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(Correspondence the N. Y. Herald .)
Affair* in the National Capital.
Washington, Jan. 2,1851.
The Prospect of the Union Party—The Plot De
veloped Georgia Coming — Bad Prospects —
Everything Adrift —Sectional Parties, and Par
ty Cliques Any guantity of Candidates — Plan
of the Scrub Race for 1862.
The publications in the New York Herald
respecting the movement in Washington,
looking to the organisation of a great Union
party, and a great Union ticket, for the next
Presidential campaign, seem to have struck
some of the old wire-workers and all the old
organs “ all of a heap.” The National Intel
ligencer throws cold water upon it, the Re
public give it the cold shoulder, and the U*
is down upon the conspiracy, as if it
if. were the Trojan horse, so graphically referred
to in the recently published graphic letters of
Gen. Jackson, (those letters on the manage
ment of the game which brought Father
Ritchie to Washington.) The democratic out
aide papers are taking up the alarm—they dis
like the idea of blending the democratic with
the whig conservative on a Union platform
and a Union ticket. And why ? Because the
whigs just now have all the offices ; and, if a
Union ticket succeeds, the office-holders, be
ing all Un on men, will expect to stick. The
democrats, in that way, will get the worst part
of the bargan. They will furnish the votes,
the ammunition of the election, and the whigs
in the offices will carry off the spoils. The
outside democrats are, therefore, opposed to
the motion for a Union party. They would
perfer, and do prefer, the chances ot an elec
tion by the House of Representatives.
r " Rut what was to be the plan of organizing
, this Union party? Simply this:—A prelimi
s nary meeting was to be held in Washington,
from which a call was to go forth for Union
meetings, with a view to the organization of
a Union party all over the country. At the
same time, the Constitution , a Union p*per,
irrespective of old party land-marks, was to
t»e set in motion in Washing on, as the cen
tral organ of this Union party. The pros
pectus of this paper has been issued, but we
believe the sinews of war have not yet been
•upplied. Letters from the Union Safety
Committee of the Castle Garden organization,
we have reason to believe, have been received by
several of the most distinguished urea of the
whig and democratic parties in Congress, sug
gesting the foregoing chain of a general U
nion organization. What answers have been
given, or will be given, has, of course, r r ,Qt
yet transpired. They will probably be read
At the great Union meeting in Washington,
on the 22d February, if it shall take place as
originally intended.
The Union men of Georgia have appointed
delegates to attend a National Union Conven
tion in Washington, on the22d February ; but
this is the only practical movement by any
State towards the organization of a Union par
ty, beginning with a National Convention in
this city.
Now, we give these details as promising a
pretty plausible basis for the reports of the
projected Union ticket for 1852. Such was
the scheme —such the projected plan of or
ganization. With a junction of the conserva
tives, North and South, of both the <44 par
ties, success in 1852 would be a sure thing.—
But the project does not work. The free sort
ers and nullifiers have cooled down. The se
ceders of the South have cooled down. There
is not agitation enough to drive the whigs
and democra tof the Union men, into each
others arms. A good stiff nullification ex
eitement might do it—a movement by South
Carolina to set up a separate establishment
might do it. But there is a calm. Every,
thing is chaotic; but there is a calm. When
the tremendous volcanic upheaving, which
lifted from the sea the North American
continent west of the Rocky Mountains, sub
sided end colored down, there was a calm, but
lakes, rivers, and mountains were all in con
fusion for a long time after. There was a
calm, but there was chaos. So of the late ex
citement on the slavery question. The erup
tion has subsided ; but there is a chaos, and a
re-organization is slowly evolving itself out of
the confusion. Old parties may struggle, but
a new state of things is inevitable. The work
of transiton is perceptibly going on, and
whether the new epoch is fulfiled in a Union
party or by a scrub race, it has to come.
The chances are in favor of a scrub race.—
There are candidates sufficient for all pur
poses. The administration is not be consi
dered as a mere temporary thing—a mere
convenience for the time being. Mr. Fill
more and Mr. W ebster may be counted among
the probabilities. Clay is old, although the
most popular man in the country. Yes he is
old ; and the friends of Scott are getting to
the warm side of the old man, just as the ne
phews of a rich uncle labor to conciliate his
good will as he gets far into the vale of years.
The democrats have an abundance of Presi- i
dential timber—no telling yet who they are
to choose, or whether there is to be one or
two of them, in addition to a separate South
ern candidate, and a free soil Northern ticket
or two.
Among the whigs, there is a strong under
current in favor of Gen, Scott ; but Seward
and his set threatened to fasten themselves
upon him, and will probably break him down.
Mr. Webster holds a good position before the
whigs and the country ; but whiie the nulli
fiers would rally all their forces against him
iu the North, we see no indications in the
South to his support. The late remarks of
Mr. Clay in the Senate on the letter of Mr.
