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fHK CONSTITUTIONALIST. ' JAMES GARDNER. JR. r ‘ .. ~ ~ TERMS. Daily, per annum qq Tri-Weekly, per annum • If paid in advance Weekly, per annum, if paid in advance.. These terms are offered to new subscribers and all odd subscribers who pay up all arrearages. In no case will the weekly paper be sent at $2, . unless the money accompanies the order. j in no case will it be sent at 52,00 to an old sub- | scribcr in arrears. [PJ’When the year paid for at 52,00 expires, the paper, if not discontinued, or paid for in advance, will be sent on the old terms, 52,50 if paid at the office within the year, or £3,00 h paid after the expiration of the year. (O’Postage must be paid on all communications and letters of business. (From the Southern Literary Gazette.) The Tocsin BY ROBERT M. CHARLTON. [During the Temperance Convention at At lanta, one of the Vice-Presidents declared, in his speech, that “ We do not belong to the ven ders of liquor ; —we belong to our wives !” Another of the speakers took occasion to com bat this last branch of the imposition, and to affirm, that “We belong to nobody, we are freemen. It is to us that our wives have pro mised to love, honor and obey.” This brought up the President of the Convention, who is also a Judge of the Supreme Court, and he an nounced that we did belong to our wives that theirs was the best and wisest rule that he had, in his marriage ceremony, promised to obey, and that, hereafter, when in his judicial capacity he tried the silken cords of matri mony, he would insists that the men should Vow obedience. The following lines are found ed unon these incidents, and also upon the CU U|lClli liICOC 111CAUCH to, tmu prior decision of the Supreme Court of Geor gia, that the Legislature had transcended their constitutional power in allowing divorces, and that hereafter there should be none !] Ve Freemen of Georgia ! Ve bold and Married Men! Arouse ye, fer there's danger stalking fiercely thro’ your land; Ve have often fought lor freedom ! —You must bat tle now again, Not with a foreign foe man, but your own domestic band. Von are sluggling for a dearer right than even for your lives, For the contest is for Liberty !—the enemy, your wives! Alas, the fiat has gone forth, —ye have no more the power— \ e arc wedlock's helpless victims—ye are wo man's luckless prey— The golden rule of olden time has vanish’d from this hour— Tis ye that henceforth now must swear u to hon or and obey. 77 Alas ! alas ! my comrades,that we’ve taken so much pains To he clasp’d in Hymen’s fetters—to be bound by Beauty’s chains! A has I lie Court of Errors ! Down with the tyrants down ! Tis they who've brought such danger to onr Iree and peaceful I'hate, ’ i'is they, clothed in the panoply of ermine and of gown, Who’ve sworn that “ no man henceforth shall be parted from his mate And now, to cap the climax of their most unrigh teous sway, Their chief has said “ The teamen rule, —the men shall now obey /” Ah me! when first 1 knelt me down at Beauty’s lovely shrine. And swore that there forever I would oiler up my heart — That her eyes should be the only sons that on oath should shine „, i il>H That I would do with joy whale er her SW 1 should impart, , , . Did i think, oh wretched mortal! oh unsuspecting youth ! Did I deem but for a moment I was telling her the truth ! Oh Turkey ! thou bright legion of the myrtle and the vine, They may talk about your despot’s rule, but thou alone are free— Thy tnrban’d men disdain beneath a woman’s yoke to pine, And though each may have a hundred wives, he keeps them under key ! Ve dark, benighted Judges, cease your desolating work; Get wisdom from the Mussulman, —loam prudence from the Turk ! 1 surrender ; there’s no kind of use in fighting against fate; I’ll make no further struggle,—l’ll waste no more my breath ; What Bulwer says is true, I guess, “ When one lias got a mate. He’s nothing else to do on earth, but calmly wait lor death !” I surrender, —Freedom's flag is down,— the drapeun blanc unfurls ! Oh, who shall stand the battery of “ forty miles of girls !” [From the St. Louis licvelle ,] Mrs- Scrug’gins Talks About Mr- Skinkle “I hates bach’lors,” said Mrs. Scruggins, the other day, in quite an energetic manner, •“I do, indeed. I don’t mean them as is young, but them as is old in sin, and can’t be reform ed, and coaxed to marry. What an orful state is single blessedness! * Blessedness, indeed! “I’d rather be a dog in the moon, as Shakspur says, than marry an old bach’lor. I was tol lin’ Mr. Skinkle the other day— Mr. Skinkle isn’t a old bach’lor, he's only thirty-seven—l was tollin' Mr, Skinkle, that all the old bach’- lors should be imported to Africa, where the sun would warm ’em up a little; make ’em frisky like, and then they’d propose, lie look- j ed at me