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TELEGRAPHIC intelligence.
From the Charleston Courier of yesterday.
Elections.
Pennsylvania. —Full returns from this State
have been received, which give Johnson, the
Whig candidate, a majority of two hundred
and fifty votes.
From the Charleston Mercury—By Telegraph.
Baltimore, Oct. 23, 4 p. m,
A despatch has just been received from the
Ohio State Journal, a Whig paper published
at Columbus, the seat of Government, an
nouncing positively the election of Ford, the
Whig candidate for Governor by 340 majority.
The Whigs are now celebrating the intelli
gence.
From Mexico.
Our New-Orleans correspondent under date
of Saturday last, informs us that by an arrival
at that port, advices had been received of the
return of Santa Anna to Vera Cruz.
Much excitement prevailed in Tampico in
consequence of the appearance of a pronuncia
mento, giving the preliminary details of the
Sierra Madre movement.
Another battle between the whites and In
dians had taken place near Tampico, in which
the latter, we regret to state, were victorious.
Telegraphic Correspondence of the Baltimore
American.
Boston, Oct. 17. 1848.
Miller, whose trial for forgery has been pro
ceeding for the last few days, was convicted to
day.
The Market.
New-York, —Six hundred balescotton were
sold in the New-York market on Saturday, at
I decline. Flour was firm atsg to 54 for good
Western and Genesee brands. Corn Meal
scarce and firm at 3] : yellow Northern Corn
72 a 74 cents; Rice, unchanged.
From Chambers' Edinburg Journal.
Remarkable Case of Suspension of the
Mental Faculties.
Painful as the idea may appear, it seems
certain that disease is one of the avenues by
which we are to approach a knowledge of the
character and functions of the human mind. A
curious light is thrown on the subject by cases
of suspension of the mental faculties through
the influence of shocks sustained by the ner
vous system. Mr. Dunn, Surgeon, London,
reported one such case of extraordinary inter
est a few days ago: it appeared originally in
the “Lancet,” but we have now before us a
reprint in the shape of a pamphlet.
The patient was a healthy young woman and
a dress maker. While living with her grand
father, July 14th, 1843, she accidentally fell in
to a river which traverses the park of Lulling
ton, in Kent. Rescued after a quarter of an
hour’s immersion, she was with difficulty res
tored to life; for several days she continued
sensible, but indisposed ; meanwhile she was
removed to her home in London. On the
eleventh day she was seized with a fit, which
kept her in a state of complete stupor for four
hours, on the cessation of which it was found
that she was deprived of the powers of speech
and hearing, and the senses of taste and smell,
and that her mental faculties were quite be
numbed or paralyzed, giving no indication
that she recognized any of her friends about
her. The only remaining media of communi
cation with the external world were the senses
of touch and vision. Her sensibility to objects
coming in contact with her was excessive, inso
much that the slightest touch would startie her.
When left quite still, she appeared to be lost to
everything that was passing around her. She
did not even know her own mother, who at
tended upon her with the greatest assiduity and
kindness. Mr. Dunn goes on to state —“Her
memory and the power of associating ideas
were quite gone. Wherever she was placed
there she remained throughout the day. She
was very weak, but her bodily health was not
much deranged; the tongue was clean; the skin
moist; and the pulse quiet and regular; but
the bowels sluggish. Her appetite was good;
but having neither taste nor smell, she ate alike
indifferently whatever she was fed with, and
took nauseous medicines as readily as delicious
viands. She required to be fed. When I first
saw her, she had no notion of taking the food
that was placed before her; but a few days af
terwards if a spoon was put into her hands,
and filled by her mother, and conveyed for a
few times to her mouth, she would afterwards
go on by herself until the whole was eaten.”
After some medical particulars, and an ac
count of certain fits to which she was liable,
Mr. Dunn adds—“ One of her first acts, on re
covering from the fit, had been to busy herself
in picking the bed-clothes, and as soon as she
was able to sit up and to be dressed, she con
tinued the habit by incessantly picking some
portions of her dress : she seemed to want an
occupation for her fingers, and accordingly a
part of an old straw bonnet was given to her,
which she pulled to pieces of great minute
ness; she was afterwards bountifully supplied
with roses; she picked off the leaves, and then
tore them into the smallest particles imaginable.
A few days subsequently, she began forming
upon the table, out of these minute particles,
rude figures of roses, and other common gar
den flowers: she had never received any in
structions in drawing.
Roses not being so plentiful in London,
and a pair of scissors were put in
<md for some d tys -lie found an oc
ulllrik the j . i !!.-.■» |,r. -i- . .jot
sjkg,.
w* [''' cVKgt
f y she took
1 to this em-
ployment. She now landed incessantly at
patchwork from morning tiU night, and on
Sundays and week-days, for shd knew no dif
ference of days; nor could made to
comprehend the difference. She had no re
membrance from day to day of what she had
been doing on the previous day, and so every
morning commenced de novo. Whatever she
began, that she continued to work at while day
light lasted, manifesting no uneasiness for any
thing to eat or to drink, taking not the slightest
heed of anything that wag going on around her,
but intent only on her patchwork. Occasion
ally, indeed, and not un frequently, two or three
times in the course of the day, she would have
• what her mother called her “fits.” Whilst ini
tent upon her work, and without any externa
exciting cause, her head would fall backwards,
her eyelids close, her arms and legs become
rigid, and her hands clenched. After a short
time, varying in extent from a few minutes to
half an hour or more, the muscles would be
come relaxed, the eyes open, and she would
resume her work, apparently unconscious that
anything had happened. About this time she
began to show indications of feeling interested
n the figures of the Howers and buds, &c., up
on the silk and other materials which are made
use of in patch work. The perception of colors,
and the exercise of the imitative faculty, were
the first evidences she exhibited of physical ad
vancement in her present state. Although she
had received a good plain education, and had
been very fond of books, now she could nei
ther read nor write, nor even he made to com
prehend the letters of the alphabet. All her
former knowledge and past experience appear
ed to be obliterated, or at least for the time to
be buried in oblivion with one exception—a
feeling of dread or fright in connection with
water; and she now began.de novo, like a child,
to acquire ideas, and to register experience.—
Admitting that the senses are the only inlets of
all the materials of knowledge, it was not to be
expected when in this abnormal condition, with
only the senses of sight and touch in commu
nion with the external world, that her progress
could be otherwise than slow in the extreme.
However, she evinced an interest in looking at
pictures and prints—more especially of flow
ers, trees and animals—but when shown a land
scape in which there was a river, or the view
of a troubled sea. she became instantly excited
and violently agitated, and one of her fits of
spasmodic rigidity and insensibility immediate
ly followed. If the picture were removed be
fore the paroxysm had subsided, she manifested
no recollection of what had taken place; but
so great was the feeling of dread, or of fright,
associated with water, that the sight of it in mo
tion, its mere running from one vessel to anoth
er. made her shudder and tremble, and in the
act of washing her hands they were merely
placed in the water. ”
In January, 1844. six months after the acci
dent, she regained the sense of smell, and her
mind began gradually to awake from its lethar
gy. Being taken back from London to her
grandfather's m the country, she showed no re
cognition of the place, but bounded with de
light at seeing the spring liowcrs.and even began
to express her feelings in articulate language.
•A young man to whom she had been for
merly attached was now brought to pay her dai
ly visits; they pleased her. and she was uneasy
when any accident prevented them. Thus
matters went on till July, when her lover pay
ing some attentions to another woman, she
manifested the passion of jealousy, and at length,
on witnessing a particular scene between the
young man and his new mistress, fell down in a
fit, which her friends feared would prove fatal
to her. On the contrary, she awoke from it re
stored to “the possession of her natural facul
ties and former knowledge, but without the
slightest remembrance of anything which had
taken place in the interval from the invasion
of the first fit up to the present time. ” She of
course knew nothing of the apostacy of her
lover ; and her mother judged it well to remove
her back to London, without any further distur
bance to her mind from that cause, in the
course of a few weeks she attained to her usual
health in all respects. She had only lost a year
of die memory of existence.
What makks Marriages Vshatpy.—Let it
be remembered that marriage is the metempsy
chosis of woman : that it turns them into difle
rent creatures from what they were before.—
Lifelines* in the girl may have been mistaken
for good temper; the little pert v ivacity which
is at tirst attractively provoking, at last pro
vokes without its attractiveness; negligence
of order and propriety, of duties and civilities,
long endured, often deprecated, ceases to be
tolerable, when children grow up in danger of
following the example. It often happens that
if a man. unhappy in the marriedstate. were to
disclose the manifold causes of his uneasiness,
they would be found by those who are beyond
their influence, to be of sirih a nature as ra
ther to excite derision than sympathy. The
waters of bitterness do not fall on his head in a
cataract, but through a cullender; one. how
ever like the vases of the Dananies. perforated
only for replenishment. We know scarcely
the vestibule ofa house of which we fancy we
have penetrated into all the corners. We
know not how grievously a man may have
suffered, long before the calamities of the world
“•fall him. as he reluctantly left his house door.
T here are women from whom incessant tears
*f anger swell forth at imaginary wrongs; but
'ottretion for sheir own delinquencies not
" alter bsMge Loeuor.
GaAsoTAVt oRAvo Fiuhokk MriTreoZ
»os nret grand meeting of the Whir*, under
Cub -' C T Ce "'” l K o ’ 1 * 11 Readv
tn, ’ u “ * be Plw f -*rmcs last eve
* h ? ve b«rd persons who have resi
u a,e 11 the largest political assera
- en. It brought before
ah , onc,! more the veteran Maxereau
•hohMloMuoneuf u,, f wrs , w , t
was wont to display. Randell Hunt then ad
dressed the meeting in a speech remarkable for
I power and eloquence. After the speaking was
over a procession formed, which marched
through our principal streets with shoutings
and banners.— Pic. \sth.
A Valuable Discovery*
' Blake’s Artificial Slate.—One of the
most useful discoveries of the day appears to be
a substance discovered some four years ago in
Sharon, near Akron, Ohio, by Mr. William
Blake, and since very largely introduced as a
substitute for slate and iron in fire-proof roofs,
and for other purposes. It is a metal, which
when taken from the mine has the appearance
of the finest indigo, and is about the consistence
of cold tallow, but exposed to the atmosphere,
in a few days becomes as hard as stone. Pre- j
vious to being used, it is ground to a fine pow- .
dor, and mixed with lindseed oil, and applied ■
with a brush, to either wood, tin, iron, canvass
or paper, and in a few months it turns to stone
or slate, protecting whatever is covered, both
from the action of the weather, and from/re;
as the weather serves only to turn it to stone,
and the longer the exposure, the harder it seems '
to become ; and fire only chars the wood which ,
has been covered by it, but it does not ignite if
the covering remains unbroken, as it keeps out
the atmosphere.
Slates for schools are made from it, by cov
ering thin boards, or thick paper with it, and
after it gets hard, it will show pencil marks e
qual to the best slate. It is also susceptible of
the highest polish, resembling the highest E
gyptian marble, and it may therefore, be found
valuable for chimney pieces, centre and pier
tables, etc., as you have only to make the wood,
and cover it with this paint, and after it hard
ens, polish it down, as you do marble. But its
greatest value and consumption we think will
be for roofs of buildings, steamboat and car
decks, bridges—especially railroad bridges—
fences, etc., where we want them both fire
proof and weather-proof. Mr. B. sells it, we
understand, at his mill, in barrels, ready to mix
with the oil, at §3 per 100 lbs. This quantity
will cover a roof 33 feet square, or 1,000 su
perficial feet, the cost of the oil. and putting on,
is the same as for ordinary painting. It may be
applied to tin, iron, zinc or shingle roofs, al
ready on. If your roof has been long shingled,
you need not take them off but sweep off all the
moss and lint with a stiff broom, and cover
them with this artificial slate, and in a few
months you have what is equal to a perfect
slate roof.
