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dfri'tDttklg Cljrotiklc & Sentinel
BY WILLIAM S. JONES
tHirouidr and Senttnei.
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A U <3* XTI TA, GA •
SATURDAY MOUNTS U, ... SEPTi 13.
SAMUEL BARNETT, Associate Editor*
The New Mexico and Utab Bills*
What has occurred since the passage of
these bills, to change the opinion of the over
whelming majority of jhe people of the South,
that there exists no impediment in the way of
carrying slaves to either of these territories 7
No new light has been thrown upon the
subject by investigation. No judicial decis
ion has set.led it. The question is not one
which has been just raised, and which had not
been considered when the opinion of the South
was in the process offormatiou. It was raised
early in the controversy. No light has been
thrown upon it, tending to establish the exist
ence of impediments, t save that originally
thrown by those gentlemen, whose speeches
asserting the existence of such impediments,
brought down upon thoir heads such a storm
of indignation.
All that has occurred since that time has been
the establishment of Territorial Governments on
the principle of non intervention. What this
principle meant, we have shown by reference
to the Democratic Resolutions of Georgia—
and by the arguments of a now leading. Sout
hern Rights press, illustrative and expansive
of those resolutions. In both Territories, the
establishment of Territorial Governments tends
strongly to answer the only arguments ever
advanced in favor of the continued existence
of the Mexican laws. That provision of the
law of nations, which it was contended by gen
tlemen prevailed, to continue in force the
jaws of a conquored country, until repealed
by the conqueror, had its foundation in the
necessity of preventing the conquered country
from going into a Jetate of anarchy. This ob
ject is served, however, by the establishment
of Territorial Government, and such establish
ment is therefore regarded by many persons,
who hold the necessity of soma expression of
the conqueror’s will, as a sufficient expression
of that will—and as a displacement of the old
law, now no longer necessary for the reason
for which its continued existence was tolera
ted.
So far as any new light, therefore, has been
thrown upou the subject by the actual passage
of the Territorial bi is, its tendency has been
to increase instead of to diminish the number
of those who hold that there are no impedi
ments in the way of carrying slaves into New
Mexico and Utah.
In relation to New Mexico, indeed, there is
another ground—but as it does not cover both
territories, we will only briefly allude to it
The purchase by the United States from Texas
of that portion incorporated with New Mexico,
was the acknowledgement by the United
States of the title of Texas, a slave-holdin j
country. This portion of then Texas, now
New Mexico, is the only inhabited and civil
ized portion of the present territory of New
Mexico. The laws of slavery being clearly of
force there, and the laws of this portion of the
territory prevailing (by a clear rule of the
Law of Nations) over those of the uninhabit
ed and uncivilized portions, the result is, that
in New Mexico, upon the principles of all
parties, slavery has free admission. The ex
tent of territory thus indubitably opened,
is vastly greater than that which would have
been cut off by the Missouri Compromise
line.
The position of the South, was clearly, and
unequivocally taken upon the question of
right to go into the tonitorias with slaves. One
of the Democratic resolutions iu 1847, was as
follows:
“ Resolved , That Cong lets possesses no power, un
der the Constitution, to !«g’t.iate in any way or man
ner, in relation to the institution of slavery. It is
the Constitutional right of every citizen, to remove
and settle with hit. property iu auy of the territories
of the United States.”
The above resolution asserts the right to go
with slaves into any of the territories. Not as
needing legislation for its enjoyment, but as a
Constitutional right~~ and going further, it
denies the right of legislation.
This denial of the right of legislation was
founded on the following arguments. The
Constitution no where confers such a right.
That clause in relation to territory : “The
Congress shall have power to dispose
of and make all needful rules and regulations
respecting the territories and other property be
longing to the United States.” has been cor
rectly and judiciously construed to confer no
aueh power. Wh never power Congress has
in the premises, is derived simply by implica
tion from the granted powers—and the rights
of slave-holders were considered by those who
held the doctrine of non-intervention, to be
protected sufficiently by the recognition of
slavery in the Constitution.
Whether this doctrine was correct or not, it
was held by a large portion of the Southern
people. Au overwhelming majority held to
the inutility of intervention. A large portion
of the Southern people, held it both unneces
sary, unconstitutional and dangerous.
It was for this reason that when amendments
were offered to the territorial bills, proposing
expressly to recognise and secure slaves as
property in them, that no unanimity coaid be
produced among Southern members in de
manding each recognition and protection.
These men said that there bad occurred no
thing to chaßge their sentiments upon the ne
cessity ofanysuch acknowledgement, and that
if there had been new fight thrown upon the
expediency,that would not affect the Consti
tutionality of such legislation.
