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SATUKDA Y,A OG. SB. SS-BW.O. a the Democratic candidate for Cod f-T'fjffln tV uiexnired term of Mr. Cm £ reSS , seated at the recent election in North Can - hna by an American opponent. This fact has been Be'ixid upon by the opposition press as an indica tion of a change inthe old North State unfavorable to the Democratic party, and from it they have been trying to derive some little consolation and encouragement. The following exiraCt from the Wilmington Journal, however, takes this crumb of comfort from their mouths by showing that the Democratic triumph in the elections for Governor and members of the legislature was as decisive and overwhelming as any which the party has ever achieved, and that the success of the Americans in the Congressional election in the Mountain Dis trict was the result of causes purely local and per sonal : Our opponents show a commendable industry in their endeavors to extract a crumb of comfort out of general dsaster. In this State where Ellis gains three thousand on Bragg’s hitherto unpre cedented majority, they find this crumb in the result of the Congressional election in the Moun tain District, where Vance, opposition, beats Avery, Democrat, for the unexpired term. M>. Vance is elected for the three months of the short session. Beyond doubt Ibis is a source of mortification to Democrats, and we hardly blame our opponents for making the most of it, for they need all the cousolation they can geu But it is necessary to a fair understanding of the matter, to state that this is no party triumph. Thai it is the result of purely local and personal considerations—that the vote for Governor and members of the legislature shows that the district remains largely, nay, overwhelmingly, Democratic. We do not now intend to go into auy examination of the main cause of Mr. Avery’s defeat, further than to remark that it had its origin in certain im pressions and reports, arising out of a personal difficulty some years since between Mr. Avery and a Mr. Fleming, of Yancey county, said diffi culty resulting in the death of Fleming by the hand of Avery. A jury duly sworn and empan nelled, acquitted Mr. Avery, and we have there fore nothing to say, and .6 wish to go behind the verdict. But it is certain that hundreds, vea thou sands, did permit their minds to go behind that verdict, and that their impressions on this point controlled their votes. Whether they were right or wrong in so doing, may admit of a question, while of the fact of their doing so there can be none; nor that the result of the election was made to turn upon that point. The matter is a delicate one, not lightly to be referred to, but it has already been brought before the public miud, and, as a consideration essential to a proper understanding of the whole affair we feel warranted in refering to it now, with no feeling of unkindness to Mr. Avery, nor with auy desire to taunt him with a failure which is made to reflect upon his party. A full view of the vote shows that party had nothing to do with it. Had party controlled it, Mr. Avery would have been elected by a large majority. Two years ago, by a remarkable combination of circumstances, the Democrats carried nearly every doubtful county. This year, owing to the want of organization, which over confidence produces, Democrats in some counties were divided, and some five gains in both houses were made by the opposition—a mere trifle, due wholly to Democratic divisions, but leaving the majority in both houses scarcely less overwhelming than it was two years Ago. ' We find the following items in the Macon Telegraph of the 24th inst: Main Trunk Railroad. —Dr. James P. Screven, the active and intelligent President of the Mam Trunk: road, was at the Lanier House on Wednes day last. We understand that a meeting of the Board of Directors has been called to assemble at Thomasville, on the 26th inst., to take into consid eration the settlement of differences among the people of southern Georgia, growing out of the lo cation of route of the road. We have confi dence in the patriotism, discretion and ability of Dr. Screven, and doubt not, that under his admin istration everything will be done judiciously, to harmonise conflicting interests, ana, at the same time, advance the prosperity of the people of the section through which tfiis great and important public work is*to passf* We bef'the people pf Gfmrgja toVecollect that the road cannot to hear of the uppoiotaieat this Com pany of Geo H. Hazlehurst, Esq., as General Superintendent, and understand he has taken charge not only of that part of the road now finish ed, but also of the construction of the residue. Probably to Mr. Hazlehurst more than any per son connected with the road, the stockholders of the New Orleans & Jackson railroad owe the completion of their work. If perfect acquaintance with every department of railroad operation, added to good judgment, indefatigable industry and energy can insure success, our people may sely on a prompt and efficient management of the road uow running, and also its completion to the Mobile and Ohio, road. Mr. Hazlehurst has filled every position on a road from rod man up, and has shown himself equal to all; knowing no such word as fail, be has accomplished his own success in his profes sion and completed the enterprises entrusted to his charge. To his qualities m a professional line, he adds those of the accomplished geutlemen, Jkind fnend and good citizen. We copy the above from the Vicksburg Daily The position of Chief Engineer of the Trunk Railway, in Georgia, was offered Mr. Hazlehurst, but, as"we regret to learn, the proposition was not reoeived by him until after he had committed himself to the above appointment, though he perhaps might not have accepted in any event. We regret on many accounts that the Main Trunk failed to obtain the valuable services of this distin guished engineer. Georgia Academy for tJte Blind.