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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
KEGPLAR meeting.
Council Chamber, /
Macon, (1 a., November 5tli. S
l'r(-»,<nt — A. H. A.iara? Mayor, Inlander*.Boitick
I; 1 . -m, Johnston. Klii-. ...
nt —Alii. Wiaaliic, Eimilay, MIC.
• minutes of the last meeting were read, when
Al,l. li.li, moved to reconsider tho resolution do-
. . ,riiio tin a. wer which «raptiea In the Alley in the
i h„,m,,! Woodard s Stable not to be the
m- ,.r the mtifnnc. complained of, and read a
• -■-u,,i 1 \ • m.'lrv citizens on squHro 20
, must the MOJO ; Which motion to reconsider was
carried and the minutes were then confirmed.
"i„ lir':.: C Ki - ].•■ r reported toils f-r the week,
to date, 4113 is.
j... clerk of Market reported fees for the neck to
date, f IS 50.
Tho Guard lion
week, $5 23, . ,
'1 ho C "inmitteo on Finance to whom was referred
.v Wiltiuni s application fur Council to prant him
. ; IV. , • ..• i; ........ i• ■ r 1. i- m :,,tmn f,» cross the -Macon
bridge the balance of the year, beg leave to report
in violation of our License ordinance,^ Con
or reported fees for tho
Com.
that it is in violation of onr Incense ordinance,
aeqaentiy your committee cannot recommend it,
A G.LOMICK. lc
I).\\ ID J LANDERS.
Al l' ‘.vjmAed ie°l'iivor of the following accounts,
' 's. Rose A:Co, «17 50; J.Knteht; 613 50 : A ’ B
IfO'S, §153 00 j J. J. Churcdiill, SI 50.
1 • ! i! vwhtbn Mb® "committee on Public Property
be authorised to sell, if they think proper niter a
. .reful examination, some of tho fallen timber on :ho
ri.. . rvc tn IV. T. Massey, at such price as tne parties
way agree upon.
Paised. ,
C Muliioliand and II. .Sugar's petition to purenaso
or 1c ase a strip oflaml on New Street, between Cher-
ry and Poplar; roceiv. il and referred to Committeo
on street Encroachi' - nt. .
The petition of the Trustees of tho Bibb Co. ho-
male Academy to cliango the location of tlio Alley,
running between loto.6 and 7 in Square 73._thedia-
tancooflO feet; received and ref-rred tothohtree.
Committee.
On motion Aid. Bloom,
it. solved, that the corawitteo on Public Property
bo authorised to contract for th# Cttttmg Md no-
lie, ry to tho city lot, for 50 cords of wood for the
use of the city, and for distribution among tbs poor
as his !>•>nor. tho Mayor, may order, tho lallen tim
ber on the city reserve to bo used for tho purposo ;
Fused
Mr. 1>. Dempsey’s petition for the building of the
Sewer across Walnut Street which was granted by
the former Council, was received and road. *\ hen
Aid. Johnson offered the following resolution :
Ki solved, that tho street committeo be instructed
to proceed immediately with the £ewer from Goo.
Payne’s lot diagonally accross "Walnut Street;
Which was passed.
On motion Aid. Ilivom, , . .
Resolved, that the street committeo be authorized
to have a survey and an estimated made of tho pro-
bablocost of a Sewer to run down Second Street, to
the river, said Sewer to commence at the one which
now crosses said sirect betweeu squares 13 and 20
Passed.
The petition ot Dennis Shehan and others to have
some troublesome neighbors removed from their
neighborhood, was received and referred to his hon
or, the Mayor, to act as he may think proper.
Council then adjourned. _ _
Ik CURD, C. C.
GOV. BKOWJ¥’S
Ina.-agu.ral -A-d. dr ess.
Senators and Representatives.
In obedience to the popular will of our beloved
State, I appear before you for the purpose of enter
ing upon tho discharge of the duties of the Execu
tive office. It is a peculiarity of oar form of govern
ment that no one can claim to rule by hereditary
right. And it is its chief excellence that the people
alone are sovereign, while the highest officer in the
State is but their agent to carry into effect their will.
In the rave for honor and preferment, all are alike
eligible; industry, integrity, virtue and ability be
ing the principal qualifications looked toby an en
lightened public opinion. The generous and intelli
gent people of Georgia have entrusted to you and
me, the management of their most important public
affairs for the next two years.
In entering together upon the execution of this im
portrait and delicate trust, you will pardon me for
reminding you of the necessity of calm and dignified
deliberation, wise and just counsels, together with
united and fraternal feelings, forgetiug. lor the time,
party strifes and party prejudices, and looking alone
to the advancement of our great publio interests.—
And I most earnestly invoke your united support in
my efforts to execute tho laws, advance the inter
ests, maintain the dignity, and vindicate the honor of
our great and growing State. Great in the extent
of her territory, the fertility of her soil, the variety of
her products, her mineral wealth, her internal im
provements, her commercial, mannfseturing, me
chanical and agricultural interests; but above all. in
the energy, inielligence and patriotism of her peo
ple.
By tho untiring energy enterprise of our citi
zens, tlioso sections of our State most remoto from
each other, are being fast united by railroads and
telegraphs; while space is being almost annihilated,
and the people of the seaboard and the mountains
arc becoming neighbors as well as fellow-citizens.
Withont disparaging private effort or private en
ergy, tho Western it Atlantic Railroad, built by the
State, may with propriety be said to be the proudest
Suite, may with propriety be said to be the proudest
monument of Georgia enterprise. By its construc
tion tho has taken mto her own hands the key to tho
mountains, and has unlocked to our Atlantio coast
the rich treasures of the great West. The benefits
to Georgia from the construction of the Road have
been immense, and ere continually increasing;
while to the Clierokoe section they are almost be
yond calculation. By the enterprise of her citizens,
and the assistance of the Road, Cherokee has, in a
fiw years, been converted from a wild, uncultivated
region, into one of the most interesting and prosper
ous sections of oar State. The result does honor to
the far-seeing statesmanship of those who planned
this noblo work. Tho example is worthy of imita.
tion, and in my judgment, the Legislature taking
care that the State is amply secured, beyond the
possibility of a doubt, should not hesitate to extend
that aid which is necessary for the development of
other sections. As an example, what Georgian would
not 1, 1 proud to see our beautiful commercial em
porium connected by railroad with our South-West-
era border and the Golf of Mexico; thereby devel
oping the great sea-port and South-Western psrthe
ot our State,- and causing much which is now a wild
erness to bloom like the rose, and to teem with tho
rich products ofthefertile soil of this beautiful and
intonating section.
But in the development of the resources of onr
State, we must not forget the development of mind.
The perpetuity and prosperity of our beloved insti
tutions depend upon tho virtue and intelligence ot
our p, ople. And it will be a proud day for Georgia
when her Colleges shall have been more liberally
endowed and patronized; and when sbo. shall have
established a common school system, and provided
the means for the education of overyson and daugh
ter in the State.
