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Cattstitutianaltst fc JUpnhlit. j B y_ JAMES GARDNER, JR. OFFICE ON MoINTOSH-STREET, THIRD DOOR FROM TUB 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 [ From the N. O. Picayune , 23c l ins/.] Later from Mexico. By the bark Gov\ Hinckley, which arrived at this port yesterday from Vera Cruz, which place she left on the 9th inst., we have been put in possession of the Siglo of the 4th inst. An order directing the pursuit and apprehen sion of all deserters from the army, in order that the punishment piovided by law for them may be inflicted, is published. The conclusion of a report on the proposition to establish a bank is also published. The re port is unequivocally unfavorable. An estimate of the public expenditure for the year between the Ist of July, 1853, and the 30th of June, 1854, is given at $5,743,680 23. A circular has been issued requiring the abro gation of the epithets lm sovereign, free and in dependent” to the several States, as implying inconsistency with the federal constitution. A circular has been issued relieving foreign ers from the inconvenience they have hitherto been caused by being compelled to give way so the employment of their cattle in the Govern ment service, when there are none forthcoming under the ordinary arrangements. The liabili ty to this tax, for such it is, is hitherto to be confined to entirely to Mexicans. The Siglo protests against such a partial distinction. The Diario publishes an official communica tion from the Prefecture of Durango, dated July 15th, in which it is stated that on the 13th the justice of the peace of Nayar went out with thirty-two men to explore that portion of the Sierra Madre from which some Indians had made a foray and carried off live stock belonging to the inhabitants of the place. The result is said to have been the recapture of all the stolen stock except three w hich they found dead, the finding of the corpse of Reyes Hernandez, with thirty one arrow wounds inflicted on it, and the observation that the track off he Indians went in the d rection of Los Navios, towards Mazat lan. An erdf r has been issued granting full pay to all soldieis of every rank in actual service in garrison. Gen. Bravo has found it necessary to address a letter to lhe Universal, containing assurances of his patriotic fidelity to the existing order of things. Senor D. Antonio de Haroy Tamaris has re signed his office of Minister of Finance. The Siglo is inclined to attribute the step to some differences arising out of his opposition to the bank project referred to, and seems to consider this change in the Cabinet as portending no good. • The death of Gen. D. Manuel Maria Villada is announced. He died at Tixtla, in Guerrero, of which State he had just assumed the govern ment. Black vomit is said to have been the cause of his death. The disease is said to have been introduced by a bark from Panama, which arrived at Acapulco, and spreading thence many have fallen victims to the malignant destroyer. The criminal judges have issued a notice that no fees are to be claimed from offenders or their friends, under any title or pretext whatever, by subordinate officers of the court. Sixteen Days Later from California. By the arrival of the steamship Northern Light, at New York yesterday morning, we are in possession of dates from California to August, Ist, two weeks later. She brings 520 passengers, $1,124,953 on freight, and a large amount in the hands of passengers, and an independent mail in charge of a special agent. The Northern Light connected with the Cortes, which ship left San Francisco August 1, at 5, p. m., having been detained to enable merchants to answer their correspondence received by the Sierra Ne vada, which ship arrival on the 31st of July.— The transit across the Isthmus occupied only 48 hours. The passengers are ail in good health. Another steamer had left San Francisco with specie, August Ist, the Northerner, from Panama, with $1,154,488. Among the passengers are Capt. T. B. Crop per, of Cortes; B. C. Saunders, Esq., late Collec tor of the port of San Francisco; Rev. D-. Hub bard, and H. S. Magravv. Luther Fuller died on the passage. [From the Alla California , Aug. I.] Summary of News.— The last fortnight has been marked by many events of public interest in various parts of the State, in some instances attended with considerable excitement. The Squatter difficulties in this city, which at one tirr® threatened to result in serious and bloody riots, have passed over for the time being, and we have reason to hope they will not be re vived. The wheat crops in nearly all part 3 of the State are suffering with rust, which, it is said, will make the yield twenty or twenty-five per cent, lesl than it would have been otherwise. This, with the present rates of flour, has advan ced the price of wheat considerably, and the far mers will realize large profits from their crops, notwithstanding the rust. Gov. Bigler has taken the stump for re-elec tion. His opponent (Wade) is also active. A party of mountain Indians, who have been for some time past committing depredations upon life and property in Tuolumne county, lately became so bold and daring in their outrages that the citizens were under the necessity of taking steps to check them. A volunteer company was formed, and chased the savages into the moun tain fastness. They did not overtake them however. Still, it will have the effect, doubt less, of intimidating them for a time. The present season is highly favorable to mining operations, in all the gold districts the miners seem to be generally fortunate in posses sing valuable claims, which are yielding abun dantly by the use of improved means for ex tracting the metal. From present appearances, the total production of gold for the six months commencing with the first of June, will be larger than during any similar period since the opening of the mines. This result will be effec ted, too, at larger profits to the miners engaged than heretofore. From the intelligence from the South there is a prospect of the prevalence of Lynch law in that region. The inhabitants have been driven to take up arms against the hordes of criminals that are overunning the country, and they are not likely to stop now until they have driven the rrscals from their borders, or hung a portion of them. We have to record the hanging of two more men by the populace of Calaveras county—one on the charge of horse stealing and the other tor murder. A decision was rendered that will attract at tention and create some surprise in the Atlantic States. The court decided that the mines of gold and other precious metals of California are the exclusive property of this State, that the U. States have no interest in them, and cannot ex ercise any jurisdiction over them. The decision does not include the lands containing the miner als, but only the minerals themselves. If this opinion of the court becomes established as law, which we think it will not, it will prove of im mense value to the State, by making the mines a source of s ate revenue, which they never can be so long as they are recognized as the proper ty of the General Government. JoatJtin Beheaded , and his Head in the hands of his Captors !