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"the constitutionalist. ] '"James GARDNER, JR. ' ■> TE K 1 Daily, per annum. Tfl- Weekly, per annum, C uu ff paid in advance, Weekly, annum, " W 1 ' If paid m advance z dU j | To Glut*, remitting $lO in advance. FIVE . , <()PIES are sent. Tins will put our weekly pa- ■ ( per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. Subscribers who will pay up arrearage, and sen 3 four new subscribers, wuh the money can get the paper at $2,00. i£,T All new subscriptions must be paid In advance. 1 must be paid on all Communications — BBiaaM THE CAPTIVE. A Scene in a Private Madhouse. BY M. G. LEWIS, ESd. Stay, Gaoler, stay, and hear in) woe Sbc is not mad who kneels to thee, •For what I’m now, too well 1 know-, And what 1 was, and whajt; hould he. I’ll rave no more in proud despair, My language shall be mild, though s. u, But yet I’ll firmly, truly swear, 1 am not mad ! 1 am not mad . My tyrant husband forged tlie tale w hich chains me in ibis dismal ceil My fate unknown my friends bewail m Oil! Gaoler, haste that fate to tell! Oh! haste tuy father’s heart to cheer; U, s h« art a't once ’twill grieve and glad To know, though kept a captive here, J am nut mud ! i am not mad ! few * | He smiles in scorn, and turns the key 1 He quits the grate! 1 knelt in vain! His glim tiering lamp still, still 1 see 1 ; ’ iTs gone—and all is gloom again 1 Cold, bitter cold!—No warms h! no light! Lite, all thy comforts once 1 had ; Yet here I’m chain'd this freezing night, Although not mad 1 no, no ! nut mad ! ’Tis sure some dream ! some vision vain ' What! I. the child of rank and wealth! Am I the wretch who clanks this chain, B :rcft of freedom, friends, and health’ Ah ! while I dwell on blessings fled, Which never more my heart must glad, How aches my heart! how burns my head! But “’tis not mail! no, ’tis not mad ! Hast thou, my child, forgot ere this, A mother’s face, a mother's tonguel She’ll ne’er forget your parting kiss, Nor round her neck how fast you clung ; Nor how with me you sued -to stay, Nor how that sun your sire forbade; Nor how —I’ll drive such thoughts away, They’ll make me mad ! they’ll make me mad \ His rosy Ups, how sweet they smiled ! His inild blue eyes, how bright they shone ! j None ever bore a lovelier child ! And art thou now forever gt nr? And mus. ' never see tine ... >, jVly prel-v. pretty, little lad! I will be free unbar the door! I am not mad ! i agi not mad ! Oh, hark! What mean those dreadful cribs'? His chain some furious madman hr. aks! He comes! —I see his glaring eyes! Now, now my dungeon grate he sh: brs’ Help, help!—He’s gone!—Ob ! fearful woe, Such icrearas to hear, such sights to see ! My brain, my brain! 1 know', I know, 1 am not mad but soon s/taf/ be! - "BK , | Yes, soon'-*—For look you '.—while I speak— Mark how yon demon’s eye-balls glare! He secs me—now' with dreadful shriek He whirls a serpent high in aiY. Horror! the xeptiie strikes his tooth °«pieVe fcmfs WOWb’d and sad 1-r A-r I —j i ; ™ ma d! 1 m mad. Your task is done !—1 m maa W.-Wc*?' ._ 0 —.v trnion J f The Death of CConueU. The death of the Irish Liberator has revealed the immensity of his fame. The friends of freedom in every land look upon his decease as a great event —as nothing less than a catastronhe—in the progress of public liberty. Yet no man ever be longed in his whole spirit, and life, and character, more exclusively and more intensely lo a single nation. O’Connell was Ireland incarnate. Mow, then,,came his name to be a power, not in Ireland only, but through out the world? Because for more than an entire generation, in all his great efforts in the cause of Ireland, he stood before the world as the most prominent and powerful representative of the two ; noblest political ideas which have been developed in the European system of na- | tions during this nineteeth century. As the Catholic Emancipationist, he repre sented the freedom ofconscience from the oppressions of the civil pow'er. As the I Irish Liberator, he represented political ■ revolution operating by moral force | alone, and through the forms of law. In the first of these characters, in 1809, he, ! the champion of an oppressed and depen dent province, overcame in combination Wellington and Feel—the soldier who I had then wrested Europe from tiie grasp ; of Napoleon, and the statesman who has i since encountered victoriously the most ] colossal monopoly in tire world, and given ~ to England free trade in food. In Ins se I cond character—as a peaceful revolution- < ist—O’Connell lias left his niis.