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*1 I, - I —— ' UV JAMES GARDNER. F, Ui'KICK ON MoiNTinsH-STREET, ».|J« KHOJI TUB KOk I'll-W KST CORNUK OF hboid-stbbkt . TERMS: D*iljr, in adrsae* .per annum $6 00 it uot in advance .T.. .per annum 7 00 Tci-Weekly. in adrauce .per annum 4 U 0 Em?*' It not ic advance por annum,..... 0 00 fcifo Weekly, to advance....per annum 2Ou Discount foe Clubs. " Tight Times. XRrfftap is around again. He has been in town lor a week. He may be seen on Change every dayn He is over on the Pier, along Quay* yjstreet, up Bioau-way, stalks up State-street, teoka in at the banks, and lounges in the hotels. He bores our merchants, and seat* hi::—if cofcily in lawyers’ offices. He is ever*-Tvhere. A great disturber of* the public quiet, a pesti- feUow is this same Tight Times. Every bodyoaiks abopt very bod v looks out for biiii, S£#fyrafe?yriates him, and a great many hftfffwords and no littie prouue epithets are bes towed upon him. Everybody would avoid him if they could, everybody would huss him from ’Change, boot him off the Pier, chase him from OQuay-street, bustle him out of Broadway, kick trim out of the bank-, throw him out ofthe store?, out of the hotels, they can t. Tight Times h,is a bofel At- bun, he will stick. HmN are IF thrown away on bun, lavished in vain, kicks, cuffs, profanity are aIT thrown away on him. He is impervious to them all. An impudent feifow is Tight Tim A i |- a discount, and he looks over your shoulder. " winks at f hr* cashier, and your note is thrown out. Ask a loan of the usurers at one per cent, a month, helooks over your securities and mark, two and a half. Present a bill to your debtors Tight Times shrugs his shoulders, rolls up his eyes.and you must call again. A wile asks for a fashionable brocade, a daughter for a new bon net; be puts in his caveat, and the brocade and bonnet are postponed. A great depredator of stocks is Tight Times. He steps in among the brokers and down goes Central to par, to ninety-five, ninety, eighty five. He plays the deuce with Michigan Cen tral, with Michigan Southern, with Hudson River, with New York and Erie. He goes along the railroads in process of construction, and the Irbhmer. throw down their shovels and walk away. He puts his mark upon railroad bonds, , and they lind no purchasers, are hissed out of gjpL. markka become obsolutely dead. exploder of hubbies is Tight Times. He looks into the affairsjof gold companies, and they fly to pieces; into Kiting banks, and they ! stop payment; into rickety insurance companies, and they vanish away. He walks around corner lots, draws a line across lithographic cities, and they disappear. He leaves his loot-print among mines, and the rich metal becomes dross. He , breathes upon the cunningest schemes ol specu lation, and they burst like a torpedo. A hard toaster for the {roar, a cruel enemy to the laboiing masses, is Tight Times. He takes the mechanic irom his bench, the laborer from his work, tbe hod-carrier from his ladder. He runs up the prices of provisions, and he runs down the wages ol labor. He runs up the pi ice of fuel, and he luns down the ability to purchase ■ it atany price. He makes little children hun wid cry for lood—cold and cry for fire and He makes poor women sad, makes ; * mottieis weep, discourages tbe hearts of fathers, | carries care and anxiety into families, and sits a desolation in the corner and on the ■dearth stones of the poor. A hard master to the [Hjpnr, is Tight Times. ■A curious fellow is Tight Times, full of idiosyn (peiacfos and crotchets. A cosmopolite—a wan p derer too. Where he comes from nobody knows, ■§l' and where be goes nobody knows. He flashes Wm along tbe telegraph wires, he takes a free pas sage in the cars, he seats himself in the stages or m goes along tbe turnpikes on foot. He is a gen ” tlenian on Wall-street to-day, and a back settler on the borders of civilization to-morrow. We bear of him in London, in Paris, in St. Peters burg, at Vienna, Berlin, at Constantinople, at Calcutta, in China, all over the Commercial World, in every great city, in every rural district —everywhere. There is one way to avoid being bored by this troublesome fellow, Tight Times. It is the only way for a country, a city, a town, as well as in dividual men to keep shut out of his presence always. Let the country that would banish him beware of extravagance, of speculation, of over trading, ol embarking in visionary schemes of aggrandizement. Let it keep out of wars, avoid all internal commotions, and go right along, taking care of ffs own interests and husbanding its re sources. Let the city that would exclude him be economical in its expenditures, indulging in no schemes of speculation, making no useless im provements, building no railroads that it cannot pay for, withholding its credit from mushroom corporations, keeping down its taxes, and going light along, taking care of its own interests and husbanding its own resources. Let the indivi dual man who would exclude him from his do mestic circle be industrious, frugal, keeping out of the whirlpool of politics, indulging no taste tor office, bolding up his dish when pudding falls from the clouds, laying by something when the sun shines to make up for the dark days, for “ Some days must he dark and dreary;” working on always with a heart full of confi dence in the good providence of God, and cheer ful in the hope of “the good time coming.”— jilbany Register. * [ Special Corresj)tudence of the Picayune .] Baltimore, Nov. 11, 1854. Hard times and a tight money market seem to be the absorbing topics of conversation at pre sent. Our merchants have been strapped to the girt for some weeks past—the dry goods men especially. A large amount of their paper tell 1 due from ti e Ist to the 18th inst. These w T ere notes given and their payment predicated on the fall Uufortunately, business has been very dull—not more, on an average, than one halt what it should have been. Hence, when j the time came round to meet large payments, merchants found their old goods instead of ready money on hand, and some of them were obliged to suspend, whilst others borrowed, and are bor rowing at ruinous discounts. It would really seem that the times are out of 2 joiut. Confidence, too, that great cementer of * trade and safeguard of the social comfort, is sad- i ly wanting—thus the upright and trustworthy are brought to in evils which they had no hand in producing. That there is money abundant in the country, | I mean amongst the farmers and agriculturalists | of the country, there can be no doubt, indeed, ! they have more ot it than possessed by them for manp years The very highest prices have been obtained for their produce; but the misfortune is, the means of these prudent persons is kept locked up or put away in stockings, and it doe 9 not come to town. There is no complaint of hard times in the country, but a want of confi- j dence in their wayward city friends keeps the ; rural inhabitants rather to themselves. We have been living too fast. I saw a young lady the other day who exhibited a pocket hand- I kerchief, magnificently worked, that she paid | one hundred dollars for, and another who wore a veil costing five hundred dollars. It is not at all j uncommon to see these luxuries. A sweet maiden of sixteen boasts that her dress cost one thousand to fifteen hundred dol lars—her shawl probably two hundred. Whole etomagers of gems glitter upon her person Miss A. is told that Miss B. has been out shopping and I gotten so and so. Miss B. is not to be outdone, and she shops the next day, outshining them all. Her father is reported rich, his credit good, and thus bills are swelled to an inteiminabie length. Fast young men, too, go it upon the same high pressure principle —fast horses, fine dogs, costly guns, a buggy driver, and other appendages must be had. Money gives out, and there is uo re production. Idleness absorbs lile and all else.