Daily constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 1846-1851, October 15, 1847, Image 2
THE CO NSTIT ITT ION A]] SlT*
JAMES GARL-NER. J R.
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.{Pram the Washington Union, Oct. 9.]
Tariff of 1846—More Ruin!
It gives us great pleasure to favor the oppo
nents of the present tariff with all the infor
mation which we possess tending to show its
ruinous effects upon the business of the coun
try I For instance, the following facts and ;
figures cannot fail to be interesting to them :
[.From the Philadelphia Commercial List, Oct. 2.]
The comparative supplies of coal scut to
market in 1846 and 1817 have been:
4«4fi. 1847.
To Sept. Ton'*. ToScpt. Tm*.
Bv Reading R. Road, 21, 872,898 23 988,583
“ Lchiph canal 29, 381,831 21 483,353
“ Rchuylkill caM (•'nla’cing) 23 158,814
*‘-Lackaw*na cauul, 'Sept. 12, 235,958 18 2tj7,fe!9
1,460,C81 1 jmjSCM
1,480,981
Increase in 1847 .... 5,888
Thai has the coal business increased tioenty
firt per cent., so far, in this year of ruin and
distress.
It appears from a statement in detail, pub
lished in the Philadelphia Commercial List of
September 18th, that the following is the ag
gregate receipt of tolls on the Pennsylvania
railroads and canals during the years 1848. and
1847, commencing November 30th, preceding
year, and ending September Ist;
Aggregate fer 1847 > - $1,211,373 09
Do. do. 1843 - - 847,201 58
Increase in 1847 - - $334,171 51
Tt only falls a little short of fifty per cent.
The Boston manufacturers and capitalists
seem to have suffered in like manner. We
find in the Boston Shipping List of September
4th, the following statement of the “domestic
©jtton goods trade” for three months, ending
August 31st: ’
“The export of domestic cotton goods to
foreign ports the past month ending August
BJ, has been as follows :
Bales and easasr,
T® Canton * - • - 2,055
Cape of Good Hope - - - 63
Montevideo and Buenos Ayres - 112
Belize 37
f.ttba • » % v . 23
Nova Scotia • • • 5
Total i w w 2.396
Previous two months * * 8,193
Total for three months *■ * 10.519
feline pr’d last year funder tariff’42] 6,354
Increase - • • *• * 4,165”
It soeras from the statement above, that the
poor., manufacturers of Lowell, who were to
he ruined by the tariff of 1845, have increased
their exports of manufactured goods nearly
fifty per cent, in three months. Nay, more;
they have sent them to China, Cape of Good
Hope, South America, Cuba, and Nova Scotia
-—in every quarter of the world except Eu
rope, competing with British rivals in their fa
■ vorite market of China, and even in the Brit
ish colonies of Nova Scotia and the Cape of
Good Hope. How stupid not to know how
: they are ruined !
But, alas ! the Boston banks, owned by the
manufacturers and merchants of that city, are
•ufferlng in like manner, as will appear from
the following statement of the serai-annual
dividends for the last four years, which we
ropy from the finam-ial article of the Boston
■ Post of October sth;
April, Amount.
Capital. Dividends.
1844 $17,480,000 $425,300
1845 17,480,000 550.250
1845 18,180,000 593,000
1547 18,180,000 623,000
October. Amount.
Capital. Dividends,
1844 $17,480,000 $480,000
1845 17.480,000 561,850
1845 18,180,000 603,000
1347 18,980,000 658,000
.Did not Abbott Lawrence, in one of his very
profound and statesmanlike letters to Wil
liam C. Hives, predict that in a short time
after the tariff of 184 S went into operation,
the manufacturers would be all ruined, “and
not a specie-paying bank doing business will
[would] be found in the United States?” He
did even so predict. But. how facts stultify
and confound such deluded theorists, who, if
they are hone>t men, seem to havs no rational
conception of the principles which control the
business in which they are engaged, and by
which they make their enormous fortunes. —
Such charlatanry in political economy as Mr.
Lawrence has been guilty of in his letters to
Mr. Rives, is scattered to the winds, and ut
terly exploded by the simple truth as de
veloped by the actual operation of the present
tariff.
To jump from the sublime to the ridiculous
—or, in other "words, to descend from a re
spectable intellect, (for such we deem that of
Mr. Lawrence,) to one which is either per
verted or disordered—we would commend the
i icts above stated to Mr. Andrew Stewart, of
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, as a complete an
«wer to the striking absurdities of perverted
fact and transparent sophistry contained in his
letter to the Intelligencer of yesterday. If
the game were worth the candle, we would
devote a little more space to the exposition of
his empty rant upon the tariff; blit we feel that
wc have honored him too much in that way
already. A writer who can deliberately put
forth the assertion that an exchange of fifty
millions in value of the products of the labor
of this country for the same amount of the
products of the labor of other countries is a
tax upon the people of this country to that
amount, can deceive nobody, while he justly
exposes his own intellect to the suspicion of
being either very oblique or very obtuse. —
That seems to be the condition of Mr. Andrew
Stewart, who conceives himself to be the
champion of the protective system. Under
the guardian care of this new Don Quixotte,
it bids fair to meet the fate of ancient chival
ry, which got run into the ground by just
such a conceited and blundering knight-er
rant, .
