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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
iY JAMES GARDNER, JR.
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The Shadow-Life.
We have forgot what we have been,
And what we are we little know;
We fancy how events begin,
But all has happened long ago.
Through many a verse life's poem flows,
But still, though seldom marked by men,
At times returns the constant close;
Still the old chorus comes again.
The childish grief—the boyish fear—
The hope in manhood’s breast that burns;
The doubt—the transport and the tear—
Each mood, each impulse, oft returns.
Before mine infant eyes had hailed
The new born glory of the day,
When the first wondrous morn unveiled
The breathing world that round me lay—
The same strange darkness o’er my brain,
Folded its close mysterious wings,
s The ignorance of joy or pain,
That each rocurring midnight brings.
Full oft my feelings make me start,
Like foot prints on some desert shore,
As if the chambers of my heart
Had heard their shadowy steps before.
»Sc, looking into thy fond eyes,
Strange memories como to me as though
Somewhere —perchance in Paradise—
I had adored theo long ago.
[ From the Marietta Advocate, Extra , June 10.]
Gov. McDonald’s Acceptance.
Marietta, June sth, 1851.
~ T^f& Messrs. Wiggins, Howard, Jones , Gardner, and
Lamar , Committee.
M ak Gentlemen :—I received, to-day, your letter
’ informing me of vny nomination, as a candidate
for the office of Governor of the State of Georgia,
by “ Southern men, democrats and whigs,” re
cently assembled in Convention at Milledgeville,
and asking my acceptance. A call, thus made,
Ido not feel at liberty to decline. With my pro
found acknowledgments to the Convention, for
the confidence implied in the nomination, I as
sure you, as its organ, that if its selection should
be ratified by the people, every obligation im
posed on me by the constitutions, State and
Federal, and the laws enacted in conformity
thereto, shall be faithfully fulfilled.
You will permit me to say, that the voluntary
sacrifice of old party feelings to the cause of con
stitutional freedom, as evinced by the proceed
ings of the Convention, affords the most gratify
ing evidence that the party of the Constitution
is determined to sustain the Union of the States,
on the principles on which our venerated ances
tors, with the blessing of God, established it. On
no other foundation can it stand. If the beauti
ful principles of equality and justice on which it
rests, are disregarded and set at naught, what is
there to bind the affections of the people to it ?
The habitual violation of these principles by the
Federal authorities, whenever the interest of the
Soui hern planter is to be affected by their action,
has shaken the confidence of many of the good
citizens of the country, in the disposition of the
General Government to respect the constitution
al rights of the people of this section of the
Union. In no instance has there been a more
flagrant and fatal violation of them, than in the
adoption by Congress of the measures referred to
in the seventh resolution of the Convention. It
is claimed for them that they are a compromise.
It is a fraud upon an injured people to call them
so. The proposition was made in the Senate by
a Senator from Kentucky, known to be favora
ble to the gradual abolition of slavery in his own
State, and entertaining the opinion that the law
of the Mexicans, prohibiting slavery, became a
law to their conquerors, and over-ruled their
laws and political regulations by which slavery
is tolerated. It no where appears that the mea
sures were concerted with Senators holding diff-
ferent opinions, and representing interests to be
affected by them. They were referred to a com
mittee of thirteen, on the election of which a
bare majority of Senators voted. The report of
the committee varied, in some degree, the propo
sition of the Senator; and put in the form of an
offer of compromise, amounts to about this: “If
the Southern States will give up all pretension
to the erection of a slave State on the Mexican
territory; if they will agree that Texas shall sell
an immense territory on which, according to the
compact with her, a free State cannot be erected
without her consent; if they will permit territo
rial Governments to be erected in Utah and New
Mexico, with the understanding that the Mexi
can laws are of force there, and as effectually
\ exclude slavery therefrom as the Wilrnot Provi
\ so, if enacted, could do, then the said territorial
Governments shall be erected on principles of
non-intervention; and more efficient laws shall
be enacted for the execution of the provision of
the constitution by which fugitives from service
or labor are required to be delivered to their own
ers/’ But even this proposition, when made as
a compromise —a proposition by which the South
was to surrender every thing—all right, now and
forever , to the territories of the Union, as a con
sideration that a clear constitutional engagement
should be fulfilled, was rejected. On what prin
ciple could it have been rejected but on the
ground that the dominant majority in Congress
'teas unwilling to pass it as a compromise—& bar- 1
gjjin not to be violated—>a law not to be repealed
or altered ? It is no answer to say that the mea
sures embraced in the proposition were after
wards amended and passed. On the contrary, it
establishes the position; for the same majority !
that amended them as separate measures, had the i
power to amend them as they came from the !
