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CaRONICLE & SENTINEL. B'ST J. W. & W. B.JONES. DAILI,TRI WEEKLY & \yEEKLY OFFICE IN RAIL, ROAD BANK BUILDING TERMS— Daily Paper, peran’m,in advance-$lO Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ " •* 5 Weekly, (a mammoth sheet) “ ,c •• 2 ('ASH SYSTEM. —in nocase willan orderforthe paper be attended to, unless accompanied with the money, and in every instancewhen thetimefor which the subscription may be paid, expires before the re ceipt of funds to renew the same, the paper will he discontinued. Depreciated funds received atvaluem this city. Speeches of the Hon. Thos. Butler Ring, ana Judge Burnett. At the Meeting held in Portsmouth Square , San Francisco, "relative to the organization of a State Government. Judge Burnett opened the meeting in a speech of great earnestness. He was bitter in his denunciations of Congress. He said he had lived long in Oregon, and thought the wrongs and neglect by the mother country of that territory could not be surpassed ; but they were as nothing, compared to what California had to complain of. But for the love we bore ourcommon country and glorious Union, the people of this territory would throw off all con nection with the United States, and they would be justified in the eyes of all nations ; for said he, our wrongs are more grievous than were j those of the American colonies which caused the Declaration of Independence. They were taxed without representation ; and rather than submit to it, they drew the sword and threw away the scabbard, and fought for liberty. But, if they were not represented, they were provi ded by the mother country with local govern ments and legal tribunals. Here, we have none ol these : we are taxeu, without being repre sented, and left without laws, or any form of civil government. This was no accident, but a fixed design, persevere in for two sessions of Congress. He continued in this strain to com „ menton the action, or rather want of action on the part of Congress.for some time,and then ex pressed himself in favor of a State government and pledged himself to use all the influence he possessed in favor of a speedy meeting of the convention. (This gentleman is a prominent man in the country, has lived a long Cfme in Oregon where he was a judge, but came here with the gold fe ver, and has become a permanent citizen, and will hold some high position in the new Slate.) Judge Burnett, at the close of his speech, in troduced to the meeting. The Honorable T. Butler King, a member of Congress from Georgia He expressed h s thanks for the high honor conferred upon him in calling on him to address so important a meeting of the people who were to make the solemn decision whether they weuld sustain the movement in favor of a Slate government. He complimented the people of San Francis co on the hospitality they extended to him ; spoke eloquently of the Beautiful Bay before him, which would soon have the flags of all na tions floating upon it. He said he was delight ed with this country, about which he had writ ten much and thought more. Mr. King unfor tunately felt himself called on by the severe remarks of Judge Burnett, in denunciation of Congress, to take up the defence of that body, which was evidently not his intention when he arrived at the meeting. He went into a history of the division that now so unhappily exists in the United States on the slavery question, and explained the Wilmot proviso. He then pro ceeded in an eloquent manner to appeal to the people of California to settle that question for ever, by forming a State government. Said he we cannot settle it on the other side of the Rocky Mountains—it must be settled here.— The North are as one man in favor of the Wil mot proviso ; the South equally unanimous against it. There are fifteen slave and fifteen free States, and the vote on the question .will be equal in the Senate The South werewill '"'■'•‘ing to leave the question of slavery to you to settle it in your own country your own way; but the Northern members considered them selves instructed by public sentiment to attach the Wilmot proviso to every bill brought for ward to provide a government for this territo ry. Th us Congress was paralyzed and will be until you take the question from their hands and settle it. With the North it is a sentiment —with the South a point of honor ; and those of you who are familiar with the history of the Pilgrim fathers who landed on the rock at Ply mouth, and the Cavaliers who settled the South, must know that their descendants will never give up positions taken with such deter mination. We look to you to settle the question by be coming a State. The people of the old States ardently desire it. fjp 3 ‘‘l speak knowingly, when 1 say the administration desire it ; and fro m extensive intercourse with the members of the last Congress, I am convinced they are most anxtous forthe question to be settled in this way. You will have no difficulty in being admitted as a Slate. I pledge myself to it, and I pledge .the administration, and I thinK I may speak equally confidently for the next Con- From a S ate Government, send on your Senator's and Representatives, and then admission is certain. You had representation, in that body. Immense appropriations have to be made for public purposes here. Millions of dollars will be readily voted by Congress for public buildings and to improve your rivers and harbors. You should have advice in these appropriations and in selecting sites for their expenditure.’’