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CHRONIGLE <fe -SENTINEL. BY J. W. Sc W. S. JONES. JAMES M. SMYTHE, Associate Editor DAILY, TRI WEEKLY &, WEEKLY. OFFICE IN RAIL ROAD BANK BUILDING. rRRMS —Daily Paper, per annum, in advance••Slo Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ ", . 5 Weekly, (a mammoth sheet ) “ •• 2 f ASH S \ STEM.—In no case will an order for the j i per be attended to, unless accompanied with the money, and in every instancewhen the time for which any subscription may be paid, expires before the re ceipt of funds to renew the same, the paper will he discontinued. Depreciated funds received at value m this city. I'rom the Sunday Mercury. Tlie Drunkard’s Home. BY JAMES STILLMAN. The Drunkard’s home ! What words cun show The scenes of misery there 7 What mind conceive, what heart can know, Save those compelled to share 7 Th’ a ode of wretchedness complete, Whence every comfort’s fled, Where want, disease and ruin meet, And even hope is dead ! The drunkard’s home, more cheerless far Than even convict’s cell, With granite wall and iron bar, For guilty ones to dwell; O better far the vaults of death, For there all sufferings cease, And care-worn pilgrims yield their breath, And sleep the sleep of peace. The drunkard’s home ! That barren waste ! That desert of the soul, With not one green oasis graced, Where streams of comfort roll ; Stricken as by the Simoon’s blast. All bliss is prostrate laid, And Pity, weeping, stands aghast To see the ruin made. The drunkard’s home ! the rock-girt strand Where honor shipwrecked lies; The den where Murder arms his hand— Where Virtue, poisoned, dies; Where Vice spreads round its filthy slime, Where Falsehood forms her lair — The haunt of Infamy and Crime, Os Madness and Despair ! The drunkard’s home ! ye gen’rous youth, Yet from intemperance free, Attend the warning voice of truth, And from the poison flee ; Touch not the cup of liquid fire, Beware of habit’s chain, Quench the first spark of wild desire, And spurn the damning bane. From the St. Louis Republican , August 12. Arrival from Santa Fe. Surprise of some of Col. Easton's men—their de feat —another conspiracy discovered—defeat of Lt. Brown—Skirmish between MaJ. Edmond son and the Mexicans—defeat of the Latter. Another party of volunteers has returned to Fort Leavenworth from Santa Fe. They arri ved on the 6th inst., and left Santa Fe on the sth of last month. From Mr. Isaac McCartv, of the firm of Bullard, Hook & Co., traders to New Mexico and Chihuahua, the following interest ing information is derived. When Mr. McCarty arrived at Bagos, 75 miles this side of Santa Fe, he learned that in formation had been received there on the sth, that Lt. Brown, attached to Capt. Horine’s company of Volunteers, with several of his men, had been killed at a small place about 15 miles from Bagos. On receiving this intelli gence, Maj. Edmondson, with a party of his men, pursued the Mexicans, overtook them, fought with, and killed five or six of them, and captured between 30 and 40, whom he threat ened to hang. By this energetic conduct, Major E. induced a confession from some of them, that there was another conspiracy on foot to bring about a massacre and revolution at Taos and Bagos.— A letter wasfoundupon oneof the prisoners, j purporting, though not signed, to come from the ringleader of the former conspiracy, in j which he desired to be informed of the precise ' time when Fischer's company of artillery would leave Santa Fe.as that was necessary to the ma- ! turity of Ins plans. He declared, in this letter his determination never to rest while there was an American alive in New Mexico. Os the i disposition ol the prisoners, we have’no further information. Mr. McCarty met the first train of Govern ment wagons about one hundred miles from Santa Fe. Lieut. Love, who has charge of I the Government money, amounting to more j than $300,000, was met at the upper Semirone Springs, and Col. Easton’s battalion of infantry 1 on the Arkansas. A few days previous to his meeting Col. Easton’s command, while some of his men were employed in getting wood on the opposite side of the river, they were com pletely surprised by a party of the Camanche Indians, by whom, eight of the number were killed and three wounded. One of the wounded was scalped alive, and was found in this situation by those who were sent to relieve them. He stated, that he was scalped by a white man ; that he begged for; his life, telling him that he had a family depen dent upon him for support: but that the onlv reply received from his assilant was, that he did not care a d—n. VVe regret/mr not being able to stale the names of the persons killed and wounded, or the company to which they be-' longed. It may be two or three days before! we have this information. Lieut. Simpson, of Major Clark's Artillery Battalion, was left at Council Grove, on his way home. Since the above was written, we have learn ed that J. McClenahan and C. Q,uisenberry were among the number of persons killed at the time of the attack upon Lieut. Brown.— One account states the whole number killed at fourteen. John Avery, Martin, and Douglass, of Capt. Dent’s company, were landed from the Tamerlane, at St. Charles, yesterday. From an Extra of the same paper of August 13. Later* Mr. Coulter, who arrived in the Bertrand, IVom the Missouri, furnishes later and some what different details in regard to the death of Lieut. Brown and his men. That officer with McClenahan and Qaiisenberry, and a Mexi can guide, left camp in pursuit of per sons w h o had stolen horses from them. did not return, and on the sth of July, ip'formation was received from a Mexican tllat t , had been murdered, and tb'ji, bo ,| ieg burnt . aj. . tnoudson, on receiving this news, took measures to ave; (lge their death. He inarched with some -, ixty men , and a , lowitzer> against the town w^j iere t jj e enormities were committed, and discovered that the inhabitants er ® - m " 1° the mountains. He cotnmand ed them t ' o stop, but as .they did not do so, he | bred i’ t p on them, killing six, wounding several ot aers, and taking forty or fifty prisoners.