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(ffommercial Intelligence.
«J«IJSTA MARKET.
Office of the Republic, )
June 8, 1850. 5
COTTON.—For the past two days we
have had a dull and quiet time in our Cotton,
market. A few small lots have been sold at
prices decidedly lower than those prevailing
for some time past. Holders are offering their
stocks very sparingly. Midclings will not
command over 11, and Good Middling Hi-
The receipts now show a deficiency of 675,-
000 bales.
BACON.—Sales of Sides in large quanti
ties are daily making at 6j a6| cents; Shoul
ders 4J a5, and Hams 64 a 8 cents, accord
ing to quality.
FREIGHTS.—The river continues in good
order. The steamer Metcalf will leave this
morning with about 800 bales, and the 11. L.
Qook with about 400, all for Savannah. Ve
ry little shipping to Charleston.
From the Constitutionalist.
New-York June 5, P. M.
Cotton.—The market is unchanged. 1,5C0
bale- sold to-day, middling Upland 124, Or
leans 12f cents.
Rice quoted 3J to 3J.
Sterling Exchange 9f per cent prem.
Charleston, June 5, P. M.
Cotton.—The market is depressed under
the steamer’s news, and prices are in favor of
buyers. 800 bales were sold to-day at 10J to
121 cents. Common fair sold at 12c. .
Coffee.—l,ooo bags Rio have been sold at
9 to 9-4 cents.
Charleston, June 6—P. M. ,s '
Cotton. —The sales to-day reach 900 bales.
The sales for the week are 3,600, at extremes
ranging from 10 to 12| cents. The week
closes at a decline on all qualities of f to |
''cent. Fair and Fully Fair may be quoted at
12 to The receipts of the week are 4,300
bales.
From Chagres.
.Charleston, June 6.
The steamer Cherokee, arrived at New
York to day from Chagres, bringing advices
from California to the Ist May. She also
bri $150,000 in Gold-dust.
The Alta Californian says, that three steam
ers for the Atlantic States have sailed since
the Ist of March, with three and a half millions
of dust. ,
Gold continues abundant. Six thousand
persons were at tho Middle American Fork
waiting for the waters to subside to commence
operations.
Mr. Thomas late mate of the steamer Cres
cent City, was killed at San Francisco by the
keeper of a hotel there.
From the Constitutionalist.
Nashville Convention.
SECOND DAY.
A despatch frern Nashville, dated the 4th
inst., gives us the second day’s proceedings.
The Convention was opened with Prayer,
after which Mr, Rhett moved that the Parlia
menary LaW»6f Jefferson’s Manual govern
the proceedings of the Convention, which
was agreed to.
There was much and warm discussion for
several hours on voting by States, which was
finally adopted, and the Convention adjourned.
Nine States were represented in the Con
vention, viz.: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, South-Carolina, Tennes
see, Texas, and Virginia.
THIRD DAY.
Nashville, June, 5.
The Convention assembled to-dqy at the ap
pointed hour.
Several Delegates were announced by the
gentlemen composing the committee of one
Lorn each State, and admitted to seats.
Mr. Mcßae, of Mississippi, submitted a se
ries of resolutions, declaring that the spirit of
the Convention was conciliatory, and intended
to preserve the Constitution and tho Union.
They provide that all Territory acquired by
Abe United Statesis to be governed by the
a ; n Mu
cress- and further recommend that if the
North’will not accede to the South its rights
guarantied by the Constitution, the formality
of association will be broken, and lead to non
intercourse between the two sections; that
. Congress has no right to discriminate between
the species of property held under the Consti
tution. These resolutions were referred to a
committee.
Mr. Cheater, of Tennessee, offered a reso
lution providing for a committee on Printing,
which was carried. ,
The Convention then adjourned to 10 o clock
to-monow morning-
From the Charleston Mercury, 6th tost.
Late and Important from Cura.—By the
arriva Yesterday of the fast sailing
■Merchant, Capt. Tessier. j| uvanai we
have advices up to «MJ |t T)10 United
States steam Capt. Tatnall,
l,an *e'26ih ult. with itnpor
r the Captain General .of
mpbell, the American Con
was stated in Havana that
en put under the orders of
fl, to assist in capturing any
from the United States,
of the Saranac oft Havana
Mild have no <Joubt been a
and (irtnantown, while lying in Havana, re
ceived information that several Spanish ves
sels of war were expected in a few days with
„ part of the Cuba expedition on board as pri
soners imijJoubt those taken on the coast of
Yucatan7*oo receipt of this intelligence
thev immediately left port for the purpose ot
inwrceoling them, and demanding the priaon
enrs from "ie custody of the Spaniards They
met them a few hours sail from the Moro, and
were about exacting their release at the can
non’s mouth, when the Saranac coming up an
interview took place between Captain htMlI
and Commander Randolph, after which the
Spumatds were allowed to take thetr prisoners
into Havana. The prisoners are confined on
board of a Spanish seventy-four in he harbor.
