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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
JAMES GARDNER, JR.
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PER GEORGIA.
i iFrom the San Francisco Standard of April Ist.)
prospects now aro that the yields of
gold will be better than for the twelve months
back; and the effects must be felt here, though
it will be a long time before trade can recover
fr,om the influence of the vast influx of mer
chandize which has been poured upon us by
exporters from all parts of the world.
We continue to receive cheering accounts
from all portions of the gold region. The
Cosumnes, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Mokelumne,
American, Feather, Scott’s, Klamath, and
other rivers of gold in the mining country,
send favorable accounts. The latest news from
the region of San Diego renders it eertain that
valuable deposits of the golden mineral have
_been discovered there by the Mexicans; and re
sports from the adjacent portions of the State
render it probable that the mines there will
be found much more productive than has been
supposed they would be.
The quartz mining operations have also been
prosecuted with vigor and success.—Some of
the veins are rich beyond all previous calcula
tions. One of these veins at Nevada was sold
for $135,000 and the purchaser in a few days
thereafter had taken out $14,000, and dirt
ready for washing which would yield $20,000
more.
The operations of the Assay Office establish
ed here by Congress, have already resulted so
favorably that the pr ncipal bankers, in order
to obtain any share in the gold dust trade at
all, have been compelled to raise the price
from sixteen dollars, the average rate before
the establishment of the Assay office, to sev
enteen dollars per ounce.
Agricultural prospects have brightened con
siderably in consequence of the refreshing and
spring-like showers with which we continue
to be favored, and there are now no fears ex
pressed for the fruit of the farmer's labors —it
will doubtless be abundant.
The Legislature of this State have repealed
“the Foreign Miners, Tax Law,” and the bu
.. jiness of mining is now free to all, of every
name and nation, who feel disposed to come
and search for the hidden treasure.
The Sacramento Times is of the opinion that
the entire population of this State is about
314,000, distributed as follows :
“In the northern mines, or that scope of
v country lying north of San Francisco and
Feather river, we give a population of 20,000.
The Yuba, 40,000. —Bear river 4,000. The
American fork, 50,000. The southern mines,
or all that portion of the mining country of
California lying south of the Americau river,
80,000. The San Joaquin valley, 10,000. Tne
city of San Francisco, with the population
scattered in its immediate neighborhood,
25,000. The Secramento valley, including all
above San Francisco, 40,000. The coast, or
that portion of the State which lies below San
Francisco, bordering upon the ocean, 20,000;
making in all, a population of 314,000, whioh
we believe is as nearly correct as the means at
hand will allow us to proximate.
the past year we do not believe that
over one-third of our citizens have actually
been engaged in mining. After deducting
that portion of our population which has been
engaged in trade, transporting merchandise,
agricultural pursuits, and in moving from place
to place, we think the estimate which we
have made is fully as great as facts will bear
us out in giving. We, therefore, place the
number of persons who have been engaged in
mining the past year, at one hundred thous
and. These men, we will suppose have work
ed three hundred days, and have produced
upon an average, three and one-third dollars
each, per day, which gives in the aggregate,
one hundred millions of dollars.”
In a previous letter I referred to the heavy
receipts at this port from the New Almaden
quicksilver mines, which are situated in the
stupendous range of mountains bounding the
southern portion of the fertile valley of San
£iara. They are about fourteen miles distant
fro:** San Jose, t^ie P reßent Seat °f Govern
ment pf California. The ore is of the richest
quality, a»d the average yield is from 40 to 60
per cent. We have seen 6,000 pounds of pure
quicksilver melted by the company in a sin
gle day! Quicksilver is worth from seventy
five oents to one dollar per pound.
By recent arrivals we are in rsoeipt of heavy
importations from China, Manila and New
South Wales of a choice and fancy descrip
tion. San Francisco does now, or very soon
will,* resemble a picturesque valley iu which
the richest and most beautiful product* have
bsen stored. Every clime and country seem
to be emulous to excel each other in sending
here whatever can contribute to the comfort
and luxurious enjoyment of man.
Yesterday the Celestials poured into our
market a great variety of those exceeding fine
Üblicß which their skill exerted for centureU
PnabMhe® to Produce, at once delight
fng anS every beholder. Tee,, of
th^’^e’eetitd
Empire have recently been received.
