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(From the Southern Recorder.)
Constitutional Union Convention.
Milledgeville, Monday. }
June 2d, 1851,10 o’clock, A. M. J
The Delegates to the Constitutional Union
Convention assembled this day at the Capitol.
On motion of Hon. W. B. Wofford, a delegate
from the county of Habersham, Gen. Jno. W. A.
Sanford, of Baldwin, was called to the chair for
the purpose of organization.
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On motion of Col. Ashurst, of Putnam, Wil
liam Steel and B. T. Bethune, Esqrs., were re
quested to act as Secretaries. a
On motion of Mr. Stapleton, of Jefferson, the
Secretaries proceeded to a call of the counties,
when the names of the delegations from the
respective counties were enrolled.
On motion of Mr. Thomas, of Elbert, the roll,
as made out, was then called, and the names of
those not answering to the call w ere stricken
therefrom.
Tfee following is a list of the delegates answer
ing to the call of their names.
Baker.—Sam‘l B. Webb.
Baldwin.—J. W. A. Sanford, Fleming Grant
land.
Bibb.—James W. Armstrong, S. T. Chapman,
J. li. R. Washington and W. K. DeGraffenried.
Butts.—Britton Buttril.
Cass.—W. T. Wofford. John J. Word.
Chatham.—D. E. Bothwell, Jas. George.
Cherokee.—E. L. Shuford, W. R. D. Moss.
Clarke.—A. F. Nunnally, W. H. Hull, J. P.
Mayne, H. Holsey.
Cobb.—H. G. Cole, A. Camp, J. Oslin, J.
MJ&ige.
Columbia.—P. Ramsey, O. L. Barnes, R. F.
Wooding.
Coweta.—Messrs. Kerby, and Hackney.
Crawford.—Dolphin Davis, Win. Trippe.
Decatur. —Benj. F. Powell, Dr. Tho. Y. Henry.
DeKalb.—Charles Murphy, Wm. Ezzard, J.
M. Calhoun.
ITI . v/uiiivuii.
Dooly.—T. S. Beall.
Effingham.—Tho. Elkins.
Elbert.—T. W. Thomas, W. Teasly, W. M.
Mclntosh, L. H O. Martin.
Fayette. —Jno. O. Dickson.
Floyd.—D. S. Printup, G. M. T. Ware.
Forsyth.—W. A. Lewis.
Franklin.—Win. Turk, C. H. Lettle, J. N.
Glenn.
Gordon.—Thos. Bird.
Gwinnett.—J. R. Simmons, H. J. Arnold, Bur
ton Cloud.
Greene.—Geo. O. Dawson.
Habersham.—W. B. Wofford, T. J. Hughes,
P B. Haralson, J. L. Logan.
Hall.—John Haiden, C. R. Simmons.
Hams.—Geo. H. Bryan, D. A. Cochran, Os
borne M. Stone, John White.
Hancock.—W. Terrell, L. Reeves, S. A. Par
dee, L. Carrington.
Henry.—E. B. Arnold, John Hail, John Stil
well, Joseph A. Thrasher.
Houston. —J. H. Powers, Meredith Joyner,
Avner Burnam, Seaborn, C. Bryan.
Jackson.—Giles Mitchell, Robt. Moore.
Jefferson.—Geo. Stapleton.
Jones.—R. V. Hardeman, F. B. Harchal, Thos.
O. Bowen.
Lawrence. —T. M. Yopp, R. A. Love, John
W. Yopp.
Liberty.—H. H. Jones.
Lumpkin.—Anderson W. Redding.
Macon. —Phil. Cook.
Madison.—S. W. Colbert, W. H. Griffith.
Marion.—Seaborn McMichael, W. M. Brown.
Meriwether.—F. Kendall, J. W. Morelan, R.
H. Cousins.
Monroe.— W. S. Norman, J. H. Dumas.
Morgan.—Thos. P. Saffold, Garland Prior.
Muscogee.—James Johnson, P. Thweatt, B.
A. Thornton.
Newton. —Lewis Zachary, J. B. Hendrick, J.
J. Floyd.
Oglethorpe. —Joseph H. Lumpkin, Jr., Z. H.
Clarke, John F. Biggers.
Pike. —F. A. Freeman, W. L. Gordon.
Pulaski.—T. B. Don nelly.
Putnam.—J. M. Ashurst, J. McKenzie, H.
F. Baldwin Jas. A. Meriwether.
Richmond—.W, W. Holt, Rob ? t. F. Poe, Jno.
Milledge, G. F. Parish.
Randolph.—Jno. Henderick, M. H. Alexander.
Stewart.—James M. Clarke, R. S. Wimberly.
Sumter.—J. Tomlinson.
Talbot.—James Z. Dismukes, Kenan Couch.
John H. Wallace, Alex. K. Leonard.
Taliaferro.—W. H. Wilder, Geo.L. Bird.