^^! He then commented, in a playful mood, for some time upon Judge Burnett’s denunciations of Congress for passing the hill extending the revenue laws over this country. He said Un cle s>am had paid twenty millions of dollars for the country. He was informed by the collector that the revenue amounted to about a hundred thousand dollars a month, just six percent up on the purchase money paid; and when the millions that would be paid out in appropria tions was taken into consideration, the govern ment was likely to be a loser so far as dollars ami cents were concerned. But that did not weigh a feather with the government. It was that great bay, which would command the trade of the Pacific, that caused the purchase of the country. If the country had been a barren waste, the government would have paid the same to secure this harbor. He then alluded in eloquent terms to the mineral resources ofthecountry, and its future destiny—said we would soon have a railroad completed from the great father of waters to this bay, that within ten years we would go in six days to St. Louis, sleeping all the way, and in eight to New York, and in eight minutes, in less than ten years, we would, through the lightning rods, talk with our brethren on the Atlantic ocean. He closed with a glowing eu logy on the flag of our country, which was hung aloft in the square where the crowd were assembled. [My sketch of Mr. King’s speech is imperfect from the fact that I was crowded and unpleasantly situated for hearing and tak ing notes, but made myself more comfortable afterwards.] Judge Barry, a member of the bar, from Louisiana, attempted to amend the resolutions by inserting Geu. Riley’s plan ; but it was de feated by a large majority. The crowd would not listen to hisremarks, nor those of General Morse, from the same State, in favor of Gene ral Riley’s plan, but would have one of their own. Early Cotton. —A boll ofcotion fully open ed was sent us this morning by Mr Henry Lawrence, who raised it in his garden in the Third Municipality. That gentleman informs us that in an ordinary season, bolls would have matured in his garden, from the Ist to the 4th of July, having been planted on the Ist of March. As it is, this cotton is, we believe, the first fully | developed yet seen here, the product of Louis- ' iana. It is from the Royal Chester seed, and of a particularly fine staple. — Pic. Ist. Apprenticeship. —One of the most serious obstacles lo the progress of the Mechanic Arts, among ns is the brief and irregular apprentice ship served. No greater mistake can be made than to suppose that a trade can be acquired in a few months. Without the instructions, prac tice an I discipline of a regular apprenticeship, no one can become so good a mechanic as he is capable of becoming. It is true that one who has good mechanical talents may in a short time, get a limited and superficial knowl edge of a trade, and be able to do a plain job in a bungling way. But such a person has no right to the proud title of “ Mechanic.” Be sides he must always labor under great disad vantages. His work will never command high prices, nor will he find ready and constant em ployment; unless there is a great scarcity of workmen in his particular business. Our stan dard of qualification for Mechanics needs ele vating. Until this is done we shall have bun glers instead of workmen. While so few of our Mechanics do first rate work, our people will go to the North and to Europe for their manufactures, machinery, &c. All our talk about encouraging home industry, and talent, dependence upon ourselves, &c., will amount to just nothing at all. Nothing needs now to be more strenuously urged than that, among all classes of mechanics, a full and regular apprenticeship in all cases be urged upon. Justice to the apprentice, lo the master and to the public, all require this. And it is the dictate of policy as well as of justice. Nothing short of this will ensure the apprentice such a knowledge of his business as will fit him to undertake business on his own account; no thing short of this will give the employer a pro per remuneration for his instruction; nothing short of this will give character and standing to us as a class. In Germany, the young man is not only re quired to serve aregularapprenliceship, but he is then required to travel three years, through the principal cities and towns of hia country, laboring awhile in each, to pay the expenses of his journey, and to give him a knowledge of all the new discoveries and improvements in his trade. Thus he becomes a thorough me chanic. For this reason we never see a bun gling v’orkman from Germany. No man is al lowed lo become a master, or boss, there, un less he can show specimens of the highest ex cellence of workmanship. Laws, rendering all this obligatory, might be out of place in our government, but we wish that custom, which is law in another form, might require, most per emptorily, a regularapprenliceship, in all cases. Let this important point not be lost sight of by the mechanics of the South.