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Weekly Georgia constitutionalist and republic. gge ™ mc:EaMß BY JAMES GARDNER, JR. 1 i OFFICE ON|Me|NTOSHJSTREET, THIRD DOOR FROM THS HORTB-WKST CORNER OF BROAD Bales of LANS by Executors, Administrator* or Guar (iia!is. are required, by law, to be held on the lira Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ton ii the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Cottr House in which the property ia situate. Notice o these sales must be given In a public Gazette, BIX!?! DAYS previous to the day of sale. Sales of NEGROES must be at Public Auction, on th< first Tuesday of the month, between the usual houn of sale, at the place of public sales in thh county where the Letters Testamentary, or Administration, or Guardianship, may have been granted, first girine SIXTY DAY’S notice thereof, in ono *f the public Gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court House where such sales are to be held. Notice for the sales of Personal Property must bo given. in like manner, FORTY DAYS previous to day of sale! Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Estate, must be puldished for FORTY DAYS. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell LAND, must ho published for FOliR MONTHS Notice for leave to sell NEGROES, must be published FOUR MONTHS, before any order absolute can be given by the Court. TERMS OF ADYERTTSTNO. One square, 12 lines, 75 cents the lint insertion, and 50 oents afterwards. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS Sheriff's Levies. 804™, $2 50 po r levy ; 00 days. $5. 1. xeciitorV Administrator ou ard iau’s Sales, Real *1 Estate, (persquare l ** .’s4 Ts *. • reriGi r T* 1 ?; Personal E ilato 325 &P r of Administration 2,75 * a „ > Dhfwwmion. V... 450 Notico to Dobtorn and Ofreditora. ,3 25 Four Mouths’ Notice*. ;* *. 4 qJj Rtiles Nisi, (monthly) $1 square, each inHertiou. RKA|ITTi^OES I*KJR l * KJR MAIL, Alt* at otrft MWWMWRMB,— AIJGUSTArGA.” SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7. Terms of the Weekly Paper. Ono year, in advanco ~; ' ,$2,00 If paid within tho'yoar 2,60 A t the end of .thp year 3,00 above terms will be rigidly onforcod. Spaqohes of Col. lylcMitlsnwHd Mr. Toombs. 'J'he' Ifrtii. Robert Toombs begins to show the white feather in a small way. It was publicly announced in tha. Constitutionalist $ Republic, on Tuesday morning, that Col. Robert McMillan would address his fellow-citizens of Richmond comity, at the City Hall, on the evening of that day, as well as at the Lafayette Race Course, on the occasion of the Barbecue to be given him there during the day time. Mr. Toombs, to say the least of it, lent himself to an arrangement tor himself to address all such as would attend at the Masonic Hall on the same evening. But a few days ago, he and Mr. Cobh Had a fair, lull and ample hearing before the assembled citizens of both the Constitutional Union and Southern Rights parties, at the City Hall. They were listened to throughout, without the least interruption or disturbance. They had every opportunity to influence the public mind by their arguments, or sophistry, and everybody knows they exerted themselves to the utmost with both, but particularly the latter, to make the worse appear the better cause. Why, then, could not the same courtesy be extended to Colonel McMillan 7 For what reason was this effort made to call the partizans of Mr. Toombs to the Masonic Hall, to hear him, on Tuesday evening ? There can be but one answer. It cannot be said that it was necessary to enable them to hear his views, for they had, a few days previous, heard them in full. The reason for it was the coward ly fear to permit them to hear the able and elo quent Standard Bearer pf the Southern Rights party. Letter writers from all points of the compass had publicly declared, that in previous encounters, in various places, Col. McMillan had been essentially used up by Mr. Toombs, ll their statements had been true—if he was so feeble an antagonist—why was it that he was denied the privilege of being heard by the Con stitutional Union men ? No, Col. McMillan was feared. They dread ed his steel. Mr. Toombs himself, vs doubt not, knew that it was dangerous to put some of his followers within the sound qL bE voice. His is ajgame, a trade in :Ufercs, and he must exer v'-tbse every art tj.sffnire Auc-ccss in his business. ...... .jvc with jealousy, thochargeh«‘«levade, ►' pretend lip bat llrai by his trad*. it Will he have the manliness to admit this ? •/We doubt it. He will, or his friends for him, trump up some reason to cover over this clear evidence of a dread of an exposure of his course and principles to the gaze of his followers. What political chivalry! Well, Richard played his part at the Masonic : Hall, and how did it turn out with him ? His followers were few for once. There were not i more than two hundred persons to hear him, while at least live hundred were present to hear Col. McMillan, and a more delighted audience we have never seen. We may justly describe the applause in the language of Shakspeare : “ Such a noise arose As tho shrouds mnko at sea in a stiff tempest,’’ and it was frequently repeated. Burst after , burst arose, and was borne off upon the moonlit j breeze. Whatever we may say of their courtesy and ; chivalry, our opponents certainly paid Colonel j McMillan a high compliment in directly saying to him, “ Sir. vve cannot trust our people within reach of you.” Yes, they “Trembled, and slullked and peer’d about.” We are willing for Mr. Toombs to wear and en joy all the honors of this magnanimous transac tion 1 It may be that they have saved their bacon, to extent, by it. It so, they have saved it at the expense of courage and fairness. This is not strange, however, in those who assert that measures which caused the South to loose every thing, are wise, liberal and just. Their reasoning is on a par with their conduct. The Masonic Hall was used, for the time being, as a “ masked battery,” and Mr. Toombs, as he stood up in it, to speak to his followers, was. for once, a representative of folly at full length, or we are greatly mistaken. A brave and high-minded people cannot sanction such a proceeding. It will prove, in the end, to be a bitter pill, and without the gilding at that. There have been some shakes of the head and significant shruggs already. That meeting, at the Masonic llall, to -ay the least of it, was a political blunder. Mr. Toombs may have roared like a bully, but we would offer a small bet that he sweated from fear. Such will, at least, be the public judgment. After writing the above, we found the follow ing in the Chronicle ty Sentinel of yesterday morn ing. It is a resolution which was adopted on Tuesday, by the Convention of the Constitution al Union party of Richmond county: “ Restolveil. That, inasmuch as the Hon. Robert Toombs has been denied the privilege of free dis cussion, as he had a right to expect from previous agpaecncnt with his opponent, we invite him to addess the citizens of Richmond county, at the Masonic Hall, this evening, at 8 o’clock.” It will be seen, from our foregoing remarks, that Mr. Toombs has had a full and fair hearing before the people here. The Southern Rights party concluded to have its own meeting. They did not invite Mr. Toombs, or any oth er speakeis of the Constitutional Union par ty to meet them in discussion. Mr. Toombs made application, or his friends for him, to be heard with Col. McMillan. The committee of arrangements persisted in the original purpose of having a meeting for the Southern Rights party as our opponents had had one for themselves. This would place the two parties on terms of equality. The announcement was seen in our , paper of yesterday morning, that Col. McMillan and the Southern Rights party woidd be pleased to see Mr. Toombs and his friends, the fourth week in this month. That shows whether they are disposed or not to avoid free discussion upon equitable terms. We would simply add that Col. McMillan was in the hands of his friends, whose decision he could not overrule. Temporary Editorial Change. We perceive from the last Southerner, that Mr. J. W. Dodd has retired from the editorial department of that paper for the balance of the year, and that the paper will, during that period, be under the editorial management of Messrs. Patton and Garlington. We welcome them into the corps, and hope they may find their labors pleasant, and that the cause of truth and justice . / / may be promoted by them. We copy only two or three sentences, as fol lows. from the address to his patrons of Mr. Dodd: To tiik Patrons of the Southerner.