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[From the Knickerbocker for November.]
Deal Gently with my Mother, World.
BY HENRY CLAY I’REUSS.
Deal gently with my Mother, World!
Hear days are in the yellow leaf,
And time with her is growing brief;
She is not now what she hath been :
Her eye hath lost its glowing sheen;
The rose is faded from her cheek,
And life's dark stream grows faint and weak :
The forms which walked with her of yore
Come back again, oh, nevermore !
Deal gently with my Mother, World!
1 was not favored by thee, World!
Oh, life was dark, o’en from my birth.
And I have tired long of earth ;
But now I know mine hour is come,
And I shall soon be going home:
I feel the death-damps on my brow,
But, World, I do not blame thee now !
Though thou has been unkind to me,
I cast no harsh reproach on thee;
My boyish dreams bare passed away,
But with my dying-breath I pray,
Deal gently with my Mother, World!
Spare her in your sorrows, World !
I was her favorite, darling boy,
Her earthly hope, her spirit's joy.
God ot ly knows I loved her well—
How much, no language now can tell.
But I am fallen in my prime,
As leaves in early summer-time,
And when my soul shall leave its clay,
• Her last fond hope will pass away:
Then, in my deep despondency,
This dying boon I crave of thee:
Deal gently with my Mother, World!
Washington, (D. C.)
The North West Passage—Commodore
M’Clure's Despatches.
The London Times of the 7th ult., publishes
the Despatches from Com. McClure, to the Brit
ish Admiralty, relative to the discovery of the
North West Passage, to which cursory referance
was made by the previous steamer. These des
patches are very numerous, and very volumin
ous. We present below’their most interesting
and important features. The great point settled
by Commodore McClure is this ; he has managed
to force his ship,the Investigator, far enough,
through the icy mountains of Bherings Straits,
to a point from which she could communicate
with others which had entered the Artie Seas
by the Atlantic passage. It is well tq note this
fact, particularly, ine impression having been
created that the Investigator had sailed from
ocean to ocean which is not the case just yet—
but it will be seen by Com. McClure s despatch,
below, that he has no doubt, he will be able to
make a passage to England now, through Da
vis’ Straits. Praticaliv, thereiore, he is entitled
to the credit of having accomplished the voyage
from ocean to ocean.
The Investigator, while forcing her way
through Barrows Straits, (Sept. 24tb, 1852) from
the west, was run ashore, the Commodore ma
king his winter quarters there, —in the Bay of
Mercy. We give below an interesting extract.
And it is from that point be it remembered, that
he now u’rites. Com. McC. is sanguine of re
turning home to England, byway of Baffin’s
Bay iu 1854. Portions of the dtspatches are ex
ceedingly interesting.
There are two remarkable discoveries men
tioned in Captain McClure’s Journal—viz:
some smoking hillocks and a pertiified forest.
He also states that during his intercourse with
the natives he only once met with any hostile
demonstrations. This occurred at Port Warren,
near the Mackenzie, w here, on attempting to
land, two natives with threatening gestures
waved them off. It was not w ithout much dif
ficulty that they were pacified, and then ti ey
related that all their tribe but the chief and bis
sick son had fled on seeing the ship, alleging as a
reason that they feared the ship had come to re
venge the death of a whiteman they had mur
dered some time ago. They (through the inter
preter) related that some white men had come
therein a boat, and that they built themselves a
house and lived there; at last the natives mur
dered one, and the others escaped they knew not
wheie, but the murdeied man w 7 as buried in a
spot they pointed out. A thick fog coming on
prevented Capt. McCluie from examining this
locality, which is much regretted, as here is the
probable position where a boat party endeavor
ing to return by the Mackenzie would have en
camped.
44 The currents along the coasts of the Polar
Sea appear to fye influenced in their direction
more or less by the winds; but certainly upon
the west side of Bherings Island there is a per
manent set to the eastward. Atone time we
found it as much as two knots during a perfect
calm; and that the flood tide sets from the west
ward we have ascertained beyond a doubt, as
the opjiortunities afforded duiing our detention
along the western shore of this island gave am
ple proof.
41 The prevailing winds along the American
shore, and in the Prince of Wales Strait, we
found to be N. E., but upon this cost S. S W.
to N. W.
44 A ship stands no chance of getting to the
westward by entering tbe Polar Sea, the water
along shore being very narrow’ and wind con
trary, and the pack impenetrable; but through
Prince of Wales Strait and by keeping along the
American coast, I conceive it practicable. Drift
wood is in great abundance upon the east coast
of Prince of Wales Strait, and on the American
shore, also, much game.
‘ In this vicinity the hills abound in reindeer
and hares, which remain the entire winter : we
have been very fortunate in procuring upwards
0f4,000 lbs.
‘•The health of the crew has been, and still
continues excellent, without any diminution of
numbers, nor have we felt the slightest trace of
scurvy.
“It is my intention, if possible, to return to
England this season, touching at Melville Island
and Port Leopold, but should we not be a«ain
heard of, in all probability we shall have been
carried into the Polar pack, or to the westward
of Melville Island, in either of which cases any
• attempt to send succor would only be to increase
the evil, as any ship that enters the Polar Pack
must be inevitably crushed ; therefore, a depot
of provisions, or ashipat Winter Harbor is the
best and only certainty for the safety of the sur
viving crews. .
“No trace whatever has been met with, or
any information obtained from the natives, which
could bv any possibility lead to the supposition
that Sir John Franklin’s expedition, or any of
his crews, have ever reached the shore we have
visited or searched, nor have we been more for
tunate with respect to ’he Enterprise, not hav
ing seen her since parting company at the
S'.raits of Magellan on tbe 20th of April, ISSO.
The Dardanelles.
The old gates of James were opened when
Rome was at war; and their modern prototypes,
the Dardanelles straits, are open only when a
state of war makes treaty stipulations void, and
the Porte deems it to be necessary to admit his
allies through them to protect his capitol. The
accounts we have are that they are now open
for the passage of the British and French fleets.