— Professor W. D. Williams, late of Emory College, has been elected Principal of the above institution, and Las accepted the office, vice Rev. W. N. Chaudoio, re signed. He will assume the duties of his office •e the Ist of September, when the next session of Ihe Academy will commence. The antecedents of Prof. Williams warrant the prediction that he will pe an able and efficient Principal of the Academy, and that the institution will prosper under bis superintendence. He is a ■atire Georgian, and a graduate of Franklin College. He has been for three years a Professor, and for some time Treasurer also of Emory Col lege, where, in filling those offices, he bore a high character for competency, industry and fidelity. He has the reputation of being a zealous officer, a tuogressive scholar and a Christian gentleman. In the honorable aud responsible position he is soou to. assume, he will have the opportunity of conducting the Academy for the Blina on a course of distinguished usefulness. The work of erect ing a new - building for this institution—as provi dcu for by the last legislature—is rapidly progress ing, and will be finished during the next year. When completed, it will accommodate all the nd children in the State capable of receiving an education. Important Mail FhcUUies to South- Water n Gear gitz.—Mr. Adams, general superintendent of the Soulh-Wcstera railroad, has shown us a letter frern .President Cuyler, dated at Washington, the ' i7tn instant, in which it is announced that an ar asngement has been effected with the General Office Department, by which daily mail ser- , vice (Sundays excepted,) in four horse post coach es, will hereafter be made from Dawson via Cuth bert to Eufaula and Fort Gaines. We congratulate the people of that section on the successful accom *;*?»*<? a & object so intimately connected *... j their social and business convenience and in terests. Mr. Cuyier speaks highly of the disposi uoii of the Department to accommodate the peo ple. and says particularly of Mr. Dundas, the Sec ond Assistant Post Master General, “he has evinc r siace ™ deßlre improve the mail facilities of the southern section generally, and to do ns justic.” Preaching to the Slaves.— An excellent Chris • :an brother and minister from one of the north ern States, now settled in the South, says in a re cent letter to the editor: ‘‘l feel quite, happy iu my new field of labor and hope to be useful here. I left i n con sequence of an Abolition party, that considered me pro-slavery. My removal affords me the op portunity of doing more for the real benefit of the colored race than the Aboliionists have ever done. I preached Sabbath before last to a audience of slaves in the church. The white peo ple present took the seats in the gallery, usually occupied by the servants, so as to leave the bodv of the church for the latter. I expect to preach to them perhaps regularly, aud in my Opinion it IS the true way of blessing them.” Philadelphia Christian Observer. I I he Yellow Fever JEpiileauc m Charles ton. &n Tuesday morning last, we published the fo!- iowing telegraphic dispatch from a reliable corres pondent in that city: CnAiiLESTox, August '23.— The yellow fever is declared to be epidemic. The health officer reports twenty-eight deaths by fever in this city during the week ending on Saturday last. The Charleston Mercury copied the above dis patch, in its issue of Wednesday morning, 25th mst., and appended to it the following comments: W r u find the above telegraphic item in the daily papers of the neighboring cities, and it is probably by this time in the columns of every member of the Associated Press of the United States, out of Charleston. W r e beg of our to re gard the first sentence as the declaration of the telegraph, and without authority. Tne Board of Health have not themselves made any such decla ration, or authorised any one to do so for them. The expression is singularly unfortunate, to say the least, for one effect will be to quarantine Charleston vessels in every port. The character of the present fever in Charleston may be learned from the official report of Monday last, and pub lished in our paper of that date, wherein out of twenty-eight deaths during the previous week, only four Were natives of the United States, and two of those of foreign parentage. The only reliable reports are those of the City Register. “ We beg of our coteinporaries,” says the Mer cury, “to regard the first sentence as the declara tion of the telegraph, and without authority.” Let us test this sentence by a fair statement of facts, and see if there is not more reason in the belief of the announcement that “the yellow fever is declared to be epidemic in Charleston” than in the denial of it in the Mercury. Facts are regarded as stubborn things. The City Register jof Charleston, f< r the week ending August Bth., reported one death, caused by yellow fever; for the week ending the 15th he re ported six deaths; and for the week ending the 22d iust., twenty-eight deaths caused by it. It cer tainly did not require the formal announcement by the City Register, in precise words, that the yel low fever is epidemic, when his report was more emphatic in its expression than any language he could employ, unless he reported the number of cases which occurred in that city. Did the editor of the Mercury desire the Register to paint the form, color and dimensions of a horse, and then place under it the words, “This is a horse ?” Arc the public to understand that no epidemic exists until it is formally and authoritatively declared to be such, by a Board of Health ? The fact of an increase in the weekly number of deaths in any city, caused by any particular dis ease, shows that the disease is assuming an epi demic form. It makes no difference whether the disease be yellow, scarlet or other kind of fever, cholera, plague, small pox, or other fatul disorder. When that increase of mortality is at the rate of five hundred per cent per week, there can be no longer a doubt about its epidemic character, if any doubt previously existed. During the past two weeks the mortality in Charleston by yellow fever has increased at the rate of about five hundred per cent, upon each previous week. And we have only the reports of the mortality. The deaths