over the top of his dear green specs, \ and saidas how, bach’lors would be bach’lers | until after they was married. I agreed with j him, and then he told me the reason ’cause he didn't commit himself inter mattermony. ’Twas a very afflictin' stor}; and he told it in sich a sorrowful kind of way, it made me feel | for him very much. 31c said, he was a mis- , fortunate man, and had had a grevus time of it in his life. He could’t complain about per fumery matters; lie was well enuff to do in the world, but then he had been desperate un lucky, pirticlarly with the femenines. He never could git along with ’em, he said; ’cause i he fell in love with 'em all. He could’t help j it; it was nateral, he believed, and was a fa mily failin’. I told him he needn’t be ’sham ed of it, and then he smiled excessive sofely, j and said how he wasn’t. When he was eigh- ; teen he was in love with a little angel of fifteen, or thereabouts, who lived next door to his house in Cinciunater. The families had one j hydren atween ’em, and he used to meet her there drawin’ water. Somebody had bored a hole m the lead spout of the hvdren, and she’d sot the water agoin’, and drink out of it.—Mr. Skinkle sa.d as how he allays drunk artcr her, and it was wonderful how often they was dry. After he d got well know’d to her, he used {o go into her house to see her. and the end of it was. he got in love; and she said she loved him, too, better than enny thing. ‘And, Mrs Scruggins,'said Mr. Skinkle, ‘what do you think was the end of it? Eleven months and two weeks arter I goUquainted with this little angel, would you b’iieve it?—the deceitful minx went and married an old bach’lor, jest 'cause he was worth a plum. It was a dreadful blow, but I got over it, howsumever.’ Well, when he got older Mr. Skinkle got wiser, so 1 he said, and went a lookin’ for a steady semi- f '/ nine for a wife. There was plenty of ’em, but d 1 they was all too anxious to git married, and he U was afraid he’d be tuk in, so he kept on a o waitin’ and a waitin’ till he was twenty six, , li i and then he fell in love with a servant gal.— ! n He didn’t tell me enny thing about that affair, n howsumever, 'eept that he didn’t marry her. il A year arter that time he was tuk by a dashin’ o widder, who had cum out to the west. He ■ was jest on the pint of preposin’ to her, when he heerd that shcTiad a small family of nine children in New York, and as that was jest nine more step children than he wanted, he ; said as how he “crawfished,” which means, j backed out. * Time flew away from him, and at thirty Mr. ! Skinkle was not married. He began to think about it serious, then, he said, and set up strong to a young feminine who had jest left boardin’ school. He galivanted her round to all the balls, and concerts, and pick-nicks, and fishin’ parties, and paid all kinds of ’tentions to her. Arter gittin’ the consent of her father . and mother, and takin’ all the trouble he did —don’t you think she wouldn’t have him i ’cause he was so short —she wanted a heroic statue—six feet high at the very least. Then he got mad, and went to settin up to two feminines at wunst—he had two strings to his bow, he said. This was worse than all, for they found it out; and when he asked one of < ’em, she said, no wonder his eyes was cross’d, - lookin’ two ways for a wife; and the other he - asked last saidj she wasn’t enny bocKs second - pick.—This flustered him a little, and he dind’t j go a courtin’ enny more for a long while after -3 wards. He was desperate ’fraid of wimin with high temparature, and allays preferred t them as was mild and unconsuming. He got i ’quainted with one of this ’ere kind, as he ■ thought, and was very much taken with her ■ ways. She was so gentle, and never got vexed t at all, to all ’jjearances. He was a jokin’ with > her, one day, and misadvcrtently he axed her if I her curls was natcral.and them four front teeth ■ of hers wasn’t falser She flew in a orful pas l shun, and invited him to get out of her sight - and never show his face agin. Ever since e that day, Mr. Skinkle has a horror of mild faced feminines, he allays prefers them that shows some spirit. —My countenance, he said, was one of them kind as does ” « « ♦ * * * * With this remark, Mrs. Scruggins leaned back in her rocking chair, and glanced com placently at the mirror. Kentucky Election- Louisville, August 15. j Ileturns from thirty-seven counties of this State show a whig gain of 1,324, as compared with the last gubernatorial election. North Carolina Election Petersburg, August 15. The returns for North Carolina are nearly complete, though unofficial. The political complexion of the Legislature is uncertain, j There is either a tie or a democratic majority j of two. Manly, the whig candidate for Gov ernor, is elected by about 400 majority, though some of the reports just received are supposed to be inaccurate, and that the official returns of the sheriff will increase it. Another Despatch.