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Judge Warner.
We find in the Savannah Courier a sketch
oi the life of Hon. Hiram Warner, of this State,
from which we make the following extracts:
There are some incidents connected with
Judge Warner’s administration ot the laws,
which have not generally been known, and a
recital of which we believe will be interesting to
our readers.
Judge Warner presided at the first court, held
at Marietta, Cobb county. The population,
like that of the greater part of newly settled
countries, was composed of many rough and
lawless persons, which rendered decided and
summary action necessary on the part of the
presiding officer, to maintain the authority of
the court, and the supremacy of the law; there
was no jail, and nothing but a small log cabin
erected for the administration of justice, and
just in the rear of which, there was a small
enclosure about twelve rail’high intended for a
horse lot. During the session of corn t, a man
somewhat intoxicated, or pretending to be so,
became very boisterous, disturbing the business
of the court The Judge ordered the sheriff to
take him away, and requesting his friends to
keep him away, but in a few moments he return
ed more vociferous than ever, cursing the court
and its officers, lelling the Judge to put him in
jail and bed and. The Judge hesitated for a
moment, and then very deliberately ordered the
sheriff to take the disturber of the public busi
ness and place his head under the horse lot
fence, until he bee; me sober The sheriff
promptly executed the order, and shortly after
wards, when he was wanted in court, he could
not be found, a? and it was ascertained that, in
obedience to what he considered the order of
the Judge, after putting the man’s neck between
the heavy rails of the fence, about two feet from
the ground, his body on one side, and his head
on the other, he had taken his seat on the top
rail of the fence above his prisoner, that he
might be securely Kept. The prisoner, howev
er, soon reported himself sober, and was releas
ed. The next morning he met the Judge, and
after thanking him for his imprisonment, said
that he had made a sober man of him during
life. This decided conduct on the part of Judge
Warner prevented any further disturbance of
the court.
Soon after the organization of Murray county,
there were two parties, called the Bishop and
the Anti Bishop parties, among which there
was great excitement. Owing to some preju
dice that existed, Bishop and his friends were
unwilling that the then presiding Judge of the
Cherokee Circuit should hold the Court for the
trial of the cases in which they were interes
ted, and therefore the Judge of that circuit pro
posed to exchange Courts with Judge Warner,
so that the latter might preside at the trials in
Murray'. An eye-witness says:“Judge Warner
arrived at Spring Place, the county site, early in
the morning of the day the Court was to be held,
and found the little village nearly surrounded
by a company of United States soldiers. The
Judge having ordered breakfast, was shaving,
when a communication in writing was handed
to him by the late General Steelman. Upon
opening the letter he found it to he from Capt.
Buffington, of the army, informing him that by
order of Colonel Lindsey, of the United States
army, stationed in Tennessee, he had repaired
to Spring Place for the purpose of enabling the
Judge of the Superior Court to execute the laws
of Georgia, and tendering him his own services
and that of his command. The Judge imme
diately calling for pen, ink and paper, leplied to
Captain Buffington’s communication, assuring
him that however hignly he might appreciate
the motives which induced Colonel Lindsev to
order Capt. Buffington and his command to
that place, to enable the Judge of the Superior
Court to execute the laws of Georgia, that he
was not aware that there existed any necessity
for his services, or that of h s command ; that
Georgia was abundantly able to execute her
own laws, and that so far as that duty devolved
upon him on that occasion he expected to have
no difficulty in doing it without his assistance.
In less than thirty minutes after the receipt of
the communication the soldiers’ tents were
struck, and Capt. Buffington and Ins command
were on their march to their quarters in Ten
nessee. Several of the Anti-Bishop party im
plored the Judge not to send the soldiers away,
the women cried, and said they would all be
killed, the Couit could not be held, &c.
VS hen the time arrived for opening the Court,
the Sheriff was reluctant to go to the Court
House, saying that lie was certain he would
be killed before the trials were over. The
Judge assured him that he should he protected—
took him by the arm, walked to the Court House,
opened Court, and, during the term, tried Bishop
and other important criminal causes growing
out of the Murray difficulties, without the least
disturbance. Judge Warner’s conduct on this
occasion was the theme of admiration.
