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T j ((I /'I A TL’l 1. / * I • \ | || A Helper Speaker— mid Southern ' would I" in lo seetlnt their pecuniary interest '
1 ■■ —- • MEMBERS UNDER HIM. in slavcrv was auite as mreat as ours. Ifanef-I
j 1 he Telegraph could never be a spit-tire print,
j ir regularly set up the business. It is not in
FKO.n bai.tihoki:.
MACON, <3--A-.,
Tae*day Morning, December 27. ° UI We arc bound, if we can see
■■■.-' — i ' i» ' —- . — i j it, to pursue a course consistent with raodcra-
ATJCTION SALES. t* 011 . good tens. and good, temper; and hold
On WtnMsuAT and TnrasnaT of each the politician who does not carry into his
-week at 11 o'clock A. M. and on each night j P° ! >tical career the principles of action which he
resignation of the prisoners to their fate, and
in slavery was quite as great as ours. Ifanef-I — their seeming earnest preparation for their end,
ficacious reaction ever came, it would come af- Correspondence of the Telegraph. ami had honestly supposed that on the last night
ter seeing and feeling the incipient woes of dis-. Baltimore, Dec. 19th, 16511. of their lives upon earth, they would be more
union; and if reaction did not come, nothing Judge Stumps Decision in the Contested Elec-
would have been lost. We would have but an-1 tion case—Memorial fat his Removal—Eft'
during the week at 7 o’clock P. M.
J.J. MILLER. -
nov 89—2m. Cherry Street, Macon Ga.
craiir fount? IVoniiuntion*.
.For Sheriff,... JAMES BARFIELD.
For Ordinary,. WM. M. RILEY.
For Clerk Superiot Court, A. li. ROSS.
For Clerk of the In. Court, JOHN McMANUS.
For Tax Collector, J. P. COOPER
For Receiver of tax Returns, L. I). WRIGHT.
For County purveyor, WM. WOOD.
For Coroner,. JAMES RAILEY.
No Northern iUnll
This forenoon. Wo have bconjtold the train is
off the track somewhere between Savannah and
Macon. *
Central Hail Kond.
We reckon nothing on the Continent, except
"Panama'’ can come up with the showing made
to-day by bis Imp. It. It. Majesty, “King Cuy-
ler," and tbo Central Rail Road Well, we like
a great success even if wo have no share in it
The best laid schemes in this world arc sc much
given to miscarriage and failure, that a great
enterprise working fully up to sagacious plans,
' ie a pleasant sight without a cent of the divi
dend! Besides, we do all most rustle the feath
ers and spread wide the fan tail of a comforta
ble State pride over the success of those great
works of internal improvement All the grand
mountains—tho smiling valleys—the fertile
plains, and the shining rivers of old Georgia
never would have made her the “Empire State
of the South,’’’ in song and legend, without these
monuments of the sagacity, skill and enterprise
al her sons. Nature had fmlslied her part ol
the Empire Statu a good, long timo before the
heroic energies of the People gaTc that glorious
name to their inheritance, by furrowing her
.fruitful bosom all over with these grand mon
urnrats of their sagacity and enterprise.
So we see that, alter all, every Georgian has
'' some Stock in these roads, though the Treasurer
may decline to give* him a certificate; and he
draws his annual dividends, too, although not
out of the Bank. IIo is compelled to spread
himself a little when he secs them going ahead
proudly and grandly and honestly—demons Ira
ting energy, sense and integrity, in the fact of the
utter confusion, demoralization and disorder of
all such enterprises in sections of the Union set
ting up a monopoly of the virtue, intelligence,
sagacity and-prosperity of the country.
The judgment and skill which control the
Central Road, are too patent to need elucidation.
The results are grand, hut after all, they are on-
■ ly commensurate with the enlarged policy which
Secures them, by creating business, rather than
sitting Sown content with what will come of it
self. Thus, by pushing tributary roads—build
ing Uoatn-ships—and multiplying and increas
ing her connections, from year to year, sho has
made herself the great Southern main trunk to
the seaboard, and she means to hold on to that
position, and will do it If other interests do
not with equal avidity, liberality and sagacity
lay hold of the same incans and measures of
success—the fault is theirs. Whatever the Cen
tral Road yields or may yield abovo ordinary pro
fits, is beyond a doubt duo solely to the discre
tion and energy, and tlio liberal expenditure of
money, by which every possible source of increas
ed revenue and business has been reached.
We mean simply to say that wo believe all
the excess of their income over and beyond an
ordinary interest return on capital, is duo simp
ly to their own forecast and enterprise, and not
te high rates of freight as compared with other
Southern Roads. How far, therefore, the Road
should bo disposed to concede on customary
rates, in view of the enormous business thus cre
ated, we believe to be a simple question of poli
cy. We think it would bo best for them to re
duce—we believe they will lose nothing by re
duction. But that is for them to determine.
| insists upon applying to practical life in general,
is either insincere, or he has mistaken his call
ing. He is an unsafe guide, and the sooner he
is sent into retiracy the better for the people.
Now with these ideas on the subject of fuss
making and hot temper in general, we have tried
to make up an honest conclusion of what we
ourselves, (the Telegraph) would do, were set
a member of Congress, in the event of Sherman’s
•lection as speaker of the House. What,- then,
is tho objection to Sherman ? He comes be
fore the House a candidate for Speaker, as
subscriber to a campaign edition of a Book, by
one 11. Ik Helper, or IIclfcr, a renegade North
Carolinian; which book is relied on by the
leading block republicans of the North to tone up
abolition sentiment to a point that will insure
equally the success of abolitionism in I860, and
“a speedy and absolute abolishment of the
whole system” of slavery “ peaceably or ly vio
lence." These are the words or the book, and wc
shall not quote it by colTzmn to satisfy a doubt
er as to the fact that it is a most extireme'nrgu-
ment to cany Northern anti-slavery dogmatism
by fire and sword. Ho must take our word for
the filch This book taunts the black republi
cans with being only “half way frce-soilcrs,”
“too scrupulous,” and it urges on by every pos
sible appeal to the pride, the passions, the ava
rice, the envy and the malignity of the abolition
mind and by every possible insulting taunt to the
South, a direct moral and material conflict with
slavery, apparently indifferent which element is
more enlisted in the struggle. “Slaver^,"’ says
Helper, "muft be throttled!" “mast heexlermi-
nated ” speedily and absolntcly. “Hitherto, as
ntowo -••• l.«c. Mfptvaolictl tsnf Knttf
way lo the line of your duty 1” and then, in an
attitude of exaggerated menace, tho South is
told of a point where forbearance ceases io.be a
virtue, and it rests with her whether justice is
to be had by peace or by violence, “for what
ever consequences may follow, we arc determined
to have it one way or the other.” To sum it up
in a word; this book is the spawn of a brain
phenzied by a malignant fanaticism. No Bos
ton conventicle, or Paris guillotine, ever heard
any thing worse.
Now Sherman, with sixty-seven other black
republican members of Congress, sets his hand
to a subscription paper for thepurpo.se of giving
this work an “extensive circulation among the
liberty loving TOters of tho country,” and “cor
dially endorses” the book. We arc aware, since
ticipated, by a few months, a catastrophe to
which every Southern man sees we are drifting
with great rapidity.
W e repeat, therefore, whatever others might
do. we as a representative from Georgia would
not sit in that House of Representatives under
an incendiary administration. We would leave
it ourself, and do what wc could to persuade
others to tile same course.
An Unfortunate Letter.
The American people have learned, long since,
that every man who writes a letter is not a
Junius; and many an American politician, ambi
tious of distinction, and wishing to assume the
position of conservator of the politics and prin
ciples of the masses, lias realized, after it is too
late, that letter-writing is a bad business. Mr.