—lt has just been re ported here that the company of Rangers, com manded by Captain Harry Love, met with the notorious murderer and robber, Joaquin, and six of his equally infamous band, at I’anocha Pass, and after a desperate running fight, Jcaquin and one of his gang were killed and two taken pris ones ; three managed to make their escape, but one of their horses was killed and several cap tured. Captain Love is now on his way down with his prisoners, and the head of Joaquin pre served in spirits. One of Love’s company was seriously injured. In haste, yours, t. a. c. Quartzburg, July 27, 1853. The Irishmen of Shasta county have raised a purse of SI,OOO, to be presented to Capt. Ken drick, of the American bark Otranto, for his as sistance in enabling the Irish patriot, 0 Don ohue, one of the companions in exile of O'Brien, Meagher and McManus, to make his escape. A person named Daw’son, since fully identifi ed as the robber of Adams & Co.’s safe, et Mor mon Bar, some time since, was shot by deputy sheriff, M. Canavan, near Stockton, on the IBth inst. Dawson, and a confederate named Free man, were both lodged in jail. Mr. Beckman, of tho firm of Beckman & Kle bitz, merchants, of Volcano, was murdered while asleep in his store on the night of the 24th, inst., by a German named Henry Stevens, w r ho after wards robbed the store of a quantity of gold dust, and fled. Two packers were a short time since murder ed and robbed by Indians near Columbia. Eight mules, taken from the murdered men, were subsequently recovered. A party of seventy five men were at last accounts in pursuit of the savages. Large numbers of overland immigrants are arriving in California by the old Carson river, and Johnson cut-off routes. They all represent the waters high, and the grass scarce along the Humbolt river. Considerable droves of cattle have already arrived in Carson valley. On the night of the 26th inst., near Mariposa, a gentleman named Glosscock was shot and kill ed at a landango, by a Mexican boy, whom he had reproved. The murdered fled. AUGUSTA, GA. SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 28. FOR GOVERNOR, HON. HERSCHEL V . JOHNS ON . Os Baldwin County. Mass Meeting at Kingston. We take pleasure in calling the attention of the friends of the present Administration, and of Democratic principles to the fact that a Mass Meeting of the Democracy of Upper Georgia, will take place on the 9th of September, at Kingston. Let it be a good, old fashioned rally, such as shall cheer the hearts of patriots every where, and be an assurance to the country, that Georgia stands steadfast to her democratic faith. Let it show that our noble State stands ready to follow the bright example of her neighboring sisters, Alabama and Tennesse, which have re cently so nobly manifested their reliance upon democratic principles, and their unshaken confi dence in our patriotic Presdent, Let her show that she knows how to value a President,whose whole life is an unbroken history of fidelity to every in terest guarantied by the JConstitution. Let her show that, while the party that sustains him, in the same magnanimous spirit they displayed in elevating him to his present responsible position, is growing stronger everywhere else in the South’ the people of Georgia will not be the first to de sert him at the bidding of a restless and unstabled laction whose principles change to suit every new exigency that holds out a chance of party success. Let Georgia stand firmly by her demo cratic sisters, North and South, and withered will be the last hope of Southern demagogues, of keeping up the slavery agitation as a means of restoring a vicious party organization, condemn ed by the voice of the American people. It is to be hoped that the mountain democracy will be out in their strength at Kingston—that all who can come from distant points, will be there to rejoice with them in the present ascen dency of our principles, and to exchange pledges with each other, of renewed efforts to sutain them. Kingston is a place of pure air, pure water, and in a region of hardy and virtuous citizens. Ample arrangements are on foot for a bountiful barbacue, and to secure able and popular speak ers for the occasion. It will be an where the slanders heaped by the foes of demo cratic principles, upon the heads alike of Presi dent Pierce, and Judge Johnson, our pure and talented candidate for Governor, will be refuted —the measures and policy of the Democratic party, vindicated, and the motives of their tra ducers unmasked. Withdrawal of Dr. John W. Lewis. It will been seen by the following letter fiom this gentleman, that he has withdrawn from the canvass in the fifth Congressional District. Dr. Lewis is a sterling Democrat, and the example set by him we would like to see followed by others now in the field. The voters of the fifth will bear Dr. Lewis in mind. He has the ca pacity to fill any office in the state, arid on the first occasion presented will no doubt be called on for his services. The withdrawal of Dr Lewis, is a death blow to the hope of Whiggery in the Fifth. Day by day as the lion skin is partially removed, and whiggery under the mask of Con servative, Union, Republican, &c., exposed, the people are leaving 1 the Toombs and Stephens standard, and are flocking to that of the true friendsjof the State and the Union, the Demo cratic party : To the Voters of the Fifth Congressional District. My name has, for some weeks past, been be fore you, as an independent candidate for a seat in the Congress of the United States. I have intended nothing else, until within the last few days, but to continue it before you until the election. Recent developments, however, have satisfied my mind, that it will be prudent for me to withdraw from the canvass. I find myself in this condition; two years and-a-half since, the democratic party were di vided as to the course the State of Georgia should pursue in reference to the compromise measures, (so called.) In that division, I was associated with that portion of both the demo cratic and whig parties, who constituted what was known as the Southern Rights party. A convention of the people was called; and the delegates passed an