of
Steamships, made a very short speech in favor of his
motion, and sat down amid the laughter of the House.
The speaker could not see the pertinency of his remarks,
and a member called him to order.
lie moved to strike out the clause in the River and
Harbor Bill, page 1904, appropriating money out of the
Treasury to pay for the improvements, and moved to
insert a clause to allow the States to impose tonnage du
ties to pay for the same, and supported his motion in
a sound sensible speech of five minutes, which did him
credit. Unfortunately his motion was lost.
In this connection, ho delivered that famous speech
heretofore commended in our columns. The following
are the circumstances which gave rise to it;
Mr. Johnson. In the parly to which I recently be
longed (the Democratic) there is as much latitudinous
construction as in any other.
Mr. Stanley. The party to which you recently be
longed I what party does the gentleman belong to now ?
Mr. Johnson. I now belong to the independent or
der of outsiders. (Laughter.)
YY u understand Mr. Johnson has professed to be a
Democrat since the opening of the canvass. We would
like to know specifically, whether he has quit the “out
siders,” and for what cause.
Mr. Johnson, page 1930, moved to amend an Inter
nal Improvement Bill, by inserting an appropriation of
$25,000 for a survey of the Flint and Chattahoochee
Rivers, and supported it in a speech of a few minutes,
in which he very candidly told the House that if his
amendment was adopted, lie would still vote against the
Bill. It is hardly necessary to add that his amend
ment was lost.
He moved to strike out an appropriation of $50,000
to improve the navigation of the Hudson river, and sup
ported his motion in a five minute speech against In
ternal Improvements. lie called for tellers on his mo
tion, which was nevertheless lost.
lie made another five minute speech against an ap
propriation, page 1971, to repair a dam on the Ohio river,
and offered a motion to spend the amount appropriated
in removing the dam, and contended that the removal
of the cam would more surely facilitate navigation than
its repair—a position which Mr. Gray clearly showed
was wrong. His motion was not adopted.
He made a short speech, page 2050, against en
graving some maps.
lie opposed, in a few remarks, a motion to appro
priate $50,000 dollars to the relief of some Indians who
were said to be in a starving condition. The appro
priation was not made.
The above is a full and faithful record of Mr. John
son’s Congressional career in the First Session of the
Thirty-second Congress, which lasted 274 days, and for
which he received the handsome sum of about $2,192,
besides mileage and other perquisites. Pretty high
pay for the work done ! I: his name occurs another
time on the record, \v-have not been able to find it
with the aid of an all-embracing Index. And what
now is tlie summing up? lie presented a few petitions,
he had the roll called a few times, a motion was laid on
tho table at his instance 5 he offered a few amendments
to bills pending, all of which, of any worth, were lost ;
lie made a few five minute speeches in favor of motions
and amendments of his own, which couldn’t secure the
passage of any one of them except to defeat the ap
propriation of a small sum to relieve starving Indians;
he pocketed his pay, came home, and is now held
upas the great statesman of South-Western Georgia,
before whose transcendent genius the brightest lights
of the Democracy pale their ineffectual fires. There
is an old adage about glass houses, which we commend
to the Conservative party. Upon such a record crow
ing is simply ridiculous.
Now we give Mr. Johnson all proper praise for bis
Undeviating’ opposition to Internal Improvements by the
Federal Government. 11 is intentions in this respect
were no doubt good. Our only objection is that his merit
consists only in intentions. In bis own emphatic
language, be did “nothing.” lie tried, it is true, but
invariably failed to do any good.
There is, li >wever, one serious omission in bis en
deavors, which wc cannot pass unnoticed. It is well
known that many of the highest offices in the gift of j
Mr. Fillmore were in the hands of Freesoilers. Yet
our Representative never so much as alluded to this
fact during this whole Session. The rights of the South
were certainly in “imminent peril” on account of such
Freesoil appointments, jet the watchman whom we j
placed on the wall kept silent. Indeed, he never so i
much as alluded to the subject in a five minutes speech 1 |
Isn’t this too bad ?
We have not yet had the pleasure of seeing a copy j
of the Congressional < Robe for the Second Session of j
the Thirty-second Congress. If we get one before the !
election, we will take great pleasure in laying before j
our readers the balance of Mr. James Johnson’s Con- ;
gressibna! record, and have no doubt it will prove quite j
as interesting as the portion we have gone over. We I
now only remember that he made a speech in favor of ;
the claims of M atson’s heirs, and voted for Bennett’s ;
Land Distribution Bill. This last measure shall cer- i
tainly claim our attention before tin* canvass is ended. |
Tricks of the Harlequin—Another Summerset, j
When the canvass now progressing in Georgia first’
opened, our readers will recollect that Robert Toombs j
set the ball in motion by a set speech to the faithful in j
this city, in which lie gave the plan of the eampaigu. j
He said many strange tilings, but the strangest and ’
most emphatic of all his sayings, was that bold one
heretofore noticed in our columns “The Compro- I
wise saved the Union , hut did not .save the South’- \
W e ot course expected after this announcement from
the Autocrat of the Conservative party, that we would ;
hear no more of “disunion” —that spell-word of the
last canvass; that that scene in the tragedy of Con- j
servative politics was ended ; and that the dramatis j
persona would go on to the next act in the play, and
raise the curtain upon the terrible feene of “the South
in danger.” For a lime they were true to their prom
ise, and Dix, \ room and Brown were marched upon
lie stage arrayed in the terrible trappings of Abolition
ism 5 but alas ! no body was alarmed ; aud the au
dience soon grew disgusted with the exhibition. The
stage trick was understood, and for fear of being hiss
ed oft* the stage, we suppose, these horned monsters
were hustled behind the curtain, the drop let down,
and the bell rang for another act. Again the great |
stage manager, Toombs, appears before the audience j
and announces a repe&ion of the last act of “The !
Union in danger.” Place, Oglethorpe— Wednesday, |
September —. Hear him :
“The Fire-eaters and Freesoilers, who hated the i
Union so terribly, two years ago, were still in ambush,
waiting for the opportunity to hare their revenge, by
destroying the Union at all hazards and upon any
pretext • the one set to throw off the impertinent i
V ankee nation, as they call them in derision ; and the j
other set of destructives proceed to wash their con- j
sciences from all fraternization with slaveholders ! The ;
danger exists, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.
