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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
For th»*G*‘or^ia Telegraph.
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MEMBER?.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Council Chamber, /
Macon, Oil. August 20th. \
REGULAR MEETING.
Fresont—A. B. Adams, Mayor,
Aid. Findlay, Bloom, Johnston, Elfe, Ellis, Bos
tick.
Absent—Aid. Winship, Flanders. ., H-JBHUL,. , (
aK2: movrfTo r e ecm - ifi eTtba tportl on* t>f They required closer examination to be
tho minutes relative to the purchase and delivery of
the Bricks for the new City Ilall. Yeas and nay;
MA.C03ST, GA.,
Tuesday Morning, Aug. 25, 1857
Democratic Nominations.
FOR GOVERNOR,
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
FOR CONGRESS,
1st District JAMES L. SEWARD.
2 d
3d
4th
5th
f,th
1th
6th
MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.
DAVID J. BAILEY.
L. J. GARTREI.L.
.A. R. WRIGHT.
JAMES JACKSON.
LINTON STEPHENS.
A. II. STEPHENS.
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Yeas—Bloom, Johnston, Ellis—3.
Nays—Findlay, Bostick, Elfe, Mayor—4.
So the minutes were confirmed.
The Bridge Keeper reported tolls for the week,
to date, t8d 40.
The CleVk of Market reported fees for the week to
date, (10,73.
The Guard House Keeper reported fees for the
week to date, •1,30.
The Finance Committee reported in favor of the
following accounts: B. Demlrag, (100 ; E. L Stro-
herkcr, *32 03.
Tho remonstrance from several citizens in regard
to erecting of a new City Hall, was received and read,
When on motion of Aid. Bostick,
Resolved, That the memorial from sundry citizens
>Cora.
In regard to erecting a City Hall, be referred to a
Special Committee of Three Aldermen, to be appoint'
oo by his Honor, and that advertisements for con
tracts for building said City Hall be extended until
10th September next.
A. G. BOSTICK, )
B. FINDLAY, >
THOd. U. ELFE,3
„ On motion of Aid. Johnston,
Resolved, Thst the subject of encroachment made
by William B. Gamble on 1st street, be referred to
Committee on Street Encroachments.
Passed.
On motion of Aid. Ellis,
Kesolved, Thst the building of a City Hail be de
ferred until the finances of the City will warrant the
measure.
Yeas—Johnston and Ellis—2.
Nays—Findlay, Bostick, Bloom and Elfe—4.
The Committee on Street Encroachments Report,
the steps recently erected leading to the second story
of James A. Ralston's new building on Cotton Ave
nue, a violation of the Ordinances of the City of Ma
con, and that the same having been complained of
by tne owners of tho adjoioiug property, with the
request that Council would interpose to protect them
from the iqjnry they will sustain by reason of allow
ing tbe obstruction to remain, we recommend tbe
passage of the following resolution :
Resolved, Thst the Clerk issne a written notice,
to be served by tbe Marshal on James A. Ralston, to
have the step* above named removed within one
monlb from the service of said notice ; and on fail
ure, it be made the duty of tbe Marshal to report the
same to Council, that inch steps may be taken as tbe
Charter and Ordinances provides.
E. J. JOHNSTON,
J. 11. ELLIS,
THOS. B. ELFE,
Passed unanimously.
Council then amounted R. CVRD, C. C.
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Fruit Present.
Wo were indebted, on Friday, to Mrs. W.
B. Parker, of Vineville, for a basket of peach
es and grapes so beautiful and so tastefully ar
ranged that the College of Compositors at once
j pronounced it a splendid piece of wax work.
con
vinccd that the fruit was of genuine flesh and
juice. Now a present of a basket of fruit is
by no means an uncommon thing; but a pres
ent of such peaches as some of these is so rare
that it never happened to us before—indeed
we never saw peaches of that size anywhere.
Selecting the two largest in the basket we
found they girthed respectively 10J and 104—
104 and 104, and both together weigh one
pound four ounces. We should be glad to
hear if anybody ever saw larger peaches.—
We are all unskilled in Pomological varieties,
but we think these arc what is commonly call
ed in Georgia, tbe Tinsley peach—a beauti
ful yellow, delicately streaked with purple.
Such fruit is almost too beautiful to eat.—
Thanks to the fair donor,
V/
Com.
Letter from Mr, IV. P. Fain to the
EDITOR OF THE GEORGLV PLATFORM.
Leavenworth Citt, K. T.)
