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nrmocriitlc I’latroi in
Jidoptcd at Cincinnati, June, 1856.
Resolved, That itie American Dentucra
rv place llieir iruir in ilie intelligence, the
patriotism and the disrritniuutii gj indie of
itte American people.
Unsolved, That we regard this as a dis
tinctive feature of our need w I ich we are,
proud to in lintain before the world as a
great moral element in a form of gnvorn- :
mem springing from noil upheld hy the pop
ularwill; and we I'nntrast it w ith the men
mid practice of Fedcrati-m. under w hatever ‘
name or form, which seeks to p day the vole
of the eotiititueiil. and which conceit es no
imposture too inmi-iruii* lor the popular
crudclity.
Resolved, therefore. That entertaining
there views, the democratic party of the
Union, through their delegates assembled
in general convention of the Stales, con*
veiling together in a spirit of concord, ol
devotion to the doctrines and faith of a free i
representative government, and appealing
to their fellow citizens lor tho recti'ude id
their intentions, renew nod reassert before
tho American people the declarations of
principles avowed by them, when, on form
er occasions, in general con vein ion, they
presented t heir candidates for the popular
suffrages,
I. That the federal governriKn’ is one of
limited powers, derived solely from the
Constitution, and the grants of powers made
therein ought to lie strictly construed hy all
the departments and agents of the govern*
rnent; and that it is inexpedient and danger*
ous to exorcise doubtful constitutional pow
ers.
S. 3 hat the Constitution does not confer
npun the general government the power to
commence and carry on a general system
of internal improvements.
15. That the constitution does not confer
authority upon the fedctal government, di
rectly or indirectly, to assume the debts of
the several States, contracted for local in
ternal improvements, or other State pur
poses ; no 1 would sui It assumption he just
sir expedient.
4 ‘l’liat justice ansi sound policy forbid
the federal governm-m to foster one branch
of industry to the detriment of any other,
or to cherish the interests ol one portion to
the injury of another portion of our com
mon country ; that every citiy. u and every
section of ihe country has a tight to demand
and insist upon an equality of rights and
privilege* and a complete and ample pro
tection of persons and property from domes
tic violence and foreign aggression.
5. That it is tho duty of every branch of
the Government to enforce mid practice
th> rnot rigid economy in conducting our
public affairs, and that no more revenue
ought to ho raised than is required to defray
tho necessui y expenses of the Government,
and for the gradual hut certaiu extinction
cf the public debt.
6. That Congress Ins no power to char
ter a National Hank ; that we brlieve such
an institution one of deadly hostility to the
best interest of our country, dangerous to
“ttr republican institutions, and the liber
ties of the people, an I calculated m place
the business of the country within the con.
trol of a concentrated money power, and n
bove the laws and will of the people, and
thr the results of the Democratic leg.
•station in this and other financial measures
upon which issues have been made between
the two political parties of tho country,
have demonstrated to practical men of nil
parties thrir soundness, safety and utility iu
all business pursuits.
7. That the separation of the moneys of
the Government Irom all hanking institu
tions is indispensable for the safety of the
G vernm-nt nnd the rights of the people. ,
8. 1 hat tho liberal principles embodied
bv Jefferson in the Declaration of Indepen
dence. ami sanctioned in the Constitution.
” hicli makes outs the land wf liberty, and
tiu asylum of the oppressed of evciy uti
tion, have ever been cardinal principles in
the Democratic faith; and every attempt
to abridge the ptivib go of becoming citi
zuus and owners of soil aiming us ought to
bo resisted w ith the same spirit which swept
tite alien anti sedition laws from out statnte
book.
1) That Congress has no power under
tho constitution to interfere with or control
the domestic institutions of tho several
ft tales, and that all such Sta'es are the solo
mi I proper judges of everything vppet tabl
ing to their own ufl .its not prohibited by
the constitution; that all effmtsof tho abo
litionists or others mad* ip induce Congress
to interfere with questions of slavery, or to
Vtke incipient steps in relation thereto,
ore calculated to lead to the most alarming
and dangerous con-equeuces. and that such
charts have-an inevitable tendency to diini
hish the happiness oftho people andendan
gtr the stability and permanency of the
l nion, and ought not to be countenanced
by any friend of our'political institutions.