Once allow the enemies of the compromise to obtain |
control of the public cilices, they will gradually force |
their way into the high places of the Government, and j
then— farewell to the Union.' 1
kueh is the language of Mr, Toombs at Oglethorpe, i
as represented by one of his friends to the Journal £
Messenger. W ell, the Fire-eaiers and Freesoilers, ac- j
cording to Mr. Toombs and his servile followers, have
obtained control of ill • “public offices”—they have “forc
ed their way into the high places of the Government
-and what then ? Has the Union been dissolved ? Did
any body hear its timbers give way ? Is any body
hurt? It seems not. Then either Mr. Pierce has not
conferred his offices on Fire-eaters and Freesoilers, or
Mr. Toombs is a false prophet. We do not care which
horn of the dilemma he gets on. In the first case, he
makes an untrue statement of facts; and in the other,
lie makes a false prediction.
“The Union in danger!” how preposterous, when
every year adds to its strength and extends its boun
daries. “The South in imminent peril 1” when her fir
mest and best friends are in the ascendant, and control
the whole policy of the Administration.
Wo wonder if Mr. Toombs will never tire of this pre
posterous attempt to humbug tho people 5 if his con
fidence in his own unparalleled assurance will never
fail him. We are astonished alike at his .success and
his effrontery. But his time has come; when the crafty
fox doubles upon his track you may be sure his pur
suers are hard upon his heels, and that the hour of his
doom is nigh. This attempt to revive the shadowy
ghost of 1859 at this stage of the canvass is a pregnant
sign that he doubts the success of his last throw. The
game is slipping from his hands, and by October he
will be a broken and desperate political gamester.
True, the South is in peril, but not now. As long
as Franklin Pierce and Jefferson Davis wield the power
and patronage of the Government, we are safe. But
when the results of the policy forced upon the South by
Mr. Toombs and his allies, whereby the immense domain
on the Pacifio was dedicated to freeseil, shall have de
veloped itself, and the reins of Government are in the
hands of other men, then will the South be in
danger—then will she enter upon the long, hopeless,
and dreary minority, predicted by Mr, Hilliard, with no
power to prevent oppression and no spirit to resist it.
When that day and that hour shall eome, the South
will point to Mr. Toombs and the reckless party he leads
as the authors of her woe.
rhe Lilian la Railroad again.
We perceive that an attempt is being made to di
rect tho attention of the citizens of Eufaula from the
proposed Railroad connection with this city, to one
with Montgomery, at Union Springs. We are surpri
sed that any practical man should give countenance to
this delusion for a moment. It is necessary to
build only thirty miles of Railroad to secure a connec
tion with Columbus ; and Eufaula will beassisted in
this work by a subscription of at least fifty thousand
dollars by the City Council ; and one of at least seven
ty-live or eighty thousand dollars by the wealthy citi
zens of Glennville. This road therefore is feasible, and
Will be built if the people of Eufaula are true their own
interests ; and will give them a connecton with Savan
nah, only about seven miles longer than the most di
rect road they can build, and also with Mobile, through
the Girard road, and the rich valleys of upper Geor
gia and Tennessee, by the Opelika Branch Road.
On the other hand, Eufaula cannot connect with
Montgomery without building a road at least one hun
dred miles long. It is idle to suppose that Montgome
ry can give her any effectual aid in this work. The
entire resources of Montgomery are pledged to the
Pensacola Road. Five hundred thousand dollars of
her capital is .already pledged to this enterpsise ; and
we presume this is as much money as a city of her re
sources can bear. Besides she is compelled to aid in
other works connecting her with the Railroad system
which is surrounding her, or loose her importance by
the superior advantages which ilia system will confer
on the rival town Selma. We take it, therefore, that
Montgomery cannot build the contemplated Road to
Union Springs for many years to come. Neither can
Eufaula look for aid from the people in the neighbor
hood of Chunnenuggge Ridge. Their entire energies
are directed to the completion of the Girard Road to
their doors, by which they will be brought into connec
tion with the splendid Railroad system of Georgia.—
Can Eufaula then build the road to Union Springs unaid
ed, except by the meagre subscriptions she can pick up
on the line of the road ? The question is absurd. And
if she bo able to build a road which cannot be short
er than forty five miles, what will she gain when it is
completed ? Simply a connection with Mobile and Co
lumbus, through the Girard Road—an end she would
equally obtain by a road to Colbert.
For fear that someone may imagine that, we are
blinded by our location, we gladly refer to the authori
ty of Charles T. Pollard, the able President of the
Montgomery and West Point Railroad, as to the fea
sibility of building a road to Union Springs from Mont
gomery. After admitting that the Girard Road will be
completed, he says in a letter to Daniel Pratt, which
may found in the Autauga Citizen , “But if the Gi
i rard Road is continued'to Mobile, ! can see no benefit
to be derived by Montgomery from building a road to
Union Springs, which is an independent and isolated
route, and would not. I believe, do business enough to ;
pay the expenses of making it.”
Mr. Pollard, is a citizen of Montgomery, better
| posted in Railroad enterprises than any man perhaps
in Alabama, and very largely interested in every work
which will cncbanco the prosperity of that city. His
authority upon this point is conclusive. If, therefore,
tho people of Eufaula desire a Railroad, let them bend
all their energies to the Columbus connection, and there
can be no reasonable doubt but that their wishes will be
; realized in a very short time.
Poems by Alexander Smith.
Wc arc indebted to Jordan L. llowell, successor
to A. C* Flkwf.llen, for tho privilege of perusing this j
work, and, by the way, as wo have heretofore noglec- !
ted to call the attention of the public to the establish- i
inent of this enterprising gentleman, we take this oc- j
casion to recommend him to the favorable notice of I
the public as a worthy man and an enterprising Book j
; Merchant. Ilis supply of books is large and on his !
i shelves the literary epicure will always find the choicest |
j productions and the latest publications. But to the j
| work before us.
