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Cattstiiutiaitafei K ftrfrahlir. BY JAMES GARDNER, JR. TEEMS: Dailypaper (if paid in advance)... .per annum. .$8 00 Tri-Weekly (if paid in advance) per annum.. 6 00 Weekly (if paid in advance) .per annum.. 200 Song to Kate. We find the following in the Burglington (Vt.) Sentinel, and feel pretty well assured that we do not err in attributing the authorship to John G. Saxe, the witty editor of that paper: My eyes! how I love you, You sweet little dove you— There’s no one above you. Most beautiful Kitty; So glossy your hair is— Like a sylph’s or a fairy’s, And your neck I declare is, Exquisitely pretty! Quite Grecian your nose is, And your cheeks are like ro£es — So delicious— o, M oses! Surpassingly sweet! Not the beauty of tulips, Nor the taste of mint juleps, Can compare with your two lips! Most beautiful Kate! Not the black eye of Juno, Nor Minerva’s of hlue, no, Nor Venus’s, you know, Can equal your own ' Oh, how mv heart pranoes And frolics and dances, When its radiant glances. Upon mo are thrown ' And now, dearest Kitty, It’s not very pretty — Indeed, it’s a pitty, To keep me in sorrow! So, if you'll but chime in, W.'ll have done with our rhyming,— Swap Cupid for Hymen, And be imi'-ned to morrow. f From the N. O Delta.] Cuba: Its Commercial and Military Importance to the United States. Mr J. S. Thrasher, of this city, offered certain resolutions in the Memphis Convention, with a view of directing attention to the commercial importance of the Island of Cuba. A sensitive prehension that the subject might be made to have a party tendency, and become a bone of angry dissension, prevented the consideration of Mr. Thrashers resolutions. He was therefore precluded from laying his views before that body. In justification and explanation of the resolutions presented by him, Mr Thrasher has written the following letter to Gen. Quitman, which commends itself to the earnest attention of the citizens of this Union. It presents, in a startling light, facts which are not generally known or appreciated, but which are of the greatest importance to the destinies of this Re public. Let them be carefully considered and stored away in the memories of our readers. Letter from J. S. Thrasher , Esq. New Orleans, June 20, 1853, Gen. John A. Quitman : Dear Sir—l had the honor ot presenting, at the late Memphis Convention, a series of reso lutions with the design of awakening public attention in the South and South-west to the important position and influence which the Is land of Cuba holds, and will ever continue to hold, as regards their commerce. Matters, deem ed to be of more importance, precluded the con sideration of these resolutions, and they were laid on the table. In presenting to your con sideration the following remarks on the subject. I am confident no apology is needed. That distinguished ability which you have shown in the military operations of our armies, will ap preciate the true value of the question in its military point of view : while the pure love of country, which has ever marked your career, will preclude your taking any other than a truly patriotic interest in it. The security and defence of commerce has ever been a matter of solicitude with commercial nations. Without going into history to demon strate this, we need only look to the policy that has so long marked the career of England. With a wise foresight, her statesmen have taken possession of many apparently isolated spots upon the face of the earth, until they have form ed a complete chain of fortresses, for the protec tion of her world-wide commerce. Santa Hele na and the Cape of Good Hope guard one route to the Indies, while the Falkland islands watch Cape Ho:n. Gibraltar, Malta and the lonian islands completely enchain the Mediterranean, and Aden, at the Straits of Babel-Mandel, com mands the entrance to the Red Sea, and that Toute to her possessions in the East. Her estab lishments in Australia rule the South Pacific, while Puget’s sound and the inlets North of it, give security to her commerce in the adjacent waters. Thus has she protection and refuge in every ocean, and a wise care seeks to increase the number of her commercial fortresses and the strength of their position. While such has been the course of our great commercial rival, a very different one has mark ed our policy. Our commerce abroad has beea left to look after itself, and any attempt to in culcate a prudential foresight in regard to our own coast, has been termed, in a spirit of oppro brium, “ filibustering.” Four States, —Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, with a large portion of Florida. —lie immediately upon the Gulf of Mexico, and have no other outlets for their products. According to the returns of the seventh census, these States produced in the year 1850. in round numbers, six hundred mil lion pounds of cotton, two hundred and fifty million bushels Indian corn, and incalculable amounts of other agricultural products, ali of which found their only markets for sale and sup ply on the Gulf of Mexico. \ Besides these five States, which be immedi ately upon the shore of that vast inland sea, there are nine others lying upon the waters that pour into it. These are lowa, Missouri and Arkansas, west of the “ Father of Waters,” and Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio. Kentucky and Tennessee, east of it; arid a large portion of tbeir countless produces follow the roiling wa ters to the Gulf. The grain and cotton of Ar kansas, the corn and minerals of Missouri and lowa, the grain and meats of Wisconsin, Indi ana, Illinois and Ohio, the tobacco and hemp of Kentucky and Tennessee, all find their most accessible and best market upon the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, and pour their agricultural wealth into the lap of New r Orleans, from whom they receive in return the varied products of every clime, to supply their necessities or to contribute to their comfort and luxury. The true value of this mighty commerce, which centres thus upon the American ranean, is beyond the power of enumeration. It is not to be counted by the number of bales, and boxes, and barrels which it show’s. Its true es timate is to be found in the labor of millions of American hands, upon which it confers a value —in the thousands upon thousands of American homes which it adorns with every luxury and grace, and the millions of American hearts to which it brings happiness and content. Yet this mighty trade is but the germ of future development. The surface of the Great Valley of the West is barely scratched, —not tilled by the plow. The fires of industry blaze only here and there at long distances; while, in many por tions of the country, the cleared spaces are still surrounded by vast tracts of forest, or of untilled lands When the advancing tide of population shall have in some degree filled the space eastot the Mississippi river, and extended itself over the vast tracts which lie west of that great stream, the mass of wealth that shall seek a market upon the shores of the Gulf of Mexico will be vastly increased. The States east of the great river may seek, by