It is said that there is nothing equal to it for
all iron that is exposed to the weather, as it
forms a complete stone covering, becoming
nearly as hard as the iron itself, and entirely
prevents its corroding.
It has been found, upon analyzation by Dr.
Chilton of this city, to consist of larger portions
of Silesia, Alumina, black Oxide of Iron and
Magnesia, with lesser of lime and Carbon. The
transition, therefore, from the liquid paint to
the hard slate is accounted for according to
Nature’s own laws. As the oil absorbs and
evaporates by the action of the atmosphere,
the cohesive attraction incident to the black
oxide of iron binds and attracts not only the
particles together, but to the substance cover
ed, so that the longer on the more powerful the
attraction, consequently the harder the sub
stance.
We derive these statements from the discov
erer and proprietor, and of course form our
opinions from specimens exhibited to us in the
state as taken from the mine, which might be
cut with a knife like hard tallow, or pulverized
with the fingers—other specimens in the condi
tion of stone or slate, and also spread upon
wood as paint, and polished like the finest mar
ble, and resisting the knife equal to the common
slates used in schools or on roofs.
Judging from what we saw, it must form a
covering for railway bridges, and cars and de
pots of wood, superior to anythingyet applied
as a preventive of fire and of decay.
Imports and Exports of California.—The
Secretary of the Treasury, under date of Oct.
7, issues the following instructions to Custom-
House Officers concerning commerce with the
newly acquired territory, which is important to
emigrants as well as merchants :
Ist. AH articles of growth, produce, or man
ufacture of California, shipped therefrom at any
time since the 30th of May last, are entitled to
admission free of duty into all die ports of the
United States.
2d. All articles of the growth, produce, or
manufacture of the United States, are entitled
to admission free of duty into California, as
are also all foreign goods which are exempt
from duty by the laws of Congress, or on which
goods the duties prescribed by those laws have
been paid to any collector of the United States,
previous to their introduction into California.
3d. Although the constitution of the United
States extends to California, and Congress
have recognised it by law as a part of the Union,
and legislated for it as such, yet it is not brought
by law within the limits of any collection dis
trict, nor has Congress authorized the appoint
ment of any officers to collect the revenue ac
cruing on the import of foreign dutiable goods
into that territory. Under these circumstances,
although this department may be unable to col
lect the duties accruing on importations from
foreign countries into California, yet, if foreign
dutiable goods should be introduced there and
shipped thence to any port or place of the Uni
ted States, they will be subject to duty, as also
to ail the penalties prescribed by law when
such importation is attempted without the pay
ment of duties.
Death ox the Prairie.—A melancholy case
of death is noticed in the Chicago Democrat, of
Dr. Duck, and Englishman, 70 years of age.—
He was returning to his home at Athens, from
visiting a patient, and had been piloted half way
home from the house of Peter Warden, iu Du-
Page, when last heard from. On Sunday
morning last, his family became somewhat a
larmed for him, but their fears were quieted in
the hope that he might be at his son’s; near Na
perville. On Wednesday morning an express
was sent to his son, and returned stating he had
not been there. During his absence, some of
the packet-drivers said they beard cries of dis
tress on Thursday night in the region of the
route he would naturally take. The night was
excessively dark and cold. The cry heard was,
“I am lost!” On hearing this, without await
ing for the express to return, Lemuel Brown,
Esq., with others, set out in search, although
he had searched considerable on Tuesday, and
had passed within four rods of where the body
was finally found. The grass was very high
indeed- They first found the wagon in a
slough, and the horse under the wagon dead,
and considerably eaten by the wolves. About
three rods oil’, but not to be seen therefrom, he
was found lying on the grass with his overcoat
under him. He probably went to sleep, and
thus died without a struggle. When found, he
looked as natural and fresh as life. His remains
were taken to his former place of residence
near Naperville. He must have died on Thurs
day night, and was not found until the next
Wednesday. He di d within a mile of his own
house.— Newark Advertiser.
A Yaxkkk Trick.—A Northern vessel came
to Wilmington, N. C., with a cargo of rum,
distilled, as the dull, awkward Captain alleged,
in the United Slates, and, as he believed, in
Georgia. His papers appeared fair enough,
as far as they went, but were thought to be
ather defective. The dates were somew'hat
old. He had touched at Charleston—he had
assisted a distressed vessel at sea—he had been
blown off the coast —and we know not what
lame and suspicious accounts he gave. It was
suspected he was smuggling from the West In
dies, and a very bad, a fatal circumstance it
was. His rum was good—much too good to
’be made at borne. Every rubicund nose in
Wilmington smelt; and every palate tasted, and
all said and swore it was prime West India.
The vigilant Collector very properly libelled
both vessel and cargo. The whining Captain
requested that tiie rum might be sold, to save
expense, while the trial was pending, which
was accordingly done. It sold readily at auc
tion at $1 10 a gallon, while Darien and New
bern rum, known as such, would have brought
only 45 cents. No sooner was the cargo sold,
and the proceeds fairly lodged in the bank, than
Jonathan seemed to come to his senses. He
was now wide awake. He could give a clear
account of his voyage. He proved beyond
doubt that his rum was manufactured at
Darien. His vessel was released, and he
pocketed 65 cents more than the common pro
titupon every gallon ! We believe he had the
grace not to sue the Collector for damages.—
Raleigh Register.
CULTURE OF TEA IX THE UNITED STATES. —
An interesting article in Skinner’s new perio
dical, entitled •• The Plough, the Loom, and
the Anvil.” upon the culture of the Tea Plant
corrects the opinion long entertained, that it can
not be cultivated with success out of the Celes
tial Empire, and show’s that it is cultivated
there in the northern and mountain region,
where snow lies on the ground three or four
months in theyear; that it is found wild in As
sam. and is cultivated in quantities at tho foot
of the Himmelah mountains. From these facts,
with other information derived from traders.
&c.. returned residents of tea countries, the
writer is fully convinced that this country, from
Texas to New York, will grow it equal to or
belter than the best that conies from China.
The article also states that a gentleman re
cently returned from Calcutta, who for five or
six years managed one of the company’s tea
plantations in Assam, has written a book on the
subject, not yet published, and has expressed
an opinion that this country “can grow asgood
tea as any portion of the world.” The writer
thinks •• the child is now born that will live to
seethe United Stales export, instead of import
tea.”—New Haren Palladium.
The Magic Power of a Gold Piece. —An
amusing illustration ct the false philosophy
which estimates man's wealth by the quality of
his clothes, and his worth by his wealth, occui
red at a religious meeting, not a long time ago.
A couple, apparently man and wife, entered
the church where the meeting was held. From
their style of dress it seemed probable that they
were strangers in a strange land ; their gar
ments. though good and clean, were neither
costly nor fashionable. They entered a pew
where sat some ladies whose extenor was con
siderably more showy, and who seemed to
look with some contempt, not republican, cer
tainly. upon their neighbors, the lady being, of
course, the principal object of observation.
The business of the meeting proceeded, die
strangers evinced much interest in the speech
es. and the collection was made. The plate
bearers presented them to those in the pew who
appeared respectable—to the strangers they
presented them not, possibly thinking they
were poor immigrants, who could not afford
to give any thing, and doubtless forming this
judgment on the false principles to which we
have adverted. But the strangers were not
thus to be excluded—the man watched the re
turn of the plate, arrested it, and put upon it a
five dollar gold piece. Oh, the magic power of
the precious metal The collector, who had
passed him unnoticed, tell its influence. and
his countenance lighted up with a most com
placent greeting, an eager inquiry after the
stranger s name followed. and the owoer of
the name, before a stranger and afar -
at once a ’brother' belov**- 4
humanity' tho» -
WouW -‘ , wu. wa«
Oh. humanity
■ - al *n inexplicable compound
I ftiv u.iure .n'To WM aorr °‘ Uue "obilitv II
I vjli. won ’t men. «4p,
y- WGUid cease W look coldly, on a fellow
i christiari. because he wears a rough coat. “A
man’s a man for a’ that.” — New York Commer
cial.
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AUGUSTA GA:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT’K 35.
WHIG NOMINATIONS.
For President of the United States t
ZACHARY TAYLOR,
OF LOUISIANA.
For Vice-President:
MILLARD FILLMORE,
OF NEW-YORK.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
WILLIAM TERRELL,
SEATON GRANTLAND,
HAMILTON W. SHARPE,
WILLIAM 11. CRAWFORD,
ANDERSON W. REDDING,
WILLIAM MOSELEY,
WARREN AIKEN,
ASBURY HULL,
YELVERTON P. KING,
GEORGE STAPLETON,
’Tj 3 By the late law of Congress the election for
President and Vice-President is to be held in all the
States on the same day, viz: Tuesday after the first
Monday in November. This year, therefore, the
election occurs on Tuesday the 7th day of November.
All persons entitled to vote for members of the Legis
lature are entitled to vote for President and Vice-Pre
sident.
The above is the Taylor Electoral Ticket, for
which every man must vote enZire, who desires the
success of “ Old Zack.”
TO CAMPAIGNJUBSCRIBERS.
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our Weekly paper till the Elec
tion, and as that is near at hand,
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ny new subscribers as you think
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invoke every subscriber, whether
he be a campaigner or regular,
to make an effort among his
neighbors and friends to extend
our circulation. Each can do
something to aid us, and all can,
if they will, accomplish all we
desire.
ELECTION TICKETS.
Our friends in the sereial counties, can be sup
plied with Election Tickets at 50 cents per hundred.
TAYLORMEN! TOTHEPOLLS!
to the polls: t:
As many of our Weekly readers will not see
another paper before the Election, we desire to
urge upon each and every Taylor man the
importance of going to the Polls,and seeing and
persuading his friends and neighbors to do like
wise. We have shown you what the Cass
men are doing by means of “ Secret Circulars,"
to bring every voter to the Polls, and we can
not therefore suspect that the friends of “ Old
Zack” will be less active and energetic in the
final hour of trial than their opponents. A few
days or a few hours devoted to his cause,
which is the cause of the country, may secure
the State by an overwhelming majority. Is
there a Taylor man in Georgia who will not
under such circumstances, devote the whole
time from now till the Election, to secure such
an object? We think not. The recent tri
umphs in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio au
gur a most signal victory for the Hero of Bue
na Vista, and we feel assured that every friend
of his in Georgia will have his joy heightened
by the reflection that they have contributed to
the noble result by carrying the State by a ma
jority of thousands. Let every friend of his
resolve to carry the State by a majority o( 3 to
5000 votes, and go promptly and zealously to
work to secure such a result.
Gen. Cass’ Extra Pay.
Rew the letter of the Hon. Andrew Stew
art, in regard to Gen. Cass’ Extra Pay. It is
a rich subject, and affords a fruitful theme for
reflection, as well as aa inkling of the system
of speculation which may be anticipated, should
Gen. C ass be elected President.
