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A Very I*retty Incident.
Wo find the following incident in the San Francisco
Whig. Colonel. F. H. Sanford, to whom it refers,
reached our city a few days ago, in good health. He has
been absent in California for four years, and though still
accoutered in the dress which gave him, at the mines, the
sobriquet of the “Blue Shirt of the Mountains/’ he presents
a familiar appearance to his old acquaintances. We con
gratulate him on his safe return,and wish him a happy re
union with his interesting family.— Geo. Paper.
THE GOLD HUNTER AND THE DAGUERREOTYPE.
BY W. H. COYLE.
“A gentleman of this city, while passing along the street
a few days since, was accosted by a stranger, who presented
him a small package. He found within the parcel a da
guerreotype case, which opened with a spring. On touch
ing it, the lid flew up, and exposed to his astonished vision
a perfect likeness of his two young daughters, whom he had
left more than a year before in the east. At the head of the
picture was the inscription, “Here we are, Pa.” The de
lighted father, as might-bc expected, was completely over
come by the affecting incident”— Sacramento Union.
A care-worn man, with a haggard brow,
Sullen, and gloomy, and cofd,
Hurries fast through Sacramento’s streets,
For his heart is fixed on gold.
A year has gone by -a lonely year—
Os toil and peril and strife;
And an ocean rolls its waves between
The wanderer and his wife. \
l _
Is he happy 1 Ah, did ye not hear,
As hejjasserl, that weary sigh ?
And heeded ye not the rootless glance
OtfusTijid,sunken eye?
—first numb \
the Ist of g ree ts fliin a moment,, and leaves
Dec. 1* a ß e for his own hand ;
—. ■*. breaks the seal, as he sees
Mnes from his native land.
jp sll clasped case—he touches a spring ;
hen, like the light of a star,
f o sweet faces look up into his,
aughing out ‘Here wo are, Pa.’
spellbound he stands there— Here we are, Pa
Their gentle voices he hears ;
But he cannot speak—the words are choked
In a bursting flood of tears.
J What now to him are sparkling sands
In the mountain streams that shine ?
He’d give them all, could those little arms
Round his neck again entwine.
Then he cursed the demon of the mine,
Whose serpent-tongue had told
Him, the tempting lie, that happiness
Must be bought with yellow gold.
For he lelt that Nature’s purest gem
Is a tear when true friends part;
And love, the brightest diamond in
The mine of the human heart 1
That night he dreamed of his cottage home,
On the slope of a sunny hill;
And he saw the gold of his harvest fields,
And heard the hum ot the mill.
Ilis pale lone'wife, by the window sat,
Rocking her baby to rest.
And sobbed as she kissed its dimpled hand,
And gazed on the far blue West!
Ilis children shouted, ‘Hore we are, Pa !’
Two girls and a romping boy—
And his old dog leaped up to his lips,
And barked long and loudjfor joy.
An outward bound ship, with a spangled flag,
Flies swift through the white sc a foam,
And a care-worn man sings mournfully,
Oh! there is no place like home !
Editors Whig: The father, I learned Col. F. H. San
ford, of Mariposa, lateoiJAgorgia; known as
of the and who, afterly four years’ absence is
-tfowmthis city on his way home to Georgia. In common
with many friends, we say God speed to him ! W.
Appropriations made by Congress.
Among the appropriations made at the late
session of Congress, were the following, which
we find summed up in the Intelligencer.
For the extension of the Capitol, two appro
priations are made, one in the deficiency bill of
$400,000, and the other in the general appro
priation bill ot $600,000
For the Patent Office, towards the erection of
the west wing, $200,000-
For repairing the President’s Mansion, inclu
dingcleaning, painting, whitewashing, extending
tending the east wing of offices for carriage
houses, &c., $7,300 , and for heating, ventilat
ing, painting the exterior, painting the walls and
and ceilings of the rooms of the first floor, and
the purchase of books for the President’s libra
ry, $2,5900.
For refurnishing the President’s house, to be
expended under the direction of the President,
in addition to the proceeds of the sale of such
of the furniture and equippage of the said house
as may out of repair and unfit for use, $25,000.
