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A Backwoods Sheriff'and his Dog. Once upon a time I had taken iny Ad Jupiter, that you have often heard ine tell ot: old Jupe was a nice thing, I had taken her long and goue off upon a bear hunt, had been absent two or three weeks, aud had wandered very iar from home. 1 was a ventersome lad in those days, aud never better satisfied than w hen alone iD the wild woods. I had worked iny way down into the fork formed by the emtying of the Cumberland into the Ohio river, and ! had worried the bears I had had rare sport. Old Jupe was in a good hu mor, aud she and 1 was mighty loving, for she had foult eotne tights which 1 never can forgit, and which made me love her like anew flint, and she loved me like 1 was a bacon bone, for l had help ed her out of some of her difficulties, when it would have been a goue case if I hadn’t been pre sent; I say duhculties, for 1 never did see a dog so tired as she was. Ido believe during som e ol these tights that lain now talking about, I saw the bears hug her until they stretched her out in a long string. Yes, 1 seen ’em squeeze her until she was’nt larger than my arm, and at least nine oi ten feet long ; you might have wouud her up into a ball as you have done a hank of yarn. Well, when she was stretched out iu a string, or even tangled up in a knot, 1 would shoot the the bear, draw her offone side, throw, a little cold water over her, leave her and go to butchering. In an hour, and sometimes it would take longer, she would begin to come together like a jointed snake, and presently she would fetch a yelp, and come streaking to me, shaped as she ought to be, showing her teeth, and looking as fresh as if she was anew made dog. And then wan t she vig’- rous ? You might have hung a cross cut saw to a swinging limb, and she would have chawed upon it the balance of the day, or have throw n her a bear’s head, aud she wouldn’t touch the meat, hut draw all the teeth out merely for spite.” Reading. —When the business of the day is o ▼cr, how many men does the evening hour find comfortably seated in their evening chairs, read ing to themselves, to some' fair friend or happy group? In how many pleasant homes, wbilethe ladies are seated at their morning employments, or whatever they may please to call them, does some glad creature read aloud, in a voice full of music, ami marked by the sweetest emotions of a young pure heart, a lay of our mighty bards, or a story of one of our most cunning interweavers of the truth of nature with the splendor of fiction, or follow the wonderful recitals of our travelers, nat uralists and philosophical spirits into every region of earth or mind! Publishers may tell us that ‘poetry don’t sell, critics may cry, ‘poetry is a drug,’ thereby making it so with the frivolous aud unreflecting, who are the multitude—but wc ven ture to say, that at no period was there ever more books read by that part of our population most qualified to draw delight and good from reading; and when we enter mechanics’ libraries, and see them filled with simple, quiet, earnest men, or find them now sitting on stiles in the country, deep-suuk into the very marrow and spirit of a well-handled volume, where we used to meet them iu riotous and reckless mischief, we are proud and happy to look forward to that wide and formally waste field over which literature is exten ding its triumphs, and to see the beneficial con sequences that will follow to the whole communi ty. —[liowitt. REBECCA LAMAR. An affecting incident relative to this lady, who it will be remembered was one of the female sur vivors of the ill starred passengers on board the Pulaski, has just come to our knoweldge. Miss Lamar, says a Gentleman from Charleston, whose life was saved on the same portion of the wreck, was our guardian angel, cheering the desponding, alleviating the sorrows of those who had seen the waves of the ocean close over their nearest and dearest relatives, and administering hope and con solation even to the veteran sailor, to whom scenes of terror and dismay had long been familiar. So great in fine, was the confidence she inspired in the heart of every member of otir unfortunate the shore alive, when they felt their hour approach ing, requested as a favor, that they might be al lowed to rest their heads upon her lap, and breathe out their dying moments with all the consolation she was capable of affording. And thus all those who wer# unable to survive the horrors of the aw ful hour, with their last look turned towards her who had never quailed or blanched beneath the ter rors of the scene, although the stoutest hearts had failed, aud the boldest trembled in anticipation of their fate. llow do the glories of a Catharine, a Samari mis, or a Margaret de Valdemnr, pale before tire virtues of such a woman. Let those who bear the name of Lamar, henceforth cherish it more proudly, than if if conferred wealth, or power, or nobility upou its possessor. Boston Times. A llamerous Lady —The following anecdote, related in a northern paper is too good to be lost; The lady of a member of congress, had spent the winter at Washington and returned home. Her husband not hearing from her for a number of days, gently chided her for'.hei silence. The next mail brought him a letter saying she had written him before, but unfortunately like the sub-treasury bill, her letter happened to be “laid on the table” instead of being sent to the post office. She hop ed this explanation would be satisfactory ; but eveu if it were not she presumed she should hear no more about it; for she learned, whilst attending the proceedings of congress that when any matter was “laid on table” it was no longer “open to debate.”