Many a iittie brighteyed boy, the inmate of tho
humblest dwelling, from one extremo portion of our
State to the other, endowed with all tho noble quali
ties of head and heart, nece.-sary to make him an or
nament of the ego in which he lives, is growing up
without tho means of a common education, and
without promise of future usefulness. Afibrd him
the means of an education, and ho may one day step
forward, tho ablest champion of our rights in the
Senate, or tho most gallant leader of our amie; in
the field.
1 must not overlook another subject which is re-
garded by our people as one of vital importance. I
reft r to ihu question of tho proper disposition to bo
made of tho Western A Atlantic Railroad. Wheth
er ii should remain tho property of the State, and be
managed uu icr tho direction of the Executivo; or
be taken out of the hands of tho Executive, and
managed by s Board of Commissioners; or whether
the State should It mo it toa Company for a term of
years, or sell the whole, or part ot it f are questions
upon which our wisest and best men do not agree;
and arc, in my opinion, proper for your calm and
careful consideration. Snoiud the Legislature pass
a hill for the sale of tho Road after guarding the de
tails ot tho contract of sale, so as to protect the In
terest of tho people, I see no sufficient reason why it
should not receive tho Executive sanction. Tho
points which I consider most material to bo guard
ed, are the following:
J in.t the money received for the Road hepro-
teoted from expenditure by hasty anil improvident
legislation, This conld be done by an alteration of
•die Constitution, thereby declaring before the Road
is sold, what disposition shall bo made of tho money
in tho ei • nt of a sale- Let the Constitution provide
that onr public debt shall first be paid out of the pro
ceeds ot tfae sale at tbs Rood; that
mount bo next set apart as a permanent common
school fluid, lur die education of the children of tho
State, and if there boa balance, Jet it bo used in do-
vt lojiingsucli sections of the State a- most need as
sistance, or in such other way.M prudence and wis-
dom may di Mte. In this wa v we place the bulwark
of the Constitution between the in,
making power,,thereby preventing extravagant ap
propriation's, and placo the balance of tho money
which may hi realtor arise from tho sale of tho Road
after the payment of our debt, at interest for the ed-
cn ation mnl I 1u ( tit of onr people for nil time tocome,
. .. Tin Road ought not tobesai ruicod orsold for
loss than its foil market value.
3d. ihe qui -:i, i of freights should be so guarded
in the contract of the .-ale that the Road couIq not be
made an engine of iimtumlnn upon the people'to
lime, i :.... aware turn competition will regulate
freights as well as trade,while there can be no compe
tition here owing to the pi culiar location of the Road;
and dm f ■: that tho company purchasing would
ubd. - 1 Ire a oblig: lion from the State that
she would not charter any lateral Road with such
«ti -t , •> to :. '..Herewith their interests. Let the
Nt.it* . , the contract ot sale retain the power t, - r-g-
uhit. ;; . :i. by me . . , I reasonable standard.
Oil" rn v..- have cri ted i-.i our midst nut on
ly :i p.iv.. i: ul. oat end irresponjib!-: monopoly.
i'li. Tl'ct die prcvreiic • in the purchase of die stock
be pi,, :i !o lhe people cf Gi orgia u hose labor and mo
il-. v i.:a o bun, tt.eltead. Let books bo opened iu eve-
iy county in the is.'Jto on the same day, giving every
,\ii/i ii ;.a o; pm idlin' lo purchase the stock, aud pru-
Inc-.iing an.. >u.dt’..v capitalist from taking more than
u r, . -unable no,omit, to be fixed by the Legislature,
till nil have bad u fair opportunity to" subscribe. '1 his
i vea die man o! means, iu purchase but a single share,
.. i.ur chuL’ce to invest if he chooses to do so.
In inv judgment the stock of tho Road in the bands
of s private company would be the best paying stock
In Georgia.
1 thus conclude from the fact, that the increase
the freights anil travel of the Road and the consequent
increase in its value wnbin the last few years bare
been immense and must continue to enlarge astbeotlier
great Western Roads are built, connecting our Road
with die Ohio River,and those Rich vallevsof theWest
not yet traversed by Rail Road, as it has lately been
connected with the Mis-issippi River. AdJ from the
further fact that our Road is the maintrunk connecting
me great system of Rail Roads in Georgia, with
Roads ir, Tennessee, Kentucky, and other port inns
the West If each of these can doa paying business,
I see no good reason why the stock of a Road, wnicn
connects ihem all. and over which much of the fravc
and freight of each must pass, should Dot prove to tie
very valuable. Entertaining these views 1 count not
consent to see anv company of Northern or foreign
Capitalists snatch so rich a prize out of the hands'"
our people without first giving them an opportunity
avail themselves of its benefits. As the Represents,
lives of the people, should you after mature delibera
tion deem it unwise at present either to sell or lease the
Road, and should you also refuse to relieve the Execu
live of the responsibility of its management, I can on
ly say that I shall enter upon the discharge of the uu
pleasant duties imposed, with a fixed determination *'
do all in my power to make it a source of revenue
the State; occasionally overlooking its affaire in per
son and holding each’ Officer under my control to t
strict accountability for the faithful discharge cf the
duties incumbent upon him.
And in view of the commercial crisis which we have
just entered, and which threatens so much distress tc
our people I would respectfully but earnestly recora
mend the passage ot an act authorizing the application
of the net earnings of the Road for the next iwo years
at least to the reduction ot tho taxes or Ihe people.—
Except such parts of the net earnings as may bo nec
essary for the payraeut of the sums annually duo to
creditors, on account of the present indebtedness of tbo
Road. It is confidently believed that a sufficient sum
might thus be realized, notwithstanding tho commer
cial pressure which will reduce tho gross incomes of
the Road, greatly to lessen the taxes, and aflord much
relief to the people, at a lime when the payment of the
taxes would otherwise bear heavily upon them.
In tho midst of a high state of commercial prosperi
ty, with abundant crops, and a bright prospect for the
future, the country is suddenly shocked by an almost
general bank suspension, causing distrust and depress,
ion in all our commercial affairs. It is to be feared that
much of tho blame is properly attributable to our Bank
ing institutions, for having, in a wild spirit of specula
tion, extended their paper circulation beyond the limits
authorized by our legislation, and by tbo sound princi
ples of Banking, which requires them promptly to re
deem their circulation in specie, when presented. If
this be so with any of our Banks, while they may be
the cause of much public calamity, they lire certainly
not the proper objects of public sympathy.
