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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. j A MES GARDN E. K. J R. TERMS. Dally, per annum $3 00 | Tri-Weekly, per annum 0 00 If paid in advance 00 Weekly, per annum ’ 00 If paid in advance To Clubs, remitting £lO in advance, FIVE COPIES are sent. This will put our Weekly pa per in the reach ot new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A N EAR. who will pay up arrearages, and pend four new subscribers, vvith the nroncj , can get the paper at £2 00. [Ef’All new subscriptions must be paid in ad- j vance. (P"pTostage must be paid on all communications and letters of business. ■\F.omthe Baltimore Sun, iwst.j Two Months Later from Oregon and Cali" foraia. Tide of Western Emigration —Route of (he Mor mons — Colonel Fremont Arrested for Disobedi ence of Orders —Sent home for Trial—Move ment of the Pacific Squadron —Return of Kear ney and Stockton —Sufferings oj Emigrants •Cannibalism and Starvation — Col. Drake, R. JV. , coming Overland. The Philadelphia Ledger has received from its attentive Cincinnati correspondent, via Telegraph, at Zanesville, the following inter esting news-: _ . Messrs. Shaw and Lalien arrived at St. Touis on Thursday.of last week, direct from Oregon, having lefrithe frontier settlements on The loth of May, and made a trip to St. Joseph’s in eighty-three days. The party met but little difficulty on the •route. The various parties of emigrants to Oregon and California were making rapid progress. Davidson and Ills company were met at the Big Sandy, and two other companies at Green River. The Mormons, with their immense train of wagons, were met near the Forks cl Platte River, on their route te California, and their ru lers, the “Twelve Apostles,” as they are called, were met at Fort Bridges. It was understood that the Mormons would not proceed this sea con further than Salt Lake. At Fort Hall, Messrs. Shaw and Thompson met Samuel Brannon, and from him they ob tained hews from California down to the 25th of May. Lieut. Col. Fremont had been arrested for disobedience of orders by Gen. Kearney, and had been ordered home to the United States to take his trial before a Court Martial. This difficulty grew out of the‘ill feelings and con tradictory movements of General Kearney and Col. Stockton, and the question of authority which existed between them. It was announ ced some days ago, by Col. Russel, who came with despatches, that Gen. Kearney was about to arrest Col. Fremont, and have him hung as a rebel. Nobody, of course, believed the lat ter part of the statement; but the arrest of Fremont proves that the quarrel between Gen. Kearney and Com. Stockton was more seri ous than was at first apprehended. Com. Stockton had left, and was on his way home. The American fleet was off Lower California engaged against Mazatlan, Acapulco and other towns in that quarter. The troops had all been ordered to concentrate in the same direc tion. There is no detail given of contempla ted movements, but it is doubtless to enforce the blockade proclaimed by Com. Biddle. Gen. Kearney was about to leave California and expected to reach the States in the month of September. The affairs of California generally appear to be iu a very unsettled condition. Messrs. Shaw and Thompson learned from Brannon additional details of the sufferings ex perienced by the parties of emigrants which failed to reach California before the last winter came upon them. They add to the horrors of the previous accounts ; seventy-five perished from cold by exposure to the snow and from starvation I The survivors were reduced to the dreadful alternative of subsisting upon the dead bodies of their companions ! The whole Reed family, in connection with that of Dannor, reached the sutler’s settle ment in safety, after enduring incredible suf ferings. Com. Drdke, of the British ship Modeste, isoa his way to the United States, overland, witn a small party. He will probably be at tacked by the Rawness. The Western mail last night brought us the St. Louis papers, containing this news in full. Inco.inection with the horrid sufferings of the California emigrants, the Republican has the following: Among the number of this unfortunate party was a miscreant, by the name of Keysberg,who left the States in Col. Russell’s company. He had a wife with him, and contrived, at the ex tremity of their sufferings, to send her to the California settlements, when relieved by per sons who went out to aid them. This villain re mained behind to rob the dead and living ol their property. A family of the name of Donner, of Spring field, 111., was robbed by him of about $4,000, which he cached along with other spoils. He was