Five of these taken at Cardenas, under Lo
oez were shot at Matanzas a few days previ
ous to the sailing of the Merchant. Four of
the number were said to be Scotch ana Irish,
—md eno an American, a boy, who stated to the
that he joined the expedition under the
impression that it was going to California, and
that he had no idea ot invading Cuba. Ihe
Merchant left in port the United State, "team
frigat-Saranac, and sloops of war Ge.man
town and Albany. The conduct of our consul
at Havana, under the trying circumstances
w liich surround him, is epokeji ot in the high-
terms.
United States Senator.—We underst ;nd ,
(says the Charleston Courier) that his E -cel
lencv Governor Seabrook, has appointed the
Hou. Robert W. Barnwell, Senator to C,m
oresa. in place of Colonel Elmore, deceased.
Mr Barnwell is now at Nashville, in atten
dance on the Southern Convention, as one of
the D< legates from the State at large. . e
are informed that a telegraphic dispatch has
b, en forwarded to him, at lhat place, annou w
i„ his appointment. Mr. B•> nwell is a gen le
uan of hi»h character and disnngmshed tal
ent He was forme, ly a member ot Congress
from this Hiir.e, and for several years the
able and popular President of the College of
South Carolina.
The Tide Turning.—By an article in the
Savannah Republican, of Hie 22d ' nstant >
see that a considerable poition ot North Ala
bama produce which has heretofore come to
New Orleans, is taking toe direction to Sa
vannah and Charleston.—This is tn conse
quence of the completion-ot the Georgia Mate
Road to Chattanooga, on the Tennessee river.
Ot the 200.000 bales of co'ton grown in North
Alabama, it i* estimated that < ne-half will
henceforth go to U*i? Atlantic markets. —N. O.
Bu’letin. ’
Mrs. Sallie Ward Law: eace, o! Louisville,
Kv., whose domestic diff rences with her hus
band, Mr. T- B. Lawtei.ce, of Boston, have
been lite subject of r. a spapcr discussion,
lias obtained a divorce ftwa the circuit court
aj-LouisYille.
Mr. Willis speaks ul .. •and'ome girl whom
hentelin the mnnibus <« New York, as one
u *be c>» • crs of wuqse mouth
were so dTjin. and sotu’r.eJ in I’ke inverted
that Iter lips I," ked like a ..jtu-u.liou.”
Augusta, Seorgia.
Saturday Morning, June 8, 1850.
Wilkes Couutv Railroad.
We learn by private letter from Washing
ton, Ga , that subscriptions of stock in the
Wilkes County Railroad.was taken there on
Tuesday last to the amount of $133,400 00.
EF Wm. R. McLaws Esq., of this city, has
been appointed by the Governors of Virginia
and North Carolina, Commissioner for- the
State of Georgia, forthose respective States.
Southern Quarterly Review.
We welcome this new visitor to our table
and return our thanks to the publishers for its
appearance. It comes freighted with a most
inviting table of contents, and we have read
several of its articles with interest aad plea
sure. It is the first of a new series, having
passed into the hands of those enterprising
publishers, Messrs. Walker & Richards, who
have greatly improved its appearance. The
following are the contents of the present, the
April number:
Law Reform in Missouri ; the Mines of
California; Gen. Hammdnd’s Commencement
Oration ; The Navigation Laws ; Relations of
England and Spain ; Miles’ Philosophic The
ology ; The Cryptogamous Origin of Fevers ;
Humboldt’s Aspect of Nature; Kennedy’s
Life of Wirt; Wallis’ Glimpses of Spain;
Critical Notices.
The review of Gov. Hammond’s Com
mencement Oration, and that of Miles’ P.iilo
sophic Theology, particularly pleased us.
Both are written in a pleasing style, and are
characterized by clearness, sensibleness and
thoughtfulness.
The remaining articles we have as yet but
partially examined, but from the attention we
have bestowed upon them, would judge them
fully worthy of a place in the Southern Quar
terly.
The critical notices of new works, &c.,
from the pen of the talented editor, Wm. Gil
more Simms, Esq., are singularly excellent,
clear, succinct and candid.
We would fain, before closing this notice,
say something byway of commending this
valuable and ably conducted Southern Quar
terly to the kind attention and generous patron
age of Southern men. As a Southern Litera
ry Review, it stands alone. It is greatly
needed. It is marked by a spirit of devotion
to Southern institutions, rights and interests.
It is not excelled by any publication of tho
kind in the United States. In mechanical ap
pearance, it almost defies competition.
Published in Charleston, S. C. Address
Walker & Richards.
Views of the Whig Press.
We make the following extracts from the
Macon Journal and -Messenger. We have ita
licised a few words.
The Compromise.—The Administration.
We have notjeed, not without deep regret
the position assumed by the Washington Re
public under its new editorial supervision.
That paper formally announces that the Pre
sident is still in favor of his original plan;
and, by implication, that he is o; posed to the
proposed adjustment presented by the com
mittee of thirteen.