— \ O wing to private engagements that will demand his absence from Ro«*e the greater part of the remainder of the year, the undersigned relin quishes for a time the post of editor to F. Patton | and R. Garlington. He ragrMmt D ' compel him to leave his station 'at tliis critical and interesting period ot the contest in Georgia, but is more than gratified that the (defence of the in principles for which he has contended will be rt left to abler pens. Messrs. Patton and Garlington “ f are gentlemen of talent and ability, and zealous *> defenders *of the rights of the South. £ Dr. William S. Jones ■j Circumstances have made it necessary for me Jj publicly io expose Dr-William S. Jones, for his ic of the pr.’Vs undjr Lis. control, his 1 equufocation, and his cowardly denial of satisfoc “ tior*to me, for a wilful deliberate, and aggrava nt ted wrong done ot which no honorable gentle s man would have been guilty. He has admitted i three articles into the Chronicle £ Sentinel , of i wh.ch [xrper he is the proprietor and publisher. 6 against myself, which have been characterized by studied misrepresentation, and seldom equalled 0. for their malignity. Dr. William S. Jones was . aware that the principal grounds upon which the writer of “ Doctor ’’ based his charges of false l hood against myself, were the unintentional er j) rors of another gentleman, and found their way d into the Republic without my knowledge, orem jj sent. He was perfectly aware that those errors had bee A corrected through the same channel in * which publicity had been given to them. He « must have known*that there was an immense disproportion between the errorsthemselves, supr posing them all to have been committed and un- J explained, and the charges made against me by the author of “Doctor.” He was aware that the author of those false and scurrilous articles, , thrust-himself forward as a volunteer in detrac i tion and falsehood, .to assault me for . reasons i which found no justification in his personal con nection with the matters treated ot by him. He became an offiMotisTu fruiter in tho,.first place, and a malicious assailant in the second. I do not deem it necessary to publish the arti cle of u Doctor,” upon which I founded my call upon Dr. Jones, which will be seen below. The public has already seen it in the prostituted columns ot the Chronicle <j- Sentinel , and portions of it in the Constitutionalist Republic. 1 charge Dr. Wm. S. Jones, for inserting it, in his columns, with sinking his paper into the lowest, and mean est, and foulest depths of licentiousness. It was disgraceful to him as a public journalist and a man. and was utterly inconsistent with the pro fession which lie has publicly made as a member of a respectable church. The stigma, of the foul transaction, will re main upon him, at least, until he shall acknowl edge the wrong he has done me, ami make atone ment for it. I will take this occasion to observe that I have frequently declined publishing articles in the j Republic , which I formerly edited, because of the j harsh expressions they contained against politi cal opponents. I have subjected myself for it, on several occa sions, to the complaints and censures of personal friends. The dignity, honor and fairness of the press, should be always maintained. Its true value is impaired, and even utterly destroyed, when it cuts loose from the moorings of decency and vir- j tuc, and its great object, the dissemination of useful information, to permit individual character to be falsely assailed, and that too in the lowest terms of the blackguard. The Chronicle Senti nel has been degraded to this base purpose, and \ must henceforth, without an adequate purgation, take its rank among the lowest and vilest publi cations in the land. I submit the following correspondence wth a | few words of comment. Avgusta, August 29th, 1851. Dr. Wm. S. Junes : Sin :—Considering the article signed “Doctor,” which appeared in the Chronicle q- Sentinel of this morning, of such a character as to make you, as the publisher of that paper, a party to the out rage, I demand of you tlrnt satisfaction, for in serting it iu your columns, which is due from one gentleman to another. i This will be handed you by my friend, James | Gardner, Jr., Esq. Respectfully your ob’fc. serv’t. Jamhs M. Smythe. This letter was received by Dr. Jones. On Tuesday, the 2nd instant, the following note was handed to my friend, Mr. Gardner, to be delivered to Dr. Jones : Augusta, Sept. 2nd, 1851. j Dr. Wm. S. Jams : ; Sir : —A reasonable time having elapsed since i the delivery to you, on Friday last, of rny note of that date, L take occasion to call your attention to it, and inquire when 1 may expect a reply ? Respectfully your ob’t. serv’t. James M. Smythe. The card, of Mr. Gardner, below, will explain what occurred on that occasion.. Suffice it for j me to say, Dr. Jones declined to receive it for I the reason assigned by Mr. Gardner. On the 3rd instant, the following note was conveyed to him by the hands of my friend, Win. i i W. Montgomery, Esq. Augusta, Sept. 3rd, ISSI. | j Dr. Wm. S. Jones: i Sir:—Considering the article under the signa- 1 ture of “Doctor,” which appeared in the Chroni cle <,)• Sentinel, of last Friday morning, of such a character as to make you, us the publisher of that paper, a party to the outrage, I demand of you, for inserting it in your columns, that satisfaction which is due from one gentleman to another. This will he handed to you by my friend, Win. ; W. Montgomery, Esq. Respectfully your ob’t. serv’t. James M. Smythe. This he declined to receive, alleging, in sub stance, that he had nothing to do with the mat | ter; that the author of “ Doctor ” was responsi ; ble for its publication. It will be seen, from the card of Mr. Gardner, that Dr. Jones objected to receiving a third note from me, through his hand, (for the reason as i signed,) after he bad previously received two, neither of which had been, nor have been to this ! moment returned. It will be seen, further, that i Dr. Jones stated, if I wished to make any com munication to him, I must select another person to convey it to him. I did so, and the card of Mr. Montgomery will show what response he made to my note of the 3rd instant. This es ; tablishes his cowardly evasion of the responsi , bility which rested upon him in the premises. I now leave the conduct of Dr. Wm. S. Jones, with the publication of this correspondence and I tjjie foregoing remarks, to the judgment of the public. JAMES M. SMYTHE. Augusta, Sept. 4, 1851. Mr. James M. Smythe : Dear Sir In compliance with your request, I state that I called on Dr. W. S. Jones, on the 3rd instant, and handed him a communication from yourself-—a copy of which, I believe, had been previously handed him by Mr. Gardner— which communication he declined to receive, upon the ground, as I understood him, that he i did not consider himself in any way responsible | for the attack upon yourself, contained in the ar ticles in the Chronicle Sr Sentinel, under the sig nature of “ Doctor.” Very respectfully, yours, &c. W. W. MONTGOMERY. AUGUSTA, Sept. 4th, 1801. James M. Smytiie, Esq.— Dear Sir :—At your request I state, that on the 29th ult., I bore two communications from you to Dr. W. S. Jones. To the one first presented, he wrote a reply and handed it to me at that interview. The second he received and read in my presence. While reading it I said to him: “it will be proper for you to answer that through your friend.” I then withdrew. No answer having been received to that com munication, on the 2nd inst. I called on him at his office with another communication from you. This he declined to receive. He stated that if you, Mr. Smythe, desired to make any communication to him, you must do it through some other channel, as he would entertain no communication through me. He assigned in that interview as his reason for thus declining, in repiy to aa, inquiry to this point' from me, the terms of enmity existing, and known to you to exist, between him and myself. This reason, if sufficient on the 2nd of Septem ber was equally so on the 29th of August, as no change kad taken place in the relations ex isting between Dr. Jones and myself between those two dates.. The sufficiency of the reason lam content to leave to the judgment of hono rable men. Yours respectfully, JAMES GARDNER, Jr. Irwin County. —The Federal Union says: A friend who has lately been travelling through Irwin county, writes us that Irwin will give ■j—ajLHjiy —.'■l i■ •«. —— —.