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G.S.&C. ROBINSON,
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CUTUBERT, GEORGIA.
.-Uri'. prompt .Uentlon to all bu.ioe« «»• m , contempt
\ ;^j5lto them, m Handolph, CI»y, Early, Mil- .. nr<WP< |
N >rt . r.rrHlI rilnwirt anti UuitmnoconntlM. 110 prO\L(l
Joseph Clisby
Receiver’s Notico.
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1 Tins Receiver.
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MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M., JUNE 1, 1860.
Volume
14444; |IARDKMA1V»
iT torxey at law,
t-1 IfTOX, GEORGIA.
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i2c«n. at Savannah and Mariotta.
f fuwr tealnat any man, the Law l» open and
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GFAIROE \Y. NORMAN,
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Uamhuri. Athley County. Ark.,
tl , l S0 „»<»<« to Hamhnrr, Ark., will continue
' ,'eiirVu* in Aahley and the adjolnln, eonn-
yjSTrtaama al«> in any other county in the
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TILL Maelire in Crawford nnd the adjoining
I oaoiirt. *U Imainesi promptly attended to.
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c. C. DUNCAN,
attoh.t ey at law,
FERRY, OA.
Jw PA RTNERSHIP-
HILL A IIILL,
...in late firm ol Stubba and Hill,
SUlwtirein Maeon and adjoining Cirruits,
ft JJi rte Supreme and Federal Courts.
IMSCE—0“ :l J Street Macon. Ga.
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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH
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EVERY FRIDAY, AT 3, P. M.
PRICE —Two Pollara a yaar, ofovryi in Adame*.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The following named gentlemen constitute
the Executive Committee of Bibb county, ap
pointed by the Chairman of the late Democrat
ic Meeting, by virtue of a resolution then and
there adopted.
T. It Bloom, Jus. Mcrccr Green,
Rob’tA. Smith, Wm. J. Monghon,
Stephen Woodward, Green Wilder. .
Asa Ernest
THE PROTECTION DEBATE.
Senator Toombs’ speech of last Monday on
the question of protection to slavery in the ter
ritories, is every where spoken of as one of his
most masterly efforts; but to show just where,
and where only this doctrine is bound to lead
in the popular apprehension, we have only to
turn to what the Northern freesoil papers say
of this speech. Take, for example, the follow
ing from the Tribune
Mr. Toombs made one of his powerful speech
es against Squatter Sovereignty, completely
lmng it
riddling the doctrine, and holding it up to gen
i, wn GRiaxunt »ctlkr
«YW & BUTLER,
VIOK.V E Y S AT LAW.
Albany, Georgia.
_n TMu tie Superior Conrt« of lb« South-W«S
mi'jnit-la Terrell, Randolph «nd EarlyCouu-
vftuaa Circuit—in Worth and Maeon conn-
. jutlUne Circuit—in the Catted State* Circuit
■tsmsatfc-nd by special contract, in any conn-
.vusn Leareia.
nitKISB. _ J«nIT
New law Tirm.
T0EKFO RD «\r HARRIS.
UACO.V, GA.
ilinttia law lr ltibb and adjoining countie,
Um l'Lilted Suit** Court at annah and
ki in any c«> wtjr or the State by special cou-
aroan. — Ciiaiu-ks J. IIauud.
-in* w It.
SPEER A HUNTER,
IITORXEYS AT LAW,
. MACOX. GEORGIA.
Ft, Tnuagalar H!or!t, Corner af Ckeerjr Ulmt
anA 0«Uim Arraur.
|rv.n»vs awnciatnl a> paitnrn in the practice
ulltw inllie counties of the .Maeon and ad-
bier Circuits, and else,here in the State by npe-
Iceutrsi't—also villaitend iho Federal Courts at
>sh sad Mtrictu
ALF.X. M. SPEER.
S-UIIIEL HUNTER.
He proved that the. uniform practice of more
than half a century had been for Congress to
exercise complete’power over the Territories,
ami cited the authorities to show that this
power had been used in various forms, all ac
knowledging its absolute and unquestionable
jurisdiction.
His argument went to demonstrate that Con
gress ought to afford protection to slavery in
the territories, inasmuch as we were bound by
treaties which subsequent laws had recognized
to protect the person and property of those who
became citizens by the transfer of French, Span
ish, and Mexican territory.
He contended that-both parties at Charleston
and Chicago pledged themselves to the protec
tion of naturalized citizens abroad in all their
hts, even at the hazard of war, and yet only
refused it to their own people in their own Ter
ritories.
Mr. Toombs thus separated from his friend,
Mr. Stephens, for the first time in twenty years
They have hitherto been like Siamese twins in
politics. •
Mr. Douglas' absence-frotn the Senate during
this speech was much remarked, and mainly
from the fact that Mr. Toombs has been more' 1
tolerant of his heresies than any other Southern
Senator.
Mr. Hammond followed in a short written
speech on the same side, nnd Mr; Pugh replied
to both without making much, impression.
Mr. Benjamin win answer Mr Douglas’ ar
gument briefly to-morrow, and there is some
disposition to close the debate. *
Thus, it will be seen, according to the Tri
bune, Mr. Toombs demonstratedthe “absolute
and unqualified jurisdiction”—the “complete
power of Congress” oyer the Terri lories,-and
what prudent party would be willing to.concede
those points °f to be held up fn popnlar appre
hension ns conceding them, for the doubtful
utility of a party platform plank.claiming Con
gressional protection ? • •
|DR. KOBL’KT C. 11AHUIE,
iH» hi. prafoaional arnricaa to the citizen, of
f* rldaltv. He may be found at all hour,
BnenrJohaP. Harvey', .tore, on Cherry St.
taf ia w-jy '
Ml. It. II. NISBET
hniVny Street, over Menard A Borghard'a
L - ion-, Hnidence on the HUt in front of the
• Blind. Jan n
cks on New York
FOR SALK BY THE
BlFACTUREfiS’BANK
NOT ENDORSED.
\Vc are cut to the heart The “ self appoint
ed” organ of the Democracy, our good friend of
the Savannah Republican, says that the “ Geor
gia Democracy” will hot support Alexander II. *raU,
Stephens for the Presidency ! And Consequent
ly our “ charming arrangement" cannot be car
ried out- Wo ohould novor hare believed a
statement of this kind upon any other assur
ance—but th« assurance of the Republican al
most compels one to believe him. The Demo
crats have all told us that “ Aleck Stephens”
has more personal popularity than any man in
Georgia, and certainly to.hcar a Convention'of
them send up an exultant shout whenever Ste
phens was named would seem to justify a small
bet on Stephons’s popularity.
But then the editor of the Savannah Republi
can says the Georgia Democracy will not vote
for Stephens, and the editor of the Republican
ought to know. He has labored long-and faith-
folly with us during these trying times of se
cession. In the way of warning, reproof and
exhortation he has cried aloud and. spared not
He has been first and last—thebusyest and fus-
NO DODGE, BUT A KICK.
A cotemporary says the Union Convention at
Baltimore tried to dodge the slavery issne,
lienee they made no platform.
