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2 Horrible Affray. Citizens OF Baltimore County Mvrmr- BD by Fugitive Slaves. —W 1 briefly men tioned in yesterday’* American tha fact tha in telligence had been received in this city, Inat two citizens of Baltimore county had been killed in Cheater county. Pa., whilst endeay oring to recover some fugitive slaves Ihe confidence which we expressed in the correct ness of the report has been confirmed by the intelligence sit ce received, and which invests the affair with the character of one ofthe bloodiest and most horrible of outrages. The particulars which we have been able to gather np to the time of writing this are in souse de gree contradictory, but this may be explained by further accounts. The following details are the moat reliable that have come to our knowledge: A party of persona from Baltimore County, consisting us Mr. Edward Gorsuch, hie eon Dickinson Gorsncb, his nephew Joshua Gor anch, Dr. Thomas Peirce, Nathan Nelson, Nicholas Hut.hmi, and another person whose name we have been unable to ascertain, went into for lhe purpose of recover ing two runawa, slaves, b'-longing to the el der Gorsuch, and who were known to be har borr j i > Chester county, at a small place call ed Christiana, between Lancaster and rhila 6The party secured the aid of a deputy U 8 Marshal, at d of several police officers from Philadelphia, and on Thursday morning pro ceeded to the neighbornood m which the slaves were supposed to be secreted When near the house to which 'heir suspicions were di rected they meitwo negro men, one 01 whom was recogoi-ed by Mr. Gorsuch as bi* slave The whites gave cnase and the negroes ran and succeeded in getting into the house, which was closed against the pursuing parties. A born or bugle was then sounded by tee ne groes in the house and a billet of wood was thrown from the windows, striking one of the partv of whites. In the meantime a consider able crowd, mostly of blacks, began to collect aiound the Louse, probably called there by the sound of the bugle. Mr Go-such and his pa-ty attempted to force their way into the upper part of the house where the blacks had fled, but finding the ne groes armed with guns, scythes and other weapon* and also finding that the crowd on the outside was rapidly increasing, attracted by the continued blowing of tl e horn, they eone'uded that it was impes-ible to effect the capture of the negroes, and commenced a re treat from the house. As they left the house a discharge of firearms took place from the ne groes io the house, and Mr. Edward Gorsuch was instantly shot dead, a ball entering his breast near the heart, end another taking es feet in the left shoulder of his eon. Ihe ne groes afterwards rushed on the wounded men. and it is said, beat and mutilated them in a shocking msnner. The son of Mr. Gorsuch it is reported, was entirely disembowelled b a sweeping blow with a scythe. Mr. J. Got such and Dr. Pierce, it is said, was also dan gerously wounded, and we e lying ata bouse 'bo. neighborhood of Jhamnu of the ms —..Tiu auTi'iiioßi nopeiess c namon. An offi cer raid to be from Baltimore, was also wound ed though not mortally, and was afterward* taken to Colombia, where he was lyir g at last accounts. The eon of .Mr. Goreueh after his father was killed, drew a pis’ol and shot dead the negro who bad fired the fatal shut, fie was then set up on and barbarously murdered io the manner we have slated aoove. The crowd that collect ed about the house at the blowing of the born ia reported to have amounted to some two hundred, showing evidently that the negroes had been inform .d of the purpose of the Ma ryland party, and had made arrangements to oppose them in the murderous manner which was carried out. It is also reported that sev eral of the negroes were either killed or seriously wounded during the affray, but thia report seems to be unconfirmed by the more au thentic accounts. Among the crowd who col lected around the house there were a number of whites, who not only refused, when called upon by the Deputy Marshall, o assist in the enforcement of the h w and the capture of the negroes, but actually encouraged them in tbeir murderous outrages The receipt of the intelligence of these hor rible outrages baa caused the most intense feel ing both in Baltimore county and thia city. Mr. Gorsuch resided on the York road, al ou 24 miles from the city, where he was the own er of a fine farm and valuable mill seat. He was well known throughout the whole coun ty, and we may add, respected and esteemed wherever he was known. His eon, and in deed, all the parties who acted in the affair, were parsons ot standing and respectability and the outrage perpetrated upon them whilst lawfully and peacefully attempting to re-pos eess themselves ol their pr... erty cannot, of course, be be deeply felt The slaves they were in search of ran away abou* a year since It is supposed that the information which put the negroes on their guard, and enabled them ti "ri elrate the murder which followed, was st rom Philadelphia, where Mr. Gorauch an ilia friends first went to procure the neces vary legal aid. This opinion has confirmation in the statement published in the Pmladelphia Inquirer, which says— From the best reports, wo learn that the colored population in the vicinity, having been informed ofihe nature of the visit of the offi cars to Ch istiaua, held a mret ng. and naked the opinion ofseveral folding Abolitionism as to what course they should pursue. The an awer was, as one of he most current reports stales, that they should stand their ground Ac cordingly, about 80 negroes assembled, with guns, dkc., and secreed t:iein«elves in the neighboring woods and cornfields. The eg ualof attack on the officers was the blowing ol a horn When the officers cams upon the party, they were suriouu fed on all aides, and a deadly fire poured up n he üby the negroes Additional /forluufo-a—Since the above was pul m type, we have ascertained from Mr. Merryman, conductor on ihe Susquehanna railroad, who came through from Columbia "“parflcuTarsiiireiatiori to this horrible tragedy. Young Dickinson Gorauch we are glad to learn, is not yet dead, though his condition is ouch as to render his recovery a matter ot extreme d übt. He was shot in the left shoul der. and also badly beaten and bruised by blows with a club. The report that hi was muti'ated by a cut with a -cyihe ia nut correc. He is still lying at a bouse in (ho neighborhood of where the a Uray took pace. J rabaa Gorauch and Dr. Peirce, though beaten and bruised by tho uegnes, we learn were nut seriously it jured The former camo on yes terday morning wi.b the body of old Mr. Gorauch, which was bur.ed yesterday after noon. The funeral t iok place Com his late resi deuce on the York road and was at"ended by a large concourse of persons from all pirta of the surrounding coun ry. by whom he was greatly esteemed and respected. He was not in the left breast, the ball entering a short distance above the heart, whilst the surround ing pans were completely riddled w th shot, with wlucn the gun had also been heavily loaded. The negroes who were active in lbs affray are aaid to have all left the vieiu'.ty, making their way towards Philadelphia. As far as we could learn no arrests bad been made in the vicinity where the affray took place. it may not be amiss to say that our account, published above, is fully corroborated by the statements contained in tho Philadelph.a and Baltimore County papers. CoMriarios or ver Fcoatiko Banjos Aoaow Lans Cuanruais —The following nonce ot the new Hosting bridge across Lake Champlain we find in the Lake Champlain Beaeon of Saturday: On Monday, for the first time in the history of the world, Lake Champlain was crossed by a train of cars! The Floating Bridge emerg ed from its slips—the monster '*Beu Serpent” crept forth from Lis den, and stretched his huge proport ons from p.er, connecting shore with shore, Bia'e with State, New England with the West. Without difficulty or accident, and with as little delay as could have been expected on the first Vial of thia novel and grand invention —theyouugesib.ru of Campbell's scheming brain—the whole Bostou train, engine and all. passed safely over from the Vermont to tho New York shore of Lake Champlain. The excitement, the enthue asm, was inde scribable. The monster depot—soo lent long by a hundred broad—the wharf, the piers, the hotel, were crowded to their utmost -rapacity. Hie Manne Majesty received such a royal greeting as probably Sea Serpent never re ceived tielore ! Barnum, with his grand cara van. and auake-huoters in search of the ocean king, must henceforward seek their leviathan io me anti ealine waters of Lake Champlain. We can, at all events, show our Bostonian friends who travel this way as great a curiosi ty, aod one c-rtaiuly much morn .eel than tbeir S.rpent Sovereign of the .Main, who baa never yei been caught, while we have ours io harness—we, of the Inland Sea! Raxlboad CsLasasTion.—The Chattanooga Advertiser furnishes the following account of the Celebration ot the opening of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad to the Hiwas aee ttver: We were at Charleston on the sth.—The ride thither was in the midst of a perfeei -pises” of hum Hilly—found there an intolerable crowd —letuiued as tar as Cleveland in the same de iighlul jam, where we slopped to breathe again, and record our observations and refiecuo-e. Feeling 100 much indisposed io join in the cere monies of the day, were not pres.nl al the Bar becue proper—did not witness the onslaught ip on the oxen, sheep, swine, and huge brown loaves prepared for she occasion. Terrific must have been the scene— Yet not with danger fraught, as when On Caban vales the Patriot armies rush, Fired with revenge and thirsting blood tor bl’d They c.ush the cowering Spaniard. Not thus the scene, but peaeelul quite (I) Speeches were made by Samuel A. Smith. Esq . of Charleston, Mr. Swan, of Knoxville, and by Mr. Cuyler, President <f the Central Railroad We regret not being able to give the substance ot their remarks, since they are all genu men deeply interested in, and well d upon, subjects o, In'ernal Improve , *h* "vibration answered its end. It accom- P^ I,n<? d us »bj ct It was for the masses— t’c i! ho ’’'b’bitants of the hills and hollows, oae wh • *.ded .n budding ihe Road, and rhose led by it. It showed to all thl. fa'ii'W''‘“‘Portant than all others. 