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SATURDAY, OCT. 1(5.
l-#~ We published • few days since, an ex'rsct
from a very sensible article in the Georgia Putt
form, in reply to certain recent ill-advised cdito.
rials of our contemporaries of the Casaville Stan
dard and Federal Union. We subjoin two other
articles from the Democratic press, which have
been suggested by the course of the Union and
Standard, as indicated in the editorials referred
to. The first is a communication, signed
“Old Line Democrat,” which appears in the Macon
Telegraph, of the 12th inst.; and the second anar
- tide in thaiexcellent Democratic journal, the Co
lumbus Times, of the llth inst. The correspond
ent of the Telegraph says:
We have heretofore supposed that support of its
principles—devotion to its faith—adherence to its
organization, was all that was required to consti
tute one a member of the Democratic party ; but
from the general tenor of an article in the Cassville
Standard, two weeks since, and from an insidious
thrust at Whig leaders contained in a most remark
able editorial of the Federal Union of the last
issue, we are prepared for a new revelation of doc
trine, and very much fear that one of the most ob
jectionable features of the Know Nothing articles
of faith are about to be incorporated into the Dem
ocratic platform.
Time with us has not heretofore been consider
ed a material essence of Democracy. We had sup
posed that all were to be recognised as of the
brotherhood and treated as such, who embraced
its creed and made good their faith by their works.
Uut we find thatour cotemporaries orthe Standard
and Union differ with us, and complain, the one
that the new lights are preferred to the old—the
* other, that the "new lights” are stealthily leading
astray the ancient Democracy, and that they must
be watched with jealousy and suspicion. In other
words, while they do nut say so in terms, the idea
may be inferred from the lone and temper of their
discourse that all who joiu Democracy must be
put on probation —must lake the low seats in the
synagogue and work their way up.
No matter how earnest, how eloquent, bow use
ful one may he, time ta to be the measure of pro
motion to honor, and not talent, virtue, and fitness
for place.
We protest against the introduction of Hits new
element of discord into our ranks, for two reasons.
First, because it is wrong in principle—second, be
cause powerless in practice. What care the Dem
ocratic party übout obsolete parties and dead ques
tions, when great and vital issues are to he met,
and gtatits are wanted to face the crisis and work
out a victory? What care we whether Mr. Toombs,
or Mr. Stephens, were members of the Whig party
of ’forty-four, if they are with us now, really
willing to fight our battles in the Senate and the
Douse? Did Mr. tiuebauan, in the Lecoinpton
tight of the last session, regret their services ?
Were they not the champions of the Administra
tion on that issue? Did not Mr. Stephens, day by
day utid night by night, toil und work to suve the
bifl and sustain the recommendation of the Presi
dent? Did not the Union, after the battle was
over, award the highest meed of praise to Mr.
Stephens, for lus tact, Ins wisdom, und his unfalter
ing devotion and advocacy of the doctrines con
tained in the President’s message?
Then why all this talk about New Lights, and
the inlliienees of Whig leaders? The Democratic
party of Georgia and of the Union have endorsed
their course, and will continue to do so as long as
they support the platlorin and policy- ol the party,
in spite of all efforts to the contrary, let them
come from what quarter they may. Without the
Whig strength added to the Democratic -.artv, we
should he iu a glorious minority, and if the divi
sions were made, which such sentiments as are
promulgated by the Standard and Federal Union
are well calculated to create, the Democratic par
ty of Georgia would ho paltry in uuii.Ucrs und
powerless in action.
We hope to see no ntnro of these ungenerous
flings at Stephens and Tombs—they sre not the
leaders of the Democratic party; they are its ser
vants, and we hope they will continue to occupy
that position as long us they shall serve tile peo
ple with seal und fidelity. Let the opposition en
joy the solo honor of tnuking time a lost of politi
cal fealty. Let It not be introduced intu our time
honored platlorm. The Wlugelement in the Dem
ocratic party is a large und greatly influential one,
cud ought not to be ignored, but rather cherished
and respected by all good Democrats who have a
spark of gratitude. We hope the Union aud
Standard will explain and retract.
contemporaries of the Times, though not as
pointed, .»?» equally as decided in their condemna
tion u s the chi'l l to create distrust aud jealousies
smoug the different elements of the
They say:
Home of the opposition presses ere loud in their
exclamations of joy over whs*, they would wil
lingly believe to be an element of jealously in the
Democratic ranks towards old line whig leaders.
They proclaim it to tbcif readers with a flourish
of trumpets that the lnumeracy are tired of the
association of sc,ch men as Messrs. Toombs and
Stephens w*jo were disciples of Clay and leaders
of the gallant old Whig party ere it was crushed
like an egg-shell before the triumphant march of
abolitionism, and are disposed no longer to recog
nise them as the faithful exuouent ot Democratic
principles. Wore we not called upon lo speak in
the name of the Democracy and to vindicate it
against such an unwanton aspersion, we would
allow an imposition to be practiced upon the cre
dulity of the opposition aud permit it to mistake
the faint ebuhtums of petty jealousy for the voice
of the party. Hut we wish to be understood. The
Democracy of Georgia are proud of the services of
the old line Whigs, who having principle for
their guide aud their country’s good their motto,
rallied to its banner iu the flerce strife with Hlack
Kepublicanism aud Know Nothiugism, aud assist
ed in hearing il aloft in triumph and in victory.
An appreciation of their worth aud commanding
taleula has been shown by a recognition of their
claims to preferment and placing them in the
highest offices within our gift. Nor usb the Demo
cracy any jealuusy towards them.
