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Canstitutoalist K % tpklir. BY JAMES GARDNER, JR. * TERMS: Pailypaper (if paid in advance) ....per annum. .$8 00 'i\-i-Weekly (if paid in advance).....per annum.. 5 00 Weekly (if paid in advance) per annum.. 2 00 Rove. ALEXANDER SMITH. The fierce exulting worlds, the motes in rays, The churlish thistles, scented briars, The wind-swept blue-bells on the sunny braes. Down to the central fires, Exists alike in love. Love is a sea, Filling all the abysses dim Os lornest space, in whoso deeps regally Suns and their bright broods swim. This mighty sea of Love, with wondrous tides, Is sternly just to sun and grain; ’Tis laying at this moment Saturn’s sides— ’Tis in my blood and brain. All things have something more than barren use; There is a scent upon the briar, A tremulous sp!end»r in the autumn dews, Cold morns are fringed with fire. The clodded earth goes in sweet-breathed flowers; In music dies poor human speech, And into beauty blow those hearts of ours, When Love is born in each. Life is transfigured in the soft and tender Light of Love, a a volume dun Os rolling smoko becomes a wreathed splendor In the declining sun. [From the Southern Standard ] The Destiny of the Slave States. We are at a critical juncture in public affairs. The world is moving forward with enterprise and progress such as has never been before conceived of. Near $200,000,000 are being add*d annually to the gold currency of the world. The whole resources of Australia. California, and China, are iust about to be thrown open. In China, 300,- 000.000 people, wdth more accumu'ated capita' and wealth than ar.y one people have ever pos sessed. have been heretofore locked up from the rest of mankind. The treaties made with Eng land. France and the United States, a few years ago. have broken the chain with which they have surrounded themselves. This, together with the rebellion now in progress, will unfold the re sources of that mighty empire, and produce a change in the distribution of wealth, equal to that produced by the discovery of America upon Spain and Europe. Where is all this vast trade and accumulation in gold to pass through the channels of commerce into the exchanges of the world ? It must concentrate upon tne Pacific coast, and force its way across the Isthmus of Panama info the Gulf of Mexico, and thence into the Atlantic,that great reservoir basin for the civilized nations of the earth. The Atlantic will be to the world what the Mediterranean was to the then known world, under the reign of the Antonies in Rome. Again, the Gulf of Mexico lies between the great region drained by the Amazon on one side, and the Mississippi on the other. These are the two greatest vallies upon the face of the earth, and capable of the greatest productions. It is not saying too much, to say, that if properly developed, they are capa ble of producing what is produced, at present, by the whole civilized w’orld The former is almost in a state of nature, and the latter is not yet halt developed. The whole country between these two might rivers presents the most wonderful region now to be settled up by the genius and enterprise ot man. In the progress of the ne t fifty years, the commerce and trade that must concentrate upon the Gulf of Mexico wll tar exceed anything that man has heretofore ever dreamed of in his wildest imagination. The Island of Cuba, from its central postion, and its great port of Havana, is the key to all this. The nation that holds Cuba will hold control over the commerce and wealth of this new world. It is not saying too much to say that if we hold Cuba, in the next fifty years, we will hold the destiny of the richest and most increasing com merce that has ever dazzled the cupidity of man. And with that commerce we can control the power of the world Give us this, and can make the public opinion of the world. These two great vallies of the Amazon and the Missis sippi are now possessed by the two governments of the earth most deeply interested in African slavery—Brazil and the United States. Cast your eye over the map. and see their vast capa city for production, while the Mississippi, with its tributaries, can carry to market more of the necessaries and breadstuff's of life than any por tion of the habitable globe. The Amazon can float the w T ealth of nations upon its surface—in the production of tropics. The whole interme diate countries between these two great vallies, including the West India Islands, is a region under the plastic hand of a beneficent Providence, teeming with the fatness of nature s richest and most luxurious productions. It is at present but in its infancy, and as to capacity to produce, is, as it were, unknown to the w'orld. Most ot it has slumbered for ages in solitary grandeur. Haw is it to be developed? Thi'ik you that the Caucasian race can stand to toil and labor under the burning rays of its troppical sun, and sleep in vigor and prosperity under miasma of its exuberant and mighty plains and swamps ? No ! its resources are to be finally and fully de veloped by that race which God. in his mercy, formed and created for just such reg.ons. Pro vidence lots off the ear*h to its appropriate races. The camel loves the arid air of Arabia, and the reindeer loves the frozen hills of Lapland. So, in like manner, the black man loves to breathe the humid air of his native swamps, while the white man exults and hounds in the elastic air of his native hills. Where you can combine the administrative governing qualities of the one race, together with the patient endurance and physical capacity for low latitudes of the other, you have that perfect system by which the vast tropical regions of the earth may be developed, whilst the laboring strata of society k is occupied bv one race suited to its exposures. ' give the other race such a position as will enable them to pieserve themselves from those daily and exhausting exposures under which the white race will sink in the tropics. Puling and sick'y philanthropy may preach a different doc trine. but if practised, it will forever consign to a barbari-n wilderness some of the fairest por tions of the world. Witness the miserable experiments made by the English and the French in the We t Indies. Twentv-five years ago. where we saw cultiva tion. bringing forth wealth and refinement, with all the elegance of polished life, we see vagrant labor stalking through a desolate land, with hungry and brutal ferocity. This experiment of West India emancipation is worth a thousand theories, and is fast enlightening the reflecting part of mankind. England feels, in its conse quences, her folly. Everything has taken place exactly as the Duke of Wellington predicted it j would, in his clear and manly speech against j the Act of Emancipation at the time. The African race, under a system of domestic servitude, tempered by the principles of Chris tianity, are themselves raised and benefitted in the scale of civilization. The