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[From/Ac Mobile Tribune , 17/A in*/.]
More Revolution.
We learn from our Texas papers received yes
terday, that there is every probability of an im
mediate revolution in the Mexican departments
of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila. We
have had rnmors and predictions of this occasion
ally for several months past. The object, as we
learn from the Houston Telegraph of the sth in
stant, is to establish a republic in all the valley
of the Rio Grande east of the Sierra Madre. The
plans for the movement are so well matured that
a decisive blow, it is thought, will be struck
within a few weeks.
A great number of volunteers from Texas have
been enlisted, and large quantities of arms, am
munition and military stores have been procured
to carry on the war. Upwards of two hundred
Texian volunteers were encamped near Rorna a
few weeks since, waiting lor orders from Canales
and his associates. Carabajal at present is the
ostensible commander of the revolutionary forces;
but as soon as offensive operations arc commenc
ed, it is probable that Canales will take the com
mand in person. It is believed that a large num
ber of the government troops will join the stan
dard of Carabajal as soon as it is displayed on
the west bank of the Rio Grande.
On the Texas sideoftho river, the merchants
are nearly all in favor of the revolution. Their
trade with the country on the western side of
the river has been almost entirely destroyed by
the vexatious conditions of the Mexican revenue
laws, which are administered as much to the de
triment of this trade as posible. They are con
fident, too, of its success, as the central govern
ment of Mexico is so destitute of means so to be
unable to pay the soldiers on the borders, and
they are ready, it is represented, to give their aid
to the revolution.
Says the Telegraph:
It is said that Gen. Avalos and the other offi
cers in command of the Mexican forces, are aware
that the great mass of the fieople of those depart
ments are opposed to the central government,
and they have intimated to the leaders of the
revolutionary party that they can offer but a
feeble resistance if a respectable military force is
brought to operate against them. It is also said
that Gen. Avalos has actually removed a portion
of his property to Brownsville, in anticipation of
the success of the revolutionary party.
Gen. Avalos is the commander-in-chics of the
Mexican forces in Tamaulipas.
By the New Orleans papers we have some in
telligence from Texas, in addition to that we
published yesterday.
Some of tile disbanded Cuba volunteers had
arrived in Galveston, to proceed to join the ex- ,
pedition lor the revolution in Tamaulipas. It I ‘
is stated also that the organized bodies in Texas j ,
which, it was supposed some time ago, were des
tined for Cuba, were actually intended for this
new expedition. j
The news of the ravages of the Texas Indians j
in Mexico, is quite distressing. It is said that
they are depopulating the country. The inhabi
tants were being slaughtered in every direction, '
and those who can get awav leave with all des
patch for the American side of the Rio Bravo,
The remainder are threatened with starvation.
Their crops have been destroyed and their flocks
and cattle driven away by the savages. In the
vicinity of Roma they recently murdered several
shepherds.
Charles Downes, an American merchant, oil',
his way down the Rio Grande, on the Mexican j
»ide, to Brownsville, was murdered at the ran- I
cho Las Cuevas, and his body thrown into the j
river. He was shot through the heart, and had •
deep cuts in the head. The "Rio Bravo” says : j
It appears that he had stopped at the rancho in
company with a Mexican stock driver, for re
freshments, when he was so foully dealt with.
More than a dozen Americans have been mur
dered at that place within a year or two past.
It was there that Capt. Wilson met his end. It
was by that nest of robbers that the three Cali
fornians were tied together ami thrown into the
river. It was there that Lavalle was killed a
few days ago.
The election returns, are sufficiently authen
tic to show conclusively that Bell has been
chosen Governor; Henderson, Lieut. Governor;
Hemphill, Chief Justice; Wheeler and Lipscomb,
Associate Justices, and Crosby, Commissioner of
the General Land Office.
The Rio Bravo of the 10th inst, gives the fol •
lowing account of an unfortunate affray in
Brownsville:
We have to record an unfortunate occurrence
in our streets, which has produced considerable
excitement. On Sunday evening, about 8 o’clock,
a dispute arose between Mr. W. H. Harrison, of
this city, and W. G. Clarke, of Point Isabel,
which resulted in the instant death of the latter.
For some days past a serious misunderstanding
has existed bet ween a brother of Mr Harrison
and the deceased, which threatened to end in a
duel. On Sunday it seems to have been stopoed,
or in some way abandoned, and was regarded of
little further importance. In tlie evening, about
8 o'clock, the parties met accidentally at the Gem,
and another contest sprung up between the par
ties of this melancholy affair.
