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THE WUUE-GRASS REPORTER.
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“WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 89,1888.
TO ooxutKVßnrn.
”E. L. K.” and *• OAlockna* ” are una
voidably excluded from to-day’* paper for
want of .room. They will appear in our
iustchk* ntrmrrx.
It wfll be recollected by parent* and oth-
Ol*i that the Female Department of tbia In-
Stkute, opens for the reception of scholars on
Monday next. It i* desirable that all achol
an abentd be In attendence promptly on the
find day, (hit the classes may he immediate
ly organised.
wm.saan INSTALMENT
It ytlfc be recollected that ten per cent,
npon the capital atock of the Atlantic and
Goll Bail road ia required to be paid in on
the int day of October,next, at the Gompa
ay’i office, is Savannah.
tatjuila cnfcuii.
001. John A. Tuckkx is the nominee of
the Demoqratle party for Judge In the Pa*
taula Circuit. There were a number of gen
■i tlemen brought forward to dll that atation,
and the Democrat* were obliged to reaort
to o nomination to avoid division.
Mr Bailey, of Miller, waa nominated for
fbe office of Solicitor.
pa ATLANTIC CAILX.
It ia amid the Atlantic cable baa been fiut
all right, and la operating again a* perfect aa
aver. A second dispatch confirm* the first,
l|ding that the signals have been perfect
far the last three days.
ms masts* and xxhbmthial tilkghaph
.JWe are platted to learn that Mr. Samuel
A. Kennedy, an agent for the
plated line, visited Thotnasvillo last week, for
the purpose of acquiring the right of way
Iferongh this city and county. This line will
extend from Macon, by Albany, to this place.
From Thoroasville, by Tallahassee, to some
point on the Gulf, and thence by marine ca
ble to the island of Cuba. This will put
Thomasville in communication with all the
Korthern and Western lines on the continent
<m the one band, an 4 with the city of Ha
vana on the other. The Inferior Court and
City Council will no doubt cheerfully grant
the right of way, if an office ia placed in this
♦city. *•
IIT YOBX DIMOCHATIC COHVIKTIOM.
The New York State Democratic Conven
fien concluded their deliberation! and adjourn
ed on Thursday the 16th inst. after a busy
session of two days. They made the annex
ed nominations:
for Governor— Amasa J. Parker.
Lieut. Governor-^- John J. Taylor.
Canal Corner —B. B. Pipes?
Prison Inspector —Edward L. Donally.
The campaign ia opening very handsome
ly in the State of New York, and the Demo
crats expect to carry their whole ticket in
November. There was a large and enthusi
astic ratification meeting held in the Filth
ward of the city on the 21st list. General
Walbridge, M. C., addressed the meeting
with mnch effect. Col. Bilbo, of Tennessee,
•lao made them a speech.
Many other ratification meetings, we see,
are being held in other parts of the State.
, EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING.
During a thunder shower which came up
at ThomusriNe on Sunday night last, the
old Academy was struck by a shaft of light
ning with most peculiar and somewhat disas
trous effects. The house is tyo stories, and
the lower story occupied at this time by Miss
Kellogg as a school room. The lightning
first struck tbs top of the chimney, knocking
off a few of the top bricks. From thence it
appears to hare spread and descended in
some half dosen prongs. Three or four
went down ‘outside, tearing off a portion of
the shingling on the roof and a large portion
of the weather boardiug on the south west
side. Two of the prottgs appear to hare de
scended on the inside, tearing off the lining
on the same side of the house, both above
ami below, scattering the boards and frag
ments over the rooms. The most singular
circumstance attending the occurrence is, in
our view, that the house was not set on fire,
and no mark of fii% is visible. ‘ Large seams
are torn up down the frame of tbgfbouse, in
four or five places, both in and outside. It
was Providential that the occurrence did not
take place during school hours, as many of
the lives of the yonng pupils, as well as that
of the teacher, would have been endangered
at aoch a time.
BPKXAS or FELLOW FEVEB.
