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BY WILLIAM S. JONES.
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for each subsequent insertion.
Jot Sale.
Columbia County Land.
a t A THE subscriber offers for eale
bis FARM io Columbia county, 27 CS-B
|Hjpß milaaabove Augusta, oa the Augueta
sad vVashingtoo road, containing Five Hundred tnd
Twenty-one (521) Acree, near’y one fourth wood
land. Persona wishing to purchase, will please call
on the premises, or address the subscriber at Win
field, Ga. Eight Hundred Acres adjoining this land
c*o be bought oa good terms.
au3o-wtf V. M. BA RKES.
'
a 1 WE OFFER, at private sale, <
fsasaft that valuable PLANTATION of **•.
the late Charles Cunningham, de
eeased, lying on Reck t Comfort Creek, in JdTer
son c'-unty, fire miles from Louitrilie,
3,697 acres, which we will sell altogether, or divide
Into three tracts.
The Solitude tract contains- • •• 1,307 acres.
TheGranson do. ••••1,120 do.
The Woo’stock do. ••••1,270 do.
All three of these tracts have good Dwellings on
them, and a valuable Mill on one of tao tracts, with
Gm, running by water.
We also offer 150 NEGROES, with MULES.
STOCK, PROVISIONS, &c., die. If not disposed
of at private sale, we will posi.irely sell tee I ends
at public oatcry, in Louisville, Jefferson county, ca
the first Tsesdny in December next, and the Negroes,
Stock, Provisions, Ac.. Ac., on the first Tues jay in
January. Terms liberal.
JOHN BONE 3, )
WM. J. EVE, VEx’re.
OWEN P. FITZSIMONS)
Augusta, Geo., Aug. 20. au2o wtDl
FOR SALE.
MTIIE subscriber offers for sale
his valuable PLANTATION con- W*
tainingß39| awes, in Columbia coun- -3
es from Augusta, ’ying immediately ou the
road leading from Jas Luke’s, Erq., to Harden’s
Perry. On the premises is a good DWELLING
HOUSE, and ail necessary out-bnildiogs, with tbe
best kind of well arranged Negro Housa*. Th-.-re is
also an excellent Gin House and Packing Screw
There is also on the premises a gcod spring and well
of water. Tbe Lande are fine productive cotton and
corn land, as good as in tbe county, and well situa
ted. Terms made easy.
Anyone wishing to purchase can get any ’nforma
tion wished by addressing ae at Eubank's P. O.
Columbia county, Ga. Any r<?rw>a visiting the
place, I will take great pfoaenre in showing them
the plantation.anS-tfA. C- JONES.
FOR SALE,
a THE subscriber offers for sale his
PLANTATION in Lincoln county, 'bSw
lying on the waters of Lift!© River, -®-
»ly on the road leading from Washington to
Augusta, (via Raysville.) On the place is a large
and commodious Dwelling, togethei with a I neces
sary out buildings, calculated to give ecnveuicnce
and security to a planter. It contains about 1,000
acres, near 459 under cultivation, and about 41’0 in
the woods. For further information come an ’ax
amine, or address me by etter at Rayevil’e, Ga. --
Terms easy. au9 w 5 J. M. CUTLIPF.
Plantation for Sale.
MTIIE subscriber oilers for sale,
his PLANTATION, four miles enet CT*
of Appling, Columbia county, and -A.
from Augusts, containing about 975 acres,
one half of which is uncleared. On tho piece is a
good comfortable DWELLING with all tse neces
sary cut-buildings, including Negro H»us»9, Cribs,
Barn, Gin House, Packing Screw, tec., uh in gcod
repair, and a most excollent spring; ai.d the wbo’c
tract is very well watered.
Terne liberal, and possession given by or Lefor
the first ol January, 1b52. He can also supply th
purcbax r with 12 to 160!) bus-.elve 'rn.
Persuns who desire to purchase will please call and
examine the premises.
wtfM. E. VEGGIE.
Valuable Land for Sale.
Jjgr.nA I NOW OFFER for SALE ~
one of tbe uioet HeJrablc FARMS m
fly-Middfo Georgia, and one ot tbe most “***
.Jfraugtoi and U aftrbe country,
by any place in tbt erftntry for it:
eonrenient arrangement? and fixtareu r.f edi kinds
necessary for comfort and convenience, water,
and as healthy as any place io Georgia, It being and
lying in Upsou county, on Tobler’e Creek, contain
ing near eleven hundred acres, well watered. About
half of the land open, and a large portion of it freab;
lies well for our country That in the woods well
timbered ; has a good Mill Scat on it, a large Gin
House and Granary together, being 64 frat Inng and
32 feet wide. T a tan 4 has some excellent meadows
for grazing. If desired, 1 will sell my crop of corn,
fodder, oaie, Ac , which, notwithstanding tbodrought,
will be a plentiful supply made, and my stock ol all
kinds. Terms easy aud to suit purch taers.
Jy22 wtf J. C. W. LINDSAY.
PLANTATION FOR BAIi3.
. THE VKDKRSIGNED oiic ‘ ' JTJU.
<S3 his PLANTATION for rale, containing WOW
-A. the rise of 3,700 Acres, 1,200 acres in A. ,
the woods, tbe mast of which is well timbered. Lit- 1
tie River runs through said land, equally dividing it,
Into Wilkes county, 9| miles from Washington, and 1
Columbia county, 13 miles from Thomson Depot,
Georgia Rail Road; good improvements of every
kind, including Grist and Saw .Mills. Price, 85 per
acre, one-half to ba paid on riving possession the
25th Deo. next, the balance free ot interest twelve
months foliowingJune 12, 1651.
jelß-wtf JOHN Q. WEST.
FOR SALE.
MTIIE SUBSCRIBER offers for
sale hie FAMILY RESIDENCE in tho
Town of Marietta. It is located in a de*
art of town, is well improved contains
about two acres. The dwelling baa nine r«K«is and
©nr Lavement, all well finished. Possession oai be
bad the first of July.
For terms, apply to Col. David Dobbs, Wm. P.
Yonng. or John P. Arnold, in the absence of
Aa! ap3Q w NEIiSON M. BENTON.
®lol
VKEW-KSK.y
COTTON* WOOL, Jim-Crow and Horae
CARDS, ol the above celebrated stamps, are
of unequalled euality, and wherever introduced, take
the place ot all others. They are manufactured on
our new improved machinery, and each pair is war
ranted in every respect. Oar inferior Cards— the
common '• Whittemore*’ stamp—are of the usual
well known quality.
Sold by the Hardware houses in all the cities, and
Country Msrcbanta, and to the tr.de, by the Menu- ,
facturers. JOS. B. SARGENT,
mylO-wly* 24 Cliff-Street, Neu> York.
THE MONTGOMERY MANUFAC
TURING COMPANY’S IRON-WORKS.
M.atjom.ry, AUh.m.,
Manufacture, in superior style, Hori- I
seats! and Upright STEAM ENGINES, of
all sizes; Steam BOILERS; LOCOMOTIVES;
Cast-iron WATER WHEELS; Sugar MILLS;
Saw and Grfat Mill IRONS, of evr*y variety, (in
cluding Hoxie's continuous feet for Saw Eu
nine and Hand I ATHES; Iron and Brass CAST
INGS, of ail kinds. Oto., Arc.
All orders ft n <h’» <een»«afe.
ar22 GINDRAT A CO.
SURGICAL INSTITUTE
DKS. H. F. A R. CAMPBELL have estab
lished an INFIRMARY in Augusta, for tbe
treatment ot and Chronic Diseases. Here
respectfully call the attention of the Profcseioa and
the public to their InMitutiou. Neceasary Surgical
operatione will be performed by Dr. Hkmsy Camf
bcll; all ocher treatment will be rendered by them
jointly.
Pa : tents sent from tbe country will receive every
necessary at teation during their eojoura in nur city.
siooo reward”
DR. HUNTER’S celebrated SPECIFIC, for
the cure of Gonorrhea, Strictures, Gleet and
Analagous Complaints of the Ot gans of Generatu a
cr Os all remedies vet diecovered for the above
oemplaiat, thia is the most certain.
UY* It makes a speedy and permanent cure with
out restriolioa to diet, drink, exposure, or change of
application t»» business.
Sit w perfectly hannh'ss. Gallons of it might
en without !«;□ ring the |«tient.
53T It »®put up in Volt ins, with fall directions ar
comp-iuying k, so that persona can cure themselves
without resorting to physieiaae or oviero t r advice.
Or One bottle is generally enough to perform a
cure. Price 81.
Qrlt is approved and r-commended by the Roy
al College of Ph\ icitts and Surgeons of London,
and hat their certificate eactoeed.
O'* l fa sold by app.sc:;aeot io New York by
Robert Elkt dr Sou, and in Augusta, Ga., at No.
195, Metcalr. Broad strmt ay 16
FIRE AND WATER PROOF SLATE
PAINT
ctk<apea< and okm datable Paint for Root's,
X Pence*, out bntldiag. and alt eoaroe wo: it. It
hu beea adopted by alt tbe Railroad J through mu
th. wuairy foe p.i<u-n< freight ear* Matron boa.—,
bndgro, &e.
*"WV °f Sla'.eP<u,t W,|| bo kept M hand, aad
an many q laauuss wanted. Dealers who mar
wnntilbvihe to* will be applied at proprieu r't
pna.wuhedditi.-a o*
HAVILAND, RISLEY A CO,
I _ W’hnleea’e Drug,: st*.
Tl COPARTNERSHIP
H i u ™ ret *’ a * d bavtnjtbw day narchaeed of
John <_ ;*rte bte in'e'eK in tne fo.e firm ot
L Clarke Rsmey Wl (i eooiittiw the GROCERY
ti BUSINESS, mda uu fen rs K * s„„
G here aw on tuad a larg. .»'i g. >eral amor-
■ BW, ol goola, whKh Will be dupow.i of on t*o
! bom aeoauMdatiag torw.
j JOHN D. RAMEY,
i SAM U G. STOKt.
~FLOYD HOUSE,
MACONGEORGIA.
I a, w THIS WELL known and popular Ho-
4 tel, having been recently repaired and put
PPal in complete order, is now open for the re
ce’u« a of Boarders and Transient persons. The
proprietor pledges himself that nothing shall be want
ing cn his part, to make and continue it one of the
most popular Hotels in the South.
30* The Ladies’ Department is under the special
care of Mrs. JAMES, formerly of Columbus, and
favorably known to the traveling community, who
will see that nothing is wanting to make visiting La
dies and Families entirely at home, their r.partment
having been newly and beatifully furnished.
THUS. WILLIAMS, Proprietor.
A. B. Habtwell, Superintendent.
N. B. —An Omnibus will always be in readiness
to convey Passengers to and from the Railroad De-
PO(G.
Alligator Line of Stages has its office per- :
manentiy located at the Floyd House.
jy3-w6m F. K. WRIGHT, Owner.
MERIWETHER WARM SPRINGS.