ordinonce, in the provisions of which I acquiesced cheerfully, because it was the expressed will of Georgia, as a sovereign State, to which my allegiance as a citizen ivas due. I am thus particular in reference to the past, to show, that regarding the action of the conven tion as a final settlement of that question, I my self, did not consider a reference now, to the views I entertained then, as legitimately an el ement to be brought into the canvass. I find, however, that by many it is otherwise regarded. Neither, the democratic candidate forjudge, nor the two democratic candidates for Congress, (be sides myself) are placed in a position, (all things considered,) so effectually to remove all unplea sant feelings on this subject, as myself, I there fore, do it, by a withdrawal of my name. It is due, nevertheless, to myself, to say in this connection, that whensoevar I may be inclined to avail myself of any constitutional right, I will not de deterred therefrom by any irrespon sible body. John W. Lewis. Dalton, Aug. 23, 1853. The New York National Democrat asks : “ If Great Britain, for her own salvation, courts the alliance of the United Slates against the de signs of the Czar. as an union of the liberal principles against the principle of despotism, how can we refuse our aid in a crisis of such over whelming consequence? And with the Lion and Eagle fighting side by side, with the cross of St. George and the stars and stripes waving over the heads of the whole Saxon world, the conflict with the Cossack and his mercenary hordes, what would be the result, but the triumph of Libeity and the downfall of the last vestige of ‘ rule by right divine.’ ” Mormon Mode of Collecting Debts.— When a man refuses to pay a debt among the Mormons, they send three officers, called the whittlers, who take their station iu front of the debtor’s house, each with a jack-knife and a bundle of sticks, and whittle away, day after day, till the delinquent knocks under. It is said that the remedy seldom fails. Two youths aged respectively between six teen and seventeen years, named Thomas Wise and Calvin Johnson, have been committed to the Jail of Darlington Distrist, S. C., to answer the charge of having wilfully murdered Shadrach Johnson, on Sunday last, some five or six miles from Darlington Court House. A patent has been obtained for the bending of all kinds of timber by end pressure. The paten tee, Mr. Thomas Blanchard, bends straight tim ber to all the required forms without abraiding the capilar tubes of the wood. He confines the outside of such stick to its original length by end pressure, forcing the fibres into a new figure, without rupture, and retaining all the original strength of the wood, nor can these bent timbers be again straightened. The bending is perform ed while the vegetable albumen is softened, and thus much of it must exude, improving the last ing propensities of the wood. The invention is of undoubted advantage, especially in shipbuild ing, both in strengthening the fabric and redu cing the cost. Whenever any part is required to be made of a circular, curved, or ovel form, this machine will produce the desired form from the straight stick of timber, no matter what may be the size of the stick to be used; and accomplishes this with great economy in time and expense. A company has been organized to work this patent, to sell rights, or to erect works for the bending of timber, whether shipbuilding or cab inet making. The entire back of a chair may be made of one piece and of any form. The company is incorporated under the general laws of the State of New York, and entitled the Ship Timber Bending Company. The capital is SOOO,OOO, divided into shares of $5 each. The President is John W. Griffiths, who, with Gen eral W. Norris, C. S. Martin, James H. Cooks? and John W. Allen, are the trustees. R. Ben son, Jun., is secretary, 37 Trinity Buildings, New York. Hon. T. Butler King. —This gentleman, formerly collector at San Francisco, publishes a letter in the New York Times, denying the charge that he was indebted to the Govern ment, as has been alleged. He mentions sev eral circumstances connected with the office? as it when he entered upon its duties, which led to discrepencies in his accounts. He adds, moreover, that all his accounts were thoroughly examined and fully approved by the several branches of the Treasury Department, under the late Administration. Whether they are to be re-opened now, and subjected to further scru tiny, is not known, but Mr. King declares his entire willingness to have them submitted to any examination which may be desired. The Orphans. —The New Orleans Picayune of the 23d inst. says : “ The 165 little children . who, left orphans by the influence of the epi demic on their parents, were placed by the Board of Health and Council Committee in two temporary asylums, one on Julia street, the other in the Fourth District, have all been brought together under one roof, in the large building at the corner of Poeyfarre and Con stance streets, First District, where they are taken care of by the benevolent ladies of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The Mayor, who visits daily all the public hospitals, infir maries and asylums, said to us in conversation yesterday, that he could stand the hospitals pretty well, being accustomed to such sights, but that it was diffici.lt not to be moved by the scene this asylum presents, with so many un fortunate children crying for their mothers. HailStorm.—The Pee Dee Times of the 24th inst., says: We yesterday had a letter from a correspondent residing about ten miles from town on the Pee Dee, who says : “ We had one of the heaviest hail storm on the 19th, I have ever witnessed. I measured some of the hail stones and they were four inches round. It seems to have commenced at Dr. Sparkman’s plantation, and came down the river as far as Mr. Izard’s. I have not heard from below his plantation. Where it was most severe it has injured the rice,l should say fifty per cent. Corn is not much injured.” This storm of hail could not have been gen eral, as we have not heard, of any damage be yond the places named. It was most severe at Col. Hunt’s Richfield plantation. We learn from the New Orleans Delta, that Dr. Jacques, who was a surgeon on board of a Danish man of was in 1847, states while the ves sel was at Rio, during the prevalence of yellow fever at that port, that upon the breaking out of the disease on board of the ship, some six cases having occurred, the commander caused all on board to take, every morning and evening, a thimble full of white ungrouned mustard wed, during the epidemic. No new cases occurred on board of the Danish vessel, though the French and English ships suffered terribly. Dr. Jacques further states, that he has often seen it tried in other instances during the epi demics of fever with success, and considers it a sure preventive. The New Orleans Delta records the follow ing sorrowful incident: “We greeted an old ac quaintance yesterday on Nayades street, whom we had not seen for a fortnight before. He bad a care worn and troubled countenance. His eyes were sunken and his cheeks were hollow, and care had left its foot prints on his brows; he looked at least ten years older than when last we saw him. We asked if he had been sick, and if not to explain the cause of this great change ? ‘ Alas !’ he replied, ‘ a few days ago, I was happy in the possession of a father, mother, and three loved sisters ; but I am alone now—l buried the last one yesterday.’ We were an swered ; it was indeed, enough to turn the dark est hairs to snowy whiteness. And yet it is but one instance out of many which daily occur in our city.” The Virginia Springs. —The Valley Star says the springs in the mountains this year are better attended than for many years past. There are, at present, at the White Sulpher, about 1000 ; at the Salt Sulphur 250 ; at the Red Sweet 150 ; at the Old Sweet 100 ; at the Red Sulphur from 50 to 60 ; at the Blue 45 ; at the All-Heal ing, (a new watering place) 75 ; at the Hot 60 ; at the Warm Springs 90 ; at the Bath Alum 80 ; and at the Rockbridge Alum about 700. There are, probably not less than three thousand strangers in the mountains at this time, and ad ditions to the numbers are daily made. If visi tors could have been accommodated, beyond the number now at the Rockbridge Alum, they would in all probability have had from 1000 to 1,200 at least. The number of visitors at the Crystal Palace on Monday was five thousand five hundred and nine. The Palace was lighted up for the first time on Monday evening, and presented a bril liant appearance. A number of invited guests were present. There were over four thousand burners lighted at one time in all part 3 of the building. In the picture galiery a single row of lights run down the centre and by the aid of appropriate shades, throws the light in the same direction as it comes in the daytime through the lattice. The corner stone of the Peabody Institute, founded by Geo. Peabody, Esq., of London, was laid on Saturday afternoon, at Danvers, Mass., in the presence of a numerous assemblage, by Hon. Abbott Lawrence. Hon. A. A. Abbott delivered an address ; and speeches were made by Mr. Lawrence,Geo. S. Hillard, Mayor Seavor of Boston, Hon. Ashbel Huntington, of Salem, and others. i We learn from the New York Courier & En quirer, that Col. Fremont has just left that city for St. Louis, from which point he will imme diately set out over the plains with a suitable party for California. He goes to examine the route for the Pacific railroad along the great de pression which he believes to exist in the Rocky Mountains. He expects to reach California in November, and will immediately turn upon his steps and retrace his course to the States, in order to observe with accuracy the depths of the snows along the line, and the degree of obstruc which they will interpese to a railroad. The Washington Republic says that it is not true that the Secretary of the Treasury has ab solutely purchased the old United States Bank property adjoining the custom-house in Wall street, New York. He has, how T ever, leased the building, at an annual rent of $52,000, with a privilege of purchase. Congress will proba bly make the necessary appropriation for the purpose at its next session, when the purchase will be completed for the sum of $520.000, — The buildings, and certain extensive addition* to be made thereto, will be appropriated to that use of the United States assay office and the custom-house, which latter branch of public ser vices, in the great commercial entrepot already finds itsell cramped in its still new r and princely mansion. A new building, to be erected imme diately in the rear of the bank buildings, will be appropriated to the mechanical purposes of the assay office. Possession of the proporty leased (now occupied by the Bank of the State of New York and the Bank of Commerce) is to be giv en on the 15th of September. A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer, under date of London, July 12th, says : “ Mrs. Stowe’s visit has proved quite a failure here. Not one American called upon her, and the conclusion to which people have come, who have seen her, is that she could never have written ‘'Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ nor could her husband have helped her.” Celebrities at Saratoga. —Among the re cent visiters at Saratoga there were the Pope’s Nuncio to Brazil, Father Bedini, Archbishop Hughes, Father Gavazzi, the Rev. Mr. Hilliard, an ex-member of Congress and a distinguished Methodist preacher of Alabama, imbibing sim ultaneously the waters of Congress Spring; and Judge Edmonds, the latest expounder of spiritual manifestations, was expected to arrive in the evening. Naval.— Lieut. J. S. Maury has been order ed to the receiving ship Pennsylvania, in place of Lieut. A. Murray, detached on leave of ab sence. It is the intention of the Navy Depart ment to convert the Franklin line of battle ship, now at the navy yard at Kittery, Maino into steam propeller of the first class. A draft of a sailors for the United States service, in charge of Lieuts. Mcßlair and Fraley and Pass ed Midshipman Harris, arrived at Norfolk on Sunday from New York. They were delivered on board the U. S. ship Pennsylvania. [communicated.] Lexington, Ga., Aug. 20, 1553. Mr. Gardner :—About 7 o’clock, p. m., this evening, our town was considerably excited by the sudden general jail delivery , made by three thieves , confined in the Jail. One of them named Woods, is the man engaged in stealing and carry ing to Illinois, of a negro woman belonging to John Thornton of this county. Another, by the name of John Denton, a Circus servant, who robbed a Mr. Wright here in July last. The last is the burglar, (who recently broke open Mr. Young’s Jewelry Store and robbed it) by the name of Tinsley. This last seems to have a passion for breaking into and out of the houses and prisons he may desire to. When arrested here he had in his possession a large quantity of bur glarious tools, such as keys,drills, pincers, impres sion soap. &c. A description and reward for their apprehension will no doubt be given by our Sheriff. Yours in haste. ' [communicated.] i Pierce and Johnson Mass Meeting at King ston, September 9. Mr. Editor : —I am pleased to see by the up s country papers, that the Cherokee Democratic s Pierce and Johnson boys,Union and State Rights, i