It is perhaps unnecessary to observe that the
passage of a declaratory late on the subject,
would have been legislation a* strictly as the
1 passage of any other law. It is as an expres
sion of legislative will that it has effect, if at all.
1 j guise in which it is clothed can make no
change in the principle. In no form, however,
could the amendments be brought to unite the
Southern members who held the above view
ofnon-interrontion. Qf9o Southern members,
it is believed that not more than nine held the
necessity of intervention, while several times
that nnmber held it unconstitutional. The
rest held it simply useless.
Holding such views of Non intervention,
these Southern men considered that our rights
were secure, during the Territorial state of the
Territories, and all they desired was the ac
knowledgement of the principle actually incor
porated into the bills organizing them—by
which they are allowed to come into the Union
with or without slavery, as they may prefer.
The votee upon these bills on their final pas
sage throw some fight upon the position of the
two sections of the country upon them. Upou
the Mexican bill every Southern Senator voting
at all, voted for it—and in the House there was
• majority of 21 Southern members in its fa
vor.
The vote on the Utah bill in the House was
in like manner, a vote by the majority of the
South for it, and of the Freesoilers against it.
In tbs Senate, the vote of the South on the
engrossment was unanimous, with the excep.
tion of two Senators. The Anal vote is not
given in the second, but we beiiere was unan
imous.
The expressions of the varions legislative
bodies and conventions of the Southern
States, are alike characteristic of their senti*
meats upon this subject. While we believe
no Southern State failed to express itself in
relation to our rights iu the territories —not a
solitary State or Convention, (so far as our
information extends,) intimated any desire for
the repeal of Mexican laws. The argument
in all (he struggle it has ever assumed, was be
fore them when the expression of their views
was given. The mass of the present South
ern Rights party was the most strenuous in
asserting the inutility and unconstitutionality of
legis'ation. Not until the Territorial bills were
passed by a majority of Southern against a
majority of Northern votes, did their senti
ments (without a solitary new argument or
new light) undergo a total change. The ar
gument was spread before them in full.
They knew as well then as now the possibility
of a euit. They held that the denial of our
rights was an absurdity—that the suit against it
would be a miserable failure, and that one suit
would settle the question, forever, and for ell
emigrants.
And yet one of the grounds of complaint
of Southern men. against the Government, is
the passage of laws in oonfornai y with the ex
pressed will of all the Southern Spates, contrary
to the expressed will of nearly all the Northern
States, passed by a majority of Southern
votes against a majority of Northern votes
the complaint to complete the climax, being
made, not by the small dissecting minority, but
by the par y, the vast majority of whose mem
bers held anything more unnecessary, and a
very large proportion held it unconstitutional.
Warren Dlsunionlsts— A Small Game.
We are informed that some of the “ small
beer ” demagogues and political tricksters of
the Disunion school in Warren county, are
attempting to prejudice the minds of those
voters in that county who are opposed to
nominations, against the Union candidates,
because of au error of ours, in saying that
Messrs. Lowe and Latimer had been “ nomi
nated." We were informed that these gen
tlemen were the Union candidates, and pre
framing that they had been nominated, so
announced, without knowing any thing about
how they became candidates.
The attempt to make capital by such a small
trick as this on the part of the Disunion
leaders in Warren, evinces too clearly their
own convictions of their sinking fortune and
the desperate chararcter of their cause. The
trick is however worthy of the cause and the
actors who resort to its use.
Railroad Accident. —The detention of
the Accommodation and Express trains, on
the Chrleston Railroad yesterday, was caused
by the running together of two freight trains,
seriously damaging the engines and cars. No
accident occurred to either of the passenger
trains, and no person on the freight trains was
injured.
Good News for Peach Growers.— Under
this head, in a recent number of the New
York Express, we find the following article.
It cannot fail to be of interest not only to
peach growers, bat to peach-eaters every
where :
“We have seen peach trees in the District
of Columbia this summer having much larger
and more delicious peaches than our more
northern fruit, and the trees in the highest
state of perfection, in consequence of being
painted near the root by a cheap chemical
paint, prepared by J. C. Lewis, Esq., of
Washington city This preparation works the
almost instant destruction of the grab worm,
the enemy Os both tree and fruit, and so great
an enemy that it is a common thing for them to
destroy the fruit entirely in from three to five
years. Having seen the perfection of the
remedy, and the vigor of the tree and fruit in
consequence of its application, we can re
commend it to our friends in New York,
New Jersey, Delaware, and everywhere where
peach orchards are in cultivation.”
