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THE CON STITUTION ALI ST. j A MES GA R D N ER. JR. TESMS. Daily, per annum Tri-Weekly, per annum G 00 If paid in advance 5 00 Weekly, per annum 3 00 If paid in advance •- 50 To Clubs, remitting $lO in advance, FIVE COPIES are sent. This will put our Weekly pa- j per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. IPj’Subscribers who will pay up arrearages, and send four new subscribers, with the money, can get the paper at $2 00. (UpAll new subscriptions must be paid in ad- ' ranee. dyPostage must be paid on all communications [ und letters of business. ■■ i ■■ ■ [From the St. Louis Reveille. J The Lord’s Prayer. We lay before our readers the Lord’s Prayer, beautifully paraphrased into an acrostic, by Thom as Sturtevant, Jr. u soldier of the 26th Regiment IT. S. infantry, and a prisoner of war in the pro vince of Upper Canada. iOur Lord and King who reigns enthroned on high I Father of light! mysterious Deity ! H7io art the great 1 AM, the last, the firs’t, Art righteous, holy, merciful, and just, In realms of glory, scenes where angels sing Heaven is the dwelling place of God our King, Hallowed thy name, which doth all names trans- , cent!, Be thou adored our great Almighty Friend; TkyXilory shines beyond creation’s space, Named in the book of Justice and of Grace, Thy kingdom towers beyond tire sl-ary skies -; Kingdoms satanic fall but thine shall rise. Came let thine empire, O thou Holy one, Tlnj great and everlasting will be done ! Will God make known his will, his power display? Be it the work of mortals to obey, Bone in the great the wondrous works of love, On Calvary's cross he died, but reigns above. Farth bears the record in thy holy word. ,4a" heaven adores thy name, let earth. O Lord; It shines transcendant in the eternal shies, Js praised in Heaven, for men the savior dies. Tn sons, immortol angels laud his name, Heaven shouts with joy, and saints his love proclaim. dive ns, O Lord, our food, nor cease to give Us that food on which oar soul’s may live! This be our boon to-day and days to come. Bay without end in our eternal home; Our needy soul’s supply from day to day, Bailu assist ami aid »s when we pray. Bread though we ask, yet Lord, thy blessings lend, And make us grateful when thy gifts descend; Forgive our sins, which in destructions place Us the vile children of a rebel race; Our lollies, faults and trespasses forgive, Bebts which we ne’er can pay, or thou receive; As we, O Lord, our neighbors faults o’erlook. IVe beg thoud’st blot oat from thy memory’s book, Forgive our enemies extend our grace Our soul’s to save, e’en Adam’s guilty race, Debtors to thee in Gratitude and Love, And in that duty paid by Saints above. Lead ns from sin, and in thy mercy raise Us from the temptor and his hellish ways, Not in our own, but in his name who bled, Lito thine ear, we pour our every need. Temptations fatal charms help us to shun. But may we conquer through thy conquering Son! Deliver us from all which can annoy Us in this world, and may our souls destroy; From all calamities which men betide Evil and death, O turn our feet aside : For we are mortal worms and cleave to clay; Thine ’tis to rule and mortals to obey. Js not thy mercy, Lord, forever free f T>ie whole creation knows no God but thee! Kingdom and empire in thy presence fall; The King eternal reigns the King of all. Power is with thee —to thee be glory given, And be thy name adored by earth and Heaven; The praise of saints and angels is thine own, Glory to Thee, the everlasting One. Forever be thy holy name adored, Amen, Hosanna! blessed be the Lord. [From the Federal Union.] The Hero of Withlacoochic. The only response that has yet been given to the oft-repeated question, what are Gen. Clinch’s qualificationsffor the office of Gov ernor, is, that he is “the hero of Withla coochie.” As then, in the estimation of his friends, his military exploits at Withlacoohie, constitute alike his claims and qualifications, it is right and proper they should be distinct ly understood. For our own information, we have ransacked the records of the Seminole ; campaign, and have carefully examined the official report of the battle. It is signed by the General himself. If it possessed the bre- j vityof the despatches of Gen. Taylor, it would afford us pleasure to lay it before our readers. But it possesses neither that characteristic, nor does it exhibit a scintilla of that talent or li terary attainment that distinguish the reports of the great captain of the war with Mexico.— That report does not state whether the Indians or our own troops obtained the victory, nor does it say whether a single one of the enemy was killed or wounded. Those of our readers who have forgotten the details of that Indian skirmish, will be amused, now that the mole-hill, for political purposes, has been magnified into a mountain, to learn them. Why, whithin the past year, scores almost, of battles have been fought by detach- ! ments of our gallant army, that are almost un- ! known to fame, that would throw the skirmish at Withlacoochic into the deepest shade.