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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
IMC^OOISr, GkA..
Tuesday Morning, August 30.
DMOIK ITIC KOIUSATIOJI*.
FOR GOVERNOR,
Boxing ilie Compaq
_ -Keep it before the people.—That for the en
tire four years of Gov. Johnson's administra
tion. the net income of the State Road was, on
an average. Thirty-fire thousand eight hundred
and ninety-four dollars and seventy-seven cents
per month.
Keep it before the people.—That Governor
^ , Brown has, on an average, only paid into the
J 0*S« JB. JE»Jt6/C_> W Jw . | Treasury from the State Road, Twenty-eight
FOR CONGRESS—8d district.
COL. A. M. SPEER.
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.
For Senator—Hon. P. TRACY.
For Representatives—O. A. LOCHRANE,
L. M. LAMAR.
District Nominations for Congress.
1st District—PETER E. LOVE.
2d District—MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.
;Jd District—ALEXANDER M. SPEER.
1th District—L. J. GARTREL.
5th District—J. W. H. UNDERWOOD,
nth District—JAMES JACKSON.
7ih District—ROBT. GOODLOE HARPER.
Mh District—JOHN JENKS JONES.
ROBERT G. HARPER. Esq.,
i l>o Democratic Candidate for Congress, trill
address the People of the 7th District, at
. Montieello, Jasper county, Thursday, Sept 1
Clinton, Jones county, Saturday, Sept 3.
Marion, Twiggs county, Tuesday, Sept 6th.
Irwin ion, Wilkinson ca, Wednesday,Sept 7th.
Gordon, Wilkinson ca, Thursday, Sept 8th.
Sandensville, Washington ca Saturday, Sep.10.
Milledgeville, Baldwin ca, Monday, Sept 12th.
Sparta, Hancock county, Tuesday, Sept 13th.
Greensboro’, Greene ca, Thursday, Sept 16th.
E i ton ion, Putnam ca, Saturday, Sept 17th.
Madison, Morgan county, Saturday, Sept 24th.
Covineum, Newton ca, Wednesday, Sept 21.
The Coumy Ticket.
Hi * '.invention of the County, which met
on Saturday last, has presented a ticket of in-
telW-nco and ability, which we trust will se
cure the unanimous support of the democracy
of the county. In regard to the overture from
the Opposition, of a Compromise Ticket, the
Chairman of the Democratic Convention was
elf-evidcntly right in ruling that a Convention
elected to nominate a Democratic ticket had no
option in the premises, and must dischaige the
duty delegated to it, and the Convention was
as clearly right in sustaining his decision. The
fate of the ticket is now in the hands • f the
Party, and if they do their whole duty by It, it
will surely be elected by a gratifying majority.
Baltimore Enormities.
To the weekly budget of Baltimore achieve
ments in rowdyism with which our correspon
dent in that city Arors us, several more might
be added which come by telegraph—for exam
pie, a proprietor of a leading hotel in the monu
mental city was attacked by and shot a notori
ous rowdy in an omnibus last Friday. Illus
trating the effect of this rampant lawlessness
upon the trade as well as the good name of Bal
timore. we see in several of our exchanges
that parties of Southern and Western merch
ants who had started to buy goods in that city,
abandoned their purpose and went to Philadel
phia and New York. It seems unaccountable
to friends of Baltimore at a distance from that
great theatre of rowdyism, that forty thousand
able bodied, virtuous and well ordered men,
which that city must contain, should permit
themselves year after year to be terrorized over
by ar insignificant pack of scoundrels, who
might all be in jail in one hour and hung the
next, if it was necessary to the work of -purga
tion.
Capt. Elardeuiuu and (lie Tlninder-
1NG snuKas
A dinner is to be given to this gentleman at
Thundering Springs. We always thought that
it would require something more of inspiration
in the Opposition than the common whiskey of
the country, to beget enthusiasm and arouse
thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars
I fifty cents.
Wo find the foregoing, and much more of the
j same sort paraded in the "Opposition” prints
and qnote it to illustrate a little of the shame
less inconsistency of the attacks upon Gover
nor Brown in reference to the State Road. It
has taken the other side just about a year and
a half to occupy every possible contradictory
point of assault upon the matter of these pay
ments of net profits from the Western & At
lantic Rail Road. Let ns briefly recapitulate
and appeal to the memory of every honest
reader, if we misrepresent the facts.
1. When the first payments were made, tho
opposition papers said they were fraudulent—
that the money was borrowed to make them—
that they were not bona fide net earnings.
2. Being silenced on this point, the opposi
tion next declared that they were but mere
■how and false pretence in this respect: that
a niggardly and false economy had been adop
ted in order to make them—the road, rolling
stock and stock of wood being suffered to get
out of repair, ran down and ran out in order
that Dr. Lewis and Gor. Brown might gain a
meretricious credit of large payments into the
State Treasury.
3.. Being silenced here, they next averred
that if these were bona fide payments, it be
hooved the democracy to be showing why they
bad not been made before, and to defend the
administration of Gov. Johnson from the charge
of waste, mismanagement and fraud. Every
one of these payments impeached the adminis
tration of Gov. Johnson.
4. When the payments increased in size,
and gradually run up towards $40,000 per
month, as the management of the road became
more assured of the safety in making them,
then the "Opposition” papers denounced them
as a shameless trick to make votes and influ
ence the People in the elections.
5. Bnt, lastly and finally, ascertaining that
they have been wrong throughout—that the
management of this great work is fairly un
impeachable—the road.in fine condition—tho
payments a safe and prudent return of actual
net profits—-they bolt all their previous defa
matory charges against Johnson and all their
false accusations, imputations and insinuations
against Brown—take a precisely opposite
tack and boldly set up that Johnson's man
agement disgraces that of Brown—that the
payments onght to have been heavier, and the
fact they have not been heavier demonstrates
mismanagement or fraud in Brown’s adminii-
tration. Mr. Warren Akin, in his speed), un
dertakes to show a great short-coming in Gov.
Brown’s payments, and it is fortunate for him
he is in no danger of having to jnstify bis ex
hibits by corresponding returns of income from
the State Road. If either he or bis party ev
er get hold of the bnsiness, they will make a
worse fist of it than the know-nothings did when
they kicked out the old Washington monu
ment committee, and undertook to finish it
themselves in a year. There was not another
stone laid till the Monument got rid of the
heavier weight of know-nothingism.
Now all these unwarrantable, ridiculous, in
consistent aud self-contradictory charges which
hare been brought successively by the same
party presses and politidans against Governor.
Brown in this conuectlon, «bo«r tho utter un
fairness and recklessness of those who make
them—how in their eagerness to assail they
will pick np any idea, no matter what, and
when that won't do, take np its opposite, and
thus, so far as they are concerned, they have
no choice between truth and error—justice
or injustice—sense or nonsense—facts orfic-
tbe voters, and so we see that a little thunder
and lightning arc to be introduced to vary tbe I tion in their efforts to gain control of, and man-
programme. Thundering Springs is a good I age the State Road. And where tbe truth is
place for the opposition to hold a meeting— to be attained only by patient and impartial
they ought to accustom themselves in time to
noise of all sorts, for on the first Wednesday in
October next, the people will thunder into their
i-nra terrible denunciations, and the shouts of
Democratic triumphs will not sound to them as
street as the "music of the Spheres.”
