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SSUtkln Colstitutimmlisi.
BY JAMES GARDNER.
SUNDAY, JTJIAT 4.
The Fourth of July.
We publish this morning, as appropriate to the
day, our Declaration of Independence, made by
the Congress of the United Colonies on the 4th
day of July, 1776.
The eighty-second anniversary of this birth
day of the nation, is, we are glad to announce, to
be appropriately celebrated by the citizens and
military of Angusta on to-day and to-morrow.
At half-past nine o’clock this morning, the Inde
pendent Volunteer Battalion will be formed in
front of the City Hotel, and joining the Fire De
partment and members of the City Council in
front of the Augusta Hotel, will proceed to St.
Johns’ Methodist Episcopal Church, where a ser
mon will be delivered by Rev. Mr. Lamar.
On Monday (to-morrow) morning, a salute will
be fired at daylight, and again at sunrise, by the
Washington Artillery—the Independent Volunteer
Battalion will parade at six o’clock, and a national
salute at tweive M. by the Artillery, will, we be
lieve, close the celebration of the Fourth by the
Battalion.
The Montgomery Guards and Irish Volunteers
will form at 9 o’clock to-morrow morning, in front
of the United States Hotel, and thence proceed to
the City Hall, where the Declaration of Inde
pendence will be read by John Milledgb, Jr.,
and an oration will be delivered by Lieut. John B.
Weems, of the Montgomery Guards; after which
the two companies will march to the United States
Hotel, where they will dine, with a number of in
vited guests.
This is briefly the programme for the celebra
tion of the Fourth, which we trust may be carried
out without an accident or any other occurrence
to mar its pleasure or its seemliness.
President-Making—Movements of the Op
position.
We publish in another column a curious docu
ment, in the shape of a circular signed N. Sargent,
and issued from Washington City, which, it is
said, has been extensively circulated throughout
the Union—although we find no reference to it in
the columns of any of our American contempora
ries of this State. This circular explains the re
cent Crittexden demonstrations in Ohio and Ken-
well as the recent movement in favor of
a tariff in Pennsylvania, and gives u 3
some insight into the policy of the coalition of
Whigs, Americans and Abolitionists, which in the
next contest for the Presidency will be arrayed
against the National Democracy—into the policy
at least, of the southern American element of the
coalition. It is to dispense with all platforms—
in other words,‘dispense with all principles, as
tlife people care very little about the principles of
a part)', and to unite all the elements of the oppo
sition, North and South, Americau and Abolition,
upon some candidate for the Presidency who is
not identified with any purely sectional party,
and thus give the appearance of nationality,
to the party, at least until the canvass is con
cluded. Mr. Crittenden is evidently the can
didate this wing of the opposition has in view,
and the recent u spontaneous movements of the
people” in doing him honor upon his route home
from Washington City, were evidently but a part
of the programme of the managers of this wing.
Fortunately, however, for the Democracy and for
the country, there is another wing of the opposi
tion, embracing all its real strength, which must
be consulted and must be permitted to dictate its
’movements in reference to the next Presidency.
This wing has little use for the southern Ameri
cans, or for the venerable Senator from Kentucky
and bis followers, except to give it au odor of na
tionality—which was its great want in the last
canvass—and aid it in securing the control of the
Federal Government; and it will never permit
them to dictate its position and its candidate.
But, even if the Black Republican element of the
opposition did not disturb the programme of
the friends of Mr. Crittenden, indicated in
the Sargent circular, it never could be suc
cessfully carried out. They are too eager—
too early in the field, and too open in their
movements. They propose to manufacture a spon
taneous movement of the people which shall lift
their candidate above party platforms and all oth
er obstacles, to elevate him to the Presidency;
and afterwards to determine the party and the
principles which triumphed in his election. But
they have commenced too early and incautiously
disclosed too much to those they design to dupe.
Their policy is understood, and the consequence
will be that the people will refuse to carry out the
role assigned \ikexn, aud leave them with nothing
but a candidate, who, by their training, will be
pumped out and completely blown, before the en
tries for the next Presidential race have been made.
So much for the Crittenden movement, which
can never be formidable, and is interesting only as
the first effort which has been made to organise
the opposition to the Democratic party, with refer
ence to the next Presidential election.
Warm Weather at the North.
The newspapers in the northern and middle
States report a very high range of temperature,
and numerous cases of death in consequence of it.
We have bad rather a “warm term” in this
region, but we have heard of no deaths result
ing from it.
The Attachment Law—lmportant De
cision.
The Savannah Republican , of the Brd instant,
contains the following note from a correspondent,
in reference to an important decision rendered by
iEe Supreme Court, now in session at Macon, on
the Ist instant:
Macon, Ga., July Ist, 1358.