Clay might have been President, but for his
Raleigh Letter; Gen. Scott has never overcome
tlic ridicule which attached to his “ hasty plate
of soup” correspondence. TUcso are two in
stances in which great men have injured them
selves by writing too inucht Billy Woodpile
was a philosopher, and wo commend his advice
to all who wish to avoid the rock upon which
Clay and Scott, and many others, have wreck
ed their fortunes.
Speaking of letters, reminds us tlrat one has
recently appeared in a public print, written by
the Member of Congress from the Third Dis
trict, Hon. Thomas Hardeman, on tho election
of Speaker, and kindred topics, and in which
“a little insight into the management of Demo
cratic affairs”, at Washington, is attempted to
be given.
Wc advise our Member of Congress to tarry
at Jericho a while longer, before he assumes to
speak, ex cathedra, upon subjects about which
• maim-;*.- -C LU U.Ua lllfUiul-
td than himself, if we are to judge by the mat
ters considered in his letter, and the conclusions
arrived at. Docs the lion. Member from the
Third, for instance, suppose that the voters of
ail parlies in his District, lielitve the statement
which he makes, that “every move made by the
Democrats, has been, not, as would be infernal,
not at the Republicaas. but at the Southern i niall y , uore disgusting faults will be alleged ufi-
Oppositionists _ . ion the floor of the Legislative chamber when the
Does he suppose that his constituents believe ma t ler brought up in'that bodv.
that “they [the Democrats] wish, by threats, to I , . , ,
, . . . ., _ .. , ’ Burglaries are of almost nightly occurrence
dnvc us into the Democratic ranks, and after . ,, .. . . . . . .
. , „ ... .. ? . -in the city. A desperate encounter was had
wc have voted for their man, use it that we have . - . .,
.. . , _ . i with a couple of these gentry i few nights since
disorganized our own party ?. The constituents -
counter with Burglars—Incendiaries—Fires
yarrow Escape—The New Jail—Rowdy
Pastimes—The Execution, <$r.
In the case of the contested election of Milton
Whitney, as State’s Attorney, the Judge of the
Criminal Court' has at lost, after much delay,
and sundry shifts, given a decision in fevor of
its validity. The decision is in writing and will,
no doubt, bo commented upon by the press—
though it will not, probably, be ever quoted or
cited as authority. The statute, in defining the
duties of the Court in the matter, simply says,
That it sliall be tho duty of the Judge to decide
upon tho Election of the Candidate who is re
turned, and who claims the office under the
election. This he may do from his own knowl
edge—or upon the evidence which may l>e pre
sented to him by others. In the present case,
he professed to know nothing himself, and po
sitively refused to hear testimon y, and has de
cided without either. Tlic chief ground of his
decision was: that no one else claimed to have
been elected, and if there had even been no le
gal election, Mr. Whitney was entitled by law
to hold the office four years longer, as but one
election (whether legal or not) could be held
during tlic term. This decision of the Judge
has surprised nobody, as it was expected thus
to result The Judge very well knows that he
mast sink or swim witli the plug party; ho has
long since been utterly repudiated by tlic party
who elected him; and he knows, too, that the
reformers, composed of the docent men of all
parties, arc utterly disgasted with his personal
as well as judicial conduct. The matter will lie
taken to the Court of Appeals, or tho Legisla
ture, where it will be set right. That Milton
Whitney bns no more claim, by legal election,
to il'p oftim tlun y*.. i>«w, lo on well known to
himself as to nine-tenthsof the free white males
of Baltimore, who had eyes to see, or cars to
hear, on the day of the so-called last election.
Since the above decision, there has keen a
memorial put in circulation, praying the remov
al by the Legislature of Judge Stump,- which
sets forth such of his objectionable points as
cannot with decency be put in print—much, and
Keport of tlic President nnd Direc
tor# to the Stockholders of the Central Rail
Road and Banking Company of Qtorgia.
Savannah, Dec. 15lh, 1859.
The earnings and expenditures of the Road
necessary in obtaining it This at-1 been as
tempt lias demonstrated tho propriety of the 1 From Koad..
protection against it They demanded, as such
protection, a covenant on the part of the Coni
panics that freights between Savannah and
Oglethorpe, and between Savannah and Griffin,
^ „„„ should always be twenty per cent higher than
likely to be engaged in prayer and religious dc- cn ding^30th"ult.rare^hown Vn the Superintap- between Savannah and Macon. The Comps-
votions than arranging plans of escape. Could dent’s” report The increase in every item,
he have had the experience u r sum. of the old-, AvTtl^?SdcWl«^-f portion of your
« Yidocqs of the City prisons, he would have | must So-eSS grat- annum for the right to join tracks in Macon. “We subjoin a hue pa p, r
known that as “eternal vigilance is the price of! !?°. t ‘ tbc stockholder- ? ° j The rates of freight have, in pursuance of the j °" the character aud value
liberty,” so eternal energy and perseverance to | - xt f e CTS h received from' Road and Bank has agreement, teen always kept at least twenty t P ^ « “*££*** have br (n80 >
the last is necessary In obtaining it This at- been as follows: per cent highcr to and from Oglethorpe and |
Griffin than between Savannah and Macon, , 1 ." ““lows the report of Prof g b
and the annuity has been punctually paid. 1 Caeimet of tbe bociety, etc. TtVi n ,-,;
that in common with many others j^ U '
rrom the New York^vv^r
Pror. n„ pa .
Uvvi v.ui »«u aiawvviM amw ^ ^ B rUlllff 10 yOllP JliipCT f©|“ V * ■
nies yielded the point, and entered into a cove- j written by yourselves and m I
nant accordingly, agreeing to pay the city of|JJ[fJ a< ^*ttad, j n *hTch J ‘ ^
Wise, though much ridiculed precautions of
the State authorities, in adding amilitary to the
civil surveillance of these prisoners. Had it
not been for the sentinels, ere this these men
would, in all probability, have been receiving
the congratulations of their comrades upon their
escape, and the tells of Northern Churches
would have been pealing with rejoicing, and
prayers and thanksgivings would have been as
cending from Northern -pulpits, at the happy
interposition of Providence in their livhalf.
The weather has been cold and disagreeable
for some time, but it is now clear and pleasant,
and the ladies throng the streets daily in quest
of Holiday things. Our fancy stores arc vic
ing with each other in the tempting array of
their windows, which teem with every conceiv
able article that could please the eye or taste of
every one of every age, from tbe penny-whistle
and doughnut, to the thousand dollar set of gold
and jewels, or hundred dollar palace of pound
cake. Places of amusement are also increas
ing, so that wo shall have no lack of things to
hue or places to visit at Christmas.
HOWARD.
Cold ’IVcntlzer.
This (Saturday morning) tho Mercury stood
at 27 in Vincville, and all our printing appara
tus is in a stiff and unyielding mood—almost
unmanageable. If the reader objects to tho ap
pearance of tho Telegraph today, we will do
bettor when wc get thawed out
The Great Union Merlins in JVcw
YORK.
There is a glowing patriotism; a fervid en
thusiasm ; a' constitutional devotion; a direct
ness of purpose; an honest out spoken senti
ment of correct principle, to tho resolves and
speeches of tho New York Union meeting, and
9 wo regret the want of space to placo the whole
proceeding* before our readers. New York is
evidently earnestly aroused to a proper sense of
the dangers of the impending crisis, and judging
»>y tho patriotic tono and catholic sentiment
which pervades the resolutions and most of the
£& speeches, we bclievo that a radical change will
take place, which will operate favorably in tho
coming election, or else there will te a bitter
and perhapa bloody contest among their own
people.
In this great meeting of thirty thousand New
Yorkers, all classes were represented; and we
a-cro delighted to read the eloquent, patriotic
and pertinent remarks of that great and good
man. Rev. Dr. Bethuno. His speech has tho
ring of the true metal; he meets all the issues
boldly and fairly, and we hope in our next issue
to furnish bis and Charles O'Connor's remarks
in full. Theydhl not deal in glittering gener- mort
alities, in lofty appeals for the perpetuation of
tho Union alone, but they met the issue precti
cally. Dr. Bctbune said, “they grow cotton at
the South, but whero do they manufacture it?
