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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 153.
FOR GOVERNOR.
lIERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON.
WEEKLY TIMES AND SENTINEL,
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
Anxious to do our part ill preserving the liberties of
the people, and the institutions of the South, by elevat
ing to office in evorv department of the Government,
good and true Democrats, who will insist upon a rigid
adherence to the Constitution, we offer the
WEEKLY TIMES AND SENTINEL.
for cash in advance, as follows :
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One copy till 2d week in October, 50
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Fifty copies, “ “ “ 15 00
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We are just entering upon a canvass in which a
Governor, members of Congress, members of the Leg
islature, Judges of the Superior Courts, and a United
States Senator will be elected. Every man in Georgia
is deeply interested in the result. The contest will,
therefore, be n stirring one, and afford abundant mate
rial for thought and discussion.
We will spare no labor to make our paper the vehi
cle of the fullest information upon all points discussed,
and the earliest and most reliable news from all points
of the State during the canvass.
Every eitizefris interested in the political opinions of
his neighbor. His vote affects his life, liberty and
property.
We will devote our entire energies to the advocacy
of the claims of the Democratic candidates, under the
full conviction that the freedom of the States and the
preaervation of the Union are involved in the success o{
Democratic principles.
The New Party—Mr. Toombs’ Speech.
On Wednesday night last, the lion. Robert Toombs
addressed a large and attentive audience in Temperance
Hall, in support of the Platform of principles erected by
him at Milledgeville, at the late Whig Gubernatorial
Convention. The speech was an able one, and was
well received by all parties, lie denounced both the
Whig and Democratic National organizations as cor
rupt, and this may in part account for the very kind
reception given to the speech. When the eloquent
speaker “woke up” the Democracy the applause was
“uprourLus,” but as he m§de it a principle throughout
his discourse to strike right and left and give the Whigs
a blow immediately after he had done with the Demo
crats, the latter took up the applause of the Whigs be
fore it died away, and paid them back in their own coin
——good measure, pressed down, shaken together and
running over. The scene was ludicrous, if not instruc
tive.
Wo will not attempt to give even a synopsis of Mr.
Toombs’ remarks. We will, however, glance at some
of his positions. He took for his starting point the cor
ruptions of both the old Whig and Democratic parties.
He denounced Internal Improvements, excessive tariffs
and the wasteful extravagance of the Federal Govern
ment in language as broad as was ever applied to them
by a Calhoun Democrat. He apprehended great dan
ger to the South from the continued agitation of the i
■lavery question at the North and from the meddlesome
interference of foreign powers. There was now', he |
said, no danger to the Union; that was secured by the i
compromise; but there was stiirmuch danger to the j
South, and he would not consent to disband the Geor
gia platform party until her rights were secured. lie
therefore called on Whigs and Democrats, Union men
and Southern Rights men, to join him in this good work,
and pledged himself never to desert the flag until victo
ry perched upon the standard.
In reply to the charge of being sectional, he said, “no
man could be sectional w ? ho stood upon constitutional
principles,” and thereby, in our humble judgment, ac
quitted the Southern Rights Party of all error in their
earnest endeavors to save the South from ruin by main
taining at all hazards her constitutional rights.
He very warmly commended President Pierce’s In
augural, and still acknowledged that the sentiments
therein expressed met his cordial approbation. Presi
dent Pierce, however, had forfeited the confidence of
the South by appointing Free Seilers to office, both at
home and abroad. He made the bold declaration, that
every one of our Foreign Ministers were committed to
the extermination of slavery, except Soule, and him he
denounced as a French Red Republican. We are w ill
ing to allow’ very great latitude to a stump speaker, but
■uch a broad assertion as the one above referred to
would better become a cross-road politician whose igno
tance would excuse him, than the Senator of Georgia.
Surely no sane man believes that James Buchanan is
an abolitionist, or is in the least infected with abolition
fanaticism.
