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VN EDNE 81>AY, : : : OCT. 17, 1849.
have to apologize to our rea~
• tiers this week, lor the lack ol editorial
matter, The Cavers ol our lilends crowd
out much that we designed to sav ur va
rious subjects. While on this subject we j
would say to our friends that they will
greatly oblige us if they will make theii ;
communications shorter, as our paper is i
small, and one or two lengthy communi
cations will crowd out all other matters.
We are indebted to the comteou ß
editors of the Savannah Republican for a
late copy of the New York Daily Express,
for wiiich they will please accept our
thanks.
{&* On Saturday next, the ladies ol
this place and vicinity, will present Wash
ington Division No. 0, S. of TANARUS., with a
splendid Bible and Banner The presen
tation will take place at the Baptist
Church at 104 o’clock, A. M. Miss S.v
rah E- Dunn has been deputed to pre
sent the Bible, which will be received
by Col. J. S. Pinckard, and Miss Eliza
J. Cabaniss io present the Banner,
which will be received by J. W. Pat
terson, with appropriate addresses. We
doubt not, from the well known talents o!
these ladies and gentlemen, that their ad
dresses will be a rich literary trea*. We
are rejoiced to see that the ladies of this
place have become awake to the impor
tance of fostering this i -titutinr). and en
couraging its memoeis i . “at work
they have undertaken — tut id ! racing
the world horn the vassalage ol intem
perance under which it now groans. It
is true that the Sons ol T< mperance have
accomplished much, but with the aid ol
the ladies they can accomplish much
more. We hope that in future they will
lend a helping hand to this great moral
enteip.ise, and carry out their precept bv
example.
We regret to state that Judge Floyd
cannot be here cn the occasion, as he is
‘detained at home by the severe indispo
sition ol his wife and child.
A Horrid Affair.— On Friday eve*
last, as the regular passenger train on
tue Macon &. Western Railroad was com
ing horn above, when some five miles
from this place, the engineer discovered
upon the track, a negro gill w ith her head
lying lip on the railing. It was down
grade, and the car was going very rapid
ly wiiich rendered it utterly impossible
to-.stop it beioie reaching her. lie soun
ded the whistle and used every means to
prevent the catastrophe but to no effect.
1 he whole train passed over her, almost
entirely severing fu r head from For body
and liightiullv n u .biting her otherwise.
She v is the proper tv of Ci.i. D. W. Coil
nr, g. i! about IG years, and was an ac
tive an intelligent girl. It is supposed ,
that in a lit of mental abberration, she pla
ced herself in that [ sitiori - r
pose of self-destiuclion. No cairn. g:-
en lor the horrid deed. Cut. Collin
u man proverbially kind to hi negroes,
and has n vor struck this g :i a lick,
which makes it so much tin more strange.
No blame can possibly attach to the en
gineer, lor we are assured that he used
<• • ery means to prevent it.
(;.y- i’he ‘Ladies National Magazine
lor November, has been received. Thi s
•No. contains I'd extra pages, and is alto
gether the best No. ot tiiis magazine that
we have seen for some time. The pub
lister designs enlarging it another year,
and offering other inducements to sub
scribers. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens is the
editor, which is of itself sufficient recom
mcridat on. Now is the time to subscribe
for another year. Bub ished by Charles
J. Peterson, Philadelphia, at $-2 per an
num, in advance.
ti'-V ‘ Wheier’s Southern Monthly .Ma
gazine,’ lor October, is on our table. We
think this decidedly the best No. of this
m agazine that has been issued. Publish
ed by Ci.ailes L. Wilder, Athens, Ga.,
at $1 per annum, in advance.
(Cf“ Those of our correspondents who
have Seen neglected this week must hear
vuli 115, as w e could nut possibly attend to
./heni
ELECTION IN GEORGIA.
Below we give the returns of the elec
tion in this State so far as heard from.—
Appling only to hear from. Towns’ ma
jority will be upwards of 3,800.
1847. 1840.
Counties , Clivch. Towns. Hill. Towns.
Appling, 106 160 ZZZ mZZ
Baker, 216 425 273 518
Baldwin, 317 315 357 309
Bibb, 682 665 631 731
Bryan, 112 69 117 76
Bulloch, 34 382 25 -108
Burke, 090 370 464 313
Butts 213 354 261 111
Camden, 89 181 62 176
Campbell, 251 569 311 633
Carroll, 362 705 421 889
Cass, 731 1341 905 1461
Chatham, 776 592 668 786
Chattooga, 350 428 352 390
Cherokee, 591 977 6sß 1101
Clark, 616 129 584 44
Cobb. 713 975 889 1089
Columbia, 489 282 351 220
Coweta, 758 645 770 721
Crawford, 365 451 377 464
Dade, 68 286 67 242
Decatur, 391 385 419 390
DeKalb, 759 990 832 1014
Doolv, 317 517 311 515
Early, 152 368 111 157
Effingham, 175 lit) 202 121
Elbert, 986 171 995 195
Emanuel, 195 269 107 m.
