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The Freesoil Appointments by Pierce and
Fillmore.
The opponents of the administration are great
ly outraged at the report that Mr. Dix, of New
York, is to be appointed Minister to France.
Remember, Mr. Dix has not been yet appointed ;
and, as far as we know, there is only Whig and
and Freesoil evidence that he is to be. Yet Gen.
Pierce is to be condemned, and his administra
tion repudiated by the people, on this ground. If
the Whigs could only get him out of office and
Scott or Fillmore—especially Fillmore, —in,what
devoted pro-slavery men we should find filling
all the places of honor under the General Gov
ernment ! Suppose we contrast one of these
anti-Abolitionists whom Fillmore did appoint,
with Dix, whom Pierce hasn't appointed. Mind,
the worst that can be said of Dix is, that like
ninety-nine out of every hundred Northern
Whigs, he supported the Wilmot Proviso. Let
us look a little at Tom Corwin, the immaculate
Fillmcie’s Secretary of the Treasury. We take
our portrait of him from a brother YVhigand bro
ther Abolitionist, Cassius M Clay :
“ Wen Mi. Clay was the candidate for the Pre
sidency, in 1844, Thomas Corwin and I spoke
daily, tor a long time, through Ohio, in com
pany. That battle was fought in the north at
least upon anti-slavery—“ abolition” principles,
the friends of slavery perpetuation beging avow
edly in favor of the annexation of Texas, with a
viewofkeepingupa balance ot power in the Sen
ate, by the acquisition of more slave States ; and
the trends ot Jeffersonian Republicanism, hold
ing that slaver} was an evil— tolerated —but to be
extinguished in due time—Nor*h and South—
standing tor Clay and against Texas annexation.
I came from a slave State, embittered in .my
feelings against the slave party by recent person
al and political contests, yet in the speeches made
by Thomas Corwin, the slaveholders were so
heartily denounced that my sensibilities as a
southern man were continually susceptible. I
am an habitual reader of Wm I. Garrison’s Lib
erator, and Garrison never surpassed him in
heart-felt hatred of slavery and slaveholders.—
His now slaveholding friends will gather some
idea of his abated ire when they review his cel
ebrated speech in the Senate, where he awarded
me and other volunteers in Mexico his aspira
tions of “ bloody hands and hospitable graves!’'
But what struck me as most remarkable in the
“inimitable Tom” was his indulgence in “whin
ing, canting, and praying” in his speeches ! I
have been in the ft.ror es revivals, and the wild
enthusiasm of the bivouacked camp-meetings,
and never did unctious Methodist parsons move
me to tears like the “inimitable Tom!”—
And to such extremes did “Tom” carry hisscrip
turaf quotations that he got to be a decided hero:
and I severely criticised his want of taste —and
what was, to me, irreverent as the slave-crit
icism would have me—almos f blasphemy !”
Can Whigs, who applauded Fillmore’s every
act, read *his sketch of one whom he took into
his Cabinet, without feeling that they convict
themselves of hypocrasy when they denounce
Pierce’s appointments as Free Soilers?—Savan
nah Georgsan , ‘2lst inst.
f Correspondence of the Savannah Courier ]
' Yellow Fever.
New Orleans, Aug. 15, 1853.
The epidemic is raging to such an alarming
extent, that all kinds of business are paralyzed,
and such an aspect ot dullness has never been
witnessed before. For a long time the disease
was confined to certain localities—particularly
tho°e inhabited by the lower classes; but it is
now gradually diffusing itself ever the entire
city, and it is believed by those well informed,
that the number of deaths will reach 300 a day
before the middle of September. From the 16th
of August to the same date in September, the
mortality in all previous years has been greater
than at any other time. Knowing this to be
true, it is reasonable to suppose that the number
ot daily interments, will attain the figure desig
na!ed above. It is gratifying to us to know
that we are not forgotten by kind hearts in oth
er cities, and from their actions, we are looking
for remittances which will enable the noble
philanthropic Howard Association to prosecute
their labors, in relieving the wants of the sick
and dying. Our sister city. Mobile, has “acted
nobly her part,” and, it is "hoped, other Southern
cities will follow in her footsteps. So long as
“yellow fever” remains with us, news will be
scarce ; for I assure you we have more important
matters before us for consideration.
Closing Stores. —ln imitation of the plan
adopted by the New Yorkers, many of ous prin
cipal merchants are closing their stores at 3
o’clock, for the purpose of allowing the clerks to
visit their sick x'riends, or get a breath of pure
air by going into the country. It is much to be
admired, and adds greatly to the comfort of those
who are compelled to remain here during the
epidemic, whiist their weaithy employers are
sojourning at the North. As 41 one good turn
deserves another,” I would suggest to them the
propriety of paying their clerkes something ex
tia for the risks they run, and in this*respect let
them be guided by promptness and attention to
business.
[From the N. O. Picayune , 18 tk ms?.]
Latek from Texas.— By the steamship Mex
ico, which arrived yesterday, we have full files
ot Texas papers. The Galveston dates are to
the 12th Inst.
The Galveston News gives the following table
of the election lor Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, and Congres, premising that the returns
are not complete:
For Governor.
P pase 4,983 Chambers 739
Ochiltree 3,037 Evans 144
Wood 2,007 Dancy 131
For Lieutenant Govrcnor.
Dickson 4,042 I Robertson 1,678
Kirby 1,779 | Henry 521
For Congress.
Bell 2,417 Ca others 1,059
Lewis 1,359 Blake 283
Scurry 1,251
The report from San Antonio of Gen. Lamar’s
death is believed to be incorrect. His relations
in Galveston have no news of such an event,
and his residence is only a days journey fron
them.
Lieut. Stevens, with twenty or twenty-five
men, has left Indianola, to commence operations
on the Colorado raft.
From the returns it appears that the bill ap
propriating $25,000 for clearing out the Texas
rivers has been rejected.
Our planters are now generally engaged in
picking, and ali accounts encourage the hope of
a very line crop, at least one third larger than
that of last year.
Four bales of new cotton in all have been sold
at Galveston for twelve cents per pound. They
classed as good middling.
The Indianola Bulletin says :
We felt alarmed some two weeks ago at
vague lumots of the appearance of the cotton
worm, but rejoice to learn that they have en
tirely disappeared, and that throughout the
twelve or fifteen cotton counties of the west the
cotton crop is very promising. We therefore
anticipate a much larger crop than ever before
made.
