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'fBECOM^IONjILIST!
JAMES GARDNER, JR.
(From the Savannah Georgian, 26th
Correspondence-
Statesboro’, Bulloch Co., May 21, 1851.
HonggSpstph W. Jackson:
.^r—ln obedience to a request of the citi
zens of this county, in convention, on Monday,
the sth of this inst. we were appointed a Com- j
mittee of Correspondence. Sir, permit us to !
assure you, that it is the desire ol the citizens
of Bulloch county, that you should again re
present them in the Congress of the U. States, j
and wish you to consent to the very strong j
inclination of a portion of the Southern citi- j
zens of the District. Sir, as we believe that j
the past of your political life, as a statesman,
will suffice,and,that we entertain no doubt that
every southern patriot in the District will
acknowledge through the ballot box his grate
fulness to a champion of our rights. Sir, we
therefore wish your acceptance and an early
answer.
We are, most respectfully and sinceiely,
Your obedient servants,
1 ERASTUS WATERS, )
S. C. MOORE, > Committee.
WM. H. RAWLS, >
To Erastus Waters, S. L. Moore and Wil
liam H. Rawl9, Committee of Citizens of
Bulloch County.
Gentleman: —I acknowledge immediately
the receipt of your letter of the 21st inst.,
handed to me to-day, in which you assure me
‘•that it is the desire of the citizens of Bulloch
County, that I should again represent them in
the Congress of the U. States," and that “they
wish me to consent to the very strong inclina
tion of a portion of the citizens of the Dis
trict." You are also pleased to say that you
believe “the past of my political life, as a
statesman, will suffice, and that you entei tain
no doubt that every Southern Patriot in the
District will acknowledge through the ballot
box his grateiulness to a champion of our
lights.” For these kind manifestations o»
confidence, accept, my friends, assurances from
my inmost heart, of my most unbounded grati
tude.
You refer me to proceedings of citizens of
your County, on Monday, sth of May. They
did not escape my attention as published in
the Georgian of the 13th. One of your Com
mittee was in Savannah a few days afterwards.
He informed me a letter had been addressed to
me. It had not come to hand. Mr. Moore
stated that another would be written. For
its arrival 1 have until now delayed my an- j
swer.
Turning to your proceedings, I find a reso- i
lution was adopted expressing the thanks of
the meeting to me for what it denominates
the “bold southern stand” I took in Congress,
a»d requesting me to become a Candidate for
the First Congressional District, and appoint
ing you a committee to address me on the sub
ject. The resolution doubtless refers to my
opposition to a portion of the adjustment
scheme which was passed in the long session
of the last Congress. Gentlemen, the bills to
which I was opposed, were those by which
California was admitted into the Union, a por
tion of Texas was ceded to the United States,
and a commencement was made of abolition
JjoTthe Slave Trade in the District of Columbia.
before my election, in every speech de
livered by me to the people, expressed my hos
tility to the admission of California, as she
claimed to come in, and to tonohing by legis
lation of Congress the matter of slavery in the
District. No where were my views contro
verted upon these subjects. I had a right to
W believe I understood the wishes of my con
stituents. About the time of my election in
February 1850, the resolutions of Mr. Clay in
the Senate, proposing a mode ot settlement,
were received in Savannah, to whioh place I
had returned from an active canvass; and to
that feature in these resolutions whish pro
posed a purchase from Texas, I expressed my
decided repugnance in all conversations and
in all places. I met with few dissentients.
YVhen the omnibus bill, as it was called, was
afterwards reported to the Senate, I examined
its provisions with patriotic feeling. I desired
to restore peace to my country, and to be an
humble agent through my vote in doing it. In
my judgment, gentlemen, that bill did not
contain provisions which did justice to the
Southern country, and, after long reflection,
I took my course, and announced my opposi
tion to it in the columns of the Savannah
Georgian as early as May. In June I deliver
ed a speech in the House of Representatives
I in opposition. In it I declared my intention
to consult my constituents. If they desired
me to vote for it, I intimated very clearly that
I should ccme home. I received many letters
afterwards, not one of them expressing a deci
ded desire that I should vote for the measure:
many strong and decided againts it. Various
meetings of citizens were held in the District.
