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WEWIfESI>AV, AIGIBT i9. ISGO.
CONSTITUTIONAL UNION TICKET.
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FOR PRESIDIN’®, ®
■T 0I I N BEL L,
OF TENNESSEE.
FOR VICE-PESIDEXT, ©
Edward Everett,
OF .MASSACHUSETTS.
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0 ELECTORAL sTICKET* •
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
lion. WII.UAH LAW, of Chatham, °
■ lon. BEN J All IN 11. 1111.1.. of Troupe*.
° o FOR THE DISTRICTS,
lrt District —SAMUEL 15. ♦>I > ENCER, of Thomas.
•Jd District—MARCELLUS DOUGLAS, of Randolph.
3d District —L. T. DOYAL, of Spalding.
•Ith I)!strict —W. F WRIGHT, of Coweta.
sth District—JOSlAH R. PARROT, of Cass,
tith District—H P.°BELL, of Forsvth.
71 DuG ict —I. K. Dl of^Twi-us.
Bth District —L\FA\EITE LAMAR, of Lincoln.
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® JOI\ BELL, o
HIS PRUSLAVERY AND TERRITORIAL PLAT
form, as laid down by himm-.lf in = °
THE I XITEM STATES SEN ATE (>N
THE GTH OF JULY, 1860. „ *
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Wilmot Proviso Justly Obnoxious.
“ A proposition [the proposition t# apply the Wilmot
Proviso to New Me.xu >. to, had giving
rise to much excitement at the South. ’o
@ # %LA.NK SECOND.
The Flog of Luton must Protect our Proper/y m
every foot of our Territory .
*• The ('onstitutiofi. pitopßioviaoßE, the flag of the Un
ion, protects the citizen in the enjoyment of his rights of
propert v of every description, recognized us such in any
of the States, on every sea, and in every Territory of the
Union. The soundness of the general doctrine held on
this point, 1 think cannot well be questionetfor disprov
ed : and if the <pi Wlon related to a, o Teriitory, situated as
Oregon was when the United States came in possession
of it. property in slafea -WOIII4 be entitled to tin prote;
tion of the Laws ami Constitution of the United States.
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“ Wliaft-ver the Jesuitical doctors of the Xortbi may say.
the clauses in the Constitution relating to the importation
of direct taxes and representation in Congress, I affinn,
do aiflount to an expiv-s recognition of ®laver\ft”
i> PgSLN K THIRD,
o Humanity and Justice Require the Extension of the
. 9 area of Slam Labor. o
“ Humanity to the slavojmot less t(%m justice to the
Iniister. recommends the policy of diffusion and extension
into any new territory adapted to his condition ; and the
reasons are too obvious tube misunderstood by the dullest
intellect. It is not a principle of that dictates
the anti extension principle of tht**North.”
rUXK FOURTH. jg
John Bell , of 7’ .• ncMre, Stands of Falls by Slavery.
“The North would know how to excuse the restless
ness of tln-ir Southern brethren, and feel no surprise that
they should be looking around for some guarantee—some
addition^protection to ther peculiar conditifßi and insti
tutions. “As to myself, I shall hold on to the Constitution
until I%ee that it no longer interposes a burner to abso
lut(; o aggres'ion. 1 am identified with this so Clinch abus
ed institution, bv my representative position in the cham
ber, in association, in character, anu in the tribunal of
public sentiment.” 0
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‘REMHMBEn, .
.(THAT A MEETING’
Comes off in'riiomasville, o the next saleblay,
at which time speeches a°re expected from J. R.
Alexander, Col. B. B. Moore, niul others. Let ev
ery man attend who can find time,"for sbnte very
important and astoqishing things will be told him.
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Another Keinovnl. o
We, the umlet signed*give notice to the ciiiins of
Tliomasville a§d vicinity,* that *e have removed its
our Ney Store, next door to Dr. E. Seixas’ Drug
Store, where we wiff, in* few days, tveeive a New
Stock of Fall ;yid Winter Gaods. e
o \\*e invite our trietyjs and citttomersjo give us a
call at the Tew Store, as we will not Rb surpassed®
bv any one in qualitv and prices.*
m mJ. SCIIIFF & BRf).
Thmasville, August. 20, 1800. 8
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Attlome Agpin. # o®
Having returned home, the may now be
found at his post, so ably tilled by
ring his absence. Mr. D. is a correct and spirited
writ §p, and it@iffords us pleasure a Ways
room for tt*e productions of h& pen. We thought
to"sa something in this issue, of®a general charac
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ter about fflanejjs and tilings in the upcountry, and
some things*,at hogje which ©e have not ’Wntioned,
but have not the space.* Perhaps 1 we have devoted
too much time to the speaking on Monday, and we
confess, tfeut we have been very long-winded on the
subject ;®but even now, we are not done with it. We
have not had pay o our rcspect/to our
neighbor, to wlsnn, of coiwse, they wer? first du—
He hope soon to overtake events and come®up to all
our obligations. *
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A Card.
M iltox Mjlßer tenders fcis kind regards to his
Associates in Fletcher Institute, to all the pupils
that have belonged to it cdhncction w ith 1,
it, to the chosen helpmeets of such as have nuUried,
to Ihe young ladies and gentlemen, numbers oPfam
ilies that have given it patronage; also to the South
ern Enterprisc®*and Wire Grass Reporter, and re
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asks the pleasure of their presaiice at the
Female Academy on
o o'clock, P. M. ®
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Having nothing else to do, and the evening
being a beautiful one, we a moonlight stroll on
Thursday up to the Town Ilall, where we
had tli? pleasure of witnessing exhibition of
Prof. Spelliers and his pupils in the Fencing art.—®
Me found quite a large audience in attendance, half
of ladies who seemed disposed to s
encotifage. by the presence of their grace and beau
ty, an art which in Europe forms part of the educa
tion of every Everybody,®we believe,
was please !. juugingpfrom the perfect order, marked
attention, and frequent roitnds of applause, among
the spectators. We might re fey to the rare skill of
{[tore than one of the actors,°but? where alleacquit
ted tfiemselves so well, it would be invidious to make
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16®“ A correspondent of the Richmond Whig says
only fifty counties, out of about one bundled and
fifty, in the State, were- represented in the late
Breckinridge Virginia State Convention, while eighty
were represented in the Douglas Convention. The
Lrgiaia Democracy seems to have gone over to
Douglas en masse. Bell and Everett are good for
that State. o
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- T r. Spencer in Stnvannnh.