suspected, threatened, and finally prepara tions were made to hang him up, and then he disclosed the places where the money was to be found. To add to the enormity of his offen ces, he is said to have boasted of having lived, for a time, upon the dead body of Mrs. George Donner, even when provisions were within his reach. Other enormities are told of this devil incarnate, but he survived them all, and was employed in the army at the last accounts. [From the N. O. Picayune, 11 th inst.] Arrival of the Steamship Telegraph. The steamship i’eleg apii arrived mst eve ning from Vera Cruz, having touched at the Brazos on the voyage. We understand that she left Vera Cruz on the 4th inst., but brings no news whatever. — We received no news or letters from that city. Passengers by the Telegraph. —Col. Randeii; Capt. Ogden and lady; Maj. Arthur, Quarter master U. S. A.; Miss Townsend; Capt. Wal ker; Lieut. Couch; Lieut. J. J. Huff; Dr. Beard; L. A. Whitley; J. S. Holt; J. Law rence; W. W. Ensthru; J. Patterson; Mr. Carr; Capt. CTendew; Townsend; Clough and Wells. We are indebted to the commander of the Telegraph for a copy of the Matamoros Flag of the 4th inst. Quite the most important article iu the Flag is the following; Advance upon San Luis. —From Major Ar thur, formerly quartermaster at Cerraivo, we learn that Gen. Wool has received orders to proceed with the advance of Gen. Taylor’s co lumn, on the 20th inst., in the direction of Encarnacion, some twenty leagues from Bue na Vista, where he will establish a depot, into which three months’ rations will be thrown.— The army will then advance upon San Luis and communications be opened with Tam i o or Tuspan, Lorn whence supplies will hereaf ter be received. All the mules and other .means of transportation have been ordered above and activity prevails throughout the whole department v The Flag gives sad accounts of outrages per petrated in the vicinity of Matamoros, by Mexicans upon their own countrymen and country-women. The same paper mentions | I that the resident Mexicans near Parras, lately i , I applied to Gen. Taylor to protect them from i . 1 armed bands of their own countrymen, sent 1 thither for the express purpose of ravaging the s ! country and destroying the crops. The Flag < thinks That aid should be furnished them. j , The Flag has more rumors from Gen. Scott’s army, but this time we are happy to know that they are all false, being entirely Mexican. | We do not repeat them. Col. Davenport inspected the Ohio regi ment on the 31st ult. The result was very | 1 creditable to the appearance and discipline of 1 ; the troops. They generally enjoy good health, ; there only being a few cases of diarrhoea a mong them. Augusta, o£or gi a . TUE SD A Y AUGUST 17. FOR GOVERNOR mu. 0. W. TOWNS. OF TAEBO f. Democratic Nominations for Senators. 1 sth Dial.—Lowndes and Ware—Gen. T. Hilliard. 7th “ Tattnall and Bulloch—John A. Mattox Bth “ Striven and Effingham— -W. J. Lawton. 9th “ Burke and Emanuel—W. S. C Morris. 12th “ Thomas and Decatur—Wm. H. Reynolds. 13th “ Baker and Early—Dr. Wm. J. Johnson. 11th “ Randolph and Stewart—William Nelson, 17th “ Macon and Houston—John A. Hunter. 20th “ Twiggs and Bibb—W. W. Wiggins. 25th “ Jones and Putnam— James M. Gray. 26th “ Munroe and Pike—Col. Allen Cochran. 23th “ Merriwether and Coweta—Gee. Warner. j 31sl “ Fayette and Henry—Luther J. Glenn. 32d “ Jumper and Butts—Col. J. C. Waters. ! 38th u Clark and Jackson—Samuel Bailey. 38lh “ Gwinnett and DeKalb—Jas. P. Simmons. 40th “ Paulding and Cass—Francis Irwin. 41st “ Cobb and Cherokee— Wm. 11. Hunt. 43d “ Habersham and Rabun—Edw’d Coffee. 44th “ Lumpkin and Union—Elihu F. Barclay. Our weekly papers of Wednesday will hereafter be delivered on the same day to our subscribers at Richmond Factory P. O. Li is unnecessary to reiterate the often DECLARED PRINCIPLES OF THE WHIG PARTY. — Geo. Whig Convention. The late Whig Convention, by fheir above quoted declaration, indicated a decided re pugnance to define their position on Federal 1 politics. The course of the party since, has been to avoid as much as possible discussion of Whig principles upon national questions, as irrelevant to the real questions at issue in the present canvass. What has the present elec tion for Governor to do with federal politics, i exclaim the Whigs? What has a Governor of the State of Georgia to do with the enactment of a protective tariff—with the re-establishment of the tariff of 1842 —whatwith the rechar- ' tering of a National Bank—what with inter- | nal improvements by the Federal Govern- j ment —what has he to do with the veto power which the Whigs seek to erase from the con- , stitution? What connection, they ask, is there ■ between his official duties