In sections of our land, where the loudest
ciy is beard on this question, men have grown
rich by the manufacture of cotton grown by
slares. Tho sweat of the slave, so to speak, is
between every two brides of their spacious pal-
Mtd yet they are loudest to complain.
Men may call this what they please, I call ithy
in •; — j ~-*
Mr. O’Connor after recognizing slavery asjast,
in conclianon, that the only way to per-
netuato this glorious Union, was to resolve,
without reference to party, that “the man, be ho
who ho may, wW advocates that slavery was
unjust and oi* ut 10 bc assailed or legislated
•gainst, o-^o agitates the subject of extin-
guiihirrfsia very in any of its ’forms as a po] i tical
lioW, that, that man shall bo denied your .suf
frages.” When tbe North can inarch up to a
platform liko that, wo shall hear no more of
disunion.; arid until It is done the feeling of in
security at the South will grow stronger nod
tbe ties of attacluacnl to tbe Union weaker.
* We are choered and encouraged at the gener
al Spirit and temper which pervades the resolu
tions and especially this one:
1st Resolved, That we approve of die hang
ing of Johrf Brown and his associates, and wo
regret only that his aiders and abettors of mur
der aud treason, in tho' Northern States, were
not hanged with them. »
This gnat meeting, also, seemed to think that
Clark’s resolution, and tbe debate thereon, was
proper Mid right, and not inflammatory and got
up for homo consumption, ; e Mr. Hardeman in
his letter says.
Hear what the New Yorkers say :
“That we approve the course of those mem
bers of tbe House of Representatives, who
have voted against tlic organization of the House
with a Speaker who has endorsed the infamous
his nomination, ho has declared on the floor of
the House that he had never read the book,
when lie had signed the paper, and vaguely in
timates that he docs not endorse all its opinions.
But he distinctly declines to purge himself of
any of them. He tells the majority in tlic House
that he don’t care what ideas they may or may
not entertain_of him—he asks them no odds—he
looks to them for no support and he defies them.
That is tbe substance of his attitude, as wc un-
derstand it; and it is more justly offensive on
every sound rule of judgment, than an open de
fence of the book he endorses. He flips the
South in tlic face with utter contempt! This
is a sectional fight, and the book is our plat
form; and although I know it is a piece of bloody
l pped fanaticism and folly, I shall not commit
myself to please you. Make tlic worst of me
and the book too; you shall swallow both. be
fore the fight is over.
It may therefore te said, without the slighest
exaggeration, that the election of Sherman
would bo a literal doctrinal triumph of John
Brownism in tho House. It will te an endow
ment by the representatives of the people of an
ti-slavery propagandism by violence, and South
em Congressmen are expected -to consort in
legislation with a majority and under on organ,
ization thus committed to the doctrine of a vio
lent interference with tlic ]ieacc and -rights of
their section.
What should they do? The Augusta Consti
tutionalist, to which we arc accustomed to loolr
for counsel, and which is certainly a most re
liable source, says, last Tuesday':
,\ Black Republican organization- of the
House, ought to te resisted by all fair and lion,
orablc means; and the South will sustain her
representatives in-resisting such an organization,
until the Thirty-sixth Congress shall expire.
But, if despite all their efforts, a black republi
can organization is effected, their duty frill lie
to submit and prepare for the consequences
whatever they may te.” ' * ' .
Now wc dislike to differ with the Constitu
tionalist. hut our submission would be to no such
a House of Representatives—no snch- Speaker
as that We could not doit, in our judgment, in
any'sort of compatibility with either personal or
official dignity. We would have neither art nor
part in such a Wy—norther make one of its
of the Hon. Member are better informed; they
understand liow things arc managed at Wash
ington, and if Tie has been imposed upon by
any such bosh, bis constituents frill let him
know, in less than two years from this date,
that they liavc not We have, no doubt that
Mr. Hardeman believes what lie writes, but he
fs mistaken—wc tell him wc know he is, though
bo is on the gronnd, and wc eight hundred
miles off—and we would respectfully advise him
before he writes nnother letter, to post up. A-
gain, we regret, sincerely and honestly regret,
that upon the great question, upon the vital
principle, and upon the paramount issue, Mr.
Hardeman has attempted, as wc conceive, to
throw cold waler, to hang lire, in Cict to give j
Foiit Vallev, Ga., Dec. 20, ’69. .
Mr. Editor.—Sin.—I sec some gentleman
over tlic cognomen of one of the un terrified 98,
claiming to be a citizen of this place, lias availed
himself of the use of your columns, to assail, in
a very unfair manner, the conduct of our fel-
low-citizon on.I Mpiwuiontotirc, 111. Urn'll, US
well as to cast aspersions upon the conduct of a
portion of the democratic party of this place.—
You will please suffer me the use of your pa
per to correct tho error into which the writer
has fallen, in relation to tlic part Dr. Green act
ed in the last campaign, and at the same time ex
plain the reasons why some few democrats have
seen projicr to .vote for Mr. Brown in preference
to our regular democratic nominee,' (.Mr. Hodg
es).' It is well known to a large majority of
the party in the county, that Dr. Green’s health
lias been very bad for several years past, and
that he, in view of that fact, very reluctantly
suffered his friends the use ofhisnnmcosa can
didate for'the Legislature—believing that ho
could not, withoutjgreat risk to bis health, en
ter the contest, which promised to bc a very
close one. and do justice to his- party. It is al
so well known to the party .in this place, (and
81,645,521 09
81,080 72
From Bank
31,726,634 81
And the same has been disposed of as fol
lows :
Paid Road Expenditures...87!>4,343 46
Paid Bank Expenses 14,651 92
Paid Interest on Bonds 11,994 10
Dividends declared 600,000 00
Appropriated to Depot Bail
Minjrs 120,000 on
Carried to Reserve 185,644 83
31,726,634 81
The Reserve Fund is now $702,720 15, but
subject to the payment of $28,000 annual rent
of tho line from Gordon to Eatonton.
The small sum mentioned in last report-as
due prior to December 1st, 1857, has been col
lected, except the sum of $292 1G, which is
probably insolvent.
The balance uncollectedof earnings
for year ending 30th November, 18.
58, as shown in last report, was?...
There has been collected of the same
$99,166 95
99,087 98
Leaving balance due
•78 97
in tlio eastern part of the city. Sonic time in
the late hours of the night, a Mr. Lawson Riley
heard a noise in tlic lower part of his house;
awakening a friend who was lodging with him,
they descended to the lower floor, when lie was
instantly felled hv a blow from an iron jimmy
in tlio bands of a stout man; at the same mo
ment his companion was struck by an acconi
plicc
Both.
men, rallied in tlio next moment, and gave the
daring burglars such a warm, reception, that
they beat a retreat, leaving their tools behind,
and carrying away nothing hut their well beat- „. , , , , . ,
on carcasses. Very little injury was sustained f SWap V0 ^ " nd , 80 ftr from . a ri* ro ™gof any
by Mr. Riley or bis friend; Mr. Stewart—though j*^ n,n g°™ cn * »« the writer indirectly accasc-s
... wgw; f , . , , , .. . ,, . , ° | nim of, derogatory to the kuoocss of his party,
aid and comfort to the enemy. Mr. Hardeman { lnus i7mve b^n bad!" Imrt-tLv got! or any can,li,late of his P art - V > ho wo,,ld
* 1 — - ■ - - - • ' ' much preferred the success of his colleague, at
There has been collect’d from earnings
of year ending 30th November, ulti
mo, the aum of......— : $1,546,466 21
leaving uncollected the sum of $87,58! 59.
