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OUtt NATIVE PLANTS.
Prom the Soil of the South.
There is no country richer in natural beau
ties than the Southern portion of these United
States, and especially is Georgia, Florida and
Alabama, the land of fruit and dowers; and
yet, what vast amounts of money do we an
nually send a broad for the purchase of dower
ing plants, and fruit-bearing vines, when our
mountain tops and valley glens are clad in
such wild luxuriant beauties, as the Persian or
Chinese never saw. JVe have recently read
an account of an exhibition of American plants
in England, at the American garden near Lon
don. which attracted thousands and tens of
thousands of visitors, and was the wonder and
admiration of all beholders. Why shall not
Americans establish an American garden? and
especially, why shall not we of the dowery
South collect and propagate in spacious
grounds, set apart and appropriated for the pur
pose, all the rare, beautiful and useful plant*,
trees, shrubs, bulbs, vines, &c. with which a
kind Father’s love has so beautifully clothed
the naked earth? Surely Americans should be
able to look upon the vegetable productions of
their land without travelling to Europe for it.
Whether it be in the massive bulb, the perfum
ed magnolia, the graceful tulip tree, or the thou
sand blooms of rainbow hues, or thousands of
life-preserving herbs, or trailing vines, or
cereal grains, or wild Pomona’s fruits. Our
mountains abound in rhododendrons, azalias,
laurels, and thousands of other trees and plants,
which only need to be seen to be admired.
Our valleys teem with the magnolia, the bay,
the tulip tree, and hundreds of others, with
thousands upon thousands of gay, beautiful and
useful plants, which now only
And waste their sweetness on the desert air.”
Are there no citizens of wealth and patriot
ism among us sufficient to collect these treas
ures of nature, and propagate from them by
the establishment of a suitable garden, where
the whole botany of the South might be
assembled? But, perhaps, it may be too great
an undertaking for an individual; are there
none of these Southern States that will under
take it ? or, if States are fearful to legislate the
people’s money to benefit posterity, will not
the Southern Central Agricultural Society take
the matter in hand, and build up a monument to
the South, alike creditable to her love of beauty
and patriotism ? Should this be done, twenty
years will not passed away, ere pilgrims from
every clime would come to worship at this floral
shrino, and the Southern Horticultural Botan
ical Garden would be eagerly sought for by
every lover of nature, from the highest to the
lowest walks of life. Come, tillers of the soil,
ere the plow has destroyed all the native beau
ties of our land, collect and preserve those gems
planted there by the finger of God.
But of what use can all this be ? says the plod
ding son of Mammon. It would be of no use
to men without souls, who can only estimate
happiness and prosperity by dollars and dimes.
But to those who can see God in the rainbow
or the flower, it would elevate and refine. It
would teach our children “to look through na
ture up to nature’s God;” it would inspire a
love of home and country, and teach us to
bless God that the rugged earth we have to till
for bread, hath blessed flowers that reflect his
smiles upon our sweating pathway. Nor is
thn 5 all. The thousand fruits connected with
flowers, could not escape cultivation; new
varieties would be discovered and discrimina
ted, and this garden would be the means of per
manent and lasting good, as well as a living
beauty, to each and every citizen of this sunny
South. We have often heard foreigners express
astonishment at the neglected beauties of our
vegetable kingdom, and we are not aware that
any large collection of American plants can be
found except iu England.
We have seen our native plants purchased in
France under some high sounding name, and
brought back again to the land of their nativity.
Let u» have grounds and gardens where all can
be brought to their highest perfection, where
science can unite with skill in developing all
their usefulness and beauty—and where is so
fitting a place as the land of their creation and
birth? We have no definite idea of what
kind of arrangements should be adopted to
carry out so desirable a plan as the one pro
posed, but hope to stir up the people to the im
portance of the matter, and then it will be time
to go more into detail. Should any such meas
ure meet with the public favor, picture to your
self, kind reader, one or two hundred acres,
set in all the forest trees, the fruits, and the
flowers of the South. What a splendid specta
cle! Here flowers and fiuits from the moun
tain and the valley meet together, and perfumes
from the hill tops and the glens kiss each other.
Ah! but the cost, the cost, we hear echoed all
around us. What matters it what it cost, so
we have the means? We owe it to ourselves,
our country, and our posterity, to preserve
the first plants of our virgin soil, and we may
do it if we have the will. Who ever heard
of a mau refusing his mite to the monument
of the Father of his Country? We here pro
pose to build a greater monument —one to the
graat Father of the Universe, inscribed in liv
ing, glowing letters —Peace, Love, and Good
Will to men.