— m in. L _. mmm — ■ ■<■ j - g n . AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WKONMSDAY BjdßßHjgG. SEPTEMBER JO, lsf>l. :s McDonald and Benning from 250 to 300 majori d ty. We have also received most interesting ac b counts from many counties in the upper part 'o e the State. Let the iriends of the South ever] n where be*wand doing ani all will be well. Mr. Oobb’s Suppressed Letter. We find the following in the Southern Rccorda of the 2d instant, being part of a correspondents e account of Mr. Cobb’s speech at Cassville: “Close by the writer, there was a knot of fire s eaters or Southern Rights men, and his attention - was directed to Hiem by hearing ‘•'that letter' — . that suppressed letter' r —uttered by one or twe voices r aad shortly after one Os the party stepped ‘ up and said he Wanted to “see that sujtpressed let •* ter /” -« s if Mr. Cobb then turned to him and asked him . if he had “read his letter to the Macon commit . tee ?” The fire-eater replied “Yes.” “Then,” replied Mr. Cobb, Li yoa have read that suppressed ‘ letter, aud did'nt know it /” I then at the moment s glaneed at the fire-eater, and from the manner in a which he held his head, he reminded me ot a man who had just had bis hat pulled over -his lace, Mr. Cobb then said that with the excep tion of the introduction of the letter to his friend, r Mr. Hull, which is in substance as follows: . “Dear Sir: I propose to give you my views upon the subject of secession, without entering into a s lengthy argument to sustain my position.” The 1 whole of the suppressed letter without an alteration, : arid with the crossing of the t’s aud the dotting , of the i’s as in the original, is contained in liis letter ; to the Mucon Committee.'' * So many contradictory accounts have been r given of Air. Cobb’s various speeches by anony . modi correspondents, that we should have dis regarded this statement until confirmed by Mr. Cobb’s own sign manual, or that of Mr. Wm. Hops Hull, to whom the suppressed letter was addressed, exempt thafc.the adit or ««n ISntlHliTn Rernrtffr. ;i gent lernan for whom we have the highest respect, endorses the statement. He says: “ It will be seen by the article of our corres pondent from Cass, that Mr. Cobb in addressing the people of that county, being called on for the suppressed letter, openly avowed, (what we may here remark, ourselves were perfectly aware of before,) that the suppressed letter and that pub lished by him,were identical, with a trifling ex ception of a few lines which Mr. Cobb quoted, and which are given by our correspondent. “What will the Constitutionalist say now?” We will say first, that it has been like draw ing teeth to get this tardy avowal, and that this very reluctance in the face of such earnest calls for months past, for the letter, itself show ed a consciousness on the part of the wri ter, that the sentiments and doctrines it avows were obnoxious to the people of Georgia. But the outward pressure for it was so great—the cry for it so loud, it was bound to Come. The occasion selected of putting it before tba public, notin response to this general call, but in response to the Macon Committee, was a mere rust 1 to avoid the mortification of having to ac knowledge obedience to the popular clamor for the letter. The manner of yielding is awk ward, and the spirit with which it is done, chur lish. Why was this letter kept back so long ? Be cause it was a private letter ? Because it was written from one friend to another? The cor respondent of the Recorder says: “And here let me take occasion to remark upon the very great liberty or license taken by gen ! tlemen of the press and others, with private cor respondence these days. Really and iu truth, those gentlemen who have made such a fuss about this letter and the public had no business with that letter. It was not written for publica tion—it was not rend before the Committee of 33, or the Convention. The very beginning of the letter shows that it was written by one friend to another ' friend.' l l l Ah! was this long letter of five or six columns a mere friendly private .epistle, written to com municate simply the opinions of one friend to another, both living in the same town and occu pying the same law office ? Was this its sole purpose ? | “It was not written for publication—it was i not read before the committee of 33, or the con ’ vention.” No doubt it was not written for publication, j ‘ Air. Cobb probably knew before he (/rote it that ■ it would 1«) dangerous to put such otlious federal I and consolidation doctrines before the people of Georgia—always a State Rights and Republican people “It was not road before the committee of 33, or the convention.” No. Air. Toombs and the other wire-workers thought it would not do to trust it before either body. It might have re volted State Rights men perhaps even then, who had not yet got too deeply immersed in the Ser borean bog of federalism. It might have shock ed Georgia platform men who had found matter l’or objection, as well as matter lor approval in the Compromise measures, and would not have been prepared to nominate a man in the face of a letter of his, read to them, lauding that Compro i mise as fair, honorable and just. 1 The letter was intended to be kept private— ' to be confided to the political schemers of that convention alone. But public opinion has forced it out. It lias made its entree rather ungraceful ly it is true. But it is “out at last,” as the Savannah Republican said of the apologetic letter of Cobb, Boyd, Clark and Lumpkin, for not sign ing the Southern address—the letter of “ popinjay political dwarfs, as destitute of brains as of pa triotism.'' 1 as that paper characterized them. “ What will the Constitutionalist say now ?” asks the Recorder. Why exactly what it said of that letter when it was published by us. We pub lished Air. Cobb’s letter as soon as we got hold of it,and denounced its sentiments in the strongest terms. We intend to continue to do so, and to show up ils sophistries, and its abominable con solidation doctrines. Qu ere ! If Mr. Cobb started to give to liis \ “dear friend ” merely his views on scrcssion , how name he. to launch out in the outset so extensively and abruptly into a labored defence and praise of the Compromise measures ? “ Popinjay Political Dwarf*.” It is quite remarkable how fast some men can grown in the short space of two or three years in the imagination of a partisan editor, from poli tical dwarfs to political giants. In March 1818, the Hon. Howell Cobb was in the estimation of the Savannah Republican a popinjay political dwarf. In 1819, and January 1850, he liad got lower down then even than that, in that sheet. He was then a political trickster —n traitor to the South —a man who had sold our birth right for a mess of pottage —a man whom whigs at least could never vole for. Now, }>resto, change, he is a marvellous proper man, and indeed a marvellous excellent man : in very truth, a great patriot, and a great statesman. What wonderful magnifiers arc the party spec ! tacles through which some men look. ] The following is what the Savannah Republi ! can, under the conduct of the same editor who now writes for it, and fulsomely eulogises Mr. Cobb, thought and said of that gentlemen in : March 1848: Out at Last. —The Georgian of Monday con tains an address signed by HOWELL COBB, Linn Boyd, Beverly L. Clarke, and Jno. L. Lumpkin, setting forth at considerable length their reasons for not signing Mr. Calhoun’s Ad dress. It will be remembered that we expressed the opinion some time since on the authority of certain writers from Washington, that these gen tlemen withhold the signatures from the Address because it was not partisan enough in its char- | acter. It seems now that we were correct; for f those patriots ! though they do not in so many words avow it, virtually admit, that they would have given in their adhesion to Mr. Calhoun’s \ Manifesto, if such had been its character. They, j opposed the Address (not the original movement,) ' because it animadverted upon the Oregon bill j 1 which they had voted for, but principally be- j cause it did not abuse the Northern Whigs and ! praise Northern Democrats. They were in fa- j vorof giving it this caste and making it entirely j partisan in all its features, notwithstanding it was evident, as appears from their own dema gogical plea, that the Southern whigs would not \ unite in such an »' ttuigement. They knew that such a course wou.prevent Union and harmo ny at the South; and yet they preferred it ? The question then occurs—if they did not calculate upon the co-operation of the Southern whigs, what did they expect