and his opinions on j the war with Mexico, the justice of our cause, the question of the wrongs done our people, the insults perpetrated upon our national flag, and the propriety of demanding indem nity of that nation for the blood of our citi zens poured out like water, and for the many expenditures which the war has cost us: A 1 Governor of the State of Georgia, they argue, may be a very good Governor—he may make a most excellent executive officer —as good as | the people can possibly desire, and yet he may ’ ' be a high tuned ultra tariff man—as much so L‘ ° . as Abbot Lawrence himself, or Henry Clay, or L John McPherson Berrien. He may be as i zealous an enthusiast for the rccharter of a 1 National Bank as was John Minor Botts, or John M. Clayton, or J. J. Crittenden, in the flrst year of Mr. Tyler’s administration. He - may be as unflinching an advocate for internal improvements by the federal government as : ’ Daniel "Webster has shown himself in his late letter to the Chicago Convention. He may con cede, as all these gentlemen do, the most unlim- ; 1 ited constitutional power to Congress for all these things. He may be as bitterly opposed to j 3 that feature in the constitution, known as the veto power, as these gentlemen are known to be i f —as anxious to lay hands on that glorious work 3 of our fathers, and tear from it that feature, as i » j ! they have shown themselves. He may, like 2 all these, be willing to see Congress thrust its - legislative hand into the national treasury, ' draw thence the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and scatter them among the sev . eral States, thus to that extent affording a pre- ! , text for higher taxes —for heavier restrictions L ‘ on our commerce—and thus binding us with stronger cords to the car of the Northern man -3 ufacturer, that like the bloody car of Juger naut rolling over its prostrate victims, lias for •* years been ruthlessly crushing down the en- ergics of the Southern States. All this a s Governor of the State of Georgia may do, it 1 is argued by the Whigs, and yet make an effi • cient, practical and satisfactory executive offi- | cer. He may even do more. Like the famous | Tom Corwin — famous, as is the man who sac- { . riligiously fired the Ephesian dome, he may 2 utter imprecations on the conduct of his own j government—he may denounce as “little better 1 than a band of robbers,” his own countrymen, j who are shivering in the keen blasts, and ! ; amidst the inhospitable snows of Northern j ' Mexico—toiling over their rugged mountains, and through the dense chaparrals, or panting and sinking upon the arid and scorching plains . of its central provinces, and peradventure ■ bleeding and dying beneath the treacherous I lasso and bloody knife of the cruel and base Mexicans—yet who unquailing amidst all these difficulties, are bearing aloft the flag of the j stripes and stars to victory and glory. He may do all this, lie may do more. He may address j you in the following language, used in Con- | gress by this same Corwin, a candidate with a ! large portion of the Northern Whigs for the j Presidency: “If your commander-in-chief, the President, will not do this, (i. e. cease fighting and with- j draw our troops rom Mexico,) I shall en deavor to compel him, and as I find no other means, 1 shall refuse supplies.” “If I were a Mexican, I would tell you, have you not room in your own country to | bury your dead men? If you come into mine, WE WILL GREET YOU WITH BLOODY HANDS AND WELCOME YOU TO HOSPITABLE. GRAVES,” — f According to whig doctrine, a man may say all this, he may sympathize in feeling, in opin ion and in action with him, and such as him, and there are thousands, and tens of thousands | such in the whig party, yet all this should be j no objection to a candidate for the office ol i Governor of the State of Georgia. What, they | reiterate, has the Governor of a State to do i with federal politics? Does he enact pro- j tective tariffs and national banks?- Does he thrust his hands in the national treasury and scatter it in bribes to the several States? Does he squander the people's money, collected by our revenue officers into the national treasury i for national purposes, upon turnpike roads j and ship canals and upon the mouths of creeks and the branches of rivers under the plea of • “ regulating commerce?” Certainly not, they will answer their own questions. Then why not, say they, elect a man, whatever may be his federal politics, provided he will make a good State Executive? Fellow-citizens, are the opinions of the man holding the office of Governor of your State, indeed of so little consequence on all these questions? Would they be wholly uuinfiuen tial? Could this