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£ From tbe Georgia Jeffersonian 3 Cottar from Hon. JoiL Laris. Pacific Railroad—His Speeches, dslicered at Philadelphia and New York. Fayettvihi, Gi., Oct. 14, 1853. Major Cline : Dear Sir— During tbe political canvass which has just closed, it became my duty, at tho request of my political friends, to oppose in po litical debate the Hon. Robert, Toombs. Mr. Toombs, in his speech, denounced Jefferson Davis as a disunioniit sitting in the councils of tbe nation, and also mado a great noise about Mr. Davis’ late speech in Philadelphia, and made him and the cabinet of President Pierce responsible for the idea of building the Paine Railroad with money taken from the Treas ury of the United States—thereby abandoning all their previous notions and public pledges of opposition to schemes of intern?.! improvement, organized by the General Government. Tho above mentioned part of Mr. Toomb’s speech, in my opinion, did more to set bis hear ers against the Democratic party, than all the rest that ho said. 1 defended Mr. Davis and the cabinet, and roundly denied the charges above named. But they were made and affirmed in BO serioas and positive a manner, that I knew anything I might say would be overbalanced, in the minds of many, bv the unqualified char gas of one upon whom Georgia has bestowed her senatorial robes. Believing the charges named to be an un kind and uncalled for attack upon the Execu tive officers of our country, 1 thought it to be more than my duty to address Mr. Davis and inform him, ia substance, of what [ have here written. Also stating to him that I would glad ly seizs upon any honorablo means to place him and the cabinet in their proper position before the people of Georgia. I hoped for an answer before the closo of the canvass, but it came on Thursday before tbe election, too late to correct the errors that brought it into existence. I have read tbe fob lowing letter to several wise and experienced Democrats, and they advise its publication. — And now, as the din of political warfare has subsided—as the batttlo has been fought and most gloriously won—as the banner of De moeracy has again proudly and triumphantly passed through a heated contest without any trailing# in the dust, bnt with victory inscribed upon her folds—without any other desire than to do what is right and to show the people of Georgia what the enemies of Democracy will do “to tace themselves.’’ I send you this with the letter of Mr. Davie, subject to your discre tion, as to whether it shall be given to the public •raoh Yary respectfully, yours, V. A. GAS KILL Washington, D. C., ) September 21st, 1853. j Y. A. Gaskill, Esq,, B.b Your letter of the 20th ult., arrived hero during my absence, and ill health has •ombined with constant occupation thus far, to delay tny reply. Beloro procecdiug to notice tho political ques tions to which yon call my attention, I will dig pose of tbe personal accusation which you in form tue, Mr. Toombs has made against me.— you cay be denounced yon as a Disunionist sit ting in the councils of the aation.” During the controversy of 1850, ia relation to the rights of the South, and the duties of the General Gov eminent, iu the Territories acquired from .Mex ico, aiy attention was called, in debate, to the feet that, in certain newspapers I had been char ged with a desire to dissolve the Union. Be lieving it to he the work of base men who coir cealed themselves behind the instruments they employed, I then said before tho Senate, if any gentleman make the charge I will answer him in monosyllables. It was well understood that answer would not he less harsh than, ii is false. Such is my answer now. In that long and exciting controversy, my opiuiona were freely expressed. They aro spread on the volumes of Congressional debates aud them f refer to disprove all allegations made •gainst my fealty io our constitutional Union. Subsequently (1851,) when engaged in a can vass ill Mississippi, whilst I declared the opinion *hat a State, as a sovereign and equal member of the Union, had aright to withdraw from tho confederation, I also spoke of it as tho last rem edy—the final resort ; ono to which, under ex isting circumstances, Mississippi should not ap peal ami such was tho position of those with whom I acted : ns is shoe, n by the resolutions of the convention which nominaled the State ticket of 1851. Though l have been made somewhat familiar with the excesses of partizan conflict, 1 am not a little surprised at this accusation, because of the source from which it comes. Asa member of Congress, nod by personal intercourse, Mr. Toombt has had full opportunity to know that the accusation is false, and 1 am sure that a com parison of the position taken by Mr. Toombs and myself, will show that my most ardent lan guage never reached the extreme to which he went, both before and long after the measures, oommonly called the Compromise of 1850, had’ been presented, and the principles and const! tutional rights involved had been fully dis eassed. !■ conelnaion of this matter I will oulr say that, I cannot very highly appreciate the moral •cntiaaent of a man who is prone to belive— raady to assume, that one who desires to destroy th* Union would be willing to hold a plaeu in ita aouncils, and swear to support its constitu tion ; and he, who makes such charge against *>®. does so gratuitously and thereby assures uie that he is radically false and corrupt. I send yon printed copies of the speeches 1 made at Philadelphia and Now York which you can compare with the representations which, yoa informed me, hare been mis of my re marks in relation to a Railroad to the Pacific Ocean. You will not fail to observo that, the only point on which I claimed to express the iews of the President was, an assurance of strict regard for State right*. In relation to the construction of a Railroad my remarks are di reefed to the first question, that is the constitu tional power of the General Government. The power of the Government, under certain condi tions, is held to extend to the construction of a Railroad within the limits of Territories belong ing to the United States. He, who denies this, must alto deny tha power to construct wagon roads, for which appropriations were mado by the last Congress for the territories of Minesou, Oregon and Washington,— and with the dis borsemant of which, ! am now charged. He mast deny the jurisdiction which has” been so long exercised over the Territories bv tho Gen eral Government; and finally find himself on the tame platform with the sect, which arrayed tha aovereignty of tha Territorial inhabitants •e * barrier to federal legislation for the pro-’ teetion of a tlava holder’a property, who should migrate from a Southern State, one of the joint owner* of that TVrriforv tr fmwnr.,.. r a “ IV, WUC Ul uiejomi owners of that Territory, to become an inhabi tant ofit. Within tho limita of the States, (ho attioa of the federal Government is restricted ao that it eoald not exceed the aid which might be given to a private company, and that I have ■eld, ao other oeeaaiona, was limited to the interest it tha work which the Government had M a laadod proprietor. Th# rule on which Con gress ha* made grants of contiguous land, and the right of way in aid of the construction of foaas. Bej*nd th* question of powor, ire the questions of practicability and expedienev.