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FOREIGN NEWS.
Later from Europe.
THREE DAYS LATER INTELLIGENCE.
Progress of the War—Refusal of
Sweden to join the Allies—Chol
era still at Varna-Consols Ad
vanced—Cotton Improved—
Breadstuff* Declined, dee.
Halifax, Sept. 12.
The steamship Niagara arrived here
at 11 o’clock to night, bringing dates
from Liverpool to the 2d inst.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
Lloyd’s has authentic news that Mar- ;
shal St. Amaud will leave Constantinople’
on the 3d, to take charge of the expedi
tion to Crimea, which by that time would
have reached its destination.
The genera! political advices by this
arrival, being only three days later loan
those by the St. Louis, are very meagre
and unimportant.
Affairs in the East seem to have made
no special change. The war continues
in about the same attitude. No move
ment towards peace, and no further fight
ing of moment.
“it is now fully understood that Russia
positively refuses the invitation of Au
stria to negotiate for peace, on the basis
of the Western Powers. The Czar says
he will fight it out before budging one
inch from his previous determination. —
That he is in no particular hurry about
meeting the enemy. He is willing that
they should have time.
Austria and Prussia still stand in the
same position towards the allied powers
and Russia.
France and England were tranquil. —
Spain continues much agitated and the
government unsettled.
FROM THE BALTIC.
France and England have decided to
dismantle and abandon Bomersund.
It is said they offered it and the Aland
Islands to Sweden, on condition of her
declaring against Russia, but Sweden re
fuses to accept.
On the 26th Napier and Marshal d*Hil
liers proceeded to H%rgo, in sight of the
Russians, who blew up their fortifications
and then returned to Abo, where 15,000
.men are in garrison.
A small engagement, without loss of
life, occurred at Abo on the 18th, be~
xween 18 Russian gun boats and some
steamers in the Black Sea.
Reports about the Crimea expedition
were but to the 21st of August. Nothing
was known of the embarkation.
The cholera continues at Varna.
Stormy weather prevailed in the Black
Sea.
Private despatches from Varna to the
24th ult. state that five ships with troops
sailed on the previous day and six on that
day, the destination of which was un
known. The opinion gained currency
that the destination of the expedition
would be Aoapa, and that the fleets would
winter there.
Marshal St. Amaud will hold a gener
al military council at Varna, to inquire
whether the army is fit for service during
the present sickness on the Danube.
The Turks continue to occupy Bucha
rest and are strengthening all strategetic
portions, and are re-fortifying Gienova.
The Russians on September 3d, w'ould
be at Jassey, their head quarters. The
overland force still holds Galatz for hos
pitals and magazines.
SPAIN.
Queen Christina’s property has been
all confiscated and she has been expelled
from the country.
THE MARKETS.
Liverpool, Sept. 6. —Cotton—There
is a strengthened tone in the market, and
middling and lower qualities have ad
vanced l-Bthd.; better qualities remain
unchanged.
Breadstuff’s —The weather continues
very favorable for agricultural purposes,
and breadstuff's have largely declined. —
Flour has declined 4s. for the week; wheat
Is to Is. 3d., and corn is easier.
Later from Mexico.
New Orleans, Sept. 12.
The steamship Orizaba, Capt. Forbes,
arrived this morning from Yera Cruz,
which port she left on the Bth inst.
By the Orizaba we have papers from
the city of Mexico to the 2d, and from
Vera Cruz to the Bih inst.
Count Raousset Boulbon lo be Shot.—
By a decree of the 19th ult. Santa Anna
lias commuted the punishment of the pri
vates of the battalion of foreigners, en
gaged in the insurrection at Guayamas,
from death to ten years’ imprisonment. —
The death penalty is to be inflicted on
Count Raousset Boulbon and the officer*
of the battalion, as well as those who
landed with the Count.
Padre Jarauta. — The family of Padre
Jarauta, the celebrated guerrilla chief,
has br-en pensioned by the government,
in consideration of his services in the late
war with this country.
Indian Ravages. —The Indians contin
ue their ravages in the departments of
Durango, Nueva Leon, Chihuabun and
Zacatecas; they seem to increase in vio
lence and power.
Bis affection in Ihc Army. —li appears
there must be considerable
in the regular artr.y. The papers con
tain the announcement of the suppres
sion of various regiments and squadrons;
vve count as many as 13 corps in one
decree. ‘I he rank and file are transfer
red to other regiments and divisions,
while the officers are placed on the retir
ed list to await vacancies.
Buttle with Robbers. —Quite a battle
took place between a band of robbers and
a force sent against them in the village
of Huajini, an account of which we find
in a Colotlan paper. The robbers drove
the troops into a bouse which they took,
killed a portion and compelled the bal
ance to surrender at discretion. The
village remained in the possession of the
band, who are said to have committed
the most frightful excesses.