^ BraUdreth’s Pills— A new way to get Money from a Bank. —A good joke is told in the Cincin natian, of the extraordinary efficacy of these pills, in the most hopeless case. A merchant of Cincin nati, (the story says,) was refused a discount at bank, was disconsolate ; had a note to lift next day. and was out of funds. Despair was written on his face, when he espied a newspaper in which was related the circumstance of an old and decre pid woman being restored to blooming youth, by merely tjjg s j £t . over one 0 f jy r Btand reth s “own offices." idea fl aflhe(l Ul<on him —he determined to make the experiment of try ing their efficacy on Bank Directors, aud accor dingly he repaired immediately to the office, and procured a box. This he folded up with his note, and sent a counterhopper to the Bank who pre sented the same to the Directors and awaited the issue. The result will soen be told—the sight of the box worked upon them so forcibly that they or dered the money to be shelled out insutuer ? TO THE PUBLIC. 1 TIIE GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE. The building for this Institution, the most airy, spacious, and splended, perhaps, ol auy in the State of Georgia ; containing seventy-two rooms, with ample space for at least two hundred hoarders is now almost being completed. It stands on a beautiful eminence, overlooking the City ol Ma con, and will be opened for public instruction, on the first day of January, 1839. It will be under the charge of the Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, (so well known iu the State of Georgia,) as President, and who will reside iu the Institution, assisted by an able and efficient faculty, and from whom the pu pils consigned to their care, will no doubt receive a practical and complete education. In the Col lege will be taught not only the whole course of English Letters and Scieuce, but also vocal and instrumental Music, Drawing and Painting, to gether with the Latin, Geeek, French, Spanish, and Italian Languages; and last, though not least, there will be in operation a system of Domestic Economy, by w hich the young ladies, under the direction of experienced teachers, will he enabled, and required to prepare, and keep in good order, all their own clothing, thereby avoiding milliner’s bills w hile at school, and at rim same limp pro paring themselves and families, in future life— The great object of the Trustees will be, to make the course of studies practical and moral, as well as literary, thereby rendering the pupils that may pass through this Institution, the comfort and pride of all associated with them in after years. It is contemplated that the fixed expense of each pupil will be about Two Hundred and Fifty Dol lars per annum. This sum will cover the ex pense for the use of a room , for eating, and tuition fees, of every description ; or in other words, for the use of a room aud eating, $l5O, and for tuition of every description, SIOO. The parents of pu pils w ill have to furnish their own rooms, with such furniture as they deem necessary; or if re quired, it will be done by the faculty, and charged in their bills. ’This last expense is more nominal than real, as, on leaving, the furniture can always be sold to the next occupant for nearly its original cost. The Trusrees are desirous to ascertain what the probable number of pupils will be, at the opening of the Institution, and for this purpose, earnestly request all persons intending to send, to signify it by letter, addressed to Col. E. Hamilton, (post paid,) at Macon, or soon as may be convenient. The Board will meet in the City of Macon, on the 28th of November, at which time they wish to have this information before them, as they then expect to fill the remaining offices, and make the final arrangements for opening the College on the first day of January, 1838. We will merely fur ther add, that although it is very desirable, and earnestly recommended, that the pupils be boar ded in the college building, yet the rule is not im perative, and parents prefering to do so, have the privilege of boarding their daughters within the City or Vineville, both of which are sufficiently convenient. The friends of this Institution will have expen ded, ol their private funds, in its erection and out fit, considerable more than Fifty Thousand Dol lars, without expecting any other return or bene fit, than that which every other citizen of the country may receive. Their object lias been the public good, and now with confidence and pleasure they offer its treasures to the rising generation of their beloved country women. By order of the Executive Committee. LOVICK PIERCE, Agent. Macon, Sept. 18, 1838. SPECIE AND SPECIE PAYMENTS. Wc have observed, that since the resumption of specie payments in Augusta, Charleston and other places, there has been no denial by any of the Banks of this place to pay specie for their notes whenever demanded of them : and, virtual ly, the resumption commenced here on the first of September, as