[From the Hartford (Conn.) Times.]
First Impression of Daniel Webster.
Mm Editor; Having occasion to visit Spring
field one day last week, I found the Whig State
Convention in session, and thought I would
"step in just to see what was going on. On
entering, the room, I found the stage occupied
by a stout,, square-built, elderly man dressed
in a bran-new blight blue coat with-gilt but-
and velvet collar, white vest, also with ■
gilt buttons, black pantaloons, white cravat,
with the shirt collar turned down, and a white
cambric pocket handkerchief on the little ta
ble beside him, with which ever and anon
he mopped his nose and forehead. I listened
to his speech for about twenty minutes. It
was heavy and tedious—treating of comraon
olacc topics in a very common-place manner.
The speaker often appeared to hesitate for
words, and spoke with a wearisome and head
boaring slowness. You know what 1 mean
by this expression. The sensation produced
by a speaker not devoid of good sense and
good sound reasoning powers, throwing off
bis truisms to a slow, laborious manner, has
been well compared to that of a dull gimblet
boring right into you skull. This idea give
rise to the word bore, which expresses the
feeling exactly. The action of the speaker
was not amiss, except that he had a bad habit
of dvery now and then tugging at the front
of his pantaloons, as if there was something
wrong there. He also had away of giving
force and energy to particular sentences, by
opening his legs in the form of an ellipse, and
then snapping them together with considerable
emphasis. I give these minute particulars of
his dress and manner, because, though not
important, they are characteristic, and there
fore interesting. Well,l confess I felt thorough
ly bored; and, having stood it as long as 1
could, and seen enough of what appeared to
be a good, tedious, homespun, substantial far
mer delegate from the hills of Berkshire, I left
the room. At the foot of the stairs a friend
asked me how I liked Webster? “Can’t say
—never heard him.” Why, that’s him now
speaking.” “Good God!” was my exclama
tion. “Is it possible I have been listening to
the ‘godlike’ unawares, and been bored?” So
I tumbled up stairs again in a great hurry.—
Then, indeed, the feelings of “bore” vanished,
for anew and sti'ong interest was aroused —
that of observing a notable man, and following
the speech of one whose reputation has been
built upon his speaking. I listened attentively
for an hour and a half to the substantial,
prosy, fanner delegate, now transformed into
the “great expounder Still, after the first
emotions of curiosity were satisfied, dullness
and weariness st'll clung to that speech. His
subject was the Mexican war, and the speech
mainly was a mere hash of the whig diatri
bes, crudities, and falsities on that topic,which
have been repeated, (i ad nauseam," (to a sicken
ing degree) a thousand times. Marks of a
powerful mind were not wanting; but still, in
the main, that oration was dreadfully weari
some, laborious, and slow. Whatever else it
might have been, it was not oratory —certainly
not great oratory. It was such a speech as,
beyond all question, if it had proceeded from
an unknown delegate instead of Daniel Web
ster. would have cleared that room, and been
delivered to bare walls and empty benches. —
That great auditory was kept together, hot
to listen to the speech, but to see and hear the
man. Neither the Demosthenean fire and
vehemence, aor the elegance of Cicero, were
there, nor the shadow of those qualities. Or,
to compare him with living speakers, there
was nothing of the smooth and flowing and
yet powerful periods of Peel, or of the copious
and fiery energy of Brougham. The divine
and contagious fire of the true orator was not
there. In short, there was nothing about the
speech very brilliant, very strong, or very im
pressive, except a few remarks towards the
close, which were carefully premeditated, and
were certainly marked with a good deal of
point and energy. And here lies the whole
secret of Webster’s reputation'. He has cer
tainly made speeches of a very able character—
powerful, pointed, and energetic—showing a
higher order of imagination, as well as great
reasoning power; But the--e have invariably
been carefully studied and prepared. He
never made a good unstudied speech yet, and
never will, simply because it is not his gift. I
do not say he is the less able man on this ac
count. 1 simply state the fact. The fault is,
that, knowing where his strength as well as
his weakness lies, he take* advantage of his re
putation to inflict prosy, unprepared, trashy
harangues on conventions, which, his fame as
an orator draws together. This is a species
of inexcusable fraud, and the effect is always
disappointing. Either from vanity or laziness,
he chooses on these occasions to appear ia
the character of a loose, off-hand, careless
speaker—trusting to the inspiration of the
moment —a character for which nature has not
fitted him, and in which he always fails.—
Hence in the discussion at this Sprinfield con
vention, Winthrop of Boston, and Phillips of
Salem, appeared to far greater advantage than
Webster, simply because their natural gift of
easy, off-hand speaking, is much greater than
his. In this particular, also, Hufus Choate is
incomparably his superior,
I make these remarks not to detract from
Webster’s merits, but to give a just account of
them. He is a very prominent man just now,
and has been made so by his carefully-studied
arguments and or ition-. On the strength of
this capital he trades off a great deal of prosy,
dull, and common-place speaking. Ills friends
will have it whatever he utters is most extra
ordinary and wonderful, and, either unable
or unwilling to discriminate, talk as if he did
not always make trashy speeches whenever he
speaks without preparation. These remarks
may have some effect towards clearing their
heads of this grovelling, unreasoning, and
man-worshipping delusion. The effect which
hi* speech had on me, before I knew who he
was, was the true test of its character. It was the
genuine criticism and verdict of nature render
ed underimpartial circumstances,and before the
subtle charm, inseparable from a distinguish
ed reputation, had any opportunity to bias
the judgment. BERLIN.