This is not exactly true. The Union party,
Letter from Hon. T, Entl P.r K~iri g. owncl ; in bi , s n ~g hts - Upon these considerations
| ® I it is tho opinion of the Court that tho Act of
St. Sutoss Island, May 11, 1800. I Congress which prohibited a citizen from liold-
Gcntlcmcn—On my return homo last evening, I * n S. !ln< ^ owning property of this kind in the
. .... I found your letter of the otli insL, and I hasten territory of tho L nited States north of tho line
at Baltimore, intended to kick the slavciy ques- I to give you, very briefly, my views refpccting therein mentioned, is not warranted by the
tionoutof Congress, where none but deina- j t | le impending danger to’the Dcmocratic party, I Constitution, and is therefore void; nnd that
gogucs and office seekers would think of carry-1 - t j le u m on 0 p the States and the safety of the i^'thcr Drod Scott himself, nor any of his fain-
jng it I South.” I ‘Fy were made free by being carried into this
Demagogues in Congress have been playing I ‘ I believe tliat the safety of the Union depends I territory; even if they had been carried there
•upon the slavery question, for the last ten years, on tj ic preservation or tlio National Democratic tllc owner with the intention of becoming a
to the almost entire neglect of all theirduties to p ar t_ Vi and that the safely of the South depends Permanent resident”
the country, and the consequence has been that upon t j, 0 ( j r m united action of all the slavchold-1 TIms decision of the Supreme Court scatters
r will be in that body. No good'bas grown I^ « uu ulc WUUOTUC uesuwjc . t ,, , - - — --
out of Congressional discussions of slavery, and The Democracy of (he North has been held ka Act ,tscIf dij same thing, by declaring
never will. Hence Union inon intend to kick together and preserved from utter annihilation ^epeople of those territories subject to the Con-
.b -rn -• 1 - United Stales. The Cincinnati
| does not contain or recog
innii'truus ab-urdity :i~ .Squatter
Is it for tho purpose
out of Congress,” bR
as tho Augusta ( r
varnish Republican are crying out- so mightily away by the swelling tide of Black Republican- cxcrc ' se sovereign powers, not delegated but
fcr Winn aiaiMulPfit^ilun »t la Hint cn \tr I lam' Nothin--, in my judgment '.rill or cm I expressly forbidden ill that instrument.
■ • * - - 1 *• 6 - ... It will thus be si
for “Congressional Protection?’ Js thatso, Mr. | ism.' ^ r< o i
American Union? or wiH y\,u include them, lmore certainly”prbduce this result,' than the or-1 ^ ^ P* 11 l ' iat til1 Psmo^ratitvpai;
too, among tho “demagogues and office seekers” gnnization of a sectional party at the South!— 1 s fonds dear iipon the record,
who insist- upon carrying thc ^tjject baek | lias the titoc come for -aadl>-foXor of the compromise
have the people of the sUve-botduupSUta de-12***“^** which exdudid the Wdmot proviso
libcratcly resolved to make it ? Takin- a calm frolu “* c !a ' v organizing the territories of Utah
view of tho whole political field, 1 should think an 5 ^ c ' v " Mexico.
‘ It appear?, in the proceedings of thol. Second, In the passage of^ the Kansas Nc
again' into Congress?
SCHLEY COUNTY.
Tiio'dcinocraLsofSdiley lieid a meeting on Uie.l-noL rI .^. Yy „J J L ..
22d mst, and passed tlie following resolutions. Charleston Convention, that eight ^Southern I J l nLska Act excluding the W'ilmot proviso from
after much discussion, bv the easting vote of States, having fifty-one electoral votes, seceded, inn*J aw , and repealing the Missouri restriction.'
the Chair: ’ - and that seven, havingsixty-nine electoral votes, - Thl . rd ’ The adoption of the Cincinnati plat-
Resolved, 1st That the Democracy of Schley remained in the convention. -' l? rm ,n 18 ^. C > declaring “non-interference by
county cannot endorse the course pursued by It farther appears tliat the resolution prepar-1 < oa Sress with slavciy, in State .-url territory
the seceding delegates at the Charleston Con- M by the New York delegation to be added to or ‘ n w>e District of Columbia.
vcnUbn. . . - . ' the platform, was satisfactory to all the South- . In the lato tonventmn at Charleston,
2d. That the National Democracy having sol- delegates that remained, arid that the reso- bot , * h ® ““yortty and minority platform as re-
emnly covenanted, in the passage of the Kan-1 lution adjourning the convention to meet in Bal- f, !!,. , nl l . Committee of States reaffirmed
sas Act, and in theirapproval of the .Cincinnati was offered by Mr. Russell, Chairman of he . C .'" cl . nnatl Pj a ‘r«>n u . and pledged the party
platform, to refer the quesUon of the power of W’> delegation. All the Southern del- » * h \ de % " ,e decision of die Supreme Court.
tlie territorial legislatures over property, to ju-1 e ?x»tionS, therefore, thai remained in the con-1. * true ’ , le '^lotions reported by ^ the ma-
diciar tribunals of the country; we are willing I vention, are bouml in honor, to reassemble in J , ’ rl . t Y. were more explanatory and satisfactory,
still to stand (o that agreement.' I Baltimore, in accordance with their own move-1 ant * *° * iavc *5®®^ adopted. There ap-
3d. That we are willing to affiliate cordially mentto adjourn to that place. ' » J P”" 5 "o reason to doubt, however, that the
with any party, which will pledge itself faith'-1 I have seen no evidences of dissatisfaction I Convention, when it reassembles in Baltimore,
fully to abide by, and carry out the decisions amon" their constituents or any movement to , .P 1 *.? rcsolu , tlo P.Prepared by the New
- - questions re-1ke*d delegates to Richmond. This disruption J ork de| egation, and which is stated to have
of the Democratic party, if it continues, will I becn satisfactory to the Southern delegations
of the Supreme Court under the * questions re
ferred to.
subject in our Federal Legislature. Utah and
New Mexico seemed to have escaped tho atten
tion of members of Congress, and under tlie
doctrine pf non-intervention slavery is now pro
tected in those territories, and but for the Con
gressional agitation of “the Kansas qaeftion,”
that territory would have been quietly settled
by citizens of Missouri and others not hostile
to the existence of slavery; we would not have
been excluded by the action of “Emgrant Aid
Societies,” but the territory would be now open
to Southern men, and slavery be protected by
virtue of the operation of the doctrine of non-
intereention. So with California. But for the
well known purpose of members of Congress to
agitate and legislate on the ‘subject of slavery,'
a territorial government would have been or
ganized on the principle of ndn-lnlercentioA,
and the gold mines of that State would now be
worked by slaves. The doctrine of non-inter
vention was not then fully recognized, and it
was a political necessity to admit the unorgan
ized territory into the Union, with a Constitu
tion prohibiting slavery.
The demand for Congressional intervention
for tlie protection of Slavery in tlie Territories
seems to me, therefore, unjust to bur Northern
friends, and is I ’think calculated to do us more
harm than good.
f have further said that it involved an im-
jmicticable abstraction. It is impracticable, be
cause ire know full well that it is impossible to
obtain tlie kind of legislation we propose to de
mand. lYhat then ? No national party organ
ization can be formed which will concede more
to the just demands of tho South, or more ear
nestly and consistently maintain Southern rights
than tlie pn-M-nt democratic party. If the refu
sal of the democratic party to commit itself to
this new demand for Congressional intervention
jiistities secession from the party, will n6t the
failure of Congress to grant the demand for
Congressional protection.justify secession from
the Union? If this is good ground for dissolving
the only existing national party, with rio hope
of forming another, will. it not. afford good
ground for a dissolution of the Union ? and
whether it justify disunion or not, will if not
inevitably lend to disunion ? .£>'
These are grave questions, which the people
of the South should consider well before "they
go too far to retract “To this complexion it
the country by committing themselves to an
abstract demand, which can result in no prac
tical good to us, while it may be fatal to them?
