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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 183?-1864 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1850)
r 2 F y- Pl:?” 3 **-™? BY WILLIAM 8. JONES. Bering? &i~. Sa Wo£Kl.T iffIRO.VICLE AND SENTINEL » Is Published every Wednesday. ■AT TWO DOLLARS Pfiß ANNUM 3 l N AB y ANG B. ■ TO CLUB* or INDIVIDUALS Bending us Tsn B Da liars, SIX ccp?as of the Paper will be sent for one ■ year, thus furnishing the Paper at the rate of ■ SIX COPIES FOR TEK DOLLARS. ■or a free copy to all who may procure jivs sub- ■ asribere, anti forward us the money. C3RONICLS AND SENTINEL ■f DAILY AZCD TRI-WSEKLY, ™Ars also publlahcd at this office, nr.d mailed toaub at the following rates, ria.; Papbk, if sent by Brail* »««$7 per ennutn. ■ Papua 4 “ •* ft T3RMB OF ADVERTISING, ■ ImWmilt.—Seventy-fire cents per square (12 ■ liaes or less) for the first insertion, and Fifty cent B or each subsequent insertion. | ifer Sale. Jj FOR SALE, ONE OF THE best locations fora Physician in thv middle region of Georgia, in a pleasant Vconnfry village, with two Churches and an Acade ■ m y. surrounded by a dense and wealthy population, ■ and an area of twenty or twenty-five miles square, ■ with but cue competitor in ibe'practice. The im ■ provt ments comprise two acres of ground as neatly, ■ convenient anti comfortably improved as ■Tany p*rs6g or could desire, and within i few || the Ra>l Road. A bargain mav be - :Wh M SU S» »? C 711 H 3 H S o Ter f.r iFifty Thousand Acres sf the «aoit valuable Cation and Sugar LANDS ia -L» She Son*.hero States, part sf which i« nader ealtiva- This Land is situated io the Sauth-wesiern of Georgia, and ia Farida, locafien healthy Brad desirable, arfd will ba iwid in tracts es from two Mm nd red and ftfiy to six thousand ac.es Terms to purchasers. Per aav in onnati. n resardm? the tatha undcr*sgned. a; either Apalacnico- Florida, or Albany, Georgia. J e9 wXin SIMS, CHERVER & CO. || KOTICE * TTIF, sr;;SCR!S®R offer. forw-.w, ■gag_r.-- a valuable Pi AN CATION in Hal-'/® fix rai'ra southwest of Monroe, and -**- ra'iae north cf Social Circle, on big flat orchards, A?. Oa terms very low and ■cM..-unß«-2- q* io purcstef'ers. F.-rfurther imforma- enquire of the subscriber. JOHN SCOTT. B S—id Cixefe, 28th Sept., 1930. 01-wtf AP’D NEGROES FOR < SALE. ■vr>. THE WDSORIBKR offers for PLAN I’A HOM, lying on S a . van nah River, about seventeen miles be ■o A iga<t, adjoining lauds of Mcßean, Co., end B_--aor.<, cuntaic’ng fo..ticen hundred and ’.wrniy-fire of swaiop Lan I; about two hundred aod y-fiva acres of which are cleared, ‘he balance ticaberod with oak, ash, beach, cyprc-y hicke- Bry and poplar—to which is attached one hundred Beer* 3of Upland, with Improvements. The Rail ■Kez i from the Central Road to Augusta will run K through it. Also, Sixteen likely Negroes, Stock, &c. ■ Ano’her tract of Laud about six miles from Au* gust a, on the Savannah Road, containing one hun dred and twenty-five acres, a healthy location, good Dwellings and out houses. There is a good Peach Orchard on this place. 04-tw&wtf ROBERT V. HARRISS. VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. A&Mk THE SUBSCRIBER offers for sale 150 ACRES OF LAND, adjoining SjS and forming a part of the Village of So- cial .Circle. Sixty acres improved with a good two story Dwelling, (in town) new Kitchen and Smoko House, and edger comfortable buildings. A bargain will be soijpln the premises. uef V. H. CRAWLEY. Circle, March 5, 1860. wtf 1,100 ACRES BURKE LAND. Zfc* FOR SALE, the PLANTATION of R. G. J-.brival,situate in Burke conn jy* j n the neighborhood of Frfor*s Pond, •OQtaimog 1,100 acree, of which übont 400 are clear ed and in cultivation ; lh»> reineinder Woodland, onk and hickory, and pine land mixed. The Itnprove* meats agood, and the plantation in good repair. The terms will bo liberal. For further particulars, apply toD. B. II a dlev, Augusta, or the undersigned on the premises. jal2-wtf R. G. SHRIVAL. EAGLE HOTETu, MADISONVILLE, TENNESSEE. THE SUBSCRIBER takes pleasure in returning his thanks to his friends and f tbe public, for the very liberal patronage here tefvra extended to him. And having recently <m a proved aad extended his buildings so aa to afford the [ b «»t to almort any number of trav ellers and persons wishing boarding, he cor‘Mandy WWffA- 1 Fromua I‘iid off »nd *<’U furnnhcd. !la i. I «b>o well'prepared to take the best care of boreee, &c. Isuble l.rja an<! recure—careful and ettoitti.e «er j rents. In slto-t, the pretest attention will be paid, I and peine taken, to render nil comfortable wbo may I Mil at the Eagle Hotel. JOSEPH H. ROOD. I Marfibarilla, August 3, l? 50. ao3 wit | LI VERT STABLES, g MADISON, OEORGIA. ■ HhBRALL *■ HARRIS ■ f : -.A ke < leave to announce to jn. ■ lriu:;ds iu Madison and ■ -mBF. th a travelling Public gene- J2h-J?X ■ rally, that they have opened the above STABLbb, ]■ and that they intend tu keep as fine CARRIAGES, BL’GGICSnnd HORhES, ascen bo found in auy Stables—with careful drivers Citixens of MadisotP •nd strangers vlsitinz Medisnn, by coming to us will always find ready RCBon.modauoo, logo any where they wish on reasonable terms. Mndieon. Jan. 1859 ; A Female Teacher Wanted. TAKE CQARGB of a SCHOOL, in a JL family, first January next, who tn fully crinpe teut to teach the Esglish branches, for which liberal •ompenaatisn will be gives. Address the subscriber Bel Air Poet Ofice. ■27-w2m WILLIAM B. TINDALL. TO THS PUBLIC. ALL PERSONS ure hereby notified that SiTii V. Rcbkmts i> no longer our Agent te * nV bi.i. <-»■ wnatever fur us ; and all per* »«<ie .ndeited Georg >n Mnrb’e Manufacturing Hh Uont(Mti*, ei" -r *y notenr account, are notified not topev •aid Hutr.» any money, as we will rut «c --kaowlodg© anv such payment. ■ A. ATKINSON & GO. Hj Cherokee eo., A ii«. 31. ri-wjm Hickobt Flat, Cherokee co.. G»., ■ S» pt. 12, 1350. Mr. editor t—s if : I see in your paper a notice “To the Public” Iroxn A. Atkixsob A Vo., iu which they deciare mo ns longer tU' Agent. tia j M >uw the fact ia. if Mr-«ra. Atkin»on & jj* nru | bare paid mv jint dnea it,r sarvirca ,ej &licc the ■ ■« !•«•*«» slM>4er«m.!y tried to di , d ■ paMte mind sgamtt me, they would J owrti J. n , lßl ■ mor. <he chapter o. lht , !r own I ■ Um- uey may proceed to .»-e Sre whkb th . a!0 doors, acdshortly ar.nd that c J ■ o. re.dy toco.; upon me..., T!1 y KOBERTS K s’JU-wJm 9 FSNSIOK6 ® OUNTY 2 6 W- wr j Wasninkfton, D. C , at- **• *® B seeming of Panricns, M<>us«y ■I i u te °?^* £ ’P av » tor and >aval3srvi- Lam atpgr c f c j |e Re»elution, or the last war with Ks ‘ r *jri»ain, the war with Mexico, the Florida H to< *' d,ao ** rs *» and particularly to Uli . for Bounty Lands under the late uct of Con- Ate©, to the of claim* and the transar ■ turn of bu risers es every description with either of the Executive Departments, or with Congress. ■ Having, for many years, been cennscted with Coagrees, tad m d*.iy atundauea upon its sessions, j|fl bis general acquaint* ace aa<! experience p' • v.; h- ia hi* reach facilities for securing the intercc-ta of elicnU, eajoyed by few. Ht- refarv, by special pernaiseiun, to Hon. Robs mt Toom**, of Georgia. Howbll Cobb, of Georgia, K> -Hk >tei‘»er H n .n: \.ca, , 11. STFrMSxR, at Georg s. IL A tfxaALBOM, Do. |MBHm. Wm. C. Dawsow, Do. ah.) to the l>j rvaeut tine, ml -nr-## fi 'c.i oi tie-:; v an| to t ■: -m cr\ v U -• ' U-u :* ■• t.v • - ,u .-i t. . •, ;j. J preceding Congruescs. Communication.?, p©*; nu»d, will receive prompt attention, at reasonable term*. Wasl>iagt<m City, Oct. 1, 1553. o4>w3m I BOUNTY LAND. TWK UNDBRSICIiED notifies all theee wha may be interested in tho Bounty Land II Aet which has beeoms a Law of Congres ; . V that he has concerted himself with legal gentlemen ■ ia Washington Chy, far the purpose of pnwecutin? I rriaiEM against the Gaeernuient All soldiers (and r of such Midiere) who have served in iho I war wiih Great Britain, in Flcnda. or any of the 'w Indian Wrre; also, a!! cotnm ssiened dlicers ia the Mexican War, arc entitled under the act to Bcuntv Und. Address E. R. POTTLE, ' el 9 Act’y at Law, Warretioa, Ga. | LAND BOUNTY AGBNCY. TIUC eebacriber takes this method of informing ah perwwHs latefested, tbat he is prepared with M allit .?■ •< . papers to obtain luiud Be: nt tee for ali tbew. Ounucd uu«>r the late set es C. le the Bxrae, with the utmost dispatch. O£«a at L ucoln o, Lincoln co mtv. ■ a? wif B H MOORE. BNcw Ora’itr.s 3i?rcr.:sf!ncnts. L. D. C. Wood. I Jixsl H. Low. H WOOD & LOW, ■ general commissio:; meh ■ CHAN I S, -V». 73.} tl, Xtte Orleans. for Sugar, Molaaßta, and Wetter 1 • ' v -' 7»- n.’er.iv.i >o, sr. ;- .üba>ei: market price. Ar;.-- t.>. M.tca.f. Vigusia, Gx., I I'a- .Sevancib. aul*»w4a>* J - <■•• OIDUKR CO., ‘-I'oICX ? ; - PCRVVAItDrXG ■ ~Te«. CiIAIILRs P. McCALLA, FORWARDING Mix merchant, APALACHIOOUA. . . WI.OBLBA. ly ¥ R g gs ’ Susintas ! ToProfessicr.a) ScSusineKsMsn PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS, nc exceeding six lines, will be inserted under this Dei' at the rate of 310 per annum. C-»:ds e?. • edin j ?»; lines, will be char*r*d prorata perline. ——M—W J 111 LIU 111 U"J -WKRiaUAW Attomies anb Soluitors. SAMtTUI. ELBEIIT liEIWi, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AUGUSTA, GA., JjT Will practice in the several counties of tb< Middle Circuit. *T2r Until lat January next can be found at tht Store of Kerrs & H pe. 024 JOHN L. IAI lift PATRICK, ATTORM EV AT LAW, o 4 Wayiiastersr • Georgia. CHAFLEY R. STROTHER, ATTORNEY AT LAW fjf Practices in the Northern Circuit. All business will receive prompt and efficient attention. Office at Lincoln to* Ga. je2S-tf JOHN K. JACKSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Augusta, Georgia. Ofiict in Front Room of the Mansion House. •□TWiII practice in Richmond, and the neighboring Counties of the Middle Circuit. References: — Messrs. Mixer & Pitman, Bor.ton ; Messrs. Hoisted & Hrokaw, S. C. Dor tic, Blake & Brown, John K. Hora, C. O. Halsted, New York; Messrs. W. M. Martin, L. hl.de B. W. Force & Co., Charleston; Messrs. A. J.ft>T. W. Miller, Adams & Fargo, W. E. Jackson A. Co., Augusta. 