The Late Battles-
Extract from a letter written by an officer ot
the army to a gentleman in Washington, dated
Coyoacan, near the city of Mexico, Septem
ber 2 f— 3
The storming of Fort Contreras, by Riley’s
brigade, compose of the 4th artillery, 2d and
7th infantry, was, I think, the most splendid
affair of the whole war, and, indeed, that has
ever occurred in this country. It took place
on the morning of the 20th August. The
brigade was about 900 strong, and during the
morning of the 20th, before daylight, succeed
ed in gaining a position in rear of the enemy’s
works, without being discovered until the co
lumns of attack were nearly formed. They
stormed the fort in two columns of attack
—the 4th artillery and a part of the 2d infan
try composing one column, and the main part
of the 2d infantry and the 7th forming the
other; in the latter column, the 2d in front.—
The storming columns marched steadily up
the hill in double quick time, with a huzza,
under a heavy shower of grape and round shot
from the Mexican artillery, and at the point of
the bayonet routed the enemy and drove them
(though about 7,000 strong) from the works.
500 Mexicans were killed, while our loss was
only about 60 men in killed and wounded.—
How many Mexicans were wounded, I cannot
say. We took some 1400 or 1500 prisoners on
that occasion. Deside 27 pieces of artillery and
any quantity of small arms. Only reflect,
900 American soldiers attacking and storming
a fort containing 27 pieces of artillery, and
defended by 7,000. soldiers ! It is a feat un
paralleled in history. This the gallant Riley
did with his brigade—killing 500, and captu
ring 1500 prisoners, with a loss of only 60
men. A braver commander, and braver or
better soldiers never lived than Riley and his
storming brigade.
The attack on Churubusco, on the afternoon
of the 20th, was a bloody affair for us. We
lost nearly 1000 men in killed and wounded.
Our regiments suffering severely; but the
enemy >vore eventually driven from their
/works, and we took 1100 prisoners and 12 or
f l 3 pieces of artillery. It was a brilliant affair
lor our arms.
[ Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.]
Washington,- Oct. 9, 1847.
Damarje by the Storm —Illness of Gen. Towson —
Instructions sent to Gen. Scott —Recall of Mr.
Trist—AU Overtures of Peace Withdrawn —
Political complexion of the next House of Rep
resentatives — Candidates for Speaker, &c.
The rain fell on Thursday nigbt, in this vi
cinity, not in showers, but in a flood. The
deluge that has been the consequence is exten
sive, and, so far as we learn, destructive. The
banks of the canal, the river, and the creeks,
are overflowed, and much damage has been
done to property and buildings.
*Gen. Matthew Towson, Paymaster General,
is, I regret to hear, very ill, and I hear of se
vere indisposition among other officers of the
government.
The flood will not, I think, have the effect
to render the city unhealthy. At the time of
the great crevasse, at New Orleans, some years
ago,—when the city was flooded, and the alli
gators paddled into the second story windows —
it was thought that a sickly season would fol
low, but it so happened that it was the most
healthful season that had ever been known.
The government has certainly made tip its
decision in regard to Mexico', and instructions,
based on the new state of things, have been
sent out t. 6 General Scott.
Mr. Trist has been recalled—his mission
having terminated in another failure, and the
government having determined to withdraw
all overtures for peace.
I presume that Cel; Srnrib, the gentleman
sent to Mexico, carries to Gen- Scott iders in
reference to the future conduct of the war. —
Mexico must be made to defray the expenses
of the - war, so far as the means may be found
in her possession.
