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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 16,1853.
FOR GOVERNOR:
UERSCHEL V. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN.
FOR CONGRESS:
let. DISTRICT JAMES L. SEWARD.
lid. DISTRICT A. H. COLQUITT.
Hid. DISTRICT DAVID J. DAILEY.
IVth. DISTRICT W. U. W. DENT.
Vth. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN.
VHth DISTRICT THOS. P. SAFFOLD.
Villth DISTRICT J. J. JONES.
MUSCOGEE COUNTY NOMINATIONS.
FOR SENATE,
JOSEPH STURGIS.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
ALEXANDER McDOUGALD,
MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.
lion. James Johnson.
Our neighbor of the Times and Sentinel has been ran
sacking the journals ot Congress and detailing the acts of
our late Representative as a member of that body. This is
legitimate and proper, and we hope the investigation will
be pursued, and the result duly chronicled, in order that the
voters of the district may learn, even from the opponents of
Mr. Johnson, that he was faithful, able and honest in all
that concerned the interests of his country or his immediate
constituents. He fears no such scrutiny, and his friends are
ready to meet it.
We find the above extract in the last issue of the
Columbus Enquirer. Though our labors are appre
ciated by the Enquirer , it is somewhat singular that
the record with which it professes to bo so much pleas
ed ts not transferred, to its columns. No doubt but
that the contrast between the high claims of the lion.
James Johnson, as made in the Enquirer, and the mea
gre record of his services, as detailed in our columns,
was too striking even for its hardened effrontery.
We proceed to “pursue the investigation.” The
Enquirer oxultingly asks;
Did Mr. Johnson do an act or give a vote, duringhis re
cent service in Congress, which compromited the interests
of his country or his constituents ? Did he leave undone any
thing in his power to accomplish, which a due regard to the
honor of his State and the rights of his district required at
his hands ? Did he neglect tne business of any single indi
vidual, however high or low, that was entrusted to his
management ? Bring up the record, and answer.
We answer —The resolutions adopted by the conven
tion of “Republican citizens,” which recently assembled
in Milledgeville, asserted that “we consider the rights of
the Southern States as in great and imminent danger
* * by any political party, whatever may be its
name, which recognises abolitionists and freesoilers as
worthy of public honors and public emoluments,” and
the strong point made by Mr. Johnson against the
Democratic party is, that their President has appointed
abolitionists and freesoilers to office.
Now it is conceded on all hands that freesoilers filled
many, if not the larger portion, of the important offices of
the Government during Mr. Fillmore’s administration.
The rights of the Southern States were,therefore,in great
and imminent danger during the whole of Mr. James
Johnson’s term in Congress. We charged in our last
issue, and now repeat the charge, that the Honorable
member never so much as alluded to this subject during
his whole term—that he maintained a studied silence on
the subject, and in that “left undone” something “in
his power to accomplish which a due regard to the hon
or of his State and the rights of his district required at
his hands.” “The rights of his section in great and im
minent danger 1” Could he not denounce the adminis
tration which had had it in peril Or, if his sympathies
for the W hig President dnd the whig party were too
strong for this bold measure, could he not have warned
his constituents on the floor of Congress of the ruin
which was impending over them ? Or, if he was afraid
of making that “once illustrious body the laughing-stock
of enlightened statesmen all over the civilized world”
by “always speaking,” could he not have written to his
constituents through the columns of the Enquirer , and
thus at least have notified them of their danger. We
specifically charge that he did neither of these things, and
thereby showed himself unworthy of the trust reposed
in him. Will the Enquirer relieve its pet from this
damning proof of his delinquency ?
But this is not the only instance in which the Hon
orable gentleman “left undone those things which he
ought to have done.”
It is known to the public that the last week of the
session is the most important of them all. More bills
are usually passed during this short period than during
the whole session besides. Immense appropriations are
then made of lands and money j and fraud and cor
ruption then stalk openly through the Halls of Congress,
and, taking advantage of the confusion incident to the
breaking up of Congress, accomplish their bad designs.