-ion'all I t unfinished. In his latter days, a terrible dispensation of Providence—the refusal of the soil of his country to bring forth t food for man—for a lime paralyzed his t arm in its work of deliverance, and he * has “died” when under the pressure of t such an event, he could no longer “do.” r But “revolutions never go backwards;” i and the Liberator of Ireland yet works t by the words which hehasgnven on the i r hearts of Irishmen. When O'Connell said ? •*Let every Irishman remember that he i t loho commits a crime strengthens the ene- i my,”he summed up, in a line, tiie whole gospel of peaceful revolution, and uttered I perhaps as sublime a war cry against t oppression as ever fell from the lips of r the leader of a people in a revolt. Such c words are more than battles. As an orator, O’Connell must rank a high among the greatest of those who r have mastered men by the gift of speech, f More than any other man of his day— s more than Berryer, and as much as h Mira beau—lie was the orator of great v massesofmen. The “Monster Meeting” ii (in the use he made of if, almost his own tl invention) was the true element of his ti eloquence. Such a presence put into his j w hands at once persuasion and power, and i he opened at will all the deepest foun- | 1 tains of rage, of laughter, and of tears. — j < And yet he was very great in tho se- ; lecied circle of Parliament. Me struck i down lo the very earth, at a single blow, the rampant rhetoric of D Israeli, before , which at a later day,evenPeel himself was compelled to retreat and quail. Neither j the impassioned ingenuities of Macauley, j nor the strong graep and impetuous force j of Stanley, were a match for him in the ! debates on the famous Ifish coercion bill. And his pen was as powerful as his speech. 11 is “Letters to the people of j England,” published some years since in tf,e Times, have always appeared to ns a< among the finest, if not the very finest, specimens of popular appeal which our age has produced. They are as vivid and fervent as the best passages of (J - Connell’s speeches, and they are as con- j densed, and terse, and strongly-woven in their style, as the best political pumph- . lending of Swift. The loss of O'Connell is a great loss j to tbe cause of liberty, and, above all, | of revolution throughout the world. But j in no other foreign nation will the mem- | orv of In’s greatness be so cherished as in j the United" States, Yet lie was at times j led to speak of our Union, and especially j of the southern portion of if, with great j asperity and harshness. That he should have so spoken, is a disparagement at once of his w isdom and Ids liberality; for ! it showed him ready to resort to invective 1 and denunciation in relation to a great and complicated social subject, which he had no fit opportunity to examine or un derstand. In a word, it is at once a [tart ; of his glory as a Paniot, and a pari of j his imperfection as a Champion of Re form, that his political views seem to have hern rigorously bounded by tiie horizon of his own country, lie was raised up to fight the great moral b attle of oppress ed Ireland; and he pul into the cause, in- j volving as it did the cause of Catholicism under Protestant ascendency, the whole i power of his understanding and of his heart. To find a parallel to that (tower in its mastery over the Irish people, we i must go back, as has well been said, far ; beyond the statesman of the present ecu- i turv, to the eras of great religious move- j ments —to the days of Luther aud of Ma homet. [Correspondence oj the A. i. San.] Scotland. Death of Dr. (Joiners — Demonstrations of | respect —7 V Church—(xcnerul „4s sem li s, tj r. Edinburg June I, 1847. O ir great Theol ,g cian, the Rev Dr. Chalmers, died vary suddenly last Sun day night of apoplexy, in the seventieth year of his age. Me had been to London last week to give evidence before a com j rnittee of the Hhu.se of Commons, in rela- I lion lo the refusal of certain parlies to j furnish sites for Free Courches, and re- j turned on Friday lo his residence at | Morningside, near this city, apparent usual on' SuiiaajhifvrnriVkn.i