The First oic the Thack— Last Satur
day, wo saw on the East. Tennessee and Geor
gia Railroad a fine looking freight car labelled
“E T. I. M. Co . Cattanooga.” This is the
first cm turned out from our new establishment,
and iss a product of home industry will be
hailed with honest pride by all Tennesseeans.
We chanced to hear the opinions of several
old “railroad men” as to the merits of this
“specimen N 0.,” all of which were quite fa
vorable, except the apprehension that some of
the parts would prove too light for durability
—a defect, if true, which can be easily reme
died The company have a large number of
cars nearly finished. We will make further
, note hereafter.— Chattanooga Advertiser.
AUGUSTA, GA. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1851.
Mr. Stephens’ Acceptance*
Sparta, 4th Aug., 1851.
The Hm. A. H. Stephens —Sirs This day, the
delegates appointed by the voters of the Conutitutional
Union party of the 7th Congressional District, con
vened in this place, and with entire unanimity se
lected you as a fit and proper candidate, to be pre
sented to the District, to represent it in the next Con
gress of the United States, and des : gnated the under
signed as a committee to notify you of your selection
With pleasure we do so. Your past public services,
and the distinguished position you occupy in the
whole Unton, render almost certain yoar re-election
to the station which you have so long occupied, with
great usefulness to the country and hinor to yourself.
Your acceptance will ba received with pleasure and
satisfaction by that constituency which has so often
given evidence of their admiration and affectionate
regard for yru politically and socially.
With the hope that you will gratify the voters of
the District by accepting the nomination, we have
the honor to be, most respectfully,
G. O. Dawson,
J. W . A. Sanford,
J. B. Latimer,
Wm. Terrell,
A. S. Wingfield,
Crawvordvillb, Ga., Sept. 11, 1851.
Gentlemen: —Yourletter of the 4th alt., noti
fying me of my nomination as a candidate for Con
gress by a convention of the Constitutional Union
party of the District was received some time ago,
St vere illness, from which I was then suffering, pre
vented an immediate reply ; and since I have been
able to attend to business pressing engagements both
private and public have protracted the delay of an
answer.
Allow me now, however, to say to you briefly,
that the nomination is accepted, I would also avail
myself of the occasion to return through you to the
body wliose organ you are, as well as to the people
whom you and they represent, my sincere acknowl
edgments for this renewed testimony of their es
teem and confidence. Should Ibe elected, you may
be assured it will be my constant endeavor to prove
myself worthy of that confidence by a faithful dis
charge, to the utmost of my ability, of those impor
tant and responsible duties incident to the great trust
committed to my charge.
Please accept, gentlemen, for yourselves individ
ually and personally, tha assurance of my highest
regard, &c. Yours most respectfully,
Alexander H. Stephens.
Messrs. G. O. Dawson, J. W. A. Sanford, J. B.
Latimer, Wm. Terrell, A. S. Wingfield, committee.
To the Savannah Jleorglan.
No. JjO
The truth will out. I have* for some time
past, observed a disposition on the part of the
Disnnion press in Georgia to drop the Wash
ington Union, on account of its able advoca
cy of the American Confederacy. This, with
you and your compeers, is the unpardonable
sin ; and, on account of this transgression, the
organ of the National Democratic party has
incurred your deep displeasure. You —and
when I say you, I include your party—yon
have for a long time wished to denounce the
Washington Union, and vet you did not know
how to begin. This would have been kicking
against the pricks ; and, as you are well aware,
this is hard to do.
You have wished to be considered as the
Democratic party. You, in common with the
balance of the fire-eater« in this state, have
pronounced old parties dissolved, and that the
people were at liberty to range themselves,
and do so consistently, under either of the
new banners which were hoisted— -Union”
upon one, and “Disunion” upon the other.
And yet whenever a Democrat has refused to
rally under the flag of Disunion, yon have
denounced him as a renegade and a traitor.
When yon and your associates pronounced
old parties dissolved, you meant, I suppose,
that the Whig party was dissolved, and yen
were prepared to receive accessions from its
ranks. Bat the party which styled itself De
mocratic, yon still consi lered bound hand and
r oot, ready to be trailed after the car of King
Rhett. You changed the name of the party
which called itself Democratic—you changed
its principles—you made its watchword “Dis
union,” and still expected, by the magic of the
word “Democrat. ’ only occasionally used,
to carry the Republican party along with yon
in pursuit of the mad and visionary schemes
of the crazy politicians beyond the Savannah.