Resolved, That tho foregoing proposi
tion covers and was intended to embrace
the whole subject of slavery agitation in
< ‘o: grass, and theres re the Democratic
part* *f the U uiou. standing on this naiiou
! nfatform, will abide hy and aiihcro to a
faithful exocu ion of the arts known us the
eompnmi-e measures, settled bv Congress,
the act Sir reclaiming fugitive* from service
or I tbor included; which act being dc-igu
ed to carry out an express provision of the
constitution, cannot, w ith fidelity thereto,
be repealed, or so changed as to destroy or
impair its efficiency.
Resolved, That the and i>eratir paity
will lesist all attempts at renewing in Con
gress, or out of it, the agitation of the slave
ry qucs'itm under whatever shape u: color
the attempt may be made,
Re-olvcd, That the proceeds of public
lands nagbt to bo sacredly applied to thi
national o jects specified-in the ciinstrtuiion
nnd that we are. opposed to any law for the
distribution of such proceeds am>n K the
Slates, as alike inexpedient in policy and
repognent to the constitution.
Resolved, That we are decidedly oppos_
ed to taking from, the Presideut the quail.
Bed Veto power, hy which he is enabled,
under restricii -ns sun responsibilities amply
snfi dent to guard the public interests, to
su-pctid the passage ot a bdl whose merits
c i in n secure tho approval of two-thirds
of he Senate and I lease of Ropre-entiitives
until the judgment of the people can be ob
tained thereon, and which his saved the
American people from the corrupt and tv
rauai-al doaiiaiau of ;h3 B*uk of :h Uni
ted States, sod font a eorrup ing system of
general Internal Impi ovemenlr.
Resolved. That the democratic party w ill
faithfully abide by and uphold the princi
pies laid down in the Kentucky and Virgi
nia resolutions of 1792 and 1793. and in the
report of Madison to the Virginia Lrgisla
ture in 1799—that it adopts those principles
as constituting ono of the inein foundations
nf its political creed, and is re>olved io car
ry them out in their obvious meaning and
import.
That in view of the rondiiintf of the pop
ular insinuations in the Uld World, a high
and sacred duly is involved with increased
responsibility upon the Democracy of this
country, as the party of the people, to up
hold and maintain the rights of every State,
and thereby the union of the States —and to
sustain and advance among them constitu
tional liberty, by continuing to resist all
monopolies and exclusive legislation for ihe
benefit of the few, at the expense of the
many, and hy a vigilant and constant adhe
rence to those principles and compromises
of the Constitution—which ire broad enough
and strong enough to embrace and uphold
the Uniqp as it is. and the Union as it
should b|cfc.i'> the full expansion of the en
ergies nnd capacity of >his great and pro
gressive people,
And Whereas, Since the foregoing de
claration was uniformly adopted by our
predecessor- in National Conventions an
adverse political religious test has been se
cretly organized by a party claiming to be
exclusively Americans, and it is proper that
the American Democracy should clearly
define its relations thereto; therefore.
Resolved, Th it the foundation of this
union of States having heen laid in its pros
perity, expansion and pre-eininenl exam
ples iu free government, built upon entire
freedom in matters of religious ronctrn. and
no respect of persons in regard to rank or
place of birth, no parly can justly be deem
ed national, constitutional, or in accordance
with American principles which bases its
exclusive organization upon religious opi
nions and accidental birth-place.
