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SBieliln Co nstitntionalisi
BY JAJVGES GARDNER.
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 13.
The Charleston Mercury.
We copy the following complaining remarks
from the Charleston Mercury of the 2d inst:
The Telegraph. —We confess to an utter inability
to understand the yearly cotton statement as tele
graphed from New* Orleans. A dispatch received
last evening, and published this morning in our
telegraph column, makes the exports to exceed the
receipts by almost one hundred thousand bales,
and yet the stock on hand is only reduced four
thou&nd bales. That statement beats our arith
metic. Probably the total receipts for the year
should read one million seven hundred and seven
ty-two thousand eight hundred and fourteen, (a)
* We regret the non-receipt of the Liverpool cot
ton market statement by the Africa, although we
can catch a glimpse of its tenor in the falling of the
New York cotton market. ( b)
Such blunders and omissions, if continued, will
lower the dispatches of ihc Associated Press to the
unreliable level of special dispatches, (c)
(a) There are doubtless many statements which
“ beat the arithmatic of our cotemporary of the j
Charleston Mercury , but we doubt much if he has
ever seen a New Orleans cotton statement of the
comparative receipts, exports, Ac., of that market,
which he could understand. We give the follow
ing from the New Orleans Prices Cnrrentt, and we
find it copied into the Mercury’s cottou statement
without a word of censure or refere nee to its am hi
fiiity:
Total Foreign export* from New Orleans, fromS pt.l,
ISSB. to Sept. 1. 1859 * 1,C80.581
Total northern exports same time 196,590
Total expo rt* •bUS'S!
Total receipts same time 1,6*2,814
Exports over receipts 104,857
There is evidently a mistake in the above state
ment, or there is something understood, or some
very peculiar way of expressing a fact, which
bears the impress of absurdity on its face.
Now, take the Mobile cotton statemeut, and it
will be seen that the absurdity is on the other ex
treme.
Total receipts at Mobile fß6,f*4
Total exports from Mobile 621,891
Apparent stock on hand 64,!W3
The fact is, that the stock on hand at Mobil ■ '«
twenty thousand one hundred and six bales. How
will the Mercury account for this?
(b) The “non-receipt of the Liverpool cotton
market statement by the Africa” was a matter of
not the slightest importance, as the news by the
Jason, (of same date as that brought by the Africa)
had been published two days before.
(c) The Mercury will plainly see that the “blun
der and omissions,” to which it refers, are more
fanciful than real. The telegraph dispatches by
the Associated Press of the New Orleans market,
are as reliable as the statement in the New Orleans
Price) Current; and sending the Africa’s news,
which was already known, would have been some
thing like “ sending coals to Newcastle.”
Kansas in the Senate and in the House,
In compliance with the requests of subscribers
in different portions of the State, we give below a
brief statement of the action of the House and of
the Senate, at the first session of the last Congress,
upon the question of the admission of Kansas into
the Union, under the Lecompton Constitution, to
show that the Opposition are responsible for the
disagreement of the two Houses upon that ques
tion, for the defeat ot the original Lecompton bill,
i» !>■ ■
t)— a.—>«', bih* which they «*-•<* now
denouncing.
The bill to admit Kansas into the Union under
the Lecompton Constitution, which was reported
from the Committee on Territories, in the Senate,
and is known as the Lecompton bill, was passed
by that body on the 23d of March, 1853, by a vote
of yeas 33, nays 25, as follows :
“Yeas—Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Benjamin, Biggs,
Bigler, Bright, Browu, Clay, Evans, Fitch, r itz-
Satriclr, Green, Gwin, Hammond, Henderson,
[ouston, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson, of Arkansas;
Johnson, of Tennessee; Jones, Kenuedv, Mallory,
Mason, Pearce, Polk, Sebastian, Slidell, Thomp
son, of Kectucky; Thompson, of New Jersey;
Toombs, Wright, and Yulee—33.
4 ‘Navs —Messrs. Bel!, Broderick, Chandler, Clark,
Col!amer, Crittenden, Dixon. Doolittle, Douglas,
Durkee, Fessenden, Foote, Foster, Hale, Hamlin,
Harlan. King, Pugh, Seward, Simmons, Stuart,
. Sumner, Trumbull, Wade, aud Wilson—2s.
•‘Absent,or not voting—Messrs. Bates, Cameron,
Davis, and Heid—4.”
Mr. Cameron of Pennsylvania, was paired off'on
ibis vote with Mr. Davis of Miss., who was too un
well to be present. Mr. Bates of Delaware, aud
Mr. Reid of North Carolina, had been on account
of sickness, absent from the Senate and from
Washington, from the commencement of the sess
ion. Every northern Senator who voted for the
bill was a Democrat. Every Southern Senator
who voted against it, was a member of the Opposi
uon.
The first rote in the House of Representatives
upon this Lecompton bill as it passed the Senate,
was taken on the Ist of April 1858. It was upon
the motion of Mr. Gidding9 of Ohio, to reject after
it had been taken up, upon the motion of Mr.
Stephens. That proposition was voted down by
a majority of forty-two.
Mr. Montgomery, (Dem.) of Pennsylvania, then
moved a substitute for the bill. This substitute,
provided for the admission of Kansas into the
Union under the Lecompton Constitution, if that
Constitution, after being submitted to the people,
wae ratified by them. It was the same as that
propoeed in the Senate by Mr. Chittenden, with
the exceptions, that it restricted the right of suf
frage, ic the rote upon the Lecompton Constitu
tion, t> those who were “legal voters under the
laws of the Territory of Kansas,” and authorised
the President, if that Constitution was rejected by
the people-of Kansas, and a new one framed, sub
mitted to them and approved, to announce by proc
lamation, the admission of Kansas into the Union
without the action of Congress.