Exports of Gol» Dust from California,
fob 1851.—We give an estimate at the close
of the year 1850, of the production of gold m
California from the Ist of April, 1849, to the
Kt, t 0 f December, 1850, from whioh it appear
ed that the amount reached the sum of $68,-
AB7 591 We propose to continue trus sub
? *' h« giving a statement of the value of gold
’nroduced by the mines within the past quar
ter commencing at the Ist of January and
terminating the 31st of March 1851.
■
The Hon. W. L. Yenooy. of Montgomery,
been nominated aa a candidate for Con
.Me in the 2d Congreeaionai Distnot, by a
SE
of the term, |
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will have to lead out the Smiling Parson, for
the “war stud of Russell” won’t be no t ohar
in a fight of that sort. — Guard.
Definition of a Yankee.—As the Yankees
are creating no little excitement in the com
mercial, political, and military world, we give
the definition of a genuine male Yankee that
may not be considered amiss.
A real genuine Yankee is of animation,
checked by moderation, guided by determina
tion, and supported by education.
He has veneration, corrected by toleration,
with a love of 6elf-approb&tion and emulation,
and when reduced to a state of aggravation,can
assume the most profound dissimulation for
the purpose of relation, always combined, if
possible, with speculation.
A real live Yankee, just caught, will be
found not deficient in the following qualities:
Hois self-denying,self-relying, always try
ing, and into everything prying.
He is a lover of piety, propriety, notoriety,
and the temperance society.
He is a dragging, gagging, bragging, stri
ving, thriving swopping, jostling, hustling,
wrestling, musical, quizzical, astronomical,
philosophical, poetical, and comical sort of a
character, whose manifest destiny is to spread
civilization to the remotest corner of the earth,
with an eye always on the lookout for the
main chance.— Washington Union.
English and American Rivers Compared.
—ln the memoranda of Dr. Breckenridge's
travels in Europe, some ten years ago, the
following anecdote occurs :
A gentleman-like and well informed Eng
lishman, who was in the stage coach with me,
and who found out l was an American, after
dilating on the greatness, the beauties, the
majesty, in short, of this noblest of British
rivers, (the Thames) concluded thus :
“ Sir, it may seem almost incredible, but it
is nevertheless true, that this prodigious
stream is, from its mouth to its source, not
much, if at all, short of one hundred and fifty
tniles long!”
I looked steadfastly in his face—to see if
he jested ; but the gravity of deep conviction
was upon it. Indeed, John Bull never jests.
After composing myself a moment, I slowly
responded:
“ Perhaps, sir, you have never heard of the
Ohio river ?”
“ I think I have.”
“ Perhaps of the Missouri?”
“ I think so; though not sure.”
“ Certainly of the Mississippi ?”
“ Oh yes, yes.”
“ Well, sir, a man will descend the Ohio,
in a steamboat of the largest class, a thousand
miles.”
“ Os what, sir ? how many sir ?”
“ A thousand miles; and there he will
meet another steamboat of the same class,
which has come in an opposite direction
twelve hundred miles down the Missouri, and
then after going fifteen hundred miles more,
down the Mississippi—he may see that flood
of waters disembegue by fifty channels into
the sea.”
I had made up my miud to be considered a
cheat; so I went calmly and emphatically
through the statement! As I progressed, my
companion seemed somewhat disposed to take
my story as a personal affront; but at its close,
he let down his visage into a contemptuous
pout, and regularly cut my acquaintance.
Sudden death. —We regret to record the
death in this city, at an early hour yesterday
morning, of R. M. Tysen, Esq., of New-York.
Ou the evening previous to his death, Mr. T.
was on the Bay at his office, apparently as
well as usual.—We learn that the immediate
cause of his death was suffocation, from the
breaking of an uloor on tbe {nngo. Mr. T.
came to this city some lew months since with
that inexorable disease,the consumption, firm
ly fixed upon him. His health was to all ap
pearance, and in his own belief.much improv
ed since his arrival here. Atthi tina ; of his
death, Mr. T. was the agent of the Atlintia
Mutual Insurance Company. Tnough his
residence here was but short, he hts found
many friends,who respeoted him tor hts intel
ligence and for his many amiable and gener
ous traits of character. — Savannah Republican,
9th inst .