The plan of the Administration was pro
posed in December last. It met the approba
tion, so far as we know, of no Southern man
entitled to respect, or who, from position, could
be expected to exert an influence upon the
popular mind. It fell, literally, still born.—
It had no Iriends, either in the Senate or the
House, and had passed almost out of the pub
lic mind, when the report of the committee was
presented.
The object of the announcement must have
been to defeat the Compromise proposed by
Mr. Clay and his friends. That plan being
more favorable to the South than the Pres
ident’s we are forced to the conclusion, that.
ifTO Rv-pTOTTc a posi-
tion of hostility to the Southern States.
Most sincerely do we trust that the state
ment of that paper may have been made with
out authority. If otherwise, the Administra
tion cannot hope for any considerable support
in the Southern States. As to the two plans,
there is no comparison. The Pre idenl’s plan
is wholly inadequate to the exigencies of the
country.
Here, then, are two of the plans proposed.
So far as we know, the President’s proposition
is sustained by no Southern Senator of in
fluence, and we do not believe that it could ral
ly evena Corporal's Guard among the people.
The organ at Washington should either aband-
on such a plan or be abandoned_at
Southern subs^ber^'^ v f'~'' {e^ J i\ ie
dftcwatsuch doctrines will not suit the
Southern people, anti that they will abandon
even the President, much as they have loved
him, and fully as they have confided in him,
rather than be committed to any such policy.
It is time the administration should under
stand its true position in regadlo this question.
This is the language of a paper which whigs
will not doubt. Already have wo had unmis
takeable evidences that our strictures upon
Gen. Tavlor’s plan and policy, (or rather that
of a majority of his cabinet,) was distasteful to
some who see every thing through a party
medium. It will be seen from the above that
one of the leading central organs of the whig
party of Georgia has spoken out as we have.
We presumed (as we had the right to do,)
that tbe Washington Republic spoke for the
President. Our whig eotemporary of Macon
says, it is forced to believe that that paper “has
deliberately assumed a position of hostility
to the Southern States." V' e believe the
seme thing, and recognize no party influence
which can make us conceal it from the people.
Don’t be in a hurry to find fault with us. Per
haps we are not far wrong after all.
Good Dividends. —The Bank of Hamburg
has declared a dividend of $3 per share out of
the profits ot the last six months business, be
ing at the rate of six per cent, per annum.
The Marine Rank of Savannah has declared
a dividend of six per cent, for the last six
months, and the Railroad Bank a dividend of
Four Dollars per share for the same time.
The Birp anp the Snare.—Two gentle
men of our acquaintance, of unimpeachable
veracity, witnessed a scene the other day worth
recording. They observed at the distance of
some thirty feet from them very strange and
unaccountable conduct on the part of a bird—
commonly called the cow bird, resembling in
color and shape the mocking-bird of this re
gion,thoiigh somewhat smaller. On watch
in<r it narrowly they discovered that it was en
caged in a conflict with a snake some eight
een or twenty inches in length. In a tew
moments the bird was victorious. It suddenly
caught the snake by the head and flying with
it toan old pine tree, succeeded after a hard
struggle, in fastening it on a punned splinter.
Thus'piuioned, the snake was entirely help
less. The bird watched it for a moment with
apparently, the utmost cuiupljcency and then
continued’ its repast, devouring within ten or
fifteen minutes three fourths of the length oi
tbe snake.—Mobile Herald 21st.
Destructive Weapon.—Jennings’ repeat
ine rifle is one of the most effective, the most
awful weapon of modern days. It dischar
ges twenty-four balls in a minute, take
full effect at eight hundred yards. VV hen one
ball is fl red, tiie gun is instantly loaded, by a
principle as simple as it is unfailing. 1 hiuk
of such a weapon in the banes o! a thousand
men! Tbe use of this gun ought tom?an
end to war, for surely no army could stand
against it.
It is said if gold eaf is spread upon the ftce
ofa person who has the small pox, he will not
be pitted in the least. This is worth remem
bering, if it be ao.
Remains o? Col. Elmore. —Information
has been received from \\ ashington that the
remains of Col. Elmore would leave that city
on Wednesday evening, and they maj conse
quently be expected to arrive here in the W ii
mington boat to-morrow.—Charleston Mercu
ry, 6th insL.
o|»po«itioiY Io General Taylor.
We are not afraid to trust the interest nt
our paper in the hands of our readers. A few
thoughtless and hasty tn“n may abandon it be
cause ol our opposition to General Taylor’s
scheme of settling the territorial question. Let
them go. They will,find out their error, whe
ther they comeback or not. We refer those
dissatisfied, to the extracts in tiiis day’s paper
from the Macon Journal and Messenger.
That paper thinks of General Taylor’s plan as
we do. 1
’’he Washington Republic his particular
organ at the National Capitol continues its at
tacks upon Mr. Clay. There are not a
thousand persons in the State of Georgia who
would prefer General Taylor’s plan to his.
There is not a paper in the State which sus
tains the President. Mr. Clay’s is bad enough in
all conscience, his plan infinitely worse. The
Republic is still urging the immediate admis
sion of New Mexico as well as California.
