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&imtß anir Sentinel COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. * TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1853. FOR GOVERNOR: JHEHSCHEL V. JOHNSON, OF BALDWIN. FOR CONGRESS: Ist. DISTRICT JAMES L. SEWARD. lid. DISTRICT A. 11. COLQUITT. Illd. DISTRICT DAVID J. HAILEY. IVth. DISTRICT W U. W. DENT. E. IV. CHASTAIN. Misrepresentation Corrected—The - Southern Recorder and Journal & Messenger. In private life we have endeavored to be scrupu lously honest, in word and aet, and since our connection with the press we have adhered to tile same rule. We have misrepresented no man designedly, and if by ac cident we have been led into it, we have chosen the earliest opportunity of making reparation. We regret to announce that we have not had the same measure of justice extended to us. While this pitiful unfairness was confined to insignificant journals, published at the cross road villages of Georgia, wo have passed it by with the silent contempt which it merited ; but when leading papers stoop to the little work of republishing and endorsing these slanders, silence is no longer a virtue. W e find in the last Issue of the Southern Recorder the following paragraph : Those Abolition Afpointxents.— ,Wc have looked in vain for the Democratic press to give us their candid views in regard to President Pierce's abolition appointments. The Times it Sentinel enueavored to apologize tor hint, but made the matter worse, by saying that he could not appoint any other than Free Seilers, its there was no others to re ceive the honors, admitting then that the Northern demo cratic party was a free soil party—quite an admission. Would that all thereat of the Democratic press were as honest. This slander originated in the Atlanta Republican, wo believe, was republished in the Savannah Repub lican, and now appears for the third time iu the Mil ledgeviile Recorder. There is not one word of truth in the paragraph. We never have apologised for the appointment of free sellers or abolitionists ; we never have admitted that there were none others to receive honors at the North ; and the charge that we have ac knowledged that the Northern Democratic party was a free soil party, is as false as it is ridiculous. Instead of apologising for Pierce's abolition ap pointments, wo have invariably admitted that the charge, if true, was a valid objection. In our weekly issue of the 19th July, we used the following language: II this charge bo well founded, it constitutes a valid ob jection to the Administration in the mouths of .Southern Rights men, though it would lie only a political clap-trap when used by Messrs. Toombs and Jenkins, who not only gave Fillmore’s admini.-tratton a cordial support, but advo cated the election oi Webster to the Presidency, both of whom were free boilers. And in respect to important offices, instead of apolo gising for free toil appointments, wo have indignantly denied the slander that the President had conferred them upon tree sobers. In our weekly issue of the sth July, we used this language : He (Pierce) has but one man in his cabinet (McClelland) who was over charged with free soilwn ; and McClelland voted tor the Compromise measures, and thereby placed himself abreast with Mr. Webster, for whom Charles J. Jenkins would have voted if he had net died, and with whom h:n name was associated as candidate lor Vice-Pre sment—not only with his consent, but with the approbation ol Robert I oombs. Again, there is not that we know of a single, free soiler in the list of Foreign ministers ; Soule, norland, Buchanan, Jackson, of Georgia, Seibels, of Ala bama, Walker—such are the men who have been chosen by the 1 resident to represent this country at Foreign courts, overv one of whom has given irrefrugible evidence of Ins hostility to tree soilism, and of bis devotion to the consti tutional rights ol the South. 111 respect to local appointments, wc used the follow ing language, in the same issue : In the distribution of local offices at the North, it is fre quently impossible to avoid giving them to tree toilers In many localities, the whole population arc or lather were iree toilers. The only recourse left to the President in ap- lor such places is to iiive office to free soiler*. 01 leave them vacant. It is well known at the South that every state at the North, except one. instructed its represen tatives jo Congress to vote for the Wilinot Proviso, it is equal Jy well known that every prominent Whig north of the I otomae is or was a free soiler, and that the very few politicians who escaped the contagion belonged to the dem ocratic party. No administration therefore can exist in this country for a day which refuses to give some offices to tree sellers. No Whig government can get along without giving more than one-half of its offices to this despicable 1 action. Look at Fillmore’s administration— the beau-ideal j ot the Conservative party—an administration which receiv ed the cordial support of the Conservative party of Gcor- ■ gia, and was zealously supported by Messrs, Toombs and ‘ oteptiens. claims ior the Presidency received a i very earnest advocacy at their hands. Who tilled the chief offices m his cabinet ? Free soiters. Who tilled ali or nearly i 11, his offices at the North ? Free soilers. \Vj u > wero the representatives of his government at Foreign emms! Free soilers. Now compare his appointments with those ot Mr. Pierce. I liis last extract is the foundation upon which these reckless partisans base their charge, that we have ‘‘apologised for the appointment of free soilers to of. lice,” confessed that “there were no other than free soilers at the North to receive tile honors,” and that “tho Northern democratic party was a free soil pony.” The above extracts will show that we have utterly repudiated the appointment of free soilers to office—that we expressly state that ail the higher offices have been conferred upon sound men, who have given irrefrtu-'ihle evidence of hostility to free soilism, and that all North ern men who laid escaped the contagion of free soilism were members of the democratic party ; and in re- Bpeot to local appointments we have simply stated a fact which every body knows to be true, to wit, that in many localities, the whole population are or rather were free soilers, and that it was impossible to avoid giving linh petty offices in such localities to persons who had be longed to this despicable faction. We therefore demand that the Milledgevilio Record er and Savannah Republican retract the slander to which they have given currency, as honest journalists who have character and respect the character of their opponents j as to the Atlanta Republican , with whom this slander originated, wc ask no quarter from it, as a paper that is low enough to originate a libel has not magnanimity enough to retract it. Our quarrel with the Journal J- Messenger is not so serious, as we are sure its misrepresentation origin ates in misconception. The Jot,: ,al $ Messenger says: We have permitted the Times H Sentinel to pass unno ticed, when some time since it eulogized the Hon. \ 1 tied Iverson as the champion oi Internal Improvement in Geor gia, and as the great and powerful friend of out State Road though the record of the Legislature of 1843 exhibit* his hostility to that great work, and though the whole hi-torv °* Load, from 1836 to the time of it* completion c tarnishes the fact that Charles J, Jenkins, a, the loader of the whig party of Georgia, more than any other individual in the btate, is entitled to the credit of its inception and com pletion. We permitted this statement of the Times Sen tinel to pass unnoticed, because Mr. Iverson was not t candidate before the people, and because we charitably sup posed that our contemporary was not familiar with tile po litical history ot men and parties in Georgia, We have never “eulogised the lion. Alfred Iver son as the great mid powerful friend of onr State Road,” nor otherwise alluded to him in connection with Inter nal Improvements, exoept in reference