Fayette, 117 614 440 69S
Floyd, 569 COO 738 789
Forsyth, 453 057 496 753
Franklin, 354 1032 389 974
Gilmer, 297 786 283 837
Glynn, 121 33 91 38
Green, 796 131 761 128
Gwinnett, 736 711 730 689
Habersham, 416 784 322 771
Hall, 527 693 542 695
Hancock, 456 321 412 344
Harris, 885 309 718 111
Heard, 355 352 355 486
Henrv, 898 878 910 895
Houston, (527 6>7 558 681
Irwin, 66 313 41 337
Jackson, 513 654 558 732
Jasper, 429 475 411 510
Jefferson, 519 93 430 107
Jones, 406 443 396 431
Laurens, 455 22 537 59
Lee, 329 200 330 219
Liberty, 185 142 153 146
Lincoln, 267 175 232 172
Lowndes, 422 • 155 419 430
Lumpkin, 530 973 550 925
Macon, 383 321 389 340
Madison, 336 365 321 375
Marion, 450 470 517 581
Mclntosh. 125 117 79 132
Meriwether, 739 792 744 881
Monroe, 688 670 732 650
Montgomery, 221 27 231 53
| Morgan. 393 281 376 272
Murray, 502 919 793 1177
Muscogee !ob9 853 1030 857
Newton, 913 442 910 510
Oglethorpe, !70 152 600 290
Paulding, 277 391 360 507
Pike, 737 835 719 895
Pulaski, 219 307 245 399
Putnam, 388 312 374 315
Rabun, 59 299 21 384
Randolph, 673 683 777 769
Richmond, 679 448 739 542
Scriven, 165 222 27m:
Stewart, 907 786 817 643
Sumter, 57! 446 662 577
Talbot, 711 613 796 786
Taliaferro, 503 68 238 69
Tattnall, 291 76 317 96
Telfair, 183 162 17.8 219
Thomas, 441 330 416 311
['roup, 1023 430 1096 406
Twiggs, 267 414 330 392
Union, 300 743 285 673
IJpson, (ill 356 620 423
Walker, 635 770 731 918
W alion, 526 721 524 738
Ware, 205 295 268 217
Warren, 575 325 595 417
Washington, 612 558 572 592
Wayne, 62 81 62 112
Wilkes, 421 343 440 322
Wilkinson, 338 543 382 597
41,931 48,220 00,000 00.000
Gov. Towns’ majority in 1117 was I,*
289. His majority at present probably
IS 3,300.
REPRESEN I’AEIVES.
Appling —A Democrat
Baker — Bell.
Baldwin —Kenan.
Bibb—Nisbet, Fish.
Bryan—McAllister.
Bulloch— Goodman.
Burke —Gresham, Brown.
I Butts— Sounders.
Campbell —Cur lion.
| Camden— Villalonga.
j Cass — Wofford, Shackleford.
[ Chatham — Jlnderson, Harrison, [ 2 gain
( ’ h attooga — Heard.
Cherokee— Roberts, Fields.
Clark —Harris, Richdson.
Cobb — Colder, Nelson.
Columbia —Blount, Avery.
Coweta—Terrell,{Johnson.
Crawford — Howard.
Dade— Hendrix.
Dscalur —Hines, [gniu.J
DeKalb— Wilson, JHkins.
Dooly— Hammcll.
Early— Wolfe.
Effingham—Wauldhauer.
Elbert—Barrett, Deadwyler.
Emanuel— Fortner.
Fayette— Robinson.
Floyd— Cubbemon, [gain.]
Forsyth —Sir i cklvnd.
F rank Ii n— Moiris, Chandler.
Gilmer— Picket.
Glynn—Dnbignon.
Greene—D-iwson, Thornton.
Gwinnett— Whitworth, Brandon.
H abersharn — Sanford, Fh illips.
Hall —Griffin.
Hancock— Lane, [gain ]
Harris—Ramsey, Reed.
Heard— Tompkins, [gain.]
Henry—Clarke, Arnold, [1 gain ]
1 louston — Pringle, llodgcs.
Irwin— Dormany,
I Jackson—Min'z [sain.]