means of railway, a partial outlet upon the Atlantic shore ; but all beyond its western bank must follow the rolling tide down to its union with the ocean. Great as is the stream of wealth thus pouring into the Gulf ot Mexico, it is still further in creased by tributaries of unparalleled magnifi cence. The mines of Mexico keep up a silent but continued oufpoutingot the precious metals, which will be vastly increased when order shall have been restored in that distracted country. During the past year it is estimated that one hundred thousand passengers have gone to Cali fornia and an equal number returned, crossing the Isthmus routes of Nicaragua and Panama, and seventy millions of treasure have been brought over the same line of travel. The Isth mus of Tehuantepec, which will now soon be opened, will pour all this great trade and travel into the Gulf of Mexico. At the present time a large share of it passes through the southern portion of that Gulf. The peculiar character of the current* and prevailing winds in the Carrib- bean Sea, leave no exit for sailing vessels but through the Straight between Cuba and Cape Catoche and out through the Gulf Stream. When the Panama Railroad shall be finished, the trade of this South Pacific Ocean will be diverted through this channel. I have thus endeavored in a cursory manner, to sketch the immense traffic that concentrates within the Gulf of Mexico. History has taught us to exclaim with wonder at the rich trade of the East, and the mighty cities which it built up. The trade of the West is far more rich and has built, within half a century, more and migh tier cities, than was built by the trade of the East in twenty centuries. The magnificent re mains of Tyre and Sidon, of Alexandria and Ven ice, what are they when compared with the rich cities that republican labor has built in the Western World ? They were the fruits of cen turies—these of a few single years of republican toil and trade. To all this accumulation of the commerce of our Southern and Western States, there is but one outlet, and that is through the narrow strait between Cuba and Florida It must pass with in a few miles of Havana. Baron Humboldt, in a work on Cuba, written thirty years since, uses the following remarkable language : “ The political importance of the Island of Cuba is not comprised solely in its superficial extent, although this is double that of Hayti; neither in its maritime resources, and the nature of its population, composed three-fifths of free men ; but it is even more important through the advantages presented by the geographical posi tion of Havana The northern part of the sea of the Antilles, known under the name of the Gulf of Mexico, forms a circular inlet of more than one hundred and fifty leagues diameter —as it were a Mediterranean with two entrances, the coasts of which, from Cape Florida to Cape Catoche, in Yucatan, appertain exclusively, at the present time, to the Confederations of Mex ico and of North America. The Island of Cuba, or, more properly speaking, its coast, from Capp San Antonio to the Bay of Matanzas. re-ting on the entrances of the old channel, closes lhe Gulf of Mexico on the south east, leaving to that ocean current, known as the Gulf Stream, no other opening than on the south, a strait between Cape San Antonio and Cape Catoche, and on the north, the Bahama Channel, between Bahia Honda and the reels of Florida. “ Near the northern passages, exactly where, so to express it, a multitude of highways, that serve for the commerce of nations, cross each other, is set the beautiful city of Havana, strong by nature, but yet still more strongly fortified by art. The fleets irom that port, built, in part, of the cedar and mahogany of Cuba, can defend the entrance to the Mexican Mediterranean, and menace the opposite shores, as those from Cadiz can command the ocean near the columns of Hercules. The Gulf of Mexico, the ‘ Old Channel,’and that of Bahama, unite with each other under the meridian of Havana. The op posing currents and the violent agitations of the atmosphere, particularly at the opening of win ter, give to this po’nt, on the extreme limits of the Equinoxial Zone, a peculiar character.” Recognizing the very great importance of this passage, our Government is now fortifying, at a vast expense, the barren rocks of the Tortugas. Its closure, at any time, would produce incalcu lable damage to all the commercial and agricul tural interests ol the South and West, and disturb the commerce ctf the world. The possession of the island of Cuba by us, would secure us, for ever, against such a calamity,—would guarantee the security of our Southern coast, —would con fer upon us the dominion of those waters, —and, I might even say, in the words of Napoleon re garding Constantinople, “ the sovereignty of the world.” Several circumstances combine at this mo ment to drawn our attention to the present sit uation and probable future of the island that thus closes in the Gulf of Mexico and commands its outlet. Any change in her political condition must be of great importance to us. How soon such a change may occur, is the only point to be solved. The growing discontent among the inhabitants will produce, sooner or later, its na tural revolutionary fruits, if other circumstances do not torestall it; and the strength of the mo ther country is not sufficient to suffocate the flames of rebellion if they are once lighted. The army and navy that now hold the island in an involuntary vassalage, are supported entirely by revenues raised in Cuba, and it barely suffices for the exigencies of peace. Any commotion within her borders, however insignificant, would, in a great degree, dry up the sources of her pres ent revenues, and the Spanish power there would fall to pieces of its own weight. That such civil commotion must, sooner or later, take place, is evident to all who are in any way conversant with Cuba, and with the growing spirit of discontent among the Cubans. It is only a question of time. Our great commercial rival, England, has long endeavored to extend her influence over Cuba, and a very slight recurrence to the pages of his history will demonstrate that a spirit of intense selfishness, rather than of true philan thropy, has been her motive. The idea that she holds towards us any other feeling than one of desire to prevent, by all means the increase ol our physical power, and our commercial supre macy, will vanish when we remember her in trigues during the movement which resulted in the annexation of Texas. It is now many years since she obtained from Spain the establishment in Havana of a mixed Court or Justice, composed of ore Spanish and two English Commissioners, for the purpose of trying captured slave ships. For a long time she had been laboring at the Court of Spain to have the powers of these commissioners extend ed, so that they may go on the plantations arid inquire into the.right by which every negro is held in servitude. It is a well known fact that large numbers of negroes have been impor ted from Africa, with the open connivance of the Spanish authorities in Cuba, since the stip ulated extinction of the slave trade in 18il ; and the concession of this power of inquiry to the English Commissioners would cause a commo tion among the laborers, now held to involunta ry servitude, that would result in the decay ot industry ar.d value, the extinction ot commerce, and the overthrow ot the whites by a savage, intractable and indolent race—unless, indeed, they adopted that course whichdispair would in dicate. Yet England pursues her policy with characteristic tenacity. Any effort on the part of the Cubans to es tablish their independence, would naturally at tractthe sympathies and even the practical as sistance of the more enthusiastic part of our population. Any partial success of European intrigues to establish another free negro island in our vicinity, and so near our shores, would render necessary the physicial intervention of our Government. True wisdom should, there fore, urge us to solve this intricate problem be fore it becomes so entangled with other ques tions as to endanger greater and more material interests. It will not do for us to wait the de- j velopment of “ manifest destiny.” There is no destiny except as it is yrorked out by men. Others are up and doing. Such are a few of the reasons which led me to present this subject to the Convention at Mem phis, and which induce me to deem the acquisi tion of the Island ot Cuba important to the prop er protection of our constantly increasing com merce, and to the security of our Southern wa ters. I would uge its consideration upon the people and Government of our country as a question of national necessity, and of national supremacy. I have the honor to be, respectfully, Your very obedient servant, J. S. Thrasher. l£ On Monday afternoon last, we had a Rain that was a rain,” and as far as we can learn it extended all round in every direction in this section, gladdening the hearts of the “ righteous and unrighteous." It gave “ mother earth” and the growing crops a thorough soaking. It came too late, however, we fear, to be of much bene fit to forward corn. We understand that in some places, the ram was very heavy and wash ed the land considerably.— Newnan Banner 15th inst. Whig Ratification Meeting. —The Alge rine party of Floyd, after two weeks notice°in the Rome Courier and a good deal of drumming around by some of the leaders, succeeded, on Saturday last, in collecting together at the Court House, seventy-eight persons all told, thirty three of whom were Democrats, who merely went along to see the sport. The meeting was dry ; little enthusiasm prevailed.— Rome South erner, 14</t inst. New York, July 13. Large Fire. —A fire occurred last night in Newark, New Jersey, which destsoyed Ripley’s Planing Mill—loss SIOO,OOO. Also, Bowen’s lumber yard—loss $20,000, and an extensive trunk factory—loss $15,000. Only a small in surance. [From the N. O Picayune , 12th inst.] Fifteen Days Later from Mexico Arrival of the Steamship Texas. The U. S. Mail steamship Texas, Capt. Place, arrived yesterday afternoon from Vera Cruz, which port she left on the Bth inst. She brings $llB,lOO in specie. We have received by the Texas full files of our Mexican exchanges to the 4th inst. from the city of Mexico and the Bth from Vera Cruz, from which we translate the following items: Gen. Santa Anna had taken up his residence at the village of Tacubaya, where he had de clared his intention of passing the summer. A telegraph was to be put up immediately from that place to the capital. she Mesilla affair is far from being settled, Senor Salazar, the Mexican Boundary Commis sioner, had made a report on the question to the Government, which the Mexican papers sustain, and proves the undeniable right of Mexico to the territory in dispute, and which takes the ground that the agreement of the boundary com missioners has the same force that the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo has. Senor Salazar is so convinced of the justice of the claims of Mexico that he protests against the Government ceding to the demand of Gov. Lane, and declares that if it does he will resign rather than subscribe to an arrangement so humiliating and unjust to Mex ico. The Mexican press complains of the dis cordance between the tone of the Washington Union, as the organ of the American Govern ment. and the assurances of Judge Conkling that Gov. Lane’s coiuse would not be sustained. The Eco del Comercio of Yera Cruz, a most decided Santa Anna paper, says : “ The valley of Mesilla has no importance whatever; its assumed advantages for a railroad route to the Pacific have been proved false, it has no mineral, nor agricultural, nor industrial value. The determination, therefore, to usurp it is sustained for the purpose of creating differ ences, of provoking strife and involving us in a new war. “The Mood boils in our veifis at this flagrant and criminal transgression of the laws of society. If we are destined by providence to be the vic tim of American ambition, let our destiny be fulfilled, for it is a thousand times better to per ish in unequal combat than to bear such insults.” Don Ratael, late editor of the Universal has been appointed Consul at New Orleans for the Mexican Republic, with $1,500 salary. The Siglo Diezry News says the publication of the new tariff had caused very little alteration in the prices of foreign goods, but that the new law of Alcabala had greatly increased the prices of those articles upon which it bore. In consequence of the intercession of the gene rals, chiefs and of the garrison, the Pres ident has granted an amnesty to the officers who surrendered voluntarily to the invading army in 1846, ’47. and ’4B, but orders that they shall all serve in the army on the northern fron tiers. The steamer Santa Anna had made her first trip on the lakes as far as Mexicalcingo. The law of 1824, prohibiting any innovation in the revenues of the clergy, has been re-estab lished. A series of regulations for the preservation of the road from Perote to Yera Cruz has been issued. In Yera Cruz the sale of fruit has been pro hibited, in consequence of the prevalence of yel low fever and cholera. It was said that the cholera had broken out in Jalapa, but the rumor was subsequently denied. Dysentery was very prevalent there. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec has been creat ed a territory, and Minatitlan declared its capital. In the official decree the boundaries are laid down in accordance with the map of Major Barnard’s survey as being the best of that coun ty- m The civil war in Riiapas still continues. The Guatemala journals state that in consequence thereof, more than 3,000 persons, comprising the entire population of several towns, had crossed the boundary into that county, and that they were in the greatest want and misery. Notwithstanding that the time for the con scription was so near, forced levies still contin ued. One of the papers state that several of the parties lately brought into the capital comprised many who were so weak and sickly that they were refused admission to the army, and were left to starve without means to return to their homes. Several suicides of soldiers are report ed. The Indians still continue to ravage the States of Sonora and Durango. An exchange of pris oners had been agreed to by one of the Apache chiefs, and in consequence thereof, he had given a respite to the town of Fronteras, which he had been menacing. The mril to Chihuahua had been cut off, and the carrier murdered. An offi cer reports town Durango a valiant affair which he bad with some Indians, but from his account all he did was “to save his troops,” which he did by running. Several of his men and the officer in command, were killed by the Indians. The Governor of Durango had called a junta of the principal citizens to devise means of de fense.” [From the Chronicle fy Sentinel.] To the Voters of Elbert County. Fellow Citizens :—Through the medium of the public press, I am requested to answer the following questions: First.