Os Judge Warner’s legal qualifications it is
scarcely necessary to speak, as the evidences of
their high order have been already developed in
the positions to which he had been so repeated
ly elevated.
‘1 he characteristic feature of his mind is its
remarkable logical force. His efforts at the bar,
and his decisions on the bench, alike disclose
this feature. His style is free from ornament,
and with an unusual directness he approaches
and discusses the question, controlling every
case * one redundant word, not one of repe
tition, and yet complete His language, with
perfect accuracy, conveys precisely the idea in
tended.
A Decided Fix
The letter writer and telegraphists in their at
tempts to make capital out of supposed disspnsions
in the Cabinet were blown sky high. The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Journal of
Commerce writes that Go\ernor Marcy has b<'en
one ot “the best abused men in the world.*’ This
arises partly from the malice of letter writers and
partly from his own busquenes of manner which
by the way, is well iliustra'ed by a tecent incident,
no account of which has yet, we believe, found its
way in o print. An impoituuate office-seeker in
cessantly intruded upon the Secretary of the De
partment, at his hotel, iu the street, “in season and
out of season”—urging i,U “claims” for a Consul
sup ot considerable value. Finally his entreaties
6anno y ,n g‘ that Mr. Marcy quietly sue--
- J hat a knowledge of the Spamsh language
a r -v to his access. “Oh,” res
ponded the urgent applicant, “I understand Spanish
thoroughly sir ; I speak it like a native.” “Ah !”
replied Mr. M., “that is important; one of my clerks
talks Spanish, and he*d no doubt like to converse
with you. I’ll call him in ; sit down-, sir,” and he
arose to ring the bell. “No, sir,” exclaimed the
terrified applicant, who dreaded the impending ex
posure of his inorance, “the fact is, sir,—that —that
—I don’t exactly speak the language just now, but
—but I understand it a lit'le— l understand it.”
xmt) SmtintL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 1853.
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Democratic Meeting.
The supporters of President Pierce’s administration
are respectfully requested to meet at the Court House
in this city, at 12 o’clock on Wednesday 11th inst , for
the purpose o selecting delegates to the District and
State conventions of the Party.
Democratic Meeting.
The Democracy will not fail to attend the county
meeting to-day at 12 \I., at the Court House. All
the supporters of our noble President, are cordially in
vited to attend, without reference to pass divisions. We
saw late Tuesday evening au anonimous hand bill post
ed through the city advising Union Democrats not to
attend the meeting. We do not know who is the au
thor of it, but presume it is a Whig trick • The true
democracy will all assemble on the occasion, and vve
j know that all will be welcomed.
Superior Court.
j
The Superior Court for Muscogee county commenced
its session in this city on Monday 9th inst., Judge
Iverson presiding. We understand that there are no
less than nine capital cases on the docket, and a large
number of Felonies. It is much to be hoped that the
docket will be cleared this time and even handed justice
meted out to violators of the law. We are informed,
however, that notwithstanding the ability and prompt
ness of the presiding officer, who has perhaps no supe
rior upon the bench in these respects, that this will not
be done ; such is the number and nature of the causes
set down for trial. This state of things gives plausibili
ty to the proposition, which is urged in many parts of
the State, to establish criminal courts with exclusive
jurisdiction over this class of cases. Perhaps a more
proper change would be the establishment of chancery
courts. This would relieve the superior courts from
very great labor and give them more time for the in
vestigation of such cases as properly fall under their
jurisdiction. The labors and jurisdiction of the judges
of the superior courts are now so large as to exceed the
capacity of almost any one man and gives perfect assu
rance that justice is in many eases hastily and partially
administered. We commend the subject to our next
legislature in the hope that such changes may be made
in our judicial system 83 the exigencies of the time re
quire.
We notice in attendance upon the court, besides the
able array of our resident bar, several distinguished
gentlemen from other circuits, among whom ar e Hon.
Robert Toombs and Hon. Alexander H. Stephens,
who find time from the arduous cares of politics, to at
tend to the interests of their friends and clients before
the Tribunals of justice. They are both looking well
| and seem in good tune to give the Democracy a hard
! fight in the coming elections. We hope our Dernocrat
j ic Achilles and Agamemnon will burnish up their ar
l mor for the battle, and not allow them to achieve a
bloodless victory.
