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sMtutintialist fc JUpulilic. ! BT JAI£BS~Oa"B>D^fER~.~~ OFFICE ON McINTOSH-STREET, 'aiRD door fr<>h taa sorth-wkst corner or BROAD-STREET. . „ . TERMS: > any paper (if paid in advance) ....per annum. .$8 00 tri-Weakly (>I paid in advance) per annum.. 5 00 V Jekly (if paid in advance) per annum.. 200 Cotton in Algeria. The attempts of England and France to free themselves from the dependence they now labor under, which compels them to look almost exclu sively to the United States for Cotton, continue to be sedulously and perseveringly prosecuted Every now and then the English papers become jubilant over the prospects that soms of their colonies hold out, and visions of disenthralment from the cotton vassalage they are under to-us, color all dreams, and find vent in triumphant paragraphs. So far, however, but little com paratively speaking has been relized from the many expensive experiments which have been made. But something has been done; and there’s no telling what that speaking will lead to, when prosecuted aud sought after with unrivalled skill and labor, ingenuity and research. A “constant dropping will wear away a stone,” is an old and true proverb; and a continual endeavor to raise a supply of cotton sufficient for their wants, out side ot the cotton region of this country and in their own colonies, by England and France, may yet result in the attainment of the desired ob ject. We have no idea that the cotton production of the United States can ever he seriously damag ed by the rival production of other countries. Our advantages are too great, manifest and com plete, to be impaired to any considerable extent, much less overthrown, by any combination of production that can be brought to bear against us. We have the field to ourselves; and we can keep it, despite all competitions, if we only cul tivate our natural gifts, wisely and discriminate ]y, and with an eye single to sound improve ment and judicious progression. But, in the meantime, it is the part of wisdom to keep an eye upon the movements of our competitors in the production of our great staple, and note their operations carefully, with a view of turning them to our own advantage whenever expediency or profit may hold out inducements. At the present time our Gallie neighbors ap pear to be in high spirits over the cotton pros pects which toeir colony of Algeria holds out. 1 The French papers say that the production of Tobacco and Cotton is being greatly increased in Algeria. In 1850, only 300 acres were culti vated. In 1852, 2000 acres—or nearly seven, times as much as the year before. In 1353, 70.000 acres—or nearly 35 times as much as in 1852. The French papers consider it a fired fact now, that cotton will be very extensively and profita ble cultivated in their colony and compare it in richness to Australia and California. This increase of production, or rathei cultiva tion of acres ol land, with the snow white staple of the South, is very great; and should it con tinue for a decade, will very probably supply France with a goodly proportion of the raw' cot ton she needs. But, our French cotemporaries have forgotten to tell us the product per acre ! This is a very important consideration—a vital point—without being advised of which we are ■wholly unable to make up a correct opinion, or anything like it, concerning the value of the production thus vauntingly alluded to. If two bales per acre were raised, the product would bfe 140,000 bales. If one bale, 70,000. If half a bale, 35,000. Or, if a quarter of a bale, (which is most likely.) 17,500. Taking the latter figure as correct—and we can arrive at no safe conclusion, and it is certainly high enough, if not too high—some millions of acres of Algerian soil will have to w'hiten annually with the snowy product, before the cotton marts of the earth will experience any sensation at all from the introduction of the raw cotton from an unexpected quaiter. But, we care nothing about freign competition in the cotton line. If the French colonies should be able to supply France, and the English colo nies to supply all of the looms of England, still we should fear nothing, and care nothing, about the rivalship or the competion, if we could in duce the Southern people to adopt the proper home policy—to become manufacturers , as well as produiers. Heretolore, the manufacturers have reaped the lion’s share of the profits arising from the production ot cotton—manufactures residing in the North and in England. The South has built up Manchester, and all of the manulacturing tow-ns in Great Britain. The South has built up Lowell, and all the manu lacturing marts of Massachusetts and the North. Almost everywhere the fabrication of the raw material of the cotton States has been a mine of wealth to individuals and corporatians, foreign to us both in interest and feeling, of incalculable value. The mines of California, of Australia, of the whole earth, pale into comparative insigni ficance when compared to the immensity of the profits which the manufacturers of England and of the United States have made off of the raw material of the cotton producing section of the Union! Shall this untoward state of things forever prevail ? Shall we forever remain “hew ers of wood and drawers of water” to our more enterprising brethren ? Are we to remain blind to our own interests for all coming time ? Shall we continue, as heretofore, satisfied with the shell, while the manufacturers luxuriate and grow fat upon the oyster? Shall we continue to pursue the suicidal policy ot building up our commercial enemies to our own detriment and impoverishment ? No—we trust not. We believe the “good time” that has been so long coming for the bouth, near at hand. We think we can see signs that betoken an early breaking of the dawn. We believe we discern indications of unprecedented and stable prosperity in the distance, not very far off, at that. We feel sure the day is ap proaching when the loom will be brought to the cotton , not the cotton sent off to the loom, some three to six thousand miles distant. When that auspicious era arrives—when home manufactur ing-manulacturing, adjacent to, and in sight of of the cotton fields, shall be in the full tide ot successful experiment, the South need fear noth ing from the production of cotton in other parts of the globe, no matter if that production is stimulated and encouraged by the most power ful and wealthy of rival nations. Let the South ern people make themselves fabricators as well as producers, and they can afford to laugh to scorn ail attempts at rivalship in the cotton world. Nothing is necessary except to bring the loom to the cotton. That done, the futuie is se cure. Without it, the condition of the South will be far different, and competitors, being at the same time producers and manufacturers, might be enabled to obtain a decided, if not a ruinous advantage.