A THIS establishment will be open for
f~ - V the reception of visitor©, on and after the
pigjH first day of June. Visitors will at all
times, find a ready conveyance from Greenville, or
Pleft ' at Hill, and a four horse Post Ccach, three
time© a week from Columbus to the Spring. Th
Proprietor will alec keep Hacks and other convej
:inces at tbe Spring for s he conveyance of hie guests
rrv!s-w‘ol J. L. MUSTIAN. Prorrfotrr.
bradfieldThote l
a SOUTH-EAST CORNER jSjj?b
or THS SillL
PUBLIC SQUARE,
LaGrangeGeorgia.
my24-w6m*
EAGLE HOTEL,
MADISONVILLE, TENNESSEE.
lAIIE SUBSCRIBER takes pleasure
L in returning his thanks to his friendsand
the public, for the very liberal patronage here- -*“*B.
lofore extended to him. And having recently im
proved and extended his buildings eo as to afford the
bast accommodations to almost any number of trav
ellers and persons wishing boarding, he confidently
expects an increase of public favor and patronage.
Building situated on second block south cf the
Public Square—one hundred and fifty feet long—
rooms regularly laid off and well furnished. He is
also «veil prepared to take the best care of horses, Ac.
Stable large and secure —careful and attentive ser
vants. In short, the greatest attention will be paid,
and pains taken, to render all comfortable who may
cal! at the Eagle Hotel. JOSEPH R. RUDD.
Madisonville, August 3, 1850. au3-wtf
FRANKLIN HOTEL,
aBRO V.; STREET, August., Ga.,
on a square above the Globe Hotel, on the
4outh side ot Broad stree*.
n!0-wly D. 15. RAMSEY, Proprietor.
gJ’" l " '■ i' ll ■ ■" ■
2£tw Uork
HOR’S CAST STEEL CIRCULAR
AND LONG SAW 3.
rRNUK subscribers manufacture from the best cast
-3L 6te“l, CIRCULAR SAWS, from two inches
to five feet d'emeter. These saws are carefully har
dened an l tempered, and are ground and finished by
machinery designed expressly for tho purple, and
are therefore much superior in truth and uniformity
of surface to those gronnd in the usual manner
They require less sei, less power to drive them, and
are not »o liable to become heated, and produce a
saving of timber.
They also manufacture Cast Steel MILL PIT and
CROSS CUT SAWS and BILLET WEBS, of su
perior quality, all of which they have for sale at their
ware rooms, Noe. 29 and 31 Gold street, or they
may be obtained of the principal Hardware mer
chants in the United States.
R. HOE &CO.,
Printing Preer, Machine and Saw Makers,
29 an l 31 Gold street.
The following extract is from a report made by a
committee of scientific and practical gentlemen, ap
pointed by the American Institute.
•• Your committee are of unanimous opinion, that
in the apparatus invented by Mr. R. M. Hoe, for
grinding saws, he has displayed great ingenuity and
tact in the adapterion of machinery to the production
cf result© in the manufacture of saws, which may
with propriety fco denominated the nt plu* ultra of
the art ”
Publishers of newspapers who will insert thia ad
vertisement three times with thia note, and forward
us a |>aper containing the same, wiil bo paid in print
inr ma’tiria’s, by purchasing four times the amount
of their bill for the advertise i»ent. jy26- wGm
L AxuTIMORK 3TBAM SOAP AND
CAN’OLE WORKS
SUB&CIIIB ICIIS are now manufaotur
fl ing, and hare on hand—
Dclninnl Sperm CANDLES; Adamantine Do.;
Mould Tallow Do., (warranted to stand any climate);
Lcrd Oil, Yetlow. Brawn, and Black SOAPS; Va
riegated Bar Do.; White Bar Do.; Fuller’s SOAPS;
Fancy SOAPS, of new styles and superior quality,
to they desire to invite the aiteatiou of Soutn
oin Merchants in making their Fall purchases, with
a conviction that they can cflTer inducements, as re
gards quality aud prices, equal to any.
SMITH A CURLETT,
Corner Holliday and Pleasant sts., Balumoro.
BILLIARD TABLHS.
/HUE SUBSCKIJIKU.S offer for sale TA
JC fFrirt?‘ten per cent, less than any other estub-
Irehment in the erty of New York, with the Cloth,
or Patent Rubber Cushions, Merble, Mahogany and
Pino r.eda, which we warrant to be of bert mater al
and workmanship. (/loth, Bails, Cues, French
Leal hers, siik and worsted Pockets.
N B.—Al! orde.-s by mail, for Tables or Trim
rnings, pr'-rnptly attended to
GRIFFITH & DECKER,
90 Ann st., corner of Gold-st., New York.
je2i-w‘3ua
tSljarkston aiixurtiscniaits.
CARD.
JL the Attention of the Country Merchants in
Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee, to their very ex.
tensive and well assorted Stock of
GROCURIKH, LIQUORS, <ko., Ac.,
COMPRISING
£ 400 hlids. Clarified N. O. aud Muscovado SUGARS
: 100 packages Clarified and Powdored Do.,
g 350 do. Crushed and Loaf Do.,
Cuba, Rio, and Java COFFEE,
3,000 pieces Dundee BAGGING, 44 to 46 inohes,
weighing If to 1| lbs.,
109 bale© heavy GUNNY CLOTH,
1,000 coils | inch Hemp ROPE,
500 hh la. BACON SIDES, (Baltimore curing,)
10) do. Choice SHOULDERS.
100 do. Muscovado MOLASSES,
1,000 bbls. N. (>. SYRUP,
1,200 do. Rectified WHISKEY,
300 do. N. E. RUM,
100 do. Northern GIN,
200 packages French and Domestic BRANDY,
IrO do. Mad. and Tenn. WINE,
100 do. Sweet Malaga Do.,
150 box°i TOBACCO, assorted qualities,
300 M SEGARS, various brands,
rO cask* London PORTER,
300 boxes Sperm and Adamantine CANDLES,
Together with SOAI’S, S’ ARCH. RAISINS, SPI
CES, TEAS, CHAMPAGNE, CORDIALS, SY
RUPS, PICKLES, and ail articles usually kept in
their line, which they offer for sale on accommoda
ting teicno.
Orders rrosptlv and faithfully executed.
SIMS de. NANCE,
No. 1 Hnyne street, corner Church, Charleston,
S. C. mv3!-wt< 1
University of Nashville.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
THE FIK.ST A.n.al Coarse of LECTURES
In this Department will ccomeoce on the first
MONDAY io NOVEMBER neit, and continue till
tbe firet of tbe ensuing March.
PAUL P. EVE, M.r>,, Piofissror of Surgical
Anatomy an.! Clinical Surgery.
JOHN M. WAT.-ON, M. l>., Profereorof Ob- •
fCeltic, and the Diroasee cf Women and Children. '
A. H. BUCHANAN, M. D., P ofearor of Surge- '
nr. 1
W. K. BOWLING, M. 0., ProfesKr .f the Insti- I
tutes aud Praetic* cf Me lie ne.
C. K. WINSTON, M. D., Proses or o! Materia ,
Medic* and Clinical Medicine.
RUHEK VM. POR TER, M D., Professor of Ana- ’
touiy and Physiotcgv.
J BERRIEN LINDSLEY, M. D., Proiessorcf J
1 Che i uiry and Pharmacy. <
Wil LIAM T. BRIGGS, M. D., Demonstrator of ■
Anatomy. ,
The Aua'omical rooms will be epened for rudenu,
cn the 6rrt Monday in October.
Fee of each Prote**?r sls. Matriculation ticket
$5; DiMcnting ticket 810; Graduation fee 825.
Good board can be obtained in the city at from S2j
t» $3 per week. Further information may be ob
tained by addressing the Dean
J B. LINDSLEY, M. D., Dean.
en24-tw2Aw3»
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
'TMIK TWENTIETH COVRSE OF
JL LECTURES in this Institution will commence
mi the first Monday in NOVEMBER next.
G. M. NEWTON, M. D Anatomy.
L. A. DUGAS, M D.—Surgery.
L D. FORD, M. D—lnstitute* and Practice of
Modi e.
H. V. MILLER, M. D. —Physiology and Pa-
thotogteal Ar*’. ■»>’.
I. P. GARVI M I).—Materia Medic* and The
ra peo'-ica-
J. A. EVE, M. D.— bstetr.es aud Diseases of
Women and Infants.
ALEXANDER MEANS. M. I*. —Chemistry anJ
Pharmacy.
H. F.CAMPBELL, M. D—Democ-tr .tcrof Anat
omv.
ROBERT CAMPBELL, M. D.—AmuUM De
mo??st rator.
A Course of Leetur?s on Me.iical Jurisprudence
wil, oe delivered by th© Professor cf Ma eria Medi
cs, and Clinical Leouire* will be given regularly at
the City Ho.', ’.al. Ample arrangements have oe*a
made ler the study of Practical Anatomy.
Piotr vM* Dv**s a*J M*a>s are now in Europe,
send will return before rhe beginning of the Course
with manv valuable additions to the prevent means
for dem or st ration tn the Yarious branches.
For airy further information, application may be
made to a*v member of tbe faeultv, or to
G. M. NEWTON, Dean.
Augusta, July, 1851. jy3l-w3m
Jjr’ The Raleigh Register, Lincolnton Republican,
Ashville Messenger. North Carolina; Charleston
Courier, Southern Christian Advocate. Greenville
McuoZaineer, Laurensv.lle Herald, South Carolina ;
Knoxville Register, Nashville Banner, Nashville
Uufoa, Memphis Eagle, Memphis Appeal, Chattanoo
ga Gasette, feonrsnee ; Huntsville Democrat, North
Alabamian. Jscksoov: ie Republican, Aixbatna Jour
nal. Tnsnaloosa Flag, Alabama ; Floridian, Florida ;
Coimabn* Enquirer, Mwou Telegrap h. Macon Mes
senger, Cawv I e Standard, Southerner (Rome.) Fe
deral Union, Southern Recorder, Souther*. Prssfvie-
Car * an Index, and At anta Inte.hgencer.
Georgia, will each pnbtfah tbe above adven vament
.o am ' rat of 85, anu send account to the Dean.
Coffse and Sugar.
4? BAGSpnoMIiK COFFEE,
O’/V 100 nhl*. Porto Rte? SUGARS,
la store aad landing. For sale low by
BAKER & WILCOX x
SELECTED POETR.Y ;
How deeply aud touchingly beautiful H r e
these lines:
From the Louisville Journal.
TO MARY.
’Tis a long time since we met, Mary,
And I often wonder now,
Wh.it traces those leng years have left
Upon your girlish brow.
You were a gay young girl, Mary,
When 1 beheld you last.
And I fear you are a woman now,
That theso two years have passed I
I have been far awty, Mary,
These long yet happy years,
An<l I’ve made another home, Mary,
With its own new hopes and fears I
Yea, face? that you never saw
Have loving smiles forme,
And voices that you never heard
Are full of mtiody!
But the dear old times come back, lUary,
Tbe places which we loved,
Tho dear rooms where we used to sit,
The meadows where wo roved;
The songs are humming in my ears,
That often you have sung,
And I see the scenes we looked upon,
When you and I were young 1
Ay—youDt* I for the ugh few years, Mary,
Have flitted o’er each head,
Yet my heart, like desert sands, retains
The deep marks of their tread 1
And you—are you the same Mary,
The same bly the joyous girl.
