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THE CUBAN EXPLDITJO.V I , From tho Now Orle.vnj‘'Tru ' 1) Ita” jjj|jteikbetP3. We have devoted considerable space in our columns this morning to the detailed narrative of Lieut. Van- ViciiTjsx',.nnd a lot-, ter from Mr. 0. N. IIouweli,', lately -attach-' ed to our office, in relation lit the °x- pcdilion, of .which they funned n pint. It will he seen that, those accounts agtec in all their impQ^nnrtlcul&r.s With-nil those which.o»tb' heretofore-appeared from the un- r-ftfTInnate advonturors, and corroborate all that we wrote, before llie sailing of the Fnm- peto, dissuasivp fi-omjqiibar.kalqm in the nf- fairj.and.jf Hie untrutlifuliteas of tho stute- inents.oflialtlpa won, defeats of lira royal troops, capture ofari.ilery, prisoners taken* and other monstrous .aifrid.it ions that were dailv We by. the soi ; disint Cut an organs Jo delude the young,.-inflame the cx ..... citable, and deceive the public, niQrely ■ that tinned stfenm of bullets. "We soon felt con- a eaht ofheartless dealers in scrim nihrht viiiced that the yard was no place for us; .[gang of heart less dealers in script might get rich by n traffic in the blood of an enlltu- siastic. but deluded lipdy of yuung men. We have before us it letter from a young mtin of the third municipality, dated in the prison at Havana, yvliich, if the,editors ofpa- S ers like the New York Sun, .Savannah r ewa, and kindred concerns here, have souls in their bodies, ought., to make them weep many hitler tears. Jlc is but sixteen or seventeen years of age, n mere hoy, and was deluded otrfrom the fumily where his fulltor had pfuced him for the summer, until ho re turnedfrom the North, by promises that if he went to Cuba he would loan return with fine thousand tlolluis 11 is min e is Josai’tt B. GuNsr,,lhc son of a very w orthy man, whose distress at this terrible valiunity par ents can easily picture Jo il-cniscRes. Other letters from prisoners are also in our possession, but, ns we hare. made it a role to exclude those implicating parties hero ivhu cannot ho confronted with, tho persons pre ferring the charge we omit them. One fea'urc in all tl\e correspondence of tlie unforluuatq dupes of the script-dealers and their miserable newspaper uliies is worthy of particular no-.ice ; that is, their Uniform ’recognition of the justice of their punishment by tho Spanish authorities ;• in t|lis respect differing gioatly in their opinion from a portion of the press, of this country, wlilcli la but a (u m«»vo dial a lerj*ib!p. WTOD# has been done them, to wipe out remetn- branco of which n war with Spain appears to be their only icsourco. To us it looks very ranch as if the intention of these nowspuper statesmen is to prolung .indefinitely, for sumo base or factious propose, the detention of our unfortunate countrymen ; apparently deter mined rather on a course that wifi create obstacles in tho way of oar enlargement than to facilitate tlioir delivery, which eyei)’ good citjzon whatever may he Ins opinion of their original error, cannot but anxiously desire. We have no doubt of the correctness and anxiety,of llie President to otlect the roturu of the prisoners, now on.lheii why to Spurn ; and wo aro.very sure his solicitude to accom plish the humane and gonemus object will be greatly onhuiiced by the hew proofs overy day furnishod uf the wicked .deceptions prac tised upon those too confiding and over-en thusiastic men. All our endoiivors should now be employed in accomplishing, their re turn to lhnr homes. Havana, Sept. 4, 1851. Having promisod to favor you for if• may be to trouble you) with nnorlior letter, ac quainting yf>u with Ike wliembouls, particu lars, fkc. in t-ipnrd to the bile furry upon one, of the possessions'ot her Spanish' Majesty; T will proceed to particularize ns 'laconically ns possible tlje facts as they occurred from the moment wo landed until ottr delivery in to'the hands of the Cuban authorities. Our point of debarkation was at Murillo We Inndcd (near four hundred of ns) about bpdnight, and Without ' 'opposition, save the firing of a single musket upon the first boat which landed her troops. At’ .\|nrillo three companies wore left for tivo. days, number ing about one hundred, or oiio Itundrqd and ten mon; they' formed the rear guard to pro tect the bnggiigc train. About two .hundred and eighty or ninety map proceeded the same night oflanding to Los Posas, tinder the com mand of Gen. Lopez. Thislullcr party reached Los Posas, and remained, there noirr two days," The morning of iljo second day they lyero attacked by a Spanish force of icgutnr troops,which tho Americans resisted with § reat vigor, Tho fighting, continued with oublfui issue for several hours; dm number of killed and wounded was considerable uii both sides; the expel number I cannot slate. We lost a largo number of our best and bra vest men. Among ibe number I may men tion Col. Downmun killed;.Cnpt. .Gonfi mor tally wouodoJ; Capt, Briglumi wounded and believed since dead; Lieut. Labuzan . killed, and several of Lopez’: aids wounded and not since been beard of. Having no transporta tion, it became imperious on Lopez to leave the wounded who could not follow behind ; this accounts (or my ignorance of the fate of the men rcndeied useless. 