great mass of the poor and needy, in all portions of the colder and less prolific latitudes, require for their comfort, sugar, coffee, rice, and cotton, and the luxurious productions of tropical regions. When they can exchange their labor for these products at cheap prices, it tends to raise them, too, in the scale of civilization, by administering to their wants and comforts, and thus tempting them to industry and enterprise, in order that they may be able to enjoy the advantages of various cli mates. This system acts and reacts upon the different branches of the human family, so as mutually to benefit and bless all, by diffusing more equally the comforts of life. Hence it is, that the productions of slave labor, in the shape of cotton, by which an abundant and cheap ar ticle, for clothing the poor and the needy, has done more to elevate the great masses, and spread civilization to the lower ranks of society, than all the other causes put together in modern times. So now, if the noble regions, to which I have alluded above, were reduced to systematic culture by African labor, governed by the ener gy and intelligence of the white man, they would more than quadruple the present produc tions of the comforts and luxuries of life, to dif fuse them amongst the poor and needy of the higher latitudes of the eaith. and thus mutually benefit and bless both regions. This is the true progress of civilization. And it is thus that Providence everworks upon the destinies of men. Apparent evils are the greatest blessings. It is by war you conquer a barbarian race, and by slavery you reduce them to labor and the arts of civilized life. Slavery and war have thus been the two great forerunners of civilization. This modern crusade and phar»saical declamation against domestic servitude will run out, as did' the fanatical crusades of old, and society will a | gain resume its reason and common sense, as the best? guides in the practical affairs of life. If we have wisdom and enlightened states mansnip to direct our country, we can turn back the tide, and by successful and triumphant expe riment, make a public opinion for modern times. Everything is at present on a most critical turn m Europe. The Emperor of the French stands upon a mine, that may explode any day. A convulsion there, or in Turkey, would shake the world. The true policy of our Government at present, is to stand still, but be prepared to strike, if it can be done successfully. If Europe is thrown into confusion, all American affairs will inevitably fall under our control. We must do nothing to hasten events. Time is doing its work for us more triumphantly than ever the Roman Eagles did for Rome, in her proudest and palmiest days. A general rupture in Europe would force upon us the undisputed sway of the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies, with all their rich and mighty productions. Guided by our genius and enterprise, a new world would rise there as it did before under the genius of Columbus. With Cuba and St. Domingo, we could control the productions of the tropics, and with them, the commerce of the world, and with that, the power of the world. Our true policy is to look to Brazil as the next great slave power, and as the government that is to direct or license the development of the coun try drained by the Amazon. Instead of courting England, we should look to Brazil and the West Indies. The time will come when a treaty ot commerce and alliance with Brazil will give us the control over the Gulf of Mexico, and its bor der countries, together wi'h the Islands, and the consequence of this will place African slavery beyond the reach of fanaticism at home or abroad. These Jwo great slave powers now hold more undeveloped territory than any two other governments, and they ought to guard and ' strengthen their mutual interests bv acting to gether in strict harmony and concert. Consid ering our vast resources, and the mighty com merce that is about to expand upon the bosom of the two countries, if we act together by treaty we can not only preserve domestic servitude, but we can defy the power of the world. With firmness and judgment, we can open up the Af rican Slave emigration again—to people the no ble region of the tropics. We can boldly defend this upon the most enlarged system of philan thropy. It is far better for the wild races of Africa themselves. Look at the three millions in the United States who have had the hlessings, not only of civilization, but of Christianity. Can any man pretend to say they would have been better off in the barbarian state of their native wildernesses? And has not the attempt to suppress, by force, this emigration, increased the horrors of the ‘"middle passage 5 tenfold? The good old Las Casas, in 1519. was the first to advise Spain to import Africans to her colo nies, as a substitute for the poor Indians, who, from their peculiar nature, were totally unsuited to bear the labors of slavery. Experience has shown, his scheme was founded in wise and Christian philanthropy. Millions of the black man yet unborn will rise up to bless his benevo lent memory. The time is coming when we will boldly defend this system of emigration be fore the world. The hypocritical cant, and whining morality of the latter-day saints will die away before the majesty of commerce, and the power of those vast productions which are to spring from the cultivation and full development of the mighty tropical regions in our own hemis phere. If it be mercy to give the grain growing sections of America to the poor and hungry o f Europe, why not open up the tropics to the poor African ? The one region is as eminently suited to them as the other is to the white race. There is as much philanthropy in the one as the other. We have been too long governed by Psalm-sing ing School masters from the North. It is time to think for ourselves. The folly commenced in our Government uniting with Great Britain to declare Slave im portation piracy. Piracy is a crime on the high seas, arising under the law of nations, and it is as well defined by those laws,as murder is at common law. And for two nations to attempt to make that piracy which is not so, under the law of nations, is an abusrdity. You might as well declare it burglary or arson, or anything else. And we have ever since, by a joint fleet with Great Britain on the coast of Africa, been struggling to enforce this miserable blunder.