Veto Power.
President Jackson was wont to talk learn
edly about “ original Executive Rights,’* in
extenuation of the evils of his doctrine—“ I take
the responsibility.” His bare opinion as to the
meaning of the constitution, was the supreme
law. Such bills as failed to meet his notions
of fitness and propriety and would be passed
by two-thirds of both Houses, he was careful to
pocket. The admirers of royal prerogatives
affect to fear that President Taylor will follow
in the footsteps of Washington rather than
those of Jackson and Polk, in the exercise of
the veto power:
“ You do me no more than justice, when you sup
pose that from motiresofrespect to the Legislature
(and I may add from my interpretation of the
Constitution) I give my signature to many bi Us with
which my judgment is at variance. In saying this,
however, I allude to no particular act. From the
nature of the constitution 1 must approve all the parts
of a bill or reject it in loto. To do the latter can only
be justified upon the clear and obvious ground of pro
priety ; and I never had such confidence in my own
faculty of judging as to be over tenacious of the opin
ions 1 may have imbibed in doubtful cases.”— JI cit
ings of Washington, vol. A’, p. 371.
Such was the modest language of the illus
trious President of the Convention which fram
ed the Federal Constitution. Compare it with
what Gen. Taylor says on the same subject:
“The power given by the constitution to the Ex
ecutive to interpose his vote, is a high conservative'
power; but, in my opinion, should never be exercis
ed except in cases of clear violation of the constitu
tion, or manifest haste and want of consideration by
Congress. Indeed. I have thought that for many
years past, the known opinions and wishes of the Ex
ecutive have exercised undue and injurious influence
upon the legislative department of the government,
and for this cause I thought our system was in dan
ger of undergoing a great change from its true theory.
I he personal opinions of the individual who may hap
pen to occupy the Executive chair, ought not to con
trol the action oi Congress upon questions of domestic
policy; nor ought his objections to be interposed
where questions of constitutional power have been
settled by the various departments of government.”
Great minds like those of Gen. Washing
ton and Gen. Taylor, though most decided
and reliable on all trying occasions, are the least
disposed to invade the just rights of others.—
\\ hen a veto is really demanded by the circum
stances of the case, all the politicians in the
country could not induce Old Zack to desist
from the useol this “high conservative cow
er.” >
Official Vote ix Georgia.—We received
yesterday morning. a letter from Milledgeville
stating that the official returns in the Executive
office from all the counties but Appling, (which
was reported and included in the calculation,)
show a democratic majority of 281 votes
which is a Whig gain, upon the vote for Gover
nor last year, of 1003 votes.
PexssyikVaxia Democracy.—A correspon
dent of the Savannah Republican, writing from
Philadelphia, says:
“I saw a gentleman yesterday, wfcj i*
quite sixty years at age, who vot*f r
tie stared to me that H
had ever cast " uear
.or Johnstoc. and
••xs the jirs* Whig vote he
. rte stated he should vote tor Taylor.
.. .aai fifteen ot his friend*, naming them, who had
voted t r the Democratic candidates far Governor
would rate tor Taylor also, and that he would carrx
the State by 10,000 tv X’.OOO majority.
These are patriots worthy of die old Kev
stone State, who prefer d*eir country to part)
—who desire to elevate to die Presidency :
man who does not stoop to the mean purposes
of double-dealing and equivocating as to his
principles—they admire the straightforward
honesty of Old Zack and they intend to sup
port him. They want no more Kane letter
writing and Ztoo-lived candidates.
Mr. Calhoun's Speech,
Oh the amendment offered to the bill from the.
House for establishing a Territorial Govern
ment for Oregon, proposing to extend the Mis
souri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean.
The Pendleton Messenger, of the 20th inst.,
brings us Mr. Calhoun’s Speech on the sub
ject above named. It has only recently been
written out for the press. Speaking of abo
litionism, he says:
’* There are diseases of the body politic, as well as
our natural bodies, that never will stop of themselves.
Abolition is one of them. If left to itself, it will pass
through all its stages, from the first agitation until it
ends in emancipation and destruction of the govern
ment. The cause is to be found in the nature of the
disease, connected with the character of our political
institutions, as I shall proceed to show.
“ If traced to its source, it will be found to originate
in the belief of not a small portion of the people of the j
North that slavery is sinful, notwithstanding the au
thority of the Bible to the contrary. It is not neces
sary, with the object in view, to ascertain the cause
of this belief. It is sufficient for my purpose, that
such is the fact, and that the conviction is deep and
sincere, with not a few.”
Mr. Calhoun is unquestionably correct in
regard to the popular belief at the North, that
slavery is “sinful,” and “that the conviction
is deep and sincere with not a few.” Under
such a state of facts, it is hardly possible for a
serious-minded candidate for Congress, as Mr-
Fillmore was in 1838, when his letter to
Judge Mills was written, not to pay some de
ference to “convictions” in a matter which
thousands of good Christians regard as a “ na
tional sin.” The constant and bitter denun
cia'ion of every public man in the non-slave
holding States, who will not act in open hos
tility to the opinions of the community where
he resides, on the question of slavery, by South
ern Democratic journals, compels every one
not tinctured with anti-slavery feelings at the
North, to join in a sectional controversy which
tolerates no neutrality in either portion of the
Union. Abolitionism would be harmless every
where if let alone. But, instead of this, as Mr.
C. truly remarks, it has “ extended to elections
even with us, and thereby given a powerful
impulse to the cause of abolitionism at the
North, and at ths same time divided, distracted,
and debased the South.”
As a remedy, it is prescribed that we “ cease
to look for it to the old party associations, and
the Presidential election. They have been
tried, fully tried, and have utterly failed. In
stead of remedy, they have acted as the wind
to the flame, increased its fury and extended it
far and wide. Without them, it would long
since have cleared of itself, and that without
reaching our borders or endangering our safe
ty. To find the remedy, we must then cease
to look to them, and to look to ourselves.”
Exactly so. Gen. Taylor is one of “our
selves,” who was nominated irrespective of
party long before the holding of the Whig Na
tional Convention. His adoption by that body
has not changed the man, nor the interest of
the South to support a distinguished Southern
er, who has “no enemies to punish, no partizan
schemes to build up.” But we are given to
understand by the Charleston Mercury that the
Legislature of Mr. Calhoun’s State will en
deavor to make an anti-slavery demagogue
President, who expressed his “ regret” in the
Senate for not having an opportunity to sus
tain the Wilmot Proviso ’ Well may the great
South Carolinian despair in view of such truck
ling. Mark his language:
“Under the same debasing influence, we have
yielded step by step ; made concession after conces
sion ; permitted aggression after aggression, and sub
mitted to insult after insult, until the North has lost
all respect for us, and come to believe that we cannot
be kicked into resistance.”
Mr. Cass lays down the platform that the
present mongrel inhabitants of the territory of
New Mexico shall have full power to exclude
the slaveholders of Alabama and South Caro
lina, with their slaves, from settling in said
territory; and both of these States throw aside
their own “platforms” and make hot haste to
crawl up and stand on that of the “ Time-ser
ver” of Michigan. Such is Democracy in this
quarter of the Union. No wonder that Mr.
Calhoun is disgusted and heartily sick of it.
Gen. Cass —Slavery—Doctors Differ.
The Federal Union says, “ the evidences
that Gen. Cass is in favor of the extension of
slavery, are as strong as confirmation of proof
from Holy Writ.”
The Cincinnati Enquirer, a leading Cass or
gan, says:
“ ‘ It is not true that Gen. Cass is or was “ willing
to repudiate the principle of preventing the extension
of slavery.’ Il is not true that he has 1 pledged him
self to its extension.’ It is not true that he would
‘ plant it where it had been previously abolished and
does not now exist.” '
The Constitutionalist, when the Nicholson
letter was published, regarded the doctrines of
that letter, so obnoxious to Southern rights,
that it declared “it would not aid Gen. Cass to
interpolate his opinions upon the Democracy
of the South,” while the Charleston Mercury,
even after his nomination by the Baltimore
Convention, pronounced him “ the equivocal
betrayer of the South.”
Here, then, is the wide difference between
the Cass political doctors as to his opinions
upon this grave question. Not only between
Northern and Southern men, but between
Southern men themselves as to the opinions of
their candidate. In such a state of things who
can the South believe ? Will the Democracy
affect to believe the Federal Union, in the face
of the fact, that not a Southern man or Editor
has the temerity to defend Gen. Cass’ views on
the question of slavery in the Mexican terri
tories? The South must look to these facts,
and cast their votes accordingly.
Cass’ Extras—Only $63,940.46.
The Washington Union, in its effort to libel
Gen. Taylor with having received extra pay
in the face of the fact that he never received
one cent over and above his regular pay, has
been forced to admit that Gen. Cass has re
ceived only “sixty-three thousand nine
HUNDRED AND FORTY DOLLARS AND FORTY-SIX
cents extra pay, over and above the regular
salary allowed him by law !” What think you
of that, American Freemen—what think you of
the hired Organ of Mr. Polk at Washington
publishing a gross falsehood against Gen. Tay
lor, who has borne your country’s flag victo
rious in every battle-field, falsely charging him
with receiving Extra pay, while the same organ
is forced to make such an acknowledgement as
to the enormous Extra pay received by Gen.
Cass? Will the American people stand by un
moved while the servile organ of the President
thus traduces the man whose whole life from
early manhood to mature age has been spent in
the service of his country ? the successful
General who has fought his country’s battles
and added additional lustre to her arms on eve
ry battle field ? We think not, and we feel as
sured that the freemen of this country will re
buke Mr. Polk and his prostituted organ for
their hostility to Gen. Taylor.
More Changes for Taylor.—We under
stand, says the Miner s Journal. that the recent
Democratic candidate for Prothonotary, the
Clerk of the County Commissioners, the Post
masters at Schuylkill, Haven and Orwigsburg,
with several other prominent men in the Dem
ocratic ranks, have come out openly for Gen.
Taylor.
Taylor Enthusisam.—The Philadelphia Jit
quirer says, that the enthusiasm in that quarter
in behalf of the old Hero of Buena Vista in
creases with every hour. The meetings in
Philadelphia City and County are immense.
-Hundred? of Democrats have already joined
our ranks, and not a day goes by that other ac
cessions do not occur.”
Sixth Congressional District.—ln this
district, composed of the Eleventh, Twelfth. Fif
teenth. Sixteenth and Seventeenth Wards of
New York city, Horace Greeley has been nom
inated as the Whig candidate to fill the vacancy
in the present Congress.
The engine on the Central Railroad ran
off the track on Sunday last, on its downward
trip from Macon, at the 90 mile station, by
which accident Mr. Clark, Assistant Engi
neer was killed, and the fireman severely scald
ed.
Mail Robber.—The Pickensville (Ala.)
Republican speaking of the arrest of the mail
robber Curry, says “he confessed he had at
various times taken three thousand seven hun
dred dollars from the mail in sound and entire
bills, nearly one-half of which was addressed
to Sl John, Powers Co. of Mobile. But
the value of papers which, for his own safety,
he destroyed was considerably more. His|p!an
was to burn all orders for money, drafts, bid"
of exchange, or half bills which k- •
packages he ahstr*** *
*k-- -c iound in the
..uRTH Carolima. Tcrpextixe, &,c.—ln
consequence of the great destruction among
the pine trees in North Carolina, we learn
(says die Savannah Republican) that some of
those who have been heretofore engaged in
the Turpentine business, have been recently
examining the forests in our own State, with a
view to carrying on the same business here.—
We are glad to hear this ; and in this connection
would recommend to them to examine the pine
lands in Glynn county, uO,OOU acres of which
are advertised for sale.