Webster, in reply to the Austrian minister,
appears to indicate a disposition to keep Mr.
Webster from sunning too|.‘ar ahead with the
glory of the country. Mr. Clay thought Mr.
Webster had made*a mistake in assuming that
HO foreign authority had a right to complain of
45\jr domestic publication of our diplomatic
jAAtruetions. it was very often made a mat
ter of diplomatic interference. We had done
it ourselves. We tak@ it, therefore, that t' is
exception of Mr. Cjlay to the splendid letter cf
Mr. Webster, involves the policy of keeping
the Secretary of State from taking the van
tage ground over all other whigs in the po
zjular opinion of the country. Some of the
country papers, especially in Virginia? haye
out forward the name of Mr. Rdlmore for the
Succession; and as he stands forth the practi
cal executor of the late compromise, he has,
with the patronage in his hands, the ,
of considerable force of the rank and hie, of
-Ki*, i a the event of any movement made
“ hiabShslf, In * a whig convention
should meet in Philadelphia, Mr. Fillmore has
the means, if employed with proper tact, set
ting aside all prudish scruples of controlling
the nomination. As far as the whigs are con
cerned, Clay, Scott, Webster and Fillmore
overshadows, just now, all other aspirants,
expectants or probabilities. Mr. Clay is old
but formidable still.
Gen. Cass holds the front rank with the
democracy—the conservative democracy; but
his defeat in 1848, and the consequences of
that defeat, have raised a strong opposition to
him among the ultras, North and South. He
is, however, regarded here as the rightful heir
to the democratic national nominaton, if they
are to have such a candidate. He is the
choice of the conservative democrats of the
North; but the party in the South would pre
fer Buchanan, or Dallas, or Woodbury, or
Gen. Lane, of Indiana, to Gen. (Jass. His in
terpretation, last session, of his Nicholson,
letter, has finished his run in the Siiuth, if
he should attempt to run there upon his own
hook, and upon hi 3 old platform.
But there is another man, who may proba
bly supercede Cass in 1852, as Taylor did
Clay in 1848. Gen. Houston is that man.
And if he comes forward as the declared ad
vocate of the purchase of the Island of Cuba
from Spain, he will superetde all competitors,
as Polk did in 1844, upon the question of the
annexation of Texas. But there is still anoth
er who may carry off the prize—nameiy, Gen.
Wool, cf New York.
We have, in all this, to suppose that there
will be a National Democratic Convention t at
Baltimore, and a National Whig Convention
at Philadelphia —that each will nominate a
candidate, upon a n .tional platform; and that
as far as these nominations go, they will pre
serve the remains of the two old parties. But
this is not all. Col. Benton, in a series of bills,
and speeches upon them, is shaping out an
independent policy of his own—in, favor of
specific duties —in favor of free farms and
pre-emptions to actual settlers on the public
land; in favor of a grand central railroad and
common highway to San Francisco, with
lateral branches to Oregon and New Mexico;
in favor of a Western armory; and in favor
of the most liberal concession to our Spanish
and Mexican born citizens in California, and
the new territories. And putting all these
things together, with the remaining fragments
of the Buffalo platform, the presumption is
good that he is striking for, and that he or
some one else, will secure another Buffalo
nomination. The ultra abolitionists,as usual,
will doubtless have a candtdat of their own.
The Southern ultras will run a candidate
of their own, we have no doubt of it, wheth
er the Union men of the South of both parties
shall join with their allies in the North or
not. Divide the Union party in the South,
between a whig and a democrat, and the ul
tra ticket, we suspect, will carry the South,
from Virginia to Arkansas, and from i'ennes
see to Florida. This will throw the national
whig and democratic nominations entirely
upon the middle and Northern States. The
resu.t will be, from all the aspects of the field,
a mixed result —and the sending to the House
of Representatives a Southern ultra, a Nor
thern whig or democrat, and a Northern free
soiier. Such, we tike it, are the prospects
of a scrub race, and the probabilities of its re
sults. And the casting of such conflicting
materials into the House, defies all estimates
as to the election they will make. The ar
’•angeinents of the patronage of $50,000,000 a
year, the political platfrom made cp, and the
promises advanced to members, will decide
the issue. The presumption of bargan is
inseparable from an election by the House;
but there, at least; the South can dictate the
election and the policy of the administration.
Counting,then, upon the failure of a Union
party and a Union ticket, we count upon a
scrub race an election by the House; and a
Southern administation upon a plat
form, from after the 4th March, 1853. And
the South, in the House will have the power
to prescribe the policy of negotiations with
Spain for the purchase of the Island of Cuba,
if they shall deem it advisable to exact such a
pledge.