The Dardanelles, from which the strait, or
Hellespont, derives.its name, are four strong cas
tles built opposite to each other on the European
and Asiatic coasts; and are the keys of Con
stantinople. Two of these castles, the old cas
tles, were raised by Mahommed 11., soon after
the conquest of Constantinople, in 1453; the
other two, the new castles, were built in the
middle of the seventeenth century to protect the
Turks against the Venetians. The latter com
mand the entrance to the Hellespont, and the
distance from each is about two miles and a quar
ter ; in four hours’ sail up the strait are the old
castles, which are about three quarters of a mile
apart. These are well mounted with formida
ble batteries. All along the European shore to the
Marmora the aspect of nature in its ruggedness
corresponds with tie frown of guns; but the
scenery on the Asiatic shore is beautiful. I
The region abounds, too, iu places famous in !
classic story. Here it was Leander paid his
nightly visit to Heio; here the ill-fated hosts of
Xerxes crossed on a bridge of boats; here Soly- !
man crossed on a bare raft: and, in modern
times, here Byron swam from Sestos to Aby
dee-
These famous straits have been more than
once passed. In 1770 the Russian squadron, un
der Elphistone, appeared before the tower cas
tles ; and the admiral actually went by without
damage, but the other ships did not follow him,
and he Teturne 1, wtih drums and trumpets sound
ing. A British fleet under Admiral Duckworth
foiced their passage in 1807. Duckworth, in
his dispatch to his government, giving an ac
count ot this fact, acknowledges that he ran a
narrow cnance. He set sail on the morning of
the 19th of February. At a quarter before nine
the whole squadron, under a tremendous fire,
had escaped the other castles; at half past nine
the leading ship, the Canopus, entered the nar
row passage of Sestos and Abydos, under a hea
vy cannonade from both castles, receiving stone
shot of 800 pounds weight. Each ship, as it
passed, had to endare this cannonade. The ad
miral remained before Constantinople until the
3J of March, when his squadron ot ten ships re
turned. In this interval the Turks had -been so
busy that the castles were made ‘‘doubly formi
dable. The admiral weighed anchor in the
morning of this day, and “every ship was in
safety outside of the passage about noon. ;j The
admiral, in his dispatch, expresses his “most
lively sense” of his good fortune, and admits that
had the Turks been allowed a week longer, “it
would have been a very doubtful point whether
a return would lay open to him at all.” He lost
42 killed and 235 W’ounded. The Turks were
so indignant at the escape of the British fleet
that they believed the governor of the Darda
nelles was bribed by Duckworth, and beheaded
him.
The Dardanelles are said to be in such a for
midable condition as to be impregnahle.
I Correspondence of the Charleston Courier ]
Washington, Oct. 30.
The President is determined not to submit to
insubordination in the ranks of the office-holders.
He has put his administration upon the strong
ground of Executive patronage, and we shall see
that, under present circumstances, it must work
wonders. To-day, the President having under
stood that some of the office holders in Boston
were Adamantines, and disposed to be rebellious,
directed their decapitation. The bow string is
now sent by telegraph. It is not doubted that
the Administration will be sustained at the
North, as well as at the South, by the Democratic
party as a mass. There will be some little in
subordination in Congress, but it will soon be
put down.
Mr. Disney of Ohio, one of the prominent can
didates for the Speakership, is now here. Co!.
Orr of South Carolina, is also a prominent can
didate, and will, as I learn, be here a few days
before the commencement of the Session. Mr.
Olds of Ohio, is also a candidate.
The account of the recent address of Col. Orr
to his constituents iu South Carolina, has been
favorably noticed by the friends of the Admin
istration, and it is believed that he fairly rep
resents their policy on the subjects which he
treated.
The administration will recommend the pay
ment of the public debt, and a reduction of tbe
tariff. It is not known what plan of reduction
they will propose, but it is believed that they
will propose a large addition to the list of free ar
ticles,and thus diminish the amount of labor and
expense in the different offices of the revenue de
partment. Railroad iron, and indeed all kinds
of iron, may be exempted from duty, and without
much injury to the domestic producer or manu
facturer, at its present high rates. There will
be a strenuous and combined effort on the part
of many of those who represent Railroad in
terests, to procure an abolition of duty on rails,
or at least, an exemption of them from duty lor
a limited tier e. There wiil also be a party, and
a stiong one, in Congress and in the country, in
favor of the exemption of sugars from duty.
There are many articles, now dutiable, that
enter into the manuiacturesof this country, as
material, that may be added to the free list.
The Secretary of the Treasuary is now’ engag
ed in collecting and comparing materials for a
new Tariff of duties. As to the Pacific Railroad,
the administration will leave it, as they have
done other measures of the Government, to the
judgment of Congress; and they will not hesitate,
probably, to approve any measure that goes not
beyond those that have every year been passed,
in aid of the construction of YVestern railroads.
That is, if Congress grant lands in aid of this
road, the President will approve the measure;
but he will not approve a bill that will make
the Government the contractor or proprietor of
the road. This matter is well understood here,
so much so, that the New York, Atlantic, and
Pacific Railroad Company will not even ask for
anything more than a grant of lands, on their
route from El Paso to San Diego, and, in addi
tion, payment for the transportation of the U.
States mails and troops, &c.
Col. Orr seems, in fact, to havs struck, in his
address, upon the chief traits of the domestic
policy of the administration.
The amount of U. S. Stocks redeemed at the
Treasury this week, has been $573,850. All
that is advertised for, will be brought in an can
celled before the Ist of Dec., and the premium
offered will then be reduced.
Real Estate in Savannah. —If the high
prices paid for real estate furnish any indication
of the onward march of a city, then have the
people of Savannah cause tor gratulation. City
lots were sold yesterday at auction at higher
comparative prices than at any previous sale
within thirty years.
Lot No. 10, Digby Tything, corner of Bryan
and Jefferson streets, 60 by 90 feet, sold for $9,-
600. There are some buildings on this lot, but
they are of but little value. Trust lot, letter 1,
west of tbe Market. 60 by 180, without any
buildings, brought in the aggregate $23,050. It
was divided into six lots, each 30 by 60. The
two lronting on the Market sold for $4,250 and
$4,900; the two fronting on Jefferson street for
$3,600 each; and the two on St. Julian, running
through to Bryan street, lor $3,400 and $3,300
respectively. Other lots were knocked off at
high figures, the competition among bidders be
ing animated.— Savannah Republican , 2d inst.