Presidential Estimates*
Following the example of the Richmond Un
quirer of tiiat memorable year 1840, we do not
see why we may not give something of our
own speculations on the present aspect of the
political horizon. The following, then, will
show what we think to be the state of affairs:
States certain for Taylor. States fairly doubtful.
Vermont 6 Maine.. 9
I New-Y'ork-** 36 Virginia. 17
Massachusetts 12 Alabama 9
j Rhode Island 4 Mississippi 6
I Connecticut. Indiana 12
■ New-Jersey 7 Michigan. 5
I Pennsylvania 26 lowa 4
Delaware 3 Wisconsin....... 4
Maryland 8
North-Carolina. 11 g(j
Florida 3 States certainfor Cass
Louisiana. b New-Hampshire... 6
Kentucky 12 Illinois 9
Tennessee....* 13 Missouri 7
Arkansas. q
153 Texas 4
29
States which Taylor will State on which no cal
almost certainly carry. culations whatever are
Georgia 10 tj be made.
Ohio. 23 South Carolina.... 9
33
Whole Electoral vote 290
It will be seen that we give Gen. Taylor, as
certain, 7 more than a majority of all the elec
ral votes; that we expect this majority to be
almost certainly increased by the votes of Geor
gia and Ohio ; that we class 66 votes as fairly
doubtful, and some of them we are confident
he will get; that 29 is the highest figure we can
set down as certain for Gen. Cass ; and that we
take no account of South Carolina, believing
that she is quite as likely to vote for John C.
Calhoun as any other man.— Richmond Times.
From the Richmond Times.
General Cass tlie “ bettex* Free Soil man
than Martin Van Buren.
The Democratic papers persist in keeping
Mr. Fillmore’s letter of 1838 before their read
ers, as the “ Platform of the Whig candidate
for the Vice Presidency.” We shall, in some
sort, follow their example, leaving out the black
lines, and striking at higher game, viz: their
candidate for the Presidency.
Here, then, is
‘GEN. CASS’ PLATFORM.
I. his prayer for universal abolition.
“We are no slaveholder. We never have been—
WE NEVER SHALL BE. WE DEPRECATE ITS EXISTENCE
IN PRINCIPLE, AND PRAY FOR ITS ABOLITION EVERY
WHERE, where this can be effected, justly and peace
ably and easily for both parties.”— Letter on the
Right of Search.
11. HIS PHASES ON THE WILMOT PROVISO.
FIRST PHASE.—SESSION OF 1845-6.
Hot Anxiety to Vote for the Proviso.
Statement by Senator Miller, of New Jersey, in
Senate, 22d June, 1848.
u At the first session of the twenty-ninth Congress,
the three million bill, as it was called, came to the Sen
ate from the House, with the Wilmot proviso in it.
On the last day of the session, (10th August, 1846,)
and about half an hour before the time fixed for the
adjournment of Congress, the bill came up for consid
eration, when the Senator from Alabama [Mr. Lewis]
moved to strike out the proviso. The Senator from
Massachusetts [Mr. Davis] took the floor against the
amendment and in favor of the proviso, and spoke un
til a few minutes before the adjournment. No vote
was taken upon the question, and the bill was lost for
want of time to act upon it.”
“As soon as Mr. Davis had taken his seat, General
Cass came over to his side of the Senate, and with
much earnestness said, in the presence of the Sena
tors, that he regretted much that Mr. Davis had by
his speech prevented the vote from being taken ; that
he [Gen. Cass] and every Democratic Senator
from the free States, would have voted to sustain
the proviso, that Mr. Allen wonld have led off, and
all the rest would have followed ; that he was very
sorry that they had been deprived of the opportunity
of voting upon it; that it would have settled the ques
tion, and Gov. Davis was responsible for defeating
that result.”
Statement by Gen. Cass himself in his second
speech in Senate, March IsZ, 1847.
“ Last year [1846,] \ he (Mr. Cass) should have
voted for the proposition [viz: the Wilmot proviso]
had it come up.
SECOND PHASE—END OF THE SESSION OF
1846-7.
Begins to think the Proviso inexpedient, at this
time, though proper in itself.
Extract from Gen. Cass' Letter to R. S. Wil
son, dated Feb.
“ It is now distinctly understood, and it will be the
Democratic sentiment through the country, that eve
ry thing must give way to a vigorous prosecution
of the war, and that no measures must be proposed
that will embarrass the Administration.
“ The Wilmot Proviso will not pass the Senate—it
would be death to the war—death to the hopes of
getting an acre of territory—death to the adminis
tration, and death to the Democratic party. It
was not so intended. It no doubt originated with
proper feelings; but things have now come to such
a pass that its adoption will produce these effects.
“ It is distinctly avowed by the Southern members
of Congress that they would not vote for any mea
sures for the prosecution of the war, nor would they
ratify any treaty, if this provision becomes a law.”
Extract from Gen. Cass' first Speech in Senate,
March Ist, 1847.
“ It will be quite in season to provide for the gov
ernment of territory not yet acquired from foreign
countries, after we shall have obtained it." “ Le
gislation now would be wholly inoperative, because
no territory, hereafter to be acquired, can be govern
ed without an act of Congres* providing for its go
vernment ; and such an act on its passage would open
the whole subject and would leave the Congress call
ed upon to pass it free to exercise its own discre
tion, entirely uncontrolled by any declaration found
on the statute book."
The Union's Report of Gen. Cass' second Speech
March IsZ, 1847, in reply to Mr. Miller.
“Mr. Cass said the course of the Senator from
New Jersey, (Mr. Miller) was most extraordinary.
Last year, he (Mr. C.) should have voted for the
proposition [viz: the Wilmot Proviso] had it come
up. But circumstances had altogether changed.—
The honorable Senator then read several passages
from the remarks as given above, which he had com
mitted to writing in order to refute such a charge as
that of the Senator from New Jersey”—(the charge,
namely, that Mr. Cass had turned against the Wilmot
Proviso.]
THIRD PHASE—DECEMBER, 1847.
A change going on in the publie mind, his own as
well as others. The Wilmot Proviso halfway
abandoned for a better Free Soil doctrine.
Extracts from the Nicholson Letter, dated Dec.
24, 1547, and directed to certain gentlemen, who
had “ read with high satisfaction what had ema
nated from Messrs. Buchanan and Dallas, in
opposition to the Proviso."
“ The ilinot Proviso has been before the country
some time. It has been repeatedly discussed in Con
gress, and by the public press. 7am strongly im
pressed with the opinion, that a great change has
been gain? on in the public mind upon this Subject
—in my own aJ well as others, and that doubts are
resolving themselves into convictions, that the princi
ple it involves should be kept out of the national le
gislature, and left to the people of the confederacy in
their respective local governments.”
“ It [the legislation of Congress] should be limited
to the creation of proper governments for new conn- j
tries, acquired or settled, and to the necessary provis- (
ion for their eventual admission into the Union—leav
ing, in the meantime, the people inhabiting them to
regulate their internal concerns in their own way. — (
r lney are just as capable of doing so as the people *
p/ the States ; and they can do so, at any rate, as 1
as their political independence is recognized by 1
admission into the Union. During this temporary 1
condition it is hardly expedient to call into exercise a
doubtful and invidious authority which questions the y
intelligence of n reepectable portion of our citizens; |
and whose limitation, whatever it may be, will be ra- .
pidly approaching its termination—an authority which '
would give to Congress despotic power, uncontrolled
by the constitution, over most important sections of our *
common country.”
“ I am in favor of leaving to the people of any
territory, which may be hereafter acquired, the right ’
to regulate it [s/arery] for themselves, under the i
general principles of the Constitution.” t
“More than one-third of that body [the Senate] t
would vote against it, [a treaty embodying the Wil
mot Proviso,] viewing such a principle as an exclu- j
sion of the citizens of the slaveholding States from a ■
participation in the benefits acquired by the treasure i
and exertions of all, and which should be common to
all. I amrepeating —neither advancing or defend
ing these views. That branch of the subject does not (
lie in my way, and I shall not turn aside to seek it. ” 1
“Such property [quoting Mr. Buchanan] would be <
entirely insecure in any part of California. It is mor- I
ally impossible, therefore, that a majority of the era- <
i gran Is to that portion of the territory South of 36 de?.
30 min., which will be chiefly composed of our citi- ;
zens, will ever re-establish slavery uithin its lim
its.
“ Should we acquire territory beyond the Rio
Grande and east of the Rocky Mountains, it is still
more impossible that a majority of the people would !
consent to re-establish slavery. They are themselves
a colored population, and among them the negro does 1
not belong socially to a degraded race. <
“‘Beyond the Del Norte,’ says Mr. Walker,
‘slavery will not pass — not only because it is forbid
den by law, but because the colored race there pre
ponderates in the ratio of ten to one over the whites;
and holding, as they do, the government and most ■
of the offices in their possession, they will not per
mit the enslavement of any portion of the colored
race, which makes and executes the laws of the coun
try. ’
“ The question, it will be therefore seen on exami
nation, does not regard the exclusion of slavery from
a region where it now exists, but a prohibition against
its introduction where it does not exist, and where,
from the feelings of the inhabitants and the laws of
nature, ‘ it is morally impossible, ’ as Mr. Buchanan
says, ‘ that it can ever re-establish itself. ’ ”
FOURTH PHASE—MUM UNTIL THE ELEC
TION.
From the Letter of Acceptance, May 3Qth, 1848.
“This letter, gentlemen, closes my profession of
political faith.”
Gen. Cass’s reply to the inquiry of Mr. R. J. Mose?
whether the Nicholson letter d:d not mean “that
the inhabitants of' a territory, before they form a
State Government, hare a nght to establish or pro
hibit slavery,” and whether he adhered to that
letter:
“ 1 had supposed that my sentiments upon the sub
ject to which you refer were fully understood by m v
Southern friends ; but as you seem to desire informa
tion. 1 enclose you my Nicholson letter, which con
tains all that 1 have to say upon the subject. ” —Alay
list, 1848.
Remark by Judge Hood. at Cleveland, June \bth.
“ We are told, sir. that should you be elected to the
Presidency of the United States, your administration
would lend its influence to the extension and perpet
uation of human slavery. The people here assem
bled will, with the greatest pleasure, now listen to
any communication which, sir. it may be your pleas
ure to submit. ”
Reply of General Cass.
“Sir, the noise and confusion which pervades this
assembly will prevent my being heard on the impor
tant topics to which you have caked my attention.
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Artillery, wb ; -’ ’
_ company ofU. S.
...wH arrived in Savannah on Wed
.--Mxay last, from New York, en route for Au
gusta." left Sunday in the steamer Chatham for
this city.
Missionaries. — The barque Kate Hastings,
which cleared at Boston on Friday, for the
Cape of Good Hope and East Indies, has as
passengers Rev. W. Ireland and lady, mission
■ aries.
There are two thousand paupers in Cincin
nati, dependent on public support.