The wheat crops of Central and Northern
Texas are said to be excellent.
Prairie bay has become an article of general
use in Indianola, and is found to be very good
and much cheaper than Northern hay.
Singular. Homicide. —We learn from a pass
enger, who arrived from the Darian Stage, yes
terday, that a most singular homicide was perpe
trated near that place on Thursday afternoon.—
A schooner laden with lumber was preparing to
put to 6ea, when a stranger applied to go on
board as a prssenger. The arrangements were
made and the passenger went into the cabin,
where a loaded revolver was lying on the table.
Soon after the vessel got under weigh, he took
the pistol, went upon deck, jumped into a boat
astern, and cut loose. As he had no means of
propelling the boat, she was drifted at the mer
cy of the waves. The mate of the vessel de
sirous of relieving the stranger from his perilous
position, jumpsd overboard and swam towards
the boat. When he approached within a few
feet of it, the stranger deliberately raised the re
volver and shot him dead. The occurrence took j
place shortlyl before the Stage left, so that our j
informant Could not father further partiou*
iars or learn the name of the stranger. He was
supposed to be insane.
«r SM L. ITH . MoWR , Y ’ Jr -i E'q-, President of the
Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Com
pany returned to this city on Saturday from a
visit to the North. During his absence, we un
derstand, he personally inspected the condition of
the line between this city and Washington, and
made contracts with responsible parties for keep
ing it in thorough repair. He has also been very
careful, we learn, in the selection of his opera
tors, and seems determined to spare no efforts to
render the line in every respect equal to any in
the Union. We trust his energy will meet
with the success it deserves.— Charleston Cou
rier, 22 d inst
Hallahaloo! —The Whigs are raising a tre
mendous hallahaloo over the appointment of a
light house or light boat keeper, in North Caro
lina, who, they say, is a mulatto, or at least has
negro blood in his veins. The Republican
went nearly into fits on the subject yesterday,
and wo fear, ii not looked after by its friends,
will do something rash before it can be re
| lieved.
] We need hardly say that this is, in all proba
bility, a Whig— Roorback. Our readers under
j stand the meaning of the term. It obtained
I currency during the Presidential campaign of
; 1844, when Whig papers published an extract
from a book of American travels, written by an
Englishman by the name of Roorback, contain
ing that distinguished tourists description of a
gang ot negroes which he saw chained together
in Tennessee, with the name of “ J. K. Polk”
branded on their backs ! On due examination,
it was found that no such a book had ever been
written. The story was an unadulterated
lie.
So we have no hesitation in pronouncing the
statement to which we have alluded—if in it is
contained the charge that Pierce has appointed
a mulatto to office in North Carolina, knowing
him to be one. That the administration may
have been misled by its enemies into the ap
pointment ofa fellow having negro blood , is pos
sible. It is said that the Rev. Dr. Ross, whose
anti-abolition speech in the late New School
Presbyterian Assembly, made such an impres
sion throughout the Union, is one of this class—
that is, his veins contain some negro blood.
The President might very easily be misled into
the appointment of such a man to a subordinate
post. He, of course, does not see one in five
hundred of the office seekers upon whom he con
fere appointments—having to rely upon the
statements of others.
What we mean to say is, that the statement
that he has appointed a free negro to office,
knowing him to be a free negro, is doubtless just
as true as that James K. Polk branded, with a
hot iron, his name upon his negroes’ backs.—
Sav. Georgian, 21st inst.
Crops, &c. —The following items relative to
the weather, health, crops, &c., we glean from
our exchanges from the interior:
The Natchitoches Chronicle of the 13th inst.
says:
The warm weather of the preceding three or
four weeks has operated most beneficially upon
the cotton crop, and without some untoward
circumstance our planters in this section will
realize a fair crop.
The Shreveport Southwestern of the 10th inst.
says:
The river continues to decline. The recent
dry weather has greatly improved the cotton in
this parish, and gives promise that the crop will
be a good one. A merchant of this place, just
returned from a journey through Eastern Texas,
informs us that with the exception of Harrison
county the crops of cotton and corn will be
larger in that section of country than a{ any
time during the last three years.
The Bayou Sara Ledger of the 13th inst
says:
On Wednesday and Thursday evenings last
we were blessed with fine showers of rain.
We have frequently heard of late, that the cot
ton or boll worm has made its appearance for
the year 1853. Some gentlemen have earnestly
requested us, in order to set the public mind
light on this subject, to inform our readers that
such is not the case. The worm alluded to is
neither cotton nor boll worm, but is what ento
mologists denominate “ grass worm.”
Consular Treaty with France. —The
Philadelphia Bulletin of the 19th inst. says :
“ A Consular Convention between the United
States and the Emperor of the French wa3 con
cluded and signed in February last, and the
latifications were exchanged, on the 11th inst.,
at Washington, by Countde Sartiges and Mr.
Marcy. The Convention is published in full in
the Union of Sunday. It provides for the recip
rocal reception of consuls, vice consuls, &c., and
for their enjoyment of the usual privileges. Ar
ticle VII. provides that in all States of the Union,
whose laws permit, Frenchmen shall enjoy the
right of possessing personal and real property by
the same title and in the same manner as citizens
of the United States, and the President engages
to recommend to such States as do not permit
aliens to hold real estate, to pass such laws as
may confer the right. The French government,
in like manner, but with the reservation of the
ulterior right of establishing reciprocity in re
gard to possession and inheritance, accords to the
citizens of the United States the same rights
within its territory to real and personal proper
ty, and to inheritance, as are enjoyed there by
its own citizens. The remaining articles of the
Convention relate to consular duties in regard to
merchant vessels, to deserters and to wrecks.
The Convention is to remain in force for ten
years, and longer il no notice of a year is given by
either party to the other, of its intention not to
renew it.”
Relief for the Sufferers from the Epi
demic at New-Orleans. —Since Friday, we
have received at this office $166 for the Howard
Association, for the relief of the sufferers from
yellow fever at New Orleans, making 1190.
