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Cuttsttotiottfllist k tUjuiblic. BY JAIVIES GARDNER* JR* TERMS: Dailypapor (if paid in advance) ....per annum. .$8 00 Tri-VV'eekly (if paid in advance) per annum.. 6 00 Weekly (if paid in advance) per annum.. 200 Hon. O. J. Jenkins, Letter of Acceptance. Augusta, 29th June, 1853. Gentlemen I have received your commu nication of the 22d inst., informing me that “ a Convention ot the Conservative men of Geor gia, assembled in Milledaeville on that day, had selected me as their candidate for Governor, in the approaching canvass.” and requesting my acceptance of the nomination. However reluctant I may have been to occu py that position, the unanimity ot their selec tion, and mv own entire sympathy with the spirit of their further deliberations, forbid even momentary hesitation to acquiesce in their wish es. I have read with deep interest, the published proceedings of that body, and am gratified to perceive that their position has been taken with direct reference to present, rather than to past issues, and that they have spoken in a spirit of fealty to Country rather than to Party. In our complex system of Government, the rights of the States and the Union of the States” are paramount interests, and their preservation requires perpetual vigilance. Our forefathers, inhabiting distinct colonies, by a united struggle achieved their independence; hut the glorious consummation was, the investiture of each colony • with the attributes of separate State sovereignty. Commensurate with their valor was the wisdom which promptly discerned that the best safe guard, the surest guaranty, to each State of her newly acquired freedom and sovereignty, was the Union of all the States This Union, to be effectual, must be invested with certain govern mental functions. Hence the delegation, by the States, of some of their political powers, with the express reservation of those not delegated. Fidelity to the distribution thus made, is one of the highest duties of all American patriots. So far from being inconsistent with, or antagonistic to, each other, the sovereignty of the States, and the Union of the States are mutual supports, and component parts of a structure, which Time is fast consecrating as the realization of man’s grandest political conception. In theory, their harmony is perfect; in practice, their seeming conflict is the result of corrupt or desperate statesmanship. Fanatics, to promote particular ends, and Consolidationists, to subvert a Consti tution they never approved, will often seek to steal away from the States their reserved rights, and gradually build up an all-controlling Central Power. Their political antipodes, more ardent than discreet—more jealous of State sovereignty, than careful of the Federal Union, exasperated by such perfidious intrigues, are always too ready to proclaim disunion, and venture madly on untried experiments. It is the noble and responsible mission oi conservative citizens, calmly, yet vigilantly, watching the progress of events, to thwart the insidious machinations of the former, and crush the precipitate uprisings of the latter. In fulfilment of this mission, Georgia laid before the country the exposition and reso lutions adopted by her Convention of December, 1850 ; and surely all who gave them a sincere and hearty approval then, will rejoice in their reaffirmance now. The sympathy expressed by the Convention for the oppressed of other climes, is but a pulsa tion of the great American heart. It is a gen erous and elevated sentiment the simple expres sion of which cheers the heart, and nerves the arm of freedom’s struggling votary everywhere. But, for the reason that it is generous and im pulsive, severe restraint is requisite to confine it within the well defined limits of our interna tional policy. Prominent among the ancient land-marks, which indicate those limits, is the interdiction of entangling alliances, and inter vention in foreign controversies. No close ob server of passing events can have overlooked recent efforts to stigmatize this truly American principle, as adapted only to the weakness of our infancy, and unbecoming the vigor of our maturity. Innovation (misnamed progress) is doing much to lure us from the paths of peace, wherein the Good and the Wise of other days led the young Republic on to prosperity and to fame; but no one of her many departures is fraught with more unmitigated evil than this abominable heresy of propagating by the sword, truths, we have heretofore been content to teach by example. lam highly gratified, therefore, to find that upon these two cardinal points—the one domest.c, the other of foreign policy—both requiring ceaseless watchfulness—both of vast interest at the present moment, the Convention adhere to the lessons taught by the founders of our Government, and recognize as their oracle, “ The Father of ins Country.” Every Administration should be held in strict accountability, in the expenditure ot public mon ey. for two sufficient, reasons : Economy tends to lighten the burthens of Government, always cheerfully borne by our patriotic people when reasonable and it fosters republican simplicity and purity." 3 Cheapness and simplicity in every Department are outward, visible tokens, distin guishing republican from regal sway. Their disappearance is an infallible symptom of degen eracy. The Federal domain is a source of vast na tional wealth, stimulating cupidity, and inciting to inequitable sectional demands.* The disposi tion of the public lands is therefore a subject of great magnitude, and present urgency. The new States, born, reared and established in ma turity upon them, assuming that propinquity gives preference, and connecting with their dis position “wild, reckless, and gigantic schemes of Internal Improvement,” are manifestly seeking to devote them to “the promotion of particular interests, rather than the general benefit of those who bear the burthen of taxation.” It may not be doubted that the elder States, uniting in kind, but firm resistance to this spirit of monopoly, will succeed in awakening in their younger sis ters, a sense of justice, slumbering, but not ex- tinct. The effort to adjust fairly, and without m commotion, this growing controversy, would become their greater age, and more rratron- ly characteristics. But there are in it Elements of strife, dangerous in the hands ot demagogues —harmless under the control of conservative statesmen. £ Whilst the appointing power (involving the patronage of the Government,) should not be unreasonably trammelled, its exercise cannot more than that of any other political power, be freed from responsibility. If retnovals from of fice fall upon opponents of the ruling a Iminisfra tion, surely appointments may serve to indicate the friends of its adoption. Let not those who boldly avow removals for opinion’s sake, hope to escape inferences drawn from the