1 might here re mark, was such a thing ever heard of in the panels of any thing pretending to generalship as to leave the disabled of an army to take care of themselves ? You must judge what the thoughts ol the men must have been at seeing their brother companions left neglect ed behind, and the same fate probably await ed them The Spanish iroopx finally retired In good order, and Lopez, hetwoeq 11 ami 12 o’clock at nigiit, evacuated tho place, mid retired through the pass up.o tlie bosom of the mountains. Euidy on the morning of the day Lopez wus attacked tho men left at Murillo started with the baggage train, consisting of two wagons, drawn by four oxen each", for Los Posas. The escort was uuiler the command of Crittenden—the companies respectively under the command of Capts Kelly, Sauii- ilersi and Victor Ker. We (ravelled at the iraiedf about a mile.au hour—every hundred yards tfieoxeu rufudug to draiv, am! the Americans expending' a great many oaths and-.ueejess blows from the huts of.thair tnus- Jcols'ypon their stupid backs. Well, by d nl of a good*deal of sweating and many hard blowaj'aud'the’lliiowing froui (lie wagons a large quantity of dead weight, in .the shape attacked. The men,' one and all, immediate-1 ted on the back pf a mule, and several valleys ly jumped to their nriqs, and ran whooping of muskotry. ' JN nato tho assistance of To the mountains yvo Still clung; wearied and broken down the men commenced throw ing tljvir guns-and hmmunlliim away; .they wanted Lopez to leave the ishmd.- lie still pampered them,tip" with the idea that' there was no deceit in him; no,.what ho promised lie .mule them believe would actually come to'pass. Alas! too lute they perceived the error of confiding in his promise,! About four days after this defeat all of us canieijear being destroyed. Wo were toiling out* ivay. late in -the evenjng along a most irksome road, when the advance uf the party sudden ly perceived two sentinels, one on each 'side of tho rond. Wo immediately retraced our steps, hut the sentinels gave tho alarm, and b large party oi Spanish troops attacked our tear. We ro'lrouttd quickly down each side o| tho road, behind the thick undergrowth which is so luxuriant around the mountains oflhis island. Some of our men wore killed, and a few taken prisoners. From this defeat tho men became separated; some wont ono why, some another. Not over six moil were tugollicrin any one party, nnd in ninny cases lira mon singly trudged their way ovir tho mountains. Fur my part I tramped ninny rt long mid weary day, beneath a brpilllw sun, with nought but guavas mid mangoes for my daily food, Tho day of this defeat was tho last that Lopez and his men over saw- each other, lie was captured shortly after, mg up the road to tho assistance of v The cotnjinny under tldslatler captain' were attacked whilst lelVeshiiigV.themsolycs in tho tavern, but quickly jumpjed to v here tlieir nuiskotS ivero slacked and returned'the' fire from tho chaparral. The Tiring train both sides ivns very animated; from'every hush there appeared to pour out a blazo of lire. The Spaniards held their position well, though charged by the whole of our force several successive times. They finally, how ever, gave up the chaparral, to reinforce- a parly on utt eiilinenro about one quurlcr of a mile from us. Tho parly which attacked us /Voio H;q chaparral was believed to have been the Hanking parly of tho detachment on Hie hill, flaying formed themselves upon the,hill, they poured into!the tavern yard, in winch |IV0 liuii,draivn-up ourselves, n con as Crittenden ordered two companies to fol low him—the remaining one to stay behind the pickets and keep his rear open. For one hour tlint company remained in the pickets, its men l>c : ng struck down hero and there by the bullets which poured in upon them. At the expiration of this time—noi seeing any thing effected by Crittenden’s liiovomohl to wards tho enomy, and fearful of being sur rounded ever$- moment—the men concluded to retreat to n body ot woods six or seven miles distant. Alter marching all tho evening in. the woods, wo procured n guido and reached Los I’osns about II o’clock, joined Lopez, and immediately took up tho line of innich over tho mountains.. Crittenden must have encounto'od tlie force on tho lull, mid coming hack, not finding us, continued his nirjicb buck to Murillo, where, I have since nsoeriniubd, he seized one of four vessels which were lying there, nnd put to son, evi dently with the intention of reaching Ameri ca again ; hut was captured by a Spanish nian-ol-war and brought into the port of Havana, -wBore himself and men, us you Imvo heard, paid the penalty of death Lopez consumed the most of the lime he reomfood iu the mountains in traversing those the least travelled, exhausting thestrchgtli of hid men in tho endeavor of loachfu.g the pa Hints, whom lie said numbered four thousand strong. Neurl)' every day lie would assure the men that ere nightfiill we would join the patriots. Poor, misguided men! how plainly you who nro alive now perceive tho delusion! the cheut! ibe base fraud/ Patriots, ’tin true, there are in Cuba, hut they are patriots to the cause of Cuba us it now exists. Where are all411080 towns that revolutionized in favor of a government more republican ? 