Many of our citizens have not, however, as yet
come forward, but we trust that they will do so
during the day, as there was never a case of
more pressing necessity—indeed, the accounts
we daily receive of the progress of the pestilence
are heart-rending in the extreme, and the dis
tress exceeds anything belore witnessed. The
other cit ies of the Union are nobly responding to
the appeals made bv the Howard Association for
aid, and Charleston assuredly will not be the
least liberal of them. Let there, then, be no
hesitation, but all according to their means con
tribute something in behalf of the suffered from
this great calamity. We should like much to
be enabled this evening to telegraph to the Sec
! retary of the Howard Association to draw for
; another thousand dollars, and therefore earnestly
appeal to the benevolence of ou-readers to aid
the pbilanthrophists of that noble charity with
all the means at their disposal.
Our country friends, also, will not we trust
turn a deaf ear to our appeals, although, with the
exception of $2 from some benevolent anony
mous correspondent at Aiken, we have as yet re
ceived nothing from them. The hearts, howev
er, that can contemplate unmoved the picture of
human suffering daily presented in the accounts
from New Orleans, must be obdurate indeed ;
and we, therefore, confidently rely on our fellow
citizens in the various districts of the State
swelling our list considerably; and would only
simply remind them that in this instance, espe
cially, Lis dat qui cito dat —he contributes twice
who contributes quickly. —Charleston Courier,
22 d inst.
Yellow Fever. —The New Orleans Courier
publishes the following communication in re
lerence to purifying the atmosphere :
1 was once a part of 26,000 men (soldiers.)
* L^ rnve on Saturday in a town of
i Jf’ 0 , 00 . or *5,000 inhabitants; there existed a
1 kmu ® f ™ pld r crmc - Ihe ,iext Monday we had
over 300 of our men sick. It was growing
harder on the inhabitants by the arrival of a
new ferment caused by our arrival among them.
By Thursday, we had lost over 1000 of our men
One of our generals, a man of little merit as a
soldier, but not to be surpassed as an adminis
trator, in consultation that evening, proposed to
shake the air by repeated discharges of artillery
We had thirteen pieces, which played all night
in every part of the town. On Friday, finding
that there were none or few new cases, and the
sick finding themselves less oppressed, the artil
lery played all day, at intervals, and by Sunday
the inhabitants and the soldiers were delivered
from the malady. Ido not remember if it was
m 1814 or ’ls—this is true to the last word. I
am now a very old man. My name is of too
little importance to go before the public —qui
potest caperecapiat.' 1 1 1
Boston Aug. 16, p. m.— Large offer for a
Clipper Ship. —An English house has offered
$250,000 foi McKay’s four thousand tons ship to
iun a voyage from Liverpool to Australia.
AUGUSTA, GA.
TUESDAY MORNING... .AUGUST 23.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON* HERSCHEL V. JOHNS ON .
Os Baldwin County .
New Orleans Sufferers.
We are requested to state that the committees
appointed by the City Council, to solicit aid for
the sick poor of New Orleans, will call upon
the citizens of Augusta, this day, for their offer
ings for that object. Let all give their mickle, as
the old adage goes—■“ many mickles make a
muckle.”
A Comet.
There was quite an excitement in Broad street
last evening about eight o’clock, to view a comet
or something in the shape ofa comet, which
was visible in the western heaven, about five or
six degrees above the horizon. To the naked eye
the tail was visible, and if it was not a comet;
it was something that looked very much like
one. Several of our Citizens say they saw it
on Suuday evening, but we were not one of
the lucky ones.
Candidates for Congress.
In four cf the eighth Congressional Districts
of the State, the Democratic party have their
candidates out, duly nominated by Conventions,
and the standard bearers selected are worthy ot
their positions and worthy of the cause they are
called on to sustain. We refer to Mr. Seward of
the Ist District, Major Colquitt of the 2d, Col.
Bailey of the 3d, and Col. Dent of the 4th. They
are all gentlemen of fine ab lities and high
character. They have each and all, fair pros
pects of success in the approaching elections.
In the sth and 6th Districts, there is no lack
of Democratic candidates, but on the contrary,
a most unfortunate and undesirable excess of
them. A state of things exists in both, which
if continued, cannot but operate disadvantageous
ly to the Democratic party, not tor this year
only, but permanently.
Among Democrats, really zealous for the wel
fare and success of their party, these wlil always
be an eager competition as to which one shall
do most in the sphere of his influence and posi
tion to serve and strengthen it, and an imputa
tion of selfishness, as the ruing motive of action,
would be looked upon as a reproach and resented
as an injustice. When, however, this zeal is dis
played, not in behalf of the plain interests of the
party, but for personal promotion alone, at the
expense of the party, the mass of the Democracy
—the people, who hold the power in their own
hand—should throw their votes in the direction
which will distract the party least, and will
best preserve its organization. When nomina
tions have been regularly made, they should be
sustained. To repudiate them, and to bring out
opposition to them, is practically to desert one’s
own cause, and to fight for the enemy, if not
actually in their ranks, and against their old
friends.
If there be a dispute about the regularity and
fairness of a nomination, and there is an honest
’difference of opinion among members of the
same party, on these points, the safe and proper
course is, to go for the nominee, and discuss the
matter after the election. It unfairness be proved
on any of the wire-workers, Jet them be the
sufferers in the future action and discipline of
the party.
A case of clear, palpable and undeniable un
fairness, vitiates itself, and becomes a nullity.—
A nomination under such circumstances would
not stand for a moment, and a new one would
be called lor. But such a case is exceedingly
rare ; no such case has occurred, and therefore
none such can be pleaded as an excuse for any
exciting divisions in any district or county no
j mination yet made by the Democrats. In the
! sth Congressional District, Col. Chastain is pre
sented to the Democratic party for its support,
under auspices which give at least a party sanc
tion and claim which neither of his opponents
pretend to. No Democrat can feel convinced
that he promotes the interests and organization
of the party, present or prospective, by voting
for either of his competitors. Few' can honestly
doubt, that every vote abstracted from him, is a
blow at the organization of the party—and a
blow in favor of the Whigs, directly or indi
rectly.
This consideration, we would fain hope, W'ilL
not be lost upon upon Dr. Lewis, an indepen
dent candidate, but an unimpeachable Democrat
—one who we cannot suppose willing to be the
instrument of present defeat and permanent in
jury to the party. If his desire be really to be
nefit the party, he has an opportunity of doing
so. He cannot benefit it by remaining a can
didate. He can benefit it by withdrawing.—
The high character of Dr. Lewis forbids the
suspicion that he is secretly unfriendly to the
Democratic cause which he openly espouses. j
Yet, by means of his candidacy, the Whigs
hope to defeat the Democratic nominee of the
sth for Congress, by concentrating their votes
on Lew'is Tumlin, and to carry the votes of |
T..mlin’s Democratic friends to Jenkins for j
Governor.
