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Cottstituturaalist K mphlit. JAMBS OAP.DI-T38,. OFFICE ON MoINTOSH-STREET, TSiRD DOOR FROM TUB NORTH-WEST CORNER Os 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 AUGUSTA, GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT, 7. FOR GOVERNOR, HON. H. V. JOHNSON, Os Baldwin County. FOR CONGRESS BTH DISTRICT. J. J. JONES, of Burke county. The Algerine Law. As the merits of this law have for some time been under full discussion in Georgia, and our own position upon it been misapprehended and misstated in the public press, and, as we are in formed, in political discussions upon the stump, we deem it proper to give all the publicity in our power, to the following letter. It succinctly defines our position, and indicates our views of the principle involved in the law’. \\ illedgeville, August 24th, ’53. Editors Southern Recorder : Gentlemen— Allow me to relieve myself from the false position, in which you place me before your readers in your issue of yesterday, in reference to Mr. Jenkins and the Algerine Law. I allude to the following sentence which I find in an editorial in the Recorder headed “ Disgrace lul and Malignant ‘•But what will the people of Georgia think of the candor oi the Constitutionalist , when told that the editor of that paper not only favored the law, but upheld Mr. Jenkins in his participation in its passage ?” • It is not true, Messrs. Editors, that I favored the law. The contrary is quite well known in Augusta, and was equally well known as soon as the facts that such a law was passed reached Augusta, and became a topic of conversation among the citizens, I very promptly and em phatically expressed not only my dissent, but my indignation at the passage of the law. I had no opportunity of doing it sooner, for I had nev er heard that such a law had been contemplated until the news reached Augusta that it had been passed. I had never seen or heard of the Peti tion that had been sent to Milledgeville asking for the passage of such a law, and the fact that the proceeding, on the part of those who origi nated the Petition, had been a clandestine one, added to the feeling of indignation with which the intelligence was received. It is not true that I upheld Mr. Jenkins in his participation in its passage. On no occasion did I uphold, or defend or justify the law itself, or Mr. Jenkins—so far as relates to his connec tion with the law. I regretted that he defended the law afterwards as right and proper. I never did believe the law right or just, in principle or detail. I considered, and still consider, that if a citizen’s right to vote for Aldermen was to be determined by the length of his purse, the rule would often disfranchise the best, the most in telligent and useful citizens. It so operated in Augusts. If the principle were a correct one, that only the citizen owning SI,OOO of real estate, or paying $25 per annum in taxes should be entitled to a vote, then he who owned $50,000, of real estate, or paying $1,250 in taxes, could claim that the principle should accord to him 50 votes. I have ever been utterly opposed to special privileges being conferred on men founded on any such princiyle, even in munici pal government. I have ever considered the admeasurement of a man’s intelligence, and ca pacity lor legislation, even in city matters, by the length of his purse a mode, as fallible as it is offensive to republicanism. These were my sentiments in 1842. They are rny sentiments now. When in 1842, Mr. Jenkins was a can didate for re-election to the Legislature, I voted lor him ; but I did so, not because of his partici fation in the Algerine Law, but in despite of it. voted for him because that one error did not outweigh, in my estimation, his merits as a man, and his capacity and usefulness as a citi zen. and because I did not think it magnanimous in his constituents to sacrifice him for it, regard less of his past services. My vote was more over influenced by sentiments of personal friend ship, and admiration for his character and talents —sentiments which I still entertain. If there had been any doubt in my mind of the repeal of the law, or any apprehension that Mr. Jenkins would have sought to introduce the principle of it in State polity, he would not have received my vote. It is because he has never sought or desired this, r.or has his party done so, that I, early in the canvass, disavowed any intention of assail ing him, editorially, on the Aleerine Law; at the same time I stated, not perhaps as fully as I have now done, but quite distinctly, my opinion of the law. Had that editorial been before you, Gentlemen, this communication would have been unnecessary. I remain, very respectfully. Your obed’t. serv’t., James Gardner, Jr. Ed. of the Constitutionalist. We have been content to adhere to our origin' al purpose of not urging Mr. Jenkins’s agency in the enactment of the law, and his position upon it aiterwards, and at the present time, that it was a just and proper law, as a good ground of objection to his being elected Governor. But vve feel under no obligations to abstain from dis cussing the merits of the law itself, or from opening our Columns to communications having in view that object. This declaration is due in sheer justice to the citizens of Augusta, a large majority of whom, ■we believe, are implacably hostile to the law, and to every law, founded upon the same princi ple of special privileges, and franchises to proper ty and wealth, which has been or may herealter be enacted. The Chronicle <jr Sentinel , a paper published in this city, has devoted its influence to uphold and defend, not alone Mr.'Jenkins’s participation in the enactment of the Algerine Law, but the law itself. It has not only pub lished editorials, in which the law is declared right in principle, and wise and wholesome in its operation, but it has opened its coiumns to communications of the same tenor. Not only has a correspondent, calling himself “ A Demo crat,” availed himself of that medium, to gain friends for the measure and the principle, but even the aid of the ladies has been called into requisition. A female correspondent of the Chronicle has so lar unsexed herself, as to enter the political arena to discuss the merits of a question which more than any other in our re collection inflamed the passions and stirred up the manly indignation of our citizens. She comes forward to enlist a.