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I Illi ' 0 f'l BY WILLIAM S. JONES. serms, THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL Is Published every Wednesday, AT TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE. TO CLUBS er INDIVIDUALS sending us Ten Dollar , SIX copies of the Paper willbc sent forone year, thus furnishing the Paper at the rate of SIX COPIES FOR TEN DOLLARS, or a free copy to all who may procure us JJrc sub scribers, and forward us the money. -HE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLV, Are also published at this office, and mailed to sub scribers at the following rates, viz.: Dxilv P.psa- .$lO per annum. Tai-Ws»»LY Paper a “ “ TERMS OP ADVERTISING. In Weekly.—Seventy-five cents per square (12 . lines or less) for the first insertion, and Fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. hotels. MARIETTA HOTEL. ® THE UNDERSIGNED begs leave to inform the public and his friends, that he ha? taken a lease of this establishment and will open it for the reception of boarders and visitors the first ol September next, when he hopes by his prompt atten tion to the business, and his anxiety to render his guests comfortable, to secure a liberal patronage. aulS-twifcwtf J. F. ARNOLD. > EAGLE & PHCQNIX HOTEL AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Kiil MRS. E. C. WEST, present Proprietor of the above establishment, respectfully invites the attention of the travelling public to this commodious House, which sb? flatters herself, co account of the .for**' < :nai*agauiem, otTei? I [feat inducements to travellers. The rooms are urge and airy, and every attention paid to bedding, &c. to afford the traveller a comfortable night’s lodging. The style of her table will compare with any other establishment of the kind kept in the city of Augusta. The servants are under excellent man agement, and will be found polite and attentive. Every one connected with the establishment will exert themselves to give general satisfaction to those who will give this houses fiir trial. Her terms arc ONLY ONE DOLLAR A DAY an I l-w‘2m GLOBE HOTEL, DECATUR Georgia* THE SUBSCRIBER takes this method of informing ’he public t» at he l*yj •““• Ina recently purchased the GLOBE HOTEL, in Decatur, Ga., formerly owned and oc cupied by Dr. Joseph Thompson, and has given it a thorough repairing, and shall furnish it every way entirely new, and be preuared to receive visitors by the I Oth inst. And as the travelling public are aware of the healthiness es this dace, i's fine Schools, Churches, and superior Mineral Springs, the boast of all who have visited it, any comment would be use- jy 7-wtSi EL N. CALHOUN. WASHINGTON HALL, ATLANTA GEORGIA, BREAKFAST AND DINNER HOUSE FOR PAS SENGERS. MEALS always in due season for the de »!!!* parture of ’be cars. A share of public patron *■=*• age is respectfully solicited. my3o-wly ' HOLCOMBE & RICE. FRANKLIN HOUSE. THE SUBSCRIBER respectfully in gg|lg} forms his frieuds and the public generally, that ■***■**“ he has opened a Public House in the city of Augusta bearing the name of the FRANKLIN HOUSE. on the South side of Broad-street, immediately in front of Scranton <fc Marks’ large wholesale Grocery Store, and Z. McCord & Co’s, and a few doors below S|H?ar> & Buford, and near the centre of the most business square in-the city, where he will be -leased to see his friends at any time. The fare at his House shall not be inferior to any in the city. His Rooms are large and airy ; good, clean Beds, and a well furnish ed Table as our market affords ; provisions well cook ed and in good time. By strict attention to business, be hopes to share with his neighbors iu patronage. HIS CHARGES SHALL BE AS FOLLOWS .- Transient Boarders, per day 31 00 Per week 5 00 Per month, with Lodging 15 00 Single meal 37 Lodging |«r night 25 Hoi res left nt the Livery’Stables of Wils'n & Linthicum, close by, on E|lis-»treet, will be Well cared for. iny2-wtf I). B. RAMSEY. HOTEL! MRS. W. J. JOXKH avails herself of ffilfl the opportunity to announce to the friends and patrons of her late husband (W. J. Jones), and the publ'c generally, that she intends keeping open tho ■ Hotel heretofore kept by him at APPLING, and so licits a continuance of the patronage hitherto bestowed o i the house* She hopes by her unremitted exer- 1 ti ins and attention to the duties of her stat inn to met it 1 the approbation of those who may favor her with a call. 8 ' —— /or Sale. FOR SALB. THAT XVELI* KNOWN and Uis valuable SETTLEMENT OF LAND, residence of the late William Gar- RBTT, deceased, of Walton county, situated about three miles from Social Circle, and six from Monroe, on the Alcovy River, containing one thousand acres of land, at least four hundred of which is wood land and well -limbered ; a considerable quantity of fine river low-grounds. There arc upto the premises a most excellent spring of pure water, Dwelling House and all necessary farm buildings, large Gin House, Packing Screw, and good Orchards. The above lands are offered at the very low price of Four Thousand Dollars ; one-half cash, the balance on a credit until the Ist January, 1651. JOHN SCOTT, BENJAMIN T. RUSSELL. Sori tl Circk. ni»2-wif LAND AND NEGROES FOR SALE. 2 TIIK ftUBSCRIBKRoITenfiir ffe H Sale the tract «»t Land on which he re- ZX. sides, in Columbia county, containing Five Hundred and Sixteen Acres, with a good farm and comfortable resilience, and the necessary uul-bnildings He will also sell with the land his Plantation Negroes, con sisting of men, women and children, most of them very likelv and valuable. Terms will be liberal. Per si'ns desiring to purchase will please call and ex amine the property. PETER WRIGHT. an 7 wtNI VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE. HAVING DETERMINED tore move West, I offer my PLAN I’ \ HON J* f,» r sale, which lies o » Upson and Hart’s Creek, four miles north of Wrightsboro, Columbia county, and contains eight hundred and fifty acres three hundred and fifty of which is in the wood-*, lies well ami with a heavy growth of Oak and lhck< ry ; the b.thnco in a high state ol cultivation, with only fifty acre# of worn or waste Land on the tract. Thia Farm is surpassed by few (if any in the coun ty) for its production of Cotton or Grain is well im proved, with every necessary and convenient Out House, including a good Gin House and Packing Screw. Further description is deemed unnecessary. as persons desiring a valuable Farm in this county with advantages so numerous, would prefer examin ing fi r themselves. As lam anxious to sell by the first oay of October next, a great baigain can bo had if application is made on or before that time. •u6-w6■ THOMAS DOOLEY. NOTICE BTII E SUBSCRIBER wishes to sell hl's well known STAND AND PLANTATION, in the town ofFrede- JL ma, Chambers county, Ata. It is so well known that a description of it is deemed unnecessary. There is about 240 acres attached to the stand well improved and very healthy. Any person wishing to purchase will call on me on the premises, or to M. Ferrell, Esq., 1.-a Grange, Ga. A bargain will be given. JOHN A. HURST. Fredonia, Ala., July 6, 1849. jy!3-wlo VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. THE SUBSCRIBER offers lor sale 150 ACRES OF LAND, adjoining forming a part of the Village of So- -A cial Circle. Sixty acres improved with a gtxxl two story Dwelling, (in town) new Kitchen and Smoke House, and other comfortable buildings. A bargain will be sold in the premises. V. H. CRAWLEY. Sucki? Cirefe, March 5. 1349. wtf AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. JUST RECEIVED at the AGRICULTURAL WARE HOUSE, Augusta, a lot of Choice PLOUGHS, c-msifting of Ifouble Mould Board, Hill Side, Subsoil, Eagle Self-sharpening, and one and two Horse Plough*, ot all descriptions. Also, Cylindrical Chums, Corn Shellers. Corn Planters, Straw Cutters, Grain Cradles, Road Scrapers, Manure Forks, Trucks, dtc., «!tc. mh!9-w A. W. Ct W P.CARMICHAEL BIC. V Kl. K I'AKLC. Wl’l BILUH S Pll IS, I . a ed cure yet discovered for Bilious Fevers and Bile in all its forms, Dyspepsia, Colic, liupuritv of the Blood. &c. Other medicines punfy the blood already iu circu lation, leaving the toun'-ain-hcad unloucled; so that the ctßvi cannel e ;Bui f>r. JPids ptvduce perfect health and cleanliness in the rejfuni of the chyle, of which the hood is made, and hence the vital fluid is filtered—and flows in a state of punty trom its very source —which ensures a permanency ot health. />r. Peters' Fs.' s stand aione as a positive substi tute for (.'ahMtwl and Blue Pills ; for they act like magic on the Liver, and remove all superfluity of bile with a certainty that is beyond question, and never ends tn disappointment. Indeed, whenever Calomel ( has failed to dtshxlgc th* Bile, Peters’ Pills have at once effected it. And hence—since their fame has been eMabbshed—Mercury has been but rarely re- ; sorted to for that parpme. r*,- For sale in August, by the following Agents : . Haviland. R:>' y Co., W. K. Kitchen. Thos. Bar rett A Co.. l> Antignac A Barry, D. B. Plumb dt Co. In Hamburg, by A. J. Crw*gtr.oe, ana A. G. Nagel. m-127-tw'A: w6mt SKlaLyu WIIISKKY.-1W Hh*. «f Sew Ortc—M SUGARS 100 BtU». Rectified WHISKEY, at! of which we will mH le«K. c. A. Y M. H. WILLIAMS. j. 30 ('IHISHKIt I'* l ■ SVG AR ) Hlaek TEAS, STARCH. - > ; w . FEF, <ke.. Ac-, Jost :v. c v-d rnSS-.iAw GRHWILLE4 RATTF.Y. \KW ORL.KASS SIG AH.--,. H . . and prime Se« OH**—* st GAR; 10 Hh<is. do. »erv ehoie*. F t sale few. >r-.-9.d.tw H ANI'. Wil I I AMS .v co. LAMP OlL>Tu *1 per jall xi. F < safe r*■ ~ auS WM.H. TUTT. Augusta, QM.: THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 16, 1849. A Day in Atlanta* Editorial Correspondence of the Chronicle and Sentinel. August 13, 1849. Ose of the most thriving and promising pla ces in the State of Georgia is the embryo city of Atlanta. It possesses many advantages for the manufacture and distribution of all fabrics made of leather, wood iron, steel, cotton and wool. It is highly favored with a mild and salu brious climate; with very cheap food, fuel, land and building material-. Standing near the centre, and the dividing line between the planting and farming portions of one of the largest ejid most fertile States in the Union, it commands at a common focus, peculiar facili ties, by means of four rail roads, three of which are in operation, for the exchange of the sur plus product, of all sections with their nearest and best customers. As the regions south, west, north and east of this city, fill up with an in dustrious population,as they soon will, here will re-ide thousands of prosperous mechanics and irtizans fabricating every t< ing demanded by the most advanced civilization, from a locomo tive down to a cambric needle. The very at mosphere has a bracing energy about it, which inspires effort and manufacturing enterprise in the brain and muscles of man. The spirit is quickened, and he feels it a pleasure as well as a duly to labor diligently with his hands. Such were our musings on visiting the Shoe Factory of the Messrs. Humphries, in which a goodly number of cordwainers were busily at work at their useful trade. All the operatives but one are white. Two young men close 50 pair ofT>rbgnffs hi a aay in a'neat and substan tial manner. Most of the hands have piece work and make good wages. The proprietors tan and curry their leather; and we regard their establishment as worthy of the confidence and encouragement of planters. We should rejoice to see Atlanta become the Lynn of the South. It has great advantages for collecting both hidesand tan-bark. The large Steam Fiouring Mill attracts much attention from the numerous visitors in the Up Country, all of whom spend more or less lime in this city. As yet it is not far advanced ; but it is in hands that will prosecute the work to completion. The engine is contracted fur at .