committee of thirteen. The serious resistance |
made at the North to the execution of the fugi- j
tive slave law, and their election of Senators and
Representatives on pledges that they will insist
ozj its repeal, or essential modification, so as to !
destroy its value as a remedy, under the consti- j
tution, prove that it is not regarded there as a !
compromise. But if it be a compromise, it is a
compromise by which the interests of the weak- '
er party are sacrificed. The rapidly increasing
slave population of the South is pent up; there
is no outlet for it. The slaves are to remain!
here and the work of the abolitionists is to be
accoinplished, either through the vast multiplica- |
tion of the race, or by the change ol the constitu- ■
tion to be affected by the early formation and
admission of free States into the Uuon. Con-
Xrationshke these, induced me as one of my
State’s representatives, in the Southern Conyen
tion to endeavor to bring about united action
on thfpSt of the States interested m this great
subject to arrest the progress of usurpations,
which,’if continued, must result in the over-throw j
liberty and the subversion of.
the Union.—A demand of their rights, embracing
but the equality and justice guaranteed by the
Constitution, made with firmness and moderation,
by all the Southern States united as ohe man,
must have exerted the happiest influence.—ln
my humble judgement its effects would, ere now,
have been seen in its fruits of justice in the Gov
ernment, and peace and harmony among the
States and the people. But this could not be ac
complished; and the Avrong having been done,
each State must judge for itself without consul
tation with the rest in the matter. Georgia, in
advance of her sisters, has met in her sovereign
capacity, and her people have determined, to pre
termit the outrage committed on her rights, by
the admissioh of California into the Union as a
Btate with her highly objectionable Constitution.
Thistney have done, not from any affection they
have for the measure or the policy which dictated
it, but from their extraordinary forbearance and
encouraged to hope, too, by the agreeable procla
mation of some of their sentinels on duty, that
all s well. —Their decision ought not to be dis
turbed, however much it may conflict with in
dividual opinions. In a Government of law and
order, such decisions must be considered authori
tive. They are the will of the people. If the
people have authority to say, that they will resist,
and to determine the extent of that resistance,
they have the like authority to say that they will
not resist. This principle I hold to be incontro
vertible, and necessary to the safety and happi
ness of mankind.
The right or a State, in virtue of its indepen
dence and sovereignty, to secede from the Union,
whenever the people thereof, in their sovereign
capacity, shall determine such a step to be ne
cessary to effect their safety and happiness, flows
nesessarily from the nature of our Govermental
organization. The Government of the Union
was formed for the purpose of protecting the
States, and people from loreign aggression and
for promoting justice and peace among the States
themselves to the same extent, and in as ample a
manner as each State might have secured these
objects for itself and its people, by treaty or other
wise had it retained its sovereignty. It is a Gov
ernment for protection, not for offence. Each
State came voluntarily into the Union for these
objects; and if the Government fails to give this
protection and security, it follows, that the State
has the right to take care of itself. This is no
new principle. Three of the States, New York,
Virginia and Rhode Island, on coming into the
Union, declared that the powers of the Govern
ment may be re-assumed by the people, whenev
er it shall become necessary to their happiness.
It thus became a condition of their adoption of
the Federal constitution.—The people ol Massa
chusetts in their hill of rights, (embodied in their
constitution,) declare that the people alone have
an incontestable, unalienable and indefeasible
right to institute Government and to reform, al
ter, and totally change the same, when their pro
tection, safety, prosperity and happiness require
it. The State of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver
mont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana,
Mississippi, Alabama and some others have adopt
ed the same principles in substance. The States
of New Hampshire, Maryland and Tennessee,
have each declared in its constitution, that “the
doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary pow
er, is absured, slavish, and destructive of the good
and happiness of mankind.” Upon the principle
of the right of resistance and the right of seces
sion from the Union, the people of Georgia through
their delegates, recently met in convention, have
declared that the State in their judgment, will
and ought to resist, even to a disruption of every
tie which binds her to the Union, any such action
of Congress as is mentioned in the resolution, con
taining the declaration. But inasmuch, as the
people of Georgia have determined, solemly, in
Convention, that from none of the past wrongs
of the General Government, however aggravated
they may be, will the State exercise this unques
tionable right, it is sufficient to consider it as set
down by our people, as a political axiom, to be
acted on, whenever in their judgment, the evils
of the Union, more than counterbalance its bene
fits.
The constitution is the compact of Union, and
our safety depends on a strict construction of it.