caused by any disease arc not, per haps, strictly, the best way to test the existence of an epidemic. Some epidemics exist without fatal results. But, in the absence of any report of the number and location of cases of disease, the sta tistics of mortality can very readily be depended on. “Epidemic diseases,” according to Dr. Han cock, in his valuable article iu the Cyclopedia, of Practical Medicine , “are those which attack a number of persons, in any city, district or county, about the same time or season. They are generally uncertain in their recurrence. When they pro duce great mortality, they are called pestilential.” It is painfully true that w a number of persons” in Charleston have been attacked by yellow fever “about the same time this seaflfci and it equallygrue that the.morfality by tlmt bee* rapidly increasing.Jiipce the occurrence of re- The J/erdiv'y says that the statement that the yellow fever is declared an epidemic in that city, “ is singularly unfortunate, to say the leas*t, for one* effect wtll be to quarantine Charleston vessels in every port.” Does not the editor of the Mercury know that vessels from Charleston were virtually quarantined at New York a week before the dis patch he objects to was published ? If he does not know it, then he is “singularly unfortunate” himself. He says: “ The character of the present fever in Charleston may be learned from the official re port of Monday last.” Well, when we look to that official report, it states that there were twenty , eight deaths from yellow fever during the week end ing August 22d, which is an inrrearc on the mortal ity of the previous week, by tfiu same disease, of twenty-two. This appears to us to be a bad “charac ter of the present fever in Charketon,” and is, very , evidently, the “ character” which the City Regis ter knew would be the result of the publication | announcing twenty-eight deaths by yellow fever for the previous week. “ Only four were natives of the United States,” says the Mercury. Does that make the disease less an epidemic ? Cannot an epidemic exist in Charleston and yet no uative born have it? But, why is the naked statement about nativity intro duced ? Cannot a man be acclimated by a resi dence in Charleston ? Would it be fair to state that a man who died by yellow fever, and who bad resided in Charleston five, ten, twenty, or more years, was from Ireland, or Holland, and thus leave the impression that he had just reached that city ? We are well satisfied that a majority of the deaths by the fever, in Charleston, are among the German and Irish population, who have not resi ded there long enough to be acclimated, and whose mode of living and habits were uusuited to a scar son of epidemic fever. In all regions of the earth, where epidemics have prevailed, the declaration has been invariubly made, we believe, that the disease preyails mostly among foreigners; those w’lio lead a dissolute life, and among those who arc meagerly supplied with the necessaries of life. This kind of expression, or apology, for an epi demic, should be discarded, and the unvarnished truth proclaimed, that “all should take due notice thereof, and govern themselves accordingly.” Augusta miDgles her regrets, with her sister city of Charleston, at the existence of yellow fever there. The commercial prosperity and social rela tions of both cities are intimately interwoven with each other, and we keenly feel the infliction of any injury to the business interests of Charleston, tlie health of its citizens, or anything calculated to re tard its prosperity. But we believe, from the re ports of tbe City Register alone, that the yellow' fever is prevailing there as an epidemic, and we would be UDjust if we hesitated to proclaim it in our columns. We will not be deterred from mak ing the same announcement about Augusta, if any ease of yellow fever should occur here, no matter how “ singularly unfortunate” it might be to the temporary commercial interests of this city. A. correspondent of tbe Atlanta National .unencan says that deer never shed tlie ; r horns. Mr. Abkam Woolf and Mr. Samuel Penny, worthy citizens of Mobile, Ala., died recently at the Sulphur Springs in Virginia. n Washington correspondent of the baltimore Sun, in his letter of the 23d inst., says: residents of Illinois have vr,. L "T» i n , e » w bo express the opinion that . filuS Wl , l succee( f by a heavy majority. He akca twp or three speeches q day, aud by reason firn ° a l ? obliged to change his clothes \faree rLfr 1 ? Itiß also Btat€d asiu- I e ccaia.l efforts, his speeches surpass any ever be -1 fore made by him before the people.” J J»r. Stepbeus aud In* V.«U lo (he West. The following paragraph, m -reference to Mr. and the object of his recent visit to the North-west, appeared in a recent issue of the Sa vannah EepubHoqn: The following notice, from the Cincinnati Daily Commercial, unravels the mystery connected with Mr. Stephens’ journey to the North-west. When bis intended visit was first announced, and his friendly interview with the editor of the Cincin nati Enquirer was blazoned to the world, we sus pected some political management and trickery. Baltimore Patriot.' “The Hoa. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, is la boring in Chicago to paeiticate the distracted Democracy.” j Don’t the faith of our Democratic friends In* their recent bold contradiction, begin to shake a little under this statement ? Or is this like the other extract from the Commercial— a mere “roor back*” And the Washington correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, in his letter of the 13th inst., has a reference to the same subject in some specu lations in which he indulges, concerning the next Democratic nomination for the Presidency, and the combinations which may be made to secure it. He says: It is understood that the next candidate for the Presidency of the Democratic party is to be from the South. The aspirants, secret or open, are num bered by dozens; and then those who have hopes of preferment ibrough the various aspirants, are innumerable throughout the South. The chief as pirants, however, are