to gain by opposing their party , (which is in the minority in the slave holding States) against Southern whigs, Noith ern whigs and Northern democrats ? Is it not plain that they wished to make a party matter of it and to avail themselves of the sensitive ness of the Southern people on the subject, for corrupt party purtosks ? Both parties at the North are opposed to us in sentiment, and still they advocate a policy which they know would drive even the Southern whigs into an opposi tion to them 1 Agitation ! agitation! and noth ing but agitation ! seems to be the element in which a certain class of popinjay political dwarfs, whose want of patriotism is only equalled by their want of brains, live mwe, i- and have their being— Savannah Rqrmican March 28//i, 1848. of In Alarch 1848, Air. Cobb.it is- y had neither patriotism nor brains. In TiBL- iM] so bountifully blessed with both, anCqjdrng tt the same authority, that no man is lx Governor of Georgia, ''•s :>• • 8 Can Hie Spell of Delusion be Broken ’--Constitu tional Union Panorama. ’ | The South is in danger. She has enemies at n the North, seeking to destroy her institution, - She has sons at houie, telling the people that the 0 heavens are serene, and the earth tran<|inl-*4hai ? \ye have got more than -We afjpfo for, and aft: better off than we have be.eu in the last tturty n years. And it seems that abput half of our pfio :: pie have believed the report, and now fold thek , arms in a blind confidence. t Can the spell of delusion be broken ? ft'may i be that if the truth were -fully knpwn, it is a a fevered Sleep—that the minds pf the people are l ill at rest. W<*ld to God it Were so, for then [ there would b^\ more hope. But if it is%t_ran - quit spell —if the spirits of the people bavlf l*en i subdued into a state of confidence" that * the skies are bright, and all is well*-e an thskiale lusion be broken ? ; When a young man loves'h.Jair' maidoHpfl r thinks his passion is returned, fie Brakes up fnM| the sweet spell when hi# impassioned so(ici9E 1 tion for her hand is met with a .chilling tive. When one has leaned with a hear*- fijttt confidence upon another’s friendship, ■ the spell is dissolved and the heart made-«kk®r • discover that he has been an ieuneadofir L fiii ml IMhrirbitT-nfTirlffFhtStr\ Ust in anoth er, to attend to any given business for him, in which his money or other property is concern ed, he wakes up from his confidence in hku when lie finds tliat he lias betrayed his interest, or did not have the energy and capacity to protect it. Ttiese three means by which individuals are 1 relieved of the spells into which they may fall, ’ S seem to have failed, as yet, to relieve thousands j of our fellow-citizens of their political euchant- I ments. The South loved the North, and sup* ! posed the love was returned, but her hatred of ; the South has been manifested in many tinmis : takeable ways. The South leaned with confi dence upon the friendship of the North, but the ; latter has been stabbing her character, and seek ing to destroy the institution upon which her \ prosperity depends. The South lias put her trust in chosen representatives, some of whom ! have betrayed her, or signally failed to protect her rights and honor. This ought to break the delusion! We will try once more, and propose the application of broken doses of facts aud truth, to show that the South is hated by the North, and destined to become the victim of that hate. | and that the South is betrayed by some of her j own sons, and left to her hapless fate, by reason j of the timidity, or delusion, or incapacity of I others. We shall not pretend to any very regular or der in the picture gallery it is our purpose to ex hibit, of Northern purpose, or Southern derelic tion of duty. The Constitutional Union paity will stand out in bold relief, in this exhibition of political paintings. These articles are intended to tell upon the public mind, unless truth has lost ; its power and the people are given over to delu sions for their mill. As it is a moving political panoramic we design to exhibit; we shall bring into view, to-morrow, : our first scenes. They will be rich throughout, and though remarkably highly colored, will be true to reality. “ Mr. Toombs—The Constitutionalist.” We deem it scarcely necessary to reply to a 1 ridiculous article in the Chronicle Sf Sentinel , of : the sth inst., with the above caption. It is true, as stated, that the Southern Rights party intended to have a meeting of their own. | That was distinctly their object. The Constitu tional Union party had had a meeting exclusive ly to themselves but a short time before. The Chronicle ought to be ashamed, if it could ■be ashamed at any thing, to allude to Union j men’s subscribing to pay for ihe Southern Rights Barbecue. Its cost was several hundred dollars, and Union men subscribed the large sum, all | told, of twelve dollars. But we frankly state that this amount was subscribed upon jocular calls made upon Union men. Although approached in this way, their money, offered in a similar spirit and good humor, was accepted. It could not have been rejected with delicacy. It is not true, as stated in that article of the Chronicle, that the chief reason assigned by the Southern Rights Committee of Arrangements, for declining a free discussion, was, that all their speakers could not be heard. That was given as one of the reasons, but any one of ordinary ca pacity, can see at a glance that the chief reason for declining the projiosition made to them for free discussion, was that the Southern Rights meeting by whom that committee had been ap pointed, had decided to have an exclusive meet ing, and the committee, as stated, was not au thorized to allow free discussion. This arrangement for public speaking and a barbecue, was the work of the Southern Rights party, and Col. AlcMillan was invited to attend it. The barbecue was given in honor of Col. : AlcMillan. We did not charge Mr. Toombs or his friends with fearing a conflict with Col. AlcMillan. We charger! them with fearing to let him be heard by their partizans, and with getting up the meet ing at the Masonic Hall to prevent it. And in our opinion it was a small proceeding. But the most pitiful part of this article of the Chronicle's , is the following : “But that Mr. McMillan and his supjwrlers may have no excuse for backing out a second time, the Union party wil’ on the 4th Saturday, the 27th day of this me !., give Air. Toombs a 1 barbecue in this city, to which Air. AlcAlillan will be invited. So that if Mr. AlcAlillan and his friends are so anxious for a free discussion be tween the two candidates, let him face the mu sic. There will be no (lodging this time, either behind or by the committee.” What will be thought of this low effort to cre ate the impression that Col. McMillan, or his friends were disposed to back out. or dodge, or any thing of that kind, when we state that the following was published in our paper of the 3rd instant: “ Before adjournment, it was announced that Col. McMillan would address the citizens of j Richmond some time in the fourth week of this month, at which time he ami the Southern Rights party will be pleased to see Mr. Toosiirs and ins friends/’ This announcement was made again, in our paper of the 4th instant, and yet, on the f>th, the I Chronicle put forth the above silly insinuations and banter. We would state, in conclusion, that Colonel j McMillan desired that Mr. Toombs should be in vited to meet him in the discussion on Tuesday last. He was overruled by his political friends. Caban Affairs. Our telegraphic despatches of last evening, and various letters from mercantile houses in Ha vana. exhibit a melancholy contrast to the glo rious accounts published yesterday. We doubt the correctness of these latter statements. The government in Cuba is no doubt upon the alert, to see that no intelligence shall leave the Island calculated to endanger its power and existence. ■ Letters arc read and closely scrutinized, and every thing objectionable forbidden to be sent by them. But we shall have to remain, now. j for a short time, in a state of the most painful 1 suspense. It is evident that Mr. Fillmore is disposed to do | every thing in his power to prevent assistance from being given to the Cubans. What would have been our condition if the brave and noble Lafayette, Pulaski; De Steuben and hosts of other generous foreigners had been intercepted and prevented from landing on our shores 1 We have not time to dwell upon this subject now, but it must become a subject of intense public examination, and we doubt not that the voice of our country will be against the extreme and uncalled for exertions of our Federal Execu tive to interfere in behalf of Spanish tyranny. Mammoth Watermelon. —We had the satis faction, two days ago, of partaking, at the ware house of Messrs. Dye & Heard, of a very large and delightfully flavored watermelon. It weighed that morning, being several day* after it was pulled, forty-seven pounds. It was from the plantation of C 01. k. ■Jf'yj lis, of Greene county, W, the of wb *A melons we had the pleasure a&twtifyir«4l $ iorj mer ormrou. 