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Se.pi. lsr, 1858.j_ - R. F.LLIB & CO.
. FOR SALK
THRICE $4500 in -two payments. The plnntn-
X tion on which ihe 6ut*?cribc’- reso*-#. situate on
the south etd ■* or rtluoi.-eek. in ihe Comity of Burly,
adjoiuli g hand* of 4wim* Wohe, Win. v. t k, amt
Rout. Colli> r, com?yUng at)3 acres. Uis we‘i itaprov
ed,.and lias all the buikiit ga ‘usual on a cotton plan*
tat;on; altnear andan c >od order. Tne crop wil* be
the best evidence of its fertility. Cora, Plantation
utensils, and stock of an kinds can be Debased on
the place
Aug.:.o—wist A. H MrLAV. g, Plaltesey.__
VALUABLE
Chattahoochee Biver Lauds.
FOR SALE, AT A LOW PRICE.
fTHE subscriber offers for sale 3200 acres
oil add lying and frpphng two miles .on
the River in H --n ry county, Ala.. 15 miles
Fort Gaines. Geo. (to which place ihe
Soath Western Hail Road is now beingextended)
and 5 miles above Columbia, Alabama. Tle
tract is susceptible of division into two very desi
rable settlements—fit's vary fovel, iswell watered
the location remarkably healthy', and the purcha
ser could have die corn, fodder and stock at a low
rate. Being determined to sell, those desiring a
bargain, will not be able to find one more dis
posed to give ihm one than l am. I shall keep
this advertisement standing until I Belt. Come and
look for yourselves, or tor particulars address me
at Columbia Term* easy to the purchaser.
angus McAllister.
July 20 1858—vvtt.
Augusta Constitutionalist copy weekly till forbid.
Bacon! Bacon!
WE have Cowonhand and willbe constantly re
ceiving, Prime Teunwsee Bacon—Haarm. Side*
and Shoulders, which we will Bell at the lowest Com
mission House prices. ™
Mar2Q—wfctwlf £. BARNARD & CO.
l# i ’
A Splendid Cottun Plantation,
• FOR SALE.
JIAVING determined to go west. I
mypiaco for salejying on Spring
Creek, iu sight oitlie Newton Road from
JfTori.Gaines, containing 1,500 acres There are
Tvo settlements, with all necessaryhuildings,clwell
it 2 ho* and plenty of outhouses, good gin
house and screw; five hundred acres of cleared
and,a huge portion of which is Iresh. per
son vw.-hTng a good bargain would do well to call
and examine the premises.’ The above place ad
joins ihe lands ot Mr. Boyington on the West,
some of the-land is very good being swampliands.
GtiOKGE VV. COLLINS.
May 4, ISsß—w6m.
NOTICE TO COTTON PLANTERS,
YJfJ'Ey the undersigned, invontots of the Iron
| t V Screw Pres, lake pleasure in culling at
j lettiion t thi.-j Pr-e -s tor which we have obtaired
L>t:ers Pattern. From experience we are satisfied
that tiiis.Fr.-S’ is not only capable ol pressing cot
ion to the uoufi sfze, hut wi;b a small addiiional
• ‘ tof eoint c ."ion at the (fin to size suitable tor
firpment l y-ea;gqi' ! g vessels. ‘Phe cost now lor
compl ex ijg is from 70 to 90 cents per bale, v/hicb
indirectly comes out of the planter. I’his Press is
durable, as ali ol its bearing and straining parts
-re oi Iron.simple and suitable lor negro manage
i meat. We-are making arrangements to put up
| the PrC'S at all suitable points for inspection.
\ For further ir.fi.rmation,address us at Selma, Ala.,
j or D. A Holib e, Journal Office, Montgomery,
! Ala-, or E. O. Corbett, Columbus, Ga.
VV. F. *C. J. PROVOST.
| August 8, ’57-wtf.
CIkWR COUNTY LANDS
EOS SALE.
| TTAVING purchased laud in the West, I now
1 JLJ. oiler lor sale both my p alliations, lying on
the North Cowikse Creek. ‘The place on which
i t;•:vv reside, known as the Barna Ivey Plantation
contains 2,475 acres, with a large proportion of
fie-h and (Jamtnnck land. Th re are on the plan
tation 1,4000 acres cleared, and in a fine state if
cultivation, ihoTougbly drained, with a large num
ln>r of well located d;tehee. ‘The dwelling is
commodiou-, having 6 large rooms, neatly finish
ed.and is fcrtuuted within ihe corporate limits of
Glennville, convenient to the Colleges and
Churches. r l he out houses are in good repair and
ysifficient for the accommodation of 100 negroes
fi )n tii s place, are two new gin houses, one of
which is propelled lyy water power, to which is
attached a grist mill,all in good order.
I.y:ag broadside this place is my other planta
tion, recently owned by Col. W. H* Owens, con
taining 901 acres. The dwelling, out hoi ses. gin
-house and screw are ail new and well finished,
and equally convenient to Glennville. Being de
termined to sell, l would not object to dividing
my lands to suit purchasers. To those acquainted
with these lauds I need slot say more—to those at
a distance, I would say that they cannot he ex
celled in point of health or productiveness in east
Alabama. ‘
Glennville is noted for the morality, intelligence
and refinement of its citizene. It is situated 12
miles from *hc Motile and Girard Railroad, 6
miiea from Jemigan, a s'eamboal landing on the
Gbattahobchle river, and 16 miles from Eufaula,
to-which point the South-Western Railroad of
Georgia will soon be completed. F>r further par
ticul&reddrefm me at Gleonville, Alabama.
ii. BASS.
Sopt 7,1858. wtf
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i N VIG O R A P O R ,
PREPARED BY
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The Liver is one o: ( ■F J the principal regula
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tem are fully develop Jr; ed. Thestomachis at
ui.-rfi eni roly depend- ent on the healthy ac
tioD cttheLiver for thel/:i proper peformance of
iu functions, when the v 1 stomach ie at (jault the
uowolsare at fkt)lt,an (HHjthe whole system suff
orsin consequence oi W one organ—the Llv
er—bavuig ceased duty. For the
tii:■ ot th:-,! organ. me of the proprietors
has made it his study. 1 Jin apractice of more
[■ an twenty years, some remedy
wherewith tn counter j fieri the many derange
meuts to which it is liable.
