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(From the Augusta Republic sth inst.)
Meeting at Hamburg on Saturday last.
We find in the Chronicle & Sentinel, of the
first instant', the following account of the above
meeting.
South Carolina Moving.—We had the
pleasure of being present at a meeting of the
people, not the politicians, in the vicinity of Ham
burg, yesterday, that afforded us much pleasure.
It was called to order by appointing Capt. A. J.
liammond, Chairman, and Mr. Stiles Secretary.
The object of the meeting was explained by the
Chairman; when it was moved and seconded,
that a Committee of Thirty-Three be appointed
by the Chairman, to report business for the ac
tion of the meeting. The Chair appointed the
Committee, who having retired.
Mr.. Owens, of Barnwell, was called on to ad
dress the meeting, which he did in a bold, manly
and frank style, for an hour. He took strong
and decided grounds against separate State ac
tion, showed its fallacy, and the utter ruin it
would bring upon the state of South Carolina.
His position was well assumed and his reason
ing logical on this part of his subject. Mr. O.
then showed that it was all important for South
Carolina to await the action of her sister Slave
States. He was in favor of a Southern Confed
eracy—and all, or nearly all of the arguments
that he brought forward against separate state
action, in our opinion, were equally good agaiust
a Southern Confederacy, at the present writing.
At the conclusion of Mr. O.’s speech. the Com
mittee reported a Preamble and Resolutions
against separate State action; after which.
Mr. Boyce, of Farfield, addressed the meeting,
occupying the same grounds that Mr. Owens did,
enforcing his position with great energy. At
the conclusion of Mr. B.’s speech the vote was
taken, and the Preamble and Resolutions were
passed unanimously.
We look upon this meeting as a harbinger of
better times in South Carolina. The ball is now
fairly in motion, that is bound to sweep j over the
State, and carry dismay into the ranks of the
seceders per se.‘ We repeat, that, those opposed
to immediate secession, are bound to succeed, if
they are true to themselves and the State—all
that is necessary, is the moral courage to discuss
the questions before the people, and we confident
success will crown their efforts. The great dif
ficulty in South Carolina, is, that but few of her
leading statesmen opposed to secession, have the
moral courage to come out openly and decidly,
\ and meet their opponents. Bnt if we are not
much mistaken in the signs of the times, the
people of that State are about to take the ques
tion into their own hands, and there will spring
up men in all parts of the State, who will meet
and vanquish these disorganizes, and teach them
that this Union which was cemented by the
blood of our forefathers, is not to broken for
slight and trival causes.
Byway of encouragement to those two gen
tlemen, (Messrs Owens and Boyce;) and all
others who think with them, we would say, go
on in the discharge of your duty to your country,
meet the advocates of Separate State Action on
every field, for you have truth and patriotism on
your side, and with such weapons you cannot
fail of success before an intelligent and reflecting
people. Let your voices be heard, and your
State will be saved the reproaches of the world.
Before commenting, as we intend to do, upon
this statement of the facts of the case, we pre
sent to our reders the following authentic report
of the proceedings of the meeting referred to.
Public Meeting.
In pursuance of a call of over four hundred
subscribers, a large and respectable meeting was
held in the Town of Hamburg on Saturday last
for the purpose of taking into consideration the
properiety of the separate secession of South
Carolina at this juncture.
The meeting was organized by calling Capt.
Andrew J. Hammond to the chair, and request
ing C. W. Styles to act as secretary.
The Chair having explained the objects of the
meeting on motion a committee of Thirty was
appointed to report business for the action of the
Mneeting. The committee retired, when Col.
J wens of Barnwell was called on who addressed
he meeting for upwards of an hour in opposi
tion to separate state action and in favor of a
southern confederacy. At the conclusion of Mr.
O’s remarks the committee returned and sub-"
mitted the following Premable and resolutions.
Col. Boyce of Winnsborough, was then called
on, who entertained the meeting at some length,
in support of the preamble and resolutions, and in
opposition to separate State action at this time.
! When Col. B: had concluded his speech, a letter
was received and read from the Hon. Judge Butler
after which the vote was taken on the preamble
and resolutions, which resulted in their adoption
without a dissenting voice.
A crisis has arrived in our affairs, in which it
behoves every citizen of the State, without
concealment, to discover his political senti
ments. The action ol the last Legislature
convoking a Constitutional Convention of the
people, the election of delegates to that body,
whose province it will be to decide finally on the
action the State must take in removing, palliating
or redressing the grievances imposed on the South
by the legislation of Congress, in the passage of
the so-called Compromise measures, and the con
templated assembling of that body early in the
next year present issues of the gravest import
for the consideration of every citizen. We had
hoped that no proceedings would be taken in any
State to forestall or eontroll the final determina
tion of the Constitutional Convention, and that
the delegates elect would be left entirely free and
untrammelled to act in accordance with the pros
pects and circumstances surrounding them when
assembled, but the Convention of the late South
ern R >uS association in Charleston, as also the
tone o. t e riiblic press seems to indicate extra
orrlin-yanJ unexampled unanimity throughout
tlie St..te i:i favor of the separate, and early se
cessic» c.f South Carolina, either with or without
co-operation: and as w r e are well satisfied that
there is a serious division among the people upon
the subject, we coneeive it to be a sacred duty
we ow ; e to ourselves, our country and our poste»
rity to place our opinions upon record, and if by
our counsels, or example we can aid in saving
the State from entering upon the dangerous ha
zards of separate action without any prospect of
_ration of sympathy from our Southern
we shaf feel that we have discharged a
C tilemii duty, and “ done the State Kane «rvice.”
