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ictlini thanks to <-.-i;,;;ii ;1 - i:'. n
tlteir i-fiurt-l in iu-iir,;t ot .-'■■i;:'i- ;tl ;
n by the former.
Mr. Eaves, at this s'aae < f the pro.-oeding*.
the following nffilitfon-il resolution
of th. ..»v :u n. ady sub -pH-.?
was agreed to.
Resolved. That wo earnestly recommend t<>
the several l)i-:rle:s and i’t.rish 's. as an
measure, to preserve and perfect their <>r-
of l'oiiiiii’iii-.-s of Vipniaiun- and
of action, a.ul especial.y to exert lln-in-
to spread r.se ill uffi r i.at.oll before
; an I to detect and urinate
offenders against our peace and i asttt mijns.
Mr. Herndon tlieti tn .ve.l the appotntniv'nt of
■ Committee of 21, to nominate suitable per
sons to constitute the Executive Committee
of five, which was agreed to. ami a r--ce»< ot
had an hour taken, until tim Committee .ffioffi
be ready to report.
were nominated, balloted for, and elected :
F F. II- Elmore, Chairman.
Wade Hampton, I James Gadsden,*
D. J. McCord, | F. W. Psckens.
The Chairman having yielded the Chair,
s Mr. Means Submitted a resolution returning
thanks of the Convention to the venerable
» President, who on resuming the Chair, re
sponded in a feeling and impressive manner,
alter which, the Convention adjourned sine die.
[From the La Grange Reporter.]
Whig Meeting in Troitp.
LaGrange, May 15,1849.
The meeting was organized in tbeCourt
i House: Mr. Lucius B. Lovelace,President; Au
gustus B. Fannin. Vice-President ; and B. 11.
Bigham, Secretary.
On motion bf Dr. Wm. P. Beasley. *
Resolved, That a committee of two from
-each District in the conn”, be appointed to re
port to this meeting what measures are best to
be taken to co-operate with Hoard county in
the nonfinatioii of a Whig candidate for Sena
tor; and that they also nominate fivfe men to
represent this county in the Whig Gubernato
rial Convention to.assemhle at Milledgeville on
the Fourth Monday of June next, or -such oth
er time as may be generally preferred.
The Chair having appointed said Commit
tee,Urey retired. During their absence the
meeting was addressed by several gentlemen,
among whom was Rufus McKune, E-q , So
licitor General of Flint Circuit. Mr. McK.’s
address was replete with sound doctrine, pro
mttlged in an agreeable, rhetorical, and ele
gant manner. Dr. Win. P. Beasley also
made some choice remarks relative to unity ol
action.
„ The Business Committee, on their return,
reported as follows:
The Committee to whom was referred the
selection of delegates to select a candidate to
represent the counties of Heard and Troup in
the Senatorial branch of the State Legislature
in a convention to assemble at Harrisonville or
. .Nome other suitable place,for such nomination.
lieg leave to state, that they have had the sub
... jeyjj tindor consideration, and think it best for
. ( Alje hrtereat of the Whig party, that the np-
■ poiAtmitnt oC such delegates be deferred tor
the pfeMmt,”ahd that the whole subject be re
ferfrid’to ’the different Districts composing the
ul Troup, and that the citizens of sin It
ie<piesn.u so select tin-
ballot or oliieru ise, to meet the d■•legate.,
the county of Heard outlie first I'm
in July next, at Hatiiionvillc, in the
of Troup; and that such r..av. i.mm,
selected, shall be ve-ted with lull p< wer to
a candidate for the Senate, for the coun-
of Heard and Troup.
Ba[S| Resolved, further, That tho Whigs of
be requested to meet the Wings ol
in eonvemiouat the time and place a-
nmnt one.l ; und that ll.ey select live n’
to tin.l c.mvemi..n 1. ,m each die.i.
I lie county.
Tt.m i i, .rim. 12. \i-dx t. J'.l it I.
em. . I i..\,. I, !•.. J. I'.
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Irlt.i’irl ... ■ ri t-
lor the pu.po-eol mmimatm-: a
for thL high office, the mime < f our
leilow-etliz'.'ti, Edward Young
Bf>. Resolved,That notwithstanding we thus
Kenly express our preference for tho above
■anted gentleman, we tire yet entirely willing
w> abide the action of said Convention, ami
support its nominee.
motion of A. E. Cox, Esq.
K solved, That any W higin the county
Mo now considers himself, or tvlio may wish
candidate fur the representative branch
m xt L -gislature, i» hereby requested to
it in the Reporter of next work.
)n motion of Green S. Traylor.
■ Resolved, That the proceedings of this
Bteutiug be published in the La Grange Repor
ter, and that other Whig papers be requested
to copy.
The meeting then brought its harmonions
silling to a close by adjournment.
x L. B. LOVELACE, President.
B. IL Bigham Secretary.
Ftcseutmcnt— Troup Superior
Court.
MAY TERM, 1849.
The Grand Jurors, sworn and selected
for the county of Troup for the first week ol
thopresent teim, having heard of the unplea
sant difficulty which txxurredqtt Monday lust,
uLlbe plantation of their lellow-citizen, Joseph
I’aytliress, Esq., between olio of his negroes
and his overseer, Mr. Mofieid, and the utrhap
py consequences that followed it, have deemed
it’ nut amiss to inquire specially into the facts
of [lie case, nml feel justified in fully sustain
ing the propriety of the act which deprived
M tin ess of the future services of his
negro man, and the negro himself of his life.
The Injury done to Mr. Mofieid by the ne
gro, in breaking his arm, with a hoe, and in
flicting other serious injuries to his person,
were sufficient, in the opinion of this Jury, to
linVeptaced him in the position of an outlaw;
an# having thrown off the authority of his
master—defying till effort to arrest him—ac-
auJ word ™UI’U continuing armed with the |
ho.: with which- lie hail attempted to take the
life of Mr. Molield, through a long race, and 1
tor flours afterwards, presented him to his pur- |
stiers in the altitude and uct of revolt and in- ,
surrectkm.; and when to these he was seen
malting efforts to take the life of Mr. Brad
field or Mr. Towns, (and perhaps both,) tho
latter of whom became the unhappy instru
ment of his death, we feel it our duty not only
to justify, but highly to approve the act by
which ho was deprived of his life, and believe
Mr. Towns entirely free of either legal or
moral accountability. It is therefore
Hi-solved, That we request this, our Pre-'
sentulCnt, to be entered ot record on the min
utes of this Court, and that the same b' pub
lished in tlie Reporter ol next wetk.
Wiley J. Sterling, Foreman ;
George W. Roberson, JesSe 11. Goss,
Willis Copila, Jr., Thus. P. Greenwood,
IJames E. Beall, William Barker,
ll.abac A. Gibson, Joel Gibson,
■uthaniel H. Snclson, Charles A. Dixon,
W. Byasley, James M. Amass,
Jiadit, Elijah 11. Traylor,
M. Sample, Henry S. I Lum's,
S. Cmtle, David it tinner,
■MDmigl.-iss, John C. Hall.
Smith, Wm. F. Fannin.
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Office of the Augusta Republic, |
May 22. 1849. >
AVGUSTA MARKET.
COTTON. —Our tables to-day u ill show that
the receipts of Cotton have reached 2,510,877
bales, against 2,055,241 ; showing an excess of
receipts this ysnr of 455,636. The deficiency
this year is only in the ports of New Orleans and
Texas; in the former of which it has fallen off'
49,645 bales, anchn the latter 1,468 bales. The
increase in the Atlantic ports is heavy, near
ly double what it wua last year, being 781,667
against 403,635 bales; showing an excess in
Charleston of 198,418, and in Savannah of 165,-
825 bales The stocks show a very considerable
falling off, particularly in the inferior towns—
they amount, at al! points, to 506,195 against
617,109 bales at same date last year, showing a
deficiency of 110,914 bales. The deficiency of
stock at the interior towns of Montgomery, Ma
con, Columbus, Augusta, Hamburg and Colum
bia amounts to near 80,000 hales, being 69,820
bales this year against 146,905 bales at same date
asst year.