— From some of the prisoners, it was ascertained that the bodies of two of the Americans were burnt, but that the body of Lieut. Brown, who had the emblem of the cross on his neck, and was supposed, from this circumstance, to be a Cath olic, was hid in the mountains, where it was af terwards found. All the houses of persons con- | cerned in the murders were, burned to the ground, by order of the Major. Some of the articles of property lost in the engagement at the Red River canon were found at this place, showing that some of the inhabitants, at least, were participants in that affair. Lieut. Larkin, and privates Owens, Wright, Mason and Wilkinson, belonging to a grazing party, of Lieut. Col. Willock’s battalion, were | surprised about daylight on the morning of the ' 6th July, and killed. Lieut. Brown,” whose murder by the Mexicans we have announced above, was ason of Robert T. Brown, of Per ry county, in this State. Young McClenahan was from St. Genevieve ; and young Quisen- berry was a volunteer from thiscounty, ihe son . of Mr. J. T. Q,uisenberry. The news will fall with a crushing weight up- | on his parents —for he was a young man of ex- | cellent qualities, and greatly beloved by those j who knew him. His return had been looked I for, for sometime, and, trusting that he had es caped from all the dangers of the service in which he had been engaged, we learn that his mother, with all a mother’s care for herchildren, had prepared his room for him, evenin the most minute particulars necessary for his comfort. Chronicle ani» Sentinel. A IT G IT S TaT GaTT 1 MONDAY MORNING, AUG. 33, 1847. FOR GOVERNOR: DUNCAN L. CLINCH, Os Camden. For Cambria’s News see next page. State Policy->State Finaiices--Aud the Issues they Involve. Having on Saturday last, briefly alluded to the origin of the Central Bank, we propose in the same way to say something of its manage ment. The first directors, after the charter in 1828, were appointed by Governor Forsyth; those of 1832, '33, '34, and '35, were appointed by Governor Lumpkin ; those of 1836 and ’37, by Governor Schley ; those of 1838 and '39, by Governor Gilmer, and those of the four fol lowing years, 1840, '4l, ’42, and ’43, were ap pointed by Governor McDonald. From the charier of the Bank up to the year 1836, noth ing occurred in the direction of its affairs, cal culated to call for public denunciation and vio lent opposition. In 1837. just before the election, Governor Schley being a candidate for re-election, the Democratic directors of the Bank ordered a large distribution. This was ordered, too, when the Bank was unable to make it. The consequence was that the division of the money was suspended, till after the Democratic Legis lature of 1837 ordered the borrowing of $300,- 000 to carry it out, and that, too, when $425,000 had to be borrowed for other purposes. The whole amount loaned by the Bank in the spring of 1837 was $600,000, in the fall of the same year, and the spring of 1838, $750,000 more; making in all, $1,350,000, in less than twelve months. The State of Georgia was thus presented in the attitude of a large bor rower, all the available assets of the Bank gone, all the surplus revenue received from the gen eral Government gone, and under protest for the $300,000 due the Phoenix Bank of New York. We remark here that but for incurring the New York debt, the State credit could still have been preserved, for all other liabilities could have been met and discharged- This was the splendid financial state of things brought about by Governor Schley’s Admin istration, and the policy of his friends, the es" lort to secure his re-election at the expense of the credit, and the honor of the State. The Constitutionalist alluding to the Whigs being in power in 1838, says: *’ NY e find in that, or the following year, as the re | suit of whig financiering, the Slate under protest for a debt of 8300,000, due the Pluenix Bank of New j York city. The Democratic Governor, McDonald, j went into office November, 1939, and found the State ! under protest for this sum.” It will he seen from the above that the State j vva3 under protest, not as the result of Whig fi -1 nanciering, but Democratic financiering. We come next to the Legislature of 1838, j this session we will see the division of parties distinctly marked upon this Bank ques tion. The Constitutionalist says: M e find the whig iegislatnrj extending the chat tel of tlie Bank for twelve years longer—to 1850.” 