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jj* We copy the following from the Con stitutionalist of Tuesday. The suggestion of an increase of watchmen is worthy of seriou» consideration. Double tub Watch—House Robberies —Various depredations have been, and con tinue to bo, nightly committed, of late, upon e«r citizens, by thieves entering their dwell ings white the inmates are asleep. We hear every day, of fresh burglaries or attempts at burglary, of dwellings and stores Though our citizens are generally apon their guard, and use ell the precaution in their power, this seems to be no check to the evil The audacity and perseverance of the robbers appear to increase. They have grown bold by impunity. In several instances they have found entranoe by teariag apen the shatters and hoisting the sashes of windows, and have gone into bed rooms and searched the pockets, and even felt under the heads of ths occupants. inquest of Money. One had the audacity coolly to light a candle by a match, after ofe Mining entrance into a gentleman's house. —■Bitt the proceeding nrensed one of the family and the fellow escaped after a short pursuit Another entered the house of a gentleman, a commission merchant, who, the night be fore, bad carried homo in hia pocket book, the sum of five thousand dollars— went into hia bed room and searehed hia pockets and under hia pillow for the pocket book. He did not find the pocket book, and did nut attempt to take any thiag also, though watches sad other valuables were in the room. The r»b ber must have got notiee in sems way the' this gentleman had carried thia large amount home, and hoped to find it er some pert of it there the second night. He, too, eseaped without detection. Several ether robberies and attempts have been related to us as having taken place in the city and en the Sand Hille. In some cases brought to ear kaowledge, the keys of doors have been pushed from the locks, no doubt for the purpose of effecting an ““entrance by rfceHn* offafcs keys, but the noisff I disturbed the inmates and ths thieves made off. i The police are on the traek of one or two men strongly suspected of being ennearned < in those crimes, and it is hoped that they I may be arrested and brought to punishment, i The police have a cine which may lead to do- I tection. ( But there is .tot a sufficient force of con stables and watchmen employed to guard the city. The extremes of the city and back streets are necessarily neglected. There are but the City Marshal, two Constables, and fourteen Watchmen, in all. These alternate with each other—one half being out at a time. Thus the whole city is guarded by eight or nine men—a force wholly inadequate under present circumstances. Would it not be ad visable to double the watch at this juncture, and urge the watchman te redoubled vigilance? We would also recommend to our citizens to be prepared with fire arms in their dwell ings, to give the villains a warm reception. If one or two could be shot in the act, it woald have a very wholesome effect. Contemplated Southern Con vention. Alluding to the recommendation es the Mississippi State Convention, that a Conven tion of the Slaveholding States should be held in Nashville, on the first Monday in June next, “ to devise and adopt seme mode of resistance ” to the aggressions of the north, the Nashville Whig says : “ We hope before the time ar rives for the sitting of the Convention, that the principal reasons which induced it to be called will no lunger exist; but nevertheless, in view of other questions relative to southern isler ests—the movements now making towards emancipation in the border States, Ac.— we hope the Convention may be Billy repre sented ; and on behslf of our citizens we can safely promise the delegates a cordial wel come to our midst.” Exercise and Health.—Downing’s Horti culturist expatiates on the advantage to eur women of often seeking the air and using abun dant exercise, as the tree ineana of preeetv- Hm-miHWimw nwpariwgWWMWty S mortrreqw tivating freshness. An excellent article here on finishes thus: “A word or two mere, and epee what ought to be the most important argument te all. Exercise, fresh air, health, are they not almost synoeymous? The exqaieite bloom on the cheeks of American girls tads in the mat ron much sooner here than in England—not only because es the softness es the English climate, as many suppaae. It is beeaasa exor cise, so necessary to the maintenance of healtli is so little a matter of habit and education here, and so largely insisted apon in England; and it is because exercise, when taken here at all, is too often as a matter of daty, and has no soul in it; while the English woman, who takes a lively interest in her rural employ ments, inhales new life in every day’s occupa tion, and plants perpetaal roses in her cheeks by the more act of planting them in her gar den.” Jalnl Wesley the founder of Methodism, when one day riding through the country, was saluted by a fellow who was lying in a ditch : “Hallo, Father Wesley, I’m glad to see you. How do you do?” “1 don’t kuow you,” said Mr. W., reining up his horse. “Who are you?” “Don’t know mot Why, sir, you are the very man who converted me!” “I rekon I am," said Mr. Wesley, putting spurs to his horse; “at least, one thing is evi dent—the Lord had nothing to do about it.” Akecdots.—An anacdole, affording a good hint to young ministers, io fold of Dr. Dwight, to this effect: A yon ng clergyman called upon him for advice as to the best method of treating a very difficult and abatraaa point of mental philosophy, upon which be was preparing a sermon. “ 1 cannot give yea any information on the subject,” the doctor replied, “I am not familiar with such topies. I leave them for young men.” Tonsum.—lEaop was the servant of a phi losopher named Xanthas. Ous day his mas ter being desirous of entertaining some of his friends at dinner, he ordered him u» provide the best things he coaid find in the market, jtlsop thereupon mads a large provision of tongues, which he desired the cook to serve up with different sauasa. When dinner came, the first and second courses, the side dishes, and the removes were all tongues. “Did 1 not order you,” said Xanthos, in a violent passion, “to buy the best victuals the market afforded?” “And have 1 not obey year orders?” said .Esop; ‘ls there anything better than tongues?’ Is not the toague the bond of eivil society, ths key of science, and the organ es truth and rea son? By means of the tongue, cities are built and governments established and administer ed; with it men instrust, persuade, and preside in assemblies; it is the instrument with which we acquit ourselves of the chief of all oth er duties, the praising and adoring of the gods.” “Well, then,” replied Xanthus, “ge to mar ket to-morrow, and buy me the worst things you can find. The same company will dine with me, and I have a mind to change my en tertainment.” When Xanthus assembled his friend the neat day, he was astonished to find that .Esop had provided nothing bnt the very same dish es. “Did loot tell you,” said Xanthus,“fo pur chase the worst things for this day’s feast?