$9,000, and is to be equal to the power of 100 horses. There will be no lack of grain, and the mill will do a heavy business when in operation. A large furnace and steam engine factory are going up fur Mr. Finley, of Macon ; and several workshops of less note for others. Nu merous dwellings are also being erected ; and every countenance beams with hope and con fidence in the future. Prudence, industry and stri t integrity will not fail of success; and we shall be disappointed if the mechanics and manufacturers of Atlanta do not display these virtues in an eminent degree. On riding and driving over the farming lands in portions of DeKalb county, we find them better for corn, wheat and oats than we expected to find them. Nor do we regard it as impracticable to prose cute the dairy business profitably in this vicin ity. The central and southern parts of the State should be supplied with good cheese and butter from northern Georgia. And if it should annually export a million of dollars worth of cheese to England, our railroads and commission merchants would not complain. This is a branch of domestic manufactures in which slave labor can be profitably employed. We ate excellent Georgia cheese, made by this class of servants, at the table of Dr. Thomp son to-day. at dinner. By the way, the Atlanta Hotel is exceedingly popular, and the Doctor wins golden opinions from a continuous throng of guests. L. Waynesboro Kail Road. The Savannah Republican, of Tuesday morning, - thus notices the result of the labors of the Committee appointed to canvass the * City for subscriptions to this Road: “The Committee of Twenty-Five has discharg ed its duty nobly and energetically, and is entitled to the special thanks of every friend of the undertaking. Yesterday, it had obtained private subscriptions to the amount of One Hundred and Ten Tnousand and Five Hundred Dollars. When it is remem bered that many men of large means are absent from the city, and that this sum has been raised in one week,and without their assistance, we mn*. confer that our surprise is only equalled by the gratification we foe! at the result. The construction of the Road is placed beyond all doubt. We trust our friends in Burke and Augusta will respond with alacrity to the movement in this city. They are deeply interested in the early completion of the work, and as such should contribute timely and efficient aid. The ball is in motion and should not be allowed to stop.” We rejoice to witness these evidences, on the part of Savannah, of a determination to place herself in a position to compete success fully for the trade of this city. With this road in operation, and an increase of her shipping —a necessary sequence—she will have accom plished more to build up her own fortunes than her most sanguine friends anticipate. “ But it is not true, that the Democracy of the North have joined hands wiih the Free Soil party. That portion which supported Gen. Cass in November last, lik* him, hold to the doctrine of non-interference.”— Federal Union. A wag once remarked of the federal Union, under its present conductor, that “ the only truths it ever contained, were the terms of subscription and the day on which it was pub lished.” The above extract clipped from the last number, will not contribute much among intelligent men to elevate its character for ve racity above the standard of the wag. Gov. To%viw—The Federal Union* Wk are quite surprised to learn that the Federal Union anticipates the necessity of vin dicating* before the people of Georgia, Gov. Towns* character for sobriety. Really his Ex cellency is a most fortunate man if the certifi cate of that journal can establish his reputation for temperance. A journal that endorsed Gen. Cass’s devotion to the extension of slavery, will find no barrier to giving any certificate required by the dispenser of treasury pap. Mr. Calboun* Let him rest. The fate of Ishmael is his. His hand isaffainst every man, and every man's hand shall be against him. —Southern Hanner, 9th inst. Such is the language of a leading democrat ic organ of Georgia, in reference to the great South Carolina Agitator. Whig Nominations.—The Whigs of Bald win and Hancock have nominated Joseph Gondkr as their candidate for Senator. Col. A. H. Kknan has been nominated for Representative for Baldwin c runty. Mobilb and Ohio Railroad.—The Mobile Register of 11th inst. says :We have the pleas ure of announcing that the Directors of this Company closed a contract yesterday with Messrs. W. 1). Riddle «& Co., for the construe lion of seventeen sections of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, commencing at the Eight Mile Creek and extending to Cedar Bluff, a distance of twenty-six miles. The Road is to be graded and timbered, and put in condition to receive the iron rails, at a cost of about SI6O.(MM). We congratulate the friends of the great en terprise at this auspicious commencement. — Our citizens have put their shoulders to the wheel in good earnest, and the work will go on to a completion as rapidly as means and enter prise can push it. A Declaration Verified.—When a few years since, says the Baltimore American. Mr. Calhoun declared in Congress that the Demo cratic party was “only held together by the cohesive power of public plunder.” he was de nounced by the leading men of that party for uttering what they denominated a vile slander upon the integrity and patriotism of the lion hearted democracy. But how does Mr. Cal houn’s assertion tally with the history of the limes * No sooner has the party been remov ed from power—no sooner has the emolu ments of office been wrested from the grasp of a portion of their leaders, than we hear them loudly proclaiming the dissolution of the Democratic party, as did Mr John Van Bu ren m his speech at the late Free Soil Conven tion at Cleveland. Ohio. We never did con sider Mr. Calboun infallible. but we must ac cord to huu in this instance at least a penetra ting sagacity such as belongs to few politicians even of his own school. Pkoc.kessivk Democracy. Alate Free So l convention, beld at Senecaville. Ohio among other resolutions, passed one asking a change m the constitution of that State, so that all per sons. white or black, male or female, over tbe age of twenty one years, might have the right o! | suffrage. Florida.—The Washington Republic, of the 11th says: We learned, at a late hour last night, that Major General D. E- Twiggs. Uni :ed States Army, has been ordered to assume command of the Umted States troops iu Fiori da. Keeseville, New York. To '* A Georgian, u who is spending the sum mer at the North, we are indebted for the sub joined sketch of the flourishing village (in Georgia it would be a city!) of Keeseville, made so flourishing by’ the introduction of manufactures. We rejoice at the prospect now so bright and we think noi far distant, when Georgia will boast several such villages as Keeseville. Messhs. Editors : Permit mo through your columns to give a description of the way in which the New Yorkers do up things in this part of the State Natural Curiosities &c., which I trust will not be altogether uninteresting to your readers. The village of Keeseville is situated in the valley of the Ansable River 16 miles distant from Plattsburgh and four miles from Port Kent, population 3000. The town extends on either side of the river connected by three bridges, an arch bridge at the principal entrance to the village, on a road leading from Port Kent, a wire suspension foot bridge 300 yards above; and a bridge with stone abutments at the entrance to the town on a road leading Irom the cx’ensivc Iron and Lumber region, Ansable Forks and Clintonville, two large nail works are in operation here; proprie tors Messrs. Kingsland & Co. —the buildings are built of rock in the most beautiful and substantial manner, three stories in one 95 feet by 33 wide, the other 70 by 40 feet. Tbe former containing 30 ma chines the latter 24 machines, making in all 54 ma chines capable of producing 1500 kegs per week under ordinary circumstances. There are rolling mills in the vicinity which turn out large quantities of rolled iron. One Flouring mill; one Woollen Manufactory, and three saw mills. 24 saws in a self. Considerable quantities of lumber are exported to Troy, Albany and New Y r ork from this region of country, where a ready market is found at full prices. Large quantities of goods are sold in this market at remunerating prices. Keeseville bids fair to out strip all other towns in the State of a similar size which is attributable altogether to her manufacturing inter ests. I left this place a day or two since in company with a number of ladies and gentlemen on a pleasure ex cursion to the High Bridge (so called.) We were provided a stage coach and four well fed horses, by wjrich we were carried with the vel> city of a Rail road car over a beautiful ptehk road two an/i a half miles u the banks of tnd” Little Ansable river, thence decended on foot through a narrow passage way be tween the rocks a flight of stairs 150 feet to the water’s edge. At (his point the scenery that greets the eye is grand and sublime—the river is from 10 to 15 feet in width and the wafer very deep—a continuous chain of rugged rocks is seen lowering 100 feet perpendicu lar on either side for a quarter of a rniie in extent, and fifty feet in beibihih the distance of half a mile further up the river. The scenery on this river for beauty and grandure is only second to Niagara, and travel ers tlxough this section of country would never re gret visiting the Natural Curiosities on the Little Ansable. We partook of refreshments prepared tor the occasion on the table rocks at the foot of the stair way and all seemed to have a keen relish (brand did ample justice to the picnic fixings there served up. After our repast we ascended the stairs, bent our course towards Port Kent—arrived about 9 o’clock, P. M., stopped at the most fashionable hotel—teabe ing over, preparations were made for a dance—the soft and thrilling notes of the violin gave notice to the party to repair to the dancing saloon. The dance commence !, all was mirth and gaily ami the evening passed off* most agreeably to all concerned. A Georgian. California.