The Cotton Crop. —We have been furnished
the tollowing extract of a private letter Irom
Richmond county to a house in this city, for
publication:
Yours of the 25th I received last evenin° r .
1 am just from Burke, and have witnessedlhe
effects of the Irost of last Tuesday morning- I
ran safely say that it was one of the most fatal
lrosts that I have ever known. We had no fro«t
in 1802 until Nov. 15th; that fact 1 find record
ed in my plantation book. Then there was but
little damage to be done, but the frost of Tuesday
last tell upon a remarkably late crop.
“The present crop did but little, if anything
in growing and taking on fruit until July- con
sequently not more than half of the crop came
to maturity before the frost, and this irost was
rendered more destructive by its being preceded
by two or three days of rain. I find most of the
unopened boils soft and watery. The drought
up to July entirely checked the growth, and'af
ter that, the rains caused the cotton to grow very
rapidly and luxuriantly, when it became full ot
sap, and more easily injured by frost.
“Yours, &c.”
Frauds in California Trade. —A San
Fiancisco correspondent of the Journal of Com
merce, speaks of the bitter complaints made by
merchants in San Francisco, of the growing
practice in Eastern cities of false packing, false
weight and tares, equal in many cases to ten or
fifteen per cent, on butter, hams and bacon in
hogsheads. Boston and Philadelphia eggs are
sent there in large quantities, in tins marked
and invoiced 20 dozen each, which cannot be
made to hold, when emptied of the lime prepa
ration, over 15 dozen. He also charges the New’
i oik and Boston shippers with over-measuring
goods. Ship-owners not being satisfied with
freights that will pay 100 per cent, profit on a
single voyage, seek to add 15 percent more by
shaving their customers. Nineteen instances
have recently, he says, came under his observa
tion, where, on freight bills at about S7OO, deduc
tions of over-measurement have been exacted
and refunded of over four hundred cubic feet !
Others have had nearly one-third taken off by
remeasurement at San Francisco.
The Frost. —The Sandersville Central Geor
gian of the Ist int.,says there was another frost
in Washington county, on Monday morning,
which would probably destroy the remaining
vitality in vegetation. It adds:
We hear some of the farmers say that the
cotton is cut off irremediably. It looks very
much like it in this vicinity, judging from the
quantity which has been usually received at this
place at this season of the year, and the very
small quantity which has been brought in to this
time, and we learn that the receipts at the Sta
tions upon the C. R. R. are very small compared
with previous years. Such indications afford a
very good ground of belief that the crops through
this section at least, will be short.
AUGUSTA, GA. I
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4.
The Senatorship.
Were the question, who shall be elected United
States Senator ? one simply of personal prefer
ence among the friends of the promiuent as
pirants for that high position, we should not
have participated in a discussion on the subject.
Aiguments based simply on the personal wishes
oi individuals could possess but little public in
terest, and would command a Yery small share ot
attention. But when the great and permanent
interests of the party are involved, and the highest
and best motives which can attach the citizen to
his party and the principles it is organized to ad
vance, are appealed to, we recognize no obliga
tion of silence, and deny its policy. A question
involving considerations of vital importance to
the party, is entitled to discussion—the fullest,
fairest and frankest possible—whether it be agee
abie to a few individual members of the party
personally interested, or not. It is not their in
terests and wishes, but the general good that is
to be subserved. Whatever misgivings we might
have entertained upon the propriety ot stifling
all discussion through the newspapers, as to the
proper policy of the Democratic party in refer
ence to the Senatorial election, we are now more
firmly convinced than ever that such a course
has no good reason to justify it in the present
case. On the contrary there are many good rea
sons why public sentiment should be fully in
voked and freely expressed upon it.
Several Democratic papers in the State have
expressed dissent to our course and to our opinions
on this subject. This is all right and fair. We
are quite ready to listen to their reasoning, and
to weigh impartially their arguments against dis
cussion. But they have contented themselves
with putting forth their ipse dixit , that the dis
cussion is impolitic. They have not attempted
to answer the arguments we advanced to sustain
our position. Those arguments we submit to
the candid consideration of the members of the
Legislature.
But the Columbus Times Sf Sentinel does us,
and does the question itself, the gross injustice
of affixing the term “ Partisan Feeling to the
discussion. Having received the following para
graph from Columbus in a letter envelope
we presume our advocacy of the election ot Gov.
Cobb is especially aimed at, as deserving this
designation.
A Premature Display of Partisan Feeling.
—We observe that several papers iti the State
are beginning to press the claims of favorite can
didates upon the public attention. It is very
natural that each section of the State should have
its preference, but as all cannot be gratified we
consider it extremely unjust that one should be
sustained at the disparagement of another. We
have many good and true men in the Democra
tic party well qualified to fill any and all of the
stations which the next session of our Legisla
ture may confer.—No means should therefore be
used to forestall public opinion as to the exclu
sive fitness of this or that man. It is very pro
per that the names and qualifications of indivi
duals should be given to the public and let the
people as well as members elect of the Legisla
ture know who they are, and what they are, but
we decidedly object to the unfair course which
already seems to have been begun, of canvassing
the claims of this and that wing of the party, and
sustaining as the necessary choice any one tor
whom a plausible case can be made out. With
whatever show of magnanimity, or of justice,
such a course may be pursued, the public will be
very hard to convince that there is not something
beyond this; some ulterior purposes to be sub
served, some ends to be attained not altogether
prompted by disinterested motives or magnani
mous concessions. We have achieved a glorious
victory m the late elections—and all worked
well and faithfully. Shall it be said that one
deserves more for voting the Democratic ticket
than another? That to the Southern Rights
Democrat belongs special commendation or re
ward, because he labors to sustain the national
administration of Pierce, or that the Union De
mocrat made great sacrifices in doing the same
thing ? Is the Union man of 7 51 a better De
mocrat for supporting Johnson than the Southern
Rights Democrat for adopting the policy and
views of the Administration ? We trow not.
We trust then that the course already begun by
some will receive a decided check. Let the par
ty go into the election lor United States Senator
and Judges of the Supreme Bench, as a whole,
and not with a view to the rewarding of this or
that wing, or its peculiar representative.