The Reserve Fund of the Company, $702,-
720 15, sceftis large, but it must be borne in
mind that a part of the assets of tlic Company
cannot te disposed of, being of as permanent a
character as the equipments of the Road itself.
The investment in Steamships, $284,791 3G,
and in Negroes for Road, $31,803; making to
gether $310,094 3G, which, deducted from
$702,720 15, would leave, of available reserve,
$38G,G25 79, an amount which should bc in
creased. out ol future surjilus earnings rather
tk«n JimiDUihad. - —~:
Shortly after the last semi-annual settlement,
the stockholders in the New York and Savan
nah Steam Navigation Company, in which this
Company held considerable stock, by a large
majority, determined to sell tlic three side-wheel
ships composing the line. Seeing that tho loss
of this line of steamships would bc very injuri
ous, if not disastrous, to this Company, the
Board of Directors did not hesitate to make the
necessary arrangements for its continuance.
This company agreed to take the ships at
270,000, with the understanding that all stock
holders should have the option of receiving in
cash their share of270,000, or continue on as
stockholders. The plan adopted was entirely
satisfactory. Stockholders of2400 shares elec
ted to retain their stock. Other stockholders
elected to receive their share in cash, and trans
ferred their stock to this Company. A few
stockholders have not signified their determi
nation. _ Thus this Company holds 4,420shares
of stock in the Steamship company out of 0,930
shares, the total amount.
A new Propeller lias been added to the ves-
irpe
Ha
annuity has been punctually paid.
This Company paid $100,000 to build its
bridge across the Ocmulgee River, and the three
Companies, (in the proportion of half to Ahe
Central—a fourth .to tbe South Western and a
fourth to the Macon-and- Western—as the an
nuity’ is paid/ expended $100,000 more to put
up the passenger depot and building in Macon.
After tliis agreement, thus entered into and
faithfully porliwmcl <m our part, it WOSnOtCal-
UHI
ed yourselves to be deceived , .
roa, I beg to give you soaietliine^
hig conduct towards me. 8 g *i^
In the early part of 1853, one of,
of my Phosphate caused to be pubii,w
sis, said to have been made bv IW3
son, of Yale College, of my (w!',
he makes tlic value to be $46 for«e?'
$50, and also stating the sulDhxtrJr 1 !
culated that the reasonable request for art in- r *ly formed by the action of
crease, of capital which the Company nude ofr calcined bones, in the making of
the Legislature would be opposed by the city “ PUster ofI ’’ ri “' 14 •
of Macon or her Representatives. ■
It is not pretended that the rates to and frony Prof Joh P on f ; of lTafe’
points beyond Macon are not higher, in just 1 ’ t-oueee. ... '
proportion, than between Savannah and Macon,
if this Company owned the entire line to At
lanta or Chattanooga, the rates to far off points
Would be less per mile than tho rates to near
points. But because this Company has a
through rate of freight with other Companies
to points beyond Macon, on which through rate
it receives a little less than the amount fixed for
its local rate to Macon, it is said that this Com
pany unjustly discriminates against Macon. By
way of illustration, take the point Griffin, and
the article transported, cotton. The rate on
Vacnn n
cotton between Macon and Savannah is 40 cents
per hundred for 190 miles—the through rate
between Savannah and Griffin is 50 cents per
hundred for 250 miles. This Company receives
on the Griffin through rate 36 cents and the
Macon and Western .14 cents.
The Legislature, seeing the importance of i 121 > and moat clearly shows Si
through rates to secure business from distant | egregiously in error. For a long Un,?
points to the Railroads'.of Georgia, passed an ■ man wa f 1 we b e . li<!V e, absent in E«o»
act authorizing two or more companies to cs- t0 be U,
learned that no person of thit nm^*l
frssorsbip in Talc College, nor v' li| l
student in the College of that nt», | i ’T
ly learned that this self-styled p r J*^j
Johnson, was a student in the atulu; 4
ry in the yard of Yale College,
bad been given to Mr. Porter, to
ceive pupils ia chemistry. The
S. W. Johnson, was Mr. SolomooT?l|
formed me that Johnson was a ir, t'fr
chemistry, aud that this analysia
first that he had made, and that he
to Mr. Mead that my phosphate
any of the others he Imd tried, which!,"?
specimens of English phosphates w?
by Mr. Johnson was full of evidett ' :
which were pointed out by Dr. CbuUil
lin, the former associate of BamoaTl
well known chemict of high staodir- , ^
will bc found in the Hor/-;,,ft? 1
121. and most dearie ,linwn o’ rt- .”-1
tiihlish through rates—and the Western & At
lantic Road (the propertyrof the State,) is among
the roads so . authorized. The law provides
that such through rates shall not te higher than
the sum of the local rates of tbe agreeing com
panies, and this is the only limitation. It is,
then; stfickly lawful to. make ai.'d maintain a
through rate. After the through rate is estab
lished, how could it possibly affect Macon, were
the Central company to give the whole rate to
tho Macon & Western company 1 Ths division
of a through rate cannot make discrimination.
The business of adjoining States could not be
be immediately published a sutem~T-|
my phosphate was of exceeding goo^j
he first examined it, it had deteriorgl
new analysis, and evidently repeaiit.?
pointed out by Dr. Enderlin; he al* A
result of my experiments carefully^
own farm, with the mineral phonal
ver, Crown Point and elsewhere J
nounced to be valueless in pracitl
have proved so in England and ekt«T
they have been shipped. In a bool J
fished by Prof. Johnson, called his -£»,
mercial Manures,” he clearly sutui-
phosphates are as valuable as those fin]
tiie writer would have known- the fact, if he, -
had been what lio.repres.euts himself to te—a I *ete of thei Atlantic Screw Steamship Company,
... .... ’making three vessels in that -line. An lnde-
1 1 ucco...- p't'zt'n of Hi is community,) that Dr. Green was | ^nt ship, the Star of the South, a third of
ice of the thief, and also knocked down— lt > very had Jualt. from the time lie was norm-1 wkidii.s ownec*>y this Company, runs with
, . . . . a ., nated, up to the day of the election, and has the other two lines. And thus the important
Jtli, however, being resolute and able-bodied i, oonHned to hi. I.„.l th<i sten has been taken of estnhlishimr n nwrnl.r
brought over the Georgia'roads, unless upon es- - I? °P 1Dion t!l *
tabli9hcd through rateftower than the cLbin- j ^ cent! oTLreVf pho'spSorfiT
^ A hea 7 POrUOn 0f U i° r l eVer ' u 1 e j superior in quality, when fine y r^ 1
of theStites own road grows out of through j.bo ne dust;,instead of which^tS*'.
rates of tins character. Suppose, upon the ob- ; phates, even after being fine],
yection or demand of Macon, through rat«£ were with sulphuric acid, have nor^ w , iB ,‘d
abolished entirely. The large and lucrative All the attacks of this gtntinmo *e t«|
business which this company receives, on thro’ | ed by unnoticed, not only thee vrittcaoT
rates with other roads, would be instantly lost ■ rignatnre, buthi9anonymousconmi\aicci
That large business enables the company to keep lifted in the Homestead. We published a
been confined to his bed the most of the past
session ; consequently, could not canvass the
county or even thoroughly canvass his district.
Dr. Green knew nothing of any disposition to
says, “the first day of the session tlic v, the Dcm-, ,uu=l
. , . .. .. , . ' off, however, without detection,
ocrats, began an inflammatory debate ti|ion the
slavery question, intended alone for home con
sumption." \Ye arc grieved to know that a
Representative from Georgia—from tho Third , „, b ^ .