State hold firm to her Demo cratic opinions, and yet continue time after time to elect Federal Governors? Could she continue to be looked upon and respected as a Democratic State hy her confederates in the Union? Let us admit for the argument’s sake, that all the federal whigS we have named — Abbot Lawrence, Henry Clay, Johp. McPher son Berrien, John Minor Botts, John M. Clay ton, J. J. Crittenden and Thomas Corwin— and a few more whigs good and true, who shall be nameless at present, were all residents of Georgia. But one of the list does in fact re side in our State, and he proclaims himself a Senator of the United States, representing the whole United States and not simply the State of Georgia, and not more amenable to one State than to another. We will suppose them also first rate financiers, and capable of being very superior Executive officers. W e ask each of our fellow-citizens, differing with these j politicians on federal politics, would you, could vou in justice to your own principles, vote for such a mail for Governor? The answer must : be in the negative. But the whig candidate for Governor, Gen eral Duncan L. Clinch, occupies no better po ; sition before the people of Georgia than either jof the politicians above named. He holds the same position with them on all these questions i so for as we know. For aught we know to i the contrary, he is as hot a tariff man as Abbot j Lawrence of Lowell. He is as decided a bank man as Clayton of Delaware. He is as ultra j an internal improvement man as Daniel Web- i . . I ster. He is as bitter against the veto as head j him or die Botts. He is as eager a land sales j | distribution man as any and all of them, and as for the Mexican war, he may be as fierce in op- ; position to it, as Tom Corwin himself whose i speech is said to be a perfect life preserver, j with which a man could travel in perfect safe ty throughout Mexico, as no Mexican would harm one who carried about him such un- I questionable evidence of friendship to the Mexican cause. The whigs in Convention thought it un : necessary to reiterate their often declared prin ciples. General Clinch never declared his, on any occasion that we know of. "W e have j : never seen as much as a simple sentence on a political question purporting to have been written or spoken by him —cither in a speech l in Congress —a report to Congress—or an es say —or a speech for Buncombe , which those ; capable of writing, but not blessed with “the , gift of the gab,” sometimes write out and send home to their constituents. Even Judge Daw son, while certifying to the vast abilities of j General Clinch, has neglected to write out a set of principles and get the old General to sign them and thus adopt them. We arc ■ therefore forced to look to the principles of I the leading whigs of the Uuion, to see what : are the principles of the Whig Convention and ! their candidate. These are the principles that ! arc to obtain in Georgia —these are the princi ' pies its legislature will elect United States Senators to carry out in the National Coun ' cils, and Judge Berrien will be one of j them, if the whigs of the State carry the elec tions in October next; Democrats of Georgia, remember that your party has never been afraid or ashamed to re- I iterate its often declared principles. Your late Convention did again declare them in bold distinct and manly terms. They arc the good old stable principles of Jefferson and of Jack* j son —hallowed by time, and sanctioned by the j constitution. They have preserved that con stitution in every peril, and have advanced our country to prosperity and honor. Their influence and their example are now- com manding the respect of all nations, and are yet destined to bear peaceful sway in every civilized land which now' groans beneath the iron rod of despotism. The Democratic Convention has placed be- I fore the people a candidate in every way wor ! thy to discharge the high duties that devolve on the Governor of the State. The people of Georgia have long known and honored Col. Towns. Ills talents and character have often won for him the suffrages of his fellow-citizens. He has served them long and faithfully in the State legislature and in the National Councils. He has never proved himself ignorant of the true interests of the people of Georgia, or in capable of giving them, on all proper occasions, an able, zealous and eloquent advocacy. Gen. Worth. It appears from one of the letters from Mr. Kendall to the Picayune, that a Court of In quiry, called by Gen. Worth, had been inses- I sion at Puebla a day or two. It seems that Gen. ■ Scott had in some way expressed himself dis satisfied wfith not only the terms of the capitu lation entered into with the Poblanos by Gen. W., but also wfith some of the acts of the latter, while in command of the city. Gen. Worth promptly called for an investigation. jticavy oujiuom. Os the $1,350,000 paid lust week in duties at the N. Y. Custom House, twenty-five per cent of this amount was paid from entries made by Schular & Oulman, Custom House Brokers. I Election Returns. Kent ashy. —The result of the recent Congres sional election in this State, is at length ascer tained. The democrats have carried the Ist, 2d, 3d and 9th districts. The result then is as follows: Ist District. Lynn Boyd, Dcm without op position. 