— i Such an affair as that, the gallant Doniphan would scarcely have thought worth reporting. Even the much abused Pillow, did not report his engagement near the National Bridge —an engagement evincing all the skill and bravery that were exhibited at Withlacoochic, and which was much more bloody and desperate. Far be it from us to underrate, or in the slight- j est degree disparage the conduct of Gen. ( Clinch and his gallant band in that engage ment. Nobly did they sustain themselves.— For it, the General deserves what he has re ceived, the thanks of his country. If it made j hiin a hero, and qualified him for the office of Governor, however, the Mexican war has made hundreds like him, and furnished the country with any number of men fitted for the j highest stations of civil life. That the memory of our readers may be re- j freshed, we lay before them the following ac count of the battle at Withlacoochic: Head-Quarters, > Fort Crane, Jan. 3d, 1836. ) General Circular to all the good citizens of Duval and Nassau- The army took up the line of march on the 29 th ult. and on the morning of the 3ist, at daybreak, arrived at the With lacooche and found the river too high to ford, commenced swimming horses, and sent one man over for a canoe that was seen on the op posite bank, and in it began to cross the regu lars, and about fifty of the militia, when we were soon informed that the Indians were com ing, and but a moment elapsed before a furious | fire was heard in our front; Col. Warren and myself immediately formed and extended our line from the river out through the swamp to the pine barren, and saw the regular troops on our right hotly engaged with at least SOO In dians; we were ordered to remain stationary, and prevent the Indians from entering our lines. After repeated solicitations outlie part of Col. Warren and myself, we took the res ponsibility on ourselves, and Col. Warren, led the right to the left of the regulars, and I was stationed on the left of our own line, when a charge was made, which, after about ten j minutes more of sharp firing, forced them to retreat, and the battle ended. We make out forty Indians killed, and wounded we suppose in proportion; the precise amount we cannot tell, as they carried them off—the loss is severe J on our part. Gen. Clinch says, that in many, j much greater battles, a much less number has i been killed and wounded. Fxirtller particulars will be told on Friday next, we will be at Jacksonville. I can now write no more; W. J. MILLS, Lt. Coi. Return of killed Sf wounded in the battle of \Vilhta coochie. .1 Regular troops—2 artificers arid i privates killed —1 captain, 1 Ist lieutenant, 1 2nd lieu tenant, 2 sergeants. 4 corporals, wounded —-4 killed, 52 wounded. Militia, 4th Regiment—wounded. Col. War- i ren, Maj. Cooper, severely, Lt. John \ oilmans, privates James Tyson and John Higginbotham, slightly. Leon troops, 2 privates wounded slightly. Militia, total, 7 wounded. Aggregate, 4 killed, 59 wounded, out of 227 men in battle. Many were shot through their clothes, and some horses killed and wounded. Col. W ar- i ren is wounded, Gen. Clinch, one ball through his cap and had one through his jacket sleeve. The firing was heavy, and the bushes literally , cut up around us: how it was that more were not shot, I cannot tell. J. W. MILLS, Lt. Col. [ From the Baltimore Snn, July 23.] California.— Interesting: Facts. The N. Y. Journal of Commerce contains a very interesting letter from a correspondent in Monterey, California, from which we select a few important facts, the relative value of which may he hereafter more distinctly re flected by our negotiations with Mexico. The I writer says, that a friend requests him to let “our American friends know, that we want ! some person here who knows how to make , blankets: the winters here are chilly and raw, ! and I caamdt find w here to buy a blanket.” — j This fact is of additional weight in connection j | with another, that sheep are abundant, and it ! i costs nothing to breed and raise them but “a boy and a clog.” The blankets Used there are i from Tepic, in Mexico, and are sold from ten to ninety dollars each; a few ted and blue j spots, and a -colored border, will make them | sell for almost all}’ price. i Common to second-best cloth has always I been worth from twelve to fourteen dollars a yard, and tailors charge eighteen dollars for making a coat. Common wool hats are worth eight dollars each, and the coarsest Woolen j stockings a dollar and twenty-five cents per pair. The writer says, “should any of yoilr readers be weavers, who wish tn make an inde- ; pendent fortune, I would advise them to fly to j California, where there is little doubt of their soon accumulating one to their satisfaction* 0 In a quarry which the w riter had employed some men to open, he discovered a stratum of i potter’s clay, of the very finest kind, without a partical of grit in it, and with the smooth- I ness of soap. All the crockery ware, how ever, comes from the States, and that family w hich can boast of a full set is a prodigy. Two weeks before the date of the letter, a new coal