Editor Republican—Dear Sir: The Supreme
Court decided ibis morniDg that the attachment
and garnishment act, passed 1855-’6— generally
known as “ Cone’s ” attachment and garnishment
law, and which by the fifty-fifth seciion repeals
“all acts and parts of acts upon the subject of at
tachments ana garnishment ” —does not repeal the
statute passed Dec. 27th 1845, “ exempting the
wages of journeymen mechanics and day laborers
from process and liability to garnishment.” This
decision will be hailed with delight by the class
of persons thus relieved from the vexatious pro
cess of garnishment, but the profession will regret
to see the Supreme Court making instead of de
claring the law. Yours, Bibb.
The Savannah Morning News says the
Montgomery papers report, on the authority of
passengers, that the yellow fever was prevailing in
New Orleans in a very malignant form. If such
notice appeared m the Montgomery papers, it es
caped our attention.
I3T There wsb additional evidence brought be- j
fore tha Board of Magistrates on yesterday, in the
case of the State vs. Wbslbt Moksax, a free per
son of color, charged with having set fire to the
mills of Habsan Rowlet. The evidence was such
that the magistrates committed Mobwan to jail to
await his trial before the Court.
On the first of July about three thousand three
hundred mail routes, extending to all parts of the
country, will pass into new hands. New contract
ors, new drivers, new postboys, will set out with
their first mails, and at least fifteen thousand post
masters will receive the first salutations of those
who are thus destined to endure the heat or
breast the storm on every road for the next four
years.
The {Nicaraguan Treaty.— Mons. Belly was to
have left New York June 30th, for Washington.
The Tiroes says he denies having been to Cen
tral America on a “mission.” The New York
parties who claim the old charter for the Nicara
guan canal, allege that there is no truth in the
statement that Com. Vanderbilt has effected a
treaty securing the transit route.
Times &•. Sentinel, of the Ist instant,
has the following admirable salutatory from Messrs.
Colquitt A Warren, who have succeeded Col.
Lomax in its editorial department:
With this issue dates our association in the
editorial management of the Times db Sentinel.
This change of advocates involves no departure
from those great principles, the fearless advocacy
of which has illustrated the editorial career of our
able predecessor. Like him we belong to that
school of State Rights Democracy, which ac
knowledges no other chart of political guidance
than the Constitution of the country. From thence
we deduce the doctrine of State Rights and State
Equality, and under the banner of this principle
we shall stand or fall, as it may float in triumph
or sink in shame. Administrations, when they
shape their course by the plain directions of this
churt, shall receive our humble but zealous sup
port; when they depart therefrom, they will en
counter our insignificant, it may be, but deter
mined, perserving opposition. For the Union of
these States we profess an attachment, rational,
we think, m its kind—far from superstitious in
degree. The Constitution contains the terms
upon which it was formed. Without the promise
to observe these conditions, it would never have
existed; with their violation it should cease to be.
This attachment fur the Union is secondary and
subordinate to our love for the South. To her we
owe our first duty and acknowledge our chiefest
allegiance. To stimulate, as far as we can, the
expansion and development of her moral, intellec
tual and material resources, to defend her institu
tions against open attack, to guard her rights
against insidious encroachment, to give timely
warning of whatever danger may threaten her,
arc objects embraced in the mission we to-day
accept.
James W. Warren,
Peyton H. Colquitt.
The New York Herald , in an article upon
the Atlantic Telegraph enterprise remarks:
“ What a singular coincidence it would be—and
it looks by no means to be an unlikey one—should
the two countries be first united by this electric
bond on the anniversary of the day when, eighty
two years ago, they were politically dissevered!
, The happening of Such art event would infuse a
• new element into the celebration of our great na
tional holiday, the Fourth of July, and give new
| spirit to the general rejoicings of the day.”
! The Heroine of Tampico. —Mrs. Chase, the he
| roine of a brilliant exploit in the Mexican war, is
! in Washington, and the States thus describes her
adventure:
The scene was at Tampico during the Mexican
war. Our fleet, under Commodore Conner, was
waiting for a favorable opportunity to take the
town, when a boat sent by our heroine, came off,
bearing the plans of the fortifications, and a mes
sage that the American flag would be hoisted at
the moment Tampico could be easily taken. Our
heroine was, I must s*v, in a very perilous situa
tion. Tampico was full of the enemy, and her
i house in charge of treacherous servants, who
I watched her every movement. The Mexican
j forces were withdrawing .from the city. Mounting
[ quickly to the rqpf, she unfurled the American
flag. The manoeuvre w»3 discovered by the ene
! my in the streets, and a party was sent to pull
I down the flag. They approached the staff, but
j our heroine defied them to tear that banner from
its place until she had died in its detense. Pistols
and swords were pointed at her breast; faces full
of deadly hate scowled upon her; but the ceurage
of a woman conquered. The Mexicans were cow
ards, and the flag continued floating in the breeze.
The signal was seen by Commodore Conner ; the
fleet etood in for the town, and Tampico was ta
ken.
From the Charleston Courier.
Rnilrond Freights.
S. C. Railroad, Charleston, July 2,1858.
Editors Charleston Courier: In a communica
tion in this day's Courier , over the siguature
“ Charleston,” I have just read the following para
graph :
*• We learn application was made to reduce
freight on grain to this place. All the roads nee
ded to it with the exception of the South Caroli
na Railroad Company.”