For the Eastern Branch Bridges, to be ex
pended in completing the repairs thereof, $4,-
000.
For the Equestrian Statue of General Jackson
to compensate Clark Mills therefor, and make
it the property 7 of the United States, $20,000.
For an Equestrian Statue of Washington, our
readers are aware, a special act made an ap
propriation of $50,000.
For paving Pennsylvania avenue, from the j
President’s square to Rock creek, in addition to
former appropriations, $14,700.
For enclosing the triangular lot, opposite the
Centre market, with an iron fence, $4,500.
For erecting lamps, on both sides of Penn
sylvania avenue, from Seventeenth street to
Georgetown, and from the Capitol to the Navy |
Yard, $3,000.
The Clerks in the several Executive Depart-1
meats, from and alter the 30th of June next, are
to be arranged in four classes, with different
grades of salary, and no clerk is to be appoint
ed in either of the classes until he shall have
been examined and found qualified by a Board
of Commissioners, one of whom is to be the chief
of the Bureauto which the clerk is to be appoint
ed, and the other two to he selected by the head
of the Department to which the Bureau is at
tached.
Class number one is to receive an annual sal
ary of nine hundred dollars each, class number
two an Annual salary of one thousand two hun- •
dred dollars each, class number three an annual
salary of one thousand five hundred dollars each,
and class number four an annual salary of one
thousand eight hundred dollars each.
The outstanding Stocks of the United States
may be purchased by the Secretary of the Trea
sury at the current market price, to be paid for
from any surplus funds in the Treasury, provid
i ed that the balance in the Treasury shall not at
anytime be reduced below $6,000,000.
The Mexican Boundary Commission is con
tinued till April Ist, 1854, and the necessary ap
propriations made therefor.
The Destiny ot Hungary.
At the conclusion of a very able article in tire last
Edinburg Review, we find the following graphic de
scription of the future of Hungary.
&&*#***
So ended the Hungarian war of independence.
The sword was laid down and the work of the
executioner’s axe begun. It has been an elevat
ingbut distressingjvision. A nation, strong in her
’ right, driven to extremes, defends herseli, and
at first humbles her aggressor. Hurried into ex
tremes herself, she falls.
*Of the two men who h djier destiny injheir ~
i baj“’ one is under survey
‘jprj ( 1* Ifslbner of the enemy,
j Tho other is wandering in distant countries,
i seeking help for his down-trodden fatherland.
One has hitherto been the object of the execra-..
: tion of his nation and of mankind. The other
has received the homage of the two greatest
people in the world. One had too low an opin
ion of the cause he defended ; the other es
timated it too highly. Gorgey judged first as a
soldier and then as an Hungarian ; Kossuth first
as a cosmopolite and then as an Hungarian.—
One was too near, the other too far, for the
mark.
This mark was nationality, the dearly bought
jewel for which the Hungarian has so often shed
his best blood ; the oriflamme which will at this
moment alone inspire him, and which he will
follow so long as his name exists. It is his re
ligion, his history, his literature, his country, the
very atmosphere he breathes.
But the struggle in another light cannot be
considered as a mere national affair. It was one
of principle Hunguary, tho isolated and con
stitutional, against the absorbing centralisation
and absolutism of Austria. Such a struggle, in
order to yield a decisive verdict, ought to have
been left to itself; but Austria did not conquoiv
by the vitality of her institutions or the energy
of her forces. She was obliged to have recourse
to foreign aid. Such victory is a defeat it
respects the settlement of the two principles in
volved, and likewise as it regards the Future
greatness of Austria. Three years laps
ed since Hungary was crushed before tn Czar,
and placed at the foot of the Empero f r s Aus
tria. But has Austria made one step ‘ l 'tho ful
filment of her centralising scheme ? is still
the state of siege which maintains herUJanquili
ty r . Her reluctant subjects, deprived <f the last
shadow of a representative system, arWibid i !
subservience by terror, not by love. *
Austria is a hollow name ; we meet w i Hun
garians, Bohemians, Germans, Italian?/ Poles,
but no Austrians. A native of the pmduce ot
Ducal Austria Proper, who ought to be the most
proud of his name, will say, I am a Viennese* or
speak of some other town or district asl his_iNt e
of birth, but he will never boast of^~.