Mr. Qcitman of Mississippi, then submitted as a
substitute for the substitute of Mr. Montgomery,
the Senate bill, without the following F a3 * tt g e »
which was inserted when the bill was hafore tbs
Senate upon the motion of Mr. Grepn of Missouri,
supersede the amendment proposed fcy Mr.
j*ue h of Ohio:
“And that nothing in this act shall be construed
io abridge or infringe any right of the people as
ssertod in the Constitution ofKancasat all tunes to
gaiter, refoim, or abolish their form of government
tin fvucb a manner as they may think proper, Con
4gr<.se hereby disclaiming any authority to inter
vene'' the construction of the Constitu
iiou wf any State, except to say that it be Republi
cs in form, and not in conflict with the Constitu
tion of the United States.”
This passage, (the Green amendment as it is
•ailed) wae inserted in the bill, in the Senate, by
the following vote:
“Yeas—Messrs. Alien, Bayard, Benjamin, Biggs,
Bigler, Blight, Brown, Clay, Evans, Fitch, ritz- i
-patrick, Green, Owin, Hammond, Houston, Wun- i
tar, Johnson of Arkansas, Johnston of Tennessee, *
Joses, Kennedy, Mallory, Ma?on, Pearce, Polk,
Pago, Sebastian, Slidell, Thomson, of New Jersey, t
Toomba, Wright, and Yulee—Bl. '
“Nay»--Messrs. Bell, Broderick, Chandler, Clark, 1
Collamer, Dixon, Doolittle, Douglas, Durkee, ’
FeMeaden, Foot, Foster, Hale, Hamlin, Harlar, l
King, Seward, Simmons, Stuart, Sumner, Trum
bull, Wade, and Wilson—2B.
“Absent or not voting—Messrs. Bates. Cameron, ,
Crittenden, Davis, Henderson, Iverson, Reid, and
Thompson of Kentucky—B*’
Mr. Iverson was in his seat when this vote was
taken, but declined to vote, because as he after- j
wards stated, he could not vote for the amendment ,
and would not vote against it, in company with
the'Black Republicans.
The substitute of Mr. Quitman in the House, was
the Senate bill, without this Green amendment. .
It was rejected by the following vote: **
Yeas —Messrs. Atkins, Avery, Barksdatb, Bo
cock, Bonham, Bowie, Boyce, Branch, Bryan, Bur
nett, Caskie, John R. Clark, Clay, Clemens, Cliug
man, Cobb, Burton Craige, Crawford, Currv, Reu
beu Davis, Dowdell, Edmundson, Elliott, hfustace,
Faulkner, Garnett, Gartrell, Goode, Hawkins, Hill,
Hopkins, Houston, Jackson, Jenkins, Jewett, Keitt,
Jacob M. Kunkel, Lamar, Letcher, Lovejov, Mc-
Queen, Mason, Maynard. Miles, Millson, Moore,
Peyton, Phelps, Power, Qu tman, ReagaD, Ruffin
; Sandidge, Savage, Scales, Seward, Henry M. Shaw,
i Shorter, Singltion, William Smith, Stallworth,
Stevenson, James A. Stewart, Talbot, Miles Tay
lor, Trippe, Watkins, Winslow, Woodson, Augus
tus R. Wright, John Y. Wright, and Zoliicoffer
—72.
Nays —Messrs. Abbott, Adrian, Ahl, Anderson,
Aodrews, Arnold, Bennett, Billinghurst,Bingham,
Bishop, Blair, Bliss, Drayton, Buffinton, Burlin
game, Burns, Burroughs, Campbell, Case, Chaffee,
Chapman, Ezra Clarke, Horace F. Clarke, Clawson,
Clark B. Cochrane, John Cochrane, Cockerill. Col
fax, Comins, Corning, Covode, Cox, Cr&gin, James
Craig, Curtis, Damrell, Davidson, H. Winter Da
vis, John G. Davis, Timothy Davis of Massachu
setts, Timothy Davis of lowa, Dawes, Dean, Dew
art, Dick, Dimmick, Dodd, Durfee, Edie, English,
Fans worth, Fenton, Florence, Foley, Foster, Gid
dings, Gillis, Gillman, Gilmer, Gooch, Goodwin,
Granger, Greenwood, Gregg, Groesbeck, Grow,
Lawrence W. Hall, Robert B. Hall, Harlau, J. Mor,
rison Harris, Thomas L. Harris, Haskin, Hatch-
Hickman, Hoard, Horton, Howard, Hughes, Iluy,
ler, George W. Jones, J. Glancy Jones, O. Jones-
Kellogg, Kelly, Kelsey, Kilgore, Knapp, John C,
Kunkel, Landv, Lawrence, Leach, Leiav, Letter.
Mclar, McKiboin, Humphrey Marshall, Samuel S,
Marshall, Matterson, Miller, Montgomery, Morgan.
Morrill, Edward Joy Morris, Isaac N. Morris, Free,
mau 11. Morse, Oliver A. Morse, Mott, Murray,
1 Nibtack, Nichols, Olio, Palmer, Parker, Pettit,
Phillips, Pike, Potter, Pottle, Purviance, Ready,
Reillv, Ricaud, Ritchie, Robins, Roberts, Royce,
Russell, Scott. Searing, Aaron Shaw, John Sher
man, Judson W. Sherman, Sickles, Robert Smith,
Samuel A. Smith, Spinner, Stanton, Stephens,
William Stewart, Tappan, George Taylor, Thayer,
Thompson, Tompkins, Underwood, Wade, Wal
bridge, Waldron, Walton, Ward, Warren, Cadwal
ader C. Washburne, Elihu B. Wash borne, Israel
Washburne, White,'*Wbiteley, Wilson, Wood, and
Wortendyke—lQo.