to the noble en terprises in which Columbus is engaged ; in all of which he take's the most lively interest, and to which he ren deis the most efficient aid, not only by his eloquence but by his means and personal assistance in buildim* them. Wo ask no “charitable suppositions” in our favor from the Journal <j- Messenger, though we are under the necessity of extending them to that journal in this instance, as wo might otherwise infer that it had vol untarily misstated our position lor the purpose of stab bing a prominent member of the democratic party, whose commanding talents overshadowed some of its “ political friends, W ill the Journal Messenger be good enough in its next issue to correct its mistake, as next to dis honesty, we dread the reproaeh of ignorance, and have spent many more years than the editor of that paper, in an honest endeavor to rise above both, though wo may not have been so successful—in his own opinion. “We will hereafter advert to the other points of difter cnee between us and tho Journal cj- Messenger. Our space is exhausted. Ma. Bowen, editor of the North American j Review, has been rejected as Professor of History in Harvard College, lie is a Conservative—of the school of Nicholas of Russia and the Ilottse of Hapsbitrg. Independent National Union Party Organiza tion. The New York Journal of Commerce publishes a circu lar purporting to lie a call of the Union n nos Massachu setts tor a State Union Convention, to be. held at Newbury port, on the sth of September next, “to take into considera tion the ways and means, then and there to be presented, lor the total abandonment of all existing parties, and the organization, under entire ne'e issues and measures, of an Independent State and National Union Party, upon a broad, deep and lasting foundation.” The circular says : This new party will be devoted to the cause of Nation al Union. It will be pledged to uphold the Constitution, the Union and the Laws, ami to stand by our country and Na tional Government, long alter all other parties cease to have an existence. Under its State organization it will withhold its support in all future State and National elections from every ele ment of disunion, and from all candidates lor office not pledged to carry out the principles, policy and measures of this new party. We also unite in a call for a National Union Party Con vention, in the city of Washington, on the 22d of February next, to be fully represented by the Union men of all parties and by the American people irom every Congressional Dis trict, btate and Territory of the American Union. in the belie! that the present organization of political parties under their antiquated issues, policy and measures, tends to separate the Government from the people, and endanger the Union, Liberty and Independence of the American people, we urgently recommend an immediate abandonment oi all existing parties, and a simultaneous ac tion of the Union men of Massachusetts with those of the South and great West, under entire new measures, in which all can consistently and harmoniously unite in advancing the great National interests of the American Union. Among the distinguished politicians who have been invi ted, and who are expected to be present, are Hon. Robert Toombs and Hon. A. H. Stephens. We find the above paragraph in our exchanges. It is the response of Massachusetts to the call of Toombs and the Conservative Party of Georgia, and is but a continuation of the movement which placed Webster. and Jenkins in nomination for President and Vice President in opposition to Scout and Graham. W a hail it as an omen (it good—a bow of promise upon the dark and threatening cloud of Whig Aboli tionism which lias so long lowered upon the Northern horizon. It is very true that the Whig Party is ut terly crushed, its principles condemned and repudiated, its leaders dispirited, divided and driven from power, its cohorts disbanded 5 that the very name it bore has become a by.word and hissing through the land ; that it is impossible to resuscitate it ; that the great body of the party at the North is hopelessly committed to Free-soilism and Abolitionism 5 that no Southern party could live for a day which affiliated with them, and that a re-organization upon other principles, under other and another name, is an absolute necessity, and that we have no confidence in the men, North or South, who now propose to generate the new party—yet we are re joiced to see the effort to do so, and hail it as a harbin ger of peace, and as the highest evidence of the puri ty of the present administration. We claim that tho Southern movement is the prime cause of this attempt at the formation of a new party among the Whigs. We taught the North that the pillars of the Union could he shaken—that their tyranny, usurpations and fanaticism could drive the ►South out ot it—that their unjust gains could be ta ken from them—we forced the national Democracy to adopt our principles and incorporate them into the party platform we repudiated their time-serving politicians, and took from the granite hills of New Hampshire a rather obscure man, and elevated him to the Presidency, f-ok ly because he was true to the Constitution and the South. By our chosen chief we excluded from our party every man who would not adopt the party faith ami thereby give pledges of hi< fidelity to the Constitu tion and the South—we elevated such men as Davis and Cushing and Soule to office, and put the ship on tiie old Republican tack—we carried the country with us — Wc trampled Whiggery and Whigs, Abolition and Abolitionists, Free Soil and Free Soilers in the dust, ami wen- thus insured of a certain, safe and permanent 1 victory, unless our old enemies abandoned their piinoi- : pies and followed in our wake. They are now striving I to do so; we bid them God speed, and holdout our i hands to help them, and hope the same success will at- j tend their efforts which has crowned ours. Os course the new party will be composed of Whigs—of Free Soil | Whigs—of Abolition Whigs—of Union Whigs—but if each faction will recant its errors, adopt the Dem ocratic faith on the subject of slavery, and honestly strive, by a strict adherence to the Constitution, and a proper respect for tho rights of the South, t;* perpetuate the Union, we will hail the new organization as worthy competitors for public confidence and national honors. I here is, however, one view of this new movement which must not he lost sight of by our readers- The now party will be composed mainly of Federalists and Whigs; and though by the terms of the contract of | organization the subject of slavery may be made forbid den ground, it cannot be disguised that they will apply their latit'idinarian views of construction to all questions of policy which may hereafter arise, and thereby con tinue, as they have heretofore done, to concentrate power in the Federal Government, and weaken the in fluence and deny the rights of the States. Tlw-re is also another view worthy of some consider ation. Ihe great mass, North, ol which this new party will be composed, are, or were, Free Soilers. Os course Not them Democrats who are sound upon the slavery question cannot be won from tln ir allegiance to a Presi dent w ho lias spent a long life in opposing Abolitionists, ami Free Soilers, and every other faction which put the L’uion in peril. The recruits for this new party, con sequently, must be taken from the Whig ranks, all of whom, at the North, were Free Soilers. Now, the Southern branch ol the new party has sworn eternal hostility to these disturbers of the public peace ever since L’ ill.unite went out of office, and make it tile chiet ground oi their opposition to Mr. Pierce’s ad minisirat.on that he gives them some few crumbs from the public crib, though lie assures us that no mar. has received any, even the smallest office, who has not en dorsed tlie party platform and Ins own inimitable inau gnrai. lo be consistent, therefore, they ought to re fuse all affiliation with Northern Whigs, even though t!; ey endorsed the platform lately erected