A sort of informal duel with five-shooters, was
proposed and accepted on the instant, in the
street. They went out and at fifteen paces com
menced the contest. Both pistols missed fire in
the first attempt; the deceased’s pistol missed a
second time; bis antogouist fired, without effect,
and again fired a second time, when tlie deceas
ed fell by a shot near the regiou of the heart.
Though comparatively a stranger among us, he
was buried on Monday and his body attended to
the grave by a large and respectable concourse
of citizens. A warrant was issued for the arrest
of Mr. Harrison, but he passed the river into
Mexico before it could be exeauted. We learn
that he will return in time to meet any investi
gation that the authorities may institute in the
case.
Women and Dancing.
We know that we have published the follow
ing at least hall a dozen times within as many <
years, but it looked so fresh and funny yesterday, 1
as we were running over our exchanges, that vve ■
thought we would give it another send-off. It t
is almost needless to say that the humorous yarn 1
was spun by Lever,the facetious author of Charles r
O’Malley.—The bloomers may take a hint y
from it, and partly on their account we give the ii
extract a place.— Picayune. t
“I believe a woman would do a great deal for 0
dance,” said Dr. Growling: they are immensely d
fond of saltatory motion. I remember once in
my life I used to flirt with one who was a great
favorite in a provincial town where I lived, and
confided to me she had no stockings to appear in,
and without them her presence at the ball was
out of the question.”
“That was a hint for you to buy the stockings.”
said Dick.
“No, you’re out,” said Growling.—“ She knew
that I was as poor as herself; but though she
could not rely on my purse, she had every con
fidence in my taste and judgment, and consulted
me on a plan she formed for going to the ball in
proper twig.—Now what do you think it was?”
i “To go in cotton, I suppose,” returned Dick.
“Out again, sir—you'd never guess it; and only
’ a woman could have hit upon the expedient. It
, was the fashion in those days for ladies in full
dress to wear pink stockings, and she proposed
1 painting her legs !”
“Painting her legs!” they all exclaimed.
I “Fact sir,” said the doctor, and she relied upon
r me for telling her if the cheat was successful.”
“And was it?” asked Durfy.
1 “Don't be in a hurry, Sam. I complied on one
condition, namely—that I should be the pain
ter.”
J “Oh you old rascal!” said Dick.
5 “A capital bargain,” said Durfy.
5 “But not a safe covenant,” added the attorney,
o “Don’t interrupt me, gentlemen,” said the
j! doctor. “I got some rose pink, accordingly, and
I defy all the hosiers in Nottingham to make a
R tighter fit than I did on little Jenny; and a pret
tier pair of stockings I never saw.”
* “And she went to the ball?” said Dick.
“She did.”
“And the trick succeeded?” inquired Durfy.
“So completely,” said the doctor, “that several
- ladies asked her to recommend her dyer to them.
* —So you see what a woman will do to go to a
8 dance. Poor little Jenny!” she was a merry
e minx—by the by she boxed my cars that night
* for a joke I made about the stockings. ‘Jenny,’
' said 1, ‘for fear your stockings should fall down
‘ when you are dancing, had?nt yon better let me
ltaint a pair of garters on them?
(From the Savannah Republican, 20/A inst.)
c Late from Havana.
, The mail schooner Chatham, Capt. Gladden,
' arrived hereon Saturday morning from Havana,
I via Key West. She left, the former place on the
I 12th inst., and the latter on the 13th. The Chat
ham has been detained on the passage by severe
, gales. We learn from Capt. G. that there is
, no news of importance in Havana, the city be
ing quiet and business getting brisk again.
By this arrival, we have received files of Ha
vana pajiers.
About 870,000 had been collected by subscrip
tion, for the relief ol the widows and orphans ot
: those who fell in the late engagements.
On the 9th inst., funeral obsequies were cele
brated at the Cathedral, which was hung with
. black and decorated with trophies, &c. The so
lemnities are said to have been very grand and
imposing.
The pullers contain accounts of great rejoicings
all over tlie island, on learning the news of Lo
pez's capture.
The new Spanish steamer Fernando el Cotoli
co arrived at Havana on the oth, from Cadiz.
The American brig Fregisoll, Plummer mas
ter, with a cargo of ice, was lost on Key Breton,
on the 27th lilt. The captain and crew had ar
rived at Trinidad.
Extract from a letter, received by a commer
cial house, in this city:
“Havana, Sept. 11, 1851.
“Our market is very dull—and but little do
ing in Sugars.
“Molasses, 3} rials—some holders ask 2} rials.
“Exchange on the North l} a IJ per cent. dis.
“Sales of Rice since our last at 12 } rials., and
a small lot of 80 casks retailed at 12} rs.”
