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i£|rmiitlc iic Sentinel. From He Mar,or, (S. C.) Slar. I.rllrr from Hon. 1.. M. Kelli. ' >' oul I” • ' w tender you ho invitation to ' "i'.',r, » • and partake of a public dinner, as M i,i „ k,it*h mnreciation we have of your " mbbld us political character, ..i'JEIi.. defence of Southern right*. We ta»« the honor to be, with bighoOße.derat.on, y ' ,U N n p'hillip« d f ' J ° W f, d Z li«nil,«B Henegan. EH. Wheeler. Marion. < IX., S C., July 23, • w..n r St i I’Ht K, V* , August 3, 1857 11 1 h «v* the honor to wknowkdgo (ifh ■u!t .in Which yon tender me a your ot ofth® State* Demo i«- dtnr. r ’ { regret my inability to accept, fra yot .i ♦ rlieerfuUv coumel witli you, both ;iJ ? vtiiu o i, surround the cause of 3 ‘ Soatl ( 'axd the policy which be should adopt Jin 1 1,;'#.-* ntexigencyot affairs. ' a-v,, 1, rnv inUiTTient are hurrying to a ensie, iM hion lhe iy>ulh will have to stake her rtgnts and r vs. ty tipon her own union, and vindicate her exts - 4( 1. >i*))v Lerown resource®. , »I.;. day put when treacherous concession . and V ‘ * ... ■•r-r'i < c.n r f ay buck fh.iMik ism; I 'l*'j I • rU* t‘i. "dav'v. ill n'• ver come wh«a nn . i .-annas to the Union will V ,T , ' l . or arm v. >;i made bare to«nik«- W P H ; at tbe North •1 Vi . S. h are /Jx ut to iac® each other, and wiaanii Qor r , lUV ulsive iulministra !"’ . v nartie*, can avoid the conflict or ,l ". the shook. A spurious and lachymoie it I'lgiit*; • _ j , )US w iH, pauperism aid riot. !" ' d,vn upon tin pointed spears of k' Vi* ni ‘ Never before bave they fairly . .* I-J 'i ni. er, but all artificial obstacles ere ,d| y lii.jiie. niir.tr. ai.dthe contest is beginning 1 earned Hot efui and patriotic men believe that ti e e-mlt t W 'Uldbo nut gated into rivalry, and ~ willin'due bounds by tbo priiu-inlea of JJ- kVr.su--Nebraska bill Under its sheltering ; • . believe that the different forma of '’ Tw.iv North and S ,uth, o.uiii expand and de i v 'i-ie and 1 1, -t tie machinery of gov -1 , I enr emoveonw .lhout being broken •' ,P ~V.r , i,tUd Iromita track. Tlie bill itself w !• finteded upon tne fact tbat the for.na of society V i.ri tl * North nr.d at the S«u'h, were diffe *l i ai d it- provisions were intended to secure ail !-- 1 •I ' d amicable rivalry between them. Ti e K< u’e-al Government , as the agent of both, waa tih doed lo an -i flexible neutrality, while the nbarn ci'ch struggled to advance their respective , ,-utrality of the Government, it is be lieved "would ailow legitimate expansionandde v.loprnci'' U-- Muring Mr. ■ ; ' '"'Cy *as li,;,m --i.... |.| . o ut. ". *l. sigh perjured by Goy . (' . •• betraying their trusts, violated it. Tl -V we, c Minoved, end i! was well known that the Adniini-tration did not sympathize with tneir Ilai'the nreaent. Administration fairly carried out uroviKiorw <>f IbeKm a-Nebraska Bill ! Hare OnQth 1 The Brat act wa* tli* appointment oa Wr " rH , KaurfH of it man of broken fortunea and J u iod tnttii**; a needy adventurer, who traded up «»ii tii<- Kin* * n! v *‘l the South, and stole into her con lidonco, through deceitful professions. Wl.at wait I : || r i , u t | To debauch K a near from ahegiaireo he .South' and deliver her into the hands of firee (lll , 'jo etty that ib.-jeouse ol the South wan I ... | fJ | v , prr..r to the appointment of Wal- I i , t.> palliate n aud.hy falsehood. A plain state ,,l of facts will show the truth in t lda particular. "l "non tie- nn, oge of tin Kansas Nebraska Bill, an , port wee immediately made by both sections, the South to ■ Htnl.huh, the North to prohibit slavery.— TU'iK ism- i |, orbed nil others, and constituted the , riv . very Contest ill that Territory. Cnm n inn v e organized at tlie North, and money l.eely contributed by Legislatures and individuals, 1 o eoloi,:/' Kansas with treosoil incendiaries, and expels ehn ery from its limi's. Tlie South was roua |,y the tierce and plunging propapandism of the Soith ami her sons wentato(-hnnipion her cause in lie new Territory; aud her money was given to maintain them r toe struggle. At the very begin ,n g of its Ter itorial exis'enee, Kansas beearne tbo ilatlle ground, where the lotina of society and labor North anti South, strove for the mastery. This was fl„ only question agitated in the Territory. Contest loneecded contest, end the South won in each; triumph followed triumph, and each waseinblszon , d nriott her banner. Three times was Gen. Wbit ,e Id eleep d the Ueh :tate from the Territory, and .nt h time he was elected as the pro-slavery repre italic, . A I tge majorityof the members of the Territorial Is gi lature liave always been pro-slave ry men suet the constitution, which is expected to r inse the Territorial career of Kansas, and inaugu rate lee -a Stab', is absolutely irt the hunds of the .- one party. Public law makes this convention the ahr white architect of the constitution of Kansas, and usage in many similar ra. s, dispenses with the • nbmissHtit of the constitution to popular ratilica- Why were companies organized and money lev , rl at tli- North, hut to make Kansas a free State 1 Why were efforts made at the South to colonize Kansas, and money given to accomplish this, but trr oraki- hern slave Slate? livery effort, every . Haggle, every movemeritnir either side, were trade la make. Kansas a free or slave State. The Fede ral Government, as"t.hc agent of birth parties, was pledged to absolute impartiality between the con tending par tier'. The South won on every phase of lire issue, and at every step of the light, and now when the -eeplre of control is in her very grasp it is suddenly and rudely tern away from her. How . mrios it that this change lias so suddenly happened? flow comes it that the I’truat of the South basso suddenly glare down l Perjured governors have In eken faith to blast her cause, and yet she bravely ;•!i nggi, re and wins lire victory against all odds.— Prostituted patronage insinuates its debauchery, and yet lire nerve-' of the South are unslnokeiied and he; energy mu rue lied. 1 ear after year the territo ry is shaken with revolt, i- stained with blood and wrapped in halm s and yet the cause of the Soullr prospers, and her banner is triumphant. The last mut closing r.t Higgle is nrudo, ami the victory is I, is' when lot its fruits turn to ashes in her hands, e.nd despair settles upon her cause. Why this, so . ridden . hange .' is it uni the nefarious and fraudu lent iu!m\ r rile n of tho Federal Government?— There wi re perjured Governors in Kaesas before Wu-kor ■ I red by 1. -11' 1- ■ .<! I ) T .'Hill V , bill their crimes were fruitless, because tire Administra tion war known not to sympathise with or connive at the fraud and wrong, liow happens it that Walk ,-r’s dishonest intrigues too have not been bootless i,|-i, r is it not because the Administration is be lieved to sympathise with and abet the fraud and wrong.' I-it not because he is believed tube clothed with the sanctions of the Federal Govern ment, that he lias succeeded in his foul and subtle jnaebinr. l .. -! If the cause of the South is lost iu Kar a, it lout through the base betrayal of a per ■;Ui (i minion o) Federal appointment. If the cause n! the South h. he! m Kansas, it is lost because a Federal official, with the tarnished tinsel of office ar.mud him, has traveled through the Territory as a v a t aut orator, si r oiling player and political mounte bank, corrupting and debauching, tricking and bul ly "g,' w! ere vet licosoii objects could be accomplish ed by these base appliances. The hsa of Kansas to the South ts a great loss And dws it Income the mtuions of party in tlie losing section to stigmatize these who have shed their libioil aud given their money b avert this ca lamity. b> saying that the cause of the South was l„ng ago hopeless? No—the sacrifices were patriot ic. and tiro*efforts made to sav. Kansas to tho .smith wi re ro.ble. Nor were they bootless, until lire Federal Qo\eminent fraudulently interferred.— Is it horn.-!, is it manly, is it decent, for the adtnin i .nation to gather the spoilsol the fraud committed by ils minion, ami then shtillle off the responsibility? To do so is rh -pic.able cowardice and vulgar mean ms-. I will not strike the minion and bend the kin eto the master. 1 will not have gauull.te for the fortn r and velvet for the latter. Willi treachery and fraud tricking us out of Kan sos, wliat it •ur policy ? 1 answer, that it is the duty as "‘ll iwtln* policv of the State to take her etaud by lie Ride of (Georgia and Mississippi.— These pntrioti* States have promptly rebuked the dishonesty and intrigut > which have affected its in Kansas, *ml have put forth a high vindication of Southern right*. Let us co-operate with them. If tl • South i <j eted from Kansas, it is done to con i., ! date and -.lengthen the Freesoil Democracy of Ihe W'l't!'. The various fragments and factions of Democracy are all more or less Freosoil, are each rimtitn’ils “ fog b»! " to prevent conirion, and arc /ill ready to b< soldered together again by Freesoil cement. T<* aocompV.sh this foul union, the South , s to be sacrificed in Kansas. What boots it, wheth . i the South is sacrifice l through Freesoil Democ racy or Black Republicanism! 'fhat wi.ich chiefly recommended the Nebraska to the S. . was a committal of the Democratic party to a clearer vindication of her rights This w «’ Mr Bm ’ annu was nominated by the North sa ti el i ted by the South. and any act of perfidy on his part will be doubly damned. Democracy at the North is hop* lessly prostrated, unless it can be re vived by some Ireesoil application. In any issue b< tweet* slavery and abolitionism, the North will accept the latter , and ns that is the main issue be fore the people, the Not th eamiet be relied upon. The only el.a.« e that letnamed, viz : that of allow ing each section t-> legitimately develop its institu tions through fair rivalry, has been destroyed by the fraudulent int rvention • t the Federal Government, •pi.o ,-onti. ■ i.‘ rapidly coming, and the South must i,'lv upon herself. Though her efforts be stigmatized by*Federal minions, ami the resolutions©! sovereign States denouncing fraud and wrong, be pronounced •‘ungracious’' by an Executive of her ow n creation, yet she must achieve her safety, though her arm ’■hould fall heavily upon a cabinet of mutes and a paialytic Administration, la 1850 the Whig party of the South which had elected Gen. Taylor, tram plod him from power when his treachery was made manifest : and will the Democratic party of the S mth be le**s true to our rights ami honor, or less haughty and indignant against fraud and wrong * The Democratic party owes its ascendancy to the South, and « \>ry mi of treat horv should be*met by consuming cuisos. No leader Is amuated against lhe vengt a nee of an outraged people, and no offi cial is so high that popular justice cannot reach him. Tire South must n .uutain her rights, though she iuma deaf ear to the appealing shrieks of shivering l 'abiuets. of h\>U-ru u Fresid'i ts, and dissolving pariit-s Her s.v'ety is in her union, and Georgia and Missis.-ippi have gloriously led the way. Let South Carolina wheel into line with them, arid march with steady *vp along : sair.e bright track of con stitutional integrity. her be no laggard in that contest in w’iu h the rights and houor ot the South are to be vimi ~ ated. There should be no dissen sion iu the S uthem camp, ar.d I trust there will be none, when the hour arrives, in which loyalty to , j.aity will bo 'reason t.. ibe South. Lawrence M. Keitt. To Mess: s |-s. V. !er, Wheeler, Evans and others, Marion C. 11., 8. C. A noth eh \\ m.kfk 1% \ reo t r ■«' s — Some parties in this city who hsv e hereti-tore been conspicuously « tig aged in General \\ a’ker s Central American ctusaae, significantJv assort hat preparations are oU foot for another grand demonstration, at no dis tant d v. A secret plan is said to exist which con templates the raising of an army of ten thousand men allot'whom shaii embark, or set sail, about ' v ir to be left uudoiie which shall tend to secure , ffioieney anu eventual success. Baltimore is to furnish from three to four hundred, as her comple ment oftheab 've named army, with full equipments, money, Are. 1; Is further stated that persons, fully pledged, have already been secured in the city, *ho are on! v waitlug* due notice, and the lull eon-i t Miuuativ n<V G<•* era! Walker’s plans, to be off. It known as i e “Central American League." Who t: parties are attached to this league, we are unable to -ay: or whether they have been absolute, iy * oneoh< i, das rumored, cauuot be fully ascer tained, eiv ept o far as eu rent rumor goes. Such secret filibustering expeditions are reprehensible, and if the one in question does really exist its move ments will, doubtless, be more fully ascertained in due time. New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and all the other leading cities of the Tuion, are said to be united in this movement J ail. Patriot. Reform Among Law\*ju—The work of purg ing tlM’bar of Albany of uiaserupuloua member? haa bomuieuetni in good The District Attorney h*«« .included the investigation ordered by tite last Geu*.«uAfc>eA<ioiis, and he wili »! the next e*»eaeral Term of the Circuit, hand over the papers to that Com Upon this being dune several uieui- I*rs of the bur will i>*- called upon to show cause why their i.iur.cs c*ln?uli mu In* stricken from the joilofattui v* and( va; - fllc ra in the State. Every ti right, hv". men er t.<J the bar. say? the Albany Evening Journal,not on'y owes it to himself and nrs«*eiates at the to the community at large to expose t .he s/atfcm of wholesale cruel plunder that hae been c'-iried on for some time in that city. A a example should be made ol those who have been guilty <>t obtaining htrge stiuw of money out of poor criminal* for iiuie if any and w* do 1,,.pc that ii . i- re -? clearly proven guilty «,f such act ;. i no member oi the bar in good ntmtding v»«. ct.erupt to screen them. —Boston 'traveller. Tl»** BriiMi i**i<l I blofiP* L »n*j«*ii 7 'itwx lim a correupotideht in China who furuiahe® that journal with graphic **keU*.he« of the exciting acene* at present enacting in the “cele®- tiai kingdom.” His description of the deaperate engagements between the British fleet and. Chinese junks arc of much intcrot, but we haveonly space for the following sketch <»f tbe affair in which Com modore Keppel waa engaged: Bat now tbe junks are concentrating, and in or der to attack them the British boats muat pass through one of tw’o paeaagt*, l>oth of which narrow to a tunnel, and upon that narrow neck of water the whole fire of 20 junks will be concentrated. — One of these tunnel p&uagea Laa been staked and is impassable. The other has not water to f ** : y two abreast. At this perilous paaeage Keppel and his crew now dashed. The three boom-boat® took the ground in attempting to follow. Tbe base of this triangular bland consist® of high land which the boom-boat® could not fire over, eo their guns were useless. The apex, or to u®e ray more familiar i lustration, the knuckle part was low pad dy fie his which tbe junks’ gun® could not sweep across. It was a position worthy of a Gartchgeman —locm incuhi* natns. No s.