Whose smile was still as beautiful
As the sunlight on each curl I
I used to love you dearly then,
And I dearly love you yet,
For around you cling fond memories
That I will no: now forget!
You were my boyhood’s love, Mary,
And that love was deep and strong;
Though it found nb tongue in spoken words,
It was often told in eong!
It has faded now and gone, Mary,
But its spell is with you yet,
And I think of that dear dream, Mary,
With a sigh of fond regret —
Regret that aught so beautiful
Should fade without a trace ;
Even though a dearer love, Mary,
Now occupies its place I
Tlie.t was a boyish passion*dream,
That can never come again—
And 1 only think mos: mournfully
Os its pleasure and its pain!
Yet it left so deep a trace, Mary,
That even now it seems
Almost -a though I lived once more
Amid those childish dreams.
It may be that on earth, Mary,
We never meet again,
And the win l-barpof yocr memory
For me will have no strain ;
So 1 ehall ever think of you
As I beheld you last,
Though I know you are a woman now
Since these two years bavo passe i I
Eyansyulb, July 16. R****».
Exploration of the Interior of Africa.
—lt has already been stated that Lieut Al. C
Watkins of the Navy had projected a scheme
for the exploration of Africa. It is said that
he laid his plan before the Secretary of tha Na
vy a few days ago, aud that his offer is under
consideration, and if the President should
make no objection it will be accepted, and the
design put in execution without delay. Speak
ing of this unde taking the Washington cor*
respondent of the New York Journal of Com*
mere© say* —
Lieut. Waikin’s plan ii simple, and costs the
government nothing Ho aiojpiy asks leave of
abrencc, on present pay, for himself one mid
shipman, one engineer, and six mechanics, now
belonging to the naval service, under pay, and
doing little or nothing He a'so asks for the
uie of a small iron steamer, to be built under
his direction—wh ch steamer he will take out
tj Africa in one of the Government store
ships. This boat will be made in two pic res,
and wiil be so light that she cm easily be car
ried around the lulls and other obstructions
that mav be met with in the rivers
Mr. Watkins does even ask for rations for
his party, as he expects to procare eupplies
very cheaply by traffic with the natives. Ten
thousand dollars wiil cover all the expense* of
the expedition, which the Government is ca l
ed nprn to pay. Mr. Watkins will take a
draf.iman, and naturalist, and a physician, with
his party.
Shiftable men, who are already acclimated
will volunteer for the enterprise. Six or eight
colored men from Liberia, who are accustom
ed to the naives, and b-ve teen engaged in
former exploration*, wiil complete the explor
ing par y. One of the ni*r, Moore, accompa
nied Captain Trotter, of the British navy, in
his expedition. Mr. Wi’kins will first exp’ore
the St. Psul’e—a very intere ling river—and
trace it toils source. The valley of the St.
Paul's is very rich and beautiful, and will be of
great impor ance to Liberian commerce, by
reason of its valuable products. He will next
trace the Niger and Congo and other imper
tant rivers, horn their mouths to their sources,
and proceed to explore the vast and now tin*
knot* n regions of tbu interior, whore, for
aught we know', naiuril product? cf novel and
rich character, new forms of civiliza’.ien, and
unknown rnces of men. may exist.
Mr. Watkins is confident, from the informa
tion which he derived in Africa, during his
former visits, (hat ho can find coal fields on tho
St. Paul’s; and, if so one of the chief obsta
cles to the establishment of steam coinmunici.
lion between this country and Africa will be
removed. This expedition will greatly pro
mote tho success of the proposed African or
Ebony line of steamers, it will promote the
colonization and civilization of Africa by as
certaining and int.kiog known its resource?
and its geography ; it will upon to the native
ribee of Africa new subjects for commerce, of
a much more profitable Kind than the stove
trade; and i; will widen tho boundaries of
modern science and knowledge. Certainly
such an enterprise as this will, even if attended
with partial success, reflect great credit on
those engaged in it, and upon our naval ser
vice and upon this country. It is the ready ob
jection to the projec , that all the African ex
plurers have hitherto perished in their attempts.
Still, they effected sonieibing. Lieut. Vvat
kins savs, “If we do not come back, our jour
nals will, and there will be many officers ready
to take up our work where we leave it.”
A Niw Fikk Annihilator.—The Newark
Advertiser of Friday evening contains the fol
low’ng :
Yesterday, Mr. C. Dowden, of th : © city, made an
experiment with an incotubaatible for puttiag
out fire. He filled n bniret, epen at both ends, to
about one-half its capaoity. with tar, dry shavings,
and other combustible materials, and when ignited,
and in lull blase, a few sheets of eomuio i wrapping
paper, saturated withtl e gasnoua preparation, were
put under the birrel. a’l I the flame was extinguish
ed in a lew teconde, leoving nothing but asmoke
produced by the gas. mired with a small portion of
tmok© of the fire. To those standing in close prox
imity it was found innoxions. This experiment was
several times repeated with like results. I'he bar
rel was thea removed, having tbs combustibles in
a heap upon the ground, which ware fired, and
when fully ignited and in » blexe, Mr. D. applied
the gasson3 piper, and it was inshntly extinguish
ed, leaving nothing but the smoke referred io above.
The philoe phy of the thing, according to Mr.
Dowden, fa this. The gas use ! ia ineomburtible,
and flame evnnot exist in it. or even where there s
any considerable portion cf it. Hence he supposes
that the correct mode of using any incombustible
gas is to put out theflime of a burning building,
and when the flame is stopped a very siral 1 quantity
of water will reduce tho temperature of tho cinders
below tbe burntog poin’. Mr. D. considers this pr'-
i'?m of extinguishing flame a discovery by himself
accidentally made. He intouds to make other ex
periment on the subject.
Nashville and Chattanooga Rkilroad
Wh learn that the work on the Bridge aero s
the river, being built under the supervision of
Col. Stevens, is progressing very well, it is
a very heavy job, but we are convinced that if
energy, supported by practical knowledge,
will conquer, the Company may rest content
ed that Col Stewne will get hts work done M
Messrs. Murdoch and Townsend, who have o
a very heavy contract on the Road between
Chattanooga and the river, are devoting their
whole energies, lime, talents, espi al and in- V
geuuity. in pushing forward the work. They
will succeed, without some mufortune, in ful
filling their contract. The wurk around he
poin! of the Look Ont motirtain is further ad
vanced than the most sanguine friends of the
©cterprive anticipated, considering the diffi *'
cnlties to be encountered. Ou the 25:h , Mr. S
Murdoci rode around ou the track on horse- p
back, and on the 26th, the same feat was per
formed by Engineers, J. B. Whiteside and H. 0
L. Brantley. Tms argues well for the success
of th© work. To the ©nterpn-ing Contra*- a
tors, the Engineers, Boes workmen and all t i
concerned, much credit is due. The *• Point”
was a serious obstruction; now it is passed.
and the Cavalier or Pedestrian can pass in t
safety, and soon the Steam Engine will wend a
i’s way beneath the mighty cl.ffs. and above j
tbe dark waters of the beautiful Tennessee.—
Cha'tnnooea Gazette
— t
Testimonials of Respect.—There were
various deinoos'.rations made yesterday, of
respect to the memories of those who had
bee’’ so barbarously massacred by the Spanish '
author.ties at Havana Minute guns were
fired during the day ; the several engine com- <
paries, many of whom bad members engaged
m the expedition, had their flags half-masted
at their engine houses, and ia all our public
places, we witnessed similar manifestations of
mourning Mississippi Fire Company No. 2
held a meeting last night, at which resolutions
were adopted in testimony of their feelings of
deep regret for the untimely end of two of
their members. Messrs Co’chett and Salmon.
—N O. Bn leiin. inet
,«■ a, .tcu.
The Potato Blight— The potato crop in the
State of New York is likely to suffer fr.im the
blight. Acoun’s of the disease have already
been received from nine counties, viz; Madi
i son. Ontario, Erie, L vingston. Genesee.
Wyoming, Ooundaga, O-wegoand Cor.land.
In the three latter tho Syracuse Journal says
tbe rot is extensive, and the 'anuersare gene
rally digg ng and s*»ndinz to market. The
Danvid* (Lsvingaion Co.) Herald □! Aug. 20th.
j ay s:
1 Accounts from nearly every section repre
sent the potato blight as prevailinz more gen
erally than at almost any previous period. In
1 tn.s and th ’ surrounding localities we hear in
creasing comp amts, and indeed we shall not
be surprised if it shall prove to be an entire
failure.
UHrtJSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 3, LHSI
THE CUBAN NEWS.
“ We find in the New Orleans, •• Picayune ’
and “ Dalia 11 tbe following items of Cuban
intelligcßcee:
&PANI3H Official Documkfitb.—We give
below a translation of various oflicial Spanish
documents in relation to the encounters with
Gen. Lopez, and the capture of the fifty men
who wero murdered in Havana. We give
first the account of tho latter affair as inserted
officially in the newspapers. Our readers can
judge for themselves of its authenticity :
Most Excellent Senor —At day break
yesterday 1 left Bahia Honda, with the sienner
Habi noro, with the object of reconnoitering
the coasts of Playitas and the Mori 10, as well
as to chase back any boats which might be
there, and in which the pira‘e? might wish to
retreat, as well ha to keep watch lest any new
expedition wishing to land in those parts might
succeed in efieciiiig a landing.
A* 7 o’clock in the morning I comrnunica*
ted with the ranchos of Morilio, and learned
from tho resident proprietors that on tho day
before at 10 o’clock, P. M., a considerable
number of the rabble which landed under the
orders of the traitor Lopez, had re embarked
in four small craft* which they found at the
plica, for the purpose of making their way
towards New Orleans, and of seizing the first
vessel that they might find.
Considering the hour ofrhsir departure, cal
eclating for the distance they could ga in ten
hours that bad elapsed, and supposing that
that they had steered towards the northwest, I
went eighteen miles in that direction with all
steam; but not perceiving the vessels which
1 sought, I discovered that they must have
passed in among the rocks. Immediately I
went towards the pass of the Alacranes, in or
der to enter among the rocks and try by all
means to catch the fugitive pirates.
At 10 o’clock in the morning I was near the
pass, and perceived the four email vessels sail
ing along (ha coast, but so near the laud that I
doubted tho possibility of catching them. —
In order to succeed I put up all steam. I du
not exaggerate in saying to your Excel'ency
that the steamer went at the rate of more than
thirty miles an hour ; nevertheless, this was not
sufficient. Only one was captured. Two oth
ers took shelter among the mangrove trees,
and the fourth boat among those of Cayo Levi
Ba. After having taken the men of the first
boat, I armed the small boa’s of the steamer
to pursue the second and third one, which
were aground under the mangrove trees.
The officers of the army who were in the
boits, and tho marines, a* well as the supercar
go of the ship Ignacio, Arellano, and the
captain of the s.eamer Cardenas, Francisco
Estall, rivalled one another in patriotism in
taking part in every service which this steamer
has rendered since I hais’ed my ilag.
