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toftefonnli3t^3Rt|jnhiit. ? BT JAMBS 3AF.8313?..' j OJfKICI ON McINTOSH-STREET, •'HIED Di>Oa FVJ.II TITS SJRTH-WK3T CORNER OF BROAD -STREET. TERMS: Daily paper {if paid in advance) ....per annum. .$8 00 Tri-Weekly (if paid in advance) per annum.. 5 00 W ekly (r paid in advance) per annum.. 200 {From the Greenville ($. C.,) Mountaineer \ Pablie Polly—The Savannah Valley Rail Road. 1 here are some things done by State* and communities, as well as by individuals, ao un worthy their average character for sagacity and proper conduct that it is difficult to account for them on any other ground than the doctrine of Turkish fatalism. Among such anomalous, un accountable things we rank pre-eminent the chartering by the State of the Savannah Valley Railroad Company, and the aid and comfort which the road has received from Charleston, through the Mercury and perhaps other prints of the city, tto igh now we cannot specify them. One would suppose that a State would be vigi lant to guard the vested interest of herself and citizens generally, when it could do so Dy sim ply refusing to charter a company to destroy them. But the Legislature of South Carolina has not thus acted. The justification of general public good to counterbalance the public injury cannot be pleaded in behalf of the Savannah Vaiiey Railroad. If ever there has been a super fluous Railroad chartered, this is one. Every district.it touches already possesses Railroads run ning through them. Edgefield has two: one running through her lower border, the old Ham burg and Charleston road; the other the Green ville Road through the upper part of the District. Abbeville likewise may be said to have two Railroads, the main trunk of the Greenville Rail road running through her noith eastern length and a branch from it to her center, the village of Abbeville. Anderson may be said, likewise, to have two railroads traversing her territory: the main trunk of the Greenville road and the ex tension from Belton to her center at the Court House. These three districts, thus situated, are all to have another Railroad, it seems for the es pecial benefit of Hamburg, forsooth, which means for the more particular benefit of Augusta, Geor gia. But the beneficial results of the road thus lim ited, are counterbalanced by the most general and destructive effects, should it be built on the interest of the State at large; but especially will the results be serious and perpetually disastrous to Charleston trade and commerce, consequently to all the interest of Charleston. In the first place, let us consider the effects of the Road on the interests of the State at large. That interest may be viewed in connection with the millions of dollars invested by the State in Railroads, and the guarantees afforded to the building of Roads, and also to the interests the whole State possesses in the trade and prosperi ty of her own towns and cities. The Savannah Valley Railroad, be it remembered stretches along the western border of the State in a few miles of the river, separating us from Georgia, and is thus considered a half way Georgia road. Further, by its length, extending from Anderson to Augusta, (we give the town proper of its ter mination, for Hamburg is only the suburb lite rally of Augusta.) the Road will act like a light ning conductor, carrying off freight and passen gers and trade from the Green vilie and Columbia Railroad, and all the Roads connected therewith and disgorge all the accumulated surplus of heavy freights, as well as passengers, on the banks of the Savannah at Augusta, and thus beget a splendid business for that city and the Railroad making from that point to the city of Savannah, and particularly a capital business for the steam boats on the river at Augusta in the bacon, flour, wheat and corn of Tennessee, and the cotton from Georgia and Carolina side of the Savannah, which has flowed down this skimming conduc tor. So great will be the concentration of hea vy freights at Augusta, b/ the operation of the Savannah Valley Railroad, that the steamboat companies will be stimulated into unpreceden ted activity and enlargement of their means of transportation, so as to underbid effectually the South Carolina Railroad on cotton, but more par ticularly in the provision produce of the West, destined for foreign exportation. So absolutely will this be accomplished that we must here bring in one of our capital arguments as to the injury Charleston must receive irons this road. Charleston can never expect to become a city, lor the exportation of provisions or assorted car goes as has been her arqbition to be, and for which she has been prodigal of expense and la bor. The Savannah Valley Radrord termina ting at Augusta will, of course, receive at An derson from the Rabun or Blue Ridge P.ailroad all the heavy produce ot Tennessee intended for the seaboard market, which will not travel over the long and circuitous and multifariously deflec ting track of the Greenville and Columbia Rail road. The Savannah river at Augusta offers far the cheapest means of shipment to the sea coast by the city ofSavannati, from whence, therefore, all the heavy heights ot the Rabun Road will find their way to tne West indies, Brazil, and eur own Northern cities, and to every other des tination beyond Savannah, and Charleston will -poly receive a sufficiency lor her own actual consumption. The reasons are obvious, from the facts stated, but there is another fact which proves that the heavy frieghts Irom the end of the road at Hamburg and Augusta will take the river route. There are several miles of heavy and high grading on the South Carolina Railroad near Aiken made to avoid the inclined plane, which will have to be surmounted by ail the produce of the West intended for the seaboard which lands at Hamburg and Augusta, and which will therefore seek the descending flow of the Savannah river in preference. The State of South Carolina has therefore pledged her million and a quarter of dollars to the Rabun Road, main ly for the benefit of the steamboat companies on the Savannah river, and the city of Augusta and her railroad, and lor the benefit of the inter nal and foreign commerce of the city of Savan nah. The City of Charleston has subscribed her million of dollars for the Rabun Road, and it is with amazing and incredible folly (through some of her citizens) favoring the Valley Road that is to turn away the benefits of the Rabun Road from herself to other recipients. The State at large wiil suffer also by the great damage to the Railroads already built by her ci tizens, and in which the State has invested near a million of dollars, and her citizens many mil lions. The South Carolina Railroad will