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w sov<*ia of the great functionaries in the
provinces, who, in the recent emergency, be
trayed apathy, or decided hostility for the
eanse of order, that they will do well to send
mi their resignations.
' trivfvf said at least fifteen of the Prefects
th * °° re Pl ac ed, anil it is not improbable that
0t *° ur will be placed under arrest, for
.1 or falsified the telegraphic
• the^,. C f-°* Y* 110 * 1 were sent to them, inviting
* v o\nrt% ~ , Uvaicnac and Gren. Lamori
•' of the t,ie commander-in-chief
"* - the mover,V >nal 9 Uard ’ liave adopted a plan for
-. »«* i
during the night but 'T 7 °"t *“*
whose zeal and cour n he , N!lt,onalGuar v’ ln
can be placed are£ 8 £ th ® grcate f l rellunce
there is an attempt to,„ • u ™ moned as 800,1 a ?
are to put in W i?° Ve , tho l’“ and
which assimilates U le m a kn T k ° /"T
the insurgent taken Juf" “ hl f n f ad f to
action, barricade makinir *, rniS * before this
fringement of the laws } '
polite simple ; but now, any m Waß . C f alled ! a
forming a barricade. can* uT f asslsting “
Gen. Cavaignac is said to be rft 011 , C0 8 ° '
with stem seventy if another outbreak should
occur the Minister of War has published in
the Moniteur an order in relation to five com
panies of the 18th regiment of the who,
laid down their arms to the mob duriim tJ,di
late insurrection, and reprobates the act aR
•he troops as one of base cowardice. He disH
misses the officers who commanded" it breaks I
one of the companies, and disbands the others,
observing that but 1 >r considerations of mercy!!
all the delinquents should be punished with '
the utmost rigor of martial law. The exam
ple now made, although not so severe as this
act of cowardice merited, will suffice. The
army generally will regard the disgrace in
flicted on these men as the greatest punish
ment that could be bestowed. It is not proba
ble that such a sad pusillanimity will be again
shown.
Ihree days ago, Gen. Changarnier, com
mander-tn-chief of the national guards of Pa
ris, issued an order to the colonels of Ac seve
ral legions to meet him with the principal offi
— cers of his staff, at appointed hours, yesterday,
at the mairies of thoir respective arrondiss’e
mvnU, to confer with him on matters of urgen
cy. These conferences took place, and the
subject is nowftnown to have been tQfpncert
with the several commanders of the tpgions
what measures should be taken in each arron
(lisscment in the event of another attempt at
insurrection. The importance attached by
(.fen. Changarnier to these conferences has
been manifested by a strong reprimand, pub
lished in the Moniteur, against one of the co
lonies, who, being prevented from attending
personally, sent his lieutenant colonel to the
conference. The colonel has since resigned.
The postscript in the European Times says,
that the accounts from Paris, dated July 13th,
arc again of an unsatisfactory character. A
report is current to the effect that a serious
division prevails in the government. Evidence
has been obtained, it is said, which so bravely
inculpated certain members of the late go
vernment that it has been judged by some of
the present government to be unavoidable to
apply to the Assembly for permission to pro
secute them. Another party in the govern
ment is firmly opposed to this, not on grounds
connected with the merits of the question, but
from reasons of expediency.
Gen. Cavaignac himself is included in this
latter party, the greatest activity has continu
ed to be observed in the departments of the
war Office. Tho Etat-Major of the National
G uards, the Minister of the Interior and the
prefecture of tho Police. It appears certain
that attempts at excavation have been attempt
ed in numerous places; one of these is close to
the Chamber,another on the Boulevard Italians
near the Rue Louis le Grande, and another
near the Faubourg Tosisonierc; much alarm
continues to be felt, and it is very remarkable
how few persons are visible in the streets or
public walks, although the weather is line;
the officers of Etats Major have been warned
by Gen. Cavaignac to adopt extraordinary
precautions, for attempts would be made to
assassinate them at their respertive homes.
Later Intelligence, by Electric Telegraph
[ I'mm the London Times, loth.]
Notwithstanding an official announcement by
the government that no danger of an outbreak
existed, the Paris papers of yesterday show
that much apprehension prevailed throughout
the French Capitol.—All the political prison
ers were moved on Thursday night, from the
prisons of Paris to the detached ports ; several
escaped on the way. The National Guard
and the garrison were under arms at the de
parture of our express;and]cannon wore planted
at various points. Our correspondent express
es his conviction, nevertheless, that no move
ment of the disaffected would take place.
The following are samples of the reports in
circulation One is, that a general murder of
the members of the Assembly is intended;
means being organized of executing this sim
ultaneously at their respective places of abode.
Another is that an organized assault will be
made on the boarding schools, where young
persons of the one and the other sex are eduM
cated, that these shall be captured and kenlllP
t,. t > rtgttvrrp*«-tyt»i»ty~a n
'ment of a ransom of money, and the contest!
sion of such political measures as the insur
gents may require; other reported objects have
for their ends the blowing up of portions of
the Capitol, by means of gun-powder deposited
in the quarters of the Catecombs, sewers, pipes,
cellars and other excavations, which already
exist besides exca itions expressly executed
for the purpose. 1 is understood that the
Pensioners and other establishments for edu
cation, have been placed under careful sur
veillance. Again, it is said that a column of
40,000 ouvres, without work, intend to march
to the National Assembly, and demand per
emptorily to be fed or to be shot.
In Spain, the insurrection in favor of the
Count Do Montcmolen, fills the government
with alarm. Salamanca, the capitalists, whose
dexterity as an intriguer renders him one of
the most formidable enemies of the present
government,is about to experience’the effects of
its vengeance, by the confiscation of all his
property in Spain, as a Carlist and a rebel.—
Narvaez proposed this measure in a cabinet
council, and it will probably be carried into
effect. But little reliance is to be placed in
the news Trom Navarre and Catalonia, pub
lished in the government journal. The Cap
tains General of Catalonia and Navarre have
been ordered to slioot upon the spot Cabrera
and Edo, or any other Carlist chief who may
full into their hands.
Coi.oone, July 13.
The inarch of the Russian troops into Mol
davia is confirmed. The people
a Republic, and the Prince has bWi forced
to abdicate.
It is reported that the Prince has been exe
cuted by his subjects.
The Russian troops on the Prussian fron
ties have moved to Gallicia.
The Austrain Ministry has resigned.
The news from .Berlin is unsatisfactory.—
The communists are endeavoring to incline to
an insurrection similar to that of Paris.
The three months armistice between Prussia
and Denmark has been confirmed, (for the
third time,) Peace is expected to supervene.
Portugal is tranquil.
Mehemet Ali is represented to be insane.
Considerable disturbances have taken place
in the neighborhood of Frankfort. Barricades
were erected, and some loss of life took place.
In Italy, the war is still carried on without
vigor. No»farther decisive impression has
been made by Charles Albert.
Late information from Russia is not authen
tic, but 20,000 men arc said to have entered
Moldavia.
