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2C JUjrabltf. BY JAMES GARDNER, JR. OFFICE ON McINTOSH-STREKT, TBIRn DOOR FRO* THE NORTH-WEST CORNER OP BROAD-STREET. TERMS: Daily paper (if paid in advance) ....per annum. .$8 00 TTi-Weekly (if paid in advance) per annum.. 5 00 Weekly (if paid in advance) ••• •••perannum.. 200 I Wait for Thee. The hearth is swept—the fire is bright, The kettle sings for thee; The cloth is spread— tho lamps are light, The hot cakes smoke in napkins white, And now I wait for thee. Come home, love, home, thy task is done The clock ticks listeningly, The blinds are shut, the curtain down, The warm chair to the fireside drawn, The boy is on my knee. Come home, love, home, his deep, fond eye Looks round him wistfully ; And when the whispering winds go by, As if thy welcome step were nigh, He crows exultingly. In vain—he finds the welcome vain, And turns his glace on mine, So earnestly, that yet again, His form unto my heart I strain, That glance is so like thine.- \ • Thy task is done, we miss thee here ; Wher’er thy footsteps roam, No heart will spread such kindly cheer, No beating heart, no listening ear, Like these will wait thee home. Aha, along the crisp walks fast, That well-known step doth come, The boat is drawn—the gate is past, The babe is wild with joy at last. A thousand welcomes home. The Artesian Well in Charleston. We copy from the New York Journal of Com merce the following paper on the Artesian Well in Charleston, by the Rev. P. N. Lynch, D. D. which was read at the annual meeting of the American Scientific Association recently held-at Cleveland, Ohio. This well, commenced in IS4B, by Mr. An drew C. Welton, under the authority ofthe City Council, is the fifth effort in Charleston to pro cure good water by means of an Artesian Well. In 1824, one was undertaken under the same authority, and sunk to the depth of 335 feet; when the iron rods twisted off in the well, and could not be extracted. In 1826, a second effort was made by private enterprise, and soon aban doned for want of means. In 1846, Captain Bowman undertook one at Fort Sumter, in the harbor, under the authority of the Gene ral Government. The appropiation giving out, this work was suspended, after attaingtbe depth of 360 feet. In 1847, another one was commenced in the city, and was sunk 289 feet. The follow ing year, the City Council engaged the services of Mr. Welton. who had bored many wells in Alabama and # other South Western States, with great success. He preferred to commence anew. From that time the work has been persevering ly followed up with only such delays as were necessary for obtaining tubes, and the well has attained a depth of 1145 feet. Few wells have presented so many difficul ties, or called for greater courage and skill in the engineer. P .The superficial soil of Charleston is a loose al luvial sand, about twenty feet thick, the lower half if which is saturated with water. Beneath this lies a stiff, compact clay, (post pleiocene) gradually passing into a sand, likewise water bearing, and about 40 feet thick At 60 feet below the surface,the firm eocene marl is con centrated, the various strata of which are in the aggregate 650 feet thick. Beneath these, and differing but little from them in mineralogical character, lie the cretaceous strata of as yet un known thickness. Both the eocene and the cre taceous strata consist of alternating layers of hard limestone, firm mail, sandstones, and loose sands, seldom containing less than 20 per cent, of carbonate of lime. Mr. Weltou has had to chisei his way through not less than fifty-four rocks, varying from ten to two feet in thick ness, and amounting in the aggregate to about 250 feet. Cast iron tubes, of 6 feet internal dia meter, were at first sunk 80 feet, to exclude the superficial and the post pleiocerie sands. But as these succeeded in gradually working their way downwards, passing under the mouth of the tube, and into the well, the tubes were sunk deeper at various times, until finally they rested firmly on a thick rock 230 feet deep. Below this point the alternations continued : and generally underneath a large and hard rock, a bed of loose sand was found, which poured into the well. Such a bed the engineer first strove to exhaust, that is, to draw out with the bucket all the sand that would run in and impede the work. By this operation, repeated at various points, the well finally consisted of a series of chambers, some perhaps of several feet in dia meter, one below the other, and all connected to gether by the narrow neck-like passage of the well, 3i inches diameter through the interme diate rocks. At 700 feet the sands ran in so fast and in such quantities, that no progress could be made. The engineer generally found the well 50 or 100, sometimes 140 feet less deep in the morn ing than he had left in the preceding evening.— After toiling in vain for a long time to exhaust the streams, it was determined to shut them out by A system of tubing. To do this, the passages through all the rocks had to be opened, from 3| to fully 5 inches in diameter. This was done. At the depth of 470 feet there was a rock on which the tools had generally been employed, and which caught the tubes.— Withdrawing these, that passage was worked over again. It appeared that a nodule in the rock projected into the passage, and had always driven the tube in an oblique direction. It was at length broken off. Below this rock was a large chamber, and the tools now entering it without losing their perpendicularity, struck°the ► bottom a little on one side of the bore previously made, and which they never could be induced afterwards to enter. From this point down the whole work had to be done over again. This was finally effected, and the sheet iron tubes were sent dawn to shut out the sands. The well was then continued down to i,020 feet. But again the sands came in. and filled the well for over a hundred feet. The tubling, several hundred feet of which had been sent down, was found too light and unmanageable. The engi neer resolved to withdraw it, and insert wrought iron tubes, 4| external and 4 inches internel di ameter, brewed together so as to form one con tinuous tube from the butlom of the well to the surface ol the earth. This was the largest size which the somewhat warped cast iron tubing at the top would allow to pass through. Twenty-four teet of the light tubing obstin ately refuse 1 obe extracted, and remained fixed in the well, more than 700 feet below the sur face. Northing daunted, the engineer thrust a portion of it aside into the chambers, and cut his way through the rest, and has finally succeeded in sinking the wrought iron tubes to the depth of 1,102 feet; and has bored 43 feet lower