H, r «A<, vp.d. «<* corpse next morning. The body was in a reclining position, quite cold. Onex animation the surgeons discovered that a i blood ve>sel had burst in the head. fie ! had boen in the ministry 4o years. The I FreeChuich assembly being in session, immediately adj turned, as a token of res pre: toiiis memory. The assembly of the | established Church is also in session. A very serious riot occurred at Greenock ! last Thursday night, as a soitol winding up of the Queen’s birth day celebration. The rioters pelted every well dressed person that passed and broke all the w in dow's fronting on the square. An Irish | laborer was killed by the police, who finally dispersed the rioters. The crops are looking remarkably well. The suc cessor of Dr Chalmers, as the leader of j the Free Church, will probably be Dr. Candlish. Death of Pofbssor F. F. Gouraud. TheCourTier des Etats Unis announces ; the death of Professor Goinaud, a French- ! man who obtained much celebritv a few | v 1 years since, fi r his system of mnemo lecfmy, w hich for a time excited much at J fention. By his lectures on the system, j i e is said to have made in one winter in : New York $20,009. But unsuccessful speculation's and a long illness near!y ex hausted this little fortune, and he died in a condition bordering on indigence, ffe * c 5 was a talented man; was the pupil of M. Daguerre, and brought to this country his wonderful invention of the Daguerreotype. He and his wfife had been both for months confined to their bed by sickness. She died in March, and he soon followed her. Ti c Courrier says : “He leaves too young children and an unfinished work,on which he had bestowed three years of labor and built the most exalted hopes. It is a universal gram mar, in which he completes his system of mnomotechny, and applies a uniform ar rangement to the audiography and pro- | nunciation of the seven principal lan guages of the civilized world. This work, assimilated lo that of the Benedictines by the patience and research which it ex- , acted, will probably not be lost to science, i Three fourths of it are printed, and we | hope that the offering ofGou rand’s genius, this orphan of his thought and toil, will no j - more be abandoned than the two orphans I of his affection.” The Commercial Advertiser announces | a fact which will excite the reader’s com miseration. More than a year ago, Pro- ] lessor G. received information that a con- i Siderable legacy had been provided for 1 Jim by the will of an aged relative, but ‘ with the condition.that he should appear i n person by a specified lime to undertake ! | he performance of certain trusts. The f ime expired in March, when his, wife c vas dying, and he was himself unable lo t i., C n t T ,—nr — r ««»■ ■■■■ rise from his bod. In his last moments, he spoke of this with the deepest chagrin 5 on account of his children, lor whom the 1 legacy would have made ample provi , sion. . [From lie Sew York Sun, ~'st inxt.] Opinions of the English Press.—The War in Mexico. It is remarkable how soon a few bril liant victories have changed the tone of the English Press touching the war in j Mexico. So long as there was the !ea>t j hope that Mexico could resist or drive us out, so Iong: as our success scented doubt ful, English journals without exception were filled with sneers, insinuations of j b r avado beyond our capability, and pro- ! phecies of the final repulsion from Mexi co and shame of the United S ales. The b title of Buena Vista, the capture of Ve j ra Cruz, and especially lho storming of Sierra Gorda, while they have humGci and scattered the last hope of the Mexi- j can Ch efiains, and proved the unpa ralle!- ; ed bravery and capacity of the American j army, have completely si enced the rabid : journalists across the Atlantic. W e have j ever believed that Europe gauged her ad miration and respect for us by her con sciousness of our military power, and the demonstrations we have made in Mexico, give the highest credentials of Na’ional character, that could he offered. Eng land at last has reluctantly accepted them, ami with a magnanimity as honorable as it is becoming, her journals now confess to the heroism of our troops, the briliiao cy of our victories, and the probable com | plete success of our arms. We arc as | | happy to record their omcnd'S, as we i were sorry that they should strive to im- j derrale us*, when we were likell^jmselves, 1 of Saxon blood and bone, and had given | i them such unquestionable proof of our j “stock” and breeding in two wars, and later bv feeding them as brethmu, when j nature had abandoned them to amine.