*oner did the boats appear in the narrow parage luuu tilt 32-poundere sect -JU round shot and a hundred smaller guna Mult their full charger of gri. ,e and canister at a range of M£* rl aninng them. The c-tT,*t #«.- terrible. Keppel waa Bounding with a boathook for water for the boom boat, and went, back amid a storm to Ket them ujn They atkrt afreeii and make another effort to get •hrougli 1 lie Commodore pusher on ahead, ihere was Captain beckie in hia galley, with Major Kear ney by hi- ride. There wa- Captain Koliand m the launch of the Calcutta, and Lieut. Seymour in the harge of the same ship. Tbe Tribune e cutter wee m aumug them. The Hong Kocg, who had worked her-elfup through the mud to within 500 yards o. the scene of action, had rent her gig. Perhaps there were others, but, amid no much smoke and hre, even those who were in it cannot agree aa to minute aetaiL;. If the gunner, of the hxcelleut had been in those Chinese junks, and had worked those 32- pounder gunß, they could hardly have thrown the round shot etraigbier. Keppel a galley, not mark, is hit three times in lwo minutes ; a 32-pound -hot strikes Major Kearney in the brea»t*e*ntig him to piece* He must have died without a sensa tion Young Barker, a midshipman cf the Tribune, who wore upon hia linger a ring bequeathed to him by hia brother who was killed at Inkermann, is mcirta U wounded “That was close, \ictor, raid Keppe! to 1-i- flag lieutenant, ns n cannon shot pass ed between their heads. Fortunately \ ictor (Pnuce Victor of Uohenloiie, aa thorough nud as unpretend ing n British seaman as if Lia name were Brake or .J-rvi- wm, leaning torward and using his handker chief a* u tourniquet to stop the bleeding afa seaman whose baud had just been ehot off, other wise that ba! 1 must have taken \ ictors head off. A* this time the galley was disabled, and she was drifting down under the guns of the junks. Lven H eppcl saw that it would not do. The matter waa, however settled for him, for tire next shot tore away the stern-sheets of his galley while he was fortunate ly etandiDg up witli tire tiller rqpca in hia hand.— “Seymour, yourmuHt take me in,’ and be stepped frorn Ida sinking galley into the barge of the Calcut ta All the other occupants of the galley were also reinoi erl into the barge, all except the mang.ed corpse of the coxswain and the favorite dog of the Commodore, who had been accustomed to be ten ded by that man and would not leave Ins body.— YVi'h tbia freight the wreck of the galley drifted with the r sing tide up toward the junks. Now the boats retired ainid a souuding of gongs, at ranee shouts of triumph, and a redoubled tire.— Theyretired to the iloug Kong, which was aground astern, but, supported by the Starling, threw shot and shell vj> among the junks, and received from them a full equivalent for their hre. The Commodore was waiting .or reinlorcements and for more water in the river, and meanwhile lie piped to dinner. The men were gett ng the rations, uml were devouring them when the hre from the junks slackened. “Three cheers for the Blue,” cried a Ualeigk boat that now came up. “Man th j boat., lads; those rascals are gett nig afloat. On they go again, dinnerless, but in high spirits, and under a fire so hot that the Calcutta’s launch is sunk, and Capt. Koliand has to scramble into another boat. This time they find water enough in the narrow passage, and, dashing through the shot, find the ene my afloat and in movement, ft has now become a chase. Thesejunks, manned by from 60 to 100 row ers, go faster than our heavy boomboats can follow. But sbarpnell shell go faster than even a snakejunk. There are twistings in the creek that are not shown ill the chart, and in following these windings pur suers and pursued often find themselves Bide by aide, with an interval of land between them. They fire at each other across these peninsulas, and the guns are so well served and the sheila are so terri fying that every now and then the crews leap out and the junk ia deserted. Spike the guns and push Oil Six miles this hotchase lasts, and there are now but eight junks uncaptured; when rounding a Bhsjp point liuraued and pursuer, rush almost together in to the city of FatsUen. Chinese town is not seen far off; the pagoda and the pawnbrokers’ warehous es are the only high buildings. Three of the junks escaped; the oilier five are headed and are aban doned. But the braves of Fatshan would think it a shame that their five junks should be taken from under their eyes. They turn out in martial array; they ring bells and beat gongs; they come filing down a fosse, so covered from view that only their waving banners and their brandished swords and shields are visible. “We are terrible; flee before Uri !'* they ave supposed to sing or cry. Keppel has his own way of settling these matters. He turned his marines out of his boats, drew them up on the margin of the supurb, and poured into the Fatshan militia such a volley of Mime balls that the Chinese army went quickly up its fosse again. H* proposed to land his howitzers and pasa the night in the city, a daring scheme, which might have produced a ran som of half a million of dollars or utter destruction, as the fortune of war might incline. A message from the Admiral, however, recalled him. lie had his five junks towed out before him, and ns he left the city he stood up in the stern-eheeta of liis boat and shook his fist, good humoredly saying, “You rascals, we’ll come back to you soon again ;” and those extraodinary Chinese, they too laughed— a broad, good humored grin—and so they parted. It was three o clock when Commodore Keppel returned to the flag ship, which was now anchored where the Chinese Admiral’s junks had been moored at the commencement of the engagement. As he came down his dog recognised the yellow Raleigh boat and swam off to his master. N it ajunk was preserved. Their material* are eo inflammable that they readily ignite one another, and we can make no use of them. They are not worth saving at the price ol danger to the men. As it was, the allot trora their heated guns mailed about in a most unpleasant manner. At sundown the view from the deck of the flag ship was a mixture of the grotesque and the sublime. The boats were all adorned with barbaric spoils; banners of every amplitude, some of them adorned with colossal pic tures of the fat god Fo, flaunted iu the breeze. Mandarins' coats and Mandarins’ breeches were freely worn. Commodore Elliott’s crew were equip ped each witli a Mandarin's hat and foxes' tails. They had dutifully reserved one for the Commodore but I must confess I did not see him put it on. Around, far as the eye could reach, following the windings of this maze of creeks, eighty-nine war junks wc; i smouldering or blazing, and every five minutes an explosion shook the air. The Cantonese had said that Commodore Klliott’s expedition in Escape Creek only captured a few deserted fishing boats. From their own verandahs they could tee and hear what hud been done in Fatshan Branch. It was bruited in Hong Kong that a Maudarinof high rank, one greater than Yeh, had come down from Pekin to Canton. It so, he now gained his first experience. Then came Dr. Anderson 8 sad laborot marshalling the wounded for transport and collecting the reports of the assistant surgeons. But tlie pul lie despatches will tell all this. Enough for me to state that in these two battles of Tung kcou and Fatshan eighty-four men have been killed or wounded. That night the two Commodores slept side by side, the sleep of the weary, on the deck of tlie Coromandel; and so ended tbe Ist of June. Next morning, as we passed dewn the river, two war junks appeared three miles astern and tired a gun. They were chasing the barbarian fleet! Reported Seizure of the Island of Formosa bt the U. 8. Naval Force.— A correspondent of the New York Times, writing from on board the U. S. (lag ship San Jacinto, at Hong Kong, asserts that the Government of the United States lias de cided to take possession of the Island of Formosa, as security foi payment by the Chinese Gov ernment of Ih* -! anility demanded for aamages done to Amen interests during the disturbances at Canton. T • itnes says its intelligence comes from a source ...oly to be well informed, but hesi tatcH about giving full credeuce to it. The corres pondent’s w ay of tolling the story does not increase confidence in its correctness. He says : “Some three months since Capt. J. D. Simms, of the United States Marine Corps, attached to the San Jacinto, was mysteriously missing, gone nobody but our executives knew where It was understood after a few weeks ' hat he had been detailed for duty ; where and for what kind, was known only to the elect. It is now ascertained that his instruc tions were to proceed to Formosa, and iu the city of Fungehan hoist the American Hag and take for mal possession ot the islaud. It is to be held as an indemnity for the losses sustained by American citi zens during the present war. Ours beiug the prior claim will of course be respected by the contending parties, by the English, French or Spanish, all of which Powers tnay have a finger in this pie. “This step has given the English authorities in China huge satisfaction, as every successive step towards further collision with the Chinese does.— This, inmy opinion, is A wise step towards securing our rights in China, aud a safe way of making sure of remuneration for our losses. Should we seek territorial acquisitions iu this part of the world, no more desirable portion of the Chinese Empire could be seized upon than Formosa—rich iu mineral and agricultural wealth, its valuable coal mines make it a coveted spot with the mari time nations of the world. It is only within a few years that its resources have become known, ow ing to the hostility and exclusiveness of its people, who are Chinamen. Already there is a profitable trade earned on between foreigners in China and its people, and it only needs developing to make it invaluable. Os this more anon." The Island of Formosa, reported to have been seized lies about ninety miles off the southeast coast of China, embraces &u area of about 15,000 square miles, and contains over two millions of Chinese inhabitants, besides au unknown number of na tives, who inhabit principally the eastern portion of the Island. The Chinese who lire on the Islaud are generally of a bad character, as Formosa has for a long time been used as a sort of penal colony for the Chiuese Empire ; the natives are half civilized aud cruel. The country is well watered and fer tile. aud produces great quantities of cotton, rice, sugar, with wheat, maize and various tropical fruits.— Bait. Amer. The Physical Power of England.— The phy sical power which England derives from the trans formation of the latent power of its coal into active force is scarcely conceivable by unscientific minds. Professor Rogers, of the United States, furnishes us with the following estimates : —Each acre of coal seam, four feet in thickness and yielding one yard not of pure fuel, is equivalent to about 5,000 tons; aud possesses, therefore, a reserve of mechanical strength iu its fuel equal to the life-labor of more than 1,000 men. Each squarwinile of one such sin gle coal bed contains 3,000,000 of tons of fuel; equivalent to 1,000,000 of men laboring through twenty years of their ripe strength. Assuming for calculation that 10,000,000 of tons out of the pre sent annual products of the British coal mines, namely 65,000,000. are applied to the production of mechanical power, then England annually summons to her aid au army of 3,300,000 fresh men, pledged to exert their fullest strength through twenty years. Her actual annual expenditure of power, then, is rt pri .-ien.ed by 60,00h.000 of able boaied laborers.— ine latent strength resident in the whole coal pro ,ct V 1 kingdom may, by the same process, be calculated at more than 400,000,000 of strong rneD. or more than double the number of the adult males now upon the globe.— Mechanics' Magazine. An Interesting M asonic Bible.— I The Free- Masons ot the 4fith British regiment, now stationed at incisor, England, have in their possession the original Bible belonging to Lodge No *227 of the Irish constitution, once in existence in that corps, upon whicn George Washington—afterwards eom mander-in-chief of the anfiy of the United States— was initiated into the rights of J?ree Masonry. This book wa.- taken in battle in 1777, during the Amer ican wat. by our troops, aud honorably restored to the Lodge of the 46th, with a military’ escort as a guard of honor. Washing Calicoes. —The following method of washing dresses of printed muslin, so as to preserve the colors, is recommended by a competent authori ty : The dress should be washed in lather, acd not m the u?nal way by applying the soap direct upou the muslin. Make a lather by boiling some soap and water together. Let it stand until it is suffi ciently cool lor use. Previously’ to putting the dress into it, throw a handful ol salt. Rinse the dress, without wringing it, and rinse it again in a fresh supply of clear cold water aud sait. Then wring the dress in a cloth and hang it to drv immediately, spreading it out as soon as possible, so as to prevent any part lying over another. Should tkerebe any white in the pattern, mix a little h ue in the water A Large Tannery.— A tannery is about to be erected in Kidder township. Carbon county, Pa the main building of which will be between six hun dred and seven hundred feet long and fifty feet wide calculated to tan 35,000 hides in a year—more, it is said, than any other tannery in the L’nited States. An engine of ninety horse power will be put up, and the establishment will employ about 100 hands. EUROPEAN IST K 1. 