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Borne reasons wliy we vote fur Webster and Jen*
kins.
Mr. Elitor A just respect for public opinion
is laudable; and no man should take a political po
sition unless he feels he has good reasons to sustain
him in it. In the Presidential canvass now pend
ing a largo number of the Constitutional Union
men of Georgia have chosen to support for the
Presi lency the Hon. Daniel Webster, the great ex
pounder of the Constitution and defender of the
recent Congressional Compromise —and for the
Vice Presidency the Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, the
patriotic and skilful framer of the celebrated plat
form of 1850. lam sincerely a member of this In
dependent party, and feeling a desire'to have as
many of my fellow-citizens vote for the man of
our choice as possible, 1 make this appeal to the
common sense of Georgians and call upon men of
ail parties who desire to give a wholesome rebuke
to these National Juntos (which of late years sup
?>ress instead of expressing public opinion) by ral
yinar upon the strongest ticket in the field, so far
as civil ability and worth is concerned, and uniting
with us in the cordial support of Webster and
Jenkins.
The first great reason why I have embarked up
the support of Webster and Jenkins is, that I am
a Constitutional Union man, and belie\ethat the
election of Gen. Scott would be unsafe to the Re
j üb’ic. Let us -ee how it would be unsafe.
1 in the first place then, General Scott accepted the
nomination cf tne Baltimore Whig Convention,
distinctly announcing that he did not recant any of
his previously expressed opinions. New let us
look back a few years and see what some of these
opinions are; and before I will embark upon this
delicate subject, I will premise that I stand by the
documents and proof in all 1 say:—Gen. Scott has
declared himseli in favor of annexing Canada to
this Confederacy; —he has declared that ho is op
posed to fraterning or to becoming, in any way,
closely connected with the country on onr South
and Southwestern borders; —ho lias furthermore
declared that he is in tavor of subjecing the Pres
idential veto to the will ot a bare majority in Con
gress. His opinion upon this subject is, that if a bill
Is passed by Congress and vetoed by the President,
it should return to that body ana lay upon the ta
ble ten days ; then if Congress should take it up
and pass it, it should then become a law. Now the
Northern portion of the confederacy is the strong
est in Congress, and the annexation of Canada
would increase that strength, especially if wc were
not permitted to have counterbalancing territory
admitted from Mexico and our other Southern
neighbors. Therefore, if Gen. S’s. view of the veto
should obtain general adoption (and I fear it would
if it had the influence of the Presidential Chair
to commend it ro the public consideration during
a period of four years) and Seward and others of
like kidney should grow in power as they have
been growing for the last few years, is it not easy
to perceive that it will be placed in the hands of a
reckless majority to dissolve the Confederacy ?
This result is plain; for the first insult perpetrated
against the South will be the knell of the Union,
Union men look to your footsteps. Mind, or yon j
will do worse than Esau did who sold his birth
right for a mess of potage —you will sell your conn- |
try and your principles for the support of a man
who is run by a national clique for availibility, to
the exclusion of the brightest, purest, most pa
triotic, well-tried, honest and devoted civil talent
in the country. TnU annexation business, we all
know is dangerous; and this growing disposition
to make innovations on the Constitution of our
forefathers. 1 am decidedly of opinion, is ruinous
in its tendency.
There is another grave and potent reason why I
cannot voe for Gen. Scott:—he believes that our
naturalization laws should be so amended as to
lengthen the present term of five years tutelage
berore citizenship, in accordance with the princi
pies of the party calling themselves native Amer -
caus, except in case of service under arms, in time
of war. In that case he recommends that all per
sons s<> serving during the period of one year shall
be ouliued to the privilege of citizenship Now
the disposition to elevate military chieftains to
c>vil power is becoming tar too prevalent in the
oo mtry ; and therefore, if this disposition should
continue to increase as it has increased for the past
few years, and General Scott’s views are adopted,
(which may rea-onahly be feared in case he is
elected) a system of alien soldiery would be en
grafted upon our arms so that in a few years the
regular line would be composed of foreigners, and
it may be reared that some modern Caesar or sel
fisnly, ambitious Napoleon will turn that sword
a_*a ost American liberty which should be entirely
sheathed in peace, ami only drawn in defence of
o-ir country’s honor and the just rights of her hap
py citizens.
i’ncre are other grave reasons why I am entirely
unwilling to vote for Gen. Scott, which ray space
wil not permit me to ermtneiate. Where then
must I, and those with whom I have the honor of
co-operating in the present canvass, go? Who
must we vote for? We cannot sustain Franklin
Pierce, for he is obnoxious to many of the same
objection to which General Scott is subject. He
to >, is the creature of availibility and policy. We
rejoice that the ballot-box is left us, and that we
have the glorious privilege of endorsing the recent
administration, with one unqualified admiration,
by voting for its Secretary of State for President,
and one of its ablest defenders for Vice President.
This then, we are determined upon. We will
stand by the men of our choice through the can
vass, until we are convinced that we are laboring
under a mistake and until it is proven to us that
the Fillmore administration, of which Daniel
Webster was the moving spirit, was a curse to
America instead of being a rich blessing as we
verily believe, under the blessingsof God, it was.
And we call upon all men who admire the admin
istration to shake off the weak wires with which
political tricksters have sought to fetter the public
mind, and to east an honest vote for the men of
their choice. It is true that some men have re
cently abandoned the flag which they themselves
bad a hand in running up in Georg 5 h. And it
may be vainly thought that Webster and Jenkins
men are intimidated by their inglorious desertion.
But let them go in their vacillating and erroneous,
but doubtless honest retreat from a noble strife
into which they so gallantly led us. The standard
is ours, wfthave nailed it to the mast-head ; and
we will defend it in ’52 if we fall by it. In ’56,
mark the prediction, brilliant success will percii
its staff, and the principles now sustained by the
Independent party, which casts its vote for Web
ster and Jenkins, will be in the ascendant securing
the perpetuity of the country by the election of a
proper civilian to the Presidential Chair.
The supporters of General Scott may claim to
be tiie Whigs ; but it is all gammon. The writer
of this is AS GOOD A WHIG AS ANY OF ’EM.
Slightly Mistaken.—A gentleman of Platts
burgh, some years ago, when visiting in Canada,
was introduced to an elderly English officer, and on
the officers learning that he was from Plattsburgh,
ho inquired if lie lived there at the time of the b t
tlo, and if he knew the name of the officer who
stormed the battery on the night of the 10th. The
gentleman replied that he was in Plattsburgh at the
time of the battle, and that the officer who led the
storming party he had mentioned was named Mc-
Glassen.
“Will you be so good as to tell me what number
of men he had with him?’’
“About sixty, 1 believe,” replied the gentleman.