The exports to all points continue heavy ; the
deficiency to France being very nearly overcome,
being only 2,663 bales less than at this date last
year; and from the number of vessels now loading
lor Franco at the cotton ports, being 33 .against 8
at same date last year, we look to see an ex
cess very soon reported in our tables. The ex
ports to the North have been heavy and largely
over l?st year, but it is not generally thought that
the stock on hand, save in New York, is much
over what it was at this period last season.
The accounts received from England by the
Canada are rather encouraging to the trade, but
prices are too low for the rates current in this
country, and we believe that a further improve
ment may be looked for when they receive the full
accounts of the injury done to the growing crop
by the frost and the continued cold weather of the
past month.
Incur market, during the past week, we have i
had quite an animated demand, and as the receipts
are light, and the stools offering Smalt, every lot 1
has'been rcadt'y scs. On Tuesday the mar
ket opened actively and continued at steadily im
proving prices until Friday, when the accounts
by the Canada were received, when an advance of
a full eighth of a cent was paid.
The sales of the week reach 2.613 bales at the
following rates : 4 a’ 5A ; 13 at 5f : 7 at 5 J : 13
at 6;78 a
138 at ; 830 at 6 9-16 ;92 at ; 395 at •j| ;
83 at 6 11-lG; 401 a 6|; 770 at 7; 167 at
7J ; 99 at 7|; 35 at 7J ; 82 at 7|.
We quote—
Inferior to ordinary s}a 6
Good Ordinary to Middling 6{a 6f
Good Middling 7 a—
Middling Fair 7|a 7|
Fair and Fully Fair 7ga
Receipts up to latest dates.
1848-9. 1847-8.
New Orleans, May 11.... 1,024,401 1,071.019
Mobile, May 10494.060 411,701
Florida. May 4181,981 135,523
Texas, May 4 28,865 30,333
S. Carolina, May 17412.529 214,111
Georgia, May 16319.310 184,485
N. Carolina, May 5 8,493 1,389
Virginia, May 1., 11,235 3,650
Total receipts2,soo,B77 2,055,241
Increase of Receipts, at
New Orleans, decrease 49,645
.Mobile, increase 82,359
Texas, decrease 1,468
Florida, increase 46,458
Charleston, “ 198,418
Savannah, “ 165,825
N. Carolina, “ 7.104
Virginia, “ 7,585
506,749 51,113
Total Excess 455,636
Statement of Slocks on hand at the latest dates
1848-9. 1847-8.
New Orleans. May 11184,813 2-28,526
Mobile, May- 1060,711 90,187
Florida, Muy 424,189 27.194
'l’exas, Muy 4 4.663 3,570
South Carolina, .May 1736,914 27 276
Georgia, May 1632,631 22,305
N. Carolina, May 5 3 5 40(>
Virginia. May 1. 1000 900
Macon, Geo., Muy 112,872 24,783
Augusta &H:imburg, May 1.41.772 67,557
New York, May 191.090 69,847
Columbus, Gu., May V 5,420 12,208
jjUa<r lt merv Ala., ‘May 5.. 2.765 12,357
JU J,-. -2_
506,195 617,109
Increase of Stock, 110,914
EXPORTS.
To Great 8ritain,1,226,453 907,501
France272.9o4 275.567
Continent of Europe,... .247,219 221,032
Northern p0rt5660,172 492,039
T0ta1,2,446,748 1,896,139
Excess to Great 8ritain,.358,952
** Cont’nt of Europe, 26,187
“ Northern ports,. ...168,133
Decrease to France, 2,663
553,272 2,663
Total Excess, 550,609
REMARKS.—The wholesale and retail trade
of the city has been quite heavy during thu past
week, from the number of visitors in our city at
tending the Rail-Road Convention, and from the
general trade of the city, which has been much
heavier this year than lor many years past: that
is evidenced from the greatly increased price at
which sales of real estate have been made, and
llie<eneral appreciation of nil our Bank Stock.
GRAlN.—There bus been but little Corn re
eejyed during the week, and sales by the quantity
can be readily made at 65 cents.; it is now retail
ing at 75 cents. ,
BACON.—ThereTin.beensonie little improve-,
mint iu the value of t’.is article, mid sales are
made at little fuller prices than wo have reported
for some time past. Receipts during the week
moderate. A choice lot has been sold—one in
small lots —at 6 cents.
FLOUR.—Good brands of Floor are scarce,
and would readily command from to $7 per
barrel. Receipts light and stock small.
FEATHERS.—There continues a good de
mand for Feathers, ami sales are readily made at
28 or 30 cents.
BAGGING AND BALE ROPE.—Receipts
of Gunny Bagging for the fall trade have already
commenced; about 300 bales having already been
received. No sales have as yet been made to es
tablish prices.
SALT.—Receipts continue heavy, and the
stock instore large. Imports into Charleston amt
Savannah during the past we. k upwards of
30,000 bushels.
BANK STOCK.—Since the meeting of the
Stockholders of the Georgia Rail-Road Company,
there has beeu no sale of that slock. The mew
shares are held at 77, which is equal to 107 tor
the oldstoek. Georgia Rail-Road Bonds,bearing
r per evert. Interest has been sold nt par
HX<*RANGE. The Banks continue to check
on tho North at 4 per cent, premium.
FREIGHTS.—Our Steamboat Companies arc
doing a good, business in up freights, and a very fair
amount of cotton is shipping by tho river to Sa
vannah. Shipments of cotton to Charleston very
moderate—the rates of freight remain unchanged.
Overflow.—Four O'clock Afternoon.—
This morning we stated that tlie water was ri
sing, and that several streets in the rear of the
First Municipality were then flooded. We re
gret to say that the prospects this afternoon are
still more gloomy. Where there was no wa
ter on Mondnv, a boat may float this afternoon.
The rain may have contributed to increase the
effect of the crevasse; yet, certain it is, that
the overflow is on the increase. Common
street is flooded nearly up to the corner of
Baronne street. Several families have already
been obliged to decamp. We observed a very
rapid current in lhedifferentchannels from the
river in the direction of the canal. Os course
when this is met by the water coming from
the crevasse, there will be to some extent a
quantity of stagnant water. Should this be
allowed to rest for any time, it will generate
disease to an alarming amount. Hence the
greater necessity of checking any further in
flux from the crevasse.
Eight O'Clock.—The water is still on the
increase. Philippa street is now a deluge of
water. Boats are as commonly to bo seen
there as carts a few days since. Within the
last four hours the water has risen from six to
eight inches.—[N. O. Cresent 16th inst.
Texas.—The Matagorda Tribune, in an
able article defending Mr. Calhoun against the
aspersions of Senator Houston has the follow
ing just and discriminating remarks.
“Respecting Mr. Calhoun’s disunion notions
and movements we think our Senator greatly
at fault. A strict constructionist will never
j dissolve the Union, a latitudmarian may. He
; is the disnniouist at heart who tamely submits
' to an infraction ot the Constitution, not he who
stands up in accordance with his oath to main
tain it and upheld at every hazard the rights it
i was intended to protect and vindicate.”
Augusta,
Wednesday Morning, May 23.184f>.