2d “ Samuel Peyton, Dem. gain. 3d “ B. L. Clark, Dcm. gain. 4th “ Aylett Buckner, Whig. sth “ J. B. Thompson, Whig. 6th “ Green Adams, Whig, gain. 7th “ G. Duncan, Whig. Bth “ C. S. Morehead, Whig. oth “ Richard French, Dem., gain. 10th “ Maj. J. P. Gaines, Whig, gain. ! The gain for the Whigs is two members of Co agress and ihr the Democr its three, giving the latter a clear gain of one. The Legislature as usual, is largely Whig. Indiana. —The following are the Congress men elect from this State ; Ist District. Elisha Embrec, Whig gain. 2d “ Thomas J. Henley, Dem. 3d “ J. L. Robinson, Dcm. 4th “ C. B. Smith, Whig. sth “ Wm. W. Wick, Dem: 6th “ D. M. Dobson, Dem. 7th “ R. W. Thompson, Whig. Bth “ John Petit, Dem. 9th “ C. W. Cathcart, Dem. 10th “ Wm. Rockhill, Dem. The Whigs have a gain of one member. North Carolina. —The result in this State, is j as follows; Ist District. T L. Clingman, Whig. 2d “ Nathaniel Boyden, Whig. • 3d “ D. M. Barringer, Whig. 4th “ A. H. Shepperd, Whig. sth “ A. W. Venable, Dem. 6th “ James J. McKay, Dem. 7th “ Gen. Daniel, Dcm. i Bth “ R- S. Donnell, Whig, gain, 9th “ Col. Outlaw, Whig, gain. In the last Congress, the delegation from this State, stood 3 Whigs to 6 Democrats. It | * is now reversed, so that the whigs have a gain of 3 members. ( lowa. —The Democrats have elected Thomp i son to Congress from the Ist district. The Crops, Weather, &c. The Montgomery Flag & Advertiser, 12th Inst, says : — Greene County —“The Greensboro Beacon of the 11 1 inst. a lys, that ‘owing to the backwardness of the spring, the cool and i un propitious weather during the mouths of June and July, the frequent and heavy rains that have fallen within the last forty days—the stand of cotton is unusually bad, the weed quite too luxuriant, with a deficiency of i branches, comparatively few bolls—and the general prospect decidedly unfavorable.’ It also adds that the crop is three weeks later, and that nothing short of the most favorable weather for some weeks, a late frost, and the 1 absence of the worm can possibly secure a good crop: The worm has only appeared in a few fields, as vet, but the character of the weather j render it probable that their number will spec— ; i dilv increase. The Eutaw Whig says that the boll worm has made its appearance in almost every farm in that neighborhood, and that on one stalk it saw 12 bolls and forms that had been destroyed. The Whig also looks for a short I crop.” , . # . , Mississippi. —The Vicksburg Sentinel states | j on the authority of a gentleman from North ; Mississippi, that in Marshall and the adjoining counties, the worm has done immense damage j to the cotton, stripping the very bark from some of the stalks. The N. O. Picayune of the 10th inst. says “Wo have a letter before us from Lafayette Co., Miss., which speaks of the appearance there of j the army worm. The writer is confident it is of the same family that laid waste to the crops 1 last year; but it docs not confine itself to the cotton plant, but eats the crab grass, com blades, &c., as well as cotton. They arc ex ceedingly voracious, and the writer of the let ter says that you can go into the fields where they may be and distinctly hear them at work j eating, the sound being not unlike that of a | multitude of workmen engaged upon a build- j iim. He first observed them about the 20th ° of July. He augurs most unfavorably from j present appearances for the coming crop.” | A letter from Florida of a late date, speaks in desponding terms of the prospects of the ! Cotton crop in that section. The wet has done incalculable injury. Short Cottons have shed | very badly, and Long Cottons have appeared j Ito be taking the rust. In fact, the entire Cot ton crop of Florida, cannot fail to be, from pre sent appearances, a very short one. The Abbeville Banner, 11th inst. says—The prospects of the cotton crop in this District is by no means flattering; and it seems to be the impression of onr farmers, that it will be a short one, even shorter than the last. The ravages of the lice have been very considerable in sev eral parts of the District, from