Col. YVsirrcn Akin’s Speech.
Concert Hall was densely crowded on Wed
uesday evening last to hear the Opposition
Candidate for Governor. There was nothing
new in the speech. Squatter Sovereignty and
Douglas—Missouri Compromise Ksnsas Bill
—Casa' Le Clerc letter. Gov. Brown and his
Rail Road management—Gov. Johnson did so
much better, made so mneh moro moo®;
praise of Iverson, with a general wind np in
the way of exhortation after the manner of our
neighbor of the Jonrnal & Messenger, on pare
people's party composed of the honest men of
all partiea. Such, we understand, were tbe
main topics of Col. Akin’s address. He daz
zled no one by flashes of eloquence, he con
vinced no one by the force of his logic, and he
changed no one by the weak statement of
charges preferred against the Democratic par
ty. It is our bonoat opinion that notwitbstand-
- mg the speech of Col. Akin, the Democratic
party is still living, and will continue a pure,
powerful and triumphant organization. We
hope Col. Akin may speak here again before
the 1st Wednesday in October.
The Christian Index.
The publication Committee of this time-hon
ored journal have at last secured the services of
a regular official editor in the person of Rev,
*B. W. AVarren, late of South-western Georgia,
a gentleman whose high abilities and character
are widely known to the denomination and tbe
public throughout tho State; and certainly af
ford every guarantee of acceptability, indepen
dent of experience in editorial service. Rev.
_ Messrs. Landrum and Boykin, who have sus
tained the Index since the retirement of Mr.
Walker, made their oonge in the last number,
and Mr. Warren presents his first issue this
week.
Enterprise Works, macon.
Among tbe large manufacturing establish
ments which have sprung up in Macon during
’ the past year, tho Enterprise Works deserve
.most honorable mention. Its busy hum and
clatter is never-ceasing from morn to night, and
and in point of extent, efficiency and complete
ness it has few equals any where. See adver
tisement.
investigation, and comprehended and appreci-
iod in tho same temper—wbat chance would a
great business enterprise like the State Road
have in bands like these? Consider bnt for
one moment tbe thousand and one conditions
of prudence, judgment, forecaste, forbearance,
economy, single-mindedness. Sec., which in
tbe long run must be indispensable to the per
manent success and utility of this great busi
ness, and let any man of sense answer to him
self what mast ultimately be tbe fate of the
State Road, subjected aa we sec its manage
ment in election after election, to mere unin
formed prejudice and misrepresentation ?—
That it may over be controlled by judgment,
ntelligencc and patriotism, ia our earnest
bope, but it hat to ran a fearful gauntlet of
demagoguism in every election. Prudent, pa
triotic statesmen of Georgia, it teems to us,
with the lights before them, ought to concur in
the policy of getting rid of the Road as a State
enterprise, as soon as consistent with the pub
lie interests in that property. The State, in
onr judgment, would be just as properly in the
saw mill and blacksmithing business as carry
ing on Kail Roads. Tbe mission of a Repub
lican Government ia to protect tbe people in
the enjoyment of life, liberty and happiness,
and not to ran railway trains or act os com
mon carrier. Onr elections should turn on
questions of civil policy—of political rights or
principles, and not on success of enterprise in
trade and business.
Medical Education.
An Address to the Graduating Class of tbe Savan
nah Medical College, delivered 7th of March,
1859, By B. D. Arnold, A. M., M. D., Profeasor
of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, in the
Savannah Medical College v
We are indebted to the kindness of the author
for a copy of the above Address, and we return
him our thanks for the pleasure and profit we
have derived from a careful pertlsal of it
This Address is as full of good sense as an
egg is of meat, and there are words of counsel
and practical suggestions in it which not only
our young, but all our medical men would do
well to act upon.
Dr. Arnold thinks the Standard of Education
in the three liberal professions—Law, Medicine
and Theology, lower in America than it is in
Europe, and he chatges it as a National fault
that we hurry over things too much—that we
do not devote the time necessary for preparato
ry studies before we assume the responsibilities
of master workmen, whether in trades or profes
sions, but says that much of this has arisen
from our peculiar position as a vigorous young
nation, affording opportunities for action, and
opening avenues for employment which are de
nied to older and more settled nations.
In all this the learned Professor is right We
are a last people, and are fond of making Doc
tors, and Lawyers, and Divines in 2.30 time.—I
We heard Dr. Martin, not long since say, "that
a man, when he was growing up, who had a P-
D. put to his name, was really a great mate—
was grey headed, and had won his honors by
his great arguments. A D. D. in those days
was always a man of profound learning, and
vast attainments, but now D. D.’s were as com
mon as blackberries.”
In illustration of Dr. Arnold's ideaastotho
rapidity with which young men prepare for the
medical profession, we repeat a statement made
to us by a legal friend not long since. He had
been attending the September Term of a Su
perior Court in a village in Georgia, and met a
young man whom he had formerly know, and
upon inquiry, found he was keeping what is
known as a “Grocery.” Two months after, he
met the same youth in a certain city in Geor
gia, and on asking him “when he came to town,’
he replied, ‘I’m living here now.’ ‘What are
you doing f Tm goin to be a doctor. I’m ten-
din on the Lectures at the College.’ Our friend
exclaimed ‘Theh—1 you are,’ and left.
Dr. Arnold is for a higher standard of Medi
cal Education, and maintains that a medical
man should lie not only a classical scholar, but
that he should be master o£ and understand
the living languages, such as German, French,
Italian and Spanish, and furnishes many good
reasons for the opinion, and says to tho young
Physician who may be ignorant of these lan
guages, that it is not too late for his pleasure or
his profit to commence them. Industry and
perseverance can conquer most obstacles.
lie thinks the multiplicity of medical schools
an evil, and suggests that the State of Georgia,
should, by special statute, separate the Licen
sing power from the Teaching, and recommends
a Board of Licensing Examiners, in which each
School is represented in connection with mem- j
hers chosen outside the Schools.
These arc some of the topics of interest which
the learned Professor treats an, l we have no
doubt that the adoption of many of his sugges
tions would elevate the standard of the medical
profession, and tend greatly to the advancement
of the noble science.
We regret that tirno and space forbids a more
extended notice. We commend it to the care-
fid perusal of the medical profession of our State.
A Vexed Question Settled.
Many papers have denied the statement made
by us that Sam Houston was elected Governor
of Texas as a National Democrat, and a sup
porter of Mr. Buchanan’s admini-tration. We
are in re ,-ipt of a eopyof the Austin Intelligent! in that place. The gravest charge of personal
cer, which contains, at full length, a speech and political disability brought against Col.
Too Good to eo lo Congress. |
The Upson Pilot of last Saturday has a col-'
umn and a half of comment upon Col. Speer’s '
recent speech in Thomaston, from which it is
clear that a very favorable impression was made !
For the Georgia Telegraph.
Stcplien A. Douglas.
NUMBER III.