It is my duty, as an officer on the South Caroli
na railroad, in special charge of that department
<>f it* business, to which proposals for freight re-
due. ions would be referred, as well us an act only
of simple justice to its managers, tc say that a pro
position from connecting roads to unite with them
in a reduction of charges to Charleston has never
been made to this company and refueed. Our po
sition is well known along the route, and has often
beeu declared. We are ready to adopt and share
equally with roads in common, any rate which
they may consider necessary to prevent a diver
sion of produce. To them is left the determination
of the proper time at which changes should be
made, and of the proper figures to make those
changes effective, and that their determinations in
such cases should be entirely free, we do not even
require them to consult us.
Enough has been said, perhaps, to correct any
misapprehension which may have arisen from the
statement of your correspondent. But a further
remark may not be inappropriate. Charges
against the South Carolina rail road of illiberally
and ot injury to the progress of the city, come
with peculiar injustice and ungraciousness at this
time, especially in connection with the rates of
gram and flour. For some time past this road,
among the first, (if not the first) on the western
route, has been convinced of the expediency, if
not the'necessity, of material reduction on exist
ing rates, and has freely used its influence to that
end. It has promptly and without a moment’s
hesitation, accepted a proposal from the Nashville
and Chattanooga railroad to reduce the rate of
flour to one dollar and twenty cents per barrel,
and wheat to thirty-two cents per -bushel from
Nashville to Charleston, and only waits notice
from that road of the adoption of the proposed
rate throughout the line, to make corresponding
reductions on local freight at Augusta.
W. j. Magrath,
General Agent.
Successful Statesmanship. —Wellwood, in his
“ Memoirs,” speaking of the invincible Armada,
says: * 4 It is now a well known truth that Sir
Francis Walsingham, (then Secretary of Btate,)
upon notice that the King of Spain bat! written a
letter to the Pope, with an account of the true de
sign of his mighty preparations and to beg his
blessing upon it, got a copy of this letter out of the
Pope’s cabinet by tbe help of a priest, his spy, and
haa thence the first certain intelligence of the de
signed Spanish invasion ; and that, thereupon, that
consummate statesman prevented it for a whole
year, by procuring our merchants to gather up tbe
chief bills of the Bank of Genoa, and to draw the
money out of it just as King Philip had ordered
bills upon that bank to set his fleet oat to sea,
which being, through necessity, protested, there
was no remedy but patience, and to wait the arri
val of his Plate fleet from the Indies for the neces
sary supplies.”
There is a local editor out West so poor, that he
never, stands upon more than one foot at a time,
for tear that he may wear out his boots too quick.
g3wEDNESDAY 5 JULY 7 , 1858.
BY TELEGKAP#
arm val
OF THE STEAMSHIP
CITY QF WASHINGTON.
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
COTTON DULL, BUT UNCHANGED.
St. Johns, N. F., July 3.—The steamship City
of Washington was boarded off Cape Race on
yesterday afternoon, by the steam yacht belong
ing to the Associated Press.
This steamer brings Liverpool dates to JVednes
day, June 23.
Commercial News.
Liverpool Cotton Mark*.— The sales of Cotton
for three days reach 20,000 bales, of which specu
lators and exporters took 3,000 bales. The mar
ket closed dull, with prices rather easier, but quo
tations were unchanged.
Liverpool General Market. —Breadstuffs tvere
dull, and quotations nominal. Provisions were
also dull.
London Money Market. —There was no change
reported in Money; Consols were quoted at 95%
a 95%.
General News.
The news by this arrival is unimportant.
Shipwrecked Sailors Arrived.
Savannah, July 3.— The British schooner Ann
Sophia, which arrived below on yesterday, had on
board a large portion of the crew of the wrecked
ship Bombay, Chask, master, lrom the Canary
Islands to Matansas, and of the wrecked ship
Knickerbocker, Bostwick, master, from Liverpool
to New Orlenns.
Remains of Ex-President Monroe.
New York, July 3. —The remains of ex-Presi
dent Monroe were exhumed yesterday, and his
coffin was found to be in an excellent state of
preservation. The remains will be forwarded to
Richmond to-day, under the charge of the Vir
ginia committee and the seventh regiment of this
city.
Nothing yet heard ol the Cable Fleet.
Nkw York, July 2—lo o'clock, P. M. —The St.
John’s telegraph line to Trinity Bay is in fine
working order, and the steamship Niagara is
anxiously expected.
Remains ol Ex-President Monroe.
Nkw Yokk, July 3, P. M.—The remains of ex-
Presideqt Monroe, left the wharf this afternoon at
three o’clock, in charge of the Virginia Commit
tee and the Seventh Regiment of Ihft city. The
steamer left amid the salutes of all the and
vessels In porT :md-hrtfte bar. "
Market Reports.