1. itiKN «' E I.ETAIU BV THE ARABIA. Great Biutais— The Emperor and Express of the French, accompanied by Count Walewaki and a small suite, arrived at Osborne, on a visit to Queen Victoria, on Thursday, titk instant, and were receiv ed with a royal salute from the fleet at Spithead.— Tbe visit was a strictly private one, and would not, it was believed, extend beyond the tale of Wight, and probably Portsmouth Navy Yard. A most vigilant surveillance was kept up in the neighbor hood of Osborne, and all over the Island by a strong force of police from London and Pans, and boats were stationed off the beach at Osborne to prevent the approach of any shore or strange boats. It was thought theimpenalparty would return to trance on Monday the 10th. . Bishop Biomfield, late Bishop of London, died on the 15th instant epileptic attack. A petition calling on Parliament to eend out a much larger military force to India than was con templated, was receiving numerous signatures in Liverpool. . _ The house of Carr, Brothers & Co., of Newcastle, extensive cilliery owners, had temporarily suspend ed payment. Their liabilities were very large, bat the assets were said to be ample. France.— The trial of the three Italians accused of an attempt to assassinate the Emperor took place on the Cth and 7th, and resulted in a verdict ot guil ty, with extenuating circumstances in favor of Bartolotti and Grilii. The Court sentenced Tibaldi to transportation for life, and Bartolotti and Griili to fifteen years’ imprisonment. The trial excited very little interest. The Minister of War has decided that Kabylia, recently conquered. Ehall form a new military sub -41 vision. Spain. —The Paris correspondent of the London Times, in a letter upon the Spanish-American ques tion, eaya: “ From 40,000 to 50,000 Americans were ready to march into the Mexican territory as auxiliaries against the Spaniards. If any difficulty on the score of nationality had been raised, they would have as suined the Mexican flag and enrolled themselves as Mexican citizens or soldiers. The Mexican govern ment seemed to have no objections to a war with Spain.” The same letter says:—“lt appears that the Spanisn government goes on with its military preparations as if no mediation had been accepted. Tlie effective strength of the army is expected soon to be 120,000 men, and there was a rumor in Mad rid that the Royal Guard, disembodied under the regency of Espartero, after the military insurrec tion of 1841, would soon be re-established.” Writing on the following day, the sth instant, the same correspondent says: —“It is said inofficial quarters, that, contrary to all expectation, the ar rangement of the differences existing between the Spanish and Mexican governments, has again been suspended, in consequence of accounts received from Mexico by the laet mail. I give the rumor without guaranteeing i s accuracy.' Tlkket A despatch from Vienna, states that M. de Thouvenel, the French Ambassador at Con stantinople, took down his flag on the sth, but iu forined the Turkish government that he should not leave his post for some days. It is said that tbe notes of the Four Powers di rected against Prince Vogorides were identical, though presented separately. Prince Vogorides had {iroceeded to replace the Metropolitan of Moldavia, iceause he refused to preeide over the Divan. Two hundred houses had been destroyed by fire at Galata. The tribes of the Mutualis had pillaged the Chris tians in the town of Sour, and the French Consul at Bsyrout had gone to the spot to demand a public repression of the outrage. The London Morning Post gives editorial promi nence to tho following, on the affairs of Turkey : “The charge of ministry has not yet led to any solution of the diplomatic disputes existing at Con stantinople. The new cabinet has offered to sum men to Constantinople the Kamaicans of Wallacia aud Moldavia, to hear from their own lips their ac counts of the recent voting in the Principalities.— This propoeal was declined on Tuesday last by M. Thoavenel, who haughtily termed it 'unrofus de risoire’ of his demand. Unless the whole of the re cent proceedings are annulled, he threatens, with the Russian Ambassador, to leave Constantinople, and he is countenanced in this, we regret to say. by the representatives of Prussia and Sardinia. The Ambassador of England, and the Austrian Inter uuncio take totally opperpte views, and deplore this rough treatment of the Porte, which is calculated in its effect to injure the best interests, and tocompro mise the stability of the Ottoinau Empire ; whilst in its overbearing and rude hostility it out-Menschi koffs Menschikoff.’’ Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had got leave to conr.e home from Constantinople—another term—remarks the Liverpool Post—for a rebuke if not a recall. It is said, however, that he will not quit his post at this juncture. The Paris Pays of the tith announces that the new Turkish Cabinet had consented to declare the Mol davian elections null and void, and that it propsed to fix the 15th of August for the new elections. This lacks confirmation. Denmark —A concession had been granted to an English company for the establishment of a subma rine telegraph between England and the Western coast of Schleswig. Russia. —The Emperor of Russia returned to St. Petersburg on the Ist inst., after his visit to Ger many. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that Seha myl, with the maiu body of his troops, had been beaten at Isalatavia; leaving 400 dead on the field, while the Russian loss was only 05 killed and wounded. A letter from St. Petersburg states that Russia has made an application to the Porte, with a view to such modification of the Treaty of Paris as would enable her to employ a large number of vessels of war to carry on her present operations on the coast of Circassia. Persia. —lt is stated that Mr. Murray, the Eng lish Minister arrived at Teheran on the 7th of June, and was received with the honors agreed upon. The Latest. India. —Major Gen. Wyndham the hero of the Redan has accepted an important command in India, and will proceed to the East as soon as pos sible. Delhi. —ln the city the belief in the fall of Delhi seems to have become almost universal. The re Sorts of the capture current previous to the 17th of une, have been found to ire unquestionably false, but the impression is that the event took place two or three days later, and that although the news had not yet been received by Government authorities it had reached the native Bankers and had prompted the purchase of Government stock which they were making at advanced prices both at Calcutta and Bombayjust before the departure of the mails. From India, expectation is now chiefly directed to the re gular India and China Telegraph which may be looked for any time between Monday and Tuesday next. The Difficulties in Turkey. —The morning Post publishes the following despatch : Constantinople, Aug. ti.—The Porte having re fused to amend the late election in Moldavia, the Minister of France, of Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia have broken off their diplomatic relations with that power. Th 3 morning Post publishes nn article on the pr-sent state ot affairs at Constantinople, arising out of the question of the Danubian Principalities.— “The Porte wishes naturally to have two provinces which she can control, rather than a new state of sufficient strength to be always troublesome and dangerous, and yet so weak as to be iu the predica ment of constantly seeking aid from Russia. Eng land spent £80,000,000 ami 1011,000 lives in a war which began in the rescue of these very Danubian Principalities from Russia. Russia advocates tho union at all cost of the Principalities. With regard to France, M. Thouveiial may® be acting in error, but he is acting on behalf of a government honest iu its pol cy, amenable to reason.' 1 Junius’ Letters. —The National Intelligencer copies from the Dublin University Magazine a long and powerfully written article touching the identi ty ot Juius, a mystery which seems destined to exer cise the ingenuity of the wits of England till the end of time. According to the present writer, there have been thirty-five candidates for the authorship, and a hundred books and a vast number of articles have been written by men desirous to point out the real author. The Dublin scribe contends that Lord Chatham was Junius, and he certainly makes out a strong case, though, to our mind, it is clear from his own reasoning that while Chatham may have been rind probably was Junius, in the ideas, the general scope, and, above all, the fierce, vindictive and merciless spirit of the letters, it was the eloquent and practised pen of Sir Philip Franois which em bodied Chatham’s conception in the most masterly specimens of epistolary invective which has ever appeared in the English tongue. There is but one link wanting in the chain by which Lord Chatham is identified as the author of Junius, and that is, he was not a good writer. Sir Philip Francis, on the contrary, was skilled with the pen as Chatham with the tongue. Chatham was Lis patron, and his political friend. Francis was in the lmbit of reporting his speeches, and it is stated by one authority, composed many of them. It is conceded by the writer that Sir Philip Francis may have had his five hundred pounds a year in the War office exchanged for a situation in India at ten thou sand a year, on a hint from Chatham to Lord North, that if young Francis were sent away, there would be an end to Junius. He was sent away and the letters ceased ! Lord Chatham remained, but the letters were not continued ! The head and the hand were separated; the one was in England, splenetic, liery and powerful as in youth; the other was in In dia, clutching the ten thousand a year, and—the se cret—which, however much its exposure might have enhanced the literary fame of Sir Philip Francis would have brought ruin upon the towering crest of Chat ham, his benefactor aud friend.— Rich. Dittp. An Illinois Farm.— What will those persons who have been accustomed to consider five hun dred acres a large farm think of the following? The editor of the “ Spirit of the Agricultural Press” has recently been on a visit to the farm of Mr. T. Suili vant. Esq., in the southeastern part of Champaign county, Illinois. The farm contains over twenty thousand acres, and although only about seven thousand acres are yet under cultivation, employs over one hundred men ? Three thousand acres are planted in corn, and the editor estimates that the farm will produce at least 15,000 bushels of whe • this year, Desides large quantitia* of barley, oa tlax. &c. Mr. Sullivant employs five different r» ap ers this season, aud threshers immediately after cut ting, employing a steam engine as his power in the latter operation. A blacksmith's shop :s located on the farm, and employed continually in repairing farm implements : a school is kept up for the edu cation of the children of the workmen. One hun dred and twenty-five yoke of oxen and fifty hordes are employed. *lt must be acknowledged that this is something of a farm, and that Mr. Sullivant pos sesses much executive ability to successfully man age such a stupendous concern ; yet we are inform ed that everything moves on as regular as the click of a chronometer. This is but one of the many large farms which now grace the broad prairies of that and adjoining counties, none of which are so as this, but large enough to excite the wonder and admiration of outsiders, who know nothing of the magnificent West. —Louisville Courier. Volcanic Eruption.— We learn from a gentle man who left the Sandwich Islands about fifty days since, that just before he took his departure, news was received that the volcano of Mauna Lea, on the island of Hawaii, had again become fearfully active; aud as the lava discharged at the last erup tion approached within about seven miles of the vil lage of Hilo, filling up the unevenness of the surface down to that point, a distance of 60 or 70 miles from the crater, there was great apprehensions that the present eruption would either oury that village en tirely, or uudermine it and carry it into the sea. — This last apprehension resulted from the actions of the lava at the last eruption: it having in several instances appeared to stagnate for a while, but af terwards burst out lower down the mountain and carried all before it. Forests were broken down and destroyed by it like bullrushee. The village ot Hilo contains a population of about 500 persons, in cluding perhaps a dozeu white families. It is situ ated ou the northeasterly side of the island, and such is the surface of the ground, that if the lava ever finds its way to the sea it must be, apparently, over the ruins of this village. The present eruption is from the same crater as the last. It is not on the extreme apex of the mountain, but from a position somewhat lower down, on the easterly or northeast erly slope, looking towards Hilo.—A. Y. Journal of Commerce. ~^Y, UL Effect or Lightning.—During the thunder storm yesterday about *2 P. M., a boy nam wKiU^S 18 ** Meischner, was struck by lightning umir a f r owacro '* a field at Lowell, in the were looking .A man and woman who were looking in the direction of the boy at the time «"* observed , * kilW? rspidl >’ aad strike the D°y on .je Head. killing him instantly When ex ain.ued the hair on the left side of the Lead wi singed and a bine or parole mark extended from his head to his knee, on the left side. In the W there were no marks, bat the foot presented a b!u ish bruieed appearance. Under his foot was a ho’c in the earth, which penetrated some three inches The shock was so violent that every joint ot the boy s body seemed to be dislocated. His clothes on the side of the body struck were literally tom off aud scattered around him for several feet, and frag ments of his shirt, more particularly, were lying around in particles not more than three inches square. The boy was only-14 years old, was a na tive of Germany, was *an orphan, and was in the employment of Christian Carl, who resides in Low ell.— St. Louis Rep. , 13M. Death of Col. James Brannon. —This gentle man, one of the oldest and most prominent of our citizens, died at his residence in this city on Monday ; evening last.— Marietta Georgian. WEEKLY AUGUSTA, GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. iI6, 1557. FOR GOVEBNOB, BENJAMIN H. IIILL, OF TROUP. FOR CONGRESS, 3d District, Hob. ROBERT P TRIPPE. ■ltli “ Col. M. M. TIDWELL. 