Jasper— Digby, Slaughter, [I gain.]
Jefferson —Farmer.
Jones— Gray.
Lee— Gilmore, [gain.] * ,
Laurens—Yopp.
Liberty—Shaw.
Lincoln—Neal.
Lowndes— Carter, [gain ]
Lumpkin—Riley, [gain] Tally.
Macon— Robinson.
Mddison— Colbert
Marion Bivins, [gain.]
Mclntosh— Spaulding, [gain.]
Meiiwether— Gaston, Favor.
Monroe—Trippe, Watson, [l gain.]
Montgomery—A tie.
M organ —P eni ck.
Murray—Lauthrige, [gain.]
Muscogee —McDougaid, Wooldridge.
Newtown —Reynolds, Manning.
Oglethorpe—McWhorter, Fleming.
Paulding— Jones.
Pike— Westmoreland, Neely.
i’ulaski — Leith.
Putnam —Terrell, Griggs, [1 gain.]
Rabun— Jldnms.
Randolph—Pei kins, Hodges.
Richmond—Jenkins, VValker.
Scriven—Lawton.
Stewart—Tucker, Snelling.
Sumter—Barlow.
Talbot—Worrell, Robinson, [2 gain.]
Taliafero—Stephens.
Tatnall —Tillman.
Telfair— Wilcox, [gain.]
Troup— Favor, Cu 1 uerson.
Thom at — Mclntyre.
Twiggs — Wiggins.
Upson—Andrews, Kendall, [lD.gain
W alker— Gordon.
Walton Hill. Fletcher.
Ware—A to.
W ayne— O Brieu.
\\ airen—Jones, VV f I born.
Washington----//vcm, -Peacock, [1 gain.
Wilkes—Anderson, G irtieli.
Wilkinson— O Hannon.
Correspondence of the Bee.
Syllacgcga Ala , Oci. Stii, 1819.
Friend Jamie: —After mailing my last,
announcing the fair and cool stated the
weather in ‘ these parrs,’ all of a sudden,
as tiiey say in Cherokee, the wind went
piping and whistling down south, horn
wlienee it soon returned with heated heath
accompanied with lucid, capircious fleet
ing clouds, followed by those of sable and
more portentous features, which soon
drenched the parched and inviting earth,
lieside many tardy black ‘ niggers” who
are none tile worse by it, as ihose ol
an accidental character are the only ablu
tions they can ever boast of. After the
shower ol last Tuesday, it was cieur and
excessively warm until Saturday morning
last, when old Boreas let in on us with a
cold driving drizzling rain, as it he had a
guaranteed right, to stick his counten
ance and icy lingers, into the middle ol
any season, however untimely. But to
day, as it to nientain its character for tick l
leness, the weather is clear and cold.
When Hast wrote, l thought ol being in
Montgomery, ere this, but finding my
prospect brightening for a glorious licking
at sugar-plums, cuke icing See. saying no
th ng about the smacking ot my lips, at
the taste of that oldpeach, and their sud
den compression when obeying the in
junctions ol ancient etiquette, in kissing
j the fairest Aberdeen, Miss., gems and
j pearly teeth, ruby lipped Alabamians who
will be present on the occasion, I have
I halted on tue wayside, where 1 am giving
I you, and vour readers, some ot those pro
-1 mised peiicilliugs, biding the arrival o: tiie
day when that geofgeous, and brilliant at
fair will come off, which true to the pre
diction ot rny last, will be on Wednesday
next. 11 1 had had the perception or
loiethougltt ol a half grown coon, 1 would
have known the health of you and yourn’
: (save the grammar) drank with the liquid
| * sparkling and bright’ w ould have b. en
I more in accordance to your craft, but
that ‘old peach,’ I’ve louud out some
j thing more of its history, and your fair
ebuffy, smiling laced readers, will con
clude perhaps bi foie I’m through, that 1
am death on the history ol brandy bottles
—but 1 have a prettier little piece of his
tory to acquaint some of them ol than
that on my return, but to the ‘ pint.’
Ah ! how 1 wish 1 feast had a leatle drap
on I afore the bell wrings for supper.’
Well it was manufactured, corked and
sealed up in a demijon, on a high hill,
three miles west of Forsyth, twenty one
years ago, on the day that gave birth to
him who is so soon to witness the break
ing of its seal, and who complied a lew
days since in Aberdeen Mississippi, with
the only law established by his father
in relation io the breakage of its seal,
which was not to be done until be mar
ried, and ere this readies you him and
his amiable and accomplished bride
(whose not changed by the nup
tial knot) upl be with us and will have
received tbmwarm and hearty congratu
lations of their friends, here, the old peach
drank, and the party on their way home,
with full gizzards, light hearts ana lighter
heads and your humble servant in ali hu
man probability pencilling again by the
way side.
