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£im ts jant* Stnirnd. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1853. FOR GOVERNOR: JIERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON, OF BALDWIN. FOR CONGRESS: Ist DISTRICT JAMES L. SEWARD. I Id. DISTRICT A. 11. < OLQUITT. Illd. DISTRICT DAVID J. BAILEY. IVth. DISTRICT W. B. W. DENT. Vth. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN. Misrepresentation Corrected—'The Southern Recorder and Journal Ac Messenger. In private life we have endeavored to bo scrupu lously honest, in word and act, and since our connection with the press we have adhered to the sain? rule. We have misrepresented no man designedly, and if by ae cident wo have been led into it, we have chosen the ! earliest opportunity of making reparation. We regret j to announce that we have not had the same measure of ; justice extended to us. While this pitiful unfairness ! was confined to insignificant journals, published at the : cross road villages of Georgia, we have passed it by with the silent contempt which it merited ; but when leading papers stoop to the little work of republishing and endorsing these slanders, silence is no longer a virtue. We find in the last issue of the Southern Recorder the following paragraph : Those Abolition’ App ,i ntmeni?.— N W have looked in vain for the Democratic press to give us their candid views in regard to President Pierce’s abolition appointments. The Time* Sentinel endeavored to apologize for him, but j made the matter worse, by saying that lie could not appoint any other than Free Suffers, as there was no others to re ceive the honors, admitting then that the Northern deino cratic party was a free soil party—quite an admission. vVouici that a:j the rest oi tho Democratic were as honest. This slander originated in the Atlanta Republican, we h lieve, was republished in the Savannah Repub lican, and now appears for the third time in the Mil ledgeville Recorder. There is not one word of truth in the paragraph. We never have apologised for the appointment of free toilers or abolitionists ; we never have admitted that there were none others to receive honor? at the North ; and the charge that we have ac knowledge and that tho Northern Democratic party was a free soil party, is as taise a 3 it is ridiculous. Instead of apologising for Pikkck’s abolition ap pointments, we have invariably admitted that the charge, if true , was n valid objection. In our weekly issue of tho 19th July, wo used the following language: If this charge he well founded, it constitutes a valid ob jection to tiie administration in the mouths of Southern Rights men, though it would bo only a political clap-trap when u-ed by Messrs. Toombs and Jenkins, who not only gave t illmore’s admini.-tration a cordial support, but advo cated the election of Webster to the Presidency, both of whom were free sailers. And in respect to important offices, instead of apolo- i gising for free soil appointments, we have indignantly denied the slander that the President had conferred them upon free soilera. In our weekly issue of the blh Jul y, we used this language : He (Pierce) has but one man in his cabinet (McClelland) i who was ever charged with free schism ; and McClelland , voted for the Compromise measures, and theieby placed ! him-elf ab east with Mr. Webster, tor whom Charles J. ! Jenkins would have voted if he had not died, and with ! whom his name was associated as candidate for Vice-Pro- j Bident—not only with his consent, but with the approbation ! of Robert Toombs. Again, there is not that we know of j a single free soiier in the list of Foreign ministers -. Soule, Borland, Buchanan, Jackson, of Geoisria, Seibeis, of Ala bama, Walker—such are the men who have been chosen by the President to represent this count; y at Foreign courts, every one of whom lias given irrefragable evidence of his hostility to tree soilism, and of his devotion to the consti tutional lights of the South. In respect to local appointments, we used the follow, ins language, in the same issue : In the distribution of local offices at the North, it is fre quently impossible to avoid giving them to tree soilers In many localities, the whole population arc or rather were free soilers. The only recourse left to the President in ap pointments for such places is o give office to free soilers, or leave them vacant. It is well known at the South that, every state at the North, except one, instructed its represen tatives in Congress to vote for the Wilmot Proviso. It is equally well known that every prominent Whig north of the Potomac is or was a free soiler, and that Ihe very fete politicians who escaped the contagion belonged to the dem ocratic party No administration therefore can exist in this country for a day which refuses to give some offices to free soilers. No Whig government can get along without giving more than one-half of its offices to this d'e.