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CIIRONmE & sentinel 3 J. w\ & W S. JONES. ov i L t ; eKLY OFF roap B^J“^ piyo ; TR R MS—Daily Paper, per annum, in advance-. $lO Tri- Weekly Pap ol ') . 1( . 0 (a mammoth sheet) ■ " - <' \SH SYSTEM. —In no case will an order forthe a per be attended to, unless accompanied with the oev. and in every instancewhen the lime for winch an v subscription may be paid, expires before the re ee.pt of fads to renew the same, the paper will re discontinued. Depreciated funds received at value in thiscity. lETTER FROM SENATOR PHELPS. To the Freemen of Vermont. Holding myself responsible to my constitu ency for my official coodnct, I dee.n an expla nation of my course on a recent occasion due both to that constituency and myself. Much excitement seems to have occurred in relation to the bill for the establishment of Government in the newly acquired territory, (commonly called the “Compromise Bill,”) reported by the Select Committee of the Senate, of which Committee I was a member ; and some stric tures, not very favorable, have been made in the public prints, upon my connection with that measure. I have never doubted that I could vindicate my conduct, on that occasion, in the judgment of all intelligent and impartial men. My reasons for concurring in that hill in the Committee, and sustaining it in the Senate, were fully given on the door of the Semite, but unfortunately my remarks were so imperlccily and inaccnrarely reported to the public, as to give no intelligible representation of my views. Circumstances have delayed their publication in a more authentic and satisfactory form; but they will be laid before the public in a very few days, as published under my inspection. In the meantime, I avail myself of the earli est leisure, after being released from a most ar duous and fatiguing session, to ask a suspen sion of opinion until the grounds of ray action can be understood. At the same time it will not be improper to correct the very great mis apprehension which has prevailed in regard to that measure. The bill was in the outset gross ly misrepresented, and of course, grossly mis understood ; and, to a very great extent, was condemned before its import and object were known. I voted for that bill with a settled conviction that its effect would be the utter and absolute exclusion of slavery from all those territories. — The sincerity of that conviction, and of my purpose to effect that exclusion, I venture to say, no member of the Senate, of any party doubts. That such would have been the effect of the bill bad it become a law, so far as the le gislation of Congress can effect that object, 1 maintain now. And do so by a course of ar gument used in vindication of my course before the Senate, which no member of that body ventured to controvert. Its soundness was ad mitted by political friends and political oppo nents, by those who advocated and those who opposed the bill. An epitome will be giv en. The bill, although a long one, contained but two allusions to the subject of slavery. The first was a prohibition to the territorial legisla ture to pass any law on the subject. The sec ond gave an appeal from the territorial to the Su preme Court of the United States, in all cases where the question of slavery was introduced. The objectionable features of the bill, if they exist at all. must be found in one or botli of these provisions. Slavery (by which I mean African slavery) was abolished in all territories of Mexico: Ist. By a decree ofGuerrera, while Dictator, in the year 1829. This was done in the course of a revolution, and might perhaps be consider ed abrogated by a counterrevolution. 2nd. By the Constitution of 1834. 3d. By a decree of the Mexican Congress of the sth of April. 1837. This decree has been obtained fromthe Department of State, and has been published in the various newspapers of the country. It is not deemed necessary to repeat it here. 4ih. The Mexican Government was bound by a treaty with Great Britain, not to allow slavery in any of the territories of the republic ; which of course prohibits its restoration. Such was the law of New Mexico and Cali fornia when the accession to the United States took place. By the law of nations and th - civi lized world, the laws of a conquered or ceded territory, so far at all events, as they relate to rights of property and private rights, remain in force until superseded by the legislation of the acquiring power, or, in other words, until that power enacts new laws. If authority is de manded for this position, it may be found in the late decision of the Supreme Court of the U. S in the case of Henderson vs. Poindexter, 12th Peter’s Reports The decree of the Mexican Congress of the sth April, 183"^.therefore in force when the bill of the CoTmhittee was reported to the Senate, and is in force yet. What, then, did the Committee’s Bill propose? It did not then propose to repeal the local law of those pro vinces, but