known opinion and principles of their appointees to va cancies thus created. The prominence given by the Convention to the advancement of the “ social, moral and in tellectual interests” of the people of Georgia, commands my hearty approval. Here is open ed before us a field of action in which a well ' regulated ambition may find ample incentive, and the most towering intellect, abundant em ployment. It is with me, no new opinion, that we have all greatly erred in chaining State in tereits to the car of national politics, though per haps any attempt to break a connection, to which the public mind has become habituated, may appear Utopian. If they be absolutely in separable, whilst, as patriots, we may not be in different to the latter, we may, at least, find in the lull of the tempest that has recently swept over the land, a fit interval for increased devotion to the former. In accepting the nomination tendered me, I cannot refrain the expression of unfeigned regret, that an abler representative of the principles with which we go before the People, had not ! been selected. I take courage, however, in the consciousness that they command my heart’s 1 warm devotion, and in the reflection that their devotee wrestles with a strength not his own. With those of my Fellow-Citizens, by whatever party designation heretofore known, or however, heretofore, differing upon questions that were, who acknowledged these principles, and are ready to do battle for their maintenance, I cheer fully mingle, for weal or for woe, my political fortunes. I tender you personally, gentlemen, my ac knowledgements, for the kind and flattering terms in which you have communicated with me. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Charles J. Jenkins. ] Messrs. R. Toombs, R. T. Davis. J. J. Word, Thos. W. Thomas, and J. Knowles, Commit tee, &c., &c. Robert M Hudson, Esq., has been elected J u dge of the Roanoke circuit in Virginia. i IFVom the N. O. Picayune, 10 th insf.] Later from California.—Arrival of the Steamer Philadelphia. The U. S. Mail steamship Philadelphia, J. P. McKinstry, U. S. Navy, commanding, arrived here at 8 p. m., last evening, from Aspinwall, with the California mails and passengers. The Columbus and Golden Gate reached Panama, respectively on the 27th and 29th ult., bringing 750 passengers, the mails, and $2,500,- 000 of gold dust on freight. The Philadelphia left Aspinwall on Sunday July 3. At 12 m. of the 4th exchanged colors with an American bark at anchor under the lee of Old Providence Island. The Tsthmus was healthy, and not a single case of sickness has occurred on board the Phil adelphia. At 4p. m., on the Bth, spoke the steamer Falcon. We have received our files of California pa pers to the 16th ult., from which we extract the following items : Messrs. Gwin and McCorkle, members of Congress, after exchanging three shots inef fectually with rifles at thirty paces, were recon ciled by the mediation of their seconds. Mr. John Nugent, of the San Francisco Herald, was badly wounded by Alderman Hayes, having suffered a compound fracture of the right arm. It is hoped that Mr. Nugent may escape the necessity of amputation. Dr. A. B. Crane, formerly of Louisiana, died on Saturday last, from the effects of a wound received the day previous in a duel with Mr. Edward Toby. Among the passengers by the Golden Gate was Col. Magruder,of the army'. The clipper-ship Carrier Pigeon, from Boston, went ashore on the night of June 7, about twen tv-five miles south of the Heads, below San Francisco. It is believed a part of her cargo will be saved, but the ship will be a total loss. The steamer Sea Bird, while assisting in re moving a portion of the cargo of the Carrier Pi geon, on the 11th ult., was driven ashore and beached. It is hoped that she may be got off, but at last advices it was not known with cer tainty. The Whig says that the winning nag. Lola Montcz has received a present of a $250 blanket, from the Countess of Lansfeldt, her distinguished namesake. According to a correspondent of the Stockton Republican, who writes from Monterey, there will shortly be added in record to the archives of San Joaquin county, a Haim almost rivalling the celebrated “Lemantour” affair. The claim ants are the heirs of Vosco Nunez de Balboa,” and will shortly be laid before the Commission ers. It lays in partin the Tulare Valley, and is said to embrace seven hundred leagues of land. A Chinaman, who had stolen four hundred dollars at Dry Town, was handed over to his own countrymen, who, after whipping him, un der pretext of taking him to San Francisco, took him aside and shot him through she head. A man named Collins died in Placerville last week, apparently in extreme poverty. He had evidently starved himself and declared he was penniless. On laying the body 7 out for inter ment, twenty-seven ounces of gold dust were found in his pocket. Trinity river (writes a correspondent of the Shasta Courier) is very high and dangerous to cross. Miners were doing better. On Sailor and Big Bars the diggings yield from six to eight dollars per day. The editor of the Nevada Journal has been shown a specimen taken recently from the New York Ravine, Middle Yuba, which weighed 1541 ounces and was valued at $2,000. The Sacramento Union learns from Texas Hill that a company located at the latter place, known by the name of the American River Company, and who had expended $70,000 in erecting machinery, constructing a railroad. &c., had been entirely dispossessed and driven off by a party of miners from Negro Bar. regardless of a previous recognition of claim made in favor of the company by the miners of the neighbor hood. A gentleman, residing fourteen miles east of Sonora, writes to the Sonora Hearld that the In dians in that neighborhood have become very troublesome from their repeated depredations on property. The writer enumerates repeated in stances of theft, and calls on the citizens for aid to chastise the offenders, who he says, number about 600. A member of Capt. Love’s company, who aie in search of Joaquin’s gang, reports He death of Major Harvy and Mr. Young. Their bodies were found on the trail between the San Joa quin and the Frezno. It is supposed that the murders were committed by Indians friendly to the late James Savage, who, it will be remem bered, was shot in an affray by Major Harvey. At Sacramento, on Thursday and Monday, the thermometer mounted as high as 102 degrees in the shade. The schooner Emma Parker, at San Francisco, from Tahiti, fell in with a wreck and took off a man found on board. The vessel resembled a Chinese junk, but the man did not at all resem ble a Chinaman, and speaks a jargon not under stood by any person who has attempted to con verse with him. Moreover, some small coin which he had about his person were such as were never seen before by any person on board He was entirely ignorant of the use of clothing and marveled much at every