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[From the A. T. Jour, of Commerce,July 30, P. -V.]
ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON.
11 DAYS L. AT ESS TKOAI EUROPE.
The steamship Washington, of the Occun
Steam Navigation Company's line, was tele
graphed at a quarter to 12 this morning, fend ;
reached her dock at 1 P. M., after a passage of
fifteen days from Southampton, having ifcit
there on the 15th inst.
Mr. Rush, Minister Plenipotentiary from
the Government of the United States to the
Tuilleries, in place of Mr, King,had arrived in
Paris.
The Cambria arrived at Liverpool on the
13th instant.
The second reading of the Navigation Bill
having been consented to in the House ol
Commons without a division, the Navigation
lAws may be considered virtually suspended,
until March, 1848.
[From the London Times, July 15.] •
IVToncy Market and City Intelligence.
London*, July 14th. —The English funds
‘have again slightly improved to-day, but from
ho ostensible cause except the fineness of the
weather and the settlement of the account. — j
Consols opened at 881 to | for for money, went
to 884, and closed at that price sellers. For
the August,account the range was from 88:1 to
to 89, the last price being 88 J. Bank Stock
left off 195 to 19G; Reduced Three per Cents >:
90«; Long Annuities, 9to India Stock, 245
to 247; India Bonds, 4s. to Bs. premium; and
Exchequer-bills, 10s. to 14s. premium.
The foreign market has not been quite so '
active to-day, and Spanish has suffered a de- ,
dine.
Letters from Paris mention another failure
at M; -seilles. The firm is that of Messrs, j
Christian & Co., and the liabilities are stated
at about £30,000. , , |
The advices from America by ike Cambria
show that but for the fall in grain which had
been reported from this side previously to her
'departure, we should again have received ac
counts of a seriously adverse state of exchange.
The supplies of breadstuffs which had reached
New York are admitted to have been consider
ably beyond what had been anticipated, and
although the influx was in some degree slack
ening, no doubt was felt that it would con
tinue heavy through the whole of July. Un
der present circumstances, however, the im
pression seems to prevail that no fr ■’ther quan
tity of gold will be drawn from this country
before October, when, as regards the future,
all will depend on our requirements for food
from that time. Os the importation of Euro
pean manufactures which has recently been
going on, much still remains to bo paid for,
and no question is entertained but that the
demand will continue. At the same time,
however, it is clear that the cotton which has
been to an unusual degree held back, will
now gradually come forward, so as to prevent
the possibility of any demand that may exist
for our goods doing more than keeping the ex
change just up to the point that may avert a
further call for specie.
The quarterly revenue returns are highly
Fatisfactory. With the exception of a slight
decrease in the Customs of £4272, on the
quarter, there is a comparative increase on the
total revenue for the year of no less than £l,-
004,026* All the permanant sources of revenue
exhibits a favorable increase. The amount a
rising from the reduced sugar duties furnishes
the most satisfactory proofs of the fiscal ad
vaut iges of low duties. Indeed it is mainly
from this source that the increase on the year
is derived. The sums expended on railways,
which amount t > nearly £200,000 during the
laT six months, and the vast amounts of money
which has been advanced to the Irish people,
a large portion of which has been expended on
commodities, which being subject to customs
or excise duties* return to the coffers of the
state, fully account for the general favorable
appearance of the revenue.
Specie to America. —Immediately after the
depaxture of the Britannia from Liverpool for
Boston, on the 4th inst., a policy of insurance
was opened at Lloyd’s for £IOO,OOO, to be ship
ped by the Hibernia on the 16th, at the rate of
4 per cent. It is not improbable that, from
the rate of exchange at Now Y'orkon England,
on the departure of the June 16 steamer from
Boston for Liverpool, that a large amount n il!
be remitted.
[From Willmer Sf Smith’s Times of July \oth.~\
The Weatheu and the Chops.—The mag
nificent weather of the past week has done
wonders for vegetation generally. With the
mercury ranging from 70 to 80 degrees, an al
most cloudless sky, and continuous sunshine
from sunrise to sunset, the crops are progress
ing towards maturity with a rapidly seldom
to be witnessed in this kingdom. The
wheat is blossoming under the most favo
rable auspices; and though on some of the poor
lands the crops look thin and somewhat ragged,
the ears are largo and well formed,and, should
we be blessed with a continuance of the pre
sent weather, we should say that, taking the
whole breath of land sown, and striking an
average, the yield v 111 turn out large. The
oats are k firing uncommonly well. It is sel
dom that we have seen, tfxe plants so strong
and healthy as they are this season, and we
are glad to bo enabled to say, that there is
every prospect of the j leld per acre being lar
ger than it has been for several To this
effect all our information tends, and we can
testify to its correctness from personal obser
vation of a considerable tract of country. The
potatoes are, generally speaking, vegetating
well. Vast quantities of early ones, some ot
them of very large si*e, arc brought to mar
ket, and the growers do not at present express
any fears of disease beyond that to which the
root has always been more or less subject. The
field potatoes are fast coming into flower, and
speculation as to their future condition will
no doubt shortly be put to rest. Meantime
the farmers have made preparations to plant
Hwcdes, should the potatoes in reality prove a
failure.