Austrian fatherland, Despotism my % if”
based on nationality. The proud* -Mis ro?ri;lV}s,ns
sum was the link whicli kept toother the i
-of the Caesars. The autocacy of
stands on this foundation ; but mat has Austri
ryyen wherewith to inspire he subjects ? bom*-
bardments, Riassaires, and exlutions! 4
It is not difficult to foresee will be the j \
future of that tendency to centre oeernment ! i
in the rulers alone which is now crying
the Continent. Least of all does mysW harJfg
over the fate of Austria. Its doom is writtemiu
language as clear as that which flashed in fire
through the banqueting hall of Babylon, We
see an image of gold, iron, and clay; but the
gold has been corrupted and the iron weakened,
and what now remains of either is but a scale
to hide rather than adorn the earth of which the
image consists ; —ond it is but an image after
all, for where is the life? The House of Austria
must now stand alone. The last golden link
which bound Hungary to its rulers, and to which
age had imparted the reverence due to antiqui
ty, has been melted in the fire kindled to burn
up a nation’s liberties, and to forge, not chains
of love, but the fetters of servitude and humili
ation. This unhappy House, deceived by its
successes, may think it has quenched the spirit
of freedom, but the world’s records are a proof
| that the strongest arguments of despotism so
lavishly used by imperial oppressors—the hang
man, the axe, and the prison,—are inadequate
instruments for suppressing the breath of a na
tion which pants for liberty.
Were the millions of voices-which cry, ‘Haza
es Szabadsag/ (country and freedom) in the
Magyar tongue, silenced by the Austrian execu
tioner; or were the millions of hearts which
animate those tongues impaled in a death-strug
gle on the bayonets of a mercenary Austro-
Russian host—Hungary would not be dead*
The destined avenger will yet arise.
——
Foul Murder. —A most foul and wanton
murder was committed, on Saturday morning
last, on the person of a Mr. Ileffman or Ileffr
non, from Lincolnton, North Carolina, near the
Sandy ford, in Spartanburg District. It appears
the deceased was travelling with a wagon and
two mules, and had camped out for the night.
I When found in the morning, he was lying on
the ground near the tongue of his wagon, dead,
I with his face and head cut, apparently with an
| axe, so shockingly that his features ;.vere with
difficulty recognized.
There is no doubt but money was the object
of the murderer, as, when last seen, on Friday
evening, the deceased had in his possession from
S4O to S6O, and when found his pockets had
been rifled of their contents, and no clue could
be found to the perpetrator of the bloody deed.
We hope a strict watch will he kept, and the
villain receive the punishment his black deal
richly merits.— Laurensville Herald.
avti Stnfimtl
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
IHUIIV MORNING, MARCH 18, 1853.
I'ierce & Kins Club.
We give our readers to-day the reply of the Pierce
and King Club and a good many other persons to the
statement of Messrs. Pitts, Cherry and Jones, in
reference to the meeting of the 7th inst., and our edito
rial comments thereon.
There are several things about this document which
are worthy of note. It is not signed by the President
of the club. Why is Col. John Quin’s name omitted ?
Did he too disapprove of the action of the meeting ?
There are 65 names signed to the Reply. Not
I*2 of them were present at the meeting referred to,
and are therefore as incompetent to throw light upon
its proceedings as we arc.
A great many questions are answered which nobody
asked. We certainly never enquired into the history
of the Pierce and King club. The public were quite
fanv'iar with that. It did good in the late can
vass, and so long as it confined itself to its legitimate
duties it commanded the respect of the party. But
when thirteen of its members, chose to pervert it from
its proper objects, and make it an engine to subserve
■private interests, it forfeited the confidence of the com
munity.
We never objected to Michael N. Clarke as Post
Master. ♦Jfhe was a soldier in 1812 and in 1536, we
hguor him for his patriotism. Certainly the Times and
Sentinel office can appreciate his sacrifices. We do not
see, however, that the fact that he has in the language
of the reply, “been enabled to move in what so many
deem “more genteel circles,” gives him any claims to
office in a Republican Government where virtue , ca
pacity and patriotislv are the only passports to distinc
tion.