— N. O. Bulletin. Capt. Ingraham. —Commander Duncan H. Ingraham is the son of the late Nathaniel Ingra ham, of Charleston, S. C. Almost all his ances tors have been in some way connected with na val affairs. His father was an intimate friend of Capt Paul Jones, and volunteered under him on the first cruise of the Bonne Homme Richard in 1779, and was in the desperate action with the British frigate Serapis. His uncle, Capt. Joe. Ingraham, U. S. N., was lost on board the U. S. ship Pickering, which was lost at sea, and never heard from aiterwards. His cousin, Win. In graham, a lieutenant in the Navy, was killed at It e age of 20. Capt. Ingraham married Harriet R Laurens, of South Carolina, grand daughter of Henry Laurens, President of the first Conti nental Congress, who was captured and confined lor a long time in the Tower of London. It is a curious fact, that by intermarriage of bis pro genitors, Captain Ingraham is related to some of the most distinguished officers in the British Navy, among whom we name Copt. Marrayatt, C. 8., and Sir Edward Belcher, K. C. 8., now in command of the Arctic Expedition.— Norfolk Herald. . The Religious Revival.—The religious in terest that has for several weeks past pervaded the various protestant churches of our city con tinues uninterrupted. While there is an entire absence of all excitement, there seems to be a wide spread feeling of earnest inquiry and in vestigation highly becoming the intelligence of the seeker after truth, and the importance of se curing a well grounded hope in the concerns of a future existence. Morning meetings for prayer and afternoon meetings for inquiry, are held daily in several of the churches, and preaching every evening. The Rev. Mr. Landrum, of Macon, has come to the assistance of the Rev. Mr. Ram bant, of the First Baptist church ; and |'ae Rev. Dr. Cross, of Charleston, remains until the ch se of the present week with the Rev. Mr. Crumley, of the Methodist church. Both of - churches are nightly taxed to their utmost capacity with attentive audiences ; and it is be* lieved at each assembling the fruits of the labor expended are developed in rational inquiry, sin cere conviction and hopeful conversion.—Savan nah Georgmn, 28 th inst. Vote for Governor in 1849. First District. |-I 1 S I Counties £ 5 o g t «j T H J 5 VI « £PP 1!n « 191 133 000 000 ~000 000 " r y? n V 76 117 000 000 000 000 Bulloch 408 25 000 000 000 000 Chatham.... 786 666 000 000 000 000 Camden 176 62 060 000 000 000 Clinch 000 000 000 000 Effingham... 124 202 000 000 000 000 Emanuel 307 176 000 000 000 000 Glynn 38 94 000 000 000 000 Irwin 337 41 000 000 000 000 Laurens 58 539 000 000 000 000 Lowndes 430 419 000 000 000 000 Liberty 146 153 000 000 000 000 Mclntosh.... 133 79 000 000 000 000 Montgom'ry. 53 221 000 000 000 000 Thomas 311 416 000 000 000 000 Telfair 219 173 000 000 000 000 Tatnall 96 307 000 000 000 SOO Wavne 112 62 000 000 000 000 Ware 217 268 000 000 QQQ OuO Second District. O cc a x o a o g - | 3 jf 3 Counties £ £ | § £ B » ke r 568 273 000 000 000 000 Dooly 505 311 000 000 000 000 Decatur 302 469 000 000 000 000 Early 457 144 000 000 000 000 Lee 249 330 000 000 000 000 Muscogee 857 1039 OCO 0001 000 000 Macon 340 389 000 000 000 000 Marion 581 517 000 000 000 000 Pulaski 399 246 000 000 090 000 Randolph ... 769 777 000 000 000 000 Stewart 648 824 000 000 000 000 Sumter 577 662 000 000 000 000 Third District. I 5 ® X § fl >■» ® g a O 3 .2 a Counties £ 5 £ e £ Butts 411 264 000 000 ~ 000 000 Bibb 734 634 000 000 000 000 Crawford.... 404 377 000 000 000 000 Houston 681 568 000 000 000 000 Harris 441 748 000 000 000 000 Monroe 650 732 000 000 000 000 Spalding,.... 000 000 000 000 Taylor 000 000 000 000 Talbot 786 796 000 000 000 000 Pike 895 719 000 000 000 000 Upson 4231 620 000 000 000 000 Fourth District. ’g « a S1 B g a Jq ■** A Csanties £ £ I Q u Coweta 724 774 000 000 000 000 Cobb 1089 888 000 000 000 000 Campbell, 653 311 000 000 000 000 DeKalb 1014 832 000 000 000 000 Fayette 697 449 000 000 000 000 Heard 486 355 000 000 000 000 Henry 895 910 000 000 000 000 Merriweth’r. 834 743 000 000 000 000 Troup 406 1096 000 000 000 000 Fifth District. 2 ® .2 « g | .2 5. " Counties £ § ! o 5 Cass 1461 905 000 000 000 000 Cherokee.... 1101 681 000 000 000 000 Chattooga... 462 396 000 000 000 000 Carroll 891 428 000 000 000 000 Dade 309 67 000 000 000 000 Floyd 780 738 000 000 000 000 Gordon 000 000' 000 000 Gilmer 838 289 000 000 j 000 O'O Murray 1177 703 000 000 i 000 000 Polk 000 000 000 000 Paulding 508 359 000 000 000 000 Walker 918 731 000 0001 000 000 Whitfield. | I 0001 OOOj| 000 j 000 Sixth District. fi § *3 5 £I © « £ E, J i to ™ * ,5 a Counties £_ 3_ £_ S_l J_ Clarke 454;554 000 000 1000 000 000 000 000 Franklin 974,380 090 000 |0 0 000 000 000 000 Forsyth 753 496 000 000 1000 000 000 000 000 Gwinnett.... 639 739 000 000 1000 000 000 000 000 Jackson 732 558 000 O' 0 loflO 000 009 000 000 Hall • 695 542 ot>o 000 000 900 00 000 000 Habersham.. 771 322 000 000 000 00' 000 O<H( 000 Lumplcin.... 589 537 OOn 000 000 000 000 000 000 Madison 375 321 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Rabun 330 21 000 00 > 000 000 (*OO uOO 000 Union 673 285 000 090 000 090 000 000 0i 0 Wa1t0n...... 741 536 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Seventh Distriot. „ " £ o "o 5 —a Im ’OS ? rs •« a ta Counties £ a £ £ & 2 Baldwin 309 357 000 000 ~000 000 Greene 128 761 000 000 000 000 Hancock 344 412 000 000 009 000 Jones 434 396 009 000 009 000 Jasper 540 410 OiO 000 000 000 Morgan 272 379 000 000 090 000 . Newton 519 610 000 000 000 000 Putnam 322 374 090 00(1 000 000 Twiggs 392 330 00 1 009 000 000 , Wilkinson... 512, 381 000 000 OvO COO : Washington. 592| 612 000 000 000 000 Eighth District. - - Ia8S« i S. “ S—• 63^8 g--.de a 2* .S' d ( Coantie9 « j? j2_ £ £ £ £ , Burke, 343,464 009 000 Oou 000 000 000 Columbia 220 361 000 000 000 000 000 000 Elbert 195 995 000 000 009 000 000 000 1 Jefferson 172 233 0( 0 000 Oto 000 000 000 Lincoln 107 430 000 000 000 000 000 000 Oglethorpe.. 206 600 000 060 000 000 000 000 Richmond... 542 739 o<>o 000 000 000 000 000 1 Scriven 2-51 226 00.0 009 000 000 000 000 Taliaferro... 