the effects of which the cotton cannot recover; this together j with the long continued wet weather we have ! had, will cause a considerable falling off. Cotton. The N. O. Commercial Times of 10th inst. no tices the arrival in New Orleans, of two bales of new cotton—the first pickings of this year’s growth —from the plantation of Gen. A. G, Carter, East Feliciana, consigned to Messrs. Ward, Jonas & Co. The first bale received last year was on the 7th August, which was prematurely gathered, and defective in quali ty; whereas, the sample of this year’s crop, is a fine specimen of new cotton, 'ihe quality is about fully Middling Fair, and the staple re markably good. The color is not very bright, owing probably to the cotton having been j ginned in a somewhat damp state. Neither ot the bales had been sold up to the close of the j day. A gentleman of Mobile states that the cotton is held at 17c. The N. O. Delta, of the 11th inst. says— I “We stated yesterday the arrival of two bales of new cotton from the plantation of Gen. A. G. Carter. We learn that Mr. Turnbull has ! already ginned and baled forty bales of new : cotton, at his new and magnificent plantation near St. Francisville. From all we can learn, ! the prospects for a line cotton crop were never more cheering. We sincerely rejoice at this. The cotton planters have had a hard time of it for some years back. It is time that they were coming in for their share of tho general ! prosperity which has blessed our country of i late.” I Army Appointments. From an Army Order in the Union, we learn that Ist Lieut Stewart Van \ leit, 3d Artillary, j is appointed (from June 4, 1847) as Assistant Quartermaster, with the rank of Captain. 13th regiment. Ist Lieut. Duncan L. Clinch, (13th Regi ment of Infantry) to bo Captain, July 30, 1847, vice Alexander Scott, resigned. MEDICAL. Smyth M. Miles, of Georgia, to be Assistant Surgeon, Aug. 4, 1847, vice F. W. Miller, re : signed. CADETS. The Ist nine of the Cadets who graduated in June, at West Point, have been appointed 2d Lieutenants in the Artillery Regiments. — The remainder (29) of the class are assigned to the Artillery and Infantry as Brevets, except Cadet R. 11. Long, 2d Lieut, of Infantry. No. 1. Cadet Juo. C. Symmes, Com. I, 4th Artillery. No. 2. Cadet John Hamilton, Com. A, 3d Ar tillery. No. 3. Cadet Jos. J-, Woods, Com. C. Ist Ar tillery. ' No. 4. Cadet St. Juliaii McAllister, Com. B, 2d Artillery. 1 No. 5. Cadet Geo. W; Hazzard, Com. K, 4th Artillery. Great rush fjrßaak Stock. The books for the stock for the It m Bank, granted by the last legislature of Connecticut, to be located near the north-west corner of that | State, were opened on the 3d instant at New Haven, and in a few hours, stock amounting to about $200,000 was subscribed for, when only SIOO,OOO was required; and it is said that : $300,000 would have been subscribed had ; permission been given. An Important Arrangement. The New York Journal of Commerce says, that the government has made arrangements with the Messrs. Rothchilds to furnish money ! in Mexico for the expenses of the army, &c., and ! I receive payment in Nev York. Public Debt of tlieU. States. According to the Bankers’ Magazine, the j public debt of the U. States on the Ist of July, 1847, was, according to the books of the Treas ury, Connection with the Tennessee. The Chattanooga Gazette, of the 13th inst., ; announces the establishment of a line of large j new four horse post coaches between Dalton, the head of the Railroad, and Chattanooga. A Naval Court of Inquiry, to examine into the cause of the recent accident to the U. S. ship Jamestown, assembled on Tuesday on board the U. S. ship Pennsylvania. The Court consists of the following officers: Com. Wil kinson, President; Obm. Kearney and Capt. Webb, members; Lieut. A. Sinclair, Judge Ad | vocate. Rise of Property in Boston. There has been an immense rise in wharf property in Boston within a few years past. A wharf estate, purchased in 1820 for twenty thousand dollars, has been sold in parcels, to I different rail road companies, for depots, to the amount of one hundred and forty-one thou sand dollars, besides a portion given to the j , city, and one wharf remaining, which rents ( for four thousand. Wharf property, purchas- . : ed in 1845 for fifty-three thousand dollars, the j owners have refused to sell for less than one j hundred thousand dollars; and seventy thou- i sand dollars have been offered for two wharves, | purchased three years ago for forty thousand j dollars. The different rail road depots of the city occupy about fifteen important and valu able wharves. A merchant in New York, of twelve years j experience in active business, has placed in the hands