I.et us come now to the Kimsns-Xebras
Bill, and sec what an endorsement it and i
distinguished author received from men of all
parties in the Georgia Legislature. In Februa,
made by Gen. Houston at Nagadoches on the 1 Speer by the Pilot is contained in the last para
9th of July, in which he takes ground on all graph of the article—thus:
t\ i slcyiiu Female College, ITIacon.
Wo invite attention to the annual announce
ment of the Wesleyan Female College, under
the newly organized and very efficient Board of
11 traction therein set forth. See advertise
ment. The College stands pre-eminent as the
oldest and probably the best endowed institu
tion of the kind in the country.
Oglethorpe ITIcdicnl College,
’Savannah, publishes her annual announce
ment of Lectures to-day. The facts mentioned
in the advertisement show that this institution
enjoys a high degree of prosperity.
finds in the I'ieUI Tor the Prcsidcn
‘A.
i ao iKa. John Minor Botts, of Virginia, at
<-:it tarn ing at the Astor House, New York,
I i- been affectionately nominated for the Pres
idency by the “Society of Ashhmders” Brook
ed o waited on him last Tuesday and in-
:ir.g him that the Ashlanders represented
.-hades of the opposition" demanded if lie
wem Id “hoar the banner of a united opposition.”
Gcn’l Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs
IN THE FIELD AGAIN.
Wc were under the impression that Scroggs
was dead, personally and politically, and that
“ American State Councils” had perished with
their illustrious leader and President. Not so.
General Gustavus Adolphus Scruggs, re-appear
ed on the 23d day of this expiring month of Au
gust, in Geneva, in the State of New York, and
with him the equally grand and illustrious "A
merican State Council” of the Empire State.—
Gen. Scroggs took the Chair in all the majesty
of life, and the “Council” proceeded to make
arrangements for a State nominating Conven
tion. A .persevering effort was made to appoint
it at Syracuse, the 7 th September, being the
same day and place of the Black Republican
State Convention, for the purpose of patching
up an alliance with the Blackies; but to the
credit oi the immortal Gustavus and his Coun
cil, the proposition was voted down, and the
21st September fixed upon, which gives the
opportunity and benefit of revisory action. E-
rastus Brooks and Lorenzo Burrows were then
appointed Delegates from the State at large, to
“attend the next American National Conven
tion.” Our “Opposition” in Georgia, will have
a chance to try on that Convention their new
doctrine of “Congressional protection” and see
how it fits.
The British ministerial Organ on
THE AMERICAN PROTECTORATE OF
MEXICO.
Commenting on the Treaty frith Mexico some
tiin<.«gr> erroneously stated to have been effect
ed by Minister McLane with the Juarez Gov
ernment, the London Post, the recognized news-
paper organ of the Palmerston Ministiy, under
date of the 9th mst., has a very liberal article,
in which it favors even the annexation of Mexi
co to the United States, on the condition of a
guaranty of the payment of the Mexican Na-'
tional debt The Post says:
“We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that of
the foreign debt of Mexico eight millions out ol
ten are held by British subjects. If by the
convenient and peaceable process which the
treaty provides, Mexico is destined to fall under
the protection of tbe United States—the first
step to virtual annexation—what guarantee will
the British holders or the Mexican deM have
that tbe doctrine of repudiation will not be dis
agreeably and unjustly extended from the North
to the far South? On political and social grounds
we think that Mexico, as a portion of the Unit
ed States, would offer a more safe and valuable
field for British commerce than in its present
chronic condition of violence, revolution and
lawlessness. But her Majesty’s Ministers will
neglect the interest of tjie capitalists of this
country, and at the same .time admit u». Won-
rac-i»uctnne,~ irthey permit the government of
the United States to have its own way with re
spect to the future political organization of Mex
ico.”
“We are for the present done with Mr.
Speer’s speech. He no doubt (for wo have had
personal evidence of the fact) possesses a kind,
social disposition, an intelligent mind, and an
excellent moral character. We hope his friends
will think of these things and not expose so
much purity to the corrupt influences that lin
ger around and corrode the Representative Hall
at Washington.”
We are glad to see that CoL Speer maintains
abroad, even among his political opponents, a
character and reputation he has acquired at
home, and his friends rely fully on his ability
to sustain them against whatever “corrupt influ
ences” public duty may lead him to encounter.
They do not hold a high degree of “personal
purity” inconsistent with or unbecoming
member of Congress; and in fact, the Pilot,
who thinks a pure man unfit for Congress, ad
mits it to be a disqualification not likely to last
long. Now, Mr. Speer’s speech in Thomaston
was delivered on the 19th, and Captain Harde
man, the Opposition Candidate, spoke in the
same place three days after. The same number
of the Pilot notices the Captain’s effort very
briefly, but urges no such objection against him.
He says the speech was “replete with sound
sense, noble principles, stubborn facts, biting
truths,” and so on—that the audience was large,
sober, and did not swear, and the “Brass Band
of Bamesvillc” added the fascinations of music
to the occasion—but this is all. Capt. Harde
man seems to have failed to impress his friend,
the Pilot, with any such vivid idea of his per
sona] worth, “excellence of character,” and
“kind, social disposition," which have hitherto
been unquestioned so far as we know. On the
contrary, the Pilot impliedly contrasts the two
candidates in these particulars to the great dis
advantage of Hardeman in a moral aspect lie
says that Speer is too good for Congress—too
pure, kind, intelligent, social and moral to be
exposed to theso corrupt influences whicit will
pollute him by contact—but Hardeman, (in ef
fect) labors under no such virtuous disqualifi
cations. He is just fit to go to Congress in a
moral point of view.
In justice to Capt Hardeman we are bound
to add that this is the first time wc have seen
or heard his moral character impeached. In
our judgment an action for defamation against
the Pilot might be a proper remedy.
Philosopher Greeley aud the Mor
inons.
Having settled the Gold question at Pike’s
Peak, wc next hear of Philosopher Greeley at
Great Salt Lake City, where he convokes the
prophets and apostles of Mormonism, and in
terrogates them minutely on their faith and
practices. Brigham Young is the principal wit
ness, and the questions and answers ail appear
seriatim in the Tribune. Nothing new is eli
cited, that wc can see, except the precise num
ber of Brigluun’s wives, which lias been vari
ously stated from seventy downward. Young’s
testimony on the subject is as follows:
H. G.—How general is polygamy amongyou?
B. Y.—I could not say. Some of those pre
sent (heads of the church) have each hut one
wife; others have more; each determines what
is his individual duty.
H. G.—What is the largest number of wives
belonging to any one man ?
the great questions of the day, and from which
we mak Abe following extracts:
IS A DEMOCRAT.
“I am a'democrat of the Old School In
r ditics, Iamanoldfogy. An old fogy, because
cling devotedly to those primitive principles
upon which our government was teuncfol, and
under which the Constitution went into opera
tion. I have no modem improvements to make
on the principles of our fathers.”
HAS RENOUNCED KNOW-NOTHCiGISM SINCE 1855.