— The practicability will be more intelligibly'dis oossed, when the surveys, directed to'bo made by the late Congress, have been completed. They are now in progress, and I have not at tpmpted to foretell their results. The expediency is to be considered iu con nection with all the political, physical, and ad ministrative questions which enter into it. The mode of execution, the lastte be decided, is tbs first it seems to be presented for objections ; and I am held responsible for a [jarticuly:. plan of proceeding, when I had proposed inffie, when, from the dependence of tho plan means of exe cution upon the location of the route, I had not considered it posible to decide on the best mode of proceeding, until after the route had been lo cated. Then, and not till then can any one es timate the extent of road, how much, if any, will have to be constructed within the limits of United States Territory, the cost per mile, and the means which can be made available for tbe construction. Very respectfully, Your ob’l. servant, Jeff. Davis. [From the Mobile Tribuuo.l A Homily. We suspect that if a wise man were set to se lect what he considered the most important vir tue in society, he would choose that which is called economy—a very modest virtue, if it be admitted as a virtue at all by some people—nay, a great many people—for it is come to be im agined extensively that economy and meanness are convertible terms. Not so, however, to ono who sees any con siderable number of inches beyond Iris nose. Submit the matter to this test: Gather up all the persons who stand well in any community— take Mobile—and see who are now the most comfortable, the most respected, the most influential. Then, in another, parallel, col umn [rut down all ('rose who are otherwise. Go a little farther, and find of the former, who began life orr nothing like visible capital, had not a sou—got married and bought tbe bouselrould bed arid the consequent cradle on credit. Then take tbe other column arrd see, of those whose names are within it, how many began life on better terms with fortune—started, ns it were, in the life-ireat of fifty miles for thereabouts —some ten or twenty, nay, forty miles tbe start—and see where, after the race has been run, nay, before a fractional part of it has been run, how many have fallen away far behind. Examine, then, into the cause and fee if this may not be written down—that each lagard lacked thrift and industry—tbe (wo inseparable —and to this lack, end no other lack percepti ble, is the cause to be traced. Go, then, farther—keeping still on this track —and count how many clever young men, fit for any pursuit—capable of filling any post in life, have sunk down—been lost hero for evermore to themselves, and friends, and the common wealth, from a total lack of this economy and thrift. The resuftfwill be surprising, and if the obser ver do not forever respect economy and feel in dignant when some thoughtless person shall call it meanness, we will abandon ail hope in , this life of attaining to the character of a wizard. We say that economy is the best virtue a young man carr start in this life with. The lus eiouß [roach grows from tho soil and the unseen elements in the atmosphere : Ihe rose blooms on a dung heap; and thus economy, though but generally little prized and quite unhandsome, is the source of all the best virtues which spring ■ up in the source of all the (rest virtues which spring up in the social field. In itself it may be homely, ns the soil is, bnt its products are as beautiful as tire rose- and luscious as the peach. Let then this principle become a household god —to be worshipped with as much reverence as things tercstriul deserve. We need much now, and shall presently, per haps, need more, of this sort of admonition—for the world is prosperous, and in the bright [ires ent we make pictures of the future which will allure us from self-denial into those ‘‘primrose paths,” where self-indulgence is 60 seductive and so ruinous. To the young mechanic, or tho young clerk, or tlie young lawyer, we say this—let this word economy be written at the bead of thy bed, where, as thou relirest at night weary, thou mayst see it; and where, in the morning, when thou risest refreshed, it may stand out a moni tion and a text for tho day’s doings. Young man give heed to this, if among thy dreams of the future be place, and comfort and respect— if thou hast a horror of dependence, discomfort, the shifts which ruin souls, and tile death which is painful both to men and angels. With this grave—perhaps, iu some sort, som nolent—preface, vve copy the following from the Boston Transcript: “The most fashionable cravats are sold at five dollars. The fall style of velvet vests rane from $lO to 8*22 each. Most of the desirable pat terns of the best quality have been already taken at prices above 820. “In tho matter of vest buttons, there is great extravagance. We hear of sales of single setts at “Upwards of a hundred dollars, and the jew elers on Washington street have elegant styles at prices ranging from 810 to S2O a button, or from SOO to $l2O a set of six. At the latter price a superb set, with diamond centres, can be obtained. “The finest shirts in Faueuil Hall cost sl2 each, and a small fortune is required for a ‘fash ionable suit’ of gentlemen’s clothes.” sec how these gilded baits are held out shaken, as Circe shakes her ambrosial curls, in the young man’s face. Shun this temptation. Let not the example of Mr. Young Sopht, who is starting with a few thousand dollars, be to thee, who hast nothing but thy hard-earned wages, a snare in this matter of twelve dollar shirts, or twenty dollar vests. Work in liosey- j woolsey, if it bo necessary to save thoa from | pecuniary crampings; or in plain, sound cloth, 1 if thou canst afford it—but shun, as if were aj pestilence, that youthful Sopht. By this, thou inayest presently attain to one-horso respecta bility, nay, even to that consummation of all worldly good, four-horso respectability, and when by economy thou readiest that haven, per haps to Mr. Sopht—then reduced to the class i loafer and become plain Sosl —thou mayst ho an aid nnd comfort, when ho,is shiftless and Iron- < serless, and has not where-withal to purchase t*i.it daily essential, a loai ol bread. The sneers o( the tribe Sopht despise, and it will be well with the. Thy household—thy wife and little ones may call thee blessed, when the outgoing I generation of Soplits will not find in any man respects enough to provoke a kick—a” thin* that even a dog is sometimes worthy of. Outrage by the fighting Men.—l' ho gang of fighting men and rowdies who attended the prize fight between Sullivan and Morrissey, com mitted a gross outrage at Boston Corners. It appears the express train does not stop there, and because the conductor refused to land them a number attacked a breakrnan, threw himdown and held him, while others detached the loco- motive and train. The train was under great headway at the time, and tho engineer did not discover the loss until away from the train. The greatest excite existed among the traveller pas sengers, who were fearful that the “fighters” might do them some personal injury. They all got off, however, and went to the spot selected tor the sickening exhibition; but the passengers going west failed to make the necessary con nections, and were detained a whole day*. 