1 y* < j§PWß'lt<&ert It; Strong addressed me a lette Atitioch, Troup county, Ga., August thi J® j 18'>1, which was published in the Chroniel l of the jhlfl instant. This letter wai w i h* -|py to oae written by me to him, which wil ' etow, and explains itself. I publist j. i a letter to Mr. Strong for two reasons , on, »f? Pi-event any injurous impressions being il l niaf by his letter, and the other to show that j nothing dishonorable in mine, to ex * I cusewfr Strong for violating the confidence re ‘t j -PHginhim. I shall make no reply to any of P I Mi \ir aS ' S ar B umente i 01 positions. I had un yi that he was a candidate for the State . j con vM tion, and that he was a Southern Rights r ; R -seems I was greatly mistaken, unless ■H"he hlirehanged his position y j not positively assert that I wrote the on the fate of that letter, but 1 k that I did, and that it would be found i theifflTTany one to whom Mr. Strong will show - 'h® ujffiMial. But, be that as it may, the very i nuturij f the letter showed that it was written t MWortutinea. I mistook the political jiositions ~ s e ve yi gentlemen to whom I addressed similar |jgter<| Two or three replied that I had misap nainesTßmwTWraloeji. Such was the differ , ■ ence in Ihe sentiments <k Air. Strong and some other gentleman, upon points of delicacy and . 1 prop£fij%- I have no acquaintance with him, I and wrote to him, as before stated, under the im pression that he was a Southern Rights man. The following is a copy of the printed letter sent toji.fr. Strong: "5 <G ’ JAMES M. SMYTHE. Republic Office, ( _ Augusta, Aug., 1851. ) Dear Sir: —l have learned that ouropponents intend ts distribute their papers and documents to an unprecedented extent. They are getting alarrnet.. It is my opinion that we can lay them out if we use the proper means. Nothing can do so inwh good as the circulation of papers. If you cau fit the friends of Southern Rights in youi ‘ county io subscribe SIOO,OO, i will send 250 copies oiilhe Republic to them until the middle of October for that sum. So far as lam person ally eoru ; -rued, I know that you will not con ceive me proposition to be made in a spirit of selfishiu. s. If you think any other paper would be U'ttei received than mine, write lor that, and I will furnish the Republic liberally free of charge. I intend fb spend at least $200,00 during the campaign.for the cause, and if my circumstances were not-so limited I would spend five times as j much for,a triumph! and I do not desire a tri umph foi, party, hut for Georgia and the South. , Our very safety, the safety of our wives and chil- : dren, in riiy honest opinion, is at stake. It is sometimes a very troublesome mutter to procure subscribers even u|ion the most moderate terms. If you can yet fifty persons who will contribute $2,00 each, the SIOO will be made up. Thri 350 papers would do a great deal of good. 1 ijould send them in bundles to such per sons as y:u might desire, and they could distri bute then; in their neighborhoods. In the mean time you could procure individual names and give me their direction. If concert of action cannot be had in the county, and you approve of this plan, inakiup such a sum as you can in your ■ neighbor!!>l. and 1 will send the paper at the same rate! ] am satisfied it will be a hard strug gle for iisjc succeed; but we can succeed if we make the iroper effort. All my advices show ; that we gaining in every quarter. 1 reinin, very respectfully yours, JAMES M. SMYTHE. Air. Rorert M. Strong, LaGrange, Ga. Fine Fear. Mr. B. i-gnon has kindly present 'd us a Pear, of a superi-; quality, which weighs exactly one 1 jiuk nd. f Ifi‘ .-win the garden of Air. J. P. Setze, of this citjßUThe tree is not more than eight or ten feet hi Ji , and bore more than twenty pears, some of w*4’tf were larger than this one. We regret thafm.v label containing the name of the . an/. iy pear iias been h.st. Having lu.d it if Way we nave noi yet judge i of ils merits by but Mr. B. informs us it is a de licious variety. What splendid products of this fine fruit louid be obtained in the rich lands in the up com.try of Georgia. That climate is ad mirably suted to their culture. Steerage Passage. We wodd call attention of such of our adopt i ed i’ellow-.’itizensas feel disposed to send for re- I latioris and friends in the old country, to the ad vertiseniett of Messrs. Nichols & Gibbs, Charles ton- The} arc merchants in good standing, arid the engagements can be depended oil. Fasiiioimble Hat Store. —The enterprizing hat and cap establishment of J. Taylor, Jr., Ik Co., is alvays among the foremost in supplying the demaids of taste and fashion with the new : est styles in their line. The scorching liies of a summer's sun will soon be tempered by autumnal breezes, sbi the comfortable broad brim must give wayto the sleek and shining beaver. Those *vho wish a genteel and dressy article, can be served to their liking by J. Taylor, Jr., & Co , 2:U Broad street. New Express Line. We would call the attention of our readers to the adver.isementof Messrs. Combs & Chamber lain, in this day's paper, from which it will be I seen that they have recently established, and now have iu suceesslul operation, an Express Line Iron Charleston, through Augusta, to Chat tanooga, »i Tennessee, aud Montgomery, in Ala bama. Messrs. Combs & Chamberlain are well acquainted with the business they have under* ; taken, and. so far, their line has been found a J .great accommodation,both by our merchants and citizens. They deserve and should receive en -1 ; courageifent. The Cuba Meeting. We hive seldom witnessed a more animate*! ! and enthusiastic assemblage than that of the friends a Cuba, at the City Hall, on Wednesday ! evening. A brief report of the proceedings will be found in another column. Our space only permits la to add, that over thirty names were placed ipon the muster-roll, after the adjourn j ment oft he meeting, and we understand that the j numberuvas considerably increased yesterday.— Success#) the Liberators. Si above was in type, we learn that the Cuba Wlnnteers, at a meeting held yesterday evening elected John Jhinizy, Jr., Esq., as Cap tain. f.'c are gratified to state that he has ac cepted.^ The flection for other officers will take place this ev. ning, at the City Hall. All who desire i to aid Cuba, in her struggle for liberty, are invi ted to a tend. We perceive in the Washington Union of Tuesda', a notice to the ellect, that if the heirs of legal reirescntatives of Captain Wm. H. Cary, and hijbrothers and sisters, (if he had any,) who removed from the State of Virginia to (it is be lieved) the State of Georgia or South Carolina, will ald r ess “ Redfield,” at the city of New York, V.,ey will hear something greatly to their advanhge. The Union observes that if the Editors of this State, Richmond, Virginia, Savannah and Au gusta, (Jeorgia, and Montgomery, Alabama, will call attention to the above facts, in their respec tive Journais, they will probably be doing a deed O! charity to some needy or orphan family. Mr. Cobb’s Misrepresentations. We understand (says the Marietta Advocate) that Mr. Cobb, in his speech at Rome, asserted that Gov. McDonald, in the discussion with hin: at Marietta, had maintained the doctrine oi the light of a State to secede without cause. The assertion is entirely without truth. Mr. Cobl iu msdciirg it, if he did make it, has grossly mis represented Gov. McDonald. For Gov. Me Donald took no such position. He even ridicul ed the absurdity of the idea that a State couh be supposed to secede wantonly and withou cause. He distinctly spoke of secession as th last resort short of revolution, to which an ag grieved State might be driven by repeated ag gressions. Charleston Municipal Election. 1 he election held on Wednesday last, Co John, Schnierle was chosen Mayor. The vol stood for Schnierle 1335, for Hutchinson 1282. JHdermn Elected. —Messrs. A. Gordon, . Druifimond, W. A. Hayne, E. W. Edgerton, ( D. citrr, W. M. Martin, W. H. Gilliland, V Kirkwood, Dr. J. Bellinger, E. B. Crews, J. I Slgip neyer, Dr. E. North, J. H. Honor, F. I Minister to Mexico.