We do not recollect .any former season
when that fatal disease, the Yellow Fever,
kae been so prevalent or so fatal as at’ the
present. To begin at the Island of Cubs, it
las been qnite destructive to buman life, not
oalf at Havana, but at several of the lesser
porta on the island. At Galveslon and New
jeans the mortality has been very great
this season,. At the last accounts from Mo
bile it was spreading rapidly in that city. In
Charleston the inhabitants are dying at the
rate of one hundred per week, although
large numbers have fled from the pestilence.
Philadelphia and New York have both had
•area, but it does not appear to be spreading.
The same may be said of Savannah. It is
new getting so late in the season, we trust
tho danger to these latter cities has passed by.
In to-day’i pape/wiltbefound some re
marks of the Washington Globe, referring
to the action of the Administration in return
ing the captured Africans to their native
home. % -
Th* law allows tbe Preaidont no discretion
on the subject, and in making the eontract
with the Colonisation Society to land them
in Liberia and putvtbem nnder their Jurisdic
tion and control ft* one year, at fifty thou
sand dollars, was rib doabt the cheapest way
in which Government could legally dispose
of them. But Mr. Buebanau baa clearly
put himself in the category of most Northern
men, and shown that he knows very Utils
of th* naturej|f a negro or his management.
Oolaaiaation on the coast of Africa has had
• fair trial. The South as well as the North
aided in this. Th* South, as long as it was
an experiment, was as ardent, a* earnest and
as aeaions in giving it a fair trial as the North.
Henry Clay was, for many year*. President
of the Society, and sustained and supported
it with bis best efforts, and hi* powerful and
brilliant talents. But the issue of aH this ef
fort is, a dead failure. The experiment has
shown, what every man at the South knows
full well without going to Africa to make the
experiment, that the negro has no voluntary
labor in his composition. That yon can
bold out no inducement to him that will keep
him at work for any great length of time;
the eomfort* of a home, plenty at his board,
his own domicil and fireside, the prospects of
wealth and affluence, are all insufficient to
have any lasting influence npon the mind of
the negro, or induce him to overcome bis
natural and habitual indolence. Tbo colo
nists at Liberia have proved all this, and the
Southern States have no longer any hope
from the colony, either as a drain for the
emancipated slaves or their free people of
color. The dying planter now feels it injus
tice and cruelty to manumit bis people, for
the of sending, them to Africa.—
What will these Africans learn, on their re
turn to Liberia ? All the idle, nnthrift hab
its of the free negro. They will sit in tiie
shade from morning till night, and there wait
until their rations are brought to them. They
will learn to steal, to lie, and all the other
base habits to which the degraded free negro
ii*prone, and at the end of their year’s proba
tion will be returned to their native wilds
improved in nothing bat tbe vices of the free
negro race. It would have been mnch bet
ter for these Africans bad they been sent to
their native coast and turned loose at once,
without coming m contact with the colonists.
They will learn nothing beneficial from
them. We attach no censure to Mr. Buchan
an. He no doubt acted according to his host
discretion. But he would have done much
hotter for the poor devils if he had sent them
any where else than amongst tbe colouists at
Liberia. •
The editor ofthe Union is in error when
be argues that the President is bound, under
the law, “to appoint an agent or agents, on
the coast of Africa, for the safe keeping and
support of the captives.” The law says, he
“ shall appoint a proper person or persons,
residing on the coast of Africa, as agent or
agents for receiving the tiegroes, mulattoes
or persons of color,” evidently for the pur
pose of returning them to their homes with
all reasonable despatch, and not for the par
pose of detaining them in a special location.
The law says notbrog about their safe keep
ing and support on the coast of Africa.