To Make Good Mortar. —Sour together a
quantity of lime and clean sharp sand, for two
or three weeks before being used; work this
well and turn it aside, and as the proportion of
lime to the sand will always depend on the
quality of the former, all that is necessary, is to
take care (in souring,) if the lime is of a rich
quality to put one-third less lime into the heap
than it is intended to be built with; and if the
lime is of pure quality, say only one-fourth
less. It may here be observed that in general,
lime of the proper quality is best for cementing
buildings. When the lime which has been pre
viously soured, as before directed, is to be used
in the building, or otherwise, it is to be again ■
worked carefully over, and one-fourth ofquick
lime added in proportions, taking care never to
have more in preparation than can be used in
a short time; and this quick-lime should be
mest completely beaten and incorporated With
the soured lime, and it will be found to h%e
the effect of causing the old lime to set and
bind in the most complete manner. It will be
come perfectly solid without the least evapora
tion to occasion cracks, which can only ensue
in consequence of evaporation; and this can
only happen from the want of proper union
between the two bodies. But by mixing and
beating the quick-lime with the soured mortar,
mmediately before it is applied to use,
the component parts are brought so near to
each other, that it is impossible either crack or
flaw can take place. In short, beating has the
effect of closing the interstices of the sand, and
a small quantity of lime paste is effectual in
fitting and holding the grains together, so as to
form a plastic mass, by uniting the grains of
sand which otherwise would notfit each other.
This system will apply to the lime mortar for
all descriptions of work, whether for building,
plastering in the inside or outside of houses,
water cisterns, ground vaults, rough castings,
&c .—Scientific American.
To Preserve Grapes Fresh.— A corres
pondent of the Newark, N. J. Advertiser says,
that for several years past he has succeeded in
preserving Isabella grapes till March. “We
have had the luxury of having fresh grapes all
through the winter; and have found them very
useful and refreshing to the sick, especially to
consumptive p*opl*. We pick ours to preserve
for the winter as late as we can and save
them from the frost; gathering them when they
are perfectly dry, say in the middle of a sunny
day. We take a dry box—a common candle
box is very convenient for the purpose—first
covering the bottom with cotton batting. We
then put down a layer of grapes, one cluster
after another, as thick as they can well lie.
Care should be taken that no broken nor green
ones are in the clusters. If there are, they will
cause the ethers to mould and decay. We
then put down a layer of cotton batting, and
then another layer of grapes, till the box is full
“Some have boen at the trouble to seal the
end of each stem with wax. We do not be
lieve it is of any service. As the stems are
brittle, it is necessary to handle them with a
great deal of care. When they are thus laid
down, much depends upon the place where
you deposit the box. It should be placed in
the dryest and coolest place you have in the
house."
Chronicle anil Sentinel.
A tJ&USIA, aA!
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT 3, 1851.
REMOVAL.
office of the Chronicle & Sen
tinel has boen removed to the store lately oc
copied by Mr. J. A. Van Winkle, south side
of Broad-street, and next door above the car
riage shop of Mr. Hoadley.
The Northern Mail failed last even
ing beyond Weldon, North CBrolina.
The Branch or the State Bank is also
checking on the North, at £ per cent premium.
Judge Berrien’s Address—The Georgia
Platform.
The address of Judge Berrien is an insid
ious attack upon the Union party as having
abandoned the Georgia Platform, Himself
one of those “ half and half” men, whom the
Southern Rights party would gladly keep in
office, for want of power to put in one of the
full blood, his object is to weaken the Union
party, insinuate doubts, make inuendoes.
“Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike” in
relation to leading men, and in every disingen
uous way to attack the organization, while
professing to hold to the principles of the
Union party. While this work is going on,
however, he does not fail to have an eyo to the
conciliation of each Union men as may not
appreciate the character of the support he is
giving >o the party. lls speaks of frankntse !
We have not the word, frankness.
He lauds the decision of the convention. He
intimates again and again that be was is favor
of the ground it took before as well as after ii
met.
But does his special pleading convey a cor
reet idea of the voice of the Convention?
Does his indirect attack upon Mr. Cobb con
vey a correct idea of his position ?
We shall not atttempt to prove that half of his
pleading is aimed at Mr. Cobb, the candidate
of that party his frank answer is intended to
insinuate ho will act with. His Burke county
ietter “ points the moral ” of his tale.
Mr. Cobb does not, as Judge Berries
would intimate, “wholly approve” of the
compromise measures. The admission of
California into tha Union, he regards as un
wise and objectionable, though not a violation
of the Constitution, nor a ground for resist
ance. The penalty in the District Bill was also
objectionable, though palliated by the fact that
the law was the same with the law of Mary
land, and was called for by the unanimous
voice of the people of the district. The lan
guage of Mr. Cobb in relation to the settle
ment is: “Whilst, in tbo language of the
Georgia Convention, I do not wholly approve
of all these measures, yet I see in them no vio
lation of our rights, nor is
theie, in my opinion |]anything which forbids,
on the part of our people, an honorable acqui
eseence in these measures.”