Tattnall.—G. W. Collins, A. Strickland.
Troup.—Thos. Leslie, B. H. Bigham.
iggs.—John Ware.
Upson. —Jordan Lyons, S. H. Wilson, W. A
Cobb, H. Whitaker. ’
Walker.—Rufus J. Cochran.
Walton. —Junius Hillyer, Beni. F. Selman
Jno. T. Grant, D. H. Walker.
Warren.—Jno. Adkins, M. D. Cody D. E.
Hodo. J. M. Jones.
Washington.—S. Floyd, A. Beech, T. C.
Strange, L. Bullard.
Wilkes.—Lewis S. Brown, M. J.
T. Hackney, R. Toombs.
Wilkinson.—Talliaferro Jones, Samuel T.
Player.
On motion of Hon. W. B. Wofford, the Hon.
JOHN J. FLOYD from the county of Newton,
was chosen by acclamation President of the Con
vention.
[We applied to the President for the eloquent
address which he delivered to the Convention,
on assuming his duties as presiding olficer. But
regret that he could not lind time at the moment
to write it out. We hope to be able to lay it
before our readers on another day.]
On motion of Hon. R. Toombs the Chair was
requested to appoint a committee of three from
each Judicial circuit, whose duty it shall oe to
report matter tor the action of the Convention.
COMMITTEE NAMED.
Northern Circuit.—Messrs. Toombs, Thomas
and Terrell.
Middle. —Holt, Strange and Stapleton.
Eastern.—George, H. H. Jones and Elkins.
Southern. —Vopp, Donnelly and Ware.
South Western.—Hendricks, Tomlinson and
Cook.
* Cattahoochee. —Johnson. Brown, and Clarke.
Coweta.—E/.zard, Kendal and Camp.
Chrokee.—Redding, Cochrane and Word.
Western —Hillyer, Wolford and Mitchell.
Ocmulgee.—-Meriwether. Saltold and Harde-
M man. -*?• •, f||
Flint.—Armstrong, Norman and Cobb.
Mr. Thomas of Elbert offered the following
resolution.
Re»olved. that the Convention will proceed
jJtex disposing of the report of the committee of
►STAL
33, to nominate a candidate for Governor by bal
lot.
Which after some little discussion he withdrew'
for the present.
The Convention then adjourned j till 4 o’clock
this afternoon.
4 o’clock, p. m.
1 he Convention met pursuant to adjournment.
Mr. Toombs, chairman of the committee of 33,
made the following report:
The Committee of Thirty-three to whom w r as
referred the duty ot submitting business for the
action ol the Convention, beg leave to report that
alter taking the subject into full considera
tion, they recommend to the Convention the adop
tion ol the following resolutions, to wit:
Resolved , 1 hat the Constitutional Union party
of Georgia, devoted to the Union of the States
and the sovereignty of the States, hereby re
affirm the report and resolutions of the Georgia
Convention of 1850.
(We omit the report and resolutions of the Con
vention of 1850, w hich are thus made a part of
this report, as they are already familiar to the
people.]
Resolved , That we have w itnessed with pro
found regret the opposition to these principles by
the Convention of our opponents recently assem
bled at this place, because that opposition is cal
culated to destroy the moral force of the position
W'hich our State has taken before her sister States
and before the w'hole world—to create divisions
and dissensions among our own people upon a
great and momentous subject, on which w r e should
be, and on w hich we have been united, and by
such divisions and dissensions thus weakening
us, to invite a renewal of aggressions upon South
ern lights, which may end in the overthrow' of
our Union, in the destruction of our free and hap-
Py government, and entailing on ourselves and
children the consequences of revolution.
The Committee recommend to the Convention
to proceed to the nomination of a candidate of
the Constitutional Union Party for Governor of
Georgia.
Which report was adopted unanimously.
Mr. Thomas, of Elbert, withdrew the resolu
tion offered by him this morning.
Mr. Clark, of Stew art, stated to the Conven
tion that as the name of Judge Andrew s had
been spoken of in connexion with a nomination
he w'as authorized to request that his name be
considered as not before the Convention.
Mr. Wofford, in compliance with the recom
mendation of the committee, moved that the
Hon. HOWELL COBB, of Clarke, be nomina
ted by acclamation as the Candidate of the party
for Governor.
Which motion w’as adopted unanimously.
Maj. Meriwether moved that a committee of
five be appointed by the Chair to inform Mr.
Cobb of his nomination, and request his accep
tance. Committee named—Messrs. Meriweth
er, Milledge, Hull, Thomas and Wofford, of Cass.
The following resolutions w'ere then passed
unanimously:
Resolved , That this Convention return their
thanks to the Hon. John J. Floyd, its President,
for the able and impartial manner in which he
hasp resided over its deliberations.
Resolved , That this Convention return their
than les to Messrs. Steele and Bethune, its Secre
taries, for the able manner in which they have
discharged the duties of their office.