The chalera is frightfully on the increase.
Germany is still unsettled. The election
of the Archduke John is causing the utmost
excitement.
Ireland.
The crisis it now fast approaching, and each
party is girding itself for the conflict. The
government, by a vigorous censorship of the
press, the arrest of the confederate missiona
ries, the employment of spies, and the aug
mentation of its armed resources ; and the pro
digious activity in the enrollment of clubs, the
establishment of thjj_l.eaguc, the distribution
of arms, the most complete fraternization t>f
classes and boundless resolution Vind enthusi
asm on Saturday night. Mr. Duffy, of the
Nation, was apprehended on a charge of treason
and felony, and committed to Newgate,
whither he was t'illowed by Mr. Martin; of the
Felon, who had previously surrendered.
On Monday the proprietors of the Tribune,
Messrs. O’Dougherty and Williams, and Mr.
Hoban, the publisher, were committed on the
like charge, the whole of whom will be tried
at tho mission on the Bth prox.
arrested in Cashel on Monday, and Mr. Mca-*
gher in Waterford on Tuesday, on charges of
sedition, and will bo tried at tire present assi
zes in Tipperary and Limerick. Mr. Mea
gher’s apprehension caused the utmost excite
ment in Waterford. The chapel bells were
rung; thousands of confederates assembled,
and it required all the authority and influence
of the gifted captivef aided by
the Catholio» clergymen, to prevent the peo
ple from falling upon tire military and pqjf6e.
As it was, they stoned the authorities, and cut
otf one body of the troops from the other..—
They created a formidable barricade, Which im
peded th* progress of the escort, and for miles
harrassed and hunted the procession,but happi
ly no life was lc t. During the week, also, a
Mr. Darcey MeGi and Mr."llay wood were also
arrested for seditiui , but the bills were thrown
out by the Wicklaw grand jury on Tuesday.
The excitement, not only in Dublin, but
throughout Ireland, is everywhere intense,
and the note of preparation is everywhere
sounded. The flag of revolution has extended
to England, and scattered. The united re
pealers and chartists are rapidly organizing
and arming. The Nation, notwithstanding
its proclamation, has appeared this morning.
On Monday, the convicted chartists in Lon
don were sentenced each to two years’ impri
1 somnont.with security for future I good conduct.
The Queen’s Ministers have abandoned
their intention of permitting her to visit Ire
land in the course of next month.
[from the London 7'imes, July 15//i.J
LIVERPOOL.^Julv P. M.— Corn,
—Western Canal Flour 28s. a 295; Richmond
and Alexandria, 275. (id. a 285., Philadelphia and
Baltimore 275. Cd a 285.; New Orleans and Ohio
275. a 285.; Canadian 275. 6d. 28s. 6d.; U. States
and Crnadian sour, 255. a 2(is.; Indian Corn per
i quarter, white, 295. a 315.; yellow 325. a 345.; quot
l cd without reference to duty. The weather being
| uncommonly fine this week, operations in bread
stuffs have not been active; prices continue firm;
the general business of the week has, on the whole
been limited, particularly in wheat and flour, with
a turn in favor of buyers, who, nevertheless pur
chase sparingly.
Colton. —Upland ordinary per lb. 3.J a3jfd.; mid
dling 3$ to 3|; middling fair fjd; fair good
fair good fjjil. fine r >jd.; New Orleans ordinary
3 Jd. a 3jjd ; middling 3J a Id.; middling fair 4§ a
fijd.; fair 4Jd.; good fair (id.; good 5.} us£<l.; choice
marks a fijd.; Mobile ordinary to middling 3d.
to 3gd.; middling 3Jd.; middling fair 4 a 4|d.; fair
LJd.; good fair 4jjd.; good 4Jd.; tine a sjfd.; Sea
Island ordinary to middling 7 to 9d.; fair to good
fair 10 to lid., good to fine 13d to Kid.; stained 4 to
7d;
The market during the week has assumed a
linn tone, prices generally having advanced |d per
lb., and the sales amounting to 51,330 bales, of the
latter 8,509 taken on speculation, and 5,240 for ex
j&Oft; the American descriptions sold consist of 14-.
Hfclwles a sjd.; 23,370 Orleans, 3d to
7,170 anal Mobile 3d a 6jjd ; 501 Sea
Mn|gl , 6d a'TMßffl'lie imports during the week
M|M beeny2B,fl(Knralcs, and the stock in port is es
timated as 614,000 of which the American descrip
tions are 459,000, being an increase of 135,000
ba'M. This day’s market was firm, the sales
amounting to 7,000 bales, of which 4,500 arc for
speculation and export.
THECONSTITUTIONALI Sill
Augusta, (Georgia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2-
FOR PRESIDENT
LEWIS CASS,
OF MICHIGAN,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
WM. O. BUTLER.
OF KENTUCKY,
ELECTORAL TICKET.
W. T. COLQUITT, of Troup.
M. H. MCALLISTER Chatham.
J. W. ANDERSON, Chatham.
L. B. MERCER. Lee.
ALLEN COCHRAN, Monroe.
JOHN D. STELL, Fayette.
LEWIS TUMLIN, Cass.
ROBERT McMILLAN,JEIbert.
WILLIAM McKINLEY, Oglethorpe.
JAS. GARDNER. JR,., Richmond.
ALTERNATES.
TIMOTHY FURLOW, Houston.
W B WOFFORD, Habersham.
E. R. BROWN, Sumter,
MARK WILCOX, Telfair.
JESSE CARTER, Talbot.
JOHN WRAY, Coweta.
RA R. FOSTER, Forsyth.
JAMES JACKSON, Walton.
JUNIUS WINGFIELD, Putnam.
R. W. FLOURNOY, Washington.
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
2d Dist.—M. J. WELLBORN, Muscogee.
3d. “ —JOHN. J. CAREY, Upson.
4th “ —H. A. HARALSON, Troup.
sth “ —THOS. C. HACKETT, Floyd.
6th “ —HOWELL COBB, Clarke.
We have neither the right nor the power to touch j
slavery where it exists. —Gen. Cass.
Congress has no right to say, that there shall he !
slavery in New York, or that there shall be no
slavery in Georgia; nor is there any human pow- j
er but the people of those States. —Gen. Cass.
The principles involved in the Wilmot Proviso \
should be kept out of the national legislature, and
left to the people of the confederacy in their re- ;
spective local governments. —Gen. Cass.
Let the people regulate their internal concerns
in their own way. —Gen. Cass.
Leave to the people , toho will be affected by th is
question, to adjust it upon their own responsibili
ty, and in their own manner. —Gen. Cass.
lam opposed to the exercise of any jurisdiction
by Congress over the subject of slaveru. —Gen. !
Cass.
Ido not see in the Constitution any grant of ;
such a power to Congress. —Gen. Cass.
THE PEOPLE LlCFfi
-cC Tmr terms Of-the
Constitutionalist arc such aV
ought to place it in the reach of j
. . I
every citizen that can read.