- now NBje-arA- =-= *: r Brir' MTCrr-CTca-r-.- ar-mi I 11 . .i,■'■ ■ ■ irr—
ILF The Agent for the Republic is Mr.WM.
Claget. Receipts will be given by him for
payments upon subscriptions and accounts.
We respectfully ask for him the kind aid of
our friends wherever he may go. This an
nouncement will not conflict with the private
written authority to others to act ip a similar
.capacity.
EF We have not been able to make room
to-day for the article of our correspondent
“ SottZ/nvner.” It shall appear on Thursday.
S3* We are pleased to copy from the Savan
nah Republican an article on the subject of
sending emigrants to Liberia. The evil spo
ken of should be prevented in future. Let
the free blacKs be sein u> when-
ever occasion presents itself, but it should al
ways be done in a proper way, and without
any such excitements as are referred to.
ILF We conclude to-day the proceedings of
the Convention at Columbia, South Carolina,
which will be found in another column.
To such as would wish to keep the Sheriff’s
Notices, which we publish, we would state,
that unless officially published in our pa
per, they will be inserted but once.
KF It will be seen in our advertising col
umns that the Board of Directors of the Bank
of Augusta have declared a simi-annual divi
dend of four dollars per share.
The Opera Troupe.
We are pleased to learn that a splendid
Operatic exhibition mny be expected to be
given in our city early next week.
The performers consist of some
greatest celebrities of the day.
Signora Truffi, Signors Benedetti and Rosi,
Henri Herz and Franz Coenan, constitute a
galaxy of musical ability rarely associated in
one performance. The splendid instrumen
tation of Mr. Herz upon the Piano is fresh in
the recollection of all who heard him some
year ago in this place.
We shall refer to them more particularly
in a few days. They are expected here
about Monday or Tuesday next.
The Bedouin Arabs.
This singular Troupe played last evening
to a good audience in the Theatre. They ap
peared in the costume of their native country,
and no doubt will attract many this evening
and subsequent evenings by the novelty of
their appearance and their extraordinary feats.
California Hotel at Barnesville.
We take great pleasure in calling attention
to the advertisement of Col. Griffin, which
which will be found in the paper to-day. We
recognize in his notice of his Hotel, the same
spirit of good humor, which marked him, as
our college classmate, and attracted his fel
lows to him. Those who call upon him, be
sides receiving the most hospitable and gen
tlemanly treatment, will never complain on the
score of comfort. Gainesville, as a summer
resort, cannot be excelled. Surrounded with
a beautiful landscape, the climate is salubri
ous, tiie water pure and wholesome, and a culti
vated and affable society is always found there.
The mineral water is of such excellent medi
cinal virtues that if you are fond of the cra
bedness and qualms of Dyspepsia, Liver Com
plaint, Spleen, Hypocondria, Gastralgia and
several other curious ailments which we could
name if we had time to search a Medical Dic
tionary, you had better keep away. We know
of no place at which it would be more proper
to erect a statue of Hygeia, the Goddess of
health, than Gainesville, and we tru-t that the
now name < f Col.. Griffin’s Hotel will provn
symbolical of his owrt success and prosperity.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Mercury.]
Baltimore, May 19, 7 p. m.
We have some further details of the de
structive fire at St. Louis. It extended from
Main street to the watei’s edge, embracing the
very heart of the business section of the city.
In addition to all the Insurance offices and
Banking houses, all the newspapers, with the
exception of the Union, are burnt out—the of
fices of the Republican, Enquirer, Organ and
Reveille, are all consumed, and the materials
with two or three trifling exceptions destroy
ed.
The loss is estimated at five millions of dol
lars, a large portion of which will fall on In
surance offices in the Eastern cities.
There was a large fire yesterday at Milwau
kie, which destroyed property to the amount of
sixty thousand dollars.
Dr. Cool dge, who was convicted some
months since of murdering a Mr. Mathews,
by administering (o him prussic acid, has com
mitted suicide in the Penitentiary at Augusta,
Maine.
[From the Savannah Republican]
Tiie Mberia Emigration.
Messrs. Editors.—Asa citizen of Savannah,
and slaveholder, solemnly do I protest against
a, repetition of such a scene as was enacted on
1 Monday, at one ofthe wharves of our seaport.
I was a witness of the departure of the barque
JZuma with her freight ofcmigrants for Libe
ria ; but respectfully call the prompt and im
mediate intervention of our City Council to
| adopt such prudential measures, as that no
| such departures again occurs ftom Savannah.
1 also invoke a presentment of opinion from
! the Grand Jurors of the county, promulgating
I a decided expression of their views on the sub
-1 ject, which will be responded to doubtless by
the people generally.' If it be necessary, I sug
i gest that a town meeting should be convened,
I that forever hereafter in this cily, no such fur
or and excitement among our blacks, free or
i slave, should be allowed to begotten up, by
| any one, as has been at work for a week past,
i These prospective Liberians have been swttg-
Lgerittg among our black population, to no ben
efit ofthe latter, you may be assured, ever
I since the llama landed here up to the time of
■ her departure. I have no objection to the pur
poses of the Colonization Society. Itut let tfitotos
t who are honest ntu! disinterested about it, re
} move the emigrants to Liberia in a quiet unos
tentatious and unobstrusive way—in fact, in a
totally different manner than such as charac
terized the proceedings of Monday ; and else
where, than from the Wharves of Savannah.
There are many other ways in which this ob
ject may be effected, than by a congregation of
about two thousand negro idlers huzzaing to ne
gro harrangues, and shouting to Yankee Doodle
from a band of music, &c., and thus presenting
mock-heroic opportunities for negro excitement
and idleness ; not to mention a very improper
dissatisfaction which may be, (ifnot already)
created among those who remain with us. Ixit
the Liberia be properly conducted,
and I for ene, do not object to, but favor it. But
I repeat, Sirs, I do now protest against the
“ ways an^means, and manner,” in which the
whole affair has lately been conducted in this
place, in connection with the sailing of the
I llunia, and her sojourn at our city. I trus'
j that the reflecting portion of our community
I will look to this matter. And to all whom this
I communication interests. I have for the present
' only to add “a word to the wise is sufficient.”
ASAVANNIAN
From the Charleston Courier—By Telegraph.
Great Fire at Watertown (,N. Y.) —An
extensive and disastrous tire has taken place
at Watertown, Jefferson county, (N. Y.)
which involved the destruction ot three Banks,
two Hotels, thirty Stores, the PostDiSce and
entire contents.
The total loss is estimated at three hundred
thousand dollars, and the insurance one hun
dred and twenty thousand.
The Weather.—Although it is now al
most summer time, did we judge solely by.
our feelings, and overlook the visible evidences
of tlie season, in the shape of green leaves,
flowers and grass—we would be tempted to
think that winter was still with us. Never do
we remember a more cbaugeabte and back
ward season. During tlie the
weather has been cool and unpleasant; it has
rained five days out of the seven ; and on one
of the others, (Monday.) we were treated to
quite a heavy frost.—Laureusville Ilejald.
The Chronicle and Sentinel.—
Thd Wilmot l*roviso.
Some days ago we copied an article, from
the Chronicle, in justification of Mr Jno. S.
Pendleton of Virginia, for his belief in the
constitutionality of the Wilmot Proviso. Ihe
Chronicle, the next day, charged us with gross
misrepresentation and stated that the article
which we copied from it was taken by that
paper from the Richmond (Va.) Times. We
replied to this statement of the Chronicle, as
our Tri-Weekly readers have seen, on Thurs
day morning last.
We shall now show that the Chronicle
thinks as the Virginia Times did whose article
it republished.