6tSl J<sc ßP«»on. ie JtaisAed -that a »aew don? which cannot oe undone—lha. the internal «. *i th of Bradlev, McMinn, and Polk Conn ie, >„ eQ a • two-told and aa impetus given to home pro auction tbit will continue to act, tIU K. Tenneg •ee *ft*U honorably oral ahnoat any other pan the Union not only in abundance of agricultural but in value and variety ot manufac ture ariidea. The result cannot be otherwise. Ilia the natural effect <4 Kailroad enterprise •aery where. If ** attach usee its has double het population, and more than doubled her wealth, b» building 1100 inife? of Railroad in her cun tractcd territory, why mat we nut look tor sim ilar rraulta from similar causes in this S’etet Nay, the advantage is altogether in our favor We hevea better eoti, better climate, and more valvaMe mineral resources than The com par «on might be farther and favorably extended, but we have not time ihi« week. tee other petat deserve* aouce m retorwio* to the East Tennessee and Georgia Kailroad. It is the superior manner in which it is construc ted. Besi'es the advantage, with few excep tions, of easy grades and gentle curves, the track is laid with a very heavy quality of the T iron, upon the largest sise onK " cross-tics.” The equipments of the road are all of the first clast. The Engines and Passe, ger Cars, are probably equal to any in the South, in elegance of finish, strength and durability. Only Engineers of ex perience and good habits are employed, so that, so far as human fores'ght is concerned, all danger from acccident is effectually debarred. About three miles of track beyond Calhoun are al ready laid, and the work will be pushed forward with all possible speed by Col. Dent. He ex pects to reach Athens by the Ist of November, when another grand jubilation may be expected in honor of the onward strides of the Genius of Railroads. _____ Latx fbon Santa Fe. We find the follow ing in the St- Louis Republican ol the3lst uIL: Wc received last nig nt, several letters from Santa Pe, mainly of a business characreFrom one of them we gather that complaints exist of the manner in which Gov. Calhoun ex< cutes his official duties, uut as we cannot understand the merits of the contro versy we do no. brio# it before the pub'ic. The Legislature adjourned cn the llib ult., after a session of forty days. The moat important law pass ed was one to borrow money to pay themselves; but as the Secretary of the Territory soon after arrived there, it ia probable that the debt was soon dis charged. Mr. Allen, Secretary cf the Territory, arrived on the 27th July, and immediately entered on the duties ot his offi :e. The United States troops were all leaving Santa Pe for their new quarter-*. Trains ware departing every day, and it seems to be the determination oi Col. Sumner o leave nothing behind. Col. Sumner, with 500 men, was to start for. the Na’ajo country, on the 15th of August, “ ue ermined co fight.” ‘‘Santa Fe,” says the letter, “ will be a mere country town in a lew months, as all the business will be transferred to Los Vegas.” Col. Reynolds was still in the field for Congress, but it was supposed »h:t he would have very little chance against the influences brought to bear in Maj. Weightman’s favor, she election will take place on the first Monday in September. Col. Monroe left on the 28th ot July for the States. The citizens amended him on his way a few miles, and it is said ‘‘it will Le long before we have a bet ter man.” The Colonel has been very unjus'ly a bused, and a few years in this country will show it. Capt. Easton and Capt. McLaws left with Colonel Monroe. “AH take the best wishes of the respecta ble Americans with them.” Pr visions are very high; flour is selling at 17 cts, per pound. No rain has fallen since the Ist April.— The Nevajos to-day drove off 31 mules belonging to Mr. Nesbit, and thia in addition to 84 driven off some lime since. Several meetings of merchants had been held t' ievise measures to resist the payment of an unjust and unequal tax imposed upon them by the hst Le gislature. It is declared to be a tax solely upon one [tortion of the citixens of the Territory, and as such they will resist it by ail legal means known to us. Thb Gbeat Loudon Exhibition.— It is offi cially announced that the exhibition will close on the Uth October. A letter from Edward Riddle, Esq., U. S. commimoner, vmit. <i-.- -r x— a , ofiih i»u . makes the following mention of the practical interest taken in the exhioition by various governments of Europe: Austria has supported a corps of thirty scien tific men here; besides ten Commissioners, whose duties have been confined to making drawings, specifications, and reports of what was ueelul, new, interesting, er valuable in the Exhibition, Sardinia has sent over sixty-three of the most intelligent young men from her workshops, paying them for their :ime and de fraying sll their expenses, that they might have what of good could be gained in their various arts from this great store-house of the world’s industry. Turkey has a body of young engineers, shrewd, clear-headed, practical men, whose in vestigations, if measured by the attention they have given to every ingenious piece of mechan i min our department, cannot fail to be most salutary. Egypt has two of her officers now for nearly a month investigating what would be likely to turn to good account there. Russia, Norway and Belgium arc supporting each a body of artisans among the numerous articles of moving machinery in lhe building; while Frank fort and others of the Hanse towns are collect ing every kind of statistics, through men ol eminence they have sent, for comparison and publication. The same letter has the following interesting statement of the estimate of value placed upon the American contributions by the people of ths Old World: Our cotton gins will be introduced into two countries of Asia, two of Europe, and one of Africa. Our means of cleansing the long staple cotton of the sea is'ands will be introduced into Egypt. Grain reaping by machinery wi I become ins'ew years universal m every country of Eu rope. Our labor saving machines will supersede hand labor in many branchestn England, France tnd Belgium. Our new method oi lapping cot ton is within the last month introduced from the Exhibition into the mills of Lyons. Our candle mould machine will cause lhe old process to b entirely superseded. The Anglesea leg, known and used over the world for twenty-five years, according to the acknowledgment of evety emi nent surgeon of Englsnd and the Continent who has examined it, must now give place to the in finitely superior mechanism of Palmer’s patent limb. The revolving pistol* of Colt, a contra band artic e in England, and incapable of being sold here, have, by order of the Lord* ot the Treasury been furnished to every officer who has recently gone to the Caffrc war. Ths gun yrinv-rof Maynard, the mostefficient and prac tical improvemen' upon the musket and caroine yet invented rendering the same body of men more than twice as powerful in action as before, though here iess than a week, is already exciting much attention from officers connected with the ordnance. The mineral paint of Houston, of Virginia, will supplan white lead for many pur poses where it has hitherto been used. In fact there are few articles which we have sent here which have not brought with them a new or im proved Idea. To say nothing of the endless pur poses for which we are using caoutchouc an 1 guna peicha—subjects of constant surprise to visitors—the wood planing, tonguing and groov ing machine of Woodworth, 'he centrifugal pump of Gwyune, the stone dressing machine of Moray, lhe presses of Dick, the fire tale of Herring the fr J -,HTlli , lTtfT.lkll"Jr > frllfl- > t‘ ering and Hewca, the rail wheels of Shattuck, the surpassingly accurate lueaserinu instruments of Professor Bache, and the new motive power of Erricson, are all either destined to be brought into immediate use on this side the ocean, or to suggest in arts and manufactures ideas jf great practical utility. These are but samples of what wc have brought, and which are now beginning to be appreciated. 1 might specify many others equally important, and as practicably useful. But 1 mention these to confirm what 1 say, that l ean find in no foreign department in this great Exhibition, either in number, importance, or de gree. any comparison in labor-saving, ingenious and perfect machinery, in useful invention, or in new principle, among all that each exhibits, with that which is exhibited by our contribu tors. The noted Florida Indian Chief Wild Cat is not idle in his new quarters in the South Weal, as the following account of his movements will show: Mr. W. Secrest, who has recently visited the Mexican town, in the vicinity of Eagle Pass, informs the editor of ihe Houston 'I elegraph that me statement published lately, in regard to the number of runaway negroaa that have col looted in Ihuae towns is entirely co’root He aays he was inf rmed that no less than two hundred and seventy runaways crossed the fer ries at Eagle Pass and Laredo last year. Sev eral hundred also crossed a: the fordo above Eaitle Pass It is estimated that there are not less than eighteen hundred runaways at the town that has lately been built by Wild Cat, near the mouth of Los Moras. The greater part of these runaways have escaped from Ar kansas, but at leas five hundred ere, it is said, fugitives from Texas Wild Cat has a arge n'lmber of negroes armed,and they often accom pany him on his expeditious against tho Co manche e. Ha hat made two successful forays into the Comanche country. On oue of these forays he had about two hundred Indians and one hundred negro warriors. He attacked a large Comanche lodge, killed one hundred and fifty warriors, and raptured over one hundred hor ses and mules. On his second expedition against the Comauches. he was accompanied bv one hundred Mexicans and a party of Kickapuos. Several hundred horses and mules were capiured. but the Mexicans claim ed the lion’s share of the spoil, and ibis so enraged the Kickapoos that hey stole all the captured property aud went back to Red Riv er. It is thought that Wild Cat advised his Indian allies to rob the Mexicans, and that he will share t..e spoils Hie forces appear to be daily augmenting, an ills feared that he will soon concentra'e several thousand Indian war riors Irom Arkansas at his new settlement. Small Pox in Grkbnb and Oqlbthorpb.— Dr Herron, the attending Potaician, informs uh that three new cases hate occurred among the servants at Mrs Crenshaw’s. The cases are very light, and create no uneasiness. Mr Editor — There are but two cases of Small Pux in Oglethorpe county, at this time, and they are co far convalescent that the at.end ing Physician has dismissed them One of them io Mr. Tnos Landrum, the y «ung gentle man referred io in mv former communication. s he other, a new case, the only new case that has oreureed in nearly three weeks. Youta Truly. John A. Trbnchabd. Monday. Seot 8;h 1851. N. B.—There is no c :»e in Bairdstown.— Mr. K-‘lv was the last case. He is we I.— Penfield fanner Nnrrow Etc ape cf a V. 8 T e U. S sloop of wnr M irioo. on her re urn from Snaa ghae, bound to Macao, got ashore on he North west part of <he Island of Formosa, while she was running at six knots. The na'ives throng, ed the chore by t» ousands pre oaring lor j lan der. The vessel was lightened by throwing over board 730 thirty* wo pound shot and twelve tons of witer. and as er great efforts, she w s got into deep water. At this place several vessels have been wrecked, and the crews mur dered. The commander of the Manon could have given the savage* a ose of grape, which wo«ld have sent them back into the country, bu as they made no hostile demonstrations, he let them alone. The vessal was six hours on shore, and was ’n very great danger. Four days alter the Manos rau on shore, the English man of war steamer Revnard, Captain Cracroft, wen on shore on P rot as Shoal (China Sea, 160 miles from Macao, and wse lost. She went to assist the crew of the English sh p Velocipede, whose vessel had been wrecked there. The Hon Peter Parke - , “ad interim’’ Ame ican Minister at Canton, has known that he intends to call on the Al anon to chastise the savages and recover any Europeans who may be in ths mountains as undoubtedly there are many. Tie Enquire Dnniol.— The Bakimore Sun Pne papers generally have fallen into •® •»r ras to Judge Conkling’s decision on be return of the writ of habeus corpus in the css - ot the fugmve slave Daniel, at Buffalo. \ r ’ Conkling does not decide »*.K T ,V * L,WU in . case * re the slave <-,<•, pe .j bt . f the law ws. F ‘T *”* ,on wl, ' ch '“‘bonzes pr. -f. to be taken ex pane 1Q lhe 3 , a(e from w h be ri.ee ernpoa, .nd used u .v.d.nce «l be la arrested. >. only to •a tae* ot ewxpe .. oeeur uk, m. paw—, of. set. 1 * Arrival of the Georgia. By th; arrival of the steamer Georgia at New £ York from Chagres we have later dates from the t Isthmus and Central America. We cull from < the Commercial Advertiser the following items ] of intelligence : Fbom thi Isthmus,—We have papers to the . 