at Milledge r;!ie. “ Once a free Boiler always a Free Boiler,” stems to be their motto with respect tu Pierce , and it is a bad rule that will not work both ways. Will our Conservative ootemporaries explain upon what confession ot faith they propose to admit Free Soilers into their communion ? The Anti-Liquor Law. Ihe Grand Jury ot Lumpkin county has present ed tlie retail truffle as “a fruitful source of profligacy and crime ot tile darkest dye, among both the white and black population and states tinii twenty eases of misdemeanor came before the body, and that ail es them had their origin in the use of liquor. They de mand a vote upon the question ot license Irotn the next Legislature. First Congressional District. Mr. Bartow has accepted the nomination of the Conservative par y for Congress. In his letter of ac ceptance he acknowledges himselt a Free Trader, and gives in his adhesion lo tile “ Republican Citizens ” party. Chatham County Nomination. W e understand that I he Committee of thirty gentlemen, whose duty it was made to select a Democratic Ticket to be supported tor the next Legislature fr, in Chatham county, have made choice of Hen. John \Y. Ander son, for the Senate, and John K. Ward, Esq. and G. P. Harrison, for Representatives. Tins is a most ad mirable ticket, combining in a high degree both ability and popularity!— Courier. Marion County Mia.) Nominations. For Senate, Tiuddeus Oliver. For House of Representatives, M. L. Bivins. Delicious Peaches. We arc indebted to Mr. William Mealing for a quantity of delicious peaches. They were of the Pace or Colombian variety, and for size aud flavor are hardly surpassed by Moses’ best. O’ Messrs. Willcox & Carter have placed on our table the “ Happy Morning Waltz,” a favorite air, well known in this community. It is composed bv Mr. A. V elatj, arranged for the Piano Forte by Mr. U. Rets, both of this city, and published by Messrs. Willcox & Carter. O’ Judge Wm. Holt lias been nominated for ro eleetion to the Judgeship of the Middle Circuit. E. B. Gresham has been nominated for Senator, and J. A. Shewmakr and Dr. T. 11. Parsons for Repre sentatives, by the Conservatives of Burke County. O’ Grn. Quitman attended a Banquet at the Astor House given in his honor by tlie New York Volunteers. Alabama Election. CONGRESS. Abercrombie, Independent, is elected in the Second District by above 1,000 majority over Clop ton, Demo crat. Lockwood, Whig, is reported to be elected over Phillips, Democrat, in the First District, though there is still some room for doubt, as Marengo is not heard from, and the reported majority of 550 for Lockwood, in Butler County, is believed to be incorrect. Harris, Democratic nominee, is re elected in the Third District over Smith, Southern Rights, by a large majority. ; Dowdell, Demoeiatic nominee, is elected in the Sev enth over Garrett, Independent Democrat, by a large majority ft is reported that he carried Benton by 1,500 majority. The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Districts are not yet heard from. In Greene County, Ilale, Whig, got 692 votes; Moore, Deni., 663; Smith, Deni,, 219. There is but little doubt that Democrats will be returned from each of them. LEGISLATURE. Chambers County.— Senate, —McLemore, Whig, li:0 ; Gilmer, Dem , 925. House. —Robertson, Whig, 1245; Todd, Whig, 1021 ; Ilill, Whig, 1075 ; Griffin, Dem., SBB ; Jeter, Dem., ‘ 81 ; Carlisle, Dem., 722. Tallapoosa County.— Senate.— Kimball, Whig, 1280; Gresham, Dem., 3111. House. —Gibson, Whig, 1305; Holly, Whig, 1179: Gil lam, Whig, 1296 ; Peddy. Dem., 1091 ; Bulger, Dem.. 1092 ; Johnson, Dem., 94’ . Greene County.— Senate. —Webb, Whig, 896, Huckabee 134, Hunt 493. House. —Benners 921, Inge 576, Coleman 694, Hawks 222. Russell County.— Senate. Baker, Whig, is elected. House , —Calhoun and Nelms, both Whigs, are elected. Barbour County. Senate. —Peterson, Southern Rights W big, elected over Buford, do., by a small ma jority. House. —Cochran. S. R. Dem., Comer and McCall, S. R. W higs, are elected. llenky County.— Senate. —Searcy, Whig, is elected j over McAllister, Deni. House. —The Whig ticket is elected. Benton County.—Martin, Whig, is elected to the Senate. Coosa County.—Powell, Dem., is elected to the Senate. Dallas County.— Senate. —Norris, Whig, 665 ; Blake, Dem , 594. Blake got a majority in Wilcox,! and is elected. House. —Hatcher, Whig, 745 ; Phillips, Whig, G 81; Cleveland, Dem., 543 ; Gayle, Dem., 338, Keene, 314. Lowndes County.— Crenshaw, Dem., is elected to the Senate, and Cook, Dem , and Webb, Whig, to the House. Macon County.—Clanton, Whig, is elected to the Senate, and Abercrombie and Rutherford, Whigs, to the House. Mobile.—Botha, Dem., is elected to the Senate, and j Walker, Owen, Meek and Bell, all Denis., to the House. | Pike County —liobdy, Dem., is elected to the Sen ate, and Mcßi)do, Dorn., and Horne, Whig, to the House. Montgomery County. — Watts is elected to the Sen ate, and Reiser and Judge to tin- House, ail Whigs. GOVERNOR. Winston, Democratic nominee, will carry the State by a large majority. Ilis opponents were Earnest, Whig, Walker, Whig, and Nix, Union Democrat and Maine Law man. Girard Kail Road Meeting. At a meeting held in this city on Saturday evening, 30th nit., to take into consideration the propriety of an additional subscription by the city to the Girard Rail Road, his Honor Alex. J. Robison, Mayor pro tem was called to the chair, and Tennent Lomax, Esq., re quested to act as Secretary. Maj. Robt. S. Hardaway, the President of the Gi rard Rail Road, m a few pertinent remarks explained the objects of the meeting, the condition and necessi ties of the Road, and the probable cost of its comple tion to Union Springs, and concluded by demanding an additional subscription of one hundred and fifty thou sand dollars by the city of C Jumbus. Hon. Alfred Iverson followed in a very luminous speech, in which he gave a history of the Girard Rail Road, the great importance of the work to the pros perity ot the city and to the country generally, the certainty that it will b<* a profitable road, and that the city could not lose a dollar by the subscription, and concluded by offering the following RESOLUTIONS: Resolved, That the Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus be and are hereby instructed to subscribe for ’ LSOO shares in the capital stock of the Girard Rail Road Company, to he paid in the bonds of said city, running to maturity at such times as may be designated by said Mayor and Council. That said bonds shall bear seven per cent, interest, payable halt yearly. That the principal and inter est may be made payable at any place within the United States, the Girard Railroad Company paying the difference in exchange between Columbus and the place where pay able. | Resolved, That the said bonds shall be delivered to the I said Company on or before the first day of January next, and that upon the delivery thereof the said Girard Rail Road Company shall issue to said city a certificate of stocu according to tlie charter of said Company. Resolved-, That the amount subscribed by the City of Columbus in pursuance hereof, shall be expended on the Girard Rail Road from the City of Columbus to Union Springs, and the said Mayor and Council, upon the delivery ol said bonds, shall require ol said Company its bond, that the money arising from said subscription shall be thus applied. Ihe resolutions were opposed by T M. Hogan. Esq. Upon the call for the vote upon the resolutions, the meeting very unanimously adopted them—there were but three votes in the negative. The triumph of the friends of the Road was com plete. Judging of the feeling of tlie community bv the vote of the meeting, there is but one voice here, and I that is in favor of the subscription. ALEX. J. ROBISON, Chairman. j T. Lomax, Secretary. Prospects ot the Girard Hail-Road. At the late Rail-Road meeting in this city, much. ! valuable information was elicited in respect to the Girard Rail-Road. We take great pleasure in laying as much ot it Ik lore our readers this morning as we were able to collect. The