Now we don’t believe that any quantity of
high professions, of ranting or canting, will
hold this Union together,—But a very mod
erate portion of common honesty would. Let
the territory of which the South has been
plundered be restored. There’s the remedy
in a dozen words. It’s true it may take tea
millions to induce the people of California to
give up the spoil. But what of that? If ten
millions were given to satisfy Northern fana
ticism, why not give ten to satisfy Southern
rights? And now here’s an opportunity ot
testing the sincerity of all this boasted love
of Union, concord and fraternity.—He who is
not willing to make restitution to the South
of her share of California, may protest and
proclaim his love of Union as loud and as long
as he pleases, but it will be like faith without
works—a sounding brass and a tinkling oim
bal.
As for compelling a State to remain in the
Union by force, that’s impossible. She may
be converted into a conqured province, but
that dissiolves the Union as effectually as her
separation. It is to prefer extinction to separ
ation.
As for Mr. Rhett’s speculations on the
course of the federal government in a oase of
secession, we are unable to form a definite
opinion. We have seen so much folly and in
fatuation in both parties in Congress, that
we are very far from presuming that, in any
controversy, they would act in a sensible
manner. General Cass, Judge Douglas, and
others, have intimated their belief in the ab
surdity and impracticability of eoeroion.
Webster, Clay, and Fillmore, are decidedly
for foroe. It would seem from this that the
Democratic party would be opposed to a war
on South Carolina—the Whigs in favor of it.
But both are uncertain.
A Petrified Corpse in]Wisconsin. —The
Fond du Lac Journal relates the folowing
vere extraordinary case of rapid petrification.
“On the 20th of August, 1847, Mrs. Phelps,
w.fe of our informant, Abner P. Phelps, died
and was buried at Oak Grove, in Dodge Co.
On the 11th of April last, she was taken up
to be removed to Strong’s landing. The cof
fin was found to be very heavy, and the body
to retain its ieatures and proportions. Alter
its removal to Strong’s Landing, a distance of
forty five miles, the body was examined and
found to be wholly petrified—eonverted to a
substance resembling alight colored stone.
Upon trial,edge tools made no more impress
ion upon it than upon marble. In striking
upon the body with a metal, a hollow ringing
sound was produced. The disease by which
•he came to her death was chill fever and drop
sy, and when the body was buried it was
very much swollen. The ground in which
she had been buried was a yellowish loam,
and the body lay about three feet above the
lime rock.
(Correspondence for the Charleston Courier.)
K Washington, May 6.
We had, yesterday, a violent and long con
tinued storm of rain, sleet and snow, and last
night, a severe frost, which has probably in
jured the fruit, of whioh we had so fine a
promise, and which has now become, in this
neighborhood, an important crop. The storm
as the Telepraph informs us, was very exten*
•ive. _ .
Tbe last experiment by Profreso* P' Qt
his Electro-Magnetic Apparatus, as a motive
power, was so far successful, that it proves
the practicability of his project. On a part
of the route, the car was propelled at the rate
of nineteen miles an hour. Farther experi
ments may be attended with such success, as
to establish the efficiency, applicability, and
economy of this new motive power.
THE CONSTITUTIONAUSY,
(Secrjia.
SUNDAY MORNING, MAT 11.
Federalism and Consolidation.
In times past, the Editor of the Southern
Banner has put forth some very thorough
going articles of the radical school of Demo
cracy. If the advocacy of the naked princi
ple, that the majority should govern, and the
minority should obey, would make him a De
mocrat, then he may be considered one of the
first water. But if the theory could be ap
plied by this model Democrat, according to
the curious notions he indulges, to the action
of the General Government, Federalism would
again rear its hideous crest in our land, and
the Confederacy become a Consolidated Em
pire.
It is very evident, from the tone of the
remarks in the last Southern Banner , that
the Editor has a very thorough contempt
for State sovereignty, and looks upon a State,
armed in defence of her rights, as an imperial
Satrap of an Eastern despotism, would a re
bellious village. It is to be over-run with
Federal armies and girdled with hostile fleets,
until she is whipped into submission to any
law that Congress sees proper to enact.