mine was discovered near San Luis Obispo; there arc now three within three hun dred miles of Monterey, yet coal was sold last year, from an American whaler, at five dollars a bushel* Shoes are brought chiefly from the States; yet ox-hides are sold for a dollar and fifty cents each. They arc taken to America, tanned, j dressed and made into shoes, the manufactured article brought out round Cape Horn, and an ! importation duty of at least one dollar per pair ! paid upon them, and then sold at the same 1 price, and frequently from twenty-five to fifty cents less than those manufactured in the country. The cause of this is the want of in dustry on the part of the people, and the want i of encouragement on the part of the goveru i ment. In view of these facts the writer re- I marks, “should the Uniti d States retain Cali | fomia, (which, is nut to t>e aouotea, } here is | room and opportunity for thousands of me- ' i ehanics and artisans to enrich themselves. ******* Whoever lives to see California in the hands of the Americans for the space of ten years, will be able to more than prove whatever I have advanced in its favor.” And should Ca- j lifornia pass into the hands of the Americans, “what an amazing field for enterprise,” ex- : claims the writer, “will it hold out. At pre- I | sent there is not a yard of tape, a pin, or a piece of domestic cotton, or even the thread it ; is sown with, that does not come from the United States of America; and this in a coun try where every thing necessary for their manufacture can be procured with less trouble and expense, on account of the superiority of j the climate, than in an} r other part of the Am erican continent.” There seems to be some little difficulty in , California, however, as there is every where else, in the matter of servants, in relation to which we make an extract: •‘There is not such a thing, all over Califor- | nia, as a hired female servant. The only fe- I male servant which the superior classes of the ! people have been able to procure, are Indians, which have been brought wild from the moun- j tains in their infancy. Those remain in some houses until they arrive at the age of twelve j or fourteen years, when they are almost sure to run away; and as none have been brought , into the settlements for some time past, there i are very few families now who have any ser vants at all. A California woman, though | she may be naked and cold, will not enter into regular service. They think it a degradation, 1 and many of them will rather sacrifiice their virtue than enter into any kind of regular ser- I ; vitude.” Unhappily the latter fact is of too frequent j occurence in this meridian, it is the result of ; a mistaken notion too often entertained by the ; 1 employed and enforced by the manner of the j ; employer. There is no degradation where a | valuable service is rendered for an equivalent, and there is scarcely any service that contri | butes more in the comfort and general happi ness of the household than that rendered by faithful domestic aid. And it is a service en- i titled to respect from those who enjoy it. If this subject were better understood by the ; two parties, the relation would be far more agreeable to both, and the result different to w hat it is at present. Uniform kindness, and not undue familiarity, is the secret of good management, as between the housewife and the servant. In California there are no tradeswomen, but , there are seamstresses, who rejoice in the op portunity to charge most unreasonable prices j for their labor. For making the coarsest shirts they charge a dollar, and must then be found in needles and thread. For washing they charge twelve and a half cents for each piece, but though they make money, they are very extravagant. The washerwoman preserves her dignity unimpaired by having as many and as rich dresses as the persons she washes for. The females are not given to idleness, as the men are. “The women,” says the writer, “are always occupied in some useful employment, either in their houses or out of them, and do a great deal more service in their families than the men; and there are_ many women in all j parts of this country who actually maintain their husbands and their children by their own personal Labor: the husband acting as a mere cypher in the family, when he does not, by all dishonorable means in Iris power, try to deprive I his wife of her hard-earned dollar, to carry it ; to the gambling table or the tavern. This in a | great measure is the reason, and has been for years, that many women have sacrificed the connubial bond, which is very rarely the case where the husband behaves to his wife as all husbands ought to behave.” “Dcms Em.” A pious old negro, while saying grace at the table not only used to ask a blessing on all he had upon his board,but would also peti tion to have some deficient dish supplied. One day it was known that Cato was out of potatoes, and suspecting ho would pray lor the ■ same at dinner, a wag provided himself with a Small measure of the vegetables, and stole un der the window, near which stood the table ot our colored