August 1, 1857. £
Dear Jtf:—You are doubtless looking for a
letter from me by this time. I have just re
turned from a tour out West Surveying. The
weather is extremely hot and dry in this sec
tion of tbe country, yet the crops look fine and
appear to be growing. Politics and fanaticism
are ragiug to a considerable extent in this
country, Tbe political canvass for delegates
to Congress has commenced; politicians, officc-
teekers, demagogues, aud wire-workers, arc
all busy. Ex-Governor Ransome, formerly
of Michigan, is the Democratic standard bear
er, lie is a firm, reliable, national Democrat,
His j>rospccts for being elected are promising,
notwithstanding h« has a very talented youDg
man for bis opponent. But Democracy and
iu principles are like tried gold, the more you
rub it, tho brighter it gets. I am sorry to see
the Democratic party of Georgia passing resolu
tions condemning Gor Walker of this Territory,
The Democracy of Kansas sustain him. They
know the difficulties under which he has to labor,
and those who know him best are his warmest
aud best friends. I would sooner think that
mother would forsake her own offspring, than to
think that Goo Walker wouldforsake the South
and her institutions. Gov Walker remains
neutral on all the great questions that divide
tbe peopje in this Territory. In speaking of
the effect of soil, climate and production in de
termining the great question of African slave
labor in Kansas Territory, he said Nothing but
what waa true; be said no more than Southern
Senators and Southern Representatives said at
tbe time of the passage of the Kansas and Ne
braska act. In short, he said nothing but the
truth. He did not say. however, that African
•lave labor could not be made profitable in
Kansas Territory. I believe that it can and
will be made profitable in this Territory.—
The culture of hemp and tobacco require slave
labor, and can be employed more profitably in
this country than it can in any of the Southern
States in raising cotton, rice or sugar. We
cannot see the propriety of Southern men tak
ing such grave exceptions to anything that
Gor Walker has said in Kansas. The pro
slavery Democrats of Kansas Territory sustain
him, who watch him with a critic’s eye, and on
the other hand, all the Black Republican and
free soil papers denounce him, and say that he fi
no belter than a border ruffian. Gov Walker is
regarded by all good men in Kansas Teritory,
as being a wise, just, and impartial executive,
and / think that it would be best for out siders
to lie low and keep still until we complain.—
With regard to the delegates that arc elected
to form a State Constitution, they will convene
at the Capitol on the first Monday in Septem
ber next. A large majority of these men arc
pro-slavery, and there is no doubt but that
they will from a constitution with a clause re
cognizing African slave labor. I think it very
uncertain whether or not it will be submitted
to the ratification of the people after it is form
ed, from tbe fact that the people voted undcr-
stondingly at the time of electing the candi
dates ; they all declared themselves in favor
of. or against African slavery. Since the elec
tion of these delegates, the emigrant aid socie
ty, and fanaticism in tho North, have emptied
their poor houses and penitentiaries, and sent
them out here with cut-throats, paupers and
thieves, and they uow have considerable ma
jority. It is my opinion that they will freeze
and perish out dunng the next winter. So if
it is submitted to the people at nil, it will on
ly be to those that bad tlieir names registered
by the 15th day of March last, and up to that
time wo had a majority in tho Territory. It
is the policy of the Black Republican party to
keep up the excitement in Kansas Territory
and prevent it from being admitted as a State
uutil the election of the next President, in I860.
To settle tho difficulty in Kansas would destroy
their thunder, lake away their capital, and
their party would cease to exist for tho want
of it. They have attempted to put tlieir bogus
Jaws in force In Lawrence. Gov Walker be
ing apprised of their intention, issued a proc
lamation, and called out a portion of tho Unit
ed States troops, and put an end to their trea-
sonablc conduct at once. The troops are still
in Lawrence, and I think will remain there
for tbe purpose of enforcing the laws in col
lecting tbe revenue. They say that they will
fight the troops before they will pay their ta;:cs.
I am of the opinion we will have a collision
when the tax guthercr starts out, and if so,
there is no tolling whero it will stop. The
Black republican party desire a dissolution of
the Union. Jim Lane is traveling over the
Territory making inflammatory speeches urg
ing the free-state people to organise military
companies in each county for the purpose of
making re- istunne to the Territorial laws. If
a collision should occur, 1 will keep you post
ed. I am, with high regard.
Yours truly.
WM. P. FAIN.
Flouring Kliiis.
We have received from Messrs B. Peters
& Co. of the Atlanta Flouring Mills, a sample
100 pound sack of their Family Flour. It is
a beautiful article—in appearance equal to the
best Northern fancy brands and sustains all the
tests of superior flour. We have taken meas
ures to put it through the fiery ordeal of the
kitchen, with the fullest confidence that it will
produce tho staff of life in perfection.
The “Atlanta Mills” constitute a very
largo establishment, and are now working
up to their full capacity of 280 barrels of flour
per day.
To the Macon Flouring Mills wc are al
so indebted for a fifty pound specimen sack,
equal in all respects to the best. This is a
new and smaller establishment, under the man
agement of Mr James Knight, and we hope is
but the beginning of large operations in this
line. It opens under favorable auspices, with
a large Wheat crop to begin upon, all of which
will find a ready market at our own door. We
hope, however, to see the day when the wheat-
en treasures of Georgia and Tennessee shall
overflow our own store-houses and find a pro
fitable market in the West Indies. The Flour
of this latitude by chemical analysis is sweeter
and more nutricions than that of Northern
growth, and it ought to bear away the palm
wherever the two come into competition.
REPORT or THE “SMELLING COMMITTEE.”
Mr. Clisbv. After submitting to every
conceivable test the specimens of Flour re
ceived by you from tbe Macon and Atlanta
Mills, I am prepared to say that they are
both of the highest grade. I have never
bought any in this market equal to these sam
ples, except in one instance, which was that of
a very high priced fancy brand, but certainly
no better than these samples. Yours,
j. j. n.
Trials of Councilmen.
“Uneasy,™ saith the Poet, “lies the head
which wears a crown 1” A thousand calking
cares—wearying vexations and annoying re
sponsibilities beset the path of a Republican
President—the Congressman finds his way
rough aud thorny, and even the staid Senator
with n six years’ lease of power and place en
counters many a hill of difficulty—many a li
on in the path. But all these have a compen
satory honor—a quid pro quo. Your Aider-
man of a large city who counts his constituen
cy by thousands and feels no direct responsi
bility to his next door neighbor—draws liis
salary and allays his mental anxiety with civic
port, turtlo soup and canvas backs at the
public expense; but Ilcaveu pity the for
lorn Councilman of a small town. Ilis honor
and compensation aro both drawn from the
treasury of public condemnation. If he does
nothing, he is a noodle; if he does anything
he is sure to invoke opposition and hostility!
His action has so immediate and direct an ef
fect upon the constituency, that it is sure to
provoke animadversion and complaint whatever
direction it may take. It touches in most
eases conflicting interests as well as conflicting
views, and touches them directly, so that the
touch is felt and who touches. Moreover, the
public interest, which ho seeks to consult, is
no clacquer—it applauds very noiselessly and
very reluctantly, if ever;—while private in
terest, which may be damaged or supposed to
be damaged, is the most clamorous aud unspar
ing of all denunciators. A dog, a cow or a hog
law may bring him into sad trouble with his
Democratic Ittcetiu.tr it* Macon.