22d of August. The Panama Star of the 19th has the follow- i ing information relative to affairs in New Gren- < ada. We have advices from Bogota and Carthagena, whjch represent that an actual revolution has btofcen out in the first named place—the capital of the republic—and that everything is in disor der here. We can learn no particulars, however, as to how the fight stands •. whether the “Rojos” or Red Republicans—the government party — or the “Liberal Conservatives” are in the as cendant. Previous to the outbreak at Bogota, however, we are informed that a decree was issued by the government to the effect that the “forced contri bution,” of which we have before made mention, shall be levied only upon the Conservatives ; and that the friends of the government party shall be entirely exempted. The consequence is, th*t while this decree has had the effect of complete ly crushing the disturbances in the provinces of Popayan, Buenaventura, &c , by causing the Conservatives tojo’n and abandon the “Rojo” party, it has had a different effect in Carthagena, in which neighborhood, ills said, the people are much incensed, and are making extensive ar rangements for revolt. By the next English steamer at Chagres, we may look for important advices from the Atlantic side of this Republic. Gen. Herrera, the new appointod governor of this province, is at Cartago—but we can't tell our readers exactly where Cartago is. By our previous advices from Panama, we were informed of a serious disturbance among the passengers on board the steamer Com. Stockton, lying at Taboga, some of them having gone so far as to destroy the rigging of the vessel, and prevent the crew from discharging the cargo. The sequel is thus detailed in the Panama Star of August 8: Capt. Ackley called upon Mr. Consul Corwin for his official interference, and that gentleman addressed anole in reply, which was read to the passengers, and which had the effect of quieting them that day. Next morning, however, (Wednesday) upon the crew resuming their labor of hoisting out the coals, the passengers again interfered and made them desist. Upon these facts being communi cated to Mr. Corwin, he applied to Governor Di az for a sufficient military force to repair to Ta boga, and arrest the muntineers. The Governor very readily called out the troops and offered to put himself at their head, but his generous offer was declined, because Mr. did not think his peisonal services necessj*y. Capt. McKinney was then deputized bv Mr. C. to act for him, in conjunction with the troops, which were to be taken down on the steamer Taboga. By a fortunate mishap, the soldiers did not embark, however, and Capt. McKinney started down, accompanied only by the Captain of the port, and the official interpreter going on board the Stockton, Capt. McK. showed his au thority for acting as Consul, and then caused to be arrested several oi the ringleaders of the mu tiny, at once removed from the ship achoro, but uiapci f weft afterwards released. In the der being restored, and the passengers becoming fully satisfied that they were pursuing a course which was not only placing themselves in the wrong, but was calculated still further to ernbar ra?3 all the means that were being taken for their ' relief, agreed to desist from further opposition, i and to allow the repairs of the vessel to go on without further delay, and so all is now quiet, t and in a day or two the vessel will be beachea, when It will be ascertained what is the extent of her injuries. . The steam ship Sarah Sands arrived at Pa i nama on the 13'h of August, and was advertised i to leave for Liverpool on the 23d of that month, touching al Callao, Valparaiso and Rio Janeiro The Panama Herald says that when the rail road is in operation to Gatune, which was ex pected to be accomplished by the Ist of Sept, the time of travel across the Isthmus will be reduced to twenty hours. The Panama Herald publishes a letter dated at Tumbez, July 12, stating that she brig Anna had been seized at that port under the following circumstances:— Capt. Erskine was bound from Panama Valparaiso, having had a long passage, and find* ing some of his crew sick with scurvy, he put into Tumbez, the nearest port for fresh provis ions. immediately on anchoring, he received a visit from the captain ol the port who alter hearing the object of his visit informed him that he must pay the usual anchorage fee of ten dollars, (for which he must give a receipt) and must sail within a given time ; he also informed him where he could obtain the articles required. After the detention of a few hours in obtaining his provisions, Capt. E. repaired to his boat to embark,vthen he was told by the captain of the port that he was subject to a fine of one thou sand dollars for having anchored in that port; whalers only being allowed to anchor there. Capt. E. remonstrated against this arbitrary demand, and mode of entrapping him ; and hav ing no means of paying the fine, consented that hisvessrl should go to Paita under the com mand of Cpt. Cobb, a passenger on board, wh.le Capt. E. went as a prisoner with the captain oi the port, by land, to the same place. On h f s arrival at Paita, Capt. Erskine suc ceeded in giving his captors the slip, and joining his vessel off the port, made sail in another di rection. We have heretofore published, we believe, a semi-official notification that Lumbtz is not a port of entrv, whalers only having the permis sion to anchor there. Revolution m Equadob —The Panama Her ald of August 14 by the arrival ot a coasting vessel from Guayaquil, has intelligence of a mil i:ary outbreak and insurrection there, which has terminated in the expulsion of Gen. Diego No voa, the President ot the Republic, and the tem porary instalment of Gen. Urbina. It says— On the 17th of July President Novoa left Quito, the capital, for the purpose of visiting his family, residing at Guayaquil, notice of his in tention having been previously communicated to his family, and made known among the inhabi tants. it was proposed to meet him and his suite at some distance from the city and accom pany them with a military escort. A cavalcade, consisting chiefly of so’dersi and newly created officers, under the direction of Uroina, undertook the mission and went out ostensibly for this purpose, but having rnet lhe President, they was then lying in the Guayaquil river, near its mouth. President Novoa was hurried down to this vessel, placed on board, and lhe vessel was ordered offi She sailed under “ sealed orders,” so that no one knows her destination. Gen. Urbina immediately assumed the admin istration of the government, and is now at the head of the government. Great dissatisfaction exists among the friends of President Novoa and his family, at the manner in which he has been disposed of, though no fears are entertain ed as to his entire safety President Novoa is about 55 years ot age, and has a large family at Guayaquil, who are distinguished for their hospitality towards foreigners, especially Ameri cans. By the arrival of the British steamer from the South, on the 18th or 19ih inst., we may expect to receive further particulars ot this last South American revolution. Fbom Chiu. —By the arrival of the British Mail steamship New Granada, advices from Valpiraiso to the 27th of July had been received at Panama. The Panama star says that lhe steamer has eight million dollars in silver bul lion on board. From the largeness of lhe sum, we presume that this is a mistake The votes of the electors for President were beingeanvassad when the Valparaiso Mercantile Reporterol the latest date went to press. There was no doubt, however, of the election ot Senor Don Manuel Montt. formerly chief justice of the Supreme Court. The provinces of Conception and Coquimbo chose electors favorable to Gene ral Cruz. Theolher provinces had given their suffrages in favor of Montt. In relation to the election, the Valparaiso Neighbor remarks According to our estimate of event* the vic tory, in the late election, has been one of princi ples rather than of persons. The vote of the nation has been east in favor of improvement and progress, rattier than of ary man or party. Particulars or tha Storm at Apalaehleola. We have been kindly favored, says the Co lumbus Enquirer, with the following extract of a letter trona a gentleman at Apalachicola to h>s friend in this city, giving further particulars of the ravages of the storm at that place, on the 22d and 23d days of August last: “ 1 have now to give you a most melancholy a-count of our devoted city. On the night of the 22d, a gale commenced blowing from east south-east, and continued about 24 hours. When 1 got up in the morning the water was nearly up to Market street, and about 12 o’clock it was over the side-walk in front of my dwelling, and still -ose a few inches higher. During this time the water was breaking through the entire row of brick buildings, tearing down iron doors and washing the goods away, lor no one had time to save any thing. There was not a door or floor left in Water street, ano no goods saved, except in a damage I state. The goods are sc tiered from town up to Lake Wemico, Judge Hawkins had to abandon his house, and wade through water several feet deep with his wife and chil dren. Judge Semtnes' house was undermined an 1 tell to the gtoui d, destroying all hts furni ture, Ac , Ac i Bennett’s house was very near going in the same way ; also Mr. Day’s, and B. D. Alien’si Mr. Grierson’s house was under mined and tumbled over. The nromenade swept of every thing, with nearly halt of Irish town. The lower block of biick buildings a pile ot ruins ; the two next buildings much damaged ; Taylor’s store, and the one next to it, pattly down ; the next one partly unroofed : the bank house entirely down, with 'he large safe lying on the top of the wreck. The Exchange, and Or man’s store, pirtly down; Day's press and ware-house much damaged ; Dodge’s store part ly unroofed ; Ellison's, and Wylie A McKen zie’s ditto.; the P. D. ware-house (omitted above) two-thirds down, and slate nearly all ofl ; the Union warehouse partially damaged; Austin A Long's store partly unroofed; N. Brooks. Day, Lockhart and Thomas’ ditto : No 1,2, 4 andß in Columbus block ditto; tne screw- press injured soma, or rather ths buildings; the Franklin ware-house down, also the bakery, and wooden buildings and all the buildings on the wharves; Youngs kiehen down, and dwelling somewhat injured by the falling of lhe chimney tops ; other dwellings very little injured. The doors and windows of the Episcopal Churrh all forced in, and plastering damaged ; the Congre gational Church entirety down, the Methodist Church not injured. You may imagine the situ ation of wharves. The roof of the engine house lodgtd in the rear of Young's siore ; the cotton sheds nearly all down ; Roberts A Alien’s orick foundry nearly all down ; the small brick build ing rear of L. T. Thomas, down ; Elbs’ new wooden building, opposite Abeil «x Griffin, lilted from the blocks, and settled on the ground, stock oi goods also dan-aged ; there were 7 cr 8000 sacks salt in Day’s press warehouse, all de stroyed; Young’s whiskey and salt on the first floor, and about 150 barrels of goods for J. C. Davis, ot Albany, all gone. The steamers Falcon and Magnolia were both swept from Old Woman’s B ufl, and, completely wrecked ; the water was nine feet on that bluff. The ship John Bryant, loaded for Livepool, and ready for sea, is ashore in 14 feet water, Irawing 16 feet. All the light houses gone, and five lives lost at Dog Island light. A Span ish cruiser ashoe about St. Joseph. About 100 bales eot ton lost ic Ellison's br ek store, lower part of Water street You can scarcely imagine such a scene as Water street presents; every store entirely open, and goods, lumber and lops all mixed up together every body wom down, exhausted, and almost in despair. And what shah we do In such a case 7 1 will not attempt to make an estimate of the loss. Some are suflerers, ;o large amount everybody has lost something, except those who can make it up in pilfering, for which there is a fine chance, and no doubt used sueceseml iy- When I spoke of houses being unroofed, I should