Scnors Ilurbide. —Sr. Angel de Itur
bide has been appointed Secretary to the
American Legation to this country.
Sr. Augustin lturbide has been named
aid de camp to Santa Anna.
Tlie armed expedition against
Mexico.
A few days ago vve stated that rumors
were in circulation that several vessels
were aiming at this port, under the au
spices of General Alvarez, and t\\e revo
lutionary party in Mexico, one of the
first achievements of which was to be the
capture of the war steamer Santa Anna,
ust finished at this oort. c - ■
veuient afier her departure for Vera
Cruz,
In connection with this movement, we
may as well mention a rumor which has j
reached us, that the agents of Alvarez
borrowed three millions of dollars from j
individuals in San Francisco, for the
purchase of ships and munitions of war
at this port, designed for revolutionary
purposes in Mexico.
Among the vessels bought with this cr
other money, we are told, were the screw
steamer Benjamin Franklin, formerly
running from New York to New Orleans,
and the baik Catharine Augusta. The
propeller was altered and fitted up recent
ly by Mr. William Perine,at Greenpoint,
Long Island, as a war steamer. Her
sides were pierced for ten guns, and all
the requisite accommodations were made
in the interior for powder, guns, &c.
The expedition has been in progress
about three months, and the utmost secre
cy has been observed by those interested
in it.
The bark Catharine Augusta took on
board powder, gun-carriages, and other
articles of warfare, at the foot of North
Moore street, last week. The bark is
now in the North river, off the 3attery,
ready to clear for “St. Thomas and a
market’’—which’means anywhere.
The Benjamin Franklin is loaded with
coal and stores, and a limited quantity of
small-arms. Her guns and ammunition,
and an extra supply of coals, ate on board
the Catharine Augusta, and will be trans
ferred to the Franklin at sea. The Frank
lin is also ready to leave, and will proba
bly cleai at the custom house for the same
destination, or perhaps for Gibraltar.
soon they will leave wilt depend,
probably, upon the movements of the
Santa Anna. General Almonte, who is
probably informed of what is afoot, may
detain the Santa Anna, in which case the
sailing of the chasseurs may be indefinite
ly delayed.
The Franklin will carry about eighty
men, all told, a majority of whom a repaid
to be citizens of the United States. Her
powder magazines are in the forward
pait of the ship, and four port-holes for
guns have been pierced forward of the
machinery. The other two port-holes
are at the stern.
All the vessels, of both parties, wilf
sail from New York under the American
flag, and every sa : !or has hired himself
for one year, and the engineers for two.
The Santa Anna is nearly ready to de
part for Vera Cruz. She will take twelve
American seamen before the mast. Six
ty foreigners have also been shipped as sea
men, but they will go out as passengers.
She is worth SIBO,OOO, and if the Alvarez
party succeed in capturing her, they will
get something of a prize, irrespective of
the indemnity money which she will
probably take.
The Benjamin Franklin was bought for
the Alvarez expedition by the agent of
the revolutionary general and someone
else, for $27,000, from Messrs. N. L.
McCready & Cos., merchants of this city.
It is stated that the same parties have fit
ted out both the vessels for Santa Anna
and for General Alvarez. Even the gun
carriages, varying in quality for each
steamer, the Santa Anna having them
made of solid mahogany, and the propel
ler of live oak, were furnished by the
same builders.
Several gentlemen of high standing in
the United States and elsewhere are re
ported to us to be interested in this move
ment, but we withhold their names until
the report receives further confirmation.
New York Evening Post.
New York, Sept. 12.—The Mexican
war steamer Santa Anna cleared to-day
for Vera Cruz.
Hi jim moral.
G.TrPPIN. SS?r. 21 13 54.
Loan Association.
We call the attention of the citizens of
Griffin to the advertisement calling a
meeting to form a Loan Association.—
These Associations are prosperous in oth
er cities.
The Cotton Crop.
Although this crop will be short this
season in South Carolina, Georgia, Ala”
bama, Mississippi and Tennessee, it is an
ticipated that the deficiency will be more
than supplied by the increased quantity
from Louisiana, Texas and Florida, in
which States it is said the crops were nev
er better. This, with the European war,
which will have a tendency to suppress
trade in Europe, leaves little hope of ex
traordinary prices for the ensuing crop.
The JRiceycrop.
From all points along the rivers of
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida,
where this crop is most extensively grown,
we hear of the overflowing of the rice
fields and destruction of the crop, caused
by the late heavy gale on the Southern
coast. It is supposed that three-fourths
of the crop has been destroyed.