I do not recollect a single meeting which de
sired me to support the bill —they generally
pronounced in opposition to it—and in Chat
ham county especially, at two distinct meet
ings, one of them called by the friends of the
bill, it was condemned, and the proposition of
$10,000,000 to Texas was treated as a bribe
offered to her. Gentlemen, I had abundant
ground to believe that my constituents agreed
with me. When the bill, as a whole, was de
feated in the Senate, and came to the House'
in separate acts, the same causes for opposi
tion continued. I voted, according to zny
/ judgment, in support of the rights of Georgia
and°ot the whole South, and according, I be
lieved, to the wishes of the District. I was
not to be intimidated by the cry of disunion,
nor iO be allured by promise of quiet. But,
f gentleman, I was willing to effect a fair agree
ment. I offered, time after time, to vote for a
purchase from Texas of the country above 34
deg. provided the North would yield to the
South below 36 deg. 30 min. or 35 deg. in
California. This was refused. Northern mem
bers refused to us an acre in California, and
I refused an acre from Texas to them. Gen
tlemen, I did my duty—l have no compuncr
tious visiting* for it. I shall sleep soundly
upon my pillow to the end of life—and the
resolution which the people of Bulloch have
passed, will be cherished by me as invaluable
testimony, until I shall be cslied to my ac
count above. And here, gentlemen, permit
me to present my thanks also to citiiens of j
Scriven county for a recent resolution adopt ,
ed by them, They also express confidence in
me and call upon me to besome a candidate, j
Oh gentlemen, it is indeed cheering to me to j
have the approbation of Scriveu county. It j
brinz. ,o mind tlut it «« the people of Scrir- j
5 Ir, pnuntv who recalled to Georgia ray honor- ,
3 ancestor*from the Senate o. the U. State,,
to the battles of Georgia at home. They
‘ „7wish to aend back to the U. S. Congress
h!s son to do his best for Georgia at Wash
‘ con. Your call, my friends, and that of
Scrirea county, shall be obeyed. lam a can-
AillTfat re-election —and shdl remain so
J hrst Monday in October shall be
Massed unless the desire of the people of the
District “hat I withdraw in laror of some wor
then citizen shall be unequivocally commum-
! a And°now, gentlemen, it remains to me to
Ist that! as a State Bights man, l acknow
? I* riffht of the Stale to determine her
ledfce iu r « Her convention in December
w m /uue
T ——
last, I pledged myself to support my State if ]
she should resist. The spirit of that pledge
was obedience to her. She has determined,
under the most solemn forms, with her people j
in sovereignty assembled, under a law of the
Legislature, to make no opposition. I bow
to her will, I accept her platform, and will j
hold the North to it, and her own citizens to
it, as far as may be in my poor ability.
Gentlemen, the people of Bulloch call j
themselves “Union Southern Rights men." J
I, gentlemen, am an Union man according to
| a strict construction of my country's Consti
tution. 1 have never yet entertained the
j question of “ Union or Disunion." I an
i nounced to my colleagues at Washington,
j that I would, at home, make no such issue,
i I have no desire to make such issue—none to
I see disunion. But, gentlemen, I will not be
deterred from maintaining what I believe to
be your rights, because, in carrying out your
rights, disunion may result. I have been,
gentlemen, all my life, a Southern Rights
man. I will stand up for them as long as the
blood circulates in my veins. I am, gentle
men, also, a Democrat. If 1 return to Wash
ington, I place myself instantly again in the
Democratic ranks, offend whom it may—with
the Democrats contending for those great
questions of public policy by which they are
generally distinguished from the Whigs of the
Union. I will allow no man, Southern Rights
man or Constitutional Union man, to cut me
off from my connection with the Democrats
of Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee,
North-Carolina, Maryland, and other South
ern States, and many high minded and hon
orable gentleman of the Democratic party of
the North in whom I have confidence. There
is much, I admit, of unsoundness in the
Northern Democracy upon slavery, but take 1
it as a party, it is far, very far, better for us
than the Northern Whig Party.
