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Office np Stairs, over the Post-Office, j VOL. 2. s@w?pss° WHS?? b PuhUthed every Friday Mormng.jg the new Town o Oglethorpe, Jtiacon CoJmty.Ga., C. B. YOUNGBLOOD, Editor and Publisher. T£Rns<42 JPer Year in advance, RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar persqnare (of 12 lines or less) for the first nsertion, anil Fifty Cents for each insertion thereafter. A liberal deduction will be made to those who adver tise by the year. Advertisements notspecilied as to time, will be pub lied till ordered out and charged accordingly. OGLt?friORPE Candy Manufactory. AND CONFECTIONERY. WARREN JACKSON, H.is the pleasure of announcing to the public that he has opened in the .Citv of OGLETHORPE, on SUMTER St door South of the Brick Store of R. H Bims & Cos., a large and extensive tot of CONFECTIONERIES, Such as Candies, Cakes, Syrups, Preset* *s, Jellies, Jams, Pickles', Almonds, Rais.ns, Currants, Brazil and Hazil Nuts, English Walnuts, Apples, Oranges, Cocoa Nuts, j Bananas, Plaintains, Dried. Figs, Prunes, Ci gars Tobacco, Cheese, Crackers, Cordials, i Wines, for medical purposes, together with 1 OYSTERS, pickled and fresh, and FISH in j their season, and all other articles in the Con., fectionei v line. They will also MANUFACTURE, in the most superior style, and of the besj niateri-. ials, all sorts of CANDIES CANDY ORN/MfENTS, &r., and will neatly Emboss and Ornament : Cakes for B ills, Parties, and Weddings, at slum notice, and on as reasonable terms as any establishment in Georgia. As they intend doing Business strictly on ! the Cash Principle, all orders for anv of the above articles must he accompanied with | the € \SII, to insi re attention. In connection with their CONFECTION.. , ERY they intend keeping a regular and ‘ genteel, E \TING-HOUSE, and they will he happy at all times'to serve up to their friends, and the public generally, j H\M AND EGGS, OYSTERS FISH,, (intheir season,) GAME, HOT COFFEE; &c. Bv snict attention to business, and a ; d'-sire to- please, they hope to receive, as tlo-v will ende ivor to merit, a liberal share t of public patronage, Oct. 31,1851. | ToTre public. THE undersigned is prepared to execute in die most workmanlike manner, all work in his line, such as house building, Gin Gearing, Screw building, Mill writing &c, on as reasonable terms as any other work man in South Wesl Georgia. All letters ad dressed to him in Oglethorpe Ga, will re ceive prompt attention. ALEXANDER SMITH Oglethorpp; May 14, 1852 4—ts FAMILY GROCERY STORE. THOMPSON 1 & PEEL, RESPECTFULLY inform theirfriends and the public generally, that they keep constantly on hand a full assortment of J Family Groceries, such as Flour, Bacon, Lard, Butter, Cheese, Sugar, Coffee, Salt, Molasses, Syrup, Rice, Mackerel, Corn Meal, &c., together with every variety of Spices, Fruits, Nuts, &c. Also, Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff, and many other articles too tedious to mention—all of which they will as low as any other establishment in the city. Call and try them—store on Cuyler street. May 7,1852. 3 ly S.&D.MILLER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, HAVE removed from Lanier, and will Practice in the Superior Courts of the Counties of Macon, Sumter, Marion, Dooly, Houston, Crawford, Bibb and Twiggs, and in the Supreme Court at the city of Macon. STEPHEN F. MILLER, DANIEL W. MILLER. January 16, 1852. 39-ts. BACON, CORN Jc MEAL!! A LARGE and superior lot Tennes see Bacon, Corn and Meal in Store, and for sale by McDonald & willis. Oglethorpe, June 15, 1852. 9 — ts S. A. THORNTON Dfiitnl Itirgnm, ; OGLETHORPE, GA. ‘ fIFFF.KS his Professional services to the citizens of | ” Oglethorpe and vicinity. Office at Dr. Iverson’s op Ladies can be waited on at their residence. Oglethorpe, dec. 12,1851. 35-ls. Jj ®l)£ 00tiif)~tttet #Cor§kn Gen. Fierce’s Denial. The following correspondence which we find in the Washington Republic, of the 14th inst., embraces a letter from Gen. Pierce exculpating himself from the charges founded upon the published re* port from Ins New Boston speech, (which we published some weeks since) will com mend itself to public attention. The let ter gives his own version of his position on the slavery question : Washington, July 17th, 1852, -TTea Sir : Enclosed you will find an article in which, as one of the editors of Southern Press, of this city, l took issue with mv colleague in advocacy of your claims to southern support for the Presi dency. That action was predicated up on my belief of yoor entire soundness up on the slavery question. Within the last week a speed), purporting to have been delivered by you in January last, has been republished from two Democratic papers iu your own Stale, (which are said now to support you.) On tile truth or falsity of this, much depends. Neither j those with whom / act, nor myself, can consent that any doubt should rest on a | matter of such importance ; but, placing full