company has sufficient means to finish tlie Road from Girard to Colbert, a distance of twenty-two aud a half miles, and has on hand an engine and five cars, all paid for: no debts have been contracted except for work on the Road, and the funds are in hand to meet all liabilities heretofore incurred. So far all is safe ; and it is understood that the cars will ran over this per tiou of the road sometime during the next season. The estimated cost of the road from Colbert to Union Springs a distance of 30 miles is 8420,000 The amount subscribed on that por tion of the line in grading, &c., that can be relied on is SIOO,OOO Contractors will take in stock, 116,000 Additional subscription of the city of Columbus, almost certain, 150,000 Leaving a balance of $54,000 j which the President is certain he can procure on the i line and elsewhere. With the additional subscription j therefore of one hundred aud fifty thousand dollars, I the completion of the road to Union Springs is a fixed j fact. It is, however, apparent that, without this addi- i tional aid from the city of 150,000 dollars, the road from Colbert to Union Springs will drag heavily, and the city of Montgomery be encouraged to build a road 1 to that point, thereby crippling our resources and divid- 1 ing the traae of that noble region with us. Mobile has confirmed her subscription of one million i of dollars, and thereby ensured the completion of that i end of the road to Greenville, -provided she is assured 1 that the balance of the road can be finished in three years. The gap, therefore, between Greenville and Union Springs of 5S miles is the only link wanting to com plete this great enterprise. This part of the road is in : a worse condition than any other part of the work; | but simply because no efforts have been made to pro cure means for this purpose—at least public attention lias been mainly directed to the two ends of the road, and the Directors have given most of their time to * them; assured, as they were, that if the work was all I oompletcd bat this little gap of 58 mites, that the great I interests that lay beyond in either direction would spee dily finish it. We fully agree with the Board in the view they have taken. But something has been done even here. Forty-two thousand one hundred dollars have been subscribed by enterprising farmers on this part of the line, and we are confident that this sub scription will be doubled when the necessity of action is pressed home upon them. The citizens of New Or leans have already subscribed one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. The President has also the strongest ; assurances that at a proper time this subscription will be increased by the addition of three hundred thousand dollars, either by the city of New Orleans or the citi zens. This will leave a very small balance, considering tiie magnitude of the work and the vital interests in volved, for the city of Savannah, the Central, South western and Muscogee Rail-Roads to raise to finish the Road. That this is a great and profitable enterprise there can be no question. It penetrates as rich a country as can be found in the South, and by the completion of the road from New Orleans to Mobile, which is now certain, the Girard road will be an important link in the great line of steam communication between New York and New Orleans, and the very shortest now in process of construction. This will make it one of the very best and most profitable roads in the United States, and thus gives the most certain guarantee that all money invested in it will be but a loan of credit for a short time. The following tables have been furnished us by Mr. George S. Runey, the very efficient engineer of the road, and may be relied upon implicitly, as he is not only a well informed but very cautious man. We hope our citizens will give them a careful perusal. Estimated cost of Road to Mobile, including the Rolling stock of the road, depots, side tracks, &e. $1,021,000 Total amount of subscription, 2,795,000 Amount required to finish the road, $1,229,000 estimates of annual receipts. 50,000 through passengers, at $7. $350,000 20,000 way passengers, at $3 50, 70,000 Mail 50,000 125,000 bales of cotton, 187,000 Merchandise and Groceries, 175,000 Lumber and miscellaneous products, 20,000 Gross Receipts, $852,000 40 percent, for expenses on receipts, .. $340,800 Net profits,... $511,200 Equal to 124 percent, on the capital stock. Estimated cost of road to Union Springs, $728,000 ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RECEIPTS. 60,000 bales ol cotton, 30,000 Groceries and merchandise, 50,000 20 passengers each way daiiv, 21.000 Mail, 6,000 ! Gross Receipts, $107,000 J 40 per cent, lor expenses on receipts, 43,160 Net receipts $63,840 Equal to over 11 per cent, on the capital stock. Estimated co.-t of road from Colbert to Union Springs, (30 miles,) $420,000 Amount subscribed on the line that can be re lied upon in grading, &c. &c 100,000 $320,000 Amount that contractors will take in stock, 110,000 , $204,000 ! If Columbus will subscribe 150,000 The balance of $54,000 will be obtained by new subscription on the line and elsewhere.. $54,000 ££r The Tl rd Auditor of the Treasury, it is ru- j mured, will receive an invitation to vacate at au early day. He was appointed as a Taylor man, supported Pierce, and was expected to be retained, but is likely to be brought up with a round turn for favoring the elec tion of Jenkins, the ‘‘conservative” Democratic candi date for Governor of Georgia—Mr. J. being consider ed to occupy a position Inimical to the Administration. Larceny.—A man named S. J. Crumps alias Thomp son has been committed to appear at Coart on a charge of larceny. He hired a horse and buggy from D. A. Garrett to come from Girard to Columbus, and made tracks for the Florida line. Arkansas U. S . Senator. —The Little Rock True Democrat announces that Governor Conway has ap pointed Robert W. Johnson, (late member of Congress,) U. S. Senator, in place of Solon Borland, who has ac cepted the appointment of Minister to Central America. O’ Professor Silliman, Sr., of the Chemistry and Geology in Yale College, and Dr. Eli Jones, Professor of the Theory and practice of Physic in the same in stitution, have tendered their resignations. They give way to younger men. Kentucky Elections.— Louisville, August 1. —An election was held in this State to-day for members of Congress and the State Legislature. Mr. Preston, W big candidate for Congress, had 800 majority over English, Democrat, at noon, and is certainly elected in the district. The death of Hon. Thomas P. Moore, formerly mem ber of Congress from Kentucky, and Minister to Co lumbia during President Jackson’s administration, by paralysis, is announced in the Harrodsburg Ploughboy, Kentucky. He died on the 21s, ultimo. Tlie Augusta Constitutionalist, of 2d inst. says : The lion, lleury R. Jackson, our Charge d’Ailairs lo Austria, arrived in this city last evening from Athens. He leaves this morning, and will take the inland route, and after spending a few days in Washington City, will leave in a steamer trom New York lor Liverpool. The Maine Law Democrats in Maine, ’are about to nominate a candidate for Governor in opposition to Mr. Pillsbury, the regular nominee ot tlie party, but an oppo nent of the liquor iaw. O* At the commencement of the New York Co- j lumbia College on Wednesday, the degree of D. D. was conferred on the Rev. Thomas T. Davis, the Pro testant Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina, Florida. —The University of North Carolina has conferred the honorary degree of LL. D. upon Judge j Walker Anderson, late chief Justice of Florida, and now Navy Agent at Pensaeola. I O’ The President lias appointed Walter Fearn. Esq., of Mobile, Alabama, as the U. S. Minister to tlie Court of Brussels.— Ala. Journal. O’ Win. Cummins, the runaway apprentice, has been remanded back from Philadelphia to his master in Delaware, under the fugitive act. Louisiana.—Fourth Congressional District .