They threw themselves into the water to
pursue the pirates, only two of whom escaped,
but only by throwing away their arms They
Were not pursued, because we wished to give
all our attention to the boat which was aground
on the Cayo Lavisa. it being the largest and
containing the largest number of men.
As soon as the boats were taken on board
I approached that rock, and being anchored
near 1 armed the boa’s again, and went with
them myself to find some place ol'landing and
to discover the boats which I was searching
My object was to land and put the sma ; l boats
in pursuit of the boat I was searching, until
they might succeed in encountering the pirates
who were fleeing.
These latter were concealed in a lagoon to
the number of twenty-four, with their boat
aground on the mangrove trees. They were
there taken. The entire number of prisoners
amounts io fifty. Among them were found a
chief and five officers, all armed.
The important news which they give is, that
ths whole party is very much d .-conraged;
that the greater part of those composing it wero
resolved to week their safety in flight; that all
c-f them are surprised al the valer of our sol
d:ere, and that they are convinced that their
doctrines are without response in this country.
Two hours and a half after noon I com
iinni’.ato 1 anew with Marillo Th)same in
habitants who had informed me{of the leaving
ol the pirates informed mi then that small
bands nf fugitives were straggling about the
country thore As the tr »ops of S. M. were
at a short distance, I informed their Comman
der (*f this fact t y sending a man on whom I
could rely : and I announced to him at 110
same time the capture which I uad jus made. I
put to tho disposition of your Ex ?eilency the
prisoners, which I sent by the ship Esperanza,
and I return to sea at the satno time.
We tranrhte below the desorption of the
exped.lion, given by the captain of he Cecilia,
Lapez pressed into service as a pilot:
Secrttario Mililar,— The mom excellent
Senor Governor Captain General has receiv
ed a report from tie Lieutenant Governor
of Marie!, dated at Cabelas on tha morning
vs this day, informing him that the capUin ol
tha schooner Cecilia Don Felipe Torre,‘and a
sailor of the sane vessel named D. Luw Diaz,
presented themselves to him with a pass given
by the traitor Lopez, which individuals were
Carried off forcibly by tho pirntod and whom
he will send in the cars to arrive this evening,
The said Lieutenant Governor considered it ;
expedient to take from their a sworn declara
tion. the purport of which is the following:
“ With the expedition, Narciso Lopez dis
embarked, and he remained on shore after the
departure of the steamer.
“1 he expe iition, in the opinion of the de
pon nts, amounts to 1,000 men.
“ Os ammunition only two barrels of pow
der were landed, likewise a quiniai of balls,
and two boxes of guns.
“ Each individua* is armed with a pair ol
ail-shooting pi itoh, a dagger, and a gui , the
la’ler not very good.
*' Provisions for only one day w ire landed,
c principally of ciscuit, and only two
barrels of meat.’
There are connected with the expedition
about fifty Cubans ; the others are Americans
and per ons o: other countries.
Ou landing, Narciso Lopez wrote a letter
r o the people of La Poza*, threatening them
with destructiou if ihey did not send him a
wagon. Into this carriage he put all of his
arm« and provisions.
The expedition is very mixed, being com
posed of both young men aud old. and all
without discipline It has no port pilots, but
is provided with several guides tor the interior
Santiago Gurrka.
Hkpoutxd Capture or Lopez.—The New
York Journal of Commerce of Saturday, 2
I* M. says:—“A well informed gentleman, in
intimate intercourse with the Minister of Spain
io this c i’i a try, slates that a disp'tch addressed
ti ’.he Minister, Don Calderon de la Barca, was
put on board the Cherokee at the moment of
(heir departure from Havana, announcing the
capture of Gen L'»pez by the government
roops. The Minister, who was in this city,
sent the Secretary of tho Legation, with the
intePigence, to Spain, by the steamer Hum
bo! I‘. which sailed to day.
The following letters from that gallant young
Creole hero, Victor Kerr, says the Delta, are
among the list which he ever wrote. They
were written in a bold and masculine style of
chirography, and will sufficiently refute the un
founded rumors touching their tenor put into
circulation yesterday by the enemies of Cuban
liberty:
To His Wife.
My Dear Felicia Adieu, my dear wife ;
this so the last letter that you will receive from
your Victor. In one hour I shall be uo more.
Embrace all of my friends for me. Never
marry again ;itis my desire. My adieus to my
sisters an 1 brothers. Again, a last adieu, I die
like a soldier. Your husband,
Victob K«rb.
August 16, 1851—6 o’clock.
To His Fbxknds.
My Dear Friend* I leave you forever, and
Igo to the other world. I am prisoner in Ha
vana, and in an hour I shall have ceased to exist.
My dearest friends, think often of me. 1 die
worthy of a Creole, worthy of a Louisianian, and
of a Kerr. My dearest friends, adieu for the last
time. Your devoted friend, Victoh Kzbb.
To N. Larose, H. Bouligny, Leon Fazende,
William G. Vincent, Felix Arroyo.
August, 16,1851—64 o’clock.
The Recent Events at Havana
Wk are authorized to state, says the National
Intelligineer of Mon lay, that the steam frigate
Saranac will be dispatched forthwith from
Norfolk for Havana, with Commodore Parker,
of the Home Squadron, rn board, who naa
been instructed to inquire into all tbe circum
stances atten ling t :e capture and execution of
the American citizens recently shot at that
place, and to ascertain the proofs under which
they were put to death for having been, as
alleged, engaged in an anned expedition winch
invaded th*} island. A full investigation will
also be had i to the circumstance of firing at
the United Slates mail s eumer Falcon by a
Spanish cruiser.
At the same time that lusse stops are being
takjQ, renews i anl rigid ins’rnctions will be
issued to the civil, military, and naval olfi ers 1
7 i
of the Government, to take all legal steps, and ,
employ all the means at their command,
to check and break up any armed and
ihegal expeditions from tbe United States
against the territories of friendly Powers, and
to seize any vessels and arre-t al! persons
who may be concerned therein ; it being he
fixed determination of the Government to
maintain its treaty obliga ions and to enforce
ihe iiws of the land, the recent violation of
which, in the case of the expedition of ’.he
Pairpero. has led to such lamentable results.
Ths Saranac wis waiting at Nor!o k for the
purpose of conveying Gov. Letcher to Vera
Cruz, on his way to resume his diplomatic
duties at tbe city of Mexico ; but her present
mission being of each press.Dg importance,
she will depart without him. and another con
veyance will be provided for that geotiemao.
The Saranac will leave Norfolk either this
afternoon or to-morrow.
‘ The Naw York Journal of Commerce has
he feilcwiug letter. The editors say: °lt
I w m written by aciuzeuo! tufa country, who
has redded many years in Cubs, ft is a high
~ ly inter jsting and thoroughly reliable narrative
I of tho events connected with the invasion
n | made by Lopez, according to the beat informa
tion that could be obtained at Havana.
Havawx. Aug. 16, 1851.
l! I will give you a short though probab y a
n more correct account, of the Rew invasion, o’
e which your newspapers wi'l certainly make
j most extravagant stories
.. Lopez landed the 12th instant near Bahia
Honda, some 20 or 25 leagues t© leeward of
Havana, with about 1,000 men. according io
the report of the pilot taken by force from one
jof our coasters. Tho Government before the
j | landing, had heard of ihe presence of the sns
a p'cious force on the coast, aid on the same
} evening had sent four or five companies to
r leeward, and orders to a'l ’he military com
t mandants in the Vuelta de Atajo to be on the
alert, ar;d march to the place of landing with
; part of their troops. Those sent from this
I place landed at Bahia Honda, 24 hours after '
, Lopez, and marched immediately to Las Pozas, I
; a village, where Lopez had entrenched • and i
' barricaded himself with the material of the
i frrme houses pulled down for the purpose.
On arriving General Enna saw perfectly
well he could not force the situation, having
no artillery, and immediately sent to Havana
for four or five pieces which were immediate
ly slrpped to him in one of the merchant
steamboats—but in the meanwhile some of the
Spanish rural militia, passing incautiously at a
short distance from the entrenchments, wer*
shot at by Lopez and some were killed The
troops then marched against the formal order
of the General, and were twice repulsed, and
one of tbe companies was nearly destroyed
The General then succeeded ta calling tham
ofl’ During the retreat whicM
mistook for a flight, they left their entrench
ments in pursuit, but were soon beaten back
with considerable loss Afterwards they at
tempted to reach the mountains, 2or 3 miles
oft, but found the passes too well guarded, and
were forced to come back to the village where,
it is stated, they are entirely out of provisions.
Th? artillery sent from here wa, landed at
Bubia Honda yesterday morning, and must
have been on the battle field at about 12, and
we are minutely expecting the news of the
final battle or butchery.
At this moment some fifty prisoners are
landing, who no doubt will ba immediately
shot.
All this proves to a certainly two things—
firmly, that the Spanish troopswill fight: se
condly, that the people are uotatall generally
disposed to rise before they be assured that no
harm will come out of it. Lopez has now
been four days on the spot. In the fir.-t affair
he had a decided advantage, and not one man
from the country has-gone over to him. If the
Cherokee, as usual, does not start before her
time, I will, probably, ba enabled to give you
the conclusion us the tragedy.
A deplorable incident has arisen out of this.
Os the young men who had taken arms at Vil
la Clara and Trinidad, seven have been sen
fenced to death, but as they surrendered
without firing a shot, the Colonel to whom
they surrendered had promised them that his
influence, and the much m re powerful influ
ence of the Captain General would bo exert
ed in their favor. The Captain General him
self hal suspended his approval of the sen
tence two or three days, and had promised the
regions of the culprits to do all that he could
do in their favor—but as soon as he heard of
the landing of the Americans, he apprehend
ed that an act of clemency would be constru
ed by friends and enemies into one of weak- ,
ness or timidity, and the poor leilowa wer 4
ordered to be shot. The insurrectionists at
Principe, much guiltier than those of Vallaclur, ]
if their cause be sentenced after success at
Las Pozas, may have a better chance.
Eleven o’clock—The prisoners landed this
morning are fifty in number, they were taken
wrh four launches trying to get across to the 1
Florida coa?t. They will not ba shot this
morning. The main body of the invaders 1
have not chosen to wait the artillery, and have
dispersed to different points of the country.
They a.-e pursued in all directions by the
troops, and the peasantry. It is not probable
t int many will escape.
VVou’d you believe that?—such was the 1
/•»( liahconfidence of Lopez in hia popularity
and the good disposition of the inhabitants of
Hero tin try, he landed with two kegs of gun
pc vder, one hundred pounds of shot or bul
let-, two barrels of beef, and half a dozen bar
rel» of biscuit for all ammunition and provis
ion s ? The man must be perfectly insane—
and that such a madman could have embezzled
a thousand men. or suppose only five hundred
in such a practical country as the United
St.tes ? True it is raid ’hat two thirds of them
arc boys nut over 14 or 15 years of age.
It appears that the account of the mutila
lion by the people of Havana of the remains
of :he men who were thus summarily executed
in cold blood, is without foundation.
The National Intelligencer of Monday con-
tains the following postscript:
Naw York, August P. M.