During the present canvass
for the Presidency, no voter
should be without a newspaper.
Let those who can pay send in
their orders, and circu late the
paper among those who cannot.
Terms of the Weekly Constitutional
ist for the Campaign :
One copy, (0 months,) $1 00
Six copies, “ 5 00
Twelve “ « 10 00 j
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Our Weekly Subscribe*?.
We send them to-day the first number of I
our enlarged Weekly, issued from our splen
did new Power Press. This is evidence alike
of their generous support, and our desire to
merit it. We invoke not only a eontiuuance
of their patronage, but an exertion on their
part to be more efficient friends to our enter
prise. Can they not, each one of them, send
j us a Club, or at least a “ single subsckibek?”
This would be substantial and most accepta
ble proof of their good will and approbation. !
In addition, we would suggest that they j
can effectually aid us by sending us all the
advertizing they can controll. We ask especial
attention to this from Executors, Administra
tors and Guardians—Clerks and Sheriffs. We
already publish the Sheriff’ Sales, in full or by
synopsis—some of them without pay—of many j
counties, where our circulation is largest, as
an additional inducement to subscribers.
One word to subscribers in arrears. The
times arc hard, and wo feel them in our busi
ness, because many, many thousands arc due
us that ought to have been paid long since.
Those who owe would not feel the want of
their small amounts if they would remit, ,
while it would greatly aid us. Why not then
remit, while the money will be most welcome ?
The ,mails are open to you, and remit- i
antes at our risk. God bless the cheerful j
payer, says the printer.
Our Agents will be in the upper counties 1
this summer, and one of them at the Stone j
Mountain Mass Meeting. Wc hope that our !
subscribers in arrears will be preparc^JbsT"
Wc will not
Jing the fact, ijCu t a large number of our sub-'* ,
"ers (health and to them) pay us in '
advance. TJ^y'never wait till the year is out
before theypay. Some*of them have paid up '
more in advance. Their example
is woi JHff alfpraise and imitation.
. W - ~ •
'Slone Mountain Mass Mooting> and Ag- -
ricultural Fair- « •»
Xte several Rail Roads of the State have
brought down the fare to the low
est in order to accommodate the public
and afford every facility to the people to at # .
tend those meetings. *
This is judicious, as it increases the profits of
the companies, at the same time that it in
creases the number of those who can enjoy the
gratification of attending those meetings.
The rate of fare on the Western and Atlan
tic Rail ltoad is to be reduced to two cents a
mile, and the passengers to be allowed tore
turn free.
Specimens and articles for exhibition are to
bf t cnrried free.
, Similar low rates are adopted on the con- '
necting Roads.
Mr Toombs, and the Augusta Whig
Presses-
This gentleman has managed in his clap
trap Buncombe harrangue in Congress, which
is dignified with the name of a speech, to befog
his supporters here as to his real opinions on
the slavery question, 'fhe Chronicle and the
Republic are charmingly, by the ears, in a dis
cussion whether Mr. Toombs favors the one
side or tho other of the opposite opinions held
by those two presses on the question of the
rights of slaveholders in the new territories.
As Mr. Toombs was not attempting a pro
found legal or constitutional argument, but
just “ blowing for the b’hoys,” and address
ing the superficial intelligence of his party to
furnish ba-room and street corner arguments.,
we wonder he did not make himself more clear.
Perhaps he did not desire to be wholly com
mitted to any one of the two sets of opinions,
advocated by the two Whig presses of his
district.
We will let the two fight it out at the pre
sent. .
We are at no loss, however, to perceive that
Mr. Toombs and the Chronicle chime together.
We are somewhat amused at
ting distinction made by the Choniclc t as to
what its own views are.
The Republic says of it and of Mr. Toombs.
“ The Chronicle of Wednesday says that Mr.
Toomb#Lißy sustains all that it had said up
on this That paper had frequently
slavery was abolished in New
slaves could not be
the consent of the terri
until the law abolishing
, slavery* litre should be repealed by Congress.
It gave, therefore, to both the legislature of
the territory and to Congress tho power t. Q
legislate upon the subject of slavery. Now
we deny that Mr. Toombs sustains either of
these absurd, anti-Southern and dangerous po
sitions.”
To this the Chronicle replies :
“ This paper has never said that “ slaves
could not be carried into New Mexico and
California without the consent of the territo
rial legislature, or until the law abolishing
slavery there should be repealed by Congress.”
On the contrary, we have asserted that “ the
right to take slaves there is unquestionable.”
But to render this right of any ’practical
value, the laws of Mexico which forbid slave
ry in the acquired territory should be repealed
“ by seme competent authority.”
That is a curious sort of unquestionable right
which is of no practical value, and has no law
to sustain it. The Chronicle says it is a right
forbidden by the laws of the country of
force there when this 'unquestionable' right
is claimed to exist. On the same princi
ple it might be said that a man has an un
questionable’right run his hand in his neigh
bors pocket; but that as it was against law,
he would be sent so the penitentiary for ex
ercising his unquestionable right.
The Chrotiicle denies haring said that slaves
could not be carried into New Mexico and
California, without the consent of the terri
torial legislature, or until the law abolishing
slavery there should be repealed by Congress.
It says on the contrary, the right to take
slaves there is unquestionable. But the
Chronicle says that the slaves will be taken I
away, and made free as soon as they get there, |
that such is the law prevailing there notwith
standing the conquest, and the annexation of
these countrfes to the United States.
How such a right as that can be called an
unquestionable one, is a little enigmatical.—
The Chronicle could have meant nothing else
than that the New Mexicans and Californians
did not allow slavery—and the conquest, an
nexation and treaty did not supercede their
laws prohibiting slavery. Therefore slave
holders did not lfave the right to carry their
laves there, and hold them there as such.—
It is too late for the Chronicle to shrink from
that position, except by backing square out.
Our Position Misrepresented-
The Chronicle 6; Sentinel does us gross injus
tice in saying that The Constitutionalist and
The Chronicle Sj Sentinel fully agree upon the
the "momentous sectional question” which
Mr. Clayton’s Compromise Bill sought to set
tle. The Chronicle is pleased to dubit, "The
miss-called Compromise Bill,” and quotes the
following paragraph from our paper of Friday
last, to convey the impression that we were op
posed to the bill.
Agitation will only temporarily subside. It
again spring up in Congress under some
uretext. aiul-thcu the necessity of such a price
ki-s the Missouri Compromise line wi?f't ' —, *ade
•ijore palpable than ever. As long as the right,
and the chance of its being exercised, exists,
of the carrying slavery into the newly acquir
ed territory through all its wide bounds, there
will be agitation and clamor in the free States.
The moment, however,a Northern geographical
limit is fixed upon, beyond which it is not to
be carried, the public mind of the whole coun
try will acquiesce in it and become content
with the arrangement. It is because we-take
this view of the case we advocate the adoption
of the Missouri Compromise lino extended to
the Pacific. —Constitutionalist 3(P/i tilt.