Von, gentlemen, nre the representatives of the peo
ple, and it is for yon to consider what constitutional
remedy, you may have it in your power to apply. The
fault lies not with yon: itlies not with tbo honest mas
ses oi tho people. The disease to the body politic may
be said to be almost a desperate one, and’, with a view
to the future, it may be better to submit, for a time, to
a desperate remedy, in the hope that it may be a per
manent one. Tbe’law, as it now stands, bss provided
the penalty tor a bank suspension. Tbe duties of tbo
Executivo are plain and simple. I shall not shrink
from the discharge of those duties. I consider the law
imperative. And on being informed, upon such legal
evidence as tbo etatuto contemplates, that any char
tered Bank in G eorgia suspends specie payment, I shall
order proceedings for the forfeiture of its'charter.
In case of proceedings against tbe Bank, tbe bill hol
ders would be none the less secure, as tbe assets of the
Bank would be placed in tho hands of a Receiver, and
converted into money, and applied in payment of the
debts of the Back. This would be a lesson of warning,
which would do much to protect the country in future
ngainst similar rererscs, caused by wild speculation
and over issues by our banking institutions.
As regards our Federal relations, I need not say,
that the people of Georgia have again and again indors
ed and approved the great principles of non-interven
tion contained in the Kansas-Xebraska Bill; and I
doubt not they will continue to insist that these prin
ciples he carried into practical operation, in good faith,
without violation on the part or the Federal Govern
ment, or any branch thereof. While our people will
condemn no one unheard, and while they will stand
firmly by those noblo patriots in the Northern States,
who stand by these great fundamental principles, they
will not withhold their condemnation from any one
who wilfully disregards or violates them.
Georgia demands naught bat her constitutional rights
and equality in the Union, and while her sons have
stout hearts and strong arms, Georgia will he content
with nothing less. Knowing no North, no South, no
East, no West, she will embrace with fraternal affection
all who stand by the Constitution and Union ot our fa
thers. Bnt she" will bid proud defiance to all who at
tempt to forco upon her tho one without the other.
In the Convention of 1 B 50, while acknowledging her
veneration for the Constitution and tbe Union under
the most solemn net of a sovereign State, she has laid
down her platform containing her ultimatum, and has
said to the aggressions of Northern fanaticism, thus
tar canst thou come, and no farther. By her subse
quent legislation she has provided the means for carry
ing her firm resolves into effect, should the dread al
ternative present itself. And she has made it the duty
of her Executive to see that her stem decrees are faith
fully executed. While I am unalterably determined,
should the day of her peril come during tbe period for
which she has confided to me the highest office within
her gilt, to maintain her rights, and vindicate her hon
or at any and every harvard, yet I would most hum
bly Invoke that Almighty Being who controls the des
tinies of men and of nations: so to temper onr National
Councils with Wisdom, Moderation and Justice, that
onr Equality in tbo Union may be maintained, and our
Constitutional Rights and privileges perpetuated and
transmitted unimpaired to the latest generation
Hard Times.
Some years since an eccentric old genius
whom for convenience we will call Barnes,
was employed by a farmer living some six or
seven miles westerly from the Penobscot ri
ver, to dig a well. Tbe soil and substratum
being mostly sand, old Barnes having pro
gressed downward some forty feet found one
morning upon going out early to his work
that the well had essentially caved in, and was
full nearly to the top. So having that desire,
which men will have, of knowing what will be
said of them after they arc dead, and no one
being yet astir, lie concealed himself in a rank
growth of burdocks by the side of a board
fence near the mouth of the well, having first
left his hot and frock upon the windlass over
the well. At length, breakfast being ready,
a boy was dispatched to call him to his meals,
when lo! it was seen that Barnes was buried
in a grave unconsciously dug by his own hands.
The alarm being given and the family assem
bled, it was decided, first to eat b. cakfast and
then send for the coroner, the minister and
Iiis wife and children. Such apathy did not
flatter Barnes’ self esteem a bit, but he waited
patiently to hear what was to be said and sec
what wus to bo seen
Presently all parties arrived and began
“prospecting” the t>c:ne of the catastrophe as
people usually do in such coses. At length
they drew together to c.tcliange opinions as to
what should be done- The minister ot once
gave it ns his opinion that they had better fill
up the well and let Barnes remain. The co
roner likewise agreed that “it would be a need
less expense to his family or the town, to dis
inter him when he was so effectually buried,”
therefore entirely coincided with the minister.
His wife thought that as “he had left his hat
and frock, it would hardly be worth while to
dig him out for the rest of his clothesand so
it was settled to let him remain.
The poor old Barnes, who had no breakfast,
and was not at all pleased with the result of
the inquest, laid quiet until the shades of even
ing stole over the landscape; then he quietly
decamped to parts unknown.
After remaining incognito for about three
years, one morning he suddenly appeared, hat-
lcss and frocklcss as lie went, at the door of
the farmer for whom he had agreed to dig the
unfortunate well. To say that an avalanche
of question# were rained upon him as to his
mysterious reappearance, See., would convey
but a feeble idea of the excitement which his
bodily presence created. But the old man
bore it all quietly, and at length informed
them thatou finding himself buried, he waited
for them to dig him out, until his patience was
exhausted, when ho set to dig himself out, and
only the day before had succeeded; for his
ideas being confused by tbe pressure of the
earth at the time lie was buried, he had dug
uni-y ami the law very much at raudom, and instead of coming
directly to the surface, he came out in the
town of Holden, six miles cast of tbe Penob
scot river!
No further explanations were sought for by
those who were so distressed and sorrowful
over his supposed final resting place.—Ban
gor Jeffersonian.
Hanling up Whale Ships.
The New Bedford Mercury “learns that out
of twenty-eight whaling ships now in port,
eighteen of them will be hauled up in dock
during the winter, and then’ refitting delayed
until ths ensuing spring. Tin’s course has
been reluctantly adopted by their owners in
consequence of the financial pressure and the
present high rates of obtaining nearly every
article of outfits. It is a matter of sincere re
gret that many classes of our enterprising
mechanics will necessarily thereby sutler from
the temporary lack of employment during the
present seasor, but there can be no doubt that
the measure is, upon the whole, eminently ju
dicious, and, indeed, has scarcely admitted of
an alternative."
MA.C03ST, GA.,
Tuesday Morning, Nov. 10, 1857.
Culhbert Reporter.
Mr. Byrd, Editor of this excellent weekly, is
cow in Macon, for the purpose of soliciting adver*
using and other patronage for the paper. The
Reporter doubtless offers a valuable advertising
medium to our merchants. See advertisement.
Ulount Vernon Fund.
ADDRESS FROM MR. DAWSON.
We are authorized to announce that A. H.
H. Dawson, Esq. will deliver a Lecture before
the Macon public next Wednesday Evening,
in aid of tbe fund for the purchase ot Mount
Vernon. We hope our people will come for
ward generously in aid of the patriotic Lec
turer.
Fire.
Last Saturday night a little after eleven, tho
“ early to bed” wero startled from their slumbers
by the fire bell. Tbe kitchen attached to tbe resi
dence of Mr. Michael Sullivan, on Mulberry street,
was all in ablaze—tbe house itself on fire, and on
ly a ten foot alley intervening between them and
tho Reform Medical College, one of the finest edi
fices in town. The lure Department buckled to
with right good will, and saved everything but the
outhouse.