Let us hear no more of this petty jealousy. It
wilt do for the opposition presses to proclaim it
with trumpet notes with a view of creating distrust
towards worthy, patriotic men, who will not advo
cate their heresies, but it is unworthy that proud,
elevated tone which should characterise the Demo
cratic press and the Democratic party. We have
great faith in the old Whigs who are acting with
us, and believe that in the hour of danger—when
< the fight shall wax warm- when victory shall
hang suspended between the contending armies—
when the result of the couttict will depend upon
the courage and heroism of each soldier in the
ranks - they will be loufid rallying around our
standard with their shields over'them—their bat
tle-axes uplifted, and when the suioke of battle
shell have passed away, it will be found that they
were tbr last to desert tt!
wr We learu from the Macon lUtgraph of the j
12th mat., that Judge Haunt* an had on Saturday
morning laat, another attack of the disease, re
sembling apoplexy, by which he was prostrated at
WilkinsoncSurt. The Tfograph says:
“ He was taken on Saturdar morning last übout
niue o'clock, but we are pleased to state that when
heard from in the afternoon of that day, he was
belter. Judge Hardeman is deservedly a favorite
with the people of a circuit where Karlr, l.anmr,
Cone, Merriwethee and Johuson have administer
ed tile law, and we hope he may be speedily re
stored to his health and resume the duties of the
ltench which he adorns so much by his impartial
ity, learning and judicial integrity.”
XW We are indebted to J.B. Haynb, Esq., Con
sul at Turks Island, for a copy of “ the Av>e J
Stamford amt Saaih of the Turks and Catena
Islands," of the 11th of September. Among the
special notices in the Standard we find the fbl
lowing:
“ Captain George Couwav, of the American
brigantine ‘K. Drummond,’ which arrived at ihis
port on the lath of August, after having been on
shore on a reef, oft the Caicos Islands—is at a loss
for words to express to Ueneral James B. Havne,
United States Consul for the Turks and Caicos
Islands, his grateful feelings for the constant kmd
neas and attention to the subscriber, as well as for
the General's promptitude amt unremtting aticu
tion to the interests of the owners and under
writers, in settling tint salvage aud facilitating the
departure of the brigautine ‘ K. Drummond' on
her destined voyage. Gxom.i: Coxw it .
(•rand Cay, Turk* and Cairo* Islands, I
nth September, USf. i
CV~ The following adrertisemeuf spears in
the St. Louis RtpuHk-ma ••
"Exsicttt—Hiss Anna GvuM to John Caudal,
City Marshal, both of Leavenworth, K. T.
" From this time henceforth and forerer—until
Hiss Anna Gonld becomes a widow -nil rouag
gentlemen are requested to withdraw their partic
ular attentions."
The Turkish Money.
The value of six hundred thousand counterfeit
t caime- found In the possession of Madame
Zaifemax at Constantinople, for the printing of
- which Mr. Harrison, a job j<rimer in New York
- was arrested, is just eighty-two cents each, or in
r the aggregate four hundred and ninety-two thou
e sand dollars, and not four million eight hundred
1 thousand dollars, as has been stated.
1
j Judge Hardeman.
The Southern li-'r/rl-r of the 12th inst., says:
.. “Judge llasdemax was, at last dates, we are
h pained to say, lying quite ill, at bis home near
l_ Clinton. It is not therefore probable that Jones
Court will be held next week.”
* Vouug Meu’s Christian Association.
The efforts made bv the YouDg Men's Christian
t Association of this city, to strengthen the resources
s of the Howard Association of Charleston, w ill be
9 approvingly regarded by all who sympathise with
j’ the destittue and sick in our sister city. The con
. tributions might have been much arger, hut our
' citizens have responded, and we know that, small
' as the amount is, it has been thankfully received.
It is an exceedingly difficult matter to procure
. solicitors for contributions to any cause, and the
• Young Men’s Christian Association deserve thanks
| for moving fotward in this work. We are not
aware of the amount contributed by the City
\ Council, but feel gratified to know that that body
> aided in increasing the amount of money sent
| from Augusta, for the relief of the sick and destt
[ tute in Charleston.
The Charleston Oturier, of the llth inst., thus
i notices the contribution from this city;
’ Xo!/U Donation. —Our absent associate will
’ learn, with sincere gratification, as shown by the
1 subjoined letter, that he has been selected as the
medium of trunsmiting to the Howard Associa
tion, of this city,the generous donation of one thou
sand und thirty-two dollatsand tifty-eightcents,be
nevolently contributed by the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association, of Augusta, Ga., for the benefit of
the sufferers here hv the prevailing epidemic.
Hurh a substantial and speaking inanilestatiou of
sympathy with our affliction, on the putt of our
sister city, is refreshing to the heart, and chal
lenges the warmest expression of gruteful feeling.
This donation would have been acknowledged
earlier hut for the absence of one of the editors to
whom it was addressed individually :
Acuusta, October 5. 1858.
KictiAttp Ykadox, Esq., Charleston :
Dear Sir: Enclosed, please find a check on the
Hank of Charleston for one thousand and thirty
two dollars and fifty-eight cents, in behalf of the
citizens of Augusta, collected through a joint
committee ot the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion und the City Council, for the benefit of the
suffering poor of your city.
Do tin; the kindness to hand it to the President
of the Howard Association, unil usk him to accept
it, and with it our eurneet wish that the scourge
that now afflicts your devoted city may be very
epeedUy removed.
I am, dear sir, your obd't. serv’t.,
Wm. H. Ti tt.
The Dispatch of yesterday afternoon, publishes
the following communication from the Chairman
of the V onng Men's Christian Association and
Committee of the City Couneil:
Hr. KUtor: Thinking that it would he agree
able for the citizens to know the amount given by
cacti l\ ard, for ilie rcliol of Charleston, I unties a
statement :
First Ward sloo 00
Hecnml " 250 5S
Third “ find no
Fourth “ IK2 on
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rile < oimnitlee cannot rinse their labors without
acknowledging the general kind and courtoous
manner with which they weie received, and the
prompt and lice response tliul their solicitations
met with. Very respectfully.
W. H. Ti tt, Ch’n Y. M. C. A.
snd City Council Committee.
Fire in Hamburg.