The following is a portion of a rambling ar
ticle which undertakes to say that Gen. Jack
son was the founder of the Democratic party ,
and that as he denied to a State the right of
secession, and claimed for the Government
the right to use force, if it were attempted by
a State, that every man who opposes that
monstrous doctrine of his proclamation, is a
renegade from Democracy. Perish all such
Democracy, say we, for ten thousand times
more destructive to State Rights would such
a doctrine be, if tolerated for a moment, than
all the tariffs, and banks, and internal im
provement bills, that a Federalist ever dream -
ed of, and the greediness of a Northern capi
talist ever gloated over. Let the doctrine
once be recognized, and what will prevent a
majority from enacting all measures, however
oppressive to a minority, the former may
choose to call constitutional acts :
It is in vain that the edit >r of the Constitution
alist and the renegades from the folds of the na
tional democracy, may attempt to snatch the rod
from her hands, and turn it upon nineteen-twen
tieths of her votaries throughout the Union. She
holds it too firmly in her grasp, and will only ap
ply it the more soundly to the shoulders of her
apostsite sons. Let us now look at pilose parts of
, his editorial which relate to. Mr. and Mr.
Douglass.
Here, again, he is equally unfortunate. What
kind of madness was it, except that which comes
from oating fire, which prompted him to endeavor
to array these gentlemen in opposition?— They are
both compromise and Union men, and, oar word
for it, both will be found faithful ty*he execution
of *ue laws of the Onion over the head even of a
seceding state. We shall not stoop to repel the
absurd and ungenerous insinuation of Mr. Cobb be
ing the nominee of a clique of Washington politi
cians. It is too shallow and muddy a pool for a
grown man to play in. We feel bound, however,
to repel the inference drawn by the Constitution
, alist, in favor of the right of secession, from the
speech of Mr. Douglass.
In repeating the truism that our government
“cannot be maintained by force” he is far from as
sertiug that force may not or ought not be used by
the government to exacute t >e laws of the Union.
It is difficult to maintain any government long by
force alone, as contradistinguished from justice,
and particularly a republican government. It is
stillfmore difficult to maintain, for any length of
time, a federative government by force. The fa
cilities of organized resistance possessed by the
component states, forbid the idea of force being
substituted for justice.
But nevertheless,in every form of government
under Heaven, there must be some power to en
force the observance of the laws. If tha form be
a purely national one, they are enforced over the
heads of rebellions subjects or pro vinces—if pure
ly federal, they are executed upon warring states
Yet all of this is by consent. The proposition is
the simple and easy one—“we form a government
by consent, and agree that whoever resists the
laws of that government shall be forced into obe
dience by the remainder of she society” We, of
course, mean bylaws, since the days of written
constitutions and limited governments, the acts
of the government authorized by the constitution.
Constitutional acts of government must be execut
ed at the point of the sword, if necessary, or there is
no government.
The Editor talks :iere of constitutional acts
being executed at the point of the sword, and
executed upon warring States. Bui who is to
decide whether they are constitutional or not ?
If the Government is to settle that matter ex
clusively for itself, then not the Constitution,
but the way a majority in Congress construe
it, is the limit of its powers.
But admitting that the citizens of a State
are bound to obey constitutional acts, the
question is, can States protect her citizens
from the oppression of unconstitutional acts
by seceding from the Union r By what au
thority were the citizens of a State ever sub
jected to the laws of the Federal Govern
ment } The authority of the Stater of which
they were citizens, and to which they owed
allegiance before the Federal Gorcrnment,
was formed. The same*authority can release
them by secession.
Were all the parties to the compact willing
and anxious to break up the FederU Union,
and for each State to resume its sepaiate exist
ence, there is but one way to do it. That is by
secession—each State acting for itself. It could
not be dona by revolution in its ordinary sense j
—that is, by the masses rising up in arms as ]
in a consolidated Government, and over-?i
throwing the Government by force, *nd pla- *
cing in power new Federal rulers.
If each State could act by itself and for it,* j
self, with the consent of all the others, maj t
it not do so with the consant of a smallet»
number > Certainly. What smaller number t \
The Constitution does not specify, and there- j
fore it does not result, from the nature, or j
terms of the compact, that it is incumbent on
a State that chooses to secede, to ask the per- j
mission to do so, of any one or more States..