-picable faction. Look at Fillmore’- administration—the beau-ideal of the Conservative party—an adinini.-tration which receiv ed the cordial support of the Conservative party of Geor gia, and was zealously supported by Messrs. Toombs and Stephens. Indeed, his claims for lire Presidency received a very earnest advocacy at their hands. Who filled the chief offices in his cabinet? Free soilers. Who liiied all, or nearly ill, his offices at the North ? Free soilers. Who were the representatives of his government at Foreign courts ? Free soilers. Now compare his appointments with those of Mr. Pierce. This last extract is the foundation upon which these reckless partisans base their charge, that we have “ apologised for the appointment of free soilers to of fice,” confessed that ‘‘there were no other than free soilers at the North to receive the honors,” and that “the Northern democratic party was a free soil party.” The above extracts will show that we have utterly repudiated tho appointment of free soilers to office—that we expressly state that ail the higher offices have beer. ; conferred upon sound men, who have given irrefragible evidence of hostility to free roiiism, and that ail North- ! eru men who had escaped the contagion of free soilisrn j were members of the democratic party; and in re spect to local appointments we have simply stated a tact which every body knows to be true, to wit, that in many localities, the whole population are or rather were free ! soilers, and that it was impossible to avoid giving little P<‘tty offices in such localities to persons who bad be longed to this despicable faction. W e therefore demand that the Miiledgoviiie Record er and Savannah Republican , retract the slander to woioh they havo given currency as honest journalists who have character, and respee; tho character of their opponents; as to the Atlanta Republican, with whom this slander originated, we as u no quarter from it, as a paper that Is low enough to or giuate a libel has not, magnanimity enough to retract it. Oui quail'd with the Journal ts- is not so serious, as we are sure its misrepi eseiitalfon origin ates in misconception. The Journal $• Messenger says; We have the Times Jf Sentinel io past v.eeii, when some tune since it eulogized the Hop Ahraii Iverson as the champion of Internal Improvement ia Gtor gia, and as the great and powerful friend of our tfeace Roue,, foough ..ht record of the Legislature of 1813 exhibits his • src “r rk - tho-sb ‘be bfctoiy ! hs completion, Sc whP J Jeokinc, *, thV ‘.nadir h! jr> tkj TOOII S thao any other fedividuul “ij o* Wfc cra * !to * k.cptio! • and eom piuo.. wt P-mittedthis statorctn* 7V, . v ***** ***. candidate before the people, and because we charitably sup posed that our contemporary was not familiar with the po litical history of men and parties in Georgia. We have never “eulogised the lion. Alfred Iver son as the great and powerful friend of our State Road,” nor otherwise alludtd to him in connection v. itb Inter nal Improvements, except in reference to the noble en terprises in which Columbus is engaged ; it; all of which he takes the most lively interest, and to which he ren ders the most efficient aid, not only by his eloquence but by his means and personal assistance in building them. We ask no “charitable suppositions” in our favor from the Journal 4- Messenger, though we are under the necessity of extending th*rn to that journal in thi3 , instance, as we might otherwise infer that it had vol untarily misstated our position for the purpose of stab bing a prominent member of the democratic party, whose commanding talents overshadowed some of its political friends. Will the Journal 4* Messenger he good enough in its next issue to correct its mistake, as next to dis honesty, we dread the reproach of ignorance, and have spent many more years than the editor of that paper, in an honest endeavor to rise above both, though wc may not have been so successful—in his own opinion. \\ e will hereafter advert to the other points of diffi r ence between us and the Journal Messenger. Our space is exhausted. Election in Alabama* ; The returns