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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
Mnesdav July ldth, 1856.
FOR PRESIDENT I
ihmm sysHAfiAft,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
for vice president :
OF KENTUCKY .
Democratic Electoral Ticket.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
ELECTORS. ALTERNATES.
WM. H. STILES, Henry G. Lamar.
IVERSON L. HARRIS. A. RAVright.
ELECTORS- ALTERNATES.
Ist Dist. Thomas M. Foreman W H Nichols.
2d “ Samtf-l Hall, J A Tucker.
3d “ J X Ramsey E J McGehee.
4th “ L J Gartrell, —J F Johnson.
sth *• John W Lewis L W Crook.
6th “ J P Simmons R McMillan.
7th “TP Saffolh, J S Hook.
Sth “ T W Thomas A C Walker.
M3~R G BY -VRS Is our authorized Agent for the county
of Butts."***
’ Hon. 11. Warner, J H. Lumpkin, R.
Toombs and J. L. Orr, will accept our ac
kuowledgemenls for valuable public Documents.
Editorial Change.
T. W. Alexander, for several years one of the
Editors of the Savannah Republican, has retired
from that position, and is succeeded by F. W.
Sira?.
Spalding Superior Court.
The health of Judge Green still continues poor,
so much so as to render him unable to hold our
Court next week. Judge Powers, of the Macon
Circuit, has kindly tendered his services to hold
the Court, and therefore all persons interested will
take due notice that Spalding Superior Court will
commence its Spring Term next week.
Mr. Filfraore and the Missouri Com
promise.
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise is now
the principal issue which divides the South and her
enemies. There cannot, in our opinion, be fouud
in all this broad Republic, stretching from Ocean
to Ocean,and from the Lakes to the Gulf, one sin
gle open and avowed enemy of the South and her
rights who is not opposed to the Kansas and Ne
braska Bill, by which the Missouri Compromise
was repealed. Hence we assume that a very pro
per test, to be applied to the aspirants for public
honors at this time, i3 their friendship or hostility
to the above named measure. We set down every
man who is opposed to this bill, as an enemy to
the South. We hold the doctrine to be true, that
when a valuable “boon” is proffered to an individ
ual cr community, whosoever attempts to wrest that
boon from that individual, or that community, is
an enemy. Mr. Fillmore is opposed to the Kansas
and Nebraska Bill, and therefore cau be set down
as no reliable friend to the South. Hear him in
his Rochester speech, delivered a few days ago.-
He said, “Good faith as well as the peace of the
country, seemed to require that a compromise
which had stood for more than 30 years, should
not be wantonly disturbed.” Asa sequence, its
restoration, in his opinion, would bring peace to
the country. Furthermore, he said in the same
speech in reference to the repeal of the Missouri
restriction, “It mu3t be borne in mind that this
measure originated with a Northern Senator, arid
was sanctioned by a Northern President. I do
not recollect that ever a petition from a Southern
State solicited this repeal, and how could Southern
Members of Congress refuse a boon thus offered by
the North to the South.” Yes, a boon to the South
tendered by the North, and yet Mr. Fillmore is
opposed to it, and no doubt for the very reason
it was a boon to the South. Hear him in reference
to the uature and effect of this measure, we mean
the repeal of the Missouri restriction. Ide says
in his Rochester speech, “ This repeal seems to have
been a Pandora's box, out of which have issued all
the political evils which now afflit the country, scar
cely leaving a hope behind.” From his indorse
ment of the Philadelphia Platform In Jiis letter of
acceptance and his Rochester speech, we have no
room left to doubt his deadly hostility to the prin
ciples of the Kansas and Nebraska bill, including
the repeal of the odious Missouri restriction His
Southern supporters may endeavor to blink the
issue, but their efforts will be in vain They
must either take position against Kansas or
against Air. Fillmore. They cannot sustain both,
and preserve their consistency. So far as this
great leading question of the day is concerned (we
mean the Kansas question) Mr. Fillmore ought not
to be any more acceptable to the South than Mr
Fremont, both are our enemies in this particular
and both ought to be repudiated by the friends of
the South. Mr. Fillmore knows very well that
he cannot depend on the friends of the Kansas bill
for one single vote North of Mason & Dickson’s
line. They are all for Buchanan. Hence his
Phillipics against this measure, hoping thereby to
secure the votes of the Anti-Nebraska men of the
North 7 Save iis from such political corruption.
Messrs. Foster ami Trippe.
When the bill for the admission of Kansas as a
State into the Union was before the House, a few
days since, Mr. Dunn proposed an amendment pro
viding for the restoration of the Missouri restric
tion. On the question to receive the amendment,
the Southern members in a body voted against it.