There has been much noise in English circles about
tliis book. Tlie echo has reached our shores and been
loudly returned. We cannot join in the clamor.—
There are some fine passages in tho book which indi
cate a real vein of poetic talent, and an occasional line
which startles one with its sparkling brilliancy ; but the
book as a whole is a cloudy, dreamy land through
which shadows flit, with whom we have no sympathy, j
and cannot even make out their forms and features. It
a good deal resembles Festus in this and some other j
; respects ; but is very far below that work in power of j
| expression, variety of imagery, and condensation of pas
j sion. But they both alike apostrophise the sun, moon
: and stars, the earth and ocean, and revel in the beauty
i of creation, while the heart of tho hero is breaking vvitli
| despair, and his mind beclouded with the thick dark
i ness of doubt. Airy personifications come on the stage
and rant about they know not what, and leave us in j
doubt whether they be spirits blest or goblins damned, i
[ Still we have read both books with interest and found
jin both many single passages of great beauty and pow
\ or. The work can be had at J. L. Howell’s Book
Store.
The Muscogee Railroad*
By reference to our advertising columns it will be
seen that freight on cotton to Savannah has been redu
ced to fifty cents a hundred pounds. This will secure
a very large freight business this winter to tho Road.—
We are pleased to learn that the business of the Road
is now very heavy, and that the stream of travel which
flows over it is constantly increasing.
It may be of interest to travellers to know that an j
express train leaves Savannah every week on the arri
val of the steamers, and that the connection is con
tinuous to Montgomery, Ala. This is therefore the
quickest and cheapest route of travel from New York
to New Orleans.
The Mashing ton Monument.
We have received a circular from this association,
i suggesting that boxes be opened at the polls in Octo
j her for the reception of such contributions as our pa
■ triotie people may be willing to make for the completion
I of this splendid monument in the Capital of the United
; States to the memory of Washington. We hope the
| commissioners appointed to superintend the election
will attend to the matter. Let every citizen give a
j dime, and tlie work will soon be completed. The
j Secretary well says; “It will be pitiful, wondrous
I pitiful, if out of twenty-five millions of souls who inhabit
] this great country, rendered independent, prosperous
and happy, mainly by his exertions and devotion to its
cause, the sum necessary to erect a monument worthv
of such a man, could not be completed for want of the
small pecuniary aid which every American should feel
it his pride, as well as his duty, to afford.”
Surgical Infirmary in Savannah.
We invite the particular attention of our readers to
the advertisement of Drs. Wildman & Ganahl, of Sa
vannah, Ga.
Dr. Wildman is too well known in this community
to require eulogy on our part. We think we do not
exaggerate, when we designate him the first Surgeon in
Georgia.
Dr. Ganahl has spent seven years in Europe, at the
schools and hospitals of France, England and Germany,
and has occupied tlie post of Physician and Surgeon to
the Savannah Hospital.
Their Institution is established on the most approved
basis of similar establishments in Europe.
The afflicted who need Surgical aid, probably can
not do better titan place themselves in the hands of
these accomplished gentlemen.
Jno. A. Dix.
This Gentleman has written a letter to Garvin of
Augusta in which he denies that he ever was an Abo
litionist, sustains the Fugitive Slave law, and place? him
self upon the Baltimore Platform.
To the Public.
The undersigned, having been recently called upon,
whilst engaged in a public discussion, to define our po
sitions relative to the temperance question, now excit
ing some interest in the State of Georgia, and there
being no material difference in the responses made by
us severally, for tlie purpose of avoiding all misunder
standing of what we s iid, as well as for the information
of others, present the following statement of our answers
on the occasion referred to:
We are friends of the temperance reform, and bid
all enlisted in it God-speed, in every legitimate effort
to advance it. We think tlie cause is more likely to
be injured than benefited by l>eiug connected with the
political contests of the day. The State Temperance
Convention having been in session siuce the Guber
natorial nominations were made, and having adjourned
without taking any steps to interrogate the Nominees,
we infer that they have wisely determined to avoid that
connection, and commend their example to the favor
of their constituents and organs.
The question of mere expediency, in any act of legis
lation on this subject, is so manifestly one for the con
sideration of the General Assembly, as to render any
expression of opinion by us unnecessary. The constitu
tionality of such a measure would demand Executive no
less than Legislative scrutiny. But there having been
several different schemes proposed, the details of which,
yet unsettled, may very materially affect the constitu
tional question, we cannot, wiih due regard to propriety,
or with any assurance of avoiding misconstruction, pro
nounce upon either. The constitutionality of all enact
ments ought to be gravely and delibefately considered
by the two departments, in the order prescribed in the
Constitution—by the Legislature first , by the Execu
tive afterwards. CHARLES J. JENKINS.
JIERSCHEL V. JOHNSON.
New Goods.
Our enterprising) townsman, Mr. J. M. Raum, 64
Broad street, is ahead of all competition this Fall. Be
sides an unusually large assortment of Ladies’ Fancy
Dress Goods of the latest styles, he has on hand a good
supply of Plantation goods. See his advertisement in
another column, and give him a call when you come to
town.
Health of New Orleans.
Sept. 2d.—Total number of deaths 133, from Yel
low fever 103. The whole city turned out to join in
the prayers which were offered in all the churches on
this day for the health of the city.
Alabama Senator.
Jno. A. Elmore, Esq., has been recommended as a
suitable person to represent the State of Alabama in
the Senate of tlie United States, by a correspondent of
the Advertiser c$- Gazette. He is a gentleman of su
perior intellect, high character, and sound political
principles. We would rejoice in his elevation to a posi
tion which lie is so well calculated to adorn.
William Iy, Northall, for some time connected
with the New’ Orleans Delta, recently died at Holly
wood, of Yellow Fever. Ilis racy pen gave zest to
the columns of the Della, lie was the author of the
sketches of character which have from time to time ap
peared in that paper.
The Savannah Republican, The Rochester
Advertiser and Washington Union.
Sometime since we were surprised to find in the
columns of the Republican an extract from the Adver
tiser, accompanied, if we mistake not, with approving
comments, in which it was charged that the Union was
following in the wake of tlie National Era , and was
“fast assimilating with it as a genuine abolition paper.”