Mr. Clay objects to the immediate admission
of the former, upon the ground, of a want of
moral and social preparation of the people
there. There never was a more miserable,
mongrel, mixed, ignorant and stupid people
collected together this side of Africa, Vet
the Republic, o.i the part of General Taylor,
urges their immediate admission into the
Union upon the ground that it "will give com
plete finality to the question and restore per
manent HARMONY to the country. ’
Os course it would settle the question, but
what would the South gain by it ? California
would not only add two Senators to the free
States, but New Mexico would do the same.
Two United States Senators to represent the
Mexicans, Chinoes, Mestizoes, and how many
other kinds of breeds God v only knows, Jo help
subject’the South to afiti-slavery fanatics,
would be a most glorious way to settle the
question ! •
The Republic after urging in favor of the
President’s plan, that the people of the territo
ry would not suffer for want of a Government
for a short time, adds, “ They have it in their
power to form a State Constitution and to ap
ply for admission into the Union, as they have
been recently recommended to do by their
delegate, who is now in this city, WITHOU I
DELAY.” There it is plainly declared and
no mistake. If New Mexic >is urged to come
in without delay, we should like to know what
chance the South would have to gel into the
territory. Now, to show that General Taylor
would give us no chance, we quote from his
California Message. He urged, that it would
not be expedient to give a Territorial Govern
ment to New Mexico, and to use his own lan
guage, "especially as the people of this Ter
ritory still enjoy the benefit and protection of
their own municipal laws, okiginvlly DE
RIVED FROM MEXICO.”
There it is as plain as language can lay it
down. We defy any captious fault-finder to
deny either of the propositions which we lay
down as follows:
Ist. General Taylor is in favor of the im
mediate admission of New Mexico, as well as
California into the Union as a State.
2d. Until so admitted he holds that slave
holders are excluded with their slaves by pre-
viously existing Mexican laws.
3d. General Taylor’s views, then, are utter
ly adverse to the interests of the South on this
great and absorbing question.
Now then, who is for him or his views, in
reference to it? We learn that this scheme is
repudiated by eve-y member from Georgia, in
both the Senate and House of Representatives.
As far as we have seen, there is not more
than two or three papers South of Mason and
Dixon’s Line.which sustain him. The Re
public is drawing rapidly upon Northern pa-
Hud comfort in this hour of need.
We admit that a majority of Northern Whig
papers go for-General Taylor’s plan, and be
cause as they say, it will more effectually se
cure the triumph of their anti-slavery views.
Is there one word in what we have express
ed above that is not true? If it is all true,
what would any reader of our paper, Whig or
Democrat, think of us if we were to conceal
it, and for the sake of party, sacrifice the South.
We have no fears when the
see this i t
,§Si u J‘*?’eeinto have no use of their j
eyes or ears. They neither see nor hear.
It is time they should be on the lookout.
Their interests, their s fety, every thing de
mands it.
The Compromise and Finality.
The people of the South are urged to sus
tain the compromise as a measure that will
give“ finality” to the slavery question.
We presume that no one will doubt that the
New York Courier and Enquirer is one of the
most conservative of all the Northern Whig
papers. See what it says about the binding
power of the compromise. We give the lan
guage of that paper word for word, putting a
few words in italics’,
* * * “ Suppose a territorial bill is pass
ed without the Wilmot proviso—will that ac
tion be final ! Not by any means. Every
Congressional District in every Northern Slate
would instantly become the scene of a strug
gle to secure the addition of that proviso at the
next session. Suppose Mr. Mason’s bill in re
gard to the surrender of fu itive slaves to be
come a law, will the South hear no more of
tne matter? Will peace and quiet every
where prevail on that subject ? lie must be a
foolish and a very ignorant man who can che
rish any such expectation. The enactment
of that law would be the signal for an an
ti SLAVERY AGITATION THROUGHOUT THE
Northern and the Western States, infi
x’ -TELY MORE VIOLENT AND LESS CONTROLLA
BLE THAN ANJT WHICH THE COUNTRY HAS
HEARD OF HITHERTO I”
What will the people of the South think of
that ? That is the declaration of one of the
mildest and most conservative Whig papers
al the North—of a paper that sustains Gen.
Taylor’s plan with all its power and with
great ability.
We copy from it still further, as follows:
“It has been formally announced, from ma
ny conspicuous and influential sources, that
the Wilmot proviso is dead.-—that it is univer
sally regarded as an exploded humbug—that ;
the wholmNorth is convinced that slavery can- .
not, under any circumstances, obtain a foot
hold in New Mexico, and that the whole North -
is ready, therefore, to abandon the proviso. A
great deal of confidence in the success of cer
tain schemes, has been built upon this belief.