The officer looked astonished, and at last said—
“ Well sir, I was an officer in command of that
battery. 1 would give more to see Mr. McGlassen
than any other man in the world. It was the most
complete thing,” said he, “1 ever saw or heard
tell of; for we were quietly at our position when
the words—* charge on the front and rear,’ broke
the death like stillness, as if a voice from the a r,
screamed the words. My men ran like mad-dogs.
I tried my utmost, in the confusion to bring them
in order, but without success fur some time, but
at last l discovered a body charging in fine stvle.
I placed myself ac the head, and anxious to repulse
the attack, urged them on with all the energy I
possessed; when takings more anxious look at
them, to sec what one stood firm, in the surprise,
be Hold ! they were a lot of Yankees, who had
charged up another way, and I was leading them.
“Then,’ said be, “was my time to run. Where
ray men had gone to, no one knew. But I rushed
pail mell into the woods, over logs, mud and wa
ter; then astraddle of some stumps ; (I cn bring
ing up against a tree, over stones, and into holes—
up and down, sometimes on one end and some
times on the other. I arrived in camp, about the
worst bruised, the worst scratched, the sorest and
most frightful individual you ever saw. “If yon
ever said he. shaking the gentleman from Plattsburg
by the hands, “meet Mr. McGlassen, give him my
compliments, and tell him that was the most
gallant thing I ever saw achieved by any man.”
Loss of the Tallahassee.— Intelligence lias
reached this city of the loss of the Schooner Talla
hassee, off St. George’s Island, in the gale on
Saturday last. No lives lost. The Tallahassee
was one of the regular packets between Si. Marks
and New Orleans, and was on her return trip from
the latter place when struck with the gale.—
flpridmm
The Barnwell S. C. Palmetto Sentinel, under
etands that £. D. Felder was killed on Saturday
morning last by the passenger’s train of cars pes».
Imz asroes bis neck and severing has hoed from his
I*£dy, near Lowry’* Turn Oaf, 9.0.
Our Forelgu Relations— The next Administration,
The chief topics upon which the leading orator
of the Pierce party hirangue the people are those
which relate to the foreign policy of the country,
in reference to which they promise some stirring
changes if the people w ill be kind enough to elect
Mr. Pierce. They do not care to dwell much upon
the tariff’ system. If they allude to that subject it
is, generally, to boast of the ample reve me pro
duced by the tariff of 1845, without me iticning
the fact that this ample revenue is derived from
an immense mass of imported foreign goods for
which the country now stands indebted to a large
amount on foreign account, and that our bonds and
stocks, National, State, city and ot companies, are
held to the extent of two hundred and sixty mill
ions of dollars in European hands, as evidences
and securities of that large foreign debt.
In like manner the leading orators of the Pierce
party are disposed to avoid much allusion to the
policy of internal improvement, as it respects riv
ers and harbors. In some sections of the country
where that polioy is warmly sustained they may
undertake to claim credit for the passage of the
river and harbor bill at the last session of Con
gress—omitting, however, to connect that circum
stance with Mr. Pierce’s well known opinions and
public course in relation to that subject, and omit
ting, also, to state that the river and harbor bill of
the late session was passed by the great body of
the Whigs of Congress, aided oy the junction ot
a fragment of the other party.
But our foreign policy is the favorite, theme or
such distinguished leaders of the Pierce party as
Douglas, Soule, Weller and others. It matters not
that the present Administration has managed the
foreign relations of the Government with wisdom,
promptitude, courage and complete success, up
holding the national name, exalting the reputation
of our flag throughout the world and extending
protection to American interests on every sea.—
All this will not do for those aspirants who are
restlessly anxious tor the possession of the powei
and the emoluments of Government. The coun
try in general, it is very certain, are quite satis
fled with the manner in which Mr, Fillmore lias
managed onr foreign affairs, and we believe that
most of those whose interests and business rela
tions aie connected with commerce, would find
much gratification if they could be assured that the
same principles which have marked the course of
his foreign policy will continue to be preserved.
Yet a change in this regard is demanded by such
leading orators of the Pierce party as Senator Doug
las and Soule. An aggressive policy, a policy of
aggrandizement, a policy of war, is called for ; and
the people are told that it Mr. Pierce is placed in
the Presidency such a policy will be introduced.
They do not venture to declare that any just cause
of war exists between the United States and Spain,
\ct Mr. Douglas announces that Cuba is to be torn
from th t power and made a part of the territory
of this Republic. He does not say that wo have
anv just cause of war with Mexico; yet he pro
claims a crusade against that feeble nation for the
avowed purpose of destroying its political exist
ence ana of absorbing all its territory down to the
Isthmus.
Such a policy of rapacity is denominated demo- |
erotic f and if those who stimulate the passions of
the policy by holding out these conquests as the
prizes of cupidity or of adventure, can accomplish
the puapose they have in view—the attainment of
power—what care they for the calamities which
may fall upon the interests of the country, or for
the discredit that may attach to her name ?
We have taken into view here this question of
further conquest and war without looking beyond
the parlies immediately concerned. Spain is
weak; Mexico is weaker still. Saying nothing
about the magnanimity ot the thing, we might go
to war with one or both of those nations upon the
most frivolous pretexts or without any pretext at
all, and take the attitude of a bold i ully with little
other risk than some depredations upon our com
merce. We might do this, if we were willing to
stand before the world in tne aspect of an unprin
cipled people, regarding no rights held by the
' weak and unprotected, and ready to violate the
! laws of nations without scruple whenever we could
| do it witn impunity and hope to gain plunder and
spoil by the courage,
it is probable, however, that some of the Eu
ropean Rowers would think themselves bound to
take some notice ot such a system of spoliation
and agraudizement as the policy of the Fierce
party promises to inaugurate. England might
imagine that she saw in the progressive and ag
gressive movements towards the South against
Cuba and Mexico a warning signal of Northern
enroachmeuts upon Canada and her entire North
American territory . She would be blind if she
did not see it. The new Emperor of France, anx
ious to stamp the opening of his imperial career
with st mAhing brilliant and striking, might be
well di.-p >sed lo unite with England for the pro
tection of Spain ana Mexico, lie might entertain
the belief that his turone would be the more firmly
estab.i-hed both at home and in the sympathies of
monarchical Europe by a war of defiance and ol
resistance against this country which in addition
to the crime ot disregarding the laws of nations
was guilty also of the political offence of cherish
ing republican principle and institutions.
in ilie event of Mr. Fierce’s election, the ap
pointment of Mr. Douglass to tbe Slate Department
is spoken of as a thing understood. The country
may know, then, in advance What lo expect in tin
matter of our foreign relations if the control of
onr foreign policy comes into the hands of tha
gentleman. It is an issue made up and avowed;
it is openly proclaimed and made the subject ot
popular harangues. Let the considerate of all
parties take good heed when they come to east
their ballots lor the Presidency.— BaU. American.