1 he Now papers state that Sullivan the prize fighter, was received in town on Thursday morn ing more in style of a Roman conqueror, than that of a common “bruiser,’’ a common law breaker. Morissey is awfully dlisfiguted, and so is Sullivan, lor that matter. Ihoie is some quar relling about the result of the fight, but it is said Suliivari has the money.— Sav„ News. ®untg autr Smlitut. COLUMBUS, GEORGIaT TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 25, 1853. ; The Business o t our City. By a continuance of the public spirit and enterprise of our citizens, Columbaß bids fair to realize tbe hopes of the most sanguine. Since the completion of our Railroad, anew impetus is given to every department of trade. More cotton will come to tie this season, than ever heretofore. Our buyer*, by the rapid facilities for transportation, are enabled to give the highest prices. Our merchants receive tho heviest goods per Railroad via Savannah. We are dependant no longer upon the high water of the river* but day by day hundreds of baits of cotton are sent off, and goods received. We are thus enabled to pay tho highest prices and sell at the cheapest rates and very reasonably—for goods are not now forced to remain in the ware house at Apa lachicola to accumulate storage, and commission, and in surance bills ; nor cotton and other produce to lay by the|n.onth in our own ware houses. Our city is full of life and activity. One day last week, 1000 bales of cotton were brought to market; our streets are crowd ed with wagons. It is truly interesting to take a look towards the end of Randolph street, vast most of cotton bales, and goods loading and unloading ; the arrival .and departure of trains ; the Animation and zeal manifested every where and by every body, gives a fair prognostic for our future. It is in our power to extend these advantages. Tbe completion of the Girard 6nd Mobbile Rood ; the con nection with Eufflula, and the Opalika branch will pour into our laps a load of wealth. We were tardy in mak ing the start—let us profit by our brief experience, and redeem the past by opening every avenue to power and progress. Tbe Strength o i the Administration in Georgia. It is amusing to witness the contortions of our de feated opponents under the result of the recent elections in this State. It has been suddenly discovered by some w ise heads that the triumph of the friends of the Ad ministration in Georgia, is after all, a most signal de feat •, and one of the opposition presses —wc need not specially designate it—very eapiently calculates that a few more demonstrations will slaughter the Administra tion outright. Very well gentlemen, if you are satis fied with the result wo are, and we promise you in ad vance, if you never carry off any more of our banners than you did in your late splendid victory, we shall never have any very grievous complaints to make. We have elected our Governor, six out of eight members to Congress, and carried both branches of tho Legisla ture. These are our spoils ; where are yours ? But iti s said that President Pierce carried the State by 18000 majority Inst November, and that his friends ’ have only gained the day by sis or eight hundred now, showing a decline in his strength of over 17000 in less than one year. Indeed ! Will our friends who crow so loudly, tell us how much Gen. Pierce’s rote exceed ed that which has just been given for Mr. Johnson the Administration candidate for Governor. So far from ” there being a falling off from tho Adminstration, there ‘ are not two dozen counties in the State in wnich the 1 Democratic vote i* not larger in the recent election 1 than it was last November. We have not the returns by us, but it will be seen from the final summing up, 1 that Mr. Johnson’s vote is larger by several thousand than was Gen. Pleree’6. This is tho “growing unpopu -1 Inrity” of the Administration in Georgia. To reverse 1 the* calculations of onr sanguine opponents, al the same ratio of increasing unpopularity, it would not be many ’ years, before there would be but one party in Georgia, and that the unterrified Democracy. But is said that the rote which Mr. Jenkins receiv ed is no test of the strength of the Whig party in 1 Georgia. We nave no doubt this ia true. Mr. Jen kins is the strongest Whig in the State. His fitness for the office, so far as his personal qualifications are concerned, was never questioned. lie ran well• better indeed than any other man of his party would have done. He embodied, too, all ot’ strength that there was in tho Whig party, and superadded to it, all the charms of Conservatism, and a few of the odd attractions of Constitutional Unionism. It is doubtful whether a corporals guard of Whigs could be found in Georgia, who did not support him, and he was sustained by thousands who would scorn to call themselves Whigs. No, gentlemen ; dont niak© r yonrse]ves ridiculous in your defeat. Your misfortunes entitle you to the com miseration of a magnanimous foe ; do not. wo beseech you turn our pity into ridicule. You are beaten. Ac knowledge the corn, and thank your stars that the 6 0 ngaiffst you arc not 6000 as would have been the case had you got no more than you were entiiled to. Judiciary Reform. A correspondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist suggests p reform in the judeiary of our State, reducing the number of the justices of the Inferior Court to one. An attempt has been made in the Inst several Legisla tures to effect this object, which has hitherto been fruit less. The inefficiency of the tribsnal as at present or ganized is admitted on all hands, and it has indeed been singular that in the face of this admission, the move ment has failed. Wc suggest a modification of the movement abolishing the Court altogether. Since the establishment of tho Court of Ordinary, (here has really been no u*.c for nn Inferior Court. Let tho next Leg islature add to the Ordinary’s duties, tho office of com missioner of roads And revenue, and then abolish the Inferior Court entirely. We shall thus invest one competent and salaried officer with ail the Ordinary and County business, and dispense with a common law tri bunal for which we have no uso. To equalize the du ties of the Superior Court, in consideration of the accu mulation of business in that Court in consequence of the abolition of the inferior tribunal, let us have a Court of quarter sessions for the trial of all criminal causes. Wc need a separate Court for criminal canses. We need it, if for no other reasons, because under the pres ent arrangement it is almost out of the question to af ford speedy trials to the accused. The reduction in the jail fees will almost if not quite par for a separate tribunal which should meet in each county four times | during the year, for the trial of all crimnfll causes. One more suggestion in this connexion. We ought, - by all means, to increase the salaries of all our judicial | officers. The mere honor of presiding upon the bench will not compensate our best lawyers for leaving a lu crative practice for the judgeship. We should pot tho very best talent of the country upon the bench, and we can not command it without paying for it. We do hope that if all other matters of judiciary reform are K neglected by our next Legislature, this matter will not be overlooked. Nkw Goods.