1 do not holieVe- a single town in Cuba ever attemp ted a revolution. It is my conviction that the petty clique in New Orleans, whoso ex istence dopended upon the exallalior of Cu ban bonds, felt that tlie precipice oror which they must shortly fall must he avoided by some desperate scliemo, and henco thesecond nburtivo attempt to create sympathy in favor of Cuban patriots struggling for liberty!— When I reflect on the proceeding of the Ar cade. Meeting, wlieio the Declaration of Independence of the Island of Cuba wns road before a largo multitude, and gulped down by about half of them as having actually come from the patriots of Ilia Island of Cuba; when I turn hack nnd think of tho prominenuu of (lie men in this expedition, who noted tho some deceitful part in tho other, nnd then look mid see things as thoy nctunlly are— peace, plenty, nnd quiet througnout tlie is land, the iiiusse. devoted to the Government, and individually contented with their sucred homes, where ploiititude is heaped up uruund thom uiid want is a stranger—1 bile my lips with anger to think that these men cannot ho mode to soOer as those deluded young mon have, who left their homes from the purest .motives, to find themselves the fol lowers of a traitor, deceived by their own countrymen to retrieve his desperate fortunes, if there is any ono who wishes to he convinc ed of the happy and contonted state of tho island, let him hut come and see for himself; in all his travels his purse-string will rarely have to be undrawn; the Cobnn, .whose heart is as libera! ns l.is store-house, will meet his overy necessity—he has nothing to do hut come and behold. To continue my narrative, which I will now shortly bring to a close. We had been in the mountains about three days, when, on tho morning of tho third day, ive made the Lopez estate. The farm itself is a most magnificent onp. It once Jbelonged to the Lopez family, but was confiscated by reason of his treachery to the Queen of Spain.— We were preparing ourselvos to dine, when we were suddenly charged down upon by a body of ahoiit fifty or sixty horsemen,Whom iVe repulsed, with a slight loss on their side. But their object, it was evident, wus not to nebiove aiiy other advantago than to cause Us to full back, where a largo body of lancers awaited this moycniet on our part. This we did not do; hut, iniinedintely on the repulse fit the horsemen, we shouldered arms, left our unfinished dinners, and march over iitjo a large open field, bordered on one-side by a thick aim bushy wood. Before we had quite rcaclicJ the margin of this wood a destructive fire was opened upon us. We collected ns rapidly ns possible upon a little knoll in the field, niftl returned the firo with -some spirit. This engagement lasted but a short time. A number were killed and wounded on hotlvsides: and, ns if by mutual consent, both parties retired from the field.— Wc took (lie muunlnin road, a id commenced again the same old trudging up and down the mountains, expecting every day, I'tom Lopez' protestations, to meet with the patriots. On the seventh day of our tramp in the moun tains we halted at a ranch about durk,fortlie purpose ot taking supper and resting for the ■light. The night wo spent without molesta tion; li'ut in tho morning, whilst preparing breakfast, we were attacked in front and on our right flank by a body of,'Spanish troops Finding oursehesitin had scrape, we dis charged onr pieces nnd retreated up a moun tain thickly overgrown with the ci flee plant One retreat was covered by one company which kept Up a continual lire on thp advanc- _ mg enemy. The latter kept up such a hot of carpet'bags n«d trunks—belonging m those ' ibe on us that nothing but the whizzing of who expected lq dre<i in patent leather boots bullets could be heard. We speedily gained and the. Jaiesl Frenpir sivie clojliing—we the top of the mountain, and then such a- reaehed about ha IT «ur journey, and deter- notlior tumbling down the other side never mined lo go noTurtl'.tf.’until more oxen could ; was seen before. Men, horses and their be -proctiled. Willi this determination wp riders, oil in one promiscuous mass, went halted. wilbfihe.excepjUra o/Kpr’scompany.; "eker-skdler down into the ravine beneath. • • • ’ l ...