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Daily Chronicle & Sentinel
BY W. S. JONES.
Annual Report of the Postmaster General.
The annual report of the Hon. N. K. Hall,
Postmaster General, occupies nearly eleven
columns of the National intelligencer, and pre
sents a voluminous exposition ot the nature and
extent of the postal arrangements of the country,
the changes that have resulted from the law
enacted last session, and the additions and im
provements that are yet needed to meet the exi
gencies of our extended territory, and the con
tinuous enlargement of our political and com
mercial relations. We avail ourselves of the fol
lowing abstract of this interesting document
which we find in the Republic.
It appears that at the close of the fiscal year—
the 30th of June last—six thousand one hundred
and seventy mail routes were in operation in the
U. States, forming an aggregate length of 196,290
miles, and involving an annual cost for the trans
portation of mails of $3,422,754. The total an
nual transportation amounts to 53,272,252 miles,
of which 8,560,707 miles are performed upon
railroads, at an average cost of about eleven cents
five mills per mile; 5,453,982 miles in steamboats,
at a cost of about eight cents three mills per
mile; 19,726,58 S miles in coaches, at about five
cents three mills per mile; 19,521,975 miles in
inodes not specified, at about four cents eight
mills per mile. As compared with the previous
year, this statement exhibits an increase of
13,354 miles, in the length of inland mail routes,
and of $547,110 in the annual cost of transporta
tion; but this comparison is irrespective of the
routes in California and Oregon. In the former
State the annual transportation amounts to 537,-
476 miles and the annual cost to $130,270; in the
latter to 66,969 miles, at an annual cost of $40.441.
There are six foreign mail routes—three of which
are under contract with the Post Office Depart
ment at a cost of about $2,09 9-10 per mile; ant
three under contract with the Navy Department
at a cost of about $2,42 6-10 per mile.
During the year 5,339 postmasters were ap
pointed, nearly half of them to fill vacancies oc
casioned by resignations; 187 to fill vacancies oc
casioned by death; 206 in consequence of change
of site; 299 on the removal of prior incumbents;
and 1,698 on the establishment of new offices.
The entire number of post offices in operation is
19,796; nearly 1,700 were established and 256
were discontinued during the year.
The gross receipts of the Department for the
year described in this report were $6,786,493 22;
of which $5,369,242 76 were derived from letter
(including foreign) postage and stamps sold, and
$1,035,130 89 from postage on newspapers, pam
phlets, &c. To form a true idea of the revenue,
however, allowance must be made for the sum
payable to the British post office, and for the sum
of additional appropriations. With these deduc
tions, the ordinary revenues of the year stand at
$6,551,977 89; being an increase of $999,006 41
over the proper revenues of the preceding year.
The expenditures during the same period were
$6,278,401 68; but this includes a payment to
Britain and a payment under an award. The
ordinary expenditure was $6,024,566 79, show
ing a balance of receipts of $703,299 09.
The report glances at the position of the post
office in this country half a century since, and
intimates the probable presentation to Congress
of the materials of an interesting history of our
postal system. In 1790 the number of post offices
was 75, the extent of post routes 1,875 miles,
and the revenue $37,935.
Within the last two years, the cost of trans
portation has been much increased; and the ever
m-creasing mail facilities, by railway and on our
rivers, will continue to add largely to the ex
penses of the Department. Under the terms of
the act of March last, the expenditure for the
transportation of mails must be increased from
ten to fifteen per cent, per year, if the wants of
the country require it; and, unless some change
be made by Congress in the rule laid down lor
the government of the Department, other expen
«« will necessarily increase at nearly tnc »«mc
rate.
In regard to commissions paid to postmasters,
the Postmaster General expresses a belief that
the allowance provided for under the order made
on the 29th of October, will be found incommen
surate with the increase of labor required under
the new law.
The total estimated expenditures for the cur
rent year amounts to $7,123,448 63, which aie
to be met by the balances now standing to the
credit of the Department, the receipts from pos
tages, and the appropriations made by the acts
of March. 1847, and March, 1851. The succeed
ing year will necessitate further aid from the
treasury. At present no reliable estimate of the
revenues of the current year can be made, in con
sequence of the non-settlement of the postmas
ters’ accounts for the first two quarters.
An idea of the amount of free matter sent and
received at Ihe Washington office may be formed
from the fact, that for the two years ending in
J uly last, this branch of business would have
yielded $4,240,820 at the rates then in force, or
$1,795,920 at th.i present reduced rates. This
does not include the free circulation of newspa
pers, &c. It is thought that the reduced rates of
postage on printed matter, and the extension of
priviiiges to publishers, will diminish that branch
of revenue at least $500,000 per annum. The
results of the experiment now in operation satis
fy the Postmaster General that there should not
be more than two, or at most three, different
rates of inland postage on newspapers sent to
actual subscribers; and that those on periodicals,
and other printed matter, including transient
newspapers, should be reduced in number, and
more nearly assimilated to the ordinary news
paper rates. This change, he thinks, can be
adopted without materially diminishing the re
venue. *
The Postmaster General disapproves of the
disposition manifested in some quarters to urge
a further reduction in our inland rates of letter
postage, before the results of the last reduction
are properly ascertained. He points out the dis
similarity in the circumstances of this country
and Great Britain, and maintains that the result
ofthe system now in operation in Britain, ad
monish us not to attempt a further reduction until
justified by our revenues. Looking at our entire
circumstances, the sparse population of immense
sections, and the extent and expense of the area
traversed by our mail routes, he concludes that
we have, beyond all question, the cheapest pos
tage in the world.