of Rev. Wm. A. Hallock, one of the Secretaries of the American Tract Society, ‘ two hundred and fifty dollars, to be awarded j j to the author of the best approved treatise on ! the importance of systematic beneficence, and ) of statedly appropriating certain portions of income for benevolent objects. Good. —A Hartford paper, in detailing the account of the President’s reception in that j city, wishing to be very fine, says: —‘The chil- j i dren of the Deaf and Dumb As dual were drawn : up in line to receive him, and gave three hearty cheers /” Railroads in the United States. Accord ng to a tabular statement given in the American Railroad Journal, it appears | that there are 147 railroads in the U. States, measuring 5,392 miles, now finished and in use. There arc SO more now being constructed, measuring 2,857 miles, and 12 more measuring 715, which have been commenced and aban- j doned. Among these last there arc 484. J miles i.i Alabama and Florida; the Iliwassee Railroad is also included here, though a strong move ment is now being made to complete it. Os the unfinished roads 1,414 miles are in Illinois, mostly State -work. The longest road in the United Stateq owned hy one single company, is that from Savannah ! to Macon, 190§ miles; the next is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the third on the list is • the Georgia, Road, from Augusta to Atlanta, 171 miles long. The first railroad ever built in the United States was the Quincy, 4 miles long, finished in 1827; the second was the Mauch Chunk Road, Pennsylvania, 9 miles long, having a track but 3 feet 6 inches wide. The highest grade of any travelled road (80 feet in a mile) is on the Springfield and Albany, where it crosses the Green Mountain chain, j That from Cleveland, Ohio, to the quarries, | has a grade of 264 feet to the mile. There are 19 roads with inclined planes, rr j quiring stationary engines, and on the Portage I Road, over the Alleghany Mountains inPenn j sylvania, there are ten inclined planes in a dis- , ■ tance of 37 miles. There are 15 tunnels on 12 different roads, the longest being on the Long Island Road un -1 dcr Atlantic street, in Brooklin, which is m are I than half a mile in length. There is a tunnel I 600 feet long through solid rock on the Har ■ lasm Road, near New York. On the Reading Road there are three tunnels, 960, 1600, ani I 1933 feet long. This road, though only 93 j miles long cost $10,338,530. Arrival of Mr. Clay. This distinguished statesman arrived in Baltimore last evening by the Western cars, ! and is stopping at Barnum’s City Hotel. He arrived at Winchester, Ya., yesterday morn ing, from the White Sulphur Springs, and is on his way to Cape May. The Wilmington, Del., papers, of yesterday, stated that Mr. Clay, on Thursday, left the re sidence of Hon. John M. Clayton, in company with that gentleman, and proceeded to Cape May. The number of passengers from Phi ladelphia tor the Capes on Thursday, ivas largely increased in consequence, and it was said a committee of forty gentlemen went down to meet Mr. Clay. He is expected to sojourn there a week or ten days. His arrival here however,' sets matters right.— Baltimore Sun, 14 h imt. I , *P* lWl ** B * l * Ml ** B * llßMß * M ** :g3 **** ,l * l * ,,g *W—— a—— Wß— Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry A single statement like th; following ought to be a sufficient inducement to any one suffering i with diseased lungs to make a trial of W'istaßs Balsam, and test its virtues in their own case. Florence, Oneida Co., N. Y., May, 181 C. Mr. S. W. Fowie—Dear Sir: I take pleasure in ; stating to you ray experience in the use ofWistar'i I Balsam of Wild Cherry. Sometime in February, 18k5. I was attacked with a difficulty of the lungs, which brought me in appearance, to the brink of the grave. I con sulted those who were called skillful physicians, who pronounced my case incurable. My friends at night did not expect to find me alive in the morn ing. I was induced as a last-resort to try Wistar’s Balsam, and after taking the first bottle 1 found great relief. I continued to use it, and after taking four bottles I considered myself cured, and for the last year I have bad no occasion to use any medi cine for she lungs and believe myself entirely well. Signed, " J. T. GRILLEV. None genuine unless signed I. BUTTS on the wrapper. For sale in Augusta, wholesale and retail, bv ft A VTLAND, RISLEV& CO.,and also by THOM AS bArBETT & CO., and Dealers in Medicines generally in Augusta. Aug 17 fy— Sand's Sarsaparilla. The ancients planted the asphodel around the i tombs of their friends in the belief that the seeds I of this plant afforded nourishment to the dead; but the more practical and