By this time these Africans are on the
broad ocean, on their way to Liberia. The
Charleston Courier of Monday the 20th
inst. contained tho following: “ The United
States steamship Niagara, from New York,
arrived off this bar on Saturday last, and
came to a*nchor in about eight fathoms of wa
ter, the upper part of her masts being barely
visible from the -city wharves. The steamer
Den. Clinch, which was cheered by tho
United States Marshal, left her wharf on
Sunday morning and proceeded to Fort
Sumter, where she took the Africans on
board and proceeded outside the bar to the
Niagara, which vessel she reached sooie time
after mid-day. The sea was quite rough,
and there being some difficulty in getting
the Africans off the steamer, tl>e Clinch was
attached to the stern of the frigate by two
lawsers, while a third rope was run from the
spanker boom of tbe frigate to the deck of
the Clinch. On this line a large tub was
placed, and in it the negroes were transport
ed from the steamer to the ship.” The Ni
agara left for Liberia on Monday evening.
CAMP MEETINGS.
The Camp Meeting at Mount Zion camp
ground, thirteen miles from Tronpville, will
commence on Friday evening, October Ist,
to whiefi Preachers and people are invited.’
Tbe Camp Meeting near Waresboro’ wiil
commence on Friday, tbe Bth gpetober, to
which the ministry and public are also invi
ted. r ~
Bear Creek Camp Meeting, in Decatur,
wiil include the secoud Sabbath in October,
commencing on Thursday night previous.
MAINE ELECTION.
We see by
where it is paraded in that
the whole Abolition ticket has been elected
in the State of Maine. 11 Tbe returns from
Maine show a complete Republican tri
umph,” commences the article announcing
the fact. How little difference there is in a
Black Republican triumph and a triumph of
the American party in the estimation of many
of the enemies of the Democratic adminis*
tration, even down here at the Sooth.
When is u sailor sot u seller t Wbuu he's
a board.
LNWIS WILLIAMS- TMP ON THX KAILKOAD
Original characters are not scarce in Geor
gia, and Lewis Williams, of Appling, in lie
way. is one of them. It is not necessary to
give a detailed account of him. Boffice it
to say that he Is a man about fifty years of
age, has eyes deep set In bis head, a quizzi
cal face, talks rapidly, lores whiskey and
hates snakes.
On tlie Monday night of the last Appliug
Superior Ooort, 1 was sitting in the Judge’s
room, eqjoying with bias tbs fumes of a na
tive, when Lewis bolted in without ceremo
ny, shook bands with the Judge moat cordial
ly, and expressed great happiness in seeing
him again. , *
‘•And now, Mr. Judge,” continued Lewis,
“ I want to make a ixeuse for my son Lewis.
He was writted to be here as a witness, in a
case of a gotionable note, bat be can’t come,
Mr. Judge.”
” What’s the matter, Lewisl” inquired
tbe Judge.
“ Wby, he’s got a powerful btie, and hits
in a mighty bad place, and I lives a'long
ways off. I shan’t tell you wbar the bile is,
Mr. Judge, but if he was to ride bit jrould
mash.”
“Very well, Lewis, all right.”
“ Tbanky, Mr. Judge, tbanky.”
“ Looky here, Mr. Judge, did yon ever
see a railroad ?”
“Certainly, Lewis, a great many of them.”
“ W ell, but, Mr. J udge, did you ever ride
on one!”
“ Ob, yes, often, haven’t youl”
“ Well child I have, onct, and I never was
so skeered in my born days.”
” Tell us about it, Lewis.”
“ Weil, sir, last spring, and purty yearly
in tbe spring at that, I wanted to go to Sa
vanner, to sell some things and to buy some
other things, tobaccer and whiskey in pertic
iler, and I went down to Doctor .Town to git
on tbe railroad. I'd hearn a heap about etn,
and I thort I’d try it.
‘* Well, sur.'T jest got tbarin time—tbe in
jine was a smokin, and Mr. Firkins, the
man what overseed,the consarn, told me to
git a board es I wanted to go.”
“ I turned round to find one es quick as I
could and he kotcb me and sez he :
“ Git in.”
” Git in wbar ?” sed I.
“ Git in the car,” sed he.
“Do you mean this ere long pedler wag
gin t” I axed him.
” YeS, yes. in with you.”
“ With this be pushed me up. some steps
at tbe bind eend of the waggin, opened a
door, and shoved me in. I seed some other
pouple a settin down, and so I walked in a
little furder, and sot down by a winder.