—We call the attention of our lady renders to the advertisement* of Mrs. Dessau, and also to Messrs. Brokaw, Clemons. & Cos., and J. M. ! Rsutn. Their shelves will supply the wants of the niuet fastidious. J. 11. Daniel has opened a large and handsome assortment of ready made clothing. Thk Crop*. —Ths Cotton Crops in this ssctisn hava promised a pretty full yield np to this date. The heavy rain c-f Thursday and Thursday night, however, must have proved very destructive. Large quantities of cotton were open in the fields, and the green bolls must suffer considerably. The indications are now favorable for an early frost which win cut off* the crop very largely. PdHow’b Rrvikw, Hunt’s Merchant's Magazine.— Both these monthlies are on our table, filled as usual ■with inter, sting and valuable matter. Tike former is 1 published in New Orleans, and tho latter in New York, at $5. To the merchants and manufacturer, these magazine* are invaluable. A new Democratic taper at Washington.—Bev erly Tucker, Kq., fonnly of V*has commenced the publication at Washington City, of anew Democratic paper called the Sentinel. Mr. Tucker is an able wri ter, a Southern man, and a sound Democrat. The Sentinel claims not to be an srgan of the Administra tion, but will oor&ally support it. W# have so? seen the paper, but arc pleased with extraots which w® have seen from its columns. Frost. —We were visited on Sanday Morning with n slight frost, which in some localities, nipped very ten der vegetation. The atmosphere waa, howover, too dry soy it to do any damage.— Augusta Chronicle , 19/^. The Southern CJuarterly Rev low. Wa obsci v* that a ■ tabor of tbs friend* of tbit tab tab U periodical, Hava b*u iadauad t* meet together sos lha pappose af <liaiug moim means to re vive it* falling fort tut*. Tbie able Review, which has existed eo long—which has !'#*• w> ruaay years rh honor to the ewsstry, sue tio***** to the South, is dying ©at for w*o< al patronage! 1* a#Hhi* • sail and shamoftl COtuoebteiy the people ? The ability with which it he* be#® eondootad. bo one has ever qot ontd. It has hailed its dubbed arrows again*ttb maligners of tbe South —inculcated a whole some, patriotic peblie sentiment—and given through ita pages to Southern pen* a nobis and brilliant field of effort and usefulness. Win. Gilmore Sirames, it* able conductor, has fer years past, labored long and bravely against the most adverse eireumtam*e* Thi* moat gifted popular writer of the South, ha* wrought* barren Boil. He has received little or no remonernation, but a patriotic purpose and noble pride has kept him toiling on, hoping and believing that the Southern people would appreciate the importance of his aim, and re munerate the labor of his brain. For several years past, the annual defio't caused by its meager support has been supplied, by a few zealous literary gentlemen who hove thus expended hundreds of dollars from their own privato means, that the pub lic might be benefited j out upon this earning noisy cry of building up Southern enterprise, and encouraging Southern talent, while the first pens that we boast, are left to beg Tor employment : we say this canting noisy cry, because facts speak too plainly to be misunder stood. Show your faith by your works. These boast ing professions are to be mistrusted when ve daily wit ness them ending in “articulate breath of wind.’’ Har per’s and Putnam’s monthlies, and the foreign Quarter ns, are to be seen upon every shelf. Northern publish ers and writers grow fat on Southern patronage, while our enterprising public men and literati are left to starve. We wonld Dot be understood as depreciating Northern or foreign publications, but we do condemn that short sighted, unpatriotic, suicidal course which tends to drive off our talented and cultivated minds to seek employment elsewhere. We can afford to have the best Northern and foreign publications, and yet sustain our own. But when in addition to tbe better, we see mueh worthless trash filling the tables of our Boook sellers at the expense of our own valuable litera ture, we cannot forbear to speak plainly what wo feel. Now ia the time to aid in builing up the Southern Quaterly Review. Send on the subscription price, (five dollars) and show by your aots that you are a friend to this great enterprise. English Design npon Cuba, We find the following letter in a late number of the Richmond Enquirer, and give it to our renders for what It is worth. While we doubt the correctness of the report, the importance of the interest involved will demand the vigilance of onr Government, to prevent any possible design which England may have upon the Island of Cuba. It is true that the English cruiser* have been withdrawn from the coast of Cuba, and sla vers aro now landed upon the Island is crowds with im punity, but it may he that England has been satisfied of the folly of attempting to prevent the slave trade upon the coasts of Cuba by the means of a few cruisers. At all events it is a manor of congratulation that the for eign relations of the Government are in the hands of nn Administration that durce to take care of our inte rests. Washington, Oet. 13th, 1853. To the Editors of the Enquirer : Infos (nation has been received here that Lord Howden, the English Minister in Spain, had succeeded in making a treaty with the Spanish Government, giving to British cruis ers on the coast of Cuba tho right to land troops aud to search the plantations, to which it might be suspected that slaves were carried. Tho tact, that England has thus gain ed a foothold in Cuba, Is of vast importance to us. The right of search will be eoou followed by occupation, to a lees or greater extent, a* circumstances and her purpose may require. It is also stated that Lord Howden was pressing another treaty upon the Spanish Government, tie had offered to withdraw the English cruisers altogether from the coast of Cuba, and to permit as many slaves as might be, to be land ed, provided that tho Government would make them eman cipad'js, and set them free after the period of ten years ser vice, (the present term is five years,) and at the end of silty years abolish slavery and put tho island under British pro tection. The effect of this would be to fill Cuba with a negro pop ulation, which would, by the end of tho time Bj>ocified, en tirely control the island. Confirmatory of the above facts, a letter has just been received here from Havana, dated Oct. Ist, from a source en titled to tho most undoubted confidence, which states that Mr. Crawford, the English Consul, was procuring letters from persons of prominence there approbatory and recom mending the above mentioned project—no doubt, for the purpose of sending teem to England to fortify her in her demand upon Spain. It also states that tho steamer had just arrived from Spain, bringing the nomination of anew Captain General, and that the report that such a treaty was in contemplation, had gotten out and was producing much excitement. There can bo no doubt, that, in the present state of feel ing in Spain. England, backed probably by other Europeau Governments who are hostile to our institutions, will be likely to succeed in her desire to get the assent of the Span ish Government to her propositions. In view of these facta, you may expect speedy and very decided action on the part of our Government to defeat a bchme no dangerous to us and so attrocious, that it caunot fail to arouse a condemna tory public opinion everywhere. These designs of England have been for some time sus pected. The proposed rripartife Treaty to guarantee Cuba war the first evidence of them, and more has since been had ; but not till now have thee© suspicions bean confirmed beyond doubt. I know full well, that