025-ly Linton Stephbxs, ) J.L. Bikd. UO, A T T O B N I»f S. AT' G & '« , CBAWR da circuit. - JASPER S DOKSCT.) - ATTORNEY" AT LAW, DahlsnvgX) Georgia* Will attend to al! Professional business entrust ed tchim in the Cherokee Circuit, and in Habersham county, of th© Western Circuit. References —Messrs. Hays Bowdre, Dr. Wm H. Turpin, Augusta; Hon. C. Dougherty, Athens, Junies Law, Gainesville; Smith & Walker, and J. W. Grady, Dahlonega. fel-4 N. G. A. G. FOSTER, attorneys at law. Tbe uoueroigned arestiil engaged in the prac tice cf Law. Office at Madisau, Morgan Connty, Ga« All businessenuusted to them, will meet with prompt ar 4 efficient attention. N. G. FOSTER, fe2B-tf A. G. FOSTER. JCDWARD H.POTTLX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WARRENTON ... GEORGIA. Wil! coatinue to practice in Warren, Hancock, Wiiues, Taliaferro, and all of the counties of the Northern Circuit, and Columbia, Jefferson and Was bi ug ton of the Middle. Refer to Threewitts, Hudson & Shivers; C. C Cody & Co., Wa rre u tor.. j a2O JAJIES G. GOULS>, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Augn»la, .•Georgia, COMMISSIONER FOR MASSACHUSETTS AND CONNECTICUT, Will j ractice iu the several counties of tbe Mid dle Ci-cit. Office over P. A. Moise’s Drug Store. «20 JOSHUA lULL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Madison aud Monticello. ........ Georgia. fjF All business addressed to him at either place in lhe counties of Morgan and Jasper, and thus© contiguous, will receive prompt attention. n 23 Kobcst W. Simms. | John Askew. SIMMS A ASKEW, ATTORNEYS AT LA W, NEWNAN, GEORGIA, YjJ* Will practice in all the counties of the Cowe ta Circuit, an-, n tbe Supremo Court at Macon and Decatur. All nuaiuess entrusted to them shall have prom 14 attention. mh!3-wly J. B. EDMONDSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, NEWNAN, GEORGIA, Will promptly attend to ell business entrusted to his care, in any of the counties cf the Coweta cir cuit. ja22-wly L. C. SIMPSON, ATTOHNDY AT LAW, A TLA NI’A... • GEORGIA. 3QT Wil I promptly a tend to dl butines. jutrusled toots care. f2y-ly ®. Beebif.n, I John T. Shbwmakb. BEIXB.IK'S SHAWMAKIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MIDDLE DISTRICT, GEORGIA. ffV Office at Waynesboro, Burke county, Geo. jsl-ly _ ROBERT E. WOODEW, X. ? ,T fl X 4, AW . . i;. UCH & TIX.I.EY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, NEWNAN, GA., Will practice in the counties of the Coweta Cir cuit. and the Supreme Court at Macon and Decatur; R. S. Bcsuh. Jo • M- Iti-Mv. mhl7-wly „ Samuel J. Bailv. I Elbasxr Cummim. BAILEY & CUMMING, ATTO E. r ■ UYS AT LAW. SaxadcrsviiSe* Georgin* Will practise in all the countie® of the Mid dle Circuit. j e * DOBKRT HESTER, attorney at la w, Elberton Georgia. WILL practice in ths counties of Elbert, Wilkes, Lincoln, Oglethorpe, Madison a«J Franklin. my22-ly JOHN 11. STAXFORW. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Clarkesville** G«. Will practice in the counticF ol Clarke, Frank lin, Haberslmiu, Lumpkin, p o r<lb, Gilmer, Union Murray and Gwinnett, and i-Federal Circuit Court for Georgia. IRWIN ATTORNEYS »i.en^” e Vourts in ibe countiesof Cobb <>k«lb Fotovt* c l’ e «’t«e. Cass . Paulding, Floyd, S.mpbeil, G/ 01l - ‘ > Btl “‘"f Rat urn — 1 wenty days previous to each ue F rcn ’* 1 U. at Marietta, 21 Monday in 1 ani * r’ t ln ‘ , er; and also, the Supreme g - \of the State of Georgia, at Cassville nixi Do fo. folT-ly JAMES G. COLLIER, ATTORNEY AT I. A. V7 , Aaguata Gc. Will practice ia tha several Court* of ch? Mi ? die (Circuit. Offics at the corner ot Bnrad and Cini--ix-.il btreeta. /fc/srexicej—James L. Pettigru, Ewj., Charla*- tou; lion. Edward Y. Hi!?, Lagraege; Win. T. CfouM, , Mawr*. A. J. de T. W. Mtiler, a id Mew*. Baker & Hart, Augusta. n£-l> W«. Gibson. J Jksfb M. Jones GIBSON JONBB, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WARRENTON, GEO., Will ptactice in si! the counties, of the North ern and Columbia, Wat-bio gun and JelTerson, of the Middle Circuit, and lue Supreme Court of the State oi Georgia. ap9-wly JOHN W. POWI4LL, ATTORNEY AT I> AW , NEWNAN, GEORGIA, Will practice iu ail the counties of the O owe >a circuit. Ail basinets entrusted to his care, will receive prompt attention. ja22-wly G. PUTNAM. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Warrenton, Georgia. ap!3-ly Joa. B. Jones. | Malcom D. Jones J. B. A M. D. JONES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. WAYNESBORO 1 , GEORGIA. j.31-wly Ware!)ousc anti Commission GAINES & CO., RECEIVING, FORWARDING. AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Cbattauoogß Tennessee BRYAN. WILSON, GAINES & CO-, AuguMr. Geordi*. THOMAS WILSON & CO., fiavanaah, ..Geo. GIVI& their personal attention to R<r v v ceivingand Forwarding of Gooes and Pro duce. Alsu, -lie sale of ail kinds of Produce and Merchandise that may be eutn-sted to their care. A. THOMAS. M. M. GAINES i P. B. WILSON, Augusta, Sept, 24. w2ri J. J. BRY AN. NOT ICE. TH E SX^BS C RIBKR having withdrawn fn'iy ths firm* of Allsn, KLIc-6.1a1l d; Co-, at Savannah, anc J M. Ball AC*'., at Maeon, will eeotiane the FAC TOR AGE and GE NKR A!. UC M M I>SION BUSI NESS in this City. «m his own account, and respect fully tenders has services io his mends and the plant ers geueral’y. Suricu personal attention will be given to the rale of tXxtco aihi ali ether pnduce, and to the purchase o Bagging, Rot>r. and ail pia :at;on JOHN V. TARVER. Savrnr.xU. Jnty 1 1850. jy 14- worn P. H. Bbkn. | Jomx Fostrb. BEIIN & FOSTER., FACTORS AND COMMISSION MER CHANTS, }y9bw6ci Riv Street S-.vannaN. Geo*-<- •. ' ~ w7 H. c. itflLLo. FACTOR JbCOMiIISSaON ?XERCH.'-ST, oasUess at h*s old stand, Aio. 176 Day-atxacty Savannah, Georgia* HEFsiuncrs: -tfewa. V'Antx j-r.c'4- AztgTUla. f * Varies 4' Cc.» .Vd«ru »1 “ K. Padicford 4* Co., SaranxnA. CIJROXICLE & SENTINEL SELECTED I’M HAPPY..-.RT OLIVER WENDELL HOLMEB. Sweet coz ! I’m hoppy when I can, And Rivrry while I ra p . v , For life’s at most a narrow span, At beat b win'er’s day. If care could make tbe -unbeam wear A brighter, warmer hue, The evening star shine our n<ero fair, The b uenky look more blue, Tb’.n should I b« n graver man — But since his not tbo w<.y, Sweet coz ! I’m hap; y when 1 can, And merry wires i may ! If si?h« could make us sin rhe less, Perchance 1 were not glad— If mourning were the sage’s dress, My garb .-houid then be sad. Bat sirce'luc anger’s wings are white, And e’en the young saint’s tcnile Since virius wears a brow of light, And vice a robe of guile— Since laughter ic noi under ban, Nor gladness clad iu gray — Sweet crz ! I’m happy when I can, And merry when I may ! I’ve seen a bishop dance and reel, And a sinner fast and pray, A knave at the top of Fortune’s wheel, And a good mau cast away. Wine I have seen our grave ones qnaff, Might set our feet nt! at; But I never heard a hearty laugh Frnm out a vilkrin’s threat; And I never knew a mirthful man, Make sad a young maid’s day— So, coz! I’m happy when I can, Aud ■- 1 / «"’T q sr . . . i Wind of the tunny South 1 on Pt’TrrfSTny * - In the gay woodssnd in the golden air, Like to a good old age rsleaszd from care, Journeying, in ieng serenity, away. In such a bright, late qu:ct, would that I Might wear out like thee, ’mid bow’rsand breokr, A n J, dearer yet, the sut-shin* of kind io ?k«, And mnric of kind voices ever And. when my last sand twinkled in the glass, Pass silently fr ra men, as thou dost pass. rnisSJySloug’ii- TEBATtaS AND NEWS. Tlae Supremacy of the £<jas--Collinß and Cui*.ard« From the London Daily News, Oct.llth. Racing is the passion of the Englishman. H*rse racing, boat racing, foot racing, don key racing—go kind of racing conies amiss to hint. Wherever the Englishman goes ho must here bis races. There are regular boat races at the Cook’s Strait settlement, in New Zealand, and there is a race course at Sierra Leone. A race is even now “ coming off,” cn which England has a stake of terrible magnitude. ea ltids to that race cf an indefinite num ber of heats, now running on the Atlantic, by Conard’s and Colhns’ ocean steamers. The ■take is reither more or fess than rhe ascen dency on the seas. We use tha word not in ths fitly and obsolete sense of those who used te dream of any one nation asserting by force ©f arms, a mastery in marilhne affairs over all other nations. Henceforth there can be no sovereign nation : the great couitnuniiy of natisns is and must continue a republic. But • ven in republics there ate individuals who possess more wealth, mote powers than others. Eagland is still the first citizen of the commit* ■ ity of nations ; tbe flag of England is still feremoa* on the ocean. If England loses the Canard and Collins’ race, it will be an event •f bad omen for her maritime pre-eminence. French pageants at Cherbourg, Russian de monstrations on the Baltic, can only alarm old women in and out of petticoats. Pre-emi nonce at sea rnnst belong to the nation which possesses the most numerous and beat ap pointed mercantile marine, aud the most im portant branch of the country*e mercanti e marine will eye long be its ocean steamer.*. If it he true that an American steamer has beaten our fastest and finest vessels on an At lantic voyage, it is high time that we had a mere searching inquiry into the state of our organ steam communication than was vouch s.ifed by Mr. Henley’s Committee. According to th a New York accounts, the American ocean steamer Pacific made her last voyage from Liverpool tn Now York in ton days four boor* and three qurtors from wharf to wharf. We suspect the time was a little bnger. A writer in yesterday’s Times states that the Pacific left Liverpool at 2 P M., on iho 11‘h of hloptember. 11 (r" papers s:ato it reched "* 4 -" far -t?rr M. on the 21-t nit. Add have mad 3 har last days 7 hours. Allowance made for the greater speed with which wwm*i« (be set of the currents, the voyage from Amer ica te England is accompii-hed. than the voyage from England to America. The Asia’s ootward voyage to New York was accomplish ed ia 10 dovs 14 hours 33 minutes, mean steaming time. F’rnm this, we are told, must fee deducted 5 hours for the detour by Halifax* £ut this allowance is in excess ; the increased distanoo is net the only element to he con sidered ; the lets restelance for oceanic cur rent* on the Halifax route ought alau to be ta | ken on acceunt On tbe whole wo rre disposed to admit the i’acilic, not tho Asia, has made the quickest passageyat made between Liverpool and New York. It is, however, a neck and neck affair, in July last the American oc an steamer At lantic made the voyage from New York to Liv erpool in tan day*, sight hours, twenty urin ates, only eno Lour twenty minutes in excess es the limo taken by the Aria. Wo are anxious to alate the facts correctly, for there is an evident and not unnatural strain ing on the part both of English and Ameri cans, to make ont tho beet case fer their re •poctivo stoamers—even on (be asumption that tho victory is still douUfui, th© result cannot ho very f ratifying to our national pride. Cu nard’s Company have h.nd ten jears’ practice; tho first experiment in A himic s.eatu naviga tion, on the part of the Americans, was nn;de by the New York and Bremen steam srs. The Pacific end Atlantic are the first steamer* launched by t!u Cnlrins Company. Yet one of these trial ships, if it has not beat en, has equalled the nin urod production of Canard's Company. Is there any thing in ths history ©four ocean steam navigation that can aceouut fcr this ? Some ten years back. Governj?ont, unable or onwilling to carry the tuaih across tho At hji-ie, granted a corrract to Mr. Samuel Ca nard, which that ortunate gentleman is under stood to have so!d at a g cat premium to a Glasgow company for the cunvo.vance by ••earn-vessels of her Majesty’s mails be twßoa Liverpool. Halifxx and Boston. In this contract was renewed for ten years from tho Ist of Jana ary, 1848; a cd, in ex pectation of the American competition, which h ioaii.ee ansan, leave was given to oinit Hali fax and m ik.