801 a J™ taL more solicitous that moderate and
A ji t enamels should prevail because it is in*
t v. a f the Southern States are destined, at
evitable to become one grand confederacy
an early P%”~“’c tates , without the necessity of ,
lit pponttern which they regard as |
premature and calculated to defeat the great mea
sure we seek to carry out.
We are not the supporters or apalogists of the
compromisers, we think the South has been deep
ly wronged by the adoption of these odious mea
sures, we are not for acquiescing in them, nor do
we oppose separate secession for any such end.
we are for resisting them by any and every prac
tical means, which has been, or may be devised
but we believe that no efficient redress can be’
obtained without the co-operation of other slave
States, whose interests are now and whose desti
ny, in every respect, must ultimately be the same
as ours.
W e expect most confidently to obtain co-opera
tion, not only in consequence of the aggressions
ol the past, but from the emboldened spirit of fa
naticism all over the North in the daily perpe
tration of new outrages.
We have confidence in the patriotism of our
brethren of the other Southern States, and as
they are a high minded spirited people, no rea
sonable fear need be entertained that they will
sink down tame and willing acquiescents in the
wrongs of the past, or idle and indifferent specta
tors of the outrages of the present, and the pros
pects of shame and humiliation in the future.
We merely state our opinions without entering
into a discussion fully of the reasons which bring
us to the conclusion, that under existing circum
stances South Carolina cannot with wisdom or
prudence secede from the Federal Union; but
when the prospects for co-operation brightens,
when other Southern States will give assurance
of their readiness to dissolve their Union with the
Northern States, our hearts will leap with joy.
and our voices join in a hearty amen to the joy
ful tidings.
Ist Be it therefore Resolved, That whilst we
are in favor of resistance to the late unjust and
odious legislation of Congress, known as the com
promise measures, in the most efficient form, we
are opposed to the separate secession of South
Carolina as being inefficient and utterly inade
quate as a remedy for past wrongs, or a security
against more threatening dangers in the future.
2d Resolved, That the co-operation of other
States in the South, have with us a common ori
gin, institutions and destiny, is indispensable to
the perpetuation of African slavery, and that all
honorable means should be used by South Caro
lina to produce unity, concert and harmony with
other Southern States in any organized plan of
resistance to the encroachments of the Federal
government.
3d. Resolved, That the final determination of
this question by the State convention after its
adjournment should be submitted to the people
of this State for approval or disapproval at the
ballot box.
4 th. Resolved, that the destiny of South Caroli
na is our destiny, and that we will use all the
! means placed in our power to avert the evil of
J separate secession at this time, and a reckless
| dissolution ot the ties that unite us with our
brethren ol the South, whose origin, interest and
destiny are inseparably linked with ours.
ANDREW *J. HAMMOND, Pres 7 t,
C. W. Styles, Secretary.
We shall express no opinion as to the merits
of the arguments used by the advocates for, or
the opponents to, separate state action in South
Carolina. That is a question to be decided by
the people of that state. They have the right to
decide it and to act for themselves upon that de
cision.
The Chronicle says:
‘"We had the pleasure of being present’ 7 at the
meeting “that afforded us much pleasure. 77
It says again:
“We look upon this meeting as a harbinger of
better times in South Carolina. 77
Now, what is it that affords the Chronicle so
much pleasure ? It is true the meeting declared
its opposition to secession by South Carolina,
without co-operation on the part of some other
state, or states. But it declared at the same time,
a grand southern confederacy was inevitable , and
added that the premature action of South Carolina
was calculated to defeat that great measure which
the meeting said “tee seek to carry out: 1
Was the pleasure of the Chronicle derived from
this part of the proceedings ?
Again, the meeting declared that the south had
been deeply arranged by the compromise measures
which it described as odious —it expressed its
determination not to acquiesce in them and its
readiness dissolve the Union if co-operation can be
obtained. The meeting stated further that if
such co-operation and dissolution of the Union
could be effected “their hearts would leap with
joy and their voices would join in a hearty amen to
the joy ful tidings. 11
Perhaps this was the source of the Chronicle’s
pleasure! For one moment look at the beautiful
consistency of the Chronicle. Meetings have
been held in Georgia to declare and defend the
rights ol the South. They did not recommend a
dissolution of the Union either with, or, without
co-operation. They did not recommend the for
mation of a Southern confederacy, and, yet, the
ChronicleJdenounced them as disorganize s , Disu
nionists and other very terrible beings.