The problem as to the political complexion
of the House, in the next Congress, is now
solved. ‘ The whigs are to have a small major
ity. The vote will be 117 whigs to 111 demo
crats, provided that Mr. Levin, (Native Ame
rican) votes with the whigs, and that Louisi
ana elects one whig.
It does not follow that the whigs will be
able to elect a whig speaker. Among the whigs
are a number of impracticable*—Messrs. Pal
fey, Tuck, Wilson, Root, and Giddings, —who
are pledged to vote against any man as speaker
who shall be in favor of supplies for the Mex
ican war, or of the tolerance of slavery in any
new territory to be acquired. On the oiher
band, there are many whigs who can vote for
no man as speaker who is opposed to supplies,
or in favor of the Wilmot proviso.
The character and course of the House arc
as much in doubt as ever. We may have a
Calhoun speaker. There may be a coalition
between the whigs and the Calhoun men, and,
in this case, the Calhoun man will hold the
power of the House, and direct it as they
please. lon.
By Telegraph.
[Correspondence of the Baltimore .Start.]
Richmond, Oct. 10, 10 A. M.
Destructive Tire at Richmond. —At day
break this morning, our citizens were aroused
from their slumbers by an alarm of die, and
the noise of the firemen and the continued
ringing of the alarm bells, gave warning that
it was a fire of no ordinary character.
The heavy clouds of smoke soon attracted
thousands of persons, and Chevalier’s Gallego
Mills, were found to be enveloped in flames.
The firemen and our citizens generally
to work ill good earnest, but all hopes of ex
tinguishing the flames wore scori given Up, and
this extensive establishment, with large quan
tities of wheat and flour, were soon a head of
ruins.
The firemen, however, worked unremittingly
to prevent the destruction of the surrounding
property, and finally succeeded, but Hot uuti!
a number of houses had been burnt, owned by
Messrs, Bullock, and the Market arid Harrison
estates. The Shockoe tobaco warehouse ws>
also burnt, with about one hundred hogsheads
of tobacco.
The houses burnt were occupied by Messrs
Rives & Harris, John Robinson, Haxall &
Brothers, Williams & Itaxal, Ford & Woodson
and Winfree Sheppard, as eommlsion mer
chants, who were partly insured.
The Gallego Mills were owned by Messrs.
Warwick & Berksdale, who were partly in
sured.
This is the largest fire that has ever occurred
in Richmond, arid 1 learn that it i 3 supposed
to have originated in accident. L.
[Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.]
Washington Oct. 10, 9£, P. M.
The southern mail boat has just arrived,
heavily loaded with passengers. The mails
from Baltimore and the North were taken
around by steamboat from Acqua creek, and
will doubtless reach you early in the morning.
* . Q.
Result of the Election. —The returns of the
election on Monday last in this State, come in
but slowly, and we are therefore only enabled
to furnish our readers this week with the re
sult of the following counties. Os Senators
there are ten to be elected to wit: 1 in the Ist
District, 1 in the 4th, 1 in ths 6th, 1 in the
10th, 1 in the 11th, 1 in the I‘2th, linthel3th.
1 in the 14th, I in the IGth, and 1 in the 19th
—9 Senators holding over. Os these, 5 are
whigs, and 4 are democrats. Os the Senators
elected this year, the whigs have secured two,
Madision and Columbia, and have probably
elected one in Nassau, one in Jackson, and
one in Hamilton, which gives them a majority
ofoneintho Senate. Os the five other dis
tricts, the whigs have an equal chance in two,
viz: Escambia and Duval, though we may
have elected the Duval Senator. Franklin
again sends Col. Floyd, democrat, by a hand
some majority. In Jefferson the whigs offered
no opposition to Judge J. M. Smith, the de
mocratic candidate for the Senate, and of
course be is elected. Monroe and Dade,
which compose the 10th district, hare most
probably sent a democrat to the Senate, as
thete is a democratic majority of at least 75 in
| those two counties. From this statement, it
will be seen that the next Senate will be whig,
bv from one to seven majority. The lower
House will be very close either way. We
have gained, as far as head from, three mem
bers, 1 in Leon, 1 in Gadsden, and 1 in Frank
lin, and lost, three, I iii Wakulla, 1 in Madi
son and lin Columbia. Jefferson sends 3 tie*
mocrats. What the result has been in the
other counties, we have no means of knowing,
but judging of the reports from the East, we
are apprehensive that both houses of the Leg
islature will be Whig. As far as hear .* from,
the Whigs have elected 9 members, and the
Democrats 8. The House numbers 39 mem
bers. Democratic majority last year 2—on
joint ballot 3. Tallahassee Floridian, 9th inst.