The Cars at Albany.
Tho Albany Patriot of the Sth iust. says: “Tho
first train of cars over the Georgia and Florida
Railroad to Albany, arrived this morning. TV
were gratified to welcome R. R. Cuyler, President
of the Soutli-Westcm Railroad Company, and
Geo. W. Adams, Esq., Superintendent, and
Puree, Esq., Savannah, with a considerable num
ber of other passengers."
Albany will now he a lively place, hard times to
the contrary notwithstanding. We agree with the
Patriot that “it will doubtless be one of the best
interior markets of the State."
Parties in the Legislature.
The Republican says that upon a count of noses
the “Americans” mustered thirty-two in the Sen
ate and fifty-four in the House. This count would
make the Democratic joint majority about ninety
And Vet Another Proclamation.
Those indefatigable gentlemen, Gov. Walker ami
Secretary Stanton, are out in still another procla
matiou, rejecting the “ pretended returns from
three precincts in McGee county, containing an
aggregate of more than 1200 votes." These “ pre
tended returns” they allege to bo “ simulated and
fictitious ”—contain no evidence of oaths adminis
tered to the judges and clerks—and give the names
of the voters and candidates, while not one of the
offices is mentioned for which the candidates were
supported.
Executive Appointments.
Wc understand Gov. Brown has appointed
the following named gentlemen. Secretaries
of the Executive Department:
Major John H. Stef.le, of Atlanta.
Mark D. Combs, of Baldwin.
J, Biclow Campbell, of Baldwin.
Long life to you, Mr, Secretary Steele, in
particular.
Usury Laws.
The Grand Jury of Houston call the attention of
the Legislature to the abolition of the usury laws.
It has always been a matter of surprise to us why
usury laws, which are practically a dead letter,
except in so far as they are used to embarrass trans
actions, should be clung to with such tenacity.—
If there is a single good reason why tho price of
money more than that of wheat, cotton or any
other article of merchandise, should be fixed by
statute, wc do not know it.
The new Speaker and President
OK THE SENATE.
Hon. John W. H. Usderwood, we learn, is win
ning golden opinions for tbe efficiency, dignity and
impartiality with which he presides over the
House. ’
In President Ward, of the Senate, that body hai
secured, as none of our readers need be told, one
of the best parliamentary presiding officers in the
United States. We suppose, indeed, he has no
superior.
The Legislative Elections.
The Democracy in the Legislature has covered
itself with glory by the prompt and efficient man
ner in which it has brought on and disposed of the
vexed questions of political patronage and promo
tion. Beyond a doubt their action has embodied
tbe will of the people, and they have carried that
will into effect in a manner most honorable to
thcmsclves—most fqrtunate te their party—most aus.
picious to every public interest in their hands which
would have been embarrassed and endangered by de
lays, contentions and divisions about men. The
field is now clear for general Legislation, and there
is no reason why they should not move on harmo
niously to the intelligent discharge of the impor
tant duties suggested in the Governor’s Message.
Flections.
Now York is claimed for the Democracy by
some ten to twenty thousand. New Jersey has
also gone Democratic. Massachusetts Is Black
Republican, as usual, electing Banks by a large
plurality. Maryland has gone for the Knownoth-
ings by a majority increased over that given for
Fillmore. Only four are said to have been killed
in Baltimore •election day. Contrary to general
anticipation, the day passed off in unusual quiet,
and good feeling.
The Re v. D. J. Anld, of the Presbyterian Church,
died in Tallahassee, Florida, on the SOth uit.
Organization of the Legislature.
The Legislature organized on "Wednesday—the
Senate by the ciectiov of Hon. John E. Ward, of
Chatham, President. The vote stood, for Ward,
69—T. S. Gucrry, 24—Wm. M. Brown, 30. After
an admirable address by Mr. Ward, the following
officers were then elected:
Clerk—W. B. Terhunc, of Floyd;
Messenger—V. A. Brewster, of Harralson;
Doorkeeper—E. W. Aired, of Pickens.
Mr. Tcrhuno selected as his first Assistant, Mr.
Chares J. Harris, of Thomas county.
In the nouse, Hon. John W. II. Underwood, of
Floyd, was elected Speaker by the following vate:
Underwood, 96—John Millege, 43—scattering, S.
Onr friend Col. A. M. Speer, of this county, was
then reinstated in the position of Chief Clerk,
which he graces so well, by a highly complimentary
vote. The Constitutionalist says: “We under
stand that Mr. Speer, contrary to the general cus
tom of aspirants for that office, refused to secure
the influence of any members by promises to pro
mote individuals. His election was less secure, and
his majority smaller than it otherwise would have
been, in consequence of this. Rut we admire his
independence, and regnrd him as a model in this
respect to office seekers.”
A. J. Macarthy, Esq., of Worth, has been ap
pointed one of his assistants—the other we do not
see announced. The Executivo Officers of the
House arc Je-se Oslin, of Cobb, Messenger, and
Mr. Sumner, of Emanuel, Doorkeeper.
Arrival of Canada.
The Canada reached Halifax on the 4th
with Liverpool advices to the 2-lth ult.
The sales of Cotton for the week previous
to the departure of *he Canada amounted to
1,000 bates—speculators taking 3,000 bales
and exporters 1,000. All qualities had slight
ly declined—Middlings having declined id.
Inferior was nominal, aud prices irregular.—
Friday, the 23d, the sales amounted to 3,000
bales, exporters taking 1,000. The market
exhibited a declining tendency, and there was
but little inquiry.
Consols 885.
The Governor’s Message
We read Gov. Johnson s last annual Messag,
with a regret which entire confidence in his worthy
successor does not dispel. We are sorry to part
with the Governor in his official position. He lias
been a valuable, upright and faithful Chief Magis
trate—has discharged with scrupulous fidelity the
high trusts reposed in him by.the people. He re
tires with honor, and the Telegraph hopes his
great talents may soon be re-enlisted in the pub
lie service.