That we reiterate with renewed energy
of purpose tho well considered declarations
of former conventions upon sectional issue
of domestic slavery and concerning the re
served lights of the States; and that we may
more distinctly meet the issue on w hicli a
sectional party subsisting exclusively on
on slavery agitation, now re Hex to test the
fidelity of the people, North and South, to
the Constitution and the Union —•
Resolved. That claiming fellowship with
and desiripg the co-operation of all who re
gard the preservation of the Union under
the constitution ns the paramount issue, and
repudiating all sertional parlies and plat
forms coneerui g domestic slavery, which
seek to embroil the States and incite to
treason and armed resistenee to law in the
Territories, and whose avowed purposes, it
consummated must end in civil wur and
disunion, tho American democracy recog
nize and adopt tho principles contained in
the organic laws estnhlistiing the Terrilor es
of Kansas and Nebraska, a* embodying the
only sound an I safe solution of the slavery
question upon which the preat national idea
of the people or this whole country can re
pose in its determined conservatism of the
Union ; non-interference by Congress with
slavery in States and Territories : that ibis
tvas the bitsib of tho compromises of 1800,
confirmed by both the democratic and whig
parties in uati mill conventions, ratified by
the people in the election of 1852.and right
ly applied to ihe organization of Territories
uno’ ihe admis-ion of new S'ates. wither
without domestic slavery, as they may elect
the equal rights of all the States will he
preserved intact, the original compacts of
the constitution m lintained inviolate, and
the perpetuation anil expansion ol this U
nion ensured to its utmost capacity of em
bracing. iu haunony. every future Amor -
tan State that may lie constituted or annex
ed with a republican lori of government.
Resolved, That we recognize tlte right
of the people of all the Territories, includ
ing Kansas and Nebraska, aetieg through
the fairly expressed will of the majority of
actual residents. and whenever the number
of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a
I'oustilution, w ith or w ilhout slavery, and
be admitted into the Union upon terms of
perfect t quality with the other Slates.
THE ruREION POLICY Os THE OuVEHNWENT.
Resolved, finally. That by the condition
nf tlie popular institutions of the old world,
and the dangerous tendency of sectional
agitation, combined with the attempt to en
force civil and religious disabilities against
the right of acquit ing citix-en-hip in our own
land, the high and sacred duly is devolved
with increa ed respntmbiltv upon the Dem
ocratic party of this conn tty. as the party
of the Union, to uphold and maintain the
right of every State, and thereby the IJamti
of the Slates; and sustain and advance a
inong us constitutional liberty by continuing
to resist all monopolies and exclusive legis
latino for the benefit of the few. at the ca
penseuif the many—and by the vigilant
adherence to these principles and the com
promises of the constitution, which are
broad and strong enough’ to embrace and’
uphold the Union as it was. and the Uuion
ns it is—tltii Union ns it shall he in the full
expansion ol the energies and capacities of
the great progressive people-
Fitst—Resolved, That the question con
nected with the foreign policy of the coun
try ieinforior to uo domestic question what
ever. Tlte titue has come for the people of
the United States todsclare themselves in
favor of free seas and progressive free trade
throughout the world. And. hy solcinu
m tnilestations to place their moral influ
ence hy the tud of their successive e.iam
bic.
Second—Resolved, That our geographi
cal and political position with reference to
the ether States of the continent, no less
than the interest of our commerce and the
development of our grow ing power, requires
that we hold to the sacred principles involv,
ed in the Monroe doctrine. Their bearing
uud import admit of no miscnnsttuction. and
should be applied with unbending rigidity.
Thirdly—Resolved, 1 bat tbegreat high
way which uature as well as the assent of
the States most t mined lately interested in
its maintenance has marked out (or the
free coimminicaiina between toe Atlan
tic and the Puiiflc oceans, constitutes one
of the most important nuhievraeots to be
realiz- and by the spirit of moderation, in tlte
unconquerable energy of our people, and
.that result iliouij Le secured by a time!}’
nnd efficieut exertion of the control which
Vvc have a right to claim over it. And no
power on earth should be suffered to impede
or clog its progress bv any interference with
relatiors that it may suit our policy to estab
lish with the government of the States
w i 'hin whose dominion it lies ; nnd we can.
under no cirrumstanres, surrender our pre
ponderance in the adjustment of all ques
tions atising out of it.
Fourthly—Resolved. That in view of so
ci mmnDding an interest the people of the
United States cannot but sympathize with
the efforts which are being made by the
people of Central America to regenerate
that poition of the Continent which covers
the passage amiss the oceanic Isthmus.