To prove That this re- () rfiedy is at last tonnd,
a* v {-orson irouu'.eo with Liver Com
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Bilious attacks ure cured, auil,
what .is betttr, LJ) prevented, by the
or. iisional use ot tin ; Liver Invlgora
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the storouch and pre r’ vent ihe iood from
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£ £f“Uue dose of two ( ten-sp'ionsful willal
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one dose taken tor J^> temale obstruction re
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bolera
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of ho t;aieiu theeffects of medicine altera long
bottle tak- 1 Jen for Jaundice re
movesaii Allownes# or r mnatural color from
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food digest well.
one dose ofte • repeated cures ( hron lc Diar
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One or two doses eu'rcs attacks caused or ms
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swallow both together.
THE LIVER INVIGOR A.TOR,
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king enres almost 100 arest for belief. It cures aait
by ui.-gic, even the first dose giving benefit, and
seldom more than one bottle U r required to
ktrdof LiverCoir,plaint, frotn the worst jautidice >r
d>: Deosin to a .comuion headache, all ot which are
the result oi a diseased liver.
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& Haißßxnd; Olevekiond, Fannsi>ck &. Davis Chica
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METHODIST BOOK DEPOSITORY.
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THE undTsii;ned has consented to supply a de
sideratum in the Methodist Community of this
city and section of conntry by keeping on hand
at his office, a full supply ot Books, published at
Ihe Methodist book concern, Nashville, Tenn.
Just received the new Discipline,Hymn Books of
a!! sizes, and a general assortment of Methodist
Books.
We will, at the same time, receive subscriptions
for all the .-Vtvoca'es; Home Circle; Quarterly
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Terms, Cash or Cry Acceptance Persons at
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the merchant with whom they trade, in our city.
M. WOODRUFF, M. D.
Sept 23 d— lw,— 1 w lm-
THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE S 0 Y.E REIG NT Y OF THE STATES.
TUESDAY, OCTOFER 5
News Summary.
I Dutiog the past week ihe cotton market has
i been rather flat throughout the South—though the
j Steamer’s news indicate a decided tone and an
! advancing tendency in the market, the moat san
guine expectation- have been disappointed as to
the probable height it would reach. The evi
dences are that the cotton crop will be somewhat
larger than was first anticipated. Still it is mere
speculation to give an opinion from the receipts
at tins time.
The latest accounts ol the woiking ot the great
cable acrossthe Atlantic are untavorable. There
is supposed to be a Iracture about 200 miles Irom
the Valencia shore. The cable it is thought could
be repaired at this point, as tlie depth of the w ater
is only 110 fathoms, but farther out, there is a
sudden decent between 1,500 to 1,800 fathoms,
where tlie difficulty perhaps lies, and where it will
- ire impossible to make any repairs. The com
pany's shares liavq receded to A'3ls.
The Continental news is unimportaot The
port privileges obtained by Russia at Villa Franca
are pretty much of the character enjoyed by the
United States at Spezzia. The vintage, both in
Frace and Portugal, is abundant. Russia is still
going on in her work of emancipation of the
Serfs. The Russian troops have obtained a victory
in Circassia.
Tim accounts from Central America report our
Mini-ter,Genearl Mirabeau B. Lamar, ng
left Nicaragua The treatment he received In that
Republic was not such as would please a high
toned, chivalrous Minister, and hence it is thought
he will return home. He was at Costa Rica at
the last accounts.
Minister Forsyth is expected home during the
piessnt mouth Irom Mexico. The President has
sustained him in his trying difficulties in that coun
try and:,his recognition of the Zuloaga Govern
ment.
The political news throughout the country is
not of much interest. California has repudiated
Broderick an J the Douglasiics, and sustained the
Administration. J. G. Baldwin, Esq.,—formerly
ot Alabama, and author of the “Flush Times”—
has been elected Judge ot the Supreme Court. A
healed canvass is going on in Pennsylvania and
Illinois. The Democrats ignored the Kansas ques
tion, and treated it as a past issue, notwithstanding
the efforts of the Black Republicans to keep it be
fore the people.
In Georgia, there are tew questions cf general
importance before the people The State Road,
through the Treasurer, Benj. May, E-q .returned
&25,000,as the nett earnings of the road ter the
month of September. The Legislature soon con-’
venes, and it is probable many subjects will be
brought before it olinterest to the State.
Railroad Meeting in Wilkes.
A large number of the citizens of Willies co ,
convened -in tho Court House at Washington od
Tuesday 28th, and were organized by calling M.
G. Robert, Esq , to the chair and appointing Robt
Hester, Esq , of Elbert Cos., Secretary.
At the request ot the Chairman, the Hon. Rob
ert Toombs addressed the meeting : explained its
object to be to effect an extension of the Railroad
from Washington, through Elbert County to Hart
.well, in Hart County. He proceeded to show
that not only would those particular sections be
benefitted bv development and connection with the
Railroads of our State but that the proposed route
would connect the Georgia Railroad with the
Rabun Gap Road, and thereby open a communi
cation irom Augusta to East Tennesseo, by a
route one hundred miles shorter than any other,
and place her in successful competition witli Char
leston for the trade of that fertile country.
lie earnestly recommended the adoption of such
measures as would at onco proceed to the inves
tigation of tho proposed measure, and demon
strate its utility to the country at large—and con
cluded by moving tho appointment of a Commit
tee to confer with Committees from the counties
of Elbert and Hart, who had been appointed at
a previous meeting in those Counties, and were
present, and called upon thorn for reports liom
their respective Counties Wilkes Republican.