— How comes it, then, that you have placed be- i fore us the same food, which only yesterday! you declared to be the very best?" I .Esop, not at all abashed, replied : “Th tongue is the worst thing ia the world, as well as the best, for it is the instrument of all strife and contention, the fermenter of lawsuits, the . curee of division and war, the organ of errer, of calumny, of falsehood, and even of profan ity” ' Cannibal tstu.—" Do you see that fellow lounging there, doing nothing ? said Owen to Jenks the other day. “ W hy, he’s a can nibal ; he lives o« other people.” W Uk 1 y REPUBLIC. " i *wTtsi o' v t"' 1 * _ , jaggy, ■..■■’.■‘■s ' ' ■ 11 1 i u IMW a. smttmb, i -a Bl It i n aaitr nn 1. htuotcit to News, jlolitirg. Mmannmm. IgMfe literature, ®tutial Jutclligencc, 'Ngritutturt. fee. ilfDttW H. H. DAWSON, ■ - - AHBHTJANT UDITOJt. » - ------ .. \ RATES OF ADVERTISING wrtieß, «i>d ten cents for ea*h *«l»eqn<-at maei- —, .Sa . . Wil ■ Cantracta will bo mada on liberal terms fer tian. rertus—l\TO UOLIsARS a year, invanaMy in advanva. * tar M ui**tb*, .i»i.mb«ntf yearly wser» the a.iwruamj » eomadmaiiie, ti>M> !*»•«■ low rales may bo sornnwl.at leduood. Or 01,M » net paM wMm two anta. y For oooaswsal advorliaoajMMß, if over sir Baes, LFTraiwieat Advertisements and Special - \x throe ooah per lisa for iba ties’ hiaevfiea, and two Nelin**, double the above rales. Th-W,akiy, pas sonsaa ta advaMs. M eaala far aaeb sahwqasat insertion. [FFantago muat be pa d on all oouunuaica- Or 9«.k0 if sat patd Wilkie two maatba. * W If ax linaa, er lam. Sweaty M. ter lha tret m- tiena aad letters of buMura*. VOLUME 11. Ths Navigation luws.—The promptitirds with which the Administration has responded m the setion of Great Britain on the navigation laws is worthy of and will receive all praise from ths people of this country. The course which baa been adopted was it is tree, indicated by existing laws, but it was not imperative on the Government to act as it hs»acted; and in fact it has been asserted in influential quartern that the responsibility of decisive meanres wenld be devolved upon Congress. We are glad to see that such has not been th% ease. The universal sentiment of the country, as far aa we have seen it expressed, or as we havs had opportunities of ascertaining {* in favor of meeting the advances es Greet Britain, and in faet, of avery nation, in a con ciliatory and accommodating spirit. That sen timent will doubtless pervade the minds of our representatives in Congress snd we presume that st its next session that body, an far from evineing any opposition io the Administration an this subject will ratify its act by a solemn approval. We look un the reeent change in the Brit ish navigation laws as an event fraught with consequences. By removing the reutric tiem on commercial intercourse which were imposed by them, it will tend to increase the traffic between the two nations, and by stimu lating industry will augment the aggregate wealth of both. It presents, also, an example to other nations, which in view of its benefi cial results, they will not he slow to follow, and thna will open the way for the removal of many obstacles to the free interchange of the products of industry which new exist. It will develops the resources of ths countries which it affects, and will soften the prejudices of nationality which too often interrupt the friendly relations of commercial communities; and by rendering different nations mere de pendent on the prosperity of each other for ths maintenance of their own, will more ef fectually prevent the occurrence of war than all the labors of the Peace Gon grass which recently met in Paris. As far as our own intsrests are involved we certainly have nothing to fear. Our commer cial marine is now second only to that of Eng land, and at its present rapid rata of increase will soon exceed it. This position we have gained despite many adverae circumstances, by the enterprise, the energy, and the ingenu ity of our people. Those qualities will now be brought into requisition to a greater ament than heretofore, and will- enable sa to com pete with any nation in the world. American enterprise has already become proverbial.— Whenever a field is opened lor its exercise, our countrymen are sure to be in advance of all competitors in occupying it. The banks of Newfoundland, in the Chinese seas, the Artic ocean and the smiling Pacific are covered by eur vessels. In fact, wherever we have con tended with theta on equal terms we have uniformly achieved the victory. To prove this it is necessary only to adduce one instance.— .JTho whaie fishery is aubjeet to lew reetric lious, for the bophdlesa oeean in which they ■ are taken ia free to all. Fifty yaara age the English and Dutch almost monopolized the profits of that great branch of industry, while at the present moment nine-tenths of it are in the hands of the Americans. Whalers sail ing under tho flag of any other nation are now ia the very small minority. This is proof suf ficient that we have nothing to fear from the course we have adopted in regard to the navi gation laws. On the contrary, though the be nefit will be common to both countries, much ths larger share of it, from peculiar advanta ges we enjoy ip building, manning and victnal ling our ships, muat fall to opr lot. Ws possess in great abundance the material for constructing vessels; we have Bremen inferior to none in the world; and it is well known that American ships are generally sailed with fewer hands than are employed in these of any other nation. These circumstances are all favorable to us, and should convince us that we have hazarded nothing by reciprocating the pction of Great Britain. —N. O. Picayune. The Navioatiom Laws.