BEECH OF THE IION. JOSEPH E. BROWN.
I lev, and may possibly get a few more from
1 other States. In Virginia they have not a sin-
A respectable portion of the Democracy of I gle lone star—it is the same case in Alabama
Bibb county assembled at Concert Hall, in
this city, on Monday night the 17th inst., for
the purpose of hearing Judge Joseph E.
Brown, the Democratic nominee for the office
of Governor. There were also present many
inquiring Knownotbings, anxious, perhaps, to
become converted to the true faith.
The meeting was called to order by Col.
Win. K. DeGraffenreid, on whose motion Col.
Richard II Clark was invited to the chair, and
E. C. Rowland, Esq., was requested to act as
Secretary. The chairman, in a few pertinent
remarks, then introduced Judge Brown, who
was received with an enthusiastic greeting.
Without superfluous preliminaries, Judge
B. proceeded at once, in mediae res, to the dis
cussion of the prominent issues of the day, and
entertained his hearers for nearly two hours
with a candid and courteous speech, which
(without aiming at the graces of oratory) was
remarkable- for sound sense, cogent arguments,
and clear analytical arrangement.
—and lie (Judge Brown) had every confidence
that it would be the same in Georgia. With
such a showing, what can they reasonably ex
pect to do ? The Democrats on the other hand,
have 51 Representatives from the North, pledg
ed to vote for the admission of Kansas cither
with or without slavery. Besides this, they
liavc enough additional members from the
South to elect a Speaker without danger of a-
nothcr Abolitionist being elected by the dodg
ing and shifting of Southern Ivnownothings.
He remarked that Mr. Hill had said lie was
not particularly desirous of being Governor,
but was running chiefly to be useful to his par
ty. As for himself (Judge Brown) he ac
knowledged that he was not ambitious of de
feat. He had not sought the nomination, but
as long as he had accepted it and was running
on a sound platform, he cnudidly confessed
that he was ambitious of being elected. His
opponents had boasted that although the Dem
ocrats had nominated a “mountain boy,” they
“Moving West”—North-wester it
LOUISIANA— FERTILITY OF SOIL— STATB
OF SOCIETY—CROPS AC.
Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, La., Aug, 17. ’57.
Mr. Editor :—Although I am an entire
stranger to you, I am nevertheless a Georgian
—have lived during a succession of years in
several of the .most prominent places in that
noble old State, and seven years in your
still growing city. From these considerations
with a natural ardent temperament, how can I
feel otherwise (although never anything bat an
unpretending individual) than deeply interest
ed in whatever affects its weal or its woe! A
here permit me to express my highest gratifica
tion (notwithstanding I have for many years
been far removed from its busy scenes) at its
rapid onward march to glory and greatness
I have been a constant reader of several promi
nent papers published in your State, iu conse
quence of which, have kept somewhat up with
the times, and you can scarcely, without a
stretch of the imagination, concieve to the full
est extent, the joyous emotions kindled in my
bosom when I read of the magnificent works
sidcration that, I trust, 1 8till ^,
portions of tlii;
The Democratic party he justly character- I had put up a Hill which he could not climb; I Pjojectedandcomp’eted byits thorough going
ized as the only national organization in the but he had met with that Hill several times of | citoena-how Bai 1 Boads have as if by magic
country—the only one adapted to our repub- late, and was not afraid to encounter it fre-
lican institutions—the only one capable of qucntly during the campaign; and in October
maintaining the Constitution and perpetuating he expected to climb entirely over it, as his
Cherokee friends had promised to roll down an
avalanche of votes across the Chattahoochee
which would probably carry him over the Hill
in LaGrange to the tune of about 20,000 ma-
thc Union; and after paying a well deserved
tribute to the gallant old Whigs as focmen
worthy of our steel, ho next “carried the war
into Africa," completely exposing the weak
and hopeless condition of the Knownothing op- I jority.
position, and subjecting their numerous p 7 at-
ueighbors, while that august impersonation the forms and obsoieto principles to a rigid criti
I has been said that grain is treated like in
fants. When the head becomes heavy, it is
cradled ; aud it is generally well thrashed to
render it fit for use.
Mr. Stephens’ Address.
Althongh not in the 8th District, or a constitu
ent of Mr. Stephens, wc shall offer no apology for
the re-publication of his address. It ought to bo
read, for it exhibits clearly the particular aspects
of this Walker Kansas controversy, which entitle
it to the attention of patriotic men, and put it be
yond pettifogging or personality. It involves the
vindication of a great constitutional principle—the
establishment ofa safe precedent for the settlement
of cases which will be continually recurring to vex,
barrass and divide the country, unless the princi
pie of non-intervention shall be vindicated and main,
tained in all purity and justice. It shows too,
clearly enough, the part of Knownotbingism
this controversy—how it came to be a party in the
cause, and with what objects. What right it has
to complain, and how far it’ean produce a remedy.
In a word, there is pith and marrow in the ad
dress—broad, comprehensive and statesmanlike
views, which entitle it to perusal and 6tudy.
We rely with perfect confidence upon the Ad
ministration to make its course clear as sunlight
Jipon all that affects this great constitutional doc.
trine. We never had a doubt that Mr. Buchanan
stands perpendicularly the advocate of entire and
rigid non-intervention—tho right of tho people
who are to be governed to make their own govern'
ment, “ in their own way,”—clear of outside hi'
fluoncc; and that nothing in tho matter of Kansas
which has contravened this principle, has ever re
ccived or ever will receive his sanction; but, on
the contrary, will be repudiated. We care not,
for one, in what way non-intervention is vindica
ted, if it be thoroughly done—so that no precedent
shall be furnished in the history of Kansas for Fed
eral intervention in the futnro State organization
of Territories.
