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LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMER FRANKLIN.
FOUR DAYS LATER INTELLIGENCE*
From the Y. Y. Commercial Advertieer.
The United Stales Mail Steamer Franklin,
Capt. Wotton, arrived this morning at 10
o’clock, from Havre and Southampton,
Capt. W. left Cowes at 6 o’clock on the morn*
ing es the 28th of August, thus making the
passage in eleven days.
■he brings 110 passengers.
On the sth of September, in lat. 45 long.
69 30, passed a steamer, supposed to be the
Canada from Boston.
We are under obligations to the purser for
London papors to tho 27th of August inclu
sive.
The United States steamship Pacific, Capt.
Ifye, arrived at Liverpool, at 10 o’clock on
the night of August 26th. On the second
night after leaving New York the Pacific ran
down an American schooner; all tbe crew
were saved. The Pacific carried away several
of her floats.
The P. left New York on the 16th.
The Cunard steamer Niagara, from New
York, arrived at Liverpool at one o’clock on
the 25th of August. She left this port on the
13th.
The United States mail steamship Washing
ton, Capt. Floyd, touched at Cowes on the 25th
of Angast, snd proceeded to Bremen. She
made the rnnto Cowes in 12 days and 20
hears.
The British Parliamsut is further pro
rogued te Tuesday, the 4th of November.
The Quean will visit tbe city of Manchester,
and tbe adjoining town of Salford, on the 10th
of October.
la France the Council General of the Seine
et-Marne has adoptsd resolutions in favor, not
only es the immediate revision of the consti
tution, bnt also of article 45, whioh prohibits
the re election of the President of the Re
public.
M. Delaimaire. the Paris banker and pro
prietor of the Patris, has published in that
journal an address of nine columns to the
Council General He denounces the Consti
lation, and demands the re-election of Louis
Napoleon as tbe only means of saving the
country from anarchy.
Gibraltar is threatened with quarantine on
aceount of cholera prevailing at Oran and
Melilla.
The quantity of wine shipped from Oporto
in July was 2,888 pipes, leaving a stock of
98,921, es whioh 75,921 pipes are classed of
the first quality.
Correspondence es the Commercial Advertiser.
Lokdoii, Aug. 26, 1851.
A failure which has occurred, of greater
magnitude than any since the crisis of 1847 is
tbe chief event since the departure of tbe last
paekeit Tbe house is that of Lacker A Sons,
end its liabilities ars beyond £500,000. The
firm ware produce brokers, and they have for
many years held a high position in London.
The event was altogether unsuspected, and has
created a great sensation. The result is very
■Qeertain, but as there can be no doubt that ‘.he
private friends of the partners would have
prevented they suspension, if the object
•ontd have been effected by any reasonable
sacrifice, it is feared that they must have been
engaged in speculation! to a large extent, and
that the loss will prove extremely heavy. Cof
fse is understood to have been the article in
which they have been most deeply engaged.
Daring the whole of the present year the
E rices es produce of almost ail descriptions
ave experienced an uninterrupted fall. In
cotton, eoffee and sugar, it has been not less
than 20 or 30 per cent. But as this fall has
not been caused by a diminution of consump
tion, there has been a good and profitable bu
siness for all parties except those who, in the
face of increasing cultivation, improved me
thods of manufacture, and cheaper labor, have
been foolish enough to hold large stocks in
expectatiou of a rise, instead of contenting
themselves with supplying from day to day
the legitimate demand that existed.
It will therefore be understood that the pre
sent failure, as well as 'hose which preceded
it, both at Liverpool and in London, are not
to be viewed as indicating in the slightest de
gree an nnprosperous or dangerous sta'e of
gsnsral affairs. The community at large have
of oonrse been benefitted by tho universal fall
in prises and those among the trading classes
who have kept to a steady system have also
benefitted to a proportionate degree by the in
creased transactions to which the general
cheapness has given rise. It is only those who,
instead of pursuing the routine operations of
supplying the wants of the country from day
te day, have preferred the risk of attempting
suddenly to make or lose their fortunes, that
have been now brought down.
In every quarter trade and manufactures
fkow signs of undiminished vigor and, espec
ially during tbe past fortn ght the prospects for
the fotnre have become still more favorable.
There never was a time when the opportuni
ties or rewards of steady industry in England
were more distinct, or more easy of attainment,
•ad unless something occurs, the warning of
which is not at present even on the horizon
there is no reason to look for any thing else
than • continuance and increase of this favora
•ble state for at least tbe next three or fonr
years. The impending trouble on the conti
nent. may doubtless cause temporary oncer
tkinties and confusion in particular branches of
eommaroe, but the apprehension of inconve
nienoies in that respect is greatly lessened by
the experience of 1848, which has taught us
that we have nothing to dread if we will only
confine oar attention to our own affairs.
On general subjeots there is nothing new to
eommonioate. The feeling with regard to the
conduct of the Roman Catholic party in Ire
land is very general and decided, and govern
ment may consequently rely on almost unan
imous support in any measnre they may deem
necessary. No serious evils, however, are an
ticipated, since tbe idle threats which deluded
poor Smith O’Brien to bis ruin, and their mis
erable termination, are not yet forgotten.