—Do you believe the people of this State have the right to control the retail traffic in spir ituous liquors within their respective Militia Districts as they may think proper ? Second.—Are you in favor of their enjoying that right ? The intemperate use of spirituous liquors, is an evil in our country of no common magnitude, and the retail tiaffie, legalized as it is, has pro duced and spread upon the land much woe and misery. It is a fact not to be disguised, that al most all the quarrels, fights, mobs, riots and crimes may be traced back, as having their origin in intemperance It is a well established fact that almost all the poverty, and want, and suf fering, and beggery can be traced to the same origin. By intemperance thousands of children are made sufferers, and thousands of wives are made homeless and houseless widows. It is in temperance that ha- filled our prison houses with '’’•miinaU, and the condemned culprit, under the "allows, is made to confess that drunkenness brought him there. The philanthropist has a wide field, and a mighty subject, and all must feel the majesty of an effort, to curtail the influ ence and retard the progress of this evil. In our State that effort has been made,and success marks its progress. Moral suasion has accomplished a great work, aud if permitted to proceed, will produce fruits far more lasting, permanent and substantial than any law you can place on your statute books. Moral suasion has produced a mighty revolution in the public mind, and pa tience and the continuing in a good cause will bring about a State of things that will endure through all time, because truth, reason, virtue and intelligence lend their willing aid, to this glorious consummation. The advocates of Legislative action, might become apathetic in the great work of reform by the passage of the law they seek, believing that such a law would be a sufficient remedy for the disease; but no law can have a binding force, without an acquiescing people. The people in this free country are the source of the laws, and they must be satisfied that their in terest and the well-being of the country will be subserved by the enactment, or else it will re main on the statute book a dead letter. This is a moral question, and should not make one of the elements in politics, producing divi sions and schisms among the people, arraying neighbor against neighbor,and the friend of tem perance against the friend of temperance. The agitation of this question,in the way it is at pres ent presented to the public mind, will henceforth make an issue between all future candidates lor the suffrage of the people, for all the offices in their gift, whether high or low. You all know, that under great excitements, we are not apt to arrive at correct conclusions, and are sure to be come prejudiced, and throw ourselves upon ex tremes, which is well calculated to bring about a state of things more to be deplored, than the evil complained of, viz : the total and everlasting de feat of the object sought to be gained. I cannot see how the passage of such a law would di minish the amount of liquor consumed, or the evils of intemperance, for it only seeks to con trol the retail traffic, and those who know, or are familiar with what is called family groceries, are well satisfied that they afford as many faci hties for drinking and intemperance as retail houses. Such a law would not he general, but partial in its operation ; it would give to the license districts power to erect within their limits any quantity of houses, by placing them along the hne for the convenience of those districts that retused license, producing as much annoyance to the refusing as to the granting district The passage of such a law would erect, as it, were, a vast number of small republics within the State, having legislative powers on a given subject, and controlling it in different ways, thereby producing confusion, difficulties of vari ous sorts, and engendering lawsuits, and disturb ing the public tranquility, waving the constitu tional objection. But you will say that the retailer should not have all the power to deal death and destruction over the land. The retail traffic is now legal ized—repeal the law, and you may then reach the retailer, when it is proven to a court and jury that his traffic is a nuisance to the commu nity and people. The repeal of the law would place the retailer more on his guard, and give the injured citizens an opportunity to obtain re dress for the wrongs and injuries they may have sustained. And now, fellow-citizens, in closing these re marks, permit me to say in sincerity and truth, that I believe the agitation of this question, will do injury to the cause of temperance. It should not constitute an element in politics. You do it injustice when you give it that position. The plan for reforming mankind, from drunkenness was conceived in phylanthrophy. Conduct it in the same spirit, and you will receive a rich reward, and have accomplished more for man kind, than a volume of statutes, against the traffic- Wm. B White. Constitutionalist k iUpublir. AXHHJSTA,SZ SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 17. FOR GOVERNOR, HON. HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. Os Baldwin County. the temporary absence of the Ed itor, a friend will take charge ol the Political department of the paper. The Augusta Ice Company. This Company’s supply of Ice has given out as-usual, in the midst of the hot weather, or ratjier it has piven out earlier than usual; for hitherto the supply has at least lasted till the dog-days had fairly set in. Yesterday numerous applicants, tickets in hand, were at the Jackson-st. Ice House for Ice, induced to call by the morning’s advertisement. | But the supply had given out at an earlier hour. When will Augusta have an Ice Company j adequate to the emergency? We suggest the propriety of a new enterprize of that sort.