come in slowly, it is now’ certain that | Abercrombie is elected to Congress in the id. district, j The defection of i!.e Scott Whigs in Macon, Brrbour and Montgomery put his election in peril, and would in deed have insured the election of Clofton, if the South ern Rights Democrats of the lower counties had not enlisted under the banner of the “Big Captain,” and borne it in triumph through the tight. So far as heard from, C Lofton has only carried Macon county, and his majority has been decreased by more accurate returns i below two hundred ; while Abercrombie has carried | Russell by over three hundred, Pike by nearly two hun ! dred, Barbour by near one hundred, and Montgomery |by a small majority. The returns from Henry show that his success in the lower counties will be equally de drive. Ihe field is lost in the 2d Congressional District. Montgomery. —Watts, Judge and Belter, are elected by a very large majority. They are all Whigs. Barbour. — Messrs. Cochran, McCall and Comer,’ Southern Rights ticket, are elected in this county to the Lower House, but Buford is unfortunately’ defeated by Peterson, by a small vote. They were both Southern Rjguts Whigs. Cochran is a Democrat. Russell. —Messrs. Baker, Nelson and Calhoun, Aber crombie whigs, are all elected. Mobile County. —Dispatches from Mobile state that ■ Phillips, democratic candidate for Congress, has carried Mobile county by 200 majority, and that the democratic county ticket is elected by about the same majority, i Coosa . —lt is reported that J Weaver, dem , and ! Pearce, whig, are elected representatives from Coosa. The contest between J. R. Powell and Bozeman, candi dates for the Senate, is close. Autauga County.-- It is reported that ——Thomp son, whig, beats Bolling Hail for representative in Au tauga. Dallas .—ln the Senatorial District of Dallas and ; Wilcox, it is reported that Blake. Democrat, leads Nor* j ris, wing ; and it, Dallas, Hatcher, whig, audonodemo- \ erai, are elected representatives. Chambers County. —Coi. McLemore is elected sen ator in Chambers by about 300 majority, and the whig | ticket tor representatives Todd, Hill and Robinson, also | elected. Delicious Peaches, We are indebted to Mr. William Mealing for a quantity of delicious peaches. They were of the Pace or Columbian variety, and for size and flavor are hardly surpassed by Musks’ best. The Aiiti*Li(|ior Law. Tho Grand Jury of Lumpkin county has p resell t | eu the retail traffic as “a fruitful source of profligacy i ana crime of the darkest dye, among both the white I and black population and states that twenty cases of j misdemeanor came before the body, and that all of j them had their origin in the use of liquor. They de mand a vote upon the question of license irom the next ! Legislature. CLr* Mk. Bowen, editor of the North American j | Review, has been rejected as Professor of History in | ! Harvard College, He is a Conservative—of the school i of Nicholas of Russia and the House of IJapsburg. O’ Gen. Quitman attended a Banquet at the Astor ; House given in hia honor by the New York Volunteers, j . . j [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL J I can recall no period in the political history of the eoun- | try, when duty, honor, and self-interest so imperatively | commanded the people of Georgia to sustain a Federal Ad- ! ; ministration, as the present, and to none docs the appeal ‘ j come so strongly as to that class known as the Union men * | of 1850-51. Coming into the administration on the very 1 j top of the tenth wave of a powerful reaction in the popular 1 ! mind, from the ardent and perilous struggle which had just j passed, Gen. Pierce is emphatically tho representative of j 1 that spirit of national conservatism which rose up to rebuke : | and combat the abolition fanaticism that had well nigh di- j j vided as enemies the confederated States of the South and | • the North. Having had no personal instrumentality in the j framing and adoption of the Comoromise—he found the ! Compromise made—the law of the land—and un it ho ! planted himself, ns a finality, to be carried out in good faith, of the fanatical crusade against the rights of property and • rights of sovereignty of the Southern States. The pledges j he assumed he has faithfully redeemed, and all the ar.teee- j dents of his history, full of eventful connection with it, j show that on tho slave question, and on the States’ Rights j question, he is to be trusted, if not before any public man i who has yet risen in the North,certainly before any