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■a——— CflKstitutimifllist K Btpuliltc. BY JA^ B 6 ar DNER, JR. OFFICE ON Me INTOSH-STREET, TH!RT> door from ths north-west corner of BROAD-STREET. 'TERMS: Dailypsper (if paid in advance) ....per annum. .$8 00 Tri-Weekly (if paid in advance) per annum.. 5 00 Weekly (if paid in advance) peraunum.. 200 I From the Savannah Georgian, 28lh inst.] Debate between Messrs. Seward & Bartow, IN EFFINGHAM, ON THE 20TU INST. Mr. Bartow opened in a speech of an hour; Mr. Seward replied in one of an hour and a half; and Mr. B. concluded in half an hour. Mr. Bartow said he had been charged with in consistency as a candidate,because he had declin ed on hisjown|acccunt to become so. He was now a candidate against his own inclinations, in obedience to a pubic call. He felt bound to obey such a call. He has often wished that Providence had cast his lot in a more retired sphere, where he could fulfil his destiny undis turbed in tilling the ground. He said the present was a new state of things in parties, when men of all parties were uniting to .maintain the constitution and obtain an hon est administration of the Government —that in a free Government parties were necessary, but they should be pure, and held to a rigid accoun tability. He said that both the old political par ties had now failed of any good. President mak ing and office-holding were the order of the day, without regard to principles. The expenditures had increased enormously, until they now reach ed fifty millions. The same economy and good faith were necessary in our State affairs, and hence the present campaign related both to our Stale and National affairs. He supported Chas. J. Jenkins for Governor. He had been connec ted for many years with the finances and inter nal improvements of our State. He was unam bitious, honest, faithful, and able—a most noble n an—one of the noblest of his species, with all the attributes of greatness, made in the image of his Maker, and true to this impress of divinity. He was his (Mr. B.’s) personal friend, and he regarded it a recommendation to any man to be able to have such a friend. He said Mr. J. was the author of the celebrated Georgia Platform— a model of excellence and patriotism. It had distinguished Georgia among her sister States, ar.d would hand his name down to posterity. Against Mr. J.’s opponent, Judge Johnson, he had nothing to say personally. He was against the Georgia Platform—belonged to the Secession party, whose principles still had vitality" in the present Democratic party. If the counsels of that party had prevailed the Union would now be destroyed. His acquiescence in the Compro mise was from necessity— it was not in good faith. He and his party had been glaringly inconsistent. They had said no Northern party would do—all were imbued with free soilism. They adopted the first opportunity to go back to their old and despised allies, and now vie with each other in the support of a national Democratic administra tion, having Freesoilers in the cabinet, and the same class appointed to numerous responsible offices. Such men are not to be trusted by the people with power. The people should set their faces against them. He said if elected to Congress he should take his seat untrammelled by party restrictions. He would not make it bis business to go for this or that man for President, or for appointment to office. He should represent with fidelity and to the best of his ability, the people of the District. He would stand prepared to support the admin istration wben right, anu oppose it when wrong. His position should be independent. He would wear no man’s collar. He approved of the doc trines of the inaugural, and that far he would promise to go with the President when he ad hered to them. He had affirmed the Compro mise and said it was “ constitutional.” But so iar the President, in an important matter, had violated bis inaugural. He bad appointed Free soilers and Disunionists to office. His efforts were to build up a great party instead of the country. He (Mr. B.) did not think the South safe, nor would he until the principles of the Georgia Platform should become recognized by the nation. He should strive for this, and go to Congress with this view. The sky was yet lowering and there are yet dangers to escape. Old issues were settled and the Government should be administered according to the republi eail manner ol Washington. .1 nfferson, Madion, &c. Mr. Seward said that he was astonishod to hear the gentleman say the Union and the South were still in danger. He thought the Georgia Platform had saved the Union and defended the South He thought the gentleman and his friends pointed to it with exultation as the bow of peace and promise. Now we are virtually told it has failed of its great objects, and the Union must again he saved If Mr. B. was right, how could he claim for the author so much success and so much sagacity ? He would like Mr. Bartow.to tell the people how Congress, how the nation was going authoritatively to adopt the Georgia Platfoim! What jurisdiction has Congress?— what jurisdiction another State ?—what sort of a bill would he frame to have Congress pass it ? what practical effect would he give the law ? How would he have it executed ? How near a majority did he think he could obtain to stand on the “description plank”—the 4th resolu tion * Mr. Seward said this was all talk for election eering purposes—lor the want of something better .—it was addressed to the fears of the people.— The Georgia Platform had fully settled Georgia's acquiescence in the Compromise, and the posi tion of the Democratic Baltimore Convention, with the election of Gen. Pierce, had settled the same thing for 27 out ol 31 States. Tennessee now makes 28. He would like to know how the gentleman could make it any stronger ? As a State Rights rnan, he stood on the Georgia platfoim. It was the voice of Georgia, that was enough for him. He should adhere to and carry out its doctrines. He was a member of the Convention that passed it, but was not allowed to vote for it without pocketing an insult. He and his Southern Rights friends was classed with abolitionists. Mr. Seward said the only effect ual way to sustain the Georgia Platform was to support President Pierce’s administration. He stood upon the Compromise as a settlement, in cluding the fugitive slave law. In this he is sustained by a great and overwhelming party, in power in 28 States. But it is the Democratic party, and here lies the difficulty w’ith his op ponent. He ought now to be sustaining this administration. He had, early that year, writ ten a letter advising no opposition to him. Mr. Bartow—Have you got the letter? Mr. Seward—Does the gentleman deny it? it is time enough to introduce proof when there is an issue. Mr. Bartow—The gentleman had better pro duce the letter. Mr. Seward—Beside this, at a meeting of Mr. Bartow’s political friends, at the last s«ssien,they resolved, “if nothing intervened,” to support a Democrat for the Presidency. The gentleman was present in