Cotton Crop.— We are informed by intelli
gent planters that nearly all the cotton grown
upon the sandy lands of this and the adjoining
counties will be gathered by the last of October
or first of November. Almost all the bolls on
the stalk are open. This fact is sufficient to
show how far short the crop must fall. The
ravages of the boll worm have reduced the crop
[ in the prairies and canebreake at least one-half
i below what it promised to be a short time ago.
The crop of cotton this year in Alabama must,
from all accounts, fall considerably below that of
j the last.
t The reports from the other cotton-growing
; States are not more favorable. The long con
tinued drought which prevailed throughout the
- entire south west during the last summer, must
necessarily have every where curtailed the crop.
As some compensati i for the want of quantity,
the dry weather w'. we have had thus far in
the picking season, has enabled the planter to
gather his cotton unusually free from dirt and
trash.— Selma (.din,) Reporter, 19/A inst.
[From the Southern Democrat.]
To my friends in Dooly and elsewhore around tho
Globe.
I I have recently been informed that it is cur
-1 rently reported in the State of Dooly, that 1 have
! changed my political principles, and allied my
: sell with the Constitutional Union Party.
Though l never expect to figure largely in the
political arena, and seek no station above that
of an humble citizen, I am unwilling that my
name should be used falsely in connection with
political issues to give any effect whatever to
the objects contemplated by it, and though I am
merely a private in the ranks of my political
friends, my character as a man of consistency is
as dear to me as though 1 were President ol the
United States, for 1 should lie but a man then.
A due regard for my character, therefore, induces
me to make the following statement:
I have ever lieen a Democrat, and have ever
acted in concert with that party. When the is
sues of Southern Rights, and Union, were sprung
upon the Country, and the ery of Disunion was
raised, by some of the ultras,' 1 was induced to
believe that the Southern Rights Party were for
immediate, Disunion—and 1 was then, and yet
am opposed to Disunion. I was deluded in ref
erence to the real issues, and 1 am frank to con
fess that my predilections were in favor of the
Constitutional Union Party, until they nomina
ted Mr. Cobb for Governor. Upon that event, 1
hastened back to the Southern Rights Party,
sought forgiveness for my imbecility, and obtain
ed it, and I have been a good Southern Rights
man ever sinee. The nomination of Mr. Cobb
satisfied me, that federalism was at the bottom
of it. I voted for him, when he was a democrat,
and was ever afterwards ashamed of it, on ac
count of his votes in Congress, and if God will
fogive me for it. I will stand, pledged not to vote
for him again. lam for Gov. McDonald and
Southern Rights—Oglethorpe and Dooly, now
and lorever.
THOMAS A. SWEARINGEN.
Buffalo, Sept. 18.
The New York Liberty Convention to-day i
nominated Gerritt Smith for President, at the
next election, and Chas. Durkee, of Wisconsin,
for Vice President. Mr. Durkee was lately a
member of Congress from Wisconsin.
The Editor’s Drawer of Harper's New Month
ly for September has a good story, telling how a
Western lawyer once addressed a jury in a mur- j
der case. “The Bible has it,” said he, “Thou j
shalt not kill!" Now, do you know, gentlemen,
that il you go to haug my client, the prisoner at |
the bar, that you commit murder? You do. and !
no mistake;’ for murder is murder, whether it is 1
committed by twelve men, in what is called a ■
box—and a ‘bad box' you'll find it if you don't 1
give a righteous verdict—for an humble indivi
dual, like my client. S'posing my client had .
killed a man; I say, s’posing he had; is that any
reason why you should kill a man?—twelve of
you on one! No,gentlemen of the jury, you may
bring the prisoner at the bar, my client, in guilty; i
the hangman may do his duty, but will that ex- 1
onerate yous No such thing! You will all, in- 1
dividually and collectively, you will all of you be I ’
murderers." This profound argument had its |
effect,.the writer adds. Th£ verdict of the jury !
was: i: Not guilty , if he’ll quit the State!” i
AUGUSTA, GA.
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 23.
" the”largest circulation¥the state.
Tor Governor.
Charles j. McDonald.
District For Congress.
1— JOS. W. JACKSON, of Chatham.
2 HENRY L. BENNING, of Muscogee.
3. DAVID J. BAILEY, of Butts.
4. JOHN D. STELL, of Fayette.
5. WILLIAM H. STILES, of Cass.
6—THOMAS F. JONES, of Newton.
7. DAVID W. LEWIS, of Hancock.
8. ROBERT McMILLAN, of Elbert.
Election Tickets.
We are prepared to print election Tickets for
any county in the Slate, with neatness aud des
patch. Price 50 cents per 100—$1 per 1000.
