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Qioinmercial Intelligence.
iUGIsTV market. h
Office of.thb Augusta Republic, ) t i
June 3, 1851. j g
COTTON— The increase in the receipts o
of cotton now ma'rk about 285,000 bales. ‘
The stock qf cotton in Hamburg and Au- „
gusta, on the Ist inst., was 54,183 bales, E
against 57,339 bales at same time last year, s
The receipts are 224,851 bales against 243,- a
344 bales. The receipts in May were 15,665 *
bales, against 10,597 bales in May of last year. (
The demand for cotton at the close of last s
week, was good, and prices were at the rate
of about 9 «ent* for fair cottons.
BAGGING AND BALE ROPE.—The j
planters are beginning to lay in their supplies s
of these articles. Gunny is worth 16 cents, i
and rope 8} to 9 cents.
BACON.—We quote for country Bacon f
11 cents hog round. Baltimore and New Or
leans 9 cents for shoulders and 11 cents for
aides.
LARD— Is selling wholesale at from 11|
to 12 cents. Retail price 14 to 15 cents.
CORN—From 85 to 95 cents.
MOLASSES—This article has improved
in value. We quote 26 to 28 cents. New
Orleans Syrup is worth 40 cents.
COFFEE—Rio is selling at from 11 to 111
cents.
LEMONS— Selling by the box at from $5)
to $6.
u FREIGHTS— The river is rather low, bnt
*" ,; <ht draught steamers reach our wharves.
£W o eriisements.
good Laborers, fol-
Bncklas cis,
Htc >U>. ci. • .
RICHMOND COP*'™ ~
VJT Whereas, Anu Salesbury.X'**™” Jne r
for letters of administrating* e es i c o
David G. and a d mon >h, all
ese ar® e e( ] an( j creditors, of said ce-
and R, ‘^ t ul «r> t^f ear at my office, within the
law, to show cause, if any they
7 slo letters should not be granted
under my hand at office iu Augusta.
LEON P. DUGAS, Clerk.
June 3, 1851.
EORGIA, BURKE COUN I’Y Where
as, John W. Colson appl es to us for let
ters of administration on the estate of Wil
liam Colson, la e of said county, deceased :
These are therefore to cite and admonish, all
and singular the kindred and creditors of said de
ceased, to be and appear before the Honorable
the Justices of the Inferior Court, when sitting for
Ordinary purposes lor said county, on the first
Monday in July next, a d show cause, if any
they have, why said letters should not be gran
ted.
Given under our hands at the office of the
Clerk of th« Court of Ordinary’ for said county*
this 30th May. 1851.
Attest SAM P. DAVIS, J. I. C. B. C.
Edward Garlick, Dep. Clerk.
June 3. 1851
E•JKG 1A BCKKE\O UN T Y W here
as Sarah Madray ppiies lor letters (f ad
ministration on the estate of George Madray,
late of said county, deceased :
These are thereioie to cite and admonish, all
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said de
ceased, to be and appear before the Honorable
the Justiceb of the Inferior Court, while sitting
for ordinary purposes lor sa’d county, on the first
Monday in JUi.Y next and show cause, if
any they have, why said letters should not be
g ranted
Given under our hands at the office of the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary for said county, this 30th
May, 1851.
Atie»t SAMUEL P. DAVIS, J. I. C. B. C.
Edward Garlick, Dep. Clerk.
June 3, 1851.
BUiiKK COUNTY, GA.:—Whereas Guil
lord Lewis applies tor letters ol adminis
tration on the esiaie of Minerva Lewis, a minor,
late of said counts, deceased :
These are therefore to cite and admonish, all
and singular, the kindred and ci editors of said de
ceased, to be and appear before the Justices of
the Inferior Court, while sitting as a Court of Or
dinary for said county, on the first Monday in
JULY next, and show cause, if any they
have, why said letters should not bo granted.
Given under our hands at the office of the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary for said county, this
UOth day ol May, 1851.
-Attest SAMUEL P. DAVIS, J. I. C,
Deputy Clerk.
BURKECOUNTY, Wheieas
VJT Guilford Lewis applies to us for letters of
administration on the estate of James Lewis, a
jni»®r, late of said county, deceased :
’l\hese are therefore to cite and admonish all
and singular the kindred and creditors of said de
ceased, to be and appear before the Honorable
the Justices of the Inferior Court, when sitting
as a Court of Ordinary, on the first Monday in
July next, and shew cause, if any they haye,
why said letters should not be granted.
Given under our hands at the office of the
Clerk of the Court of Ordinary for paid county
this 30th May, 1851.
Attest: SAM.’L P. DAVIS, J. I. C.
Edward Garlick, Dep. Clerk.
June 3, 1851.
TEURGIA, BURKE COUNTYWhere
W as,Guilford Lewis applies to us for letters
of administration on the estate es Bryant Lew
is, a minor, late of said county, deceased:
These are therefore to cite and admonish, all
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said de
ceased, to lie and appear before the Honorable the
Justices of the Inferior < ourt, when sitting as a
Court of Ordinary, on the first Monday in
July next, and show cause, if any they have,
why said letters should not be grant * 1.
Given under our hands at the office of the
Clerk of the Court of Ordinary for said county
this 30th day of May. 1851.
Attest: SAML P. DAVIS, J. I.C.
Edward Garlick, Dep Clerk, C. O.
June 3, 1851.
URKECOUNTY, GEO.:—
tom Lewis applies to u.< for letters of ad
ministration on the estate of John B. Robinson,
late of said count y deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish, all
aud singular, the kindred, and crer i'ors of the
decease J to be and appear before the Justices of
the Inferior Court, while sitting as a Court of
Ordinary for said county, on the first Mondsy
in July next, and show cause, if any they
have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under our hands at the office of the Clerk
ot the Court of Ordinary for said county, this
30th day of May,
Attest SAMUEL P. DAVIS, J. I.C.
E. Garlick, Deputy Clerk.
June 3, 1851. w
URKE COUNTY'GEORGI A—Whereas
Mary A E. Elliston and Henry F. Mills,
applies to us for letters of administration ou the
estate of Benjamin J . Elliston, late ot said coun
ty, deceased;
Thebe are therefore to cite and admonish
all and singular, the kindred and creditors of said
deceased, io be and appear l»elore the Justices
of the Inferior Court oI said Ceuniy, sitting for
Ordinary purposes, on the first Meuday iu July
c ' it* uuy kl ‘»'y'*ua\ e, wtiy
Given under our the office ot the
el-tk of the Court oojSnuary for said county, !
this 3<»th day of 1851.
[A.:toil JO' A. BIIEWMAKE, J. I. G.
E. D- Clerk.
!■-.■>l.
By ■el si a h tor the Baltimore American.
New York, May 27.—A dreadful not oc
curred lasi o glu al Hoboken, where a large
party <>l Germans were holding the annual
May Festival of the Pen<ecost. Some tltffi
cult, occurred betwe na pary of young men
tr.to H> boken and New Y< rk and trie Ger—
mail-, winch resulted nb tit 3 o’clock in a
fight, in which fi earm- were freely used,
i tie coiiteat lasu d uniil 6 o’clock, when the
Geru in.drove the a>-anants from the ground. |
Three i r tour persons werek'Led and a large
ntrmbei wound-d, among whom were Sheriff
Wright and Justice Banning. The latter is
dangerously injured Some 60 persons have
b- ett arrested and confined in Bergen county
jail.