Cost of the Africans. —A correspondent of
the Charleston Mercury states that the Africans
found on board tho Echo, which was recently
captured off tlie coast of Cuba, by the Dolphin,
were purchased on the West Coast of Africa at
from fifty cents to one dollar a head ; and costing
scarcely mote than ten or fifteen dollars to be de
livered on the coast of Cuba. The cost ol re
tnruing them to their n five jungles will be about
a thousand.dollars a piece.
For the Columbus Timej.
W. A. Samford’s Letter-
Ey-rie, (near Auburn Ala.) (
Sept. 25th, 1858. (
George W. Chatficld, Esq.:
My Dear Old Friend—The letter which
vou did me the honor to address to me
through the medium of the Columbus Dai
ly Times, of the 9th Sept., has lost none
ol its claims to my attention—none of its
political or personal significance by the de
lay ol this reply, which has been unavoida
ble.
It would he supererogation for trie I be
lieve, in this latter part of the year of our
Lord 1858, to avow that I am a Demo, rat
—and especially to make such an avowal
to you, and that public in Georgia and
Alabama, which reads the Columbus
Times. We became acquainted in Geor
gia in 1840, and as you say have “been
for many years engaged hand in hand irt
support of the great and time honored
principles (my italics) of the Democratic
party. The Columbus Times has always
been friendly to me, and honored nte above
my humble merits. While its sanctum
was illuminated by the .genius of John
Forsyth, I was always an accepted, as I
was,a voluminous contributor to its columns
When mv old college friend, Tennent
Lomax, presided, with an unusual ability,
dignity, and a noble gallantry over its for
tunes, I was no stranger to its generous
liberality and glowing sympathies. And
now that the tditorial helm has been com
mitted to the hands of my gifted and gen
erous young friends, Peyton H. Colquitt *;
James W. Warren, I should as soon ex
pect to be recieved with cold indifference
at the hearthstones and altars of my dear
old Father's children, as in the sanctum of
the Columbus Times. I will not familiar
ize to the tulgareye a friendship sacred lo
memory, upon which Death has fixed his
solemn seal, but I may presume to say
such relations existed, in his lifetime, be
tween Judge Colquitt and rnvself, that I
would venture with great confidence upon
the friendship of any child of that noble
Senator and nobler man. Mr. Warren, too,
numbers among his nearest relatives, dead,
and living, some of my earliest and most
generous friends.
To you, then, to the people of Western
Georgia, who were ray friends, and Ihe
friends of my venerated father—io the
readers of the Columbus Times in Georgia
and Alabama, to the Jwhole people of my
native State and yours—l thank you for an
opportunity of “talking as in days of yore”
upon those political topics which can nev
er be “indifferent” to earnest patriots and
intelligent Christians.
It is important tome, that I premise a
very general observation or two respecting
myself. I do this without any affected
modesty, as I sufficiently comprehend my
self to know that my egotism is of no im
| portance to the world. I am a Democrat—
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1L 1858
but I trust have laid all my prejudices up
on the altar of my country, and am pre
pared to do full justice to patriots of what
ever name or former distinction. I aspire
to be a belter friend ot’ my country, (and I
mean by my country this South of ours,)
than I am a democrat—more a patriot
than a partizan. Indeed, while I suffi
ciently respect the ties which bind good
men together for patriotic purposes, I must
be frank enough to declare to you that 1
detest mere partyism as such —and that
this sentiment which was always a princi
ple with me, grows as 1 advance in life,
into an uncontrollable passion. In my
soul, I believe all mere parlies to be cor
rupt, and that there are as many patriots
in one party as another.
You cannot fail to perceive how little
sympathy 1 have with ttie late pronun
ciamento of the Washington Union,
that “the highest crime a Representa
tive (in Congress) can commit is a fail
ure to abide by the laics” (pray in what
code are they registered ?) “of the Demo
cratic party.” When I became a demo
crat, it was upon the conviction of my
judgment , and we had no such “laws” and
“crimes” as are here indicated. Then, pri
vate judgment and conscience and reason,
were the bonds of party,and individuals were
freemen and superior to party. Then, the
Constitution and laws, and interests of our
country bound us in a higher allegiance to
patriotism,than to party- Sow, it seems
“the highest crime ” is “a failure to abide
by” these new “laws” of a “party.” Then
“a Representative” of the people, upon his
conscience as a Christian, anil his love of
honor as a man, stoxl up unshackled in the
Legislative Assembly and plead his sa
cred oath of office, as of higher obligation
than any mere party tie, and he bravely
stood in defence of ttie interesis of his con
stituents in defiance of all •parties. If this
sentiment of the Washington Union is a
ukase of the central power at Washington,
and a test of true Democracy, why it re
mains that quo ad hoc, I am no Democrat!
Again—l am not willing to he defined as
an “administration democrat,” I will meas
ure this and every “administration” and
man, by the standard of “ principles ” as
you do, and approve whatever in my judg
ment is right, and reluctantly but sternly
condemn and denounce whatever 1 dispas
sionately believe to be wrong. I will take
current opinions as I do current coins, fir
what they are worth, without respect to the
superscription they bear. No administra
tion can become the standard, but every
one must be tried by your “test of demo
cratic orthodoxy”—viz; those great, strict
construction, democratic principles which
have bourne our country aloft lo its pres
ent high and glorious position”—Chit test
of these “principh s” I account the equality
of the Southern States in this Union, and
the absolute equality ol Southern property
with Northern property —in its right to pos
itive protection.
Much as 1 approve in this administration
and zealously as I labored to bring it into
power, 1 cannot pretend that it comes up
tu my standard of Southern R ght#fond I
am therefore not willing to be known as
an “administration democrat” but prefer so
be, and to be called “a Southern Rights
democrat.”
I do not think the present Administration
free front the charge of “ intervention ” in
the slavery contest in Kansas—i think it
has been timid, vascillating, and I fear not
wholly impartial—l do not choose to criti
cise it as I think it deserves, but I am not
willing to go before the country in 1860 in
defense of it.