—The following letter descrip tive of the state of things in California, was handed us by Col Wa son, of Montgomery, Alabama, now with ns, who vouches for the reliability of the gentleman who communicated the information. Indeed. Mr. Donohoo was employed by Col VV. to go to California for the express purpose of communicating from personal observation the true state of things in that country. Our readers therefore have the means of knowing the truth in regard to it. Gold, it seems, there is plenty, for those who will endure the labor of digging it. The skil ful and experienced may speculate in the raio material as well as in other matters—but ex cept gold it appears that there is but little if any thing else desirable iu California for the emi grant. Neither climate, the fertility, or the capabilities of this country are atall of such a quality as to seduce many, it is to b^ hoped, from the palmier advantages of old Georgia.— Southern Recorder. San Francisco. California. ) July Ist, 1849 5 Col. H. P. Watson.—Dear Sir: Afteralong and tiresome trip we reached this place on the 13th of June, and had I known the hardships attending it I think I would be now in Tallade ga ; but 1 ought not to complain, for when I look hack at my journey across the Isthmus. I am thankful to God that my situation is as it is. While I enjoyed good health, I found many others sick—some of whom died 1 am very much disappointed iu the character of this country, the climate, &.c. it has been represented to be (he finest country and climate in the world, and I find it to be everjthi: g to the contrary. California, as 1 have seen it. is nothing but mountains of the highest and rugj gedest kind. The climate! oh! if you were here, my friend ! The wind blows a perfect hurricane from ten in die morning until twelve o’clock «at night; and it is so cold that I can’t get clothing enough to keep me comfortable.— The only truth you have had from this country is in regard to the. amount of gold. When 1 left home half had not been told I have seen plen ty of men here, who had been on the mines from five to six weeks and made from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars. If a hand will work half of his time he will .average thirty dollars a dny -. It is two founUrrd nrrtt wi'rty milt-*: t .» i; hu best mines from SanFFranciscao —a hundred and ninety by water and the remainder ly land.— There is no difficulty in getting there. This place is dull at this titpe. Every man that can lias gone to the mines. The sickness commen ces about the middle of this month “in the diggins.” The miners will move to this place and remain until the first of October. Notwith standing the high prices (hat are paid for labor here, very few do anything but gambling. It is an ev» rv day occurrence to see a rough shod customer come in with a buckskin bag on his back full ol gold, and lose from five hundred to ten thousand dollars before he gits up. This is not hearsay—l have seen it myself. The principal game here is “Monte.” 1 have a good chance to make money, and will remain here all winter. Yours truly, John Dunahoo. The. llritish and the Chinese.— There is a prospect of some trouble at Canton between the Brni-h and Chinese, growing out of the re fusal of the latter to comply with one of the treaty stipulations of 1847. which fixed the sixth day of August. 1849, lor the opening of the gates of Canton to foreigners. The period wa< designated two years in advance in order that i ithe meantime the Mnnadarins and other official.-' . 'Jit influence the people to acquiesce in the nriang jnent But when the day arrived the popular repugnance was as strong as ever, and the Emperor directed that the gates should not be opened. 'J’he British Governor was unwilling to em ploy force on the occasion, hut issued a public notice to his countrymen, that as the Chinese Governor had declined to open the gates of Canton, as had been agreed upon, British sub jects were directed not to attempt, for the pre sent, to enter the city. The Chinese exult in their fancied victory, and are insolent accord ingly. The British Government, it is said, have the matter under consideration, and will soon de cide whether to use force, or have recourse to further negotiation, for the purpose ofsecuring the fulfilment of the treaty, in view of the character of the Chinese who are prone to arro gance when they think that an adversary is in timidated. and who have no regard for good faith ifthey can deceive with impunity, the pro bability of a peacefal attainment of the end aimed at bv the British Goveruthent is very slight indeed. Nor w ill it do to remain quies cent under the refusal of the Chinese to fulfil the stipulation in question. A failure to notice this affront must inevitably provoke new in sults; for the Chinese will be prompt enough to go on from one degree of insolence to anoth er when they find that the first has been suffered to pass w iihoii: rebuke Destructive Flood in Upper Georgia.— The Rome Rulletin says : “ A most destructive flood occurred in Silver Creek iu this county on Thursday evening last. •• It is impossib e to make any thing like a correct estimate of tbe damage done. All the fences on the bottoms were carried away, and ’hundreds of acres of corn and cotton either wholly destroyed, or left without protection from the ravages of the stock. The dwelling house of a Mr. Barden, together with his workshop, were swept away, with every thing in them— the family not being at home. The carding mill ami saw mill of L Barnet, Esq., were wholly washed away and his flouring mill much damaged. The bark house was washed off, and several of the vats emptied of their con tents. The Baptist church on the creek was moved a considerable distance. The grist and saw mills of Jonas King were carried away, and the new gin factory of A. D King with all the machinery, some twenty new gins, and all the lumber and stock on hand, were swept off. So rapid was the rise that little or nothing could be saved from any of the buildings car ried away. The water is said to have risen fifteen feet in that many minutes, and in all. some ten feet higher than it has been known tor many years. It never was known to be so high by many feet. •’The loss ot A. D. King is estimated at from twelve to thirteen thousand dollars. He was an industrious and enlerprizing mechanic, and his loss embraces nearly every tumg that he was worth upon the earth.” Results of Emancipation.—The steamer Great \X estern at New York, brings Bermuda dates to the «th in&t. The following paragraph exhibits the resuk of the recent emancipation ot the blacks in the French Islands: from the french. Islands— We continue to receive sad accounts of factious tumults, assas sinations, burnings, and every ingredient of a general slate us anarchy and confusion. Gov ernor Bruat was still absent from Martinique, having gone to the principal theatre of popular discord, the island of Ggudaloupe. where a des perate conflict continued to be maintained be tween the Bissettists and the Schoelcherists. Ihe result v: the Gaudaloupe eiections was not known in Marfin que three dars ago. Onlv the votes ot tea. out ot the thirty communes of the colony, had been announced, and that ver bally by tiie master of a small vessel which ar rived on the 2?th uit. who also stated that the votes upto his departure from Basseterre gave a majority of 1000 to the Montagne party. 51M. Scher cber and Ferriuon. over the Moderates. MM. Bissetfe and Mondesir R.chard. Five estates had been fired at Gaudaloupe. al the suspected instigation of tne Schcelcher ' ist faction. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22. I ST). From the Savannah Republican, loth inst. Adjourned Railroad Meeting. According to adjournment, the meeting of the citizens of Savannah favorable to the con struction of a Railroad from the Central Road through Burke County to Augusta, re assem bled at the Exchange Long Room 14th August. 1849, at 12 M.—the Chairman and Secretary of previous meeting in their places. Charles F. Mills, Esq., Chairman of the Com mittee of Twenty-Five, submitted the follpw -1 * n B report: The Committee of Twenty-Five, appointed to can vass the city and obtain subscribers to the Burke county and Augusta Railroad, have performed the duty assisted them, and beg leave to hand as their Report— Ten Lists of Subscribers, on which Shares are taken to the amount of One Hundred and Ten Thousand Five Hundred Dollars. This amount would doubtless have b°en largely in creased, but for the absence from the city at this time of many of our enterprising, and not a few of our wealthy citizens. Your Committee would congratulate this meeting on the flattering success they have met. with. Such, in fact, as to place the completion of the Road at an early day beyond the reach of contingency. Chas. F. Mills, Chairman. Savannah, August 14,1549. Dr. J. F. Posey offered the following, which was unanimously adopted : Resolved. That the report of the Committee of Twenty-Five be accepted, with the thanks of this meeting, for their pro nptness and assiduity. Mr. Mills also stated that a circular letter had beeti addressed to a number of the enterpris ing and wealthy citizens of Savannah, from many of whom it was believed subscriptions would be obtained, thus adding considerably to the list and amount of subscriptions. On motion of F. 8. Bartow, Esq., it was— Resolved, That the lists be left with the sub-Com mittees for such further additions as can be made, and that a copy of the same be made out and fur nished to the Delegation to the Burke county meet ing. On motion of C. A. L. Lamar. Esq., it was— Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a Commit, roe of Three to t-ansinit' the action of this and the preceding meeting to the Mayor of Augusta, and the President of the Georgia Railroad Company, and ask their co-operation. The Chairman appointed the following as the Committee: William Duncan, John Stod dard, and C. A. L. Lamar. Octavus Cohen, Esq., offered the following, which was adopted— Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting and the one of which it is a.i adjournment, be laid be fore the Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah, asking a confirmation by them on behalf of the City of the re quest and authority f»r a subscription to the contem plated work of $200,000. The list was added to by persons present and others not embraced in the report, making an aggregate subscription of sll2 600. There having been no further business be fore it, the meeting adjourned. R. WAYNE, Mayor, Chairman. Edward J. Harden. Secretary. Whig Meeting in Scriven. In accordance with a resolution passed ata previous meeting, the Whig party of Scriven assembled iu the Court House at Sylvania, on the first Tuesdav in August inst.. when on motion of W. J. Mauer, Esq., Dr. Robt. Wat kins Lovett was called to the chair, and Capt. Robert F Jackson appointed Secretary. The Chairman briefly explained the object of the meeting, alter which on motion of E B- Cross, tiie Chair appointed a committee of