•■> n I- ... __ ...... wms.not until yaur humble servant could gather himself at the bottom that ho could tpij whether bis leet formed the apex of his pii wore-iarmistd .tMrMpdicu'tfc or his head. The Spanish 1 •■amis dnj qo(. pursue us to the bottom; -'--‘’-••.-id Jliemselves . with plying - ; - lirouglit to this city, nnd nothing now reinnins but tlie recollection or lift notorious'dihds, not ono virtue to link with his thousand crimos. There are nnw in tho prison in this city one hundred nnd fifty-eight ulon bolungmg'to (ho Into expedition, nil remaining bf the four hundred KvbiMiJeft New Orleans aliitlriover it month ago They nr.o treated well, and nro generuolly th the enjoyment of very'good health, and are in good spirits. It tntiy lie that a few more men nro still left' in the mountains, thcugli the number cannot exceed two or three. I will Write you ngnin if any thing of in terest transpires. The Into Spanish Consul lit New Orleans yesterday paid a visit to the prisoners. I am sorry that difficulties in Now Orlcnns were the cause of his arrival here, and hope that tlie entente cordiale has utci&dy been restored.—Yours, respectfully, C. N, HOUWELL.’ From llip Nniioanl Iiilciltgcncor. ' GIVE US EIGHT- It is \vith a joy too sober for exultation that we recognise in the state of tho public mind of this country, sinco the failure uf the lute criminal enterprise against Cuba, tlie tri umph of moral principles of reverence for low, Divine and human; nnd of n just regard fur the good opinion of the world. Whilst these elements ura in tno ascendant in the national character and policy, wo have noth ing to fear for tho Hopublic A People that cun muster its own dangerous sympathies, and even control its good ones, ns this peo ple has done on the Into occasion oners a no ble spectacle to the world of a sound inte grity not incompatible with the freest insti tutions. Of ibe prime movers of tho dosperato'en terprise against Cuba, the greater' nail had probably no higher aim tlinn their own per- sunat advancement nnd interest. Some'of them, doubtless, young nnd inexperienced persons, w ore seduced and deluded by the false idea of lending aid to a people strug gling fur liliorty; hut, after weighing the evi dence already before the public, ol tempta tion's held out to tho grosser senses of (lie adventurers, it cannot now be doubted that iio'shnill number of them were enticed into the service more by the prospect of plunder tlinii by tlie love of liberty. By wli'nl deceptions the honest hearted nnd real liberly-lovmg men in the expedition were induced to abandon their henies, and, in many instances, their helpless and desti tute families, to follow the fortunes of mi out law leader with the view of wresting from the Government of Spain a great territory— by (he spoils of which he nt least was to bo enriched—We have already shown to our readers, in tlie proclamations and false iniel- ligence manufactured, for tlie purpose of de ception, at different and distant places in our country. The evidence on that subject is conclusive. But, in regard to the induce ments held out, our infoiiuntioii has not hith erto been so particular. We know, howev er, Trom llio evidence of parties concerned, that the humblest individuals w)io engaged in tlie expedition were promised' large sums in tho event of its success—as mach ns a thousand dollars each—whilst those of high er pretensions, who held nominal rank iu tho invyading force, were, in the sume event, to become possessors of untold wealth. We known, also, that much of tho money for tho actual expenses of both expont—was raised upon bonds ’('prdffiises ■ tfl pay) issued by somebody or other; that these bonds have been bought and sold; that, in oiie case, a thousand dollars was ndvanced by ah officer oftlio Expedition, for which lie was to re ceive ten ihosand, making the piiee of the bonds to bo ten cents on theploliar; that much money has been let out upon this gambling of security ; nnd we have even heard'that nt the snine'r.ite crops of cotton have hedn ex changed in Louisiiuih for these bonds; whilst elsewhere .they hnve been passed ofl'for cash at ns low riilo as two'uf tlireo centi on tlie dollar. But vVe have as yet had no definite information of tlie form of these bonds, the nature of their stipulations, or the amount nnd character ol the fund or funds out of which they nro or were to tie paid. (Satisfied of tho existence of these bonds by an accidental publication in the New Orleans nowspapers of the sale of a small a- nniupl of them, wc expressed a wish tube en lightened by tlie publication of 'he form in which they were issued, that trie I’ublic might ho enabled to determine,from their face wheth er they bore the impress of a guilty or an iqpocent transaction, Oqr wish has been accomplished. Wc /flue <jot acoj y of one nf these bonds. Hero it fs, word am) letter': .32,0 00 Wo. Bs rr Known ro Al.t. Men, That I, Gener al Narciso Lordz, Chief of the “.patriotic Junta far tlie promotion of the political inter ests ol Cuba,” established in the United Stales ot North America, and the cpinem- plnled head of Provisional' GovernmOtit' and CiHcnatider-jn-UlneT of the nevoluth'tiar). ’movement, about to be now undertaken through iny agency ilnd permissive au thority, tor the liberation of the people of.Cuba from Ihp'tyrnnny and oppression<tn whiph’they are now, subject by.tho pp'yer Of " lain .