Mr. Thomas moved that the Union papers in
Georgia be requested to publish these proceedings.
The Convention then adjourned sine die.
JOHN J. FLOYD, President.
Wm. Steele, i c . . •
B. T. Bethone, J Secretaries.
Items from the World’s Fair.
{'Prepared for the Charleston Sun)
In accordance with a previous promise to keep
our readers well informed on all matters of im
portance relating to this engrossing subject of
present interest, we offer the lollowing summary
of the World’s Fair:
Her Majesty and Prince Albert have visited
the Crystal Palace live times since it has been
opened.
A London correspondent says: “Itis an un
deniable fact that, with all the exertions of the
press to find appropriate language adequately to
describe this marvellous palace of treasures, the
various accounts put forth fall short of convey
ing a correct idea of the infinite beauties which
are collected together. If the world had been
doomed to destruction, and it had been prede
termined to preserve specimens of every inani
mate object in existence, here, in fact, you have
a second Noah’s Ark, with every article of its
rarest and choicest forms.”
The sale of tickets is still actively going on at
the rate ol £3 3s. each, and the daily receipts
are said to average £2,000. The highest daily
receipt was that ol the 15th, which amounted to
£3300. The receipts for admission upon each
day since the opening of the Exhibition to the
public, independent of the receipts lor the sale of
season tickets, have been as follows:
May 2d, at £1 £560 0 0
May 3d, at £1 452 0 0
May sth, at 5s 1,362 10 0
May 6th, at 5s 1,458 10 0
May 7th, at 5s 1,790 15 0
May Bth, at 5s 2,018 0 0
May 9th, at 5s 1,824 10 0
May 10th, at 5s 1,843 15 0
Moy 12th, at 5s 1,597 10 0
Total .£12,937 10 0
The report adds that, up to this time, not the
slightest inconvenience has been experienced by
the crowd of visitors inside the building, and that
55,000 visitors at a time can see every thing
which is to be seen, without the slightest incon
venience.
The contributions are yet still far from being
complete or finished; every day some new ob-
I ject is quietly placed either in the nave or in
; some department which adds fresh zest to the en
joyment. Every vacant space is fast filling up,
and the demand, if complied with, would fill a
building half as large again as the present palace.
A large dinner was given oil Monday to the for
eign artists.
Os the contributions of the East India Com
pany it says: " Their collection promises, when
completed, to be one of extraordinary interest,
splendor, and attractiveness. In addition to the
Lahore jewels, they have now, in stalls facing
the nave, the “Durria-i-Noor, 55 or “ Sea of Light 75
—an immense diamond, set as an armlet, with
ten smaller stones around it; a necklace of 224
large pearls; a necklace of four large rubies, a
pair ol emerald armlets, a carved emerald and
diamond turban ornament, an emerald and dia
mond bridle and martingale, a gold-mounted sad
dle, set with diamonds, emeralds, and rubies: a
magnificent brocaded robe, richly decorated with
***£“?; and an emerald girdle, the stones in
which are of immense size, and most of them of
very line quality. This list of jewelry will give
he public some idea of the* manner in which
our Eastern empire is represented, and will re
call some at least of those visions of fabulous
wealth and splendor with which the name of
India used m former times to be connected/ 5
Average Mortality in Citi^T—Dr. Sim
monds delivered the first of two lectures upon
the above interesting subject, Wednesday even
ing, in the Lyceum Hall, New Orleans. I n the
course of his remarks he alluded to the investi
gations in connection with the English army
navy, and the English nation, as -well as to the’
necessity for a correct system of registation for
purpose of procuring true data op the subject.
He noticed the census of New Orleans and ’ La
layette for several years past, and said that out
of a population of 106,000 last year, the ayerage
mortality was eight and one-tenth per cent., or
one in every twelve persons, He quoted data
to prove the mortality of Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Savannah, other cities, and
while it ranged from 2 1-8 to 4 1-2 cent., that of
New Orleans was full 8 per cent, #lje showed
taat in nine weeks at the commencement of the
present year,the deaths of Boston >yere 647,while
those ol New Orleans were 1319, and argued
that it was the duty of the Board of Health to ill
yestigate this subject, mmm, MobHa
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A Touching Story.
The following affecting narrative purports to
have been given by a father to his son, as a war
ning derived from his own bitter experience of
the sin of grieving and resisting a dear mother’s
love and counsel.
“What agony w 7 as visible on my mother’s face
w hen she saw 7 that all she said and suffered fail
ed to move me! She rose to go home, and I fol
lowed at a distance. She spoke no more to me
till she reached her own door.”
“It is time now, said she. “Go, my son, and
once more let me beseech you to think upon what
I have said.”
“I shan’t go to school,” said I.
She looked astonished at my boldness, but re
plied firmly:
“Certainly you will go, Alfred, I command
you.”
“I will not!” said I w 7 ith a tone of defiance.”