Texas—Derivation of the Name
The Camanches claim to be "the lineal de
scendants of the empire of Montezuma, and
the only legitimate owners of the whole Mexi
can country. The chiefs say that when Cortes
landed in Mexico, he found the country torn
to pieces by internal factions, and was enabled,
by employing the disaffected chiefs, to raise a
i force to seize upon their capital. Those chiefs
believed if they could destroy the power of
Montezuma, they could easily despatch the
Spaniard, and have the control of the country
in their own hands. But too late they ascer
tained that they had introduced & harder maa
——————B—Ml
ter, and that unconditional servitude was all
they had to expect. They were required to
change their ancient religion* and thousand;
of them were sent off to work in the mines,
from which they rarely ever made their es
cape. A great proportion of them bowed theii
necks to the conqueror, and became serfs and
slaves to the Spaniards; but a few, the noblest
and best, preferred exile to servitude, and set
out on a pilgrimage to the north, in hopes to
find a land where they could enjoy their an
cient institutions in peace.
They travelled for many weeks, and at last
came to the great river of the north —the Rio
Grande —where they encamped, and sent out
twenty chosen men to examine the adjacent
country. They crossed the great river, and
ascended one of the highest peaks of the moun
tain, which overlooked the adjacent plain.—
The prairie was covered with buffalo, deer and
antelopes, and they thought they had reached
the happy hunting-ground, and the word “Te
has! Tehasl Tehasl” burst from every tongue.
It was decided unanimously that it should be
their future home, and that the country should
go by the name apparently furnished them by
tiie Great Spirit.
Tehas is the- Camanche name for the resi
dence of the happy spirits in the other world,
where they shall enjoy an eternal felicity, and
have a plenty of deer and buffalo always at
hand. By taking the sound as they pronounce
it, and giving it the Spanish orthography, it
gives us the word “Texas,” which is the “hap
py hunting-ground,” or the “Elysium,” of the
Camanches. This is the true history of the
name as derived from Isowacany himself.
'
Augusta, ocor gi a.
Fit IDA Y CORNING, OCT. \‘s, 1817
The Federal Union makes the following
comments on the result of the elections for j
members of the Legislature. It dashes severe
ly the cup of rejoicing among the democrats |
at the election of Col. Towns, to reflect that :
by the folly and selfishness of a few unworthy
aspirants, our party is defeated and two Fed
eral Senators are to be sent to Congress from
the democratic State of Georgia :
“But the most lamentable part of the Story,
is yet to be told. The Democracy have lost a
decided .majority in. both Houses by their own
divisions. In the Senatorial District of Floyd
and Chattooga, Col. Towns received a majori
ty of 107 votes, and yet that District has re
turned a Whig to the Senate. In Bulloch arid
Tattnall, Colonel Towns’, majority was IL9,
and yet there Was a tie, or as reported by the
| Republican, a Whig elected by a majority of
| two votes. In the House, Bibb with its demo
i cratic majority of 69—Floyd with its 31 —GU-
I mer with its 489—Heard* with its 89 —and I
Jasper with its 44, have each returned a Whig, j
and Randolph with its democratic majority for i
Governor of 10, which ought to have been at
least 75, has returned two whigs. Is it not a
shame, a burning shame, that 40,000 Demo- ;
crats, who have manfully stood at their posts,
and in many cases struggled successfully
against fearful odds, should have their princi
-1 pies placed in jeopariy, and sustain the mor- j
titication of at least a partial defeat, merely
, that a few r ambitious aspirants should be grati
fled?”
invite attention to the following
communication which we find in the Charles
ton Mercury. We cordially second the recom
mendation in favor of the “ Western Continent ,” ;
for the reasons suggested. We have noticed ■
with great pleasure the efficient and thorough- j
ly Southern course of that journal on the great !
question of the day to the South —the ques- !
tion of Slavery. The Western Continent is in !
every respect a Southern paper,ln tone,and sen
timent arid in the auspices under which it was ;
established and Has flourished; It is publish- j
od in a Southern citv, ih a slaveholding State, '
* o
on the frontier of ailti-shivery and its fierce
fanaticism, where it can. meet the ruffianly as
saults against us, and can at the same time by
means of its literary reputation,Slid already es- ;
tablished circulation at the-North get a hear- |
ing among our opponents for the Southern :
side of the question.
We arc free to declare that we doubt the '
expediency of establishing a journal at Wash
ington solely for the vindication of the insti
tution of slavery. It will get no circulation
among our opponents. A correspondent writ
ing us a private letter on the subject, remarks
that it would be as feasible to establish a
press in Constantinople to convert the Turks
to Christianity, as to establish a pro-sla
very journal at Washington to overcome the
anti-slavery opinions of the people of th«
North.
We are personally acqflainte<l with the edi
tor of the Western Continent, ite is a South
ern man, and is well known in Georgia as a
writer of talents—has acquired some literary
celebrity, and was for a time editor of a litera
ry journal published for some years in this
city.
Whatever be the determination of the pro
jectors of the contemplated press at Washing
ton, we hope that the “ Western Continent ” will
continue to receive from the South an ample
support. The editor is now on a Southern
tour —he will be in our city in about two
weeks, and we hope soon to hear of large ac
cessions to his subscription list.