7th ■« « JOSHUA HILL. Bth « “ THOMAS W. MILLER. CHRONICLE & SENTINEL FOR THE CAMPAIGN. Tiiosp of our friends who desire to receive the Chronicl ? <f* Sentinel during the campaign can be accon iodated on tha following terms :• 1 Copy Daily $ 1 30 10 Copies 44 10 00 1 Copy Tri-Weekly 75 10 Copies 14 5 00 1 Copy Weekly* 30 10 Copies 44 300 Always in advance. lion. T. W. Miller’* Appointment*. The Hon. Thos. W. Miller, candidate for Con gress, will addrees bis fellow-citizens of the Bth Con gressional District, at the following times and places, to which the people are invited. It is hoped that his friends at the several places will make the necessary arrangements for the occa sion : Weda'day, Aug. 26, at Thomson, Columbia Connty* Thursday, “ 27, 44 Mount Moriah, Jefferson “ Friday, u 28, 44 Louisville, 44 “ Saturday, 4C 29, “ Davis’ Spring, Burke 14 Tuesday, Sept. 1, “ Svlvaaia, Scriven “ Friday, “ 4, “ Pine Hill, Richmond “ WecUrday, 44 9, “ Appling,.Columbia 44 Monday, 44 14, “ Lexington, Oglethorpe 44 Tuesday, 44 15, 44 Woodstock, 44 44 Thursday, 44 17, “ Elberton, Elbert 44 Saturday, 41 19, “ Mrs. Rumsey’s, Elbert 44 Tuesday, 44 22, “ Washington, Wilkes 44 Weds’day** 44 23 , 44 Danburg, 44 44 Friday, 44 25, 44 Lincolnton, Lincoln 44 Saturday % 44 26, “ liaysville, Columbia 44 B. H. Hill’s Appointments.—Mr. Hill will ad dress h\B fellow citizens as follows : At Van Wert, Saturday, August 29th. At Cartersville, Monday, August 31st At Canton, Tuesday, September Ist. At Dahlonega, Wednesday, September 2d. Appointments for the 3d, 4th and sth of Septem ber will appear in the “Mountain Signal” in due time. Hon. J. E. Brown is respectfully invited to con sider the appointments mutual. The .Southern Cultivator. The September number of this popular and vain, able Agricultural journal is on our [table. The sub joined table of contents is a higher commendation Os its worth to every man who cultivates the soil, how. ever limited, than any thing we can say in its be half : Plantation Economy and Miscellany. —Work for the Month . Milk ; Successful method of Rais ing Ducks; “Free’’ Society—Life in New York, &c ; Stanford’s Wild Oat Grass—Rescue, &c ; In quiries ; The Origin of the “Bill Bug,” or Corn Borer, and inode of Destroying the same ; Good Plows ; A good and cheap Sugar Mill, (Illustrated); Hill Side Ditching—Level Rows ; Chinese Sugar Cane in Texas ; Wine Prospects in South Carolina; Crystalizationof the Chinese Cane ; Exhaustion of Land ; liaising Watei for Irrigation ; The liaising of Clover ; The Crops, Weather, &c.; Apiary, or Bee-House of Mr. LaTaste, (Illustrated): Sugar from the Chinese Cane ; Keeping Corn Jjreen for Winter ; Improvement of Sandy Laud, &c ; Want of Appetite ; The kind of Education best suited to Young Farmers ; Mutton vs. Pork ; Southern Ab senteeism ; The next Tobacco Crop ; Shoeing Horses ; Female Health and Beauty. Editorial. —Answers to Correspondents ; Geor gia Wine ; Wine Premiums at the Louisville Fair ; Our Book Table ; Muscadine Wine ; Chinese Pro lific Pea—Mr. Fleming’s Crop; New Advertise ments; A great Coffee Pot; Negroes and Cotton, &c. Horticultural Department. —Pears on the Quince ; TlieCurculio—its llabils, dec.; The Grape Culture; Fruit in Polk County, Texas; Wine ; Prolific Cucumber Vine ; Wine at the South; i Healthfulneas of Fruit; A Cheap Luxury; Cataw ba Brandy in Alabama. Illustrations. —A Good and Cheap Sugar Mill Apiary, or Bee-House of Mr. LaTaste. Col. Wright’* Letter. The letter of Col. Wkight, of Newnan, which we publish this morning, will attract, as it deserves, very general attention. Like thousands of other good and patriotic men in Georgia, he was deceived by the false promises of the Democracy, and induced to support Mr. Buchanan. And now, seeing the error which ho committed, like a patriot who prefers his country to party or success, he takes the earliest opportunity to retrace his steps, and to announce his opposition to an Administration which he aided in elevating into place and power. We feel confi dent there are thousands of other good and true men in Georgia, who will follow the excellent exam pie of Mr. W rioht. They too have been deceived and betrayed, by the ti ickstera and demagogues, who were, and are, willing to sacrifice the institu tions and interests of the South in the territories; aud it behooves them as good and patriotic South ern men, to repudiate an alliance whioh is fraught with so much evil. If they continue to support Buchanan, now that he has developed his policy for making Kansas a free State, they must necessa rily stand shoulder to shoulder with the Black Re publicans and Freesoiiers of the North, who approve and endorse that polity, as developed through Gov. Walkek, which Mr. Buchanan instructed to be pursued, and now that it has been done, approves and endorses. There is no escaping from an affilia tion with Black Republicans and Freesoiiers, if you sustain Buchanan’s Kansas policy; and whoever votes for Brou n, or the Democratic candidates for Congress, aids in sustaining that policy; because, if they triumph it will be a triumph of Buchanan and his Freesoil policy. This no candid man will deny. A Secret Democratic Council* Yesterday’s mail, from the interior, brought us the following communication, from a highly respec table and reliable gentleman—who speaks by the card , and what he knows: “ Secret Counell.” Mr. Editor :—On the Wednesday night of Com mencement at Athena recently, the Democracy held a secret meeting or con licit, at a private house, and then and there was Judge Brou n. Now, I should very much like to know if secret midnight councils have become the feature of the Bogus Democracy? At this meeting it was determined that Judge Brown should keep mum on the important questions of the day—that he should blow Dot and cold with the same breath, as, he feelingly told them on that oc casion—a free, open, bold course would defeat him, no matter which side he took—whether for or against the administration I!! Are the people of Georgia so demented as to elect such a man to office ? Are tliey so lost to reaeon as to blindly Bupport a tool, who, (or office and for par///, has ueither the manli ness or courage to avow unequivocally his fixed po sition ? We hope not —we cannot think so ! We charge this secret midnight council with having done this, and we defy the whole party to disprove a word!! This certainly exposes a nice little game of the Buchanan and Walker supporters in Georgia. Will not these facts, (tor they are facts, which no man who was present, not even Mr. Brown, will pretend to deny) open the eyes of the people of the South, to the character of the fraud which these demagogues and tricksters are about to play upon them ? We should think they ought to arousethem, but we may be deceived in our impressions, and the people may repose upon their unfaithful leaders, until all their rights are swallowed up by the Bu chanan policy for making Kansas a free State. In addition to the statement of our own corres pondent, we find the following notice of the same “secret meeting” in the Atlanta American: The Programme oy the Buchanan Partt.— We have reliable information to the effect, that, at the “ Secret Council," held at a private house in Athens on the Wednesday night of commencement, of the leaders of Democracy at that time in that city. Judge Brown being present, it was determin ed that Judge Brown should decline to take position tither in favor of or condemnatoi y of the adminis Italian in regard to the Kansas embroglio, until af ter the election ! He is to go on as he has done—nos committal—for tho purpose of hoodwinking the people of Georgia, and thus secure, if possible, his election—based, as it will be, upon deception, should he pursue the course marked out for him. It is dis graceful in any party that requires a candidate to act so—audit is equally so to any man who will suf fer himself to be thus shackled—thus emasculated! We are well aware that a bold avowal on the part of Joseph Brown would—as be very properly says —“defeat him.'' Wdl not his present course effect the same object ? We think so, and we hope so. A Mum Candidate should stay at home and not go around a State like Georgia with nothing new to sa y—without a single ] rinciple to elucidate, and in continued fear and dread, that he may be found out as a candidate endeavci ing to be “all things to all men.’’ In no one place that he has yet addressed an audience have we been able to Bee, or learn, that he is anything more than a partisan, whose only ob ject is the aggrandizement of his party and himself ignoring in toto, or, consuming with silly words the important questions of the day, aud retailing the slanders of hi® predecessors against the Know Noth ings. This course may be an evidence of the pru dence of "The Party,’' but there are times when the exercise of that virtue is not only in bad taste, but decidedly hurtful. Is not, or rather, should not this be one of those occasions ? Will not the people of Georgias o decide on the Ist Tuesday in October! Inquests. —Ad Inquest was held on Tuesday, by Lewis Levy, Esq., on the body of Dennis McCar thy, a waiter, who died suddenly at the Augusta Hotel The verdict of the Jury was “died of Apoplexy.” Another was held yesterday on the body of Peter Mara, a laborer, who died the night previous. The Jury rendered a verdict of “ died of Sun Stroke. Accident to Hon. Liston Stephens. —The At lanta Intelligencer, ofTuesday morning says : We are pained to learn that this gentleman, while re turning, last week, from the Funeral of his sister, in Talbot county, to his home in Sparta, met with a most serious accident. Our informant states that he was traveling in the stage from Milledgeville, when it was over turned, and that one of his legs was broken, and the knee pan badly injured, and several bruises indicted on his head. W e sincerely hope that the accident may not prove as serious as at first supposed, and that he may soon recover. Dreadful Accident.— A young man named George Parnell, while at work on the Court House in Thomasville, Ga., fell from the third story of the buildiDg, and was taken up dreadfully man gled. His recovery is doubtful. Sad Casualtt. —A son of Mr. Thomas Boyne. of Columbia, S. C., was drowned on Tuesday last, w*hile bathing with his companions in a hole filled with water, near the Greenville Railroad depot. New Paper in New Orleans.—A new weekly paper, to be called Young’t Spirit of the South, is about to be started in New Orleans. It will be modeled after Porter’t SpirU of the Timet, both typographically and otherwise, and will earnestly advocate the cause of Gen. Walker and Nicaragua. Sunday was the 80th anniversary of the battle of Bennington—an occasion on which “Molly Stark’’ was not made a widow. Vr Brown Wont f>i*<*o**# Vt L find in the LaGrange “ Reporter, ’ tii£ follow* ing Notice, which seems to indicate, that Mi. Brown’s efforts upon the stamp, when face to faua with his opponent, have not made so favorable hh impression upon himself, as h ? s too partial reporters would make the people believe. They made a most dee. perate effort to trumpet his “triumphal” but it is ve ry clear that they failed to convince Mr. Brown of them. However they might laud his efforts, he could not be persuaded that he had ever gained a triumph. He has, therefore, concluded, “to give it up so Mr. Brows,” and leave a contest in which there are more cuffs thftn laurels to be gained, to some more desperate knight. He bids farewell — a long farewell to all the honors to be galnecnn such a conflict Mr. Brown will not Canvass the State with Mr. Hill. —At the Carrollton and Franklin discus sions between the Gubernatorial candidates, Mr. Hill made a proposition for himself and Mr. Brown to canvass the State together. At the time Mr. Browu could not enter into such an agreement, and en deavored to evade an answer. But Mr. Hill press ing the proposition, Mr. Browu finally informed him that he would have to consult his friends before he could agree to do %t ; and that he would give Mr. Hill an answer at their discussion at Athens on the Bth instant. They met. and Mr. Hill renewed the proposition, and he would not canvass Ike State tn company with him ! Mr. B. said he expected to invite Mr. 11. to some of his meetings, and unless he did do so, he de sired Mr. H. to distinctly understand that he did not want his presence. Mr. H. then invited Mr. B. to all his meetings throughout the campaign , and said he would alternate all the time. Firet Dlfltrlct—A. 11. H. Daw*an*« With drawal. It will be seen by the following article from the Savannah Republican , that A. H. H. Dawson, Esq., has withdrawn his name as an independent candidate for Congress, in the Ist Congressional District. This leaves the field to the two Demo cratic candidates, and whoever may be put forward by the Americau party. We are rejoiced at this result, and trust now, our friends in the first dis trict will move on harmoniously. The indications are that Mr. Bartow will be the candidate, if he will consent to run : Withdrawal of Mr. Dawson. —We are grati fied to be able to state that Mr. Dawson, impelled by a desire for the harmony and success of his par ty in the coming election, has withdrawn his name from the list of congressional candidates in this Dis trict. His letter will appear in one of the city ga zettes this morning. This decision, on his part, ife alike creditable to himself and an act of becoming respect and courtesy to the people. We trust that whatever division or unpleasantness may have ex isted between those who differed in their prefer ences for men may now be buried with the past, and that all our American friends will work harmo niously together to redeem and elevate the District. There is no one now spoken of by tho opposition for Representative in Congress, but our own distin guished citizen, the Hon. Francis S. Bartow. He is the man for the place and for the times—one whom all respect and admire; in whose talents and patriotism all can confide. There has been a gen eral up rising of the people all over the district, in his behalf, —men of all parties uniting to do honor to the man and the patriot. It but remans for Chatham, who, with a becoming modesty, has re mained silent hitherto, now to come forward and affix the cap-stone to the public endorsement. Let it be done speedily and enthusiastically. Let all his friends, ot whatever name, meet, mingle togeth er, and fling nis banner to the breeze. We hope some action may be taken in the premises forthwith, and that his friends will issue a call for a meeting before the close of the week. Wild Cnt Financiers in Limbo. The private banking house of Messrs. Coateß, Dyeenfurth & Co., or lately Coates &. Bros., of Chi cago, 111., has closed its doors. The bank has been extremely hard up for sometime back, being in fact unable to pay the checks of its depositors upon it on presentation. These Wild Cat Financiers are, or were the prin cipal stockholders in the Wild Cat “Bank of Greens boro’,” in this State. It was, however, never able to get any circulation in this State, and our people will escape unharmed. How the people of Illinois and the Northwest will fare, we cannot conjecture. We should imagine, however, that they are, ere this, getting rather sick of Georgia Wild Cat cur rency. It is a source of sincere gratification to us, that thus far, we have almost entirely saved the people of Georgia harmless against these swindling shops. They have thus been protected against a robbery of probably of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars. We are aware, that tho Wild Cat Financiers curse us most cordia and heartily, because we would not permit them to rob the people, but we care nothing for that. Their curses we regard as the highest praise that could be bestowed on our course, and the best possible evidence that we have per formed well our duty as a journalist. A Slow Candidate.