Now we do the editor of the Times £ Sentinel ,
who penned the above, the justice of supposing
him intellectually capable of comprehending,
and morally capable of appreciating, motives
higher than mere personal preferences or selfish
ulterior purposes prompting the advocacy of a
specific course by the party. But when he
ignores the existence of these higher motives
in the course we have adopted, he chal
lenges investigation as to his own motives. —
Now it may fairly be asked if the silence he
would invoke from the public press, in an im
portant position—we might say an important
crisis —of the party, is prompted by a long sight
ed view of its permanent interests, or by the
claims and the chances of his particular favorites
for office ?
Were this a question simply of choice among
the candidates, and disconnected with ulterior
considerations bearing on the future prosperity
of the party, we should have dismissed it with
few words. Our opinions have undergone no
change as to the impolicy—perhaps we should
designate it, the misappropriation of time and
space—on the part of an editor to devote his
columns to the praises of a personal favorite and
his peculiar claims and fitness for office, when
neither his election nor his defeat is identified
with a principle or would have an important
bearing on party results or permanent interests.
In the present case, our own personal predilections
should not have tempted us to break silence.—
Ihose predilections have been, and we may add
are still, in favor of our personal friend, Gov.
McDonald, whose defeat in 1851, on account of
his Southern Rights principles, was to us a
source of deep chagrin. Our sympathies and
opinions were wholly and warmly with him.—
Nothing could personally gratify us more than to
witness a just recognition of his intelligence and
his patriotism, and see his services invoked in
high and honorable positions.
-But the reasons we urged why a Union Dem
ocrat should be elected to the United States Sen
ate lost none ot their force with us on account
of our personal predilections towards the South
ern Rights wing of the party.
We did not originate the discussion. Our re
marks were called forth by an article sent us for
publication, by a friend of Judge Warner. Bub
we do not regret the discussion, nor think it
detrimental to the Democratic Party.
We have received several communications by
letter, on the subject, on both sides. In opposi
tion to our views, we received two lettteis only,
both from subscribers. They simply stopped
their papers, because of our advocacy of Gov.
Cobb’s election. Had they furnished an argu
ment, or even a thought, worthy the attention
of an intelligent man, in opposition/we should
have given the public the benefit of it. But
people who act in that way, are usually not men
governed by cool judgment and reason.
On the other hand, we have received many
communications, verbal and written sustaining
our views.
We publish below tvro of them, ono from the
otb, and the other from the 7th Congressional
Districts, both from Southern Rights Democrats,
which we commend to public attention.
A passing reference is made by the Times £
Sentinel to the election of Judges ot the Su
preme Court. The editor proposes that tht
parly should “go into the election for U. S.
Senator and Judges of the Supreme Bench, as a
whole.” Now, it may well be a question whe
ther the offices of Supreme Court Judge, are le
gitimate spoils of a political triumph, or wheth
er the public interests are to be benefited by a
change of the Court, every time the State chan
ges its politics. We do not propose to discuss
the point, but allude to it now simply to remind
the editor of the Times fy Sentinel that last De
cember that paper talked very handsomely of
the impropriety of making political opinions a
test in the election of Superior Court Judges. —
In fact, if our memory is not greatly at fault, it
warmly and eloquently advocated the election
of a Whig to the Judgeship of the Chattahoochie
Circuit.
The principle is light this far, we think —that
a competent Judge, especially if he be ol the
same politics with the dominant party, should
not be turned out in order to give his place to a
political partizan. When the Legislature be
gins to dispose of seats on the Supreme Bench in
that way, the people will, and properly, too,
take the elections into their own hands. In
that case there could be no log-rolling, bartering
and bargaining, in reference to those responsi
ble offices.
November 2d, 1853.
***** * *
Whilst writing, I cannot refrain from embra
cing this opportunity to endorse, most cordially
and emphatically, the suggestions of your late
editoiial, touching the election ot a United States
Senator, by our approaching Legislature. The
movements and intimations of your paper upon
this subject were watched for with much anx
iety by both parties, in this section of the State,
and especially by both divisions of the Demo
cratic party. The simple declaration, that the
Democratic party is re-organized and united, is
very handsome language, and quite easily said;
but unless our faith is proven by our works, the
ultimate and practical result will be alienation
and 'mistrust between the two wings of the
Democratic party, and a confusion of political el
ements similar, and worse, than that now exist
ing in the State of New York. We may talk as
flippantly as we please, about the impropriety of
asking from which wing of a party a certain
person comes, after the two wings are organized
and consolidated; but as long as the principles of
recollection and resentment exist hi human na
ture, this doctrine cannot and will not be carried
into practical operation. Like yourself, during
the recent division of parties in Georgia, on the
Compromise questions, I was a Southern Rights
man, of the straightest and strictest sect, and as
long as the agitation continued, and the ques
tion was unsettled, I remained unflinchingly at
my post, with my colors and principles stream
ing in the breeze. But, when Georgia had de
termined, both at trial term, and on the appeal,
to abide by the Compromise, and when the Bal
timore Platform had been established upon such
principles that both sections of our party might
stand upon it without a compromise of their
honor, or their principles, I cordially accepted
the nominee of that Convention, and have been
striving ever since for a complete fusion and re
organization of our party. It was indeed a grat
ifying and inspiring spectacle to see, in the late
animated contest in Georgia, the Union Demo
crats ignoring all former differences of opinion,
and linking themselves to the political fortunes
of our gallant standard bearer. The Union Dem
' ocrats could well afford to see a majority of of
fices in our State given to men who were for
merly Southern Rights men, because it is con
ceded that that party formed at least three
fourths of the preseat Democratic party. But,
in the spirit of fairness and conciliation, it must
likewise be conceded that the Union Democrats
were as honest in their motives and action as
ourselves, and we all know that theie were men
. in their ranks, ornaments to the State and Gov
erntnent, and capable of discharging the duties
of any office. Hence, I believe like you, that
policy and generosity alike demand that the
, Senatorial robe within the control and disposi
tion of the approaching Legislature, should be
) placed upon some worthy Union Democrat; ap.d
I likewise believe that your suggestion is ir.jost
wise and judicious, that the fortunate recipj ont of
i that honorable mantle should be the Hor,. How
i ell Cobb. His voluntary abandonme nt of the
i Union party when the questions were settled
• which brought it into life, and wh-.ch the Whigs
• sought to keep in existence for fneir own party
i ends and triumph, his gallant bearing in the late
exciting struggle, his position and influence in
; Georgia, and the malignity with which he is
now hunted down and persecuted by his late
Whig friends, conspire in pointing to him as the
i proper man for the office. And it is my honest
conviction that if wisdom shall guide the coun
. sei 9 the Democracy, and a spirit of liberality
| pervade its ranks, that the cherished principles
! of their time-honored faith will be in the aseen
j dant, at least io Georgia, for a cycle of years to
i come.