[For.Savannali.
We have been favored with the result
of the labors of the committee appointed
to take up'snbscriplions fov the sufferers
in Savannah. The aggregate subscrip
tion from individuals is, S4BO 00
From Couucil, 250 00
$730 00
Much credit is due to the committee lor
their prompt and energetic action in this
behalf.
We cannot close this short notice with
out referring lo the munificent donation of
onr public spirited fellow-citizen, Captain
II enry P. Hilt., of the firm of Ganlding,
Hill & Nall, who subscribed une hundred
debars, after having given a liberal dona
tion previously.
High Prices of Negroes.
A friend, who was at Decatur, iu De-
Kalb county, on last sale day, fur
nishes us with the following list of sales of
ten negroes, sold thcro on that day, for
cash:
Old Woman, sllO 00
Old Man, 550 00
Woman, 331 50
Woman, ! 1150 00
Man, 1000 90
Man, lO2O 00
Man, 22 years pltf, 1365 00
Boy, 18 years old, 1012 00
Boy, 10 years Old, 851 50
Aid to Savannah.
It will be seen that the citizens of Grif
fin had a meeting on Saturday evening
last, and passed a resolution requesting [
the acting Mayor to forward to the relief’
of the sufferers of Savannah, the sura of j
$250. This sum was the entire surplus J
in the city treasury, and will be doubled, J
at least, by private subscriptions. We i
would remark of Griffin, that the popula
tion is neither large nor wealthy, and has
already been pretty heavily taxed by the
erection of three Colleges, none of which
are yet fully fiuished, and of anew Meth
odist Church, now in progress. We can
assure our fellow citizens of Savannah,
that they have the cordial and heart felt
sympathies of the people of Griffin in their
deep distress.
We are pleased to see the lively sympa
thy felt throughout the State on behalf of
the sufferers of the city of Savannah.—
Money will not be spared to extend to
them every relief it is capable of afford
ing; aud personal services, no doubt,
would be volunteered in mauy casts
too, were it not for the almost certain re
sult, that unacclimated nurses and other
aids would be taken down immediately,
and thus add to the care of the well in
stead of relieving the sick. Macon, we
see, has sent to the sufferers, the hand
some sum of $2,100; Augusta about
$4,000; Columbus from SI,OOO to $1500;
Marietta $500; Philadelphia $1,000; i
Athens $500; Griffin $130; Atlanta about j
$800; a number of sums of from one to |
five hundred dollars have been contribu
ted by benevolent individuals, mostly citi
zens of Savannah now.absent; a meeting
of those in the city of New York, we see,
has been called, and no doubt a liberal
contribution will be sent on. Some twen
ty or thirty thousand dollars will thus be
sent, which can easily be doubled if the
least intimation is given that it is needed.
Put alas ! what can money effect in such
cases ? It is true, it may add some com
mon comforts to the poor in the way of
necessaries, and they should by no means
be neglected; bat the sympathizing heart,
the hand to extend the mediciue, to smooth
the pillow, to soothe the distresses of the
chamber of the sick, to administer to their
numerous little wants, and afford those
delicate attentions they momentarily need
from the careful nurse, is not there, and
cannot be had Still it mnst be a conso
lation to the citizens of Savannah, amidst
theit deep grief and unparalleled visita
tion, to see that their fellow-citizens every
where bear a deep sympathy in their sor
rows, and are doing all they can for their
alleviation.
A young men’s benevolent association
has been formed in Savannah, for the pur
pose of acting in concert for the care and
relief of the unfortunate sick. For the
information of the benevolent in this sec
tion, we copy the following resolution,
passed by the association at its first meet
ing :
“ Resolved , That we respectfully solicit
contributions from our fellow citizens, both
at home and abroad, and all who sympa
thize with our suffering community, and
request that all such contributions be
forwarded to Geo. L. Cope, Treasurer.”
Mr. Cope, acknowledges the receipt of
$730 from sundry individuals on Saturday
last.
The total amount already received for
the use of the sufferers at Savannah a
mounts to $25,000.
Dr. Stotesbnrry, of Effingham county;
Dr Brantley, of Scriven county; and Dr.
Bacon, of Augusta, have generously re
paired to Savannah, in the face of the
pestilence, to offer their professional servi
ces to the sick of that city.
We beg leave to state to our friends
living at a distance, that benevolent con
tributions by them for the sick of Savan
nah, may be sent to any one of the com
mittee named in the proceedings of Satur
day, and their contributions will be duly
forwarded.
Letter from His Excellency Got.
Johnson.