The only objection -we made to the proceedings of
the meeting was that the party were not informed of
the objects of the meeting , This is the only question.
The objection is not mdt by saying that public no
tice was given of the meeting. Only the friends of one
of the candidates were present. llow did
Have Forsyth, Jones, TqrrancJfcubU""’ ‘iJ*
Co’umbus? Why, ?.Bths of ’ -SThe
petitions of one <k the other of t|, j- -Ai, and
we venture Atlie assertion that ill 1 ■ referred to
had been gfiven and tho object approved, instead of a
meeting m thirteen persons, the Court House could not
have Mid the Democratic host which would have as
sembled there. The party would have been represented
jyfui not a clique.
There seems to boas energetic a desire on the part
of some men to become the aristocracy of the “lower
ten” as there is on the part of others to be the aristoc
racy of the “upper ten.”
Such men are always making distinctions in society.
Th's man is a “trace man ;” that one is a “silk stocking
man if a man wears a dirty shirt he is more respec
table in their eyes than one who wears a clean one ; to
ride in a carriage is a mortal sin •, &e., &c. Now we
have no respect for either “a lower ten aristocrat,” nor
“an upper ten aristocrat.” They are neither of them
Republicans nor Democrats. The French Revolution
was prolific of such fellows ; but as soon asfthey got the
power, they “‘•“"tned the airs and vices of the old arist
ocracy at Ji!Sfi m Pffied on the rights and liWrties of the
people. ~ [
M e find tl ie names 0 f a good many gentlemen to the
Reply who *\ vere never members of the Pierce and
King club an q who have too much character to sanction
an und . ianf j movement to overreach honorablo com
pel',’ . We have found one of them who indignant
lwstruck liis name from the reply. There may be
yolhers whose names were obtained in the same way.
We think this manner of bolstering up a bad cause
i even mere reprehensable than the course of the meeting.
Ole Bull.
It is stated in the True Delta that Ole Bull’s four
j concerts in New Orleans, netted over ten thousand
and were the most successful ever given in that
Jenny Linds.
Liberal Legislation.
The Missouri Legislature has made the following ap
propriations ; for the erection of a Deaf and Dumb
Asyhtfn, $36,400 ; Lunatic Asylum, $57,000; Blind
Asylum, 000jto -forward products to World’s
Fair,|s4,ooo State Agricultural Fairs, $4,000 ; to
Geological Survey of the State (about) SIO,OOO.
Californian Intelligence.
The murderers of Lt. Col. Craig were hanged in
San Diego, California, on the last day in January, in
the presence of nearly one hundred Indian Chiefs and
head men, by Col. Magruder and the soldiers of his
command, in accordance with the decision of the court
martial. They died bravely, but confessed the enormi
ty of their crime, and warned their associates not to
follow their bad example.
The remains of Col. Craig arrived at San Diego on
the Ist Feb. from the Desert, and were buried on the
2d by the side of the gallant officers who fell at San
| Pasquel.
The steamer Daniel Webster brings intelligence from
California up to the 15th ult.
Miss Catherine Hays was giving concerts in Sacra
mento city.
The celebrated Miska ITauscr was giving concerts in
San Francisco.
The Lemantour claim which has lately turned up,
| covers several leagues of land within the limits of San
; Francisco on which improvements are already made to
the value of a million of dollars or more. The claim
dates back to 18-13 and rests upon a grant from Michel
toreno in consideration of moneys and supplies furnish
ed the Governor. It is said to be one of the best claims
ever urged before the commissioners.
Preliminary steps have been Liken to build a plank
road from Auburn to Sacramento city. The cost will
be $400,000, and Placer county agrees to pay $! 00,000
of the expense.
The people of Neveda are discussing the preferability
of building a plank road to Marysville or Sacramento —
the cost of either road will be near half a million of
dollars.
Massachusetts Constitutional Convention,
Si’RlNgfield, March 9,1853.