the deliberation, and made no op- j position! Now, what diij intervene? Again. ! The gentleman was among those willing to sup- i port Pierce and King under the so-called Union organization. Why now’ back out? Is a patriot to be driven from his country’s cause by a mere name ? Yes! the Democratic party have given peace to the country—are pledged to sustain our rights, and it is the first duty of Southern men to stand by it, but Mr. Bartow is against it in advance and now denounces it as corrupt. He now de« nounces both parlies ? Is he ashamed, of the name of Whig ? Mr. B. might confess the sins of his own party —that is good against him in law and morals. His testimony was not good against the Democrats. He required proof of that. Having admitted that the party he has been undermind ing for many years has proven untrue, with what face can he now ask the people to take his advice ? The gentleman says old issues are dead? If so, how came they so? Because the Democratic policy had triumphed in the admin istration of the Government. The people are satisfied with them. Democrats are now asked to desert their party because its principles have triumphed and help Mr. Bartow who was against them heretofore, and now make war upon them —a modest proposition ? Mr. Bartow is loud in his talk about Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. It is convenient to fall back upon the name of these patriots and to deal in vague generalities. He is like a member of the church who excused himself for retailing liquor because he had in his shop the portraits of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. He said they scanctified the deed. Now, Mr. Bartow, in the name of three great men can do anything be pleases, pud call upon them to sanctify the act. Mr. Bartow goes to Congress to correct abuses in both the great parties ?—to make Congress and the President do right. Where will he get the pow er ? who will be his voters ? where his party ? How can his little handful stand up against such superior numbers? He will be impotent for good Mr. Bartow is against all old parties —he is for a new party. If sincere, he is for a Sectional part. This was the standing objection to the Southern Right sparty—why he has turned fire eater—such a party cannot sustain itself. It may do a year or so to distribute the Georgia loaves and fishes. He heard that the President of the Jen kins Convention said they had saved the Union, they must now save themselves. Mr. S. thought they limited saving. The first Presidential elec tion will sweep such a party away like chaff be fore the wind. It needed no prophet to tell where his opponent would be found Mr. Bar tow’s new party has no name in particular, but any in general. He is a Jew to the Jew and a Gentile to the Gentiles—to the Whig he is a Whig—to the Democrat he is rather Democratic, at any rate, he is conservative. He can show colors to suit every party and papers —to suit any trade. He insisted Mr. B. should take his posi tion somewhere. If he could nt give in a proper experience so as to obtain Baptismal rites for his party, he must do like the sinner who could’nt get into any church, and took the responsibility to baptise himself. Mr. Seward said, like Mr. Bartow", he knew both Johnson and Jenkins ; but he would not, like Mr. B. had said of Johnson, say he could say nothing good for Jenkins ; but he would say, they were both good and able men. He fought the fight on principle. How comes it that last year Mr. Jenkins thought we all ought to go back to our former party alliances?—that he was then still a Whig?—did not oppose the National Whig Platform, but only General Scott as a mili tary man ?—how, this year, he is the candidate of a party which denounced the Whig party ? Will any man say that Mr. Jenkins is not still a Whig ? It is hut a part of the system of vote catching ! Mr. Seward defied Mr. Bartow to show* where Judge Johnson had advwated secession. His pub lished opinions and acts do not show it. Mr. Seward knows of his own knowledge that he advised acquiescence in the proceedings of the Georgia Convention at the time, and at the last session was the leader of the movement to ad here to the National Democracy, upon the com promise as a finality. Mr. Jenkins was a Federalist in his opinions. He was a Daniel Webster man. He did not have a proper confidence in the people. A con clusive evidence of this was his Algerine Law, that provided for a property qualification of one thousand dollars for voters in Augusta: a law that established two ballot boxes in a free gov ernment—one for the rich man and another for poor man. if right, in principle for Augusta, so was it for the whole country. It struck at the very foundation ot popular suffrage. This idea had long since exploded. He gave as an exam ple : If a man one day owns a jackass, worth so much money, and can vote, and another day the jackass dies, and the man cannot vote : who is it that votes, the man or the jackass ? He said Mr. Jenkins still adheres to this law. He refused to have it repealed, only on the ground of in structions, an l upon this issue was defeated for the legislature, where he was previously popu lar, and his party had a large majority. He said Mr. Jenkins was an able man, but he did not think he had any “impress of divine power.” He thought this was a thing vouchsafed only unto Christ, and was too high and holy a matter to be mixed up with politics. [Mr. Bartow said, be had not so said. He said, in his likeness as a man, he had nobly sus tained that impress of divinity. Mr. Seward said—Very well; Iso understood the gentleman; but it is not material to the is sue, and he accepted his explanation. Mr. Sew ard said it was the duty of Georgia to follow the example of Tennessee—even a Scott State—and strengthen the administration. Mr. Bartow, with all his ability, has found but one ground upon which to attack it—the appointment of a few alleged free-soilers to office. Mr. S. said the Compromise was accepted as a final settlement. The South had made the obser vance of it the true test of soundness. Those for and against it had compromised on this ground. It was made a tenet of political faith at the Dem ocratic National Convention. Even Democra tic free-soilers surrendered to it. They supported the President upon it. A r oic, since our worst en emies have surrendered to us, shall the President re-open the question, go behind the judgment, and exclude all men from any participation in j office, whether from the North or South, who ! opposed the Compromise ? Would not such a ; policy do more harm than good? Would it not I effectually prevent the Democratic party from fulfilling its high destiny, as the party to sustain Southern Rights, by taking from the President all power to commit them against agitation? But Mr. Bartow was friendly to Fillmore. Did he appoint no freesoilers to office? Who was Thomas Corwin ? Mr. Seward said he was in formed from good authority, that President Pierce had not, and would not, appoint any man | to office who will not regard the Compromise as a settlement, to be observed in good faith, inclu ding the fugitive slave law. Mr. Seward said, if elected to Congress, he would act as independently as Mr. Bartow, and as much for the interest of the people. That he ; had been accustomed to acting independently.