— | Competition is the life of trade, and in this case | would be a public blessing. Savannah River Yallev Railroad. We learn from a friend that a very large meet : ing was held at Dorn’s mine, in Abbeville Dis i trict, South Carolina, on the 11th inst., at which books of subscription to the above Railroad were i opened. There were two to three thousand persons present. Os these, a large number were i ladies, who were there to cheer on the enter ! prize by their pleasing smiles. The meeting was organized by calling Col. I James Tompkins to the chair, and appointing Dr. T. F. Stephens, Secretary. Addresses were made by W. C. Morange, A. J. Hammond, Wi ley Harrison, and Mr. Floyd, agent of the New ; York Gold Mining Company. The addresses are highly spoken of by our informant, particu larly that of Mr. Floyd, which was of a practic al character, and to the point. Mr. Dorn, the gold mine millionaire, did not make a speech, but made a remark much to the point, which was that he would take SIOO,OOO of the Stock. Mr. Floyd, also, assured the meeting New York capitalists could be induced to take that amount or double it, if necessary, to secure the charter ; but he appealed to the self-interests and public I spirit of Carolinians, to keep the control of this j road in their own hands, as they were abund } antly able to do so. He furnished interesting statistics of the wealth of Abbeville and Edge | field Districts, taken from the census returns, | showing that they were not surpassed in wealth and resources by any two districts in South Car olina, Charleston District not excepted. A thunder and rain storm dispersed the crowd, and our informant did not learn the amount of stock subscribed. No doubt it will tell well for the success of the road. The subscription books, opened at Calhoun’s Mills and Lowndesville, we understand, exhibit a fair amount of stock taken. At Hamburg, we have already mentioned over seventy-five thou sand dollars have been subscribed, which amount will no doubt be doubled. It is reported the Bank of Hamburg has agreed to take $50,000 of the stock. The distance from Anderson C. H. to Ham burg, the proposed terminus of the road, is about i ninety-five miles, and the road will run through a region of country of a character well adapted for the enterprize, and of remarkable productive ness. Should this road ever be brought over to Augus ta, as it is the desire of many of its friends along the route, it would add greatly to the prosperity of this city, while it would give the planters on the South Carolina side convenient access to this, their favorite market. We hope the charter oi the Company may be so amended as to permit the crossing. Augus ta ought then, and probably would, subscribe largely to the road. The probability of the completion, at no dis tant day, of the Rabun Gap Railroad, from Knox ville, or some point on the East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad to Anderson Court House, adds greatly to the desirableness of this arrangement. Fine Corn. —On Thursday, the 7th, the edi tor of the Thomasville Watchman, paid a visit to the plantation of Col. Thomas Jones, on the Ocmulgee, in Thomas county, where he saw a field of corn, containing about one hundred acres, a portion of which he thinks will produce be tween fifty and sixty bushels of grain to the acre ; and if the season continues favorable he thinks the hundred acres will yield from three thousand five hundred to four thousand bushels. He passed through other fields which have been worked fifteen or twenty years, which he thinks will yield as many bushels to the acre, and that too without the use of manure. The rains throughout have been timely, and the season thus far otherwise favorable to the production of good crops. Banquet to President Pierce in Phila delphia.—After the reception of General in Philadelphia, on Tuesday—which all the pa pers of that city describe as hearty and enthu siastic—he paitook of a banquet given him by the city authorities at the Merchants’ Hotel. In response to a toast proposed by Mayor Gilpin, complimentary to the President, he replied as follows : Mr. Mayor and Fellow-Citizens :—As I have more than once had occasion to say to-day, I feel that you have overborne me by your kindness, and I wish to say that which I ought not to omit—to you, Mr. Mayor, and all who differ with me politically—that if in the changes and chances of life, my party shall be placed in a different position—that we may-have the grace to do the same thing that you are doing now— to give the same hearty welcome. (Cheers:) There are no circumstances in our political relations to show why you and I should not be the best of friends. (Cheers.) For instance, take our friend, Gen. Cadwalader. He is a whig —but when his country wanted his services— though surrounded by ample means and wealth, and all the comforts and luxuries of life—he marched to the field, and nobly fought his coun try’s battles—is he not a patriot ? (Cries of aye, and cheers.) Look, too, on another friend near me. (Gen-Patterson.) Did he not abandon his private interests and all endearments of home, and march to the field of battle ? (Cries of aye, and cheers.) I rejoice, then, in having two such men near me—one on my right and the other on my left, and you, sir, (addressing the Mayor,) to boot. Such meet ings merge party, and remind us all that we are Americans. (The President sat down amid enthusiastic cheers.) Speeches were also made by Secretaries Da vis and Guthrie, Attorney General Cushing, Hon. Jas. Buchanan, General Patterson, Mayor Gilpin, Col. Forney, Morton McMichael, Esq., and others. The banquet was a magnificent affair, and highly honorable to the authorities of Philadelphia, nearly all of whom are the politi cal opponents of the President. A Slander Branded. —The Boston Atlas puts forth the following : “The Washington Union. General Pierce’s or gan, reads the New York Evening Post and the Buffalo Republic out of the Democratic party be cause they are suspected ot free-soilism ; General Pierce appoints men to office because they are known to be free-soilers. The General should keep his wind instrument in better tune or dis cord will ensue.” It is unqualifiedly false that “General Pierce appoints men to office because they are known to be free-soilers and it is impossible that the Atlas could have been ignorant of the falsehood when it fabricated it. It is, therefore, a delib erate and unmitigated slander. We repeat w-hat we have said before—that General Pierce has appointed no man to office knowing or be'ieving him to be a free-soiler ; and he stands pledged to correct any such appointment into which he may have inadvertently fallen, when the fact of present free sojlism is fixed on any of the ap pointees.