The Dublin and provincial journals express
their astonishment at the declaration of Lord
Russell respecting the Irish potatoe crop, and
deny its correctness. The young potatoes
which have appeared in the market arc ol good
flavor, mealy, and sound,
Prorogation op Parliament. —Wo can now
state confidently, that Parliament will be
prorogued by Her Majesty in person,on Thurs
day next. — Qlobc.
Installation or Prince Albert at Cam
bridge.—The installation pf the Evince Chan- | i
ccllor, at Cambridge, attracted to that eminent :
scat of learning, not only , her Majesty , but ‘
almost all her Ministers and the , members,.of
the Court. The Duke of Wellington, Lord
John Russell, Sir Robert Peel, and a great:
many bishops and other personages of distinc
tion were present.
Dreadful Fire near Greenwich Hospital,
caused by Lightning—Thirteen Buildings
Destroyed. —On the morning of the 7th hist., |
during the raging of the terrific storm which I
passed over the metropolis, between one and i
two o’clock, the electric fluid struck the roof- j
mg of the private dwelling in the occupation
of Mr. T. Wiseman, situate in Brewer’s Lane,
Greenwich, near to the Hospital, and set lire
to it and several other dwellings. The con- i
flagration was not extinguished until thirteen
buildings were destroyed.
We regret to state that fever to an alarming i
degree still prevails in Liverpool. In addition j
to the deaths already recorded, the Rev. Win.
Dale, cf St. Mary’s,Edmund street, died on the
evening of Saturday week. He is the eighth
victim to the pestilence amongst the Catholic :
clergy of Liverpool. The -authorities have
, resolved to take instant steps, now that the
i new Poor-law is coming into operation, midly i
I but firmly to remove the number of paupers !
i which have so long besieged the town of lav- j
crpool. Typhus fever is increasing alarmingly
! among the “navvies” employed on the Cale- ;
donian railway. Intemperance, want of ve
getable food, and the damp huts which those
laborers inhabit, have contributed to increase j
; the prevailing disease. In London, although
some instances the prevailing disease. In Lon
don, although some instances of typhoid have
occurred, the metropolis is generally exempt
. from malignant fever.
Departure of the Antelope.—The screw
steamship Antelope, Castain O’Bryan, took her
departure for Rio do Janeiro yesterday morn
ing, carrying out a few passengers and a full
cargo.— Liverpool' Albion, July 4 ih,
American Ice.—The vessel Virgilia has ar
rived at the port of Liverpool from Boston,
United States of America, with articles of
food and general merchandise, Slid 291, tons of
ice. This is the first importation of ihe kind
from the United States during thq present
season, although one or two arrivals 6f ice
took place about three months since from the
’ northern regions of Europe.
The Prcsse announces that the Ehipcror of
Russia had determined to construct forthwith
a vast line of railroads to connect the three j
capitals of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and War
saw.
The Emancipation of Brussels of Sunday, j
says :—“The King of the Netherlands has had j
another relapse, and his health is again in an .
alarming state.” . .
France. —The French capital had been oc
-1 cupied in the trials arising out of the late min- i
isterial disclosures.
The National, which, with the other Parish |
papers of Tuesday, we have received by cx- !
press, announces tbat about 8 o’clock in the
evening of Monday, M. Teste, attempted to i
shoot himself through the heart with a brace
of pistols. The first missed tire; the ball of
the second inflicted a contusion, but did not
penetrate even the shirt. Measures to pre
vexlt a renewal of these attempts on his life
I were of course immediately adopted.
| M. Teste has confessed his guilt.
The trial of this unfortunate man, and Gen.
Cubieros and M-. Parmentier, was regarded as
at an end. The evidence adduced against M.
Teste on Monday, left on the public mind no
doubt of his guilt.
One of our letters written in court on that
day, mentioned that “the details of the pay
ment of the 95,000 f. completely established his
; criminality in bis own opriiori, that he lite
rally withered, and from being an Creel pow
erful man shrunk in a moment in the view of
1 the spectator into a miserable cowering atti
tude.” This passage of our correspondent’s
! letter vve suppressed in justice to a man whose
trial was still in progress, but the melancholy
incident vve have just copied from the Nation
al can be regarded in only one sense, and ren
ders the observance of delicacy superfluous.—
He and M. Parmentier (and p r contumace , M.
Pellapra) would, it was believed, be declared
guilty, and General Cubieres acquitted.
We are glad to observe that the petition of
Prince Jerome Bonaparte, ex-King of West
phalia, to the Chamber of Deputies, praying to
be allowed to reside in France, is likely to be
granted.