as follows: Hunter and Wise, from Virginia, Stephens from Georgia, Davis from Mississippi, Slidell from Louisiana, Breckinridge from Kentucky. Now, all of these aspirants must, in the first place, r ake themselves acceptable, not only to. the South but all over the Union. Os course, they must be true southern men, intense Democrats and still more intense Union men—equally true to the South, the party and the Union. Hence you have seen the targe professions of Unionism with which thev cover themselves as with a man tle. In the second place, they must deal largely in combinations. The chief' combination is with some one at the North lor Vice President. Douglas was the most powerful man in the North west before he bolted on the Lecompton matter. As soon as he bolted all chance for the Presidency was lost; but not so for the Vice Presidency. Forthwith he became a favorite object for com bination with several of the southern aspirants for the Vice Presidency—Stephens, Wise, Hunter— all began personally or through their friends, to put him on the book and become his bottle holders at the South. Os course he was to be brought into the fold of the party. Hence the great forbearance towards him in the debate in the Senate. Hence, too, the Kansas Com promise, conceding his requirements, to put aside this barrier between them—whilst, with great zeal and energy for the South, both Hunter and Ste phens proved conclusively in Congress that the Lecompton Constitution was not submitted to the vote of the people of Kansas. Its rejection, how ever, the other day, by the vote of the people of Kansas, shows better to those who wish to see what their logic meant. Hence, too, it may.be conjec tured, the strong impeachment of the Administra tion by the Richmond South and Richmond En quirer, for not knuckling to Douglas in Illinois, and aiding him in his re-clection to the Senate Mr. Stephens , we sec, not to be behind with his other competitors for a co-partnership with Douglas, ijoes himself to the Earth-west, and at Cincinnati de nounces the Administration for wickedness and fol ly for not helping Douglas. These extracts, we observe, have been exten sively copied and commented upon by the opposi tion press in this State, which gives currency to the unfounded statements and unworthy suspicious which they contain, m order to place Mr. Stephens before the people of Georgia in a position disre putable iti itself and disagreeable to him. They give two different explanations of the object of Mr. Stepexs’ late visit to the West—one, that it was to “ pacifieate the distracted Democracy” of Illinois, and the other that it . was “ not to be be hind with his other competitors for a co-partner ship with Douglas,” in view of the next*noutina tion of the Democratic party for the Presidency. equally unjfrihorised unfounded, and un just-so. our distinguished representative. - We have not thought it necessary tojefer to the matter before, but as we find these and 1 many our exchanges, we may that his touV to the West was projected simply a view to recreate himself, after the excite ment, the confinement and the labo^>/a long ses sion of Congress, by visiting, in company-with his brother, an interesting and important portion of the Union, which neither of them* had ever visited before. It was purely a visit of pleasure, having no connection with, or reference to, the divisions ofcthe Democracy inr Illinois, or any combination for the next Presidency. An inci dental object which he had in view, was to se cure the services of the artist Healy, in the execution of some painting which was an ob ject of interest to him and his brother, and to accomplish this he was compelled to visit Chicago,and to remain in that city for several days. But neither during his stay there or whilst in any other portion of Illinois, did Mr. Stephens have any communication, directly or ind.rectly, with Mr. Dovolas— nor did he make a single political speech, although upon the great political battle ground of the even hold conversation upon political subjects with any one, except when dragged into it by political friends who sought him out, or met him casually in his joinaieyings. He had no mission from the Administration to ac complish—no political views of his own to Advance —and no political combination to make with Doug las or anybody else. This is true, strange as it may sound; for stranger still, Mr. Stephens is not an aspirant for the Presidency, and we honestly believe, would not feel much more annoyance or mortification in finding his name paraded in a list of suspected horse-thieves, than to find it paraded as it has been by the Washington corres pondent of the Charleston Mercury as tha* of a cringing, crawling, managing, intriguing and itinerant aspirant for that office. tST' It is very common to bear the remark, “mind your p's and q's, but now it is discovered that another letter of the alphabet requires very close watching. An instuuce of the importance of minding your 'Vs” has lately occurred. An exchange says at Point Clear, theformersummerre sort on Mobile Bay, “the hotels are doing a smash, ing business this season. On the Sth iust. seven hundred persons died thero.” An etTutfa in a sub sequent paper says for "tiled there" read dined there.” A cotemporary remarks that the omis sion of the letter “n" reported seven hundred deaths, while its substitution would have reported seven hundred dinners! Look out for the “n’.s" The United States frigate Sabine, the flag ship of the Brazil squadron, was announced to leave New \ork for Rio Janeiro on the 23rd or 24th iust. A Feature.