“One of two things you must do, Alfred—either
go to school this moment, or I will lock you in
your room, and keep you there till you are ready
to promise implicit obedience to my w r ishes in
future.”
“I dare you to do it,” said I, “you can’t get me
up stairs.”
“Alfred, choose now 7 ,” said my mother, who
laid her hand upon my arm. She trembled vio
lently, and was deadly pale.
“If you touch me I will kick you,” said I, in a
terrible rage. God knows I knew not w 7 hat I
said.
“Will you go, Alfred ?”
“No!” I replied qut quailed beneath her eye.
“Then follow me,” said she as she grasped my
arm firmly. I raised my foot—oh, my son, hear
me! I raised my foot and kicked her; my saint
ed mother! How my head reels, as the torrent of
memory ruishes over me! I kicked my mother;
a feeble woman; my mother ? She staggered back
a few 7 steps, and leaned against the w r all. She
did not look at me. I saw her heart beat against
her breast. “Oh! Heavenly Father,” she cried,
“forgive him—he knows not what he does!”
The gardner just then passed the door, and seeing
my mother pale and almost unable to support
herself, he|stopped; she beckoned him in. “Take
this boy up stairs and lock him in his room,” said
she, and turned from me. Looking back as she
was entering her room, she gave me such a look;
it w 7 ill forever follow me; it was a look of agony,
mingled w 7 ith the intensest love; it w 7 as the last
unutterable pang from a heart that w 7 as broken.
In a moment I found myself a prisoner in my
own room. I thought for a moment I w r ould
fling myself from the open w indovv, and dash my
brains out, but I felt afraid to do it. I was not
penitent. At times my heart w r as subdued, but
my stubborn pride rose in an instant, and bade
me not yield. The pale face of my mother haunt
ed me. I flung myself on the bed and fell asleep.
Just at twilight I heard a footstep approach the
door. It w 7 as my sister.
“What may I tell mother from you?” she ask
ed.
“Nothing,” I replied.
“Oh Alfred ! for my sake, for all our sakes, say
that you are sorry; let me tell mother that you
are sorry. She longs to forgive you.”
I w 7 ould not answer. I heard her footsteps
slowly retreating, and again I flung myself on
the bed to pass another wretched and fearful
night.
Another footstep, slower .and feebler than my
sister s disturbed me. A voice called me by name.
It was my mothers.
‘‘Alfred, my son, shall I come ? Are you sor
ry for what you have done ?” she asked.
I cannot tell what influence, operating at that
moment, made me speak adverse to my feelings.
The gentle voice of ray mother that thrilled
through me, melted the ice from my obdurate
heart, and I longed to throw myself on her neck,
but I did not. But my words gave the lie to my
heart, when 1 said I was not sorry. I heard her
withdraw. I heard her groan. I longed to call
her back, but I did not.
I was awakened from my uneasy slumber, by
hearing my name called loudly, and my sister
stood by my bedside.
Get up, Alfred. Oh, don't wait a minute ! Get
up, and come with me. Mother is dying.
I thought I was yet dreaming, but I got up me
chanacally and followed my sister. On the bed
pale and cold as marble lay my mother. She had
not undressed. She had thrown herself on the
bed to rest; —arising to go again to me, she was
seized w r ith a palpitation of the heart, and was
borne senseless to her room.
I cannot tell you in my agony as 1 looked upon
her—my remorse was tenfold more bitter from
the thought that she would never know it. I
believed myself to be her murderer. I fell on
the bed beside her. I could not weep. My heart
burned in my bosom; my brain was all on fire.
My sister threw her arms around me and wept
in silence.
Suddenly we saw a slight motion of mother’s
hand—her eyes unclosed. She had recovered
consciousness, but not speech. She looked at me,
and moved her lips. I could not understand her
words. “Mother, mother,” I shrieked, “say only
that you forgive me.” She could not say it with
her lips, but, her hand pressed mine. She smiled
upon me, and lifting her thin, white hands, she
clasped my own within them, and cast her eyes
upwards. She moved her lips in prayer, and
thus she died. I remained still kneeling beside
that dear form, till my gentle sister removed me.
The joy of youth had left me forever.
Boys who spurn a mother’s control, who are
ashamed to own that they are wrong, who think
it only to resist her authority, or yield to her in
fluence, beware ! Lay not up for yourselves bit
ter memories lor your future years.
Manufacture of Jewelry in New Jersey.
—Few persons, say the Newark Advertiser, have
an adequate idea of the extent and value of this
branch of manufacture in New Jersey:
“A recent estimate puts the number of manu
factories at 18, employing 6000 hands, whose av
erage wages, including boys, amounts to sl2 a
week, The weekly product of manufactured ar
ticles is about $35,000 or $1,820,000 a year, In the
manufacture of watch cases alone, about 50 hands
are employed. In some manufactories chains
are made, in others, principally rings, while in
others, almost every article yet invented for the
adornment of persons of both sexes, are manufac
tured. The gold used fqr a year past, has been
mostly the product of California, brought here
assayed, and in bars; the precious stones forming
a part of the ornaments are imported from Europe
ready cut for use. An erroneous idea, we under
stand, js prevalent in relation to the increase qf
value of all gold manufactured into jewelry. A
large number of articles prove to be unsaleable
and out of fashion, and when that occurs, they
are remelted and sent to the mint for coinage.”