The new contracts for the supply of innumera
ble articles required for use in the department are
described as more favoreble tha i former ones;
and an intimation is made that an improvement
in the adhesive qualities of postage stamps will
hereafter be observable.
An opinionis expressed--founded upon informa
tion obtained by agents of the department—that
if the contractors be favorably disposed, the mail
between Washington city and New Orleans can
be expedited twenty-four hours; that the time re
quired between Washington and New York c^n
• be reduced to eleven hours; and that the mails
from the South, leaving Washington in the after
noon, may be delivered in New York in time to
be forwarded to Boston, Albany, and West,
along the Erie railroad, by the morning trains
from New York. An effort will also be made
to preserve at New York a close connexion of
the trains carrying the mails which leave Wash
ington in the morning with the evening trains
which take such mails beyond New York. If
the negotiations now in progress to effect these
arrangements fail, the attention of Congress will
be called to other legible modes of expediting the
great mails between the Eastern ana the South
ern States.
An appropriation is recommended to meet the
deficiency of salary allowable to the special
agents of the department, find also to pay the
salaries of supernumeraries who have been em
ployed in the dead letter office. More than
4,000 pounds of dead letters were received from
California the last summer.
Congress is asked to legalize contracts tha «-
have been entered into for mail service in Cali
fornia and Oregon; and mention is made of other
contracts which have been formed with .the
Pacific Steamship Company, and with the mail
steamers from New York to Havana. The
President of the Panama Railroad Company had
given notice that, on and after the first instant,
the company would be ready to transport the
mail across the Isthmus, and the Postmaster
General has agreed to avail himself of the ar
rangement—leaving Congress to authorise the
payment therefor.
The contract with the Collins line of mail
steamers, between New York and Liverpool,
requires the performance of but twenty trips out
and back during the year. As the English gov
ernment had made new arrangements by which
the weekly trips of the Cunard steamers were
to be continued throughout the year, it was
deemed highly important to continue the weekly
trips of the American steamers also. Under these
circumstances, Mr. Collins was requested by the
Post-office Department to continue his trips,
with an assurance of a recommendation of ade
quate compensation. If, therefore, the extra
trips are confirmed, it is earnestly recommended
that a pro rata compensation, with such addi
tion, if any, as may be necessary to give to the
contractors a fair and liberal compensation for
the extra service, be authorised by Congress.
The Postmaster General remarks that “the uu
rivalled qualities and speed of the ships of this
line, and the very satisfactory, manner in which
the serivce has been performed, establishing the
superiority of American skill and enterprise in
the construction of ocean steamers, and in ocean
steam navigation, entitle the proprietors of this
line to the most favorable consideration, and I
cannot doubt that Congress will make the ap
propriations recommended/’
It is hinted that satisfactory propositions can
probably be obtained fora line of mail steamers
from New Orleans, byway of Tampico, to Vera
Cruz; and the importance of such an arrange
ment is described, in its commercial and political
aspects.
Offers have been made to contract for mail ser
vice from New York to Antwerp, from New
York to Genoa, from New York to San Francisco
by the Nicaragua route, from New York to Gal
way, lrom New York to Venezuela, from Phila
delphia to Havana, from Philadelphia to Ant
werp, and from New York to New Orleans, by
steamers, in connexion with a contemplated rail
road across Florida. These applications are to
be laid before Congress. Particular stress is laid
upon the proposition for a line of steamers from
New' York to Galway; and a hope is entertained
that the subject of the establishment of a
line to Antwerp will be found to deserve con
sideration, more especially as the Belgian gov
ernment is ready to co-operate in the project.
The renewed determination of Britain to in
sist upon an excessive transit rate on letters
passing through England is alluded to as a sub
ject of regret. The liberal spirit manifested by
the United States in 1848, has not been recipro
cated; and as our convention with Great Britian
can be annulled by either of the two govern
ments, after one year’s notice to the other, it is
suggested that if satisfactory transit rates be not
soon agreed to, this Government should seriously
consider whether the notice provided for in the
treaty shall not be given.
Attention is called to the extent to which the
revenues of the Department are prejudiced by the
operations of express companies; and the revi
sion of the laws applicable to the subject is pro
posed. with the view of making it highly penal
for persons or companies to carry letters on cer
tain specified routes ouside of the mails. Other
penal enactments are sought to protect the pro
perty and operations of the department.
The increasing abuses of the franking privi
lege are noticed as another matter requiring legis
lative action. Severe penalties are suggested to
prevent the franking as public documents things
which are not such, the distribution of franked
envelopes to persons not entitled to the frank
ing privilege, and various similar practices.
Authority is requested to increase the com
pensation of special agents of the Department in
California and Oregon, and to facilitate the busi
of the Department in those States.
Tiie concluding paragraphs of the Report re
late to the necessity of increased post office ac
commodations for Washington city, to a revision
of the laws for the government of the Depart
ment, the need of placing the Assistant Post
masters General upon the same footing in respect
to salary as the heads of Bureaus in other Depart
ments, and to the zeal and assiduity with which
the officers and clerks of the Department have
discharged their duties.