— “ By pride, angels have fallen.” Sosays Claude Meinotte most truthfully; and to this system of false pride may he traced ten thousand evils. A day of reckoning has to come. Credits run out, bills must be paid, and perhaps we find the pa rents of these extremely fashionable and timo rous young lauies and their brothers ground to the very earth, stripped to the girt, passing sleep less nights and miserable days, to raise the means to pay for such abominable extravagancies. We often hear complaints, amid the pressure ot hard times, that ail our gold and silver is being shipped to F.urope, and that the balance of ex- i change is largely against us. Going from small ! things up to larger ones, aud taking in the ag gregate, this may easily be accounted for Ttie hoe materials spoken of above come Jrom Eu- I Jope T they are mad# there. Wa wear tbam out. Our gold goes to pay for them, and there is nothing left to reproduce value. The sub stance of a five hundred dollar veil when reduced to its intrinsic value, (ashes) would not lruetify or produce ten grains of wheat. There is no difficulty then in accounting for the scarcity of money or hard times. Pride, with her eon-com itant lollies, is at the bottom of all. The Old Town of Goliad. Those who have lived lor some years in this State are acquainted with the history of the old town of Goliad or La Bahia. It was founded at an early period after the arrival of the Spaniards in Texas. The town is ou the west bank of the San Antonio river. It once contained - near three thousand inhabitants. war be tween Spain and Mexico. Vnterrez was besieged in the Mission bye , ar g e Spanish force, but beat them The Missionary Priests had in cu»'ge a large number of Indians. These *sere controlled by overseers and compelled to woik. Many ol them acquired considerable property in cattle and horses. By Irequent in termarriages with Mexicans and casualities these tribes ha veal most disappeared. Goliad was at one time a place of business. The trade carried on between it and the Rio Grande towns was by no means inconsiderable. It was a sort of half-way house between differ ent points for the transfer and barter of merchan dise and various products There was a custom house near the old Mission tort, the ruins of which yet remain. &The church proper consists of an oblong room about 20 by 80. It is now used for worship. The church fixtures and adornments are plain and un ostentatious. The officiating Priest is a French man. He complains of a want of interest in re ligious matters on the part of his parishioners and the inadequacy of his salary. The roof of the church is arched and composed of solid masonry. It is surrounded by a strong stone wall some 350 feet square—at each corner is a bastion out of repair. The whole com mands the San Antonio river and the town. It was in this place that Fannin could have made his best defence against the Mexicans in 1836. He is said to have had an abundance of provisions, plenty of arms and amunition. When he decided to retreat he burnt his provisions in the church beneath the choir. The marks ol the flames are still visible on the walls. These works have been constructed many years. On top of the church and in the bastion at the north-west corner a couple of trees are growing. The Mexicans call them Anacuas. In the northwest corner of the wall are the ruins of a lage building once occupied as a quarter for troops and officers, and also used as a Court House. Col. Fannin destroyed many of the houses and prepared for a vigorous defence. When he re ceived Gen. Houston’s order to fall back he de layed his departure to concentrate the Texian forces. Ward & King were thirty miles distant at Refugio. Grant on the Agua Dulco, 80 miles distant and Pierce at San Patricio 60 miles. The detachments were attacked and beaten in detail by the Mexicans. Near the Fort are the points where Fannin’s men were butchered. He was ‘shot inside the wall near the guard-house, which is much dilap idated. Near where he is said to have closed his career there lies a long iron twelve pounder. The old town of Goliad is classic, venerated ground. It is consecrated in the hearts of every Texan. Here a bloody offering was made upon the shrine of liberty by the sacrifice of men bat tling in the holiest of causes. Here perfidy com ! pleted a work oppresion had contemplated. The i funeral wail which ascended to Heaven from : many a woestricken heart made sad and desolate j by this massacree was an overture, a prelude to the song of triumph which arose from the plains of San Jacinto, where a crimson field was piled with dead, and where the dreadiul war-cry of vengence bore back the minds of victors and vanquished to the “ Alamo” and to“ Goliad.” j The “old town is inhabited principally by Mexicans. There are some sixty or seventy ! families. The houses are built in the Mexican j style, presenting quite a contrast to the architec j tore of the new town on the west side of the i river. There are four stores. Among the resident# there are several exiles ! from Mexico. There is quite a good looking old Greek called by the inhabitants Don Pedro Villa. He signs bis ..name “P. V. Sarats.” He was born at Missoloughi in Greece and mentioned it as remarkable for its defence against tbe Turks in 1825-6, and the death-place ot Lord Byron. Pedro Villa has lived fifty-two years in the United States—says he is sixty-seven years old, i but has the reputation of being quite an hundred | There is a race track in the edge of the town, j On Sundays the people attend mass in the morn | ing and in the evening cock-fights and fandan j goes. The manners of the residents are essen i tially Mexican. Here are a couple of towns j divided by a small river displaying traits of nationality as distinct and variable as it is possi ; ble for them to exist. —Texas State Time*. [From the New Orleam Picayune ,| Slavers in New York. Not long since we wrote an article on the subject of the African slave trade, suggested by the abusive tone of several Northern journals,on the subject ot the apprehended effort to legalize