are up and doing, and seem determined to give a i good account of themselves at the approaching , elections. lam still more pleased to learn, that i a number of Cherokee Whigs, who prefer prfn l ciples to party —who voted for Gen. Pierce, know ing him to be sound on a question,which recently i agitated the Union to its centre ; who are satis ■ fied with his administration so far, as also, that i he will not waver from the principles laid down in his inaugural address ; who feel assured that the provisions of the Constitution, for the faith ful maintenance of which he battled at home, against great odds, thereby risking his own per sonal popularity, will be faithfully carried out under his administration, thus putting at rest for four years, at least, the machinations of the ene mies of the South at the North, and political agi tators, at the South, have come out boldly, and declared their intention to support the nominee of the Democratic party fo r Governor, the Hon. H. V. Johnson. The men who were opposed to the nominees of there own party, and ran in op position in Georgia an open and avowed Free soiler—who but a few years ago called them selves Staterights men, then Whigs, then Con stitutional Union men, then Whigs or Webster men—now the Conservative Union Republican, &c., party, being ashamed and afraid to ever mention the name Whig, such politicians as T. oomb and Stephens, who were the leaders— they have no further use for, and give them the go by. These patriotic Whigs, will not only swell the vote of Johnson, but the numbers who will be in attendance at the Pierce and John son Mass Meeting, to be held at Kingston, on the ninth of September. Pierce and Johnson men, Whigs and Democrats, see through the game that Messrs. Stephens and Toombs are endeav oring to paly off on them, for the second time, through the instrumentality of Mr. Jenkins. 1 hey have not forgot the positions taken by tnese gentlemen, when the contest was between Pierce, Scott and Webster. They have not for gotten what Messrs. Stephens and Toombs then said to them, that on the slavery question, no man north of Mason and Diton’s line was more sound than Gen. Pierce—they searched the re coids, and found what they then siid ions true, and supported Pierce in preference to Scott the Freesoiler Webster, and up to the present time have no cause to regret the support then given. If Messrs. Toombs and Stephens think the people of this State to be but clay in the Potter’s hands, to be moulded at their will, I hope they will be undeceived at the approaching election. 1 hey have made use of Mr. Jenkins once, and been condemned by their own party, by a vote of more than two to one—let the condemnation, this time, be so strong that neither of these gen tlemen can be mistaken. Let there be a Mass Meeting of Pierce and Johnson men at Kingston, on the 9th prox., that will strike terror into the hearts of all political agitators. Let every man who has the peace and quiet of his State and country at heart, attend, and let a shout for the Union, for Pieice, , for Johnson, and for the quiet qf the country, go ■ up, that will sound like a death-kneli to all agi tators. Ample arrangements, I understand, will be made for a crowd , and some of the best speakers in the state, Whigs and Democrats, will be on the spot. Let it be a rowser. X. [communicated.] Irrigation. Mr. Editor :—ln the communication on this subject, which you was so kind as to publish, in your paper of the 10th inst., I observe the omis sion of one word which destroys the sense. It reads, “by absorbing and carrying it off.” It should have read 11 by absorbing caloric and carry ing it off.” Since it is due to myself to ask for a correc tion of the above, I will, while writing, offer a few further reflections lor intelligent planters. The forest in the state of nature w r as abun dantly supplied with ponds, marshes and streams of water, all protected by a canopy of greep foli age and tall trees. Vegetation was always Healthy : water seldom dried up. The air was always moist, and shrubs and trees usually lived the whole time allotted to them by Providence- How has the scene changed! Waters have been confined to as narrow limits as possible; the timber felled, and only narrow skirts of denuded woods left where the lands are unfit tor cultiva tion. So large a proportion of the earth’s sur face is made bare, exposed to the direct action of the sun and dry hot winds, that the evanes cent effects of summer rains has become prover bial. The atmosphere is dried and heated and the herbs withered by as many days of draught as it took weeks of draught to produce the same •fleets when you had ponds and marshes full of water, and dense forests to detain the moisture arising from them. What would be thought of the Optician who would,under the pretence of allow ing the eye to have all the benefit of the sun’s rays and free access of the air, amputate the whole of the palperbrae, and exterpate the prin cipal lachrymal glands 1 Similar scenes, brought about by similar pretexts, are often observed in June and July, in a very large proportion of our country. Cotton, situated a mile from any forest or water, on good land, in drills three feet w-ide, i six inches in the drill, averaging six inches in hight and the same in circumferance, with just enough manure about its roots to turn it red, surrounded by a bare, burning soil, unprotected by any bland atmosphere or green forest to save it from the merciless peitings of the scorching sun and drying winds—lands thus exposed,so sel dom ploughe.l, that they become compact and dry, make the summer’s crop a magnificent failure. The magnitude of the evil is but too keenly felt by all. What are the indications for relief? Restore the waters to afford moisture to the at mosphere. Restore the forests to protect the earth’s surface and detain the moisture. A pool, presenting two feet diameter on the surface of water, on every fourth of an acre on your farm, will fill the first indication, and the reduction of your crops to just half you now prenlend to till, allowing the balance to be cover ed with natural growth, and by good manuring and frequent ploughing the soil, may be kept in good condition for absorbing the moisture arising from the pools; make the manure available, convert the farm into a forest of corn, peas, pumpkins or cotton, so that by covering the en tire surface with a canopy of green, you may fill the second. Small pools of water, on every fourth of an acre, will afford as humid an atmosphere, and re duce the temperature as much, when the earth is protected by heavy foliage, as if a solid sheet of w'ater covered the entire surface ; because it will soon saturate the atmosphere and