69 328 000 000 000 000 000 W 0 Warren 417 572 000 0K» 000 000 000 090 Wilkes 324 441 000 000 QQQ QQQ 000 000 Tue Demonstration at New York.—As already stated by telegraph, a large mass meet ing was held at Metropolitan Hall, New York, on Thursday night, for the purpose of adopting a testimonial to Capt. Ingraham, approving of his conduct in the Kosta affair. The meeting mas immensely large. French, Italian, Ger man, Hungarian, Swiss, and Cuban exiles, gath ered in immense numbers, marshalled under their respective revolutionary banners. Speech es were delivered in French. Spanish, German, and Sclavonian. During the proceedings a let ter was read from Hon. Edwaad Everett, in which, after expressing his admiration of Capt. Ingraham’s conduct he says : If the circular purporting to be addressed to the Minister of Austria is authentic, that Gov ernment complains of Capt. Ingraham’s act as a menace of war and a violation of the neutrality of Turkey. But in both respects the wrong and the outrage were on the side of Austria. Kosta was residing at Smyrnia, as we learn from Mr. . j°u Wn, L Jnder tbe P rotection of a teskerete , grant , “V t* l ® Turkish Government at the instance of the American Charge d’Affairs, who i.teres ted himseif in his favor because he had declared ' SrVS enr i?“ becom e an American citizen.— , Whether this circumstance entitled him to such 1 Protection was a question for Turkey to decide according to her laws and usages. Under these circumstances, I cannot conceive that the Aus trian Consul had any more right to send an arm ed force to seize him, than we would have had two years ago, to send an armed force up to Ku tayah to seize the whole body of Hungarian re fugees. Important questions of law, both municipal and international, present themselves in the case, some of which are new. On these ques tions—as our information of facts is incomplete and unofficial—l reserve my judgement. A letter was also read from Hon. R. J. Wal ker, approving Capt. Ingraham’s conduct, and asserting Kosta’s right to the protection of the United States Government. Travellers.—The steamship Augusta, which arrived at our port eatly yesterday morning, from New York, brought out 145 cabin passen gers. V e notice that the steamship James Ad ger, which left New York with the Augusta, had 87 passengers for Charleston.— Sav. Rep.. 28 th inst. * ’ I he flags of the shipping in port were yester day flying at half mast, in honor of Capt. P Wiltberger, of this city, whose remains were brought from Nevr York on board the steamer Augusta, which arrived yesterday morning. lb. Singular Electric Effect.— The follow ing extract from a lettei from Captain Tessier of the ship Austria, to her owners, describes fan effect of electricity which we do not remember even to have seen mentioned before. It is of some practical interest, and shows the necessity ot isolating instruments on shipboard as much as possible : — Chas. Mercury . Liverpool, Sept. 2,1853. My chronometer stopped, as I informed you, on my last on the fourth day out from Charles ton. The cause of it has been ascertained be yond the possibility of a doubt. On its being a taken to pieces, the balance spring was found t heavily charged with electricity, and actually t bent, and all the other works composed of steel more or less injured. At the time it stopped a heavy storm of thunder and lightning was passing over the ship; the surrounding atmos- ( phere was in such a state of commotion that the Austria fairly trembled in her every timber, and we distinctly heard the lightning hiss as it struck the water in rather uncomfortable promixity to our sides. All our compasses were also slightly injured, and had to be sent on shore for correc tion, on the arrival of the ship in Liverpool.” AUGUSTA, GA. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 30. FOR GOVERNOR, HON. H. V. JOHNSON, Os Baldwin County. DIST. FOR CONGRESS. 1— JAMES L. SEWARD, of Thcmas. 2A. H. COLQUITT, of Baker. 3 DAVID J. BAILEY, of Butts. 4W. B. W. DENT, of Coweta. 6E. W. CHASTAIN, of Gilmer. 7 THOMAS P. SAFFOLD, of Madison. 8— JOHN J. JONES, of Burke. For Judge of tlie Northern Circuit, COL. RICHARD M. JOHNSON. We received no mail yesterday afternoon from offices north of Charleston. The County Candidates—Free Discussion. One of the very best speeches w T e have heard in a long time, we listened to on Wednesday night at the Lower Market House. It was by Col. John Mil ledge, one of the candidates before the people for the Legislature. It was in reply to Mr. Wm. A. Walton, and Mr. Andrew J. Miller, also candidates, who preceeded him in the order in which they are named. Mr. James B. Bishop was in the chair, and the audience was a large and attentive one. One good evidence of the telling effect of the speech was that the audience listened with the most kind and res pectful attention, and repeatedly cheered the speaker with loud plaudits. Another good sign was that Mr. Miller felt the force of the speech so sensibly, that at its conclusion he announced that he would, at the City Hall on Saturday night, reply to that part of it which referred to himself. The fact that Mr. Miller and Col. Milledge were both members of the last Legislative, elect ed on the same ticket and by the same consti tuency, and both went into the Legislative cau cus together at Milledgeville and both then and there agreed to sustain the National Democratic party, provided it adopted the Compromise mea sures as a final settlement of the slavery agita tion, and that in pursuance of this agreement that party having adopted that Compromise in its platform, both Mr. Miller and Col. Milledge voted for Gen. Franklin Pierce for President, and that Col. Milledge stands by his Adminis tration, while Mr. Miller now opposes that Ad ministration, constituted an interesting chapter in politics, which is made moie piquant by the personal comments of these gentlemen. The ex act point of divergence in the respective opinions of these two Constitutional Union gentlemen, we cannot exactly locate, and must await Mr. Mil ler’s exposition as to when he ceased to be dt~ mocratiztd. The political paths of these two gentlemen who both took up their line of march for the Democratic camp at the same time, di verged at the Tugalo forks of the road. Buc they met at the same ballot boi last November at frhe City Hall in this city, and both voted for Gen- Franklin Pierce for President—Col. Milledge in the humble position of a private citizen—Mr. Miller in the more conspicuous one of candidate for Presidential Elector on a Pierce and King Electoral Ticket. Since then, a change has come over the spirit of the political dreams ot Mr. Miller. He is i now, and we presume was as far back as June | last, an opponent ol the President of his choice. 