—The democracy ot this district recently met in convention at Alexandria, and nominated Judge Rowland Jones for Congress. (KT The Com missioners for Maine have agreed to j purchase all the Massachusetts lands in Maine for 8362,500. Do” Louis Napoleon is said to be indignant at the continued favor shown at the Court of Queen Victoria to the ex-royal family of France. What will lie say when he learns that the Duke and Duchess o(*Ne- Mot’Rs and children are gone to spend the summer with Prince Albert’s brother at Saxe-Coburg! OO” Queen Christina, of Spain, is in Paris, en route for Havre, but her real object is said to be to marry one of her daughters, by Munoz, to Prince Je- ROME Napoleon, heir presumptive to the French Em pire. The New York Express says : One of the most important items of news obtained from California by the Northern Light, is the fact that coal of the best quality is found at Puget’s Sound, iyitig near the water, and a wharf built at a small expeusd will enable vessels to load from the mouth of the pit. This will give the Pacific steamers what they have long wanted, and save the enormous expenseof transporting coal from Wales at S2O per ton, which is now the cost of laying down coal in Sjau Francisco. The coal from Puget’s’ Sound is said to be equal to Welsh coal. Specimens are to be sent to the Crystal Palace for exhibition. News from the Mountains —The Griffin Jeffersonian says : We are authorised by the most reliable sources, to put down tho 4th Congressional District at 1,500 mnjo. rity for “Johnson and Dent,” the Democratic candidates. Up? ’ The farm of the late Henry Clay is adverti sed in the Lexington Observer for’sale. It contains three hundred and thirty acres of the best land in Fayette county, Ky. f FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] 1 can recall no period in the political history of tho coun try, when duty, honor, and self-interest so imperatively commanded the people of Georgia to sustain a Federal Ad ministration, as tne present, and to none does the appeal come so strongly as to that class known as the Union men of 1850-51. Corning into the administration on the very top of the tenth wave of a powerful reaction in the popular mind, from the ardent and perilous struggle which had just passed, Gen. Pierce is emphatically tiie representative of that spirit of national conservatism which rose up to rebuke and combat the abolition fanaticism that had well nigh di vided as enemies the confederated States of the South and the North. Having had no persona! instrumentality in the finming and adoption of the Comoromise—-he found the Compromise made—the law of the land—and on it he planted himself, as a finality, to be carried out in good faith, of the fanatical crusade against the rights of property and rights of sovereignty of the Southern States. The pledges he assumed he has faithfully redeemed, and all the antece dents of his history, full of eventful connection with it. show that on the slave question, and on the States’ Rights question, he is to be trusted, if not before any public man who has yet risen in the North,certainly before any North ern man who has yet filled the Presidential office.’ Gen. Pierce stands in clear and bold outline as tne lead er of that party in the nation which stands opposed to Abo litionism in all its manifold shapes and forms. His Hag dies the mottoes, “ a cessation of agitation—let the South alone to manage her own institutions—the rendition of fu gitive -slaves a clear, positive and imperative duty, com manded by the Constitution, enjoined bv considerations of policy, and required by the comity and amity of fraternal States. He makes no distinction but one between those who favored and those who opposed the Compromise— and that is against Free-Soilers who have not accepted tiie law of the Compromise as the end of agitation. I ask, then, every honest and intelligent citizen of Georgia whose eye may rest on these lines, why should this administration be opposed ? What is there in its sentiments or its princi ples, the past, the present, or the probable future of its chief, to cause one good man at the South to desire its rebuke or its downfall > Nothing. It is a Union, and yet a States’ Rights administration ; it is a Republican, a Conservative, and a Constitutional Administration ; it is an anti-fanatic Administration, and in reference to foreign relations, it is essentially an American Administration.’ A powerful ele ment in its strength, for us of the South, is that with these Southern political traits it has as its head a Northern man supported by a great Northern party—Me entire Northern party who do not sympathise with Abolitionism. 1 ask again, why pull down l what good can be accomplished by opposing such an Administration ? And yet, sir, impossible as it is to give one candid and good reason for it, there is now in process of organization anew pai ty in Georgia, lor the very purpose of opposing this Administration. It is attempted to construct this party out ot the debris of the Whig partv formally disbanded at the late Gubernatorial Convention at Miiledgeville. The \ v ebsier Whigs took the lead in this formation, and almost without consulting the majority of their fellows, from whom they recently bolted in a time of crisis; they have oxer turned all the altars of Whig worship of a quarter of a cen tury, and oil Democratic and Administration principles , .aid the foundation of a party of pure, personal and factious opposition to a Democratic Administration. The whole scheme is a fraud on the Whigs, on the Dem ocrats, and on the country. It is based upon a system of fraudulent pretenses—its corner stones are hypocrisy and deceit, and its direct object, the continuation of the personal power and aggrandizement of the few great leaders who hatched the scheme. The men who nominated Charles J. Jenkins for Gov ernor have acknowledged that the Whig party in Georgia is a dead failure—they have been forced to fall down and worship the Democratic faith, by adopting into their plat form tnose wholesome fundamental Democratic doctrines which they have been fighting against tor twenty years, and now, with these acknowledgments of past errors on their lips, and all unatoned for, they have the coolness to ask tne people to place them in power to carry out Dem ocratic principles, and over the heads of men who have al ways professed them, and borne them aloft and in triumph, against ail the efforts of th Jenkinses, the Toombses and Stephenses of Whiggery. Where is the sense of this de mand . It Democratic principles are the true ones for this | Government and country, Democratic men arc the men to be trusted with their safe keeping and application, and riot t.ieir Ine-long enemies; and Md-srs. Jenkins and Ste phens and Toombs, instead of aspiring to lead, should come, hat in hand, begging pardon for their gross and ob stinate blindness to political truths they have just discovered, and humbly follow those who have so long illustrated and followed the true faith. Let the truth be borne in mind, then, that the election of Mr. Jenkins as Governor of Georgia will declare no senti ment, and settle no principle of the slightest importance to the people ol Georgia, that will not ho equally declared by the election of Judge Johnson, his Democratic opponent; and will amount solely to a rebuke by Georgia of Gen Tierce's Administration. That is what is designed, and that is what the effect will be. Mr. Chappell clearly euw through and exposed the movement when lie declared that tins new party without a name was destined to be an oppo sition party to the Administration. I kuow Mr. Jenkins well and have known him long, and there is not one among the ‘‘Republican citizens ” who nominated him that has a higher respect for his personal character than I have. But were he ten times a greater and puroi man, 1 should not dream of giving him my vote at the expense of the National Administration, so intimately connected with the peace and happiness of the whole coun try. And we ol the South may rely upon it, that if we do not stand by and honestly support such administrations as we now have, we shall never again have the aid of North ern Democratic votes in getting them. When the South tails to support a government true to the constitution and just to its institutions, the triumph of her abolition enemies !