< the voyage direct from Liverpool to New York. Doth the original contract aed its extension were given without any compe tition. Tho owners of the Great Western and other ctaame-veoseh, who had risked their money in oatab!ishii»g the practicability of ma king th*’ Atlantic voyage, were unceremonious ly brushed aside, and the contractor has h«d a virtual monoply of the steam communication between the United States and this country fer tho last ten years. Fer tb.s service tiie coun try pays £140,000 per annum. Following the example of the English gov eminent, the United States gramed in 1848 to a New York Company a contract fer carrying tbe mail* to Liverpool; and their two first yessois, the Ailaouc and Pacific, made their appearance this year, to be followed next Spring by the Arctic and the Ba.ite. The Ca nard Company, thus put to their mettle, con structed the Asia and the Africa, which were ake placed on the station this year. The re sult el the contest as far as it has been carried, is slated above. • 4 We are ten years before you in ship buil ding,” said a Yankee skipper the other day; “and ten years behind you in machinery; in fi vo years more we will be ahead of you in both.” To prove Jouathau wrong w« shall have to get up some competition at home, and not wait to be taught the old lesson that there is no such thing ia nature as an improving monopoly. Canard's Company commenced with ve«ss!s ©t 1,100 ions, engines of 350 horse power. They nave step by step, reached 2,300 tons, and 000 horse power. But v.e size and the power are the only things changed ; the model has remained :he same The Asia, of 2 300 tons is an enlarged edition es the Britannia, of 1,100 ten.* B , acd gees bowiing down the Jer sey. carrying a sea before her enough to swamp a revenue ertrizer. The American steamers are of a larger ton nage and le» power than the As.a ana Africa, hut of exquisite model. They are “ten years ahead” el the Aria and Africa, as far as the bulk ave concerned, and as far behind in ths engines. Ttiey slip down the Mersey witn scarce a ripple at the bow dividing the water bke a Gravdscnd steamer. 1 n accommodation, ventilation, and general arrangement, the Aasertcau vessels are far superior to any thing that has been before saca iu this country It wiil doubtless be raid that we attach too much importance to the success es our trans- Atlantic cousins. We «hall be told “One swak ; low does not make a summer ; one extraordi nary passage w netacrueriou.” We riiaii be advised to wait for a twelve months before we give an epinian. In spite, however. «f these and other w ise raws thnt tray >e poured cut we confab!ha; to ns the vinages ©f the Atlan ta and me i'.i'iiic looks t.ke •• u«e handwn < og ®n hevvai ’to our rulers, which it be r.jvvcs their, to lay to heart Mrs Fillmore and Bcn are in ’-his city 03 their way io Wasbiag’oa. Ti.e White House as yet ha* had ns lady ten an; under this admin i'tratieu —Mrs. Fifimore not basing been in Washington riaee the death of Gen Taylor.— X F. liprsw. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MOILING, NOVEMBER 6. | PRRSBNTATION OF FLATS. zNdjowhnrd Mketinc of Council, ? Oct. 18th, 1850. S Mr. Harper offered th© following Resold tioDr which was passed : “ Resulted, That his Honor, the May®r he reqnos’cd to make a public preFsmta’ion tc Col. H- H Cumming of the service of Plate prepared for hi* accep’ance in parsance of n Resolution of the City Council of the 2n< : March last, al tnch tiiuc ahd place as he may appoint. [cOKnESPOKDKNCE ] Mayor’s Office, Augusta, Oct. 1, 1859. Col. H. IT. Cumming—Dear Sir:— i am hrppy to inform yea that the Service of Pfefe, voted you by tha City Council on the 2nd ol March, 185 U, has been received. The Deaors desire a public presentation vs the same, aud if yoa approve Ais wish, will you be so kind as to difeigreate a day when yon will publicly urcept the gift of a people, whe» with one accord, join in this public eipresifun of lhe regard which they entertain for yoa personally, and as the aaihor of an enterprise which has proved of such signal advantage to the City of your birth. Very respectfully, your obedient servant. T. W. Millir, Mayor City of Augusta. Augusta, Oct. 4th, 1850. Hon, Thomas ff. Miller, Mayer of the City of Augusta.—Dear Sir*.— I am ia receipt of your note es lhe 2»d inst., informing me es lhe receipt es the Service of Pj®j£ voted me f--.’’.; -rho*. ; •n honor 10 determine the mode of dc.ngit, I respeeffiiKy, bet tamestly reqaest that you will make it agreeable to die Council to sub stitute £J3BQ ether, for that ruentioaed in year note. Being myself totally u.ufeed to such thiegs— the effect cf wnich depends so much en the t&sle a::d tact of the recipient—laos unwilling to th? hszard of having associated with this high comp*imei!t Crummy fsiiow citizens, the rcc'dlectien rs a f&ilara on nay part in the mode of receiving it With >nt much confidence in my pen. I s?ill think I may more safely rely on it, than en my tongae, to give proper expression to my feelings on such an occasion ; 1 hope, there fore, tiiit yon aud the Council will yield to my wishes and cheerfully acquiesce ia the suggested change. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hz.vry H. Cumming. Regular Meeting, Oct. sili 1850. Mr. Maharrey moved thet his Honor the Mayor, present the service of Plate tendered tn Col.H 11. Cumming by the Chy Council, in ac cordance with the request contained in his communication this day submitted to Council, and that the correspondence between himself and Col. Cumming in relation to a public presentation of the same, be published—which motion was carried. Mayor’s Office, ? Augusta, October 24, 1850. J Col. 11. H. Ccmming, President of the Board of Commissioners of the Augusta Canal: Dear Sir—Tho City Council of Augusta, whose first presiding officer was your honored father, on (be 2d day of March last, resolved unanimously that its executive officer should procure, and in the name of ths City, present to you a service of silver plate, as a slight tes timonial nl the high appreciation in which they held your services, in having conceived as well as superintended the construction of the Au gusta Canal, whereby the general welfare of the City of Augusta and its inhabitants has been so highly promo ed. The history, Sir, of ‘he City where first you drew your breath, is dear to every Georgian. For in that long and eventful struggle lor the liberty we now enjoy, her citizens not only bore a conspicu ous part, but were remarkable for their at’acli mrnt to tho rebel portton of his then Majesty’s subjects; and while her peculiar geographical position ha isubjected her to many vicissitudes, involving at times her commercial character and fortune, yet by the enterprise and practical wisdom of her business* men. who have ever be-.i ready to give their time and invest their fortunes in any work necessary io the support of her honor, or the estab.isbment of her commercial ascendancy, she has been continued iu ti.at nruud wide-* *r-a.. lf, Sir. the price cf liberty is eternal vi- U,:- Jge of £ Cuy can scarcely be ssc*ii«#d £* vou/eua: ami, ei j true, to tfdspo/* • fi*f'truno - © her those rcf*r red to—ana no other policy than that adopted under your auspices, could hive saved her from the ruin which menaced he:. lhe construction of the South Carolina Railroad, offering as it did increased facilities for the transit of produce and passengers to the Seaboard, -djrew froui ibc fair bosom of our quiet Savin.. much of her former travel and MicfttK cf irausfforiatiou—and the construction of the Georgia Railroad, took from that large class of our citizen*, ewr retail merchants, much of that extensive wagon trade which, for a ha:i century, had ministered to her growth and the individual welfare of her people. It was. Sir, at this crisis in her history, tho Fall of 181-1, when she who had been planted as it were by a “river of life,” like the mas sive oaks which adorn and shade its banks, under the influence of worse than autumnal storms, was fast shedding the yet green glores ©f her history; when many of our dwellings workshops as J stores, once crowded by an in dustrious and joyous population, were tenant Ifss, and the cold damps of commercial death seemed to be fast settling around her, that yon, Sir, identified with her by birth, educa'ion and employment, projected that work of internal improvement which has chanted tho blight of the. past into present joy, and bright hopes for (he future, and the piiiia Dues ol a premature decay into the gladsome smiles nf commercial activity and health. Il was, Sir, yo-»r enter- 1 prize which throw the Augusta Canal, the brightest arm of the Savannah, around us, and we new stand almost encircled by her moon .. n waters, consulting, a* they do, the great propelling power oi nil that machinery, which has given employment to so many huu dreds cf our ctrizena, added io the vsl-»e o: real estate al of twenty per centum; increased eur population in the sama ratio; restored con fidence; impressed upon oer minds the necea g y and vr.iue of a wi-e divifl.oii of labor, and eent with vigorous action through every vein of oar commercial system, the rich blood Gt aa active domestic industry. Georgia, at iarga, animated by the success*, yea, the triumphant success, here and elsewhere, of what was once considered an experiment of doubtful policy, has already withdrawn from sources before unprofitable, much ©f her surplus capital, is ves'ed it in domestic manufactures, and soon w ill be known not only as the State of river* and of Railroads, but as the greit manufac tariu* State cf the South, end Augusta will be tne “ Lowell.” And now, sir, in the name of the City of Avgusta, which must ever rtmam the dsotcr of yourselfand your worthy asbseia.ee, I pre sent you, by the bands of Fester Siodget, Esq., ■he Marshal of our City, a