A fire occurred in Hamburg Thursday morning
about half post seven o’clock, by which three
frame buildings, in the reur of the town, were de
stroyed. We understand that the houses burnt
were the property of Mr. John Smith of Laurens
District, Mr. Hunt ISi ti.hu, of Edgefield, and Mr.
M. O'Kkbfk, of Hamburg. We also heard it stated,
that about two thousand dollars, in money und
notes, was lost in one of the houses. A man by
the name of McMillan was run over by Mechanic
engine, and severely bruised. The Dispatch of
says;
"The lire broke out in the two story tenement on
Ilroad street, occupied by Mr. Damni, Hen Harris,
and others. It was soon euvelopod in flames.
Mi . Dunlin's loss is about three thousand dollars,
embracing all ho had, and it was with great diffi
culty lie made his escape. The corner nouse, oc
cupied by Mr. Lyons, was also destroyed ; he suved
the greater portion of bis furniture. A small ten
ement house, occupied by Jaques, was also de
stroyed. No insurance on any of the buildings.
It is not kuown how the fire originated.”
Tucker A Perkins’ Gallery of Art.
The collection of photographs and portraiture at
Tvckik <k Pxrkins’ gallery in this city, is doubt
less equal, in elegance of execution as well as in
extent, to any establishment in the Union. The
highest achievements in American protraiture can
not excel the work executed and exhibited in this
gallery.
We are pleased to learn that Messrs. Ti'ckbk'A
Pxrkins will have a tine gallery of their work at
the Atlanta Fair, and the visitors there will have
an opportunity of seeing and appreciating the
matchless elegance, beauty aud artistic taste and
ability they exhibit in their work. Our citizens
as well as our visiting friends can have an oppor
tunity to-day of seeing the gallery of pictures
which will be exhibited ut the State Fair-on to
morrow it is probable the packing will commence.
l’roduce over the tieorgfn Railroad.
We are indebted to the politeness of the officers
tor the following statement of the quantity of pro
duce transported over the Georgia railroad during
the month of September:
Cotton bales.. 10,291
Fto “ r bbls.. 17,702
Ur »'“ bushels 183,252
W.l). Washburns, a younger brother of the
famous throe, is nominated to the Minnesota legis
laturc, by the Republicans of Hennepin county,
aud there is talk of adding him to the Wasubvrnbs
ill (Congress next year. There is still another
brother iu California, who was a candidate for Con
gress in lc5«; and who yet intends to add his
uauie to the catalogue.
The Columbia Ala. Mirror learns from J. U,
Dkvkkk.m a, resident engiueer of the Tennessee
and Alabama railroad, that the track of that road
has now been laid one mile into the county of
Maury. The Mirror indulges the hope that tha
iron horse will pay a visit to Columbia by the tirst
of January next.
Homas Rscovasto—We learn from the Jack
sonville HrpaNicaa, (hat the bodies of Col. Jons
L. Hopkins and Mr. Gkkkai x, who were drowned
sonic time since, near I’alatka, were recovered on
the 80th ult.
The Memphis of the pth tnst., savs':
The City Council, in special session last night,
completed the trade of the city's bonds to Sam
Tate and others, thereby disposing of her interest
in the railroad of the Memphis and Charleston
company.
There is a towu in Michigan where the church
hell is rung every day at twelve, for the people to
take their quinine, as they hare the ague all
round.
An editor out Weal, who served four dars'crTa
jury, says that he is »o full of law that it is hard
for him to keep from cheating somebodr.
The Telegraph lo Cuba.
The Savannah BsjeMioan of 13th in&t. aaji:
t 'Wr Kexxedt, the agent of the Cuban Submarine
" Telegraph Company, is now on a Tisit to our citr,
and has succeeded, we learn, in securing aright of
way for his line along the track of the Savannah,
. Albany k Golf and Atlantic 4 Gulf railroads. Tbe
; project, we are pleased to bear, is in a forward
state, and will be carried out at an early day.”
Election m Edgefield District.
The following is the result of the election held
in Edgefield on the 11th and 12th inst., for me ru
ber to Congress and to the State legislature.
for Congress. —Gen. M. L. Bonham bad no op
position.
FOB THE SENATE.
Col. James P. Carroll 1770
Win. Gregg 1412
358
FOR REPRESENTATIVES.
J. Hamden Hrooks 2,589
John Quaitlebum 2,37<)
Abram Jones 2,288
James Tompkius 2,122
A. L. Hearing 2,385
W. W. Adams 1,892
J/. IP. Gary 1,877
Wade HoMeun 1,581
Messrs. Garey and Holstean were not elected.
Mr. Gardner’s Speech at the Banker Hill
Democratic Meeting.
We have been somewhat surprised to find the
following communication in the Marietta Adcocate
of the 11th inst.:
.. Mr. Editor: In the Constitutionalist of Oct. Ist,
1 notice an address by our fellow citizen, James
Gardner, Jr., befoie a meeting of Democrats in,Bos
' ton, on the evening of the 20th ult., the sentiments
e of which, the Constitutionalist says, were received
e with applause by the meeting, “and other roani
• festationsof the approval of theaudience; although,
' as the reader will aee, they are such as are rarely
• heard under the shadow of the monument on Bun
' ker Hill.”
■ Mr. Gardner has always been esteemed a true
■ States Rights Democrat, and we looked, after these
1 remarks by the timstitutionalist, to find in the ad
dress a bold declaration of the true constitutional
' southern rights doctrines, especially, too, as I find
in the same paper of the Bth inst., extracts from
the Columbus Times and Macon Telegraph highly
1 commending the address as “southern, constitu
tional, patriotic.” But what was iny surprise,
upon reading the address itself, to find the cardi
nal principle of the Southern Rights Democracy
1 abandoned —totally abandoned in the very outset.