Oct. 29, 1853.
Mr. Editor: —The editorial contained in
your daily of Wednesday last, upon the subject
ol the election of a U. S. Senator by the next
Legislature, meets the hearty approval of all
true democrats with whom 1 have conversed.
For some time past, democratic sentiment in
this part ot the State, has been tending to the
point, that justice to the Union portion of the
! party requires that they should furnish the Sena
tor.
The reasons so strongly urged in the article
before alluded to, are perfectly conclusive to the
minds of all who really prefer the unity of the
party upon a firm and permanent basis, to the
advancement of particular favorites. It is cer
tain that without the aid of Union Democrats
| Judge Johnson would not have been elected
| Governor, nor, without such aid, can a democrat
be elected to any office by the Legislature.—
V\ hat folly then to pursue a course of proscrip
tion which will, and I will go further and say,
ought to drive our Union Democratic brethren
forever from us?
The Southern Rights portion of the party,
; foiming as they do, a large majority, should set
l an exam pl e ot magnanimity which will insure
j * or future, that union and harmony, so ne
cessary to the permanent success of our princi
ples.
Let our motto then be “everything for the
cause and nothing for men,” and all will go
right; but on the contrary, should old scores be
raked up, giving rise to heartburning and re-
then a long farewell, to the supre
macy of the Democratic Party in Georgia. An
other opening of the wound which is scarcely
cicatrized, would unquestionably result in a di
vision which wouTd be fatal and permanent.
If then the election of Mr. Cobb to the Senate,
is demanded by both justice and good policy, ■
what should prevent such a concentration of
strength in the Legislature as will accomplish
it? Nothing can or will prevent it, in the opin- ;
ion of the writer, but a total disregard of all j
those considerations which should influence the %
Democratic Party of Georgia in the present exi- 1
genoy.
For Gov. McDonald and Judge Warner, I en
tertain the highest respect, and should I be gov
erned by private considerations, one of them
would claim my most earnest support.
A Southern Rights Democrat.
CIP" The Northern mail due last evening at 3
o’clock did not arrive until about five. The de
lay was caused by tha locomotive running over
several cows. No damage sustained.
Another Murder.
We understand that a man by the name of
Patton, a cotton buyer, was killed in Hamburg
on Wednesday evening by Gus. Pryor. We did
not learn the particulars, but understand that
Patton’s throat was so badly cut that he died
shortly after the deed was done.
The Kunkel Troupe.
This celebrated troupe made their first ap
pearance in this city last evening, and although
the weather was unfavorable, still we were
pleased to see so good an attendance. Their is
much humor in their jokes, and their instrumen
tal music and dancing is very good. They per
form again this evening, and will no doubt be
greeted with a full house, as alll present last
ezening seemed to be highly delighted with their
performances.
Synod of Georgia. —The Athens Banner of
the 3d inst says—The Synod of Geogia held its
first meeting in this place last evening. No
business of importance transacted. The atten
dance good. We hope to be able to give a his
tory of the proceedings in our next.
The Charleston Courier of the 3d inst., says:
The Mills House” is opened this day, for the
reception of boarders and the travelling public :
and some of the handsomest and best appointed
carriages, we think we ever saw’, will be at the
Railroad Depot aud at the Wharves to convey
passengers to the House on the arrival of the
trains and steamers. A grand Banq«et will be
given by Mr. Nickerson, in honor of the opening
of this establishment, on Saturday afternoon
next, at half past three o’clock, to the Press of
this city and State, and that of Augusta and Sa
vannah. We trust that we shall have the plea
sure of greeting a goodly number of our editorial
brethren on the occasion.
> The First White Frost.
f The Savannah Courier of 2d inst., says : “We
1 are indebted to our intelligent and scientific
l friend Dr. Posey, lor the following interesting
table, showing the dates of the occurrence of the
first white frost ar.d the first ice in the city oj
Savannah, for the last ten years. We insert it
with much pleasure, as it inav hereaiter be in
teresting as a matter of reference. Itisbutpro
> per to state that the table notes the date at which
'< the thermometer indicated frost and ice, and not
the date at which either were seen or supposed
' to have been seen by persons in the city or vi
• cinity :
First Frost. First Ice.
, 1843,..., Oct. 28, Nov. 8.
1844, “ 29, Dec. 12.
1845 “ 22,.. t Nov. 28.
1 1840, “ 20 “ 26.
i 1847, u 28’ “ 26.
r 184%, “ 21, “ 20.
i 1849, “ 31 Dec. 12.
1850, “ 24, “ 8.
1 1851, “ 24
1852, Nov. 8, “ 12.
1553, Oct. 20,
‘ Robbery.—The Savannah Georgian of 2d,
inst., says: “A young man named Wm. Steel,
’ for some little time past clerk for Mr. Alexan
-5 der, Grocer, corner of Bull & Congress streets, in
this city, robbed the safe and money drawer of
his employer of about $250, on Monday evening
last, about 7 o’clock, while Mr. A. and another
clerk was temporally absent, with which he
decamped, leaving tihe store in charge of a negro
1 boy. Steel had only recently obtained the situ
ation, and had resided'in the city but a shoit
3 time. He was searched for soon after the money
3 was missed, but up "to this time no traces of his
1 where-abo.uts have been gained.