— The British Government now admit it to be folly. And if the great Sir William Scott were alive, and Lord Chancellor, he would pronounce it so likewise. Mankind in masses are only taught by large experiment. On this subject, importations into Brazil and to Cuba for the past thirty years hsve taught us, and emancipation in the West Indies is an open book, which all reflecting men are reading. England is attempting to recover her lost possessions by coolies and the apprentice system of whites and Chinese. It is slavery in another form, and are subjects that will perish under the experiment. The w’orld will fall back upon African labor, governed and awed in some shape or form by the white man, as it has always been. This is the only system wfoich can reduce to thorough cultivation the mighty region of the Amazon and the great troppical vallies of the Gulf of Mex ico. The world will have to choose between that and its remaining an everlasting wilder ness. Under African labor properly awed, the poor and the needy of the more rigid climates of the earth, will be enabled to receive and enjoy the comforts and the blessings of its necessary and luxurious productions. Under this system, the industrious but poor laborers of Northern cli mates can be enabled to enjoy the coffee, rice, sugar and cotton for cheap clothes, from regions where, if they were compelled to toil and work for it, under the burning rays of a tropical snn, they would sink and perish away. But En gland complains of the humanity of such a sys tem ! And this is that England, the iron heeiof whose power has but recently crushed the Irish man into the dust of the earth upon his native soil, and whose gigantic and bloody footsteps up on the great plains of India have made whole empires groan and travail undpr the most heart less and grinding slavery that the imagination of man has ever painted ! Such complaints from such a quarter, is the most arrant hypocricy and sanctimonious impudence the world has ever witnessed. And are we, a great people, moving forwad in the progress of emire, to be duped by such can ing sentimentality as this? If we are, t'npn will we deserve to were the yoke of England again. If she has lost the absolute sway of the sceptre over us. she can restore its power through her preaching and this mock humanity of her etherial and sublimated morality. No ! we have a higher destiny than this to ful fil. We, too, are in the hands of a superintend ing Providence, to work out the real regenera | tion of mankind. The great Roman Government fulfilled its pur poses. and had its sway—and over its ruins Loyola and his Jesuit followers made a system of ethics and morals for the government of Europe. ; Then the wild theories of French philanthropy had their rise,and have died their death. We, j too. have a glorious field before us. Whilst we throw off the corruptions of an established church on one side, and the wild profligacy of French philosophy on the other, we move steadily for ward to develope those great ideas of practical liberty and sound philosophy that may be iden tified with the real wants and real necessities of evey part of the habitable globe. Our career is to extend the blessings and C'.mforts of life to ; the great masses, and thus to elevate them in the scale of civilization. Supply their wants and their comforts, and vou make them happy j and virtuous. Take the earth that God has given us, and by industry and labor suited to it, make every por- j tion of it bloom and blossom as a garden for the t P an ." Rut the objection is often urged, that Litre is danger in extending our territories, and adding new people in our progress. Wheth er for good or for evil, it is vain to oppose it Out destiny is onward, and onward, until many’ more rich and prolific regions are to be wrapt under the broad folds of our national banner. The spread of our population a/id peculiar organiza tion will be more rapid and triumphant, than the couquests ot the Roman eagles in tiieir proud est days, or of the British lion upon the Burarn poota or the Ganges. Cautious conservatism may declaim against it, but it will be of no avail. As well might you attempt to turn the angry wave of the Mississippi by stretching wicker work across it. In the future, the prog ress and acquisition of this Republic is a fixed fact beyond the reach of human power to arrest it. The great duty of the statesman is to di r ect it into proper channels, and let it flow on with out a sudden eruption if possible. I well recollect, that in 1835, Gov. McDuffie, in his message to our Legislature, eloquently pro tested against the annexation of Texas to the Union, upon the ground that it would destroy. theJCotton growing interests of Southern States ! He seemed to forget that Texas was there, and could not be blotted off the map, and would be a cotton country at any rate. The great question was, whether we should do so. So in like manner of Cuba and St. Domingo, and other regions; the question will now arise, whether they are to fall into other hands or un der our control. The time will come that all the Islands and regions suited to African slavery, between us and Brazil, will fall under the con trol of these two slave powers, in some shape or other, either by treaty or by actual possession of the one government or the other. And the statesman who closes his eyes to these results, has but a very small view of the great ques tions and inte ests that are looming up in the future. In a few years there will be no investment for the two hundred millions, in the annual increase of gold on a large scale, so profitable and so necessa ry. as the development and cultivation of the tropi cal regimis , now slumbering in rank and wild lux uriance. If the slaveholding race in these States are but true to themselves, they have a great desti uy before them. Heretofore, the great difficulty in civilizing the barbarian races of the world has been, to procure cheap and abundant clothing for them. A naked race must necessarily be a wild race. To Christianize or civilize a man you must first clothe his nakedness In the 3,000 000 of bags of cotton, that slave labor an nually throws upon the world for cheap and abundant clothing for the poor and naked, we are doing more to advance civilization and the refinements of life, tnan all the psalm singing and canting philanthropists of New or Old En gland will lo in centuries All we want is wis dom and thorough statesmanship to guide and direct us, and we may yet be a chosen people, for great and wise purposes. How to Spoil a High Spirited Wife. “ What did you speak in that way to your wife for, young man 1 ” asked old uncle Rogers of his nephew. “ Because it’s fun to see her spark up.” replied the hopeful Benedict; I like to make her black i eyes shine, and her round cheeks grow red as jmy damask rose. And it s quite tragic the way i she puts her little foot down and says ‘ s-i-r.” ! By the muses ! If you’d staid long enough un ; cle, I’d have shown you a Queen. You’ve no idea how grandly she tosses back her fierce lit tle head—or with what a Dido like air she wrings those delicate hands of hers. It quite breaks the monotony ot lite to get up such a tempest to order. You see, uncle, one tires of clear sunshine and blue sky—and so, as I know she owns this spunky temper, I just touch it up with the spur matrimonial, and let it gallop till I see fit to reign in.” “ I’ve as good a mind to root out that sap ling, Hal, and use it over your shoulders, as I had this morning to eat my breakfast before you spoiled my