still. In sinking these tubes, which generally fol lowed a few feet behind the auger or chisel, lit tle difficulty was met, save from the rocks When one of these was encountered, the tube was arrested, if possible, a foot or eighteen inch es above its su-face, and a tool invented by Mr. Welton was sent down, which could be opened when on the bottom, so as to cut a hole five inches in diameter, and which could be closed at pleasure, so as to be withdrawn again through the narrow passage of the tube. At times, the tubes would rest immediately on the rock, or would be caught by some protuberance, while passing through it. In this case, the tool just referred to, was not sufficient; for it could open out only a certain distance below the mouth ol the tube, which it would therefore leave stand ing on a ledge. Here the engineer having first drilled a 3£ inch hole entirely through the rock and into the substratum below it. sent down an other tool closed during its descent, and made to open out below the rock, and to cut a passage through it, of the requisite size, from the bottom upwards to the mouth ol the tube. This done, the tool could be closed and withdrawn. None of those tools caused any embarrassment, or failed to effect their purpose, although worked with a handle more than a thousand feet long. Notwithstanding the use of the most perfect tubes that could be procured, the sand still con tinued to give annoyance. The rods were with drawn, they would rush in from below with the water, to full the vacant sp«:ce, sometimes filling the well to the depth of 60 feet, almost instan taneously. This was remedied by building a re seller at a sufficient height, from which, as the rods were withdrawn, the water was let into the well, so as to produce a downward current through the pipes. Such a current was likewise made use of at times to loosen and start the sands packed about the mouth of the tube and allow it to proceed. The lateral pressure on the tubes has rapidly increased as they descend, requiring a powerful leverage and heavy blows of a rammer to force them down. When started, however, they fre quently descend very rapidly until arrested' by a rock. The present system can scarcely be sunk any Jowery, for although the bottom is free, so great is the lateral pressure that the tubes cannot be started by a power under which the joints show signs of giving way. Other tubing of such a size as to let down inside of the present system will be speedily procured, when it is hoped the work will again be prosecuted. A brief notice of the principal tools may r.ot be out of place. The Rods used are of pine, about 31 inches in diameter, and 30 feet long, tapering at their extremities, where they are armed with iron heads bearing screws. The tool to be used is screwed to a rod, and both are let down into the well until only one end of the rod, bearing a male screw, projects obove the mouth of the well, where it is firmly held by an iron catch or yoke, beneath a suitable iron band on the screw. A second rod is then screw ed on the first one, and is similarly let down and caught. A third is screwed to the seceond and so on, until the bottom is reached. The up per rod is held suspended either wholly or in part, as the Engineer desires, by a movable pul ley, and bears a cross bar on the handle, by means of which the workman may turn the rods and tool as they please. The chief tool is the Auger, used for boring clays, marl or any consistent layer not of stony hardness. It is exceedingly simple and ingeni ous. A stout blade an inch wide and half an inch thick, slightly tapering towards an extrem ity is twisted like an auger, and terminates on two cutting edges, like those of a drill for boring iron. About six inches above the point, two bitts, like those of a plane, are securely fastened, one on each side of the central bitt, and are in clined at an angle of 45 deg. so as to fit exactly his auger, like the twist of the blade; the up per extremities of those bitts are extended back wards horizontally, so as to give some support to the lead, when packed above the auger. The upper portion pf the central blade terminates in a strong tube wirh a screw. The auger thus made, is screwed to a metal tube 18 or 20 feet long, and this again is screwed to the lowest or first rod. The earth cut by the side bits into shavings, ascends their inclination, and is gradu ally packed around the stem. In a tenacious soil, such a lead soore becomes an air and water tight piston in the well, which cannot be ex tracted from a great depth wtihout great risk of breaking tools, and machinery. In Mr. Wel ton’s auger, (patented by him and Mr Cooper, his partner in Alabama) this difficulty is admi rably obviated. The stem, or metal tube above the auger, has three or four suitable orifices near i its top. As the load is raised, the water above enters these passes down and issues through two apertures beneath the side bitts into the cavity i under the load. By a dexterous manipulation of this instrument, in a suitable soil, ten feet may be bored, and the entire load brought up, at a single insertion of this auger. Where rocks are encountered the chisol must j be used. This is made in the usual form, and is rendered weighty by the use of one or two iron rods to which it is screwed. A slip link, two feet long, unites this tool to the wooden rods, which are so suspended that when the chisel is j on the bottom the slip link has five or six inch- j es’ play. The upper rod is raised, say, two feit and a hall, by which the slip link is tightened and the chisel raised two leet. The whole is let fall; the chisel strikes the rock, the rods continue their descent for six inches more, and thus escapes the shock of the concusssion, which would otherwise quickly shatter their joints.—, The detritus of rocks chipped by the chisel, or the mud and sand that collects in the bottom of the well, is extracted by a copper tube or bucket, twenty feet long, of nearly the same di ameter as the well and having a valved bottom. This is likewise the. most efficient tool for enter ing light sands, provided the tubing of the well is made to keep pace with it. The eccentric chisel and various other tools for enlarging the well, and the instruments for extracting broken rods, lost tools, &c., are equal ly ingenious and efficient. A description of them, however, would be tedious and perhaps not made intelligible without drawings. The Charleston Basin is formed by a depression in the cretace ous strata as they descend the Atlantic slope, and pass under the waters of the Atlantic. Its narrow diameter or minor axis, from near Georgetown to Lexington, is about 120 miles To the north-east the cretacious strata crop out; to the south-west the lower ocean beds immedi ately over the cretaceous strata, are,seen the surface, while to the north-west the £hnds and testiary clays lie on the granite. It w&s origin ally hoped that the lowest testify #>fetaturn un der Charleston would be a feeding /and, the continuation of that whiclfaqfl Kie K. \V. edge immediately overlies the grani|eAnd is ra versed by the chief river of the This has not been realized. The lovve!?t&estiajr\\, straii turn proved to be an argillacious rfcark, inwhicdV little or no water was found. V%e are now bod ing to reach those cretacious sands, yrhich a|e exposed on the N. E. edge J>asin, &uftl which in Alabama yield a plentiful n water to several hundred wells! 