The insinuation that Mr. Cobb regards the
comptomise as containing “no matter for ob
jection," and tha “he wholly approves it,” is
therefore ungrounded, and if aimed at him in
fact as in appearance, false.
The language of the Georgia Convention
aa follows. We quote verbatim :
“ well be doubted whether upon the broad
territory of the Republic there dwells un intelligent
citizen whose judgment approves every part of each,
link in this extended chain of adjuetment. Geor
gia, at least, finds in it matter for objeotion, and mat
ter for approval.
“ But such is likewise her opinion of our Federal
and State Constitution. So is she accustomed to
judge of the leading measures of every Congress,
and evsry general assembly, as each, in its turn, la
bors in the difficult problem of perfecting humsn
government, through the instrumentality of imper
fect and conflicting human reason.”
Georgia finds even in our Federal and State
Constitutions “matter for approval, and matter
for objection,” as well as in the Compromise
measures. She does not therefore think them
nowise and unjust, and dishonorable. She
may consider that in the conflict of opinions
and interest, the settlement of a large eontro
versy is wise and equitable, without approving
“every part of each link in the extended Chain.
There may be parts of the adjustment which
furnish causes of gratulation, while other parts
furnish cause of dissatisfaction.
Does Mr. Cobb claim any other measure as
a source of gratification to the South, than that
claimed by the Georgia Convention—the fugi
tive slave law 7 It was our constitutional right
to have a law upon this subject. We obtained
as full and ample provision as the most extreme
conld desire.
He holds with the Georgia Convention that
in relation to the Territorial questions, the re
sult of the controversy “has been in etriet
conformity to the line of policy thus intimated
(by the Legislature) save in one instance. That
one is the admission of California into the
Union.” With them he holds that this measure
is not unconstitutional, nor a good ground of
resistance.
So far for the position of tha Georgia Con*
vention on the Territorial questions. In rela
tion to other matters involved in the Compro
promise that Convention held as follows;
f “It may not be overlooked that aside from the nsw
issue presented by the late territorial acquisitions, tbo
position of the South upon the Congressional record
is better this day than ever before.”
The position of Mr. Cobb has been often
, and much misrepresented. What he has said
in relation to particular parts of a scheme, has
i. been applied to other parts, or to the whole,
i, The words used in speaking have bees pre-
r?n i -i jj ...
t tendedly reported with precise accuracy—and
3 a reckless disposition abown to exaggerate
and misapply. Words nerer used at all, and
j which if used, would in no way affect hisprac
; tical course or that of the part}, have been
3 urged against £him with the ignorant and in*
' f considerate.
A specimen of unfairness in the address, is
t to be found in the quotation of detached por*
2 tions of the text of the Georgia Platform, and
their application f not in terms it is true —but
i in spirit and tone —and by means of the con
! nection in which they are placed) to the com
j promise meatures, while their true application
is not to these, but,to threats unexecuted and fa
-5 notical societies, instead of the Government of
the United States. Whether the connection
1 *° which the quotations are introduced—the
j antitnesis between the ifs and lute of the die
? tinguished Senator—do not lead to the misap
1 plication of the languarge of the Convention,
we are willing to leave to any intelligent rea
■ der.
With one plain practical test of the frank
ness, and ingenuousness ot the Honorable
Senator, we will close. The inclination, (we
use the word with consideration, for no
stronger wou’d the reader’s mind
ater reading the address, would be to class!
Judge Berrien among Union men—yet bis
address first makes its appearance in a South
ern Rights paper, and is quoted wi h the
' greatest gusto, and its author lauded by the
Southern Rights press. Ono of the latter ex
presses a doubt whether the document "will
oiaka its appearance in any constitutional
Union-loving paper in the State.” The ad
dress seems to have made on it, the same im
• prsssion as upon ourselves—that it is ‘'an in
sidious attack upon the Union party.” It
certainly came from a queer quarter, and is
praised in queer quarters, if it be the product
of a Constitutional Union man.
[ Is McDonald a Good Union Man 1
, The friends of Judge McDonald declare,
i says the Journal St Messenger, that he is a good
Union man. We deny the fact, and will now
, proceed to present the proofs. By a good
Union man, we mean one who adheres to the
Union upon the basis of the Compromise and
the principles of the Georgia Platform. All
others are, to say the least, indifferent Union
men—suspicious. Union men— unreliable
Union men. They are “wolves in sheep’s
elothing.”
1. Does Judge McDonald approve of the
lato Compromise ?
2. Docs Judge'McDoNALD pretend to stand
upon the Georgia Platform?
Out of his own mouth will we condemn him.
Let every voter look at the record.