Information bus been received in thio city,
in mercantile letters from Havana, the sub
stance of which fa, th it L-jpez has been signally
de eated, and his men dispersed, with tho al
most certain probability of thecapture of every
one of them. Not a si ogle Spaniel] soldier
joined »ho invading parly, and the people of
-ho country, who had been proclaimed as
ready to join them, stand by the government
to a man. Gen. Concha can now rely on
hiving a force us forty thousand men, if he
requires them.
The stories ftho ba barities committed on the
executed prisoners at Havana are infamous
falsehoods ; and yet, with the best evidence of
such being thi c'ihq, the penny papers fulmi
nate all sorts of uppeils, which ot course help
to increase the sale of their publications. T.e
truth must make its way in the end, and the
getters up of this tragedy will be execrated
as much as tho Spaniard is, or can be.
AB the leading and most reliable papers pub
iished in Naw York corroborate the statements
contained in the Jas’ preceding paragraph.
Mr Spear, the special messenger who arrived
at iNew York in the steamship Cnerokee, from
New Orleans with Adams 4k Co.’s New Or
leans express freight, stales that he was pres
ent at the execution of the persons captured,
and that the reports current of the maltreat
ment of their bodies, after death are entirely
untrue. They were conveyed in handsome
hearses to tho grave, and decently buried.
Some vagabonds amused themselves by kick
ing about some of the discarded clothing of
the prisoners Thia s atement. the New York
Express says, is confirmed by not less than
twenty .Americans now in New York who saw
the executions. They all confirm the truth of
the account brought by the messenger of Ad
am’s Express.
The Firing into the Falcon. —The fol
lowing letter states officially the circumstances
respecting tbe firing into and boarding of me
U. 8. mail et amer Falcon by a Spanish war
steamer:
U. 8. Mail Steamer Falcon, <
Havana. Aug. 17, >
Sib : I arrived here with the Falcon yesterday af
ternoon at three o’clock, .rom Chagres, which place
I left at 7 P. M., of the lltb.
Y esterday, wh?n running for this place, I waa
chased by a steam frigate, but kept iny course, and
the failed to catch us; but another steamer, uodsr
the command of the General of Marine, came ou
from uuder the land and intercepted us. She fired
fiourshets astern and ahead of us, aud al length
ranging alongside bailed to us to stop, which, after
many repetitions ol hia hail. I did. He sent an
effiser on board to inqu re the character of the ship,
and wished me to go on board of him, which I re
fused to do, telli -g him olso that I should, ipon my
arrirai at Havana, make official protest cincerniug
the affair.
The laws of nations, and existing cireomrtancss,
mav justify his course. 1 thought it tetter, at the
tim?, not to jeopard the lives of the passengers,
und interests of the owners, by using my force, al
though it wes at n great sacrifice of personal feeling
ihat I refrained. I *hsll see the Consul to day, and
make protest. The captain of the Albany aud the
Consul have already told me ihat the coune pur
sued bv these people was legal and proper, but I
think it a question. Respectfully,
(Signed) Hawav Rodok»»,
Lteur. U. 8. N., Com. steamship Falcon.
To M. O. Roberts, E»q.
from the New Or leant Picayune, 23d.
Gen. Lopez and hia Followers.
The Delta of last evening publishes the follow- t
ing latter from Adjutant Stanford, which ex- ’
plains partially the manner io which our un- ‘
fortunate countrymen met their untimely fate :
Hatabz, August 16, 1851.
Dear Harting: —We arrived at the Island of (
Cuba alter the no-t humble passage you can
conceive of, cooped on Board with 4IU or oUU men.
We arrived on Sunday last, 1 believe—dates 1
have almost forgotten. The next morning, Lo
pei. with Gen. Paraguay and all the commanding <
officers, left us—(l mean Crittenden and his i
battalion.) Wo heard nothing more ot turn for ,
two days, when Crittenden despatched a note.
He then requested we should join him at a little
town some six or eight miles oft, “® *“ 1
the meantime to take care of a-i the baggage,
Occ.
We started for him on Wednesday morning at
2o’clock. A. .11., and had proceeded,only three
miles when we were attacked by 000 Spanish
sold ers. In the first charge I received a very
severe wound in the knee, "e repulsed ‘bem,
however. Tfiey made another charge, and com
•iletely routed us Wo spent two days and nights
the most miserable you can imagine, in thechap
arel, without anything to eat or drink.
We made the best of our way to the sea
shore, and found some boats with which
we put to sea. Spent a night upon tr.e ocean
and next day, about twelve o’clock, were ta* e n
prisoners by the Habanero, were brought to
Havana last night and condemned to me thi
njoming. We shall all be shotin an tour,
Goodbv and God biess you. 1 send the ma
sonic nf dal enclosed in mu, belonging to my
lather. Convey it to my sister, -Mrs. r n,
and tell herot my late. Once more, Goa oleas
you. STASTOan.
Prom this and from a certain comparison with
official reports of the Spanish officers, we are
enabled to construct a more connected anu p o •
able narrative of tbe events which lea to me
unhappy catastrophe than has yet been ?’■ ®“-
Gen Looex, o i landing near Batua Honda, wuh
tbe main body of his forces, consisting ot a
310 men. advanced towards Las poxas, a a®’-
town a few miles in the interior, leaving •
Crittenden and his command 114 strong, if
’ charge of ihe baggage. That night or the nex.
day, the steamer 'Pixarro, landed iOo Spa men
troops, at Bahia Honda, and ttiese advancing to
a warns the place of Lopez’s landing, cutoficrit
, tenden’s men from their companions. On the
’ second rugtxt afterwards thia party determined -o
i I attempt to form a junction v. ith Loper, but on
j the road were attacked by an oveiwhelming body
of troops, and after a short struggle were on the
' I second charge rouled and dispersed. After wan
i dering about in the thickets, fifty of them got
tegctlier and made their way to tho sea shore,
where they siuzed lour small boats and endeavor
ed to make their escape, when they were cap
tured as has been related in the official report
of Admiral Bustjlos. There are still sixty-four
of this command io be accounted, for. Os these
forty were surprised and shot at a small farm
house. A Spanish lieutenant reports that on the
14th he came upon twenty pirates, guarding an
equal number of wounded comrades, all of which
were immediately put to death, 'i'he remaining
twenty four, or such of them as had not been
killed in battle, probably continued to wander in
tho vicinity until, w« are forced to believe, they
also were taken and slaughtered. The other
party under Lopez, it seems, received the attack
of tho Spaniards, in a farm house at Las Pozas
and beat them ofl wish severe loss, at least so it
is to bo supposed, since the Spanish official re
ports state that they desisted from the assault
in order to receive reinforcements Whether
any subsequent fighting look place at this point
i we do not know; at all events, Lopez held his
i own for two days—till, on the fifteenth, he left
I for the interior, and was was not molested on his
i march by Gen. Enna; all of which we learn
from the Spanish official accounts. This was
the state of aflairs on the 15th, the date of
our last advices from the scene of action, through
Gen. Enna’s despatch, dated at 3.30 on that day.
If Gen. Lopez reached the mountains in safety,
he will discover soon whether he has relied with
too much confidence on the assistance of tbe
native inhabitants.
More of tile Letters.
In addition to the letter of Capt. Ker, publish
ed last evening, and that of Adj’t Stanford,
as given above, we have had put into our
hands the following from Capt. Brandt and
Thomas C. James, two more of the victims
slaughtered so ruthlessly at Havana. Wo have
Sd3eu two other letters by Cant. Kerr, which ap
peared in the Delta of yesterday.
These young men were ail well known here,
and had numerous friends, to whom these touch
ing memorials of the constancy with which
they met their hard fate are inexpressibly dear.
Who can read these simple and feeling lines,
written in the last hour ol mortal peril, in the
very face of death, and not feel that these gen
erous men died in the full faith they were en
gaged in an honorable cause, and died as mar
tyrs :
Letter from J. Hrandl.
Havana, August 16, 1851.
Aly Dear Mathar r— l have but a few moments
to live. Fifty of us are condemned to be shot
within a half hour. I do not value life, but
deeply regret the grief it wiil cause you to hear
of uiy death. Farewell, then, my dear mother,
sisters, and all; we may meet again in another
world. Thinkof me often ; forget the causes I
have given you for grief; remember only my
virtues. Farewell, again, dearest mother, and
believe me to be, your aflectionate son,
J. Brasot.
Mrs. MariaE. Brandt.
Letter from Thomas C. James.
Spanish Frigate Espbbanza, ?
Harbor cf Havana, August 15,1851. y
My Dear Hr others and Sisters : —This is the
last letter you will ever receive from your brother
Thomas, in one hour more I will bo launched
into eternity, being now a prisoner, with fifty
others, aboard of this ship, and under sentence
of death. All to be shot! This is a hard fate,
but I trust in the mercy of God, and will meet
ray fate manfully.
Think of me hereafter, not with egret, but as
one whom you lovedin life, and who loved you.
Adieu, forever, my brothers, sisters and friends.
Thomas C. Jamis.
Robert, our poor friends G. A. Cook, and
John O. Bryce, are with me, and send their last
regard to you ; also Clement Stanford, formerly
of Natchez.
Here, says the “ True Delta,” are two letters
placed in our hands for publication by Messrs.
Stanton & Co. and the relatives of Mr. Vienne.
We beg our readers to persue them carefully,
and compare them with the letters published in
what are called the Cuban official organs, in re
lation to these events. The italics are those of
tho writers.
Os Boardtuz Man op-Wab Espbsanza, )
August 16,1851. )
My Dear and Affectionate Sisters and Brothers:
Before 1 die, 1 am permitted to address my last
words in this world.
Deceived by false visions, I embarked in the
expedition for Cuba- We arrived, about four
hundred in number, last week, and in about an
hour from now, we, I mean lily of us, will be
lost. Iw as taken prisoner after an engagement,
and, with fifty others am to be shot In an hour.
I die, my dear brothers and sisters, a repen
tant sinner, having been blessed with the last
rites of our holy religion. Forgive me for all
the follies of my lite, snd you, my dear and
aflectionate sisters, pray for my poor soul.
A- ——go to my d»ar mother and console her.
h! iny Jeer child, kiss her a thousand times
m.i. Love be: for my sake. Kiss my broth
ers arid all your dear children. To Father Llac
kney, my last profound respect ; to Father La
croix and Father D’Hau, a mass for the repose
of my soul.
My dear mother in hw, farewell I Poor Taci
te is shot and dead by this lime !
1 rive and bequeath my dear child to you and
you alone. Good-bye H ; good-bye G ——
and T I did my duty. Good-bye all.
Your dear Sion and Brother,
hdoxess T accts Visi.is.
Mr. Antonia Costa has promised to do all he
can to obtain my body. 11 so, please have me
buried with my wi e.
Havana , on board a man-of-war, >
S o’clock a. m., August 16th, 1851. $
Stanton & Co.
.My dear friends:—About 51) of us, Col. 1
Crittenden s command, were taken prisoners i
yesterday, have net received our sentence yet,
but no doubt we will all be shot before sunset.
Lopes, the Scoundrel, has deceived us ; there is ,
no doubt but all those reports about the Cubans ,
rising were all trumped up in New Orleans ,
Lopez took nearly his command and deserted
us—wo were attacked by some 500 or 700 of the
Queen’s troops (he 2d day after we landed.