have said the tin partly stripped off. In some cases part of the timbers are gone. Yours, D. G. B< We have also a letter before iisirom Monticel lo, Fla. which gives a doleful account ot the storm in that section of the State. The writer says “in that county (Jefferson) the storm has done vast damage to the crops, the cotton all blown down and where tall is badly mangled and the limbs broken. The wind blew from the South, from Saturday, 12 o’clock, until near Sunday morning. The roads are blncked with trees, and the voung corn blown to ruins. This storm will cause lhe cotton to be of an inferior quality, and very bad to pick. Where you ex pected 300, you may possibly got 200 bales." From this statement, and others made, it is esti mated that so far as the lower portion of Florida i* concerned, there will boa falling off at least of one-third from the original estimate, in cotton. The papers also mention three heavy rains since thestonn, so that corn in lhe lowlands especial ly is badly injur :d; most of it being flit on the ground is soaking in the water. One-fourth of the crop thereby destroyed. From Gadsden county, the acccaunts are quite as unfavorable. The Gin Houses in the country wete blown down to a great extent, and timber prostrated in unprecedented quantities. There is a perfect sea of waters between Quincy and Tallahassee. The tobacco crop is nearly all destroyed—that in the fields being whipped to ribbons, and that in process of curing and stored in barns and sheds being destroyed by the de molition of those buildings. From Alabama we have no cheering news cf the condition of lhe crops. In the neghborhood of Tuscaloosa, every thing eatable is scarce and high. In Pickens county a meeting has been held, which called upon the county authorities to advance money, buy corn, and to distribute it gratis to those who are not able to buy, and sell to those who are. A tax is to be lev.cd to refund the money thus advanced by the county. Augusta--An Editor'* Impressions. The editor of the Knoxville,Tenn., " f lebeian," who recently spent a few days in Augusta, gives his readers his impressions of the City, its bu siness, &c., in the so lowing correspondence : Citv or Acovsta—ll eb Tea de and Pbos pzcts.—l readied Augusta on Sunday last, alter a pleasant tup of 356 miles on railroad. The Georgia Road is an excellent work, and is well kept up, which reflects much credit to ti e enter prising company. It passes through a hilly, but not the less delightful country, lor that. The State Road is in bad condition, for wlrch the State deserves to be censured a little. She ought to sell the Road, oral least two thirds of lhe stock, so as to give individuals the control of the work, which would remedy the evil. But this road, though, when compared with the roads connecting with it ie every way inferior, pays well, and 1 find politicians are afraid to mount the question of a sale of the stock. The committee appointed by lhe Governor to look into the condi tion of the work,have, 1 understand, recommend ed an expenditure of several hundred thousand dollars, to put the road in complete gear,and if this is done all evils will be lor the time removed in the end, and sooner or later, this stale will have to dispense of a part or all of the stock of her roaas. lor 1 am of opin on a State is not so capable of controlling, through her agents, a work of this kind, and making it profitable, as would bos company of private individuals. Augusta is a beautllultUy—well laid out,and foHw# “-thrillwaouiteous aud soolabie .ppqrle rh<# stream are Vcrv wide, and cross each other at right angles The business houses are prin cipally confined to Btoad street. This is said to be lhe widest street in any city in the Union. It is 17d feet wide, and is lined on either side with a row of trees. Their thick foliage forms a de lighltul shade in the summer months, and ren ders shopping with the ladies,a pleasant past time, while the loungers, (ot which there are always aeoodly nutnuer tn a city ot any size) are pro tected an i encouraged iu their sin cl laziness. Bui lor real beauty and ornament, Green street takes the palm. Ilia not quite so wtceae Br 'ad street, butiimucii more taaietuilydecorated with shade trees. In the centre, a-d about twenty leet apart, two rows of trees extend the entire length of the street. In the space between these rows, grows a rich carpeting < 1 grass. I'nis has a fine effect, cn either side ot the street, and corresponding with lhe cen tal rows runs a row ot snade trees. Tins street ia as yet somewhat sparsely settled, but it must soon bo the centre ol fashionable residences. Ttie City Hall Isa largeaud vetylinc building. The style of architecture is vsry rich, and re flects much credit to the designer. It is in the centre ol a beautiful patk of la-ge and beautilul shade trees. The building lias been standing some fifteen years, aud is a kind o: pet of the citizens; and well it deserves io be, fur it is a monument of their city pride and pub ic spirit, and would be an ornament to any city. 1 was rejoiced to see the manufacturing spirit so rite in Augusta. There arc a number of manufactories, ol different kinds, and the fact now Commonly known here that the proprietors or companies, are all mating and tat iJiy, inde pendent and princely iottune s, is having a gooel effect and is feeding U.c manutacturine spirit of enterp ise. 1 waste-juiced to sue it, because 1 have long looked upon this as one of the rest and surest means of seceding from the North, peaceably seceding ; and it would be a mentis, 100, tnat even the extreme sticklers about the right ot a state under extreme ircutnstances, to secede from tile Union, could not properly stig matise as ‘ revolutionary.” Give us commer cial independence, say I, and we can soon starve the North into an acquiescence in the plain guaranties ol the coristiti-tiou.il compact to us and ours. The churches of Augusta are in the main fine buildingß, and reflect much credit to the respec tive denominations by whose beneficent dona tions they were raised, lhe public buildings are a'lcreditable to the spirit aud liberality of the citizens. 1 lie Georgia Medical College is a fine structure, ami like all the public buildings, is sur rounded with a lawn or park, richly studded with tine and luxuriant shade trees, widen serve a double purpose of ornament and use. They have beside this several academies, male and fe male. On lhe whole Augusta is unsurpassed by very few cities ot lhe Louth. It is seldom visi ted by those scourges so common in some ot the cities of the South West. Its trade and popula tion are fast increasing, and it bids lair one day to become to the South, wttat Philadelphia ia to the North. Indeed, it Southem- rs would look to their own interest—would throw their traue into their own Atlantic cutes, instead ot carryiug it to tne feet oi the North, Augusta, Savannah and Charleston would ere many years be to them what Philadelphia, Boston and New York is now to lhe Noriti. Would that the eyes oi my countrymen of the South were openct that concerted effort dfier the perfection of Commercial Independence. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 1, 1851. Tub Tnaoa or dusvsTA.—l have elsewhere referred to the city ol Augusta in agcneral wxy, As my business here has led me principally with the business men I have thought a brief notice ol some ol the principal business housis would n t be inappropriate ; but might serve as a guide to my Tennessee mercantile readers, who may determine to lay in their goods at this point. A largenumber ot ihe merchants of tho eastern portion ol'l ennessec already purchase a part or the whole of their goods hete, and 1 am fully convinced that more of them might make it to their interest to do so. 1 have had tile pieas ureduriug my short slay in Augusta, to look through manyol the wholesale establishments, and confess that I was agreeably surprised to see tho extent and pctiection to which most of them arocarried. There is but very little use tor my Tennessee friends to go North to lay in their stocks of merchandise, for they will find in Augusta every thing they may desire, and on as good terms, 1 have no doubt, as they could elsewhere. Bcihal or A Chi mam aw. —We have to notice the death of Mr. Athang on the 24ih, of Sacra mento street. Tne deceased was a respectable merchant of Canton, and died attear a few days’ Piners irom disease contracted on his passage to this country. He was buried on Saturday at tha Yerba Buena Cemetry, and was followed to the grave by a large caticoutse of his country men as well as Americans who accompanied the porocession from curiosity. The procession was headed by Mr. Norman Asing as chief marshal, and two respectable merchants of Sac ramento street as aids. Then followed the hearec with ihe body enclose I in a plain but elegant mahogany coffin, three carriages, about twenty horsemen, and over three hundred on foot. On arriving at the cemetery they proceed'd in a body to the different graves ol their countrymen, who had been buried there at different times, sprinkling wine upon their tomba and performing sundry ceremonies. Tnen followed ’ho inter ment, with ail ibe c 'rcmony usual on these occa sions—throwing the white riubon, which th y all wore on their lelt arm as a bage of mourning, info the grav< —burning a number of candles, incense, torches, snd a quantity of slips of gilt paper at the foot of the grave, with a salaam from each. They then made room for the brother of the decease.!, who approached ihe grave, ap parently much affected, and performed nine genuflexions, kissing the ground and salaaming. Alter which they distributed cigars, wine and perforated Chinese coin among all present, and returned with the dec rum characteristic ol that class ol citixens to their homes.—Sun t'rancioco Herald. Swiss Witchm —The crowning glory of the Swiss department in lhe London Fair, is lhe mag ificent display of Watches from Ge neva ; simply to enumerate which, with all their varieties of sue, style and ornament, would require half a dozen letters. Two large wacheeot inagn ficent finish, contain enameled portraits of Washington and Robe pierre; oth ers are tot With sprays of pearls, diamonds and other precious stones; some are engraved others covered with exquisite enamels, for which Geneva has long been famous; some are so exceedingly small tba: it would seem iiupoMiole for them to go. yet they do, and wi h the utmost precision. Look at these tiny time-keepers set into card case*, the frames of eye-glasses, brooches, and e-en into rings; Ibis brooth, in lhe form of a serpent, from whose mouth hangs a little gem ot a watch rather thicker, bu much smaller in diameter than a five cent piece, and said to be the smallest in lhe world : and this elegant gold pen holder, of or ioary size, in the top of which, richly ornamented with rubies, is a time piece, with three dials, each of a quarter of an inch nt diameter, going for a week, and shewing the minutes, hours, days, weeks and months. Inland.— lt appears that, nothwithstanding the emigta ton of th* people, there has been an increase of cultivation during the year 1800 to lhe ex'ent of 214.000 acres, and an addition to the live stock on the various farms, equal to s money value of £1.230 000. Thia growth of prosperity has resulted from the steady diminution that has been going on <n the number of smalltngs, and the introduction oi British caoital. In anticipation of the arrival of Kossuth and his patriotic associates al New York, the c- rpo ration has passed a resolution tendering them the huapi. all ties of the city. The American Board oi' Foreign Mission* is now holding its annual sesssion in Portland. The abstract of the report shows receipts of •274,902 21 for the year, and *-294,630 56 as ex penditure ; the debt is *43 999 40 First Dry Dock oa Ike Pacific.