— iWe are particularly pleased with t ho , ; language of the London Chronicle, a high ’ Court and Tory paper, which compliments the action of our troops at Sierra Gorda, i and passes a strong tribute to G n Scott. who, at Chippewa and Lunds s Lane j some vrars ago formed an acquaintance, i i and fulfilled a brilliant engage in- at with | the British Lion, dispersing the veterans j of the British army as lie did l|ie Mrnxi cans at Sierra Goida. We givt the ex | tract, and ask the press to pass it on as ( one of the strongest compliments ever j offered to the leaders and soldiers of any 1 army. Alluding to the battle of Sierra Gorda, and the confidence both td our officers and troops, the Chronicle avs : “The opinion entertained by the United States officers of the powers of resistance i of their opponents, may be inferred fiom | General Scctlks orders issued in * tie va ri- I ou< generals of division on the day pie ! ceding the action. Never, in tlm direc tions issued by any of the greatest Eu ropean commanders, do w e remember to have seen a greater confidence manifest ed in what must he the result of his ope ry’ions. Success is assumed on every each division, after forcing each point of I the Mexic an entrenchments, is as clearly | marked out as though liie result had u! | readv taken place. “We are bound to say that flie unlirn i ited confidence placed by General Scott i ! in the troops under his command has been justified bv the event. His victory at Serra Gudo appears to have been by tar the most brilliant affair of the war.” As to the final result of the war, the Cbionicle looks upon a military occupa tion as not only probable, bin a result ne cessarily beyond dispute. Having con j quered the country, it never doubts our i right lodicta'e the terms of peace. Un ! like some quasi journals in ibis country, which have proved themselves the belter Mexicans—some, too, which sanction the war, hut do not believe in reaping rhe j'natural and neces«ary fruits thereof, the ' Chronicle says: “As to the point, that the United Stales troops would lake miii ary possession of the great towns of the conn- ! try, we have never disputed it for one mo- i mens; but military possession of certain points in a country is not identical with ' conquest of the country.” Here is just where we have taken our ■ stand. We have insisted upon the right | and expediency of occupation, as the ; surest means of indemnifying ourselves I and promoting the welfare of Mexico.— 1 Torn as that country is by faction, and ! beset as she is bv hereditary robbers, we | are called to justify ourselves and redeem her, not less by her necessities than the j honor of onr country. It would be equal | to robbery and murder, if having it in ' our power to save and exalt our neighbor, | we left him to die by hisown hand. We trust onr tardy rulers and soft souled j philanthropists, will take reproof from the | lust scentence quoted, and tint destroy j themselves and Mexico by mistaken kind- j ness. Occupation and conquest are dis- j tinct and different things, the one we are j imperiously called on to accept, the other we have never designed, nor even dream ed of.— | Woman ia the United States and in Eu rope. Fanny Kemble Butler, in her new work, 1 ‘A Year of Consolation,’ alludes to her so- i journ in this coiaifry with someihing like a , feeling of muiitied satisfaction! She ex claims, laboring nndet the chagrin occasion ed by the petty discomforfte of travelling on 1 the Continent in Europe : I ‘lf I had travelled on the Continent before . I went to America, I should have been infi nitely less surprised and amazed than I was ' at the various unpleasant peculiarities of its * inhabitants.’ t This can hardly be called complimentary; c nor is it precisely what we desire to refer at present. Yet it is an instructive lesson that future travellers in this hemisphere might commit to memory, with considerable bene- t fit. She adds i.i another chapter : ‘Oh, my poor, dear American fellow-citi- j I zens! how humbly on my knees, do I b°g j yonr pardon for all the reproaches I have le veled against your national diversion ot spit tiii'j, and I lie consequent filth which you ere- j f ate around you. Her® I in the cab nos ! I this boat, surrounped with men hawk ng and j ( spitting, and. whereas spittoons have hither- j ( to been the bane of my life in the United Stales, a spittoon, to-day, would have be ea 1 the jov of my heart, and the delight ot my i eyes. How 1 thought, 100, of (he honor and < security in which women might traverse j | alone from Georgia to Maine, that vast conn- , try, certain of assistance, attention, the most | respectful civility, the most humane protec- 1 lion, Iron) every man she meets, without (be fear of injury or insult, screened by the most sacred and universal care from even the ap pearance of neglect or impertinence —tra- t veiling alone with as much safety and coin- • i*.rt, as though she were the s:- ! er or the j daughter of every man she meets.’ Now, to our mind, to say of a country, that > a helpless female may travel alone, in it ‘with as much saf ty and comfort, as though she were the sister or daughter of every man i she meets.’ is to pronounce a eulogy upcti its inhabitants ot the highest and proudest char acter. Without am* wish to indulge in mawkish sentiment upon the subject of what we Ame ricans are by custom, (a very silly custom,) compelled to cal! the ladies, it is a grave truth, established bv history and demons'rated bv experience, that civil iusthutious and so cial ord-T Im ve always reached their highest j point of perfection in a community where the | women are most re-p-*ctcd, and the lowest j where women are degraded into mere beings . ofbondage, or creatures of momentary amuse- i rnent. ° [ Phil. Times. I AUGUSTA. GEO.. S \Ti UDAV AIOUMNd, .11 NE 2u, 1847. o»nuci'V« .tlup «f (lie fttate of Geor^in. ll gives us no ordinary pleasure to ac knowledge the receipt of a copy of this truly splendid specimen of Art. Air. Bonner arriv ■ ed in our city from the North, on Thursday ! evening, with a few et ids splendid maps. i These are the triumphant result of eighteen 1 months of arduous and incessant labour, and I professional skill, by an accomplished Civil | Engineer, a native of this State, who has thus devoted his talents to the production of j a work which will a! k ' be valuable to bis fellow citizens, and a monument to his own 1 energy and enlightened enterprize. We can not speak 100 highly of this map, for the whole plan is admirable—the scientific por tion of the undertaking executed by the hand of a master, and is in every d ‘partinent thorough and complete. The embellishment*- are in fine and rite mechanical execu , tion is so beautiful as to make it an appropri i ate ornament in the most eleg.nf private resi ; dence. Every river, creek, town and village j and post ofti :e in Lite iStale, and the roads - leading to and fro, are laid down with scru pulous accuracy. So are the rail roads,with | profiles of their elevations and depressions, ■ with reference to level of tide water. One can become almost as familiar with the Jo -1 caliiies of each county as with his own pre mises by means of litis map. The drawings —. _ . . ... me most aullieutic sources— those of the Surveyor General’s office. Mr. Bonner, being a Civil Engineer, and having been employed on several of our pub j lie works, is familiar with the topography of i many portions of our iS'afe, and this knowl edge, from personal observation, lias been of i great service to him in this undertaking. o o We invite the public to examine a copy of I the map at our olfi. e. Copies can aico be seen at the book stores of Thomas Richards and C. E. Grenville. We would add, that the expense of pub lishing is so great that Mr. Bonner has con cluded uotto hazard the issuing of more co pies than sufficient to supply actual sub scribers, Those therefore desiring a copy, I should immediately furnish their names as subscribers. The price is .10, per copy. We know of no manner in which that sum could be more usefully invested. . - Arrival of ll»c IVcnideut at Ualliaiorc. The [’resident of the United States arrived j at Baltimore on Tuesday last, and met with , a warm reception. The Baltimore Sun of Wednesday, says— t- Yesterday was quite a busy day in Baltimore, the people having resolved pretty generally to turn out and wel come the [’resident of the Nation to the hos pitalities of the city. Early in the morning | the national flag was displayed from the i usual public places in the city and from m s of the newspaper offices; and as noon drew on, the occasional note of preparation was heard from the drum, near and remote, and ! tho plume and military dress begin to dot the collecting groups in the*street.