— The Sparta Georgian says:—A sensible democrat, informed a friend of ousr, that he was present at the Newnan debate, between Messrs. Hill and Brown ; and in refering to Judge Brown’s retort about his making a slow Governor, he stated that Brown was entirely too slow for Hill, and that it would be rnnch better for his cause to go home and make no more speechs than to attempt to meet Hill on the stump. We believe this is getting to be the sentiment of the people generally from the accounts we read of their debates. What ever else Judge Brown may be, and we would not detract from him, he has not yet proved himself to be a stump orator. Look Out for Him!—A correspondent of the Dispatch , of this city, writing from Madison, under date of August 20th, says : A “confidence man” hailing from Augusta, call ing himself A. Tant, took in a worthy mechanic of onr town to day, to the amount of sl<, very coolly. He represented that he was a Printer, and expected to work in the place, had bargained for a house, &c. In the course of the chat, lie wanted to get a S2O bill changed. His victim had only sl7 about him at the time, when he cooly asked the use of it for a few hours, at which time he would return it. He bought a ticket for Athens, I understand, and has not written to any of his friends here sinoe. If you see him, tell him that Mr. Gleason is waiting very patiently for his return. Fire at Clarkebville, Va. —Half the Town Destroyed. —A fire broke out in Clarkesville, Meck lenberg county, Va., about 2 o’clock Wednesday morning, which destroyed a large portion of the town. New Line of Mexican Steamers. —The latest Mexican papers contain authoritative statements that the Government has contracted with Senor Domingo Goicuria for the establishment of a line of steamers between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, touching at Tampico. Gen. Goicuria is now on his way to New York for the puipose of perfecting his arrangements’already in an advanced state of pro gress, and we learn that the middle or latter part of next menth has been fixed upon for tho commence ment of the trip. The Mexican Government has granted aid to the undertaking. In connection with the above, the Heraldo a Mexican paper, has the following equally authorita tive announcement: We are assured that the Supreme Government has contracted with Senor Domingo Goicuria for the introduction of colonist within the Republic (what number is not stated, and land given them their pas sage to the country to be paid for them upon which to work. These colonists are only to stand pledged to re turn the price of the passage, after a sufficient length of time, as well as the rent or value of the laud, as may seen to them best. In view of the activity and character of Gen. Goicura, we entertain the hope that we shall, ere long, receive from him a large number of useful colonists. Post Master Shot—Supposed Murderer Es caped.—From Mr. Edward McElligatt, of Haro, den’s Express, says the Savannah Morning News, we learn that the poet master named Johnson, at Howard 's station, Taylor county, on the Muscogee railroad, was shot on Sunday night last by an over seer on the railroad named Rock. The latter had esoaped, and up to the time of our informant’s pas; sing over the line had not been arrested. It appears that on Sunday afternoon Johnson and Rock had been drinking pretty freely together, and had had some difficulty arising from dispute, Ac.— In the night Johnson while going home was shot, and his body was found next morning. Rock, in whose company he had been seen carousing and quarrelling, could not be found. Other circumstan tial evidences lead to the belief that Rock had wil fully shot him. The matter creates much excitement ia and about the county. Railroad Decision. —lt was recently decided in Buffalo, before Justice Davis, that railroad com panies are bound to keep ticket offices open at places where they are established, one hour before the departure of passenger trains ; and a passenger who had paid five cents extra in the cars, not hav ing a ticket, and the ticket office not haviDg been open to enable him to purchase one, recovered the five cents and fifty dollars in addition. The island of F emando Po, which has recently changed from Spanish to British rule, is situated on the West African coast, a few miles off the mouth of the river Niger. It has a surface of about one thousand square miles, and an estimated population of fifteen thousand souls. It is noted for its salu brity for weites. The intention of the British go vernment is to establish there a commercial depot for its explorations of the Niger, and for the pur poses of trade on that great natural highway of Africa. The St. Louis Republican chronicles the arrival at Jefferson Barracks of two companies of the 10th regiment of infantry, and adds that they are des tined for Utah, but it is doubtful whether they leave Fort Leavenworth before next spring. The Collins steamship Baltic, which was to have left New York for Liverpool at noon qn Saturday, got aground in the North river and was detained until Monday afternoon. Fatal Affray.— We understand, says the Co lumbus Sun, that an affray occurred at Howard's Station, about 40 miles east of Columbus, on the Muscogee Railroad, on Sunday last, between a man named Robinson and D. P. Bates, in which the lat ter was killed by a gun or pistol shot. It appears that a previous difference existed between the par ties, and that Robinson bad threatened the life of Bates. They met on Sunday, and Bates fired at Robinson without effect, wben Robinson returned the fire, killing Bates, or so wounding him that he died in a short time. Robinson made his escape. Death from Hydrophobia. —On Tuesday eve ning last, Mr. G. W. Stone, of West Dedham, Mass., died from the effects of hydrophobia. He was bit ten on the thumb by a dog in Mill illage, on the 3d day of July last. The dog was not supposed to be rabid at the time. The boundary dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua has been settled. The boundary is to run from Castillo,on the San Juan River, to the Bay of Saiinas, on the Pacific coast, giving to Costa Rica all the south bank of the San Juan from Castillo to San Jnan del Norte, including Punta Arenas, where are all the buildings of the Transit Company. Forts San Carlos and Castiile Viejo have been restored to Nicaragua. Costa Rica, it is said, is desirous of throwing open the transit through her territory to the whole world, provided the United States or any other great power guarantees the sovereignty of the territory through which the transit runs. Atlanta &' I.nlirnn*r Mnllrdni!. From the Annual Report of the Directors of this Road, we learn that its affairs are iu a most pros perous condition. The capital stock of tho Compa ny has been increased to $1,000,000, and is worth a considerable premium in market. Tne receipts of the Road during the year ending June 10th, have been: From Passengers $171,694 85 44 Freight - 125,531 70 “ Mails 20,543 76 . $317,770 31 The expenditures have been— For Conducting Transportation. $36,941 54 “ Motive Power 40,972 56 “ Maintenance of Way 40,615 59 “ Maintenance of Cars 7,345 c 3 Leaving a net profit of $191,892 80 The gross profits have increased,over those of last year, from the Road operations, $39,646.87, whilst the net increase, including interest account, is $24,828.99. The road, engines and cats are all in excellent condition. New brick depots have been built at Palmetto and Grantville, and a new one will also be built at Fairburn during the ensuing year. A large passenger house at West Point is in rapid course of erection. It is two hundred by seventy-five feet, has four tracks passing through it, aud will be a handsome and commodious building. But one seri ous accident has occurred, caused by the breaking of an axle in a freight train, the train hand, a negro’ was killed. Mount Vernon. Tu« President of Mount Vernon Committee, ac knowledges the receipt of the following sums ; Mias Martha E. Verdel, Elbert county, $2.00; Mrs. Wm. P. Carmichael. $1.00; Master J. Elliott Carmichael, 50c.; Miss Mary Eve Carmichael, 50c.; Mrs. Dr. Wm. Ellis, Oglethorpe, Macon coun ty, $5.00. We feel encouraged by every new con tributor, though sometimes we almost feel like de spairing, it seems so difficult to awaken any interest in the subject. We would again suggest that those who have not paid their subscriptions will send them in, as we feel anxious to transmit the money to the Southern Matron. Mr. Peabody’s Departure. —Mr. Peabody ex pected to sail for Europe in the steamer Persia on Wednesday, the 19th inst. The Salem Register gives the following account of the labor accomplished by -Mr. Peabody since he arrived in this country, about a year since: “He has travelled more than 13,000 miles, or more than one-half the circumference of the globe ; visi ted twenty-six States of the Union, and the Cana das ; watched closely the business interests aud material resources of the country ; conducted gigan tic monetary operations, and founded benevolent and literary institutions. He has made more new friends aud met more old ones perhaps, than any other pri vate individual iu tho same time ; conducted a cor respondence almost fabulous in extent; been confin ed for weeks by painful illness, and yet has found time for the indulgence Oi all the b aud courteslies of social life by which the hearts ot all have been won. Arid inure than this, he has delighted in the mil t and domestic virtues, and in manifestations of endearing attachment to kindred and home.” Stoppage of Cotton Mills. —Tho Providence Journal says:—The number of cotton looms that have stopped in New England, in consequence of the high price of cotton and low price of goods, is about 6000, and orders have been given to stop many more as fast as the yarn runs out. We heard lately of two large mills that will run only till the cotton now in process of manufacture is exhausted. This is the only remedy. We talk of the short sup ply of cotton. The evil is not there; it is the over supply of cotton machinery. Tho looms now in operation are not only too many for the supply of cotton; they are too many for the demand for cotton goods at anything like the prices which alone, at the present cost of the raw material, can return a new dollar for an old one. In England, thirty thou sand looms have been stopped, and prices have quickly responded to this judicious curtailment of production. The Price of Teas. —Caution to Speculators — The New York Journal of Commerce gives the reason for the advance in tea, but cautions specula tors against raising I their expectations too high. Not only is there a chance of a cessation of hostili ties, in which case there would be a grand collapse in price, but the tendency of high rates is always to diminish consumption. We quote:— “Apart from the actual decrease in the use, the falling off in demand from dealers if prices are exor bitantly high, will soon tell upon the market. If every distributor of tea throughout the country were to purchase supplies at very short intervals, leaving tne burden of carrying the stock upon speculators who now control it, the effect would be almost as severe upon the market as if the consump tion were actually to decrease. While, therefore, consumers must make up their minds to pay higher prices this year than last, we cannot believe that the holders will find it safe to crowd the advance to the rates many oi them are confidently anticipat ing. We may state, in conclusion, that regular im porters are said to have cleared off their surplus, so that the accumulation not yet passed into the chan nels of distribution, is chiefly in tho hands sos specu lators, many of whom would realize a handsome profit at rates now current.” Men MiLLfNERS.-They have men milliners in Ger many. A correspondent of the New York Times’ in writing from Frankfort, says :—ln America we have never seen men mantua-makers and milliners, but in Germany they are as common as men tailors. One clay, where we wero sitting, a man came in with a dress, basted, ready to try on. Well, we confess, we looked with all our eyes, what would be done; but there was no hesitation—a lady took tho robe to her room, and put it on, returning in full dress, sans sleeves. The man examined it, to see where it needed altering—took it in on the shoulders, piuched up the biasses, and laid the plaits, evident ly used to his business, and evidently, as the lady said he was, an excellent dress maker, and also that dresses made by men, kept their place better, and laeted longer than those made by women. Censorship of the India Press. —No one item of intelligence shows the bad condition of things in India so forcibly as the statement that the entire press of the country has been put under the ban of cen sorship. The telegraphio announcement was so brief and strange that no comments were made up on it in England. The latest India correspondence of the Times, however, thus gives the information: “The whole press of India has been placed by an act that has recently passed the Legislative Coun cil under a censorship—a step imperatively called for by the indecent and disloyal manifestations of joy at our difficultieswhich appeared in some of the native prints at Calcutta. Here there lias been, to my knowledge, only one instance of the kind, and the writer, a scoundrel of a Parsee, received such a rating from our superintendent of police—an iron functionary equal to the occasion—that lie is not likely to offend again.’’ Post Office Robbery in Clevzland. —The publishing house of the German Evangelical Asso ciation in Cleveland has long suffered from the loss of money letters. At least ninety, containing vari ous sums from three to thirty dollars each, have failed to come to hand within a few months. By the skill of Mr. N. A. Gray, assistant postmaster, the thiet was at last found to be a lad of sixteen, named Atkinson, the son of respectable parents. On his arrest last Thursday he acknowledged his guilt aud implicated a son of Rev. Mr. Hammer, agent of the publishing association, who have divided the stolen monies with him, and enabled him to obtain a du plicate of the key of the drawer at the post office from which the letteis were stolen. The Population of Prussia. —The statistical tablei of the population of the Prussian monarchy down to the end of the year 1855, have been pub lished. They give the amount of the civil inhabi tants of all ages at 16,991,100, including the Hohen zollern Principalities; and the military, including wives, children, servants, invalids aDd persons of all kinds and descriptions immediately connected with the army, at 211,731; or a total of 17,203,831 souls. Os the civilians, 4,760,728 inhabit towns, and 12,- 230,372 the rural hamlets and districts. Everett on Mount Washington. —Edward Everett thus describes a view of Mount Washing ton, the loftiest peak of the White mountains, in New Uampshire : “I have been something of a traveller in our own country—though far less than I could wish. And in Europe have seen all that is most attractive, from the Highlands of Scotland to the Golden Horn of Constantinople—from the summit of the Gartz Mountain to the Fountain of Vaucluse—but my eye has yet to rest on a lovelier .scene than that which ia discovered from Ml. Washington, when on some clear, cool summer’s morning, at sunrise, the cloud curtain is drawn up from nature’s grand proscenium and all that chaos of wildness and beauty starts in to life—the bare, the gigantic tops of the surround ing heights—the precipitous gorges a thousand fathoms deep, which foot of man or ray of light never entered—the sombre matted forest—the moss clad rocky wall, gushing with crystal springe—winding streams, glittering lakes and peaceful villages below —and in the dim, misty distance, beyond the lower hills, faint glimpße of the sacred bosom of the eter nel deep, ever heaving up with the consciousness of its own immensity—all mingled in one indescribable panorama by the hand of the Divine Artist.“ The first bale of new Cotton in Savannah, was sold on Thursday, by Messrs. Tison St Gordon. It was classed as middling, and was bought by Mr. J. M. Eyre at 17 J cents. The Mission to St. Petersburg.— Washington letter writers state that the warm contest between the Hon. Henry May and James M. Buchanan, of Baltimore, has resulted in the triumph of the latte -, who is tendered the mission to St. Petersburg. A New Railroad. —We learn from the Thomas ville Watchman that a new company has been orga nized for the construction of the Georgia and Flori da Railroad from Albany to Thomasville. It is proposed to run the road direct from the east bank of the Flint opposite Albany, to a point on Barrett's Creek half way from Thomasville to Bainbridge with a branch to each place. The subscription books were opened and some stock subscribed. Death of Prince Charles Bonaparte.—A-let ter dated Paris, July 30tb, says:—“Prince Charles Bonaparte, Prince of Canine, oldest son of Prince Lncien, brother of the first Napoleon, died yeeter day at his residence in the Rue de Lille, in Paris, at the age of 53, having been born in 1803.” Remedy for Snake Bites. —A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer says, that while travelling in lowa, a favorite dog was bitten by a rattlesnake.— In the course of five minutes he could not travel.— Some vinegar, mixed with gimpowder, was applied to the wound, and the swelling was stopped, and in a quarter of an hour he was able to proceed. Another Transit Route. —The Mexican pa pers announce that arrangements are in an advance state of progress, and will be completed the present month of August, for the establishment of regular horse and mule trains between the city of Mexico and Acapulco, on the Pacific, to run in connection with the California steamers. Railroad Convention. —A Railroad Convention is to be holden in New York on the Ist of September next, for the pui poee of discussing all matters rela tive to reducing the expenses of Railroads, and if advisable to arrange a national trial of railway ma cbinary to occur about Nevember. Godey’s Ladt’s Book for September has been received, and laid on our table by Mr Oates. — “Heel and Toe” is the engraving in this number. For eale by Gio. A. Oates & Bro. •Itw*t W. !!• rn<!mioo<l Oanrif* A friend writing us from Ailania, informs Us that Jno. W. H. Underwood, made # a speec h iu that. city on the 19th inst., in which he (Underwood) said: ‘‘The Editor of the Chronicle 4*. bad said, he desired to see Kansas come into the Union as a free State!” . " Possibly, 6ome<of those who heard this assertion, may be surprised to learn, that there is not a word of truth in the statement, and that it is cuT out of whole cloth by Mr. Underwood. We never utter ed such a seutiinent, or anything like it. So far from it, we denounced the Kansas bill the moment we read it, because we believed, under the opera tions of the squatter sovereignty and alien suffrage features of that bill, Kansas would be a free State! In fact, we never entertained a doubt on the sub ject ; and we so proclaimed, while the demagogues and leaders of the Southern Democracy, who were always ready to sacrifice the South for the spoils, were loud in their praises of that bill, and persua ded the people it was “a measure of deliverance ” to the South ! It has, aud will, if followed as a prece dent, deliver the South of every foot of territory iu the Uuion. The Kansas Bill makers are Responsible. The Hon. J. A. Woodward, of Ala., formerly a member of Congress from South Carolina, was re cently Informed by a friend, that it was reported, that “ho (Woodward) had approved the course ot Walker.’’ To which Mr. Woodward replied: “All he had said on the subject was, the “ bill-ma kers" bad no right to complain of Walker lhey made Uu’ bill uuth a design to make a free. State of Kansas, and Walker seas only carrying out thru inh niton. He thought the South was swindled and outraged, and had just ground of complaint, bat the bill-makers had none.’’ Who are the “bill makers ?” Have the people of Georgia any idea who they are ? Do they know the men who falsely represented the principles of the Kansas bill as identical with the Compromise bill of 1850, and by this misrepresentation induced them to approve it? If they do let them mark the men as unworthy to be trusted again. The “ Old Plowman ” Speak*. The Griffin Union contains the following charac teristic communication from tho Rev. William Moseley, who, like thousands of good aud true men iu Georgia, had been seduced into the support of Buchanan : Griffin, 14th August, 1857. Fellow-Citizens .—ln 1850 and ’sl I discovered that the old issues which distinguished the Whig and Democratic parties wero at an end, and accepted the Compromise measures as a final settlement of the vexed question, and a virtual repeal of the Mis souri restriction. And as the Kansas and Nebraska Act was the actual repeal of the Missouri restriction, a:nd promised equal rights to the South, and as 1 be lieved the old line Whigs of the North had nearly all forsaken the South, and refused them equal rights iu the Territories, and were, almost to a man, Abolitionized, or Freesoilers, while the most of the Democrats stuck to us, and finding the party hold ing the fundamental doctrines of the old State Rights Party of 18133, of which I was a member, I united with the Democratic party upon those principles, and the Kansas Nebraska Act, and Mr. Buchanan being the candidate, and pledged to car ry them cut, I entered heartily into his support, lent my humble aid, and was much gratified at his ele vation, and while I say I still hold the same princi ciples, I am deeply mortified to find that Mr. Buch anan continues It. J. Walker as Governor of Kan sas, who, I believe, has violated the letter and spirit of the law. The President was pledged to c arry out, in his letter of acceptance, his inaugural ad dress, and oath of office, the Kansas Act. He lias thus far failed to do it, aud now I ask, How can I, as a consistent Southern man, blame Walker and acquit the President, while he Buffers Walker to re main as Governor of Kausas ? I cannot—l will not —act so inconsistent. I consider Kansas forever lost to the South, and if we wink at. this act, all the rest of the Territories. As such I cannot, as a con sistent man, support those who tolerate the course of Walker and the President. If the President is opposed to Walker’s course, as evidence of the fact let him recall Walker, and although much injury has been done, I will hope for the best; but if he does not, I will denounce him forever, as I have, and do, much of the doctrine of the Kuow-Nothiuga I am twenty-one years of age, and as suoh apeak plain and independent. I turn from Federal to State politics. I will vote foi no man in favor of taking money Irom the pock ets of the people to build Railroads, or that is op posed to selling, for a valuable consideration, the State road, or that is opposed to capital punish ment, and by pardoning or otherwise, turning loose upon an unoffending community, the assassin and the cut throa*. who has been legally condemned un der the law of the land ; nor will I vote, if I know it, for any man that, when a candidate, treats, or causes it to be done, with the view of securing his election; nor for any man brought out as a candi date through the management of a clique , and not the deliberate expression of the people. And now, as I do not fall out with principles, in consequence of the act of some of the party, and feeling able to give good reasons for what I here say, aud standing firmly upon the Georgia plat form, and Democratic principles, the Kansas Ne braska act included, and feeling a clear conscience, having dene the best I could for Spalding and the State, and being willing to work, whether able or not, I bid defiance to lazy drones, demagogues, 44 croakers, factionists rnd malcontents.” Yours respectfully, William Mosei.by. Wholesale Grocers. The attention of dealers, is invited to the adver tisement of Hand, Williams A Graves, Whole sale Grocers, in this city. They have just opened a new and very extensive stock of Groceries in this city where they have been long and very favorably known. Burglary. —The Columbus Sun of Thursday morning says On Tuesday night a most daring burglary was committed in our city, by persons as yet unknown. The Book store of Messrs. Chaflin <k Johnson, on Broad street, was entered through a back-door of the store, by first cutting off, with a cold chisel, the head of a small bolt, which held the bar that fastened the door, which let them into the back-room, where their further progress was stop ped by the door which separated the back from the front room. This they speedily opened by prizing off the facing, upon which the catch of the lock was fastened. This opened,fthey found their way to the iron safe, which they opened by means of intro ducing powder into the key-hole, and blowing off the lock. In the safe were about two hundred dol lars in coin, mostly foreign, being a collection of the ooin of all nations, which a gentleman had been collecting for seme time, and which he had deposit ed in the safe for safe keeping. One coin was a five franc piece with the head of Napoleon 111 upon it, and as such coin is rare in this part oi the coun try, it may lead to the detection of the burglar.— The safe also contained a box in which were a num ber ot watches, about sixty, belonging to the cus tomers of Mr. Hungerford, who has a shop in the front, part of the store, for repairing watches and jewelry, all of which they took, together with a lot of jewelry from the show case of Messrs. Chaffin & Johnson, among which were a number of fine gold pens and pencils with extension cases. Col. Gartrell on the Back Track! —We learn, says the Atlanta American, from a gentleman who heard his speech, on Monday last, at Stone Mountain, that Col. Gartrell took strong and decid ed grounds in favor of President Buchanan—declar ing it to be his purpose to support the Administra tion whether Walker is recalled or retained In his position as Governor of Kansas. The Colonel, we understand, also expressed great solicitude lest the great National Walker-Buchanan- Democratic pnrty would split before he reached the haven of his ambi tion—a seat in Congress ; and lustily exhorted all good Democrats of the Fourth District to stand by “the party’’ this time, no matter what broke loose elsewhere! From our previous knowledge of the Colonel’s vain boast, that he would beat Tidwell at least two thousand votes, we did not expect bo soon to hear that hi 3 courage was on the wane. Wheat. —The Marysville East Tennesseean, of the 14th, says :—The price of wheat is on the de cline, a«d we are not surprised. We never have seen or heard tell of as much wheat being raised in this part of the country. From twenty to thirty wagon loads per day have been deposited at one mill in this place during this week, and a large quan tity going to Louisville. The depots on the Railroad are crowded, the ears not being able to ship it as fast as it is deposited. The Cotton Ttade or the United States. — The following facte and figures in relation to the cotton trade of the United States, tell the whole story in a brief and comprehensive form : COTTON EXPORT—IN WEIGHT. Treasury year. Treasury year. 1856. 