The Democrats throughout the State look on ,
this game with regret and mortification. * j
In the 6th District, there are five candidates, 1
but as three of them are virtually Whig candi
dates, and supporters of Mr. Jenkins, we feel
sanguine of the election of a Democrat to repre- ;
sent the District in Congress. Col. Holsey, the
sth in order of time, was formerly a Democrat,
but he is now associated with the Whigs, and
brought out by the Whigs. The Madison county <
meeting, which put him in nomination, we are
informed, consisted of but twelve persons, eleven 1
of whom were Whigs. Noscitur a sociis.
In the 7th District, no Democratic candidate !
is yet nominated, but the probability is, Col. ■
Thomas P. Saffold, of Morgan, a gentleman of j
talents and.high character, will be put in nomi- !
nation. He will receive a cordial and earnest ’
support. |
In the Bth Districtt, here are several candi
dates, but the Democratic party has as yet no
champion in the field. A Convention, to be
held at Waynesboro, to nominate a candidate, has
been suggested. We would cordially second
the suggestion of a convention, if we thought
one needful to call out a suitable candidate.—
And in that case we would recommend Augusta,
asa more convenient point for it.
But we are satisfied a name has already been
presented to the Democracy of the Bth District,
entirely acceptable, and well worthy their sup
port. We refer to J. J. Jones, of Burke, a young
gentleman of superior abilities, well informed,
energetic, and already well known for his zeal
ous advocacy of Democratic principles. Should
the voice of the party centre upon him, its ban
ner would be entrusted to one competent to its
defence.
Mail Robbery. —We learn, says the Mobile
Tribune of the 19th inst., that the mail between
Atlanta, Ga., and Montgomery, Ala., has been
robbed of several packages of letters intended
lor Mobile, New Orleans and Montgomery.
The bags appear to have been opened on several
occasions about or since the Ist of July. From
$20,000 to $50,000 have been thus extracted. j
Milledgeville, Aug. IS, 1853. |
Mr. Editor. : My last letter will probably j
have given your readers a surfeit of the Crystal
Palace, although that theme abounds in inter
esting details, which, properly handled, by a
person on the spot, would be the means of filling
many columns of a Southern newspaper agree
ably and usefully. Several of the New York
dailies have been furnishing descriptive sketches
by the column every day, under appropriate
heads, which, if published hereafter in book
form, will make valuable volumes.
I copy from an exchange paper a description j
of the beautiful building itself, which is no
doubt accurate, and may be interesting to your
readers, if not already published by you.
I regretted the meagreness of the Southern
contributions, while not surprised at it. The
Southern people detest humbug, and dislike,above
all other sections, to be taken in, and most of
them looked to the exhibition as only an enor
mous “ sell, ” got up by speculators of the Bar
num stripe. This was not a liberal or entirely
just view of it. There is much in the agricul
ture and horticulture of the Soulh to be proud
of, and it could have been shown that Southern
skill and enterprise have not proved unworthy
our genial soil and climate.
In many of the departments of the arts, in
manufacturing and mechanical skill, the South
can show' something to boast of, though com
paratively small amounts of labor and capital
are devoted that way. The mineral and botani
cal resources of the South in woods, drugs, che
micals, dye stuffs, &c., much of which ha 3 not
even begun to be developed, and its exhaustless
wealth of gold and copper, and iron, and coal,
would have furnished means for specimens that
would answer a good purpose, placed by' the
side of our samples of cotton, and rice, and su
! gar, and inspire increased respect, malgre our
peculiar institution.
There was enough from the South, however,
to furnish an interesting chapter. Passing from
the Crystal Palace to other objects in the city
of New York, which naturally attract the visi
tor, one is lost in perplexity what to describe
and what to omit. The usual round of amuse
ments, operas, theatres, concerts, the Hippo
drome, the spirit rapping 3, &c., all occupy time
| and afford pleasure, but few useful ideas or
! facts are picked up in this tour of New York
by gas light. The public institutions, and va
rious branches of manufacture, with their con
stantly improving processes, new machinery,
and new principles applied to mechanism, from
i Erricson’s caloric engine to Avery’s or Singer’s
j sew'ing machines, here are fields for explanation
' and study. The Erricson I did not visit, but the
sewing machines I did, and I was convinced of
their utility. I think the planters of the South
will find them valuable, and will gradually in
troduce them into use. They will bring wth
them no evils among us in their competition
with labor. Nor will they do this at the North,
j considering the miserable pittance paid seam
stresses for their work. If other avenues for
an honest support could be opened to them, it
would be no misfortune to them to have this
! closed or gieatly narrowed. The invention of
i labor saving machines has never yet had the
; effect permanently of reducing the demand for
labor, though it may drive branches of it into
other channels. The tendency is to increase
the demand and create new applications of it.
i The inventions of Arkwright and of Watts
: have not diminished the number of laborers in
i England, though riots and breaking of machine
j ry by the mob, were among the first fruits ot
their ingenuity. Neither has Fulton’s applica
tion of steam. Nor would there be fewer agri
i cultural laborers if steam ploughs should take
; the place of horses and mules.
The mention of steam, reminds me that there
I
were two steam engines at the Crystal Palace
exhibition, which I should have alluded to. One,
a complete steam engine, made in England, per
fect in all its parts, yet small enough to stand on
a half dime. The other, the beautiful engine
of Alabama material and manufacture, of 40
horse power, lrom the Winter Iron Works,
' Montgomery, Alabama, which was in process
of erection, side by side with others from other
1 establishments. If it works in a style com
‘ mensurate with its material and exquisite finish,
it will take the first premium, and be not only
the Southern Belief but the belle of the Union
among engines. It will be something for Ala
; bama and the South to be proud of. That and
| the specimens from Mr. Dome’s gold mine, will
! help to give our friends North some idea of what
f. the South has, and of what she can do if she
■ chooses to try.