Os all other weeks this is the week when Southern
Representatives are most needed in their seats.
Now will it not strike our readers with surprise to
learn, after the triumphant boasts of the Enquirer , that
its exemplary candidate, who “did not neglect the busi
ness ol any single individual” during his whole term,
was in Columbus, Ga. at this time, and when expostu
lated with by a good Democrat, replied, “the Democ
racy are responsible—they have the majority V 1 Well,
•o be it, and let the people then send a Democrat to i
Congress to take his place and share the responsibility. ;
These are sins of omission. We now come to sins of ‘
commission, and begin with his support of Bennett’s
Land Bill—a scheme of public plunder unexampled in
ihe records of Legislation. But the subject is too im
portant to be lugged in at the end of a long article. .
M e reserve its consideration for a separate article, in !
which we expect to show that the Hon. James Johnson
gave his support to a measure whose direct tendency
was to undermine State Rights by making them the
beneficiaries of Federal bounty, and commit the Govern
ment to the most stupendous scheme of internal im- ’
provement ever proposed to the country, and before |
which the Pacific Rail Road scheme dwindles down into
utter insignificance.
Does the Enquirer still hope “the investigation will |
be pursued ?”
Aid to New Orleans and Mobile. —The City j
Council of Columbus have appropriated SSOO for the
relief of the sufferers in New Orleans.
Ihe City Council of Macon have appropriated SSOO
for the same purpose ; and the citizens iiave raised
t e sum of $8(4: 50 by private subscription. SSOO of j
which will be sent to Mobile.
T** Central Railroad. —We Jearn from the Jour
dr i essenger that though this Road has been in
wh a | U ° D ° Ver UsU Donoboe is the first person
Delias ever been killed upon its cars.
A Conservative gun spiked—John A. Dix’s
Letter.
In all the assaults of the Conservative press of Geor
gia upon President Pi. rce’s appointments, the name of
John A. Dix, of New York, has always occupied the
Iront rank. He was, they said, an abolitionist—a free
soiler—an enemy of the South —not only the South,
but the Union, was endangered by the appointment of
such a traitorto office. Indeed, his appointment drove
Mr. Toombs into opposition to the administration, and
was, we verily believe, the pretext for organizing the
Conservative party in Georgia. His ability was not de
nied ; his integrity was not impeached 5 his fitness for
the office he filled was not questioned. His damning
sin was that he was an abolitionist. Under these cir
cumstances Dr. Garvin, of Augusta, Ga., addressed him
a letter, and below we give his reply.
New York, Aug. 31st, 1853.
Dr. I. P. Garvin—Dear Sir: I have just received your
favor of the 26th inst., stating that I am represented by Whig
presses and itinerant orators in Georgia as an Abolition
ist, &c., and I thank you for the opportunity you have af
forded me of saying, in reply :
Ist. That I am not, and never have been an Abolitionist,
in any sense of that term. On the contrary, I have been an
open and uniform opponent of all abolition movements in
this State, and elsewhere, since th< y commenced in 1835,
to the present time. While in the Senate of the United
States, I opposed the extension of slavery to free territory—
a question entirely distinct from interference with slavery
where it already exists. In the latter case, 1 have steadily
opposed all external interference with it.
2d. That 1 have on all occasions, public and private,
since the Fugitive Slave Law passed, declared myself in
favor of carrying it into execution in good faith, like every
other law of the land.
3d. That 1 was in favor of the union of the Democracy
of this State, which was consummated in 1850, continued
in 1851 on the basis of the Compromise Measures, and in
1852 on the basis of the Baltimore Platiorm.
4th. That 1 have, since the Baltimore Convention, in
June, 1852, repeatedly given my public assentjto its pro
ceedings and acquiesced in its declarations, as an adjust
ment of disturbing questions, by which I was willing to
abide.