suffer greatly, and the Greenville and Columbia Rail road, so far as the value of the stock is concerned, will be extinguished hopelessly and forever, from the Broad River Bridge up. for it is certain that the trade and travel of the western part of the State, from Greenvillto Edgefield inclusive, which now seeks the Greenville Railroad, will betake itself almost entirely to the Savannah Valley Railroad, as soon as that is finished, for the simple reason that it will be a shorter and a better route to Augusta, Charleston, Savannah and New York, than the circumbendibus road by Newberry and Columbia. The wit of man could not invent a scheme more injurious to all the great and general interests of the trade and capital of the State than the aforesaid Savannah Valley Railroad, and that too, without any great compensating advantage to her people, for it runs so near skimming along the line of Geor gia that it cannot be called a State enterprise. There is anly one hope of remedy for the evils of the Savannah Valley Road, and it remains to be seen whether the State has sagacity enough in her councils to adopt this remedy. It is a measure which ought to be adopted even with out regard to the question of the Valley Road. We mean the construction of a Railroad from Aiken connecting with the Greenville and Co lumbia Railroad in the vicinity of Cambridge, in Abbeville. Such a road would make the dis tance to Charleston 16 or IS miles less than by Hamburg, and forty miles less irom Belton or Anderson and Greenviile, byway of Columbia. Such a Road might receive most, if not the whole, of the Rabun Railroad freight (except that intended for the interval trade at Colum bia.) at Cambridge, and land it on the South Carolina Railroad at Aiken, past the high grade, where it could descend to Charleston more ex peditiously and about as cheaply as it would from Augusta by the river. Thus securing to our ex isting Railroads a heavy participation in the bu siness of the Blue Ridge Railroad, and to the city of Charleston the prize of the trade of the West, beyond the hope of successful rivalry.— We have other reasons for our position in regard to the Valley Road, equally cogent but have not ipace to state them. Sen* ff, 9, Klttf’i Letter. , Augusta, Sept. 7, 1853. Gentlemen l have received your invitation to attend a Mass meeting of the democracy of the 6th Congressional district, to be held%t Kingston on the 9fch inst. It will not be conve nient Jor me to attend, but for your invitation you will please accept my thanks. I do not consider the approaching election for Governor of the State, as of great importance in its immediate effect upon our State interests, j Our domestic policy is pretty well settled, and j both the candidates are able and experienced | men, well acquainted with the resources of the ! State, and the wants of the people, and either of ! them, is no doubt, in all respects, well qualified ! to perform the duties of the office. In a national point of view, and in its influ j ence upon our federal relations, the approaching j election is vastly more important. Every year added to our age as a nation, strengthens the conviction of the excellence of the institutions under which we Jive. History furnishes no ex ample of such wonderful advances, in power, prosperity and true national greatness. Rome is ofren referred to as the classic model of an cient republics, yet we have advanced more in seventy, than Rome did in seven hundred years; the condition of our citizens, individually, com pared with other nations, is not less enviable. They are prosperous, secure and happy, under the combined influences of liberty and law. Other causes may have contributed something to these great results, but they are mainly owing to the admirable lorrn of our government, and the principles upon which it has been adminis tered. Such a government, honesMy adminis tered, should be honestly sustained. We have some diversity of interests to reconcile, but these will neve breed disturbance or civil strife, un der a firm, faithful, and impartial administration of the government. Such we have in the admin istration of Mr. Pierce, and are we not bound by every obligation of duty to sustain him 7 He has not been treacherous to his own section, but his whole history is one of unwaverifig de votion to the constitutional rights of all the States— the South included. He has been no holiday-friend to the South, but whatever the political turns around him—whatever dangers seemed to threaten him at home, he has never for a moment hesitated between policy and du ty. He is truly and consistently a national dem ocrat; standing up firmly for the rights of the States and the union of the States.” If not sus tained by the South what encouragement do we offer to a northern man to do his whole duty, under ali circumstances, to every section ©f the country ? 1 cannot see the consistency of the present organized opposition to the national adminisis tration. Tney have dissolved the Constitution al Union party, as having accomplished its objects; have discarded the time honored name of Whig, and though appealing to Union men, have certain ly the only sectional organization in the State. What is the basis and object of this organiza tion ? To secure the execution of the compro misel Weweretoldin July, 1852, that this object was accomplished, and the Constitutional Union party was therefore dissolved. Then the country was agitated by riots, rescues and for midable combinations, which rendered the exe cution ot the law difficult and doubtful. Now, all is comparatively quiet; fugitives are general ly returned without difficulty, and if the com promise has been attacked in any other feature, I am not apprized of it. But the South is to be frightened because the president has appointed some freesoiiers and Southern Rights men to office. When did free soiiers become so obnoxious to the Whig party of Georgia ? It may be safely assumed that the whole whig party of Georgia would have voted (or Webster, Scott, Filltnoie or Clay ? If they could not have united upon one of them— some one of them, would have taken the whig vote. Now, these distinguished statesmen were all , in an abstract sense,either freesoiiers or abolitionists. Even Mr. Clay , a Southern man, not only re peatedly committed himself against the further extension of slavery, but actually introduced a scheme for the abolition of slavery in his own State ; the whigs would have entrusted the whole executive power of the government in the hands of these gentlemen for a constitutional term , but or ganize against danger, if a democratic president appoints a freesoiler to a subordinate office, to be temoved at pleasure. I don’t wish to deal harshly with these late whig preferences. I would only ask a decent respect tor consistency. The South should make no war on abstract opinions upon the subject of slavery. This would be to dislrancmse all the citizens of the free States, and effect a disso lution of the Union at once. We ask only that our constitutional rights be respected. But Southern Rights men have been appoint ed to office ; is this a subject of alarm to the South —that requiies a sectional organization to meet the danger? 