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its mouth to its soume. A majority ot the
<; invnittefl, having come to the conclusion of
recommending an amicable adjustment ot the
boundary with Texas, übstuin from express
ing any opinion aa to the true and legitimate
Waster.i oid Northern boundary of that
State. Ihe terms proposed lor such un ad
justment are contained in the bill herewith
reported, and they aie, with inconsiderable
vaiiation, tin- same as that reported hj the
Committee on Territories.
According to these terms, it is proposed to
tesss iliat her boundar y Lie recognised to the
Bio Grande, and up that river to the point
c.iurmoni\ called El Paso, and t unning thence
up that river twenty miles, measured thereon
b , a straight line, and thence east vardly to a
point v. here the hundredth degree of west
longitude crosses Red River, being the south
west angle in the line designated between the
Ufined .'dates and Mexico, anil the same angle
in the ime ot the territory set apart for the
Indians by the United States.
if this boundary be assented to by Texas,
she will be quieted to that extent in her title.
And some may suppose that, in consideration
of this concession by the United States, she
might, without any other equivalent, relin
quish any claim she lias beyond the proposed
boundary, that is, any claim to any part of
New Mexico. But. under the influence of a
sentiment of justice and great liberality, the
hii! proposes to lexas, for her relinquishment
of any such claim, a large pecuniary equiva
lent As a consideration for it, and consid
ering that a portion of the debt of Texas was
crea ed on a pledge to her creditors ol ihe
duties on foreign imports, _ transferred by tbe
resolution of annexation lo the United States,
arid now received and receivable m their trea
sury, a majority of the committee recom
mend the payment of the sum 01 mil
lion* of dollars to Texa‘\ to be appl ed in the
first instance to the extinction of that portion
"i her debt for the reimbursement of which
the duties on foreign imports were pledged,
a aforesaid ; and the residue in such manner
a-, she may direct. The said sum is to he
paid hy the United States in a stock, to he
> it-ated, lieu ring five per cent interest annually,
payable half yearly at the treasury oi the U.
.Mates, and the principal reimbursable at the
eu.l of fourteen years.
According to an estimate which has been
made, there are included in the. territory to
which it is proposed that Texas shall relin
quish her claims, embracing that part of New
Mexico lying east of the Rio Graude, a lit le
lea that 1 CM,933 squ ire miles, and about 79,-
l * >7,120 acres of land. From tbe proceeds of
the sale of this land, the United States may
Hiiiraatelv be reimbused a portion, if not the
whole of the amount of what is thus proposed
in be advanced to Texas.
It canm.t be anticipated that Texas willde
cline to accede to these liberal propositions;
but it she should, it is to be distinctly under
stood that tbe title ot the United States lo
anv Territory acquired from Mexico East, of
the Rio Grande will remain unimpaired and
111 the same condition as if the proposals of
adjustment now offered had never been
made.
A majority of the committee recommend to
the‘-.enate that the section containing these
proposals to Texas shall ha incorporated into
Tin- bill embracing the admission of Califor- |
mi as aeh ate, and the establishment of Ter
ritorial governments for Utah and New Mexi
co, The definition and establishment of the
boundary between New 1 Mexico and Texas
has an intimate and necessary connection with
the establishment of a Territorial government
for New Mexico. To form a Territorial gov
ernment. for New Mexico, without prescribing
the limits ot tbe Territory would leave the j
work, imperfect and incomplete, and might !
expose New Mexico to ser nun controversy, if
not dangerous collisions, with the State of;
'Texas. And most, if not all the considera- 1
films which unite in favor of combining the bill j
tor the admission of California as a.“ State and !
the Tm. itorial bills, apply to the boundary
question of Texas. By the union of the three
measures, every question of difficulty and <]i
vision which bad arisen nu . of the Territorial
uc,|iiiMtiuie; fioin Mexico w ill it is hoped, he
adjusted, or placed in a train of satisfactory
adjustment. Ili • commiit.ee, availing them
selves of the arduous and valuable labors of
tbe t '..mulittee oil l .-il'it.u it a, report, a bill,
therewith annexed, (matked A,) embracing
those three measures, the passage ot which
uniting them together, they recommend to the.'
I'in> iMiiuiiit!*•■* will now proceed to the con- .
sideratiou of, anil to report upon, the subject i
i.t persons owing service or labor in one |
State escaping into uuotlter. Tin* text oi
ihe•‘i>n lit ul ton c; quite clear : “No person 1
held in labor m service in one State, under
tlie law;: thereoi, eieaping into nifother, shall, I
ii . .ineequein’e ot any luw or regulation there 1
n, he discharged from Midi service or labor, !
r.,U shall he delivered upon the claim of the
party to whom such vstvice or labor may he
doe.” Nothin,' can he more explicit than j
\ this language* nothin;:; inog* manifest than
\ -tae right fit demand, and the obligation to de- j
\ iivei up to the claimant, any such fugitive.
■k. .vji.l tlo) 1 1 in. tit ul ion ad.lie.so. ilseli alilie to
she . Hates i ompos.ug the Union and to tin-)
*i.inial ( iovei niiient. 11, indeed, there were :
any diflerenee in tin dull to enforce this por- i
tii.u 1 tlie ('oiistitutiuii between the States |
and tlo* Federal Government, it. is more clear J
that it i' that ot the former than ot the latter, j
tint nis the duty of both. It. is now well
So d\ a and incontestable that I Iti.-ena in slave
t, ihliii,; :'.t itna encouiueijilie greatest ditflcul
\ m ohtainin;-; the benefit of tills prov sum of
Che i onsutiition. The attempt to recapture
a tugi ti e is almost always a subject ot great
iiitatioii and excitement, and often leads to
-t unpleasant, if not perilous collisions. An
i uer oi a sla\ e, it i t quite unto nous, cannot
his prooei (v, lor t in* purpose ot its re
c.ivvi >, in some of the States, without, iinmi
item personal hazard. This is a deplorable
stale ~! things which ought tubs remedied. — j
The !»•» ol 17dd has been found wholly tnef j
In.tual, an.] requires more stringent enact
.in-tits, t here is, especially a deficiency in
rhe number oj public functionaries authorised
.. artoTil aid oi the seizure and arrest of fugi
ov« Various States have declined to afford
aid an I i . operation m the sun, i.der of U.
(jiti »i_3 tioio labor, as ihe committee believe,
front a misi oticeptiurj of their duty arising
itiidri the constitution of the United .States,
f.i is t.ue tli.it a decision of the Supreme
Court nl'the United States has given couh
tenaiirv to them tn withholding their as si 8-
sum e. Hut the committee cannot hut believe j
rt.ai the intention of the Supreme Court has |
tfe.n misunderstood. They , afitiot hut think \
that that court on rely meant that laws of the j
several States which created obstacles in the
wav of the recovery of fugitive were not au
thonaed by the Constitution, and not that
: (ate laws affording facilities in the r. covery
ot fugitives were tovhiden by that insti umeut.
The uon-slaveholding States, whatever
sympathies ar.y of their citizens may feel for
i isons who escape from other States, cannot
discharge thems.fives from an obligation to
enfoice ihe Constitution of the United States.
-i ll parts us the instrument being dependent I
upon, and connected with each other, ought j
t.i he fairly and justly enforced. U' some |
tatse may seek to exonerate themselves from j
i.ne portion of the Constitution, other States
may endeavor to evade the performance of !
other portions ot it ; and thus the instrument, ,
ui some of its mo it import nit provisions, |
might become inoperative and invalid. _ j
Hut. whatever may be the conduct if indi
vidual Stale. , the duty of the General Govern- ;
merit ia perfectly clear. That duty ia, to a
mend the existing law, arrd to provide an of- j
fretual remedy lor the recovery of fugitives |
trout service or* labor, rti devising such a
remedy, Congress ought, whilst on one hand j
securing to the owner the fair restoration ot j
his property,effectually to guard, on the other,
against any abuses ill the application ol that
remedy.
in all cases of the arrest, within a State of
persons charged with offences; in all cases ol j
the pursuit of fugitives from justice from one J
State to another State ; in all cases of extra- |
rlitrnn provided for by treaties between foreign j
powers-the proceeding uniformly is sum- |
man . It has never been thought necessary ;
t i apply, in cases of that Iciud, the forms and ■,
ceit'inonies ol a final trial. And when that j
trial u*'f*rf take place, it is in the Statß or
try lioin which the party has fled, and not in ;
that in which lie has found refuge, by th e I
express language of the Constitution, wheth
er the fugitive is held to service or labor, or j
not, ia to he determined by the laws ot the i
dale from which lie tlvd ; anil, consequently,
it is most proper that the tribunals ot that
State should expound and administer its own ,
laws. It there have been any instances ot j
abuse in the erroneous arrest of fugitives from
ervice or labor, the committee have not ob- :
tained knowledge ol them. They believe that
none such have occurred, and that attih are
not likely to occur.