reliance on the fearless frankness of ! yffur character, on-their behalf ar.d my own, I respectfully ask of you. whether that report which yotir southern support ers believe to be without foundation as opposed to your previous course is cor /ect ? The peculiar position which / occupy must plead my apology for troubling you , with this letter. I Very respectfully, your obedient ser- I vant. EDWIN DE LEON. General F. Pierce, Concord, N. H. | ‘Concord, N, H„ July 23, 1852, ; My Dear Sir : Surrounded ing engagements, / seize the earliest op portunity to reply to your letter of the 17th instant. I much regret that anv thing connected with myself should have t been the cause of - disagreement between ; you and gentlemen with whom you liaye ; been associated in Fite editorial depart ment of the Southern Press, I do not . remember ever to have seen what pur j ports to be a report ol a speech delivered ] by me at New Boston, in this Stale, in January last, until my attention was call ed to it as republished in the Republic. — The pretended report is, and I presume was designed to be, an entire misrepre sentation. his not merely untruthful, but is so grossly and absurdly false as to render, in this vicinity, any denial of its authenticity entirely unnecessary. The two papers quoted ; the Independent Democrat, published in this place, and the Democrat published in Manchester, —are thoroughly abolition journals ; and have been and are zealously opposed to the Democratic party. For a longtime prior4o the meeting at New Boston, and ever since, they have been unsparing in their attacks upon me personally, and in I their bitter denunciation of what they have been pleased to term my pro-slavery sentiments. Bn’ it would be something new for either of these papers to deny the consistency of my opinions upon the sub ject of the constitutional rights of the South in relation to slavery. My opin ions and the avowal of them have been everywhere the same. Ever mindful’ of the difficulties-and dangers which so long brooded over the assemblage of wise men and pure patriots to w hose spirit of con cession and earnest efforts we are indebt ed to the Constitution under which we haye enjoyed such signal prosperity, ad vancement, and happiness, / have regard ed the subject as too vital and delicate to be used as an element of sectional appeal in party conflicts. My action and my language in New Hampshire, touching this matter, have been at all times and under all circumstances in entire accor dance with my action and language at Washington. _ My votes in the Senate and House of Representatives weie not republished in the Era for the first time. They have been again and again paraded to arouse the passions and prejudices of our people against me individually, and against the party with which it lias beet) my pride and pleasure to act. There has been no attempt to evade the force ol the record. It lias been at all times free ly admitted, and my position sustained upon grounds satisfactory to m/ own mind. lam not surprised to ItMow that the attempt to prove me an abolitionist provokes much merriment antfmg men of I HORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 1852. OGLE r all parlies here ; and this weak and un.- truthful sketch of what purports to be inv speech, is really too ridiculous to be con. sidered in any serious Jiglit. / am in the daily receipt of letters, pro pounding tlte greatest variety of curious questions upon all conceivable subjects. Letters of this character cannot be ans* wered, of course. No individual could command either the time or strength the herculean task would require. I may add, that such a correspondence would by no means comport with my views of duty. The Democratic party sent its delegates to Baltimore not alone to nom inate candidates, but to reaffirm princi ples and to present the leading tssuhs up on which the canvass should be conduct ed. If I could deem myself capable of irm i proving tile platform there adopted, it is i quite certain that I should decline, either > at the call of individuals or associations, to incur the charge ol arrogance to which any attempt tq,alter, amend, or enlarge it, would inevitably subject me. Your letter is of an entirely different character, It seeks truth in relation to an alleged fact ; it speaks of history, too searching an appeal cannot be made. 1 appreciate (lie estimate you seem to have of my character for directness ; and beg you to accept my thanks for your efiot is to vindicate my claim to that trait, at ; least, before the public. / am, with high esteem, your most obe dient servant, FRANK PIERCE, i Edwin DeLeon, esq., Washington D. C. Spirit of the Georgia Whig Press. The Lagrange Reporter, edited by that most worthy divine and devoted pat riot, Rev. Alexander Speer, speaking of the nomination of Webster and Jenkins, says: “Tlte Convention has acted nobly, and , we challenge all men to say whether this . is not the. noblest ticket in the field, and whether