M e matte the following extract from a private let
ter to a citizen of oThomasville, written by a promi
nent getJ-ieman in Savannah, and dated August 23,
1860: 0
0 “Col. S. B. Spencer, of your town, the nominee
for Elector of the First Congressional District on the
Bell and Everett ticket, delivered a telling speech,
to a large audience, in this city on last evening.—
His frienjls at home, and I.is party in the district,
have c.-uiseoto be proud of him. If he°stump3 the
district and makes such speeches as he did her?, it
will?count for Bell and Ev?rett in November. For
ayscly,*! am projid of Jura.'’
Col. Steward vs. Judge I.ove.
These champions, the leaders ofthe Dcuglas
and Breckinridge parties in this section, had another
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contest in the Courthouse on Monday last, and both
exhibited considerable skill and coyrage. The con
test waxed w.u-m anS in the exposures, made on
both s.des, honest men must have been amazed at
♦he amount of corruption so long covered by the
duplicity of their The Judge has great
ly iiiproct l since his last effort, posted himself up
better aud now feels competent to demolish not only
Mr. Douglas, but Mr. Bell, Mr. Everett, and who
ever elst comes in conflict with Mr. Breckinridge.
t Ilar-li language was sometimes used such as “ mean”
“ slinking” “ loic ” *tic., &c. By the way, hoWMo
gentlemen reconcile such language with iutelligence
and refinement ? Such worck may carry with theme
a certain suspicious kind of vim ; but we have never
dieen able to see liow they strengthened logic, or
beautified rhetoric. But to return. It is
necessary for us to talk about the speech of Col.
Seward, more than @ enough say that it was point
ed, olrong and effective—admitted by Judge Love to
be*able. lie delivered it with his usual eargesfness
vehemence and power; but the Judge having the
conclusion upftn followed over tl
counteracted much that was said with some well
fKrung points, made forcible eliietly by the Colonels
former positions upon the questions under consider
ation. lt was the opinion of the Breckinridge men
present that the Judge useikthe Colohel completely
up —and one fellow under the sweet influence of a
small brgk in declared that h “ pulled his
’ tail clean out.” This may be very expressive of the
idea conveyed to the flllow® mind by the contest ;
but if the Judge got no better hold than that, it sub
ject him to the suspieiotf that the game escaped
while he onlv secured the caudal appendage. Be
t? 4 s as it mav* if the Judge had maintained his con
s
sistefcey throughout, we would have Bonskfcred the
contest very stubborn. In several instances how
„ever, xvliile declaring the Kansas bill a “client”
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and a “swindle,” lie would undertake to draw the
merits of hi* candidates and those jictine with his*
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party frogt their support of he once supposed
to be the Southern constructiomof that nytasure. —
it appears to us, it’ the daill uas a
“iftuid ” upon the no man couldtbase his
nietjts upon the support he bad given it and daim
cnsißerati(Si at the hlmds of the Southern people.*
for the reason that Ins merits wuld Jjc based upon
a fraud , and if lie was so ignorant and dull of com
a
prehension as nofeto have able to detect a fraud
so palpablejohe w ? ojtld not be worthy of tjie name c ft
statesman, and therefore not fit for a high and re
sposible office. ° Yet this is thß position in which the
speech of Judge Love places, ?f w(kuflderslan4 him,
every democratic leader of the South ; for evets ; one
es theniiodid all in°tlieir power to make tlie Southern
people* swallow this “ fraud,” this cheat” and
swindle,” anti well did they succeed. • Buchanan*
was elected upotbit, byßa very large ffiajovity in tlie
South, inspite D os ail the eflurts of tlfb Opposition to
convince the people of tiie, truth, lint now Judge
Love admits the*truth, and *to our astoni*lynsnt, in
this spo§ch, went so I‘Sr as 41 say that he agrcccUwith j
his Opposition friends and*Mr. Fillmore tiftit tlie re
peal o< tl?e°Missoutl compromise was t?e •“
ra*s Box,” from whence had all tl evils which
now afflict* the country. There Biust have been a
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great revobition o in ilie mind of the Judge since the
Filluiorocampaign, and we heartilycon^atolatehim
upon the opening Os 143 eyes, and efenvegsion to the
tnjth. fiut alas ! his conve?sion comeS too*late to be
of any service to that noble old statesman, wiiom
Judge Love now pays the iiighest possible compli
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mentp and who would, if elected, itave wiuieteti the ,
wlyde cguntry, and sustained She South in all her
rights. Judge be dece--
ed, “chatted,” again? May O t?ot bis Conversion
again come too late, to be of service to his country ?
lie is now told that lie is again “barking up the*
wrong tecc,” and that by flie election of Breckin
ridge, he only prolongs the quarrel question
of slavery, without settling any principle whatever,
fust as he alone in the election of Buchanan, and ft “'tin
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he takes tl?e field, with the same blinfl confidence.
ditfcrniinecKto carry on war tt> the bitter end, with
110 more assurance of being in the right**lian lie had
before. Having once been so badly deceived, “cheat
elf swindled,” should he not be very cautious lierc
e B J
( after? But lie may answer us now %-itli confidence,
and say in a loud voice X(i! for lie asserteil*in tliis
®and undertook to prove, £y ©ending aj)d
comparing the platforw? of Breckinridge with the
platform laid iliiwii by the Opposition convefliion
which assembled*at Milledgeville to send delegates to
tiie bite Baltimore JJsation©l Opy?siti(Oi covcntion,
that lie and his party, now stand* upon the same
identical phitTorm the Opposition then stood upotf.