« a volunteer, doubtless. We are unwilling to suppose that she has been, under a political stress, ungallantiy drafted by the Algerines into their service. It was enough, surely, that the property hold ers of the sterner sex £were disposed to fasten on their less fortunate fellow-citizens, and did in times past, fasten upon them a badge, as the lat ter thought, of humiliation and degradation. It ■was enough that they, or those of them, who up held the Algerine Law, should declaue that none of their fellow-citizens, whom success in busi ness, or speculations, or blind luck, or inheri tance, or marriage, or some other fortuitous cir cumstance, had not placed in possession of one thousand dollars of real estate, or personal pro perty to an amount sufficient to yield a tax of % wenty-five dollars a year, were to be entrusted ■with any voice in the control of the finances, the taxation, and the enterprizes of the city, involv ing pecuniary liability, or 4 were to be entrusted even with the humble privilege ot voting for those who were to control these matters. This yrai an imputation upon their intelligence, or their justice, or their attachment to the true in berets of the city, that galled and wounded deeply enough. The fact, that though the law no longher lives on the Statute Book, there are numbers among us, who still think it ought to be placed back upon it, is a trial now to their pride and manly sensibilities. But when the ladies step forward to justify the creation of a special order among us founded upon wealth) true manhood feels the sting to the hearts core, and will cry out in |indignant remonstrance against the proposition. Why this pertinacious reiteration in the Chronicle if Sentinel of the justice and propriety ot the Algerine Law ? Are those for whom that paper speaks in this community, dissatisfied with the popular decision in 1842, as to whether such a law should govern us, and do they now seek a reversal of that decision ? Is the argu ment le-opened by them in favor of the law, to win converts to it with a view to its future re enactment ? Do they desire the sense of the peo ple of Augusta on this question, and do they ask that the vote cast for Mr. Jenkins for Govornor by them be taken as a test? Surely they can not desire this, for they must be aware, that it would be to that gentleman as disasterous a test as it was in 1842. Is the fact that the law was thus openly defended and justified by the or gan or Mr. Jenkins in this city to be referred to, after the election, in proof that our citizens are converts to the argument, in the event Mr. Jen kins should receive a majority of the votes at the Augusta box ? It is but right that our citizens should under stand this beforehand. We look upon that law as very different in its character and operation, from what it has been represented by some of the Whig papers. The following passage, from an editorial in the Albany (Geo.) Courier, justifying Mr. Jenkins’ support of it, contains so gross a slander upon the large number of intelligent, upright, indus trious and useful citizens, disfranchised by that law, that we would be wanting in our duty to them, did we not brand it as a falsehood. The Courier says : “ But admit, that he (Mr. Jenkins,) did vote for the law, yet we cannot look upon it as any great “ raw head and bloody bones.” It only deprived loafers, gamblers and transient specula tors in the City of Augusta, from assisting to make laws, that in all probability they would not remain long enough to see executed.” Is it true, that all our citizens who are not the fortunate possessors of one thousand dollars of real estate in the city, or of personal property enough to yield an annual tax of twenty-five dollars, are either loafers, or gamblers , or tran- , sient speculators ? Did not the law deprive of the privilege of voting lor Aldermen many— probably the greater number—of our public spirited volunteers, who were uninformed, arm ed, and organized for the defence of the city, the enforcement of law and order in time of danger —and the protection of the property of these very SIOOO real estate holders and the goods and chattels of these $25 tax payers ? Did it not deprive many of our hardy and self-sacrificing firemen who, when the fire bell rings, by night and by day, in the sweltering heats of summer) and iu the chilling blasts of winter, drag their engines through our streets, and man the brakes and toil by the hour, to subdue the flames ? And this too, when many of the SIOOO real estate holders and $25 tax payers are in summer lux uriating amid the cool breezes of northern lakes and mountains, or, in winter, ensconced snugly in their chimney corners or their warm beds ? Did it not deprive many a worthy mechanic’ who daily toiled on his forge and anvil, at his work-bench or at his shop board? Did it not deprive men of intelligence and of industrious habits, of every condition and pursuit ? Did it not deprive, physicians and lawyers, and mer chants, and merchants clerks, and book-keepers, bank officers and bank directors, school teachers, and clergymen 1 Did not the law, in its sweep ing exclusion, deprive of the privilige of assist ing to make laws, men who possessed every oth er qualification for the task except money ? Did it not,in the same blind manner, bestow the privi lige on men, who possessed no other qualification except money ? The absurdity, of electing rulers and legisla tors, or even voters according to this standard, is shown by an old illustration which has been recently applied to this very case, by Mr. Sew ard, in debate with Mr. Bartow. It is this: “ It a man own a jackass, and by reason of the tax he pays thereon is entitled to a vote, and does vote, and the day thereafter his jackass) dies and he loses his privilege of voting which voted, the man or the jackass ?” Did we desire to elaborate the proposition that the most sense is not always found where there is the most money,and that there are many gifts mental, moral and social, quite as valuable to a community as money, the pages of history would furnish ample illustrations. In thinking of Moses, of Solon, of Lycurgus, the mind does not readily recall thejlength of their individual purses : nor in contemplating the value of Mag na Charta, the Heabeas Corpus and the bill of rights ; or dwelling upon the wisdom which is stamped upon the framework of our Federal system, does the schedule of the assets, real and personal, of the immortal authors obtrude itself upon our thoughts. .Neither philosophers, or statesmen or scholars or poets, have been always found in such close juxtaposition with money-bags, as to suggest a logical connection between mental capacity and money. Croesus, Lucullus and Apicius, are re membered only foi their wealth and its prodigal expenditure. While Homer the begger,and Vir