sensible moderns only resort to the vegetable kingdom for food or medicine for the living. With as much confidence a? the an c eots placed their asphodel.an 1 with a faith founded in experience instead of superstition, the victims | of scrofula, abCess, cancer, erysipelas, rheumati. ni, liver complaint, biles,blotches, pustulous erruptions, leprosy, mercurial diseases or general debility, §eek in Sand's Sarsaparilla relief from suffering and disfigurement, and a permanent cure* Nor do they seek in vain. With the blessings of Provi dence, they uniformly derive from this restoratve renewed health and a renovated constitnation. If a \y doubt, the attested record will, we think, compe conviction. For further particulars and conclusive evidence of its superior value and efficacy, see pamphlets which may be obtained of agents, gratis. Prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, A. B. D. SANDS, Wholesale Druggists. 100 Fulton, cor ner of William-street, New York. Sold also by IIA VI LAND, RTS LEY CO. And by Druggists generally throughout the L’ni ted States. Price S 1 per bottle, or six bottles for fft. Amr. 1? .■JUIIWOW—aww IMiMi 'J ■»IL'H— Special Notices. STB A VI3O AT COMPANY OF dr BOR GIA. Tj J This Company having been re-organized and placed in an efficient state for service, arc pre pared to send forwarded without delay all freight that may offer. Goods qpjisigned 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 d. guieu. June G I —y Agent at Augusta. IT? DR. 3. A. S. MILLIGAN, will at* tend to the practice of Medicine mid Surgery, in Augusta and its vicinity. Office in Metcalfs Range, up stall's. Entrance one door below Mr. J. Marshall’s Drug Store. June 13 Cm 215 (CT Doctors EVE and CAMPBELL?? will at tend to my Professional Business during my absence for. the summer from the State. July 17 PAUL F. EVE. C o ni lit c r c i a U t.ATKST OATES FROM LI VEH POOL.. »» . »JUt,V It LATEST DATES FROM HA VR2Tf tJVI.Y 13. IMPORTS Aug. 14. Havana.—»Schr. T. C. Mitchell—9o lihds. Mo lasses, and 40 dozen Pine Apples, to Williams, Welsman & Co. [ Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.] B 7 Migfaotic^Tcljg-rsph. [ T'rom t.Jie Ric,t..ioitd Times and Compiler.] BALTIMORE, Aug. 13, 4£ P. M. — Flour. — I There are sales to-day of Howard Street Flour at 5-5 75 5 1 200 bbls changed hands at sb. Sales (f ; City Mills Flour at $6. (rrain. —Sales of Prime white Wheat to-diy :t 132 a 133 cts. per bushel. Sales of prime re-1 Wheat at 120 a 123. Sales prime yellow Corn at 73 a 78 cts. per bush. Co n Me ’i-We quote at 53 25—*with sales. NEW YORK. Aug. 13, 4 P. M.— Fancy Stocks are very much depressed to-day. Flour —There are sales of Genesee Flour to-day at 5 ( l The demand for Flour has improved and there is more animation in the market. (rrain. —We quote prime white Wheat to-day at 136 a 139 cents, with sales. Sales of red W heat, an inferior article, at 102 cen‘s. Sales of 13,000 bush i els white Corn to-day, not a prime article, at 63 cents per bushel. Sales of prime yellow Corn at 73 a7B cents. Sales of Oats at 21 cents per bushel. Cotton has declined | of a cent; PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 13 4 P. M.— Flour.— The sales are moderate at previous prices. Penn sylvania brands at sG TW’at.—Sales of prime wheat, at 128 a 131. No changes in other articles usually quoted. MOBELE Aug 11.— Cotton —‘The market has been very firm though the week and sales to the extent of 4000 bales have been made at the quo tations given below. The transactions in the early part of the week were comparatively light, as both hovers and sellers were willing to wait for the for eign advices, then daily expected by the steamer j Washington. Those came to hand 011 Saturday— j the dates from Liverpool being to the 16th uit.— The Liverool market was represented as firm, and former prices well sustained. On Monday the Hibernia's accounts to the 20th ult. came to hand and were of the same general tenor as those of the Washington. The consequence is, holders here have increased confidence, and are very stiff in the t pretensions. The daily transactions of the week have been as follows: Wednesday 80U 1 hursday 503, Friday 300, Saturday 800, Monday 1200, and Tuesday 400 bales. The purchases have been on English and Northern account. The stock on sa e ; is becoming light, and the week closes with a firm market. LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION. i Good and fine . "v.v.v.v.v.v.vr;.urt Mid.’fair...... j f l a ’.U Middling 5 Ordinary , The receipts of the week have been 89 bales, tbt exports 3303 bales, and stock on hand Mast evening, ! inclusive of all on shipboard not cleared. 38,50~ b» i against 10,277 bales same time last year.