For the present, parties and party politics
are a chaos. There are Union meetings, but
there is no Union party; there are whigs and
democrats, but those parties are broken up.
The factionists in the North, and the ultras
in the South, hq)4 the balance of power be
tween the fragments of these two old national
parties. Neither of them can elect before tht.
people, upon their own‘fstrength. The at
tempt at a junction promises to prove an
abortion. Let all hands, therefore, furbish
up;their armor for the general scrub race of
1852.
(From the Richmond Republican .)
Peter Francisco. .
It is the misfortune of the rank and file of
i an army that, while they do ail the hard fight
ing and encounter the greatest perils of the
i battle field, they receive the smallest portion
I of the glory and applause which follow vie
! tory. They have the lion's share of danger,
! and their officers the lion’s share of renown.
! Sometimes, however, there is among the hum
: ble fanlts of the private soldiers an individual
j whose peculiar prowess and soldierly and
| physical qualities single him out from the
multitude and rivet, upon him the attention
and admiration of h’.s countrymen. The eye
of the world then passes by the glittering
groups of Generals and Colonels, and fixes
upon this hero of nature, in his plain attire,
and with his countenance blackened by the
smoke and dust of battle, yet whose valiant
spirit irradiates the most doubtful strife and
exalts the humblest station.
Such a man was Peter Francisco, a man
who, in extraordinary physical strength, lion
like courage and gentleness of disposition, was
one of the most remarkable of the Revolution
ary warrior, of Virginia. We could easily fill
this journal with anecdotes illustrating his
character and prowess, but our limits forbid
more than a btipf sketch of the history of one
who at least deserves not to be forgotten.
Peter Francisco did not remember, if he
ever knew, his native country. Returning one
even ng from school, (in his native land,
wherever that may have been,) when five years
of ags, together with his sister and two other
children, a boy and girl, they passed near the
sea shore. A vessel lay at anchor a short dis
tance from the sea coast. Several sailors were
just landing in a small boat. Francisco stop
ped to admire the white sails of the vessel; his
sister, alarmed at the presence ot the sailors,
ran home, begging him to follow her. The
sailors enticed him and two of his companions
on board the vssel, apd they were not permit
ted to return. They were brought to this
country, and JB’rancisco was sold (until §1
years old) to a man named Wright, who lived
at the place known as Raines' Tavern, in Cum
berland oounty. He was seventeen years of
age when the war with Great Britain com
menced and felt a very strong desire to join
Gen. Washington's army. Col. Anthony Win
ston of Buckingham, taking an interest in the
patriotic, and courageous youth, bought his
time from Wng! ll * and told him to go. He
accordingly entered the army, and commenced
a career, in the course of which we believe it
is no exaggeration to say that he performed
more actual service than any twenty of the
other patriots of the Revolution. 4-t the storm
ing of Stony Point, perhaps the most danger
ous and desperate achievement of the Revolu
tionary war, he was the first man who entered
the fortress af:er 14^4 or Gibbon, on which oc
casion he received a bayonet wound in tqe
thigh. He wai at Brandywine, Monmouth,
and other battles at the North, and fought
heroically under Greene in the South, where
he was engaged in the actions of the Cowpen’s
Camden, Guilford Court House, &c. Probably
no soldier of the Revolution was in more bat
tles, and served his country more frequently
at the cannon’s mouth, than Peter Francisco.
The man himself was a perfeit Hercules in
strength, and in a hand to hand combat was
perfectly invincible. His stature was six feet
and one inch; his weight 260 pounds; his com
plexion dark and swarthy; his hands and feet
uncommonly large. He wielded a sword six
feet in length! That sword is now in the
Richmond Armory. It used to wave in front
of the fight like a meteor, bearing down all
before it.—Francisco wielded it with as much
ease and efficiency as ever did Richard of the
Lion Heart his famous battle-axe.
Some of the anecdotes of his personal strength
and achievements would be absolutely incredi
ble, but for the unexceptionable authority
upon which they are founded. On one occasion
when on a visit to Richmond to purchase a
barrel of wine, the merchant said he might
have the barrel, if he would raise it and drink
from it. Francisco raised it with ease, and
drank from the bung-hole. On another oc
casion, a noted bully, who had heard of his
great strength, rode all the way from Ken
tucky to match himself against him in a per
sonal encounter. Francisco, who was a man
of eminently pacific disposition, endeavored to
dissuade the bully from his purpose, but fin
ding him determined, he raided him from the
ground, as if he had been a baby, and put him
over the fence. The man picked himself up,
and requested Mr. Francisco to put his horse
over after him. No sooner said than done!