— He had made himself whatever he was without j the aid of fortune, or a parent able to send him j to College, and he should endeavor to merit the ! confidence of the people by an honest purpose, : executed to the best of his ability. Mr. Bartow, in conclusion, said: He was not j ashamed of the name of Whig—it was one of the revolutionary ancestry. Such men as Wash | ington and his allies, were proud of the name Whig, and why should he not be? Neither was i he ashamed of the Whig party, as it had its ori gin in Georgia in 1840, nor w r as he now. The times required more economy and accountability iin the ad ministrati in of the Government. In a | few years the expenditures has run up from j twenty to fifty millions. This has been done with a Congress largely democratic. They have : been against internal improvements, yet, have j voted for large appropriations for this purpose.— They are against a protective tariff—a high tar | iff, and yet retain the protective principles, and refuse to decrease the tariff, with a surplus of i over twenty millions. Mr. Seward had descan | ted largely on democratic principles. He would rather hear them from somebody else. Mr. S. was but a babe in Democracy. He was only in his clout. He had spoken of what were Whig principles: of those he has a right to know, for, ' until a few years since, he was a Whiff. He had heard that on one occasion he had preached the funeral of the Democratic party. Mr Bartow said the appointment of free-soil ers to office was without excuse. There was Dix, of the Van Buren school, and McCleland, who had voted.for it, and Vroom, of New Jersy, was clearly identified with it, besides numerous | others. The President had almost wholy exclu j ded Union Democrats from office, while he i openly proclaimed an observance of their princi ples. Mr. Bartow said he was astonished to hear Mr. Seward attack Jenkins with the Algerine law. It had been used in the up-country, and was now grown into disuse, except with a class of persons, known as demagogues. Mr. Bartow went into a correct statement of what the law was, and gave the reasons for its enactment. He said it was only a municipal regulation for the protection of tax payers from having their money voted away by those who was not re sponsible. He likened it to the recommendation of the Grand Jury of a county, without which the Superior Court could not tax. He asked if there was anything wrong in this? Mr. Bartow discoursed of the bane of party, and his determination to bid party power and spirit defiance. He said his father had given him an education, and he thanked him for it: it had enabled him to be more useful to himself and his fellow-men. [From the Southern Banner.] Washing Clothes of all Kinds Made Easy. I have a small family—my wife, myself, and two small children; and altogether, we have two grown women, two half-grown girls, and a negro fellow, to serve us as lot servants. Three days of the week used to be wasted by the wo men in washing, and the other three in ironing for our little family ; and often when the service of the girls was needed, they were found draw ing water or replenishing the fire for the wash ers. Judge then our joy, if you can when a kind old friend instructed us how to have our washing done in six hours by one hand. I feel like proclaiming it to the world, and I want ev ery paper in Georgia to copy this, and hope it may reach the ends of the earth. But here is the modus operandi: Ist, On the night preceding the day, intended to be set apart as wash-day, have all your clothes, white and colored, coarse and fine, put in tubs oi clear water (we have one made large enough to hold all the “ washing”) and let them remain there all night. 2nd. Put on your boiling vessel, (we have one that holds sixty gallons, got for the express pur pose of boiling all at once,) fill it half full of water, and raise ths water to boiling heat, after which put in a vessel of the size of the one we use, two teaspohs-full of Sal Soda, one quait of Soft Soap, and one quart of Lime Water , made by pouring three gallons of water on one quart of lime the night previous, so that it may have had time to settle, and in proportion, if smaller vessels are used: stir the water and get the sal soda, soap, and lime water, well mixed up, then putin your clothes, boil rapidly one hour and the work is done. Take them out and rinse well, rubbing slightly as is usual in rinsing.— Now pass no judgement, friends, until you have tried it. The same lime w'ater may be kept un til it is all consumed. The receipt would be worth one thousand dol lars in the hands of a selfish person, and the world would have to untie the purse-string to get it, but here it is .free gratis for nothing, and I want the world to understand distinctly, that I shall have no communication with any body who wears dirty clothes after this—see if I do. FOR MAKING THE SOAPS. Take six pounds of Potash 75 *■ four pounds of Lard 50 *■ one-fourth pound of Rosin 25 All amounting to $1 50 Beat up the rosin, mix all together well, and set aside for five days, then put the whole into a ten gallon cask of warm water, and stir twice a day for ten days, at the expiration of which time or sooner, you will have one hundred pounds of excellent soap for $1 50. Oglethorpe County AUGUSTA, Ga7 TUESDAY MORNING AUGUST 30. FOR GOVERNOR, HON. HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. Os Baldwin County. Fierce and Johnson Meeting. The friends of the present Administration, and Hon. H. Y. Johnson, are requested to meet at the City Hall, on Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Several speakers will be present, and a delegation appointed to attend a Mass Meeting to be held at Kingston, on the 9th September. Harper’s Magazine. The September number of this valuable Monthly, has been placed on our desk, by Messrs. T. Richards & Son. From a hasty glance over its pages, we should say that this is a very interesting number. The Albany (Ga.) Patriot, of the 26th inst. says : “ The weather, since our last issue, has been very pleasent, by no means oppressively warm. We hear of dangerous sickness, and but little of any sort. Indeed, Baker county has so far, this season, been blessed with excellent health. It is the opinion of the most competent judges, that the cotton crop in this section will not reach an average. An opinion, we think, entirely well founded. The Fort Smith (Ark.) Herald learns that an iron mountain has been discovered in Scott county. Several specimens of lead, silver and iron, from that section of country, have been re ceived at Fort Smith. We are daily receiving fresh evidence of the mineral wealth of Arkan sas. Mr. McSheeby, State Engineer, was in Little Rock, on the 2d inst., on his way to Red river, for the purpose of meeting the