* “Sfured, ami the Government itself will relap.-.> into the nanda or Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's sympathizers and followers. ’ {,• [FOR the times and SENTINEL.j No. 2. I have said that the end arid aim of the party organiza- j tion lately attempted by the Webster Whigs at Milledge ville, at the head of which they have placed Mr. Jenkins, I was the creation of an anti-administration party. In the plat- I form they laid down, and in its exposition by Mr. Toombs in hid late speech in this city, but one ground of objection 13 urged against the administration. Indeed, Mr. Toombs emphatically proclaimed his adhesion (ami conversion, I may add,) to the known political principles of the President, lie was only afraid they would not be carried out in prac tice, and he wanted to form a purer party than the demo cratic party, to maintain its own principles. The Jenkb: i nominating Convention expressed the same distrust of the wnig party that it did of die democratic party, and express ed the opinion that it. “had been faithless to its oil repeated pledges,” &,c. But tlie point of objection insinuated, rather than made against the administration, is set forth in their third resolu tion ; Which, alter re-affirming the doctrine's of the report and resolutions ot tlie Georgia Convention of 1850, goes on to say, “that we consider the rights of the Southern States ” m great and imminent danger, and the principles .if tho | ([ Georgia Convention greatly jeoparded by any political 1 party, whatever may he its mime., which recognizes aba- I ‘htionists and free sailers us worthy of public honors and I public, emoluments .” This resolution, sir, was framed and adopted to strike at this administration, by men who elected Gen. Taylor, sup ported Fillmore, and have just come out of an abortive at tempt to make 1.). Webster President. Now I affirm, and cun prove, thatthero was not an appointment made by Pre sident Fillmore North of the Potomac, that was not a greater wrong to the principles now declared, and a greater insult to the foouth, than any Gen . Pierce has made, from the li onbmner ranks. Dix himselt, about whom the greatest outcry is made, was a mild tree soiler, in comparison with i). Webster, who had the full confidence of Toombs & Cos., and on whose ticket Jenkins occupied the place of Vice rrertdential candidate. 1 beg the reader to indulge with me a little in historical reminiscence, to obtain light on the subject. Who are tlie Barnburners ! Down to the Presidential campaign of 1818 they were good and true democrats with whom the democ racy ot the South were proud to associate. They went for I exits annexation ; they went lor the extension of slavery over I ex as ; they went for the Mexican war, and they sup’- ! ported all the doetrmesiof the great democratic party of the country.*. 1“ 1848, there was a split, and the crime of ” a, ’ n burners, what did it consist in ? Why, if I Mr. V. ebster lie good auth, - ,it consisted simply in their ! having Stolen the obnoxious uoctrinc of the Wiimot provi irom the whjgs ! and as *OOll as they committed the ! melt, the IV Hunkers separated from them, and the 1 Bam burners joined Seward and Greeley and Fillmore and I Wood, and all the allies of Whigsery, Aorth and South. ! I I consequence was the defeat of Gen. Cass. But Jet i . r - . \. e! hster give his own account of this matter—bearino- j m mind, tnat when he made this speech, denouncing Dix i aud other A. \ . democrats for stealing whig thunder, he ! was Air. r lit more’s Secretary of State. “Down to the period ol the annexation of Texas, all the democratic party followed the party doctrines, and went lor the annexation, slavery extension and all. The opposi tion of this measure proceeded in the first instance solely 1 front the wings. I say, the whigs alone, tor it is notori- ‘ ous that nobody else, either in the East, West. North or ‘ South, raised a finger against it. If such an effort was ! made, it was so inconsiderable that it attracted no no- i lice till, by the efforts of the whigs, the people were roused 1 to a sense of their danger, and a feeiiag of opposition to 1 the extension oi slave power. Then, and not. till then, the barnburners seized uvon this branch of whig doc - ‘ trine and attached it to their policy, merely to give them ; a certain predominancy over their rivals. ‘‘Originally, therefore, the Barnburners had no more to I do with the doctrine ot free soil than with the question of masonry or anti-masonry. They only adopted it to secure ! an advantage over the Hunkers. But, having appropriated ! tins just sentiment, though still retaining all the rest of the i thirty-rime articles ol the Locofoco creed, they now call I upon the whigs of Massachusetts to enlist under them ! I I had almost said to be subsidized by them, only to give them the ascendency in New-York politics! For one li propose to do no such thing. Ido not like the service ’ j ‘I repeat, that this Buffalo platform, this collect of the 1 Barnburners, contains no new thing tnat is good • it has I nothing new which the whigs of the Middle and North ern states might not adapt. But it is going too far for that I party to as.c the whigs ol Massachusetts to carry that mat- I ter into their State election. j “Wo well know, gentlemen, that the Buffalo platform \ contains nothing m relation to this matter which does not meet the approbation, and the. unqualified approbation, of the whigs of the Northern States .” Here wo have the proof, then, that the Northern whin party were the inventors of the free soil doctrine J Q I Adams war on the 21st rule, and the Fillmore Erie letter’ captained the germ of the creed. Indeed, at a later day ,h ir ; ,u 00m i b ” of 9 n i’ ! n , H P ub| ished letter, has declared that the whig party had become “thoroughly sbglitipnized andsecttonalized. But Mr. Toombs and his friends stood by, ami supported tins party for ten years after this had hap- Now, let us further follow the Barnburner history. Their quarrel w ith the national democratic party was maintained for nearly four years ; and during all that time, they were, regarded as schismatics, placed by their non-conformity to its conservative principles on the slavery question, beyond the pale ot the democratic party. I am sure, reader, you ™ neve J L? ai ? °* a Northern whig exeoramunie&tea on account ot his free soil principles. At the beginning of the late Presidential campaign, this sclnsm was healed, and Hunkers and Barnburners (with tbw exceptions) met at Baltimore* and nominated Gen Pierce on a platform eminently conservative, and which even Mr’ roombs approves. No Barnburner could adopt that pi at r?kantf tlon ° { i! he cu!iar .tenet* of Bufih p * 3* d *; C are j alave nghts of the South under the Constitution j end re-.affmns, in kac vtrba, the great Btate Rights landmarks of the Kentucky and Virginia resolu tions. Tiie Barnburners as a party, then, have repudiated their Buffalo heresies, and those Editors and individuals who have not done so, are not considered as maintaining the re united national democracy, and none of them hare re ceived office at the hands of President Pierce. More than that, the President has publicly declared through his official paper, the Union, that none such will meet the countenance or favor of the government ; and that if he has, through inadvertence, made a mistake in this respect, lie stands pledged to correct it, whenever it can tie shown that lie has appointed such an one. What then, 1 ask, becomes of the petty insinuation against the administration contained in the 3d resolution of the Jenkins Convention, quoted above l It is a flash in the pan—and leaves tho Jenkins opposition party without a pretext or a murmur of just discontent, to cover its naked ness, as a purely personal, selfish, and factious opposition. And with these facts