-'and ihJin-i irnsnr.nted by me lifl suptf- sucti form of Government and authority as the people-by their free wifl' and choice shall prescribe, do,,'6y these ptesents, to subserve the cause and object afofesnid, make nad execute this obligation , on behalf of the peo ple of Cuba, by whatever designation of na tionality or form of body politic they shall hereafter assume; to wit : l db,by these presents, for and on behalf of the said people ol Cuba, and their suc cessors in Government forever, and for value leccivcd, promise to pay to— MV or bearer, in equal annual instalments at one, two, tlireo, four, and five .years, tho sum of Two Thousand Dollars, with six per cent, ieterest from date, payable ratedbly an each annual instalment, until both principal and interest be fully paid and discharged. And I, the said General Narciso Lopez, in virtue of the authority and for the promotion of the object nfore-tuid, do b} these presents (pledge to tlie said—: , or benrer.'the public lands nnd public properly of Cuba, ol what ever kind, nnd the fiscal resources of the people and Government of Cuba, Irom what ever source to be derived ; and further pledge tho good faith of the'people nnd Gov ernment of Cuba, in perpetuity, for the faith ful and complete discharge of this obliga tion.. ■ . - ■ In testimony whereof, I, tho said General Narciso Lopez, do hereto affix my signature and sonl ol the said Brovisional Government, which is further witnessed by Ambrosio Jose Gonzales nnd Jose Maris Sanchez Yznngn, inombers of said “ Patriotic Junta,’’ and the Hon. Coleswortli Pihekney Smith, Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals of the Slate of Mississippi. This done and executed in the City of New Orleans and State of Louisiana, one of the United States ofNorth Amer ica,on this30th davof April, A. D. 1850. NARCISO LOPEZ. J. Sanciiz Yznaqa,' Amuiiosio Josh Gonzai.es, $2,000 C. P. Smith. At the bend of this Bond is a handsome cut of a shield or cout-of-arms, (In onn di vision of the field uf which, by tho way, is a Palmetto and Stars, signifiing wo know not \vhu',,> surmounted by a Liberty Cap, nnd garnished on both sides with flags of differ ent kinds, cannons, trumpets, drums, swotds, &c. And nt the bottom is mi impression of a seal, with tho legend “ Gobicrno Provison- 0/.” Our readers nnd our contemporaries who are yot incredulous, or doubling, as t) tho character of tho Lopez Expeditions, first nnd last, will ut once porcoivo that this now testi mony ieives no room for any remaining dis belief or uncertainty. Ail is now made clear. Wo submit this pieco of evidence, without argument, to tho verdict uf our renders ; contenting ourselves wdh staling the materi al points which it appears to us to establish, iz : First. That the whole scheme of the Re volution of Culm originated, und wns execut ed, so Ihr ns it was carried out before its sailing, within the United States. Secondly. That tho 11 Cuban Junta ” with in tho United States v as not, as we suppos ed, a fancy term applied to certain Now York loaders in the conspiracy against the territory of Spain, hut a fixed fact, and that Lopez claimed to be acting by their nuthori- iy-, Thirdly. That so fnr from any revolution existing or in progress in Cuba, this docu ment peremptorily excludessuch conclusion, by dec.'aring; jn express terms, that “the revolutionary movement" was “ about to be now undertaken by his [Lopez’s] agency," &c. Fourthly. That the rcsouuccsout of which the amount of tins and of all similurbonds was to lie paid, in the first place, weie the public lauds and public property in Cuba, of whatever kind : and , Fifthly. That these bonds were to be fur ther paid in the second place, out of “ the fiscal resources pf^HE People avd G or em inent of Cuba, front lyhatever resources de rived.” Sixthly That a high Judicial functionary of one of tlje States of this Union wns, with Lopez nnd two Members of the “ Patriotic Junta,party to this bond. Seventhly. Shat this document establish es theprecise accuracy oftlio language em ployed Ity the Prooident of the United Slates, in the Proclamation of 25th April last, warn ing all persons ngaiusl connecting themselves with the unlawful and desperate enterprise against Culm, wherein he expressed his belief that this expedition wns “instigated “ und set on foot by foreigners who dure to make our shores the scene of