Levee Commissioners, previous to the letting of con tracts for the leveeing and draining the swamp and overflownig lands in that district. Aid for New Orleans. —The Savannah News of the 27th inst. says : The subscriptions in this city to the Ward Committees, who have thus far reported to the Mayor, amounted to $2,- 285, which, with the SIOOO contributed by the Corporation, and $l5O forwarded by us, gives a total of $3,435 contributed by our city in aid ol thesuferers of New Orleans. We understand that there are a few wards that have not yet been reported, and we are desired to request the Com mittees to make their returns to the Mayor to day. We hope to see the above stated sum con siderably increased in the final report, and we would suggest to those who have not yet con tributed in aid of this humane charity, should avail themselves of the opportunity ol doing so to-day. The New York Courier says: “The negotia tions for the establishment of an Administration morning paper in New York have resulted in raising a fund, said to amount to $60,000, for that purpose, and the engagement of John W. Fortiey, now Clerk of the House of Representa tives, to edit the same.” The Stockton (Cay Journal says that “ the Contra Costa Mountains are splendidly illumi nated every night, large fires raging from their base to their very summits. The distance front Stockton to the locality of these fires cannot be less than thirty miles, and yet we stand and watch their evolutions, their lines and bounds as closely almost as if they burned within a stone’s tnrow. The destruction of wood and grass must be immense to feed such a flame for one week.” Grant Thoburn says of his last wife in a let ter to a Philadelphia paper—“My wife is a blooming lass of 40 summers; I succeeded in capturing the prize only two weeks ago; my own age is 81, so that my wife just meets half way. She is two inches taller and five pounds heavier; so I thfkk on reflection I have got the best ot the bargain.” With this arithmetical statement, what is the product of the two ? The New York Commercial Advertiser esti mates the loss by the fires in Pearl, Greenwich, and Beaver streets, in that city, on Tuesday night, at about $200,000. Reply or Lozd John Russell to Mr. Eve rett.—An official correspondence is published in the English papers, between Lord John Rus sell and Minister Crampton, respecting the pro position lor a tri-partite treaty in order to guar- Spain the continued possession of the is land of Cuba. The answer of Mr. Everett, the late Secretary of State, to this extraordinary pro position on the part of England and France, forms the chief theme of Lord John’s comments. Mr. E., it will be recollected, declared that “ the U. States would not see with indifference the island of Cuba fall into the possession of any other Europeon government than Spain.” By way of response, Lord John, while admitting the right of this country, to reject the proposal, pointedly observes that “Great Britain must at once resume her entire liberty, and upon any oc casion that may call for it, be free to act, either singly ®r in conjunction with other powers, as to her may seem fit. The produce of the Australian gold mines for 1852, is thus stated : Melbourne and Uulong, ounces, 2,835,046 ; Adelaide, 573,380 ; Sydney, 591,739; Van Dieman’s Land, 247,492. Total, 4,247,657, or 158 tons, 2 qrs., 21 lbs., 5 oz., which, at £3,105. per' oz., is worth £14,866,- 799. The Cricket Match in New York on Thurs day, resulted in the defeat of the Canadians by the New Yorkers, by 34. A letter from Prince Edward Island of Au gust 15th, states that the American schooner Starlight had been brought in there a prize for fishing within bounds ; that the American Con sul protested against the jurisdiction of the Ad mirality Court there on the ground that she was taken in Canadian waters , that the captain of the Devastation then expressed his determina tion to take her to Quebec, but, upon the captain of the Starlight promising to be more careful not to violate the treaty in future, he released his vessel upon payment ot costs. The total number of deaths in New Orleans, from the 21st of May to the 21st of August, was 7,247, of which 5,032 were from yellow fever. The crops in Ireland are said to be very pro lific. There is no appearance of the potato rot. Fires and Floods. —Several extensive fires have taken place lately in New York city. On the night of the 22d the Pearl Street House, and property adjoining, destroyed. Loss $200,000. A file in Greenwich street destroyed over $20,- 000 worth of property the same night. One entire block ot ground, in the village of Penn Yan, Yates county, N. Y.. was burned over, on the morning of the 22d, destroying prop erty valued at SIOO,OOO. But one solitary buil ding on the block wa3 left standing, which was of brick, fire proof. An extensive storm took place in the southern portion of Courtiand and northern portion of Broome counties, N. Y., one day last week. Great damage was done by the floods which suddenly rose, and many buildings were destroy ed by lightning. One or two persons lost their lives. Tue Foreign Breadstuffs Demand. —We find from our London files that the opinion pre vails that in England there will be a deficient wheat harvest, and it is un lerstood that there is an extensive failure of the potato crop. Under these circumstances the London Shipping Ga zette says: “ We can hardly imagine that prices of bread stuffs can recede, and our opinion is, that the de cline which has taken place in the value of wheat this week will speedily be recovered.— The depression was,no doubt,great by assisted by the reported probability of an immediate and amicable settlement of the Russian and Turkish question ; whether, however, this desirable end will be attained, remains to be seen. 77 A proclamation has been issued by the French government ordering the admission of wheat in to the French ports at a nominal duty of twenty five centimes per hectolitre. A hectolitre is 2 5-G bushels, and twenty-five centimes are about 4 J cents. Messrs. Anthony, Dorr & Co , also write : Though the prices of wheat and flour in Eng land and the European continent have fallen, yet the enormous increased consumption arising out of the prosperity of trade, together with the high rate of freights from importing coun tries, all tend to sustain prices. Decrease of Population. —According to the return of births and deaths, for the month of July, by the New York city inspector, the po pulation of that city, independent of the acces sions it received by emigration, actually de creased ; the deaths for the month being 2,333, and the births but 1,094. A contination of the same mortality, would swell the deaths for the year to 28,000, or five and half per cent. The return of births is supposed to be erroneous. Sykes, the engineer who was in charge of the lecomotive Robul when it was blown up on the State Road last week, and who was ar rested under a warrant obtained by the Super intendent of the road, was examined before two magistrates at Marietta an Saturday last, and discharged. Incidents of the Yellow Fever at N. Or leans. —A letter from the Picayune office, da ted the 11th inst.f says: I closed the eyes of our old book-keeper three years ago, who died with yellow fever, and our present one was taken down last Sunday; there are hopes, however, of his getting over it. Our burying grounds have presented a scene of much confusion, and in some instance of fighting; so much so, that the Mayor and Recorder have been obliged to send a large force to keep order in many ot them. So many dead bodies are brought, and the friends claiming precedence of burial, until they actually get to blows. A poor French emigrant, in the neighborhood of our office, arrived here about three months ago with a party of twenty-six ; he was taken about a week since with the fever—at that time all his companions were buried but eight—he, however, recovered and got out to-day, when, on inquiry for the little remnant of his party, he found he was the only survivor—all had been buried but himself. Passports for Prussia.