The horse followed his master and by tie same
means. Franeisco never struck a man but
once with his clenched first. Tnis was on an
occasion when he was attacked by three ruf
fians, whom he piled up in a heap together,
striking one of them and breaking his jaw
bone.—lt is stated in Howe’s History of Vir
ginia, “that such was his personal strength,
that he could e <sily shoulder a connon weigh
ing 1,100 pounds; and our informant, a highly
respectable gentleman now residing in Buck
ingham, in a communication before us, says:
‘He could take me in his right hand and pass
over the room with me, and play my head
against the ceiling, as though I had been a
doll-baby. My weight was 195 pounds.”
Imagine such a Samson as this front of a bat
tle, waving his sia feet sword!
The following anecdote, illustrative of Fran
cisco’s valor, has been often published:—
“While the British army were spreading
havoc and desolation all around them, by their
plunderings and burnings in Virginia, in 1781,
Francisco had been reconnoitring, and while
stopping at the house of a Mr, then in
Amelia, now Nottoway county, nine ot Tar
leton’s cavalry came up, with three negroes,
and told him he was their prisoner.—Seeing
he was overpowered by numbers, he made no
resistance. Believing him to be very peaceable,
they all went into the house, leaving him and
the paymaster togeth r.—“ Give up instantly
all that you possess of value,” said the latter,
“or prepare to die.” “I have nothing to give
up,” said Francisco, “so use your pleasure.”
“Deliver instantly,” rejoined the soldier, “those
massy silver buckles which you wear in your
shoes.” “They are a present from a valued
friend,” replied Francisco, “and would grieve
me to part wLh them. Give them into your
hands I never will. You have the power;
take them if you think fit.” The soldier put
his sabre under his arm, and bent down to
take them. Francisco, finding so favorable an
opportunity to recover his liberty, stepped one
pace in hi§ rear, drew the swqrd with force
from under his arm, and instantly gave him a
blow across the scull. “My enemy,’ 4 observ
ed Francisco, “was brafe, and though severely
wounded, drew a pistol, and in the same mo
ment that he pulled the trigger, I cut his hand
nearly off. The bullet graced my side. Ren
**** (The man of the house) very ungener
ously brought a masket, and gave it to one of
the British soldiers, and told him to make use
of that. He mounted the only horse they
could get, and presented it at my breast. It
missed fire. I rushed on the muzzle of the
gun. A short struggle ensued. I disarmed and
wounded him. Tarieton’s troops of four hundred
men were in sight, All was hurry and
confusion, which X Increased by repeatedly
hallowing, as loud as I could, Come on my brave
boys ; now's your time; we will soon dispvtch these
few and then attack the main body! The wound
ed man flew to the troop the other were panic
struck and fled. I seized Ben. and
would have dispatched hirn, but the poor
wretch beggeq 'for his ii:e; he was not bnly an
object of mo contempt, but pity. The eignt
horses that were left behind, I gave him to
conceal ioi me. Discovering Tarleton had
dispatched ten more in pursuit of me, I
made off. I evaded their vigilance. They
stopned to refresh themselves. I, like an old
fox/doubled &nq f'qlj qr t tjieir rear.
I went the next day to Ben. * '* * for my
horses; he demanded two for his trouble and
generous intentions. Finding my situation
dangerous, and surrounded by enemies where
Ijought to have found friends, I went off with
my six horses. I intended to have avenged
myself on * * * at a future day* but Frovi
dence ordained I should not be his execution
er, for he broke his neck by a fall from one of
the very hor§es.
Mr. Francisco, in the year 13 —was elected
Ssrgeant-ai-Arms of the Virginia House of
Delegates. He died in the year 1831, and was
buried in the Shockoe Hill Burying Ground.
No stone marks the p ace of his grave, but
the rank grass waves luxuriantly over the ash
es of the mos: extraordinary soldier and man
among the rank and file of the American Re
volutionary Army! How such a prodigy of
prowess and strength would have dolighted
the eye of Napoleon! He would have plac
ed ffeter at the head qf his grenadiers; he
would have covered him all over with dtars
and orders of merit; and if he had fallen he
would have commemorated his fame with the
title bestowed upon one who was not superior
in valor to Peter Francisco.—“ Bravest of the
Brave. 1 *
Lola Montes has given up her handsome
hotel in the Champs Elysee’s, and taken an
apartment over the Pharmacien Anglais at
the corner of the Rue Castiglione. There she
presides every evening, with the order of St.
I’herasa, conferred upon her by the love-sick
Louis, of Bavaria, a qzoss pf blue and
enamal, round her neck, and is’ endeavoring
to get up political re-unions in the style erf
the late Madame Recannier and Princess de
Lieven. Her admirer, who was chastised by
another suitor the other day, in her pres
ence, for showing her a curious picture insidq
a snuff box, has-been compelled to meet the
indignant champion \yitff pistols. They met
at St, Geriqaine, but both caps snapped, by
contrivance, it is said, of the fair Countess
of Lansfeidt, Mr. M —, however, is not
satisfied, and is determined to have a second
meeting.