The Chronicle is pleased to make the follow
ing among other comments :
These views arc founded in common sense;
and wc are pleased to know that on a momen
tous sectional question, that democratic paper,
hitherto so ultra, and this journal now fully
j agree.
Now, we know of no paper South of Mason
& Dixon’s line with which we more widely discs
' gree then The Chronicle Sentinel, on this mo*
j mentous sectional question.
] The Chronicle objects to this Compromise
Bill, and quotes us, to show that we do the
, same. Here is a part of the language wc use
in the editorial thus quoted from :
Thf. Compromise. —We sincerely hope that
the labors of the Senate Committee of Eight
will MSult in the restoration of harmony and
good feeling to our agitated country. If. the
bill they have reported be adopted, and its
provisions carried out in good faith-Mn the
spirit of a just regard to the rights of all sec
tions, such as prompted the Committee to
frame and report it, then our glorious Union
is forever secure ; for it will* have weathered
the most threatening storm that has ever yet
lowered over it.
We shall shope for the best from this com
promise, and since it has met with the appro
bation of so many of the patriotic and wise
in our national councils, and is likely to be
hailed with such general satisfaction in the
South, we are content to unite our own hopc
| ful voice in its favor.— Const. 30th ult-
These are the first sentences in the editorial.
The Chronicle quotes the concluding portion
only of that editorial. We expressed in that
editorial a hope that the bill would pass—and a
fear that it would not pass.
It is true that we thought it would only lull
the storm for a while—that “ sooner or later the
! question of a territorial division between the
slaveholding and non-slaveholding people of
| our common Union will be called for.” But
we believe also that this “ might be safely ad
journed for the present by having it in abeyance
—neither Congress or the territorial legisla-
I tures attempting to legislate upon it.”
We would have preferred—we do prefer the
1 Missouri Compromise line. We would hare
been glad to have seen this Congress adopt it.
But we knew this to be impossible. It was
attempted in the Senate—in the Senate Com
mittee —in the House. It failed. It was put
down in every shape. This bill of Mr. Clay
- tdfcjs was the only practical compromise bill
and passed. Wc were con-
Ethis if wc could get nothing that
Bid conclusive. It was a step gain
a step towards peace and u final
It brought present peace and
,quiet tfhe country. We said in the same
i editorialWc cannot doubt that there is a
conservative good sense and attachment to the
Union ii} the country that would carry this
cCompromisc Bill (Mr. Clayton’s) triumphant
ly if left to the popular voice, and made a dis
tinct issue before the people. Another Con
gress would be strong enough to carry it.”
Let not the Chronicle hereafter, in opposing
and condemning this Compromise Bill, hold
us up to its readers as fully agreeing with
them. It is quite the contrary, we can assure
them. We differ to to coelo from that paper,
and think that it holds on this momentous sec
tional question, “ anti-Southern and danger
ous positions.”
Colonel Humphrey Marshall is stumping it
through Kentucky for General Taylor. The
same Colonel Marshall, a few days after he
; returned from Mexico, gave the following
! toast: —“General Wool—Thk Hero of Buena
! Vista.”
n Loss of the Compromise Bill
It is with a deep feeling of disappointment
that we announce the intelligence of the defeat
of the Compromise Bill in the House. This
is an appalling calamity to the country, and
must cause every heart to beat quick with
alarm, for the union of the States is in danger.
How can it survive the stormy waves of fac
tion and fanaticism that**® beating against it,
now that this barrier, erected by the patriotism
of the Senate, is deliberately beatcn.down by a
reckless majority in the House, who would
thus seek to win a party triumph even at this
tremendous hazard ? What hope is there for
peace and union in the face of so much unscru
pulous devotion to party ? Oh Whiggery!
manifold are thy sins ! But this is the climax
of its iniquities.
But what will our readers think of a South
ern man— a Georgian—who has aided in thus
annihilating the hopes of the patriots of the
country ? Yet a Georgian was the man who
took the lead in this act, which stabs the very
bosom of his country’s peace, and that man is
Alexander Hamilton Stephens. We refer
our readers to the Congressional proceedings
in this day’s paper.
This reckless step is said to be the result of
a Whig caucus on the 22d instant,-in which it
was resolved that this Compromise Bill must
be killed, because it would endanger the election
of Gen. Taylor —that it was necessary to his
election that the country should be kept du
ring the whole canvass, in its present terrible
excitement. Whatever be the result, we ap
peal to the people of Georgia to exhibit, in the
most emphatic manner, their indignation at
this desuerate device of Whiggery to attain-?
political power. ....., .T~rr itk ■ i .
ly, to mark the conduct of Mr.f ntepiu..
we rightly comprehend the case, it is a signaP
instance of party being a stronger motive than j
patriotism in the breast of a <
“ Gen Taylor Never Surrenders ”
Text.
We will now furnish a short commentary.
It will show the reliance that is to be placed
upon the firmness and self respect of an old
man who has been dazzled by the prospect of
occupying a position for which he acknow
ledges himself, in substance, utterly unfit, and
has himself, not only so stat ed but given most
conclusive facts to prove it.
In his celebrated Signal letter—the Wilmot
Proviso letter, on which the Northern Whigs
electioneer for him, he says :
“In no case can I permit myself to be the «,
candidate of any party, or yield nvjself to party
schemes.
On the loth of July, the man who had thus
announced his position, writes to
Mr. Moreliead as follows :
Sir : —I have had the honor to receive your com
munication of June 10 th, announciny that the
Whiy Convention, which assembled at Philadel
phia on the 7th of thut month, and of which you
were the presiding ofScer, has nominated me for
the office of President of the United States.
* » * '*■ * * * .
I3PI CORDIALLY ACCEPT THE NOMINATION.
Who will now say Gen. Taylor never sur
renders ? This is another illustration of the
infirmity of human nature. Few men are
capable of so stern an adherence to a principle
they lay down as a rule of action, as to be
proof against the temptation of ambition, or
the blandishments of designing flatterers.
Gen. Taylor has yielded to both, and has there
by lowered his position in the eyes of the
world.
It is not that there could have been any dis
paragement to his just fame in consenting to
be the candidate of a party. Such a position
is high and honorable. It was no disparage
ment to the greatest men our Republic has
produced, that the}' were at different times
candidates of their parties. But having assu
med a position independent of parties, Gen.
Taylor has greatly weakened his moral force
before the country by being tempted from it,
and shamelessly abandoning it. lie descends at
one headlong stride from this elevated pedes
tal into the dust and mire of squabbling polit
ical factions, and is converted at once into a
party leader or a party tool. That this view
is taken of his conduct is evidenced by the
disbanding everywhere—but especially in Ma
ryland, of the Independent Taylor Party.
Those honest men who relied on his repeated
and solemn pledges that no case would lie
permit himself to be the candidate of amrty,
political organization, when AKey
unequal to the moral heroism of sustaining
his independent position and resisting the so
licitations of a powerful yet desperate party
which, as a last hope of attaining power, sought
to avail themselves of his gunpowder popular
ity.