It is to our country, what the bible is to the
Christian, and a departure from it will he fatal to
our political security. But we cannot be blind
to the fact that for some time past little respect
has been paid to it, and that the tendency ol' the
Government is to consolidation. We must re
turn to its principles as expounded by the apostles
of republicanism in ; 98 and '99 or our noble fabric
will fall to pieces. Let us do all, we can as a
State to preserve it. Let us insist on the full
measure of justice to ourselves, for a people who
do not value their own rights, need not hope that
they will be respected by others. We must use
the means in our power, and they are abundant,
to enlighten the public mind, bring education to
the door of every man, trusting to the ministers of
our holy religion to spread the principles morali
ty and justice among our people, and having
done all that depends on human effort to pre
serve the glorious Constitution of our ancestors,
hope for the blessing of God upon our exertions
as the means of saving the Confederacy on the
terms and in the purity, it was His good will it
should be established.
I have the honor to be gentlemen.
Very respectfully yours.
Charles j. McDonald.
The Turkish Costume for Ladies.
New York, June 6, 1851.
Mrs. E. Jakes Smith, the champion of the
pantalette reform in female dress, had a large au
dience last evening at Hope Chapel. She de
nounced the present costume as in every way in
convenient and unbecoming, debarring , the* sex 1
from out door exercise, unless in sunshine.
The new style advocated by the lecturer is the
adoption of the T urkish trousers, with a tunic
and an outer garment fitting closely to the breast,
having long sleeves, buttoning at the wrists, and
furnished with deep pockets, leaving the arms
free, and the frame unennutnbered. The dress
was commended in such a graceful and winning
manner, and] she was so frequently interrupted
by applause, that it is probable she will effect a
blaze of novelty yet along Broadway,
In regard to tne graver aspect of the case, an
intelligent physician, in the Boston Journal, who
is competent to speak from books as well as ob
servation, comes out strongly in favor of some
such change as highly necessary to health and
care, and respectable heads of families do the
same in some quarters. The remarks of the Bos
ton physician are quite judicious, and he begs
those ladies, who entertain the intention of being
pioneers in this reform, to be deliberate, and not
to injure what is good, and prejudice many
against their cause, by carlessness of taste, or by
going to unnecessary extremes. On the score of
convenience and health, the writer says:
‘Tt would be more healthy—particularly if the
reiorm were carried a step furiher, and a dress for
the waist adopted, in which a lady could pick
cherries without splitting a sleeve off, and play
at battiedoor without an expenditure of hooks
and eyes. The material could be better adapted
to the season. It could therefore be made cooler
in summer, and warmer in the winter than at
preseut. The trousers would be the essential
part ofthe habitual dress; the skirt an addition
lor grace and propriety, Comfort, therefore
would not require so frequent a change of the
latter as is now necessary: while with the former
at little trouble, (and therefore not so liable to
be neglected as now.) muslin might give way to
merino, or this to cassimer, to suit a momentary
demand of out-door exercise, or a change in the
weather. Damp skirts hanging, as is often the
case, for the hour, about the feet and ankles,
would be done away with; whilst the latter, clad
in an appropriate boot, would be as independent
ofthe weather as those of the men. A still
further, and possibly more important considera
tion, under this head, is the following, to which I
ask especial attention. Either to obtain the
necessary warmth, or to attain a greater elegance
of lorm, the skirts now worn are multpiled great
ly in number, besides being of heavy material,
weighing—though it rnay astonish some of my
lady readers themselves when I say it— lo, 12
and 13 pounds! All this weight is supported by
the hips alone, producing two serious evils: First,
the drawing strings around the waist have to be
very tight, to prevent the skirts from slipping
down; and tnus a compression is produced and
continually kept up, which must embarrass the
organs within in the exercise of their functions.
But, besides this source of trouble, the weight of
the skirts is continually operating to force down
wards the organs within, only covered by the
partially resistant but pliant walls of the abdo
men. The advantage, technically speking, with
which this weight acts, would be readily under
stood by any one having a knowledge of me
chanics, and, when understood, the frequency of
those distressing affections peculiar to the sex,
is perfectly explained—affections which seems
to make half our women prematurely aged, and
entail on many an existence to which death would
be preferable. It is no wonder, under tjiis view
of the case, that there should be such a demand
for abdominal supporters and variously contrived
trusses, nor for the inefficiency of such contri
vances when they have to act, not simply
against the gravity of the organ they are intend
ed to support, but against the downward pressure
of w-eight so placed as to act mechanically to the
utmost advantage.”