five, con sisting of iMessrs. E B. Cross, John D Deu ton, W. J. M iner, Green D Sharpe and Si meon D Conner, to draft a set of resolutions for the consideration of the meeting The 1 Committee retired for ashort time and through 1 the Chairman then submitted the following re- 1 solutions which were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the “ Whig Convention,” in nominating the Hon. E. Y. Hill, as the Taylor can didate for Governor, have selected a man whom we consider eminently qualified to discharge the duties of that important station, with credit to himself and ; honor to the State—than whom no man would have been personally more acceptable to the Whig party . of Scriven. Resolved, That we cordially approve of the entire action of the Whig State Convention. Resolved, Tnat we view the Resolutions passed at the late “ State Democratic Convention," censur ing General Taylor, and advising and inciting the people to opposition to his administration, as the last resort of disappointed politicians, intended only for political effect; and evinces a fixed determination on the put of the op;>osition to defeat Gen. Taylor’s administration, at all hazards. Resolved, emphatically, That our faith in Gen. Taylor’s ability to carry on the affairs of the Govern ment sucosfully is unshaken; that we have an abiding confidence in hi> patriotism and sterling cha racter, not to be affected by the paltry resolutions that may be passed against him by Democratic con ventions. H’e believe in the man ! Resolved, That we approve of the nomination of Thomas R. Hines, Esq., by the Senatorial Conven tion, for candidate for Senator for Effingham and Scrivrn, and would assure our Effingham friends that we will use all honorable exertions to secure his election. On motion the meeting then went into a nomination for a candidate to represent the people of Scriven in the ensuing Legislature. Several gentlemen were proposed whose names were run in nomination. On the first ballot Mr. Jefferson Roberts was duly nomi* tinted- as the candid aLa of Party of Scriven. Ou motion of Mr. E B Cross, Mr. Jefferson Roberts was then nominated by ac clamation. Mr. Roberts being present was called upon and accepted the nomination, when it was Resolved, That these proceedings be published in the Whig pipers of Savannah and Augusta. On motion the meeting then adjourned. ROBERT WATKINS LOVETT, Ch’n. Robert F. Jackson. Sec’ry. Proclamation of the President. Baltimore. Aug. 14.—The following Proc lamation was received at Washington on iMon day, from Harrisburg: Official* By the President of the United States. .4 Proclamation.— There is reason to believe that an armed expedition is about to be fitted out in the United States with an intention to invade t.ie Island of Cuba or some of the Pro vinces of Mexico. The best information which the Executive have been able to obtain, points to the Island of Cuba, as the object of their ex pedition. It is the duty of this Government to observe the faith of treaties and prevent any aggression by our citizens upon the territories of friendly nations. I have, therefore, thought it necessary and proper, to issue this Proclamation, to warn all citizens of the United States, who shall con nect themselves, with an enterprise, so grossly in violation of our law and our treaty obliga tions. that they will thereby subject themselves with heavy penalties announced against them by our acts of Congress, and will forfeit their claims to the protection of their country. No such persons must expect the interference of this Government in any form in their behalf, no matter to what extremelies they may be re duced in consequence of their conduct and en terprise. To invade the territories of a friend ly nation, set on foot and prosecuted within the limits of (he United States, is in the highest degree criminal, as tending to endanger the peace and compromise the honor of this nation; and therefore, ail good citizens, as they regard our national representation, as they respect their own laws and the laws of nations, as they value the blessings of peace and the welfare of their country, should aid to discountenance and prevent, by all lawful means, any such enter prise. And I call upon every officer of this Go vernment. civil or military, to use all efforts in his power to arrest fortrial and punishment every such offender against the laws providing for the performance of our sacred obligations to friendly powers. Given under my hand, the lllh day of Au gust, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty nine, and seventy fourth v ear of the independence of the United States. Z. TAYLOR. | By the President. J. M. Clayton. Secretary of State. Distinguished Visitors.—His Excellency George W Towns and his friend, one Hon. Edward Y. Hill, paid ns a visit last week. The Governor seems to be very much concerned about the welfare of the people here. This is his second visit to Dalton, within the last three weeks. Go it Governor, there is nothing like polite attentions even if you are a candidate. Judge Hill spent two days here and in the vi cinity. and went down on the cars yesterday morning, in pursuit of his Excellency. who left a day or two ahead of him. The Judge ap pears to be in fine training for the race in Oc tober, and we have no doubt he will distance the ’artful dodger.” Hon Robt. Toombs. Hon. H A. Harralson. Hon Thos. C. Hacket, Asbury Hull. E*q.. Hon. Nathan C. Sayre, and other distinguished citizens of Georgia, visited the Tunnel last week, and spent a day or two in our town. — Dalton Eagle 14tA. The Union professes to be glad that General Taylor has undertaken his Northern tour. If we could "for a moment connect party politics with the visit of the Chief Magistrate to the States north of the Potomac, we. for a dif ferent reason from that given by the Union, would be glad 100. To increase Gen. Taylor’s popularity it is only necessary that he should be seen and known. The honest people of the country when they converse with him will see (he gross injustice that has been done, to him in the attempt to represent him as deficient in common sense. They wi.i find him to be a man after their own hearts —plain, sociable, sensible and full of patriotism and love of coun try. Thus finding him they will piace confi dence in his judgment and integrity He will make friends wnerever he goes, and disarm the resentments of his political opponents. — Alex. Gazette. A Powerful Locomotive. —The directors of the Nas.ua and Concord Railroad have re cently put upon their road a powerful locomo tive. calied the General Stark built at the Man chester machine shop—being one of the first ever constructed by tnat company. This loco motive. it is said, recently run, with nine long passenger cars attached. eighteen miles m twenty-seven minutes. The Debt of Great Britain.—From a parliamentary return obtained by Mr. Hume, it appears that the total amount of the public debt on the sth of January. ]'29. was $777,- 476.591, and on the sth of January. 1'49 £774. 922.63?, showing a reduction of £3 454.254. The annual charge is now £27.699 740, a decrease of £672,402 compared with 1549. CAiigusta, @eo.: FRIDAY MORNING. AUG. 17, 1849. Manufnctures vs. Planting. However well convinced we are of the im* i menseand patient labor required to change the long established habits of a whole people, yet we are net disposed to weary in well doing— we shall not falter in the good cause of persuading the people of the South to di vert a portion of their labor to the manufacture of their great staple and the development of their other large resources; and we trust our readers will not permit themselves to grow tired of our repeated and continued reference to the subject. We have before and frequent ly discussed the subject, with reference to its profits pecuniarily, its blessings in affording profilable employment to the poor,—securing a higher standard of comfort among the laboring classes—offering to the poor children of the State greater facilities for an education, eleva ting the standard of public morals, by enlight ening the public mind and promoting and ad vancing the happiness and prosperity of tbe whole people. It is, however, our purpose now to introduce a comparison between man ufactures and cotton planting, instituted alone with a view to exhibit the respective profits of these two classes of industry. This compari son has been made by Charles F. James, au tor of a work entitled,^'Practical hints on the comparative cost and productiveness of the culture of cotton, addressed to the South.” The author is a practical man, who has been connected all his life wif» and is now o pe of a compaOjV on a large cauon factary ak-G«uneu <*«, Ifid: Ills state ments, says an intelligent planter, who dreads to abandon the Cotton field, will “startie most of our Southern planters who have acted upon the principle of buying ne groes’o make cotton, and miking cotton to buy more negroes. Independently of the po rtion! considerations that urge us to manufac ture the cotion and woollen goods that we con sume, Mr James proves most conclusively, that $ 10,000 invested in maaulacturing estab lishments. will yield a larger profit than $24,- 000 invested in planting.” With these remarks we beg leave to intro duce the extract from the works, of Mr. J.: “A gentleman well versed in the statistics of cot ton growing in the finest cotton regions of the south west, has calculated that, to supply cotton for a mill of 10 000 spindles, say 1,800,000 pounds per annum, would require the product of ten of the best planta tions in the country, which with their slaves and fix tures, would be worth 573 a .000. The product, as above, would amount to 81U8,090; from which, de duct the cost of operating, such as overseers, materi als, carriage?, &c., which he estimates at 828.000, and you leave to the planters, 330,000. The mill to manufacture this c« tton will cost, with all its ma chinery complete, 8210,000. and require a working capital of 810,000—or say the entire capital, inclu din'* mill and machinery, would, at the outside, be $250,000. To manufacture the above amount of cotton into sheetings of one yard in width, of the fineness of No. 14, will cost, including the cost of the cotton, steam power, transportation, insurance, labor, and in fact, every item of expense, a little short of $232,000 ; to which add 15,000, the interest of the capital, at six per cent, per annum, and you have the entire cost ofmanufacuiring tbe above 1,600,000 pounds of cot ton This cotton will make 4,500,000 yards of cloth ; which, at 7| cents per yard a low price, by the way, will be worth $337,500, leaving a balance after hav ing paid every expense, of about 3106,000. Thus, you see, by the labor of 275 operatives, mostly wo men, girls, and boys, there will bn cieated, actual wealth to the amount of 106 000, from 1,800 000 pounds of cotton, besides the amount paid to them for labor. To produce that the same cotton worth in market SIOB.OO I, required the labor us no less than 600 able bodied hands, besides one half