{From the Columbus Timet, %th insl.)
and County Elections.—The “ En
quirer ’ thinks that «* under all the circum
stances that existed” in th** municipal election
of Saturday the “ successful party have rea
son to be satisfied.” This is fee ng thankful
for small favors. The “circumstances” are
these that the candidate for Mayor of the
great “ constitutional union party” was elect
ed by only 46 votes; and the candidate for
Marshal by only 33 votes. This is an awful
falling off since the “Ides of November” ip
this same city box. And it i« the more signi
ficant, from the fact stated by the Enquirer,
that the Southern Rights party did not or
ganize a regular opposition. In a hard fight,
it is in our judgement extremely doubtful
which party is the strongest in this city, But
the union is saved again, but this time by the
“skin of the teeth.” The following is the stare
of the polls:
Mayor— Holstead 323, Wilkins, 277.
Marshal —Robinson 315, Hughes 282.
Dep'y Marshal —Gulien 367, Brooks 208.
Treasurer —Howell 381, Mims 209.
Clerk —Stratton, no opposition.
Aldermen.— lst Ward—Slade 341, Durr,
351, Barden 227, W. T. Smith 89.
2d Ward—Urquhart 369, Ware 362, Aus
tin 204, TUlinghast 211.
3d Ward—King 214, Stewart 238, Madden
415, DeGraffenreid 228.
4th Ward—Andrews 331,Traywick 476, F.
M. Brooks 256,
sth Ward—Lowther 370, Mahaffay 342, Ep
ping 313.
6th Ward—Dill 299, Mathison 258, Munn
252. Herrendine 218.
But how does it happen that our neighbor
did not give even a passing notice of the coun
ty eiaction of Monday ? « Under all the cir
cumstances” is that satisfactory too ? We are
satisfied in the election of the two men we
voted for, Noble and Furgerson, for Tax Col
lector and Receiver. They are too good South
ern Rights men, and they are elected in Mus
cogee county, maugre the “Be wide awake”
article of the Enquirer last week. Instead of
“Catch Em” we shall head our next article of
advice to the Enquirer “ Hold Em.” When
our neighbor can “ hold” what he has got, i
will be time to start out to “catch” those that
are gone.
{Correspondence of the Charlestan Mercury,')
Washington, Jan. Bth, 1851.
Gentlemen „• Having been for many years a
resident in tnis city, and an attentive observer
of the political schemes and manoeuvring of
which it is the centre, I flatter myself that I
shall be able, as your conespondent, to give
you and your readers an occasional peep be
hind the curtain, and some glimpses of the
real elements of motion in this centre of traf
ficking in men and parties.
You have doubtless noticed the attempt of
Mr. Julian, of la. to get a petition referred to
the Judiciaiy Committee, with instructions to
report a bill repealing the Fugitive Slave Law.
The motion to suspend the rules for this pur
pose, on Monday, resulted, yeas 68; noes, 119
—some forty being absent or refusing to vote.
Yesterday he revived the subject by an attempt
to correct the journal, so as to make it appa
rent that the Northern men who voted against
him had been recreant to their anti-slavery
pledges. Again he was voted down, but a
motion for reconsideration, with a view to test
the matter, is still to be disposed of.
This action of the House I suppose will be
trumpeted as a triumphant proof of the de
termination of that body to sustain the rights
of the South in this particular. Nothing could
be less true than such an inference The op
position to slavery is as bitter as ever, but it is
politic just now to veil it in Congress. There
are two motives for this course: Ist, the sub
missionists of the South, Foote, Cobb,Toombs,
&c., insist upon their position being respect
ed, and that if the slavery question is agitated
at shis session, they will be overwhelmed at
home, and be compelled to join the resistance
party of the South. But the second is the
great and controlling argument for keeping
quiet on this matter for the present. The
Tariff, —that passenger in the Omnibus whom
Renton averred to be stowed under the dri
ver’s s-at, and said that Mr. Ritchie and all
the Compromisers knew him to be there, —is
to be dragged out of his hole and installed in
the first inside.
Haying plundered the South of all the ter
ritories; having abolished the slave trade in
the District, and virtually annulled the Fugi
tive Act in the free States, they feel that they
have done enough for one year in that direc
tion. They are now intent on plundering the
slaveholders of their revenua, by an increased
protective tariff. Their project of spoliation is
too precious to be jeoparded by a formal re
peal of the Fugitive act. Their Southern al
lies, such a3 M. Badger, in the Senate, and
Mr. Toombs, in the House, might refuse to aid
theuf in the robbery. Hence a politic mask
of f jrbearance is to be worn during this ses
sion. The next Congress, with a greatly in
creased abolition strength from Massachusetts,
New York, Ohio, &e. can do the work safely.