All these Indian named towns, and
villages through this country have an En
glish signification, ifone could ever find
them all out: for instance Weewokaville,
from where 1 wrote some time past, sig
nifies roaring or mad water, the village
being built at the shoals or rapids of the
stream bearing this name and on the west
bank; the eastern one rising almost per
pendicular from the water’s edge to the
altitude of two hundred and fifty to three
hundred teet, which shuts off the sun
from the inhabitants until a la'e hour in
the morning.
It is, however a romanli-c and lovely
spot in the evening. The mon aspiring
but less respectable pl. ee, owing to its
former unprecedented debaucheries, and
bachinalien orgies, that graces the head
of this epistle, is an Indian name aiso,
signifying a place where buzzards roost, a
happy hit ol its appropriateness, none who
have ever been here of a public day here
tofore ever questions. It boasts ol its us
ual number of groceries, bars, stores,
blacksmith and other mechanic shops,
saying nothing about a tavern, two stories
high designated by a pole four, capped
wiiha martin box in close proximity with
which swings out in bold relief that same
board daubed on fcoth sides in legible
characters, Hotel.
(intended giving you in| this, a few
specimens oflife in Alabama, vs. Gay
lard’s life in Georgia, but 1 will let Gay
lard run the gauntlet a little longer, un
til my specimen notes and ‘
by the way side’ are more complete,
when I propose giving that truant Ala
bamian the color of the pettycoats, militia
drills, tS'c. that cnaracterizes his own
Stale—ondit—that Gaylard would fain
figuie in Georgia as Longstreei No. 2.,
won't do Gaylanl, you've eat too many
wild turkey goblars and yearling deer o
ver here in the Hillabe hills, wait till you
get some of the scent off and fumble a
oout Atlanta until some of the b’hoys
shows you the elephant, muzzle to the
mountains, shoulder, arms — forward,
march.
Comparitively sneaking with last yea.
the country is quite healthy here now
my friend Bob, in the next room have,
just crept out from a four hours shaking,
and gone otP to resume the duties ot his
station, while his more torinnate room
mate, tire school-master, who lias not had
an ague for .several days, but has sudden
ly become frightened and mounted an
animal a’kin to the one we have an ac
couut of some such a fellow as Balaam’s
flying round on in ancient times, and
pone off after a little of the more potent
(considered) than all other remedies
hete tor agues y’clept Exetor Brand, or
in the Alabama vocabulary Rotgut, Slin
gey grcen--> but in a more modern work
by Pad from Cork, ‘ bucheyed monongahe’
la. They have had over twen.y cases
in the ne it house, besides numbers ot ca
ses in the country round that we never
hear of. But as I said afore, sir, this
neighborhood is quite healthy now, com
pared with last year, for prior to this sea
son, myself and Dr H , the kind, af
fable, and generous physician of this beat
counted between two an three hundred
cases, within the range of lour or five
miles all down and a kicking at the same
time.
Speaking of the boys at the house of
my present sojourn, we have one who
has iiui touched any of the ‘ critter’ for
some time, having joined tire Sons, he is
now a sober, steady, and much esteemed
citizen. But this was nol the case, how
ever, in 1847 on his way to Mexico, with
the Alabama regiment, lor while on the
passage from Mobile, to Biases Sant lago
ihe buckey Mor.ongshela got the ascen
dency over John and caused him one ve
ry dark night not to be very close in his
roosting place, which happened to be o
ver the. wheelhouse, a blowing off . ft” ‘
in the engine room below, m
aroused John, from his bachinaiui.
bers and brought him to his feet, ou
being able to inentam his centre ol grav
ty, John, whiskey and all, were precqu
tated a distance of thirty leet below. Old
Jerry, a negio servant who was accompa
nying his master in the regiment, forget
ting the exact phraseology of seamen
when an accident of this- kind occurs,
bawled out ‘ man off'en board, man off’en
b ard!’ A rope was soon thrown out as
near John’s whereabouts as could be
guessed of a dark night, which fortunate
ly hit bun smack in the lace. His soli- ‘
citous friends finding he had seized hold
of the rope, vociferated ‘ hold on, John !
hold on, John ! John’s only response
was muttered out with an ‘ uh. do you
suppose I'm d—dfoot enough io let go now':’
More of old Jerry in connection with this
falling over borad scrape anon. How
is the turnip and potato crop with you t
‘Flour am scace here.’