Hut, in order to guard against the possibility
of their occurrence, the committee have pre
pared, and herewith report, (marked B,) a
section, to be ofiertd to the fugitive bill now
bending before the Senate According to this
section , the owner oi a fugitive from service
or labor is, when practicable, to carry with
him to the State in which the person is found
a record, from a competent tribunal, pdjudi
eating the facts of elopement and slavery,
with a general description of the fugitive.
This record, properly attested and certified
under ihe official seal of the court, being taken
to ihe State where .fie person owing service
or labor is found, is to be held .competent and
sufficient evidence of itie facta which had been
adjudicated, and will leave nothing more to be
done than to identity the fugitive.
Numerous petitions have been presented,
praying tors trial by jury in the esse of arrest
of fugitives from service or labor, in the non
siaveholding States, Jt hac {fieri already
shown that this would be entirely contra, to
practice and uniform usage m all similar r uses.
i"m}er the name of a popular and cherished
institution-, an institution,however, never uu<-
plied in cases of preliminary proceeding, and
| only in cases of final trial; there would be a
! complete mockery of justice, so far as the
i owner of the lugitive is concerned. If the
trial by jury be admitted, it would draw alter
it itfjusnal consequences, of continuance f.otn
time to time, to bring evidence from distant
places, of second or new tr ials, in eases where
the jury is hung, 01 the verdict is act aside ;
and of revivals of the verdict and conduct of
the juries by competent tribunals. During
tbe progress of all these dilatory and expen
seve proceedings, what securit y ia there as to
the custody and forthcoming of the tugitive
upon their termination- And if, finally, the
claimant should be successful, contrary to
what happens in ordinary litigation between
free persons, he would have to bear tfll the
burdens and expiense of the litigation, w ithout
indemnity, and would learn, by sad experi
; ence.thal he had by tar better have abandon
ed bis right in the first instance, than to es
tablish it at such unremunerated cost and
he ivy sacrifice.
But w hilst the committee conceive that a
trial by jury in a State where a fugitive from
set vice or labor is recaptured w ould be a vir
tual denial of justice to tr.e claimant ot such
fugitive, and would be tantamount to a posi
tive tetusal to execute) the provisions of the
Constitution, the same objections do not ap
ply to such a trial in tbe State from which he
fled, in tbe siavehnlding States, full jus ice
ia administered, with entire fairness and im
partiality, in cases of all actions tor freedom.
The person claiming his freedom is allowed to
sue in fointtpaupur <-s ; counsel is assigned
him; time is allowed him to collect, his wit
nesses and to attend the sessions of the court ;
ami his cla rnnat is placed under bond and
security, or is divested of the possession dur
ing the progress ol the trial, to insure the
en joyment of these privileges ; and if there be
any leaning on the part of courts and juries,
it is always on the side of the claimant for
freedom.
In deference of the feelings and prejudices
which prevail in the non-slaveholtliugs States,
the committee propose such a trial in the
State from which the fugitive fled, in all cases
where lie .leclars to the officer giving the cer
tificate for his return that lie has a right to bis
freedom. Accordingly the committee have
prepared, and report herewith, (marked (!) two
sec.tons which they recommend should be in
corporated m the fugitive bill pending in the
Senate. According to these sections, the
claimant, is placed under bon l , and required to
return the fugitive to lhafreounty in the State ,
from which he fled, and there to take him be- |
fore a competent tribunal, and allow him to j
assert and establish his freedom it he can, as- j
fording to him for that purpose all needful fa- ;
ciliiiea.
The committee indulge the hope that if the
fugitive bill, with the proposed amendments,
shall be passed by Congress, it will be effec
tual to secure the recovery of all fugitives
from service or labor, and that it will remove
all causes of complaint which have hitherto
been experienced on that iiritating subject.
But if in its practical operation it. shall be i
found insufficient, and if no adequate remedy
can be devised lor the restoration to their
owners of tugitive slave,, those owners will
have a just title to indemnity out of the j
Treasury of the United States.
It remains to report upon the resolutions in rela
tion to slavery anil the slave trade 111 he District
of Columbia. Without discussing the power of j
Congress to abolish slavery within the District, in
regard to which a diversity of opinion exists, the i
committee are of opinion that it ought not to l.e j
a'>ohshed fi could not be done without hid spen
salde conditions which are not likely' to he agreed
to. It could not he do ,e without exciting great
apprehension and alarm in the Wave .States it
tire power wire exercised within t -is District,
they would apprehend that, under some pretext or
another, it might he hereafter attempted to he ex
ercise.l within the sluv. In.l bug States. It is tn.e ,
llint at present a!J such power within those S ates '
is a11..,. -1 itnamiootisU di°avowed ami disclaim* d
in tlie free Stales But experience in public at
lairs has toooll-.n shown that where there is a j
dcsiii. to do a particular thing t .e powei to an
onmph .h it, sooner or later, will be found nr asstrnr
Nor line , the number ol lav.-.M within tin* Ds
ii'ii'l make die ab.itilioiiot idavery an object u! any
Mich consequence a appeal to be attached |i, ,(
in *enne i arts of the Union. Since the retroces
sion of Alexandria county to Virginia,on the south
Mile ol the Futoiii.i ' tlie Di-trii'l now coiuistsimli
nt Washington county .on tin* north side ~t the ri
ver; and t t,e returns ot the den unary eimiiieraibm
oi ilie peo|dc id the United fi atea show a rapidly
progressive ileei'case in .the number nt . laves in
\\ .!■■■luiigtiui According to the census nt
~l 1 8do, itie number was 1,.1 1 b,, and in 1840 it was
reduced tod.dSO; showing .» reduction in ten year:,
ol nearly one third It it should continue in the
same ratio, the number, according to the census
now about to be taken, will be only a lit 1 1t* upwant,
ot two thnu-and.
Hut a majoril v of the committee l tiink ditlerent
lv in regard to the slave trade within the Ui-lii. t.
tty iliul trade is meant the introduction ot slaves
from adjacent States into the district, for sale, or
loin* placed in depot for the purpose o) -l|l>seipienl
ale or transportation to other and distant market .
That trade, a majority of the eommitteo are ol
opinion, ought tu be abolished, t'nlllplainls have
always existed against it, no lesson the part ot
members ot (.'nngress from the South than on the
part ol the membeis from the. North. It ts a trade
.sometimes exhibiting revolting spectacles, and
one in which the people ol Itie District have tioin
t, relit, 101 l on the contrary, an* believed to tie de
sirous that it should lie discontinued. Mo l, it not
all, of the siaveholding States have, eithei in tl nr
C,institutions or liV penal enactments, prohibited a
trade in slaves as merchandise Within ther respec
tive jurisdictions. Gougres .standing in legardto
the people ol' tfiis District on this subject in u rela
tion similar to that of the State Legislatures t.. the
peop e of th - States, may safely fnhow she exam
ples ol ihe States. Tile committee have prepared
and herewith report, a hill for the abolition ol til it
trade, (m nked 1> ) (tic passage ol which the) re
commend In till*, -cnate flits hilt lias been Irani
ed after the model ol what the law ot Mari laud
was when the General Government was removed
to \\ ushingfnti.
file views and recommendations contained in
thi, report mav be recapitulated in atew words
1 Till*, admission ,it ant new State or States
for tiled out ot Texas to be postponed until they
-hill It reader ore-split themselves to he received
mu, the Union, when it wilt In. ttf ** dull ol lon
gross fairly anil faithfully to execute the coMpapt
with Texas b* admitting such now State or
States.
■i phe admission I’m thwith of California into the
Union, with the inumdaties which she lias pro
posed
;i Tip* estaidishiueii ot territorial government ,
without (lie Wilmot Prcn jso, tor New Mexicoand
Utah, eml.rac ng all the territory recently acquir
ed by tt) United States from Mexico not to,,
tained in the boundaries to Uablornia.
4 The combination ot these two last mentioned
measures in tfit* same bill
r, rhi* establishment of the western and nor
thern boundary of Texas, and the exclusion ft* in
her jurisdiction of all New Mexico, with the grant
pt Texas of a pecuniary equivalent And the. sec
tion (fit that purpose to he incorporated in the hiti
admitting California at,d establishing territorial
governments for Utah utul New Mexico.
ti. More effectual enactments of law to secure
the proiupi delivery ot pel’s ms bound tosenic, or
lab r m one Slate, under the taws thereof, who
pspape into another Slate.
\mt 7 Abstaining from abolishing slavery ; but
under a heavy penalty, prohibi mg the stave tradu
in the lfistrict ol Columbia.