“ I wrote, the other day, to Mr. Flake, an
honest German editor at Galveston—tcAo inter
rogated me, as he had a right to do, and I teas
bound to answer—that ‘since 1855 I had not
been connected with the order. It was said to
be “dead,” and so I regarded it I knew of no
attempt to agitate it, and I had no desire to see
it agitated.’ I will say here, that if an attempt
were made to revive it, I would oppose it, be
cause no good result could lie attained, and there
is no necessity for it”
HIS EI.AT10RM or PBIXCII-I.es—IS A BUCHANAN
MAX, AND EXDORSES U1S ADM1XISTKATI0X.
“ My principles you all know. I have ever
been opposed to banks—opposed to internal im
provements by the General Government—op
posed to a distribution of the public lands among
the States—opposed to taking power from the
hands of the people—opposed to special monop
olies—opposed to a protective tariff-—opposed
to a latitudinous construction of the Constitu
tion-opposed to slavery agitation and disunion.
Tiiis is my democracy. Point to a single act
of my public career not in keeping with these
principles. AA’ill those who are so bitterly op
posing me, now come up and compare notes ?
Well, Mr. Buchanan became President. He
is an honest man. He Is a patriot. He took
the reins of government under trying circum
stances. Our relations with Great Britain were
unsettled. A system of fraud in the perform
ance of Government contracts had grown up.
These were all entailed upon Mr. Buchanan,
and he had to meet them. He has been honest
and faithful; and if all the evils have not been
remedied, it lias not been from a want of effort
on liis part. A'ou did well to make him Presi
dent ; and when all the clouds which have gath
ered about Us administration are cleared up,
you will finiPthat surrounded, as lie has been,
by factions which have crippled his administra
tion, and by difficulties which were not of his
own making, he has acted wisely and as a pat
riot. He has quieted Kansas and Utah trou
bles. He has obtained an abandonment of the
right of search by Great Britain. He has breast-
cd the work of ‘squattersovereignty.’ If he lias
not fully met the expectations of the country, it
Is the fault of Congress.”
is orrosED to the re-opesixg of the African
SLAVE-TRADE, AND GIVES Ills REASONS FOR IT.
“Re-open the African slave trade, and the
South will be deluged with liarbarians. Your
present stock of negroes would fall in value, and
recede in point of intelligence. Not a poor man
would lie able to stay in the country, because
labor would be so cheap that lie would not bo
able to get bread for himself and his family.
The labor market would be overdone. The vast
army of slaves would be put to work in your
cotton fields, and the vast crop would glut the
market, beyond all reasonable demand. Prices
would fall to four or live cents per pound, and
even then, when the demand was supplied, the
greater portion of your' crop would lie upon
your hands for want of a purchaser. Freights
would advance to an enormous price, because
every sail that the Yankees could raise—those
dear Abolitionist gentlemen, who love the negro
so much—would lie engaged in the traffic. Each
vessel that could be bought or pressed into the
service, would be upon the coast of Africa. It
would be more profitable than the carrying
trade. Your cotton would lie and rot upon your
wharves, or in your gin-houses, liccau.se trans
portation will not pay, and rain to your financial
interests will be the consequence. If negroes
would be cheaper, money would be dearer. It j
is easier now to buy a negro at $1,500, than it I
was twenty years ago at $500. Increase the
production of cotton at once ten-fold, as it would 0 f Friday, is out as a contributor to Harper’s I ln commenting on that resolution in the Geor-
be, and the demand falls off in proportion. The jf a gj Z i nc f or September, in a long article on fP a Telegraph of 28tli December, 1847, Samuel
“Popular Sovereignty,” in which he states and Bay declares “it Is the only true and Con-
argucs liis position on the Territorial question, stitutional ground in respect to Territory now
This will settle all doubts as to what he floes I belonging to, or that may hereafter be acquired
and docs not hold upon the question. AYe shall by this Government.” Amongst many good
look fornarper with some curiosity. The Her- traits of Mr. Ray, devotion to the South shone
aid, in a notice of the article from advance J conspicuously. He was the mouth-piece of the
sheets furnish**! tl.nt popci, says:
AA’arrenAkin, tho Opposition Candidate, mane, ^ 1854, the following resolutions passed that d'he^Roiciy'
speech on AA ednesday night, the burden body, a nd ;f \ recollect right, unanimously:
•The State of Georgia, in solemn convention
of which was, down with Joseph E. Brown and I ^ |
Stephen A. Douglas. Mr. Akin has caught the having firmly fixed herself upon the principles
“-VET,,,-
Correipondence of the Geor
teitineijy GwiirosT’"’?
Chang.r,
The carnival of the
stereotyped, parrot cry of Ben Hill, and quacked
out lustily—“Squat-tcr Sovereignly—Squat
ter Sovereignly—squat-ter Sovereignty"—and
in the conclusion of his speech told the people
with melting pathos, when going out of this
world, his last dying words would be, Squatter
Sovereignty- Ben Hill made but little out of
this senseless cty in 1857—the people will nail
it and AVarren Akin to the Counter in 1859.
Hill and Akin are estimable gentlemen and far
seeing politicians, and they understand against
whom to direct their batteries. They know full
well, that Douglas is the incarnation and living
soul of Democracy—dec us et tutamen—at once
its glory and bulwark. They see, too, all things
processioning in solemn pomp, to his nomination
at Charleston and triumphant election. They
are not mistaken in their mark—they are hurl
ing their javelins at the Atlas of Democracy,
albeit they fall harmless at its base. AYhat
Louis Napoleon is in France, Stephen A. Doug
las lias been for ten years in the Democratic
camp, ne has led its chivalry to victory in
many a hard fought battle. Next year, under
his lead, its Old Guard and dauntless Zouaves,
wifi meet the Black Republicans at Solferino,
and the Democratic Eagles again fly in triumph.
Then peace will come.
AVhilst the leaders of the Opposition are assail
ing Mr. Douglas, perhaps Democrats had better
not join the enemy, strengthen their anus and
poison their arrows. Democrats might better
employ themselves than in such useless pastime.
Come, gallant Democrats, change the direction
of your guns—and turn them against oppo
nents. Come, my courteous friends, “Quitman
and Conservative Democrat,” don’t use Demo
cratic presses to assail Democrats.' There is
Ben Hill, and AVarren Akin, and the gallant
Captain Hardeman, all focmcn worthy of your
steel—hero Is Knowles with his pop-gun, and
Andrews with his battering-ram, attacking the
Democratic citadel, and assaulting Stephen A.
Douglas. Come, boys, coats off, and at them—
don’t fight your friends, for God’s sake. I Ait
Douglas alone—Lincoln and the Block Repub
licans in Illinois arc after him with a sharp
stick—the Black Republicans a.T over the Uni
ted States are heating their shot, and sharpen
ing their knives, for tho great political battie of
Amageddon next year, when Douglas and Sew
ard are to marshal opposing hosts. Don’t, my
Democratic friends, help tho enemy any longer
to ammunition.
But to return to the Territorial question.
As tho discussion progresses, the evidence in
our favor becomes overwhelming. Popular sov
ereignty and non-intervention, ’ are not open
questions, but established principles. Great
men, prophets and apostles, have settled them.