it again in this country. The South was assail ed as eagerly pressing the repeal of the law by which this traffic is prohibited with a view of replenishing their stock of negroes from the j coast of Africa, and thus reviving the horrors so often and so vividly portrayed of the “detesta ble” trade. We took occasion to show that when the slave trade was legal, the grand bulk of ali the importations was made by Northern j men in Northern ships, on Northern account, and j that since the passing of the prohibitory laws the illict traffic, whenever detected, has been in variably traced to the capitalists and adventur ers of the North, and that the South is entirely clear of any participation in it, directly or indi j reetly. And we concluded that if the history of the 1 past is tabe any guide to our judgment of the fu j ture, we might say with confidence the reopening ! of the trade, if it were possible, would bring a rush of Northern capital into it, thrusting out of the way any Southern men who might desire to embark in it. The same experience of the past advised us that the desire to embark in the trade is powerful at the North, and is so strong that even now, in spite of the prohibitory laws, and j in the midst of the public clamor there against the slaveholding South, as criminal enslaves of the black man, the slave trade is carried on to a great extent now, from the ports of the North. Unexpected light has been thrown on the sub ject, adducing the strongest possible corrobora tion of these opinions. A case has just been fried in the United States Circuit Court of New York, resulting in a conviction for piratical slave dealing. The testimony shows that the' en terprise was Northern altogether. The brig Julia Moulton was purchased in Bos ton, by one James Smith, in February last, taken to New York and fitted out as a slaver. Her crew were engaged there, and she dared for the Cape of Good Hope. They went however, to the coast of Africa, where they took on board six hundred and sixty-four negroes, who, after a voyage of sixty-five days were lan ded on the Southern coast of Cuba; after which, the brig was dismantled and burnt, and the cap tain and mate returned to New York, where they quarreled about wages, and the consequence was the disclosure of the nature of the voyage and the indictment and conviction of the captain. The case is most important as demonstrating, by the evidence produced at the trial,and by the conclusions to which it forces the journals of the place, that it is one of a class. It was shown therein how easily the traffic can be carried on from New York ; and it is asserted that it is car ried on largely and constantly. Mr. McKeon, the District Attorney of the United States af firmed in his plea tor conviction “ New York is the very depot for this nafarious traffic,” and in timates that the parties are dangerous and des perate. He says, ‘“there are real daggers in the hands of the persons engaged in this traffic in this city, and any man’s life is in danger who at tempts to expose them.” The Times owns that u scarcely a month pass es in which there are not one or more vessels cleared at this pbrt, (New York) which embark at once in the slave trade, and land their cargoes on the coast of Cuba. The facts given in evi dence on this trial show how easily this is done, and with what perfect impunity,so long as all the parties engaged in it are paid satisfactorily for keeping silent.” The New York Tribune says : it is, of course, certain that the captain and crew of the ship are not the only pirates en gaged in that particular transaction. There are ship buildeis and mercantile speculators involv ed with them, though notjfeith them brought to justice, ft is equally clealKhat the case of the Julia Moulton is one of many, with the single difference that this one is found out. And he points his reprobation still more di rectly, as follows : There are now in New York, wallowing in wealth, living in sumptuous palaces up town, and driving splendid equipages, men called mer-" chants, (“ merchant princes” is a term some times applied,) whohavfe for years, uninterrupt edly, been engaged in the internal slave trade, and who, if they had their deserts, acpow*’fng to law, would be swinging on a gftMcivs as high as Haman. By chance the \*-ay is now opened , one villain is finally convicted; let the authori ties do their fluty, and a score or a hundred more mav-Se found equally guilty. These are significant avowals. New York is the depot of the African slave trade, and her “ merchant princes” are the abettors of piracy. Here is a wide domestic field opened at once for the exercise of the zeal, the labors and the money, of the New York Abolitionists, where they will meet with warm wishes for their suc cess from all quarters. Let them extirpate the slave trade carried on in New York ; let them hunt out and bring to trial and punishment the scores of “ merchant princes ’’ who are wallow ing in wealth, derived from the profits of the slave trade; let them cleanse their own atmos phere as this foul pollution, and drive out from among themselves the traffickers in crime, even though they sit in high seats and fare sumptu ously. ride in splendid carriages, are millionaires in Wall street, and nabobs on the Fifth Avenue. The respect and the cordial sympathy of the Southern slaveholders will go with them to the end, cheering and applauding, in their philan thropic effort to maintain the supremacy of the law, and to put down this horrible trade, which stains the free States. But until this effort has succeeded in extirpa ting this lawless traffic at the North, or at least until it has been honorably made and firmly per severed in with half the zeal with which slave ry at a distance is denounced and hunted down, we think that they who confess the existence of these enormous crimes unpunished under their own eyes, should, in decency, cease to come abroad in order to find means for easing their consciences, or expending their means and their sympathy. But in the face of these disclosures, they must be the most audacious of hypocrites, or the dullest of dupes, who borne away from the evil which is at their doors, or withip. their walls, and the guilty authors are sitting at their fireside, to fill the country with clamors of alarms against the Southern States, as peculiar patrons of the hated traffic. The South, which never respected, and little practiced it, when it was lawful, which turned from it with instinct ive rectitude and a just pride of character when it was forbidden, and which notwithstanding its mighty interest in slaveholding, has refused to respond to the suggestion among a few of her own sons, that the reopening of the trade, under legal restrictions to deprive it of its severities and horrors, would contribute to her own strength and security. [From the London Diogenes .] Sebastopol Taken by the All-lies. Who took Sebastopol ? I. sass the Times ; With telegraphic lines, I took Sebastopol. It may now be confidently stated that the forts of Sebastopol fell successively before the com bined powers of the assailants; that at least half the Russian fleet perished; ti at the flags of the Allies were waving on the church of St Vladi mir, and that on the 26th, Prince Mensehikoff surrendered the place.