Shall we have a Democratic President, elected
and standing on a national platform, or an ultra
Black Republican President, with sentiments
and opinions quite as odious as were ever avow
ed by Wm. H. Seward, and without tho pres
tige of high reputation, and wanting tho refined
and cultivated social and mental qualities of the
distinguished Senator from New York ?
Please excuse the length of this letter, and
let me have the pleasure to hear from you
soon.
Yours very truly,
E. C. CABELL.
To Joseph Clisby, Esq., Macon, Ga.
Correspondence of the Telegraph
Neiv Yoiik, May 2i, .1860.
Comments on the Republican nomination—Ar
rival of the Prince deJointiUe—Expeditions
to observe the Solar Eclipse—Mystery, and
mistaken identification of a human body—
Douglas meeting at Cooper Institute.
“now, f harper than a serpent's tooth It ts,
: a tliaakl
To have:
dess chUd.”
Bhaksperc.
-No. 84
to arrest him—whilst the others knocked him
down and beat .him with dubs. Naff, after re
covering his senses, went back in company with
a policeman to recover his hat, when Woodward
stepped up to within a few feet ofhina, and shot
him in the stomach; The case was opened by
Milton Whitey, Esq., for the State, who thoro
ughly examined the witnesses—the chief of
whom was Dr. ’Willis Baxly, the physician who
attended Naff from the night of the occurrence
until his death. TITc dying declaration of the
murdered man was received as evidence by the
Court, which fully implicated Woodward as his
murderer. Tho case was ably argued on both
sides by Mr. Whitey for tho prosecution, and
Messrs R. C. Barry and J. Stockett Mathews
for the prisoner. The jury are yet out, and
much anxiety is felt lest the murderer escape.
It is said that some of his warmest friends are
upon thejury.. It is impossible however that he
can be acquitted, though thejury may not agree,
in which case a new trial will be ordered. •>
Lynch, the man who was so desperately shot
in the Penitentiary, is still alive, though hejs
fast sinking, and no hopes arc entertained of his
recovery. • --.W
Our City Coancilj,by a joint vntc, refused to
make an appropriation to entertain the Western
Editors whilst on thoir recent Rail Road excur
sion, yet they have just voted £6000 for the en-
,orier tertainment of the Japanese, and appointed
some eight or ten of their own body, to visit
Washington and do tho honors. Tlie Jlayor
had but the day before returned some half doz
en bills which were passed for necessary ini-
we
jonmcd ineetrng.of .... .
Baltimore, the 18th t>f Judc next, we appoint I Representatives? In my opinion it will not
the following gcntlcmfcn: S. Montgomery, Thos. 1 if “ nothing *- ; -
J. Baisdcn, and' John G. Murra.Vj delegates to I f political party,
the State'Convention, with power to each to is n ot h' n B tliat
appoint a proxy in case of failure tq attend. .' I bolden our enemies, as dissensions among
*4* . I selves- and I cannot entertain a doubt that if
Repeal or the Slaveby law op New Mexi- | tlieMivision in the Democratic party continues,
importance of harmony and concert among tho let them pause, and determine whether it is bet-
vention at Baltimore, and postpone the move-1 emnly pledged and committed,
ment to Richmond. , v •’I ’Not only is it utterly impracticable to obtain
I have tlie honor to be, with great respect, I the Congressional legislation demanded, but the
Your fellow citizen, demand involves a mere abstraction.
T. BUTLER KING. | Slavery may nominally exist, but there can
cn.—rThe law which approves of the- slavery I the election of the Black Republican candidate
codo ofNe w Me-victt/bas been repealed by the at the polls may be'regarded as certain. In
Black Republican House of Representatives, by facL-I believe that no movement could be made i „ —-—--——f. ——^
& vote of 1)7 to 90. Every Northern democrat so likely to produce that n salt as the forma- To Messrs. Robert Collins, and others: Macon, be no satisfactory enjoyment of Slave property,
voting with the South'against the hill. This tion of a sectional party in the South. The '-am . ' -• • without the special, minute, detailed legislation,
law declares null and void all acts heretofore democrats of-the North, finding themselves T riff-ov fiwm TTnn P P PaTioll* I sucli as we have in all the Siavo States and Ter-
passed by the Legislative Assembly of tho Ter-1 ahandoned, would be forced "to discontinue a J-iUbLGl ilULLl JZLUHi Xi. Ui UdUcili Iritorii^. Congress cannot noncbutthecom-
ritdry of New Mexico, which legalize and pro-[ contest, thus rendered hopeless. I ' . St. Lons, May 18th, I860. munities directly interested, con, know what
feet unvoluntary servitude or alatery of any I The most decided and uncompromising dls- |-Uv Dear Sir :~- I special laws and regulations are necessary to in-
kind, except for the punishment of crime, after | unionist could not desire a course of events more [ I have, aS yoii arc aware, withdrawn' from sure security to the U lutes, and proper discip-
tosup["ii-t tin- n-.muu-e of my
rty } Whose .election .wouM, ttS 1 U lioved, en-1 thoy should md l^ve declared, .that nil thftTer-
iving! Engraving!
WARR, Jewelry, 4tc. engreNred
^yuriMj’of letter, ill ReHon’i Builuin
^ Block, over CembbeTI A Colton’*, by
• 'y J. E. WELLS. Jr.
pvx’s HOTEL
| >ITt THZ MW HAIL BO AD 9BPOT,
MACON. GA.
E. K. UllOWN, Proprietor
t K,M b «* 0i« Arrival ot every Train
I&AS1TE HALL!!
/W. UNlF.lt HOUSE,
facon,.... Georgia
' PROPRIETOR.
'*»fer , ionrrics A Groceries.
K-wsS? *' hl * OM «tAn4 No. 1» Malberrj-
. . ‘ -" *• uoiaI a full UMrtmnit of guada iu
: ‘*:.l.u -«»f caruliMof hi, own maaa-
f*' I’.-vlu ti Ondit-e. He !• ill* only one in
kr llrondu, BIima, and Win* niwffar
iuP u ■ Ml kind, of floe Liquor* And Wine,
I52»*s«r.. and hwt Tohaoeo, Onsmn, Ap-
K JItalriam Fie*. Pitomm, Nutn and
■Ji* 1 ! klnJ*. PirkleA. OipreA,OtlT0^'Olive
liutter, Hmw, CracKm, CakM,
pi e lUma. Potauwa, oafoaa, Oab-
1*“.’ oilier an lek-a In I bal liar toonumcroi
mrreb 10 w-ly
yf arehLOu.se
| OMISSION MERCHANTS
MACON, GA.
pATES & W00LF0LK
LJ^Air'l ingether, and will occupy the
Li”Wirehnnao new being erected
LTr* Hardeman ft Spark a.
I. ■' made on Cotton when azked for.
-fstriuc. Hope, Grorerin. fte., abnll
v»Alai!eatlon.
c?) prompt attention to buaineae, to mer-
patronage.
lr JA8. H. WOOLFOLK.