1 hardly think so. The fault charged upon the Southern Rights rne.i was, that their Southern attachments ran into a dan gerous passion. That tney wonld sacrifice by rashness what might be preserved and secured by prudence That their remedy was fraught with unmitigated evil, and no good could come ot it—in short, that it was no remedy at all. Their attachment to the South was never ques tioned, but then rashness was signally rebuked by the sober judgement of the masses, arid I was glad ot it. Like sensible rnen, they submitted to this imposing judgment, and are now the most quiet and orderly citizens we have. lam sorry to see our Inends the whigs, striving to occupy their vacant place, by a sectional organi zation. The object of the president in making these app iutments has been national in character, and pure and patriotic in motive. His object has been to silence sectional complaints , and quiet agitation He tias wished to show his own con fidence, in a general submission to the late measures of adjustment. He has wished to prove to every class of our citizens, and every section of our country, that they have a common interest in a common government. It' he should be disappointed in his instruments, be has the rem edy in his own hands, and will doubtless apply it. Will not the president be sustained by Union Democrats? This class of our citizens 1 have considered as em nently patriotic. When they believed the State in danger, they broke old parties, and rallied around the standard ol their countiy. They will do so again if the occasion should require, but it will not be by sectional or ganization, which they so lately contributed to put down. i Much more might be said on this subject, but j I must come to a close. Should the democratic 1 party be defeated on this issue , Georgia would j present rather a strange figure among herSouth j sisters. They are all quiet—having nearly | all recently decided that the South is perfectly !* and that the president has done his duty. i W ill Georgia be found standiug “solitary and i alone” upon a platform hastily erected—with | her lance poised against enemies nowhere to be found, and prepared to meet dangers long since passed away ? Is our State prepared to cut so ridiculous a figure? I hope not. Yours, very respectfully, John P. Kino. Messrs. Clayton and others, committee. We are pleased to learn that the ship Harka way arrived off the Bar yesterday afternoon, in company with the steamship Southerner, which she fell in with on Thursday afternoon at five o’clock, about twenty miles E. W. E. of this port, having sailed from New Inlet Bay previ ous to the arrival of the Southerner at that peint, the wind being at North-west. The Harkaway has a full cargo of guano, and every thing about the ship appears to be in good condition. The waterin the hold, also, ha 3 been reduced to eigh teen inches, at which point the pumps suck.— We sincerely congratulate our young townsman Capt. Ewan, and all concerned, on their good fortune in having the ship safe off our port, and trust that their prize may prove as lucrative to them as they can desire. ■ a^ove had been set up. we learned that Mr. Missroon,the Agent of the New York and Charleston Line of Steamships, had taken most prompt and efficient steps to have the ship and cargo brought safely into port, having sent last evening at seven o’clock, a schooner with seventeen hands provided with bags shov els and every necessary material to lighten the ship.— Ch. Courier , 24 th inst. We find the subjoined paragraph in the New York Herald of Tuesday: On Thursday next, at half-past eight o’clock, A. M., Mr. William Collyer will launch from his yard, at the foot of Nineteenth street, East River, the beautiful steamship Nashville, for Messrs. Spofford & Tileston’s lino of New York ahd Charleston Steamers. The Nashville is a very sharp and handsome vessel, of about 1,500 tons burthen, and has been built in the very best style, under the immediate superintendence ol Capt. M. Berry, late of the Southerner and Mari est, who command her. She Halo feet long, 34 wide, and 22 deep, and will be fitted with a single side lever engine, from the Allair Works, of 85 inches diameter, and eight feet stroke.— This will increase the number of steamers in this company to five, viz : the Union, Southern er, Marion, James Adger and Nashville—a steamer for nearly each day in the week—a good sign of the increasing importance of the trade between New York and Charleston. AUGUSTA, GA. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPT. 25. FOR GOVERNOR, HON. H. V. JOHNSON, Os Baldwin County. DI9T. POR CONGRESS. 1— JAMES L. SEWARD, of Thomas. 2 A. H. COLQUITT, of Baker. 3 DAVID J. BAILEY, of Butts. 4 W. B W. DENT, of Coweta. 6 E. W. CHASTAIN, of Gilmer. 7 P. SAFFOLD, of Madison. 8— JOHN J. JONES, of Burke. Election Tickets. We are prepared to print Election Tickets, at short notice, at the following rates: for SI,OOO tickets $3; 400 tickets 2. Any less number 50 cents per hundred. The money must accompa ny the order. # Bth Congressional District. John J. Jones will address his fellow citi zens at Sylvania, Tuesday, September 27th. See first page Daily this morning. Mr. Webster on the Buffalo Platform. Our readers have had before them the letter of Mr. Dix to Dr. Garvin. They there see that he is with Gen. Pierce—with the sound nation al Democracy of the North, and of the South, and of the whole Union on the Baltimore platform,and giving the weight of his name and his influence to acquiescence in the Compromise—to the faith ful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, and to a cessation of slavery agitation. On the same platform stands every man who holds office un der Gen. Pierce. All their efforts are patrioti cally directed to put down sectionalism and agi tation—to preserve the Federal Constitution in its full efficiency, and to preserve the peace and harmony of the Union. And they deserve the support and co-operation of all good men and true of every section, and especially of the South. If any office-holder under the government can be proved, or is justly liable to the suspicion of, countenancing in any way the renewal of the freesoil heresies and the freesoil excitement, the Piesident stands pledged to turn him out instantly