— Wash inst on Union. [From the Charleston Courier. | Irving Place, No.l. We invite attention to the subjoined letter, received by a friend, from a lady, in New York, relative to the new Private Hotel and Boarding House, recently opened in the Emnire City, by Madame Zsulavski Kossuth,sister of the Hunga rian patriot and exile, of the same name What ever difference of opinion may exist as to the great Magyar himself, there can be none as to his wonderful gifts of language and eloquence ; and as to the claim of his sister on the general sympathy and aid. in her honorable effort to prov’de, by her honorable exertions, a mainten ance for herself and family. Here is the let ter:— New York, June 15. My Dear Sir : —l do not know whether you at all my admiration and respect for the exile Kossuth, but I am very sure that you will feel great sympathy for the effort which his worthy sister is making to support herself and family ;an effort which I think only requires to be known to meet with abundant encourage ment. The facts are simply these : Last November, Madame Zsulavsky, having a family of five to maintain, opened a Boarding House in New York. She selected a new and beautiful house in an excellent neighborhood, (corner of Fourteenth-street and Irving Place,) furnished it in a style of simple elegance, and secured the aid of efficient servants. Through the winter and spring she did well, proving her self fully competent to the management of her establishment. Her table was excellent; the domestic regulations, marked by order and punc tuality ; and her boarders, with one accord, ex pressed their entire satisfaction in her arrange ments for their comfort. By her good manage ment, she not only carried on this expensive es tablishment, but was able to pay SISOO on debts incurred for furniture, &c. Now', however, during the summer months, New York is deserted by a large portion of its population, and those who receive boarders must depend, in a great measure, on their connections abroad, for support Madame Zsulavsky, a stranger, is without these connections, she has a rent of $2500, and corresponding expenses to meet, and her household has lately been in creased, by the arrival of her sister’s family, ot five. She will be most grateful for any notice which will call attention to her establishment, and thus enable her to maintain her family in honest independence. She will gladly receive transient as well as permanent boarders, and I feel sure that any of your citizens who visit New York this summer, could nowhere find a more convenient and elegant home, than with her, where the abundance of a regular hotel would be joined to the quiet comfort of a private house. It certainly would be a gratification to aid an accomplished and interesting woman in the hard struggle*for an independent life, and all those who have had the pleasure of Madame Zsulav sky’s acquaintance, who have seen how her heart is filled w’ith noble aspirations, though shaded by sorrow, for the fate of her country, and how quietly, yet firmly, she meets every diffi culty and every sorrow’, will feel it a duty, as well as a pleasure, to rid the courageous mother, and the noble exile. * * * 1 From the Georgia Banner.\ Statistics of Ooweta. Coweta County, July 12, 1853. Mr. Editor :—I have closed my official duties as receiver of the returns of taxable property for the present year, and believing your patrons have a desire to become acquainted with the statistics of the county, I send you the following for publication : Males subject to poll tax that have made a return 1,259 Males over 60 years of age that have made a return 74 Males that have made no return.. 189 Whole number of persons entitled to vote 1,522 Professional characters 39 Dentists 3 D guerrian Artist 1 Free persons of color 4 Number of Slaves 5,876 Value of taxable property returned, after making the necessary de duction $6,722,324 Increase over last year 478,077 Number ot bales of Cotton raised in 1852 and returned 8,648 Note.—Cotton bales not being taxable, several persons refused to give in their number. Many others (and many of them large planters) made out a list of their taxable property, and sent it by some friend who could give no account of their cotton crop. lam of the opinion I may safely add to the number received some 450 bales, making the whole mumber 9,100 bales. Yours respectfully. Basset Northern. Like lip Young Negroes at Private Sa/e. AT 1C STATE-STREET, aud Hamburg, S. U. Consisting of PLOUGH BOYS, FELLOWS, NURSES, SEAMSTRESSES, WASHERS AND IRONERS, CHAMBER MAIDS, &c. We will continuo 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 tt and Front-st. Hamburg, S. C. GEORGIA MARBLE WORKS. J, G. Rankin, Win. M. Hurliek, Geo. L. Samney, (SUCCESSORS TO A. ATKINSON U CO.) THIS ESTABLISHMENT has been in success full operation for a number of years. The Quarries are well opened, and the marble is supe rior to any in the United States. We have so perfected our facilities for getting out and furnishing work, that we can furnish MONUMENTS, TOMBS, TABLETS, HEAD STONES, and everything in our line of business in better style, and at eheaper rates than any yard in the country. Whon it is considered that we saw our own marble, pay no jobber’s profits, and no high freight from the North, it will be seen that we do possess material advantage over all competitors. We cordially solicit our friends and the public to examine our work, and compare our prices with those of other yards before ordering Northern marble. We have on band at our yard in Marietta a largo assortment of finished work —Monuments, Tombs, <fcc..—where our agent, Mr. G. W. Summers, will sell at our prices. Our principal work is done at the Mills. Address J. G. RANKIN & CO. Marble Work P.O. Ga. july 17 jlcly ““POCKET BOOK FOUNd7~ CONTAINING a sum of MONEY, which the owner can havo by identifying the same, and paying ex penscs. Eftquire at this office. july 17 BURNING FLUID, of the best quality. Just received and for sale by 17 WM. HAINES, Druggist. BY TELEGRAPH. {Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.] Arrival of Steamer Arrabia—Three Days Later from Europe. New York, July 13. The steamer Arabia arrived this morning, bringing 60 passengers, and Liverpool dates to the 2d inst. She passed the steamer Canada and the ship Sovereign of the Seas, in 14 days from New York, going in. Spain.— lt was again rumored that Gonzales Bravo would succeed Calderon de La Barca as minister to the United States. Turkey —News from the East is scarce, and everything is yet in doubt. Nothing has yet occurred from the Porte’s rejection of the ulti matum. Nothing could be done before July Ist, at which time it was believed the Russians had not crossed the Danube. It was reported that Turkey had formally demanded the armed in »ention of the four great powers, and this ?ment is confirmed. The aspect of affairs is regarded now as less favorable to peace. The French and English fleets were anchored offTenedos, a small but celebrated island, situa ted about 15 miles south-west ot the entrance to the Dardanelles. MARKETS. Liverpool , July 2. —Cotton has been irregular, and prices of some qualities have slightly de clined, while others are firm. The sales of the week reached 60.000 bales, of which speculators took 9,000 and exporters 6,000 hales Fair Or leans 6| a 6fd.; Middling ;| a 6d.; Fair Mobile and Uplands 6id.; Middling 5 15-16 a 6d. Breadstuffs had largely advanced and were in active demand. Flour had advanced Is. 6d. per bbl, during the week, and white corn Is. per quarter. Canal four 265.. Ohio 26s 6d. White arid yellow corn 30s. 6d. The Manchester market was unchanged. Havre June 29. —Sales of cotton for the week 9,000 bales. Rice had slightiy advanced. Paris July 1 st. —The Bourse has declined this week. The Three Per Cents are quoted at 75 fr. 10c.; Four and Halves 100 fr. 80c ; Bank Shares 26 fr. 55c. Mostot the Continental business also show's a decline. By Telegraph from London to Liverpool. — Latest Intelligence. — Russia and Turkey London, July 2.