The following is the beautifnl and touch
ing letter, mentioned by ns a few days
since, in which His Excellency, Governor
Johnson, tendered aid from the State
Treasury to our suffering citizens Sa
vannah Georgian.
Executive Department, )
Milledgeville, Ga., Sep. 13, 1854. I
Hon. John E. Ward, Mayor of Savannah:
Bear Sir :—The calamity by disease,
storm and flood, which spreads such gloom
and grief over the city of Savanuah, wast
ing her energies, suspending her business,
bearing to the grave hundreds of her citi
zens, and carrying anguish and v*oe to ev
ery heart and hearthstone, cannot fail to
awaken the keenest solicitude in every be
nevolent bosom. Being the seaport of
Georgia, diffusing thrift and prosperity by
her liberal enterprise, the State, through
out her whole extent,will promptly respond
to the call for condolence and sympathy
which emanates so loudly from her strick
en and suffering people. I have kept si
lent as long as I can; and I feel that, as
the Executive of a generous and warm
hearted people, I should be unworthy my
high trust, if I withheld, for another hour,
the expression of the painful emotions
with which 1 contemplate the march of
the pestilence. Receive, my dear sir, my
nnfeigued sympathy for the sufferings of
the city of Savannah, and the assurances
of my highest admiration for the heroism j
with which you maintain your post, iu the |
face cf danger and death. May God, in
Ilis mercy, preserve yon, and fill to over- j
flowing your cup of blessing 1
In view of the destitution of the poor j
of your city, who may be unable to pro-1
vide themselves with needful comforts aud
aid, considering the affliction of
Savannah, under the circumstances, as au
affliction to the State at large, and that
it is but just and humane that all the peo
ple should enjoy the luxury of extending
relief, I venture to inquire of you the ex
tent of your necessities, in order that I
-onf..;hnt;ion in
of the State. It is perhaps not strictly j
within the province of the Executive; but J
so far from censuring, I am greatly de- j
ceived in the character of the people of j
Georgia, if they will not cordially approve
such an application of a reasonable
amount of public money. At all events,
confiding in their magnanimity and gener
osity, I shall not hesitate to tender to
you, as Mayor of the city, such sum as
your reply shall indicate to be reasonable
and proper.
I pray Heaven to rebuke the pestilence,
restore the sick, and comfort the bereaved.
Respectfully, your ob’t serv’t,
Hersciiel Y. Johnson.
The Pestilence in Savannah.
The Savannah Georgian of Sunday
morning reports 21 interments for the day
preceding, 16 by yellow fever. This is a
smaller number than sos €n'y day previous
in last week. The Georgian then rcrrfhrks
as follows:
* We trust that we are not mistaken in
announcing, as the conclusion to which
our inquiries have brought us, that there
is an abeyance in the progress of disease
in our midst. Should the weather, which
has been exceedingly’ warm for the most
part, since the storm, grew colder, the
change to which we have alluded will pro
bably immediately become palpable. We
regret to say that there is still a great
deal of suffering for lack of;physicians and
nurses. Yet every effort is being made to
relieve it. Thanks, (ten thousand thanks!)
to the liberality of our friends abroad, we
have now the means of alleviating to a
great extent the wants of the poor and
destitute.
Among the deaths of yesterday we are
sorry to announce that of Judge W. Har
ris, of the firm of Harris & Brown. Mr.
Harris was, we believe, a native of Han
cock county, for many years lived in Ma
con, and for the last two or three has re
sided in this city. He leaves many friends.
His partner, Mr. Brown, is also ill with
the epidemic
Since the foregoing was written we have
had a copious shower, the effect of which
we hope will be favorable, especially as it
has been succeeded by an atmosphere de
cidedly cooler.
A friend of ours in this place, formerly
of Savannah, has enumerated the number
of interments, in that city, from the 9tli of
August last, till Sunday, the 17th inst.
both days included, and makes the total
697 interments !
We are pleased to’ state that Mr. Hil
ton, of the Georgian, and Mr. Alexan
der, of the Republican, who were both
attacked with the prevailing disease at
Savannah, are recovering, and considered
out of danger.
The last accounts from Augusta, left
Col. Ward and Mr Bartow in that place,
doing well.
We cannot yet speak of any visible a
melioration of the yellow fever in Savan
nah. The bodies range from twenty
to thirty interments per day, of whom two
thirds are by yellow fever. This is still a
largo number for the sparse population re
maining in the city. The weather for the
last three or four days, at this place, has
been cool, with the wind mostly at the
east. If it should be the same at Savan
nah, it may check the further progress of
the pestilence.
Yellow Fever in Augusta.