Public Convenience, for whose benefit the law
has been passed, acknowledges no obligation
at all. In short your poor Councilman may do
his best, and conic to his official end both unre
warded and unlamcnted.
Wc have penned so much with tho miud up
on the situation of our town Council in refer
ence to this City Hall project—a project of five
years iadpiency aud bequeathed to them in
coiirse of actual execution by their immediate
predecessors. It was an enterprise passed the
point of discussion into that of action, when it
came to their hands; but the cltangc in the con
templated locality aud the change of plan seem
to have set all at sea again. Some weeks ago,
the Council appointed a Committee of leading
dtizens to examine, in connection with some
of their own number, the new site and select
another if unsatisfactory. Out of this Commit
tee it was impossible to get a quorum to act.
The plan of the building is submitted to pub
lic inspection, and like the poor painter’s chef
d’oevre, there is no line which is not stamped
with somebody’s condemnation. Woo to him
who designs a public structure—the Parthenon
in its day, we doubt not, was severely reproba
ted. Now we think there is no doubt that Ma
con needs and is well able to build an appro
priate City llall. There seems to be just as
little ground for doubt that the enterprise lias
been sufficiently sanctioned by public opinion
to justify the Council in proceeding to its con
struction. But with all this, why should the
Council saddle itself with needless labor and
responsibility ? It is alleged there is a change
of public opinion on this project and that a ma
jority oppose it. Let the test be taken by vote
of the citizens. For our part, if we held the
unhappy post of Councilman, wc would never
trust ourself beyond the beaten round of offi
cial duty unless impelled by the most cogent
and unanswerable reasons.
cism, which scarcely left them a plank to stand
upon.
He exhibited their glaring inconsistency on
the Kansas-Nebraska question. In the city
of Macon—in the very Hall in which he was
then speaking—on the 27th of June, 1855, a
Knownothing Convention, then and there as
sembled, adopted the Kansas-Nebraska act as a
part of their State creed, and declared all op
position to its principles was “hostility to the
Constitutional rights of the South.” But mark
the change. Another Knownothing Conven
tion, held in Milledgeville on the 8th of July,
1857, solemnly asserted that they had repeated
ly given warning against the identical princi
ples of the same Bill as “dangerous and anti-
Southern doctrines!”
Nor was this all. The Ivnownothings had
supported for President a man who had de
plored the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
as a “Pandora’s box, from which had sprung
all the evils that afflict the country.” That
repeal, according to the recent Dred Scott de-
He alluded, en passant, to its having been
objected to him that he was not a native Geor
gian. He admitted that it was his fortune to
have been born in South Carolina, about four
miles beyond the Georgia line; but still he had
lived here considerably over twenty-one years,
and even the Ivnownothings, as particular as
they were on the subject offoreigners, thought
that was long enough to make anybody a citi
zen. South Caroliua, lie said, had not scru
pled to take up one of Georgia’s poorest and
humblest boys, but one of her brightest minds
and most generous spirits, aud was proud to
make George McDuffie her Governor.
He concluded with an earnest appeal to the
Ivnownothings to co-operate like true patriots
with the Democrats in forming a united South
to oppose the black cloud of Abolitionism now
lowering in the Northern horizon. He then
called upon the Democrats to stand by their
time-honored principles—to close up their
rauks and marshal their hosts for battle and
for victory.
At the close of his speech, the chairman
pleasantly remarked that, unlike the Know-
been built—towns and cities sprung into ex
istence, and manufacturing establishments
coming tip to contribute their quota to the
splendid enterprises of Old Georgia. Isay
that these things have occasioned not unfre-
quently a thrill of joy, and I have felt a glow of
pride mantling my cheek when in the fullness
of my heart I could exclaim—I am a Georgian.
But I find myself disposed to follow a dif
ferent vein of feeling from that which prompt
ed the commencement of this communication.
My object was to tell you something of this
country.
When I lived in Georgia. I remember a great
deal was said of the far West, and whenever
anything appeared in print giving an account
of it— the land and its production, it was read
with uncommon interest. If it was favorable,
as it generally was, it seemed to stir up a
fever of emigration, and at times such was
the feeling created upon this subject that some
feared that the State would be depopulated.
I judge from the signs of the times that such a
spirit is even now prevalent among some of must be an object of interest to eve'
your people,—so many advertisements repre- w ho is trulv interested in
cision, was virtually effected by the passage of I n °tliingR, the only “grip ’ of Democrats is the
The First District.
BRUNSWICK NAVY YARD.
Since our ljist Mr. A. II. H. Dawson has
withdrawn from the contest, and Francis S.
Bartow, Esq., has been brought out by the j bis sympathies had always inclined him that
the Kansas-Nebraska act. Had that compro
mise restriction remained in force, the South
would never have had a shadow of claim to
Kansas Territory; and yet Southern Know-
nothings had voted for Millard Fillmore, who,
in deploring its repeal mast consequently have
been opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill it
self. The Ivnownothings had thus, to all in
tents and purposes, given tip Kansas long
since; but now they pretend that that Terri
tory has been lost to the South by a Demo
cratic Administration. Granting that in this
straggle for Kansas, the Democratic par
ty has been Uetraycd by one of its officers,
Robt. J. Walker, and admitting that wc should
thus lose the fight, do we not stand, said
Judge Brown, iu a more manly position than
the Knownotbings, who stacked their arms
and gave np the contest months ago ? *
On this Kansas difficulty he spoke with the
utmost candor. He remarked, that in 1850,
he was a decided Southern Rights man, and
grasp of good fellowship, and Judge Brown
would be pleased to take by the hand and
make the acquaintance of as many friends as
possible. Whereupon many persons present
were introduced, and the meeting then adjourn
ed with three cheers for our worthy standard
bearer—the prospective Governor of Georgia.