The position taken by the Times was, that
Mr. Pendleton took high southern ground in
adept ting. Aba •oostitntfonafity of the Wilmot
Proviso, and opposing it upon the ground of its
injustice.
We presumed this to bh tlie opinion of the
Chronicle as the author of the article or its
endorser. We put some questions to the
Chronicle which made it tremble like an aspen
leaf, and which it has not dared to answer.
See the article which we copy from the
Chronicle of the 18th instant.
The Columbus Times propounded tweques
tions to the Editor of the Cultivator. “D > you
believe the Wiltnot Proviso constitutional ?
Do you think it ought to be adopted by Con
gress ?” He replies that Congress ought not to
adopt it—that Mr. Polk acted uniciseZy in
signing fEe Oregon Bill wi.h the Wilmot Pro
viso incorpora ed in it.
There is nothing in.this reply against the
constitutionality of the Proviso !
Now mark the shifting and dodging, twisting
and turning, puling and sputtering of tbean
on the constitutional question. The
Editor had first like a scared rabbit to run to
Mr. Jefferson's anti-slavery notions in 1754 to
find a burrow to hide in. From that he holds
forth, that the report of Mr. Jefferson in 1784
was from a great mind and was an “a legal
question which good lawyers, not the Editor oi
an agricultural journal may presume to de
cide.” But pray is not this agricultural editor
one of the political editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel. Has he not aided in pouring out
abuse and ridicule upon southern men for
meeting to defend their rights and give expres
sion to their opinions on this very legal ques
tion under consideration ? And now he would
hide from public scrutiny behind a stack of fod
der or a Durham Bull.
Where are the Southern Proprietors, and
the Southern editor, that they, or be, will not
come up to the relief of the writer, on rural
matters, and shoulder at least their part of the
responsibility I What has this ordinance, of
1784, passed under the old articles of ccnfed
eration, to do with the question now? That
ordinance applied to the northwestern territory,
comprising now the states of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. There, it
was generally admitted, slavery should never
go, and when it was passed, the whole of that
country was a wilderness and in possession of
savage tribes of Indians. Peri aps there wore
not two thousand civilized inhabitants in the
whole of it. But how is the question now?
The Wilmot Proviso, of this day, is intended
to deprive southern men, southern States, of
their part of the new territories, obtained of
Mexico, which are the common property of all
and was purchased by the toil and money
and blood of all.
It is no.w a matter of paramount importance
to the South to maintain her political power in
the Union. Her salvation depends upon it. It
Mr. Jefferson, or General Washington, or all
the sages of the revolution were now to rise
from their tombs and come to us in their grave
clothes, with the doctrines of the Free-Soilers I
upon their lips, they would b£resisted and re- j
jected by the South.
The Editor of the Cultivator says, he must
decline to decide “who is right and who is
wrong in opinion.” Well then, for Heaven’s
sake, let him cease to undertake to teach the
South on this question. We want editors now
who hate opinions and whose opinions are
sound and right. The “ metes and bounds”
of Congressional power, in bis opinion are so
“ indefinite!” Poor man he is utterly bewild
ered. But he steady’s himself enough to say,
“it is belter policy to oppose a bad measure,
such as we regard the Wilmot Proviso, wheth
er applied to Oregon or California, on the
score of its injustice and general demerits
rather than on the ground THAT IT VIO
LATES THE CONSTITUTION.” Here
is the cloven foot sticking out from the fodder
stack as plain as the tail upon any animal that
has one. The editor says :
“ Since what is and what is not Constitu
tional, depends on present interpretations, and
different minds and partiesdo, aud will ever in
terpret the language of the Constitution, as
wellasthatof the Bible, differently, it is-the
weakest of all restraints on the doings of
Congress or of a Church, to ay that a particu
lar measure is unconstitutional orunscriptural. '
Instead of an idle controversy about the mean
ing of words—a contest in which king num
bers has every advantage—we should fight the
battle on the merits of the question, where
right and conscience, and the spirit of the
Federal Compact are to decide, rather than the
peculiar interpretation ot an organic law.”
The meaning of the above, if it has any
meaning at all, is this, we ought never to re
sort to the Constitution, in maintaining our
rights, or deciding upon the merits of any
question, but to abstract right and conscience !
Where the writer got this new fangled notion
from, we know not, but if its promulgation, in
connection with every thing else put forth
from behind the fodder stack or bull, does not
Luu u> be a rural wonder and potMcat
phantasmagoria, what in the name of reason
ing does it prove ? If there were not actual
tangibility about the writer, we shoujrf have
set him down for something ghostly, and have
imagined that he had completely evaporated in
some kind of spiritual smoke.
We have always thought that the constitu
tion was established to be the guide. It is
plain then, that in looking to that the editor
can find no support for southern rights—no
thing against the proviso in the inter/ relation
of organic law. The gentle southern public
are told, that their only hope is in right, con
science, and the spirit of the compact. Does
not this give up the whole question ? Does it
not, to all intents and purposes, admit the con
stitutionality of the proviso ? It is true, the
editor says that justice is upon our side, but
that Congress has the power to pass the W il
mot proviso is plainly inferable. When Con-
I gress does pass it, those in the South who sup
> port the views of the editor, and depend upon
his notions about conscience, &c., will say as
. ihe»fellow did, upon whom they poured the
i hot molasses, “ it scalds all-fired bad, if it is so
I sweet.” These sweet words about right,
conseicnce, &.C. are just about as seasonable
now concession of congressional
power.) as snow is in summer time. South
ern hopes and rights would be as efiectually
withered in the one case, as vegetation would
be in the other. Suppose the democrats did
■ support Mr. Van Buren in 1836, as is stated,
1 did not the whigs oppose him, and was notone
!of the heaviest thunderbolts they hurled
against him, owing to that very declaration of
j his, that Congress liad the constitutional power
to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia.
We copy, finally, from the article of the
1 Chronicle, as follows :
“Wnereis the wisdom of running a tilt
with mere abstractions, ever contending with
1
wind-mills, and in the end losing much and
gaining nothing! Show the Editor of the
Southern Cultivator anything to be done which
is right and practical, and he is ready to prove
his fpith by his works. A good cause is often
ruined by the impolitic way iu which it is ad
vocated.”
Its a mere abstraction then, to deny the con
stitutionality of the Wilmot proviso—to do so
is to run upon a wind-mill, and will looso us
much and gain us nothing.' What does the
editor mean by "right and practical”! Os
course the inference is,that it isnOt right ami
practical to deny the constitutionality of the
Wilmot proviso—by that course, in his opin
ion, we will be ruined. Our plan, we sup
pose is to acknov?'edge the power iu Congress,
and pray for mercy I
This whole article in the Chronicle, begun
in a fright and slided off into a dodge, is sus
tained by prevarication, and with the help of
coughs, and hawks, and hems, and sputters,
with a little sly free-soilism, under the cloak of
Mr. Jefferson, is rather a lame and gouty af
fair, from beginning to end.
We hope the southern editor will be bold
euniigh to speak, and help his agricultural
friend, who, although one of the editors of the
Chronicle, as well as the editor of the Cultiva
tor, is nevertheless disposed to hide in the
aforementioned manner. We would remind
the former, of the case of Mump Hazard, who
was hung for saying nothing.
We have learned, frem several quarters, that
certain persons are striving to create among
t!•>- whigs the impression, that the Chroni
-cle is the peculiar Whig organ in this section
ofthe state. We have no ambition to be the
orain of any party. Our paper advocates
wing principles, but we would advise those i
laboring to disparage onr jqnwi|
ams make the Chronicle the organ of
ty. to whisper in its ear, that its steps are slip
pery—that if it treads for the whigs, both are
in danger of f. Hing. We speak to those who
would un uliig us, because we will not un-
South ourselves. If tiny strike at us we
shall strike at them. Let them look at their
peculiar organ. Look at the picture which it
now presents.