on the comrary, prohibited the lo cal legislature from changing it. This prohibi tion originated with me. I was the first to sug gest it, and I did so, with a view to perpetuate the existing laws of those provinces which prohib it slavery. Little did 1 imagine at that moment, that I was exposing myself to the charge of misrepresenting my constituency, or advoca ting the extension of slavery. But there is another principle which may be noticed here Slavery is a local institution, ex isting only by positive law. It cannot be tians ferred to a jurisdiction where no such laws ex ist. The consequence is that a slave taken by his master into a Free State becomes free. The case would he the same with a fugitive slave, were it not for the provision for his surrender in die Constitution of the United States, which was introduced into that instrument because, Without it, the relation of master and slave would not he recognized in a free State. The result is that a slave taken into one of these ter ritories. would become free. I tie lid then would exclude slavery as effectual ly as the legislation of Congress can do. It is Jull as effectual to this purpose as the Wilmot / roviso. The language of that Proviso is, that slavery shall not be permitted in these territo ries—-hat of the bill is, slavery is now prohibit cd there by law,—let that law remain. It shall not be altered. 1 ue lull has been represented as settling no .,' 1 "£;r as I " a ' m - ever y thing: at loose ends,— si tverv .P r “ l,ibll,n * the people from excluding slavery, tl they would. All this may be said e T mniUw °f ,hose territories is kepi out of stahi nay.il one assume that the previous law there sanctioned slavery, much more might be said. The bill then would ner petti ate slavery. But the effect of the hill is to be judged by reference to the state of thin-s upon winch It IS to operate. i t ia all-important to know what that law is which is not to be changed. If it exclude slavery, and is not confirmed and perpetuated by the bill in q Ues . tion, how can it be said that the hill authorizes the extension of slavery ? How can slavery be introduced there consistently with this bill ? And how can 1 be charged with abandoning the principles or misrepresenting the sentiments of my constituents ? Another egregious error in regard to this bill is the idea, that Congress endeavored to throw off their duty and their responsibility upon the Supreme Court ; —that the bill would call the Supreme Court to do their duty. This is a great mistake. The bill refers nothing to that Court. It does not mention or allude to that Court, except as it provides for an appeal from the judicial tribunal proposed to be established in the territories, to the Supreme Court. It at tempts to confer no legislative power on that Court, but, as I have endeavored to show, it proposed to exert the full legislative power of Congress to the exclusion of slavery, by sanc f tinning and perpetuating the existing prohibi tion. What then is left to the Court? It is this: —Certain Southern gentlemen, at the head of whom is Mr. Calhoun, insist that the Constitution guarantees to the people of the South their property in slaves,—-that, if they choose to go to the territories with their slaves, the guarantee would protect that property there. They ofconrse, insist that, as the Con stitution is in force in these newly acquired territories, it overrides and annuls the local law —and further that Congress has no power to interfere with this property in the territories, or exclude it therefrom —that the Wilmot Proviso, if enacted by Congress, would be unconstitu tional and void, and that the Ordinance of 1787 is equally so. Now if these gentlemen are right, all our le gislation, byway of prohibiting slavery, goes for nought. Certain it is, Congress cannot re peal the Constitution. Nor can they determine its construction. This is in its nature a juidi cial question, entrusted by the Constitution to the Supreme juidicial tribunal, and there it must remain We deny the doctrine of Mr. Calhoun absolutely and totally. My own views of that question were fully expressed in a reply to Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Berrien. That reply will soon be laid before the public in connection with ray remarks on the bill in ques tion. Disagreeing as we do upon the question, there is but one tribunal which can decide be tween ns, and that is the Supreme Court. The ! Committee therefore left that question where they found it, and where they were obliged to leave it. We had, as we believed, exhausted the legislative power, the judicial we could not assume. We had frarad a bill which we thought effectual, —its constitutionality if it passed, was a matter to be determined by another depart ment. The error probably grew out of the remarks of Mr. Clayton, which were not fully under stood. He remarked that the whole controver sy was left to the Supreme Court. That was true, because the controversy was reduced to the simple constitutional question. Mr. Clay ton. I have reason to know, regarded the bill, as I did, and considering the only remaining question to be the validity of our law, he very properly treated the determination of that tri bunal, as all that remained to be done, to close the whole controversy. All that the Committee could do in reference to this question was to see that it should not be left to the final determination of the Territorial Judges appointed by the President. This they did, by providing an appeal, in all cases involv ing this question, to the Supreme Court The result of the whole matter is, that the bill excluded slavery from the territories, so far as the legislative power could effect it.