1 So iar, several streams of water have been met, the lowest of which rose in the tubes ten feet over the sur face. Os the Geological results of the well nothing need be said here ; the fossils it has yielded will firid an appropriate place in the forthcoming work of Professors Tuomey and Holmes. The temperature of the well has been examin ed from time to time as the work* progressed.— For this purpose, we used a Six’s Register Ther mometer, obtained from Pike, in New York.— With the first, the temperature at the depth of 900 leet, was repeatedly taken and found to be [unaffected?] by its submersion in water, to such a depth. We compared it repeatedly with the best thermometers by us, before it was sub mersed. The first experiment was again to try the temperature at the depth of 900 feet. The in dex marked 82J F., as before. Some time after wards, other experiments were made at various depths, with erratic and uncertain results. A careful comparason of it, with other instruments shows that now it permanently marks 12 deg. above the real temperature. The reputation of the maker, and the first tri al by myself, giving a true answer, satisfy me that it was then accurate. Is the present error due to the pressure of the column of water in the well? I am informed that at sea such a submersion would shatter the glass. In the well we could handle it more gently. It was guar ded by a tin cylender, and let down and handed up by hand, with all possible delicacy and cau tion. The following was then offered by Prof. J. L. Smith: The examination of the calcarious matter through which this well passes, affords many points of interest, both geologically and chemi cally. Jn the former point of view, remarks were thought unnecessary, as it has been fully treated by Prof. Tuomey. It has been examin ed most thoroughly in a chemical sense by my self, and the marl found to contain large.quanti ties of phosphate of lime, as much as from five to eight per cent. This fact is most important in an Agricultural point of view as the marl can be obtained in great abundance, and at little cost; for it will be seen that not only will cor bonate of lime be furnished to the soil, but a large amount of phosphate of lime, the fertaliz ing nature of this last being known. The pres ence of ammonia and some organic acid were de tected in this matter, coming from the bed thro’ which the artesian well will penetrate. Other remarks were made about the fossil infusoria: that exists in the support in vast num bers. The origin of the phosphate of lime was also commented on. The Weather and Crops. —Asa matter of interest to distant subscribers, we inform them that the gloomy apprehensions of a failure of the crops, which lately seemed inevitable, have been entirely dispelled. About (he middle of July the drought was broken by heavy rains, which have continued until this time. The crops have revived to an extent almost incredi ble. The corn crop will be equal to that of last year. Corn was, a month ago, not to be had at a dollar a bushel. Now it is selling at from six ty to eighty cents, and must still materially de cline. The papers from every part ofthe State bring the same cheering news In the eleventh hour we are unexpectedly delivered from the jaws of famine. Jubilate.—Abbeville Press, 16 ik intt. The Accident on the Frovidence and Wor cester Railroad. The Boston Journal has the following addi tional particulars of this dreadful railroad acci dent : The trains came in collision when going at neatly full speed. The result was terrible. The first car of the down train was smashed to pieces the tender having been driven through it. The second car was not much injured, but was diiven into the third car, about half its length. The five rear cars were not much injured. In the first passenger car there were only twelve or fif teen passengers, three or lour of whom were killed outright, and nearly all the others were more or less injured. In the third car some of the passengers were killed outright, and others were badly injured. Several passengers were taken out of the above cars dead, and at least fifteen badly, of them probably mortally wounded. Among the killed was John H. Perkins, fire man of the Uxbridge train. He leaves a wife and two chidren at Uxbridge. Mr. J. P. Butts, of Millville, and his grandson, a boy of ten years of age, were in the first (car, and escaped most miraculously. The car was totally demolished, but he and the boy were thrown in a most in explicable manner out at the side of the car, and rolled down an embankment thirty feet high. Mr. Butts was not injured. The boy had a se vere cut on the head, Another of the passen gers, belonging in Millville, was thrown out in the same way, and was not injured. Most, if not all the other passengers in this car were either badly wounded or killed. A very large number of the passengers who escaped serious injury in this train were cut by the splinters. The Providence train contained only two cars —a first and second class car. Nearly all the seats in these cars were broke up, but none of the passengers were dangerously in jured. The engineer of one of the trains to Boston which passed the scene of disaster, informs the Traveler that he saw one man corne out from | among the rubbish, with his clothes almost torn from his body, the side of his head and face much jammed, and one of his arms suspended only by the skin. Another was token out alive from the ruins with both arms cut entirely off. Others were sitting helplessly, wedged in among the ruins, much injured in various ways, and some of them groaning pitiously, The scene of the disaster is described by others jas most heart-rending. On every side of the broken cars were piojecting bodies and frag | merits ol bodies. Those who escaped injury im mediately set themselves at work to remove the wounded and the dead. The heat greatly aggravated the distress, and may cause many more deaths than would otherwise ensue. A new conductor and engineer had charge of the excursion train. There were twelve persens