North- ; ern man who has yet filled tho Presidential office. Gen. Pierce stands in clear and bold outline as the lead er of that party in the nation which stands opposed to Abo litionism in all its manifold shapes and forms. His flag j flies the mottoes, “ a cessation of agitation—let the South alone to manage hor own institutions—the rendition of fu gitive slaves a clear, positive and imperative duty, com manded by the Constitution, enjoined by considerations of j policy, and required by the comity and amity of fraternal > States, He makes no distinction but one between those who favored and those who opposed tho Compromise— and that is against Free-Sobers who have not accepted the law of the Compromise aa the end of agitation. I ask, then, every h nest aad intelligent citizen of Georgia whose eye may rest on these lines, why should this administration bo opposed ? What is there in its aentimente or its princi ples, the past, the present, or the probable future of its chief, to c\ uae ouo good man at the South to-desire its rebuke cr its * Nothing. It is a Union, and yet a States’ Rights h ; it ie a Republican, a Conservative, and a Constitutional Administration; it is an anti-farfatic Administration, and in reference to foreign relations, it is essentially an American Administration. A powerful e’a men* in its strength, tor us of the South, ie that with these Southern political traits it has as it? head a Northern man supported by a great Northern party— the entire Xorthem party who do not sympathise with Abolitionism. I ask again, why pull down 1 what good can be accomplished by opposing such an Administration 1 And yet, sir, impossible as it is to give one candid and good reason lor it, there is now in process of organization anew party in Georgia, for the very purpose of opposing this Administration. It is attempted to construct this party out of the debris of the Whig party formally disbanded at : the late Gubernatorial Convention at Miiiedgeville. The Webster Whigs took the load in this formation, and almost without consulting the majority oi their fellows, from whom j they recently bolted in a time of crisis; they have over- : ’ turned uli the altars of Whig worship of a quarter of a cen tury, and on Democratic and Administration principles, laid the foundation of a party of pure, personal and factious opposition to a Democratic Administration. The whole scheme is a fraud on the Whigs, on the Dem ocrats, and on the country. It is based upon a system of! fraudulent pretenses—its corner stone? are hypocrisy and I deceit., and its direct object, the continuation oftlio jiersonal I power and aggrandizement <*t the lew great leader? who i hatched the scheme. The men who nominated Chablfs J. Jerkins lor Gov- j j ernor have acknowledged that the Whig party in Georgia ! is a dead failure—they have boon forced to fall down and ; j worship the Democratic faith, by adopting into their plat- j form those wholesome fundamental Democratic doctrines I which they have been fighting against for twenty years, and now, with these acknowledgments of past errors I on their lips, and all uuatoned lor, they have the coolness | to ask the people to place thorn in power to carry out Dem j oeratic principles, and over the heads of men who have ai i ways professed them, and borna thorn aloft and in triumph, | against all the efforts of tho Jenkinsos, the Toornbses and i Stephenses of Whiggery. Where is tho sense of this de mand 1 If Democratic principles are the true ones for this Government and country, Democratic men arc the men to be trusted with their sale keeping and application, and not . their life-long enemies; and Mosers. Jenkins and Ste -1 phena and Toombs, instead of aspiring to lead, should . come, hat ia hand, begging pardon for their grots* and ©b- j stinate blindness to political truths they have just discovered, I i and humbly follow those who have so long illustrated and i j followed the true faith. | Let the truth be borne ia mind, then, that the election of 1 Mr. Jenkins as Governor of Georgia will declare no senti ! ment, and settle no principle oi the slightest importance to 1 the people of Georgia, that will not be equally declared by : tiie election of Judge Johnson, his Democratic opponent; i and will amount solely to a rebuke by Georgia of Gen. Pierce’s Administration. That ie what is designed, and : that is what tho effect will be. Mr. Chappell clearly saw through and exposed the movement when he declared that this now party without a name* was destined to beau Oppo sition