evaporation will cease. Hence, you will have as much light to look for heavy dews and good rains, as if a broad river occupied the entire space. Electricity, which is so invigorating to ani mal and plant, is excited by the passage of wa ter from the surface into vapors, and thence into the airiforum state, and also when it returns in to mist and thence into drops. All of electrical benefit may, therefore, be expected frorr. the al ternate co-operation and condensation every day and night from the pools that man, beast and plant may need. An experiment, on a very small scale, cannot be a fair test, because the expansiveness of the atmosphere is such, that a few acres in the midst of a targe denuded neighborhood cannot be so sup plied with moisture and protected by green for est, as to withstand the effects of the burning sun and drying winds around, just as we now see shiubs and trees dried up by want of moisture in narrow skirts of woods. The expense of adopting this plan would be trifling, if done when the crop is pitched. Check off the farm into squares, containing a fourth of an acre each, and fix a pool in every cross, which will be kept full most of the year, per haps all the season, by the rains and dews. For, remember, the waters will, when protected by a bland atmosphere and a dense forest, dry up as tardily as they did when your country was an unbroken forest. But should the pools become dry, a few small carts, so narrow as to pass be tween the rows with barrels of water, can soon replenish them and restore the soothing, invigo rating elements. x. d. A1 exander, Burke county, Aug. 17, 1853. The Coming Whig Issues. The Baltimore American of Monday last, as we noted yesterday, told us that by and by the whig party would have some serious issues. The New York Tribune of the same day thus intimates what those issues are to be : “ The old political platforms having been spit on and kicked to pieces, as they geneially de served, we may now look for the erection of new ones with fresh timber. The following, from an address to the electors of l uyahojfa' county, Ohio, is a specimen of a sort which seems to be getting fashionable : Men of all parties, who desire so to shape their political action as to promote the best in terests of the country—who are opposed to the extension of slavery—to the fugitive act of 1850, who are in favor of divorcing the general gov ernment from all connexion with slavery, where it can be done constitutionally.— of the freedom of the national domain to actual set tlers in limited quantities, and in State matters all who desire a more upright and economical administration of government—the taxing alike of the property of individuals and corporations according to its real value—and who seek the suppression of the evils of intemperance by the enactment of the essential principles of the ‘ Maine Law. ’ ’ “ There are one or two planks here—such as the Maine law—which are lather unpleasant to politicians of the ancient schools, but it looks as though they would have to come to it.” By this it would appear that the substance of the platform which the whigs are getting ready is to be the renewal of the slavery agita tion arid the Maine liquor law 7 —the remainder of the issues set forth in the above programme being merely makeweights, and not intended to attract any particular attention. To these may probably be added, as another whig issue that scheme of Internal Improvements by the fed eral government which shall be found upon ex amination to involve the largest departure from &.strict and rightful construction of the constitu tion, and which shall promise the largest har vest of financial waste and abuse ” Such, we submit, so far as it'has yet been developed by the leading whig organs in dif ferent sections of the country, is the show of purposes and principles which the whig party is now likely to present, whenever, in the lan- 1 guage of the American, it shall take the field , lor * serious action” and “ extra exertions” , against the administration. We shall hardly be suspected of judging too favorably the ancient and obsolete principles and measures of the whig party, as maintained by that party at a time when it really claimed that it had a party creed to maintain. Yet we are free to say, that if any worse platform than the old one of bank, high tariff, land distribution, &c., could be de vised—any upon which the people will surely pronounce more summary and sweeping con d -mnation—it would be this new abolitionist and latitudinarian amalgam which the whig or gans seem to be mixing up as a new experiment upon the popular forbearance.— Washington Union. Office of Board of Health, ) Mobile, Aug. 23, 1853. J Report of interments in the city of Mobile for the twenty-four hours ending 6 o’clock p. m. this day: Os Yellow Fever 5 Os other diseases 2 Total 7 Gko. A. Ketchum, Secretary. (Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.) Baltimore, Aug. 24.— Consul to London. — George Saunders has received his commission as Consul to London. New Orleans, Aug. 24, 11.31 a. m.—Prog ress of the Epidimic. —The interments for the twenty-four hours ending Wednesday morning, were 232, of which 199 were from yellow fever, thus showing a falling off in the number of deaths, the reports published in some of the Northern papers to the contrary notwithstand ing. In Vicksburg and Natchez the epidemic is raging, and everybody, who can, is leaving. Nkw-Orleans, Aug. 23.— Later from Texas. —Later advices from Texas have been re ceived, but they contain nothing definite rela tive to the elections. The crops in Texas are represented to be in a more favorable condition. Baltimorr, Aug. 24.— Relief for the New Or leans Sufferers. —$3200 have been collected at Nashville, for the sufferers fromfthe epidemic at New-Orleans. Later from Havana. —New Orleans, Aug. ' 24.—The U. S. mail steamship Crescent City, arrived at New Orleans on Tuesday. Nothing important had transpired in Havana since the date of the last advices. Over a thousand packages of Nashville Goods left on the Union for the railroad. Another ship ment is now taking place. They are promptly turned out as fast as they arr ive at the depot. The late rains have been of much advantage in secerning the expeditious transportation of freight.