We only wondered at the bold effrontery of the charge,
and attributed it to the known want of respect which the
Whig politicians of Georgia entertain for popular intelli
gence. The Union treats it in a very different man
ner, and says;
“We denounce the author of the above extract as a wil
ful calumniator—as a man unworthy of the trust or confi
dence of the democratic party —as a man who either has
not the sense to see the plainest facts or the honesty to
prevent him from the grossest falsification of them, to the
manifest injury of the administration and of the democrat
ic cause. For this is a matter about which there is no
possibility of honest mistake or misapprehension. Every
i man who knows anything of the subject knows that the
I position of the Union in regard to the whole question; of
j abolitionism or aiiti-lavery agitation is as broadly and
J clearly defined as that of the administration, or of thedem*
! ocratie party assembled in its late national convention.—
! The country well knows that not a word nor a line has
! been written or adopted by 11s in our editorial columns on
; that subject which is not strictly in harmony with tlie
j Baltimore resolutions, the President’s Inaugural, and the
1 avowed policy of the administration. To charge upon us
I ‘affinities with abolitionism’—to charge that we are‘turn-
I ing free-soiiers’—to charge that we favor ‘the policy of
j abolitionizing tho democratic party,’ is to charge that a
well known, faithful, and unswerving adherence to the
national principles of the democratic party, and to the
policy of the administration which represents those prin
ciples, is open to tlie same inculpation. Wo repeat, that
the man who makes such a charge has, in making it, proved
himself to be unworthy of the confidence of the democracy
and of the administration, and to be acting in a spirit hos
| tile to both.”
Pretty strong language, Mr. Republican , but with
j all proper respect, we cannot but think that the oeca-
I sion justifies it.
John Sken Smith.
This is the name of the author of the native Ameri
can Address which lately emanated from Philadelphia, I
abounding alike in abuse of Foreigners and the |
President. It seems that John Sken is a disappointed
office seeker. The Pennsylvanian says ;
j “ N ow, if General Smith had only got the office he want
| ed from tlie President, all those whom he at present re
gards as devils, would have been angels indeed. He pe
titioned for office lustily ; and only a few weeks ago was
in hot and earnest pursuit of it. Alas, he did not got it;
and presto! what a change. Most unfortunate Genera!
Pierce; you, who, by giving the redoubtable Smith a good
fat. foreign appointment, would have been enshrined as a
saint—would have been adored as a god—would have been
applauded as an Admirable Crichton, of many virtues—
; you are now no more than a common mortal!”
Many of the diatribes which daily issue from the
Whig press originate in similar disappointments.
Affray*
We learn that an affray occurred in Ilenry County,
near Abbeville, Ala.,last week, in which Mr. H. F. Bizzeil
I was dangerously wounded and ail individual named
Raleigh was killed. A considerable reward had been
offered for the detection of tho parties who aided Lev
ingston in making bis escape from jail and several per
sons were engaged in tracking the supposed offendei
with dogs. While thus engaged, Raleigh, who was one
of the pursuers, interfered several times with the move
ments of the dogs, either through accident or design,
which led to sonic angry threats from another mem
ber of the party, when Raleigh rode off aud quickly re
turned with a gun. Mr. Bizzeil was acting as peace
maker when Raleigh inflicted upon him a dangerous
wound with a knife. Raleigh was then shot through
the head by someone of the party and fell instantly
dead. Bizzell’s condition is extremely critical. —Spirit
of the South.
The Mission to France—Governor Cobb.
Tho telegraphic reports for a few weeks past have
directed public attention to this gentleman, as the hon
ored recipient of a tender of the French Mission. —
We learn that the Mission to France was tendered to
Gov. Cobb, and by him declined.
How ridiculous was the charge of the enemies of the
administration that Dix was to be Minister to France;
and how false the speculations of the quid nuncs about
Governor Cobb having been seeking this appointment
and making repeated visits North in connection with
that appointment. Governor Cobb it seems is unwilling to
leave the State pending so important a political election,
lie is preparing to take the field for Judge Johnson •
and they will open the ballJat Kingston on the 9th inst.
Whiggery will crack in the marrow bones when these
big guns let loose in the Mountains.— Federal Union
6th inst.
A Great Pacific Railroad Company, at the
head of which, it is said, are Erastus Corning, Simeon
Draper and other capitalists, is organizing in New York.
The object .'s to provide a substantial six feet gauge
road from New York to the Pacific Ocean, running
through St. Louis, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Northern
Mexico and California. The estimated cost is SIOO,-
000,000, which is to be the capita! of the Company.—
It is said that thirteen of the most responsible contractors
of the United States have offered to build one hundred
miles each on the route above described, and to take in
payment fifty per cent, cash, twenty-five percent, in the
bonds of the Company, and twenty-five per cent, in its
atook.
Coeumbus, Sept. 6, 1853.
Won. Joseph Sturgis, Col. Alex. McDougald , and Col.
Martin J. Crawford.
Gentlemen—At a meeting of delegates ot tho Democra
tic party of Muscogee county, held in Columbus this day,
lion. Joseph Sturgis was unanimously nominated a candi
date for Senator, and Col. McDougald and Col. Crawford
were unanimously nominated as tlie candidates for Repre
sentatives in the next Legislature for this county ; and we
were appointed acoyimiitec to notify you ol your nomina
tions and ask your acceptance,
With ours and the convention’s best wishes for your suc
cess ; Gentlemen, we are your obedient serv’ts.
15. V. IVERSON, 1 n
JOHN QUIN, I ©
R. C, PATTERSON. 1 |
EZEKIEL WALTERS, f g.
JAS. A. REDDING, S’
■J II,MAN D. WEST, j °
Columbus, Sept. 9tb, 1853.
Yours of the 6th inst. has been received, addressed to
Messrs. Crawford and McDougald and myself, informing
me that a convention of the Democratic party of Muscogee
county held that day, had nominated me their candidate for
the Seriate at the approaching election, and had constituted
you a committee to communicate the same, and ask my
acceptance.
Although the nomination was wholly unsolicited on my
part, I do not feel at liberty to decline it, and shall, there
fore, accept tlie same.
1 am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JOSEPH STURGIS.
To Messrs. 15. V. Iverson and others, committee.
Columbus, Sept. 9, 1853.
Gentlemen—Yours of the 6th inst. has been received, ad
dressed to Judge Sturgis, M. J. Crawford and myself, in
forming me that a convention of tho Democratic party of
Muscogee county held that day, had nominated me as one
of their candidates for Representative at the approaching
election, and had appointed you a committee to communi
cate the same, and ask my acceptance.