Good men, patriots and martyrs, have made
them tiic chief comer stones in our political
system. I hardly know how to select from the
superabundant material at my command to
prove my assertion. But here arc some tough
old records—not so very old, either—upon
which our people should ponder. Records are
light-houses, which, if well watched, will keep
our barque off the breakers.
In the Senate of the United Slates, in 1847,
Daniel s. Dickinson, a true and noble man, of
fered the following resolution:
Koirdie,^ .
— a . — — u...- —Vityas ,
of the compromise measures of 1850, relating j ***• the prelude to tho , fe
to the subject of slavery in the Territories of has commenced, by the •
jjtt a choice of candidates ibrfl^*^
cere. Stvera! of these pri^a^I
been held in some of the
week, for members of the Count^l
the United States, as a final settlement of the
agitation of that question, its withdrawal from
the halls of Congress, and the political arena,
and its reference to the people of the Territories
interested therein; and distinctly recognizing
in those compromise measures the doctrine that and Conttabl*s. TheRn
it is not competent for Congress to impose any t ua i ; n t l, e ir ' TUlM S'
restrictions, as to the existence of siaveiy among atten “ an ce, and fc, ’
them upon the citizens moving into and settling , tlleir candidates by tu
upon the Territories of the Union, acquired or , Pt t!le legitimate elect!
to be hereafter acquired; but that the question
whether slavery shall or shall not form a part
of their domestic institutions, is for them alone
to determine for themselves; and her present
Executive having reiterated and affirmed the I
same fixed policy in his inaugural address:
Be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of
Representatives of Georgia in General Assem
bly met, That the Legislature of Georgia, as the
representatives of the people, speaking their
will, and expressing their feelings, have had
their confidence strengthened in the settled de
termination of the great body of the northern
people, to carry out in good faith those princi
ples, in the practical application of them to the
bills reported by Mr. Douglas from the Com
mittee on Territories in the United States Sen
ate at the present session proposing the organ
ization of a Territorial government for the Ter
ritory of Nebraska.
“And be it further Resolved, That our Sena
tors in Congress, be and they are hereby in
structed, and our Representatives requested, to
vote for and support those principles, and to
ase all proper means in their power, for carry
ing them out, either as applied to the govern
ment of the Territory of Nebraska, or in any j
other bill for Territorial government which may
come before them.
“Resolved further, That his Excellency the
Governor be requested to transmit a copy of
these resolutions to eacii of our Senators and
Representatives in Congress.
“Approved, February 20th, 1854.” ML
“Resolved, by tile Senate and House of Re-, terms of intimacy with these
• , — ——*uon. vl? i
of the slung shot, the pistol, anji' I
who are opposed to them awayf *
of voting. Their candidates!"
from among themselves, or are ml
paid them the best, or from
favors hereafter. There have bell
men put in nomination for nicI - ' ■
ty Council, and Magistrates aiajd
who now have indictments haum j
heads in the criminal cornu
justice is done, they will be
tentiary.. Much indignation it l *
cdby the decent portion of the i,
ty at this shameful state of thi
hoped that the result of the prin^l
when they .are completed throng?
will prei ent a state of affairs thaul
1 7 ®Pe*» the eyes of the people to J
of their degradation, and arouse tl;
and remit in the reclemptit,!
from tho rule of the knife, the - “
slung shot. AA’e are fast cui
point w rich might have been
the course which has been purwjl
officials, and men of wealth and, J
towards the Rowdy classes, wj
men of high degree, and occnpjJj
offices in the city, the % 0 r
B. Y.-l have fifteen; 1 know no one who I " 1 ( C ™ ton “ 1
has moro; but some of those sealed to me are C w’ 0 " 8 '" 8 ‘° **“ U ’
old ladies whom I regard rather as mothers T*
than wives, but whom I have token home to ^ federative system rests, will be hest
cherish and suuoort promoted, the true spirit and meaning of the
cnensn ana support, ^ Constitution best observed, and the confederacy
,,,,,„ ... strengthened, by leaving all questions concem-
The Truth at Last. ing t £ e domestic policy therein to the legiala-
Douglas, we learn by the New York Herald turns chosen by the people thereof.”
presentotives of Georgia in General Assembly
met, That opposition to the principles of the
Nebuska [Nebraska?] Bill, in relation to the
subject of Slavery, is regarded by the Legisla
ture of Georgia as hostility to the rights of the
South, and that all persons who partake in
such opposition arc unfit to be recognized as
component parts of any party organization, not
hostile to the South.
“Approved, February*20th, 1854.”
Now, these are tight papers—monstrous stub-' of tl)e '“ty* the person and 8 pl_
bom old Documents, to be sure—to be sure, equipp.ige of the Millonairc aii
But there they stand, like beacons, to warn us j Mount Vernon place—when we«j
of dangerous navigation, and to keep us safely j of the City Criminal Courts
in the great Gulf stream of Democracy. There ! bar with indicted murderers,
they stand, and ever will, enduring like Mag
na Charta—Bill of Rights—and the Declara
tion of Independence. They are Time's fixed
Decrees—they are eternal signboards of histo
ry, pointing coming generations to the road,
along which we trod, “amid the burning plow
shares” of this vexed, and dangerous slaver/
agitation.
But enough of Records—and the authority I fold more of a similar charmed
of great names. AYhy pile on the agony—why j and sc eial intercourse betaeea tha
put our opponents any longer to the torture?— ; —is it any wonder that the Bondi,
AVhen Mr. Stephens defeated the Clayton Com- pirc to a seat upon the bench of /■
promise Bill, which was Non-intervention, what j place in the Councils of the Citf
a hue and cry was raised against him. lie was I ration of tho one, is not more s
persecuted as a Traitor, and maligned as a foe the ccndecensions of the other
to the South. The Democratic party was in-; ft i, believed that a movement.!
tensely and unanimously indignant Then non- will secure the nomination of
intervention was ail right Prithee good De- responsible men to the offices of
mocrats, why ls it now so wrong? Then .Air. that thfi frce
find bin going to their Balls, anu'J
gratulatory speeches to them,
them presentations of Flags—v
the Mayor exjofficio, and Presidea-I
branch of the City Council atteJ
neral pageant (on the Sabbath, j
murdeicr, and in the same lin: ; |
with the whole assembled Ro*»f
ofi 1 *4... Al • 1
his Co art meeting and exc
cordial greetings of the RowdviiJ
tcilar Maces—when wc see fftjT
the same Court sending a written]
charge a common thief and picl-i
crime) are almost of hourly occc
the straw bail of a murdererTiJ
terror st—when we see all this jni|
Douglas was your idol—what has he done to
forfeit your love? Judge Iverson says lie de-
all gold voters. The police are:
mg their duty well, and if they!
serted us on the Lecompton Constitution—and ... . , J , ,,
* „ . . . selves to keep order at the noth
prav what was the Leconroton Constitution f . . . . - “
Yankees would then get your cotton at four
cents a pound, and make it into calico and red
handkerchiefs, to buy negroes with on the coast
of Africa, which they will bring South to sell
for your hard dollars. To such a ruinous poli
cy i am opposed. I do not go to the results
that will accrue to the African. I wifi not dis
cuss its morality. That is a question with which
I have nothing'to do. Its practical effects upon
us and our posterity, are what we are first to
look at It may be that the African will he
benefited; but it wifi be death to the whites.^
■••n.—— moii woulilliut tho South on to a dis
solution of the Union. Since 1832, the strug
gle for dissolution has been going on. That is
what this means. The moment you ask the
North to concede to your demands with refer
ence to tlie re-opening of the African slave trade,
it will lie the signal for bitterness and strife.