—The Syracuse Journal , in describing Tuesday’s cable jolification, says: 41 A new feature was introduced—and such a feature ! All of a sudden, and all at once, fourteen locorno tives sent up a shriek from their steam whistles which shook the firmest buildings to the centre, deafened every ear, and penetrated, as wo verily believe, West to Lake Erie and- East to the tide water. There is no description, in poetry or prose, which can convey any just idea of the noise. CtiEE for Bronchitis. —One of our cleverest and most reliable friends, says the Holly Springs Her ald, informs us that common rnullen leaves, smok ed in a new pipe—one in which tobacco bus never been used—is a sure and certain cure for bronchi tis. The remedy is simple and innocent, aud with in the retch of all. Recollect that this is no re tired physician’s remedy, but is given to us bv a citizen of our city, who has triecF it himself, and I seen it tried on others, and has never known it to fail in effecting a permanent cure. ' Hater Works. We would call the attention of our city readers to the subjoined communication, giving some of the results of surveys which have been mad<i under the authority of the (jity Council, with the view to ascertain the practicability of constructing works which would furnish the city with a supply of water for all purposes. The information it fur nishes is interesting, and particularly opportune at this time, when so many complaints are made of the quality and quantity of the water in our hy drants and cisterns. The result of tile investiga tions which have beem made, thus fur, is cncour aging, as it shows that a supply of good w.»u r may be obtained from many studies near the city, and at less than the generally estimated cost. We may state, in addition to what is slated m this communication, that every source from which the necessary amount of water could be obtaiued within a practicable distaoce of the city, has been carefully examined. The engineer in charge of the surveys, is now engaged in guageing one or two of these sources, and as soon as that work is finished, all the results, with all other necessary facts to govern its action, will be laid before the City Council. In this connection, we may state that Mr. Wm. Phillips, the engineer of the Augusta canal com pany, has taken water from the canal, at all stages of water m the river. These specimens he has carefully preserved, and they exhibit the singular fact, as we are creditably informed, that water taken from the canal, at certain stages of high water in the river, will not become clear even after standing in glass uudisturbed for months. Those who have been looking to the canal for a supply of water, and desire to satisfy themselves of the cor rectness of this statement, may do so by calling at Mr. Phillips’ office and examining the specimens of canal water, which he has preserved : Mr. Editor: The proceedings of the City Coun ci Vof the 6th, ana an article in the Evening Dispatch , ot the 19th iustant, in reference to an increased supply of w'ater to the city, indicates the propriety of laying before the public, at this time, some of the results of the investigation in progress, under authority of the City Council, which I trust will be considered of sufficient im portance to occupy a place in your paper. Last year a special committee was appointed, by the City Council, for the purpose of ascertain ing what addition could be made to the present supply of water, and the best plan, and cost of adequate water works. Undvr the direction of tnis committee, ifcho appear to have been under the impression that a large supply could easily be obtained from Butler’s creek, at its intersection with the Georgia railroad, an examination of the locality was commenced last September, and since that date vurious other examinations have been made for the same purpose. It was ascertained that Butler’s creek, at its in tersection with the railroad was 209:38 feet above the bottom of the third level of the Augusta canal at Marbury street. This last mentioned point having been selected for certain reasons as the datum of all the levels. The surface of the water of Wynnes’ mill pond, which is the first pond on the creek below the railroad, was found to be 162:36 feet above the same point. But at the same time, it was ascertained that the "'hillock” sum mit of the railroad was 226:75 feet above datum. The quantity of water furnished by the creek was ascertained* at Wynnes’, and was found to be small, compared with the quantity it was deemed desirable to obtain. Thus it was made apparent that it would be impracticable to use the water of Butlers’ creek at the places mentioned, as the quantity of wafer obtainable would not justify the expense of the works required to convey it over or through, or around the hillock to the city. The distance fr >m Wynnes’ to Augusta by the railroad is nearly eleven miles. The “hillock” just men tioned is a ridge of high land separating the val ley of Butlers p creek from the valley of Rocky creek, and the summit alluded to is on the Geor gia railroad, near Mrs. Camplield’s. This project being considered practically a failure, attention was then given to other points which it was sup posed would present less difficulty. Rowley’s spring, at the head of the branch sup plying his mill pond, was found to be 220:57 feet above th & datum, and only 6:18 feet below the hil lock summit. This was found to be a bold spring, but the branch made by it is a tributary to Butler’s creek, and forms part of the supply to seven ponds below it; and, although its elevation is fa vorable to its use as & source of supply to the city, . itjttiaconside-ed that the difficulty of negotiating works reqSredTfor it, wJffec reach of the City Council. Attention was* then tamed to the creek at Belli* ville Factory, Spring Hill works, and Hall’s mill, with a view of ascertaining if there was any other place on the creek which would furnish an ade quate supply, aud which was of such elevation as to pass over the ridge without the use of machine ry. The pond at Belleville Factory was found to be 90:79 feet above datum, andtheridge between it and Augusta 295:01 feet. The pond at the Spring Hill works was 53:38 feet above datum , and the ridge 113:47 feet. The pond at Hall’s mill, near the Savannah road, was 37:45 feet above datum and the ridge 55:40 feet. Thus, it was found that the water of the creek from the places mentioned, could not be carried to Augusta in a direct line by its own pressure, and would have to be forced to a considerable elevation by machinery; Or, that it could be conveyed dowo the valley of Butler’s