staring tiie people of Georgia in the face, how do Messrs. Toombs, Jenkins &. Cos. dare to reproach any administration with free soil and abolition af finities ? They are themselves just reeking from the mere tricious political embraces of J'illmorc and Webster and their party, who have never, like the Barnburners, recanted their errors. They have never,in their lives, supported any administration that was not, iu the very language of their own resolution, “imminently dangerous to the rights of ihe Southern States, because it recognized abolitionists and free soilers as worthy of public honors and public emolu ments.” And the reason that they never have, is because they have always supported whig and never democratic administrations. At last, these gentlemen have discovered their error and confess that the whig party is “abolitionized and how do they seek to repair the error ? Not by joining the democratic party, which has always maintained its in tegrity, although at the expense of defeat, but by trying to puH down that party to the level of ruin, to which false principle and bad men have brought the whig party. No, gentlemen. You have overtasked your strength—you can not pull down the. great democratic party that has endured and triumphed for half a century, on a plea so miserably (also as this. The democratic party never has supported a free soil administration and never will. We have had our family troubles with this disturbing question as you have. But we have settled them, without surrendering to them, j We have conquered our schismatics and brought them j back so reason and the law of our party’s integrity. The democratic party has never been “abolitionfaed,” as you confess yours has. We have not followed tnb baneful ex ample set ns by our whig neighbors, of supporting Webster and Fillmore administrations, and vainly attempting to whitewash them before the people of the South. And, if we had, we are sure we never could have imitated that transparent hypocrisy, which is now so distressed at the mote that is in a brother’s eye, while their own were filled with beams of appalling magnitude. F. Northern Testimony. —The Cincinnati (Ohio) Enqiiu, rer, referring to the charge so freely but falsely made, that President Pierce lias apppointed Freesoilers to office, says : Even if it were true,-they are the last ones who are en titled to interpose any objection, as they have always hugged and embraced that faction, and they certainly should not regret the appointment of their own friends 1 But the charge is false. There is not a single appointee of the President who is not willing to adhere to the com pr.anise adjustment, who is not now as good a Union man as tile best whig editor south of Mason and Dixon’s line, and the most of them are a great deal sounder upon the | slavery question. Union of Whitaker’s “Southern Magazine” with “The Southern Eclectic.” We are grot tied to be able to announce the union ot those two valuable monthlies, which has been for some tint,. past matter of negotiation. The woik will herafterbe conducted under the joint edi torial direction ofD. K. Whitaker, Esq., and Pro lessor J. H. Fitten. Both these gentlemen are emi nently qualified by their talents, education and ex perience to conduct such a cork with success and reputation. Mr. Whitaker has long been cotinec- j ted with periodical Literature of the South. He is a ripe scholar and a fine writer, ilis able man- j ngement of the •■Southern Quarterly Review,” a work which he projected and conducted with signal ability for some years—has settled the question of his entire fitness for such an enterprise. To those who are acquainted with Professor Fit ten—his connection with the Oglethorpe University —the laurels he won there, and the tine taste he has invariably exhibited in the conduct of the“Eelectic,” it is unnecessary to say a word by way of recoin- j mending him lu popular favor. The united work will commence its career on the j Ist of next September, with a large subscription list, i and with every prospect of a wide spread and per- j manent popularity. It will retain the name of the j “Southern Eclectic,” embracing selections from the j best, journals of Great Britain, and the Continent of i Europe, anu original contributions from the pens of j gifted Southern writers Those who may have received three numbers of I Mr. Whitaker “Southern Magazine,” published by j Messrs. Johnson & Cavis, of Columbia, S. C., will, I we are informed, be supplied wiih the entire num t byrs ot the “Southern Eclectic” for one year in con sideration of the interruption that occurred in the progress of the former work, so that those subscri bers will receive twelve numbers, for their year’s i subscription, m addition to the three published ai j Columbia. The editors would respectfully request newspa- j pers throughout Georgia and South Carolina, in I Charlotte N.,C. Columbia and Nashville, Tennessee, | n and Montgomery and Huntsville (Ala) to publish j this announcement by way of information. * Southern Eclectic.— We have been favored with the 6th number of the Southern Eclectic , published by •1. 11. Fitien, Augusta, Get rgia. This number concludes th first volume of this publication. The services of Mr. ■ iitaker ol tin* Southern Magazine have been secured to this work and we hope it may receive the patronage it justly merits. Below are the contents of the present num ber : Ancient Ballad Poetry ; Writings of Chesterfield ; Epitaphs, Inscriptions, &c. ; De Quincey ; Alison’s His tory of Europe ; Roland Trevor ; The ‘English Humo rists of the Eighteenth Century • American Authorship • Onjthe Lessons in Proverbs; The Preacher and the King • A Word Upon Wigs : llvshi Yt Okatula : A Mathe matical Story ,• Love and Literature; Rousseau; The 1 >uchcss of Kingston : The Duel of D’ Lsterre.anu Dan - iel O’Connell : The Eastern Question and European Al liance ; Foreign Correspondence. Ihe W estern Mails.-— The irregularity and uncer tainly which attend the receipt of the mails from points .vest ol Columbus, render this branch of the service a source ol perfect annoyance to us. It is no uncommon thing of late, to receive our Montgomery, Mobile, and A'ew Orleans exchanges two days after they are due, and we not unfrequeutly find Western news items published in the Augusta and Charleston papers twenty “four hours in advance ot us. V* e think this circumstance establish es the fact that the fault of which we complain does not occur with the publishers or the post-masters in those cities, for we have no doubt our exchanges are mailed regularly with those ol our Augusta and Charleston co~ | temporaries V* by, then, do we not receive them as reg ularly and as early ? We suspect that the difficulty ex ists on the Montgomery and West Point Railroad. The mails for this chy should be for ward ed t via Columbus, and the trains should be run on the Montgomery and VV T est Point Railroad, so that the stage from Opelika can con** nect at Columbus with the train on the Muscogee Rail* road that leaves there .at 8 A. M. If this was done we should receive our Western papers regularly and in time, by the morning train of cars. We receive them sometimes in the morning and sometimes in the evening, alwas behind time, which we think proves either that our maiis are carelessly forwarded via Atlanta, or are detain ed at Opel ka from similar carelessness, or the want of a proper and regular connexion between Opelika and Co lumbus. From whatever cause, however, these irregu larities occur, we call attention to the fact that our mail facilities trom the W est are not only as* urce of annoyance but a nuisance oi which we are quite tired, and hope that parties concerned may adopt measures to remove tlie diffi ultics of which we now justly complain. For the benefit of this city’, in this behalf, it will be a matter ot rejoicing to all when the Girard and Mobile Railroad is finished, so that we may have our mail facili ties without interruption.— Sav. Rep . Editorial Convention.