The Republican h?s returns from 312 towns, of
the Convention election. They foot up as follows:
Whigs 159 Opposition 249
Independent.... 6 No choice 19
There arc now only nine towt t to he heard
from.
Meeting of the Pierce and King Club.
ELECTION OF POST MASTER.
To the Editor of the Times and Sentinel :
In you!’ paper of Friday, and again on the 12th inst.,
you have editorial notices which seem to question the
propriety of the meeting of the Club held on the 7th
inst., and its action. As you ask for further light upon
the subject, we give it to you, although wo will be al
lowed to deem that your position as a public journalist,
and as a Democratic Editor, should keep you informed,
by your own exertions, of the workings of the party.
Shortly after the return of Mr. Morton, the delegate
to the Baltimore Convention, a meeting was called in
Columbus, and a Pierce and King Club established for
the county. It was at a time when but little harmony
existed between the two wings of the democracy of this
section, and the club was formed to accomplish that de
sirable object. For a meeting or two it struggled on
with but few members, a smaller number even than at
tended its dissolution, and formed the Democratic As
sociation for Muscogee. But that number consisted, as
the meeting the other night was composed, of the “trace
men” of the party, not of those who on an election
day, ride in their carriage to the polls to deposit their
votes, but of that energetic number who marshal the
clans, who select the ammunition, and are upon the
field with the earliest blast of the bugle, leaving it only
when victory is perched upon our banner, or obeying
the recall note, which takes them defeated but not dis
heartened from the conflict, and prepared to enter
upon the strife of to-morrow. But in a short time its
members swelled, until as the election approached and
victory was anticipated, but few could be found but
who were ambitious of membership, even the timid and
the time serving gladly gathering to the fold.
The results of the club proved the perfect establish
ment of harmony in the party, and a democratic majori
ty of sweeping numbers. If you ask why the club met
on the 7th inst., we tell you that by its constitution, it
was to be dissolved after the inauguration, and it should
have been the pride of every member, that this disso
lution should be formal. Do you ask why the Demo
cratic Association was formed ? We tell you it was to
preserve the safety of the party in view of an election
for Govertfdr, a member of Congress,
&c., which a few short moons will herald.
f The meeting was an open and public one; notice of
which had been given in your widely extended Tri-
Weekly, and Hand Bills announcing it, printed by your
“Steam Press.” But it seems the crime has been
committed of selecting a man who served in the war
of 1812, and again in 1836, as a suitable candidate for a
public office, who went to laying brick to support an in
teresting family after his return, and who but within a
few years, have been enabled to move in what so many
deem “ more genteel circles .” And your jury of three
men, but one of whom, however, was recognized as
supporting our candidates, say that Mr. R. C. Forsyth,
W. E. Jones and Mansfield Torrance were nominated
by an individual known to be unfriendly to the claims
of these gentlemen ; probably they were, but if so, it
was because no friendly voice was lifted in their favor,
and they were not present to represent their own inter
ests, having forestalled every action, and gne as sup
pliants in person to the Capitol, for that office to which
wo recommend Mr. Clarke.
But, Mr. Editor, it is useless to multiply words. We
who have formed this Association, have done so with
the best intentions, and ’ solely for the benefit of the
party. Neither of us are, or shall we be, seekers for
office eitlier from the County, tate or Federal Govern
ment 5 we will have no share in the “flesh pots.” The
banner of the Association will not be furled . We
invite all good men and true to its standard ; but if
there are those who oppose our action, while they still
desire to act with the party, we say to them, that there
is ample field for all our exertions in the contests be
fore us. Form your own Associations, if you do not
choose to rally to ours ; the county is large enough,
and there is doubtless material for more than one.