The names of Messrs. Foster and Trippe are found
among the nays. A question now arises as to the
coarse of these gentlemen in regard to the pend : ng
Presidential election. Will they support Mr.
Buchanan and the Kansas and Nebraska measure ?
Or will they take sides with Mr. Fillmore and the
enemies of that measure ? In these days of polit
ical degeneracy, it is difficult to account for the ex
travagancies and inconsistencies of a certain class
of politicians, and hence Messrs. Trippe and Fos
ter when acting under the sanctions of an oath,
are constrained to vote for a great Southern mea
sure, yet when” freed from such obligations, and
obeying tfce behests of party drill and political pre
judice, may vote for men who are directly opposed
to that identical measure. If the repeal of the
Missouri restriction was wrong. Messrs. Foster
aod Trippe should have availed t themselves of eve
ry opportunity to vote for its restoration. If it
was right, they should use their efforts to sustain
the men who are opposed to its restoration. Will
they obey the dictates of party, or the promptings
•f patriotism ? We shall sec.
Air Fillmore and the Compromise
.Measures.
In his letters and speeches since his nomination,
Mr. Fillmore att mpts to keep prominentlj before
the. people, the idea that he was the gnat erabody
inent ot the Compromise of 1850—that this was
the crowning glory of his administration, and that
the chief honor of this measure should be accredit
ed to him. Now let us see how much justice there
is in the pretensions set up by this aspirant foi
Presidential honors. In his iate speech at Roches
ter, he says, “Those measures usually caked the
compromise measures of 1850, were uot in all re
spects what I could have desired, but they
were the b33t that could be obtained after a
protracted discussion that shook the Republic to its
very foundation, and I felt bound to give them my
official approval.” He leaves us in doubt as to
what the deficiency in these measures were which
made them “not in all respects what he could have
desired.’ This we are left to infer from his ante
cedents and subsequents. His antecedents may be
learned from his Erie Letter, in which are contain
ed anti-slavery doctrines suited to the rankest free
soiler in all New England ; and his subsequents
may be found in the tame, feeble, and inefficient
manner in which he executed the fugitive slave
law. Hence wc are justified in the presumption
that his chief objection to the compromise bill of
1860 : consisted in that feature which provided f or
the rendition of runaway slaves to their owners.--’
This was all the South got by the compromise
measures, and if we are right in our deductions as
to his grounds of objection to these, we should be
glad to know upon what basis he founds his clai ms
to Southern support.
Dr. Homer VirgiJ Mario Miller.
It was our good or ili fortune to be present at a
glorification meeting f Know Nothings, in At
lanta, on Wednesday night last. A large number
of the delegates to the great pow wow in Macon,
arrived in the cars, just after dark, and immediate
ly repaired to the City Hall, where a large num
ber of the citizens of the place had assembled to
listen to a harangue from the great Demosthe
nes of the mountains alias the gentleman who
bears the above long string ot distinguished
names.
It was the first time we had ever heard the Rev.
gentleman* and although we hud formed the idea,
from information, that he was a bitter and vindic
tive partisan, yet we were not prepared to hear
such an effusion of low, scurrilous declamation us
he uttered on that occasion Asa specimen of his
effort, he made an argument against Mr. Buchan
an on the ground that he was a “Ouchelor,” and
uttered a severe philipie against bachelors in gen
eral, and declared that they ought not to be al
lowed the right of suffrage, lie entered into’ a
minute description of Mr. Buchanan’s person, us
ing such chaste and elegant terms as “crook-neck.”
“cock-eye,” &c., and contrasted his general ap
pearance with the beautiful personel of Mr. Fill
more. This is the first time we ever knew the
personal defects or beauties of a candidate for a
high, responsible office, to be used as an argument
for or •against his election. But su h was the
course of this distinguished (?) orator on this occa
sion. 11 is speech in this particular was not sim
ply ridiculous, but to every man of nice feelings,
ought to have been disgusting. His whole elfort
was a string of at! captandu/n declamation, without
argument, and only calculated to excite prejudice
and arouse party feeling. We thought, at the
time, that it was a great pity that such natural
oratorical powers, should be prostituted to such
base purposes. The gentleman posseses a good
voice, has a fine flow of words, and graceful action,
all of which go very far towards making up the
popular stump orator If the gentleman has brains
a very essential element in the composition of a
good oratur, he exhibited ltttle evidence of it on
the occasion of which we are speaking. Ilis
speech, however, has given the clue to the tactics
of the Fillmore party in the present campaign.—
Desperate cases, require desperate remedies, and
the opposition will doubtless resort to every means
to sustain their sinking cause.