1 hat paper is mistaken. An effort was made i by the Whigs to recharter the Bank for five I .years, the object being to allow sufficient time , for its business to be prudently closed. The Democratic party on the other hand, sustained a measure torecharler the Bank till 1850, which was carried in both houses by the assistance of a few Whig votes. Here, then, in 1833, we find the Democratic party the friend o t the Bank, the Whig party opposed to its existence any longer than lime sufficient for it to wind up its affairs. It mat ters not which party originated it, we find in 1838, when it had done so much harm to the people and the State, that the Democrats, al i most to a man, stood by its fallen fortunes and I the wrecks of its mischevious operations, while the Whigs were for terminating its inglorious career. ihe Constitutionalist has referred, among others, to the Democratic Legislature of 1839, as worthy of credit and honor for its remedial measures. So far from coinciding in opinion with that paper, we think it was reserved for the Democratic Legislature of that year, to cap the climax of all former misrule, by its corrupt and pbrenzied legislation on this Bank question. Ihe Democrats had elected their candidate for Governor, and possessed a large majority in the Legislature. They thus had it in their power to do with the Bank as they pleased. And what did it please them to do ? Why they passed an act under the circumstances of the case, the most unheard of in all prudent banking operations, the most wild, visionary, reckless and senseless, that could have emana ted from ignorance or corruption. Noth withstanding the Bank was bending be neath its difficulties, and the State suffering in its dearest point, its credit and honor, this Demo cratic assembly of Gallatins and Neckars, pass ed an act authorizing the directors of the Bank to issue any amount of its bills, not exceeding double the amount of its capital stock; and it was authorized to consider as capital stock any asset of the Bank, any note, judgment, Bank stock, &c. The Legislature directed also, that certain other stock owned by the State mother Banks should he sold, and be a part of the cap ital of the Bank. The directors were author ized to do these things, when there was not $50,000 in specie in the vaults of the Bunk! Were not these Democratic financiers pro foundly ignorant, deeply corrupt, or financial ly mad? The act was protested against by i G overnor Crawford, and fifty others, among whom were Irby Hudson, Charles J. Jen kins, Robert Toombs, A. H. Stephens, A. H. Chappell, John Millen and Richard D. Arnold. That protest exhibited the foresight , and sagacity of those from whom it emanated in the prophetic manner in which it pointed I out the consequences to follow that act of folly ' | and madness. In a few days after it passed, i the Bank suspended specie payments. This I was a necessary consequence. All confidence was withdrawn from it, and although it had held out with all its bad management, during the tremendous revulsion of two or three pre vious years, it could stand no longer. This last act of Democratic financial wisdom prostrated it at once in the estimation of all prudent and reflecting persons. Those who | held the bills of the Bank at the time of their ! extraordinary depreciation, (except specula tors,) particularly debtors, who, in many cases, were sold out by the sheriff, have doubtless a very feeling recollection of the disastrous con sequences of Democratic financiering. Such is a brief but true account, as far as it goes, of the origin, management, and results of the Central Bank. It will be seen, that every change in the history of the Bank for evil to the State and people, has been brought about by the action and policy of the Democrats. There are many other facts which we could produce to show the impolicy of Democratic ascendency in our State, but we omit them now, in order to avoid polixity. Our readers all know what a happy change was brought about by the election of Governor Crawford, and the measures of the Whigs. All know how the hills of the Bank and the State Bonds soon rose to par, and the credit and character of the State became restored. All who desire this state of things to continue, should remem ber that Democracy has been tried and found wanting, that Whigism has been also tried, and its virtue and efficacy are seen in the proud position which Georgia occupies before the country and the world. Experience has been called the mother of Science, it is certainly a faithful monitor in politics and morals. Upon what ground, judging from the past, can the people safely discard the rule of the Whigs, and substitute that of the Democrats? Are they certain that the latter would not revive the Central Bank policy of 1839, than which, in all the records of Banking, folly more glar ing, or ignorance more stupid, or corruption more dangerous and destructive, never pro duced their fangled schemes to excite the con tempt, or practiced their enormities to receive the reprobation of a wronged and injured peo ple. A few more words to-morrow will close what we have to say upon the subject. Whig Mass Meeting in Morgan. The Whigs of Morgan will convene in mass meeting on Saturday, the 4th day of Septem ber next, for the purpose of nominating a can didate to represent that County in the next Legislature. Let there be a general turn out, and above all let there be union and harmony. Gen. Clinch---Correction. The senior Editor of the Savannah Repub lican, in a letter from Rome, Geo., makes the following correction of a statement of one of our correspondents : ‘ l I wish to make a correction. The correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, in noticing the services ol Gen. Clinch, says that his commis sion in the Army was returned to him by Mr. Van Buren. This is a mistake. It was returned to him by Gen. Jackson, in the Summer of 1836, accompa nied by a most flattering and complimentary letter. — General Jackson thought Clinch the most competent General in the army to finish the Florida war, and this is one proof of it. In 1817, when Clinch built Forts Gaines and Scott on the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers, and made the descent in boats and des troyed the fort at the mouth ofthe Apalachicola river, defended by 300 Indians and Negroes, Clinch was in communication with Gen. Jackson and made his re ports to him. He was politically opposed to General Jackson and the latter knew it, but that did not shake his confidence in his ability. No one in the army was even heard to underrate the abilities, or numer ous services ol Clinch. If has been reserved for a po litical campaign to secure this most unworthy treat ment on the part ofthe Democratic press, which has no other effect than to make more friends for him.