1 How much farther back we cannot exactly spe | cify. Perhaps before Gen. Pierce’s Inaugural ; Address—perhaps after. At all events, in June i we find the Jenkins and Toombs Convention, [ with which Mr. Miller sympathizes, declaring both national parties, Democratic as well as Whig, corrupt and faithless to its pledges. The exact point of time, therefore, between Novem ber and June, at which Mr. Miller’s democracy j oozed out, we are unable to establish. Perhaps 1 when Gen. Dix w’as made Sub-Treasurer—per , haps when Peter Vroom was appointed Minister [ to Berlin—perhaps when one Win. Brown was 1 made a special Mail Agent—or when a Mr. | Campbell was made Receiver of a Land Office —or a Mr. Somebody, of the Ohio Plaindealer, was made a Postmaster, or a Mr. Malooney or Malony was put in some other office out in the northw’est. But whatever the time, or howso ever the process, Mr. Miller and Col. Milledge now stand in opposite positions towards Gen. Pierce and his Administration. The former has turned his back on one he thought, a few short months ago, worthy to be president. The other still believes, as did Mr. Webster, Mr. Toombsi and Mr. Stephens—yea, as did the immortal Cal houn himself, the great pro-slavery champion of the age—that Franklin Pierce is as safe a man for the South as any man north of Mason and Dixon’s line. Col. Milledge is again before his constituency for their suffrages. As to the fidelity, zeal, and efficiency, with w hich he toiled to serve them in the last Legislature, we have heard no two opin ions. Even his present opponents will not as sert that there was any lack of effort, any ne glect of duty, any misconception of the wish es or false judgment of the interests of his con stituents. He was emphatically one of the most punctual, perhaps we can say the most punctual, member in his attendance in the discharge of his duties. Early and late he was to be found at his post, watching, with unerring assiduity, the course of legislation, and sometimes, participating in its debates, and guarding, protecting and advo cating the rights and interests of his constitu ents. We desire not to disparage hia competitors, or either of them; but we hesitate aot to assert, that Richmond county has not had ant cannot again have, among all her native sons, one who has tried with more unflagging devotion to dis charge his duty to her. She has manifested her confidence in him once by a vote which showed his ho.d upon her affections was over and above party—was stronger than the strongest party, ever organized in her borders. He has proved faithful to her. Let her never prove ungrate ful, or unmindful of him. It has been the lot of Col. Milledge to encoun ter, in the present canvass, some denunciation from his old Constitutional Union co-laborera; and more of embittered assailment than usually falls to the lot of a man of bis personal amiability and kindness of heart. His speech was chiefly defensive on Wednesday night, and his defence of his past course was convincing and trium phant. He said he arose to address his fellow-citizens, then surrounding him, as freemen—born to the same heritage, and bound up in the same des tiny—freemen who had received from their re volutionary ancestry the sacred right of voting, not as party cliques and leaders should dictate, but according to their own judgment and con science—the right of voting tvhen they pleased l and for whom they pleased. He said he had been i assailed as a deserter from the Whig party—of having been untrue to the principles upon which < he had run and was elected in 1851, the only oc- ] casion upon which he had ever been a candidate. He appealed to the facts, and denied that he had been nominated asaWhig, or canvassed for votes as a Whig at that time. There was then no such party in Richmond county as the Whig party. It would have been a fraud on the Union Democrats, whose votes were sought to elect the Constitutional Union ticket, to have asserted, after the election, that the ticket elected was a Whig ticket, and the triumph of that year a Whig triumph. The Whig issues were obsolete—admitted and pro claimed by the Whig leaders to be so. New issues had arisen and a new platform erected on which Democrats,as well as Whigs,were invited to stand, and by the votes of Democrats, as well as of Whigs, aided in the triumph of the party of which he was a member, which went into pow er with the legislature of 1851. The Standard Bearer of that party, Howell Cobb, was a Demo crat, and so avowed himself in the Canvass. He never had been a Whig, and no one who sup ported him claimed his election as the triumph of Whig principles. The triumph of that year was the triumph of the principles of the Geor gia platform, the main plank of which was ac quiescense in the Compromise measures— Even Mr. Webster, whom many of his con stituents then present, had early last year sup ported for President, had declared among the last opinions he had promulgated, that in November, 1852, the Whig party would exist only in his tory. And who was now the standard bearer of the party of his accusers? Charles J. Jen kins, who had run for Vice President, on the ticket with Mr. Webster, against the regular nominated ticket of the true blue old line united Whig Party—Gen. Winfield Scott. Yet, in the face of these glaring facts he, Col. Milledge, was accused of treachery to the Whig party—of having deserted the Whig party. And in what attitude was Mr. Jenkins pre sented to the voters of the County of Richmond, and of the State of Georgia? A3 a Whig?