creek to some passable depression in the ridge, whence it could be earned in a direct line to the city. The small quantity of water lurnisbed by the creek, the anticipated’difficulty of negotiating for the use of it, and the great distance the water would have to be carried, and the consequent heavy expense of the works required, ta£eo to gether, presentedsuck great obstacles as t» render tne project of using the water of Butler’s creek from any point quite uncertain. Under these circumstances, it was deemed ex pedient to include several other sources fr*m which, it was thought by some persons, a considerable supply could be obtained. Levels were accord in i,- ly taken to the B»rmg mill pond, by which it was found that the surface of the water there was only 33:24 feet above datum, and therefore, onlv 0:24 feet above the water in the first level of the’ canal at McKinnie street. Turpin’s mill pond, on the same creek, when full, is only 10:38 feet above <iatum. Levels were also taken across the river to some of the sources of supply above Hamburg, and as one point determined will give a general idea of the elevation, it may be mentioned that Hammond’s, formerly Harper’s, mill pond surface is 1:65 feet below the surface of the water in the first level of the canal, and only 10:30 fee* above Broad street at its intersection with McKinnie street. ' In seeking to increase the present supply from sources whicn coold be easily connected with the present works at Turknett spring, it was found that some of the head waters of Rocky creek crossing the Millcdgeville road, could be made available, but the quantity would be very small, compared wilh that which it was deemed* desira ble to obtain at the commencement of the surveys. All the examinations, which include several points not mentioned, as far as completed, have been carefully made, and have necesArily occu pied much time, it was considered best to pursue this course, and as far as practicable, to leave nothing for guess-work in the final determination ot a matter which is iutended to promote the health, comfort, convenience and security of the citizens of Augusta and their property, and for the accomplishment of which, it is expected a heavy expenditure of money will be required. To complete the necessary investigation there is still some work to be done, which the present dry season will favor, and it is expedient that early in October all the information required to determine the merits of the various -projects un der consideration will be obtained ana acted upon by the committee and their eDgineeis. Among the projects entertained bv the commit tee, that of a supply from the Augusta Canal will no doubt meet with proper attention. That a permanent and sufficient supply can be had from this source, seems to be certain; but there ap pears to be an almost insurmountable repugnance to the useof this water for dnnking and for culi nary purposes. It tk to be hoped that the com mittee will authorise some extensive experiments to be made, with the view of ascertaining how far it will be practicable to use settling and filtering reservoirs for it on a large scale. Respectfully, your ob’t. serv’t, _ Hydraulics. Tub First Balk. —The tirsi bale of new cotton sent to this market was received yesterday by Messrs. Fisber, Whe less & Co., from the planta tion of Col. A. H. Ralston, of Rutherford county. This is perhaps earlier than the new crop has been received since 1544. NathcVle {Tcnn.) A r ew *, Aug. 23. Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 28.—James E. Eddv, General Superintendent of the American Tele graph Company, died to-day. Health of Savannah. The chairman of the Board of Health reports fifteen deaths for the week ending 24th ins*t. -ten whites and five colored. The deaths were classed as follows : consumption, one; infantine, onej tetanus, one : fever, one; one taken to the hbspi talin a dying condition, but his disease not re ported; intermittent fever, two; congestive fever, one ; ulcerated sore throat, one ; remittent fever! one. The colored deaths were, dropsy, one ; bil lions fever, one; spasms, one; brain fever, one, and lockjaw, one—total fifteen. £3?“The Washington Union, of the 24th intrt., sivs: “Hon. «Jexit's Hilltsr, Solicitor of the Treasury Department, left the city a few days smre/fo spend a short time at his residence in Georgia. During his absence, Col. B. P. Plea sa.nts, for many years the very faithful and effi cient chief clerk of that bureau, will discharge the duties as acting Solicitor. !-fif"One of the editors of the New Orleans Picayune who has beeu on a business excursion to the North this summer, on his return home, states that comparatively few Southerners had visited northern watering places up to the time of bis visit. lie thus refers to the routes to the North : The railroad route by which we returned, is well worth a note, and ought to be seen at least once, by every traveller, for it is really a very beau tiful one. It was the Memphis and Charleston railroad, with the continnous connections through East Tennessee and Virginia, and the scenery, as it wound among the mountains, or through a well cultivated country, was charming. Cornfields, grazing farms, tobacco or cotton plantations, lay spread around the whole route from Richmond to Memphis, and all were full of promise. The con nections on the line are punctually made, and the three days and three nights travel over it, from Baltimore to Memphis, wus made without acci dent. t The hotel and other accommodations on this route are not, and cannot be expected ta be, as well arrauged and as comfortable as they are and have long been on the old southern route. The proper experience is lacking, and only time and practice can give that. The old mail route, via Montgomery, Augusta, Ac., is a favorite one with southern travellers, and will always remain so. A principal reason for this is, that two trains of cars are run on it daily, thus affording to passengers an opportunity of lying by every night and starting again in the morning, re freshed by a good night’s steep and rest, and this for families is a very important consideration. Hon. W. A. Richardson, Governor of Nebraska, returned to Quincy, 111., on a visit to his family, on tlie Isth iust. The city wharves at New Orleans hare been sold for four years and nine months, at one million fifty-two thousand dollars. Col. Asa L. How ard, one of the most promi nent citizens in Floyd county, Va., died on the 18th inst., of typhus fever. Miss Annie M. Andrews, the “ Heroine of the Pestilence,” was married in Baltimore recently, to John D. Upshur, a merchant of Norfolk, Va. The couple are now in New York on a visit. Sale of a Watkrino Place.