everything relating to this subject is of an inflammatory character; and nothing would induce me, writing to you, as I do, solely from my own interest in public matters, to give yoa the above facts without knowing, from the very best sources of information, that they are reliable. E. B. B. The Lost aro Found. We are pleased to learn from the Sydney Empire of the 25th May last, that the intelligence of th* loss of the Monutnontal City with several of onr Georgia bovs on board was unfounded. The steamship, Monumental City left San Francisco on tho 17th February last, bound for Australia, having on board a large number of pas sengers, among whom w*re O. S. Kimbroogh, J. Wise P. G. Wicke and J. P. Brown, of Georgia. It was re ported that the vessel had been lost and a large num ber of the passengers; this report proves to be un founded, as appears by the Sydney Empire which an nounces tho arrival of the steamship at that port on the 23d of April, with the above named gentlemen among the passengers. Mr. Kimbrough was from this city. Madam Jenny Lind Goldschmidt. —Dr. Cox, of Brooklyn, as the friend, and by the authority of Jenny, publishes a card to the public, vindicating her husbands’ character from the calumnies of the Northern preesl that Otto has been cruel and unkind to Jenny. Dr. Cox says : ‘'Her feelings have been deeply wounded by tho story that her husband is unkind to her, inconsiderate, reckless and even cruel. Not to examine such freports, it is enough for me to say, that, herself being witness and judge, they are totally false ; that envy and made©, or foolish loquacity coupled with ignorance, invented them all; that nothing but the diametrical reverse ia true of her “dear Otto that no woman in tho w orld has more reason to be graietul to God for her husband ; and that no man in the world could be a more delicate and complete pattern of conjugal tender ness, consideration and aneetion. This is but a brief epi tome of what, with tall heart, she writes lo her friend afore said. She writes indeeJ plainly ; without reserve and with out affectation ; but not without sensibility, at once stung and virtuously indignant.” Mrs. Webster, wife of Professor Webster, who kill ed Dr. Parkmau, died recently. Mr*. Webster was • lady mueh esteemed aid respected among a large cir- elo of acquaintances. The terrible crime and fate of her husband had cast a gloom over her life ever tinea that event, which, beyond the power of tho kindest sympathies to dispel, has at length followed her to tho A Mistake in Identity. —The man arrested in New York, a few days ago, as Don Carlos Valencia with several aliases, charged with attempting the life of a Mr. Mc- Carty, turns out to bo Comalli Von Alten, a respecta ble young German, who resembled the alleged offen der so elosely as to deceive a number of persons. Munificent Gift . —It will bo perceived by the pro ceedings of Council, that Dr. Frampton, with an en larged and wisely directed liberality, has presented his valuable Library to the College sf Chariest#*, and that Counoil has marked their seaso of his generosity ia a manner that will prove an enduring and grateful me morial •( the munifioeaos sf the publio spirited donor. Charleston Mercury , The King of Hslland lately delivered his nsnal speech to ths States General, *>nolnding by 25 minutes past one e’olock, P. M. It was immediately translated, transmitted by telegraph to Loudon, and composed and published by threa o’elook tha same afternoon* The line traverse* uoarly one hundred miles on the bed of the German ocean. The speech contained 1,750 words | (CORKE&POND&NtK OF TBS TlAlta AND 6SKTINKL.J Mobile, Oct. 1, 1953. I hav received but ou# copy of the “Times” in three weeks—the hiatus •ecurriug at a time of all others, most provoking, as I was ou th* look-out for the Georgia returns. Tbe result proves tho truth of th* old adage, that bad news travels last, aud vice versa. I am greatly rejoiced at the handsome aud suUt&ulial victory you have just so gallant ly won. The uncertainty ot Georgia politics has become proverbial—but certainly th* State baa seldom rendered a political verdict, so righteous in itself, and bo demanded by good faith, consistency and honor, as the one just pro nouueed in favor of the administration of Gen Pierce, and against the insidious and factious attempt to rebuke it, made by the debris of th* old Whig party. Could any thing be more euriously instructive of the mutability of political men and parties, than to see the men who lured the people of Georgia into submission in 1850, when there was at least some cam*© for indignant resistance in 1853, raising the standard ofpectional revolt, when, every thing has been adjusted nnd settled on principles which they then declared were “fair, honorable and jnFt.” There are, doubtless, all over the South, men who aro ready to join any sectional party,at any time and on any pretext or occasion. These are tha disuniomsts per se. But even these men had to hesitate at the bold impudence of the ’proffered leadership ofsuchmenas Toombs, Jenkins and Sanford. And 1 never cou.d see how Col. Toombs could hope, with hi* antecedents to rally a sectional party even (or sectional de fence. Who can ever, hereafter, trust him, with leadership in a great eauee ( He fooled us with his Hamilcarand “dio in the ditch** speeches once ; but it will he difficult to re peat ih# humbug. Ido not think I ever heard a more ab- j eurd, inconclusive and inconsistent speech than that deliver ed by Mr. Toombs, in your Temperance Hall, on the opening of the late campaign. It wn* an iusult to tbe un- derstanding, and most recent memories of every man who heard it; and my reflection at the conclusion of it was, that if this man can build up a party and carry the people of Georgia on this bundle of crotchets which ho calls a plat form, men of principle might as well hang up thoir fiddles and cease to struggle for the truth. But I am happy to bo able to write to-day that the effort has failed, and that neither Col. Toombs’ talents and ef frontery, nor Mr Jenkins’ deservedly popular character have suffered to bear up the crushing weight of their bad cause. The result is most happy ou muny accounts, It sustains the administration that has most nobly deserved the sup port of Georgia—and it consolidates tho strength of the Democratic party in the State. Tho old Districts of Toombs and Stephens are the last strongholds left to the enemies of Stato Rights in Georgia. All tho rest is re deemed. Even tho Second District, which it began to be believed, in somo quarters had become tho personal domain of the late invincible representative, has declared its prefer ence for sound practical Democratic politics, to mon who have neither handles to their habitual names, nor fixed principles in their creed. Talking of names, what has be come of your neighbor’s “Legion V* It has turned out like Sir Jack’s men in buckram, not so numerous in the tally as they were out of the big end of his blowing hom. The yellow fever still lingers iu this atmosphere. In the city the deaths are reduced to aboat half a dozen a dny and most of them are absentees too *oon returned. But in the suburbs for miles around, wherever there is population the fever Is busy. lam sorry to say that it made its appear ance at the Catholic College on Spring Hill, which had so far escaped. One ofHhe Priests has been carried off*. I hear that the College will be disbanded immediately—the only prudent