It isstated that your countryman, Mr . Hobbs,
has just succeeded in opening the lock of
Bramah & Co., on which he has been
•o long engaged, and that he has claimed his
reward of £2OO.
The eomplets triumph of the America in
ve88el " of the Royal Yacht
Club as een accepted here, yon will see
iad ,he de ‘ a * ls which
have been furnished by oar papers, and are
ample aad exciting, will doubtless spread with <
rapidity frome one end of the Union to the 1
ether. It te the Anglo Saxon alone who can «
understand that there is a blessing i n being J
beaten, and in than having tbe information >
forced upon him that there is in existence i
something superor to wfaat be had yet contem
pfcttd, apd that he must consequently devel- I
ope new energies, if he would escape being
left behind.
With this success of the Aerican and the un
paralleled voyage of Pacific across the
Atlantic in the Spring you have earned glory
enough for one year, bnt to reflective minds a
far brighter and more momentous achieve
ment has been announced by the steamer
which has jnst arrived. The success of Cap
tain Vauderbilt and the Nicaragua Canal Com
pany in overcoming, in little more than a year
and a half, all tbe " insurmountable ” difficul
ties of the transit between tbe Atlantic and the
Pacific, in tbe face of discouragements and
•vil prognostications which appear to have
been even loader from their own countrymen
than from ns, is a circams’ance which w'ill do
more than anything that has yet happened in
yonr anuals to accelerate the progress of the
woHd. Spxctator,
Particulars of tine Storm at Apalachicola,
We have been kindly favored, says the Co
lumbus Enquirer , with the following extract of
a letter from a gentleman at Apalachicola to his
friend in this city, giving further particulars of
the ravages of the storm at that place, on the
22d and 23d days of August last:
“ I have now to give you a most melancholy
account of our devoted city. On the night of
the 22d, a gale commenced blowing from east
south-east, and continued about 24 hours. When
I got up in the morning the water was nearly
up to Market street, and about 12 o’clock it was
over the side-walk in front of my dwelling, and
still rose a few inches higher. During this time
the water was breaking through the entire row
of brick buildings, tearing down iron doors and
washing the goods away, for no one had time to
save any thing. There was not a door or floor
left in Water street, and no goods saved, except
in a damaged state. The goods are scattered
from town up to Lake WemTco, Judge Hawkins
had to abandon his house, and wade through
water several feet deep with his wife and chil
dren. Judge Semmer house was undermined
and fell to the grout d, destroying all his furni
ture, &c., &c.{ Bennett’s house was very near
going in the same way j also Mr. Day’B, and B.
D. Allen’s; Mr. Grierson’s house was under
mined and tumbled over. The promenade swept
of every thing, with nearly half of Irish town.
The lower block of buck buildings a pile of
ruins j the two next buildings much damaged ;
Taylor’s store, and the one next to it, partly
down ; the next one partly unroofed; the bank
house entirely down, with the large safe lying on
the top of the wreck. The Exchange, and Or
man’s store, partly down; Day’s press and
ware-house much damaged ; Dodge’s store part
ly unroofed ; Ellison’s, and Wylie & McKen
zie’s ditto. - tl the P. D. ware-house (omitted
above) two-thirds down, and slate nearly all off ;
the Union warehouse partially damaged; Austin
& Long’s store partly unroofed; N. Brooks,
Day, Lockhart and Thomas’ ditto : No. 1,2, 4
andß ill Columbus block ditto; the screw press
injured some, or rather the buildings; the
Franklin ware-house down, also the bakery, and
wooden buildings, and all the buildings on the
wharves ; Young’s kitchen down, and dwelling
somewhat injured by the falling of the chimney
tops ; other dwellings very little injured. The
doors and windows of the Episcopal Church all
forced in, and plastering damaged ; the Congre
gational Church entirely down, the Methodist
Church not injured. You may imagine the situ
ation of wharves. The roof of the engine house
lodged in the rear of Young’s store ; the cotton
sheds nearly all down; Roberts & Allen’s brick
foundry nearly all down ; the small brick build
ing rear of L. T. Thomas, down; Ellis’ new
wooden building, opposite Abell & Griffin, lilted
from the blocks, and settled on the ground, stock
of goods also damaged; there were 7 or 8000
sacks salt in Day’s press warehouse, all de
stroyed; Young’s whiskey and salt on the first
floor, and about 150 barrels of goods for J. C.
Davis, of Albany, all gone.
The steamers Falcon and Magnolia were both
swept from Old Woman’s B’uff, and, completely
wrecked ; the water was nine feet on that bluff.
The ship John Bryant, loaded for Livepeol,
and ready for. sea, is ashore in 14 feet water,
drawing 16 feet. All the light houses gone, and
five lives lost at Dog Island light. A Span
ish cruiser ashore about St. Joseph. About 100
bales cotton lost in Ellison’s brick store, lower
part of Water street. You can scarcely imagine
such a scene as Water street presents; every
store entirely open, and goods, lumber and logs
all mixed up together: every body worn down,
exhausted, and almost in despair. And what
shall we do in such a case 1
I will not attempt to make an estimate of the
loss. Some are sufferers, to large amount—
everybody has lost something, except those who
can make it up in pilfering, for which there
is a fine chance, and ho doubt used successful
ly-
When I spoke of houses being unroofed, I
should have said tho tin partly stripped off.