John Durken, S Hoffman,
Malcolm Persons, John E Ryckely,
Jesse Goodwin, F Burrus,
Wm Moulton, John Ke’ly,
H. S. Duffee, Chas G Bize,
Edward Finn, B Thomas,
E. Holand, J Croshaw,
Wm H. Booth, John Bowen,
J N Sherden. Fed Wilhelm,
John Whiteside, M McCasey,
E. C. Bandy, T A Edgar,
Hugh Dolan, John McCahty,
John Ligon, M J Westmoreland^,
W. Horwitz, Jas McCartin,
P. M. Brooks, *
John N. Tilly, J T Thompson,
Thomas Harrisongko, J F Miller,
P Biehler, “ L Miller,
G W Jones, F M Lawrence,
Jacob Parker, G Robinett,
James Cook, John II Hood,
John Sealy, C L Newberry,
G S Faison, Thos 0 Shepherd,
Pryor Dozier, DWalldbom,
II J Williams, Cwen Me Artie,
Hiram Fuller, A Halee,
H J Devon, J Boulter,
A C Morton, .T Schwed,
T Markham, F Rutnm,
J B Hicks, W Casuar,
J J Burins, G Fisher,
W E Sandeford, H M B Harris,
M Terobe, R W Coleman,
* Dr. Alox. J. Robison, came into our office and
st.iuck his name off of this paper, and stated that M.
N. Clarke represented that it was only a petition in
his favor for Post Master ; that he never read it and
was uot informed of its true character 5 and further
more, that he had signed the petitions of all other ap
plicants for the Post Office who had applied to him-
TENNENT LOMAX.
Washington, D. C., March 10th, 1853.
Dear Sir. -.—Being detained here yesterday waiting
for afriend, I went to hear Young America on the Clay
ton and Bulwer treaty. He was pretty hard on Clay
ton. Clayton had spoken on Tuesday and Wednesday
in his defence. Not hearing him, I could not so fully
understand Douglas, but one thing I understood very
well— that he was in favor of the Monroe doctrine, as
understood by those who ate determined to keep all
we have and get all we can, and utterly opposed to any
colonization on this continent by any European power,
and last of all, by England. Mr. D. is a clever debater,
but I do not think him a very great man, nor do I be
lieve in the Monroe doctrine as construed by him, I
would fight Sea Rugs’ battle sooner than see the British
acquire Cuba or Yucatan, but if the Governments
of South America or the Esquimaux choose to per
mit Europeans to colonize their territory, it is no busi
ness of ours. I do not believe I have a right to say
to a man owning lauds near me, that he shall sell to no
one but me, for fear some other purchaser’s hogs or
cattle might some day get in my field. I think it is
‘going sufficiently far to say, no European power shall
acquire Cuba or Yucatan, or that portion of Central
America that we have to pass through to get to Cali
fornia. There is no State in the Union whose laws
would prevent a man from buying a tract of land lying
between two tracts owned by someone else. We are,
however, a great people to provide for contingencies.
Although there is not the remotest probability of our
wanting to send troops or arms aud munitions across
from the Mississippi to California for the next 50 years,
it is urged that we shall build a Rail road across to
California for that purpose. The advc \itcs of the mea
sure say that the government is bound to protect hs
people, and it can only be done by Rail roads. It is
truly fortunate for the dear people, that Pail roads were
invented, otherwise they would have been without pro
tection, except by them and caloric flets ; very few are
found bold enough to ask for money , for these utopian
schemes, but they ask for, (and generally obtain,) as
much land as will raise the money. They will not
give away money, but give its equivalent. This is
drawing a distinction between tweedle dee and tweedle
dum—the sound is a little different. To hear some of
these new light expounders of the constitution, yon
would think they had been educated in a college of
Jesuits, where they were taught that the end sanctifies
the means.
Some of them are very ingenious ; others again re
mind me of tho old Dutchman who was opening his
barn very early one morning, and being asked by some
one passing by, if he was letting in the light, said, “No,
I ish letting the tarkness out.”
There are occasionally southern whigs enough acting
with the body of the democrats to stop some of these cra
zy schemes, but not often. The body of the whigs and
the north-western democrats are loose constructionists.
When land or appropriation bills are up, they are most
ly general icelfare politicians.
The limitations of tho constitution are never in the way
of this class. When they cannot bend the constitution
they break it. The great and fundamental principle
of government should bo “ protect all, help none.”