— Whether Congress possessed the power to do so, was a question left where the Constitution had placed it. What more we could have done I have yet to ieurn. The Wilmot Proviso would not have been in my judgment, more efficient. The Pro viso would not have passed the Senate. Its very name had become odious at the South. It professes to proceed upon the authority of Con gress, alone, without regard to the wishes of the people of the territories The Southern doc trine has always been that this subject should be left to them. The bill of the Committee, while it secured the object of the North by ex cluding slavery at the same time conformed, in a measure, to Southern views as it adopted and perpetuated the laws which the people of the territories had previously enacted. Southern gentlemen could sustain one but not the other. For myself, considering the practical result to be the same in both cases 1 felt at liberty to a dopt that form which promised success, rather than that in which defeat was certain. Samuel S. Phelps. Middlebury, Vt. Aug. 19. 1848. IRISH POTATOE. From the Laurensville, (S. C.) Herald. Mr. Editor:—ln looking over the Patent • Office Reports, I see a paper translated from the German by E. G. Smith, on the cultivation of Potatoes. As it contains useful matter, and many of your readers may not see that work, I send yon a condensed abstract. Although the Irish potatoe is not an esculent of so much I iinpor'ance with us, as it is in the Northern r Slates and Northern Europe, yet every farmer . has his patch, and we would find our table comforts materially lessened, if we were with . out it. And it may even happen that it will s hereafter become one of onr marketable pro ductions, since so far as I know we are yet j exempt from the rot, or potatoe disease, so de , strnctive North, as in Ireland, actually to have j produced a famine. Alreadv, early in the > spring, the Southern seaboard furnishes the t Northern cities with a considerable amount. . The following table shows the comparative re sults, for two years, of different kinds of ma nure each plot or patch 100 feet square. Each had the same quantity, and the same kind of manure both years: First Plot.—W ithout manure, 36 pounds in 1845, and 53 pounds in 1846. Second Plot. With 52 pounds of cow dung, 47 pounds in 1845 and 70 pounds in 1846. Third Plot. —With 52 pounds of horse dung, 41 pounds in 1845 and 64 pounds in 1846. • Fourth Plot.—With 52 pounds of hog dung, 40 pounds in 1845 and 59 pounds in 1846. Sixth Plot.— With 52 pounds of vegetable mold 33 pounds in 1845 anil 51 pounds in 1846. Eighth Plot.—With 35 pounds poudrette, 40 pounds in 1845 and 57 pounds in 1846. Thirteenth Plot — With 12 ounces of saltpetre, 37 * pounds in 1845 and 76 pounds in 1846. Fourteenth Plot.—With 14 ounces of potash, (carb.,) 51 pounds in 1845 and 66 pounds in 1846! Plot. —With 15 ounces of gypsum, 35 pounds in 1845 and 49 pounds in 1846, The potatoe disease was found least in the nnmanured plots, and greatest where gypsum was used, which continued moist after the other plots were dry. It was also greater in the ma nured plots, than where no manure was used. Hence Hluhek supposes that putrescent ma nures and moisture increase the disease—(six pounds were planted ineach of theabove plots.) Next is an experiment to show the influence of dividing (cutting) the seed potatoes on the product. Five rows, manured with well rotted cow duug, were planted, 2 rows witli 60 whole tubers (roots,) 2 with 60 halves, 2 with 60 quarters, 2 with 60 eyes with flesh, and 2 with 60 eyes without flesh. The result was as follows : 60 whole tubers, weighing 6 pounds, yielded 69 pounds. 60 half tubers, weighing 3 pounds, yielded 68 pounds. 60 quarter tubers, weighing 1£ pounds, yielded 5o pounds. 60 eyes with flesh, weighing 17 ounces, .yielded 50 pounds. 60 eyes without flesh, weighing 9 ounces, yielded 40 pounds. Which shows that dividing the tubers les sens the product— yet when seed are scarce B may be good policy. Next is an experiment lo show the effect, dis ol*i c * use al, d wide planting, have upon but S. r e d " C '-| A,,he '«Ue - long. 1 emit it; abomfn r’lV- '! m ' the distance is th in i ~ Inc ies , aI1( l that much nearer : waste * of* le T DS ‘an b e-g « of seed. Allowing an acre of l-iml duc^ann' 1111 4f l CWl * of who,e tubers will pro e 40 ) cvvt., then the product per acre wifi be With half tubers oao j With quarter tubers 019 CW^‘ With eyes with flesh ‘ 9 q7 cw J* With eyes without flesh .