gil, the protege of Micoenas, are immortalized by their genius, Milton sold his great poem for £ls sterling, while his publisher is remembered only as having made ago«d bargain. Johnson, Gold smith and Sheridan,produced their finest intellec tual gems in poverty and pursued by bailiffs. Neither Fox or Pitt showed any remarkable turn for making money. Rittenhouse and Frank lin were famous while they were yet poor mechanics, and Arkwright and Watts, and Ful ton and Whitney,achieved their greatness while yet in the shadow of poverty. Gallileo and Co pernicus, borrowed more light and knowledge from the glitter of the stars,than of golden ingots. Silas Wright, like Cincinnatus, labored on his little farm, with his own hands, and died as he had lived, poor. Army contractors and camp followers gener ally make more money than the Generals who command the troops. In short, money making and money saving are not received generally as the highest exercise of intellect, and it is noto rious that the greatest discoveries in science, and the most useful labors in the service of States and communities, have not been achieved by the rich. Let us lock at this moment to England. Is it to its hereditary house of Lords, to the Peers of the realm by the right of primogeniture that we look for her greatest statesman, and her bright est intellects f In a countryjlike ours,where merit is constant ly springing up Jfrotn obscurity—where wealth is constantly changing hands, and the rich and the poor changing places—where the wealthy of to-day are often the bankrupts of to-morrow, social distinction, and official position should be regulated by some ether standard, than the value of one’s property or the amount of one’s taxes. And if this proposition is true of States, it is not less so of cities. For were distinctions intro duced which the industrious poor think degra ding, if they could not change the system, they would abandon the city, and leave the rich alone in their glory. And what would a city be with out them ? What would become of its wealth —its energy—its vitality ? Mr. Jenkins not the Author of the Geor gia Platform. The fulsome adulation which it is thejeustom of the Whigs to pour forth upon their candi dates and great men, betrays the characteristic proclivity of the Whig party to manworship.— There is something offensive to Republican sen timent in that morbid {tendency borrowed from kingly {rule and aristocraticJforms,to exaggerate men in high places into beings of such transcend ent and unapproachable superiority, that com mon mortals are expected to bow down to the dust belore them in humble adoration. Demo crats have a due sense of the public and private virtues of great men, and are not slow to award due praise to important public services. They have had their great men as well as the Whigs, and they have delighted to honor them —and of ten, too, to place them in high office where it was thought they would be uselul in carrying out correct principles and policy. But they have no taste for that sort of deification which would bewilder them into the beiief that the chief end of man, that is to say, of the common people, is to shout hozannas to great men, and the chief object in having high officers in a government is to give them to the great men. Daniel Webster, is familiarly known among his worshippers as the God-like; and the can didate of the anti-Scott Whigs for Vice-Presi dent has, since the present canvass was opened, been heralded to the world as the illustrious. We feel no disposition to depreciate Mr. Jen kin’s real claims to being ranked among th e tal ented and distinguished citizens of our State and country. Nor will we even quarrel with the unquestionable privilege of the u ßepublican citi zens ’’ to call him illustrious. We shall not find fault even with the amiable enthusiasm of Mr - Bartow for his illustrious friend, whom he glori fies in the following terms, as reported of his Effingham speech. “He was unambitious, hon est, faithful and able—a most noble man —one of the noblest of his species, with all the attri butes of greatness, made in the image of his ma ker, and true to this impress of Divinity .” The orator, however, is reported to have said, “Mr. Jenkins was the author of the cele brated Georgia Platform —a model of ex* cellence and patriotism. It had distinguished Georgia among her sister States, and would hand down his name to posterity.” Nowhere we join issue with Mr. Bartow> and with the Jenkins Whigs, generally,who are settingup this monopoly for Mr. Jenkins of all the honors of that paternity. The Preamble and Resolutions constituting the Georgia Platform was a child of many fathers—not the least of whom was the Honorable Alexander H. Ste phens. Mr. Toombs also is entitled to no un conspicuous place in the paternal list. We might call on others of the Committee of Thirty-three who reported the Georgia Platfoim to the Convention, as witnesses to the truth of our statement. But we are willing to rest the case on the testimony of these three gentlemen —Messrs. Jenkins, Stephens and Toombs. Will they testify to the following points. We ask Mr. Jenkins, First. Has he still in his possession the origi nal manuscript which he carried up from Au gusta to Milledgeville, or a copy of it, and he here submitted to Messrs. Stephens, Toombs and others, as a suitable Platform of Resolutions 1 If so, will he publish it as his idea of what the Georgia Convention should do? If not, where is the manuscript—who has it? If not in exis tence, when was it destroyed? Second. Did not Mr. Stephens strike out ma terial and large portions of that aforesaid Pream ble and Resolutions, and substitute suggestions of his own mind, interlining them with his own hand? Was or not Mr. Toombs present at the interview when this was done, and did he not also suggest various alterations and amendments? Third. Were not others also consulted, and were not their suggestions or some of them adopted by Mr. Jenkins? Fourth. Were not the Preamble and Resolu tions, as privately fixed up and prepared by the joint labors of Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Stephens, Mr Toombs, and others, outside of the Convention, submitted to the committee of thirty-three, and in the committee discussed, amended and mate rially altered? If so, in what particulars! Were not the Preamble and Reso ; utions sub mitted by Mr. Jenkins to the Committee ma terially different from the Georgia Platform, and in what consisted the difference ? Fifth—Was the fourth Resolution, as contain ed in the report of the Committee, or as amend ed by the Convention, among the resolutions