that number of horses and mules. The capital employed to pro duce this result, is 8738,000. The manufacturer’s capital is but 3250,000, If, therefore, the planter could by any means remove these plantations into one ol the New England States, with all their slaves, fix tures, and they should continue tj produce cot ton as abundantly as on the Mississippi «>r Tombigbee, though now nominally worth towards a million of dol lars, the owner of the cotton mill which cost but 8259.000, would not exchange it for them, and would evidently be a loser by the bargain if he should. — This will at once appear obvious, when we state that, over and above the cost of working the plantations al ready named, there would be expended for overseers, &r 329.000 m »re; an<! reducing the net income to BSB.OOO less, by 318.000, than the net product of the cotton mill. Under these circumstances, the mill owner would much rather keep his mill, and employ his hired operatives that to take in exchange the plan tations with their slaves.” The intelligent reader versed in the business of cotton planting need not be told that this comparison is entirely too favorable for the average planting interest. Mr. J. estimates that 600 hands will make 1,800,000 lbs. of gin ed cotton, which would lh-i. per hand —when in fact the average product of the country does not exceed'22so lbs. per hand, which wout<Freq»»ir« SOO hatrte to produce the cotton, thus augmenting the capital invested in planting so far as slaves are concerned 33| percent, which of coarse renders the portion of profits much greater, and in favor of manufacturing. On the other hand Mr. J. has not taken into tbe estimate of the profits of the planter the increase iu his slaves, which may perhaps be equal to 10 per cent, y't the profits of manufacturing are greatly superior to those of planting. Rather Pointed Questions* The Journal Messenger propounds to the Southern Banner the following rather pointed questions—which we opine the Banner will find it rather perplexing io answer: “ Ki f|> your temper, Mr. Banner; we are not half done with you yet. Will you pleuseWnfoim the pub lic why the late Democratic Convention adjourned wiihout passing any distinct resolution, declaring the H innot Proviso unconstitutional/ Was it be cause y>»u and your Free Democrats stood ready to vote it down ? If so, come out manfully, and ac knowledge the corn.” We wish no quotations from Shakspeare—no attempts at an imitation of father Ritchie, but a simple, plain, common-sense narrative ol facts. W e wans facts, and not fustian. We want the Banner to depart from its usual course, am! give the leason why the late Democratic Convention so shamefully slurred over the question of Southern rights The Doctors Don’t. Agree. A few weeks since one of those modern patriots who always affect such ardent love fur the people, assailed Judge Hill, because, as Senator in the Legislature, in 1837, he refused to violate his oath to support the Constitution, and vote $30,000 to defray the expenses of troops, (ordered out by the Federal Government.) from Cherokee to Florida. The editor of the Columbus Times, a “ dyed in-the-wool” Dem ocrat, seeing the communication, offers the following comments, which some small-beer politicians may profit by reading: “ e see iu some of the Democratic papers a com munication urging this vote of Judge Hill as an ob jection to him. We are sorry to § it—that vote was m accordance with Democratic principles and was riaht. It is not only improper, but it is bad policy’ for a party, professing to be governed hy, and to act upon principle, to attempt to enlist the feelings of any portion of the people against an opponent or any body else for acting in accordance with correct principles. “It is the interest and the duty of the Democratic party to endeavor io bring every man to consider cor rect principles, the only proper rule of action—to teach them to discriminate properly between shifts and expedients, and principle— to elevate them to shat point of virtue when they will b e not only willing but determine Ito do and sustain what is right although it tiny, for the present seem unpleasant or inconve nient.” A Balk of New Cotton, the first of the sea son in that market, was received in Macon on the 13th inst. from the plantation in Houston county, of Jno. B Ross. It was sold fur 10A cts and immediately shipped to New Y’ork via. Savannah on the Steamer Tennessee which sailed Wednesday. The first bale of new Colton received in Macon last year, was from the same plantation, and received on the slh of August. Alabama. —Cobb is re-elected in the Hunts ville District beating his opponent. Clemens, democrat, 600 votes. This is another discom fiture to the agitators, as Ccbb was opposed solely on the ground of his refusing to sign Calhoun’s address. North Carolin a. —The la-e canvass resul i ted in the election of the following members to Congress : ilhigs. I Democrats. Ist. Th L Clingman sth. A W. Venable. 2d. Jos P. Caldwell. 6th. J. R. J. Dwiel, 3d. Edmund Deberry th. W. S. Ashe, 4th. A H. Shepperd, I Sih. Edward Stanley, I ; 9ch. David Outlaw. | Cotton Crop.—Until within a few days ' past, says the Floridian Journal, as our ac counts heretofore, have shown, our planters were rejoicing in the prospectof a very fine crop. But since our last, we are told that there has been a great, almost a magical, change in their fields. The excessively hot weather which prevailed for several days after the heavy rains, has stripped their cotton of a large portion of its forms, and the stalks in ma nv places are almost bare of fruit except that which has already matured, called the bottom crop. The showers for a day or two past, may arrest the further falling off*, but these came too late to save any thing like a full crop. We have been told also that a few caterpillars. Ihave been seen. If they should come now in ny large numbers, the crop will be cut very hurt. Fruit Culture—Sheep Xlusl>un<lr» &c* Editorial Correspondence of the Chronicle b; Sentinel Marietta, August 14, 1849. The coldness of the water in this village, in forms one Unit he is many hundred feet above the level of the ocean. This altitude gives to this region important agricultural advantages, to which it may not be amiss to call public at tention. There are thousands of citizens in Georgia who lack the capital necessary to plant cotton to the best advantage; and who yet have the mean's required to raise any reasonable quantity of good marketable apples, pears and other valuable fruits. Some of my readers will doubtless regard fruit-cult ire in Cobh county as a small business. They little appre ciate the cheapness with which five or ten thou sand bushels of apples may be grown on a small farm, where the climate and soil are adapted to the apple tree; nor do they under stand the fact that, for making pork and as an article ol human food, good apples are exceed ingly valuable. They are worth nearly as much for making beef, bushel for bushel, as potatoes, as long experience has demonstrated. Supply all the lower country from Columbus to Charleston with choice winter apples and pears, at a cheap rate, and the consumption will be enormous. Our friends in the up country must learn how to raise these fruits, before they can make the business profitable. I have not seen or been able to find the first sound apple tree in Georgia. All are attacked by one or more species of insects. The most common and destructive is the cotton aphis (aphis lana ta) which causes those large, wart-like, bl ? R; excrescences spen on apple trees ; ibis and generally itt the South- ' Th<se’shijalcp b;f well scraped, and the whole trunk of the tree whitewashed with lime. The soil, as far as the roots extend, should also be well limed. One half of the ash from the wood and bark of this tree, is nothing but lime. This clearly indi cates the importance of adding this alkaline mineral to the soil where apple, and I will add, pear trees grow. Judicious trimming is hard ly less important. But my present purpose is not to enter into details (which will be found in the Southern Cultivator,) but to allude to several branches of farming particularly adapt ed to this section of country. The writerhappens to know that wool-grow ing is profitable in Vermont and New York ; and he believes that it can be made still more so in northern Georgia. White and red clo ver, timothy, herds grass, blue and orchard grass, are the proper food for sheep and other doinestjf animals. Sheep in Vermont eat more of white clover than any other one plant. To give a dense carpet of this sweet food over the surface of the earth, one has only io sow the seed, and apply a top dressing of lime every five or six years. This fertilizer is indispensa ble to thick, rich pastures of any kind. Wood ashes are also very valuable to bring clover and timothy. Men of small capital can start the business of stock-raising and wool-growing; and by so doing, they will soon add millions to the annu al income of the Stale. After one gets good tame grasses in abundance, he will find that sheep and neat cattle will multiply rapidly in his hands, if he takes proper care of them. The first step is not to purchase stock sheep and cows, but to make one or two hundred acres of tame pastures and meadows. Pro vide a generous supply of food, and then get animals to con-ume it. Everywhere I see too little provision for domestic animals, to have them truly profitable. Farmers who under stand wool-growing, never depend on wild grass for their sheep. Give them clean ranges and fresh, sweet herbage, water, tar and salt. A flock in Cass county has’been much improv ed in four weeks by the owner following the directions given by the writer to cure them of the distemper. They are in a field of clover, and will clip next spring an average of seven pounds of washed wool a head. A flock of 1000 could be made to de as well. It is court week at Marietta, and both candi dates for Governor arc here. The friends of Judge Hill are in fine spirits. That gentle man labored so faithfully to advance the inter ests of this section iu urging forward the Stale Railroad that many of his political opponents will vote for him at the approaching election. It I am not mistaken, the improvement, build ing-up, policy is gaining in popular favor in this part of the State. The hope of Georgia rests on the triumph of this continuetive system, in opposition to one which is essentially de structive in its tendency. The Whigs have a candidate worthy of their zealous support; and a cause which claims the best efforts of ev ery conservative man in the State. Radical ism is making greater inroads, even at tiie South, than those who mingle little with the masses are aware of. Looking at the great in terests of the Union, as well as of this common wealth. it is highly important that the world see Georgia standing firmly in support of a South ern President, at this critical juncture in our national and social affairs. If the electors of this State do not hold the balance of power in great