course, for in the crowded state of College dormitories the disease would at once become a plague. We arcanxiously hoping for an early frost to purify tho air wo breathe. The telegraph bears to us the etartl ng report to-day, that the Ottoman Porte has declared war against Russia. If true, this is the first note to stirring times nd scene*. I must say I admire the Turk’s pluck—a quality hehaa ex hibited on several occasions, and coupled with a magna nimity that puts some ofhis Christian brother sovereigns to the blush. His protection of Kossuth and his Hungarians, under the laws of hospitality was an act of rare daring, courage and generosity. It cost him money, trouble and risk. lam inclined to think too, that the Sultan haa ex hibited wisdom in striking the blow and bringing his quar- * rel with tho Czar to the issue of tho sword. The steady ‘ and fixed policy of Russian encroachment on Turkish soil | existed—tho fight, for hia throne, hie subjects and kis terri- j tory, sooner or later, had to be made—he never would have ; a juster cause, bettor allies, or find his people more ’ !in ardor, courage and fanaticism. And now/Turk as he 1 is he has iny beat wishes and hop<33 for his triumph over j that colloeeal tyranny of the North which bids fair to make ! Europe “Cossack,” if the people do not make it “Republi- i can.” If the Sultan’s allies, England aud France will t stand np to him in the fight, he can at least drive tho Czar's troupe—-the Russian bears—out of the Provineeeof the Da nube, and back to their snows. I havo some fears about ■ his allies—they have evidently been weak in tho knees ever < Hincc they patted the Turk on the hack. But then they must check the ambitious move of Russia in the direction of tho Dardanelles and the Black Sea, The safety of ail the rest of Europe ia involved in the question. F. Sale af the Metrepolitan Haiti. —Th N. Y. Herald of Saturday, aya it waa stated on good authority, eu ! ’Change, that Messrs. A. T. Stewart & Cos., the oels- i bruted dry goods firm, had purchased the Metropolitan Hotel for the round sum of $600,000, and that they j were to pay down in oaah SIOO,OOO, leaving $200,000 on time. Another Failure. —lt is now publicly announced that Robert Spear, a well known Stock Broker of Wnll etrect, New York, has failed under the recent depre ciation of stock, and tho tightness of the money mar ket. There are various other ramora afloat regarding the solvency of certain parties, bat they have not yet come to a focus. Beware of Counterfoils. —We understand, says the Augusta Constitutionalist of Saturday, that one dollar bills of the Mechanics’ Bank, and of the Bank of Au gusta, raised to five, are in oiroulation in the interior of this State. They aro poorly executed and easily de tected by any one in tho habit of handling bank bills, and wo pnblish this notice to put those who are not, on | their gnard. Keep a look ont for the oiroulators of these bills. A Gorman Colony has been, for a couple of years, settled is PiokoHS distriot, Sooth Carolina, on a tract of 20,000 acres of land, which it has purchased in com mon, to be divided among the asveral families of the community. Houses have been ereeted and a village laid ont, nntned “Walhalla,” and schools and ohnrches have been instituted. The colony is said to bo now in a very flourishing condition. Closing of the Crystal Palace. —lt is advertised that tho Crystal Palace will be closed in December, and as that may mean the first of Decembor, it is possible that little more than six weeks remain for visiting the exhibition, and the New York journals aro therefore calling npon the resident citizens lo visit it, as thns far, nearly aii the visitors havo been strangers. The slook is selling st 55, or 45 below par. Before the opening it was as high as I TO. An Improved Steam boiler. —Judge W. E. Bird, of Cahaba, Alabama, has invented an improved steam boiler, for which he has taken measure ts sooure o patent. The boiler is composed of ovlindors or tubes arranged in layers or tiers, having return flues passing throngh them and cenuected with fire-ohambera. The flues of the lower tubes or cylinders terminate in a trunk or chest with hollow bars, through which the smoke pusses to the smoke-chamber. The flues of the upper cylinder communicate directly with the smoke-chamber. Snoto in Maine. —On Wednesday before last, snow fell in tho town of Rangily, (Me.,) to the depth of one foot. Between that place and Phillips, travel was in terrupted for several day* in consequence. The trees bordering the road were so loaded with snow that they best down and obstructed the way. A Jury Burnt in Effigy. —lndignation meetings have beou held it Washington County, Md., at which the jury who recently reudered a verdict of aoquittal in the Swan oase have been fieroely denounced. In BrUusbore the people formed in procession, headed by the effigies representing the twelve jurors, and proceed ed through several streets, after which they halted in tho square, and there consigned to the devouring ele ment the twelve representatives of the jury in the Swan ease. cr W® regret to learn from th* following paragraph in a Mobil* paper of th# 18th in*t., that th* extensive lumber mill* iu which our townsman, John Forsyth was interested, have been entirely consumed by Sre. The U* w* understand to be $20,000, Instead of i115,000, as stated iu the paragraph below, of which SII,OOO only were insured : Fire —Between 2 and 3 o’clock yesterday mortiiug, a fire broke out in th# newly erected Saw Mills of .Messrs. Ogden 6c Forsyth, on Blakely Island, opposite Congress street, and speedily consumed the entire buildings—for their combustibilities and isolation from all help, rendered them a mere bonfire. How the fir# originated, we have heard no tangible conjecture. The time gives rise to thoughts of mal ice ; although in such a situation, with the river dividing it from the city, it would have proved as easy a prey to the in cendiary at mid-day. The premises were estimated at a valuation of 815,000 eleven of which were eovered by insurance, there being five separate officers having each $2200. It is reported that Simeon Draper ha* arranged with the Mechanic*’ Bank of New York to pay off his lia bilities, and will resume business. The New York Post lesrns that the liabilities of Mr. Draper amount to between two nnd three million of dollars. Prof. Paul F. Eve reports a ease of the removal of a nail from the lunge of a child five years old, by trach eotomy. Tho nail was an inch and a half long, and situated in the left bronchus. Good Dividend —The Bank of the State of Georgia, has declared a dividend of five dollars per share from the profits cf the last six months—equal to ten per cent, per annum. Hon, Miller Grieve, late Charge to Denmark, passed through thi* city on Sunday, ou his way home. Augusta Chronicle , 19th inst. Homicidr—At a late hour on Saturday night, says the Augusta Chronicle Sentinel, an altercation ou corred in the street, between Peter P'eagan, ono of tho City Watchmen, and Augustus Carlledgc, during which Cartledge shot him with a pistol, of which he died in a few minute#. A Coroner’* Jury found a verdict ac cordingly. (KT Tristnm Burgess, formerly, and, for many years a distinguished politieian of Rh#de Island, died in Providence on the morning of the 13th. He was a member of Congress from that State from ISJS to 1535. Death of a Member Elect. —lion. Johu L. Bird, SenAtor elect from Taliaferro, we