New Orleans, July 3.—The Cotton market con
tinues steady at 12 cents for middling qualities.
Sugar steady. Molasses, ordinary, at 27 cents per
gallon. Flour has a declining tendency. Con*,
$1 per bushel. India Bagging has advanced %c.,
and is now quoted at Icents. [This quotation
shows an advance of 1% cent per yard during the
week, from the quotations furnished in the N. Q.
Prices Current, of the 20th of June]. Sight Ex
change on New York % to % prem., and active.
New York, July 3.— Sales of Cotton to-day
1,000 bales; Middling Uplands 12% cents. Bread*
stuffs firm. Naval Stores steady, and Rosin quo
ted at f 1 00. Rice was dull at 3a 8% cents.
A Declaration
By the Representatives of the United States of Amer
ica in Congress Assembled.
When, in the coarse of human events, it be
comes necessary for one people to dissolve the po
litical bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume, among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal station to which the
laws of nature aud of nature’s God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires
that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all
men are created equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable rights ; that
among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. That, to secure these rights, govern
ments are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed ;
that, whenever auy form of government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the right of the
people to alter or to abolish it, amPto institute a
new government, laying its foundation on such
principles, and organ sing its powers in such form,
us to them shall seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dic
tate that governments long established, should
not be changed for light and transient causes ;
aud, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils
are sufferable, than to right themselves by abol
ishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But, wheu a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same obiect, evinces a
design to reduce them under absolute despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
government, and to provide new guards for their
future security. Such has been the patient suf
ferance of these colonies, and such is now the ne
cessity which constrains them to alter their for
mer systems of government. The history of the
present King of Great Britain is a history of re
peated injuries and usurpations, all having, in di
re® l object, the establishment of an absolute ty
ranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be
submitted to a candid world :
He has refused his assent to laws the most
wholesome apd necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of
immediate and pressing importance, unless sus
pended in their operation till his assent should be
obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly
neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accom
modation of large districts of people, unless those
people would relinquish the right of representa
tion in the legislature; a right inestimable to them,
and formidable to tyrants ouly. #
He has called together legislative bodies at
places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from
the depository of their public records, for the sole
purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with
his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeat
edly. for opposing, with manly firmness, his inva
sions on the rights of the people.
He has refused, for a long time after such disso
lutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby
the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation,
have returned to the people at large for their exer
cise* the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed
to all the danger of invasion from without, and
convulsions within. ' .
He has endeavored to prevent the population of
these States; for that purpose, obstructing the
laws for naturalization of foreigners ; refusing to
pass others to encourage their migration hither,
and refusing the conditions of new appropriations
•f lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice,
by refusing his assent to laws for establishing ju
diciary powers. .......
He has made judges dependent on his wilt alone,
for the tenure of their cilices, and the amount and
payment of their salaries. „
lie has erected a multitude of new offices, and
sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,
and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, stand
ing armies, without the consent of our legislature.
He has Effected to render the military indepen
dent of, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined, with ethers, to subject us to
a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and un
acknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to
their acts of pretended legislation :
For quartering large bodies of armed troops ;
among us:
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from pun
ishment, for any murders which they should com
mit on the inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the ,
world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent: *
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits :
of trial by jury :
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for j
pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system of English laws j
in a neighboring province, establishing therein an (
arbitrary government, and enlarging its bounds- ,
ries, so as to render it at once an example and fit
instrument for introducing the same absolute rule
iuto these eolonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our .
most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally, ‘
the powers of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declar- (
ing themselves invested with power to legislate .
for us In all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declar- '
ing us out of his protection, and waging war !
against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, ,
burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our
peopte.
He is, at this time, transporting large armies of
foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, ,
desolation and tyranny, already begun, with cir,
cum stances of cruelty and perhdy scarcely paral- !
leled in the most barbarous ages, and totally un
worthy the head of a civilised nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken
captive on the high seas, to beararms against their
country, to become the executioners of their friends
and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst
us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants
of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages,
whose known rule of warfare isan undistinguished
destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions, we have pe
titioned for redress, in the most humble terms; our
repeated petitions huve been answered only by
repeated injury. A prince, whose character is
thus marked by every act which may define a ty
rant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free* people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to cur
British brethren. We have warned them, froru
time to time, of attempts made by their legisla
ture to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over
us. We have reminded them of the circumstances
of our emigration and settlement here. We have
appealed to their native justice and magnanimity,
and we have conjured them, by the ties of our
common kindeed, to disavow their usurpations,
which would inevitably interrupt our connections
and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf
to the voice of justice and consanguinity. We
must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which
denounces our separation, aud hold them, as we
hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace,
Ifr iends. . #l . _., ,
We, therefore, the rcprc^: ntaUvCs cf l
Stales of America, in General Congress asstrobleu, i
to the Supreme Judge of the world for
Os intentions,'do, tmune,and
■•f the good people of U
mea, solemnly publish and declare, That these
Upited Colonies are, and of right ought to be,
Fiee and Independent States; that they are ab
solved teom alt allegiance to the British crown,
an.«l that all political connection between them and
Ibtf Shite of Great Britain, is, and oueht to be, to
, taMv dissolved ; and that as Free and Independent
Stales, they have full power to levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and
to do all other acts and things which Iruiependent
States may of right do. And, for the support of
this declaration, with a firm reliance on the pro
tection of Divine Providence, wo mutually pledge
to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sa
cred honor.