AVc can’t live in fellowship. AA’e mast have a
dissolution, ami then follows civil war. You
may take these men in their protean shapes,—
Nuilificntionioto, Geeesslonlsts, African Slave-
Trade men,—but they all mean Dis-union. I
love my country—my whole country. I would
(Southern Rights Party.in Georgia, and as he
“The new contributor in Harper’s Montldy thought, so they thought Such, then, was
ends his composition with the dogmatical die- their position in 1847
turn: ‘The principle, under our political system, | In the year 1848, pending the Presidential
i, that every dislinct political community loyal election, George M. Troup wrote a letter to a
to the Constitution and the Union ts entitled to I r, .% . .f . , ,
all the rights, privileges and immunities of self-1 “° mnuttce at Sandereville, from which l cut
government in respect to their local concerns and tl,ls extract: viz.
pray what was the Lecompton Constitution?
A tiling 6f fraud, violence and peijury—a thing
of forged -tolly sheets, and stuffed ballot boxes.
A poor, mean tiling, after which Southern hon
or draggled in mire and filth. AA'ould that its
record could lie obliterated, and it die out of
the memory of men. . x.
Democratic County Couvcniion.
The Democratic Convention which assem
bled to-day in the Court House for the pur
pose of nominating candidates for the Senate
and House of Representatives was organized
by calling T- CL Maabal, Ear|_ to tho Chair, picked Up, but life was extiset.
and requesting J. A. McManus to act as Sec- of tI "-‘ oldest of the sisteif of
rotary. i ing to the Mount Hope Institute.
election, the city will be redrvcj
dy rule.
A most deplorable cecident
urday, by which one of those
—sister Cyprian, of Mount Hopei
ly killed. She was riding in tit]
the icstitution, on her way to tixi
which is being erected a few milsj
ty, when the horses took fright,
thrown out of the vehicle, falS
rocks. Her neck w»3 broken,
shockingly fractured. She was
ate
limit
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internal policy, subject only to the Constitution
of the United States.' ”
Eric Canal Done lip.
Statement)! arc published in the New A'ork I even his own assertion. ^
papers which go to show what with mismanage- undoubtedly makes an important question, and
AA’hen Gen. Cass says, and lias backed the
saying by his vote in the Senate, that he is op
posed to the AVilmot proviso, I believe him—
for his recorded vote is better evidence than
This AA’ilmot proviso
ment and Rail Road competition, this greatest ^ t0 important results, but still
I ■ , a is fast sinkins in /° r hicB - ,n -
preserve it for posterity, as free and as pure as The following comparison of its business this when General Cass comes out and proclaims
it came to us, and therefore oppose every thing year witli that of 1858, is instituted: his adoption and adherence to the principles set
•Sicnni Ships between Boston anil
SAVANNAH.
“Interesting from Washington.’*
Among the New York Herald’s special des
patches from AVashington August 19th, is the
following:
Ex-Minister Forsyth arrived at the Nation
al this morning, accompanied by Judge Meek
and other Alabama DJnglas men. They dine
with Jndge Douglas to-morrow. These poli
ticians are somewhat troubled to reconcile their
support of Douglas* territorial sovereignty
views with their former opposition ofC'ass’ Ni
cholson letter. AVhile claiming independent
sovereignty for the Territories, they fail to ex
plain why governors and other officers are not I « s Abe
elected by the people, instead of being ap
pointed by the Federal Government. The
friends of Douglas are much elated by their
apparent strength in Alabama, as indicated by
the choice of Forsyth, Sleek and Company to
tho Legislature.
Accounts from Georgia indicate the proba
ble loss of a democratic candidate for Congress
in Seward's district, and perhaps again in
Trippe’s.
The first choice of tho Georgia delegation
at Charleston, it is said, will bo for Alexander
II. Stephens.”
The Herald, we trust, pays well for such in
formation—it’s worth a large price. The Geor
gia Delegation to Charleston will not be select
ed before eight or nine months to come, and
the information about their “first choice” ia
very early. In “Seward’s District” only one
candidate, and be democrat, is in the field, or
likely to be, and if Judge Lore loses bis elec
tion nnder such circumstances, it will be the
calculated to destroy it”
AA’e also give the platform upon which lie and
the ticket associated with him stood. AA’e ex
tract it from the Austin 'Intelligencer, a demo
cratic paper which supported Houston and that
ticket as the Democratic Ticket
Our Opposition friends have been led into an
error, and upon examination they will find that
Houston and his ticket were sustained and elect
ed on account of the National tone of his poli
tics—liis opposition to the_rc-opening of the
African slave-trade, anil alocalqucstion, involv
ing protection to the frontier interests. Here
PLATFORM.
“ Resolved, 1. That all men wiioarc opposed
to the Re-opcning of the African slave-trade,
Secession, and other Dis-union issues; nl) who
are friends to the National Democracy and the
administration of James Buchanan, and who arc
willing to allow the people to express their ad
herence to the Union and the Constitution, at
the polls, arc requested to unite witli us in the
election of Gen. Sam Houston for Governor, and
A. J. Hamilton for Congress, 2d District
“ Resolved, 2. That we approve tho bold de-.
fence by Gen. Sam Houston and John H. Rea
gan, of tlie people of Texas, their conservatism,
love of tho Union and of tlie National Democ
racy, as the pniy party opposed to the Black
Republican:*, ond think them entitled to tlie
fullest confidence of the people of Texas.”
“The rcccints of flour from the opening of the I forth in the so-called Democratic Platform of
canals in 1859 up to the third w«ok in August, j the Convention at Baltimore, ami u-bon bo au-
figure up 203,400 barrels, against 955,900 bar- J peradds to this the announcement to the whole
rels for the corresponding period of 1858; of) world of his established convictions that Con-
wheat, 707,900 bushels, against 5,061,800; of 6 rcss has no power coustitutionally to touch
corn, 1,522,300 bushels, against 2,863,800; and the subject of slavery in any manner whatso-
of barley, 150,300 bushels agaiust 392,100.— I evc . r i then nothing is left but to believe or dis-
Rcducing the wheat to flour, the deficiency in believe him, and if we disbelieve, it is because
the receipts of 1859, as compared with 1858, wo believe him to be the most vicious and de-
would be 1,623,200 barrels. The disparities for I P_ rav ed—‘the basest, meanest of mankind’—
the third week in August are still more striking. | Xow, tile broad declaration of the want of power
Tlie receipts of flour were but 5,900 barrels, ‘ n Congress covers the whole ground, and em-
against 71,000 in 1858; of wheat, 28,300 bush- braces not only the AA'ilmot proviso, but any
els against 134,700; of com, 72,300, ngainst I i 1011 evel y question which can arise at all affect-
310,000; and of barley not a bushel at all, a- * n S Aim institution of slavery. I hope, gentle-
gninst 8,900 bushels in 1858.” mcn . you will concur with me in what ought to
be called a political axiomatic truth—‘That the
Health Of Savannah. | South fears nothing from any quarter but Con
Later News from Enropc.