Mr. Gardiner is reported to have commenced
his address thus:
Fellow Democrats: Under the confederated sys
tem of government under which so mauy States
: and communities live in happiness and prosperity,
there are a few great principles recognised which
t arc dear lo the hearts of Democrat* throughout
i the broad extent of this Union. Among those
: principles are religious freedom of opinion and
t worship, eipiality of civil rights as American citi
zens, the sanctity of private property and the sa
cred abnegation of all interference in the domestic
affairs of the separate States—allowing each State
i anil Territory to make her own laws, and to ut
teud to and regulate her affairs in her own way."
Now, Mr. Editor, but for the two words I have
marked in italics this would he all very well, but
as it stands, cun any Southern Rights Democrat
subscribe lo wbat is here announced as Democratic
doctrine by our distinguished fellow citizen ? Are
we prepared to say with Mr. Gardner that a Terri
tory has the right to say, that is not property
which the Constitution declares to be pro
perty ; and so interdict our citizens from
removing with their property into its liti.-
iisf ll we aie, then let us quietly submit
our necks to the yoke at once, and boaat
no more of principle. Let this doctrine of Mr.
Gardner he admitted on the one side, and that of
another distinguished southron oil the other, and
the South has no more interest in any Territory
whatever, ifor, according to Mr. Garduer, our
already acquired Territory cun, at pleasure, keep
us with our property out of it; ana, according to
the other we cannot carry it into any Territory to
be acquired, because slavery does not exist in any
such now, and unless Congress legislates it into
such, we cannot carry it there. Between the two
doctrines the Constitution which gurantees our
property to us, becomes a dead letter, and so far
us the rights of the South aru concerned falls to
the ground. Truly, the poor South has reason to
exclaim —“ Save us from our friends.”
The address in other reapecta is nyt objectiona
ble, though to my taste, there is in it a little too
much vaunting of the National Democracy—that’s
the phrase now-a-days. ThS National Democracy !
what a power it must wield in its own strongholds
which are exclusively of northern latitude, when
a southern statesman cannot address its cohorts
without giving up every States Rights principle,
to Hatter their ears!
But perhaps l am hasty in supposing Mr. Gard
ner has done this. He may he wrongly reported.
By publishing the address entire, Mr.'Editor—it
is not long —you will give him a chance to speak
for liiuiself, and at least save me from ail charge
of wishing to do him wrong.
A States’ Riouts Democrat,
Or the Old School.
“A State’s Rights Democrat of thet)ld School”
is cither hypercritical or captious, as every intelli
gent person will conclude at once who reads this
exceedingly lame effort to find something objec
tionable in the short impromptu address recently
delivered by our fellow-citizen, Mr. Gardner, at a
meeting of the Democracy of Charlestown and
Buuker Hill. *
Considering the extract which he quotes from
that address, as he has considered it, alone and
without reference to the context, with which it is
connects ’ —there is nothing in it to justify the
criticism which he makes upon it. It is simply a
statement—naturally suggested by the place of
the speech and the position which the speaker oc
cupied toward his audience—of the cardinal prin
ciples of the national Democracy—which bind to
gether the members of the party in sympathy, in
feeling and in principle throughout the Union;
and the clause of the sentence of this extract, in
which the two obnoxious words appear, upon
which this communication is based, is but a decla
ration of the Democratic doctrihe of non-interven
tion, affirmed in the Cincinnati platform, subse
quently endorsed by the Supreme Court of the
United States, and illustrated in all the recent ter
ritorial legislation of Congress, as far as it has
been controlled by the Democratic party. The de
claration was hurriedly made, necessarily con
densed, and therefore we may admit, not as well
guarded us it might have been, or probably would
have been, if the address in which it appears had
been prepared before its delivery, and carefully
elaborated. We may admit all this, and yet we
onteud that the declaration i$ right enough as it
is—not more loose thau others upou the same sub
ject, which occur in almost every orthodox Demo
cratic address which is made in Congress or else
where, upon the doctrine of non-intervention; and
objectionable only to those who, like “ A States
Rights Democrat of the Old School,” are hyper-
critical or captiously disposed to find fault with it.
f Gardner might have added at the end of the
t M ' lUeace in this extract, “ subject only to the
l l ' n,u,u 'ion of the United States," or something
° slni ''“ r * m Port, but there was no necessity for
au ' accur4C . T * n 'he circumstances, under
. which his remarks were made, and we repeat that
5 , “" rD ' e » nin ß« »s plain enough without any ad
• ti, ,'?’ an *' at *i‘ ere '9 nothing in them to iustifv
1 that they are at. abandonment of the
an ,:r f , PnnC r ‘ P ' e ° f * ou ** ,ern Democraev and
an assertion of the doctrmeofSquatterSovereigntv.
*o much for the extract as i, stands, in thTs c"m
--’ man,cation, detached from its content
n Bat if this extract is considered, as 'it on Ax to
.be in connection w y h , he remainder of the
3 ! * f * hKh lt “ 4 l’* rl > ‘he weakness and in
irr°n o e Cn “ ” fthe -^vtv ; corresp.n.
j dent will be still more apparent. The speech
; j which he censures, was bolder in t ooe upo ' th „
; subject of slavery, than those which are usuali;
delivered, even to Democratic audiences n the
! northern States, by southern men. & al ,h e seati .
» . ments which it contained were not oolr sue h **
i are rarely heard under the shadow of ' th# monu .
I mem on Bunker Hill, but such as would be listened
| to, up i ’• v.. J r.ud applauded, at Fort Hill, or any
: i otoer luou .in our sister State of South Carolina.
- We join, therefore, in the request of its eorrespon
, dent, that the Adcocate will publish the speech en
s tire, that its readers may form their opinions of it,
> from it, rather than from his misrepresentations,
: based upon his own original interpretation of the
l import of two word* which occur in tbe address.
Another Letter from Hon. A. K. Wright.
We find in the Atlanta InUil'yen&r of the 13th
1 inst., along letter from the Representative of the
. fifth congressional dis'rict, in explanation and vin
dication of tbe one recently written by him to a
gentleman in Washington city, in which he ve: v
emphatically declared iiis confidence in Senator
Douglas and sympathy with him, in bis contest
with the Black Republicans and office holders of
Illinois. We subjoin entire this very candid and
indiscreet letteruf Judge Weight:
Rome, Ga., Oct. 7, 1853.