R. H. CLARK, Ch’mn.
E. C. Rowland, Sec’y.
Ivnownothings to contest the field with the ad- j way. He fully endorsed the action of the late
vantage, os they hope, of a seriously divided State Democratic Convention, and lie heartily
vote between Hon. J. L. Seward and Wm. B. approved of thc^Sd resolution. Inasmuch as
Gauldcn, Esq. Wc hope the Democracy of Gov. Walker had transcended his authority
Judge Brown,
Tho Democratic nominee for Governor, left
Macon, homeward bound, last Tuesday, but
will return and visit as many of the Southern
and neighboring counties before election day
as opportunity will permit. Wc arc indebted
to the Secretary of tho meeting for tho excel'
lent synopsis of Judge Brown’s speech here,
which appears in another column.
Looking as we, and probably the rest of
mankind, do, upon Judge Brown’s election by
a large majority as a foregone conclusion, wc
may perhaps bo permitted to speak of him
frankly—relieved from tho suspicion of in
sincere commendation for mere popular effect.
A familiar intcrconrsc with him during his stay
here has impressed ns thoroughly with the con
viction that no safer man could have been pos
sibly selected for the incumbent of the Execu
tive Chair of Georgia. His unflinching, nn
yielding integrity of character, no man can
doubt. It is stamped upon his countenance,
conveyed iu his whole tone and manner and
attested by his past official aud personal ca
reer. The next qualification stands equally
prominent—we mean a thorough practical
sense and discretion. If wc arc any judge of
men, a firm, solid substratum of good common
sense and sound judgment is the basis of his
wlioio intellectual man. Tbe third, is quite
ns apparent—an indomitable firmness, Judge
Brown will take no hasty or ill-considered po
sition, and abandon no position when taken.
Another is liis mental aud physical activity.
He is a working man, bodily and mentally,
and in the full fruition of development. In a
word, we shall have in Judge an honest, judi
cious, prudent, firm and industrious Execu
tive.
In manners Judge Brown is very engnging
and affable, and no voter or constituent will
bo likely to leave him with other than the most
pleasant personal impressions.
The fruit of illness is sin.
the First District will defeat aud disappoint all
expectations founded only upon their divisions,
by concentrating their votes upon Mr. Seward.
He has been repeatedly endorsed by the’peo-
plo of that District—has proved confessedly
an able and faithful representative, and there
is not the first evidence we can discover of any
and violated the great principle of lion-inter-
qention, he unhesitatingly condemned and de
nounced him. But Mr. Buchanan himself has
done nothing as yet to deserve censure. There
is nothing objectionable in his letter of instruc
tions to Gov. Walker; and he (Judge Brown)
had full faith that the President would eventu-
dissatisfaction with him amonf the masses of j ally re-call \Valker, or would exonerate him-
thc people, while his experience, knowledge
and tact were never more essential to the peo-
of that District than they are likely to be da
ring the next Congress.
We speak on tho authority of something
more than mere snrmise, when wc assert that
powerful influences are likely to beat work—are.
self and rebuke Walker’s unnarantable con
duct in his next message. In view of the cm-
barassment of removing him at present, and
of tho satisfaction which he seems to be giv
ing to the people of Kansas, it is the part of
wisdom for us to wait and see whether the
President will not “manifest liis fidelity to the
in fact, now operating to secure the removal oj principles which carried him into* office.”
the contemplated Wary Yatd from Brunswick, \ Whenever he does prove false to these princi
ples, he (Judge Brown) will oppose him as un-
She has a dangerous claimant with dangerous
backers Southward, and it behooves her aud
tbe whole District interested in building up a
Naval Establishment on tho coast of Georgia,
to see to it that she has a icon in the House
posted as to the facts, and armed with a repel-
lant power and influence to meet the solicita
tions and arguments adverse to Brunswick.
It is an unfavorable time for new men, and the
District in our judgment will consult its true
interest in this, as in other important particu
lars, by adhering to one who has already shown
himself capable of signal and important ser
vice. We have no doubt she will do it.
Iowa—Negro Suffrage.
The new Constitution is said to be adopted by
a majority of five or six thousand. It is stated to
be a fair instrument, with the exception of a single
clause nullifying the fugitive slave law, hut that I competitor, Mr. Ilill, had said “his heart Jeap-
hesitatingly as he now opposes Walker. But
“.Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.’’
He also added, that if he became Governor,
and Kansas were to apply for admission with a I jeetors.
Constitution sanctioning slavery and Congress
should reject her on that account, he would
forthwith call a State Convention to determine
upon the mode and measure of redress.
But if we now hastily repudiate the Admin
istration, and abandon the national Democracy,
wc certainly will not sacrifice everything and
foolishly go over to the Knownothing party,
which is destitute alike of power and of princi
ples. The Knownotbings, he said, are trying
to make capital out of this Kansas affair, since
they are more anxious for office in Georgia
thau for slavery in Kansas. His honorable
The Extension of tfic South West-
EKN RAIL ROAD.
A move is now making in the right direction
to have a Rail Road from Albany to Bain-
bridge, and also to Thomasville, Thomas coun
ty having started the matter and appointed
commissioners to take stock, which no doubt
will be i esponded to by the counties of Baker
and Decatur.