1 have also seen the resolutions adopted by that conven
tion, laying down the basis upon which the party would
act; the resolutions arc in accordance with my views and
meet my hearty approval, and 1 therefore, accept the nomi
nation. Respectfully your ob’t. serv’t.
alex. McDougald.
To Messrs. B. V. Iverson and others, committee.
Columbus, Sept. 9, 1853.
Gentlemen—l have received your note informing me that
Judge Sturgis, Col. McDougald and myself had been nomi
nated to represent Muscogee county iu the next Legislature.
I did not desire this nomination, and had I known that it
was intended, 1 should have positively refused tho use of
my name, but it’s now made, and I cannot, injustice to
the principle upon which it was made, decline.
1 see that the old line Democracy, the Union Democra
cy and the Southern Rights Whigs who support the admin
istration oi Geu. Pierce, are represented by your ticket; it
is, therefore, presumed that thus uniting upon terms of
equality and justice between all the elements composing tho
party none need complain.
Very respectfully,
MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.
To Messrs. 15. V. Iverson and others, committee.
A Card.
In conformity with a resolution of Council, I have
appointed the following named persons a Committee in
their respective Wards to collect money for the relief of
the distressed citizens of New Orleans;
Ist. Ward—E. Barnard, Esq., John A. Deblois
11. 11. Greene.
2d. YY aid—Dr. J. E. Bacon, John D. Carter, Esq.,
T. Lomax.
3d. Ward—ll. T. Hall; J. L. Howell, Chas. S. Har
rison.
4th, YY ard Col. John Quin, R. R. Goetchius, Dr.
Pond.
sth. Ward—Dr. E. T. Taylor, Thos. Chaffin, P
Adams.
6th. Ward—lsaac Mitchell, Calvin Stratton, T. Her.
rendinc*.
Wynn ton—Col. John Woolf.dk, Col. Chambers, Thos
Ragland, Iv.j.
The Committee are requested to meet at tho Book
Store of JmJan I. Il.nwll on Wednesday morning at
ton o’clock, h*r the pui pose of arranging some concert
action. J. L. MORTON,
Mayor.
The Macon Telegraph has made its appearance in
anew and handsome dress. We are pleased to notice
this evidence of the wcll-dcserved prosperity of that
ably conducted journal.
‘Hip Soil ol Hie South, September Number.
Tins valuable Agricultural and Horticultural Journal
is again upon our table. It is eminently practical in
its teachings, and probably contains more original mat
ter from pens of practical Southern farmers and gard
eners, than any other work published in the United
States. No man can follow its teachings and fail to
make a good crop, and secure a supply of the best
vegetables and the finest fruit the year around ; in this
| respect the Soil of the South is unrivalled. The follow
ing is tho table of contents for this month :
Pane.
CHUNNEKUGGEE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
An Address by Hon. G. E. Thomas, fill
AGRICULTURAL COMMUNICATION’S.
God made the Earth, hut Man must make it Pro
ductive. G 45
Carrots for Horses and Cattle, !>y W. C. Daniel 1 647
Parsnips and Carrots, by W. C. Daniell, 617
Breeding Poultry, 648
The Rescue Grass, by B. V. Iverson, 649
Plantation Festival {*,59
Sweet Potatoes—llowto keep them, by N. Clay
ton, 65i
A Banter, by C. A. Rose, 651
AGRICULTURAL EDITORIAL.
Work for the Month, 652
Lots for Winter Grazing, 652
The Southern Planters’ Convention,.... \.. *. 652
Long Staple Cotton, 553
Pc s—How to Prevent the Moth, ............. 653
Tho State Fair at Augusta, Ga., 653
Grass and Field Seeds, 653
Grasses tor the South 653
Acknowledgments-—Wheat, &c., ...... 654
Tli - ’ ;>v on the Treatment of Slaves, 654
Min-i . Domestic Poultry Book 654
Dr. DauiciTs Letters, 654
IlOi. i i'd.TURAL COMMUNICATIONS.
Peache-s and Peach Orchards, by Robt. Nelson, 665
Ormim.-ntu! Frees, by C. T. Deakc, 666
Pir-t liiipre-sioiis ot the Crystal Palace,by C. A. P. 6G6
I caches and insect Blight, 667
HORTICULTURAL EDITORIAL.
Onion Culture at the South, 60S
Garden Work for September 668
Gypsum for Garden Purposes, 668
Incredulity, 669
Mobile Horticultural Society, 669
The Fruit Orchard, 669
The Flower Garden, 669
‘l’lie Strawberry Bed, 669
Georgia Home Gazette, 669
HORTICULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL MISCELLANY.
Guano on Turnips, 667
French National Garden, 669
i Trees from Seed, 670
Destroying Effluvia 670
Steam Engines on Farms, 651
Mineral Manure Theory, by Jno. P. Norton,... 654
Chemistry and Agriculture, with Liebig’s State
ment,.. 654
Cotswold Sheep, 659
Milch Cows, 660
Guinea Grass, 661
Science Answering Simple Questions, 662
Laying Out Surfaces, 662
Condensed History of Steam, 663
The Great Cities of the World,. 663
Kindness to Animals, 664
Wagon Grease, 664
A Cordial Invitation, ... 661
Varnish for Iron Works, 664
Urine . 004
Generous and Kind. —Wo understand that His Hon
or the Mayor has received advices from tho proper au
thorities of the Howard xYssociation of New Orleans,
enclosing a resolution that lias been passed, to refund
to the citizens of this place the amount contributed by
them for the relief of New Orleans, in consideration of
the need that may exist for it among our own commu
nity. The xYssociation at the same time offer to ren
der any other assistance that may bo in their power.
The promptness of this action gives evidence -of a fra
ternal foeling on the part of onr brethren of New Orleans
which is worthy of all praise. And as for our own citi
zens, the bread which they cast upon the wators has
been speedily returned to thorn. —Mobile Advertiser.
Fire in Montgomery, Ala.— The -Metropolitan Fe
male Institute was consumed on Friday 2d inst. The
loss is estimated at $20,000 and falls principally on Rev.
Mr. Lipscomb,
The Railroad to Eufaula.