j The southern whigs who are now factiously striv i ing to stir up agitation on this question, have only to point out the office-holder who does this , and the President promptly and gladly will remove him. — ! In a conversation with the writer, this summer, j the President stated this to us plainly and em ! phatically in the presence *f several members of his Cabinet. This he stands pledged to by his principles, by his feelings and by his declared policy, and he proclaims it frankly and empha tically to all who converse with him on the subject. We defy the opponents of his Admin istration—we defy the Whig orators and people of Georgia or elsewhere, to produce the proof of a single case where he has declined or hesitated to do so on any application to him for this exer cise of the removing power. One such proof of infidelity to his pledged and declared policy would do more (or the Whig cause in Georgia than all the slang-whanging fustian which their demagogues of the press and of the stump have been dealing out to the people duiing the ■ present canvass. 1 et in the tace of the steadfast and earnest ef foits of the President to build up and cement a 1 national party true to the constitution, and op posed to treesoilism, sectionalism and agitation —in the laceot the patriotic conduct of North ern men who have abandoned treesoil organiza tions and treesoil agitation and rallied to his support, these Whig demagogues are studious | ly endeavoring to mislead rhe public mind on this subject, and to misrepresent the positions of the leading public men of the North who were once freesoiiers. but are now so no longer. i'he chronicle $■ Sentinel o f the 23rd inst., puts forth an editorial disgusting to every candid mind, from which we extract the folio wing char acteristic specimen. ‘‘Fkek Soil. Free Speech, Free Labor, and I Free Men.” People of Georgia, the above is the motto inscribed upon the banner which John Dix uniurled to the oreeze in the Presidential election, in 1848. It embodied the principles which he defended in the United States Senate in 1847-48 and '49, the period at which he left that body. It is the same banner which Gid dings, Hale, Chase, the Van Burens, Preston King, Vroom, Campbell, and Maloney, and all the Free soil faction, now spread to the winds. | What think you, people of Georgia, of the new coalition formed by the Secessionists with these men? What think you of marshaling yoursel ves under such a banner, with Fred. Douglass as your standard bearer ? For Fred, and John A Dix stood shoulder to shoulder on the Buffalo Platform—they were party associates—political friends. Are the peopie of Georgia prepared tor such a contract, ready for such a coalition ? If so, let them wife for the Secession candidate, Herschel V. Johnson, who recommends it when be approves of the Free-soil appointments, and advises a union of the Southern Secessionists with the Free soil Democracy of the North. John A Dix and Fred. Douglass were both on the Buffalo Platform, and may yet be allied to each other by the closest political affinities ” Then follow the Resolutions known as the Buffalo platform, after which the editors say : ‘•Freemen of Georgia, in the above you have the opinions and principles of John A. Dix in reference to slavery. He has no where and on no occasion retracted a single one, and he is to day as decided an advocate of the principles of the Wilmot Proviso, as he was in 1848 and ’49.” ( Now we would suppose that these immaculate j editors, if honest in all this show of indignation, ; would shrink with holy horror from political association with Buffalo platform men—men j who had devoted their whole energies against sla- i very extension—in favor of the Wilmot Provisoi and in favor of ‘ free soil, free speech , free labor , and free mtnP But what are the facts. This press supported a Buffalo platform man for President last year. The present candidate for Governor, Mr. Jenkins ran on the same ticket for Vice President. Hear what Daniel Webster said about this Buffalo platform, and about his being himself a ' Freesoilcr. Here is his language at Abington, Oct. 10, 1848. “Mr. Webster, declared that the Freesoiiers at Buffalo had stolen their sentiments from the Northern Whigs. It was a clear case of petty larceny— that there was nothing in the platform that did not meet the unqualified approbation of the Northern Whigs—that if the Northern Whigs were to join the Freesoil party, “HV’ said Mr. Webster , '''‘should still be the Whig party , under a different name , and that would be all .” Again, the same year, hear him in his Marsh field speech. "I have read, gentlemen, the Buffalo platform, and although there are some rotten parts about it, I can stand on it pretty well. It is not wholly new nor original. What there is valuable about it is not new, and what is new is not valuable. If, my friends, the term ‘Free Soil’ party, cr‘Free Soil men, is meant to designate one who has been fixed, unalterable, to-day, yesterday, end tor some time past—in opposition to slavery ex- \ tefiiiea, then ! nny claim te fc§, ind may Hid i myself, as -rood a Free Suit man as any member of that Buffalo Convention. I pray to know where is there soil freer than that on which I have stood? I pray to know what words they can use, or can dictate to me, freer than those which have dwelt on my lips ? I pray to know with what feelings they can inspire my breast, more resolute to slavery extension or encroach ment, than have inhabited my bosom since the first time I opened my mouth in public life? Hear what Robert C. Wintbrop another, dis tinguished Massachusetts authority said at the Massachusetts Whig Convention of that year. “THEY (the Whigs) WERE OPPOSED TO THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY EAR NESTLY, ARDENTLY, UNCOMPROMIS INGLY, AND THEY DECLARED THEM SELVES SO. THEY HAD BEEN “FREE SOIL” MEN FROM THE FIRST; THEY WERE “FREE SOIL” MEN while Mr. Van Buren and his friends were admitting Texas into the Union, and coverirg lour-fifths of it with slavery. THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN “FREE SOIL” MEN.” Hear what the Boston Journal a leading whig paper said about the same time. “Daniel Webster, in his late noble Whig sneech at Marshfield, shows conclusively that the Whig party of the United States has ever been the only Free Soil party in the Union ; and that he himself, and other distinguished Whigs, who now support the Whig candidate, have been foremost in resistance to the encroachments and advances of the slave power in this country. The truth is, there is no difference of opinion among the Whigs of the North on this great principle of introducing slavery into foreign ter ritory. The difference which exist now is only with