Fifthly—Resolved. That the Democratic
party will expect from the next Administra
tion every proper effort to be made to in
sure our ascendancy in the Gulf of Mexico
and maintain a permanent protection of the
great outlets tlitough w hich areemptied ii.to
its waters the products raised on the soil,
and the commodities created by the iudus
try of the people of our Western valleys and
the Uuion at large.
AMERICAN PLATFORM.
Adopted at iht Session of the Motional
Council, Fib. 21s/, 1856.
Ist. An humble acknowledgement so
the Supreme Being, lor his protecting care
vourhsaled to our lathers in their success
ful Revolutionary struggle, and hitherto
manifested to us. their descendants, in
the preservation ol the liberties, the in
dependence and Ihe union of these S'ates
2d The perpetuation of th Federal
Unton, as the palladium of ourctviland
ft ligious libetries, anti the only lure bul
wark of American Independence.
3d. Americans must rnlt America. and
lo this end native born citizens should be
selected sot all State, Federal, and
municipal offices or government employ
mfnt, io preference to all others; neve
ihrless,
4th- Persons born of American parents
residing temporarily abtoad should be en
titled lo all the rights ol native-born citi
zens ; hot
sih. No person should he selected hr po
litical station, (wethei of native or foreign
birth.) who recognises any allegiante or
obligation of any desciiption to any fur
eigu prince, potentate or power or who
refuses to recognise the Federal and
Slate constitutions (each within its
spheie) as paramount to all other lawt, as
rules of political action.
O li. The nonqualified recognition and
maintenance of the reserved tights of the
several S ates, and Ihe cultivation of har
mony and fraternal good \vi 1, between
Ihe Citizens of the several Slates, to this
end, non ioterlerence by Congress with
questions appeitaining solely to the indi
vidual States, and non-intevention by
each Stale with lltg affbiisol any othe,
State.
7th. The recognition of ihe right of the
native born and naturalized citizens of
the United States, permanently tesiding
in any Teiritoiy thereof, to frame their
constitution and laws, and to regulate
Itieii domestic and social affairs in their
own mode, subject only lo the ptovisions
of the Federal Constitution, with the
piivilege of admission into the Union
w henever they have the requisite |xjpu
lution for one Repiesentative in Congress.
Provided always, that none but those w ho
are citizens ol the United States, under
the constitution and laws thereof and who
have a fixed residence in any such Terri
tory ought lo participate in the formation
of the constitution, or in the enactment
of laws for said Territory or State.
Bth. An enforcement of the principle
that no State or Territory ought to admit
other* l ban citizens of t he United States to
the light of suffrage, or holding political
office.
9h. A change in the laws of naturali
zation, making a continued residence of
twenty-one years, of all not bermbefore
piovided lor, an indispensable requisite
lor citizenship hereafter, and excluding
all paupers, and poisons convicted of
ctinte, ftom landing upon ouc shores ; but
no interference with the vested nghis ol
foreigners
10th. Opposition foany union between
Church and State ; no interference w ith
religous faith or worship, and uo rest oaths
for office.
11th. Free and thorough investigrtion
into any and ail alleged abuses of public
functionaries, and a stiict economy io
public expenditures.
I2'h. The maintenance and enforce
ment of all laws constitutionally enacted,
untiJ said laws shall be repealed, or shall
be declared null aod void by competent
judicial authority.
13th. Opposition to the reckless and
unwise policy of the present adminisira
tion in the general management of our
national affairs, and mote especially as
shown in removing “Americans’’ (by des
ignation) and conservatives in pitnciple,
Irom office, and placing foreigners and
ultraists in their places : as shown in a
truckling subserviency to the stronger, and
an insolent and cowardly bravado towards
the weaker powers ; as shown in reope
ning sectional agitation, by the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise ; as shown in
granting to unnaturalized foreieners the
light ot suffiage in Kansas and Nebraska;
as shown in its vacillating course on Ihe
Kansas and Nebraska question ; as shown
iu the corruptions which pervade some
of the departments of government ; as
shown in dtsgiacing meritorious naval
officers through prejudice or caprice; and
as shown in the blundt rsng mismanage
ment of our foreign relations.