This substitute would have been rejected by tbe
Senate, if it had been adopted by the House, and
for this reason, as well as because they believed
that the Green amendment was right in principle,
several southern Democrats voted against it.
The Quitman substitute having been rejected,
the question recurred upon the substitute of Mr.
Montgomery, and upon a call of the yeas and nays,
that substitute was adopted by a majority of
eight votes. The yeas and nays were:
Yeas— Messrs. Abbott, Adrian, Andrews, Ben
nett,Billinghurst, Blair, Bliss, Brayton, Buffington,
Burlingame, Burroughs, Campbell, Case, Chaffee,
Chanman, Clark of Connecticut, Clark of New
York, Clawson, Clark B. Cochrane of New York,
Cockerill, Colfax, Comins, Covode, Cox, Cragin,
Curtis, Damrell, Davis of Maryland, Davis of In
diana, Davis of Massachusetts, Daviß of lowa,
■ tllißlp fffo yfti
man,Gilmer, Gooch, Goodwin, Granger, Groesbeck,
Grow, Hall of Ohio, Hall of Massachusetts, Harlan,
Harris of Maryland, Harris of Illinois, Haskin,
Hickman, Hoard, Horton, Howard. Owen Jones of
Pennsylvania, Kellogg, Kelsey, Kilgore, Knapp,
Kunkel, of Pennsylvania, Lawrence, Leach, loiter,
Lovejoy, McKibbin, Marshall of Kentucky, Mar
shall of Illinois, Matteson, Montgomery, Morgan,
Morrill, Morris of Pennsylvania, Morris of Illinois,
Morse of Maine, Morse of New York, Mott, Mur
ray, Nichols, Olin, Palmer, Parker, Pendleton,
Pettit, Pike, Potter, Pottle, Purviance, Ricaud,
Ritchie, Robbins, Robeits, Royce,Shaw of Illinois,
Sherman of Ohio. Sherman of New York, Smith
of Illinois, Skinner, Stanton, Stewart of Pennsyl
vania, Tappan, Thayer, Thompson, Tompkins,
Underwood, Wade, Walbridge, Waldron, Walton,
Washburue of Wisconsin, Washburne of Illinois,
Washburne of Maine, Wilson, and Wood—l2o.
Nays— Messrs. Abl, Anderson, Arnold, Atkins,
Averv, Barksdale, Bishop, Bocock, Bonham, Bow
ie, Boyce, Branch, Bryan, Burnett, Burns, Caskie,
Clark of Missouri Clay, Clemens, Clingrnan, Cobb,
John Cochrane of New York, Corning, Craig of
Missouri, Craige of North Carolina, Crawford,
Curry, Davidson, Davis of Mississippi, Dewart
Dimmic, Dowdell, Edmundson, Elliot, Eustis,
Faulkner, Florence, Garnett, Gartrell, Gillis,
Goode, Greenwood, Gregg, Hatch, Hawkins, Hill,
Hopkins, Houston, Hughes, Huyler, Jackson,
Jenkins, Jewett, Jones of Tennessee, J. G. Jones
Pmsylvania, Keitt, Kellv, Kunkel of Maryland,
Lamar, Landv, Leidy, Letcher, Maclay, McQueen,
Mason, Maynard, Mile**, Miller, Millson, Moore,
Niblack, Peyton, Phelps, Phillips, Powel, Quit
man, Ready, Reagan, Rielly, Ruffin, Russell, San
didge, Savage, Scales, Scott, SeariDg, Seward,
Shaw of North Carolina, Shorter, Sickles, Single
ton, Smith of Tennessee, Smith of Virginia, Stall
worth, Stephens, Stevenson, Stewart of Maryland,
Talbot, Taylor, of New York, Taylor of Louisiana,
Trippe, Ward, Warren, Watkins. White, White
ley, Winslow, Wood »on, Wortendyke, Wright of
ieorgia, Wright of Tennessee, and Zoliicoffer—
-112.
And so the Senate bill, i. e., the Lecompton bill,
was defeated in the House by the adoption of the
» Montgomery substitute, referring the Lecompton
• Constitution back to the people of Kansas, and au
-1 (homing them, if they rejected it, to forte another
» under which they might be admitted into the Un
-1 ion, by a proclamation of the Executive. Every
1 member of the House voted upon this substitute,
• except the Speaker Mr. Orr, and Mr. Cardtheks
■ of Missouri, who wasconfined to hia room by sick
ness. Every Black Republican in the House voted
• for it, although a conditional acceptance of the Le
compton Constitution. Every Southern member
' of the House voted agaluat it except six Americans,
viz: Davis, Harris and Ricaud of Maryland ;
Marshall and Underwood, of Ky., and Gilmrr
of North Carolina. If these six southern Ameri
cans bad not voted for the Montgomery sustitufe,
that sustitute would not have been adopted, the
Lecompton bill would not have been defeated and
the English kill would never have had an existence
And yet, the Opposition have the effrontery to de
nounce the English bill as an abomination, and to
charge the Democracy with thedtfeat of the Le
compton bill!
Items of news from the Savannah (Gs.)
Republican, of Sept. 9th :
The business over the Guif road shows a very
gratifying increase over last year, there being
from four to six cars of freight going and return
ing daily. The freight trains now rms one hun
dred and ten miles, and the mail tram will soon '
do the same thing. Thus gradually are we pene
trating into southern Georgia, which we hope to
unite with us in bonds of friendship as welt as m- !
tereet
Mr. Jesse Osmond is building a baggage car ,
for the Gulf road, m his cur shop near the depot;
and also has a number of freight cars in course of
construction. His shops present a busy scene. i
Quick Passage, —The three masted schooner, or i
tern, E. C. Fetter, Capt. Arnold, with a cat go t
wht.'se freight amounted to one thousand mue | t
hundred dollars, arrived yeeterday, from New t
York, having mr4e the passage \a 1j
house. 14
AUGUSTA. Ct A .. A Y. SEPTEMBER 14. 1859.