party to the Administration. I know Mr. Jenkins well and have Known him long, and there :s not one among tho “ Republican citizens ” who nominated him that has a higher respect for his personal , character than I nave. But were he ten times a greater and i purer man, I should not dream 02 giving him my vote at ; the expense oi the National Administration, so intimately j connected with ihc peace and happiness of the who is coun try. And we of the South may rely upon it, that if we do riot stand by and honestly support such administrations as wo now have, wc shall never again have the aid of North ern Democratic votes in getting them. When tho South f ails to support a government true to the constitution and | just to its institutions, the triumph of her abolition enemiee is assured, and the Government itself will relapse into the hands of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's sympathizers and ; folio wars. p. j Tho Maine Law Democrats in Maine, are about to j nominate a car.dmale for Governor in opposition to Mr, i Fillabtiry, the regular nominee of the party, but an eppo j neat of the liquor inw. i The Augusta Constitutionalist, of 2d last, saya: The | Hon. Henry R. Jackson, our Charge d’A flairs to Austria, j arrived in this city last evening from Athens. He leaves ; th:e morning, and will take the inland route, and after : spending a few days iu Washington City, will leave in h • steamer from New York for Liverpool. Mr. Jenkins* Algerine Law. Section 2. - And be it further tun tied. That, do | person shall be allowed to vote lor Aldermen, who, i in addition to the qualifications now required of vo- i I tors, does not own real estate to the value of one ; thousand dollars, according to tho annual tax as9ess mentgnext previously made by the authority of the : : City Council, or has actually “paid a tax to said city j j of twenty-five dollars on real or personal estate, or j either, within the sarr.o year preceding such elec- \ tion, and no person shall be eligible as Alderman j who does not possess the qualifications herein pro- 1 scribed for voters. Northern Arguments. —There is more of iugenu- j ity than o: either consistency or honestv in the ef forts ot the enemies of the an in; n;-trillion to revive ; the agitation of the slavery question for party pur- , poses. The New York “Tribune appeals ’to* the! anti-slavery feeling of the North, bv declaring tnat i “whenever a barnburner of IS4B aspires to a “place j under the tederal administration he* is required to 1 renounce hisfreesoil principles or prove that he nev er had any; 5 ’ but, on the contrary, nc savsjhat “in ! no case dues the fact that a politician has* fought • the compromise on the side of slavery appear to ‘ bar his promotion.” Emanuel County.—W e leara that Neil McLeod sad ! Abraham Kirkland are tho opposing candidates for the Senate from Emanuel, and thaiS. M. Fortner and Eieaz er Durden are the opposing candidates for the House of Representatives. The candidates for the Senate are both ot the same political stripe, (conservatives,) and both the i candidates for House are democrats. They are running i Cj/ou the proposition to make anew county, bv takui >■ offi; a large strip ot Emanuel contiguous to Burke. Kirkland ■ and Foriuer are in lavor of the proposition, and .McLeod I and Durden opposed f> it, and upon it the race will he - ron. “ | i Firing Smalt Shot.— The editor of the Journal tc Messenger eumplaius that we fire small shot : we fire shot in proportion to the game wo are hunting. He must not • xpect us to fire cannon bails a: Bumble Rees.—Federal Union. The New York Express say a : One of the most important items of news obtained from California ay the Northern Light, is the fact that c al 0 \ the best quality is found at Puget’s Sound, lying Ut .. ir water, and a wharf built at a small expense wifi eaab’e yesseis to lead from the mouth of the pit. This will v ‘ e iDe Pacific steamers what they have long wanted ‘and taye the enormous transporting coal from Wales st tc2 * whwli ie eow the cu t of laving dov.n co l m branoiwio. TU ccal from Paget**” Bound is sa’d to be equd to Welsh ocak Specimens are to be sent to the Crystal Palace for exhibition. British Ship Panama. C'spt. Fisher, and the crew of the B itish ship Pa nama, of Glasgow, arrived in ’h s city on Saturday, and reported that the Panama hnd been bn tied to the water’s edge when a horn fitteen aries from Charleston Bar. It appears that the Panama was bound from New Orleans f>r Liverpool, having on board 1,334 bales