killed and thir teen wounded ; some very severely—others slightly. Boston, Aug. 12, Evening. —We have furthe details of the disaster to-day on the Worcester road. At last accounts two brothers, named Batton were dying. The Coroner’s jury ad journed their investigation until to-morrow morning. The dead bodies have been placed in neat coffins, and sent to their various homes so interment. With the exception of two or three the killed were all factory operatives. The rest of the wounded, it is thought, will recover,though some of them will lose an arm, or leg, or be otherwise crippled. Thousands of persons visited the scene to-day, to see the bodies and the ruins of the cars. Among the incidents of the disaster is a very miraculous escape of a little girl, whose mother was killed. It appears that she was sitting on the foremost seat of the cars when the shock took place. The back of the seat opposite her was jammed against her breast, so that she could scarcely breath. She screamed for assistance, and her life was saved by forcing back the tim ber with a rail, and dragging her out. A man who sat on the same seat with her was instant ly killed by a large splinter running through him. Mr. Hoppin, a seg? r maker of Providence, crawled out from beneath the Worcester train, but little injured. Two men were killed by his side. Mr. Clark, manager of the coal mine at Valley Falls, who was on the same seat with Mr. Penny, escaped uninjured Mrs. Caroline R. E. Dike, who was taken to the house of Mr. George Jenks, died in about two hours in great agony. Prospects of the Cotton Crop. —Our ex changes bring us uniform accounts of continued wet weather and consequent injury to the grow ing crop of cotton. The complaint is universal that the rains have accelerated the growth as the plant to an extraordinary degree, causing the young form to fall off, the grown bolls to rot, and retarding the early maturity of those that escape destruction by the unusual moisture. The opin ion prevails in many portions of the country that the yield will not reach more than half. Some contend that the crop will be an average one, while a much greater number insist that it will fall short one-half. The effect of this general belief will be that the planters confiding in the limited production and the consequent advance in prices, will delay sending their crops to mar ket. We may, therefore, look for light receipts during the early part of the season at hand. A fall in the prices of bagging and bale rope must also follow.— N. O. Crescent, 9th inst. An Elective Judiciary in Tennesske. —By an act of the last Legislature of Tennessee, the question of an election of judicial officers by the people was submitted to them to be voted upon in the late State election. The Nashville Union expresses fears that the proposition has failed, in consequence of a failure of the voters to place the proposition on their tickets as the law direc ted. -Itsayß that there is no doubt but three fourths of the people are in favor of the propo sition ; but amidst the excitement attending the contest for Governor, Congress, and the Legisla ture, the question as to amending the constitu tion has been overlooked. We hope the result will show that the grounds of the Union are un founded. It is one of those reforms which en large the basis of popular power, andjillustrates fully the capacity of the people for self govern ment.— Washington Union. M hig Unionism not Profitable in Alaba ma.—The Whigs of Alabama don’t find their Union Conservative Republican speculation j profitable. Winston, the Democratic nominee, who was exceedingly distasteful to them on ac ; count of his “ fire eating” propensities, has been elected Governor by about 10,000 majority. Six out ol seven of the members of Congress are Democrats—Abercrombie being the only Uuion | Whig who is successful. In the Legislature, | which has two United States Senators to choose, the Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.) claims a majority of from 23 to 25 on joint ballot. But the unkindest cut of all is the stab which the Montgomery Journal, (formerly one ofthe strongest ofthe Union Whig organs) gives to the “ humbug.” Hear him Whigs of Georgia : “ While the Whigs have done unusually well in the House, they have inevitably lost the Sen ate, which fora number of years, we had car ried, and had control of that House. The Sen ate now stands 21 locos to 12 whigs, which car ries us back to the days of ’4O, and the result of thirteen weary years is all lost at a dash. All this is the effect of the attempt to keep up the hum bug of Unionism after the issue hud no longer rea son or vitality J The Alabama Whigs have discovered, as will those of Georgia, we believe, sooner or later, that a little honesty is good policy, even in poli tics. i'he idea of resorting to Unionism and Ccnseivatism in the hope of smuggling Whigs into office, under these names, is trickery too barefaced to receive the countenance of a ma jority of the honest voters of Georgia. It will be rebuked in this State as it has been in Ala bama.—Sav. Georgian, 16 th inst. Copper Mines in Lumpkin. —Late diseov eiies jnstify the belief that portions 4 of Lumpkin county are exceedingly rich in Copper mines. A vein has been traced some four miles, pre senting as favorable surface rock as those of Tennessee. Leases have been already secured upon a number of lots, and preparations are about being made to test the vein by sinking a shaft ; —should it prove as favorable as the sur face indicates immense fortunes will be realized from them. Gold mining is also looking up; the introduc tion of the Force pump is likely to effect much in developing mines heretofore out of the reach ol water; there is one of those Pumps now in successful operation upon the mine of R. H. iloore, Esq., under the superintendence and management of Mr. Wm. Rhodes, a skillful ma chinist, enabling them to work portions of the mine heretofore out of the reach of water, an ~ 8 j this mine is now paying very well. « re a^ a ,nys uc hin our county, the most ot them like the one named, located so as to re quire machinery to force water to their level. We predict that immense fortunes will yet be realized from the mines of Lumpkin.