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UnmblitJ BY JA ME S GARDNER, JR. OFFICE ON McINTOSII-STREET, Third door from Tire north-west corner of BROAD -STREET. TERMS: Dailypaper (if paid in advance) ....per annum. .$8 00 Tri-Weekly (if paid in advance) per annum.. 5 00 Weekly (if paid in advance) per annum.. 200 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