— Was the name Whig emblazoned on his banner ? Was the name Whig mentioned in the platform of the Convention that nominated him ? Did that Convention proclaim Whig principles, and call upon the Whigs of the State to rally under a Whig banner, for the reorganization of the Whig party? Not at all. The Convention re pudiated the Whig party, as also the Democratic party. It pronounced both National parties cor rupt and faithless to their pledges. It called itself | a party of Republican Citizens, Conservatives, , Union Men, Georgia Platform Men. It did not call its organization the Whig party. It was a fitting time to do so. if it aimed to reorganize the Whig party, for its standard bearer, Charles r J. Jenkins, was of all men in the State, the , most proper man,under whom to re-organize the Whig party, if such had been their desire, for he, s less than twelve months previous, had in a letter , to Peter W. Alexander, of Savannah, declared that hej felt then, an anxiety greater than . ever before, to reunite with the National Whig j Party—that he was satisfied with the Whig j Platform, but his objections were to the man— he did not intend to put on the Scott uniform. r If the Whigs desired to re-organize the Whig party, there were then listening to his voice true Whigs of the old pannel, Scott men, who had last year voted for Gen. Scott, the regular nominee of their party. They were the men who could be appealed to, to rally to the Whig banner, and again fight for its name; its organization, and its = principles. Had this appeal been made ? But no. i he present canvass was opened with no such purpose, according to their own show ing. They had put out a candidate for Govern g or, and they had woven their net so as to catch votes. They had interlaced its meshes so nice I a»d fine that they calculated to catch all sort 9of fish. They were to cast it out into the political waters, and it they caught a sucker , good—that j would help their cause. If they caught a perch, ’ g°°d. It a trout, good too. Union Whigs, 3 Webster Whigs, Scott Whigs, Union Democrats, and Whig Pierce men—all were to be caught f and drawn in, but the name of Whig Party was s nowhere to appear in the process. His accusers had themselves ignored the name of Whig Party —had turned their backs upon it—and yet had g the assurance to charge him with deserting that party. , He had been charged with saying that as far back as 1848, he had been preparing to leave the r Whig and to join the Democratic party. What , Whig party ? Had not that party even then, in the City Hall ol Augusta, received its death , stroke? And who struck the blow? Who but the then Whig representative from the Bth \ Congressional District, Robert Toombs? Did he . n °t there in the very house of his friends, strike ' down and trample under foot Henry Clay, the very soul and embodiment of the Whig Party? Did he not there, fresh from Washington city, p tell them that he would not vote for him even if nominated by the Philadelphia Whig Convention? That he had plotted and bar gained with the abolitionists for their votes, and was not to be trusted by the South ! 1 hat the old Whig issues were obsolete, and the great question for the South was the slavery question, and that Gen. Taylor was the man they should support? That it was true he knew but little of politics, and had not cast a vote in forty years, but that he was honest, and could be trusted ? He was available, and they must look to availability. Who elected Gen. Taylor ? Who gave him the vote of Georgia ? The Whig Party? No. It was Taylor Democrats. Without their votes he could not have been elected. So far back, then, as 1848, the Whig Party was in a state of dissolution—its old issues re pudiated, or obsolete, and the slavery question made the basis on which new parties were to be formed. Soon following his election came the territo rial and fugitive slave questions, and the discus sions in Congress resulted in the Compromise measures. These measures were accepted in Georgia as a linal adjustment, and the Georgia Platform was framed to sustain that adjustment. And who gave that Compromise to the country? Was it the Whig party ? No. It was the Dem ocratic party. And what was there in that Compromise chiefly valuable to the South ? The fugitive slave law. Who passed that law ? Was it the Whig party ? How many Northern Whigs voted for it ? Not one in the Senate, and but three in the House? And what was Daniel Webster’s position ? Did he advocate the law as it stands on the statute book ? Was that his bill? No. On the 3rd of June, 1850, pending the Compromise, he introduced a bill into the Senate providing atrial by jury to the fugitive slave, iu the free State where he should bear rested. And what sort of a trial would that have been ? A mock trial, in which the verdict would be made up before the jury went into the box, audin which the Southern man would have no chance for justice. One other matter in conclusion. He had been questioned in a discussion at the upper market, if he had voted for Mr. Jenkins in 1842, and if he had not voted for him since that time. He was under great excitement at the time, and so was his interrogator, and he had replied he may or he may not have done so, and he did not recol lect how often since 1842 he had voted for him. At a subsequent meeting be had stated that in 1842, he had voted for Mr. Crawford and Mr.' Lamar, and that he had since then voted twice for Mr. Jenkins. He had been assailed in the public prints, and by one of his competitors that night, for duplicity, because he had, in 1849, writ ten a letter urging Mr. Jenkins’ name for the Legislature, and yet had sometimes failed, as his Whig friends were now astonished to learn, to vote for Mr. Jenkins. He would cheerfully have furnished a copy of that letter to any one who wished to see it. He was not ashamed of it. He had good reasons, ol a private nature, known to many of his auditors, why Mr. Jenkins’ nomination was desirable, and he desired it in all sincerity. He had voted for Mr. Jenkins n 1849, and in 1850. He was a gentleman he esteemed, and whose services in the Legislature he thought would be valuable to the city and county. But he did not recognize any set of men or par ty leaders as having the right to dictate to him, while a private citizen, how he should vote, or demand of him to show to them a clean record of votes, to please their taste. He was a freeman, and would vote as he thought right, and he ac knowledged no clique or party leaders as entitled to claim accountability to them as to his mode of exercising this sacred privilege of a freeman. As weil might they set up a claim to be furnish ed with a list of each of their neighbors house hold goods and chatties—that when his fellow citizens surrendered themselves up to this spe cies of petty tyranny, and submitted to being pulled by the arm, a ticket thrust in their hands and be told, “You must vote this ticket,’' or “ You must vote for this man, or that man,’! they would no longer deserve to enjoy that ines timable birthright of freemen. Col. Milledge closed with a very handsome and graceful pereoration, in which he expressed himself ready to submit cheerfully to the deci sion of his fellow-citizens, if they declined to re-elect him, and would meet them the day after with a smiling countenance, as he was devoid of all ill will to any human being