and weighty questions of public concern ment, they come very near it. Without Geor gia, the present administration will be at the mercy, in some degree, of the most ultra Free Soil Democracy, under the lead of Benton, Van Buren and company. Will the people of this State play directly into the hands of their worst enemies by the force of mere parly ties and names ? I trust not. L. A Young American Artist* The accomplished New Orleans correspon dent, “ Nota Bene, ” of the Concordia Intelli gencer, takes the following notice of a young Artist in that city, who seems to be making his way to fame: “A young sculptor, Mr. Win. Forshey, formerly known in your vicinity as a painter, is attracting much attention here. He has executed, in marble, a bust of Macready so bold, and life-like, so remark able for truthfulness and finish, for character and ex pression, so indicative of the wierd power of genius, •that the best judges bonder where this new chisel could have sprung iirom, or how it could have labored here hitherto unnoticed. Although among his first at.erupts, it is pronounced a master piece. He has since executed busts of Dr. Hu. Kennedy, Mr. Mc- Murdo, Mr. Fitzpatrick and other citizens, that ex hibit rare talent indeed. He works with surprising rapidity, and his conceptions seem born at a s*ngle glance, vet so true to nature that no one can mistake them. There is no exaggeration in this. I have been repeatedly in his studio, and those who are competent to >udge tell me that this young artist, should he live and have opportunity for study, will take rank with the best masters. And yet here be is, almost un known —struggling with poverty —toiling obscurely without materials, models or instructors, when he should be in Italy cultivating a genius, thal may one day illustrate the annals and immortalize the great men of our country. We are lamentably deficient in the appreciation of art. We lavish honors and garlands and eulogies on the dead. We buy at high prices the productions « f the student after he has gone down to his early tomb. We even adopt our artist cuuntrvmen after they have found their way to En gland, and been patronized by the Queen or by one of her noble Dukes. Bat until this aristocratic stamp has been put on him. or the darkness of tbe grave has closed around him, the most brilliant genius hair, in this country, scarcely a chapce of recognition.— Poverty is bis companion—debt and disease his pat ron?. There is a heartiesaneaß, a toadyism in this, unbecoming the citizens ol a great Republic, an insti tution of government, in all ey» s ol tbe world —most favorable to the fine arts, and, in every instance but ours, celebrated for the honors and emoluments bes towed upon the artist. This sordid, vulgar, merce nary spirit si ould be extinguished, and another more consistent with our national grandeur br ak forth. Where could it dawn more properly and brightly ihan here in our own ci'y. tbe seat of eloquence, the entrepot of a mighty empiie, the home of the mer chant prince, the scene of a military triumph unpre cedented in history, the child ot chivalric France, cradled by romantic Spain, and nursed into maturity and grandeur by a new and stalwart race, sprung Irom the old Saxon, and lull of the poetry am> phi losophy. the feeling and fervor, the morality and love cf freedom that Lave dwelled ever in the o-d forests of Germany, and are now burning there, on a thou sand alurs and battle-fields, with a divine and inex tmg'iiahablc light!” The same writer thus disposes of the car ping demagogues who, with the hope us ma king a little political capital, assailed the Presi dent for recommending a National Fast: “The attacks on Gen. Taylor for appointing or re rommending a national fast, are in bad taire. 'Y e are not a ni’ion of devotees, bit a strong religious j-eutiment pervades this country. The foundati- not our prosperity is laid deep in the morality of the bible. There is no country where sectarians have so little ■ :nffuence, vet atheism, deism or even scepticism are : unknown here, except in isolated cases. The gene- I ral sentiment of the nation is reverence for religion, | and respect for its professors. Gen. Taylor has only . maniiested his respect for this national feeling. It re- I quiied no examinations of the constipation—no con | saltation with lawyers or politicians—he consulted h:s own heart, and saw’ it was right and proper, that, lin view of the scourge which is de-olating our coun try, a great people, signally blessed, should hurnble . themselves in prayer and implore tbe Divine Mercy.” Aristocratic inhumanity is strikingly exem plified n an affair which has just come to light. Lastyear. when the Sultan of Turkey subscrib ed £IOOO for the relief of the famine in Ireland, he proposed to give £IO.OOO, but the English Ambassador suggested to him to give the small er sum. as Queen ¥ictoria only gave £2OOO. StatisticH of Columbia. County* We are indebted to the Tax Collector for the following statistics of Columbia county for 1848 : Bales Cotton 12,805 Bushels Corn 382,725 “ Wheat 11,987 “ Oats 62,494 “ Rye 618 ‘ Barley- 200 •jullons Distilled Spirits 1,000 Head Horses 1 old “ Mules };214 “ Neat Cattle 12'902 oheep ••• 8126 Pounds Purk killed 1,642.639 Feet sawed Lumber, 050 000 JAMES KNOX, R.T. R. The subjoined returns from the several coun ties have been forwarded to the Editors of the Southern Recorder: Cherokee County. Number of Merchant Mills 4 “ Sheep Male Colts 45 “ Horse “ 126 “ Beeves killed 102 Pounds Pork killed 972 200 Bushels of Irish Potatoes 3 8?5 “ Sweet “ 36*650 ‘ Rye, ...a 354 “ Wheat, 26,051 “ Oats 35,069 “ Corn 314,030 Bales of Cotton 1(;8 Glynn County. Barrels of Syrup 105 “ Sugar 1,099 Bushels of Peas 3 815 “ Potatoes, 27,120 “ Corn 44.165 “ Rice 91,416 Bales Cotton 1519 JAMES MYERS, R. T. R. Putnam County. 1 •EyXmj es tJott.iiifc. « . • ■ 1 Barrel? of Corn ... 7 .; • Bushels of Wheat- 12.931 “ Oats 37,726 “ Rye 587 ‘‘ Barley 567 “ Sweet Potatoes 63,310 “ Irish “ 3,483 Pounds of Pork 1,714,361 Horse colts raised 73 Mule “ 59 Lambs raised 1,553 Beeves killed 722 Merchant Mills 5 Factories 1 W. A. HOUGHTON, R. T. R. Monroe County. Number of Merchant Mills ••• 9 “ Sheep 8,817 *• Mules raised 69 “ Horses 115 u Beeves slaughtered 657 Pounds of Pork 2,873,552 Bushels of Irish Po’atoes 7,195 “ Sweet ‘‘ 137,750 “ Barley 475 “ Rye 967 “ Oats 72,842 “ Wheat 37,107 » Corn 531,917 Bags of Cotton 20,550 CAREY COX, Receiver. Lee County. Total Number Sheep 4,806 Stock Cattle 10 831 Hogs 24,931 Horses 906 Mules : 737 Mule Colts raised 18 Horse “ u 68 No. pounds of Pork 1,190,134 Bushels of Corn raised 322,8-5 Bales Cotton 8,758 Bushels Sweet Potatoes 58 669 Irish Potatoes 644 Bushels of Wheat 2,356 “ Oats 14,402 “ Ry® 297 “ Rice 162 Barrels Syrup 115 “ Sugar 23 The above is a true statement, WM. G. HEALD, R. T. R. Incidents of the St. Louts Fire, —The New Era rela es the following, among other incidents of the late fire in that city: There were no less than thirty kegs of pow der <»n the steamer Mary, at the commence ment of the fire. Knowing this fact, Mr. Lewis Brown, one of the pilots, descended into the hold, and threw all but one keg over board. thereby saving the lives, no doubt, of a number of persons. The keg exploded, and stunned several men in the vicinity. Mr. Brown’s disinterested daring and heroic con duct should not pass by unnoticed. 'l’he burning of some 500 live hogs on board the Mary was one of the most heart-sickening scenes witnessed at the fire. They were con fined on the main deck, principally on the after guard; and when the flames reached them, they kept up a piercing squeal which told plainly rheir suffering. About half of them were entirely consumed; the residue succeed ed in breaking over the pen into the river, and swam ashore. Many of them that reached the shore at points below the city, were so badly burned that they were killed in pity’a sake, as soon as discovered. Mr. VVilffairiT r HicTf.’^rTs?nD«-‘Fer»Tia“V« < fpT.- George Yount, were burned to death on board the steamer Algoma. They had retired to their state-rooms and were asleep live fire •broke out. The cabin boy of the boat states that he was awakened by the intense heat that pervaded the boat, and immediately rushed in to the main saloon. He there discovered Captain Yount and Mr. Finch The floor of the saloon was falling through, and for mutual safety they grasped each other’s hands. In this manner they succeeded in reaching the deck They then loosed hands, and Mr. Finch stated that he would take care of himself. He had barelv expressed himself thus, when the deck being no longer able to sustain them, it having been burned away, broKe through, percipita ting Capt Yount and Mr. Finch into the fiery element below. The b*>y not being near at the time, did not fall through. He instantly leaped overboard, and saved himself by swim ming. This undoubtedly was the course that Mr. Finch intended to pursue, he being an ex cellent swimmer, and although badly burned, still had confidence in his power to save him self. Circumstances alter Cases.—The follow ing (says the Washington Republic,) is an au thoritative statement of the opinions entertain ed by our political opponents twenty years a go, in regard to the removal and appointments from and to an office by an incoming adminis tration. It was made, it is true, when the po licy advocated and justified operated in favor of our opponents , but now, as it operates against them, why, circumstances alter eases—and principles, too, it would seem; and the policy is in their opinion nothing more than abomina ble proscription! Franklin Mills, (0.,) Sept. 9. 