This is another very important step the Judge ami
Jiis party have taken, and we again congrarttlate
them upon their rapid progress in the work of Ame
ricaifl*ing themselves. “ Almost they
to be Cbrirtians.” But one thing isetow lacking.—
1 Let them Any and vote for John
Bell, and all will be right. Coming so near up, how
ever, to th? Opposition faith as above confessed, q>d j
having the dark clouds of deception created by the
Kansas bill removed f*om tlibir sky, and discerning®
the solid understanding of Mg. Fi?ltnore, it
is, and hav : ng the shield of prejudice stricken
J'rom their comprehensbm by&the battering-ram pow
er of Ben. Hill's logic, they are now able to answer
NO ! have no fear of further deception. We can
not be cheated and swindled now; we are on the Op
position platform. 0 Jhe Opposition had the right plat
form and we have got on it.
Tubing these things into consideration may we
n4 ask why the Judge does not support the Opposi
tion candidates? He replies 6 that the c Opposition
have abandoned their (this) platform, and now have
no platform, having :ulopted the “Constitution, the
Union and the Enforcynent of the Laws.” a “gene
ral” thing, upon which, lie said in his speech, “eve- e
rgbody could sts.ml.” JiVliat a confession this is. Let
every man remember it. This is the very-gplatform
tfie feople of tliis country bave long desired, for the
tlieir sectional difficulties. They
been annoyed, tortured, @ and distracted by sectional
platforms, until their patience is exhausted, their
peace and harmony destroyed, and their country
brought to the brink of ruin. Platforms have been
for the Constitution, and their principles
enforced rather than the laws the land, until tftey
have usurped the supremacy, bound the people hand
and foot, loosened and given full rein to demagogues
and fi and the consuming fires strip
ped of their power, robbed of institutions, and
their houses left unto them desolate. Their fathers
who fought and shed their best blood*for the country
as an inheritance for their children, gave them only
tie Constitution, the l nion and the Laws, for a plat
form; they had lived tinder them peaceably and
happily themselves, and found them all-sufficient.
They lacked nothing. They needed no other plat
form, and were not chargrtl svifh “ dodging ” the is
sues made by their enemies because they adopted
none otAer. They did not make platforms to fight
upon—they fought upon the Constitution and the
i people of fttis I niop will and are fighting upon the
Constitution to day. The coming election \vilP/ rore
tiieir loyalty to the Constititfion and the Jfgftn amfc
convince agitators everywhere, that the °Amevican
pei jile are yet capable of%eing aroftsed to a sense
ot duty, and that they have t#ie power to n&iintain
tiieir rights and the giant°agents of cor
ruption, who now revel thpir estates and iut'use
into their veins the poison of mad fanaticisfft ?ind
rebellion P ® #
Having already Continued these remarks to too
great length for our time <yid spac?, wf will°notice
but one other point in. Judge speech and
, leave the rest for future*cousideration. Much foe
mains to be said of it, for the ‘"whole speech is capa
ble of d§ion and total demolitioif, b#t it is im
possible for ifs to connectedly, for t lie reo-on
that it was not so delivered; and if it had been, our
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memory, perhaps, is not capable ot reproducing
even all we deemed The point we have
just alluded to,°however, it can be called,*
was the avowed object an l attempt of Jt!ge Love
to prove Edward Everett “do be no better than Abe.
Lincoln" —that is, tmake him out as complete and
! bloodthirsty an Abolitionist as Lincoln, wtio openly
avows his abolitionism. 0 Judge Love spares not in
the choice of his terms, and he cannot expect more
clemency at the hands of lps oflporfent? Having
j boldly committed his fortune to#the waves, be is
! doubtless prepared for storms and tempests, and if
I they are fiercer than bis political barometer indi
cated, of course he will bear, if not patiently, wi#h
their supvradded violence. He is tlic first speaker
of any standing we have heard of, in either faction*
of the Democratic pagy, who ha#dared to stake his
reputation for “honesty” and veracity, upon the as- *
sertion that £<lward Ever&t—whom all men but a
few months ago dcliglitcl’to honor, not only for Sis
pre literary attainments, 0 unequalled since
j the deatii of Humboldt on all this globe, and liisale
votioy to the sac real fame of the inimortaf'Washing
ton, l#it also for bis patriotism and great services to
the noble land that gave him bii#h—was no„ou#ider
than Abe. I*neoln, whose platform is the abolition
Vof slavery in the South, thougil it plunge the coen- (
try into a civil war that shall niake the earth drunk.
with the blood of freemen. Edward Everett Stands
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upon th& Constitution as his platform; he i as ac&pted
t it, and does the Constitution ml>olisb slavery ?° We
t have confidence in*Judge Love’s veracyy, #ud havo
always thought hiifl luaicst in his political
but how shall w<? recviMtilc this assert ion with the
*facts of Mr. posttiiaii, a*acknowledged, a>en
0
h\j Mr. Breckinridge? Could the Judge be blinded
by interest or prrfudica? 9 We havg always had too
higli an opinion of hi# intelligence to believe this.
Y had then. WpiiftHie deliberately liimselPiif
such a position merely to pander to the vitifoed taste
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of an api*auding crowd ? This wo®ld be anti-Chi#-
as well as inhumanity; for if they were not
already, it would vitiate Ibeir taste, and iflalte them,
It persevered*in, adiungry, s<#i*dal-loving Jiorue of
partisans merely, whose would exlialt the
every speaker in proportion UPtlie denthfif
slang and scandal he was nbleto detail. Wacannot,
jj-hertfore, boiieve the Judge guilty of this.®- How
Ptlien,#sh|ll we account for ltis ungenerous and uu
clmrita*ble of Edwarb Everett with Abe.