He attempted to palliate his support of Fillmore’s ad
ministration by asserting that he denounced and disap
proved of his Free Soil appointments. If this is a good
excuse in his mouth, it will surely acquit the supporters
of Pierce of all blame—especially when it is recollected
that Fillmore had three Free Soiiers in his cabinet to
Pierce’s one, and the same excess in all the other offi
ces in the gift of the President. But we must beg
leave to say if that Mr. Toombs did denounce Mr. Fill
more’s administration for any thing of the sort, lje must
have chosen a very retired place for this exercise, as we
have never before heard of it, and we presume it would
be news to Fillmore, for whose nomination to the Pres
idency, we understand, Mr. Tcombs was a very zealous
advocate.
Upon the whole, however, we were much pleased
with Mr. Toombs’ speech. We differ with him in
many of his specifications, but entirely concur with him
in every general principle laid down by him. Indeed,
his speech was but anew edition abridged of the speech
es of Southern Rights men during the exciting canvass
upon the compromise ]ssues. We bid him, therefore,
- God speed in his noble task of infusing sound Southern
Rights principles into the minds and hearts of his fob
lowers. It he shall succeed, we mav hope that, in the
uture conflict which is sore to arise between the Federal
Government and tl.e South on the question of slavery,
Georgians will all be united i„ ,l le defence of their
altars and firesides.
Mr. fv)ombs occupies a very commanding position
Wore tho oogntry. If he will boneativ, and in good
fatth, place humelf in the lead of Southern sentiment;
.. * Wl ‘h® fnl! measure of £ outhern Rights;
* T W * °Ppose twrifig, whether protective or exces
’ 1 otarrial Improvement by the Federal Govern
ment, all wasteful expenditures, either of land or money j
—if be will stand upon State Rights and there battle for 1
our homes and firesides, he will take the place of Cal
houn, and rally to his standard every honest and true
man in the South. God grant that he may have the
virtue to tread this rugged road. Before, however,he
can ■ccupy this lofty eminence he must free his mind
from the bias of party prejudice, and all the hollow and
deceitful arts of the demagogue and pursue truth for the
: love of it, and loose himself in his devotion to his coun
try. The leader of the South must rise above the sus
| picion of selfish considerations. It will require time to
enable him to accomplish this great work. His antece
dents are not calculated to inspire public confidence.
To him and his colleague, A. 11. Stephens, are we in
debted for the defeat of the Clayton compromise. They
then took the high ground that the Mexican law abol
ishing slavery must be repealed before they would con
sent to the establishment of Territorial Governments in
the territory acquired from Mexico. But they forfeited
j all the confidence which these lofty pretensions inspired,
by sanctioning the compromise—by the bitter hostility
which they cherished for the Southern Rights party—
j and by their support of Fillmore’s administration. Their
object was the success of their party, and not the safety
of the South. It is now feared that Mr. Toombs has
been driven upon Southern ground by the hopeless de
feat and dismemberment of the Whig party, especially
at the South, and that he only designs by his present
lofty pretensions to carry the election in Georgia in
October. We hope better things,
j The meeting went oft* well until the close. —
After Mr. Toombs sat dowm a zealous Whig arose
and proposed three cheers for Charles J, Jen
kins. One voice cried out, “whoo-vve,” and a
dead silence settled over the audience. The old
gentleman w'as much astonished at his reception, and
gradually sunk to his seat, mumbling, “I believe it is a
failure. ” Whether he designed his remark to apply to
; his proposition, the speech of Mr Toombs, or the nomi
■ nation of Jenkins, we are not called on to determine.
We think it applicable to all.
A Screw Loose.