—Telegraphic despatches from Paris yesterday, state that news of the rejection of the last ultimatum had reached St. Petersburg on the 24th ult. The Emperor had made a per sonal declaration to the English and French Am bassadors, expressed in the strongest language, stating that even the destruction of his fleets would not prevent his invading Turkey and ob taining reparation. The fourth division of the Russian army had been ordered to enter Moldavia. The Russian force on the line of the Black Sea amounts to 160,000 men. The Emperor complains of the conduct of the British Premier, and is said to have forwarded peremptory instructions to M. Deßrunow to con fine himself to official intercourse with the Brit ish Secretary of State. Paris , July I.—At the Bourse, to-day, Securi ties suffered in consequence of the intelligence from the East. Three per cents declined more than 1 per cent. India and China. —The overland eastern mail brings no definite news from Rangoon. Trade at Calcutta was dull. Hong-Kong dates of May 6th bring a rumor that the rebels had recaptured Nankin and were marching on Pekin Australia. —Advices have been received from Sydney to the 2d of April, Melbourne 7th, and Adelaide to the 12th. The gold news was sat isfactory. Provisions were enormously high. Philadelphia, July 13. President Piercers Movements—Departure from Philadelphia—His Reception and Passage Through New Jersey , fyc —President Pierce took a ride through the city at an early hour this morning, and spent a couple of hours in receiving the sal utations of our citizens, who thronged to Inde pendence Hall in great number?. At 11 o’clock the President and his suite took their departure, en toute for New York. At Bur lington and Bristol, New Jersey, he was greeted by lage assemblages of the people, who had gathered from many miles round. He made but a brief stop, however, and returned the salutations extended to him in a graceful manner. At Borde.ntown the President was joined by Governor Fort, and received an enthusiastic greeting from the people. At half-past twelve o’clock the train reached Trenton, where a civic and military procession was in waiting. The President was welcomed to the city, and proceeded on horseback, by the side of Gov. Fort, a national salute of 21 guns being fired from a neighboring height. He was conducted to the court-house amid much enthu siasm,where many ladies were assembled. Chief-Justice Greene welcomed the President in an appropriate speech, to which he eloquently re sponded. IV!r. Cushing also delivered a brief address. The procession was re-formed, and the Presi dent escorted to the depot, taking his departure for Newark at 3 o’clock. At Newark a most enthusiastic welcome awaited the President, where he made another admirable speech, in reply to an address of wel come. He will pass the night at Newark, and proceed on to New York by the morning train, proceeding direct from the wharf T o participate in the opening ceremonials of the Crystal Pal ace. Washington, July 13. Washington Jlffairs. —Major E Vamlewerter, recently removed from the Post-Office Depart ment, has been restored. Recent events leave very little doubt that Mr. Buchanan will decline the English Mission. Who will be his successor is still a matter of doubt. SiUtiaS lofirre; The Friends of the Present Adminis tration will support the following Ticket at the Coming Election in Burke county. For Senate JAMES M REYNOLDS. For Representatives. JAMES H. ROYAL. JOHN J. JONES. july 17 dcfl Many Voters. The Regular Monthly Meeting of the Clinch Rifles Loan Association, take* place at tho Company’s Room on Tuesday Eve ning, 19th inst.. at 8 o’clock. * * John F. McKinnie, July 16 3 Secretary. The Best Hair Dye in Use A Chem cat Wonder. Interesting to all. — Gilman’s Hair Dye has made its appearance ir 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, m ustachios 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 valuable article is for sale by D. B. Plumb & Co., between U. S. Hotel and P. 0. corner; Philip A. Moise, 195 Broad street and tho Druggist, every where. lm july 15 fire gW AND MARINE INSURANCE. Tho subscriber, as Agent of the COLUMBIA (S. C.) INSURANCE CO , takes Fire and Marine Risks on the most favorable terms. J. 11. ANDERSON, Agent, jan 14 ly Mclntosh street. Spring Styles. — Mr?. E. 0. Collins has EhJSS) now in store a large and fashionable assortment of IVlil/inery and Fancy Goods, which she offers on very reasonable terms for cafli. Among them will be found rich Paris Mantillas, Lace Shawls, Embroidered Collars, Sleeves, Chemisettes, Capes, Handkerchiefs and Veils; also, a handsome assortment of Straw, Chip, Lace, Crape and Silk Bonnets; Head-Dresses. Caps, Flowers ; Bonnet, Cap, Sash, and Neck Ribbons,; Hair Braids, Curls, Toilet Powder, Perfumes, Soaps, Hair Oils, &e., Ac. 3m may 10 We are authorized to announce the name of Col. A. Dolaperrierea of Jack son County, as a candidate for-Major General, to command the Fourth Division. G. M. We cheer fully recommend the Col. to the voters of this divi sion as a tried and experienced soldier, and alto gether qualified to fill tke office of Major General, june 30 The subscriber has at last received a supply of Dr. Diokson’s Blackberry Cordial, for Diarrhoea and Dysentery. Philip A. Moise, Druggist. See Advertisement. july 8 fTP* Malcom D. Jones will be supported as a candidate for tho House of Repre sentatives from Burke county in the next Legisla ture by [july 3 ] Many Voters. Summer Hats—Just received Bt | no . the r su PPly of Gentlemens A and Mouths, Swiss Sennet, Leghorn and £5 Straw Hats. J. Taylor, j r ., 4 £ v, USUSUI Gas Li * ht Company T Meeting of the Stockholders of a- Company will be held at tho City Hall on mLa Evening next, at 8 o’clock, P. M„ to consider expediency of purchasing the stock lately hold t Perdicari? & Co , as per their contract with JP City Council of 29th Nov 1851. By order Directors. ll,nry H. JumSg th * President of the Gas Co. of August, july 14 td ° a ’ TfiT~ Augusta Gas Light CompaniJiF' dend No. 2. —A dividend of two <n' lars and fifty cents per share will be paid on anur cation to Robert T. Harriss, Esq., at the o ffi of the Auguta Insurance and Banking Comrnn 0 Henry H. Cumminc y J u] y 14 President. We seldom recommend a nianu«; tured medicine, believing thnt most cases, nature herself perfects a “cure nr" 1 rapidly and effectually than can be accompliahJi by the vegetables and minerals of medical scieno? But in tho matter o dyspepsia, there are chroni features about it, which, very often, defy all the es forts of nature to create a healthy action of th digestivo organs, and it not unfr-equently har pens that thousands suffer for years, diseased both I in body and in mind, from indigestion and its u:. a I dred ills. To such, Holland’s German B tter prepared by Dr C. M. Jackson, are truly a mo ] \ valuable preparation. It is a tonic medic ne, g j v 1 ing a healthy aotiou to tho stomach, and will hi f found highly servicable at all seasons, hut especial ly during the spring. Dyspepsia can only be curM I by a patient perseverance in ono course of treat I ment; and to all those suffering under this sad mab advwe