The cash must accompany the order.
State Rights in 1833.
The Chronicle If Sentinel, of Sunday morning,
denies the truth of the 7th, 9th and 10th propo
sitions laid down by ns, in our article of the 14th
instant, as a part of the creed of the State Rights
party of 1833.
; We shall not follow the obscure and muddy
reasoning of the Chronicle , but simply state those
propositions, and sustain them by proof. While
i we do not admit that the declaration of princi
r pies, made by the State Rights party at its great
meeting held at JVlilledgevilie, Nov. 13th, 1833,
is the only test of its principles, yet as the Chron
icle (f Sentitiel makes that the test, we will abide
i by it, and look to that for our proof. The fol
lowing is the 7 th proposition :
l '7th. That each State had the right to secede
from the Union, without coercion, by virtue of
its sovereignty.”
Upon this proposition the Chronicle if Sentinel
remarks as follows:
“The seventh pro)x>sition has not even a color
of support by the State Rights party of 1833.
The assertion of the right to secede under certain
circumstances not named, is no assertion of the
right to secede ‘ without coercion, by virtue of
sovereignty.’ If the meeting had intended to
assert so broad a right, it would have been much
more explicit than simply to deny the doctrine
of the proclamation. If a State Inis the right to
secede without coercion, simply by virtue oi lier
sovereignty, then, as the State is always sover
eign, it always has the right to secede, under any
circumstances , with cause or without. Sovereignty
is her's always, without intervals, whether with
cause of secession or without. That, ‘by virtue
of’ which she secedes, perpetually exists, and
gives a corresponding perpetual right of seces
sion.”
We merely ipiote this from that paper to show
that it does indirectly deny Me doctrine of the right
of secession without coercion. It is as plain as any
thing can well be, tb it it holds to the doctrine
of State coercion in the event of its attempting to
secede. Such is the position of a paper which
probably has the largest circulation of any sub
mission paper in the State. Such is the present
position of a former organ of the State Rights
party of other days.
Rut look at the seventh proposition and see if
we do not prove its truth from the acts of the
Slate Rights meeting of 1833.
That meeting stated that General Jackson's
proclamation held—
“ 3rd. That the States have no right to secede
from the Union, under any circumstances what
ever : inasmuch as secession would destroy the
UNITY OP THE NATION.”
The meeting declared that, against this as well
as other positions of the proclamation, “this
meeting doth solemnly protest,” &e., “and as
solemnly deny (its and) their legitimate deduc
tion from the compact which established the
Federal Government.”
It will appear plain to minds of ordinary com
prehension, that the meeting, by denying the
proposition attributed to the proclamation, held
its converse to be true. That is, that a State had
the right to secede, even if it should destroy the
unity of the nation.
Now the main object for coercing a seceding
State, would be to prevent a destruction of the
unity of the nation. The State Rights party, in
1833, held that a State had the right to secede
lrom the Union, although it would destroy that
unity—subtract one State from the Union of
States—and give the withdrawing State a na
tional position.
The State Rights party of 1833, plainly did ■
iwt admit the power of State coercion, but denied i
it in the declaration, that a State could secede, j
even if the unity of the nation were destroyed by j
it. For that unity would not be destroyed, if j
the other States held her in the Union by force. I
Then it is manifest that that part of our 7th J
proposition which declares “that each State 1
HAD THE RIGHT TO SECEDE FROM THE U.NION, I
WIIHOUT COERCION, ■’ is sustained by the
meeting of 1833. Now we will show that the
other branch of it, that a State had such right ■
“nv VIRTUE OF ITS SOVEREIGNTY,” is also SUS" \
tained by the acts of that meeting.
The meeting of 1833 objected to the proclama- I
tion upon the ground that it held—
‘ sth. That the States have not retained their
entire sovereigntyP
Against this doctrine, the meeting protested,
\ and of course indirectly declared, that the States ■
did retain their entire sovereignty.
Again, the meeting said the proclamation 1
held—
“7th. That the edltgiance of our citizens is
due to the United States ‘in the first instance,’
and not to their respective States.”
Agaiust this the meeting of 1833 also solemnly \
protested. Hence it is palpably inferable that it j
held that allegiance was due, in the first in- j
stance, to the State.
If the State Rights party of 1833 held that the
Stales have retained their entire sovereignty —that
allegiance was due to each State by its people— j
that a State had the right to secede from the j
Union— it follows, of course, that in their opin- ■
ion, THAT RIGHT EXISTED BY VIRTUE OF ITS SOV- !
KKEIGNTY.
We believe that we have now demonstrated j
the truth of our 7th proposition, subjecting it to
the test selected by the Chronicle if Sentinel itself.