Lincoln? Shall we be drirem t8 o the condition, that
#he violeifeeof the*political ¥ aTe # have so shattered
and broktn his frail bark of cf?#fi(J?nce,
that he was Ponced t tt put into an abolition harbor
4ov a rrftige? Does lie prefer Lincoln®to Everett,
doc” be mean only to pat Lincoln on the shoulder
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to weaken the Hell and Evenat party, as he says they
a*e doing Douglas. _
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° If none of these—but that °lic spQke*the honest
,sentim<oits or his heart, based upoe the records
whjph lie read, set us remind him that are
very, old, and ask if he cannot be charitable and
forgive those who repent, or if repentance is not the j
word, we will Tramc it differently, and s#y those
who have gradually, in The growth of o ftisdom®and
o
turned a\v*y from^ former ljubits and
opinions*and became wiser, better, more just and I
charitable?,. He asked it low Mr. Vansty—can he j
no? grant it to Edward Everett ?
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Tiiouiiis.Lcft
We notice “that alb our in publishing
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the list of Comities represented in tlie late HOnte ;
Cwnstitutionab Union Convention lield at Milledge- !
ville, have left out old Tliotnas, an# tluftgli she lu*l ,
onlj?eig\}t delegates were about as entnu
sn&tic as a#y delegation in the P'envention. We t
*nfaj®be counted out of the Cdhvemion, l#U we do
dot mean to tie counted out of ftie election.
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llox. Wm. L. Yaxce? vs. Hon. Jas. L. Seward?—
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FronPa letter published in the Tri-weekly Constitu-,
of Augusta, dated T?iomasville, .Vugust 23,
18G0, from Hon. Clines L. Se#ar4, we extract
the following,°in reply t(f offensive-language used
against him®in Petersburg, and elsewhere, by
Yancey;
“TliV prominent position which Mr. Yancey took
in tlie secession from the Democratic contention, tlie
disunion sentiment attributed to hint and which atb
apparent from his public declaration# l*nve subject
ed liis acts justly to criticism; and I cannot admit
that his public career is exempt from scrutiny, #lr
bis opinions from proper review and just coiumcn
• tafy. o
••I sliall the full freedom of speech in re
gard to public men and measure# in tlfos canvas#,
and Shall draw my own inferences from their acts
as to the which they will jiroduce upon the
country, avoiding persortJU offense to any on#.
“ I am a native of the South—boirn on the soil of
Georgia, largely interested in slave property, and
shall judge for myself what is due to southern hon
or and southern rights, and express my opinions
freely and fully.
41 1 have carefully, endeavored to avoid personali
tiiflf. yet I sliall not be deferred from reviewing tlie
public opinions and acts of others, by the dirty
guage of:a foul moifth <ft>nspirat#r against the Gov
ernment. whose h(jjirt. throat, and tongue are tainted
with a libelous ambsbmderous intent against every
man who may differ with him in opinion. I mean
Mr. Wm. L. Yancey, of Alabama?
4 “I occupy a defensive position and intend to
maintain my opinions, let what will come. ‘ I desire
peace with a/1 men, and hope I sliall alway®regard
ilie feelings of others; but when assailed thus with
out knowing why or for what, I shall defend myself#
if necessary, to the last extremity. 0
“ Very-llespectfully. o°
“Ames L. i&wAnn.”
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ITlorc tj'ithilratralii.
Messrs. Haywood, Keen, Dokddin, and Miller#
North Carolina Electors for Breckinridge and Lane,
have all declined to advocate.the disunion, emupcipa
tionist candidate Breckinridge. The three first nam
ed have declared f(?r Douglas, and flie bitter for Bell.
In Alabama Messrs. N. Davis, Lindsey and Gibson,
have tflso refused to lend their aid to the disunion
rebellion. Poor Breckinridge, what will lie do ‘ 1q
the language of the Montgomery Confederation , it
will require a little of Spaulding’s glue to stick his
ticket together.” Defeated in Kentucky, frightened
to death iq,North Carolina, badly whipped in Arkan
sas, routed completed in Missouri what will become
of hinf!,, o ®
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Miss Evans’ new novel of gone through
twenty-three editions in nine months, and some eno‘
thusiastic admirers of the wolume have named a ew
steamboat on the Alabama river the “Beulah.”
llutledge, tlie authorship of which is still kept se
; cret, has run though six editions in six weeks. It
i is a curious fact, in reltOion to both of tliese works,
that they were rejected when first offered to publish
ing houses. ° * c
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
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®Chattanooga. Tens., Aug. I*. 1830.