Outside of the exhibition proper, and near it 5
were various show? in sheds and shanties, of
which the cattle shows were not the least inter
| esting. There was one of eleven head of bul
, lochs and heifers of enormous size and fatness,
i The show man asserted, and it looked as if it
■ were true, that the weight of each one exceed
j -ed 3,000 lbs. They were collected from differ-nt
j States of the North and West. Will the fair
: -at Augusta, in October, attract any thing to ap
! proach this? But the big Georgia mule from
Griffin, 19i hands high, was a really more re
’ markable animal tfian these. It is a powerful
> and splendid looking creature, symmetrical,
j> handsome, and healthy. It was a week in Au
gusta, and I had not the curiosity to pay it a
visit; jet no object standing on four legs in New
s York interested me as much.
My thoughts being brought, by a natural tran
sition, to Georgia and home matters, I feel much
inclined to take an abrupt leave of New York,
. and touch upon subjects more immediately cori
•cerning us here. But this letter is already too
t s long.
! I had the pleasure of coming up the Central
j Railroad from Savannah with Mr. Wadley, with
! whom I had much interesting conversation on
j railroads and kindred topics. He informed me
I that the Waynesboro : Railroad would be com
j pleted by the time of the State Fair, except a
j gap of about two miles, and would be fully
[ completed by the first of January next.
| As Mr. Wadley is a quasi public character, I
cannot resist the temptation of mentioning an
interesting fact in the personal history of this
| most efficient man and valuable citizen. He
| came to Georgia 19 years ago, and landed at
j Savannah with no other means than his trade—
j that ol a blacksmith. There, the highest offer
he could get for his labor, was 50 cents a day.
f ortunately, just then the Federal Government
needed skilliul workmen at Fort Jackson, just
below the city, and there he procured a job on
terms not quite so disproportioned to the value
ol his labor. Such Tjvas the want ol demand for
mechanics then in Georgia. Now, behold the
difference! And what a noble lesson does it
not teach of the true glory of our country and
its social structure. Merit will rise here. There
are no obstacles to success, to fortune, and to re-'
putation, which industry, skill, and a determi
nation to succeed may not overcome. G.
Ihe gross receipts at the Concert given by
the Harmonic Minstrels, in aid of the New Or
leans sufferers, on Thursday evening, at Savan
nah was $lO5 75. Deducting expenses,the sum
of $92 75 remained, which amount was handed
over to the Mayor to be forwarded to New Or- !
leans.
New Cotton.
The first bale of the new crop was received
yesterday, from the Broad fiver plantation of
H. P. Mattox, Esq., Elbert county, at the Ware
house of Whitlock, Coskery & Co., and sold for
twelve cents. Quality Fair, and well ginned.
The amount raised in New York for the use of
the sufferers by the fever in New Orleans had
reached $23,431. Nearly the whole amount has
been remitted.
The Washington Monument. —The receipts
at the office of the Washington National Monu
ment Society in Washington City, during the
month of July, amounted to $1,122. At the re
cent centennial anniversary celebration of ma
sonry, in Nashville, Tenn., the “ brethren of the
mystic tie” subscribed $451.55 towards the
erection of the column. During the present
month a check for one thousand dollars has been
received from the agent of the society in New
York—the contribution of visitors to the Crystal
Palace. From the Ist to the 12th inst. the of
ferings at the monument ground were unusually
large—two hundred dollars having been be
stowed by strangers, mostly southerners. The
column is now one hundred and thirty-eight feet
in height.
Railroad Curves. — A correspondent of the
Railroad Record is of opinion that curvature on
railroads is the main cause of accidents, whether
by collision or otherwise. Straight lines must,
in the end be adopted, and though at first more
expensive, thej are in the end more economical,
and are certainly safest. Curves, the writer
contends, should be limited by law, and states
that one degree curve, or 5.130 feet radius offers
as much resistance to a train as a grade of 10 feet
to the mile. Two degrees equal 15 feet; 3 de
grees equal 20 feet; 4 degrees equal 25 feet; 5
degrees equal 30 feet; 6 degrees equal 35 feet—
that is, if a 6 degree curve be located on a level,
it offers the same resistance to a train as would a
grade of 35 feet to the miie, on a straight line.
The writer contends that a railroad, at the pres
ent time, that will not bear the expense of ma
king it stiaight, had better be postponed until
the funds are raised, as evidently, it is too soon
tor the community for which it is intended.
The statement that General Gadsden, our new
Minister to Mexico, has been instructed to con
sent to the relinquishment of the Garay claim to
the right of way across the Isthumus of Te
huantepec, is doubted in well informed circles in
Washington, as is also the assertion that this
government is willing to accept, as an equiva
lent, a free route for a railroad along the thirty
second paraded. The general impression is that
the administration will 'await the reception of
the official information collected by the different
parties engaged in exploring the country for a
railroad route to the Pacific, prior to committing
itself to any particular line, either in our own or
Mexican territory. So writes the Washington
correspondent of the New York Herald.
The American ship Win. Jarvis, at Norfolk
from Leghorn, brings three packages tor the
World’s Fair, among which is a Plaster Group
of Washington, crowned by the genius of the
United States, valued at $450, also a beautiful
Mosaic table inlaid with “ Pietra Dura.” Bre
men barque Philadelphia, frow Bremen, arrived
August 12, has on board two packages for the
Crystal Palace,containing paintings on Poice
lain, and articles made of agate stone, valued
altogether, at $llOO.
We copied a statement from the Cincinnati
Gazette, a few days ago, that seven young men
of that city twenty-one years ago agreed to have
an annual meeting and supper so long as any of
their number should survive, and also stated that
only two of them were then living. Henry L
Tatem, Esq., one of the two, died on Thursday
last, leaving Dr. J. Vatier as the last man of the
whole party. The next annual supper takes
place in October, and the Gazette remarks :
“How awful that last supper, when the sole
survivor enters the room and sees there the
seven plates and the seven chairs, each of which
tells him ‘what shadows we are—what shadows
we pursue.’ ”
We learn from the Greenville Patriot that the
Greenville Railroad is completed with nine or
ten miles of Greenville C. H., and that the Pre
sident of the road, Col. Perrin, says that the
passenger and freight cars will run to that point
immediately. It is possible that the entire
completion of the railroad to Greenville may be
delayed for want of iron. Col. Perrin is now
at the North making arrangements in reference
to this matter, and may have the iron forwarded
in time to prevent any delay in the completion
of the road.