As to the conjecture of the Southern Ban
ner that Mr. Douglass would place himself
by the side of Mr. Cobb in an armed expedi
tion to enforce laws to which she was no party,-
upon a seceding State, we have only to ex- j
prees our doubts as to his eorteotness. We j
have a better opinion of the good sense and i
the State Rights principles of the Senator firom
Illinois. But while we would not for a mo
ment desiie to see either of those distinguished
gentlemen, towards whom personally we feel
not the slightest ill-will, so silly as to put
themselves in harm’s way by going upon any
such tyranical errand, we wish them,
as we should all such invaders of any Scate,
whether it be South Carolina or Massachu
setts M a welcome with bloody hands to hos
pitable graves.” Should the gallant editor of
the Banner , even, volunteer on any such expe
dition against South Carolina, we wish him no
worse luck than to be met by a squad of wo
men from the banks of the Tugaloo, dressed
in men’s apparel, under the command of
a second Jane Young, who shall beat him
back to the Georgia side, not w*ith rifle-bored
pistols and bowie knives, but with broom
sticks.
It may be as well for the editor of the Ban
ner not to attempt to repel the insinuation of
Mr. Cobb being nominated for Governor by a
clique at Washington City. It is very cer
tain that the first whisper on the subject came
from them. It was never mentioned or thought
of in Georgia, until after it was suggested and
talked of at Washington City. It was em
phatically a movement of the Washington
City politicians.
Augusta Free School.
We have been pleased to note the steady
progress of the Augusta Free School in ex
tending its usefulness in our community. It
has become, under the energetic and skilful
management of the Principal, Mr. Snowden,
efficient.y assisted as he is by Mrs. Prouty, at
the head of the female department, an insti
tution of great importance and value among
us. It will be interesting to our city readers
to learn its flourishing condition. We there
fore append the following statement of the
number of pupils taught there daily.
FIRST WARD.
Girls 32
Boys. 49
Bl
SECOND WARD.
Girls 23
Boys 19
42
[third ward.
Girls ..31
Boys 45
76
FOURTH WARD.
Girls: 68
Boys 61
129
Boys from Harrisburgh, Savannah
and Milledgeville roads 10
Boys and Girls whose attendance
is irregular 15 25
Total 353
Gur citizens can see by this statement of
the number in attendance, that there are pu
pils enough to fill four schools, one for each
ward.
It is worthy of consideration whether a
sebped for each ward would, not greatly pro
mote the cause of education a«on s ue. Mr.
Houghton by his will made munificent provi
sions for a Free School in the first ward. The
above statement shows that the 4th ward sends
more scholars to the Free School than both
the second and third wards together.
The distance of the School from portions of
that ward may deter others? particularly small
children, that would otherwise be sent. A
separate School for that ward would be a great
blessing, and we think worthy the attention
of the City Council. The Free School, being
centrally situated for the second and third
wards, will be sufficient for their wants .
The propriety of an entire separation of the
male and female departments has been sug
gested. If a female School were established
in the second ward, and the precent building
appropriated exclusively to boys, we believe
there would be a large increase of female
scholars. Though the present management
is unexceptionable, and the two schools kept
distinct, yet many parents are doubtless re
luctant to send their daughters to a mixed
school.
This whole subject is worthy the attention
of our citizens, and we hope will stimulate the
liberality of the wealthy to some voluntary
movements in the matter. We would add in
this connection that large as is the number of
scholars, all receive ample attention and make
very satisfactory progress under their present
efficient and faithful teachers.
Polities in Alabama-
The Mobile Register , a Southern Rights, anti-
Secession paper, and a long established organ
of the Democratic party, gives the following
glimpse of the position of parties in Alabama,
and of the character of the opposition that is
organizing to defeat Gov. Collier in that State.
As the Democratic Southern Rights p arty of
Georgia'will probably put forth a Democra
tic candidate for Governor, coinciding in es
sential particulars with the views of Gov.
Collier, the position of affairs in the two States
will afford many points of resemblanoe.