Notwithstanding all that, we find it expres
sing the pleasure it experienced in witnessing
the proceedings of a meeting that did recommend
DISUNION AND THE FORMATION OF A SOUTHERN
Confederacy.
It praises the efforts of Messrs. Owens and
Boyce, and says: Byway of encouragement to these
two gentlemen (Messrs. Owens and Boyce.) all
others who think with them we would say go on in
the discharge of your duty to your country. 11 You
have truth and patriotism on your side, 11 %-c.
We hope these gentlemen will not sink under
the kind and fostering patronage extended to
them by the Chronicle & Sentinel. We feel a
delicacy in tendering them our services in any
way whatever, but to do away a false impression
• that might be made in some quarters, w'e take
occasion, to state, that we, also, were present,
and heard their speeches, and if a single submis
sion sentiment, if a single statement indicating
a disposition to acquiesce in the compromise mea
sures, fell from their lips we did not hear it.—
They opposed secession by South Carolina with
out co-operation, it is true. Their speeches were
marked by intellectual ability and imposing ar
gument, but they exhibited no abject submission
to insult, outrage and wrong. What lovely con
sistency the Chronicle manifests, in charging
Georgia Southern Rights men with being dis
unionists and traitors, while it compliments J
Messrs. Owens and Boyce, and tells them to go
on they have truth and patriotism on their side.— j
What confidence can be placed in such a journal.
Again, in the very article in which it says they j
have truth and patriotism on their side, it also ;
says, “He (Mr. Owens) was in favor of a Southern j
confederacy and all, or nearly all of the arguments |
that he brought forward against separate State j
action, in our opinion, were equally good against !
a Southern contederacy at the present writing. 77 j
Now mark, the Chronicle calls this a meeting of ;
i the people, says that such as Mr. Owens and Mr. i
! Boyce, will meet and vanquish the disorganizes ;
I By their truth and patriotism and yet, says, that
■ all their arguments against the seceders, were
j equcdly good against a Southern confederacy; that 1
is, against their oum scheme. Os course then, in I
■ the opinion ot the Chronicle, those gentlemen I
; battered themselves while demolishing the se- ;
; ceders, notwithstanding they had truth and patri- j
| otism on their side. |
But we take leave of the simplicity and capti
' vating consistency of the Chronicle, observing,
that it is artless without being innocent, and con
sistent mainly in absurdity and error,
j While noticing these proceedings, we will take
occasion to express the pleasure we received at
Miiledgeville, from the general expression of
sympathy with South Carolina in her indigna
tion at the insult and wrongs which have been
heaped upon her, in common with her Southern
sisters.
We feel bound to state, however, that the
friends of South Carolina in that convention
(all were her friends) with very few exceptions,
preferred, that she should not be hasty in seced.
ing from the Union, but await future develope
ments. We make this statement because it is
the truth, and it is proper that our gallant and
patriotic neighbors across the Savannah, should
know the sentiments of their friends in this and
other Southern States.
We will add, in conclusion, that should they
see proper to leave the Union, they will do so
with the ardent desire of every Southern Rights
man in Georgia, for their prosperity and happi
ness. If, in that event, the sword should be
drawn to shed her blood, thousands of men and
millions of money will be ready to sustain her
against inhuman tyranny.
(From the Liverpool Courier , 14 th ult.)
The Cotton Trade.
Sir : In the present state of our cotton mar
ket, the question of supply and demand, which
under ordinary circumstances, regulates the value
of each article, seems to have been totally lost
sight of. Cotton, which a few months ago, when
the crop in the United States was estimated at
j 2,100.000 to 2,200,000 was thought cheap at
i 7 l-2d., is now selling at 5 l-2d. or less; and,
judging from the eagerness exhibited to sell, the
lowest point has not as yet been reached. The
causes which have led to this decline are known
to all. At the beginning of April it became
evident that the American crop had been under
estimated; a general desire to sell arose; but, be
fore this could be accomplished to any extent, the
market gave way seriously and rapidly. Cotton,
the petted cause of our prosperity last year, is
once more shunned and distrusted to an extent
that must inevitably cause disaster. At such a
juncture, the following figures may be useful to
many of your readers:
The stock of American cotton in
Liverpool on the 9th of May was, 411,000 bales
Os the same description in other
ports of the same kingdom, 22,000 do.
Quantity afloat and unreported in
dock, by New York list of 23d
April, i 140,000 do.
573,000 do.
do.
According to the New York list of
23d April, the stock of the U.
States, was 537,000 do.
If the crop be 2,300,000. they would
still receive, until 31st of August, 322.000 do.
859.000 do.