Portugal.—The war in Portugal virtually
has been brought to a coxrclusion. The Span
ish troops advanced from tire frontiers upon
Oporto, and rhe Junta, after an ineffectual
resistance against the overwhelming laud
forces of Spain, and those of the implacable
Saida iha, supported on the sea-board by* the
immense naval force of Great Britain, were
compelled reluctantly to submit. It redounds
to their high honor that, ot the peril of their
lives, they claimed for Count Das Autas and
General Sada Bandeira the right of being in
cluded in the amnesty, which is formally guar
anteed by the allied powers.
Holland.—Serious disturbances took place
! in Groningen on the 28th ultimo, on account of
j the excessive dearness of food. The troops
had to b.i called out. They made use of t’.icir
arms, and it is said killed four persons and
| wounded twelve, some of them very seriously.
Most of the wounded persons were present
i only as spectators. On the morning of the
1 29th, order was re-established.
Germany. — Prussia. —lt is rumored tbat
the Emperor of Russia has resolved to place
| here a very considerable sum of money; some
accounts say 11,000,000 and others 15,000,000
silver roubles. It is assorted that this loan
will not be made to the Prussian Government,
but has been offered to the King personally.
On the 23d ult., the city of Bremen enter
ed into a contract with the house of D. H.
Watjen & Co., for 1,000,000 thalei's, at 4 per
cent, interest. The amount is to be paid in by
monthly instalments of 100,000 thalers. The
banking-house of C. Plumb & Co. has taken
a large portion of the loan to be negotiated a
broad.
Our private betters from Coscnza, in Cala
bria, of the 23d ult., state that serious dis
turbances had occurred in that province.—
Armed bands were in considerable force
throughout the country, and great apprehen
sion was entertained of a general rising of the
inhabitants. Troops had been sent ora Na
ples and Reggio to restore order, but strong
doubts were entertained of their success.
Turkey.—The Austrian Observer publishes
j a letter from Constantinople, of the IGth ult.,
1 stating that the Porte hud received news of the
treaty of peace between Turkey and Persia
having been signed at Erzeroum by the respec
j tive plenipotentiaries on the 7th.
The Augsburgh G azette confirms the insur
rection of Gen. Grivas, and his seizure of the
two fortified places of Patochalsa and Piageas.
lie had drawn together the malcontents roam
ing about the Turkish frontier, and had estab
lished a recruit Ag depot in the Turkish town
I of Previsa.
Liverpool Cotton Market
Week ending July 9—Been one of quietness, al
though during the early part the sales were large;
yet altogether a general tone of dullness has pre
vailed, and we close the week with a decline of
per 11). on ail American descriptions; cause of de
cline difficult to account for; weather has been fine !
and seasonable for the approaching harvest on
which much depends; therefore vve must suppose
the trade, who have for some weeks bought freely,
have now sufficient stocks, and so can remain from
our market. Cotton is freely offered, buyers hav
ing plenty of choice. Brazils and Egyptians have
been much in demand, and per lb. advance has \
! been obtained on those descriptions. Surats re
ly wins ttm; jjju »«« jk*
main without change— 7soo American, 2500 Surats,
370 Egyptian, and 90 Maranharas have been taken
on speculation; and 1709 American and 3JO Surats
for export; sales to-day -1C- ) bales.
t Liverpool Cotton DJarket—July 10.
The sales to-day are estimated at 4 ■ ) bales, of
which 209 Surats have been taken on speculation.
The business has been dull at full prices, and the
market closed with an increased disposition to buy.
The sales consist of .about 8 American at Os to
73d; 21 ’ Esrvptian to 3d to Surats I.’, to sspl.
LIVERPOOL. July 13th —Western floor—Slow
sales at 36 6d a 375. Indian corn dull with a de
cline of Is a 2s. per 48 J lbs.; meal 20s. 6d Lbk;
weather fine.
July 14. —'{’he market is dull ’ with a decline of
oii ail descriptions of American. 7,0.3 bales
American sold for export.
LivcrpoolCora Sxchang-e.
July 10—More firmness in the market, and prices
which I id a declining tendency rather rallied. On
the 6th, was a very full attendance of both local and
country millers, and for British and foreign wheats
a lively and ready sale at Id to 2d below our last
quotations. Am. flour of good fresh quality, being
in active request, as well from consumers as for in
vestment, the operations were considerable; and
partly recovering the abve named depression.prime
Western brand- realised 35s Gd to 365, the trade
ruling firm, and few parcels offering at close ot
business. Barley, beans ami peas were cheaper, and
each difficult of sale. Indian corn assuming an im
proved aspect was taken off more freely at a slight
amendment upon late prices; and Indian meal was
in moderate demand on the terms lost quoted. Since
Cth inst, market has continued firm, and the weath
er has in some degree promoted an extended dem
and, partly speculative, for what, Indian corn, and
flour, each of these articles acquiring a moderate
advance on the current rates of that day. Yester
day wheat was in tolerable good demand at an ad
vance of 3.1 to 4d on Tuesday’s rates. The best
brands of Western Canal flour in demand at 375,
other kinds in proportion, an amendment of Is qr.