Christian. Soon Cato drew up a ( chair arid commenced; O, massa Lord! wilt i dow in dy provident kindness condecen to bress ebery ting before Us; and be pleased to stow' upon us a few tat era—and all de praise —[Here the potatoes were dashed upon the ta ble, breaking plates and upsetting the mustard j ; pet.] “Deni’s massa Lord,” said Cato, , | looking up with surprise, “only jist lull’ 'em down a little easun Extraordinary Statement A comparison ot the registers ot mortality, savs an English paper, will convince us that a hero, placed in the trenches of a beleagured fortress where he is exposed for weeks to a continual shower of cannon shot, or placed on a field of battla before the bravest and most resolute of his enemies, has a much better | ohance of life, runs less risk of a premature death, than if he worked in an undrained street and slept in a crowded room in Bristol or Liv- * erpool. The chance of life was, at the. Siege of Flushing 450 to 1 j Siege of Antwerp <>o to 1 j i Siege of Badajos St t 0 , Hattie of Waterloo to 1 Shopkeeping, Liverpool W to 1 Weaving, Manchester 1T to I Saw-making, Sheffield Id to 1 j Augusta, (Georgia. SUNDAY 1. FOR GOVERNOR HON. Q. W. TOWNS. OF TALBOT. i Repeal of the Recent Tariff. Wke arguments of the Chronicle against the present tariff and in favor of the old tariff we would allow to pass by. We do not fear their j effect upon the cause of Free Trade. But its j article of Friday morning last is so full of er rors of fact, that it ought not to escape criti cism. A few specimens will be found in the following short extract: The ConstitrdionaUst says that salt and bag ging have not advanced in price because the duties upon them were diminished! Why have they advanced : According lo Demo j cratic doctrine, that low duties make UttC prices, they ought to have fallen in value. “It remains to be seen whether they Will pay for ! bagging to pack their growing crop at the present speculative prices.*’ fc Speculative prices! How* comes it that such prices exist ? Why, the truth of the matter is just this. The tariff of ’46 has struck a dead ly blow r at home-made bagging. Dealers in the article see this. They see that it must rise; indeed, according to the laws of trade, it has already risen. We will now depend most ly upon the foreign market; the home compe- i tition being over, the article advances in price, j “But prices do not go up as a consequence of duties o-oing down.” But they do in some cases, and this bag- | ging case is one in proof. We might enlarge upon this, but we have already become tedi ous. ... “Why the truth of the matter is just this. The tariff of 1846 has struck a deadly blow at home made bagging. » Dealers in the article see this. They see that it must rise.” inaeeci; is mis just me xnun. Tins act»ai 7 j blow causes the home made bagging to rise, f docs it: “Indeed, according to the laws of trade, it has already risen.” This is what the | Chronicle calls a deadly blow. We presume | the home makers of bagging would sing out, “Hit us again.” “Give us a few more deadly blows of the same sort.” This is decidedly the latest case of Ruin, Ruin, Ruin, that we have seen in a whig paper. It ought to go the rounds among the panic-makers. “We will now depend mostly upon the for ■ eign market. The home competition being over, the article advances in price." Here are distinctly announced, in these two short sentences, two very important facts— novel ones to the dealers in cotton bagging, i We hope our merchants will duly heed them. | “We will now depend mostly upon the for- | | eign market.” What, in the face of that dead- j ly blow at the home-made. Will the domes tic manufacturer stop his works—Mill the grower of hemp change his pursuit in the face ;of a rising market: “The competition being over.” Is it over in feet? Let us examine this question. Take a years product of west- ; ern hemp. The product of hemp for 1845 for instance, in the States of Kentucky, Missouri, Tennes see, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, is estimated at 37.000 tons. Os this 22,000 tons was manu factured into bagging and bale rope in the I west. The manufacture of bagging alone a- I mounted to 16,000,000 yards—enough to pack 2.500.000 bales. This is independent of what ! ! was manufactured at the North. A large sur- ! plus was still left, aft eg supplying in addition the demand for cordage, lines, twine, &c. The ■ extent of lands at the west for the growth of hemp is almost illimitable, and constantly opening. The market was glutted in 1846 i with the domestic article. This was the cause of the low prices last fall and winter. They sunk below remunerating prices, and this fact 1 checked the manufacture. It was not the tariff of 1846. The Chronicle is misinformed. We will snot) now depend mostly upon the foreign market. All who are in the trade, and are consequently posted up on this ques tion of bagging, know that since 1842 very lit- | tie foreign bagging has been imported. The 1 quantity annually diminishes, and now has | almost ceased to be imported. It has gradu- : ally fallen in the American market until it