Our own opinion is that a greater mistake was
never made. We do not believe that Northern
sentiment has undergone any such change,
i The people of the North are not convinced,
either that the proviso is needless, or that it is
I wrong, in spite of all argument and all ex-
I hortations to the contrary, they believe it to be
I just in principle, equitable in its effect on sec
• tional ascendancy, and demanded by the emer
| gency. .
i “ All we mean to say is. that in our opinion
| the great body of the people pf the Northern
I States have not abandoned the principle cf the
i Wilmot proviso. We believe that while the
I outward demonstrations in regard to it have
diminished, the real popular feeling is still
strongly »n its favor —and that this will be
come manifest whenever ocpgsien shall arise.'
Let not the people of the South be longer
1 deceived. Will not all our papers publish
i this deciaiukon pf tbe conservative New Yoik
1 Courier and Enquirer? if thpt pacer holds
I s.uei> pinions, what can we expect from the
great mass of Northern papers or people ? If
the South were eypr to yiejd to that capitula-
I tion, so falsely called a compromise. it is here
: plainly intimated to us ihat its terms would not
be kept in good faith by our conquerors. Wc
I would see the national capital shake like an
' aspen leaf, or the Union rock like a storra
i ridden ship, or our plains drenched in honora-
ble blood, before we would yield to any ar
rangement that did not secure our rights, and
that too, under a seal signed beloro heaven as
a witness.
Some of our papers write about the cogser
va-tives of the free States as if they wcriW"-
gels from the skies, and in every word
above we see the hideous features of a diabol
ical resolve to surround, overwhelm and crush
our institution to death at the first op, ortunity.
It is as clear as unclouded light, and the
people should mark those who seek long<r>o
delude them either from cowardice, mental
imbecility, or something worse.
“Pacificator's” Positions.
“ PAbiriCATOR,” in the last Journal & Mes
senger, undertakes to reply to a strong and ir
refutable article of “ A Whig Senator,” which
appeared in that paper of the week before,
against the compromise. We refer to the jj
ticleof “Pacificator” to show how intelligent
men sometimes delude themselves, and not to
carp at his method of controversy. He writes
well, and in courteous phrase. We believe
that he has summed up all that can be saidVn
favor of the compromise, in the seven posi
tions which he has laid down in its favor. He
says :
“ It does seem to me that the proposed com
promise concedes a great deal to the South.
“1. It gives us increased legislation in fa
vor, of the recovery of fugitive slaves.”
That is true, but it gives us a law less sum
mary in the capture of runaway slaves, than
the it will repeal. Besides, it is no
concession to give us a law-Jo carry out one of
the plainest rights that the constitution
anties to the South.
“2. It abandons the
mot Proviso to the Territories of Llirrt inst
New Mexico.”
That is no concession, for the North had no
right to. exclude the people of th* South from
the territories (their own land) by the Wilmot
Proviso. We might as well say, that it is
concession for a highway robber to give back
to a person whom he has robbed, a part of the
money taken from him.
“ 3. ft recognizes the right i>f the people th
form new slaveholding Statesout of lexas.’
That is no concession, for that right was ex
pressly stipulated in the joint resolution by
which Texas was annexe! to the United
States. “ Outside barbarians" would recog
nize a right pledged as that was.
“4. ft abandons alt proposed action on the
part of Congress in regard to the abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia, and sim
ply revives the law of Maryland in regard to
the domestic slave trade.”
That is no concession, for the North had no
right to abolish slavery in the District of Co
lumbia. Again, it merely “ abandons action
for the present." Next year, or the year after,
the assault upon slavery in the District might,
and probably would be recommenced with
fresh fury.
It more than simply revives th- law of Ma
ryland. It permits legislation by Congress
over rights that belong only to the States. For
Heaven’s sake, let us keep Congress off of
State rights. It also gives freedom to the
slave who may be taken by his owner into the
District for sale.
“5. It prohibits bo'h Congress and the Ter
ritorial Legislatures from passing any laws ei
ther establishing or abolishing slavery in the
Territories during their Terrifi rial existence.
True, but it assumes at the same time, that
slavery is already excluded by the lex loci or
law of the Territory, that is, by the old.Mexi
can law. That is a wonderful concession I
6. It leaves all questions touching tie pro
tection of property in slaves in the Tetritori rs
to be decided by the Supreme Court of the
United States, in the same manner as was
provided in the Clayton Compromise
That is no concession, for tho r wirtSSottenalism against our southwVl IT»stre“
Court has-no right to say to one hall □ tution. It says we need " Americanism 'lo
people of this Union, “ You may go, ol corr ect the evil of the times, as if the origina
shall not go, to your own land with you* tors of the Southern Press were not imjiued
properly." with a proper American feeling. Is it Ameri-
7. It allows the people of the f or the free states to array themselves
when tbev organize their State governm >jn n an j ro | en tless hostility to the south?
to settle all questions touching their dont R wou , d be Amerieanißra for the
institutions for themselves. 1 K
That would noti
to Southerners the right
to go there with th ir slaves, and, in the next
place, (if some should happen to straggle there
with them,) subject them to tho mercy of the
Supreme Court.
These are tbe seven grand concessions
which “ Pacificator” finds in the compromise
scheme of the committee of thirteen. We
cannot see the matter as he sees it.