service of Silver Piate, composed of seventeen pieces, all I trust, with suitable inscriptions, the larger of them bearing upon their bright exteriors, devices of the rich natural and architectural scenery through which the Augasta Caual passes, and also of those works, the benefits of which I have referred to, which I ask you in the same name to accept. And indulge me, sir, personally in the ex pression of the hope, that you may I vo to see the work over which you have watched with a regard almost parental, (and that too at the sacrifice of your private interest) dispense still larger and greater blessings—and that when you shall have been gathered to your Father’s, the inflaenee of your example may incite others to farther measures for the full devel opement of the resources of our City. Very respectfully, yeur ob’t serv’t, T. W. Millib, Mayor, &e. Augusta, Oct. 30.1850. Honor aide Thomas H', Miller, Mayor of I the City of Augusta : Dear Sir:— By the hands of Mr. Blodgett I have received the Service of Plate mention ed tn your note of the 24:h inaU, presented in the nau e of the City, in accordance with a resolution of Council, passed on the 2nd es March last., and beg leave, through you. io express to that body my high appreciation of their complins en’ary vote and of the beautiful r.rtio’e presented. While the resolution re : ferred to, remaining among the archives of the i city. wiII be a n enduring public record of one ■ of the iae?t gratifying ieetdents cf my life, the ; article presented wiii, I hope, be long prescrv ed in my fanrly deme-hc u emoria-s of :h?.t incident r.cd iuti:c these most familiar with then?, zot only t » discharge their more obvious dukes to the public, but ;□ be diligent m seek ing occfis ous to promo’© the best interests cf a conunusity. to which, iu common with an self thev are under snen weighty obligiuoiu*. if any circumstance had been required to in crease Uie intrinsic interest es the compliment freu my feliuw-ciuzens. \ou have must happi ly se’ect;’d it, in re Binding me. that my honor ed father was the first of veur predecessors, in the chief mstrstracy of lai* my native c ty. 1 cannot but eoitgra.als-e myself that, aftar th© wps© of Gj. -rt* thsii ha:f a < entary, I find ihe powt. fin: occupied by him, n»w honorably fii.-sbyi r.e vr*w, en this oeca> ou. uxir.gte's the kiuu v feelings of s fri<=ud with the official act of the magistrate. To these fa« ings, I G'Uel attribute the 100 high esusiata placed on ray individual services iu ths enterprise, in commsmorauon es wbieh this aontr has been conferred on mo ; but 1 shsina cm i»» U • intalligeneejor my esAMpes nod co-labnrers in tho work,j*«ro I w. to e«(j. mate its importance Nedro.’ l»d£ jgi't-nl *a ! ne we attached to it, ceuld i»A*e j •i-.’tflad >h;. iidiv. 'i,*.! i-scrificcs and public wecc -nary to its execution It ’ as you correctly remark, at a t**r***'* <*> ;.r C • prov-ion in our ’affairs ca Were in uperalion, temporarily uafavorftb 1 to our Pr< - sj'erity :—none of us e '■ their ultimate results ; many of tfs the wots 1 . Wo bxd almost ftxciijaUely a comtnorcial community: certain t-inoHes in politics and in political fconoisy, nmrng uh to an oxlent cuflisinnt f e t&e*k the spirit of enterprise ia nil ocher jn <iu-»Lry. To many, the iden ' Fadeiieg any where at the Sbaih, t. 9 com pc. 4 with tie skill, experience, sb I .capital of tbo North, seamed ebsurd, and to kttll morb it, •t fir»t, Room irttoriy prepe*K *''*’" - > talk of making Augusta theses® of suc-i smiarprises. N.* r was this Strangs:—the of Cenimerce ai*d fldanufactures hbc« ft is tree, erjipged the irttontKMl sonta c ia® mirbfe of the South: but ’hey bed, < ly, been so mingled w»Ji p :i J » j-', »«ei! jx.f feelings, that the very’ name es “Jun a facto rer” had become odious to tor P SC ? feom its nrsocia ion with lhe idea of wron£ done to us m bensfit him. ’ - There was, even in th««* theories, nothing which ought to have deterred us from begin ring the good work; but there was not want ing men of weight and character, who strongly opposed all Southern Manufecinresr as tend ing to weaken lhe great “Free Trade” party of the South, by interesting ur» tea certain extent, in the support cf that cf pro- tection which bad been ao beneficial to ths North, and ns wasconbnded mine us te os. Theso opinions and ik ugh corp- mon, were, fortunately, nst un M‘”£r.t Some •of tis et!term’du?en Gsjtr ' » ! T untr hrnve* rtf * ' bfjh™"arin of the Savannah, was thrown eround up and already may you see, rferi* ving frum it their mntivs power, and, now, ur soon te bn, in full opera-ion, two large mer chant Mills, (opsc of brick, the other es granite,) aSaw and Grist mill, a Machine Sh«p, and Csr Factory, and two anbstantial and exlvtt svo Ce ton Mills ; aud by it are annually home .nt® our ci:v, besides other valuable products, more than tweety-five theusand bases of Cotton. The benefits of the new forms of industry thus iutrodaced among us are, by no means, confined to tbe immediate profits realized from nirnufacturing. All these esttbiishmontv re qnired operatives, mechanics, and other agents cf different grades who most have food, clothing and comfortable dwellings. Farmers, merchants, builders, and owners es real estate (of which the City Council is itself era of the largest) are all interested in supplying their wants. Dnt it is neecilesH to attempt an enu insration of the many happy influences, msre or fess direct, of enterprises such as that iu which wo are engaged. The most superficial observer must already see the beginning ©f them in our own town. Isay because, Sir, with you, I believe that we ars destined to make advances in manufacturing as well as in commerce, which will make us, or those whs may, in a few years, come after us, look upoa ad we h ive yet dene as but little more than a beginning. T© hasten the corning ot that state of things, it becomes ns to avoid not fees an offer-estimate than an under estimate of what we have already done. We have done much —very much —for we have made a be ginning. and that too, under the most discoar aging circumstances; but much more remains to be done, if our progress is to be steadily on icaid. Your Canal, though sufficient for ail present purposes, must be increased in size and power to meet the probable calls of manu facturers now with us and of us, and of those who may be attracted from abroad. Os the letter, many are low looking with great inte rest to this locality, in the raids; of a Cotton growing country, itself a great Cotton mart, communicating by Railroad and River with the Atlantic on one ride, and on the other, by an unbroken line of Railroad, touching the waters which flow int >th G«lf, whither has hereto foro tended an immense ani ’tiirt of Western products, of which that periion xeeking Euro pean or Northern markets, will ultimately find its way to the ocean. through tke territory of Georgia, and much of it through our o ;rn town. Wi.h a l these advani&ge?, Augus’a, if true to herself, muse become an impor-a.'t (may I not safely tny. a great ?) commercial and manufac turing city, But to reap the full benefit of her fornsna'e location, she must do something more than d>g Caiufe and huild Railroad’. If ‘he fully realizes that her prosperity is to be pro mmed by the encouragement of tho Mechanic Art*-, let it he remembered, that rile must cher ish those emp'oyed in them—that the Artisan must find in Augusta notor.ly a place where he 1 -Trf ■ »»^|»lkig -TTL 1 V 'Upilate tspoctod, ©nd w tus fiaoiihr A’ttOft.* the tlafirr ©ay ~f un.l the pnre‘y ei7.mcir.sfy ia the country. Parents who are mditferen. to this consideration, can b rdly he good m :n --hereof s»icif*tv, an I certainly dvr?* who make the best will not wilii’ifJy select a home where their ch;!dren cannot • ave Lhe benefits whieij g*od schools alone mn afford. But oi» thi> j-nbj'ct, voir, Stiers’, rir, require no suggestions fit.m mu, k-. I k.'<»w lost while you have been carefully looking to ell tbe interests cf the this moat important one has es p-ci.v y engaged your a*te®ton. Wishing *« 1 a:t success in your eflfbr.s to promote tbe gr.j?.: oh;*c(, aud that you and your aesftciates of lhe Council Board, may lon Hi*e to witness the good results cf your united labors in this and other branches of the pubiic service, con nected with your respective office*, I remain, sir, very respec ful’y, Your obedient servant, Hkrry H. Cummifo. The Late President Tatlor —The cir cumstance of the removal of the mortal re mains of the late Prcridsnt Taylor from Wash ington, for their final resting place in Ken tucky. is referred to, in Saturday’s National Intelligencer, in tho following touching and eloquent manner : At an early hour yesterday morning the remains of the late lamented Provident of the United Shafts were removed from their tern porary resurtg piace. ia the receiving vault efthe Conrressioud Cetneterf, and deposited iu a mourning car prepared f<3»\4beir reception, i«i order to to b-< transported to their last earth ly *oode. Col. Taylor, the respecied brother of tho deceased, and Cai. Biiss, his esteemed Fun in-law, and formerly military aid, accom panied by Messrs. Fendail and Wallach, Dis trict attorney and Marshal, and several othar citizens oi W.-uhiugton, formed the sad escort hence tn Baltimore, whence the two first named gentlemen, with ths rxqjirico assistants, proceeded with the body on iu route tn Louis ville, Kentucky, where, as wn understand, it is to be placed in Lhu burial place on the fami ly estate. Thus we have lost from amoaw us the last melancholy memento of the presence of Zachary Taylor. Who can forget the day when that much venerated form appeared in our streets? It seems as if the shouts oi his enthusiastic welcome were yet eaundingin our ears ; and now—afer so »»nef, so transient er» enjoyment of the highest honors that man cm coufsr—what is left but the funeral hearse, the coffin, and the shroud ? it is like some bright but fieeiing dieam. Bat not se the substantial, ever-enduring glory that illus trates the name of Zachary Taylor. Death may rob ns of his presence ; the departing train may bear away even his mouldering dust but neither death nor time c&u take from the hearts of his countrymen the ineffaceable re membrance of iris virtues or his deeds. To those at a distance he was known only as the brave, firm, indomitable leader, tbe upright and sagacious ruler ; but to us, who were privi leged with a nearer view, .4b was yet more favorably known by the winning charm es a child like simplicity, a gentleness and benevo lence of nature, a guiltless singleness of mind, such as is rarely seen, especially on the fields of glory and the seats of power. Ali men, truly great, must command respect; men em inently virtuous are sure of our veneration; but such men as our late lamented Chisf Mag istrate win at once our love. Never was a high station occapied by a more unpretending spirit. Power had no in fluence to intoxicate, praise no power to per vert him. As simple as the man whom Sterne's graphic pencil has drawn on every heart, he possessed a Spartan firmness which nothing could move. Neither trained to politics nor highly cultivated by educa ion. his mind pos se.