I do not approve the policy ot the ad
ministration as disclosed in the Washington
Union of August 29th—in the following
blushless cottoning to the Black Republican
North. It is a poor defence to say that it is
insincere, and is only attempting to delude
the l'ree-soilers by a liilse pretence. If this is
true, it is time that honest men were boldly
striking for a radical reformation ot a party
driven to such disreputable shifts to retain
power. Ido not know, and 1 must confess,
I care as little whether the Union discloses
areal policy or deals only in a pretence, its
course is equally objectionable to me. And
because it is the accepted organ ot theFed
al Administration, 1 am not willing to be
identified with its views by wearing the
peculiar badges of an Administration De
inocrat. Hear the Union upon the Le
compton Constitution with the principle
of the Pugh Amendment and tell me, if
your zeal for Administration Democra
cy does not fell below fever heat? Hear
the Union:
“To have come into the Union, under
the Lecomptoii Constitution would have
been to invest herself immediately” (not
withstanding the provision of the Lecomp
ton Constitution against anti-slavery
amendment before 1864!) with the power to
abolish slavery—a power which she does
not possess, and which Congress cannot
exercise for her.
“It is no! a fact that the admission of
Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution
would have resulted in favor of slavery
there,” (therefore you Black Republicans
were not smart in rejecting the Presiden
tial policy—the best freesml policy of im
mediate admission) “Not only was it
impossible t a: this (a favorable result to
slavery in Kansas) was the operation of
the bill (which the Administration favored)
but it was as impossible that this could
hare been the intention of its authors.
“The Know Nothing Council admit that
a majority of the people of Kansas were
opposed to slavery. They knew that the
oretically under the Dred Seolt decision,
slavery existed in the Territory and that
admission into the Union, under the Le
comp;on Constitution was the quickest
process by which they could prohibit that
relation (of slavery) in Kansas. That be
ing admitted, the people had sovereign
power at once to change .their constitution
(the Pugh principle of revolutionary Squat
ter Sovereignty) and thus give effect to
their opinions as to the subject of slavery.
In other words the Lecompton Constitution
was presented to Congress early last winter.
Had the State been admitted, long ere this
29th ot August, she could have framed a
new constitution, and been a free State de
facto et de jure. The Know Nothings and
Republicans were folly advised of these
matters—opposed admission, and thus pre
vented the people of Kansas from making
a free State Constitution'\accocd\ng to the
prescription of the Federal Dispensatory
under the auspices of the Administra
tion !)
I tell you sir, the South will agree with
me that there is a substantial difference be
tween a Southern Rights Democrat and an
Administration Democrat. 1 protest that
that I had no part nor lot in the cunning
plot here disclosed to out do the free sort
ers in their own work, and thrust favors on
them, or the knavish pretense of such a
policy, which is obliged to demoralize the
party at the South and help forward its
free soil tendencies at the North.
If any man thinks I write this with pleas
ure, lie is grievously mistaken. It gives me
the greatest pain I write it because I be
lieve it, and will shut my ears to the siren
voice of party, when nty country pieads for
defence against the stiletto of false friend
ship ; because I am willing to suffer re
proach and encounter denunciation rather
than violate the sacred claims of
“Dtny—Stern daughter of the voice of God.”
I cannot forget the course of Mr. Secre
tary Stanton in Kansas—the late revela
tions he made in Kansas of Adminis
trative anti-Southern intervention. 1 be
lieve in my heart it was he fixed poli
icy of the President and more so ot
his cabinet to make Kansas a free
State. The relations which subsisted be
tween Gov. Walker and the administration
and its mode of dealing with him satisfy
me that he fairly represented that policy. —
For a long time I shut my eyes and doubted
and rejected the conclusion and even in
vented a theory of defence for hi? Kansas
policy—l ant satisfied and I record it —Like
the trusting generous Moor, 1
“ —Loved not wisely but too well”—
I was not “easilt jealous,” but—“being
wrought,” I confess myself like rum, “per
plexed in the extreme.”
1 do not stop to criticise the action of the
Administration in Central American Af
fairs, and its bold arrest of Gen. Walker's
proceedings which might have resulted in
Southern expansion. I have no! a word of
comment upon Judge Campbell’s extraor
dinary conduct in his trial—conduct I sup
pose'agreeable to the Administration, as
most of the presses in its so zeal
ously defended it. I say nothing of the
latitudinous views of the President about
a Pacific Railroad—nor his late action in
the case ol the Africans captured with the
Echo, except that I doubt ‘.lie power of the
government, (1 mean the right, tor the gov
ernment has grown to have any power, I
believe, it may desire) to educate them.
But I cal! your attention to the fact that
at litis moment, the Administration is wiel
ding its whole power to disorganize the
Democratic party in the West, and what is
worse, to defeat Judge Douglas, and elect :
his Black Republican opponent, Lincoln. ;
to the Senate of the United States from Il
linois! I give it 3 no credit lor ihe.transparent
device that Judge Breese may be elected.—
All the bellows-blowing of the Union
newspaper can never raise a tree zein such j
a storm as is raging in Illinois, and the Ad- j
ministration is obliged to know it.
Whatever may be truly said of Douglas,
lie lias never avowed a policy to make j
Kansas a free State, and in comparison |
with this Administration is greatly unex- I
ceptionable to me as a Southern R gilts
Democrat. He is a brave man, and is
standing bolt upright in defence of that
doctrine upon which the whole South has j
acted, and 1 have seen nothing (hat he has !
said or done to be compared with the ;
doctrines and action of the Administration
for anti-Southern effect. In whatever may
be objectionable in his course, the Admin
istration is as guilty as he. More than I
prefer this Administration to a Black Re
publican one, do I prefer Douglas lo Lin*
coin. In all frankness, I have never com- j
prehendod the war irt the South against
Douglas, and never.participated in it. So;
far tts it has involved Gov. Wise, I have ;
stood as Ido to-day stand, and shall stand
in stern, determined defence. I will never
give up such a man as Henry A. Wise,—
(“seamed all over with glorious stars,” re-j
ceived in the wars of the South, at the ‘
dictation of an Administration, whose poli
cy is moulded by Howell Cobb. Never!