thing be saw on board i the vessel. He appeared to have no idea of a i chart or nautical instruments, and could convey no idea of how long he had been at sea. When found, he was a most pitiable object and was en tirely exhausted. Floating in the water of the hold were three bodies, one of them apparently a female. The stranger subsequently gave his rescuers to understand that, of the number who had perished, were his wife and child. He is thought to be a Japanese. Joaquin is still uncaptured, and all attempts to discover his hiding place have proved ineffec tual. From his not having been seen lately, it is supposed that he has escaped to Lower Cali fornia or Mexico. A well known member of his band, named Pedro, has been shot in a personal quarrel with a Spaniard, in Martinez Village, near Columbia. The French organ in California says: The story about the expeditionists being now fully organized, and on the point of taking ship for Guaymas, has perhaps very little foundation. It serves the purpose ot frightening the Mexi cans out of their wits, and thus keeps those very undesirable visitants—the Sonoranians—at home minding their own business. If the expedition ists have any serious intention of carrying their plan into execution they will keep their own counsel, and get away despite the vigilance of all the officials in California. From Panama. Highly Important from Bogota.— The Panama Herald of the 30th ult. says: Among the questions to be considered by the Congress, in extra session, is the proposed law relative to transit of specie across the Isthmus. According to the amended bill the Government is to have the power of charging from one to twelve rials per pound on all specie and treas ure guarded across, for which they propose to hold themselves responsible. The project, it is expected, will become a law. Later from Oregon. Dates have been received from Oregon to the Ist ult. : The Oregon Statesman announces the arrival of Gen. Lane at Portland on the 15th of May, together with twenty-nine members of his fam ily. His approach was announced by a salute from the shore of thirteen guns ; and on landing a large concourse of citizens, preceded by a band + TT’ escor ted him to the hotel, where quar ters had been prepared for him. Gen. Lane was qualified on the l6th of May as Governor of Oregon, and after transacting some executive business, he resigned his position on the ISth in consequence of the approaching election. He had been nominated while absent for re-election to Congress, and has reluctantly yielded to the wishes of the people, although personally greatly preferring the more retired position of Territorial Governor The election for delegate to Congress, and territorial officers was to come off in Orepnn the 6th of June. g ° n on The waters of the Columbia river are higher than last year, and much damage will be done to the crops in the lowlands. A company of ten persons were to leave Port land on the 3d inst., on a pleasure trip across the plains to “the States.” They expect to reach Salt Lake by the 3d of July. Ihe people of Oregon are expecting a large immigration this year. Several parties had ar rived at the falls at last accounts, having come this season from Salt Lake, and other places where they had wintered east of the mountains. Wilkesbarre. July 11. Murder. —A woman named Milhola Wiggins, was murdered by a man named Jas. Quinn, on board a canal boat, near this place. The mur derer made his escape. . Cattatitutiauttlist k % ejmiilir. AUGUSTA, GA FRIDAY MORNING JULY 15. FOR GOVERNOR, HON. HERSCHEI V. JOHNSON. Os Baldwin County. Mr. Jenkins’ Letter of Acceptance. Other topics have engaged our attention since this letter made its appearance, and we have postponed its publication till to-day, in order that we might accompany it with some comments its perusal suggests. The first feature to which we call attention, is the fact that, no where in this carefully-con cocted epistle does the word Whig appear.— With most elaborate and amusing caution is this name, so long endeared, with all its kindling as sociations, to the heart of a thorough-going par ty-man like Mr. Jenkins, now avoided by that gentleman—that word that was wont, like the bugle-blast to the warrior’s heart, to rouse up all the energy of his soul, and all the fire of his intellect, to do battle in its cause, is now “A word of fear, Unpleasing to an aspirant's ear.” Well may Mr. Jenkins apostrophize that long loved name, in the spirit of the disconsolate damsel, whom an unkind fate had severed for a time from him she adored, “ Oh no, I never mention it, That name is never hoard: My lips are now forbid to speak, That once familiar word.” Yet, who that has observed steadily the ca reer of the still .undemocratized Mr. Jenkins' can doubt that the forbidden name Whig, is still as dear to his heart, as was the forbidden name of her lover, to the heart of the plaintive maiden? We will, therefore, pursue in the striking analogy and slightly paraphrase a few lines more of the song to fit this pathetic passage in the life es the Whig candidate, whose political attachments are placed by cruel policy under such painful re straint : “They bid me seek, in chango of scene, The charms that others see;” But the National Whig Party Alone hath charms for mo. From Whig to Union they hurry mo, To banish my regret; But had they loved, as I have loved, They never could forget. Constancy in political attachments deliber ately formed and cherished for years, is usually rather more fixed and reliable than in hearts wooing, yet unwedded, swayed by sentimental impulses, and recognizing no law of reason or judgment to direct its caprices. With the latter, trifles light as air, a sneer, a look, “A word unkind, or wrongly taken,” will dispel fanciful visions of enchantment, to be followed soon by others as beautiful as unreal and as evanescent. But not so the political attachments of strong-minded politicians. Not so with Mr. Jenkins. His heart still turns as fondly to national Whiggery, we doubt not, as in the palmy days of its triumph under Harrison —its gallant struggles for power under the chiv alrous Clay. Indeed, no farther back than last Summer, we find the Whig heart of Mr. Jenkins unfaltering in its devotion to the Whig party, and yearning to embrace the object of its affection. Nothing prevented but antipathy to Gen. Scott, as the standard-bearer of the Whig party. He said— (July 1, 1852) — he felt a stronger desire than ev er before to adhere to the National Whig party. Why then did Mr. Jenkins so studiously ex clude the word V/kig from his letter of accept ance? The answer is that the word might shock the conscientious sensibilities of such De mocrats as prejudice, and passion, and selfish as pirations for office might attract to the Whig party, but whose convictions of the untrust worthiness of the Whig party were still un shaken. It was therefore desirable that some pretext