The case illustrates another infirmity of hu
man nature. Men are usually not satisfied
with what nature has fitted them for, or the
credit they have j ustlvacquired. They weak
ly strive to excel in some department, for
which they arc unsuited, and make a failure
of course. So with Gen. Taylor. He is as
much unfitted by education, association and
habits of mind, for the office to which he as
pires, as a stone mason to make a watch, or a
botanist to build a steam engine, or a mathe
matician to cure disease, or expound com
mercial law, or lecture on theology. Some
men can succeed in different and opposite pur
suits. and do. But they arc not able to do so
without study and preparation. Knowledge
does not come by intuition. It is rather late
in life for Gen. Taylor to take up a new pro
fession. It would look rather absurd to be
hold him with his political horn book in hand
and Webster, Corwin or LlzF FILLMORK
indoctrinating their hoary pupil in their pecu
liar school of political science.
Speech of Mr. Berrien on the Territorial
Bill
We will endeavor to lay a portion at least
of the able speech of thil Senator upon the
Slavery question before our readers at an ear
ly day. It is marked with his usual legal acu
men and learning, and is in every respect a
masterly effort.
We take occasion to call the attention of the
Chronicle A Sentinel to a typographical error in
its columns of Friday last. In publishing the
speech of Mr. Berrien, tho word not is left out
of the last sentence of the following section
quoted from Yattel’s I,aw of Nations. Book
Ist, chapt. 20, p. 113.
“ All the members of a corporation have an
equal right to the nse of the common property.
But respecting the manner of enjoying it, the
body of the corporation may make such regulations
■ as they think proper, provided that those regu
\ lati oils be not inconsistent with that equality of
| / ight which ought to be preserved in a communion
iof property. Thus a corporation may deter
mine the use of a common forest or a commoi*
pasture, either allotting it to all the members,
according to their wants, or allotting each an
equal share, but they hare not a right to exclude
any one of the members, or to make a distinction,
to his disaatmUage, by a.4ki|p#ng him tr less
share than that of the others.”
This is section 248, in chapter—2o, ■ Oil tllS
subject “Os Public, Common and Private"
Property.”
The error every reader would perceive at a
glance. Wo take the trouble of quoting the
paragraph because it is good law, and contains
in a nut shell, by obvious analogy, a large por
tion of the gist of the controversy between the
Wilmot Provisoists and the South.
Martin Van Buren’s Acceptance
The New York Herald of the 20th inst. pub
lishes a letter of Martin Van Buien—the apos
tate —addressed to a Committee of the Indus
trial Congress recently held at Philadelphia,
in which he declares his acceptance of the
nomination of the Barnburner Convention at
Utica.
Thus have an unholy ambition,and the fierce
personal resentments of a selfish spirit, induced
a man to forget patriotism and become reckless
of his country’s welfare.
He consents to a movement which seeks to
array the country strictly into two parties, di
vided by a geographical line and by a sectional
question, the direct tendency of which is a
destruction of the Union.
Gods! Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the vaults of Heaven,
Ked with uncommon wrath, to blast the man
Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin.” I
Ihe Supreme Court of Mexico has pro
nounced its decision upon the question of the
treaty, declaring that it was not necessary
that it should be submitted to the Legislatures
of the different States for their approval.
Mr. Van B^^^P t * ren s Acceptance.
Mr. Van Buren i^^R dlCates hls acceptance of the
Utica ,n _^ le blowing language,
taken from his 20th, to the Com
mittee of the In^MP Us ‘ rial c °ngress. This last
act in the of hls downward career to j
political and degradation, seals the ]
justice of that t^le York De- I
mocracy, by " expelled from
all communion Ci ( des m the go- I
litical field.
“ The Utica • chiefly composed
of men and the - nts °* meu '"’ho have
been my politicaT^^Bz°°^ l^ tes an d fast friends
from the
my political care^^Pj. lev ‘ n " that the use of
my name as a e t° r the Presidency
was essential to P ro Per support of their
principles, and tne^HL- na J lce °f that inde
pendent position -* have been driven,
by the injustice
and exercised tV)7f*7 , ° . 80 employing it.
That they cmM...7 ““5® r . e *“t , ng circumstances,
do this || f . B,n f t . us fidelity to their
old c s „to J ust impeachment,
no candid “formed upon the sub
ject, 1 understood them too
well t(> faith of their pro
ceeding, I knoi^R,, y " 0 . that they would
have respected niR,. 8 ” WI ! wishes in the mat
ter, if they had Bfi, that they could do
so with justice s ® ves and to their cause.
Placed as , 'Citizen, ln the sarae sit
uation, and en \ by the strongest
gratitude an< | .holding the same
opinion, fo'f f ° which they had been
virtually a “ communion with
their old “ the Political field, I
could not bc-BVi < thorixing the declara
tion that Ishojß , e ‘ci myself at liberty to
interpose bstacle to their proceed
ings.” —_____
Patriotism.
ma >- form some idea of
V jvliat submit
IMIO.M ISK
,7 of the
■ that the Compro-
Ihe V b J^BL fail ‘ 1 will Stregthen
. an , ot * ier anti-slavery factions 1
S,»!u^^d“f..-i cop,,d “• «* j
llero '^r^ ry ' cold announcement of a fact j
—we iYqem judge from the manner in which
it ls a not unpleasing fact to the Chron- \
icle cV tWm^iel.
1 lie failure of the Compromise
Bill seen sto excite no regret, and certainly I
calls fori i none. The seennr) t.... t.... „„ _<■ *.. . i
sa-umi sentence ot tlie
paragnq i explains the reason.
" “ Its I lssa S e will strengthen the Van Bu
ren and other anti-slavery factions at the
North, aid jeopard the election of a Southern
President.”
The ejection of General Taylor, is no doubt,
considyl so transcendently important to
whiggw in Georgia, that in comparison with
it, thekiiicable settlement of this alarming
questffli slavery in the territories, is apparent
ly ky the Chronicle as a trifle—or a ca
humrf* It at least has no regrets to express
at thefrospcct of the defeat of the Compro-
M c*vill now furnish our readers the whv
and therefore of this contemplated failure of
the Cjnpromise Bill, obtained from the same
sourc' of information. That Washington
correjkmdent says:
Thl’ompromise Bill, as it is called, will
fail. On last Inday it would have passed bv
a lar*majority. Mr. Barrow, a Whig Reprc
sentave from Tennessee, congratulated the
lIouJ on its introduction into the Senate. On
Satiday you will see that the effort to amend
the |1 by striking out all that part relating
to (i ornia and New Mexico, failed by a very
deci id vote in tho Senate. On Saturday it
is u lerstood, however, that the Whi<*s had
a c< Ference, the result of which is that, in
the ipinion, if the bill passes, it must des- 1
tro heir prospects in the coining Presiden
tial lection. This morning Mr. Hillard, a '
■\V 1 from Alabama, declaring his opposition
to Ji bill, and it is understood that he speaks I
tl>- opinion of the greater part, if not the !
wi e, of the Southern Whig Representatives.