«-ed an intuitive ciearnes* and strength, which enabkd it to so at once to the essential poi-i ts of every question submitted to him, and when he bed toado up his judgment, it was fix ed ami indexible. V/e have had many mare br: Lan: Presidents, never a more upright one. Elevated singly and exclusively by his own merits he never intrigued for power, nor f it anxiety to retain it; and had tie bee a permitted to s rve o s* :ne enti.-o Presidenuai term, there is no man who would have reliuqu.shed the helm oi State and returned to the bosom of come-.:c life with more heartfelt enjoyment He feH nt his post, loved and her; red. a&d has ■fl » name unsuwied by aught cai; caH a bussh into the cous.iens.rc3of reia ire or friend, -iiio if it is much to say this of one who dies in c private tut-en, how much more is it whtn said with truth of one who filled tbe su preme seat of power, which has seduced, cor rrp cG, anJ mora ly destroyed so many, in every age 2nd country, of those who have occupied it! Peace to bis ashes! undying gra iiuc'e for his great and dieUEgaisbed services! a na tion’s p.-:A- aod love fer aii his iiiustrioas vir tues ! Be hi? grave where itmiy, i: will ba covered with s wreath mil and ;resh, and aev er to fade. The result of a suit between the Methodist Episcopal Can reh arid idatbadist Epsco r<*j Church, Sou h, with rcfercuce to the po ? - j*«sion of Wes.e Chapel. Warrenton ci«c i,t, V’lrgiuia, has been decided in favor of the former. Tne decision, it ir believed, will af fect ©tber suits. AaaicuLTUftaL Jwhu rton, in th© ceurvu of lectures G«l!V f \«d bv him before the N*w York stat® Society, stated the following things worth tg tnetnbering: 1. In this climate tbe tAriper*lure rises to 100° Fni rcisbeit five feet bc-l-*w the vnrface, end to 140° uiifea inch briocr it ; fic’i which, he sayn, ho learned biins«ll with surprif©. He them to HluMrale the •esnomy <M Nature in promoting vegelitscn. 2. Ths sunbeam is ewmpoacd of three dis tinct and separate ray* —o»te of heat, one ol light, and on© called rite ray. These three agencies exist in difloroat propcrunn. i i th© sunbeam in lb® «pri?<g, summer, and EBto-un. Tbe btee or chemictl ray is greater in die spring ; the light greater in the summer, ’i’hs chemical ray in fess in auiumn, nod than the heating ray predominates. _ The propor tions cf thcfeo rays vary in different seston*’ of in order that the growing plant may nrrivo nt maturity. It has also been as ceiUii**d th-it tbe proportions <•!’ these agents vary in different ehmate* 3. It has been ascertained that the flower of a plant abterka more heat than the ether par*.®, and the dark more taan the light; and hr nee it is inferred that the color of a flower is wh?»t deterinines the quantity cf heat it requires and the amount which Natare supplies. 4. Drainage is as necexsary in dry and san dy as in wet soils. *• If soil ia merely burnt up by drought, aud you suppose the routs to descend only to the depth cf about three inch es, it is obvious that th® heat es the summer dries up the land to the roots. Bui if by drain age you open up the roil three feet deep, so that tho rain, instead cf flowing off the sarl'ace, desconds through the soil thus made pervious to it, the ro®t» will grow deeper, and while tho upper surface is dry, tho drooght dees not " re h ua oßfi bfed te live *TJnge:r D’an they otl;e?wise would.” in four years, 609 lbs. ©T^' WR*sr would be carried off from an acre of tobacce land. It is the duty es th® farmer to supply the mineral matter, thus specially exhausted, it he wishes to sustain tho soil* 6. There are certain parts of every portion of every animal removed every day, and a quantity of new material put ia its ptecs. Hence the animal should have a censtantsup ply, in ore'er that this daily waate may be mad® up. An animal rsquirss, te sustain its body in good condition, or te'sopply what 10 tailed the sustaining feod, about one sixtieth part of its own weight daily. If you wish to iccreass its size, or enable it to work, you raust give more. If you feed fer m:lk, twice ths quan ti y* 7. It will be foand that the soil and tho plant contain nearly the same sabstanees, the only one net in tho plant being alumina The mechanical function of alumina in th® soil is to anchor the plai t. Its tenacity is its availa ble property. plants grow in mere sand, but the great majority of them require a certain degree es tenacity tn tha soil, which i« obtain ad by taixing silica with clay. This alumina dess not enter into th© plant, but only gives to the sail lhe tenacity nsceeaary to retain the plant. The above are some of (ho topics discuss ed in lhe collaction of “ Lectures cn the gene ral relations which science bears t.s practical agriculture, delivered by Prof. James F. IV. Johnston, F. R. S. S. Ipc., with nstes. , pub lished by C. M. Saxton, ©f Nsw York. — N. Y. Eve. Post It it said that fas produced from water hss been in use at the Astor lloate, New York, for tha last two months. The light is much su perior to that produced from ths cemmon gas, while the expense is less than one half. The apparatus, which is in a ssnall building at ths rear of the hotel, is very simple in its coastruc tion, requiring only the attendance of two men, who in seven hours can turn off* suffi cient gas fer twenty four hours consumption. The New York Evening Post gives the fol iowiug as the means by which the gas is pro duced : «• The water used in its manufacture is dis charged from a ran, in limited quantities,into a pipe passing through a retort. This retort is kept constantly supplied with iron and char coal, the intense heat from which converts the water, in its p«s«a»e through the pipe, into steam. The etaatn thus farmed is r.malfama ted wi h liquid rewin, of which there is a la r ge supply kept in a boiler placed immediately over th® retort, so that the gas is obtained ricn ply from me combination of steam generated in’the manner described and the liquid ros.n. The volatile oil produced during the manufac turing proce-9 is discharged through a separate pipe into receiving vesstie. The oil h dis posed of at fifty cents per barrel. The ex pense of ffie charco.il and iron consumed is very alight, and the amount of rosin required jsaboul a barrel and a half. '"The Apparatus was put up by the Union f has i a head qo.vriers -v. - Xu a stock of this cvin p any ha s i&' seb re tc. ry. Mr. G • dd«<i *«. ’’-i': , it •jpp'ar.’, is to be if>pi up with inis Gm, and lhe Company has THWrc.l in'O contracts for lighting sev eral hotels in tho different cities of the Union, Picklki*—How SEPT. —Mr. Editor: In your paper of the 27th, a Subscriber asks how to pick’ecucumbers, so ?- to Live them retain their original color and k*op well. New i have a recipe for pickling cuenmbars which, if our friend will feilo’?, I will warrant him as good pickles as ho ever r.w in Boston, and they will keep, far augh: 1 know, tn carry round the $M»e ; I have h?d th*iu keep wi.beut any trouble more than a year, and the font were as good as the fir«t. To a pai’fnll of water add one half pint of salt, boil this and pour it on your cucumbers; let them s and twenty-four hours, lheu peur off the brine and boil agtin, and penrbo;i:o? hot on your pickles; repeat this the third and fourth days ; then the fifth day pour oiT the brine and boil fresh water and pour on them ; let them stand twenty four or thirty-six heurs, always remembering to cover them te keep in the steam 1 the eix-h day boil good cider vinegar ar/d poor on them, add alufii, horse radish, claves, and ether vpice to suit tho we- If the vinegar is net prime, the pickles will not keep; the bailiug should bo done in brans or copper. J. Holt, in the Massachusetts Plow man. Duty and PftiVii.Eas of Life Insurance.— In an able treatise on this subset, Robert Chambers says:— “If a thousand person* know that a certain number of them vriil die next year, are they not at liberty «.o act upon ibit knowledge aud insure each other again’t the calamities that might fltiw to their families in the event of their being left without sufficient preparty te pro tect them ‘nun the evils es poverty? Fndeod. they are c*:!e-J upon, by the most sacred cun sidera'.ion*, tn adopt such an expedieat, seeing that it is attended by no practical evils of any kind, but. on the contrary, predaces an ni tnixad good.” Peaches in Havana, — A letter from Havana. (h:cd Oct cber 3, says:—The first peache* ever openly exposed lor sale here, I saw ihi« morniog. They came in ico from Be?:nn,and ware in tolerable order. Price 12| cents each ! I am mistaken if this docs not bring them cut in abundance next any posable expense of packing The Shoe Mania. —The circumstances of the arrest of a young man in Brooklyn,some time since, fur the singular freak of stealing a lady’s shoe—which he took forcibly from her in the street—will doubtless bo remembered by our readers. He was the son of a minister, and was discharged on the application of his father, who stated that the habit of getting la dies' shoes and concealing them was a mania to which he had been addicted from childhood, and for which he could give no account. He would often bother hie sisters in that way; and after his marriage, hie wife’s shoes would miraculously disappear, very much to her as tonishment, as she had never been made acquainted with ibis singular peculiarity of his. The Detroit Free Press states that as a re spectable, well dressed lady was a few days since crossing a street, near Gen. Cass’ resi dence, a man with the appearance of a gentle man, grasped her by die leg and threw her down. He then took offher left shoe, but serened to change his mind, and then took the right one. and made off with it. doing no other harm. The shoes were new, the lady wearing them for the first time. The man is the same one who was arrested in Brooklyn. The Prif* ing Press which Has is construct ing for the New York Sun is tne largest prin ■i*g machine in th>s country. I: is twenty feet in height, and in length is thirty-three feet. It his eight cylinders, die registering machine in front counting every impression and record ing the number ia plain figures before the eye, from one copy to one hundred millions. Among the many a’.’raciious at the Fair of the American Institute at Castle Garden, New- York. is a arge gothic arrn chair, backed and cushioned with beautifully wrought needle work in worstad, the work of Mrs. Fillmore, the accomplished I icy of the Pre.