And now, gentlemen, lam a candidate. I |
had desired retirement. I know and have j
freely stated, lately, that I labor under phys- |
ical infirmity. It was my duty, as an honest i
man, to place the fact before the people. If j
they elect me, I will go to Washington, and j
will do my best. It they victimize me be- j
cause I honestly voted as I believed they de- i
sired, and as my own judgment approved, I j
will submit, I trust, with grace and still with 1
patriotism. The country will have found a !
better man. I answer through the Georgian, !
because Mr. Moore s' requested.
Your fellow-citizen,
Joseph W. Jackson.
Savannah, 24 th May, 1851.
(From the N. O. Picayune, 22 d inst.)
Later from Mexico.
By t h e arrival last evening of the schooner
| Faustine from Vera Cruz, we have received
i our full files from the city of Mexico to the !
3d inst.
For some days a good deal of excitement i
was caused in the city of Mexico, by reports
that a party of Americans had landed on the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and taken forcible
possession of that section of the country. One
of the papers, the Sinceridad, lepor.ed that
there had been a fight and that fifty men had
been killed on each side. Another rumor had
it that the Americans waa 4,000 and upwards.
These reports originated in the landing of the
Gold Hunter at Ventosa, and the difficulties
consequent thereon, an account of which we
have already given in letters from the Isth
mus. The correspondence of the Trait d’Union
says that the Americans were treated in the
most shameful manner by the Mexican au
thorities.
Some persons say that by the terms of the
concession to Garay, the Americans had a
right to land at Ventosa, and that although
j the Senate has annulled that grant, its deci
sion is not definitive, and that the quesiion
' thus becomes a national one. On this subject
j the Trait d’Union remarks :
“ We will not now treat the subject in this
• point of view; but we will say, that if the
authorities of Tehuntepec have acted as
they ought, those of Oajaca have proceeded
with great want of tact and courtesy. This
is the result of the evil course, which for some
time has been pursued by a portion of the
Mexican press. Instead of cultivating the
j friendship of the United States, a neighbor
ing Republic, whose evident interest is to re
main on terms of amity with Mexico, the
press of which we speak, on the contrary, en
deavor to spread injurious reports of a nation,
! which the treaty of Guadalupe imposes on
them the necessity of respecting at least.
I They seek to cherish am*ng the Mexican peo
ple a hatred which perhaps, may one day be
fatal to their nationality.”
| The Treasury Department of Mexico seems
to be all in confusion. Three or four persons
have assumed the portfolio of the Treasury ;
! but none of them could get along with the of
fice. At the last accounts it was held by Se
i nor Yanez. This gentleman was about to pre
sent his financial scheme to the Chambers.
i The principal features consist in doubling all
| the taxes, imposing sixty per cent, duties on
all articles passing through the maritime cus
tom-houses, and forty per cent, on those go
ing through the interior ones. He proposes
also to levy an extraordinary tax for the pay
ment of preferred debts. Some of the States
have protested against these projects, ts bein»
unconstitutional.
The fault whieh the people of Chihuahua
find with Col. Carrasco, is that in following
the Indians he crossed the boundary of his
own State, Sonora, and invaded theirs. Con
gress has decided that a military commander
j may do this hereafter.
A large band of highway robbers, compri
j sing some of the most noted characters in that
| line, were lately arrested near Vera Cruz.
! The Mexican Congress has before it a* bill,
! making illegitimate children capable of inheri
ting.
The prefect of Ceruitan D. Nicolas Domin
guez, is accus-d of being in league with the
numerous contrabandists of that section.
The colebrated Camanche chief, Bajo del
Sol, has come into Chihuahua with a party,
expressing his desire to form a treaty of peace
with the Mexican Republic. One of the per
son* accompanying him was Jabepete, who,
though one hundred and twelve years of age’
still p eseryes command of the tribe.