regret to learn, died last wwek. The Governor has issued a writ of election to fill the vacancy. Major General Winfield Seott, General in Chief of the United State* Army, ha* been summoned under the name of “W. Scott’’ to parade at the militia train ing m New York. A Letter from Col. Davia. The following letter from the Secretary of War though written only for the satisfaction of a correspon donti has been furnished for publication by him in conse quence of his being involved in that malignant misrepre sentation, which has been the lot of every one who hns refused to acknowledge the incomparable purity and pre eminent patriotism of a faction of the New York De mocracy. We copy it from the Washington Sentinel : Washington, D. C. Oet. 6. My Dear Sir ; I have not seen the publication iu the Herald , to which you refer, >.nd which, if seen would not have received any notice from me, bad it not been dignified by the attention of aomo one whose good opin ion I regard. Thanking you for your kind interest and confidence iu me, 1 reply that you have not, iu this instance, mistaken my position. Whatever may have been the language employed, tho statement that I had endorsed Preston Kiug and Johu Van Bureo is false, and, 1 will add, would have been absurd if 1 had presumed to do so. I served with the first named gentleman in Congress, and on the slavery question, we were the antipodes of each other. Os his subsequent course aud present posi tion lam not iu formed. The second named gentleman is known to me personally yniv by private intercourse ; his position as shown by the publications of the day, has been very objectionable to me, but now is iu accordance with the general amnesty declared iu tho Baltimore con vention, and ratified by the presidential canvas# of 1552. t I received the proposition to unite ou tho platform deola red by th# democratic party in general convention as a j settlement of past feuds, and havo been ready to operate ! | with nil who, adhering faithfully to the principles and pol- j j icy then declared, are willing to go with me in the on- j j ward march of democracy. It would have been hollow and dishonorable to have al* ! lied with men upon that basis, aud when tho campaign was over have summoned them to answer for their “by. : gone” opinions. So tar was this from any purpose or pol | icy of mine, that I had forgotten, if indeed I ever knew, i the contents of speeches and letters which have recently J been brought to light, nnd present men in whom I had I entire confidence as liaviug been, a very few years ago, | the advocates of freeeoilism. Notwithstanding the significant mark of confidence j given to Mr. Dickinson, when he was offered the best fi- j ; nancial and political appointment in the State of New ! York, I havo not, and will not, approve tho anti-slavery speeches he made in 1847 and 1849. And although Judge Bronson hold# the high post which Governor Dickinson declined, I trust I shall not be numbered among those who subscribe to his letter of July 15, 1848, to the meeting to ratify tho nomination of Martin Van Bu ren, nnd contribute to th* extension of freesoil. lam willing in these as in other cases, to drop the inquiry into by-gone opinions and .associations, to adhere to the com ! I*® o * 1852, to oppose disorganization, to resist agitation and to promote the harmony of the democratic party ns , mean* of seeing peace among tha StaLs and I pros|>erity and perpetuity to the Union. Now, this is not to approve objections bis antecedents, not to endors# the opinions at war with my creed, but to act as becomes those who believe the union of the democracy to have been sincerely, honestly, and substantially made for pub lie and not personal ends. Holding, as I do, that party or ganization is a necessary moans to ensure success to prin oipleson which parties are formed, I cannot hut lament the division which has, without recent oause, opened the old wounds in our party of New York. Ido not aasumo to ininglo, still less to judge, in this family quarrel, but will abide the course of rapidly trans* piring events, and hope that the true democracy may crush any disintegrating faction which goes into coalition with tho whiffs. Very truly, your friend, JEFFERSON DAVIS. Health of Montgomery. Alabama Journal, 21st inst., pays, we feel it ourfduty to Ftato that the fever of a rnalignat typo, pronounced by most of tho physicians yellow fever, still lingers among us, and there have been several new fatal cases. This disease, which has been in portions of tho city for the last two months, and considering tho increase of population and strangers from below, has not added, to any alarming ex tent, to tho usual bills of mortality for tho season, and up to this date, has not in the body of the city developed the appearances of epidemic. What may occur, as we have often said, we know not; we can only speak for the present. It the physicians are not mistaken in the many cases re ported by some of them for the last six weeks as of this type, it is a mild form of this disease—yielding readily to prompt treatment; perhaps not more than one in ten prov ing fatal. One physician with 22 fully marked cases, lost only one. Some fortnight since we visited, in company wjth the physicians, a house in the infected district, near the wharf, containing five cases—lrish laborers—all down with this Fame type of fever in its most aggravated form, with the vomit, deep yellow skin, hemorrhage of tho gums and teeth, Ac. Os these five, all recovered except one, who refused to take medicine. This does not show a disease “worse than tho yell low fever.” There wero no interments yesterday, and we trust that, owing to the lateness of the season, we shall bo spared an epidemic, or any further progress of the disease. It may, however, be tho part of prudence for gentlemen at their seats in tho country to defer until frost removing in to their town residences. Health of New Orleans. The Bulletin, of tho 15th, says :—The weather has been pleasant fora long time, dry nnd warm, until yester day, when the sky became overcast, snd a sort of a driz zly rain descended nearly tha whole of the day. From this *change of tho weather we are led to infer that anothor will soon take place—and that Jack Frost will speedily make his welcome appearance. eThe health of he tcity has continued to improve unin terruptedly, until it may now be said to be one of the healthiest in the Union. Outside tho walls of the Chari ty Hospital there is scarcely any fever, and very little there. In a conversation with one of our best physicians and largest practitioners, the other day, ho remarked that the city was fr e from fever, and that many of tho cases in the hospital* had come down from tho coast, w hero the fever was prevailing, with the seeds of the disease iu them. Ths Board of Health has passed a resolution that the fever no longer c*its in the city as an epidemic. We think that we may safely say tosur absent friends return. There is no danger now to bo apprehended —- The absolute strangers, those wholly onaeclimated, we wonld say, stay away until frost. Death of Tristram Burgess. —The Hon. Tristram Burgess, for many years U. S. Senator from Rhode Is land, and a man of great ability as an orator, died in Prov-* idenee on Thursday morning, in thejleighty-fonrth year of his age. Know his Income We hear it frequently asserted that extrava gauce is the great evil of the age. Husbands particuhuly are fond of