Yours, for a biscuit,
COSMOPOLITE.
[communicated.
Right Place, Oct. Bth, ’49.
Mr. Gavlding: Will you, in coalition
with the world, victimize me for the hoot
ing hisses of execration, should I effer to
peep my humble caput above the motley
surface of rustic seclusion, and epheme
ron like, court a moment’s existence in
the light of public gaze ? If, actuated
by the. intrinsic honesty of a heart un
known to aspirations to fame, I should in
vade your sanctum, would its walls, spea
king in the soul of their inmates, greet me
with a cheering welcome ? Pythia, what
thy measured iesponse ? Fates, what thy
decree ?
But devil take Pythia, Fates, and apol
ogetic exordiums, for I fear that Mr.
Gaulding’s moral monitor has already dL
tended his auricular organs, tor the iecepjj
tion of an elaborate so uiion of metemsj -
chosis, or some other metaphysical prob
lem. My intention, friend G., is a-n un
dertukmg that bears a closer proximity to
the commensuralioii of the capacity ol my
humble genius. Yes, it is to offer to you
a brief descant upon a few things I saw
and heard at the Baptist Association that
‘ came off’ at our Railroad Camp-ground,
not long since. Not that 1 expect, or
wish to mulct from the favor of ‘he times,
the paltry munificence, or specious appel •
lation of writer for a newspaper, but be
cause i think it incumbent on someone,
to expose the flagrant and even nefarious
discrepancies committee! by a certain class
who aie the infallibe Alphas and Omegas
at such sacredly public exhibitions.
To inculpate all, or omit the insinua
tion of a discrimination, arid heap our jus
tifiable opprobrium on all alike, would be
ungenerous. Notwithstanding the data
afforded by the malversations of the
whole, would enable us to do moie justice
to ourself, we will take but n part, resolvv
ing that part, however, into two specific
classes. Ah, yes, the would be beaux and
belles of the day. Who are they ! and
what have they done to entail upon them
selves, the invectives ol me, their ostra
cised mhiion ; the marl; of their scorn at:cl
malevolence; the incarnation of their
Falstaffs? Ask lire question of their pa
rents, and hear the answer in the heart
heaved sigh of that affectionate father, or
read it in the burning tear of that pious
mother! Who are they that regard the
sacred summons of the trumpet, but the
signal for their secretion about tiie tent,
until the old folks are gone, and then, a*
Dree ncerted, take their seals in front
of the Ten! . and .unfolding the meshes
of their externa! imaginary attraction,
soon enjoys tiie triumph in the booty of
some brainless, adulating booty? Some
despicable bumpkin, who is as destitute
of moral refinement a- jjood bieedine,
makes this • destitution lamentably palpa
ble, by the manifestation ol a disgraceful
preference for this situation, to that ol be
ing an attentive auditor to the sermon.—
| Again: who are they, (though seldom
found at the Stand at night) when there,
at this time, select a buck seat, for the
sake of conspicuitv, making it a mirror
by which they may reflect their disregard
for the preaching, the very means of win
ning the worthless notice ot some brain
less swell or be .rdless boy. Ladies, why
have you become so insensible to your in
terest, so estrangeed from moral sense ?
Do you estimate your popularity by the
number ol precocious youths who swarm
around you, even during the progres of
the sermon ; or at the time that jour good
old father and mother with others, bemn
to ev nee the greatest Christian fervor or
religious enthusiasm ? Why will you sit
there and mock this ebullition of happi
ness, this sanctified effervescence of reli
gious zeal, by engaging in conversation
trivial and low, with some poor silly
man ?
‘ O, wad some |iowor the gifiie gie us,
To Bee ourselves us illiers see us. ’
Do you act so, my dear girls, for want
ol good breeding, of good s nse, or of mo
ral training? Will you, despite the ele
rating influence of these advantages arid
endowments, make yourselves loathe
some and ridiculous in !he sight of those
by whom you should be loved?- Will
you sacnlice all that makes you estima
ble in the eves of the good and virtuous
to gain the puppy love smiles of some de
testable dull ? Will you, by a perpetua
of such conduct, make yourselves
the accomplices of Fates, in marking the
present as the era that shall date our ret
rogressive steps in moral worth and re
finemenr. “ Dii aver tile !’’ But further,
Mr. Gaulding, 1 can’t but inform you,
that our veritable and delectable village
girls are always the mugui in the practice
ol sucli conduct!
O thrice unhappytage must this he, to
breathe into existence specimens of the sof
ter sex, who, though they inherit the name