Messrs. Editors— Gltnti&nizni Id voiir paper of
the sth inst., under the head of “Bad Policy,”
you make some judicious and well-timed remarks
relative to party organization, and enter into an
able defence of Messrs. Toombs and Stephens.
In your strictures upon myself, I think vou do me
injustice. After sayiDg there is “no evidence that
Toombs, Stephens and Wright intend to build up
a Douglas party,” you go on to sav, "w e concur
with the Standard that Judge Wright ought to be
more particular to whom he writes political let
ters. But we will not believe that he intends to
build up a Douglas party in Georgia.”
Now your compliments to mv integrity in what
“you will not believe,” is of doubtful savour, and
whether intended or not, might be verv unfavora
bly understood. Your advice as to the character
of my correspondents would seem to indicate that
the “scurvy fellow” had “let the cat out of the
wallet,” and that I had been '‘caught in a dirty
trick.” I think it my duty to vindicate myself
from such insinuations. The assaults, too, that
have been made upon me from other quarters, be
gin to demand it.
You attempt to draw a distinction between the
position occupied by Messrs. Toombs and Ste
phens and the one bv me. You make the former
gentlemen very good Democrats; you leave me, to
sav the least of it, in a “cloudy condition.” Wheth
er there is design in it. any intention in either the
State or federal authorities to create a vacancy in
the fifth, I do not know, nor is it material to in
quire. I desire to be set right before the country.
I have written nothing ot late date, on anv sub
ject, that I should dread to see the fight.
Upon a calm review of the letter in question,
I reiterate and re-affirui all that it contains.
“ Every impulse of my soul is with Douglas in
his contest against the Bhek Republicans in Illi
nois,” and 1 will udd against the Know Nothings
and “ President makers” in Georgia.
I jiuve no design with “Toombs, Stephens, and
others to make a Douglas party in Georgia.” My
own opinion is, the next Democratic candidate for
the Presidency, ought to be taken from the Cotton
growing or Sugar raising States. I have uniform:
ly so expressed myself tor the last six months'
Whatevever apparent concert there may he be
tween os, is U'hntly accidental. It is, I apprehend,
the result of like judgments as to the true interests
and future welfare of the Democratic party. I
know-nothing of their views further than I have
seen in the press. Whether they arc for Douglas
or not, Ido not know. It will make no differ
ence m the views I entertain on the subject.
Whether they are “ compelled to back down from
Douglas,” or up to Cobb, is all the same. They
form their opinions, I doubt not, according to
truth and right. All honest men form them llut
same way. We have been in collision, and we
have been “ shoulder to shoulder.” Whether in
conflict or together, I have admired their genius
and been proud of them as Georgians.
The insinuations thrown out by some of the pa
pers that there exists among the “ old line Whigs”
a feeling of hostility towards Mr. Buchanan and
Mr. Cobb, is not ».rue; so far as relates- to myself.
The preservation of til* national Democracy, how
ever, demands that the power of the government
shall not be used to crush out possible candidates
fur the Presidency in- 1880.
Let us see how 1 stand with reference to “ a
disposition to oppose” the Administration of Mr.
Buchanan.
In tbe last Georgia convention that nominated
a Governor, I went as a delegate of the county of
Floyd. My preferences for the Hon. John' H.
Lumpkin, the bosom friend of Mr. Cobb, were
well undirstood. There was no surrender in that
war. After two days of as fierce political conflict
as was ever waged, in full caucus of the friends of
Mr. Lumpkin, icy counsel was to nominate him or
break up and appeal to the people. Some of his
Athens friends moved the committee of conference
which ruined him. When the committee was ap
pointed to draft resolutions, I had the honor to be
one. The resolutions offered by the chairman,
Judge Thimas W. Thomas, covered a direct as
sault upon the President. Alone, I goffered a
minority report, that the convention endorse
and approve of thut portion of the Presi
dent's instructions to Mr. Walker which in
dicate his desire that the Constitution when
formed, be submitted to the peuplfc. When I
attempted to gam the floor, the President would
not recoguise me until my refusal to yield it com
pelled him. The effort to vindicate the resolution
was resisted with the most determined manifesta
tions of displeasure. I compelled the convention
to listen to me—l Itave good reason tobelieve not
without effect. This I did because I believed the
President to be right upon a great question of pop
ular sovereignty. I could not see, as Mr. Buchan
an has well said, how the principles of the Kansas
and Nebraska act conid be carried out, how “the
people could determine the question of slavery for
themselves,’’ without a vote upon it.
When Mr. Lumpkin, the friend of the Adminis
tration, was thrown overboard by the committee
of conference, and Gov. Brown suggested, with
but one other gentleman, I voted emphatically No;
not that I objected personally to the nominee’, but
because the blow was evidently stricken at Mr.
Cobb and the Administration. Vet a set of
“ltancy Sui-iles" ami whiffling demagogues, some
of whom 1 have slashed out of Know Nothing
lodges, are after rat, because “old lice Whigs ex
hibit a disposition to oppose Mr. Buchanan and
Mr. Cobb.” An honest man’s contempt can never
reach their level. I shall survive their assaults.
When I went to Washington, I went there the
friend of Mr. Buchanan and of Mr. Cobb for the
next Presidency, because I thought they were ou
the right line aiid standing square on the Cincin
nati Platform. The Lecomptou Constitution was
presented. It has not been submitted to the peo
ple. This the President “ profoundly regretted.”
But inasmuch as the slavery clause was submitted
and that was the chief question of contention, he
recommended Congress to admit the State. I
still thought he was right and went with him.
Up to this time, Mr. Douglas has stood with b’.ui
and by him. litre they differed; and the ques
tion is,shall Douglas be read out of th 9 party for
holding on to what the President thought tvas
right uud what he regretted had not been done?