District—entertains such an opinion of Mr. v - P ro l«'rty, and another was like to he • e ] cct ; on wa& the only one of which
Clark’s resolution. We had hoped, and we had ■ ttcnd<;d " ,th ,hu of life - The other tw»! otl „ ,„ M v,w r,b.n.j„
thought, that every true man at the South would
yield a ready and hearty acquiescence - to
, this precinct; to tiiat Of his own; in proof ol
Incendiary 1,res are also very frequent of late, whjch a j emocrat «, r high stanail on ^ *
no less than tour having occurred on Saturday j of eIcctiorii told hlm that by sn - appins off Hodg-
mght last—one.of them resulted in a very tea-1 cs ; , lc , ouW in two vott , for CoL s * hosc
step has been taken of establishing a regular
tri-weekly line of steamships between New York
and Savannah.
An examination of the tables appended to the
Superintendent's Report, showing the vast in
crease in up freight (merchandise) during the
past season, will satisfy the stockholders of the
local rates at a reasonable sum—a sum as low
as, if not lower, than any other road in Georgia.
If if were taken aw ay it would follow that the
local rates would he instantly raised, as a mat
ter of necessity, in order to get a just return on
l r°U H Cn ^J^on benefit by disproved, not only by tbe coming
the abolition of all through rates? A reasona- Charles H. Enderlin, but by tfc«S
b)e person could not ask for better proof that Enderlia, Prof. Uosford, of Cambrife; 1
the Central Railroad rates of freight have Hayes, of Massachusetts, Dr. Ar,L- a
never injuriously affected Macon than the uni i and by the opinion of Prof. Shentri u
Vf‘TV.911V ni'1-nnn-lnrirriwl film# sl.n r . V.ln PnlLmn l>»«f II: ! » i
vit of the foreman and all the W0ita«; c
tory, that no change in quality bin.'
place in the Phosphates there nastuje
supposed this to be an entire rckut. J
sertions of S. \V. Johnson, founded m*
sis, tile correctness of which hid*.
versaiiy acknowledged fact that the city of Ma
c»n v for years past, has increased, and now dai
ly increases, in wealth, in population, in elegant
qfores and mansion, in a greater degree tlian
propriety of this action of the President and) an >' ot hcr town or city in Georgia
Directors, and justify entirely the expenditure! The stockholders in this company know and
of tho large sum paid by the Company’ in this lee l that from the beginning until now their in-
rcpect. it is believed that the investment will vestment has not yielded over the lawful inter
file doctrines contained in Mr. Clark’-s resolu
tion. What are they ? Simply that any man
who has endorsed the iniiuuous, insurrectiona
ry and cut-throat doctrines contained in Help
er’s book, is Unfit to bcYhc Spcakcrof fiie Amcr-
dan House of Representatives. Who is there
in Georgia unwilling to give-a hearty assent to
that sentiment? Who is there, with alllhc lights
K«-lore him, *nrj pd|-tio»ibM-lT- Midi itic KIIOW1-| ^“i
we had
,, , , . any doubts. Green told his friends not to
were stables, and the loss comparatively small., sWi offl; but * votctho wbole Ti(:ket if Ilo „..
Tte first fire occurred about 8 o clock in the evcJ . , 1B ^determined to cat off any name on
evening in the large piano warehouse of the 1^ Xickct> j 0 ^offhts name,’ as he kncfrhc
. essrs. Hull & ..'on, on W. Baltimore st. llio. woub i gain some opposition Votes. His friends
building was four stories in height and new. It j di d. so, and put on Brow n's name instead of
contained some lifty new ami cosily pianot> be-; Orccn’s. That there were a great many split
sides many others in course of construction, as , Xickvt ; vo(ed h6rc on the day or c i cctiont ^
also valuable machinery, tools, materials,.Ac., ver y uuicb regret, butjhat Dr. Green was cut
all of which witii the buildings were totally
lost Tlic house udjoinimr.»«•■.> adJuc-
ipicti by Messrs. Willlim Bowers 4 Son as a
edge and insiglit into public affairs, which a
Southern member of Congress is presumed to
have, that will say that Mr. Clark’s motion Was
not well limed, appropriate and deserving of
the wannest support? and yet Mr. Hardeman
speaks of tho move as “an inflammatory debate
upon the slavery question, intended alone for
home consumption.'
When sixty-eight members of Congress en
dorse a book which inculcates the doctrine of
insurrection—which recommends tiiat slavery
“must te abolished at all liazafds and by the
use of all means,” and a Southern member en
■leavers in a legitimate way to rebuke the at
tempt thus made to invade our domestic peace,
it is to bo met by the Sheering announcement
at home, in a .Southern Slate, by a Southern
Representative, that it-is an inflammatory de
bate, got up for home consumption! Wc are
very sure that in this respect Mr. Hardeman
coach manufactory. It was a line and capaci
ous building, and contained a number of new
and elegant carriages, niaify under construction,
tools, lumber, Ac., all of w hich, w ith the build
ing, were entirely destroyed. Adjoining, on the
west side, was the large flour, feed and grain
off of as many Democratic TieioU, >ui Hodges,
all who know- anything about the polls here that
day, knows; and had it not been for the large
gain Dr. Grccu made on/he regular Opposition
party, of persons who- voted for him from per
sonal friendship alone, he would have run be
hind Hodges at this precinct One of the man
agers of tlio election that day told the writer of
this, that lie counted seven democratic tickets
quorum, nor give presence or countenance to.ny I docs not represent his people of either |>arty,
of its deliberations. Wc will not assume to i Wc believe that nineteen-twentieths of the vo-
judge for otters, but it seems to us thealtcrna
tire of a surrender of our trust would be verv far
prcfomMe —
It is said withdrawal from the House would
te revolutionary. Granted ; and we don't know
a tetter time for-revolution to begin, than when
an exponent of incendiary, cut-throat abolition
ism sits in thc'Spcakcr’s chair, reflecting a ma
jority representative opinion. All say they
will not submit to Mr. President Seward—but
wc think it will puzzle any of them to point out
a constitutional principle not equally infracted
by a revolt from Seward and a revolt from Ster-
Shcrman stands worse of the two on re
cord. lie is committed to forcible emancipa
tion unequivocally.-Seward would probably dis
claim it in words. The heresy is therefore more
tangible—more sharply presented, by Sherman
than by Seward, and if wfi are determined that
tte Constitution, shall not te made a shield
to robbciy and violence—if wc arc resolved up
on ultra legal remedies, why retreat when tho
issue is first presented ? why back down that
we may thereafter stand up? Why yield the
point in one department of the government, in
Hi. n c may contend against it in two? wiiy
wait till au incendiary House is backed by an
incendiary President in possession of the mate
rial force of the government ?
We say, then, file constitutional objections
arc tho same in both cases,—the question is
when to make the issue? There is only, one
time to make such an issue, if made at all, and
tiiat is on the first dear occasion. Pass tiiat by
and tbe threats of resistance against Seward will
be very apt to end in smoke. If the southern
States can submit to an incendiary organization
of the House and retain their representation in it
quietly, why can they not submit to the same
organization of the Executive department ? If
they mean ■ to resist the one,—they must cry
bands off on UiQ othcr.
And if the Northern mind in this coon try is
really susceptible to such reactionary influences
as will permit a restoration of sectional peace,
tho abandonment of Congress by the Southern
members in the event of Sherman’s election,
would te an an event most likely to produce it.
Tho recant seats would speak in tones of deep
and awful remonstrance to the majority section.
Tlio disorder of the public interests would tell
most fearfully on the' sensitivo financial concerns j
tera in file third District endorse and cordially
approve the coarse of Mr. Clark, and they will
unequivocally condemn any man, who. iuw*
this vital issue, docs not give thatresqlulion.a
warm and zealous support.
lYc have mfdoubt that this letter will cling
to the Hon. member like the shirt of Nesi-os—
and he will never cease to regret having written
it: hut he may console himself by the reflection
that he is not the first politician killed by his
own weapon.
To the .Merchants of the South uml
SOUTHWEST.
The attention of our contemporaries through
out the country is invilcd to the Mercantile
Card, addressed as above. Its energy, its spirit
and its truthfulness should .command rekpcct.