Was ever such bold effrontery, and such cool
impudence attempted to be palmed off upon
human beings 7 Verily, some men in the
world hold before themselves a mirror, and,
seeing their own asinine physiognomies re
flected, imagine they behold the faces of other
people, and straightway, they
“ Play such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the Angels weep.”
But, as I was saying, you wished to de
nounce the Washington Union because it was
opposed to disunion. Yet yon did not dare
to do so, because that print was the organ of
Democracy, and you wished to use the word
Democrat—sometime: at least—to drag the
Republican party into a support of the Des
tructives. You, and the balance of the fire
eating press in Georgia, were in a quandary.
The object dearest to your hearts was to des«
troy the influence of the Washington Union,
because that influence mighty as the lever of
Archimides, was wielded in support of the
American Union You did not know how
to begin. Some of you, though, finally put
forth, what, in familiar parlance, aro termed
"feelers." When Major Donnelson assumed
the editorial chair of the Washington Union,
and, in his salutatory, took stron? ground in
favor of Union, the organ of Disunion at the
seat of Government proclaimed that the Major's
paper could not represent the feelings of the
Southern Democracy. And I will here re
mark, enpassant, that the unblushing effront
ery of the ex Abolitionist Fisher, in seeking to
pronounce to the Southern Democracy their
duty is only equalled by that of a certain other
fuss-making, noise loving, Union hateing class
of politicians, now in vogue in the Southern
Slates.
The pronunciamento of Fisher was pub
lished in several of the Disunion prints, if I
mistake not—sometimes without comment,
and occasionally with very carefully worded
flosses. These were the “ feelers ” to which
alluded. Things passed on, and the ardent
desire of the disunion press to immolate the
organ of Democracy in Washington, remain
ed unexecuted, because the malcontents
dreaded the roar of the old lion. That man
had but half an eye in his head who c< uld not
see, aa I foresaw, that you would all finally
drop, and denounce the able Democratic ad
vocate of Union. Like so many jackals whom
the glance of the King of beasts kept at bay
in an Asiatic jungle, you stood gazing at the
victim which you wished to destroy, awaiting
the signal to pounce at an unguarded moment,
upon the object which you so much dread.
The Raleigh Standard, it seems, was the
first to make the leap; you followed suit, and
1 see both the Standard’s and your articles
copied into the Constitutionalist of the sth
inst. You think, now, that you have the Dem
ocrats whom you inveigled into disunion fsr
enough committed, and the “war is actually
begun” against their ancient leader. I pre
> earn# you intend to pash it to it* “bitter end.”
The chatter of a crowd of jays, woodpeckers,
carrion crows and other unclean birds in dread
of the Eagle’s toop, or the clamor of a crowd
of “cura of low degree,” when pitted against
the King of beasts, will be nothing in compari
son to the chattering, yelping and whining
which you will emit in your unholy warfare.
And now, suffer me t o comment upon yonr
artie’e: agai: st the Union. Such an article !
You first devote two-thirds of a column to
showing how much this journal is doing, and
wishes to do, against Democracy and in favor
of Federalism. You then devote a little over
eight and a half lines to showing how little it
actually is doing and can do—consistency !
Yoa say “that sheet, [the Union] is giving
whatever aid it can furnish to the Fe ’eraliats
throughout the entire South.” By Federalists
you mean Union men. Such being the case,
let me ask you if you are well enough ac
quainted with the history of your country, (I
beg pardon however : I do not intend to in
sult yon by calling it your country when you
and your fellows have forsworn it as a tyrani
cal, Freesoil government, and when you have
morally, if not actually taken the oath of alle
giance to South Carolina,) but I will ask you
if you are well enough acquainted with the
history of my couutry—for I still love the stars
and stripes—to know that there were such
men as Jefferson and Madison, who formed a
party known as the Republican party, in favor
of this Union, and opposed to a party styling
them-elves Federalists, whose watchword was
Disunion, as it is the watchword of the fire
eaters of the present day 7 Perhaps you are
not aware of the fact that there was once held
a Hartford Convention, whose object was
secession. You are no doubt well enough
acqaair te I with modern history to know there
was a Nashville Convention, whose object is
secession If you know nothing of the Hart
ford Convention, I will acquaint you with its
character by telling you it was the exact coun
terpart of the Nashville Convention.