*-228 cvvt' Besides this, analysis has shown that the no atoes grown from whole tubers are richer .n nutriment (starch) as 12 is to 10, than those h^b:'diS" ibers ’ and areaisol -o r u°n:i^rr t rime H nt that lar «« ! as s,,laller - * ie about of an ounce as the best size for p| a „ t i ng . The potatoes grown Iron, small tubers pro fed also I«» be , less l,able ,0 ba «t, than those grown 1 from ones. To sum „p_these experi ments prove, that cow pen manure and potash, (I supnose ashes would do as well,) are the best manures—that cutting up the tubers les sens the product —that from 10 to 12 inches is the proper distance to plant in the drill, and that much closer is not only a waste of seed, but lessens the product, and finally that tubers weighing about three-fourths of an ounce, are better for seed than larger. Franklin. Chronicle auD Sentinel. A TJGtTS TA, GA: FRIDAY MORNING, OCT’R 6, 1848. WHIG NOMINATIONS. For President ot tlie United Slates t ZACHARY TAYLOR, OF LOUISIANA. For Vice-President s MILLARD FILLMORE, OF NEW-YORK. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. WILLIAM TERRELL, SEATON GRANTLAND, HAMILTON W. SHARPE, WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD, ANDERSON W. REDDING. WILLIAM MOSELEY, WARREN AIKEN, ASBURY HULL, YELVERTON P. KING, GEORGE STAPLETON, the late law of Congress the election for President and Vice-President is to be held in all the States on the same day, viz: Tuesday afier the first Monday in November. This year, therefore, the election occurs on Tuesday the 7th day of November. All persons entitled to vote for members of the Legis_ lature are entitled to vote for President and Vice-Pre sident. The above is the Tavlou Electoral Ticket, for which every man must vote entire , who desires the success of “ Old Zack.” Tlie Compromise Bill.--Mr. Phelps. In another column will be found the letter of Senator Phelps, of Vermont, to his con stituents, vindicating his vote on the “ Com promise Bill,’* and giving his reasons for that vote. It will be recollected that Mr. Phelps was one of the special committee who reported the bill, and as he is regarded among the ablest lawyers of the Senate, his reasons are worthy the consideration of Southern men. We therefore invite their attention to the letter. It should read and carefully studied by every Southern man of whatever party. Florida. By reference to our Telegraphic despatch from Savannah, it will be perceived that the Democrats of Savannah have given up Florida. Such, we presume, is the character of the re turns, for we have no means of comparing, that they perceive the “handwriting on the wall.” Georgia and Florida have, therefore, taken their position in the long list of States that are nrrayed under the ample folds of the Constitution, and have proclaimed their devo tion to “ Old Zack” as their standard-bearer and leader. They repudiate, aye spurn, the embrace of CASs-ism, as uncongenial to the protection and preservation of Southern rights and interests. Chancellor Walworth, This distinguished jurist is the Old Hunker Candidate for Governor, in the State of New York. In his letter, accepting the nomination, we find the following paragraph : “Upon the question of the expediency of introduc ing slavery into territories of the United Slates where it does not now exist, there is probably no real defer ence of opinion between any of the political parties in the northern and middle States. But I entirely agree with some of the most distinguished jurists of our country, that as slavery does not now legally ex ist in California and New Mexico, it can only be in troduced into those free territories by positive law; and that no legislation is necessary to prevent its in troduction there. For this reason lam opfHised to the agitation of a question for mere political purposes, the elfect of which agitation will be still further to paralyze the efforts of the philanthropists of the south in favor of a gradual system of emancipation in those States where slavery already exists, and has retarded the progress of freedom there.” Mr. Walworth is the able and selected lead er of the Cass party, in a Stale which will give more than 500,000 votes at the Presidential election. He is a gentleman of candor and of t»uth, who has known Mr. Cass 30 years, and is bis superior in every respect. He speaks, then, not his own sentiments alone, but those of the Cass Democracy of “ the northern and middle States.” Does the reader ask: What is the policy of the Cass men at the North to ward the institution of slavery ? Chancellor Walworth answers, to do nothing “to para lize the efforts of the philanthropists [Cassius M. Clay, and the like “philanthropists”] of the South, in