Senator Toombs and the Press*
The Cassville Standard , commenting upon Mr.
Toombs’ Lexington speech, os it was reported in
the Evening Dispatch, of the 30th of August, Bays:
“It is said the honovrble gentleman was especi- 1
ally severe upon editors, and said that a man who
could set up a seven by nine sheet, and assume the
royal pronoun “ we,” would assume to himself to *
lead popular sentiment. This may, to acertain ex* <
tent, be true; and, it is equally true, that some j
politicians think they ought to lead popular opin- |
ion. In the hope that we may yet see the speech
entire, we will make no further comment at this 1
time, upon this point; but simply ask the gentle- 1
man if he does not, m a great measure, owe his j
present position to the power of the press ?” ,
Our Democratic contemporary has been misled (
by the Dispatch, which in its report of Mr. Toombs’
Lexington speech, has grossly misrepresented his
remarks in reference to Mr. Douglas and the Press.
In that speech, Mr. Toombs, (we have his authority,
as well as that of other gentlemen who were pres
ent, for the statement, was exceedingly complimen
tary to the press and its conductors, and only se
vere upon a certain class of editors.
A physician who is learned and skilled in his
profession never resents the ridicule of quack
ery. He does not consider Dr. Sangrado,
a representative of the class to which he belongs.
A lawyer who has ability, learniug, and character,
is never exasperated by any ridicule or denuncia
tion of pettifoggers. He does not consider Oily
Gammon, or the Attorney in the Quod Correspond
ence, representativesof the class to which he be
longs. A minister who has learning, piety, and
that greatest of the Christian graces, charity, is
never offended by any exposure of hypocrisy. He
does not consider Amindab Sleek, a representa
tive of the class to which he Neither
should an editor who the duties of
his position, and feels that he is equal to them,
be incensed by denunciations or ridicule of a class
of editors to which he does not belong. Our con
temporary of the Standard , we are sure, does not
belong to that class of the conductors of the press,
upon which Mr. Toombs, in his Lexington speech,
was “especially severeand there is no reason
why he should be offended by anything which
was said by the houorable gentleman, in that
speech, in reference to thepres9. His remarks, if
fully reported, would be offensive to those only
who would be compelled to make a personal appli
cation of them. £
There is no man who has a higher appreciation
of the value of an honorable, high-tonea, well-in
formed, and independent press, than Senator
Toombs.
The Constitutionalist seems surprised that Col.
Wright should sav that the Missouri restriction
was not repealed bv the Kansas bill, but that
is simplv the truth. That restriction was in effect
removed by the New Mexico and Utah bills of Mr.
Hillmore, as we were told all over this land in 1850
by Mr. Stephens, Mr. Toombs and other friends of
the Compromise, The Kansas-Nebraska bill sim
ply, declared it inoperative and void there, because
' inconsistent with the legislation of 1850. In rela
tion to the appropriations, we presume our neigh
bor’s information is at fault.
Chronicle d Sentinel of Saturday.
In our issue of Friday, we referred to two very
ridiculous positions, which are assumed by Col.
Wright, the Opposition candidate for Congress in
this District, in his addresses, before the people.
One of these positions is, that the Missouri Com
promise was not repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska
• act* anA the other is, that the appropriation* (or a
’ fiscal year of the General Government, are never
voted by Congress before that year commences.
p It will be seen from the above paragraph that the
Chronicled: Sentinel defends the first of these
positions and doubts that Colonel Wright has
ever assumed the last. It presumes that our
“ information is at fault, ” when we charge
that Colonel Wright has assumed it. Our in
formation was derived from a number of gentle
men, who have beard Col. Wright at differ
ent places during the canvass, and we believe that
it is correct, and that the redoubtable champion of
the Opposition has, on several occasions, exhibited
his own ignorance or presumed upon that of
his hearers, so far as to deny that the ap
propriations for a fiscal year of the Federal Gov
ernment, were made in advance of that year! If
he has not, let him say so. The presumptions of
the Chronicle d Sentinel will not relieve him from
the charge.
In reference to the other position which he as
sumes, i. e., that the Kansas bill did not repeal the
Missouri Compromise, we must say that we are
quite as much surprised to find that the Chronicle
d Sentinel defends it. as we were to bear that Col.
Wright had assumed it. But what is its defence
of that position? Simply a statement of ficts
which show that that position is absurd. The
Chronicle d Sentinel states that the restriction of
the Missouri Compromise “was in effect removed
. by the New Mexico and Utah bills of Mr. Fill
more,” and in ihis statement we agree with it, (un
derstanding it to mean that the Missouri Compro
mise was inconsistent with the principles esiab
. l.shed in the Compromise of 1850*) although Mr.
Fillmore does not, for he said when the candidate
, ol the American party, and of the Chronicle d >€&■
: tinel , for the Presidency in 1856, that he never
i dreamed, when he signed the Utah and New Mex
■ ico bills, tnat he was disturbing the Missouri Com
promise. It then states that tbe Missouri Com
promise restriction was declared by the Kansas
bill to be inoperative aud void, i. e., that the Kan
, sas bill repealed the Missouri Compromise. lie
i defence of Mr. Weight’s position is the strongest
argument against it, and proves ihat that position
is ridiculous. We do not care to add anything to
that argument —it is strong enough as it stands;
but we have, id connection with this question of
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, two or
three inquiries to make of the Chronicle d Senti •
Ist. Has it not repeatedly approved the repeal
of the Missouri Comp omUe by the Kane b ac
> and if it has, how can it now assert that coai-
I promise was not repealed by that act?