The diligence from Mexico for Otumba was
over turned a few days ago, and several of
the passengers severely injured.
j The M. $. Church Suit.—ln the U. S.
Utriet Court at New-York, on Thursday,
; Mr. Lord, in the Methodist Church contro
versy, concluded his argument;
He contended that the feeling which exist-
I ed in th s general conference on the question
j slavery, in 1844, rendered a separation im
| perative, as the sections of ; the country,
consistent with the peace and harmony, and
usefulness of the chuich, could not go on to
gether. He contended that the decision was
fully authorized and legally male, and that
the Southern portion ore entitled to a share
of the book concern and to the portion due
to them since 1844.
At the conclusion of his remarks, Mr. Rev
erdy Johnson, for defence, alluded to portions
of the constitution of the Church, by which
he will contend, analagoua to portion* of the
constitution of the United States, as relates
to Congress, that the General Convention had
no power to authorize a separation. He mere
ly stated the point,
Mr. ?ancher thep rose *ud prgupd faf thp
defense, 1
Mr. jDhoate would probably open the case ]
oft the part pi sbe detyadbotf ygnprday,
THE CONSTITUTIONALISr.
Augusta, Georgia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 28-
Hon- Joseph W. Jackson.
It is rarely our fortune (says the Savannah
Georgian) to publish anything with the same
pleasure, with which we lay before our read
ers, the correspondence between a committee
in behalf of the citizens of Bulloch county
and Col. Joseph W. Jackson. Col. Jackson
has felt constrained (how reluctantly few
know better than ourselves) to yield to soli
citations from many parts of the District, to
become again a candidate to represent it in
the Congress of the United States. The gra
tification with which we announce the fact, is,
we believe, not greater than that with which
most of our readers w'ill receive it.
Os Col. Jackson’s past Congressional course,
we say enough (and the lauguage does not
furnish us the means of saying more, while
truth forbids us to say less) when we say that
he has been found faithful; yes, “faithful a
mong the faithless.” No pressure of solici
j tations, none of the blandishments of power*
j none of the seductive influences of a corrupt
metropolis, none of the examples of treachery
with which he was begirt on the right hand
and on the left, could swerve him from his
fidelity to his constituents and the constitu
tion. Alas ! that in the late Congress so few
such could be found from the South. Hun
ter, and Mason and Jefferson Davis, and not
many more, made up their roll in the Senate.
! Seddon and Venable, and Clingman, and
Jackson, and those acting with them, make
|up their number in the House. These men
i every hour, and amid all trials, and under
I all circumstances, during a long and trying
i contest, were found strenuously and unfalter
j iugly* even when hopelessly, contending for
| right and opposing power. Their cause ruin
ed by treachery, they were overwhelmed by
■ numbers ; but the example of their incorrup
i tible patriotism and unpurchasable virture t
i will not be lost upon their countrymen.
In regard to Col. Jackson's present posi
tion,— tjte ultra submissionists as well as the
I ultra Southern Rights men (we use the term
: without designing offence) will both, we fear,
i find occasion to cavii at it; but as regards the
i great mass of the people of the District, there
is nothing in i', to prevent their cheerful, yes
enthusiastic support of him. Being such,
we anticipate (and indeed could wish, for the
sake of harmony,) no organized opposition to
him. Bur while we deprecate it, we do not
fear it. We have more confidence in the peo -
ple than most. We therefore look forward
with no anxious apprehensions to the day
when they will sit in judgment upon their
late representative, firmly believing that their
decisions will be “ well done good and faith
ful servant.”
rggp Among the passengers sailed in the
Europa for Liverpool, we notice the names of
J. R. Bulkley and Lady, of this city.
The Savannah Republican says : “ Proba
bly many of our readers remember the old
steamer Santee. They will be surprised to
learn that she has gone to the Pacific, via the
Straits of Magellan, and that she is now do
ing duty in California under the name of the
West Point.