A writer in a New-York journal says that as
far as he has been able to carry back his research
es, he does not find the record of any weather
in August comparing with that of last week
for fifty years—that is not in intensity of and
| duration of heat, and in its extraordinary ef
j sects.
The editor of the Greenville S. C., Patriot, was
| shown the other day by Mr. Chandler, some
I beautiful specimens of gold, found on the farm
! of Mr. Anderson, in the upper part of Laurens
J District near the Spartanburg and Greenville
line. Two of the particles were half as large
and much thicker than a finger nail. These
were found in the sand and washed out by
means of a tin pan. It is thought that the work
ing will be very profitable when machinery is
applied.
j The royal mail steamship Niagara, Captain
Leitch, sailed from Boston on Wednesday, for
1 Liverpool, via Halifax, with 73 passengers for
the former and 13 for the latter. Among the '
passengers we notice Capt. G. F. Lindsay, of
i the U. S. Marine Corps, who goes out as bearer
of despatches to the U. S. Legation at London
I The Niagara takes no specie.
The Crystal Palace. —The number of visi
tors admitted on Thursday was 5,293, and the
total contributions to the Washington Monu
, ment now amount to $1,411.54. The exhibi
tion is now nearly in complete order, and begins
, to look more than usually attractive.
A correspondent of the New York Times es
timates that upwards of two hundred thousand
emigrants have settled in Texas during the past
year. Next to railroads, which are attracting a
good deal of notice in the State, common-school
education recdives the largest share of the pub
lic attention. The next legislature, it is thought,
will appoint a commission to mature a scheme
for the State, to embrace the whole course of a
complete education, from the lowest primary
school to one or more State Uuiversities. Rail
ways, education, and the State debt, will occupy
chiefly the attention of the legislature, which
meets in its new building in Austin next win
ter.
Rev. Theodore Clapp was in Boston when
the yellow fever commenced raging violently in
New Orleans, and intended remaining until No- |
vember, but it is stated, considering it his duty to
assist the sick and the dying, immediately return
ed home. 1
t Telegraphed for the Charlatan Courier.]
Baltimore, Aug. 20.— Relit/ for New Or leant.
—The collections in Washington for the relief
of the sufferers from the epidemic at New Or
leans amount to $3500.
Baltimore, Aug. 20 .—The Gardiner Commis
sion.—Mr. Mordecai, one of the members of the
commission, sent to Mexico for the purpose of
searching for Dr. Gardiner’s mines, returned to
Washington on Saturday morning.
Baltimore, Aug. 21. 8.50 p. m.— The Mission
to France. —lt is reported in Washington that
Governor Cobb, of Georgia, has received the
mission to France.
Baltimore, - Aug. 21.— Redemption of U. S.
Stock. —The Government during the last three
weeks have redeemed over $1,000,000 of U. S.
Stocks, at 21 per cent, premium.
Baltimore, Aug. 21. The Emueteat Tortola.
—Advices have been received at New York
from St. Thomas, which confirm the report that
an emuete had occurred at Torto’a, one of the
Carribean Islands under British rule. The in
habitants had mostly fled to St. Thomas. Troops,
however, had been sent from that island, and it
was believed that the revolt would soon be
quelled.
Cumberland, Aug. 19.— Cholera at Cumber
land, Md. —Great excitement prevails here
among the residents, 8 or 9 deaths having occur
red in the last 24 hours from cholera. The dis
ease is confined to the lower part of the toivn,
and no cases have occurred near the Hotels
which are well filled with passengers passing to
and from the West, over the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. Many families are, however, leaving
the place.
Office of Board or Health, )
Mobile, Aug. 18, 1853. J
Seven cases of yellow fever have been report
ed to the Board of Health as having occurred
during twenty-four hours ending at 6 o’clock
p. m. this day. Geo. A. Kf.tchum, Sec’y.
Burning the Dead. —Somebody has been
hoaxing the editor of the Baton Rouge Comet
after a very vile fashion. In its issue of the 14th
inst. that paper says :
“ We regret exceedingly to learn that burning
the dead has at length been resorted to in New
Orlea s. The authorities have been forced into
this measure from the inability to obtain hands
to bury the' dead. We learn that on Friday
morning fifty dead bodies were publicly con
sumed.”
This report doubtless arose from a recommen
dation by a contemporary to resort to this me
thod of disposing of the dead bodies. The
recommendation was not acted on, and it is
superfluous to say that the Comet’s informant
was in error.— N. O. Crescent. 18 th inst.
[ Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun ]
Cincinnati, Aug. 18 — The Fugitive Slave
Case. —Judge McLean, of the U. S. Court, in
his decision yesterday surrendering up a fugi
tive slave from Kentucky to his owner, answer
ed several points raised by the counsel for the
slave, by saying, in substance, that the fugitive
slave law of 1793 and 1850 are constitutional,
and that no State has power to pass a law pre
venting fugitives from being delivered up to
those to whom they owe service. That no proof
was necessary before the Supreme Court that
slavery existed in the State from whence the
fugitive escaped, as it should be taken lor grant
ed that the Supreme Judge knew the laws of
all the States. That the State could not be
compelled to give up fugitives by a law of Con
gress, if the provisions in the Constitution did
not do so. That slavery can only exist by au
thority of law, and as it so exists in slave
States, said law not being an infringement of
the Constitution, the free States are bound to re
cognise it in delivering up slaves from these
States, upon clear proof that they are such.
New Orleans, Aug. 19— Important from
New Mexico—Fight between Americans and Mexi
cans.—The Picayune has advices from El Paso,
Mexico, to the 23d July. Great excitement
existed in consequence of a party ot Americans
attacking the jail to rescue some returned Cali
fornians, who they alleged had been unjustly
imprisoned by the Mexicans. A guard of Mex
ican troops lireJ on the Americans, killing the
district attorney of El Paso county, Texas, and
i wounding several others. The hnal result of
this affray had not been ascertained, but serious
consequences were apprehended.
' The Mexicans were armed and drilling near
the American town of Paso, which was said to
; be in great danger.
MARRIED.
August 7th, by the Rev. S. H. Cooper, Mr. Benj.
B. Baker, of Mclntosh county, Ga., and Miss Ma
ry M. Wilcox, of Telfair county, Ga.
©ommfrriol.
Augusta, Aug 22—6 P. M.
The River. —The River is in fair boating or
der, Three foet six inches water in the channel.