Resides these reasons for keeping quiet
there is still another, which, though I have
heard it spoken of with affected levity, has a
strong secret influence. They are afraid of
South Carolina. Your calling a Convention
to be elected in February, is a serious fact.
They do not fear Mississippi, because Fotte
assures them that if they will only remain
quiet this session, Mississippi will submit.
Rut South Carolina, —who will give them
pledges that South 'Carolina will succumb?
And if she secedes next winter, while Con
gress is in session, what will Congress do?
They must determine the matter. They
must vote the supplies to carry q$ \yai? against
her, qr they must suffer her to go peaceably
out of the Union. They say, that in that
state of things there is but one cobras they can
pursue,—-let her quietly. For, to press a
vote fqr sqppulies to coerce her, would
empty Congress qf the Southern Delega
tions, and precipitate immediately a South
ern Confederacy. “Let her go, then,” you
hear them aay, “she will soon beg to come
back again into the Union.” This, I as
sure you, is the general talk. That they
have to let you go out of the Union, if you
determine to go, I have little donbt. That
you will desirejto come back again, dQes not
strike me as at all ceitain. With the power
cf regulating your commercial relations with
all the world, on the most liberal principles,
it seems much more probable that the North,
rather than South Carolina, will entreat the
restoration of the Union; and you will be able
to dictate the terms of yomr renewed associa
tion with them. : ‘ i
A rather Suspicious Cjrpuhstance.— Late
yesterday afternoon, while Edward, a stal
wart specimen of a well bred Georgia slave
belonging to Mr. Gilbert Butler, of this city,
was returning from his work across the South
common, his attenti n was attracted by a
rough looking white map, wfco driving a
l*rnail colored child before hip*. 'There was some
thing in the man’s hurried manner and ap
pearance that excited suspicions in the mind
of Edward that all was not right, and he
made bold to suggest the propriety of carrying
a child that was acareeiy aid : enought to
by way oF commencing a conversation.
The map when spoken to became agitated,
and evaded a reply which emboided the other
to ask if the child belonged to him. The
stranger gave no satisfactory answer, where
upon the negro told him that he did uoube
heve he had any the child. To this
■pejid assertion, the man made a stammering
reply, and betrayed so much hesitation and
uneasiness as to convince his questioner that
he was right in his suspicions. Edward then
demanded the child- T«e other making no
show of resistance but still endeavoring to
urge forward the child, the honest negro in
formed him thai if he diu not give it up, he
would arrest him, apd bring him back to town,
at the s&metima taking the child in his arms.
When the man took to his heels and fled.
Edward brought the child to the city, and
placed it ip charge of a benevolent lady, where
it will remain till claimed. Being too young
to talk, it is unable to give any imformation
respecting itself. The owner can learn its
whereabouts by calling at this office.
We have given the statement of the negro,
pretty much as it was given to us, and which
was vouched for by his frank manner and hon
est face..— Sav. News, 10 th inst.
Salb of City Lots.— A sale was made yes
terday by the City Marshal, of a number of
Lots, being a part of the tract known as the
Springfield Plantation. The Lots sold com
prise about fifty acres, and the amount of pro
ceeds of the sale was $14,280. The tract
comprises 960 acres, and was originally pur
chased by the city for ,lke sum of $27,840.
Thus, it will be seen, that from less than one
eighteenth of the ground, the city has realiz
ed more than one-half the original purchase
money.ls any better evidence needed of the
rapidly increasing value of real estate in Sa
vannah?
The city has we learn, also sold $39,000 of
Central Rail-Road stock at par, and interest,
and redeemed the same amount of her bonds.
The bonds are now worth 5 per cent, pre
mium. This is also a flattering indication of
a healthful condition of the financial affairs of
our city.— lb.
TfIECONSTITUTIONALIST^
(©conjia.
SUNDAY MORNING, JAN- 12
Elections by City Council*
The following is the result of the elections
by the City Council, at their meeting last
evening:
Collector 8$ Treasurer . —John Hill.
Clerk Council. —L. L. Antony.
City Marshal, —Foster Blodget, Sr.
Deputy Marshal. —Allen C. Harbin.
City Constables. —Joseph B. Ramsey, and
Isaac Levy.
Supt. Streets —John Timmerman.
Supt. Water Works and Public Wells —Wil-
liam P. Lawson.
Bridge Keeper —Foster Blodget, Jr.
Wharfinger —C. B. Martin.
Clerk Lower Market —H. R. Philpot.
Clerk Upper Market— Wm. Keener.
Jailer —John w Heard.
Gat Lamp Lighter— P. A. Kunze.
Keeper Magazine— William M. Pickering.