Can the whigs rely upon a journal, which
puts forth such an article as we copy to-day ? j
Its doctrines and position are dead weight upon
the party. We solemnly aver, we would not
refer to it as we do—we would not risk the un
charitable insinuations of selfishness against
us, but for the good of the South, and the party
to which we are attached.
We have been compelled to refer to the edi
tpr of the Cultivator from the very nature of
the case. He cannot be separated from the
Chronicle and Sentinel, for he is one of its ed
itors. We were charged by the Chronicle
with gross misrepresentation—with attribut
ing to it the opinions of the Richmond Virgin
ia Times. The opinion ofthe Times has been
fully made out to be the opinion of the Chron
idc and Sentinel. That paper, published in
Augusta, Georgia, it is now evident, holds that
the Wilmot proviso is constitutional, and that
itis best for us to oppose it upon the grounds
of its injustice, rather than its violation of the
national constitution ! »
Alas 1 how can our rights be maintained,
with such sentinels upon the watch-towers of
tile South I
[From the New Orleans Picayune.]
Deathof Major Gen. Worth.
With inexpressible pain we are called upon
teannounce the death of Major Gen. Worth.
The news, so sudden and appalling, reached
tpwn last night by the Portland. It was com
municated to us in the following letter from
|[ajor Deas:
. Ass’r Adj’t Gen’s Office, Sth Dep’t )
[ %an Antonio de Bezar, Texas, may 1, 1849. {
| Editors Picayune.— l have to announce to
| wti, for public information, the death of Major
Gen. Worth who expired to-day at 1 o’clock
P. M., of cholera.
I make the above announcement in order to
set aside all doubt as to this melancholy event.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
GEO. DEAS, Ass’t Adj’t Gen.
It is not for us to write the eulogy of the
gallant soldier who now sleeps in death.—
Fw thirty-six years he had served his country
inthe army; and his gallant deeds are a por
tion of the common glories of the republic.—
A friend who was with him it bis death, him
self a soldiei, has addressed to us these few
lines:
San Antonio, May 7,1819.
My dear -It is with feelings of the deepest
regret I have tff announce to you the death of
Brevet Major Gen. W. J. Worth. He died
to-dny about IP. M. Ho was attacked last
evening with cholera of a most virulent type,
defying the very best medical skill.
Ii is a very sad event, one of overwhelming
grief to Ins dear family, and of sincere regret
to a large circle of admiring friends. Worth |
had his faults—we all have—but none can j
deny h : m the honor of being a gallant and (
whole soldier, one wholhrew iiisevery energy, ■
his whole heart into the performance of his
duties. In this hasty announcement nothing
like any notice can betakenof his eminent ser
vices. He died as he lived a true soldier, con
scious to the last, surrounded by his broken
hearted wife and children, and by his military
staff and other friends. May his march to the
'hunting ground meet with no impediment!—
Yours truly, g** de l*
It is only yesterday, as it were that Gen.
Worll: left this city. Immediately before he
left lie complained of illness and hisdeparture
was delayed one day in consequence. Prior
to that illness he appeared to us in vigorous
health and seemed the picture of manly intel
lectual beauty—a proud and high spirited sol
dier. Those who have seen him in action
assure us that language cannot do justice to his
noble bearing in the field, his eagle eye glan
cing fire and ins whole countenance beaming
with intelligence and proud defiance. Alas ! i
how speedily are all his noble traits quenched |
in death. To survive the perils of a hundred
battles atjJ to be carried off in the maturity of ;
SffengfS by disease, seem a hard fate for a sol-1
dier. ” The ways of Providence are indeed in- '
scru table.
The Galveston News furnishes some further
particulars of this sad event;
Death of Major Gen. Worth.—Thear
| rival ot. the steamer Portland, from Lavaca
■ this morning, brings intelligence of the death
of one of the most distinguished men of this
1 country. Maj. Gen. W. J. Worth died in San
, Antonio on Tuesday last, the Bth inst., at half
I past 1 o’clock, P. M. |lt should be Monday,
; the 7th.] He had b?en taken seriously sick,
as we learn, only the previous day, though be
had been quite unwell with a diarrhoea from ;
I the time he left New Orleans, and continued
so till he reached San Antonio, which was but
a few dax s before his death. He was far from ,
being well when he passed through this city, I
' and was so much indisposed at Indianola that
the boat was detained there part of a day on
t his account, before proceeding to Port Lavaca.
A servant belonging to his escort died of the
cholera on the road a little above Victoria.
j It is presumed, though not certainly known,
that the disease of which Gen. Worth died,
• was the cholera. Immediately upon his death,
i an express was despatched, which arrived at
, Port Liraca on Wednesday, at 1 o'clock, be
ing just 21 hours on the way. We cannot
’ learn any particulars of the sickness and death
1 of this distinguished officer—these are proba
, bly given in the despatches now on their way
. to Washington.
By this afflicting dispensation Gen. Worth’s
family have been thus suddenly deprived of
’ their protector, almost as soon as they had ar-
• rived at the point of destination, where they
I anticipated residence for some time to come ;
I and the whole country deprived of the services
of a man whose brilliant achievements are de-
> servedly the pride of the people, and will adorn
> the pages of our history to a remote geuera
[ tion. The death of such a man is truly a na
[• tional bereavement, and will undobtedly be fol
lowed with demonstrations of morning
throughout the whole Union. Gen. Worth’s
• family, we believe, consists of Mrs. Worth
■ and two daughters.
t Light matches are made of phosphoret of
i sulphur.
From the Chron. &. Sentinel of Friday, 18th.
The Southern Cultivator.
We take the following article from the
Chronicle &. Sentinel of the 4th inst. It wonld
have been well perhaps that Dr. Lee should
have gone a little farther than he has done iu
clearing himself of “the aspersion.” Dr. Lee,
as we understand, is a Northern Whig, and
may for fifteen years, have written and spoken
against abolition and abolitionists—so has Ho
race Greeley. Horace Greeley believes the
Wilmot Proviso is constitutional, and is in fa
vor of its adoption. Dr. Lee may entertain
the same opinions. We do not remember to
have seen in the Chronicle & Sentinel any
thing inconsistent with such opinions. Dr.
let us hear from you. Do you believe the
Wilmot Proviso unconstitutional ? Do you
think it ought to be adopted by Congress :■
We will publish your reply.—[Columbus
Times.
T:*- Editor of the Southern Cui.Tt '.vroi:
does not “think that t ie Wilmot Proviso ought
to be adopted by Congress;” aud further, he
■ believes that President Polk acted unwisely
| for the whole country, if not tor his party,when
I he "approved” of the Wilmot Proviso in the
' Oregon Bill.
As to the constitutionality of the Ordinance
of 1787, which was first drawn by the hand
and pen,and dictated by tiie mind of Thomas
Jefferson, it is a legal question, which good
I lawyers, not the Editor of an agricultural
journal may presume to decide. For the in
formation of the Times we copy the Proviso
introduced bj* Jefferson in March, 1784. It,
was in the report of a Committee submitted
to Con'gress by Mr. J. and referred to the
northwestern territory :
“ dissolved, That such temporary govern
ment shall only continue in force in any state
until it shall have acquired twenty thousand
free inhabitants; when giving due proof there
of to Congress, they shall receive from them
authority, with appointments of time and
place, to call a convention of representatives
to establish a permanent constitution and go- i
vernment for themselves: Provided, That
both the temporary and permanent gbvern-
a i
a part oribWn’ited Slates of America :] 2.