—lt is now confidently stated that the Whigs have the majority, on joint ballot, by two or perhaps four. [From the Charleston Mercury.] Letter from Gen. Taylor The Evening News of yesterday publishes an extract of a letter from Gen. Taylor to a gentleman in this city. We are left to con jecture why an extract, instead of the whole, has been given to the public. From a com parison of dates, we may be allowed to sus- j pect that the letter is an informal answer, in tended as a convenient substitute for an offi- , cial answer, to the nomination of Gen. Tay- j loi by the. | CT ThcTmport“ntrart of tins part of a letter is the following sentence : “ I have accepted the nomination of the j Philadelphia Convention, as well as the no mination of many primary assemblies gotten j up in various sections of the Union, in some j instances irrespictiveof party : and would have accepted the nomination of the Baltimore Con vention, had it been tendered on the same terms." I Clearness of meaning does not seem to be i Gen. Taylor’s fort, if we suppose him to be ! that absolutely guileless being which his de voted friends represent him, and it is exceed ingly difficult, from any study of the above sentence, to fix the signification of what ought i to be definite, beyond doubt, viz : “ the same terms,” on which he would indifferently have accepted the nomination of political friends, political enemies, and political nondescripts. If he means that such nomination should have indicated no principle in those who nominated, and invited no pledge, explicit or implied, in the nomination, it is probable that there is no I Whig in the whole Union, that would not have i accepted the nomination of any Convention, ' for any office he desired, on “ the same terms.” There would seem to be implied in the state- ■ ment that Gen. Taylor would have responded with the same feeling to a nomination by both Conventions ; and yet he went before one of them as a candidate pledged to withdraw from the field, unless he received their nomination! In this he distinctly pledged himself as u party man to a party.— From this position it is impossible for him to extiicate himself. From this position he shows no desire to extricate himself —unless the profession of a willingness to receive the votes of men of all parties be regarded as such. But on this point, and as often as he has ad dressed answers either to professed Democrats or to professed neutrals, he is very careful to assure them that he will give no pledges— that the “same terms” means no terms of concession to them; and that, as far as those | who arc not Whigs are concerned, he will “be j the President of the whole Nation, and not of I a party. Now, it strikes us that the time, of all oth j ers, when this declaration of independence ot : party and national breadth of patriotism ought to have been made, was when the question of | his nomination was brought before the assem- : | bled representatives of one of the great parties j iof the Union. We have never heard that he sent any such message to the Philadelphia Convention. On the contrary, we know that he took the occasion to have himself proclaim ed a thorough Whig, the proper representative of the Whig party; and that he submitted to that body, absolutely and without condition, [ the question whether he should be a candidate for the Presidency. If they said he should not be i their candidate, he promised not to be the eandi - | I date of any body. These were really the (, eerms” on which lie was nominated; and when he I i says that he would have accepted the | I nomination of the Baltimore Convention “on j ! the same terms,” he surely does not mean to say, in mockery of all political consistency, that he was ready to vindicate his indepen- i dence of party and the breadth of his patriot ism by playing the Democrat at Baltimore and i the Whig at Philadelphia ! I The truth is, Gen. Taylor meant, and could j have meant, by these “ terms,” nothing but a one-sided bargain, by which he was to receive every thing, and give nothing. Certain gen tlemen, anxious to have a candidate, write to Gen. Taylor, and ask permission to support him; He replies : By all means, gentlemen, by all means ; I shall be very glad to have the j vote of every man in the United States “on the same terms ,” and this is paraded as a proof that Gen. Taylor is independent ot party I I He is willing to be supported by everybody.