From the warm solicitude expressed by the
city of Savannah for this interesting region of en7e ^S en ^)'
country, may we not hope to obtain her co-op-
peration also; She has extended assistance
most liberally to the counties directly North.—
Is 6hc content to stop and deny aid to others
having an equal claim to her liberality ? Aside
from this, will not Macon, Columbus, North
aud Middle Georgia, directly interested in this
connection, step forward to assist in the en
terprise. Macon will by the completion of the
road to Bainbridge, Thomasville, Tallahassee,
and St. Marks be in direct connection with
the Gulf, New Orleans and Cuba by Rail Road
and Steamboat, for travellers to and fro, and
to receive Western country produce,—to send
South the products of the interior of Georgia
and whatever her farmers and manufacturers
may have to forward for barter or sale. Co
lumbus lias a direct interest in getting by the
Rail Road certainly what she would not be
able to receive in due time by the river, and to
forward her own manufactures and the pro
ducts of her ingenuity and skill. The whole
State will receive benefit and advantage, whilst
injury can occur to none—not even to Albany,
as the Rail Road above that place would re
ceive a new impetus from travel and frieghts
by the proposed extension. The attempt to
stop the road at this place, would but end in
the discomfiture and mortification of its pro-
T.
senting the subscriber as being determined to
move West and wishing therefore to sell valu
able plantations, splendid improvements, em
bracing all necessary out buildings, &c., &c.
—in fact just such places as can’t be found in
this country. I was reading a few days since
one of these advertisements to my better half,
giving a glowing description of a settlement,
the owner of which wished to sell with a view
of “Moving West,” when she, from a feel
ing sense of the severe privations to be en
countered from “moving West” exclaimed,
“Well, if it is what he represents it to be, he
had better stay on it.” None know better than
the ladies the inconveniences attending an al
most wilderness settlement, and strange to say
(with their natural retiring modesty and in
many instances their delicate and fragile con-
stitutions and their apparent unadaptedness to
the varied exposures of frontier life) they seem
to meet the difficulties with more fortitude and
heroic resolution than is even evinced by the
rougher sex in'the conflicts of life; and after
all, most of all those who have succeeded in
this country, in the main, owe it to their wives
—noble and self-sacriflcing women, whose devo
tion, though deeply felt, is often unseen unless
called into exercise by some extraordinary
God bless the women
7 -late some good f ri . ■
as many whose memory i s
kindred ties, and while I iadul t016 '
reminiscences of happy years , J* * ft
I at the same time cherish a don ^
love for old Georgia.
Respectfully yours
(For the Telegraph
JlacoH and Bnm swick
M e copy below f rom the Atl {a,lr<| i
aCmmninicatinnonthe sahjecu?^-1
ami ilnm.wirk j’ :
see that this enterprise is 1
favorable notice iu differ,.,,, p a "!\ t - ' ‘
The counties along if p
fully alive to its importance, aud * 1
public meetings to devise wav. .J'* SI
it a helping hand. i'-
stands pledge tod a liberal subscriZ^
Macon will but dc her duty
what aid we may get from'the Sfiu^Nl
will undoubtedly be built,
and energetic Directors are
shall not fail. It is unnecessar^S
the great advantages that will
construction. These points have h*
been fully discussed through the
are so palpable that they cannot fail ^
every intelligent mind. What w c ^
is action—not words. Our a.i. ^
speaks of the road as an “infant*
enttt pt»i
I
infant ’
Wo are sorry to say that it has not ™
ed even the stage of infancy. j t ■
embroyo in the womb of the future*
parties concerned will make the nC Mf |
tions, we will guarantee its safe aud **
delivery. Let us all put our shouldJf'*
wheel in good earnest, and the MacJ/***
Brunswick Railroad will soon become,^
From the Examiner.
In the political excitements of theiU.
must not overlook these questions
importance in which all parties are all.
cerned. Georgia owes most of her il?
greatness to her admirable Railroa J ,,
Heuce whatever tends to perfect that
who is truly interested in the welfare T?
noble State. .
The link now most urgently needed » A.
chain of our railway comim„;»..:~
, U. j, 0U , r rallwa y communication, j, ?
doubtedly the projected Macon and BnumS
Railroad. This road, unlike most other, ri
not be confined in its benefits to one rurfC
lar section. On the contrary, it will c (qi^
in its benefits nearly ail parts of the Stated
will develope Southern Georgia, and build*
another large city on our South Eastern <W
To Middle Georgia, it will furnish the na-M
practicable outlet to the Atlantic. And to£
upper portion of the State it will offer a
of markets for our rich and varied prodwti
A survey of this road has recently bea
made by Major McNeill, (an accomplish
Engineer) under the superintendence of E!a
Alexander, Esq., of Macon. Their joint e-
port furnishes various interesting facts, t
appears that the actual distance from M«a
to Brunswick, according to this inner, ij
175 miles, being 17 miles nearer than to Ss
vauuah and 32 miles nearer than to Char!*
ton. The opposing grade on this line is only
15 feet to the mile, whereas, it is twice asetd
on the other two routes. These adraatsm,
in connection with the greatly superior harbu
of Brunswick, obviating tbe necessity ofli»t
erage, &c., will make a very considerable£•
ference in favor of that place over the portii
Charleston and Savannah.
Different roads in Tennessee, already bdt
or in course of construction, are becomingtrl
utary to our own State Road. The Chris-
ton and Memphis road will peur into our lq
get to the point, upon which the wealth of the great Mississippi. Bjfc
many conservative voters sustained it even with
this provision, knowing that it was unconstitutional,
and therefore void. On the question of negro
suffrage, which was submitted to the people at the
same time, party organs were arrayed against each
other—the Democrats denouncing and the Black
Republicans advocating it. Tho vote, however,
was pretty much one-sided against it. The Black
Republicans can prats about social equality, but
they recoil at it when brought to the sticking point.
«Sam” dead, and liis Estate In-
SOLVENT.
The Circuit Court of Campbell county, Kentucky,
was lately the scene of a suit brought by Shipley &
Brothers, Cincinnati, against Smalley and Caldwell,
agents for “ The Grand Knownothing State Coun*
cil of Kentucky,” for tho value of certain seals pur
chased of the plaintiffs for the use of “Grand
Council.” Various defences were set np, but in
spite of all, tho Jury awarded plaintiffs a verdict
for $392 60. “The Grand Knownothing State
Council of Kentucky” must be in bad case to al
low their agents to suffer for such a debt.