—A correspondent of the Baltimore American explains how far our carrying trade is to be effected by the Bri tish Navigation Act, wie.h goes into operation on the Ist of Jan. next, and the act of Congress passed in 1817. Under the joint operation of the two nets, British vessels may, after the Ist of January next, share not only in our direct but in our indirect foreign trade; and on the other hand, American vessels may participate not only in the direct but the indirect foreign trade of Great Britain. Our vessels may also carry cargoes from any part of the world to any port in the British Colopy, and there un lade and take in a fresh cargo, and proceed with it thence to any port in any other colony, or to any other country; thus enjoying the full benefit of the inter-colonial trade. Bnt there is aoinnloal participation or reciprocity in the coasting trade of this country and the United Kingdom—that is to say, our vessels sannot engage in carrying from port to port in Great Britain or Ireland, nor can British vessels en gage in carrying from port to port in the Uni tea Btttes. With the consent of the Queen in Council, howeyer, any British Colony may •pen its coasting trade to American vessels. A convention assembled in New York, *n Mondsy Sid composed principally of dealers in boots and shoes, who eome together once a year, to consult upon the mutual internets of trade. Some important facts were stated by the chairman worth repeating. One honse in Connecticut makes $350,000 worth of peg ged shoes every year; anotherssoo,ooo worth; end in Massachusetts, the aggregate value of this kind of manufacture was stated to be $18,000,000. Still the demand was greater than the supply, thus offering a tempting field for enterprise and capital ia this line of busi ness. Gektlemam.—The word “Gentleman” is evidently no mark of wealth or station. “Yon are no gentleman,” said a waiter in a tavern to a person who give him three pence. Three mere would have constituted the gentleman in the eyes of the waiter, and the three pence may have been withheld through poverty. “What sort of a person,” said an individual to his landlady, “is he that occupies your baek parlor?” “He is a tailor by trade," said she “bnt very much the gentleman.” This meant that he paid his five shillings a week regularly. Thus it seems that ths word is not confined by any regard to the station er trade of the in i dividual. There is no doubt that we all have I a vagne conception of something when we i u .ear of a man being a gentleman. If a neat' eat too heartily, he is not a gentleman; and if another, have nothing to eat, he also is net a gentleman. , Has the World a Tail.—“Fa, has the world got a tail ?” asked an nrehin of his I father. “ No, child," replied the old *un, im patiently, “ how could it have one when it is round? “Well,” persisted the heir, “why do the papers say, ‘ so wags the world,’ if it ain't got no tail te wag ?’’ “ Your ma wants you," replied the non-plussed daddy. Augusta, (Ea. Tharsity Morning Her. 1, I 84». UCr We invite the attention of our readers to the advertising eslumns of thia morning’s P»P*r- tT We publish, in another portion of thia morning's paper, an article from the Constita tionalist, relative to ths burglaries which have recently boss perpetrated in thia eity. Upon inqairypf-ihW o«h*e 4fr vhe Chief offour Police, as well as of the Mayor, we are assured that the extent es ths outrages has been greatly exaggerated—that only two er three trifling robberies bavs been committed, although several daring attempts have been made—but there dees not exiat, at this time, any sufficient cause for the alarm which has been created. It is very well known to the police who the in dividual was who entered the houses ou Greene street, seme two weeks ago. Several vigilaat parsons have been added to the night police, and every measure adopted which was regarded necessary to secure the eity from similar outrages. In addition to this, the citi zens generally have prepared themselves for bnrglera and thieves, and we are satisfied that none of the “ knowing ones ” will dare to trust their lives about the premises of our citizens at unseasonable hours of the night. The real cause of alarm, at preaent, is, that the Coroner will have a job following the first burglary attempted, and the time es our people be taxed to render a verdict at the inquest. In view of this event, it has been suggested, that owners and guardian of colored persons should exercise groat prudence in allowing them, after eight o'clock at night, to leave their pieces of abode. ‘ Moatbera Rledical Journal. We bate teceived the November number es this valuable monthly Medical and Surgical Journal. The original articles are from the pens of John E. Twiggs, M. D., of Edgefield district, S. C—B. M. Pendleton, M. D., of Spana, Ga—and L. B. Sheffey, M. D., of Huatoville, Ala. Under the head of Reviews and Extracts, ws Botica au able article frsm ths pea of J. A. E. Ws make the following extracts from the Medical [ntslligence department of the present number; Tbe Futurb Editor of the Southbrb Medical abb Surqical Jourmal.—We are gratified to state that Dr. I, P, Gaxvtu he**on seated to take charge of this Journal after the present volume shall have been completed.— One No. after thia one, and the ne w Editor will enter upon his duties. We congratulate our readers in being able to aocure so competent a gentleman to conduct the work. It will be recollected that Pr. G. was associated as co editor, a year or two ago; and the friends of southern medical literature will, we hope, take new courage to sustain him in hia labor for them. Tbe Healtb ev out Ctrr—Pbosercts of out College.—We believe Augusta ia the only city ia our country, where a Medical College exists, not visited by an epidemic du ring the past sig months. The dtties of our Medical College will commence on Monday, the sth of November, at 13 M, by the delivery of a public introdue tory, and the regular exercises resumed the next morning at 9 A. M. The indications are favorable for a good class the coming ses sion. The Journal is printed in this city, monthly, and pontains S J pages, octavo, at $3,00 per annum in advance, R. F. Eve, M. D., editor, and James McCafferty, publisher. 93" We anderetapd that Mr. F. C. Adams and Dr. Perry have leased the Savannah The atre. O’Tbera were aver 4000 bales of cotton solfi in Charleston on Tuesday last, at prices ranging from 10 j to 11 cents. ■TThe receipts of cotton in New Orleans on ths 27th October, show a decrease of forty four thousand bales, as compared with those of last year. ITThe Washington eity correspondent of the Charleston Courier, says, “ It is said that Major Hobbie, First Assistant Post Master General, and Mr. Washington, Sixth Auditor, are to go out, in a week or two, under a deci sioa of the cabinet." A similar statement has been made by the correspondent of the New York Tribune. Georgia Rail Roads.—lt is an incontesti ble fact, says the New Orleans Picayune, that for mils* en either side of every line es Rail Road which has beea made in Georgia, ths lands have appreciated from one hundred te five hundred per sent., aud in many in stances mneh more, so that the increased value of lands alone has been much more than the whole cost of the Roads. Now life has been infused into the whois State. Towns are spritzing up as if by magic. All the pro ductions of her soil are speedily and cheaply wafted to a reedy eash market, and return freights cost not more than one-fourth part of i former priees; and she is now reaping the ' rich frnita of her liberal and enlightened policy. IT Lents Napoleon, now President of F ranee, onoe made a contract with Nicaragua for the inter-ocean eanal across the latter country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The late King of Holland, and A. F. Palmer, of New York, did the seme thing, but neither did any thing. How relwraovE tbe Heart.