submitted by Mr. Jenkins to the Committee ? All the above questions we submit to Mr. Stephens and to Mr. Toombs, equally with Mr. Jenkins, except the first, which is addressed more especially to Mr. Jenkins. We challenge these gentlemen to answer these questions? If they will not do so in writing, they can do so on the stump, as they will have frequent opportunities. These questions are not put blindly and ex perimentally. If these gentlemen will answer them, their answers will prove our position,that Mr. Jenkins is not the author of the Georgia Platform. He is not entitled to the monopoly of that honor. The platform he submitted, first to his friends, and next to the Committee, differed materially and in essential points from that adopted by the Convention. We speak from direct, positive and reliable information. Let the gentlemen named, or either of them, deny our assertions if they can. Let any member of the Committee of thirty-three deny it. Let the original draught trom Augusta be produced. Let it, as amended and submitted to the Committee, be produced ! Show up the documents. If they are lost or destroyed, let the witnesses testify to their contents, to the best of their recollection ! Failing in this, the claim set up, which is to hand down the name of Mr. Jenkins to posteri ty, is silenced. We freely accord to Mr. Jenkins his full meed of credit for his share in the construction of the Georgia Platform. At the same time we are equally free to say,that if the construction had been left exclusively to Mr. Jenkins, the plat form he would have placed the people of Geor gia, upon would not have been satisfactory to them ; nor if satisfactory, would it have gained for her that distinction among her sister States that is claimed as the result of the Georgia Plat form. There is one notable incident in the history of the Convention which we call to the notice of the gentlemen interrogated, presuming it will refresh their recollection ot other facts going to show that the Georgia Platform is not now wholly in accordance with the views entertain ed in the Committee by Mr. Jenkins. The fourth resolution was so worded in Com mittee as to embrace abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia by Congress as among the causes which would, justify “ disruption .” Mr. Jenkins strenuously opposed, in Committee,the incorporation of this contingency among thes causes. He contended that Congress had the constitutional power to abolish slavery in the District, and would probably, sooner or latter, exercise it, and objected to the State being com mitted to resistance, even, to disruption, for any such cause. He ivas overruled , and the fourth resolusion, with this contingency embraced in it, was reported by the Committee. It is very much the habit of the Whigs, not only to put under contribution all the legitimate capital belonging to and available for any of their candidates, but to borrow from each other, and to make use of the same capital for different candidates, successively, to suit each exigency as it may arise. For instance, Mr. Stephens, in a recent speech in Augusta, claimed for Mr. Jenkins the chief credit of having originated, ad vocated and pushed through the State Railroad. The Savannah Republican has recently been blowing the trumpet very loud for Mr. Bartow, Whig candidate for Congress in the Ist District, on the same grounds. Yet it will be remember ed, that on both occasions, when the Hon. Geo. W. Crawford was a candidate for Governor, the Whig; insisted that he was the leading origina tor, champion and mainstay of that great State enterprize. Having made all the use of the as sertion they could in this case, they now seek to relieve Gov. Crawford from the honors then claimed for him, to help Mr. Jenkins through this canvass. It is not to be doubted that if Mr. Asbury Hull, or Mr. Andrew J. Miller, or any other prominent Whig in the Legislature, cotem poraneously with these gentlemen, had been the candidate for Governor, he too would have been lauded as the originator and champion of the State Road. This towering plutne is to be transferred, suc cessively, from one Whig cap to another, to win the gaze and catch the votes of the people, with out much regard to original rights. But all this time the Whigs do not breath the name of a single one of the long array of intelligent and patriotic Democrats whosejvoices and influence were devoted so effectively to the cause of the State Road. So with regard to the State finances. The. claim, above ail others, apart from party grounds, which the Whigs urged in favor of Gov. Craw ford’s re-election in 1845, was that he was a great financier—that his financial talents had achieved the redemption of our State credit from j depression and dishonor, brought on it by the Central Bank, and that he. pre-eminently over all others in the State, had placed it on a sound basis. The Democrats need only be reminded of this to recalbdistinctly the leading features of that canvass. But now this proud distinction, so noisily claimed for Gov. Crawford, is sought to be transferred from him to Mr. Jenkins. In the same speech of Mr. Stephens at Augusta, and no doubt in his speeches elsewhere, Mr. Jenkins is brought forward as the great Necker of our age and State, that won immortality by the splendor of his fiscal achievements during the same period of financial difficulty. These clap-traps are treated by the Whigs as convenient garments, fitting a welt one candi date as another. With these, each one is decorated and mustered through a campaign. When he has fought through, they are cast off and fitted on to the next comer. We presume we shall have the pleasure of seeing several other Whigs, or “ Republican Citizens ,” thus rigged out in fu ture campaigns as they are successively put in the field as candidates for Governor. Had Mr. Stephens, or Mr. Toombs, or Sena tor Dawson been the candidate for Governor, there would have been no more impropriety in claiming lor either, the exclusive honor of con structing the Georgia Platform, than is now as serted for Mr. Jenkins. Who can say but that it may yet be invoked for these gentlemen on some such future occasion. “ Despotism of Party.” Under this head the editor of the Georgia Cit izen gives in his recent experience, and furnish es the following amusing history of his sugges tion of the name of the Hon. John M. Berrien for Governor, and of the panic it occasioned among the Webster and Jenkins Whigs. Several weeks since, at the earnest and impor tunate request of high-minded and worthy Scott Whigs, we opened our columns to their com munications, some in favor of