(From the N. O. True Delta,'Ath inst.)
Gleanings from Texas Papers.
The steamship Mexico, Capt. Place, arrived yes
terday, brought Galveston papers, but none of so
late a date as those by the Meteor. Back mails
have come by her, however, containing several
items of interest, and we proceed to glean.
We learn from the Red Land Herald, published
at San Augustine, that Larry Long, who resided
on this side ofthe Sabine, was shot on the 15th ult.,
by Kenly Johnson, his brother-in-law, who lives on
the Texas side of the river, in Shelby county.
The facts are thus stated by the Herald :
Mr. Long, in company with Joseph Branon, was
hunting some hogs in the Sabine bottom, when
they were fired on by Mr. Johnson, who was
accompanied by Capt. M. H. Mosely and Wm.
Grant, another brother-in-law of Long’s. Long
fell, being shot through the face and head with
buckshot. Branon was overshot and succeeded in
escaping through the cane. Johnson was armed
with a double-barrel gun only—and yet three
reports were heard. It is not ascertained who fired
the other shot. There was an old grudge existing
between the parties, and report says that Long had
threatened Johnson's life, and had grossly slan
dered his family. Long left a family of five or six
small children. No arrests have as yet been at
tempted.
The Port Lavaca Commercial says :
One of the negro thieves, named Gibson, who
was arrested in company with Everett, at San
Antonio, on the charge of abducting Gen. Gordon’s
negroes from Wharton county, was sentenced to
ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary, at the
last term ofthe District Court for Wharton county.
Everett was also convicted, but made his cscapo the
night after his conviction, and is still at large.
Hu handcuffs were not well secured by the black
smith and he slipped his hands through them, and
then broke open the doors of the jail.
The same paper rocords the following :
A fatal affray took place in Richmond, Port
Bond county, on the 30th ult., between Mr. W inston,
of Spring Creek, and a Mr. Koper, which resulted
in the death of the latter. Mr. Winston was at
tacked by Koper, who was of greatly superior weight
and size, and after receiving several severe blows
in the face, drew his knife and stabbed Koper,
causing his immediate death. Winston immediate
ly left town and at last accounts had not been
heard from.
Colonel Rogers, Indian Agent; Liout. Walkcr,
and John S. McClellan, arrived at San Antonio,
on the 10th ult., from the Treaty ground. The
San Antonio Ledger learns that the treaty, which
was closed on tho 4th, was satisfactory to the
Indians, and honorable to our government. The
Camanches, Lipans, and Muscaleros, are tho tribes
with whom Col. R. effected tho treaty. It is stated
that tho Indians were in almost a starving condition
when they congregated at tho treaty ground. Col.
Rogers recovered from the Indians twenty-soven
Mexican prisoners, twenty-five boys and. two
women. We have had a vory brief notice ot the
killing of Francis Waldeman, by James F. Martin,
Sheriff of Colorado Co. Tho Matagorda Tribuno
gives tho following account of tho aftair :
They had gone with a party to Peyton’s creek,
about twelve miles from Matagorda, to brand cattle.
A dispute arose about cuttle claims, during which
Martin accused Waldeman es cattle stealing, and
manifested a disposition to urge on a quarrel. Wal
deman picked up a stick and advanced towards
Martin, and demanded a retraction of tho charge.
Tho latter refused. A scutflo ensued, andWalao
man was heard to fall. On examination, it was
found that ho had been wounded in tho back of tho
head with a knifo, which caused his death in a few
hours, lie is spokon of as an industrious, respecta
ble citizen, which is not said of the other. Martin
was held to bail in tho amount of $5,000, which ho
had boon unable to securo at last accounts.
Tho dwelling of Capt. Mitchell, on Lavaca Bay,
Had all his furniture have beon destroyed by fire.
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10.
JOB PRINTING.
Having saved our Job Printing
Press, and a portion of our Job Type,
to which considerable additions have
already been made, by accessions
from the New York and Philadel
phia Foundries, we beg leave to an
nounce to our friends, that we are
prepared to execute their Jobs with
neatness and despatch.
In a few weeks, however, we
shall receive our new Presses, with a
large supply of Job Type and other
material, making our Job Establish
ment one of the most complete, in all
its appointments, in the Southern
States.
A New Political Leaffue.
The following resolutions, adopted by the Ger
man Political Club of Cleveland, Ohio, on the
23rd November, 1821, are published in the Plain
Dealer , of that city. This is certainly a novel
league, and affords an instructive lesson on the
progress of radicalism and red-republicanism in
this country—both of which are likely to be fos
tered by the extraordinary reception given to
foreign radicals and revolutionists, on their arri
val in this country, by our own citizens. That
this spirit is on the increase is very apparent to
the most casual observer, and that a new impe
tus will be given to it by the presence of Kos
suth and his followers, we entertain not a doubt.
For it cannot have escaped the observation of
the intelligent and reflecting, that our people, in
their admiration of the chivalry and distinguish
ed talents of the brave Magyar, have entirely
lost sight of his principles; those principles upon
which he based his opposition to Austrian rule
in Hungary. This is the most charitable con
struction to be placed upon their conduct; for
upon no other ground can such conduct, in men
who claim to be republican, be excused.