If such of these several measures as require le
gislation should be carried out lay suitable acts of
I’lijigrf a, all controversies to which our late ter. j
rjtoi iul acquisitions have given rise, and all exist- ;
ing questions eonnectou with the institution of
slavery, whetherresttliittg .rotii those acqqi-ttions
or from it : existence in tlie States and the Distt jet
of Columbia, will be ruicably settled and adjust
ed, in a manner, it is confidently believed, to give
general satisfaction to an overwhelming majority
of the jieiq.ic of the United States Cong ess wilt
ti ive fu.filled its whole dn y in regard to the. vast j
country which, having been ceded bv Mexico tr i
Ihe United States, has fallen qnder their doonu
ion. It will have extended to it protection, provi
ded for its several parts the inestimable blessing of j
free and regular government adapted to its vari
ous wants, and placed she whole under the ban- j
ner and the flag of the United States. Meeting j
courageously its clear and entire duty, Congress j
will escape he unmerited reproach of having, trnpi |
considerations of d.oubtftjl policy, abandoned to ao j
undeserved fate territories of boundless extent, j
with a sparse, incongruous, and alien, if notun- j
friendly population, speaking different languages, j
and accustomed to different laws, whilst that popu- |
lation is making irresistable appeals to the i ew j
sovereignty to which they have been transferred j
far pr« tection, foi government, for law, and for or- !
der.
The committee nave endeavored to present |o
the Sen ah) a comprehensive plan ol adjustment, j
which removing all cause of existing excitement
and agitation, leaves none open to divide the conn- |
try gtfd djsturh the general harmony. Ihe nalipn j
has been greatly pmtvuised. not by measures ot i
general policy, but by questions of a sectional j
character, and, therefor • more dangoons and more [
to lie deprecated, ft wants repose. It loves anil
cherishes the Union. Ami it is most cheering ami |
■'ratifying to witness 1 lie outbui sts of deep and j
abiding attachment to it which have hecn exhibt |
♦ftti in all parts o| it, aniiust all llif tuuls tmfitigii j
which wo have passed and are passing. A people ,
so patriotic us th .sc of the United States wit re- j
juice in an accommodation o| all trouble and dim- j
cutties by which the safety of the Union might
have been brought into the least danger. And j
under the blessings ot that Providence who,amidst j
ail vicissitudes, has never ceased to extend to
lliem his pioteeling care, his smiles, and blessings,
they will continue to advance in population, pow- ;
er and prosperity, and work out triumphantly the
glorious problem of mau’s eapaci y lot salt-gov (
eminent . ■„
The bill: were then read a first time by then
Aftef some further discussion the Report
anil Hilts were ordered to lib printed flOji
Senate adjourned.
house of representatives.
The House, at an early hour, proceeded to
the consideration of the Census, Hill. *J I e
amendment of Air. Vinton, lodging with «• “ e
executive "branch of {he Government, tire
power to ofder the taking of all fntu e cen
suses, in ease Congress should tail to pass a
I law for the purpr-sy, wqc agreed to by tlie
House without u division.
The other amendmenU of Mr. Vinton, tilt
ing the number of representatives at 200, lor
all future congresses, (unless pro
vided by Congress j ar.d giving to the beere
tary of tfie Jnterior the power to apportion
those representatives among the fitates in pro
portion of their population, was amended on
j toe motion of Mr. Thompson, of Pa., so as to
fix 233 as the number of representatives. This
amendment passed by a vote of 93 in affir
mative to 73 in the negative. This amend
ment as thu. amended, was passed, on a vote
by yeas and nays of 115 in the affirmative and
(12 in the 1 egative.
The bill was finally passed by a vote on
veas and nays of 109 in ihe affirmative and
til in the negative.
9sThe title of the bill was amended to reaa
an act providing for taking the 7th and sub
sequent census of the United litates, and to
fix the number ot representatives, and to pio
vi.ie for their f uture apportionment among
the several States.
On mouon oi Mr. P. King, the rules were
suspended, and the House resolved itself into
Coin uittee of the Whole on the State of the
Union, (Mr Boyd in the Chair,) and resumed
the consideration of the California question.
Mr. Winthmp of Mass., spoke at considera
ble length m favor of the admission of Cali
fornia, and expressed himself in favor of the
policy of the President, in regard to the ter
ritories. After he concluded,
Mr. Orr.of N. C. then occupied the floor an
hour on the pro-slavery side of the question.
Mr. Clatke then obtained the floor, hut
gave way to a resolution that the Committee
rise. The Committee rose accordingly, and
the House adjourned.
Ho! Fob tub Mountains.— Several fami
leis from the “land of steady habit ," -old
Connecticut —passe-l through Chattanooga on
Tuesday last, on their way to Walden's Ridge.
We understand that they had bargained for.
what is Known as the Bunch place, about
twenty-five miles distant. If the Company
succeed in making satisfactory locations, it is
expected that many others will follow them.
We are much pleased w ith these maidfecta
tions of improvement in our country. Mil
lions of acres of arable laud in East 'Tennessee,
are lying idle, unimproved; while in the
North and East, there are thousands of hardy,
energetic men who are tenants on sterile soils.
These lands ate offered very low. From their
elevated position, all who occupy I hem enjoy
the best oi health. They abound with the
finest springs that ever gurgled up out of the
earth —in many, districts, there are inexhaus
table beds of Stone Coal and Iron Ore, and
every where there are a plenty of timber for
all useful purposes. It is well known that -
the fruits of our country grow in the greatest i
abundance on the mountains, and w hen the
late frosts destroy it in the valleys, the trees
upon the highlands are full. As a range
for the grazing of horses, mules, cattle, sheep, !
&c,, it is scarcely exceeded b) the grand prai- i
ties ol the West. Bui wiln all them* and j
many other advantages not enumerated, of- j
sered to the settles on the highlands of East ■
Tennessee, they could not prosper without a '
convenient market. This is now afforded.— i
The regular and suceeaslul navigation of the ’
Tennessee river— the completion oftheGeor- ]
gia State Road to Chattanooga, and other irn- |
provements, bring to the very doors of the j
farmers of East Tennessee a market for every j
description of produce and manufactures.— !
Upon these cheap islands, the industrious j
and frugal New Englander, might graze his j
cattle and goats, and manufacture any amount
of cheese and butter to supply the demands -
of the Southern country. The fifty thousand
Bucketts and Keelers, &c., brought on from
the North and sold to our people annually,
might and ought to be manufactured in our \
midst, and the money paid out for them
would benefit the country. Indeed, there is
every inducement to settle up the cheap high
lands of East Tennessee, and we hope before
another year passes, to be enabled to chroni
cle the arrival of hunereds ot families. Chat
tannuoga (iateettc.
A short Story by Dickens.—Dickens tell
the following story of an American sea eap
tairn:
On his last voyage home the captain had on
board a young lady of remarkable personal at
traetions —a phrase 1 use as one being entirely
new, and one you never meet with in the
newspapers. This young lady was beloved
intensely by five young gentlemen, passengers,
and m tiie turn she was in love with them all
verv ardently, blit without any particular pre
ference tor either. Not knowing how to main*
tip her determination in this dilemma, she
consulted my friend the captain. The cap
tain, being a man of an original turn of mind,
says to the young lady, "jumpoverborad, and
many the man who jumps after you." the
young lady, struck with the idea, and being
naturally fond of bathing, especially in warm
weather, as it then was, took the advice of the
captain, who had a boat ready manned in ease
of accident. Accordingly, next morning, the
live lovers being on deck, and looking very
devotedly at. the young lady, she plunged into
the sea head foremost. Pour of the lovers im
ediately jumped in after her. When the
young lady and tier four lovers were got out
again, she says to the captain. “What am I
to do with them now, they are so wet " Says
the captain, “take the Utv one!" And the
young lady did, aud married him.
Tnu tKtsH Ex.ir.es.- The arrival of the Itish
exiles at Van Diemaa’s land, Vias already been
mentioned. They ate located as follows ;
\l*Manus at Norfolk; Meagher, at Campbell
Town: O’Dogherty, at Oatlands; Martin, at
Both well; and Donaghue, at Hvbart Town.
They are all stated to have sufficient funds for
their support, with the exception of the lat
ter, who represented to the Governor that he
was without funds, and request. <1 therefore
that he might he permitted to reside at Hobart
Town, ui order that Its might follow* hts pro
fession of a law-writer. This was granted him.
i truth O'Brien obstinately refused to accept a
ticket of leave, and was. therefore, on the 31st
of October, dispatched to Maria island, where
he will lie under strict surveillance. He had,
however, an opportunity ot first speaking with
Martin and O'Dogherty.
SifocKiso Mvudeb in Delaware. —A letter
in the pelaware Uepnhficao, dated Seaford,
May 2d, says :
One of the most driving assinatior.s that
history, ancient or modern, ever chronicled,
was committed in the village of Middleford,
Sussex, county. ( Deb. t this morning, at about
8 o’clock.
Oapt. John Windsor took his gup and re
paired to the garret, where his wife was dili
gently engaged in her daily avocation, plying
at the loom, and informed her of his intention
in bringing his gun up with him, which was
to shoot her. She ran around and got par
tially behind the loom, and on her knees
humbly entreated him not to do so rash an
act. Without heeding in the least hpr cries,
he raised the musket to his face and deliber
ately shot his wifel she to whom he had vow
ed, in the presence of Almighty God, to pro
tect and preserve as long as they both should
live, became the victim of his treacherous pas
sion! The murderer had a heating before
Squire Hazzard, this evening.
Dry Goods.— The following incident oc
curred, as we learn from good authority, in
one of our stores the other day.