of cotton. After having been some days at pea several of her crew vvero laid up with fever, contracted at New Orleans, and Thom as Jervis, of Liverp .0!, chief mate, Maieom Mc- Millan, of Prince Edward’s Island, second mate, and John Ross, boy, of Glasgow, dieu. Being thus disabled, the Captain determined to make lor Charleston, and had nearly reached this port, when • unfortunately, on Monday evening the Sfl'h uit., at | about half pcist ten o'clock, in consequence or the I set of the current, he ran ashore on Kiawah Break I ers, and the ship soon commenced to leak so badly, \ that it was found impossible, unaided, to get her otf. [ The captain then went ashore to procure assistance, if possible, but oa Wednesday evening, information reached him that his ship was on lire, and in thirty six hours, notwithstanding every elihrt was made to extinguish the flames, she was burned to the wa ter’s edge— Charleston Courier. A Stupendous claim., —A Western Pennsylvania company have setup a claim to the whole of the western reserve of Ohio, under a grant from Con necticut. alleged to have been made aftei the year 1762, when Charles 2d granted to that colony a pa tent for the Reserve. In 1795, it will be remem- ; ! be ted, she sold the Reserve to another company, relinquishing all claim to jurisdiction over the terri ! tory to the United States, in 1800. These Pennsyl •! vntria parties to-day applied to the General Land ! ■ Office to make to them patents for ail the Reserve! i Trie officer replied, wo learn from parties interc-s ted in the ‘‘speculation, 5 ’ that the Government,nev | er isrving had a claim 10 or proprietorship over that 1 territory, they cannot entertain the application ; and that the Shale of Connecticut is the party to whom the Pennsylvania company must look for redress, if they really have rights involved in the ease.- Washington Star. Smuggling of Opium in San Francisco. —The smuggling of opium has bee- me quite a business amongst the Chinese passengers w ho arrive at San Franc sco, and large quantities of the article have been scizud by the officers of the eu- toms, who have been on the look out for the smugglers for some time past. Amongst other contrivances for carry Lng it ashore they have adopted that of sewing it i in boils similar to those worn a* money belts.— ; O hers have it stitched in the lining of their shoes, i ami in all imaginable places. A let of it was found j in the bottom of a pork barrel. M ijor F. Searle; ot the United States Ar my, died on the 19th instant, at the Blue Si.’phut Spiings. in Monroe county, Va., whither ho had gone for the benefit of his health. The iaimedi i ate cause of death was a shot wound in the lower j leg! n os the spine, whi, hhe received in the Flori da war. His f aim: was 90 emaciated that h 8 body collapsed ins antly on tho suspension of life, leaving but a few pounds of flesh and bones where i was once a vigorous man, Last proposition. —A genii man in lowa propo ses to keep cities free from thunder storms ‘for to j much per year.” To most people, this offer will 1 e i looked upon as preposterous, and yet it is nor. Wo j have no doubt whatever that an outlay of SIO,COO j would keep New York as insulated as a glass table j with sealing-wax legs. What a gentleman in lowa proposes to do for u , has already been done for the vine growers of the South of France. B) means of a well arranged sys era of lightning rod.-, a whole district has been rendered inaccessible to those destructive hall storms which so frequently tollow in the tram of thunder showeis. What has been done in France, can be done drew here. L we can teach lightning to write, we can teach it to behave itself./— Lowed Cour. The Newman fu -d. —Tha London Tablet grates that no It'ss than SSO,OCO have been c fleeted in : England, Ireland and France, for the purpose of | the defence fund of I)r. Newman. Thu taxed costa i of Dr. Achilla amount to not more than #3,OCU. j The whole expense of the proceedings against j Dr. Newinsu are stated to be #45,000. | Spanish Navy. —The New Orleans Picyune states that Spam has h#on making efforts for years to have her Navy equal ours. She has been constantly counting our ships, steamers and | guns, and has kept pace with them in number. She i has, therefore, a formidable and well equipped narv, ! and as large and effectually armed as ours. * ——• j &r the Amazon Steamship and Trading com* i pany of New York have in progress of building at i the latter place a large sea steamer and several s i smaller ones for river service. Large