1855. Gulf and Up1and..1,325,837,251 995,366,011 Sea Island 12,727,225 13,058,590 Total pounds 1,338,634,476 1,008,424,601 Total bales 2,991,175 2,303,403 COTTON EXPORT—IN VALUE. Total value. Average per lb. 1856 $128,382,351 9.49 1855 88,143,844 8.74 Increase $111,238,507 0.75 The total crop of the United States and the ex port in bales were : Crop in bales. Ex. inhales. Ex. in value. 1856 3,527,845 2,991,175 $128,382,351.00 1855 2,847,339 2,303,403 88,143,814.00 Value of whole crop this year $151,416,432.00 Value “ “ last year 110,476,703 01) Average per bale in 1856 42 92 Average “ 1855 38.80 Wrought Iron Cars. —The Hudson River Railroad Company have ordered four of these to be made and used on their road byway of trial. The frame work is to be a very strong, yet elastic bas ket, each joint being protected by rivets, and the whole further protected by making the entire plat form at each end one strong spring of steel. Cars thus made will be lighter it is said than woodon ones, yet so safe that a fatal accident with, them is a thing hardly possible, as they will spring, bend, or twist, but remain whole as a shield to uheir occu pants, no power being able to break them into frag ments or splinters. “Fillmore Floored Again.” —Under this cap tion, a correspondent of a Northern exchange, in giving an account of the crowd at the recent “meet ing of ths American Association for the advance ment of Science,” held at Montreal, and of which Mr. Fillmore was a member, says: “There, almost the same time as myself, Mr. Ex- President Fillmore entered. He slept on the floor, last night, at the Donegana, if popular rumor be true —none of his countrymen being sufficiently magnanimous to “turn out” for his accommodation. What a difference between an American Ex-Presi dent and a European Potentate!” American Nominations. —The Americans of Tay or county have nominated Andrew McCants for the Senate and Wm. Greer for the House of Represen tatives. Robert J. Hill has been nominated for the Senate, and Geo. R. Harper and Kobt. T. Hames for the House, by the American party of Sumter. Appointment. —Mr. YVilliam G. Woodlin, former ly of Richmond, has been elected to the Sanders Professorship in Mercer University. This chair is devoted to Roman Literature and Modem Lan guages. Worthless Rags. —The Indianapolis Journal of Thursday warns the public against the issue of a new shinplaster banking concern at Gosport, hid. called the “Citizens’ Bank.” The Journal says “it ia a stranger to the Auditor of State, and the bill holders have no protection in the redemption of its notes.” Tin* AltaMlc Tcirtcrnpfi* Tlio four vessels comprising the Atlantia T«lc graph Kxpeditinn letl Queenstown at six o'clock Monday evening, of the 3d of August, and were ex pected to reach Valentin Bay in season to commence operations on the following morning. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland had arrived at the starting point of the telegraph, in order to witness the pro ceedings. A letter in the London Times, dated Queenstown, July 30, says: Tne entire squadron, consisting of five magnifi cent ships cf war, now about to proceed to the con summation of this great enterprise arc at, tins time anchored in the harbor of Queenstown. They con sist of the Niagara, Capt. Hudson; the Susquehan na, Capt. Joshua Sands; the Agamemnon, Master Commander Neddall; the Cyclogs, Capt. Dayman and the Leopard, Capt. Wainright. The Agamemnon arrived this morning only, hav ing been engaged during the trip from Greenwich in the very valuable service of testing practically the form and suitability of the machinery to be used for paying out the cable. Mr. C. T. Bright, engineer in-chief to the Atlantic Telegraph Co., having joined her at that place she bore away for the Irish coast, at 3 \ o’clock, on Mon day morning. To Mr. Bright is committed the entire control and responsibility of depositing safely in its ocean bed th’s wondrous example of the united power of sci ence and industry. During the progress of the Agamemnon to the Downs, the mechanical appliances for regulating the delivery of the cable into the sea were kept con tinually iu motion by the small engine on board which is connected with them; the sheaves and gearing worked with great facility and decision and so quietly that at a short distance from them their motion could scarcely be heard. The strength of the gii dens which carry the bear ing of the entire apparatus and which to the eye of a person unskilled in the practical working of this description of machinery may seem at first to be unduly ponderous was found to contribute greatly to the easy motion and satisfactory steadiness of this most important agent iu the success of the undei taking. So soon as the Agamemnon lmd passed the track oft he Submarine Compauy’s cable between Dover and Calais, in order to avoid the possibility of its being injured by the laying or hauling up of an other lino at right angles to it, the experiments commenced. A 13-inch shell was attached to the end of a spare coil of the Atlantic cable, for the pur pose of sinking it rapidly with a strain upon it to the bottom, and was then cast into the sea, draw ing after it a sufficient quantity of slack to enable it to take hold of the slack, and so set the machinery iu motion. The paying out then commenced at‘the rate of two, three and four knots an hour respectively. The ship was stopped, and the cable was hauled up from the bottom of the sea with great facility by connecting the small engine to the driving pinion geared to the sheaves. When the end was brought up to the suface,it was found that the shell had broken away from the loop by which it had been fastened for the purpose of lowering it. The cable, when recovered, was found to have been cleaned as bright as the specimens which have been so freely distributed among tin* friends of the enterprise, and which are so generally known. The exterior coating of tai had been completely rubbed off by being drawn through the sandy bot tom of the sea, and attached to the iron coating of the cable were some weeds and several small crabs which came up w ith it. to the surface. On tho following day a length of cable was run out and hauled in with perfect success, opposite the Isle of Wight, attached to an anchor. The speed was increased, iu this case, to five knots. During the afternoon of the same day, a length was run out, having fastened to the end of it a log of timber, and after having been towed with a mile and a half of cable, was coiled in again with suc cess. On Wednesday, about half way between the Land’s End and the Coast of Ireland, another length was run out, at the rate of six and a half knots per hour, and subsequently hauled in. The Agamem non then steered for Cork, and reached Queenstown Harbor at 4 o’clock on Thursday moling, all on board being more than ever satisfied at the success of the enterprise. Capt. Hudson, of the Niagara, writestoWasliing that it was expected the paying out of the cable would commence on the 3d met., and adds : ‘‘lt will be a most singular coincidence, asColum bus left port on his voyage of discovery to our Western world, ou the .‘ld day of August, just 31i5 years ago.” Extraordinary Freaks of a Lunatic. —A young man in Mercer county, Pa., named Davis has for some time manifested symptoms of insanity The Pittsburg Despatch says: He imagines himself to be a second Dan It ice, engaged in getting up a circus. On the Bth inst., he caught a snake, which lib took to Hell’s school house, in the neighborhood, where he says he had a grand performance ; after getting through which lie swept the house, and broke all the windows with the broomstick. He then proceeded to the resi dence of Mr. William Curry, a mile or two from town, in the absence of the family, and destroyed nearly everything in the house. Ho says he went there “to have some funbroke a gun, with the barrel of which he smashed the crockery, dishes, glassware and windows ; took to pieces a clock and two watches, grinding up the works in a cider press. It then struck him that the ground where the house stood would be an admirable location for a oircus, whereupon he built a lire on the floor, and it was soon in tlame3, from which he narrowly escaped by jumping from a window, cutting his arms ami hand's in getting out, and leaving a broadcloth coat, which the heat induced him to throw off, a prey to the dames. Considering the been appropriate perform ers in his new circus, he upset several hives, and undertook to nut sleigh-bells on the insects, in which “performance'’ he was very badly stung. When the neighbors came running to the fire, they found him under a shade tree, congratulating himaelf that this was the “best performance he had had yet—it brought the largest audience The house was en • tirely destroyed, and the poor lunatic secured and taken to Mercer jail. Speculations in Sugars. —Letters from Batavia a* late ae the 10th of June have just been received in New York, and it is said they show that the fever of speculation in sugars is raging there. From the 10th May to the 10th June 175,000 fiscals had been sold at prices equivalent to 7\ / d) 8 cents per pound free on board, and some important sales from the crop of 1858 and of the crop of 1859, at very high prices, had been made. In New York, says the Post, the reaction in prices continues, and there seems no disposition to speculate. A cargo of be tween 300 and 400 lihds. sold a day or two since at 8£ cents, which had been purchased on speculation early in May at 10 cents. The news from England by the Columbia offers, less inducement for the ex porters to operate. llowto Make Water Cold Without Ice.— "The following description of a method of rendering water almost as cold as ico, has beeu going the rounds of the press for many years. J ust now it is again “in season,” and wo copy it for the benefit of those of our readers who either have not the oppor* port unity or the inclination to purchase Ice : Let the jar, pitcher, or vessel used for was er, be surrounded with one or more folds of coarse cotton, to be constantly wet. The evaporation of water will carry o.*t me heat from the inside and reduce it to a freezing point. In India and other tropical climes, where ice cannot be procured, this la com mon. Let every mechanic and laborer have at hia place of employment two pitchers thun provided, and with lids and covers, one to contain fresh wa ter for drinking, the other‘for evaporation, and he can always have a.supply of cold water in warm weather. A Dress Reform Convention. —Miss Hancock, the Secretary of the Cayuga Dress Reform Society, publishes the proceedings of a convention of llio re formers, held at Auburn on Thursday. The follow ing resolutions were adopted : Reiolved y That as health is closely allied to dress, we, as reformers, adopt and lend our aid to carry into common use short skirts, loose waists, minus the whalebone, and any style which we deem com fortable and healthful. Resolved, That we regard Paris fashions as a nuisance ? and that we, as American free-born wo men, do discard them as such. The convention ac|journed to meet at Skaneatelee, N. Y., November 13th, when a “dress-reform ball’’ is to be given. Death of Eugenk Sue. —It was stated in the late foreign news, that Eugene Sue, the celebrated French novelist was dead. The following is a brief sketch of his life . He was born in Paris in 1808, and inherited aeon siderable estate from his father, who was a profes sor of anatomy. He studied surgery, and served for several years as a surgeon in the French navy. After having squandered his patrimony in extrava gant living, he was driven to writing romances. Jlis first literary success was “ Mathilde, or the Memoirs of a Young Woman,” wherein, contrary to the usual custom of French novelists of time, vice was pun ished and virtue rewarded. The popularity of this book, however, was far exceeded by that of “ The Mysteries of Paris.” “The Wandering Jew” was no less popular, and, like “ The Mysteries of Paris,” was translated into many languages. “ The History of the French Marine in the time of Louis XIV,” a work in which truth and fiction are ingeniously min gled, was very successful. His “Mysteries of the People,” written after he had become identified with the socialists, did not meet the anticipations < f his admirers. In 1850 he was elected to the Na tional Assembly, where he exerted no great influ ence. His extreme socialistic views made him ob noxious to the party of the order, and after the coup d'etat he became a refugee. More recently, how ever, he returned to Paris, where he died ou the 3d iiiet., aged 49. As a writer, Eugene Sue possessed great, powers of vivid description and lively narrative. Hi works abound in horrible and mysteries incidents, and won favor with the lower classes by the vigor with which their wrongs and sufferings were cun trailed with the vices and luxury of tne rich. Not withstanding his socialism, he has always lived very extravagantly, as the great, popularity of some 'of his writ ings enabled him to uo. \ Copper in the Sea. —Experiments are now in i progress to show that the sea is constantly charged | with a solution of copper. Mr. Septimus Please i caused a bag of iron nails to be hung from the aide i of steamers passing between Marseilles and .Nice, and obtaining a precipitation of copper upon the iron, lie finds the eame metal in the substance of animals inhabiting the sea, and recommends the popular ex perirnent of putting an oyster—a bad one , if possi ble—on the blade of a knife, and leaving it there for twenty-four hours, when on the removal of the oys ter, the copper will be found on the knife. In Mr. Piesse’s opinion, the beautiful blue color of some portion of the Mediterranean is due to an ammonia cal salt of copper, while the greenness of other seas is owing to the chloride of copper. Strychnine. —The source from whence the poi son, which has gained so world wide a celebrity is obtained, is thus noticed in Dickens’s Household Words : In Ceylon, and several districts’s of India, grows a moderate sized tree, with thick, shining .eaves, and a short crooked stem. In the fruit season i readily rexjognized by its rich orange -colored her ries, about ad large as golden PW“ ' id hard and smooth, and oovera a white.. P J ■ the favorite food for many kind* ofbmhb which are the flat, roundseed- not an ■ no,h i in d, arneter ash-irray in color, and covered will. r\ eTy haiT Ve Germans fancy they a resemblance to gray eyes, and <ah tl em c o s eves but the likeness is purely liuagir.ar.. ine free is the strychnine nux vomica, and the seed is tht dcadly poison nut. The latter was early used as a medicine by the Hindoos and lid nature and properties understood by oriental doc tors long be- Fore it was known to foreign nations. “Dog killer,’ and “fish-scale,” are two of its Arabic names It is stated that at present the natives ol Hmdostan often take it for many months continuously, in much the same way as opium-eaters eat opium. They commence with taring the eighth of a nut a day, and gradually increasing the allowance t o an entire nut which would be about twenty grain?. If they eat directly before or aitei food, no unpleasant effect* ure produced; but il they neglect this pre caution, spasms result, “The Healthiest Country in Creation.”