14th. Therefore, to remedy existing ev
ils, and prevent the disastrous coosp
queuces otherwise mulling thettkim,
we would build up Ihe ‘American party’
upon the principles hereinbefore stated.
15th. That each State Council shall
have authority to amend their several con
stitutions, so as to abolish the several de
grees, and institute a pledge of honor, in
stead ol other obligations tor fellowship
and admission into the party.
16 th A free and open discussion of all
political principles embraced in our plat
form
THE REPORTER.
CUTHBERT, GA , SEPTEMBER 6.
JOH N W ifItTtHO M A
The Law of Newspapers.
1. Subscribers who do not give expres- notice
to the contrary, are considered as wishing lo
continue their snbscrip'ion.
2. If subscribers order the discontinuance nf
their newspapers, ihe publisher ni iy continue
to send them unlil all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect nr refuse to take
their newspapers fmm ih,: offices to which they
are directed, they are held responsible un il they
have settled the bills and ordered theirs discon
ued.
4. If subscribers remove to other plaees with
out informing the publishers, and ihe newspapers
are eent to the former direction, they are held
responsible.
5. The Courts hive decided that refusing tn
take newspapers from the ofiice, or removing
and Icayirig them uncalled for, is puma f.icia ev
idence nf intentional fraud.
6 The United Slates Courts have also re
peatedly decided, that a Postmaster who ne
gleets to perforin his duty of giving reasoiioble
notice, as required by the Post Office Depart
ment, of the neglect of a person to take from
the office nowpapers address'd to him, renders
the Postmaster liublo lo the publisher for the
subscript!!) price.
“ Hitialdo’ will appear next week.
magistrate's Summons.
We have just printed a lot of Magis
trate’s Summons, which will be sold at
Columbus prices.
Persons at a distance having busi
ness with the editor, will please address
“The Editor. Cuthbert Reporter.” I hose
having business connected with the Of
fice, will address “ The Reporter Office,”
Cuthbert.
Mass Mecfittg.
The M uss Meeting of the American
Parly, which was aunonneed in our last,
has been postponed from the 6th to the
! 3th inst.
From flic land nf Ifnni.
Attention is called to tlte advertise
ment of Messrs Smith & Lennard, who
have just received a large and most choice
lot of No. 1 Tennessee Daeott and Flour
of the best brand. These articles have
been selected by Cant Smith who has just
returned from the land where provisions
are plenty.
those who are, or will he com
pelled to purchase Coffins for departed
friends, we refer to the adveitiscment of
J M. K. ( limn, who has just received a
new lot of those world renowned Metalic
Burial Cases.
$5- At the August drawing of the
Havana Plan Lottery, in the city of
Macon, there was drawn a capital prize
of $15,000 by a gentleman of Charleston,
No. of the Ticket being 6861. We see
that our townsman. It Brake, is a regu
lar authorized agent for this Lottery, and
keeps constantly on hand a large supply
of tickets. Tickets which at previous
drawings have proved to be the lucky
ones, have remained here for a month
without finding a purchaser. Then we
say to all who wish to gointo this scheme,
to call on the Colonel and give him a
chance to make you happy. -
S We are informed by a subscriber,
that a rumor is abroad concerning the
health of this place, which is far from
being true. Some of our citizens being
off on visits hearing this report, have hur
ried home, expecting to find their family
and friends either sick or dying. We
congratulate them upon their return home
and their agreeable disappointment. We
cannot s.eefrom what source such a report
could have sprung—for we most emphati
cally deny that such is the case, but on the
contrary, the health of Cuthbert is better
than any point in South Western Geor
gia To those abroad, who wish to visit
our town, or who desire to patronize our
Colleges, we say you need not fear to
come, or to risk the health of your daugh
ters among the cool and pleasant hills of
Cuthbert.
Terrell Court.
His Honor, David Kiddo, accompanied
by the legal fraternity of this place, left
for Dawson on Monday last, for the pur
pose of holding Court in Terrell, but was
compelled to return home, after getting
well swamped. The abutment of the
bridge over Itchawaynotchaway Creek has
been swept away. Directions were sent
to the Clerk to adjourn Court until the
3d —the Creeks remaining impassable up
to that time, his Honor has adjourned
, Court ever to the next regular terca.