expatiating on this sub. ject before their wires, or before female visitor., whom they talk to, in order to talk at their spouses. But, iu justice to the ladies, it should be said that men are quite as extravagant as wo men. If the latter Lave a weakness for laces, silks aud fine furniture, the former are just as fond of cigars, champagne and horses. Many a husband, who grumbles at what he thinks are extravagant sums paid by his wife, for gloves, shoes and bankerchiefs, spends twice as much annually on oysters, or at ten pins The thing* the wife fancies are, moreover, the more refined of the two ; and, on the whole, aro perhaps, quite as useful as the others. Whatever the “rest of mankind” may say, the Ledger will he honest in this matter. Fair play has riot been given to the sex. The men, who do most of the editing, writing and paying, have raised the cry of ex travagance against the ladies,until a popular idea has arisen that females are constitutionally great er spendthrifts than the males. It is the old sto,. ry of the lion painting his own virtues. Having thus exonerated tho ladies, from * charge we think unjust they will, we trust listen dispassionately to what further we have to sav. For, though we consider the men quite as ex travagant as the women, we are far from exone rating either from this folly entirely. At some other time we may have a word of advice fdf the “lords of creation ;” but to-day, we wish to have the ear, for awhile, of those same “lords.” We presume, at the outset, we are talking to sensible women. By a sensible woman, in this instance, wo mean one, who, if a wife, makes her husband’s interest her own, anti who is, therefore anxious to spare him unnecessary anx iety, and to labor with him to the extent of her ability, to lay by someting for their old age, if not for the future establishment of tlifdr chil dren. The wife who has not this sympathy with her husband, but who regards him merely j as a means of enabling her to dress expensively, is unworthy of the name, the position, the hon ors of a companion for life. She is, in no sense, the help-mate, which she was called in tho old Saxon. She is a drag on her husband, not an assistant to him. To aid him, she should be cheerful, should order her house well, and above all, should strictly *void extravagance ; and to achieve the latter, there is no better way, provi ded she is a woman of sense, than to know his income exactly. For extravagance is a relative term. A bro cade silk may be a folly for one wife, but only what is proper for another better off. We do not advocato parsimony on the part of the rich. If elegant fabrics, and sumptuous furniture, and fine houses were abolished, many thriving trades would perish for want of sustenance ; and those who ply them would either h reduced to per manent beggary, or forced into other persnits which are already, perhaps, sutficiently stocked. But if sensible wife knows her hnshand’s in come, she can tell, for herself, what is extrava gant, and what not. Is he a merchant ? She is aware, then, that he has his fortune to make; that his pursuit is a precarious one ; nnd that consequently the household expenses must bear a very small proportion to the apparent profits. Is he a professional man ? She knows, that in this case, the road to wealth is alow, and that, therefore, she must deny herself marry things Ids position would seem to warrant. Ts he a mechanic ? In such an event, her husband can never hope to be rich, until he saves capital enough to become a master workman, and hs cannot hope to succeed in this effort, unless sustained by the strictest economy on the part of his wife. Is he a man of fortune? A wise wife is aware that property fluctuates, and that children will want a start in life ; and conse quently even the wife of the landed proprietor will take caro not to spend their whole in* i come. | It is not always the wife who is to blame, : however, for not regulating the expenses of the husband’s income. Many men foolishly think that it is not a wife’s business to know th# stat# of their affairs. Others, when in difficulties, de ceive their wives. It frequently happens, there fore, that a wife either believes her busbsnd to be prospering when he is not, or greatly over* rates the oxtent of his prosperity. In such •*- ses the husband is quite as censurable for the wife’s extravagance as she is herself. To sum | up all in a sentence, if husbands would be more just to wives, wives would oftenor act like wo men of sense, and would be less extravagant.— Phila. Ledger. A Daughter t of Patrick W. Henry Defending, her father. —Mrs. D S. \ inaton, au aged widow lady, formerly the wife of Mr. G. D. VVioaton, deceased, of Virgiaia, and who reside# in an humble cottage near Athens, Alabama, i* a daughter of the celebrated Patrick Henry, of Virginia, of revolutionary memory ; and we notice that a late number of tho Athens Herald contains a communication from her, correcting a statement in Wirt’s Life of Patrick Henry, wherin it is stated that “in one of his purchases of land he ii blamed for having availed himself of tho existing laws of tho State in paying for it in depreciated currency of the country; nor was he free from the censure on account of some participation which he is said to have had in the profits of the Yazoo trade.” Mrs. Winston says that Mr. Wirt was not ac quainted with her father, and never saw him, and therefore had” to depend upon others for his information. The charge was brought against him when he was spoken of as successor to Gen. Washington, and, being conscious of bis innocence, he never took the trouble to contra dict it. Mrs. Wirt, his wife, and the mother of Mrs. Winston, however, wrote to the treasurer of V irginia on the subject, and that officer re plied that the money was paid in gold and silver. Mrs. Winston admits that her father was con cerned in the Yazoo purchase ; but she adds that the “well informed need not be told that many persons of unquestionable integrity became purchasers of the Yazoo stock, and that all the criminality of tho affair is attached to the orig inators of the scheme.” The Abolition Whig Party aliee again.— Under this caption the Now York Herald de votes a column to the Hon. VV. H. Seward and his party. In refernneo to Win. Seward and the party which lie represents, the Herald re marks: “A great political miracle has recoutly been wrought in this country. Nothing less is it than the revivification of the whig party, with nil its destructive tendencies. Let it he every where proclaimed abroad, so that all men may know and ask in surprise how this change thu* came to pass.’’ Tho Herald thus assumes the task to explain the “wonder’’ and point oilt the consequences and finally introduces the annexed compli mentary remarks for especial benefit of Mr. Seward. In this series of successful manoeuvres Wil liam H. Seward has given ample evidence, if such were needed, of his great skill and talents as a politician. VV e admit his high qualifications in this regard. VV e would not deprive him of an iota of the credit due to such excellont man agement. But we denounce the political sonti ments of which he is the impersonation ; we abhor the principles which would scatter dis union throughout tliie prosperous land by arraying the abolitionists of the North against the slaveholders of the South, and we would mourn the day when the Presidential chair should he filled by such a man as William H. Seward.”