Indian corn inquired for,
HAVRE, July 7. —Transactions in cotton were
quiet; this morning little business is doing, price well
maintained; yesterday, at Goderviile, there was a
fall off 10 per sack. In our own market flour is
very difficult to be realised, even upon making a
sacrifice, at present rates; several public sales small
p-reels only could be placed; the chief part, was
obliged to "he withdrawn; only sales 1700 or 181 »
bbls of Genesee, which has just been sold at f!3
the barrel; some parcels of coffee have been taken,
held in second hands, supposed to be for a northern
market. About 30 0 bags St. Domingo and Brazil
haveietched 13850 cin bond. Carolina is declining
43 tierces have been sold, slightly crushed, at f 2 )
duty paid,
J l LY 13. —At Havre the flour market was rath
er hear y. American bacon in demand at 62 a6B
| shillings per tierce. Rice in limited demand. The
navigation laws are suspended until Match,
Cl ul}itit a v ©tor gI a .
TU3 SD AT iaomvrNG7AUGUST 3.
FOR GOVERNOR
HOHi G. W. TOWNS,
OF TALBOT.
Democratic Nominations for Senators*
sth Dist.—Lowndes and Ware—Gen. T, Hilliard’
I Tth “ Tattnall and Bulloch— John A - . Mattox',
i 9lh “ Burke and Emanuel—W. 8. C Morris'.
12th “ Thomas and Decatur—Wm". 11. Reynolds!
13th “ Baker and Early—Dr. VVm. J. Johnson.
Itth “ Randolph and Stewart—William Nelson!
I7th “ Macon and Houston—John A. Hunter.
i 90th “ Twiggs and Bibb—W. W. Wicouis.
j 25th “ Jones and Putnam—James M. Gbayl
2t>th “ Munroe and Pike—Col. All ex Cochran!
28th “ Merriwether and Coweta—Ore. Warner;
j 3lst “ Fayette and Henry—Luther J. Glexx.
3Sth “ Clark and Jackson— Simuel Bailey.
39fii “ Gwinnett and DeKalb—Jas. P, Simmons.
40th “ Paulding and Cass—Francis Irwin.
43d “ Habersham and Rabun—Edw’u Coffee.
44ih “ Lumpkin and Union —Elihu S. Barclay.
tflisapprchension at the North of South
ern opinion in reference to the„.V/ilmot
Proviso.
i The following editorial appears in tlie Now
! York Evening Post, of the 2Gth ult. —a De
mocratic, but a Wihuot Proviso paper. —
j Whether we arc correct or not in our views of
the opinions of General Taylor, we are willing
to wait patiently for time and more explicit
declarations from Gen. T. to prove. In the
i meantime We adhere to the opinions expressed
bv us in our editorial of the 20th ult. quoted
I bv the Evening Post.
I But we desire to correct an error into which
the Post has been led, not by us, but by the
very censurable course of the Whigs of the
-
1 South in not taking a sufficiently firm and de
cided stand against the Wilmot Proviso. In
j stead of denouncing it in Georgia, for instance,
! as the Democratic party did in their Conven-
I tion, and pledging themselves to support no
man for the Presidency who gave it the least
fivor, the Whigs, in Convention, contented
! themselves with a soft and debcate remon
strance. “They roared as gently as a suck
: ing dove,” when they should have hurled de
fiance in the teeth of our assailants, no matter
who it might hurt among then Northern al
lies. They have shown themselves so wedded
to party, that they were unwilling to speak
out in the flan, strong language that the crisis
demands. In this we consider they have been
derelict to the dearest interests and constitu
tional rights of the South. Had they spoken
iin the honest language of thc : ~ hearts —had
< they given such tone to their proceedings and
resolutions as to convince the Whigs and Abo
litionists of the North, and practically on this
question Northern Whigs and Northern Abo
: Ttionists are one and the same party, the in
j solent encroachments of those “political al
lies” of the Southern Whigs -would have been
rebuked. They would have been taught by it
that they could have no sympathy —no sup
port on that question f - om the Southern Whigs.
But the Wilmot Proviso has been denounced
by the Southern Whigs in such smooth, set
phrase, as to amount only to a very gentle ad
monition to the Northern wing of the par
ty. It has even created the impression among
the Northern Wilmot Proviso men, that there
arc some at the South more opposed to it than
others —that, in fact, there are some—and
they', the supporters of General Taylor for the
Presidency, in favor of the Wilmot Proviso.