Opening of the South Western Railroad
to Fort Valley. —On Saturday last the cars on
the South Western Railroad, made a trip as far
as Fort Valley, a distance of 27 1-2 miles. It
was the occasion of an invitation from the direc
tors of the road for the citizens of Macon to a
picnic prepared by the citizens of Fort Valley,
at the opening of the Railroad, for business, thus
far. The day was one of the most pleasant of
the season, a fine shower cooled the atmosphere
in the morning, and the clouds obscured the sun
during the greater part of the day. The com
pany numbered five or six hundred from Macon,
many ladies making up the part. At the station
at Fort Valley, the company were welcomed by
twice their number of ladies and gentlemen,
with heart-felt greetings and entertained in a
sumptuous manner. The party from Macon were
received by Dr. Green, who made a chaste and
friendly address, which was replied to in a very
happy manner by Col. Reynolds, President of
the Company. The remarks of each of the
speakers were received with applause by the en
tire company. The train returned at five o’clock
in the evening, the company being highly pleased
with the excursion. The road being completed 6
miles beyond Fort Valley, the citizens who con
gregated at that place were entertainad by a ride
on the cars to the end of the road, returning to
Fort Valley. Good music was provided for the
occasion, and the company amused themselves in
the gay and giddy dance. Altogether it was a
new ere in the history of Fort Valley, and one
long to be remembered.
Seventeen and a half miles of the road remains
to be completed to Oglethorpe,—the road is en
tirely graded, and the superstructure finished with
the exception of about three miles, which is ra
pidly progressing. The iron is being laid
at the rate of 5,000 feet per day. The bridge
across the Flint is finished and ready for the iron.
It is calculated that the road will be in good run
ning order from Macon to Oglethorpe by the 4th
day oi July, according to the estimate of Mr.
Bailey, who is laying the iron under the general
superintendence of the President, Col. Reynolds
and George W. Adams, Esq., General Superin
tendent.
The completion of this road will add another
link in the great chain of communication be
tween the interior of Georgia and the sea-board,
and cannot fail to unite more closely the interest
of the two sections. The connection with the
Central Road by a bridge across the river at Ma
con, of the South Western, as well as the Macon
and Western Road, must add much to the busi
ness of Savannah. It is right and proper that
such should be the result, as the people of Savan
nah are largely interested in the South Western
Road.
Fort Valley already numbers thirty or forty
houses—there are several stores, and two very
good hotels. We will mention likewise that the
societies of Masons, Odd Fellows and Sons of
Temperance have each respectable Lodges in
the place. Further improvements must take
place in a short time, when the connection is
made with the Muscogee Railroad from Colum
bus. The situation is decidedly healthy, being
situated, instead of in a velley, on the highest
ridge between the Flint and Ocmulgee rivers.
The connection of the roads at Macon is in
rapid completion. The trestle work is comple
ted to the river on the east side, the coffer dam
is settled ia the river for the building of the pier,
and knowing ones have predicted that the shrill
whistle of the engines of the Central Road will
be head on the west side of the Ocmulgee soon
after the 4th of July. The grading on the west
■ side to connect with the South Western Road, is
nearly completed. The grading for the connec
tion with the Macon and Western Road is also
rapidly progressing.
Soon after the 4th of July, we may safely cal
culate the roads will be connected at Macon, and
cars loaded at Chattanooga will deposit their
freight, without re-shipment, in Savannah. The
Central Road, by increasing their facilities of
transportation, will add much to the profits of
the stockholders, as well as to the interests of the
citizens of Savannah.— Sav. Georgian.
(From the Southern Patriot .)
The Hampton Massacre. —ln our route to
Spartanburg Court House the other day, we pass
ed near by where occurred in the Revolutionary
war a bloody massacre. The bodies of General
Wade Hampton’s father, mother and brothers lie
buried in Spartanburg District on the waters of
Tyger river, where they were most treacherous
ly murdered by the Cherokee Indians at the com
mencement of the Revolutionary war. Anthony
Hampton, the father, with his wife and daugh
ter, Mrs. James Harrison, and his sons, Preston,
Henry and Edward, moved to Spartanburg Dis
trict about the year 1774. At the commence
ment of the troubles between the Colonies and
the mother country, it was a matter of deep con
cern to the inhabitants on the frontiers of South-
Carolina, that the Cherokee Indians should not
engage in the war. In order to secure their
peace, Preston and Henry Hampton made them
a visit and formed an acquaintance with their
chiefs and head men. But they had already
been seduced by the British Government, and
about the time that Henry Clinton and Sir Peter
Parker made their attack on Charleston, they
commenced their incursions on the frontiers of
the State.
The Indians approached Mr.'Hampton’s house,
and some of the head men were recognized by
Preston Hampton. As he extended to them the
hand of friendship they slew him to the ground,
and immediately afterwards they killed Mr. An
tony Hampton, his wife and a little grand child,
the infant of Mrs. James Harrison. A lad, by
the name of John Bynum, was taken by the In
dians from Mr. Hampton’s and adopted as their
son. He remained many years with them, and
was afterwards restored under the treaty of 1777.