would recommend an application to the 1 depot o p Hoofland’s Get mar Bitters, 120 Arch street, Philadelphia. —Philadelphia Inquirer. f july 9 d6cl Jl * li ‘ Farrell's Arabian Liniment— I This celebrated medicine, skilfully 1 composed as it is of the most healing balsams anil 1 penetrating nils, can never fail to cure almost ere. I ry affliction that could be alleviated by an exter nal remedy. Its superiority over all other Lini. I ments is proven by the miraculous cures it performs j and by the great and constantly increasing de! I mand. Thero has been sold within tho past year 1 more than THREE MILLIONS OF BOTTLES, j and there can be but few persons found who do 1 not bestow upon it the highest praise for the rare I virtues it p ssesses. Nothing, perhaps, since the fl creation of the w rid, has been so successful as an I external remedy for all nervous diseases, as this ■ wonderful curative. When applied, it instants. If neously diffuses itself through tho whole system, I sooth ng tho irritated nerves, allaying the most I intense pains and creating a most delightful setsa- 1 sion. Read the following remarkable cure, which 1 can be attested to by hundreds who were fully ac- I quainted with the whole circumstance. Chronic Enlargement of the Tonsils —My 1 daughter, when six months old, was taken with a & swelling in the tonsils, which grew larger and lar- 1 gor, till when six years old had great difficulty in f swallowing her food. Every night watch was kept, I fearing she would suffocate. The best doctors at || tended her but could give no relict. I took her to the I most eminent doctors in the East; they said there 9 was no help for her but to outgrow it. With asad I heart I returned home with her, when she became 1 so much worse that the doctors had to be called in , again ; they decided that the tonsils must be cut 1 off, as the only means of giving relief. My wife 1 would not consent to this, and she determined to I try your Liniment, which gave relief the very first | application, and by a continued use she entire- I ly recovered. She is now ten years old and fleshy and healthy as could bo desired. Your Liniment | is also the best in use for sprains, bruises, cuts, j burns, headache, etc., and it will remove tho most 1 severe pain in a few mutes. It also cured caked J udder in my cow in a few days. George Fo ,, u. :§ Peoria. March 20th 1849. Look out for Counterfeits. —The public are can. I tioned against another counterfeit, which has late- I ly made its appearance, called W. B. Farrell’s Ara- 4 bian Liniment, the most dangerous of all the conn- m terfeits, because his having the name of EarreU, jH many will buy it in good faith, without the knot- *j ledge that a counterfeit exists, and they will, per- | haps, only discover their error when the spurious I mixturo has wrought its evil effects. a The genuine article is manufactured only by H. f G. Farrell, sole inventor and proprietor, and whole- % sale druggist, No. 17 Main street, Peoria, Illinois, 'm to whom all applications for Agencies must be ad- | dressed. Be sure you get it with the letters H. 9 f before Farrell’s, thus —H. G. FARRELL’S —and T his siguature on the wrapper, and all others ara counterfeits. Sold by IIAVILAND, RISLEY & CO., | Augusta, Ga.. i, and by regularly authorized agents throughout tie | 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 onoisnot fj already established. Address 11. G. Farrell as | abovo, accompanied with good reference as to fj character, responsibility, Ac. d<fcc4 july 6 fl ftf*-a Fhe Friends of Col. VVM. B. BOW- $j VS J22L EN, will support him for Major Gene- W ral of the 4th Division, Georgia Militia, at tho election to be held on the July, of inst The 1 Division is composed of Wilkes, Lincoln, Elbert,* Madison, Jackson and Franklin counties, july 6 d&etd a Ca ’ Ka Hroal, Augusta, Geo., 21st 11 May, 1853.—0 n and after Monday, H 23d inst., a Passenger Train will leave Aiken, J daily, (Tuesday and Sunday excepted) at 8:30 a.m. : jl and Hamburg at sp. in., until further notice. E may 22 G. B. Lythgoe, Gen 1. Sup. ftp —Professional Notice. —Dr Paul P |j Eve, having returned to reside in Au- j| gusta, offers his services to the community. Ser- |j vants requiring operations, or special care, canbi jj accommodated on his lot. 6m febl | july 6 ddcl ftF" Office South Carolina Railroad Com- w pany. Augusta, July 9th, 1853.- # Tho Passenger and Mail Trains for Charleston I leave this Company’s Local Depot, Centre street, I at 4£ A. M.., on and after Sundav, 10th inst. july 10 W. J. Magrath, Agent I l’aid for WOOLLEN, LINED |l COTTON and SILK RAGS, by E. CAMPFIELD, § jan 20 ts Corner River and Jackson st_ jB Premium Daguerrean Gallery.—The ; j firm of Tucker & Perkins having jgi bcon dissolved by limitation last February, the un dersigned will continuo to pracrice the art of Dag- . uerreotyping in all its various branches, and from ; his long practical experience he feels confident o' his ability to please the most fastidious. Tho pictures now being taken at this Gallery are j pronounced by those who are judges, superior in S tone and life-like expression, to any ever before m prodtieed in Augusta. Isaac Tucker- fj N. B. Artists purchasing Stock, will please beat ij in mind that materials are sold at lower rates than m at any other house this side of New York may U|| Soda Water—Thisdelightfuian* 1 healthy beverage, with every variety II of tho best Syrup 3, will be furnished from this date a at the Drug Store under the Augusta Hotel. The jl fountains are entiroly new, ard the public may & pond upon getting good Soda Water of the pur®-’ 'M quality. PHILIP A. MOISE. may 5 Druggist- | ®he Bel Air Traiu will comment J running on Monday, the 27th inst.— 9 Loaves Augusta at f>4 p. m. juno 25 ts j|| jTTo'TT MARSHALL HOUSE, Savannah. <•» G. Fargo, Proprietor, (late of the l • S. Hotel, Augusta.) apr 15 ly.* From Summit's Illustrated News-- Acrostic. Mexicam Mustang Liniment Every land has hailed with Xtacy this preparation whose Intrinsic merits has introduced its Curative powers to the notice of the whole American people. Rhematism of long duration! Nouralgia, with its tortures, have yielded to its Magical influence; cancers, contorted joints, Ulcorated and swollen limbs that have Suffered for years under weight ofdiscaso. Turn by its application to suppleness and health- A remedy of such general usefulness that can r* j store Newness of Action to the diseasod nerves, arte 1 " , an(i wi Glands of tho human body, is worthy ot praise. Let the rheumatic, halt, lame and palsied Invalid examine its qualities, and they will Not be disappointed. Years of study and ~£ Investigation have enabled the proprietors ot Mexican Mustang Liniment to furnish a remeO> Extraordinary in its power over diseases, No matter of how long standing—sold at The agents in all parts of the Union, july 6 30 ——- ftf*- Fresh Congress Water can alway^ had wholesale or retail, at the Store the Augusta Hotel _— single lady, ofexyerione*' desires a situation as Teacher i urinary or select School- ® ho ca ° . ■ higher branches of English ar > j ]go performer ”»d" *J B,v ivrs a $ ss~xr Box 117 ; Angusta Post Office. T«Sc- J