The editor is mistaken. On this subject the
Wh’gs and the Democrats are of one opinion—
one way of thinking—and when the time
comes, if it ever should come, they will have
but one mode of acting. They will resist,
united and together, any trampling down of
the rights of the South, —any exclusion of
Southern men and Southern institutions from
cw territories, wb’ch have been acquired by I
the joint treasure and blood of the whole
Union,
The wings of Georgia do not stand forth as
a party as strongly committed against the
Wilmot Proviso—they do not occupy the
same commanding attitude of hostility to i t
as docs the democratic party. They arc not
i -pledged against the support of any man for
! th? Presidency who favors it. On the contra
-1 ’
ry, they have in hot haste recommended for
the Presidency, the very man whose opinions
on this question are the present subject of
dispute. But it has been a petty trick and
shift for party schemes —The attitude of the
whig party, and the course adopted by its
w‘ -e workers do not fairly represent the peo
ple even of its own party. They cannot and
will not sanction oonduct which places them
in a false position in reference to the W ilmot |
Proviso.
General Taylor and the B ilmot Proviso.
Wh M e the whigs of the north have fallen at
such loggerheads to determine whether G on.
Taylor is un available whig or not, they at the ,
south wild are opposed to the AV 1 mot Proviso
have commenced a discussion of his views upon j
that subject. Those who are most warmly
opposed to this memorable resolution insist
that the old General will never be found acting
as an advocate or supporter ot it, and tnev
claim him as a suitable man to protect the ex
treme rights of the south. On the other hand,
the others insist that his Cincinnati letter was
un explicit endorsement ot that measure. For,
say they, in his letter, dated the 18th May,
1847, and addressed to the editor of the Morn
ing Signal, published in Cincinnati, General
Taylor says: —“With those remarks, I trust you j
will pardon me for thus briefly replying to you,
which I do with a high opinion and approval
of the sentiments and view's embraced in your
editorial.”
Among other “sentiments and view's” in the
editorial about which he is writing, there oc
curs the following: “The American people
areabou tto assume the responsibility of fram
ing the institutions of the Pacific States. W e
have no fears for the issue, if the arena of the
high debate is the assci iblies of the people and
their representative halls. The extension over
the continent beyond the Bio Grande of the
ordinance of 1787, is an object too high and
permanent to be baffled by Presidential vetoes.
All that we ask of the incumbent of the highest
office under the constitution, is to hold his j
hand, to bow to the will of the people as pro
mulgated in legislative forms, and restrain the
Executive action in appropriate channels.”
That part of the ordinance of 1787 which re
lates to this point, is almost identical in words
with the Wilmot Proviso. Hence the approv
al of the one necessarily involves the approval
of the other.
This is the ground taken by one side at the
south, in their exposition of Gen. Taylor’s
views. It must be confessed that they are
much better reasoners than those engaged in
a similar cause in this part of the country. —
Their argument is more logical, it has more
plausibility to sustain it, and is more forcibly
urged. This may been seen by the exertions
made by those of the opposite view to repel it.
The Georgia Constitutionalist thus satisfies
itself, and perhaps its readers, that the Gene- |
al will prove the bulwark of the south.
Gen CiincL’s Financial Experience.
The CassviUe Pioneer has put forth an in
quiry as to the financial skill and experience !
of the military candidate of the whigs. As
yet we have seen no response from the whig
press, Arid for fear the financial exploits of the
Herd of Withlacddchie may need a chronicler, j
through the modesty of his supporters, we i
will Venture mi illusion to his “brief and bril
liant” fiscal career; The only field of glory in i
which we know him to have figured in the
way of Banking operations is as President of
the Bank of St: Mary’st This was one of the
numerous brood of monied corporations spawn- j
ed forth during the feverish excitement of spe
culation in the year 183 G; These 4vtre the
merry days of the “rag Barons’* as they were j
dubbed, when “Pigion Boost” and “Wild J
Cat” money was as thick as oak leaves, and
boxes of Collins’ patent axes,represented boxes ;
of specie on which some Banks issued their 1
bills. But
“The light of other days has faded
And all its glory’s past.”
The Bank of St. Marys was probably organ
ized, however, on an honest subscription and
bona tide paying in of real capital. General
Clinch was made its President. But the only
incident connected with the institution winch |
this canvass so far has elicited is the fact that j
when applied to for a loan to the State of
Georgia, it could not respond. It was like :
the other Banks powerless to serve the State, |
and we presume unable to redeem its bills. It
was among the earliest of the suspending
Banks, and among the latest in resuming. In j
fact the most sensible tiling we know of as |
having been done by this Institution was, the !
passage of a resolution to the effect that a |
small town like St. Marys without comme ce,
and almost without inhabitants had no more
use for a Bank than a negro had for curling
tongs, and that discounting accommodation
paper for the rice planters could not be the
most profitable kind of banking operations, and
that therefore they had better w incl up and
trv something else. The Bank however prov- i
ed to be a sort of amphibious animal. Not
tl ivinq so well on the salt water, it tried fresh.
It migrated to the city of Augusta. Here
however its health got a little delicate, and it
mi grated hence to the city of Columbus. That
atmosphere probably suits it better, for we un
derstand that it is now in a flourishing state.