Tlie America and (Etna with Liverpool dates
lo Saturday, 13th instant, reached tiiis side of
the Atlantic on Thursday. Their general news
is quite unimportout. The Peace Conference
only case of tho kind fro ever heard of except > was still it secret session at Zunich. Nothing
that of the man who run without opposition i was known of its proceedings. Parliament was
for Captain of the Beat and lost his election,
because he was too modest to vote for himself.
AYe trust the information is more correct about
a "gain in Trippe’s.
Latest from Europe.
The Steamship City of AA’ashington passed
Cape Race on Saturday.
She sailed from Queenstown on Thursday,
the 18th iast, and brings Liverpool dates to
that day.
Liverpool Cotton Market.—-Cotton closed ve
ry dull. The sales on the day of sailing, Thurs
day, were 6,000 bales.
Idrerpool General Market.—Breadstuff* re-
From the following despatch, which we sec | Provisions dull.’
in the Charleston Mercury, it would appear that UnJlin .VorAy/.-Cousols were quo-
tho Bostoniaus had come to the sensible con- ted at 95|.
elusion to run their new steamships to Savan-! 1 ■ ■
nah, instead of to Charleston: | New Hater Guagefor Steam Fire Engines.
Boston, August 23.—The Southern Steam : —Tbe Hibernia steam fire engine, of Phiiadcl-
Ship Company, incorporated to run a line ofjph* a ? h®* recently Iiad placed upon it a new
steamships between this port and Savannah, niercury water gunge, which, it is claimed, will
have concluded contracts with Mr. Loring. of 1 indicate tlie exact amount and solidity of water
East Boston, for two substantial sea-going fin « h e l>oiler. independent of tbe faucets, wheth-
steamers. to be finished by tlie first of June, er ‘ Ile stcam ,s U P or n ® t ' Tbe manner in .
I860. which lioilers for steam fire engines are con- but showing no-disposition to press sales.
-—««. _ structed with a view to generate steam rapidly, quiet; declined 5Jd; holders were pressing sales.
j-- IIiES , New Bedford, Mass, was the scene causes tho water to circulate very rapidly mid Government refused American cured in the new
prorogued on the 13th. An English Envoy
Extraordinary to Central America liad been ap
pointed in the person of Lenox AA’yke. Spain
had determined to increase her tortiftcations in
Cuba. Parma and Modena were in a ferment
The Atlantic Cable enterprise seems to be on
the top of the tide—shares were quoted at £208.
Cotton Tides—Of the sales of Cotton for the
week, 43.000 bales, speculators took 3,000 and
exporters 5,500 bales. Some circulars say Mid
dling qualities had declined the most, and oth
ers that lower qualities liad.. The decline was
l-16d to l-8d., and at the close holders offered
freely, but showed no disposition to press sales.
Fair Uplands were quoted at 7f, Middling 615-
ldths. Stock on hand 633,000 bales, 577,000
American, Manchester news favorable. Mar
ket for Goods, quiet and firm. Consols 95].—
The Bullion in the Jlank of England had de
creased nearly £100,000.
Richardson & Spence’s circular reports the
weather as favorable to the crops. In the Liv
erpool market, they report Flour quiet, at 10s.
a 12s. 3d. AA’heat dull; holders demanding an
advance. Com quiet; holders offering freely,
Beef
A rumor is current in town that the Yellow STes-S and fears Congress only because if Con-
Fever has broken out in Savannah. AYc trust ^ rnlo^m^ToflLv thc t J ‘ sso ' ut 1 i “ n ( , of
.... ... , r- t,ie Union most follow,’ The action of all the
and believe it has no foundation in fact. A\ c abolitionists in the world fdoing its duty to it-
know that up to within two or three days ago, self) the South would defy.”
there was hardly a case of sickness of any kind j
in the town. It was remarkably healthful.
So held the Ajax of State Rights, and so holds
Mr. Douglas. George M. Troup feared nothing
P. S. AA’e liave sinco assured ourselves that but Congress, and believed that Congressional
no casoof yellow fever has as yet occurred in interference would lead to a dissolution of the
Savannah, and there Is no sickness worth men
tioning there.
Union. So fears, and doubtless so believes, Mr.
Douglas.
But now hear what John C. Calhoun held
on this subject In his speech against the pro-
AA r C invite attention of readers in tho 7th lo hibition of slavery in the Orogon Bill, ho eoys:
The Sevcntli District.
The Chairman stated the object of the meet
ing in a few brief and pertinent remarks, af
ter which tlie following communication was
handed in and was read by tlie Secretary:
Macon, 27th Aug., 1859.
Sir In compliance with the request of the
Opposition party, at a meeting held yesterday,
I herewith transmit you a copy of a preamble
and resolutions which were unanimously adop
ted at that meeting. Respectfully,
ROGERS, Secretary. I
To Chairman Democratic Meeting—
PREAMBLE.
In viewof the fact that a number of our best
and most intelligent citizens of both political
parties, have indicated a desire that a party
contest for members of the Legislature should
be avoided in the approaching election, by tlie
formation of a compromise ticket, therefore
Resolved 1st, That the Opposition party of
Bibb are are willing to unite with the Demo
cratic party in the formation of a compromise
ticket on the following equitable basis: we to
be allowed the selection of the Senator and
they the members of the House, or rice versa.
Resolved 2d, That whilst we regard boast
ing as altogether unprofitable, we deem it due
to ourselves to say that we accede to the com
promise ticket from no want of confidonoo in
will lie a serious calamity to da I
that noble Asylum for the afflicted
in the 45th year of her age, anil I
shining marks of the order to wind
many years belonged. Her deati i
priatfly noticed in the several Ci
es of the city on Sunday, and her |
will • ale place in the Catliednl C*
day.
Our City Passenger Rail Road i
grossing to a finish, and but fori
of one or two individuals, it woulu|
ted by the first of the ensuing him
however, as the Court returns fr
the S prings, tlie answer will be fij
case argued, and the injunction;
the interdicted space will be sf
with the double track, and our op
citizens of other States who way
business or for pleasure, may enjoys
ride from one extreme of the city t
some five miles, for five cents.
Our merchants arc now roceidj
stock, of goods, and arc looking f j
brisk fall trade, and if we are so
our strength, but from the conviction that the 110 S ct rid of the plug nimbus, wt:
the appointments of Col. Harper, under the
editorial head.
Nomination in Spalding.
“There 1s a very striking difference between
the position on which the slaveholding and non
slaveholding States stand in -reference to the
_ subject'under consideration. The former desire
Mr. Mathews lias been nomVnated’for the I . n ° a ? tio ", of * he government, demand no law
Senate by the Democracy of Spalding in place arfwiLg^W^
of II. P. Hill, who declined. . [ an d other Territories belonging to tho United
; — - States, open to all their citizens, so long as they
Mr. Pugh has just returned from New York, continue to be Territories, and when they
with any amount of novelties and elegancies cease to be so, to leave it to their inhabitants
reasons which prompted the proposal com
mend themselves alike to the good and patriot
ic of all parties.