[ From the Charleston Mercury .]
The Contemplated Southern Press.
We have understood from good authority,
that it is contemplated, by some of our promin
ent men, to establish in Washington a news
paper to be devoted exclusively to the advo
cacy of Southern rights, in opposition to the
principles embodied in the Wilmot Proviso.
The object of the writer is, to make a sugges
tion with regard to this matter, and to give his
reason for so doing. Ihe suggestion is this:
that if there can be found on the northern fron
tier of the Slaveholding States a well conduct
ed paper, edited by a gentleman known to the
South as an able -writer and competent editor,
it would be much better that the support of
the Southern people should be concentrated
on such a paper, already established\ with a
circulation of some thousands, than to expend
a large amount of money in the establishment
of a new press, which will have to contend with
difficulties that every newspaper must inevi
tably encounter before it can gain any exten
sive cirtulation. We know of such a paper,
neutral in party politics, which has taken a
firm and decided stand on this question, and j
which has published a number of articles from i
the pens of some of our most distinguished |
Southern writers. Wc allude to “The Western :
Continent,” published in Baltimore by W.T,
Thompson, Esq., well known to the literary
world as a writer, and one who, since his con
nection with the “Continent” especially has
not suffered his pen to bo idle on this important
| question. As respects the location of such a
press, we would greatly prefer Baltimore to
Washington, because it would be extremely
difficult to keep a Washington paper free from
the taint of party politics, which, in the estab-
lishmeat of 3 paper of this character, must he
studiously avoided; and wo predict that in the
event of the contemplated press being located
at Washington, it would, ere long, become
identified with either the Whig or Democratic
party. The ‘‘Continent” finds its way into the
hands of hundreds of readers, who could never
be induced to subscribe to a paper devoted ex
clusively to the South. Its present patronage,
therefore, with the extended circulation which
the energies of those interested in the contem
plated movement must bring to it, would un
questionably make it the most desirable organ
of the South.
We make this suggestion, and trust that the
attention of those enterprising gentlemen who
have taken in hand the establishment of a
Southern press, will be directed to it, as we
believe, with many others, that the “Western
Continent,” from its position, its freedom from
the corrupting influences of party politics, and
the well known abilities of its conductor, ren
der it in every point of view deserving the
patronage and confidence of the Southern peo
ple. We may add that such an arrangement
could undoubtedly be effected with the Editor
of the Continent,'who is now' visiting the South;
and that nothing would be more consonant |
with his feelings than to make the defence of I
Southern rights and intitutions tne distinctive
feature of his valuable paper.'
SOUTHERNER.
New Da ok ?
Received from the publishers, per Thomas :
Richards, the following pleasant books :
Part 6, Court of Louis Fourteenth—the last
I of the series, by Miss Pardoe.
Norman Bridge, by the author of Emilia j
Wyndham.
Rory O’Moore, by Samuel Lover.
Also, received from the author, “A Gram
: mar of the English Language,” adapted to j
American schools. This seems to be a very j
I thorough sy.stem, prepared with great care,and !
is by Joseph R. Chandler, Esq., well known j
| as the accomplished editor of the United States !
Gazette. lie has recently retired from the edi
torial profession and is now’ President of Gi
| raid College.
Col, Towns’ Letter to W. B. Cone.
I We publish the following letter, which we
find in yesterday’s Chronicle S$ Sentinel.
It is a very good letter —just such a one as
a sensible man would write on the subject
who might be in favor of the Rail Road ex
tension, yet would oppose exorbitant taxation
to accomplish it. No good citizen ought to
desire a man in the Executive chair who would
be a piece of wax to be moulded into shape to
I suit others, or would tamely surrender all dis
j cretion over matters upon which ho may be
called oh to act. Col. Towns would have been
grossly culpable had he given any pledge
| which, would have disarmed him, under every
and all circumstances, of the use of the veto
power in reference to all legislation on this
1 great question. But the people have confi
j dence that he will not capriciously orarbitra
, rily use it. They have shown this confidence
| by electing him to the Executive chair.
As to the circumstances which called forth
this letter to Mr. Cone, we know nothing. We
presume that it is in reply to a respectful let-
I ter of inquiry from that gentleman. Colonel
Towns has committed no very grave offence
lin answering such a letter. Mr. Cone is a po
litical supporter,and probably a personal friend;
We therefore see nothing objcctidnablc, either
I in the cori'espoudence itself, or the sentiments
j of the letter.
- Taurotton. Sept. 27, 18 it.