Fillmore Convention.
A body representing the Fillmore and Donald
son interest in Georgia, convened in Macon, on
Tuesday, the Bth inst. Sixty three counties out of
119, were represented by about .'IOO delegates, ov
er one hundred of whom, came from live counties.
Dr. 11. V. M. Miller presided, assisted by a Vice
President from each Congressional District. An
Electoral ticket was nominated, and a set of reso
lutions adopted, declaring the principles upon which
they intended to act; these, however, are let down
zeveral pegs below the high position assumed last
year by the Know Nothing party, in fact, to a
superficial observer, it uever would be suspected
from read : ng the resolutions, that they emanated
from a party, who, less than 12 mouths ago, ap
peared to apprehend the capture of our citadel of
liberty by our foreign born population and the
Pope of Rome. If our Know Nothing fellow-citi
zens go on improving as they have for the last few
months, they will get to believe that the Catho
lies and foreigners are pretty clever fellows. The
idea of nominating Fillmore and Donaldson, was,
to say the least of it, rather out of the ordinary
course of political movements. We thought Fill
more and Donaldson were nominated last Februa
ry, by a professedly national party If the Macon
Convention thought by making an independent
nomination, to evade the responsibility of affiliat
ing with the advocates ol the Philadelphia plat
form, they will find themselves mistaken. Mr.
Fillmore takes the Platform,'and his supporters
must take him and his avowed principles together.
The people of this country have not yet forgotten
the old but true maxim, that *it is as well to eat
the Devil’s meat as to drink his broth.”
The King Family.
This interesting company of .Musicians, under
the management of Dr. Joseph W. Adams, for
merly of Henry county, Ga., contemplates visiting
our city in a few days, for the purpose of entertain
ing our citizens with their extraordinary skill in
vocal and instrumental music. A friend writes us
that they have recently been •‘astonishing the na
tives” in South-Western Georgia, with their won
derful performances. Their Family consists of
five, the eldest fifteen—the youngest “Six years of
age. I hey arc native Georgians, and therefore
should have Sf fair trial before they are opt down
among the n a tuber less Immbugs which are passing
through the Country, iron! other quarters.
Death of Alexander McDougald.
This gentleman died at his residence in Colum
bus, on Thursday, 10th inst. Col. M. was for sev
eral years a member of the Georgia Legislature, in
which he occupied a prominent position. He had
attained to a high degree of eminence in the legal
profession, and as a criminal lawyer, he bad few
equals, and no superiors at the Georgia Bar.
No War n itli England.
After all. we arc to have no war w ith England
on account of the dismissal <sf Mr. Crumpton. —
Serious apprehensions were'entertained by some,
that the BritDh Ministry, feeling the dignity of
their nation insulted by the dismissal of their ar
rogant Minister, would resent the indignity by the
dismissal of the A mericau Minister, Mr< Dallas.-
But it seems that wiser counsels prevailed. Thu’
a portion of the British Press tried to lash the
public mind into a fury—though some of the lead
ers of the t Cabinet felt indiguant the supposed
outrage, yet they were compelled to yield to the
dictates ot interest, and a regard for the public
tranquility. Even Queen Victoria herself, it is
said, interposed hsr authority to bridle the intem
perate rage of some of her Ministry. This unex
pected turn of affairs in our relations with Great
Brittian, will, no doubt, create some disappoint
ment among- the Crowned Heads of Europe. It
WO uld be gratifying to a number of them to see the
two greatest Powers of the civilized world embroil
ed in bitter strife. They are prompted to this de
sire by feelings of envy and jealousy, and hence
their disappointment at witnessing the approach
ing adjustment of all matters of controversy be
tween the two great Commercial Powers of the
world. The course adopted by the Brittish Gov
ernment in reference to the Crumpton affair, gives
evidence of a determination on the part of that
Government to preserve amicable relations with
ours, and leaves no room to doubt the easy and pa
cific adjustment of all matters of controversy be
tween the two Governments, in reference to Cen
tral American affairs. ±
The Fillmore Electoral Ticket.
Below we give the names of ihe Electoral ticket
made by the Know Nothing Convention, on
Wednesday last, in Macon. Considering the ma
teriel out of which they had to select, it is a pret
ty fair ticket—the best that they could do. The
men who are thus brought into the ,field, though
not of a very high order of talents, are working
men, and will no doubt do all that can be done to
sustain their feeble cause. We have uo fears of
the result in Georgia. Our only effort should be
to make qur majority so completely overwhelming
as to drive the opposition from the field with such
a complete route a3 will forever prevent them liom
rallying their scattered forces again.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
Eiecrors.