The disruption and tumbling to pieces of the old
Whig party of Georgia, which is now taking place at
the command of its masters, Messrs. Toombs and Ste
phens, uttered at the Milledgeville Convention, last
week, presents some curious points for reflection, as
well as amusement. Just to think of the great Whig
party —the handiwork of the fiery and eloquent Clay,
and the profound and massive Webster—stabbed to death
in “the house of its friends and falling without a
groan of regret or a struggle of resistance from one of
its friends—and the deed done publicly, the dagger
| driven home by the Siamese Twins of Whiggery in the
| Capitol of the State of Georgia. Why, sirs, the death
!of Caesar, in the Senate House, was nothing to it; and
poor old superannuated and decrepid Whiggery keels
| over and gives up the ghost, like some brute beast
I knocked on the head ; without the courage to wrap its
| mantle around it to die with dignity—or the spirit to
I exclaim, El Tu, Bob and Aleck !
They killed it “dead —stone-dead, sir,” as old Bul
lion says. Witness the following resolution of the Con
vention that nominated Mr. Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins
who composed the “Georgia platform” of 1850, and
the Algerine Law of an earlier date :
Resolved, That in the of this Convention, both
the Whig and Democratic parties of the United States
have been faithless to their oft repeated pledges of economy
in the expenditure of the public money, and that we view
with great alarm and disapprobation the partial, unefual
and unjust appropriation of the public lands to internal
improvements in particular States, and of a local charac
ter ; and of the public money to wild, reckless and gigantic
schemes ofinternai improvement, intended for the promotion
of particular interests lather than the general benefit of those
wno bear the burthen of Taxation.
Is not this a murder “most foul”—is it not a bloody
putting to death of the political mammy at whose breast
Whiglings for twenty years have tugged, until having
become as dry as a powder horn, this horrid matricide
has been perpetrated ?
But it seems that this deed was unexpected by some
of the faithful Whigs—or at least, they were not let
into the secret of the purposes of the Imperial brothers.
I For on the 7th inst., at a Whig party meeting in Baker
j county, of this State, we read some resolutions, expressing
1 the utmost reverence for and an unbounded attachment
! to the dear old Whig mother, who had done so much
! in times past, and to whom they yet looked for the
j regeneration and salvation of the country. Can you
fancy the cruel sufferings of these Baker county Whigs
j when they find that the object of their idolatry has been
! slaughtered by the high Priests who have longest offi
! dated at its altars l Read these resolutions and com
pare them with those at Milledgeville—and tell us, do
these two conventions belong to the same party ; or is
the Whig party really no moie ?
The following Preamble and Resolutions were then read
and unanimously adopted by the meeting:
Whereas, we as a portion of the Whig Party of Baker
county, adopt this occasion to express our continued faith
in the principles and measures of the Whig Party, and our
determination to abide and support those measures in the
I approaching campaign for Governor and members to Con
; giess, from this district.
And Whereas, we regard the principles of that party
as sound, conservative and national, tending to the pre
servation of our Union as it l?. the ]>rosperiiy and equali
zation of all classes, and the promotion of peace through
out the whole civilized world.
Resolved, Therefore that we will cheerfully and heartily
support the nominees of the Whig Paity for Governor, and
! Congress from this district, by the respective Conventions
for the purposes aforesaid ,
In the meantime, we beseech the new party that has
sprung up like a Phoenix from the blood and ashes of
departed and slaughtered Whiggery, to agree upon a
handle tu its name. We must have something to call
it by, and know it bv. We cannot call it “a portion of
the people of Georgia, who,” <fee., Arc., for a half col
umn in a newspaper. We cannot call it the “Jenkins
party.” It would be mournful and sepulchral to call it
the “Toombs party.” The “Stephens party” won’t do,
for it signifies nothing ; they will be angry, if we call it
the “Algeriue party ’ —-the “conservative party” is a
title only adapted by a few of them, and, the truth is,
the sponsors forgot to name the brat—and here it is be
fore the world, a wandering little animal—a stranger
begging every body to “take it in”—a “Japhet in
search of a father.” Won't somebody christen the \
thing l Its friends have the first right to give it a name
—if they do not exercise it, its enemies—the foes of
humbug, deceit and hypocrisy—will be very apt to dis
cover a suitable patronymic for it.