—Dahlone ga Signal, 13 th inst. ITT I || AUGUSTA, GA. THURSDAY MORNING AUGUST 18. FOR GOVERNOR, HON. HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. Os Baldwin County. CEP” See First Page of Daily. The Suffering Poor of New Orleans. We are pleased to see by the following call, which was left at our office, by one of our most respectable citizens, that a meeting will be held this afternoon, at 4 o’clock at the City Hall, for the purpose of giving relief to the suffering poor of New Orleans. We hope to see it well atten ded, and that our citizens will respond with their usual liberality. Public Meeting. —The citizens of Augusta, are requested tojmeet at the City Hall this after noon, at 4 o’clock, to adopt suitable measures for the relief of the suffering poor of New Orleans. Concert Hall. Mr. I. S. Campbell, the Yankee Delineator it will be seen gives an entertainment at Con cert Hall this evening. Those who wish to laugh and grow fat, should attend. are requested by C. W. Young, Esq. to state that he will address the citizens of Au gusta, on Friday Evening. 19th inst., at the city Hall. Something for the Scott Men every where to Read. So great was the disappointment of all of the Whigs at the failure of either Mr. Fillmore or Mr. Webster to obtain the nomination, that it was some days before the strong-minded and indepen dent men of the party could determine what to do. They soon, however, recovered from the first ef fects of this severe shock, and found that instead ot being dead, they were still living and free citizens, capable of thinking and acting for themselves. They therefore went about at once to investi gate the following points: Ist. Whether there had been any foul play practiced in the convention ? 2d. What was the platform—how and by w’hom constructed ? 3d. Was the nominee a Whig, and had he fully accepted ? 4th. Who was this General Scott in particu lar—what were his talents, antecedents, charac ter ; and whether he had ever rendered any ser vices to the country ? sth. Provided every thing was right, was it their duty as Whigs to sustain the nomination for the sake of principle, leaving entirely out of the calculation the idea of success ? Now, these points very soon underwent a thorough sifting, and the result was not only satisfactory in every minutia, but highly gratify ing, and the consequence was that the minus of those Whigs, who had not acted from a panic, were ever alter in a calm, decided, and content ed condition, so far as their own conduct was concerned. To them it was obvious that no thing irregular or unfair had occurred in the convention; that the platform laid down was such as it should be, both as to national and sec tional issues; that the nominee was an old and long-tried Whig, and that the General Scott named as such, was no less a personage than Winfield Scott, the 11 hero ot three wars and ten pitch battles,” whose military renown was known and read of by all men ; that he was a man of unblemished character, of great diversi ty of talent and ability, honest and capable; the soul of honor and patriotism, and an American in side and out as his history would show ; and, in addition to all, born and bred under a Southern sun ; that the people of Georgia had twice voted for military Presidents inferior to him; and, finally, they concluded that under all these cir cumstances and facts in the case, that it was the highest duty of every man,who considered himself a Whig, Union Whig, Compromise Whig, North ern Whig or Southern Whig, or any other species or description of Whig, by whatever name it was politic or agreeable for him to be known, if he wanted to see Whig principles ever again in the ascendant, now was the time to make a strong pull, a long pull, and a pull altogether, for the regular nominee ot their par ty. This was the feeling and conclusion of the Scott men every where in the State. ' The only thing they wanted was a bold, fearless, . reliable leader, who would take hold and organize • them at once—one who had the confidence of * Whigs, who could lead “ a forlorn hope” if ne cessary, and who had the moral power to re fc move the fears and doubts of those who appear - ed to be shaken in the faith, and impart unto them new life and animation for the coming contest. Who was this man ? Mr. Dawson was at Washington, and had spoken for Scott as loud and as much as he could ; but then, by the time ! he could get back to Georgia, beat the drum, and call the roll, the men would be scattered , every where. There w r as no time for delay. Mr. Miller was here, it is true, strong enough and with pluck enough for any emergency, but he had openly declared in favor of the Democratic nominee, provided he was sound on the slavery question, and the party adopted the compromise measures as a final settlement of the difficulty between the two sections of the Union—all of which was done, and even Mr. Miller, an old hard-shell Whig, and one of the last of the rear guard of the “ Constitutional Union Party,” voted for Pieice. To Mr. Jenkins all eyes were turned. He had been a Whig of the purest, strictest sort, and never evinced the least shadow of turn ing. He was well known to the people, and in the full enjoyment of their confidence, and whose opinions and advice were entitled to the highest consideration from the party he had so often served with honor. No matter what other leaders might do, the fate of Gen. Scott in Georgia was in his hands. He was appealed to. Nor were their hopes long to be suspended in doubt. In a letter, dated Ist July, 1852, after the nomination had been made, he unbosomed himself to Peter W. Alexander, Esq., of the Savannah Republican, and soon thereafter, on the wings of the press, it flew throughout the country to be read and studied by Whig and Democrat, that he, Mr. Jenkins, would not support General Scott. Thus was the question settled. The effect of such a decision of Mr. Jenkins on the hopes and prospects of the Scott men in Georgia was too blasting to be described even at this day. When he refused, it was taking away the heart of the party—the fountain of life—and no more was it seen to move in full vigor and health and power, but in spite of all this retained a degree of energy and vitality, lived to see the day of election, and then quietly breathed out its last. “ Hope, that bids expectation rise,” has centered on Mr. Jenkins. Messrs, i Stephens and Toombs were fast, rash, impetu- i ous politicians — men who were continually fly- < *ng off; wild, and erratic in their course. At times assuming positions and making declarations and hasty expressions, which made the limbs of an o d and sober-sided Whigs tremble for the safety of his party. Then again for a time they would be so steady and well behaved, and toe the mark so close, that they were regarded as the exponents of Whig principles every where. But this class of bat politicians, half beast and halt bird—half whig and half democrat—that would light on any side, particularly the strong one, was what the Scott men did not w r ant. They required just such a man as Mr. Jenkins had here tofore been, true and consistent —who had oppo sed going to the Democratic Convention from the first, and never encouraged, in any way, the move, and who