Our own gallant Col. Crittenden done all that
any man could do —but we saw we had been de
ceived and retreated to the sea shore with the
intention of getting ofl to our country if possi
ble—got three boats and got ofl' with the inten
tion of coasting until we fell in with an Ameri
can vessel, and were taken prisoners by the
steamboat Havanero.
Explain to my family that I have done nothing
but what was instigated by the highest motives,
that I die with a clear conscience and like a man
with a stout heart. 1 send my watch to you, it
is for little Benny, my nephew. Good bye, God
bless you all. Truly yours,
Gilman A. Cook.
In the name of Heaven, continues the “True
Delta,” why are deceptions still practiced on
our people ? If the capture of the island of
Cuba be an affair determined on—if the Ameri
can people consider that its subjugation is de
manded as an atonement for the blood that has
been spilt, is it wise 1 is it patriotic ? is it prac
ticable to send a few men to do that which it
will require thousands to accomplish?
The friends of the Spanish Government are
those who thus counsel, and the newspaper
counsellors will keep their pale souls far from
the scene of conflict.
The above letters arc vouched for by the hon
est and patriotic citizens whose names we have
given ; we are menaced if we publish them, but
we belie ve our fellow citizens will not shrink
from supporting us now for obeying the wishes
ot such men, or withraw from us mo ail suffi
cient support provided so far for our protection,
in the event of rampant mobs assailing us.
Owing allegiance to the soveieignty of the
people alone, true to that allegiance, and faithful
to all the duties it imposes, we rely with a con
fidence never for a moment impaired, in the jus
tice of our fellow-citizens.
Philadelphia, Aug. 25.—Ah immense mass
meeting is being held to.nixiit in Indepen
dence Square, to ezpress indignation at the
barbarities committed by the Spanish author!
ties, in shooting the American primners.
Twelve or fifteen thousand persons were pre
sent. Col. John Swift was chosen Pre ident,
with forty Vice Presidentsand twelve Secre
taries. Col. Swift spoke at some length,
condeming the course of the Spanish govern
me t, and urging the interference of the
United States. John Cadwallader introduced
resolutions, justifying the course of the Pa
triots. and recommending the purchase of
Cuba bv the United States, and war in the
event of Spanish refusal to sell A repeal of
laws prohibiting the armed intervention of
American citizens for the relief of those op
pressed by tyranny, was alse recommended.
Tne rules of civilized warfare were also urged
in the treatment of prisoners, and atonement
demanded of Spain for her recent atrocities.
The President was requas ed to call an extra
session of Congress, to consider these matters.
Cadwallader spoke earnestly in favor of the re
solutions, and was followed by others in sup
port of them
Nzw York. August 26th. —Another tremen
dous gathering of the Cuban sympatbaere was
held in the Park to-night. Blaekman presid
ed, and the meeting was addressed by Enoch
Camp, Tnos. N. Carr, Capt. Rynders and
others. The language of the speakers was
more violent and exciting than on the previ
ous evening, aud as a consequence, the mob
were raised to the highest state of enthusiasm.
Banners with bloody mottoes were distributed
amongst the crowd, and every means osed to
increase the feeling of resentment against he
Cuban authorities. Cheers, screams, and
groans were heard on all sides, and the la'ter
especially predominated when the Courier,
Express and Tr bune papers were alluded to.
One <-f the speakers, in me midst of a si -
lent harange, begged the listeners to do nothing
rasoir, and especially dep-ecated the attempt
to moles: ;Le dpa.tish Consul, as had been
tureateaed. “ His office. ’ said he, “is at 119
Leonard street, but t.on’t, my friends, do any
thing unlawful.”
After his speech the sympathisers formed a
procession, beaded by a baud of music, and
proceeded up Broadway, in the direction of
Leonatd street, hooting, yelling and threaten
ing vengeance. The Spanish consul kept out
of the way, auderslandiog that a coat of tar
and feathers had been prepared for him in con
sequence of threats directed against La Chro
nicle, the Spanish paper. An extra police ot
300 men has been stationed there.
In compii ance wi:ha eall of several of our
citizens made a: a ia-e hour yesterday afternoon
a large aod enthusiastic assemblage of our cit
izens convened, at half paat 7 o cloek, at King e
I'avtlioti. to take prepstory steps to defray the
expenses of a funeral procession io respect to
the illustrious and patriotic martyrs to Cuban
butchery. Owing to the sudden indisposition
of one of our most respected citizens who
was to preside, tbe meeting was postponed
until farther notice, which wiil be duly pub
lished—Pic- 23t*M.
For the Chronicle !f Sentinel.
To James M. Smythe, Ksq., Associate
Editor of the Constitutionalist <f" Republic.
Sir: Matters of more importance to myself
and others, have engaged my attention during
the pint week, which will explain why I have
not noticed sooner, your last reply. Like any
other min engaged in patching and mending
a broken chain of falsehoods, you have sunk
yourself deeper and deeper in the slough of
infamy and disgrace Jfit bo true, as you 'ay,
that I am moved by malice to assault you, I
have abundant cause to be gratified. If my
heart was as capacious for hate as the Devil’s
himself, I could not wish for more than to see
my adversary acknowledge his assertions to be
false, and to back out deliberately from hia
boastful threats. To such a depth of di (honor
there can be no lower deep. Such is the abject
petition you have assumed before your read
ers and before the world. Thiel shall prove
clearly, even to your clouded understanding.
You have aurrendered on the charge of ap
proving, on the 18th May, 1850, the abolition
of the slave trade in tbe District of Columbia.
In your first reply, you made a feeble show of
de ence, by pleading that you did approve it at
the time mentioned, but you did so under the
impression the penally for its violation was
similar to the penalty prescribed by the law of
Maryland. When made to sacs tbe law of
Maryland, and when tbe proof was made clear,
that the two laws were identioal, so far as tho
penalty was concerned, and therefore your ex
cuse was false and fabricated, yon cower and
remain silent, without even the courage to ac
knowledge your error to the pecple. What
have you to say to this 1 What excuse wiil
you render to the Southern Rights party for
sanctioning, and lending the influence of your
paper to sustain, a meas tre which you and they
declare to be an entering wedge to measutes
intended to end in the overthrow of slavery in
the States. Answer to this charge. By your
silence you confess judgment to your own
shame
You have been compelled to acknowledge
another falsehood in your first reply. You
stated that Mr Clay’s bill to suppress the slave
trade in the District of Columbia, imposed a
fine for its violation, and you professel to be
certain of the truth of that statement. When
confronted with the record and the fraud ex
posed, you attempt to relieve yourself by a
shift that is simply ridiculous. Your defence
is, you falsely said, Mr. Clay’s bill imposed a
fine, because Mr. Clay said the trade in the
District was prohibited under a “ heavy penal
ty ’’ “ The words heavy penalty, led us to sup
nose that it was a pecuniary fine.” W iat non
sense. I suppose if you were told murder
was prohibited in Georgia under a heavy pe
nalty. you would be “led to suppose” it
meant a “ pecuniary fine.” To escape the
charge of falsehood, you have to acknowledge
you were ignorant enough to think penalty
meant a “ pecuniary fine ” alone, and not also
death, imprisoumem in the penitentiary, whip
ping, branding and any other punishment.—
Your Associate, who can see a point, must
have laughed in his sleeve when he conned this
part of your reply. In that part of your reply
relating to this charge, you say “ We would
not. if we had been mean enough to do so, have
published a falsehood so easily deteoled, espe
cia'ly while engaged in a controversy with one
who says he has been taking the Republic to watch
us closely. ’ This abort extract contains both
a sophistry and a falsehood—the falsehood I
have put in italics I never said I was taking
the RepubLc for any such purpose. But let
us examine this defence. You would not, if
you bad been mean enough, (which you seem
to admit,) have published a falsehood so easily
detected. I bis is your argument, and a singu
lar one truly. You make the enormity of your
offence your justification. You have so utterly
and shamelessly cisregarded the truth, that you
think you can safely appeal to honest men to
believe that no one could be guilty of such
bare-faced depravity The question ia not
whether your course has been astonishingly
corrupt, but whether the evidence 1 have pro
duced, convicts you ol open, reckless false
hood. You admityour statement ot Mr. Clay’s
bill was not true, but attempt to excuse your
self; and I leave it to your readers to say
whether that excuse is tenable with any one
who has a grain of understanding
In your first reply, vou charged that Mr
Toombs, after the Clayton Compromise was
lefeated, went back to Congress and made no
effort to have the Mexican law repealed. The
record of that gentleman’s course in Congress
being produced, and meeting your charge with
so plrin and palpable a contradiction, you
were confounded What now most you do to
shield yourself from the infamy of slander!—
Some new falsehood must ba devised, and
ntraightwAV ■ haotiv thought to strike
you. But 1 shall show, you jumped out of
.ho frying pan into the fire. I can prove
you did nut allude to ths session of 1818-9,
which is your defence for misrepresent
ing a gentleman to his constituents, and
the evidence shall be drawn from your own
mouth. In the first place, when you made the
charge, you made no such qualificatiou, but
stated the proposition broadly, that Mr.
Toombs “made no effort to have the Mexican I
Law repeale I,” which according to any fair
construction, meant that he was derelict in bis
duty up to the time of your writing. Again,
during the session of 1848-9 no territorial
bills passed the House, and Mr. Toombs had
no opportunity to move the repeal of the I
Mexican Law. Again, after the session of
1848-9 ended on the 4:h March, 1849, and
during tho whole of that year you never
opened your mouth in denunciation of Mr. I
Toombs, never sounded the firs', note of I
alarm to hia constituents, never hinted your
intention not to voto for his return to Con- I
gross, though according to what you now say,
he was then guilty of treason to the South
and had manifested his guilt to tho woild by
failing to mako any attempt to get our rights I
andtodohis duty. Now, sir, in all candor
and speaking as if you had a sense of shatne, I
ought you not to hide yourself from the face
of honest men. But 1 will not let you go
yet. You shall drink to the very dregs the
bitter cup of disgrace and shame, which you
so richly deserve for traducing a faithful public
servant to his constituents and endeavoring to
make the people believe a lie. in the very
paragraph wherein you state for defence that
you alluded to the course of Mr. Toombs
during the session of 1848-9, when you charg
ed he had made default in hia duty, you fur
nish the evidence that your defence isuntrue
in fact. You state in your first reply “we did
not hold their opinion (that the Mexican law
was in forqp) to be inconsistent with due fideli
ty to the South if they would seo to it that tha
law or impediment was removed.” Now you
assert here in substance that if Mr. Toombs
failed to “see to it that tbe law or impediment
was removed,” he was not faithful to the
Sou’h, but by such default would bstray her.