well as these places where pub lic proclamation was made of the fact. So that the first of October will come and pass as other days without any undue excitement, as many have supposed there would be. If there are farmers V '’‘“J''*'* ”■~' v ” v “ “'V us 'l*® Banks ill this place, and are dubious about their solvency, let them come forward and demand the specie for them, and they will be accommodated. We think, if we understand the spirit and manage ment of th** various Banking Institutions in this place, that it is a challenging one, in the stead of shrinking from the test. Therefore, let those come forward who are fearful and demand and re ceive the specie for their paper; there is not a Bank in Macon that will refuse. The above re marks have been the result of our own observation, connected with facts that have come within our knowledge. We understand that thirty thousand dollars of specie has been received, during the present week, by the Octmilgee Bank, in addition to the twenty thousand received some time since by the steamer Comet. We hope that this influx of the real grit will continue.— Macon Post. REMARKABLE GROWTH OF COTTON. We have received the following authenticated statement of the growth of the Cotton Plant, which we have been told by old Planters is so wonder ful, that they would not have believed it, but from a personal knowledge of the subscribers to the statement given below. And yet we are informed that the field, from which the stalk in question was taken, was of such remarkable fertility, that many other specimens of equal productiveness might have been selected.— Brunswick Advocate. The undersigned certify that a stalk of Cot ton was taken by them from the Swamp Field at Waverley Plantation, on the evening of the 4tli inst, and the forms and bolls from "the said stalk being carefully cut off', were counted, when it appeared that there were eight hundred and fifty-four forms and bolls. The runners and bran ches were then carefully examined, and it appear ed that the said stalk had shed or dropped one hundred and eighty-seven forms aud bolls previous to its being cut, making in all One thousand and forty-one forms and bolls that the same stalk of Cotton had borne. (Signed.) GEO. C. DUNHAM. JEFFERSON STONE. Waverley Plantation, Camden County, sth Sep tember, 1838. .. The drought of the present season has proba bly been greater mo» u.o ~1 Bes . tlement of the country. The early part of the season was not materially unfavorable to most of the crops. Wheat and oats were good—corn that was planted early has produced a fair crop; late corn has been considerably cut off: but as there was a large crop planted in this vicinity, there w ill be a full supply. Potatoes, peas turnips, and gar den vegetables are almost entirely destroyed; the two former, in many cases, will hot produce the THE GEORGIA MIRROR. seed that was planted, Provisions of course, most be scarce and high.— Mess. MANUFACTURE OF PUBLIC OPINION. It uot unfrequently happens that political agita tors and aspii i uts for offices whic* they could nev er reach through merit, contrive to manufacture public opinion, and give tone and direction to pub lic meetings n subserve their own purposes. A remarkable instance of the kind occulted recently. Our readers w ill remember the celebrated mee ting in Franklin county, at w hich the itquisitorial resolutions were passed, calling upon af. the can didates lor Congress to give their sentinents in relation to the Sub-Treasury and the caulidates for the Presidency. These resolutions were ush ered forth to the world as the production of a committee of the citizens of that comity, and ad opted by the meeting, when in fact, as w e are iu tormed on good authority, they were the produc tion of one of the Union candidates for Congress, who attended that meeting ! It is certainly a nov elty iu the political canvasses of Georgia, fora candidate for Congress, to smuggle in .n^«v, 6 u « packed committee, a report and resolutions, by which such a tone is given to the proceedings of a public meeting, as will subserve his own inter ests in the contest. Little did the people of Frank lin suppose that these resolutions had been “cut and dried” for them before they assembled, by one of the candidates for Congress, in whose favor they were to operate if passed, and only required to be juggled through, to be heralded forth to the world as “public opinion.” Little did they suppose that tliev were suffering themselves to be made unconscious instruments in the hands of one can didate to catechise and cross examine his fellow candidates ! That candidate too, must have felt a little odd in replying to his own enquiries about his own political sentiments! His answer should have commenced thus.