— 1 do not even know that these assaults are worthy of a serious refutation, and I hope that the Whig press will not imitate them so fur as Mr. Towns is concern ed. It would he much better for our opponents to show what their candidate has done, instead of what ours has not done. We have spoken of the services of Clinch. Why do they not leave their tactics of as sault, and show what services Mr. Towns has per formed 7 It. would be more consistent.” A Roav Expected.— The correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot says: “ We anticipate a most decided muss here when Cummodor e Stockton, Gen. Kearney, and Colonel Fre mont arrive. They are all coming home, and will probably be at the seat of Government by the time Col. Benton has returned, who will he apt to look after the rights of Col. Fremont.” Santa Anna. —A Stratagem. —The N. O. Times of the 16th inst. says ; We find record ed in the sheet of our Spanish contemporary, published yesterday, an incident of a strange character regarding Santa Anna. A correspon dent from Tampico states, that a letter from the Dictator to Gen. .Scott had been intercep ted, (the 27th ult.), in which the former writes that he only waits the American General’s on ward movement, to order the Mexican troops in El Penon to retire. When this was made public at the Capital, it created general alarm, which the crafty Dictator could only calm by pretending that it was a stratagem of war, adopted with a view to deceive Gen. Scott, and lead the American army into a snare. Honors to Mr. Clay. — A meeting was call ed at Trenton on Tuesday, for the purpose of appointing a committee to proceed to Cape May, and invite Mr. Clay to visit that city. Health of New Orleans.— The official list ol Interments in the City of New Orleans from 9, A. M., of Saturday, the I4th August, to Monday, the 16th, (two days,) at the same hour, was 103, of which 66 were of Yellow Fe ver. “Here be Truths.” —The New Orleans National, in an article, treating of the conse quences of this war with Mexico, says : “The Expenses ot the Mexican war are con suming every cent of revenue that can be got into the Treasury. All internal or National improvements are suspended. No appropria- i tions can be made, because it will interfere with , the money wanted for the precious war. The arts of peace are all nought ; nothing has any j value but engines ofdeath, powder, bomb-shells, 1 and Major-Generals. Even the national docks, i so much needed by Government, are to be siis- t pended to husband the resources ofthe Trea- i sury to curry on the war. Hundreds of onr t worthy mechanics are to be thrown out of 1 employment and left to starve because the mo ney they should receive for their labor upon t works of real utility is wanted to be wasted up- 1 on favorites of the Government, in purchasing t materials to carry on the war; and such are the i consequences of war : they prey upon and ru- ] in alike both conquered and conquerers.” \ The Growing Crops—The Worms--Wea ther. The Crops, *pc. —The following letter, says the Mobile Register, is from a source entitled to the high est credit. The writer is one of the most respectable and experienced of our planters: Perry Co. Ala., August 9, 1847. At your request I write to inform you that up to the first of this month, we suffered but little by the boll worm in the cotton. The fly which we suppose pro duces the worm was found in great numbers. In the early part of last week, the worms made their ap pearance. We find them now ver} 7 numerous, from a living speck to the half grown, and in some instances the full grown worm. I have one field of 130 acres that I think will be entirely destroyed. I. am now catching the worms and fom the quantity we take you would suppose, the squares and bolls not yet de stroyed, would be safe, but it is not so ; we pass by a sufficiency (and indeed they are hatching every day) to destroy the cotton almost entirely. I examined another part of my crop this morning. The cotton is not quite so forward but few worms to be found.— In a few more days, we shall have thousands of them here, Mr. W has seen some of the neighboring crops and thinks I have more worms than any one else. It may be so, at this time, but a few days will prove the calamity universal in this district of country. Mr. R. B. W offers his growing crop for his pro ducts last year, which was about one third of an or dinary production. Aug. 10—My overseer at Mid way came up this morning. He says that the worms are all over the crop, but not in such numbers as we have had them. Ymi will remark that the period of their greatest ra vages is between the middle of August and first of September. The Crops. —The Mobile Advertiser of the 18th inst. says: Our accounts from the growing crop con tinue to be, in the main, of an unfavorable character. The weather had been more favorable—the heavy rains having in a measure ceased, and could the cotton have escaped the worm, there is no doubt but with favorable weather during the fall season, a fair aver age crop would be made. But our latest advices from the i terior of this State leave no doubt in our mind that the much dreaded army worm, that proved so destructive last year, has made its appearance in the best cotton growing sections of the country, and we have reason to fear that its ravages will be of a serious nature. We saw yesterday letters from Green, Sum ter, Marengo, &c., confirming fully