It is a little curious that we find these two sets of
resolutions side by side in the columns of the last En- •
quirer —presenting quite as remarkable and unique a
contradiction as that of the Editorial of our neighbor in :
the same paper, “pitching into” the disunionists, in |
amicable juxtaposition to that other resolution of its
Milledgeville convention, squinting awfully at a South
ern Rights flurry and disunion rumpus. Really, our j
neighbor will have to “mend his lick,” and get anew
set of pip< s; and we trow, the public will be gainers
by it, for that bagpipe squeak of his about a “shattered
union,” &e., &e t , has become terribly monotonous and
tirefcome.
The Rail Road to Eufaula,
| We learn from the Spirit of the South that the
town council of Eufaula has subscribed $20,000 to the
Railroad connecting that place with the Girard Rail j
road. Some time since we learned that $60,000 had
been subseribered by private individuals in the town
alone. This is a good beginning. Now is the time for
our city and citizens to act. Many of our wealthiest
citizens have plantations below. If proper exertions are
made by our Eufaula friends, we are satisfied that they
would all make very liberal subscriptions. We there
fore suggest, that a committee be appointed to solicit
! aid in this noble enterprise. No time ough! to be lost, i
I ns many of our citizens will leave very shortly for the j
1 North.
We presume the road will either ruu by Glennville
to Villula, or along the banks of the liver up to Fort
Mitchell—and that the amount subscribed along either
route will determine the location. We believe one |
j hundred thousand dollars could be raised in this city
alone for the liver route. Let Glennville, therefore,
! look to her interests, or she will inevitably be passed by, |
and a rival town be built on the road which will un- j
dermine her prosperity.
Criminal Causes.
The State, vs. Neal, a slave, the property of Chas.
i Fisher. —Murder.
‘ This cause came on for trial on Wednesday last.
The Solicitor General for the State, and Messrs. A. Me
; Dougala and R. Emmett Dixon, Esqrs., for the defence.
Neal was charged with the murder of Philip, a slave,
the property also of Chas. Fisher. After a full and
patient investigation of the cause, the jury returned a 1
, verdict of “Guilty of Manslaughter.” The punishment
annexed to the offence is whipping and branding.
i
Ist District.
Mr. Bartow declines being a candidate for Congress •
| in the Ist Congressional District.
Hamden’s Express.
We are indebted to Mr. Fotts, the agent of Ilarn- |
den’s Express, for New York papers in advance of the |
j mail. He will please accept our thanks for his courte- ;
j s y*
The Hot Weather. —We observe by our exchanges
l that the weather has been unusually warm in the
Northern and Western cities. A dispatch from Cin
cinnati says the thermometer, at 3 o'clock on Monday 1
afternoon, 20th, stood at 100 in the shade in that city, j
and ranged from 88 to 0(5 during all of last week. At :
Wheeling, on the same day, it rose to 98 ; at Pittsburg ‘
ito 90, and at Boston to 93 degrees In Philadelphia, j
at noon on Tuesday 21st., it stood at 9(5, and it is stated j
would have gone up as high as 100 had not a good
j breeze of wind prevailed. In New York, on the j
! same day, the thermometer was up to 90, which was j
I 9 degrees higher then on the same day last year, :
I and more oppressive and suffocating than any 2lst of
June for the lost ten years. At Harrisburg, Pa ,on
Monday and Tuesday, the thermometer ranged from
95 to 98 deg. At Hagerstown, Md-, on Monday, the
I thermometer ranged from 90 to 99, and at Frederick,
! Md., from 95 to 100 cUg.
The Government and ns. —A reliable au- j
thority in Washington communion he welcome in- j
j telligence that the President has reo tly expressed his j
I determination to act promptly and ent. tieally in the j
matter of the removal of the remnant of Seminoles now !
remaining in the Peninsula of this Stale. The gallant
Harney.it is thought, will be dispatched to Florida if
his services elsewhere can oe dispensed with. The
i Government could not make a better selection for this |
! difficult and delicate service.— Floridian dr Journal.