N. COATES
Neman & Sparks
I Ya ro Houso
EMISSION MERCHANTS,
p'Vacen, Cia.,
Lfeto give prompt attention at their
hJ/HOOi? WAREHOUSE, on the cor
Hreute, to all bnainaM commit
pj?j*k» for peat favora, and a renewed
mr**»»‘»a to all lhair friend, and cue-
Stt ,0 rtcelve their full share of pnb-
made on Cotton and other pro-
V**V ho
[Sii, lowe *t market rate,.
a. a. tpAHKs.
syest—early and late—in everybod’s mess and
nobody’s watdi—so torniontedly.jealous for the
honor oCthe secessionists—so armidfully excit
cd over the Macon Committee—so fiercely an
alytical upon Stephens,'Cobb, and Benning.—
\Ve must give earnest heed to tho opinion of
the Savannah Republican.
NO COMPROMISE. ' '' I
The Charleston Mercury of the 24th is severe
upon the decoders and their frionds who are still
looking to the preservation of the National
Democratic party, and maintains there is no
substantial distinction between them and others,
whodonotaequiescc in the secession movement
The counsels of both tend to “distract, weak
en and defeat the South."
What position did ‘.'the South’’ occupy ig the
secession movement? ' The record shows an
electoral majority of the Southern'States did not
scocdo at alL The Mercury’s "South,” then, is
only Mr. Yancey’s “cotton Stabs,’’ and the man
who counsels such moderation its may possibly
result in a political re-unjon of tie slave-holding
States, “distracts, weakens, and defeats” the
South, in this latter day, restrictive significa
tion of the term.
We are no prophet, but It decs appear to as
that the Richmond movement is really in hands
wliich mean to push it to tlie point of irrecon
cilablc issue with the South and the Democra
cy of the country. They mean to precipitate a
nomination; anil though Georgia, if represent
ed there, may, and doubtless will say nay, the
Georgia delegation will tind itself powerless for
estoppel, and will have to secede again, or com
mit herself to the Richmond nominee. Soc a
seems to us to be the probabilities of the case.
And in this event, whichever alternative the
Georgia delegation may select, they must take
it under the constraint of the circumstances and
as a choice of evils. The mortifying reflection
cannot be escaped, that throughout this whole
business, Georgia has becn able to assert hut
little of the influence due to her position, intel
ligence, population and wealth, in determining
the result.
Wo append an extract from the Mercury’s ar
ticle :—
We make no distinction between such Doug
las Squatter-Sovereignty counsellors as Mr.
Stephens, and tlie milder dissontienLs, like .Mr.
Cobb and tho nineteen Congressional remon
strants. All arc alike in this,—that their coun
sels tend to distract, weaken and defeat the
South, in her effort to maintain and enforce her
rights. For we do not suppose for a moment,
tliat any of these gentlemen anticipated, that
the ignoroinous counsel, to the seceding Dele
gates, with not one single change in circum
stances to justify it, to return to the Baltimore
Convention, would beembraced. Men of honor
themselves—they must have anticipated that
the seceding Delegates would not compromise
their honor by seeking to return to tlie Balti
more Convention; and if they did seek to re
turn, they mast have known, that their scats
being supplied By other Delegates invited by
the Convention, they must be rejected. What
did they mean, then, by such counsel ? We
have tried honestly to understand it, nnd wc
trust that wc do them no injustice by our con
clusions. We supposo that they mean only
this—to distract and divide the people of
tlie South, and thas defeat the effort made to
vindicate our rights. It is a political move—
like offering an amendment to a bill to defeat it
leading assailing forces into a bog, to save
tlie fortress.
| Repository!
'!• ward & go.,
4CTUJtERs If DEALERS,
W«i«e the Floyd House,)
.Nii'”” GEORGIA.
priMteks “«r
|H 'li 'd N coBipiiajijvv Coaches. Bretts,
T ll -'11 i.kimuo 'buggies con- |
J loor 13
WHERE ARE THEY DRIFTING?
U tin- l1 ai.d Ku-ri-it convention in Balti
more, “Mr. Brown, of Teinus-i e. alter cordi
ally endorsing tlie nominations of Bel! and
Enrett, “said lie would not swamp the union
tho States for all the negroes of the South,
u- manufactories of tlie North, or the ships
at float at sen." Now, was Mr. Brown actu-
ttsd bv principle of expediency ? The Georgia
ami southern delegations generally at Baltimore
A not one word of disapproval to the senti-
inenls of Mr. Brown, ot Tennessee. See Mil-
led'-evdle Recorder for the authority of this
statement, but not for a word of dissent
cxgcpt for the punishment of cringe, after unionist could not desire a course of events more , MB ,, . „ ..Ml I .
due trial and conviction. The Legislature of certain to result in the attainment ofhis'objecL I active participation in political party strifes since I Ime among the blacks. This detailed legislation
New Mexico passed an act'lost year protecting I No'one supposes that the South could or would J the nomination of Gen. Scott by the Whig | must be left to the Territorial legislatures.—
slave property in that Territory. The bill is '-"•■mw ™,i« ’
scarcely dry, before -the National Iloase of Rep-
rcsentativee,' by a Block Republican - majority. I olfect the infamous doctrines and principles _.
aass an-net repealing that law? So much for the Blaclf Republican party.. The question then I pa;-.,, —,—, — —,— . . .. _■
tlack Republicans.—Albany Patriot, comes np, Can such a calamity be averted ? T j danger the most sacred rights and interests of ritorics pf the L mted States are open to us-
'And so-much, too! for the Northern Demo-1 eonfess I can see no hope that it can he. except I inysQCtion, and bring tho Union into peril, by I Hiatjhey have mo constitutional power to legis-
■als, every man - of whom “voted with the | > n ri 1 ® re union, and patriotic efforts of the dem- j putting the Federal Government into the bands I lat o b ' ave ''Y out of the lerntones. They may
-South against tho bill." but who were noverthe- ocratic party. Can this be accomplished with- of men, who would so usq'or abuse the power and should go further, and declare, in the act
less denounced by some of the Southern demo- h nt a sacrifice'of.principle, and with mere ex- entrasted' to them, as to force the- Southern organizing a Territorial Government, that the
crate in Charles ton, aa “worm tliiui the JJlack | pDcitj and further guarantees of th4- security I States and Southern peoplo to the alternative of I Torritonal Legislature shall harp nosmfo power.
Republicans.” So much for the Northern dfcin- | and extension of tho institutioas of the Soiith,- disgraceful submission to personal and political | They may go_ further and declare our right to
ocrats-atho Douglas democrats—the .“squatter) have heretofore’ A* " ’ 1 * U|
ftovereignty!’ democraU, if yoii wilLwlio.areso I Wo"** political party? . — — , v r „—.— . , c .. -. . ®
“corrupt” wc ran no Ioir-or -jfSIlate with thriir! I pp-ounJ^ the Lalioving th*t tluao. qarntious may | the better 5rc>ir'"s'wLL>h tho Constitution of 1 of slave .property, but if the people of the Ter-
- - [be distinctly answered in the affirmative 1 For the United States was framed and adopted, and ntory are opposed to-SIavery, and send men to
A Great Waste of Money and Materials. I this purpose it will Be necessary to take a brief ttic Union ofStatcs consummated. the Legislature opposed to Slavery, what pOw-
CoNfiKKSs.—The Senate yesterday passed the v,ew ' °*- tbe position the Democratic party has Fropi the period of .my retirement tq.private er » Ifepeat, can compclthcm to vote: for such
II bv'a vote of 41 to 14 annronria'tirrr £20(11-1 heretofore assumed, respecting the Constitu-1 life my time has been devoted to the material I L'*' 8 ? Congress may remove all restrictions to
t«n'for the return to Vfrica of the negroes seiz-1 tional righLs of the South, and to show that a [development of the State to which and to our carrying our slates to the Territories, they.