in the commu nity. If elected, he would serve them faithfully to best of his ability. He sat down amid pro longed cheers. The Augusta Hotel. It will be seen by the Card of the proprietor, that he is deter mined our citizens shall not suf fer for the want of food. Not satisfied with lunrhing his customers at 11 A. M., he will give them another at 11 P. M. By the way, we are glad to see that the Captain has secured the ser vices of Mr. Coolidge, as a caterer for his Hotel. Mr. C. is well known to the citizens of the in terior, having kept a Hotel at Griffin, Stone Mountain, and the Warm Springs. He is gentlemanly in his deportment, seems to under stand his business, and will no doubt give satis faction to the patrons of the establishment. Election Returns. We publish in another column, for refer ence the vote given in 1849, for Governor, which we consider the best test vote,in govern ing the apqroaching Gubernatorial eletcion. It is the last vote given on strictly party grounds, as between Democrats and Whigs. The Webster Fugitive Slave Bill. There being some dispute as to the character of the Fugitive Slave Bill offered by Mr. Web ster in the United States Senate, on the 3d of June, 1850, we| lay it before our readers. We quote from the Congressional Globe, Yol. 21 part 2, page 1111. In Senate, Monday, June 3, 1850. Mr. Webster. Mr. President, at an early period of the session I turned my attention to the subject of preparing a bill respecting the re clamation of fugitive slaves, or of preparing cer tain amendments,! to the existing law on that subject. In pursuance of this purpose. I confer red with some of the most eminent members ol profession, and especially with a high judi cial authority, who has had more to do with questions ot this kind, I presume, than any oth er judge in the United States. After these con sultations and conferences, as early as in Febiua ry I prepared a bill amendatory ot the act of 1793, intending when a proper time came, to lay it before the Senate for its consideration. I now wish to present the bill to the Senate unal tered and precisely as it was when prepared in February last. Mr. Dayton. I hope thrt the paper will be printed. The bill was then laid on the table and order ed to be printed as follows: A BILL amendatory of “An act respecting fugi tives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters/ 7 approved Feb ruary 12, 1793. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Con gress assembled , That the provisions of the said act shall extend to the territories of the United States; and that the commissioners who are, or who may hereafter be appointed by the circuit courts of the United States, or the district courts where circuit courts are not established, or by the teritorial courts of the United States, all of which courts are authorized and required to ap point one or more comissioners in each county to take acknowledgements of bail and affidavits, and also to take depositions of witnesses in civil cause, and who shall each, or any judge of the United States, on complaint being made on oath to him that a fugitive from labor is believed to be within the State or territory in which he lives, issue his wariant to the marshal of the United States, or to any other person who shall be willing to serve it, authorizing an arrest of the fugitive, if within the State or territory, to be brought before him or some other commis sioner or judge of the United States courtjwith in the State or territory, that the right of the person claiming the service of the fugitive may be examined. And on the hearing, deposition duly authenticated, and parol proof, shall be heard to establish the identity of the fugitive and the right of the claimant, and also to show that slavery is established in the State from which the fugitive absconded. And if on such hearing the commissioner or judge shall find the claim to the services of the fugitive, as asserted, sustained by the evidence, he shall make out a certificate of the material facts proved and of his judgement thereon, which he shall sign, and which shall be conclusive of the right of the claimant or his agent to take the fugitive back to the State from which he fled : Provided , that if the fugitive shall deny that he owes service to the claimant under the laws of the State where he was held, and after being duly cautioned as to the solem nities and consequences of an oath , shall swear to the same , the commissioner or judge shall forthwith summon a jury of t welve men to try the right of the , claimant, who shall be sworn to try the cause accor ding to evidence, and the commissioner or judge shall \ preside at the trial, and determine the competency of the proof. ! ! Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That the i commissioner shall receive ten dollars in each i case tried by him, as aforesaid, the jurors fifty cents each, and the marshal or other person serv ing the process shall receive five dollars for serv ing the warrant on each fugitive, and for mil age and other service the same as are allowed the marshal for similar services, to be examined and allotted by the commissioner or judge, and paid by the claimant. The Hon. Thomas W. Newton, of Arkansas, died suddenly at New York on the 22d inst., from the rupture of a blood-vessel of the brain. The body has been embalmed, and sent on to his late residence, Little Rock, Arkansas, for in terment. Mr. Newton was for some time Mar shal of the State of Arkansas and in 1846 rep resented it in Congress. He was a brother of Commodore Newton, of the Navy, the present Commander of the home squadron. [communicated.] Col. John Milledge. a This gentleman having ro-appeared before hi* fellow-citizens as a candidate for re*election to the Legislature, objections, as base as they are utile, have been and are still being urged against him, to lessen his claims in the pub lic mind and to defeat his election. Once their representative, it becomes the people of Richmond to enquire into his legislative career, rather than these degrading charges sought to be established against him—to determine whether he is ‘now, as the y once believed him to be,worthy of the high position to which he aspires. During that career, which was brilliant notwithstanding it was brief, the evidence is abundant that he proved himself worthy and capable in an emi nent degree to discharge the duties of the proud position to which a confiding constituency had called him. Upon all proper occasions, we have not only observed his name recorded among the yeas and nays, but