You farther say he did so fail, and therefore
in youropinion he was a traitor on and after
the 4th March, 1849. Such is a brief state
ment of your argument. The answer to, and
refuta’ion of all this, is contained in the para
graph alluded to, of your last reply. You
theresay, “ “Doctor” knows and every body
else knows who has read the Republic at ail,
that we eulogized Mr. Toombs in 1850, lor
bis efforts in favor of lite South.’ You tried |
h m once again in 1848, by voting for his re
turn to Congress, he proved a traitor accord
ing to you, on and after tho 4tn March, 1849,
by failtog up to that tune to have the Mexican
Law repealed, and yet you “eulogized” ibis
traitor in 1850. Did you hope to escape de
tection and exposure by the mere trouble it
would eost tne to hunt down such a piece of
foolery as this 1
You have failed to give a particle of evidence I
that all the abolitionists iu Congreas or out of I
it, sav we are excluded from the t a rritories by |
the Mexican law. You have positively aver- i
red this, and you affect to tre»t lightly any de- ,
nial of it. Your averment is, they said so. i
I ask you to prove it. Produce their speeches I
if they said so, at least tell when and wherv
any one of them said so, except Phelps of I
Vermont, (I think) who voted for the Clayton
Compromise for that alleged reason Produce I
if you can the proof that any one of the aboli- I
tiouisls named in my second article admitted I
the Wilmot Proviso was unnecessary to ex- I
elude slavery. You cannot deny that 69 |
aga net 78 voted for it on the direct question, I
and that a majority of the Northern members I
voted against the territorial bills for no other I
reason real or pretented. You boaatingly say |
“let ’Doctor’give the name of an abolitionist, I
fretaoiler or enemy of the South in Congress |
or out of it, wbo says we are not excluded by I
the Mexican law.” Were you so ignorant of
the history of your country daring tbe last 1
two years as to suppose this eould notbe done! I
Whai say you to an extract from Davy Wil- |
mot htmrelf,’he father o f the Proviso. In hie
speech in the House, May 3d, 1850, he said : I
t- It is a mockery, Mr. Chairmao, to pretend that I
slavery eannot exist in tbe territories acquired from I
Mexico. It can and surely will go there unless I
prevented by the action of this Government, or I
the early organiz non of those territories as States I
belore slavery uaa lime to diffuse itself crer them, j
Let our action io these balls be controlled by the I
threats and policy of a slarebold.og aristocracy— ,
organise territorial governments without any I
prohibition of slavery — break down ah barriers to I
its i ntroductioo by a submiasiou oo our part to tbe I
Constitutional dogmas of tbe South, anl slavery wiil I
as certainly everrun those territories, as that it hia 1
spread from tbe Potomac South and West to the I
Gulf of Mexico and tbe banka of tbe Rio Grande.”
Again be says in the same speech.
“Wherever lauor is io demand—wherever there
is work to do, there tbe stare is valuable and there
I he will be taken unless legal barriers are interpo
: sed to prevent it.”
Why does Mr. Wilmot warn,the North here
that if ’.hey “organize territorial governments
retMctit any prohibition of slavery,’ those
countries would become slave countries,
if he thought the Proviso was unnecessa
ry :o exclude us?—wny does be want 'legs:
barriers interposed to prevent it,” if the Mexi
can law was in force, and already “interposed.
i What now have you tu aay to the truth of
I your statement so often repeated,'bat all the
free-soiierassy we are excluded by tne Mexican
lawt
* OL.LXV—NEW SERIES VOL. XV - NO. 36.
You do not tell the truth about what took
place at Lexington last October. You did not
there state “to the assembled citizens,” that
yo i were not aware the forged extracts from
Mr. Toombs’s speeches had appeared in your
paper. You did there state with regard to the
first extract quoted by me, that you had learn
ed since its publication, it was not taken from
Mr. Toombs’s speech, but was an extract from
a letter of bis, and you then put the question
to hi •> if he bad ever written such a letter I
He denied it, and defied you to produce the
letter. You then asked if he had ever said so
to any one t He answered ne, and defied you
to produce the witness. You were silent “to
the assembled citizens,” concerning the sec
ond extract in which the word California, was
forged. This silence you maintained, though
the extracts were denounced to your face as
falsehoods or forgeries, by Mr. Toomba, who
stood within reach of a blow. You then and
there, in hearing of ihe multitude, pledged
y uraolf to hold Mr. Toombs to a strict per
sonal account for his language, to Which he
responded he was ready to answer for it pub
licly or personally, there or any where else,
and repealed the offensive language. You
never called him to account, and never attempted
to do so, and you did not intend it when you
made the pledge Your face blanched like any
other coward’s, when you uttered the brave
words. A close observer, as I was on tbe oc
casion, could see your eye cower and fall, as
the manhood oozed out of you and left you to
tbe pub'ic gaze, that abject trembling craven,
hearted thing that you are.
I mention this to show how little reliance is
to be placed in your promise to give mo satis
faction. You have failed to redeem a public
promise to demand satisfaction, and you ean
not make any one wbo knows you, believe you
aland ready to give it. You dared me to
make known my name—you told mo “Beware.”
anl when defied and reminded how you could
obtain my name on conditions which no gen
tleman ever considered onorou-, you mean
ly back out from your boastful threats, and
deny the obvious meaning of your language.
Vour reason for not demanding my name is
puerile and disgraceful. You cannot get it
without pledging yourself to hold me to aper«
sonal account, and you are afraid I may turn
out to be no gentleman. Such is your excuse.
You pretend not to know that the rule does
not hold you to your pledge in case I prove to
boos not equal standing at least with your
self. If you deny this to be the true meaning
of the rule, then I make it the rule in this ease
for your especial benefit. Come now, your
objection ia removed, demand my name if you
dare. It will not do to say lam an anonymous
writer, and therefore you are not bound to
notice me. You have waived that objection
by entering into a controversy with me. Don’t
be afraid of having to forfeit your pledge—the
Lexington affair shows you don't mind that.
You remind me, you,have in your first reply,
applied to me the epithet “crawling miscreant,”
and charged me with “falsehood” and “detrac
tion,” and then you exultingly exclaim I have
remained concealed under such epithets. Let
us see if you will not lie sti'l ander something
worse. Any one may apply epithets to his
adversary—the point is to show they are de
served And having abundantly shown you are
a convicted LIAR and an acknowledged COW
ARD, I now publish you as such to the world.
DeCToz.
For the Chronicle if- Sentinel.
Mr. Cobb In Floyd.
Roas, Aug. 27,1851.
Mr. Editor : —This being the day appointed by
Mr. Cobb to address the people of this county,
about six hundred persons assembled to hear
him. His fame as a public speaker and states
man, had prepared the mind, of the people to
expect something more than common. In this
they were not disappointed. For two hours and
a half he rivetted the attention of his au
dience, by a masterly vindication of his coutse
in Congress upon the Compromise measures,
and taking them up ono by one, he demonstrated
to the satisfaction as I donbt not of every un
prejudiced voter whu heard him, that the action
of Congress upon the territorial question, arising
out of the fruits of the Mexican war, was in
perfect accordance with the position assumed
by the Whig and Democratic parties of the State
prior to the time of the settlement. He proved
that tho bills establishing Territorial Govern
meats for Utah and New Mexico, were based
upon the doctrine of non-intervention, that this
was the doctrine contended for, advocated and
resolved, in every Convention, Whig or Demo
cratic, which had assembled in the State of
Georgia, that it was the universal voice of the
people. That these bills not only indirectly ad
mitted that the people of the Territories had ths
right to determine the question of slavery for
themselves, but directly and distinctly recog
nized the right, and declated that Congress
should admit them as Stales, Into the Union,
upon application, whether they settled the
question one way or the other. He asked the
Disunionists to answer the question, whether in
the passage of these bills tho North triumphed
in the principles of the Wilmot Proviso, or
whether the South triumphed in the establish
ment of the principles of the good old Repub
lican doctrine of non-intervention.
'l’he admission of California, although in some
respects objectionable, he showed not to be in
consistent, but rather in accordance with the
doctrine of non-intervention —the right to deter
mine whetherslavery should or should not form
a part of their social system, was in the people,
they had exercised that right, and Congress had
no power under the Constitution to say they had
wisely or unwisely settled tho question.
It would not be proper to follow him through
all his argument upon these questions. Suffice
it to say, that his arguments were unanswerable,
and such as would convince beyond a reasonable
doubt nine-tenths of the people of Georgia, if
they could but near him ; that instead of the
South having occasion to complain of, and resist
the action of the General Government, there is
much in that action to approve and to rejoice
their hearts, and that in the language of the
Georgia Convention they could “ honorably ac
quiesce.”
Mr. Cobb having concluded his examination
of each of the bills embraced in the Compro
mise, next reviewed the Georgia platform and
declared himself satisfied with it—that lie felt no
"degradation" in acquiescing—that he heartily
approved the action of the Convention, and was
willing to stand or fall upon the principles therein
set forth.
He next argued the doctrine of Secession, and
he e permit me to say, that in this part of the
State, we are fortunate in having forced the Dis-
U iioniats to throw oft the veil under which they
have been covering their political sins, and ini
quities, and to come out and avow the abstract
principle, for the maintenance and establishment
of which they have formed themselves into a
party. It is thia, “that a State has the right to
secede from the Union with or without just cause
at her own mere wiil and pleasure,” I speak by
the "bugle.” It is the last blast which Mr.
Rhett’s bugleman In Georgia has blown. The
sound proceeds from near the heights of Kinne
saw. Air. Cobb's examination of this abstract
doctrine of Governmental policy aa it is called,
it seems to me would make even Governor Mc-
Donald "honorably acquiesce" in the "degrada
tion” (if such a thing were possible) of tha bu
gleman who blows eueh a blast.
Thia has been a proud day foe the friends of
tho Union and one of dismay to its enemies. I
know the effort has been made to Impress the
public with the belief that the peopla of Cherokee
were not sound upon the questions involved in
this contest, 1 assure you that they are sound,
that Cobb will croae the Chattahoochle with at
least five thousand majority, and that the "Aus
trian Equestrian" will be ao far distanced, that
noteven an “abitiactprinciple,” will ever allow
itself to be rode by him again. Lest some may
not understand the “zeal without knowledge”
of a few of the sons of chivalry, who In their
wanderings to and fro upon the face of the earth
since they left the Palmetto State, have found
their way into this section of Georgia, I must
offer an apology for them. You know, that in
that State a convention man has not tho right
to vote for Governor, that privilege ia confined
to a favored few, who arc in office, and it ought
not to be a matter of surprise when one of the
chivalry gels over into Georgia where he can ex
| er else a privilege common to all our people, but
heretofore denied to him, that he should almost go
beslda himself. They ought to be excused, they
will ret over it when they get a little more ussd
to it. Coosa.
For the Chronicle If Sen' net
Casbvillx, A g. 26 h, 1851. i
Messrs. Editors .-—On y rierday the Hon. <
Howell Cobb ad ’re,sef a very large eon- '
course of people at tl;;» place. The citizens
had a fine barbaeue prepared, and, aa it waa
IS o’clock before Mr. Cobb arrived, it was ’
thought advisable to discuss tbat before en- ,
teringin’.o a discussion of the questions now ,
dividing the Union and Disunion parties. Mr. i
Cobb went out with the people to the fine
dinner prepared for them, and after partaking
of some as fine mutton as you could wish to
see,(by the way thia is a fine country for
sheep, why do we not raise more of them I)
and he people having satisfied their appetites,
soon repaired to the Court House to hear Mr.