had never said that the Northern Democrats were our best friends. To such a man did they wish to link the destiny of their party. How bitter was their disappointment when they called—he refused. When Senato Dawson saw that letter to P. W. Alexander* Esq., he was prepared to call the Scott Whigs together and say as Marcus Antonius, 4 ' if you have tears to shed, prepare to shed them now r ; ” and holding it in one hand, and the old Whig uniform in the other, he would say : “ Look, in this place ran Toombs’ dagger through.” “ See what a rent the envious Ste phens made.” But never, oh ! fellow-whigs, did I ever expect to say, “ through this, the well be loved Jenkins, stabbed.” “ This w'as the most unkindest cut of all”—’twas this that vanquish ed us. Artesian Wells. As the subject of Artesian Wells has been started in our city, and our City Fathers have the subject under serious consideration, we pub lish an article in this day’s paper, taken from the New York Journal of Commerce, being a paper read by the Rev. P. N. Linch, D. D., before the American Scientific Association, lately held at Cleveland, Ohio, on the Artesian Well under construction in Charleston, to which we would ask the attention of our citizens. These Wells are no doubt a great blessing to the citizens of low or prairie lands, where good water is difficult to be obtained from the surface. But in Augusta, where we are blessed with a bountiful supply of the purest and best water, almost at our doors, the propriety of sinking such a well should be weighed with deliberate consideration before the attempt is made, or we may be left in the situation of the frogs praying for a king. Suppose, for instance, in sinking such a well we should strike the vein which supplies Turknett’s spring. It might not give us its present supply; we go further, and, instead of bettering our condition, ex haust our present resource of drinking W’ater. In that event, we would have to fall back on the river and canal. Why not do this at once? We are now r certain of a supply from the first source, and from the latter, by the expenditure of 50 a $60,000, we can have a bountiful supply of water which can be carried over the roofs of our highest houses. The same opportunity to obtain this supply of water by our citizens, if enjoyed by any other city in the Union of the same size, would be estimated cheap at $l5O to $200,000. The difference in insurance alone, to our citizens, with this supply of water at hand, would pay more than seven or even ten per cent, on the outlay. Why throw away this boon which is placed at our very doors, and can be accomplished at a very moderate cost, and resort to means used by those only who cannot better their condition in any other way ? So long as there is running water in the Savannah river above the entrance to the canal, we can depend on it in Augusta, and the time has never yet been when the canal would not furnish a sufficient supply, even for the city of New York without materially effecting the objects lor which it was constructed. (communicated.) The course pursued by the Chronicle Sf Senti nel, in the publication of certain acts of Judge Johnson, and which are desired to be kept before the people, forming in the opinion of that print an insurmountable barrier between him and the Executive chair, is well calculated to call torth from the Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, the exclama tion of ‘'save me from my friends.” In the issue of that paper of Sunday last was contained an article of which the following form ed a part: FACTS TO BE REMEMBERED. Keep it before the People. —That Herschel V. Johnson denounced the Union Convention of 1850 as a “ contemptible pack.” Keep it before the People. —That Herschel V. Johnson was a prominent supporter of the Nash ville Convention and its odious fdatform. Keep it before the People. —That Herschel V. Johnson advocated a Southern Congress after the Nashville Convention had been openly disap proved by the Union men of Georgia. Keep it before the People. —That Herschel V. Johnson denounced the Compromise men of Georgia as Submissionists and said they were either fools or knaves. Keep it before the People. —That Herschel V. Johnson was, in 1851, a supporter of Charles J. McDonald, the President of the Nashville Con vention. It to happens, that if those “ facts to be re. membered” and to be kept before the people , are of the heinous import, which is desired to be placed upon them, that near one-third of the former Whig party were coadjutors with Judge John son, in holding and acting out those principles . many of whom would not now shrink from the avowal, but on the contrary, take pride in t e holding such views, as well as the facts being re membered, and kept conspicuously before the people. The writer of this article was and still is a Southern Rights men ; was formerly a Whig, but does not now belong to either of the two most predominant political parties of this State, in the present unsettled state of parties. He with many others similiarly situated, do not affiliate entire ly with the Democratic party, nor can they in any respect with any of the off' shoots of the Fuss and Feathers party , under their various dis guises, of Webster, Constitutional Union, Con servative or Tugalos. Many such, and the writer among them, have so high a respect for Mr. Jenkins, on account of his well deserved character for moral principle, impartiality, mental attainments, added to sen timents of private friendship and peculiar asso ciations, that they desire and would take plea sure in voting for him, at the ensuing election could they do so without being insulted by his opponent being stigmatized for holding identical I views with themselves. If the holding of these 1 opinions by Judge Johnson subject him to de nunciation by the supporters of his opponent, then what, I would ask, can be thought of the consistency, nay more, the honesty of those who ! holding the same views charged against Judge ! Johnson, desert him and support Mr. Jenkins. ' however much they might be so inclined under ! other circumstances, and for the reasons stated, j , Should those, thus circumstanced, who have intended to support Mr. Jenkins, be finally driven to change their purpose, on account of the course complained of, then Mr. Jenkins might in truth, have been profitted by being - saved from his friends, if the Chronicle <s• Sentinel ( composes a portion of them. Brutus, An extaact from a private letter has found its way into the papers, which gives a very graph ic and truthful description of the prominent characteristics of the President. It was written in reference to his contemplated visit to New York to attend the opening of the Crystal Pal ace : * “ General