— American Me chanic, Abdel Knder. —This gallant Moorish chief t in is still kept in durance by the French Gov .rnment. The violation of promise committed by the former dynasty is continued by the pre sent one. and in answer to his petitions for release, he has been answered that the gov ernment is afraid he will not keep his word It must therefore, by this peculiar fear, con tinue to violate its own. A New IVeopon. —A new instrument of war is being used in the contest between Austria and Hungary. A corps of bombardiers is at tached to each divisi in of the army, each man of which carries three of these new projectiles, while another soldier attends with rack, sur mounted with a wooden tube, which serves to direct the fusee. The instrument consists of a wrought iron tube, pierced with holes, sharpened at the point and filled with a fiery matter They are so arranged that when they have accomplished the required distance a liquid fiery mailer gushes from below, and scat ters dismay among the horses of the cavalry. The hissing of these fiery pointed projectiles is more terrifying to the horses than the noise of the passage of shells. One single one us these sometimes succeeds in carrying disorder into a whole squadron. The Austrians first used them, bat in the arsenals which have fallen into the hands of the Hungarians, they found large quantities of them and they are now using them with deadly effect. A superb skeleton ol the extinct Irish elk, which measures feet in height from the hoof to the tip of the horns, was lately dis covered at the depth of four feet from the sur face of the earth, at Killowen, in the county of Wexford. • The Emperor of Russia is evidently desirous of gaining over Louis Napoleon. Heissend ing to Paiis the Duke of Lenchiemberg, who is cousin to the President of the republic. Death of a Chickasaw Chief.— We learn from the Van Buren (Ark.) Intelligencer of the 21st ult., that Col. Benj. Love, one of the treaty commissioners of the Chickasaw Nation, has been assassinated. He was waylaid several miles from his house, and shot, it is supposed, by a party of Buloxies ; a tribe oflndians, who. no doubt, a century since, formed a part of the Chickasaw Nation. Col. Love was one of the most intelligent and useful men among the Chickasaws, having been identified with their public matters since 1832, when he acted as U- S. Interpreter at the making of the treaty of that year. He had been in various public stations among his people since then ; was a chief, and aided in making the treaty of 1834 ; by the fourth article of which treaty he was created one ofthe seven commissioners to ap prove of claims of individuals ofthe Nation, growing out ofthe treaty.— Pic. 2nd inst. Troops Ordered to Florida. —We are in formed that one Company of the United States Troops, stationed at Charleston, left that city last Friday, on board the steamer Nina, for Florida The Company occupying the Bar racks in this city will also leave for the same destination in a few days, as we learn from Captain Anderson that he has been notified that orders to that effect have been issued by the War Department. A volunteer Company of one hundred men will leave Jacksonville, Florida, this day, for the Indian settlement. Whatever may be the extent of the recent outbreak in Florida, and the causes which led to it, whether personal feeling or general hos tility on the part ofthe Indians, it is a source of gratification that the Administration has taken prompt»measures for its suppression. We ap prehend that the people of Florida will not be content until every Seminole in their State is removed Savh. Rep. 6th inst. Revenge in Prospect. —The following no tice was posted on the columns cf the court house, at St. Louis, on the 24th ult. After the lecent awful suffering ia that city, by fire and cholera, we sincerely trust, any such attempt as is here threatened may be discovered and se verely punished : Notice.-- We, the undersigned, here caution those who may have been accessory, in the a- of the vagrant law, and all those who may see cause to enforce the same, for we do solemnly pledge ourselves as a united band b r °tihers, to bum five houses for every head that suffer, from the ,am 6. Furthermore, o double the amount, after it reaches five to ten, for every sufferer. We do sincerely hope you wt recollect the result of the Lynch law oflast fall, which was followed bv a few bonfires. Citizens, look to your interests • in the mean time, remember ours; beware h» ware. We tell you once more, bewSre ■ if you do insist, you will surely find the result will be worse than the cholera. Our names are Legion. Southern Cultivator.—This is a month ly Journal published at Augusta, Ga., devoted to Southern Agriculture; and is the best work of the kind we have yet seen. The amount of valuable information which it regularly fur nishes, and the excellent style in which it is got up, together with the low price at which it may be had, strongly covnmend it to the patronage of all who need a journal of this character.— Miss. Sovereign. Chronicle auD Sentinel. AUGUSTA, GA : WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8. FOR GOVERNOR : EDWARD Y OUNG HILL. The Northern Mail* The frequent failures of the New York Sa turday afternoon’s mails, since they have been sent by the steam-ships to Charleston, are cause for serious complaint, and call loudly for the proper corrective by the department at Washington. The steamer’s mails fail oftener to reach us when due than they arrive—the re sult of their non-arrival in Charleston in due season, or the culpable negligence in the Post Office in that city. We trust the Post-Master General will inves tigate the cause of these frequent failures, and if necessary abolish the steamer mails altoge ther, (which we think probably a very useless expenditure of money) or order the mail sent by the regular route, which brings the mail through in the same time and with much more certainty. A National Party. The time seems to be approaching when the efforts of sectional combinations will have to be resisted by a firm union of all true supporters of the Constitution in all parts of the country. It must come to that if there is to be any effectual resistance at all. The characteristic principle oT the Northern organ ization under the lead of Mr. Van Buren, is sectional and nothing else. No concealment is attempted.