Dear Sir —Your letter of 10th inst. I receiv
■ ed last night on my returning home, artd now
hasten ray answer. In regard to the Railroad,
| I herewith send you the answer of O *noral
| Clinch and myself, published in the Constitti
i tlonalist, to an interrogatory propounded to us
from a Comm ttee in Walker county. From
my ans wer, you will see I am pledged to abide
bv the action of the Legislature; if the Legis
: lature say complete the road, and will provide
i the means without embarrassing or imposing
| unnecessary burthens upon the people, then I
j will, if elected, saxiction the law for that ob
ject; tmt on the other hand, I shall not feel it
my duty to exert any influence as Executive,
over the Legislntiire of the State on this sub
ject, nor will I feel myself authorized to give
my sanction to aiiy law passed by the Legisla
ture for the purpose of completing this road,
whereby the public debt of the State is to be
largely ncreased. If the Legislature directs the
road to be completed .upon such principles as
will succeed without imposing a burthen upon
the people of the State, which from its mag
nitude will overbalance the good to be realized
by the completion of the road, then I am free to
admit that such a project would receive my
Sanction; On the other hand, if the burthen
of taxation is to be increased for the comple
tion of this road, or a new public debt impos
ed upon the State to be redeemed by the peo
ple from increased taxation, I am not prepared
to give any such measure my sanction. In a
word, the completion of the Railroad belongs
exclusively to the Legislature; there I am dis
posed to let it rest. The action of that body
will be my guide, unless, in my judgement,
I it violates the Constitution; and is oppressive
and unjust to the people, in which event I
j should not feel myself bound to sanction its
measitres. lam your friend .and ob't. serv’t.,
G. W. TOWNS.
Wm. B. Coxe, Esq., Dalton, Oa.
Ocean Steamers-
The French steamship Missouri left Cher
bourg, France, on the 30th ult., for New York;
the English mail steamer Cambria left Liver
pool on the sth inst. for Boston; and the
French steamer Philadelphia, was to leave
Cherbourg, France, on the 10th inst.
The Rev. Benjamin M. Falmer,who was, for
a series of years, Pastor of the Circular Church,
in Charleston, died, at Orangeburg, S. C., on !
Saturday night last, in the 67th year of his age.
From Tabasco. —By the arrival of the schoon
er Arietis, Capt. Martin, we have very late
news from Tabasco. The Arietis left the mouth
of Tabasco river on the 22d ult. Capt. Martin
reports the United States bomb brig Etna,
Commander G. J. Van Brunt; schooner Bonita,
J. M. Berrien, Lieutenant Commanding; and
steamer Scourge; were lying at Frontcra, near
the mouth ot the Tabasco river. Every thing
at the time of the sailing of the Arietis was
quiet. The latest accounts from the town of
Tabasco state that the populace wore all peace
ably disposed; that may of the Mexican soldiers
were daily deserting, on account of not receiv
ing anv pay for thoir services, ’lhose who re
mained were under the command of the famous
Miguel Bruno, whofit is said, has been appoint
ed Commander-in-Chief of the Mexican forces
in the State of Tabasco.
A large number of our own troops hayebeen
on the sick list, but are rapidly recovering.
There is no very late news from the interior.
The greater number of inhabitants who had
left the town or Frontera on account of the
war, are now returning, having become sat: sfiod
that the Americana will not harm them when
they keep themselves quiet. The importation
ot logwood, for some cause or other, had been
stopped. Com. Perry was at last accounts
Front 10 ” ut was expect-
The Macedonian. —We hear of this vessel last
at Greenock, where, on the 2d of September,»
‘‘grand soner was given to Commodore De-
Itay by the Odd Fellow;, a large assemblage
of ladies and gentlemen being present The
Commodore made a clever speech, when his
health was proposed, in which he adroitly com
plimented the ladies, the Odd Fellows and the
good people of Greenock, Mrs. DeKay’s grand
father, Henry Eckford, having served his ap
prenticeship to a shipbuilder there.
On the following Monday, a dinner was
given to the Commodore and officers by the
“Central Board of the Highland Rtlief Fund.”
The U. S. ship Macedonian sailed from Gree
nock on the 14th of September for New York.
What is the reason why our whig brethren
entertain us with no more of their prophecies
and declamations on the universal ruin which
I was to overtake the country, in consequence
of the passage of the reduced tariff of duties
I which went into operation, December, 184 G?
Our whig brethren are quite mum on this once
fruitful subject—Twelve months ago they en
tertained us with laughable lamentations on
| the approaching distress which was to over
whelm every class of our fellow citizens —even
the Bulletin was ludicrously pathetic and
blunderingly eloquent—But now we hear noth
ing on the subject of the tariff of protection—
It is gone, we apprehend, to the tomb of the
| Capulets, to be soon followed by whig opposi
| tion to the Sub Treasury—which has also
I shamed their predictions. Our whig brethren
i like some personages of whom Milton speaks,
Silent, and in face
• Confounded, long they sit, as stricken mute.