appetite. You are taking the surest way to ruin a finely strung organization. Saving your pres ence, I despise the man w’ho thus tampers with a passionate but loving spirit. Look at youi wife—how delicate her beauty ! Look at your household—the very temple of taste and neat ness. The little fixings on the mantle, the fringing and tasseling here and there give a touch beyond the common to your humble fur niture. That lounge that lends so grand an air to your parlor. I had set down for no less than a fifty—when lo ! it turns out that five dollars and a woman’s ingenuity, deceived an old, ex perienced upholsterer like rnyself. Then look at the vines she has trained, the flowers she has planted, that lean toward her when she approaches them, as if she was their guardian angel! Why, Hal, is it possible the possession of such a being as this, tempts you to an absurdity that will surely end in destruction of your domestic happiness 9 ” “You are mighty serious about this little thing, uncle.” “Serious! unfortunately I am something more —a victim to my own indulgence in a similar infatuation. You have heard”—here uncle Ro gers gave a great sigh—•“ that lam not happy at home. My own fault! Every bit of it! and the old man gave mother earth a savage blow with his cane. “ If a man marries an angel and torments her into a fiend, who’s to blame but himself.” My wife was very handsome, and as you say spunky. There never needed to have been a warm word between us, but I liked to see her angry. I liked to see trie delicate nostrils expand—the large bright eyes scintillate sparks of fire—but I did it just once too often. I know the very time that anger raised the final barrier of oppo sition, and that nice sense of right became an exacting and imperious tormentor. “And now your uncle is driven from the home of his nephew, where he hoped for peace, and tortured with the fresh opening of old wounds. “ I tell you, Hal, you will spoil your wife, you will ruin her: it’s not manly; it’s a burning shame”—and the bid man’s thin lips quivered with excitement. Hal said nothing then, but when he returned he ground his pride between his teeth, and beg ged his wife’s pardon. “I’ll never taunt you for fun again, Carry,” he said in a low tone. And she replied as she hid her tearful face in his bosom— “I am so quick, so passionate—but indeed I never begin it; and you have been so noble that ; I will try ard conquer this hasty temper. But Hal,” she added roguishly, shaking her curls in | his face, "‘what will you do for your queen ? what will become of Dido tragedy, etc.—ha?” ? Her husband blushed [I contend that a man looks handsome when he blushes] and a kiss sea'ed the reconciliation. To-day, after forty years of wedded life. Hal boasts that he remem bers but once making up after a §torm —and that wa« away hack in the Ever since he has had still waters and a steady voy age ; and uncle Rogers, who died years ago— peace be with his ashes—used to call Hall’s home a paradise on earth. Horrtelf. Suicide of a Wealthy Califor nian.—Franklin C. Gray, aged about forty-five years, a wealthy merchant of San Francisco, California, where he was Alderman for two years, and highly respected, committed suicide on Friday, at. New Rochelle, N Y., by throwing himself across the track just as the express train was passing, aud was instantly killed. The Westchester News says: The body was “ literally smashed to pieces.” The head, neck and shoulders are completely off. Not a piece of the skull can be found larger than a penny Both arms, and the right leg and foot have shared a similar fate. The vertahrae is in several places broken, and the left foot smashed lo pieces. The brains, and mangled flesh and intestines, lay scattered in all directions. Here was a broken leg, while there lay a part of a hand, or some other portions of that human frame in which life and soirit beam ed a minute ago. The hand that writes this de scription of a most horrible death, gathered up the scattered brains and mangled limbs, placed them on a plank, and assisted to carry them to New Rochelle depot. The deceased had an income of $36,000 a year, which he received regularly in monthly remittances of $3,000. He brought letters of credit from Cook, Palmer & Co., of San Fran cisco, abont fifteen months ago, and has since been residing, a portion of the time, in Washing ton, where he married a young, beautiful and highly accomplished lady. He recently pur chased a house in New York, in the Fifth Aven ue, for their occupancy, which he fitted up in most magnificent style. Last week, while la boring under an aberation of mind, he disposed of his house and furniture at a sacrifice of $7,000 to SB,OOO. He advertised his furniture for sale ; and, on persons going there, they found that he had sent for a furniture broker, and had it all taken away. On Thursday, he proceeded to New Rochelle to sojourn awhile at the Pavillion Hatel, and on Friday, was to have gone on a fishing excursion" with several ladies, but during the morning de clined going, saying he was unwell, and soon after walked out to the railroad and threw him self across the track. His w’ife, whom it is said he appeared to idolize, was expected from Wash ington on Friday evening to join him at New Rochelle. A few days ago he made his will, leaving all his property to his wife. A Youthful Traveller en route for California. —The Wheeling Times mentions the anival in that city, of John Jacques, an or phan hoy. aged fifteen years, from the State of ij W 4. l ork ! en route for California, overland, lie states that he reached Philadelphia by stow mg himself in a oar or freight train ; and remain ed there two weeks, sleeping in the market houses and subsisting on offal given him by the servants at the hotels. Finally, a railroad con ductor allowed him to ride on the platform of a Car w here he staid for more than a month, serving as an errand boy and newspaper carrier ; after which, he proceeded on loot to r rederick, begging enough to eat fiom the farm houses on the road ; here he engaged as ostler at a tavern, but left in a week on the top of a bug gy wagon for Harper’s Ferry, where he acci dentally picked up a $5 bill, and took the cars for Cumberland ; a gentleman there paid his way to Wheeling, at the latter place, he is en deavoring to engage as a cabin boy on board of a steamboat for St. Louis, where he hopes to en gage as herdsman or cattle driver to California. Persevering, boy that. _________ Canstrtutiannlmt X JUjrahlir. AUGUSTA. GA. THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 21. FOR GOVERNOR, HON. HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. Os Baldwin County. Death of an Editor. Major S. A. Godman, the accomplished editor of the Illustrated Family Friend; published at Columbia, in this State, (says the Charleston Courier.) died at the residence of E. W. Henry, Charlotte county, Va., on the 12th inst. “He was born,” says the Columbia South Carolinian, “ In Cincinnati, on the Sth September, 1822, and was therefore nearly thirty-one years of age. Maj. Godman was at one time a midship man in the United States Navy, had been in the merchant service, and just before embarking in the newspaper business was eight months in a large mercantile house in Charleston. For two years he conducted the Lauiensville Herald, and after selling that paper, came to Columbia and established the Family Friend. “Mr. Godman was a writer of talent, and in the department of I;tern are, for which he seemed to have a preference—nautical romance—he had already exhibited great powers. Had his life been spared he would doubtless have won a high reputation among the authors of America. He has died in the prime of life, and in the vigor of a fine intellect, which he had devoted to the literature of his country. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss, and a circle of friends who had looked forward with pride to a brilliant career, of which he gave abundant promise, to lament his early and unexpected de cease. Our sympathies are with them in their bereavement.” Union of Whitaker’s “Southern Magazine” and the “Southern Electic.” We learn, with gratification, that,by arrange ments recently entered into, these works will be united from and after the next September issue. It is understood that while the work will retain its original feature of an Eclectic Maga zine, containing articles selected from the pro minent journals of Great Britain and the conti nent of Europe, suitable for republication in this country, it will also embrace original arti cles from the pens of Southern writers, adapted to the genius of our people, and developing our progress in the various departments of art,science and literature. Such a work is eminently need ed and will supply a desideratum that has long been felt in the Southern States. Mr. Whita ker, the former able editor of the “ Southern Quarterly Review,” and Prof. Fitten, who has hitherto conducted u The Southern Eclectic” with consummate judgment, will unitedly bring to this new and desirable enterprise qualifica tions which will command the public confidence and ensure success. We commend their under taking to the fostering support of the South. We publish in another column a communica tion from a “ Scott Whig,” repudiating the Con servative Convention, and the nominee, Mr_ Jenkins. We don’t know how far this feeling extends, but we learn from private letter, that a Convention is contemplated at Macon, for the purpose of putting out a Third Candidate and adopting the Whig National platform. Should they do this, they will occupy the position of the Tcrtium Qw/isoflast year, and may be forced to take Mr. Toombs’ remark, (which they jeered so much) that £i Conventions are not binding, but only advisory,” a- true; a proposi tion which was very much scouted by the Scott men, but in politics, propositions are as often traps as truths and possibly this may be the view of our correspondent and his party—at least they may wish to pay Mr. Toombs in his own coin. Sandersville Georgian. Universal Exhibition in Paris. —Official information has been received at the Sate depart ment in Washington, that goods, the importation of which is prohibited in France, will not only be admitted at the Universal Exhibition which is to be opened in Paris in 1855, but after the exhibition they may, at the option of the ex hibitors, be either re-exported free of all duties, or delivered for interior consumption by paying a duty of thirty per cent, on the value. High Price for Tobacco. — Mr. D. E. Franklin, of Campbell county, y a ., sold last weektoWm.T. Booker, Esq., of Lynchburg? two hogsheads of tobacco, one at sllO per cwt. and the other at $32 50 per cwt. Mr. Franklin | also recently sold another hogshead at $49 75. and Mr. John D. Alexander, of the same coun ty, one at SIOO, and another at $75 per cwt This tobacco is to be sent to the Crystal Palace exhibition. Porter’s Rifle. —The Nashville Banner says that Capt. Porter, of Memphis, the inventor of the celebrated rifle which bears his name, has sold his interest, one-half to ex-Gov. Jones, of Tennessee, for $70,000, and that Gov. Jones is in Washington, organizing a company with a capital of SBOO,OOO. A Turn of Fortune’s Wheel. —A hard working and industrious American family, the father of which is a coal-heaver and the mother a washer-woman, residing in Boston, has just received information that a brother of the form er recently died in Calcutta, leaving them the very acceptable sum of $25,000, The family comprises several children. Ship N. B. Palmer. —A letter from Rev. M. C. White, of the China Methodist Mission, dated Bartavia Roads, April 21,” 3avs: 44 Every sail or on board this ship has been sick with the Java fever; some have had two or three relap ses. Two of the males have been severely ill. It is now expected that we shall be enabled to sail on the 25th inst.” The Journal of Commerce tells the following story: One incident in the procession, trifling in it self, occasioned a good deal of amusement. When Gen. Pierce had got as far up as the head of Wall street, his horse became restive, and came in collision with the animal rode by General Sandford. As the President was riding with his hat in hand, the hat received the brunt of the shock, and suffered severely, being badly stove in and indented. The General was too much engaged to notice the catastrophe, and soon put on the hat in its unfortunate condition, and retained it in its place for about a block, ex citing roars of laughter among the boys. High Wages for Laborers. —Contractors on the first division of the Illinois Central Rail road, north of Cairo, are now offering $1 50 per day for laborers. This is the highest figure eyer paid for such work in the State. Railroad Meeting in Warren. July IBth, 1853. Pursuant to appointment by Marshall H. Wellborn, Esq., Chairman of the previous meet ing, a large and respectable portion of the citi zens of Warren county met at the Court House, to take into consideration the subject of aiding in the construction of a Railroad from Warren ton to Macon via Spartaand Milledgeville. E. H. Pottle, Esq., at the request of the Chair man, explained the object of the meeting, and made an eloquent and convincing speech in fa vor of the proposed Road; showing that the stock of the Road would be more profitable than almost any other investment. Wm. Gibson, Esq., addressed the meeting to the same effect; showing that the county very much needed the link wanted by the construc tion of this Road. J. M. Jones, Esq., also addressed the meeting for a short time, but much to the purpose. E. H. Pottle, Esq., then offered the following preamble and resolutions, which were unani mously adopted : Whereas, It is in contemplation to build a Railroad, connecting the city of Macon with the town of Warrenton or some other eligible point on the Georgia Railroad, via Milledgeville and Sparta under a charter granted for the purpose, by the General Assembly