Good News for Horses.—The Harris
buig (Pa.) “Journal” states that Mr T M
Coleman lias tiled a caveat for an improve
ment tn India rubber horse-collars and sad- '
dies, which are in: ated with air, instead of
beingstuffed as is now the case. If the air
can be retained at the very point of pressure,
this will prevent chafing, and be a great re
lief to the noblest of domestic animals— the I i
horse. We shall then expect to see this in.
vention in general use, as humanity demands
that even to the creature “the back should be
united to the burden.
Fiont the Southern Press
The test of Nationality
The friends ot Mr. Webster have always
held him tt|> as the very embodiment of “na
tionality.” They lauded him, in his own lan
guage, as the representative of “our country,
our whole country, and nothing but our coun
try.” In nis recent speech at Buffalo he has
.reiterated that sentiment of peculiar Northern
“nationallity,” which his successor, Mr. Sum
ner, asserts as “the true principle of the Con
stitution,” avid “according to which, freedom,
and not slavery, is national, while slavery, and
not freedom, is sectional." He regards the
acquisition of free-soil only as national, while
that upon which the negro treads in submis
sive servitude is put under the ban of his
“nationality.” We annex the extract from
his recent speech containing this very “nation
al” sentiment, preceded by two others from
his speeches in 1848 and 1850, in order to
show that he “treads no steps backward,”
and that with him negro slavery never had
any of the “odor of nationality” about it:
“By this time the efforts of Whit’s alone had
raised a strong excitement in the North
AGAINST THE ANNEXATION OF SLAVE TERRITO
RY. I say the Whigs alone, for nobody
belonging to the other party, North or
South, East or West, stirred a finger in that
cause; or if there were any, they were so few
as not to be discernible in the mass, until the
Whigs of New England, Ohio, «nd other
midale States, had accomplished a great ex
citement and new feeling in the public mind.
And then this portion of the Democracy of
New York, denominated the Barnburning par
ty, seized upon this state of excitement thus
brought about by tie Whig effort, and attach
ed this principle to their creed, to give them
a preeminence over their rivals.”—Speech at
Abingdon, Mass., 1848.
i “For myself, I will say that we hear much
of the annextion of Canada; and if there be
any man who supposes it necessary to insert
’ a Wilmot Proviso in a territorial government
for New Mexico, that man will of course be
• of opinian that it ia. necessary to protect
’ the everlasting suown pf Canada from the
‘ foot of slavery, by theisame pver-powqring
’ wing of an act of Congress. Sir, wherever
■ there is a foot of land to be staid back fom
becoming slave territory, I AM READY TO
’ ASSERT THE PRINCIPLE OF THE
f EXCLUSION OF SLAVERY. lam pledg
ed to it again and again; and will perform those
1 pledgesfbut I will not do a thing unnecessary,
' that wounds the feelings of others.”—Speech
“ in Senate, March 7, 1850.
' I contend, and have always
contended, that after the adoption of the Con
stitution, any measure of the government cal
culated to bring slave territory into the United
•_ Slates, was beyond the power of the Consti
" tution, and againt its provision. * * * *
And I never would consent that there
should be one foot of slave territory beyond
what the old thirteen States had at the time
of the formation of the Union Never, never,
NEVER.”—Speech at Buffalo, May 22,1851:
This is the least aggressive policy propo
sed by those States which now wield the fed
eral power, under the forms of the Constitu
tion, in reference to slavery. What can
shield the South from the appalling conse
quences that would neces-arily result from it,
it pushed on in practice ? As her population
increases, and its swelling tide sweeps over
her present boundaries her surplus whites,
but retains her biacks, what shall save her
from a fate similar to that which bfcfel Si.
Domingo? Will the compromising Unionists
point to a power wi.hin the Constitution that
could avert its evils and its dangers? Do
ihey look to the exercise of the authority to
“suppress insu-rection ?” and expect a stand
ing army of Northern baynots will protect
Southern property and peace ?
The very idea is as idle as it is absurd.
No: within the pale of a constitution thus
perverted from its original inrent, and a Union
thus converted into an instrument of oppres
sion and ruin to one section of the confedera
cv, there would exist no safety and no hope
for the slaveholding States. The very in
stinct of self preservation would ccmpel a
separation from those alien to them in policy,
in principle and in inter st, and who sought
to treat them as wolves do lambs, “ covering
and devouring them.”
Daniel Webster, the head and front of the
administration, and of the compromisers, may
coalesce in principle with his apparent anti
pode Charles Sumner, in this construction of
rhe constitution, and both may join in swelling
the chorus of “this cry of Union.” Yet,
unless Southern spirit has grown colder than
that which animates the breast of the Rus
sian serfs, and Southern intelligence sank
to the level of that of their slaves—aye, and
below it—tho -Jay of rhe consummation of
'heir joint
drenched, it may be, with fraternal blood.”
The fanatical frenzy of the one is not half
so dangerous to the perpetuity of peace, and
of this Union, as the cold blooded calculating
policy of the other. Both stand on the same
broad platform now ; both by the same means
seek to compass the same end; and the
nationality of Northern compromisers nar
rows itself down to the same limits as those
which embrace the Free-soilers, whose de
signs they hypocritically pretended to abhor
and to resist. The “Veiled Prophet” of the
compromise has dropped the concealing veil
at last, and in this last “ great speech” seems
disposed to repay the devotion of his deluded
votaries at the South in the same spirit, as
his prototype; and, pointing back to the re
suds ol his opinions and his policy, to ex
claim,
Here ye wise Saints, behold your lord, your
star!
Ye would be dupes and victims— and ye are.
The Maryland Murders—The murder
ers discovered. —We learn from a gentle
man who came up yesterday afternoon from
Chestertown, says the Baltimore American,
that the full particulars of this most brutal
murder have at length been developed, and
that the fiends who were the principal actors
are among the persons now confined in the
Chestertown jail. It will be recollected that
uhortlyafter the mutder was committed, it
was stated 1 hat a certain female Delaware had
intimated that she knew all about the matter,
but all attempts to find out her whereabout
proved fruitless until a few days since, when
It was ascertained that she was residing in
New Jersey. On Friday last she was brought
to Kent County, and upon her representation
a man named Shaw arrested in New Castle
County, Delaware, and brought to Chester
town on Saturday night last. On Sunday
Shaw made made full confession, acknowledg
ing that he was one of the party at Cosden’s
house on the night of the murder; that he was
induced to go there for plunder only; that Abe
Taylor shot Mr. Cosden from the outside, and
also shot Mrs. Cosden when she came into the
yard; that Shelton entered the house and mur
dered Miss Cosden. and afterwards went up
stairsand killed Miss Webster—that although
Murphy and himself were present during the
time, neither of them had anything to do with
the murder. He stated that he (Shaw) was
bitterly opposed to the murder. It will be
seen that tiie statement of Shaw corroberates
most o. the facts alleged by Drummond, now
th j’ail, alluot gh that innivwual varied his
statements in regard to the details so much
that his confession could hardly be credited.
Drummond was not one of the party engaged
in the murder, as he has always strenously as
serted, and Shaw entirely acquits him of all
participation
Crops, dtc<
In Alabama.—The Huuttvills Advocate of
the 21st May says:
The very warm weather with which we
have been favored for the last ten days his
effected a most wonderful change in the ap
pearance < f the crops. Better stands of cot
ton were never known, and the plant looks
hardy and thrifty. Corn looks well. Wheat
is very promising and so are oats. A li'tle
rain, however, about this time, would help
matters, and cause every thing to grow with
more rapidity and vigor.