Jest about this time the injine hollered so
loud tba't hit made the very yeth trimble. I
tell you what, Mr. Judge, 1 was a gitten
skeered. The injine hollered agin two or
three times, but not quite ao loud, and we
begun to move. We got a lettle faster and
a lettle fastertontwel the wind begin to rise.
I knowed from the noise that a storm was
a corain up, and the noise and wind got wuss
and wuss. I looked out and seed the tops
of the trees all in a twist. I pnt my bed
outen the winder to git a better look, and
away went my dollar and a half new hat
that I had jest bought from Comas. I shet
down the winder as quick as 1 could, and the
storin was wnss immejently. The je-rusa
lem, Mr. Judge, I never beam tbe like afore
—hit sounded like two hundred coffee mills
all a grindin at onct, and a thrashin mersheen
throwdao.’-
Tbe injine hollered agin, and I kep a
waitin for hit to ketch bits breth,.ontwel I
got- oneasy, bqt it hollered and hollered
fora long time and then stopt suddint. I
looked through the glass winder, and seed
how fast wo was a passiu the pines, and I
knowed then that injine had tuck a fit nd
was a runnin away.
I’ll be d—d, Mr. Judge—ixcuse me es
you plese—ef I ever was so skeered in my
life. I seed a round black thing jest ahed
of me, a runnin up through tbe waggin, and
I ketchnd holt of that to try to save myself;
but bit was as hot as blazes.
[Mr. Williams had doubtless got bold of
the stove-pipe.j
I let that go purty quick, I tell yon, and
then I seed the backs of two seats purty
close together. I pitched in between em and
tuck one onder one arm, and tother onder
totlior, and hilt on like deth to a ded nigger.
Tbe injine ketched bits breth and hollered
agin, and soon ater that they stopt it.
Now, Mr. Judge, here was what was glad
when they done that, and I know the tother
people was glad too, for they lafft powerful.
Mr. Firkins come along in a minit, and I ax
ed him how in the world he let tbe injine
git loose from him. He sed hit would do so
in spite of the devil, but that hit could not
git off the soad|* and he could olwers stop
bit arter a Don’t be skeered, sez be,
Mr. Williams, set down on the seat and I
will take you down safte. Well, sir, I sot
down then on tbe seat, and I kep still I tell
you.”
“ You got to Savannah safely, did you,
Mr. Williams 1”
” Oh yes, Mr. Judge, sod I sold my truck,
and was ready to come back next day. As
I cum back, I begun to feel brave and grand,
so I tuek out my pipe, and lit it for u smoke.
Mr. Firkins comes up and slapt me on tbe
shoulder, and ses he:
” Williams, you owe me five dollars snd
you must go to jail iu tbe bargain.”
“ What ferl” ses I.
“ Fer smokin in tbe cars,” ses be.
“ Bot I didn't know hit was spa tbs
rules,” sez I.
“ Don't you see hit printed on that card
np that?” sez be.
“ But, Mr. Firkins, I can’t read,” eez I.
“ Well t/tjr didht yon get somebody to
read it far 70a 1” icz he.
•• 0 Lord, Mr. Firkins, I never thort of
that,—can’t you let we off this time t”
*• Can’t do it, Williams,” sez he.
•• Let me off MriFirkins,” sez I, “ I nev
er will do so do more.”
*• No chance, Williams,” sez he.
“My God, Mr. Firkins, let me oft this time
and I’ll promise paver to smoke agin nowhar,
and furder than that, I’ll promise to break
every pipe I come across, the balance part
of my life.”
*• Good,” sea he, “ Williams,”—and he let
me off, Mr. Judge.
“ That was very kind in Mr. Firkins, and
I suppose you got home safely, Williams'?”
“Oh yes, sir, and when I got off at Doc
tor Town, and stood on the ground, and seed
a raal bnncb of live saw-permeter, I felt
good in my backbone. But I’ll see yon agin,
Mr. Judge—hits a gitten about my time to
pat a passle of sperits onder my shirt.”
BHOTnrLOW, PHTH* AND CHEBBY.
Thomasville, Ga., Sept. 20, 1858.