At a meeting of the Town Council of tho city of
Columbus held in the Council Chamber Sept. 7th, inst.,
the following resolution was offered by Alderman Robi
son and unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That tlie Mayor bo instructed to eall a meet
ing of the citiz* ns of Columbus, for tho purpose of con
sidering the propriety of making a subscription t**. tlie
Eufaula Railroad, at such time in the month of October as
h# may deem suitable ; and that he lake such steps as are
necessary to secure a lull meeting.
It is proper to state, for the information of tlie citizens
of EufaUln, that a large number of our business men are
now absent from the city and will not probably return
until October ; on that account the meeting is called in
October. There is a very general feeling in this city
in favor of a railroad connection with Eufaula, and we
have not a shadow of a doubt but that the Council will
subscribe fifty thousand dollars if there is a reasonable
probability that that amount will guarantee the Road.
Wc will give notice of the time agreed on for the meet
ing and we shall be pleased to see the friends of the
Road at Eufaula and elsewhere at the meeting. Come
up, gentlemen, and let us hear from you.
[correspondence of ttie times and sentinel.J
Mobile, August 29,1853.
That scourge of tho Gulf of Mexico, the Yellow Fever,
is among us, and is “walking by night and wasting by
noon-day.” It made its first appearance about three weeks
after it began to rage publicly in New Orleans. YVe first
lieard ot two cases—tlie board ol health, unable to get full
reports of eases, began to report the interments. Then
commencing at four a day, have been steadily and rapidly
increasing, until the last report gave us 35 deaths for the
24 hours ending last evening, of which 29 were from tho
dreaded vornito. The number of deaths affords no just
criterion of the number of eases, because a great many
cases are cured. Differing from us usual custom, the fever
has not come upon ns like a tornado, at the onset, striking
down its first victims with incurable malady. On the con
trary, the Physicians say, they have never known it so easi
ly manageable when taken hold of at the first attack—but
delay is fatal. Let the poison work a tew hours and you
need not cull on any earthly doctor—the grave-digger and
undertaker are sure of anew job.
Anew practice has been adopted with remarkable suc
cess by two or three of our most eminent physicians ; and
it is so curious and simple that 1 cannot forbear to mention
it. It is merely one large dose ot Quinine (20 grains) taken
as soon as the unmistakable symptoms show themselves. It
Believes the racking pains in the head and back, puts the pa
tient to sleep, and he wakes up iu a perspiration, cured. I
know a physician in New Orleans, who has pursued this
practice and hus not lost a case, where the remedy was
immediately given. It has proved highly successful here.
llare you ever been in a city, during the prevalence of a
deadly epidemic ? I saw this city in 1839, the most fatal
season within the recollection ot the present generation of
citizens. To add to the gloom of that season, Incendia
rism walked hand in hand with death, and human depravity
heightened the iiorrors of a community blighted by the
breath of Pestilence. Whole blocks of the city wore burnt
to the ground, and night after night the city lire bell rung
out the alarm of danger to the stricken city. Things wear
now wonderfully the aspect of that period. True, we are
not visited by the fire fiend, invited by the worse than hu
man fiends. The population of tlie city has greatly in
creased since 1839. But when you turn your eyes upwards,
and behold a sky of deepest blue, a sun shining with a per
fect clearness of radiance, a cool North wind that ought to
brace you ; and then walk down a street, and see women
and children weeping at doors and windows—a funeral
procession bearing another victim homo—hearses and dead -
carts trotting in the haste of an active business ; and then
as you pass among your acquaintances, learn the new re
ports of the hour—A. died last night; 15. has black vomit;
C. was seized this morning ; D. is past recovery. When
you see the Doctors flying from place to place with wearied
bones —faithful ministers of God worn down with visits to
thii dying and performing the last rites to the dead —men
walkifig with pale faces through the atmosphere of death —
when you see a city, bathed in the effulgence of a sun of
unclouded brightness, yet lugubrious with all the emblems
and signs of disease, morta ity and death—you will see
what yellow fever is in Mobile. At this moment of writing,
while probably hundreds of the people of tlie city are on
their backs with the fever, to the eye a brighter and more
beautiful day has never smiled upon the earth.
Dr. \Y r . k. Northall, one of the editors of the N. O. Del
ta, died of tlie fever a lew days since at Hollywood, a wa- |
teiiug place on tho Eastern side of Mobile Bay. He was
lately from New Oilcans, whence he brought tlie seeds of
death.
While the visitations of Providence in the form of pesti
lence produce so many harrowing pictures, it is a consola
tion, that these scenes of woe often give us reason to thank
God lor the redeeming traits of goodness and charity and
heroism, which implanted in cur mixed natures,are brought
to light by these touches of the rod of Divine wrath.
YVe read in New Orleans of ministers of the Gospel re
turning trom the North, where, they were seeking health
and relaxation, to beard the King of Terrors in their ad
ministrations to their flocks. YVe hear of physicians ex
piring at their posts, with their harness on their hacks, like
faithful soldiers. YVe read with admiration ot the heroic
labors ot the Catholic Sisters of Charity, a number of whom
have died in the performance of their holy offices of Chari
ty to tho poor, sick and dying. And to-day, we have here
another proof ol the glorious philanthropy of that glorious
Institution, tho ‘"Howard Association,’’ of New Orleans.
Sometime ago, tho citizens of Mobile raised by subscrip
tion a suniot money and sent it to this society for tlie use of
the indigent sick ot that city. To-day it is announced that
the May 01 of Mobile has received a note from its Secreta
ry, returning the money, to be used for the relief of the Mo
bile sick ; and offering, moreover, tin services of the Asso
ciation in any way in which they can be made av ailable for
the relief ot this sister city. How glorious arc these traits
oi goodness in human nature! How God-like is Charity!
And how is the gloom <>t jiestilence and death relieved and
lighted up by these flashes of immortality even from this
side the tomb !
But, bless me, 1 have written you a most pestilential let
ter. it savors of tlie atmosphere which surrounds me. Al
low me to hope that you are breathing a purer political
atmosphere in Georgia, and that c,ur people will stand by
the old Democratic flag, & tlie best of Republican & South
ern administrations on the first Monday of next October,
il possible, I shall be at home to give one vote to swell the
1 poll in favor of the good and true cause of Democracy.
[FOR TIIK TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
Letter from Mr. Kllis, of Stewart County.