the reports contain ed in the above letter from Perry, which leave no room to doubt that the worm has fairly commenced its rav ages ; but the extent of injury that will be done no one can now foresee. In another part of our sheet will be found accounts from Louisiana, Mississippi and other cotton growing States, from which those inter ested can form their own opinion. Crops. —The Montgomery (Ala.) Journal of the 18th inst says : The cotton promises much better than was feared from the heavy rains of last month, and though several weeks later than usual, may yet, with a dry fall and late frost, and no army worm, ma ture a fair crop. The boll worm is very destructive in some of the bottom and prairie lands. The cater pillar has not made its appearance in this vicinity, though it is said to be doing much injury in the cane brake counties. The W arms. — The Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat I of the 6th instant, says : Since our last pafer, we have received intelligence from various portions of our county, where these worms were depredating, that they have entirely disappeared, and that but lit tle damage has been done to the plants. It seems to be the prevailing opinion, that this worm is not the true army worm of last year, and its peculiar habits and sudden disappearance, appear to prove this con clusion to be correct. The Crops. —The Montgomery (Ala.) Metropo litan of the 19th inst. says; We inquired of several prairie farmers, a few days since, about the prospects ofthe growing cotton crop, and theyinformed us that as yet the worms had not made their appearance, and the probability was that the crop would be a good one. About an equal number of farmers from the Tallapoosa clay and sandy lands, informed us that they were entirely satisfied with the prospect. We trust that the farmers will be amply remunerated for their labor, be enabled to meet all their engagements, and take the newspapers besides. The Concordia (La.) Intelligencer of the 7th inst. sas : “Every thing looks fair at present. There are worms everywhere ! but, on examination, they were found to be grass worms. The grass worms are a blessing to the cotton planter, and he does not care how many of them he sees. “At the Mansion House, in Natchez, the true place to find nut all about cotton worms, we were convened yesterday. All the planters whom we found there, were of the opinion that the grass worm was an ad vantage to them. So will they find it at the end of the chapter,” The Brandon (Miss.) Advocate of the 14th inst. says; We have conversed with an intelligent gentleman, who has been travelling through this State, during the last few weeks; and he informed us that he had heard of no damage being done by the Army Worm ; but, that the same kind of a worm that has frequently vis ited this part of the country heretofore, eating the grass, without meddling with the cotton, has made its appearance in the cotton fields, in nfhny parts of the state, destroying the grass but leaving the cotton un harmed. From the New Orleans Picayune Vlth inst. Eater from Texas. The steamship Ohio, Capt. J. Swiler, Jim., arrived yesterday from Galveston, having left there on Saturday last. There is hardly a word of news in the papers, which are up to the 14th instant. The Civilian says the prospect of the cotton crop continues as good as it possibly could be. The Civilian has been told that in some parts of Brazoria county the hands are picking at the rate of 200 lbs. per day. The Huntsville Banner of the 3d inst. says : The health ofthe country is good, weather favorable and crops abundant. The cotton is opening beautifully, and the farmers are begin ning to gather it. The papers contain a long letter from Sena tor Houston, suggested by ex-President Ty ler’s late letter upon the negotiations to secure the Annexation of Texas. The letter belongs to the history of Annexation, but we cannot, give place to it to-day. The Civilian soberly and earnestly complains of the want of mail facilities for Texas. Six teen days had elapsed when the editor was wri ting, without a mail from New Orleans. It is intolerable that the Government should main tain a monopoly ofthe carriage of Setters, and yet allow a Slate like Texas to be cut off from in tercourse with the rest of the Union for a long er period than the merchants of N. York and Liverpool would tolerate in their intercourse. As a matter of purely patriotic concern, Texas should be hound as closely as possibly to the old States by frequency ofintercourse : but by all means Galveston and New Orleans should have a fixed, sure and rapid means of commu nicating, nor would it be burdensome to the Government rightly managed. The Galveston News contradicts a report that the yellow fever was prevailing in that city. The rumor arose from the sudden decease of a gentleman from Tampico. The News says the yellow fever had nothing to do with his case. Murder of Alexander George. A correspondent of the New Orleans South erner gives the following account of the assas sination of Mr. Alexander George, at Grand Coqnille island, on the 9th inst., by one of his slaves. Mr. George was proprietor of the island. The negro, says the letter, entered the house about 4 o’clock, and attacked his sleeping master with a knife, made ofthe up per part of a grass blade. He inflicted some sixteen wounds upon the breast, back, and arms of his victim, hut Mr. George had the physical power to rise on his feet, wrest the weapon from the negro, and stab him se verely in the side. The noise ofthe scuffle and the shouts of Mr. George, brought to the house his other slaves and a white man in his employ, who slept not far off. They found Mr. George staggering about the