2nd. Did not Mr. Fillmoee denounce the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise by the Kansas act of
1854, when the candidate of the American party,
acd of the Chroniole <& Sentinel, in 1856, for the
Presidency as 4 *a Pandora's l»ox, out of which
have issued all the political evils which bow afflict
the country ,scarcely leaving a hope behind?” Did
he not deny that the Missouri Compromise was
repealed by the compromise of 18bo? Did be not
assert that it was repealed by ibe Kansas act ?
' Did he not make its repeal by the Kansas act. ti §
sole ground of his o) portion I /hit &ol? asd if he
did, bow can the CknmuU <& Sentinel, wnunut
repudiating the m*n wb-m it sustained for Presi
dent tn 1856, now aSßert that the Missouri Com
promise was a >t repeal d by the Kansas act?
Georgia is remarkable lor the cheapness of her
railroads and Htate government. Her lailr. ads
were built very ecom uiically, and yet subMan
ti illy. Eer annual e>p edii ures for the support of
urn Stale government, impose a tux ot onli M-veu I
ty-seveu Cents on a thousand dollars, 'fhts. we
presume, is the lowest ritate tax paid in any Stale j
of the Union +—o*mnMaU(Ohte) #»fvirer Stpi. |
* [communicated.]
Redactions in the Mail Service.
*• Washington, D. C., Sept. 6tb, 1859.
Mr. Eiitor : The writer has noticed with seme
interest the discussion of late between the Consti
tutionalist and the Dispatch, upon the subject of
the reduction made in the mail service by Post
master General Holt, and upon tbe general man
agement of the Department. Little can be added
byway of argument upon the question, as the ex
pression of your views have been very full, and I
find upou enquiry, correct. Stopping a few weeks
in Washington, and noticing the issue made by
the Dispatch, which, in substance, is that the dis
continuance of mail routes and offices, and the
reductioas and curtailments in tbe service have
been confined chiefly to the South, in which Geor
gia has especially suffered. I resolved to call at
tne Post Office Department, and learn for myself
the true state of the case, and perhaps give you
an item of facts which may be of interest to your
readers. The peopleware sensitive, and very prop
erly so, in regard to their mail facilities. Their
benefits are daily before them, and all have some
knowledge of the subject* but all cannot know the
magnitude of details which are involved. The
mention this is enough without argument.
Tbe Wmmmii General very kindly permitted
me to examine the files of as many States as my
time inclination would permit. Os course 1
could *iot see all, nor was it necessary; so I looked
over the orders made in some of the North-western
States since the Ist of March last,|whicb, from con
versation with Mr. Holt, satisfied me would be a
fair index of the whole North. An hour's exami
nation revealed these facts:
In Michigan, there had been reductions in the
number of trips, aud total discontinuance of the
mails, ou over sixty routes in.the State.
In Wisbonsiu, tne same is true on over eighty
routes in tbe State.
In Minnesota, the same is true on over fifty
routes in tbe State.
In Illinois, the same is true on over one hundred
and twenty-five routes in the State.
And from what little insight I got in lowa and
Indiana, the same proportion seemed to prevail.
Tbe above facts are given from the official re
cords. It not being my purpose to cover any other
ground than the reduction issue, I waive amplifi
cation. It is proper and just for me to say that the
Postmaster General rendered me everv facility of
ascertaining the ends I had in view; and 1 left him
aAexalted opinion of his endeavors to do
iJ6ce nfail sections in this unpleasant and noces-
mail service, for the results
of Opposition are alone responsible.
Mr. an amiable and able officer; and does
the censures which many papers have
cKrged him with in the management of a
great Depart witfiotuTnoney. Georgi*.
▼[ communicated.]
f fIAiV IBVILLB, Ga., Sept. 6th, 1859.
The Democratic party of Jefferson county met
in the Court House; when, on mWon
It. Dixon, Major B. S. Carswell was
Chair, and James G. Cain appointed Secretary.
The Chairman, upon taking his seat, made a few
remarks, explanatory of the meeting, and alluded
in a happy manner to the union of Whigs and
Democrats for the purpose of resisting the vari
oii® Isms of the day.
After calling tbe districts by number, and re
cording the names of the delegates, the following
resolution was offered by T: H. Polhill, Esq., and
carried:
/Icsolmd, That we nominate Judge Noah Smith
at‘ be candidate of the Democratic party, for the
Senate.
'invention then, proceeded to ballot
IRReI idate lor the House of Represen
tatives. After counting the votes of tbe first bal
lot, and a nomination not having been effected, it
was moved by T. It. Polhill, Esq., that R. P. Lit
tle, Esq., be nominated by acclamation, which was
carried unanimously.
R. P. Little, Esq., being present, accepted the
nomination, after expressing his gratitude to the
party for this renewed manifestation of their gen
erosity and confidence.
Ihe Chair appointed the following gentlemen a
committee to wait on Judge Smith, and request
his acceptance of the nomination tendered him, to-
Wit:
f lion. Herschel V. Johnson, R. P. Little, W. 11.
Batty, R. K. Dixon, and W. S. Clements.
Dr. R. K. Dixon having announced to the con-
vention that the lion. Robert Toombs would ad-
dress the people of our county on the 20th lust.,
1 it was resolved, that we give a free barbecue on
that day; and further resolved, that T. 11. Polhill,
R. K. Dixon, and J. 8. Cam be appointed a coin
; mittee to invite the lion. Herschel V. Johnson and
! other distinguished gentlemeu to be present.
? On motion, •
Resolved, That the proceedings of the eonven
) tion be published in the Augusta Consititulionai
, ist.
On motion, the convention adjourned.
B. 8. Carswell, Chairman.
I J. G. Cain, Secretary.