Let us not be misunderstood. It is not our pur
pose to represent Kossuth as a Radical, or Red
Republican, or as even the advocate of libera
doctrines, unless by the force of circumstances,
and the disastrous reveses to w'hich he has been
subjected, in his efforts to revolutionize Hunga
ry, he has been driven from one extreme to the
other, and has therefore recently undergone a
thorough and complete change.
For the fact is well established, in the mind
of every well i nformed man on the subject, that
Kossuth and his followers, engaged in that revo
lution not to establish a republican form of gov
ernment, but to restore the ancient monarchy of
Hungary —to re-establish the privileges of the
nobility and to perpetuate forever the serfdom
of Sclavonians and Croatians, who are said to
constitute two thirds of the Hungarian popula
tion. So determined was he in his purpose to
establish such a government as we have
that he positively declined the proffered aid ot
the Croatians and Sclavonians in the struggle
tendered to him on condition that if successful
he would establish a liberal government, which
should recognise no privileged classes, —but, on
the contrary, lay the foundation of a broad and
universal equality among all classess. He there
fore utterly repudiated, at that time, Republican
ism in all its forms, by rejecting the great prin
ciple upon which it is based, as obnoxious to his
views of good government. Being a man of
rank himself, a position attained by his eminent
ability, he looked only to the preservation or re
establisement of a privileged class—and utterly
repudiated all purpose of giving liberty to the
masses who have existed in serfdom for a thou
sand years, Such was Kossuth, such the man,
i n blind admiration of whom thousands of Amer
ican citizens, who affect to admire republican in
stitutions, seem to be running quite beside them
selves.
But we have digressed, our purpose was to in
troduce the following resolutions, the contempla
tion ot which naturally led to some reflections
upon the rapid tendency to radicalism in this
country.
Whereas the colored people, in thoir meeting
held on the 17th instant, have expressed their
sympathy with the German nation, by a resolu
tion. to actually aid the German national loan,
the German Political Club resolves :
Ist. To express i!s hearty thanks,and avails itself
of this opportunity to declare the conviction that
the German people , as soon as they shall have obtain
ed the Democratic Republic in the coming struggle ,
will use all means which arc adapted to abolish
slavery , on institution whichjisso wholly repug
nant to tiie principles of true Democracy.
2d That this resolution shall be published in
all the newspapers of this city.
This (says the Cincinnati Gazette) is indeed a
very singular and surprising compact or agree
ment to be entered into by the German and
African population of this country, and should
engage the attention of those very patriotic and
liberty-loving politicians of this and other cities
who are so ardent in their advocacy of the
Kinkle fund, and at the same time so full of re
gard for “ the Union,” the rights of the South ”
and “the Liberators of Cuba.” We suppose
these politicians will say that, in the event medi
tated in the resolution above quoted, they would
oppose with ferce of arms, if necessary, the
interference of the “ Republic of Germany”
with our domestic institutions. But. we ask,
with what consistency could they offer such re
sistance after so boldly advocating, as they now
do the active inteference of the United States
Government in the struggles which are expec
ted to occur ju Europe during the next year?
Surely they must forsake their cherished doctrine
upon this point, or allow in its turn the interfer
ence of the proposed German Republic for tne
extinction of slavery in this country ! Which
horn of the dilemma will they take?— Cincinnati
Gizette.
New Orleans and Nashville Railroad-
New Orleans has recently been waked up
from her dreamy visions, in which she had so
long indulged, that the great ‘’Father of Wa
ters” would certainly, spite of all the improve
ments of art, waft into her bosom the vast pro
ductions of the fertile valleys of the Mississippi
and its tributaries. The rapid diversion of trade
from her, which she had so long considered ex
clusively her own, into other marts, by the pro
gress of railroads, has served to sound the alarm
among her people, who, feeling the necessity of
a great and powerful effort, are beginning to di
rect their energies to the accomplishment of
some gigantic enterprises. Amoug others, is a
railroad to Nashville; and with a view to en
list the co-operation of the Tennesseeans in
this great work, they have sent a delegation to
Nashville, headed by that eminent banker,
enterprising citizen, James Robb, to visit the
Legislature of that state, now in session.
“ This mission,” says the Banner, “ has been
made the subject of a special message from his
Excellency, Governor Campbell, to the Legisla
ture, which was promptly considered by that
body, and an invitation extended to the mem
bers of the delegation to make an address ex
plaining its object. Mr. James Robb, the chair
man, on behalf of the delegation, responded to
this invitation ; and. on Tuesday evening, deliv
ered in the Hall of Representatives, an address
that was characterized by good taste and very
enlarged views on the subject ol Internal Im
provements, Agriculture, and Manufactures, —
which we are glad to perceive awakening a
wide spread spirit of interest and enthusiasm in
all the States of the Southwest.”
The delusive conviction that her natural facil
ities for transportation would overcome all the
appliances of art, has for a long period, kept New
Orleans inactive—a mere looker-on upon the
great works of internal improvement, which
have so rapidly developed the vast resources of
the country. Now, however, seeing how ut
terly salacious that idea, she enters the field with
an energy and spirit which command
as well for boldness of conception, as gigantic
designs. We welcome her most cordially upon
this new theatre, in which we are sure she will
find ample scope for the employment of all her
vast resources, and the display of the highest en
ergies of her enterprising citizens.