I of purpose do not enter into the question j
of governmental expenditures. They are !
great, and 1 am not prepared to defend !
them.
I do not look to the general Government
foi the protection of the South—tor the I
maintainance of those “great principles of |
strict construction” which you so justly !
laud—but as “of yore” and ever, to the !
States alone. Hence, and lor all this and
a thousand times more, I am a “Southern j
Rights ” — “States Rights ” Democrat, and
neither an “Administration” nor a “Na
tional” Democrat. 1 care nothing about the ;
Conference Bill. Ido not think anybody !
else does, unless certain Representatives, j
otherwise discredited and fearful of re
election, on old merits and issues, or in-;
competent and uninformed, in view of vi
tal ones, desire to keep it alive with a view ;
to make political capital out of it, and so, in ,
the only way it can be done, to secure
another term in Congress. As I have else- j
where said, “it is dead and stinks —let it ;
be buried out of our sight.”
As to the slave trade, I refer you for my j
views to current letters I am publishing in j
the Advertiser & Cazeite on that subject, r
directed to the Hon. Henry W. Hilliard— |
I think the prohibitory laws of Congress j
unconstitutional, abolitionary and impo- j
litic.
One word as to the “treachery” of the
Democratic party and its “policy.” Let ns
step a little beyond the limits of Biincomb; j
and “talk” a little, not as mere partisans , j
but as patriots, as we are, it we do our- ;
selves justice.
The “danger to the Democratic party” is :
that there is no harmony in it. its great
thinkers and heroic actors are dead and I
discredited, and it has, to an unfortunate !
extent, ceased to be a party of principle, |
and become a league of factions with con j
dieting parties and local expedients. The i
work of harmonizing the Democratic party
presupposes the work oi reform. To this
work, in my humble measure, I am hear;
and band commuted. Glootry as the pros
pect is, 1 am so encouraged by the zeai and
n’.etligence of those wno agree with me,
that I do not now despair of their success.
1 doubt if the Democratic pa-ty can “tri
umph over them or without them ” I mean
that compact body of “Southern Rights”
“State Rights” Democrats who, whether I
members ol the “League of united South- ;
etners” or not, agree with the Leaguers, j
that the time for compromises on the Slav- j
ery question has forever passed and are ;
determined that there shall be no more j
harmony, at the expense of open, fair-deal
ing, justice and equity. The shadow of
the Presidential contest of 1860 is upon us. j
J put it to you; I put it to every old j
Southern Rights friend in Georgia and
Alabama; 1 put it openly to all Southern \
patriots of all parties, if we are ready for j
its issues and its momentous results ?
For myself, I shall go, by my represen
tatives, to the Charleston Convention, in
tile spirit of a free man, and Ibere tender
lo the assembled Democracy of the Slates
of the Union, the harmony of justice, of ex- !
act equality of Southern States and prop
erty, of State Rights, of strict construction
of Federal powers and of Federal economy.
I think and/eet with Mr. Calhoun, that“to
entreat would be degrading, and would but
aggravate the evil. The higher and bold
er the tone the better.” I will demand jus
tice and equality. 1 will say to the North
ern Democracy, I suspect your fidelity ; I j
want securities for the future. I will say : !
“Here are we of the South, in the Union,
and discharging all our duties in it; ful- :
filling the obligations our fathers covenant- ;
ed for us. You of the North refuse to ex -
ecute the law and the constitution for the j
delivery of fugitive slaves. You agitate ]
the question of slavery to out injury, and ;
tho distraction ot the peace of the Union.
You exclude us’from the common territo
ries ; you denounce and insult us as slave
holders; you threaten to abolish slavery in i
the Federal district ; the trade between tlie
States,” djfc., &c. From time to time, we
have compromised with you ; the Supreme
Court finally, when it was too late for many
practical re-ults, has decided several im
portant questions irt our favor, and you
threaten to ’tear down the Court and re
model it to suit yourselves, &c, Now then,
I Mil for no more compromises. I do not
consent to bo degraded and insulted longer.
I demand Democratic harmony on this basis,
that your leaders and factions “unite and
agree to make Ihe defense of our rights,
Ihe paiatrfounl question, overriding the
Presidential and all others” as Mr, Calhoun
said, both parties must do, or that “for us
and the whole Union, slave-holding and
non-slave-holding, there is a gloomy fu*
tu re.”
This would 1 say, and if 1 am alone,
whether my representative say this or not,
1 shall act if, so far as I may. Twice in
mv short day bus ihe democratic party
been saved by accessions of gallant State
Rights and Southern Rights men from Ihe
. opposition—in 1840 —'44 and in 1856.
Thousands of these men stand ready to
day for the summons of patriotism, and if
1 the democratic party will do ils whole duty
lo the South in 1860, they will save it
again from the inevitable defeats that awaits
it, if it persists in the blind policy of parti
san and petty expedients. Let it lift its
head up to ihe crown of glory which the
Divinity of Justice prepares for it, or lay its
! brow in the dust, and bite the dirt.”
I would spread the spirit and organiza
tion of the Southern Leagues through the
, land. I would call a Southern Convention
without distinction of party—l would warn
and arouse the sleeping South, and the
too confident democracy revelling in spoils.
1 would be ready lor 1860, and do our
whole duty. Once more I invoke the gen
ius ofCallioun. In liis language tuoie ap
plicable to our present day than ever to his
own “1 have hum the fust and throughout
; this whole quesiion (of slavery) been actu
ated by one feeling ; to sure the Union and
our free institutions, if possible, but if not
to sane ourselves at all events. “The great
difficulty “he say's” which 1 had to encoun
ter” (and it is now the difficulty) —
“lias been from the prevalence on all
sides of the spoils principle. The desire
to participate in the spoils, has been so
prevalent f r near sixteen years (now
twenty seven years and it is unabated)
and llie desire of keeping the parties togeth
er, in order to be able to participate, that
the great business of most of the leaders
lias been to urge all questions in the Pres
idential election in order to avoid party dis
traction; and that I fear will prove an in
superable difficulty in taking the high and
decisive stand that only can arrest tile evil
that threatens to engulph ail.”