— The article which we recently published, respecting the passports for Prussian residents of the United States who , desire to re-visit their native country, has been confirmed by J. W. Schmidt, Esq., the Prussian Consul general in New York, who has given offi cial notice of the following regulations : “ Travellers, who being citizens of the United States, are provided with a passport trom the De partment ot State at Washington, are permitted to enter the Prussian dominions without such passport having the vise of either the Prussian legation at Washington or of any Prussian con sulate in the United States. ■' For such persons, however, who have emi grated trom Prussia to the United States, and have not yet acquired citizenship in them, and, therefore, cannot obtain a passport from the Government oi the United States, there is under the existing laws of Prussia only one way to procure a legal passport, in case they wish to revisit their former homes, either on business or on family matters, namely—that of making ap plication in writing from their place of residence in the United States to the provincial govern ment of the district which it is their intention to visit, stating their request to have a passport granted and transmitted to them. " All the provincial authorities have received positive instructions from the Minister of the' Interior to grant passports upon such applica tions, provided there exists no objection to the person applying.” The Cotton Crop. —The Southern Mirror (Jackson, La.) of the 18th inst. says : Reports of cotton crops in this vicinity are not as flattering as we could wish. Heavy rains have urged its growth beyond a healthy speed, causing a very general complant of “ shedding.” The crop of Mr. John Harbour, and of two other planters near him, was seriously in jured by strong winds, as well as rain. Pick ing has commenced on many plantations, and we hope there may be a better result than can at present be anticipated. The health of our end of the parish is not as good as at our last issue. The Washington Star announces the following j appointments: A Nkw' Consular Agent. —John G. Willis, Esq., of Salem, Mass., has been appointed Con sular Agent at Loando, west coast cf Africa. A new commerce of some importance is develop ing itself on that coast, and especially at that port, and the policy of the Government is evi dently thus to foster it, United States Judge Appointed. —John B. Kinney, of lowa, has been appointed Chief Justice of Utah. He is not a Mormon. A New Pension Agent. —David Salomon Pension Agent at Mobile, Alabama vice John Perine, removed. Promotions in the Patent Office. —Dr. 1 homas J. Everett, Assistant Examiner, promo ted to be Chief Examiner in the Patent office. Salary, $2,500. Edward Foreman, promoted to be the Assistant Examiner. Salary, $1,500. First Bale of Sea Island Cotton.—A bale of Sea Island cotton was received here < yesterday by Messrs. Way & King from the. plantation of E- Brannin, Esq-, of Bulloch county, Georgia. The quality is fine and the bale well put up. This is, we believe, the first bale of Sea Island cotton that has been sent to market this season.— Savannah News. Broke Jail.— On Wednesday night last, four prtsoners confined in our jail, made their escape. A Mr. Gardian, concerned in trying to steal a negro, John Bowman and a Miss Robinson, charged with living in adultery, and young Tearce, charged with the murder of Argo, com prised the crowd. They effected their escape by boring through the plank and a log ot the floor, and the ceiling of an open room below. They carried on their work in one corner of the room where one of their pallets were spred, which enabled them to conceal their operations from the observation of any one visiting the room. It was all well managed and admirably planned, and displayed a perseverance “ worthy a better cause. 77 Os course, it is unnecessary to say, they had assistance from some “ outsiders 71 who would make worthy occupants of the man sion room of their “ illustrious predecessors 77 in crime. —Ncwnun Banner, 26th inst. [From the N. O. Picayane , 24 th inst.\ Later from Texas. By the arrival of the steamship Perseverance, from Galveston, we have papers from that place to the 19th inst., and from Indianola to the 16th. The Galveston Civilian of the 19th says : The various papers give the election returns in detail as far as they are known, but they are not complete, and it has not been thought worth while to give the total number of votes as yet recorded to have been given for each candidate. The News says: It will be seen by footing up the columns that Bell has received about double Scurry’s vote ; that Scurry is a little ahead of Lewis; that Lewis is ahead of Caruthers, and that Blake is last in order. Pease has thus far received about one-third more votes than Ochiltree; Ochiltree about twice as many as Wood; Wood three times as many as Evans or Chambers, and Dan cy is last. As to the crops, the Galveston Journal says : A commission house in this city has received a letter from a leading planter at Montgomery, dated the 7th inst, stating that they have had a good deal of rain and cloudy weather lately— just enough rain to do great damage to cotton, causing it to grow to weeds, shed its forms, and produce the dreaded enemy, the catterpillar. They have been found on several plantations, and no mistake. He says if the weather con tinues as at the time of writing, they will not progress so fast as to destroy the crop. If the cotton leaf is eaten by them before the Ist of September, not more than half a crop can be made. The weed is large, but there is no fruit, so that even without the caterpillar the prospect is not good for a large crop. The Columbia Democrat says the cotton crops in the upper part of Brazoria county are looking very finely. Indeed, it would be difficult to find more promi-ing fields than those on Oyster Creek at the present time. They will give an abundant yield. The Democrat has been informed by a gen