Messrs. .Editors :—During the recent
discussion between the Rev. W. G. Brown
low and Rev. Mr. Pryne upon the subject of
Slavery in the city of Philadelphia, the Rev
erend Abolition defender stated, upon the
authority of “ a respectable minister of the
Gospel, who had faithfully discharged his min
isterial functions in your town or vicinity ”
—to wit, the Rev. Henry Cherry—that du
ring his sojonm here the following shocking
affair was witnessed by himself:
A person, the owner of slaves, for a very
slight offence, whipped his negro most un- j
mercifully, and then chained the slave to a
cartwheel in the broiling hot sun—then went
to church and either administered or partici-
Sated in the administration of the Lord’s
upper —returned home, and finished his cru
elty and revenge upon his negro for this slight
offence; upon the hearing of which, I unhe
sitatingly pronounced the whole a wilful and
malicious UK; and in support of my flat and
positive denial, referred the Rev. Mr. Brown
low to Hon. James L. Seward, Hon. P. E.
Love, Hon. A. H. Hansell, Cols Alston, T.
J. Mcßain and Wm. McLendon, of Tliomas
ville. I also promised to send Mr. Brownlow
the letter of Rev. Mr. Parsons, publishing
the said Cherry for base and malicious lying
before he left your town. 1 Will you aid me
in procuring a copy qf said letter? and will
you also give the public the life and charac
ter of said Cherry during his stay in your
midst, in vindication from the wrong attemp
ted to belmposed upon yon and your com
munity, by this contemptibly low, lying,
foul-mouthed Abolitionist? *
Having promised to give Mr. B. the facts
of the case, as well as the £ill history of
this notorious and respectable minister of the
Gospel, as claimed for him by Pryne in dis-,
cussion, you will please assist me in keeping
my promise, by giving tbe facts of tbe case,
and you will mueh oblige
Tour fellow-citizen,
Be.vj. F. Hubert.
N. B. As the Abolitionists are willing to
admit the equality of the two races—white
and blask—would not negro testimony be
admissible against the said Cherry? If so£
we can give him the benefit of a good long
catalogue. B. F. H.
Bem&rki by the Editor*.
The communication of B. F. Hubert, Esq.,
copied abov& will doubtless attract attention,
and in accordance with Mr. Hubert’s request,
wo will say a few words subject.
The Rev. Mr;, Cherry made his first ap
pearance in this country as a returned Bur
man missionary, and His business was lectur
ing on tile East generally, and the exhibi
tion of little Burmese gods, all of which
could be heard aud seen at fifty cents a head.
He continued this business, together with
occasional preaching, until he “ran,down at
the heel,” and then set up a sort of cabinet
shop in Tbomasville. Iu the prosecution of
this latter business it seems that a great deal
of whisky was necessary in order to the
proper development of the colors of his wares,
but somehow or another in attempting to get
the whisky into his paint-pot, he always
made a mistake, and it .went down his throat.
These unfortunate mistakes frequently had a
very tangling effect upon his legs, bift on the
other hand the bright tints which were due
his chairs, tables, &.C., reproduced themselves
on his nose and in his face. About this time,
bis Presbyterian brethren, thinking that be
bad “ too many irons in the fire,” concluded
to relieve him from a portion of bis labors
and suddenly stopped him from preaching.—
There are proceedings pending against him
now in the Presbytery, and we have no
doubt but the result will be his utter and en
tire exclusion from the church.
As it was impossible to keep whisky
enough on hand to carry on the cabinet busi
ness-, owing to the mistakes aforesaid, of
course this enterprise failed, and Parson
Cherry was afloat again.
He betook himself once more to lecturing
and the exhibition of the little gods, but it
was no go, and he got back to Tbomasville
” busted” again. His own condition and
that of his family excited commisseratiou
knd pity in the hearts of the whole commu
nity, and one of our most respectable and
wealthy merchants gave him a situation as
clerk. He had not been long in this posi
tion before he abjured whisky, and ele
vated himself to seven-dollar-per-gallon bran
dy, demijohns of which be secretly abstract
ed from his employer’s establishment. He
was detected by an honest Christian slave
belonging to his employer—and whose word
is worth a thousand times more than Cher
ry’s oath —daring the time of his employ
ment, stealing various articles from the store.