In some cases part of the timbers are gone.
_ . Yours, D. G. R.
We have also a letter before us from Monticel
lo, Fla. which gives a doleful account of the
storm in that section of the State. The writer
says “in that county (Jefferson) the storm has
done vast damage to the crops, the cotton all
blown down and where tall is badly mangled and
the limbs broken. The wind blew from the
South, from Saturday, 12 o’clock, until near
Sunday morning. The roads are blocked with
trees, and the young corn blown to ruins. This
storm will cause the cotton to be of an inferior
quality, and very bad to pick. Where you ex
pected 300, you may possibly get 200 bales.”
From this statement, and others made, it is esti
mated that so far as the lower portion of Florida
is concerned, there will be a falling off at least
of one-third from the original ostimate, in cotton.
The papers also mention three heavy raina since
the storm, so that corn in the lowlands especial
ly is badly injured; most of it being flat on the
ground is soaking in the water. One-fourth of
the crop thereby destroyed.
From Gadsden county, the acccounts are
quite as unfavorable. The Gin Houses in the
country were blown down to a great extent, and
timber prostrated in unprecedented quantities.
There is a perfect sea of waters between Quincy
and Tallahassee. The tobacco crop is nearly all
destroyed—that in the fields being whipped to
ribbons, and that in process of curing and stored
in barns and sheds being destroyed by the de
molition of those buildings.
From Alabama we have no cheering news of
f°rn ,n^**i°n *h e crops. In the neghborhood
of Tuscaloosa, ovary thing eatable is scarce and
J.? P‘ c kens county a meeting has been
held, which called upon the county authorities
to advance money, buy com, and to distribute it
gratis to those who are notable to buy, and sell
to those who are. A tax is to be levied to refund,
the money thus advanced by the county.
Ireland. —This unfortunate country is be
lieved to be on the brink ofa great crisis. The
new Catholic Association of Ireland defied
the law and the Government in the most
open manner, and the Catholic Prows are
equally violent in their denunciations of the
Anti-Papai Bill; and in the expression of a
determination to violate and sat the law at
naught, a new and comprehensive field of
agitati in is thus opened, and the controversy
is proceeding in the most virulent manner.
Ihe Government, it is understood, is not dis
posed to overlook the matter, but will prose
cute with the utmost rigor all those Catholic
Bishops who assumed the titles of their re
spective Sees on the occasion of the recent
demonstration at Dublin.
Sept ' B ~P y aD arrival we leant
that 400 Chinese recently arrived at Lima and
*l ld the ca P tain
vessel at ■ 107 per head, on condition of re
ceiving their freedom in three years Chinese
servants are all the fashion in Lima. Mr. Duer,
p n f° ’ ’’nived at Valparaiso on the 21st
i, U,y io,K r e t'i at Yalcahuana, sailed on
the 12th of July. The U. S. frigate Sivannih
2 i ed J? r ‘he United States on the 18th of July, j
Ihe frigate Raritan, Com. McCauley, sailed
the same day for Callao and (hence for Pa- ,
natna. 1
Nxw York, Sept. 8-At John Carr’s board- ‘
mg house in Prince street 10 persons were 1
poisoned yesterday by arsenic being acoiden c
tally administered to them in their pudding t
Mrs. Carr and cnild and the child of one of •
the boarders have died and seven others are *
very low. a
Philadelphia, Sept. B.—The Eagle cotton •
‘*ctory, situated near Fairmouut, was destroy- t<
two thirds of tb. amount being fosorod
Chronicle ani> Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, GA'
FRIDAY HORSING, SKPTt IS.
BAHREL BARNETT, Associate Editor.
Constitutional Union nomination*
FOR GOVERNOR.
HON. HOWELL COBB
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
First Dist —CHARLES H. HOPKINS,
of Mclntosh.
Second District.— J AM E S JOHNSON,
of Muszoget.
Third Dist.— ABSALOM H. CHAPPELL,
of Bibb.
Fourth District.— CHAßLES MURPHY,
of DcKcdb.
Fifth District.— E. W. CHASTAIN,
of Otimer.
Sixth District.— J UNI U S HI L LYER,
of Walton.
Seventh District. —A. H. STEPHENS,
of Taliaferro.
Eighth District.— ROßEßT TOOMBS,
of Wilkes.
For ‘{senator from Riehmond and Co
lumbia,
ANDREW J. MILLER.
For Rot resentatlvea from Richmond •
JOHN MILLEDGE,
ALEXANDER C. WALKER.
“ Augusta—An Editor’s Impressions,” on
first page Daily.
The Territorial and District Bills*
In treating of the course of the Constitution •
alist on these bills, we cordially admit that we
are “ incapable of doing justice to <he subject.”