we have heard his eloquent voice in advocacy of such measures as he be lieved would redound to the honor of Georgia, and to the interest of his own immediate con stituency who had entrusted him with the pro tection of their rights and interests. The charge cannot be made and proved that in one single instance he was iound sleeping at his post, or derelect in the duty of a zealous and faithful re presentative. Indeed his opponents make no such charge. Theirs is of a different kind. On a very large majority, il not all the subjects brought before the last session, he acted and voted with his then colleague, whose is now also a candidate for re-election. But he was not alone known as a member upon the iloor. Often called to pre side in the Speakers chair, he evinced an ability and dignity equal to the proper discharge ot the arduous and perplexing duties ot a presiding of fficer; and such was the satisfaction given by him in this new position, that on more than one occasion since the adjournment of the Legis lature his name has been suggested in distant sections of the State as a fit person to succeed the lamented Meriwether, should the people of Richmond again honor him with their confidence. With such antecedents, it is hard to believe that his election is even a doubtful matter. But he has not escaped the wrath of his opponents.— Like those who have gone before him upon the political stage, the shafts of his enemies, steeped in the poison of malice and detraction, have showered thick upon him. But, as yet, these polluted missiles have found no resting place in his patriotic bosom. He stands forth, if it be the will of his countrymen, a martyr to the cause of truth and principle. But why this op position ? Simply becajse he has avowed him self a friend, an uncompromising friend to the present Administration. Without stopping to enquire whether he is right or honest, he is taunted on every side with the sneering remark, tl You have changed ! changed i! changed !!! Sad indeed must be the political prospects of his accusers, if we must judge by the argument used. Homeless ot success oy other means and driven to desperation, they must resort to this. This must be their excuse. Honest and intel ligent men however, will not heed this charge of changed! ohanged ! ! which is so stupendous in the eyes of his opponents ; but the question with them will be is he u honest, capable and faithful to the constitution ?” Justice. I I w [communicated.] Mr. Editor : Allow us the use of your col . umns, to bring before the citizens of Richmond County the name of Hemy Johnson as a suita f ble Representative in the next Legislature. No , friend to the Administration of General Pierce should hesitate to give Mr. Johnson his cordial support; especially should every Democrat in the county rally to the support of one who has, through storm and sunshine, alike been a firm and unw'avering disciple of the Demociatic faith. Modest and unassuming, he has yet been a zealous.—a working Democrat. Resiling in > the country upon his farm, he has mingled in none of the local city contests, squabbles, and excitements. Yet, intelligent, observing, and well informed, and thrown, from time to time, with our business population and working men, he knows their wants, their feelings, and their rights. He is capable of representing them fairly, and advocating them firmly. In all the qualities which constiiute a good citizen, a kind neighbor, and an honest man, Henry Johnson has no superior. The supporters of the Administration of Gen. Franklin Pierce, both in town and country, will not go into the ranks of his assailants for men to represent them in the Legislature. To all of these, Henry Johnson is recom mended as in e/ery way a worthy exponent of their opinions. Many Pierce Men. Augusta, September 29, 1853. Rf.v. J. G. Binney. —We learn (says the Chronicle) with much pleasure, that the Baptist board having charge of the department of educa tion in Burmah, has made such arrangements, as that the services of Mr. Binney are considered not absolutely necessary; and he, being some what disinclined to go again to that distant field has accepted an invitation from the Baptist Church of Augusta, to return to them, and may be expected at an early day. We, therefore, congratulate the church and community, upon the prospect of the return of so useful a Pastor and accomplished a gentleman. Cotton in the South West. —The Thomas ville Watchman of the 21st inst., says: “ The cotton crop through this section will, it is be lieved, be a short one. The continued and heavy rains have filled the weed so full of sap that a few hours of hot sun just after a rain, parches it up. Add to this the rust, the boll worm, and the caterpillar, all of which are doing great damage, and you may judge the result ” It is stated that with regard to the letter of Lord John Russell on the Cuba question, Mr. Marcy has long since taken occasion to commu nicate the President’s views to Mr. Buchanan, who will doubtless bring the matter promptly and forcibly to the attention of the British Gov ernment. The position of the administration it is said, is decided, and does not differ material ly from the views so admirably expressed by Mr. Everett in his letter of the 17th inst. Atrocious Murder.— A, correspondent wri ting from Franklin county, gives information of one of the most horrid murders we have ever recorded. We extract the portion of the letter giving an account of it: ‘‘There was one of the most atrocious murders committed in the western part of this county a few days ago, that ever was committed in any community. A young lady of respectability had been to a neighbor’s house, and returning home was most inhumanly murdered by a negro mpn belonging to a citizen of the county. It seems that he strangled her with nitric acid, violated her person, and most inhumanly beat and bruised her other ways, dragged her into the woods and left her dead, where she was found on the next day. The negro is now in custo dy.”—Southern Banner. Homicide. —William Cook was killed by Richard Adams (both of this county) in Jack son county, at Delay’s, on last Friday. It seems a number bad assembled there for a shooting match, when some misunderstanding arose be tween them; those present interfered and pre vented them lighting, when Adams stepped back and took up a ride and shot him through the heart. He died instantly. Adams is in custody. —76. BY TELEGRAPH B®* 8 ®* Transmitted to the ConstUmionaiut t- „ LAT Opp" ARR IY A L WASHINGTON. Nkw Yoa K) Sei)t o Q ' Liverpool Market.