tlemen who has been travelling in the upper counties between the Brazos and Colorado, that the cotton and corn crops are as promising as could be expected. The late rains have done much for the planters. The Marshall Republican says the planters are in good spirits. There i 3 every prospect of a fine crop. The corn is already made, and will be neafrly equal to last year. Cotton is unusu ally late, but promising. The worm has made its appenrance on several plantations ; but should ! the present favorable weather continue, the | yield wilt be abundant. The Leon Pioneer says the cotton crop of that county presents, at present, every promise of the most abundant yield, and is confident that the yield will double that of last year. The Nacogdoches Chronicle learns from Kaufman county that the wheat crop in that section of country is unusually fine, the best thirty-five bushels to the acre, and the poorest twenty-five bushels. A letter to the Austin Gazette, from Falls county, says: “ Our county is growing rapidly. Crops in the Weed Prairies are unsurpassed anywhere; in the uplands equally as good. 77 The Galveston News, of the 19th, says that from two gentlemen who arrived in that city on the previous day from the eastern portion of the State, it was learned that the health of the country was generally good, and crops were promising everywhere. A correspondent ot the same paper, writing from Fairfield, says: Perhaps the best criterion to judge of the pro gress ot the State may be found in the increase of the exports of cotton and sugar, and the ratio j in these, comparing last season with the previ ous one, shows a gain of about 33i per cent. Next year, I presume, will exhibit a similar de ‘ gree of progress. The quantity of land in culti vation is increasing in even a greater ratio, but beyond the articles of export, the otherwise sur plus products of population and stock. Another correspondent, writing from Houston, says :• I have taken much pains to ascertain the prospects of the planters in the interior. I find that, upon the whole, the present is a most fa vored season for Texas. I conversed recently with a very intelligent gentleman, connected with the press, who has recently been traveling in the sugar-growing region. He says the cane has a very thrifty and > healthful appearance is very large and promising, and that the sugar planters are indulging in the most sanguine ex pectations in regard to their prospects. He in forms me that the planters are all alive in that region in relation to internal improvements—say they must and wilt have railroads, canals, plank roads, &c. The Now Y ork Herald of Thursday, says: Capt. Nye, of the Pacific w’as on ’Change yes terday, and received the congratulations of his 1 friends, on account of his speedy passage with | one wheel ot his fine ship. He stated that 1 for the first three days he had a splendid run, having made fully 1,000 miles, up to breaking of his shaft; on the 4th day, (three days and twen ty hours after his departure) he made 230 miles against a head wind. Afterwards the weather : became favorable during the voyage. He thought | that had the accident not occurred, he wmuld , | certainly have reached New York on Friday . evening or early on Saturdey morning. Capt. ; N. thought the shaft was injured during the hard ! voyage experienced last winter, and that the iron at the point strained, had gradually given way until not much over one-eighth or one fourth ot sound iron remained at the point of fracture. A Hail Storm. —We have been show'n a let ter from Dr. Edward Sill, Jr., dated at Cowpens | Iron Works in this District, on the 19th instant, in which the writer states that he had the mis fortune to be caught on that day, and about 4 miles from the works, in one of the severest hail storms he had ever “seen, heard, or read of.” The storm came up so suddenly, that they did not have time to disengage their horse from the harness, before the hail fell “as large as hen’s eggs. The horse became so violently alarmed that the driver, standing at his head could not hold him, and was dragged some distance,.thrown dowr. and run over—when the horse broke loose from the buggy.— Spartanburg (S. C.) Spartan , 25 th inst. Arrivals at the Railroal House, Stone Moun tain,Ga., Aug. 25., clark & hitchcock, Proprietors. B. P. Turner, Alabafrna. H. D. Bell, Augusta. John Phinizy, do. J. Ramsey, Columbia county. 2 Miss Ramsey’s and 2 servants, Columbia co. ( James Devant, U. S. J. W. Whitlock, Augusta. J. L. McKeen, Galveston, Texas. D. Slade, Eatonton. L. C. Simpson, Atlanta. Col. J. McKoun, do. Col. M. M. Sidwell, Fayetville. Wm. Gilbert, DeKalb. A. Nelson, Decatur. J. H. Pittman, Decatnr. C. C. White, Lady and Daughter, Miss. James Torrence, Alabama. Thos. W. J. Hill, Decatur. B. F. Chew and Family Augusta. R. C. Montgomery,) V. R. Smith, > California, J. M. Martin, ) S. M. Hart, Augusta. J. P. King Walker, Augusta. NEGROES N* groes fpr sale, will find it to their interest te call on the Subscriber. HUGH O’NEILL junels 3m KY TELEGRAPH- Transmitted to the Constitutionalist k. Republic Riot at Niagara Falls. Baltimore, Aug. 29. Yesterday there was a considerable riot at Niagara Falls, caused by the arrest of a negro named Watson, who murdered Jones at Savan nah about three years ago. A mob of three hundred negroes rescued Watson from the offi cers, when the latter called on the Irish laborers for assistance. A desperate fight ensued, in which the negroes weie defeated, and Watson recaptured He has been sent South. New York, Aug. 29. Julien announces that he will give a concert for the relief ot the New Orleans sufferers. New York, Aug. 29, p. m. Judge Edwards has discharged the Scotch refugee, Calder,who was claimed under the Ash burton Treaty. The Mayor of Montreal has been arrested and held to bail on the charge of murder at the Ga vazzi riot in Canada. New York Market- Cotton.— The market is unchahged. Sales 400 bales. {Telegraphed for the Charleston Mercury.] Later from Oregon and Mexico. —The steamship Texas arrived at New-Orleans on Thursday night, bringing advices from San Fran cisco to the Ist—anticipated by the Northern Light atNew-York—the City of Mexico to the 17th and Yera Cruz to the 21st inst. Advices from Oregon to the 25th of July, state that Lane’s majority for Congress was near ly 1600, and that a new gap had been discover ed. containing a heavy bed of coal. General Gadsden had arrived at the city of Mexico, and Judge Conklin, his predecessor was waiting at Jalapa for the next steamer to return to the United States. A vessel had been] captured at the Island of Carmen, in the Gulf of Mexico, 90 miles S. W. of Campeachy,and bounding the Lake Terminos on the North, which is supposed to be the same one recently referred to by the New York Her ald in connexion with Judge Sharkey. Baltimore, Aug. 26.— Destruction of the Cherokee by Fire. —The steamship Cherokee that was to have sailed on Saturday for New Orleans via Havana, w'as burnt at her wharf in New York on Friday morning. The loss is estimated at three quarters of a million of dollars. The fire is supposed to have originated from spontaneous combustion. Baltimore, Aug. 28 .