these men would not be number one, even if there were a thousand others in nomination. Whether we succeed is not for us to say, our business is to do . right; to do the best for our countiy, and leave consequences to Providence. We . are proud of our nominations, and when we call their names, no sense of shame will color our cheeks, or cause us to hang our heads.” The Augusta Chronicle Sentinel . says:— “To-day we spread our banner to tlte breeze, with the names of Daniel Webster, , of Massachusetts, and Charles J. Jenkins ; of Georgiti, inscribed upon its folds, for the two first offices iu the Republic. They have been nominated in convention, by delegates representing those indepen dent freemen of Georgia, who refuse to abide the decision of the two conventions recently assembled in Baltimore—men distinguished, not less for conservatism and devotion (o all the great interests o/ the country, than for their sound national principles, and their determination to pre serve, as far as possible, the freedom ol the elective franchise. In the exercise of this high privilege they have risen sup/rior to the dictation of irrispqnsible contentions, and shaken off - the fetters with which those conventions sought to bind them; thus dis playing a degree of moral con rage, and earnet devoted patriotism, worthy the pur est days of the Republic. “Os the nominees themselves, we need not attempt any eulogium. They are known to the people of Georgia. The name of Daniel Webster is written in broad and legible characters on every page of his country’s history for the last tliiriy years. Eminently distinguished for the greatpowerofhis gigantic intellect, his profound scholarship, Itis enlightened, ele vated and liberal statesmanship and Itis sa gacious diplomacy, he has enrolled Ins name high upon the temple of Fame, and secured lor himself the proud distinction t of the great defender of the Constitution. Suclyis Daniel Webster, in whose bosom pulsates an American heart, whose feelings are American, and who, in his devotion. t(/lhe Union, ‘knows no North, no South, pD East, no West.’ “Os Charles J. Jenkins, the distinguish ed ciiiien.pure patriot,and profound states man, whojis placed on the ticket for the sec ond office j nothing that we can say will ele vate him in tlte estimation of the people ol Georgia. To them he is known—they are familiar with the purity of his private life-liis unsullied integrity, ardent patriot ism, sagacious statesmanship, and sincere devotion to the Union and Constitution. OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS OURS. A man, who, if he had never performed any other public act, has enrolled his name high among the conservative pa triots of the Republic, by giving to tlte world the platform of the Constitutional Union party, of which he was the author. He is eminently conservative in Itis prin ciples and feelings, and has no higher am bition than to preserve and perpetuate the Union and the Constitution. Such are the men who compose the In dependent Ticket—which combines more talent and capacity for the discharge of lire high and responsible duties of the of fices to which we would elevate them, than both the other tickets combined four limes over.” The NewTork Mirror is quite enthusi astic upon the reception given to Mr. Webster in Boston, on Friday. Itsays— * The oft repeated lie, of the political abolitionists, that Daniel Webster is not popular in Massachusetts, was answered yesterday by the firing of canon, the ring ing of bells, the waving of banners, and the spontaneous huzzas of hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens. Thirty thousand men marching in procession un der a burning July sun, with the mercury at 102 in the shade, while every house top and Itill-top was crowded witli count less multitudes of men, women and child ren, showed clearly enough that the heart of New England burns with pride and gratitude for her great and glorious son, who has shed immortal honor upon her name and history. Such an ovation was worthy of the man who received and of the men who bestowed it. Now is it not notoi iotts that the fierce advocates of Scott’s nomination were ihe very politicians who pursued Millard Fill more with a bitterness of political hatred and a vileness of political abuse unparall eled in our history; and simply because, they alleged, he had proved traitorous to abolitionism ? Is it not notorious that these same politicians run down Mr. Webster because he came out boldly and advocated a compliance witli all the pro visions of tlTfe constitution? /sit not notorious Ihtrt Wailliam H- fieward, the author of the higher law doctrine and tlie great leader of the freesoil forces, and the Ajax of the Scott party, is a bitter enemy of the compromise and is held in the high est confidence by tlie abolitionists ? Sut'li politicians as these are the bone and muscle of tlte Scott party. They piatle the nomination. They are tlte working men in its support, and are the