— What do our friends of Uie Press in Georgia sa v to a meeting of the Editors of the State, in this city, during the ap ; proaching State Fair in October. The occa sion will be a very attractive one, and we have J no doubt that many members of the Press will jbe in attendance. The time is favorable, and I necessity for a Convention of this ’char | ucter almost imperative. The failure in Macon, I la st Spring, is no argument against a second at j tempt to effect a meeting of the fraternity. Breth- I ren of tlle Press, let us hear from you,’ and let the response be favorable. We can promise you a hearty welcome on the part of the “craft” in this city, and open house at the “Editor’s ! i ent.” —Georgia Home Gazette. The Girard Rail Road Loanfffhi votiim yesterday was pretty general, and conducted with great equanimity. The few dissentients— ior very few they were, as compared to the numbers of ballots; had scarcely an argument to l omiu lG * r exceptions on, save the exploded lear of involving posterity. The vote stood— yeas 4Jf>, hays ir&.—ftfobile Register. I ho mas Meagher, Esq., member of Parliament irom YV aterford, Ireland, accompanied by the lady of his son, Thomas Francis Meagher Esq., arrived at N. Y. by tlie Arctic, to meet her hus band, who had been anxiously waiting their ar rival. They are occupying apartments at the Metropolitan Hotel. J LATER FROM EUROPE. ARItI VA I, OK Tlt K STSA MK R WASHINGTON. Baltimore, August 4. TliefU. S. mail steamship Washington has arrived at New York from Bremen via Cowes. She brings dates from England to the 20th ult. The British mail steam ship Niagara arrived at Liverpool on Sunday the 17th ult., and the F. S. mail steamship Baltic, on Tuesday the 19th ult. Tim l.ivKßPool. Maikets. —The demand for Cotton has been active, but there lias been no change in prices. The market on the 19th ult., was firm and 12,000 ‘bales changed hands—making a total for the three days of 30,- 000 bales, of which speculators took 3,000, and exporters 6000 bales. State of Trade. — Trade in Manchester has slightly improved. The French Funds on the I9th ult., experienced a de cline. The Turkish Question. —ln the Britisli House ot’ j lands on tile 18th ult., Lord Clarendon stated that n answer in emire conformity with the note published by the French Government, had been returned by the Em glish Government to the last Diplomatic note of Count Nesselrode. Eastern affairs are regarded in Paris and London as more pacific. Propositions for a compromise | reached St. Petersburg on the 9th of.July, and the Rus j sian Cabinet evinced a disposition to negotiate. It was believed that a reply would have reached Loudon on the ■22d ult. Advices from Constantinople to the 9th ult., state that military preparations are still being made, and that orders have been issued to admit tho French and English fleets at any moment into the Dardanelles. A conspiracy against the Sultan lias been discovered, and fifteen of the leaders were executed. The object of the conspirators was to depose the Sultan, and place his brother on the throne, and then to declare instant war against Russia. A dispatch from Constantinople says that England, France and German), had agreed upon tiie basis of au arrange ment which is to be proposed to Turkey and Russia. The headquarters of the Russian army had been estab lished at Bucharest, the capital of Waltachia, and the | entrepot for the Commerce of Austria and Turkey.— it is said that 80,000 men were encamped in its envi i rous. Advices from Vienna to the 16th ult., stato that large bodies of troops wore still marching South, and that seventy-two guns of heavy calibre arrived at .Tassy on the 9th of July. Exportation of Corn Irom Naples has been prohibi ted. The Smyrna Difficulty. —Advices from Smyrna state that the American and Austrian ships of war had determined to fight, aud had cleared for action, when j the British and French Consuls interfered, and Costa i was delivered to the French Consul for safe custody until the matter should be arranged at Constantino ple. Affairs in China. —The advices from China are to the 11th of May. Tile insurgents had raised the banner of Christianity, and had translated and extensively cir culated the Bible, which had created immense excite ment and seemed likely to lead to the total destruction of the Tartar race. They also had possession of Nan* i kln . ’hioh is represented to be in ruins, and the whole ! riistric-t in a state of anarchy. They were preparing to ! march upon Pekin as soon as they received their expec- I ted reinforcements front the South. Tho Commander of the Britisli steamer Hermes I had returned from his expedition to the seat of the re \ hellion, where he had been for the purpose of explaining the neutral position of foreign powers. He states that the insurgents had adopted the Protestant form of wor i ship. Kentucky Elections. Baltimore, August 3. I.inn Boyd and ,T. C. Breckcnridge, Democrats, and I’ressly Ewing, Leander M. Cox, George B. Hodge, and William Preston, Whigs, have certainly been elected to Congress from Kentucky, showing a Whig gain of two. The second, fourth, fifth and sixth Dis ; tricts are yet to be heard from. The Missouri Elections. Baltimore, August 3. Claiborne F. Jackson, Democrat, and a bitter politi cal adversary of Mr. Benton, has been elected to Con gress Irom the third District, and Samuel D. Caruthers, , from th,J seventh District of Missouri. Edward Bates, Whig, bus been elected Judge of the Land Court. Arrival of the Empire Oity at New York. rp, IT _ Baltimore, August 3. ihe U. S. mail steam ship Empire City, has arrived at New-York from Havana, but has been detained at Quarantine on account of the yellow fever prevailing at that port. Another Fatal Railroad Accident. Baltimore, August 3. the train ot oars on the Belvidere and Delaware Railroad was thrown oft’ the track near Lambertsviile, on Tuesday evening, and ten persons were killed and fifteen wounded. Now York Markets. Baltimore, August 3. in the New York market, on Wednesday, Cotton was quiet, and 850 bales changed hands. 300 tierces of Rico were disposed of, at $4 37 1-2 per 100 lbs. New Orleans Cotton Market. New Orleans, July 31. The sales ol Cotton for the week are barely 2,800 bales. On Friday the sales were 1100 bales. The for the week are 900 bales, and the stock on hand 25,000 bales. Middling is quoted at 10 1-4 cents. The produce market is unsettled by the rising of the upper rivers. The bark Saranac, and tho ship William P. Hill, have arrived. Charleston Cotton Market- Charleston, Aug. 2. Our Cotton market was quite active to-day, the sales reaching 1,300 bales,at lie. Prices are unchanged. The Yellow Fever in New Orleans. New Orleans, July 31. The deaths in this city for the past 24 hours amount to 154, including 120 by Yellow Fever. New Orleans, Aug. 1. The total number of deaths in New Orleans during the forty-eight hours ending at sundown on Monday evening, was 290—263 were caused by yellow fever. Later from Havana-Arrival of the Black Warrior at Mobile. New Orleans, Aug. 1. Tho steamship Black Warrior, Capt. Shufeidt ar rived at Mobile on Sunday, from New York, via Ha vana. Her advices from the latter port are to the 29th ult. The Sugar market in Havana was quiet ■ ships were scarce and freights had advanced. Coffee was worth from 8 1 4 to 9 1-2 rials. Health of Commodore Newton, he. New Orleans, Aug. 1. Commodore John T. Newton, Commander of the Home Squadron of the United States, is not dead, as has been reported, though he is still sick, and has’re moved his flag to the U. S. steamer Vixen, now at Pensacola. The U. S. frigate Columbus sailed from Pensacola on Saturday, for San Juan, having the Hon. Solon Borland, U. S. Minister to Central America, on board. Departure of General Gadsden for Mexico. New Orleans, Aug. I. The steamer Texas sailed from New Orleans for Vera Cruz on Monday, having Gen. Gadsden, U. S. Minister to. Mexico, on board. Fatal Duel at Charleston. Charleston, Aug. 2. A duel was fought near this city, this morning at 6 o'clock, between John Donovant of Chester, and J. Davidson Lcgarc of Charleston. The latter was killed at the first fire.