We clip the subjoined items, of Washing
* ton county news, from the Sandersville Central
" Georgian , of Sept. 7th
The September term of the Superior Court of
. this county, commences on Monday next.
t There will be a fair given by the ladies of San
dersville on Tuesday, the 13th inst., at six o’clock,
P. M., the proceeds of which will be appropriat
r ed to the new Methodist church, now in progress
m this place.
- Col. John J. Long, an old and well known citi
• zen of this county, died at biß residence on Mon
-4 day night last.
Mr. Wm. F. Womble has the honor of selling
the first bale of new cotton in Sandersville, the
3 present season. The cotton was bought oy Messrs.
1 Smith A Slade, on Salurda. lust, at twelve cents,
i This cotton grew, we presume, on some of Mr. W.’s
, line land on Keg creek, m this county.
Democratic Ruminations. —At a meeting of the
j Democratic party of this county, on yesterday, Co!
James S. Hook was nominated as a candidate for
r Senate; Dr. Jared I. Irwin and Thomas O. Wicker,
■ for the House of Representatives.
During the past week, we have made it a special
I business to inquire of planters, from different parts
of the county, to what extent the cotton crop has
been injured by the recen* heavy rains, and have
been pleased to hear a much more favorable re
port than we feared we should have. That the
I crop has been injured, there can be uo doubt. In
, some places by low lands being overflowed ;on
such land the cotton has the rust, as might have
been expected. Some planters say their cotton is
: injured by the n>t; others, that it is shedding con
siderably, Ac.; but newr»heless, we hope fora tol
erably lair crop—much less, however, Uian was an
ticipated some mouths ago.
Some are of opinion iLrnt the people will be de
ceived in their corn crop—that there will be more
shuck and less corn. But we are of opinion that
the crop will be the largest that has been gather
ed m this Conn 1 - »*• •• _
Thi Swalu- wa. oouuiban friends
informs us that he uiisx-d ih s morning, for the
first lime, these little fea*hered companions, and
thinks they must yesterday have taken their de
parture for other climes. The note of busy pre
paration has been sounding for some days past,
und companies, baitalious, and regiments have
iu*eu uiu-teriog together previous to the grand
flfghL Swallows are very methodical in the period
oi i.'Ciival and departure, coming und going in a {
fl ck, and it is said, on a slated day, though we
cannot vouch for the coireamess of this report.
Perhaps some of our ornithological fr»ends can in
form ua Ibis point. t
Button Tr+nttrifC, Sepiemler 6,
The “Northern Eights" again Kindled.
The Boston Traveller , in speaking of the auroral i
effects, says:
The electric disturbance bas continued with vary
ing intensity through the forenoon, greatly in- i
terrupting and impeding the working of telegraph
wires. Some curious phenomena were seen on the
wires of the American Telegraph Company, and
the results obtained surpassing any heretofore re
corded. On the wires between Boston and Port
land the operators were enabled to hold conversa
tions and transmit and receive business on the cur
rent induced by the auroral waves, the usual bat
teries being disconnected from the wires.
This is the first instance on record of more than
a word or two having been transmitted w'ith the
auroral current. The usual effects of the electric
storm were also manifested, such as revei sing the
poles of the batteries, Ac.
“We are informed also, that on the short line
between the Cambridge Observatory and the store
of Messrs. Bond A Son, in Cougress street, which
runs nearly East and West, the waves of electrici
ty display considerable regularity, being from a
half a minute to a minute in duration.
Telegraph Office, )
31 State street, Boston, Sept. 2, 1859. |
To the Editor of the Boston Journal:
We have experienced, this morning, a remarka
ble manifestation of magnetic influence on the
wires running in all directions from this office,
arising, doubtless, from a magnetic storm, which,
w'ere it night, w'ould present a magnificent display
of the Aurora.
We observed the influence upon the lines at the
time of commencing business—eight o’clock—and
it continued so strong up to halt past nine as to
prevent any busines being done, excepting by
throwing off" the batteries at each end of the
line and working by atmospheric current entirely!
Several dispatches were in this way received from
Portland, Maine, as well as over the line between
South Braintree and Fall river, where they cut
the batteries off, and worked for some time with
the current from the magnetic storm. The waves
were longer than 1 have ever seen them before,
lasting sometimes over a minute; but the same
peculiarities of changing the poles was observed.
At about ten o’clock the storm partially subsided
so as to enable the lines to resume the use of their
batteries; but up to the present writing—eleven A.
M. the lines are still affected. P
The Washington Star of the 2d inst. has the fol
lowing :
The splendid exhibition of Aurora Borealis last
Sunday night, besides astonishing the wakeful sub
lunarians, puzzled the operators of the various tele
graph lines to a considerable extent, and played
the deuce with their messages. After battering
against their subtle atmospheric opponent to a
very late hour, they gracefully acknowledged a
Solferinian defeat, and closed their respective
lines.
Last night the heavens exhibited a similar ap
pearance, and the presence of a superabundance of
atmospheric electricity has been evident along all
the lines leading from this city to-day. Finding it
impossible to send and receive messages correctly
by the use of their batteries, the operators, both
here and in Philadelphia, detached their battery
conductors and worked their lines, or at least re
ceived readable signals, by the agency of the Au
rora Boreal’s alone, as the following operator’s
despatch will show:
Philadelphia . September 2.—Something oc
curred this morning lik£ the affair of Sunday night
—the Aurora. The Western line worked with
Pittsburg, and from New York to Pittsburg, with
out a particle of battery at either end. Professor
Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute, was up here
Monday to make inquiries concerning tne phe
nomenon of Sunday night, and took the statements
of all the operators on duty. He appeared much
pleased at what he had learned.
“Op. Am. Telegraph Office.”