I have written in great haste and subject
frequent interruptions and have not preten
ded to do more than throw up on Ihe float
ing sea “the tops” if idea?, which have a
firm foundation in the great deep, and will
ere long rise into mountain ranges and
spread out into continental plains.
I think we do not essentially differ as to
men or measures. Certainly we shall not
separate upon a question of “quo modo
isrn.”
As ever your true friend
A veto!
WMF. HAM FORD.
A Case of Kidnapping-.
It is a fact honorable to the South that
no party is surer of ready justice in the
Courts of the Southern States than a negro,
bond or free. This is an opinion formed
from long observation of.judieial trials in
the Courts of the South where the colored
man has been a party, and we think the
following, which has just been communica
ted to us by a friend in Guilford county,
North Carolina, is corroborative of our be
lief. Frank Jackson a free colored man,
hud been kidnapped several years ago in
Pennsylvania and carried to the Soutii. He
was lately found in Guilford county jail by
Mr. George C. Mendenhall, a benevolent
gentleman of the country, confined as a
runaway. Mr. M. heard his story, took
him out, brought suit for his freedom, sent
to Pennsylvania tor Col. Geurge C. Morgan
as a witness, tried the case before the wor
thy Judge R. M. Saunders, who. on hear
ing the evidence, immediately declared the
negro free, and forthwith sent him back to
Newcastle, Pennsylvania in charge ofCoi*
onel Morgan.— Rational Intelligencer
Alabama State Fair.
The next Stale Fair, says the Spirit of
the South, commences at Montgomery on
Monday, the Ist of November, and will con
tinue five days. Extensive preparations
are being made by the executive commit
tee to make the approaching exhibition more
interesting than any that has preceded it.
Among the other novelties we notice that
arrangement are being made for three grand
tournaments to come off on Wednesday,
thp third day of the Fair.
The first for youths under fifteen years
of age. Premium—a Silver Goblet, worth
S2O.
The second, for young gentlemen under
twenty-one years of Rge. Premium—a
Silver Pitcher, worth S3O.
Third, for all persons over the age of fif
teen years. Premium—a Silver Pitcher,
worth SSO.
Those wito enter the Lists, will be re
quired to pay a fee and have their names,
age anti dtt-ss registered.
The committee will appoint judges for
tlie occasion, to decide all points and awaid
the prizes.
Examination of the Slaver Captain
Boston, September 28. —Captain Town
send, of the slave brig Echo, was again be
fore Commissioner Luring this forenoon.—
His costume was as fashionably unexcep
tionable, and his demeanor as gentlemanly,
as usual.
Lieut. Charles C. Carpenter, ot the Dol
phin, was first called upon, and testified
that he examined some of the negroes
aboard the Echo They were m *rked with
dtffere. t letters, some on the arm and some
qn the back. The letters were about an
inch and a half long; they were rough,
badly defined letters, and appeared in the
form ofa sacrificalion of the skin.
Captain Maffit.oof the Dolphin, identified
a document headed “muster roll,” which
he found on the captain’s table on board
the brig Echo. 27th ol August last. It con
tained a dozen names, probably those of the
crew of the Echo.
Mr. Prince, for the defendant, here signi
fied that they should not raise the question
of jurisdiction before this Court.
His associate, Mr. Train, said they did
not mean by this to assent tu anything.
The Commissioner then stated that on
the evidence which had beer, presented, he
should certainly b;nd the defendant over to
the Circuit Court.
Anew complaint ot misdemeanor under
the fourth section of the act of 1818, was
then preferred against Captain Townsend,
in connection with the previous charge.—
The reading and examination were waived,
and on this charge the defendant was order
ed to recognize in SSOOO for his appearance
at the Circuit Court on the 15th October.—
Boston Journal.
Congressional Nomination in Massa
chusetts. — Boston, Oct. 2.—The Ropubli
| can Convention of the Sixth district yes
i terday nominated John B. Alley, of Lynn,
i for Congress, after six ineffectual ballot
tugs. Mr. Alley received sixty-seven votes
i to thirty-two for Timothy Davis, the pres
’ ent representative from that district.
* WEDNFSDAY, OCTOBFR 6.
Our Visit.
la company witb several gentlemen we paid
a visit on Monday to Mr. Charles A. Peabody.—
He lives about five miles beyond the river on an
elevation several hundred f et above the level ol
our dusty plain, approachable by a gradual and
easy ascent. Ol the latter lacl we were made
acquainted only on our return ; for, in going, we
wore luckless enough to miss the way and, alter
pursuing, lor an hour and a hall, the course
we would recommend to any reeonuoitering party
of engineers seeking a location on the highest
ridge, riding over logs, pulling down and pniting
up fences, and divers other amusing reerealions,
we reached our destination- The munsion of Mr.
Peabody, which has recently beeu liuished, is a
magnificent building, of massive proportions,
beautiful extoiior and arranged in coulormity to
every demand of comfort or convenience. Its
summit commands an extensive and pie uresque
view of the surrounding country. The grounds,
in (rent, are graeelully laid off) beautifully orna
mented, and illustrate in a most flattering man
ner tne good taste of the ladies ol the household.
A survey in any direction will embrace number
less evidences of skill and labor and reminds one
perpetually of the facility with which art may
supply what parsimonious nature hath withheld.
The soil is sandy, filled with coarse gravel, pine
knots and other insignia of unmitigated ster
ility.