Mr. Jenkins and some in opposition—to the latter showing per haps more favor than the former, because they had no other medium of communication with the public, while Mr. Jenkins’ friends had many ways of being heard. It was, however, with reluctance, that we conceded as much as we did to those who beset us. In fact, we had person ally no heart in the matter and cared not to be come involved in the contest to be waged be tween the partizans of Jenkins and Johnson. Still, orr Press was free and independent, and in obedience to the first principles of justice, we could not exclude Scott Whigs from a limited use of our columns. It was also at the instance of a number of de voted friends of this class, that in our paper of Aug. 13th, we penned an article, suggesting the name of the Hon. John M. Berrien as a suitable person to be voted for, for Governor, by Scott Whigs and others who did not like to vote for Jenkins or Johnson, and intimating that snch a vote for Mr, Berrien would be none the less a “ compliment” to him, though not expected to avail any thing towards his election. What was the result of this amiable suggestion of ours? We could not have anticipated the panic it oc casioned in the Jenkins’ ranks. An express was immediately sent from Augusta to Mr. Berrien’s retreat in the shades of Habersham, urging upon him to disclaim the “compliment” which the “Citizen” had proposed to his honored name, and such was the“ hot haste” in which his let ter to the “ Editor of the Georgia Citizen” was dispatched, that it actually appeared in one ot the Augusta papers a day in advance of its ap pearance in the Citizen of last week—a fact which had it been known sooner, would have excluded it altogether from our columns, by rea son of the doubt thereby implied of our possible want of justice and courtesy towards Mr. B. in the matter of publication of his letter. This may not, however, have been the act of Mr. Berrien, but of the Press in question. It all goes to show, at least, that the Jenkins men were dreadfully alarmed at the suggestion of Mr. Berrien’s name for Governor, and weie as anxious as men ever were to put a stop to the ball which we bad, in a playful mood, set rolling in,upon them. Nor was the panic confined to the Jenkins’ headquarters at Augusta. It so disturbed the equanimity of some of our cotemporaries that they have become abusive of the Citizen and its Editor, and decry its influence and political con si9tency. For example, the Columbus Enquirer, a print that took about six weeks after the nomination to make up its mind to support Gen. Scott, last year, denounces our suggestion of Berrien’s nams as ** the poor miserable bamboozle of the Georgia Citizen .” Perhaps our friend “ Sami vel” knows what a “ bamboozle means as well as the next man, but when he undertakes so to denounce an act which is the right and privilege of every citizen—that of nominating their rulers —we rather think he has shown the “ cloven foot” a little tco plainly for his own good. The Chronicle & Sentinel exults over Mr. Berrien’s letter, and says it “ shows how little he sympathizes with the Citizen and those vho have so adroitly , through its columns attempted to place him in a. false position before the coun try.” This is balderdash and lacks truth. There was nothing artful or adroit in the suggestion, nor was there any attempt to place Mr. B. in a false position,” nor any intimation, whatever, that Mr. B. would likely give his assent to the movement. The Athens Herald—that pink of consistency in politics, is also down upon us as a changeling and “ erratic’ 5 in our course, and says, falsely, several harsh things about us, which we can af ford to despise, because we know the iron rule under which the Editor is now compelled to write and speak. His necessity is that of bread and butter”—a despotism which is gall ing to some men, but not to him of the Herald, from the easy way he wears his chains ! Again, The Georgia Courier, by its corres pondent “Old Whig,” says that as “Dr. An drews is neither a National Whig, nor Scott Whig, but a Union Democrat, a Scott Demo crat, he is therefore not a safe and proper adviser for Whigs at all.” Thank you, sir. Dr. A. has not presumed to be the adviser of “ Whigs,” but only affords a medium by which Scott Whigs who are not de nationalized by the Toombs’ faction, may be heard. He would indeed find it difficult to scare up an audience of that sort, to hear any advice he might have to give, as the title of Whig is now disclaimed by most of the politicians of the day. The Jenkins, Toombs party are not Whigs, but have cut themselves off from that as sociation. Who, then, are Whigs in Georgia ? None but the anti-Jenkins, Scott Whigs, with whom we co-operateu last year, and to whom, on account of that association, we feel privileged to say, what we have not hitherto advised—vote not all—or if you vote, drop a ballot for the Hon. Mr. Blank, or the Hon. Mr. Scattering. To ‘‘he kind and respectful notice of the Washington Gazette, we have only this reply to make. If we are driven by the blood-hounds of Party to vote against Jenkins, it will not be from any remarks which the Gazette has made on this subject. The Charleston Courier of the 6th inst., says : The late rains have caused considerable freshets in the up-country. The Wat=ree, as we learn from a note received by the Postmaster of this city, from the Postmaster at Camden, was yes terday said to be within*three feet of the great August freshet, and was still rising. At Cheraw the freshet in the Pee Pee, carried away about one hundred feet of the telegraph wire, and not withstanding the most strenuous exertions on the part of the operator and contractor at that place it was found impossible to get the wire up yesterday, inasmuch as the river was still rising and tae workmen could only cross at the hazzard of their lives. To-day fresh efforts will be made to resume direct communication with the North and we trust, with succeis. Subjoined is an extract fron a letter dated Camden, Sept. 4, 18-53. We have had much rain within the past three days—including the present one—which I am really fearful will do much injury to the growing crops. Some fears are entertained for our river low lands at this time. The Postmaster General, in order to obtain information in relation to the foreign mail ser vice called tor under an Act of Congress approved March 3d, 1853, has invited proposals for the carrying of the mails between the United States and Great Britain, and the Continent, Mexico, Cuba, California, &c. The proposals lo be for six years, and to conform to conditions set forth in the advrrtisement. A