of the State, passed in 1837 and amended in 1847 and 1850 ; and Whereas, the citizens of Warren county, in terested in all the public improvements of the day, and desirous of aiding in the above enter prise, if it can be accomplished upon conditions hereafter specified: Therefore Resolved , That, as the citizens of Warren coun ty feel a lively interest in the projection of the proposed Road between the city of Macon and the Georgia Railroad, we will aid in said enter prise; provided Warren be made the point of junction. Resolved , That upon said condition, we will use our best exertions to have procured subscrip tions of stock in said road, commensurate with our ability. Resolved , That the Chairman appoint a com mittee of five for the purpose of attending a call ed meeting at Sparta to determine upon the route over which said Road will be built, and that said committee be instructed to oppose any termination except such as indicated in the first resolution. The committee appointed for that purpose are E. H. Pottle, J. M. Roberts, E. Cody, J. M. Jones and Wm. Gibson, Esqrs. On motion of J. M. Jones, Esq., Resolved, That the Chairman have power to call a meeting whenever he may deem it neces sary, for the furtherance of the object in view. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Augusta, Milledgeville and Macon papers. On motion, the meeting adjourned, sine die. M. H. WELLBORN, Chairman. Andrew Jackson, Secretary. Rain ! Rain !—We have been blessed, says the Federal Union of 19th inst., in this place, with a fine rain; on Tuesday night last, and a beautiful shower on Friday afternoon. These rains are “out of date,” but will be of great benefit even to those who have despaired of making any corn. Numbers of our planters have ploughed up their oat and wheat fields and planted corn and peas. Even through the corn should turn out poorly, it will serve admirably for forage. With good rains we may yet repair a portion of the damage already incurred from a protracted drought of more than three months. We still continue to have fine showers almost daily. Another Accident at the Hippodrome.— On Thursday evening, while the French per formers w r ere riding in the hurdle race at the New York Hippodrome, the horse of M,lle Caroline, in attempting to leap one of the hurd les, stumbled and fell heavily upon the young lady, one of his hoofs striking her head. She was picked up insensible and carried from the ring. A thift in the Crystal Ptlace.— Or. Fri day evening, one of the workmen employed in the Crystal Palace, when going home, stole a piece of sheet lead and packed it up in a parcel, and was conveying it out when an officer of the Palace arrested him. A pickpocket has also been arrested in the building. A Present. —Rev. Rufus W. Griswold has presented to Mr Linus Benedict, of Norwalk, (who saved the life'of his daughter, at the Nor walk calamity, after she was supposed to be drowned,) a very costly gold watch and appen dages as an evidence of his gratitude and that of his family, for his extraordinary and successful efforts on that occasion. The Fisheries. —The Gloucester Telegraph of Wednesday states that quite a number of fish ing vessels have sailed thence this week for the Bay of St. Lawrence. Altogether, about forty vessels are there, or on their way, belonging to that port. Some of them are armed. Lf.t the Bloomers Alone, Will ye I —A young lady, a Bloomer, recently married at Oris keney, N. Y., was “ horned” by some of the village rowdies. She fired a gun over their heads, and they ran away. Being taunted by some of the villagers with the fact, they resolved to try it over. This they did the next night, and challenged the girl to shoot again, calling her a liar, &c. On this, the young woman fired once more above them ; but they laughed her to scorn and at last, goaded to indignation, she sent a charge of shot rattling about their brainless pates, and, wounded and limping, howling and cursing, they retreated in confusion. The Tract Society of the M. E. Church in New York, offers the sum of S3OO for an Essay on Systematic Benificence, with particular ref erence to the philanthropic finances of the Meth odist Episcopal Church. The length, it is sta ted, should not much exceed one hundred pages duodecimo. They must be sent in previous to the Ist of January next. Large Crop of Wool. —The clip of wool this year from the flock of Elisha Newell, Esq., of Johnstown, Rock county, Wisconsin, yielded him $3,000. He has 640 acres under cultiva tion. and his receipts the year, including his wool, will amount to about $7,000. Mr. N. was the second settler on Rock Prairie. In 1837 he was living on the prairie, under his wagon cov er ! The Prospect-!. —We are informed from va rious sections that the prospects ol the crops are brightening, the rains which have fallen within the last two weeks has brought them out aston ishingly. indeed if the seasons continue as favor able as they have been for ten or a dozen days past, our county will nearly, if not quite, make enough to supply the wants of her people. We have been informed by several farmers, that corn which was absolutely yellow half way up the stalk, and looked two weeks since as if it was lifeless and dying, now presents an entirely dif ferent appearance; the yellow has disappeared and the stark looks as green and flourishing as could be desired. The cotton too, seems to be doing finely. With good seasons all may yet turn out well—but it is best not to holler till we get out of the woods. We have had two fine rains at this place since our last, one on Tuesday evening, the other on Saturday night. The latter extended pretty generally in the county ; in the E and S. E. we hear that it was lighter than in other parts of the county. We notice that different counties in the State begin to render more cheer ful accounts of their crops.— Sandersville Geor gian. Killed by a Snake Bite.— We regret to learn that a son of Mr. John Cox, a lad of 15 years, was bitten by a rattlesnake on Thursday evening last, and died of it on Friday morning. The snake had so stuck his fangs into the boy that he was unable to loose himself, and was separated by a gentleman in the field, and killed. The snake was some six feet long.