The following is the 9th proposition which
we said was held by the State Rights party in
1833:
“ 9th. That secession was a peaceable right,
and any attempt to prevent its exercise by the
General Government, would be a glaring infrac
tion of State Rights, and a gross outrage upon the
liberties of the people.”
The Chronicle Sf Sentinel denies the truth of
our statement, and the inference is clear that it
holds that secession is not a peaceable right.
We might rest our declaration of what the
State Rights party of 1833 thought upon this
subjest, upon our toregoing exposition of facts.
But we have direct testimony at hand, which
we furnish, as follows, from the proceedings of
the meeting to which we have so often referred.
The meeting declared that the object for which it
proposed the formation of Southern Rights asso
ciations was, in part, to resist the doctrines of the
Proclamation and Force Bill, and it had special
reference to the right claimed in that Proclama
tion and Bill, to force a State to submit to the
laws and remain in the Union. The meeting
said: “ These last measures (the Proclamation
and Force Bill,) have aimed a deadly blow
at State Rights, and seem now to require the
united and concentrated energies of the friends
and advocates of those rights to be directed to THIS
POINT OF AT TACK, deemed so important
by our enemies to be CARRIED ; and in which,
IF SUCCESS SHOULD CROWN TIIEIK EXERTIONS,
ALL THAT IS DEAR AND VALUABLE
TO FREEDOM WILL BE WRESTED
FROM THE STATES.”
Here is a plain denial of the doctrine of State
coercion. The meeting of 1833 stated that the
united and concentrated energies of the friends of
State Rights should be directed especially u to
this point of attack ,” namely, the avowal that a
State could be subjected by force. Os course,
then, the State Rights party of 1833, held that
secession was a peaceable right. We thus
amply and perfectly sustain our 9th proposition
by the test which the Chronicle itself has applied
to it.
The tollowing is the 10th proposition, which
the Chronicle if Sentinel says was not maintained
by the State Rights party of 1833 :
“ 10th. That the right of secession was not the
right of revolution, which implies the right of
the party revolted against to maintain its power
by the sword, but the right peaceably to with
draw from the Union, and assume an indepen
dent state and position among the nations of the
earth.”
If we have shown that the right of secession
was held to be a teachable right, we have
shown that it teas not held to be the right of revo
lution—a right of a ]>eople merely to revolt against
their Government.
We laid down, in our article of the 11th inst.,
ten propositions, containing what we declared
to have been the positions assumed by the State
Rights party in 1833. The Chronicle $ Sentinel
has not pretended to dispute but the three fore
going ones. We have sustained them by ample
proof from its own chosen medium of testing
their validity. Hence all of the ten propositions
stand out untouched and mirefuted, though as
sailed by Federalistic missels.
Our positions remain a solid fabric, without
the loss ol a piece of timber of a single brick, and
it will stand like a monument to rebuke the
a|xistates, of these modern days, from the true
republican faith.
State Rights men of Georgia, Whigs and
Democrats, will you madly cling to a party
whose principles lead you to the graves of the
rights of the States— to the graves of State sover
eignty and State secession ? Can you be so in
constant—such blind and hapless wanderers
from the shrine of your former principles ? Break
off at once from the delusions of party, and follow
the pathway of light and hope, of honor and
safety.
Does he worship at the Shrine of Principles or
Party.
We are obliged to the Federal Union for the
few extracts which iollows:
“ Finally, we deprecate the thought, that the bay
onets of the Federal arm should reek with the blood
of our brethren of Carolina.”—Southern Recorder,
January. 30M, 1833.
That is what the Recorder said about the peo
ple of South Carolina, when she took an attitude
of resistance to a high tariff, a mere thing of a
few more dollars and cents. But now, when
she decides to resist insult, wrong, and outrage
upon her rights and honor, and a course of policy
which even hazards the personal safety of her peo
ple, in the future, we say, the Southern Recorder
does not seem to “ deprecate the thought, that
the bayonets of the Federal army should reek with
THE BLOOD OF OUR BRETHREN OF CAROLINA !
He seems now to think that it will follow, as a
matter of course, that troops, seat from Georgia
by Air. Cobb, would be in the line of duty in
bayoneting those Southern brothern across the
j Savannah, and holding up the weapons of death,
I reeking with the warm blood of their hearts. It
] could not contemplate such a picture, in 1833,
; without shrinking with horror. How is it that
| it can look upon it now with patience and ac
[ quiescence ? What shadows have clouded its
intellect, what influences have preverted its
former noble and generous instincts, to bring it
down at this time to the smell of blood, of the
blood of the brave Carolina freeman, shed in de
fence of liberty and lire. Will it justify itself,
now, because Southern Carolina dares to secede
from the Union.