The foregoing declaration was, by order of Con
gress, engrossed, and signed by the following
members:
JOHN HANCOCK.
NEW HAMPSHIRE* MASSACHUSETTS BAT.
Josiah Bartlett, Samuel Adams,
William Whipple, John Adams,
Matthew Thornton. Robtert Treat Paine,
Delaware. El bridge Gerry.
Csesar Rodney, rhodb island.
George Read, Stephen Hopkins,
Thomas M’Kean. William Ellery.
CONNECTICUT. MARYLAND.
Roger Sherman, Samuel Chase,
Samuel Huntington, William Paca,
William Williams, Thomas Stone.
Oliver Wolcott. Chs. Carroll, of Carrolton,
NEW YORK. VIRGINIA.
William Floyd, George Wythe,
Philip Livingston, Richard Henry Lee,
Francis Lewis, Thomas Jefferson,
Lewis Morris. Benjamin Harrison,
new jersey. Thomas Nelson, jun.
Richard Stockton, Francis Lightfoot Lee,
John Withei spoon, Carter Braxton.
Franciß Hopkinson, north Carolina.
John Hart, William Hooper,
Abraham Clark. Joseph Hewes,
Pennsylvania. John Penn.
Robert Morns, south Carolina.
Benjamin Rush. Edward Rutledge,
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Heyward, jun.
John Morton, Thomas Lynch, jun.
George dymer, Arthur Middleton.
James Smith, Georgia.
George Tuylor, Button Gwinnett,
James Wilson, Lyman Hull,
George Ross. George Walton.
The Tunica Couuty JLevees Broke#
We received lust night, says the Memphis Bulle
tin of the Ist. inst., by thr steamer Kate Frisbee
the following note from our esteemed friend,
Judge J. Hardeman, of Tunica county, Mississip
pi, which conveys sad intelligence of the sudden
and unexpected breaking of the Tunica county le
vees:
Tunica County, Miss., June 30,1858.
To the Editor of the Memphis Morning Bulletin :
The levees of Tunica county, Mississippi, hav
ing withstood the Hood of waters up to Sunday
night last, there was then an almost simultaneous
giving way at the following points, viz: The levee
spanning the ovei flow to Beaver Dam Lake, be
tween me Ridge at Austin and Kerr’s, hitherto
supposed to be the most substantial levee in the
country, the newly repaired levee between Kerr’s
and H&rbertV broke at three points between
OneaFs and Major Miller’s. The water passing
through the above crevasses, or the larger portion
of them, will be concentrated through Beaver Dam
Lake and Flower Lake to the Yazoo Pass and to
Cold Water. The crevasse at Dr. Jameson’s,
emptying its water into McKinney Lake, may,
more or less, damage the plantations in the vicin
ity of Commerce. These breaks in the levees have
inundated almost entirely, (save a narrow ridge
in front,) the Welborn Highlands, hitherto sup
posed to be above all overflow. There are also
crevasses reported, one above Col. Trotter’s, at
Wjllough Slough. The break in the levees of this
county will prove to be more disastrous to the
plantations in their vicinity, and to the country
below, than any crevasses heretofore reported.
The river at Austin rose one and a half inches in
the last twelve hours.
Crops. —We take the following extract from a
private letter of a friend in Pulaski county:
44 The prospect of the crops in this county has
never been, in all my knowledge, nitre flattering
than the present. I have heard from all parts of
the county, and all encooraging. I was m com
pany with a gentleman yesterday, (that is an old
citizen,) and he says he has never seen a brighter
prospect.' Even on the poor pine lands the crops
aeem to be astonishingly good. The same report
will embrace Houston, Dooly, Laurens, Wilkinson
and Twiggs, and, as far as m> knowledge extends,
the rains seem to bold out good with them all.
The health of the above named counties is good,
with but few exceptions ”
Wire Grans Repo. ter t June 30 th.
The 44 Crittenden-Amendment” Party.
Washington, June 23, 1858.
Dear Sir : Please destroy the printed letter I
sent you at the request of— , on the 11th inst..
and receive the enclosed as a substitute. The rea
sons for this may appear obvious to you, if not,
yon will probably see ere lon*g, when he
will explain. I have not bad the pleasure of hear
ing from you. Very truly yours,
X. Sargent.
Washington, June 23, 1858.