Mr. Faas, an ingenious German of Philadel
i phia, commenced on Monday the exhibition of
| an automaton Tyrolean band of instrumental
performers. They are as large as life, and the
inventer has succeeded in rendering their
movements perfectly natural, while the music
performed is admirable. They can be arrang
ed to perform any piece of music in a shorter
time than a living band can be drilled into a
new overture or march. The figures are nine
in number, two being flute players, one clari
onette, three brass horns, two trumpets, and
one tap drummer. It has cost the inventor
ten years of study and labor.
The steamship Alabama, Capt. Ludlow,
left Savannah on Saturday at l£ o'clock pre
cisely, for New York. She carries out 83 ca
bin and 53 steerage passengers, with a full
freight. The A. will probably have a rough
passage, as it was blowing a stiff gale from the
east when she left.
Nokth-Carolina Rail Road. —From our
Raleigh and Wilmington Exchanges, we per
ceive that the Board of Directors of this Road
met at Raleigh on Monday, the 12th instant,
and continued in session until Thursday, the
15th. Full and elaborate reports were receiv
ed from the Chief Engineer and his Assistants
and the Road located in accordance with
them. The Directors have ordered the Presi
dent and Chief Engineer to put the whole
Road under contract before the 9th of July.
A reasonable time allowed for commencing
the work.
The Wilmington Journal of the 23d inst.,
gives the report of the Engineer in full, and
from it we learn that the Road has been sur
veyed and located, from the point of its con
nection with the Wilmington and Raleigh
Rail Road, which will be a mile and an eighth
south of Goldsboro', in Wayne county, to
Charlotte, in Mecklenburg county. It will
be 223 miles in length, and cost, with loco
motives and cars, $*3,405,132. The caloula
| tion the Journal says, is for a very slender
supply of working macninery, totally inade
quate to the wants of a Road 223 miles in
length, it being probable that the Road will
cost about four millions of dollars before it
can be put in operation.
The location is by the way of Raleigh, from
whenee it goes byway of Hillsboro', Greens
boro’ and Lexington, to Salisbury, and from
Salsbury to Charlotte, by the Concord route
passing within a mile of that village. At
Charolotte, it connects with the Charlotte and
South-Carolina Rail Road.
The Presbyterian General Assembly—Setl e
went of the Slavery Question.— Utica, N. Y.,
May 21.—The NewSehool General iVwethbly
has had an animated debate this morning on
the slavery question, and has just rejected
the amendments and passed the committee’s
reports, leaying the phureh just where she
was plaetd by tlie action of last ye«\ i
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South-Western Rail-Road. —The opening j
! of the South-Westren Rail-Road to Fort j
1 Valley (twenty-seven miles from Macon) will
' be celebrated at Fort Valley on the 81st inst.
' The Railway Connection at Macon.— The
late dry weather has afforded a fine opportu
nity to put down the coffer dam at Macon.
’ The preparations for constructing the pier
are now going forward rapidly. The lattice
work is being got on the ground, and it is uc w
’ thought that the month of August will see
the-connection across the river completed.
5 Arrival or Gen. P. F. Smith.—l he New
1 Orleans Pieayune of the 22d inst,says. Among
i the passengers by the Georgia, which arrived
s this morning, was Gen. Persifor F. Smith,
i who returns from California after an absence
i of over two years, in excellent health, lhe
, numerous friends of this gallant and distin-
J guished officer warmly welcome him back.
) , We understand that he leaves for Washing
t' ton City in the course of a few days.
Concert Hall
-1 The play of “ The Stranger," was performed
1 on Monday night for the benefit of Mr. Adams,
[ to a full and fashionable house. Miss Rica
-1 ardson displayed her usual talent in “ Mrs.
Haller,” and we believe we speak the senti
ments of all present, when we say, it was as
i fine a piece of acting as could have graced
f the boards of any Theatre. A accom
plished actress has never appeared before an
Augusta audience. Her talents will ensure
j her success wherever she goes.
Much credit is due to Mr. Carter for the
; able manner in which he personated “ The
Stranger." We have seen it in the hands
3 of much older actors, and with greater names
than Mr. Carter, yet not rendered so respect
able or acceptable to the audience. The sub -
ordinate parts were respectably done, and the
whole performance went off to the genera,
satisfaction of all present.