cannot now be manufactured abroad and sent j | here at remunerating prices. It can only be ! brought in when the domestic article ad vances in price to that point. Then the for eign article may be imported. The tariff of 1846 will therefore operate in favor of the cot- j ton planter to keep dowti the price. That point 1 not being reached we do not depend on the foreign market. “The home competition be ing over, the article advances in price.” We do not lyiow where the Chronicle gets this in- | formation. But from our examination of i Prices Current, importations and stocks, we i ■ are led to assert that the home competition is 1 not over —that it is not the foreign article in the market enhancing prices. We do not find , the foreign article monopolizing the market. There is scarcely any foreign bagging for sale in the American market. The homo compe tition (not) being over,” that is not the reason “the article advances in price.” The true reasons, we think, are the follow ing : The over production which reached its acme in 1845, by which prices of hemp ceased to be remunerative, induced a diminished pro duction in 1846. This tended to equalize the relative condition of supply and demand. By reference to the last New Orleans Price Current, July 24th, 1847, it will be perceived that at that port alone was received from the Western States,from Sept. Ist, 1846, to that date only 51,202 pieces—against receipt for same period the year previous, of 91,291 —a falling off of nearly one-half. In the article of rope there is also a falling off, though it is not so great. At the same time, July 24th, 1847, ! the Price Current shows, that in that great market for cotton bagging, there is no foreign bagging for sale. | But independent of this over production, the demand for American breadstuff's induced a I diversion of labor, and farmers devoted to the 1 raising of grain land previously occupied with ■ the growing of hemp. This may help to ac- I count for the diminished production in 1846, | and the consequent rise in price of bagging. “But prices do not go up as a consequence of duties going down.” — Constitutionalist. \ “But they do in some cases, and this bag- | ging ease is one in proof. We might enlarge upon this, but we have already become tedi ous.” Chronicle. We leave the question of fact to be decid jed by our readers. But we are sorry the ; j Chronicle did not “ enlarge ” upon the subject | without fear of becoming tedious* It would have been really amusing. “The liberal commercial policy of this coun try and of Great Britain, must inevitably keep I up an increased and mutually beneficial inter- 1 : course.” — Constitutionalist. “How: If the very prospect of a good crop in Europe, after a famine, too, utterly repuls- ! ! es our corn and other grains and provisions, ! i what can we expect in the ordinary run of crops: No, the foreign market is lost to us, i till it be opened by another famine.” — Chroni- j cle. The prospect of a good crop in Europe does , not utterly repulse our corn and other grain and provisions. The foreign market is not lost to us. As to j “other provisions,” beef, pork, bacon, butter, cheese, &c., a market for these in Great Britain we owe not to the famine, but to the liberal commercial policy of that country, and will continue to possess it irrespective of the famine* As to the market for our corn and | other grains, we have not lost it. Prices have fallen, it is true* But oven at this time, we have the authority of the New York Journal j of Commerce that in the article of flour alone, the foreign demand benefits the wheat grower j and keeps up the price. From a recent edito rial of tluit jouanal wc make the following ex tract : v “Every body knows that oilr--crops last year were immensely large, and that without a for- ! eign demand flour could not have ruled higher I than $4 or .f I 50 per barrel. But instead of that, it went up to $9 and over. What cans -1 ed it: The demand from abroad. And what I nas now caused a decline of more than $3 per barrel: The prospects of good crops on the j I other side. The despised foreign market, then, j ;is the regulator of our own. It drives our j flour up to $9, or lets it drop to half that rate. Even now, the foreign market keeps the home prices $1 °r $1 50 higher than it otherwise would be.” That our increased trade with Great Britain ' has been promoted by her liberal commercial policy, is undeniable. That this increase is not temporary, but will continue and will in crease, is apparent. England led the way in this enlighted policy. Her liberal tariff act of j 1846, preceded ours. She set us the example, jin the noble cause of free trade. She will not ; i return to her old system of high duties unless } we force her, by taking a step backwards in | the march of civilization by returning to the I old Chinese system of prohibitions and restric- I tions on trade. Unless this country commits I j this ineffable folly, her present prosperity must | continue —her exchangeable commodities, the | products of her industry and labor, must con ; tinue to increase, and thus give life, energy, 1 and