We have been trying to find room for the ar
ticle of “ A Whig Senator,” and hope to be
able to do so before long.
Augusta made Boer.
See advertisement of Mr. M. Frederick.
His Brewery is now in successful operation
and, we feel confident, that no better article
is brought to our market, than that which he
furnishes.
We made a trial of some, made at his Bre
wery, a few days since, which was equal to
any we remembered to have tasted.
Mr. Frederick has been at great pains and
expense in fitting up his establishment, and
as this is a Southern enterprise, it should
meet ample encouragement. Why should
purchasers go to the North for this article
when it can be obtained in this city of as good
quality and upon as cheap terms.
We would commend Mr. F.’s Beer to
the favorable consideration of purchasers and
ask them at least, not to pass him by till they
have tested both it and the price.
The Kights of the Ladies.
At a meeting ot the Boston Ladies, held re
cently to consider the propriety .ChoUinga
“Woman’s Rights Convention,” a committee
of seven were appointed to make arrangements
for its being held sometime during the pre
sent year. Qne of tho ladies present advoca
ted the right of suffrage as being due to wo
man and L“yd Garrison, who is al ways med
dling with what does not concern him, was al
so present among the female members and
took gro nd in favor of the same views.
He expressed a wish to see one half of
the members oY Congress and one half
the members of the several Legislatures
wearing curls and dresses. The Ladies
of Boston ought to present this champion of
their rights with some article or other of fe
male dress. He richly deserves it.
Free Translations.—‘Well, now, you’ve
been to college two years; I suppose you can
translate Latin some, can’t you?”
“Y’esl can translate any thing.”
“Gan you? Well, what does this mean—
I’oeta nasciiur not fit?”
“Oh! tha’ means, a nasty poet is not fit!”
“Not fit for "what?”
“You did n ! t quote the whole—prodecenti
bus societate—not fit for decent society!”
“Ah! indeed! and what does ne sutor mean?”
“If you, ia popping the question, should
drop on your knees,y«u would bea knee sui
tor.”
“Very good.' Now what is jam satia?”
“Oh! that’s what the feiiow said in acrowd;
he meant he was jammed enough!”
“Well, this college lamin’ is a orett -thing.
7 s’pose jou did n’t know that I can translate
some myself.--’
“No! tan yob?” '
“Oh yes!—clam et palam—know what that
means, eh?” .
“Not exactly; what is jt?”
“That, means eat clams by the palifu’.f’
“You may take my hat!”
India rubb-r is now applied to book bjaomg,
as covers, in place of leather or paper.
Tits Southern Organ.—As promised a
few days since, we publish litis morning the
Report and proceedings of members of Cott
gres, proposing to establish a Southern Or
<fini at Washington.
Having already expressed our disapproba
tion of the enterprise, it may be expected that
we give the reasons which influence its to
such a conclusion. This we shall do as brief
ly as may be deemed necessary.
First then, we oppose it, because, if it suc
ceed to any extent in giving direction to pub
lic opinion, which we doubt, it will contribute
to the formation of sections! feelingsand par
ties, and thus to the alienation ■ f one section
of the Union front the other, and finally to the
disruption of the government. These propo
sitions, to our mind, are like seif evident truths
and of themselves would be sufficient to se
cure our disapprobation of the establishment
of the paper; but, there are others to which
we will recur.
At this day when the baneful influences of
sectionalism, so powerfully portrayed by “the
Father of his Country,” and so familiar to
every intelligent mind, we need not discant
upon it. What we most need to co-rect the
evils of the times, is an enlarged and liberal
patriotism, an Americanism if we may thus
employ the word, which shall be co extensive
with the whole country, and all its great and
diversified interests, and this principle cannot
be fostered and maintained by the proposed
organ—indeed it occupies a position of perfect
and complete antagonism.
Again, it is proposed by this exclusively
sectional organ to give tone to —to direct and
correct public sentiment at the South. This
assumes, as a fact, what we are not disposed
to admit, that public sentiment at the South is
wrong upon the great issue which now agi
tates the country. It is not only correct but
eminently conservative —and therefore deter
mined to maintain its rights under the constitu
tion against aggressive measures of Congress,
of whatever character. But it will not be led
■ into the extremes of ultraismlty a faction who
|Jo day repudiate the-principles which they.
Pyesterday put forth as<tiie basis of) republican- 1 '
isms and constitutional privileges. There is,
therefore, no necessity for such an organ at
the South. The Southern people know their
lights, and are ready at- all times to maintain
them against aggression from any and all
quarters.
The error in public sentiment in this coun
try, in reference to slavery exists in the free
States, and it is that error which should be
corrected. How is this to be accomplished by
a purely sectional organ, which will never
find its way to the minds in which this error
prevails? It is not pretended that the organ
will circulate in the free States—indeed the
address seems to assume that, it will not —but
looks alone to the South for succor, support
and circulation. What good can it do here ?