— lb. Their Name is Legion. The Whigs of Georgia, have at last found a name that exactly suits them. The discovery was first made by the Columbus Enquirer. If we must tell our name, says the Enquirer, here it is, “ Our name is Legion .” The Southern Re corder and several other whig papers, answer in response, our name is Legion , and our name is Legion is echoed from one end of Georgia to the other. We have for sometime had strong suspicion of the origin of the present Whig par ty. We knew that for some reason or other, they were ashamed of their ancestors and their name. But now since they have openly pro claimed their origin, we hope hereafter they will not deny their relations. Those who are anxious to know the early history of the party, and the character of their ancestors, will find a very graphic and concise account of both, in the sth chap, of Mark, and in the Bth chap, of Luke. It will there be seen, that “ Legion,” was the name of a very numerous and a very mischevi ous party of devils that infested “ the country of the Gadarenes which is over against Gallilee.” It is strange how long certain traits of char acter will run in families. Eighteen hundred years ago the party called Legion , was in many respects very much like their descendants of the present day. Those unfortunate men who were formerly under the influence of this party, left the company of sane men, and delighted to hang about the Toombs. Sometimes they became insane, and frothed at the mouth, and exposed themselves in a very ridiculous manner. Those who were at the last Whig Conven tion must have seen things very similar. We might trace the resemblance much farther; but we think we have already shown such a striking similarity between the ancient and modern party, that every one will recognize tit relationship. We will only add at this time, that the party called Legion ruined every man that remained under their control, even the hogs could not long survive their alliance ; and in a fit of despair drowned themselves in the Sea rather than endure their society.—Milledge ville Federal Union, 1 9th inst. The following parody on the popular negro air, “ Poor Uncle Ned,” from Mr. Buckstone’s “Ascent of Mount Parnarsus,” was lately play ed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London : Os ‘Undo Tom’s Cabin’ who ha 3 not had a sight ? Who of Topsy the name does not know ? If any one could wash a Blackamoor white, It would be Mrs. Beecher Stowe. I’ ts a very good book wo know, And has made us our noses to blow, But they’ve worked ’im so much I wish poor Uncle Tom Was gone where all good niggers go. Wherever you travel, wherever you stop, Uncle Tom his black poll’s sure to show ; With his songs, polkas, waltzes, they fill every shop Till like Topsy, “1 ’specs they must grow ! The stage had enough of Jim Crow, A jumping and a “doing just so,” And ’twould be quite a blessing if poor Undo Tom Would after that good nigger go. Comntmirt. Savannah, July 19, P. M— Cotton. —There have been no sales reported to-day. gripping Jntflliflrttff. ARRIVALS FROM CHARLESTON. Brig R. Patterson, Colcord, Providence. Schr. D. Maloney, Whilden, Providence. Schr. Eliza Frances, ■, Homes’ Hole. CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON. Schr. John T. Fardy, Travers, at Baltimore. CP FOR CHARLESTON. Brig Emily, Davis, at New York. Charleston, July 20—Arrived, U. 8. M. steam ship Southerner, Dickinson, New York ; steam ship Osprey, Bennett, Philadelphia : schr. Margaret Linsey, Boston. * Cleared, ship Camden. Gadd, Liverpool. FUNERAL ~ HF* The Friends and Acquaintance of Angus W. Martin, Esq., and family are respectfully in vited to attend his Funeral from his late residence in Columbia county, at 10 o’clock this morning. july 21 Sprrinl Uotirrs. Rags Wanted.—The highest cash price paid for OLD RAGS. All clean cotton and linen rags are just as good as gold dust at my mint. W. H. PRITCHARD, july 21 52 Private Bonding.—A few bonders can be accommodated until the first of Oc tober next, at Belair. Apply at the Geo. Railroad, to Y. W. BOISCLAiPv. july 20 tAul 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 mustaohios. Gentlemen are now seen going into our hair dressing saloons with hair, whiskers , mustaohios 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 the Druggist, overy where. lm july 15 MARINE INSURANCE. The subscriber, as Agent of the COLUMBIA V S. C.) INSURANCE CO . takes Fire and Marine Risks on the most favorable terms. J. H ANDERSON. Agent, Jan 14 ly Mclntosh street. now in store a largo and fashionable assortment of Millinery and Fancy Goods, which sbo offors on very reasonable terms for cash. 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 Bonnots; Head-Dresses, Caps, Flowers ; Bonnet, Cap, Sash, and Neck Ribbons, ; Hair Braids, Curls, Toilet Powder, Perfumes, Soaps, Hair Oils, &c., &c. om may 10 Yfe are authorized to announce the name of Col. A. Delaperrierea of Jack son County, as a candidate for-Major General, to command the Fourth Division, G. M. We cheer fully recommond the Col. to the voters of this divi sion as a tried and experienced soldier, a"d alto gether qualified to fill tko office of Major General, june 30 The subscriber has at last received a . supply of Dr. Dickson’s Blackberry Cordial, for Diarrhoea and Dysentery. Philip A. Moise, Druggist. Soe Advertisement. iu'y 8 The Bel Air Train will commence running on Monday, the 27th inst.— Leaves Augusta at p. m. june 25 ts Education,-A single lady, of experience, desires a situation as Teacher in a Se minary or select School. She can teach all tho higher branches of English and Music, is a fine performer on the Piano, and sings woll; will also give iessons in French and on tho Guitar. The best of reference given by addressing Key Box 117 t Augusta Post Office. fictf june 14 The Friends of Col. VVM. B. BOW LN, will support him for Major Gene ral of the 4th Division, Georgia Militia, at tho election to be held on the July, of inst The Division is composed of Wilkes, Lincoln, Elbert, Madison, Jackson and Franklin counties. july 6 d&ctd RSHALL HOUSE, Savannah, Ga KJK—G. Fargo, Proprietor, (late of the U. S. Hotel, Augusta.) apr 15 ly Ca. Railroal, Augusta, Geo., 21st May, 1853.—0 n and after Monday, 23d inst., a Passenger Train will leave Aiken, daily, (Tuesday and Sunday excepted) at 8:30 a. m., and Hamburg at 5 p. m., until further notice, may 22 G. B. Lythgoe, Gen 1. Sup. „ Office South Carolina Railroad Com pany, Augusta, July 9th, 1853. Tho Passenger and Mail Trains for Charleston, will leave this Company's Local Depot, Centre street, at A. M., on and after Sunday, 10th inst. july 10 W. J. Magkatii, Agent. gar--—Augusta Gas Eight Company.— Dtvt- ISL dend No. 2.