—Never lose as opportunity of seeing anything beautiful. Beauty is God’s handwriting—a ways.de sac rament. Welcoßie it in every fair faee—every fair sky—every fair lower—and thank Him for it, the fountain of all loveliness, and drink it in simply and earnestly, withall your eyes. 'Tis a charmed draught—a esp es blessing. New Extort.—Six Georgia Burr Mill Stones were shipped on board the brig Leopold O’Donuell, which cleared at this port Satur day for New Orleans, two were shipped a few days ago per ship Hudses for New York.- Bava*nak kapubliceu. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1849. “Union of the Month for the sake of the South.'’ In our article of Tuesday, with the above cap tion, this sentence is found : “How is the democracy perverting the relation of master and slave ? ” Our attention having been call ed to'it, as an expression likely Jo be misun derstood, we would remark, that it was not made by as in vindication of the policy of the democrats upon the southern question. Our sbjec.' was to know what part of their policy was condemned. We cannot justify Mr, Polk’s sanction of the Oregon Bill with the Wilmot Proviso incorporated In it. It ia but jast ts state, however, that he declared in an explanatory message, that if the proviso had reference te any territory south of the Mis souri compromise line he would veto it. If the charge io, that the democrats are per verting the relation of master aad slave to the injury of the South, by passing resolutions and helding meetings in favor of southern equality, we should like to see a continuance es that kind of perversion nf it, so long as the North perverts it by attacking and seeking te destroy that equality conferred by the national constitution. Who are ths southern democrats ? They are our fellow citizens, and neighbors, wheth er born at the North or at the South. We go with thsm aa heartily as we do with the whigs for jnstiee to the Sonth—We take by the band a northern man who is true to our rights, as cordially as we do the friend and neighbor who was born npon southern soil. While we confess the possession of sectional devotion, we feel no antipathy to the north or her people, further than it may be produced by their unjust denial to us of the rights which belong tn us as citizens of a greet confed erated union, and es sovereign States, a part of whose powers have been delegated to pro mote justice not injustice, the good of all, not the injury of themselves. On this question we have had no political or party secret. No monument of gold could have tempted us to have followed the lead of party to the wrong and injury of the South : Nor ahall we ever be found following it, te wrong onr brethren of the North. It ia the very sun-light of our common origin, fame and hopes, which adds additional regrets to the necessity which has compelled us not to crave their mercy, but to defy their power. We would implore them, the south has im plorpd them by all the recollections ofoa glori oss peat, takTegsrd oirr pride, oar hbrrorjind our equality, in the great brotherhood which encircles ua all. Look at the picture which history must draw of our country under this agitating question. It will present the colossal north in the atti tude of an assailant, with uplifted arm, ready to strike anti degrade the south. What have we urged upon opr section ? That it would be disgraceful to us to be seen in the attitude of humble submissionists. To avert this we have called, not upon the whigs, net upon the democrats, not upon southern born citizens alone, but upon all the people of the sonth, whether born here, or in the northern States, or in foreign lands, to stand by their rights. With all onr devotion tq party, we haye looked above it to the cloudless, cerulean skies of a common love, and a common hope, and a common right. We greatly admired the following senti ments, uttered by Mr. Stephens on th* floor of Congress. Alluding to oar rights, he said: “ All I demand is common right an 1 common justice; these I will have, in clear and express terms, or I will have nothing. I speak to the north, irrespective qf parties. I recoobize KO PARTY ASSOCIATION OB AFFILIATIOB UPON THIS SUBJECT.” We have reduced to practice this doetrine of Mr. Stephens. We have taught it through the columns of onr paper, and would charm ; the people of tl;e south into its embrace, it we could. We have consulted, In doing so, the peace and honor of the south, the prosperity es the twrif;, ’he safety of the Union, and the combined security of all. No one would re joice more than we would to tee the rainbow spanning the dark-bosomed cloud that lowers over us, to be followed by a brighter, (store peaceful and happier tinje then ever blessed ns in the Halcyon days of the Republic. May wisdom, armed with the power of truth, justice with its well balanced scales, and ina deration with its calm and equitable firmness, yet so control end influence the hearts of all our people, in every section es the Union, that every cloud may be dispelled from its now troubled bosom. Tie SrtvßT of tbb Nashville axd Chat- . taxoooa Rail-Road Completed. —The Chat taßooga Gasetfo says : “The Engineers this week, completed the final location of the Nash ville and Chattanooga Rail-Road, from the ! Cumberland mountain to Chattanooga. We ' understand from them that it is not determined whether the Road will cross the river in this State or Alabama. If the Company succeed in getting a faverable ioeetion from the State of Alabama, for that portion of the Road which would run through that State, they will cross the river belew the Island in Alabama—if not it will cross above the Island, and be located entirely in this State. The Directors are call ed on to meet on the 7th proximo, to transact some important business. They will have another meeting in December, when it will probably be determined whether er no the Road will be put under contract from the point where it crosses the river to Chattanooga forth with.” How to Make aGoob Cut or Tea.—Mr. Soyer recommends that, before pouring in any water, the teapot, with the tea in it, snail be placed in the eves till hot,or heated by means of a spirit lamp, er in front es the fire, (not too close,ef eeurse,) and the pot then filled with boiling water. The result, he says, will be, in about a minute, a most delicious, cup of tea . much superior to that drawn in tbe orditMry way. Scßivzx Superior Court.