There was quite a panic in Augusta in
the latter part of last week, owing to the
appeavauce of two cases of yellow fever
in that city, and rumors, without any
foundation, of twenty others. Since then,
. there were three other cases reported up
to last Sunday morning. Two of the ca
ses were contracted iu Charleston. Many
of the inhabitants of Augusta have fled
to the Cherokee country. We trust, from
the advanced season and cool weather, the
disease will be checked in Augusta at
once.
No Plurality of Worlds
Someone has recently set forth the idea
that the world we occupy is the only one
inhabited by animated beings of any kind,
and that all the other heavenly bodies ran
ging the vast expanse of space, visible and
invisible, more than the sands on the sea
shore iu number, are dull, opague, barren
masses, unfit to be the habitation of any
thing living. Os all the absurdities of
, modern philosophy, this appears to us the
rankest. It implies that the Almighty
i has created myriads upon myriads of
worlds in his vast universe, the- most of
them hundreds and thousands of times lar
ger than this little globe we inhabit, all
merely to twinkle and shed a dubious and
uncertain light upon this, (the sun and
moon only excepted,) one of the smallest
and most insignificant of their number—
and that too, after all the sober-minded
and orderly people inhabiting it have gone
to sleep. All these worlds upon worlds
, were made purely for the accommodation of
this little planet, tracing its diurnal and
annual rounds about one great luminary,
the sun, controlled by him, aud carried
hither and thither by the power of his in
vincible attraction. “The Lord gi’ us a’
a good opinion o’ ourselves,” said the pi
ous Scotch weaver; the portion of the phi
losophical world holding to this belief has
1 no need to join Sawney in his petition,
j The argument for this wild supposition
j is about as absurd as the supposition it-
I self. It is, that these worlds, as far as we
I can know or determine, are constructed
1 wholly different from ours, aud we could
| not live there; and because vie. could not,
these philosophic sages draw the conclu
sion that no other being of God’s creation
I could. Some of them, they say, have 110
j atmosphere; some of them arc hot enough
to roast and burn up a Bucno3 Ayrean
ox, or an Asiatic elephant?, and others
cold enough to freeze a Greenland seal or
Russian bear. How, say they, can they
be inhabited? Take all this for granted,
and we could not live there, sure enough.
sailor was told be was putting his saddle
on his horse hind end foremost, he re
torted, Well, what of it; how do you know
which way lam going to ride? So too
with this philosophy. How do these phi
losophers know what kind of inhabitants
the Sovereign Creator is going to put on
these worlds, or lias put on them? If lie
appoints to those without an atmos
phere, inhabitants without lungs, who need
no respiration to keep them alive, will they
need air? If he he stocks the hot ones
with beings like the fabled salamander,
will they not thrive and flourish in the fire?
If the cold ones are supplied with beings
who can only live in an atmosphere below
zero, will they not be suited? llow ab
surd then, to say, that because we could
not live in such a world, no other created
being could. It is, in substance, saying,
that the Almighty is so finite in his crea
tive powers, that if he does not make man
with lungs, to breathe oxigen, he cannot
make him in any other way.
The Presidency
-1 We have for some years past been of
opinion that the South, being in a minor
ity in the councils of the nation, should no
longer aspire to furnish a candidate for the
Presidency, but give the North that privi
lege and hold them accountable for bis
course. It is clear that no Southern man I
can now be elected to that high and re- \
sponsible station, without first bargaining
himself away to Northern interests. He
may not do it in his own person—he may
not do it in so many words; but he will and
must do it in a much worse manner, with
the least hope of success. He must set
his friends to work to make pledges, to
waive constitutional guarantees, to barter
away offices in advance, with secret assu
rances from him that such bargains shall
be carried out. In a word, no man at the
South can be elected President of the U -
nited States now, unless he is very cor
rupt, and willing to trade away every
Southern right, privilege, immunity and
office, and become a Northern tool, for
his own personal, selfish aggrandizement,
at the sacrifice of his section of the Union.
We therefore coincide with the editor of
the Atlanta Examiner in the remarks
which follow:
Policy of the South with regard to
the Presidency.— For a long number of
years the North was willing to permit the
South to monopolize the honors, while it
secured the profits of the Government.—
Ambitious aspirants for the Presidency
were willing to barter away the rights and
interests of the South in order to secure
the object of their ambition. Now, we
are in favor of letting the North have the
Presidency so long as she leaves us the
quiet enjoyment of what belong to us, and
we are prepared to show that by this
means we shall be able for at least some
time to come, to secure ourselves from the
destructive and incendiary plottings of
Freesoilers and Abolitionists.