— Chattanooga Advertiser, 2 5th inst. A gentleman in the street the other night who had evidently taken in too much of the “ardent” for convenient storage, and was rather unquietly resting himself against a lamp-post, when an acquaintance came along, and observed that the afflicted individual had on a new overcoat. “ Well, Bob,” said he, “guess you have been indulging in a new overcoat.” “ Coat!” replied Bob, giving his hat a knock back and endeavoring to gesticulate : “ this ain’t | a coat.” “ Isn’t a coat, eh ! Well, Bob, what is it?” “ This ere ain’t a coat—it’s a spirit wrapper. MARRIED. On the 25th inst, by the Rev. W. J. Harrason, Mr. George Slater, of Baltimore, to Miss Julia | Duvall, of this city. OBITUARY. Died, at Piney Grove, on the morning of the 23d inst., Mrs. Sarah Brack, in the 26th year of her Ago. Kind hearted, gentle and true,she admirably fulfilled the duties of wife, daughter and friend. In the circle of which she was an ornament, a void has baen created, which can never be filled. The tears of the poor water her gravo, for she was to i them indood a friond. While wo bow in submis | sion to this dispensation, we hope to meet her liap ! py spirit in that world, where “ the wicked cease ; from troubling and the weary are at rest.' A FrTEND. j Augusta Chronicle and Savannah Courier. | please copy. Died, on the 19th inst., at her son's, Geo. P. Bur ! nett, in Chattooga County, Mrs. Marinda J. j Burnett, consort of Silas E. Burnett of Romo. ; Commercial. SAY ANN All, Aug. 26. Colton. —Arrived since ’ the 18th instant, 978 bales Upland (all per Rail i road,) and 2 Sea Island. The exports for the i same period amount to 1656 bales Upland, viz : to to New York, 1556 bales Upland ; Philadelphia, 64 ■ do Upland; and to Charleston, 36 do. Upland leaving on band and on shipboard not cleared, a stock of 3,130 bales Upland, and 151 do. Sea Islands; against 1,860 do. Upland, and 63 do. Sea ■ Islands; at the same time last year. [ There has been but little enquiring at any time during the week, and with the small stock offering, the market seems quite dull. On Tuesday advices r one week later from Europe were received by tho [ Arabia at New York. There had been some im provement in the Liverpool market, fair Cotton being quoted at id. higher. Sales of the week 41,000 bales, of which Speculators took 6,000, and i Exporters 7,000. Fair Orleans is quoted at 7d and 1 j Fair Upland 6id. There wa3 a good business do ; ing at Manchester, and altogether, tho prospect for commercial affairs seemed better. This improve ment was in consequece of the news from Russiabo ing favorable for the continamo of peace , Our market was not affected by these advices. Tho total sales of the week amount to 159 bales as ! follows: 11 at 9;88 at 9 5-16 ;19at 10 ; 24 at 10|, and 17 at 10 \ cents. We have not heard that any | new cotton has been recoived hero this week. Sea Islands. —Nothing doing in LoDg Cotton. ! Rice.— -There has been very little demand since ! our last, and prices unchanged. r; Corn. Iho stock is largo and prices have de clined 1200 bushels Western sold at 78 cents, i Wo quote 75 aBO cents in largo quantities, and 80 a 85c. in small lots. Flour . —The market is well supplied at present ! A cargo would bring $5.75j 100 bbls. Baltimore sold yesterday at $6. Lime —Only one cargo ha 3 arrived since our last, a part of which has been so d at $1.50. Lumber.— S. Sawe 1, refuse per rn.ft. Balj . Merchantable, 14 a 18 ; River Lumber, refuso 0 ■> 10; Merchantable to prime, 14 a 16 ; Ranging do., for export, 9 ; Mill Ranging, 10 a 13 ; Whitt Pine, clear, 30 a 40; Merchantable, 18 a 25 • Cv press Shingles, 4 a 4 50 ; Sawed Cypress Shine)Vs lb; Red Oak Staves, 12 al6 ; White do. pi po . h i 60; do. do. hhd, 25 a 35; do. do, bbl. 20 a 25. * Molasses.—Tho markot for Cuba is verv dull No sales have boon reported. 75 bbls. Now-Or leans Syrup was sold at 29 cents. i littlo doiu S in B acon; ono lot ol Sides brought 8 J cents. Bagging. —Thoro has been more inquiry during the past week ;we quote Hi aHi for'Gunny. “ ; Rope. —The sales have been confined to smalllots Wo quote 8i aßs cents. Freights. —Tho steamers for New York are ask- ! ing Ic. for Cotton, and $1 for Rico. Sailing ves sels arc taking Cotton at $1 per bale. Exchange.— Sterling is quoted at 9i a 9| per ct. promium. Domestic.—Tho Banks are selling Sight Chocks on all Northern cities at £ per cent pre mium ; and purchasing Sight Bills at par ; 30 day Bills at |a l percent, discount; 60 day Bills l 1 all per cent, discount; 90 day Bills, 1| a 2 per Vent discount. SAVANNAH EXPORTS-Aug. 25 * Per barque Peter Demill, for Charleston—32l ! bales Cotton, 570 bbls. Rosin, and 330 Spirits Tur j pontine. r | n r SC oJ; v Vo ° a l > , rid £ c > for Baltimore—lll b&fes Cotton, 264 boxes Coppor, 64 bales Domestics. 6 do \ arn, 2 pckgs. Mdze., 24.900 feet Lumber ' : Per schr Leopold O’Donnell, for Baltimore— 37,- I 810_foet Lumber, 89 balos Domestics, aad; 52 bale a i Cotton. Sloping JnicUtgntff. 7 —--— i i -n SAVANNAH, Aug. 26.—Cleared barque Peter i Demill, lloey, New York; brig Philura Jill WiT- t mington, N. C.; schrs Wood bridge, White Balti more; Leapold O'Doanell, Townsend, Baltimore. ARRIVALS FROM CHARLESTON. Steam ship Osprey, Bennett, Philadelphia. Barque Sophia, Kodgers; Philadelphia. UP FOR CHARLESTON. Barquo Harriet & Maria, Eilems, at New York. Schr Virginia Griffiths, Plummer, at Boston. CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON. Brig Clinton, Walker, at New York. SAILED FOR CHARLESTON. | ( Ship Sophie, Devries, irom Flushing Roads. j 1 Preciosa, Pages, Barcelona. j Schr Aurora S. Travers, from Norfolk. • C *JARLESTON, August 26.—Arrived, bark Ma ! ! ria Morton; Francis, New York, K Jla | Went to sea, barks Avola KondrL. S' S N«V 0 York,“ Nt ' r ' h "” 1,0,1 ' j“V ; I ; S'prcial Hflfu-fjj S'TjST’ existiDg wmb._gmda.ted by th» $» 80,, ?— J.\’o. VV k„ ' Dr, Edward r?g—-i-jo™*, A ‘ ' 1853.—An instalment of ten ver 2v, to be paid on the 14th September nexY to the By-Laws of said Corporation the Board. S. II Olives J? ° r M aug 25 office corner Mclntosh ARj r6r duced in favor of the effio-, be «• Hoofland’s German Bitters, prepare® Jackson is the unprecedent demand for tu C * all parts of the Union ; and although tw m ** many compounds prepared and represent? ing worthy ot a liberal patronage, vmtwi re strained to remark, that the vast number T? I ®* monials with which tho worthy doctor v, testl honored, by persons of the highest charanf respectability, who found it necessary to *< course to his preparation, is testimony Im'" * conclusive, that a moro effectual remedy f i tb most immediate relief of those afflict*! direful malady, dyspepsia, has never been’ ered. 6 tln discov. an® j? Never suffer long from a Cm, T' > At this age of the world wherv get Ayers Cherry Pectoral, it is a cnminß lect, if you do not cure it. D «|. pde. Wc cordially invite all J? fond of tho good things of this life, to drew* “ r! help themselves to Beef Stakes, Mutton Fish Balls and Soups of all kinds and a 4rinti h ° pi hospitality, fevoi day, in thom, k P ™ ? j found at our post studdyingthe taste and nil of our numerous customers. F “ aug 14 ts PLI:MB & Pan ™ No Famil y sbonb!be We speak of M'Lane's Liver Pi : I which have become an indispensable Familv V ' cine. The frightful symptoms which arise' hm' diseased Liver manifest themselves, more oriel every family; dyspepsia, sick headache, op tion of tho menses, ague and fever, pains h'' side, with dry, and hacking cough, are all A suits of hepatic derangement— and for r! M'Lane’s Pills are a sovereign rewodH have never been known to fail, and the* kept at all times by families. ‘ ,a ‘“’ Directions. —Take two or threo ® o intMo i I every second or third night. If they do not n- P two or three times by next morning take 0 i two more. A slight Mfast should follow their use. nSE ‘!