On these points, I may write you more fully in a few
days; and in the meantime you are at liberty to use this
brief reply to vour note, as you may think proper.
I am, dear sir, very respectfully, yours,
JOHN A. DIX.
It is only necessary to add that Mr. Dix voted for the
admission of Texas into the Union, and thereby gave
his assent to the extension of the slave power in the
Union over a scope of country nearly as large as one
third of the slaveholding States, to show that he is in
finitely more favorable to the South than Daniel Web
ster, the Conservative candidate for President of the
United States. If, therefore, Mr. Pierce lias put the
Union in danger and jeoparded the highest interests of
the South by theappointmentof Dix to office, and there
by forfeited the confidence of the Southern people,
much more guilty of these damning sins ar e Jenkins
and Toombs, who voted for Daniel Webster for Presi
dent, and would, if they had the power, have appointed
him to the highest office in the gift of the American
people. Daniel Webster opposed the annexation of
Texas simply because it was a slareholding State, and
it was his boast, even to the hour of his death, that he
never had and never would consent to the addition of
one inch of slaveholding territory to the United States.
We are very anxious to hear further from John A-
Dix. We have the best reasons for believing that he
occupies the ground that Congress has no power to in
terfere with slavery in the territories ; that that is a
question to be determined by the people who inhabit the
territory.
The proof now furnished conclusively proves that he
is not only not an abolitionist, but that he is not even a
fretsoiler. The existence of slavery in a country is no
objection to its admission into the Union with him. He
has voted for the admission of such a territory into the
Union. He is, therefore, a slavery propagandist. He
has aided in extending slave territory and slave power
in the Union.
We take it upon ourselves further to assert, that there
is not a whig north of Mason and Dixon’s line who
has as clean a record on the subject of slavery as John
A. Dix. We defy the Conservative press to point out
the man. They cannot find him.
What then will the people think of the sin
cerity of the Conservative party? Will they not join
with 11s in denouncing them as an unprincipled faction,
resolved on personal aggrandizement, utterly reck
less as to the means they use to accomplish their pur
poses, abandon them to their fate, and stand by the
Democracy and the country ?
Progress of the Epidemic.
Montgomery, Sept. 10.
Two cases arrived in the city direct from New Or
leans, Aug. 12. Since then there have been 13 cases,
9 of which were from New Orleans, Mobile and Pensa
cola ; the remaining 4 cases occurred in a family of
Irish laborers near the river ; of the 15 cases 6 died,
4 recovered and 5 are under treatment with fair pros
pects of recovery.
September 12.
Two more cases were brought to the city from Mo.
bile. No case has originated in the city since the re
port of the 10th, and no deaths have since occurred
from the fever.
Mobile, —We refer our readers to the letter of our
Mobile Correspondent for information in respect to the
i fever in this city. This beautiful city is stricken ; and
I the deaths there are quite as numerous in proportion
i to population as New Orleans, and the destitution of the
poor is equally great, and appeals strongly to the sym
pathy of the humane. Ske is entitled to a share of the
noble charities which are pouring in upon New Or
leans. We are glad to see that Montgomery has set a
noble example by sending to the destitute the sum of
■ $749 54. C. C. Langdon is the Mayor of the city,
and will receive the donations of the charitable.
New Orleans, Sept. 10.
The fever has greatly abated in this city. Total
: deaths for ti!e 10th were only 80, of which 61 were from
yellow fever.
fused an extension of Col. Colt's, patent fire
arms, on the ground that he has already made
$1,000,000 from their sale. The patent has yet
four vears to run.
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Q£r Lola Montez has quarreled with her new
husband, because he was jealous of a violinist
from whom she “had received some polite atten
tions.” The husband raised a row, and was
kicked out of the house. Served him right.
Wilkes Railroad. —The Wilkes Republican
of the Bth says : We are gratified to be able
to state that the cars are now running 10 a
point on the outskirts of our town, and distant
but a pleasant evening’s walk from the Public
Square.