„,1eUve-tv ule vessels and for their Suonort I stil * fofyner advanco in our favor has been ten- whose people I am under so many obligations, may repeal all hostile legislation after-the or-
for one iw after their arrival on the coa»L—- [Jercd, and will be maintained in good faith.- -•[ social and political; and" now ttuft considers- [ gamxation of I'emtorial Governments,, they
Till. is authorized to make a contract When the controversy arose, in 1819-20, re- tions of purely private nature, have induced me ma Y declare ourrights to special protection,they
f.ir this nurnosc ind also to einnlov '-essels of- spccting .the adhiission of the State of Missouri | to sever tlie many endearing tics which attach- ™ a y attempt themselves to give this protection,
war for Uie dutdoso - ’ | into’the Union, the claim was spt up that Con-led _me to Florida, I am here, resolved to apply | they may pile statute on statute as high as
' 1 ... . , .. cress was sovereign in the Territories, and it myself with equal devotion to the-practice of] Heaven, all will be of no avail, unless the local
■ W® “PP*** 1118 *** rig"*' ’according ® I was under this assumed power that Congress mv profession. ’ ’ i * legislature will give them effect, by enacting
law, hut a greater waste pf time, abor, anil I an j excluded slavery from all the ’But though np longor apolitieltin,-I cannot
in sending those nt^oes-oaclt to Alrioi, 0 rj-of Louisiana north of 36 decress 80 j but fed the deepest interest in passing’political
e been given by any Na-) wrong and injury^ or to a resort to revolution, | protection and iaAtruetthe territorial Legislature before. The Prince dc Joinville, son of the late | action of the Convention may be harmonious
?_ I think wc have fair | to protect those State and individual rights, for | ^PJ 185 a ]]j a "-. nc< ^ ;s f 1 ^/.^ 0 5l be ^? < ^^ , !L <<!^ ^] <>,1 ^ouis Phillippe, King of France, arrived last j and acceptable to the democratic party ofGeor
1 ~ “* ’ * * fn weric.at Boston, in the Europa, under theas-lgia. AYe ardently desire that the breach may
sumed name of Francois D’Arc; he is going on | be filled up, and that we may again stand shoul-
a hunting-excursion into our "Western wilds.~ | derto shoulder in opposition to the cohorts of
It will be recollected that lie visited the United | abolitionism. If disunion must come, let- it
Stales in' 1846, and spent considerable-time in | come when wchave exhausted all honorableal-
this city, receiving -much attention from our ci-1 tematives to prevent it
tizens, especially our French residents,. who IYVhile we do not, under present <drcumstan-
still hold him in great respect As a man of fine ces, approve of the course of those, who witli-
abilities and pleasing deportment Were it not drew from the Convention, we have for them
for the interferences of the Duchess of Orleans, | no' words of censure or condemnation. ’ We be-
who claimed the right of succession for her son, I lieve they were actuated by the impulses of a
he would now probably occupy the throne of | noble patriotism, and if they erred it was on the
France. The Prince is traveling incognito, | side of their own hearth-stones, and therefore
which is the reason he was notannounccd until I they deserve the approbation and applause of
.w — .--.-a -I ‘ 'Southe ' ” - ~ ’ •'
_ necessary police regulations, patrol laws, £c.,
passing political and unless tho.pcoplo of the Territories are will-
PDSITION OF GOV. LETCHER.
Precisely j
nor Letcher,’
tin- - -.—i<»ii
caters of the “option confederacy.”. ’ These are
his woMa ;
when they arc so well qualified for dinstianlty, mmutes n0 rtlr latitude, anil that th<5 Wlmot events; and though resident of a city one half hig to enforce such laws and regulations. Yoa
civilization, cotton, aiyt happiness, m this en-1 p ro viso has been since applied to bills organizing I of whose population sympathises with-the Black I a »d I who lived so long Under a Territorial Gov-
lightened countiy, lias not been brongut to oqr I q-erritonal governments in'the North-west— I Republican party, I am none the less keenly I ernmentj can better perhaps than others appre-
I The South was never able to resist the exercise | alive to all that concerns and affects the rights, ciatc the truth of this assumption. That it is
of this unconstitutional power, until the Dcino-1 welfare anfflionor of the Southern States and true there can be no doubt. Am I not right
teMartAarttertM*' of cotton es-1 then in saying that this m W demand on the
\ r , my personal | democratic party and .on Congress is a demand
relating to the I for an impracticable abstract ion..
greater than ever. It-is the mere enunciation of,ati undeniable
gross in those Territories, and as I shall presently I Since the disbandment of the Whig party it truth, that slavery will exist or not in the Ter-
lf - show, to the people likewise! In 1836 the Cin- has been manifest that there .is no existing po- ritories, as in every other community, ’as the
“In .this letter, I must confine myself to a I pjqqati Platform proclaimed the principle Of Iitical organization to which we can look for I people of the community may or may not desire
brief statement of my opinions upon the points I u non-interference’' on the subject of slavery in I the protection of our Constitutional and natu-1 its existence. It is an Vniceleome truth to rut
suggest ed. r. . ■' io- hi.' : I mure ,) u . "J’.-rri t * .i:>an-1 :el"pted the |.i in.-i-.h- of ral rich', a.- - lav .-holders outside of the South- I would like to take with me. and enjov my
occtBion^if it shall become necessary to assign I ^j' e Kansas'Nebraska a<% The paragraph of lem States—except-4o the Democaatlb party’; [property Intent,;!? I please, in all the Tern.
fBem. - i . . the nlatform containing this declaration is as and whatever endangers the. integrity of tliat torics and States of (he United States, but It is
“First I still approve, the doctrine o! Con- I f 0 ]| 0 , rs; • • . I party is a r subject of most serious consideration, | my misfortune, if I am prevented from so do-
gressional ‘non-intervention on the question of “The American Democracy recognize and [if not cause for alarm on the part of Southern | ing by the. climate, oc other natural cause, or
slavery. I consider it tho only safe position for I ac ] 0 pt the principles contained in tlie .organic | men. The threatened disruption of that party is because my slave property fs of the peculiar
the South. | laws establishing the Territories of Kansasand | a national organization, by the withdrawal -of | nature to require special and extraordinary leg-
‘Second. I disapprove of the «>urse pursued I Nebraska, as embodying thconfy sound and Shfe | the Delegates of several of the Southern States | islation, whicli it is impracticable to obtain,
by .Mabama and other southern states inseced-1 SQ | u tion of the ‘slavery question,’ upon which the | from tho Charleston Convention, has given me | I would like to have brought my Orange and
ing from the Charleston Convention. • 1 do not 1 great "national idea of the people of' this whole | the greatest concern. The. Delegates from | Pomegranite trees from Florida to Missouri, but
pre-ten', to question their motives, but I consul-1 c b un try can repose in its determined conscrva-1 Georgia and Florida were among the seceders. | it is my misfortune that they, will not grow
c-r thciraction ill-advised. 1 heir proposed meet-1 t j sm 0 f H,e Union^-non-iotcrferencc by Con-[ With all respect I submit tliat they were wrong, | here. I had a perfect eight tobring.myUr-
ing at Richmond can have no other elleet, 0 n | gress with slavery in State and Territory, or in | and 1 trust the. people of these States will | ango trees with me, but I shall not quarrel with
Hid distract tnc I riJermt*^ Af ” I iifwvteit ffi#* ininrimi< vtlMrmiNf I K * L J ” — 1 ——— 11 *
vention we ehall bolt in tedranoo”—Webb, Ol
and Enquirer, about three months since..