3 A Great Ten Mile Race for SIO,OOO.
t The New York Times says: “A match for
i SIO,OOO has just been made by the owners of
-two celebrated Geldings, one of which is Hero,
} the pacer, and the other is known as the Sorrel
d Gelding, of Hiram Woodruffs. The distance
t agreed upon by the parties is ten miles repeat
f on the Union Course. The horses are each
- equal in speed to any now on the Turf of the
e United States, and this long race has been made
d expressly with a view of testing the speed and
s bottom of Hero, which is claimed to be the fas
y test pacer in the world. It will probably be a
e thorough test of which is the best stcck in a race
ii of such long distance, and bids fair to create some
s considerable excitement among those who take
e an interest in good horses.
j. The Late Frost. —The .N. O. Picayune of
the 30th ult., says: “Our date “cold snap,”
r which brought with it the first true signs of win
j ter, seems to have been general, if not simulta
neous, in all the towns, villages and neighbor
> hoods from which we have heard in Alabama,
Mississippi and Lousiana. Frost on Tuesday
morning, the 25th of October, was about in all
the“diggins.” The late rains, .too, that we have
i had, have also been general.
The Cotton Crop of 1 852-3.
The New York Times , of Saturday the 29th,
publishes the following important table of the
Export value of the late Cotton (drop, as it will
appear in the official statistics of the Treasury
, Department for the financial yeax ending 30th
June hast, as furnished by its attentive Washing
ton Correspondent. The figures give the amount
and value shipped from each port:; and, the
Tim >s say?, may be relied upon, as they are with
a sin gle and very slight exception, derived from
official resources:
Exported from Pounds Value.
New Orleans C10.966.70t $57,352,186
Mo’aile 182,329,646 16,560,368
Ch<wleston 120,411,505 14,411,564
New York 104,211,674 11,651,210
Savannah 64,633.745 6,957,016
Apalachicola 18,431,339 1,646,319
Galveston 5,9 37,303 541,821
Philadelphia 2,16'9,141 257,626
Boston 2,041*5,095 233,195
Key West 120,284 20,880
St. Marks 109..300 8,747
Baltimore 44,4,90 *4,937
Vermont 4 96 0 437
Niagara...- 577" 32
Grand Tol al .. . .1,111,405,670 $109,646,357
Previous year 1,093,230,639 87.965.732
Increase, 1.853 15,175,031. ,$21,680,625
Average pxice per pound, 1853 K 9.14 cents.
Average p»rice per pound, 1852 8, 05 cents.
*The figures at Baltimore from Ist iVpril to
30th June, 1853, are not official.
Averaging the above total weights at 450
pounds to the bale, would give an export
Fm. July 1, ’52, to June 30, ’53.2,475,681 kbales.
Fm. July 1, ’sl, to June 30, ’52.2,435,292 biles.
Increased exports 1853 40,389 ba!*'s.
Arrested'.— On Monday last a roan who say* 1
his name is A. A. Collycr, was arrested at New
Orleans on a charge ot being the in dividual who
murdered a man named Bronson, in Georg ; a, and
afterwards broke jail. Collyer’s acc. wot of him
self while under the influence of liquor, was
such as to give much season for supp vaing him
to be the man wanted, so he was committed to I
jail, to await the requisition of the Governor of |
Georgia. )
Alexander Carroll, Esq , of the Charleston
Courier office, has been appointed the Charleston
agent of the European and American Telegraph -
ic Association.
Our Consul at Genoa.— The Washington
Union of Sunday has a lengthy article on°the
subject of the late announcement in the foreign
news to the effect that E. Felix Foresti an
Italian by birth, but for seventeen years a citi
zen here, and some time since appointed Consul
of the United States at Genoa, would not be. re
ceived by the Sardinian government. The Union
gives a history of Foresti, as a Piedmontese re
public, who wared against Austria, and was
finally betrayed and suffered long imprisonment,
while his betrayer, Carlo Alberto, (since dead
was rewarded with the crown of Sardinia. But
duiingthe European revolution, from 1847 to
’49, Foresti remained in New York, and the
President elects now to send him as an American
citizen and a brother republican to the monarchy
which has so long fought, and may have very
soon a 6 ain to fight, against Austria. She, there
fore, intervenes now once more against us, and
tries to compel the Sardinian government to be
false to itself, and to refuse to our consul his exe
quatur. Sardinia is the natural ally of Switzer
land, and thereby hangs a tale. The Union signi
ficantly adds:
“If, supposing that the telegraph and other
hints are true, of which the Department of
State has not received any official information,
it is intended to form a coalition of monarchs to
exclude from all the kingdoms ot Europe any
man who has offended against the laws of one,
the antagonists of the administration will not
find the President either undecided or unprepar
ed. The Austrian government, and its proprie
tors in St. Petersburg and elsewhere, must learn
that the United States cannot be brow-beaten or
tricked.
“We have every reason to believe that E. Fe
lix Foresti is, and will be, our consul at Genoa,
or there shall be none.”
Well, Timed. —The New York Journal of
Commerce well remarks on the causes of failure
among merchants, when it says:
“There are causes nearer home which compli
cate the web of our prosperity far more than the
Turkish question, but these seem to be over
looked, while undue importance is given to the
other. There may be war between Russia and
Turkey, and it is possible that: France and Eng
land may be involved in it; although we deem
the last improbable, and the first quite doubtful.
“But if we would stand well at home—if
merchants and merchants clerks would drop
dabbling in stock and other speculations, outside
of their regular business—if young beginners,
and houses with limited capital, would confine
themselves in a circle which they could span
with their own means, keeping down the ex
penses and aping neither the style nor manner
of millionaires—in short, if business men gen
erally would show a desire to develop some oth
er traits of character than the one ambition for
sudden wealth —the sabre and the cimetar might
clash on the borders of Europe, without creating
any excitement on this side of the Atlantic.”
Illness of Gov. Broome. —We regret to
learn that Gov. Broome has been confined to his
home for the last two weeks, by a severe attack
of illness. He w’as much better yesterday morn
ing, and it is to be hoped that he will soon be
able to attend again to the duties of his office.
His attack, we belive, was asthma, from which
several others in our vicinity have severely suf
fered.—Tallahassee Floridian , 29 Lh ult.
Nashville University—Medical Depart
ment. —The general introductory to the regular
course of Lectures, will be delivered by Profes
sor Paul Eve, at Odd Fellows’ Hall on Monday
evening, 7 o’clock. The number of Students
now in attendance, is one hundred and fifteen,
and constantly increasing It is confidently ex
pected that it will reach two hundred before the
close of the session.— Nashville Whig , 29 1 h ult.