— Times , Oct. 4. Never since the days of Napoleon—we may almost say since the days of Caesar—has an ex ploit of arms been attended with such entire or instantaneous success.— Times , Oct 5. Who saw it fall ? I, said the Chronicle ? With triumph sardonical, I saw it tall. We feel the fullest assurance that Sebastopol has fallen,and we look to receive, at any moment, intelligence which shall place beyond all doubt that splendid achievment of the Allied armies Morning Chronicle , Oct. 3. Who saw the Russians run ? I, said the Post; x I saw the host Os beaten Russians run. ‘•Sebastopol is taken ! * * Merischikoff hav ing betaken himself to the fleet, made with them to the inner harbor with so much of it as re mained.—Morning Post, Oct. 3.' Who saw them bleed? I, said the-Daily News, (To keep up the ruse,) I saw them bleed. “Let the reader fancy to himself the loaring and reverberation ot all this artillery in a space of some three miles long And, last of all, let him imagine in the midst of this artitic.al volcanic eruption, masses of human beings inter changing sabre blows and bayonet thrusts, closing in death grapples, panting with exhaustion, fe vered with quenchless th.rst, writhing in mortal agony. Ot the Russians 18,000 are said to have been killed in this man-made hell.— Duilu News Oct. 4. Who’ll dig his grave? I, said the Advertiser, (Urquhart’s improviser;) I’ll dig his grave. “With the prestige of his name and arms com pletely gone, Nicholas will not only cease to be respected by his subjects, but his life will be in danger from the dagger of the assassiD, or the poisoned chalice of some rne sustaining a closer relationship than that of subject.”— Morning Advertiser, Oct. 3. Who’ll preach a sermon? [,said the Globe; I’ll don the parson’s robe; I’ll preach a sermon. “How„far too valuable to have been allowed to think of blowing himself up to Sebastopol—as right hand man for the Autocrat of all the Rus sians still left to Peter’s successor, by the result of the appeal to arms so haughtily accepted by him—is a Menschikoff, whose bulletins are thus planned, and thus dated!— Globe, Oct. 3. Who’ll toll the bell? I, said the Sun. (Though he gloried in the fun.) I’ll toil the bell. “Vengeance! Yes, in this mild, sentimental age, we deliberately call for vengeance. The blood of our soldiers’ shed in a righteous cause, demands it as loudly as lid the blood of the first victim of hellish passions. Blood for blood, we ask not, unless, indeed, a Czar could be made to atone for his military murders, as a Charles Stuart once did.”— Sun, Oct. 3. All the people in the land Began to doubt their eyes, To see their daily papers Put forth such awful lies! Monetary' Affairs in New York.—The New York Times of Monday says. “Our mar ket for money is something easier for loans at call or on very short time, the collaterals being unexceptionable. The bank managers, we think, feel more comfortable than last week, owing to the general look of the averages which they reported to-day. The amount of specie going to Boston to morrow afternoon for Wed nesday’s steamer is about 400,000.” The New York Journal of Commerce of Mon day says : “ Wall street is still in dumps, with out exactly knowing what is the matter. The j horizon seemed brighter early in the morning, ; but, as the smoke from the fire in Broadway came floating in the street, ‘ men’s minds failed them for fear;’ stocks fell and money became unusually tight. We do not desire to treat these troubles with levity, because, however imagina ry the cause, they are seriously felt by those within the grasp ot the pressure; but, if the re sults were less disastrous, we could hardly re frain from smiling at the ludicrous cadaverous ness of those who, amidst the general distress, are suffering from nothing but panic; men with long purses, long faces, and wo-begone counte nances, who are all the while nervously feeling of the buttons over their pockets, as if the con tents of these receptacles had as many legs as a crab and would march off without warning if not constantly watched.” The Journal of Commerce attiibutes the de pression in the money market to a causeless panic, and remarks that it is directed toward the securities the least likely to be permanently as- j fected by a ievulsion in trade, such as finished I railroads earning a divided. It also says : “ While the shipping interests, rents, manu facturing establishments, insurance companies, banks, merchandise, &c. are paying far less than at this time last year upon the capital invested, our first-class railroads, with few exceptions, are paying more, as a brief comparison wilt show. Who is Doesticks ! —Doesticks, whose arti-, cles, published in the Detroit Advertiser, have been copied so extensively for their wit and satire,says the New York Post, is a modest! young clerk in this city, whose life thus far has only spanned some twenty-three years, and he is disinclined, at present, to part with his anony mous obscurity, fie has nothing to offer the publishers at prssent, and when he has, it ever, he thir.hs it will be time enough to reveal his ■ft hereabouts and whatabouts. He is not looking to literature as a profession,sees no literary merit in what he has done, writes to the Detroit Ad vertiser to oblige a younger brother who is con nected with that journal, and for no other object He was one of the students of Michigan Univer sity, who were expelied some years ago under the decree issued against secret societies in that institution. His father is a lawyer of some rank, of Ann Arbor Michigan. “Doestick’s on a Bender” was the first of the series that was publ'shed. It was written in a private letter to a friend, who gave it to the edi tor of the Peninsula Quarterly & University Magazine—a periodical published at Ann Arbor, which had a brief but creditable existence. The attention which it attracted led to the publica tion of others, until now, fourteen have appeared. They all contain passages of wit and humor which linger in the memory, and display pow ers of observation from whjch much may yet be expected. * aI^GIISTa' WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 29. 