Bishop of South Carolina.
Charleston, May 6. —The Rev. Thomas F. Davis,
of Camden, has this day been chosen Bishop of the
State of South Carolina, to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death of Bishop Gadsden. He was chosen on the
12th ballot.
Hon. John Bragg.
This gentleman has written a letter to Daniel Chan
dler, declining another nomination to Congress, on
the ground that ‘as things are now conducted in the
House of Representatives, I (he) am as little suited to
that body, as that body is to me (him).”
Col, Clemens.—A writer in the Mobile Tribune , says :
—“lt was stated In Montgomery that Col. Clemens
| had written a letter to a delegate from one of the nor
thern counties, stating that if the convention nomina
ted Winston for governor, he (Clemens) would run in
opposition. I will not vouch for the truth of this ; but
if true, it is thought Col. Winston will be under the
necessity of canvassing the State. Clemens reliance
will be on the whigs of the state, and such democrats
| as will not consider themselves bound by the action of
j their convention.”
We hope Clemens will take the race—it is all that is
j
I wanted to kill him.
Our next Governor. —We are authorised by Hon.
Alfred Iverson, to state that he is not a candidate for
the nomination for Governor, aud cannot consent to
the use of his name in this connection.
We do not regret this determination, for though we
know of no man in Georgia who could more certainly
unite the Democracy, and lead them to assured victory
in the coming eketion, or in whose hands the complica
ted interests of our great state would be more secure,
we think the Democracy have use for him in another
and more conspicuous theatre.
Military Spirit.— The Hon. Andrew J. Miller, of
Augusta, and late President of the Senate, is Captain
of a Military company ; and the Hon. Joseph W. Jack
son is a private in a company in Savannah, and turns
out with his musket, although he is a member of Con
gress.
The Norwegian Colony in Potter county, Pa., es
tablished by Ole Bull, already contains 700 inhabitants,
and owns 140,000 acres. Ole Bull has a superb Nor
wegian cottage there, and proposes to establish a poly
technic school, for the advancement of the arts and
sciences.
Mr. McKenzie’s motion in the Cauadian Parliament
for an address to the Queen, for tho liberation of the
Irish exiles, has been rejected by a vote of 26 to 32!
New England Methodists —Abolition.
In the stir of party politics, there is danger that the
Southern people will forget, or overlook the fact, that
the unnatural war upon their institutions is still kept up
with an energy and perseverance that is alike astonishing
and dangerous. Perseverance is the peculiar charac
teristic of the people of New England. They usually
have but one ruling idea and to the developement and
spread of it they devote their entire energies, and are
utterly indifferent as to the consequences. Defeat only
stimulates them to renewed effort. And the result is
that they become fanatical on every subject that agitates
the public mind.
The Methodist Church affords a very striking illus
tration of the foregoing propositions. The Abolition*
Fanaticism was unfortunately embraced by many ot the
preachers in the New England Conferences ; and though
they lost cash and influence on account of it, and were
repeatedly condemned by the General Conference of
the Church—they persevered until the whole Northern
Church was infected with their heresies, and resulted in
the division of “the body of Christ.” This great ca
lamity, however, had no other effect upon the original
movers in this agitation than to embolden them to take
higher ground against slave holders. They were orig
inally content to proscribe slave-holding preachers —
they now are attempting to excommunicate slave-hold
ing members, and thereby “‘purge the Church of the
sin of slavery.”
The following extract which we take from the New
York Herald will disclose the spirit and purposes of
the Methodist Abolitionists and will be read with interest.
NEW ENGLAND METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Ipswich, April 29, 1853.
The Conference Ant'rSlaveiy Society held its anniver
sary at the" Methodist church last evening. There was a
large audience present. Prayer was offered by R. W.