SAVANNAH, August 21. P. M.— Cotton. —Sales
yesterday 88 bales, at 9 5-16.
SAVANNAH EXPORTS—Aug. 20.
Steamship Augusta, New York—34o bales Cot
ton, 98 casks Rico. 3 bales Wool, 102 bales Do
mestics, and sundry pkgs Mdse. Schr Virginia
—331 bales Cotton, 6 pieces Casting, 7,378 feet
Lumber, and 2 casks Cigars.
Slfippiag JiitrUigrarf.
sailed for charleston.
Ship Switzerland, Carter, from Liverpool.
CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON.
Barquo Maria Morton, Francis, at New
Barque Carolina, Sherwood, at New York.
Schr. Sami. Bolton, Mershon, at Philadelphia.
ur for charleston.
Brig Lancet, Blaisdell, Matanzas.
CHARLESTON, August 22.—Arrived, steam
ship Southerner, Ewan, New York; brig Goo.
M ashiugton, Day, Lubec, Me.; ship Columbia,
Erickson, New York; barquo Edward, Patterson,
New York; schrs Maria Pickup, Robinson, Phila
delphia; Louisine, Conklin, Now \ r ork; Maria L.
Davis, Davis, New York.
Went to sea, steamships James Adger, Dickin
son, New York; Osproy Bennett, Philadelphia, schr
John T.Fardy, Travers, Richmond, Va.
SAVANNAH, August 21. —Arrived, steamship
State of Georgia, Garvin, Philadelphia.
Cleared, schr Virginia. Axworthy, New York.
Sailed, steamship Augusta, Lyon, New York.
RAILROAD HOTEL-STONE MOUNTAIN.
CLARK & HITCHCOCK, Proprietors.
This pleasant summer retreat
has rccontly boon fitted up in a style. ikIT
that for comfort it is now socond to no Public
House in the interior of Georgia.
Every ROOM in the Houso has beon newly re
i lathed, plastered and painted, and furnished from
the lower floor to gairett, with new and splendid
Furniture, Bedding, Ac. There are about fifty
sleeping rooms, all plastered, in the houso, and the
Proprietors teel safe in saying, they can comforta
bly accommodate over one hundred persons
No pains nor expense will be spared to render
those who may prtroniso their Houso comfortable,
and their Table and Bar will be supplied with the
best to be had.
The Stages to Lawrcnceville, Clarksville, Ac.,
start from this House,and ample arrangements have
been made to accommodate all who wish to take
this route. Hacks and Horses, to other sections,
will bo kept in readiness.
This Hotel will be the BrcakTast Houso for the
down train, and an up and down train for passen
gers pass and re-pass it every twelve hours, so that
those wishing to visit the Mountain have the priv
ilege of taking the morning or evening train.
Arrangements have been made with the
Rail Road Company for the conveyance of Mil
itary or Fire Companies and Pleasure Parties, de
sirous of visiting the Mountain, and they ean bo
accommodated by giving short notice.
03*=- The Charleston Courier and Savannah
News, will copy the above weekly to the amount
of five dollars, and forward bills to C A H., with a
copy containing advertisement,
juiy 26 f 13c6 .
COWING &. CO.’S GARDEN AND FIRE
ENGINES,
WHICH, for powor, capacity, and usefulness,
cannot be surpassed; from the size of the air
chamber, sufficient power is obtained to enable one
man t© throw a steady stream of water to the height
of fifty feet perpendicularly, thereby rendering it
a desrable article, as a protection against fire, so:
washing windows of 2 and 3 stories of buildings,
carriages, Ac. Also, a general assortment of Block '
Tin Pipe, Load Pipe and Gutta Percha Hose. For
sale by (juiy 1) ts B. F. CHEW. i
JUST RECEIVED, ~ ,
O URLS. Hiram Sin th FLOUR, ground from j
kJ new wheat. Just received by steamer and
for sale by THAYER A BUTT
HY TELEUKAPH
Reported lor the Constit lUonalist a*
Charleston, Auor 22
ce„ C £ TON ' -Sal,iS to ' d “ y 500 ba ' es= at » to“ui
A Card - —Mr?. Barbara at . ,
returns her sincere thanks tn /e*®
Germans, who have so kindly renderd t, t 0
eight children assistance, in their recent* K° fanri
ment. y teni bereavj.
WT M^£~ 5s 9 lerk ’ s Office, Court Common of'
Augusta, August 23d, 1853 J/. 03 *’
Bay for next term, August 26th. Court . tur n
aug 23 4 l. pi ea3
w Famllyshou,d
We speak of M’Lane s i: vo
which have become an indispensable Family \is?'
cine. Ihe frightful symptoms which am/
diseased Liver manifest thomselves, more or i ’
t V n^ mily; sick headache
tion of the menses, ague and fever, pains
side, with dry, and hacking cou<rh are » tu the
suits of hepatic derangement-and for l h ®
M’Lane's Pills arc a° sovereign rem dt
have never been known to fail, and they L„f,7
kept at all times by families. y saould be
Directions.— Take two or three goimrte k a
every second or third night. If they do not
two or three times by next morning take i” 8 ®
two moro. A slight heakfast should invariU'
follow their use. mvanably
The Liver Pill may also bo used where Diirrin
is simply necessary. As an anti-bilious nur*
tive they are inferior to none. And in dole*
of two or three, they give astonishing -relief to Z.-
headache; also in slight derangements of the
mach. ao-
Sold by Haviland, Risloy & Co., and Wm n
Tutt, Augusta, Ga.; P. M. Cohen & Co., Chart,-
ton, S. C.; Hill & Smith, Athens, Ga.; E. C. Jontw
Madison; A. A. Solomons; Savannah; and bv ill
Druggists and Dealers in Medicino throughout'
I South. ' 1118
aug 23 12
The best evidence that can be a j.
dueed in favor of the efficaciousness of
Hoofland’s German Bitters, prepared by Dr. C JJ
Jackson is the unprecedent demand for them f rrm
all parts of the Union ; and although there mar C
many compounds prepared and represented as‘be
ing worthy of a liberal patronage, yet we feel con
strained to remark, that the vast number of testi
monials with which the worthy doctor has been
honored, by persons of the highest character and
respectability, who found it necessary to have re
course to his preparation, is testimony sufficiently
conclusive, that a more effect ual remedy for the al
most immediate relief of those afflicted with that
direful malady, dyspepsia, has never beon discov-
® aug 25
Rank of Augusta, August ImTl bjF,
Applications. naming securities
from candidates for the office of Collector and
Discount Clerk in this Bank will be received until
Tuesday morning next. Salary, duties of office
and amount of bond to be given may be ascer
tained by applying to the Cashier
By order of the Board of Directors,
aug 19 dtd Jas. W. Davies, Cashier.