—Tributb of Rbsfbct to Hob. E. J. Black—At a meet ing of the bar in the Coart Hoase in Sylva nia, on Wednesday, the 94th ult.—on motion of Ebenezer Starnes, Esq., of Riehmend, Maj. Winborn J. Lawton, of Scriven, was called to the Chair, and William J. Maner, Esq , appointed Secretary. Mr. Starnes then, after a few very appropri ate remarks explanatory of tbe object es the meeting, introduced the following preamble pral reaolutisna, which being eeeonded by J. Lewten Singleton,’’of Seriven, were on mo tion of Melford Marsh, of Chatham, •Mni mossly adopted : Whereas, Since ths lest tens es tbisCeart, one of the members es this Bar, and eitiaen es thia eoanty, has departed this life; and this being the first appropriate epportenity fer his professional brethren pnbliely to express their deep sorrow for his loos, end to manifest their respect for hia memory, it ia therefore Resolved, That the members es thio bar have received the intelligence of the death of their brother Edward J. Black, with tree and heart felt sorrow ; that we mourn for hia loss, both as a friend and companiea, and as a distin guished and gifted member of the profession which we practice. Resolved, That onr grief for his lose is rendered poignant by many rocollactiona of hia attractive manners, his kindly affections, his teeming wit, and his accomplishments as an advocate. Rusoued, That in the death of ear brother, this community and our State have lost a nae ful and distinguished eitiaen, who has served in the councils of his country with patriotism, zeal, ability, and energy. Resolved, As a token of our sincere sym pathy with his afflicted family, that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to them by the Secretary of this meeting. Resolved, That in respect to the memory of our deceased brother, wo will wear the usual badge of meurning fer thirty days. Resolved, That these resolutions be present ed to the Judge of the Superior Court daring the present term, by the Chairman of the meet ing, with a request that the same be placed upon the minutes of ths Gonrt. On motion of Thomas H. Pelhill, es Jeffer son, it was Resolved, That the proceedings of thio meeting be signed by the Chairman and Secre tary, and copies of the same famished the Editors of ths Savannah and Aagusta papers, with a request that they be pabliehed. The meeting then adjoarnod, after which the Chairman presented a copy of the above resolutions to Hie Honor Jndge Holt, who or dered the same to be opread apoa ths minalee of the Court, . WINBORN J. I.AWTON, Chairnsaq. ~ W. J. Maser, Secretary. lUFThere were 11 deaths ia Charleettm last week—lS by Stranger’s Fever: all white adults. The Moemois.—This strangely infat sated religioue oect appear te be rapidly increasing in numbers, and, from the persecutions they have undergone, are the more closely bound together, and will doubtless mors rigidly ad here to their original faith. In an article, in the Baltimore Americen, it is stated, that “they have taken pooeesaisn of the Great Basin in the region of the Salt andUmh Lakes—[Col. Fremont’s Memoir states that the Mormon settlement is in the valley and on the rivers es the Utah lake] —a epaeious area five hundred miles in diameter, four er five theusend feet above ths ie *1 es the sea, shtt ia by moun tains on ovr side, aad having its own sys tem of hkese ,d rivers, without any eemmn nication with trie ocean. Pertiona of the greet basin are desert end uninhabitable. The fer tile portion, however, is very productive; and this tine valley, about three hundred mile* in extent, between the Great Salt and Utah lakes, is occupied by the Mormons. “ They have organized a Territorial Go vernmsnt, elected officers, established Kxees tive, Judicial and Legislative ftinetionq, and chosen their Delegate to Congress. Jt ie further designed tn'forq; a State Constitution shortly and to present die pew Commonwealth of Dbsebbt aa an applicant for admiaaion into oar family of States. The amount of popula tion in not given In any statement we have seen. Their eity covers a large spaeo. It ia situated at the base of the mountains, says the account of a traveller, ia the entrance to their ' rich and fertile valley, The city 1* i covering two or three miles square, though of 1 course not closely built, being ainaeu tut* I three acre lota. The whole valley elopes I gradually to ths lake, and ths soil is (.onacs 1 quently irrigated without difficulty. Their erops, adds the traveller, looked well, and eve ry thing appeared to be in a flourishing rendi tion” The Mormons (says the American) are a practice! people ; they are industrious, tem perate, orderly. Wherever they plant thorn selves in the wildornoos, tbo aspect of a culti vated region ie soon visible. They recognize a community principle to some extent —but with what modifications we know not. They seem, however, te derive from it the benefits of concentrated labor and to flourish under it, Ladt Feabelie.—lf over a man was made illustrious by the devotion of a wife, (says the | Baltimore American,) Sir John Franklin, may*! claim that distinction. We have seen, as doubt less our readers have seen also, several letters from Lady Franklin, called forth by the peril ous and almost deaperale condition in which her husband was supposed to be, in hie adven turous expedition towards the North Pole—and all those letters have indicated so strong a feel ing of conjugal affection, with so mueh of fem inine propriety, that however strongly oar i interests may have been enlisted for the bold and daring man, we are free te confess that i our sympathiea have rather cleaved to the true | hearted woman. She has become the'person age. If the brave navigator should fail, he . fails in a noble undertaking; his memory will be honored; he will be elsssed with those who for the general good, and for national glory, I have put their livea in peril—exalted mea who ■ rank above the standard of their race. But it ia gratifying to know that favorable in telligence has been received, giving reason te hope that Sir John Franklin and h a compan ions, whatever may be the anccess es the explo rations, are in safety. We cannot bat join in congratulations at thia. The civilized world will rejoice to knew it. Yet while we join heart ily in these felicitations and give indulgence te earnest hopes that the beat expectations assy prove true, it may yet be allowable te say that much of onr solicitude for the husband is deri ved from the excellence of the wife. The world might spare Sir John Franklin, as it : might spare any man; but it cannot afford to i spare the women who kuow how te make ! kur«et e? aea. T«z Mississippi Cosvbmtioe.