— In a short time these groups grew to crowds i and the military display assumed the form of i companies, and as the time of the expected I arrival of the President approached, Balti more street from Gay to Hanover and down Hanover to Pratt street, along which he was i to come, became densely crowded. “At Washington, it was the regular cabinet day, but the President having made his ar rangements to leave in the uoon train of cars, a meeting took place at 10 A. M. At the same hour, the families of the cabinet \ ministers and several other ladies, made a | visit for the purpose of bidd.ng farewell to the President’s lady and her noice, Miss | Rucker. At noon the entire party readied j the cars, where a large assemblage of citi* I zens were in attendance. The President, with Mrs. Polk and Miss Rucker, suite, and | and some oilier personal friends, soon em- | barked in a splendid car, under the special | ‘ charge of Captain Hughes, the entire train i | being under the direction of Captain Ferry, j ] They soon left, amidst many expressions of ; * best wishes for their welfare and safe return. I 1 “The President’s suite consistslof the Hon. ( - t Mr. Clifford, Attorney General; Hon. Mr. ' * Burke, Commissioner of Patents, and Mr. | [ Appleton, Chief Clerk of the Navy Depart- l ment. Mrs. Folk and niece are attended by j j Colonel Rus worm, of the Post office Depart- j , ment. In one hour and a halt the car> rear h- » ed “Mount Clare” D’pot. There hundreds of workmen and others from the surround- | inneighborhood soon assembled around the ( cars, and as by general consent, welcomed , the Chief Magistrate to the “Monumental « City.” It was a most gratifying spectacle to ' behold *och a multitude of noble hearts and stout arms uniting in the welcome acclama tions. The Mayor of the city, Colonel Ja* i cob G. Davis, and Messrs. Hack, Spurrier, j Colton, Walsh, Sfansbnry, and Ninde, the in defatigable members of the committee, soon ; entered the car, and received the i resident ; and his company in a handsome manner. “At the outer depot, in the vicinity ms which the Junior Artillerists, Caps. Giil had j been stationed, the arrival of cars was made ! known by the discharge of a salute of twenty- 1 on j guns, and by this time the whole milita ry escort had taken position in Hanover | street from Billimore to Pra t s’root; his Excellency the President be ng received midway, at the intersection of Lombard \ street, down which he cam *. seated in a barouche, with the Hun. J. G Davis, Mayor of the city, and the Hon. Nathan Clifford, Attorney General of United States.’ , The Pres dent was to leave Billimore on Wednesday morning, making a short stay at j Wilmington, Del., and arrive at Philadel i phia in the afternoon, where every prepara- | j tion was made to give him a warm reception j He was to remain mi Philadelphia on Thurs dav, and arrive at Now York on Fiiday j morning. The Washington Union says that the P >st master General lias made anangeineii s by which be will be enabled, about the Ist ot July, to lur- , nish the laroe officers in the Union with postage , stamps. They may then be procured in any number by persons d 'sirour ot pre- f n\iug thoir correspondence. To such they will doubtless , prsve a great convenience, as a letter with one ot | j these stamps on it may be deposited in the office j j at any hour, day er nig’it, in tin* same manner as | loiters on which the postage i not pre-patJ, The Telegraph. The Charleston Mercury, ot the the 23th insf. I ! says—-By a letter from the contractor to a gentle 1 wan in this city, we learn that the posts are all erected hetwe-n Raleigh and Fayetteville ami j will he all up from the latter place to Chi raw, i y j the Ith of Ju'ynrxt. A F;it Orttce.- Thp office of American Counsul at Havre, vacant by the death of R. G. Beasley, is said to be worth twenty thousand dollars. The Crops. .jf A letter from Fairfield District, near Winns borough, to one oflhe proprietors of the Charles ton Courier, dated the 9lsl inst. says.