grants of land have been made to this company by the Bra zilian and Bolivian Governments ; and an agent is to he sent cm without delay to take charge ofthem, 1 to form stations along the river, and to perfect the | enterprise. i,;■ ■ ~ y - The Chinese in New York. —lt is seriously pro* j | posed in New York that the Chinese Dramatic com- j : pany (Tong Ho -ks-Tongs) be sent to the Aims- i house, there being not the slightest probability that j | individual charity will feed and clothe thorn any | i longer. The late benefit given them yielded less ; than than 8700, to be divided among the whole of them, forty in number. j • j feiiooriNG and Staminu. —A correspondent from I Soriven, informs us of a difficulty which occurred at Syl- ; vania, on Friday t-hc 21st ult., between Dr. P. L. L. I Ogolove and Reuben Blackburn, the latter striking the ! former with a stick, patting out one eye, when thj* Dr. i drew a pistol and fired at him, the ball taking effect in the arm. Bartley Blackburn, a brother of Reuben, here interfered and knocked the Dr. down, who arose, obtained a bowie knife and stabbed Bartley three times. The wounds were considered serious. Ail the parlies were arrested and takeu before a magistrate and committed to jail, they being unable to procure bah. Our informant states that they were a!! intoxicated at the time. [ Central Georgian. A Show eh or Cobweb*.— Yesterday morning, says the Sacramento Union of the 18th, the air in the nefoh* borhood of that city seemed to !>e full of a species ot cob weo, which covered trees, houses, fences, and hats, much to the surprise ot the lookers-on. They seemed to come fr, ra the southeast, and were floating through the air at various distances, from the ground tons high as one could see. When caught and rolled up, the rolls resembled fine cotton. How TO Pass Through Smoke.-—ln the course of an mqure: in London lately, Mr. Wakley, the coroner, ob served that it would be well to acquaint the public with lac tac., that il persons in a house on fire had the presence of mind to apply a damp cloth or handkerchief to their moutn and nostrils, they could ellec-t a passage through the densest smoke; but the surest way would be to envelope the head and face completely iu the damp doth. Ihu Pacific Railboad.—Thirty-nine miles •fthepa- Oitic Railroad trom St. Louis westward!}', were opened for business on the 10th inst. The failure to negotiate iu this market will not retard the progress of the work, as resourcea have been otherwise provided. t A letter from Houston, Texas, state? that Bi-Governor Paine died at Waco on *he 6th u!t. Shipments of Cotton from Memphis.— The Mvm plus Wh>g states that sue* the Ist 0 f September* 1852, up to July 18 h, 1853, over two honored thousand bales of cotton have been shipped a ;h- t I [Kunt. This is about one-s'Xteenih of the whuV I cotton crop of the United States. “Mr. Jones, don’t you think marriage i s H means of grace?” “Certainly, my dear madam • anything is a means of grace that breaks U J pride and leads to repentance;” Exit, Mr Jones, under the influence of a mop handle. A Western editor copying a story about a drowning man who had a wonderful memory of every event of his life, advises some of his sub scribers to practice bathing in deepwater! Royal Wet Nurse. —Her Majesty has again honored the Isle of Wight, by having appointed a wet nurse for her infant fr#m Cowes. “This is no wonder.” Roger,says he, — “’This just what nature allows ; For what could more appropriate bo, As he is a young John Buli, you see, Than to give his nursing to Cowes.’’ Jt [}loston Post, ARRIVALS AT WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, MERIWETHER COUNTY. July 20.—W. T. Burge, Charleston ; Jack Brown, Bu* ! ena Vista; Mr?. Otis Smith, B. H. Cameron and family, B H. Lindsay, LaG range; R. A. Hardaway, Columbus; Jno. Passmore, Harris co. July 27 —G. A. Brown, H. M. Butt, Marion co.; JB. ; Walker, Harris co.; Dr. Wimbish, W. D. Alexander, Dr. J. C. Blackburn, Meriwether ; W. W. Allen and daixgh ter, Mobile; Miss Mary Pearce and servant, O Reed, W, Harrison, Ala. ; Mrs. J. E. Dawson, James C. Cook, lady and sons, J. J. Redd, Columbus ; W. L. Johnson. Glennville ; G. W. Mooro, West Point; E. P. Beaucbami Greenville. July 28.—J. J. Gorham, Harris; Locke Weems, Co lumbus ; Mrs. Eaton and family, LaGrango ; I). A. Kidd, A. P. Robertson, Mrs. Swanson and daughter. Troup co. July 29 —J. F. Hand, Ala ;S. R. Bonner, Ghr.ivbealc: G. Butler, Leo co. ; J. B. Walker, II -rris. July 30.