prosperity to every department of busi ness. As to the breaking down domestic industry , i manufactures, and all that sort of thing, these ' predictions have lost their potency to frighten ! even children. The predictions of high tariff prophets have been sufficiently falsified to rob them of plausibility. They do not disturb the nerves of even the most timid protection- j ists, judging from their outlay of capital con- j | stantly going on all over the country for new ! manufacturing establishments. Even forty millions per annum of additional imports do | not capse the least trepidation among them. , The reason is, that the exports of the country : have exceeded the imports, drawing the differ ; ence back in specie. While this is continued, ; the country is in no danger of bankruptcy, | I ' • ' * ' The Chronicle continues to make a big show on that one article, Tobacco, on which Eng land levies a heavy duty, in order to prove ! that she does not extend to us a liberal com- ! I .* ■ mercial policy. That article stands “solitary and alone” in the long list of British imports. There is, out of many hundred, scarcely one I other article which bears a duty exceeding 20 per cent. The majority of them range from 10 to 15 per cent. Her tariff in the amount of I # 1 duty, is more liberal than ours. Sir Robert Peel j stated, in 1846, to Parliament, that 20 per cent. I could not be safely exceeded. On most articles j it was the highest revenue point. If the duty ex- ! ceeded that amount, imports, and consequent |ly revenue fell off. This fact rendered direct taxes and excises necessary. This fact was his justification for his continuance of the income tax, in a country where the in genuity of her statesmen is tasked to find cut modes of getting the greatest possible amount true of revenue from imports. This is the | cause in reference to Tobacco. Nor is Eng land singular in this. It is an article fr uit- I ful of revenue to the various nations of Eu -1 rope, and is reserved in France, Spain, Portu gal, Italy and the two Sicilies as monopolies by their respective governments. It is an il -1 lustration as striking as could be selected of ! » 1 the curse of restriction upon the true interests of agriculture and commerce. Were Tobacco admitted to the several coun tries of Europe at a moderate duty, it is esti mated by Mr. Dodge, the agent sent by our government for the purpose of examining into the subject, that 422,344 hogsheads of Tobac co could be exported to Europe and consum ed there annually. The beneficial effect of this to our country may be estimated when it is borne in mind that her present annual product is only about 200,000 hogsheads. Yet this arti cle languishes under the blighting influence of these commercial restrictions. This is in rank ; the second agricultural interest in our coun try with reference to the value of the export. How conclusively does it illustrate the impolcy of this country’s faltering in the noble cause of Free Trade. Some of the German States arc already relaxing their severe restric tions on the Tobacco interest. We feel con fident that the time is not very distant when the same enlightened course will be adopted by the other governments of Europe. copy the following communication from the Chronicle , and in reply to it would say, that we should be sorry any statement we may make should prove in any way injurious to the retail trade of Augusta. In reference to bagging Me deem it unnecessary to make any explanation, as there is no real discrepancy be tween us. Just one year ago it was selling at j Uc. wholesale. But we would state in reply to “Merchants’* that we had reference to the wholesale prices of salt and bagging, as we quote our in Prices Current only the wholesale prices. | We referred to our files for the prices of 27th July, 1846, in our statement,Avhcre we find that ' salt, was quoted $1,45 to 1,50 per sack. We made no table on last Wednesday, as out letter sheet Prices Current is issued during summer only monthly, but on that day the retail price of salt per sack was $1,62, from which we infer red that the wholesale price was not more than $1,50 per sack. We therefore felt justi fied in putting down the price, meaning whole sale. at $1,50. We still think it probable that I a large quantity could not be sold in this mar ket at a higher price. Had we been making up a table of prices, instead of writing a politi cal article we should not have been willing to trust to inference. We should have made it from actual sales in the market. [From the Chronicle Sentinel of yesterday.] Price of Salt and Bagrging-, “Salt can be purchased in this market at $1.50 per sack —it was not lower one year ago. So with cotton bagging. ***** But bagging is only two cents per yard more than it was just one year ago.” The above is extracted from a recent editori al in the Constitutionalist , in support of the ta riff’of 1846. It contains several (unintention al) mis-statements in reference to the prices of two leading articles of consumption, which we design to correct. Salt cannot now be “pur chased at $1.50 per sack,” it readily com mands 1.62 to $1.75. In July, 1846, the price was $1.40 and $1.45. Bagging now ! sells at 19 cts., last year the price opened at 14 cts., but receded to 124 cts.,in a few at which latter rate it continued throughout the season. With the political tendency of the article referred to, we have nought to do —we art- alike indifferent, whether its effect j be to satisfy the wavering, or confirm the I skeptical. But giving, as it does, incorrect ; quotations of otlr market, it is calculated to excite suspicion among the planters and dea lers of the State, and work great injustice* to | j our city. : * MBRCItAStS.