The Tuscaloosa Monitor, of May 22d, says:
There is much complaint of want of rain in
this section, several weeks having elapsed
since we have had even a respectable shower.
Cora and cotion are suffering by this drought,
and the gardens a e completely parched up.
For some days pa-t the heat has been ex- I
cessive for this season ; and, at tha present !
writing, there are no indications of rain.
The Selma Enterprise of May 22d, says :
During the last two weeks the weather has
been very warm and dry. As yet the corn
and c< tton crops have suffered but littie for !
want of rain, and they present al the present i
time fine prospects, w hen the cold weather of
the early part ot the spring is considered.—
Rain however, is wanted.
I
By Telegraph to the Charleston Mercury.
New York, May 30.
The sales ofCotlon to day were 1000 bales.
The market is heavy, and prices (rave slight
ly receded.
The argument in the Methodist Church
case is closed, and it is supposed the deci
sion of the Judge will brin favor of the clai
mant.
Mr. W’bbster has made a speech at Albany,
strongly in favor of the Compromise. lie
remarked that the operation of the Fugitive
Law must bo met, and regarded it as neces
sary, just, expedient, and proper.
Baltimore, May 31.
The sales of Rio Coffee during the week
have been 7000 bags, at 9a 9| cents. Tho
stock on hand is 30,000 bags.
CAngustft, Gm.
Tuesday Morning, June 3, 1851.
Theatre —Concert Hall.
Miss Richardson has been re-engaged for a
few nights, and appears to night in the char
acter of Rosina Meadows, in the Drama of
that name. This play, together with the
farce of the Two Gregories, makes a rich bill
of fare.
“ Fast.”
The Constitutionalist of Sunday morning,
in a notice of the Theatre, says :
“ It will be seen by the bill that Miss Sin
clair, that general favorite with the play goers,
who has played and sung all the leading comic
parts during tlie season, will take her benefit
TO NIGHT.”
We were not aware, till we saw it in the
Constitutionalist, that the Theatre was open
in this city on Sunday night. Augusta, it
seems, is getting as bad as New Orleans. Is
there “ a fast man'' connected with the Con
stitutionalist ? -
(ET’Editoria! matter is excluded from this
day’s paper to make room for several commu
mcations, &c,
Southern Rights Convention.
We have never seen a Convention more
harmonious, more enthusiastic, more determ
( ined than that whose proceedings, will be found
upon our first page. The defeat of last fall had
left no depression upon the mind of its mem-
I bers, and new light, new hopes, and new
courage animated every man to do his duty
i in the great struggle now just beginning be-
I tween the compromisers and the friends of
: justice and equal rights.
’ Democrats and Whigs who had, in other
’ days, met as opoonents upon many a hard
. fought field, took each other by the hand witn
• an honest, warm and even affectionate cor
-1 diality, appropriate to the crisis of common
dinger which has come upon them. The
i sordid sentiment of who should get the spoils,
■ who should be advanced to offices of honor and
> emolument, seemed to be banished from every
r man’s bosom. The ruling motive with all
, was to serve the State, to resist wroug, to
t maintain our equality, and to hold on to the
’ Union, established by our Fathers, if we can
’ enjoy within it the rights and liberties which
it was formed to secure and perpetuate.
Read the Placorm which they have subtnit-
■ ted to the people of Georgia. It is worthy
! of the support of the people, for, it is in strict
accordance with the sacred Charter of our
liberties. It suggests nothing in violation of
> it. It proposes nothing to which patriotism
can object, or from which the nw»l fastidious
prudence cau shrink.
i The long cherished doctrines of the Vir
; ginia and Kentucky resolutions—the sever"
eignty of the States—the right ot secession—
' opposition to unjust and protective tariffs—to
. vast schemes of internal improvement by the
1 general government —to consolidation, that
I bottomless gulf of ruin for the South—are
’ among the republican principles embodied in
. the resolutions.
: Now, friends of Georgia, of the South: the
' cause of truth, of justice, of equal rights, of
our domestic of our very <-y tston.. t
assuriii caus*. Let no di -
visions, no jealousies, no ancient prejudices!
retard our onward progress. Our Standard
J Bearer is a man of purity, wisdom, firmness
, and patriotism. He stands high in the con
i fidence and affections of the people of Geor
gia. He is not only a wise statesman, but a
good man. We have guaranties in the many
virtues which cluster about and adorn his
• character, of the honesty and virtue of his
i political purpose. But we shall say no more
' at present. This much in conclusion.—
I Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Let
t every lover of his State and section be vigi-
• lant from the beginning to the end ot the con
test, Let every man do his duty. Let all
be working men this one time more. We
thought we saw at the Convention signs of
returning day. Golden clouds streaked the
eastern horizon. We await confidently the
rising of the sun. Nowthen, with the right
spirit and untiring effort, let us go into the
, field of battle, and, it Heaven has not forsaken
the South forhersins, our triumph will be
certain.
Whose toes are Pinched?
Tite Chronicle &. Sen inel of Saturday,
in announcing the nomination of the Hon
Charles J. McDonald, as theSoutiiern Rights
candidate for the office of Governor, ex
presses ils pleasure—because, says that
sapient sheet, the memory of the condemnation
ofhis former administiation is yet fresh in the
minds of the people.
Those Democrats, now acting with the
Fillmore Consolidation party in Georgia,
strong fiiends of the form r administration of
Gov. McDona.d, will not be excessively
pleased, we think, with this reckless hit of the
Chtonlcle’s. It is sad and painful to be
wounded in the house of a friend. The
Chronicle should not pinch the toes of its
newly converted converts to Federalism so
hard. Dont crowd the mourners.
Hon. Thomas H. Williams.—This dis
tinguished citizen died recently at his resi
dence in Pontotoc, Miss. The cause of South
ern Rights has lost 14 bis death, a bright and j
devoted advocate.
I Murderous Women—The women are get
ting to be formidable antagonists, it seems,
and Jane Young, ofTugaloo River South Ca
rolina, who entered the Banner office on a
sanguinary mission not long since, is not the
t only one who knows how to handle a pistcl
and bowie knife.
A widow, named Mason, walked into Law-
1 yer Wilson’s office, at Cincinnati, a few days
I since, and shot him twice with a pistol, but
: without killing him. The cause of the at-
I tack is not given.
| Gen W. B. Wofford, of Hab rsham, Presi-
I dent of the Senate in the last Legislature of
j Georgia, is a candidate for the seat in Con
i gress of Mr. Howell Cobb.
The Southern Baptist Convention, at its
recent biennial session in Nashville, located
i the Bible Board in that city, w here a large
i number of Bibles will be printed for the use
1 of that Church.
Da C J Shannon —We were gratified to
I learn, (says the Daily South Carolinian, of
28th inst,) that on Monday evening this
, young gentleman, so seriously wounded at I
I the Encampment near Camden, was consid
. ered improving, and that strong hopes are
i entertained of his recovery
Barnwell. District, So. Ca , /
May 27th, 1851. s
Messis. Editors,:—lt is seldom that I vrite
to you. but that Tugaloo scrape has so exci
ted my risible faculties, that I have been in
continently seized with scabus scribendi in
my digital extremities.
We have an account in sacred history of
’ a man whose predilections were for the gloom
, | and mephitic air of the toombs. Though in
■ chains, he was exceedingly fierce, and doubt
less very patriotic. It seems that “ Tugaloo”
has a like fancy to Toombs; is equally as
fierce, as patriotic, and as willing to be immo
lated on the “ altar of his country ”
Methinks history informs us, that the fi"* 1
was possessed with an evil spirit, which made ]
him a foe to all social and political organiza
tions, as well as incapacitated him for the ra
tional enjoyment of civil and religious liberty.