You accuse the “Union” of Federalism. If
I mistake not. you or some of your party,
have styled Fillmore’s administra’ion an ad
minstration of Federalism, supported by two
Federal orgaos—the Republic and Intelligen
cer. The Union is iu direct conflict with the
Administration, and its supporters. When
you come really to speak the truth, which will
you have imbued with Federalism, the Union
or those whom it opposes T I know of no
way to reconcile your apparent inconsisten
cies here unless I suppose—as is probably true
—that you do not know the meaning of the
word Federalist—’hat yon attach no definite
meaning to it—only using it as a term of re
proach, and applying it indiscriminately to all
whom you dislike whether in law, morals, re
legion or po itics Should I ever see you in a
street brawl in Savannah,! should expect to
hear yoar denounce your enemy to his teeth as
a Federalist!
You say "of course the Union stood side by
side with the Whig presses of Tennessee, in
glorifying that bill of surrender, and in accom
plishing the defeat of the Democratic candidate
fol Governor ” I have marked the sentence
farthest from tha truth in italics. How could
you pen such a sentence? Major Donnel
son wa« in Tennessee during the pendency of
the Gubernatorial canvass, doing all he could
f.>r Trousdale. Some asser that he left Wash
ington for that purpose. Upon his re’urn to
t*iß city, after tne defeat of the Democratic
cand date, he poured out along lamentation
over that defeat. And you asvert that he
aided in bringing it about! Comment is un
necessary.
Speaking of the contest in Georgia, and the
connection of the Union with that contest, you
,y that print is in “full affi iation” with those
who oppose McDonald. You say that Mc-
Donald is “one whose Democracy has never
been called in question—one whom the Demo
cracy of the whole State has twice before
supported and elected as its Gubernatorial can
didate.” Well, Mr. Georgian, answer me
when Mr. Cobb’s “Democracy has ever bee.i
called in question 7” Answer ms whether the
Democracy of this State has not more than
twice supported and elected Mr. Cobb as a
member of Congress 7 And say whether or
not the Democracy of the "whole” nation has
ever placed Mr. Cobb in the Speaker’s Chair
in Washington City 7 Why, even the Colum
bus Sentinel —much more bouest than, if not
so politic as, some other disunion presses—does
not ca 1 1 Mr. Cobb’s Democracy in question.
Do you remember that not very long ago—
alas how great the fall since—when even you
still held the Democratic name, and Demo
cratic principles in respect, and when you
took some of your contemporaries to task for
forgetting bo h, the Southern Sentinel op
posed you, and said that it was Dot right to
call your party the Democratic parly, for
Howell Cobb himself was a Democrat 7 The
Sentinel is honest. Would that I could say
the same for the other d isunion prints in this
S ate. That journal knows and admits that
the Democratic parly was disorganized, and is
willing to call itself what it really is—a dis
union sheet. What the balance of you fire
eating presses really feel, and are covertly
seeking to accomplish, ’he Sentinel has the
manly boldness to speak out, so that the world
may see and know i*s opinions. It is honest
ly, though erringly, warring against the Ameri
can Confederacy, and is urging South Caroli
na to lay her sacriligious hands upon the tem
ple of Liberty and raxe it t > the earth. The
Sentinel is only guiliy of error—the balance of
you guilty of crime—the crime of hypocrisy
and deceit, if of no other.
That McDonald is a Democrat—except so
far as he may be tainted with disnnion—for
disunion was never a principle of Democracy
—I am willing to admit. But that ha is more
nearly on Democratic ground in regard to the
one great issue of the times than Cobb is, I
deny iu toto. One thing is clear. Whereas
McDonald was once a Union Democrat and
opposed to the South Carolina mania, he is
now, if not a disunionist, at least in “full
affiliation” with the enemies of his country,
both North and South, in their hatred to the
Union, and is regarded by Rhett as one of his
bugle-blowers in Georgia—a blower upon the
bugle whose clarion peel it is clear Rhett
thinks, s;eaks disunion and nothing else.
Rhett may well say of McDonald :
“ Where, where was Roderick then ?
One blast upon his bugle horn
Were worth a thousand men.”
Os course you w.ll think here lam “resorting
to the same misrepresentations of McDonald,
(charging him with “reflecting the views of
Rhett”) which have for months teemed in the
Federal presses of Georgia.” But what you
think is of little importance.
Even admitting your premises, that tho per
sons and the papers you mention are Federal
—which is far from true —y our “full affiliation”
argument avails you but little, and the gun
which you charged with this arauuition, is like
one mentioned in Hudibras, which—
— 41 aimed at duck or plover,
Kicked back and knockad its owner-over.”
McD nald, it has been shown, is not only in
“full affiliation” with Rhett & Co., but is re
garded by the head of the firm as one of his
bugle blowers.