should be furnished the new recruits un der the Whig banner for turning their backs on their old party. The letter is consequently interlarded freely with such terms as conserva tive. union , republican. But. like the cat in the meal tub. the term Whig is kept out of sight. Last summer, however, Mr. Jenkins recom mended the dissolution of the Union party of Georgia. He said, 11 now that both the national parties have fully reorganized and adopted the platform of that party. I think it would not only be consistent with its past course , but promotive of THE END OF ITS FORMATION TO DISSOLVE IT. What reason is thore for one who thus spoke one year ago, to take back an opinion thus deliberately given? Is there any other but that the result of the elections last year de monstrated the necessity of some device to win votes from the Democrats in order io give the Whig party a chance again to rally? Mr. Jenkins last summer said : “ Under existing circumstances, I would not ask my Democratic Union friends to abandon their former allies, nor am I at all disposed to separate from mine. There is no reason to suppose that they have conceived a new attachment to the Whig party, and upon the closest self-examination, I do not perceive that I am at all democratized. I see no reason why we should not separate,” &c. But now that Mr. Jenkins is a candidate for Governor, he sees a very good reason why his Union Democratic friends should not separate from him; and he writes an ingenious letter, every sentence of which is in effect asking his Union Democratic friends to abandon their form er allies and vote for him. Last summer ho thought it unreasonable to make such a request —perhaps he thought it would be asking them to do a thing which was dishonorable, as he could not with all his ingenuity imagine any good reason for their doing so. They will generally take the same view of the case now. Mr. Jenkins, spunges adroitly upon the Dem ocratic creed, in order to make his letter palata ble to the Democrats, he seeks to win back. He speaks in a style,vaguely reminding us of his Nul lification days of 1832—’3, about the soveregnity of the States, and about the dangers of consoli dation, and of an all-controlling central power. But he avoids any recognition, express or im plied, of the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions. He is now too much of a national Whig for that. In fact, Mr. Jenkins’ tendencies have all been to consolidation, since his abondonment of State Rights principles, to become a national Whig. He speaks of the propriety of avoiding entangling alliances with foreign nations, and of non-intervention in their w'ars and quarrels. This is all very well said. It is a policy, well recognized by every Democratic administration, and ro intention or desire,is manifested by the present one, to depart from it. It is somewhat amusing, to read the homilies of a Whig about economy in the public expendi tures, and holding administrations to strict ac countability. All this is Democratic thunder, launched time and again against the wasteful prodigality of Whig administrations. They come rather out of time. Why did not Mr. Jenkins talk this way when Tom Corwin was at the head of the Federal Treasury, This name, Corwin, is suggestive <sf another topic of the letter; and in close association with it, that of Jacob Collamer. These men were Free Soilers, nay, they were Abolitionists, as we of the South classifiy Northern haters of slavery. These men were of the Giddings, Slad* i Tuck, Adams and Hale school of anti-slavery. They thought alike, spoke alike and voted alike. Yet, these men, Corwin and Collamer, held offices—Cabinet offices-—under Whig adminis trations. Where then slept the thunders of Mr. Jenkins’ denunciations? Ah ! Free Soilers, bol ding office under Whig administrations, was no cause of alarm or annoyance to Mr. Jenkins. — Indeed even the author of the Erie abolition let ter, was in his view, a model conservative for President. Mr. Jenkins has brought to light an opinion which it seems was not a new one with him, but which since he dropped his nullification and secession notions, he has allowed to lie dormant and perdu. This is. that we have all greatly erred in chaining State interests to the car of national politics. What a pity for the consistency of Mr. Jen kins, and for the hope of retrieving State inter erests from the maelstrom of centralization to which national Whiggery tends, that he aban doned the position assumed by him in Decem ber, 1839 at Milledgeville, where a caucus of the State Rights party of Georgia, of which Mr. Jenkins was a member, declared that neither Martin Van Buren nor Wm. H. Harrison were worthy of the support of that party for the Presidency, and it therefore nominated George M. Troup as its candidate. How soon there after did Mr. Jenkins assist to hitch Georgia to the car of national politics. In the April following, Mr. Jenkins helped to hitch the State Rights party of Georgia to the car of na tional Whiggery, abandoning its name, and as results proved, sacrificing its State Rights prin ciples for the interests of the national Whig party. It would seem rather a Utopian idea that Mr. Jenkins or his party should now desire to break a connection with a party which last summer he declared that he felt a stronger desire to adhere to than ever. The Richmond Times, a Whig paper, as do all other Whigs, understands the game about being played in Georgia, and thus frankly expresses his hopes: The “ Conservative Men of Georgia,” or in other words the W higs and a portion of the Union Democrats, held a State Convention on the 22d inst., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Governor. * * * We are glad to perceive that there is a fair prospect of re-or ganizing the Whigs in Georgia, but such has been the distracted condition of the party in that State for several years that the election of Mr. Jenkins can hardly be expected. We have no doubt, however, that his nomination will contribute much towards re-uniting the scatter ed elements of the once powerful Whig organiza tion of Georgia. If Democrats and the supporters of President Pierce’s administration conclude to assist in this reorganization, they will do so with their eyes open. They neither deceive themselves, nor their former allies. New Books. We have received from the publishers, Messrs, Harper & Brothees, the following: A Second Book in Latin, containing syntax, and reading lessons in Prose. By John Mc- Clintock, D. D. Hoiie Pictures, by Mrs. Denison. The most popular of these stories, now given to the pub lic in a neat volume, duodecimo, appeared originally in the Olive Branch, of Boston, Mass The Boyhood of Great Men. 1 vol., 12 mo This volume contains brief notices of Napole on. Sir 1 alter Scott, Canning, Mclntosh. Lord Jeffrey, Dr. Johnson, &c., comprising distin guished statesmen, poets, warriors, critics, &c. For Sale by Richards & Son. Domestic troubles in the Imperial Fami ly.