Last night the moral Drama of the “ Drunk
ard,” was performed for the first time in Au
gusta. A large and fashionable audience was
present, and as the different stages of the play
progressed, picturing, in the most vivid man
ner, all the alluring snares to vice, every
person present appeared to feel its effect. It
is one of those plays which should be wit
, nessed by all, for it cannot fail to have a sal
utary effect on the mind. Such moral lessons
impressed upon the minds of the youth, and ‘
with the surrounding attendants, which seems
to give them a delightful reality, often show
their good in after years. It will be repeated
to-night for the benefit of that sterling Corn
median, who has amused and delighted our
play-goers, Mr. Weaver. One mose deserv
ing, or who has shown more willingness to
please, could not present his claims. We
shall expect a general turn-out. ***
We learn (says the Charleston Courier)
from a card, published in the Evening News
of yesterday afternoon, that the Hon. B. F,
Porter has reared from that Journal, and that
Mr. Paxton will continue to publish it on
his own account. In leaving the Editorial
chair which he has so ably filled,Judge Porter
carries with him the best wishes of his con
temporaries and numerous friends for his
future prosperity.
[communicated.]
Electro-Biology
Professor Hale has been entertaining and
astonishing our citizens for the past week
with his Lectures and Experiments in the new
science of Biology. His experiments are cer
tainly of a most extraordinary character.™
What! to see persons taken from the audi
ence and subjected so completely to his con
trol, that they are made to believe the most
absurd representations, is certainly astonish
ing. Some of the experiments border hard
I upon impossibility, but to sec a number of
* subjects made to believe that there is a brook
before them with fish swimming therein—
trees bearing fruits, from which they will
pluck and eat; with many other things, ap
parently, incredible and absurd. He also
forces them to gather from the floor, imagina
ry, strawberries of exquisite fiavor, of which
they partake and pass around to the audience;
a handkerchief is changed, to them, into
a baby, which they will nurse with great
care, until ehanged into a negro child, when
it is thrown down with great disgust.
Pfofessqr H-'s Lecture, last evening, com
prised a brief exposition of the philosophy of
removing disease without the use of medi
cines, after which* a number of certificates
were feud, attesting to ks importance ag a
remedial agent. Out ei the number we hay
j only room for the following, which is Irom a
. highly respectable citizen of Greensboro’,
(Ala.) who was a member of his Class at that
place :
“ On the night of the Bth of February, my
child, a boy 3ix years old, was taken with one
of the most violent spasms that 1 ever wit
nessed. His extremities were cold, and the
muscles of his body were contracted to such
an extent that they were entirely useless, and
the child, evidently, could not live long in
such a state. I sent immediately for a physi
cian, but I concluded to try your science,
in hopes to do the child some good, which
proved effectual, for in a few minutes, I
had the whole system perfectly relaxed and
in a fine perspiration, and the child free from
all pain, which astonished all persona present.
On the arrival of the physician, we found no
use for him, as the child was perfectly well,
and is now well as he ever was, having had
no return of the slightest symptons since. I
have also removed several violent headaches
in less than a minute, and with the facts of
my own production, I am fully satisfied that
your method of treating diseases, will prove
effectual in nine cases out of ten, judging
from the success I have had in the eases above
alluded to. If you think this worthy of your
notice, you are at liberty to make whatever
use of it you like. Yours, &c.,
A. Johnson."
To-night is his last Lecture in Augusta,
after which those desirous ot forming a Class*
will have an opportunity of doing so by
giving in their names.
Waynesboro. May 20th, 1851.
According to previous notice a portion of
the Southern Rights Republican party of
Burke this day assembled in Waynesboro.
On motion, Dr. Chas. W. West was called
to the chair and John F. Lawson appointed
Secretary.