-?,' nt of the United States. This is. prcbahly (he first in stance where ire industrial exhibition of a great nation has been graced by ths work of tie wife of aciiizer th© position of its Chief Ma"istraie» and it is one wcich should excite nW ema. »uon of the fair da&g.i-ora of ice Republic — Alex. Gazette. A meant and cost rs tk* Royal Naval Stsam Potter of England.—T -u total number of attain v ?*-•-!•» of ell and <zes propelled by paddle-wheoL and rrew« belonging to the co} siua’- y of EozJaad, i« 164. and tne ’o:ai amount of fiorsepo Aer of th:: f- rmi-Üble flee: of steamers h above 44 500. of which nearly 4 ),5uU is aeftady filed. cr being fitted, to the vessels. Thetutii cist of the machinery alone may fairly be es' noted at nearly three mi.'.ons aud a half steri.ug.— C’.'.iied Service G az: tie Au in?vnians contrivance ea-'.ed a “smoke consumer,” bis been invented in New York The P < stales that it i? a complete protecffi.a for riikc-d travellers against the smoke aid coal ciockrs which reader that mode of con veyance usually not only uccomforxible but daageroas. POLITICAL. THsbet'e Letter. MAvoir, Ga , Oct 17,1850. Gentlemen :— I am io receipt of your favor of the 14\h inst., inviiing me to a Maes Me«t i«g of 0 the friends of the Union,” to be held at Kiugaton on lhe Brh of next uionth. Since 1 have had lhe hauer cf a seat on the Suprjcse Court B&ueh, 1 have attended no political meeting ts any kit-d, believing it ray du.y te aland wholly ftionf, fioan Iho party con lexis of the Slate. And I intend to pursue the course bo long as I am entrusted with the ndmiaiatrvvie.'i of tho te..an The ctinstion soon to be t c’.’.lcd in cur State, is re wove*, no more psrty question. It rfeoa abeve party., for i*. involve® tha ir.iegri y of the Union, to a ccnteil which wii! vitally effect the cause of free govoranicnt throughout the ' woild—Christianity, civilization, edttcatfen and the demotic security,and personal heppineo es every oitizen, I hold it the privilege—cay 1 the imperious duty of every man to engage promptly, frankly and fearlc. s'y I r-heuld no? therefore, beritste to accept yonr inntatieo, end minglo mv councils with ihoso of say fellow-C’tizejis at Kingston, if offi cial engagameate would poraait. But they will not, for during lhe week in wkich tho Mass Meeting is to bo bald, lhe Supremo Court bulcfe ite Fall Session at Milledgeville. I find it difficult, geudemcD, t© realize lhe fact ths.: there are in Georgia, at thia moment, men es influential character and political peai tion, and presses of extensive circulation, ‘whose serious purpose it is to dissolve lhe Union.’ It is notwithstanding true. Two years, indeed one year ago, I would have scout ed such an imputation as a vile slander upon our great growing State. However inefan •holy the truth, yet no sensible person can now fail to recognise it. That leading men. Jn s a sister State, have for years, deliberately of lhe ©on fedovtvy, I have '1 aww »r- *■ T '' invoked to fellow Carolina in her cru«a»m against reacoa, cotnaion sense, and the Union, but a few ©f her con’s are listening to her in vocation, and enlis’ing undar her banner. A banner, without the stars and stripes. That will 1 nover d©, until Southern wrongs bocosi© lar more aggravated than they now ere. I am as intensely a Georgian as any man in Georgia. lam also the eitizsn of tho wisest, most benign—most efficient govornuaent, that hssevor yet becu organized amongst men. 1 love my native State and I also love the Pater nal prelecting power of the Union. So long as 1 enjoy th® rights which I at this moment poE?ess as a Georgian, 1 shall honor and ad here to lhe Union. This dfeaffeclion to the Union is unfortunately not confined to this State and South Carolina, ft pervades to some extant other Southern States. Bat lam sure that I am not mistaken when 1 say, that it is limited to ambideus and rtcklees leaders. The people are net prepared for disunion, or fer any measure which looks to such a result. They are not prepared to break down a Go vernment endeared to them by the memories of the revolatioß, and necessary to them, on account of the numberless ( blesriegs which it guarantees.’ Warned by th© ominous signs whrh have been recently exhibited of popular disapproval, the agitators are now shrinking from lhe issue which they have labored fer mouth® to make, of Union or disunion; and with tamed and subdued zeal they tell us that they arc now for constitutional resistance, and prospective measures of relief. They aro not to be trusted. This is a ruse to get the power in the convention, and then to precipitate tho «tate upon some revolutionary action. Allow me te say, Geatlemen, that right here lies the danger. There is danger that the people may be deceived by these pretenses. They are not to be judged by their preseat avowals, but by thsir past actions and declarations, and by tho open oft repeated assertions of their organs. At the mass meeting in this city, one of the orators, less violent than others, ventured to praise tho protecting power of «ur country’s flag abroad, when tie was interrupted with shoots of disunion—disunion! Secession has been, by their chief speakers and by the press openly and repeated avowed. What are we to believe; why we aro to be. lieve that they intended and do yet intend eith er at once or at some early day to attempt tho organization of a Sou'.hern Confederacy. There is no safety for tbe People, but to vote only for men pledged againet any measure, winch directly or remotely looks to a sever ance. Another of the arts of delusion, ia tho promulgation of the idea, that secession, will not result in coiiifion but may be, indeed will be, peaceful In my judgement, plcli a thing is utterly out of the question. Wheresoever and whensoever, the fe.vs of the Union are obstructed, then and there wi.l the Govern ment attempt their enforcement. When that is attempted tho seceding Slate, will be left lhe alternative of going back into tho Union or of figh'.r g. Tha former w ill brand her with igno rr iny, the latter will subject her to the perils in and out of v hich even if sue comes viclorioua, will ba in a condition itifiiritely worse than she new occupies. A. an timo within lhe Usl fifteen years have tho indications at Wa?hisg 5-. 1 and at the Norih. io my ophninn, been so favorable to Sonihcrn institutions ns at tl.i* tnomeut. Th© Nurdicrn mind is more favor ably disposed towanfe us th in it has been. I do not .-peak of lhe abu’Pionfet proper. We uave nothing te hope from that relatively small and rabid crew. I epeak of the people at the North at large. Ariislivery as a pvlri.a! elarnent has lost ground whhiu tho la.-t nine months. Ceugress ha*, repudiated the Wilmot proviso and left slavery untouched in the Dis. arranged the Tex an upon lotiaiß w hich her own repres entatives accepted and parsed the most stringent >i’.v for the delivery of refugee slaves, which ths genins of the South c> uld devise. The aei'-•» of Congress upon the whole is a Smith era triumph. Whst io the complaint? Two cavses of oompltint era alleged. One found ed on the feet thst California is admitted, with a constitution of her ewn making, excluding b avory; and ths other founded on the conjec ture that the rendition bill will not be enforced. As to the former, Ca iiornia had die cons’itu i.okc! right to f ame her constitution as suited her. The power es Congress over it, is limit ed te the right to see to it, that it is a republican constitution. She came in .according to the of the Government. She eaa change her ccnsiitu-tion, when her interest demands it, and change it she will, so a* to admit slavery, ifslave labor proves profitable there. Sup pose she does not are we to revolutionize the Government and take tho (terrors of an iuevi table civil war in order to force slavery on the shores of the Pacific at the point of the bayo net? The question may be put to every voter of Georgia, wherein are you to be benefited by all this? As to (be latter, how much rea son. justice or magnanimity is Ibero in precur ingthe passage es a law to suit ourselves, and then to turn round aeddsauuace it, before it is tested, upon the ground that it cannot bo enforced! If a nullity, why were the whole Southern delegation so merely childish as to vote ier it! VVere they dupes or did they got up an iai practicable law, just to create a cause fur disunion—neither lam sure. Our course as reasonable men is lo give it a trial, a fair trial. If it is resis ed and rendered nugatory, than will be the time, to resort to measuies of redress. I believe that however it may bo im peded at some point?, it will be enforced. It has bean already, whenever attempted; my opinion is, that the present administration will lend to its enforcement, all the legitimate powers of the Government- I feel as much incignaiion at Southern wrongs as Biost men, but I trust not withstanding, that my common sense, my sense of what is just, my regard to religion, humanity and liberty, above ail my regard to my own happiness and that of my children ; wiil ba spared me. If I were not benevolent enough to be a union man I still would be too selfish to be a disunionisu I w ill not wan tonly throw away my biessings. No people ever were, in the whole range of human histo ry, more blessed of God, than we are. Shall we peril what we are and what we possess for the remote and contingent good of disunion! A conflict with the Union, would visit the country with devastation, for three generations to come. If our disunion friends succeed—say that without bloodshed a Southern confederacy were organized. Would our condition e then improved ? Would our slave institutions be more secure ? But I forbear. You perceive gentlemen, that I do not pretend to argue these propositions. My object is only, in the briefest space, to express opinions. I have but ene more remark to mak«. When Georgia deliberately, through the clear ly ascertained voice of her people, takes h:r final stand, I shall adhere to her fortunes, be they what they may. At this lime, in my humble view of the matter o- disunion movement, would be equivaent’ to a causelew deatruc.ion cf the richest and most numerous biessirrs, with which Providence bas ever ye', crowned a People. Respectfully your friend. E. A. Nisbet. Messrs. Milner, Johnson, and Word, Caa ville Georgia. ‘‘Stand up to Ike RaeSr," &c. Wa have Lved quite too 1c to be turned firox eur purpose by an r.r rcit j ffart, s>.ys the Coivoibns E :'/virsr, :o change t’.e real iss< a before the people Thai ue v’sa Ce uerate ly mid m -c.ky mad jctchc commencement of the present r xcitoman\ and Wore then furiocs for a fi :ht and taglnj for disunion, who are now rcni'e <l3 letubj an ? itho con’d not. if yen kt T.