Pierce is ardent in his tempara ment, acute in his sensibilities, and impulsive in his feelings. But discipline has made them sub ordinate to prudence. They all sprang from no ble aspirations, enlarged generosity, active phi lanthrophy and exalted honor. He loves his country as a patriot should, and he loves his fel low man with a tolerant and generous brother hood. He has no dark corners in his soul to hide away resentments and nurse revenge—he has no concealments that would dishonor the purest magnanimity, and he has no disguise that would mock praiseworthy gratitude—the posses sion of exalted station gives him no pride to pamper and no exclusiveness to •ffend. He bows with humility to this attestation of popu lar confidence and favor, never forgetting that though he is Chief Magistrate, he has been ta ken from the ranks, and will return to the ranks as one of the sovereign people. Bring him within the reach of the influences that cluster around his heart and guide his con duct, and Gen. Pierce will exhibit those ele ments that most commend, dignify, and honor the character of man. He will make these impressions upon the thousands that will hear his ardent and graceful elocution ; and more than this, with those who may come within the range of social inter course.’ 7 E. P. Stanton Elected by Six Majority ! Tenth Congressional District.— The fol lowing is the official vote in the 10th District. It is a shame that the Whigs suffer Yerger to be beaten : E. P. Stanton. E. M. Yerger. Madison 808 1249 Hardeman 1029 656 Shelby 1422 1543 Fayette 1039 975 Haywood 828 697 5126 5120 5120 Stanton’s maj.. 6 [Nashville Banner , 12 th inst. This is a small majority, but it is better than 6 for Yerger.— Chattanooga Adv ., 1 6th inst. Yellow Fever on Shipboard.— We are in formed by an officer ot the Revenue Cutter Hamilton, that while off Tybee, on Sundayfceve ning, the Cutter fell in with the ship John Cummins. Capt. Alexander Havens, of Ports mouth, twenty-one days from New Orleans bound for Bordeaux, with two cases of yellow fever on board. During the day Capt. Havens had died of the same, and was buried on shore Three of the crew and one passenger (names not given) had died previously. The vessel was found to be in a leaky condition. An offi cer and six men were promptly supplied from the Cutter, and the vessel run into Cockspur Roads, where she now lies at anchor. The health officer of the port has been notified and will afford all possible medical relief to the two sick seamen now on board.— Sav. Georgian , 16 th inst. The Hon. Joseph W. Jackson was yesterday duly qualified, before the Justice of the Inferior Court, as Judge of the Supreme Court of the Eastern District of this State, vice Hon. Henry R. Jackson resigned.—76. New Cotton.— The first bale of new cotton which has reached this city, directly from the planter, was received yesterday from the planta tion of Samuel Maner, Esq., Robertville, S. C. It was consigned to Mr. S. Solomons.--76. Horrid Crimes. —A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing from Jasper county, Missouri, details the following horrible story ot crime : “On Friday night, the 15th July, two ne groes—one belonging to a Mr. Dale and the other a runaway belonging to a Mr. Scott—went to the house of Dr. Fiske, who lives four miles from Carthage, and one stationed himself in the corner of the field, and the other went to the house and told the doctor that his master (Mr. D.) was very sick, and wanted him to come over immediately. The doctor took up his hat and started, the negro following ; and so soon as they reached the spot where the runaway was stationed, both negroes fell on him, one with a club and the other with an axe, and killed him. His head was completely split open with the axe. The villains then went to the house, and both ravished the wife. They then killed her, then killed the child, then robbed the house, and set fire to it and hurried it up. Dale’s negro has been taken, and confessed these facts. Here was every crime that human beings could possibly commit at the same time—murder, rape, robbery and arson. The cup of iniquity is full to the brim. The atrocity of the deed is unparalleled in the annals of crime. Dale’s negro produced $240 that he had taken from the house, and said that the other had got five pieces, but did not know whether they were silver or gold. At last accounts the people of Jasper were scouring the country in search of the runaway, and so sure as they catch him they will relieve the courts of all trouble with them by burning them both at the stake.” Wheeling, Aug. 13th.— Outrageous Attempt to Destroy Life on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road, (Src. —A man named Martin Malvey, lately in the employ of the Baltimore ond Ohio Rail road company, was arrested at Cameron, near Wheeling, this morning upon the awful charge of designedly throwing the passenger train of cars off the track by unlocking and misplacing a switch c n Thursday last near that place. Mr. Bogard, an intelligent iarmer oi the neighbor hood. testifies that at about an hour previous to the arrival of the train from Baltimore, on the day of the accident, he was driving a team home ward, and as he reached the brow of a high hill that overlooks the track he observed Malvey to approach the switch and deliberately take a key from his pocket, unlock the ball or lever, and leave it in that state. Supposing him to be in the service of the company, and acting in obedience to orders, Mr. Bogard said nothing about his discovery, until after he learned the tiain had run off the switch on account of Mat vey's derangement of it. The prisoner was ta ken to Moundsville, on the Ohio river, and safe ly lodged in jail to await his trial. Great credit is due to the Railroad company for the promptness and efficiency with which they have acted in this matter. Mr. Ford, their agent at this station, and Mr. Legrieye, assistant road master, deserve mention for their intelligent labors in ferretting out the accused. Philadelphia, Aug. 14. — Relieffor New Or leans.—The collections in this city in aid of the sufferers by the yellow lever at New Orleans, now amounts to $11,400. New York, Aug. 13. —The contributions for Orleans have now reached $20,000. Paul Julli en proposes a concert in aid of the fund. Arrivals at Stone Mountain House,]Aug. 15 Clark & Hitchcock, Proprietors. Wm. G. Andrews, Troup county. R. H. Jones, ' do. do. Miss Jones, do. do. Miss Hutchings, Lawrenceville, W. H. Young, do. W. N. Hutchings, do. N. L. Hutchings, do. W. P. Finley, Charleston, S. C. J. Buckley Grumbull, do. S. C. Battell, La Grange. Miss M. Y. Jordon, do. Jas. E. McFail and Lady, Liberty county. F. T. Ward, Augusta. G. H. Crump, do. N. Nieholls, Columbus. B. B. Smith,Twiggs county. H. W. W. Henry, DeKalb county. Wm. H. Jemison, do. O. C. Hale, Wells River, Vt. Col. J. Kent, do. W. Erstilla, Lady and ServT, do. Wm. W. Dunbar, Barnwell, S. C. J. A. Hunt, Gwinnett county. “ UGAR AN3S COFFEE. 