—A good deal of gossip, says a Paris letter has been going on in Paris during the last few | days, respecting a supposed attempt of the fair i Eugenie to pay a clandestine visit to her dear native land across the Pyrenees. It seems that I the Imperial lady has for a considerable time been unwell, and feels but little relish for the gene of a court life, in consequence ot which she pe titioned her royal husband for leave of absence, a request that was at once refused in no very courteous terms. The Spanish wife, however, was not, it appears, to be thus baulked ; and so, what she could not gain by the good will of the Emperor, she sought to obtain by secret contri vance, in connection with one of the ladies about her person. The scheme, however, by some means or other, oozed out; and the re sult has been that effectual means are taken to prevent the imprisoned bird from tasting the sweets of liberty and inhaling the fragrant breezes of her native Spain. Poor Louis Na poleon—this is the worst blow ot all—quite a home thrust—and if domestic troubles be ad ded to his already great political annoyances, it will be difficult to say what will be the result either to himself or the country he governs. Faith, he may echo the words of Shakspeare’s Henry VI., “ Oh heavy lies the head that wears a crown !” The Caloric Engine. —Captain Ericsson has finished a beautiful little model of his “ caloric engine” for exhibition at the Crystal Palace. A caloric engine of sixty horse power, fitted up to drive the machinery of Messrs. Hogg & De lamater’s Foundry, New York, will be thrown open to public inspection duiing the continuance of the Industrial exhibition. In relation to the present condition of the caloric ship, the N. Y. Times says: Rapid progress is made in constructing the new cylinders for the ship Ericsson, and we learn that she will be brought round from Williams burg, to the foot of West Thirteenth street early next week, to receive her new machinery. The statement made in the papers, some time since, that her engines had been entirely taken out, was quite incorrect. Nothing whatever was removed but the cylinders. The ship will also be thrown open to the public during the early part of the Crystal Palace Exhibition. The Havre papers state that the Caloric Engine sent out by the Humboldt, some weeks since, had been set to work, and that the French Govern ment had sent down a Commission to examine and report upon it. Captain Ericsson, we un derstand, sends out by the steamer Baltic, on Saturday next, a working model of the Caloric Engine, for use in the lecture room of the Socie ty of Civil Engineers in London. A novel funeral procession might have been witnessed in Petersburg, Virginia, a few days since. A negro drayman, having been accident ally drowned, was escorted to his last resting place by all the draymen of the Cockade city. The horses he had driven during his sojourn on earth, were led by the groom immediately be hind the hearse, and followed up by the princi pal mourners mounted on a dray. These, in their turn were succeeded by something like one hundred drays, and drawn by two horses, mak ing in all a cavalcade nearly a mile long. From a letter addressed to the editors of the National Intelligencer, we learn that in the sev en wards of Washington, the building of 310 houses was commenced within the half year ending June 30,1853, of which 210 are wood, and 100 brick. The total number of houses is estimated a s 8,021, and the population at about 50,551. The President in Baltimore. The President of the United States, accompa nied by several of the Heads of Departments,ar rived at Baltimore on the 11th inst., on his way to the World’s Fair. He met with a warm re ception, from the military and citizens of that city, and on reaching the City Hotel, was receiv ed by A. L. Barnum, Esq., and ushered into a private parlor, where he partook of slight re freshment. He was received by Hon. John Smith Hollis, the Mayor of Baltimore, who wel comed him to the city, in a few pleasant re marks, to which the President replied, and was frequently interrupted by the cheers of the crowd. He was to have left on the morning of the 12th, for Philadelphia. New Bouts. We call the attention of travellers to the ad vertisement of the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad,to be found in another column. There are now, we suppose, about 25 or 30 miles only of stage travelling on this route, which will be gradually becoming less. The road is in very fine condition, and the running time good. Banquet to the Foreign Commissioners.— On the 15th, the day after the opening of the World’s Exhibition at the Crystal Palace.a ban quet will be given by the Association to the for eign commissioners, Lord Ellesmere and others, who have crossed the Atlantic, to be present at the opening. At an election for President and Directors of the Alabama and Georgia Railroad Company, held at Jacksonville, Ladiga.and Hurrican Creek, on Saturday the 2d day of July, inst., the fol lowing named gentlemen w r ere elected : G. C. Whatley, President ; M. W. Abernathy, Wm. Scott, J. R. Graham, J. F. Grant, W. Bil lingsley, Edmund Roberts, Directors. Nails Growing in the Flesh. —A late writer in the Ohio Cultivator gives the follow ing remedy : “Cut a notch in the middle ot the nail every time the nail is pared. The disposition to close the notch draws the nail from the sides. It cured mine after I had suffered weeks with its fes tering.” Withdrawal of the Conway. —lntelligence has been received at the Postoffice Department that the British mail steamer Conway has sus pended her trips between Savannah and Kings ston. All correspondence to the West Indies, hereafter, will be carried to Havana by the steamship Isabel, from Charleston and Savannah and by the mail steamers from New York. [Correspondence of Constitutionalist cV Republic.] Crops, &c. Warrenton, July 13,1353. Mr. Gardner: —As a short letter from War renton may not be uninteresting to your readers at this time, I propose furnishing them there with to aid in removing the panic from the pub lic mind in relation to the growing crops. Our Wheat crops have now all been threshed,, and a larger yield has rarely been known by the oldest planters. The Oat crop failed to reach its usual height, yet enough has been saved to secure seed, and the Oat fields furnish good pastures for our stock, and enables our planters to save their old am ; a larger quantity of which article has never been known in our county, at this time of the year, as the most of our planters have now on hand a sufficiency to supply their wants until the beginning of the new year. Indeed if this were not so, the indications of the present crops and seasons are such now, as to authorise the opinion that Warren county will export rather than import corn for the incoming year. We shall at least make