Immediately after this massacre, Col. William
son raised a large body of militia and marched
into the Cherokee Nation and destroyed a large
number of their towns and settlements.—Henry
Hampton killed, with his own hand, an Indian
warrior who had his brother Preston Hampton’s
coat on in the engagement. Edward Hampton,
at the time of the massacre, was at Baylis Earle’s,
on Packolet, whose daughter he married. In this
way he escaped the massacre, but was himself
afterwards shot by the “bloody scout” in his own
house. Edward Hampton was a bold cavalier,
and one ol the best horsemen of his age in South
Carolina.-—General Wade Hampton was, at this
time, in North Carolina.
Ewpement from California.— -The Pana
ma Herald relates the following case of elope
ment : r
, an Francisco, on the morning of
the sailing of the Tennessee, was quietly seated,
reading over the list of passengers who had en
gaged passage for Panama, when to her astonish
ed sight there appeared the name of her husband
in the list! Could she believe her own eyes ?
She knew that her husband’s trunks were pack
ed, and that he had informed her w he was oblig
ed to go to Sacramento on business which would
detain him a few days.” Startled and convinced
by the truth, thus manifested to her, she conclu
ded to open his trunks, where she found SB,OOO
in hard cash. This she divided—taking $3,000,
and leaving $5,000, the “ lion’s share,” which
was exceedingly generous on her part. In due
time the affectionate husband bade her good bye.
telling her he would be back in three or four
days, and little suspecting that she was not only
cognizant of his villany, but that out of his
means, she had provided amply for herself. He
left—went on board the Tennessee—came to this
city, and is now on his way to New York, whilst
his deserted wife is rejoicing to think that she
has so easily got rid of such a contemptible
wretch as. his conduct proves him to be.
AUGUSTA, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING-, JUNE 12.
For Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
Hi?" Our friends will confer a us by
handing in their advertisements by five o’clock,
in the evening.
Judge McDonald’s Acceptance of the Nomination.
We present to-day to our readers the reply of
the Hon. Charles J. McDonald to the Committee
appointed by the Convention to notify him of
his nomination and requesting his acceptance.
He accepts the nomination. This announce
ment will cause trepidation in the ranks of the
Consolidation Unionists. One of its papers has,
in advance, with amusing insincerity, expressed
regret at his nomination, because he is not strong
enough. It, and others of the same stripe, will
have occasion to regret it for exactly the opposite
reason.
This letter of acceptance will doubtless be as
bitter to the taste of the Consolidationists as is
the nomination. They would like it better if it
were a more fire-eating document, and gave
them some tangible ground on which to set their
stereotyped charge that he is a per se disunionist.
The only hope of defeating him is dependent
upon the success with which the charge is sus
tained. We are content to let this issue be tried
upon the record of Gov. McDonald’s past life—
his written opinions, his speeches and his acts.
It will be found that if all Southern men had en
tertained his views of the Union, of its principles
and of its duties—of its uses and its value —if all
Southern men had shown the same enlightened
love for it, and of their rights as well as their
duties under it, there would have been no dis
union among us, and no fear of it.
It will be found that if disunion should ever
result from the arrogance of Northern aggression,
which will drive the Southern people .out, as a
measure either of self-defence or of self-respect,
it will not be such Southern Rights men as
Charles J. McDonald, that have caused that ne
cessity. It will be chargeable to the demagogues
and their deluded followers who have encouraged
those aggressions by singing hosannahs to the
Union instead of standing up for their rights
under it, and firing from that “ masked battery ” at
the Southern men who would defend them. If
those political leaders who would now denounce
Gov. McDonald as a disunionist, had been half
as true to the South as he, the South would have
had no cause for complaint—the humiliation of
the Compromise with which the Northern people
are so much delighted, would not have been
fastened upon us—she would not have suffered
exclusion by a high handed fraud, from the com
mon territories: All the Southern people would
have felt that their equal rights in the Union
had been respected, and the Union would have
continued embalmed in the hearts of our people.
The true enemies to the Union, in the South,
are those who, from sinister motives, or in the
vain hope of allaying Southern excitement, and
checking Northern aggression, assented to the
Compromise and denounced their fellow-citizens
who opposed it, as disorganizers and disunionists.
This course has given aid and comfort to our
enemies, who at each fresh aggression upon us,
will look to their Southern Unionists again to
aid them by their galling fire upon Southern
Rights men, from behind their “ masked bat
teries.”
On the right of secession, Gov. McDonald is
explicit and to the point. He holds that it is
the right of a State by virtue of its independence
and sovereignty , to secede whenever the people there
of, in their sovereign capacity, shall determine
such a step to be nacessary to effect their safety
and happiness—a right which flows from the na-
ture of our governmental organization.