That, in their persons, property, and territory,
they shall be subject to the Government of the
United States in Congress assembled, and to
the articles of confederation in al! those cases
in which the original States shall be so subject.
3, That they shall be subject to pay a part of
the federal debts contracted or to be contract
ed, to be apportioned on them.by Congress ac
cording to the same Common rule and measure
by which apportionments thereof shall be made
on the otiieiStates: 4 That their respective go
vernments shall be in republican forms, and
shall admit no person to be a citizen who holds
any hereditary title : 5. That after the year
1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude in any if the
said States, otherwise than in punishment if
crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted to have been personally guilty.'
The above was lost from the lack ot one or
two votes.
On the 13th July, 1737, the ordinance of
which the above is a part was passed by the
following vote :
Massachusetts. Mr. Iloltcn, ) a ,,'
Mr. Dane, j
New York. Mr. Smith, l av
Mr. Haring,
Mr. Yates, )
New Jersey. Mr. Clarke, £ ay-
Mr. Shearman,
Delaware. Mr. Kearney, i
Mr. Mitchell, c
Virginia. Mr. Grayson, A ‘
Mr.R. 11. Lee, L
Mr. Carington,
North Carolina. Mr. Bioui.t, )
Mr. Hawkins, £
South Carolina. Mr. Koan, )
Mr. Huger, $
Georgia. Mr. Few, )
Mr. Pierce, | a Y‘
[Journals of Congress, vol. 4, p. 751.
The Editor of the Cultivator hopes that
be may be excused for declining to review
this grave constitutional question, in order to
determine who is rig?:/and who is wrong in
opinion.
Nothing is more indefinite than the metes
and bounds of what Congress or any legisla
tive body, may or may not constitutionally do.
Acts the most ”nwii o, unju it and Injurious to
the State or Nation, may still be within the
letter of the Constitution. It is better policy
to oppose a bad measure, such as we regard
the Wilmot Proviso, whether applied to Ore
gon or California, on the score of its injustice
and general demerits,rat her than on the ground
that it violates the Constitution. Since what is
nd w hatis not Constitutional, depends on present
interpretations, and different minds and parties
do, and will ever interpret the language of the
Constitution, as well as that of tho Bible, dif
ferently, it is the weakest of all possible res
traints on the doings of Congress or of a
Church, to say that a particular measure is
unconstitutional or unscriptural. Instead of
an idle controversy about the moaning of
words—a contest in which king numbers has
every advantage—we should fight the battle
on the merits of the question, where right and
conscience, and the spirit of the Federal Com
pact are to decide, rather than the peculiar in
terpretation of an organic la\V.
Mr. Van Buren declared that the abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia was con
stitutional ; yet the Southeren democracy
supported him for the Presidency in 1836, and
elected him. Unlike Mr. Polk on the Oregon
hill, he would have vetoed, and justly too,a bill
abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.
Where is the wisdom of running a tilt with
mere abstractions, ever contending with Wind
mills, and in the- end losing much and gaining
nothing ! Show the Editor of tho Southern
Cultivator anything to be done which is right
and practical, and he is ready to prove his faith
by his works. A good cause is often ruined
by the impolitic way in which it is advocated.
Temperance Convention.
The State Temperance Convention of Geor
gia will hold its annual celebration on the 27th
June. The members of the different Tem
perance Societies and of the respective Divi
sions of the Sons of Temperance and the
friendsof Temperance generally, throughout
this and the adjoining States are respectfully
and cordially invited to attend.
In behalf and by order of the Committee of
Arrangements.
JOHN F. LANNEAU, President
of the Temperance Society of Marietta.
STEPnEN S. TAYLOR, W. P.
of No. 83, S. of T.
Superior Court.—The Spring term of the
Superior Court of Muscogee Co. His Honor
Judge Alexander presiding, commenced on
Monday last. A large amount of business is
on the docket, which, it is thought, will re
quire at least a month to dispose of. On Tues
day Mr. Wiley Adams was mulcted in dam
ages to the tune of S3OO and costs, for inju
ries inflicted last fall upon the person of Mr.
James Toumlin,an aged man from Upson co.
Mr. A. is also held to answer in the same case
for assault and battery.—[Muscogee Demo
crat, 17th inst.
Rumor of Fraud in High Pi-Aces.—A des
patch from Washington, May 12, says:
It is said that charges exist against a high
officer in the War Department, which are be
ing examined into, relative to frauds upon the
government in the way of forged land war
rants and other claims of dead soldiers, that
had no existence.
Horrible ! —Miss Letitia S. Blaisdell, a
young girl of New Boston. N. H. has been
tried lor poisoning her foster-mother and an in
fant child, and sentenced to be hung on the
30th August !
More Horrible.—Thomas Newkirk, of
Jefferson county, Ky. took down a gun, placed
the muzzle thereof to bis mother’s head, fired
and kilted her. He afterwards was found in
the woods,B_miles off, dead, having committed
suicide! 1
Most Horrible.—James Haughtaling of
■ Lisle, Browne county, N. Y., was recently
murdered by ins own son, eight years of age.
The father was a drunkard and while in the field
plowing, with bis son, laid down in the fur
row and went a-leep. The lad unhitched the
team, took it home, procured a sharp axe, re
turned to the field and chopped off the head of
i bis lather and then kicked it away several feet!
’ On being questioned why he did it, he said that
, his father was a dunken scamp, and had beat
en him the day before while intoxicated ! ! !
The boy has since been tried, but acquitted on
j the grounds of moral incompetency to tommit
what the law calls murder.—[Muscogee Dem-
I ocrat.
Read the account from Ireland brought by
the Canada. The condition of the Irish is a
disgrace to England.and a sijj;me to the civili-
' zed world.
j Irulan«l->-Denth I Heath!!
[From the Dublin Freeman’s Journal ]
i Is this to be forever and forever the cry--
j death 1 death ! ! death !1 ! We came to our
j office yesterday hoping that we would not have
| to perusO the nspal amount of awful, heart
j rending death lists, but need We say that onr
j heart sank within us, and that pur blood ran
i cold as wo read letter after letter, and found
the burden of each to bo tho same appalling cry
i —death, death, death. The humarm Protot
i ant rector of Bsllinrobe addresses Lord John
I Russell to-dny through our columns, and every !
line of his eloquent, expressive, philanthropic
letter is as a voice from the dead—a voice tell- j
ing of over one hundred and thirty-six regis- I
tered deaths occurring in one week in the jioor- i
house of Ballinrobe! ! —a voice tcllmg of the
increase of the people’s wretchedness and
misery—a voice telling of the poorhouse being I
shunned as a pestilential snare through “the j
vain hope” of tho victims “that death mny not !
all at once overtake them elsewhere”—a voice
telling the that tho people
“have had neither food nW* raiment in any wav
commensurate with their wants, or even the
necessities of nature, and that the painful con
sequence is “ihey are dropping into their
graves in MULTITUDES.”
Rev. Mr. Conway, the active, zealous and
humane Catholic curate of tho same place,
writes to us—and the burden of bis letter also |
is the same fearful cry as that which gives an
awful interest to the communication of the
compassionate I’rdestant rector. He says:
“We have dead bodies everywhere. I am
obliged myself to handle ‘hem, coffin them,
and put them in the earth. We cannot pro
cure a sufficiency of men to bury the dead, or
of ceffinsto contain them. Every village hSs
dead bodies lying unburied for many days; al
most every hovel inthe suburbs of the town
has its corpse. We cannot, I repeat, get cof
fins, boards or men for the necessity of the mo
ment. May God forgive our rulers for their
.-rur" conduct toward God's creatures hero !”