—’ bur the last five weeks, we have had i great ilct! ol redo, i and the Cotton cr >p, in addition to being hack t im• mg a had stand, will, 1 fear, have i to encounter a worse enemy than grass [mean ing, the worm]. The grain crops are good; but, we had, yesterday, a heavy fail of rain, ■ from the appearance ot th ■ clouds, I think it was general, if so, it will be productive of much mis | chief.” Important to JCpicures. They have discovered in Sicily the oysters, ' celebrated in the time ofthe Romans, which were I called the ears of Venus. They are very succu. j lent. | A master saddler, of X. York, on two hours notice, walked on Friday, on Long Island, {(I j , mdes within ten hours, (in 9 hours and 33 min- | utes.) Some money was pending on the resuf‘| hut the thing was done more for feeling than any j I thing else. ! Roswell L. Colt, E-oj., of Patterson, (N. J.) | i who is said to have already the larges herd of A j derney Cattle in the country, has sent an order ' i to the island of Guernsey for a choice Alderney, ' i cow and bull of the purest stock. From that i • small district, it is said, 10 ).) cows are annually j exported to England, to supply the lovers of rich milk and cream with a luxury such as none but : A Iderney can yield in such prefection. The B *ston Daily Advertiser of Saturday has the following paragraphs respecting tlt * ! operations and profits of two of the Railroads | from that city and constituting the line be- i tween Albany and Boston. The results here exhibited are achieved in the face and influ ence of the rivalry of New York, and they go to prove what may he effected by judicious management, persevering energy and ci nsis lant economy. Railroad Dividends. —The Directors of the Boston and Worcester Railroad have declar ed a dividend of five per cent, for the six months ending on the 31st day of May, on a capital of $3,500,000. The dividend of the corresponding period of the last year, was i 4 percent, on a capital of $3,000,000. The i receipts of income for the first half of the j present year have exceeded those ofthe tne period of last year, by more than $60,000. The Directors of the Western Railroad I have declare! a d videnl of four per cent, from the profits ofthe six months ending on the 31it of May. Tiffs corporation has voted an increase of capital stock to the | amount of $350,000, for the purpose of ma king the important improvement of laying twelve miles of double track, and of rn iking a large increase of the stock of locomotive engines, and of freight cars, demanded bv the increased business of the road. Just it. The Boston Post hits off the proposed Federal nomination of Gen. Taylor for President, and j Senator Corwin for Vice President, in the fol lowing pungent paragraph : “There’s a team for you—the antidote and the bane done up in one package! Taylor for the J patriots—Corwin for the traitors! * Taylor for the fighting boys—Corwin for the cow hoys, who delight to give ‘aid and comfort’ to the enemy !-- ( Taylor for the slave-holders—-Corwin tor the * abolitionists j Taylor fur the free-traders—Cor- ( win for the monopolists, the manufactures and money-mongers! Taylor fur the Anti-Bank and hard money—Corwin for the corporals and rag barons! Truly this ticket is worthy the inge nuity ofthe cutest pedlar that ever left our good ly city with his cart full of notions. There’s t ware for every market—a ribbon for nearly every customer.” A Valuable Horse. A wag in Pennsylvania not long since pur chased a very line horse. Returning from a ride a few days afterwards, he said that he bad dis covered a quality in his ar-utiai which added fitly dollars to Iris value: “lleshyed at a c unstable! ' - Pcblic Libraries. According to u table compiled from the re searches of a literary gentleman of New York, there arc in the Uni'ed States no less than 933 public libraries. The aggregate number ot vol umes is set down at 2.031,960. To Make Kitchen Vegetables Tender, To a gallon of peas or beans, either green or dry, add a teaspoonfu! of saleratus, while cook ing and they will boil tender, much quicker, and be of a brighter color. Very Good. A gentleman residing ut the west end of tiff* citv, says tht' Boston Times, who had been very much annoyed by pedlars, has placed upon his door the following notice— ‘ Pedlars and I lffev®* are requested not to ring the hell, as