- Thc New York Journal of Commerce, 23th ult. P. M. says—“A telegraphic despatch from Boston announces the report of Capt. Gafdi- j ncr, of the schr. Conservative, from Liverpool, N. S., that at 6 P. M. Saturday, he saw a large steamer ashore on the S. W. Ledge of Sea Is land —vessel upright, with fore and mainmast ! No steamer bound from Europe to this port i j could have been in that region, unless she had put into Halifax; and there is no Briti sh mail ; steamer due at Boston. The Caledonia which left Boston for Liverpool on the 16th reached Halifax on the 18th. Besides, sufficient time has elapsed for the receipt of intelligence through other channels, of any serious disaster in that quarter. It is probable that if Capt. Gardiner was not 1 deceived in his observation, the steamer seen ashore was a coaster.” Some Pumpkins. | The editor of the Caddo Gazette has receive a watermelon which weighed forty-jive pounds'. He had to erect a scaffold around, then cut on one side, and walk around and cut the other. It was cut and come again with him. Catterpiliar. The Tallahassee Journal of the 26th ult says —We have it from unquestionable authority, that both the Caterpillar Fly and Worm have made their appearance in this neighborhood. Naval Intelligence. From the Pensacola Democrat we derive the following intelligence: The U. 8. ordnance bark Electra, comman der T. A. Hunt, arrived in this port on the 1 18th hist., from the gulf squadron. Passengers. —Com’r. Alex. Slidell Macken zie, jr., charge oi ordnance stores; Purser Wm. H. Kennon, U. S. ship Mississippi; Midship man William Van Wycks. The U. S. store-ship Supply, Lieut. Com’r. John Calhoun, arrived on Monday morning last, 19th inst., atYera Cruz. The U. S. store ship Relief, sailed from Anton Lizardo on the afternoon of the same day for Pensacola. Passengers. —Lieut. John DeCamp; Passed Midshipman E. 11. Calhoun. The U. S. brig Perry, Lieut. Com’g. Barron, sailed thence on the 22d for the Brazil station. 1 The U. S. brig Washington would sail same day on a surveying excursion in the gulf ] stream. The U. S. schooner On-ka-hy-e, Lieut. Com’g Berryman, was to sail on the 23d for Havana via Key West. | The Electra and Supply will return to Vera Cruz, the latter under command of Lieut. De- Camp. Mnstred in. One company of Cavalry, under the new requisition, was, on Monday last, mus tered in to service by Lieut. Ward. On the same day | en election of officers was held, which resulted i as follows : E. R. Gouldixc, Captain. B. A. Hoxky, Ist Lieutenant. J, O. F. Reeder, 2d Lieutenant. L. W. Chandler, 2d Brevet Lieutenant. This company is rapidly filling up to the 1 requisite number, mid will doubtless he the i first reported full. —Muscogee Dcm. 30th ult. i ' 1 A barber in Brooklyn N. Y. advertises to> clean whigs for fifty cents.— * cheap .” Special Notices. Service may be expected on Sun day next in the School Room attached to the Epis copal Church, Morning and Evening , at the usual hour s 2 July 31 STEAMBOAT COMPANY OF GEOR GIA. DHT’ This Company having been re-organized and placed in an efficient state for service, are pre • pared to send forwarded without delay all freight that may offer. Goods consigned to WM. P. WILLIAMS, Agent at Savannah, will be forwarded free of Commis sions. The connection of R. M. Goodwin with this Company has terminated. JOHN B. GLTEL, June 6 I—y Agent at Augusta. ITT DR. J. A. S. MILLIGAN, Mill at tend to the practice of Medicine and Surgery, in Augusta and its vicinity. Office in Metcalf's Range, up stairs. Entrance one door below Mr. J. Marshall’s Drug Store. June 13 6m 215 Asthma Cured by Jayne’s Expectorant. Lambert v idle, N. J., April 27,1847. Dr. Jayne—Dear Sir—By the blessing of God, your Expectorant has effected a cure in me of i the most distressing complaint. In December last, was seized with great severity by a paroxysm of ASTHMA; a disease with which I had been af flicted for many years past. It was attended with a hoarseness and soreness of the lungs and throat, together with a laborious cough, and complete pros tration of strength, and worn out with suffocation, when a bottle of your Expectorant was sent to ray house. At first I thought it was nothing hut quack ery, but seeing it was so highly recommended by Dr, Going, with whom I was well acquainted, I was induced to try it, and in a few days it com pletely cured me, nor bare I ever had any return of the disease since, I hare n*rw formed so high an opinion of your medicine, that if I had hut a few bottles