9 Arrived here last evening, looked ifl-ound this lit
tle Railroad town fo#nd nothing interesting, but
grum hotel keepers higli pcicgsfor omnibusses, in-
fare and wretchedly dusty streets. Chatta
nooga however, in fair weather is a very pretty lo
ea“:y with some of the finest mountain scenery in
the State. Look Out mountain, *• famous as a sum
mer resort rears its loft P head above the town and ;
nforns mouarclaof a thoffsand hi*.# peering into the
farm dotted valle\* below. W® pai l a visit t(#the <
bights of Look Out Plight “looked
upon tfie scenery at sunrise —the* morning w.v*per
fectly clear and w%had a fair view—nothing can ex
ceed the beauty of the landscape here presented up
on a favorable occasion. Ij’om its granite brow,
the beholder looks into ’ftnnessee, Alabama, Georgia,
and we hear, North Carolina, aud is astonished*to |
find himself #nly twenft-foug hundred feet abovg
level of the surrounding country, though even
this seems quite a lofty position to those®unaccustom
ed to moiuitains. The picwire becomes •more sifo
lime and beautifift as the sun pirogresses in t?ie
eastern sky, and receives the finishing touch, when
animatgd with life in the busy stir of tlie inhabi
. “V- Q 1
tant# in an hundred cottages, witiq, the smoke
gently curling upwards from their breakfSstfires, ;
the lforseman briskly trotting over the stony 1
roads below, the footman threading the winding
mountain path merrily humming his morning ditty,
and the bustle of an infant city perched upon the j
blutl of a winding stream in the distance, reechoing
y the deafening of a dozen locomotives, speeding i
their way over the iron rails aud leaving Uuyr
streams of smoke so rise in*frostv clouSs upon the
i#ornirig horrizon. No description we co#ld give
would afford the reader an adequate jtlea of this
beautiful scenery, and weVnull content ourself #vith
saying that Look Out mountain is the best place in j
all tills? spend the summer molitlis. fo'here
are now about four fiundred persons upon the*sum- i
snit of # tla’ mountain, living as Liapily as could be
ecj#;cted in this terrestrial sphere. Every conveni- 1
•nice is - (
ki\v. An excellent hotel, capable of accomdllating
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five six hundred persons, a livery stable, goo#
school and several farms and private residences art#
all perched upon its summit, flnyiibusses aud l^.ig- <
;#ge wagons from (Jhattfoaooga arrive and depfodt
three or*four tiroes a day, loaded each way ams pass
ing uumerou*fruit aud poultry carts slowly toiling
upi, or merrily hastening down the mountain. To
night a fancy b#ll conics off find the
fairoßexVcre all in a great in anticipation of 1
> t*lie affair when we left this evewng lit 3
Having visited most of°the great things to be seen
in region, mj self and a Thomas county friend
concluded to disperse with omuibusses and perform
tHY great pedestrian feat of climbfhg down the moun
tain. The feat was suefessfuly performed, though a
fostuifoe-of five miles to the pillage, after sundry
slide# tumbles, bruises and minor mishaps, and we
are now sale in she village with only sunburnt fjccs
and blistered feet to re#iind#is of the dealt Jig deei#
Our friend declares lie ifever wiU walk doifoi that
mountain any *nore, acinus fliat if the largest
rock upwnoit (a<l there are some “whoppers*’) was
hitSi to re-ascend, it would be no in
ducement. This may seem very sTrange to some of
our readers, but when we tell thei* that
to the mountfon ai'ises from his hundred andnaietij
pounds weight, will readily appreciate the reso
lution Inf bas taken.
w lt iS'novv, perhaps, time to close this corroppon
dencm and we will do s*i by saying thaq, it is the
‘opinion of 4iupdreds of intelligent men we meet that
Bell and Evcrett°willsan# ? this State vuy large
n\ajority. do not believe Terftesscc will prove
Q w O
false to the Union fembto the noblest of her living
our friends certainly have abundant cause
#o hope for a gratifying*nnd gloriMis report from
this old conservative ?itat<f. Tilings look blight
o a ° °
everywhere—let be up antFdoiug. v
Knoxvillil,Tlnx., Aug. 20, lSOi).
9 9
a Vie have been place two days and nfgfits
enjipving t?ie kind hospitalities former frigid
atfoi fellow citizeiwG. M. BrannerEsq.„ whose palla
tial mansion ;#'d it# beautiful environs, sub- 1
ift bs of Knoxville are the admiration of all who visit
9 #o° ° °
tlieoi. place is the vc*ty jifeture pf taste ele-
t b we have visitc4.no locali? i
tyjjetter calculated to itifpress us with the greatness*
of it# resources and tip; independence of this country.
The crops here liavp bten greatly injured, stiyftiier#
is enough coro for tlft section, e jicli luxuri
ance of vegetgtion would prffue"that tl?e country h;#l
#n tliis vei ? y season been visited #>v its
of rain. Ofolfte, it hap; ftut we are informed that
the drougltf was very severe here in the
ft 1 the summer. We havepeen soing fin? farms,
well supplied with live stock, and o the rich clover
fields ;*pd other iq*#idows which where appear,
furnish us with a clew by which to account.for tlip
,0 t # -0 0
fine stock carried frrnn this sectioiicinto the markets
of Georgia. East Tennessee, is a mostVicturesque
and beautiful section of eOuntry, affoyflipg some of
the finest roountarn scenery in the Union and whose,
rifli valleys pourSnto the ftiarkcts of the county
supplies of grain and lpe stock unsurpassed either
• o
in quality or quantity. It is emphatically, the poor
man’s cofntry. If ho tills the soil it cofos him
notlipig to live, and almost every thing lie requires
is furnished cheap from liis own seeiiuti. While the
valleys furnish him with grafc and pasturage, the l
mountains hills and valleys afford him superabun
dant supplies of granite, marble atfll other mattrial*
for buildipg purposes, coal for the furnaces of iiiso
nianufaclortes, gold for his pockets, iron for his t#iil
roads, with copper, silver kip, besides innumerable
mineral springs, some of which ar#mucli resorted*
to by invalids from all#partfgof the country. Kifox
ville is the metropolis of the eastern sectioff of the
State, a thriving town with thousand
inhabitants, and scattered over as many hills as old
Rome. Sin*e the completion of its Railroafl through
the mountains to Virginia Knoxville has been upon
the great liye of travel from the Noftlietn Atlantic
10 ,lie Gulf andpWestern States of the Union and
from tins fact anew impetus Ims been atblel to its
prosperity. It i|said to be nearer to all tin? great
cities ot the Lnion than any other town or city of
any note in the country. This would* make it very
nearly the center of the Union and feeling proud of
their national importance, jyhile believing them#feves
serviceable to Die Union as well as the Union to them
Knoxville is determined to raise a shout for John
Bell that wi}} strike terror to every disorganizer in
East Tennessee* Our Georgia friends need have no
tear ot Tennessee# we have been made to feel since
Me entered the State, th#feslie will give a triumph to
her noble son, paralleled only by the gallant old
4 tale ,pT Kentucky. In East Tennessee, at least,
Breckinridge and fiane will suffer an#>verwheluiing
defeat as sure* 7 as November comes, and they re
main in the ‘j#ie electors in this State have*
all taker*the stump and everp-wchre, we hear that
the disumonists are put to flight—glorious# news
comes up frtfln evepy*|tiarter, and we feel tliat®iicto
ry has already crowned the noble standard bearers,
of the Constlkution and the Union. If American’s
1 will n#t fight for the Constitution and Hie UniorPthe
rich estate oft heir purchased with seven yctirs
o# dreadful war and cemented with tlie blood of tiieir
noblest patriot s #ivan ioi sand statesmen, what will tl9*/
fglitfor t Can any man an-wer ? We tfiink they whl
fight for the Constitution and the Union. The signs
oplhe times indicate it. The people ar<# not*ready
to surrender up the glory of their forefather# o so
® .