favor of a gradual system of emanci pation in those States ichere slavery already ex ists, and thus retard the progress of freedom there.” This language of the Hunker candidate for Governor, breathes a common spirit, with the. ardent prayer of Mr. Cass, for “the abolition of slavery everywhere.” It is the soul and sub stance of the most rampant abolitionism of the non-slaveholding States. Gen. Cass was first put in nomination by the Wilmot proviso «ien of Michigan, with a view to aid and assist -'the philanthropists” of Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky, to carry into effect “a system of gradual emancipation in those States.” It was the Cass Democrats in Congress who insisted on placing the Wilmot proviso in the bill organizing the territory of Oregon, and forced a Southern Democratic President to sign the same. It was abolitionists of the Hunker, Walworth. Marcy and Ckoswell school, that compelled President Polk to en dorse the Constitutional right of Congress to exclude slavery from territories, whether they lie north or south of 36 degrees 30 minutes north latitude. It is such shrewd, practical abolitionists as Cass and Walworth, who know how to command the support of such time-serving Southern politicians as James Kl* Polk, and of such Southern journals as the Charleston Mercury and Constitutionalist, tha.t will surround the slaveholding Stales with a. cordon of anti-slavery communities, and excite them all to pray for the extinction of the In stitution. These prayers have a powerful ef fect. To find the Mercury a class-leader in a Cass abolition prayer-meeting, should adinon ish the moderate men of all parties not to trust warm Democratic journals. With them party triumph is every thing, the Constitutional rights of the South nothing. Both they and Presi dent Polk can talk largely about *• Southern i Rights,” and the unconstitutionally of Con- 1 gress legislating slavery out of any territory whatever; yet when the pinch comes, they for narrow party purposes endorse the Wilmot proviso. They even have the effrontery to ask the planters of Georgia and South Caro lina to vote against the noble old sugar planter of Louisiana, and place Lewis Cass at the head of their National Government. They tell us that Northern Whigs are al! abolitionists, forgetting that these Northern Whigs had a large majority in the Philadelphia Convention, and nominated as their candidate for President one of the largest slave holders in the Union. What man of common intelligence does not know that abolitionism is made of different materials ? That it is ever complaining of the slave States for furnishing more than their just share of Presidents ? Northern Whigs are willing to trust their national interests to the safe keeping of the great and true men of the South, while Northern Democrats are about equally divided in their support of the Anti" Slavery nominee of Michigan and the Free Soil candidate of New York. In regard to the momentous question of admitting or ex cluding the institution into New Mexico and California, Chancellor Walworth justly as serts that there is substantially no difference between them. The friends of Mr. Cass claim in all the free States that he is a belter free soi[ man than Mr. Van Buren, and so he is. His superiority rests on the advantage of being more supple, a greater demagogue, and able to cheat Southern Democrats after the most ap proved Louis Philippe fashion. Taylor Fires Burn Brightly* The people of New-York and Massachusetts are moving with resistless force for Taylor and Fillmore. The few Whigs who were seduced into the ranks ofthe “ Free Soilers”at first, have discovered their mistake, and are go ing for the regular candidates of their party. Cass and Van Buren appear to divide the de mocrats into two nearly equal factions. Neither withdraw—each being intent on the over throw of his rival. The fatuity of this family quarrel serves to drive thousands of disgusted members ofthe party to enlist under the pa triotic banner of the hero of Buena Vista. Savannah and New York l*ine of Steamers* It gives us pleasure to be able to announce, that the Steamship Cherokee will sail for New York, from Savannah, on the 11th instant. For particulars see advertisement. “The Faker of Siva,” —Who proposes to give entertainments at the Theatre this and to-morrow evenings, presents an attractive “ bill of fare.” As these exhibi tions require to be seen to be appreciated, we presume “the Fakir” will be liberally patro nised. Gen. Wm. O. Butler. —The Battery says; “ In his late speech on the Florida War, deliv ered in the House of Representatives of the United States, June 11, 1840, Mr. William O. Butler used the following language in regard to Gen. Taylor: “ Gen. Taylor succeeded Gen. Jessup in the command, and as I have heard no complaint against him, I presume there is none. Fortu nately for himself sir, he is a Whig ; and fortu nately for the country he is a soldier of the high est