1. In bis recent letter to Mr. Cantrell of
Lumpkin county, Judge McDonald said :
“/ know of no adjustment by Congress of the
slavery and territorial questions. The measures
so called, contained not a single element of an ad
justment. The South has received no equivalent to
the enormous injustice which has bocn done ly their
enactmeits."
Stick a pin there, Master Brooks.
2. In a rccont discussion at Dahlonega, Gov.
McDonald was distinctly asked by Mr. Cobb,
“whether he stood upon the Georgia Platform,
and replied,
O’ “NO! NOR DO 1 WISH TO STAND
UPON IT.”^J
Here is the record. We defy Judge Me*
Donald or any of his followers to disprove it
-What say you, voters of Georgia: “Is Mc-
Donald a good Union man?”
If he is a good Union man, why did he pre
side over the Disunion Meeting at Macon last
year, when disunion was so openly proclaimed
and vociferously applauded, that the Secretarj
of the Meeting repudiated the Meeting and the
actors ?
How does it happen that he presided over
the second Nashville Convention, a body so
thoroughly disuuion in rentiment that the
Piesident, Judge Sharkey, washed his hands
of it and refused to issue his Proclamation for
its re-assembling ?
Again, how could he, if he be a good Union
man approve the call of a Southern Congress,
the object of whieh was to take the preliminary
steps to dissolve the Union ? A body which,
Henry L. Bknning, also a disunion member
of the Nashville Convention, says, “had it not,
l should Itate raised my voice for Disunion.
If Gov. McDonald be a good Union man,
how could he return to Georgia, and in a pub
lic address, urge the people of this State to
send delegates to that Southern Congress, the
sols object of which was to dissolve the Union T
Let the intelligent voters of Georgia answer
> these questions at the polls on Monday next.
Voting upon Principle. —Cana Union man,
under existing circumstances, consistently tote
, for a fire Eater t
This question, says the Journal 5f Measen
i ger, was seriously asked us a day or two since,
, Our answer then was, and now is, no ! Under
, ordinary circumstances, a man might consis
i tently vote for his personal friends. Not so at
present. The present issue involves the
r whole qaestion of government or no govern*
ment. The fire eaters may disguise it as they
will. Their great object now is, to disaffect
, the people towards the Government, and to
prepare them to aid Carolina in case she ee
, cedes from the Union. In plain English, is I
t an isiue of Union or Disunion. It is purely a
question of principle. An honest and consis
tent friend of the Union, therefore, we say,
cannot vote for any man who, either directly
1 or indirectly, sympathises with the so called
i Southern Rights party. To give sueh a vote.
is to give “aid and comfort” to the enemies
. of his country. This, we take for granted, no
true friend of the Union will dare do. Can
didates are the mere agents. Principle is
t every thing. We have known men vote for
I candidates to whom they did not speak, mere
ly upon the ground that they agreed upon
principle. This is certainly tha highest evi*
> dence of honesty of purpose, and of pure
i patriotism. Union men. think of this matter
f seriously, before you cast a vote for any man
who is not an open, avowed friend of the
Union, upon the principles of the Georgia
* Platform.
. The Richmond Whig notices an invention
by Mr. Solomons, of Cincinnati, of what ha
calls a perfect substitute for steam. Prom
r common wh ting, sulphuric acid, and water,
o he obtains carbon in the gaseous state ; and
J with the power exerted by this gas, he asserts
that he now drives a twenty-five horse engine.
■ and for one fortieth the expense of steam,
j lifts and lets fall 12,000 pounds, five times in a
minute. Thie fluid, without any heat applied
at all, exerts a pressure of 540 pounds to the
'• square inch, while water in the same unhealed
i- state has no pressure but that of gravity.
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Falso (marges against Mr. Cobb.
The disrinionists seem to have lost all sense
of to have grown perfectly desper
ate. Having been completely routed in the ar
gument-having been driven from every position
which they have taken—and feeling conscious
that an overwhelming defeat awaits them, they
have resolved, says the Journal and Messenger,
to appeal to the power of falsehood and detrac
tion. They have grossly assaulted the private
character of Mr. Coat, and accused him of acts
which would disgrace any honorable gentleman.
These attacks were at first made privately.
They have since been published in the Federal'
Union , Southern Democrat and other disunion or
gans. The last Democrat contains an article
headed, “ Mr. Cobb's Financiering " which
may be regarded as a fair sample of those at
tacks. Tho Editor says :
fpT ‘‘Some of our opponents endeavor to make
capital against Gov. McDonald on the ground
that the Central Bank money depreciated during
his administration, but they forget to tell that
Mr. Cobb was largely in debt to that Institution,
and to prevent paying that money, mado over
his property to his wife, and suffered tho execu
tion returned, endorsed “no property” which ex
ecution, wo are creditably informed, is still on
file in the office of the Clerk of the Superior
Cornt of Clarke county.”