regard to men.” Hear what Mr. Webster said at Buffalo, in 1851 only a year before he was urged for the Presiden cy in this State. “My opinion remains unchanged, that it was not within the original scope or design of the Constitution to admit new States out of foreign territory and that for one, I never would consent: and no matter what may be said at the Syracuse Convention, or at any other assemblage of in sane persons, I never would consent , and never have consented , that there should be one foot of slave territory beyond what the old Thirteen States had at the time of the formation of the Union. Never! never! The man cannot show his face to me and say he can prove that I ever de parted from that doctrine. He would sneak away, and slink away, or hire a mercenary press that he might cry out, what an apostate from liberty Daniel Webster has become. He knows himself to be a hypocrite and a falsifier.” We could fill column upon column ail going t» show that that whole National Whig party at the north, which Mr. Jenkins was so anxious last yearto unite with, were all like Mr. Web ster, on the Buffalo platform. How many Northern Whigs ever voted against the Wilmot Proviso in Congress? Time and again, it came up, and they went in solid column in favor of it. And they stand pledged ] to vote the same way again whenever they have 1 an opportunity. ( Let the factionists, North and South, succeed ! in destroying the confidence es the American people in the National Democracy, and in Gen. Pierce—let these factionists get the power of the Government into their hands, and the whole ; freesoil and abolition host—Hale and Atwood, j annihilated by Gen. Pierce in New Hampshire, and Garrison, and Giddings, and Greely and ; and even Fred Douglass will be in the plenitude of their glory. But Mr. Dix will not be found in that crowd. To-day we publish an admirable letter of the Hon. John P. King. It is full of patriotism and sound sense, and furnishes most appropriate commentaries on this whole subject of freesoil ism and the President’s appointments. We invite to it the readers attention. ! 11 As goes Chatham, so goes the State." I This proud position has long been asserted for 1 old Chatham by her sons, and faithfully have ! her lion hearted Democracy toiled in every con test involving the great principles ot their creed to vindicate the claim. Again are they called upon to buckle on their armor for the fight, and the whole State is looking with eager interest to see on which banner the light of victory will g earn. The Democratic party of that county have every advantage in their favor. The late Municipal elections of Savannah proved the Democrats have a large majority in the city— they have the advantage of superior organization, and the prestige which is derived from past guc j cesses. It is fair to infer also, that the Federal and Municipal patronage in their hands is a source of additional strength. On the other hand the Whigs have not even put out a Legislative * ticket in opposition. Whether this be a tacit comession of weakness, or is with a view to con centrate more effort and energy upon the ticket for Goverjipr and for Congress, we aie unpre paren to say. Let not the Democracy of Chathan be selfish ly content to elect their Legislative ticket, which requires no effort, and forget that the Democracy of the whole State have a common interest in the Chatham vote for Johnson and Seward. It is talked of in the streets of Augusta, that the election for Governor and for Congress will be used by some Democrats in Savannah as the occasion of venting old personal grudges, and of yielding to personal, family and local influences to the injury of the Democratic cause. The Whigs here are making large calculations on these points. How truly founded these calcula tions are, time will show. That they have been greatly overestimated, as they are in the habit of doing, every advantage of this sort, is prover bial, and in the present case we expect to see them disappointed. In this city and county, the Democracy intend to stand square up to their duty—their whole 1 duty. They bear in mind that every vote they | give is for the common benefit of the common j cause, and no local influences or discouragements will swerve or dishearten them. They will march firmly up to the polls in the face of the hot fire of a settled Whig majority. They cherish an abiding hope of yet overcoming it, as the Democracy of Chatham overcame the majority against them. They will fight on and fight ever, conscious of being in the right, till victory crowns their devotion to their principles. We hope the present battle will be fought in the same spirit throughout the State. More es pecially do we hope the Chatham Democracy— the friends of the Administration, the advocates of a wholesome national feeling, which dis countences further sectionalism and agitation, will at that important point make a demonstra tion worthy of the known energies of the party, and worthy the patriotic principles which it is organized to advance. At a reception ot the Emperor and Empress at Dieppe, the French Pastor of the Reformed Church was among the invited ; he presented himselt with his new consistorv, and was most respectfully greeted. In tendering his saluta tions, he mentioned the common Protestant trust in the protection of his Imperial Majesty. The Emperor replied in strong accents, that he owed it to all forms ol worship recognized by the laws and constitution ol France, and was a steadfast principled friend to religious toleration everywhere. Their majesties have accepted an invitation of the town to attend a ball on the Bth instant, and are expected to leave Dieppe on the 10th. The programme of the amusements of the 9th, contains among other things the illumi nation of the Chateau, bonfires on the cliffs, military evolutions, burning of a vessel at sea, a eoftcatt onthi wat#?,«tid & genera! iiluminatishT along the beach. The Empress seems to have I captivated all who have approached her, during her stay at Dieppe, and laid the foundation of a permanent popularity. The Debate at La Fayette. The Whigs are famous for their spirit of brag gadocio, and the Democrats are quite accustom ed to their habit of claiming every debate to be a Whig triumph, and every election a Whig vic tory, until the votes are counted out. They take for granted that every encounter with Mr. Toombs must result in the overthrow of his ad versary and the demolition of his principles. But it happens some-how that the people do not always in castiug their votes assign the laurel to the Whig champion, and it is quite notorious that Mr. Toombs and other Whig knights have been in vain for years running tilts against the Democracy of the mountains. There is not the •lightest indication of their having shaken, iu the least, that Gibralter of Democratic principles. The recent debate between Mr. Toombs and Col. Underwood at La Fayette, is another case in which the lance of the former has fallen point less, if not shivered, before a young and less ex perienced adversary. The following is an account of it, varying somewhat from what is found in the Chronicle <§" Sentinel. Col. Underwood is a gentleman of superior intelligence, and of independence enough to fol low his convictions of duty, though they carry him into the ranks of the national Demociacy. He is one of the large number of intelligent and influential Whigs in Cherokee Georgia, who finding the Whig party aboiitionized,have ranged themselves on the side of the Administration.