California-struck people can get to their de
sired Eldorado in the ship Silvie de Grasse,
CapL Rich, which will be despatched from New
York on the Ist of November for San Francis
co, Monterey. «2tc. Cabin passage ;
steerage, with provision*.
From the National Intelligencer.
Gen. Cass’ ICxtras.
Uniontown, Pa., Sept. 19,1848.
Gentlemen : My attention has just been
called in two late numbers of the Union, in
which the editor has devoted ten columns, with
the promise of more, to the examination of my
late speech in relation to Gen. Cass’ extra pay.
This is a compliment I hardly expected from
the editor of the Union, and am exceedingly
sorry that I have given him so much trouble
and uneasiness.
I have not time just now to read, much leas
to comment on those ten columns of editorial
abuse ; but, since Mr. Ritchie questions the
truth of my statement in regard to Mr. Cass’
extra pay, I will refer him to an authority of
which he seems to be ignorant hut will not dare
to controvert. I refer him to President Polk’s
message of the 11th of August (Executive
document No. 86,) printed since the adjourn
ment. Now. I charge Gen. Cass with taking,
while Governor of Michigan and ex officio Su
perintendent of Indian Affairs, $64,865.46 ex
tra pay over and above the amount of his le
gal and fixed salary of $2,000 a year. Now, I
assert that this message, sent in by President
Polk in obedience to a resolution of the
House, with the documents appended, sustain
and establish every dollar and every cent I have
charged against Gen. Cass. They do more:
they show that Gen. Cass received as Marshall
of Ohio and Minister to France $26,708.65
over and above the amount of his salaries and
outfit and return, which, regarded as extra, will
make] his extra pay $91,574 11, and his regu
lar and extra pay, together, $234,231.49. Now.
if my charging Gen. Cass with taking $64,865
46 extra pay is justly denounced by Mr. Ritchie
and his other venal followers as “vilification
and slander” of Mr. Cass, what will they now
say of Mr. Polk, who makes it much worse
than I did ? What will they say of Gov. Mar
cy, Secretary of War, I). Graham, Register
of the Treasury, Peter Hagner, and John M.
McCalla, Second and Third Auditors, who
sustain by their official signatures these state
ments thus “vilifyingand slandering” Mr. Cass,
and rendering him, (as has been said by his
friends,) “unworthy the support of any honest
man ?” These “outrageous” charges being
established by his own friends, what will my
vilifiers and slanderers now say? We shall
see.
The President’s message and documents sus
taining these charges are in the hands of every
member of Congress, where they may be seen ;
and to facilitate the examination, I will refer the
inquirer to pages 2,3,5,46,47, 50, 159,160,
233, and 234.
It furthermore appears by these official docu
ments that Gen. Cass charged and received as
Governor of Michigan, more than double the
amount of extra pay received by all the other
Governors of all the territories of the United
States, from the foundation of the Government
up to the year 1843. This remarkable fact is
established by these records. Can this be right ?
Can Mr. Ritchie satisfy the people of this
country that Lewis Cass, while Governor of
Michigan was justly entitled to double as much
as all the rest of the Governors of all the other
twelve or fifteen territories of the United
States ? And it also appears that a great part
'of the extra pay allowed to the other Governors
was allowed by Gen. Cass himself, while he
was Secretary of War and based upon his own
extra allowance.
These documents show also that Lewis Cass
received, in addi'ion to his regular salary of
$2,000 a year, $1,500 a year for fuel, office
rent, &c. ; $1,500 a year for services beyond
the territorial lines of Michigan, and also, at the
same time, $8 per day and forty cents per mile
for making treaties with the Indians, amount
ing alone, for part of the time, to $3,000 a
year, and making, with his regular salary and
extra allowances. SB,OOO a year, instead of $2,-
000—more than S2O a day, when the law gave
him less than $6. But, not satisfied with all
this, it appears that Gen. Cass charged and re
ceived for several years, while Governor of
Michigan, the pay and emoluments of a cap
tain and quartermaster in the regular army,
amounting to upwardsdf S9OO peryear more,
and charged and received at one time $6,610
for rations, as well as several thousand dollars
for settling his accounts and assisting to form
an Indian code, while in the receipt of alibis
salaries, regular and extra, above mentioned.
And, what is worse than all this, in July, 1832,
a year after Gen. Cass was appointed Secreta
ry of War, he produced an account against
the Government, amounting to $53,128.96,
for alleged overpayments, running back ten
or twelve years ; $5,317.15 in 1820 for Indian
annuities; $10,183.61, an indefinite charge
“for Indian Department prior to 1829,” which,
if right, he could have retained in any of his
quarterly settlements made during these ten or
twe've years, producing a balance in his favor
of $35,075. For this alleged balance a re
quisition was drawn (No. 2,906) by John Robb,
acting Secretary of War, on the Treasury, and
the money being paid the settlement stood sus
pended till 1837, when it was closed by Wm. B.
Lewis. (See pages 232 and 233.) Worse
still; an allowance appears to have been made,
while Gov. Cass was Secretary of War, to
Win. Woodbridge, Secretary of the Territory,
acting as Gov. of Michigan, of $1,500 a year
for three years and twenty-five days, the time
Gov. Cass was employed in negotiating trea
ties, amounting to $4,602.74, for fuel, office
rent, &c.. between the years 1815 and 1827. So
that the Government was thus made to pay $3,-
000 a year extra for fuel, office rent, &c., for
the Territory of Michigan; $1,500 to Gov. C.
and $1,500 to acting Gov. Woodbridge at the
same time. If Mr. Woodbridge was entitled
to the additional extra allowance of $1,500 a
year, why did fie not apply for and receive it at
the time ? Because Gov. Cass received it.
Why wait twelve or fifteen years, till Gov. C. is
Secretary of War? And why is this allowed
by “ John Robb, acting Secretary of War,”
while the allowance of $4,378 61 immediately
preceding G. B. Porter, Gov. of Michigan, and
of SI,OOO to S. T. Mason, acting Gov. of Mich
igan, immediately following, are “made by
Gen. Cass, Secretary of War?” (For this
charge see page 50.) When Mr. Ritchie ex
plains these mysteries, he will perhaps hear
from me again.
In conclusion let me suggest to Mr. Ritchie
the propriety of now turning his battery of
billingsgate and abuse from me upon President
Polk and the officers of the Treasury and War
Departments, who have taken the task of sus
taining these charges against Gen. Cass,oft’my
shoulders. Will he doit? I venture the pre
diction that he will hereafter be silent on the
subject. “ Nous verrons.'' A. Stewart.
The Mackerel Fishery continues to be
very productive. This season is the best that
has been known on the New England coast.
Au intelligent gentleman from Yarmouth in
forms us that the best informed men in the
towns in that vicinity are of opinion that mack
erel worth over one hundred thousand dollars
were landed on the cape during the last week.
The probability is that quite as large a quantity
was landed on the north shore—-perhaps more.
A Shave.—A Kentucky friend related to us
the following anecdote, as having actually oc
curred in that State.
There was a roystering sort of a fellow nani
ed Peter Russell, but usually called Pete Rus
sel, who owned a good deal of property, and
therefore had a pecuniary responsibility, though
he was always in want of money, and frequent
ly in the hands of shavers.
On one occasion he went to a certain accom
modating friend, to borrow two thousand dol
lars—“ Yes,” said his friend, “ Pete, I will lend
you the two thousand dollars and without in
terest, too, if you will give me your bill for the
amount on London.”
“ Oh. no,’ ( replied Pete, “ I can’t stand that.
If I give you a bill on London the cursed thing
will be back on me here under protest, in four
months at furthest, and then I must pay you
theamountand twenty per cent, damages. That’s
too deep a dig.”
“ Well,” said Shylock, “ that is cutting it
rather fat, I acknowledge, but I will tell you,
Pete, what I will do— l will take your bill on
London for two thousand dollars, and pay you
for it two thousand two hundred, and when it
comes back protested, you will have to refund
the two thousand dollars and twenty per cent,
damages, making together two thousand four
hundred, which will leave me only two hun
dred dollars.”
“ Agreed,” said Pete, “ I am willing to stand
that."
Sodown they sat to prepare the documents.
“ But who the deuce shall 1 draw upon in
London,” said Pete, “ I do not know a living
soul there.”
“ It is perfectly immaterial who you draw
upon,” said his friend, “so far as 1 am con
cerned, I am willing you should draw upon
the town pump.”
“ByJove!” said Pete, “ I have it, I'll draw
upon my cousin, the Duke of Bedford.”
It will be recollected that the family name of
his Grace is Russell, and Pete was in the habit
of boasting that he had descended from the
same stock. So Pete “ let Hy his kite' for two
thousand dollars on his Grace of Bedford, and
received the stipulated amount of two thou
sand two hundred dollars. The bill, of course,
had to be sent out to London to be presented
to his Grace, and regularly protested, in order
to establish a legal claim upon the drawer.
One morning it was accordingly found, with
other documents, on the table in the Duke’s
study, having been left for acceptance or pay
ment.
“ And who.” said his Grace of Bedford, tak
ing up the bill and addressing his man of busi
ness, “is this Peter Russell, that is drawing on
me for two thousand dollars ? I never heard
of him before, and do not know by what au
thority he does so.”
“lam equally ignorant, your Grace,” said
the homme d'affaires. “ I know nothing of
him."
“ Well,” said his Grace, after musing a mo
ment. “ it is very probable now that he is some
poor and distant branch of my family, who has
wandered awayfotT there to the wilds of Ken
tuckv, and is in distress ; the amount is but a
tri tie*; let the bill be paid and paid it was.
In due course of time Pete’s friend got back
two thousand dollars, less banker s commission,
and without interest, for two thousand two
hundred he had paid Pete some mouths pre
viously.
It was a regular share, only the skater be
came the shares.
Our friend, from whom
said, he never heard wheth-- ”
the operation --ie story,
W- —l'ete ever remised
. u can only add that we have often wished
we had sucn u cousin in London. —AT. 0. Bulle
tin. .
Coal asdGold. —A curious fact is stated in
the Philadelphia North American. From the
annual lieport of the Director of the United
States Mint it appears that the value of all die
cold coined in the U. S. mints for twenty-four
years prior to 1847 was $12,741,653. or some
what exceeding the average sum of half a mil
lion a year —a very considerable addition to the
stock of American wealth ; bnt it appears from
the returns of the coal trade in Pennsylvania
that the value of this commodity brought to
market in that State is annually equal to the
above large amount: —that last year, for exam
ple, the value of her anthracite brought down
to tide water —nearly 3.000.0 W tons was ae
tuallv equal to the value of all this go.d dug
up in the South during the whole tweuty-four
years From this it appears that our Northern
(Maryland aswell as Pennsylvania) coal mines
are more valuable gold mines than those of the
South.— Halt. Amer.
Special Noticea.
ELECTION FOR SHERIFF IN
WILKES COUNTY.
In Chambers, October 12th, 1848.
Ordered, that an Election bo held at the
Court-house and several Precincts of Wilkes county,
on TUESDAY, the 7th day of November next, for a
SHERIFF of said county, to fill the vacancy occa
sioned by the death of Henry F. Ellington, Esq.
LEWIS S. BROWN, J. I. C.
A.S. WINGFIELD, J. I. C.
016-w2 WM. Q. ANDERSON, J. I. C.
CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE.