—‘Gentlemen —In reply to the questions which I prompted you to put tome relative to my own political sentiments” &c. Thus it often happens that what is trumpeted forth to the world as “public,” the “voice of Dem ocracy, "dec. is nothing more than the selfinter ested prompting of some aspirant for office, who puts people up to do what they had never dreamed of before. But the most singular thing of all in relation to this procedure, is. that the resolutions denounce a National Bank in unmeasured terms, while the very candidate who prepared those res olutions had always been a Bank man during the whole of his past life, down to the period of his nomination for Congress, wheti it became conven ient tu get on the other side of the fence ! Augusta Sentinel. As this will be the last opportunity we shall have of addressing through the columns of our weekly paper, those of our friends who reside in coun ties remote from this place, we cannot permit it to escape without saying a few words of caution and admonition to them. We are on the eve of an election in which for many considerations, otir success is of deep and lasting importance, it is important to the suc cess of those great and paramount principles of State Rights which lie at the inundation of our political creed ; it is important to the character of the State to have a representation in Congress capable of maintaining and defending the rights of their constituents with dignity, energy and abil ity ; it is important to fix the condemnation of the people of Georgia upon the corrupt and profligate practices which have grown up under the late and present administrations of the General Govern ment ; important iu fact for every reason that our organization as a party is important. Impelled by all these high considerations let us rally to the polls with alacrity, euergy and confidence, in that strength which carried us trumphantly through the last election. All that is required to ensure success is unanimity in action, and undiscoura ged perseverauce. To tlie polls then, once more we say, State Rights men of Georgia ! To the Polls!— ib. A GREAT DAY FOR THE COUNTRY. To <tc>T alt ihe.Bxnus ofNew England, the Mid dle States, parts of the Southern States, and parts of the Western States, resume specie payments. There is to be a Jubilee there upon in many par’s ol Pennsylvania. We now deem it highly ; probable, that on the Ist of January next, ail the oilier States will have a sound and a substantial currency. Tennessee and Louisiana are prepar ing. Alabama and Mississippi must follow suit anon. About ten years ago now, tinkers of the cur rency, from the Capitol at Washington, where Blind Chance in the whirling of party, had tossed them, promulgated their dissatisfaction with a cur rency, then the best on the earth, considering the extent of country in which it circulated. They then promised the nation a better currency, and a hard money government. They got control of the Federal Government, & of two thirds of the States, and they made Banks, without number, troubling them in quantity, and in the amount of their pa per issues.—The bubble, thus inflated by the Government itself, burst on the 10th of May, 1637 For the “Yellow Boys that were to flow up the Mississippi,” and “the Golden. Eagles that were to peep through the interstices of the long silken purses,” we have had the Wild Cat money of Michigan, the Shin Plasters of the Corporations, and “Good for a Shave,” and "Good for a Drink Arc. Are. ; and for the Hard Money Government, we have had protested treasury drafts, without number. And last, though not least, we now have laws for twenty milions of treasury notes, signed by Martin V an Buteu himself, the only irredeem able currency, after to day. north of the Potomac, or the Ohio river; or in Virginia, N. Carolina, or Kentucky ! The Banks now, the 13th of August, 1638, after a period of intense distress to the Nation, have just been enabled to take the back tiack to tile lOlh of May, 1837. We are now where we were then, the Humbuggers with their Humbugs, as active as ever, promising nowand again, with promises as irredeemable as their Treasury Shin Plasters; a hard money Government, for a hard money peo ple, singing the old song of 1834, ’35, and ’37, that if we will take as much of Silas Wright’s ex pedients as we took of bis experiments,this dose will not hurt us, as that did, but “the Yellow Boys will positively peep out the interstices of the long silken purses, and t.lie gold and silver certainly flow' up the Mississippi.” We have only to say, j to those who like suc&Quacks and such Quack- | erv, they are welcome to take them. A hard 1 money Governmeut and a hard money People, ! and sub-treasuries, too, exist in Mexico, Peru, | Chili, and Central America ; or over the Ocean, in I ersia. with the Turks, and the Wandering Arabs, j too ; and now that the federal Government has I resumed its connection with Nick Biddle, we ail- ) vise them all to enjoy the Government of their hearts, and take up their flight to the Deserts of Arabia. The Standard of Union still talks about the Ab olitionists, but does not tell its readers who voted to RECEIVE THER PETITIONS in Con gress. Will it inform them who voted for free negro suffrage in the state ot New A ork ? Who voted in favor of restricting slavery in Missouri ? Who had not “ light ’ enough to know whether Congress had not a right to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia ! Will it toil its readers who are these men, and what party supports them ? What Martin Van Buren had to do in these matters —and themselves ; the self-styled real dem ocracy of the country ?— Messenger. It is reallv diverting to observe the weight, au thority and importance attached to State Rights men, and their political opinions, as recently man ifested by our political opponents. Wonderful Uiaugc, macro : iiiat the opinions of those so late ly branded as disunionists and traitors, aliuuU Lv. appealed to, and relied on with such implicit con fidence, as sustaining the orthodoxy of the Union Van Buren, Democratic, Republican, United States Bank, no United States Bank, Pet Bank and no Pet Bank, Are. Are party of Georgia.