The two IMatloi ms.
There will be found in to-day’s issue,
the National Platforms. We know very
well that they have been published sep
arately time and again, by the different
party organs throughout the land ; but
we do not uow remember to have seen
them placed before the peepie side by side.
We dare say, there are men even among
the readers of our paper, wlto have not
as yet carefully read and digested, with
an unbiased mind, the principles which
are set forth in these Platforms.
These are the principles which, sepa
rately, are either to sustain or defeat the
man who has endorsed them. These are
the principles with which either tlte Dem
ocratic or the American party are to
place their candidate in the Executive
Chair. The time is not far distant whew
this decision by the sovereign people of
the United States will be made, and
among the people of the South, this se
lection will be either Buchanan or Fill
more. ’Tis true there is another candi
date before a portion of the country
Fremont, with his blink platform of abo
litionism. This party has at last wheel
ed broad front to the South. There il
stands —its design and intention no lon
ger smuggled beneath that mantle of in
sidious hypocrisy which has enveloped it
from its embryo, to within a short time
past. Like a great Upas tree it stai ds,
emitting from every pore, poison—poison
which would collapse the lungs of a true
man, and strike instant death to a nation
al heart. But to sectional fanatics, it is
their very vitality ; duty breathe it—they
live upon it. There they now stand, like
a man filled with exhilirating gas, w ith
distorted eyes, swearing eternal ven
geance against the Constitution and tlte
rights of the South.
We call npon every Southern man to
look well and examine closely the position
he is occupying in the present contest
If there still continue among us party
contention and discord, when tribulations
come thick and directly upon us, where
are we to look for succor? Truly, then,
will our enemies langh at our calamities,
and mock when out fear eometh. Then
let not the intrigues and deceptions of
party leaders throw a mist over our eyes,
or fetter our better judgments.
If this laud is ever to see a day, when,
from the graves of its slumbering patri
ots there is to rise a warning voice, that
day, wc believe, is now upon us, and the
warnings of that voice are to you —to lay
aside those long-seated and much-loved
party prejudices which have been hugged
to your bosoms, rolled beneath your
tongues, and nurtured by you—even
though they may have been instilled in.o
you through the precepts and example of
a father, and throughout a long lile have
rejoiced only when those preferences pre
vailed, and always mourned when they
were in the minority.
We then advocate that these should be
uprooted, and tite mind left clear to make
a calm and impartial decision. No South
ern man should occupy a silent—a blank
position. Forbearance is no longer a vir
tue. The sentinels on the borders have
sounded the alarm, and the watchmen up
on your towers cry aloud, that “ all’s not
well.”
It is not our province to dictate. In
dependently, we try to place before you the
facts as they are. There is one thing we
would say, “ choose ye this day whom ye
wII serve, 5 and in making this decision,
let no sordid influence cause you to waver,
but “ Let all the ends thou aimest at be
thy Country’s, thy God’s and I ruths.”
Beecher Stowe, ol “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin” notoriety, is beginning to
create another star among the Boston pa
pers, by the announcement of another
new nigger novel, culled Died, a tale of
the Dismal Swamp.
We suppose Miss Harriet has been
weeping over Tom Moore’s ballad of the
Dismal Swamp, which caused her to go in
search of the remains of the loving youth
who peri-bed in the Swamp, looking for
his sweetheart. Not finding his remains,
she meets with a runaway nigger, falls
dred fully iu love with him—the passion
is mutual—a white man is seen approach
ing with a jack ’o lantern in his hand—
the loving couple flee ; at the last report
they were seen going northward, with a
colored individual supporting a torch
light for Miss Harriet to paddle her black
cauoe.
Fremont is already making up his
Cabinet. George Law is to be Secreta
ry of the Navy; Seward Secretary of
State ; Giddings, of Ohio, Secretary of
the Treasury, and Bennett of the Herald,
Minister tc th: Court of St. James.
Tlie Stoi m.