tamely. The South will not surrender up her in*er
j est in Bunker Hill, without sternly demanding the
blood ol the trait.ys, tier the North her rntnoiitsif
Nt%o rleans without a deadly struggle. This Un
ion is iiulissofcible so long as ttie history of the llevog
1 1 Piii> S and the name of Washington remains. J>em
agogues may embroil the people of tlft- different
siftiidi*-. intiame their Yuinds mid precipitattjiein
into civil war.ebut a reactiou will follow—conserva
tion and the now seemingly dormant love *foiMhe
l nion will he aroused in the bo9otn of the masses and
wiien their eyes are thus the bonds impos
ed by their politicians, they wili # rush to the resctv
of the Union, like a mighty tffiod of water, over
whelming
•away every vestige of demegogueiiynTroin the land.
i * V * S..*. —t e * *
°* From the Savanna) F Republican.
A (art.
LaGrange, Ga., Aug. 11, tBCO. °
Mr. Editor:—Since June, 1 been alffios?
constantly absent from home. On my return, 1 find
y quite a number of letters from our friends in Tcnne
see, Alabama Gijm-gia, urgiidt; me to visit them,
and address®!lie people on the issues of this canvass.
It is not possiWe for me to comply with these de
mands it would be quite a labor to answer all
t[ie letters.
t T ill ask you to publish this trust our
papers will copy it, and that it will be received by
all our friends as an answer to their letters.
During the my health was such that my
professional business was not attended to? 1 cannot
ask* further delay, and duty, as well, as contract
and good faff'll, demand tent ion, in the court
krooni. It is exceedingly doubtful whether l ought to
undertake any additional labors, is for this rea
son. 1 announced in the Macon speech, that 1 must
be allowed direct my own actions in life present
[•canvass. IN hat can be done wfll assuredly be done.
Would I could do aiore. Every honorable effoit to
promote the election of Bdl a nib Ev#rett, is an act
sos patriotism and a discharge of duty. NcvetJ in o
[ our cotuitry’s history, have.we so imperatively need
ed the guidance of such men; and never, at any
time has a ticket been present Pit to our people com
bining more honesty, patriotism, and welt tried ex
perience and ability. Their election will be an hon
yr, not to them, but to the country. Ejjery man
who votes for them, honors hifbself, vindicates hi*
• • i • 7 # ,
| own patriotism and intelligence, and performs a
I positive service to his country, to posterity and t<?
Constitutional Libcrtv !
0 * o o
1 understand several gentlemen O havo made an at- <
tempt to review the humble°speech which 1 made at
Macon. 1 have seunjtat one review, and thus is a
t>pamphlet of sixteen puggs, signed “Constitution aiM
Equality.” „ 1 have no purpose to answer this pani
| phlet. It is not necessary, „ 1 will*niifke a corrcc
i lion, and make a suggestion in kindness to tlfe au
thor. 0% page o, the writer says f did not quote
; the whole of the °Dav!* atnflndnrent. lie is simply>
mistaken. Uquoted the very language and punctua
| tioy of Mr. Davis. ° Several dorms of amendment ha^
. been suggested, and Mr. JJratt®offered oi£e to
Mr. Jjlavis at first* agreed, 4mt- on reflection rdccled,
j on Account of the very words which this writer has
emphasized, 4o wit: “ I unfit fry introduced.” r.
1 Davis, thinking a quibble Flight be made on the word
“ lauful/y.” 41'hepiroviso, as I quoted it, was family
ftdiHited by .Mr. Dayis, and by teitn o as a
separate proposition, asset ting protection. ■>
This reviewer does not see how this proviso asserts
thg duty of protection. “Mr, Davis, who drew it,
„and those who voted against it, though# so ! Perhaps
they did not understand it! It •may he that this
writer can ®o understand it, even as asserting Con
gressional pintcetioti, if he will consider four plain
propositions : * * . .
•1. lu framing tli® Utah and New Mexico bins,
Congresss b as inferring on its aggnt —the Tcft itori
al Legislating—the legislative powersAvhich Con
gre|s itself would otluawise exercise in the govern-*
ment of the Territories. ~
2. In doing this. Congress declared that the legis
lative said territories shall extend to all
rightful subjects of legislation consistent with the
Constitt^tion and theuorganic act.
•1. Lest ftiis might be ewi.-frued rf as conferring the
power to establish or prohibit. Mr. sßcrrien
offered his amendment declaring that it should not
lye so construed. v ,
4. I#st this amendment of MrAßcrrien misfit be
“construed as prohibiting the Terui®irial Legislatures
fro i® tegisipi ing ai all on slavery* Mr. DaviW amend
inicgt was offered declaring that nothing in the Act
should be so construed as to prP'cnt. the ‘territorial
Legislature from passing suFli laws as might be ne
’ cetsary to protect All property.
All who voted for these“auietidments ttius declared
that Congress co*ld not confer°f#ie ]*>wer®o establish
prohibit slavery, ns Congress dul not have that
power to*confcr, but that Congress could confer the
I>*we® to pro Pct because Congress aid bare tb.rt pow
er to conicr. And so John Bell and John M. Berrien
bolt?voted. 9 o * a ®
Reviewer rather contplairfs that.*l did not insert
I the word “ unpair ” in a certain connection. Well,
1 did recite® that his platf®rm asserted tit® eftity to
protect, a nit l do®mppose “that, every man woufd sc®
that this denies Jhe right to impair !