Three or lour hundred yards from ihe house
the “Poabody Corn” was planted and is now
ready for the harvest. Considering the lact we
havejust noted—the barrenness ol the natural soil
—we regard the product an extraordinary one.—
Indeed, we would consider such a yield remarka
ble for any quality of upland. Much ol the result
is. doubtless due to the judicious system of culti
vation and manuring which Mr. Peabodi hasem
ployed. Tile corn is planted in rows about five leet
apart and is left about four feet apart in the drill-
VVuh the main staik rises, olten one or two and
sometimes, three or four tillers, and on both tiller
and stalk it is not uncommon to find from one to
three small ears. The grain is short, apparently
firm and compact and, in default ol a practical
test, we should estimate that a bushel of it. would
be ol greater weight than the same quantity of or.
dinary corn. Ol the Strawberry beds ttisunnec’
oessary for us to speak. The sight ol them reviv
ed in a provokittg degree our gastrouomical aspi
rations, and it was with much difficulty we re
called oursell irom the contemplation ofSttupper’s
Saloon, and adjuncts.
We had several opportunities of tasting Mr- P’s.
native flock wane, manufactured front the Soup
pernong grape and being the pure juice without a
single foreign ingredient. Our companions, whose
paiaic3 are more experienced than our own, and
to whose opinions we deferred in such matters,
pronounced it fine. Alter our reiurn from the
out-doorexamination, the remainder of the after
noon was spent in discussing the subjects furni-h
---ed by a luxurious table, and in social converse.—
The latter privilege we highly appreciated, as it
gave us the opportunity of an acquaintance with
.Mr. Peabody’s charming family. V\e returned
home at dark, fatigued somewhat by our exer
tions, but delighted with our visit.
Yellow Fever.
The yellow lever is abating somewhat in
Charleston. In New Orleans, however, the dis
casestill continues to strike down its hundreds,
and the month of September has passed away,
leaving the shadow of death in many happy house
holds. Savannah, 100,.in our own native State,
is still infected, and tlto Sexton’s bier conveys to
their resting place, the remains of one or more, eve
ry day who die with this disease. Still, there is no
panic and no flying from the city to avoid the
epidemic. Northern porjs seem to have escap
ed ll)i3 pestilence the present year. Mobile and
Galveston report every day deaths lrom this much
dreaded disease- May we not hope soon to hear
the gratifying intelligence of the disappearance of
the epidemic and the complete revival of trade
and business.
Free Schools
But we desired, in this connection, to put in a
word or two which we think aue to our and every
body's friend, Peterson Thweatt, our popular State
Comptroller, From a conversation with him upon
this subject two or three months ago, we are
satisfied that he has had his attention turned
earnestly to this proposition to appropriate the
ptocoeds of the State Road to thp free ed
ucation of the children of the State ; and we are
of the belief that he has been collecting informa
tion and statistics bearing upon this question,
which will be of much service to the Legislature
should it favorably considet the proposition. What
his plan is in detail, we are not able to say, for he
is a “dyed-in-the-wool” Democrat, ant would
Hardly be after entrusting State secrets to a politi
cal opponent. But lie couldn’t help letting out
enough to satisfy us that he warmly favors the ap
propriation of this fund in this way, and that he
could give some pretty accurate information rela
tive to the educational necessities of every section
of the State. Perhaps his forthcoming Report will
be more explicit.—Enquirer
03* A Washington correspondent says intelli
gence has been received there verifying the lact
that the yacht Wanderer, winch was temporarily
detained oy the United States Marshal at New
York, a lew months ago, under suspicious circum
stances, went to the coast of Africa, and is soon
expected in Cuba with a cargo of slaves. Capt.
of South Carolina, purchased het with the
proceeds of a claim allowed by the War Depart
ment.
“Quitman Monument” Meeting.—A meet
ing of the citizens of Adams county, Miss., was
held on the 28ib, to ad..pt measures for the erec
tion ot a monument on the Bluff in the city ol
Natchez, to the memory of General John An-,
thony Q itmau. A’Quitraan Monument Asso
elation” was formed, with Wm. J. Minor, as
Pie.-idem, and a committee appointed to lake such
steps towards accomplishing the object of the
meeting, as might be deemed advisable.
jy The Nashville Union says that a novel in
cident occurted at the Marshall county Fair,
which was not laid down in ihe programme. A
couple presented themselves and were married in
the amphitheater, in the presence of thousands of
spectators. Though no premium was offered for
such an exhibition, the parties went their way
looking as if each had just obtained a prize above
all price.
jy There is a town in Michigan where the
church bell is rung every day at twelve, for the
people to take their quinine, as they have the ague
all round.
Mortality from Consumption. —The Lon
don Times pays, that of the 420,000 people who
died in England and Wales last year, 100,000 were
the victims of Consumption.
The Christian Stikitualist. —This is the ti
tle ol a bi-monthly paper published in Macon,
Georgia, by L. F. W, Andrews, Editor of the
Georgia Citizen. The first number is before us,
ar.d presents a neat typographical appearance.
As its name indicates, it will be devoted to the
publication of messages from the spirit world, and
to the exposition and defense of the doctrines ol
spiritualism. We have never had any faith in the
latter, but we are nag therefore unwilling to give
the subject a consideration.
Terms of the Spiritualist f 1 50 in advance.
PEYTON H. COLQUITT, ) p a: tn _ R
JAMES W. WARREN, \ ’
Number 40
THURSDAY, OBTOBER 7.
The Enquirer’s Reply.
We recinrocate the compliment of inge
nuity paid us by the Enquirer , but cannot perceive
what bearing oui profession can have upon the
question on which we are at issue. An attempt
in this way to enlkt prejudice against the argu
ments ot an opponeut. is a fashionable and approv
ed resource ol the advocate ot a weak position.
Such an object, however, we do not charge upon
our cotemporary. We are invited to consider
the following hypothetical propositions :
“It the Constitution originally forbade the mem
bers of the Legislature from electing one of their
own number a Judge, (as the Times admits it did)
could those mentions by their own act, without
an amendment oi the Constitution, transfer lo an
other tribunal the power to elect one of themselves
to the Bench ! It they were authorized by ihe
Constitution to elect the Judges, but forbidden by it
to choose one of themselves, could they evade this
Constitutional restraint by passing a law authoriz
ing the Lovernor to make the appointment and
empowering him to choose one of themselves ? aud
it they could not thus make a “cat’s paw’’ of the
Governor, could they of the people !”