Wc bow to the decision of the Convention with cheer
fulness.’.’—Wobb, of Courier and Enquirer, since the
nomination.
Dear Sut;—The father of BlAck Republican
ism—the man who has becn tho great tutor, | provements of the city, with liis veto, and gave
leader, and exponent of the “higher law,” the as a reason, that the treasury was empty. His
“irrepressible conflict,” and all the dogmas, | Honor, however, will head tho dclegation.to
theories, Ac., upon which the Republican party Washington, and make a characteristic speech,
exists—the man who, but a few days since, was and instead of this money being spent in walks
apparently idolized, and recognized as the only ing up the falls, to prevent the frequent inun-
truly great statesman, combining every quali- dation of half tlie city, and the destruction of
fication for the Chief Magistracy of this nation tens of thousands of property, to say nothing
—lias been crushed by his own progeny. Tliur- of the influence of these floods upon tlie health
low Weed and Horace Greely' are both great of the city, it will be thus thrown away in pro-
Generals, and. Greely has proved himself the [ viding an entertainment for these people, which
greatest of the two. The friends of Seward, in will be enjoyed only by the hangers-on of such
this State, arc greatly disappointed at the result gatherings. II.
of tho Convention, as it was thought that the | -» '■<».> »
great popularity of Seward would force his The Democracy ofSouth Western Georgia,
nomination; and most of the Republican Jour- We callattention to the notice for a meeting
nals, previous to tho Convention, if any other | of the Democratic party of Thomas county, to
name was suggested, would, like the Courier bo held at the Court House on Saturday the
and Enquirer, let fly right and left, threatening 26th inst, to select delegates to attend tlie Suite
the annihilation of all things; and although Democratic Convention at Millcdgo.ville, on the
they "bow with great cheerfulness-to the deci-1 4th day of June next, to mark out the lino ef
sion of the Convention,” it is like applying tho policy to be pursued in the present emergency,
rod to a child to hush its crying. Lincoln is which lias been precipitated upon the party in
admitted to be a second or third rate lawyer, J consequence of the disruption of tho Cliarh ston
of limited talents, and barely known out of Illi Convention, and the failure either to agreo up-
nois, before he stamped the State against Doug-1 on a Platform of Principles or to make a r omi-
las for Congress and got beat As he has been nation of candidates. A close examination the
called by some of his friends “honest old Abe,” present attitude of political matters will not foil
and once upon a time “split rails,” and has been to awaken, in every patriotic heart, feelings of
nominated in a wigwam, of course the republi- [ deep alarm and apprehension for the safety and
cans calculate much on the amount of clap trap | prosperity of the Government
capital they have, to commence, the campaign. | A crisis fraught with momentous results, and
As to the platform it is considered to be much full of trials, difficulties and dangers, is upon us,
like the old farmer’s pig-sty, it is bog-pen to his and we should put our house in order that we
neighbor farmcrs,_hog sty to the Parson, and may be prepared to weather'the storm. The
pig-sty to th,o ladies, but it was made only for | hour has arrived when a decisive struggle must
swine after all; the German population of Chi- take place. The South should demand ah hon-
cago compelled them to make a hole in ’ the cst admission of her constitutional rights, and
platform largo enough to let them in, provided firmly and unflinchingly uphold and maintain
they should conclude to come; and through | them, whatever may be the finality of the con-
which holeMassachusetts may possibly go out; test The time has arrived when wc should be
another hole was made for Pennsylvania arid a unit, wheu animosities and divisions should be
the manufacturers of New England, but whith- J laid aside, and all unite in a general and iiarmo-
cr they have made itlarge enough to rope them | nious movement to roll back the tide of North-
in'-is yet to be determined. Thus you have, in [ an aggressions, which is threatening to en-
brief, the spirit of comments in this city, on the gulph us all in one general ruin. It is a fit ce-
Chicago Convention. * * j casion to let by-gones be by-goncs, and in a
_ It appears, by the Adriatic’s’ news, that, be- j spirit of single-minded patriotism, array, in sol-
sides the Japanese Princes, we have another | id phalanx, for the work before ua, all who
Prince in this country, who has visited us once I have at heart our rights, our honor, that the
the Adriatic’s news was received.
all true!
hern men of all parties. The bold
my judgment*) than to divide and uistract tne I the District of Columbia.” -f ’ | prevent the injurious consequences which must | nature because she will not giv’e'me* the protec-
Soiith still further, anil render our defeat in the I The Kansas Nebraska act declares it to bo the [otherwise result from the hasty action of their | tion necessary to enable them to flourish in so
Presidential contest certain. I “true intent and meaning of this act, not to | late Delegates, by sending others to represent cold a climate. The Democratic party and the
tho adjourned Convention at Balti-1 Congress of the United States have recognised
my perfect right to carry my slaves with toe to
., , v . thereof perfectly free to form nnd regulate their | The demands you irtake of the Democratic [ the Territories. I will not quarrel with the
rhapsodical nonsense: issued iy the 1 ancejiteiL I ,i omcs tic institutions in their own way, subject} party aro unreasonable and unjust, and involve | Government nor with the Democratic party, be-
Gov- I.etchcr is faithful to the ^otitli, and uouM on [y / 0 Qic .Constitution of the Uniled'States.— j a mere impracticable abstraction. The party cause they will not pledge themselves to give
sooner pon>li than barter the leas, ot her rights. | j n t ] ie passage of this act. Congress not only | has, in every way, and for years, been commit- [ me the protection which it is not in their pow-
nbstained from any attempt to interfere with, ted to the doctrine Of non-intervention by Coil-1 er to afford.