most terrible calamity "occurred on the wharf at Wheeling last Monday week. Some twenty kegs of gunpowder exploded, while be ing removed from a dray. The carman was in stantly killed, and another man severely injur ed. The wharf boat was completely demolished, two steamers were badly damaged, and hundreds of dollars worth of windows were broken in the vicinity The steamer u Uncle Sam,” arrived at Valpa raiso, reports that on the 28th of July she was boarded by the captain of the brig Isabel, lying at Port Famine, at which place she had put in for water. The Isabel is owned by Lady Frank lin, and bound to Behring’s Straits in search of Sir John Franklin. Captain and all hands well. By the way, a bottle, containing a letter, pur porting to come from Sir John, and dated in May last, has been picked up on the Irish coast. Sir John is made to say he is detained on an is land by the natives. Os course this is a hoax. j At a recent trial of a newly invented Gas ! Regulator, in the works of the Screw Company, j at Providence, R. 1., it was found to effect a sav ing in the consumption of gas equal to thirty nine per cent. Two accurate tests were made | and both showed that without the regulator 1,- j 800 feet were burnt in a specific time, whilst j with but 1,300 feet were required, an equal amount of light being obtained. Black Snake, the celebrated Indian, now 106 years of age, is still hale and hearty, residing at : Allegany Reservation, in Western New York. | He was one of the most active of his tribe in | bringing about a treaty in behalf of the United j States, with Gen. Washington, at Philadelphia, j in 1787. The Whole World s Temperance Convention ; assembled in New York on Thursday. The | speakers announced were Horace Greeley, Chas. C. Burleigh, Mary Jackson, of England, and Rev. Antoine L. Brown, with Maine Law and other songs, by the Amphions, assisted by Miss Fanny Wilder, of Boston. Among the evening speakers were P. T. Barnum and Lucy Stone. The efficacy of the signal system on railroads was proved on Saturday last, on the Hudson Ri ver road. An axle of a car in a train was dis covered, near Oak Hall, to have become heated to such a degree that it melted. Immediately a brakeman jumped from the cars, exhibited the red flag, and in a moment, for miles distant, red dags were raised by the dagmen, notifying dan ger. Trains approaching were warned and stop ped until the disabled car was switched off, and the train passed safely on its way. New Cotton.— Up to the 28th ult. only 59 bales of new Cotton were received at Mobile against 1,796 bales at the same date last season.' The Comet, w'hich has been visible in the western horizon for some time past, is said to have passed its perihelion and will not again be seen in northern latitudes, but in the southern hemisphere it will continue in sight throughout the month of September, rising before the sun. The Crops. Alabama. —The following relative to the cot ton crop we extract from the Marion Common wealth, of the 27th ult.: The universal cry now among the planters of this part of the country is that the recent wet weather has nearly ruined the cotton crop. In many places the worm is playing havoc among the cotton, and if the present weather continues and the destruction goes on as it has commenced, not even a fourth of a crop can be realized. In many places, we are informed, that not only the worm is destroying the bolls, but the grasshop pers are literally eating up the weed also. It has been raining in this section of the coun try nearly every day since the Ist of July, and the information we get from planters in the rich cotton-growing lands of the county is, that if it continues much longer, the cotton crops in those regions will be a total failuie. Since writing the above, we have received a private letter from an intelligent planter near Uniontown, in this county, where the largest quantity of cotton is made, which states thatthe cotton crop in that region is among the things that were. The recent heavy rains have caused the top crop of squares and young bolls to shed off; and the boll worm has devoured, and is still devouring, the remainder of the bolls not open ed. It is the opinion of a large number of the planters of the Canebrake, that it will be a mi lacle if more than a fourth of a crop of cotton will be realized in all that fine region of cotton growing country. The Tuscaloosa Monitor, of the 25th ult., says : We have of late had some very heavy rains, which must have an injurious effect upon the cotton crop. Until a very recent period, the prospect of a good crop was considered excellent. We believe that but few of our planters have as yet commenced picking. The corn crop will . turn out much heavier than was expected. Few doubt but that there will be a sufficiency made ( in this section. Office of Board of Health,} Mobile, Sep. Ist, 1853. J Report of interments in the city of Mobile far the twenty-four hours ending 6 o’clock p. m. this day: Os Yellow Fever 23 Os other diseases 9 Total 32 Os these 5 were from the Hospital, and 8 were interred in the Catholic Cemetery. Geo. A. Ketchum, Secretary. The Mechanics’ Institute of Ohio, at Cincin nati, have awarded their Diploma to Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, the widely celebrated remedy for Colds, Coughs and Consumption. This hon or was richly merited by the Inventor of that invaluable medicine which has secured not only the above commendation, but also that of the most eminent Physicians in this, as well as the highest medical authority in other countries. And what is a far greater encomium on its useful ness, is, that it has won its way to almost every fireside of the American People. DIED. At the Sand Hills, on Thursday, August 30th Charles Jenkins, youngest son ol Rev E. P., and Elizabeth Rogers, in the fourth year of his ago. "And Jesus called a little child unto Hina” Cmmnrrnal. , , , • Augusta, Sept. 6—6, P. M. The River.* is in good boating order, with six feet water in the Channel. Augusta Market, Sept. 7. COTTON.—There is little or nothing doing in old Cotton. Os the new crop about 130 bales have come to hand, the bulk of which has been disposed of at prices ranging from 9$ to 11 cents—princi pally at 10j for Middling Fair. The quality of the present crop so far received, is below that of last year, and if the recent rains have extended ove r tho Cottou region of G eorgia, the present crop will be an inferior one as regards quality—tho sta ple is good. OF COTTON, From Ist September , 1852, to the latest dates received 1353. 1852. New-Orleans, Aug. 28 1,603,879 1,391,547 Mobile, Aug 26 ..518,832 525,965 Florida, Aug. 8 '. 