\ j
Opinions of the Press. —The nomination is a good j
i one—a better could not have been made. Judge John
| son is well and favorably known to the people ofGeor-
I gia as a man of talent and ability. A more reliable!
man there is not in the whole State. lie is eminently j
qualified for the Chief Magistracy of the State, and :
| will, if elected, discharge the duties of the Executive
j Office with eminent success.— West Point Beacon.
i It is stated on the ruthority of private letters, :
j that Mrs. Ives, the wife of Dr. L. S. Ives, lately Bish- j
. op of North Carolina, will return home with her broth
er, Dr. Hobart, he having received notice from the !
1 Pope, that Dr. Ives would be ordained priest in the j
summer, and could no longer be considered her bus- !
band.— Delta.
j
i OO* By his card in the Georgian of yesterday, we
perceive that Joseph Ganahl, Esq., has retired from
j his editorial connection with that paper. Mr. Ganahl
enters upon the practice of tbe T>aw. a pursuit which,
i we trust, he may find mote lucrative and pleasant than
; the arduous one he has left.— Sac. Aews.
lUF Hon. Voinov E. Howard, formerly of Mississippi,
and late a member of Congress from Texas, has been
1 appointed by the President, Law Agent to represent
the Government of the United States before the Board
of Land Commissioners of Cal fornia.
Filibusters. —The following mysterious telegraph
! dispatch appears in the New Orleans papers :
Head of the Passes , June 22.—Two suspicious ves
sels, armed to the teeth, left the Head of the Passes at
2 o’clock this afternoon, and went to sea.
The Vote for the City Subscription.
The vote of the real estate holders on Monday
in favor of the subscription of-$500,000 to the
Gulf Railroad, was overwhelming—in fact, ap
proaching nearly to unanimity. The vote in the
several wards was,
For the subscription .... 18,171
Against it 650
17.521
Such was the general certainty of its adoption,
that many of those in favor of it, and to whom
the attendance at the polls was inconvenient from
other engagements, did not take the trouble to
vote.
The condition of the subscription is, that an
equal sum of $500,000 should he raised in Ala
bama. Os this, $200,000 has been taken by
citizens’ private stock, and 8200,000 by the
Montgomery and West Point Railroad, leaving
but SIOO,OOO to be supplied to make the million.
Os this sum the guaranties are ample, and the
Directors will commence work at once. These
arrangements are such as will enable them to
prosecute their work with great rapidity, and in
the course of sixteen months the iron horse will
make its winged, continuous flight between this
point and the Gulf in six hours. We have never
seen more enthusiasm in auv project, o a more
determined spirit put ir through at once.
[Aft/, Journal.
To the Hon. Robert Toombs.
Dear Sir : — Circumstances beyond my control de
prived me of the pleasure of hearing your speech at Tem
perance Hall, Columbus, on the night of the 29th June,
but I have conversed with many who heard it, and they
all agreed that had it been delivered in 1850, it would
have been the best Southern Rights speech of the memo
rable campaign in which you and your colleague did such
valliant battle against our party.
In 1850, the great battle fought by Southern Democ
racy was misunderstood by the masses, and this misunder
j standing was in a great degree attributable to the fact,
that you and your colleague, A. 11. Stephens, induced
1 the people to believe that our object was to dissolve the
j Union, when in truth, it was on our part an effort to save
the Union by preserving the rights of the Southern section.
We believed that their violation and the perpetuity of the
Union were inconsistent, that unless the l ights of the
South were vindicated from the misrule of the hour, that
I sooner or later, a separation must inevitably take place;
we believed that the safety of the South was dependent
upon itself, and that it could only unite in its own de
fence by a total separation from both of the National par
ties. You believed that to form a sectional party was to
array the North against us, dissolve the confederacy and
entail ruin upon ourselves and posterity. You pointed
us to the national arm for safety, we preferred io rely up.-,
on ourselves; you appeared before the people, and the;
burden of your song was the Eulogy of Fillmore and Web
ster, and tiie deep and bitter hatred ol Calhoun, whose j
| principles you are now endeavoring to inculcate into the I
; minds of your hearers.