Wi ssissippi Convention.
Although we have already announced that the
action of the Convention of the State of Missis
sippi, was substantially the same as that of Geor
gia, we deem it proper to place on record the res
olutions adopted by them by a very large major
ity. They have thus taken their position upon
the Georgia platform, on which we feel confident
every Southern State, even South Carolina,
will sooner or later rally :
The people of Mississippi in Convention assembled
as expressive of their deliberate judgment on the
great question involved in the sectional contro
versy, between the slaveholding and non-slave
holding States of the American Union, adopt the
following resolutions :
Resolved Ist, That in tho opinion of this Con
vention, the people of Mississippi, in a spirit of
conciliation and compromise, have maturely con
sidered the action es Congress, embracing a series
of measures for the admission of California as a
State into tho Union, the organization of territo
rial governments for Utah and New Mexico, the
establishment of a boundary between the latter
and the State of Texas, tho suppression of the
slave trade in the District of Columbia, and the
extradition of Fugitive slaves, and connected with
them, the rejection of tho proposition to exclude
slavery from the territories of the United States and
to abolish it in tho District of Columbia, and
whilst they do not entirely approve, will abide by
it as a permanent adjustment of this fcctional con
troversy, so long as the same, in all features, shall
be faithfully adhered to and enforced.
Resolved, 2d, That we perceive nothing in the
above recited legislation of tho Congress of the
United States, which should be permitted to dis
turb tho friendly and peaceful “ existing relations
between tho Government of the United States and
tho Government and people of tho State of Missis
sippi.”
Therefore resolved, 3d, That in the opinion of this
Convention, the people of the State of Mississippi
will abide by the Union as it is, and by the Consti
tution of the United States without amendment;
that they hold tho Union secondary in importance
only to tho rights and principles it was designed to
porpetuato. tua past associations, present fruition
and future prospects, will bind them to it so long
as it continues to be the safeguard of those rights
and principles.
Resolved further, 4th, That, in the opinion of
this Convention, the asserted rights of secession
from tho Union, on tho part of a State or States, is
utterly unsanctioncd by tho Federal Constitution,
which was framed to “ establish,” and not to de
stroy the union of the States ; and that no secession
can in fact take place, without a subversion of the
Union established, and which will not virtually
amount in its effects and consequences to a civil
revolution.
Resolved further, sth, That, whilst in the opinion
of this Convention such are the opinions and senti
ments of the people of the State of Mississippi,
still violations of the right of the people of tho
State may occur, which would amount to intolera
ble oppression, and would justify a resort to meas
ures of resistance, amongst which, in tho opinion of
tho Convention, tho people of tho State liave desig
nated the following :
Ist. Tho interference by congressional legislation
with the institution of slavery in the States.
2d. Interference with the trade in slaves between
tho States.
3d. Any action of Congress on tho subject of
slavery in"tho District of Columbia, or in places
subject to the jurisdiction of Congress incompatible
with tho safety and domestic tranquility, tho rights
and honor of the slaveholding States.
4th. The refusal by Congress to admit a new
State into tho Union, on tho ground of her tolera
ting slavery within her limits.
sth. The passage of any law by Congress prohib
iting slavery in any of the territories.
6th. The repeal of tho Fugitive Slave Law and
tho neglect or refusal by tho General Government to
enforce tho constitutional provisions for the recla
mation of fugitive slaves.
Resolved further, 6th. That in the opinion of this
Convention, the people in the recent elections have
been governed by an abiding confidence that tho
said adjustment measures of Congress would bo in
forced in good faith in every section of the land.
Resolved, further, 7th. That as the people of the
State of Mississippi, in tho opinion of this Conven
tion, desiro all further agitation of the slavery
question to cease, and have acted upon and decided
all tho foregoing questions, thereby making it tho
duty of this Convention to pass no acts; within tho
purview and spirit of tho law under which it was
called, this Convention deems it unnecessary to ro
fer to tho people for their approval or disapproval
at the ballot box, its action in the premises.
Resolved, Bth. That in tho opinion of this Con
vention, without intending to call in quostion the
motives of the members of the Legislature, tho
call of this convention by tho Legislature at its
lato extraordinary session, was unauthorized by tho
people, and that said aot, in peremtorily ordering a
convention of the people of the State with
out first submitting to them tho question
whether there should be a convention or no conven
tion, was an unwarranted assumption of power by
the Legislature, at war with the spirit of republican
institutions; an encroachment upon the rights) of
the people, and can never bo rightfully invoked as a
precedent.
Tho Mississippian, tho organ of tho ultra South
ern Rights party, in publishing tho resolutions, sig
nificantly romarks ; “It is hardly necessary to say
here, in dismissing tho subject, that thoy do not
meet the views of the State Rights party.”
Poit Offices. —The following new Post offi
ces have been established in Georgia :
Lalfing Gal, Cherokee county, Samuel Hunt
P. M.; Round Hill, Lumpkin co., Dennis Hide,
P. M.; Bay Creek, Laurens co., Michael Liv
ingston, P. M.; Camp Ground, Appling co.,
Benien Hall, P. M.; Piney Head, Appling co.,
Neil Wilkinson, P. M.; Hall Appling co., H.