—The Hon. R. P. sr Letcher, Minister of the United States to Alexico. *e left Washington on Friday, for Norfolk, where h he will embark on board the United States re -18 venue schooner Forward, Captain Nones, foi B Havana, whence he will be conveyed in a ship h of war to Vera Cruz. A Slave Quession. —A slaveholder from Mis . souri took one of his men slaves to California in the spring of 1819, and has been engaged in digging gold there for two years. The slave’s j. labor was very valuable, so much so that the master refused to take SISOO a year for his ser- B vices. By the last steamer the Missourian re j turned to New York city with plenty of gold. s and with his slave, was about returning home The New York Commercial says, however, thal j some person having learned these facts, advisee [ the slave that he was made free by the law.- j of California, and that he had a right to recovei r ‘ wages for the time he worked for his master in r that country. This information induced the 1 colored man to apply to an attorney to institute ( legal proceedings, and suit has been commenced against the Atissourian to recover the wages claimed to be du';. The quondam slave has also asserted hi# freeduni .... 1 t AUGUST 20th, 1851. ! j 'Editors :-*-A writer under the sig ! j nature of “States Rights” in giving an uccomri. i In .fo£ftj4gMMLpOf the meeting at Woodstock. * mrias saying that "all Southern Rights men were infamous and cow ards.” I made no such remark. I did say, how , ever, whoever believed that lie had been robbed, cheated and degraded by the National Govern ment, and expressed a willingness to submit to it, was either insincere iu the declaration, or cowardly. The Union party have been, and are now called the basest submissionists. Aly po sition was that they were the true submissionists who acknowledged their degradation, and yet were willing to submit to it. The writer, likewise, thinks proper to construe my rebuke of those | that were on that occasion hissing and groaning , at the speeches upon the Union side into abuse and villification of the 'whole Southern Rights j party. As to the sonow which he expresses for me, he had better reserve it, as the time may come, when it will be needed for hiinselfand bis friends. Yours respectfully, I. T. IRVIN, Jr. Public Meeting. Pursuant to public notice, a very large and en thusiastic meeting of the citizens of Augusta, fa vorable to the cause ol Cuban liberty, assembled in the City Hall Park, on Wednesday evening, the 3d inst., at 8 o'clock. On motion, James Gardner, .Tr., was called to ! the Chair, and Robt. A. Whyte, requested to act as Secretary. The Chairman, in a brief and appropriate ad dress, explained the object of the meeting to be, to give an expression of sympathy in behalf of the oppressed people of Cuba, and to aiu those gallant spirits, in our midst, who might fee! dis posed to volunteer in the noble cause for which they are now contending. At the conclusion of his remarks, Alessrs. A. i i H. 11. Dawson and John Phinizy, Jr. were called ! for, and addressed the meeting in a forcible and | eloquent manner. Brief, and fervent appeals i were also made by Alessrs. A. AI. Rodgers and T. W. Larfe. After the reading of correspondence, by the Secretary, and an announcement from the Chair I that a muster-roll and subscription list would be \ opened immediately after adjournment, On motion, the meeting ther. adjourned. J AS. GARDNER, .IR., Chairman. Robert A. Whyte, Secretary. To tho Southern Rights Party of Columbia County. An important crisis in our political organization is now impending. An election is just at hand, and upon its issues must be detenMtnwt' thj nu merical strang'h and destiny rr/oi.r principles, ! so far as Columbia county is concerned. The contest is one for principle; the issues involved are great and fundamental constitutional lights, which the Southern Rights party think have, in spirit or letter, been infracted. While contend ing as a party for what we concieve to be cor rect principles, it would be the extreme of folly and a positive abandonment of principles, yea, a de reliction of duty, to cast our suffrages for any man unless he is essentially dc jure and de facto a Southern Rights man. We gain nothing in point of principle, or political achievmcnt, by voting for a man unless he is in toto with us.— From these facts, it strikes us with great force, ! that the party in Columbia cannot, with a just 1 regard for principles, vote for any man, whether he runs by nmniiuilion, or as an independent, unless he be thoroughly identified with it. There are now three gentlemen before the people of Columbia for their votes, all of them be long to the same party, in our estimation, hence there is no necessity for Southern Rights men to cast their votes for either. The true and intrinsic policy of the party, is to run its own candidate I and let the motto be “ sink or swim, survive or perish we go for our country and our principles. A precedent independent of this, would he fraught with the worst of consequences to the future success, organization, and harmony of the party. In conclusion, we can only say, stand j firm friends, let no political aspirant divide 0111 ranks, or secure our suffrages, merely for the sake of gratifying his own political thirst. There is no prudence, no princijtle or sound reason in such a course, it is suicidal and fallacious. If a man is not with us, he is against us, and let men of 1 the Southern Rights party, who believe iu the justice of the cause, and the purity of their doc trine, resolve to stand to their colors, or fall tri umphantly attempting their defence. Let us run a candidate ? Peyton. SEPTEMBER 4th, 1801. Messrs. Editors : —Yesterday it was brought to the notice of your leliow-townsman, Dr. Win. | E. Bearing, that a poor family, seventeen miles from Augusta, were suffering from that loath- j some disease, Small Pox, and from causes useless | to mention, medical attention could not be pre i cured ; immediately, his services were perferred, and in one hour he was on his journey. Such ! energy and pure disinterestness, "tis hoped are j not unrewarded in your city. Medical skill alone 1 was wanting. The prudence and benevolence ot Brothesville and its neighborhood had provided against the spread of the disease, and the for com- j fort of the alllicted family. y ourS) Pinky Woods. ! (communicated.) The Educational Convention.—No. 3. Messrs. Editors: —I now undertake a very brief review of the final action of the Educa tional Convention assembled at Marietta, on the Bth of July last. If the report (of the committee) ; adopted by a small minority of the Convention/ and published to the world as the action of the Con ! vention, by the use of the expression, “ a com -1 mon School Education,” means any thing else than an education in the common and necessary branches of education, the writer, (and a majori ty of the whole Convention, in his opinion,) dis- sents from such belief. The writer dissents also, from the conviction expressed in the 2nd paragraph ol the report, that the number of “ children growing up without education, is increasing. lam at a loss to guess from what data the conclusion is dawn : certain- j ly not from the declining state of feeling on the subject of education, or the lessened number of schools in our State, since in both these respects Georgia has for many past years been assuredly advancing, instead of declining. In the 3rd paragraph of the report, we find this agrarian sentiment. “ The Convention considers it°as much the right ol the poor to be educated, as of the rich to be protected in the possession of his property.” Now the right of protection, is one of the clearest, as well as the strongest rights, and lies at the very foundation ol all good govern ments. Hence all such governments give to their subjects the means of defending and enforc ing this right. If then the right of education, as the report declares, stands on equal grounds, then the poor, according to the report, have the right to be furnished with the means of compelling the rich to pay the tuition, boarding, &c., of their children. I characterize the sentiment as agra rian. Connect this right with some other things of kindred character, which according to the sen- aas-x-^=L^L-g..i.»itj! ■ ';' , . , . , , i. — — •« * 1 __ —: .' .