See what it said about the right of secession
in 1533. Read the following extracts from the
editorial columns of the Recorder in 1833 :
“ The States, as sovereignties, have rights not
specified in the Constitution, aud with which the
Constitution has nothing to do. Among others
of such rights we believe to be that of peaceful
secession, although there is no provision for
this to be found in the Constitution, but flow
ing AS WE THINK FROM THE VERY NATURE OP
our Government itself. This right can as
little be called unconstitutional as constitutional,
but is one beyond aud antecedent to the Consti
tution, and a necessary INCIDENT TO TRE SO
VEREIGNTY on the States.”— Southern Recor
der, Feb. Gtli, 1833. i
“The question is a very plain one. If the
people of a State have not the right to govern
themselves as to themselves njay seem best, then 1
State sovereignty is an unmeaning prsase’ and
was a rightful subject to the jeer the scoff, and :
the contempt which it received at the hands of !
Air. Webster. If the people of a State, driven <
by intolerable oppression, and unconstitutional and \
tyrannical enactments, are denied the right
of withdrawing from a compact, the only !
OBLIGATORY BOND OF "WHICH AS WE SUPPOSED
WAS THE ENTIRE CONSENT OF THE INDEPENDENT
parties forming it ; and to be told that all at
tempts to exercise such right, will be met with *
GUNPOWDER LOGIC AND THE CONCLUSIVE ARGU- J
MENT OF THE BAYONET—THEN HAVE WE NO
RIGHTS, BUT SUCH AS WE DERIVE FROM THE
General Government, those of the States S
ARE BURIED, AND IN OUR HUMBLE OproNION WE 1
MAY AS WELL CLOSE THE SCENE BY WRITING THE
EPITAPH OF HUMAN FREEDOM WITH
ALL ITS HOPES, AND ALL ITS BLES- 1
SlNGS.”— Southern Recorder, March 20th. 1533. c
Then State sovereignty was something, and c
not a mere phantom of the crazy brain of a
disunionist. Then secession was a right which
a State could peacefully exercise. Then Mr. Web
ster, whose praise now flows in honied words,
and mellifluous paragraphs, from the lips and
the press of Constitutional. Union orators and
writers, was the Prince of Consolidationists and
the champion of anti-State sovereignty and anti
secession.
Our Constitution is the same now that it was
then. Our rights are the same. Then the Re
corder approved the logic of gunpowder and the ar
gument of the bayonet.
Alluding to the denial of State sovereignty,
and the right of peaceful secession, and the use
of force, to prevent its exercise, the Recorder said
in 1833, THEN HAVE WE NO RIGHTS,
BUT SUCH AS WE DERIVE FROM THE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT, THOSE OF
THE STATES ARE BURIED, AND IN OUR
OPINION, WE MAY WELL CLOSE THE
SCENE BY WRITING THE EPITAPH OF
HUMAN FREEDOM WITH ALL ITS
HOPES AND ALL ITS BLESSINGS ”
The farcoming storms and dangers which the
Recorder saw, in that day, whistle and roar, and
thunder, at this moment, almost at our doors; but
the Recoder s ears have closed,its eyes have grown
dim, it can neither hear nor see them. We ap
peal from the Recorder to the people—from the
leaders to the rank and file—from sleeping sen
tinels upon the watch-towers, to the people them
selves, whose property and safety are endanger
ed, and whose good and protection is the great
object of our watchful and anxious solicitude.—
What can we do ? How impotent are our ef
forts if the yeomenry of Georgia and the South,
will not rally in their own defence, and for the
protection of the family altar.
Fugitive Slave Law.
Suppose it were fully enforced and worthy of
being held up to the South as Ihe great panacea
for all her evils, as our Constitutional Union
teachers pretend. Where did it come from ?
From one of these great Union mongers? No.
It was introduced into the Senate by that good
old Republican, Mr. Mason, of Virginia. It was
introduced by a Southern Rights man. How
many Northern Democratic votes did it get ?
Twenty-seven, if we remember right. How
many Whig votes did it get ? Three, and one of
them, in a recent election has been defeated for
voting for it !
Just think of it. Out of about one hundred and
seventy odd Northern votes, the only one of the
Compromise Bills, at all favorable to the South
received 27 votes! And yet we are told to de
pend ou the North! What folly, if it is nothing
worse! The Constitution, in plain terms, gives
us the right to recover our fugitive slaves. 27
Northern votes out of a hundred and seventy odd
was given in favor of the constitutional rights of
the South!