— Zounds ! why he says himself that what he | desires, is “ to be President of the irhole Xa \ion” —that is, of the United States—“ and not as a partythat is, of some trumpery thing i like the Philadelphia Convention. We are 1 not at all surprised at his preference, and see no great occasion for raising a shout over it, as if it were some newly discovered quintescence of human wisdom and virtue. TIIE TON BTIT UTJ ONALI ST. Augusta, Georgia. SATURDAY MORNING ApG 19, 48 FOR PRESIDENT LEWIS CASS, OF MICHIGAN. FOR VICE PRESIDENT WM. O. BUTLER. OF KENTUCKY. ELECTORAL TICKET. W. T. COLQUITT, of Troup. M. H. McALLISTER, Chatham. J. W. ANDERSON, Chatham. L. B. MERCER. Lee. ALLEN COCHRAN, Monroe. JOHN D. STELL, Fayette. LEWIS TUMLIN, Cass. ROBERT McMILLAN,¥Elbert. WILLIAM McKINLEY, Oglethorpe. JAS. GARDNER. JR., Richmond. ALTERNATES. TIMOTHY FURLOW, Houston. W B WOFFORD, Habersham. E. R. BROWN, Sumter, MARK WILCOX, Telfair. JESSE CARTER, Talbot. JOHN WRAY, Coweta. RA R. FOSTER, Forsyth. JAMES JACKSON, Walton. JUNIUS WINGFIELD, Putnam. R. W. FLOURNOY, Washington. CONGRESSIONAL TICKET. 2d Dist. —M. J. WELLBORN, Muscogee. 3d. “ —JOHN. J. CAREY, Upson. 4tli “ —H. A. HARALSON, Troup. sth “ —THOS. C. HACKETT, Floyd. 6th “ —HOWELL COBB, Clarke. Bth “ —Col. A. J. LAWSON, Burke. The Message of the President on the Oregon Bill. The Baltimore Sun of the 16th inst. says— : “We publish to-day the chief portion of the i communication made by the President of the i United States to the House of Representatives, j with which he accompanied the announce | ment of the fact that he had signed the bill j providing for the territorial government of Or egon. The President takes occasion to present I his views ill part, upon the great question which seems likely to arise upon the establish i ment of a government in that pottion of tcr- I ritory acquired from Mexico by treaty, and now known as New Mexico and California ; and in a manner which will not fail to attract the attention and secure the approbation of all the true friends of the Union, j “ The President intimates his personal re cognition of the Missouri Compromise as tlu> ! ° , . of „n differences ; true basis tor tiro mljus t . T T nioil ill I'P betwoon various sections of the LnlOll, 111 1C I ration to the question of slavery as pertaining :to the territory acquired from Mexico. He ; has unhesitatingly given his sanction to the j Oregon Bill, because the territory to which it refers does not extend south of the line desig nated in the Missouri Compromise. Had that bill embraced territory intersected by that line, he says “ the question presented for my j consideration would have been of a far differ ent character, and my action upon it must have corresponded with my convictions.” In signing the present bill, the President has i acted with equal promptness and propriety. He has been influenced by no considerations extraneous to the distinct merits of the ques tion before him. The “ Wilmot Proviso” by its name or character, was an insignificant ob ject in the field of contemplation, and the sin gle point presented for the executive action ; was the signature of a bill, essential to a spe- I cific purpose, and drawn in conformity with that spirit of compromise which has heretofore j governed the national action in the admission of new territory to the Union.” Wisconsin. —A Sign. —The Milwaukee Wis consin states that the whole number of the Legislature is 85, and that on the piesidential question they stand as follows; — For Gen. Cass 61 “ Gen. Taylor 20 “ Mr. Van Buren 1 The writer adds —‘It will be seen by the above that Gen. Cass gets more than the party strength of the Legislature, and such will be the result throughout the State and Union. Late and Important Letter from Gen. Taylor.— The following copy of a late letter from Gen. Taylor to Mr. Lippard, of Philadel phia, we find in the Ledger of that citv. It is the very latest expression of the General’s views in regard to the Presidency, being eleven days later in date than the letter to Governor Morehead, wherein he accepted the Whig nomination : Baton Rouge, La., July 21, ISIS. Dear Sir :—Your letter of the sth iust., ask ing of me a line or two, in regard to my posi tion as a candidate for the Presidency, has been duly received. In reply, I have to say, that I am not a par ty candidate, and if elected, shall not be the I President of a party, but the President of the | ( whole people. I am, dear sir, jwith high respect and regard, ! your most obedient servant, Z. Taylor. j George Lippard, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa. Irish News Excitement. —The news by the Acadia produced a strong sensation in both j New York and Philadelphia. The Herald | says, that in New York it far exceeded even that of the reception of the news of the French revolution. There was a crowd of probably one thousand persons around that office ; and the gathering at Yauxhall Garden, on Monday night, was larger and more enthusiastic than any of the previous Irish Union meetings. What’s in the Wind ?