By one of those singular coincidences which
wilt happen, that paper (without knowing that
it waa attacked by any body—much less by its
chosen adversary, the Chronicle,) has followed
up our attacks, and put in what defence it
might. It felt awkwardly in going about a
rep'y in this timid way, too. It was not used
to it. While studiously silent as to the quarter
wbencti the blows came, it must needs find
some excuse for parrying them. Accordingly,
on thu ground that efforts are being made “ by
Mr. Cobb and his friends ” “to mystify the
Democrats on the doctrine of non-interven
tion,” it makes an elaborate defence, nearly
three 'Columns long, against our attack on its
gross inconsistencies on that “doctrine-”
Whun its coarse on the subject of the slave
trade i u the District is exposed, instead of an
sweringthe Chronicle by name, it takes occa
sion, “at the request of several correspon
dents,” to publish the act, and “in connection
with this subject, ” defends itself exactly is the
same way as it would in a direot reply to our
article. All these, however, are mere accidental
coincidences.
For consistency’s sake, (if it were not already
bankrupt in that commodity,) it should not
have known when it was attacked by the
Chronicle en other subjects. On these, however,
it is evidently a reader of the Chronicle. It in
stantly takes up the gauntlet on the Alberti
Case. The charge founded on the course of
one of its Editors’ in the Monroe County
meeting, gave rise to the brilliant and admira
ble invention of the “ may be ” method of
reasoning. On “non-intervention,” however,
it ia blind and deaf. It closes its eyes—stops
its ears—cannot see—will not hear. The tongue
of 1850—its own tongue—still pleads for “non
interve ntioß,” anddefe nds ‘‘the Compromise.”
It can listen to any thing else— argue against
any body else—but its awn sayings and itself.
It knows its own weak points—some cf them
at least. Not all, however, or it never would
have raised the subject of resistance to the Dis
trict of Columbia Bill. This was a decoy duck
to draw us off from “ non-intervention.” The
Constitutionalist itself threw down (in an in
formal way) the gauntlet, in order that it might
drop ” non intervention ” and take up some
other ground.
The District of Coinmbia Bill waa chosen by
it for attack. We cheerfully accepted the
issue, and showed that the Constitutionalist had
kspt Mr. Cobb company in any inconsistency of
which he may have been guilty. We also ex
plained the reasons which we thought justified
both Mr. Cobb and the Constitutionalist in the
abandonment of their first position-
That was enough for an answer. But we
went f arther. We showed that the Constitu•
tionaliiit, having followed Mr. Cobb from po
sition No. 1 to position No. 2, (for good rea
sons) incon.inently turned its back upon him.
We ahowad from his own acts and editorials,
that he first pledged himaelf to resin the law
then justified its passage—then retracted the
justification, and violently opposed it. We
asked the stilt unanswered question—” Is the
Editor now in favor of redeeming his first
pledget” From hi* not answering, we pre
sume that he is not.
When his own weapons are turned against
him on this subject as on the former—he ig
nores the Chronicle again. He puts in a de
fence (and such a defence!) “in connection
with” the opportune, convenient call of seve
ral correspondents .
Defending bimeelf blindly against an un
known adversary—what plea would ingenuity
devise if its wits were set to work to devise,
with precision—the poorest that could be offer
ed ? It woo d have to be very busy to come
nearer pefectian in error than the Constitu
tionalist has done.
We charged him with being for the measure
on the 22d May, 1850, and against it in May,
1851. The defence is (if we are able to under
stand it) that he changed sooner than that, as he
only st.uek to hi.e position till May 23d, 1850.
Instead of o ccupying twelve months in ef
fecting; so total a change, it took him only
twenty -four hours—hardly that—for the change
took place “the very day we published the ar
ticle of May 22 d.” The opinions were scarcely
published btfor< t they were altered.
Verily, this » defence is worthy of the reputa
tion of the Cc mstitutionalist. It is consistent
only in inconsi latency, Though it may “ claim
no peculiar ci ipaoity to jump to correct con
clusions at th«r< first glance,” it has a well
founded “ clan n ” to a very peculiar capacity
in jumping fr em one aide of • question to
another—in fa ot, in being on both sides—if not
itrictly at ono fame, in an inoredibly abort in
terval. |
Every attempt at
only plunged it deeper in the quagmire/llo
position, or the question at the head of this
article, was to decided that no quibbles—ns after
thoughts could by any dint of ingenuity dis
guise or conceal it. In reply to our charge of
inconsistency, it pleada the very briskness of
its charge.
Cub*.—Tfee Administration.
Aa reason and judgment are always certain
to exercise their sway among the intelligent
and reflecting, after an ebullition of passion,
we may now with some hope of an impartial
hearing and considerate investigation, justify
the course of the President in all his acts, yet
made public, in relation to the late expedition
against Cuba. We, of coarse, do not antici
pate or desire to satisfy that class of “ small
beer ” politicians wh"*, with the hope of making
a little political capital out of this question,
have proclaimed a code of political morals, the
observance of which, would require the Presi
dent to forswear himself by an open violation
of tbelawe of the land, and the provisions of
our treaties with Spain—in short, to violate
every principle of moral and politioal honesty,
and dishonor the National escutcheon.