On this point, as upon the merits of the Com
promise, as a measure of justice to the South,
which Mr. Cobb holds to have been wise, liberal
and just, Gov. McDonald and Mr. Cobb are an
tipodes. The latter denies the right of seces
sion, and holds that a State attempting to exercise
it, ought to be coerced back into the Union by
Federal bayonets.
On both of these points we do not doubt that a
large majority of the people of Georgia, democrats
and whigs, are with Gov. McDonald, and that
if they follow the guidance of their unbiased
judgments, they will so record their opinions in
his triumphant election. This fair expression of
their sentiments can alone be defeated by the de
lusive arts of demagogues and the parasites of
F * ' 'ral power.
Concert Hall Theatre.
The bill offered to-night to the patrons of the
Drama is a good one, and we hope will draw a
full house. Not the least attractive feature of
the occasion will be the appearance of an Ama
teur—a young gentleman of this city, as Sir
Charles Coldstream in the amusing play “Uused
Up.”
Those who attend, will, we dare say, spend a
pleasant evening, and will at the same time be
bestowing a substantial kindness, in a quarter
where it is needed and will be gratefully appre
ciated. '
The Crops. —The Natchez Courier of Tues
days 3rd instant, says that the crops throughout
that section of country are beginning to suffer for
want of rain. It is three months since there :
has been any rain, excepting in small showers.
Emancipation of Slaves.— A provision has
been adopted by the Virginia Reform Conven
tion, in Committee of the Whole, prohibiting the
Legislature of the State from passing any law for
the emancipation of slaves.
The Southern Standard. —The prospectus
of a new daily morning paper with the above 1
name to be published in Charleston, has been !
issued by B. C. Pressley, Esq. The Standard
will advocat a Southern Confederrcy.
To Correspondents.
We have received many communications for
our paper, some of which we will feel constrain
ed to decline publishing, and others to curtail. It
|* s one the many embarrassing duties of an
1 Editor to reject the written favors of his po
! titical friends, or to take liberties with them in
publishing them. But his position requires that
he should do so, " without fear, favor or affec
tion,” having in view, only, the great cause in
which they unite in striving to promote.
We are gratified to find, by our letters from
various points in Georgia, that the nomination
of Ex-Governor McDonald, is hailed by our
Southern Rights friends—Democrats and Whigs
—with great cordiality.
The old line Democrats who believe in State
Rights and strict construction, and the State
Rights Whigs who have ever eschewed federal
ism and consolidation, are coming fraternally
together to sustain, in Georgia, the Republican
principles of ’9B and ’99, as set forth by Jeffer
son and Madison. They cordially approve the
Democratic and Southern Rights platform, which
re-affirms those principles and adopts those re
solutions.
From a communication from Oglethorpe coun
ty, which is quite enthusiastic at the nomination
of Ex-Gov. McDonald, and the harmonious pro
ceedings of the Convention which has put him
before the people, we extract the following:
* * * * *
“ We cannot, for the life of us, see how a single
old States Rights man or a Republican Demo
crat, can find it in his heart to support men and
measures now , which in ’32, the loudest and
deepest curses were uttered against. Can he
forget his declarations of “ utter and unchangea
ble hostility to all men and measures ” calcu
lated to subvert the principles of our Republican
form of government ? Can he forget how he
fought a National Bank, Internal Improvements
by the Government, and against every thing
which even wore the shape of antagonism to
State Rights and State sovereignty ? And now,
we see a party, in the good old Republican State
of Georgia, professing to believe that the Gov
ernment can, constitutionally, force a sovereign
State into subjection, and whose candidate not
only concedes the right to the General Govern
ment, but in the event of whose election, would
lend himself to be the tool to order out the mili
tia of Georgia—not to defend our lives, our
property, and our sacred honor—great God, no!—
but to endeavor to coerce South-Carolina, or any
other Southern State into submission ! Is it not
evident that the course of the submissionists will
assuredly end in the most abject and craven
hearted submission to every act of aggression
hereafter, as heretofore, made upon the rights of
the South ?
*****
“ Political demogogues and tricksters get be
hind “ masked batteries,” and sing cooing songs
of “ Union! Union /” But what sort of Union
do they mean ? Is it a Union of free and inde
pendent sovereignties vrho have only delegated
certain powers, with the proviso of withdrawing
those powers when subverted by their servant,
the General Government, or is it a Union with a
consolidated Government in a Federal head ? Is
there a single man in Georgia who requires us
to answer these questions ? Do not their avowed
Federal sentiments fully give the negative to
the first and the affirmative to the second ?