Allen, of the Providence Conference. After a brief, per
tinent speech by the President, Rev. I. J. P. Collier, he
introduced as the first speaker,
Rev. J. D. Bridge. —The only apology he had to of
fer for appearing so often on these anniversary occasions
was, that he formed a resolution some twenty years since,
that he would never refuse to speak for Christ and hu
manity, when called upon to do so, and that if his brethren
did not wisli to hear him speak they must not ask him. —
He claimed to be the constant and uncompromising friend
of the slave. lie was a Union man, too ; he went for his
country—the whole country —not right or wrong, but
however bounded. He commented on the resolutions
passed by our last annual Conference, recommending a
rule in our discipline prohibiting the receptioaof voluntary
slaveholders into the church, and excluding ailsuch there
from after a limited period. The time would come when
the church must either carry out those resolutions or re -
cede frm the position it had taken. It would never do
the latter. It had sworn eternal hate to slavery, and its
utter extermination has been decreed. What! make the
Church of Gud the home of oppression ! Never!
“Go preach as well
Os heaven refreshed by airs from hell ;
Os holy truth of falsehood born ;
Os virtue nursing open vice ;
Os devils planting Paradise.”
Rev. J. Porter was the next speaker. He stood there
for a different reason from the one assigned by the broth®
er that preceded him. lie spoke because he had refused
to do so for the last ten years. He deeply regretted that
he had not formed the same resolution that his brother
had twenty years ago.
He read se eral extracts from the Discipline, and ar
gued that the church was sound in its anti-slavery doc
trines ; and that its present rules, carried out, must ulti
mately drive slavery from the church. The Northern
portion of the church had been too anxious to retain slave
holders in its bosom. It had been the grief of his heart
that at the time of the separation the division lines had not
so run as to have cut them off
They had remained under the delusive idea that ag
itation would cease, and they could retain their slaves un
molested. But it could not be.
“Truce to oppression ?
Never! no never!”
Rev. L. D. Barrows, of Charlestown, was the last
speaker. He should make but a few remarks, and those
few would be upon this single point—that the present
time formed a most auspicious moment in this anti-slavery
enterprise. He first referred to the progress of our prin
ciples in the ehureli. Time was when only fourteen men
could be found in the General Conference that would
stand up for the anti-slavery doctrines. Well had
they been denominated the immortal fourteen, for they
would be remembered in time to come. But since then,
and much earlier than was then anticipated, a slaveholding
bishop had been met at the door of the church, and by the
j authoritative voice of the same body told that he could not
| enter. He also referred to the progress of anti-slavery
sentiments in the nation ; and dwelt with stirring clo
quence upon the actual workings of the system of slavery
as he had himself witnessed it at the South. The address,
though brief, was powerful and effective.
Hon, Howell Cobb.
The letter of this distinguished gentleman, advising
the Union party to rally and unite in harmonious action
under the banner of the national democracy, will be
found in another pait of this morning’s paper. It gives
us pleasure to commend the general tone and temper
of this able letier. Ilis manly avoidance of all discus
sion of the unfortunate dissensions which have hereto
fore divided our political friends in the South, and his
eloquent and energetic appeal in favor of a common un
ion upon one common platform in support of the admin
istration of President Pierce, cannot fail to command
the cordial approval of the country.— Washington Un
ion.
A chance for poor Authors.
Mr. Henry S. Fitch, of California, has offered a
premium of ten thousand dollars “for the most compre
hensive, thorough, and convincing treatises on the Pacific
and Atlantic Railway,” embrasing the treatment of the
following topics :
Ist. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Railway,
2d. The future trade of the Pacific and East Indies.
3d. The wealtli of California.
Mr. Fitch has deposited a bond for $20,000 in the
j office of the San Francisco Journal for the payment of
the premium.
Strawberries in Mobile.
IMora and Pomona sent us yesterday, through L. M.
M ilson, their choicest offerings. The gift of the former
was a bouquet of roses—the Washington and White
Japoniea both superb, red and white ; the latter the
most delicate and finely scented rose we have seen.—
Pomona’s present was two species of the strawberry—
Ilovey’s Seedling” and the “Washington”-—both very
fine, but the former surpassed any thing yet exhibited,
some of the berries measuring all of four inches in cir
cumference. We heard a friend, who has a love of a
place on the “Eastern Shore,” boasting the other day
of the enormous size of those produced in his garden,
but as yet they have wasted their sweets upon the de
sert air. He may think his berries perfection, but we
doubt whether even Adam, while he was permitted to
cultivate the garden of Eden, was ever rewarded with !
a sample equal to the above.— Mobile Tribune.