Governor Collier. —The position of Gov,
Collier, since it has been distinctly explained
ia his letter to Col. Burke, of Wilcox, and in
the articles of the Tuscaloosa Observer, writ
ten by his authority, gives satisfaction to
wery one except the ultraists of either ex
treme. The Secessionists are offmded with
him, because he has not entered into their
mad scheme of a dismemberment of the Union
for existing evils. They accused him. of re
tracting views which he has hitherto express
ed, and of now adopting the most abject doc
trines of the submissionists. In their hot
haste,—for they do things under the impulses
of excitement. —some of them are now re
nouncing their quondam favorite and are call
ing loudly for another Richmond to take the
Wd, as the representative candidate of their
ifeculiar views.
it The pseudo-Union men, alias ts submission
|ts,” alias ultra Whigs, are equally uneasy
|id querulous about the Governor's position,
although he has avowed his willingness to
cquiesoein the Compromise Measures, —and
his they have hitherto declared to be the test
nd shibboleth of their faith, —the one great
rinciple which was to merge all others, —
ley are not satisfied with his views, but are
|*sempting to question his soundness and to
iiviet him of duplioity, in entertaining sen
tents adverse to those which he now ex
jpses. They, too, are turning “ the cool
shoulder” upon his Excellency, and are se
dulously seeking for a candidate, whose pri
vate sentiments and understandings may be
more accordant with their own.
The cause of this double opposition is Tery
obvious. Governor Collier’s position is in
conflict with the real purpose and design of
both these parties. Their prime object —in
which they agree—is to break down the po
litical organizations which have hitherto ex
isted in this State, and to build up new par
ties which may obtain the oontrol of affairs, for
their own advantage. This is particularly
true of the self-styled Union party. It ia, as
we have frequently said, but the Whig party
in disguise. Being in a minority in Alabama,
having always been so, and having no hope
for the future under its present form and de
signation, —it seeks, like Proteus, to change
its outward appearance, and assume a more
attractive name. At the present time, when
political affairs have been in a disorganized
state, and are just beginning to settle back in
to "their natural forms, it hopes to gather
around itself such accessions of strengrh, as
the bug-bear of Secession may frighten from
- the Democratic ranks, and as may be allured
i by the attractive watchward-the Union. Their
cunning policy having been devised, it must
be carried out by its own instruments and ap
! pliances—its own candidates for the offices of
: the State. These, as far as possible, have al
, ready been determined on. We have all seen
, how sedulously search has been made in the
Democratic ranks for some leading politician
who would lend himself to this movement, as
a candidate for Governor. As yet the suc
cess of the effort has not been machs public ;
but it is well understood that thtl “ Union
party,” led on by the well-known Whig lead
ers, have such a candidate in reserve, and will
enter him for the purse, at a fitting season.
This is the true reason of the opposition to
Gov. Collier in this quarter. Not that his
views as to the Union are not sound and con
; servative, —but that he interferes with the
plans and arrangements of this newly bap
tized school of veteran politicians. That they
do not coincide with all his views and senti
ments, is no doubt true. He is too strongly
opposed to the aggressive Legislation of Coa
, gress; he is too anxious for the protection of
Southern Rights; he is too deeply tinctured
with the Republican deefcrines of Jefferson
and Madison ; in a word, he is too decidedly
Democratic, for these gentlemen. This one
fact excludes him from all favorable conside
ration with them, —notwithstanding, in all
essential particulars, he is as good, in our
opinion a better Union man than they.
The great mass of the people of Alabama,
will see that these are the real reasons of the
opposition to Gov. Collier's re-election. It
proceeds from the extremes. The people of
this State do not coincide with either of these
party divisions. They repudiate them both.
They entertain exactly the views expressed by
the Governor. Holding the “ Compromise
Measures” to be unjust to the South; believ
ing our institutions to be in danger from con
tinued aggressions; feeling that the utmost
limit of endurance has been reached, they
can never approve the conduct of men
sanctioned those measures, —much less, unite
with them in an attempt to merge all efforts
for protection, all movements for developing
and strengthening the resources of the South
—in a great party organization under the ad
captandum title of the Union. On the other
f hand they are not disorganisers,—they deem
Secession unwise, unsafe, inexpedient. Their
great purpose is to contend in the Union for the
rights of the South.