i residential cosiest o rtnin. • | “ true intent and meaning of this act, not to late Deleg
One word of counsel from so sagacious a | legislate slaverv into any Territory or State, nor I them in
statesman, so true a Democrat, and so devofed to jt therefrom, • but leave the people more,
a l irgmian is worth all the folio volumes of thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their The de:
■ ;rfe
or to exclude slavery-from those Territories, | gress with the question of slavery. You may | I trust that more prttdcnt counsels will pre-
IIo is wise, and knows bywh.itcxpcdientmcas-
ureffto promote'her interests. He was con- ^
spicuousfyinfluential in the enactment of tho I the domestic institutions which the people [recollect that in 48, I contended that this was I vail, and that tho. “cotton States will not be
Kansas: Nebraska hill,.anil is competent to I are authorized to form for themselves are de-1 not up to the measure of-our rights, and that precipitated into revolution” for this cause. If
tound its meaning. \\ hat, then, has Governor c j am j lo subject to the Constitution of the Congress'ought, if it had the power, by special ui’ suv lo Ii.-iYf “revolution," let it be oil some
if -ru* 0 lhC P 1 *®? 001 CTtftcai emergen- i States. The decision of the Supreme I legislation, if necessary, to protect-us' jn the [ more tenable ground. AVe have other and bet-
®y • That non-tfiten'enhon is- the pledged pol- (® ourt i n -the Dred Scott case, sets forth clearly ei^oyincnt of our store property in the territo- ter causes for dissatisfaction, complaint and re-
icy of the a.outh . that non-wtertennon is the I and^istinctlv the powers and duties of Congress, I ries. But the Southern Democratic party and I sistance. I have no great dread,of the ultimate
safest nolirvfor the Sooto: that tno-inteirntv I —*j _ —-l»- -—- K ■ I —.*>■ I ~e of the Union on the South-
lould it come; the slavcholding
the wliolc'ground. The Court says: | was all we liatl a right to ask, and all that was | States will be united, and may form a Govcra-
“ But in considering tlie question before us, j required—that tlie admission of the power to [ ment tho richest in all The elements and roate-
it must be borne in mind that there is no law of protect gave color, at least, to the claim .of the I rials of political power, and State and individu
eessionisLs at Charleston is mischievous and rep
rehensible; that the proposed convention at
’ it must be borne in mind that there isno law of protect gave color, at least, to me claim.ol the | rials ot political power, and state and muividu-
hichmond will be productive or naught but I na tions standing-between the people of the J power to prohibit the introduction of slavery in I al wealth, the world has ever seen. But it is a
evil. I IT 1 Of-*— .i ......orn n i/-n - and infnr. I the f'errifories—tliat all thev wanted was to vet I tlm-nvn nient which urnnlri come into' cvistence
These words of ivisilom from SO trusted a |f,. r j n „ with the relation"to each other. The I and keep the whole subject out ofthe Halls of I midst terrible throes and convulsions; and so
statesman wiUfall with eflect on the people ol I p 0W0rs n f the Government, and the rights of j Congress. Previous to this time, there had been long ns it qan be honorably endured, I would
the South.—[States and l nion. j t |, c c jtj zen3 un der it, are positive and practical | a general acquiescence in the abstract' question | not break up that Government which our fath-
■vcwrt?- regulations plainly written down. The people [ ofthe power, though no serioits attempt was, ers made'for us, and under which wo have so
QUESTIONS AND A NS u Kite. 0 f t i, e United States have delegated to it certain for a long time, made to exclude slavery where happily lived, and so wonderfully prospered.
IVbo is it that says platforms »re useless ?— enumerated powers, and forbidden it to exercise it existed, nor to prevent its introduction where But the destiny of the Soiith is my destiny,
the Opposition Union party. • others. It has no power over the person or [ the soil and climate made ijs existence profita- There are all my interests. With her are all
Who makes most fuss over the Democratic j property of a citizen but what tho citizens of | ble and desirable. It was the agitation of the my sympathies, my feelings nnd affections.—
platform ?—Tlie Opposition Union party. the United States have granted. And'no laws [ subject by Congress which was so exasperating My first allegiance is to .a slavcholding State,
What Convention repudiates squatter sover- or usages of olher nations, or reasoning ofStates- to, and wliich threatened’danger to'the owners and through it' to the Federal Government—
eignty and advocates protection ?—Georgia Op- men or jurists upon the relations of master and of slaves. The demand of the South was that ] Whatever course the South may adopf— what-
position Convention. slave, can enlarge tlie powers of the Govern-1 the subject should be banished from the Ilalls lever inay bo the consequence of her action, I
What Convention docs not repudiate squatter mc nt or take from the. citizens the rights they of Congress. The Southern portion of the Demo- shall ever be found acting with her. If it leads
sovereignty and docs not advocate protection ? have reserved. And if tho Constitution recog- cfa tic party induced their Northern allies to come to bloody, revolution; I am a volunteer for the
Baltimore Union Opposition Convention. nizes the right of property of the masterin a to this ground. A conipucf was made by.whieh I war. But while we resolve to stand to and with
What party favors a candidate advocating | slave, and makes no distinction between that the Democratic party North nnd South, pledged. | our country right or wrong,'let us, as good citi-
United States and their government, and inter-1 the territories—tliat all they wanted was to get Government wliich would come into’ existence
‘ - —* ■’ The and keep tho whole subject out of the Ilalls of J midst terrible throes and convulsions; and so
Terri tori
party. ofthe provisions and guarantees which have the terms nnd conditions on which we desired into revolution” for anything which lias occur-
What party is supporting John Bell who been provided for the protection of private tlie settlement of this distracting question, and red, and that the States seceding from the late
oted against the repeal of the line, thereby cx-[ property against the encroachments of the | having induced our Northern friends to adopt | Charleston Convention may retrace their steps,
uding Southerners ?—Tho Union Opposition | Government them, and make them part of their political | while they may do so with honor,
party. “Now, ns wc have already said in an earlier creed in opposition to the prevailing sentiment I have not treated this subject with reference
What Convention denounced John Bell last part ol this opinion, upon a’different point, the of the people of the Northern States, on what to its effect upon the coming Presidential election,
fall for "freesoil affinities /”—Georgia Opposi- right of property in a slave is distinctlv and ex- principle of fairness and good faith can we now Nor do I propose to do so now. But the South-
tion Convention, 4th District | prcssl v affirmed in tho Constitution. Tlie right J denounce them for adhering to those principles, | ern people may tvell^ consider, whether—out-
Statesimui?—Opposition party, 4th ~
What party is bent on dividing the |H ^ „ BHHj
racy V The OppOMtion Union party. might desire it, for twentv years.’ And the ! ad practicable laws for the protection of slaves \ particular statemunn, lo promote the udemec-
wiiat party will not succeed, but net whip- I raranunent in express terms ’is nledced to pro-1 as well as all other property, T would not now | ment of others. Persistanco in this new
ped in Novembc
party.
been brought, by accident, in such a connection.
Murder Trial.
The trial of the Know Nothing Justice ol tli
Peace, Westly Woodward, for the wilful mur
der of Franklin, alias Petty Naff, was common
ced in the Criminal Court on Monday morning
The murder occurred, or rather the shot which
de- j was the cause of Naff’s death, was fired on the
future time, if the slave escapes | ask Congressional Legislation, because the agi-1 mamt on the Democratic party will most err- j 26th of December last, and Naff lingered until
Columbus Times. I f rom i,; s owner. This is done in plain words, tation of the subject by Congress will damage tainly defeat th Democratic nomineeand en- 1 the 16th of April when death put an end to his j
too plain to be misunderstood, and no word can us more than we can possibly be benefitted by sure the election of the Slack Republican can-1 sufferings. Woodward was a commissioned
. *ThrCo expeditions are beihg fttted oht in this j and manly attitude they assumed demonstrates,
city—one for Washington Territory, one for in an uhmistakabla manner, that the South will
Labrador, and another for the Hudson Bay Ter- hereafter bo satisfied with nothing less than tho
ritory—to observe the solareclipse of July 18th. full measure ofher rights. The opiate slumber
The first named"expedition will go out under which, for years passed, has' oppressed thecn-
the care'of Lieut J. M. Gilliss of tlie. U. S. Na-1 ergies and drowned in lethargy the senses of
vy, who is well known as a successful practical | tlie South is now happily dispelled. Evcry-
Astronomer. ' ' ' • | where are visible—by tlie blue waters of the
A singular case of mistaken identity, and | Chesapeake—by tho rustling tide of the Missis-
mystery, has transpiredin the discovery of the | sippi—in the stately homes ofher planters—in
body of a female in the dock, at Jersey City [the council chambers of her statesmen, th
about the middle of last month ; the body was I hopeful signs of her approaching regeneration,
found gagged, and sunk by being tied to a bar- [ Everywhere a newly awakened spirit of intclli-
rcl ot pitch. On the 30th of April it was stat- I gcnce and vigilance begins to pervade her peo-
cdthat tlie body had becn positively, identified pie. The whole horizon is illuminated by the
as that of Mrs. Richardson, by tlie husband, ruddy glow of the countless beacon fires tliat
who had examined the head which had been | flame on every hill-side, and shoot their rays
preserved in spirits by a physician; _subse-1 far into the darkness ofthe night, from every
qucntly, ■ the body being exhumed,, certain [ rocky battlement and mountain spire in all our
marks were found tliat bad been described by | wide-spread Southern land. After long years
Richardson ; a number of other persons who | of craven submission and imbecile supinencss,
had known Mrs. Richardson, identified thehody during which she has suffered herself to be the
a? bers; ttic identity being sworn to by the willing dupe of traitors, who have betrayed her
husband, and others, seemed to establish the | with a kiss-of enemies, who have cajoled and flat-
murder of that person beyond a doubt, and the | tered while they robbed, the South lias awaken-
most experienced officers were detailed to trace ed to tind her fancied security a dream. She
up the case. ' Richardson had not resided with I has awakened to find the constitution on which
his wife for two years, but by information the [ she leaned a bruised reed, and herself but a bare
officers obtained from him, they were enabled tenant at sufferanco of the North of the few
to trace her to several hotels, where she had re- rights she can still call her own. She has seen
sided, her. board bills having been paid by a | her danger and tho warning has not been, in
gentleman who had lived with her, and finally vain—she has taken the alarm—the notes of
tracing her to the steamer Cahawba, lost track | the tocsin aro heard in her villages and her
oHier. On Tuesday last, Mrs. Richardson ar- fields—her sons are gathering at tho call—her
rived in this city from New Orleans, where the | banner is floating in the breeze, bearing upon
first intimation .of her own murder came to her its broad folds, “Equality or Independence.” - —
knowledge; and fearing lest innocent parties | Is not this a change? A revolution has commen-
might sutler on suspicion of being implicated, [ ced whoso progress no earthly power can stay
she left immediately for New York. Thchus-I—whose result no earthly tongue can tell—
band, and other parties, who were so much mis-1 where it will end Heaven only knows.— IFire
taken at the Coroner’s inquest, in identifying [ Grass Reporter.