Tile Letter f.uiu Home.
Standing in the Fost Office avenue a few days
since, 1 saw a young min perusing with a smiling
face a letter he had just taken from tiic office. As
I glanced at the page, the worda ‘'Dear Brother,”
met my eye. Here then was a letter from a “Sis
ter !” That smiling lace was indicative of a smi
ling heart. “Home, sweet home’’ with all its hal
lowed associations, were clustering around the
heart, and crowding the memory, and venting
I themselves through the sparslmg eye, and aniinu
i ted countenance ot that young stranger. He was
not the only on that derived pleasure from that
letter. Although 1 knew not a syllable it contain
ed further than that of “Dear Brother,” yet 1
felt that a kind and gemle influence was diffusing it
itself from a sacred page that would tendto warm in-
I to new life and action, the love of home and home
• joys. Here, thought lis one of the strong bulwarks
i that surround and protect the multitude of young
men that throng our city, from the snares and temp
■ tatious that everywhere beset them. On the wings
i of every mail is borne from every direction the
i gentle aamonition and kind greetings ot a virtu
f ous sisterhood, backed by the strong warning voice
and council of parental love.
i I would that these messages of love were multi
t plied an hundred fold ; and they would be so mul
• tiplied, if all were aware ot the restraining influ
ence they have on the minds and morals of young
, men. There are hundreds of this class who leave
their pleasant homes in the country, where they
I have enjoyed from childhood the society of virtu
-1 ous females—mothers, aisters, friends—who among
, strangers scarcely know the luxury of a smile ol
i I recognition from a female. None but those who
5 | have experienced this desolation of heart, and
longing tor the hearty greeting of the home circle,
r can fully realize the value of the friends they leave
‘ behind. Next to the real enjoyment of home it
self, is that of a kind, familiar and constant corres
> ; pondence, between its several members. This
r : should never be neglected, or its consequence
i lightly considered. Let sisters especially, who
, have brothers floating on the wide sea of terapta
i tion, bear this in mind, that their restraining in
-1 fiueuce, when properly directed, is almost botmd
i less. How many young men who have wandered
1 from their homes and become rough and uncouth
> in their manners for the want ot the refinements o.
home, which arc denied them among strangers will
’ speak whh honest pride of their pretty sisters at
home. Rough as they are, they would not disgrace
' their sisters by a dishonorable act.
: Sisters, cherish your brothers then, as you
would your own virtues. Throw around them tin
gentle restraining influence of sister affection, and
especially when absent from you, cheer them often
with tokens of remembrance from your pen, and
• by so doing the smiling countenance of your hap
pv brother may silently diffuse a ray of sunshine
to the heartof an unknown. —Bangor Courier.
' A Novel Mistake.—Quite an amusing scene
took place in Hanover-st., last evening, a little be
fore dark, which was richly enjoyed by the few
who were so fortunate as to witness it. It seem
that a young man, clerk in an embroidery store on
that street, saw his father riding past in a carriage,
and wishing to see him very much rushed out it
pursuit of the vehicle. In the course of his run
lie accidentally struck with his baud the skirt of a
gentleman’s coat. The gentleman thought that
his pocket had been picked, and w ithout stopping
to ascertain that fact ho immediately ran after tlu
supposed thief at a rapid rate. The race was lon*'
and nobiy contested, but the clerk reached his fa
thcr’s vehicle—got in with him—and drove off .
not conscious ofthefiujt that he had been pursued
as a supposed pickpocket. The gentleman, baffled
in his attempt to catch h s prisoner, was about to
depart from the spot, when he happened to put
his hand in his coat pocket, where no found his
money all safe. He gave one long acclamation on
making this discovery, and immediately left amid
the boisterous laughs of the bystanders, who
| IMcl Boen fbe fun. —Boston Chronicle.
A New Ettpiic. —A Fharmacien, at Rome, Sig.
, ~a 6 “®r ® » “ as recently succeeded in discovering a
; 'S’?, possessing so extraordinary a power of coag
mating blood, that if to a large basm containing
this fluid, one drop of the styptic be added, com
plete solidification ensues, BO that the basin mat
”u in /n rt • Wlth ? ut causing any blood to be lost.
Ihe following is : Take eight ounces
of gum benzoin, one pound of alum, and ten pints
of w'ater. Bo 1 all together, for the space of eight
hours, in an earthenware glazed vessel, frequenth
1 stirring the mess, and adding water sufficient to
make up the original quantity of that lost by ebul
lition, taking care, however, to add the water so
gradually that boiling may not be suspended. The
liquid portion of the compound is now to be Btrain
•d off, *od pmerved in well corded bottle*.
Cjjrmuck & Sentinel
AUGUSTA, GEOEQIA.
THURSDAY MORNING OCT’B *l^lßß*.
IKDEPENDEHT TICKET
FOB PRESIDENT,
DANIEL WEBSTER,
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
OF GEORGIA.
ELECTORS:
FOB THE STATE AT LARGE,
H H. GUMMING, of Richmond.
EDWARD Y. HILL, of Troup.
Ist. Dist.— HAMILTON W. SHARPE, of Thomas.
« WM. M. BROWN, of Mnnon.
•3d' “ WASHINGTON POE, of Bibb.
4th “ WM. B. FANNIN, of Troup.
sth' “ NOAH STRONG, of Forsyth,
rtth “ YOUNG L. G. HARRIS, ot Clark.
7th* « JOHN J. FLOYD, of Newton.
Bth! « PHILIP S. LEMLE. of Jefferson. _
The Houghton Institute.
It affords us sincere pleasure to call the atten
tion of the public, especially of the two lower
wards, to the advertisement, announcing the
opening of the “Houghton Institute.” We
sincerely congratulate the citizens of those wards,
that their children are so soon about to reap the
benefits of the noble charity of John W. Hough
ton, a munificence that should, and will hand Ids
name down to the latest posterity, as one of the
benefactors of his race. We rejoice that it has so
soon be made available, and we feel assured that
thousands, yet unborn, will learn to revere and
bless the name of John W r . Houghton.
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The recent elections in these two States, have
been looked to with considerable anxiety by all
those who feel an interest in the Presidential con
test, as an index to the November election. The
Whigs no where expected to carry either State in the
election just closed, but they now affect to feel
great confidence, that both States will go for Scott
—an opinion, which we regard as very well found
ed.