the occu pant of this house declines dealing with them.” Try it. A writer in the Medical Gazet'r says, that (bo habitual cramps at night may be cured or prevent ed by so arranging the bed or matrass tfiat (bo feet of the patient shall be 19 inches higher than the head. Absent without Leave. The newspapers which wore sent directed <o Prince Louis Napoleon at Ham, after his escape, Wt re returned to the printers with the customary orbited stamp, “Gone away without leasing hu address.” [communicated j Democratic Electing, JACKSON BOKO*, June 91, 1847. Accordin'* - to previous notice, a meeting of i ij,e delegates to a Democratic Convention, l to nominate a candidate to represent the Hili j District in the State .Senate, was held at the 43 mile Station, Central Rail Road, on Sat urday the 19th of June. When at the invi -1 t • tion of Mr George Oliver, the delegates j repaired to his spacious mansion on the lull i near by. On motion of J. Lawton Singellton, I 4 S George Oliver, Esq. took the Gbair, and the delegates proceeded to enrol! their names. On motion, Dr. William L. Mathews was 1 requested to act as Secretary, and after the convention was duly organized, On motion of Dr. !*. Warner, the conven tion proceeded to ballot for a suitable candi date. When on the first ballot, W. J. Law ton. Esq was declared the chonsen of the i convention. W. J. Lawton, Eq. being on the ground, j On motion, a Committee of three were np ; pointed to inform him ot his nomination and invite him to appear before the convention, j In a revv moments .Mr. Lawton’s appearance * before the convention was recognized by shouts of welcome and applause, Mr. Lawton then being called upon, ad dressed the convention in an easy and happy i manner, assuring the convention that he ; would never prove recreant to so just a cause, f 'That lie had been lollabied in the cradle of j democracy,had been taught it in his infancy, i and lie would not now’ abandon fho-e princi i pies which he had ever held so dear. j As soon as tlie convention was quieted, af ter Mr. Lawton’s address, Dr. Warner then j arose and addressed the convention in a hap py style. He said the cause was just and our candidate worthy, and he vvouid now rail ; upon the democrats to support their candidate with a hearty good cheer; that whatever might be our personal predilections, if there were any, should be lost in the coming rlec j tion; that it would be a war for principles and not for men. On motion of Dr. Warner, it was Resolved, 'That the proceedings of this con vention lie published in the Savannah Geor j gian and the Augusta Constitutionalist. The convent ion then adjourned. GEORGE OLIVER, Chairman. William L. Mathews, Secretary. After the convention had adjourned, the i democrats of Scriven then present organized a meeting, and on motion of J. Lawton Sm gellton, E-q it was Resolved , 'That the democratic party of Scriven county, meet at Jackson boro on the I first Tuesday in July, for the purpose of noun- I nating suitable candidates to be run by the i party for the House of Representatives, and’ for county officers. After a motion to publish the proceedings in the Georgian and Constitutionalist, the meeting adjourned. GEORGE OL!\ ER, Chairman. William L. Mathews, Secretary. [ l'rom the Macon (wtorgian Telegraph.] Georgia—theTanir—The Whig Party. This heresy so ruinous, so totally tin naturae to her, and >o perfectly heterodox, because of its borrowed character, was in a moment of party delirium engrafted upon the principles ol one ot the political parties o( this State, to subserve the views of a few ambitious men. The error was a grievous one, and most griev ously has it been atoned for. \N itb the reforms of the present administra tion and the blessings of Free Trade, every where around us, the day has gone bv in tins Slate, never let ns hope to return, when lhe people will aga n suffer the suppleness of mean ambitious leaders, or an unjust suspicion of the policy of the Republican fathers of the oldtMi time, to induce them to part with their principles, or become infatuated followers of political sharpers at Ihe north, whose ava ricious policy and selfish objects, would, if adopted, in a very few years, render our con dition almost as abject as the people of Ireland. One of the best signs of this happy prospect of returning sanity among the Whigs, and