UROUOH'f, Cuobs, (icc.rrsVVe sp>e ’|°W 4U the
midst of a severe and protracted drought, which
has continued for the last four weeks, during
which we have had in this place but two light
showers. Good rains have fallen ip some parts
of the country. But even wheat harvest which
usually brings with it rain has failed in this in
stance, for the clouds which have over-hung our
place for several days look with un weeping eyes
upon o»r parched earth. Wheat crop which
are now being garnered are said to be very fine,
better than for many years—this gives promise
of plenty of “wheat' doings” although the “chick
en fixens” are scarce and not to be had.—Cen
tral Georgian, 3 d inst.
Infamous Outrage.—The Mobile Register is
informed, by a gentleman from the country, that
the Rev. Wm. Johnson, officiating Episcopal
i-mister at Tuscaloosa, whdst oil a recent visit
o Lowndes county, was waylaid near the resi
nce of C°l. R. p. McCord, by two young men
e Otis Rush and Judson Rush, and beaten
severely with clubs, that his life is dispaired of
physician, Or. Paul Tip*
l famous attack op a beloved Minister of the
Episcopal church— -one who stands next to Bis
iop < obb himself m the opinion of the diocese—
was prompted, it ! S surmised, by an old grudge
that had its origin many years since when
these young men were members of a school, in
Lowndes county, of which Mr. Johnson was the
principal.
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CON ST IT l TION ALI ST
Jhipstrt, (!3i’iin)ii],
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 5.
Slouthem Rights Nomination for Governor.
CHARLES J. McDONALD, of Cobb County.
No papers received by last evening’s mail
from offices beyond Charleston.
To Our Friends. '*
Our readers will perceive that we present
to them, to-day, a new 7 face. They will find,
however, on scanning it, that the change is
only external. It is an old friend with a new
face. The thoughts we send forth to commune
with their’s, are dressed in a new 7 and more at
tractive garb, but they possess the same spirit of
republican simplicity—of true democracy—*of
State rights and strict construction—and are
glowing with the same w 7 arm Southern rights
feelings that have always animated us and in
spired our labors.
We hope to be greeted, during the canvass
now opened, by the approving glances of all our
old friends and of many new ones.
To the former, to whom its present prosperity
is due, w 7 e tender our cordial thanks for their
past and continuing kindness. To them, and to
all, we offer the assurance that the efforts of the
past will be continued, to maintain the position
of The Constitutionalist in public esteem.
Our New Type.
The type on which our issue of to-day is print
ed is from the excellent Type Foundry of H. H.
Green, New York. We leave it to speak for it
self The gentlemanly proprietor we can re
commend as one to be relied on in filling orders
with fidelity and despatch.
Proceedings of the Constitutional Union
Convention.
The proceedings of this Convention, or properly
speaking of the Consolidation Union Convention,
will be found in our paper this morning as copied
from the Southern Recorder. Had we time now,
we could give some interesting annotations and
supply some omissions, to the written record. We
had the good fortune to be a spectator of th£ cu
rious and edifying medley of politicians and pa
triots which this Convention presented. There
was much of individual respectability and intel
ligence in it.
We regret that the opening address of the Pre
sident, the Hon. John J. Floyd, was not reduced
to writing, and given to the public. We unite
in the hope that it may yet see the light. We
were struck with the emphatic manner with
which he delivered the following remark: “ Be
tore the organizatiou of The Constitutional Union
Party, 1 was a whig, and I gloried in the name
and principles of the Whig party. But now 1
come not here as a Whig, nor do you come as
W nigs or as Democrats. Ws come together as
Union men.” There was here no recantation of
whiggery—no declaration that its principles were
less dear than formerly. We presume, therefore,
whiggery has lost none of its vitality with him,nor
with his Whig associates in the new organiza
tion. It is not dead, but slumbers, and in due
time will awake in pristine energy after they
have got through with their professed task of
saving the Union. The honorable President took
occasion also, with rather small courtesy, as we
thought, both to the Convention and its candidate,
that was to be selected, in prejudging, precribing
and dictating its action,and that course.
Says he, “ You are not assembled to adopt
any new principles, or put forth any new issues,
but to re-aftirm the platform of the Georgia Con
tion ot 18-50, and to select a standard bearer to
maintain them. He is to promulge no new princi
ples—he is neither to add to, nor take away from
that platform.”
We quote from memory, but are substantially,
* and almost verbally accurate.