A Voice from the Home of Gen. Cass
The Free Press, published at Detroit, the home
of Gen. Cass, is believed to speak that gentle
man’s sentiments. It is gratifying tosee that
it gives not the slightest encouragement to the
professed friends ot Gen. Cass, who in New York
are waging war upon the President. The Buffa
lo Courier having used the following language:
“In no section of the Union has the President
truer friends or 'more cordial supporters than
among the national Demociacy of New York,
and the efforts of the free-soilers and others to
place them in a position of antagonism to his
his administration w’ill signally fail.”
The organ of Gen. Cass thus replies:
Well said Mr. Courier; this is a cheering dec
laration.—But we notice that several ‘ national
Democratic ’ journals in New York.have a sin
gular way of showing their friendship and sup
port of the President. The best national demo
crat is he who always has, does now, and is de
termined in future to adhere to the national
Democratic party. Gen. Pierce is the present
representative of that party, and all good na
tional Democrats will sustain the policy of his ad
ministration. A ‘ hard shell’ who assaults the
ad ministration is no better than a ‘barnburner’
who betrays it. Neither will long be ‘ National
Democrats.’ ”
Yesterday the election of Mayor and Aider
men to serve lor two years took place, and of
2600 citizens who had paid their poll tax only
2089 voted. Last year 3138 votes were polled.
Neglect to register their names at the proper
time disfranchised a large number this year. The
managers will meet this morning at the City
Hall, count the votes and declare the result of
the election. We subjoin a statement of the
number of votes polled this year and last in the
several wards:
1853. 1552.
Ward No 1 284 436
Ward No 2 275 354
Ward No 3 445 701
Ward No 4 524 798
Ward No 5 161 271
Ward No 6 178 256
Ward No 711 l 138
Ward No 8 121 184
Total 2089 3138
[Ch. Cour, 3 d inst.
From Bermuda and St. Thomas— Accident
on Board the Stermer Merlin. —The British steam
ship Merlin arrived at New York on Saturday,
with dates from Bermuda to the 9th ult. A dread
ful accident occurred on board to Mr. Sutter,
chief engineer, as the Merlin was coming up the
harbor, which will no doubt prove fatal. It was
occasioned by the bursting of a cannon which
he had fired for a piiot. He received severe
wounds about his head, scattering part of his
brains upon the deck.
Business is looking up at St. Thomas The
health of the island is very good—never was
more so, weather very hot ond close.
The Danish vessel Enchantress, from Navy
Bay for Jamaica, with about 50 passengers, out
about thirty days, had not arrived at Jamaica.
Advices, however, had been received from Car
thagena that the Enchatress had put into that
port in great distress, the captain having died a
day previous to her arrival at that place, about
thirty of her passengers, and a large portion of
of her ciew\
The yellow' fever still prevailed in Bermuda,
but in a modified form. At the military hospital
at Ports’ Island there are fifty cases of fever, and
at the camp at Prospect Hill about twenty.
There are about half-a-dozen cases of fever, of a
milder type, in the vicinity of Hamilton.
The markets were active. Mess Beef was
selling at 565; N. Y. market do. 70s; Butter
per lb. Is 2d ; Corn Meal per bbl. 225; Hay per
100 lbs. 55s 6d ; Potatoes per bus. 5d ; Rice per
100 lbs. 255.
Cincinnati, Oct. 25.—1 n the Martha Wash
ington trial to-day, John Whitley, clerk of Kis
sane confessed that he perjured himself on his
examination before the commissioner, as to Kis
sane’s having shipped twelve hundred boxes of
candles on the steamer Martha Washington. He
swears that he knew of no such shipment, but
was induced by K-issane to perjure himself.
New Yore. Oct. 31.—A meeting of the mer
chants was held at the Exchange to-day, which
was organized by the election of G. B. Lamar
as chairman. Resolutions were passed denoun
cing the removal of Judge Bronson, but no
speeches were made. The meeting was fully
attended.
Portsmouth, Va., Oct. 31.—The Beacon of
fice in Norfolk was fired last night and the upper
part of the building much burnt. The materials \
were saved. I
BY TKLr,<;[{ AH|^>
Hutchison is eh.-i.d Kw ; X
Charleston, N ov
Cotton.— The maiket closes one ~~ P ' m '
:er Sales of the week 7,400
5f the week 6 850 bales. Stock exd '
an shipboard 17,940 bales. ‘ Us,Ve ofth at
New Orleans, Nov
Cotton.— The sales on Wedn* ■ p ' m
-000 bales. The better »*« 5,
firm. Decrease in receipts com» a
year is 195,000 bales. Freight* f
id. Sterling exchange 9j ° * ° I ‘‘ Ver Poo!
ConiiKfrrii!!/^'^
Augusta Market, Nov 3
COTTON—We b.vo bed
day for out-door transactions not."**
which there has been a good enquiry
Uty offering is light, and holders are very
\V elnesday s quotations. . y hr ® at
NEW ORLEANS. Out 29 -r „
since the 25th inst, 13,514 bale’ t'‘'~ Arr ived
of the week, 28,652 bales. Cleared re< %
inst., 4,815 bales Total exports of ,r CC the
bales. Stt ?, k L° P ress es, th w. eei{ '
cleared on tho 29th inst., 92 732 bale pboard tot
Our semi-woekly report closed upon a
and depressed Cotton market, the fWn, Ver y dull
movement in freights having been ml- f u P*»i4
mental in checking the demand (K y . iwt n»-
sumed some degree ot activity at th« i had «
previous week) and at the same time T of to
tling prices as to render quotations litt „ W ÜBs «-
nominal. Since then the market ha lL? reth& »
present the samo characteristics awl i muedt »
the demand at the moment, and uniW tv? eSCribed >
position of freights, being wholly inXn, ! pre߀nt
sensible impression upon the stock !vh‘v!® toan 7
nos to accumulate in the hands
standing that tho receipts are so far i°fv ", otwitl »-
of last year to same period. Thus thos *
the past three days has barely reache s in^ es3of
viz: 1,700 on Wednesday, 1,800 on Thir l bales '
1,600 yesterday; making a total for H daj ' and
10,100 bales, token for England France *8 W ® el? of
Continent, a D d tho North. As resS
have to remark that they exhibit ummTl"
lanty, as would naturally be expected I f
trifling character of the demand
tho stuck on sale, and whatever quotation*.?