Cobb. Tbe house being too small to hold
*ny thing like the number of persons present,
Mr. Cobb s ood in the door so that he could be
heard and seen both by those in the house aod
out of it. He commenced his speech by
staling, what be has f-equrnily said before, that
fie was willing to enter into fail discussion, as
Mr. McDonald was not present, with any
I friend of his wbo was authorized 'o speak for
bm. But there was no one present wbo was
willing to commit the Disunion candidate be
fore the people. There were speakers pres
ent, however, of the McDonald party, ready
cot and dried, to reply to Mr. Cobb, aa I shall
i presently show. Mr. Cobb showed the for
| trier position of both the old parties in tne
South on the slavery question ; that the South
I ern position was a correct one ; that it was
I the great American position ; involving noth
I ing less than the right of a people to govern
I tbemselves. He showed that Ire disunionists
I had abandoned this position and were now in
I sisting that Congress should establish slavery
I in the territories, whether the people, there
I wanted it or not. He referred to the Clayton
I Compromise bill, and showed that the very
I same disunionists who then denounced Mr
I Stephens as a traitor for opposing that bill.
I were now abusing both Mr ritspbens and
I bimseif for supporting the New Mexico and
I Utah bills, which contained all that the Clayton
I Compromise did, and much more, in favor of
I the South. But, Messrs Editors, it is impoa
, I sible to do Mr. Cobb justice in giving even the
| substance of hia speech, unless I could write
It out as delivered. I wish thia could be dons
and a copy of it placed in the hands of every
voter tn Georgia, For I think lam not mis
taken, and do not exaggerate, when I ray that
his speech wee the moat powerful, forcible,
convincing, and overwhelmingly conclusive
political arguments I ever listened to, and I
have heard many. I am not aline tn thia
opinion, for I have heard of others, who were
opposed to Mr. Cobb when be commenced,
who went away declaring that they were con
vinced of their error, and should support
him.
Towards the conclusion of his speech he
called upon all present to speak out if they
desired him to answer any question. If you
have, said he, any question to ask, any objee
tion to make or any thing against me in any
away,do not wait until lam gone, bnt speak
now, make it known now, while I am here to
answer for myself. He paused for a reply.
All was silent. At this moment a gentleman
aro e in the crowd, and with a kind of triom
phant air, said to Mr. Cobb, “tell us what was
io that suppressed letter ” This seemed to re
vive the hopes of the disunioniste They
seamed to brighten np. They looked glad.
They evidently were greatly relieved. Ah!
thought they, we’re got him now. But how
short lived was their joy. Mr. Cobb said to
the interrogator, “Have yon raad my letter to
the Macon Committee f" Yes, sir, was the
reply. Then, said Mr Cobb, yon have read
the suppressed letter without knowing it, for
every line, (except the first two er three, in
which I say yon have my views on the doc
trine of secession,) every word, and every
syllable of the suppressed letter is contained
in my letter to the Macon Committee, without
an alteration in the dotting of an I or the cross
ing of aT. You have beard of shocks—con
sternations by the running off of the cars—
blowing up of steam boats—thunder and light
ning, Jfcc., &c., but I guess that no sett of
poor creatures were ever so surprised, over
whelmed, confused, confounded as the dis
unionists were by Mr. Cobb’s answer. He
wished to know if there was any thing site
they desired him to answer. He urged them
to speak out, but not a word would they utter.
They had enough.
After Mr. Cobb concluded the disunionists
called loud y for Capt. Nelson He seems to
have been brought up from Cobb County for
the purpose. I will not attempt to give tile
positions he asenmed, as 1 did not hear all bis
speeeb. Last fall ho was an open disunionist,
and I presume he is so still, as he is opposed to
Mr. Cobb, the Union party and their princi
ples, and is selects 1 by the disunienists to
speak for them. Bnt Capt. Nelsen was not
the only speaker the disunionists bad prepared
to represent them. As the sontest waxes
warmer they have thought it necessary to call
for help from South Carolina. They had it
here in the person of one Mr. Wriaiit. He,
too, made a speech in reply to Mr. Cobb.
He told the people that < majority ought not to
govern in fettling queetione involving great
principles, for tie people were not competent to
judge. That he was for disunion, and that if
Cobb was elected South Carolina would se
eede at ones. But if McDonald wae elected she,
prohM y would wait awhile, as eke would then
know that the would have ee-orxßATio.v in dis
solves ths Union. This is the man the dis
nnionists sent to South Carolina for, to speak
for them—and they cheered him at the conclu
sion of his speech. He is an avowed dis
unionists and he io theirepokeaman. Think of
it, people of Georgia. Think of the fact, that
South Carolina is now sending her disunion
orators here to aid McDonald and his party to
get into power, and for what? that South
Carolina may obtain aid and assistance from
Georgia, that McDonald and his party may
co-operate with her in dissolving the Union
and destroying the only free government on
earth. This is the objeot and design, as I
honestly believe, of the disunion party of
Georgia with McDonald at their head. Else
why invite South Carolinadisunionists here to
make epeechos to the people and permit them
unrebuked to proclaim disunion sentiments
ueh as I have referred to.
1 ardon me, Messrs Editors, for occupying
so much space in yonr valuable columns-
But let me assure your readers that all is right
in Cherokee. Mr. Wright’s speech done the
oanse of Union and Liberty much good. It
opened! he eyes of many an honest farmer to
the schemes of the disunionis-s. Indeed, such
was the effect which his speech produced, one
Union man declare 1 that he would pay Mr.
Wright's expenses if he would go with Mr.
Cobb to all his appointments and address the
people. If he would de thio our majority in
this district instead of being 5,000 for Cobb
would be nearer 8,000. And mark what I
now tell you, McDonald will not get a ma
jority in any county in this district. Our
majorities in several counties will be conside
rably larger than they were last fall. The
majority in Floyd w ; l> be at least 800 |in Gil
mer 1800. I hears a disunionist, who lives in
Gilmer, say a few days since, that Chastain's
majority in G'jier would be at least 1.500.
W.
From the Constitutionali’’
Walton Covntt, Aug 18th, 1851.
Alssert. Gardner and Smythe: Your oaper
o’ the IGlh inst., has just been placed in my
.rands, containing an article ever the signature
of “A Visiter,” which I must notice.
I am sure I would not have done so if the
writer bad not referred to some matters that
have by falsehood and misrepresen'ation been
magnified into such importance, that 1 will
even avail myself of this poor occasion to re
fute the foul aspersion which malignant slan
derers have sought to fix upon me.
“A Visiter” speaking of me says:
“On a visit to the North some time since he
called to >ee a friend who was an abolitionist
by the name of Chester. Said Cheater invi
ted the Hon. Judge to dine with him, and by
way of illustrating his doctrine by bis practice,
he placed a qeatroon wench on the ri ht hand
of Mr. Hillyer. As er dinner, Chester said to
his frie.id: While I wae a resident in the
South. I had a great repugnance to this kind of
equality; but since I have become an aboli
tionist,tr.e glorious doctrine has inspired me
w th greater love for my species, and particu
larly the negru equality.’ When Mr. Hillyer
returned to the Slate of Georgia, and be ng lull
of the inspii ation of the above doctrines, and
the fear of the numbers of the North, he had
occasion to address a meeting of hie febow
uitiaens.”
Now, in this paragraph there is a clear inti
mation that while in New York by my associa
tion with Mr. Chester I became inspired with
the doctrine that the whito and negro race are
equal, and that the doetrine of the abolitionist
is glorious. This imputation is absolutely and
infamously false. For by no word or act of
my life have 1 ever intimated tin opinion that
the white and negro race were or ought
to be on a footing of pol lical or social equali-
ty.
The imputation is here clearly sought to be
thrown upon me, that wh le in New York at
the homo of Mr Cheater, my conduct was
such as to degrade ue among gentlemen, and
to impair my character as a Southern man—
which imputation I repeat is false and he who
makes it lie*.
It is not true that Mr. Chester invited me to
dirts with him. While in New York I made
his bouse my home. I went there as promptly
as if he had been my brother, and I will net
consult any living man up • n the propriety of
my having done so.
Mr. Chester, more than thirty years ago,
was the friend of my father, and subsequently
the friend of my widowed mother and her or
phan children. And on my leaving College
<having been educated by the charity ot my
grandmother) without one cent of money in
my pocket, and r ota change of clothing iu
my wardrobe, ho took me by the hand and
gave me food and raiment, a d sheltered and
brought me forward iu my profession. 1 ows
him gratitude. And while memory remains,
and I recognize the proper impulses of the
human heart. 1 am his friend and ha shall have
my hand.
On the first evening of my arrival at .he
house of Mr. Cheiler, there eamein to supper
four or five women, and I learn .d as erwards
from Mr. Chester that one of them was from
the Island of Bermu *a, and was supposed to
have negro blood in her. There was nothing
in her c dor, manner or appearance which in
duced me to sappose that she was o her than
a white woman. I assert positively, that while
in the non slaveholding States I ncvei spoke
to any of the negro race except the waiters at
he hotels, and Mr. Chester is the only aboli
tionist I saw.
I do 801 believe that "A Visitor" thinks that
while in New York I associated w.’th free ne
groes m terms of equality. Ido not believe
that he thinks I am tainted with abolitionism.
Nor do I believe that in hie heart he doubts
that I am as true to the institution of slavery
as he is himself. And yet 1 e has insinuated
these things against me without proof, and
without taking any trouble to ascertain the
truth. 1 Will not say be is a wicked and bad
man; but I will sa' that in writing his commu
nication he baa committed a great folly.
The balance of his piece, I will not conde
scend to notice, further than to say (while wri
ting) that it is a mixture of misrepresentations
and falsehoods, and sinks below contempt.
This correspondence is now e oaed on ray
part. I do not intend to b, drawn in o a
newspaper controversy with every body that
sees proper to asperse e. I have no idea
who this writer is 1 did not know that 1 had
but one personal enemy in the world, and I
do not suspect him of being the author of sueh
a proiueuon. Jusios Hillykb.
Extract from the speech of Hon. F. W.
Pickemb, in Edgefield, 8. C- Col. P., in spec
ulating on the future and in giving expression
to h:s feelings, concludes as follows:
“ I have hopes io Georgia; and if McDorald, the
noble standard-bearer of the ca:se of justice and
right, shall succeed this fall, and a majority to the
Legislatare is elected with him, 1 feel tuat we will
have friends there; and any proposition that might
be made to us from them 1 would respect f lly receive
and consider it as from our bre’hren. So from Mis
sissippi. There is Quitman, from the storm of bat
tle, as brave aa a Knight Templar from the Holy
Land itself, and the gallant Davis who Waved as
bright a sword sp ever flashed over the perilous ridge
of v.ctory. The*eare men who are able at tbe coun
cil board, as well as mighty captains in the field, and
if they carry Mississippi, ae I feel ass.red they will,
we will greet whatever propoai ions they have io
make with a cordial and a hearty welcome, because
we know they cculd maie none but what were cam
pa title with the vindication of our rights and honor.
I am for co-operation, if it can be obtained In any
reasonable time ; I will do anything but yield prin
ciples to obtain H.”