You say now, that you will never support any National
: party that appoints Free sobers and Abolitionists to of- i
fiee. You, who two years since supported Fillmore’s
administration with Tom Corwin au unblushing Free
soiler in tiis cabinet. Fillmore 1 owing his own political
; elevation to the undoubted evidences of Freesoilism that
• marked his whole political course. At a later period _ou
! advocated Webster’s nomination tor the Presidency, well
J knowing that he boasted of no prouder claim to political
! distinction than his consistent opposition to the admission
! of an additional inch of slave territory to our National do
| mail), and only waived the Wilmot Proviso in the Mexico
| and Utah bills, because de believed the country unfitted
| for slave labor, and that the insertion of the Proviso
| would be to inflict an unnecessary insult upon the South.
1 With these antecedents, you may very well imagine that
your present course is looked upon with more or less sur
prise by those who yet smart under the bitter denuncia”
I tion which you were pleased in no measured terms to lav-
I isb upon them for the advocacy of the very doctrines which
| you to-day proclaim to be proper for the adoption of the
| South. It is to be regretted that you had not brought your
! powerful influence to their support, when two-thirds of the
! Democrats and a respectable minority of the Whigs had al
‘ ready abandoned all National organizations, dropped all par
! ty distinctions, and rallied as one man to the formation of a
| new party, whose first object should be to protect the
! rights of the South in the Union, never for a moment
! contemplating its dissolution, unless the extreme measure
I should be rendered necessary by the fact appearing that
j in the Union these rights could no longer be maintained.
I If you are sincere in your present position, as I truly
I hope you are, it must be a matter of deep regret to you to
know that you have driven into a National organization
thousands who with their lives would have sustained the
platform upon which you now stand.
Would you denounce Democrats for going back to their
party allegiance when you used your successful efforts to
prevent a majority of the State from uniting as a party in
dependent of either of the National political organiza
tions. Surely not ; they tried to form au independent party.
1 You and your friends defeated them, and left them in the
J presidential election the alternative of voting for Scott or
• Fierce ; you did not vote for either, nor did I. You would
| have voted for Webster or Fillmore, and in doingso, let me
j ask you v. on which of their antecedents you would have
! predicate* n opinion that they would not have endanger
ied the Uni by appointing Free Soiiers and Abolitionists
! to office ?
That they would have been more southern than Frank
j lin Pierce, when you review your course for the last two
| years', I think that you will allow that it. requires eonsid
! erable faith to rely upon your sincerity ; yet, sir, 1 for one,
I and I know there are many others in this county Whigs
j and Democrats who desire to join just sue h a party as that
i which you profess to advocate, but we are a little fearful
I that after we have joined, you may change your opinions
; and leave us the rank and file without a leader. This you
! will * admit. I say the least of it, would be to us an
awkward predicament., to it is our present position, the great
Southern Rights Party of which we were zealous members
: have left us with its principles while the party iseif don
| ning the Democratic uniform revels at the National feast,
j Our great object was not disunion but the formation of a
! party that would see Southern Rights vindicated. We be- ;
lieved and still believe that if the South would unite upon
such ground that there is a conservative minority at the
North, in combination, large enough to control the govern
ment and bring it back to its proper sphere, the equal pro
: lection and advancement of ti e interest of all sections of
tho United States, withhout regard to the lattitude of
j its location or the domestic institutions that it may approve
or condemn. Then,sir, all that we want to know iswheth
| es you (of course we cannot expect you to answer for oth- \
1 ers) stand pledged to oppose every National party that will
i not give assurance of maintaining the Milledgeville reso
j lotions ; if so thert; are many of ns who will fight under
\ your banner so long as you adhere to your present pro
-1 session.” A SOUTHERN RIGHTS MAN.