Greeley, the Editor of the New-York Tribune,
t a very sagacious, civil calculator, iu election mat-
I ters, has been travelling through both States, and
the following is the result of his convictions and ob
! servations:
“Havingspent the eight days preceding last
j Sunday iu Ohio, and since passed through Penn
i svlvauia, we have had opportunities to know some
i thing of the spirit in wnich their State elections
j have been prepared tor and contested, and of the
portents of those elections.
«• Pennsylvania is naturally one of the best Scott
States in the Union —one of the easiest to carry for
the Hero of Chippewa by a large majority. It is
deeply interested iu the production ol iron, which
has been greatly depressed under the tariff of 1846,
and though a little better now, is certain to be de
pressed again so soon as the iron masters of Great
Britain shall be impelled to reduce their prices.—
Gen. Scott is personally and widely beloved in
Pennsylvania, while Gen. Pierce has not a particle
of strength there, but what was given him by his
nomination at Baltimore. A full vote and a fair,
animated contest insures the State to Scott by a large
majority.
“ Resting in the consciousness of this strength,
his friends have as yet done very little in the way
of the organization and concentration of their forces.
Tney have gone into the State election split up into
half a dozen local factious. Temperance and rum,
slavery and anti-slavery, with a dozen other side
issues, have served to distract them. They went
into this week's contest as thoroughly disorganized
as a party could be. Thus, in Pittsburgh, where
we spent Sunday and Monday, every body was
anxious as to whether l Joe Barker’ shoulder
sl.ould not be chosen Sheriff , while nobody seem
ed to know or much care as to what would be the
resuh as to State officers. Tempcranc- was certain
there to injure the Whig Legislative ticket, which
was pledged to the Maine law, while the fact
that our ticket in Lancaster was against the
Maine law', caused it to be cut there badly.—
These two counties (Alleghany and Lancaster)
will give at least three thousand more majority
for Scott than they have given for the Whig tick
et. And so it will be throughout the State.
“ We passed nearly through the State on the
day of election, and everywheie heard the same
story—the State functionaries working for dear
life on the lines of State canals and railroads, but the
Whigs treating the contest as of no national im
portance. For instance, in one township a canvass
of the voters has been made, and there are just
»i.xty-<-ne Pierce men within its borders; and these
cast fifty nine votes on Tuesday; while that same
township has seventy-five Scott voters who did not
go tear the polls. It was much like this through
out. » * * There are twenty-five
thousand Whig votes in Pennsylvania which have
not been poled at this election.
“We might have carried Philadelphia county
triumphantly, and perhaps saved the State ticket,
t»y con-enting to a coalition with the Native Ame
rican party. By electing L. C. Levin to Congress,
and one or two of their county ticket, we might
have taken the rest of the county ticket, saved one
or two members of Congress, and sent our State
candidates out of Philadelphia several thousands
ahead. But if the Whigs had done so, they would
have been accused of favoring Nativeistn, and Gen.
Scott would have been Field to answer for it. It
was better to lose ground now than to risk the
alienation of the adopted citizens of the Presiden
tial contest.
»»»»*«
“ Our friends in Ohio, having no hope of the
success of their two candidates for offices of
, no political importance, made no serious or con
! certed effort in their behalf. * * *
“ We never supposed Gen. Scott could be elected
without effort, in view of the hnngrynessand des
peration of the politicians working against him;
we have believed, as we now believe, he will be
elected by means of effort, and because his friends
will make the needful exertions to se ure his tri
r umph.”
The Cincinnati Gazette, a journal not accustom
ed to bluster about elections, or to bray about the
prospects of its party, seems to have acquired great
i confidence since the election, and remarks:
1 We think it now settled—a fixed fact—that the
1 twenty-three votes of Ohio wdll be given to Gen.
i Scott. His strength is greater in the State—much
greater—than that of our State ticket at the late
elections. All who voted the Whig ticket at our
general election will vote for 6cc*(t electors, and
many that voted against us at the recent election
will vote with us fur Scott and Graham. Our friends
> in Ohio know, and our friends elsewhere may rest
assured that Ohio is for Scott and Graham, for the
Union, f>r internal improvements, for protection
to our own labor, for peace, and the prosperity and
I happiness of the people.
I
Murderous Attempt. —We learn that Dr.
Wiohtman, of Lincoln county, while riding along
a road in that county, on Monday last, was fired at
from behind, by some fiend, and severely wound
ed in the back and shoulder. The assassin disap
peared so quickly in the thicket, that the Doctor
did not even see him.
Physicians Visiting List for 1853.
This is the title of a neat little book, so arrang
ed that a physician need not forget any of his pa
■ients, no matter how numerous they may be, pro
vided he follows the directions. It also contains a
table of proportionate doses of medicine for all
igts and the antidotes for various poisons, and a
list of the officers of the American Medical Aesoci
ition and the amendments proposed to the As
sociation, together with other useful matter—
This is a book that every practical physician
should have in his pocket. It can be found at the
Book Store of J. A. Carrie & Co., to whose polite
ness we are indebted for a copy.
Pulaski Court. —Judge Hansoll, on account of
the unusual amount of sickness prevailing in
Pulaski, has postponed Court to the 20th of De
cember.
Frank Tolland, charged with being an accora
plicc of the murder of his father, in Lowndes coun
ty, Miss., iu April, 1845, was acquitted at Aber
deen on the 25th ult., whither his trial had been
moved. He had been convicted once, but had ta
ken the case before the Supreme Court, and a new
trial was granted. He had been confined in prison
upwards of seven years, he not being able to give
the necessary bail to release him from prison.
Stoves in Turkey.—A few years ago a Move was
unknown in Turkey. Now they are found iu a
great majority of the cases in Constantinople and
in the dwelling houses of the rich. They ere
mostly either American stoves, er made after
* 4-merieeu models.
4 Patriarch —Introduction of the Cotton Gin.
The following highly interesting communication
from the Hon. Garnett Andrews, te the Southern
CuUitator, presents some facts connected with the
early history oftbe cotton gin in Georgia, that can
not fail to be interesting:
Meesre Editors —Cotton having become of such
vast importance, not only to the producers, but to
the world, everything relating to its history is of
interest. Therefore, lam induced to give a little
information I lately obtained of the great staple.