—The Mem phis Enqairier, Whig, oays : We publish to day portion of the proceedings of the Missis sippi Convention to consider the aspect of af faire in relatiou te the slavery question. The whole souled have taken a bold stand against the aggressions es the North and we doabt not tbe whole South will Ih a short tune reeerd her efforts to maintain the Censtitntiea as it was made, preserve the Unien onr fathers left ne, aad the righto wbish belong to no. Onr hearts and bauds are with the gollant people ere witUnig to protect their undoubted rights *at sli hazards and te the lent extremity.” From the proceed ings it will be seen that there is no party ie Mississippi upon this question—whiga and democrats join rights and remat aneonstitnlion al oppreaeion. The whole Sonth will seen bo found in the seme position. Complutiom op thb Road.—Wo are in fermed that a locomotive entered this Htateone day lest week—the first ever in the Slate.— The werk is rapidly drawing to a close. We have heretofore set the first of December as the time fer the Cars to run to Chattanooga, but if the weather continues favorable, it is likely they will reach here sooner. We hepe the Chief Engineer will advise as of the pre cis* day, a week or two before the arrival, that all the world may be invited in time to be hers at the advent of the steam horse into ear em bryo city. We are frequently inquired es, not only when the cam will reach here, but what will be dene hero aa a thanksgiving at that time.— What wo wish Io do, cirn’protisiida so ninch that we can scarcely find terms to describe it. There ere many expressive expressions in the W eotern language that we could use to con vey an idee of eur meaning, but it would re quire a combination of the moot expressive terms iodo jnstiee to the great things intended for that auspicious day. It is expected that there will be a vast crowd present from differ ent States, and Cbanenoogiana will make a greet effort to give all a proper reception. An esteemed friend, down in Georgia, closes a private letter te the Editor with the following reference te the important day : “As our Rail Rood ie to be completed in a few weeks to your eity, I would inquire of you what you propose to do on the ocoasion. Some thing, I presume, and that no very email do ings. I presume that yon will at least roast a Monntaia and broil a few Steamboats for the entertainment of your guests, for we certainly shall come to see yon and make a friendly eell. Were it not ouch Temperance timop, we would bring ap a bottle ot Cognise from Savannah and empty it into the Tennessee, and carry down a bottle es Whiskey .and •■P’y ’ll tPrfin tno savannnh, by ting the (strong) waters of the two places by Rail Roads. Probable the Temperance people woald eay that thia woald be the very beat use that could be made es them.”— Chattanooga Gazette, Oct. 98th. Ikflammablb Gas—A Curiosity. —The Cleveland Herald, of October IQtb, rays : ‘Theroere nußqeroes ieaaes of inflammable gas en the form of Mr. Michael Faulkner, in Brecksville, in thia county. About an sere es the bottom lands en the Chippewa gives forth the gas, the soil being porom, and filled with eraeke, from which the gaa escapes. Place a common tin horn ever one of these cracks, ap ply a match te the top, and a brilliant flame of a yellowish appearance breaks forth, which will barn steadily for weeks. The proprietor made an excavation seme twelve feet deep at one of the gas openings, and flung in burning hay. Quito an explosion fa lowed, the hay scattered in the air, and a blaze issued several feet high. It continued to burn until the ground caved in and smothered the flames. “Tbe ground frein which the gas escapes never freezes, and nothing will grow upon it, although the soil is rich. The location is fourteen miles from Cleveland, and has attrac ted many visitors to see the earth burn. The existence of the gas has beet: known there for a doyen yeqrsQr iqore, and the quantity escap ing which is Jarge seems to be increasing rather than other-wise. Cannot Nature's gasometer be appropriated by man to some useful pur poses?" How to Subdub a Vicious Horsb.—The following fact occurred yesterday : A beautiful and high-spirited horse would never allow a shoe to be put on his feet, without a resort to every species of power and means to control him- At one tittle he was nearly crippled by being put in the stocks; he wks afterward thrown down and fettered ; at another time one of our most experienced horvp ehoers was qnab'e to manage him by the aid of as many hands as could approach, in an attempt to shoe this horse ye-terday, he resisted all ef fort*, kicked aside everything but an anvil, and came near killing himself against that, •nd finally was brought back to his stable un shod. This was his only defect ; in all other respects ha was perfectly docile, especially is harness. But this defect was just on the eve of consigning him to the plough, where be might work barefoot, when, by mere accident, an offieer in our service, lately returned from Mexico, was passing, and being make ac quainted with the difficulty, applied a complete remedy by the following simple process : He took • eerd about the size es • eommen bed cord, put it in the mouth of the horse like a bit, and tiel it tightly on the top of the ani mal's head, passing bis left ear under the string, not painfully tight, but tight enough ta keep the ear down, and the cord in its ptaee. This done, he patted the horse gently on the side es ( his heed and commanded him to follow, which he did aa obedient as a well-trained dog; suffering his feet to be lifted with entire im punity, and acting in all respects like an old stager. That simple string thus tied, made him at once as doeile and obedient as any one . could desire. The gentleman wha thus fur nished this exceedingly simple means of sub duing a very dangerous propensity, intimated that it is practiced in Mexico and Booth Amer ica in the management es wild horses. Be this as it may, he deserves the thanks of all •wears es such horses, and especially the . thanks es those »hm» business it may be te shoe ar groom the animals.—N. Y. Com. Adv., 34th Bit. Bright Star.—At the reeent meeting es the Association es Science, Dr. Robinson said that Birina, sees through Lard Rosso’s teles eep*, w*s ntterly ißsappertabi* so the unpro tected eye, so that a persea might as well at tempt to look at it direetlv as at the eeaeentra ted light of points produced by the aetioa es en electric battery ; and the at tempt made en one or two •eeasiens by him was followed for several hours by a spot of light, varying from Intense red to blue, being constantly before his eye; yet, when properly viewed, it was a beautihi sharp head of Ib teaae light. NUMBER 45. Yucatah.