— What other principles may be included in its schedule of issues—they are secondary and subordinate, and do not amount to any essential ground of variance from the general system of policy which the country is either accustomed to or prepared, with unimportant modifications, to adopt. It is impossible to doubt that a fixed and settled purpose is cherished by the leaders of the Van Buren school to organize and establish a sectional party, and thus to array one portion of the Union against the other. Some time may elapse before this design will reach such a point of consummation as to compel a full re action on the part of the constitutionalisis of the Re public. And the unfortunate fatuity of factious poli ticians, whose limited horizon never yet included a full view of a national interest or a constitutional prin ciple, is likely to stand wofully in the way of those efforts which a patriotic and a vigorous conservatism would be prompt to put forth. The next session of Congress may present some curious phenomena. Whether Whigs or Democrats shall have a majority in the Honse of Representatives is one of those nominal questions which the country at large can afford to be indifferent about—provided there are men enough in the House, wise enough, and patriotic enough, and bold enough, to sustain the Ad ministration in a course of sound and comprehensive policy, adapted to the well-being of the whole country and imbued with the true spirit of the Constitution. The miserable puerilities with which some of the ul tra partizan journals abounds, asthough this greatna tion had nothing worthy of its notice in the political sphere, except the squabblings of men snatching for office or of men dispossessed of office —are sufficient to indicate that if factions are not in their dotage the leaders of them are—the dotage of corruption and im becility. The moral and rational sense of the nation turns away in disgust from these humiliating exhibi tions—these gross manifestations of the most vulgar and sordid passions. When issues involving great principles are at band, it is melancholy to see how the eager selfishness of the few, looking to petty and personal aims, is allowed to distract the public mind, I °rvert its judgment, and draw it away from the con sideration of momentous matters for the sake of tran sient and trifling things of no more importance to the national progress and welfare than the casual shiftings of the wind. There is much sound sense and lofty pa triotism displayed in the above remarks of the Baltimore American, which every patriot in the land should maturely consider. When the Fa natics of the North and the Agitators of the South are seeking to divide the American peo ple into sectional factions, to attain a common object—the disruption of the Republic—thege nius of Liberty invokes the friends of constitu tional freedom to rally under a common stand ard to save the Republic from the unholy pollution of fanaticism and ultraism. Nor will she plead in vain. We have an abiding confi dence that the conservatism of the American people will triumph over fanaticism, dema gogueisra and ultraism, and that the good old ship of state will weather the impious storm, and unfurl for ages to come the broad banner of liberty and the constitution, to admiring mil lions yet unborn. The Republic, One and Indivisible. From the posthumous writings of Madison, a legacy of inestimable value, and worthy of the reverential regard of the present and of fu ture generations, the following passage is ex tracted ; “ Advicewto my Country, —As this advice, if it. ever see the light, will not do it till I am no more, it may be considered as issuing from the tomb, where the truth alone can be respected, and the happiness of man alone consulted. It will be entitled, therefore, to whatever weight can be derived from good inten tions, and from the experience of one who has served his country in various stations through a period of forty years, who espoused in his youth, and adhered through life to the cause of liberty, and has borne a part in mod of the great transactions which will con stitute epochs of its destiny. The advice, nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is, that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated Let the avowed enemy to it bo regarded as Pandora with her box open, and (he disguised ones the serpent creeping with his deadly wtles into paradise. ” Washington, Jefferson and Madison are the “ earlier Presidents, ” whose patriotism and statesmanship embraced the whole Union, who constitute the models of Whig policy in 1849, as they were the illustrious founders of the Whig doctrines of 1776. The Whig party is the only national one in the Union. Atlanta. —The population of this thrifty and enterprising town, according to a census ta ken recently, is 2,025. The Weather. —The rains still continue. Many planters, during the last two weeks, have been topping their cotton, but with all their care they are well convinced that the cm»p must be cut very short. For the last eleven, there has not been one fair day. The first open cotton boll that has come to our knowledge, in Greene county, this year, is from the plantation ofWm. P. Gould. Esq., of the Pork. It was handed to us on the 30th ult. — Ala. Whig 3rd inst. The Sadve Crevasse Again.— Mr. Merritt, the proprietor of a wood yard in the vicinity of the late Sauve crevasse, this morning called on • Mayor Grossman and informed him that the nver has risen considerably at that point, and that the water is running over some portions of the works constructed b f Messrs. Dunbar Alt hongh nothing serious has yet SfT 1 : ' o,erflo “ causesome damage, or the wort Was aut horised to place his hands ® ar *d use exertions to prevent any portions ol them from giving wa y.