This is the party of the people !—the De
i mocratic party! They have now taken the
field. Governor Collier is the correct expo
nent of their doctines. Shunning the Federal
policy of consolidation, on one hand, and the
suicidal rashness of disunion,on the other,they
hope by a strict construction cf the Constitution ,
to maintain our jnational confederacy, and
the clear rights of all its parts. That this
party and its candidate will be triumphant in
the next August elections, we cannot, for a
moment doubt.
Southern Sights Meeting' in Gwinnett
County-
At a meeting of the Southern Rights Party
of Gwinnett, held at Lawrencevilie, on the
inst., of which Col. N. L. Hutchins was
Chairman,
Kenan T. Terrell, I H. Allen,
E. A. Mills, j J. M. Young, Esqs.,
Were appointed Delegates to the Convention
to nominate a candidate for Governor, which
assembles at Milledgeville on the 2Sth of this
month.
That Crazy Woman-
That woman of slender form, black hair,
gray eyes and forty-five years old, that was
after Col. Holsey, not with a sharp stick, but
with two pistols and a bowie-knife, had been
previously in Augusta.
The Augusta Republic makes the following
statement of the fact.
As she is after the submission editors, ac
cording to Col. Holsey’s construction, we
doubly congratulate ourselves that we do not
belong to that school.
She probably knew our friend Smythe was
a fire-eater and did not even inquire as to his
political principles.
This woman called at our office some weeks
ago on a similar errand. She did not shoot
however, n.r did she inquire as to our political
principles. The editor of the Banner seems to
think that his political course has excited the
wrath of this old lady, and led her to take this
attempt to destroy him. We think she is a
monomaniac—deranged on this particular sub
ject.
Southern Rights Meeting- m DeKalb-
On the first Tuesday of May, at Decatur,
the citizens who had met together, to appoint
Delegates to Milledgeville, consisting of Stato
Rights Democrats, were oallel into the Court
House. Judge L. Johnston was called to the
Chair, and John L. Harris requested to act as
Secretary.
After some remarks by different gentlemen,
upon the necessity of forming a party upon
the principles of State Rights, and a Strict
Construction of the Constitution, as expound
ed by Madison, Jefferson, and the other re
publican Fathers—
On motion, James J. Winn, P. J. Ward, J.
B. Wilson, James Milligan, and John W.
Fowler, were appointed to draft resolutions
for the consideration of the meeting, who,
thereupon retired, and reported the following
Preamble and Resolutions:
Your Committee have had under conside
ration the duties assigned them, and after
mature deliberation, beg leave to make the
following Report;
That at this time, the friends of republican
principles are holding meetings, generally,
throughout the State, to appoint Delagates to
the State Convention, and we respeotfully re
commend to the consideration of this meet
ing the following Resolutions, lately adopted
by our friends in Wilkinson oounty:
« Resolved , That in the present eventful criai
of our country’s history, when all thetenden
eies of the Government are to a consolidation
of its powers, that it is essential to a prefer
ration of the Constitution in its purity, and
of the liberties it was designed to secure, that
those great fundamental republican principles
should be cherished and sustained, which
hare conducted our country to the proud ele
vation which she now enjoys among the na
tions of the earth. «
" Resolved , That among those great funda
mental republican principles, we recognise ae
cardinal and paramount, that the Federal
| Government is a Government of limited pow
ers, having no control over the States or peo
ple thereof, except that expressly conceded, or
that necessary to carry into effect conceded
powers; that as a necessary consequence, the
States are sovereign as regards all the rights
not there conceded, and that it becomes the
people thereof, at all hazards, as they love the
Constitution and Union, vigilantly to guard
and protect themselves against all encroach
ments upon those rights reserved to the
States.
“Resolved, That these doctrines, taught and
illustrated by Jefferson and Madison—doc
trines which gloriously triumphed in 1800,
have ever been recognized and adopted by all
republicans ; and that they are doctrines, con
cerning which, Troup men and Clark men.
Union men and States Rights men, in Geor
gia, never heretofore differed.
“Resolved, That these are now, as they have
ever been, the doctrines of the Democratie
party, and we still hold their maintenance
essential to the preservation of the Union and
the liberties bequeathed to us by our fathers;
and that inasmuch as the Ststes of the South
ern section of this Union, are in a doomed
minority, and vitally interested in an institu
tion scoured by the Constitution, it is suicidsl,
especially on their part, not to adhere to it at
the sheet anchor of their safety.