— Hence the bitterness of the Chronicle towards him [From the Rome Southerner , 22d ins/.] Mr. Editor: — lt so happened that the ap pointment of Mr. Toombs and Col. Chastain to speak at this place fell on the same day. Owing to Col. C.’s illness, he was represented by Col. J. W. H. Underwood of your place. The order of speaking was as follows : Mr. Underwood to open the debate in a speech of one hour—Mr. Toombs to reply in one hour and forty minute’s time—and Col. U. to conclude iu a speech of thirty minutes—then to be followed by Col. Chisolm, 46 minutes, to be replied to by Col. Crook in the same length of time. Fearing that this will hardly reach you in time for publication, I will simply state that Col. Underwood greatly distinguished himself in his contest with Senator Toombs. It is not my intention to disparage Mr. T. in the least but candor and justice compel me to say that he had no advantage of Col. Underwood as the ef fect on the audience plainly testified. Col. Crook tore up his competitor into perfect doll-rags. The Democracy was much strengthened by 1 the debate. Put down Walker 250 majority for the demo cratic ticket. Yours in haste. Lafayette. Covington. A correspondent, who has not visited this i growing village for two years, sends us the fol lowing account of some of the improvements made in that time. He writes, under date of the 22d inst. “It is supposed by many that where a railroad passes, it lays waste to all the villages in its route. But such a supposition is erroneous, at least, so far as Covington,Madison and Marietta are concerned. In Cvoington, the visitor will be not a little surprised, to find a new and beau tiful hotel just opened, with entire new furni ture, from the beadstead to the knife and fork. The Covington Hotel, is the name of the house; it is of ample dimensions, having 21 large and airy sleeping rooms, sufficient to accommodate j 30 to 90 persons, with a colonade in front from from one end to the other. The landlord, Mr. Hunter, is from Oxford, and understands well how to cater for his customers, and his lady ap pears to be quite at home. I would recommend this hotel to any one stopping at Covington. “At the end of the hotel is to be built a range of brick stores, and on the other side ot the square is a building of brick going up. Oppo site, is the Store of Usher, Anderson & Hunter, who keep a large as well as a choice stock of fancy and staple goods. Messrs. Murrell & Bro ther, C. D. Pace, and J. & C. R. Camp, sflso do a heavy business. There are fifteen Stores in Covington, and all seem to be doing a thriving business. “The next object is the private residences,and the occupants seem to vie with each other as to the neatness and comfort of their houses. The society here, for refinement, will bear a compari son with any village in the State. '•'•Masonic Female College. —This fine building is about five minutes walk from the Court house, and is built of brick. It is 100 feet long, and 50 wide, having two towers—one of which is used as a bellfry, and the other for astronomical observations. The archtiecture, I understand, is taken from a building in Havana, and it pre sents an imposing appearance. Col. Jones, one of the Trustees, and Professor Fulton, took us through the different apartments, and I was much surprized to find so large a collection of instruments, of the best description, attached to the branches of natural philosophy, and chemis try. Dr. Means, one of the Professors in this Institution, is now in Boston, for the purpose of making still larger additions of instruments, and furniture, for the College, and when completed, j it will be second to no College in the Union.— I This and the Male College at Oxford, a distance \ ; of about two miles, will make Covington al- ! | ways a place ot business, and a pleasant resort. | Young ladies attending the College can procure ! board in any of the private houses, at $lO to sl2 I per month, and will be in the heart of a healthy | region. The College is not sectarian—like its | parent stem, it knows no particular denomina tion and having the pillars of Wisdom , Strength and Beauty, it is bound to respect all. It is the desire of the Trustees, that every Masonic Lodge should send one or two schollars, as beneficiencies to the Institution, as by so doing, they would not only prove a blessing to orphans, but tend great ly to extend that beautiful feature in Masonry, of ‘ Faith, Hope and Charily The College, I am pleased to learn, has over one hundred Stu dents.” Railroad Subscription. —The Savannah i Republican of the 23d inafc. says—ln aceordanc ! with a resolotion adopted by our citizens in town J meeting on the 30th August, authorizing the I same, the City Council, at its regular meeting j yesterday, passed an ordinance’“subscribing sl,- j 000,000 to the stock of the Savannah and Albany | Railroad. The prospects of the wheat crop are flattering ly indicated by the following samples in the north. A farmer in Pomfret, Vt,, has just garn ered five hundred and sixty-four bushels of wheat, from 19 acres of land—an average of nearly thirty bushels to the acre. Another, in Whitehall, N. Y., has obtained from four acres an average of forty-two bushels. Lieut. Com. Woodbull, of the Coast Survey, has completed the survey ot the harbor of Port- j land. The water is found to be deeper than laid j down in the old charts. The Argus savs that i as the appropriation of SIO,OOO made for the breakwater in our harbor and at Richmond’s Is land, will be exhausted in constructing the let* teL bo wark win ba tfone ths formst thli sekson. Ihe Hoard of Trade are making efforts to secure a small barber light at the end of the breakwater. Wild Duck, Trout, &c. 1 hose who wish to partake of the above dain ties, will find them served up to-day for dinner, at half past one, at the United States Hotel. We are not going out of town to-day. Oysters. We are indebted to Messrs. Hogreffe & Schnei der for a waiter containing “a dozen raw',” with a bottle of superior Pale Sherry to settle them comfortably. They were the first of the season, and were very welcome and palatable. The Hog Crop in Tennessee. We see by answers to numerous letters address ed by the editor ol the Loudon Free Press, to dif ferent persons in East Tennessee, that the Hog crop will be much better than last year, and that most ot the writers put down the price at $3 to $3 50, gross. The corn crop is said to be good, new selling at 25 to 30 cents—and old at 40 to to 50. The wheat crop is represented as the gnest and largest raised for several years past. It is understood that Dr. Noah Webster left among his other valuable manuscripts “A synop sis of the principal words in twenty languages, arranged in classes under the same radical let ters." A correspondent of the Independent, writing over the signature of “A Vermont Coun try Pastor,' 7 is so anxious that this manuscript should be published that he makes the following proposition : “I will make one of two hundred at twenty dollars each,to publish that work; or I will be one of one hundred, at forty dollats each, as I think any competent firm would undertake to publish I the work, er at least to procure types and set i them, for the sum thus raised. I “I am fully aware that when Dr. Julius urged Dr. Webster to send the manuscript to Europe for publication that he (Dr. Webster) said the woik must be printed under his own inspection; but, I ask, cannot the united labors of Dr. Good rich, Dr. Gibbs, Prof. Hadley, and the literary corps of old Yale form among them a linguistic head as good as the one supported by the body of the venerable Dr. Webster? 77 The literary executors of the great lexicogra pher will doubtless make some response to this appeal. [communicated.] To the Voters of the Eighth Congressional District. Fellow Citizens: I am a candidate till the last hour of the election-day. I have met the enemy on four different battle-fields, and wish I could meet him in fifty more. A spy in in our camps has somewhat shaken our phalanx, but by a united effort, you may stiH secure my election, against conspiracy, “sham-fights,” and “monkey-shows.” Island on the same staunch platform of the Union, Democratic, Washingto nian, Revolutionary, Whig Platform. Standing on that platform, which is the main floor in the house of America, I shall be sustained by all true Clay Whigs, and Union, Johnson Dem ocrats. Not until Mr. Stephens 1 outrageous eu logies on Mr. Jenkins, drove me to Johnson, did 1 say at a meeting at Thompson, that I was for Johnson. Then it was, that some pre tended friends of Johnson, but secret friends of Jenkins, sought to snatch from me the benefit of that committal, by putting up a sham candidate. They would utterly destroy me; but I will say in this place, that I am not a candidate for Gov ernor, but for Congress—that if Jenkins did make a platform, no thanks to Stephens—that both Jenkins and Johnson are both honorable men, well qualified for a Governor—and tba + my motto is, “May the house and the fence of America remain always strong, white, and love ly-, and may her sons be ever brave, and her daughters, fair and virtuous. 77 Yours, C. W. Young. Thf. Loudon Bridge. —We understand that the greater portion of the masonry of the railroad bridge at Loudon is now in the hands of the energetic contractors who have been engaged upon the bridge of the Memphis and Charleston road at Decatur. They have given an earnest in the prosecution of that work, that they know how to “ pile up the rocks. 77 — Knoxville Register, 21 st inst. It affords as much pleasure to say that the health of Montgomery is “ first rate.” Ther.- vvas some little apprehension of “ Yellow Jack” fora while, but it is now demonstrated that he cannot flourish in this latitude. We had cases here from New Orleans and Mobile; but now all apprehension of danger has passed away, and our streets are assuming their usual business ap pearance. Our Board of Health has reported one case as occurring, within the last ten days, in the same place where the other cases reported by them occurred. The Board has now discontinued its repoits and we sincerely trust and believe they will have no occasion to resume them. All the cases ot sickness in the hospital, we undeistand, have been discharged—cured. We believe, ourselves, that Montgomery is the healthiest spot in the South, not excepting the various fine watering places; and we should never think of going from it to preserve our health.— Montgomery Adv., 2'2d inst. j Arrivals at the Railroad House,Stone Moun tain, Ga., Sept. 21. clark & hitchcock, Proprietors. Mrs. Lipham, Atlanta. Benj. Hall, Augusta., | J. B Edwards, Spaita. I Dr. W. T. Skelton, Marietta. Mrs. Skelton. ! Master Skelton, “ Master Skelton, “ j Mr. Cleveland. Lawrencevillc. Hon. H. V. Johnson, Mil ledge ville. j John C. Sneed, Esq., Augusta. G. A. Sneed, Esq., “ W. A. Martin, Charleston, S. C. S. M. Davidson and Lady, Cave Spring. W. T. Davidson, Penfieid’ S. J. S'Oimsand Lady, Monroe Co. Hon. James Adams, Miss. MARRIED. n Burke county, on the 19th inst., by tho Rev. W. L. Tucker, Mr. John P.Ai.lkw to Miss Mary A. E. Pierce, fa.l of Burko. died. In this city, at tho family residence, on the fore noon of Thursday, tho 15th inst,, after a painful and protracted i Iness, which she bore with much fortitude, Mrs. Amanda M. Richards, © msort of I Thomas Richards, in tho 45th year of her age. Mr. R. being absent North at the time, for the benefit of his own health, was telegraphed of her ap proachin dissolution, and with ail the speed which i steam afforded, hastened homeward, but arrived only ia time to learn she had been in the grave two days, and to mingle nia tears with those of his stricken family, who already felt, with deep inten sity, a void had been made there, which could never bo filled May He “ who tempers the wind to i tho shorn lamb,’ sauctify to them .this afflictive dispensation, that it may lead them the more ear nestly to “ sot their affections on things above,” is the fervent pray or of the writer. x. FUNERAL NOTICES. The Friend* and Acquaintance of Mr. William Adams, and Mr. David L. Adams, are in vited to attend the Funeral of Emma Celestia, daughter of the former, from his residence at Summerville, three miles above Hamburg, this af ternoon (Sunday), at 3 o’clock, sept 25 Q 5?