Year: 1861




DR.. Tilden, Resident Physician.


Our faithful and consistent fellow citizen and
representative in the Legislature, DR.. Tiden,
has been triumphantly elected Resident Physi
clan of the Stockton Insane Asylum for the
next four years. This fact, is source for
much congratulation on the part of the people
of our county, as it rewards man possessing
talents in an eminent degree in his profession,
and one who has shown marked consistency
in the principles upon which he claimed and
received their suffrages. And to the people OF
the State it will afford peculiar satisfaction,
in as much as it closes the reign of Chivary in
that branch of our State economy, and serves
as rebuke to the same spirit in our body
polite. When this contest first began in our
Legislature. we expressed our belief, that DIR.
Tilden would be the successful man, in Caucus
and in Convention it has so turned out, and
we sincerely and honestly believe, for the best
interests of the State.


We cannot but perceive that change is
gradually taking place in political matters, for
the better interests of our State. Dr. Clark,
the Douglas nominee for Visiting Physician of
the Asylum, has also been elected. Now take
all these elections together, McDougal, Tilden
and Clark, each the regular nominee of the
Caucus of the Douglas Democracy, and do
they not give the bowling Secession organs
the lie, when they thunder forth their anathenl-
as against the Union men, for having combined
and affiliated with the Republicans? Political
combinations and fusions are never so one-sded
that one party or faction gets all the Offices
If there has been any trading or combining
with the Republicans, where is the concession
or reward they have accepted or received from
their alleged confederates? Secessonists in
the language of one of your affinities at
the close of the last Senatorial Convention
" You have been fairly and squarely beaten
succumb gracefully, die decently it is in good
taste"


SPEAKING Our AT LAST Some of the Geor-
gia papers seem determined that the people
shall have a voice in the new order of things
to be established under the rule of the South
ern Confederacy. The Augusta Chronicle
holds the following bold and significant Ian
guage. We follow its italics


And so we come now to the declaration of
what we regard as cardinal truth-at least
of truth on which we base our conduct-that
al, ~ H. L i.
on the consent of the governed, and shall rest
there, if we can bring it about, and that in all
Governments claiming to be free, the people
ought to be the source Of potcer. We know, as
we'll as any one living, that the whole move
ment for secession and the formation of new
Government, so far at least as Georgia is con-
cerned, proceeded only on a quasi consent of
the people, and was pushed through under cir
cumstances of great excitement ard frenzy, by
fictitious majority With all the appliances
brought to bear, with all the fierce, rushing,
maddening events of the hour. the election on
the 4th of January showed falling off in the
popular vote of $4,000 to 10000, and on the
night of that election the cooperationists had a
majority, notwithstanding the falling off of
nearly 5000, and an absolute majority of elect
ed delegates of 30. But, upon assembling, by
wheeling coaxing, bullying and all the arts of
deception, the Convention showed majority
of 81 against Gov. Johnson's proposition But
these things are past, and we refer to them to
show the reason why fictitious majority fear
ed the ultimate and direct appeal to the source
of power-the people. And we call them to
mind now, feeling it to be our imperative duty
as the Journal of the largest circulation in the
Confederate States, in order not to stir up
strife, but to impress upon men in authority
the r,sdom of submitting their final action to
the people direct. The Georgia Convention
and the Confederate Congress have gone for
ward in their work, as more can deny without
explicit and direct authority from the people,
The excuse was that the necessities Of the cause
demanded celebrity and dispatch. And the
people, to their honor be it spoken, have sus-
tanned them generously, Notwithstanding many
objections. 1t is time now, in our Judgment,
that this assumption of power should cease,
and that the people should speak. Sooner or
later they must be heard-the accidents of the
hour cannot always rule; and we ask that the
permanent Constitution proposed by the Mont
gomery Congress shall be submitted to dreet
rote of the people Of Georgia.


SUDDEN DEArH.-A young lady, Miss Ellen
Horgan, died very suddenly in this city yester
day. She was engaged at a sewing machine
IN the millinery establishment of Mrs. Healy,
and pleasantly talking to some ladies, when
she tell over upon her face and died IN few
moments. A physician was Immediately sent
for, but before he arrived she was quite dead.
About a half hour previously she had eaten
hearty dinner and appeared to be in good
health. The cause of her death was apDonleyv.