Ii! t Senate, Southern Whigs who last week
de red themselves decidedly in favor of the 1
biVvill now vote against it. Mr. Phelps, 1
oi if the Select Committee who reported the
bi declared to day that he was the only
N hern Whig who would voto for the bill,
l will be anxious to know what are the
vi I which thus unite Northern Whigs and
Si»ern Whigs in opposition to this inea
si| because with one party the bill does not
S l'r^° Ugh ’ and with the othcr g° es too
a| Ihe true reasons, a§ understood here,
JE Se; the Nortllenl Whigs ->k that
apparent concession, on
on this subject, would give the !
r . Van Buren, and defeat Taylor; 1
■ ilst the Southern Whigs fear that if this
estion is closed, the peculiar ground on
lich Gen. Taylor is supported in their sec
n—danger to the South on this question—
taken away, and on the old issues between
■2 two parties they must be beaten. The
■at argument that GencralTaylor is aslave
lder will not then apply. So the rights of
p South on this great question are to be held
abeyance, and their interests are to be put
as stakes in the next Presidential election.
The vote in the Senate will probably dis
use where justice to the South, and respect
her rights exist umong the parties of the
senator Corwin, a Whig from Ohio, has just
jicludeda speech, which will make five men
» of six in the South who read it disunion
i. He concluded by broadly and repeated
|lnserting that Gen. Taylor would not get
t vote of a single free State in the Union,
bfor his pledge not to veto any bill passed
bfougress containing the Wilrnot Proviso.
: it possible that Southern Whigs intend
a ; ig thus ! Will they sacrifice the peace
a safty of the country on the altar of party :
fs Mr. Hilliard indeed speak the voice of
Southern Whig Representatives.
Me have seen those Southern Whig Re
ntatives do so many atrocious things to
\fisr up their desperate cause, that we should
l be surprised if they should band together
(the purpose of dissipating this bright Rain
fc of Peace that now spans the political
K’ens, though when it fades away, we should
fifft in the midst of Cimmerian gloom that
■t sadden the heart of every true lover of
tfc T nion.
ese Whig Representatives may do this.—
(*ey think they can gain a party advantage
ti will do this. But woe to them if they 1
doThe people of the South will sternly re- j
bn a course that factiously endeavors to per- I
US-tc this alarming state of discord in our
•say. ’
, The Compromise.
mucerely hope" that the labors of the
l Se> »> rt snmittee of Eight will result in the i
1 of harmony and good feeling to j
°ur tated country. If the bill they have
adopted, and its provisions carried ]
°utV. u d faith—in the spirit of a just regard :
to tjLalhta of all sections, such as prompted
the?Xi mittee to frame and report it, then our
glows Union is forever secure; for it will
htwi&athered the most threatening storm j
. yet lowered over it.
Swfefiha lmst from this com- 1
ce it has met with the appro- |
iy of the patriotic and wise j
councils, and is likely to be
ti general satisfaction in the
intent to unite our own hope- j
ivor.
'rain, however, from express- j
asions that this labor of pat- ;
just and moderate counsels, j
The fanatical spirit of the j
has been aroused to so ex- j
1, will, wo fear, be too potent
(ingress to carry this oompro
tormy debate, it will probably
e-House. There are, we fear,
ir influences at work to keep
mis esciteieut alive. Those influences are
unfavorable to the adjustment, because it
would temporary and sectional purposes
CQBftactpcJA; th the elections of the country,
in which Congress have a personal
interest.
Yet it is apparenthat the real interests of 110
section of our county can be promoted by the
continuance of thos agitations. It is appa
rent that every real,. Merest of every section
weuld be promoted $ i t 9 final adjustment—
the happirtAtf of ava.y community, and the
dignity and welfare. 9 f the whole country,
would be placed on a nucli more stable and
secure foundation. V e cannot doubt that
there is a conservative g)od sense and attach
ment to the Union in the country that would
carry this coinprojnjaabm triumphantly if left
0 the poptiklfvbiec, and made a distinct is-
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! sue before the people. Another Congress
would be strong enough to carry it.
But sooner or later the question of a terri
torial the slaveholding and
non-slaveholaing people of our common
Union will be called for. It may be perhaps
very safely adjourned for the present by leav
ing it in;abeyance—neither Congress or the
! territorial legislatures attempting to legislate
upon it. But we cannot expect this always to
I last. Agitation will only temporarily subside.
It will again spring up in Congress under
some pretext, and then the necessity of such
a line as the Missouri Compromise line will bo
made more palpable than ever. As long as
the right, and the chance of its being exer
cised, exists, of the carrying slavery into the
newly acquired territory through all its wide
bounds, there will be agitation and clamor in
the free States. The moment, however, a
Northern geographical limit is fixed upon, be
yond which it is not to be carried, the public
mind of tlie whole country will acquiesce in it
and become content with the arrangement.
It is because we take this view of the case we
advocate the adaption of the Missouri Com
promise line extended to the pacific.
[communicated.]
The Presidency, An Office of Trust
-1 lie gratitude of the people is supposed by
the Whig party to be the very gist of their
i candidate’s “ availability.”
General Taylor himself does not consider it
a condescension, in the midst of his modest
disclaimers of fitness for office, occasionally
I“ to stir up their pure minds, by wav
yn£i„,i-—* wiiK an allusion to forty years
; of service, and two years spent in the tented
field without the cover of a roof.
In return for these services, we are told by
his friends, he should be rewarded with the
Presidency, the highest honor in the gift of the
P eol >lc- - a -
Now the •p’fifi'i.apt to arise in any dis- |
criminating the Presidency is
merely an oJfisxtP honor? Whether, indeed,
it was constituted with any view, even the
most remote, to individual distinction and ag
grandizement ? Whether it is simply a niche
to be filled by the object of national gratitude r
The above inquiries lead inevitably to the
conclusion that the Presidency is an office
OF TRUST —AND OF HONOR ONLY AS THE INCI
DENTAL OF TIIE TRUST.
The trust reposed in the President of the
United States is tlie highest known on earth.
Well might the “ Father of his country”
dread its responsibilities, and feel even his in- ,
adequacy for the discharge of its duties. We
consider General Taylor’s conviction of his
own incompetency no argument against him.
It is the proof which he furnishes of the im
possibility of his being at all competent, which
argues irresistibly against entrusting him with
this responsible office.
Here fs the argument which rests upon facts
disclosed by his own correspondence.
A man who has not for forty years made po
litical questions a subject of investigation, is
prima facie, utterly unfit for any important
political station. The presumption is against
him—a presumption, which in this case, a
mounts, of itself, to almost overwhelming
i proof. The burden is of itself sufficiently oncr
\ ous to crush him, without the aid of proof ab
| extra.
On the supposition, however, that a man
utterly inexperienced and untried may be com
petent, it is barely possible for him to afford
| such evidence of the fact as would furnish the
| nation with a rational ground for his support.