03*“ “ Many Voters” can get the money en closed fora uotice which we decline to insert, by calling at this office, and paying for this notice. Money Wanted. The approaching State Fair will bring many persons to our city from various portions of this State and South Carolina. We hope all ol our debtors who come, or who have neighbors com ing to the city, will bear us in mind and bring or remit the little sums respectively due us. Never before was so much money due this office, and never before was it as nh»ch needed. Southern Central Agricultural Fair. This great annual festival, which has for year s done so much for every department ol Agricul ture in Georgia, is again at hand with all its ex citements and attractions. Each succeeding year has added to the completeness of the organ ization of the Society, to the judic'ousness of its arrangements, and to the extent and variety of the objects of interest brought together for the eye of the practical farmer, of the skillful me chanist, of the enterprising manufacturer, or the industrious tradesman. The model planter and the model housekeeper can here annually learn new lessons of hnsbandry and domestic thrift. Improved seeds for the sower, improved breeds for the stock-raiser, improved implements, im proved machinery, are all to be exhibited and descanted upon. Much that addresses itself to refined taste in the arts, as well as the lo’ e of the beautiful in nature, will add to the attractions of a scene where the ornamental is not wholly overshadowed by the useful. Both combine their attractions to interest, instruct and amuse. We hope that the Fair next week will be honored by a full representation ol the industry, the intelligence, the wealth, the beauty and the refinement of this State ami the adjoining States. What the attractions of this exhibition will be, we are not prepared to say, and must refer to the advertisement of the Society. But judging of this, by the past, and allovying for the usual progressive improvement, we have a right to look for a most creditable display. Our city, is prepared to do ail her duty in the effort to make her visitors comfortable and happy. Revival of the Slave Trade. In another column will be found an aiticle from the N. O. Picayune , suggested by the recent trial in New Yorfc,of Capt. Smith, tor piratical slave dealing, in which a sharp practical lecture is read to the Abolitionists. A fruitful and far more useful field for their philanthrophy is there pointed out to them, than that which has hither to employed their thoughts and attention. As to the merits of the question of the revival of the Slave Trade, we do not feel that there is occa sion now for the discussion. If it were desira ble for the South, as a matter of policy, there is no chance for it. The Constitution of the" Uni ted States the trade, and public sentiment is not in favor of any change, either North or South. If revived, there is no doubt that the traffic would be in the hands of the people of the North exclusively, as it was prior to its prohibi tion. The South has never evinced any partic ular taste for such commercial adventures.— Even now, though made piracy by luvv, North ern capital, Northern vessels and crews, are engaged in it. But there is not the first instance to be quoted against the Southern States, of a cargo ol Slaves having been introduced upon her shores, since the constitutional inhibition. Yet her thousands of miles of unguarded sea coast offer the amplest facilities for the illicit traffic. As a question ol philanthropy, we are clearly of opinion that the revival of the Slave Trade, by the sanction of law, would confer blessings innumerable upon the African race. Contrast the happy condition of the three or four millions of our Southern Slaves with the brutal ams mis erable savages of Africa, and who can doubt that the latter would be infinitely blessed by the change, could they be transplanted as the de mands of agriculture might prompt, to the soil of the Southern planting States ? To the South the movement would give in creased wealth and increased political strength and importance by the rapid filling up of the sparsely populated states, where millions of acres still lie in their virgin freshneas,awaitingthe hand of cultivation through the present slow process ol immigration and natural increase. But it would, temporarily at icast, produce great disturbance to the present value of property in the old states. It would bring down very rapidly the value of slaves, perhaps to the extent of rendering that species of property no longer a desirable invest ment in Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky. While slave states would be increasing at the South-west, they would be diminishing on our i Northern bordei. The vaiue of all labor would be depressed owing to the competition produced fy the great influx among us of slaves from Africa, bought at j less than half the present value of slaves. This would have a bad influence on the mechanica j and other manual pursuits at the South now employing a large and valuable white population. J It would seriously check many departments of skillful enterprize and drive from among us many of our hardy and useful citizens, whose labor is now as well rewarded here as it would be in the Northern States. But it is unnecessary to enlarge further on this ! topic, because it is merely a matter of curious j speculation— not one having a practical bearing. ‘ To the North be it said, remove the beam from ’ your own eye. To the Abolitionist, you have ' work enough at home to fully occupy your phil- j anthrophy for the African race. The Austin Texas Gazette contains the letter from Governor Psase in relation to the depo sit by the Pacific Railroad Company of stock of * a doubtful character in lieu of the $300,000. The terms of rejection are decisive and final. Hon. Robert W. Johnson, who served in the last session of the U. S., Senate as the represen tative of Arkansas, by appointment of the Gov ernor, has been unanimously elected by the Legislature to continue in the same place. City of Savannah. We are inSebted.to His Honor, John E. Ward, Mayor, for a neat pamphlet copy of his official rejiort to his fellow citizens of Savannah. It contains a full statement ol the condition ol the city, its finances, &e., together with many inter esting statistics of the late epidemic. The fiscal affairs of the city are sound and flourishing. The funded liabilities amount to $1,024,134.50. The value of the stocks and real estate held by it, $1,637,127.09. These figures, added to the flatering prospects of the city for a yearly increasing trade and prosperity, j ought to place her credit on a high basis. After elaborately discussing the suhject of the Yellow Fever, and presenting a thorough view of the facts, the Mayor thus concludes: “ l can ordy regard it as an atmospheric storm passing over the whole southern country and taking our city in its course. It doubtless fol lowed certain definite laws, but so did the tem pest that swept over our city on the Bth day of September. They .both expressed the will of the great law giver—of Him, at whose command the storm and the pestilence arises and pursues its course, baffling the power or the skill of man until it has accomplished His wise, purposes. It may be that He will again command the pesti lence to desolate our city, and to hush the accents in our homes, but there is no more reason to ap prehend its return from any local cause existing around us, than to dread another hurricane on the Bth of September next. We must still wit ness, every where