-Co«o*.-tiJ’ 18 in favor of buyers, but holders are sing sales. Sales 15000 bales. oc Pies- FMour had advanced one shilling r changed. orn un- Russia has rejected the Sultan’s and war is considered inevitable. ° n ' ihe cholera was progressing j n v , Money was tighter, Consols quoted at »e^ Secretary Marcy’s Letter. „ Charleston, Sent on The New York Herald publishes asyLj' Secretary Marcy’s forthcoming letter maintains that Kosta was seized within a nationality of the United States, and that ( Ingraham’s interference was proper Re > ses to give consent to Kosta’s being givJn ?' the Austrian Consul at Smyrna, and insists Z Austria shall place them in the same condithl as when he was arrested. Minister to France. It is rumored that the Hon. John Y M has officially received the mission to France' 18011 The Whig Convention of Massachusetts h nominated Emery Washburn for Governor The steamer Golden Age, left New York, terday for Liverpool and Australia. New York, Sept. 29 Cotton.—The cotton market is dull »;«, sales to-day of only 200 bales. 1 Death of Gen. Tallmage. Gen. Joseph Tallmage died to-day, suddenly Charleston, Sept. 29- p . m Cotton.—Sales of the week 3100 bales at $1 to 11 cents. The market closes firm and at fan prices. Good Middling 10J to 10| cents. The receipts of the week are 3,200 bales. Stock n. elusive of that on shipboard 8,360 bales. [Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier j Baltimore, Sept. 28.— The Yellow Fever Bermuda. —Advices have been received at B * ton from Bermuda to ttie 13th inst, which that the yeliow fever was prevailing a t St George’s, and that out of two hundred convict' fifty had died and one hundred and twenty hvJ were sick. Nearly every one had been attacked with the disease, and the total number of deaths to the 13th instant had amounted to eighty one Among the victims of the pestilence, which was on the increase, was weregret to learn, John M. Howden, Esq., the U. S. Consul. Late from Liberia.—Letters from Liberit of the 6th of August have been received The bark Shirley arrived at Monrovia on the 29th of J uly. The Methodist missionaries at the different points along the coast were in good health. The Rev. Hr. Horne, the superintendent of the Monrovia Academy, has suffered less from the effects of the climate than any of his prede cessors Advices to this date say that the relations of the Government with the native tribes on ail sides are such, that it is thought lasting peace may be expected, or if there be interruptions at any time or place, it seems impossible that they should be either extensive or ot long duration “The international relations of the Republic j are decidedly harmonious, and profitable as tir j as we are able to take advantage of our t;eaty ! stipulations.” The Weather and Crops. | Alabama.—The Macon (Tuskegee, Ala.) Republican of the22d inst. says: The late heavy i rains which we have had, we fear have maten | ally injured the crops. They have produced the ! worm and the rust, which together,have preyed . extremely destructive. In some places, to be | sure, they are worse than in others, but almost i everywhere they are bad enough. The opinion, j therefore, which we expressed some weeks ago, j that the prospect for a good crop was pretty fair, ! is, at present, materially modified. We still hope • that the tears of the planters may have magnlied i the evil, but at the same time we knowthsta : long spell of wet weather, at a time so critical j to the plant, cannot but prove extremely preju dicial. The Reporter (Talladega, Ala.) of the 22d says : We have had a great deal of rain during the last few weeks. Our planters complain that their cotton is almost irretrievably ruined—they cannot make a half a crop. There is a good deal of sickness throughout the country, caused no doubt in a great measure by the singularly wet summer and fall. The weather for the last few days has truiy been delightful. It is neither a wintry nor a summer atmosphere we enjoy, but one that par takes of the best qualities of both ; the brilliancy and glow of summer, with just enough of its W’armth to be agreeable, unites with the clear, bracing temperature of winter, with just enough of its coolness to be pleasant. The restorative effects of this upon every man's body and spirit* is visible in every person one meets, it impart physical briskness, and mental cheerfulness, while the evidence that business it recommenc ing and the fever decreasing adds strong impulse to these agreeable characteristics. So may l * continue.— N. O. Pic., 25th inst. It must be matter of congratulation for the members of the Howard Association that their duties in this city are reduced so as to alio l *’ them a little breathening time, at least so iaras these duties are specially connected with the city. Their infirmaries and all, except one® convalescents, closed, and although applications for relief must still give them occupation,the calls on their time and attention from the sick must be almost extiuct. We all must begiau m this. It is to be regretted that the Howard.' 1 have such urgent need for their charitable ser vices out of the city. They have been promp in answering all such requests, and have no doubt done a great deal of good among our strick en friends in the interior.— lb. (Eoinmrrrifll SAVANNAH, Sept. 27, p. m.-Cotton.-IW was some inquiry this morning, and tae amount to 191 bales, as follows: 21 at 9J; *■' 10; 19 at 10*; 71 at 10*, and 61 bales at 10] MONTGOMERY, Sept. 26.— Coiton.-lhen i» a good demand for this article at advancing ‘ All our brokers are here now, and anxious to • We quote Good Middling 9* te 9]; Middling to Fair, 9* to 10c. Stock on hand Ist Sept Received past week * s o!!_so;w Received previously J 154 Shipped past week • • 7 g9 Shipped previously wo—^ Stock on hand Sept. 26, 1853 SAVANNAH EXPORTS-Sept. 27. Per schr Francis Saterly for New lo bales Cotton; 2 do. Cotton Waste; 640 bg> Flour; 245 casks Rico; 16 do Dry Goods, ana Shipping CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON. Sehr Peru, Morton, at Boston. Schr Naiad, Billips, at Baltimore. CHARLESTON, Sept. 29.—Arrived, Tuttle, New York; schrsOeDtrosa, Sweeting. Cartharena, Wilson, Baltimore. , s He* Went to sea, steam ship Union, A ■ f' Kins- York; brigs Emily, Davis, New \ orb; ton* man, Boston; schr D. H. Baldwin, Fris > more. .iusk>P SAVANNAH, Sept. 28^-Arrived, Augusta, Lyon, New York; bark rn fro® Hoey, New York; brig J. A. Simpson, «r£». Boston; sohr Lyon, Daisoy, from New for H«W Cleared, schr Francis Satterly, Dev , York.