A Great Grain State.
Illinois, this season, will produce two hun
dred and eighty million bushels of grain—
more than ten bushels for every man, woman
and child in the United States. This knocks
the Com Exchange speculators into the middle
of next year.
This paragraph is in all our exchanges; but
is it not very erroneous ? Illinois raises prin
cipally wheat, but the whole wheat crop of
the United States for 1850 was short of 101
millions of bushels. An average yield of
grain all round of sixty bushels to the acre,
would require for this production four million
six hundred and sixty thousand acres in tho
State of Illinois devoted to grain crops alone!
The paragraph is preposterous.
ed with joy at tho passage of the 3d resolution;’
but he and his friends are greatly mistaken if J
they hope by that means to divido and dis
tract our party. It is true there are different
opinions among ns on the Kansas question.
Some, like Judge Thomas, blame both the ad
ministration and Walker, while others, like Mr.
Stiles, thiuk that nobody is to blame. Judge
Thomas and Mr. Stiles he said, arc both hon
orable men and doubtless express tlieir honest
sentiments. Others again pursue an interme
diate course, censuring Walker and suspend-
Gov. Walker’s Defence.
The Telegraph from Washington has the follow
ing announcement, but wc shall hardly receive the
document in time for this number:
Gov. Walker's Official Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, August 20.—Gov. Walker’s of
ficial correspondence with the government contains,
his defence against the charges brought against him
from portions of the South. He says that he never
proposed to make suggestions to the Convention,
as to what they should or should not do, and that
while (his Southern (detainers charge him with in
tending to admit abolition vagrant voters, the Re
publican, or Free State party of Kausas and the
country arc charging him with a desire of bringing
thousands of Missourians into the Territory to set
tle the contest.
Free Emigrant labor from Africa.
Lord Brougham, in the British House of Peers,
July Kith, read the following curious letter from
the King of Calabar, written in answer to a British
Merchant who had made enquiries of King Hones
ty, whether aDy of his ]>coplo would engage as free
laborers. The Britons had belter give up that
dodge:
“Old Calabab, June 5, 1850.
“Dead Sir:—I received your kind letter by the
Magistrate, through Captain Todd, and by your
wish 1 now write to you to say wo be glad for sup
ply you with slave's. I have spoken with King
ing judgment m the case of the Administration. I Archibury, and all Calabar gentlemen, and bo very
But' notwithstanding these various shad&s 0 f I B lad “>‘ Io th « ? amc < r to ‘ rc ? ,*^ r *J don
“ I wc man no will go for hunself. We shall buy them
opinion, Judge Brown said he had just becu
in different parU of the State, aud had been as
sured everywhere, from the mountains to the
seaboard, that the democracy would forego all
minor differences, and vote, to a man, for
the Democratic ticket. In this connection he
humorously observed that if the Knownothings
tried to meddle with Democratic affairs, they
would bo served like the unfortunate individu
al who interposed between man and wife, and
got the broom-stick for his pains. The Demo
crats, he said, “will take the broom-stick"
to the Ivnownothings in October and after
wards settle their family quarrels in tlieir own
way.
He contrasted the relative strength of the
two parties. The Knownotbings have but one
Governor—Rollins of Missouri—and that one
elected by a combination of Knownothing aud
Abolition votes. They have but two or three
Representatives at the North, and they are
pledged to oppose the admission of Kausas as
a slave State. At the South, they have two
members from Tenucsseo, three from Kontuc-
ul sara wc do that time slave trade bin. We be
very glad for them man to come back to Calabar;
but'I fear that time they go for West Indies he will
no com hack her.
“ We have all agreed to charges four boxes of
brass and copper rod for man, woman, and chil
dren, but shall not he able to supply the quantity
you mention, f think we shall be able to get 400
or 500 for one vessel, and be able to load her in
three or four months, for we cannot get them all
ready to wait for the ship. She will have to com
and tak them on board as they com. We have no
place on shore to keep them. The ship will have
to pay convey to me and Archibury, but no other
gentleman—say 10,000 copper for each town in
cloth or any other article of trad. I shall be very
glad if the term I mention will suit you, for we
shall not be able to do it at a less price, and man to
bo paid for with rods. I shall be very glad when
you write me again to mak arrangements with your
captain what time the ship must come, hoping you
are quite well, beleevc me to be, my dear .-ir, your
humble servant, Evo Honesty Kino.”
Florida Land.—The President has ordered
the withdrawal of a number of tracts of land |
near the Suwannee river, Florida, for naval
purposes. It is understood that these are yel
low pine lands, and to the extent of from twen
ty to twenty-five thousand acres.—Savannah \
Georgian.
I intended to write—this Country—North
west Louisiana. I would say that without any
ifs or ands it is a great country—its soil and
climate adapted to the production of every
thing necessary to satisfy the wants of maa
It is generally rather sparsely settled—some
neighborhoods are more densely populated, suf
ficiently so to make the society agreeable. The
land is generally good. I would say much the
largest proportion are equal in point of pro
ductiveness to the best lands in tbe best Cot
ton region of Georgia, (I refer to Baker coun
ty,) and I think are not surpassed by the Chat
tahoochee River bottoms. Valuable settle'
ments can be bought at from 3 to $10 per
acre, according to the location and character
of improvements. Improved lands are worth
from $1,50 to over $5,00 per acre. The very
best, however, can be gotten at the former
price—it depends upon the location. I will
guarantee to show any man from 20 to 50 sec
tions at $1,50, and even less per acre, though
not of the best quality, but the poorest section
equal to a great deal in Georgia on which for
tunes have been made.