The other is, I fear, so much under the in
fluences emanating from Toombs, that he has
become a conspicuous mark for the women
of Tugaloo. There is this substantial differ,
ence between them ; the one was cured by 1
plain demonstration of the truth; the olhe
can not be convinced by ‘slight forms and
grey eyes,’ nor ‘ rifle bored pistols and bowie
knives.” Ye Gods! what fearful combina
tions are formed to exorcise the man of
aloo memory.
He bad better take care for the future hev
he writes about Carolina politics, men and w
men.
For here are black spirits? red and grey
Bold women and the chivalry.
MED SATIS.
LotM
for our government.
Female Medical College.—The second
annual catalogue of this institutbn at Phi| a .
delphia (Pa) shows that it .tow hts forty fe.
male students of medicine, all of them being
from Pennsylvania except six, one of whom
hails from England two from Massachusetts,
and one from each of the states of New York
Ohio, and Vermont.
The Government of Cuba seems to be deal
ing summaiily and hardly with persons sut
P'Ctedof conspiring against it. Says tje
Delia.
On the Sth of May, another victim ofSpa|-|
ish despotism yielded up bis I’fe in the same
manner that Montes de Oca bad done. Ee|
was Carlos Collins, a native of Matanza-q ato
a member of one of the best families of th»t
city He was about twenty five years of age.
Brave, sagacious, and devoted to bis country,
be died under tho garote like a true patriot
proclaiming to the last his “treason.”
A still more conspicuous example of Ca
ban devotion was the case of Manuel (I.
Ramirez, aged twenty four. He was a hatd
some, genial, generous, patriotic young 'man,
of great learning—a profound ma’ heniat ciai).
Although young he was the master spirit of
the College of Cuba in which he filled tb«
principal chair of learning. No young mn
in the Island was more highly esteemed. He
was especially beloved in Havana. Rarrerez
had read too much to be a subject; he gave
his prayers, his countenance, to the effort to
liberate his oppressed Isle. Suspected, tried
and convicted on the testimony of hired spies,
he died hue a hero and patriot, professing with
hie laet words, his devotion to the cause of his
country’s freedom.
The Drouth, —1 he very dry weather
which we have had for the last month, is like
ly to prove seriously injurious to the crop in
ibis section. Corn is small and backward,
and oats will prove almost a total fai'ure with
out a speedy tall of rain. The stands of cot
ton are tolerably fair, though so backward
that fear is entertained that tiie early frosts of
fall will cut short the crop. The wheat crop
has sustained less injury than tyny other, »<id
without some very unusual calamity, a lair
average crop may be regarded a« certain.—
ulu J
The United States mail steamship Arctic,
Capt Luce, left New York at noon on Satur
day for Liverpool, with one hundred and for
ty one passengers. She also takes out $424,-
500 in American gold, and £l6O in English
silver. Among t) e passengers is Mr. Martin
F. Tupper, the celebrated English author.
Determined to be Married. —A young
German girl, aged 15, who had run away
from New Jersey with her lover to get mar
ried, on finding him continually intoxicated
after she got to Philadelphia, accepted the
proposals there of another young man, and
was married just before being caught by her
father.
How to do Business.—Advertise! He is
a shrewd man who advertises. This i« pro
verbial the world over. It is simply putting
your goods, wares, merits, plans, suggestions
and bargains &c., into the eyes of the uni
versal public Every body reads the papers
now a days."
The Tallahassee Floridian of May 24th
says- “We hear great complaints of the rava
ges of the grasshopper on many plantations
in the vicinity of Tallahassee. Some fields
have been nearly destroyed. Others are tak
ing the sore-shin —a species of diseases d
most fatal io the young plant. From ail ire
can learn,the prospects of the present crop
have not been so unfavorable for years pait.
As we stated last week, the crop is at least
a month behind hand.”
Anticipated Revolution in Cuba.—Tie
Savannah Republican says: From SpantoJ
letters which have come under our obserw
tion, we learn that certain Cubans in ths
country regard matters in Cuba as being in a
state bordering on revolution. These letters
give reason to believe that the cry of liberty
would be raised on the 25th of the presait
month. It may soon he in our power to gire
our readers further particulars.
Cotton Factories of New England.—
The depressed state of the Cotton manufac
ture of New England, is seen by the receipts |
of Cotton at Boston, which have fallen off
nearly one-half in two years. The receipts
from Jan, 1, to May 15, in 1849, were 160,-
976 bales, during the same time in 1850, they
were 157,724 bales, and in 1851, 95,936
bales. —. __
Sailing under Water.—The Paris Jonr-t
nal des Debates states that a new species of j
vessel destined, it is expected, tB solve the!
great problem of sub marine navigation, has I
been nonsuucted in the establishment of M >
Cruesot. This ve-sel will proceed from
Cruesot’s establishment, thro’Paris to Calais, i
by sea, with the aid of its machinery; which is
similiar to the propellers. In going out of
the port of Calais it will plunge under wa:er,
and re appear a few hours afterwards before
D iver. Thence it will gain the Thames,
which it wiil ascend to London, where it will
figure at the exhibition, among the most inter- ■
esting productions of French industry and 1
genius.
Wheat Crop.—The Wheat crop in this
section as well as in the middle portion of the
State, is very promising. Should no calamity
befall it, the yield will be large. In a few days
our farmers wiii be in the midst of the
ha. vest. A general hope prevails that the
coming in of the new wheat will reduce the
prices of provisioas generally. As they range
now, they bear heavily on laboring men and
all of limited means.—Marietta Advocate, 29th
inst.
Our. Branch Railroad—The survivof
the route for a Branch Railroad from this
place to connect with the E. T. & Georgia
R R. progresses finely The weather has been
very favorable, and the Engineers have made
good use of the time We are informed that :
they reached Georgetown on Saturday eve
ning last, and this week continued the t ur
vey in the direction of Charleston, Tenn ;
Chattanoga Gaz.
’Jiy Telegraph to the Constitutionalist. i
( hari.eston, May 30, P. M.
Cotton.—Sales 950 bales at 6 to 9J cents j
Thq market is firm and the prices full.
Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.) 1
. j New Orleans, May 28.
Two thousand bales Cotton sold to day,
Ptfee* ure now the same as they were prior to
thjWception of the bad accounts brought by
th® Baltic. Middling is quoted at from 8| to
and good middling at from 9 to 9J-. Two
hundred tierces of Rice have changed hands
Carolina is worth 6|.
'The brig Tartar, Capt Booker, has arrived
nbn Charleston.
New Orleans, M>y 29, P. M. :
was easier to day; prices, however,
PwSre unchanged. Good middling is quoted
at 9J-. Two thousand five hundred bales i
Ifeere sold.
4The Alabama arrived yesterday.
I The latest Mexican dates state that Con-
I gress by a large majority have annulled the
TehMdenec grant to Garty. Ex President
UXbUISI is dead.
[By i elegrapli for the Charleston Mercury ]
New-York, May 31.
The cotton market is Srmer, and prices
have slightly advanced. The sates are 2000
yles, and those of the week 5000 bales.
' A cotton broker and land speculator failed
(mounting to £BOO,OOO will be returned. Ru
mored failures of cotton speculators are fly
ing about.