—We find in the San Francisco Herald of the Ist ult. a long account of the construction of a Dry Dock, (greatly needed.) at that port, by Messrs. Nee fua A- Ticnenor. It is situated at the foot of Second street, beyond and to the South oi Rincon Point, on the northern promontory of Msrion Bay. and is capable of receiving vessels of the ordinary size. Tire Herald says: The brig Sid< Hemet, of 280 tons, is row on the doek. being uewly coppered. She is the first vessel ever coppered in California. Sva Makisx TtLieaarn.— lhe electric wire is nearly completed fi r the bed of the English chs- nel. Were the necessary gov ernm--n:al authorize ion obtained, the commu nication might be established m less than a month. The cable formed of copper and gutla poreba is twenty eight miles long. and within an inexpressible fraction of two inches in diameter. It ia sufficiently flexible to be coiled in a ship’* hold. The vessel that ia to undertake the duty of winding off the metallic cord wilt B t ar t from the French coast, paying out as she goes; the cable will sink to the bottom by its own weight, and will gradual ly burv itself in the sand or lhe mud ; the two extremities will be protected out to lhe point where the depth is a sufficient safeguard against anchors oi shipwrecks. THE WEEKLY ~ RGNWLE & SENTINEL BY WILLIAM 6. JONEF. TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, INVARIABLE IB ADVANCE. DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY * WEEKLY. Officcin Railroad Bank Buildings. m'tVEEKLY •’’.V’•",»»> lwnlby •’ “J WEEKI.V PAPER " s 00 AUGUSTA, GA.; WEDNESDAY MORNING,•• SEPTi IT. SAMUEL BARNETT, Associate Editor. Constitutional Union Nomination. FOR GOVERNOR. HON. HOWELL CO B B For Representative from Bth Districts HON. iiOBEKT TOOMBS. CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. First Dist.— CHARLES H. HOPKINS, of Mclntosh. Second District.— J A M E S JOHNSON, of Third Dht.— ABSALOM H. CHAPPELL, of Bibb. Fourth Diitrict CHARLES MURPHY, of DeKalb Fifth District.- E W. CHASTAIN, of Gilmer. Sixth District —J (IN (U 8 HI LLYER, of Wa'ton. Seventh District —A. 11. STEPHENS, of Taliaferro. Eighth District RO BE RT TOOMBS. of Wilkes. For Senator from Richmond and Co. lumbla. ANDREW J. MILLER. For Re resent an v*» from Richmond 5 JOHN MILLEDGE, _____ _ a alexaMShi C. tiALKER. ~~ DINNER IN JEFFERSON COCNIY. TV The Constitutional Union Party will give the Hon. Robert Toombs a Free Barbecue at Mt. Moriah Camp Ground, Jefferson county, cn THURSDAY, the 25th of this month. Mtssrs, Cobb, Stephens, A. J. Miller, McDonald, and McMillan, are invited to be present. The cit sens of JefTcraan, and the adjoining coun ties, are respectfully invited. s’6 By thb Committsh or Invitatiom. Jj'T A. «J. Miller* * will addreeo his fellow cifixens of Richmond county, at Brandon’s Court Ground, in the Tarver District, cn SATURDAY next. MR. STEPHENS IN OGLETHORPE O’ Title gentleman will address the people of Oglelhirpe, and the adjoining counties, at Antioch Depot, on the Athens Branch of the Georgia Rail road, fifteen miles above Union Point, on Thursday, after the Fourth Mobday in this month, (Sept. 25.) Mr. Lbwis is expected to be present. s!4 Wm.P Mujbb, ] G o. F. Platt, > Commieee, Joe. H. Lumpkin, Jr J IV Free Dinner to Mir. Toombs in Burke. --Tne Cons.national Union Party of Burke County, will give the Hon. Roihht Toombs u Freb Bakbhcub, at B.rk Camp U’oss Roads, on SATUR DAY, the 20ih inst. The ci'izens of JifFerson, Emanuel and Burke counties are respectfully invited. Ag ample arrangements will be made for the accom modation of the Ladies the Committee hope to be honored with their presence. The Hom. A. H. ltbpsens,Charlss J. Jknkins, Gso. W. Ckawvjrd, and A. J, Milleb, are expected to be prepent. The Grramitte invite Frbr discussion. James A. McGruder, Wright Murphree, Win. C. Mufgrove, Calvin McUullers, George Price. R W. Belt, H ‘nry W. Jones, Ww, Nasworthy, Jeremiah Inmin, Robert F. Connelly, Thomas Penrce, Henry P Jones, James Griffin, Harman WiLianiP. T. A. Parsons, Committee. Judge Berrien.-.Who is right! Thb question as to the position of Senator Berrikn, in the present criris in Georg a, soetns very dillicu't of solution. A few days since, the Washington Gazette contained the following partgraph: Judub HxBRiKN —We learn from a private source, altogether reliable, that Judge Berrien his taken his posuiou in tne present eonte t, and avowed himself in favor of Mr. Cobb, and opposed to Ju<lge McDonald and his party. This we thought settled the matter, but to our surprise a day or two after, a paragraph in one of tho Disunion organs, whioh scorned ?n antnunxy, met wut eye claiming him as a supporter of McDonald, and appeal ing to the people to stand by the Senator. Unfortunately for Judge Bkrrien, during the pas* year, he has occupied a position s i equivocal that it was difficult to locate him po litically. S o much so, that whi’o the Disunion ists claimed that he was acting with them, his immediate friends of the Unon party were unab'e to tell with which party he was acting or would act. As an evidence of this, we may mention the fact, that the Savannah Republi* tan, right at his door, published the above e.tract from the Gazette, with great apparent gusto, and expressed a h gh degree of satisfac tion H.t the information it contained. Who then i« right! lx the Senator for McDox.ld or Cosh ? Eleetlou ot Judges.—By the Leglsla ture I—or by the People I Is every respect the proposed change from the L'lgialature io the people is desirable, do far a* the purity of elections goes, no man who has ever witneseedthe practical opera ion of the present system, will hesitate in saying that tr Osnnot be altered for the worse. Bo far as relative opportunities for information go, those of the Legislature are less than those of the people of lhe circuit, (except in relation to those political claims of candidates, which need to bi- t tirown out ol the question.) In referring lhe election to lhe people, we of course mean to the people of each judicial circuit—not to a general ticket. The latter—while in some re specie better than the present system—loses some of the advantages of the single ticket sys tem. The interest and responniUity of the legislature, or of the entire people, is com mensu 'ate in the case of each member or citi zen. with lhe limits of Ais own circuit only— while he has a vote for every circuit The chances of corrupt influence are incr-ased, as lhe number over whom it is attempted is di minishod. Tne patronage allowed the Legisla ture unnecessarily complicates principles with men. The issue! in many cases are held infe rior to the party race for patronage. Taking it altogether, we believe with the Ail ens Hanner, “Almost every body is now prepared to say ■By the People.” It w.ll be iterally “no race at all.” Wears glad to see that the press, without distinction of parties, is taking decided grounds in favor of the changu. We trust the ma'ter will not be forgotten at the polls. Ths Objset eg the Seeessloulsts, A corraspondent of the Southern Patriot, in a notice of a Secession Meeting in Dar lington District, fum-ahes the following sketch of a Speech made by Chioeelior Dasovir on the occaaion: ‘ I beard but few of his remarks, and then be was hatting upon tne ,lj theme that South Carolina woul.l, bv aec wion, draw lhe oth r Southern States into a S-uihem Confederacy ;or tailing tn accomplish thia, i-tvl the General Government sbouP. attempt coereisu, that volunteere from other States, with money in their parses, would fly to the aid of South Carolina, and fight ber battles, and she would be triumphant, and eucn become a prosper -ur and happy State, and would boa rallying point for lhe ether ScutL-ern States when they should see fit to cut looee from the General Government.'’ Tnis purpose of the secessionists of that State, has been so frequently proclaimed be fote, that it is only worthy of comment now as evidence that those whu sympathise with tb>ir movement io Georgia and oiber South ern States, are only influenced by a desire to involve the whole South in lhe mad schemes of the agitators in South Carol ns. Let Geor gians reflect upon this, and respond as be comes freemen, who would preserve the in stitutions ofth.- r fathers, to Alabama and Mia riss ppi ;n their recent overwhelming demon strations against the Disunionists. Railkoac Accidzzt. —The detention of the Accommodation ami Express trains, on the Chrlsston Rai road yesterday, was caused by the running together of two freight trains, seriou*ly damaging the engines and care. No accident occurred to either of the passenger trains, and no person on the freight trains was injured. Ukioz Nomiwatioss. Geu. James W. Armstrong, and Judge T. G. Holt have been nominated as Candidates of the Union Party of Bibb County. Hon. J. A Meriwether and Philip H. Daw son have been nominated a* lhe Union can ti dates for the Legirieture from Putnam county. Dr C. L Ridley has been nominated as the Union candidate tor the House, from Jones e tunty. New Yozz, dept. 10—The sieamer Aw a sailed to-day, baring on board 80 paseenge.a and nearly a Bullion of dollars in gold. Cwba.—Ttae Administration. As reason and judgment are always certain to exercise their away among the intelligent and reflecting, after an ebullition of passion, we may now with some hope of an impartial hearing and considerate investigation, justify the course of the President in all hie acts, yet made public, in relation to the late expedition against Cuba. We, of course, do not antici pate ur desire to satisfy that class of "small bur'' politicians wh •, with the hope of making a little political capital out of this question, have proclaimed a code of political morale, the observance of which, would require the Presi dent to forswear himself by an open violation of the laws of the land, and the provisions of our treaties with Spain—in short, to violate every principle of moral and political honesty, and dishonor the Na ionai escutcheon. The effort to connect the Cuban question with Politics in Georgia, has been apparent to every intelligent mind, and so bold were the actors in Columbus, that the Disunionists, in their desperate fortunes, proclaim* d the "cause of Cuba, the cause of the South." Hence we deem it necessary to place before the intelli gent and reflecting portions of the people, th law and the provisions of the treaty with Spain which distinctly and clearly define the duties of the President: The 6th section of the law of 1818, declares that: “If any person shall, within the territory or juris diction of the Vote I Stales, begin or set on fol, or provide or prepare the means forany military expedi (ton orenteipuse to be carried on Iretn thence against the territories or dominions of any foreign Prince or Slate, or any colony, district, or people, with whom ihe United States, are a.' peace, every per on so cf fendin? shall be guilty of a high, misdemeanor and shall be fined not cxc eding three thousand dollars, and imprisonment not more than three years.” Those who are familiar with the law, and who have urge 1 persons to engage in the ex pedition, are guilty of the double crime of de nouncing the President for the observance of his sworn duties under the law, and of purrua ding persona to openly violate that law. Again, the existing treaties of the United S ates with Spain declare that: 'There shall be a firm and inviolable peace and sincere friendship between his Ca hilic Majesty, his succes ors and subjects, and the Un'ted butes and their citizens, without exception of persons or t laces, but that if any person of either nation shad apply for or take a commission for arming any ship or ships against the subjects of hi» Catholic Majesty, or Hie property of any of them, he shall be punished as a pirate." This article refers to letters of marque from parties at war wttn Spurtr.