This quantity will probably be disposed of in
the following manner:
The United State will require for
their own consumption, 185,000 bales
The exports to France and other
ports, will be, if equal the same
period last year, 155,000 do.
The stock usually remaining on Ist
September, is, 140,000 do.
480,000 do.
Leave for Great Britain 379,000 do.
859,000 do.
Thus with the quantity of 573,000 bales, as
shown above, and the prospective shipments of
379,000 bales, we have a
Supply of American cotton, till Nov. 30, 952,000 b.
On turning to the question of demand, we
have no reason to suppose that, with the mode
rate prices now ruling, and an acknowledged
healthy state of business in Manchester, the con
sumption of American cotton should not again
reach the medium of former years, let alone the
extension of mill property which has taken place
since, and is still continuing. We accordingly
find, by referring to the trade circulars of former
years, that the consumption of American cotton.
In 1845, was 24.598 bales weekly. *
In 1846, “ 24,528 “
In 1847, “ 16,595 “
In 1848, “ 22,264 “
In 1849, “ 24,609 “
In 1850, “ 21,197 “
If we except from the above the year 1847,
when the trade of the manufacturing districts
was interfered with by difficulties in the money
market, and the year 1850, when the decrease of
American threw the consumption on other kinds
of cotton, we find the average consumption of
American, during the last six years, to be 24,000
bales weekly—if to this we add the probable
quantity required for export, which to equal that
of last year should be at the rate of 3,800 bales,
but which we will take at 3,500 bales—we ar
rive at a weekly demand of 27,500 bales, which
it is obvisious the supply would not be able to
satisfy without reducing the stock on hand to
150,000 bales. Let those of your readers who
are holders of cotton, consider the plain obvious
facts, and if they have the effect of arresting the
course of puerile folly which many are now pur
suing, the object of the writer will be attained.
Your 7 s truly, ANTI-PANIC.
England in America. — lnteresting Documents
—There are in the possession of a private gentle
man of Washington some twenty volumes of
manuscripts, purchased at an auction sale of old
family relies, which contain a comprehensive
history of English proceedings with reference to
Spanish America, including portions of both the
Northern and Southern halves of the Continent
and the Spanish West Indies. Most instructive,
curious and rich are the developments of political
morality in private instructions to the comman
dants and admirals having charge of the English
forces stationed on this side of the water, osten
sibly to guard the colonies, but in reality to look
out for the growth of the British dominions as
occasion might offer.
In 1739 a proposition was made to the then
Premier, the Duke of Newcastle, by Col. J.
Hamilton, to take Cuba—an acquisition repre
sented to be of immense value and importance—
with little expense to England. He proposed
to raise ten thousand troops in the colonies, to be
subsisted by them upon the requisition of the
home government; and with the aid of two men
of-war to be sent from England he thought the
thing could easily be done. The troops were to
land at Matanzas, then an unprotected port, and
march upon Havana. The men-of-war were to j
appear at the same time in the harbor of Havana.
Being thus besieged by sea and land the Spanish
could easily be starved out, should an effort to take
the city by storm prove a failure. Just at the
time this proposition was made, England was
negotiating a treaty with Spain, but the plan
was to put all the blame upon the colonies. The
I scheme fell through at the time, but thirty years
| after it was carried out precisely as indicated,
I and fourteen millions of specie were taken from
I the Cuban treasury. Spain obtained a treaty as-
I terwards and got the Island back, but not the
: money.
The intrigues of the English Government to
| obtain possession of the Isthmus and other
| portions of Central America present a his
tory of great interest. Two admirals were con-
I tinually employed a la Chatfield in this business.
; We understand that portions of these documents
! are being prepared for publication. The book
| will be interesting in many points ofview, parti-
I cularly as showing what a cats paw T England
once made of her American colonies.— N. V.
j Herald.
, ■
Hunt’s Merchants Magazine for may states the
I almost incredible fact that the exports from San
; Francisco are larger than from any other city in
j the United States, not excepting even New-
York, and that in imports and tonnage it stands
amongst the very first. When we reflect that
three years ago it was a miserable little village,
containing about fifty mud huts and tw o hundred
poverty stricken inhabitants, the above facts are
almost beyond belief.
Sad Casualty—Amputation. —We regret to
learn that on yesterday, a lumber train on the
Macon & Western Rail-Road rati off, killing a
pegro, apd crushing the left arm of Mr. John
lomlmson, of this city, so that amputation was
indispensable. This delicate operation was tier
formed, we understand, by Dr. D’Alvigny, of
this city, assisted by other physicians whose
names we nave not learned, in the short space of
two minutes. 1
The patient is said to be doing well.—
Republican, 4th inst,
' '> « ' * » - ■ . ? +.l , ■ ,
The two Brothers. —lt is not many years
since two young men. without means, started in
life. They were both brothers, and both printers.