The steamer Franklin has sailed with 136
passengers, and a million of dollars in specie.
The Connecticut Legislature has failed to
elect aU. 8. Senator. The vote on the first
ballot was : Seymour, dem., 105; Baldwin,
whig, 103;scattering 13.
Orleans, May 30.
; 'x'
put forth and advocated
I the Unionists of Alabama.
I From the Montgomery Atlas, 29th ult.
’Submission .Tleeting of Mfonday
—Atrocious Sentiments.
Can it'no possible that Messrs. Hilliard and
Judge gav> utterance, at the Court House the
other day, ’o such infamous and atrocious
sentiments as those which we quote below
from the Advettiser:
“ We understand that Messrs Hilliard and
Judge both made out-and-out consolidation
speeches, denying the right of a State to se
cede lor any cause, without committing trea
son and rebellion, for which one and all of
j her citizens should be hung or shot, and that
| these speeches were applauded by the meeting "
Well, we are maintaining, in ou- humble
way. the right of a State to secede from this
unconstitutional, unjust and oppressive Union,
and are advocating the expediency and neces
sity of exercising that right just so soon as it
can consistently be done, and according to
these federal submission oracles, then, we
“are traitors and deserve to be shot or hung.”
Nay, all the members of the secession
clubs at Benton and Cahawba, and all others
in the State who are “setting their house in
order with a view to secession,” are placed in
the same uncomfortable category !
We know not how such sentiments may
pass muster in Russia, China, or Belgium,
but we shall take the liberty to say that in any
country that pretends to be free, they should
be branded as in the very last and lowest de
gree infamous, and that any man in auch a
country, not feeling himself to beta bis in
most heart a cringing slave, who does no:
look upon them with feelings of the most in
tense and utter abhorrence and detestation, is
false to every impulse of a freeman or a man
—false to his country—to bis birthright, and
to every thing connected with the sacred prin
ciples of political, social and religious liberty.
Could we believe that there were many in
this/reeland who entertained such opinions,
we should blu-h for our country, and should
feel mat in abandoning it for a home in Tur
key or Austria, we were leaving a land of
serfdom and slavery, for a home of real, sub
stantial and glorious liberty.
Let that doctrine but once go out to the peo
ple through these Southern States, as the sen
timents of the new fartgled “ Union” or Tory
uartv -!h>T sues n Hre of natrio*ic ind'pnation
wit. be Kindled up throughout all tltfofemd as
will soon rend the “glorious Union” into ten
thousand fragments, and consign the authors
of such monstrous doctrines to an infamy as
deep and lasting as that of the tories and
traitors of the Revolution.
If this be the end and aim of the Southern
“ Union” party, we consider the aggressive ef
forts of tiie Northern abolitionists as harmless
and praiseworthy in comparison.
Let us take a calm view of this subject a
moment, it it be possible. Once acknowledge
that the Southern States have no right to se
cede from this Union, and that any attempt to
do so is treason, and the South is from that
time forth enslaved, and to all intents and
purposes, will bear the same political relation
to the Aorih, as Ireland does to England.
It is the universal sentiment in tho non
slave holding states, that the greatest moral,
social and political benefit and blessing that
could possibly be conferred upon this country
and the world at large, would be the abolition
of slavery in the Southern States. This is
now the avowed object of the abolitionists who
are fast rising into power in every state north
of the Potomac. In ten or fifteen years these
men will have the power to change it to suit
tiieir own fanatical notions of tight and expe
diency. What will become of your slavei
then, if you vre so ready to fall down now and
kiss the oppressor’s rod, aud confess in his
face, that secession is treason?
Nay, take awaj from the North the fear of
southern secession, and not twelve months
will elapse before the abolitionists will com
mence a new system of aggressions upon the
south, that will throw all past outrages into
insignifieance! Why, this new development
is a thousands time worse than the Georgia
platform submissionism for that docs recog
nize the doctrine of secession.
But it is unnecessary to pursue the subject.
If the very mention of this new Hilliard doc
trine is not enough to rouse up every man
in the country to an instant determination to
vindicate his rights and liberties, at ail hazards
then his rights and liberties are lost forever,
and the Unionists may save themselves all
further Jeremiads about the downfall of liber- i
ty in this country in the event of secession,
for if this monstrous doctrine is to prevail !
the Genius ot Liberty that has heretofore pre- !
sided over this once happy land, has already j
taken her fight from amongst us. All we
wish to know now is, if these are the principles I
that are to gouern the new Union party in this
Etate.
v’’"' uu " Rear.
OR BILL JONES AMONG THE GtRLS.
• Old Squire Parish was an hospitable old
I soul. Every Friday evi ning, it was the da
light of the girls of the Academy, and the
I boys of the schools and Collage, to go out to
old Squire Parish’s farm, about six miles
l from town, and stroll in the woods, bathe in
the creek, search the orchard and the ben
nests, and turn everything about the prem
isesupsidedown. And old Squire Parish
would sit in his chimney corner, pipe in
mouth, and tell them stories about the first
settlement ofthe country, and how ‘Old Hick
. ory’ whipped the Indians—for the old Squire
jhadbeenin Jackson’s army—and never let
i the boys go off without at h ast one story
i about the‘old man,’ as the Squire delighted
Ito caii the General, * *
! One Saturday, about the middie of the as-
I ternoon, Bill Jones, a wild, harum-scarum
j young fellow, of some sixteen winters, rode
! tpto the Squire’s door, and hailed the house
| His summons was answered by that black ;
' young rascal, Josh, who told Jones that the ■
I Joys were gone squirrel hunting. ; ‘but you i
i better believe, ’..ass Bill,’ continued Jo-h. j
' ithat the ga sis carrying on high. Whv, j
Mass Bill, you can hear ’em squealing clean i
up here.’ Jones a'on learned that the girls i
had gone to their usual bathing place, which I
was at the foot of a high precipice, and on
ly approached on that side by a solitary foot- i
path, which was guarded by ‘Dinah.’ On
the olber side of the crees lay a broad sand
bank, so that no one could approach it with
out being seen. Jones had been to the
Squire’s house so often, that be knew ail hie |
stones‘by heart,’and ii was almost impossi
ble to find the boys in the woods, so he de-
termined to have some fun out of the girls. I
About a quarter of a mile up tho creek lived !
‘Old Aunt Judy,’ and there Jones, and his !
attendant, Josh, immediately proceeded.— j
Wnile Josh went to the old woman, and for
a fo’pence purchased tho largest gourd in her
possession, Jones slipped behind the garden
and threw off his clothes, and cutting off
enough of the handle of the gourd to admit
his head, and making two holes for his eyes,
he slipped it on his bead and jumped into the
stream. So soon as tho gourd reached the
point above the bathing place, it commenced
floating towards the shore, until within a few
yards of the bathers, when it drifted against
a limb which overhung thosltea n, and lodged.