You say “of oourae all its (the Union’s J
influence goes to sustain Toombs and Steph
ens” [I suppose you mean Stephens] and
Johnson, and Hopkins, Federalists and Fede
ral candidates for Congress—against suoh
Democrats as Jackson, McMillan and Ben
ning.” Well, all that 1 have to aay is, that if
being Union men make Toombs and Stephens,
and others, Federalists, give me such Federalists
in preference to ‘‘such Democrats as McMillan
and Banning,” who go in for such a policy as
will certainly end in disunion and its curses.
That word “ suck ” is very well put in.
As to Jackson, yon very well know he was
discarded by a meeting of disunionists in
Scriveu county, on account of his advocacy,
as they said, of Clay’s Compromise. He
says that he is a Democrat, and when he goes
back to Washington he will unite in action
with his Democratic friends from other parts
of the Udion. This is precisely the position
of the Washington Union. And if this be so,
how can it be said, with any truth, that the
Union is opposing Mr. Jackson, with whom it
fully coincides 7
Well, what is your position 7 Do you and
your party propose to unite with the Demo
cratic party at Washington, or go into a nomi
nation of a candidate for President of the
National Democracy 7 By no means. You
intern to stand aloof, and let the North make
her own selection, and that perhaps in opposi
tion to Southern policy. And lam very much
received if you disunionists would not rejoice
if Wm. H. Seward were elected President at
the next election, so that you might have a
pretext for carrying into execution your ne
farious designs against the Union.
The summing up of the whole matter is just
this. That so far as tho support of the Ameri
can Union, and the opposition to disunion by
the Washington Union, has had a tendency to
defeat disunionists, pretending to wear the
garb of Democracy—those who
11 Stesl the livery of the Court of Heaven
To serve the devil in,”
to that extent the Democratic organ at the seat
of Government has sinned :
“ The very bead and front of his offending
Hath this extent —no more.”
And well may the Union say of yon and the
disunion press generally,
All’s not offence that indiscretion finds,
And dotage terms so.”
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days later.
Liverpool Market.
Liverpool, August 30 Cotton.— The mar.
ket is active and pric: a have advanced Jd.
since the sailing of tho Atrerica, with sales of
57,000 bales for the week, 23 000 of which were
taken by Exporters and Speculators. Fair
Orleans is quoted 6d. Mobile ssd. Uplands
s*d.
Flour is steady. Cora unchanged. Wheat
has slightly declined. Lard advanced 1 to 2s.
Sugar unchanged and Coffee dull.
The trade in Manchester is good. Money
light Consols closed at 95$ to 96.
Rumors are afloat of heavy failures in Lon
don and Liverpool. Great anxiety pervades
the commercial world.
The Political News is unimportant.
The City of Glasgow sailed from Philadel
phia to-day with $200,000 in specie, and 23
passengers.
New York Market.
Thursday, Sept. 11.—Cotton firm. Sales
of 2,500 bales.
Large sales of Rice were mide to-day at 3
a 3jc.
Shipwreck. —The bark Imogene, bound
to Charleston, with a oargo of Salt, was
wrecked near St. Martins, on the 18ih nit.
Vessel a total loss. The crew were all saved.
From the Charleston Courier — By Telegraph
New Orleans, Sept. 10, P. M. —Thirteen
hundred bales of Cotton were sold to-day,
Wednesday, in this market. Middling was
worth 8£ cents. The advices received by the
Franklin have had no effect upon the market.
Prime white Corn is quoted at fifty cents.
Old Rio Coffee commands 8£ cents.
The brig Orazeba of Bath, Maine, bound
from Navy Bay to Honduras, has been brought
up to this city iu distress. The captain, mate,
and two of the crew are dead, tho others are
all sick.
New Orleans, Sept. 11, P. M.—An advance
of an eighth to a quarter of a cent took place
to day, Thursday, in Cotton, and nineteen
hundred bales were sold. Middling is quoted
a: from 8§ to oents. Freights of Cotton to
Liverpool are §l., and to Havre JI.
Olomimrcial.
AUGUSTA MARKET
Friday, P. M.
COTTON.—Our market is without change since
yesterday. The Niagara’s accounts, noting |d. ad
vance in the Liverpocl market, were received about
noon,
SAVANNAH, Sept. 12.— Cotton. —Arrived sinee
Ist inst., 674 bales Upland (660 per Rail Road, and
14 from Auguata,) and 20 do. Sea Islands. The ex
ports for the same peiiod have been 469 bales Up
lands to New York—leaving on hand and on ship
board not cleared a stock of 4,005 bales Upland and
750 do Pea Island, against 11,857 bales Upland and
73 do. Sea Island at same time last year.