— Two of the Ten- | ncssee Whig Electors have declined. A con vention was called to meet in Nashville on the 18th inst., to fill the vacancy. Editorial Correspondence. [ < Stone Mountain, Aug. 17, 1818. The thunders of Georgia Democracy, which have for two days been pealing around the base of DeKalb’s towering mountain, and echoed back from every surrounding hill and valley, have died away.Jand comparative quiet reigns over a spot, the scene for the last two j days of bustle, excitement and tumultuous enthusiasm which bafflles all description, ihe morning of the 17th August dawns grey and j misty upon sleeping thousands, worn down , and exhausted with a series of excitements. ! As we look out through the early morning air, our eve cannot pierce the thick mantle of mist which shrouds, from the base to its tow er-capped summit, the majestic mountain, and only dimly may be seen the unpretending houses which are nestled among the surround ing woods, and the few tents which yet re main of the many which at intervals dotted the woods between the mountain and the de- I i pOt. | ! The political demonstrations were brought j i to a close yesterday afternoon, by addresses i made) to several thousands, who still lingered around the spot of the great gathering ot the Democratic clans. But our description should not begin where the show left off, and travel backwards. Each portion shall occupy its appropriate place. The people were gradual ly collecting for several days beforehand, and even last Saturday the hotels had become crowded. The approaching grand rally of the Democracy was a sight which every body was curious to look upon, and not Democrats alone, but many Whigs, bringing with them large numbers of Georgia’s fairest and loveliest daughters, assembled upon the selected spot and tilled the capacious hotels at the Moun tain and the depot. During last Monday, every hour and minute brought fresh arrivals on horseback, and in carriages, wagons and carts, besides the trams of cars hundreds of yards long, coming up and down the Georgia Rail Road. It was a goodly sight to behold these long trains of cars, some tine passenger • cars with innumerable heads peeping out from the windows, and large groups standing on . the tops, but mostly open cars, with rude benches erected for the purpose, and crammed as tight as they could sit, and huge red freight cars, with their dense masses of human beings crowding the doors at the sides—some with bands of music, and with banners flying. As they would arrive at the depot, hats and hand- } kerchiefs would wave, the banners would be | displayed, and loud shouts would go up to the ; very heavens. Hurrah lor Cass and Butler, . w’as the cry, and the cry would be caught up and’sent back by the crowd already assembled at the depot to welcome the new comers. During Monday and Tuesday, this animating scene could be witnessed several times a day, and a continued excitement and tumult of delight and enthusiasm was kept up by the thickening crowds. On Monday evening, Mr. R. W. Flournoy, i alternate elector of the Bth District, and Wm. B. Pryor, of Troup, and several other speak ers, assembled a large concourse of people in plaudits which greeted them, showed plainly that the Democracy of the mountains were wide awake, and as deeply attached as ever to the principles of the party. On Tuesday, the trains came in from the east and the west with many hundreds —we may almost say thousands, at a time. The weight of the vast multitude that rushed into the cars for conveyance to Stone Mountain was so great, that the engines could make but little headway, and some of them came “drag ging their slow length along” at a rate which threatened to disappoint the anxious passen gers who were pressing on to the great festi val of Democracy. But one train, however, w’as delayed beyond a reasonable time, owing to an accident. The train from Athens, bring ing several hundreds, among them the Ogle thorpe delegation, one hundred and fifty strong, with a fine band of music, and the smaller, but not less staunch and true delega tion from Clarke, did not reach the Mountain depot until sun-down. But about 10 o’clock on Tuesday, the De mocracy gathered together at the stand, Col. 1 David C. Campbell, of Milledgeville, being 1 placed in the Chair us presiding officer, and they were addressed in a short and pithy speech by Col. Hackett, the Democratic can didate for Congress for the oth District. He was followed by the Hon. Walter T. Colquitt, one of the candidates for Elector —the “ Old i Rough and Ready” of Georgia Democracy, as he has not inaptly been called. Then follow ed Col. Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah—af ter him, Col. Watson, a gentleman from Ala bama, and a good speaker, was called up and addressed the multitude until the hour for dinner. I will not undertake an outline of these 1 speeches or particularize their merits. They were well received, and listened to by a large audience, among which, it was gratifying to see so large a sprinkling of ladies. There did j not seem to be of both sexes, and of all politi- I cal shades, more than six or seven thousand collected at this point at one time, and a per- j son confining his observations to this point i alone, might have thought it was no great j Mass Meeting, as to numbers, after all. But scarcely one-third of the whole vast concourse could be seen at any one time. They were scattered from the summit of the Mountain— ! along its sides—around its base —at the hotels | —along the road from those hotels to the de pot, in groups of fifties and hundreds, and at encampments through the woods. Then at the depot, where there is an extensive hotel, I and quite a village, the concourse was not by hundreds, but by thousands. The number as- i sembled there was said to be larger than at the . Spring where the meeting was organized, and | many who came late in the day, supposed that the Mass Meeting was at the depot. Early in the morning, a procession was : formed at the depot, and a great crowd pro- | ceeded with music and banners to the stand 1 erected for the occasion. I noticed Col. Henry R. Jackson and Mr. De Graffenreid at the head of the procession, on horseback, as marshals. But Ave saw no committee of arrangements ac tive on the occasion,and but little system seem- ed to prevail. There was no programme, and no general understanding or announcement ot what was to be the order of the day. Still the vast crowd seemed to know how to take care ot itself, and a very large one very independently staid down at the depot, and set up a sort ot mass meeting on their own hook. Finding it I impossible to get them all together, Col. Chap j pel and Judge Cone addressed severa l thou sands at that point, and the distinguished speakers arc said to have given great satisfac i tion. After the barbacue, which was served up about midway between the depot and the Mountain House, Mr. McAllister, another of our candidates for elector, addressed a large au : dicuce from a platform in trout of the Moun tain House. He made one of his best speeches. The piazzas of the Hotel were thronged with ladies, and their bright and smiling faces gave a most agreeable variety to the scene ot the dense of men swaying to and fro, and i a * ,11. .. V. t o d f nl i 11 TT t shouting and hurrahing around the eloquent orator. Judge Colquitt and Mr. McAllister, on this day, bore up nobly the banner of De mocracy, and proved themselves worthy the distinguished position, at the head of the elec toral ticket, for the State at large, in which they were placed by the Democratic Conven tion. Before Mr. McAllister spoke, Mr. W. J. Lawton, of Scriven, was introduced to the as semblage by the President of the meeting, and made, from the second story, a short and per tinent address, which was well received. After Mr. McAllister had closed, Mr. James Jackson, of Walton, alternate elector for the 6th District—one of Georgia’s most talented and noble sons —a worthy descendant of one of her most famous men, was called for by the largo audience, and came forward and made a most happy off’ hand address. Among the most interesting ceremonies of the day, was the presentation, by Col. Henry R. Jackson, of a cuke from the Democratic | ladies of Chatham, to the Democratic ladies of De Kalb. We would call this cake a mon ster cake, but that it was too beautiful to be called a monster. It was a splendid cake in size, and in the beauty of its exterior. It was also of the finest composition and flavor. Its 1 „I, A 4. b _ ni. • d.* n »V1 f dimensions were about three feet in diameter, | and one foot in thickness, beautifully iced and fiowered. with the names of Cass and Butler in large golden letters upon its upper surface. The address of Col. Jackson was and tasteful—much of it glowing with poetic ; enthusiasm and true chivalry. With such a j theme, in the hands of so gallant and talented a speaker, how could it be different ? This speech, too, had much point and facetiousness, and was somewhat anecdotical and amusing. ! We have seldom seen an audience in a better ! humor with a speaker, and the struggle W’as very amusing among the crowd below for copies of the address from the ladies, which were showered down by him from the piazza. This interesting episode was followed by speeches from a number of orators who were successively called out by the crowd. I can. not give a complete list of the many who ad s * I rt*HSe«l tho I»no j*lo, both hc»loro n.nd uiVor mm uj» per. The speaking was kept up till very late at night, and after leaving the front of the Hotel, many of the audience adjourned to the stand, where speeches were made until the small hours of next morning. I will