order. ” It is stated that the Delaware river has not been as low as it is now since 1819. There were sixty battles fought daring the Revolutionary war; thirty-eight during the last war with Great Britain ; and thirty-two, in all, during me late war with Mexico. A new invention is noticed in the last Sci entific American, for the benefit of way pas sengers in the cars. A large dial is placed in each car with the names of different places up on it and a pointer to indicate the places ar rived at. A gong is so connected with the ma chinery as to sound whenever a stop is made. This latter will be a nuisance. Upwards of 72,000 Pine Apples have been shipped from the Bahamas to England this year and about 15,000 more are expected before the close of the season. So much for the W. I, Steamers. Coming out. —The Louisville Journal says: Five hundred Democrats in Bucks county, (Pa ,) have recently come out against General Cass. They were for him when he was first nominated, but they are “ strongly impressed with the belief that a great change has been going on in the public mind upon the subject —in their own as well as others. ” New Telescope, —Mr. Bruan Hascart, of this city, and probably one ofthe first opticians in America, has just completed a telescope of large size, ranging in magnifying power from 100 to 1000 it is a refractor, and it is said, by those capable of judging and drawing compari sons from observation, that it operates nearly, if not quite as well as the great refractory on Mount Adams. The workmanship is as per fect as mechanical skill can make it, and, as a whole, the instrument is a strong and incontro vertable argument against the expensive lolly of sending abroad for the like.— Cin. Com. Illinois Barnburners. —The Ottawa (111.) Constitutionalist of the 30th ult. says that not one of the electors on the Barnburner ticket are Whigs, the entire number being made of Locofocos and Abolitionists, What a com mentary upon the Northern Democrats ! All our accounts from Washington represent the office-holders to be in a terrible stale of alarm. They give up New York and New England—and even admit that Pennsylvania and Ohio are doubtful —which is tantamount to electing Old Zack before he gets to the Potomac. The Annexation of Cuba, &c.— By the late foreign advices, we learn that a correspon dence has taken place between the Spanish government and Mr. Saunders, the United States Minister, respecting Gen. Lopez’s plot to deliver Cuba into the hands of the Yankees. The American Ambassador’s explanations are considered quite satisfactory by the Spanish Cabinet, and all the communications that have passed between his Excellency and the Minister of Foreign Aftairswere sent home by him via London a few days ago, by a special messen ger. Spaniards regard Cuba as the gem of the Spanish crown. It is said luat the United States Ambassador at Madrid, ifps been sound ed by Narvez, with a view of finding out in an indirect manner, whether he will act as a medi ator between itself and Great Britain for the purpose of bringing about a reconciliation. Lord Palmerston has expressed his firm deter | mination not to have anything more to do with 1 the existing Spanish Cabinet. BY THE TELEGRAPH. Transmitted for the Chronicle & Sentinel* THE ELECTION. Savannah, Oct. s—4om. after 1. In Glynn county, King has 80 majority, and in Wayne 8. In Camden, Jackson has 100 majority. Florida Election.—St. John’s, 20 major ity for the Democrats; Newnanville, 40. Duval, (Whig,) 40; Nassau, 18 ; Cabell has 20 more than Brown. The Locos give Florida up. ELECTION RETURNS. First District* 1848. 184 T. King. Jackson. Clinch. 'l'oicns. Appling ... 106 160 Bryan 10 maj. 112 69 Bulloch 326 maj. 34 382 Camden 100 maj 89 181 Chatham 642 576 776 582 Emanuel 195 269 Effingham 54 maj, 175 110 Glynn 80 maj 121 33 Laurens....... 455 22 Liberty 40 maj. 165 142 Lowndes 422 355 Mclrtosh 23 maj. 125 117 Montgomery ... 224 27 Tatnail 291 76 Telfair 183 162 Thomas 441 330 Wayne ' 8 maj 62 ,81 Ware 205 205 Second District. Calhoun. Wellborn. Baker 255 maj 246 425 Decatur- • * • «»• 391 385 Dooly 317 517 Early 152 368 Houston 12 maj 627 687 Irwin 66 313 Lee 320 206 Macon 98 maj. 383 321 Marion 450 470 Muscogee ..... 295maj, 1089 1853 Pulaski 134 maj. 219 307 Randolph 673 683 Stewart 231 maj. 909 786 Sumter 140 maj. 571 466 Third District. Owen. Carey. Bibb 93 maj. 602 665 Crawford 35 maj 364 454 Harris 391 maj 785 409 Monroe 133 maj. 668 670 Pike 81 maj 737 835 Talbot 58 maj. 741 813 Twiggs 60 maj 267 414 Upson 180 maj. 611 356 Fourth District. Williamson. Haralson. Carroll 362 705 Campbell. 251 569 Coweta 76 maj 753 645 Fayette 241 maj 417 644 Heard • 96 maj 355 452 Henry 64 maj 884 878 Meriwether-•• • 206 maj 739 792 Newton 399 maj 913 442 Troup 569 maj 1023 433 Fifth District. Calhoun. Hacket, Cass 542 maj 731 1341 Chattooga ..... 