— The Blue Sulphur Springs, Va., have been sold to a company of gen tlemen for twenty-four thousaud dollars dollars— G. W. Buster, the present manager, retaining an interest in them. Poisoned bi Friction Matches. —A daughter of Prescott and Helen M. Colbt, of Bradford, New Hampshire, two years old, died on Sunday, 22d inst., after an illness of three or fonr days, occasioned by swallowing phosphorous from matches. Which Car is the Safest?— At the late rail road accident at the Sanquoit bridge, the forward car went down ; in the Erie railroad accident the rear car went off the embankment ; and at the ac cident on the Uousatonic railroad, the middle car was entirely destroyed. Rifciow* Work. —The large duck factory be Village, Palmer, A!™., which stopped'* last October, was partially put in operation on the Ist of June, and now runs forty looms out of two hundred. . " Tuk Apple Chop. —While the apple in (his part of the county is generally considered a failure, it will be good news to learn, as we do from the Boston Trunea ipt of the &th instaut, “that the apple trees in that part of New England give promises of a great crop of excellent fruit. The early kinds will soon be in the market, and the best winter apples will be of large size and superior quality.” A Good Shot. —C&pt. Travis, of Ixjnisviik-, has acquired great reputation as a good shot, but bis feat performed only a few days ago, is perhaps the best shot on record. It is related that he put a cork on top of a bottle, and on the cork a ballet, and then putting the target thirty-four feet from him, welded together the bullet be shot aud the one he shot at. —The Newborn Era, In giving the returns for Governor, contends that Craven is the banner county in North Carolina, and gives the following cogent reasons for the distinction : “Judge Ellis has done remarkably well through out the State, but Craven is the banner counlr. She gives him two hundred majority and a wife?’ Judge Ellis and his bride are now sojourning at the White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia. The election in Mississippi for a Congressman in place of Gen. Quitman, deceased, takes place on October sth. Ex-Pit esiDEXT Comon roar.—One of the editors of the Abiugdon (Va.) Democrat , who was present, gives the following account of the way Col. Boyd (of the Board of Public Works) gave a lesson iu good behavior to Ex-President Comonfort, of Mexico, a few days ago, iu Wvtheville: *' Ex-President Comonfort, of Mexico, pa>sed along the road the other dav., Being hAngry, per haps, or, what is more likefy, deficient in polite ness, his ex-Excellency made a rusk before aiiiner was announced, and took a seat at that t*art of the table reserved for the ladies. Boyd’s quick eye detected the movement at once, and he walked up to His Highness, explained the matter to him, and very politely requested him to vacate. To this he received a sort of half-defiant, muttering answer, coupled with a refusal. The Colonel repeated the request with the same effect. Losing his patience, and beiDg u great stickler for the observance of tlie rules of liis house, Boyd took the old fellow by the arm, led him away from the table, and showed him the door—greatly to the delight of a number of Mis sissippians, who remarked that he had been con ducting himself in that sort of a style ever since they had beeu in company with him. They usked i°* v ? u he knew *'h°m he had led out? He re plied that he neither knew nor cared; he was determined to make him conduct himself like a gentleman or leave. They then told him who he was, and said, moreover, that if he had resisted they would have readily assisted to put him out. The ex-President’s suite conducted themselves with propriety at the table, but he got into a huff and would eat no dinner. A Goi.dk>' Thought Set i.v Pearls.— ln speak ing, of marriages for money, Miss Mci.ocii,.the eminent writer, observes, and we think very justly: “ Marriage ought always to be a quesiion not of necessity, but choice. "Every girl ought to be taught that a hasty, loveless union stamps upon her as foul dishonor as one of those connections which omit the legal ceremony altogether, and lhat, however pale, dreary and toilsome a single life may be, unhappy life must be tenfold worse, an ever-baumiug temptation, an incurable regret, a torment from which there is no escape but death.” ■ ■ ’■ BY TELEGRAPH-. ARKIVAI. W THK STEAMSHIP OAK AD A. three; iiAV.s later from Europe. COTTON UVCHANGED. Halifax, Aug. 25,—The British and North Amer ican Royal mail 3leamaliip Canada, Capt, W. J. C. L\nu, armed last night, -Irum Liverpool, with dates to Saturday afternoon, August Hth. Commercial Ne«us. Liverpool Cotton Market.— The 'brokers’ circular reports the sales of Cotton, for the week, to bo 15,000 bales. Speculators took 1,200- bales, an* exporters 5,500 bales, leaving do the trade BS,3C* bales. There had been no disposition on the pars of holders to press sales, but quotations were nominal. The sales on Friday were T.OOO bales, of which speculators and exporters took 2,000 bales, and the market closed dull. The authorised quotations were : Fair Orleans 7%d. | Mid. 0r1ean5......74 “ Mobile 7 7-ttid. j “ Mobile.. 6 15-184 " Uplands -7j£d. I “ Uplands..,. The stock of Cotton on hand was 031,000 bale*, of which 555,000 were American.. ' State of Trade.