My Dear Sir: It has been deemed advisable by
a number of gentlemen lately here from different
quarters of the Union, opposed to the present ad
ministration, to open a correspondence with prom
inent individuals in various States, whose general
sentiments accord with thcirs ; in order to inter
change opinions, learn their views as to the re-or
ganization of parties, ascertain what public senti
ment is in their respective localities in reference
to the course to be pursued in the contest for the
Presidency in 1860, and to draw out, and to give
expression to that sentiment through.the channels
of the press.
They are of opinion that, without giving nation
ality to the opposition party, by whatever name it
may be called—though the term “Union party”
is deemed appropriate—it will be idle to think of
defeating the party now in powoqjn 1860; and
that such nationality cannot be given to it if its
candidate shall be an ultra sectional man. Such
a man could only receive the support of the dis
tinctive organization to which he has belonged;
and it is clear ihat such a nomination would drive
the Democratic party into unanimity, whereby a
Democratic President would be elected by even a
larger majority than Mr. Buchanan obtained.
The questions may suggest themselves to you,
as they have to us, can a national party be formed
of sufficient strength to wrest the government
from the corrupt and reckless party now in pow
er? and if so, by what means?
It is confidently believed that the first question
may be answered in the affirmative; that a large
majority of the people are opposed to that party,
aud that united action is only needed to insure vic
tory. But how can this be brought about? An
swer : by uniting in support of a man in whose
character, principles, and abilities the whole na
tion can repose confidence; who has a stronghold
upon the hearts of the people: who is neither
charged with nor suspected of sectionalism—a
statesman of the old sfchool, of elevated and con
servative views, high sense of national honor, and
who will be as ready to render even-handed jus
tice to other nations as prompt to exact it from
them. It may be asked upon what “platform”
is such a party to stand? If any “platform” is
necessaty, it is believed that the “ Crittenden
amendment” will be broad enough for the whole
bo lv of tbc nation to stand upon. But, after all,
the public character of the candidate for the Pres
idency, his principles, public services, patriotism
and abilities, are a better “ platform” than any
that could be manufactured lor the occasion. The
people voted for General Washington because they
had confidence in him ; not for any political con
fession of faith, creed, o> promises lie had made
or subscribed to, which be would have scorned to
do. It is not the “platform,” but the man, that
the people vote for; it is the man, .and not the
“ platform,” that inspires confidence, and wins
support. Henry Clay aud Andrew Jackson need
ed no “ platform” to insure them the support of
their respective parties.
i Undoubtedly there is a growing conviction on
the part of the people that the American interest
and American labor should receive morejaf the
fostering care of the federal government than has
been bestowed on them of late years; that the o*»I
--• lot-box must be purified, and its purity preserved;
' that a more intense national feeling should be cul
• tivuted, and that the immigration of foreign paa
‘ pers and criminals, who are almost instantly trans
' formed into voters, and by wfrom our elections are
often decided, should be prohibited. But for these
• and other salutary reforms we must rely wholly
1 upon the people themselves; though our candi
| date for the Presidency in 1860 should be a mau
' whose whole public career affords a guarantee that,
in bringing about these reforms, his co-operation
would be most cheerfully given.
Will you do me the favor to reply to this, stating
how far you concur in, or dissent from, the news
I have expressed, and the suggestions I have
thrown out; and also inform me what is the pre
vailing sentiment of the people in your vicinity,
so far as you are cognizant ot it, in regard to the
organization of a Union party as suggested?
1 must also ask the favor of you to send me
names and address of such prominent men in your
county or State as will be likely to take an active
and willing part in attaining the object proppsed,
as we hope you will. I am, very very respectfully,
your obedient servant, N. Sargent.
The Brunswick Herald and the Mam
Trunk.
In our article of yes‘erdav, we published an ar
ticle from the Brunswick Her<ild calculated, if not
intended, to affect the credit of the Main Trunk
Company.
We seit satisfied at the time that there was some
mistake about the facts, as stated by the Herald,
and it affords us pleasure to lay before our readers
the following correct account of the matter, which
we h#ve received from the President of the Main
Trunk Company :
When it was agreed last fall to pay the Bruns
wick <k Florida Railroad Company seventy-five
thousand dollars for the release of their chartered
privileges, forty thousand dollars for the amount
were given in a note to Robert Collins, of Macon,
one ol the contractors of the Brunswick & Florida
railroad, which note was paid when it fell due on
ihe 15th day of June last. The remaining tbirty
tive thousand dollars were given to the Brunswick
Company in five notes of seven thousand dollars
each. Shortly after the delivery of these notes to
Mr. Wheeler, the President of the Brunswick &
Florida Railroad Company, Messrs. Jones and
Hayes, contractors on that road, stopped the pay
ment of these notes by garnishment served upon
the President of the Main Trunk road, and as Mr.
Wheeler has paid no attention to the matter, the
garnishment has not been dissolved, and the notes
consequently remain unpaid.
_ It is proper to state that the Main Trunk Com
pany has been fully able to meet promptly the
payment of all these notes, and would have so
done, if Mr. Wheeler had dissolved the garnish
ment bv furnishing the requisite bond required by
ibe Court, or by giving ample security to the Pres
ident of the Main Trunk Company.