I rode, a few days since, six miles be.ow this
place, to see my old friend Thus. Talbot, and hi.-
kitchen and barn. Mr. Talbot is eighty-three
vears old, in full possession of his faculties and is
living where he settled six'y-two years ago. Whit
ney, the inventor of the cotton gin, settled a plan
tation adjoining him, on which he placed one oi
Ins gins, the first that was used in Wilkes county ;
perhaps the first in the State. lie and his partner,
Durkee, erected a gin house and a largo cotton
house—the latter to hold the cotton they expected
to receive from customers to gin. The gin house
was grated, so that visitors might look through and
see the cotton flying from, without seeing the gin
He suffered women to go in the gin house to'"set
the machinery, not apprehending that they couh
betray his secret to builders. Lyon, who lived
some eight or ten miles above this place, by dress
ing himselt in women’s clothes, procured admit
tance,, and came out and made his improvement
the saw gin. Mr. Talbot says that Billy McFer
ran, a little Irish blacksmith, who died a few years
ago in this county, made the saws, the first tha 1
ever were made. Durkee, Whitney’s partner, be
ing dissipated and inattentive to business, ho sold
out his place, and the gin and cotton house coming
into the possession of Mr. Talbot, he moved then,
to this place. The former is now his kitchen, and
still has its long gratedwindows, as in the time ot
M hitney. The cotton house makes a large and
commodious barn. Mr. Talbot says that Allison,
or Ellison, who had been connected with Whitne>
in business, told him that the latter got his first
idea of the invention from a gin used to prepare
rags for making paper, and which he saw on a
wrecked vessel.
On the place sold by Whitney, was erected, in
1811, a cotton factory, and, I presume, the first in
the State. The prime mover in the enterprise was
a Mr. Bolton, of Savannah, a merchant, who spent
his summers, then, in Washington. Mr. Talbot
had four shares. The factory had one hundred
and sixty spindles, cost #I7OO, and made 50 yard;-
of cloth a day, which sold from fifty cents to one
dollar per yard. The weaving was done by hand >
loom weavers, who were obtained from Long<’anc,
in South Carolina. The factory proved an unpro
fitable affair.
In this connection, in maybe interesting to say.
that during the war of 1812, cotton was hauled
from this country to Baltimore and Philadelphia,
and the wagons loaded back again with goods.
Wagoners are now living in the country who used
to drive the teams engaged in this service.
I cannot close this communication without a
! word about my aged and highly respectable friend,
| in his character of planter. Some of the land now
; in cultivation by Mr. Talbot, was old when three
fourthsof Georgia was in possession of the Indians.
Originally of a strong soil, as Wilkes county gene- j
rally was, Mr. Talbot, by paying some attention to |
improvement, has not only preserved but much !
improved some of his old lands. But that to which I
I wish particularly to direct attention, is his regret
that he had not commenced hill-side ditching long
ago, before the creeks and branches had carried
off the best of his soil. Tho walnut, locust and
other shade trees in his yard, planted with his own
hands, have the appearance of aged trees. His
servants, some as old, or older than himself, with
their generations of children, grand-children, and
I do not know how far to go iu the great-grand-
J children, give to the white-headed citizen the ap-
J pearance of a patriarch at the head of his tribe.
'■ He has had born on his place one bunded and nine
| children, but has kept no record of deaths.
Garnett Andrews.
Washington, Wilke's Co., Ga , August, 1852.
A Premium Won.—A democratic editor not long
j since, it is said, offered a premium to the man that
i would tell the greatest fih on General Pierce. The
Hannibal (Mo.) Messenger claims that Col. Rich
mond of that place has won the prize. In a
Pierce and King speech the other day* the Colonel
stated that at one time “the officers in the array,
which invaded and conquered Mexico under
the command of Scott, held a meeting to take
into consideration the propriety* of petitioning for
the removal of Scott and the appointment of Pierce
in his place, and that Gen. Pierce was by far the
most popular of the two among the officers of the
army 1”
Health of Charleston.
Office of Board of Health, )
Tuesday, 9, P. M. i
The Board of Health report 11 deaths from Yel
low Fever for the past 24 hours.
J. L. Dawson, M. D.
An Immense Work.— We see by the Cincinnati
papers that their great tunnel is advertised for
letting. The hills on the north side of the city
rise about two hundred feet above the upper plain
of the town, obstructing, except in one direction,
the free access of railways to the upper part of the
town. A company has been formed to tunnel the
hill tor the benefit of tho railways approaching from
the Ohio side, and doubtless will be immensely
useful. This tunnel will be 6,000 feet in length,
and will have 2,000 feet of side cuttings. It is in
j tended to lay it with four tracks, and thus provide
free and safe entrance into the city for six or eight
different railways, which will each contribute to
1 its receipts, and thus make it very profitable stock.
i * .
We clip from the Atlanta Intelligencer, of the
i 14th inst., the following strange but true account
of a curiosity which visited that place a few days
1 ; ago:
What Next?—The days of wonders have not
yet passed. On Monday morning lust, a singular
( and mysterious incident turned up in the Council
p Chamber. For several days a barrel containing
something wrapped in coarse sack-cloth had been
observed standing in the corner of the room—no
j one knowing from whence it came or how it got
. I there. On Monday morning, however, an ex
l animation was mail© and its contents brought to
| j light. Within the cloth was a large covered tin
vessel, carefully wrapped at the top with a hand
! j kerchief, and containing the body of a child with
; two well formed heads, two three legs,
j all joined to one body-. The heart and lungs had
; been cut out. The child if alive and entire, would
i | weigh about sixteen or seventeen pounds. Wc
stepped into the Council Chamber shortly after the
discovery was made, and a more wonderful speci-
I men of the “ genus homo” we have never beheld.
1 ! Where this singular monstrosity came from re
mains a mystery.
Popular Vole Tor President Id 1848.
The nominations of both the great political par
ties of the country for the Presidency and Vioe-
Presidencv now being made, the data on which to
base calculations as to their success will be of par
ticular interest. We therefore hero annex the
popular vote at the last Presidential election:
SEW-ENGLAND STATES.
States. Tayler. Cass. Van Buren.
I Maine 35,273 40,195 12,157
New-Hamp?hire 14,781 27,763 7,560
Vermont 98,122 10,948 18,857
Massachusetts 61,072 85,284 88 183
Rhode Island 6,689 8,600 ’7<»s
Connecticut 80,314 27,046 5,005
MIDDLE STATUS.
New-York 218,551 114,592 120 519
New-Jersey 4 ',009 86,880 849
Pennsylvania 186,113 172,661 11 268
Delaware 6,440 6,910 ’ 80
SOUTHERN STATES.
Maryland 37,892 84,523 125
Vi’-ginia 45,124 46,786 9
North Carolina 48,510 34,869 85
South Carolina* _
V, or ' (la 4,539 8,239 _
Alabama 80,482 81 363
Mississippi 25,82 1 26’,555
Louisiana i 5,278 15.850
T«as 8 770 8,765
Arkansas 7,683 9,800
WESTERN STATES!.