—Departure of the Hum boldt.—The U. S. mail steamship Humboldt, Capt, Lines, sailed from New York, on Satur day, with over $300,000 in specie. Judge Jackson, the Charge to Austria, is among her passengers. Baltimore, Aug. 28.— Later from Montevideo , 4’C- —Advices have been received at Boston, from Montevideo, to the 11th of July, which state that General Pinto is dead. From Buenos Ayres the dates are to the 28th of June. Ur quiza had not left. Flores was marching to the relief of the city, and Urquiza’s troops were de serting. Baltimore, Aug. 28.— The Abolitionists again Defeated. —Three slaves, who-, with their owners, from Virginia, were going South, arrived at Cincinnati on Saturday, and were brought by a writ of Habeas Corpus , before Judge Flynn, w r ho remanded them to the custody of their owners. New Orleans. Aug. 27, —The Progress of the Epidemic. —The interments at New Orleans on Thursday were 219 including 200 from the epi demic, on Friday IS3 incuding 154 from the epidemic, and on Saturday 185, including 159 from the epidemic. O. L. Dabelsteen, the Mexi can Consul at New Orleans, died on Saturday. Baltimore, Aug. 26, 9.5 v. m. — New For/fc Market. —Thirteen hundred bales of Cotton were disposed of in New York on Friday at firm prices. Baltimore, Aug. 28 —ln New York, on Saturday, Cotton was firm, and 3,000 bales changed hands. Caramcrriul. Augusta, Aug. 29—6 P. M. The Hiver.— The rooent rains has improved the river. Four foot, six inches, wator in the channel. SAVANNAH, August 26, P. M.— Cotton. —The only sales that has come under our notice to-day, is 17 bales at 10| cents. August 28.— Cotton. —There were no sales yes terday. CHATTANOOGA, August 27.—The wator is low, but boats of fight draft come up and freight is not retarded. Market is not very active, preparations are be ing made for active orperations this season. Apples. —Green, 40 a 50 cents per bashel. Bacon. —Hog round, 8 a 81: hams 10 cents: sides, clear, 9* a 10. Corn. —A lot sold at 37 cents, proper margin 35 a 37c. Cotton. —Prospects were never better than now for an abundant crop. Eggs —lO cents per dozen. Feathers.—ln demand, 34 a35 cts. Ginseng. —ln demand, 29 a 32. Lard. — say 8$ a 10$. Oats. —4o cents per bushel. P onltry. — Chickens 10 cents; ducks 10 a 15 cts.; turkeys 50 a 75 cents a piece. SAVANNAH EXPORTS—Aug. 26. Per sehr. Plandomo, for New Y0rk—123,242 feet Lumber, and 15 bales Cotton. Per schr P. R. Burton, for New Y0rk—94,362 feet Lumber. Steamship Florida, New York—2o7 bales Qot ton, 100 casks Rice, 28 bales Wool, 96 do. Domes tics, 76 bags Rice Flour, 16 sacks Dried Fruit, and sundry packages Mdso. pipping JntcUigcmT. ARRIVALS FROM CHARLES TOM. Steam ship Southerner, Ewan, Now York. Prociosa, Pages, Barceiopa. Brig Alfred Exall, Golder, New York. Brig Harriet Newell, Hatch, Boston. Schr John Custrop, Cathoart, Now York. UP FOR CHARLESTON. Schr Col. Sattcrly, Elwood, at New York. Schr A. Flomerfelt, Strong, at Philadelphia. Schr F. J. Broignard, Adams, at Philadelphia. CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON. Schr Henry Lee, Erickson, at Philadelphia. Schr D. H. Baldwin, Friable, at Baltimore. SAVANNAH, Aug. 27.—Cleared, schrs Plan dome, Brown, New York; P. R. Burton, Lingo, j New York; Alcyone, Hand, Jacksonville, Fla. i Arrived, steamship Alabama, Schenek, | York. Wont to sea, steamship Florida, Woodhull, New Yerk. CHARLESTON, August 2y. —Arrived, steamship Union, Adams, New York; schrs Baltimore, Rob j erson, Beaufort, N. C.; V. Barkelew, Kittridge, Philadelphia; J. A. Campbell, Dowdy, Elizabeth City, N. C. Cleared, brigs J W. Buddeke, Crodius. Bremen; Atlantic, King, Philadelphia; schrs Dread Not, McKonny, Nassau, N. P.; Heyward, McDougal, Baltimore; Maria Bickup, Robinson, Wilmington, N. C.; Triton, Brown, Wilmington, N. C. Went to sea, steam ship Marion, Foster, New York; schr Maryland, Foxwell, Baltimore; Keoke, Nichols, a Northern port. great inducement” THE SUBSCRIBER offers for sale his valuablo PLANTATION, in the upper part of Troupe county, Ga., two miles west of Hogansville Depot, on the Atlanta and Lagrange Railroad, containing thirteen hundred and sixteen acres ; five hundred of which, is in a fine state of cultivation, and eight hundred acres of superior wood land, in a healthy section of country. There are on the promises two good framed dwelings, one set of fram ed Negro houses, framed Gin house and screw, all new. Any person wishing to purchase would de ! well to call and examine before purchasing else- • where. My price is nine dollars and twenty live cts per acre, in two payments. i aug 16 ' c 6 JOHN W. SHEPHERD. 1 HATS—FALL STYLE FOR 1853 WE received by last steamer BEEBE &%m i CO.'S Fall Syle of Gentlemen's HATS,4Jp i made expressly fbr us, which we are now opening, and invite the attention of those wishing some thing neat. Cali and see at aug 10 J. TAYLOR, Jr. k CO. j ALLEN'S VE(jETAU LE COMFOtNU, lor tho eure of Dyspepsia—For sale by i aug 12 PHILIP A. MOfSE, Druggist, a SpKMt tdiirfa. 2F” ol *ce.— lne v. existing between, C. p \r,.p the undersigned, in the interest of the r a *> is hereby dissolved. The business will be conducted by the Proprietorafa t -Jgg- 28 Dr ' Edward riirar,le y r is . to act as my attorney d„^° risw absence from the city. unn g my -- ug -- _* Camille E. G lßar 2? —Augusta Sottth~lv Plank Road Office A, est <r> 1853.—An Instalment of ten ter cent i„ VSt to be paid on the 14th September nerl U iblUlf *t to the By-Laws of said Corporation - r a^ the Board. S. H. Oliver t °" { aug 25 office corner Mclntosh '& T l hP l r St evi< tcuce tiiat ('an dueed in iavor of the efficacies ad ' Hoofland’s German Bitters, prepared by Jackson is the unpreccdent demand for tW > all parts of the Union ; and although them m rODI many compounds prepared and represents i, ing worthy of a liberal patronage, yet we strained to remark, that the vast number c°n monials with which the worthy doctor ha« v honored, by persons of the highest ehara-ter respectability, who found it necessary to hav anl course to his preparation, is testimony suffic' T conclusive, that a more effectual remedy forth’ most immediate relief of those afflicted with th' direful malady, dyspepsia, has never been dis^ _ 6 __ aug 2V Never suffer long from a I'ougC At t* llß a S e of the world, when yon.. get Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, it is a criminal iect, if you do not cure it. aiN) Lunch.