floor, welter ing with blood, and with the fatal blade in his hands. He exclaimed, “here is the knife with which Jim has killed me.” He was placed on the bed, and immediately called for paper to write his will. With wonderful moral power and tenacity of purpose, the blood gushing from his breast at every respiration, he wrote his will, in a few words, and appointed his execu tors, buthadnotthe power to signhisname. The last word that he wrote was “ Ireland,” and the pen literally dragged on the paper, and dropped from his dying hand. He wrote it in a , large blank book, and the paper is saturated i with blood. No one who sees this fearful testa- | uient will doubt its authenticity, or er forget its appalling appearance. He had just time to bequeath his property to his sisters in the coun ty of Derry, Ireland, when he expired. In the mean time, the murderer escaped ; but he was tracked to the water by his blood, where it was found that behad taken aboat. The neighbors made search, and he was arrested in the after noon, in a marsh near Fort Pike, almost exhaus ted from the loss of blood. He confessed that, owing to the severity of his master, he had long meditated his murder, and that no one else was privy to the act. He has been sent to Coving ton to jail. The Yellow' Fever. —The N. O. Delta of the 17th inst. says: Whilst it cannot be said that the epidemic has abated in its violence, there are indications that it has pretty nearly at tained its zenith, and under the influence ot fa vorable weather, diligent atten'ion, and the great skill of our unsurpassed faculty, will be gin to decline. We have conversed with some of our most eminent and experienced physi cians, who say that they never knew the fever to be of so mild a type, that the numbers who have died bear a very small proportion to the number who have been attacked, and that the fatal cases are confined, generally, to the desti tute class who could not procure ready atten dance and proper nursing, and to persons not in a sound and healthy condition of body.— This class will, in future, be more promptly at tended under the excellent regulations of our energetic Council. The truth is, the yellow fever is one of the most innocent diseases of our country, if pro perly and skilfully managed. There is none more under the control of medicine and good nursing—and none more fatal if neglected or mismanaged. A Genuine Windfall—We hear that let ters were received by the last European steamer relative to the death of a Capt. Lamphere, in England who has left a large property and some SIOO,OOO in cash to five persons in Lapeer county. The immediate heir in this country was M rs. Hubbard, of Windsor, Vt., formerly a Lamphere. She died some tw o years since, leaving four sons by the name of Hub bard, and a daughter, who reside near Lapeer county seat. The daughter was the wife of Dr. Car penter. of Aimont, who will soon visit London on the business. —Detroit Free Press. A lady recently died in this county, in the 42nd year ofher age, who was the mother of twenty-four children. Rather a hard story, but we have the most respectable witnesses, now in court. —Mountain Eagle. Special Notices. 1.. O. O. P. U* Washington Lodge, No. 7.---A Regular Meeting of this Lodge will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at Bo’clock, precisely. By order of the N. G. Aug. 23. AUG. PITCHER, Secretary. Ij 5 The Whigs of Ward No. 1 are request ed to meet at the SCALE HOUSE on MONDAY EVENING, 23d inst., at eight o’clock, to appoint delegates to the Convention for nominating members to the Legislature. au!9 NOTICE. O’ In pursuance of the resolution pass ed at the Whig meeting, held at the City Hall on Saturday the 14th inst., the Whigs of the Rock Dis trict (119th) are requested to meet at the JUSTICES’ COURT, to be held in and for said district on the last Saturday of this month, to appoint three delegates to meet at the City Hall on the seventh of September, at 3 P. M., to nominate candidates to represent this county in the ensuing Legislature. aul7 A CARD. f~3r* Dr. Banning respectfully gives notice that with a view of bringing the benefits of his “ BODY BRACES” within the reach of al , he has reduced the price to sls for the Plated and $lO for the Steel. Also, that he will furnish Planters with a substantial article for weak and inefficient servants for $7. aulfi Dr. J. A. S. Milligan will attend to the practice of MEDICINE AND SURGERY, in Au gusta and its vicinity. Office in Metcalf’s Range, up stairs. En trance one door below Mr. J. E. Marshall’s Drug Store. au!B I _ O’ bands’ Sarsaparilla. —The Proprietors submit to the public the following certificate from a highly respectable source, of a cure made by using their preparation of Sarsaparilla : Norwich , N. Y., Oct. 6, 1846. —Messrs. A. B. &. D. Sands: Gentlemen—Feelings of gratitude induce me to make a public acknowledgment of the benefit 1 have derived from the use of your Sarsaparilla. I have for several years been afflicted with scrofulous swellings in my head, which at times would gather and discharge at my throat, nose and ears, and at other times, would break out in different parts of my face and head. These continued until my throat, face and head were almost one complete sore, and for a long time I was so hoarse that it was with the utmost difficulty that 1 could speak above a whisper. Du ring this time I had several attacks of pleurisy and other diseases. I consulted different physicians, and tried various remedies, but received no benefit until I commenced using your Sarsaparilla. I am now well; the sores are all healed, and I attribute the re ‘ suit entirely to the effects of your valuable medicine. ! Yours, with respect and