The correct interpretation of the constitution is easily
arrived at, by leading the history of the country under
the old articles of confederation and the journals of the
convention that formed the constitution. We find
there what were the defects of the confederation anc
the remedies proposed. It was simply to give the Federa
Government more power to manage our external r< •
lations. What would Franklin have thought of a man
who in the convention should havo proposed to give
Congress power to appropriate millions for the support
cf Lunatic Asylums, as if Stato could not ta\o
care of her own .Lunatics; yet I have soen a proposition to
give ten millions of acres of the public domain'Jer this
purpose. As we increase in wealth and numbers, we
decrease in honesty, and republican simplicity, and the
constitution is scarcely worth the parchment on which
it is written.
There is still a crowd of pa triotic people here, offering
their services to the President to enable him to carry
on the government. If he finds any difficulty in pro
curing persons to accept, office I believe I would accept
a foreigu mission, provided it was not to England. At
any other court I should have to have an interpreter, and
I would take special oareto have one that was capable of
playing minister himself, whilst I stood by and looked
wise. I have been here nearly a fortnight, and we have no
| two days alike ; no boarding school girl w watering
place belle was ever so fickle as theylimate here. I leave
| for the Sunny South to-night; our Senators expect to
leave also. Health and happiness attend you ! is tho
prayer of
Tustenuggee,
From the Georgia Telegraph.
Mr. Hr own, or the new Recuit.
A FARCE—IN ONE ACT.
We do not know that will consider
the apostacy of Mr. Edwin R. Brown, worth a
notice in the Telegraph. But as the recent let
ter of this gentleman has in various quarters ex
cited the question—who the devil is this Mi-
Brown ?—we have concluded to embalm him in
a paragraph. Mr. Brown, then is a lawyer,
living we believe in Sumter county ; though if
we happen to locate him incorrectly, our read
ers, we feel sure, will excuse the error,—for it is
hardly possible for us to furnish minute biogia
phies of such candidates for office, as are never
known to the public till the papers announce
their defeat. We gather from this Mr. Brown’s
letter, that he at one time pretended to he a
Democrat that he had no great objection to be
made a Democratic Judge—that he agreed to
abide by the nomination of a Convention—that
the Convention was so lost to patriotism as to
pass over the name of Mr. Brown—that Mr.
Brown, like his illustious namesake, “would not
give it up so —that he entered himself against
the field that he was soundly beaten—and that
he then, with praise worth alacrity went over to tho
whigs whoabout this time are certain to sympath
ize with any body who has been defeated. Now
we are not about to insinuate that Mr. Brown,
being chargrined with disappointment, and stung
by defeat, has done a very foolish thing, On
the contrary, when in addition to the above
facts, we remember that Sumter is decidedly
whig in its politics. God forbid that we should
be so unjust as to suppose Mr. Brown any thing
more than a most disinterested patriot, who has
selected a very unlucky time to give way to his
feelings. Brown says that he has thought
there was something wrong about the Demo
cratic party for a long time—he has seen indi
cations of wildness about them which would
have shocked his grandmother—but then the
amiable man did not fancy the name of turn
coat, and held ou, hoping, no doubt, that the
party would finally listen to Brown, and “do
the thing that was right.” However, he has
been disappointed. The party has at last com
mitted one of those terrible agrarian excesses,
which Brown has so long anticipated. The
Democrats of the south west have—yes, people
of Georgia, restrain your indignation, ifvou can
they have actually 7 refused to make a Judge of
Brown ! This was the one drop too much. Ed
win Brown rose in his wrath, thre w off the shack
les of parly, and in an excess of patriotic devo
tion—ratted to the Whigs !
Now, had Brown seen fit to desert quietly, ‘-' e
should have had nothing to say 7 , but since he
has chosen to stultify himself by a public letter
we have concluded to second his efforts in this
wa y-
No man could have written a letter so too:
oughlj- asinine, except with the desire of bew o
laughed at; and as we have thus presented t f!L
ludicrous spectacle to over three thousand su j
scribers, we have no doubt that Mr. Brown
send us a letter of thanks by the very nextmai
Sincere ATTACHMENT.-'Hast ihou evenove
Henrietta?” I sighed. i -he replied !
“I should rather imagine I had, sht I
“Oh, did not my glances my feeling ,
When you helped me the tim'd tin -
ding to-day ?” ,