But it is under different auspices. It owes
none of its present prosperity to the Hero of
Withlacoochie. He did not follow its fortunes
out of St. Mary’s. Yet this bantl'ng of the
whig candidate for Governor,true to its original
character, seems to be endowed with a sort of
übiquitous existence, and carries out the whig j
policy and the whig taste for a paper circula- ;
tion, and wages practical hostility to the con- j
stitutional currency. We have before us a ■
specimen of one its change bills, which, judg- j
ing from its appearance, has seen service, j
though it may never, T :c Othello “have done
the state some service.”
Apalachicola, Florida, Bank of St. Marys, j
office in Savannah. Pay to the bearer twenty
five cents in gold or silver, redeemable in
Ch leston at Ipr cent. Redeemable at the
office of John G. Winter, New York at 2 pr
cent. J. E. Winter, Att’y for John G. Win
ter.
> We offer this as one of the vestiges of the j
financial career of the whig candidate. It is
meagre and unsatisfactory enough. But as j
for the profounder mysteries of the banking I
operations of the late President of the Bank of
St. Marys, we have not the data by which to
pourtray them. We leave that to the adm'v
ers of his “vast abilities.”
The following is the article in the Pioneer to
which we refer:
“Seasons for McAllister.”
“Because, his habits of industry and ;
‘his capacity as a financier, do not crr ; - !
fit him for a station which requires
tggp“so much industry and such intimate
of Banking and monied ope
gfcgr“rations, as are requisite in the Chiel Exe
(fgp“cutive of Georgia.” Jg&Snvannah Republi
can, September 27, 1843.
The reasons above quoted,the editor thought,
were very formidable ones against the talented j
and deserving McAllister —the man whose
abilities were acknowledged superior to Mr.
Crawford’s, and whose capacities are equal to
the task, of any office within the gift of the
people. But we have extracted the above I
paragraph, to ask the editor what he thinks of
Duncan L. Clinch as a “financier,” as it “re- j
quires so much industry and intimate knowl
edge of Banking and monied operations,” to
fill the Executive Cha’: of Georgia. Where
did he get his experience from: Has he been
connected with “Bank’ng operations,” and
shown himself to be expert in the art of fi
nancicring? If he has, w here and at what In- j
stitutionr
“Ah me! what perils <lo environ
The man that meddles with cold iron;
What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps
Do dog him still with after-claps!”
The Weather—The River.
For the past three days and nights, we have
had a steady drizzly r rain, with every prospect
; of a continuance, and cool weather, so much
so that blankets have been found quite com
fortablc*a£ nftits.' The river has risen consid
y
erablc during this time, and last evening was
running over the uper platform—when we
went to press, was falling.
Congressional Elections.
The elections for members of Congress in
i Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama and lowa, took
place yesterday'. In North Carina and Ten
nessee on Thursday next; in Maryland, Octo
ber 6th; and Mississippi and Louisiana, Mon
i day, November Ist. The elections in these
States will complete the members to the next
Congress, when vacancies are all filled.
Ship Jamestown Aground.
The Richmond Republican extra, received
yesterday, says —“We learn through oi‘ * tele- ;
graphic despatch that the U. S. ship James
town is aground off Cape Henry—no relief ;
had been afforded her up to the time of our
message being sent off.”
The Washington brought one hundred
and forty .passengers.
Crops in Mississippi.
A letter received by us from Colbert, Miss.,
dated 2Gth ult., says—“We have had a great
deal of rain here during this month. Our
Cotton is of good size, though backward; and
I the boll worm is just making its appearance,
i What the result will be, tim; only' can tell.”
! The President has made a requisition upon
, the Governor of Louisana for three additional
companies of mounted *roops, to serve in the
; nighborhood of Vera Cruz.
[COMM U XIC ATE D. ]
Democratic Senatorial Nomination in the
25th Distrigt.
In accordance with a previbus notice the |
Delegates of tlie 2oth Senatorial District, com
posed of the Counties of Jones and Putnam, !
assembled in Convention at Stanfordville, Put
j nam cm nty, on the 24th ult.
On motion, Joseph Day, Esq., was called to |
the Chair and Mr. Elbert Hutchings and James j
: A. Wingfield, Esq., were appointed Secretaries
to the Convention.
The names of Delegates being called, the
following gentlemen appeared as Delegates .
j from Jones, and took their seats, viz : Richard
: 11. Hutchings, Boling G. Morris, Stephen Sio
ctlmb, Owed Murphy, Spencer Owen, JohnS. 1
| Walker, Nathaniel 8; Glover, John J. Barfield,
John P. Key*, Isaac C. W. T» McKissick, Fran- \
i cis B. Hascall, Joseph Day, Edmund Dumas,
Joseph Messer, Robert Brown, and John
Blow.
i The following Delegates appeared from Put- ;
nam, and took their seats to wit' Col. J< A.