* Buy any butter here >' said a country cyrtr
tomer, who walked into a dry goods store on
Market Square, and looked much like a char
acter who knew a vast deal more about him
self than he cared to tell.
< No, sir,’ replied the merchants, ‘ we don’t
wish to buy any.'
‘ Want to buy any eggs?
* No, sir, vye keep a dry goods store here.
•So ! Wal then may be you would like to j
buy some chickens—fat as pigs and a mightly
sight nicer tu.'
‘No, sir. I tell you rye don’t deal in any
thing but dry goods.'
‘ Couldn’t I sell you a nice quarter o'pork?'
" 1 tell you, sir, we deal in dry goods ex- !
clusively here.’
* Wal, what’ll you give for dried peaches*’
Franklin’s Mode op Lending Monet.—“l
send you, herewith, a bill of ten louis d’ors. I
do not prentend to give much, I only lend it
to you. When you return to your country
you cannot fail of getting into some business
that will, in time enable you to pay all your
debts. In that case, when you meet another
honest man similar in distress, you will pay
me by lending this money to him, en joining
hitfi to discharge tjie debt by lik operation
w hen he shall be able and meet with such an
other opportunity. I hope it may pans througq
many hands before it meets with a knaye to
stop its progress. This \u a trick of mine to
do a great deal of good with a little money
j 1 am not rich afford much in good
works, and am obliged to be cunning and make
| the most of a little,”
The United States Ship Jamestown, Com
mander Mercer, arrived at Norfolk on Mon
j day week, from the Mediterraueau, haring
! been tit days from Genoa.— She brings as pas
I sengers, Colonel Rowan, late U. S. Charge at
! Naples, and family ; A. S. Nicholson, from
! the Hag ship Independence, and John B.
i Floyd, late Putter’s Clerk of the Oonaiitu
j tion. A*' well.
i The following is a list of her officers :
Samuel Mercer, Esq., Commander. Lieuls.
| —H. K. Thatcher, H. W. Harrison, W. Hose
Gardiner. M. Capington Watkins. Purser —
H. M. Hifsbell. i-ussecj Assistant Surgeon—
i —Lewis .j. Williams. Acting Master—Pass
j ed Midshipman Ldtyard Barrett. 2d Lieut.
ft} aft ties jssael Qrepq. passed Middhipygen
I vv.ji. W ilsqn, John \ap MjeCpllgrp, Capt.’s.
j Clerk Geo, William Parker. Midshipmen—
j A. J. Barclay, O F. Johnston, L. A. Kimber
ly, M.| E. Palmer, Boatswain—John Hunter.
Gunner —Thos. M. Crocker. Carpenter—
Henry M. Lowry.
Theodore Thompson and John Durant, sea
men, died on the passage_home.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Augusta, v&roigia.
WEDNESDAY lUOKNINGr. MAT IS
Depart of the Committee of Thirteen
To the exclusion of almost every thing eise
we devote our columns this morning to the
Repor ot the Committee of t hirteen, which
the country has been looking for with anxiety
tor several weeks.
We have not room now for the comments
we should be pleased to make, and which we
will make at an eatly penod. A debate ot
two or tiuee hours ou a motion to print, en
sued after the reading ot the Report by Mr
Clay, m which a number of Senators defined
their positions, so ne in favor, and some in op
position to the Report, and the hills accom
panying it.
Os the several measures recommended, hut
one, the Fugitive Slave Hill, met the unan
imous concurrence of the committee. It met
with some objections from Mr. Holland, ot Ar
kansas, and Mr. Hale, of New Hampshire, and
as may be well supposed, tor opposite reasons.
They are antipodes on the slavery question.
The other measures were not so tortunale, no
one of them obtaining more than a majority
of the committee.
The following Senators ilec.lared their pur
pose in positive terms, or the inclinations ot
their minds, to support (he hills reported : Mr.
Mangum, Mr. Cass. Mr. Dickinson, Mr.
Bright, Mr. Houston, Mr. Foote.
The following Senators expressed their op
position to some i f the features ot the report,
and to the bills recommended : Mr. Clemens,
\lr. Berrien, Mr. Phelps, Mr. Mason, Mr.
Cooper, Mr. Hale, Mr. Downs, Mr. Bor
land, and Mr. Yulee.
Mr. Clemens gave notice that at the proper
time he would move the following amend
ment to the bill for the admission of Califor
nia, and organizing territorial governments
for New Mexico and Utah :
That the line of 3C 30 of North latitude
shall be, and the same is hereby declared the
Southern boundary line of said State of Cali
fornia.''
The chief struggle w ill be on this point, it
is to the presenl boundaries of California that
Mr. Bprrien levels his blows. He urges some
forcible objections to the admission of Cali
fornia as she is. He is sustained by most of
the other Senators that spoke in opposition.
What the result is to be, it is hard to pre
dict. But we apprehend that if the labors of
the Committee are defeated, and the compro
misethey offer rejected, California will be ad
mitted as she is, and as a separate measure, in
spite oi Southern opposition.
*Ve do not like all the provisions of thee
bills, and feel especially hostile to the admis
sion of California with her present bounda
ries. Some of the reasoning of the Report we
consider very unsatisfactory. The reasons
assigned for not applying the Wilmot Proviso
to the territorial governments of New Mexico
and Utah ale very objectionable, as there is
no disclaimer of the constitutional power.
Yet with all this, the South may go further
and fare worse.
If the compromise is defeated, California
w ill be admitted as she is. The President’s
non-action policy will triumph, and the coun
try be subjected to .i continuation of the ex
asperating excitements which have so long
and so fearfully agitated it, and which must
end in disunion, or the humiliation of ts e
South.
Rail Road Convention
The Stockholders of the Georgia Rail Road
met in Convention in this city yesterday.
There was a good at endance, and after organ*
mug, the reports of thedifferent officers were
read. The only other business transacted was
the appointment of a committee to investigate
the credentials of those in attendance. The
Convention then adjourned to meet this morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
We are pleased to see by the reports of the
President, Chief Engineer and Superintendent
of Transportation, that the affairs of the Com
pairy are in a flourishing condition. The
gross receipts of the Road and Bank are pu
down at $676,966 ID, while the expenses,
taxes, interest, i.e.i were only $031,200 31,
leaving the net income $385,(106 19.
From the pt stirs, two dividends of $3,50 per
share have been declared, being 7 per cent on
the capita! stock, and leaving applicable to re
served fund, $105,666 19. The increase in
receipts for passengers, freight and mails is
$44,792 42, while the increase in expenses is
$32,499 09 leaving a net increase in profits
of $12,392 34.
Dr. Pahkman Again.—A letter from Joseph
A. Atwood, of Terre Haute, Ind , to the edi
tors of the. Boston Post, under date of the 18th
ult. declares in positive terms that Dr. Park •
man came to that place on a canal-boat from
Covington, was recognised, by an acquain
tance, but refused to s reak; hurried rapidly
away, and immediately after left in that stage
for .St. Louis under the name of A. M. Thistle,
YVe rather doubt the fact.
Phrenology. — Dr. Crane.- —Those who be
lieve in this Science, as well as those who wish
to hear an interesting lecture, will have an op
portunity of doing so cm Thursday Evening
next. Dr. Crane,we understand has arrived in
this city and proposes to give a Free Lecture at
the Masonic Hull, on that evening. We had the
pleasure of listening to one of his lectures, in
the interior of the state, and was much pleas
ed with the manner in which he handled the
subject, and also w ith the results of examina
tions made by him.
Garden Plough. — We would call attention
to the advertisement in this day’s paper. The
Plough advertised is quite ingenious and is
said to do good vyork.
The Galfhin: Claim. —The Washington
correspondent of the Charleston Courier,
writing unde; date of the 11 ■ h inst.sayv The
Galphin claim Committee are, at length, ready
to report. Mr. Burt, the Chairman, will, it is
rumored, make a separate report, disapproving
of the allowance of interest on the claim, but 1
noteensuring Mr. Crawford. The other eight
members of the Committee are equally divid- ;
ed, by party; and the Whigs report in favor of j
ths claim and Mr. Crawford, and the Demo
crats unite in condemnation of the whole trans
action.
Siyv.yNNiH Liverpool Packet.—A
packet ship of 1,000 tons, called the State
Rights, was launched on Saturday the 4th
inst. at Pittston, Maine, and is pronounced to
be the most magnificent si ip that ever float
ed on the waters of the Kennebeck. She was
fully rigged on the stocks, and has three
decks. She is owned by John R. Wilder, of
Savannah, Ga. and Capt. P. D. Warren, who
is to command her as a regular packet between
Savannah and Liverpool.
The steamer Europa, from New-York, JTih
ult., was passed by the Niagara off the coast
of Ireland, and would reach Liverpool qn the
2fjti\. .
The Medical Convention, which assembled
at Cincinnati on the 7tli inst., was fully organ
ized. The attendance was large, nearly every
State being represented.
The Washington Republic mentions Merasrs
Bell, of Tennessee, Mangum, of North
Carolina, and Dawson, of Oeorgia, as among
the Southern Senators in favor of Mr. Clay's
compromise.