Tennessee 64,705 58,419
Kentucky 67,141 49 729
( .> hi °: 188,856 1.54,783 85,494
Michigan 28,940 3 ,687 lo 889
J 52* 0 * 69.907 74,745 8 100
Illinois 58,216 56,629 15*04
Missouri 82,671 40 077 1
i?, wa - •: 10,557 12,151 ! 126
Wisconsin 13,747 15,001 10,413
„ , Totsl 1,862.024 1,222,419 291 678
Taylor over Cass iSo’e 5
Cass and Van Buren over Taylor. .162 078
♦Presidential Electors chosen by Legislature.
Pirates in the Caina Seas.—Extract from a lot-
UT from Capt. Palmer, of the New York clipper
ship Celestial, from Shanghai, at Livernool „n i n ,
date of first of October, to his owners in this Sty:
.I 1 ,T ltte fl to f mention in my last that I was at
tacked by a fleet of nine piratical Junks on the const
tl a . ain f n- ? was between the land and
the junks, wind light, and the pirates within a
quarter of a mile of me, when they all bore down
upon the ship, boating their gongs and firing with
double-shotted guns. The guns, however, were
too heavily jotted and fe fl Bh^rt of U 9> * The
breeze providentially freshened, and I soon got
, c.ear ofthem; bat tor this, nothing could have
M.ved ns, for some of the junks had mounted six-
I " een atJ u had from forty to fifty men on
board.”
This extract shows the necessity of a competent
naval force being kept up in that region, for the
protection ©four rapidly increasing commerce, and
commend* itaelf strongly to the attention of ear, 1
finm-. (
NmL
The New York Express supplies the following
items; —
Important movements are going on at the Brook
lyn navy yard, having a direct bearing, as is gene
rally supposed, upon the present peculiar aspect of
our relations with Cuba and Spain. Our reporter
gives a hasty summary of them as follows: I
The frigate Powhatan will certainly sail this Fri
day afternoon, pursuant to orders from thr Navy
Department to have her “fitted out with immedi
ite desdatch.” Speculation is rife as to her destin
ation, but the conclusion at which the “quid \
uuces” generally arrive is that she is going to Ha
vana. But there is a rumor that she is intended to <
tid the U.S. Marshal in a certain extensive Cuban
•er movement, of which Government, but not the
.üblic has recently got wind, off South. So goes
he story. 0 1
Orders he ve just been received, to have the sloop
of war Marion got ready for sea with all possible
lespatch. The phrase “all possible despatch” ex
cites the public mind a little, and “Cuba,” “Cu
ba,” again is talked of as her destination. To Ha
vana she probably will go—but it Is presumed only
-o join the Home Squadron, which wo always have
in those seas.
The razee frigate Macedonian (a name and a ship
both historically famous,) it is now settled, will be
me of the squadron for the Japan Expedition, tin
ier Commodore Perry. She will be commanded
by Capt. Mayo. The line of battle ship Vermont,
nd tho sloop of war Falmouth, are also to join the
Expedition, which will therefore consist of 919
guns, as follows:
Vermont, carrying 100 guns; Susquehanna,
(steamer) 9 guns; Mississippi, (do.) 10 guns;
Princeton, (do.) 10 guns ; Macedonian, (razee) Sn
runs; Plymouth, 20 guns; Falmouth, 20 guns;
Saratoga, 20 guns.
The new commander of the Navy Yard, Captain
Charles Board man, entered upon his official duties
m Thursday, for the first time.
For the Survey of the China Seas, authorized by
Congress, we are informed the sloop of war Vm
•enhes and brig Porpoise are rapidly getting ready.
They will be under the command of Com. Cadwa'l
■ader Ringgold. They have both been fitted with
light spar decks, and amply provided with whale
boats, while their batteries have been reduced to !
about one-half their ordinary number of guns.
Incur ramble about the yard, our eye met the
razee Independence on the Dry Dock, undergoing
thorough repairs.
The frigate Constitution, and store ships Fredo
nia and Southampton, have been thoroughly re
paired and are now ready for sea service.
Rcvenvue cutter Taney, which met with so sad a \
disaster in the bay, some weeks since, is a'.ac on j
the dock tor repairs. Brig Washington, lately em- j
ployed on the Coast Survey, but now in the Ma- 1
rine service, as revenue cutter left the Yard a day I
or two ago, for the Atlantic Dock, where she is now j
awaiting her consort, the Taney.
There are now’ employed at the Navy Yard some I
105 b mechanics and laborers, and the weekly di»- |
Ibursements are said to be larger than they* have
been for years before.
Com. James T. Gerry has been ordered to the
command of the TJ. S. ship Albany, now preparing
for sea at the Charlestown Navy Yard.
Dr. B. Ticknor has been appointed Surgeon at
the rendezvous station :n Boston, in place of Dr.
Maulsby the late incumbent.
The Washington Republic, of Saturday, has the
following annunciation:
W T e understand that the steam frigate Powhatan,
bearing the broad pennant of Commodore Newton,
of the Home Squadron, has orders to proceed forth
with from New York to Havana, taking Judge
Conklin, the recently appointed Minister to tue
Republic of Mexico, to that port, to enable him to
meet the British steam packet of the 24th inst., in
which the Judge desires to take passage to Vera
Cruz.
The United States sloop of war Cyane, which
left the port of New York a few.- days ago, has or
ders to report at Pensacola, where she will remain
tor the present.
The United Stales and Cuba.
The New York Express publishes the following
telegraphic despatch from Washington, which we
give for what it is worth :
. The Government is informed that there are en
rolled iu New York 2,000 men and boys for a new
foray upon Cuba, whose haunts are well known
and places of rendezvous, and ot whose movements
• and intentions the Goveanment is well informed.
Dispatches have gone on frem this city to the of
ficers of the Government in New York, for a com
plete and effectual execution of the neutrality laws,
’ and for obvdieuce to all our treaty obligations, and
j to the law of nations. The collector of the port and
the United States District Attorney must have
such despathes by mail to-morrow morning. The
movements of our United States ship-01-war in
New York have reference to the execution of our
own law, as well as the enforcement of treaties
with Cuba. The President will do his duty, and
Ins whole duty,inflexibly—just as he did before—
without fear "or favor. The United States army
and navy forces in New York will probably be put
under the order of the U. S. District Attorney, if
they are deemed necessary for the enforcement of
our laws, Yours, M.
Postscript. —Tho owners of the Crescent City, it
is certain, will not remove Purser Smith, amt the
Government will not permit the mails to be inter
fered with. The owners have made representations
to the Government, showing that this is not the
first time the Cuban authorities have interfered
with them wrongfully. The Lobos quarrel is un
| changed. The Peruvian Minister has made no
i concessions.