Since our review of the Ist invtant, we nave had
but little business to notioe. The stock is rght;
there are few buyers in the market, and prices are
so low that neither factors nor planters are willing to
sell. All kinds of business is dull.
We had news from Europe on the 2d inst. by the
Atlantic, on the Btb by the America, and on the 9th
by the Franklin. Each of these ships reported an
advance of Id iu Liverpool ; but it has not had much
effect on our market, and we have but a trifling
business to report. On the Ist inst., the sales were
30 bales ; 2d, 25; 3d, 113 ; 4th, 18 ; sth, 19 ; 6th,
103 1 Bth, 21 1 9th, 14 ; 10th, 8 ; and yesterday
20 bales.
_The transactions ere so light that we find it diffl-
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cult to give quotations, but tho advance in the Liv
erpool and New York markets, warrant oa to say
t at the following pi ices could be obtained for strict
classifications ? Ordinary to good ordinary nominal;
Middling to good Middling 8* a 8f ; Middling Pair
9 ; Pair to Pully Pair 9) a 10. B
The sales of the week amount to 389 bales, at the
foUowing particulars ; 2 at 64 ; 2a 6 ; 30 at 7 ; 33
7|; 84 at 7f; 16 at 7f ; 37 at 8 j 106 at 81; 26 at
8*; 9atß| 5 21 at 8| ; and 20 at 9 cents. * ’
Sea Islands. No sales have been reported since
our last issue.
Rico.— There is very little demand and we do not
hear of any change in prices, 100 tierces sold at 2
13-16 and 160 at $2 15-16 per IGO Ibv.
Lard.— We hear of sales of several small lots of
Baltimore at 4,94 a $5,00.
Corn. —There is a good stock now on sale. A
cargo sold this week at 71 cts. From stores the retail
price is 80 a 85 cents.
Molasses. —One cargo has arrived this week from
Havana, but at the time we closed our inquiries yes
terday, it h-d not bo.n diapna.rt of.
Domestic Liquors.—We hear of sales of N. ta.
Rum, at 28 a29 cts. For present prices of other
qualities, we refer to quotations.
Bagging and Bale Rope.—We bear of no im
portant sales of Bagging. 200 coils New-Orleans
Rope sold at 7}, and 100 Philadelphia at same price.
Hay. —Sales of Northern have been made at sl.
Lime. —The cargo which arrived since our last re
port, sold from the wharf at $1,37} a $1,50. It is
selling from stores in small tots a $1,75.
Exchange,— The Banks are selling sight checks
on Northern citiei to §perct. prern. Their purchas
ing rates are: sight to 5 day bills para 4 dis.; 30
days J as discount; 60 days 1} per cent discount;
and 90 days 1} a 2 per cent discount.
Freights —Are very dull to all places. To New
York the rates are for Cotton, 60 cts. per bale. To
Boston 75 cents per bale Cotton, To Philadelphia
4c. per lb.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 6, P. M Cotton.
Slock on hand Sept. 1, 1851 bales* 16,109
Arrived since 3,9] 1
Arrived to-day 13
20,032
Exported to day 404
Stock on hand and on shipboard not oleared* 19,628
Sugar. —The demand has been fair for the sea
son. Among the sales we notice yesterday 50 hhds.
clarified Yellow at BJc., and to-day 26 hhds. good
common and 106 fully fair, refilled, equal to 5| and
6}c. Some small lots prime and choice have been
sold at 6{ a 7 Jo,
Molasses.—The transactions are limited at 23 a
30c. for common Reboiled to prime Sugar house.
t lour. —The low prices have brought out purcha
sers and fbo sales up to this rnorn'ng embrace 6000
bbls,, at the following range of prices : Ohio $4.86 a
4.80; Itliaois $3 60 a4; St. Louis $4 a 4.12; extra
Illinois $4.50; extra St. Louis $4.75 a 6 26. To-day
100 bbls. Ohio were sold at $3.62; 50 Crescent ex
tra at $5.12, and 100 Illinois at $4.
Corn. —Seme 12,500 sacks have been sold at 32
a 36c for inferior; 40 a 45 'or mixed and 50 a 53c.
for prime White and Yellow. To day 85 sacks Yel
low sold at 46c,
Bacon. —4o casks Cincinnati Shoulders were sold
9c. anti 37 casks not prime at 84 and ll|c.i Prime
Me.it retailing at 12 and 9c.
Lard. —The demand has been active; among the
sales we notice 175 bbls. and tierces prime at I0o.;
1100 and 1400 kqgs prime at 12 cts., and 200 kega
at 124 c. * e
"•<< Rim* —.Stn&dv /lemand for small
ots at b| and 14c. on time, adding interest.