Another Crevasse. —Tne Point* Coupee
Echo of laat Sunday, states that on the night
df the 28th ult., a crevasse occurred at Mr.
Swain s plantation in that parish. It was
several acres w ide, and according to the Echo,
cannot be stopped. This crevasse will, with
out doubt, do considerable iniury prd only
lo the plantation;, near i. on the river, put
j also to the beck country. —.y. O Picayune, 9th
inst. ' ' "
PfHF. (n HpNTavtLLp.—We learn from the
Huntsville, (Ala i ‘•Southern Star," that a
fire broke out In that place rn the night of
the 2d inst, which destroyed property to a
great amount. Iwo squares and a hal f w?;e
consumed by ths cjevour.ng flames.' The
Market-House, tne Caldwell Houke.the De
mocrat Printing Office, Stores, Private Dwel
lings, &c. were consumed.
Groat Triumpu ! —77m Cara thruuyh ihc
Ttaiut/I !—The Chattanooga Gazette, of the
10th lust. Bays: “On yesterday the Cars, for
the tint time run through the Tunnel. This
is an unexpectedly early triumph, and we con
gratulate tb® Contractors, Chiefj Engineer,
in the completion of this
An uninterrupted thoroughfare
is noW Jpened between the navigable waters
of the West, and the Southern Atlantic
ocean. We shall not now hereafter, hear any
complaints about delays and detentions. One
thousand cheers to the State of Georgia,“
Weather and Crlfs in Arkansas. —The
Little Rock Gazette & Democrat of the 26th
ultimo, says:
'■ I'he w-ather during most of the week has
been awful to contemplate and most excru
ciating to suffer. Rains have prevailed l'o
miny days, accompanied by winds from the
north, retarding in a serious degree the ad
vance of vegetation. In this region, the sea
son thus far has been very unfavorable for the
farming and plantina inter, st."
Weather and Crops in Eastern Mississip
pi. —The Mobile Register publishes a letter
dated “ Aberdeen, Mississippi, . pril 29, which
says:
“ Rain has been (ailing almost constantly
ever since 1 wrote you, and travelling l.y land
is pretty much stopped. We have had no
mail here lor several days. I’he heavy rains
have washed out the cotton and corn on the
hilly land, and drowned that on the flat lands,
and on the whole the p ospeet is a gloomy
one. There is a considerable increase of cul
tivation, but nevertheless the prospect is worse
at this time than it was at time last
year. The liver now covers all of the low
lands and wants only four feet of being in the
Hotel where I stop; it is rising now about
out inch an hour."
Scarlet Fever —We learn from the Au
gusta (Ga.) papers, as well as from private
sources, that the stailet fever is very preva-
in that city, and in several instances has
proved fatal, even among adults. Persons arp
advised not to take their children within the
sphere of its influence. The disease also pre
vail to some extent in Lincoln county.—
Great care should be taken by parents to
keep their children aloof from places where it
exists, as it is extremely fatal among chil
dren.”— Athens banner.
With a view to correct the impression
which this paragraph is calculated to make on
the public mind, we append the report of the
City Sexton, showing the interments made
duiing the past week, ending this (Friday)
evening, and the diseases of the patients.
We have also, made it our business to inquire
of a number of physicians, whose practice
would render them familiar with new cases,
if any had occurred, and are gratified to learn
that the disease has almost entirely disap
peared.
May 7. —Whites, 1 male, aged 2 months
and twelve days, Thrash, Augusta; 1 male, 9
years, Congestive Fever, Ireland. May 10 —
1 female, 13 veats, Scarlet Fever, Tennessee.
Total Whites, 3.
May 8. — 1 leuiale, aged 75 years, Dropsy.
May 9—l male, 65 yeats, Pneumonia; 1 male,
1 year, Pneumonia. Total Blacks, 3. — Chro
nicle of yesterday.
BP* Comparative Statement of the business
of the Georgia Railroad in the months of
April 1849 and 1850 ;
Passengers. Fr’t.. Mail.&c. Amounts
1850 12 763 40 40,642 63 54,406 03
1849 10.839 42 34,375 51 45,214 93
incr’ie.. #2,924 03 $ 6,267 12 #9,191 15
Important from Bio Janeiro
The ship Grei/ Kwjle, arrived below at Phil
adelphia, in the short passage of 32 days,
brings the melancholy intelligence of the
death of Mej. T. S. Morgan, Secretary of the
U. S. Legation, and the only son of Gov.
Kent, American Consul. They both died of
Yellow Fever. The deaths of several other
Americans by the same disease are mentioned
From a letter received by the Grey Eagle, and
published ir the New York Evening Cos', it
appears that the Fever was raging to an alarm
ing extent. Four:een to Fifteen thousand
deaths are reported since the disease made its
appearance in December last.
• Nashville Convention
A meeting of the citizens of Montgomery,
, A!aY> was to have been held on Monday,
13th inst., for the purpose ot appointing Dele
gates to the Nashville Convention.
At a meeting held in Perry, E. D. King
and H. C. Lea, acted as Presidents. In
speaking of the proceedings and resolutions
adopted, the Commonwealth remarks :
“The proceedings of the public meeting
held in this place Iqst Monday, will be found
in another column. They speak for them
selves, and require no comment or explana
tion. We believe they express the wish of
ninety-nine hundredths of the people of this
county. Th eopjHments of the Nashville Con
vention in this county are few and far be
tween. Some there are of our be3t ci.isens
and mo9t influential men, who helie.ve it at
present unnecessary. But they are too pa
triotic and too Southern in their feelings to
produce discord and weakness in our ranks
by busying themselves in opposing it. Could
a Similar unanimity prevail fhroughout the
South, our rights and institutions would he
secure from molestation.' 1
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT
Ot" the 'Earnings of the Western 3c Atlantic Rail-Road for the first four rscftths of 1849--’5Gr
We are indebted to the Chief Engineer, Col. W. L. Mltcheli. for the following table, g.vihg an
exhibit of the earnings of the above Road, for the montha of January, February, March and April, as
compared with the same months of 1849'
1849. ll ~ 1850. \
MONTHS. J PASS ORS. | FREIGHTS. MAIL. TOTAL, j PASg'ORs | FREIGHTS, j MAIL. j TOTAL. INCREASE
January',! 2,696 74‘ 7.404 84 714 25 19,843 96! 3,754 17j 3,390 21 1 1,000 00 13.144 38 2,300 42 j
Febru’v,i 2,472 98 1 7,833 52 714 25 11,020 75| 3,236 14| 9,133 93| 1.000 00 14,370 07 3.349 32 f
March.".. 3,567 24j13,338 36 714 25 18,144 931 4,773 10|17,'520 48 1,000 00 23,293 58 5,143 65
April... 2,559 22j 9,892 24 714 25 13,165 71 j 5,276 40| 14.5 '8 78 1,000 00 20,825 16 7,65945
Total.. 11,296 18i38,968 96 2,857 00 53,175 35 1 13.039 5i!49.593 33 4,000 00 71.033 19 18,457 84
Frost l—T'h? hi. Q. Picayune of the 7th
inst. says ; —We hardly know what to say
of the weather of late in this latitude, It is
certainly most unseasonable. We were shown
this forenoon a young cotton plant with othe l
tender vegetation, bearing unmistakable signs
of frost. These articles Y,t,r& taken this
morning a garden' in the city, and the
i frost was last night. Only think of frost in
j Louisiana in the month of May 1 did
j not see the frost; others did ; We saw its es-
I sects. We preafimq everybody knows the
night waq very cold. The crops have un
-1 doubtedly suttered."
The Weather.—The Macon Tribune of
the llthinst. says—For a week past, tires have
been quite comfortable, aqd the temperateure
resembling rather of f$H fhqn spring. This
rr.ust check the growth of the crops materially
if continued much longer. The wheat crops,
however, are quite promising throughout the
oountry.
The Edgefield Advertiser of the Bth inst.
says :
•• The af the crops in this region
a»e not (teemed flattering. % The season is
backward, in the judgment of our planters, at
least three weeks, and unless a very favorable
season awaits, the cg.Uqq crop, especially must
be moderate.
Steamers for California. —The New York
coiresponcient of the Philadelphia Inquirer,
under date of Saturday evening, says :
The Washington ami Herman steuuiers may
yet be sold to the Nicaragua Canal Associa
tion. The contracting parties were within
$40,000 ol making the sale yesterday. '1 he
company intend la establish immediately a
line of steamers between Greytown and New
York, and the Nicaragua Pacific Coast and
San Francisco. 1 lie distance wiii be about
eight hundred miles uearer by this route ihan
by Chagres and the climate is excellent.
Messrs. Howland & lion, ot New York, the
owners of the Crescent City line of Chagres
steamers, on Saturday last contracted for the
building of a steamship, in that city —she is
to be 2,000 tons burden, and is intended for
the,Pacific side. Another company, on the
same day, contracted lor tne building of a
steuner ot 800 tons, intended for the Califor
nia trade. A contract has also been entered
into for the building of a steamship at Cin
cinnati, to run between New York and Cha
gres.