Sure enough, what the honorable President
r had foreshadowed was all duly arranged; wheth
-7 er by the Macon Regency, or by himself,
j Toombs & Co., that were present, or both com
, bined, it is not for us to say. But certes there
5 was the Hon. Robert Toombs, ready to move,
l and who, in due time, did move, for a Commit
! tee of Three from each judicial circuit, to report
matter for the action of the Convention. Doubt
i less the report was already cut and dried in his
: pocket. The Committee appointed, he being
Chairman, the Convention adjourned till 4, P.
M. —at which time he was ready to report, and
did report.
; It was nothing more nor less than that same
j old “ masked battery ,” “ that false cry of UnifoP
There was nothing in it but the slavery Jftes
tion, and matters pertaining to it—the Union
and the Compromise! No other principles, no
Other issues were promulged. No other question
of Government policy, State or federal, was deem
ed worthy of consideration, or to advo
cacy—or there was none that it was deemed
prudent to trust with the people. It was a plat
form of one idea —an ism !
After the report and resolutions were read
Mr. Toombs turned loose a characteristic flood
of clap-trap declamation, virulent denunciation
of his opponents, and as much self-laudation
and egotism as may become a modest man.—
It was pretty much the same old stump
speech that he delivered on several occasions
last fall, on the issues then pending, with po
perceptible improvement in its style, taste, or
temper.
He made towards the close, a declaration
which forcibly suggested the application of
a name to all this sound and fury, and all
this heavy firing (with blank cartridges) from
behind the masked battery. He sneered at
South-Carolina her chivalry - her sensitive
spirit under wrongs inflicted, and said that she
would exercise the better part of valor and dis
cretion. He said, “if we expected to -ecene,
we would be the boy who waited for the
sky to fall to catch larks. If the Uniou is not
destroyed till she secedes, it will fost p thousand
years, I will be security % fier to keep the
peace, for a trifle ”
We thought, “ truly, then, here is “ much ado
about nothingP
This being his real opinion, and tl&t of bis ps,
sociptes in invention, it would have been mom 1
consistent and more statesmanlike to, have said 1
less about disunion, and more about practical is- ]
sues, s
If there is no danger of disunion in their eyes j
from South-Carolina secessionists, we cannot t
conceive how Georgia fire-eaters cpn’cause them 1
real disquietude, or give a reasonable pretext tor
their efforts to alarm the people.
Alter Mr. Toombs’ speech w 7 as finished, the
Convention w 7 ent through the form of a nomina
ation, by acclamation, of the Hon. Howell
Cobb as the candidate for Governor—or in other
words, acquiesced in , and ratified the nomination
alieady made at Washington City, and endorsed
by The Macon Regency .”
It was notorious that, a number of members
did not acquiesce w ith very great cheerfulness.
Some preferred Mr. Jenkins, and greatly desired
his nomination. Others preferred Judge \Y rar
ner, and some w 7 ere instructed to vote tor
him. But party drill is sometimes inexorable,
and the Convention bow§d unanimously to its
behests.
The United States steamer Franklin, Captain
dY otten, left her dock at New Y ork, at noon on
Saturday, for Southampton and Havre. She takes
out $968,630 in specie and one hundred and
thirty-six passengers.
Rain.
We had a refreshing shower yesterday after
noon w 7 hich laid the dust, and was of material
benefit to vegetation.
Life of General Wool. —We learn from the
Albany Atlas that “the Hon. Francis, Baylis Mas
ssachusetts, has published a life on General Wool,
W'ith an account of his campaign in Mexico, and
the brilliant services that illustrated it. It was
prepared at the request of many of the members
of the New York legislature and public officers,
who desired that justice should be done to the
fame and services of an illustrious son of New
York.
We have* been requested to call attention
to the sale, by A. Lafitte, of the Dwelling and
Furniture of the late Charles Cunningham.
An Omnibus will start from the United States
Hotel at 9 o’clock, a. m., for tfie place of sale, and
return, at 2p. m. Fair each way, 50 cents.
Concert Hall.
By special request, the moral Drama of “ The
Drunkard ,” will be performed to-night.
Mr. Carter, a young and promising actor,
who has given much satisfaction in playing the
principal part, takes a benefit. We have heard
but one opinion expressed by those w 7 ho have
witnessed the representation of this play, and
that strongly in favor of its moral effect. As
this is the last time it can be performed in this
city, we have no doubt it will draw another
good house.
It will be seen by the advertisement, that W.
J. Thompson’s laughable Comedy of “ Major
Jones- Courtship ,” w ill be performed to-morrow 7
night.
Erratum.
We were on Tuesday made to say exactly the
reverse of what we intended by the word “can
not” being substituted for “ ran.”
We re-print the sentence as corrected. It
forms by itself a short but very good editorial,
and is worthy of being seriously pondered.