a plenty to serve all our people bountifully. The seasons are good, gene rally, in the county, and have been for several days past. As to our Cotton crop, the appear ances are unfavorable now, in fact the stand of Cotton is too bad to make more than two-thirds ot a crop, let both the season and fall be favora ble. As to our candidate for Governor, Judge John son, he has been long and favorably known to our people; in fact, h : s earliest and most pleasant recollections are associated with his school-boy days at an old field school in Warren, known as Moneghan’s Academy. Many of the boys of that school are now men among us, and though heretofore, politically opposed to him, will sup port him for Governor. We have many candidates for legislative hon ors. They all cannot be elected, of which I feel truly sorry, as they have had the manliness to come out independent of party cliques, caucusses, or nominations, and the most of them are both worthy and well qualified. Why do our candidates for Governor not send out their appointments and canvass the State? The Democracy certain ly can lose nothing by it, and I should like to see our old field school-boy handle the illustrious Jenkins, as their newspaper editors call him. Very respectfully, &c. Mallorysville, Wilkes co., July 7,1853. Mr. Gardner— Dear Sir : After the period of 11 weeksdrought, we have had several'refreshing showers, which seem to revive the crops very much indeed. We have thousands of bushels of corn in this and the adjoining counties that will not make one single ear. There are fields from fifty to two hundred acres that will make but very little more than seed. Starvation seems to stare us in the face, while we have been blessed with plenty ever since our infancy. So far as I can hear, from good authority, the drought extends beyond Greenville, North Carolina, and generally throughout this State— how much farther I cannot tell. Dear Sir, I have also noticed your paper in relation to the Liquor Law, and my views cor respond with yours exactly. lam a temperance man from beginning to end, and may God speed with rapid wheels the glorious temperance cause. lam a regular subscriber to your week ly sheet, and so long as I am as well pleased with it as I am at present, I shall be one of the last to have it stopped, even if my views did not correspond with yours, as some zealuous persons have done, because they did not agree with you upon the liquor question. And what is the liquor question ? A mere squall. Our laws are strict enough upon the question, and if they werelonly carried out there would be no use for legislating upon the subject. Yours, &c. A letter from Gainesville, dated the 12th inst., says “ It has been very dry here for two months. We are now having a fine rain ; we also had a light shower yesterday.” Since Tour last, rains have been passing about and we suppose every body have received a supply of this indispensable article. Since Thursday the weather has been quite warm. On Sunday evening at 4 o’clock P. M. the Mercury stood at 92. It was so warm in our office that a composition roller which had been in use two weeks, was melted ; and we are com pelled to work off the inside of our paper with an old one.— Thomasvile Watchman , 12 th inst. Shooting Affair. — A rencounter between John T. Simmons and Grtsen Thompson, occur red on Wednesday night last, by which the lat ter received two pistol shots ; one taking effect in the right breast and the other in the left arm We learn that neither wound is considered very dangerous and that Mr. Thompson will be able to resume business in a few days. We have not been able to gather all the particulars con nected with the difficulty, and as the matter may undergo legal investigation, forbear* further remarks at present.— lb. BY TELEGRAPH. Reported for the Constitutionalist it Republic* Charleston, July 14, p. m. Cotton.— The sales of the week amount to 1,600 bales, at prices ranging from 8J to 11J cents. The market has undergone no change. Middling is quoted at 11 cents. Receipts ot the week, exclusive of that on shipboard 18,966 bales. New York, July 11. Cotton —The sales on Monday and Tuesday amounted to 4.000 bales, at steady prices. Tobacco.—4oo hhds. were sold to-day, at firm prices. Flour. —Market active. St, Louis s4}. The bark Cherokee and schr. J. W. Minor, have arrived at this port, both from New Yoik. New Orleans, July 14, p. m. Cotton. —The sales to-day (Thursday) barely reached 200 bales. Middling is quoted at 10£ cents. The Arabria’s news came to hand at noon. The stock of Cotton at this port is re duced to 42,000 bales. Boston, July 10. Arrest for Passing Counter feit Money.- Henry Maxey, a young man who reports himself as being recently from New York, has been arrest ed in this city, charged with extensive counter feit money operations at the South and West. Philadelphia, July 11. Destructive Storm. —A severe sto: m visited Cape Island on yesterday afternoon, commen cing with a heavy blow that rippe d off 250 feet of the root of the new Mount Vernon House. The kitchen and roof of the principal wing were also crushed in. Rain subsequently fell, delu ging the portion of the house unroofed, and dama ging the plastering. Cincinnati, July 10. Railroad Accident — The Forgery Case. —The Cincinnati train on the Hamilton Railroad ran into a milk wagon near this city, yesterday, and killed the driver instantly. His body was fright fully mangled. Judge Flinn heard the motion, yesterday, for a new trial in the case of Kissaine, convicted of forgery recently. The decision was reversed.— Findley, who was also connected with the same, and fled, is still at large. To the Voters of the SixtCa ngressional District. Fellow-Citizens :—ln the exercise of a right which, under our happy Government, is common to us all, and in deference to the wish es and solicitations of numerous friends, I have determined to announce myself as a candidate to represent you in the ensuing Congress. To those of you who are personally unacquainted with me, it is right and proper that I should submit a brief exposition of my political views and principles. Tho-e who know me best, will testify that no holds in greater abhor rence than I do, disguise, concealment and eva sion. The questions most likely to override all others in the next Congress, are Internal Im provements, and the disposition of the Public Lands. Whilst lam behind no man in my ad vocacy of Internal improvement of every de scription and degree, w’hen undertaken and exe cuted by individual enterprise or private compa nies, I never could see any warrant in the Con stitution for those which are local in their char acter, and therefore partial in their benefits. The necessary effect of such a system, is to build up and enrich one section of the Union at the expense of the other. All works, however, which are strictly national in their character and design, and which promise to diffuse