It is self-evident that where one section
obtains for its candidate the nomination,
the other holds the balance of power, and
may dictate its own terras in supporting
him. In other words, the Northern man
is compelled to commit himself to the sup
port of Southern rights and interests, in
order to secure his election, while, on the
other hand, the Southern mau, under the
same circumstances, has to commit himself
m the same way to Northern interests. —
The honors and the profits cannot go to
the same section. For our parts, we pre
fer the profits, or rather the quiet enjoy
ment of Our rights.
11011. Joseph 11 Chandler.
But, if we have the promise of the Re
turn of many good men to the next Con
gress, we are pained at the prospect of
losing one whoso place in all that is valua
ble iu a legislator it would be hard to fill,
and whose withdrawal may be regarded as
a public loss—we mean the Hon. Joseph
R. Chandler of Philadelphia. He was not
nominated by his party for re-election;
why, we cannot conceive. All that we
know is that he declined to permit his
name to be presented to the convention,
under the idea, or knowledge, perhaps,
that there were political elements in the
convention adverse to* his re-election.—
Whatever the cause, the effect is deeply to
be regretted.— National Intelligencer.
Two points in the above article occur to
us as somewhat extraordinary, and we will
take the last first. We have not heard
that Mr. Chandler “declined to permit his
name to be presented to the convention;”
and we believe the Intelligencer in making
this report is misinformed. Second, it is,
at the least, a singular indication that the
Intelligencer s’npuld affect not to know
why Mr Chandler has not been nomina
ted for re-election by the whigs of Phila
delphia The cause —that he is rejected
because he is a Catholic, and for that
alone —is notorious, and the wind blows
jit in the face of all men. Every observ
ing citizen knows it. All intelligent cir
cles speak of it; and all good men regret
its existence. That the Intelligencer
should not know of it is amusing; but that
the Intelligencer should not denounce the
existence of an objection so intolerant to
such a man is most culpable —Washing
ton Union.
Mr. Chandler is one of the ablest whig
members in the nouse of Representatives,
and gives universal satisfaction to the par
ty who elected him. There is not a sol
itary charge against him, other than that
he is a Roman Catholic. As the Know
Nothings have the nscendeucy in Phila
delphia, their intolerance sets him aside.
But see how this Know Nothing scheme
is working. Under date of the Bth inst.
at Philadelphia, we sec it stated, that “an
independent whig convention met last eve
ning at the Amorican Hotel, and made
general nominations for Congressmen from
the second district, and members of the
Legislature from the old city. Mr. Chan
dler, John C. Bnllott, Wm. M. Mercdeth,
and Job R. Tyson were named for the
nomination, which will be made on Mon
day evening next.” So the Know Noth
""e likely mid
lose at the bunghole. While they gain a i
a few discontented and dissatisfied Demo
cratic bigots, they lo3e the Catholic, the
foreigners, and half the Whig party. Ihe
simple truth is, the American people know
the value of their personal as well as na
tional liberty too well, to sweat it away
to any faction that may be got up, under
any pretence whatever, whether it be reli
gious, political or moral. They will hold
that inestimable jewel in their own hands.
Philadelphia, Sept. 12. —Hon. Joseph
R. Chandler was nominated for re-election
to Congress from the second district last
night, as the independent Whig candidate.
Public Meeting.
Griffin, Sep. 16, 1854.
At a meeting of a portion of the citi
zens of Griffin, convened at the City Hall,
in conformity with a resolution of a called
meeting of Council, Rev. J. H. Campbell
was called to the Chair, and A. P. Burr
requested to act as Secretary.
The object of the meeting having been
stated, Dr. J. N. Simmons offered the fol
lowing preamble and resolutions :
The citizens of this community have
learned with unaffected sorrow, of the ap
pearance of an alarming epidemic in our
sister city of Savannah; and each journal
that pays us its daily morning visit from
the seaboard, but renders our hearts sad
der still by the melancholy tale that it
discloses in the long lists of those who
have fallen victims to the violence of the
i unabated pestilence. And, as there are
many of our fellow citizens of Savannah,
who arc entirely deprived of the means ol 1
rendering themselves comfortable, in this,
the darkest hour of their calamity, and
who must inevitably suffer all the pangs
incident to a state of utter want and des
titution, unless timely aid be afforded
therefore
Resolved, That the Council of the city
of Griffin, in its corporate capacity, be re
quested, without delay, to subscribe such
amount for the relief of the destitute sick
as circumstances may justify.
Resolved, That, to the same end, the
Chair appoint a committee of five, aided
by the Pastors of the different Churches,
to solicit individual contributions from cit
izens of this community.
Resolved, That the sum that may be sub
scribed, by Council, or individuals, be re
mitted to the Mayor of Savannah, by the
acting Mayor of the city of Griffin, at his
earliest possible convenience.