J. Smith P. M.; Cobbsville Telfair co., Edward
J. McDuffie P. M. “ Havenders ," in Lumpkin
county and “ Warwick ,” in Dooly have been dis
continued.
James Hackney, charged with robbing the
mail,which he confessed on the steamer Atlanta
between Whitesburg and Guntersville, on the
Tennessee river, has been committed to jail in
Huntsville, Ala. About $2,500 in bank notes
and checks were found in his possession, he had
spent about S6O. He is a young man and was a
laborer on the boat.
Correspondence of the Chronicle <V Sentinel.
Washington, Dec. 5, 1861.
The Union newspaper of this morning, has taken
into fall communion with the so called National
Democracy, both the fire-eaters of the South, and
the abolitionists of the North, who follow the lead
of Giddings, Itantoul and company. Disunionists
ir both quarters of the country have agreed to agi
tate the slavery question ad libitum, as a political
right, and a geographical advantage. Major Jack
son and Preston King, Sumner and Meade, Cleve
land, of Connecticut, and Harris, of Alabama, are
the loaders of the new coalition between free-soilers
and seceders. Some of your readers would be
shocked at the cordiality that subsists among the
opponents of the Compromise who attack tho
measure, the one becauso it concedes too much to
the South, and the other becauso it concedes too
little. Fancy Giddings confidentially pledging all
the anti-slavery voters in Ohio, to stand by tho
most rabid agitators in South Carolina and Missis
sippi, to carry out the policy p of both sections ! If
these men have any feeling in common, it is one
of hostility to the Government as its framers organ
ized it. Extremes have mot and coalesced, not
to preserve, but to destroy tho existing confederacy.
I regard such a result as not improbable, unless the
conservative elements of tho whole United States
can be brought to bear against the progress of revo
lutionary notions and feelings. The malady is too
deep seated and wide-spread in the body-politic to
bo cured by any political quackery. The greatest
danger lies in the unwillingness of conservative
Democrats to unite with Whigs of similar views, and
form a National Union party, cutting off all Red
Republicans and agitators, whether in the slave
holding or non-slaveholding States. Radicalism
and freesoilism promise so much in future, that
such aspirants as Buchanan, Dallas, Douglass, Cass,
Marcy and Houston, throw cold water on every
proposition to form a Union party. Their policy is
fairly indicated by the doings of the recent caucus
which laid tho Compromise resolution of Mr.
Polk, on or under tho table. The truth doubtless
is, that the freesoilers and Southern Democrats who
oppose tho adjustment, constitute a clear majority
of the party, and of course rule its destiny. All
cling to the name “Democrat” as a passport to
popular favor, place and power.
Giddings makes an ostentatious parade of his
free Democracy ; and Mr. Seward is a ‘ Democrat
ic Whig.” All factions of every shade of opinion,
and from every quarter of the Union, which seek
office, agree in assailing tho President. No othors,
however, are so bitter and vindictive as tho aboli
tion Whigs. What is to be the upshot of the wholo
matter, time alone can disclose. Little will be
done till after New Year's frollic is over. Perhaps
Mr. Foote may obtain a decisive vote on his Com
promise resolution, which substantially is the same
as tho one adopted in the Whig caucus, and re
jected in the Democratic caucus. It will be acted
on next week, and may foim the nueclous of a Na
tional Union party on the Georgia Platfoim. Three
fourths of the New York Wnigs sincerely desire
associations more congenial than such as they now
have. Unt 1 the Fugitive Slave Law is allowed to
stand without opposit ion, there can be no peace in
States where slavery agitation is systematically
pursued. So ftr as this operates against the Adminis
tration, even the Compromise Democrats encourage
it. The Union newspaper is greatly to blame for
not standmg by the settlement and its friends, in
good faith. In the end, when the whole Compro
mise account is settled, that pri vt will find that its
double dealmg on this vital question, has been a
losing game. The adjustment was never a party
measure ; and as nearly or quite half of the Whigs
were opposed to it, and fought the President in op
position to it. it was hardly fair in its friends to
join their political opponents in attacks of an execu
tive, who did so much, and patrioticly repudiated
all selfish and party considerations, to settle a dange
rous controversy. From tho enemies of tho Com
promise both North or South, tho Administration
expected hostility, but from its friends, it had a light
to suppos ethat a different course would bo pursued.
, L.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.]
Further per Steamer Pacific.
England.— The firms of Messrs. Vice, Pride &
Jones, and Hampden & Co., two houses in Liv
erpool engaged in the American trade, have
failed. The liabilities are large.
Franck. —The popular excitement continues,
and the leaders of the party of order, are charged
with having conspired against Louis Napoleon.
A Bill has also been introduced into the Assem
bly, which defines the duties of the President of
the Republic, and allows ten members to move
for his impeachment should he fail to perform
them or transcend their limits.
New-Orlf.ans, Dec. 7. 8.45 P. M.
There was no quotable change in the prices
of Cotton on Saturday, and 2000 bales were sold.
Pork had declined during the week one dollar.
Bacon two cents, and Whisky likewise two
cents—it being quoted at 18 cents per gallon.