The operators in the American Telegraph office
i in this city tried similar experiment on the Wash
. lugtoa «uoitl Metnpiufc line, and met with thesame
success, ¥
Who now will dispute the theory that the Au
rora Borealis is caused by electricity ?
1 From the Buffalo Express , September 2.
Iflondin’s Fireworks al Niagara Falls.
Another great crowd assembled at the Falls
night before last, to witness the novel evening per
formance of M. Blondin upon the rope, which is
said to have been, ajstbetically considered, the
finest of his exhibitions. The grounds upon both
sides of the river were illuminated with locomotive
lamps, and the sight of the great concourse of peo
ple upon each shore, seen in the glure of these
blazing reflectors, was of itself worth some travel
and expense. Blondin started from the American
shore a little past eight o’clock, announcing his
departure by the ascent of a rocket.
lie had attached to each end of his balancing
pole a quantity of various colored and brilliant
lights, which blazed finely as he tripped down the
► slanting cable. But, unfortunately, the lights
i upon one end of the pole fell off soon after he start
ed, and much of the intended effect was thus des
’ troyed. The other lights adhered until after he
had passed the centre, so that he was a long time
l in view. At the centre of the rope he sat down and
rested a moment, and before resuming his journey
performed the feat of standing upon Lis head.
When the last light fell he was totally swallowed
. up in the darkness, and the spectators were left to
indulge their fancies und test their faUh in the man.
Not long after, a shout from the Canadian shore
announced his safe landing.
Remaining but a little time, he started upon his
return, enveloped in a perfect volcano of tire,
spouted from a laige number of Roman candles by
which ho was surrounded. The spectacle now was
exceedingly fine. The fireworks held out until he
had reached about the middle of the rope, where
. he again baited, stood upon his head and suspend
ded himself by his feet. He hung daugliug, head
ownwards, until the candles were all burned out,
and iu that position he was lost to the view of the
spectators. Although he disappeared under rath
er frightful circumstances, we dare say there were
not many who felt any alarm during the succeed
ing moments, in which his fate was unknown. The
crowd waited patiently for the fearless rope-walker
to emerge from the darkness, and it was not long
before the shouts upon this side informed those of
the opposite that Blondon was all right.
We have not heard yet what is the next novelty
which Blondin proposes to introduce in his per
formance.
From the Oolumbvs ( Ga .) Sun , S'pt 7.
Memphis and Cknrleston Railroad,
The pres.dent and directors of th * Memphis and
Charleston railroad have made their ninth annual
report. Tne receipts and expenditures for the
year ending July lbib, 1852 are as follows :
Receipts from all sources amount to $1,.'W0.81'2 40
Expenses of East'n ami West’n Div 562,77 b 40
Si et receipts of the > ear 778,036 00
The entire cost of the road, equipment, Ac., was
six million one hundred and eighty-eight thousand
aud thirty-three dollars and forty-nine cents. The
receipts amount to twelve and a half per cent, on
this sum. The aggregate increase of the business
of the road for the year just closed, is three hun
dred and sixty-six thousand four hundred and one
dollars and seventy-five cents. The increase in
the passenger department is one hundred and
fifty-nine thousand four hundred and nineteen dol
lars and fifty cents. In the freight department
one hundred and serentv-Jwo thousand nine hun
dred ar.d seventy-five "dollars and ninety-seven
cents. Mail, express and other sources thirty-four
thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and
seventy-seven cents. The increase in the number
of bales of cotton transported over the entire road
is seventy-two thousand two hundred and four
bales. The whole number of bales carried over
the road for the year was one hundred and ninety
four thousand five hundred and seventy-eight, of
which number one hundred and eighty-four thou
sand six hundred and sixteen bales were received \
at Memphis, the balance going to Stevenson and l
Ta**cumbia for transportation to other markets.
The directors report that the branch lo Florence j
will be completed before the expiration of the pre
sent month.
A writer in the Galveston (Texas) Bines, noini- j
nates Col. Loots T. Wigfall as a candidate for i
United States Senate
"VOXj. 38—IN O. 38.
From the Macon ±(Ja.) Telegraph , Sept. 6.
Col. Akin’s Letter and Mode ot Canvass*
ing.
In the Savannah Republican of last Thursday
appears a letter from Col. Warren Akin in expla
nation of certain law charges against the State,
and at the bottom of it, much to our surprise, the
special request “will the Macon Telegraph and the
Augusta Constitutionalist insert the above?” We
will “insert” the Colonel’s letter very cheerfully,
seeing that be thinks a letter necessary to exono
rate him from the suspicion of dishonesty or ex
tortion. For the credit of Georgia, if for nothing
else, some things ought to be assumed as true;
and one of these should be that a gentleman who
has risen to the position of nominee to or incum
bent of the Executive Chair, is at least commonly
honest—that he is incaple of cheating, defrauding,
stealing or lyiDg. So much ought to be assumed,
at least until the contrary is lawfully proven be
fore a jury of the country, and the expectant or of
ficial is safely inclosed within the walls of the Pen
itentiary.
We have a right to be surprised, however, at
the ColonePs particular request of the Telegraph.
Did the Telegraph ever impeach his fees? Has he
ever found a line in the Georgia Telegraph throw
ing a doubt on his reputation for honesty? Has
the Georgia Telegraph imitated him and his con
federates to the slightest degree, in their mon
strous outrage* upon decorum—m their atrocious
insinuations, assaults and indignities upon Gov.