—public sentimetit, as we have already said,
is sound at the South, and therefore needs no
physician, and least of all one who would drug
the patient with sectional nostrums.
If the Committee and those associated with
them would devise some plan by which the
diseased patient, ar.d the public of the free
States, could be administered to and relieved,
we would most cheerfully unite in the effort,
and contribute whatever we could to the ac
complishment of the object.
The position assumed by the committee
that Southern men cannot be heard through
tho press at Washington, seems to us not
well or maturely considered. We had sup
posed that every min who held a seat in Con
gress, and who desired it, could be heard
through the four daily papers printed in Wash
ington, if he would only prepare his speeches
for the press. By this means, if they be true,
they can much more successfully reach the
ear of the Free States than they can ever hope
through a mere sectional organ. Let them,
then, prepare to defend the South and her
institutions through this medium, and they
will accomplish the double purpose of address
ing themselves at once to the public ear of the
whole Union.
We might extend these remarks much fur
ther and urge other reasons for our views but
we deem it unnecessary.
We copy the above from our whig neigh
bour, of the Chronicle and Sentinel, of
the sth instant. It is opposed to the es
tablishment of the Southern Press at Wash
ington city ; for fear it will promote “ section
alism," as ngtjqprosied
south to submit!
The Chronicle and Sentinel, in the violence
of its opposition to any movement intended to
secure the rights of the south, denominates the
friends of the Southern Press a “faction."
This is its cnstotflary phrase. It tells us the
error, in reference to slavery, exists in the free
states, and should be corrected there; and
then says the sectional organ will not reach
the northern people. This is a shallow de
fence of a paltry opposition and spirit. The
very manner in which the paper is originated
would create an immense curiosity in the free
states to see it. Thousands would subscribe
for it there, and every paper would wish an
exchange. This position of the Chronicle is
unworthy of respect.
We might ask it a withering question. If
that error exists at the north, what has it said
or done to correct it I Let it reflect upon that.
It asks what good can a sfluc;.ern press in
Washington, do here in the south ? It can
give the oeople light which the Chronicle has
denied to them, and remove false doctrines
and impressions which it has circulated to
their injury !
The Chronicle says the south can be heard
at the north through the speeches of their rep
resentatives, published in tbe four papers at
Washington. Just think of a few speeches
which would not reach one man in five hun
dred at the north, being relied upon to remove
a thousand prejudices which have taken root
in and sprouted all over the northern mind.
God save the Republic and the South in par
ticular !
Mercer Univeraity.
We have received from some attentive
friend a catalogue of the officers and students
of Mercer University, located at Penfield, for
1849-50. We are pleased tq -ee that this
excellent institution is in a flourishing condi
tion. The numberof students in the Theolo
gical department, connected with the Uni
versity, is fourteen. The number of those
in attendance upon a regular College course
amounts to sixty-five. An Academy, in which
a preparatory course for College is taught, is
attended by students to the number of fifty
seven. A large and well selected Library is
connected with the institution, and the two
Literary Societies have also valuable Libraries.
The Annual Commencement occurs on tbe
last Wednesday in July. Vacations in Au
gust and January.
We prese t below the names of the gentle
men composing the able Board of Trustees,
and the faithful and competent Faculty. We
trust that the institution may continue to pros
per.
Trustees. —Hon. Thomas Stock’, Presi
dent ; Rev. B. M. Sanders, Rev. J. L. Dagg;
Rev. J. S. Baker, Rev. V- R. Thornton, Rev.
C. M. Irvin, Col. J. B. Walker, T J. Burney,
Rev. N. G. Foster, Rev. J. H. Campbell, H.
Cunn, Esq., Rev. C. D. Mallary, Hon. Junius
Hillyer, Rev. A. Williams, Dr. W. H. Pope,
Rev. W. H. Stokes, Col. James Thomas, Rev.
A. T. Holmes, Rev. J uriah Harris, Hon. A.
R. Wright, Gen. G. W. Evans.
FACULTY.
J. L Dagg, D. D., President.
PROFESS ORS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
J; L. Dagg, D.D., Systematic Theology.
N. M. Crawford, A. M., Ecclesiastical His
tory
COLLEGE.
S. P. Sanford, A. M., Ma hematics.
P. H. Mell, A. M., Greek and Latin Lan
gPag.e - ' . ,
8. G. nillyer, A. M., Belles Lettres.
Joseph E. Willet, A. M., Chemistry and
Natural Philosophy.
academy.
T. D. Martin, A. M., Principal.
Views of Governor Towns I
In these times of great excitement about i
public affairs, it is natural for the people to ,
desire to know lite views and opinions of their
public men. To gratify this reasonable solici
tude. we copy from the last number of
the Fedetal Union, the following expo- j
sition of the views of Governor Towns, in
relation to some of the important measures;
and .questions of the day. We are gratified to ,
see that the Executive of Georgia sees the I
danger as it is, and is resolved to do his duty,
ire a true Southron should, witit a firm hand |
and a resolute purpose. It would seem that .
the Governor is determined to call a convert- I
tion of tiie people of Georgia in the event of
the admission of California as a State into the
Union.