—Ptc. Ist A Whig Administration—its Fruits. “ The full and prompt payment of the August inter est, and in gold and silver, is a source of much satis faction to all who wish well to Pennsylvania. The energy of Mr. Ball, the State Treasurer, is warmly and deservedly commended. The Sfete administra tion may point to this result with pride and pleasure. The true merits of the case may be appreciated when we state a few facts: “ Ball did not enter upon the duties of the of fice until the 7th of May. At that time there were about §IOB,OOO in the State Treasury. But he was soon called upon to pay a loan of 3261,000, which had been effected by the former State Treasurer, with the object of paying the February interest. ’ This he promptly accomplished. A further sum of 3500 000 had to be paid for indebtedness on the public works This also was effected. The support of the govern^ “ e _ n i n r m dere ? t fanher Sl,m necessary, of about 9 Zoo UUU, and the August interest on the State debt required about a million. “ Evef y sashing was raised, and in due time—and the State creditors were paid their interest fully and promptly, and in gold and silver. All this too with out a resort to a temporary loan, and without the cost to the State of a single dollar in the way of exchange. The legislature, just before its adjournment, seeing the difficulties in the way, and apprehending that it would be impossible for the State Treasurer to raise funds sufficient to liquidate all the above obligations, and to provide also for the full payment ofthe°August interest, passed a law giving authority to raise a tem porary loan. But this, happily, was not required. The State Treasurer, by his activity, zeal and pru dent management, obtained the money without a loan and thus at once vindicated the credit of the Com monwealth, and saved the interest for which the new loan would have rendered the State liable. And all this, it should be remembered, has been accomplished in less than ninety days. Well done good and faith ful servant.” What is true of the effects of a Whig ad ministration in Pennsylvania, is equally true of every other State whose credits were dishonor ed under Democratic rule, and who have since called to their aid Whig administrations. It was true of Maryland and equally so of Geor gia, both of whom were dishonored under de mocratic administrations, and by democratic financiering, and both restored their credits under Whig administrations. These facts speak volumes in favor of the conservatism of the Whig party, and of the confidence and credit which Whig administrations give to State credits. Pennsylvania credits have been dishonored throughout the commercial world, for twelve years, during much of which time, her interest has not been paid, even in shin plasters or “ relief notes ” as they were called. During all of this period she has been under the control of the progressive democracy until within the last few months, when a whig was called to the chair, and behold the change ! Now, for the first time in many years, the inte rest is paid promptly on the day it is due, and in coin or its equivalent. We commend these facts to the consideration of the people, as a powerful incentive to withhold the finances of the State from the control of the democracy. Georgian’s have felt the blighting effects of de mocratic financiering, and should beware. Letter of the Postmaster General,— We publish below, a letter from the Postmas ter General to Thos. P. Crawford, Esq., of Pickens county, and which first appeared in the Pickens Republican of the 24th ult. It shows, says the Mobile Advertiser, that Jacob Collamer is not the abolitionist that he is rep resented to be. The rank charges made against members of the administration are as disgusting as they are unprincipled and untrue. Not a leading man in the Conservative Whig party is of the rank Abolition cast. The trai tors to southern rights are to be so tnd in the ranks of Democracy, once fostered and cher ished as northern men toith southern principles .” When those thus fostered and cherished, are imposed upon us as men with “southern principles,” because the partisan purposes and party success require it for the nonce, show the cloven foot and appear in their true colors, it will not do for Locofocoisrn to cry ou* trai tors, and yet call upon the Southern people to look to Locofocoisrn for their safety, and a Democratic Congress for their support. A burnt child may with reason dread the fire, and see in the very character of its chivalric ap peals, a low and degrading ambition that is one thing to-day, and to-morrow another : Washington City, July 10, 1849, Dear Sir. —l received yours of the 29th ult., in which you say that in the exciting Congressional canvass in your district in Alabama, I am charged with being a downright Abolitionist and that the Democratic candidate calls me “ a blackhearted Sulphurous Abolitionist.’ You seem to desire me to defend myself. You, and all men of ordinary discernment, must be sensible that those who use such epithets generally regard the People they address as ignorant and exci table enough to be influenced more by vituperation and personal ablise than either by facts or reason. It is therefore a course which cannot be stopped by any thing I can either say or do; all that I can say is, that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an Aboli tionist, and I have always received the most bitter opposition from the Abolition party in ray own State. I have always held that nothing should be done by the (jreneral Government in relation to the subject of slavery in the several States. 