—We received yesterday files of the Merida Boletin Official to the sth inst., in clusive. The moat important item of intelligence contained in these papers is that which an nounces the death of Jacinto Pat, the leader of the Indian insurgents at the peninsula. Ho was aseaMisated by the Indians. The death of this celebrated chieftain wag the cause of much rejoicing amorg the Indians. The death of Pat and the diacord among the In dian chiefs give a better coloring to the > Y'uca toeo cause than it has borne for sometime. The Boletin confidently predict* a speedy pacification of the peninsula, provided due tact and energy be displayed by the Government. A gifi»ek«l amneatjhas b»en offered to the in eurgenlaif they will abandon hostilities.—[N. O. Pieayune, 26th ult. A Norat Cam.—ln Fairfield district, (S.C.) recently, a men named Sidwell, and an accom plice of the name of Lawhon, were tried and convicted of abdneting and marryiug a young girl of 18 years of age. The defendant (Tid well) is a shoemaker, and had been employed as such in the family of the prosecutor, and it was supposed for offence given by Mr. Crank field, the prosecutor and father of the yonng girl , to one or both of the defendants, was the motive es the abduction. The married miss is to remain in charge of her father, until the age ol 16, as it appears there is a statute of force in thia State against yoang girls’ taking upon themselves the duties attendant on the marriage state, until they ar rive at that age.—Charleston Courier, 30th ult. Two ts A Bed.—Ned and Charley were two room mates but they occupied different bed*. Ned’s sleeping apparatus was so situated that he could get in either side—that is to say that there were two fore sides to his bed and no back side, which Ned found very conveni ent. One night Ned and Charley had been ont, and on returning, which they did near morning, both wore considerably elevated. However, they walked up to their rooms with an air that seemed to say, “not so very darned drunk af ter all,” and eought long and patiently for matches and a lamp. After knocking over the pitcher and the washstand and smashing the looking glass, they finally gave up the search and went to bed. Went to bed—yea, that’s the word, but ow ing to the darkness and confusion of their sense, they made a slight mistake. In short, Ned’s bed had the honor of receiling the two friends—Charley getting in on one side, and bls companion rolling in on the other. “I say, Ned,” cried Charley, touching some body’s calf, “there’s a fellow' in my bed I” “Wonderful coincidence I” exclaimed Ned, feeling a strange elbow in the region of hie ribs, “there’s somebody in my bed too.” “Is there, theugh ?” cried Charley, “let’s kick ’em out ?” “Agreed” said Ned. And accordingly the two friends began to kick. It lasted about a minute and a half, and Ned was spraivling on the floor; Charley was'left IR peMmeftaioza vs the Lc-J. «» a.svsuecasff was silent. “I eay, Ned,” cried Charley. “What ?” asked Ned, sulkily. r l’ve kicked my fellow out!” “You area devilish sight luckier than I am, then,” said Ned; “for mine has kicked me out.” —[Spirit of the Times. “Ma, where’s the State of Matrimony?” “ Sit down, my child, it’s one of the United States.”—[N.O. Delta. Similitudes from thb Vegetable World. —The fragrant white clover thrives though trampled under foot; it famishes the bees with stores of pure honey without asking er receiv ing the credit of it.—Meekness and disinterest edness. The vine clings to the elm, acknowledges its weakness, and, at the same time, makes it self strong.—Faith. The morning-glory makes a fair show at sunrise, but withers as soon as it becomes hot. —Excitement without principle. To cut off the top of the dock does no good, its root must be eradicated.—Sin is a dock root. The thistle has a beautiful blossom; bnt it is so armed with spears that every body abhors it.—Beamy and Bad Temper. The elder-bush produces delicate and frag rant blossoms; but the farmer abhors it because if he gives it a foot it will take a rod.—Obtru siveness. If the grasshoppers eat the silk of the corn there will be no harvest.—lrreligious princi ples in childhood. Cramberrics hide themselves beneath the moss; he who will find them must search for them.—Modest Worth, The blossoms of the barberry blast the grain in their vicinity.—Bad Examples. Thistle seed have wings.—Bad Principles. Written nt my Mother’s Grave. sv Orleans d. pbshtiob. The trembling dew drops fall Upon the shutting flowers—like souls at rest — The Hiarsshine gloriously; and all, Save me, is blest. Mother—l love thy grave 1 — Ths violet, with its blossoms blue and mild, Waves o’er thy head—when shall it wavs Above thy chi d 1 ’Tis a sweet flower —yet must Its bright loaves to the coming tempest bow, Dear mother—’tie thins emblem—dust Is on thy brew 1 And I could love to die— To leave untested life's dark bitter streams, I By thee, as erst in childhood lie, And share thy dreams. i And must I linger here To stain the plumiugs of my sinless yearn, And mourn the hopes to childhood dear, With bitter tears ? Aye—must I linger here, A lenely branch upon a blasted tree, Whose last frail leaf, untimely sere, Went d< wn with thee ? Oh from life’s withering bower In still oemieunion with the past I turn, And moss on thee, the only flower In memory's urn. And when the evening pale, Bows like a mourner on the dim, blue wave, I stray to hear the night-winds wail. Around thy grave. A Where is thy spirit flown 1 — ' I gave abevo—thy look is imaged ihete— I listened and thy gentle tone Is on the air. Oh eome—whilst here I press My brew upon the grave—and in these mild I And thrilling tense of tenderness, Bless, bless, thy child .' 1 Yes, bless thy weaping child, [And o’er thy uru —reiig on’s holiest shrine— ©h give hie spirit undefiled To bond with thine. I Editors akd Railroads.