The effort to connect the Cuban question with
Politics in Georgia, has been apparent to every
intelligent mind, and so bold were the actors
in Columbus, that the Disunionists, in their
desperate fortunes, proclaimed the “cause of
Cuba, the cause of the South." Hence we
deem it necessary to place before the intelli
gent and reflecting portions of the people, tho
law and the provisions of the treaty with Spain,
which distinctly and clearly defines the duties
of the President:
The 6th section of the law of 1818, declares
that:
“If any person shall, within the'territory or juris
dictioa of the United States, begin or set on foot, or
provide or prepare the means for any military expedi
tion or enterprise to be carried on from thence against
the territories or dominions of any foreign Prince or
State, or any colony, district, or people, with whom
the United States, are ai peace , every perron so of
fending shall bs guilty of a high misdemeanor . and
shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars,
and imprisonment not more than three years."
Thoae who are familiar with the law, and
who have urge! persons to engage in the ex
pedition, are guilty of the double crime of de
nouncing the President for the observance of
his sworn duties under the law, and of pnrsna
ding persons to openly violate that law.
Again, the existing treaties of the United
States with Spain deolare that :
'‘There shall be a firm and inviolable peace and
sincere friendship between his Catholic Majesty, his
succes ors and subjects, and the United States and
their citizens, without exseption of persons or places,
but that if any person of either nation shall apply for
or take a cominisasion for arming any ship or ships
against the subjects of hi» Catholic Majesty, or the
property of any of them, he shall be punished as a
pirate."
This article refers to ietters of marque from
parties at war with Spain, but it kis a double
force against parties who violate this article
XII, which requires vessels of either party—
“To exhibit as we'l upon the high seas as in ports
and havsns, not only her passports, but likewise cer
tificates expressly showing that her goods are not of
the number of those which hare been prohibited as
contraband.”
Treaties are known to be the supreme law
of the land and the spirit and letter of all our
treaties with Spain, iu 1795, 1819 and 1820,
completed a permanent peace and friendship.
And how any American patriot, who duly
appreciates the national honor, can advise or
commend the violation of the law or treaty
stipulations by our government, we cannot im
agine, unless he be lost to all sense of honor
or shame.
Oo this, question, we rejoice to sea that
sterling journal, the New Orleans Bulletin,
speaking out so manfully in the very midst of
the greatest theatre of excitement in the
country—such a course speaks well for the
independence of that paper, and it connot fail
to have a salutary effect on the public mind.
We subjoin the article referred to :
Cuba and thb Administration. — Ingenuity will
be tested, to account for the failure of the Cuban
Expedition. One party will ascribe it to mismsn
agement, deception, oi ignorance, on the part of
those who originated and conducted it; others will
impute its unfortunate termination to the absence of
all sympathy and co-operation among the creole pop
ulation of Cuba. While trading politicians, whose
scent is always keen, will be seen to discover that
their political opponents have been at fault, and that
they alone have been the sole instruments of the
Cuba catastrophe.
Capital, of course, is to be made out of the event;
and thoee who design trading upon it are, and al
ways have been, callous and indifferent to the cause
itself or its issue, only looking to its incidents and
consequences in a politici I aspect.
The idea is now hopefully entertained, that the
result of this Cuba movement may bs made subserv
ient te the Disunion ctuse, and that it can be used
successfully to disparage the President by impressing
those who are apt to jump to conclusions, without
reason or reflection, with the belief that President
Fillmore is solely responsible for the failure of the
expedition. The man who thus attempts to delude
others, for the miserable gratification of securing a
vote, is either a fool or a knave: he is either igno
rant of the constitution of his country, its spirit and
genius, or he is the wilful and unscrupulous instru.
ment of deception end falsehood.
We have seen, or rather read in our exchanges,
some most ridiculous exhibitiens of inflated ignorance
and presumption. Men, whose opinion) and judg
ment upon the simplest question ol law, physics or
morals, would, in the estimation of those who knew
them beet, not be worth a rush, presumptuously
stand up and profess to be the illuminated interore
ters of national law, the annotators of Vattel and
Puffendorf, and the expounders of the Constitution.
President Fillmore, these solons tell us, has exceed
ed hie constuntional powers, and by interfering in
the Cuba movement, has acted without law or war.
rant.
In the first place, there baa been ea yet no inter,
ruption to the expedition on the part of the Federal
Government. It embarked from tbia port without
let or hindrance, for itß departure was secret and
surreptitious, thereby clearly admitting that it was
an illegal act. It experienced no interruption or
difficulty on the way to Cuba ; no American cruiser
overhauled it, or prevented the disembarkation efthe
troopi j they landed on the island with arms in their
hands, and their hapless fate is the result of the for
tunes of war, or rather the imbecility and treachery
of those who engaged to aid and support them. I t
is a pitiful subterfuge to ascribe the failure of the
euterpr.se to the Chief Magistrate of the Nation.