Mr. Douglas weut further and said, even that
question had not been fairly ascertained ; that the
will of the people was against slavery. Shall he
be read out of the Democracy? aud by whom?
Who is it that led ou this attack "fierce as even
ing wolves?” Wendell of the Union, and Bennet
of the Herald. Wendell was elected public prin
ter by Black Republican vote*. In the cau
cus of the Democratic party last winter at Wash
ington, the Virginia Dmocracy and others de
clared il he was nominated they would bolt tbe
convention. Sherard Clemens rose in his place
and said money had been offered him as a bribe, to
vote for Wendell. With the supercilious arrogance,
found only in a government odicial, he undertook
during the last Congress, to establish a party
tyranny, more galling than the rule of the Turk
and unrelenting os the inquisition. I resisted it
then, will do it now, and ever while I live. I had
rather die, be quartered and eat by vultures than
submit to it. And who is Bennett ? The support
er of Fremont by contract. A man, it is true, of
great versatility of genius, the raciest writer and
best newspaper editor of his age, but as destitute
of principle as a fish is of hairs. A Swiss that
fights for pay. Who are some of the leading ad
juncts of these worthies? Mr.JohnVanßuren and
his platform men. Mr. “mail-bag Wentworth”
and “Anti-Nebraska Breese,” “id omne genus."
These meu are to become the peculiar conservators
of southern rights and par excellence, the custo
dians of the national Democracy. They are to
read oat St-phen A. Douglas, who has done more
thaa anv man living, to roil back northern fanata
cisui. The man who at the head of the gallant sons
of the South and the northern Democracy tore from
the statute book, the brand of the South's dishon
our and inferiority in the Union.
Who is aiding these men in their unhallowed
wotk in Illinois? The Black Republicans. While
Douglas is engaged in mortal conflict with their
giant gladiator, the government officials are plant
ing their stilettoes in this Democrat “ who never
faltered,” and never failed to Jight. There is not
such an act of political infamy in the annals of
depravity, as that which is now being enacted in
Illinois. The tension of the noble nature of
era Democracy caonoi suad it much *oeger.
Who is aiding them in Georgia ? L«*>k, ar.d tell
me. Tbe “ Know Nothing* "to a man, and un
fortunately lor Mr. Cobb, a large portion of these
supposed to be in bis interest w ior the next Presi
dency. Has not the Charleston Convention of
1860, more to do with reading him out, than anv
failure to agree with the Tnshkrd / Don't be
stand on what Mr, Cobb and the President said
was right, and they regrcied had not been done?
Any effort to use the government to crush out
competitors, I don't approve. This is notone of
the principle 6 ot the party. Why are our Know
Nothing friends st *«*;/ it this name game t How
comes it that they are so powerfully exercised in
the same way ? \\ hen Democrats had themselves ,
warring, “cheek by jowl,” with this forlorn squad \
of desperate adventurers, they should pause and 1
reflect. * What can they be alter? Is there any !
Irish in Douglas’ blood ? Can it be because he
married a Catholic wife! Are we to have another
fusion ? I hope there is no “ cat in the mealiub.”
The wretched organization proposes to live by
Democratic aid. it will get none from me.
I never failed to support the Administration till
it departed from our platform, in our Central Amer
ican relations. When it captured Walker and
his men, “mostly from southern States,” to please
the British, 1 thought it did wrong and I said so.
Its effort to shuffle off the responsibility upon the
poor subaltern who did its work, was both mourn
ful and funny. I told Mr. Cobb then the South
would never stand it. Mr. Buchanan was honest, I
have no doubt. “The Count, Sir Gore,” and “My
Lord Napier,” had “honeyfugled” him, with all
his acknowledged diplomatic ability, with the idea
ot getting Cuoa. The wishy-washy article in the
London Times about our faking Cuba, was “to
throw dust.” The treaties of Sir Gore and Mon
sieur Belly, and other developments , almost demon
strate that the President was swamped, flis late
instruction of August, through Mr. Cass to Mr.
Lamar, our Minister to Nicaragua, are eminently i
Democratic and progressive. If 31 r. Buchanan
has the nerve to carry out what he says about
the Monroe doctrine, he will yet be the most popu
lar President the Republic has ever had. If 3lr. Cobb
will quit President making till the time comes,
and lend his great abilities to aid the executive in
maintaining his country's honor and her rights,
he will find many a “Cobb man” in Georgia. **Ab
imo pec to re" do I wish the Democracy could leave
off the Presidency for the preseut, and forget the
dead, defunct, and wholly useless controversy about
Lecompton, and look to the great questions which
do really concern us. Beyond all doubt, the des
tiny of the South, as well as the glory of the Union,
is wound up in Mexico, Cuba, and Central Ameri
ca. If these vast permitted to be set
tled and colonised by European governments,
either with free labor, to hem in and crush out sla
very, or with slave labor, to compete with our pro
ductions, the South is ruined beyond all controver
sy and the glory of the North forever diminished.
Will the President stand the fire? That’s the
question. Augustus R. Wright.
At their Old Tricks*
Under this caption, the following article appears
in tbe Federal Union , of the l*lth inst., which we
copy to commend the counsel which it gives to all <
of our Democratic contemporaries in this State :
The opposition press are busy at their old tricks. .
They see or hope they see in the difference of senti
ment among the Democracy of Georgia, touching
the re-election of Senator Douglas to the United
States Senate,a chance to divide the Democracy and
thus to conquer them. We believe thev will be dis
appointed. Many of the friends of 31r. Buchanan in
Georgia are unwilling to see Mr. Douglas returned
to the Senate,breathing threatening and slaughter
against his Administration. They would not
clothe him with power, believing as they honestly 1
do, that he will use the influence of his position to
the detriment of the party. They wonld prefer to
see the election ta Illinois go by default rather ■
than surrender up tbe honor and*integrity of the
national administration.