Freights.— Vessels for Liverpool are filling slowly
at Jd., and for Havre at Jo.; Cotton to the North
$1.76 per bale; coastwise rates very dull.
Exchange. —The rates have been steady at our
quotations: London 10 all per cent prem.; Paris
51 05 a 5f,15; New York 60 days 1} a 2| per cent
disc.; do. Sight 1 per cent premium.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 12. — Cotton. —The mar
■ ket was in a very quiet state throughout the whole of
i the preceding week, and when we closed our inqui
ries preparatory to our report of the 6th inat., (he
sales had reached only 320 bales, taken at gradual
ly strengthening prices. The stock on sale was very
light, and the market was completely in the hands
of sellers, who were demanding such ext ravagrant
rates that buyers in a great measure were compelled
to withdraw, and hence the stagntion that prevailed
during this period. There has, however, been an
incresed demand for the article since the date of our
last report, and the wants of buyers have in some
instances compelled them to yield to the exigencies
of the case, and a higher range of prices have been
. paid than wera current during the previous week,
but the want of stock, coupled with the continued
’ advancing tendency in prices, have been great
drawbacks to purchasers, and we have to report a
comparatively quiet market, as the week's business
does not exceed 1209 bales. The transactions show
* a very unsettled market and there are no fixed
} prices for cotton at the present time, and we there
fore have no quotatiouß to offer. Some sales of scant
fair have been made as high as 100. The receipts
of new cotton thus far reach upwards of 180 bales.
The sales of the week are as follows, viz :—2O bales
: at 6{ ;4at6{;2lat7;6at74i 31 at 74 ;24at 8 ;
39 at 84 ; 245 at 64 ; 96 at 8J ; 29 at 8{; 192 at 9 ;
42 at 94 ; 164 at 94 •4 at 9f; 85 at 9|; Bat 9|; and
1 130 bales at 10c. The receipts of the week may be
put down at 801 bales. The transactions in Long
Cotton have been limited to about 80 bales at prices
1 auging from 17 to 30, chiefly within the range of
' 17 a 21c.
1 Rice. —Former prices have been fully sustained.
The sales have ranged from 2f to $3 1-16, the bulk
* going within the range of l 1-16 tos2{.
Corn. —The receipts since our last comprise 12,-
400 bushels, 5,000 Virginia, of a prime quality,
1 bi ought 65c.
Bacon. —This article continues to attract some at
tention, but the transactions have been limited in
’ consequence of the high prices asked. About 100
1 hhds. sides were sold in the fore port of the week at
1 114 and 11|, but at the closeof business a decided
improvement was established over these rates.
Shoulders have been selling most generally at 90.
Lard. —About 100 kegs Baltimore ohanged hands
I at 120.
Bagging and Rope. —Transactions limited.
Salt.— Demand limited.
| Groceries. —All articles classed under this head
have been very much neglected since our last report.
The trade is well supplied with Sng&r received coast
wise, and there is consequently no demand from first
han s. Prices are depressed, and have a deeded
downward tendency. Some 107 hhds. received from
the West Indies, remain unsold 5 there have also
been received coastwise 217 hhds. The arrivals of
Molasses comprise 134 hhds. and 2 tiereee, which
' have been sold on terms not made public, h. bout
350 bbls. have also been received via. New Or
leans, which have not been sold. Upwards of 1000
bags of OofTeo have come to hand. A few small lots
of Rio have been sold at prices ranging from 9 k>9|
Lienors.— There was a sale of 100 bbls.
, New Oileans Whiskey, from the wharf at 2440.
Freights —There is vory little freight offering to
any quarter. We quote to Liverpool, Cotton in
square bag» f nominally at 5-loths. a Jd. The Coast
wise rate® are altogether nominal.
Sloping 3wtelltgtntt.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 12.—Arr. sebr. Isabella,
Gage, Havana. Cleared, barque Acadia, Coxzens,
Providence, (R. I.); brigs Argus, Kean Havana;
Nancy, Davis, Baltimore: Tyrone, Leland, Jack
sonville, (E. F,); sohr. Brilliant, Delany, Baltimore 5
Isabella Wilmington, (N. C.)
COLUMBIA COUNTY, GEO.—Whereas,
Seaborn P. W. D. Hutohingson applies for let
ters of administration on the estate of William Hutch
iagson, late of said county, deceased—
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to be and appear at my office, within the time pre
scribed by law, to show cause, if ony they have, why
said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office in Appling.
S. CRAWFORD, Clerk.
September 13,1851.