These things becoming manifest, he was
dismissed from bis clerkship, bnt on account
of bis needy family, bis kind hearted em
ployer said nothing about them.
Soon after tbi, Cherry was flying round
like a grain of pop-corn in a skillet, declaring
that he was going to establish a school npon
a high scale, at Greenfield in Colquitt coun
ty. Greenfield contains about three resi
dences and a saw-mill, and the county of
Colquitt about two hundred voters, all told.
Cherry left Thomasville for the purpose of
establishing this tremendous school, and in a
very short time thereafter turned np in the
State of New Tork, leaving his debt* here
unpaid, but at the same time
country of a most graceless scamp. f
Not long after this, some case of shocking
cruelty by a southerner to his Have, perhaps
the same one alluded to by Pryne, or some
other equally malicious and false, was pub
lished in some abolition paper, and Cberry
given as authority. This libel fell under
the eyes of our citizens, and Mr. Parsons, a
northern man, and ,a Presbyterian minister of
the highest standing and most unquestiona
ble piety, replied to it, and rebuked this man
Cherry most scathingly. We regret that we
have not been able to lay our bands on this
letter of Mr. Parsons, and promise that if we
can get hold of it, to publish it hereafter.—
But R. R. Evans, Esq., of this town, a mer
chant and a gentleman of high standing and
respectability, also noticed this infamous li
bel and published, an article in the New
York Day Book, in which he characterized
both lie and liar as they deserved. Mr. Ev
ans burnt Cberry so badly in his commuui
'cation, that he addressed a whining letter to
Evans, the conclusion of which is as follows:
I have denied in the Rochester Demo
crat', the Thomasville Enterprise, and Watch
i man, that I authorized the article you refer
; red to. 1 knocn nothing oj it, and have giv-
I e no occasion for it.
Signed, Henry Cherry.”
And it is out of such books as “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin,” and the statements of such
men as Henry Cherry, that the abolitionists
manufacture their fanatical thunder. God
help the country !
•It need scarcely be added, that this whole
story of cruelly whipping a negro, tying him
to a cart-wheel and then going andjaking the
sacrament is altogether the coinage of a fer
tile imagination, whether of Cherry, Pryne
or other abolitionist we cannot say, and has
not the slightest shadow of truth for a found
ation.
Since the above was written wo have
found Rev. Mr. Parsons’ letter, and will pub
lish it next week.
Written for the Wire-Grass Reporter.
COTTON PLANTEBS, ATTENTIOK!
Messrs. Editors: —I have a Cotton
Press nflw in operation which for cheapness,
utility, convenience and dispatch cannot be’
surpassed. It is beyond doubt the machine
for every cotton plauter. and requires only
to be known to lay on the shelf of the past
every packing machine involving the screw.
Five minutes are required to pack any size
hale, say to seven hundred. A horse is used
instead of arm-power. It is all iu a nut
shell and costs from 15 to 20 dollars all told,
will last from 10 to 20 yeqrs and is free from
the possibility of danger. I will be pleased
Jo show it to any gentleman’ who will take
it upon himself to come and see it in opera
tion. I learn that Mr. T. J. Bottoms has
lately got a patent for this press, and would
advise those in need of such an article to ap
ply to him. H. H. Williams.
Written for the Wire-Grass Reporter.
Dublin, Sept. 22, 1858.
Messrs. Editors: —l am informed by a
gentleman that a report is in circulation in
the counties of Thomas, Lowndes, Pulaski
and Berrien, that the author of the commu
nication signed “Vox Populi,” and which
was published in your columns on the 10th
day of July, 1858, was written by Col. E.