“ Let the declaration go forth from the South,
that a State can be co-erced by the military
force of the Federal Government, back into a
Union from which it had been driven by a con
viction that the rights and interest of her people
were no longer sate in it, and there is no extremi
ty of humiliation which anti-slavery selfishness,
in the arrogance of its power, will not impose
upon the Southern people.”
The Methodist Church Case. —A con
densed report of the important case between the
Northern and Souther# branches of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, w T hich has been under
investigation in this city for a number of days
past, will be found in a subsequent column or
columns. The equity of the case is clearly in
favor of a division of the property in proportion
to ownership, when the rupture took place. The
decision will not be given for some time. If it
should be in favor of the Northern branch, the
best thing that they can do, will be to immedi
ately make over to the Southern branch the pro
portion of property which belongs to them; or
«hat would be still better, propose a reunion on
the basis of non-interference on the subject of
slavery, and then hold the property in common
as heretofore.— N. F. Journal of Commerce.
Whether the Methodist Church South suc
ceeds or not, in getting its fair share of the
joint property, but few in the South will
agree in the above opinion, of the propriety
of a reunion of the two sections, on any terms.
Few can believe that such a pledge of non-inter
ference on the subject of slavery would be given.
Fewer still, that if given, it would be adhered
to.
Quick Passage from San Francisco.—The
brig Samuel French, (of East port,) |Capt,
Brown, arrived at New-York pn Saturday, in
10” days from San Francisco, including five
days detention in the port of Albahos, Brazil.
Candidate for Congress in Mobile.
The Southern Rights Convention have nomi
nated Judge Bragg, of Mobile, for Congress, The
Judge writes a clear and manly letter, in which
he says he is opposed to the Compromise; that
while the Southern States gained nothing, by
what has been termed the c; Compromise,” to
Which they were not clearly entitled, they were
deprived of much they most justly had the right
to claim. The conclusion is, that the Compro
mise measures are unjust ip themselves, and de
rogate frorp the rights of the Southern States. He
plsp thinks that, for adequate cause, a State has
the right to secede, but that the adoption of the
Compromise does not present such adequate cause
If Secession should come upon us, however, he
thus expresses his views of the duty of the South:
As to what would be the duty of the remain
ing States m the event that the General Govern
ment meditated a resort to force, it is rather dif
ficult to determine before such contingency is !
preseiited. Before the actnai use of force, I think
no effort should be spared to prevent a resort to
it. Ihe State should remonstrate and protest
against it, pud Congress should firmly refuse to
so the Executive Government with any ex
traordinary powers to enable it to humble the re
cusant State, ft pli such appeals proved unavaii-
! n S: a\fo nt spite of all effort to avert it, nothing
put force would satify power, then all history is
Ipble, and human nature is changed if brother fail
ed to, sympathise with brother, and those having
common interests did not unite to protect them.
It Massachusetts were to withdraw from the U
nion on account of her opposition so the Fugitive ,
Slave law, and force were used against her, I ap- i
prebend she would receive very little aid from
the Southern States springing from 9 sense of du
ty, while she most probably would be assisted by
Vermont and other States having kindred sym- -
pathjas. Qn the pther hafid, if South Carolina
secedes ou account of her opposition to the Com
promise, and, if met with force, would Massachu
setts feei it to be her duty to aid her ? Massa
chusetts, I suppose, would hardly think so. At- t
ter all, the thing is resolved into a simple matter
’*4
of sympathy anil interest. 1 think, then, every
effort should he made to avoid collision between
the Genera} Government and a State—-that fail
ing consequences most needs be left to take care
of themselves. What they must inevitably be,
I think 1 have already sufficiently indicated.
Simplicity of Dress.— Female loveliness
never appears to so good advantage as when set
off' with simplicity of dress. No artist ever
decks his angels with towering feathers and gau
dy jewelry; and our dear human angels, if they
would make good their title to that name, should
carefully avow! ornaments which properly belong
to Indian squaws and African princes. These
tinselries may serve to give effect on the stage
or upon a ball room floor, but in daily life there
is no substitute for the charm of simplicity. S A
vulgar taste is not to be disguised by gold and
diamonds. The absence of a true taste and real
refinement of delicacy, cannot be compensated
for by the possession of the most princely for
tune. Mind measures gold, but gold cannot mea
sure mind. Through dress the mind may be
read, as through the delicate tissue the letter
page. A modest woman will dress modestly; a
really refined and intellectual woman will bear
the marks of careful selection and faultless taste.
U. S. Troops Deserting. —The Detroit Tri
bune on Monday says that a company of new
U. S. Recruits came up yesterday from Buffalo,
and took the cars last evening, destined lor Ore
gon. We are told that at Buffalo JO of them had
deserted, and that IS had been retaken.
Washington, May 30.
It is positively asserted to-day that the Secre
tary of the Treasury has not offered to pay back
the $60,000 to Mr. Geeorge La w, and does not
intend to do it; but that, on the contrary, he has
instituted an investigation into the whereabouts
and howabouts of the missing thirty thousand
dollars.