--J he community ; were somewhat startled n few weeks since . by an announcement made that editors were not allowed to pn*s over a curtain Railroad free—and still more so, whan uome heroic gentleman started up nt the meeting and wiih courage exclaimed—“ Glad of it.” For our part we see no particular cause for rejoicing, and tits gentleman who thus spoke out mu it look deeper into the subject titan we havens yet. Eiizur Wright at the time wrote a abort article upon the systatn of free passes, and concluded by promising not only to ride over the rails and pay his fare, but to become a stockholder, if the companies would pay a fair price for the hundreds of articles which directly tend to improve Railroad stock and which editors iu<ert gratuitously. Let us look for a moment into this subject, and see bow much newpaper* have to do with the . formation of Railroads. A few men meet and talk over a route for a Railroad. The re- > aonrees of the country are looked at, the amount of travel is reckoned, and then the public pulse is touched through lite medium of the newspaper. The editor is called upon and becomes interested in the plan, and his pen is employed to portray the advantages which muat accrue. Other editor* copy the article*, the community is awakened, and then comes a call for a public meeting, and the newspaper then, lends gratuitously, its services to induce the people to be present. The work goes on I the newspaper records its progress, file annual meeting ia hoi den—a reporter is dispatched, and the absent stockholders, ere twenty-four hours have elapsed, are posted up ; and finally conies, the opening, when two col umn* in tfie newspaper announce to the world that there is such a road in existence, refers to its prospects, alludes to the beauties of Na ture wbish can be seen during a ride over the road and establishes in the minds of the people a confidence in the stock. What pecuniary reward is received for this? An advertise ment at a low priceie obtained, and the money received for thia is paid out in recording the success of the road. This ia what the news paper does for Railroads. What should be the reward of those who spend time and money hi improving th* stock of qpilroads? What doe* a free pass amount to ? It costs the railroads no more to convey one hundred and on* passengers than it doe* one hundred. Editors are not generally migratory in their habits—but when an opportunity offers they sometimes avail themselves of it An invita tion is sent, perhaps, to an editor, to pass over a road at his own convenience. A leisure day presents itself, and away he flies over the road noting everything he aeea, and giving a sketch of his trip in his paper, which is read by thou sands. Perhaps a few only may be induced to follow his example. They go and see, and these few speak of it to others, and so the ball ie set it motion! What does the corpo ration lose? There in a policy in free passes—there is economy in well-directed liberality, and some roads have studied the system and have been gainers, while others have pursued a narrow, contracted course, and the result is seen. Look at the flourishing villages which have sprung up on some of the roads, contrasted strongly with the deserted hamlets on other routs, where high fares have not only driven people away, but kept other* from settling, and where the meanness of the president and di rectors lias become proverbial along the route. For oar part, we care little or nothing about tree passes ; we are tied to the oar and cannot avail ouraufves of complimentry and unsolicit ed invitations to ride on a rail road, which have been kindly oxtended to u . : but we do like to see the press treated with s.me little respect, and if any ciass in the community deserves to travel without expenses, in consideration of services rendered, it ia that class which belongs to the Press.-—Boston Gazette. The Mother’s Lessor.—A mother, sitting in her parlor, overheard her child, whom her sister was dressing, any repeatedly, ‘No, 1 don’t want to say my prayers.’ ‘ Mother,’said the ehlld, appearing at the parlor door. ‘ Good morning, my child !’ ‘ I am going to get my breakfast.’ ‘ Stop a minute, I want you to coma and see me first.’ The mother had laid down her work upon the next chair, and the bey run to her. She took him up. He kneeled in her lap and laid his lace duuu- I — l -i— - ear. 'l'toe mother rocked hor chair slowly backward and forward. ‘Are you pretty well this morning?’ said she, in a kind and gentle tone. ‘ Yea, mother, I am very well.’ ‘ 1 am well, too, and when 1 waked up this morning, and found that I was well, I thanked God for taking care of me.’ ‘ Did you ?’ said the boy, in a low tone— half a whisper. He paused after it—con science was at its work. ‘Did you ever feel my pulse?’ asked hie mother, after a minute ol silence, at the same time taking the boy down and sitting him on her lap, and placing his fingers on her wrist. ‘No, but I have felt mine.’ ‘ Well, don’t you feel mine now—how it goes beating ?’ ‘ Yes,’ said the child. ‘ If it should stop beating, I should die/ ‘Should you?’ ‘ Yea,’ I can’t keep it beating.* ‘Who can?’ ‘ G >d.’ (A silence.) 1 You have a pulse, too, which beats here in your bosom, in your arm, and all over you, aud 1 cannot keep it beating, nor can you—nobody but God. If He should not take care of you, who could ?’ ‘ I don’t know,’ said the child with a look of anxiety, and another pause ensued. ‘ So, when I walked out this morning, I thought I’d ask God to take care of me and all of us.’ ‘ Did you ask Him to take care of me ?' ‘No.’ ‘ Why not?’ ‘Because I thought you would ask him yourself.’ A long pause ensued—tbe deep and thought ful expression of bis countenance showed that bis heart was reachvd. ' Don’t you think you had better ask him yourself?’ ‘ Yes,' said the boy, readily. Ho kneeled again in his mother’s lap and ut tered in his simple and broken language, a prayer for the protection of Heaven. Widow Crizzle has au only sister; that sister is a widow also. Her lord died lately of cholic. In the midst of his moat acute bodily pain, after the hand of death had toughed him, and whilo writhing in agony his gentle wife said to him : Well, Mr. Shylock; you needn't kick round so and wear out the sheets, if you are dying. MARRIED. In Bulloch county, on 38th nit. by the Rev. Wm. McQueen, Col. Win. M. Brown, United States Marshall for the District of Georgia, to i Mrs. Ann E. Rnwls. In Warren county, on the 28th ult., by the Rev. W. P. Steed, Mr. Daniel Thomas Farr, of Columbia county, and Miss Ann M. Duckworth, of Warren. On the 25th ult., in Wayuesboro’, by the Rev. J. Triggs, Mr. Augustas H. Roberts, and Miss Elizabeth R. Douglass. In Savannah, on the 25th ult., by the Rev. Willard Preston, D. D., Mr. Wm. F. Flinn, of that city, to Miss Isabel Eunice, only daughter of the late Samuel Withingten, Esq., of Charleston, S. C. In Charleston, on Thursday, the 25th ult., by the Rev. J. Rosenfeld, L. J. Myers, of Sa ’ vannnh, Ga., to Priscilla, daughter of Abraham i Tobias, of Charleston. In this city, on the 24th inst., by the Rev. i Dr. E. E. Ford, Mr. George A. Oates, and Mias Sarah A. Wray, daughter ot Dr. The*. ; I. Wray. On the Iflth inst., by the Rev. J. R. Thomas, < R. B. Lester, Esq , of the city of Macon, and .’diss Mary Augusta, daughter ol Barnard Hill, | Esq. of Talbotton, Ga. In Maron, on the 92d inst. by Judge Keelin Cook, Mr. John Pearl, a .d Miss Mary J. Fos ter of Macon, Ga. DIED. On the 25th inst., of brain fever, on board the Steamboat A. Sibley on her passage from j Savannah to this City, James Crawford, lal<| I Engineer of said beat, aged 25 years.