The Message, like all of Governor Johnson’s pa
pers, is very clear, concise and compact, and his
views and suggestions are wise, practical and mod
erate. In relation to the suspended hanks, it will
be seen he counsels toleration, while recommend
ing n thorough investigation into their condition
and mode of operations. His vindication of the
State Road is complete. Quarter dollar politicians
and candidates will assail it in vain after such
showing. Upon State aid to railroads, and upon
connecting our State railway system with the
Gulf, the port of Brunswick and Southern Georgia,
his policy is a liberal and enlightened one. His
remarks upon the various State Institutions, ex
liibit a commendable familiarity with their condi
tion. The Militia system is a topic of much thought
ful remark. His suggestions upon Education,
ought, in our judgment, to command tho earnest
attention of the Legislature. Let this body im
mortalize itself by liberal provisions to place the
Georgia University on a footing worthy of the
State, and by initiating a system of popular educa
tion. The Governor’s plan for the latter is wise in
its simplicity—wise in the fact that State aid is
based on popular co-operation, and moves with it
pari passu. It ought to work, and gradually win
its way into public confidence and efficiency. Up
on the matter of raising the Executive and Judicinl
salaries, his suggestions come gracefully from a re
tiring officer. Tho Telegraph has latterly volun
teered its views on this point. State salaries should
offer, at least, a fair compensation for the best tal
ents. What a first class lawyer would ordinarily
realize from private practice, should at least not
be diminished because his legal abilities render it
desirable to place him upon the bench. An ac
counting officer in the employment of the State,
and under heavy bonds, should certainly not be
expected to work for less than a Bank cashier or a
clerk, or tho confidential clerk of a mercantile
house. The Governor, from whom a large hospi
tality is expected, ought certainly to be placed be
yond tlio necessity of a vexatious and stinted house
hold economy. The condition of the State does
not require such parsimony—tho people neither
desire nor appreciate it.
The Governor’s briefly expressed views on Fed
eral relations are also our own. Wc regard the
Democratic Party of the Union as the last string
which holds it together. When that snaps the
Union is de facto gone. That party is composed
North and South, of men holding diverse views
upon the matter of African Slavery in the abstract;
that is to say, as a social element. But in respect
to its status in our political system, we believe the
Democratic party North and South is more har
monious in theory than it ever was before—as
nearly a unit as such a vast organization well can
be. Whatever Ideas may be entertained of the
practical results of a dissolution of the Union, two
points will hardly be controverted: first, that with
all its inconveniences and contentions, the ends of
government have, in the main, so far, been well
subserved under the federal system. The South
era people, with all their troubles and just causes
of complaint, hare, after all, been the most pros
perous people under the sun. The second point is,
that when we come to a dissolution we shall have
a long future of benefit or of injury from the change.
When the Southern Democracy take issue with
their Northern brethren, nothing remains but sec
tional divisions, which must, in all human proba
bility, end in a final rupture of the confederacy.—
Let prudence, therefore—let moderation, let can
dor, let patriotism, let a past common traditionary
and historical glory—let the cause of popular self-
government and republicanism—let the hope of
future peace and prosperity, however feeble, still
plead with us for a magnanimous and forbearing
policy, which will not take issue with the Northern
Democracy until a paramount regard for Constitu
tional equality shall leave us no other alternative.
Financial Statistics^
The Merchants’ and Bankers’ Register furnishes
a tabular statement of the number of Banks in the
United States, their circulation, specie and capital.
It foots up as follows:
Number of Banks 1,442
Capital $ 367,041,225
Circulation 186,753,000
Specie 61,556,000
The amount of specie in the country is estima
ted at about two hundred and ninety millions.—
The North American contrasts the exports of spe
cie from the country within the last seven years,
with the amount actually coined at the different U.
Mints within the same time. The coinage
amounts in the aggregate to $415,226,717 10, and
the exports to $285,881,170, showing an excess of
coinage amounting to $129,345,541 14. The Jour
nal of Commerce says that within the month of
October $7,451,195 specie were imported into thi 8
country, besides the remittances by the Persia,
which were understood to be over a million in spe
cie and certificates of deposit. The specie exports
for the same time have not exceeded half a mil
lion. Upon these facts an opinion is predicated
that confidence will soon be restored, and the
Banks resume at an early day.
Senatorial Assembly Elections.
We learn from Milledgeviile, that the Dem
ocratic members held a caucus on Friday af
ternoon, at which Senator ROBT. TOOMBS
was nominated for rc-election by acclamation.
At the same time the candidates for State
Honse Officers were also designated. The
election took placo on Saturday, and tho vote
for Senator, stood as follows :
Robert Toombs, of Wilkes, 1(50 •
Eli S. Baxter, of Hancock, 72
Charles J. McDonald, of Cobb, 4
Blank 1
Gov, McDonald was not announced in tho
Legislative Convention as a candidate, and tbe
few votes he received must therefore be placed
to tbo account of an uncompromising partial
ity merely. All the State House Officers were
re-elected, as will appear from tho report of
our correspondent elsewhere published.
Affray.
An affray, we aro told, occurred at a “Corn
Shucking” last Saturday night week, at Nel
son’s Place, near this city, between Wm. Holt
and George Knight, iu which the former was
severely cut in several places and died yes
terday morning. Knight has been committed
to answer.
Jeweller’s Gold.
This term is applied to alloys of gold used
for trinkets and inferior articles of jewelry,
ranging from three or four karats lino up
wards, or which arc too inferior to receive the
Hall mark. The lowest alloy of this class is
formed of copper 16 parts; silver 1 to 15
parts; gold 2 to 3 parts, melted together.
This is worth only from 8s. 6d. to 9s. 6d. the
ounce. “It has recently been found that gold
of the 12 karats, or less, if alloyed with zinc
instead of the proper quantity of silver, pre
sents a color very nearly equal to that of a
metal at least 24 or 3 karats higher, or of 8s.
or 10s, an ounce more value; aud the conse
quence lias been that a large quantity ef jew
elry has been made of gold alloyed in this
aaner, aud the same has been purchased by
some shop-keepers, v ry much to their own
loss, as that of the public, inasmuch as a gai
nin' action is produced after a time upon gold
o alloyed, by means of which the metal is split
into separate pieces, and the articles rendered
perfectly useless. Gold chains, pencil cases,
thimbles and lockets are the articles of which
the public and the shopkepers will do well to
j take heed, as these have, among some other
The new Governor—the Banks.
We have the first word from Gov. Brown
his Inaugural published to-day. We like the
tone of it. It is just such as we anticipated
fiotn him—calm, dignified and moderate. It
will be seen that he hypothetically suggests
the sale of the State Road—is very decided
his condemnation of the Bank suspension, and
in his remarks upon Federal matters, takes
fair, moderate and constitutional ground.
His position in regard to the suspended Banks
is the only one calculated to elicit much differ
ence of opinion at this time. No one will pro
nouncc it abstractly unsound—it is only the
particular condition of financial affairs, which
may, in the judgment of some, render it inex
pedient. The Georgian, we see, condemns it
and says:—
Gov. Brown intimates that if the evidence is pro
scntecl to himof the failure of any Bank to pay specie,
ho will immediately place the defaulting Bank ir
liquidation. In the present condition of affairs this
would ho an awful remedy, and would plunge us ir
tho very abyss of ruin. It would ho like the Ca-
sorean operation in Surgery—it might possibly result
in good, but the chances are that the patient will
die under tho knife. To relieve, however, the minds
of those who may ho alarmed by the prospect of
sucii a proceeding, we would simply assert from [a
thorough examination cf the subject:
1st. That there is but one general statute which
touches non-specie-paying Banks.
2nd. That there is no statute upon tho Statute Book
which gives tho Governor the right to put tho Banks
into the hands of a Receiver.