-?m tc :! the tale, ba kicked on: cf d e Co: 1 > act. This kind of a is atr. o come uve'-me.? w?o ;;nd people wi I leliiiw 31 k:-/d of leaders teat xre be.it op the oeßtrttciroa of the Govereinent. In this region esd'•<« believo ire miv ha r.aid of i tr.»-r periivcs o ’ ike Sra:*-, :•re -5/- .- a gradual ge*.zj&£ down biair.3 ucd’. m&c with a candle can acaret*y find tr.s whereahoice o' m-.uy who r *:r.ce f’.- so on •:;«? i- • Step, and lus'i.f criid u ’r»a “Had to the a »<u of the Vcion, and a. glory to the Southern Confederacy.” Weil, tuc boys nave come down stairs, as baicre remarked, and waat credit is due them VuL.LXTV —NEW SERIES VOL. XIV—NO 45. lor .0 doing 1 Had they bean ,n«t»ined by the people, would they not have ruahed madly onto tbe con.mnmetion of their original pur pose. and would thay have etopped ehorl oi that diraetroue point to which all their schemes were so fearfully and eo rapidly tending 1 And will .hey not now, if th»y can gal the power, go back to their fire; lore and carry oat their edious views of disunion, secession, &c. as greedily as before ? They wanted at first nothing but the power—and that they thought I sty bed —to go forward and plunge the country in all the untold end unimaginable horrors es intestine war and eivii strife. Con vinced, after a brief but desperate struggle, that such a course would not be sanctioned by the oopular voice they have now changid tkeir moi’c of warfare, and go for some kind of resistance, heretofore undefined and prelc r.bly icndefinaM -■ I The Convention which has been called is to do the resisting. Are we to be toid that it mat ters notw‘at that body may ordain? Shall we ba told that thousand* of the public troasu iy is to he .pent in concocting plsns for tbe present or future dismembermeist of this glo rioas union ? That it is to assemble to make vaiisat throats oi future resistance against ag grnrsions that in all human probability may never be made ? Or will that body meet and prepare for tbe sailing of another Convention at Nashville, to frame our Constitution, ordain test oaths for Son’barn men, and mtke all due preparation for a final triumph of the disnmonisis? We know indeed for whatpur poye the law permitted a call of the Conven tion. but what it may do, should it unfortunate ly be conopased of wrosg materials, He who knows the futuro as well as tho present alone can tell. Are the people then satisfied that, for existing evils, thio government ought not to be destroy ed ? Aro they net convinond that the rights of tho South are refer in the Union, than out of it ? Can they see, if wo aro weak new, how we will suddenly grow strong, ami assume the twwer as giants by a dtreelHttuQ ? Those are , a - It. .....^cviseviipyeet-, to *hA* Antia the't' Tly tubs 'ffh-ectly fer . tW. iccotnpßfemeM of Bush an end. They dare not doit and meet the indignant frowns es their constituents; bat they will coma up with their ultimatums shu qua cans, a>d ail caoh Latin nonsense, pledging the Slate to what never can ba per formed, and drawing Lor with ail her brave and generous sons into positions from which they can never escape w?h honor, er with the Ueien. Away with aueb men. Tho daring disunieniats cau and will be nest and put down; lhe more timid, bat equally dangerous advo cates for secession, will be treated iu the same way. The present danger ia that the people may be deceived, and that men will slip into the Convention professing great love for the Union and government of the country, who will, if they have the power, plaoe as in the predicament above mentioned. The action of the last Congress is before the people. If in that action it has er can bo shown that tbe honor of tho South has been tarnished, or tho Constitution of the country violstad, it will be time enough to resort to measures es redress which look to open re sistance. In our view of tho matter, there are but two kinds of resistance, one by tho regu lar constituted authorities of the government acting within the lias of their constitutional duties, tho other by force and such revolution ary movements as set tho Constitution at defi ance, and look to the destraction of the pre sent form of government. Look well, then, to what men mean when they dismount from the disunion hobby, and talk about resistance. It all means the tamo thing, and tends to tbe same end. When we get ready to resist the constitutional laws of the country, wo shall be ready to dissolve tho Uaion—and not before. Ala. Wkbitkb ass His Position.—Bub joined are copies of two letters referring in a very interesting manner to the political posi tion assumed by Mr. Webster at the moment when the late orisis in the public affairs of this country began to assume a threatening aspect. The Hon. Isaac Hill, of New Hampshire, we need not remind the reader, has long been a prominent man in the Democratic ranks, and in that capacity has uniformly bean an oppo nent of Air. Webster in the struggles of the two parlies. But when the Union was in danger, he felt that his country had strong er claims upon him than his party, and he did not hesitate to express his decided approbation of the course of Mr. Webster in his effort* to avert the impending national calamity. The frankness end magnanimity of Mr. Hill’s be haviour, in this instance, do him die highest honor, while they place in an exalted light tho enlarged patriotism of tha great statesman, who has been ablo to win »o marked a tribute of pn.ino from a plilicai opponent:— Boston Courier. Mr. Hill to Mr. Webster. N. H , April 17, 1850. Hon. Daniel Webster :—Deer Sir.— For the last eight years, partially in ill health, I have been more a looker on than an acliva partici pator in the political movements of the day. narring and mutiiatißg, a, ihay bave, much of the legitimate and proper action of that body. With the power of prophecy, the pre science es Washington fastened in l-ttars of adamant, a rebuke on the spirit of disunion, witch time c n never obliterate. With this early impression fixed on my mind, I hardly need atty that I have been gratified tcy. r.d measure wilh the coarse taken by the great statesman of the Senate, thus far, in the present session. In relation to your senior in that body, da ring the days 1 was at Washington, I was struck with admiration at the temper which would not be provoked ii> to controversy, when taunts were thrown as to the mainte nance of favori e theories an] opinions. The death of Mr. Calhoun has proved that a great man may b« wrong in many things and yet pass off as on a sun oi’ glory. I,was in the Senate Chamber on the exciting occasion of the reading of the last effort of that truly great, but as 1 have behaved, long mistaken and now deeply lamented man. My old resentments in opposition to nullifica tion were revived, and so expressed in the pregress of that bearing, and I should on the impulse of the moment, have answered him in a different temper from that whichyon disolav ed in your great speech afterwards. On read ing the first imperfect report of it, I saw, at onco, how much be'ter to the nervous dying man wa« your kindly answor than might have been my own. During the four weeks which 1 passed at Washington last winter, 1 will con fess to you that, at first, my concern on account of an anticipated alienation and disruption of eur glorious Union, threw all party differences into the back-ground ; it exceeded, if possible, the anxiety I lelt when there seemed to be no chance of escaping a eoeflict es blood be tween one of the eld noble Thirteen, and the Confederation, of which she was a part, seme seventeen years previous. In the progress of these four weeks, I was pleased to perceive new evidences es attachment to the Union ; no less on the part nf nearly every man cam ing from a slave-holding State, than on the part es those coming from Blates claiming to be free. I came to the conclusion that net a man in a thousand wished a disruption, and I lost no opportunity in thus assuring my most alarmed friends. Balmy only purpose In writing yoa this loiter, is to say, that in defiance of what the press of ei.her party may bear upon the sur face, all that is of value in the sound discrimi t«ation aud good sense es the people will de ciare io favor of the great principles of yeur late Uhde* Speech io the Senate. he author may stand upon that alone, and he will best stand br disregarding any and every imputation of alleged inconsistency or discrepancy of epinion or practice, io a pub lic career es nearly half a century. lam, with great respeel, yooreb't serv’t, Isaac Hill. flfr. Trebster'g Reply to Mr. Hill. Washington, April 20, 1850. Hon. haac Hdl ‘.—Dear Sir, —I regard such a letter from you as that of the 17th of this month, as an extraordinary and gratifying inci dent in my life. For a long course of years, we have belonged to opposing parties, espous ed opposite measures, and supported for high office, men of very different political opin ions. Wo have not, however, taken different views of duty, in respect to the maintenance of the Constitution of the United States. From your voice, or yonr pen, any more than from mine, there never has proceeded a sentiment hostile to “ that Unity es government which constitutes ns one people.” Aod now, when we are no looger young, a state of things has arisen seriously interrupt ing the harmony and mutual good will which hare hi herto existed between different parts of the country, excited violent local animosi ties, impeding the regular and ordinary prog ress of (he Fwvernnaent, and fraught with tnu chiefs of every description. And a!l this his r.j o r ’® nin certxiu branches of tue blayery question, which as it appears to me, are either qui;e n.iim?or an’. in themse ! ves, or clearly set lied and deierm. ed by the Constitution. A :! this I have seen wi b tint keen regret which you experienced yourself, and wbica (iS'inet but be a common fe l.ng wiih ?. irefi ? men, who are lovers es their coun try. To this unhappy state of the poh’ic mind, in I have feU it tny du- ado uotin -he language of iin ac, er: e.f j . .a or menace, biK .'s of pa.riouc syrupa'hy, and fraton.ai rozird. My effort his L*eco. and wi'i be. ’o 4 w ex <r-t «»1 m•pe v« er, to cause tue biliows u'.. € sud daiiierousdoKie»tic controversy to skep : audbc stiil. I am a.i fnily asvero es oil er men of what is to i.is cx .icc.ed from such H’tcmpts In h.g )ly exr-ed ti:oes. it is far easier to fan and f<A.d tin UiT.