William H. Crawford, of Terrell.
Benj. 11. Hill, of Troup.
Alternates.
F. S. Bartow, of Chatham.
Dr. 11. V. M. M.tier ■ : EioVd.
First District ‘
William Law, ofjjhathaiu, Elector.
A 11 Hansel, of Thomas"-Alternate.
Second District.
W SI Browu, ot Marion, Elector.
Richard Sims, of Decatur, Alternate.
Hurd District.
Washington Poe, of Mibb, Elector.
E O Cubaniss, of Alunroa, Alternate.
Fourth District.
E Y Hill, of Troup, Elector.
B II Overby, ol Fuitou, Alternate.
Fifth District.
George W Gordon, of Whitfield, Elector.
J B Parrott, of Cass, Alternate.
Sixth District.
Cincinnatus Peeples, of Clarke, Elector.
11 P Bell, of Forsyth, Alternate.
Seventh District.
E II Baxter, of Hancock, Elector.
Joshua Hill, of Morgan, Alternate.
Eighth District
A R Wright, oi Jefferson, Elector.
Lafayette Lainur, of Lincoln, Alternate.
Mr. Brecitenridge’s i.ett r oi’ Accep
ts lice.
Lexington, Ky., June 28, 1850.
Gentlemen : I have received your letter of ihv
13th iust., giving me official information’ oi ui)
nomination by the Democratic National von voli
tion lor the office ot Vice President ol tin. United
States. 1 feel profoundly grateful to the Democ
racy for this distinction, so far above my morns
and expectations, and accept the nomination, with
the pledge tnat if it should result in imposing on
me any public duties, I shall exept whatever power
I possess to discharge them with fidelity.
The Convention wisely selected for the first
place in the Government an eminent Statesman,
whose character and pubic services furnish a guar
antee that his administration will command confi
dence at home and respect abroad.
The platform adopted by the Convention has
my cordial approval. 1 regard it as the only basis
on which the Union can be preserved in its origi
nal spirit. Adopted, as it was, by the unanimous
votes of the delegates from all the States, it shows
that amidst the distractions of the times, there re
mains one united and powerful organization whose
common principles extend over every foot of terri
tory covered by the Federal Constitution. After
the recent repeated and deplorable failures of oth
er parties to present to the country a national or
gauization, we may justly congratulate the States
upon the unanimity which marked the proceedings
of the Democratic Convention ; and the patriot
may point to the fact, as a pledge of constitutional
union, Miat the delegates from Maine and Texas,
from South Carolina and California, were as thor
oughly united upon every question of principle,
as those from the neighboring Southern States of
Tennessee and Kentucky, or those from the neigh
boring Northern States of Wisconsin and Michi
gan.
L’uis com nunity of sentiment, this feeling of
brotherhoud, gives hope of perpetual Union. It
has been the happy fortune of the Dertfocratic Tar
ty, by adhering to the Constitution, which was
made to protect us ail, to avoid the geographical
arltUsectioual.issues against which Wasliii g?< n so
lemnly warned his countrymen ; an i we have eve
ry reason to believe that it is yet equal to the high
duty which now devolves on it of preserving the
Constitution, and maintaining Wie rights of every
portion of the Confederacy. Ii the unsound ele
ments which troubled it for a time have sought
congenial associations elsewhere, the loss has been
more than.supplied by accessions from the flower
of the old. Whig Party ; and thus re-iufyrced, it
will be the destiny of the Depcrjicy fc ’vunder the
lead of their distinguished Chief, to maintafo the
high position of our country before the world—to
preserve the equality of every class of citizens- to
protect the periect liberty of conscience—and to
secure the pi ace of the Union, by rendering equal
justice to every part.
With sincere acknowledgements for tbd friendly
personal sentiments contained in your letter, lam,
respectfully, your friend and obedient servant,
JOHN C. BREC KEN RIDGE.
Messrs. Ward, Richardson, Hibbard, Lawrence,
Brown, Manning, Forsyth, Tucker, Seymour
and Preston
Little Os.*.gk, Mo., June 24, 1856.
IJr. M. J. Daniel, Griffin, Ga
Dear Sir :******* I suppose
that you have seen from the papers w/iat times
there has been in Kansas for the last six mouths.