| . Thc iver Pm ma J also be used where D urJ is simply necessary. As an anti-biliou/£[ tivo they are inferior t« none. And in d-1 of two or three, they give astonishing relief toll headache; also in slight derangements of the-I rnach. Sold by Haviland, Risley A Co., and Wm J Tutt, Augusta, Ga.; P. M. Cohen k Co. Chari I ton, S. C.; Hill & Smith, Athens, Ga.; e' C Madison; A. A. Solomons; Savannah; and JI Druggists and Dealers in Medicine throufflWp I South. ° OUi H\ aug 23 __ 12 SoJa Water.—This delight i: 2K-**£*s drink, together with a great variety choice Syrups, of tho best quality, may be found. | he Druggist and Apothecaries Store of i _ aa S l2 Wm. Haines, Broadstre«t, :> * ed * cal Testimony cannot bTc c 7 I troverted.—One of the most startifo- | cases narrated of Dr. M’Lane's Vermifuge byit John Butler, of Lowell, Trumbull county Gfc The case was that of a young lady who had lw very sick for eight years, and had consulted a her of physicians, who had treated it as one ‘ Prolapsus Uteri. Dr. Butler was then called. and for a time, believed with his predecessor ’ it was a case of Prolapsus. He was, how... forced to the conclusion that his patient WJB 's' faring from worms, and afther much „ r <ma prevailed upon her to take tw 0 doses"e:i> M’Lane’s Vermifuge. This had tin feet of removing from her a countless nuinbtrs tbc largest size. At tor she parsed them, herklii immediatly returned. She is sinco mamed, a continues to enjoy excellent health, aug 16 Fa.rrell’s liennine Arakin Liniment is a most extraerdiniry* •.icine, the truth ot which is placed beyond dor of the vast, sales of tho article and them ny cures being daily performed by it, whin previously had resisted all other medicines a tho skill of the best physicians in the world. I; composed ot balsams, extracts and gum? pets! to Arabia—possessing, in a concentrated form.i their stimulating, anodyne, penetrating, unctiia and revulsive properties, and the same which.a ago, were used by the “ Sons of the Desert,"«i such miraculous success, in curing the disease: both man and beast. Read the following remarkable cure, id should of itself place 11. G. FARRELL’S H BIAN LINIMENT far beyond any similar * dy. Mr. 11. G.Farrell—Dear Sir: Actuate; sense of gratefulness. I submit the followup instanoe of the utility otvour gieat medio'm child, three yeais old, was suddenly »tU> jkea a terrible disease, which in lesa iftar. sit prostrated it to total he'plessneThe (imbsk so rigid that not a joint corifo be bout, the: turned black and cold Ynd entirely depri 1 "’ fooling; the eyes fixed, partially Hosed and gether blind, follovi D g this was dsafw® I sounds; the spine became oor.tracted andsos® tiat when lyi’jg on his the head and tie® only touched. Indeed, the child presented ® appearance of being <l&«d, Immediately cH attack, the family physieir.n was called in, tm | three weeks ho labored to restore it toteefe | all in vain, although ifc w as blistered a dozen - I and various rubetacumt Liniments applied J consul tat’.op of physicians was then held, to’; I purpose,, the case was then brought before thy | cal Society, but nothing could be suggesW* 1 had not already been done, and tho doctor | me ha could do nothing more. We then con- I cod applying your Liniment Ireely over d* q 1 length of tho spine, and you may imagine A.i . rent’s joy, when, after a few applications,rcKW animation was apparent, and it rapidly 'withthe exception of the sight, which come perfect for near a month. | 1 is now hoalthy and robust as can be. other cases of same kind occurrod preview J ■ neighborhood, all of which died, when there-I® doubt if your Liniment had boon they f have recovered. HENRY ft. LLht 4 Peoria, Marc!. Ist, 1851. tm Look out for Counterfeits. —The j tionod against another counterfeit, which D ■ M ly made its appearance, called W. B. I bias Liniment, the most dangerous of adJ- | torfoits, because his having the name oi > j.J I many will buy it in good faith, without tp 1, jp ; ledge that a counterfeit exists, and they |fl | haps, only discover their error whea mixture has wrought its evil effects. , . m The genuine article is manufactured one : , S G. Farrell, sole inventor and proprietor, i®' ~ a sale druggist, No. 17 Main street, ■ C'eor l3 -.1 to whom all applications for Ago&eies ff uit j I dressed. Be sure you got it wqtb. the I|| before Farrell’s, thus—H G. FABR&Tg % hissiguature on the wrapper. and all o*a i; m counterfeits. Sold 1 ~ I y AND,WS^| and by regala r ly authorized agents thro b-' ,1 United State , a . .r'c^ Prie 0 25 and 50 cents, fjfl Agents, Wanted in every town, m hamlet ’ n the United States, in w ,‘ I already established. Address H. VB above, accompanied with g°°“ r . e |9J charar ter, responsibility, &c. “ Bring hither the P°* r ’.. f^oa «j , 3 the halt, and the blined, "have them healed of their man y. 1 j\[asis ! ? j Boldly and fearlessly assert that mw- y » ; ment will positively cure Rheum* ; who are afflicted with that most P 8 < | try it thoroughly according t 0 , • „ the* 3 iif they aro not cured, we will g ?I; money back- What more can ? * tri^' l *! also car©-the Piles. Thousand* n Tts nt y *ll were cured. Bruises, Sprains, j tions fade away as if touched t>J « ca l(i# wand. Its application to a Burn ■'oil upon tho troubled waters. - 1 t j eß atul agony is soon stilled and *■ ,K, eW is > ! to quiet and'peaceful slumbers. P or tsvery wound,’ and that balm t^e; ;; Linreaent. Every body that sells it for-sale. ‘Hold your Horses ■ ‘ j crippled, galled or sprained, use t * iment. 12 KT*~ —Premium Daguerre* 0 firm of Tucker * been dissdkved by limitation las dersigneti Wd? continue to P rac 1 „ uerreotyping in all its various 6 c ou ll! I his long practical experience aL idioß3 . 1 his ability to pleaso the most f d J -‘ 1 ■ The picture* now being taken at pronounced by those who are J r eT er ■ tono and life-liko expression, j si4 cl ! ‘ ■ produced in Augusta. _ . N.B. Artists purchasing Stock, in mind that materials are sold ft ■ at any other house this side ©Id 0