This charge is grossly false —the man who
leaned it know it was false, and is therefore to
be treated only as a liar and scoundrel. Where
Dr. May is known, it would not be necessary to
make this expos tion. He has been proved a
liar at a public meeting in his own county. He
wears the brand upon his forehead. It is there
fore the height of impudence in him to make
charges against men of honor.
Mr. Cobb does not owe the Central Hank one
dollar except as an endorser, and his liability on
that account is explained below. He never
made over one dollar’s worth of property to his
wife. The property which she owns was given
to her long before her marriage. It has always
been controlled and managed by her trustee ; and
neither she nor Mr. Cobb could have used it foi
(hepurposo of paying debts. So far from act
ing dishonorably in his pecuniary matters, Mr.
Cobb has actually expended a large and sepa
rate estate, given to him by his uncle, in orler
to relieve his father from pecuniary embarrass
ments. AH his indebtedness was created by his
kindness in ailing and endorsing ’ for others.
While others took the benefit of the bankrupt
law to rid themselves of their own debts ; Mr.
Cosa refused to do so, to relieve nimrelf from
these endorsements. He has devoted his entire
income to the payment of these claims, and we
challenge any man of honor to state a single
instance where Mr. Cobs has refused to recog
nise, or pay, an honest claim.
Whitwi'lthj honest, and reflecting people
say of the presses and parties that will stoop to
the circulation of such grave and infamous slan
dcis. They seem to have been put in circulation
simultaneously all over tho State. Even candi
dates for tho Legislature do not sctuple to give
them currency. The subjoinel letter from Mr.
Cois himself settles the matter. It was written
in reply to one from the Editor of the Chronicle
and Sentinel, informing him that Mr. Biowh,
tho candidate for Senator in Burke and Jefferson,
had been circulating the report :
Canton, Sept. 19th, 1851.
Dear Sir.-—I have this moment received
your letter, informing me that Mr. Brown was
circulating a report, that 1 was indebted to the
Central Bank in the amount of ten thousand
dollars, or some other large amount. The report
is utterly false. I am the security of Major
Jackson on a Central Bank debt of some four ot
five hundred dollars, which I thought was paid,
until I received a letter from Mr. Campbell du
ring the past summer informing me that it was
unpaid. I agreed to pay it by the Ist ot Decem-
I'er next, if Major Jackson did not settle it be
fore ; which arrangement seemed to be satisfae
tory to Mr. Campbell, as he has not written to
me since on the subject. Yours, &c.
Howsla Cobb.
So much for this Contra) Bank charge. The
article in the Democrat contains some half doz
en other allegations against Mr. Cobs ; all cf
which arc equal y false and infamous. We do
not wonder that the Editor should dislike Mr.
Cobb. Mr. Cobb is a patriot—an ardent lover of
the Union. Dr. May has openly declared, that
"he has more ardently prayed for the dissolution
of that Union, than he ever did for the remission
of his own sins .” Having “stolen the livery of
the Court of Heaven to serve the devil in,” it is
not, perhaps, astonishing that he should seek to
drag all honorable patriots down to the level of
his own degradation.
Mr, Cobb «ad bis Slanderers,
It is an old saying, says the Journal Mes
senger, ihot “liars ought to have good memo
ries ” The disunion presses ecriainiy have
shown great deficiency in this faculty. No
two of them seem to tcli the same story in
regard to Mr. Cobb's pecuniary aflairs, speaking
of an old monied transaction between him and
the Central Bank. The Constitutionalist and
Federal Union both claim to get their facts from
perfectly reliable sources.
The Constitutionalist says, that the oiiginal
claim was sl2oo—that with interest, &c., it had
run up to slßoo~that Mr. Cobb paid only
SISOO, one half of which went to the Attorney—
and the Bank realized only $750.
Tho Federal Union says, the claim was 31200
total, with interest, slßoo—that the amount real
ized was sl7oo—that tho Attorney got S7OO, and
the Bank SIOOO !
Both these stories are untrue. The facts are
simply these. Mr. Cobb after his failure, and
after the debt had been sued into execution,
agreed to torn over to the Bank certain property
to the amount of the debt. He gave to them
a valuable negro boy, and the house and lot
now occupied by Walter Mitchell, Esq., in Mil
lcdgeville. The Attorney or Bank agreed to take
tho property for the debt, and heve a proforma
sale, merely to perfect titles. The boy was pur
chased by John J. Gresham, Esq., of this city,
for SBOO. What the house sold for we are not
informed, nor have we been able to ascertain.
It was, however, at the time worth 1200, and
would now sell for more than that sum. Had
Mr. Cobb been at home at the time—had he been
able to give ths matter his personal attention—
the property would have realized him several
hundred dollars over the amount of the whole
debt. As it was, tho Bank took the entire risk ;
and if the Director chose to pay one-third, one
half, or the whole of it to the At'.ornoy, surely
Mr. Cobb is not to blame. He gave up his prop
erty like an honest man. He performed faith
fully his part of the contract.