The Chair appointed the following com
mittee to solicit individual contributions :
Dr. J. N. Siminons, A. Merritt, Win. J.
Jossey, J. S. Travis, and Jas. S. Jones.
On motion of Wm. J. Jossey,
Resolved, That the Secretary of this
meeting be instructed to notify the Pas
tors of the different Churches of Griffin,
of its action, and request them to bring
the subject before their congregations; al
so that these proceedings be published in
the city papers.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
J. H. CAMPBELL, Chairman.
A. P. Burr, Secretary.
Council Proccedmgs.
CALLED MEETING .
Griffin, Sep. 18, 1854. ,
His Honor, the Mayor, being absent
from the city, Al l. Johnson was chosen ,
by the members of the Council as Mayor 1
pro. tern. Present, Aids. Cloud, Jossey,
Bellamy, Woodruff an 1 Brown. Absent,
Aids. Strickland and Hancock
The object of the meeting was explain
ed to be the appropriation of means to aid
the sick and distressed poor of the city of
Savannah, in accordance with the wishes
of the citizens of this place at a public
meeting on Saturday evening last.
On motion of Aid. Cloud,
Resolved , That the Council appropriate
from the funds of the city Treasury, the
sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars
for the benefit of the sick and distressed
poor of the city of Savannah. Carried.
On motion, Council adjourned.
C. H. JOHNSON, Mayor pro >ei
A true extract from the minutes, this
19th day of Sept. 1854..
J, H. Logan, Clerk
For (lie Georgia Jefllrsoniin.
Collectanea ex Omnibus.
Hotles aud Fashions of the Times
When a young gentleman, with his head
thrown back, his arms extended to full
stretch, his feet like belaying pins pushed
* hard against the dash-board, drives a
horse aud buggy, Jehu like, think
the importance, dignity and merit of the
exploit is in himself or in the horse and
vehicle ?
When a belle is dressed up to nines iu
the fashion, with more garments than she
can well carry, is she not the least part of
herself? And when she is admired, court
ed aud married, is it she or her apparel
that is so ? A young man making the
tour of Europe, became acquainted with
an Italian beauty. She was the reigning
Queen of beauty at all the Courts. Her
object was marriage. They were mar
ried. On their retirement to the bridal
chamber, she took her position at the toi
let. She first took off all her hair from
her head; then took out one eye, ajid in
succession took off her nose, out her teeth,
off one arm, then one foot, &c. &c. Her
groom, believing her to be a spook, was
panic struck, fled from the room, aud
was heard of no more. What cared she,
his rhino was her object ? lie had mar
ried a creature of most refined, accom
plished and finished art. Turn the modal,
and the reverse is true of the male sex.
What is it that stings the keenest and
deepest ? Or do you know what pierces
the heart of friendship through and
through 1 Ingratitude.
What is the grand specific now for eve
ry evil, and the fountain of honor ? The
everlasting dollar.. A laboring sou of
Erin once said to mo, that in this country
now, if a man were brought to the gal
lows nine times, and reprieved the tenth,
and afterwards made a fortune any how,
lie would find a plenty to pull off their
hats to him; but no one would spake to
poor, honest Fat whilo he was breaking
stones on a turnpike to get an honest liv
ing, and for the good of the country.
What is the grand object of Education
now ? Is it ostentation ? Can any of
our learned young gentlemen hew a plough
out of an oak tree ? Do they praotice
the maxim, labor and independence ? Can
our accomplished young ladies saddle a
dish of venison, make a frieassee out of
curlews, or knit a pair of hose from the
foot upward ? Are we not in danger of
being educated out of, and beyond com
mon sense ? Are we not in peril, by.
scholastics, of being made metaphysical l
instead of physical beings ? Os losing
the sight and* sense of utilities, realities
and materialities of life, for evanescent van
ities ? Os ceasing to be bodies endowed
with rationality, and turning into unsub
stantial inhabitants of a world of Vaga
ries ? Os living on, and dressing in in
tangibilities, instead of hog and hominy,
and cotton, flax and wool, raised and man*
ufactured by our own hands ?
In this era of'steam, is there no dan
ger that we will be turned into smoke,
and carried away by the winds to Point
no-Point, or be transported so swiftly over
the railway of life, that nothing but a bine
streak will be left behind us ? We will
not have time to reflect. There is no de
pot for this purpose.
“Stop po >r sinner, stop and think,
Belerc you LiaHsr “o.”
After a little while, we will chide the Cro
at or for making our globe move so slow
in its orbit, or on its axis. We are be
coming a tastrade. Time is'too laggard
to suit us; its wheels and our time-pieces
must be made of electricity, an 1 move
with electric velocity Intellectual and
mechanical philosophy is so vastly im
proved by education, that no one is wil
ling to be stationary —to stay at “home,
sweet home.” All must be on the wings
of steam to parts unknown. What a
change has come over the world by edu
cation ! The horses of the sun used to
be driven by Divine power and prudence.