1 have always discountenanced and opposed all measures, public or private, intended to interfere with or disturb the institution as existing with the Stales, as recognized by the constitution. At the same time it is due to justice and myself to say, 1 am an anti-slavery man, that is, I regard slavery as a very great political and moral evil, and think nothing should be done by this government to increase or ex tend it. You say Mr. Inge informs the people that as Post master General I can send by the mails or withhold therefrom any documents I wish, and that since I have been Postmaster General the South has been flooded with Abolition documents. Now, Sir, I have had, in Congress, some personal acquaintance and intercourse with Mr. Inge, and it is extremely difficult for me to believe he could ever be guilty of such gross and palpable misrepresenta tion. It certainly could not be necessary for any one to write to me for information to meet so obvious a falsehood. The Postmaster General has no power, direction or control over the matter to be mailed. It is regulated entirely by law. The laws of Congress establishing and regulating the Post Office Depart ment are in all parts of the country open and accessi ble to all men. These laws give neither to any post master nor to the head of the Department any autho rity or control whatever over any printed paper or letter which any person may think proper to convey by mail. Wnen such a paper or letter, properly di rected, is presented to a Postmaster to be mailed, he has no right or power, nor has the Postmaster Gene ral any authority to give him power to open and ex amine it, to ascertain its contents, or to suppress or to refuse to mail it. No Postmaster General ever at tempted the exercise of any such power, and precise ly the same instructions, regulations, rights, powers and duties exist now in the Depar;ment and offices which have existed for many years before my acces sion to office, and no other. All this is known, or can be known, to any man who desires to know the truth. How gross and unjustifiable then must be the representa'ions of any man who attempts to make the people believe that I am, or this administration, or even the President, is in any degree answerable for the sentiments contained in the printed and written papers which all men have the power to send in the mails, and which no one has the power to prevent. I am, Sir, your humble serv’t, Jacob Collamer. To Thomas P. Crawford. North Carolina Election. By a telegraphic despatch with which we have been kindly favored by the Fayetteville Observer, we learn that the recent contest for members oi Congress has terminated in the election of Clinoman, J. P. Caldwell, De berry, Shepperd, and Outlaw, Whigs; and Venable, Daniel and Ashe, Democrats. In the 9th district the contest between Stanley, (W) and Lane (D) is close, and the result doubtful. In last Congress the delegation stood 6 Whigs and 3 Democrats. —Charleston Mercury. Whig Meeting. Augusta, August 7, 1849. In accordance with previous notice, a por tion of the Whig party of Richmond county, assembled at the Court Honse, lor the pur pose of making preliminary arrangements for the nomination of Representatives in the next General Assembly. On motion, Judge J no. Skinner was called to the Chair, and Andrew G. LaTaste request ed to act as Secretary. A. J. Miller, Esq, then stated the object of the meeting, and offered the following resolu tion, which was passed: Resolved, That the Whigs of the respective, dis tricts in Richmond county be requested to assemble, at their court grounds or elsewhere—and appoint four delegates for each District, to meet in Convention at Augusta, on Saturday the first day of September next, for the purpose pf nominating two candidates for Re presentatives in the next Legislature. On motion of James Harper, Esq. Resolved , That the proceedings of this meeting, be published in the several Whig papers of the city. On motion, the meeting adjourned. JOHN SKINNER, Chairman. A. G. LaTaste, Secretary. To the Editors of the Chronicle Sf Sentinel : In your paper of yesterday “ Truth Sf Justice ” attempts to warn “the travelling public” and “the citizens of Augusta” against the “imposi tion and extortion of the owners or conductors of the Omnibus used for conveying passen gers from Hamburg to the Georgia Railroad’’ by what he calls “a plain statement of facts' ’ His statement is that a party of ten, inclu ding a sick gentleman and two servants, paid the enormous sum of eight dollars for their conveyance from Hamburg to the U. S. Hotel, at^l five dollars from that House to the Georgia Railroad—and that the same Darty returning a few mornings after, with their number re duced to eight, were ashed ten dollars for re conveyance to the South Carolina Railroad— and all this when he is informed that the custo mary charge for each passenger is but fifty cents. The writer of this “plain statement of facts ” has omitted to state the fact that his party arriv ed at Hamburg, not by the regular Passenger Train, and that a special Omnibus was employ ed for their conveyance, which was subject to extra Bridge Toll, and that a special Omnibus was also used the next morning to convey the party with the sick man, his bed and bedding, and an unusual amount of baggage, to the Georgia Railroad Depot. - The writer was also ignorant of the fact that no passengers laying over at Augusta, are ever conveyed between the two Railroad Depots in the Omnibus running regularly, and subject to no Extra Bridge Toll, for less than seventy-five cents each. The attempt to extort ten dollars from the party on their return, if made at all, was made by no “ owner,” “ conductor” or responsi ble persqn connected with the