^.'S~Z~Z rr Z ~~ rr Ti VOL. XXX- NEW SERIES VOL. VI -NO. 31. timent above, the report would call rights, and '■ *®* how well its character accords with them, and tell me, if the sentiment is not too agrarian • for any body of men in Georgia, except the mi i nority by whom it has been adopted. I appre ) hend a comfortable support, including food, cloth ing, and a small piece of land for a home, might be considered, by the poor man, quite as neces sary to fit him to become a useful member of so ciety, as a small education ; and much more so, for his comfort. Yet I suppose no one in Geor gia would like to see those things recognized os rights , to be enforced by legal enactments or otherwise. No one would like to see the condi tion of things brought about, when the poor may claim, as a matter of right, a division of the rich man’s property, merely on the ground of his pov erty, brought upon him by his own improvidence, or some thing worse. This claim of the poor to education, stands on the same foundation, as their claims to other helps, such as foot!, home or pe cuniary aids in distress.—policy, expediency and charity. No good government, and no good man, will turn aside from the wants and sufferings of the poor. Policy in the one, and Christian chari ty in the other, should prompt to their relief; but '■icver can the recipient enforce his claim as a right. So, neither can he have any other grounds for his claims on the property holders for the edu cation of his children. If the doctrine of the report should ever become engrafted upon pur institu tions—if such-reward of poverty, —such in ducements to become.vagabonds, should ever be law.—ls they .should ho taught, that their pover ty alone gives them a right to clami a division of the property of their wealthier, or more fortu nate neifcitfems, then indeed, will be turned loose upon society, a flood which shall soon sweep be fore it, every guard and security of property, the institutions of civilization, ami society itself would be reduced to a state of absolute barba rism. But, it may be said, the solitary instance in the report could not produce such results.— True, but the solitary instance is based upon a principle, and that principle applied to other things, with this solitary instance as a precedent, would inevitably produce these or worse results. The solitary instance is not the whole claim, but it most certainly is one very important link, in the chain which drags after it, these destructive consequences. In the sth paragraph, compare the first sen tence with the last, and observe their beautiful accordance. Ist. Sentence. “ l'he Convention is aware of the great difficulties in the way of the full accom plishment of a plan of universal common School Education in Georgia.” Last Sentence. ‘‘And the Convention is con vinced, that the difficulties, which have been sup posed to exist, in adapting a universal system of common Schools to the State, art far less formida ble than is supposed by many.” The seventh and eight paragraphs relate to the creation of a fat office for some “ditingufched in dividual, who will devote his whole time to car ry into effect, the system of common School Ed ucation, &c.” Doubtless, such an office with a salary as “distinguished ' as the individual who might be so fortunate as to fill it, might prove a very convenient sinacure—a very downy couch fora distinguished individual to repose upon, after the busy scenes of more active life shall have passed away. From this arrangement, the wri ter also dissents, believing that our present’ sys tem, which, with a few amendments, is far the best that can be adopted in Georgia, can be Let | ter and more effectually carried out, without such | an officer, than with one. Having now disposed of that part of the report which appears to be a preamble to the plan,. I ! shall conclude this number, reserving tiie plan i t ! self, for future consideration. A Memuf.u. Hogs and Chops in Kentucky.—The editor lot the Cincinnati Price-Current has addressed a letter lo a gentleman who has l»een travelling through Kentucky, and visited perhaps every i county in the State, relative to the supply of hogs, and the prospect of the grain crops, and gives the following as the substance of his re- j ply: He says the number of Hogs in Kentucky this j season is about the same as last, but they will he j much heavier, and will consequently yield an ex cess of both .Meat and Lard. Feeders are antici pating fine prices, and Corn being plenty, and comparatively cheap, the Hogs will be made as heavy as possible. For stock Hogs $3 50 per 100 lbs was being paid in Madison county, and i 25 was paid for fat Hogs for delivery. The corn crop promised well, and the yield of Tobacco would he very heavy. He thinks tin* market will he glutted with the latter article. | This information we regard as most reliable,the gentleman who communicates it having mingled with the citizens of the several counties through which he travelled. A Few Corrections. The N. O. Picayune, of Friday morning says: —“The disorders in this city on Thursday last, were bad and discreditable enough, without the blunder and exaggerations which have got abroad through hasty telegraphing. In Charleston, for example, a dispatch is pub lished, dated here on the day of disturbance, in which it is said: “The Cuban liberators, mostly Western men, exasperated by the tone of the Spanish paper, La Patria, this afternoon attacked the o/fice, &e.” . The office attacked was La Union, not La Pa tria. The assailants were not Cuban liberators at all; on the contrary, in the course of the dis turbances of that day, scarcely one of this class were recognized among the rioters, and a con siderable number were forward in volunteering I to preserve the peace. The following is an ad j ditional dispatch, dated the next day, when, ac cording to our experience here, everything was quiet: New Oiu.eans, Aug. 22. — Two thousand men this morning surrounded the City Prison, where the Spanish Consul has taken refuge, and threat ! ened to demolish it unless the Consul is delivered up to them. About fifty police are on the ground. The cigar shops kept by the Spanish were nearly : all destroyed during last night. Minute guns have been fired since sunrise in honor ot'the 1 murdered liberators. The bodies of Victor Kerr and Col. Crittenden attract many visitors, and produce much leeling. This is news in New Orleans—never heard of before it came from Charleston. The City Prison on the morning of the22d, was as undisturbed as a church. The Spanish Consul was never in danger nor threatened, that we heard of. The nttai-k against Ei» oflio w™ sodden, but neither then, nor during the succeeding demonstrations against the cigar shops, were the persons of any Spaniards molested at all. The Consul might have walked the streets, and we doubt not that his person would have been safe. The refuge in the prison, and the crowd demanding him, are sketches from the imagination, or a vague street rumor which had no foundation at all. The pub lic visitation to see the bodies of Kerr and Crit tenden are also the creation of fancy, for these last relics of the brave have not been received in the city even yet. There was a report on Friday morning that a | vessel had arrived with these bodies, but it prov ed to be untrue.” [ Front the Savannah Georgian.) The Washington Union. A late number of the Raleigh Standard, the organ of the Democratic party of North Caro lina, contains the following remarks: “The Washington Union newspaper has been of but little, if any, service to the party in this State during the late campagin: and, indeed the impression of many of our friends is, that it has rather crippled and injured us in our efforts against the common adversary. That paper has been, and is now, taking part with Cobb and Foote against McDonald and Quitman; and we do not remember to have seen at any time in its columns a definite and correct statement ol the position of the democracy, or of the South gen erally, in relation to the so-called Compromise. No one, we presume, acquainted with the lacts of the case, can doubt that so far as the Union exerted uny influence in the late North Carolina i election, its influence was exerted in behalf of the Whigs. In regard to the leading issue in volved in the contest—the right of secession, that paper espioused the cause of the notorious Stanley and the other Federalists against every Democratic candidate. It is not all improbable that Stanley owes his election to the aid thus furnished him by the Union newspaper. In the same way that sheet is giving whatever aid it can furnish, to the Federalists throughout the entire South. Beginning even with Virginia and Kentucky, and descending to Louisiana we find the Democratic party, with the exception of d scarce a corporal’s