Dr. Ivittredge has been mulcted in $1,675 damages
by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, for bandaaimr
.t is alleged, too tightly, the arm of a boy, whereby
mortification ensued, rendering amputation necessary.
Col. P. Philips has been nominated for Congress in
the Mobile District by tho Democracy.
Terrible Rail Road Accident l
FIFTY TWO PERSONS KILLED—EIGHTEEN
WOUNDED.
Charleston, May 7th.—A terrible and most fatal
accident occurred to the railroad train coming South,
near Norfolk, last night. The draw bridge was left
open to admit of the passage of a steamer, and the train
was driven through. The locomotive, baggage car, and
two passenger ears, were precipitated into the river,
fifteen feet below the surface. The number of persons
ascertained to be killed and drowned by the accident, is
fifty two. Among the missing are E. and W r . Dunbar,
Esqrs., of Montgomery, Ala. There were alargenuvn
ber of physicians on the train, returning from the Na
tional Medical Society at New York. There were
eighteen persons wounded; among them Warren S.
Newall, of Georgia, who had his ankle badly broken.
Accident on the Macon and Western Railroad.
Macon, May 6.—The down freight train on the
Macon and Western Railroad to day, while at Hill’s,
just above Collier’s Station, came in contact with a bull
and was thrown off the track. One fireman was killed,
and the engine and nearest cars materially damaged.
Another Rail Road Accident. —The Boston train
ran off the track near Taunton, to-day, throwing the
passenger car down an embankment. No person,
fortunately, was killed, but two passengers were severe
ly injured.
The Norwalk Disaster. —The latest accounts from
Norwalk, Conn., state that another dead body had been
found, and that fifteen unrecognized bodies were lying
at the station house.
Burglary.
We are informed that a man named Johnson and a
negro fellow belonging to Wm. Perry, have been ap
prehended on the charge of having committed a burgla
ry in Mr. Lvnah’s store, on Saturday night, 7th inst.
Nathaniel Terry.
This gentleman was recommended to the President
as Consul to Havana by the Democratic State “-conven
tion, which lately assembled in Montgomery, Ala. He
is a man of strong will and heavy hand, and if he is
appointed consul, the minions of Spanish despotism who
domineer over the beautiful Island of Cuba, would be
made to respect the rights and persons of American
citizens.
Mississippi State Convention. —The Democratic
State Convention of Mississippi, to nominate State offi
cers, met at Jackson on Monday 2d inst., and organized
by the election of W. R. Cannon, of Lowndes county,
as President, and D. N. Barrows, as Secretary.
The following nominations were made:
For Governor, Jno. J. Mcßae.
” Attorney-General, D. C. Glenn.
” Secretary of State, W. H. Muse.
” Auditor, Madison McAfee.
For Congress for the State at large,
Wm. Barksdale, of Lowndes co.
The other candidates for Congress to be nominated
by District Conventions.
In the Third District, O. R Singleton, of Madison
county, has been nominated.
Challenge to Turfmen. —The following challeugo
| appears in the New York Spirit of the Times:
Columbia, S. C., March 25, 1853.
j I will run my colt Highlander, three years old, over
| the Lafayette Course at Augusta, Ga., at the next au
i nual meeting in January, 1854, on Monday of the race
I week, against any horse, mare, or gelding in the Uni
| ted States, three or four mile heats, for five or ten
j thousand dollars, one half forfeit •, the forfeit to be pla
! ced in any of the banks in Augusta, Ga. The above
! challenge is open until the first day of June. If it is
! accepted, address R. D. Glover, Augusta, Ga., who
will deposit the forfeit.
Thomas Purvear,
Laborers Wanted. —J. G. Dent & Cos., of Chatta
nooga, wish to employ three hundred Irish laborers on
the W estern and Atlantic Railroad.
I
Judicial Election. —Hon. Nat. Cook has been elec
ted Judge of the Dallas Circuit, Ala.
COMMUNICATIONS
For the Times & Sentinel.
| Agricultural Convention of the Slaveholding
States.