—A dividend of two dol lars and fifty conts per share will be paid on appli cation to Robert T. Harriss, Esq., at the office of the Auguta Insurance and Banking Company Henry H. Cumming, July 14 President. j Fresh Congress Water can always be had wholesale or retail, at tho Drug , Store under tho Augusta Hotel. ' > n2 ° tr , Premium Daguerrean Gallery, duT farm of Tucker & Perkins . • been dissolved by limitation last February th*™* dersigned will continue to practice the an XT uerreotypmg in all its various branches, and bis long practical experience he feels confix r . oai his ability to please the most fastidious ° nt of Iho pictures now being taken at this GalW pronounced by those who are judges sun^? ar ° tone and life-like expression, to any ever hJr m produced in . Artists purchasing Stock, will please k in mind that materials are sold at lower rates tk M at any other house this side of New York ma v u Soda Water —This delightful ar T, healthy beverage, with every vaifi of the best Syrups, will be furnished from this at tho Drug Store under the Augusta Hotel Tk fountains are entirely new, and the public mav H ' P cnd upon getting good Soda Water of the n LJI quaiity- PHILIP A. MOISE 3t 1 Druggist. A Card—The undersigned retaP ikr-PSL thanks to bis friends and the pubi’o sis their past patronage, and respectfully announce! that he has associated with him Mr. JOSEPH a . BEALS, late of Savannah, and will conduct bust ness under the name and style of COFFIN "v BEALS, in all the branches of PAINTING namely ; House, Sign and Ornamental Patvt ING, GILDING; GRAINING; GLAZING if 1 ’ JOHN G. COFFIN Office in Jackson, cornerof Grecnestreet. * ’ The under mode and tune to announce to the citizens of Au gusta and vicinity, that having received the bei of tuition from good masters, they are enabled to furnish work in stylo equal to that obtained else where ; such as Military, Civic and Society BAX. NERS ; Designing, Ornamental, Fresco, Panneb led and Marble WALLS, Plain and Ornamental SIGNS; SHADES, Ac. JOHN G. COFFIN sept 22 lv JOSEPH A. BEALS. Malcom I). Jones will be as a candidate for the House of R. p re , sentatives from Burke countv in the next Lcghk ' t»ro by [july 3] Manv Voteks. ’ 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 ere 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 perform? and by the great and constantly increasin? mand. There has been sold within the past year more than THREE MILLIONS OF BOTTLES, and there can bo but few persons found who do not bestow upon it tho highost praise for the rare virtues it possesses. Nothing, perhaps, since the creation of the world, has been so successful as an oxternal remedy for all nervous diseases, as this wonderful curative. When applied, it instants neously diffuses itself through the whole system, sooth ng tho 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 were 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 grow 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 relief. I took her to the 1 most eminent doctors in tho 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 the tonsils must be cut off, as tho only means of giving relief. My wife would not consent to this, and she determined to try your Liniment, which gave relief the very first application, and by a continued use she entire ly recovered. She is now ton 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. —The public are cau. tioned against another counterfeit, which has late ly mado its appearance, called W. B. Farrell’s Ara ■ bian Liniment, the most dangerous of all the coun terfeits, because his having the name of Farrcfl, many will buy it in good faith, without the know ledge that a counterfeit exists, and they will, per haps, only discover their error when the spurious mixture has wrought its evil offects. 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 he ad dressed. Be sure you get it with tho letters H. G, before Farrell’s, thus—ll. G. FARRELL’S—and his siguature on the wrapper, and all others are counterfeits. Sold by lIAVILAND, lIISLEY & CO.. Augusta, da., and by regularly authorized agents throughout the United States. OF" Price 25 and 50 cents, and $1 per bottle. Agents Wanted in every town, villago and hamlet in the United States, in which one is not already established. Address 11. G. Farrell as above, accompanied with good reference as to character, responsibility, Ac. dAc4 july 6 From Barmtm’s Illustrated News.— Acrostic. Mexicam Mustang Liniment Every land has hailed with „ Xtaey this preparation whoso Intrinsic merits has introduced its Curative powers to the notice of tho whole American people. Rhematism oflong duration: Neuralgia, with its tortures, have yielded to its Magical influence; cancers, contorted joints, Ulcerated and swollen limbs that have Suffered for years under t e weight of disease, Turn by its application to suppleness and health. A remedy of such general usefulness that can re store Newness of Action to the diseased nerves, arteries and Glands of tho human body, is worthy of high 1 praise. Let tho rheumatic, halt, lame and palsied Invalid examine its qualities, and they will Not be disappointed. Years of study and Investigation have enabled the proprietors of the Mexican Mustang Liniment to furnish a remedy, Extraordinary in its power over diseases, No matter of how long standing—sold at Tho agents in all parts of the Union, july 6 30 | A Good Comparison.—The Rev Wil- I Rum Roulatt, a well-kown Methods 1 clergyman, residing at Naples, draws the follnwin? | amusing but apt comparison, between Dr. M’Lanei | celebrated Vermifuge and a terret:— “ A ferret, when placed at tho entrance of a rat- I hole, enters the aperture, travels along the pa-'- J sago, seizes upon the rat, exterminates his existence § and draws the animal’s defunct carcass to the light I And in manner I have found Dr. MLanf'i 8 American \ermifuge to operate upon worms, tho 4 1 dreadful and dangerous tormentors of children j This remedy, like the feret, enters the aperture of j the month, travels down the gullet, hunts round j the stomach, lays hold of the worms, shakes tb ? 3 life out of the reptiles, sweeps clean their den, a** 1 carries their carcasses clear out of the system This, at least, has been tho effect of the Vermifn? . upon my children.” A neighbor of Mr. Roulatt, Mr. John Briggs J adopts tho simile of the reverend certifier, thus | both giving their most unequivocal approval oi 1 this great specific, after having witnessed its opera tion upon their own children. Let others try.' l, l and be satisfied. So;d by HavilanJ, Risley & Co., and Wm.B- ? Tutt, Augusta, Ga.; P. M. Cohen A Co., Charles ton, S. C.; Hill A Smith, Athens, Ga; E. C. J»a e -’ 1 Madison; A. A Solomons; Savannah; and byf Druggists and Dealers in Medicine throughout 1 South. july 15 j112c2 r Augusta, July 18th, 1853.—CLAj' 1 TON A BIGNON are from this da» j offering their remaining stock of Summer C r - oTH j J| ing at very low prices. Persons in want will 9 it to their interest to give them a call. ftn __ | We have frequently heard thel brated German Bitters, sold by P r , Jj M. Jackson, 120 Arch street Philadelphia, sp°* ■ of in terms of.the highest commendation, ft .'L M honestly believe that it is one of the best medictf'- K advertised for tho complaints for which it is reco I mended. They are pleasant to the taste, B be taken under any circumstances by the most fl licate stomach. The press far and wide, have ■> B ted in commending this invaluable I dyspepsia, debility, Ac.; and such are the best j effects of this panacea, that we hope it may be a troduced to every family where dyspepsia has “ d isjlikely to have a victim, july 19 d6cl 9 Marriage Invitations aim *****% Jj Cards written by I POCKET BOOK FOUND, I CONTAINING a sum of MONEY, which the owner can have by fully I identifying the same, and paying ex penses. Enquire at this office. I TO RENT.—From the first of October Jj one Store in Foxos’ Range, opposite t gusta Hotel. Apply to C. ©Aid** | jane 13 1