-trurirmta a aoubtu force against parties who violate this article XII which requires vessels of either party— “To exhibit as we I upon the high seas as in pons and havens, not only her passports, but likewise cer tifica'es expressly showing that bet goods are not of the number of those which have been prohibited as contraband.” Treaties are known to be the supreme law of the land and the spirit and letter of all our trea'ies with Spain, in 1795, 1819 and 1820, oontmplateda permanent peace and friendship. And bow any American patriot, who duly apprecia'es the national honor, can advise or commend the violation if the law or treaty stimulations by our government, we cannot im agine, unless he be lost to all sense of honor or shame. On this question, we rejoice to see that sterling journal, the New Orleans Bulletin. speaking out so manfully in the very midst if the greatest theatre of excitement in the country —such a course speaks well for the independence of that paper, and it connot fail to have a salutary effect on the public mind. Wo subjoin the article referred to : Cuba and ths Administrate <>m. —Ingenuity will he tested, to accomc for the failure of the Cuban Expedition. One party will ascribe it tomism n ageinent, deception, oi ignorance, on the part of thoee who originated and conductedit; oihers will impute its unfortunate tersnination to 'he absence of all sympathy and co-operation among the creole pop ulation of Cuba. vVni.e trading politicians, who-e scent is al ways keen, will be seen to discover that their political opponents have been at fault, au I that they alone have been the sole instruments of the Cuba catastrophe. Capital, of course, is to be made out of the event; and those who design trading upon it are, and al ways have been, callous and indifferent to the cause iirelfor its issue, only looking toils incidents and consequences in a politic >1 aspect. Ihe idea is now hopefully entertained, that tho result of this Cuba movement may be made subserv ient to th« Disunion c use, an I that it can be used succes.fdly to disparage the President by impressing those who are apt to jump to conclusions, without reason or reflection, with the belief that President Fillmore is solely responsible for the failure of the expeiition. The man who thus attempts to delude others, for the miserable gratification of securng a vote, is either a fool ora knave: he is either igno rant of the constitution of his country, its spirit and genius, or he is the wilful and unscrupulous instru ment of deception and falsehood. We have se°n, or rather read in our exchanges, some most ridiculous exhibitions of infl ited ignorance and presumption. Men, whose opinion and judg ment upon the simplest question ol law, pby.-ics or morals, would, in the estimation of those who knew them best not be worth a rash, presumptuously stand up and profess to be the illuminated interpre ters of national law, the annotators of Vattel and PuffemJorf, and the expounders of the Constitution. President Fillmore, these salons tell us, has exceed ed his const! uliunal powers, and by interfering in Ute Cuba movement, has acted without law or wan r ’7n tnetirM place, there has been as yet no inter ruption to the expedition on the part of the Federal Government. It embarked from this port without let or hindrance for its departure was secret and euirerti'.ious, thereby clearly admitting thu it was an illegal act. It exper en*ed no interruption or difficulty on the way to Cuba ; no American cruiser overhauled it or prevented the disembarkation of the troop ; they landed on the island with arras in their hands, and th ir ha pies.' fate is the result of the for tunes of war, ot rather the imbecility and treachery of those who engaged to aid and sur port them. It is a pitiful subterfuge to ascribe the failure of the enterprse to the Chief Magistrals of the Nation. Put supposing the Presiden - had interfered, and interposed his official power to prevent the departure of the Pampero and tl e force tha.’ left in her. Will any one pretend to sey that he was not authorized to do so? Nay, that it was not his b unde i duty to have detained her and them ? Many honest, but unreflecting men, are ver* apt to judge hastily, from not sufficiently comprehending, and discri ui na ing between the functions of the several depart ments in our Government, confounding tl eirsepar a'e and distinct offices an • duties, and imputing to one branch trusts, or duties or responsibilities, which rn ty actually belong to another. As for instance, in the present case —the Executive i* held responsible (or the acts of the I egislature, end the odium of an offensive law : s laid upon the Presiden', who is sim ply the minister or executioner of the laws. Many suppose, and we see the point has been dis cussed by orators at public meetings, that the citizens of this free country have the right to expitiiate them selves; t)go with a>ms in their hands, either indi vidual y, or org ini zed in squads or companies, and wage war. on th.ir own h >ofr against any na ion they nny see fit. Whatever may be the natu al or abstract right of individuals on ibis score; as citizens of th*e Uni'ed they are inhibited the exercise of any such privilege. The law passed bv Congress in 1818 expressly proh bits ail such exped'tions; this law has as direct a bearing and application to the recent Cuba expedition, as if it had been expressiy and especially mide (or it, and if the friends of Cuba suppose it to be an obstacle in the way of the accomplishment of their object, they must vent their indignation upon the law itself or the law makers, and not upon the ad ministrator of it. Mr. Fillmore is an honest, faithful and fearles mag istrate ; he is determined, as a swern officer, to exe cu*e the laws at ail bizards, and all true men will honor him for his fidelity and stand up for him. He stands justifie j in the eyes of the civilised world. Warren Disunionist<--A Small Game. We are informed that lomeof the “ email bear” demagogues and political tr cksters of the Disunion school in Warren county, are attempting to prejudice the minds of those voters in that county who are opposed to nominations, against the Union candidates, because of an err »r of ours, in saying that Messrs. Lows and Latimer had been “nomi noted.” We were informed that these gen tlernen were the Union candidates, and pre suming that they had been nominated, so announced, without knowing any thing about how they became candidates. Tha attempt to make capital by such a small rick as this on the part of the D sunion leaders in Warren, evinces too ckarly their own convictions of their sinking fortune and the desperate chararcter of their cause. The trick is h-waver worthy of the etuse and ths actors who resort to its ui<e. The Albeit! Case—The Awthentte Report The Constitutionalist “admits that accord ing to this report, sent to Mr. Miller it would app ar tha Aiberti had kidnapped the child.” Now this report purports to be copied verba t'm from a forthcoming volume of law reports It was sent to Mr. Miller, by the Messrs. Johnsons, book sellers, men of character— who sell largely at the South, and whose inte rests would be deeply affected by sending a false stile me nt of the case. Doubts being en tertained as to the authenticity ofthe newspaper report, reference was bad to the best authority accessible, prior to the actual publication of the book of repor t. The character and iute rest of the book sellers aod publishers vouch for the autaority of the intelligence they furn ish. The report publishel by the Cooetitutionolipt If Repuh'ie Extra, purport* on its face to have teen ‘published for the benefit of tbe family of Albkbti.” Which report'eomes to us with the greater marks of credibility ? The CarutitutumeliU says our article is ‘‘apclogy—apology —apology for the North.” and proceeds to argue the case on facie gioia ia the old report. It is our objec* to do jus tice to all. and give e en his due. If that paper ia willing to neg'ect doing even tardy justice to the truth, il is not our fault, we having afforded it every facility, and explicitly called upon it to publish it. Can it deny that the re port, as we published it, ia more probably au> thenue and correct than its own f Is it eo anxious to prop a falling cause by any straw which chance may fur iivti, as to be unwilling to lose even tbe support of a straw, when it is shown to be broken? The Lady of the Attorney General of tbe United Suter, Mrs. Crittenden, diedat Frank fort, Kentucky, on the Bth inoL The Relation of Parties to the Geoi gla Platform The relation of the Union Party to the Georgia Platform is very simple and intelligi ble. It adopts that platform as its own. It was organized upon it—and has since simply reaffirmed it, believing it to embrace the grou ids which should unite the people of 1 Georgia—the people of the whole Sooth, and the sound msn of the North—it was hoped ihat its evident wi-dom, moderation and jus tice, would put an end to controversies among ourselves, and to the pernicious agita tion of the slavery question at the North. Broad, Catholic and National, it asserted Southern Rights as held by all the Southern States, excluding grounds of dissension, and famishing no just cause of offence to lovers of the Constitution anywhere. Never was there a fairer expression of the voice of a people Minorities which bad had no representatives for years, had now. by the obliteration of former lines, heir proper rep resentations. The platform wns concurred in by an overwhelming majority in the Conven tion. It gave great and general satisfaction to the people, not only to tie msjoiity who elected the delegates, but to a large portion of the minority. Muruturing and discontent were heard, it is true, but from only a few discon tented spirits. It even seemed possible that the Utopian project of “uniting the South” might at length be effected. A large majority of the people of Georgia were united—on grounds on which majorities in nearly, if not all, the Southern States concurred. But the minority which bad so anxiously deprecated division, and implored the South to become united, were not now in favor of Union. The time rolled round for preparation for State elections. There was no common basts of opposition to the Union party founded on the principle of ths Georgia Platform. As serting as that did, the Sovereignty of the States, and the right and intention on cer tain contingencies to resist even to a disrup tion of the Union, the Union party was charged by shameless opponents with federal ism. The shamelessness of the cry did not prevent many from echoing it. It tends, said these men, to consolidation. Not a line—a word—a syllable of tie plaform even leans that way. Deserting all true republican -ground, and assuming the right of a State to repudiate nt will, hnr moat nnlnmn compnnra “by virtue of her sovereignty," they said “This is Republican Doctrine. Thia is State Righ's.” This cry of Consolidation, howev er, was not the sole rallying cry. The Demo cratic party, which had aided so materially in building 'he platform, was piteously appealed to and begged to form again on old lines, by the very men who had urged it to disband Those who formed a Southern confederacy— those who favored Secession, were called for, not under their true title of Disunionists, but under the seducing name of Southern R ghts aen. The party which transcended all true ideas of State Rights and republicanism was called together iu soma counties as the Stale R gilts Republican party. One would have supposed from the variety of calls and ap pointments, that not less than half a dozen Conventions were to assemble in Milledge ville on the 28. h of May, 'he day selected tn older to anticipate the Union Convention—- a later day having been first proposed, and the alteration being made at soma trouble, for un explained reasons. The delegates appomted under these various denominations, met in Milledgeville, and organized in one Conven tion to which they gave no name. What relation did the