3d. That unless there is a special clause in tho
charter of a Bank, providing for the forfeiture of its
charter on the non-payment of specie, there is
general law of tho State, by which such forfeiture
can bo consumated.
We have hardly a line’s space for the su
gestions which occur to us upon this general
subject. One month’s panic experience seems
to have developed two fatally antagonistic po
sitions in relation to this suspension. It was
urged as a measure of relief, and to prevent
universal insolvency, but it is now declared by
financial solons that relief must find its very
beginning in a resumption by the Banks! The
business community looks for relief only in the
prompt and faithful discharge of mutual obli
gations, so far as each one is able, and he who
fails or suspends with full pockets is not con
sidcred honest. We arc compelled to suspend
the rule and reverse, for special reasons, the
theory, before we can acquit the Banks or up
hold the suspension. We are in favor of noth
ing spiteful or destructive—nothing calculated
to add to existing troubles without promise of
speedy compensation; but so far as possible,
we would hold the Banks to the saute moral
and commercial principles which arc applied to
tho individual—we would repudiate a sanction
by the State authorities of that in the Banks
which every principle of justice would call up
on them to condemn and punish in the man!—
It is no praiseworthy or patriotic thing to vio
late faith—break promises and refuse to pay
debts with cash in hand; and although the
sense of guilt may be diminished in the univer
sality of the practice, the principles of a sound
public and private morality remain unaltered
and ought not to be impaired by a Legislativi
white-wash of such proceedings,
What “Augusta Capital” is Doing,
“ Oar Memphis contemporary will no doubt be
surprised to learn that the Banks of Augusta have
put their shoulders to the wheels of business in
Tennessee and Alabama, and started tho crops to
market, and laid the foundation for great relief to
the wealth-creating and business-conducting por
tions of the country.
“Augusta capital is moving forward a large por
tion of the cotton crop from Montgomery, Colum
bus, Macon, and other points, and is materially era
ployed in sustaining the price of our great staple.
“ During the greatest depression of cotton, and
up to the present time, cotton has ruled relatively
higher in Augusta than at any other point in the
United States.”
The Canada brings $1,000,000 in specie. (things, been lately so constructed.”
The above from one of onr respected Augusta
exchanges is a considerable flourish of trumpets
on a doubtful occasion. If by “ Augusta capital
oar friend means those suspended bank notes
which some of the country people refuse for chick
ens, and the “niggers” look at in long and doubt
ful suspense, whether or no they are worth a sack
of potatoes or a load of wood, we must confess wo
have seen a little of that “capital.” T’other day
we heard of a $500 bill of that/* capital ” hawking
about under protest for non-payment—its back all
written over with bloody red ink, and signed by an
Augusta Notary Public. It is said almost every
sort of offer was made to tbe Bank to collect the
thing, but it was “nogo”—the bank solemnly and
repeatedly refused to pay even in a sort of chip
and whetstone exchange for the notes of other
suspended banks. Finally, suit was ordered, and
wc should like to know what kind of defence will
be set up for violating a promise as plain as the en
graver and the Bank could make it; and, further
more, what is going to be the result of that suit to
tho Bank, when its charter declares (see Prince’s
Digest, 117, sec. 7,) that a refusal to redeem it g
notes on demand shall work a forfeiture of its
hanking franchise? The Bank has committed a
capital offence, by its own charter, with every bill
it has out, and that is the real feature of “Augusta
capital” it represents. Down in Savannah a few
days since, a gentleman from the country presented
one of these representations of “capital” at the
counter of the Bank and asked payment. It was
refused. He would take Northern exchange for it.
It could not bo had. His own note was maturin
in Bank—would not the Bank grant him the same
privilege they claimed—an extension—a temporary
suspension ? ” “ No Sir I No Sir! The note must
be paid or go to protest.” Sauce for the goose
was not, in this case, sauce for the gander. The
capitalists ” of the bank need not pay their notes
when due, but the planter must. Their notes when
notoriously dishonored, are “Capital ”—“Augusta
Capital”—“ Savannah Capital," and it is consid
ered something to boast of that the “Banks put
their shoulders to the wheel,” to roll out immense
quantics of these broken promises to pay, while if
an individual were only to copy their example he
would be called by some hard name to be found in
the Dictionary. Such facts illustrate the perverted
morality—the perversion of ideas, growing out of
this hanking system of the United States.
Tlic City of ITIacon.
Daring our late visit to the Grand L odgeat
Macon, wc were forcibly struck with the im-
provments which have been made in that city
since tho last annual Communication, in Oc
tober 1836,—Then, tlio square extending from
the old "Washington Hall corner to the Floyd
House, fronting on Mulberry Street, was a
mass of ruins, having been, then recently des
troyed by fire. The space lias now been near
ly all occupied bp stately brick edifices, built
in the latest architectural style. Macon, in
point of solid, permanent and substantial build
ings, has outstripped all her rivals for the lats
ten years. Her citizens are urged on by a
spirit of enterprise which enables them to sur
mount opposing obstacles, and push on the car
of advancement to the vast attainments. Those
who have made.their fortunes in the city, evince
their gratitude by investing a liberal share of
their gains in the building up and adornment
of the place which they have made their home.
Other places are afflicted with a population
who think of nothing but hoarding up dollars
and cents, in the meantime, permiting the town
or city of their location to rot down and go to
the dogs, fearing that town property may de
preciate, and they may lose a few dimes. Such
a peoplp never did, and never will build up a
great c’ty.—Empire State.
Some years ago Spurr kept a stable. Spurr
never let u horse go out of the stable without
requesting the lessee not to drive fast. One
day there came to Spurr’s stable a young man,
to get a horse to attend a funeral.
“Certainly,” said Spurr, “don't drive fast!”
“Why, look here, old fellow, I want you to
understand that I shall keep up with the pro
cession, if it kills tho hoss!” Spurr retired.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
raoR s. private correspondent.
M1LLEDGEVILLE, Nov. 7, 185
IN HOUSE.—Bill Passed.—To amend the act
organising a Criminal Court in the Cities of Co
lumbus, Macon, Atlanta, and Rome, and define its
jurisdiction.
Bills Introduced.—To establish a General School
System—to create a fund for the same—to lay off
the State into School Districts, and to repealjthe
Poor School law.
To change the times for holding the Superior
Courts for the Brunswick circuit.
To anl and encourage the construction of the
“Georgia air line Rail Road,” on certain eondi
itftllMl"* •
To make the Governor of this State, for the time
being, the President of the Board of Trustees
the University of Georgia, and for other purpose.
To define the duties of the Governor in relation
to the Banks in Georgia, which have suspended
specie payments, since the first day of June, 1857
To require all persons owning lands in the coun
ty of Worth, to return and pay taxes on the same
in said county.