Brown ?
ns see a little of the blind depth of human
prejudice : Akin is the fugleman of a party, many
of whose organs, for nearly two years, have been
assailing the personal integrity of Gov. Brown, as
no Governor of Georgia was ever assailed before ;
and such as the bitter malevolence of these men
that they cannot even concede him his official title,
or any ordinarily respectful prefix; but in every
mode of speaking of him, study to express con
tempt. If we were to inventory the crimes and
misdemeanors of which they charge or insinuate
he is guilty, we should travel pretty much through
the criminal vocabulary. In the course of one
article of arraignment in the Chronicle dr Sentinel ,
which we suppose will be considered the leading
organ of the Opposition, the Governor of this State
is charged with perjury, fraud, falsehood, dema
goism, heartlessness, political corruption and bar
gaining, and is said to be a tit companion of scoun
dre's. And such is the extremity of rancor with
which the Governor is pursued by these men, that
even the most unquestionable acts of official fideli
ty are perverted into new grounds es assault and
villitication. Thus we see that even in paying
money into the Treasury from the State road, he
has been by turns assailed with every possible dis
graceful and contradictory allegation. In the
whole course of our observation, we never knew a
Governor of a State so remorselessly hounded and
pursued with systematic detraction and calumny,
not only in the utter absence of any just founds
j* tion for the charges, but, as we believe, in the well
settled conviction of the mass of opponents them
selves, that the whole study of Gov. Brown has
; been to administer the duties of his office with
patriotic fidelity.
‘ Now, Warren Akin, who heads this crowd of
factious assailants of Gov. Brown, is so sensitive
to the breath of calumny that he even begs Demo
cratic prints to set him right in the matter of an
1 insinuation that he has charged ;he State too high
fees for legal services! This sensitiveness is
‘ honorable; out the same man on the same day he
penned this application to the Telegraph , attacked
1 Gov. Brown’s reputation behind his back in the
| £ity of Savannah, alcusiDg him of “systematic
numbuggery” and deceit for the purpose of retain
s ing his office. That we may justify our assertion,
we copv the following from the Republican's ac*
* count of Col. .Akin’s speech in that city :
1 “ Mis criticisms of the claims of Gov. Brown
was a triumphant exposition of the systematic
hum buggery by which the latter is seeking to
i continue in office and delude the people of their
’ rotes.”
! And in Macon* according to his organ here, he
used the f&llowing Wmgnagc In speaking cf *fce
' Governor :
“ But while on the subject of humbugs, continu
ed Col. Akin, he would call attention to the most
consumate humbug of the day—he meant the
management of the State road by Gov. Brown and
his Superintendent.”
So, also, in Augusta, last Friday, the sensitive
Akin, so atilicted about “insinuations” aflecting
bis own moral character, again pours out a black
torrent of detraction and abuse upon Gov. Brown.
We quote from the Augusta Constitutionalist:
“It is true that Col. Akin disclaimed any un
kind feeling toward Gov. Brown ; and announced,
at the commencement of his speech, that he would
treat him him with perfect respect and courtesy.
But his whole speech was a violation of this vol
untary pledge; for there was no portion of it in
which there was not some reflection upon the
character or capacity of his opponent, or some in
sinuation of unworthy motives against him. In
his management of the Western «x Atlantic rail
’ road he was represented as a knave; in his bank
policy, as a demagogue and an ass; and in his ex
‘ ercise of the veto power, as an unfeeling bnitc.
■ Col. Akin called upon those present to tell him
; what Joseph E. Brown had done, that he should
[ be re-elected Governor of the State ? and because
no one replied, he assumed that Governor Brown
j had, in the opinion of his audience, doue nothing
to entitle him to re-election. He declared that,
* in his opinion, he had done many things which
ought to defeat his
* denounce his representation of his management
of the State road, as me of the veriest humbugs
1 aud grossest frauds which ever was imposed upou
; an honest and unsuspecting people.”
Thus the indignant Akin, smarting under a per
' sonal insinuation which ought to make him chary
of wounding others, follows suit with his organs,
and charges Brown with systematic deceit, delu
sion and humbuggery, as recklessly as if he were
passing the compliments of a fine morniDg. It
is an illusTation of that depth of prejudice and
bigotry which will not permit a man to see an
inch beyond the line of what he conceive*? to be
bis own rights and interests—which blinds him to
all that is due to his neighbor—and to even-hand
ed justice— to courtesy and fair dealing. It is a,
spectacle which ought to make angels weep and
men ashamed. It’s a disgrace to Georgia that pol
iticians cannot canvass this State decently and
without charging the Chief Magistrate with crimes
and misdemeanors which, if they could be proved,
would consign him to the Penitentiary.
And who is it that they abuse in this way ? A
man of the simplest and most frugal habits aud
; tastes—a professing Christian, and one known to
! be remarkably punctilious in the discharge of his
j religious duties. A nan who, at every step of
! life, from the humblest boyhood, has marked his
I career by a stern end unbending integrity of char
j acter—a lawyer without blemish—a Judge against
whom calumny never breathed a slander—a Gov
i ernor who has manifested a singleness of purpose
! to serve the State—a faithful vigilance over her
I pecuniary interests which has won him the title of
honest, and loug divided eveu the Opposition it
self on the policy of opposing his re-election?
j Such injustice to such a man will reap its reward
I from a generous people. It will raise a stt>rm of
indignation which will teach his opponents that
no amount of gratuitous •’a'uniny can blacken a
j life-won reputation.
Census Returns of Cass County*
Hoads of Families 2,07 b
Males between 6 and 16 years of age 1,651
Males under 6 years of age 1!564
Mules over 16 years of age 2,605
Females between 6 and 15 years of age.... 1,473
Females under 6 years of age 1,187
Females over 15 years of age 2,727
Deaf and Dumb **
Lunatics §
Idiots y
, Total Free Whites. 10,830
! Whole number of Slaves 4^641
I Free persons of Color * 11
TotaJ . . .15,50$
J. A. Maddox, Census Taker.
GasniiU (t&j.) Standard, Sept. B th.
The vain man idolises his own person, and here
i he is wrong; but he cannot bear his own company,
i and here be u» right,