tlie supposed body of Mrs. Richardson, have’ac-
companicd the officers to see her, and on arriv- The Georgia Lotteries Abolished—All the
ing, identified her at.once, which has settled Georgia Lottery Grants are foreclosed by pro-
the question, so far as Mrs. Richardson is con- j hibition of the drawings, under a penal unact-
cerned. She appears deeply grieved at the pub- ment of the State Legislature, to take effec
licity which has been given to her past life and | the first day of June, 1860. The act was passed
conduct, and asserts that the stories were con-1 at the session of 1868, and the owners of legal-
cocted for the purpose of injuring her tharacter. | ized grants are making arrangements to close
The marks sworn to by her husband she as- r up tho business. Therefore all Lotteries pre-
sertsdo not exist, and he. must have known it, I tending to be drawn in Georgia, after the above
- A large and enthusiastic meeting of those who | date, must be illegal, and a fraud open thepub-
dcsire the nomination of Senator Douglas by the lie.—Augusta Despatch.
Democratic Convention soon to meet at Balti- «
more, was held at Cooper Institute last even-1 III Exchange of Ratifications.—Shortly
ing. The large hall was crowded to exass, after 12 M., on Tuesday, the Japanese Commis-
and a number of meetings were organized out- sioners, attended by two or three members of
side. lion. F. B. Cutting occupied the Chair- their suit, and their U. S. Naval Commission,
speeches were made by Hon. Messrs; Richardson I all in carriages, and proceeded by their treaty-
and Logan* of Illinois ; AYatcrson and Foote, of hex, borne on the shoulders of two of their ser-
Tenncssee; E. C. Marshall, of Kentucky; Judge rants, proceeded to the State Department, where
Larrabee, of Wisconsin, and others. The meet- their treaty with this Government was duly
ratified, in tho office of the Secretary. On their
arrival there, in their presence and that of Sec
retary Cass, Assistant Secretary Aitleton, and
two or three others of tlie Department, the
copies ofthe document were carefully compared,
A singQlar fact occurs in connection with the I and certificates of the correctness of each were
names of the Republican candidates for Presi- duly signed and exchanged—which <'.reprises
dent and Vico President. It will be seen that all the ceremonies comprising the ratification
by connecting the two last syllables of each of of a treaty,
their names, tho word Lincoln is produce'd, and
also by connecting the two first syllables of each A Mississippi correspondent of the Memphis
name, the word Hamlin is spelt It is very re- Daily Appeal, says:—
markable that two persons whoso names are Allow me, Messrs. Editors, in the name of
capable ot such a transposition, should have the national Democracy of North Mississippi,
press:v auirmca in me uonsiuution. me ngni uumuuu. un-m mi .iuihiuij r™i' 1 " ««« cuiu-iuw, »iwuuu—uu:-
calls him to traffic in it, like an ordinarv article of mer- a °d for standing on a platform which tee eree-1 side of those who really desire to “precipitate
l .District ehandizc and property, was guarantied to the ted for them ! J revolution’ and to dissolve. the Union—this is
ic Democ- citizens of the United States, in every State that 'Wliile I believe that Congress ought to pass j not a movement of politicians to defeat one
| might desire it, for twenty years. And the | ah practicable laws for the protection of slaves I particular state*, ‘ — •-**■- »
11 not succeed, but get whip- j government in express terms is pledged to pro-1 as well as all other property, I would not now j ment. of others.
er?—The Opposition Union met it in al! future time, if the slave escapes | Congressional Legislation, because the agi-[ mand on the Dc
ing did not adjourn until nearly J2 o'clock.
Very respectfully .yours, ’ C.
Baltimore,.May 23, I860.
Singular Coineidlnec.
Death bv Lightning.—Wc learn on last Sat-1 be found in the Constitution which gives Con-1 all the protecting laws they can pass. Slavery I didate. Shall we" dissolve our political connec-
urday a negro woman, the property of Mr. Ni- gress a greater power over slave property, or or anti-slavery agitation cannot affect us, so | tion with men proved to be true to the princi-
- ’ vvho resides some six miles from which entitles property of that kind to less pro- long as it Is confined to the States. We heed pies of the Democratic party, by all the tests
Bainbridce was struck By lightning and in- tection than property of anv other description, not and care not for the ravings of Garrison or i heretofore applied and deemed sufficient, be-
stantlr killed while ironing’ The only power conferred is the power coupled Wendell Philips in Boston. Wc only feel its cause they will not destroy their capacity for
■ Bainbridgc Georgian. | with the duty of guarding and protecting the 1 effects when their kindred spirits agitate the usefulness and effective service to the party and
magistrate at the time of the shooting, having
and especially of Marshall county to thank you
for the publication'of the magnificent letter of
Hon. Alex. II. Stephens on tho great and mo
mentous topic of the hour. That outgiving ol
pure patriot, brave poiUician, and clearest-
headed of southern statesmen, fidls upon the
like the inspired voice of a political prophet
calling to the stiffnecked of his tribe to repent
and tunYback from the error of their way—like
the loud and clear notes of the bugle-call to bat
tle when the enemy is in sight!
The noble-souled Stephens strike all the
been elected by the Ruffian Club of which he I chords of southern feeling ind sends home a
was a leading member. On the night of the resistless appeal to the heart of southern honor,
murder he and a party of tho desperados with Place his letter in the hands of every southern
whom he associated^ attacked Naff and bea^ man, and the breach will be closed at once and
him in a brutal manner—Wood ward pretending j the battle won.
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