It should be brought home, not only to the
country merchants, hut to their customers—To
the people. It is by trading in our own South
ern Cities, and by enabling their merchants to
import directly, and not through Northern
channels and inimical agents, that the Southern
people can attain commercial independence.
And they may rest assured that the first prac
tical step toward bringing the North to its sen
ses, or to a separate {soli tical Confederacy, is for
them to refuse to trade with those" who assail
their institutions and cripple their industry.
It is sheer mqckery to pretend that the poo-
pic prefer to buy of a 'ciluntry merchant who
has bought his goods in New York, instead qf
one wlio has bought in Charleston. . Tliis_ is
but a pretext, or it is claptrap, meant to-de-
warehouse ot Mr. Mag.II, which, with its con-1 that Grecn > s name wa8 noton; , 0I)le of thcm
tents w« consumed. The co .ch-smith and had lloeX otbcrs Brown’s and others his name
wagm. shop ot Mr. \\ illiam Lee. and the large j was scratched oil'. But Unteixillcd Ninetv-
funuturc store of Mr. James McGlenen, were Eight, while on this subject, let us see who is to
boll, danu.ged.-to a considerable extent. The j blame for the lukewarmness of a portion or our
insurance was hut a partial one, and docs not j party at tllis pIace . [n jsJq, tll0 Democratic
near cover the Ioss-it was the work of some ! partv voted on , v seV e„ strong at this precinct,
incendiary. A cry late on the same night, the while in Perrv. the Fifth and Sixth districts, the
bouse of a Mr. Kent*, upon the Pennsylvania
Avenue, was fired by some heartless fiend whilst
the family Wore in their soundest sleep, and
would have Ik-cm destroyed but for the Hercu
lean exertiorts of Mr. Win. Bosly, who resides
in the neighborhood and happened to be Up—
Fifth and Sixth districts,
Democratic vote was almost double what it
now is. Since then, we have had a lianl strug
gle with the old Whig, then the Know Noth
ing; and more recently the Opposition party,
and without* any help in the way of premises of
fat offices, wc have steadily gained on our oppo-
yield a fair profit, beginning’ the first day of
January next The incidental benefit to the
Company, however, would alone justify the pol
icy which lias been adopted. It may be politic
and necessary to increase both the investment
in steamships and in negroes for Road, from
time to time, in order that more business may
be invited and economically transacted. *
Recently, citizens from Putnam, Baldwin,
and adjacent counties, addressed the President
of this Company, stating that they had applied
to tho Georgia Railroad Company to build a
Railroad from Eatonton to Madison, for which a
charter had been granted to that Company, and
that the Georgia Railroad Company had declin
ed. They enquired,' whether, if they subscrib
ed enough to build the road, this company
vr<m!U take it at ttie same yearly rent paid tor
the Milledgeville and Eatonton Roads. The
Board of Directors being willing to aid the sec
tion of country interested m the application,
and being at the same time solicitous to knit it
more closely’ in ties of social intercourse, as well
-as of profit to Savannah, promptly answered the
application, giving the assurance, tiiat if the
people would, without asking State aid, sub
scribe enough to build the Koad, would procure
Yale College, Prof. Higgins, ol I*,
others, and still farther disproved,J
cates of hundreds who had used
a series of yeais.
In the article, referred to in vco*
Johnson commences thus: ’
“Of all the many fraudulent iadp
which have been from time to tte ix_
our faimers during tits last lour jcanoetJ
IJ,
Beo
III
fl !^1 V’ VV-V I “ a ?Y.Y ea rs ttey rece.v-1 * deserving oi complete expo'senrt.
ed noi dividends.-TV hat their road earned was j bulte, as that series of trashv niitmh
used to perfect and equip it, and they had their Mapes’ Super phosphates of Lime. 1;
debt to pay. This company has, to a very large true that worse manures have beet
in this State, but none have ever id 9 4
such an amount of persistent hna^gra
ster them up, as has been enjoW.Haaej
Now permitme to ask whether Cu):
extent, assisted other Companies, and helped,
more than any other Railroad company, to
build up the present system of roads. It paid
near half million towards the building of the . t _
South Western Road—It paid $100,000 to- j fitting the office of a Chemist wLofru
wards the Augusta and Savannah Road—thirty service to the public, or that oft
thousand dollars to bring the Montgomery & which Prof. Johnson has roost uadi
West Point Road into Georgia—it subscribed i him self to bo of volcanic Guanos, ala
the whole Iron for the line from Gordon to Ea- ! le “ “ c°“P»rcd with Super-pbosphtl
tonton~it has paid, for the most part, for tlic ! £' e ?L" m, " g8 *• lost “°
ment to the South Western Road, the Musco-!<- e ‘ sht * g0 ’
gee Road and the Mobile «fc Girard Road to the 1 almos * ‘ he
extent of over $4011,000. tbe klnd on “ our n<,rthl!rn
r of 'Hr
J it for
tip: ro
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It would seem unreasonable to oppose this
Company when its histoiy is—first a great strug
gle tq support itself in days of adversity’, and
then, when prosperity came, the giving of its
helping hand to secure and promote other great
Railroad interests. The contributions to the
public which this company makes, in taxes,
a proper charter, and the repeal of the charter l municipal and State, aro vety large; altogether
granted to the Georgia Company, and place the tte company has conferttxl great blessings on
i Road in charge of thif ilu>Si|t»ii l.™. ww.:- —»—- 3 -— —» --
upon seeing the tire, this gentleman rushed to • ngnt^ an j no w have the majority at this
the house and succeeded in awaking the family, p ] acCt a ml vote upwards of one huifdred strong,
■ while in Perry, and those other Districts, that
now .rrixriU* t«» «!>«••■.!».» »ll gVwy, hare
as steadily decreased, and were it not to-day
for the gain at this precinct; the parfy would
te in the minority in the county. We have
hut seldom asked tho party* to give us a nomi-
nee from this portion of tte countv. aiid in al-
tng detected. We hare an army of police who, a ost every instance when we have asked to
know the whole of those villains as common > have one of our party nominated, we have been
thieves, robbers, incendiaries and vagabonds,
and who know each one of them personally^—
and socially-—yet they are enabled to continue
in their work of villainy without detection; or
if detected, arc not punished for one in ten of
•v...: : Having no election-money now
who in a few moments more wonhl have teen
cut off- from escape, and carrying the children
and U»» w—sum .luiost through
the flames of the burning building. A reward
has been offered for the villains who would have
thus burned up those innocents and their pa
rents, but there is little likelihood of their be-
construction of the Road in charge or this com
pany, then this Company would take the Road,
when built, at a yearly rent of 7 per cent on
its cost
A charter lia^becn obtained—that granted
tQ the Georgia Railroad Company lias been re-
pcaied, and a preliminary survey of the Road
has been made. Measures will doubtless be
promptly- taken to raise, by subscription, the
requisite amount to build the Road. This new
line, of about 21 miles will add to the value of
the line from Eatonton to Gordon, and bring us
into close connection with a portion of the State
whose business' and whoso society wc have not
hitherto enjoyed to the extent now promised.
Moreover, it will not disturb, but rather coin
cide with, and aid, the existing Railroad sys
tem.
The President, with the approbation of the
Boac.1, mode application to the Legislature for
the passage of a law authorizing this Company
to consolidate the Stocks of the Milledgeville
and Gordon and Eatonton Branch Roads with
file stock of this Company, on terms to be a-
greed on, and further to increase the Capital
Stock of this Company to $6,000,000. The
present Capital of $4,000,000 has been kept at
that sum, it being the limit allowed by charter,
the State at large. This is not said in a spirit
of boasting, but simply in answer to tte violent
opposition made to the company.as a .huge mo
nopoly, looking alone to the interests of its
stockholders.
