The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-05-24


girl Of ten years old, with coarse old fragment OF
dres on, is setting upon the backbone Of moving
skeleton Of horse, and the horse has the additional
task of trailing along rickety specimen OF .
squalid barbarian, maudlin and obfuscated with
bald-faced whiskey, with child Of four or 1--WE
years old at his side. Behind this, haggard look
ing boy upon another skeleton Of horse is coming.
What an odd outlandish low wheeled cart the horse
is pulling! There sits the old woman and her
grown-up daughter, with nothing on, apparently,
except very dirty bonnet and q coarse and dirty
gown. The daughter has q basket by her side,
and the old woman holds fast to . suspcious-look-
ing stone jug Of half gallon measure, corked
with corncob. Your life on it, that is jug Of
whiskey The family have been to the village,
with a couple Of one-horse loads of pine knots,
sold them in dollar, half Of which has,
doubtless, gone for whiskey, and they are
going back home. Degraded they are, you
see It is the man who is helpless, and the wo nan
who has to take care of the jug, and conduct the
important expedition There are hundreds Of such
people dispersed through these sand hills fon see,
the whole Of this party are bare-egged and bare
footed. And how honey and brown they are! And
il is curious fact that in temperate countries, the
children of all semi barbarous white people, Except
Sir Henry Bulwer's black-headed or red-headed
Celts,) and all Anglo-Saxon backwoods, or noun
TAIN or prairie people, have cotton-headed or fax
en-headed children. Burns makes it an item of
beauty
Sac faxen her ringlets;''
a confession whi.h proves his belle to have been a
cotton hea ded infant in her day. The children Of
the Anglo-Saxon sandhillers (they lock like
Saxons) are also red headed. And the fecundity
ofextreme poverty il another remarkable fact. IL
fool for luck, aud a poor man for children"
But enough. An organization is under way
against separate State action in secediug from the
the Union. A paper viii be started at Charleston,
another At orangcbu1y, and another at Columbia,
TO sustain the plan Of Judge Butler, of waiting and
consulting with other States upon plan Of co-ope-
n in advance of movement of the
Union They may Do something; but the secsders
now hold the State. w.
Y. S.-We leave to-day, to take look into
Georgia. totally different political atmosphere
il dilused over that State. They are too busy with
railroads and cotton mills be particular about the
acts Of Congress or the abositionists.
Aveusri, Ga, May II, 1851.
augusta, Georgia-Poltt,es # tle Doy-Ncw Or
gaai,a!icn Of Parie.-The Question Of Secession
Effect Of S0,at Carott,sa'S Prcccaiings- More-
z,ta!s ii -4iaJaam and spp;-Propmts If
Diyasica, o. a Scrub Race fer The Presidency, &c.
After spending several weeks n the revolutionary
atmosphere of South Carolina, the traveller from
the north Of Mason and Dixon feels c very sensible
change in crossing che Savannah river into Geor-
gia His apprehessions, which we're wrought up to
the most imminent horrors Of impending secession,
svbside into the satisfactory reflection that things
not absolutely hopeless, afer al He feels this
change stealing over him az he gets into the big
omnibus a, Hamburg; he crosses the high
bridge which spans the deep flowing river, the nl-
preston becomes stronger; and while inhaling the
thick dust as ne wheels into the stirring LITTLE city
Of Augusta he is convinced that even South Caro-
lima IL still in the Union. A Massachusetts Yankee
would call this a smart place, doing considerable
business in cotton, cotton manufactures, Touring
mills, machine shops, railroad travel, mer:han-
disc, &c. Augusta is, in fact, the result OF rail-
roads, factories and such like innovations from tie
North. 1t has population of about thirteen thou
sand inhabitants; few years ago it vas an obscure
village. l,s principal street is l66 feet wide, and at
least two miles long, from the time consumed in
walking It. 1t whole appearance is that of a new
and enterprisng town, not yet finished, but des-
tined to become one Of the most important inland
cities of the South.
Ia South Carolina there are no visible traces of
the ~hig and democratic parties ever having exist
ed in that STATE. The State is almost unanimously
fol disunion; and the only draw back to immediate
secession Is the party in favor of waiting awhile,
see whether Georgia and the other cotton States
may no, be drawn into the overt act Of setting up
southern confedcraey
4 day or two among the politicians here pretty
clearly illustrates the position OF parties and poll
ties in Georgia. The old whig and democratic
parties are ahandoned-or, rather, the names |;
Tor ac fddo II no: dc is, both the old parties SUBJ
stsntialy are continued under new names. The
state Convention last November resolved that
Georgia would be satisfied with the compromises, If
other expressions were made upon the south;
but il the Fugitive Slave law should be materially
modified, or if slavery should be abolished in tho
District Of Columbia, then the state Of Georgia
would be very apt t. raise fuss about it, and
break into fragments everything that might stand
in the way Of her wrath Just DO the ike again,
Il da~A -ra Il. tozition If ,cprOia mix
roads, cotton mills, and all sorts a manufactures,
have drawn her attention from political abstrac-
toEs ~ stocks, cent per cents bushes. and trade
A strong infusion Of ''outside bzrbarians" among
her population, owning no nizgers, and opposed 10
niggers. has also contributed TO modify very essen
italy her sentiments on the niger question. They
did, In the el.con U the state Convention Of last
year, pretty essentially by their votes, check the
disunion tendencies Of that party predominant but
a month before; and FOR tho time, the Convention
broke up aDd dispersed the seecSsoniss OF the state
Of Georgia.
The pPesent condition Of part,, here T. the natu-
raj result ri tbe state Convention. Instead Of whig
and democratic, We have Union party and
Southern hight. party. The Union party takes
the Ccmpr0nre platform a the state Convention
Of lat November. IL is composed Of the whig
parry and small portion OF the democratic As
thing uow stand, II y over~h s.minsly tue popular
party. The Southern Rights party Is composed Of
seceder-. Southern Confcdepcy Tueu, gradual dis
unioni-'s md others, making up the reserved corps
OF the Oh democratic party. With perhaps the
sprGllinr q Wing here and there.
Lsch u these two parties holds . convention
Tor the nomination Of candidate for Governor,
within a short imc-the Southern Right Or demo
nbig jsIty, ~ ihe tr.i Monday in June. Howell
Cobt late democratic Speaker of the House, will,
il j. generally expected, b nominated - the Union
party r8Ldi44'c The opposite party have not
on'y y make Z nomination bot they have 20 build
= Ilauorm-sud they Wil have a moe job Of Il to
-tegt btt~ttn a Southern Cos!tdegscy on the one
hand, and submit. % tie vlber n IL supposed
here THAT speaker Cobb, IpYubs add stephens
nil sweep the state aud hat while Cobb J.
elected DoI.fIor. ~tplhcH. ali b. elected to the
= senate a. tie fra. olellng, aGd that Ioombs
vii I, .rns ID IN 2 fore ~ mi.sion. Tie Mon
JaUy, Fl coure, Ike all Other rart'.. unite e.
uvid,-iAD poi. Mf John g. Calhoun
. chi nothing BIT homb-hell vii tear 10 pieces
ttc ENfy combinations &c Ac country shtn based
npoH Ne scvcu principle. % John l,andolph-ihc
lye saves ond Two mail A.hcs