1829. “To reform measures, there must be a change of men." Without a chance of men, fraud cannot be punished ; delinquencies cannot be detected; unlawful allowances cannot be slop ped ; improper modes of doing business and irregular practices in office can never be cor rected. Do not all offices belong to the peo ple? What right have the incumbents to them more than others? No wrong is done to the mati who is removed, for he is deprived of no right. It is the duty of the President, and all others to whom tne people have entrusted the power, to remove their subordinates whenever they believe the public interest requires it So fascinating is power, and so corrupting the long possession of office, that I believe the chancesfor pure administration would bernuch greater, were a limit of eight or ten years pre scribed, beyond which no man shpuld be com petent to hold any of the subordinate offices at Washington. It is the policy of office hold ers to create an impression that their offices are ! private rights : that they are wronged when | removed : that they have a right to demand the i reasons for their removal, and have them for- i maily set forth When the people assent to a doctrine like this, you may bid farewell to all hope of reform, however great may be the a buses of our Government. We shall have clerks, auditors, comptrollers, registers, trea surers, and secretaries for life; bad customs will never be corrected : erroneous princi ples will prevail forever ; precedent will take the place of law; the official corps at Wash ington will govern the Union ; and if we do not have Presidents fur fife, we shall have en tailed upon us forever a succession from one office to another, preserving the unity of the official phalanx, and perpetuating all their o pinions and abuses. In my opinion, the peo ple have more cause to fear too few removals than too many. Amos Kendall. ExTRACT/rom a Speech of Benj. F. Porter, before the Students of Mercer U nicer situ, July 2uth. 1-49. • In this nation, where one general govern ment and many State governments. make up our system, it will always happen that, from lo cal attachments, our inclinations will be against the former. Out of this will arise perils, con stantly affectingthe unionoflhe States. Against anything like its violation. I wouid earnestly caution you. Ido not know how other men feel on tins question, but for myself, the older I the more I love the Union and (he Con stitution : and the more I abhor every act which may jeopard them. Isl would live most unhappily m life, and die with most mise erable reflections; isl woulu have my memo ry visited with a detestation in the enormity of which the treachery of Arnold would be for gotten, 1 would put forth my hand to make the country of Washington less national than it s. No, I love South Carolina, the State in which 1 was born—l love Alabama, to which I have given twenty years us my life ; but I love not less ardently the American Nation To the remotest periods, it is my first,my last wi.-h to know that its name will extend ; rising iu strength like those noble pillars, the work of generations long dead, which in the East, a midst crushed and broken temples, still mam tain their position, sublime amidst ruins, per- Ifect in their original architecture.” Father Mathew —About 20.000 persons have taken the pledge at Father Mathew s I hands, since his arrival in Boston. He has also administered it to many at Watertown and other neighboring places. Voi„LXin—NEW SERIES VOL. XIII—NO. 34. Augusta, ©a. SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 18,184:9. War of the Hunkers and Agitators. The indications of a revolutionary move ment among the “harmonious” democracy is becoming daily more apparent. Each faction is marshaling its forces for the onset. The chi valry wing, alias the agitators, seem determin ed to sink or swim with the great Agitator, and the old Hunker faction are equally resolved not to follow him who declared “ they were held together by the cohesive power of the puMfc plunder. ’ We admire the spunk of the latter (although it is a contest in which we care little who triumphs,) and cannotforego the pleasure of laying before our readers’ the following spe cimen from their chief organ, the Athens Ban ner. It seems that some of the chivalry wing, in their anxiety to rule or ruin, have deter mined upon trying what effect a discontinu ance of the paper would have, whereupon the editor waxes warm, and threatens retaliation and eternal hostility to Calhoun and his entire faction now, henceforffi and forever. How ever. that no injustice may be done we give the article entire. Here fc is: Cathounism.— We have recently received two let ters, one from Doct. Joseph J. Singleton, and one from E. H. Wingfield, both of Lumpkin county, ordering the Southern Banner to be discontinued, and assign ing as the sole reason therefor, the course of the Banner towards Mr. Calhoun. If this be the game that Mr. Ca‘.,oun’s special friends desire to play, they must recollect that it can be retorted upon them.— The opptmen's of Mr, Calhoun can withdraw their patronage irom the Calhour*' journals, and w©. wist figfitjihem to their hea. content, is jjs ’’aiu. ihat ( nun-ft 1 th* v<ry gress over ihe ici tifjorie®, and his former doctrines I may be retorted U (M> him. Independent of this; he I never was and never wilt be a democrat— he dis claims the name of “ democrat"— and looks upon the rule ol the majority even in the slate governments as despotic. He has done more to drag the demo cratic party down within the last few y*ars than all the Whigs in the Union. He has attacked Mr. Polk for signing the Oregonbill, and putsarguments in die mouths of the Whigs, which we hear repealed daily and hourly by them. He opposed the admin istration on the Mexican war question, and it had to conduct the war in the very teeth of his opposition. He was a Taylor man in the beginning and almost to the close of the last canvass, and if he ever consent ed to support Gen. Cass, he was literally whipped in by the State of South Carolina. His speech al Charleston upon his return from Congress was caught at by the Whigs, and did more for the election of Gen. Taylor thin all their arguments. We have other objections to him as a leader, but no space at present to enlarge upon them. Suffice it to say, that he is radically unsound on the great principles of democracy. Since writing the above, the following portion of a violent assault upon the B anner in the Augusta Con stitutionalist of the 14th inst. has met our eye : “ In a spirit of forbearance the friends of Mr. Cal houn, and of the Southern Address in the late Demo cratic Convention at Milledgeville, who outnumber ed the Southern Banner clique, two to one, refrain ed from a direct vote, which would have shown the estimate in which Mr. Calhoun was held in Georgia.” We have no time at present to reply to the Consti tutionalist. But wc shall be ready for the war next week. We know too well the determined character of the Banner not to anticipate his return to his subjec* and his victims in his next number, with renewed energies and resolution to battle for his cause, which knows no faltering. But it seems his subscribers and the Constitu tionalist are not the only members of the fac tion who are endeavoring to pour a broadside into him. The Federal Union, rioting in a new-born zeal for Mr. Calhoun, has actually commenced “ sneezing when the South Caroli nian takes snuff,” and that veritable, truth loving organ has also joined in the hue and cry. Nothing daunted, the organ of the Hun kers turns upon him with a hyena like ferocity and gives it to him thus : Another Richmond in the Field.— We shall soon have the whole Calhoun fiction in Georgia down upon us. Tbe Federal Union came to us yesterday teeming with bile against the Southern Banner and those in Georgia who will not bow down as the serfs of Calhoun. Who and what is he to be made a test of democracy in Georgia—a term and creed which he is known to repudiate bothio profession and practice? The opponents of Ualhoun are threatened with pro scription—they are not to be supported by the Cal houn faction when they “ hereafter aspire to place and preferment.” Well gentlemen! we are rather of opinion we can give you as good as you send—lor we shall take good care “hereofter" that no friend o! Calhoun shall ever receive our support. We will see you out in this game, play it when you may. The Federal Union tells us; “ It is true that Mr. Calhoun’s public career is not without its inconsistencies and errors. It is also true that he professes to belong to neither party.” We are sick of ‘ no-party” men—it is disgusting to attempt to palm another humbug upon us, and set him up as the standard bearer of the democratic This is aubut the Banner man, armed as he is, and ready to give each a thrust, will maintain his ground under sad reverses. _JHe is rtevntedJy -attached “ eternal principles of Democracy:” in common parlance, a “ dyed in the wool Democrat," and he is not disposed to see those who are only “ colored in the. yarn" officiating in the temple. We shall watch the progress of this war of the factions with no ordinary interest. lion. Albert Gallatin* The National Intelligencer in noticing the death of this distinguished patriot and states man, pays the following just and eloquent tribute to his memory : “ This venerable man, u hose health has long been feeble, and the news at whose dea h might at any moment have been expected, departed this life on Sunday last, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. “ lie has left behind him no wiser man, no purer patriot, no more enlightened, quick-sighied, and sa gacious statesman. His whole life, nearly, had been k-pent in the service of this his adopted country. But at no period of hife life had his intellect been more clear, devotion to his country’s welfare more fervid, or his pen distinguished by greater ability, than dur ing the latest years of bis life. Had he left no other evidence of his patriotic zeal, his profound wisdom, and his distinguished talent, than his papers on the Northwestern Bound try, on the Oregon question, and ou the Mexican war, they together would constitute a valid title to a renown more durable than monuments of brass or marble. « “We shall take an early occasion, from such ma teriuls as are within our reach, to prepare for publi cation a brief memoir of the life of this great m in, to whose memory we at least owe all honor and respect.” Tennessee.—The election for Congress has resulted in the choice of the following repre sentatives. The Whigs have only lost the Nashville District, in which they have a clear majority of 1200 to 1500. This has been the result of schisms in the Whig ranks. The Le gislature has been lost to the Whigs by the same cause. Will the Whigs of other States profit by the lesson ? Democrats. | H'higs. Ist. A. Johnson, I 2d. A. G. Watkins, 4th J. 11 Savage, 3d. J M. Anderson, sth. GW: Jones, | 7tn.M. P. Gentry, 6th. J 11. Thomas, | Hih.C. H. Williams. Btli. Andrew Ewing,* j 9th. 1 G. Harris, 10th. F I*. Stanton, | * Gain. Free Soil and Hunker Coalition —From a telegraphic dispatch in the Charleston Mer cury, we learn that the Free Seilers and Old lltinkers have coalesced, at lheir Convention in New York. Verily, the “ natural allies of the South" are very reliable about this lime. How long befoie we shall hear such journals as the Federal Union boasting of the soundness of the Northern Free Democracy on the sla very question? There will be a? much truth in the declaration now as formerly, and as much truth as usually finds a place in the editorials of that print. Hon. Martin Van Buren, Ex-President, has been appointed a delegate from Columbia county, N. Y-. to the Barnburner branch of the Convention at Rome, without the power if sub stitution. Tiie Philadelphia Sun says that the re-union between him and Mr. Marcy will doubtless be of the most friendly character ! Griffin.—The receipts of Colton at Griffin from Ist September, 1848, to Ist inst. were 50,749 bales. There is a rose bush flourishing near Bristol, Pa., known to be more than a hundred years old! Cotton' Culture in India.