In General Assembly.—The General Assembly
convened to-day, by previous resolution, in the
Representative Hall, and proceeded to the election
of State House officials, U. S. Senator, Judge of the
Supreme Court, &c., which resulted as follows:
I’or Secretary of. State, Hon. E. P. Watkins ; for
Comptroller General, lion. Peterson Tliweatt; for
Surveyor General, Hon. James A. Greene; for
Treasurer, Hon. John B. Trippe; for U. S. Senator,
Hon. Robert Toombs, for six years from the 4th of
March, 1859; forJudge of the Supreme Court, Hon
Joseph Henry Lumpkin, for the term of six years
next ensuing, and for Director of the State Bank
of Georgia, R. B. Young, Esq., of the county of
Chatham, was duly elected for the next two years
ensuing, and both branches adjourned until 10
o’clock, Monday mornin,
Thus ends the business for the first week of the
Session, and while it has been" a week of “hubble,
bubble, noise and trouble," anxiety and excitement
yet everything seems to have passed smoothly and
without having marred the feelings of any who
have been engaged in animated contest for office
The elections thus far in all departments, seem to
give general satisfaction, and the legislature can
now proceed in the uninterrupted discharge of the
duties incumbent upon them.
Among the principal measures, which no doubt
will pass the Session, will he the act changing the
Constitution from biennial-to annual sessions; the
act abolishing the Inferior'Courts; the act provid
ing for a removalof the Penitentiary; the Common
School System, and an act authorizing the’aid of
the State for certain Rail Road projects—^Jjut the
question, of not less moment, and which should re
ccivc wise and careful consideration, is the great
question of bank suspensions. How this may be set
tled to the advancement of prosperity and the
peace and satisfaction of the country, is yet to be
developed. Yours, &c.,
HIBERNIA.
HOUSTON CO., Nov. 7, 1857.
Dear Clisby—Lest it should escape your notice,
I beg to call your attention to an article which I
clip from the second page of the “ Journal and
Messenger," of the 4th inst., and which I herewith
enclose. It purports to be copied from the “Cali
fornia Press.” I find it published side by ride, in
parallel columns with the editorial matter of the
“Journal and Messenger,” and therefore conclude
that the editors of that paper endorse the infa
mous sentiment contained in the article. As a
member of the Democratic party, I am at a loss to
find terms to express the feelings of resentment I
entertain towards any man or set of men who
make pretensions to honor or truth, and will wan
tonly perpetrate such an outrage upon the feelings
of that great and patriotic class of our fellow-citi
zens to whom wc aro in common indebted for all
that we are, have been, or expect to be, as a na
tion and people.
I reluctantly ask you to defile your sheet by
copying an article so infamously base and slander
ous. But I should like that the hard-fisted yeo
manry of our country should know what their en
emies think and say of them. Ask those old and
tried Democrats who have been nurtured and reared
in the school of Jefferson, Jackson, and their com
patriots—are these allegations true? Have they
been nurtured in “porter houses and drinking
shops”—arc “ nearly all bad men, whether gam
blers, drunkards, thieves, or what not,” “ Demo
crats of the true chivalry stripe ? ” Let Louisville,
Baltimore, "Washington City, and all other cities
which have seen “Sam ” answer.
I will not defile my pen by attempting a review
of the infamous article which finds a quiet welcome
to the columns of the “ Journal and Messenger,”
with their tacit endorsement. The article is full
of itself, and needs no comment for it and its au
thors and endorsers to be appreciated.
DEMOCRAT,
The Nurseries of Democracy.—Mike Walsh,
the notorious subterranean Democrat of New York,
reported to have said some years since, “porter
houses and drinking shops arc the nurseries of De
mocracy.” Mike had a way of his own of telling
plain truths in few words, of which this was a cha
racteristic example. There was never a sayin_
more literally correct, whether the paternity is due
to him or not, and we defy any one to successfully
controvert it. Go where you will, through city,
town or country, it will always be found, where
drinking shops, gambling houses, bad men and had
women abound, there also the Democratic ticket is
in a majority proportionate to tho infamous charac
ter of the population. Wc do not intend to say
all Democrats are immoral, a3 we know they are
not, but do say, as we believe, that nearly all bad
men, whether gamblers, drunkards, thieves, or
what not, are Democrats of the true chivalry stripe,
who fear nothing so much as to be called by any
other name.
These facts explain why Democratic legislatures
arc so averse to laws in any degree infringing the
glorious privilege of getting drunk and making
beasts of ourselves, as though it were a sacred
right, guaranteed to us ns a portion of tho heritage
wc derived from our ancestors, when in truth they
caro nothing for this, and know its falsehood, re
garding only the perpetuity of Democratic party
ascendancy, which they well know would bo sorely
endangered by any laws that should promote mo
rality and sobriety.
This is plain speaking, hut we believe it to be
true to the letter, and we do not hesitate to say it
freely, hoping it may arrest the attention of those
ho think for themselves; and should any member
of the Democratic party, on reflecting, find it to
be true of his own knowledge, wo hope he will
seriously consider whether he is justified in contin
uing with a party sustained by such means and for
such purposes. It is our deliberate conviction that
could these “nurseries of Democracy” be driven
from our State, we should hear little about that
party as at present organized. In its stead a real
Democratic Republican party would be found ad
hering to the principles laid down by those great
and good men, who staked their lives, fortunes and
acred honor in establishing the foundation of that
party with the independence and liberty of their
country. Little dreamed they in tho “ dark days”
of tho American Revolution, they were hazarding
all dearest to themselves and their families, to
transmit to their descendants the inestimable priv
ileges of unbounded dissipation, and licentiousness
ithout restraint.—California Press.
The Place for Poor Men.
The Albany Knickerbocker gets off the fol
lowing on Central America, which will be read
with avidity by those interested :
Central America is certainly the ‘Paradise
of poor men.’ In the town of Juterolpa, the
Capital of Olincho, the price of a good milch
cow is thirty cents apiece. Cattle for four
dollars a head. Mules horses and game in
excess. A good horse can be purchased for
ten dollars. Sugar cane on the Partook is the
best known in the United States, and grows
almost without care. Tobacco indigenous and
of the best quality. Labor is cheaper by half
than iu Nicaragua. With ‘alight heart and
thin pair of breeches,’ a man can live in
Central America like a prince on an income of
four shillings a month,”
Employers should keep a close watch upon
their clerks who “live fast.”—Cin. Gaz.
Ditto upon those who live loose.—Chicago
Journal.
Ditto upon those who live “tight."
Democratic Meeting at l 5
KANSAS.—GOV. WALKEP.'ipp >0 CC ° li, I | lt;
At a meeting of the democrat,
compton, on Monday evening i 1 -i I
in the convention bdl, ]j r j . « U u **
hour., was called to the chair aviV,k
ot Johnson, was appointed secret " >I: 4
After many able aud ene rce til y "
was resolved that a committee
express the sense of the meeting af ' : ">
on the chair appointed the follow " "
at an adjourned meeting to be 1-
night:
Wm. Weir, of Leavenworth .