Is it not shameful and scandalous, that after
having acted as Mr. Cobb did in this transaction,
there should bo found men base enough, low
enough, mean enough, to pervert and falsify the
transaction, and push it before the public on tho
eve of an important election like the present!
These Editors know that Col. John B. Lamar,
who transacted this whole business for Mr.
Cobb, is absent from the State. They know that
he is incapable of a dishonorable act —they know
that ii they were to charge him with dishonor,
he would cut the ears oil their heads. Is it not
base—inconcoivably base—in them, therefore,
to take advantage of his absense, in order to
make such charges at a late hour, when thoy
.know it is impossible to send the contradiction
, nto all parts of the State ?
We have purposely abstained, during this cam
. paign, from all attacks upon Judgo McDonald on
i account of hia private affairs. We might have
, pryed into certain very dark transactions with
which ho was connected during his Presidency
of the Darien Bank. We might have given a
score of certificates to prove that McDonald had
, settled his endorsement debts at from three to
i thirteen cents in the dollar. We might have ob
tained from clients, widows, and orphans, any
quantity of cards setting forth the wrong and
/ ruin done to them by the disunion candidate.
. We might have blackened and blotched, and
, blurred his reputation almost beyond conception,
j if we bad seen proper to dig into “ trie grave of
. the past. 1 '
This work wo have loft to the miserable jackall
, of the disunion press—particularly to the Bull-
I frog Regency and the Directors of the Central
l Bank. ; Tis their vocation to do the dirty work
of their party ; and we are happy to find that
r they are duly appreciated by the public at large.
■ Hence, their assaults upon Mr. Cobb have fallen
harmless at his feet. Indeed, they have done
r him an actual service, as they have given his
friends an opportunity to expose the real facts
i in the case, and to prove him to be as pure in his
i private as in his public character.
> "
| Large Ships,
t Our attention having been called to the unusual
number of ships carrying large cargoes of cotton
1 from thia port ttie last commercial year, we have ob
•ained from our neighbors, Mfears. J. P. Whitney &
Co , a list of ships leaded by them carrying 3,000
bales cf cotton and upwards, viz:
Ships. Tons. Bales
' Clara Wheeler 991 3,564
Hungarian 1,018 3,610
Trimountain 1,031 3 695
Rappahannock • • 1,133 3,906
James Nesmith 990 3,228
John and Lucy 991 3,218
George Raynes 998 3,652
Telamon 1,127 3,568
Clarissa Courier 999 3,380
Horizon 963 3,140
William Nelron 1,030 3,239
Wesimorelaod 999 3,504
John Haven 1,038 3,196
E. P. Sage 1,150 3,385
Antarctic 1,115 3,618
15 ships carrying away the emormoua quantity of
51,703 kales of cotton, equal to 3,450 bales *ach,
We also notice tbs following clearances last year
in addition to the above, viz :
Ships. Tons. Bales.
Lexington 841 3,064
Huguenot * 935 3,135
President 1,021 3,761
New England 922 3,126
Hemisphere 1,024 3,328
Columbus 1,307 4,109
Meridian 1,235 4,200
Seven ships carrying. 24,718
bales, equal to 3,631 bales each ship.
These twenty-two ships thus carried 76 421 bales
cotton, and the Rappahannock and Meridian carried
other cargo equal to 500 balos each—thus making
the capacity of the twenty-two rhips equal to say
between 77 and 73,000 bales of cotton, or upwards of
3,500 bites average. It is worthy of note that nine
teen of these ships were built last year, and the car
goes mentioned above were the frst cargoes of cotton
loaded by them.
The ships hailed from various ports, commencing
at Philadelphia and going as far East as Thouiaston,
Me. The value of their cargoes was about four mil
lions of dollars, and the ship* themselves about one
million and a quarter of dollars.
Truly our Yankee friends build ships faster than
wo can grow cotton to loid them, and we will ven
ture to intimate that if they want to get good freights
for their splendid ships, they must not build them
quite so fast —Picayune
It is said that an association of English cap
i talis: b. comprising Messrs. Baring and Messrs.