—The Shades! till tor, 0 f S'. P' le - We cordially invite all who art fond of the good things of this life, to drop in # ! help themselves to Beef Stakes, Mutton Chon Fish Balls and Soups of all kinds and a sprinkling t hospitality. Seven days in the week we can h found at our post studdying the taste and palatn of our numerous customers. Pli mb <fc Panton. aug 14 ts Si— No Family should be without theV' Wo speak of M’Lane's Liver Pin, which have become an indispensable Family Medi' cine. The frightful symptoms which arise 'from a diseased Liver manifest themselves, more or less i R every family ; dyspepsia, sick headache, obstruc tion of the menses, ague and fever, pains in the side, with dry, and hacking cough, arc all the re suits of hepatic derangement—and for these, It- M’Lane’s Pills are a sovereign remedy, jv. have never been known to fail, and they should be kept at all times by families. Directions. —Tako two or three going to bed every second or third night. If they do not puree two or three times by next morning, take one or two more. A slight beakfast should invariably follow their use. The Liver Pill may also be used where purging is simply necessary. As an anti-bilious pum". tivc they are inferior te none. And in doses of two or three, they give astonishing relief to sick headache; also in slight derangements of the sto mach. Soid by Havilan 1, Risley & Co., and Wm H Tutt, Augusta, Ga.; P. M. Cohen & Co., Charles ton, S. C.; Hill & Smith, Athens, Ga ; E. C. Jones, Madison; A. A. Solomons; Savannah; and by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicine throughout the South. aug 23 12 Iced Soda Water—This delightful lA drink, together with a great variety of choice Syrupy, of the best quality, may be found at. the Druggist and Apothecaries Store of aug 12 Wm. Haines, Broadstreet, lYledical Testimony cannot be'cou troverted. —One of the most starthn* cases narrated of Dr. M'Lane’s Vermifuge by Dr John Butler, of Lowell, Trumbull county Ohio The case was that of a young lady who had bee-; very sick for eight years, and had consulted a nun, her of physicians, who had treated it as one Prolapsus Uteri. Dr. Butler was then called in and for a timo, believed with his predecessors that it was a case of Prolapsus. He was, however, soot forced to the conclusion that his patient was jui sering from worms, and afther much persuasion, prevailed upon her to take two dose 3of Dr. M'Lane's Vermifuge. This medicine had the es feet of removing from her a countless number of the largest size. After she passed them, her health iinmediatly returned. She is since married, and continues to enjoy excellent health, aug 16 F3 r ~ II* G. Farrell's Genuine Arabian Liniment is a most extraordinary me sficine, the truth of which is placed beyond doubt of the vast sales of the article and the ma ny cures being daily performed by it, which previously had resisted all other medieines and the skill of the bost physicians in the world. Itis composed of balsams, extracts and gums peculiar to Arabia—possessing, in a concentrated form, all their stimulating, anodyne, penetrating, unctiwus and revulsive properties, and the same which, ages ago, were used by the “ Sons of tho Desert,” with such miraculous success, in curing the diseases of both man and beast. Read the following remarkable cure, which * should of itself place 11. G. FARRELL S ARA 3 BIAN LINIMENT far beyond any similar rem* dy. Mr. H. G.Farrell—Dear Sir: Actuated by a 1 sense of gratefulness, I submit the following as an instance of the utility ot your great medicine. My child, threo years old, was suddenly attacked with i a terrible disease, which in less than six hours prostrated it to total helplessness. The limbs became 1 so rigid that not a joint could be bent; the flesh turned black and cold and entirely deprived of ’ feeling; the eyes fixed, partially closed and alto gether blind, following this was deafness to all sounds; tho spino became contracted and so curved that when lying on his back the head and the heels only touched. Indeed, the child 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 rubetaeient Liniments applied. A consultation of physicians was then held, but to no ■ purpose, the case was then brought before the Medi cal Society, but nothing could be suggested which 1 nad not already been done, and the doctor then told me he could do nothing more. We then commen ced applying your Liniment freely over the entire length of the spine, and you may imagine a l rout’s joy, when, after a few applications, returning animation was apparent, and it rapidly recovers. : withtho exception of the sight, which did not.be come perfect for near a month. The child is now healthy and robust as can be. .Fit# other cases of same kind occurrad previously in ffi . f neighb'orhood, all of which died, when there isn» doubt if your Liniment had heon they would used have recovered. HENRY"G. (JLELAJiD- Peoria, March Ist, 1851. Look out for Counterfeits. —The public are cau tioned against another counterfeit, which ha* lutf ly made its appearance, called W. B. Farrell’s Ara bia Liniment, the most dangerous ol all the coat terfoits, because his having the name of Farrei many will buy it m good faith, without the knov ledge that a counterfeit exists, and they will, haps, only discover thoir error when the spuriov-' j mixture has wrought its evil effects. .. The genuine article is manufactured only bv • G. Farrell, solo inventor and proprietor, andwhow sale druggist, No. 17 Main street, Peoria, Illin ol f to whom all applications for Agencies must bs un dressed. Be sure you get it with the letters H- «■ before Farrell's, thus—H. G. FARRELL’S— an his siguaturo on the wrapper, and all others w counterfeits. Sold by HAVILAND, RISLEY & CO, Augusta, Ga-, and l>y regularly authorized agents throughout-' United States. , 05*“ Price 25 and 50 cents, and $1 per hot l *' . 1 Agents Wanted in every town, village 88 hamlet in the United States, in which one is ß '’ already established. Address 11. U. i’arreli " above, accompanied with good reference as character, responsibility, &e. dAc4 aug |n “ Bring hither the poor, tlie the halt, and tho blirted/’ ifyo u have them healed of their many infirmities, boldly and fearlessly assert that thef Mustang ment will positively cure Rheumatism, hot • who are afflicted with that most painfnl couip try it thoroughly according to the direct ion*. 8 ■ if they are not cured, we will give them ‘ money back. What more can we say ' R , also enro the Piles. Thousands have tried «-■ all were cured. Bruises, Sprains, Sores, or & V tions fade away as if touched by tho magic* wand. Its application to a Burn or Scald nct» ; ‘oil upon the troublod waters.’ The tempest oi]w j and agony is soon stilled and the patient is to quiet and peaceful slumbers. ‘There is a e or every wound,’ and that balm is the lUU f‘ . Liniment. Every body that sells medicine 8 * ‘ it for sale. ‘Hold your Horses 1’ and if crippled, galled or sprained, use the Mustang iment. 12 Premium Daguerreau eallerP' . firm of Tucker & Perkin* 8 un . been dissolved by limitation last February, ' ,p t g. dersigned will continue to practice the art > uerreotyping in all its various branches, a' ll # f his long practical experience he feels conn his ability to please the most fastidious. ftr * The pictures now being taken at this « a, ‘in pronounced by those who are judges, r 0 tpne and life-lifce expression, to any ever ■ produced in Augusta. I SAA f , bear N B. Artists purchasing Stock, will P lea in mind that materials are sold at er . 14 at any other house this side of New I ork. i* 1