guard, occupying the same i, position as to the doctrine of secession, that it i does in North Carolina. In Virginia the Rich - mond Enquirer maintains it. The Richmond - Whig denies that right—and the Union is on the - side of this well known organ of Federalism. In t Kentucky the Louisville Democrat maintains the - same republican doctrine—the notorious Jour . nal, the organ of Clay and Federalism in that State, denies it—and has the aid and assistance . of the Washington Union, in fighting for Feder -1 alism. In Tennessee the Nashville American, r (Democratic) with Gov. Trousdale the late can . didate of the party, denounced the ruinous Com r promise. Os course the Union stood side by , side with the Whig presses of Tennessee in glorifying that bill of surrender, ami in accom plishing the defeat of the Democratic candidate , for Gevernor. In Arkansas its help, in the same way, has been lately given to the Whig Congressional candidate, in opposition to John son, a sterling Democrat and fast friend ot the South. In Louisiana, while the New Orleans Courier, like the Louisville Democrat, Rich mond Enquirer and all the leading Democratic presses of the South, sustains the right of se cession, the Union of course takes the side of the Federalists of that State, and of their organs, the Bulletin and the Bee. In Mississippi, it i.> light ing with the great body of the Whigs against the entire Democratic delegation in the last House of Representatives. In Alabama, it is making common cause with Hilliard and Abercrombie tiind White and the entire Whig .press. agaiM*viiy|i|jj netftol'li'l>r<Bßp 4, and - nearly * - every Democratic politician of the State. In Florida it furnishes arguments for every Whig journal, and is of course in direct antagonism with the Democratic party and all its presses. But how stands this pretended Washington or gan of Democracy, with reference to the Demo cratic and Southern Rights party of Georgia/ That party assembled at Milledgeville, and there nominated as its candidate Gov. McDonald one whose Democracy has never been called in question—one whom the Democracy ol the whole Slate lias twice before supported and elect ed as its Gubernatorial candidate. Thus nomi nated, lie receives-the support of the leading Democratic presses ol the State, as well as that of the great body of the Democratic party. Ihe Federalists, knowing that they could not defeat him with one of their own men, put Howell Cobb in nomination against him. And the Washington Union is now in full affiliation with the Savannah Republican, Macon Messenger, Columbus Enquirer, Milledgeville Recorder, and Augusta Chronicle—all the leading Federal pres ses of the State—in sustaining the Federal nom inee in opposition to the regularly selected Demo cratic and Southern Rights candidate. It even resorts to the same misrepresentations ol Mc- Donald (charging him with “reflecting the views of Rbett.) which have for months teemed in the Federal presses ot Georgia. Os course all its influence goes to sustain Toombs and Stevens and Johnson and Hopkins, Federalists and Fed eral candidates for Congress—against such Hem oeratsas Jackson, McMillan and Benning. Our friends abroad will he gratified to learn, that though willing to do much, the Union is capable of doing us very lillte injury in.this Slat". Its anti-Southern course in relation to the Com promise, followed by its Federal stand m oppo sition to the right of secession, has made it one of the most unpopular of all the presses circu lated in the cotton growing Slates. [From the N. O. Delta.] ■ The Spanish Barbarity. “Havana. Aug, 10,1851. “The Most Excellent Scnor Governor Captain General has received from a lieutenant ot the Regiment of Bailon. I). Manuel Jiurtodo, com mander of a detachment at San Diego de Los Banos, a communication, reporting to his Excel lency that at half-past 11, on the morning of the 1 Ith, he occupied that place and defeated a party of pirates composed of about twenty men, gear ding an equal number of wounded pirates. Mav j ing shot them, there remained in his hand*ih.yn v r - i guns, pistol*, carbines, and amw»-innion. wflW* < * which iic .1W -.avyU-wl •.-aaio<.Yt* pUsa'i-ts W'b<* «>- I coiupanied him.’ * The above is contained in one of the bulletins j published in the Havana papers, and signed by I Retro Estaban, Secretary of the Captain General. 1 In all the annals of barbarian warfare, we have ’ scarce ever rea 1 anything to equal the cold-bloud- I cd and cowardly deed which the Captain Gen j eral has the effrontery to publish to the civilized J world. It is far worse than the more formal | murder of the Fify in Havana. They weresub | jected lo a sort of trial, and though enfeebled and . I prostrate from fatigue and suffering, they were | at least in possession of sufficient vigor to stand jup and meet their fate like men. But these poor i wounded patriots, whom their companions had j endeavored to protect ami defend, having no | power to resist, many of them no doubt lamed ! and crippled, were deliberately shot down by the i hirelings of a strumpet Queen and a depraved j Government! They, too, American citizens, born in a country i where the least of her sons would not exchange | the proud position of an American citizen for the j highest post among a race of cutthroat barbari ans and dastard assassins, such as the Spaniards jin Cuba have proved themselves to be. We say i that deeds like these justify immediate and ■ prompt punishment of the authorities of Cuba by j the American people. The Government may ’ diplomatize, and dill y-dally, but without the peo ple, our Government is a cypher. Sooner or Ja i ter these barbarous acts must be avenged. There I will he no adjournment of the matter to Madrid, but there, on the very scene of those atrocities, must the American people establish, in some summary and effective manner, a lasting memo ! rial of their horror and detestation of such cruel- ties, —a beacon to the blood thirsty minions of despotism throughout the world. But it is said these men were Pirates. That burning shame and reproach to our country, the National Intelligencer, will rejoice over this proof of Spanish vigor, in the punishment of those whom it denounced as pirates. It is a result in which that journal may well take a profound in terest, for it was one to which it largely con tributed. That paper and others, denounced these enterprises—the simple object ot which was to aid the Cubans to establish their indepen dence—as piratical. It supplied the Spanish au thorities with rules and sanctions for their blood thirsty conduct, and may therefore appropriate a large portion of the infamy and shame of the But did their dicta make them “Pirates ?'’ Where did the National Intelligencer and Con cha get their authority to falsify law and lan guage, and interpolate such anomalous and false definitions into the code of nations ? Are not pirates those who rob and murder on the high seas? Are they not. enemies of the human race, whom all nations are at liberty to arrest and punish? In what possible sense were these young men, who went to Cuba to light for the liberties of that oppressed island, Pirates ! Will the U. States, which in its treaty with Spain has re cognized the law of nations as controlling their relations, permit them to bo thus violated and outraged towards our own countrymen ? Where is there in any code, or in the history of any civilized nation, a precedent for a barbarism like this? Admitting that these men were pirates, was it consonant with even the course admitted to be justified by the most severe laws against piracy, to shoot down wounded men, - in their very litters, whilst lying in a pitiable and defenceless state ? The untutored savage of our forests would scorn so unmanly a deed. And these are the trophies of the proud Castilians, who exult in such loud tones over their own courage and greatness? Their pride is destined soon to trail in the dust; these boastful tones will soon be reduced to a piteous wall; their bloody deeds, against defence less men, will be avenged, and the spots on which they were acted will be rendered sacred and holy in the view of regenerated Cuba, for on them will arise lofty monuments to commemorate the sig nal and complete vengeance, which the Ameri can people never tail to visit upon those who have outraged humanity, and insulted the nation al character. Toronto, Aug. 30. The Canadian Parliament was prorogued . day. The principal acts passed were of the tonnage and light duties, the of the decimal system in currrem propriation of $16,000,000 to * ! road. Nothin - f questio-