( If tbissert it is # du^y - to protect his wife,
does not. deny his right to abffke her?® If as
sent a lather’s dutyto support* his child, I would sup
pose I right to starve him ! @gi <*
<A\ith*dl due deference to this unknown writer, I
must®-ay tjiat every other point phieh lie has made
on the spcetdi is equally as bad a quibble. 1 will
suggest 40 mm in igl*kindness that he caPnot aban*
don Bell, and go to anybody ags l Justify himself with
out and the ultimate resuit will be that h<
will thus pervert a good mind, and destroy a fiscful
lifg by becoming a demafptgue ! liis Crro®
in time to arrest ®t / feyr him.
Therqgare four candidates now presented for the
Presidency ; ot these, John Bell is the only man wl*o
never a sectional platform-, who neverpan
dercibto sectional who never stood on a
double Cleaning platform to get,one office, fnd then
got off to get another office! lie is the only m®li
wlff?, with more than thirty years of service* has
nothing to rct#aci, and whose record alone is so no- o
ble, national and as to be enough for a
“phfttorni, enough for a®patnot, enough for the peace
ot liis country, and enough for a President.
N\ hat reason can a couutrv-long National man
1 nt vofing for John Bell 7 ® *
i repeat we have four candidates in th#field, *nd
of these John aßell is the ot)U r candidate wlio has al
ways voted dircctlf against tfoth th%Wilmot Proviso,
anti squatter sovereignty ! ®
i® the ®ho has declared
that si a* cry was the great elen®nt of our prosperity
as a nation, and was right according to the laws of
►God and nature! ®
John Bell is th®only candidate who has declared
that humanity to slave, no le.ss tlialfjustice to the
master, required the diffusion a#(f extension oi sla
very. ►
N\ hat excusc sliall a Southern man render liis con
science andiiis country for Refusing to vote for John
Bell. ®
... | ® @
What excuse shall they who, when such a
man wa.#already in the field, ca*ie out from the De
mocratic party because the^ 1 said it was corrupt,
abandoned Platform because they said
it \\jjiS°a cheat swindle, and cliflnoring lor tlie
union ot the South, nominated another man, and
’ ided the South, and nominated the man wlio
wa< even the® holding the high office of Vice l’n#i
dent by the votftj ot that very Democratic party, and
on that very Cincinnati Platform which lie himself
helped Sto make, and which he had often
with a full knowledge of all which now
render it odious!
Now, in the nam"s of reason, how® shall a single
gallant member of the glorious Fillmore guard of
lßoff, abrftidon such a noble°and faithful leader as
e John Bthl for thi? strangely new and wonderfully
sudden convert! * °
O
Jfl.iove all, how thirsty for office, how lost to decen
cy and self-respect,®liow low in the cesspool of dent
gogileism, must that creature be, who can delther
ately disgraee himself and impeach the intelligence
of the people, by declifring tliafeJohn Beilis unsound
—unsound either # #o the South, the® Union or the
Constitution! Precisely- such mqp have brqpght the
country to its present troubles, and precisely such
will carry n on to destruction, unless the people will
honor thempires and overthrow deception and cor- j
ruption in the election of just such nffcn as°John Bell
and Edward Everett. 0
It the people were led to endorse fh<?Kansas bill,
and towbuse diflin Bell and drive him fronPthe gen
ate, because he told them the Kansas bill was a de
ception and a disturber of the public peace; and if
Ohe men who l£!l the people to endorse the Kan
sas bill, and repudiate,Jdr. Bell, now admit that the
Kansas Ijjll tvas a cheat, a swindle and the®£ruit of
a bargain to keep an irrccoflcilcable party together
for “spoils; will not the people see that their very
Jiofii*)-, svffl-respcct and sense offcjusiice will reqiflvo
j them now to repudiate those who deceived them and
honor the noble Roman who lost his office rather ,
tlian join in the deception?
But l set oufßo w9ie a card and have written a
letter. Forgive me Ntf. Editor, and publish only so°
much as you like. Tours very truly,
® © B. Hill.
THE CROPS. • #
0 Grorsin auil Florida.
A gentleman, traveled through East Ala
bama fe West afld South-test Georgia, writes tT> the
Apalachicola (Fla.) 1 iines his views ol the crop
prospects in these sections. the following
attracts from his letter:
“The crops®ilong the Apalachicola liver are more
than sufficient for the wants of the countiy. With
the exception few crops in Decatur and Early
counties along the river, both corn and cotton crops
will be far®below an average, and through Clay,
Randolph, Quitman, Terrell, Stewart, and Chattahoo
chee, without heavy importations of corn, there will
be much actual suffering, in consequence of the to
tal failure of the corn crop. Mansfields will not
average one bushel per acre, and planters in many
instances art® cut ting tfciwn for forage. As to the*
cotton crop, the prospects are equally deplorable;
I the weed is small, and, notwithstanding occasional
sluAvevs, the forms and young bolls continue to*shed,
while the half-grown Nblls are opening prematurely.
The allusion to the counties adjacent to the ri\jpr, on
the Georgia side, applres with eipual fdlce *o some
portions of Barbour and llenry counties Ala.
* ®
Sioutl*t'aroliii:i. ©
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier, wri
ting from Barnwell (?. 11., S. C., 8n the bth i®stnnt,
i gfiyjl ; • • • ®
j g On the way I took a good view of the crops. They
looked much#better*than 1 had anticipated. Ji lie
’ corn stalks were bent with the large ami-heavy ears
of corn, and tfie cotto§ plants presented an uncom
-1 monly vigorous appearance, particularly those be
tween Blackville and Barnwell. The planters with
whom 1 convened thought the prospect tor fine
both corn qpid cottgn were never bctfgr.—
i All they want now is gooil rain. This opinion was
concurred in by planters from l.disto and the low
country. 0 •
! 0 • O °
1 II iKMiKsQipi. o
Tile crops in tlic” soulh eastern portion of thi?
State are siyd to complete failure® A Me®ip!ii
cottflnporary is in('oriq,c and #>y a distinguished gwntlc
man front Mississippi, that lie had actually met in
telligent men l'ruan several of the south-eastern coun
ties.®who could ii.w talk about the condition ot those
people without shedding teSrs. The brought had
been l®ng and severe, and the weather so intense
ly hot, that the planters are making nothing af all.