Messrs. Editors : —As your readers would like to
know something of the doings of this body, I avail my
self of a few moments’ leisure to give a short sketch of
its proceedings. Agreeably to previous notice, the del
egates assembled at Montgomery, on Monday the 2d of
May. The assemblage was not large, but composed
of the highest order of intellect, which the South or
any other country can boast—representing the interest
of most of the Southern States. The delegates assem
bled in the Representative Chamber of the Capitol, and
were very appropriately called to order by Gov. Collier,
of Alabama. Dr. Wm. C. Daniell, of Georgia, was
called to the chair, when, after a very able address upon
j the slaveholding interest, and the position of master and
j slave, a committee of 13 was appointed to report busi
ness for the Convention. Gov. Gilmer, of Georgia,
was elected President, and Col. Young, of Mississippi,
and Dr. Daniell, of Georgia, Vice Presidents ; Dr. N.
B. Cloud, of Alabama, Secretary. The committee re
ported a Constitution, whioh was adopted by the Con- <
vention. On Tuesday, the Convention assembled to
hear the reports of the various committees, and to listen
to an address from Joseph Cobb, Esq., of Mississippi, ,
upon the Cotton interest of the South ; and well was
every delegate paid for all the distance he had traveled,
in listening to that beautiful address. A more eloquent
and chaste piece of oratory, I never heard from the lips
of man. Among the reports of the various committees,
was one recommending each slave holding State to es
tablish a college, where all the sciences connected with >
agriculture shall be taught, with a model farm attached, j
adapted to the labor, climate and soil of the south.—
This [ look upon as the most important feature of the
Convention. Imagine for a moment, each slaveholding j
State, with a college of a high order, in which all the
elements of southern life are taught, science brought j
into practice, skill instilled into labor, and where south- j
ern youth may be taught on southern soil. Something
of the tenure of their lease of life as connected with the ,
earth and its productions. On Tuesday evening,
the Convention assembled to hear a lecture from Robt.
Nelson, of Macon, Ga., on Fruits, and their culture at
the south, which was listened to with profound atten
tion, and gave much valuable information. After va
rious subjects connected with the interests of the south
had been fully discussed, Col. Chambers, of the “ Soil
of the South” was called upon, when he gave a short
address upon the Agricultural Press, which was well
tuned, and happily delivered, and made a very sensi
ble impression on that intelligent audienoe of the utility
and importance of the Agricultural Press. Col. Cbam- ;
bers closed- with a beautiful appeal to the memory of i
the departed Skinner, the father and founder of the
Agricultural Press. On Wednesday, the Convention
assembled to receive various reports of committees, and
to listen to an address from the Hon. Robert Toombs,
of Georgia, upon the Agricultural interests of the south.
, There were those that doubted whether Mr. Toombs
could speak without bringing politics into his speech,
but their doubts were soon vanished by the thunder gusts
( his patriotio homestead eloquence. Every individual
[ j felt that it was good to be there, and every tiller of
i j southern soil felt proud that lie was a southern farmer.
, j It would bo impossible for me to describe Mr. Toombs’
j speech ; it was a tumbling cataract, carrying couvic
! tion with it. He drew such a picture of the productive
ness of the south, and the folly of confining ourselves to
. one culture; that opened the eyes of some of the know
. ing ones. “Raise everything you consume,” he says,
‘‘and after that, just as much cotton as you please—
” fear not to glut the markets of the world—and then if
: you have the moral courage of the Russians, you mav
, make a bon fire of your cotton crop, which would set all
1 Europe in a blaze.” Col. Toombs won golden opin
, ions from fill sorts of men. The evening session was
occupied in the report and recommendations of com
mittees. I had forgotten to mention that Professor
1 Tourney of Tuscaloosa, delivered a lecture upon the
! connection of Geology and Chemistry with Agriculture,
which was probably more instructive than any one
of the addresses, but as the addresses are to be published,
you will have an opportunity of reading them. The ut
most harmony and good feeling prevailed. It would
have done you good to have seen Virginia, greet Mis
sissippi, Florida, greet Tennessee, and as to Georgia and
Alabama, they are but one famiiy any how.
The Convention adjourned Wednesday evening, to
meet at Columbia, S. C., during the session of the next
, State Agricultural Soeiety. The citizens of Montgome
ry gave the Convention a grand entertainment Wednes
day night, to close with, and the members separated,
each to his home, delighted and encouraged .at the pros
pects dawning upon Southern Agriculture.
a Looker on.
IFOR THE TIMES &, SENTINEL.]