For, let the facts be what they may, the pco
! pie must have the evidence before they can rea
| sonably act upon them.
Suppose, now, this untried man, in his po-
I sition as a candidate, and in the expression of
his political views, to be perfectly consistent
i and correct. Wc would feel that there was
nothing in his conduct to increase the pre-
I sumption against him —but would it not tako
I time for us to acquire that confidence, which
! is emphatically “ a plant of slow growth.”
If, on the contrary, the evidence which he
! offered the country was contradictory and in
■ consistent, our first impressions would be con
firmed. If General Taylor’s letters and pledges
jbe a mass of inconsistencies—if they display
! the most inadequate notions of the structure
of our government —then do his efforts but
| heap proof jiositive upon the presumption he is
i laboring to rebut.
’Tlie time which the most competent man un
| dcr like circumstances would have required in
order to inspire a rational confidence in the
people —was all he -would have needed to ac
cumulate a mass of direct evidence against him
self which would have made even the most
partial friend stand aghast. Time enough has
already been afforded, we trust, to clinch the
presumption in the minds of the people, and
save him from an eminence which could only
serve to render his unfitness conspicuous.
As the ground is acknowledged to be barren
of civil fruits, his friends are forced to point to
his military skill. Sound the argument they
build upon this, and observe its utter empti
ness.
Military skill assuredly proves fitness for
military station. It also proves the possession
of faculties, the devclcpcment of which would
: in some instances fit a man for civil office—
and, in othcr instances, would not. This de
l vclopment is the result of experience, and its
t growth cannot be forced. It is a matter of un
. certainty, until tho trial has been made, whctli
-1 era mere military man will ever prove a states
t man. But it is no matter of uncertainty, when
* the question is—can he become a statesman in
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an hour: And when a man has reached old
a S c . and his mind lias become ossified, as it
were, before j|Jias handled
it is scarcely imertuin whether man can
ever be a stales man.
Would military skill, we would ask, lit a
man for the Presidency of a college ? Would
it make us willing to swear by his grammar and
style r —ought it to convince us then -that its
possessor was of a mental constitution different
from that which his acts and writings would
indicate ? Docs it prove consistency—politi
cal information— present fitness tor civil office ?
In the much abused name of common sense,
let us not be led into these follies. Aru»we to
be the victims of the crude notions, which i
even the most powerful intellect may enter- !
tain, when overwhelmed with the complexi- j
ties of a new subject ? Are we to have a pupil
.in polities at the helm of state ! Or, are we to
take the other horn of the dilemma, and have
a cabinet, without a President, as our execu
tive heud ?
The honor appropriate to his services Gene
ral Taylor has had. The voice of the people
did him honor, when they heard of his victo
ries. The press every where teemed with his
praises. The v«es of thanks of many States,
and of the Congress of our common country,
stand on record.
But now when a different and inappropriate
reward is claimed lor him—when the people,
in order to express the gratitude for his mili
tary services, which they feel, are called upon
to express the confidence in his civil capacity,
which they do not feel—their voice will be
heard, we hope,
thus unenlightened—that they will rci..—
“ honor to whom honor is due.” M.
Washington, July 24th, 1848.
GcU' Worth-
This distinguished officer passed through
this city on Thursday morning on his way to
Washington city. We understand he will re
main in Charleston on Friday and partici-
A :la in the welcome to the Palmetto ltegi- '
m it. ' \
Democratic Bally.—Solomon Harris, Esq.
lute Editor of the “Little Georgian,” Forsyth,
proposes to publish a campaign paper in that
place, with the above title, devoted to the sup
port of Cass and Butler.
MARRIED,
On Tuesday, the 25th inst. at the house of Isaac
Henry, Esq., on the Sand Hills, near Augusta, bv
the Rev. Air. Bowman, Major GOODE BRYAN,
<1 Alabama, to Miss F. MARIA MYERS, daugh
ter ofCol. M. Myers, ol’Cobb county.
Special Notices.
DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT CONVEN
TION.
The Convention to Nominate a Can
didate for Congress from the Bth District, will be
held in Augusta, on Saturday, the 12th August,
as this place has been selected by several coun
ties as most convenient. We hope to see every
county in this District represented.
<£ o m m t r c i a I.
Augusta Market, August 2.
We give this morning our usual month
ly table, iiiadjVp to the latest dates received, from which
it will be seen that the exports to Great llriuin are 1,-
198,352 against 745,008 bales last year ; to France, 276,-
842 against 216,377; other Foreign Ports, 248,133 against
149,935; Coastwise ports, 039,042 against 570,765 bales
last year—making the total to all ports of 2,353,909 bales,
against 1,682,143 bales (luring the same period last year.
The receipts at all the ports sum up 2,255,400, agains t
1,751,378 bales last year, allowing an increase of 504,188
bales. The stock remaining on hand at all the ports is
256,439, against 330,009 bales last year.
The past month lias shown a steady market, with prices
tending upwards. The affairs of Europe appear to be
more settled, and as confidence is restored business as
sumes its natural channels, and our great staple, Cotton,
lias participated in tlic general rise which has conse
quently taken place. As regards the growing crop, it is
too early as yet to speak with any degree of certainty as
to its yield. This much we may say, however, that from
the whole Cotton region we receive flattering accounts
of the crop, and unless some untoward circumstances
occur between this and frost, the crop will be a large one.
The receipts at this point continue light.
COTTON.—Oui market opened on Wednesday last
with a good demand, and the advices received since
then from Europe, per steamers, have caused an active
business to be transacted at prices fully \c. advance on
all descriptions*. Yesterday, however, the demand fell
off, holders refusing to submit to the reduction claimed
by buyers, who generally demanded about Jc. off from
the prices paid Monday. 'The few sales made, wore
at full prices for the better qualities. There is a fair
amount offering, and when the letters per Europa come
to hand, we think business will be actively resum
ed, as more confidence is manifested by buyers than for
some time past. The sales this week have been heavier
than wo have reported for some time, reaching 2820 bales,
as follows: 4at4s;2 at 4J ; 41 at 5; 2at 5j ; 28 at 5J ;
70 at 5g ;67at 5 7-10 ; 114 at 5\ ; 178 at s|; 371 at 5g ;
152 at 5 9-16; 144 at 5 13-16; 247 at s£; Bat 5 15-16; 790
at 0; 06 at 6 1-16; 384 at 6j ; 137 at 6}; and 21 bales at
Ojjc. We quote at the asking price yesterday.
Ordinary 41 a 5
Middling ~.5A a 5(
Good Middling sjf a 5}
Middling Fair 0 a—
Fair GJ u
Fully Fair.... GJ a—
RECEIPTS OF COTTON
From Ist September, 1847, to latest dates received.
1847-8 1846-7.
Savannah, July 26 ..221,061 232,247
Charleston, July 27 245,432 342,644
Mobile, July 22 429,128 323,088
New-Orleaus, July 22 1,166,673 .701,142
Florida, July 15 149,555....,,126,925
Texas, July 8 36,186 8,13?