not omit to mention that Mr. John L. Harris, formerly of Richmond county, now of Atlanta, made a very creditable effort after tea. Mr. Clarke, of Albany, a young man of fine j talents, made one of the best speeches that I have heard in many a day. He is destined to distinction in the ranks of the champions of i Democracy in Georgia. Mr. McKinley, candidate for elector, made an able and interesting speech. He had but a little before arrived w ith his delegation from Oglethorpe, and though coming late upon the ground, they united their joyful voices with right good will to swell the Democratic shout, that went up in honor of the sacred principles of Democratic government. ' Ihe moon that rose at early night shone in serene beauty upon the crowds gathered about the mountain’s base, but the gentle influences , of her beams could not still the commotion i uri tß she hud travelled high up in the heavens, and was waning towards the western horizon. But after a time the crowds began to disperse, and by 6 o’clock in the morning silence reign ed over the spot where but a few hours before | thousands were shouting for Cass and Butler and Democracy. No accident or unpleasant incident occurred to mar the pleasure of the first day’s proceed ings. So leaving for my next, much more that is to be described, I subscribe myself, Yours, respectfully, &c. The following telegraphic despatch has been politely furnished the Charleston Mercury for publication : Washington, Aug. 17. The difficulty between the Hon. A. P. But j ler and Benton is settled without a meeting. Mr. Butler leaves for home to-morrow morn ing. I. E. H. The Missouri Compromise The vote in the House on agreeing to it, , stood, yeas 82, nays 121, as follows : Yeas— Messrs. Adams, Atkinson, Barrin ger, Barrow, Bayly, Beale, Bedinger, Birdsall, Babcock, Botts, Bowdon, Bowlin, Boyd, Boy den, Brodhead, Charles Brown, Albert G. Brown, Buckner, Burt, Cabell, Chapman, Chase, Beverly L. Clark, Clingman, Howell Cobb, Williamson R. W. Cobb, Cooke, Cro zier, Daniel, Donnell, Garnett Duncan, Alex ander Evans, Featherstou, Flournoy, French Fulton, Gayle, Goggin, Green, Williard P; Hall, Haralson, Harmanson, Harris, Haskell, Hill, Hilliard, Isaac E. Holmes, George S. Houston, Charles J. Ingersol, Iverson, Andrew' Johnson, Robert W. Johnson, George W. Jones, John W. Jones Kaufman, T. B. King, Ligou, Lumpkin, McDowell, McKay, McLant Mead, Morehead, Outlaw, Pendleton, Phelps, Pilsbury, Preston, Rhett, Roman, Shepperd, Stanton, Stephens, Thomas, Jacob Thompson, John B. Thompson, Robert A. Thompson, Tompkins, Toombs, Venable, Wallace, Wood v;ard —82. Nays— Messrs. Abbott, Aslunun, Bingham, Blanchard, Brady, Butler, Canby, Cathcart, Franklin, Clark, Collamer, |Collins, Cougar Cranston, Crowell, Cummins, Darling,, Dickey, Dickinson, DU, Duer, fc Daniel Duncan, Dunn, Eckert, Fdsall, Edwards, Em bree, Nathan Evans, Far u, Farrelly, Ficklin, Fisher, Frecdley, Fries, < ott, Gregory, Griu nell. Hale, NathanK. Hill, Hammons, James G. Hampton, Moses Hampton, Henley, Hen rv, Elias 13. Holmes, John W. Houston, Hub hard, Hudson, Hunt, Joseph 11. Ingersoll, Ir vin, Jenkins, Kellogg, Kennon, Daniel V. King. William T. Lawrence,Sidney Lawrence, Lincoln, Lord, Lynde, Maclay, McClelland, McClernand, Mcllvaine, Job Mann, Horace Mann, Marsh, Marvin, Miller, Morris, Mullin, Murphy, Nelson, Nes, Newell, Nicol, Palfrey Peaslee, Peck, Petrie, Pettit, Pollock, Put nam, Reynolds, Richey, Robinson, Kockhill, John A. Rockwell, Rose, Root, Rumsey, St. John, Sawver, Schenck, Sherrill, Silvester, Slingerland*, Smart, Caleb 13. Smith. Robert Smith, Truman Smith, Starkweather, A. Stewart, Charles E. Stuart, Strohm, Strong, Tallmadge, Taylor, James Thompson, Rfchard W. Thompson, W illiam Ihompson, Inuistou, Tuck, Turner, Van Dyke, inton, Marren, Wentworth, White, Wick, Williams, W dmot —l2l. The majority against it was “forty save one. Among those who voted to sustain it, wore momhprs from Northern States, to wit: tour memoers xrum .whuuh. - Charles J. Ingersoll, Charles Brown, and Richard Brodhead of Pennsylvania, and Ashmun Birdsall, of New \ ork. Lumber Manufacturing- Company The Lumber Manufacturing Association of South Carolina and Georgia, adjacent to the Savannah River, convened at Stoney Bluff on the said River, on the first i hursduy in August, A. D. ISIS. On motion of Jefferson Roberts, the Rev. L. M. Brown was called to the Chair, and James A. Mims requested to act as Secretary. After the Chairman had made known the objects of the meeting in a few pertinent re marks, a call was made for Maj. M . J. Law ten, who addressed the meeting at length, set ting forth, in an eloquent and cogent manner, the grievances under consideration, and the most expeditious way to avert the evil. He recommended a stock to be raised by subscrip tion, or otherwise, as the meeting might de termine, porposed to carry out the object un der contemplation. C. J. Brown then moved that the Chairman appoint a committee of five, to prepare a Pre amble and Resolutions for this meeting.