Charles J. Munnerlyn, of Decatur.
As it has become fashionable to suggest the
names of candidates in advance, allow me to
follow the example of others, and suggest the
gentleman, whose name precedes this article,
as every way worthy and qualified to become
the nominee of the Democratic party for Con
! gress in this District. He is a gentleman of a
high order of talents, a good speaker, and a
sound, reliable Democrat. His personal popu
larity is equal to that of any other gentleman
in the lower part of the District. He is a par
ticular favorite with the Democracy of Decatur,
was in 1849 the Democratic candidate for the
| Senate from Decatur and Thomas, where the
! Whig majority was 250, and he was defeated
by a very few votes. He was one of the dele
gation from Georgia to the last Presidential
Convention, is no office seeker, but I imagine
ready at all times to do his duty, and is just such
a man as the people would like to nominate. He
1 is a Planter, and would be a fit Representative
ot the Planting interest, both as to his identity
with it, and his superior qualifications as a man.
A Baker County Democrat.
Great Storm at Palermo* JVdlv.
New Y ogK, May 8.
Late accounts from Palermo, Italy, state, that
a great storm prevailed at that place, from the
sth to the 13th of April. So destructive were
its effects, that it is believed that not more than
two thirds of a crop of fruit will be saved.
The Difficulty in Montgomery.
The following account of the fight between Mr. II
W. Hilliard and Mr, J. S. Winter is taken from a
communication of the former to the Alabama Journal.
The paper containing Mr. Winter’s statement has fail
ed to reach us. Mr. Hilliard, after some preliminary
i remarks explaining his connection with the case of St.
John vs. Winter, et. al., and giving an account of a
correspondence which occurred between himself and
Winter, says :
Having taken tea with my friend, Col. Thor
ington, I left bis house between 8 and 9 o’clock
in the evening, and called at the Madison
House to make a visit. As I entered it, I obser
ved J. S. Winter seated in the passage. After
a brief visit, I left the house, descending by the
i front entrance, through which I had come up,
and as I reached the corner of the building 1
observed J. S. Winter pass down the stele en
trance, which opens on Perry street. I walked
’ down the principal street, intending to call at the
i office of Messrs, Moss& Clanton, which is di
! rectly over the store of the Messrs. Bell, i
stood looking up to see if there were lights in
j the office before ascending the stairs. At this
! moment, J. S. Winter and Abram Giudrat came
! rapidly walking up to where I was standing.—
I There 1 stood alone, wholly unarmed, without
even a cane in my hand. J. S. Winter was
armed with the dangerous weapon which he
habitually carries—a heavy steel rod, with a
knob for the hand, and sharpened at the point—
a weapon which has been prohibited even in
Cuba, and which ought to be prohibited in eve
ry civilized community. What other weapons
j he had I do not certainly know.
Upon coming up to me, he bade me good
’ evening, and then asked, “Do you intend to
| make any explanation about that speech ?” 1
replied, “No, sir ; and you can’t talk to me
upon that subject.” At the same moment I
turned away, intending to enter the store ol
j Messrs. Bell, seeing no lights in the office I
Messrs. Moss & Clanton. Immediately 1 n
ceived a violent blow from Winter’s steel rod.
I at once called to Mr. Rogers, a young gentle
man in the employ of the Messrs. Bell, for some
thing “to defend myself against this ruffian.’’—
Mr. Rogers presently handed me a light stick,
used to lower the awning; with this I return- 1
ed to the door, and I saw neither Winter no:
Gindrat. I tliencalled for something more efi'ec
tive [for defence. A sword cane was handed tome,
I passed out of the door with it, and in attempt
ing to draw the sword, the head of the cane
shivered in my hand. Winter had disappeaied. I
Prooeeding up the street which 1 had just pau
sed down, as far as the corner opposite ?
“Madison House,” I saw nothing ot Winter, I
and I then called upon Col. Thonngton to |
counsel with him, taking in my way Mr.
Whiting, who was kind enough to accompany
me. Returning to the office of Messrs. Moss
and Clanton, I met Abram Gindrat on my w
and"recapitulating f every thingjthat had occur
red, I drew from him a full and satisfactory
admission of the circumstances attending the
assault upon me.