Messrs. Editors: Having been requested by many of my
id low citizens of Stewart county, to set forth tho reasons
lor my political position, and request their publication in
] your paper, yet it has been with reluctance, arid not until
I 1 have been charged with political inconsistency as a Union
Democrat for taking mv place in the ranks of tile great
National Democratic Party of the United States, that I
have been able to obtain mv consent to comply. When
the late Whig administration of the general government
was drawing to a close tile two contending national parties
(Whig and Democratic) owing to the several questions aris
ing out of the slavery agitation at tho North and the newly
acquired territories were found temporarily divided into
several distinct parties. Thenecessityof national organiza
tions arose out of tho fact that anew President was to be
elected. xYecordingly a call was made upon all the wings
of the Democratic party to assemble at Baltimore m June,
1852, to agree upon a common platform and re-unite tiie
party. The convention met, the Democratic party was
re-united by re-affirming the time-honored resolutions of
the party as had been repeatedly published before, with the
single addition of acquiescence in the compromise measures
ol 1850, and a pledge to carry them out in all their bear
ings. Franklin Pierce was nominated and placed upon it
as the democratic candidate for the Presidency, who in his
letter of acceptance asserted that they met the approbation
of his judgment. It seemed to me that there was now no
longer any cause for local divisions in the party. xYecord
ingly 1 voted for the regular Picrco and King ticket, and
thereby brought myself under obligation to support the ad
ministration so long as it carried out the principles upon
which it was brought into existence, and to regard all as
democrats who did the same, no matter from what party
they camo, North or South, so long as they continued to
support the same principles.
Here I might, as a Union democrat, close this letter hut
for the fact, that anew organization lias arisen in Georgia I
claiming my support as a union man. I therefore be- your
indulgence while I examine some of its component ele
ments. Ist. It is not the union party of 1850, because that
party was virtually dissolved in 1852. For authority I re
fer to a letter written by Mr. Jenkins, the present candidate
for Governor,and published about June, 1852, in which hc
stated that the Union party had accomplished all the ob
jects ol its creation, and that the members might then con
sistently fail back into the whig and democratic parties
2d. Because the recently organized party repudiated the
name ol Constitutional Union party, and substituted some
thing or nothing else in its stead. 3d. Because they have
adopted resolutions in relation to the administrative policy
ol the General Government, which was unknown to the
Union party and which every individual has theri-htto
approve or disapprove. 4th. Because the leaders of that
party array themselves against the present administration
and its head; who is pledged tojsarry out all the provirions
ot the compromise ol 1850, and which challenges anv
proof ol having m one instance departed from or foiled to
carry out the said pledge ; and it is well known that acqui
escence in the compromise was the sole issue made bv the
Unton party agam.-t any other party whatever From the c
and other reasons, I cannot see how any man who i- a
democrat in principle and in fact, can give his support to a
party organized in opposition to his principles. But still
they claim the support ol the Union democrats, because
they say that the former Southern Rights win- of the par
ty being in the ascendency in Georgia, have not given them
an equal share ol offices and nominations. This if true
(which 1 do not admit,) is an appeal to our passions rat her
than our pnnciples, and whenever a man tails but will, a ’
and gives his support to its enemies, merely because sin..
one else has been preferred-before him, for’ some office to
which be may have asfnred, he is a demagogue and unfit
to trust any where. But they further assert that “the righte
oithe Southern States are m great and imminent danger
and the principles ol the Georgia Convention are -r"ariv
jeoparded by any pq itical party which recognises the
emolnmente” ° erS <W “T 1 *? of t>ab 4 WZ
In a subsequent resolution they declare that “both the
old parties (meaning the wing and democratic) havebcen
faithless to their olt repeated pledges,” &e Tims Vi ill
intents and purposes, they are‘a sSrionnl and Sou e
Rights party, not known out ot the Statu ofGeor-ia su fee
to all the objections; yea, more, that they tblSv “ ure
die Southern Rights party ol 18511, because there
\nuc then issues Injure thccountry upon which such t nir
President Pierce has appointed some men who had been
■ ■ tllls t ' il!ir E e in made With as much
emphasis s it these men were not pledged to the demo
cratic platform ol 1852. I confess that this charge would
have come with much bettor grace from some other quarter
than the Fillmore and Webster wings of Georgia!’for it
will not be seriously denied any where, that these men
were free sotlere ol the.deepest dye : for Webster declared
and never recalled it, that he never would give his sanc
tion to the extension of slavery one inch beyond the limits
of the old thirteen fetates.” And Fillmore retained in his
cabinet to the.last, the notorious Tom Corwin, au aboli
tionist of the deepest dye, yet these men were safe to trust
as Presidents, and the rights of the South wouldhave been
safe in the opinion of these politicians in their hands, wh>:..
it is in great and imminent danger in the hands of the pre
sent Executive, because he has appointed a few men who
one© belonged to the free soil wing of the democratic party
to office. O consistency, where art thou? Bat our pas
sions are further appealed to, beeause a Union democrat
was not nominated upon the present democratic ticket
this county. I therefore feel it my duty to state, that thi?
was not the fault of Southern Rights men, for I know it
was the desire of all that I conversed with, both before and
on the day of nomination, that a Union democrat be placed
on tho ticket. Tlie nomination was tendered to me, |> u t it
was impossible for me to accept; Olliers were narn< and with
similar success, until at Lowe was placed on the
ticket at my suggestion, as the man most acceptable to tlie
Union democrats, that I knew of.
Thus I have briefly noticed some of the most prominent
positions taken by the opponents of General Pierce’s ad
ministration, from all of which I cannot see how any man
who is a democrat in principle and in fact, can give io tit,*
present Conservative party of Georgia his support; for sure
ly any man would subject himself to the charge of ih.
most flagrant inconsistency, to vote to bung an adminis
tration into existence and then affiliate himself with its ene
mies, in an effort to break it down.
Respectfully, JAMES P. ELLIS.
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
To Hines Hol! t Esq.
Sir : I take tlie liberty of addressing yon llirougli the pub
lic prints, because 1 think tho period has arrived when
the citizens ol this Circuit may claim th** fulfilment of
your promise, to allow your name to be used as an
independent candidate for Judge of this Judicial Circuit.