(£?” G. H. Lockheart, son.in-law and biog
rapher of Sir Walter Scott, and editor of the
Quarterly Review, has been compelled, by indis
position, to cease from all literary labors. He
is about to go to Italy.
[correspondence op the times and sentinel.]
Mobile, Sept. 8, 1853.
Since my last letter, the epidemic has made alarming
progress. The deaths for the first week of the present
month, ending yesterday, are 241, of which 196 are report
ed yellow fever. This is a terrible mortality, considering
the population of the city, diminished as it is, by the great
number of citizens who have been attracted to the North by
the unusual attractions of the Crystal Palace, &c., and the
greater number who have fled the city on the appearance
of the dreaded yellow jacket. The “Battle House,” the
hue new hotel opened for the first time last fall, has been
closed, on account of the impossibility of getting the ne- ■
cessary aid of clerks and servants to keep it open. The ser- j
vants of the house, numbering an hundred, were brought !
out from the North last season, were unacclimated,and the
fever has made dreadful havoc among them.
H. Barney, Esq., for eighteen years a citizen ot Mobile,
fell a victim this week. He wasa son of Col. John Barney,
of Baltimore, a successful merchant, and a man of decided
and masculine character. I notice among the deaths ot
the week, the name of Win. H. Tallman, for a time fore
man of the Times office. I regret to see in the New Or
leans papers a notice of the death of Mr. Win. G. Kim
brough, of Columbus.
Every thing like business is suspended in this city. In
deed, there are few stores or counting rooms where suffi
cient force is left to transact business. A lady sent, a few
days since, to a dry good store for some/ article, and there
was no one to fill the order—the complejment of the estab
lishment is 12 clerks. In truth, the city is converted into a
vast hospital, and the great and only business is nursing
the sick and burying the dead. To the honor of human
nature and of this people, this business is faithfully attended
to. The “Can’t-Get-Away Club” and the “Samaritan”
; Society have each opened hospitals for the reception and
1 care of the indigent sick. They have relief committees in
! every ward, whose duty it is to seek out daily for sufferers
| and place them under the care of these benignant societies.
! The members of these associations tend the sick personally,
: sit up with them at night, furnish medical advice and medi
| cine, and bury the dead, and all at the cost of the societies,
j These heroic charities save Mobile from the frightful scenes
I which so often are exhibited in communities visited by pes
| tilenee —where the well fly, and the sick are left to die, of
j ten by blood relations.
I have been compelled to suspend my business operations.
My overseer and Engineer have been obliged to leave their
posts to nurse their families, in one of which every member
was down and one dead. My first watchman is dead, a
j second discharged sick, and two white sawyers gone on the
1 same account.
I am happy to perceive that the Epidemic, after having
j swept away 7,000 persons in New Orleans is abating. The
daily deaths have been reduced to 50. It will probably
graduaily subside there, provided new material is not furn
ished it in the arrival of strangers. The New Orleans pa
pers have been discussing with great ingenuity of specula,
tion. a question on which science has cast scarcely a ray
of light, to wit: the origin and communicability of yellow
fever. They all agree, 1 believe, that they know very little
about it, and each writer winds up his theory with the ad
mission that he is prepared to hear and weigh arguments
against it. I cannot give in to the idea that it is contagious,
because I have never known the disease to be taken from a
place where it prevailed, into a pure atmosphere and thero
spread. For instance, if twenty persons were to carry with
them from New Orleans to the Meriwether hills, the seeds
ofdisease in their system-, and they should exhibit them
selves in decided cases of yellow lever, I cannot he made
to believe that the fever would spread, among the popula
tion of these invigorating hills. I think, like the cholera,
the causes of yellow fever must be local and atmospheric—
with the difference that cholera is almost übiquitous, while
the fever is confined to low southern latitudes. F.
Bishop Doano.
Our readers are aware that one of the high
functionaries of the episcopal church is now on
trial before his peers at Camden, New Jersey.