A. Maclean, of Douglas coun'v- u'T •
Johnson county ; Hamilton oftr.n
Reid, of Shawnee county; \y;il , c ;<
county; Jenkins, of Marshall er'tf I]
wood, of Dorn county; KuvI-m, i ''
°t houn county ; Randolf, of At P »- ’
and Reynolds, of Doniphan cotat?*
The meeting then adjourned till
evening at 7, p. m. t Hv-
October 2ft i
The meeting convened pursuant',' K '
ment, when the following resolution ■
fered by the chairman of the cotnm;,.
Whereas tho democratic stre n «t'-
legislature has been reduced to a bit 1
ty, in consequence of the many ; '
cast by tho black-republican- i a 4
counties of this Territorv t!
induced, to a great extent, bv the ^
construction of the election Jaw 15"'
by Gov. Walker on the eve of'• J
and whereas, further, by a lateT- I
emanating from Gov. Walker -J '- J
Stanton, announcing their intention ' I
certificates of election to the demon- - I
bers ef the legislature, return. ]' - "
of Johnson and Douglas, and -, ,, I
their opponents, thus virtually destr •
democratic vote in the legislature-
Resolved, That we, as members’cS?
ocratie party, accidentally
compton from variousportions oftheT ^
deem it due to the country and oar 1
express our unqualified condemnati -
high-handed and illegal usurpation of j
on the part of the governor and . -"•• '
this Territory. * ee *V<
Resolved, That the reasons assigned r
ths outrage alleged ia the prodtatfo*
ungrounded, illogical, and intalZT J
common sense of every citizen, and tL j
to them to justify their conduct
accounted for by the fact mentioned i/y
proclamation, that “the dispositiontobeJti
of the supposed vote (Oxford vote) is - ml
portant from the fact that the politi ;' T
ter of the legislative assembly will be eS
thereby,” and which disposition, as mL
the proclamation, will make that as-eg v
most unanimously black-repnblican h JL
to that party the power of carrying
avowed designs of throwing out there-: ' I
democratic delegations in the le^sUtnr^
Resolved, In answer to the state.. \
that proclamation—
1. That this meeting will not imitjtj:
unworthy example of the governor and
tary by going into an investigation of the ?-|
as to whether the Oxford returns contain iiy
votes of not. The decision of this hp-y
question is placed by the law in the hash J
the legislative assembly, and in then: ;
where all parties can be heard to any caO
that may arise.
2. The Governor and Secretary hnt;
right to infer that Johnson county’is toa
degree uninhabited, from the fact that igju
ments upon its soil are illegal. We vhtl
lived in Kansas, and know somethinj
history, are aware of the fact that ths
thickly-settled portions of Kansas wen
Delaware trust lands, where settlements
alo illegal.
3. The law does not require the «le
returns to show that tbe judges of electka
sworn, or that the poll-book returned iso
the original poll-hooks kept at the elect :•
The returns and certificate in the Oxford
are in exact accordance with the law, ul
rule adopted in the proclamation would rj
out every poll-book in the Territory
4. It is a gross error in tbe governor
secretary to declare, in opposition to ths
tificates of the judges, that it was paj- . l
impossible to write down the votes ia ths n
prescribed by law.
5. The other reason assigned that tl: I
given were fraudulent because |
republican vote was polled is a strange ns
to be given by democrats for destroying!!:
ocratie vote—thus denouncing its un,:D]
and that, too, when a number of poll-b;
are returned and approved with not one e
ocratie vote on them.
6. That the visit of the GovernorandS
tary to Oxford to smell out democratic
is an impudent assumption of power, there
ing no law requiring or autborizirg wh
procedure, and indicates to the party din:;
out the Union no love for the democrat;;!.'
—particularly as they' have made no m
attempt at detecting frauds at black-rep.:
can precincts, though the fact of there'
many such is notorious.
7. That the Governor and Seaetirj
been guilty of a gross violation of Iiwn,
ing behind the Oxford returns, and cf sc q
precedented insult to the honesty of the I
lature in refusing them the power of dec-:
the question as to fraudulent votes—sn it>
openly expressed in the proclamation.
9. The peaceful settlement of the
question has been now again endangers,. ■. *
wanton act of tyranny—a tyranny j
sought to interfere in our elections—ybd-.|
expounded the law contrary to the intent
the Jaw-makers, and carried the expositor®
made to tbe judges of the election.at thep
of the bayonet—which has thwarted t-
ministratiou of the local officers, andln^
consummated its designs by openly
under foot the laws of the Territory
ing the power of the government in the
of those who boldiy proclaim their ir.t -n—-
abolish all law, and plunge the Temtort
all the horrors of anarchy.
9. That the candidates voted fx V
black-republican party, and to whom imp
ernor and secretary purpose togivecen---
of election, are returned in poll-bc-oks-
ious to all the objections madeagan-’.
ford poll, while the candidates tlic®"'^
disqualified by the laws from boldm;
fices assigned them. . :
10. This meeting reiterates
tion to express no sentiments as tot ,
or illegality' of the votes polled "
leaves that question with theMgi
bly, as required by' law, having ft . w.
in the integrity of that body to J° 3 P‘ ,,
tice, and to set aside illegal =‘
both sides. , ,, j \ -y
That in view of the fact that
to the constitutional convention, ^
sion, have for the last three wce ., l -
the time of the election) been wit * “ y
stituents, and are therefore fully . ..
express the views of the deino*^
throughout the Territory: thertt® ' . ^
Resolved, That the persons co»P° ...
convention be requested to mec ... ..
tion of the democratic party, 10 C . m hl e fi# 1 ’
such other democrats as may as- t heir v ’
parts of the Territory, and ex P uSJ ,k ; ,: s : - :
regarding the political issues a 1
ing the Territory.
On motion of Gen. "W eir, t 'td
the extraordinary spectacle .
an armed mob, headed by tllC -, 1 !i if ths
” marching into the cap 1 ,. jyy
torv, with the avowed design c ^
placing the constitutional con”*' fJi ?
session, the execution qf *3 na ti 3 ’
ly prevented by the visible det^ ... -
the friends of law and Ota® r . ’ <p-
peace of the community’ -it a > • oita j n i< -
Resolved, That this meeti a
the gov
buke for
convention
command, then camped but « ( |, oir w
notwithstanding ho bad n,°“ c0 ^, ll0 !v &
tion to hold this unlawful^ n t>' -
previous Saturday evening’ ‘ ,, nt il the 1 .
caused the arrival of the troop* 1 j a:i yr
day morning following, when
wholly past. McLe^' V";
On motion cf Gen. L- - v - ; , aC
Resolved, That we have ot
confidence and faith in t^ e
overnor of the Territory * ^; : - j
for his failure to bring to - ... ... j
-ution the United States ri • ‘ 'I
, tint twdu. 1