Virginia, July 1 6,080 10,880
North Carolina, July 15 1,451 6,070
Total 2,255,566... .1,751,378
STOCK OF COTTON
Remaining' on hand at the latest dates received.
Savannah, July 26 14,628 7,024
Charleston, July 27 11,738 34,426
Mobile, July 22 32,176 52,693
Vow Orleans, July 22 74,101...... 90,596
•V .v.is, July 8 961 550
Florida, July 15 ~. 3,915 4,629
Augusta & Hamburg, Aug. 1.... 39,089 18,703
Macon, July 1 19,664 5,233
Virginia, July 1....» 400 400
North Carolina, July 15 450 bjjfi
New York, July 24.. 59,317 114,236
Total 256,439, 3WW
L EXCESS OF IIEOEII-TS OVER LAST SEASON, AT
; New ° rleans 405,531 bales.
I‘rorida qq 693 **
Testlu 27,754 “
Total * 621,948 <«
D£CK£A9£ AT
Charleston hales.
.Wmafw “
North «
Total,..tW..
GROCERIES—-Tllvu; of business
doing for the season of the year, In the retail Way, but tm
heavy lotschanging hands. A number of our merchants
are at the North purchasing their fall supplies, and
trom this time out wc may look for every arrival to add
i tu Ike stock on hand. The Augusta market this fall will
j present strong inducements to our friends in the interior
to pay us a visit. The stocks will he well kept up, and
! ast,le principal portion will be purchased for cash, at tins
! most favorable points, our merchants will be enabled to
sell on as good terms and at as reasonable profits as those
of Charleston or any other city south of New York.
SALT—Stock on hand fully equal to demand. Sacks
are selling from stores at $1,62.
CORN.—The stock on hand is light. Tiiere is a good
demand for home consumption, and loose brings 45
cents per bushel. For sacks, 50 cents is asked.
FLOUR—This article has been in good request, and
the scarcity of good caused prices to rule as high, in some
few instances, as $7 for small parcels. Within the last
week, however, it has been coming in more freely„aml
good brands in bbls. will not now bring more than $0 a
6. 1 , in bbls. and $3 per bag of 100 lbs.
WHEAT.—No now has as yet been brought to market.
871 cents has been offered for good, and perhaps a little
more would be paid for a lot if put on the market.
BACON—Good stock on hand, with but a moderate
demand. Sales have been reported to us this week of
about 15,000 lbs. nt~T.! asl cents the hog round.
LARD—Stock moderate, and prices have an upward
tendency. Sales small lots have been mode at T\ cents,
..
principally to filling smnff’V.. _ Deman,i '""lined
worth from 18 to 19, and Kentucky 17 to%l'.
' 7LE ROPE.—We have had some addition to on,
stock, but the supply on hand is still limited. Sales
making by retail at 10c. per lb.
EXCHANGE—No change to notice in rates. Our
Banks continue to check on New York at jj per cent
prem. for sight checks.
FREIGHTS—The river is still in fair navigable order,
■a’here is more down freight offering. Cotton to Sat an
nail, 50 cenU per hale.
PUBLIC SALE OrVALUABLE PRO-
PERTY.
WILL be sold on Monday, the 16th day of
October next, upon the premises, in Tal
lapoosa county, Ala., the extensive and 1 valuable
property known as the TALLASSEE FACTORY.
The property consists of twelve hundred acres
of pine land, a stone factory building' on the Tal
lapoosa river, near Tallassee, eighty feet long by
forty feet broad, two story high, with the addition
of two wings each thirty feet long by twenty feet
broad, and the machinery of the factory, consisting
of one thousand throttle spindles, six hundred mule
do., thirty-six looms and all other apparatus neces
sary therefor, all new and in complete repair.
The machinery of the factory is sufficient for the
manufacture of 1,000 lbs. of cotton per day. amt
the water-power equal to any in the United States.
The water-power connected with the property
alone is sufficient to supply several factories. *
There is al,so upon the property a good grist
mill.
The prmierty is situated two miles above the
village of Tallassee, thirty-five miles "from the citv
of Montgomery,and six miles from the Montgome
ry and West Point Rail Eaadpwith a good road
from the factory to the Railroad.
The position and advantages of the property for
the purpose of manufacturing cotton goods’ are
e’qual to those ol any other place in the Southern
States.
A more particular description of the property
or its location or advantages, is deemed unneces
sary, as it is presumed that persons wishing to
purchase will examine the property for them
selves at or before the day of sale.
The superintendent of the factory will show the
property to any persons desiring to purchase, ami
gi\c any information relative thereto which may
be desired. Terms of sale, one-fourtli cash, and
the remainder upon a credit to be made known
upon the day of sale—the purchase money to be
secured by a mortgage with a power oi sale upon
the property and machinery. The above sale will
be made to dissolve a co-partnership.
THOMAS M. BARNETT
WILLIAM M. MARKS.
August 110 c
WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION
BUSINESS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
M. P. STOVALL
C CONTINUES the above business, in all its
y various branches, at his old stand IFire -
Fran/ Warehouse.) corner of Washington and Rev
nold-stfccts. 11c hopes, by close attention to bnsi
ness, to merit a continuance of the liberal patron
age of the past season. 1
Liberal advances made on produce itt store
Jlll >’ 29 jc ’
WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION
BUSINESS.
PLEASANT SIOYALL will continue tho
above business at his old stand, aided by his
late partner, Mr. G. Simmons.
Best attention will be given to sales of Cotton
and other Produce, and purchases of Bagging and
family necessaries. °
August 1
GEORGIA, Scriven County.—Whereas
MARTIN HERRINGTON applies for let
ters ol administration on the estate of RICHARD
HERRINGTON, Senr., late of said county, de
ceased :
These are therefore to cite and admonish, all
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said de
ceased, to be ami appear at my office, within the
time proscribed by law, to show cause, if any they
have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office in Sylvancy, this
21th day of July, 1848.
Witness the Honorublc John S. Maner, one of
the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county.
ALEXANDER KEMP, Clerk.
August 1
CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.
TIIE firm of SPEARS, RAMEY & BUFORD
was dissolved on the 4th iust. by limitation.
All business of the firm will be settled bv Spears
& Buford. F. SPEARS,
JOHN 1). RAMEY,
WM. H. BUFORD.
THE UNDERSIGNED continue bu-
Y Y sincss at our old stand, and respectfully so
licit from our friends and the public a continuance
of patronage. SPEARS & BUFORD.
June 13 Id 3c
DR. MAGNIN’S LUCInXcORBiXTT
IS a sovereign remedy for Incipient Consump
tion, Indigestion, Nervousness, Impotence-
Flour Albus, Loss of Muscular Energy, Physical
Lassitude, Female Weakness, Debility &c
Price, g 3 per Bottle. ' •»
For sale by all tho principal Druggists i„
Charleston, und HAVII.AND, RISEEY & CO
UD ’ > whuamk'
KU vJlEN,Augusta, Ga. Feb. U