The specifications in the presentment number
thirty-one. ‘That the reader may understand
the nature of the charges we give below an ab
stract of them.
Specification 1. In contracting numerous
and large debts, beyond his means of payment,
amounting in March, 1849, to $280,000; his
property being not above $130,000.
) 2, In untruly stating that he gave up his
I property to meet a debt not personally to himself,
j but growing out of his venture for Christian edu
j cation, in St. Mary’s Hall and Burlington Col
lege.
| 3. In defrauding Michael Hays, of Burling
! ton, by misapplying notes endorsed by him.
: 4. A similar charge of defrauding Joseph
Deacon.
5,6, 7,8, 9, 10. and 11, charge him with
having obtained the names of Joseph Deacon
and others, to endorse his notes, by false repres
entations, and offering notes without having
property to meet them.
12. In jeopardizing the property of his ward,
George D. Winslow, by appropriating the same
to his use.
13. Defrauding the Camden Bank in the sum
of SIOO, by inducing the cashier not to protest
a note, promising to send the money.
14. In and rawing checks upon Burlington and
other banks, not having money therein to meet
said checks.
15. In using undue solicitation to induce
Sarah C. Robardet to loan him SB,OOO.
16. Obtaining books from Herman Hooker
for a parish library, and misapplying the money
collected for that purpose.
17. 18. In incuning heavy liabilities while
! insolvent—several cases particularized.
19. In signing the name of Horace Binney,
as a subscriber to a church, for SI,OOO, with
out consent of said party.
20. In procuring from Mrr. Lippineott a se
curity held by her, under promise of returning
; the same, which lie failed to do.
25. Charging Bishop Doane with “procuring
one Michael Hays to endorse notes to the amount
of more than a thousand dollars, for the accom
modation of himself, in order that the said notes
might be discounted, for which endorsements he j
paid, or engaged to pay Mr. Hays at an exor- j
bitant rate, to wit: often at 20 per cent, per an
num in the several sums for which said notes
were drawn, thereby violating the laws of New j
Jersey, when said endorsements were made, be- ;
coming guilty of usury himself, and inducing j
said Hays to incur equal guilt—all which was
immoral and unbecoming a Bishop.”
26. In endeavoring to intimidate Joseph Dea
con from taking proceedings against him, doub
ling bis fist and using the words, “I’ll kill you,
I’ll kill vou.”
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28. Charges him with making an affidavit,
purporting to give a full and true list of creditors,
whereas the said affidavit did not contain a full
and perfect list—thus being guilty of a sinful
disregard of the solemnities of an oath, and
either deliberately swearing to what he knew to
be untrue, or of rashly, hastily, and unadvisedly
swearing to what he did not know to be true.
31. In being repeatedly guilty of using spiri
tous and intoxicating liquors to a degree unbe
coming a Bishop; being so intoxicated on
board the steamboat Trenton, in November,
1851. A charge of having been drunk in Bor
dentown borough in 1847, contained in the torm
er presentment, is not repeated.
A Consistent Democrat.
HOll. A. H. Chappell addressed the cit
izens of Atlanta 011 Saturday night last, at the
Macon & Western Depot, in one of the most
masterly and eloquent speeches we have heard
during the campaign, llis plain and lucid ex
position of the subject of the Executive ap
pointments was a most complete vindication of
the policy of Gen. Pierce, from the election
eering abuse and misrepresentation of the Whig
newspapers and stump orators. He spoke with
a degree of earnestness and genuine sincerity
of feeling throughout his entire address, that
can only come from a consciousness of being
enlisted on the side of truth and justice.
“Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.”
Mr. Chappell was one of the strongest and
most efficient Union Democrats in Georgia, du
ring the exciting scenes of 1850 and \sl, but
now that the issues which divided political par
ties in those contests are definitely settled, he is
not willing to lend the weight of his influence
and his reputation for honesty and integrity, to
the promotion of the hypocritical schemes of
Messrs. Toombs and Stephens. Mr. Chappell
is a true and consistent Democrat, and a friend
of the administration of President Pierce, and
therefore is in the field in support of the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor, Hon. Herschel
V. Johnson.— Atlanta Intelligencer.
Retraction of a Calumny.