A writer in the Victoria (Texas) Advocate
urges a change in in the constitution of that
State.—The objectionable features are, the pro
hibition of banking and of the State owning an
interest in any public improvements. The same
writer advocates a general banking law for the
State, as well as the "honesty is the best policy' 7
of paying her bonds for the full amount for which
they were issued. Numbers of the candidates
and papers are in favor of scaling them to the
amount actually received by Texas.
Concert of Sig. Pofileto. —The music 0 r
fun loving portion of our community were ayain
on Friday night, favored with one of those 3 or
iginal specimens of vocal harmony in which
Sig. Popileto so peculiarly excels. The Temper
ance Hall again rang with the merry chorus of
mirth, music and applause in which the wild and
harmonious cadence of that popular Ethiopean
ballad, Lovely Maie, was most particularly re
cognizable. But,alas! all did not goon as u nier
ry as a marriage bell. 7 ’ or finish as merrily « s
one in a thousand of those do, lor in the progress
of the latter which concludes the programe, °the
light of song ended suddenly in the darkness ot
night—benches were overturned and a promis
cuous rush made lor the door, which :, onie suc
ceeped in reaching at the expense of others and
the amusement of the evening concluded in i
sudden dispersion of the assembled auditors
Charleston Courier , 2d insL
Newburyport, May 31.
_a he lion ol able Hamel Webster has been inS
vited by the citizens of this place to deliver 5
4th of July oration.
Lost Sheep.— A dock of two hundred sheep
became fnghtened, while crossing a ferry near
VV ellsv die, Ohio, last week, and they were all
drowned.
Baltimore, May 3!,
A locomotive attached to the freight train on
Susquehannah rail road ran off track on the out
skirts oi the city.
A number of cars were broken up and thrown
down the embankment. One of them fell cm the
slave of John Mckimm, and killed him.
rp, c , T . New York, May 31.
Ihe Sr. Jago arrived to-day from i’orV n ,
Pi 1 nee, which place she left on the 18th The
Emperor, Soujonque, has issued a proclamation
to the Dominicans, m which he declines to re
coneile and terminate the present troubles. Cut
iee was worth 90)1 a 1001| per 100 lbs.
(Telegraphed for the • Charleston Courier)
rp, .. . New- Orleans, June !
There was a limited demand for Cotton o it
Saturday, and barely two thousand hales were
sold. Prices were unaltered and business was
—— •
Cotton has been ' T ." ne 2 ' ,
only thirteen hundWef^^eT
?i-?toTT lmchang * d - R '“ is
rhe steamer Union, sailed from New-Yor-fc
thi® morning with one hundred and eHiH
sengers. » u >
ton Ue bllg Ellen ’ Reed ’ has cleai 'ed for Charles
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Special Vlotirrs.
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18ol.—On and after this date, tho Western Mail
will close at 3 P. M.
Northern and Charleston Mails at 5 A. M.
Savannah Mail at g p
The Office will be opened at 7A. M. -md
♦losedon the arrival of the Northern which
will be ready for delivery by 4* P. M., after which
the office will continue open until 8 P. M.
On Sundays, the office will be opened from 8 to
9 A.M., and from 5 to 8 P. M.
Persons having Key Boxes and wishing Letters
charged, are requested to niako the followin'- ,Ic
signation: “Charge Key Box No.
' j uno 3 BENJ. F. IIALP. L, M.
LC?* \ lilting cards. Just received, a superb lot
of ENAMKhKED CARDS!
AH oiders left at tho Post Office, or given in per
son, will receive prompt attention.
_a. a. willis.
Water—Cold SODA WA TER,'witha.
variety of Syrups, at the Drug Store of
PHILIP A. MOISE, Metcalf’s
N.B. Congress WATE.it always ia \oe
may 24 5 m
I,„ vc 11,;, , day commtticed
to servo ICE CREAM. The.',Cadies aud oentlcmen
are myitod to give us a call.
1 N. GIRARDY A SONS.
LOCATING LAND WARRANTS,
HA ' ® effected an arrangement with -a
gentleman of the west for the purpose. lam also
authorized to purchase the Land after it is located
mar 3 Cm ANDREW It, H. DAWSON.
2ETNA INSURANCE AGENCY;
DR. MILLIGAN having resigned the Agency, the
undersigned has been appointed and dulv
•ommissioped Agent ot the /ETNA I\sr it* a v ,‘i>
CQMPANY, and is prepared to take Fire andin
land Navigation Risks, on as reasonable terms as
any other office, 1,3
Applications left at the office of Jeffers, Cothran
■& Co., Mclntosh stroet, will lie promptly attended
%* IS 6mo" L ' JKi ’ FEItS > A s™t.
BLASTING POWDER;
A FEW barrels for sale by
HUTCHINSON A THOMAS.
may 25
100 2° w otk4 * ,? WHISKY, fan.
W T. W. FLEMING A Co