On the other hand, there are manv of Mr. Bu
chanan's warmest friends, who contend that Mr.
Douglas, in consideration of past services to the
Democratic party, and in consideration of the fact
that he is mainly opposed by an out and out Black
Republican, should be leniently treated, and not
spurned from the rank of the party as a traitor. It
is no doubt an honest difference of opinion ; and
while we are sternly and uncompromisingly op
posed to the election of Senator Douglas, we are
free to say, that we had rather see him elected than
Lincoln. We do not understand why a difference
of opinion, wide as it is, between the Democracy
of Georgia, touching Douglas, should breed a war
in the party, and alienate men who are and expect
to be, co-workers in the great object of achieving
a triumph for the principles and the policy of the
national Democratic party.
We do not believe that our opponents busy as
they are in nursing our little quarrels, will be able
to produce much of a tempest. And if it was
quite probable that a serious breach in the Demo
cratic party would take place, we do not know of
anything that would be so apt to nip it in the bud,
as the manifest desire which our opponents ex
press to consummate it.
It will be an evil day for the Democracy, when
they cease to regard the great principles of their
parry as the paramount object and institute a guer
rilla war among themselves, for the ascendency of
this or that mao, this or that clan. We have’too
much conhdeuce in the strength of our principles
to harbor the thought that personal and political
rivalries among leaders, can for any great while
retard the progress of the National Democratic
par‘7-
A Fortunate Investment.
The Atlanta Rational American, of the 11th
inst., contains the followmg :
“ The municipal election takes place in Savan
nah to-day. The “Democracy” and the “People”
have each" a full ticket in the field—Mr. T. M. Tur
ner being the candidate of the former for Mayor,
and Mr. Hiram Roberts of the latter party, it is
almost needless to say that our sympathies are
with and for the People's candidates.”
The American was fortunate in investing its
“sympathies” before the election. The result
shows that the Know Nothing or People's can
didates need all the “ sympathy ” their friends
can send them.
The Benecia Boy, who is to fight with Morrissey
a week from to-day, strikes such blows, says the
Albany Knickerbocker, that his trainer will no
longer instruct him, being willing to act as
groom to a trip hammer. If he beats Morrissey
he will go to England to fight Tom Sayres, the
champion.
The Cohet. —The London correspondent of the
Commercial, of the 21st September, says :
“ The comet increases in brilliancy, although
the effect it would otherwise have is impaired bv
its proximity to the horizon. It will continue to
gain in splender daring the next fortnight, and is
then expected to be as distinct as the celebrated
comet of 1311. Exact calculations of its orbit
have not yet been obtained, but '.hey will soon he
arrived at. Meanwhile, there is no Impression
that it is the great comet of 1556, although that is
looked for. It has been ascertained, however,
that the present visitor is not likely to return for
two or three hundred years.
We find the following paragraph in the Co
lambus Times of the 11th inst:
Hon. Thomas W. Thomas of Elbert, we are
pleased to see, is-a candidate for Judge of the
northern circuit, at the approaching January elec
tion. As a sound jurist and an honest politician,
Judge T. is eminently worthy of public confidence,
and no doubt the people of his district will mani
fest a doe appreciation of his worth, by electing
him to the position for which he is announced.
! The Balloon Race—Day Fixed and Terms
Agreed Upon.
The balloon race between two of the most cele
brated a-ronauts in the world, Mons. Godard and
Prof. Stenier, will take place from Cincinnati on
Monday, the 16th inst. The inflation of the bal
loons. each containing thirty-six thousand cubic
feet of gas, will commence at*? o’clock in themorn
ing, ana the ascension will take place at 4 o'clock,
precisely. A committee of five citizens have been
chosen."who are to act as judges, etc. They wili
decide whether the weather in the morning shall
justify the inflation of the balloons. When the
inflation has commenced, the aeronauts must go.
Each may take up a passenger, at his own discre
tion. The success of either will be in relation to
distance, not height. Arrangements will be made
for each mronaut to send down, at every town pass
ed. in a parachute, a “log,” or note, containing the
\ name of the balloon which passes, and any mci-
I dent occuring on the trip, which will be sent by
i telegraph, so that we may be continually posted
I of the whereabouts of the leronauts, and the suc
cess attending their seriel flight. Mons. Godard
i and Prof. Stenier each expect to be np three or
i four days.— Louisville (iy.) Courier, Oct.%.
Health of Augusta.
I Nodeath has occurred is this cifv dnnrvgffie • as*
’ »'«*•*• There were three interments at the cemetery'
bet ih* deaths occurred beyond the limits of the
, city. It affords us great pleasure to announce to
| our absent citizens aud persons having business
in Augusta, of ibis favorable condition of the pub
; lie'health.
W e hear if no cases of disease of any sort, and
oar people art enjoying'not only unusual health
1 but a very prosperous fail trade.'
ZST Nearly four weeks hare elapsed since there
, baa been rain enough in Augusta to settle the dust.
And we are somewhat of the opinion, from present
I appearances, that the dry spell will continue some
days longer.
XW Hon. J. J. Mcßae, without opposition, has
been elected to Congress, in Mississippi, to sup
ply the vacancy created by the death of the Eon.
John A. Quitman.
The Mississippi Election. —The Natchez Free
Trader, of the 7th inst., says: There were but
thirteen scattering votes against John J. Mcßae,
(Democratic nominee for Congress) in Adams
county! He received three hundred and fifty
three votes, more than half of the votes polled for
District Attorney in the so-called K. N. county of
Adams!
Not Exempt. —The Abingdon Virginian cor
rects the statement recently published in its col
umns, that Judge Fulton, of the Circuit Court of
! Washington county, had pronounced the law tax
: ing physicians, for the privilege of practising,
unconstitutional.
A Bushel of Tomatoes from One Stalk. —At
the agricultural fair at Brookville, Indiana, on the
2iid ultimo, a tomato plant, thirteen feet high, was
exhibited, from the first three feet of which, it is
stated, a bushel of tomatoes had been gathered.