—The ship Ganges, from Cochin, the port of the district of Coimbatoire, has arrived at Liverpool wi;h a large shipment of cottons, grown on tiie ex perimental farm, under the management of Dr. White, at Durwar. Toe shipments com prise several different descriptions of cot’on iarm-gru wn New Orleans, of the crop of 1848-9; sample bales of Mexican cotton, and also farm grown Bourbon, together with the Ooparn cot ton These samples, which amountedl together io 871 bales, will be very iineresting"ecimens, inasmuch as they will show the results of dif ferent periods of sowing, and of various de scriptions of seed. Religious Revival. —Perhaps one of the most copious oul-pourings of the Spirit of the Almighty which has visited any place this year, has been experienced at Griffin during the lasi two months, and the work is still progressing We do not know the exact number which have been added to the different churches : bu: there has not been less than sixty in all; and many, who have been the subjects of the re'i val. have not yet attached themselves to any church. The whole may amount to a hundred •or more. This is a large number out of a population of not more than two thousand souls. — Griffin Jeffersonian, Itith inst. “Whig Convention* Ninety Five Mile Station, ? August 1 Ith, 1849. At a Convention of the delegates from the several districts of the counties of Burke and Emanuel, assembled at this place to nominate a candidate to represent the ninth Senatorial District in the next Legislature of Georgia. * On motion of E. B. Gresham, A. L. Kirkland was called to the Chair, and R. L. Lane re quested to act as Secretary. On motion of Jo seph B. Jones, Resolved, That where a distrjpt ie represented by one delegate, that delegate be authorized to casi the full vote of his district. On motion of James M. Royals, Res Ived, That the unrepresented districts be rep resented by delegates chosen by the convention from the citizens present of the respective counties, who are not representing any other district. On motion of H. J. Blount, R-.solved, That the convention now proceed to nom inate by ballot a candidate to represent the people of Burke and Emanuel counties in the Senate of the next Legislature : whereupon, the convention proceeded to the election, and on first balloting it appeared that Col. James Grubbs, receiving a majority of the votes of the convention, was declared the nominee. The following resolutions, offered by Gideon H. Kennedy, passed the Convention : Resolved, That this convention aedge themselves to support the nominee, and to use . honorable means to secure his election. On motion, the following gentlemen, viz : E. Byne, George S. J. Price, Dr. Gideon H. Kennedy and Benjamin L. Lane were ap pointed by the Chairman to inform the nomi nee of hia nomination and to request his ; ceptance., - , ' ‘ i’Lai *h«Xpr jceedii gR of this convenri >n in tne Chronicle \ S> ntiniM and K' pu’.»- and Savannah Republican. loir of E. A. Alien, E>q., the Con vention adjourned, sine die. A. L. KIRKLAND, Chairman. B. L. Lane, Secretary. The Papal Authority Proclaimed** On July 16th. last. Rome was again brought under the Papal sway. The yellow and white banner, emblazoned with the keys of St. Peter, was the day before hoisted before the Castle of St Angelo, and saluted by 100 guns, while the respect oflhe people was imperiously enforced by the ostentatious display of the whole French garrison. The notifications of the ceremony were characteristic of the sources from which they came. That of Gen. Oudinot announces that “ a solemn Te Deum will be celebrated at St. Peter’s on Sunday, the 15th July, to return thanks for the success of the French arms in Italy, and for the re establishment of the Pon tifical authority. ” Rather strange to invite the conquered party to return thanks for the success of the victors. The great piazza us St. Peter’s was filled with troops, and the church itself could not have had less than 5 or 6 000 soldiers in its ample nave and aisles. Oudinot, with a numerous and brilliant staff, arrived a bout 5 o’clock, and was received on the church steps by a complimentary deputation of eccle siastical dignitaries, who conducted him up to the high altar, and installed him in an eminent position previous to the commencement of.the Te Deum. .The fluty notes of the Papal choir, alternated with the clangor of mart'al bands, in wafting praises to heaven for the enviable restoration of priestly dominion, and the French troops went through the manoeuvre of kneeling to re ceive the benediction, as skilfully as if they had been born Romans. A Cardinal, either Tostt or Caslracane, read an address, to which the latter replied in terms of high commendation toward bis own troops, and concluded by cry ing, “ Viva I'ltalia ! Viva la religione ! Viva la Francia!” Shouts of applause followed this interlocution Political speeches, however, ap pear singularly out of place in St. Peter’s, and are, as such, deprecated by the priests them selves. While these rejoicings were going on, under the auspices of the French Generals and Car dinals, a numerous band of young Romans re paired to the gale of San Pancrazio, and visit ed the fatal scene of so many murderous en gagements, the graves of so many of their friends and companions in arms. They visited the principal repositories of the dead, as well as the church of St. Pancrazio. whey they chanted a miserere in honor of the departed. Many other persons, averse to the re-establish ed order of things, left Rome for the day, and two hundred carriages full went to Frascati alone. Rescue of American Sailors —We pub lished in a brief paragraph on Saturday the fact of a party of American sailors having b< en rescued by the U. S. ship Preble from confine ment in Japan. The following fuller account of the proceeding is from the China Mail: Baltimore American. The Untied States ship Preble has returned from Japan, whither she was despatched by Commodore Geisinger for the purpose of bring ing away some men nelonging to the Ameri can whaler Lagodu, Iu this Oiptain Glynn has succeeded, having rescued 13 of the wha ler’s who a year ago, at his own request, received his discharge from the Plymouth, whaler, and was put ashore at Matsmai. Shortly after iaud prisoner and conveyed to ■ Nanga./.k,, where ne and underwent frequent exanrFmSnons, wiihout being aware that for many months g number of his fellow-countrymen were confin ed within ashort distance of his cell. There he was occasionally visited by parlies of Japanese ; but being deprived of his books and of all ordinary sources of amusement, after acquiring a few words of the language, ho commenced schoolmaster, and was attended by a pretty large class of students in the English language. Neither Capt Glynn nor any of Ins officers or crew were suffered to land, but otherwise they received no insult or discour tesy; on the contraiy, everything they were supposed to want was tendered, but declined, solely because the Japanese would accept of no payment. The Preble also touched at L'W-choo, a most welcome visit to Dr. Bettle heiin, who continues to live there, free from any serious molestation; but from the fact that the Loo-chooans were very urgent that he should be taken away in the Preble, we im agine he is making no great progress in lheir good graces. State Revenue.—From a report lately made by the Auditor of M tssissippi, it appears that the whole revenue assessed in the differ erent counties for the year 1848, amounted to $442,715 27, of which amount $442 092 07 has been paid into the treasury—leaving oiiiy $623 20 uncollected. Stock in New York.—The N. Y. Courier and Enquirer, of Tuesday, says: 'The stock of cotton iti this port hap been recently taken, and found not to exceed 50.000 bales, a quantity con-iderably less than esti mated by the New York Price Current. In ibis quantity is included cottons held by specu lators, and on shipboard not cleared. Overflow of the Red River.— Great loss of Crops. Stock and property — The steamer J. T. Dosweli, Captain Kimball, arrived at New Orleans from Red River on the 11 th inst. She left Shreveport on the Bth inst. Captain K. confirms the previous accounts received of the great destruction to crops and property which the overflow of Red River has caused. He reports that at Shreveport the water was falling fast—that it wasata stand at Nachitoches —that the crops on :he river are totally destroyed by the overflow—that the water is from four to eight feet deep on a I the plantations between Shreveport and Nachitoches—that below on the Bondieu, the stock is neatly all destroyed. That there has been great destruction of pro perty at (irand Ecore, caused by the caving in of the Front street, together with some of tho warehouses —that Col. De Russy’s gin house fell in the river with about an acre of ground, ou Wednesday morning last—that Alexandria, still continues dry, protected by the levee which is only a few inches above the surface of the wa er—that the levee broke in three places below Alexandria ; and the river is two feet higher than it was during tho overflow of 1844 Great Family Gathering.—The descen dants of Richard Haven, of Lynn, are to have a great “family party” at Framingham, Mass., on the 30th inst. Five years since they had the second centennal celebration of the family, and it was then voted lhat a committee be raised to call the family together again in 1849 and this call is in consequence of lhat vote, and general desire on the part of the relatives to comply with it. At the meeting in 1844. some fiiteen hundred of the cousins dined together, and it is supposed th it a much larger number wiil meet at Framingham this month. An oration and other services proper to the occasion—to say nothing of a good dinner—wiil be furnished. The circular says, ‘ that a!l the family, and all those lhat are or that expect to be connected with it by marriage, are invited ” Comini'teea of reception and arrangements are formed, and every efforts will be made to accommodate the “ members of the family.” Discontent in the Chinese Empire.— There is a spirit ot discontent, a love of change, a feel mg of old partialities, springing -ip in the Chi nese Empire which will surprise us some fine morning in intelligence of the overthrow of the Tartar dynasty. China is on the verge us a poll ical revolution —a disruption of iu vast and distant provinces wiil be inevitable.— I'hroughout the extent of the Chinese Empire there is manifest a disposition and alacrity-in forming clubs and associations, a combination •>f force and union of sentiment which will not ne long without taking a more clear and deci sive course of conduct. The province of Can ton is ripe for rebellion; is ready to throw off the yoke; and the people would cheerfully avail themselves of any pretext to civil strife. An Antiquarian Indeed.—A gentleman of Savannah, who has been collecting autographs during twenty five years past, h :s now 35.0<>0 of them, valued at tiie saleable pric-j of c«299.- 000. They embrace tiie chirography of al the signers of the great Declaration ut Indepen dence; tiie framers of the ConstiJutiuu; all the Klugs of England, from Iltriry V if to this date; many English statesmen ol pa«t centu ries; besides Ko.-*citisko, Goethe, MuZ«it, Ko- Despierre, Munteaqujeu, Milton, and others of like eminence.