177,922 188.404 Texas, Aug. 20 85,227 62,798 Savannah, Aug. 30 328,796 339.292 Do. Sea Islands 12,971 10,597 Charleston, Aug. 31 441,331 457^254 Do. Sea Islands... 19.843 19.379 North Carolina. Aug. 20. 18,710 15,771 Virginia, Aug. 31.... 25,833 16,267 Total. .V.. 3,233,344 3,027.374 * * 3,027.374 Increase. 1 : 205,970 GROCERIES.—Our market is now well supplied with leading articles in the Grocery line, and mer chants from the interior will find it to their interest to purchase hers before going further. Several orders have been sent back from New York and filled in this market at prices in favor of the pur chaser. CORN.—Demand confined to City*wants. Sales have been made this week at 60 cents by the quan. tity. Retailing from stores at 65 cents, sacks in cluded. FLOUR. —Holders are stiller in their asking pri ces. Augusta Mills finds ready sale at ss£ for su porfino at wholesale and $6 as 6 J by retail. Fa mily is selling at $7 a $8 at wholesale and retail- Country Flour is selling by the quantity at $5 j, and retailing at $6 a s6j- per bbl. BACON —We have no change to notice. Hold ers of a good article are stiff in their asking prices —a 8£ the hog round. For shoulders the prices vary from 7 to 8 cents, according to quality; and for sides 9$ to 9J for ribbed; and 9| alO cents for clear There is very little good joint meat in mar kot. BAGGING.—Stock on the increaso and most holders are asking from storo, by the piece or bolt, 12 J cents. Bale Rope is looking up and is now selling at 8£ a 8J cents. COFFEE.—Prices are a little stiffer. Stock on band good. Rio Coffee worth 10 a 10£ cents; ac cording to quality. MOLASSES. Stock of Cuba good. Holders are selling from stores 24 a 25, according to quality. SUGAR.—Stock on hand large, and principal sales 5£ to 6£ for Orleans and Muscovado ; Porto Rico 6£ to 7j ; Clarified 7J to BJ, according to the grade. SALT.—We have heard of no large transactions this week. Thoro is but little in first hands and the stock on sale is light. Retailing from stores at 1 45 and 1 50 per sack. WHEAT.—There is a good demand for Wheat, and good Red meets with ready sale at 80 a 90 cents, and prime White at sl.lO a $1.25 per bushel. WOOL.—There is some domand for this article. Planters will find it to their interest to save their wool and send it to this market for salo ; if carefully handled, and washed, it will readily bring 25 to 30 cents. EXCHANGE.—Our Banks are drawing on New York and other Northern cities at £ per cent, prem. for Sight Drafts. FREIGHTS.—The river is now in good boatable ordor. Wo continno to quote to Savannah 25c. per bale, and to Charleston per Railroad, 50 cents Not much offering to either point. SAVANNAH, Sept. 3, P. M.— Cotton. —Tnere was a little stir in the market to-day and the sales reached 370 bales, 100 at 10£, and 270 at} 10 S A VANN AIIJEX PORT S—S opt. 3. Per steamship Augusta, for Now York—34o balesfUpland and 10 do. Sea Island Cotton, 10 do. Domestics, 35 bags Feathers, 15 rolls Leather, 77 boxes Copper, andjsundry bales, boxes, bbls and pckgs Mdze. Per barque Flight, for New York —477 balos Cot ton, 50 casks Rice, 276 balos Yarn, 80 bales Bag ging, 100 bags Rice Flour, 33 Cotton Gins, 56 tier •es Hams, 1 h’nd. Crockery, 1 cask, 3 trunks and 5 boxes Mdze , 12 casos Furniture, 2 balos, 1 case, 1 Buggy, &e Per brig Robt. M. Charlton, for Boston—B6,ooo foot Lumber. Per sehr John W. Anderson, for Baltimore —24 bales Cotton, 200 sacks Salt, 17,650 feet Timbor, 3 bales Skins, 39 do. Yarn, 12 do. Domestics, 9 Box es, 124 boxes Copper Ore. Slipping jhrtrlUgrnrr. arrivals from charleston. Steam ship Union, Adams, New York. Schr Louisiana, Foxwcll, Baltimore Schr Truth, Creighton, Baltimore. Sehr P. C. Ferguson, Roberts, Baltimore. Schr Maria L. Davis, Davis, Jacksonville. CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON. Brig Wooster, W ooster, at Boston Sehr Volant Cousins, at Boston. Schr N. W. Smith, Hobart, at New York. CHARLESTON, September6.—Arrived, barque Franklin, Cook, Boston; schrs Aid, Stellor, Ha vana; Gon. Taylor, Frisbie, Beaton. Went to sea, ship Columbia, Erickson, N. York; barque Edward, Patterson, New York. SAVANNAH, Sept. 3.—Arr. steamship State of Georgia, Philadelphia. Clearod, barque Flight. Calhoun, New York; brig Rabt. M. Charlton,jLightbourn, Boston; sehr Jno, W. Anderson, Watson, Baltimore. Went to sea, steamship Augusta, Lyon, New York. FLOUR AND CHEESE. Q /\ BARRELS Hiram Smith’s Double Extra OU Flour from New Wheat. 5 barrels Fresh Boston Crackers. 25 boxes Cheese. Just received by aug 28 DAWSON & SKINNER. ARPER’S MAGAZINE for September, just received, and for sale bv McKINNE & HALL, aug 30 Book sellers & Stationers. COILS ), and $ inch Kentucky ROPE. OUU SCRANTON, SEYMOUR & CO., aug 8 No. 2 Warren Blook, Mexican Mustang I reputation of this\rn’; ,l ‘* ,lt —TV creating daily; tho circle of its^n.f at 0r > is j' bounded popularity is deponing and S® «' the cases of pain, and suffering 1 lieved by its use, are multiply, ' ; a . n £uish, beyond ail precedent. It goes Hkf » " d tn e>W» healing on its wings.” " "' e an an gei, -J* To persons who wish, we can for,,- > residences of persons all over the mcs **l have been cured of Rheumatism,SprS*?- * and most loathsome Sores; as well £ & eers and Wens—and of horses tW ed of Spavins, Ringbones, S P H n tVin!? Wtl ep evils, and hard bone Tumors on It Sand Poii shoulders and back. Almost every le fc out the country can testify to its :lir ou| powers—and none of them wouKJI? 1 out tt. Owners of livery stables and mes can save hundreds of dollars year * S r CO %- this Liniment on their horses whenTv J by ««£ come galled, chafed, or crippW £ r tbe >’ 5 thousand accidents to which their r s See advertisement in another column t i P 24 m °st confirmedTrr~ _ most distressing disease,** ei «e arises irom indigestion. All of us Z troubled with this annoyiug symptom"tin a general thing, wo do not atternm ♦" as « i# until something serious intervenes medlc »t a public monitor warn all our reader, C Wouli it sin of neglect, and at the same time ,l a?ainat 'the their notice Dr. Iloofland’s German lii?L° mm , ea< H ginal preparation, as prepared by \) r n b Pri son, No. ISOI Arch seen cures effected through its iS, " e bay* Weekly. dISA.I ’“ a " e "«'C _ ; sept 7 S* vt ‘s General ’Sats.fcT^r——. |° sa ? a,i Dealers in ' ermluge, and so also may the p rttt)r |“ hate, they are daily receiving certificates 1 ‘ ors aß J,is that to print thorn would fill a volume p^®' oo * is tho use of further certificates to aim./- 1 has become so universal ? Le* th« no, aieino that of its approvers suffice : * mes Mr. Gecrge Maxwoli, of Augu«i a ru. „ has used it in his family with the berteE? C ° J. 11. Cutter, a respectable merchant <f t villo, after having used others without r uis ' ministered a dose of M’Lane's Vermifuo, completely removed the worms. * It has also been used with success in th* r , of the following persons: "“““•Uttlie Pittsburg and vicinity J as . Stratton Avenue; Mary J.Stratton, Mior * a Harshberger. Manchester; Margarett Lmcbav? James Burke and Agnos Burke, Squirrel Wpi Soid by Havilan J, Eislcy & Co. and w' * Tutt, Augusta, Ga.; P. M. Cohen & Co r// ton, S. G.; Hill & Smith, Athens, Ga; e' C Madison; A. A. Solomons; Savannah; and Druggists and Dealers in Medicine throughout^ Fept 7 12 The , Members ofThe KecdlV wl , ra . en . s Society, are requested to meet at the Presbyterian Lecture Room, this am noon, at 5 o’clock. Punctual attendance k-J cularly requested. d ‘ Oglethorpe tion.