Both were Democrats. Both subsequently aban
doned their profession—after having earned pub
lic confidence in the editorial chair—and since
then they have pursued almost the same career,
and, though resident in different States, seem to
have gone together, filling nearly the same pub
lic positions, andnvinning all hearts by the gen
tle suavity and steady consistency of their char
acter and conduct. Both are still very young
men ; and yet it is more than probable that both
will in a few months rise to the gubernatorial
chair of Pennsylvania, the California of the At
lantic, and California the Pennsylvania of the
Pacific. The brothers alluded to are William
; and John Bigler, now the conceded favorites for
i the highest honors of their respective States, and
i the admitted choice of the democratic party in
, each. The parallel will no doubt be completed
! when each is, as each will be, chosen to fill the
| posts for which they are candidates. Their past
j history is a guarantee that they will go on, with
t equal march, and unfaltered devotion, in the ful
! fitment of their highest duties,
j There is in this picture much of encouragement
!to the poor young man. Both of these Brothers
' Bigler started life without money, and almost
I without friends. No academic honors crowned
i their earlier manhood—no luxurious habits ener
vated their frames-no wealthy friends encouraged
their first essays in life. In the battle of the
world, they fought with no weapons but those fur
nished by their own indomitable energies. In
the struggles for subsistence, they gleaned more
knowledge from man than from books: while in
.the acquisition of money, came also the golden
opinions of friends. Let the young man, who
would despond over his own future, take heart
from this example, and try to imitate the two
brothers. — Pennsylvanian.
Mormon Progress. —The progress of the
Mormons is like the gathering snow ball. Mr.
Taylor, one of the Mormon missionaries sent out
from the Salt Lake Valley, writes from Europe
that two large establishments are fitting out in
London for the city of Salt Lake. One comes
out for the purpose of manufacturing broad and
other cloths, vestings, merinos, alapacas, and other
fabricks of that description, together with shawls,
blankets, flannels, &c. The other establishment
spoken of comes out for the purpose of manufac
turing sugar from the beet root, on the same prin
ciple as in France. These will require a great
deal of mac' iaery, which it is contemplated to
bring out, tog iter with men to work it, the ob
ject being to manufacture everything to be re
quired in the vadey, so as not to be necessitated
to purchase it elsewhere.— Cleveland Herald.
Interesting Astronomical Fact. Two
persons were born at the same place, at the same
moment of time. After an age of fifty years,
they both died, also at the same spot, and at the
same instant, yet one of them lived one hundred
days more than the other. How was this possi
ble ? Not to keep our friends in suspense, the
solution turns on a curious, but with a very little
reflection, a very obvious point in circumnavi
j gation. A person going round the world to the
| West, loses a day, and towards the East, he gains
i one. Supposing, then, two persons born at the
| Cape of Good Hope, whence a voyage around the
| world may be peformed in a year; if one per
form this constantly towards the West, in fifty
one years he will be fifty days behind the sta
tionary inhabitants; and if the other sail equally
East, he will gain fifty days in advance of them.
One, therefore, will have lived some 100 days
more than the other, though they were born and
died at the same place, and at the same moment,
arid even lived continually in the same latitudes
and reckoned by the same calendar.
Sir John Franklin. —lt was six years on
Monday last, since Sir John Franklin sailed from
j Sheerness on his dangerous expedition, and the
| chances of his safety at the present time are but
| slight indeed. In a letter written by Sir John
j to Col. Sabine Drake, dated Fish Islands, 9th Ju
j ly, 1845, after noticing that the Erebus and Ter
| ror, two of his expedition, had received from the
| transports which accompanied them to that point
j provisions, clothing, fuel and stores for three
years, namely to July, 1848, he thus proceeds:
" I hope my dear wife and daughter will not
be over anxious if we should not return by the
time they have fixed upon, and I must beg of you
to give them the benefit of your advice and ex
perience when that arrives, for you know well
that even after the second winter, without suc
cess in our object, we should wish to try some
other channel, if the state of our provisons and
the health of the crew justify it.”
A jealous woman in Boston, learning that her
husband had hired a buggy to go out riding, and
believing he was going an airing with another
woman, watched him, and when he passed down
Washington-street, climed up behind his carriage,
and clung there with a nervous grasp until she
fainted and fell off into the street. She was
picked up and taken to the Marshal’s office. She
was beautiful, and elegantly dressed. The gen
tleman quietly drove to the stable and" put up his
team.
Race between a Man and a Horse. —The
St. Louis Intelligencer of the 22d ult. says the
race over the Prairie House course yesterday, be
tween Jackson, the “American Deer,’’ and the
trotting horse June Bug, resulted in favor of the
former. The provisions of the race were, the
horse to trot ten miles whilst Jackson ran five
miles six hundred yards. The horse made the
first five miles in fourteen minutes thirty-three
seconds, but soon after began to “let down,”
and was withdrawn at the close of the eighth
mile. Jackson went his distance inside of twen fcy
eight minutes.