— But why should we wonder at this ; is it not nat ural for a sinking cause to strive to sustain itself in any way it can? Any thing for votes, no mat ter what the material out of which it is made; hence a traitor's vote, will count one for Van aud the party, as well as tlie vote of a-trueblue Union, Van Buren, Democratic, Republican, Are. Are. man. Well, we can’t olqect, in this their day of need, to our opponents, resorting to any means to keep themselves iu power a little longer; but it will be all iu vain. That case is settled. The ides of March is at hand, and Cassar must fall. The last catch trap which we have noticed, is the claim laid by these consistent presses, to Gov. Troup, as a Sub-Treasury man. Governor Troup is about as much a Sub-Treasury man, according to the Van Buren signification, as• we are. Gov. Troup’s well known opposition to a United States Bank, has been eagerly laid hold of by his oppo nents, as identifying hint with the Van Buren Sub- Treasury men. Why, Gov. Troup was eloquent ly and powerfully opposing this institution in the Congress of the United States, a score of years before the Sub-Treasury plan was ever dreamed of. Gov. Troup is, we will venture to assert, in favor of no measure which will give more power to the Federal Executive; he has better done his part to check the exercise of federal usurpation, than any other man in the Union; he knows too well, and has resisted too successfully, the inva sions of the Government on the people, to second any measure which can add to a power even now more than monarchical. Hu.vever, to be short on this point, we are willing to make a bargain with our cotemporaries of tlie Van Buren press, on this point. We will heartily subscribe to, aud advocate any Treasury plan, that George M. Troup will sanction. Will our opponents agree to this? If they do, wc will assure them, they will have to advocate a very different thing from that proposed by Mr. Van Buren, or that plan as amended by Mr. Calhoun. This ruse will not take, with the State Rights party, neighbors; you must get up something else, or you are doomed to fall in your attempt to di vide and ruin the State Rights party of Georgia. .Southern Recorder, Our neighbor the Standard, has got up another charge against the Governor, over which it crows, as if it had discovered some mighty matter. It is very much of a piece with the other mighty char ges which the Standard, offer all its throws, has been able to muster against our patriotic and in vulnerable Executive; equally important and e qually valid. What a pity it is the Governor can not be induced to do something wrong, just to please our neighbor, and give him some founda tion on which to build charges against him. Sup pose our neighbor writes him another letter, re spectfully requesting him to organize a Cherokee regiment, or some other unconstitutional and ille gal act, that he may have the gratification of villi fy. ig him for it. We really pity tlie anxiety of o h nr ;hl>or in this behalf; surely such good in tentions as those of the Standard ought not to be wholly baffled. But we fear, so long as the pre sent Governor continues to preside over the af fairs ot Georgia, we can offer our neighbor no con solation. lie is destined to labor in vain, and spend his strength for nought But to tiie matter iu hand. The Standard char ges the Governor with omitting to publish two o. the laws of the last session, ordered to be publish ed by that body six months before the elections; and the Standard seems to suppose, as the election is close at hand, and the laws not being published, he has got the Governor iu a preminiri. And this is the great charge, against tlie Governor, over which the Standard rejoices. Why, if the Gov ernor had not pnblished it, it would have been no such mighty matter; tlie liberal of all parties, we fancy, would at the worst have classed it as a very pardonable oversight, amid the pressure of much more important duties. But to the point. If the Standard will consult its own columns, when the other laws were pub lished, it will find the very Idles m question publish ! e, i in them , and that too by order of this much abus j ed Governor; and not only so, but it mil find the j same thing done, by the same authority, in every pa i l' cr °f Milledgeville, of both parties. So much j for the charge of omission of duty by the Goveru | or, in publishing, and so much for the usual weigh ty charges of the Standard of Union.