Some time since a Whig paper in North Car
olina started an absurd story that a negro or
mulatto had been appointed by the administra
tion keeper of the Long Shoal Light Boat.—
This was seized upon with avidity by the Whig
papers of Georgia and other Southern States,
and made the subject of the bitterest animadver
sions. Having served the purposes of its fab
rication, the paper in which it first appeared now
retracts the calumny in the following terms:
Correction. — In spite of all the prudence and
caution which they can exercise, editors will
sometimes be led into error. Such was our case
in regard to the appointment of keeper of the
Long Shoal Light Boat. Instead of a mulatto
having been appointed, as we were informed on
most respectable authority was the case, we
learn from a letter from a friend in Hyde, and
from another friend in this place who was in that
county last week, that Capt. Robert Rallison
has been appointed to the Long Shoal Boat;
that Capt. R. is a very respectable citizen of
Hy'de. one of the acting magistrates of the
county, and that the appointment is the best
which has been made in that region. Os course
our informants were misinformed as to who
had been appointed to the Long Shoal boat.’’
This is another sample of Whig attacks in
this State on the administration. We shall see
whether the Whig papers which copied the “ne
gro” statement, will publish this correction,
[ Charleston Mercury.
The largest subscription yet made for
New Orleans by any city, in proportion to its
population, is Charleston. She has raised be
tween eight and nine thousand dollars.
In proportion to the number of givers, Point
Clear, is, however, ahead of all.
There is said to be not a single female
convict in the Virginia Penitential’}'.
IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.
Movements of Santa Anna.
FOUR STATES PRONOUNCED AGAINST HIM.
The San Antonio Texian of the 25th, contains the
following important news from Mexico :
The inhabitants of the entire country east of the Sier*
ra Mad re are openly expressing their dissatisfaction with
the rule of Santa Anta. This tyrant of a President has
imposed a monthly tax of one real (12£ eents) on every
man, woman and child in the country. A monthly tax
of one hundred dollars is levied upon every merchant,
and mechanics are taxed agreeably to the proceeds of
j their respective vocations, estimated by the collecting olt.
fleer. He also requires from each State a certain num
ber of men for the augmentation of his army.
Military rule is instituted in all the States, much to the
} discomfiture and dissatisfaction of the people. Many of
those living near the Rio Grande, are continually cross
ing $0 this side to avoid conscription. Parents are send
ing their sons over, aiding them, as far as lies in their
power, with the means to gain a livelihood in their vol
untary exile.
The Mexican people regard war with the United States
as inevitable. Many even go so far as to desire war as
the only means of obtaining relief from the oppression
now suffered ; while others deprecate an event, which
will go far to destroy the nationality of their “much be
j loved country.” There are also those who suffer under
j the delusion, that anew edition of hostilities with this
! country will result in the redemption of their lost fame as
a military people.
A company of sixty men, raised at Aguas Calientes un
der the levy above mentioned, while on their way to a
; rendezvous in Durango, turned upon their officers, who
j were forced to yield to them. They were, however, re
i turned and ordered to be shot. Another body of men
1 was ordered from Zacatecas to pursue a body of two
hundred Indians, who had plundered a hacienda near
that city. They refused to obey the order ; whereupon
the Governor ordered out his own troops and had the reb-
I els (!) shot.
At a town on the Presidio del Rio Grande a conseri*’
biug officer attempted to muster th e forced volunteers ,
butlo! they were missing almost to a man. If they re
turn they are subject to six years’ service in the Federal
army.
It was reported that the States of Guanajuato, Gua
dalajara and Morelia, had pr mounted against Santa An
na. It was believed that Chihuahua and several of the
neighboring States would follow the example.