They appear to be waiting for some new
! topic for their eloquence. They are dumb
i founded in regard to General Taylor—and the
i Massachusetts whig Convention have nominat
| cd Daniel Webster for President of the United
States; George N. Brings for Governor, and
John Heed for Lieutenant Governor. The
vote for President was unanimous, and this
explains the refusal of 11. Clay to visit Boston,
and it proves how the whigs of New England
are affected towards General Taylor. What can
a whig candidate for president do without
Massachusetts? Our whig brethren are in a
sad way,poor fellows! and it is their own fault.
— New Orleans Courier , B th inst.
ANDERSON,TsrcTOctT:".—The Engi
neers, engaged in the survey of the route of
the Rail Road from Newberry C. H., through
Abberville District and by this place to Green
ville C. 11., have progressed to near the An
derson line, we are informed, and may there
fore be expected at this place by the last of
next week we suppose. From .here they will
proceed on the ridge between the Twenty-six
i miles and Beaverdam creeks to Greenville C.
11. We learn that the route, as far as they
have come, ascertained to be in every respect
a most admirable one.— Gazette.
Tn«riiiF i »sgTMoeHgfwwriif l i i miiUK».w ■!!■>"> i wfw ■■
MARRIED,
On the 10th inst., by the Rev. H. V Maikey, Dr.
W. Barton to Mr*. Barau Bostwick, all of
Burke county, Ga. . . ~..
Special Notices.
O’MR. L. Li TASTE Has the honor
of informing his fellow citizens of Augusta, that
he will, This Evening, deliver the first of a series
of LECTURES ON SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS;
beginning with the beautiful and useful science of
PNEUMATICS, illustrated by numerous experi
ments, with new and efficient apparatus. In show
ing the mechanical properties of atmospheric air,
the following are a few ot the illustrations :
Fonnt flirt in reeve.
The Crushed Bottle.
A Heavy Weight Raised.
The Magdeburgh Hemispheres.
The Torricellian Vacuum, exhibiting the priref
ple of the Barometer.
The Air Shower.
Boiling Water in vacuo.
The Belle in vacuo. ■
Transfer of Liquids by Expanrion and Pressure.
The beautiful Bolt Head Experiment, ttc Ac.
As Mr. L. is desirous of enlarging the quantity of
his Apparatus, and hopes to render his lectures in
structive, at least, he confidently expects the pa
tronage of his friends.
Tickets—Fifty cents—a gentleman and two la
dies $1 —Students of other Institutions half price
To be had at Mr. Granville’s Book Store.'
Oct. 15 ]—
AUGUSTA ENCAMPMENT NO. 5.
I. O. G. F.
A Regular Meeting of the Camp wdl be held
at the Masonic Hall, Tins {Friday ) Evening, at T
o’clock precisely.
By ord£r 6f tbcC. P.
Oct. 15 WM. HAINES, Scribe;
GEORGIA R. ROAD & BANK’G. CO*
AUGUSTA, OCT. 11, 1847.
DIVIDEND NO. 13 —A Dividend of THREE
per cent, out of the profits of the last six months, is
declared on the Capital Stock Os this Company,
payable on and after Monday , the 18th inst.
J. W. WILDE, Cashier.
Oct. I 4 G
Another Letter from Vermont.
Nor. *2l, 1815.
Mr. Seth VV. Fowle>—
Sir —Having tested the value of Wistar’s Bal
sam of Wild Cherry, I take the pleasure in giving
to you the facts in ray own case, for your own sa
tisfaction and the benefit of others. One year
ago last April, I was violently attacked with a
severe cold and cough, with much pain in my side,
which was considerably swollen. I applied to a
number of physicians bat obtained no relief, and
they told me that if I did not get help immediate
ly my case would be doubtful. It was my good
fortune at that critical moment to take up a paper
containing a notice of Wistar’s Balsam of Wild
i Cherry, and thinking it to be what I needed, sent
! some distance to procure a bottle, as it was not
' then kept in oar vicinity, and to my astonishment,
I received from that one bottle immediate relief,
I now keep it by me constantly, as I find noth
ing so good for common colds, and do cueerfu.ly
recommend it to all as being an article of great
merit, hoping that others may by the early wse of
this valuable remedy, bo saved from an untimely
grave. JAMES KING.
Tonbridge, Orange Co., Vt.
None genuine unless signed 1. BUTTS on tbo
wrapper.
For sale in Augusta, wholesale and retail, by
11A VI LAND. RISLEY &CO..and also by THOM
AS BARRETT & CO,, apd Dealers in Medicines
generally in Augusta.
Oct. 13 3 ~~'
augustaTmanupacturing com
pany.
By order of the Board of Directors, notice U
hereby given, that an installment of 10 per cent is
required to be paid in by the Stockholders on Wed
nesday, the l Oth of November next.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Sec’y i■