— ib. Loco Foro Literature. —An extract from the ad dress of Mr. C’achell of Montgomery county Ken tucky, Loco Foco candidate for Congress was copied, with some appropriate and not very flat tering comments, to the Louisville Journal. In reply to this same person has come out with an other specimen of his literary ability. The fol lowing is the concluding paragraph, in which he intimates his benevolent design upon the offend ing editor. “ 1 he first snufl T get at him, I, in the fierce ness of my wrath, wdl pounce upon him like a cat amount on a skunk—snatch pieces of hide from him as big as a muskrat, skin at a grab—l will black both of his peepers—chaw off his fingers— ciop his ears slit his nose---knock out his eye teeth —bite oft" chunks of flesh by the pound twitch off his right arm and beat him with the bloody end—l will crack his thigh bones Ac grease niy moccasins with the marrow—l will take his brains to dress buckskin; and his skull in place of a tortoise skull to make tny wife a soup-goatd —I will literally e.ithitn up, as a Yankee would a dish of codfish and potatoes, aud on the fragments I will feast my dog. l ours respectfully, ISAC CACHELL. Hamilton Cos. la., July JUt 1838.” v pv ' r» r l \ v U 44 FLORENCE, GA. Saturday, Scpteml>er 20, i 83m, Slate It iff/its Ticket . The following gentlemen have been nominated by the State Rights Party of this county, as cuu j didates for the next Legislature: SENATE. Loveril ilryan. HOUSE OF RERESENTATIVES. John West. State night* Ticket roa CONGRESS. J. C. ALFORD, of Troup. E. J. BL\CK, of Scriven. W. T. COLQUITT, of Muscogee. M. A. COOPER, of Hall. W. C. DAWSON, of Greene. K. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham. T. B. KING, of Glynn. E. A. NIS BET. of Bibb, L. WARREN, of Sumter. FREEMEY, TO THE POLLS! We cannot refrain from again calling on all who are opposed to the corruptions of Martin Van Bu ren, as well as those who uphold these corrup tions in Georgia, to be at the polls—let nothing keep you away. A desperate effort is now making by our opponents to maintain the ascendancy in the State. Their recent defeats have greatly ex asperated them, and they are rallying their forces to a man : meet them with firmness and a deter mination to vanquish them, and victory will perch upon the banner of State Rights and Liberty but nothing but a concentration of forces and a united effort can produce a result so beneficial and happy. Exertions have been made by our opponents to divide and distract tlie State Rights party, (and we tear they have been but too successful,) in order that they might succeed in the election of their Congressional ticket- —notorious for nothing but their weakness and ignorance. Opposed to them are those who have faithfully discharged their du ties both iu the councils of their country and up on her battle fields. Who docs nut remember an Alford, who nobly breasted the storm of battle iu opposition to the marauding Crocks that were murdering our citizens and pillaging their planta tions ; and afterwards stood boldly forth in the Con gress o! the United States to assert their rights and defend their i-'terests? Send him back to Congress, and you will discharge vour duty to yourself, your children and your country. Do you desire that your State should occupy an hon orable and exalted station in the councils of the nation ; represented by men who will be able and eloquent defenders of Southern rights and South ern interests, who will be able to present vour claims iu such a light, and urge them with an el oquence which your bitterest enemies could not resist ? If you do, vote, for Alford, Black, Col quitt, Cooper, Dawson, Habersham, King, Nisbet and Warren, who have all distinguished them selves as statesmen and patriots, and have strong claims upon the suffrages of tlie people of Geor gia ; give them then your support, and by so doing you will not only advance your own interest ami the interest of your fellow-citizens generally, hut you ivil! redeem the character of your State, ami place her again on that eminence which she oc cupied when represented by a Wilde, a Gilmer, a Clayton, and others, alike distinguished fortheir eloquence and patriotism. We cannot conclude this appeal in behalf of onr Congressional candidates, without calling the at tention ol the voters particularly of Stewart coun ty, to one who has stood by them in the most try ing Ac dangerous times ; who bravely defended this country against the merciless attacks of a savage enemy; one who never faltered or quailed; and who, when the storm of battle ceased to rage, has urged their claims in the Congress of the United States with a manliness, independence and elo quence coequal with their justness and propriety. Me mean Wm. C. Dawson—the man who has watched over your rights and interests with an un ceasing and vigilant eye, and front hts untiring exertions for the last eighteen months in Congress, is better acquainted with the nature of your claims thau any man you could possibly select to repre sent you. All men, of both parties, in this sec tion ot the State at least, should give him their frae and undivided support, for we can assure them that an abler defender of their rights is not to be found, and one who discharges his duty more faith fully and zealously is not known. Come then, all, we again repeat, who have the least spark of grat itude burning in your breasts, and give to Wm. C. Dawson your hearty and undivided support—i£ is his due. And in going to the polls reflect well whom you select to represent you in the Legislature. Re member that by voting for BRYAN and WEST, you support men who have many claims upon you, and who are every way worthy to receive that support, and, if elected, would represent the moral character, as well as the pecuniary interest of Stewart county in such a manner as would reflect great credit upou themselves and honor upon their constituents, and whose labors would be of last ing benefit to those they represent. Wc are aware, and are free to acknowledge, that