T. Sheftall, a candidate for re-election to the
office of Solicitor General of the Southern
Circuit. I take thnSkiccasion and in this
public manner to say, that the author of such
report has asserted to a base and malignant
falsehood, as it is well known Col. Sheftall
was not iu the Stute of Georgia at that time,
but on a visit to the State of Alabama. I
can further assure the public that Col. S. had
not tho slightest idea of the authorship of
the communication until he reached home in
August. And I can further state that lam
the author, and he never requested me to
write the article, nor was it done at his in
stance, solicitation, knowledge, approbation,
or expectation. This is but doing Col. S.
that justice which a generous public is always
anxious to award to the innocent. In Janu
ary next they will speak in their most em
phatic terms. Very respectfully,
J. L. Griffin.
. • DABINQ ATTEMPT AT MURDER.
A roost daring attempt was made in this
] place on Tuesday night last, by a negro, to
take tho life of one of our citizens, Mr. H.
O. Bassett.
Mr. B. had retired about 9 o’clock, and
was lying in bed, preparing to read before go
ing to sleep, aud hearing a noise of someone
iu the room, asked who it was. On turning
round, he discovered a negro man named
Washington, belonging to Col. C. C. Young,
of this place, standing at the bed, with an
axe npraised in the act of striking him. Mr.
’ Bassett rolled out of the bed in tithe tn pre
vent the blow and grappled the negro.—
They scuffled for awhile, and the boy finding
that Mr. B. was too strong for him, let go the
axe, and Mr. B. struck at him; the boy
dodged tn 6 blow and the axe stuck in the
floor, making a deep indention. Hearing
someone coming, the boy escaped through
one door and Mr. B. started through an
other to head him, but could not find him.—
Returning, to his room, M. B. discovered the
boy there, who escaped through the back
door, to the yard. Some persons hearing tho
difficulty came to the asiatauce of Mr. B.
and half an hour afterwards they walked out
into the yard, thinking the negro may have
secreted himself somewhere, when a pistol
was fired from under the kitchen, the ball miss
ing Mr. Bassett, but passing through the cloth
ing of one of the party.. The premises
were then searched but without success.—
Tbe negro wss caught yesterday, near St.
Andrews, havmg stolen a horse from Mr.
Benj. Holden? and brought to jail iu this
place.—- Mariana Patriot .
a it V B ?P*- ifi§
According to previous notice a portion
the citizens of Lowndes, Thomas, Colo,,;?,
end Berrien counties met at Tallokaa, totnl
into consideration the action of tbe BoeH-z
Directors of the Atlantic At Gulf JUnZ**
Company in locating said Railroad tear lb.
Florida line.
Upon motion, William Holloway ®
was called to the chair end James
aid, Esq. appoiuted Secretary. 00 *
By rhqnest, Col. J. L. Seward, who
present by invitation, addressed the meeti
reviewing the history of the Railroad confab
versies which’ bad heretofore existed A
giving his views in regard to the policy
the Legislature in giving aid to Bouth-We
tern Georgia, and expressed his disapprob
tion of the policy adopted by the Direct *
of, said Road.
The following preamble and resolotU
were then read and adopted unanimously •**
Whereas, by an act of the Legislature 1-
proved Feb. 27th, 1556, the Atlantic
Railroad Company was incorporated, by
which the State of Georgia agreed to be
come Stockholder in said Road upon certain
conditions,—for a proper explanation and un
derstandiog of the objects of the Legislature
it is necessary to recur to the -circumstances’
pre existing and the causes arising therefrom
which induced tbe Legislature to incorporate
said Company as specified in said charter
For many years the Brunswick A Florida
Railroad Company had been incorporated
and the citizens of B/unswick and the p eo !
