The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-02-12

and justify the expectation 81 eihs action
~ the canvass. Itwas not OH ilik
absurd e represent me hayin la8ae.
g mat would not,support thc n of
the Baltimore Convention when hat 3-
dy onlyTcould I hope those Wond b nani-
mated who would be more q ptahle tome
| have endeavored toshoW that the states
ment of the genllemen 81 Noxubee ga not
support the accusation. mud upof thal point.
will here add that have received letter
from Macon, Noxubee county, dated Jam.
I24th, 1852, in which twelve gentlemen, two
Z If them signers of the statement rs Which
GOV Foote invites special attention. como
forward and contradict the report that lad
said in speechat that place that would
not support the nominees of the Baltimore
Convention. That was the slander, which
because of the mischievous purpose nalrifess
ted by it, noticed in my speech before tho
convention.
My letter has expanded much beyond the
limit / expected to give it, and probably still
more beyond that justified By the subject.
| do not deem it necessary Id reply tgsa at
tack on the abstract right of secession, by
one who was formerly Its most noisy advo-
cate, who then quoted jackson and JefFer-
son for it, asscnn6dently. as he now quotes
them aglinstit, who once announced eff
Congress we're to repeal the Fugitive slaye)
law-if the Government refused to enforce
Iit-then We would peaceably sccede; but
now admits no remedy for an aggrieyed
State except IN appeal to the higher law Of
force, the right which might confers. Ifhis
political positions of to-day be not answered
by those ofyesterday, we may safely wait
for the answer Tomorrow will bring 1t is
only to be regretted that the station which
gives force to his yituperation cannot en-
dow him with the dignity which would IN
duee him 70 abstain from it.
Very truly yonr friend &c, &c.
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
The Presidency,
Tn spite Of all the shutting ana changing
the ground and lofty tumbling-the leg
erdeman and slight-of-hand tricks and gun
powder-plots if The Constitutional Union
party of Georgia, the two great parties of
the country still "live, move and have their
being" aud thepoltical cauldron at Wash
ington City, (the headquarters of shutting,
bargaining and intriguing for national Off
ces) now iereely boils. The two partiesa are
looking around-counting managing
the the ropes-and making the necessary
arrangements for the Presidential campaign
but in all the programmes laid down BY.
each party, we have seen no place assigned
the G. U. Of Georgia. Now, is itnot too
bad After these d5staterested patrols have
saved the Union sixteen several times, "
the two great parties seem to have conclud-
cd that the Government can 90 on without
again Saving the Union, and more especi-
ally that President can be elected, and the
Government administered without then aid
Oh, Shocking shocking. Well, these Tn
ion-saviours can enjoy the consoling refec-
ton that others before them have lived and
died unnoticed and unappreciated:
Many gem, ofpurest ray serene,
The dark, unfathom' d caves ofocean bear;
Many flower blooms to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.N
The determination of President Fillmore
to suffer his name to 20 before the Wing
National Convention, has caused Webster
and Scott stock to depreciate very material
Il ~ Some of these three gentlemen-Mes-
srs. Fillmre, Webster and Scott-will prob
ably be selected We question whether e
ven Mr. Webster can get an electoral vote
this side of the Potomac Gen Scott, We
are sure, cannot.
The Democratic aspirants are more nu-
merous-thc most prominent being Gen
4 Cass, Mr.. Buchanan, Mr.. Douglass, Gen
Butler and Gen. Wool. 1t is at this carly
: period, impossible even to conjecture who
will be selected by either party, as many
things may, in the language of the Millcdge
Vile caucus, "tnterUene" between this time
!. and the meeting Of the two Conventions
One thing, however, is certain, viz: tina
despite all the gunpowder plots of the G. 7
) in Georgia, the two great political partie
!, will each have its man, in the field, and tina
the next President will be either a Dcmocra
or a Wing, whether the Constitutional Tn
ion Votes for him or not.
, athens (Ga.,) Herald,
INTERESTING Professor Johu
2 son in the course Of lectures delivered b
t him before the New York State Agricultu
raj Society, states that in this climate tn
, temperature rises to 1000 Fahrenheit fly
/ feet below the surface, and to 140o half a
5 inch below it-facts which he says he learI
ed himself with surprise. He uses them
illustrate the economy ofnature in promotin
!, vegetation.
The sunbeam is composed Of three distin,
and separate rays, one Of heat, one of ligh
!, and one called the chemical ray. These tAns
!. agencies exist IN different proportions in ii
= sunbeam in the spring, summer and autumn
h The blue and chemical ray is greater IN Il
!, spring; the light greater in the sumpse
The chemical ray is less in autumn, and the
the heating ray predominates The prppa
! ton Of these rays varies in different scasol
: of the year, IN order that the growing pla1
!, may arrive at maturity It has also been a
:, certained that the proportions oftheseagen
vary IA different climates.
II KS E,,I,, .,soortoipa1 fh,4 4ha n t1t,ar