Convention so assetn. bled, assume to the Georgia Platform T Ou the facts set forth in the Georgia Plat form. it took issue. Ils relation to the present Union, it did not define at all- Its relation to the rights of the South (as expressed in the 4 h resolution of the Georgia Platform) it did not define. Its relation to State Rights it defined bv as serting the right of Secession “by virtue of sovereignty” >ilhout responsibility.” Its relation to the Union being undefined, we are left tn doubt as to its true relation, and mustpickup evidences where we may. The Convention nominated as its candidate the President of the Nashville Convention. It asserted the unconditional. irresponsible righ’ of Secession. It a*serted that the Constitu tion had been violated in numerous instances, and that the prospects of the future were worse than the history of the past. So much for acts. The parly press and orators say 'hey are not ‘or Disunion. Such is the profession. They ay tha the Georgia Platform is binding. Their Convention did not say so. We should , ....... uuy oouinern Rights Press—in distinct terms —au answer to the following questions. By saying that tho decision of Georgia is obligatory- do they mean tha’. it is not rever sible by balljt— or merely that itoujht not to be resisted oy force ? Its relation to the rights of the South is equally undefined. Their silence on South ern Rights is capable of solutions equally adverse to each other as that on the Union. If the acts of the party in nominating Ex Gov. McDonald, and proclaiming the right of Se* cession, are a criterion, then the only remedy the South needed, is to be found in Secession,, If we ean secede even without cause—and ought to-ecede for any cause— the doiithern Rightscreed mikes out a proper case for its immediate exercise. On the contrary, however, if the proses Biots of the party on the Union question are sincere—it was highly proper for it to assume no position in relation to Southern Rights. As nothing more could occur than its catalogue cf offences alike again.-t the Constitution and justice—and they did not propose to remedy them, it would have been folly to propose a remedy for ?ny future aggressions or injustice. We have on (his subject a standing inquiry to the Constitutionalist and Republic, which we here again take the liberty of repeating. Dues the Southern Kights party propose any redress for the past wrongs of the South — or any p;inl of resistance to future aggres sions ? And if so—what ? It has got the “suppressed loiter.” We want its suppressed opinion. ••Older Heads.” Thk Constitutionalist says of tho Washing ton County Committee: “A’owlhey dong© ba hind “older heads and older minds Again it says—-‘Since the appearance of Mr. Cobb's letter, they seem to have ‘observed, discerned, seen and spied out,’ ‘how, wherefore and whe’her, why, where and what, whatsoever, whereas and whereby,’ all this Stale Rights and Secession business, instead of being no longer open questions, are the most uncertain and open questions that now puzzle old heads or youna heads, obit minds or weak minds ” Qaare f—Could the above slur at old heads have been cast by the same Editor, represented to have been on the Monroe Countt Com mittee, who “dodged behind older heads, and abler minds.” in the following adroit manner and vtye ? ‘ There were old vetexan leaders in that meeting to wh Ke opinions he have bowed with respectful deference, as he then had just grown up to manb'-od ; or he may have obiectcd t the resolutions, but yield ed io Lis pjli.ieal friends of greater age and expe rience ” “ Tbe Stabs and Stripes.”—The Montgomery Advertiser if- Gazette, m referring to the cause which led to tbe I te overwhelming triumph of the Union Party in this elate, sneeringiy remarks that “the Stare and Stripes ate an infallible argu ment Whereupon that wag Hooper of the Chambers Tribune, expresses the con viction that the British and Mexicans are de cidedly of the same opinion. Hooper is a very sensib'e man and says many good things. Carrying Concealed Weapons—Got. Hunt, of New York, has declined interfering with the doe course of tha law, in the case of Aaron B. Slookey, to be executed in N w York city, on .he 19th inst., for the murder of Zeddy .Moore. Tbe Governor, in concluding his letter upon the subject, remarks . “ Stnokey’s crime may be traced directly to the habit he had adopted of carrying a dange rous weapon concealed about hie person. H i fate should be a warning to ail who in dulge in this reprehensible practice. It cannot be too strongly impressed upon their minds, that persons who choose to carry concealed arms will be held to a rigid responsibility for the use they may make of them, and for all consequences that may ensue.” Office of tme Board of Health, ? Augusta, sept. 6, 1851. ) Since my report, on the 9-h in«., no new cases of Small Pox, and but ‘wo of Varioloid have occnrred in the city. The cases of Va rioloid are mild and rapidly recovering. The disease is still confined to the families and localities in which it originated. Planters and o hers may visit our city in perfect safety, as there is not the least danger of contracting the d-tease. Wm E Dearing, Chairman Board of Health. Hon. Rob’t C. Winthrop has been romi- Dated by me whigs of Massachueetts as their candidate for Governor, The New Mexico and Utah Bills. What has occurred since the passage of | these bills, to change the opinion of the over- , whelming majority of the people of the South, , that there exists no impediment in the way of carrying slaves to either of these territories 1 No new light has been thrown upon the • subject by investigation. No judicial decis- , ion has set.led it. The question is not one which has been just raised, and which had not been considered when the opinion of the South was in the process offormation. It was raised early in the controversy. No light has been thrown upon it, tending to establish the exist ence of impediments, save that originally thrown oy those gentlemen, whose speeches asserting lhe existence of such impediments, brought down upon their heads such a storm of indignation. A’l that has occurred since that time has been the establishment of Territorial Governments on the principle of non intervention. What this principle meant, we have shown by reference to the Democratic Resolutions of Georgia— and by lhe arguments of a now leading South ern Rights pres', illustrative and expansive of those resolutions. In both Territories, the establishmentofTerritorial Governments ends srongly to answer the only arguments ever advanced iu favor of the continued existence of the Mexican laws. That provision of the law of nations, which it was contended by gen tlemen prevailed, to continue in force the far sofa conquered country, until repealed by the conqueror, had its foundation in the necessity of preventing the conquered country from going into a state of anarchy. This ob ject is serve I, however, by the establishment of Territorial Government, and such establish ment is therefore regarded by many persons, who bold tha necessity of some expression of the conqueror’s will, as a sufficient expression of that will—and as a displacement of the old law, now no longer necessary for the reason for which its continued existen - .a was tolera ted. So far as any new light, therefore, has been thrown upon the subject by theactua' passage of the Territorial bi Is, its tend mey has been to increase instead of to diminish lhe number of those who hold that tnere are no impedi ments in the way of carrying slaves into New Mexico and Utah. In relation to New Mexico, indeed, there is another ground—but as itdoes not cover both territories, wo will only briefly allude to it The purchase by tha United States from Texas of that portion incorporated with New Mexico wag the acknowledgement by the United States of the title of Texas, a alave holdin country. This portion of then Texas, now New Mexico, is the only inhabited and civil ized portion of the present territory of New Mexico. The laws of slavery being clearly of force there, and the laws of this portion of the territory prevailing (by a clear rule of the Law of Nations) over those of tha uninhabit ed and uncivilized portions, the result is, that in New Mexico, upon the principles of all parties,slavery has free admission. The ex tent of territory thus indubitably opened, is vastly greater than that which would have been cut off by tie Missouri Compromise line. Ths position of the South, was clearly, and unequivocally taken lipin the question of right to go into the territories with slaves. One of tno Democratic resolutions in 1817, was a follows: "Ifevolved, That Congiess possesses no power, un der r.lio Constitution, to legislate in any way or man ner, in relation to the institution of slavery. It is the ‘Constitutional right of every citizen, loremova and settle with his properly in any of the territories of the United States.” The above resolution asserts the right to go with slaves into any oi the territories. Not as needing legislation for its enjoyment, but as a Constitutional right— and going further, it denies the right of legislation. This denial of the right of legislation was louttded on the following arguments. The Constitution no where confers such a right. That clause in relation to terrtory : “The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territories and other p-operty be longing to the United Siates.” has been cor rectly and judiciously construed to confer no such power. Wh lever power Congress has in the premises is derived simply by implica tion from the granted powers—and the rights of slave holders were considered by those who h; Id the doctrine of non-intervention to be protected sufficiently by the recognition of slavery in the Constitution. Whether this doctrine was correct or not, it was held by a large portion of the Southern people. Au overwhelming majority held to the inutility of intervention. A large portion <»r the Southern people, held it both unneces •"«> SIW»— ’ - ' ' • - - - ft was for this reason that when amendments were offered to the territorial bills, proposing express’y to recognise and secure slaves as pr- perty in them, that no unanimity could be produced among Southern members in de manding such recognition and protection Thette men said that there had occurred no thing to change their sentiments upon the ne cersity ofanysuch acknowledgement, and that if (here had been new light thrown upon the expediency,that would not affect the Consti tutionality of such legislation. It is perhaps unnecessary to observe that the passage of a declaratory law on the subject, would have baen legislation as strictly as the passage of any other law. It is as an expres sion of legislative will that it haseffdct, if at all. The guise in which it is clothed can make no change in the principle. In no form, however, could the amendu ents be brought to unite the Southern members who held the above view of non inter ention Of9o Southern members, it is believed that not more than nine held the necessity of intervention, while several times that number held it unconstitutional. The revthel i it simply useless. Holding such views of Non intervention, these Southern men considered that our rights were secure, during the Territorial state of the Territories, and all they desired was the ac knowledgement of the principle actually incor porated into the bills organising them—by which they are allowed to come into the Union with or without slavery, as they may prefer. The votes upon these bills on their final pas sage throw some light upon the position of the two sections of the country upon them. Upon the Mexican bill every Southern Senator voting at all, voted for it—and in the House there was a majority of 21 Southern members in its fa vor. The vote >n the Utah bill in the House was in like manner, a vote by the majority of the South for it, and of the