bene fits through the entire Union, are in my judg ment, entitled to the fostering care of the Gen eral Government. In this class I reckon the proposed Railroad to the Pacific. Its magnitude is such that it cannot be compassed by individ ual enterprise or the resources of seperate States. This great National work will receive my warm support, believing the enhanced value of the Public Lands through which it would pass would more than build the Road. As regards the Public Lands, my opinion al ways has been that they were the joint proper ty of all the States, and the old States has as good a title to them as the new*. The claim set up by the new Stales to a monopoly of these lands has no foundation in reason or justice, is wholly inadmissible and should, not be submitted to. T1 e fairest and most equitable disposition would be to distribute the proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands equally amongst the several States. The amount thus received by each Slate should be set apart and sacredly preserved, as a fund for the education of poor children. I conceive it to be the highest duty and chief con cern of every free government to make ample provision for the instruction of the youth of both sexes. When good schools shall be established and supported at the public expense in every neighborhood throughout th« land, the surest means will then have been adopted for the pre servation of our freedom, and the perpetuity of our noble institutions. So far as concerns par ty divisions, National and State, which now ex- i t, I will say, whilst I appiove of Gen. Pierce’s Inaugural address, I unhesitatingly condemn .his appointments of Free-Soilers to office. I shall wear no man’s collar nor cling with blind ser-vil ity to anv party, right or wrong. My motto always has been, my country first, my country last, my country all the time. The party that shall prove itself most intent upon the advancement of the best interests of the people and solicitous to preserve this glori ous Union, shall be my party—of such party, I will be found an active and zealous, if not an efficient member. Whilst I have great respect for the opinions of others, I am so constituted, as many of you know, that I invariably, on all subjects, think, speak and act for myself. 1 would judge the present administration by its acts , cordially supoorting those that I approved, and unhesitatingly opposing whatsoever I be lieved to be counter to the welfare of the people. On all occasions, my action will be such as be comes a firm, fearless and independent Repre sentative of enlightened and patriotic constitu ents. The resolutions adopted by the late Union Convention, held at Milledgville, have my full and unqualified assent, and the distinguished nominee of that Convention, Mr. C. J. Jenkins, will receive my zealous and unwavering support. I have thus, fellow-citizens, ir, my feeble way, given you an abstract of my views and opinions. I am no orator, nor am I a professed politician : I am one of the people, identified w'ith them in feeling and interest. Like a large majority of yourselves, lam a working man. I make no pretensions to eloquence. There are already too many speakers in our legislative assemblies. — The country needs more in the National Coun cils, who will act, despatch the business, come home and save an. unnecessary expenditure of money. Towards my worthy competitors, I cherish none other than the kindest feelings and highest respect,—whilst our views of public pol icy are radically dissimilar, the friendliest per sonal relations exist between us. But, Fellow citizens, this address is already extended to a greater length than was intended. Should you honor me by electing me your Representative, no man could be more grateful for, or more high ly appreciate, the honor, and it will be my sole aim to justify your confidence by an assiduous and unremitting devotion to the duties of my station. with the highest respect, Your Fellow-citizen. WM. M. MORTON. Notwithstanding the long drought we have had until about a week since, the good seasons we have since enjoyed, except in a few localities, have greatly improved the prospects for crops in this section, and we are inclined to the opin ion that they will be much better than anticipa ted. The general average will, we believe, be more than half a crop.— Jacksonville (Ala.) Sun ny South , 12 th inst. Dining Service for the President’s House. —A beautiful breakfast, dinner, dessert and tea service, of American porcelain, has just been finished in New York for the President’s House. It includes handsomely engraved and richly cut table glass. The dining service num bers 450 pieces, and the glass 55 dozen. The whole cost is sl*soo. On Saturday, a young man who was tired of life, blew his brains out with a revolver, in Phil adelphia. His name, it is supposed, was Isaac Goodman. OLD BUILDING FOR SALE. THE BUILDING on Campbell /street be tween Broad and Reynolds, partially des-Miai troyed by fire, to bo taken from the premises.— For sale by GEO. W. LEWIS, jttly 13 No. 1 Warron Block. Commercial. Savannah Exports—July 12, Per schr. Cataract, for New York—s4o Upland Cotton, 300 bags Rice Flour, 186 hW Rosin, 415 Dry Hides, 6 bales Wool, 4 bales Deer Skins, 4 rolls Leather, 21 bales and 10 casks Mdze 6 tons Manufactured Iron, and a quantity of L um ’ ber. Per schr. J. F. Tobias, for Philadelphia—96 Oftn feet Lumber. ’ v Savannah Imports—July u. Per schr. Wm. Hone, from Havana— 202 hhd« 68 tierces and 22 bbls. Molasses, 3 Hordes ami Fruit and Segars. ’ uu Savannah, July 12, P. M— Cotton.— I The sale, are limited to 14 bales, 6 at 9} and 8 at 9) cents Market quiet. 4 S&iWfofl JntrUiflfitrr. ARRIVALS from charleston. Schr. J. P. Glover, Ogier, Providence. Schr. Ira Brewster, Williams, Wilmington, (N C ) cleared for charleston. Schr. Jane C. Patterson, Dole, at Philadelphia. sailed for charleston. Schr. Wandopasso, Eddy, from Warren, (R. I.) Charleston, July 14.—Arrived, steamship Pal. metto, Jackson, Baltimore; schrs. GardinePike 5 masted) Cranmer, New York; T. P. Alston Iforf land, Baltimore. Went to sea, barque Como, Smith, Boston; brie* Lancet. Blaisdell, Matanzas ; schr. J. H. Cooley 1 Patridge, a Northern port. Savannah, July 13 Arrived, U. S, M. steam ship Florida, Woodhull. New York; brig Josephus Wilson, Baltimore ; steamer Randolph, Johnson Augusta. Cleared, schrs. Cataract, Rice, New York; J. F. Tobias, Hand, Philadelphia. Likely Young Negroes at Private Sa'e AT 16 STATE-STREET, anti Hamburg. S. ('. Consisting of PLOUGH BOYS, FELLOWS, NURSES. SEAMSTRESSES. WASHERS AND IRONERS. CHAMBER MAIDS, Sec. We will continue to receive, throughout the season, fresh supplies of Negroes, of every description, both at our office in Charleston, and Ham burg. SPIRES & WILSON, Brokers and Commission Agents, No. 16 State-st., Charleston, feb 5 ts and Front-st. Hamburg, S. C. Tl, e Besl Hair Dye in Use. —A Chern cal Wonder. Interesting to all.