Keeper City Hall —Olivia Hargroves.
Keeper City Clock —C. Catlin.
Keeper Hospital —P. McMahon.
Vendue Masters —W. E. Jackson & Co., A.
Lafitte, Hutchinson & Thomas.
Clerk Court Common Pleas —David L. Roath
City Sexton —B. Abrahams.
city watchmen.
S. Lindsey, W. J. Liverman,
B. F. Easterling, J. Shackelford,
W. Keener, H. L. Leon,
W. King, R. P. Spelman, Jr,
E. Burks, P. Quin,
C. T. Riche, G. Tanker sly,
H. Byrd, J, King.
The Game of Presi dent-Makinfir*
The letter we publish to-day of the Wash
ington correspondent of the New- York Herald
will be found interesting. It gives a graphic
view of the political cheoquer board. What
part Georgia is to play in this contest, will be
indicated more clearly by the results of the
elections in this State next October. If Messrs.
Toombs, Stephens & Co. succeed in their
scheme, set on foot at Milledgeville during
the sitting of the Convention in the form
ation of the Constitutional Union Party, this
State will be in their hands so much stock
in trade, with which they will drive the best
bargain possible. Whether their success will
enure to the benefit of a Northern Whig can
didate, or whether the Democrats in the plot
WiU make it available for a Northern Demo
crat, “ sound on the slavery question,” as the
Southern Banner hath it, it is now hard to
predict.
It is hardly probable that Gen. Cass, who
acted the part of General Mum, on the fugi
tive-slave bill, when it was on its passage
through the Senate, will again be tendered to
the South as “ a Northern sound on the
slavery question,” If he is, the Southern ultras
will prove strong enough to weigh him in the
balance and pronounce him “ wanting /” No
Northern man is sound enough on this ques
tion to coax them mta another National cau
cus,
The Cotton Crop of Georgia. —Our friends
of the Milledgeville Recorder are almost al
ways apt to be right, but they occasionally
miss the mark.
In their impression of the 7th inst. they
say that “ the crop of this year will probably be
350,000 bales." We presume the crop will
be as large as last year, and if so, it will *
reach 550,000 bales, which, at SSO a bale
will carry the estimate, made by our friends
of the Recorder, of the weaßb added to the
Mate frotn $17,500,000. up to about $27 -
000.0Q0. 'l’hq receipts at Savannah alone last
yea* Sea Islands) amounted to
340,000 bales. When the quantity that de
scends the Chattahoochee to Apalachicola
that which finds its way to St, from
the counties bordering cn the Florida line
and that is sent from 'Augusta to
Charleston, which last properly belongs to
Savannah, is considered, it v?tU readily be
seen that thq estimate of the Recorder is
quite out of the way.—Savannah Republican
10 th inst.
The calculation of the Savannah Republican
of the extent of the crop, is nearer the mark
than that of the Recorder , though we doubt if
the crop of will quite equal that of 1849.
How the ootton sent from Augusta to Charles
ton properly belongs to Savannah, is pc,* ex-,
plained, and cannot ue to appear.—
There is entire freedom of trade in this mat
tei-, and ootton seeks the market that is, 0 r
seems to the holder the best. The cotton
which reaches Augusta is entitled to the ben
eflt of the competition between Charleston
and Savannah, The trade will belong , there
fore, to ihe city which proves itself th© heat
market, If Savannah vindicates her claim in
this way, we should ho pleased to see her get
the cotton. But she will in vain hope to
rt by narrow appeals to State prejudices,
We hope always to witness a fair and
open riyalry hetween the two cities for the
trade of Augusta. Competition is the life of
trade, and should the day come when either
Savannah or Charleston should, by any other
influences than being the best market, get the
monopoly, Augusta will be th® sufferer!
Georgia and South- Carolina are ’siste
States, whose destinies nature and circum
stances have united in bonds not easily sev
ered.
Savannah and Charleston should be sic w
cities, whose rivalry in business should never
disturb their amiability.
Kev* J- B. Ferguson -
This eloquent and highly gifted Divine, who
resides in Nashville, (Tenn.) has been several
days in our city, and has preached a number
of sermons, replete with beauty, powerful
reasoning, and Christian fervor, to crowded
congregations. He came to our city highly
recommended for all the qualities of head and
heart that adorn the character of the Chris
tian minister, and as an impressive and con
vincing speaker. He has not disappointed the
public expectation.
We have before us an Address delivered
by him at Nashville, (Tenn.) Nov. 21st, 1850,
“on this History, Authority, and Influ
ence of Slavery.”
It was so strong, able and conclusive an ar
gument in defence of the institution of slave
rh, showing as it did, the highest Scriptural
sanction, and vindicating the Providence of
God in its creation, that it was published by
request of his fellow-citizens. The net pro
ceeds of this publication are applied to the
benefit of the Orphan Asylum of Nashville.