Curious Phenomenon. —The wreck oftheAtlau-
I tic on Lake Erie has not yet been ra sed. The Os
wego Journal says that Mr. Green is now conslruct
i ing, in Buffalo, a new sub-marine armor, which
| will enable him, if necessary, to remain under wa
; ter two hours, at the depth of the wreck,
feet, which will avoid the repetition of frequent
ascents. The same paper adds the following inte
resting facts;
Mons. Maillefert has made some curious ex
periments to ascertain the pressure of the
water at the depth of 160 feet. An empty junk
bottle, corked and sealed air tight, sunk beneath
the surface at the above depth lor seven minutes,
takes in, by some phenomenon unexplained a large
quantity of water. A piece of iron attached to a
scale by a niece of wire, weighing 18 lbs., gunk at
the same depth, loses 8 lbs. and 1 oz. One may
judge from this the pressure sustained by a human
oeing at the same depth. Mr. G. is sanguine that
he can attach fastenings to the wreck by which it
can be raised. The diving of feet below the
surface is the greatest performance on record by 86
j feet.
A New Propeller. —Tho last files of the Syd
’ ney Morning Herald contain account of a new pro
peller invented by Sir Thomas Mitchell, the Sur
veyor General of New South Wales, a trial of
which iu a small steamer at that port had excited
: great interest. It is called tho Boraerang propeller
I and is constructed on tke principle of the weapon
| of that name used by the natives to kill game.—
; Although tho experiment was only on a small and
imperfect scale, a speed of 12 knots an hour against
a head wind is stated to have been obtained. The
instrument is described to combine great strength
and simplicity, while it has only the advantage
that, its motion iu the water causes but a compara
tively slight agitation, so that it is capable of being
adopted to canal boats to the other vessels. At
the conclusion of the trial Sir Thomas Mitchell ex
pressed his conviction “that the weapon of the
earliest inhabitants of Australia has now led to the
determination, mathematically of the true form, by
which alone on the screw principle, high speed
on water can be obtained.” A private letter says :
“Sir Thomas Mitchell has been testing his new in
vention—the Bomerang propeller for steamers in
lieu of tho screw. He has tried it on a steamer
here, and it has answered very well. Sir Thomas
says he will be able to got 20 knots an hour out of
it.' It will be the very thing for ocean steam ships.
Ho has taken out a patent, and wishes to go home
to bring it out.”
Survey of our Rivers. —Capt. J. M. Scarritt., U.
S. A., has been ordered by Gen. Totten to make a
survey of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, for
the purpose of reporting in time to secure an ap
propriation by the next Congress, for the naviga
tion of these rivers.
We have been informed that the removal of a
few of the worst snugs would greatly lessen the
danger of navigating the Chattahoochee, and that
tho cost of removing them by snag-boats, such as
are used on tho western rivers, would be very in
considerable compared with the benefit to he de
rived from such an application of a small portion of
the money paid into the National Treasury bv this
section of the Union.
M ill Pierce veto a'l such bills or will ho act with
the Democratic majority in Congress? —Columbus
Enquirer.
Albany, Oct. 16. — General Scott arrived at Al
bany at 20 minutes past 5 o’clock, on Saturday
evening. A Committee was in railing from Troy
to invito him to visit that city. General Scott ex
plained to the Committee that he did not deem
himself at^ liberty to deviate from his direct route,
and therefore declined the invitation.
He was welcomed to Albany by the Hon. John
C. Spencer in a brief but beautiful speech. Gen.
Scott s reply was most enthusiastically received.
He was escorted to his hotel by an immense .as
semblage, and will leave on Monday morning for
his residence near West Point.
Utica, N. Y., Oct. 16. — General Scott arrived
here at 10 o’clock this morning in charge of the
Committee who had left in the morning to meet
“'. rr ?* At a.l joints of the route he was welcomed
with demonstrations of enthusiasm and respect.
lie was received here by an immense concourse
and a civic anci military procession formed to escort
him to his quarters. On arriving at the hotel he
was addressed by J. A. Spencer, Esq., to which
ne briefly responded, returning thanks for the
nonor conferred on him, retired, and received the
calls ot a large number of citizens. He afterwards
visited his friend O. B. Matterson, Esq., and on
j j the cars for his departure made a short,
address to the assembled concourse.
Bp jßognrtif Cftfflrap^.
Gen. Scott lu PUiadelpbls.
October 20. —Gen.Scott arrived in Philadelphia
to-day and was reeceived with great demonstra
tions of enthusiasm. He goes to the State hair at
Lancaster to-morrow.
Sailing of the Aaia.
Naur York, Got. 20.—The steamer Asia sailed
to-day ior Europe, with 50 passengers and $400,-
000 in specie.
Pennsylvania Election.
The Democratic majority in Pennsylvania ia
about 18,000. The vote it» 60,000 short.
New York Market.
Wednesday, Oct. I. —Cotton.— Sales to-day of
1,800 bales—market unchanged.
Charleston Market.
Wednesday, Oct. 20.— Cotton. —The sales to-day
reached 750 bales, at B>£ to 10>tf cents. Prices un
changed.
From the Charleston Courier —By Telegraph. .
Baltimore, Oct. 12. —The U. S. Mail steam ship
Crescent Citv, Capt. Porter, has arrived at New
York from Havana. She was allowed to enter the
port, but not to communicate with the shore. The
acting U. 8. Consul came alongside the Crescent
City, and Capt. Porter handed him a protest
against the conduct of the Cuban authorities, and
put to sea. As he passed Moro Castle he hoisted
the stars and stripes, and fired a gnn.
Baltimore, Oct. 19. —Advices from Boston state
that Mr. Webster’s health is improving, and that
the report that he had withdrawn his name as a
Presidential candidate, has been contradicted.
Sixty-five counties of Ohio have been heard
from, and the returns show that the Whigs have
sained so lar the State Senate. The Democratic
majority in the State will hardly exceed st>oo.
Baltimore, Oct. 19.—A great fire occurred at
Ogdensburg, New York, to-day, which destroyed
half the business portion ol the town, causing a
heavy loss of properly.
Baltimore, Oot. 18.—The steamship Isabel,
Capt. William Rollins, will leave Baltimore on
Tuesday fur Charleston, so as to arrive there in
time to sail from thence, as adveriisod, for Havana
via Key West, on Friday, the 22d inst.
Baltimore, Oct. 19.—1500 bales of Cotton were
sold in New York to day, Tuesday at cents
for M iddling Uplands and 10>i for Middling Or
leans. The market was easy.
Fro™, the Baltimore American. —By Telegraph.
Farther by the Arctic.
Liverpool, Oct. Bth.—Cotton, during Saturday
and Monday, was firm, with an upward tendency ;
but the Europe's advices depressed the market.—
Sales of the three days 88,000 bales, of which spec
ulators took 950 C and exporters 2500 bales. The
sales comprise 28,000 bales American, and 6,250
Egyptian, Brazil and Surat. The imports of the
last three days were 11,500 bales. The quotations
are : Fair Orleans, ; Middling 5%; Fair Mobile
Middling 5%d. Fair Upland fid; Middling
5%d. The sales to-day will reach 6,000 bales at
steady rates.