The chairman stated that the object of the
meeting was to form a Southern Rights As- ■
sociation for the county of Burke. Where
upon the following constitution was present
ed and unanimously adopted, to wit:
Whereas, The Southern Rights Republican
party of Burke, feeling the importance of a
more thorough organization; and being desi
rous of forming a Southern Rights Rapupli
can Association, for the purpose of promoting
unity and concert of action:
Therefore, we, a portion o: the people of
Burke, do this day form ourselves into an or
ganization, to be known by the name and
style of the “Burke county Southern Rights!
Republican Association,” and do hereby or
dain and adopt the following as our constitu
tion;
Article Ist. In this Association we recog
nize no distinction of parties; and hail all men
as brethren on the common platform of South
ern Rights.
Art. 2d. In the formation of this Associa
tion, we have no other object in view than
the promotion of Southern Rights; and as a
cardinal doctrine of our creed, hold to the
“Equality and sovereignty of the States/’and
are opposed to all consolidation and Fedeiai
ism.
Art. 3d. The officers of this association
shall consist of a President, two Vice-Pre
sidents, a Secratary, Treasurer, and a Corres- j
ponding eommittee; who shall hold office
twelve months or until resignation.
Art. 4th. It shall be the duty of the Presi
dent, and in his absence the Vice Presidents,
to call monthly meetings, at such time as they !
may think proper, by giving due notice.
Art. sth. It shall be the duty of the Sec- i
retary to record this Constitution in a neat |
book kept for the purpose; in which all the i
Southern Rights Republican party of the i
county are invited to subscribe their names
to this constitution.
The following gentleman were then elect
ed officers of the Association, to wit:
Maj. John C. Poythress, President; Dr.
Charles W. West, Vice-President; Dr,
J. Carter, Vice- President; John jt,.' Sturgesi
Esq., Secretary and Treasurer, D. Skrine
Dr. £. L. Antony, Thos. H. Blount and Alex’.
Mackenzie, Corresponding Committee.
On motion it was.
i That all papers In the State,
iriend.y to the cause of Southern Rights and
Republican principles, be requested to pub
lish the proceedings of this meeting; and that
i a copy of the same'be sent to the Southern
Press.
On motion, the meeting adjourned,
CHAS. W. WEST, Chairman.
John F. Lawson, Secretary.
\\ e learn that the telegraph wires on the
line between Fayetteville and Raleigh were
found out of order during Saturday. On in
vestigation they were discovered to have been
broken in some fifty different places within
the distance of five miles, evidently by some
miscreants, for what particular purpose, how
ever, it is not at present ascertained. We trust
that they wi‘l be detected, and punished ac
cording to their deserts. The wires were a
gain in working order yesterday afternoon, as
will be seen from aur dispatches.— Chark '&tcm
Courier, 27th inst.
Yesterday forenoon our City was visited
with two or three heavy showers of rain,
which it is needless to say proved most accep
table; although a little more would have not
been at all disagreeable. Since Saturday, how
ever, the atmosphere has been of a pleasant
temperature. The thermometer yesterday in
the rear of our office remained the whole day
at 74.— 1').
Tmarrijed,
On Tuesday evening, 29th April, by John G.
Jacaway, Esq., Dr. J. Pincknkv Hambleton, of
Atlanta, (formerly of Va.) and Miss M. Louisa,
daughter of Col. Benjamin Easley, of Dade coun
ty, Ga.
DIED,
Very suddenly, in Wrightsboro/ Columbia co.,
Ga., on the morning of the 22d inst., Smith John
son, aged nearly 46 years. Deceased was a na
tive of New Haven, Connecticut, but for the last
13 year? had resided in this State.
(Commercial,
Augusta Market* May 28*
COTTON.— During the past week we have had
a very irregular and declining market. On Wed
nesday last the advices per <; America/' came to
hand, noticing a decline in the Liverpool market
of & a which caused prices to give way in this
market full \ cent, and - at this decline buyers
were very reluctant to take hold. In this state
the market continued on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. On Monday morning the “ Bp.’tic's"
advices came to hand, noticing a further decline
in the Liverpool market of $ a £d. 'These latter
advices put a stop to business, and on Monday, we
heard of no sales. The market was very languid
yesterday (Tuesday,) and the only sales that we
heard of were a few small scattering lots to man*
ufacturers in this vicinity, at full three-quarters
of a cent dscline from the prices current previous
to the receipt of the intelligence per “ Baltic/*
Holders are offering but little, and buyers sbt>w
not the least disposition to operate at the decline
noticed above.