around us, the momorials of our losses, but with a firm reliance on His mercy, who has so long blessed us with uninterrupted prosperity, and an, abiding confidence in His power who has stood between the living and the I dead, let us be true to ourselves and the prosper ity of our city, and the happiness of her people will soon be restored. Attacked with the epidemic on the 7th of Sep tember, I was for some time unable to discharge the duties of my office. During that period, its arduous labors were cheerfully and zealously performed by Dr. James P Screven, surrounded by death and despondency, in the midst of dan gers which might well have appailed “the bra vest of the brave.” Not a candidate for re-election, I will avail myself of this opportunity, to express my most ; grateful acknowledgements to the people ol | Savannah, for that confidence which has repeat edly elevated me to offices of honor and trust, ; for that Charity with which my acts have been | judged, and for that personal kindness which I i have ever received from them.” Very respectfully and truly, Your obedient servant, John E. Ward, Mayor. The gasometer of the Manhattan Gas Com rj>any’s, at New York, which was partially des troyed by fire on Tuesday night, exploded on Wednesday evening, and occasioned some dam age. Several workmen who were at the time employed on the ruins, in removing the rubbish, narrowly escaped with their lives. Sumuel Gordon one of the party had both his legs bro ken and sustained other injuries, from which he will scarcely recover. James Hall, conductor of a freight train on the Pennsylvania rail road, had one of his -legs torn off, on Wednesday, near Lewistown, as he was in the act of detaching a portion ol the train while in motion. He died in a tew hours after wards. We learn from the Columbia Times that Mr. j Henry Eggeos, an assistant upon the freight train of cars from Charleston, on Sunday, after the cars had started, about nine miles below Co lumbia, attempting to pass frorp the tender to ' the engine, slipped, fell and received injuries in the fall which terminated his existence in a few moments. This unfortunate individual, it is stated; had a family residing in Nrw York. i , The splended new ship Monarch of the Sea, of 2300 tons burthern, by Capt. Wm. R. Gard ner, will sail from New York on the 29th in stant for Pensacola, for the purpose of testing the floating dock lately built there for the United i States Government! The Florida Legislature met at Tallahassee on Monday. In the Senate there are II Demo crats to 7 Whigs. In the House of Represen tatives there are 23 Democrats and 17 Whigs. There i* a United States Senator, Comptroller of Public Accounts, State Treasurer, State Engineer and Geologist, to be elected by the Legislature. Some idea of the commerce of New York may be gathered from the fact, that the fees paid to the pilots taking vessels to and from New York, now amount to about two hundred thousand dol lars a year. After the loss of the Arctic many papers con tained long biographical accounts ot the Duke De Grammont, who was said to be among the number that was drowned. It appears that the : Duke I)e Grammont is and has been for some time-an inmate of an insane asylum in France, and that it was his son who was lost. Levi Hartford, one of those patriots who suf fered so terribly by imprisonment by the British, in the Sugar House, at New York, during the re j volutionary war, died in the latter city a few ; days ago. A few years ago he was named as one of the four smvivors of the horrible torment en ! dured in that place. Machinery. —President Hitchcock says that there are in Great Britain, at the present day, i fifteen thousand steam engines driven by means of coal with a power equal to that of two mil lion of men; and thus is put into operation ma chinery equalling the unaided power of 300,000,- 000 or 400,000,000 of men. The influence thence j emanating reaches the remotest portions of the globe, and tends mightily to the civilization and happiness of the race. Naval Preparations. —Our distant cotempo* i raries, says the Washington Star, have been led i into error by those Washington correspondents who report that there is just now the unusual ac | tivity displayed in the United States navy yards ! which betokens something more than ordinary preparations. Between this time and spring the Mediterranean, African coast, and West India I (home) squadrons are all to return, and their | places have ail to be supplied as usual, the vessels now expected home, going into ordinary. The preparations referred to above are simply to get ready vessels to supply their places. The United States Senate. —Twenty-seven Democrats have been elected or hold over in the next United States Senate. The legislatures of South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and North Carolina, are democratic, and will send seven democrats more from those States, then? being two to be chosen from North Carolina, making thirty-four democrats certain outof sixty-two members, all of whom except four were in favor of the Nebraska bill, and, it is : believed, will be against any attempt to disturb ; it. The opposition have eighteen members. In addition, they have the control of the legisia- ‘ tures in loWa, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, I Wisconsin, and New York, and may elect six! Senators in those States, increasing their force in : the Seuate to twenty-tour. The New Hamp shire legislature, which will have to elect two Senators, is yet to be chosen. The Senator from Missouri is doubtful, and so is the Senator from California. It will be seen, therefore, that the democrats will have a working majority in the Senate in the session of 1855-6. The House will be largely in opposition to the Admsnistration. The President’s rumored that the message of th« President, which for some years past has beet) sent to the postmasters in } advance, to be delivered to the newspapers offices as soon as read at Washington, will be withheld this year until it is sent to Congress. Our foreign j relations, it is said, make this course necessary, as it is advisable the President shall receive the latest European intelligence before hts message is submitted. Theodore A. Gray, a scamp who called him- j self a printer, was arrested in New Yoik the other evening, for destroying ladies dresses with i vitrol. He had in his possession what is known to mechanics as an oil feeder or small tin case ! which ejects any fluid it may contain by press- j ing upon the bottom. This was filled with vitral. j He acknowledged having spoiled the dresses ot two ladies, and it is believed that he has been guilty of ruining hundreds of silks ai\l satins worn by ladies at the various theatres and con cert rooms, within a few weeks. He assigned no reason for his malicious conduct. Samuel D. Scoville, who alspondsd with ten thousand dollars in notes of the Marine Bank of Georgia, it appears, was arrested in St. Louis, and not Louisville, as previously