Put supposmgthc President had interfered, and
interpoMd his official power to prevent the dcp.rtnre
of the Pampero and the force that left in her Will
any one pretend to sey that he was not authorized to
do so? Nay, that it was not his boundeti duty to
SnL% ( i“.“ ,ned herand tbem ? Many honest, but
unreflecting men, are very apt to judge haatiiv
from not sufficiently comprehending, and discri uU
nating between the functions of the several depart
ments in on; Government, confounding tbsir separ
ate and Jutinct offices an 1 duties, and imputing toona
branch trusts, or duties or responsibilities
may actually belong to another. foffinw £
the present case—the Executive is held
it
the JhLl W UP ° B ‘ be Pregidßn ‘. who ia si m .
ply the minister or executioner of the lews
Many suppose, and we see the point has been Hi*
*, •/ with fttnig |n thoir hands eithar inHi
vidually, or organized in squads
i
rivm m *y •» natural or <
abstract right of individuals on this score jaa eitixena t
inhibited the any
such privilege. Theta-v pawed by CongreaiTOJMß^
be an obstacle in the way oftWaccemplisbmint of
their object, they must vent their indignation upon the
law itself or the law makers, and not upon the ad
ministrator of it.
Mr. Fillmore is an honest, faithful and fearless mag
istrate ; he ie determined, as a sworn officer, to exe
cute the laws at all hazards, and all trns men will
honor him fjr bis fidelity and stand up fer him. He
stands justified in the eyes of the civilized world.
Judge Berrien.--WRe is right 1
The question as to the position of Senator
Berriin, in the present crisis in Georf a,
seems very difficult of eolation. A few days
since, the Washington Gazette contained the
following paragraph:
Judge Bkrrikn.—We learn from a private
source, altogether reliable, that Judge Berrien has
taken his position in the preeent contest, and avowed
himself in favor of Mr. Cobb, and opposed to Judge
McDonald and his party.
This we thought settled the matter, but to
our surprise a day or two after, a paragraph ia
one of the Disunion organs, which seemed to
speak by authority, met our eye, claiming
him as a supporter of McDonald, and appeal
ing to the people to stand by the Senator.
Unfortunately for Judge Brrrikn, during
the past year, be has ocoupied a position so
equivocal that it was difficult to locate him po
litically. So muoh so, that while the Disunion
ists claimed that he was acting with them, his
immediate friends of the Union party were
unable to tell with which party he was acting
or would act. As an evidence of this, we may
mention the fact, that the Sayannah Republi
can, right at his door, published the above
estraot from the Gazette, with great apparent
gnsto, and exptesssd a h'gh degree of satisfac
tion at the information it contained. Who
then is right? Is the Senator for McDonald
or Cobb ?
“Older Heads,”
v Ths Constitutionalist sa/s of the Washing
ton County Committee: “Now they dodge be
hind “older heads and older minds." Again it
says—“ Since the appearance of Mr. Cobb’s
letter, they seem to have ‘observed, disoerned,
seen and spied out,’ ‘how, wherefore and
whether, why, where and what, whatsoever,
whereas and whereby,’ all this State Rights
and Secession business, instead of being no
longer open questions, are the most uncertain
and open questions that now puzzle old heads
or young heads, able minds or weak minds."
Qusre T— Could the above slur at old heads
I have been cast by the same Editor, represented
to have been on tho Monroe County Com
| mittee, who “dodged behind older heads, and
, abler minds,” in the following adroit manner
i and style 1
“There were old vetnran leaders in that meeting
to whose opinions he may have bowed with respectful
deference, as he then had just grown up to manhood ;
or he may have objeotsd to the resolutions, but yield
ed to bis political friends es greater age and expe
rience."
i —————————
For the Chronicle 5f Sentinel .
Death-struggle of Dlsunlen in Morgan*
--Second Effort es Mr. Lewis,
Messrs. Editors. —When Mr. Lewis, to
gether with his opponent, Mr. Stephens, spoke
in Madison, some three weeks ago, Mr. L.,
for some cause, wished a second hearing. The
fire of Mr. Stephens was evidently too galling
for him, and he wjshed time to prepare himself
for one fair hearing before his Morgan friends
previous to the election. His request was
granted, and bills were stricken, end runners
were busy spreading the announcement, that
on the 10th inst. Mr. D. W. Lewis would ad
dress the citizens of Morgan in the Court
House. To-day he has been here But the
vast concourse which thronged the square
when Stephens was with him, came not again.
The hour of one drew on, and I do not sup
pose that there were more than 30 persons
who came to town to hear him ! There wore
not more than about 100 present, and nearly
half of those were Union men. The writer
wsat, expecting to hear Mr. Lewis do himself and
his party justice. So far as the latter was concern
ed, bis object was attained—for, in the course of his
speech, he made some random shots which have es
sentially killed the Southern Rights party io Madi
son.
He said, as he arose, that he had so often met Mr.