On one rock were three or four swimmers,
alternately squatting down and rising upon
their heels, and imitating the cry of the bull
frog, when one would say ‘chug!’ they would
all plunge into the water, frog fashion. At
another place they were striving to duck each
other while a third party were leading by
force into the water a coy damsel, who had
been too modest to undress before so many
folks. But Jones’s gourd did not long re
main unnoticed in the waler, and the damsel
who espied it, sailed up to it, seized it, and
with slight resistance it came off, disclosing
the cnrly head of Bill Jones! Miss Betsy
screamed, and Bill Jones yelled! Miss Betsv
and the other bathers rushed up the bank, and
Jones, in his fright and contusion, followed
them. Here the girls turned on him, seized
him, and threw him on his face, twined his
arms around a sapling, and having bound
his hands with a’kerchief, Jones lay defence
less in the power of his captors. The girls
now leisurely dressed themselves, and then
each provided herself with a trim bireh or
willow rod, and without further ceremony, be
gan applying them to the back, sides
and legs of poor Jones. Jones twisted, and
Jones writhed; he drew himself up, and
spread himself out; he begged and he prayed
But in vain. His captors were insensible to
pity until their arms were fatigued, and their
rods frayed into ribbons. Alas for poor Jones
he was not yet to escape. His tormentors
provided themselves with fresh instruments
_ M.»rl KtuLiouc-d tl»pmw<>lvoo in n rntv nlnmr jßtjC
foot-path from trcutolhe wator’ii Jge
and, on the rock from which he was to
was posted a stout country lass, wfepse
strength he had often tried in a wrestle and
whose wind he had often tested in a‘brandi.nce.
At last he was released, and told that he
was to run the gauntlet. He could not but
comply- Straightening himself up, and
drawing a long breath, he started at full
epeed, as he thought; but at every step, some
thing touched him that accelerated his mo
tions, a»d, as he was about to take the last,
final leap, such a blow fell upon his rear that
■the sparks flew out ofhis eyes,and he bound
ed half way across the stream at one leap!
This rock has been known as ‘Jones Leap’
ever since.
Without stopping to see any more of his
fair friends Jones hastened to Aunt Judy’s
cottage, dressed himself, gave Josh a thor
ough kicking, borrowed a sheep skin from
Aunt Judy, mounted his horse and rode slowly
back into town. And, from that day to this,
Bill Jones has never showed bis face, nor any
other part of him, in good old Squire Parish’s
house,, nor the stream that runs by its door.
From the Federal Union, Extra.
Pi'oceedings of I lie Convention.
Milledgeville. Ga.,)
Wednesday, May 28th, 1851. j
The convention to nominate a candidate for
the office o r Governor, this day assembled in
the Representative Hall.
For the purpose of organizing the Conven
tion, on motion of Gen. T M Griffin, a delegate
from the county of Coweta, Jas M Smythe,
Esq., of the county of Richmond, was called
to me chair, and L E Bleckley and Wm T
Williamson requested to act as Secretaries.
On motion of Mr. Gardner of Richmond, it
was agreed that all the delegates in attend
ance and all proxies of absent delegates, be
allowed to act in this Convention.
The counties being called in alphabetical
order, the following delegates were reported:
Baldwin. Isaac Newell, OH P Bonner,
Maj J R Moore.
liiob. Jno Rutherford, Henry Newsom,
H K Green, and Thos L Ross.
Bulloch. John Goodman.
Burke. Jno J Jones, Wm E Walker,
Alex W Gordon, Jno R Sturges.
Butts. Edwaru Varner, Edmund McDan
iel.
Carroll. John Jones, A Boggs, Wm E
Curtis.
Cass. S Fouche, S Smith, C A Hamil
ton.
I ! Chatham. Georpe P .Harrison.
1 Clarite. H G bsinitr) Jno W Coolt, Jits
Camak, Thomas F
II Cobb. Sami Maloney, Garrett Gray, Geo
1 Roberts, David A Miller.
I Coweta. G D Greer, T M Griffin, E
Strickland, G O Wynn.
Crawford. T C Howard, Dr H Steel, Dr
J C Harvey.
, 1 DeKalb. Jonathan B Wilson, Jas Milli
can, Allen E Johnston, JllO L Evans.
Dooly. Jacob J Swaringer, Thos Daw
-1 son.
Elbert. Dr J B Bell, Wm B Bowen, E
1 M Rucker.
Fayette. J F Johnson, J M Brassel.
Floyd. J W Dodd, W O Burns.
Foisyth. Geo Kellogg, Cbas 8 Dupree.
Gordon. A D Shackelford, S T Mays.
Greene. R L McWhorter, Dr T P Janes,
J G Ryals, and John Cox.
Gwinnett. Isaac M Young, Henry Allen.
Habersham. Jno T Hackett, L R Smith.
Hancock. Thos C Grimes, F Ingram, E
S Barnes.
Harris. OV Brown.
Houston. E J McGee, Jno Laldler, E A
Harvey, J A Pringle.
Jackson. R J Millican, Robt White, D J
Barnett, M Strickland.
Jasper. Wiley Phillips, C W McMichael,
J W Burney, G H Cornwell.
Jefl'ereon. HG Wright, R Bostwick, R
C Robbins.
Jones. J L Holland, Joseph Day, D N
Smith, Lt. Singleton.
Laurens. E T Sheftall.
Lee. J H Gilmore, B G Smith.
Lowndes. Wm Jones, Thos B Griffin.
Macon. John A Hunter, B J Head.
Meriwether. John Gaston, Wm H F Hall.
Montoe. J Lamar, W F Tinsley, T W
Barrow, O H Kenan, A Jarratt.
Morgan. J C Paulette, T S Bonner, W
Woods.
Murray. J Thomas, II Rogers, Thos Con
nelly.
Muscogee. Jno H Howard, M J Craw
ford, John Forsyth, T D West.
i Newton. N P Loe, T F Jones, AII Lee,
i II J Bates.
Oglethorne. W H Wooten, F Meriweth-
I et, W W Davenport, W Jewell.
! Paulding. Seaborn Jones, jr, H Fielder.
i Pike. H Green, E Brown, TI) Kine,
Wm Cline.
Putnam. A A Be. 11, N Standford, M Ken
drick, J A Turner.
Randolph. J B Smith, R G Morris, Rich-
1 a:d Davis.
' Richmond. James Gardner, J M Smythe,
! Wm R McLaws, John Schley.
1 , Scriven. G P Harrison.
Stewart. H W Spears, B K Harrison.
; I Talbot. Jesse Carter, J Hillsman, T J
) , Matthews, W A Daniel.
s Tatnall. D Sheftall, J B Smith.
1 | Twiggs. W W Wiggins.
i , Upson. TA D Weaver, B B King, D
• Dawson.
i i Walton. J Richardson, jr, B J Hili, TJ I
i | Lester, H L Wuliams.
Wilkes. Chas L Bolton, Jas Harris, A
Bowdre.
Wilkinson. Jas M Fulsome, A E Coch
ran, B O'Bannon.
■ On motion of Mr. Wiggins, Col. Henry G.
, Lamar, a delegate from the county of Clarke,
was unanimously appointed President of the 1
i Convention: 1
The President, upon taking the chair, de- ’
j livered a brief address, and announced that ‘
tne convention was organized, and ready to ’
j proceed to business. 1
Mr. Day of Jones, effered the following re- f
; solution, which was read and adopted :
Resowed, That a committee of three dele- , ’
■ gates from each judicial circuit, be appointed ‘
I by the president, to report to the convention
such matter as may be necessary for its ac- a
tion. j
i The chair appointed the following gentle- f
men that committee : v
Joseph Dai, J C Paulette. A E Cochran of o
the Ocmulgee Circuit. s
G P Harrison, Wm Cline, John Forsyth, h
of the Eastern Circuit. tl
Wm Jones, W W Wiggins, E T Sheftali ti
j of the Southern Circuit. v
I Richd Davis, Thos Dawson, J Hillsman, of u
Nl 1!THOROCOO1C AI. 6BSHR V ATIO X N,
FarAPRIL, 1851, at Augusta, Ga. Latitude 33° 27' north—Longitude 4° 32' west
Wash. Altitude above tide 52 feet. By Prof. Paul F. Eve. "
I Th,.:-" I'u? |t HE r J ’ Bar. j W,Nh j REMARKS.