Vegetation of v*ry* in scription was wbhering and
burning up. Stock of all ki®ds were dying, and
dhe country, for*many miles, presented au unbro
ken scene of ruin and distress. 0
s . *
o Atloi iec*i. •,
Our Arkansas exchanges sneak very cncocirngrng'-
ly of the crops* A large viewd is looked for. Rains
have of late been frequent in most sections of t.fee
State. The Napoleon Planter of instant,
says: ® • ® ®
***Thc crops in this Desha) county wor.e never
better than now, and our pl#nters challenge *llie
world to show better crops of coyi and cotton tliau
tlmy can.” ®
|.” • . •
State has jatcly Wfcen blessed with copious
. rains, which seem to have extended throughout tlift
entire State. ®Yegctati*n is said to lmveebeen *uli*Ji
benefitted tlgereby. .
We le*rif from a gentleman who has (raveii and on
Mie lending T!*>roughfar*s throughout nio cotton re
gion, tml consiimrs the crop*, from Houston to Aus
j tin, as fair looking as any he has sfeti. .
. . .—* ®
# •
The £*<s*|>e] in Riniiiali.
The Mission of the American Baptist Union among
the Kara®) • in Burma®, has a wonderlul history.—
Only thirty years ago the first convert was baptized,
and now the ®unib p of membei - is over fif
teen thousand, a*id the natives under lvgftlar 4>hris
titfn*inßiruction amount to mote than 100,000.* The
P ■ Q O
station a# Toungoo was about seven
pears ago, Iwr a native preaclffir, and in two years
tlWre numbered in that place 2,D00 ®m.verts.
- A r- m
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
!
MISS HANSfiLL’I
S & 303.1 30.
# FOli
o Young s La<lies, .
<*,V GIiEKNE STREET, OPPOSITE ST. JOHN 111. 8 CHURCH,
.* * AUGUSTA, GA® ®
* m
Miss C A. H^NSEEL,®
Principal of Literarv I)epai%nent.
Miss A. B. ARMSTRONG, ®
® I’rincipiß of Vocal and Instrumental Music.
P
riMIE DUPIGN OF THIS INSTITUTION IS TA
I #ti’ n® \ ouug Ladies facilities tor a thorovt:h,t *’ ud
cd and accompl&ht and education, l o make them Sciy*i au®
wortlij the intellectual character of the age. and ?;;]>ahle
of sustaining themselves in an elevated noptmu in socie
ty. seekj to develope not memory tm*relv, hut
ment, and piety, that pupils mav
t learn to think,
purpose, u dennite t la—nieation and (jiau.se of Study are
adopted —the pupijf beginning with tlmfoundation of ed
neat ion. reading and spelling, lead steadily thrfftigh:
B(®eh being advaifred the various branches are coniin e
liended.
A systematic argingement of classes is daH.y used, so
that each pupil/receives a just shake of attention. —
Other experience* Southern 6 . In rs wall be e®i]do®ed,
when the iiuniber of pupils shall justify it. The- sellouts
*tic year will lie divided in(*i two sessions.nineteen weeks
each. Fall Se ssion commencing Wednesday. Octobe® 3d,
ISfiO—closing February loth, lStil. Sprtiig sessie® com
mences f chruary loth—ending June uhtli, at which time
there will lie an Annual Examination and Concert.
* Stales of Tuition per Session—l 9 Weeks.
• Senior, Junior and Sophomore Classes
Fresh man and l’® ]iaratory, “0 00
Prima% (TSss, l.j 00
Music bn Piano Forte or Guitar ‘25 00
Latin. French and Embroidery, each 10 00
fetching, £ ray on and Gicciii Painting 12 50*
Oil Painting j* ... “0 00
“Daily exercises in Vocal Mfftsic free of charge.
Tuition to be paid, i.nvahially, in the middle of the
ssion. ®
i S’ g, Krfcrenrci.
Rev. J. If. Nelson. I). I)., August!.*
Hon. Thom;# W. Miller, “ ®
Mr. W. M. D Antignac, “ *
Mr. W. Adams @ ® “
HoiuAlexandi* 11. Stepliens, Crawfordville.
Mr. John (’miaiugluisa, Greensb#ro@
Mr. David Howell. “ ®
Mr. Philip D. Rohiuson, “ ®
Mr. W. W. 1). Weaver,
Mi*names L. Brown, “ © •
lion ( paries J. McDonald, Marietta.
*, Hon. David Irwin, “ ® °
Col. A. V.™srunibv, On
Rev. John W. Baker, Military Institute. Marietta.
* Gen. A. J. Ilausell, Marietta.”
Rev. S. R. Talmage, President Oglethorpe University,
jfidivay.
Rev. .1. Woodrow. Professor Oglethorpe University.
I Hon. Iverson L. Harris, Milledgeville.
Rev. N. M. Crawford, President Mercer University,
Penfield. q ‘
Prof. 11. 11. Tucker, Mercer University, ttnifield.
Prof. J. Willed, “ m “
Prof. Sanford, “ “ * “ m
Rt. Rev. Savannah. ©
Bishop Pierce. Sparta. ® ®
lion. Peter E. Love Thomasville.
Hon. A4L HaiTs. Il,” •“
Persons wisliing to enter mitnjj. will please the
Principal, at Marietta, or Mi. \\ illiam Adams, at
ta, Ga. __ 0 * itug 2H-3m
.Xew IVirixi.
rpilE UNDERSIGNED HAVE piIS DAY FORM-*
ed a co-p®rtiHTship, to be known under the name
and stvle of
“ *LIGHTFOOTS & SANFORD,
I-OK HIE PURPOSE OF SELLING
c.uoci:im:s, * *
. , ~ lIAItIMYIRE.&c.
And would respectfully sol! it the patronage of our
“fiends.
• . TV AD I* F. SANFORD,
THOMAS J. LIGHTFOOT,
- - J. W LIGHTFOOT,
Thomaeville, August 27, 1860. 3m
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