The society is generally good—remarkably
so; composed chiefly of some of the best citizens
from Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina,
most of whom seem to be laboring with the
praise worthy object of bettering tlieir condi
tion, both in a moral and temporal point of
view. Often during a residence of between 35
and 40 years in Georgia and Alabama have I
heard this country spoken of as being sickly,
frightfully so, a perfect grave-yard. All that
I have to say upon this subject, is that I have
never lived anywhere but what I found people
subject to sickness and death, but no more
here than everywhere else, and no reasonable
man understanding the facts, would object to
it on that account. As for schools and churches
auxilaries to prosperity and happiness, they
abound all over the land. In our own flourish
ing village is located a Female College under
the immediate control and direction of the Lou
isiana Annual Conference of the M. E. Church
South, which promises to be an honor to our
State aud a blessing to our race. All that is
needed to make our country all that is desira
ble is a few more substantial characters—men
of worth, religion and influence. To all such a
most cordial invitation is extended
But with all the advantages hinted at, I
would not advise a man well settled there and
doing well, to break up and move to this coun
try; but to those who are cultivating poor
lands, worn out, rocky aud hilly, it would bo
better for them, if they could get enough for
their possessions to pay their expenses to this
country, to sell out and come as quick as pos
sible.
A word in reference to our crops
is no telling how cotton will turn out.
is its most critical period, but there is one thing
certain, the prospect was never more promis
ing for an abundant yield. Should it escape
the ravages of the boll worm and caterpillar,
as much will bo made as can be gathered,
and 10 bales to the hand is not an extravagant
calculation, or from 1500 to 2500 lbs. per acre
when the seasons aro favorable. Tho corn
crop is equally promising and is made beyond
any contingency. From satisfactory experi
ments made by some of our practical planters
the two last seasons it has been ascertained
that tho country is finely adapted to the suc
cessful cultivation of wheat.
I am not aware that there is any interest felt
by any of the people of Georgia in reference
to this country, neither do I know whether
there are more than r few, who entertain tho
*
Chattanooga and Nashville road, we viit
connected with the Ohio river; and tie Es
Tennessee road will bring to us the trade c!
travel of the rich valley cf Western Yaps
These roads will combine to make At', c.-.. ___
of the chief internal depots of the countrr.- I
Consequently, iu order to meet the grant I
wants of our city—in order to bring to it ■
ditional capital and increased business,:
tehooves us to secure every requisite fia&j
for the transportation of our frieghts to it
seaboard. That the Macon and Brunsvid
Road is best calculated to accomplish this 4
ject, is apparent to all.* It is in fact a gr«
desideratum. Now as all upper Georra*
interested in this matter, just as much, iiut
more than any other part of the State, is *
not our interest as well as our duty to asut
tliis infant enterprise ?
We are not apprised whether its friends de
sign applying for State aid, but if they do, i
ought by all means to be granted to thea.-
Cherokee Georgia has received her full sta
of assistance, and has profited by it bewd
the most sanguine expections. It is now tk
turn for other parts of the State, and no rotdko
superior claims to this. The last Legistot
appropriated a million of dollars for the best-
fit of Southern’Georgia, but the companies fa
which it was designed, have failed to mi
themselves of it, and we are glad to learn'1-
both of their roads will doubtless be built with
out it. This million of dollars cannot be bet
ter applied than to the Macon and Brnasriek
Road. At any rate, such wc confidently be
lieve to be the unanimous sentiment in.
CHEROKEE-
Atlanta, August, 1857.
Jlacoii County Democratic Ticket
WINCHESTER, GA., Aug. 22d,lSSI-
J. Clisby, Esq. :
Dear Sir: I’leasc announce the following ticket
of the Democracy in Macon county, which woi
place at Oglethorpe, on Saturday the 15th ins
The meeting was well attended, and much lurffl*?
prevailed:
For Senator—Dr. E. F. COLZY.’
For Representative—Dr. B. F. NEWSOM.
Martin jr. Crawford iu Dooly-
Drayton, Aug. 20th, 155“ *
Mr. Editor :—Please permit me, through !'-
columns, to give an account of cur proceed*?
to-day. Mr. Crawford has given ns a po 1
speech, and tom up the very ground works oft-’
dark lantern party in this section. Wem*!’
be proud of our representative, and his hold
the people here is stronger than ever. Oar ->?
floats triumphantly, and will be carried this w
into tbe centre of the enemy’s column. I *® c "'
u who has never yet cast a vote, but I was c»i r
I in the lap of Democracy, and am prondtos*I c l
first vote will, Providence permitting, he css. ■*
-Mr. Crawford. DKAYTO*
There
This
Georgia KuownotliinK OiB an5,
A FALSE CHARGE.
They must look again to the record,
son voted for Mr. Mordccai Oliver ofMis:0uri,^ ^
did not vote for Banks, and not for Mr. A 5 " 1 '
Oliver of New York, who did vote for baa®.-'-
Kchsrl-
«b>
gain, Thomas J. D. Fuller of Maine never
for Pennington. On the 8th ballot, T. J- ®-
voted for Richardson, and he is also reported a
ting on the same ballot for Pennington.
Henry M-
Fullor of Pennsylvania, for whom Robert P.
roted, is the man who on the eighth and ^
ballots voted for Pennington who T0 - 1 "
Banks
Therefore the Democratic party is not re.p
ble for the election of Banks. ,
On the last ballot, all the Democrats but I n 1 '"
of Pennslvania, voted for Aiken,
and five Northern Knownothings
Two South' 1 -
voted for
Two Northern Knownothings and two in' 11
publicans voted for Campbell. .
If tbe Knownothings that s.ood out am
to vote for Aiken, had voted for him,
have beaten Banks. Who is responsioh - ^
for Banks’ election ? Thera is but one
> answer-
tbs
Knownothings.
RECORD