S’We are authorized to announce
THOMAS HEARD as a candidate for SHERIFF of
Wilkes county, at the election on the 7th November
next. 0 16
OWe are authorized to announce
i BENJAMIN RHODES, as a candidate for Receiver
of Tax Returns for Wilkes county, at the election
n January next. 09-lamtd
O’We are authorized to announce
the lame of GREEN B. BARKSDALE as a candi
date for Tax Receiver for Warren county, at the en
uing election. O J3
Georgia Rail Road and Banking
Company, Augusta, Oct. IG, 184-B. Divi
dend No. 15. —A semi-annual Dividend of Three
Per Cent, is declared by this Company, payable on
demand. J. W. WILDE, Cashier.
016-tw3&w2
MARRIED.
In Madison, on the 14th instant, by the Rev. Dr.
Means, Dr. James D. Rivers, of Gainesville, to Miss
Mary H. Stearns, of Bath, Maine.
At Chieftain’s, Floyd county,*on the 12th inst., by
Rev. Mr. Leet, Col. Warren Aiken, of Cassville,
and Miss Mary F., daughter of A. N. Verdery, Esq.
DIED.
On the Bth day of August, 1848, at his father’s resi
dence in Anderson Co., Texas, Nathan Franklin
Pinson, son of Joseph J. and Elizabeth Pinson —
aged eighteen years.
The brightest anticipations of youth must fade; the
liveliest emotions that swell his bosom must cease;
the fond object of a mother’s devotion and a father’s
care, in obedience to a law of our nature, must return
to earth and its spirit to God, who gave it. Dazzled
,by the brightness of the scene, he meanders the
stream of life, unconscious of its dangers, until arrest
ed by the goodness of God and taught to seek supe
rior bliss.
The subject of this notice united in an eminent
degree those virtues and moral qualities which ren
der youth interesting, and which presage future use
fulness. He was a dutiful son, a kind brother, and
an agreeable companion.
A short time previous to his indisposition, and du
ring his sickness, ho was impressed with the impor
tance of securing an interest in the blood of the Re
deemer, and before his death gave evidence of his
faith in the efficacy of a Saviour’s blood to save. And
we indulge the pleasing hope and belief that he forms
one of that happy band in an upper and brighter
world.
In his early death his friends realize the instability
of all things earthly ; the certainty that the objects
of time and sense are fleeting and soon to perish, and
the consoling reflection that the object of their affec
tions perpetually approaches Him who is not only the
standard of perfection but of happiness. R.
In this city, on Saturday morning, the 14th inst.,
after a few hours illness, Thomas Davis, aged forty
years.
He was a native of the county of Caven, Ireland,
and for twelve years a highly respectable merchant of
this city. Distinguished for his quiet, unobtrusive
manner, he had by his uniform courtesy in business,
and his kindness of heart, secured the esteem of a
large circle of friends.
At Montgomery, Ala., on the 16th instant, John
Conley, in the 38th year of his age, formerly of this
city, but for several years past, a resident of the for
mer place.
“ The good die first;
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust,
Burn to the socket.”
Commercial.
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Weekly Report* Tuesday, P. M.
COTTON.—The news by the Britannia and Nia
gara with dates from Liverpool to the 6th instant,
have caused a decline of a full quarter of a cent on
all descriptions of Cotton. This news was received
on Friday and Saturday and checked operations on
those two days, and the business was very limited ;
since then more has been done and buyers have en
tered the market freely, holders having concluded to
offer their stocks which they had generally with
drawn. The sales over 5} cts were mostly made be
fore the receipt of the above accounts with the ex
ception of about 200 bales very choice lots which have
been sold at from 5| a s}c. The sales of the week
amount to 3,592 bales at the following rates: 2 bales
at 4; sat 4}; 37_at 4}; 61 at 4}; 18 at 4f ; 134 at
4|; 39at4J; 244 ats; 630 at 5} ; 243 at 53-16;
793 at 5} ; 218 at 5 5-16; 253 at 5j ; 120 at 5 7-16;
663 at 5} ; 129 at s|; and 3 bales at 5| cents.
We quote Inferior to Ordinary 4 a 4}; Good Or
dinary to Middling 4f a 4g ; Good Middling 5; Mid
dling Fair 5} a s}; Fair 5| a 5 5-16; Good Fair
and Choice 5S asi Amnnjst the sales rcpoiicd at
5} was a crop lot of about 80 bales from the planta
tion of R. J. Willis, Esq,, of Greene, of a very supe
rior article both as to quality and order of packages.
Our weekly tables of receipts show quite an in
crease this year compared with the same period last
year; and as our crop is much earlier this year than
last, would be still larger but for the low state of the
Alabama, Chattahoochee, Flint and Savannah rivers,
the receipts at the ports to which those rivers are tri
butary being comparatively light. So far, up to the
latest dates the receipts this year amount to 211,315
against 113,195 bales. This increase, it will be seen,
is noted at every receiving point. The stock this
year also shows an increase of 24,489 bales, being
this year 221,265,tagainst 196,776 last year. The ex
ports this year also show a very considerable increase
to all points, but France, where, from their very de
ranged political state, the shipments are light. They
amount, both Foreign and Coastwise, to 170,400
bales, against 103,023 bales last year.
£ From an examination of our Liverpool circulars
received by the Britannia, made up to the last week
in September, we see that the imports this year
amount to 1,229,267 bales against 857,108 bales last
year, showing an increase of 442,159 bales; that the
stock is 527,180 bales this year, against 399,690 last
year; and that the consumption this year has taken
1,012,240 against 797,770 bales last year, showing
an increase of 214,470 bales, being equal to 25,952
bales per week this year, against 20.453 bales last
year per week. The exports this year also show an
increase, being 116,040 bales, against 99,510 last
year. But speculators this year seem to have paid
but little attention to our staple, having taken during
the last nine months but 58,350 bales, whilst last year
they purchased 269,700 bales. The quotations by tliat
packet, and those received by the Niagara a week
later by Telegraph, are lower than the article was
ever known to be before, and we believe that it has
gone down to a point as low as it can go, or as low as
we believe the deep interest in the continued growth
that they have, will allow it to go.
Receipts up to latest dates.
1848. 1847.
New Orleans, Oct. 17 109,275 86,922
Mobile, Oct. 15 15,661 8,344
Florida, Sept. 23 543
Terras, Oct. 14 1,375
South Carolina, Oct. 23 54,653 13,021
Georgia, Oct. 22 29,420 4,874
North Carolina, Oct. 7 383 14
Total receipts 211,315 113,195
Increase in New Orleans 22,353
“ Mobile 7,297
“ Texas 1,375
“ Florida 563
“ Charleston4l,637
“ Savannah 24,546
u North Carolina 369 93,120
Stock on hand at the latest dates :
1848.
New Orleans, Oct. • 17 85,792 71,125
Mobile, Oct. 15 28,953 19,265
Florida. Oct. 23 600 387
Texas, Oct. 14 505
S. Carolina,‘Oct. 23, Upland* •• 13,035 20,905
Do “ S. Island* 1,169 3,018
Georgia, Oct. 23, Upland 17,512 5,007
Do “ S. Island -.. 1,034 671
North Carolina, Oct. 7 50
Virginia, Sept. 1 448 250
Macon, Geo., Sept. - i,006 3,013
Augustaand Hamburg, Oct. 1 • • 26,225 18,023
New York, Oct. 10 33,836 55.522
Total 5t0ck••221.265 196,776
Increase in 5t0ck24,489 2
Exports. 1348-9. 1847-8.
Great Britain 63,447 50.751 (
France 16,054 23,772 I
Continent of Europe 14,888 8,192 R
Northern ports 56,011 25,308 t
r
Total exports 170,400 103,023 (
Excess to Great Britain 32,696 >
“ Continent of Europe 6,696 t
“ Northern Parts3o,7o3-70,095 •
1 Decrease to France 7,718
Total excess 62,377
GRAIN.—Corn continues dull and sales are made 2
p both shelled and in the ear at 40 cents. No other c
kind of Grain offering during the week.
FLOUR.—We have no change to notice in the
value or demand for Flour. Good brands are selling
in lots for $5.25 a 55.50 per bbl.; and retails at $3
L per 100 lbs. in bags. The supply is fully equal to ;
the demand.
BACON.—The supply of Bacon is large and the
» demand very moderate. We notice no changq 1
’ prices, but is dull of sale at any price.
j iJKI uOOD* hardware, ,
SHOES &c.—The business -
dealers » —•’ —our wholesale I
_ —lunes heavy, and from the great acces |
sions which they are daily receiving country mer
chants will find the assortment such as to induce them
to seek no other market.
GROCERIES.—Our Grocers, so fir this season,
have done the heaviest business that has been done
in Augusta for many years, and their large stocks
show that they are prepared for the heavy demand
which they daily have.
BAGGING AND BALE ROPE.—No change in
the retail price of either article. The demand during
■ the past week has been very heavy and the arrival of
’ the boats have added largely to our stocks, so that the
1 so ppi vis fully equal to the heavy demand. A sale
! of 20 bales Gunny Bagging made from the wharf, on
> short time, at 19 cents. Retail price 20 ets; Ken
! tucky 18J a 19cts. Bale Rope 10 all cents.
SALT.—The price of sack Salt remains at cl.io
1 ner sack: balk retails at 50 a55 cents. We do not 100
- i -.hor as the re-eipu at the seaboard
to see pnces any higher, as tne re-t-.p
’ have been very heavy during the past wee*.
' EXCHANGE.—Cbeeka v» th. N«* «-•>- at
f per cent, prein., on Charleston, Savannah and all
the interior towns of Georgia par. Our Bankstake
Bills on Charleston, Savannah, and the Northern
cities at interest off for the time.
FREIGHTS. —Our river still continues low but
the light draught steamers of our Companies bring up
large amounts of Freight and carry off about half
loads of Cotton. Tiie shipments therefore are much
less by the river than they would otherwise be. The
shipments to Charleston from this cause have been very
heavy.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 20.- Colton.— There has
been a fair attendance of buyers on the market since
our report of the 13th inst., and a fair business has
been done in the article, but prices it will be seen
continue to droop. In the forepart of the week —
Friday and Saturday last —the transactions were
quite limited. On the former day nothing was done,
owing to the prevalence of a severe storrn; and on
the latter, the operations were restricted to some 400
bales, in consequence of the limited supply of the bet
ter qualities, which were in most request, and which
were held at comparatively high prices: subsequent
ly, however, the market was puitially relieved by
arrivals, and on Monday sellers met buyers at prices
they had previously refused to accept, and during the
day upwards of 1400 bales were sold at prices deci
dedly in favor of the purchaser, amounting in some
instances to an Jc. reduction on the rates current at
the time we made up our former report. The market
was also well attended on Tuesday, and about an
equal amount of business was done at similar rates.
On Wednesday buyers partially withdrew, to await
the result of the Britannia's accounts, whose arri
val was telegraphed on that day, and the transactions
were therefore comparatively light. The sales thus
far amounted to near 3500 bales; and when we clos
ed our inquiries the following quotations were consid
ered a fair index of the value of the article, viz:—
Ordinary to good ordinary 5 a 5£ ; middling to good
middling 5$ a s|; middling fair 5g ; fair and fully
fair 6a 6 1-16; and good fair—. Yesterday we
received a synopsis of the accounts brought out by
the steamer, which had a tendency to depress the
market. During the day about 1000 bales changed
hands, and although we have no quotable decline to
notice on the above figures, buyers obtained a decided
advantage in their selections, and were occasionally
even met at a fractional decline. The aggregate sales
of the week reached 4500 bales, against" the receipts
in the same time of 7385 bales. The sales are as fol
lows : 40 bales at 4J ; 40 at 5 ; 73 at 5J ; 171 at 5J ;
91* at 5| ; 34 at s|; 211 at 5| ; 226 at 5| ; 203 at
5 13-16; 416 at. s|; 461 at 5 15-16; 1844 at 6;
404 at 6 1-16; 251 at
have no transactions to report in any of the descrip
tions classed under the head of Long Cotton.