0
Since the above was in tj pe, we have advices
pel Canada, noticing an advance of agd in the
Liverpool Market, which has made all parties look
a little more cheerful.
RECEIPTS OF COTTON.
From Ist September, 1850, to latest dates received.
1851. 1850,,
Savannah, May 22 281,114 289,884
Charleston, May 22 343,819 326,231
• Mobile, May 16 417,357 318,384
New-Orleans, May £0 910,632......760,027
Florida, May 11 161,850 161,713
Texas, May 10 34,315 25,510
Virginia, May 1 15,025 8,625
North Carolina, May 1 11,808...... 9,339
Total Receipts 2,175,920 1,899,7ia
1,869,713
Increase of Receipts this year... .276,207
STOCK OF COTTON
Remaining on hand at the latest dates re
Savannah, May 22 14,19' An nfki
Charleston, May 22 3!. r .<)7
Mobile, May 16 l'Vfßl
New-Orleans, May 20 ,176.474 jAJgg
Florida. May 11 • V
I exas, May 11 3,400 I 170
Augusta &. Hamburg, si ay l 55,334 61’,735
Macon, May 1.. 15 844 15,514
Virginia, May 1,„ 1599 900
North Carolina, Mayl.,,, 425
Nevv-Ycyrk, May 20.. 69,598! !!!“l-25,306.
10ta1...,,. 510,404 546,983
510,404
Decrease in Stocks 36,579
GROCERIES.—We have had a rather quiet
market iu the Groeery line this week, the busi
ness being confined mostly to filling small country
orders.
CORN \\ e have no change to notice in prices
this week. The stock on hand is fully equal to
the demand, and sales are making from stores, ia
small lots, at prices ranging from 85 to 90 cents,.
BACON.— Ihere continues a fair demand for
Bacon, and prices still tend upwards. TLfer* is a
fair supply of Western on hand. Western is worth
10jJ, and lennessee II cents the iu»g round, pf
the quantity. Shoulders are worth to
II to 114, and liaras 12 to 13 cents.
COFFEE.—Stock ou hand on the decrease, ami
prices still declining. We quot*-, na j
Li LARD,- -*-Good Lard is ant j j u demand,
meets with ready sale, jj a j ceijts> #c .
cording to quality and 'quantity.
i LOUR.— ihe c,<arket is well supplied with
Northern and Western, which is selling at $6 to
$ pet' bbi.-w-fancy brands SB. Augusta Canai
is selling/Tom g6± to £7£ per bbl.
A. X HERs.—-Stock tight, and sales are rna-
king at 33 a 35 cents.
: MOLASSES.—i'be stock of Cuba is diminish
j tug, and prices tend upwards. We cuote Juba at
|25 a 2h,and New Orleans 37 a4O cents per gal.
i SUGARS.—There is a fair stock on hand, and
prices are stiffening. See quotations,
SALT.—Market well supplied and sales are mar
king at sl,lO a $1,15 per sack,
WHISKY.— I’he re is a good stock on hand.—
We quote New Orleans at 30 a 33 cents.
STOCKS,-*-We have heard ot no transactions?
EXCHANGE—?On New Vork and other North
era cities is in demand at 4 per cent preut.
FREIGHTS,—Our river is getting low, but
still in good navigable order. We have no eiMflge'
to notice in rates which continue 50 cents per bale
Co'ton to Savannah and the same price to
Charleston per Railroad.
SAVANNAH, May 26.— Cotton. —The market
was very dull on Saturday; tha sales reported
were 5 at 8|; 12 at 9j and i 8 at 94 cents; total 45
bales.
SA VANN AH EXPUR iS—U ay fck
Per steam ship Alabama, for New Vork—63o
bales Upland, and do. Sea Island Cotton, and
sundry *od bale 9 s!d»e