We are forced to the conclusion that the editor
of the Herald, in his haste to bolster up the Bruns
wick Company, has* aimed a blow at the Main
Trunk Company, without being fully aware of the
facts, and we trust that as an act of sheer justice,
be will give the above statement an insertion in
his columns.— Saoannah Georgian, o*i inst.
THr; Plant of a Hundred Years. —We have
great pleasure in announcing to our readers, and
particularly to the horticultural portion of them,
the approaching opportunity for their enjoying a
rare treat, in being permittee! to witness the finest
specimen of the “ Agave Americana,” or “ Cen
tury Plant” in bloom, which is to be found in this
countrv. *This noble plant, the most picturesque
and majestic of all our American succulents,
has already thrown up a flower stem, which, with
the main body of the plant, has attained a height
of nearly twenty-five feet, and weighs, (the whole
together,) as ascertained on its recent importation
to this city from its well-known nursery at Spring
brook, two thousand eight hundred" and sixty
pounds. The plant, with its many hundreds of
flowers, will be in full development in the course
of a few weeks, and will be publicly exhibited by
its liberal proprietor, George H. Stuart, Esq., for
the benefit of the “ YouDg Men’s Christian Asso
ciation. "—Philadelphia Bulletin.
Dickens’ Religious 'Roubles. —A New York
correspondent es the Boston Atlas and Bee says:
“ I was recently conversing with a gentleman
well acquainted with the Dickens family, and he
attributes the difference between the novelist and
wife to diverse views they take in regard to the
religious education of their daughters. Mr. Dickens
is a decided latitudinarian in bis views, and gen
erally attends the Unitarian Church, while Mrs.
Dickens, an Edinburg lady, brought up in the
siricter doctrines of Presbyterianism, still dings
to the religious ideas inculcated in her youth, and
naturally wishes her daughters brought up in
same way.”
VOL. 37—:N O. 28
The Agamemnon and Niagara.
WITH THK SC-BMAaiXZ TIL KG BA PH, IH HrIVOCZAX.
(A &mg of Nation*.)
BT WILLLA.It BUM WALLACE.
Science, Religion and Poetry, are the lovers of the world.
J. F. JHivh.
O, winds of Ocean! weil may ye
Tour wings in sweetest music wave :
And thou, O, sun! look smiling down
Upon the banded brave;
The Red Cross floats—but roses tow
Are wreathing round the bloodless fold;
Beside it see the Flag of Stars
In shining myrtles rolled:
And hark! the song of Bethlehem's glen.
“ Peace on the Earth ! Good will to men 1"
No cannon frem the port-holes frown :
No quick, deep, boarding drums are heard:
No wrathful shouts of onset here
Rush through the warrior’s beard ;
The br-ve ones of two mighty lands.
Once met in war, together stride
With worcs of love and s i.lles of joy
Above the gladdened tide:
Ring out thy song of Bethlehem’s glen.
** Peace on the Earth! Good will to Men !"
O, more than mortal forms are here
Upon the decks amid the throng.
Who, though unheard by mortal ears.
Join iu tne heavenly sqpg:
Tlere walks the seer of Carmel's crag;
Here glows the Bard of Zion’s psalm.
And with them be of Patmos w»ves
His consecrated palm—
Singing the song or Bethlehem’s glen.
“Peace on the Earth! Good will to men I”
Then, heroes of the banded ships!
With heaving hearts and eyes a glow,
Down with tlie instrument of love.
Old Ocean’s heart below :
By it the continents shall wed :
The flags of war and hell be furled ;
One universal rainbow arch
And paradise the world—
In chorus with Judea’s glen,
“Peace on the Earth ! Good will to men
Yes, winds of Ocean ! well may ye
Your wings In sweetest music wave;
And thou, O Sun ! look smiling down
Upon the banded brave r
Do ye not see the nations stand
In breathless joy before the deed ?
Tills Is the bridal of the climes
By Him of old decreed.
When rose the song of Bethlehem’s glen.
“Peace on the Earth ! Good will to men!”
From the Baltimore Kcchange.
Sun Stroke—lts Symptoms and Remedy.
On looking over our exchanges, we find that
thirty or forty persons have already suffered this
season from the effects of the sun, and before the
summer is over, we shall in all probability be call
ed upon to chronicle many casualties of the same
kind. What, therefore, is best to be done in the
case of a sudden attack ? According to the New
York Poet, the symptoms of sun stroke generally
indicate a constitution previously impaired. Some
times there is active congestion and apoplectic ef
fusion in the cranium, and in such cases death
generally ensues. But more often the signs are
those of physical, and particularly, cerebral pros
tration ; the pulse is feeble, the cheeks, ana, in
fact, the whole surface of the body are pale and
ghastly. The blood is defective in quality, thus
impeding the vital processes. The heart is evi
dently the organ at fault, having suddenly suc
cumbed under fatigue and exhaustion, though
the head gives the first intimation of danger. This
premonitory symptom of sun stroke mentioned in
the first instance is recorded in history, which may
be found in the Bible: 44 And when the child was
grown, it fell on a day that he went out to his
lather, to the reapers. And he said to his father,
4 J/y head, my head ! 9 And he said to a lad, ‘CaiTy
hirn to his mother.’ And when he had taken him
and brought him to Ins mother, he sat on her
knees till noon, and died.”—2 Kings iv, 18, 20.