reported. He boarded at the Planter’s Hotel in St. Louis,under the assumed name of Louis, some days before his capture. Between eight.and nine thousand dollas of the money, in the original packages, was found in a carpet hag vvhifch he had deposi ted in a store. A despatch received at announces that the sloop-ol'-war Albany, abom which ves sel there has been considerable uneasiness of late, has been lost. The Northern papers do not state from whence this information was derived. The effective British force in the Crimea is said, by a correspondent of the London Times, to be only sixteen thousand, so great has been the void made by battle and disease. No less than nine thousand men are dead or hors de com bat in the eight weeks they have been in the Crimea. A telegraphic dispatch from Washington, to the Baltimore Patriot, announces the absolute failure of the banking house of Messrs. Selden, Withers & Co., and also that tears are entertain ed that the Spanish Minister—who was thrown from his carriage a day or two since—will not recover from the injuries then received. (communicated ) Mr. Gardner: —For the information of the public, allow me to say, that the scoundrel, who succeeded some months ago in so effectually ‘ doing' 1 some of our cit zens, under the name here ot John Kirkland , has been arrested and is now confined in our Jail to await his trial at the next term of our Supeiior Court. His real name is William McMullen , but his alias’s are “too nu merous to mention.” His former residence was Elbert County, then Marion Co., then the Peni tentiary tor two years. His time was out last spring, and he is in a fairway of getting a lease of his eld quarters for the next 21 years—“a consummation most devoutly wishedjfor.” His name in I ranklin, N. C., was John Jones —.in Union Co., when arrested, John Statham, on his way here John Smith. He seems to feel a dog ged indifference to his fate. The lesson he has taught Stockholders inJhe 11 Kirkland Bank” it is to be hoped will not be lost—at any rate—not upon the holder of Thirteen Shares —all paid in. Lexington, Ga, Nov. 25th, 1854. Would rather be in Slavery.— The Cin cinnati Gazette of Wednesday has tha follow ing- in the Police Court yesterday, a colored man named John Stewart was arrainged on charge of stealing a quantity of clothing from an elderly colored woman. Stewart plead guilty, and in mitigation that he was out of funds and food, and had taken this course to provide himself with the necessaries of life. He stated to the Court that a short time since he was a slave in Raleigh, North Carolina, and upon being inform ed of the kind treatment he would receive from the Abolitionists in the North, if he would be come ajreeman, and concluded to purchase himself, and did so at a cost of S9OO. He lett his master and came to Ohio. ‘‘Since I came here,” continued Stewart. “£ have bpen kicked about and abused by all classes of white men. Can’t get work from no one, and to borrow mo ney to get bread with, that is out of the question. I did a great deal better there than I ever did here.” Here the defendant took his seat to await the sentence of the Court, which was that he be sent to the chain gang at hard labor, and was thankful for the prospect of getting something to eat in jail. He declared that as soon as he got out he would go South and be come a slave again. A lady of Richmond Va., was aroused from her slumbers a few nights ago, by finding some one endeavoring to place avia! to her nose. Thinking that it might be her husband, she struck a light with matches lying on a stand beside her bed, and to her consternation discov ered a strange white man. She shouted murder, and her cries arousing the servants, the scamp beat a hasty retreat. He had entered the house for the purpose of robbing it, and to accomplish his purpose without molestation, undertook to administer cboloroform to the lady. Columbia, Nov. 21.—South Carolina Legis lature.—Both Houses of the Legislature assemb led to-day, at the usuai hour. The Senate was organized by the election of the Hon. B. F. VV. Allston, of Piincj George j Winyaw,as President,Gen’l. VVm. E Martin, of Charleston, as Clerk, and T.Gai Hears as Mes- j senger. The usual Committee was appointed to wait : on the Governor, whose message will be read to morrow at one o’clock. The Senate then adjourned. In the House of Representatives on motion, the Hon. Izard Middleton, of Prince George, j Winyaw, was called to the chair, and after the j members elect had duly qualified, the House pro ceeded to the election of Speaker, when the j Hon. James Simons, of Charleston, was unani | mously elected. J. T. Sloan, Esq , was elected Clerk, Dinkens, I Messenger, J. S. Richardson, Esq, Reading i Clerk,and J. A. Palmer, Door Keeper. A committee having been appointed to wait on the Governor, to inform him ot the organiza tion of that body, the House adjourned.—Charles ton Courier, 28th inst. MARRIED. On Tuesday evening, the 23d inst, by Wm. W. ! Peters, Esq., Mr. Lewis Cronic, of Walton coun ty, Ga., and Miss Martha Ann Sawyer, of Co lurnbus, Ga. On Sunday night last, by the Rev. James E Evans, Miss Ellrn White, of Harrisburg and Mr. William Gidron, of this place. m«a—iii ■ ■ an imm mu! ——— Strung, rs and Citizens in want of bargains, fine Watches and Jewelrv are requested to bear in mind that the postponed : Administrator s Sale of the extensive stock of the I late Thomas W. Freeman, deceased, will positive- I ly take place on the 30th inst, as advertised by us in another column, at our store. Persons in want ot any articles in that line will probably find it to then Sr<!at advantag ® to dofer purchasing until All articles will be guaranteed as represented. _no vl9 ts . C. E. Girardey & Co. Portrait Painting Mr~HTX Brooks, Historical Painter, has rooms next to Dr. \ anvoorhes, Molntosb street, up stairs. Testimonials and specimens of Painting may be soon at his Studio. Lessons given in Drawing and Painting on the principlee taught in the first Acad emies of the continent. Mrs. Brooks superintends the re-gilding and furnishing of every description of Picture Frames which she warrants to be equal in quality, and as low as they can bo done at the North, lm* novl9 Notice.