Thesubject of State A(d to new (Railroads
has again, at tho Session of the Legislature now
about to close, been before the Representatives
of the people for discussion and decisioft. The
plan lor obtaining tho aid of the public treasu
ry to build new and rival roads; although very
actively supported by a numerous class, has
heen-again defeated. At this day a railroad
runs, or is soon to bc run through 71 of-the 132
counties in the State, and in several instances
there are two railroads through a county-. The
greater part.of 44 othcr counties are within
twenty-live miles of a railroad, and there arc
only- seventeen counties in tlic State which are
not within twenty-five miles of a railroad al
ready built, or certainly to be built It is not
probable that any amount of speculative impor
tunity, or any new device of log-rolling," will
carry through the Legislature a system of gen
eral aid per mile to all sections, such as the one
just repudiated. The more the subject is con
sidered and discussed, the more certain will be
the conviction that it is too dangerous to ein-
whilst a large sum beyond $4,000)OOo'has here! j bark tiie State in any suciTuBd^scheme"
tofore been taken from the earnings of the Com- j Respectfully submitted,
pany and expended on th. Road and its equip-1 R. R. Ccrum, President.
ments. Over a million of dollars of money! ;
earned has been thus appropriated, and com- j Later from Europe.
beat out in the nomination by the scores that
are allowed liy the regulations adopted by and
for tho especial benefit of the ofdce seekers liv
ing in and around Perry, to enable them to dic
tate in every county nomination, who Shall bc mon justice requires that" some equivalent! ARRIVAL OF THE Y4> T np«nnr . vn
should now be given to the Stockholders. ! • n^pirccVV ’ * .
The act has been passed, and a copy of it will
be submitted to tho stockholders. In tlic opin
ion of tho President and Directors, fife stock
holders can realize dividends amounting to 10
their crimes. Having no election-money now tte candidate in the county. And in the few
to go upon, they resort to the practice of these; instances where we have been successful in get-
means for pastime as well as support. It is j ting a Fort Valley democratic nomipee, until
thus that hundreds of those vile men. now live; the recent election, our candidate has been de-
iu tins city. ... i feati-d by democrats. Dr. Green did not solicit | P cr cent - per annum on a capital of $5,000,000.
A new and capacious Jail is now completed, j the nomination, and his personal friends only ''
at a cost to the citizens of Baltimore of near j urged it upon him in hopes of thereby holding
four hundred thousand dollars. It is said to bc, the party at this precinct together. And, Mr.
■. ’ . . • .. i, . . . ‘ me genuumcn as nign-mHuieu ana Honorable
ce.vc them as to the prices and the fashions of prison ro not a punishment, but a change from mcI ,, but Mr. Hodges is a true consistent dem-
* " *“ " a stalu of vo^-ancy to r .e of case and high liv- ocrat, and the friemls of Dr. Green would have
mg, from a hovel to a palace, where these their luU ch prererrod his election, and did even-filing
duvntrol fnt-nds aro mnm —-• f„ tlit-if power to elect him.
the goods. As to these they are tbesame, como
from the same importers and manutactUrers,
and are furnished through equal facilities. Tbo
plain truth js, the country merchants go to
New 1 ork for their personal gratification and
amusement, to which they sacrifice not ohly
much personal expense, heeded at home, but
all those personal considerations which should
govern their patriotism and consult tlio-inter
ests of their section. Thcaspect of affairs should*
how deeply impress these considerations upon
them, and all should unite In securing alike
our commercial prosperity and political secu
rity.—Charleston News.
Norfolk Oysters.
Ells Jias just received a lot of capital Norfolk
of the North and throw doubt, anxiety and dis- j Oysters, fresh and in every variety of package;
trust over cveiy department ofbusincss. The “ar- j This is opportune, and all who want a supply
gument of tho pocket” of which so much is said, J 0 f fi, e delicacy should go early,
would then be addressed personally to almost !
every Northern voter, and the “irrepressible
conflict,” would bc transfered from our own bor-
doctrines of the infamous book, which acknowl-! dcr to the great NortLem marts. The white
edge* a thief for its author, and that wo say to
them, that the voico of this Union City of tho
Empire State is, fight on, fight irer!”
laborer would want to know why his bread was
jepordized in an insane crusade against South-
«rn slave labor, and tho merchant aud arti2an
Valuable Florida Lands.
IVc invite attention to extensive sales of val-
onc of the most complete prisons for temporary
confinement in the country; a perfect model in
point of comfort, convenience and security, and
affording to the thief, tlio ruffian and the rnur-
durer a degree of comfort, accommodation and
luxurious ease to which flic thousands of honest
men upon whom they depredate can never as
pire. Such is the rage of the prison philan
thropists of the day for ameliorating the condi.
tion of these villains—(upon .whom all their
pains are thrown aWinqand by whom they them
selves would be. made the first victims of their
renewed acts of villainy)—that lo be sent to
Editor, 1 am proud to say that the party in this
portion of thc eounty arc democrats from prin-
l-iple,.and if you please, are dyed in the wool,
and all of them able to live witlpiut feeding up
on tte public crib; made independent by hon
est industry, and who do not consider that iu
every instance they are bound by the behests
of a small minority of the party called together
in the town of Perry, annually, without author
ity to. say who sliall fill the various county offi
ces. Wo much regret the defeat of Mr. Hodg
es, aud the election of Brown. Wc regard both
tte gentlemen as high-minded and honorable
devoted- friends arc more assiduous in their at
tention to their wants, than to those who have '
teen brought to want and misery by their rob- j
A DEMOCRAT.
bcrics and murders. i Opposition National Conventions.
'There was not a large number of persons jfrom i Tho_ Republican National Committee have
this city present at the recent execution at' t * le tllne an< ^ P' acc holding file Iicpub-
Charlestown, 1 a. The appetite for witnessing ^* can Convention, at Chicago on the 13th June,
the scene had become rather dull after the hang- j The Philadelphia National American Central
ing of old Brown-a-nothing like the interest was Committee, iu session, appointed a Sub-Com-
manifested in hearing tho first nows of tho ex- J** 1 * 1 a ow to unite all opponents of tho
ecution; and although there was probably a > -Wmimstration. -
much larger number of Extra Suns printed, I Townsend's Georgia Axe
doubt whether the speculation paid the enter- .lies are subject to axedents and wifi give
prising newsboys as well as on the previous oc-, out occasionally. When we went to renew our
casion. ■ Much speculation is afloat as to tho fi- supply at Weed’s the other day,-he would ax-
cept no other compensation, than an editorial
The capital of the roads.proposed to be consol
idated will require (he issue of new stock to tho
extent of about $300,000. If $500,000 of stock
be now given to the stockholders, there will bc
left about $200,000 for future emergencies.—
Twelve and a half per centum on the stock of
the Company amounts to $500,000.
The Board has passed, this day, the follow
ing resolution, to wit:
Resolved, T hat 5,000 shares of now stock te
issued, being twelve and a half per centum on
the present capital, and disposed of and. distri
buted to and amongst tho persons who are now
stockholders, rateably; and that tho new scrip
and certificates for fractional parts of a share,,
be prepared by tho Cashier by the 1st dav of
March next for delivery. This resolution sub-
BORUSSL4.
New \obk, Dec. 18.—Tlic steamships Yan-
dcrbilt and Borussia, with dates from Liverpool
to the Stb, have arrived.
The Borussia left Southampton on the 4th,
and the Vanderbilt Cowes on the 8th, and
Queenstown on the 8th.
Markets.
Sales of cotton in Liverpool for three days'
18,000 bales, of which speculators took 4,100,-
and exporters 4,000 bales, market closing dull,
with a declining tendency. Brcadstufls dull
and unchanged. Richardson, Spence L Co.’s
circular quotes flour dull and easier. Wheat
dull, and nominally unchanged. Corn steady
yellow quoted 30s. Gd. a 32s. Rosin and su
gar steady. Rice quiet Turpentine steady at
34s. Manchester advices favorable, reportmir
a a «rwl A...'.! t . * ©
it was of good quality,” etc.