“ The Friends and Acquantance of F, P. | Bond and Family, are invited to attend the Funer i al of jtheir son, from their residence, on McCar tan-street, this (Sunday) morning, at 9 o'clock, sept 25 WASHBURN, WILDER & CO. FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Jos. Washburn, j Jno. Wilder, > Savannah Georgia. Fkas. G. Dana, J aug 21 t&n I New The interments to-day were 31 ' were by fever. The interments ’for JS were 253, 158 by fever. The f the S ging at Vicksburg and other pUeeT " % coast. ° n the $. Baltimore, Sept. 3 . The India Rubber Case P ‘ The injunction in the India R ubbe ' r vs. Cawdel, eame up this morni„» in the Circuit Court, Judge Hi After proceeding a short time “the ; suddenly ill, when the case, b y ‘ co f ties, was postponed till first at New Haven. y ln Otfoi,. The Kosta Affair. T here was a great meeting on m New York, to endorse the conduct !, 1 ? Ingraham in relation to the Kosf a ass C *s Burr wa, chosen p,.sije„t. Speech,,»!,/' 1 by foreigners and others, and „ l et * e from Mr. Everett denouncing thJ I Austria. induct Sept. 23.- riy(l/ - f V auci erbilt’s jjt <V> North Star has arrived at New York and a halt from Madeira, and renlS’’ SSE"* “ that l!l “ J h *l beeS £*» SAVANNAH, Sept. 2.3 _ cV -™ '"7" since the 15th inst., 1,532 bale, per Railroad, 18 from Darien, and 7m fr d '' ta ana landings on the river,) and 42 ands. The exports for the same ncri Se * ; VIZ bales Upland, viz: To New v'rl To Boston 96 halos Upland , Te PhnJ # ! , biis bales Upland and to Charleston 25 —leaving on hand and on shipboard mi i stock of 3,273 bales Upland and 172 and ; against 2,480 do. Upland, and 59 a k Island, at tho same time last vear a °' Our market has shown but lioclo activit, , time during tho week. The news from K,! the Arctic at New York, wa, "hi evening. Iho sales of cotton at Livl! • three days, te 7th September, were 14 oM 1,000 to speculators and 3,000 to expo ters were unchanged Fair Orleans being qu ,ed J? and Fair Upland 6*d. Holders were off,? “5 stocks very freely. nD ß‘ta The sales here tor the week amount to 1741. at the following particulars : 9 at 81 ■ 2 »• e, at lOj ; 29 at ib'j ; 62 at 101 : 19 at 10? bales at lOfc. Tho market closes quiet *;■' mod rate enquiry fo'-JNortbern market Au shipments this season have been to coastwi*, * tho stock offering being too imall toriduMW ers for foreign countries to come into the nuk Wo believe tho sales warrant the following » tions. s 9 ao * Middling to Good Middling m a M Middling Fair "jq! Fair, (nominal.) ' ' a jj Sm Isla) d —Tho receipts of the week amor to 42 bales. The S3les for the past week were bales all at 36 ets. There is very little inquiry» the holders find it difficulty sell. Rice —We hear of the sales of 386 casks 50 L s3,Bii, 56 at $3,871, and 280 casks at §4,121 p, supply is adequate to meet the present demak' tlour. —Tho stock continues light and the a. have been confined to small lots. Wo quote iV a $6,75. Corn. —There is very little demand for this t tide. The stock is ample. Wo hoar of the sals; 1 one lot prime white at 82 ets. We qutoe 75 11 cents, wholesale. i §Oats. —Nothing has been done in th s article. Bagging. —W e have not heard of any salts j importance. W o quote 11 } al2 cents. Rope —36o coils Kentucky changedatS/, ders are asking 9 a cents. Bacon. —We have no sales to report this week No change in quotations. Lime. —We have had no cargo arrivals since oar last. Wo quote $1,371 per bat. Lumber— 8. Sawed, refuse per in. ft.. 8 (MW Merchantable per m. ft .14 OOtlS ti Kivor Lumber,refuse > er m. ft.. 9 flOslO* Merchantable to prime.. per w. ft.. 14 Md Ranging do., for ex port...per m. it.. 9 tCiM* Mill Ranging per m.ft.,10 00al3M White Pine, clear per m. ft.. 30 OOaISI Merchantable par m. ft-18 OOalP Cypress Shingles per m... 4 00a 4ki Sawed Sypress Shingles, .per m.. 16 00a Red Oak Staves per m.. 12 Otilil White do. pipe per m .35 OWH do. do. hhd per m.. 25 OOiiii* do. do. bbl per m.. 20 (HWil Molasses. —This article is entirely neglectadd sal s reported. Freights are dull. To New York at "5 centsx bale for Cotton, and 87} for Rico ; Cuppcrinboa $2 per ton. Exchange. —Sterling is quoted nominally K; a9| perct. premium. Domestic.—The Baffin sell! ig Sight Chocks on the Northern cities £ per cent, prem.; and purchasing Sight Bills atpr 30 da Bills at fa J per cent discount; 6#« Bills, lj a l£ per cent discount; 90 day Bills, 6 2 per cent discount. SAVANNAH EXPORT 3-Sept. 21 _ Per brig Lucy H. Chase, for .New York-lsl foot Lnmoer. Skipping JaDUi|tgft._ ARRIVALS FROM CHARLESTON. Barque Maria Morton, France s , New York. Schr Wandopasso, Eddy, Providence. UP FOR CHARLESTON. Ship Columbia, Sturges, at New York. Barque Caroline, Johnson, at New York. Barque Dudley, Morrison, at B ston. Sohr Emerald, Wells, at Boston. CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON. Barque Jasper, Bonnott, at New York. Schr Truth, Creighton, at Baltimore. CHARLESTON, Sept. 24.—Arrived, ste***' Union, Adams, New Y'ork ; Sp. brie Roig, Barcelona; Line schr New Eeeulos. D l "' enson, New York ; schr Lady of the Ocean, w* 4 Boston. In the Offing, ship Harkaway, from the t® o Islands. Cloared, schr Flying Cloud, Hubbard, Bait*. Went to Sea. barques Triton, Adamson, donee ; Harriet & Martha, Purifov. Havana L. schr Helene, Jones, New York ; M Sattcrly, Elwood, New Y'ork; schr TraJt) * Wiggins, Boston. SAVANNAH, Sept. 22.—Arrived, schr. A, Forrest, Forest, Baltimore. Below—Two schooners. v a Cleard, Brig Lucy H. Chase, Scott, hew 1 1 8 A learned writer, Bendy, **l*' . , den, to ensure his brilliant 1 poesy, ate raw flesh ; and Mrs Ra-lcliffe same plan. Greon tea and coff e, it we induce dreaming. Porta for P quiet rest and pleasing dreads swallows tongue after supper. Indigestion, ana dition which is termod a weak or irriUß ach, constitute a most fruitful source 0 j, The immediate or direct influence of. re totally altering the sensations and the in waking moments, is a proof trf A 3 P°r ‘ range the circulation of the brain, and , ,jj tacultres in sleep. People who are l^’ u r^ indigestion, may surely get relief . °®, • co |jtf German Bitters,” sold exclusively in pJjjjf by Dr. C:M. Jackson, 120 Arch street, phia, arid his agents. ___— firm of I ucker - as been dissolved by limitation last r ebr j dersigned will continue to practice uerreotypingin all ifs various branen , his long practical experience he jf. ols his ability to please the most fastiuion • The pictures now being taken at thi • „ r « pronounced by those who are judges, tone and life-like expression, to any ,„ rcK js. produced in Augusta. , „i»ase N. B. Artists purchasing Stock, wul in mind that materials are sold at low it any other house this side of New AUGUSTA STEAM PLANING {Head of Mclntosh street, near the Railroad DOORS. BLINDS, SA&BEs, DOOR AND WINDOW MOULDINGS, PANELINGS, MA* ORNAMENTAL SCROLL TURNING, BRACKETS, FENCING *> AC., AC. , m4 jiW Os every siae and of the newest cesign , order at short notico. rPTLINd *** Also—Worked FLOORING, CELU U WEATHER BOARDING. Orders punctually attended to. sep2 d*c6m Marriage I nvitat i o 1 ** B *‘^, l r,!| fr. Cards written byMaster »»