— Which motion was carried. The Chairman then appointed the following f 4- T W .1 T if) \C — committee, to wit: C. J. Urown, w. J. aaiw tou, Jefferson Roberts, F. F. Dunbar, and J. G. Glisson. After a short consultation, the committee, through their Chairman, C. J. Brown, return ed with the following Preamble and Resolu tions : i When any class of people are injured and | aggrieved by unjust management of their iu | tercsts entrusted to the care of others, it is their jirivilege, as well as their duty, to recti ■ fy the evil, and to take the necessary steps to j prevent, if possible, the like injuries from be ing practised upon them in future. Such being the case, we, the Planters both of South Carolina and Georgia, adjacent to the Savannah River, having for a length of time suffered much in our interests, by unfair : dealings with us in the sales of our Lumber i ° i and Timber sent to the Savannah market, be i iltjg nuw a»semDi p| i, accaruing to adjournment. |on the 4th of Jul last, at Stoney Bluff, Geor- I gia, have taken into consideration the above ! grievances, and to prevent their future occur j rence : 1. Resolved , That as preliminary measures, ! we form ourselves into m association to b ; called the “ Lumber Mr rufacturing Associac | tion of Georgia and Sout ■ Carolina.” 2. Resolved , That this At ociation shall meet j twice a year, either in Georgia or South Caro | lina, as it may determine at such meeting— i that its officers shall consist of a Chairman and Secretary, to be elected annually by bal lot, the first Thursday in August. That in case of the absence of one or both of its of ficers, at any one of its meetings, their places may be supplied pro. tan. by the Association. 3. Resolved, That a majority of the Associa tion, at each meeting, shall govern in all cases. 4. Resolved, That the object of this Associ ation is not to monopolize the lumber and tim * ber market of Savannah, or to meddle in any way, with the factors, in the sale of these ar ticles in that market; but to devise means and ways whereby they may be enabled, for the L time to come, to realize the market price for ; their lumber and timber, i 5. Resolved, That the best method to secure t their object in this respect, is to rent or pur chase a wharf, hire an agent upon certain wa ges, to furnish him with a sufficient capital to ■ enable him to make advances, so as to prevent , the hurried or force-sales of the lumber or tim ber of any member or patron of this Associa tion when prices are lo w . 6. Resolved, That to raise the funds neces sary to effect this object, each member shall be allowed to take up as many shares as they may think proper at fifty dollars per share. 7. Resolved, That the Agent for this Associ ation shall be subject to its control at all times. 8. Resolved, That each member of this asso ciation shall be bound in good faith to carry out its views and objects. 9. Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a Committee of Twenty, ten thereof from the State of tsouth Carolina, and ten from the State of Georgia, who shall, each, be furnished by the Secretary with a subscription list, for the purpose of receiving the names of such individuals as maybe disposed to subscribe to this association, together with the amount of such subscription: and that said Committee shall meet at Bluff on the first Thurs day in September *next. 10. Resolved, That the Chairman be author ised to appoint a Committee of Four, two thereof from South Carolina, and two from Georgia, whose duty it shall be to procure the necessary information in Savannah, and its vicinity, for the purpose of establishing a Lumber Yard and Dock, to carry on the busi ness of this association, as also, to look out for an agent and report to the next meeting. After the adoption of the foregoing Preamble and Resolutions, the Chairman appointed Jef ferson Roberts, W. J. Lawton T. W. Olive George 11. Maner. T. 11. Burns, T. B Butle 1 11. 11. Dixon, S. H. Littlefield, T. J. Dixion, and Isaac J. Heath, of Georgia; and C.. J. Brown, W. J. Harley, Dr. William Purse, Milledge Haukerson, C. B. Coker, Richard Williams, T. H. Johnson, John Eubanks, B. I. loole, and William Ashley, of South Car olina, to carry into effect the ninth Resolution. The Chairman also appointed W. J. Har ley, and Jesse Miller, of South Carolina, J, G. Glison and Jefferson Roberts, of Georgia, to carry into effect the tenth Resolution. Resolved further, That the Chairman of this association be authorized and empowered to call as many extra meetings as, in his judg ment, he may think fit and proper. HcsqU'cU, That this association adjourn uu-