— Manchester advices were fa vorable. Prices were firm, aud the demand for manufactured goods was encouraging. Harvest Prospects: —The weather had been very favorable for crops, and the haivest being well advanced, shows the yield of wheat to be good. Liverpool Bread-tvffs Market. —The circulars re port the Flour trade very dull, at rattier easier prices, but quotations are unchanged. Wheat was very dull, at from" Id. to 2d. decline. Cor* was buoyant, and all qualities had slightly ad vanced. The quotations were 58s. a 00s., but holders asked 625. per quarter. Liverpool Provision Market, —Beef was dull, but prices steady. Pork was quiet, but the market was bare of American. Bacon was steady, with an improved demand. Liverpool Produce Market,— Sugar was bnoyant, at an advance of 6d. a Is. Coffee was firm. Rio* was quiet, and Carolina quoted at 17s. a IBs. Sd. Liverpool Naval /Stores. —Rosin was stoady at from 4s. 2d. to is. sd. Spirits of Turpentine was steady at 40s. London Money Market.— Money was unchanged. Consols quoted at a 26&£. The bullion in the Bank of Englaud had decreased £102,000. Havre Orton Market.— Orleans Tret Ordinaire was quoted at 107 francs. General News. The steamship North Star reached Liverpool ca the 13th inst. The political news is generally uninteresting. Queen Victoria was “visiting her daughter at Pottsdam. Louis Natolkos was continuing his tour through Brittany. The rumors of an early resumption of the diplo matic intercourse between the Western Power* and Nuples was doubted. Austria has determined to concentrate troops at the Dalmatian frontier. There had been several riots at Kilkenny, in Ire land, caused by the introduction of agricultural machines. The military were called out and order restored. Latest — noon , Aug. 14.—Alt the.markets urc reported quiet and unchanged. The sales of Cotton to-day were 8,000 bales. Consul-General of Cuba. Washington-, Aug. 25. —Major Hzi.m, of Ken tucky, has been appointed Consul-General at Havana. ** ' Cable Intelligence. . *r. Valencia, August 25 Tho^LoadpA Ifeftrs announce that a, treaty„of ptac^^*^-"*"' recem-d. The mutiny 'tfiTnhj; the'SqPW&£lJHfc| ing rapidly quelled. 7* The London papers of Tuesday 'contained a long* and interesting report, made by Mr. Baimrr o* the Atlantic Telegraph Company enterprise. * The steamship Asia leaves on Saturday. Combat Between a Tkaobdiax and an Eagle.— A Cincinnati paper gives an amusing account of a combat between Muiidoch, the tragedian, now living on his farm near Loveland, and a mon strous eagle, in which the "heavy tragedy mbit" had to beat a rapid aud inglorious retreat. It appears that on Suuday morning last Mur doch, hearing a terrific noise in his barnyard, sallied out and found an enormous eagle bad fastened its talons on a very young calf, bad plucked out its eyes, and was endeavoring t» raise with its struggling aud bleeding victim. Murdoch made a charge on the imperial bird, bat was finally comjiefled to beat a hasty retreat to secure his gun. The eagle’s triumph was of short duration, for Master James Murdoch, the tragedian’s son, an intrepid little boy, only nine ana a half years old, appeared upon the scene with a double barrelled gun, and at the first dis charge brought his imperial majesty to the ground. He measured six feet two inches froia tip to tip of his wings, and will be preserved as a memento of Master James’ prowess. From Old Rivbr Lake, Ark.—The following extracts are taken from a letter dated “Old River Lake, Aug. 15,” written by a planter to his corres pondent in this city : “It is very hot here, and unusually sickly. As the flood draws ofi* its waters, and bares the ex posed surface to the action of the hot suu, the at mosphere is filled with nialariu, and fever is every where prevalent.” “ I have to-day, for the first time since that heavy min, the 12th or loth July, rode over my fields to look ut the crop, and am satisfied it will turn out a fair average where the cotton has not been in jured by the water, and a good one, if we havedrr weather from this to the middle of September. I planted about five hundred acres, and have, I sup pose, four hundred acres of good cotton left, be sides more that is iujtfred, and think I can pretty safely anticipate four hundred average bales.” : There is scarcely any place that is not injured either by the flood or the rains.” “ The plantation that is notinjuredlmore or less, river bottoms this year, is a rarw one, and they are few and far between, I assure you.” “ What is known in the upper country as the hog cholera isspicadiug through the,country here, with terrible fatality. Our hogs are dying ofi’ by hundreds. It has already amounted to a total sweep in place*, and bids fair to annihilate the stock en tirely.”— Picayune, Aug. 22. New York, August 23.—A despatch, received yesterday, announced the death of James Eddv, Esq., a gentleman who has been the general su- j per mtendent of the Amcricau Telegraph Company 3 since it* formation—some three years ago. He j died of the heart disease yesterday morning at the 1 American House, in Burlington, Vermont. He * lett this city less than a week ago, on a journey to that State, tor the benefit of his health, which had become greatly impaired by his incessant atten tion to the laborious duties of his office, but with out any suspicion on the part of himself or his friends that his condition was so critical. His death, therefore, was quite unexpected, and its abrupt announcement by telegraph gave a shock to his many friends throughout the country. Mr today was a gentleman of much energy of charac ter, and as a telegraph manager had no superior. In private life he wus amiable and unassuming, a gentleman in his boartgig, and a Christian in his daily walks. He was about forty years of age, and a native of Ithica, in this State. lie was one of. the pioneers in the introduction of the magnetic r telegraph at the East, and built the first line Las* «t Boston, and between that city and Calais, Maine, and at the time of his death wusibe general manu get of between three and four thousand miles of wire, extending throughout., the New England States, and as far South as PhiJadeltihia. We art derstand that all the •offices connected with tfcc American Telegraph Company will 6e draped ia* mourning, as a mark of rcspe<;| to his memory.