Rothschild, with several of the largest English
rai'way contractors, has been formed for the
purpose of purchasing land in Ireland, and re
selling or letting it in farms, thoroughly
drained, fenced, and otherwise fitted for culti
vation on the English model
Gkohsia.— The following is an abstract of the
Seventh Census of the State of Georgia, just
published by the Census Bureau at Washing
ton :
Dwelling houses in the State 91.011
Families 91,471
White males 266,096
White females 255,342
Free colored males 1,368
Fice colored females-••• 1,512
Total free population 524,318
Slaves 381,681
Total population 905 999
Federal representative population • • • • 753,326
Deaths during the year 9,920
Farms in cultivation 51’759
Manufacturing establishments producing
8509 and upwardsjanuually 1,407
Ruodk Island. —The subjoined statis ics rel
ative to the State of Rhode Island, as shown by
the late census, are extracted from the official
alalement of the Census Bureau at Washing
ton :
Dwelling houses in tho State 22.379
Families 28,216
White males 70,417
White females 73,593
Colored males 1,660
Colored females 1,884
Total population 147,544
Deaths during the year-- 2 241
Farms in cultivation 6)385
Manufacturing establishments producing ’
8500 and upwards annually 1,144
The Resources ahd Trade or the Sooth.
—The policy of developing tho resources of
she South, which are so abundant in the e'e
ments ol commerce, has been for some time
past a subject of much interest to Southern peo
pie; and the design, in accordance therewith,
of opening and sustaining a direct trade with
Europe, by means of regular lines of steamers,
has already become so far matured as to render
its accomplishment, sooner or later, a matter
of certainty.
The steady progress of internal improve
ments .in the Southern States, by which the
transmission of the produots of great interior
regions to tho seaboard is facilitated and pro
duction itself continually increased, must re
quire, as a necessary result, corresponding
I acuities lor the transportation ol" those products ,
across the ocean. We may properly regard,
then, the movements now on foot in the South,
for the establishment of lines of steamers
between Southern ports and the ports of i
Europe, as part and paroel of that great system |
of intercom mu nication which, beginning at ,
home, is destined to extend its connections
throughout the commercial world.
A Convention, as our readers are aware, has I
been recently held in Richmond, with a view ;
to the concentration of the trade of the James
River for the purpose ol sustaining a line of
propellers to some European port. This
movemont was confined, we believe, or wa* 1
intended to beoonfined, to the State of Virginia t
But a more general movement is now contem- ,
plated, having larger aima in view on a more
omprahena ve scheme: AConventh *f rfj |.« .
whom South, as we understand it, is iuviied to
meet at Macon, m Georgia, on the 87 h of Oc
tober next, and we take occasion now to allude '
to line meeting to suggest the importance of
n( Vl .i?,k ß u ,ino / e represented in that body, i
t n i • boather * Atlantic seaports the city
ot Baltimore mav, without undue pretension
claim te be the first—first in population, first '
in the materials of oommeroe, first in resour- 1
ces, and, we hope, not behind any in respect to 1
enterprise end energy. Surely it would be a
i strange thing if a great Southern movement
having reference to the develofiment of South!
. ern capabilit es and the advancement of South!
ern interests, should go on without the partici
-1 prtion of Baltimore in it.
1 We would, therefore, commend this subject
to the consideration of our business men, and
respectfully urge their early attention to i;
t with a view to prompt action. Our city and
her commercial interest ought to be represent
, ed by a Committee of our mostintelligent mer
chants and men of business in the Macon Con
vention, that our Convention, that our South
r ern brethren, there assembled may have defi.
I cite and fall information of the nature, charac
ter and capacity of our market, both with re-
I gard to its commanding relations with impor
tant domestic staples and also in reference to
J. its facilities of communication with Europe.
We may claim oar place in that body to re
ceive information, too, as well as impart it— to
I exchange ideas, in fact; to compare uotas; j 0
. participate in common counsels, and to d : acu S(
I matters of general interest to the whole Somt,
The occasion is too important to bo lon
eight of. Our Southern trade, already larj>«
and capable of immenae extension, gives um
deep interest in everything pertaining to the
commercial progrots of the South—to suy
: nothing of the affinities which bind all the
Southern States together by similarity of iusti
tntions common alike to Maryland and to
1 Georgia.
From Central America. —By accounts in
the Mexican papers, we learn that hostilities
have actually commerced between Salvador
and Guatemala. It appears that Gen. Carrera
at the bead of 1.600 men, invaded Salvador,
and encountered the Salvadorian army, 4,500
strong, under President Varasconcelos, au
place called San Joso An engagement took
place, in which, according to the Guatetnaleau
accounts, Carrera was completely successful,
routing the allied army, which lost 228 killed)
160 or 200 prisoners, 1,000 muskets, and a
large amount of ammunition, &c. Currora’s
loss, according to these reports, was about
fifty. In the pursuit which followed, the
Salvadorian army sustained still further losses.
Carrera has been appointed commander-in
chief of the forces of Guatemala, and medals
have been voted by the Congress to the sol
diers engaged in tho battle of San Jose. At
the city of Guatemala 7,000 persons were
under arms.
It appears that after this brilliant victory,
Carrera took up a position at the town cf
Santa Anna, but, on the approach of Gen.