No provision is made tor the mail service. The citi
zens of the different towns were compelled to carry the
mail from place to place, until it reached its final desti
nation.
Corn was yielding a plentiful harvest. Cotton looks
‘Veil. There had been no want of rain during the
reason.
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
New York, Sept 8.
The steamer Asia has arrived bringing Liverpool dates
of the 27th ult.
General News. —The general intelligence is devoid of
interest. The Eastern question was in statu quo , but
was regarded generally as settled.
Mr. Soule was at Paris, where lie would remain a few
days previous to proceeding to [Madrid.
The screw steamer Taurus sailed from Liverpool 011
Wednesday for New York, via Boston.
Markets. — Liverpool , Aug. 27.—The Cotton market
is quiet at 110 quotable decline. Lower grades would how
ever be difficult to sell without some concession. The
market closed quiet. Salt sos the week 31,710 bales, of
which Speculators took 4,240, and Exporters 4,880 bales.
Slock, 802,509 bales, includings4o,os3 bales American.
The quotations were Fair Orleans 7d., Middling G^d. —
Fair Upland and Mobile 6yd., Middling Upland 5 15-l Gd.
Breadstuff’s continued excited, owing to unreasonable
weather, and prices had still further advanced. For the
week the advance in Wheat had been 4d,a Bd. per bush
el, and in Flour Is. a Is. 6d. a 2s. per barrel. Corn was
in demand at 6d. a Is. per quarter advanced. Rice was
very active at 21s. 6d. a 245. for Carolina.
Jullien’s Concert at New York.
New York, Sept. 12.
Jullien’s Concert on Saturday night realized SI,BOO
for the New Orleans suffer* rs.
The steamship Crescent City has been sent to take the
Georgia’s passengers.
Bishop Doanc's Trial. —The trial of Bishop Doane
is progressing. No decision has yet been made upon
the question of quashing the presentment.
Capture of American Fishing Vessels .* —Accounts
have been received at Boston from the fishing grounds
stating that the British evuizers had seized seven Ameri
can fishing vessels oft’Fox river. The seizure of these
vessels had caused much excitement among the Ameri
cans.
Arrival of the Illinois. —The steamship Illinois has
arrived at New York, bringing 700,000 dollars in gold
dust. She brings no later dates from California.
The revolutionary outbreak in Venezuela has been
i quelled.
Aid for the Mobile. Sufferers. —A meetiug of the cip
zens of Boston lias been held to afford relief to the Mo*
: bile sufferers. Upwards of S6OO was immediately sub
j scribed by the committee who were appointed to obtain
; funds.
Special Dispatch.
Washington, Sept. 7,1853.
Editors American Times:
| There has been a long Cabinet Session to-dav. The
: Consul to Barbadoes has been appointed, but the name of
the lucky individual has not been ascertained.
The French Mission is still a matter of anxious consider
ation. No selection has as yet been made, but report says
that it has been tendered to Gen. Cass, who, it is more than
probable, will not accept.
The Hon. Robert J. Walker resignsjthe mission to China.
His determination has been hastely and unexpectedly made.
Col. Bissell may yet enter upon his mission, but a week
will elapse before any final decision can be ascertained.
The Charge to Venezuela will soon be appeinted.
The young lady who eloped from the Convent, on last
Sunday, was married to-day at the National Hotel The
name of the lucky gentleman is Germain N. Jordan, of Jor
dan’s Springs, Va., and the name of the Mississippi beauty,
Miss Mary Roach. I’hree hundred thousand dollars is the
estimated wealth of the bride.
Baltimore, Sept. 9.
i Discharge of the Suspected Murderer of Mr. Junes.
| The negro Watson, who was arrested at Niagara Falls/on
; the 28th of August, on suspicion of having murdered Mr
| Jones, near Savannah, some three or four years since,
I been discharged from custody.
Fall of a portion of Table Rock. —A portion of T
I Rock, at Niagara Fails, fell on Friday morning.
New York, Sept. 8.