The freshet in the Hud on river has occa
sioned very great damage, especially to the
owners ot lumber, at an t above Glenn s Falls.
The Troy Whig states that not less than 150,-
000 logs have floated off, an 1 been lost to :he
own re. They are worth on an average a
dollar a tog. It is said that they belong to
ten or twelve persons engaged in lumbering,
and that they had been accumulating for two
years. Some of them have floated down as
far as Hudson. The water at Glenn's Falls is
higher than it has been before for thirteen
years. The melting of the snow on the hills,
which supply the source ot the river, is the
cause ot this unusual rise.
John D. Diomalari, of Georgia, has been ap
pointed Consul of the United States for the
port of Athens, in Greece.
Mr. Diomatari, the Savannah. News)
is a native of Athens, Greece, and came to
this country during the Greek struggle for
independence in 1824. He arrived in Boston,
where he remained until he acquired an Eng
lish education. He afterwards came to this
State, in the upper portion of which he taught
school several yeais. He subsequently read
law-, and has for some time practised his pro
fession iu Eatonton, Putnam county. He is
highly esteemed by his fellow citizens, and
ranks among the ablest men at the bar. His
appointment as Consul to his native country,
will give the liveliest satisfaction to his nu
merous friends.
The Rivers.— The Missouri and Upper Mis
sissippi are so high that ’he packets have been
compelled to suspend their regular trips and
lay up. The waters were over the “second
bank," and it was impossible to procure wood.
The Cumberland and Tennessee rivers are re
ported to be higher than they w ere ever known
to be before. Heavy rains have prevailed in
their valleys.... At Pittsb irgh, on the 30th
ult. there were 9 feet 6 inches and at a stand.
The Alleghany was rising 510w1y.... A t Cin
cinnati, on the 30th ult., the Ohio was still
swelling. Weather warm, with prospects of
more rain.
The recetp ts, during the peat year, of the
principal religions and benevolent associations
whose anniversaries were recently celebrated
at New York, show a large increase over pre
vious years. The aggregate is larger than was
ever before contributed to the same objects dur
ing a similar period,
1848-‘4‘.i 1849- 50.
American Tract Society, #258,304 #308,123
American Bible Society, 251,8/0 284,614
~R C. Foreign Alia ion, I .8,2, , 18,,609
American Home Missionary , 145 92s 1,391
Am and For Christian Union, 28.704 f 45,000
Am and For. Bible Society, 39,840 v4O 993
Am Baptist Home Mission, 20,876 26,443
!\ Y State Colonization Hoc etv.12,358 13,340
S 936,150 #1,068,813
" Receipts for the last nine months
t They somewh .t exceed that sum
[COMMI MI ITED i
Dogwood Vali.ey, \\ alkkii Co., Ga , }
May Dtii, 1850. $
Sir;— I have just returned horn a visit to
the Tunnel. I arrived at tlie depot, on the
Western side of the Blue Ridge, about half
past 12 o'clock, P. M , and found every thing
in a bustle —all expecting to ride through the
TunneJ. At half-past 1 o’clock I left for the
Eastern side oi the Ridge, a a the first Car
was to enter from I passed through
the funnel, and found the track in excellent
order.
At half-past 3, the Cars came to the depot
(on the Eastern side ot the hill) with an im
mense numher of people on them. The po
lite Engineer stopped at the depot for the
people who had gathered theie to a goodly
number, to get on the Cars - all t'u 1 oi ex
pectations. Their beaming countenances all
told of hope, and tutuie gieatness of Georgit.
After all bad got on the cam could, they
put off slowly from the depot to the mouth of
the 'funnel.
But there they were doomed to experience
a change of feelings, (for the stoutest heart
shrinks in darkness, i though tl ere were no
fears entertained o.t any accident, \Vg paa-ed
in with cheeys of ths numerous concourse of
people who hud gathered on each side of the
track to witness the first passage of the pow
erful engine. As soon as we. entered the
Tunnel, the darkness caused every thing to
be imperceivable. I was seated on ths En
gine, but I could not see p,;y right nor left
hand man. After a slow passage, we arrived
at the other side of the hill in about two
minutes and a hair, without any aqoiaent.
One of the braces or sleepers that they rest
ed the upper floor on, through accident,
rubbed the first train of (Jars, hut the en
ergetic Contractor had thqt out down in less
than twenty minutes softer the first trai,n passr
ed through.
We came out on, th§ West side and were
cheered by hundreds of Gitizens who had
gathered there to witness our emerging from
the darkness that prevail! d in that subterra
neous passage into the light of day,
showed more brilliant or thqt, occasion than
I ever hayq ..olioed. The morning was
cloudy (at intervals the sun showed in all its
grandeur,) till about 12 o’clock, the
clouds gave way, the fieayena \\TTS
crow nod in qll tfieiv gtoyy Uts shy dressed
iu deepest blue, not one cloud was to be seen.
After we arrived at the depot, some gentle
man (whose name is unknown to tne ) made a
thrilling and energetic speech, of some tep, or
fifteen minutes duration, in v/b,oh be showed,
with power r,n otearuesa, the greatness of
Georgia, iu w rich the citizens joined with
cheers,
After the train left fc,r Okuttapooga, the J
splendid e;,giqe I'acoah hitched all the Cars
Shat were in use on this side of the -Hidge.
and gave a free ride to Dalton and buck, to 1
all that wished ta go So the city of the hills
TU& second train, filled with women, chil
dren, and men, passed through with a more
powerful shout than the first train, but was
longer making its way than the first. Aftey
the Tacoah and train passed through, the old
Alabama came through, iitu.it; on the trains,
I cannot give description of the appear
ance-"»»l that I can say is, that we passed
through. The huzzas were deepening, and,
the darkness Vaa intense. I, have no doubt,
but the s?.q,vo was one of grandeur to, the by
slanders, as all seemed to vie in Georgia's
greatness.
I think but few that were there to com
memorate Georgia's proudest day, will ever
\eave the genial soil of their native State soy
the uncertain wealth of California. Who
can leave the greatest Southern State, the
Key-stone of the South, ta seek a home
in the wilds of the unknown West ?
I will bring my letter to a close by saying
that the citizens appeared to vie with each
other to see who could add Che most to the
grandeur of the sight.
Col. Mitchel, the Chief Ifngmeer, and many
other gentlemen and officers of
the Road, were present.
Witli a thousand wising the vyeifare
and prosperity r* farewell.
_' ’" 1 ’'iq. u.
Among the vessels arrived at San Fran
cisco, we notice the Magnolia, Morris, from
Charleston, on the 14th March.
Steamer British Queen.— We learn from
the New York Commercial, that the new Brit
ish steam propeller British Queen, Captain
Bell, plying between that port and Hamburg,
arrived on Thursday morning after a passage
of thirty five days, which had excited some
fears for her safety. She brings twenty-seven
first cabin, twenty-five second cabin, and one
hundred and twenty steerage passengers. The
British Queen sailed from Hamburg, and the
Elbe April 4th, and St. Johns, Newfoundland,
May 3d. She experienced strong Westerly
winds to the 17th, when the weather increas
ed to a heavy gale, which continued until the
22d, The Queen lost all her canvass, hei
bowsprit, jib-boom, loretopmast and figure
head. On the 29th, finding her coal running
out, having only thtea days consumption on
hoard, the cap'ain bore up for St. Johns, New
foundland, wheie the ship arrived on the 30th.
There she took in a suppiy of coal and sailed
on thp 3d inst.
The Crops. —The Savannah Republican ot
the 11th insfl says—By one of our subscri
bers from Laurens county, we learn that the
crops, both Corn and Cotton, in that county,
are moie backward than they were last year
at this time.
By another from South-Western Georgia
(Baker county,) our previous advices are con
firmed, that corn is doing well, and that cot
ton is about as backward as last year at the
same time. The corn of one of our friends in
Baker was, when our informant, left, as high
as his shoulders.
GEORGIA -StIRIVUN COUNTY.
(LF The April Term of the Superior
Court, to be held in and for the county aforesaid,
during tne present year stands adjourned until the
fourth MONDAY in May next, being tne 27th ( av
of said month. Jurors, Suitors, and Witnesses will
please take notice accordingly.
By order ol the Hon. Ebenexer Starnes, Judge
of said Court, this the 22d day of April, 1850
april 2C AI.F.X. KEMP, Clerk,
(Somnierciat.
Augusta Market, May 15.
COTTON.—The market curing the past week
has been quiet, the sales reaching about 1,0 0
bales. 1 here is stili a difference between the
views of buyers and sellers, the former refusing
to pay the prices demanded by the latter Eac.
tors, however, are very firm in their demands,
and are offering their stocks sparingly, and only
sell when tlteydmve positive orders. The back
wardness of the crop this year gives Planters
more confidence, and very few of them show any
disposition to sell at present prices. Os the stock
on hand, over one-half, if not two-thirds, is held
by Planters, who are able and wifi hold until bet
ter prices are realised. The next steamer’s ad
vices, now due, are anxiously looked fpr by both
parties. The receipts at this point are lair fur the
season, the Cotton coming to hand being principal
ly from Tennessee. In the present state ol the
market it is difficul to give quotations, bn* we
would r- mark that, yesterday there was au im
proved demand, particularly for the lower grades,
and good ordinary to mid ling brought 11 to ii 3
good middling tig a IQ, and middling fair |2 cts.