1 /\/\ HHDS. Porto Rico, N. Orleans Clarified lUU SUGAR. 400 bags Rio, Laguira and Java COFFEE. SCRANTON, SEYMOUR A CO., aug 9 No. 2 Warren Block. Oi W \ COIL,* J and £ inch Kentucky ROPE. DUU SCRANTON, SEYMOUR A CO, aug 0 No. 2 Warreu Block. TK L EGUA Reported for the Constit iUonali«t & HO;> AR RI VaT~~ AMERICA. COTTON DECLINED 1-SJ. Charleston, Aug. 17-p. m ihe steamer America has arrived at Halifa with later intelligence from Europe. Liverpool Cotton Market.— The sales oi the week reached 44,000 bales. Speculator" took 4,000 and exporters 7,000 boles. Fair o” leans is quoted at 6|d., Middling 6d., Fair lands 6fd., Middling sfd. The demand Z moderate, and fair and middling qualities had declined one-eighth pence. Consols 97 a. The Arabia arrived out on Saturday. Political. The Turkish-question was undecided and in creasing doubts. SECOND DESPATCH. The Eastern is nearly decided one way or the other. It is generally believed less favorable to peace. The Czar’s final answer cannot be known till the 12th inst. If he accepts, the troops must be withdrawn from the Principal!, ties. The Conference at Vienna will draw up a treaty for the protection ot Turkey for all time to come. If the Czar refuses the ultimatum or evades a reply, the fleets will pass the Darda nelles, and active operations for the maintenance of Turkey be commenced. The conduct of the Russian Generals in the Principalities indicates the intention qf main taining permanent possession. • It is stated that Australia will demand repara, tion from the United States for the Kosta affair, and that Turkey shall immediately procure his extradiction. It is said that the Czar advised Austria to give the United States no pretence for interfering in the affairs of Europe. Charleston, Aug. 17, Dates to the 13th instant have been received from Halifax. The United States steamer Prince' ton has been visited by Earl Ellesmere and other English officials. They were hospitably enter tained. English vessels are active, but no cap. I tures. At Washington, the Gardiner case has been postponed till December. New York, Aug. 17. Cotton.—Sales 1000 bales, at steady prices. €mnmrrrifll. NEW-ORLEANS, August 13. Cotton.—Ar ived since the sth instrant, 794 bales. Clearod in the same timo 4392 halos. Stock in presses, and on ship-board not cleared on the 12th inst., 16,300 bales. Our last report left the Cotton market in a quiet state, but in a very firm position as respected pri ces, the stock on sale being quite modorato. With in the past week the operations have beon on quite a limited scale, as the light stock on sale has not afforded scope for the selection of thejqualities most in demand, which are bright, clear Cottons, while at the same time the favorable advices from abroad havo influenced holders to claim veiy full rates, The sales of the week sum up 2500 bales, taken principally for England, France and Spain, and the prices, though somewhat irregular, have not varied materially from our quotations of last week, which are coutinued without change. The first bale of the new crop was received here on Tuesday, the 9th inst., being seven days later than the first receipt last year. It was from the plantation of Mr. R. B. Wafford, near Victoria, in Texas, and consigned to Messrs- Williams, Bath urst & Co. It is represented to be fully matured of excellent staple, and classing about Middling Fair. On Thursday a bale was received from the plantation of Mr. Richa rd Flower,of East Feliciana, in this State, consigned to Messrs. K. Dunbar A Co. Neither of these bales had been sold when we made our enquiries. NEW-ORLEANS CLASSIFICATION. (Assimilating to that of Liverpool) Inferior sis a 8 Ordinary to Good Ordinary 8j a 9) Low Middling 9J a 10 Middling lOj a lOj Good Middling 11 j a 111 Middling Fair 11) a— Fair nominal Good Fair nominal Good and Fine nominal Grain. —The market for Corn has continued ex tremely heavy for mixed and yellow, but the sup ply of white being limited, it has commanded full prices. The sales up to Thursday evening com prised 10,500 sacks at 54 a 60 cents for mixed and yellow, and 62> a 65 cents for white, the latter be ing an extreme rate. Yesterday, the only tran sactions reported were 500 sks yellow, in 3 lots, at 60c. This makes an aggregate for the week of 11,- 000 sacks. Freights. — Cotton —Liver pool per lb, Jd.; Hav re, Jc.; New York per bale $2; Boston, $1 50c. SAVANNAH, Aug Hit 15.— Cotton —The sales to-day amount to 62 bales ; 57 at 9J, and sat 101 o ents. SAVANNAH EXPOR TS—Aug. 15. Per barque Charles William, for Boston —69,713 feet Lumber, 379 bales Cotton, 30 do. Wool, 2GO bags Rico Flour, 616 Dry Cow Hides, 136 bundles do-, 4 hhds. and 1 box. pippins Jiitflligritff. ARRIVALS FROM CSaRLBSTON. Brig Tavtar, Sheer, Boston. UP FOR CHARLESTON. Barque Triton, Robinson, at Providence. Barque Sophia, , at Philadelphia. CHARLESTON, August 17.—Arrived, U S M steam ships Osprey, Bernett, Philadelphia; Pal metto; Jackson, Baltimore; brig Lancet, Llaisde!!, Matanzas. Went to sea, brigs Commerce, Burrell, Pont P«- tre, Guad ; Yandalicr, Hake, a Northern port; Pa o Alto, , New-Orleans; schr Jno. Castner, —, Northern port. SAY ANN AH, August 16.—Arrived schr Leopold O'Donnell, Townsond, Baltimore. Cleared, barquo Charles William, Hawes, Bo 3 ' ton. WOOL! WOOL!! I WILL pay the highest cash price for Wool de livered in Augusta, or at any station on tb« Ra Iroad or River; or will give a yard of negr° of ray manufacture, for a pound of un* i washed Wool. GEORGE SCHLEY- j ICE. THE Public are infornaed that on and from thi* date the delivery of Ice will be from tho Ja<*' son street Ice Housed july 16 ts A.DEES,Agent^ O/ HHDS. Cuba MOLASSES, sweet and i» fine order. For sale by SCRANTON, SEYMOUR & CO., aug 0 No. 2 Warren^Blo«Y^ 1 k/ l| BALES'Gunny BAGGING, wide and J. t/v/ heavy. SCRANTON, SEYMOUR iCO^ BACON AND CANDLES 20 hhds. prime BA CON SIDES. . . 50 boxes Adamantine Candles. Just receive and for sale by june 21 CAMILLE E. GIRARPgY^ AUGUSTA SEED STORE. RUTABAGA, Large Globe, Large English folk, and various kinds of Turnip Seeds, ff . other seeds for the fall planting, have been recei ed at his store next to the State Bank. july 20 d&clm J. H. SERVIgjL BELLVILLE FACTORY AGENCY, |Corner of Mclntosh and Key)ioldStnd^ THE GEORGIA STRIPES AND PLAINS, made at this Factory, so long and favorably known to Mer- (£|Efir chants and Planters, are now on sale at jlßlg the above place, where all orders will || HI, be promptly attended to. QEORGE gfffl jan It ly» I