Aga<n and again we ask in anguish of spirit
will men be apathetic while snch is the fate of
brother-men? Will creatures endowed with
souls—with human hearts—be silent while the
very stones, had they voices, would cry to
Heaven against such appalling horrors.
Tuesday night we took up the evening pa
pers, and said, here at least the cry of death 1
will, not meet us at every line. We were mis- 1
taken. It was still the same. The wail of
the destitute poor was taken up by the Conser
vative Packet, and flung among our rulers '
with a vigorous and truthful eloquence which i
few cou'd command. The first thing that met t
our eyes in that journal, ever true to the cause 1
ot’ suffering humanity, was this :
“ Doom of the ‘Mere Irish.’—We feel it
is not necessary to titter one syllable of com- (
inent when introducing the following letter to
.our readers. It has b.'en communicated to us
by a highly intelligent gentleman, who would !
be incapable of exaggeration, and the fruits of
whose talent and learning have frequently de
lighted and instructed our readers. (
“There are some facts simply stated in this
lett r t hat are terribly suggestive of the state to 1
which our peasantry are reduced,our once hap- 1
py,light-hearte d peasantry. The children fight- I
ing for the nettles is one of these. Childhood
struggling with childhood—struggling for '
such means to exist a little longer lor living
death ! The ‘well-grown girls’ cowering be
fore the writer is another, the agony of their
shame—God help them ! —surpassing the ago
ny of their hunger. And what, in all the re- t
cords of this unrelieved famine that is slaying '
our unhappy people, can be more demonstra- 1
five of the desert through which our corres- 1
pondenl passed, than the driver’s significant I
words, ‘You won’t hear the of a child 1
from this to Limerick i’ Not a child's crj’ in 1
a district once fruitful and beautiful—once ]
peopled with life and happiness—once filled
at this season with the bustle of harvest pre
paration—once musical with the glad mirth of i
young voices ! Good God ! could volumes
suggest a more appaling change than the sim
plewords; ‘You wont hearthe cry of a child
from this to Limerick ?’
The following is the letter J
‘To the Editor of the Evening Packet:
April 28, 1849.
‘Dear Sir: I have been for the last ten
days through the Counties of Limerick, Gal
way, Clare, and across thence to the King’s
County.
‘All attempts to depict the existing slate of
the misery of the masses beyond the Shannon
must come utterly short of the truth. All that
tract of country from Killaloe to Portumna
on the Galway side of the Shannon, is lying
waste and uncultivated. About three out
of four of the miserable huts are unroofted.—
Some of the former inmates are dead, some in
the union, and some few huddled together in
one or two ofthe huts still existing.
‘The men generally have perished.’ n
The correspondent of the Packet having de
scribed scenes of human misery on which a
demon could scarcely look without emotion,
concludes thus ;
‘With large tracts of land uncultivated, a
few miserable men are employed on the roads
—at what wages think you ? One pound of
yellow meal—i. e. Jess than Id per diem !I !
Great God how is this to cure famine 1
‘lf this process of depopulation goes on a
few months more, you may seek an able bo
died man in vain for twenty or thirty mites of
country.’
Such is the testimony of ah intelligent con
servative witness, after having visited four
counties.
In the name of ottr common humanity and
onr common faith, we call upon the public,
one and all, to arouse themselves to rescue
their brother-men, their brother-subjects, and
brother Christians,who now stand on tho brink
of destruction, from this devouring sea of mi
sery, whose deluge engulfs its thousands and
its tens ot thousands by the week.
Fire in Aberdeen, Miss.—The Aberdeen
Independent states that on the 4th inst. fire
broke out in that town and consumed consid
erable property. It commenced in the stables
of J. Davis. Besides ‘he stables the Coach fac
tory of J. Creight; the house, outbuilding, and
gunsmith shop of Mr. Souff e ; tho large cen
ter shop of Messrs. Hagy & Crawhorn, and
several vacant wooden houses were entirely
destroyed. The law office of Coopwood &
Dowd was torn down in order to arrest the
flames. The loss of Mr. Davis, Mr. Creight,
and Mr. S. will be heavy. That of the former
is estimated at S2OOO ; tHht of Mr. Creight
at SI2OO. zNbout ten horses were burnt in
the stable ; one of them belonged to Mr. Da
vis, and four to Mr. Bibb, the mail contractor.
A large number of buggies, carriages, &c.,
were also consumed. The Mansion House
was on fire several times, but by dint of
great exertion on the part of the citizens,both
that large building and row of law and medi
cal officers on the north side of Commerce-st.,
immediately opposite the fire wore saved.
On Friday last the four negroes which had
lieeu lodged in jail, charged with the murder
of Mr. Michael Long, were put upon their tri
al and found guilty. One was sentenced to be
hanged, and the others to be whipped.
Three more are yet to berried.—Edgefield
Advertiser, 16th inst.
More VHited States.
The territory not yet formed into States,
will make forty-six and a half States as large
as Pennsylvania. Os these thirty-dive will be
North of 36 deg. 30 min.—or free States.
Eleven and a half South of 36 deg. 30 min.—
or slave States, supposing the Missouri Com
promise line to be adopted.
The United States Will then Consist of se
venty-six Sovereign States. Tyrants! trem
ble.
Should Oregon, California and New Mexico
fly off, and the Rocky Mountains bo the divi
sion between the United States of the Atlantic
and the United States, of the Pacific, the At
lantic Union will contain fifty-seven Sovereign
States; the Pacific Union nineteen gigautc
Sovereign States. Tyrants! still tremble.
These calculations are based upon the re
cent report of the United States Commission
er of the General Land office—and take in
all the United Slates territory ol every kind
not yet formed into States.
God save the Union.—[West Chester Jeff.
POWDER! POWDER!
rniflC StBSCKIBLIt has just rc-
JL ceived a large supply of II azard <j- Co.'s
superior Kentucky RIFLE POWDER, in kegs,
half kegs, quarter kegs and canisters. Also, one
hundred and fifty kegs BLASTING POWDER.
He also has for sale Reynold 4* l'°-’s ETNA
FUSE a perfectly safe and cheap article for Blas
ting purposes. This celebrated Fuse will burn
under water or in any place where Blasting is
done. i-'ui? LC. TINSLEY, Agent
3
MARRIED.
I In Warren county, on the 16th inst., by tho
Rev. P. N. Maddux, Cti fix I/nvr>, f!sq., and
- Mrs. Matilda Torrence, all of said county.
DIED,
i At Calhoun’s Mills on Friday 13th ult.,Mrs.
■ Rebecca D*rrac:oTT in the 85th year of her
age. She was a native of Hano'.’er Co Va.,
laud early emigrated with her father to Wash
: itigton, \rilk‘-H Co., Ga., wheioslte rnarriedand
[ resid' d fora number of years. For upwards
! of til) years she was n consistent member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church—mid in her daily
walk and conversmionadoaied the doctrine of
Christ, her Savior, ami died in t e triumph of
a t-hrisluiii's hope. ■— [Abbeville Banner 12th
in-t.
At h:s res’tf tnee in Richmond county; on the
Isihiii.-t, Holland Mc'J'¥i;E,.T.sq.
He was a native of Virginia, bom in North
l nmtierl ind county, on the 14th of February
1771. in 1785 he removed to this oounty,
where he has spent a long life. That it bus
been a useful and honorable life, the centinned
esteem and confidence of his fellow-ohizenst,
by whom he was often honored with the high
est offices in their gilt, attest. Hs has filled,
wall ihsefnlneas to the public and credit to him
self, the places of Sheriff, Representative in
the high Assembly, Senator and Justice of the
Inferior Comt.