Il l understand your position from your letter, it is
iu substance, that you would not accept a party nomi
nntion for the office of Judgo, hut that if it was the
wish of the citizens of the Circuit to invest you with the
ermine, you would not fee! at liberty to withhold your
name. 1 have made it my business to learn the views
oi the citizens of the Circuit, and lain free to say. that
the desire is very general, to hold the Judicial office
above the intrigues of a political nomination. The peo
ple, without reference to party, wish to confer this office,
involving as it dots, the life and property of the sub
jects, upon an incumbent, in whose integrity and capaci
ty they have unlimited confidence, and they feel that
however unexceptionable tbc present candidate may be,
that they owe it to themselves, to set the seal of their
disapprobation upon this, the first effort in the State, of
giving a partisan character to the election of a Judicial
officer.
I am aware that it i6 asking you to sacrifice some
thing in allowing your name to be used against that
of “a regular nominee,” for, independent of tho strength
that this position gives the candidate, you must expect
that violent partisans will owe you no good will for al
lowing your name to be used against their decrees ; but
the man that will not sacrifice something of self, to ad-.,
vance a principle, would be unworthy the office whioh
we feel you would fill with so much honor. Confident
that you will adorn the one, wo have no doubt of your
readiness to yield to the general wish and notify your
many friends publicly of your willingness to serve them.
Should you comply with this request at an early day
you will oblige many citizens, and among others,
‘/our Obd’t Servant,
A MEMBER OF THE BAR.
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
Columbus, Sept. 9, 1853.
Messrs. Editors : I reached this city yesterday after an
absence ol more titan two mouths, and find the question of
my candidacy for Judge ot the Chattahoochee Circuit still,
to some extent, agitated.
As I have been directly approached on this subject through
your columns of the 7th inst., by “A member of the Bar,”
will you allow me their use, so far as to say, in reply to that
communication and to all other enquiries, that 1 am not a
candidate.
In a lonner letter addressed to a gentleman of the Circuit,
anil which met the eye oi tlie public, through tne Columbus
Hnquirer oftire Mth of June, I said, and in so saying, was
entirely sincere, that 1 did not desire the office, fat the
same time intimated that 1 should not feel at liberty to de
cline a call to it by the people of the Circuit, (not by a par
ty) it made under such circumstances as indicated that the
office sought me as its incumbent, rather than I the office.
Near three mouths have elapsed since the letter alluded
to, and I do not led that any such call has been made
upon rue.
VY Jiilo I have received the personal and flattering solici
tations of “A member of the Bar” and many valued friends
to bccqme a candidate, the evidence has not been by any
means afforded that such is tho desire of the people of the
Circuit.
On tho contrary,so far as any indication has been made
it has been in lavor of another; and whatever may be my
individual opinion of tho policy and propriety of party
nominations in this particular connection, it constitutes the
most marked expression of the popular will to which pub
licity has been given.
Duly sensible of the individual pteferencc of “A member
olthe Ur and others, 1 feel that no violence is done to
their friendship or to any duty which I owe the public—
Willie 1 indulge my own preference in announcing that I
am not a candidate.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
HINES HOLT.
Tl,c Trial of a Railroad Conductor. —'The ease of
Comstock, the conductor of the New Haven road, whose
trial has been going on at Danbury, ou the charge of
manslaughter, growing out of the Norwalk disaster
was concluded at New Haven on the 29th ult., without
convicting the conductor. Tile-jury stood 9 for and 3
against conviction. The Judge, however, sent them
out to reconsider the case.
ITT Mrs. Marble’s School commences Monday, 26th
inst. For particulars, see advertisement.
The Lanier House, Macon. — We understand that
this popular Establishment has passed into the hands
of George M. 1-ogan, Esq., to whom the travelling pub
lic must hereafter look for a large proportion of those
‘•creature comforts,” which are to be found in that
goodly city. Mr. Logan is well known through all of
Middle and Upper Georgia as a man of enlarged and
liberal feelings, and as every way calculated to pleaso
the public, and make a fortune. In his position wo
sincerely hope he may succeed in both.— Sao. Courier.
The Late Robt. Rantoul, Jr.— lt is stated by tho
Nashua Gazette that tile administrator of the estate of
the Into lion. Robert Rantoul, jr., of Massachusetts,
has received $3;j0,000, or certificates that
sum, as fits share in the Illinois Central Railroad, the
bill granting public lands for the construction of which
road was strenuously advocated by Mr. R. while in Con
gross.
The Soil of the South.- The September number
is promptly issued, presenting unusually high claims
upon the consideration of the filler of the’ soil. No far
tner can afford to be without a good agricultural jour
nal, and “The Soil of the South' ’ is among tho most
ably conducted of its class. Terms only $1 per au
num. xYddress Messrs. Lomax <fc Kiiis, Columbus.
[Savannah Georgian.
Wron S- —Tl>O telegraphic announcement of the death
of Professor Bathe, the other day, was wrong. It
should have said Pietro Bad i, who’for twenty years
was instructor in Harvard University.
Francis Edymion, of whom I wrote you as having
procured his pardon by means of forged papers, has
been set at liberty ; the Court deciding that the Gover
nor cannot go behind his pardon.
Shipwreck. —We learn with regret that the Ship
Asia, Capt. Robinson, which cleared hero for Europe on
the 27th ult, was driven ashore ..n Sand rslund <>„ |.. st
Wednesday night. The Ship will boa total | <VK “ ,
understand, and probably but little other cargo which
consisted of spars, handspikes, hewn timber and J.. 0 k
plank, cap be saved. — Mobile Register ,
Col. Thomas F. Saffold. The D^T ev of the
,th Congressional D,strict made choice „f this
tie.,.an as their standard bearer, at the Convention at
Hamilton on the 31st nit. We have ,i. ,
, . ll 1” pleasure of
laying (i acceptance before our readers t u .,fo y Co s,
Saffold is well known in this District as a
of high character for integrity and intelligence. He
belonged to tlia Union Democracy under the late di
visions, but is now united heart and hand with bisiw
eratic brethren and Republican Whig., j a support of
our popular President. If the people of the 7th Con
gressional District wish to be represented at Washrii
ton they wig send Col. Saffold to Congress. His on
ponent w,II be a cypher if elected. Col. Saffold will
address the people of this district at such times and
places os will be hereafter designated.— Fed. Union.