*s es passion and drc« rd. tinn to £iib d .? litem : a* J in ?uch times, he wno c-' ucseU u.-j ’c: i'-’.-i ir a cf being as fa. ; a hiscuiy t • party. T : c n -.o 1 meet, these • ' s?. - I e cr wrhoiH heeitsuion; ba- • if ■. •’.» t: ■r-.rtTv mt self, with wr.aiovcr - t a-. Lelocg to tne, unreservedly, into die teal 3of UXsox. Wh-ire Waehinfton led, I i.. 2 v»iivi«g ?.o follow, at u vaet dr-.auce in deed, and wrn unecua!, bat no fidtering The speech which yon commend eo much above ite 1 submit to 100 poiiueal party t» whieh I belengj and t o the wise and patrio- V?.™*’ 1 °f *ll parties. in the generation in which 1 live ; end I cheerfully leave it. with the prin ciples and sentiments which it avows, to the judgment of posterity, if I n;ay flatter anything spoken or written by wte, will be remembered long enough to eome before that impartial and august tribunal. I am, with great regard, Your obedient servant. , Daniel Webster. Texas--the Compromise Bill. Wb eopy from the Memphis Eagle the fol lowing synopsis of a letter of the Texas Com missioner of the Land office, as to the course that State should pnrsue in reference to the late bill of Congress proposing to adjust its boundary, which we commend to the perusal of every reader, and especially to the disn nionists who have recently manifested so inech concern for Texas affairs that tbey were not content to permit her to manage them herself. Indeed, so impertinent and officious were they, that they urged upon the people of that State to “spuru the bribe ’’offered by the general government. Leaving the world o infer, should she accept the proposition, that her people had been bribed to “dismember the State,” as though they had nota right to sell any portion of her territory to the United States or either of the coterminous Slates, if they deemed it good poliey. Interxstiko Letter rnoM the Commis sioner or the General Land Ornes or Texas. —The Austin Texas (State) Gazette, of Sept. 23th, contains a very interesting letter from Hon. George VV. Smyth, the State Commissioner of Public Lande, on the subject of the acceptance of Pearce’s bill. He co gently urges in favor of the State’s acceptance of the bill, and demonstrates clearly, that it is largely to the interest of Texas to accept. Some es the facts stated are of such general interest that we do**->» Mv-te fire our readers ■t ■,:» first describ- . line marked out in fiiti, as triite-’icV the desolate waste Whieh ifftervenea bet s een the Canadian and the Arkansas ' area of Texas, including that portion whiuh the United Stales government proposes to buy (66,000,000 of acres) at two hundred and forty-twe millions of seres. If Texas should accept the proposition of the United States, she would still cover the immense extent of one hundred and seventy-six millions of acres. Os this, partial surveys have been made only in a territory covering ninety millions of acres. Under any circumstances “ there would still remain to Texas an unappropriated public domain of eighty-six millions of acres, over no part of which has the surveyor ever stretched hisebain—her entire public domain being probably aot less than one hundred and twenty-six millions of acres, all estimated in round numbers." The ten million of dollars would give Texas sixteen and two thirds cents for every acre of the land she codes to the United States. Under her own management, Texas conld never hope to realise the one foarth es that sum from it, her own public laads, es unexceptionable quality, not selling for more than eight cents per acre, tboogh ra ted at silty eeats. The only earthly use of the lands to bo ceded will be to locate Indian tribes in the Territory, and that is the business of the United Slates. Mr. Sy mthe recalls a remarkable historical fact, viz: That when the Treaty of Annexa tion was under consideration, the people of Texas were anxious to cede to the United States not merely sixty-six millions of waste uninhabitable territory, buttheir whole public domain, of one hundred and eighty millions es acres, good as well as bad, upon terms al most precisely similar to those now offered Texas, and that upon the refusal of the United Stales to accept that portion of the Treaty, gloom and sorrow overspread the whole State. We rather suspect that our young sister feels larger since then, aad wishes to show her temper. He again quotes authority to show the worthless character of the territory proposed to be ceded, and adds: “ The only portion of thia country which is possessed of any intrinsic value, is that along the Rio Grande, (already occupied,) and some small streams which are tributary to it, and a few valleys of small extent among the gorges of the Rocky Mountains. There are, doubtless, some fertile valleys, also, on the principal streams ; but their entire destitution of timber, and their remoteness from all com mercial facilities, render them of little value.” Mr. Smyth argues that independent of other considerations, so far as the elaveholding inter est is concerned, it is to the interest of Texas to get rid of the territory. He says that the nature of the country which will then be West of the boundary of Texas “will, forever, form an effectual barrier against too close a proximi ty of settlements in the neighboring State, being entirely unfit for the permanent residence of civilized man, and only calculated for wander ing tribes. 11 this Territory be given to the Uni’*''? Stater, it must become Indian Territory : the meuts up to the source of they are, all, slave-holding, Texas wdi, there fore, have a ilave-holding community between herself and New Mexico. Mr. Smythe intimates that a very formidable free soil sentiment is crowing in Toxas and thinks the smallest addition of power to it would be dangerous. He proceeds to show ho-.v the acceptance of Pearce’s bill would benefit Texas; it would pay her debts, and leave lie- with three millions cash in hands. To attempt to enforce her claims on Sante Fe would plunge her hope lessly into debt, and might shatter the Union. Tbe Santa Fe country he terms “ this body of death ,” and asks why should Texas burthen hersolf withit? He very ably shows that the retention of live millions until releases of the United States from all Texas debts are filed at Washington, is nothing but an ordinary trans, action, not an intuit, and that Texas herself is to decide upon claims against her, pay or re ject them as she thinks proper. Mr. Smythe contends that the United States government has shown in this bill a kind, gen erous, conciliatory spirit—an earnest and direct disposition to settle an unfortunate and threat ening controversy, and maintain, unbroken, the harmeny of the Union. It lias knowingly offered Texas, as the price of peace, an im mense sum for what is comparatively worth teas. Mr. Smythe writes like a clear headed, honest, sensible man, who says frank.y and plainly what ha believes. This able letter must prove a successful missionary of peace add good counsels. Georgia.—The battle to be fought in Geor gia in the election of members to the Couven tion recently called by Gov. Towns, says the Memphis Enquirer, will be the moat important contest that has ever taken place in that State. Os the result we entertain not a doubt. The Legislature of Georgia ia not the people of Georgia. Her patriotic sons will never sanc tion secsstion or disunion, because of the ad mission of California. The act of the Legis lature and the spirit in which it was passed will be repudiated and oondamned by them. The members of the Convention to ba regularly elected by the people—not appointed by large and respectable meetings of half a dozen wire workers —who will have an opportunity, in the discassions whish will ensue, to hear all and everylside of the question, and to make up their minds fully and maturely. Wo look forward confidently to there being a decided majority in the convention of Union loving conservatives, who will be opposed to seces sion or any such extravagance and folly. If we are not mistaken in this, the action of the Convention may become most beneficial, by presenting with that calm, firm dignity which never fails to command respect, the duty which devolvos upon the North to put down and stop abolition agitators ; awaken ing in sister States in the South, a spirit of prac tical improvement of their natural resources! The position of Georgia, as the State whiebhas done most of all slaveholding States to render herself independent, is one full of a powerful moral influence, if she will but rightly exert it. h<r toil us by what means she has attained her present comparative independence of Northern manufactures, and stimulate us by the exhibition ofher example to the creation of means of intercommunication with our own seaports, instead of counselling us with words of “delusion and folly” about “disunion” and ••secession”—let her, in short, act as becomes one of the **Old Thirteen,” whose blood having been shed to cement the Union, knows its in estimable value—and she will establish for her self a name whiea will make it in tru’h a pride to be called a Georgian. That she will act so berly, wisely and in a spirit of attachment to the Union, tv a will not permit ourselves to doubt. In a general election by her citizens, we shall have the voice ofher people, not the clamor of little wenld-bo politicians, striving by appeals to passion and prejudice to attain a provincial, crors-roads greatness. Pataiotio and Manly.—The New York G'obe, referring to the s’.orm which fanatics are endeavoring to rai»e against the execution of the fugitive slave bill, bolds the followings Isnritege. We have oo doubt that these sen timents n ’icate the feeliog of the masses of New York, and that the first drop of blood - .ed in resistance of the law will be followed by such a lesson as Fmaticisse has never yet received in thia couctry : 4 -Our Sautbcrn friends must bear with us yet longer. Things niusr grow wcr«e here be <r - they are belter. Some of the Beecher or Lowell Fanatics, or some nftheir negro allies, r.tu':’. shoot down aP w officers who may at terrpi to dn thvir duty • y executing the laws, •nd then the spir<. of the Nonh wHt be arous rd. ff we fii-tnen to teach abolition and the ‘higher law’ miscreants a lesson which will for ever silcr.ee their treasonable babble—then let ’ .e Stiu brvly ea their or. n strung hands and just rights. “ There is honesty, and virtue, and patriot ism at the North sufficient to rebuke the Ion! j s rit of faciion —.» trample under loot the eno ; mit?s of the Union. It requires but tha i excitement of some startling overt act of