Be afterwards says:
And had a value (calculated on (
of $44 per ton; it was sold at $50
Why should Prof. Johnson ct.,-ds
prices on an article which he stataa.
60 dpllara per ton seven or eight nuj
his accompanying analysis, »ftcr"»ir
pr'iBnce of sulphuric acid, he denies lL
of soluble phosphates. This is, as he i;l
chemically impossible. '
My answer to the whole of this liraa
the sales of Super-phospbsi# in tie nA
where hcrcsides, aud where tbe paper is jj
in which he has written most, name'.;.!
and New Haven, hare been fire femes nl
the year 1869 as any former year, andal
ing certificates from men of the highesp
as agriculturists in his state and eisj
ceivcd within the current year, are berj
ecu of the value of the Phosphates, thul
sis or opinion which may be offered
constituted servitor of the pubh'c.
As you here given place to this i
attack upon me, I ask in common 1
you will publish the above, together i
lowing abridged certificates.
I also enclose you the full ccrtificati
may see that the abridgments are fairiyi
Yours, respectfully,
JAMES J.J
, , ; a firm and quiet market.
ject to the approval of the rtockholdcrs, at the j LosDox.-Consols quoted at 974 a 07 q u L.
annual Convention, to bo held on 20th inst, if account Money in Lod demand ■«„/till
there shall tea quorum to transact business. unchanged. S wand, and rates
■ si
dehty of the keepers of the prisoners, Cook and'* ~
Coppie; and the card published by the two
criminals has not relieved Capt. Avis and his
colleagues from suspicion of complicity in' their
attempted escape. The theory, however in niv
paragraph, which should express an honest o-
pinion of a new axe he is 'desirous of introduc
ing to the public, as above set forth. Wo have
axtually very little experience.and must there-
Looking to the large amount to bo expended
for increase of rolling stock, and for additional
or double track, the Board hasMcemcd it pru
dent to retain $200,000 of tho new stock-author-
ired by the late act to bo issued and disposed
The 5,000 shares of now stock above referred
to, arc, in the contemplation of the Board, to
rank witli tho prbsent stock, in future divi
dends.
In tho progress of the bill for an increase of
capital, objections were raised to granting this
Company’s request, on the ground that the
Company unjustly discriminated against the
city of Macon in its rates of freight, and further
A. BAGLEY, of New Haven, Ct, a«|
it on turnips, by the side of I’eruvili 1
can Guido’s, and I must say that it pn
than either; the Peruvian showed «
first few weeks, but fell behind at
equal value of Guano and NitrogenizedS
pb'ate were used.”
MORRIS KETCHUM, Esq., of Wrf
says:—“That on SO acres of worn os
capable of producing by ordinary atm
bushels of grain to the acre, he b*4
past year, with 500 lbs. of XitrogKfl
phosphate per acre, over 80 bushek M
per acre, and leaving a stand of grass?]
he ever saw ’’ Within 12 months i f
has had 20 tons.
JOHN S. BEACH, Esq., New 1
used my Phosphate for Vegetab’
Fruit Trees, and says:—“For the I
cility of application, certainty of goo!”
absence of all injurious effects, ere r
skillfully applied, r< -..4:r it, in my opt'
or to any other concentrated fer!ili« ! l
I am acquainted.”
NATHANIEL WEED, Esq., I
of the North -River Bank, now ol f
^*ys:—“I have made use of your V
Supcr-phospata of Lime in my 'gtrdol
fields of corn and potatoes. I Ldovs!
manure that is as good for the gxrdes
so far as I have tried it, I deem it b‘
best Guano for the above use.”
NATHAN MOORE, Jr., Stafford, C
the Phosphate on turnips, and with f
. A. (VETMORE, Jr., Stamford, •
Phosphate on grass lands, and s '
and effects to be superior to 1
in his district.
JUDGE FRENCH, author of “f
says:—We have tried every van
and have more faith in Mapes’:
than iu anv othcr manufactured art
TUOS. DAVIS, Columbia, S. C,«
rf.iyerpool, _VY ednesday afternoon.—GOOD bales I fl £cd Mapt-s’ Nitrogenized Super-;
of cotton sold to-day. Sales are slow and nri- : on Cotton of the present year,
unaltered. Breadstuff’s quiet. 1 * {If satisfied with iu yield. I can n
my neighbors with confidence, ***
garded these objections, the Board desires, in a
spirit of perfect courtesy, to answer them here,
and to show how unreasonable, iq point of fact
they are.
This Company has not unjustly discrimina
ted against Macon. When the Legislature, sev
eral years ago, granted to tho three Railroad
Companies- centering in Macon—the right to
quiet.
General Intelligence.
Lord Cowley represents England in the Eu-
ropcan Congress. Advices received at Paris
on (he oth state that Minister Ward had re-
J«P an - The Japanese Embody Will
start for Washington on the 22d or ftforuary
One hundred and sixty thousand ounces of
gold were cn route from Australia to England
to the end of October. One hundred thousand
a r ived from tho wrcck of
the Gron £ hartcr - Lover offers to purchase
auit»°«i !^™ Stc ^ip. Crawl of Je
on the ground that it was too powerful a mo- v|vw
nopoly, nuking fqr its stockholders unreasona- su *ts were seeking refuge in Sardinia"" on
ble profits. Although the Legislature disre- count °f the suppression of their order in
FrtS^,' 1 C o unt Mereicr has been "appointed
trench Ambassador for Washington '
tive manure, and would give it t
any other in the market.
COLONEL GOODWIN, Colnm^j
doubled his Cotton crop during
the use of the Nitrogenized Suf*'
stated in a letter from Mr. Henry 1
The Agricultural Editor of the ,,i
Booh eays We have, in the cow*,
sive agricultural correspondence, P‘
dence ol the superior value of
Super-phosphate of Lime upon u>e-
of the South, where Peruvian 0^,
used with partial success. 7he
header, and of greater number, the . ( J
per acre has been larger, and
d
is SPP 11 ":
.IK* th °«
• Mr.
Si,
' till.,
■0,
profitable investment
had been no doubt deceived by the apparent bo desired.
c ———Hr for Washington in n’ace of ton Gelds.where this article is *PP“ „
SarUges who goes to Holland. The Sbfp Nco- be added its pecnUsr I
tune , °f New Orleans, was run into bv i s tin zaUotl - audits comparative cbet ^Z t ^'
merat the mouth of the Mersey. The 1 aT# come *° « orrW * , f”
te her is unknown. * ® ara *8 e Who have used other like sgenWi
T n_. nr, , . 1 *Ws by far the highest prafe*- .
te ili rmni 8th.—Sales of cotton! “We have arrived at the cone.
cross' tho Ocmulgee river and join their tracks I of whieh’«SeM.S^ri _ tW ° da - vs 14 ’ 000: ri dc !? b!e ^pcrimcntour^lrra^
in tiie city of Macon, acondition was imposc-l The m,, | r; ’ ail(i exporters took 3,000. ' or ‘ he ri ’- a,to of ,h f e -
fl... cIomhI with a declining tendenev. f, ' nil,/or " : ' • '
' an improved demand!, ^™ t ” anq
HE>
iii .uxcciij oi .iaulgij, a conuiiion was imposoa Xne
that the assent of the corporate authorities of notwitKt-ln i'n ti 1 a
Macon should be procured At that time the j D
corporate authorities started this subject of dis- f were quiet and steady. JJSStdSfSS
j crimination and insisted that they should have j sols quoted at Wi a 974
in horticnlture
! -I
thing else of the kind we tre Jfi&C<
IENKY LOMAS, Esq., CelcoWV^
“1 have very great picas U n.-
^touching the efle.'t* offeor--!
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