350 426 Cherokee » 594 977 Cobb 371 maj 718 975 Dade 68 286 DeKalb 194 maj 759 990 Floyd 108 maj 569 600 Forsyth 453 657 Gilmer 297 786 Gwinnett 736 711 i Murray 303 maj 502 949 Paulding 277 391 Walker-* 635 770 Sixth District. Harris. Cobb. Clark 82 maj 616 437 Elbert 986 174 Franklin 588 maj 354 1032 Habersham ••• • 250 maj 446 784 Hall 222 maj 527 683 Jackson 157 maj 513 664 Lumpkin 451 maj 530 973 Madison 330 365 Rabun 59 299 Union 300 743 Walton 154 maj 526 721 Seventh District. Stephens. Day. Baldwin 44 maj 317 315 Butts 104 maj 243 354 Greene 536 maj 796 131 Jasper 23 maj 429 471 Jones 17 maj 406 443 Morgan--. 153 maj 393 281 Oglethorpe •• • • 399 470 152 Putnam 44 maj 388 312 Taliaferro 440 32 362 68 Wilkinson 22 maj 388 513 Eighth District. Toombs. Lawson. Bu'ke 456 321 590 370 Columbia 209 maj. 489 282 Hancock 177 maj 456 321 Jefferson 403 maj 519 93 Lincoln 267 175 Richmond 586 464 679 488 Scrivcn-* 13 maj 195 222 Washington. •• • 118 maj 612 558 Warren 226 maj 575 325 Wilkes 221 421 345 From the Charleston Courier of yesterday.—By Telegraph. Arrival of the Hermann. At eight o’clock last evening, we received in formation from the Telegraph office that the steamship Hermann arrived at New-York at five o’clock that afternoon. At fifteen minutes past ten o’clock, our Bal timore correspondent announced the arrival of the Hermann, and stated that no news by her had yet reached that place and that the Tele graph office was closed. The election for sheriff 1 of Baltimore took place yesterday, and resulted in the election of Chas. F. Cloud, the Democratic candidate, by a majority of one hundred and seventy. From Havana. We indebted to the prompt attention of the editor of the Savannah Republican for the fol lowing Telegraphic intelligence : The steamship Falcon had arrived at that port, having left Havana on the 30th ult. She reports that the recent gale along the southern coast, was not felt at Havana. The following quotations are given ander date of 26th ult, viz: Sugars, no alteration from last accounts ; Molasses advanced to rials. The Falcon reports having experienced good weather on the passage. The Spanish brig Amalia, from Matanzas for Teneriffe, put into Savannah for repairs, hav ing lost her topmasts in the gale of the 26th ult. David Paul Brown, Esq., received the nom ination of a mass meeting in Southwark, Phil adelphia, on Saturday evening, as the Inde pendent Rough and Ready candidate for Con gress from the first district. His opponents are T. B. Florence, Dem., and Lewis C. Levin, Native. CHARLESTON, Oct. 5. — Cotton. —A fair busi ness was done in this article yesterday ; the demand however, was confined principally to the better quali ties. The sales reached near 1200 bales, at extremes ranging from 5J to6jc. The bulk of the transactions were within the range of 6 a 6 3-l6ths. We quote good middling 5f a s|; middling fair 6; and fair and fully lair 61 a 6 3-16lhs. _ Rice. —The market continues very quiet. Sales yesterday 250 tierces, old and new, prime, at sos per hundred. REMOVAL. Force, brothers & moved their stock of BOOTs>, SHOE , LEA THER, TRUNKS, &c., to 236 Broad-street, store formerly occupied by C. A. Platt, a fe w doors below the U. S. Hotel, and directly opposite Messrs. Wnghf, Nichols & Co. au2s ■___ Special Notices. Au S us *» Encampment No. * REGULAR MEETING of the Encampment'Jill held THIS (Friday) EVENING, a, 8 "e,“ k ClSo 'y- By order of the C. P Oct. 6. ", P. rives LAW SCHOOL AT AUGUSTA The Subscriber’s Lectures will bn Burned on Monday, the 16th instant. o4 ' d3w WM. T. GOULD. O* Mechanics’ Bank, Augusta, G a> . 0f tober 3, 1848.-- Dividend No. 29. A • annual Dividend of SIX PER CENT, will be" ail to the Stockholders, on demand. o3 ’ lo M. HATCH, Cashier. 13= Bank of Brunswick, Augusta, 33 Oct., 1848... Dividend No. 10.—The Board of Directors have this day declared a Dividend of FOUR DOLLARS per share payable to the Stockholders o .i demand. JNO. CRAIG, ° 3 Cashier, SELECT SCHOOL FOR BOYS. O’Mr. John N. Rogers, a Graduate of the University of New York, proposes to'receive a limit ed number of boys under his instruction in English and Classical Studies. His School will open on the FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, and will be under the general supervision and religious instruc tion of the Rev. E. P. Rogers, to whom reference and application may be made, 03-d2w HALL AND WALTON MONUMENT. 