It has been bad enough truly, but now 1 believe
quiet reigns again, aud the laws are enforced, and
probably will be for the present. There has been
a great many outrages committed in Kansas by
the Abolitionists. A bout 45 miles from here there
was live pro slavery men taken out of tiieir houses
from their families in the tight time, and deliber
ately murdered in one night by a band of organized
Abolitionists, to resist the laws, and the only rea
son that can be imagined why they murdered these
men, is to prevent them from being witnesses
against these rascals. The Court for that county
was to be held in a few days. Judge Cato had
called for a guard of soldiers to be present at that
time on account of threats against the Grand Ju
ry by the Abolitionists. Thirteen of these mur
derers have been arrested and await their trial.—
There were 29 in the outrage ; the others have ran
off, but they may yet be taken. Many of the Abo
litionists have left the Territory since the arrest
of some of their leaders on the charge of treason,
and many against whom there is indictments, have
run off. There is a good many of the pro slavery
party that have left the Territory also, and moved
into our State on account of the excitement and
unsafely of persons aud property there. Emigra
tion has been checked pretty much from all quar*
ters to the Territory of Kansas ; but as the laws
now Are enforced, and probably will be, unless the
Abo.itionists should succeed in obtaining control
of the Government by electing their candidate for
President, which I hope will never be, for then a
dissolution of our Union would inevitably follow,
and of course a civil war would be,the result, and
the end of all our happiness. The South must send
emigrants to Kansas sufficient to keep control of
that Territory, and then defeat the Abolitionists
in the Presidential election, and then I should
think things Would quiet down once more, and I
would hope forever. The only chance for the Ab
oiitionisls to succeed in their schemes iu the Presi
dential election, will be iu a failure to elect by the
people, and thus throw the election into the House,
and then I fear they would succeed as they did for
pouker.
i think all national men ought to unite on Mr.
Buchanan everywhere, North and South, East and
vV, st, and all parties. Missouri will vote for Buch
anan, and 1 think the whole South will, but how
many free States will, it is now hard to tell. Was
it nut for the American candidate and party, no
doubt Mr. Buchanan’s election would be quite
safe
-1 expect to have rather a warm time among the
fa aiics iu the North this summer—do not an
ticipa e great happiness, but possibly may rob the
scales from some of their eyes so that they can see
tilings iu their proper light, and see that we have
rights, and that we intend to defend them if forced
to do 60
We have had an unfavorable season hete for the
growth of all our products thus far, and now it is
too lute to make good crops, even if the remainder
of the season should be favorable, Mrs, B. de
sires remembrance to yourself, your mother and
little Sopala. I would also join ber in the senti
ment. I shall make something of a stop at liindge,
New Hampshire. Will you please write me there?
I send you some papers that may contain some ac
count of the movements in Kansas, that perhaps
will be of some interest to you.
I remain very truly,
Your humble servant,
C. D. BALI..
For the Empire State.
To Young Men of GHlfiu.
As the present generation is going out, as a mat
ter of course others will take their places ; and as
the time is approaching that there must be some
one to take the Chair of the Executive, and prin
cipies of vital importance to the Union are involv
ed, there is no better time for the young men of
Georgia to show to its citizens their position in the
approaching canvass, and disapproval of the fa
naticism that is at present agitating the. whole
country. And as the rising generation give their
opinion as the proper person to till a chair ol such
responsibility to the South, or whether it shall be
a man whose whole life has been one of antagon
ism to the institutions of the South, and an op
ponent to slavery, and who would, if elected to the
Cresidency, as We infer from his speech at Alba
ny, attempt to restore the Missouri Compromise,
a measure that has given back to the South her
long lost rights—or shall It be the man whose de
votion to the Union-has no parallel, a d who has
ever been true to the South and her institutions,
aud a bosom friend of the immortal Jackson—“a
man,” he said, “1 have the greatest reliance in as a
patriot.” And as clubs and organizations are
forming throughout the State for the purpose of
advancing the election of Buchanan and Brecken
r’dge, it would be proper for the Young Democra
cy of Griffin to take some step in relation to their
election, and I would suggest that someone be ap
pointed for the purpose of organizing a Buchan
an and Breekenridge Club. DEMOCRAT.
For the Empire State.
Statement Extraordinary.
One of the Know Nothing speakers at the Fill
more ami donaldson meeting on Saturday evening
a.st, expressed hi nisei t thus : (if not exactly in
words, in substance.) that the Democracy having
guillotined Gen, Pierce, they would lose that sup
port of their nominee that they would otherwise
have received, if Frankliu Pierce had been nomi
nated.
And ho “played upon a banjo of ten double
strings, sperils of very unjust men made perfee ”
Ah! DUCK & BRECK.