— Gilman's Hair Dye has made its appoarance in our city, very much to the gratification of our young beaux who wear red mustachios. Gentlemen are now seen going into our hair dressing saloons with hair, whiskers, mustachios and eyebrows of all ima ginable colors, and in five minutes they will appear on the street having them entirely changed and decidedly improved by a lustrous black , obtained by using Gilman’s Dye. —Norfolk Herald. The above valuablo article is for sale by D. B. Plumb <fc Co., between U. S. Hotel and P. 0. corner; Philip A. Moise, 195 Broad street and the Druggist, every where. 13 july 15 A. Good Comparison.—Thioßov. Wil liain Roulatt, a well-known Methodist clergyman, residing at Naples, draws the following amusing but apt comparison, between Dr. M'Lane’s celebrated Vermifuge and a ferret:— ■* A ferret when placed at the entrance of a rat hole, enters the aperture, travels along the pas sage, seizes upon the rat, exterminates his existence and draws the animal’s defunct carcass to the light. And in like manner I have found Dr. M'Lanes American Vermifuge to operate upon worms, those dreadful and dangerous tormentors of children. This remedy, like the feret, enters the aperture of the month, travels down tho gullet, hunts round the stomach, lays hold of the worms, shakes the life out of the reptiles, sweeps clean their den, and carries their carcasses clear out of the system. This, least, has been the effect of tho Vermifuge upon my children.” A neighbor of Mr. Roulatt, Mr. John Briggs, adopts the simile of the reverend certifier, thus both giving their most unequivocal approval of this great specific, after having witnessed its opera tion upon their own children. Lot others try "it, and be satisfied. Soid by Haviland, Risley & Co., and Wm, H. Tutt, Augusta, Ga.; P. M. Cohen & Co., Charles ton. S. C.; Hill & Smith,'Athens, Ga.; E. C. Janes, Madison; A. A. Solomons; Savannah; and by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicine throughout the South. jnly 15 dl2c2 We seldom recommend n mauufac tured medicine, believing that, in most cases, nature herself perfects a euro more rapidly and effectually than can be accomplished by the vegetables end minerals of medical science. But in the matter o dyspepsia, thoro aro chTonic features about it, which, very often, defy all the ef forts of nature to create a healthy action of the dieo-tive organs, and it not unfrequently hap pens that thousands suffer for years, diseased both in body and in mind, from indigestion and its kin dred ills. To such, Hofiand’s German B tters, prepared by Dr C. M. Jackson, are truly a most valuablo preparation. It is a tonic medic ; ne, giv ing a healthy actiou to the stomach, and will be found highly servicablo at all seasons, but especial ly during the spring. Dyspepsia can only be cured by a patient perseverance in one course of treat ment ; and to all those suffering under this sad mal ady we would recommend an application to the depot of Hoofland’s German Bitters, 120 Arch street. Philadelphia.— Philadelphia Inquirer. july 9 dficl fcf'*~'T7a‘p--g5 H. G. Farrell's Arabian Liniment. — This celebrated medicine, skilfully composed as it is of the most healing balsams and penetrating oils, can never fail to cure almost eve ry affliction that could be alleviated by an exter nal remedy. Its superiority over all other Lini ments is proven by the miraculous cures it performs, and hy the great and constantly increasing de mand. There has been sold within the past -year more than THREE MILLIONS OF BOTTLES, and thero can he but few persons found who do not bestow upon it the highest praise for the rare virtues it possesses. Nothing, perhaps, since the creation of the world, has been so successful as an external remedy for all nervous diseases, as this wonderful curative. When applied, it instanta neously diffuses itself through the whole system, soothmg the irritated nerves, allaying tho most intense pains and creating a most delightful sensa sion. Read the following remarkable cure, which can be attested to by hundreds who wore fully ac quainted with the whole circumstance. Chronic Enlargement of the Tonsils. —My daughter, when six months old, was taken with a swelling in the tonsils, which grew larger and lar ger, till when six years old had great difficulty in swallowing her food. Every night watch was kept, fearing she would suffocate. The best doctors at tended her but could give no reliet. 1 took her to tho most eminent doctors in the East; they said there was no help for her but to outgrow it. With a sad heart I returned home with her, when she became so much worse that the doctors had to be called in again ; they decided that tho tonsils must be cut off, as the only means of giving relief. My wife would not consent to this, and she determined to try your Liniment, which gave relief tho very first application, and by a continued use she entire ly recovered. She is now ten years old and fleshy and healthy as could be desired. Your Liniment is also the best in use for sprains, bruises, cuts, burns, headache, etc., and it will remove the most severe pain in a few mutes. It also cured caked udder in my cow in a few days. George Ford. Peoria. March 20th 1849. Look out for Counterfeits. —Tho public are cau tioned against another counterfeit, which has late ly made its appearance, called W. B. Farrell’s Ara bian Liniment, the most dangerous of all the coun terfeits, because his having tho name of Farrell, many will buy it in good faith, without the knov - lodge that a counterfeit exists, and they will, per haps, only discover their error when the spurious nqjxture has wrought its evil effects. Tho genuine article is manufactured only by H. G. Farrell, sole inventor and proprietor, and whole sale druggist, No. 17 Main street, Peoria, Illinois, to whom all applications for Agencies must be ad dressed. Be sure you get it with the letters H. G. before Farrell’s, thus —H. G. FARRELL’S—and his signature on the wrapper, and all others are counterfeits. Sold by HAVILAND, RISLEY & CO.. Augusta, Ga.. and by regularly authorized agents throughout the United States. Price 25 and 50 cents, and $1 per bottle. Agents Wanted in every town, village and hamlet in the United States, in which one is not alroady established. Address H. G. Farrell as above, accompanied with good reference as to character, responsibility, &c. d&c4 j u 'yJL_ figir* —The Friends oi Col. WM. B. BOW* EN, will support him for Major Gene ral of the 4th Division, Georgia Militia, at the election to be held on the July, of inst lh o Division is composed of "Wilkes, Lincoln, Libert, Madison, Jackson and Franklin counties. ~ july 6 —- fit* Railroal, Augusta, Geo-. 21st May, 1853.—0 n and after Monday, 23d inst., a Passenger Train will m ’ daily, (Tuesday and Sunday excepted) at 8.4 U a. in., and Hamburg ‘at 5p- m.. until further notice. may 22 G. B- Lythgok, Gen 1. &up.