their guilty “ nnd hostile preparations against a friendly “ Power, and seek by. falsehood and niisre- “ presentation to seduce our own citizens, “ especially Hie young and inconsiderate, in to their wicked schemes ;” and when lie de nounced such expeditious “ ns ndveutures for plunder hud rubbery, which must meet tlie condemnation of the civilized world.” VVImt mure stupendous scheme of “ plun der and robbery” wns ever presented to the eye of the world tlinn tliut wlijch is suetched out on.the “ bond.” of which the above is an accurate copy ? “I'll call Around and Fay,” What a world of woe is contained in these few svords to the poor artiznn and mechunic? " J ’ll cull around nnd pay,” says the rich many to avoid the trouble oi going to his desk to got tho necessary funds, and the poor me chanic is oblige to go home to disappoint bis workmen nnd all who depend upon him for their dues. It is an easy matter to work —tlie only glory in this life is an indepen dent idea of being able to sustnin yourself by labor of your own hands, end it inay easily lie imagined what n crushing force there is in “I’ll call around nnd pay,’’ to the laboring maii AVlio.depends upon ihnt pay for subsis tence, If those who could pay would pay at once, i t Would place hundreds und Uious and- in a condition to do likewise, and pie vent much misery and distress; Every child at school should be taught that individual hnppines and uatur..i prosper ity, depend upon quick payments and rapid circulation of money. They wxiuld then un derstand the real virtue. THE COURIER, noto the signs of tho times, and triwafa stand ready to do Ids Whole duty in nrnintalrillfg and defending our liberal institutions. J0M1NG,0C1V 17,1851 K N O YVLETsTe D1T 0 K . “ Should Conqrcss at anq tune exhibit Us purpose to war upon our property, or withhold oUrjust constitutional rights, we standrcadylo vindicate those rights, in the Union as long as possible, and out of the Union when we are eft no other alternative.” A«ENTS roll , £ttB~COVUMEK. Dan’l Hix, Summerville. Judge Wooten, Dirt Town. J. T. Finley, Chattoogaville. E. R. Sasseen, LaFayette. (jr^-The suggestion, in the President’s Proclamation oflast'April, that “ the young and inconsiderate ‘were especially in danger ‘ of being seduced into the schemes of the Cgban conspirators,” turned out to be liter ally true. Of the hundred and sixteen vic tims, sent prisoners to Spain, fifty-one are as certained to be Of the age of 22 years and under; down' to the age of 16 ; and of the whole number only eighteen'are about, (he e Of " A *' ' OURSELVES- Tlie cdllor of this paper will beabsent from hia poat for a few weeks, on a visit to the lower part of the Stale.’ Should he see any thing worthy of noting down the KsdcrB of the Courier Wilt get It. . Change In order to give our readers in Cherpkce Georgia, nnd the adjoining counties ofNorth Alnlmmn, the very latest news by telegraph, we purposo hereafter to issue our paper on Friday, instead of Thursdaymorning as here tofore. Should this produce any derange ment ordelny in the reception of the Courier, our subscribers will please let us know. Advertisers will <ds° notice this cliungo “ and govern themselves accordingly.” Errors and Omissions. In tho hurry of going to press, several er rors and omissions occurred in our last issue. The fact is, everything about our office, in cluding the types, were so oxhilerated by the election news, that we ore not at all surpris ed here and there on. aberration occured.— Wo also omitted tho necessary credit 1o two or threo nrticles. ' A ckno wlotgiiiciits. Those who wero kind enough to send us election returns.by Telegraph nnd otherwise, will please receive our thunks. Also, those who have sent us new subscribers. Vile Lndiet Fair. Wo omitted last week to notice tho Fair of our Baptist Iriends. Wo now tnke plea sure in saying, that under many disadvanta geous circumstances, it was very handsomely gotten up abo quire liberally patronised. AVe trust it fully mot the designs of its fair pro jectors. That Teat, With n duo regard to the wants of the fra ternity, it sepins a spacious tent for the es pecial accommodation of editors hns been el ected ot Macon by the cornmitteeof arrange ments. Now were it not. that we hnd so re cently resumed the tripod, wo would suggest that our brethren of the quill then and there hold mi editorial convention. The campaign is notv ended, and the hatchet ought lorn season to be buried, and counsel held for the better promotion of the interests of the Geor gia Press and the cultivation of a more re- spectlul and kindly feeling in the corps edi. torinl- With this hint, tye leave the matter in the keeping of the quill. NEW STQBE. AVc observed the oilier day tliut 1i very rient nail wett constructed brick store, with a pood rock foun dation Inis beeif erected near tlie Rail Hand Depot, by \V. K. Alexander At Co., nnd is now in full blast ns n regular