The Enquirer says, “were we arguing this
question as a lawyer, we might rest the case upon
this rejoinder to our neighbor’s plea.” ’1 his takes
all the edge Irom the compliment. If it had said
“were we arguing this question as a sofihist,” it
would Have been more intelligible, and would
have suvod the profession a very ungenerous thrust.
VVe do uot understand how it escaped the sagacity
of our neighbor that each of the above proposi
tions involves a petitio prinetpii. In order to
answer the first question in the negative—the
position of the Enquirer—it is necessary lo assume
that the disqualification of a Senator or Rep
resentative to ho elected to any office of emolu
ment, in Art. t, Sec. 11 ot the Constitution, isgen
cr l, and not special, or having reference to the
power of appointment by the Legislature. This
is the question in controversy between us, and this
he cavalierly take, for granted. It is obvtous that,
unless the re.-lrietion be taken in that sense, there
can he no difficulty in maintaining the affirmative
side of the q teslion propounded by our neighbor
“to candid, reasoning nten.”
The prohibitions in the Constitution are the
only limitation upon the power of the L-gieiature;
for Sec. 22 Art. 1, declares (hat “The Geueral As
sembly shall h ve power to make all laws and
ordinances which they shall deem necessary and
proper for the good of the State, which shall not
be repugnant to this Constitution.” It, thererore,
it is not uuceuilitutional, “the Legislature can,
by its own act, without an amendment of the
Constitution, transfer to another tribunal, the pow
er, and elect one ol its own numbers to the Bench.’
So much lor the argument of our neighbor, “as a
lawyer.” The remainder of his article is devoted
to the consideration of the ‘ mani fest meaning”
of the Cottslitution. We will not go over the
ground again, and refer to our previous article for
a reply thereto. VVe are indebted to him for
Webster's meaning of the word “eligible,” but he
has presented no consideration to show that it
does not refer to the offices and appointments
within the gill oi the Legislature. Such, we have
contend.-d and still insist, is the natural and proper
constrncti .nos the sentence.
P. S.—Since writing the above, we have read
an article in the Enquirer of yesterday, over the
signature ol “Smith,” commenting on our position .
The v.cws of the writer, we think, are fully met
by the considerations we have already advanced.
He gives us a position we have never assumed,
when he says we have discovered a way by which
“one may he a member of the Legislature and at
the same time J udge ol the Superior Courts of the
State ol Georgia. We exprossly guarded our
selves against this inference in our last article.
Corrections-
Many inaccurate statements, says the Union,
are going the rounds ol the papers in relation to
astronomical mattera which show, not only the
ignorance of fits writers, but the carelessness of the
publishers who insert them without due consider
ation. In numerous papers we have observed
statements that the brilliant comet now visible in
the Northwest (known as Donati’s) is the same
which appeared in 1264 and again in 1556. This
is not correct, as there is a wide dissimilarity be
tween their paths. The comet ot 1556, known
among astronomers as Charles V’s, is supposed to
be identical with Tattle’s third comet ot 1858,
which can now be Been only with the assistance
of a telescope. Its period was about 292 years,
but owing to the retardations in it 9 motion, caused
by the attraction of the larger planets, it is now
ten years behind its time. When the comet which
is now so conspicuous was first discovered, its or
bit was found to be so near that of the first comet
of 1827 that the two bodies were surmised to be
identical, aud to return every thirty-one years.—
Tnis supposition, however,does not seem destined
to be confirmed. The accurate calculations of ita
elements, which have been published, combine to
render it almost certain that several thousand years
must elapse before it again visits our system.
VVe also observe a paragragh Iu some of the pa
pers to tho effect that a few evenings since “the
three planets, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus, appeared
in range on the western sky.” This is somewhat
incredible, since while Mars and Venus are in the
Southwest shortly after sunset, Jupiter is then be
low the horizon, and does not rise until about ten
o’clock, alter which it may be seen in the North
east. Venus is now in Scorpio, Mars is just en
tering Capricorn, and Jupiter is in Gemini.
The American Party—lts Record.
We do not intend fuither to discuss the question
of ihe ‘fair record’ of th* American party with the
Macon Journal aud Messenger. We thought it*
boast about the “proud position” of its party be
fore th- country simply a figure of speech of the
editor aud are unwilling now to disturb his happy
frame ol mind by the statement of tacts familiar to
eve.y school-boy. The name of Hon. Andrew J.
Miller is cited with others as lead, rsof the Amer
ican organization. This may be, notwithstand
ing his reluctance to become a member. If our
neighbor will turn to the Journal ot the State
Senate, ne wilt find ths “distinguished name” of
Andrew J. Miller recorded in favor of the resolu
tion, which says] “opposition to the principlee of
the Kansas bill ia hostility to the constitutional
rights of the South.” Ab he was a leader, we do
not presume, were ho living, he would now de
nounce the bill as a “sham” or “farce ” This.bow
ever, has been the case with the other Americans
who voted with him and it ia pronounced “eon
sislency.” We are satisfied—we will not repeat
our argument—or make any illusion to the 12th
section or other platforms made by the American
patty- _
On the “Poor” List.—The New Y'ork Her
ald, has placed Forney on the “Poor” list—in
the same category with Pierce “and others who
are obnoxious to its ire- We suppose when Ben
nett says “Poor Forney!” he means that Forney
is about damned aod done for. It is about equiv
alent to Richard’s concentrated (malediction—
Down, down to Hell— and say / sent ‘you there!
Savannah, Oct. s.—There were six interments
to-day, and two by ’yellow fever. During the
week there were forty-four, and by yellow fever,
fourteen.
esr The Atlanta Intelligencer makes its
appearance in our sanctum to-day with anew
and beautiful dress. It is indeed a specimen pa
per in point of typographical execution. It in
published by A. A, Gaulding Y Cos., Ind edited
with zeal and ability. Price daily $6,00. Tri
weekly $.400. Weekly SB,OO,