-C layton & Biqnon; have re ceived at their old stand, under the Augusta Hotel, a large and well selected s‘ock ot Winter Clothing, consisting of all the garments usually k«pt in that line, our store is open even day and has been during the summer. We peotfully invite the attention of purohasars AUGUSTA AGRICULTURAL FAIR. THE Southern Central Agric’l Society * OF THE STATE OK GEORGIA, Respectfully invite the cjjjb-ens of Georgia? South Carolina, North Carolifc, Tennessee, Ala bama, Florida, and the adjoining States, to unite in the exhibition of the Industrial Products of the South, at the Ninth Annual Fair of the So ciety, to be held in Augusta, Ga., during the week commencing on MONDAY.. DECEMBER 4, 1854. Ample facilities lor the transpoitation of Live Stock, and all articles for exhibition , will be af forded by ail Railroads leading to Augusta; and no effort will be wanting on the pait of the So ciety, or the citizens of Augusta, to produce an exhibition in all respects worthy of our country i :id its resources. Gome one, come all! to the Annual Agiieul tural Jubilee! and let us give an onward im | pulse to the progiessive spirit of the South ! ! nov29 rit&wl D, yy. LEWIS, Sec’y. Ccmmrrriul. Augusta Market, November 29. COTTON —During the past week we have had a steady demand for Cotton an i sales freely made at the current rates as quoted in our last weekly. The Baltics advices which came to hand on Mondiy night are of such tenor as to induce a leas activ estate of feeling among the operators and the market elosed dull. Inferior and Ordinary, 6£ a 7 Low to Strict Middling, 7J a 8 Good Middling, .gj d Middling Fair a EXCHANGE.—We have no change to notice in j rates. Our Banks continue to draw on New York | and other Northern cities at j per cent, prern. FREIGHTS—Oar river is still low but navi ; gable for light draft steamers. We quote to Savan nah 50 cents per balo ; to Charleston per Railroad *l. SAVANNAH EXPORTS^JNOV. 27. Per sohr. Eclipse, for New York—27s bales Cot ; ton, 7 boxes Tobacco, 821 sacks Salt, 1 Iron Chest, ; I hhd., 20 tierces and 3 bbls. empty Bottles, and I I tierce Beeswax. SAVANNAH, Nov. 28-Cotton.— There was am, active busihess done in Cotton yesterday—holders " ; submitted generally to the offer? of buyers, whieh they refused in the latter part of last week. Tha j sales show perhaps the largest day’s busiuessof the season, amounting to 1,469 bales, at the following prices: 25 at 7; 2lat7i: 79 at ?i; 70 at 7j; 36 at 7J; 159 at 8; 62 at 8A; 154 at 8j; 54WHL 112 at 8J; 59 at 8$; 103 at 8J; 127 at 9; 15 at 9J, and 29 bales at 9y cents. CHARLESTON, Nov. 27.— Cotton —Thera was ; a good demand for this article to-day, soma 1,7i)0 bales having changed hands at about former prices I 'Tbs sales oomprise 49 bales at 7; 2 at 74; .333 at 73; 30 at 8; 60 at 8J; 36 at 8J; 130 at SI; 86 at 81,' 34 atBJ; 220 at 8J; 100 at 9; 25 at 9s; 2lOatui, and 57 bales at 9jjc. S'ljOipiiU) JntfUiflflirt. , , SAVANNAH, Nov. 28—Arr., steamship Ala bama, Schenok, Now York. Cleared, schr. Eclipse, Goslee, New York. CHARLESTON, Nov. 28.—Arrived, schr.Avon dalo. Tinker, Boston. Sea, Sp. barque Constancia. Olive, Bar ; celona; brig J. 11. Long, Faraum, Franklin, La sohr. Geo. Luff, Veazey, Philadelphia. | Special lloiices. 1 ' ajf*"- 3 A S aia Open—The Augusta Premi um Daguerrean Gallery.—Thesubscri ! ber, grateful for the very liberal patronage hereto foro received, would respectfully announce to the ; public, that his Daguerrean Rooms are again open, and he will be happy to furnish all who wish, with i « ne °r more of his superior pictures, unsurpassed for their depth of tone ani life-like expression, j Hours for operating, from 9, A. M,to 4, P.M. A full stock cf Instruments and Materials on hand, and Artists in the country can be supplied at a small advance on New York prices | nov2B Isaac Tucker. i Wid- silk Velvets for Cloaks - —- Ward & Burghard havo received : black and colored Lyon's Velvets, of superior qua 1- I ity, for Ladies’ Cloaks. nov2> ; frf~X.aj|pka French Merino*.—Ward k Bur". i chap.d have opened another i rvoice of S French Merinos, comprising almost every shade now called for, and for sale at New York prices. nov2S ! ' scotch and All-wool Plaids Ward & Birchard have re, - ived another supply of tho above desirable Goods, to which they ask attention. nov2S ’ j Office Clerk Court Common Pleas, iiw—Augusta, 27th Nov. 1854—Parties. Ju ; rors and Witnesses will take notice that the Hon orable tho Court of Common Fleas stands adjourn od to W edneaday, the 20th day of December next. pov2B 4 David L. Roath. Clk. C. C- P. A s 96 1 901! 96!!!—Members of th 96 K. S A., are requested to meet a their Lodge Room, This (Tuesday) Evening, Nov 2S, at 7 o clock, P. M. nov2B Removal.—Dr. W t.E. Hearing has removed his residence and office to the Dwelling north side of Broad street, two doors j above Messrs. T. Richards & Son’s Book Store. : Entrance from tho alley. dim nov26 i Trim mi n »s.—Wa rd k Bur chord have just received and opened . J an extensive assortment of Dress and Cloak Trim aitNGS, all of the latest styles- 6 nov 26 Long and Square Shawls—A large J lot of Bay State and Scotch Plaid ll Shawls, just received. In this lot will be found some beautiful styles of Mourning Shawls. 1 -J!!?--?® ® Ward u Burghard I PC^4t~ :s n auted immediately, two Dry I Goods Salesmen. Nono need apply exeept such as are thoroughly acquainted with the I business, and can give saiisfuctory reference. | nov23 ts Gosgrove & Brennan. Ur- Black has removed officelJ j ?. am P^ ell strcet > '“the building known ! as the baptist Parsonage, llis residence is on Broad street, threo doors below Campbell Street, immediately over the Shoe Store of Mr Martin f _ nov23 dim .. Mr. C. Zogbaum begs leave to in form his friends and the public, that I he has returned to the city, to resume his instruc- I TL ilo oi?Mu al and in st™mental (Piano I T he Phllh t r “°® ic <>f Augusta, ‘ tor the advancement of Vocal Music, will be ro organ.zed. Persons who wish to become Members, erther actual or sociab will please leave their names I with Mrs. W. E. Deanng, Messrs. W J Ans’ev ’ Q. W. Perry. D. B. Plnmfl dtr T . ho Exercises ®f Miss Catonnet » Seminary were resumed on Monday, ! N° v _ loth, at Hie corner of Greene and Washing- i tor. Streets. 6 The Harp, Piano, and French will be taught by l Mrs Dei.ettre. b j I A sow young Ladies can be accommodated with ■ board at the Seminary. ts nov2l m Southern Annual Fair at Augusta* | —The Georgia Railroad Company will f furnish Cars free for the conveyance of Live Stoek, ! and all articles which are for Exhibition (and for sale) if offered at their Depots betwoen the 28th | November and sth December, inclusive, and to be returned on or before the 12th day of Decombor l Visitors purchasing Tickets from Ist to 7th De- f cember, inclusive, will be furnished with return ! Tickets available to 12th December, inclusive. Geo. Yonge, Gen’l. Sup’t. I Georgia Railroad, Augusta, Nov. 20, 1854. f i>lrs. Heuey begs leave to inform her friends and the public, that she has re | moved to the large Store lately occupied by Mr. f \ anwinkle, next above the Georgia Railroad Bank, I where she will bo delighted to see her friends. She has on ham! a largo assortment of most fashions- 1 hie Millinary Goods. Also, a variety of Fancy f Articles; Embroideries: Cloaks; Mantillas and ■ Talmas, of tj|unowest shapes; Gloves; Gauntlets. I Ladies’ Merino and Silk Undervests; Cloth for I Cloaks, Ac. nov2l 1 The Augusta Female High School, I opposite the Unitea States Hotel, over f Mr. hobert Carroll’s Boot and Shoe Store, will bo i re-opened on Monday, 20th of November. K Terms, foT Board and Tu tion, in all the English 1 branches, will be very moderate No extra charge 1 for French, Latin, Fuel, Ac. 1 - nov!7 C A. SabAl, Principal. m