Wingfield, A. Gorby, Robt. Parham, Merida
Kendrick, John B. Pounds, John Lynch, AVi[- i
liana M. Roby, Geo. Folds, Wm. F. Tripp,
Thos. J. Whitfield, Greene Wiggins, Joseph ■
Turner, Wash'ngton Rose, Irby B. Hudson,
Jno. B. Trippc, and Col. Andrew Beid.
j The Convention being organized, on motion j
of John B. Trippe, of the county of Putnam, I
James M- Gray, Esq,, of the county of Jones,
was unanimously nominated the Democratic
candidate for the Senate in said district.
On motion, it was
I Resolved , That a committee of five be ap- |
pointed by the Chairman, to notify James M.
j Gray, Esq., of his nomination, and request
his acceptance.
The Chair appointed Richard 11. Hutchings,
J. A. Wingfield, Robt. Brown, Col. Andrew
Reid, and Nathaniel S. Glover.
Upon motion of Mr. Irby B. Hudson, the fol
lowing resolutions were adopted unanimously
by' the Convention :
Resolved, That the nomination of George
W. Towns, as the Democratic candidate for
Governor, meets with the approbation of this
Convention.
Resolved , That wc heartily approve the rcso- j
lutions passed at the recent General Conven
-1 i.on, and proudly point to them as the creed
of the Demociatic party.
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to use
i all honorable means to insure the election of
i our candidate for Governor, and also our can
j didate for the Senate.
After which Col. Shropshire, of the county
j of Jasper, and Col. J. A. Wingfield, addressed
; the Convention.
Upon motion of Mr. John B. Tripp, it was
Resolved, That the proceedings of the Con
vention be published in the Federal Union, i
I and the Augusta Constitutionalist.
On motion, the thanks of the Convention
were tendered to the Chairman for the digni
fied manner in which he presided over its de
liberations.
On motion, the Convention then adjourned.
JOSEPH DAY, Chairman.
lloTCßraos ’ \ Secretaries.
J. A. Wingfield, )
By the steamship Galveston, arrived this
morning, we have received Galveston papers
up to the 24th, from which we make tho fol
lowing extracts:
The Indiana volunteers have all left for the
Rio Grande. A portion were taken on the
Tom Jack, as it was found that the Star and
Lavinia could not accommodate all comforta
bly. The quiet and orderly behavior of the
: men, while here, wdien off duty, and free from
j all restraint, was the object of general remark, i
If they sustain the credit of their iState as well
in battle, as they have done here, we shall
hear no more reproaches cast upon Indiana
troops.
A gentleman from Brazoria informs us that
the crops—cotton, sugar, and corn—through
out that country, continue to prpsent the most
promising appearance. Should present pros
pects be realized, all former years will be
thrown completely in the shade.
The Telegraph states, upon information re
ceived from Austin, that Col. Hays is so con
fident that no further difficulty is to be ap
prehended from the Indians on onr frontier,
that he will march, in few days, with all his
regiment; excepting to companies, two join the
command of Gen. Taylor at Monterey.
It is stated in the Telegraph, that a lead
mine has been discovered in Limestone county
near the sources of the Navasoto, and that
hundreds of tons of ore may be procured near
the surface of the ground.—A. O. Courier , 26th
ult.
Gen. Taylor’s Cotton Crop.
It will be recollected that the plantation of
| Gen. Taylor, above Natchez, was overflowed
during the high water in the sgring. When
the water ran off, cotton was planted, and we
are now happy to hear that the crop promises
as well as any in the State. In this connection
we may mention that an intelligent gentleman
just from Mississippi informs us, that the crop
so far this year promises everything that could
be desired. With no ill luck from this time
out, it will be an abundant one.—_V. O. Picay
une, 27th ult .
| Special Notices.
OLV Female Teacher, who can come well
recommended as being capable of teaching all the
branches usually taught in a first rate English
School, is wanted to take charge of the Alexander
Female Seminary. Apply to Ker’d. Homer V.
Mulkey, Alexander, Burke county, Ga,
I Aug. 3 3 35
STEAMBOAT COMPANY OF G.COr'-
GTA.
[O 3 This rompany having been rc-organizcd
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 It. 51; Goodwin with this
Company has terminated.
John b. guieu,
June 6 I—y Agent at Augusta.
; “inr I)R. J. A. S. .MILLIGAN, will nt
j tend to the practice of Medicine and Surgery, in
Augusta and its vicinity.
Office in Metcalfs Range, up stairs. Entrance
one door below 31r. J. Jlarshall s Drug Store
June 13 6m 215
O’ The Friends and Acquaintance of
GEORGE CLINTON GORDON; the members of
the different Lodges of Odd Fellows, the men -
bers of Clinch Engine No. 2, and the Fire Depart
ment generally, are invited to attend his
from Lafayette Hall, This Afternoon, at 4 o’clock.