The North then opposed the enforcement of
our right. It is as clear as light itself. How
fair, liberal and just !! All the Southern mem
bers voted for the bill, and only a few Northern
members, and all is fair, liberal and just!!
Historical Collections of Georgia.
This is the title of a forthcoming work from
the pen of the Rev. George White, whose “ Sta
tistics of Georgia” has met with such marked
and deserved success. He is now collecting ma
terials for his new work, and in corresponding
with us with a view to this purpose, furnished us
with the following little scrap of statistics. As it
may be quite interesting to many citizens of this
now flourishing city, we here insert it. It is a leaf
from an old pamphlet of that period.
A List of the whole Inhabitants of the Township of
Augusta , Georgia, in 1741.
Men. Women. Children.
Mr. Kennedy O'Brien... .5 3 0
Thomas Smith 11 0
Messrs.M'Kou/.ioAFrazer 5 1 0
John Miller 2 11
Thomas Goodale 2 1 2
Samuel Brown 2 11
Sanders Ross 2 0 0
A Sadler 11 1
A Tailor 11 0
William Clark 11 0
Henry Overstreet 11 4
Locklan M'Bean 2 2 1 *
William Gray 4 0 0
William Callahern 0 2 2
29 16 12
The Late Storm.—A highly esteemed citi
zen of Gadsden county, (Fla.,) writes as fol
lows:
“The damage done in this county is incalcula
ble—the whole county presents the appearance
of a continuous hurricane ground. Nearly all
the forrest trees of any size, in the swamps as
well on the ridges, are levelled. About eight
tenths of the tobacco barns, and one-haif of the
gin-houses in the country, so far as heard from,
are blown down. We estimate three-fourths of
the tobacco, one-hall of the cotton crop, and at
least one-fourth of the corn crop, destroyed.
Hundreds of out-buildings, (negro houses,stables,
smoke-houses, etc., down,) as well as chimneys,
and some dwellings. The escape with life has
been truly miraculous.”
The Hurricane at St. Johns, p. r. We
learn from Captain Bibber, of the schr. Hope,
says the New-York Journal of Commerce, that
St. Johns, P. R., was visited by a hurricane
on the 16th of August, which destroyed a large
quantity of sugar in the store-houses, and that
all the sugar cane in the fields was blown down.
The tide in the harbor rose 26 feet higher than
usual, and swept a large number of houses off
with the flood.
At Aricebo, the gale drove five British ves
sels ashore, all of which became total wrecks.
Culture of the Olive.—R. Chisholm, Esq.,
of Beaufort, S. C., is cultivating the olive tree
from plants procured in the neighborhood of
Florence, in Italy. He has made arrangements
to get some trees from Spain. His trees bear
abundantly every year, and grow satisfactorily.
He has not commenced the manufacture of oil,
except a few bottles for experiment. The olive
tree will grow throughout the cotton growing re
gion. The plant is of slow growth and very
hardy.
That highly conservative Union loving print,
the New York Tribune, justifies the killing of
Mr. Gorsuch, and counsels resistance to the fu
gitive slave law “to the last.” Is not this trea
son against the Government and the Union? It
would be so regarded here.
Memphis and Charleston Railroad. The
Memphis Eagle, of the 11th inst., says that the
corps of local engineers appointed to commence
operations at this end of the above great work,
have reached that city, i^i•„ c _-1~7
upon their duties. W ‘ U forthwith ent «
Mr. Thomas Ritchie, Sr., has\ ver his
name positively declined to accept the noni ,„
tio for Governor of Virginia.
The Vicksburg True Issue has been informed
that Col. WcWille has abandoned the contest
with Gen. Freeman in the Third Congressional
District of Mississippi.
The last number ofthe Republican.published at
Lake Providence, Louisiana, says that the cotton
picking is going on very fast in Carroll Parish.
Most ofthe crop will be thrown into market
early, as the cotton, from the effect of extreme
dry weather, has ceased to grow.
Kentucky. —The Governor and Lieut. Gov
i ernor elect of this State were inaugurated at
Frankfort on the 2d instant. Governor Powell
. promise to requite the confidence reposed in him
. Hon. John B. Thompson, in entering upon his
duties as Lieut. Governor, “in a few pertinent re
marks returned his acknowledgments the to peo
ple for his election, and congratulated them upon
I the admirable working oftheir political system,
t under which the highest officers of the State
pass to and from office by the quiet and peacea
ble fiat of the public will, and not by revolution
s ary violence nor military power.”
The cotton crop in the vicinity of Victoria,
. Texas, has been nearly destroyed by the worm;
as a general thing, however, the crops through
the State are good.