Some tomatoes, that.
Another Caution.— Tbe Mayor of Vicksburg
has published a card in the Whig, of the 2d, re
questing unacclimated persons to keep away from
that city until notice shall be given that the Yel
low fever has subsided.
Proceedings of Board of Health.
Regular Meeting, i
October 14, 1858, 5 o’clock, P. M. *
Present—James M. Dye, Chairman.
Members—Messrs. ‘Peav, Plumb, Hari.tr
Fleming, Miller.
The minutes were read and confirmed.
The City Sexton reports three interments from
the 7th to the 14th of October, two of whom died
out of the city.
Diseases of which they Died. —Consumption one:
Disease of the Liver one; Cholera Infantum one.
Total three.
The Board of Health adjourned.
• Sam’l. H. Crump.
Secretary Board of Health.
Official Report of Interments.
Savannah, Oct. IS, 165?. )
1 o’clock, P. SI. )
T..e following is a list of the interments in the
city cemeteries for the last twenty-four hours :
l: Laurel Groce Cemetery. —Whites—Stone:
Riacks ovd ( Nancy Bolden, sixtv-fivo
years, Pnciu.iiiiiij,, Rut, sixteen years, Inflamma
tion of the Brain ; Jailer, sixty years, Paralysis ;
Charles, forty-seven years, Bilious Congestive
Fever.
lo Cathedral Cemetery, John Johnson, twenty
eight years, \ ellow Fever, Ireland ; Miles O'Brien
forty-two years, Yellow Fever, Ireland; Catharine
Shea, five months, M hooping Cough and
Savannah. c
W. T. Thompson, Cli’m. B. H.
Savannah Republican, OH. 14.
Health of Mobile.
Office of the Board of Health, I
Mobile, October 9. j
rtie number of deaths from yellow fever for the
twenty-four hours ending at 6" o’clock p. m this
day, is ten.
Dabney Herndon, M. D., Secretary.
Jlubite Register, Oct. 10.
Office of the Board of Health t
Mobile, Oct. 10—=0 P. M. j
The Board of Health report ten interments from
yellow fever for the twenty-four hours ending at U
o clock this day. • *
Office of the Board of Health, I
„ . , ,9 ct - 11—6 o’clock P. M. f
lue Board of Health report fifteen interments
from yeliow fever for the twenty-four hours ending
ut 6 o clock this day. D. Hern-do*, M. D.. Sec’y.
Mobile Register, Oct. 12.
Directions for Seeing the Comet.—ln order to
\ n Us fuU g ,or .'% lake a good glass.
It this fails, take two glasses. Should this prove
insnthcient, take more glasses, and vou will iu
time he able to see not only one, but tWocometa—
perhaps more.
Read the biographies of our good men and
women, says an exchange, “not one of them had
a fashionable mother. They nearly all sprang
‘ rO ?LB **?’ stron ß minded women, who had about
clouds*” t od ° Wl,h fashions as changing
The Frost.— lt is now the 10th of October, and
we have not had a killing frost Even in the re
gions up the Mohawk Valiev and in Central N«w
\ mk, noted for early frosts, the leaves of pump
kin vines, potatoes and other tender vegetables
were only touched, but not killed, as we noticed
all the wav between Syracuse and thiscitv on Sa
wt- ’-' vmle thK cu, n kas fully ripened, amt
has been mostly cut up and shocked, or is now
being divested of its ripe ears in the field. The
autumn is mild, dry and pleasant.
A tic York Tribune.
Reasonable Clriosity in a Dying Man.—lt
was a bright thought, that of Smithson, when he
»T# Gs ? n unknown complaint. Smithson
had had hre doctors, and they had been unable to
discover what - his disease was. At length
they told the patient he must die. Calling them
all around him he said: ®
“My friends after I die. make a pe.gt mortem ex
amination, and sand out what ails me ; for really I
have heard such long and learned discussions "on
the subject, mat I am dying to know what the
disease is, myself.
Ilorida Election.— An extra from the office es
;. eas ;* co!a Gazette brings US the intelligence •
j that the American party were triumphant in Es
tliV^f-'iv 2 which took place on
-ricbolson, the American candi
da.e for the btate senate, and W. CTWilliam* the
candidate of the same party for the House of Re
presentatives, were elected, the former bva majo
ritv of , £if * t j, e Utter by eight majority.
the vote for Congress stood: Hawkins, three
hundred and four ; Westeott, seventy-eight.
Mobile Tribune , Oci. 11.
The Echo and the Prize Money.—The Wash
ington States, deriving its information “ from the
most authentic source,” gives the following ac
count of the disposal of the Echo and the distribu
te 2, he P nze mone y accruing to her captors
The United States Marshal for South Carolina
gave Lieut.’Maffit, a receipt for three hundred and
six Africans, for which number twentv-five dollars
per head, amounting in all to seven thousand six
hundrwi dollars, will be awarded as prize money
to the flag-officer of the home squadron and the
officers and crew of the Dolphin. This sum will
be distributed as follows: The flag-officer re
c.elvff one-twentieth, the commanding o ucer of
the Dolphin two-twentieths, and the balance is
distributed to the other officers and the crew of the
Dolphin, according to rank and rate. It is doubt
ed however, whether the flag-officer (Commodore
Mclntosh is entitled to one-twentieth, as he was
absent, on leave, from his station at the time "of the
capture. This question will doubtless be deter
mined by the Attornev General.
After the prescribed legal forms have been gone
through With, and the Echo has been libeledfshe
wtll be sold at public auction. Half of the pro
ceeds will be taken by the government, according
to a special provision of law. and devoted to the
naval pension fund. The other half will be divided
among the officers and crew of the DolphiD, ac
cording to the same rule bv which the i*r capita
prize money is distributed. Eighteen of the Afri
cans died after their capture bvLieut. Maffit For
these the per capita will not be paid, but only
for those who were delivered alive into the hands
of the United States Marshak