wbolcsnte estnblislimcut. It tins indeed, externally nnd internally .quite it cily nnd business aspect, being well supplied Willi'nhnosl overy tiling hew und useful. See advertising col umns. The Prospect before u» Never probably ih the history of our . Republic, have so many great and trying events been pressed into so brief a space its those which have trans pired within the Inst short year. The passage of tho Compromise, tho meeting of tho Georgia nnd Naslivilto Conventions; tlie glorious decisions of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and indeed; Willi the exception of South Carolili a, of the whole South, upon issues involving tho extinction of the Constp tution and the Union ; and tho second Grand dem onstration in our own noblo State, by which the of her Oo'nveution lit December last, has boon tmiihaticalhj ratified nnd endorsed ; all these and oilier ovents have tended to keep tho public mind, to an unusunl extent/excited. Add to this, the belligerent attitude ot South Carolina, tlie two invasions of Cuba, tho public outbreak?! duels, as sassinations and homicides Ihro'outtho length’ and breadth of the land, ami who does not see that our political system lias rapidly passed though an ordeal welt enleulu.cd to try its very fonhda'.ions. Thanks to tho Providence cf God and the wisdom of qur fathers,the American Hopublic still stands—itsbaso firmly resting upon tlie affections of a groat and patriotic people, who liuve the intelligence to know nr.d appreciate; and the spirit to defend and nmin- tnih their religions and political birth-right Since the passage ol tho adjustment meusures, fnhat oism at the North and ultruism nt tho South liuve evidently been on tlie wuno Tlie groat ma jority of die American people are willing lo adopt those measures as u final settlement of our section af.Smicuities. They are viewed in the light of n sacred treaty, which cannot nrid should not he inter rupted Without’pcrillng tlie Union. To consunnnnto tills great scheme of adjustment, seoad in impor tance only to the Coiistltiltion itself, old party lines unit associations wero forgotten, and Clay and Cass, Webster und Foote, Cobh and Stephons, und nlipst ol others, north and south, cqimjly devoted to the Union—men of enlarged views (Old patriotism, far. getting pnstdifieronnes and struggles, banded to. .geihcr lo save tlie Government. Without Stale egotism or otfeusive tirrognnde, we can claim lor Gcotgia the credit of having done more to save the Constitution and the Union than any of her worthy confederates. Amid taunts nnd ducats, and des pite tlie most powerful appliances, eloquent appeals artful strntegems, nnd luimbuggory, she has stood firm and unshaken in her purposo ns tho Rock of Glhralter. Although tlie skies, therefore, are nat everywhere entirely bright, and a few clouds occasionally flit athwart the pojitjcnl firmnment, wc nevertheless see much in the prosent manifestations of populn feeling and sentiment, ut home nnd nbroad, to oonv fort and encourage us. The prospect of perpetual Union and harmony among the Statos wliioh 'now -form ona glorious-and powerful natfpn, jt every day. beooming more cheering.^ Let every" matt caiefully MURRAY: Oer L'nlen friends in Murray hat e Jons even tetter than wc Inst week reported, Ihstend of two, she his; as will be seen, given four hundred and thirty four ma jority for Mr Cobb. Oar young friend of the Dalton Times seems to have been quite as much astonished at this result as we were, and indulges In the following moarufal strain: , " She has fooled ns badly—disappointed us in every thing. - We hnd even gone lo the expense of having a chicken rooster manufactured—so natural that you could almost hear him crow—which we intended to place over a piece of editorial chronicling the defeat of the Unloii party In this county. . Bat poor Rooster cannot' appear before the public with very good grace with four hundred and thirty foor majority for Cobb, eliciting to his toil, so we hove jost put Up the' Bird to roost hoping he may yet hate an opportunity' to crow at some futnre day.” We trust onr friend's yoang bird may never have' an opportunity to leave its quiet rookt. Should it eveti' oraw in *■ future," It will not be in the " day,” bat ltd some dark and' tempestuous night, and prove the omsrf of a nation's overthrow. ANOTHER CONVENTION. This, it would Bejm is the age of conventions, ond‘ what is also worthy of remark, Is the fuel, that same half a score of them have concluded to bo either the ■invited or uninvited, gueats of the Slate Fair at MacDrt, to be held the last of this month' And as if the wor thy people of that hospitable city wero not already in danger of too many of these good things at once, the Journal Sr Messenger proposeseven another convoca tion—a " Commercial Convention.”