The Governors of the Bank oLEngland possess
the largest lump of California gold yet received
in England. It was dug out of an alluvial bank
at Carson’s Creek, on the Stanislaus river, in Au
gust, 1859, by an Irishman named John Hughes,
of Ardglass, near Downpatrick. It is a wa
ter worn specimen, and weighs 18 lbs.- 3 oz. 8
grs; and its value as a specimen is about £I,OOO.
Practical Satire.— At Syracuse on Satur
day, a fat negro woman, rigged out in the new
style, with a dress reaching just below her kness
flowing trowsers and a gipsy hat, with streaming
ribbons, promenaded the streets, attracted con
siderable attention. The dress was given her by
some young gentleman of the city. 3
Outrage on an American Vessel.— The brio-
Lady Chapman arrived here from Cienfuegos re
ports that the ship B. Aymar, from New York
on coming into the port of Cienfuegos received a
shot through her side from the fort without any
warning having been given. It being after sun
set, was the only excuse for the act.— Baltimore
bun.
Alligator Story. —The following letter
says the Jacksonville (Fla.) News, from “old
Moses, a tree negro residing on Lake Monroe
to his sister residing in Jacksonville, we give
th * onrinai in our possession.
This is the first well authenticated instance we
have ever met of an alligator attacking a grown
‘truki \ hl u ?T, er: if it k a d not been for that
little hatchet, - poor ‘•Mose 75 would not have
lived to tell the tale. Long uiay he survive to
spht open ’ more heads of the same sort;—
[Charleston Mercury.
Mellonville Fla May 14 1851
Dear sister I must this day take my Pen in
hand to infrom you of my misfortune; Last
monday was a weak ago I was going to Lake
Jesaup and was out in the water and a very
Large alagator caught me by the Leag and ankle
woned me very Bad in deed I am at the Lake yet
1 had Liked to bleed to deth it was don a bought
10 oclock in the day on monday and it was not
stoped untell next day, and if it had not bin for
a litle hatchet was in the Boat he would of kill
ed me but the first think that got hold of was that
litle hatchet and I split his head open With it
Deer sister I must com a close I was well be
fore this actcedent.
I am your affectionate Brother
To Juda, MOSES FABER.
CONSTITUTIONAL! ST.
Jtopsto, ©forfliu,
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 6.
Southern Rights Nomination for Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD, of Cobb County.
02?“ Some inaccuracies occurred in yesterday’s
issue, incident to the great labor of an entire
change ol type. We ask a little indulgence on
this score.
Astuteness Extraordinary.
Commenting on the Consolidation Unionists’
proceedings in their Convention of Monday last,
the Chronicle £f Sentinel says, referring to the issue
of the right of a State to secede :
“ Nor will they permit themselves to be drawn
aside from the consideration of the great ques
tion at issue, by any intriguing effort to intro
duce speculative theories upon abstract proposi
tions—the determination of which are not per
tinent to the present canvass.
“ The issue now distinctly presented to the
people of Georgia, is Union or Disunion, and they
are expected to decide accordingly.”
If the issue be Union or Disunion, then the
proposition, has a State the right to secede ? is not
an aostract one. The theory that a State has the
right, is not merely speculative, but practical,
and its determination is pertinent to the present
canvass. If we adopt the grammar of the Chro
nicle., we should say the determination of this
theory are pertinent to the present canvass.
The Editor of the Chronicle Sentinel has the
faculty of putting contradictory assertions to
gether in close proximity, and in few words,
to a degree not easily surpassed.
The fact is, the right of a State to secede,
whether the issue in Georgia he “ Union or Dis
union ,” or not, is a question pertinent at all times
and of great practical importance to the people of
Georgia. They may never desire to exercise the
right. But let them deny the right, or remain
silent, and thereby acquiesce, while the right is
emphatically denied by anti-slavery Federalists
at the North, and Submissionists at home,
and the State presents herself, tied hand and
foot, completely in the power of the anti-slavery
majority in Congress. She virtually places hal
ters around the necks of her citizens, and tells
the IN orthem people wielding the Federal arm,
to hang them up like dogs, if they dare resist
aggressions, however atrocious.
A state, calling herself sovereign, would gross
ly stultify herself by such a course.
The Hamburg Meeting.
When we saw a notice of a political meeting
in South-Carolina, at wliich the Editor of the
Augusta Chronicle f Sentinel was present and de
rived pleasure , we were very curious to see an
authentic account of its proceedings. We are in
debted to the Augusta Republic of yesterday for
it, and transfer it to our columns.
The ridiculous attitude assumed by the Editor
ot the Chronicle <s• Sentinel , in reference to this
meeting, its proceedings and its speakers, is
shown up by the Republic with cruel accuracy.
We can add nothing to the grotesque and ab
surd picture.
\Vri cordially unite in the kindly sentiments
of the Editor of the Republic , towards South-
Carolina, and corroborate his statement in re
ference to the sympathy felt for her by the
members of the great Southern Rights party of
Georgia.