New Orleans, Dec. S. 7.55 P. M.
The advices brought by the Pacific were re
ceived here about noon to-day, and gave an ac
tive impulse to our Cotton market, twelve thous
and bales having been sold. Prices closed firm
without a decided advance. Strict Middling
was quoted at 7fc. The receipts to-day were
18,490 bales, the largest this season. Whisky
has declined one cent, and 1400 ban els were sold
at from 17 to 17. J cents per gallon. Molasses
has declined, but is active, and 3000 barrels were
disposed of at 23c. for prime. Rio Coffee was
dull at Bto 8 & cents, and the stock was fully
90,000 bags.
The Steam Ship Winfield Scott, sailed, for N.
York this morning.
Columbia, Dec. 8, 9 P. M.
Legislative Proceedings. —The bill to repeal a
portion of the bill of 1850, which called the Con
vention, was discussed in the House of Repre
sentatives to-day, in Cummiltee of the Whole.—
The report was, however, unfavorable, and adop
ted by the House by a vote of 72 to 38.
The bill to re-charter the Bank of the State
was also discussed in Committee of the Whole,
and the debate was ultimately adjourned to one
o’clock to-morrow.
The House will positively adjourn sine die on
Tuesday, the 16th inst.
In the Senate, the North Eastern Railroad
Bill passed by a majority of three.
Columbia, Dec. 8, 8.15 P. M.
The advices by the Pacific had no other effect
on our market than to sustain the prices current
at the close of last week. The transactions of
the day comprised 280 bales at 61 to 8 cents.
False packing of Cotton.— We mentioned
some time since the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce and Commercial Association, and the
American Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool
had appointed Committees to draw up regulations
relative to the return of falsely packed Cotton.
We perceive from the advices brought by the
Humboldt, that the followiug rules in reference
thereto have been adopted.
1. That cotton returned as falsely or irreguvrly
packed be paid for at the price which the cotton
i fregularly packed would be worth on the day
on which it would be received back at Liverpool.
2. That no allowances for expenses to trans
mit beyond the limits of Great Britain be made
on returned cotton.
3. That all claims for falsely or irregularly pack
ed cotton be accompanied by the declaration of
the planter’s mark or certificate, where there is
any such mark, and, if required, the entire can
vass in which the cotton was packed to be re
turned.
A fourth proposal by the Liverpool Commit
tee, to reduce the time within which Cotton
could be returned as falsely packed from twelve
to six months, was rejected by the Manchester
deputation.
Later, from Havana. —By the arrival of the
brig R. B. Lawton, Capt. Gardner, at this port
on Sunday evening, we have advices from Ha
vana to the Ist inst.
There were but few American vessels in port
at the time R. B. L. left.
The crop of Sugar, it was believed, would be a
fair average one. Molasses was very scarce.
Judge Sharkey, who has been appointed Con
sul, vice Mr. Owen, removed, had not arrived at
Havana.
Mr. Thrasher had been sent to Spain on board
a transport, on the 26th ult.
The city was quiet and generally healthy.—
Savannah Republican , S th imt %
In JMflflitrtif frlrgmiil).
Virginia Election.
We are indebted to a friend for the following
returns of the recent election in Virginia for
Governor, &c., (the first ever given to the peo
ple,) at the Petersburg precinct:
Petersburg, Dec. 8.
The Democratic majority for Johnson (for
Governor) is 121; Leake, Dem. (Lieut. Gov.) 12n ;
Bocock, Dem. (Attorney General) 122; for the
House of Delegates, Thomas Wallace (Dem.)
has 126 majority over Robfc. B. Boling (Whig.)
Loss of the Steamer St. Matthews.
We regret to announce the total loss, probably,
of the steamer St. Matthews, of this place, on
Saturday night last, at the mouth of what is
known to sailors as the “Three Mile Cut, : ’ near
Darien. She got aground in passing the “Cut,"
and instead of floating off when the tide rose, she
sank, the water flowing over her deck--. She is
represented as lying badly, and as having been
very much strained. The clerk of the boat
writes that he fears she is a total loss. The pas
sengers and baggage were transferred to the
schooner Altamaha, Capt. Keen, which happened
to be nearby when the accident occurred. Capt.
Keen as well as Capt. Blankenship, of the Wela
ka, rendered every assistance in their power,
and the passengers, as will be seen by reference
to their card, express themselves as under many
obligations to them.
We learn that the freight had been stowed as
far forward as possible before the rising of the
tide, and that the crew were busy in getting it
off to the schooner, some three hundred yards dis
tant. It was hoped the cargo would be saved.—
The mail had been carried to Darien, and a fiat
was to have been sent down to take up the pas
sengers and baggage, with such freight as had
been saved, to the same place. The furniture
had also been saved. Captains Blankenship and
Keen suggested to the agent here the propriety
of sending down an hundred empty casks from
the city, with the view of attempting to float
the St. Matthews off.— Savannah Republican, Bth
inst. _
Girard and Mobile Road.— We are pleased
to be able to state that an arrangement has been
made by which the first twenty miles of this
great work will be commenced immediately and
completed the next year.—The in
work, grading and superstructure, on the route
from Girard to Chunnenuggee, have agreed to
concentrate their efforts and obligations on the
first twenty miles, commencing at once. This
is the right spirit and the right policy. The
way to do a thing, is to begin it.— Columbus
Times.