Corn and Flour are in good request at firm rates.
Sales of Canal Flour at 20s, 6d; Philadelphia 21s.
3d; Ohio 21s. 6d. Sales of yellow corn in retail
lots at 81s. 6d.
Ccnsols closed 99% a 100. Commercial advices
from India are favorable,
llayke, Oot. 2d.—Cotton is firm—sales to-day of
1000 bales at steady rates,
England. —The ship Mobile, of Bath, Captain
Tarbox, which left Liverpool on the 29th for N.
Orleans, with 63 passengers and a crew of 23, was
totally lost on the night of the 80th, on Arklow
Bank, on the Irish Coast, by the careless steering
of the 2d mate. All hands, except 9 perished, and
the ship went to pieces.
Kossuth wss living privately at Brcmpton Lon
don. Lemmy, his ex-Secretary had been expelled
from Malta.
The brig Darling, of New York, forLondonhad
been abandoned at sea. The crow were saved.
Mr. Bowers, the correspondent of the London
> Daily News, had killed Mr. Morton, the Paris cor
respondent of the Morning Advertiser, for impro
per intimacy with his wife.
It was rumored that Lord Fitz Roy Somerset,
had been appointed Governor of India.
} The Potato crop in Ireland was an average one.
; Walter, Logan Co., a London house engaged
j in the South American trade, had suspended.
, France.—Count Cara Equia had arrived in Paris
t on a secret mission.
r Great activity prevailed in the dock yards at
, Brest.
1 it was rumored that the French Ministry had
split upon the question of immediately proclaim
ing the Empire.
The Portress at Turin had blown up, severely
■ damaging the city.
• Austria and the Continent. —There had been a
panic on the Vienna Exchange, in consequence of
the vast expenditure for the army.
The Austrian camp near Pesth had gone into
winter quarters.
The I;. S. sloop St. Louia had arrived at Gibral
tar, in 22 days from Norfolk.
India.—Disturbances were apprehended on the
Western frontiers of Hindoostan.
Severe shocks of earthquake had been expe
rienced in Bengal.
Stria and Egypt.—The Druses ia Syrin were
arming and an insurrection in Palestine was feared.
The export of corn had been prohibited in Egypt,
; fears being felt of a scarcity.
Zucchi, the Egyptian chemist, had discovered a
| process for making oil from cotton seed.
New York, Oct. 17.—Robert J. Walker, and
’ brother, hearer es despatches, are among the pas
sengers in the Arctic.
Capt. Williams of the ship American Congress,
at London, reports that on the Ist of September,
he rescued Capt. Honniwell and crew, of the bark
Baltic, of Philadelphia, from Leghorn, with a car
go of marble, and says that the Baltic was in a
sinking condition.
Liverpool, Oct. 6.—Messrs. Richardson <fe Co’s.
Circular quotes the sales of cotton since the sailing
of the America at 42,000 bales, including 6,000
bales to-day.
The Honse es Baring & Bro. had presented $50,-
. 000 to the Boston City Library,
t The British steamer Darient had arrived from
St. Thomas for repairs. She reports that on Sept.
SOth, Porto Rico and the adjacent Islands were
’ visited with a terrible hurricane, by which several
vessels were lost and many damaged. She left the
brig Boyce and sohr. Ridgeway, bound for Balti
more.
[The bark Baltic, mentioned above as lost, be
longed to Bishop, Simons & Co., of Philadelphia
and was insured there for $12,000. The cargo was
insured in London.]
Louisville, Oct. 16.—A party arrived yesterday
at Independence, Mo., from the plains—pan ar
riving from Salt Lake and part from California.
They bring no news of special interest.
Business was improving and a brisk trade
springing up. All was quiet at Fort Laramie.
Major Fnzpairick was daily expected there, and
large bands of Indians were arriving at the fort,
awaiting the distribution of annuities from the
Government.
S Captain Thomas and the Peublo Indians are at
Indianpolis, and Capt. Westport was to leave for
Santa Fe on the 10th or 12th.
New Yore, Oct. 17.—The Black Warrior arrived
this morning from Mobile and Havana, with dates
from the latter port to the 12th.
The Warrior carried the Crescent City’s mail*
and passengers to Havana. Her officers were
treated with marked respect by the authorities.
A Spanish vessel of war was cruising outside the
Moro, to prevent the Crescent City from entering
the harbor.
Twenty creoles, from Voelta Abajo. had been
arrested and brought to Havana on the charge of
cotnspiring against the Government. Otherwise
all was quiet.
Quebec, Oct. 16, — The House has passed a reso
lution and an address to the Queen, asking her to
impose, on the produce of foreign nations entering
English ports, duties equivalent to those such
nations impose on the produce of England and
the Colonies. Also, to repeal all the laws confer
ring on American vessels advantages which the
Canadian vessels do not enjoy in American waters.
HARRIET) ~
In this City, on the 14th inst... by the Rev. Mr. Connor,
Dr. WM. JOHNSON, of Stone Mountain, DeKalb county
and Miss ANN WISE, es Augusta.
EXTEA FAMILY FLOUB.
I AM obliged to my friends for the most unexpected de
mand they have made upon the Granite Mills for F our
Meal and H >roiny. A superior article of Superfine FLOUR,
may be considered Extra, is now being sent from the Mills
to the Store. Five Hundred bushels of the purest Gene
see white Wheat, for Extra Family Flour , is expected to
arrive from New York this week, when, having the Miller
an (the Mills, I hope to show my friends that they can well
afford to encourage the Granite Mills,
oil JAMES L. COLEMAN.
WANTED TO HIRE,
A SMART, active BOY, from 15 to 18 years of age.
.A. HENRY k SKINNER,
o!5 Broad Street, above the Mechanics’ Bant.
SADDLES, BRIDLES, LEATHER, &C.
aa CASE'S Women’s Men’s and Boy's SADDLES;
oil 8 casts Wagen Do.;
25dos. Wagon BRIDLES;
10 « Riding BRIDLES and MARTINSALIS;
1500 lbs. Oak Tan and Hemlock LEATHER;
80 doa. Kip SKINS;
f 5 “ Calf Do.;
—ALSO—
-40 sets Wagon AXLES, all sites;
800 “ heat Ground Wagon Boxes
500 “ Tung STAYS and Btretoaer frftatNfl;
In Stere and for sale by
016 LCTrORD, BEALL k CO.
VTORTHEHN CHH&B.-K boxee fresh Norths*
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