The Meeting at Brunswick.
We learn that the meeting of Ihe stockholders
of the Brunswick and Florida Rail Road Company,
on the 23d inst,, was numerously attended by Dele
gates from Baker, Thomas, Lowndes, Ware, Clin
ch, Wayne, and other counties. The amount of
stock subscribed is about $1,700,000, of which $1 ,-
300,0(0 was represented. The Georgia subscrip
tions were increased during (lie meeting sllO,-
000.
No doubt seems to exist now in regard to the comjj
pletion of the work. miles of the track have
been graded ; and the iron, a heavy T rail, nas been
laid upon five miles. The contractors pledge them
selves to have thirty miles of the road, as far as the
Satilla river, completed by the Ist of January.
The planters of Lowndes, Thomas. Clinch and;
Baker, we learn, have agreed io grade the road
through their respective counties,-and to take stock
notes in payment for the work. Twenty-four nnles
of the road were let upon these conditions during
the past week, and we are ii formed that the entire
line will be placed under contract at an early day.
The Cana! will be completed in about sixty days.
After which time, the force now employed upon j
that work will be transferred to th road.— Sov. I
Courier.
Pickens county, Alabama, is picking a fu
rious quarrel with M'\ Hewlett, a Temperance lec
turer. The ‘Tuscaloosa Monitor states that the
latter is charged with having asserted, in one of
his lectures in Athens, Georgia, that of ail creation,
Pickens county was the place that the Creator had
taken the least pains in making. He further asserted
that he was present at a session of the Ci cuit Court
in that couty, w hen (to quote Mr. Hew lett’s words
as alleged) “the judge, jury an** lawyers, ail were
drunk- ’ Justice, lie said, was proverbially blind,
but in Pickens she was moreover blind drunk. He
is said to have made sundry other charges against
the reputation of the county, all of which are re
garded as downright slanders-, inasmuch as h is said
to be a well ascertained fact that upon the occasion
alluded to, the whole of the jury were not drunk,
and some of the lawyers were known to have gone
home sober !
03“A few daysago in the eastern district of
Maine a woman was elected by the people, Register
of Deeds, in place < f irl Coomb, deceased. Her op
ponent was a democrat named Sylvester He re
ceived 205 votes r Miss Olive Rose 459, and scat
tering 40. This is going it piaeticallr on the
Bloomer principle.
Capt. Abercrombie—The Macon Republican
and the Spirit of the South,
There is so much good sense and genial humor
in the following article that we transfer it entire
to our columns and cordially commend it to otu
Alabama readers:
[From tlic Spirit of the South,!
Let ’em Wriggle.
The Macon Republican has been engaged for eev.
eral weeks in cutting a series of preposterous an
tics, which throw the most brilliant feats of ground
and lofty tumbling and the most astounding sports
of the ring quite into the shade. First, it was pro
foundly mortified at the course of Capt. Abr icrom
bie in refusing a whig nomination and predicted hi*
certain defeat. Then however it concluded to make
a virtue of necessity and hoist his name. But the
next week his name had disappeared and the anxious
public v\ etc informed that the reasons would be
given in the next issue. But !o ! ihe next week
came and brought no light, tho editor doubtless
concluding wiih Falstaff that though reasons were
as plenty as blackberries, he wouid riot give one
upon compulsion. At last however he allows the
name which had been removed, to resume its
place, stating that although there are still some
points of difference between the editor and Capt.
Abercrombie, the former is satisfied after a further
correspondence and a personal interview that he
ought to be supported.
More than two months ago in view of Capt. Aber
crombie’s refusal to support Gen. Scott and his
avowed determination not to submit his claims to a
Whig Convention, as well as of his opinions freely
expressed in conversation, we came to the conclu
sion that, our political friends ought not to oppose
his re-election, He declared himself opposed to a
reorganization of ihe Whig party, —in favor of re
ducing the tariff to the wants of an economical gov
ernment, and determined to judge the adm uistra
tiou of Gen.JPierce by its acts, supporting it w hen
right and condemning it w hen wrong. In reference
to future northern aggressions he took the highest
ground.