pie on the line of said Brunswick Road
westward had been struggling to complete
said work, and after having completed 32
miles of the Road crossing the Satilla, finding
themselves unable to extend said Road with
out the aid of the State, made application to
the Legislature for such aid. -
After the commencement of the Bruns
wick & Florida Railroad, the Savannah, Al
bany At Gulf Road wr£ begun, and was pros
ecuted energetically, owing to the superior
pecuniary resources of Savannah over Bruns
wick, and carried beyond the Altamaha;
both of said roads approximating each oth
er, until a difficulty in regard to conflicting
chartered rights was standing in the way of
the further prosecution of tbe Savannah, Al
bany & Gulf Railroad, without deflecting
ma.erially from its proposed lino of opera
tion, and it was further conceded, that this
company was unable to complete such a
a great enterprise without the credit of the
State. The Brunswick At Fldrida Railroad
applied to the Legislature for assistance, as
did also the Spyanhah, Albany At Gulf
Road. Both of the organizations received
|no favor at the hands of the Legislature.—
The friends of both of these companies uni
ting, became suppliants before the Legisla
ture for help, and the Atlantic At Gulf Rail
| road Company was incorporated upon the
joint understanding of the friends of the two
companies. It was not denied that the Bruns
wick charter occupied tbe line desired (at
that time) to be followed by the Savannah,
Albany At Gulf Road, and fully understood,
should the Atlantic A Gulf Road be incor
porated, that thelino of the Brunswick A
Florida Road would be substantially follow
ed, and that a release from that company of
the right of way should be executed to give
effect to the act of the Legislature of Feb.
27, 1856, as shown thus, That “no money
‘shall be paid by the State until the Savan
nah, Albany Ac Gulf Railroad Company and
the Brunswick Ac Florida Railroad Compa
-Iny shall have released any right which ei
ther of said companies have or claim to in
| tcifere with the location of said road.*’ The
mention of the Savannah, Albany Ac Gulf
Road was a mere matter of form, and could
not have been regarded as important as con
nected with the release, as shown by the
statemeut of Dr. Screven in his report of
1854. “He (theo) said the Brans wick en
terprise standing iu our way, occupying the
field we (the Savannah, Albany At Gulf
Road) desiied for our line of road, and in
i expectation that it would be carried to suc
cessful completion, the only alternative left
to this company was to cross that line of
road and connect with Florida.” This diffi
j culty was removed by the act of Feb. 27,
1856. And no. one was more efficient and
exergetic in removing this hindrance than
Dr. Screven, now the President of the* 1 Main
Trunk” Road. Why not then occupy this
desirable line! Why not in view of his set
tled policy heretofore, and tho understanding
of the Legislature and the former Stockhold
ers of the Brunswick Road, abide this line 1
Such being briefly the facts in regard to the
incorporation of the Atlantic Ac Gulf Road,
we are pained to learn that the Directors are
about to change the location and adopt one
near the Florida line, making the Main
Trunk Road a Florida enterprise, better suit
ed for a branch of tiie Georgia Ac Pensacola
Road in Florida, thau a Main Trunk Road
in Georgia, against which we respectfully
but firmly protest.
Resolved, (That while we are unchangea
bly opposed to the present location of said
road) in behalf of tli’e Stockholders iu this
meeting, we are opposed to repudiation, and
are ready and willing to recognize every le
gal liability we have assumed as Stockhold
ers. t
Resolved, In our opinion, good faith and
justice, and the interest of the State, require
| that the Atlantic Ac Gulf Railroad should be
t located sehslantially, or nearly so, on the
contemplated line of the Brunswick Road,
and, above all, any other course is a com
plete sacrifice of the interests of the Stock
holders of the Brunswick Road, who aided
in effecting a settlement of the unfortunate
controversy between the two companies.
Resolved, That the Legislate, in con
senting that the State should become a Stock
holder in the Atlantic r Gulf Railroad Com
pany, intended to develop tbe Southern and
South-Western counties. Such was the ob
ject of the Legislature—such the expressed
object of the applicants for tbe aid of the
State. Therefore, we, as stockholders, citi
zens and tax-psyers, do not recognize as a
correct principle in the settlement of the
question of location that a combination of
capital can defeat such object without a vio
lation of good faith.
Resolved, That the proposed location
the road, bordering on the Florida line, >■
an unwise appropriation of public as well ns
private capital, and will be highly detnm®* 1 ’
tal to th State and unjust to her citizens.
Resolved, If necessary, we will employ a
competent engineer to survey the line from
some point east of tbe Alapaha westward,
that a proper and correct survey may be
made and the facts understood.
Resolved, That a committee- of five ha