of it, and could obtain no more, I would not part with them for ten dollars each. Yours, most respectfully, JOHN SEGER, Pastor of the Baptist Church, at Lambertville, N. J, No Excase for a Bat J Head. [From the SumervUle, N. J. Whig.] Sometime since I called uj»on Mr. P. Mason of Somerville, for Ur. Jayne’s celebrated Hair To nic, to restore my hair, which was the* falling out daily I procured one bottle, and applied its con tents accordingto the directions. When the bot tle was exhausted, 1 discovered to my great sur prise and satisfaction, that the Young Hair was starting handsomly; I therefore purchased anoth er, and soon till I had used three bottles, and now,as a coni|H;nsation, my hair is as thick as ever. And what is more surprising, my baldness was not occasioned by sickness, in which case there I s greater hope of restoration—hut was hereditary. Jas. O. Rodgers, Methodist Minister. Mount Horeb, Some rest Co. N. J. Prepared only by Dr. Jayne, Philadelphia, and sold on agency by July 29 W. K. KITCHEN, Augusta. (Commercial. 1 LATEST DATES FROM LIVEHI’OOI JUI-Y 1. : LATEST DATES FROM HAVR3 JUNE 30. stock OF COTTON In. Augusta and Hamburg on the Ist instant . 1847 1846- In Augusta 15,864 • 14,742 Hamburg 3*807 3,314 On Wharf, 32 00 Total 10,703 18,256 SHIPMENT OF COTTON j From Atigilsta and Hamburg, to Savannah and Charles* ton, from ist Sept, to Ist inst. i * i4 l ti -t 1846-7. 1845-6. ! from Ist i o 3lst July, j ToSavanual)..-.'.’.'.- 1,107 2,841 Charleston, by rail road ....... 9 r Off2 6,316 j 3,139 9.157 i Ship d front Ist Sept, to Ist July,-.178,981 102,599 182,120 111,756 RECEIPTS Os COTTON At Augitsia dvd Hamburg , from Sept. L ’46, to Ist instant i f j Stock on hand Ist inst. .... j.....s 19,703 18,256 Sent to Factories. 2,500 2,000 Shipped from Ist Sept, to Ist inst.. 182,120 117,757 304,323 132,012 Deduct stock on band Ist hist..., 9,900 5,919 Total Receipt* 194,417 126,093 CHARLESTOnTj (fans i actions on the day preceding our last publication ) had been rather heavy than otherwise; and indeed the business of the week had been marked with more activity than that of any corresponding peri -1 od for some time hack; the market, however, j throughout the week just brought to a close has been as quiet as the previous one was comparative ly active; but so far as prices are concerned, wc have no new feature to record. On Saturday last the operations were limited to some 51 bales. Ob Monday more activity prevailed, and upwards of 150 bales were soltf Tuesday the operations were entirely suspended, as we did not hear of a single transaction. During Wednesday the demand im proved, as near 350 bales were taken by purchasers, who.on Thursday, increased their purchases to near 350 hales. Yesterday the inquiry fell off somewhat, as the sales were confined to about 250 hales. The aggregate transactions of the week do uot exceed 1070 bales. The trade have for some days been expecting later advices from the other side, per the Washing ton, and whether her non arrival has had any poai | live influence in checking operations, we will not i undertake to say; prices, however, are firm, and the 1 market closes at the quotations given in our report of the 24tb inst., to which we would again with eon. fidence refer for a fair criterion of the market. The ' actual sales since our last are as follows:—.100 bales at 10|; 62 at 114;237 at 11£; 15? at 11|; 285 at 12; 63 at 124; and 140 bales at cents. From the fore going transactions it will be seen that nothing has been done in the inferior qualities. The receipts of the week comprise 635 bales. We have no sales to report in any of the descriptions of Long Cotton; we would remark, however,that shipments continue to be made on planters’s account. Com. —The dealers are well supplied at present, and transactions of the week have been confined to small parcels at fluctuating prices, ranging from 65 to 75c. per bushel, with and without the hags. We quote Country and Georgia, to which descriptions j the sales have been limited, at 65 a 70c. Avith the , remark, however, that the former rate is [for large parcels. The receipts by the Rail Road reach 10,-: 700 bushels, a portion of which was brought from I Tennessee. Flour -—There is very little inquiry for this ar ticle, and some forced sales of country have been made at prices ranging from or per hbl. Salt. —We have no transactions to report in sack. Salt. The stock, which is light is held at prices, within the range of our quotations, 1,25 a 1,10. Freights. —We quote to Liverpool 7-16th a £d.fpr Cotton in square bags; and to Havre 1 a in square and round bags. There is nothing up fo* Boston. We quote Cotton in New York in square j hags ac, and dull. [ Correspondence of the Baltimore Swn.} By Magnetic Telegraph. I New YoitK, July 28, 6p. m, V The flour market is steady, and moderatelj ac-: I tive. The demand was principally lor good straight-4 brands, which are not very plenty. The sales to- » day reach 6,000 barrels, at $5 50 for strict Michi- 1 gan, and $0 624 for Genesee. There were also \ - sales of 1.000 barrels irregular and Ohio brands, at So 374. s '’. * \