Freesoilers against it In th ) Senate, the vote of the South on the engrossment was unanimous, with the excep tion of two Senators. The final vote is not given in the secund, but we believe was uoan imous. The expressions of the various legislative bodies and conventions of the Southern States, are alike charac’eristic of their senti ments upon this subject. While we believe no Southern State failed to express itself in relation to oar rights in the territories—not a solitary State or Convention, (so far as onr information extends,) intimated any desire for tbe repeal of Mexican laws. The argument in all ihe struggle it has ever assumed, was be fore them wnsn the expression of the»r view* was given. The mass of the present South ern Rights party was the most strenuous in asserting the inutility and unconstitutionality of legit ation. Not until the Territorial bit's were passel by a majority of Sutrhsrn against a majority of xNorthern votes, did their senti ments (without a s litary new argument or new ligh.) undergo a total change. The ar gument was spread before them in full. They knew as well then as now the possibility of esuit. They hel 1 that the denial of our rights was an absurdity—that the suit against it would be a miserable failure, and that one suit would setile the question, forever, and for all emigrants. And yet one ofthe grounds of complaint of Southern men. against the Government, is ths pas-age of laws in oooformi y with the ex presied will ofallthe Southern S ates, contrary to the expressed will of nearly all the Northern States, parsed by a majority of Southern votes against a majority of Northern votes, tbe complaint to complete the climax, beinir made, not by tbe small disserting minority, but by the par y, the vast majority of whose mem bers held any th. ng more unnecessary, and a very larje proportion held it unconstitutional. Imported Merchandise.—An opinion has been expressed that the importations of foreign merchandise this year were much less than in those of the preceding year. The following au thentic facts in the case are published in the Na tional Intelligencer: During the fiscal year ending the 30th of June 1951, the gross receipts from customs were about *50,000,000. From the Ist of July to the sth of September, the receipts from this source will compare as fol lows : 1850, about *12,200.000 1851, about 11,700,000 Decrease, *SOO 000 There is a decrease in 1851 during this period at New Y’ork of about *9OO 000, and an increase at each of the other ports. At the ports of New York, Boston, Philadel phia and Baltimore, during the first week In September, the receipts were as follows : 1850 iSi The Territorial and District Bills. Ik treating of the course of the Constitution alist on these bills we cordially admit that we are " incapable of doing justice to'he subject.” By one of those singular coincidences which will happen, that paper (without knowing that it w-s attacked by any body—much less by its chosen adversary, the Chronicle, ) has followed up our attacks, and put in what defence it might. It felt awkwardly in going about a rep'y in this timid way, too. It was not used to it. While e .udionsly silent as to the quarter whence the blows esme, it must needs find some excuse fur parrying them. Accordingly, on the ground that efforts are being made “ by Mr. Cobb and his friends ” “to mystify the Democrats on the doctrine of non interven tion," it makes an elaborate defence, nearly three columns long, against our attack on its gross inconsistencies on that “doctrine.” When its course on the subject of the slave trade in the District is exposed, instead of an swering the Chronicle by name, it lakes occa sion, “at the request of several correspon dents,” t‘ publish the act, and “in coßasctioa with this subject,” defends itself exactly is the same wiy as it would in a direct reply to our article All these, however, are mere accidental coincidences. For consistency’s sake, (if it were not already bankrupt in that commodity,) it should not have known when it was attacked by the Chronicle eti other subjects. On these, however, it is evidently a reader of the Chronicle. It in stantly takes up the gauntlet on the Albert* Casa. The charge founded on the course of one of its Editors’ in the Monroe County meeting, gave rise to the brilliant and admira ble invention of the “ may be ” method of rearoning. On “non-intervention,” however, it is blind and deaf. It closes its eyes—stops its ears—cannot see— will not hear. The tongue of 1850— its own tongue—still pleads for ‘‘non intervention,” and defends “the Compromise.” It can listen to any thing else- argue against any body else— but its own sayings and itself. It knows its own weak points—somet f them at least. Not all, however, or it never would have raised the subject of resistance to the Dis trict of Columbia Bill. This was a decoy duck to draw us off from “ non-inlerveniion.” The Constitutionalist itself threw down (in an in formal w>y) the gauntlet, in order that it might drop “nonintervention” and take up some other ground. The District of Columbia Bill was chosen by it fur uttoch. We cheerfully accepted the istiie, and showed that the Constitutionalist bud kept Mr Cobb company in any inconsistency of which he may have been guiky. We also ex plained the reasons which we thought justified both Mr. Cobb and the Constitutionalist in the abandonment of their first position Tha was enouph for an answer. But we went further. We showed that the Constitu tionalist, having followed Mr. Cobb from po sition No. 1 to position No. 2, (for good rea sons) incon inently turned its back upon him. We showed from his own acts and editorials, that he first pledged himself to resit the la> then justified its passage—-then retracted the jus’ificution and violently opposed it. We a-ked the still ttnansttered question--" Is the Editor now in favor of redeeming hie first pledge?” From hit not answering, we pre sume that he is not. When his own weapons are turned against him on this subject as on the former—he ig nores the Chronicle again. He puts in a de fence (and such a defence!) “in connection with” the opportune, convenient call of seve ral correspondents. Defending himself blindly against an un- Known adversary—what plea would ingenuity devise if its wits were set »o work to devise* with precision—the poorest that could be offer ed ? It wou d have to be very busy to come nearer pefection in error than the Constitu tionalist has dune. We charged him with being for the measure on tho 22d May, 1850, and a ainst it in May, 1851. The defence is (if we are able to under stand it) that he changed goner than that, as he only stuck to his position till May 23d, 1850. Instead of occupying twelve months in ef fecting ro total a change, it took him only twenty-four lours—hardly that —for the change took place “the very day we published the ar* tide of May 221.” (’he opinions were scarcely published before they were altered. Verily, this defence is worthy of the reputa bon of the Constitutionalist. It is consistent on'y in inconsistency. Though it may “claim no peculiar capacity to jump to correct con clusions at the first glance,” it has a well founded “ claim ” to a very peculiar capacity in jumping from one side of a question to another—in fact, in being on both aid s—if not strictly at one time, in an incredibly short in terval. j Every attempt HT'exlrlcatian has heretofore only plunged it deeper in the quagmire. Its position, or the question at the head of this article, was so raided that no quibbles—no after thoughts could oy any dint of ingenuity dis guise or conceal it. In reply to our charge of inconsistency, it pleads the very briskness of its charge. Phases of the Constitutionalist on Mon- Intervention. We have been exceedingly anxious for a public, candid acknowledgment by the Con s’.itu ionalist. that the doctrines held by the Southern Rights party on the subject of non intervi ntion are diamdrically opposite to those proclaimed by the Democratic party, and former ly held by tie mass of the present members of ths Southern Rights party ilselj. We have proved this, by the resolutions of the Democratic Conventions, and by the most direc*. and explicit quotations from its own columns. The present state of the question between us (for it is between us, though it feigns igno rance of the fact) is as follows. We establish ed the fact that it was for non-intervention, it acknowledged explicitly that it had been, but said that nonintervention came too late, because it came in 1850. We then proved that its own advocacy of nonintervention bore date in 1850. What was it now to do 1 Its argument was upset, plainly so, even to the meanest capaci y. The plan it adopted was to deny the obvious meaning of the word. We then quoted from its own columus of May 15th, 18C0—the acknowledgement that, “By the Compromise (of the committee of 13) wk okt Territorial government and non-intkrvkntion on the slavery question for ihe Territories.” We quoted a similar acknowledgment made Apri' 30th, 1050. Ever since this decisive evidence of the sense in which it used the word, it still has the hardihood Ko write of non intervention, as something which we did not get. If it is not yet “sick and tired” of quibbling on th's subject, we believe we can promise lhai, provided only it is capable of penitence, it anall be sick, tired and ashamed of its con duct upon it, before we get through with this article. We do not expect to effect this salu tary end by our strength, but by iu own. lathe article of last month (August 22d) it insist (hat bv non-intervention was meant, among other things, the following : “That in establahing Territorial Governments, this equal participation in them claimed by the Southern people, should be recognised and secured to them, and the people thus made cq ial, left free to determine for themselves whether slavery should or sijjuid not form a part of their social system.” Again, in the same article, speaking of the duty of Congress to remove impediments, it says : “ This Congress failed to do. This Congress pertinaciously relused to do. Il was, in this, dere lict to its duty and to ihe just claims of the South,** Not relying upon the evident folly of giving the name of “non-intervention** to the ‘ inter vention” demanded by the Constitutionalist, we shall refer to its own columus, of not ova week previous, and show the explicit acknow ledgment that what we did get was non-inter vention. If we bad bad the writing of it our selves, we could have made the acknowledge men*, no more explicit. Here it is: “ True, three Territoiiai bills did not contain the Wilmot proviso. They contained non-intervention. But non-intervention came too late.”—Constitution alit,Ajg. 16th, 1851. The italics are its own. We have offered its own testimony that we got non intervention, taken from the paper of May 19th, 1850. In a former article we offered its own testimony, of April 30th, 1850. We now offer the same testimony again, bearing date only six days before its denial. The former evidence it considered insuffi cient. Does it want more ? We offer it now. In a review of Mr. Toombs’ position on the California question, it has occasion tn refer with great point asd discrimination to the true meaning of o<> n intervention. That man wou d have to be a master of the nee of language who could express more forcibly tho opinion that “removing hostile impediments” is inconsisient with the doctrine of non-inter vention. He ridicules the idea of Mr. Toombs “id 1850 gravely call ing. on Co ng res# to paw a law repealing anti-slavery laws.’* 1 But we will let him apeak for himself, for be speaks very plainly: “ Mr. Toombs ia, with one important exception l ,. wi*h the great body ofthe c’emoccacy of Georgia. in the above positions, and hope the great bxly of his own party, coincide wiih him. Tne excapubn is this: he insists that Congrscs shall repeal the