We have again beeu visited by the Au
gust storm, which has for the last five
years been making an annual sweep of
destruction through this section of tho
country. On Friday, the 30th ult., the
wind began to blow moderately from the
South, causing quite a change in the
temperature of the atmosphere, nnd lie
clouding the sky with a heavy mist. Tnis
continued, gradually increasing until Sat
urday night, about 12 oVlock, when the
wind shifted to the north-east, and com
menced blowing a terrific gale, accompa
nied with ruin, which fell in perfect sheets.
Iu a short time, our whole town was
flooded with water. The storm continu
ed to rage without the slightest abate
ment, uutil Sunday evening, about 5 o’-
clock.
We have made a tour around and about
our towu, and are glad to find that the
damage, though considerable, is not so
great as we expected. Ihe injuries are
confined principally to chimneys and shade
trees. Some of the latge oaks which
stood on the Square were blown d^wn—
a great number of yard trees were t.v sl
ed off aud broken down. Where tite
chimneys were blown down, there lias
been considerable damage to the houses,
as the lain beat in and caused the plas
tering to fall, leaving houses greatly de
faced.
As to tlie effects of the storm through
out tlie county, from the best information
we can gather. has a been very destructive
to the planters. Ihe cotton crop, with
out a doubt, hits been cut off almost a
third. The weather preceding the storm
having been very warm, caused the cotton
to open rapidly, and all which was open
ed in the fields lias been blown and beat
en into tlie ground. Tlte cotton general
ly, has beeu very umch thrashed afiout,
and lying in such a position as will cause
a great portion of the boils, wit eh are yet
to open, to injure. Corn has been blown
down to a eous.derablc extent The wa
ter courses arc yet very high.
M e have received a letter from the up
per portion of the State, bearing date,
Hamilton, Aug. 31, which says : “On
Saturday night, we were visited by a
storm of wind and vain, mixed with hail,
which has eaused great h .voc The
wind blew a perfect gale. Houses wete
un tooled, fences blown away, shade trees,
and even the timber of the forest were
swept to the ground. Such a general
scene of destruction I have never beheld.
It makes the heart sick to look upon ir.
Such a storm has never heen witnessed!
by the ‘oldest inhabitant’ of the country.
The II arris eatup meeting w as in session,
aud a very large concourse of people were
assembled. As yet, I hate nut heard
from them.”
We have seen planters from Clay and
Calhoun counties. Ihe effects are about
the same as in Randolph. The northern
mails were delayed, but have now come
to hand \\ e find nothing t f special note
in our exchanges as to the effects of the
storm ; we therefore judge that tlie fur
ther we go from the sea coast, the more
mild it must have been.
Since writing the above, we received
the follow ing ;
.Montgomery, Jlhi. —l hero was much
rain and wind in this city on Saturday
and Sunday last. Great damage, it is
feared, has resulted to the cotton crop.
Eujaula. —\Y e were visited on Satur
day night with a heavy ,-t rut. Toe town
was strew ed with prostrate trees aud fen
ces. The brick sto.es occup.ed by Dr
W L. Cowan, Mes.-r . Lany &. Daw kins,
and Wtu. L. S hwartz, all sustained seri
ous injury by the fall of a portion of the
rear walls. The end of the Masonic
Lodge was blown ofl. The damages are
greater here than occasioned by the storm
iu 1852.
Macon. —Great damage to trees, fen
ces, walls, &c. The crops about here are
almost entirely ruined. The river is very
full.
Savannah —Considerable damage to
trees and the roofing throughout the city.
Bice crop is cut off’ five per cent, of the
whole yield.
Jlugusta.— Rain very heavy—wind tre
mendous. All the Railroad trains behind
time, and it is feared the road is much in
jured.
John T. Jenkins, a merchant of this
place, has just arrived home from New
He, with a large number of pas
sengers, came out upon the steamer Au
gusta. The gale struck them when off
Cape Hatteras ; it blew a perfect hurri
cane ; all hopes of ever reaching land
agaiu was given np, and the vessel was
dashed about almost at the mercy of the
waves After thus being tossed about
for twenty-four hours, they were enabled
to put into port.