Under these circumstances, we could not under
stand that it was any part of mir duty as S ’*liiern
Rights men to aid the Scott whigs in -aking
down Capt. Abercrombie for an uuquesw .. e act
of fidelity to his section, nor could we see <- v prac
tical issue involved in a contest between him and
the gentleman w ho was proposed as his c< nipetiior.
Opposition, therefore, we thought, would ..ore ap
propriately come from the whig re-organizers,w hom
our late representative had baffled and defied, than
; from any other quarter.
The opinions which we then attributed to him
1 have been repeatedly endorsed by Capt. Abererorn-
J bie. We have the very best reasons for knowing
that the correspondence w r ith the Macon Republi
can so far from retracting, expressly reaffirms
them : and we ask no better evidence than wehavc,
for the assertion, that nothing has been said or done
incompatible with them. We understand well why
the Macon Republican desites now to provoke u
‘ into opposition, but u'e assure him that if he is sat
isfied with those “three” letters, so are we.
We understand well the unpleasant process to
which the Scott whig re-organizeri- : . district
have been subjected. A little while back and they
) ruled the district with a rod of iton. They said . >
this one “go,” and he went; and to another, “stay,’
and he staid ; but now one is going, who denoun
ced their candidate for President, who despised
i their conventions, who opposes their darl’iDg scheme
ol re-oigamzation. They never concluded to tole
rate him, until they found themselves too weak to
destroy him. Right over their heads is he going,
in defiance of their predictions, in utter disregard
of their advice and rinioDstrances, and soon there
will be none so poor to do them reverence. We
repeat it, if they can stand it, we can. Like the
old tanner, who, when his learned fiicnd exhibited
the living creatures in the cheese that he was ea
ting, through a m croscope, andjeried, “don’t eat it,
uncle Ben, don’t you see ’em squirm and wriggle.”
“Let ’em wriggle,” said the old phib sopher, I ’’taking
another bile, “they have got the worst of it, and if
they can stand it, I can,” and deliberately finished
his meal.
So say we. The whig re-organizers have got
the worst of it, and we cannot find it in our hearts
to deny them the poor privilege of wriggling. Let
’em wiiggle. If they can stand it, we can.
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ter taking the Resolvent, the weak, emaciated, and disease
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through the system. Price of R. R. Resolvent,per $1 per
bottle. June I]—lm
Dr. Samuel B. Martin, one ol the most experienced *t
the Medical Faculty in the city of Baltimore, writes ofSta
bler’s Anodyne Cherry Expectorant and of Stabler’s Diar
rhoea Cordial, “I have carefully examined the component
pans of them, and find them both valuable compounds, tho
! doses safe and consistent with medical practice, and 1 do
not hesitate to recommend them.” See advertisement in
i
! another column.
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Wholesale Druggists, Baltimore, proprietors.
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June 3—ltn
SPECIAL NOTICES.
lASf* ‘A F are authorised to announce DA VI L> J. BAR
BER, as u candid:.t* foi Clerk ol the Superio: Court ol
Muscogee County, at the election in January next.
June 25, 1853—w&twte.
PUBLIC MEETING
IN ME R 1 WET HE R CO U N lY .
The citizens of Meriwether, Talbot aud Harris counties
are requested to meet at the Chalybeate Springs iu Men
wether county ou Monday the 18th day ot July noil, foi
the purpose of taking into consideration the importance ol
anew county to lie formed out of thecou: row named
A full turn out is expected and sobcitec.
Attend and let us hear iron you ; an opportunity will U
given to the friends ol the cause to sa l an th ,r v 1 ’ !
moling it. Come one ■ Coins ad
JuneSl—w4t