Cabanas, he retired into the Guatemalaan ter
ritory. 'i he reasons for this singular rnove
inent are not known.— Pie.
Bptrial $1 otxus
COUNTERS WITH DRAWERS.
5jT Far Sale, three fine painted Counters with
Drawers. Apply at this office.
CHEAP READY MADE CLOTHING*
13* J. M. Newby & Co. have now on hand
a Urge and choice selection of READY MADE
CLOTHING. Country Merchants and strangers
visiting Augusta, will find it to their interea. to ex
amine our stock.
We have every variety of Shirts, Drawers, Sus
pender 1 , Gloves, Handkerchiefs, &c. Also, Cloth
ing for Children and Boys of every kind.
We get the newest style of Goods weekly, and
will always sell as low as any tody else. Come and
see it it’s so. o 3
O’ W* are anth riz d to announce
ANDERSON W. WALTON, as a candidate lor
Clerk of (he Superior and Infetijr Court of Rich
mond County, at the election in January next.
53“ We arc authorized to announce
J C. GREEN, as a candidate for Clerk of the Supe
rior and Inferior Cour's.
53" Mrs. Wheeler’s School was opened on
lie First of OCTOBER, in the rooms heretofore os
teupied by her opposite the office of the Constitution
alist & Republic. 02-ThTu&F
53* Dr. W. W. Broadhurst respectfully
tenders bis Professional Services to the citizens of
Augusta. His office is at Dr. Paul F. Eve’s house,
where he may be found day or night. 01-dly
515* Tho Exorcises of Mrs. Codktnev’s
SCHOOL will be resumed on the FIRST MON
DAY in OCTOBER, in the new Framed Building
on the North side of Greene street, near the new
Presbyterian Cburcb. slB Im
Classical and English School,
13* Mr. W. Brnenputsch respectfully in
forms the citizens of Augusta and vicinity, that he
proposes to open, on the first Monday iu October, a
select SCHOOL, in which the Latin and Greek
Languages will be taught; together with Mathema
tics and the various branches ofan English Education.
Particular attention will be paid to the latter, as well
as to the preparation of young wen for College.
No Preparatory Department being, at present,
connected with the School, only such Pupils will be
received as are able to read and write, and are ac
quainted with the fundamental rules of Arithmetic.
Until a more C3utral location cun be obtained, the
School will be kept in the house on the northwest
corner of Broad and Kollojk streets, nearly opposite
Phinizy & Clavton’s Ware House.
Tuition per quarter, payable In advance, sls. No
extra chargee. 525 dtf
FEMALE INSTITUTE.
13* The subscriber notifies Parents and Guur
dians that he designs the resumption of the Studies
of this Feminary, on 'he Pirst Monday in October. (
The scope of instruction is as extended as that of *
kindred Institutions. The mode of teaching will
ensure, ho trusts, to the di'igent pupils of ordinary
capacity, a correct perception of the studies pursued,
j. To elicit the energies cf his Student*, such moral
appliancos will be used as, in his judgment, will be
suited to the condition of eacb.
Music, French, Drawing and Painting taught by
qualified teachers.
Boarding may be had in his family.
s2B-dto6 W. J. HARD.
CLASSICAL & ENGL A SCHOOL.
53 Mr. Thos. S. Jonea proposes to open s
SCHOOL for Boys, on the first Monday in OCTO
BER next. His course cf Instruction will embrace
the usual branches of English, with the Latin and
Greek Languages.
Terms, per quarter, in advance—
Primary branches, $6 00
Higher English branches, 8 00
Latin and Greek, 00
Room on North side of Broad street, a lew dooH
above Centre. 526 if
DODGE’S DAGUBRRIAN GALLERY I
13 Mr. Dodge expects to re open his Gallary,
next door to the Post Office, in a few days, when
ho would be pleased to wait upon those who may
desire Likenesses of themsslves or friends. Every
improvement of the art will be brought to bear to
produce the best Pictures in the 9outh. 823-91*
RICHMOND COUNTY ACADEMY.
19th Ssftembbr, 1851-
£jf Thl« Institution will be opened on d' 4
FIRST of OCTOBER, under the general superb'*
tendance of the Rov. John Nbblt, the Rector, w
cently appointed by the Board of Trustees.
The Clsssical Department of tho School by th#
Rector, Mr. John Neely.
The Mathematical Department, and Instructor cf
Natural Sciences, by Mr. A. W. Chusoh.
Tho English Department, by Mr. Andrbw 8. Jx**‘
UOM.
Terms aa heretofore charged, viz: On the pas
ment of Ten Dollars per quarter, a pupil will bo ad
mitted to enter all Branches of sh« School. Englt
Department Five and Seven Dollars per quarter.
e2O-dtd A. ROBERT, Clerk,