7?ice.-*~There has been a moderately fa»r demand
for Rice since the opening of the market on Monday
last, and the receipts of the week, which reach 1400
tierces, have passed into second hands. The trans
actions have been at extremes ranging from 33 3-16
to S3f per hundred. Prices are rather easier than
they were last week; and present quotations are sus
tained in consequence of the limited supply on the
market.
Corn. — The Corn market has been quiet during
th week, in consequence of the absence of arrivals
by water, and our quotations for Maryland and North
Carolina are nominal. The receipts by the Railroad
comprise 2300 bushels. Sales to a limited extent
have been made in country corn, with and without
the sack, at prices within the range of 54 a 60c.
Oats. — We have had no arrivals recently to try
the market. The last sale was a parcel of Maryland
at 31c. per bushel.
Hay.— The arrivals since our last reach 478 bales
North River, and 200 do. Eastern. The former, we
understand, was under offer yesterday at 65c., cash,
and 70c. on time, but we did not learn whether the
sale was made. The latter parcel sold at 75c.
Flour —There has been some little inquiry for
this article during the week. The transactions, so
far as we can learn, have been confined solely to
Georgia and Country brands—the former at Ss| and
36 per bbl., and the latter at prices within the range
of 35-25 a 85.75.
Salt. — The arrivals since our last reach 9300 sacks,
and this increase in the supply has brought down
prices. Some 4000 sacks have been sold at 31.10
and 31.15 per sack, and at the close of the week the
market was heavy at the former price.
Bacon.— This article has been neglected of late,
and under the influence of a limited demand and an
accumulation of stock, prices have given way. We
quote Shoulders 5 a s|; and Sides 5} a s£c.
Lard —Of good quality, has been selling for retail
purposes in bbls, and kegs at prices within the range
of 8J a 10c.
Groceries.— A fair amount of business has been
done in some of the leading articles comprised under
the head of Groceries, but the transactions have in
most instances been in small lots; about 200 hhds. of
Muscovado Sugar, however, was sold to one of our
jobbing houses, but at prices which have not been al
lowed to transpire. Several small lots of Cuba Cof
fee have been sold at from 6 to 6|c.; and 500 bags
Rio from 6J to7Jc., as in quality. The transactions
injMolasses have been at retail from 17J a 18J and as
high as 20c. We have no wholesale transactions to
report, and our quotations for all descriptions of Mo
lasses are nominal. The article has become scarce.
We would call the attention of dealers to the auction
head for the particulars of some heavy sales to come
off on Wednesday, the 25th inst.
Bagging.— Tlie transactions of the week have
been limited.
Dope. — The market is heavy, with a downward
tendency in prices. Sales have been made at ex
tremes ranging from 9 to 10c., and even as high as
10|c. in small lots. We quote at wholesale 9} a 9Jc.
The receipts of the week reach 1500 coils, mostly
from the West, some of which, however, is partially
damaged.
Exchanges.— Sterling Bills have declined since
our last, and we quote 7| a 7? ; Checks on the North
* per cent. prem.
Freights. — To Liverpool, heavy at Jd. for cotton
in square bags. We quote to Havre, cotton at |c. and
s2} for Rice. The coastwise rates have undergone
no change. To New York, cotton 25 ; Rice 62}c.,
and to Boston 25c. for cotton in square bags.
CHARLESTON, Oct; 24. —There was a good
demand for Cotton yesterday, and 4,600 bales were
sold at extremes ranging from 5} to 6c., a very large
portion at 5 13-16ths. Prices were irregular, the fol
lowing quotations, however, will approximate as near
as possible to the actual state of the market, viz :
middling fair s}; and fair and fully fair M a RZ.
Rtce.— iletween 3 and 400 tierces were sold chief
ly at 83} per hundred. Market dull.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 18. — Cotton.— Arrived since
the 4th inst., 13,093 bales Upland (6,165 bales from
Augusta, and 6,870 per Railroad, and 63 per wagons,)
and 132 do. Sea Island. The exports for same pe
riod have been 8,510 bales Upland and 295 do Sea
Island, viz : to Liverpool 2,406 bales Upland and
262 Sea Islands, to Nantz 590 bales Upland, to Bos
ton 751 bales Upland, to New York 4,074 bales Up
land and 33 do Sea Island, to Philadelphia 441 bales
Upland and to Charleston 248 bales Upland—leav
ing a stock on hand and on shipboard not cleared of
14,062 bales Upland, and 1,084 do Sea Island, against
4,939 bales Upland and 733 do. Sea Island at same
time lust year.
The receipts since Ist September exceed those of
last year 22,243 bale?, and the exports 14,946 bales.
At the close of our last report the market was quiet,
with a moderate demand; this feeling continued
throughout the following week, with an average sale
of about four hundred bales per day, and during the
past week there has been nearly the same prices paid,
when sales could be effected, but buyers refused to
come into the market, unless at a decline, Yester
day, factors seemed disposed to give way, and the
operations of the day were about 1,200 bales. We
alter our quotations to suit the present feeling in the
market, and would remark that these are a decline of
about jth cent since our report of 4th inst: Inferior
—a —; Ordinary to Good Ordinary 4? as} ; Mid
dling to Good Middling 5f a 54 ; Middling Fair 5f a—
; Fair to Fully Fair 5} a 6} ; Good Fair to Fine
6} a—.
The sales of the two weeks sum up 3,880 bales, at
the filllowing prices; 4 bales at 5; ]Ol at s}; 85 at
sg; 18 at ss; 63 at 5 7-16; 300 at s}; 64 at 5 9-16;
225 at sj; 874 at s|; 298 at 5 13-16; 476 at sg; 78
at 5 15-16; 772 at 6; 12 at 6 1-16; 343 at 6}; 32 at
6 3-16, and 62 at 6} cents.
Sea Islands. — We notice only the trifling sale of
39 bales at Ila 14 cents.
Rice. — The market has been quiet since our last re£
port, and only a moderate business doing. We no
tice a sale of 23 tierces inferior at 2.50, 9 at 2.75, 55
at 3.12}, and 300 at 83J per cwt.
Corn. — About 2,000 bushels have changed hands
in lots since our last at 50 to 56} cents.
Flour.— so bbls. Georgia sold from agent’s hands,
in lots at $6. The market continues in a depressed
state.
Hay.— We do not hear of any large sales, though
there is oonsiderable arriving. From stores, New
York is selling at 62} cents. There have been no
sales of Eastern reported.
Groceries. — The Grocery market has been very
quiet for the past two weeks, and we only notice sales
of6o bags Rio Coffee at 7 cents, and 150 bbls. New
Orleans Whiskey at 27 cents.
Bacon. — 20 hhds. Shoulders sold at 5 cents.
Lard.— We notice a sale of 80 kegs Lard at 9 cts.
Salt. — 2,000 sacks sold on shipboard at $1.25, and
200 sacks at $1.37.
Bagging. — 71 bales Gunny sold at 19 cts. and 30
ata price not made public. 117 pieces Dundee at 17
certs.
Bale Rope. — The demand continues good, and we
notice a further advance in prices. 40 coils sold at
10} cents.
Exchange. — We quote Sterling at 7 per ct. prern.
In Domestic, the Banks purchase sight to five day bills
on the Northern cities at } percent, prem.; thirty
days, *, and days, 1} per cent, discount, they
sell sight checks at } per cent. prem. Out door rates
rather easier.
Freights.— There is more doing in foreign, and a
slight improvement in the rates. One ship has been
engaged for Liverpool at 7-16 for square and round
bales' together, and one has also been taken up for
Havre. We are glad to see but one price for Freights;
that nuisance, ‘round bales,’ is nearly done away
with here, and we hope to see so few in market that
they will be taken to fill up, and not be quoted at a
different rate. Coastwise —To New York |e. for
square, and 5-16 c. for round bales Cotton, and 62}c.
per cask for Rice. To Philadelphia and Boston, fc.
for Cotton, and 75 a 87} cts. per cask for Rice.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 23. Cotton.— Our market
on Saturday was animated, and the sales sum up 585
bales at 5 a 5| extremes ; three-fourths of which was
at 5| end s£c. No change in prices since the Nia
gara’s news was received.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.6 P. M—The prices of
Co’ton have been very irregular to-day, and the mar
ket heavy. The sales amount to 800 bales, at from
51 to 6 cents, far Middling to Fair. Rice: the quo
tations are unchanged. Flour is dull; the sales a
mount to 7000 bjds. at $5.31 a $5.56. Corn is firm
er : the sales amount to 50.000 bushels at 67 a 71.
Wheal is languid. Provisions dull. Groceries stea
dy.
RICH CASHMERES.
taXTM 11. CRANE has received by the last
f ▼ steamer from New York, a lot of very rich
and handsome CASHMERES, to which he would
call the attention of the ladies. 09-dlwtw&w2w
NEW AND RICH CARPETS.
SNOWDEN & SHEAR,
Have JUST received from New York RICH
BRUSSELS CARPETS, at greatly reduced
prices; . ,
Sape cA B , p r^" Ply f . lNe "*--’’ AND VENETIAN
... of an( j S p| en( ]j t { patterns.
ALSO—
Rich U? x V2SELSSTAIR CARPETS;
Chenille and Tufted RUGS, of new and beautiful
Chenille 'J,OOR RUGS and 6-4 and 12-4 printed
FLOORCLOTHS.
To which they repeetfolly invite the attention of the
I public. oM&wUn
„ T and negro cloths
A mAmS * WRIGHT have just re-
W-UH-4 a andT 2 -4 U BLANKETS, of superior
qa ß.4;'9-4 and 10-4 NEGRO BLANKETS, some of
which are of eery superior
and PLAID LI?*SE*S.
iSavy REDPLANNELS, to which they
; particularly invite the attention of
such articles.
f DOW & ESTES
■- . HAVE JVST RECEIVED d.rect
! frifcwJM UrTboZtSAW SHOES
conning every variety and! style, which wdl ba
- examine our Stock and prices Itu<fcwliu1 tu< fcwliu
c where.
1 Bolting Clotns- u . R
a NEW EOTtustreceivdata-a.-ir
, GO.’S, opposite the Manmoo H
Dry (Soods.
rich tapestry carpets.
SNOWDEN & SHEAR
ii a n^s® b,ved ™ is i,ay <•«-»
r l A RpFt« a ? d '! ion . al , su PP'y of Rich BRUSSELS
CARPETS, of splendid patterns, which will be sold
at greatly reduced prices. Also, Rich CHENH I P
RUGS and DOOR MATS. VHENILLE
n-S"? With " Ur l’ r « Tiou ’ receipts of Brussels.
Iliree-PJy, Ingrain and Venetian CARPETS nuts
us in possession of one of the largest stocks ever offer
cd m this city, and all of which will be sold at the
very lowest prices. The public are respectfully in
vited to call and examine the assortment.