*****
u Like the mark upon Cain—the pigment in ,
the skin of the African, or the spots on the leo
pard—no doubling and twisting, no scrubbing
and scraping, no dodging and diving—can alter,
change, or eradicate the mark that sticks to Fed
eralism.
*****
lo the young men of Georgia, we earnestly
appeal—those who are just coming on the
stage of action—those who will soon have the
responsibilities of government resting upon their
shoulders. Their destiny, for weal or woe, may
turn upon the events of the present campaign
they may live to see the day when this Govern
ment may be one of consolidation—may be, in
form, a Republic—but in fact, a despotism. It
behooves them to ponder these things in their j
hearts—consider well what the State calls upon !
them to do—and make their selection. May
wisdom guide their and all our steps.”
Kaufhy.
Iced Soda.
Those who avail themselves of this delightful
beverage to counteract the effects of dust and
heat, will be rewarded by a visit to Moise’s Soda
Fount. His new Syrup, Nectar Syrup is hap
pily named, and deserves a trial.
Illness of the Hon. A. H. Stephens. —The j
painful intelligence reached this city yesterday
that the Hon. A. H. Stephens lies critically ill
of Chronic Diarrhtea, at his residence in Craw
fordville.
Accident to Senator Dawson.—— We regret
very much to learn that the Hon. Wm. C. Dawson
had the misfortune to get one of his legs broken
just above the ankle, a day or two since, at his
plantation. His horse was hitched to a rail
fence, being restive, jerked down a rail which
struck Col. Dawson on the leg and broke it.
The celebrated soldier Polowaski, wha was
127 years old, and resided at the Hotel du Inva
lided died in Paris on the 6th ult., by an attack
of[pleurisy. The funeral of this man of four
monarchies and two republics was attended by a
vast number of people.
from Camphine. —An interesting
child, about eight or nine years of age. daughter
- ; r - Ensl °w, was on Saturday sevfrelv
burnt by the explosion of a camphine lamp A
male servant was attempting to fill tV,Ai P ‘ c
te, it had been lighted. anSMe chiU trlZt
prevent his doing so, attempted to put it If
which tjme the explosion occurred. The furni
ture of the room also caught fire, which was
however, extinguished. The child, we under-’
j a Very CFitical «it»atio n.-Charks-
Census of census
I were up, the official returns from
California were wanting. The population was,
however, estimated at 200,000, and two repre
sentatives assigned to her in the list,
n a PP ears , however, that the population of
California was much overstated. By accounts
received yesterday, we learn that the marshal
has oniy reported about 117,000 as the number
of inhabitants in the State. This being so, Cali
fornia will not be entitled to more than one Re
presentative in the House of Representatives
with an inconsiderable fraction. There will then
be sixteen members to be distributed to the States
having the highest fractional numbers. This
would give South Carolina six members, instead
of five, as the fraction ot that State is the next in
order in the table unrepresented.— N. O, Pic.
... *► * . .....
pi) Jtluprtir Cclfjirapf).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
LATErTfROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL
OF THE STEAMER
AMERICA.
COTTON MARKET FIRM.
A despatch from our Charleston correspondent
dated, June 11th, announces the arrival of the
steamer America. Her advices represent the
Cotton market at Liverpool as being firm, with
sales of 51,000 bales. The quotations are the
same as per Asia.
The political news is unimportant and dull.
Charleston, June 11, P. M.
Cotton — Sales to-day 800 bales, at 6 to 10 cents.
The higher qualities have an upward tendency.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.)
New York, June 10.
Arrival of the America-.
Cotton firm. Sales 51,000 bales. The Ameri
ca, which left Liverpool on the 31st ult., arrived
at Boston on Wednesday [?] morning. Cotton
was firm at the same rates that were prevalent
at the sailing of the Asia on the 24th ult. The
quotations are for Fair Uplands 5 3-4 d., Orleans
6 l-2d. The sales of the week amounted to fifty
one thousand bales, of which exporters took five
thousand. In the Havre Market, on the 28th
ult., Cotton declined three to four francs. Sales
had amounted to 3000 bales. The stock on hand
was 16,000 bales. Ten ships, however, were
then due. Flour was less saleable. Corn had
slightly declined, but was in good demand. Su
gar had declined 6d. For Molasses there was an
active demand. 2000 packages Tea had been
sold at a decline of one penny. Rice was in fail
demand at 18s. 3d. to 18s. 6d. Rosin was salea
ble at 3s. Id. Turpentine was in demand at 7s.
6d. Tobacco was quiet. Money was active,
and Consols were quoted at 97 3-4 to 97 7-8.
United States stocks were quiet, but firm.