1 63 30 74 94 looj 8 Hain—l inch. '
2 64 93 100 68 88 109 8 Kain 60.100.
3 60 83 100 70 85 100, NW Cloudy.
4 50 85 100 76 79 100 1 N E Fair.
5 60 60 100 74 49 100 ' 8 Rain.
6 60 62 100 78 70 100! NW Rain 20.100.
7 52 78 100 70 80 100! NW Rain)-. .
8 67 67 100 67 67 100 8 W Rain ( 2 ln « he * 85.100.
9 46 30 72 30 11.100! N E Fair—breeze.
10 48 30 11.100 75 30 13.100 |N E Fair.
II 50 30 13.1001 76 30 12 100 |SW Fair.
12 50 30 11.100! 78 30 8.100 1 E Pair—Rainat night 30 JOo
13 60 83 100 75 64 100 1S W IRain.
14 53 47 100 54 35 100 [NW Hail storm 20.100.
15 50 47 100 63 55 100 NW Rain 85.100
16 48 49 100 68 44 100 (NW Fair—breeze
17 46 49 100 69 50 100 ' W Fair.
18 48 58 100 75 55 100 W Fair, rain nt nighr
19 58 35 100 78 30 100 SW G .le ; sprinkle
20 56 52 100 73 58 100 S W Fair—breeze
21 56 68 100 70 72 100 NW Fair—blow
22 45 79 100 66 79 100 N W Fair.
23 44 79 100 68 79 100 8 Fair.
24 44 79 100 68 79 100 8 Cloudy afternoon.
2 5 58 59 100 72 54 100 SW Rain 25.100.
26 57 54 100 70 54 100 IN E Rain—l inch 50.100
2 7 58 50 100 70 68 100 N W Fair—breeze.
2 8| 54 78 100 80 80 100 1 W Fair—breeze.
2 9| 58 82 100 80 8t 10011 SW Fair.
3 o| 63 83 100 .81 83 Joo|| SW Fair—brfeze.
15 Fair days—Quantity of Rain 7 inches and 75 100.
the Southwestern Circuit.
Jno H Howard. Jesse Carter, B K Harrison,
of the Chattahoochee Circuit. I
Thos M Griffin, J B Wilson, Jas H John
son of the Coweta Circuit.
Jno Rutherford,Thos C Howard, Edw Var
ner, of the Flint Circuit.
S Fouche, Geo Kellogg, A D Shackelford,
of the Cherokee circuit.
Benj Hill, Robt White, John W Cook, of
the Western circuit.
Elbert M Rucker, Chas L Bolton, Thomas
C ®ircuit. __
of the Middle Circuit.
(Mr Smythe of Richmond in the Chair,)
the following resolution was offered by Mr
Gardner, and adopted unanimously:
Resolved, That a committee ot five be ap
pointed to wait on the President of this con
vention, and request of him a copy of his ad
. dress on assuming the duties of the Chair, and
to take measures for its publication - ” Messrs.
Gardner, Day of Jones, Howard of Muscogee,
Wilson and Varner appointed that committee.
I On motion of Mr. Howard of Muscogee
’ the Convention adjourned till 5 o’clock, p. m
5 O’clock, P. M.
i The Convention convened.
i The Hon. Jos. Day, Chairman of the Com
. mittee of thirty-three, having asked for leave
! to defer the report of said Committee, until
to-morrow morning, At 8 o’clock ; leave was
granted, and the Convention adjourned till
that hour.
Thursday Morning 8 o’clock.
The Convention met according to adjourn
ment.
Mr. Day from the Committee, of thirty
' three made the following Report:
The Committee, to whom was assigned the
duty of reporting matter for the action of this
r Convention, beg leave to submit the following
1 preamble and resolutions: .
The Country is passing through an alarm
ing crisis, in which the government of the
e Union has undergone, and is in danger of still
undergoing, fundamental changes in its feder
p ative character. By the acts of the late Con
gress, known as the Compromise measures,
the Southern States, being a minority in Fed
-1 eral numbers, have been deprived by high
hand of all their interests in the Territories
e acquired from Mexico; have been degraded
, from their condition of equality in the Union ;
I. have ben forced to surrender territory, un -
_ questionably and legitimately their own. to
’ the use and enjoyment of the hireling States,
thereby increasing the preponderance of votes
’’ already arrayed against them, and have been
compelled to witness and endure the insidious
act of the abolition of the slave trade in the
r ’ J istrict of Columbia, which can only be re
garded as the entering wedge to measures in
tended to end in the overthrow of »er cherish
„ ed Institutions. The Government is under
g°'ng changes equally marked and momen
tous in the open assumption of powers, touch
~ ing finance and revenue, the collection and
d sbnrsement of the public money, the schemes
at intcroal Impruvemeuts, and squandering
’ of the public lands, tending directly to a cor
ruption and consolidation of the Government,
0 and utterly unknown to the Constitution, as
„ understood by the makers of that instrument,
b and as heretofore interpreted by all parties in
|r the South.
Be it therefore Resolved, That in the pre
_ sent eventful crisis it is vitally important for
the salvation of the South and the maintenance
_ of the rights of the States that the Republican
doctrines of ’9B and ’99 as embodied in the
g Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, be main
tained with unflinching firmness, and that
among them we recognize the so lowing:
2. Resolved, That the States as separate
and equal sovereignties formed the Constitu
tion.
s, 3 Resolved, That each State by its own
convention deliberated upon and determined for
1. itself the question of the ratification or rejec
1. tion of that Constitution, and that it came
£ into the Union by its own sovereign and vol
untary act, therefore this is a Union of con-
sent and not of force.
( 4. Resolved, That each State in view of the
voluntary natu-e of the Union, has the right
j in virtue of its independence and sovereignty,
of seceding from the Union whenever the
people thereof, in their sovereign capacity,
shall determine such a step to l e necessary to
t effect their safety or happiness ; and of con
sequence, that the General Governmenthas no
j authority to attempt by military force or other
wise, to restrain a State in the exercise of such
sovereign right.
5. Resolved, That whenever the Govern
ment, by an exertion of the common force of
all or an application of the common funds ol
. all acquires territory, it is the duty of that
■ Government to secure to all equality of rights
in such territory, and to remove all impedi
ments within its power to the enjoyment of
this equality of rights.
6 Resolved, That the Federal Government
has no right to withhold its protection from
. any species of properly or s ction of the con
federacy ; and that any attempt to do so will
as clearly evince the hostility of the Govern
ment to that property or section as would any
act of legislative hostility.
7. Resolved, That the principles of consti
tutional equality enunciated in the two im
mediately foregoing resolutions were violated
in the several acta of the last session of Con
gress for the admission of California into the
Union as a State, for the formation of territo
rial Governments for New Mexico and Utah,
and in the bill abolishing the slave trade in
the Dialricl of Columbia.
8. Resolved, That as some redress for past
wrongs, and in pursuance of the spirit of the
Missouri Compromise, Congress should ob
tain the consent of California to the extension
of the line of 36 30 to the Pacific Ocean, and
that the right ot the people of the South to
carry their slaves to ail the territory South of
it, should be explicitly acknowledged and se- '
cured.
curec.