Resolved 3d, That the Secretary communi
cate these resolutions to the Democratic Con
vention which assembles to-morrow, and re
spectfully request that meeting to take some
action on the subject.
J. H. R. AA’ASHINGTON, Ch’n.
C. H. Rogers, Sec’y.
Macon, 2Gth Aug., 1859.
The Chairman decided that the communica
tion was out of order, and that the Convention
had no authority to act upon it—that the dele
gates present were appointed by the Demo
cratic party tB nominate Democratic candi
dates for the Legislature, and that they had
ao right to act otherwise, ne wished, however,
thosi who may visit us duringtht |
ter, a quiet; sojourn. AA’e shall I
fine theatre with a good stock/c
formers, where those who enjoy tl
tho stage can spend ar evening»
and “eye nature's walk, shoot fM
and latch the manners Urine as tl
. 01
in the art daguerrean. Call and see him.
to form such governments as may suit them,
without restriction or condition, except that
Our enterpising neighbor, Feuclitwanger, j imposed by the Constitution as a prerequisite
whose heavy cash business illustrates his own j f° r admission into the Union. In short, they
and MMV ® ,,,11 „ llm »Jv,n- j iSoT SSSStoikSkS
tages of Cherry Street, is on hand early, with principles 0 f self-government place it On the
a magnificent display of goods to be sold off oontaiy, tlie non-slaveholding States, instead
abont the time the rest get along. Seo ad- of being willing to leave it on this broad and
vCrtisement equal foundation, demand tlie interposition of
the government, and the passage of an act to
Primitive Baptist Cliurcli. I prevent the citizens of the slaveholding States
The services at the Primitive Bnptist Church “Oto^migrating with their property into the
in this city on Sunday morning last were at- pjjj that justice and the Constitution are
tended by a largo and attentive congregation, the easiest and safest ground on which the ques-
Rev. AV. C. Cleveland, delivered an able and tion can be settled, regarded in reference to
interesting discourse on some of the doctrines I party. It maybe settled on that ground simply
Something AVorth S'*
The enterprising House of J-J
Ross, of tiiis city, have, within » f
sold three lots of goods, for distr
one 1 »t to go to the interior of Te»
to Lcuisiana, and the third to
nectieut? AA’e were aware that tl
'were extensively engaged in
Trade for the supply or Georgia J
to take tho sense of the meeting on the sub- Alabama,, l*ut did not ^
ject; which being done he was sustained.
On motion, Dr. E. L. Strohecker, Messrs. | them upon the success which lias 6
<Jnwn. Dean, Conner, Hunter and Bostick effort! to make Macon a wholcuM
were appointed to notify the Opposition of the ®° ul! ■ ' J lle salubrity of our
action that the Convention b a l) taken on tbe accessibility to thej
cll i . Af * ; West and South of us, give ta
. ■ advantages over all other cities, vf
l poll a call of ill.- distni-ts Doing mud,-, ail
were found to be represented. It was. then
moved and carried that the nomination of a
Senator be proceeded with, and that it should
require two-thirds of the votes cast to make a
nomination.
P. Tracy was then nominated. .Air. Tracy
having received the largest number of votes,
he was declared to be nominated for Senator.
After which it was made unanimous.
of a heavy conflagration'last AVednesdav, which : foa ! n - 50 lha , t U P “ *°. aSCe ^?l n ,h( ‘ c ™ t ? CtS A„ ITS
, ° jy .. i real amount of water taoj contain. I his in- ed 3d. Ko^in stowxy, at 05. 8d. a 3s. U. , . -
destroyed property to the amount ol naif million Ten tjon, it is claimed, will remedy this dilticul- pentiae steady, at 34s. Sugar quiet, the mar- would rather be slaves in Louisiana than free
/IaIIam- Th a n»vf /let* Dai*) r- rvL ni,tl> A'a 1 AP 4 1 . T . 1 \ A : * .3 Tam mam-*— a* ■ 1 , — on* l 11,1 a1* AA r 1 O _ Cl _ ft ..,Tt, I l TV OhlA h&t ill [ h e bo h tion IS tfl S fly tO
of the Church. AYe are pleased to be able to
state that efforts are being made by tie con
gregation bo procure the attendance of minis
ters regularly for the future and wc hope they
may prove successful.
AYhat will the Abolitionist* Sat to
This ? The Bayou Sara Ledger of the Gth has
the following: ■ • ■ I
The Carney negroes sent from East Fehei- AYhat lie taught, no Southern man can improve,
ana, shipped from Port Hudson to Cincinnatti an J what he left untaught, there never will be
few months since returned a few days ago on a sc ]jool or a master to teach. Aitd Mr. Cal-
by non-action, by leaving the Territories free
and open to the emigration AM all the world.
If a party cannot safely take this broad and
solid position and .successfully maintain it, what
other can it take and maintain?”
Luther did not more clearly understand tho
principles of the Reformation—or Jefferson those
of republican government, than did Mr. Cal
houn the whole slave economy of this country.
High Price for
Th; following sales of 1*0“’*,
shorn that they have consider*^
ted in value instead of depreci: -
be supposed. So much for the
voting old lands. Several fe' .
Alabama, could be purchased W j
half tlie amount per acre:
The Convention then proceeded to nominate j tra ^ oHand/on BlucS'>
candidates for the House. ’
The names of L. M. Lamar,
A. M. Lockett, and O. A. Lochrane were pre
sented. Lpon the ballots being counted out,
Messrs. Lamar and Lochrane had the largest
number of votes cast, and were declared to bo
duly nominated for Representatives.
It was Resolved, That these proceedings be
published in the Democratic papers of tin ”citv.
The Convention then adjourned.
T. C. XISISF.T, Ch’mn.
J. A. McManis, Secretary.
Aug. 27th, 1859.
j county, A'a., consisting (i?,
r, T. C. Xisbet, George C. Venable, of H*“‘'
$ 1C,5.10. For the larger part"
embracing the^ dwelling^hMS®^
ment), Air. Taylor paid •
for tbe residue, he P” ’ ■
His net profit, tM®
JOOpercect. Thepfur
ago:
years ago
but ah
stent t
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that “it
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~ i wedding
I'he Southern Cultivator. — This popular culogjnr
monthly is already out for September, and con- 1 had shoi
tains a large amount of agricultural reading I Tl
.Ui. Butts had no hesitation in saying he would, I six new buildings by fire.
dollars. The next day, Portsmouth. A’a., lost t y. It has been tried for some' time on tlie
[Hibernia, and found to work well.
ket was easier and unchanged. Coflee firm;
advanced Id.
in Ohio.
I this?
and long, that their interference with slavery in wfiteVbv Me°s«r
Congress would inevitably destroy the Union, j ard,
Published monthly in Augusta, Ga., would
at one dollar pei annum; and cording to tl
U. Redmond and C. AV. How- j ing tint eight
head,'
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in the last Now York l’icay®^
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