Omnibus. The party reduced to eight, (as stated) were charged $2.00 for their conveyance from the Georgia Rail Road to the Eagle and Phoenix Hotel. This addition to the “plain statement of facts,” will make it appear that the gentleman with his party, have been more “ imposed upon” in imagination than reality. Omnibus. [communicated.] Messrs. Editors: —Through the medium of your valuable public journal, I beg leave to call the attention of the City Council, without sectional feeling, partiality, or prejudice, to the present condition and serious neglect of the upper end of this city. Year after year, the most respectful entreaties and personal appli cations have been made to Council to protect the health of this section of the city by extend ing to its inhabitants a certain portion of labor commensurate with its taxes, and as often has it been neglected; notwithstanding the many promises to remedy the evil complained of, so seriously detrimental to our health. Let any impartial observer take the trouble to ex amine the condition of tha various sections of the city, tne labor, and improvements of the streets, compared with the present situation of this section ; the vigilance and industry ex hibited by those who feel themselves most in terested by the observance of the public eye and opinion, and very soon will they discover the favorite parts for their operations. No section of this city would be more blest with health and the advantage of comfortable residences than this, if it could have an equal share of at tention from those in authority to promote its health. Justice alonedemandsit, apart from any other consideration ; and those who have been chosen as the representatives of the people and guardians of the city, and sworn to protect its interests, should not shrink from the perform ance of their duty, in exacting from every offi cer under them, the impartial performance of his duty. For proof of what is herein alluded to, and which now exists, and have been the cause of complaint and a serious evil to our health, I invite the attention of his Honor the Mayor, or any member of Council to inspect it at this time, not by a passing ride only, but aldose inspection. Divest us from taxe* and let us appropriate this sum to remove the nui sances complained of and our health and com fort will not be jeopardized as it now is. But as taxable citizens, I again repeat justice de mands an equal distribution of public labor. It is not in one respect alone that the neglect is manifest but in general. During this extreme rainy season. I would ask, what has been done to thispart of the city to take off the abund ance of water, removing dead carcasses, &c.? Let those in authority examine for themselves and see if there is not cause of complaint by Up Town. “ Barney let the Girls alone.” —The following letter has been addressed to the A merman Consul at Panama, by the Superior Chief at San Bias : River Diablo, San Bias, May 20, 1849. Sir : This is to inform you that the Chief at San Bias wishes that no steamers visit his country to ask for Sand, to make a road or for any other purposes. The Chiefs of San Bias claim as their land from Cool avery to the Gulph of Darien. God gave us this land and no foreigners can live amongst us, for if any live here they will trouble our women, and we shall be jealous of them, and soon there would be disturbance and bloodshed ; for God made all nations their own women and not to trouble ours. We are glad to see all trading ships as friends, and we will buy their goods with our produce. Any friendly vessel can trade wiih us, but not make any of ns traitors. Your nation have their road to cross the Isthmus at Cha gres, and must not make a road through our country. We want no steamers to visit our country, unless in want of wood or water; so do not destroy this letter, and please send a copy to your country, and send to us an janswer to the Rwer Diablo. I remain your friend, Superior Chief Jambs Coloquab. From the Charleston Mercury. Late from Florida. Company F. of the Artillery stationed at Fort Moultrie, received orders for Florida on the 2d inst. and with soldier-like promptitude left for St. Augustine on the following day, un der command of Lieut. Robinson. We are indebted to a gentleman connected with the expedition for the following letter : “1 find all kinds of reports here about the Indians, but there is not the least shadow of truth in one out of twenty. The report pub lished in Charleston the day before I left, con cerning the expedition of L'eut. Garland to Pease Creek, (I have the authority of the ac companying official report) of saying is false from beginning to end. Immediately upon re ceiving news of the outrage upon Indian Riv er, the commanding officer at this place (Lieut. Col. C. T. Smith) sent Major Ripley with a detachment of twelve men to that place. He expects to receive news from him in about seven days from this time. At the same time he sent another detachment of twelve men, under command of Lieut. Adams, into the in terior, about seventy-five miles from here, to a place called Dunlawton, where Indians were reported to have been seen This command he heard from yesterday: they have neither seen Indians, or any signs of them. The peo ple here have got on the biggest kind of a scare, and families are coming in daily. The thermometer is now over 90 degrees, and I can’t get a pound of ice either for love or money, such a luxury being rarely known here; arid when they do have it is worth from 6to 7 cents per pound. I can hear of nothing more which will interest you and will close. To the Inhabitants occupying the Frontier of the Indian Country. —l deem it advisable to adopt this