Little or no •‘fair” Cotton offering—for this de
scription holders are asking 12A ci tits
RECEIPTS
Prom li l September, 1810, to latent t ates received,
1650. 1840-
Suv.inn.iti, May 7 383,068 310,420
Charleston, May 9,,.... ~ ,319,078 406,553
Mobile, May 3 313,919 491,451
New-Orleans, May 7. 744,767... .1,010,954
Florida, April 24., 154,801 ~ 170,934
Texas, Mav I ~21,945 28,132
Virginia, May 1...... >...8,025 11,235
North Carolina, April 27 8,705, 8,425
Total Receipts... 1,850,931. ..9,483,100
1,850,231
Decrease in Receipts this year 632,809
STOCK OF COTTON
Remmniojf on hand tit ihe tale it dates received.
Savannah, May 7 37,501 37,0‘j0
Charleston, May 09.879 44,591
Mobile, May 3 82,765 79,387
New Orleans, May 7. 140,343 189,4141
Florida, April 24 27,176 31,65',
Texas, May 1 726 3,959
Augusta and Hamburg, May 1 .01 735.......41,773
Macon, Mavjl ~..15,800 93,350
Virginia, May I 900 1,000
North Carolina, April 2? . .395
Nevy-Vorlc, May 7 128,230 91,000
Total ..671,209 513,582
DRV' GOODS—For the seayop ol the year, our
market is well supplied with all descriptions of
Dry Goads, and a fair business is doing with the
interior
GROCERIES Market well supplied with ail
descriptions ol Groceries, and every artivai adds
•o the stocks at our merchants.
BACON. —The receipts are falling off and pri
ces stiffening. We have heard of the sales of this
week of about 50,000 lbs. at T cents, rasp. Thera
are rome inferior parcels m market that wili n t
biingover 5 a 5| cents the hey; round, while some
choice brands are |;sl4 at 6 cts Shoulder* may
be quoted M a 4j, Sides G, and Haws £ »ti
cents.
LARD. —Supply abundant, and the article dim
of sale si a S cents
. CQRN.—But little arriving Sales at e making
at 62 a65 cents by thi quantity, while for small
lots 70 cents i* asked. Meal is selling at 70 cents
FLOUR —>Good supply on hand, and Northern
dull of sale Augasta Canal =ells readily at #4
per iOOlhs. and $8 per bid
BAGGING ANI» ROPE ■ —ftur merchants are
r»ce v»ng their supplies of Ragging av.d Rope
We have heard of no transactions in either article
SAI..T.--—Simply abundant. Last sales flora
whavf St r s'\ per sack. Sales from stores gt $1,20
DOMESTIC LlQL'OKS—Supply good, demand
limited New Orleans Whisky selling at 30 a32
cents,
COFFEE —Stock moderate. Rw selling at 10$
alii cents.
MOLASSES Supply good. Cuba celling at
22 a 24, gr.d New Orleans at 31 cents,
SUGARS.—Stock heavy. Muscovadoes sell
ing at 6a 7, and New Orleans a 7 cents
STOCKS.—-Sales have been reporte i to us of 115
Shares Rati Road at $100; and 25 shares insurance
and Banking Company at slls. For State Bisk
5105 is asked; Rank of Augusta sUft offered,
Brunswick sllO offered; Mechanics Bank, none for
sale,we quote nominally gi3o; Manufacturing Com
pany 5102 aykett. Iron steam Boat Company, iast
sgles 51,01. Sales have been made this reek of
State six per cent Bonds at par
EXCHANGE.—Our Banks are now charging
4 per oent preny. for sight checks on New York
and other Northern cities.
FREIGHTS.—The Rivet is iu good boating
Order. We have no chat ge to notice in the rates
of Freight But little Cotton ottering to either
Savannac or Charleston.
COLUMBUS, May 11. Cotton. —Since om last
report ou? market has lost the activity which we
then noted, and it is now difficult to eilect sales at
full prices. The markets east of us exhibit the
same dull f.atures. W« continue quota'tons II to
11 <1 cents.
SAVANNAH, Mar 13 — Cotton.— X he sale■> 011 j
Saturday amounted to 73!) bales, no change in I
prices. The sales were as follows 73 bales at IIA; j
153 at 114,482 at 12,and22 at 12} cent-
SAVANNAH 1 XPORTS -MAY 11
Havana.—Schr. C, A. L. I.aniar—3B) cabs!
Rice.
CHARLES ION EXPOK I S—.AiA V 12.
New York —Brig Ava—93,009 feet I* P I,umber
and Plank.
Baltimore- Brig Chief—33,ooofectl umber
New York—Barque Sa-anac—4lotierces Rice,
37 pkgs Mdzc , 100 hales Hay I cases, >5 hall box
es and -1 three quarter bxs TolyiuCo.
impok r.s—may e>
Liverpool—Brig Keying—l cask Hoymcare to
A \V Carmichael,
CANDY MANUFACTORY,
A. FREDERICK,
AUGUSTA ....QA
HY LONG EXPERIENCE in my hnsi
ness, I can warrant Confectionaries q| my
own make, to he of superior quality, equal to any
manufactured it* this country. if ml it is not effected
by fho weather.
Merchants in want, wiif please oall and examine
fog themselves, or send their orders, which will
tpcet with prompt attention.
Boxes Irom 20 to i 0 pounds, assorted m any
manner desired.
The subscriber has also for sale various other
articles in his line, such as FRENCH < ONI EC
TIONAHIEB, Foreign and Domestic Green and
Dried FKUITH, Lemon and other SYRUPS
COR 1)1 AlTi, PRESERVES, WINES,SEGARS,
*)<',“«- d«r.c apr fi
INDIAN SPRING HO TGI,
, Ttl<s i 0,,t) J HO PEL lyas pn.s
ed into tlw hands of the undcysigtnjJ, who it
haling it thoroughly clean,y ul repaired. :-e
is also ha, ing the vafff? iur rushed throughout with
enure neiy mUk, and the sleeping apartments
"C 11 equal, d not superior to any Hotel in Ge„r
[ Hts table shall be supplied with every sLiug
that the market affords He therefore, solicits a
call from the old friends of the e-stablis'liinc nt and
public generally, and assures all those who may
i please to cali on him, t«*at if they go away dis
-1 satisfied ;t shall not be h s fault.
I ma > • EDW. VARNER.
PETITION.
rtTATE OF GEORGIA, Chattooga Co.
>3 To the honorable the Inferior Court of said
county, sifting lor ordinary purposes.
|)t»u tion of Thoniitii Middle ion rr*jpec fully
slum till that heretofore to wit on the seventh
day of December, eighteen hundred and iortv
seven, w M Shropshire ot said county, ami At
bert A. Keedy, then in life, but now deceased,
made and executed to your petitioner in due *orm
ot law his bond, (a copy of which is to this peti
tion annexed, the original being in Court to lie
shown) binding themselves in the sum of two bun
dr, d dollars, considered to be void it the said VV
M Stiropshi. e and Albert A. iteedy should make,
or cause to be made to your petitioner titles in fes
simple, lo lot of land, No. 153, in the 21th district
til said Floyd county, containing one hundred and
sixty acres, more nr less j and your petitioner aver*
that heretofore to wit on the sixth day of Sep
tember, in the year of oui i ord eighteen bundled
and forty-eight, said Ab-ert A Keedy departed
this file without executing nr causing, or provid
ing in any way lor titles to he executed to your
petitio-er lor said lot ol land, and vour pa itioner
avers that he paid said Albert A. Keedy in hislile
time, and lo his Administrators since, the entire
amount of the purchase money foi 'aid lot of land,
and has pertnrmed fully his part of iiie contract
under which said bond was given , wherelore your
petitioner begs that said George B. T. Maddox and
James K. Griffith, Administrators upon the estate
ol Albert A. Keedy, deceased, (\\ ,\1 .Shropshire
being willing to comply with ihe law,) may be or
dered and directed by this honorable Court to ex
ecute to your petit out for said 1 .t of land titles in
conformity with said bond of said (W. M. Shrop
shire) Albert A. Reedy, deceased, and as in duty
bound, your petitioner will ever pi-ay.
LEANDEIt W CROOK,
may 6th, 1850. Plaintiff's Attorney,
[COPY BON'II.J
GEORGIA, Chattoogu County;
Know all men ot Ibese presents, that we, \y. M,
Shropshire and Albeit A. Reedy, am held and
lii m!y bound unto Thomas Middleton in the just
sum ot two hundred dollars for the trn payment
of which we bind ourselves or assigns .jointly and
severally.