Our views coincide with those of the Ham
burg meeting, on the impolicy of separate seces
sion by South- Carolina. We consider that
Messrs. Butler, Orr, Burt, and others of her leading
statesmen, have demonstrated this unanswera
bly. We have felt that it was not our province
to assume to advise on the subject, or to argue
the question, though'taking a deep interest in it.
South-Carolina fully competent to decide it
for he rself, and might not relish foreign interfer
ence, however kindly meant, in a question which
is with her a domestic question, and to be deci
ded simply upon its merits as affecting her own
happiness and prosperity. We believe her deci
sion will, alter lull discussion and mature reflec
tion, he against secession.
But should her decision be in favor of the ex
exercise of a right we deem unquestionable,
while deprecating it, in advance, as unwise and
suicidal, we shall denounce, as we do now, all
hostile interference with it, from any quarter,
and shall fervently desire that her most sanguine
hopes of increased prosperity and happiness may
be realized.
Major Jones.
Let those who are prepared to enjoy a good
laugh, go to Concert Hall to-night. The verita
ble Major Jones, and Mary Stallings, make their
first appearance to-night, in the Local Comedy of
Major Jones, or Scenes in Georgia. There are
some local hits in it wliich the citizens of Au
gusta will especially relish.
Two better representations of the “ Major” and
Mary Stallings,' could not be found in the whole
role of dramatic performances, than that of Mr.
Weaver and Miss Sinclair. Mr. Weaver per
sonated the charrcter of Major first at Bernurris
where the piece was originaly produced, with
immense success.
Augusta Made Barouche.
The admirers of fine vehicles can be gratified
by calling at the Carriage Factory of Mr,
Hulbert. He has just completed for a gentleman
in Burke county, a Barouche—a gem in that
line—which, in style and finish, and in all its
appointments, is not easily surpassed. This is
one of many vehicles manufactured by Mr. Hul
bert, all of which have been much admired. Let
us encourage our own Mechanics.
Inquest,— Coroner Walker held an inquest on
the 4th instant, upon the body of Thos. Burns,
found dead on the bank of the canal. The ver
dict of the jury was that his death was caused
by intemperance,
Large Dividend. —The Directors of the Plan
ters’ Bank of Savannah, have declared a divi
dend of eight per cent, on their profits for the last
six months, being at the rate of sixteen per cent
per annum.
High Interest.— The Savannah Georgian
states that at a meeting of the Mutual Loan As
sociation of that City, held on the 2d inst., three
thousand dollars were loaned at from 40 to 41 per
cent, premium,
[com munioated.]
Mr, Editor: Allow me through the medium of
your valuable paper, to call the attention of the
proper authorities to the fact, that a Negro School
is in operation in this city, on Ellis street,
CrEORGIAN. I
- ; -iKf* * * V. j | ** -
Southern Rights Meeting in G-wmnetts
At a respectable meeting of the SgutlWilil
Rights Party held in Lawrence vi lie. on th& Virst
Tuesday in June, Capt. George Reid wassailed
to the Chair, and W&rxen W. Kicker, requested
to act as Secretary.
On motion of Henry P. Thomas, the Chair
appointed a Committee of Five, consisting of
John C. Whitworth, Henry P. Thomas, Kenan
T. Terrell, Merit Camp, and John A. Born, to
report the names of two suitable Delegates from
each Militia district in the county, and four from
the county at large, to meet with the Delegates
from Forsyth, at any time and place that may be
specified by them, for the purpose of nominating
a Southern Rights candidate to be run for
Senate, in the counties of Gwinnett and For
syth; and to appoint Delegates to the Congres
sional Convention for the fifth district.
During the absence of the Committee, J. M.
Young, Esq., a Delegate to the Gubernatorial
Convention, reported to the meeting the action
of that body.
The Committee returned and reported the
following Delegates to the Senatorial Conven
tion ; which report was adopted for the county
at large: Kenan T. Terrell, Charles H. Smith,
Thompson Allan, Merit Camp.
Town District—John T. Smith and John E.
Craig.
Berkshire District—Mark Miller and Thomas
Sanders.
Cate’s District—Thos. P. Hudson and Thomas
W. Cunningham.
Rock Bridge—Francis P. Juhan, and Wesley
Puckett.
Harbin's District—Richard Whitworth and
Wiley Bridges.
Goodwin’s District—Joseph P. Brandon and
Matthew Strickland.
Sugar Hill—William Scales, Williams.
Hog Mountain District—Rhoads Waldruff and
Milzer Strickland.
Cain’s District—Benjamin F. Fuller and B. B
Burroughs.
Pinckneyville—Thos. H. Jones and Jas. Wil
liams.
Johnson’s District—Zemri Brookes and Hiram
R. Williams.
Aud the following Delegates to the Congres
sional Convention:
Charles H. Smith, Col. N. L. Hutchins. Lv
mon F. Wilcox, and Kenan T. Terrell.