Stephenv, and knew the tenor of his argument so
well, that he bad no need of documents, and had
therefore none with him. He then went on in a
“very desultory manner,” as he acknowledged in
conclusion, artfully dodging at and around the vari
ous positions oi Mr. Stephens. As his opponent was
not present, and as notice had been circulated that
no friend of Mr Stephens would be permitted to
reply, he got over this portion of bis speech very
smoothly. But when he came to himself and un
dertook to define his own position, he found himself
in a maze so dark that some think he wound him
self completely up i a the effort at extrication. Be
fore I close I am going to tell you how he did it
After insinuating that Mr. Stephen* was not sound
on the slavery question, and that he was a free-soiler
in league with Mr. Clay in endeavoring to prevent
the extension of slavery, he went on to express his
own attachment to the institution. He believed it
ono of Heaven’s most pncsless boons to the human
race, God s chosen agent for christianizing the world.
He believed it a moral, religious and political bles
stng, and wished it to spread over the fair Southwest
until it shall be planted on the shores of the Pacifio.
This sounded well. It took with the unsuspecting
r,^ 0 g t, not Pene ! rati .°. n enou ßh to see hisVbject!
il *° P h ?PP , ?f 1 that Mr - Lewis was one of the sup
porters of Mr. Clay who, he save, declared that he
would sooner cut off bis right band than use it in
promoting the extension of slavery. He gives as his
hsTw or rf U T >rting C,a y fjr the Presidency, that
he, (Mr. Clay) was againet the annexation of Tex
as. which was the very entering wedge to the ex
tension of slavery weetward. Put hie two poeitione
together, end look at his beautiful consistency I Ve
fch i Bpeakerß d ° avoid free discussion
.i w.k,” LeW .' 9 Wa r her u before ' ho rawifested con
siderable contempt for the Georgia platform, oallin*
** a ‘ maßked batter /” and various other h«d
names. To-day he ohanged his tune, and towards
the close of his speech made a very flattering allusion
He disclaimed ever having strode the nag Dieu
was' Conjoin PC ° P „ that issue before them
wee Consolidation or Republicanism. This is the
'“' I™™ ? h,ch r re °° ,lect hearing an u ouncmU u
™feed uT Qei i , with tbo i cf Disunion,
WcUonAW, and their tr.itoroue al
,k g h ? ,he peo P le repudiated auch a foul
7^ ade anot her issue, the right of aeoea
ston. Cobb having driven them from (bat, they
prate about Consolidation, and Hie drowning men,
they catch at any thing which offers a shadow cf
eeounty. Some of them would fain plant them.
. 8 on 'he Georgia platform; but until they strike
their McDonald colors they will find no retfThereon.
Referring to the McDonald colors reminds me of tbe
contemptuous and sneering allusion made by Lewia
to “ths Union, the Stars and Stripee, and all
that bortov huhbug 11” These were hie very
words, and he wound up by giving the people a de
monstration of the manner in which he intended to
shout «. ver the liuie Disunion, Secession Mongrel
flag, which he termed the insignia of State RiJhts
Hurra for him! 8
In the progress es hie speech he evidently had
some misgivings In regard to ths effect he was pro-
A b **? ar] 'y «ooount of emptly benches
- 1
ure, to the pretext, that, upon arriving in town, h#
' ■
| found lh£|Amneral been given *»,l
he h«(*CM)reSjfid himISS H’Njhooad therefore'
SUohaveMMAerWming pralfcti tolhe eleetion. No
Ahat he hMany eßbctation* «*dMiLa t„ be elected t
■fAt he I<h|H end to labor for
p it,; “ without bopapT fee or re%tL” He expected
4jiffall in the fifht, but was demrsflned to bear hia
jHittle flag” to the last diteh, amWallVtouting for it |
Pact ia, iikeonaof old, he has be equal in
strength with his adversary, but now tiipt hia defeat
is inevitable, he has “ grown fiercer bkv despair,”
and— I
■—Rather than tflWess,
He cares not to be at mil.
Whish, in the exigency of the case, is first rate phi
losophy.
Well, ae I said above, Southern Bights has receiv
ed its mortal wound here to day. They have ap
pointed the 25th and 26th as occasions in which to
preach its funeral in different parts of tie country.
Some think the putrifying carcass wili smell etfen.
sively before that time, but all seem reconciled to its
abrupt transit to the shades. Requiescat in pact l
N, B. Please to send up a dozen copies of the
Weekly Constitutionalist & Republic; they will
' make a capital windiog-eheet for the defunct mor
| phodite. Yours, Viator.
eg' 1 — —z:
BURKE COUNTY.
Jj* Notice. —To the Constitutional Union Party.
The proposition submitted by your party to the
Southern Rights party to unite in giving a general
Barbecue in Waynesboro on the 27th of this month,
I is hereby accepted.
Accordingly, the Committee of Arrangements on
your part arc respectfully requested to meet the com
mittee on the pari of the Southern Rights party in
Waynesboro, on TUESDAY, the 16th inst., to com
, plete the arrangements.
James Grubbs, B. L Perkins,
H. J. Schley, W. W. Hughes,
J. T. Brown, M. D. Jones,
i H. J. Blount,
For the Committee of Arrangements.
Serial Notices
LOOK HERE, EVERYBODY.
J3f First rate Seda Water, with plenty of
lee, can be had at Z INN’S. He will also keep his
Garden open until the fir3t of October. Come one,
cense all, before he clcse3 for this season.