Tub Expected Dismissal of Mr. Dallas.—A
correspondent ol the New York Post, writing
Irom Loudon, under date June 17th, when it was
expected All. Dallas would be dismissed, says :
“I was at the House lust evening, and it was a
most interesting scene. The House was crowded
by members and the galleries by strangers.
“Lord John Russell spoke with grout serious
ness, and everybody felt that it was a most impor
tant crisis in the career of the race.
When Palmerston arose to announce the deterrni
tiou of the Ministry, the silencowas profound and
the anxiety intense. At the announcement that
they had determined not to suspend relations with
the American Minister, there was a perfect thrill
of emotion and satisfaction. So closo the Cabinet
kept the matter, that when I arrived at Air. Dal
las’ to congratulate him, he had not received the
slightest intimation of his fate, and I had the very
great satisfaction of announcing it to him and his
family.”
From the American Union, I
Gri*~u Female College.
We, the members of the committee appoint- j
ed t- 1 nt'end the commenc men? exercises of
tin G- .ffin Fe nal-t Coll ge ; b •ginu n ■ June 27, j
and closing July 3rd, 18bti< beg leave to make !
ihe following report, viz: We, according to)
request witnessed the examination ol the pu-:
I il” of aid College, and were very mu- b grat-’
ified with t heir proficiency and the manif. st
skill and efficiency of their teachers, kr< m
the classes in the | rimary department to the
seidor das- inclusive, they ; 11 acquitted them,
selves in such u manner as to uive evidence of
studiuusness, and close aj plication to text
books on their parr,’and great ability, indus
try and faithfulness on the p-.irt of their in
structors. In spelling, reading penmanship,
Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, Rhetoric,
N. & M. Philosophy, Logic, Physiology,
Geology, Chemistry, Algebra. Geometry, As
tronomy and indeed albtheir studies, the stu
dents cume off in a manner creditable to them
selves and satisfactory to their relatives and
friends The desses in druw’ng printing and j
music both vocal and instrumental have made;
great proficiency The compositions, or orig-]
innl essays and dialogues wtvagccc', tetter, lest, j
They were well written, well indited, well
rend and at pr-sj r ate. Ia a word, the exam- j
illation exercises were highly creditable to the!
young ladies and little Misses composing the j
various clas.-es of the different- departments, j
well calculated to sustain the at know lodged j
reputation < f their te tellers and exceedingly j
interesting and entirtain'ng to the committee:
and the spectators generally. Therefore, be j
ing very favorably impres ed in behalf, of said j
College, we do recoin mend it to the pubic as !
an institution worthy of their patroi age and
support. U e feci author /.! dto do .so from j
several considers t'ons in addition tot hose above !
mentioned. Its h c.i'tioti is pleasant and he and
thy it is situated in a beautiful grove in the
southern part of Griffin, far from the noise
and bustle of the business .-trects, where the
water is cool and pure, the air salub'ii us, and
all nature conspires to inspire the In art of tin*
young ladies with asp rit of cheerfulness and
desire to acquire a useful, sanctified education,
an education that will prepare them fr the
duties and relations of life, the si rvice of God
a home in Heaven. The cour-e of study pre
scribed is one-well adapted io the mental ca
pacity and intellectual improvement of females,
and the Faculty is composed of men and wo
men fully competent to communicate instruc
tion to them in a successful and ail efficient
manner, i hey know how to teach and have
the energy to do it. Teaching with them s
emphatically the ‘single eye.’ In it thei minds
and bodies are olisicd. They are in fer rh<
| war and being thoroughly armed and equiped
jfo the work and having the energy and spirit
|of determination to address themselves to it,
they must succeed, they can sue: eed, they wilt
succeed.
Ivev. Hugh E. Morrow, the President of
the College, is a graduate of Fiankiiu College,
and though and ffiden', is a tlio ougi-ly educated
and highly accom: 1 shed gentleman—jut the
! man for the j osition lie occupies. rs. M r
row, his wife, is a modest, pious and accom
plished lady who possesses the faculty of guid
ing her pup Is, by cords of gentleness and love,
not only into the Wavs of literature and science,
but also into the paths of virtue and religion.
MBs Porter a graduate of the College is a
young lady well qualified to discharge the du
des devolving upon her in the department as
signed her. Mr. Briggs, Pr< sos music, paint
ing and drawing, will do —“He can’t be beat.
In conclus on we would ask for Gr ffin Female
College that pubic patronage and support
which it so justly merits and pray that God’s
richest blessings may ever rest upon it and
abundantly i rosper it.
T J Tiiki-xki i, ‘ , C H Johnson,
A A Gaul ding, J N Simmons
Jas vV IV a wick, Wm R Phillips,
L Daniel, J II Logan.