gratitude, Phcebe Cahoon*. Being personally acquainted with the person above named, I believe her statement to be correct. James M. D. Carr, Justice of the Peace. and sold, wholesale and retail by A. B. & D. Sands, Druggists, 100 Fullon-street, New- York. Soldalso by Haviland, Risley & Co., and by Druggists generally throughout the United States. Price SI per bottle. Six bottles for live dollars. au2o-d&w mMeJicinal Uses of the "Wild Cherry. Ever since the settlement of America, Wild Cher ry has been known to possess very important medi i cinal virtues. Every body knew this fact, but no body knew how to extract its essential properties. Every mother gives Wild Cherry tea to her children for worms, for colds, and for almost every disease ; and adults, throughout our country are in the habit of making a compound or syrup of wild cherry bark, and other ingredients, to be used in spring as an antidote to complaints incident to that changeful sea son. It is found by experiment that the wild cherry possesses even far more important qualities than was ascribed to it. For the first stages of Consumption, Asthma, no matter how long standing, Coughs, Liver Complaints, etc., it is proved to be the best medicine known to man. Dr. Wistaria Balsam of Wild Cher ry is a chemical extract, combined with a similar ex tract from tar, which enhances its value. Its success in curing pulmonary disease, in almost every stage, after our best physicians could do no more, has as tonished the faculty, and led them to confess that Wis tar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry possesses a principle heretofore unknown among medical men. None genuine unless signed I. Butts, on the wrap per. For sale, wholesale and retail, by Haviland, Risley & Co., Thos. Barrett & Co., and Drug gists generally in Georgia. a.i2o-tw&w (Eominerrial. NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2 P. M.— Since our lust, we have by telegraph farther advices from abroad fif teen days later. They show a very serious decline in the value of all descriptions of breadstutfs at Liver pool. Western canal flour, which at the departure of the Hibernia was selling at 345. 6d. a 355., was only w r orth at the Cambria’s sailing 27- a 275. fid. Indian corn had fallen about Bs. per quarter; wheat Is. fid. per bushel, and corn meal sis. per bbl. It the quotations furnished by our telegraphic cor respondent are the latest, and correct, there has been a decline of jd. per pound in cotton, as he places fair Upland at 7f, while it was quoted at 7fd. when the Hibernia left. It may be, however, that this decline is the one to which he subsequently alludes as being “ partially recovered.” Cotton yesterday was quiet. To-day there is noth ing doing, dealers awaiting the arrival of their letters. The flour market, is unsettled. Holders do not ap pear willing to make much concession, on account of the adverse news from abroad. There have been no sales since the news was re ceived, but as near as we can ascertain holders will not sell below 85.75 for Genesee and 85.50 for Oswe go I Exchange.- — Foreign —The market for foreign bills wither vmsettled to-day; on account of dealers being adverse to either buy or sell in the absence of the letters by the Cambria. We omit quotations as they cannot be given correctly. SAVANNAH, August 20. — Cotton. —Arrived since August 12th, 730 bales Upland (526 per Rail road, and 204 bales from Augusta,) and 10 bales Sea Island. The exports for same period have been 14 hales Sea Island, and 1,127 Uplands, viz : 1,023 bales I Upland 4 hales Sea Island to New York and 104 bales Upland to Charleston, leaving a stock on hand and on shipboard not cleared, of 474 bales Sea Islands and 5,292 bales Upland, against 241 bales Sea Islands' and 6,217 bales Upland at same time last year. ’ The sales of the Aveek sum up as follows: 47 bales at 12J; 11 at 12; 55 at Ilf; 11 at Ilf; 120 at lU. 43 at Ilf; 26 at Ilf; 7 at lOf; and 2 at 104 cents— in all 322 bales. The market has been very quiet during the week without any decline in prices, purchasers preferring to wait for the steamer’s advices. We quote as follows: Ord. to good ord-•• lOfal If j Middling fair-1 If al2 Middling good mid-1 Ifal If | Fair to g’d f’r 12faI2f STATEMENT OF COTTON. 1846-47 1845-46. Stock on hand, Sept. 1 5,456 2,611 Received since Aug. 12- • • • 730 1,784 “ previously 225,925 172,649 Total receipts • -232,111 177.044 Exported this Aveek 1,127 2,479 “ previously--225,692 168,348 Total 226,819 170,827 Remaining on hand, Aug. 19 5,292 6,217 Rice. —The sales of the week are 55 casks at ssf; 165 at 5; 48 at 4| and 34 damaged at 4fc. Flour , —Good Georgia brings readily s6| per bbl., anp s3£ per bag of 100 lbs. Corn. —There has been no sales during the Aveek; the market is overstocked, and no buyers. Groceries. —We notice sales of 115 bbls. N. O. Whiskey at 26c. Rope. —A lot of 120 coils Kentucky avbs sold this week at 74 a Bc. Bagging. —Small sales of Kentucky have been made at 16£ a 17c. Exchange. —Sterling is selling out of doers at 5f a sf. The Banks sell sight checks on Ncav Yoik at J prem. They purchase sight to 5 day checks, par; 30 day bills at § ; 60, H- Freights. —There are no vessels in port for Liver pool, Boston, Philadelphia, or Baltimore. The rates to New York are f to 5-16 for Cotton, and 75 per cask for Rice. CHARLESTON, August 21— Cotton When we left the market, at the close of the previous Aveek, a fair business had engaged dealers, atari advance on the better grades; and avc changed onr quotations, at the time, to correspond with this improvement; since our report of the 14lhinst., however, the Upland mar ket has been very quiet, but so far as prices are con cerned, we nave no hcav feature to notice. The want of later European advices, and the indifference mani fested on the part of holders about selling, unless on their own terms, have kept the market very quiet throughout the week, as the operations do not exceed 570 bales. Our quotations, which Avere the govern ing rates at the opening of the week will give a fail criterion of the market at the close of business yester day. The sales since our last are as Tolloavs, viz ; on Monday 98; Tuesday 75; Wednesday 100; Thurs day 18; and Friday 275 bales. The actual transac tions comprise 22 bales at 10§, 103 at Ilf, 152 at ll£, 46 at Ilf, 118 at Ilf, 53 at 12, and 53 bales at 13c. per lb. The receipts are 2373 bales. Nothing has been done in Long Cotton. t Comparative statement of Cotton, embracing Stock on hand , Receipts and Exports. 