—R. F. Maudux, Thos. Scott, Troup co.; P. Martin, Miss K. Wellborn, Meriwether; L. Renwick, La- Grange ; Mrs. A Iverson, Miss C. Iverson,master J. Ivor son, Columbus ; J. W. Morgan, Charleston. July 21 —J. J. Hardy, Dr. J. Foster, Troup ; John C. Calhoun, Columbus. TENTERS. J. Clarke, Sr. and family,. Mrs. Rawson, Mrs. Root, Lumpkin ; Jas. K. Redd and family, T. Ragland and Lmi ly, Columbus; B. H. Cameron, Esq. and family, “firs. Swanson and family, Jlra. Dr. lljll and family, B. F. Lind say and family, F. Lindsey and family, Tioup co. W in. 11. Thumlert, a highly respectable citizen ot B.*!- I imorc, says that Stabier’s Anodyne Cherry Expectorant entirely cured him of a threatened Consumption of six months, standing. He has since recommended it to many others, and it has in every instance done all that could be expected from medicine. It is used by many of the un experienced Physicians. If yon have a Cough, try it ’ Sec advertisement in another column. J uiy 8— 1 m RAD WAYS REGULA TORS Do not gripe, pain, .weaken, or sicken the patient. Sunil 1 doses regulate, iargo doses purge. One Regulator will ] gently evacuate the bowel 3 and regulate every organ in th-j J system. They act upon tho liver, tho stomach, kidneys, j and bladder. They cure costivenoaa, liver complaint, dys- | pepsia, kidney complaints, biliousness, fevers of all kinds. No disease or pain can afflict the system while under the influence of R. R. R. Remedies. Prieaoi R. R. R. Relic?, 29 cts., 50 efs. and sl. ‘* “ “ “ Resolvent, #l. ” “ “ “ Regulators, 25 cts. per box. K. R. R. Office, 162 F’ulton street, N. Y. July f-lm Holloway'g PHI* are an Infallible Remedy for the. cure of Gough*. Cold*, and Asthmas. —There aro daily so many undeniable proofs of the efficacy of Holloway’s Pill? in the cures of diseases of the Cheat, arising either from old coughs, recent colds, wheezings or shortness of breath, that ail persons, whether younger old, suffering from such complaints, should have immediate recourse to these invaluable Fills, as a fair trial will show their ex traordinary powers. Many ;reons who were scarcely able to draw their breath, and apparently almost at death’s door, have been completely cured by this remedy, to the astonishment of those who have witnessed their suffer ings. July b —lm Neuralgia. —This formidable disease, which seems to baffle the skill of physicians, yields like magic to Carter’s Spanish Mixture. Mr. F. IJoyden, formerly of the* Astor House, New , ! York, and late proprietor of the Exchange rnond, Vs., is one of the hundreds who have been cured n of severe Neuralgia by Carter’s Spanish Mixture. j Since his cure, ho ha? recommended it to numbers ot I others who were suffering with nearly every form of dis* .1 ; ease,vr th the most wonderful success. fjfl • Ho says it is the most extraordinary medicine he lias • ever seen used, and the best blood purifier known. Sec advertisement in another column. July B—lia SPECIAL NOTICES. ---...~ ■ — ( Yv E are authorised to announce DA VTI) J. BAR BER as a caiididate for Clerk of the Superior Court of Muscogee County, at the election in January next. June 25,1853 —w&twte. V CITRATE OF MAGNESIA. This agreeable beverage and excellent summer laxative can be found freshly prepared, and well iced, at . GESNER & PEABODY’S Blus Drug Store,sign of the Negro and Mortar. Also, Soda and Congress Waters made cool and palat ahlo. June 15 twit ICE, ICE, ICE! * The Ice House is now open for the season. The price will be i fo*a:l amounts let-than ufly lbs., three cents por lb Over fifty and less than two hundred, two and a halfccuts; two hundred $ lb-. 4 and over, two cents. Hours from ?.# to 12# A. M., and 2 to 6 P. except Sun days, on which day the house will be open from 7# to 10, A. M, only. Tickets can be had on application Vo Columbus, April IS—twtr W. J. CHAFFIN. I GAS FIXTURE’S, | Til C subscribers having engaged competent work>u*,u, will bo prepared to fit up Stores and Houses with pspo3, burners, and all necessary apparatus for the use of Gas. This work •will or. war ented, and done under tho superintendence of the Engineer o. the Columbus Gas Light company. WHHTCLStA - CO. According the by-laws of too company, ifac huU.vJ -a. I stores will be fitted up iu the order : their application. I A Register Book is now ready at the tdore 1 Messrs;. | sav &. C. L. IltAlbh., • r- April 15 w&lwtf ‘ Columbus Ca* Light Cosupan. , 3IAIIKIED* * In thin city, August 1, -t the ro.:deßC6 of xfojcr R. S |gg Hardaway, by Rev. T. H. Dawtcn, Ja:ie- R- c j§ Oxford, Ga., to Mira Anna M. Hudson, or Mobue.