C W Kly, A M Foster.
• From the Nashville Union.
A Letter from the llormitage.
The folic wing’ letter from Mr. Andrew Jackson
will be read with great interest throughout the
country. It was prompted by no feeling of a po
litical character, but from the highest sense of ho
nor and justice towards the memory of his vener
ated father. The scandalous use and abuse that
have been recently made of the private and confi
dential letters of General Jackson, thrown out in a
disconnected'manner, and frequeutly by ex.racts,
creating an impression foreigu from his intention,
for purely partizun purposes, has shocked the sen
sibilities of all right thinking people.
Mr. Jackson has pursued a quiet and unostenta
tious life, taking no active part in the politics of
the country, farther than to discharge the duties
of a good citizen He has come thus reluctantly
before the pub’ic from a stern sense of duty to the
memory of his illustrious father. The public will
not fail to sympathise with him in the circumstan
ces that have required him to do so. The only
son, the heir, the ex-ecutor of Gen. Jackson, the
tenant of the Hermitage, standing as it were a
sentinel at his tomb, tbe duty was imperative, and
he would have been unworthy of the trust he had
remained longer silent.
Hermitage, June 26, 1556
Gentlemen : Be kind enough to give the follow
ing letter an insertion in your paper :
Y\ itliin the last low weeks, several individuals,
claiming to have been personal friends of General
Andrew Jackson, have published letters addressed
to themselves, under the seal of confidence and
friendship, and are calculated to wound the feelings
of many persons who stood high in the estimation
of Gen. Jackson to the close of his life The ob
ject of these publications is so manifestly for the
advancement of petty, personal ambition, and to
injure or destroy those who stand in the way of
those mousing schemes, that no good motive can
possibly be attributed to those who are gratifying
a morbid public appetite. It seems that they are
willing, for the gratification of their own passions,
to raise the curtain of the past, open fires, over
which the ashes have long since gathered, and de
stroy, as far as their puny efforts can accomplish
it, the universal veneration with which the name
of Gen. Jackson is* regarded.
The undersigned, as t he adopted son, executor and
trusted friend of Men. Jackson, protests (most so
lemnly) against the unscrupulous use of the private
and confidential correspondence of his father, and
he appeuls most confidently to the public to sus_
tain him in his protest. ; he himvelf wa6the reposi.
tory of most of his father's private paper’s, and
has never consented to the publication of any of
them,, because he believes that no such addition
can be made, with justice to the mem-,
ory of the deceased, until the men who served
with him passed from the stage ol action. It
would, however, be unfair to the feelings of those
who may have been touched by the extracts, or
full letters from Gen. Jackson, heretfore published,
to withhold the testimony of the undersigned, that
up to the close ol ills lite. he entertaiued for Pres
ident I oik and Hon. James Buchanan, the high
est esteem aud affection. In my conversations,
during his declining years, when iu the full free
dom of lire side ease, he spoke freely of their emi
nent services and iqoral worth ; on no occasion did
lie ever intimate to his family that his confidence
in tinm had abated, or his kindly feelings towards
them undergone any change. It is well known, to
all wno were well acquainted with Geu. Jackson,
that he clung with intense pertinacity to the inter
ests of those “whom he regarded as friends -as
somewhat dependants, and whom he had raised up
by his patronage.” These persons frequeutly (as
can and might bo easily shown.) appealed earnest
ly to him for assistance in advancing their own
schemes and views, even to the close of his life.—
Y hilst suffering under a painful, withering disease,
-and earnestly pressed by every artful suggestion,
he would have been more than human if lie lmd
no! pcnmUe l expressions of momentary irritation
to cross into private letters, and the fault of their
| expression was nol in him who wrote, but rather
\ in those in whom lie universally trusted,
i Ihe letter of Gen. Jackson in regard to Mr.
j Bach a nan, written in* February. 1815, (dated 28.)
i extracts from which have been recently published,
| ,s precisely one oi the character, and written un
! J'-’V ft. a circumstances above alluded to, and did not
| contain any deliberate conviction of his mind, as is
! amply shown by his cordial treatment of Mr. Buch
anan during his whole administration—life appoint
ment to Russia—his subsequent recommendation
ol him to others-—and the fi-e-side conversations
with his family, to which 1 have before alluded.
It is not the intention of the undersigned, in this
publication, to inter?! re with the political conflicts
of the day, or to do any thing further than to pro
tect the reputation and fame of his father, and
preserve the consistency aud harmony of a charac
ter dear to the whole American people.