13= Sealed Proposals will be received until the 15th instant, for the construction of a Gran ite Obelisk fifty feet in height, over the remains of Hall and \V alton in this city. The plan and spe emcations may be seen bv calling upon Dr. L. A Dugas * * 02-twtO!s JOHN DENNIS, M. D., BOTANIC PHYSICIAN, o* Respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity. KjfOffice atthe EAGLE & PHCENIX HOTFI je2o 5m • Job printing <£stablisi)mcnt. Railroad Bank Buildings, Broad-St. JOB PRINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, AND In the Best Style of the Art, PLAIN OR FANCY COLORS, EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE —EMBRACING SUCH AS : Business Cards, Hand Bills, any size. Show Cards, large. Posters, “ “ Receipts, Warehouse, Show Bills, Railroad, Dray, &c. Books, Pamphlets, Bill Heads, Blanks of all kinds, Bank Checks, Notes of Hand, Bonds, Certificates, Babels for Druggists, &c», &c., Ac. Law Blanks always on hand, or executed to order. The Proprietors of the Chronicle and Sen tinel assure their friends and the public that their orders for any thing in the Job Printing line will be executed in the best manner, and at as low rates as at any other establishment. MARRIED. In Clarke county, on the 26th ult., by the Rev. Mr. Glenn, Reuben R. Ransone, of Walton county, and Miss Mary Jane Dobbins, of Clarke county. €omn:mlai. SAVANNAH, Oct. 4.— Cotton. —Arrived since the 26th ult., 3,760 bales Upland (520 bales from Augusta, and 3,240 per Railroad,; and 51 do. Sea Is land. The exports for same period have been 2,484 bales Upland, viz : to New York 2,198 bales Upland; to Boston 283 Upland ; and to Charleston 3 bales Upland—leaving a stock on hand and on shipboard not cleared of 9,474 bales Upland, and 1,247 do Sea Island, against 4,243 bales Upland and 732 do. Sea Island at same time last year. The receipts since Ist September exceed those of last year 11,391 bales, and the exports 7,908 bales. In our tables we have deducted from the exports the cargo of bark Henry Dubignon. (1,753 bales Up land and 249 do Sea Island,) as it has been unloaded and will be reshipped. There is but little change to notice in the market since the close of our last report. The very light stock offering prevents that free inquiry that we should otherwise have. We hear that the river is rising at Augusta, and trust soon to have a considera ble addition to our stock from that quarter. The re ceipts per Railroad lai-t week were more than for some weeks past. We continue last week’s quotations, viz; Inferior 4f a—; ordinary to good ordinary 5 a SJ; middling to good middling 5£ a sf; middling fair 5 \ a—; fair 6| a—; fully fair to good fair 6| a—. The sales of the week amount to but 1,427 bales Upland, at ihe following prices: 31 at s{; 25 at s£; 10 at s|; 309 at s|; 139 at s£; 544 at 6; 217 at 6|, 204 at 6 and 6at 6 5-16 cents. Sea Island —There is scarcely any offering, and we hear of but one sale —4 bales while at 14 cents. We have had another fine week for picking, and the Upland Planters are so busy that they have not sent as much new Cotton to marketasthey otherwise would. STATEMENT OF COTTON. 1848-49 1847-48. Stock on hand, Sept. 1 8,900 6,942 Received this week 3,760 576 “ previously 8,845 771 Total receipts 21,505 8,289 Exported this week 2,484 39 “ previously-. • 9,547 2,697 Total 12,031 4,046 Remaining on hand, Oct. 3,- -9,474 4,243 Rice —There has been considerable inqui(y through out the week, but the full stock now offering has give n buyers a slight advantage, and we notice a de cline of about Ic. since our last report. There is now about an average amount of business doing. We notice the following sales : 35 tierces at S3j; 370 at $3 5-16; 30 at S 3 7-16; and 150 at S3£ per hundred. Flour. —The market has been quiet this week, with a fair retail demand. We notice sales of 100 bbls. Georgia at S 6, and 4,000 lbs, in bags at $3. Corn. — We have no wholesale iransactions tore port, but notice sales of about 1,500 bushels from store in lots, at 56 a 58 cents. Groceries. —The dealings this week have been en tirely by retail. Bagging. —The demand and prices have been steady for the past week ; we hear of sales of 45 bales Gunny at 19, and 40 pieces Dundee at 17 cents. Bale Rope. —The inquiry for this article seems greater than the supply, and we notice a slight im provement in prices, and have altered our quotations accordingly. 250 coi's sold at 9* cents. Exchange. —We quote Sterling at6| per cf. prem. with some transactions. In Domestic, the Banks pur chase sight to five day bills on the Northern cities at par, thirty days, f, and sixty days, U per cent, dis count, they sell sight checks at | per ct. prem. uui door rates rather easier, , Freights.— To Liverpool fa 7-16 for square a round bales—dull. Coastwise are also dull— m rate to New York is *c. per lb. for square and 5-16 c for round bales Cotton, and 62£ cents, p cask for Rice. To Philadelphia, and Boston, fc. tot square and 7-l6c. for round bales Cotton, and 87i cts. per cask for Rice. “"NEW ORLEANS, Sent. 29, P. M —Cotton.-- Owing to the report of the America’s arrival at New York and to the rumor that she brought a decline 1 Cotton, our market has been nearly at a stand am the sales are confined to 500 bales, in small lots. STATEMENT OF COTTON. Stock on hand, September 1, 1848 1-ni39 Arrived since to date 3 03^ Arrived to-day [_ 92,764 Exported to date 1 Exported to-day —- Stock on hand and rn ship-board no. cleared.- 62,193 We only hear of the sales of 400 c 300 bbls. Mnois i; V „ <salflfi 650 sacks White and i ellow sound, and 37* for the rejected, and 620 sac. ■ m Bacon.— lO casks Missouri clear Sides sold at