— Deßow*B mortality statistics show that the people of the United States are the healthiest on theglc.be. The deaths are three hundred and twenty thousand per year, or one and one-third per cent, of the pop ulation. In England the ratio is over two per cent, and in France nearly three per cent. Virginia aud North Carolina are the healthieet of the States, and have six hundred and thirty-eight inhabitants over ©ae hundred years years of age. /■■ ri, ,ip . Sii-i.lu-iiV Address. Mu. Knrroit : Hassthe egotism and vanity of the Honorable gentleman escaped tho attention of yom. elf and your readers ? Tho personal pronoun, ml ho first person Singular, oeours jus twenty nine times in the first three paragraphs of his address As a specimen of this trait of character, you have the following part ol a sentence : “If it is the will and pleasure of tho people that l shall rerve them again in the national tn-jincUs, / have no sufficient'reason, consistent v, ■, °l duty I . ibe ...entry, and m y to justify me iu refusing.” Tins weakness is not exltihitdd nl n- Iml he Hatters himself that “not a single vo { nr act ’ of his, as the representative of the Btli District, “was ever subject of complaint at the time,” an far l.e.i/M aware, “by n single man of any party inlhe Di.iriet.” The obscurity of his vision is as forlu ■into ill its bestowal of fame as was that of “M.e blind old man of Scio’s rocky isle.” J lie American parly do condemn as !■ t(,, and ilnnagogms, ail those who aid. .] and abetted in getting up the Kansas bill with its double mean ing, with a construction for the North, and a cor, struction for the South. Tho gentleman is too good a lawyer not to know that tho doctrine of estoppel lias no application where fraud is char-ed and proven. The American parly charge that it wav e fraud upon tlieWfcghta and the rights of the South ern people. Wo were told that it contained the doctrine of non intervention, pure urd undefiled, as it appeared in the l" lan Bid. We have found it contaminated with “Alien Suffrage, ’’ and “ Squat h r Sovereignty.” We have found that even the email remnant of non-intmarention, left fromthe j, wi n - of these worms, isacoutto be consumed by the Northern view of tho hill, “l! / nck&te r wev the authors of it,” the American party have not been “tiiokaters’ backers,” as the Honorable gentleman com lndes, but they were “tricksters - victim ” the victims of their fraud and treachery, it nmy fan cy that it is”a sufficient reply to tho accusation, that the authors of the bill were /m ir ier* d demagogni*, “that, those, who bring this charge, ;u. is stopped from making any suc-i ai-eusntiou, for they gave it professedly (he says) as hearty an approval at the time it passed as anybody else.” Now, in making this accusation, tho American party aim at higher game tiiau the rcpreecntiitivi of the Btu District. Hot lie appear.i to have been in range of their fire, and some south ring shot may have taken effect upon him. If the egiy c*:p tie him and he places it upon ids own head, lie must wear it. But it it can be shown that those who condemn the authors of the Kansas bill del not give it fessedlv or otherwise their approval, limy nr., not estopped from making the accusation, nor is his fancitul reply sufficient. We join issue with the honorable gentleman, and deny the truth ol hi p , mise. It, is flatly denied that tho people of til i gie or tho American patty of the tilute ever on doreod the Kansas bill with wit h its Alien « a Hi-age and Squatter sovereignty. Ar> s 'ini ion of too tie r gia Legislature is cited to support, tie; gentleman s assertion. He says it endorsed nil tho ” Alien Sus frage” the bill ever contained. Wei), first, where did that resolution come from? Was it not intro duced by Linton Stephens, Ksq, and did no! tho Him. A. H Stephens write it, or see mid approve i! before it was introduced ! Was not its passage urged upon the ground, that the bill only carried out tile principle of non-intervention, and thill its adoption by the Georgia Legislature. would aid the cause of the South in Congress ? Did the Kansas bill become a law in the precise form iu which it was when this resolution was penned, sc-ut from Washington City, introduced and passed ? How inany members of that Legislature hud seen the bill, when they voted for the resolution ? We von tore not a half floaea of them, hut that they con tided in what they heard from their representative. But, for the argument, admit that the resolution is all that is claimed for it by the idolatrous worship pers of the Kansas act,--was it within tho count, tutional power of tiie General Assembly ot Georgia thus to bind tho whole people of the State to aim > pressiou of opinion f Suppose the same Legisla turn Lad passeda resolution of condemnation of the course pursued by the Hon. A. 11. Stephens upon the bill, would that action have expressed the views of all the citizens of Georgia, and weird it: have met the gentleman’s own approval ! It lie be free to dissent fromthe latter, why may not every voter in the .State be equally free to dissent from the form*- er? In fact, dees every resolution passed by tho same General Assembly meet his approval and o.\ press his sentiments ! Fish cannot thus be made ol the distinguished gentleman, and flesh of the unlion ored citizen. We are all freemen, with perfect lift, i rty at least, ol thought, and this inestimabl • privi lege we mean to exercise, regardless cf the dicta - tion of inflated politicians, and contemning the pow erof party domination—looking only to our noun try and our country’s good. More anon. Marion. For the Chronicle 4* Sentinel. A Reminiscence ui ISIS. Mr. Editor In the year of grace above written, I became an inhabitant (a jubilant word this with the freesoil Democracy,) of that once proud old county of Elbert, whose banner once brightly waved to the breeze, inscribed with letters of light, and glory, “ A Thousand Votes for Henry Clay,” there 1 nu t with Col. T. W. Thomas, with whom t had formerly associated on terms of friendship and intimacy, though differing widely with him at that iime in political sentiment. —he being an impetuous and fiery Democrat, whilst 1 was equally ardent and combustible as a Whig. Shortly after my arrival in tue county, Mr. Stephens delivered in Cougrtas bis famous speech on the admission„of Texas into the Union, in which he appeals imploringly to the Free Boileis, even at that early day, by saying, “ I am not UkC defender of slavery in the abstract—liberty a/ v'ays had charms for me” By tome means, Cols. Thomas and McMillan received copie3 of the speech, or lmd the above sentence by newspaper paragraph, before any of the Whigs had seen or hoard of it, and were startled and dismayed on hearing it thus quoted and assorted to be true; all efforts to evade or deny its authenticity, would not do, for the mail soon brought the speech to hand containing this obnoxious sentence, which appalled* many a stout Whig’s heart. Col. Thomas would gloat over it at the street comers, in public harangues, and in lus daily conversations, to the utter confusion of the Whig party. Here, says he, is the proof positive of the freek-oiliam of your Federal Whig party—here it is in black and white, over the sign nmuual ot A. 11. Stephens ; and he would read and repeat, “ I am not tho defender of slavery iu the abstract,” with an unmistakable gusto. Well do .I remember the destruction it caused, and the counselling together of Christian, Nelms, Johnson and Smith, the old brindlcs of the party, as to what should bo done. Dr. Robert Toombs at that time, now known as HaiTiilcar, must be sent, for at once to prescribe for the party, or it would be dismembered and die; the disaffection was be coming »o deep and wide spread, a messenger wae dispatehed at. onoe. Dr. Toombs came and pre scribed, and saved many of the sick and disheart ened, by an impassioned appeal in his usual chaste and elegant style, by asking the party if it intended to be deluded and misled by Thomas, McMillan, and “their damned Locofoco nonsense !" No one cun doubt Alex.’sjfealty to the South, so long as he owm: slaves here in our midst, and is willing now to suit martyrdom for his property and the j ightsof liisown native State. Go to ye, of little fait ;; ; Alex, i- all right, and do you stand by him in this hi ; ■ xtromitv of Locofoco persecution. The Doctor’s prescription proved \ ery potential and eflicatb its in Alex <*a » at that time, and run.. > of the sick old Whigs uon vales cod and elood by their guns. I would remark,, however, that, old Elbert lias been doctored > much from that day to this, that she has never been sane or well biuce. Yoong Tugai.o. Costing of l he A incrieon Party of Lincoln. Pursuant to previous notice, the American party and those opposed to the Administration of llu chanan, Walker & Co., assembled this lay at liin cointon for the purpo.-e of nominating candidates to represent the county of Lincoln in the next Leg islature, when,on motion, Aaron Hardy sva.- called to the chir, and J. M. Dill appointed Secretary. On motion of V. M. Barnes— Resolved, That a Committee of seven be appoint ed by the chair to report business for the action of this meeting. In accordance with which resolution the following named gent’ email were appointed : V. M. Barnes, L. Lamar, Dennis Pasca l ,l*. W Sale:, Robert Hen derson, W. Davie and B. P. O'Neal; who, after re tiring for a short time, reported through their chair man, V. M. Barnes, the following : The American party of Lincoln, true to its prin ciples, and determined to maintain them, presents to the people the following : Resolved. That we heartily endorse the noinina lion of B. il. Hill for Governor and The. W. Milh i for Congress, and the platform of principles on which they are nominated. Resolved , That thq American party of Georgia never had two opinions or positions on the Kansas bill; it never sanctioned the alien suffrage and squatter sovereignty features of the bill as pt inn pies, and that as the Georgia Legislature, it has a! ways declared, and does now declare, that all oppo sition to th & principles d the Kaunas hill, in relation to slavery, that ia, the principle of non-intervention, as supposed to be secured simply by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, is hostility to the rights of the South. Resolved That still declaring hostility to those who oppose this principle of non-intervention, our party is compelled by consistency and a sense of justice and honor, to denounce the "perjury and Ircaclury'’ of James Buchanan, the Northern man with frceeoil principles, and all _t l > who palliate his conduct, or support him in his<>; «-ii violation ol our principles and the laws of the 1.-.nd. Resolved , That the party hereby invite Messrs. Hill and Miller to meet with us and address us at. an early day as will suit their convenience. Resolved, That we heartily invite all who agree with us on the principle of non-intervention, and who oppose all violation and violators of this prin ciple, to unite with us in the canvass. Resolved, That this meeting now proceed to nominate a candidate for Senate and House of Rep resentatives by ballot, and that a majority ot the whole number of votes cast be necessary to a choice. The meeting then proceeded to nominate candi. ’ date 3 for the ofiices indicated above, when upon counting the ballots, H. B. Moore and Jno. 11. 'I a ' turn,our former ableand respected Senator and Kep reeenlalive, was declared to be the unanimous choice of the party for re-election. Mr. Moore and accepted the nomination and, with arguments pointed and convincing, that must have carried conviction to the minds of all present, even the most, stupid Democrat, defended himself against the charge of inconsistency on tin* Kansas bill. Messrs. Bafries and Lamar being call ed upon, adreased the meeting with a good deal ol fervor and eloquence upon the great questions of the canvass. On motion of V. M. Barnes, the chair appointed a Committee, consisting of V. M. Barneß, Dr. IS. F. Bentley and Col. 1,. Lamar, to confer with Mfflßra. Hill and Miller, and invito them to address us at this place, at such time as will suit their conve nience ; and, also, to tender our Democratic friends a cordial invitation to participate in the dheussinn. On motion of li. F. Tatum— Ibuohrd, That the proceedings of this meeting t, signed by the Chairman and Secretary and cent to the Chronicle At Sentinel for publication. On motion, adjourned, line die. * Aaron Hakdi, Chairman J. M. Dili., Secretary. August 1 Stb, 1557. From the Albany Patriot Totlic Planters Trading lo Savannah. Two new commission houses having announced that they will sell cotton in Savannah at the old price of fifty cents a bag, 1 have no doubt but that your interests will prompt you to patronize them till the strikers shall have receded from their high charges. But, that is not enough. Gratitude requites that w e continue to do so, even after those on a strike shall have given in. For, to them we ore indebted for at least, a dollar on every bag of cot ton we may make. Not only gratituile, but justice to those gentlemen who have undertaken the ex pense of new estaldishments, and have manifested tin firmness to withstand the buffeting ol'the strikes —too powerful for one firm that rebelled against the strike—demand that we coutiune steadfast to thorn. Not only gratitude and justice make their appeals, but it is to our interest to give such a lesson to the combination, that we Bhail have no more strikes for a'! time iq come. ’ 1 understand that the new houses are responsible firms. One I know to be so. We can, and must, make the fortunes of these independent men.