ANDREW JACKSON.
W asbiagtoa Correspondence of the Sav. Gcorginn & Journal. -
Washington Celebration Kansas Bills— Mr
Sumner's Condition.
Washington, July 5.
I Ihe patriotic emotion of our people having
| formed sutifactory Utterance in the explosion of the
, largest assortment of German fireworks ever ignited
this in city upon any of the squib holidays of the
j year, we are as calm us au unrippled sea to-day.—
The use of all heavier ordnance having been dis
pensed with, we hear nothing of Dreadful accidents,
j The murder of a German at a German party, by
I American intruders, and a murderous assault upon,
j ami severe injury to another German, on the same
! occasion, comprise the serious items in our record
| of crimes yesterday.
| Congress is not in session to-day. The Topeka
; bill of the House is by no one expected to pass iu
the Senate, but the Senate bill is expected to pas*
in the House, although a determination has been
I formed, and expressed in under tones, to keep it
upon the Speaker’s table. After the parage of this
: bill, parties can no longer stand divided on the
Kansas issue, Those who have no other bond of
union than it affords must fall apart. Therefore
there will be a strong effort made to prolong this
issue, by preventing a vote upon the Senate bill,
for it is well understood tout to let it come to a
vote is to pass it. A pretext for delay is this:—
the 4th of July was named as the time from which
; residence in Kansas was to date, to qualify men-
j to vote upon a constitution. It is whispered
j among the Republicans that a great simultaneous
| de sent of Southern men upon Kansas, was to be
made on the fourth; aud they propose to wait to
verify the truth of this story before taking up the
bill. 1 hat question, however, will be so soon solv
ed that they must promptly vote or get up anew
pretext.
1 he condition of Mr. Sumner has been a subject
of serious concern to his friends of late, and they
hae been not a littie alarmed by the expression’
ol earnest apprehension by au able physician, (not
professionally engaged by him, but visiting as a
triend) that the solteuiug ol the brain and an early
iutul termination might be expected. An injury
upon the back of the neck continues to suppurate
and caunot be healed. This has been believed to
involve the medulla spinalis, or marrow of the spine
aud, by sympathy or continuity the medulla oblon
gata, or continuation of this organ along the back
ol the brain. From this a softening of the brain
has been anticipated; and appearances have seemed
to warrant this apprehension in the faet| that the
patient has never rallied since he was first prostra
ted; but has grown weak, and pale, and haggard l
and old in appearance,, aud uncertain and tottering
in his movements.
Learning these things within the past forty-eight
hours, I to-day called on a highly intelligent medi
cal gentleman who also visits Mr. Sumner as a
friend, aud asked his information upon the sub
ject. He affirmed all the statements of facts that
I had heard, but in the fears- expressed, he says
that in the developemcnt of Mr. Sumner’s mind
there are no indications of disease in the brain,
and that it is by no means an nnfreqnent thing for
a man to suffer nervous derangement and prostra
tion for many months after receiving severe injn-’
ries upon the head. Impartial. .
A Horrid Affair.
On I’hv.rsday evening last, a voting man by the
name of Thaddcus Rees, shot a woman by the name
of Emma Berry, at a house of ill fame, in the lower
part of this city, which caused her death in a few
hours. The weapon used was a double-barrelled
gun, and as she was but a short distance from
Rees when he fired, the whole charge took effect in
the abdomen, horribly mutilating her, and tearing
the intestine so that Medical aid, which w’us prompt
ly at hand, was unavailing to save her life. The
Coroner’s jury returned a verdict in accordance
with the above facts, ami also expressed the opin
ion that Rees was guilty of murder. Rees imme
diately made his escape, and has not been arrested
up to the time of our going to press. The Mayor
of the city has offered a reward of One Hundred
Dollars for his apprehension. AVe sincerely hope
he may be arrested, and if proved guilty of viola
ting the law', that, he may suffer its penalties.—Cor
ner Stone.
Jenkins on Donelsom
Air Jenkins’ notion of the ‘Greasy Tennes
sean’ is that of nine-tenths of t lie American
party of Georgia ff they would speak out can
didly. He thinks some bodv else should be
substituted fur the Vice Presidency, if a Fi 1-
inore ticket is nominated in Georgia. We
think so too. Dorn Ison is a dead weight to
the ticket, and will lose Folmore 5,000 votes
in the >tate. In comparison with Breckenridge
Donelsun is a ‘m u ing owl’ compared with
ihe umrican Eagle ! Thunk Gcd, Georgia
s not yet comm tted o the owl’s fortune”,
and we hope never will be —Georgia Citizen •