ones who are to gain by success. Tlte country has its appropriate re wards for the varied services that its sons may bestimulataed to render. There are gallantry and good conduct on political fields as well as on battle grounds; and it is sometimes the case that those gilied with the courage and skill to meet an enemy’s charge in a conflict are weak and ineffectual before a demagogue’s ap*. peal, oran insidious and dangerous prin ciple as to civil affairs. General Scott has done service against the enemies of the country in the battle-field, and his country will ever hold him in honor for it; but lie has ministered to the fell spirit of Abolitionism, and is so much in the hands of the very authors of higher law princi ples, that a triumph of one w ill be the triumph of the other. Mr. Webster and Gen. Scott. The Boston Courier, now, and for many years, Mr. Webster’s organ, gives the public very clearly to understand that Mr. Webster will not support General Scott. We make the following extract fiom the Courier of the latest date : We see it constantly asserted, in vari.. ous Whig papers, in different parts of the country, that Mr, Webster will support the nomination of Gen, Scott, Decla rations of his are quoted to the effect that he lias always been a Whig, and alwavs will be one, to the end of his days. We have no doubt of it, in the sense in which siicli declarations were evidently made by him but we entertain great doubt whether those declarations w ill bear the construc tion which some persons now attempt to put upon them, That Mr. Webster will ever change his views as to the great prin ciples on which the general'government ought to be administered—-principles which were settled as the policy of the Whig party in the days of its purity and integrity, and which it owes, in a very large degree, to his influence—it were abstired to suppose. That he will ever do any thing to cause or iduce Itis friends to support or sanction doctrines which he and they have always opposed, or that he will ever retract any political sentiment that he has ever uttered, would he simply a tediculous assertion. “But that he is to promote or aid the success of the Whig party under the lead of the men who are now its assumed lea ders, notwithstanding tlte manner in which he has been treated—that lie is to use Itis great influence to give power and consequence to a class of politicians who have been the bitter opponents of the great policy of the compromise, which he periled so much to establish aod perpet uate that he will thus enable those men to overturn what it has cost him so much effort to build up ; and that lie will con sider himself bound to do so, because lie has said that lie is and always will be a whig, are suppositions, in our judgement quite as absurd as the idea of Itis changing his political opinions.” Gen. Pierce and John Van Buren- A dispatch to the Baltimore papers, da ted Concord, (N. II.) the 18th inst. savs: “A large party of the New Yorkers passed through here to-day for Hillsbor ough, there being an immense gathering ‘litre to-morrow. Tlte farmers ol Hills borough county, with their wives and children, are o tit cn masse to attend the re-union of the Bth regiment there to-mor row. Gen. Pierce will preside, and Gov. Seymour of Connecticut, Col. Clemens of Alabama, Col. Lully, and other officers w ho served under Gen. Pierce, will be in attendance. SECOND DESPATCH. “August 19.—The Hillsborough meet ing was addres-ed by . ohn Van Buren, Senator Dix, Governor Seymour of Conn. Col. Clemens and others. There were at least 25,000 persons present, and the greatest eniliusiam was manifested.” Join) Van Buren ex-Senator Dix are two of tiie most uncompromising Free soilers ip the United Stales; yet they are the chosen speakers at a meeting got up expressly as a complement to Gen. Pierce, and over w hich he presided. The New-York Express savs that Mr. Webster will leave Washington for Massachusetts in pigltl or ten days ; but the rumor again started that he contem plates the resignation of bis office, at that lime, is as incorrect as all the previous rumors. He is closely engaged not in the rouline of the Department, but iu Diplo matic affairs. The fact of Mr. Webster having directed a portion of his library to be sent to Marshfield, assisted by fertile imaginations, furnished the only staple for the rumor of his resignation. (EF* The Boston Journal is authorised I to state, ‘ Directly and authoritatively,’ that there is no truth whatever in the statement that Mr. Webster told F. A. Tallntadge, in New York, that he, Mr. Webster, was willing to give the whig ticket his cordial support. The storv appeared in the N. Y. Times, purport ing to be the substance of Tall nadge’s speech at a Lundy’s Lane Club, and is greedily seized on by the Srott Press as proof that ‘ Mr. Webster supports Gen. Scott.’ The agitators who support tlte military chieftain must wait ygl a season for Mr. Webster’s endorsement. Do they think there was no meaning in (lie grand Boston reception ofFridav ? Kossuth Conspiracy. —No less than 250 persons had been arrested iu Lom bardy previous iothe24ihof July, on suspicion of being privy to a conspiracy against the government, a cine to which was obtained by intercepting Kossuth’s letters. Trade with the Canadas. —At the opening of the next session of the Cana dian Parlament a hill will be introduced providing lor a reduction of the duties on imports via the St. Lawrence, and a protective duty on imports from the At lantic ports of the United Stales. Facil ities will he granted on some articles of western produce. The Montreal Courier says that on this hangs the question “how long will this colony belong to Great Britain !” The Boston Bee states that an address, in the form of a circular, will make its appearance in that citv to.day, advoca ting the election of Mr, Webster to the Presidency. It will be accompanied by the proceedings of the recent meetings of his friends lie LI in Fciieuil Hill. TERMS: $2 in Advance. Baltimore Commercial Convention The Cotton Plant says there is to be held, in December next, at Baltimore, one of the largest conventions ever assem bled in the South, for the promotion of Southern Commerce. The most exten sive arrangements have been made. It is contemplated to adjourn the meeting to Memphis, then to New-Orleans, then to Mobile or Montgomery, then to Macon or Savannah, then to Charleston, and then to Richmond, and so on. The Liverpool papers simply mention Kossuth’s arrival at that port, under the name of Alexander Smith, and his depart ure the same day for London. The Lon don papers are utterly silent concerning him. “Gen. Scott cannot obtain the vote of Kentucky any more than lie can com mand the powers of Heaven,” The au thor of this emphatic remark, Humphery Marshall, w hig member of congress from Kentucky, has been appointed by Presi dent Flltnore commissioner to China. The Knoxville, * Tenn., Whig says that Dr Crozier and M. M. Gaines, Esq., leading and influental wbigs, are against Scott, and that Mr Walker, a respectablle merchant and an influential w hig, offered a resolution at awltig meet ing repudiating Scott, which was secon ded and advocated by W. G. Swan, Esq,, whig attorney general of the state of Tennessee, “in a speech of some length, and of decided ability, in which he showed deary that Scott’s nomination was a fraud upon the whig party, and had been achieved by the abolition vote of the con vention.” Major A. M. Dunn, an able lawyer anti a popular whig orator of Louisiana, a neighbor and friend of General Taylor, addressed the democratic ratification meeting’at Baton Roge, at which the go vernor if the State presided, and declar ed that he should not vote for Scott and Graham This avowal was received with tremendous cheers. Eneas Adams, an other influental w hig, came foward and made the same declaration. Mayor Harral, of Bridgeport, Connect icut, has renounced General Scott. Lucius Polk, a prominent whig of Tennessee, being on a visit to Washing ton, freely avows that he is with Gentry and Williams in their opposition to Scott, “heart and soul.” Dr. David Long, of Batavia, New York, a revolutionary soldier, who hns never voted a democratic ticket, repu diates Scott. * Captain Williams, tlte leading whig of Chattanooga, Tennessee, made a speed) at a whig meeting at that place recently, announcing that he could not vole for General Scott. He was sustained by Col. Whiteside, Dr W. S. Bell, Dr Milo Smith, and other prominent wltigs. Dr John H. Hill, whig candidate for tlte North Carolina house of commons from Brunswick county, has withdrawn from the canvass, because “he could not and would not support Gen. Scott. William L. Harris, one of tlte ablest whig orators in Mississippi, has come out unequivocally against Scott. A correspondent of the Boston Daily Advertiser, regards the principle that in dividual wltigs shall yield their preferences nii& abide by a regular nomination sound; but alleges a nomination obtained by fraduleni and irregular manoeuvres to be notone of this class, and concludes as fol lows: ‘ “Believing the nomination ol Winfield Scott to Ivave been tints procured, 1 can not think myself bound to acknowledge it to De the regular whig nomination. I will not vote lor Scott. Should Mr. Web ster be nominated, though / cannot anti cipate so great a blessing for the country as Itis election would be, I shall prefer to waste mv powder, on the honor of that great nianjShouldjMr. Webster not be so placed before the public that I can vote for him, I will not vote at all, butstay at home, and *pray God to preserve the Union, w hich will probably be quite as carefully regarded by Franklin Pierce as by Winfield Scott. An Old Grey Whig. Rev. Mr. Brownlow, of the Knoxville* Whig, says that if his life is spared he wtl* “how up Gen. Scott in his true charaeten that of the veriest humbug alive.” The parson has great influence among (he Tennessee w Itigs. NO. 19.