Now all men are Phaetons, rushing through
space, burning up the world by steeds of
fire. Will they not, ere long, be over
turned ?
I stop here, else I will l>e thought to be
■ an Old Fogy. F. D. C.
The New York Leader.
We have already, on a former occasion,
called the attention of our readers to the
prospectus and scheme of the New York
Leader. We have been in the receipt of
this paper since its commencement, and a
pretty attentive reader of it. It is filled
with able articles, and a3 far as We have
observed, is entirely free from all anti-
Southern tendencies. It does not appear
to dabble in party politics or sectarian an
imosities. With its general tone and dis
cretion thus far, we can cheerfully recoin -
mend it as one of the few among the pub
lications issued at the North worthy of
Southern patronage.
“Sun Snux.”—A gentleman, (.Vlr. N.
B. Clarke, of Hanover,) yesterday killed
eleven copperhead or moccasin snakes, one
of which was 3 feet 1 inch in length.—
They were found under the logs of an old
bridge which Mr. C. was moving, near the
Mechanicsville Turnpike. The moccasin
is well known to be as deadly poisonous as
the rattle snake, and particularly veno
mous during the month of August.—Rich
mond Enquirer.
That might be called good “snaking”
iu Virginia, but would be considered “no
great shakes” farther South. Thirty-odd
rattle-snakes were found in one hollow log,
in Baker county, not long ago, on the
plantation of Col. J. B. Lamar. Some
thirty years ago, the waters of the Paco
let, in South Carolina, having risen and
driven the copperheads from their dens,
throe of us concluded to go “a snaking,”
| and the result of our dry’s sport was thir
i ty-four snakes, besides sundry other
J “game.”
Post Office Robbery in Augusta
The Augusta Constitutionalist states that
the rumor that depredations had been
committed on the Post Office at that
place, a Mounting to from twenty five
thousand to one hundred thousand dol
lars, is a grave exaggeration. “Twelve
or thirteen thousand dollars,” says the
Constitutionalist, “will cover the wh >!e
amount; and nearly all of it was recover
ed from the negro b>y, who confessed
(that he committed the depredations.—
Not the slightest suspicion attached to
those connected with the office. We
are pleased to state, that from the strin
gent adopted by our energetic
Postmaster, in every branch of the busi
ness of the office, and which are daily
enforced, it will be scarcely possible foe
so unpleasant an occurrence to happen
again It affords us pleasure to smte,
that after conversing with the Postmaster,
an 1 learning fully, the nature of the re
forms instituted by him, no one interested
need feel any fears as to the safety of
i monetary remittances, so fir as the man ■
I agement ocf the Augusta Post Office is
j concerned.”
Fatal Affray— A young man by the
name of Jamos Reese, a Conductor on the
Georgia Railroad, was shot by Henry
Keener, at Augusta, on Sunday night, the
10th inst. lie died in loss than an hour
after he was shot, two balls having been
lodged in his stomach. Keener made his
escape, but has since surrendered himself
to the proper authorities and been com
mitted for trial.
The Mayor of Savannah, Maj. Ward,
1 and Mr. Bartow, of the sane city, it ap
pears were last week in Augusta. The
Constitutionalist of Friday morning an
nnonnees them both as doing well. Mr.
Ward is at Mrs. John Schley's, about six
miles from the city, and Mr. Bartow at
the residence of his brother -iu-law, Rev.
Dr. Ford.
Wc regret to learn (says the Charles
ton Courier of lust week) that a letter was
received iu this city yesterday, dated tho
12th inst. announcing that cholera had
made its appearance on several rice plan
tations on the Carolina sklc of the Savan
nah river.
Wc see it stated that tho primary whig
meetings held iu the Northern States, pre
paratory to their October and November
elections, “bear a Know Nothing aspect.”
We suppose so.
We learn that onr enterprising and wor
thy townsman, Col. Wm. G. Bonner, has
been appointed Chief Engineer of the
Vicksburg, Shrieveport & Texas Railroad,
and will soon enter upon the duties of
that office.— So. Reorder sth inst.
Fire in Mobile.— There was a largo
fire in Mobile on the 10. h iust. About
forty buildings were burnt, and the entire
joss is estimated at $39 ; 003 to $60,039.
The Washington Star says, the report
that a treaty providing for the annexation
of the Sandwich Islands has been receiv
ed at the State Department is untrue.
The deaths in Charleston from yellow
fever for forty-eight hours endtog Friday
night were 38.