Iced Sotla Water —This delightful
drink, together with a great variety of
choice Syrups, of the best quality, may be found at
he Druggist and Apothecaries Store of
aug 1 % JVV'jvi. Haines , Broad street.
Never suffer long from a CoughM
At this age of the world, when you can
get Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, it is a criminal ncg.
iect, if you do not cure it. aug 5
Burke County—Public Meeting-
Each district of Burke county is re
quested to send their delegates, to meet at the
Court House in Waynesboro. on the first TI'ES
DAY in September, to nominate candidates for
the legislature, favorable to the present adminis
tration. td July 31
State of Georgia, Richmond county,
—Clerk’s office Inferrior Court-Re
turn day for the Inferior Court of Richmond coun
ty, September Term, 1853, will be on Friday, the
19th August, 1853.
aug 9_ _ttd Oswell E. Casiiix, Clerk
—The Shades still top of the
pile. Wa cordially invite all who are
fond of the good things of this life, to drop in and
help themselves to Beef Stakes, Mutton Chops,
Fish Balls and Soups of all kinds and a sprinkling ot
hospitality. Seven days in tho week we ean be
found at our post studdying the taste and palates
of our numerous customers.
Pi.umn A Paxton.
aug 14 ts
rap —I*• G« Farrell's Genuine Arabian
its iK. Liniment is a most extraordinary me
i'elne, tho truth of which is placed beyond doubt
of tho vast sales of the article and the ma
ny cures being daily performed by it, which
previously bad resisted all other medicines and
the skill of the best physicians in the world. It is
composed of balsams, extracts and gums peculiar
to Arabia—possessing, in a concentrated form, all
their stimulating, anodyne, penetrating, unctuous
and revulsives properties, and the same which, ages
ago, were used by tho “Sons of the Desert,” with
such miraculous success, in curing the diseases of
both man and beast.
Read the following remarkable cure, which
i should of itself place H. G. FARRELL'S ARA
BIAN LINIMENT far beyond any similar reme
dy. Mr. 11. G.Farrell—Dear Sir: Actuated by a
sense of gratefulness, I submit the foliowing as an
instance of the utility otyour great medicine. My
child, three years old, was suddenly attacked with
a terrible disease, which in less than six hours
; prostrated it to total helplessness. The limbs became
' so rigid that not a joint could be bent; the flesh
turned black and cold and entirely deprived of
1 feeling; the eyes fixed, partially closed and alto
gether blind, following th ; s was deafness to all
sounds; the spino became contracted and so curved
that when lying on his back the head and the heels
only touched. Indeed, the chiid presented every
appearance of being dead. Immediately on the
attack, the family physician was called in, and for
three weeks he labored to restore it to feeling, but
all in vain, although it was blistered a dozen times
and various rubefacient Liniments applied. A
consultation of physicians was then held, but to no
purpose. t’nß case was then brought before the Medi
cal Society, but nothing could be suggested which
had not already been dono, and the doctor then to d
me he could do nothing more. We then commen
ced applying your Liniment freely over the entire
1 length of the spine, and you may imagine apa
rent’s joy, when, after a few applications, returning
animation was apparent, aud it rapidly recovered
withthe exception of tho sight, which did not.be
come perfect far near a month. The chad
is now healthy and robust as can be. fi' a
other cases ofsamo kind occurred previously in my
neighborhood, all of which died, when there is no
doubt if your Liniment had boon they would used
have recovered. IIENRY G. CLELANb-
Pooria, March l3t, 1851.
Look out for Counterfeits. —The public are cau
tioned against another counterfeit, which has lu te ‘
ly made its appearance, called W. B. Farrell's Ara
bian Liniment, the most dangerous of all tho coun
terfeits, because his having the name of Farm
many will buy it in good faith, without the know
ledge that a counterfeit exists, and they wilhP er ‘
haps, only discover their error when the spurious
mixture has wrought its evil effects.
Tho genuine article is manufactured only by
G. Farrell, sole inventor and proprietor, andwhol*;
sale druggist, No. 17 Main street, Pooria, Illinois
to whom all applications for Agencies must be »'•'
dressed. Bo sure you get it with tho letters H
before Farrell’s, thus —H. G.
hissiguature on the wrapper, and all others a
counterfeits. Sold by
HAVILAND, RISLEY A CO.,
Augusta, ba..
and by regularly authorized agents throughout t
United States.
Price 25 and 50 cents, and $1 per bottle-
Agents Wanted in every town, village a
hamlet in tho United States, in which one»“■*
already established. Address 11. G. Farrs
above, accompanied with good reference a-,-
character, responsibility, Ac. dAc4 aug
Ksr —“ Bring hither the poor, the
the halt, and tho blined.J if you
have them healed of their many infirmities
boldly and fearlessly assert that the Mustang
ment will positively cure Rheumatism. Let
who are afflicted with that most painfnl comp ,
try it thoroughly according to the directions, '
if they arc not cured, wo will give
money back. What more can wo say ■ R j
also cure the Piles. Thousands have tried n-z
all were cured. Bruises, Sprains, Sores, or
tions fade away as if touched by the m^]^ e
wand. Its application to a Burn or Scald
‘oil upon the troubled waters.’ Tho tempest
and agony is soon stilled, and the patient is “ *
to quiet and peaceful slumbers. ‘There is » g
or every wound,’ and that balm is the M
Liniment. Every body that sells medicines
it for sale. ‘Hold your Horses !’ and if Un
crippled, galled orsprainc, . use tho Mustang
iment. ?2 »ug
ALL HOUSE, Savanna I*' 1 *' f -
G. Fargo, Proprietor, (late o
S. Hotel, Augusta.) apr 15 ..jtiu*
Marriage Invitations ana ' , s
Cards written by Master
Paid lor WOOLLEN, 1* A
a„d SILK
fan 20 ts Corner River and Jackson