Rev. Mr. Ferguson will preach in the
Christian Church, on Reynold-street, at half
past ten o’clock, this morning.
The Panorama-
We invite attention to Mr. Loomis’ Card
announcing an exhibition of his fine Pano
rama, on Monday afternoon, for the benefit of
the juveniles. It will be at one and the same
time, an instructive and agreeable lesson, and
we hope parents will generally extend the in
dulgence to their children.
12P"The Cotton Market for yesterday in our
evening edition contained a typographical
error in the figures. It is corrected in this
mornings’s issue.
New York Day Book
There is an occasional correspondent for
the N. Y. Evening Post, signing himself
“ John Brown, the Ferryman ,” a shrewd, amus
ing writer, seemingly well informed, and when,
he professes to narrate facts he does it soberly
and with an air of sincerity. He is much
given to caricature, and furnishes often quaint
and rich sketches of public men and things»
It is easy to discover the line between wag
gish speculation and plain iact. We have no
leason to doubt the statements relative to the
New York Bay Book, and some personal his
tory of its editors.
We are sorry they did not come to our no
tice while Mr. Stimson was in this city. They
will in due time be brought to his notice. In
a letter dated Jersey Ferry, Dec. 28th, is the
following:
A dry goods olerk in Jersey City told me a
good story, a day or two since, about the edi
tors of the Day Book, Stimpson & Foster,
which may interest you, if you have taken
notice of the solicitude recently exhibited by
them to gain notoriety at the South, as the
champions of slavery. That feature of their
paper—indeed, from all. I can learn, it has no
other—is specially commended by Cuss and
Dickinson, in a certificate appended to apiint
ed circular, which has been sent all through
the Southern States. Well! my Jersey City
friend tells me that both Stimpson aud Foster
were clerks of Arthur Tappan, during the fa
mous abolition riots, some twelve or fifteen;
years ago, and one or both used to carry food
to George Thompson, the abolition lecturer
from England, who had provoked the riots
and who found a shelter from the fury of the
mob, in one of the lofts of Mr. Tap-mn’s store,
there were other circumstances mentioned to
me, calculated to eonfirm the impression that
these men have but recently become aware of
the beneficence of slavery. It seems that with
in a year they have sought to merge their pa~
per in the Tribune, and were only unsuccess
ful, I believe, because Mr. Greely did not dp.
sire to have them associated with him, no-- did
he estimate the value of th.eir property It
iheir services as high as thev did, whence in
tzvifZtX* a,ui - sW -* from' h :r et
lumns of the Iribunp, they are now preachin
m?e f y 800k ’ in the ho P pe of at?
tractin* the favorable notice of the South by
mind lC > deserves * also > to be borne in
, * . -Foster was a year or two one of
k®. editors of the Tribune, during
which, period he, doubtless, exhausted the
nnd lla °- f - h ° Se P rece P ts 'which he
und.er the tuition of Arthur Tappan.
More anon from
Your faithful correspond
JOHN BBOW^C'ymsn.
Massachusets. L’he Democrats and Free
-1 ******* Upon the di vis*on of State
officers, The Democrats are to have the Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, State Treasure*
five Councillors,and thej Senator for the short
term. The Freesoilorsare to have the Senator
tor thelong term,Secretary of State,four Coun
cillors, State Auditor and Sergent-at-Arms.
Charles Sum ner is understoad to be the Free-
I soil candidate for Senator.
The Long Case. —The proceedings in this,
case, (says the Southern Press) under the Fu
gitive law, render the title exceedingly appro
priate. There never was a greater burlesque
than the agitation for the repeal of a law
whichjis so effectually rendered a dead letter
By the time the case is concluded, the own®
(even if finally successful) will find that . r
reclamation costs more than it *' \ 6
open refusal to, execute the l* w 11
creditable than such shuffli . , be IeBB
, , . Sfturai ag and shame
ful evasion.
We lea,,, ftom un q u-, stionable authori
that m the much talke. d of Harrisburg case
»heowner was «- >Ued * « B the
P **: XpnM *; ***• *“ left out of pocket after
that operatf #
And ia „ the begt wg can get ..__ and for
which we are requested t 0 .« re j oice ». and be
thankful!
Mr. Cass has presented a petition to the
Senate asking for the appropriation of $300,-
000 tor establishing a telegraphic communica
tion from St. Louis to California.
Comparative Statement op the Earnings
of the Georgia Rail-Road in the month of
December, 1849 and 1850:
Passengers. Freight & .Mail. Total*.
1850.. 22,740 70.... 52.509 78 75,250 48
1849.. 18,063 85....43,195 87....61.259 72
Gain.. 4,676 85 9,313 91 13,990? 70