Office Board of Health, I
Augusta, Sept. 23d, 1831. )
Since my report of the 16th inst., no new
3 cases, either of Small Pox or Varioloid, have oc
curred. The two cases of Varioloid mentioned
in my last report, are now well.
f WM. E. DEARING,
Chairman Board of Health.
i Austrian Impudence.—American Subsiis
- sion.—The Austrian authorities at Venice have
. opened a package, containing a printed circular
I and a pamphlet on the Austro-Hungarian ques
-5 tion, with refeernce to the case of Mr. Dudley
■ Mann—addressed to the United States Consul
- there, bearing the seal ot the department of State.
■ In reply to the protest from Mr. Flagg, our
f representative,they stated that the Council of Re
- vision claimed the right to inspect all publica
tions entering the Venetian territories. The
Consul declared that the occurrence of a similar
act will demand of him a similar protest. Here
the matter remains for the present.
[communicated.]
; Public Meeting and Barbacue at Stoney Bluff,
i In pursuance of public notice, previously giv
en, the people of Scriven and Burke commenced
assembling at an early hour on the 10th instant
at Stoney Bluff, and was organised by calling
Maj. Janies A. Mims to the Chair, and apjtoint
iug Jacob G. Glisson and R. R. Alims, Secretaries.
Many of the chivalric sons of Carolina were
also present, and were greeted with true re
publican friendship. It was altogether a large
and enthusiastic meeting. After a few remarks
explanatory of the meeting, by the Chairman,
the Hon. A. J. Miller was introduced to the
meeting, and delivered a very logical and elo
quent speech, justifying, with but few exceptions
the great Compromise measures, adopted by the
last Congress, as honorable and just, (though
not liberal to the South,) as they were adopted
on non-intervention principles contended for by
Calhoun, Berrien, H. V. Johnson and others.
As respects the Southern Rights party, he
said they claimed to be on the Georgia platform,
yet were striving for power, but what he did for
not know unlessto be used at some subsequent pe
riod. After the expiration of an hour, the time
allowed to Mr. Miller, the Hon. E. Bellinger
was introduced to the meeting, and was received
with considerable demonstrations of applause, by
cheering and plaudits, and like his predecessor,
delivered a very able speech of one hour and a
half. As an eloquent speaker and politician,
Mr. Bellinger, as is generally known, ranks with
Carolina’s most gifted sons. He battled strong
ly for Southern Rights, contending that fraud
had been committed by the interventoni of
the late Federal Executive, and by Congress,
by practically adopting the Wilmot Proviso in
the Compromise measures, as they are generally
known. After the conclusion of his speech,
dinner time having arrived, an intermission of
half an hour was given, when the assembled
crowd indulged themselves in the sumptuousness
of a well prepared and elegant Barbacue. The
animal appotites having been gratified, the crowd
returned to the stand, and Mr. Miller again, as
before, in a very able manner, concluded his
speech in half an hour, the time allowed him.
Mr. Miller is a man of fine talent, and his sound
argument cannot fail do a great deal of good
for the political party with which he is associa
ted.
At this stage ofthe debate, the name of Law
son seemed to issue from nearly every mouth ;
when the Col. ascended the rostrum, and in a
speech of half an hour, employed his time in the
exposition of the political course of Messrs.
Toombs, Stephens and Cobb, showing that they
had alternately been strong Southern Rights and
Submission men; and that disunionism origina
ted with the Whig party, in the person of the
Hon. JonnQ. Adams, an avowed abolitionist—
and has been progressing ever since, notwith
standing they had assumed a new and fair name
for the disguise of their treacherous cause—and
that their course warrants the conclusion that
their object is to monopolise Constitutional pow
er and force submission, if possible, on the South.
The Col. concluded, by saying, that he believed
that the destiny of the South depended upon the
action of South Carolina. Col. Lawson is a man
of admirable ability as a speaker, and cannot
fail to do the Southern Rights party a great deal
of good in the present state of affairs.
JAMES A. MIMS, Chairman.
J. G. Glisson,! Sp „ ptarlp -
B. R. Mims, J Secretaries.
The Army Worm.—This destructive insect of
the caterpillar species, we have been informed,
has commenced its ravages in parts of this Dis
trict. It is entirely consuming the hay-crop,
making the fields look like a fire had swept over
them. If its appearance should be general, it
will add much to the calamity of a short crop.—
Many years ago, it swept over the country like
an army of locusts, devoring every blade of grass
—peavines—fodder, that had been pulled from
the stalk and left to cure, and even that which
had been hauled in. As it marches forward like
an army, it is said its progress may be arrested
by cutting small ditches around a field if it has
not entered. — Anderson (S. C.) Gazette. 17 th
inst.