Man asses, also the husband of Judith, the he
* mine, (chap, viit, 2,8,) died iu a Similar manner:
‘ “Manosses was her husband, of her tribe and kin
■ dred. who died in the barley-harvest. For as he
; stooa overseeing them that bound sheaves in the
• field, the heat came upon his head, and he fell up
■ on Ins bed and died iu the city of Bethulia.”
Convulsions sometimes ocdtir, and m the in
tervals there are tremblings of the muscles and
iimbs, not greatly unlike those of delirium tre
mens. These are very common m diseases of de
bility, where the nervous system is largely in
volved, but generally do not require specific at
tention. Even during the progress of recovery,
there is sometimes considerable mental aberra
tion.
The premonitions of an attack are readily re
cognised. There is a feeling of pressure upon the
head, the blood tingles in the vessels, the air
seems too hot and tenuous for breathing. A per
son who was once thus affected, tells us that he
was cured by immediately bathing the head, arms
and shoulders in water. While undergoing this
process, he experienced a sensation as if burning
coals were spread over the whole scalp, but in less
than an hour every oppressive symptom passed
away. A brother” of the same gentleman, simi
larly attacked, was not so cautions. He fell to
the ground insensible, while at labor in the har
vest field, and after lingering two or three days,
much of the time comatose, and with what a phy
sician mistakenly termed and treated as typhoid
fever, was suffered to die.
The remedies 44 laid down in the books’’ are al
coholic and ammoniacal stimulants; these being
“ diffusive” and causing an equable circulation of
blood throughout the body, and particularly to the
surface. The patient is 'advised to swallow the
medicine, but if he is “out of his head” it can be
given by enema. Washing the head with cold wa
ter, and rubbing liniments upon the surface with
the hands, keeping up the friction as long as may
be necessary, will generally answer the purpose.
When such dullness or stupor remains, coffee and
strong tea are efficacious.
The means of prevention are simple. Persons
in sound health are seldom attacked; previous de
bility, general depression of the vital forces, unu
sual and excessive physical exertion, violent gusts
of passion, excessive drinking of cold water, or of
alcoholic beverages, superaddedto xposure to the
summer sun or a hot fire, created the danger.
Careful moderation in these particulars will gen
erally secure exemption. The Arab, wandering in
an arid desert, subsisting on camel’s milk and a
few vegetables, usually enjoys immunity ; his Wood
is not vitiated by stimulating food or unwholesome
drinking. Sir Joseph Banks spent twenty min
utes in an oven where beef was cooking without
harm. Fishermen, for the sake of protection,
sometimes fill their hats with moist sea-weed;
though any large leaves, or even a wet cloth upon
the head will answer as well. This is an infalli
ble preventive, and should be more generally ob
served by laboring men.
Tns Fire of Thursday Night.—We hare been
able to obtain the particulars of the losses by the
fire which occurea in Queen street on Thursday
night, more fully than was possible at the time
our paner went to press yesterday morning.
At the time of the fire there were in the store
house of Messrs. Hayne & Yates, twelve hundred
bales of hay, three hundred barrels of whisky,
and one hundred and fifty-one hhds. and eighty
two barrels of molasses. The whisky, with the
exception of a few barrels, was saved, by being
rolled into the street; but nearly all of the mo
lasses, and of course all the hay, were destroyed
and lost.
Messrs. Hayne & Yates were insured for fifteen
thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars
was on tho warehouse, and ten thousand dollars on
the contents of store. Os the msurauce, five
thousand dollars is in the Augusta Insurance and
Banking Company, five thousand dollars in the
South Carolina Insurance Qompany, and five thou
sand dollars in the Agency of the Unity Fire In
surance Compuny, London. It is thought that the
insurance will nearly or quite cover tbeir loss.
Messrs. Hayne A Yates are enterprising young
merchants of”our city, and we sincerely sympa
thise with them in this interruption and disarrange
ment of their business.
The building occupied as a blacksmith shop,
where the fire originated, and belonging to Mr.
Wm. L. Porter, was insured for twelve hundred
dollars in the Charleston Insurance and Trust
Company.
The stock and toots of Mr. Gruendel, vfho occu
pied the building, were insured for two thousand
five hundred dollars in the Charleston Insurance
and Trust Company.— Charleston Courier , July 8.
Death of Martin Koszta.— Martin Koszra, the
Hungarian refugee, who was rescued from the
Austrian authorities in 1858, by Commander In
graham, of the United States navy, died recently
in very indigent circumstances, on a sugar p;anta
iton near the city of Guatemala.
Panama ■Star, May 25.