On motion of Kenan T. Terrell, it was re
solved that the Southern Rights Party of Gwin
nett county, approve of the proceedings of the
Southern Rights Convention held at Milledge
ville, and will use all honorable moans to secure
the election of Charles J. McDonald to the
Gubernatorial Chair.
On motion of K. T. Terrell, it was rescjjvetf
that the proceedings of this meeting be puM'slu
ed in the Republic and Constitutionalist , at
gusta, and the Southern Herald , at Athens.
On motion of H. P. Thomas, it was. reS olved
that this meeting now adjourn, to ieet on th
first Tuesday in July, for the pu, >se of
mg Southern Rights candidate* io be mn fnr tho
Legislature.
The meeting then adjourned.
w nr REID, Chairman.
Warren W. Kicker, Secretary.
The new and beautiful steamer Gordon which
mconjnnction Calhoun!
(which is neaitv finished) is shortly to run be
tween Savannah and this Port, taking the out
side passage, arrived at her wharf in this city yes
terday afternoon on an excursion trip, after a
pleasant voyage of seven hours and a hall' She
returns thur evening, at nine o'clock. We re.
ceived the Savannah Republican of yesterday
morning, by her from which we copy the fob
lowing paragraphs:— [Charleston Courier.
Late from Havana.— Theschr. Midas arr i v
ed here yesterday in five days from K la y a ‘ '
Capt. Hagerdon informs us that the I;.; la '“| „ as
quiet at the time he left (98th nit.) and lie dU
not hear that, any further arrests ty.,| | K . ei[ r , j
1 he government were on the WY T
as a report was current in H tfV Ma"that°hi <0 S?
to leave New-Orleans wiV« i V he waa
eral steamboats. Cap*, H trtul m S 6V ‘
late papers but was to do H 1 *™"
(From the Savannah Scpuhlimn, 4th inst)
Late from Havana.-tL schr. Midiurriv
Capt Hagerdon intorms us that the Island was
up to the time he left (2Sth ult.) a * id he
made 0t Th that any further arrests had, been
made, Ihe government were on the fook out
or Lopez as a report was current in Havana
bat he was about to leave New Orleans with a
lor a e foice in sevaral steamboats. Cant H
blelo do P so. CUre S ° me late ***** but was 1111 a *
this dtyf fr ° m a Commefcial lettei ' received in
, ~ . .Hava naa, May 26.
• , e ,S uote Molasses as in our last, 1 3.4 a 0
rials. The 300 casks Rice per Ar-u* and Inn
per Sea Gull, are still unsold. 1 heVtter vessel
arrived on the 23d mst. We have no a'mvals^
P. P. Lumber to report. y OU rs truly.’?
Arrival of the Alabama.— The fine steam
ship Alabama, Capt. Ludlow, came up to her
Yo h rk y o^h ay rT" 1 ? in , 6 ' 3 hoilrs New
s orb. On the ~d, at oA. M., 60 miles S. W of
.Jhin FWida 0 e Th h e an A ge i l SlgUals with the steam
ship blonda IheA. brings out twenty cabin
passengers, eleven steerage, and a good freight -
Savannah Republican , 4th inst.
The Chatham Mutual Loan Association had
a meeting last evening, and made the following
loans:—$1. 000 at 42 per cent; SI,OOO at 44; SSOO
at 42; and S6OO at 43 1-4. This company was
the last organized in the city, and has stiU a few
shares to dispose of.— lb.
The Mexican news which we published yes
terday 1S of vast importance. The Mexican Con’
gross has, by large majorities, declared Garay’s
Tehuantepec grant forfeited, and rejected the
treaty which was ratified, on the part of our Gov!
ernment, at the Executive session of the Serial
alter the adjournment of the last Congres* '"ft
is stated in the journals received, and m
letters, that the Mexican Minister w'„.o nelotiat-'
ed the treaty is in much fear of imneachnw
Mobile Tribum, 31st idt. impeachment.—
• rT received~by the ager
in th& City, that Capt. Peck was yesterday ur
mously appointed by the Directors, to tak'e com'
mand at the Albatross, vice Capt. Nob»' e
ed by the Secretary of the Navy, to tV& s ™hin
Lexington.— Charleston Courier , ry k Shl ß
Prir nD c X p~fl n Tuesday last, about 2 P. M
Edwin, R. Gould, a native of New Village I nmr
J S |f n w (Ne m York - fell from the jib-boomof the
chr \\ m. Tyson, in Ashley River, while in the
act ol lurhng the jib, and w’as drowned. As he
was not seen to rise agein after reaching the wa
ter no assistance could be afforded him. The de
ceased w’as about 22 years of age.— lb.
WHITE WINE VINEGAR,
£/ ) QR. casks White Wine VINEGAR, iand
*JVJ mg and lor sale by A. LAFITTE
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