In the British House of Commons, the debates
on the Ceylon question had terminated, and Min
isters had obtained a majority of eighty. The
debate on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, was pro
gressing. On the evening of the 27th ult., the
Protectionists held a Banquet in the town of
Tamworth, which is near the residence, and
formerly was represented in Parliament by the
late Sir Robert Peel. The people rose to dis
perse the meeting, and broke the windows of the
Hall, wherein the Banquet was held, &c. The
military were eventually summoned to quell the
riot.
The Continental news is unimportant.
Baltimore, June 10.
Second Despatch.
The America arrived at Halifax on the 10th
instant, Tuesday. Cotton was firm in Liver
pool. The sales of the week amounted to 51,000*
bales, of which speculators took 6000 and expor
ters 9,000. The quotations were Fair Uplands,
5 3-4 d.; Mobile, 6d.; Orleans, 6 l-2d. Breadstuff
were unchanged. Sales at Havre during
week amounted to 3000 bales, and the s f oc j- on
hand to 116,000. Rice was unchang r . d ‘ c on _
rols were quoted at 97 7-8. The pf ntical news
is unimportant. The manufactiur districts are
dull.
nll . , r,. , y -Baltimore, June 10.
Third Dispatch. Lord J ohn Russell’s Ministry
had been sutained in tJy e British House of Com
mons, it having obt'air.ed a majority of eighty on
the motion of Mr.. B ayley relative to the Ceylon
question. It is therefore safe for the remainder
ot the session. A great riot occurred at the Pro
tectionists raeeting at Tamworth. Money had
improved. The crops were promising. The
Woald s F*uir was immensely attended. The
Continental news was unimportant.
[Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.)
Boston, June Bth.
Dreadvul Massacre by an Insane Man.—
Last eve ning a dreadful tragedy occurred in Rox
bury. A young man, a stranger from Maine,
called on Dr. A. J. Cummings, complaining of
feeling unwell; The Dr. being out, Mrs. Cum
, mings invited the stranger into the parlor, who
j after seating himself complained of a severe pain
jin his side. A moment afterwards Mrs. Cum
; mings's little daughter came into the room, when
j the stranger sprang up, and in a moment’s time
j seized the unfortunate innocent, drew a razor
from his pocket and cut her throat from ear to
ear. Mrs. C. in a frenzy rushed forward to save
her child, when the murderer turned upon her
and severly cut. her in several places. Mrs. C.
then fled and 7ound refuge in a neighbors. The
assasin wound up the horrid tragedy by cutting
his own throat and expired on the spot. The
unfortunate girl died immediately. The man is
supposed to be Ephraim G. Daggett, an insane
patient from Hope, Maine.
New York, June 7th.
Deaths by Yellow Fever. —Six deaths from yei-
I low lever occurred on hoard the barque Win.
Larrabee, which arrived to-day from RioJJaneiro.
One of the deceased is Mr. B. Howard, of Wil
mington, North Carolina.
New York, June 8, 8 p.m.
Late from Hayti. —Advices have been received
from Hayti to the 22d of May. The ]>olitieat
news is of no importance. Coffee was scare#'
and very high.
St. Louis, Jup p7
1 remendous r load and Damage. —The r .-j. u„
overflowed the entire levee, and all grr “
are submerged. An immense amour trfnroduce
has been destroyed, and all busirr * i s P nearlv
suspended, ~ ss 1S neari y
innati June 6
*? e TT aVe in^ m ? ence . of a T /ery disastrous flood
in the Upper Mississippi d\ ld Wisconsin rivers.
A large portion of Fort W' ,nnebago is inundated,
and the surrounding cor Jntry comp i e tely over
flowed. Much damage has also been occasioned
on the Illinois river, ar ld several flouring mills at
Peoria have been swept away.
The Burlington (I owa) Gazette of the
states that all t he tributaries of the Mississippi in
that section are greatly swollen. The Mississip
pi at that poin t vras within eighteen inches of
the height of the. great flood of 1844
|£The river wa s staffing at Hannibal, and so
completely was: the country overflown that the
nv er was at lea st six miles wide for a distance of
more than fifty miles.
The accounts, from above represent immense
damage to have, been occasioned throughout.
rhe rivers of Minesota are very high, and still
rising.
n . Buffalo, June 7.
Collision cm Lake Erie. —The propeller steamer
w in i Ce^0n into the schooner Mackinaw, on
Wednesday night last, when ten miles off Cleve
land, and sunk in seven fathoms water. The
crew were all saved. She had a cargo of 10,000
bushels w’heat consigned to Oswego.
Richmond, (Va.) June 7,
Death of Young Saunders. —Passengers by the
boat irom Lynchburg, bring intelligence that
young Saunders, who was shot in a street fight
by the Editor of the Lynchburgh Republican,
died on Wednesday morning. Great excitement
prevailed in the town.