—The Twenty fourth Ee®ul • Monthly Meeting of this Association will beheidtt the Drill Room on to-morrow, (Wcdnesdav evening at 8 o’clock. Members will come m parod to pay their instalments. L. L. Antonv, Scc’v _ se P® 2 o/u Merchants. Sindy yonr luterVst!- The Edgefield Advertiser, published at Edgefield, C. IL, S. C., by W. F. Drrisof.,/re spectfully offered the business public of Augusta as an excellent advertising medium. Tho Adverti ser has an extensive circulation in the district* ol Edgefield and Abbeville—districts that invariably trade in Augusta and the Warehou e. Coanm* and other Merchants would doubtless find it tote interest to acquaint the planters and the pcopli generally of their whereabouts. Ths terms of advertising are as moderate asam other Journal In the State, and we therefore be speak for the Advertiser, a liberal share of public patronage. 1m .- e p> AUGUSTA STEAM FLAWING MILLS,' {Head of Mclntosh street, near the. Woyntim Railroad Depot.) DOORS. BLINDS, SASIIES, DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES MOULDINGS, PANELINGS, MANTELS ORNAMENTAL SCROLL WORK TURNING BRACKETS. FENCING, BOXES &C., &C. Os every size and of the newest do.-igns, made to order at short notico. Also—Worked FLOORING, CEILING and WEATHER BOARDING. Orders punctually attended to. sep 2 d.ujfiui Notice.— i'no Panner-nip fctwtof® existing betwoen, C. P. McC.-: i,u and the undersigned, in ths interest of the U. S Hotel, is hereby dissolved. The business of the Hotel will be conducted by the Proprietor and lie se. aug 28 Jno. W. Spear. Iced Soda Water.—This delightful drink, together with a great variety of choice Syrups, of the best quality, may be found at the Druggist and Apothecaries Store of aug 12 Wat. Haines, Broadstrwt. 11. G. Farrell’s Genuine Arabian Liniment is a most extraordinary me 4-cine, the truth of which is placed beyond doubt of tho vast sales of the article and the ma ny euros feeing daily performed by it. which previously had resisted all other medicines aid the skill of the best physicians in the world. It is composed of balsams, extracts and gums peculiar to Arabia—possessing, in a concentrated form, all their stimulating, anodyne, penetrating, unctuous and revulsive properties, and the same which.age’ ago, were used by the “ Sons of the Desert," win such miraculous success, in curing the disease; d both man and beast. Read the following remarkable euro, which should of itself place H. G. FARRELLS ARA BIAN LINIMENT far beyond any similar reme dy. Mr. H. G. Farrell—Dear Sir; Actuated byi sense of gratefulness. I submit the following u ® instance of tho utility ot yo U great medicine. -<e child, three years old, was su idenly attacked r.u a terrible disease, which in less than six bo® prostrated it to total helplessness. The limbs became so rigid that not a joint could bo bent; the w® turned black and cold and entirely deprived feeling; tho eyes fixed, partially closed and a*; | gother blind following this was deafness to » j sounds; the spine became contracted and so cup r, j that when lying on his back the head and the he® j only touched. Indeed, the child presented e'*Jl appoarance of being dead. Immediately on t-* j attack, tho family physician was called in, ana l* j three weeks he labored to restore it to feeling, f i all in vain, although it was blistered a dozen tun* and various rubefacient Liniments applied consultation of physicians was then held, but to J purpose, the case was then brought before tho Jh -' cal Society, but nothing could be suggested wnic had not already been done, and the doctor then to me he could do nothing more. We then comm--' ced applying your Liniment freely over the on"-- ! length of the spine, and you may imagine a P rent’s joy, when, after a few applications, retarmm animation was apparent and it rapidly recover withthe exception of the sight, which d d no i come perfect for near a month. The c “ is now healthy and robust as can bo- / other cases of same kind occurred previously l ?®- neighborhood, all of which died, when there i doubt if your Liniment bad been they wouM“ have recovetod. HENRY G. CLELA> Peoria, March Ist, 1851. . 3 . hook out for Counterfeits. —The public an* 1 tionod against another counterfeit, which has ly madeit3 appearance, called W. B. Farrell bian Liniment, the most dangerous of all «>* terfeits, because his having the name o many will buy it in good faith, without tne : ledge that a counterfeit exists, and they ff “ haps, only discover their error when the sf u " mixture has wrought its evil effects. . jj The genuine article is manufactured olli y L o ie G. Farrell, sole inventor and proprietor, am .. sale druggist, No. 17 Main street, Peoria, ). to whom all applications for Agencies inns, dressed. Be sure you get it with the lette before Farrell’s, thus —H. G. FARBEL " his signature on the wrapper, and all 0 counterfeits. Sold by . ,<n HAVILAND, RISLEY * August*) v*-. and by regularly authorized agents throng u United States. , t u e . fry Price 25 and 50 cents, and $1 P** »cJ Agents Wanted in every town, vi s. . #o! hamlet in the United States, in whicu o „ j 5 already established. Address IL tv- * ( , c aS to above, accompanied with good * e ?f refl 3U <» Iti character, responsibility, Ac. TTrf^' No. 2 —Augusta bo-utn Plank Read Office, * ir ,d 1853.—An instalment of ten fee cen ' ea bli to be paid on the 14th September next. 0 t to the By-Laws of said Corporation- . - ure r, the Board. S. H. Olives, ißeerc^ 15 aug 25 office corner Mclntosh —'Cos 1 AU HOUSE, the l’ G. Fargo, Proprietor, (late 1? S. Hotel, Augusta.* a l ,r ’ —y^ti < «£* Marriage Invitations aim y lL i\i Cards written byjhrterj*!^ Paid sor T )'^ ) COTTON and SnJtjJJg&J&P. {an 20 ts Corner River and S