public mode of informing you that I have visited this region of country, under orders from the Executive, for the purpose of mustering into the service a corps of mounted volunteers for the defence of the frontier. At the time 1 left Tallahassee, Governor Mosely had only learned of the first outrage committed by the Indians. His arrangements were based upon the necessities then appearing. Since that lime the further intelligence from the Hillsborough district has been transmitted to him. My ob ject in addressing you is to say that I am now engaged in mustering a corps of one hundred men, who will make their rendezvous at Lake Monroe: and that another corps of mounted men were to have left Tallahassee yesterday. These two corps will adopt for their base, a line extending between New Smyrna and Tampa. I feel warranted to say that the Gov ernor is fully impressed with the calamitous circumstances of the country, and that such ad ditional force will be promptly added by him as may be requisite for the complete protection of the citizens of the State occupying the ad vanced and exposed line of frontiersetrlemema. I therefore respectfully recommended to my fellow citizens to maintain their ground with firmness and confidence, and with a full assu rance that all necessarysupport will be speedily afforded by the Executive of the State—until the intervention of the Federal Government shall become available. To prevent the evil effect of the mistaken reports 1 understand to have been circulated as to the result of the military expedition to Pease Creek, I am allowed to give the following statement as derived from an official and au thentic source, to wit: The expedition which was commanded by Lieut. Garland, returned on the 25th of this month. He saw no Indians on the route. The trading house with its out buildings were found burnt, and a small bridge near by partially destroyed. The homes of Payne and VVheeden were collected and buried From the indications there is room to hope that the outrage was committed by a party having plun der for their object. • VVffeeden’s camp, about five miles off, was left undisturbed, with the exception of a small sum of money which was taken. Foot prints of the Indians were seen both in going and returning, and the Indians were doubtless aware of the movement of the troops. Had they been in force and disposed to vio lence, they might have attacked the expedition to great advantange. G. W. Hutchins. Aid to His Excellency W. D. Moseley, Governor of Florida. St. Augustine, July 31, 1849, Wilmington and Manchester Rail Road, —The Marion Star ?ays, we are happy to learn that the prospects for our Rail Ro*d are encouraging. We understand that a portion of the contracts for grading on the west of Great Pee Dee have been completed, and that the work is ready to be received. Gen Evans, who has a large contract in the vicinity of the village has commenced work, and we under stand that a great many of our farmers con template employing the interval that elapses between the laying by and the season for gath ering the crops, in active and energetic work on the road. We hope to have the pleasure, at the end of six months, to announce to our rea ders that the entire grading of the road be tween Darlington and Little Pee Dee has been completed. ——g—i Special Notices. 0° During my absence from the Slate, B, M. DUVAL is my duly authorized Agent; also, fully authorized to act for Neesqn & Txlkey. JOHN TILKEY. Augusta, August 3, 1849. 10 O’ Portrait Painting;. W. WILSON, Artist, has returned to Augusta, and will remain three or four weeks. His rooms are over the Railroad Bank, entrance from Mclntosh street - jy23-tf _ A CARD. Ij’ Excellent Second-Hand PIANO FORTES of durable quality J J JC 'J VI and in perfect order, for sale cheap. R. S. JACKSON, First Room over Gustav. Volger’s Cigar Store, Broad-street. ja24-6m O’Lost Voice, &c., Restored !--N. Bed ford, August 10, 1849—Mr. S. W. Powle : Having seen many certificates published in relation to Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry, I take this oppor tunity of offering a word in its favor, which you are also at liberty to publish. A few months since my wife’s Lungs became so much affected by a sudden cold, that she lost her voice, and suffered severely from pains in the breast. Her situation caused her friends much alarm. Having heard your Balsam strongly recommended by those who had used it, 1 purchased a bottle of your agent in this place. She look it according to directions, and it produced a won derful effect. Before using one bottle she had com pletely recovered her voice, the pains subsided, and her health was soon fully re-established. Yours truly. (Signed ) HENRY G. BRIGHTMAN. P. S, Such testimony can be relied upon. Be care ful of the article you buy. It must have the signa ture of I. Butts on the wrapper to be genuine. Nona genuine unless signed I. BUTTS on the wrap per. For sale in Augusta, by Haviland, Risley & Co., D. B. Plumb & Co., and T, Barrett & Co. In Mad ison, by Wm. Haines. a °3t AUGUSTA FREE SCHOOL. PROPOSALS will be received until SATUR DAY, llth inst., for repairing the Belfry and Reshingling the Roof of the Augusta Free School. Specifications can be seen by calling upon the under signed. W. E. JACKSON, } J. J. COHEN, > Committee. auß-l B. B. RUSSELL, > Concentrated fluid magnesia— Prepared by Manau, Wcaver&Co. —This pre paration is admirably calculated to relieve the dis tressing Pain, Flatulence and Acidity which are the attendants of Dyspepsia. It acts gently on the bow els, and may be given with much advanrage id every case of Gout. Gravel, Bilious obstructions and Indi gestion. For sale by «u 8 WM. H, TUTT,