. Were it not that we hove an eye to that splendid .editorial tent, we should hardly dare make a descent upon Macon nt such a time. < ■ But seriously, aside from the primary design of the- occasion, ws know of no interest more important to be considered nndfostered than that of commerce—Sou-- them Commerce. Thi* would do much to secure Sou thern Independence, and by dlrvorslfylng the chsnttels- ofcapitnl nnd labor, prevent any one branch of South ern Industry ftom being so.hrgely and ruinously overt taxed. Wo hove before remarked that we hive ni objection to cotton conventions—but nil their reports and resolutions, be .they ever so luminous and promis ing,cun do nothing, absolutely nothing, to appreciate permanently, tlie price of this great staple of the South, or guard it against midden revulsions. The cotton growth und cotton culture must not be viewed os an Interest or pursuit, alien ,to,but interwoven with that of commerce und donicstio manufactures' Cotton Is a great demon! of. Southern prosperity and Inde pendence, but it should not. be an Isdisted one. To bacco, rice, sugnr, grains, and Indeed nil the produc tions ;nf earth should be made to flil their appropriate place in the fields of the South, andjtaur into hersunny Inp tlie demeMs of,wealth and happiness. Her di versified nmniilu jtorirs—her. flootlpg ships in every clinic, should nt 6nce open tiew channels for the home investment of iter cnpitnl and the home consumption of her produeis. If instead of hoarding up her Cotton on bqrruwed capital,, as some of our worthy Florida friends propose, she would spin it tip at our own doors, and then send her yarnsjo Europo In her own vessels, nnd iu return bring bnck sucharlicresaswecouldnotpro fifthly make ourselves,the South would at once by this diversion of capital nnd employment, receive a health ful impulse of a permanent character; Bet we have Idea, that special conventions or speelal legislation for the promotion of the cotton orsnyolher isolated in terest will do much good.The world can live without oar- cotton, and unless we are cautious in attempting by artificial means to stimulate the prico too. much, ws may drive Europe more largely to experiment in its. growth In her own colonies and'ln Africa and eleo- where: and also substitute for it, flax and wool. We favor, therefore, the suggestion of our Mnooh cotempo- rnry, fur a Commercial Convention. Kail Rood Connection. We observe.by th.e Macon pnpera that n junct has been effected-between tho Central and South-* tern Rail llonds, ami that.cars now pass through f Savannah to Oglethorpe wilhoutdctcntlon.und I without trpiispliipmem. This.is a very desir arrangement. The Afessciiger nlsp thinks that a ncetipo will be formed between the Central s'nd |l Macon and Western Roads in time to meet tbs Cb rokee, Alabntnn,and Tennessee Winter trade,and t vel. This arrangement carried out in thVspirit of ernlity, with n proper reduction uf freights,, promp tudu ill transportation, nnd placed under tho dircetlosr ; ofcareful and courteous ngentsand conductors, cam foil to muke Sa vannah nnd Macon large provision < poth; oml tidd greatly to their already growing'pf perky. Indeed, wc hope aocn to ace cars- arrive at Rome direct from Augusta, Savannah and Macon; ft after a brief pause in our city for refreshments, dash down to Jacksonville, thence to Selma,thence to."* bile; there ipect passengers and freights ’direct i China, via San Francisco, and get back in time to fur- I nish outgRomnn matrons will: a drawing Ot black tea < for early supper, fresh from celestial gardens. This' will be the route. It will be several hundred miles ' nearer than the Memphis route, and wo doubt not bq 1 greatly preferred by both the ” celesliola,” and terres/ trials. Wnebiitston Editor*, f .'To (hose pf us who are merely ($1$ on in Vienna,” it is quite amusing to wits the political quarrels of the Metrop Press. “ The Washington Unfoh*’conti warmly that the Compromise is the-1 sive property of the democracy of thp w Uniou, and is tp form its platform in the i Presidential canvass; whilst the '“’Rep declares that it belongs to whigs, and . democrats, especially Southern democr are generally opposed to it. With dne respq | we would inform those very reputa that they are both in error upon I Thero nro found in the secession ranks ([“ whigs nr.d democrats, with their presse harmonize—whilst on the. other-hand j have in the Union ranks almost an. number of .leading men from thetwo olt itical parties. Although there are undq| edly some very able and clever dptr who are secessionists, wo ncVcrtheles wc have in the Union ranks the' ere Southern democracy. The Repul tnken in saying that no democratic ported Mr. Cobb. Some .four or fitf ported him, nqd about as many,old, pers opposed him. Thenpproachiif Inture will also lib composed of ne equal uumber of old whigs and de The truth’is, old names and ■tts'toj ganizatioiis were lost sight of; and democrats have united in spyif - Vye feel rthttt ’this- stale ‘ parties ,in and out (