Now, the conditions are such, that we have this
day bargained, sold and conveyed unto the said
Middleton, lot ot land, No. (138) one hundred and
fifty-eight, in the (24th dl-.t ) twi nty-lnmth dis
trict of (3d sec) third section, originally Cherokee,
now Floyd county, known and distinguished by the
above number, when the sa.d Middleton pays tha
sum ol one hundred and twenty five dollars, wo
bind our elves to make nr Cause li be made (rood
and sufficient, titles to the above described lot or
parcel of land ; then this to be null and void, else
to remain in full force and virtue, Signed this
7th day of December, R 47.
W. M. SHROPSHIRE,
L lest J . ALBERT A. REIiUV,
Wesley Shropshire
[ORDER-]
STATE OF GEORGIA , f < " V, ’ rt Onlina-
Chattooga County. ry ’ 1 0 erm
Present the honorable Benjamin Braun, •. 7’ltos,
Rowell. Joseph S. Thomason, Jud* o| .aid Court.
li appearing to the Court by the petition of
Thomas Middleton, that (\Y Mi Shropshire) and
Aloert A. Reedy of said county dneeased. did in
his life time execute to the said 7 honta- Middle
ton this bond, conditinned to execute title, in sea
simple to said Thomas Middleton for lot of land,
mint he rone hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty
fourth district ol third section ot I oyd county,
and it utrtber appearing that sa : d Albert A Reedy,
departed this site without executing titles to said
lotot land, nr in any wav providing tfierelor and it
appearing that said 'Thomas Middleton has paid tho
full amount ot the purchase price of raid lot of
land, ami said Thomas having petition! tl thtaf ourt
'a direct George if. T. Maddox, and Jat. R. Grif
letn, (M M. kShrop.hiro being )«,,.ly to comply,)
Administrators upon the estate ol Alien A.
Reedy, deceased, to execute titles to him for said
lot oi land in conformity with said bond. tis
therelorn hereby ordered, that notice lie given
at ttuee or wore public places in said county,
and in the Constitutionalist of Augusta of such ap
plication, that all per-nns concerned may file ob
jections iu the Clerk’s tffice ,'il any they have,)
why aid George 11. T. M. Maddox and James li.
Griffith, Administrators as afo. esaid t ouid not
execute titles to said lot of laud, in conformity with
said band.
A true extract from the minutes of said Court,
this 6th day of May, 1860.
may II T. T HOPKINS, Cl'lt C. O.
rjOTIC.B.
RAN AW VY on the 35th u'timo, rr ,
nagrn git! JA.NF, who sometimes c.t IjJier
toTAC sell June Branch, of a light brown com
plexinn. metli to size, delicately and fine
ly tb uicd, features regular, sharp an- somewhat
projecting chin, smalt eyes deeply set in the head
hi walking she steps *ong anti throws her head o'.
ternai ly backward a and forwards, film
intelligent; when spoken to is apt to smile. at p
when engage 1 in evei ing cottyersatio t is apt. 1 »
throw her Ite.t.l from sde to i It* and gesticulate
with her arms. ler left fore fi*,\£,. considers
bly pricked tt ith the needle, Vhe was ties'ly
dressed, and bait on a i.-.ir of large gol par ring ,
It i- probable she may endeavor in go fa Ango
la nr Him bn ig Month Catalina, as i tutrclu sed her
in the latter place seyet si years since
he said girl hav n ■ caused the death ofr.tir it*
fant child, by poison, l sincerely hope that si! da*
dilligmtce will he u,od to arrest her.
I will give
"A TIBER At REWARD
for her appri- Pension and delivery tu this place,rr
in any * to Jail, so that she may ho untight i:
j tstiee til till J. OGh BY
Mad: ton, .Morgan t a,, fia , ,Mav (>, i<"u.i.
mry 8 dlAtcif
tAOl) K MONTHS alter dale, application wil
be made o the honorable the lnferim. Court:
cl Burke county, when sitting tor ordinary pur
poses, lor leave '« sell all the Real Estate rs .tat,a
Arche*, la e ol raid county deceased,
JOHN A. ROSIER.
AITI EMAO ARCHER.•
may 9 Administrators
COIiRT OF ORDINARY—MaY 7TUM. 1850,
g \ f'i »RGI A , V’fa nut in lift. — Present the
AJ4 Hon. VY ttt i till;, Henry Fret-man and Green
B. Holbrook, Judges of said Court.
Whereas, NEWMAN 'II.DORTCH,Fx’r. of the
last Will and Testament oi LFYVIrf DORTCH,
late of said county, deceased, having applied to
the Court for Letters IFsmissory.
These are therefore to cite and admonish, aii
and singular, tue kindred and creditors of said de
ceased. to show cause, if any they can in teraus of
the law, why said Letters of Di--mission should not
be granted at the. next November 'Perm of tlua
Court Hy order of the Court. May 17, 1350.
may 11 times JOHN G. YORK, <*C. O.
IJOl 1 R MON i US alter date, application will
, be made to the hen rubify (ho I-iI-tinr Court
of Emanuelm nitty, when sitting tor ordin-fy pur
poses, for leave tosc 1 11,. 1 , t h ß Rea ‘Estate of \V imam
Miller, late ol s- ,r| county, deceased.
JAMES R. MILLER,) . ,
ma •_ JOHN li MILLER ' '
X4TSW xi'ARDiIN”PLATO GHd, ~
WOUKEI) »V H A ■-*D.
[LF* A Scraper, a Rooter, and a Turning Plough
are furnished with each Stock, lor 5-3 *>o,
Walk backwards and pull
THESE GARDEN PLOUGHS,
EFFECTIVE in their operation and for which
a Diploma lias been awarded by ihe South
Carolina Institute are manufac-tired by B, PIC
QUF.T, ami sold by
i>. F. Curvi , l ,
j. & s. Bonis, £ Angurta, G».
The wheel is of solid iron and tb<j satire Plough
is nut up in a most substantial manner.
With one of these Plou tia, which work with
great ease, one hand can do more work in two
hour's time, than can be performed in a whole day
with a hoe or spade. With fit is nothing to de
stroy nut and other grasses, »o as t prevent their
annoying the p an'*; at the same time it leaves
the earih which it lias worked perfectly loose and.
untrodden by the (ret of the worker.
A good supply oi them is now ready made tr>
supply orders. df&clt may 13
WISTAR'S BALSAM OS* WILD
CHERRY.
ITIOR incipient Consumption, i%Vnow of no
* better reniedv than \\ lST\l!\s BAI M.VM
GE \\ ILD CHI RK\ It is southing and healing,
in its nature, and it is adwirttbly adapted to allay
and dissipate that anvino and distressing irritation
which so much prevails gj itu- season 01 1110 year,
caused by crdds, c.o: ,;h« Timl chill -, bruught on In
frequent and siidd.ui chanrt sos (be w at her W«
know ot sevorai severe ca-cs uliicii have henry
radically cured bv the n.-c of tin Balsam Sums
ftvr ye.rs since a friend ot ours was suffering un
der what was thought to be confirmed Consump
tion—a severe, cough,loss of apprt.tc. night sweats,
&. ■ By the use ot the Bal- am, lie dispelled lliesu
alarming encroachments, and is now in the en joy
ment 01 comparative good health.—New Eng m;i
Washington! in, Boston
lost voice restored
New llnifoßD, Aug. 10, I Why.
Mr. 3, M Fowle —Having - -on main'certifi
cates published in relation to Dr. Wistar .s Balsam
til Wild Cherry, I take this opportunity of offer
ing a word in its favor, which you are also at liber
ty to pbisli A few months since tnv wife’s lu gs
became so much after ted hy a sudden cold, that
she lo t her voice and suffered seven iv Lom
pains in the in- s»l Her sitiiation rath-cd her
iriends much alarm, Having hi at A yt yom Bal -
sam strongly recommended by those who had used
it. 1 purchased a In ttln of yoi\r agent in this p ar.e.
.She took it according to directions, an I it pro
duced a wonderful effect. Before u fog one bot
tle she had completely recovered 'tier voice, the
pains subsided", and her health wis soon full) re
stored Yours truly
iSigned,) HENRY G BRIGIITMAN.
P- S.—Such testimony can he relied upon. Ra
careful ot the. article yon buy. It mint harctho
signature of I, BUTTS on the wrapper to he gen
uine
For sale by Havilamt. Ridei -V i> . ItitrsU,
Carter A r,i, W U. Kitchen <V Co-, D li- Plumb
& Co., Philip A Moise Augusta, Seymore A*
j Bcryta, Madison; Drs Recsu or Ware, Athens 3
Haviiand, llarral &■ <O, Gl'Avlestnr,; Ur. A. J.
ffrei'.-hinn, 11amhuia-,, ; by ‘’elk \V . l .-ivleT
Agents every wban .
may 15 f3ct
HAY.
1 Ai 1 BUNDLES best quality of EASTERN
I f HAY for sale. Apply at the Georgia
Steamboat Office. t> may It*
j ■^“ookN \CO\rtf\ ! cornTi !
1 THAI I BUSHELS CORN in sacks, tag
I,UUU sale by GIBBS At McCORD,
l mayU