must be looked upon as in a great measure
nal, for the reason that no extensive ao , Ur ® nomi '
effected at them, oven though they Le still fV®
reduced an * a 1 cent, since 8 ourlLt
the Ordinary and Inferior grades, whichStitutl
an unusually largo proportion of tho stock
stil unable to give any quotations, as they are ?
offers forthemf * —bletoTC
NEW-ORLEANS CLASSIFICATION
{Assimilating to that of Liverpool )
Interior ’
Ordinary to Good Ordinary nominal
Low Middling y
Middling g j ~
“-■swf ::::::::: w 1 ;,;
Go'odFair“!“>
Good and Fine ' * Eom J aa j
Grain —'the rainy weather, which has prevail!
most of tho tune since our last, has operated against
tho Corn market, serving to confine transaefons
within very narrow limits, and also to occasion a
considerable decline in prices During the ra<
three days barely 3.000 sacks have fourd nurchas
ers (including 2,500 yesterday) at a range of 66 a
75c. for i ferior to prime lots, the ruling rates how
ever, being 70 a 73c. per bushel. The sales of the
ontiro week are about 6,500 sacks.
Whisky. —The receipts of Whisky being W ill
rather limited, with a modoiate demand &
city trade, and for one or two neighboring marftats
prices have been sustained at 30 a 31c. per gallon
for Rectified,fthough with very limited sales. Thy
last sale of Common made public, was at 35c. per
gallon. Arrived during the past three days 1,75(1
bbls. Cleared during the same time, none.
Coffee —The dullness and inactivity noticed in
several of our previous reviews, still continues to
pervade the Rio Coffee market, the usual Western
demand being cut off, owing to the low stage of tho
rivers, and buyers for speculation showing no dis
position to operate at the asking rates. Under
these circumstances tho business has been extreme-*
ly limited throughout the week, the entire sales
not exceeding 1,000 bags, chiefiy at 10} a lflje.,
though the extreme range of prices is from S a 10!
per lb. for inferior to prime. No cargoes have ar
rived, though there is one now due. The stock on
band is about 49.500 bags, (including 11.000
in second hands) against 34,000 at same time last
season.
Freights. —To Liverpool, for Cotton, |d.: Havre,
lie., New Fork, sc.; and to Boston, Jc. per lb.
COLUMBUS, Oct. 29. Cotton. —Prices range
from 8J to 9 cents, for strict Good Middlings; ex
tremes from 7 to 9 j cents.
SAVANNAH, Nov. I. Cotton. —There was a
fair demand for this article, which resulted in the
sale of 629 bales at a very full range of prices.
The market closed very firm, prices being in favor
of sellers. The following comprise the sales: 94gt
7f ; 12 at 8; sat 8± : 15 at 8g; Bat 8i; 10 at
89-16; 63 at 8J ; 247 at 9; 29 at 9s; 22 at 9i; 9
at 9i, and 116 at 9j cents.
SAVANNAH EXPORTS-NOV. 1-
Per barque Seboois, for Boston—Bß,ooo feetc-
S. Lumber, and 40,00 feet Flooring Boards.
Per barque Maria Morton, for Boston —1,233
bales Upland Cotton, 100 bags Rice Flour.
Per brig Sophia, for Portland. Me.—85,773 fed
Lumber, and 30 bales Cotton.
Per brig S. Merrill, for St. Johns, N.B.—KM®
feet Timber. .
Per brig Eliza Wait, for Bath, Me.— loß,oo0 feet
Lumber, and 8,000 feet Timber.
Per brig Excel, for Boston—l,o42 bales Cotton,
and 300 bags Rice Flour.
MACON. Nov. 2 Cotton— There is a good de
mand tor fine qualities, with few sales ot late*-■
grades. Prices are from 7to 9cts.
The frost on the 25th ult„ wo believe was
thioughout the State, which will prevent ibe
turing of any more of tho cotton bolls, and ot eo -
considerablv curtail tho previous estimates o ,
crop. Wobeliove that it is generally
that the cotton crop of Georgia will not be a o
than that of last year which was a short one.
Receipts in October, 1852
Decrease
5197
Stcck, Ist November, 1852
’53
t ...3,075
Total receipts to Ist Nov.
Decrease * *
Sllippiin] Ji!lflli||.cnff.
cleared for charleston.
Barque Jasper, Bennett, at New York.
sailed for charleston.
bchr Volant, Cousins, Providence, K. l-
UP FOR CHARLESTON.
j Schr Shamrock, Travers, at Baltimore.
CHARLESTON. Nov. 3.—Arrived,
I Palmetto, Vardy, Baltimore; barque ’ 3C hr
drick, Boston; brig Acorn, Coombs.
j D. B. Warner, Harmon, New kora, l ‘ in phil*
Road, Providence, R. I.; Kensington, *- .
delpbia; R. J. Mercer, Robinson, Novr
Cleared, schr Speed, Somers, Ph'ladelpW y
Went to sea, steamslnp Southerner.
barque Irvine, Whitty, Liverpool; scare
Eagle, Fernander, Nassau, N. Pd Utaraet,
New York; Helene, Jones,New *o^
SAVANNAH, Nov. I.—Arrived,
ida, Merritt S. Woodhull, Commander, jn qp .
brig Carribbeo, Dunton, Bath, i g.M ft
Mercer, Higbee, Philadelphia; steam ‘
calf, Powell, Augusta: A. Sibley, Jb'
Cleared, barques Seboois, Coleman, 7 g®»ll>
ria Morton, Bulkley, do.; brigs P .
Portland, Me ;S- Merrill, Means, A.J an , Bos-
Eliza Wait, Tabot, Bath, Me.; Excel, I««®
ton. . ,<• Powell,
Departed, steamer T. S.
MARKIED. m Binney-
On Thursday, 3d inst., by tko t ‘ e \ii s sßx,* A!loS
Mr. Wm. A. Bain,of Baltimore, to
M. Cogdell, of this city.
Baltimore Sunjdeasojjopy^^^^^^
WED, ti,* 70th
At his residence on tho Sand 1 0 f Jion,
year of his ago Elisha ’ a c iti* 0D
Carolina, for the last fifteen y
Richmond county.
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