1846-7. 1845-6. Stock on hand, Sept, 1, 1846 • • - 7406 10269 Received since Aug. 13 2373 “ previously 349427 Total receipts •• 359206 253432 Exported since Aug. 13 1896 “ previously 333095 Total exports 334991 246163 On shipboard, not cleared 1762 490 Deduct from total receipts- • - • 335763 246653 Remaining on hand, Aug. 20-22453 6779 The following is a statement of the receipts ami stock of cotton on hand amt on shipboard not cleared , at the re spective places named: 1846-7. 1545-6. Rec’ts. Stock. Rec’ s. Stock. N’cav Orleans, Aug. 14, .71*2931 427D2 10 ;9095 19033 Mobile, Aug. It 324''75 36531 42*045 9*63 Florida, Aug 7 127391 2779 Texas, June 30 8963 400 Georgia, Aug 19 226301 5494 174229 6315 Do. Sea Island 7073 464 10J134 209 S. Carolina, Aug. 20...334979 21215 2*93,'6 B*6S Do Sea Island 13559 4263 19370 1103 V Carolina, Aug. 7.... 6073 400 9401 ll'OO Virginia, Aug. 0 11130 250 12125 200 Total 1762473 117513 2054875 45-192 1 Macon, Ga. Aug. 1 3742 3558 Augusta «Sc Hamburg, Aug. 1 19703 18256 ?bi ladelphia. Aug. 14 4480 5657 New York, Aug. 10 113158 49 XX) Total 141383 76471 Rice. —This article has been in better request since our last than for several weeks past, and in conse quence of the limited supply on the market, for the j crop of 1846 is almost exhausted, holders have obtain ed some slight advantage over purchaesrs. The sales reach perhaps 900 tierces, mostly contracted for, and the market is an eighth of a dollar better than it was during the previous Aveek. The sales have been at extremes ranging from 5 to ss| per hundred. A large portion, however, was sold at ss£ per 100. Re ceived 880 tierces. Corn. —The Corn market continues to be very much[neglected, as the sales have been confined to small ! parcels Country and Georgia, with and without the bags, at prices within the range of our quotations — viz: 65 a 70c. The receipts per Rail Road this week are 2000 bushels. Flay. —There have been no arrivals during the week, but there is a fair supply on sale. The last ar rival was sold at 70c. per 100. Flour. —The receipts of the week comprise 300 bbls. Baltimore and 370 bbls. per Rail Road. The supply on sale is light, but the demand is also limited, and confined to small parcels. A portion of the for raer has been sold at $7 and per bbl., and a part of the latter at prices ranging from 5f to s6| per bbl., according to quality. Bacon. —There is very little demand for Bacon at \ present I^ard. —Nothing has been done in this article since our last. Salt. —There is none afloat. Sugar. —The heavy operations of the preceeding fortnight or three weeks in Muscovado has reduced the ||, supply in the hands of importers, and holders have consequently been able during the Aveek to sell at bat ter advantage. The transactions reach about 180 hhds, at prices ranging from 6| to 7c., principally at 6ic. About of) hhds. Louisiana description sold at prices ranging nnm 6£ to 7c. | Coffee. —We have heard of no transactions during i jJ the week. The stock consists chiefly of Rio and La guira, and Ave Avould refer to our quotations for a fair index of the market. Molasses. —The stock, which consists chiefly of I Cuba, has been very much reduced by recent ship ments coastwise ; and the reduction of the supply has also enhanced prices. There was a sale of this des- | cription of 90 hhds. from store at 21c. per gallon. — The previous sale a fortnight since was at 18c. Re ceived since our last 90 hhds. Cuba from the West In dies, which have been exported. Nothing doing in the other descriptions, and present quotations are nom inal. Bagging. —This article has attracted some atten tion during the week. The transactions, however, have been confined solely to Kentucky, of which some 1500 pieces have changed hands. The market opened ; i at 15 and closed at 16c., at which Ave noAv quote. Whiskey. —The sales of the week have been limit ed to 50 bbls. New Orleans at 26c. per gallon. j Rum. —A small lot of New England, in bbls, was sold at 30c. per gallon. Exchanges. —There is very little doing. The Banks sell Bills on England at 7 per cent, prem.; en France 5f.25 a 5f.27. Checks on New York, Phila delphia, Baltimore and Boston £ per cent. prem. Freights. —To Liverpool in American bottoms a! £d. for square bags Cotton. Nothing up for Havre, and no Cotton offering to Boston. The New York rate |l, for Cotton in square bags, is jc., and dull. MOBILE, Aug. 18.— Cotton. —At the date of oat last review the cotton market firm, Avith a g<*« demand, at the quotations then given. The firmness then noticed has continued throughout the week, am | a fair business has been done at full prices. The quo tations Avhich we give below vary but little from those of last week, and the market may be said to be hrmiv established at these rates. The sales of the wee* amount in round numbers to 4000 dai . transactions as follows: Wednesday 1800 Thursday 800, Friday 200, Saturday 600, Mooda>