Carpets will be cut to fit the rooms, free of charge
and, if required, will be made up in the best manner’
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NEW GOODS.
WILLIAM 11. CRANE
HAS JUST RECEIVED by recent arrivals
from New York, and is now opening, his
FALL AND WINTER. SUPPLY OF
GOODS.
Rich Satin Stripe Armour and Brocade SILKS,
Plaid and Striped Changeable SILKS, very cheap,
Black Gro De Rhine and Luster SILKS, for Vi
se ttes and Dresses,
Rich Satin Stripe and Figured CASHMERES,
Cashmere D’COSSE and Muslin D’LAINES,
very cheap,
Coburg CLOTH and Colored ALPACAS,
Lamartine Stripes and Worsted PLAIDS,
Mohair LUSTRES and Changeable PLAIDS,
Plain Black and Silk Warp ALPACA,
Small Figured ALPACAS and CASHMERES,
for children,
A large assortment of English and American
PRINTS,
French and Scotch GINGHAMS, small and large
Plaids, ’ &
VISETTES, CRAPE, SHAWLS and SCARFS,
Rich Cashmere and Plaid Woollen SHAWLS,
Black and Colored Silk FRINGES and GIMPS,
Rich Lace CAPES and Muslin COLLARS,
GABRIELS and Jenny Lind COLLARS,
Drapery MUSLIN and Furniture DIMITY, W
Turkey Red CURTAIN MUSLINS,
Furniture CALICO, some wide for Window
Shades,
While and Brown Damask TABLE CLOTHS
Huekabuek, Scoteh and Irish DIAPERS,
Welsh GAUZK and Milled PLANT?ELS
Black and Slate Ingrain Cotton HOSE ’ .
H^D n KERCH;E F H s: mMitClletl aDd RiViCrp Ed^d
Black Silk and Satin VESTING,
KETS l2and 12 4 Kibbon ‘ Bounil Whitney BLAN
CTTOTM^ V A’x^ e u^^ ,h alarm «®ortment or
ur ?J!?Sh,9 ASS,MERES - SATINETS, JEANS
■rsf A t? K u TS ’ FLA NNELS, KERSEYS, BED
SHpptivT-T "*? Blcacbed SHIRTINGS and
SHEETINGS, and a great variety of other goods,
£ L p e^ ld ,he lo . west , ,erm3 > of them 20 to
°.^ e . r tban last y car ’ s prices— to all of
winch he would invite the attention of his friendsand
the P" bhc - o!6-d&w2w
NEW GOODS ! NEW GOODS !
DOW & ESTES
A BB ?s“ w OPENING one ° fthe larg - st
FASHIONABLE WINTER. GOODS
ever offered in this market, among which are—
Rich Satin Plaid and Brocade SILKS
Superior Colored and Black Plaid SILKS
Black Italian SILK, extra wide,
B ' cb Satin Stri P ed , Figured and Plaid CASH
MERES,
Rich Figured All-Wool D’LAINES
11 Black Silk VIS!TTES, new style,
Silk Stripe and Figured ALPACAS
Black and changeable
Figured and Striped Organdie MUSLINS for
Ladies’ Evening Dresses,
Ladies’ Embroidered Lace CAPES/
“ Mourning CAPES and COLLARS
French Worked Muslin COLLARS and CUFFS
Fine Black Silk Warp ALPACA,
Linen Cambric HDKFS, from 10 cts. to $lO
Co’ored and White Marseilles QUILTS ’
12-4 Linen SHEETING; Pillow Case LINEN
White and Brown Linen Table DAMASK, ’
Childrens’ HOODS. CLOAKS and GAITERS
“ Cotton and Worsted HOSE
Ladies’ Silk, Worsted and Cotton “ ’
English, French and American CALICOES,
Extra Wide French GINGHAMS,
Cashmere and Plaid Wool SHAWLS.
Russia, Scotch and Huckaback TOWELING
Augusta Factory SHEETINGS and SHIRTINGS,
Whi.e, Gauze, Welch and Red FLANNELS,
Black Silk Fringed Cashmere SHAWLS,
Whalebone and Corded SKIRTS,
Bonnet, Cap and Velvet Neck RIBBONS
Musfin EDGINGS and INSERTINGS ’
Fancy CASSIMERES and VESTINGS.
—Together with a large stock of HEAVY NEGRO
BL4 NKETS, Crib and Bed Blankets Heavy KER
SEYS and OSNABURGS, Cotton YARNS, Turkey
Red, Bleached and Brown SHEETINGS and
SHIRTINGS, Irish LINENS, Jaconet, Check and
White CAMBRICS, Nainsook, Swiss and Book
MUSLINS, Kentucky JEANS, Blue STRIPES and
PLAIDS, Gents. SUSPENDERS, CRAVATS,
Pocket HDKFS, &c. &c. 011-d&w2m
NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS!
SNOWDEN & SHEAR,
HAVE RECEIVED by recent arrivals from
New York their
FALL AND WINTER SUPPLIES,—
—among which are—
Rich CASHMERE D’ECOSSE, ar.d Satin striped
CASHMERE,
Extra rich fancy DRESS SILKS of the latest styles,
Plain, changeable and fancy plaid SILKS,
Superior Mohair PLAIDS and low priced black AL
PACAS,
Silk striped ALPACAS, and plain mode col’d. do. do.
Extra French twilled and ulain am*,,
or new and beautiful styles,
English and American PRINTS, in a great variety cf
styles,
Rich English FURNITURE PRINTS, with white
grounds,
Plain, white and colored Tarlatan MUSLINS for La
dies’ evening dresses,
White and colored figured ORGANDY MUSLINS,
for Ladies’ evening dresses,
Ladies’ rich Paris CAPES, and embroidered Lace
CHI MISETTES,
Ladies’ Lace CAPES, at very low prices,
Ladies’ worked Muslin COLLARS and CUFFS, of
the latest styles,
Ladies’ cherry and fancy crape SCARFS,
Superior Linen Cambric and French Lawn HAND
KERCHIEFS, at very low prices,
Superior heavy 12-4 Linen SHEETINGS, at greatly
reduced prices,
Superior 4-4, 5-4 and 6-4 fancy OIL CLOTHS for
Tables, of new and beautiful styles.
With a great variety of other NEW AND SEA
SONABLE ARTICLES, to all of which they re
spectfully invite the attention of the public.
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DRY GOODS ! DRY GOODS !
From!! 5 to 25 per cent, legs than Last
Year’s Prices:!
UNDERSIGNED has received his
-fl. supply of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
AMONG WHIGH ARE
Figured, Watered and Plain Biack SILKS
Black ALPACAS and BOMBAZINES,
Colored ALPACAS, Plain and Satin Striped,
French CASHMERES and English MERINOS,
50 pieces MUSLIN DeLAINES, 12| to 25 cents,
30 do CASHMERES, 25 to 50 cents,
100 do Scotch and French GINGHAMS, 12| to 31
cents,
500 pieces PRINTS, from 4 to 12| cents per yard,
10 bales Brown SHIRTINGS and SHEETINGS, 4
to 10 cents,
FRINGES, GIMPS and BUTTONS,
BLEACHED SHIRTING, <fcc., 5 to 121 cents,
IRISH LINENS and TABLE DAMASKS,
Needle Worked COLLARS and CHEMISETTS,
Irish LINEN and Thread EDGINGS,
Linen Cambric HANDKERCHIEFS, 61 to 37A cts..
HOSIERY, GLOVES, RIBBONS, LACES, &c.,
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, TWEEDS and ERMI
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SATINETS, Kentucky JEANS and KERSEYS,
Negro and Mackinaw BLANKETS,
Fine Bed and Crib Do.
A few cases of HATS and SHOES.
N. 8.-PRINTS and DOMESTICS, 20 per cent,
less than last year’s prices.
New Goods received weekly by the steamer.
016-tw3&w3 T. BRENNAN,
Opposite the Mansion House.
CHEAP NEGRO BLANKETS.
SNOWDEN & SHEAR
HAVE JUST received from New York a very
large supply of grxxl and cheap NEGRO
BLANKETS, to which they respectfully invite the
attention of Planters.
Also—Superior Whitney ribbon-bound BLANK
ETS, of extra size and quality. 02-d&wlm
KERSEYS, BLANKETS, &c,
CASES KERSEYS, plain and twilled,
10-4, 11-4 and 12-4 Whitney and Mackinaw
BLANKETS,
3 bales SHIRTING STRIPES,
5 bales Colored WADDING.
Just received and for sale low by
023-d2&wl W. E. JACKSON & CO.
LOST OR MISLAID.
TWO PROMISSORY NOTES, one given
by Nathan Bussey, of Lincoln county, to Frances
Bussey, for fifty due 25th December, 1847,
date not recollected; the other by Seaborn Moseley
to Frances Bussey, for fifty dollars, due same time,
date not recollected. All persons are forewarned
from trading for said notes.
020-wl♦ IIEZEKIAH BUSSEY.
BURKE LAND FOR SALE.
¥TIIE UNDERSIGNED has 1000
acres of valuable land in the 71st district &|||||
of Burke county, adjoining lands of Jas.
Grubbs, B. B Miller, and Robt. J. Morrison,
which is offered for sale on the most accommodating
terms. The tract contains about 500 acres oak and
hickory land, the remainder pine—of which there are
about 150 acres cleared, with a comfortable dwel
ling and other necessary buildings.
Persons desirous to purchase are requested to call
and examine the premises.
If not sold previously at private sale, it will be sold*
at public outcry, before the court house door at
Waynesboro on the first Tuesday in November next.
jyl2-wtNl ETHALINDA FOUNTAIN.
EXECUTOR’S SALE.—WiII be sold, on the
first Tuesday in January next, before
house door in the town of \Vavnes h '‘ L y conn
ty, between the usual , irtue of a
v•’ 1 ° - ••'•ng property, belonging to the estate of
deceased, viz: Two hundred and
ninety (290) acres of Pine Land, more or less, being
and lying in Burke county, 67th District, on the wa
ters of B-»ggy Gut, adjoining lands of V. Fulcher,
James McElmurray, and others, between the 19 and
20 mile p-jsts from Augusta to Savannah. Sold fur a
division between Che heirs.
AlsoAt the same time and place, and for the same
parpose, the following Negroes: Nancy, aged about
22 years, and her three children, Ginny, Francis and
child, (name not recollected) ; Caroline, aged 20, and
her child, Darrow; Mary, about 50 years of age;
J mly, 60 do., and Winney, 60 do. All sold as the
property of Miliey Stewart, deceased, for cash—pur
chasers pay for title.
Oct. 25, 1849. SEABORN J. COX, Er r.
1 DHISIBTR ATOKS’ SALE.—WiII be sold,
2k on the first Tuesday in January next, between
the usual hours of sale, before the court-house doorol
Columbia county, the following tract ofLand, in -
ion ting jointly to the respective estates of W amn e ton
Havme and James D. Haynie, deceased, containing
acr“, more or le~, Situated on the water, of
Ucbee Crrek, and bounded by lands of James Kirk
on the ay o a ; r of Warringion Haynie.
JAMES D. BRANDON,
Administrator of James D. Haynie.
October 25, H 4 3.
| "'" C 'k Tt. sSITH, Adm’r.
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