N. B. Having made arrangement to get a supply
of Ice from Charleston, Families can be supplied at
the above establishment. al2-2 J. W. Z.
O'The Subscribers to thef OGLETHORPE
MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIATION, and the Ho
norary and Rega'sr Members of the Oglethorpe In
fantry, who desire to subscribe to the Loan Associa
tion, are requested to meet at the Drill Rcom (corner
of Jackson and Groses attests) at 4 o’clock THIS
(Friday) AFTERNOON.
el 2 By order of Capt. Millbb.
ifj’ Augusta. Guards, Attention t Ap
pear at the City Hall THIS (Friday) EVE
NING at 7* o’clock, for drill.
By order of the Captain,
si 2 PHINIZY, O. S.
§□? The Inferior Court stands adjourned to the
second Monday in October next, 10 o’clock A. M.
all Jurors, Witnesses end parties interested, will take
notice.
By order of the Hon. Wm. J. Rhodes.
■6-lawtol3 A. H. McLAWS, Cl’k.
CHARLES BERVFF,
PORTRAIT AND MINIATURE
PAINTER,
Room No. 6, Masonic Hall.
SHAVING located in Augusta, with the
purpose of pursuing his profession, will be
o receive the calls of those who may favor
him with their patronage. au2l
HATS, HATS, HATS.
FALL STYLE FOR 1851.
»Q* I* you wish to look at seme of the try
finest HATS in the United States, just call SI
n at J. TAYLOR. Ja., & CO.’S, and examine their
Fall Styles for 1850. Near the Pest Office corner.
aul6
CHEAP READY MADE CLOTHING.
M. Newby &. Co., under the United
States Hotel , will dispose of the SUMMER GOODS
they have on hand, at prices less than they can be
bought for elsewhere. Those in want, can get bar
gains, by calling early. They hare just received a
large lot of fine Cotton and Linen SHIRTS, DRAW
EES, &c., &c., which will be sold low. je29
Dutch Crus had Sugars.
r IIHIRTY-FIVE tierces for Manufacturing
X purposes, for sale low by
s 12 LAMBACY <fe COOPER.
Hams and Lard,
I BARRELS No. 1 Baltimore City LARD;
*■ XF 16 Tierces and 15 Barrels choice Family
HAMS ; just received and fer sale by
*l2 LAM BACK «Sr. COOPER.
A New Article.
JUST received, a few barrels of choice Carter
POTATOES, of peculiar fiae quality. Also, a
few barrels fine Mercer, with a variety of FAMILY
GROCERIES, just opening and arriving from Phil
deiphia and New York, to which be invites the pa
tronage of his friends, and citixens generally.
JOHN J. BIRD,
s *2 3t Harper’s Range.
Teas.
FAMILIES can be supplied with firs*, quality
Green and Black Teas, at
■l2 LAMBtCg A COOPER.
Premium Seed Wheat.
JUST received, sixty packages of fiie WHITE
WHEAT, raised by Mr. P. H. Greene, of Troup
county, and lor sale at fifty cents per package. This
Wheat is beautiful and very heavy, and look the
premium at the Atlanta Fair, Samples to be seen at
our office of the Wheat, and Flsnr ground from it.
a!2 w 3 D’ANTIGNAC, EVANS* CO.
Potatoes and Onions.
Fifteen barrois potatoes,
10 this. ONIONS, in fine order, for sale by
e!2-4t A. LAFITTE.
Carpetings, Hearth Rugs, &c.
J. P. SETZE
HAS OPENED This Day a very extensive
aasortment es
Riota Brussels CARPETING,
Extra super. Three Ply CARPETING,
2d q t'lity do. do. De.
Best imperial do. do. Do.
Very boat Ingrain Do.
2d and 3d qualities De.
3 4 and 4 4 extra fine Venetian CARPETING,
Aaa’d. sixes Chenille and TutTtod Hearth HUGS.
*l2
Ready Made Clothing.
MAYHRR, BROTHER* CO., two doers
above Richards A Son's B> ok Store, beg leave
te inform their friends, and the public generally, that
they are juat now rooeiving their Fall aad Winter
Supplies of
READY MADE CLOTHING,
Comprising an extensive aasrotment of every variety
Gentlemen’s Dress Goods, wtaioh have been manu
factured by themselves, and which they ure enabled
to sell tooustomera and Country Merchants, on bet
ter terms than any other House in the City.
dry goods.
They have also an extensive assortment of Staple
and Fancy DRY GOODS, which will be sold en
tne most accommodating terms, either wholesale or
retail. Call and see the Goods and prices.
■P-dtw&w .
CHEESE,
A ®OXK9 prime CHEESE, just received
” ” per Steamer, and lot sa’o by
*** HAND, WILLIAMS & CO.
TOBACCO. V
lOn BOXES manufactured TOBACCO, of
grades, for sale low by
byrup and molasses.
frWEITT barrels Stuart’s SYRUP,
X 59 bhls. N. O. MOLASSES, for Bale by
•12 HAND, Williams a 00.