“Resolved, That upon the agitating question
which now divides the North and South, that
Georgia, in her sovereign capacity, by her
Convention in December last, defined her po
sition ; that, as Georgians, loyal to the ex
pressed will of the people, we acquiesce in
that position, and pledge ourselves to see that
Georgia takes no step backwards.*’
Resolved Ihet we approve of the Conven
tion proi osed to be held in Milledgeville by
the friends of Republican principles, of De
mocracy, and of the Rights of the States,
which can be no other than the friend* of
Southern Rights, for the purpose of nomina
ting a candidate for Governor, and earnestly,
but respectfully, suggest that the Couveutiou
assemble on the last Wednesday in May, inst.
Which resolutions being read, were adopted
without a dissenting voice.
The Committee to seleot Delegates to the
Convention, consisting oi Messrs. Phillip
Burfort, Isaiah Parker, John L. Evans, Wil
liam Beauchamp, J. C. Farrar, Killoe Brown,
and John Hu«y, retired, »n,d aimsr a short ab
sence, reported tk« names of Allen E. John
son, John Tu. Evan* Johnathan B. Wilson,
James Millig as suitable Delegates.
Which selection was approved by the meet
ing.
Upon motion, it was resolved that the pro
ceedings of this meeting be published in the
Atlanta Intelligencer, and the Southern Right*
Democratic presses of the State.
J. L. JOHNSON, Chairman.
John L. Hakbis, Secretary.
BP" Telegraph, Augusta Republic, Federal
Union, and other papers friendly to the cause,
please copy.
Dreadful Dbatk.—A little boy, the eon of
Hon. 7*. F. Smith, of Rochester, (N. Y.,) was
missed one day last week by the family, and
search made for him. On the next morning,
means were taken for a more extended search.
The cistern, well, and out houses were again
examined, and the yard was thoroughly in
vestigated. The result was the finding the
body of the child in a corner of the yard, six
or eight rods distance from the house, head
foremost in a deep post hole. In playing
about, he must have fallen in, and have been
unable to attract attention by his cries. And
there, half buried, as it were, and suffocated,
this little fellow met a most horrid death,
within reach of his own house.
Sthamsoat fob Savannah. —We understand
that Messrs. John S. Brown & Co. have con
tracted with a company in Savannah, Geor
gia, for the construction of a fine steamboat,
designted to ply on the waters of that State.
The boat is for parties who have heretofore
gone to New York for their boats, but who
have now determined to give Baltimore a
trial. They could not have contracted with
more competent parties, or those more likely
to give satisfaction than Messrs. Brown & Co.
—Baltimore Americaa, Bth inst.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
A CARD. ~~
(CPA Gentleman of Classical Education, who Im
had experiuce in the conduct of a Newspaper, i»
desirous of forming a c >nnecticn with a Journal in
any of the Southern cities, as Editor or Assistaa
Editor. He is of Democratic principle , and re
fers to the Editor of the “ Constitutionalist” as to
ability and standing. Address A.8., Office of the
li Constitutionalist,” Augusta, Ga. may 11
MASONIC NOTICE,
0 s A Regular Meeting of Webbs Lodge,
No. 10, will be held at the MASONIC HALL,To-
Morrow Evening, 12th inst. at half past 7
o’clock P. M. Transient Brethren are respeet
fully invited to attend. By order of the W. M.
may 11 B. B. RUSSELL, Secretary.
SOUTHERN RIGHTS MEiTTmar - '
O’ The Southern Rights Party of
Wilkes, are requested to meet at the Court House
in Washington, on TUESDAY, the 20th of this
month, to appoint Delegates to the Convention, to
nominate a candidate for Governor,
may 10 tdeetd Many Voter*.
By Particular Request,
A SECOND
CONCERT OP SACRED MUSIC,
WILL BE 01VEN
OiV TUESDAY EVENING, 13 tk INST
Ogsoiat Mr. Sofge
Director Mr. Srrivae.
Particulars will be given in time,
may 6
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Ur for the last fifteen years, gives him superior
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