Steamboat Explosion — Murder. —The Steamer Bay
! State, from Fall River for New York, burst her boiler this
! morning, severel scalding some dozen passengers, among
I whom were Mr. De Wolf, oi Chicago, and Mr. Warren, oj
i Dartmouth, Mass. No one was killed. The accident
was caused by the caps f the cylinder flying oft', dr.ving
| the steam into the ladies cabin. The steamer Connecticut
fortunately soon came alongside, took the passengers oft',
and brought them to the city. Four persons seriously injur
ed, and taken to the hospital—probably will die. Steamer
| left at Black Rock.
I A man named Wallace Parke was killed in a dance-
J house here last night by a person named John H. Holt,
! who was subsequently arrested.
[SECOND DISPATCH.]
New York, Sept. 8.
I A steamer has been sent to the Bay State’s assistance. —
; The scalded have been sent to the City ‘Hospital, among
whom are Mr. De Wolf and family, formerly of Bristol, R.
! Island. Among the slightly scalded are John G. Abbot,
| ol Boston ; Mr. George M. Wheeler, of Boston ; Charlotte
Snow, of Dartmouth; Edwin Wilson, of New York, and
Almira Haven, ol Fall River.
A Problem for the Algerines.
I DONKIES AND THE PROPERTY QUALIFICATION.
j During a discussion with Mr. Bartow, Mr.
i Seward, Democratic candidate for Congress in
the first District, propounded the following cu
rious problem. Who will solve it ?
Say that thirty dollars is the property ‘quali
fication. A man owns a jackass worth that
amount, and, accordingly, has the right to vote
to-day. To-morrow, the jackass dies, and the
man has no longer the right of suffrage. Now,
in whom did the right and title to a vote reside ?
in the man, or in the jackass?
Columbus, Sept. 15.
Cotton. —No change has been produced in our
market by unfavorable advices from Europe. Sales
were readily effected yesterday, at 9 1-2 a 9 3-4 cents.
Principal sales 9 5-8 cents.
Bagging. —lndia is now selling at 13 cents.
Guano. —This article has advanced to $3 50 per
hundred lbs.
Savannah, Sept. 14.
Cotton. —The sales of Colton yesterday were 87
bales, viz.: 3at 8 1-2, 4at 10 1-2, 74 at 10 3-4, and 6
at 11 cents.
Geneva, Sept. 14.
Two bales new Cotton sold for 10 1-4 cents. Hurra
for Uncle Sam !
DIED.
In this city, on the Bth inst., Mrs. Louisa H. Lawton,
wife of Albert S. Lawton.
She was a consistent member of the M. E. Church, and
died happy ; having no fears, and expressing strong hopes
of Heaven. She received all the attention necessary in her
illness. She leaves six small children.
*aThe Chattanooga, Tenn. and Macon, Ga. papers will
please copy, as the husband of Mrs. L. is absent from home,
and his friends do not know where a letter may reach him.
Enquirer please copy.
In the city of New Orleans, of the yellow fever, on the
, t 6th inst., William G. Kimbrough, late of the city of Col
umbus. He was bom in Georgia on the 31st Aug. 1830,
and was nearly 23 years old at the time ofhis death.
His mauy amiable qualities, the sprightliness of his dis
position, the brightness of his intellect, and his unfailing
good humor, won for him a host of friends wherever he was
known, and this community deeply grives over his sudden
and untimely death.
He had sought the Queen City of the Gulf to earn an hon
est livelihood, and in his zealous pursuit of his employer
interests he braved the dreaded epidemic, and thus fell a
victim to his enterprise and devotion to duty.
May the sod lie lightly upon his grave. I>-
Notice.
ThE public are hereby notified not to credit Bridged Doj-O)
OH ray account, as she has separated hersell lrora me, aria
am determined not to pay any of her debts, unless compere* .
JiiW BERNARD DULA>.
Columbus, Bcpt 16 — tw2l&wlt