For sever.ll years he has been- confined to his
house by a casualty which deprived him of tho
ability to walk, and subjected him to mnch suf
fering. But thero he exhibited one of the fi
nest traits of the Christian character, a quiet
and cheerful resignation, and experienced, in
believing, a peace and joy the world could not
give.
He was a mcmboFof (lie Methodist Episco
pal Church, and adorned his profession by a
consistent life and conversation ; and having
finished his work on earth, calmly (Hid peace
fully sank into the sleep of death, leaving to
his sorrowing wife and numerous descendants
relatives and friends; the consolation of know
ing thnt he died in the full n-suran -e qf
‘-.Mav mv Inst end Is* Id”- Ms.**" - -
ILFUhris’ion Advocate please copy.
Special Notices.
BANK OF AUGUSTaT?
May 2-1 st, 1849. $
KT The Board of I>ir >ctoi’s of
this Hank have declared a Senti-Anm.al Dividend
of per Shore, which will be paid < n demuud.
my22-3t JAS. W. DAVIES, Cashier.
.KF The Whigs of i< irhnioiir!
County are requested to meet at the Cily Hall,
in Augusta,on the FIRST TUESDAY in June
next, at 3 o’clock, I*. M., for the purpose of ap
pointing Delegates to tlieCouventicn at Milledge
ville, to nominate a candidate for Governor.
KF The Whigs of Hancock are
requested to meet at the Court House on WED
NESDAY, the 4th June next, to nominate dele
gates to Gubernatorial Convention to be held in
Milledgeville. *
KF The Whig; Pas-ly of Jforg'ati
County, are very respectfully requested to meet
at Madison on the FIRST MONDAY in June,
for the purpose of transacting some very impor
tant business, MANY WHIGS.
my!9-td-
(ALIIOK.M.I HOTEL,
LliL GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA. OL
Having recently given the exterior of
nty Hotel a new coat of paint, I thought it
might not be amiss to change the name ; and
whilst 1 am naming, don’t see why I should not
select the most popular. There is this difference
between the El Dorado and us. There they have
plenty of go’d, and but little to eat. We. have
plenty to cat, but no gold. Come up friends
spend the summer with us, and help us out.
We wonld say to those who have been in tho
habit of going North, you need not fear to bring
your servants this way.
We are sorry to say to those, who espouse the
theory of Mr. Guimarin, that we have no Smail
Pox up herd. We thought we had the Cherokee
region on the hip this summer, but this idea ofthe
Presidency to the Gentlemen, and Beauty to the
Ladies, is too strong. Can’t he p it—too lute in
the season to get up any cases now.
J J.
(Liinesviilc, May 15, 1819.
3lorltfage Sale iai
WIIIaE be sold on the FIRSTTUESD?N|
IN JUNE NEXT, before tho Court
house door in the town of La Grange, Troup
county, between the usual hours of sale, the fol
lowing Negroes, to wt: MARY, a woman about
28 years old; JE.SSE, a boy, about 12 years
old; and HENRY, a boy about 9 years old
all black. AU levied upon to satisfy a mortgage
fl. la. issued from Troup Inferior Court, in favor
of Ruins Broome vs Seaborn J. Thompson. Pro
perty pouted out in said fl. fa.
THOMAS DAVIS, Sheriff.
May 23, 1819.
Walton Slieriff’N Sale.
Wllilb be sold before the Court House door
in Monroe, Walton Conntv, on the
FIRST TUESDAY IN JUNE NEXT, within
the legal hours of sate the following property to
wit:
One yoke of oxen, levied on as the property of
Jonathan M. Botts, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from
Cherokee Superior Court, iu favor of A. K. Black
well vs. said Butts. L. B. HAYS, Sh’ff
May 23,1849.
Columbia Sheriff Sales..
WJI.L. be sold, at Appling, Columbia coun
ty, before the court horae door in stud coun
ty, on the first Tuesday in June next, the fol
lowing property ta-wit: one negro woman, Lucy,
md her thro children ; Amelia, Louisiuaud Pal
mira; 5 Beds aud Bedding ;7 Bedstcaes, 1 leath
ei bed ; 5 mutt asses ; 1 chest of bed-clothes ; !»
washstands; 6 bowl# and pitcher; 1 wash pan ; 6
looking glasses ; 7 pair of Andirons ; 2 pair Shov
els and tongs ; 3 Centre tables ; 1 large table,
with draws ; 1 folding table and ends ; 6 common
tub'.es ;2 Bureaus ; 2 Desks ; 1 Mahogany wri
ting desk ; 1 Brass Clock ; 1 Rocking Chair;6
cane scat Chairs ;20 common chairs;! centre
lamp ; 2 glass lamps ; 3 brass candb sticks ; I
hand bellows ; 1 Ladies’ and gentleman’s saddle ;
1 clock reel ; 1 Safe ; 1 Piano Forte and stool ; W
pictures in frames ;2 wind w curtains; 2 mops ;
I clothes press ; 3 hair trunks ; 1 valice ; 1 car
pet ; 1 hair comb and brtfth ; 1 one-horse wagon ;
1 bay horsu colt—all levied on as the property of
Waller J. Jones, deceased, to satisfy three execu
tions from Columbia Superior and Inferior Courts,
in favor of Henry T Warren, Mathew C. Hale
and Thomas Miller & Co., vs. Walter J. Jones
and Walter Jones.
JOHN F. SUTTON,Sheriff.
May 4, 1849.
Lincoln Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in June
next, between the legal hours of sale, before
the court house door in Lincolnton, o e trar.t of
land containing one hundred and lour acres, more
or less, lying in Lincoln county, and adjoining
lands of Edward Frazier and others : levied on U>
satisfy sundry fi. fas in favor of Benrjsimin Ben
dy and others, vs. James Almonds, issued from
Justice court of the 186th District, G. M. Levy
made and returned to me by a constable.
JOHN W. HAMBRICK. Sheriff.
April 27, 1849.
Putnam J line Sales.
WILL be sold before the Court House dooi
in the town of Eutonton, Putnam county,
on the first Tuesday in June next, within the
u. ual hours of sale, the following property, to
wit :
Two negroes—.TFnny, a woman about 46 years
of age, and Adeline a girl about nineteen years of
age; levied on as the property of Zachariali
Roughton, to satisfy a mortgage fi f a in favor of
Nancy Gilbert vs. Zachariah Roughton. Proper
ty }X)inted out by mortgage fi fa.
Also, one negro mau, John, about 45 years of
age ; 130 acres of laud, more or less adjoining F.
S. Hearn, Sr., and others ; levied on a* the pro
perty of Elizabeth Richardson, Thomas J. Rich
ardson, Amy G. Richardson, Sarah R.cbardson,
and El : za G. Richardson, to satisfy afifa in favor
of John Robson, vs. Eizabeth Richardson, Thon.
J. Richardson. Amy G. R Sarah Rich
ardson, and Eliza G. Richardson.
Also one grey horse, one sorrel horse one black
colt two years old ; levied on as the property of;
Ezra S. Howard, to satisfy a li fain favor of Jas.
Nicholson vs. Ezra S. Howard.
11. J. DENNIS, Sh’ff
May 19, 1849.
Wilkes Sheriff Sale in Jline.
be sold before the Court House door
▼ f in Washington, within the legal hours of
sale, on the first Tuesday in June next, the fol
lowing property, to-wit :
The interest of John P. Hammock, in a certaiij
tract of land situate, lying, and being on the wa--
of Beaverdam Creek in said county, and now
iu posse-sion of Thomas Johnson, containing nine
ty-six acres, more or less, uaid interest being one
seventh pan thereof Sold to satisfy
fits from the Justicis Comt ofthe 17 1
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