I. O. O. F.
Washington Lodge, No. 7.
The members of this Lodge are requested to
meet at their Room, Masonic Hall, This Afternoon;
at 3 o’clock, for the purpose of paying the last tri
bu e of respect to their deceased Brother, GLOIIGK
CLINTON GORDON. The members of Miller
Lodge No. 10, are requested to unite with Wash
ington Lodge. By order of the N. G.
August 3 PITCHER, Secretary.
Commercial.
LATEST DATES FROM LIVERPOOL ILLY 11.
LATEST DATES FROM lIAVR3 JULY 13.
CHARLESTON IMPORTS—AUGUST 1.
Havana—Prig Fomentc —lll hhds. Molasses,2o
do. Sugar, to Cay & Aveilhe.
SAVANNAH July 31.— Ccotton. —Arrived since
20th hist. 1,720 bales Upland (1189 per Rail-Road,
and 731 from Augusta and landings on the river,)
and 6 bales Sea Island. The exports for some
period have been 9.8J3 bales Upland and 1,251 bales
Sea Island, leaving a stuck on hand and on sl»if»-
board not cleared, of 716 bales Sea Islands, and 6.5'-o
bales Upland, against 497 bale® Sea Bland, and 13-,
601 bales Upland at same time last year.
The past month has been one of unusual dullness.
The receipts of Cotton have been very ®uiall, and
the quantity offering has been so I• mi ted t hat the
\ sales are scarcely sufficient to establish quotations,
i The markiet is from $ to higher than wbiu
we made our report of the 2d inst. We quote
Ordinary 10£ a 1 ,,- 1
Middling, ......c........... 11 a 111
Middling fair 1
There is no Cotton of a higher class in the mar
ket. Fair to fully fair would readily bring 111 a Pic.
Tiie stock in the eity not disposed of is not over
2;,CDO bales, of which about SC) bales are cm the?
market. The sales of the menth are 1,858 hales, as
follows: 26 bales at 10c;42 a 108 262 at 10A9atl(>|;
' 28 at 10; 18 at 10 9 16; 483 at 10|; 16 at 10&; 313 at
| 11; 45 at 115; 328 at 115; 233 at 1 1£; and 110 at 12c.
Rice. —The sales in the early part of the month
were very light and confined to the retail trade.—
This week there h:is been considerable activity In
the market, and about 6t J casks have been sold at
$5 uer 100.
flour. —The sales of the month amount to about
4C J bb!s. at 6£ a %7. A lot of old Georgia wa« sold
at 5| a £6 this week; choice lots of Georgia will bring
at retail $7.
Corn. —There have been no sales of consequence
the past week. Small lots have been sold at 60 a
65 cents. A lot of several thousand bushels have
been on the market several days at 55 cents, with
out a purchaser. The stock on hand is very heavy,
and there is no prospect of an immediate improve
ment in the article. The sales of the month comprise
about 11,C JO bushels, at prices ranging from 75 a
80c. per bushel.
Freights. —Foreign—Last engagements to Liver
pool, £ a9-16c. per pound for square and round bales
Cotton. Coastwise —For New York the rates are
|c. per pound in equal quantities for square and
round bales Cotton, and $ 1,50 per tierce for Rice.
To Boston, last engagements. 9-I6c. for square,
and gc. per pound for round bales Cotton. To Bal
timore and Philadelphia, £c. per pound for square
and round bales Cotton. To Providence,4 a&c,
NEW ORLEANS, July 26, P. M. —Cotton The
market continues animated, with sales to-day of
4COO bales, at fully j cent, advance.
Sugar. —Busines- confined to retail transactions.
Molasses. —Retailing at 31 cents.
Flour . —Not a sale of any importance occurred,
120 bbls. Illinois sold at 's4 25—holders refused
to make any material concessions.
Corn. —But very few samples were offered, and
not a sale of any moment transpired.
Levi. —Sales 13J3 pigs Upper Mines at $
Freights. —Two ships were taken up for Iluvre
at lAc. for Cotton'—three for Liverpool at gd., and
one Tor Con ma at sl4 forTabaco,
MOBILE, July 28.— Cotton. —In the early part
■ of the commercial week now closed, the opera
i tions in cotton were very light, us both buyers and
I sellers were waiting for later foreign advices. Ibe
sales of the three first days of the week were con
sequently light, not exceeding in the aggregate
700 bales, at the figures given in our last. On Sat
urday we were placed in possession of the tele
graphic accounts by the steamer ot the 4th
which were of a very favorable character, and b\
Sunday’s mail the letters, with full details, come to
hand. * These accounts being much more favorable
to cotton than was anticipated, have given an ac
tive impulse to the market here, and under *“ IS
fluence heavy operations for the season have ta «*'
place at an advance ot | a £c. on last week s quo
tations. On Monday the sales Were not heavy, r*u
i yesterday was a very active day —tke sales ua;-