9. Resolved, That the obstruction by the
people ofthe North to the enforcement of the
Fugitive Slave Law so as to destroy its value
to the South, and make it a loss instead of a
benefit is equally a defeat of our Constitutional
rights as would be its repeal or essential .no
dification.
10. Resolved, That the harmony and safe
ty of this Union depend upon a strict cons
truct on of the Constitution and the salvation
ofthe south now hangs upon it. And be
cause we are for the constitution as it is,
we oppose a United Slates Bank—ail protec
tive tariffs for pampering one section at the
expense of another, all internal improvements
by the General Government, and all legists
ron by’ Congress not strictly and clearly al
lowed by the Constitution as the Union.
11. Resolved, That we yield to none in our
attachment to the Union formed to “establish
justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide
for tha common defence, promote the general
welfare, and secure the bles-ings of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity;” that we venerate
such a Union and the Constitution established
by our Fathers to insure those blessings to
themselves and those to come after them,—
that iur object is to preserve such a Union if
we can, but at ail hazards to maintain the li
berties and rights of the people of Georgia.
I feettolved, That this Convention com
-0 , * S ’ ~" , he” ‘ ,n Democrats and
Whigs and mealing on me foregoing Platform
ol common principles, neces. ary as we believe
to the protection of the rights and liberties of
the South, do nominate and recommend
Charles J. McDonald of the county of Cobb
as their candidate for Governor of the State
of Georgia, and tne exponent and standard
f earer of their principle ins the approaching
canvass.
moved that the Preamble and
bo adopted.
nays being ordered, the 110 J' casl und
nays 79; so the Convention 6 > an <l
out. • strike
Mr. Crawford then moved for a re-consider
tion. I lie Convention after considerable dis*
cuesion agreed to reconsider, and the question
ot stri king out, being again submitted it was
decided in the affirmative.
The question then recurred upon the mo
tion of Mr. Wiggins to adopt tiie report ot the
committee, and the Report as amended was
adopted with but one dissenting voice.
Mr. Wiggins moved that a committee of
. five be appointed by the Chair, to notify the
1 Hon. Charles J. McDonald of his nomination,
I and to request his acceptance of the same.
1 Whereupon the President appointed the fol*.
I lowing gentlemen that committee: Messrs.
Wtggns, Howard of Muscogee, Jones of Car
roll, Gardner,and Lamar of Monroe.
The following Resolution was <ff ired by
. Mr. Wiggins and unanimously adopt* 1.
Resolved, That we tender our thanks to the
. President and Secretaries ot this Convention
for the efficient and courteous manner in
> whicn they have performed their respective
4 duties.
j On motion the Convention adjourned sine
die.
HENRY G LAMAR, Pres’dt.
, I L. C. Bleckley. ) „
1 Wm. T. Williamson, ( Secretaries.
Rain.—Last evening, for the fi r a t time Since
the fourth day of May, we had rain—-an inter
’ im I I . I -J.. ■. I? . l I .. 11 11
val of twenty-nx days. Bat little rain had
fallen at the time of penning this paragraph,
but the clou- s gave every indication that we
should have a wet night.—[Savannah News,
31st ult.
A lady, with the Turkish pantaloons, made
her appearance in Chestnut steet, Philadel
phia, on Saturday evening, and caused a great
sensation among the staid den.sens of that
phlegmatic city. The Ledger says that as
the neat little lasting boot threaded its way
through the crowd, the universal expression
was “decidedly pretty.”
M A R R I E D.
Tn this city, on the 31st ult by the Rev C
B Jennett, Dr John Dennis, of this city, and
Miss Hannah Allen, of Rahway, N J.
Ou the SOth ult. by the Rev
Arnold, James W Freeman, of South c'aro
lina, and Miss Julia A Tutt, of Lincoln county
Ga.
On the 15thult. by the Rev. Joel Colly,
Mr. Silas Robertson, of Walton county, and
Miss Martha Jane Middlebrooks, of Newton
county.
DIED
At Thompson, Columbia county, Ga. on
the 26th April, Mrs Elizabeth Langston; in the
64th year of her age.
On the 13th ult. at his late residence in
Edgefield District, the Rev. Henry Reid, in
the 70th year of his age.
In Washington Wilkeson the 25th inst.of
Cholera-infantum, Lizzie Stratum, infant
daughter of Dr John J ,and Elizabeth Robert
son, aged five months and nine days.
In Athens, on the 21stiitst., Mrs Caroline
M. Morton, aged 43 years, wife of Mr. Win,
Morton, leaving a large family in deep and
painful bereavement.
Ir, Savannah, on tho evening of trie 24th
inst., Mr. William Thaddeus Williams, aged
39 years.
F»URKE SHERIFF’.■> SALE.-Will be
a sold, before the court house door in the
town of Waynesboro, Burke county, on the
first Tuesday in July next, between the usual
hours of sale, a negro woman by the name of
Sophia, of hlack complection; levied on as the
property of Benjamin F. Buxton, to s-tisfy three
fi< fas from the Justices Court of the 68th Dist.,
G. M., in favor of Franklin Godbee vs Benjamin
T. and Wnt L. Buxton, and Augustus L. Lovitt
vs Washington Griffin and Benjamin F. and
and Eichard Wimberly vs said Benjamin. Pro
perty pointed out by William Buxton. Levy
made and returned by a constable.
AUGUSFUS H. ROBERTS, Sherifi'.
May2B, 1851.
EXECUTOR’® SALE-—Will be sold, on
the first Tuesday in August next, at the
court house door in Waynesboro, Burke county,
seventy aeres of land, more or less, belonging to
the estate of Thomas P erce, deceased, lying on
tire east side ofGieen Branch, and bounded on
all sides by lands of the late Thomas .Street.
Said land sold for purpose of distribution. Perms
on the day of sale.
JAMES GRUBBS, Executor.
May 27i!i, 1851
.. the first Tuesday in August next, nt the
court bouse door, in Emanuel comity, five hun
dred acres, more or less* of land in said county,
belonging to the estate of the late Thomas Pierce,
deceased, whereon Rlmdam Pritchett now lives,
bounded by lauds of McGar. Said land sold lor
purpose of distribution. Terns on the day of
s ale. JAMES GRUBBS, Executor.
May 27th, 1851.
NOTICE. —Four months after date,appli
cation will be made to the Honorable the
Inferior Court of Burke county, when sitting tor
ordinary purposes, for cave to sell the real es
tate of Alexander G. Fiyer, late of said county,
deceased. ROBERT'!'. (ONES, Adm’r.
3 May
GIL LI LANDS A lIoHELL,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
l FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS,
No. 33 Hayne-street,
CHARLESTON... S.C, my!s ly
SSO reward"
RANAWAY from the estate of John
S. Rieves, late of Scriven county, Ga ,
ML a negro boy named JOHN oi CllO CK f
-V \<>f light complexion, five feet lour or live
iucneahigb He has relatives in riaker county,
and may have made his way there Twonty
five dol.'a.’s will be given to any person lodging
him in any jail of the State and ncli ying the
subscriber at Augusta, Gu. Fifty dullara will be
given for evidence, to convict, of his being har
bored by any white person.
P. STOTESBURY, Adm’r.
Augusta, May 10th, 1851. watwtf
BOUNTY LAND AND PENSION
CLAIMS.
FpHE undersigned continues to prepare and
A forward tea competent agent at Washing
ton City, applications for Bounty Land War
rants and Pension Claims, which will meet
prompt attention. Apply at the office of my fa
ther over the Post Office.
reW2-tf G A SNEAD,