MARRIED,
In Eatonton. on the 28th ult., by the Rev. M. If. Heb
bard, Dr. Price S. Gaither, of Oxford, Ga., and Miss
Klizaheth Jarratt, of the former place.
On the 4th inst., by the Rev. S. G. Hambleton, Mr D-
A. Crawford and Miss Sarah E., daughter of Mr. Sam
uel McDow, all of Cass county, Georgia.
Special lloticcs.
Portrait Painting. —The undersigned begs
leave to call the attention of the public to his speci
mens of PORTRAITS, at Messrs. Clarke & Racket’s
Jewelry store. Also, at his rooms, over Mr. Vol
ger's Sigar store, next to J. P. Setzo corner, where
he will be found ready to execute all ordors con
nected with the above named art, to entire satisfac
tion. dec 10 dl2 «T J. MAIER.
Franklin Building and Loan A ssociation
—The Third Regular Meeting of this Association
will bo held at the City Hall, on WEDNESDAY,
EVENING next, at 7 o'clock. Members are re
quested to come prepared to pay their monthly in
stalments. The Treasurer will be at my office, at
the City Ilall, Monday and Tuesday evenings, (Bth
and 9th) from 7to 8 o’clock, to receive payments.
DAVID L. ROATH, Sec. F. B. L. A.
dec 7 Y s&w
H7* Ol'iice Clerk Inferior Court, lticUmoint,
County, Dec. 15, 1851. —Tho Justices of the Infe
rior Court of Richmond County, will, on Monday,
the lothinst, elect a keeper ‘of the Poor House
for said county. Applications will be received by
tho Clerk until the election,
dec 6 T DAVID L. ROATH, d. c. I. C,
EG?” Dr. VVni. S. Jones tenders his Professional
Services to the citizens of Augusta and vicinity
Ho may be found, when not professionally engaged
at the Office of the Chronicle & Sentinel, or
his residence on Greene Street, known as the Peck
House. d 6 • c&s
|TF“ Ten or Fifteen MASONS wanted. Apply
to d3-dtf c&s G. H. CRUMP. *
LAUD 01L. —300 gallons No. 1 Bleached; for
sale by (dec 6) WM. H. TUTT, Druggist.
D. B. PLUMB & CO.
ARE constantly receiving fresh and pure Medi
cines, Chemicals, Choieo Perfumery, Toilet
Articles &c., at their establishment between U.
S. Hotel and Post Officer corner. Medicines carefully
dispensed at all hours, by calling at Mr. Barnes,
corner Greene and Mclntosh streets. nov 23
° FOR THE LADIES^
Fine ENGLISH and Fronch Hair Brushes,
Best English Tooth Brushes,
Horn, Buffalo and Ivory Dressing Combs,
Shell, Buffalo and Ivory Fine Combs.
Just received by
nov 10 D. B. PLUMB & CO.
FOR THE SEASON.
PINK and Whito Clarified Gelatine, Extract
Lemon, Rose, Orange and Vanilla, Real Dis
tilled Rose, Peach and Orange-flower Waters. Corn
Starch, Arrow Root and Farina, for Puddings, AcJ
Just rccoived by D. B. PLUMB A CO.
nov 23
DR AVION—A Story of American Life; tw.-ale
at GEO. A. OATES & CO S.,
Joe 4 Broad street .
FISH.
JUST received by LAMBACK A COOPER,
Cod Fish in Boxes.
Mackerel No. 1, Whole, Half and Quarter Bbls.
Mackerel No. 2, Whole Bbls.
Mackerel No. 3, Whole Bbls,
Salmon No. 1, in Kits. decjl
CIDER. ~
Qpr IRON BOUND barrels Extra Champaign
AO Cider. Just received by
dec 6 f LAMBACK & COOPER.
LUMBER YARD.
THE SUBSCRIBER has established, nonr hD
residcnco at the lower part of Telfair street, a
LUMBER YARD, at which he wi 1 keep constant
ly a full assortment of Planks, Scantling, Fence
Posts, Ac., for salo on consign « &nt.
Consignments ofLumbor, as well as orders for the
same, will moot with prompt attention.
All the Lumbor nocossary for complete buildings
may bo had at short notico.
rep" Liberal advances mndo on consignments,
dec 3 Übnosll L. CHARLES DU GAS.
POMADE 1)K FAMRAIDES, ft superior pre
paration for beautifying tho Hair and prevent
ing it Horn falling out or turning grey. This is a
Fronoh article, highly prepared. For salo by
doo 9 PHILIP A. MOISE, Druggist. _
FOR SALE.
A FINE MILCH COW, and HE IF-
Ell CALF, of the Kerry stock,
from R. Pctorß, Atlanta. Apply to E. —a**"*
Parsons, Express Oflioo. dec 7
CHOICE FRUIT TREES.
WITH a view to oncourago a tnsto for By
fruit and habits of industry , I taught
my sons to bud and graft. They now offer for sale
a few thousand PEACH TREES of tho most choice
varieties.
Orders will bo promptly fillod at 26 cent*
each. JAMES L. COLEMAN,
doe 4 dAe ts