There is much diversity of opinion whether
the resolutions or the bill providing tor calling
the convention, should give, direction to this
matter. 'The resolutions opposed the admis
sion of California with her present pretended
organization; the bill provided for calling the
convention in the event of the admission, into
the Union as a State, of the sparsely peopled
territories of California and New Mexico.
Whatever may be the voice of the people
on this question we incline to the opinion that
there is good reason to sustain the Governor
in calling a convention, should California be
admitted. And yet from the phraseology of
the bill, he could be justified in not calling it.
We have never doubted that the admission of
California under the circumstances of her ap
plication, would be in violation of right, justice
and precedent. ,
[From the Federal Union.]
Gov. Towns—The Compromise—Nash
ville Convention and State (Convention. — I
The enquiry Aas frequently been addressed to I
us, what are Governor Towns’ views in rela
tion to the Compromise non* before the Senate
—what are they in relation to the Nashville
Convention —and what will be his course,
under the resolutions of the Legislature, di
recting him to call a convention of the State,
in the event of the admission by Congress of
California.
We can, we think authoritatively, answer
these questions. The Governor entertains
no opinions on the agitating subjects now dis
tracting the country, that he would withhold
from a people in whose service he has devoted
the best years of his life, and with an increasing
confidence on their part, in his patriotism and
prudence. In the first place then, he regards
the report of the committee of thirteen, as ad
ding insult to injury, and as a measure, unless
materially modified, that should receive the
united and unyielding opposition of every friend
of the South.
In reference to the inquiry what are his
views, in relation to the Nashville Convention,
it is surprising that any doubt should exist upon
this subject. In. his letter addressed to the
people last summer, in reply to interrogatories
propounded to himself and Judge Hi 11, he took a
hgh, open and undisguised stand in favor of the
rights of the South. The people endorsed his
views, as evinced by the large vote conceded to
him. His annual message, calmly, explicitly and
firmly adverted to our wrongs, and urged upon
the Legislature, measures for their redress.
In his inaugural address, that succeeded the
message, before both branches of the Legisla
ture and an immense auditory, in language
hold, fearless and patriotic, lie reiterated his
views, pledged "himself as far as tne power
was vested in him by the constitution and
laws to maintain the rights of the South and
defend iter honor, and urged with a force felt
and acknowledged by all who heard him, the
absolute necessity of harmony and concert in
order to the accomplishment of these objects.
The Legislature patriotically responded to the
recommendations of Gov. Towns, by tbeii
resolutions in favor of the Nashville Conven
tion—a Convention designated for Southern
men to consult about Southern wrongs, and
to determine what measures were best adapted
to preserve their constitutional rights and at
the same time the harmony and integrity of
the Union. Gov. Towns stands now where
he then stood, the firm and unflinching advo
cate of (i.i.- is one who does
bot despair of the South!* An old-pannellJ nibn
man, sympathizing with the people in their
wrongs; he is ready to defeud that Union so
long as it protects their constitutional rights:
and he confidently believes that the first wilP
be in no danger, if the people, regardlejg^of
the tricks of cross—road aspi
ring pnrtizans will unitedly rally so a common
standard in defence of the lasjs"
Whatever others may Jtf, it is his deter
mination, regardless otya*! the efforts of pre
tended friends or foes, to intimidate him
or thwart his in this eventful crisis,
fearlessly jfo discharge the duties confided to
him aru indicated by the voice es the people,
and the action of the last Legislature.
In reference to the remaining inquiry, to
wn : whether in the event of the admission of
California as a State into the Union, coupled
or not with other measures will the Governor
call a Convention of the State, we unhesita
tingly give it as our confident opinion, that
he will. He deems it his duty to carry out the
law. He is not unwilling to trust the people
in that which relates to their honor, their safe
ty and their interest; nor upon a mere quib
ble of words, will lie prevent them from
having an op. ortunity ol making their own
decision upon a question which may ultimate
ly determine the future destinies of the South.
O”The Savannah Republican fires into
the New York Courier & Enqurier after the
following fishion :
“We placed the Courier & Enquirer in the
Ksame category with the Post and other Free
Soil prints, because, since the appointment of
Col. Webb Charge to Austria, and the election
of Mr. King President of Columbia college
both former editors of that paper, its course
has been less conservative generally, and parti
cularly upon the questions at issue between
the North and the South. It has assumed a
threatening and dictatorial tone towards this
section of the Union. It speaks to us as if
we were inferiors, who were not entitled to
the same respect and privileges at the hands
of Congress that the North receives and tbe
Constitution guarantees. It cannot refer to
the contemplated Nashville Convention with
out employing such offensive epithets as “trai
tors,” “conspirators,” “rebellion,” &.C.; and
that too when abolition meetings were pro
gressing under its own nose, composed of
“Black spirits and white",
Red spirits and grey,”
who denounced the Constitution and the
Union as a “league with bell,” and execrated
the Bible, the Christian religion, and its divine
AutlSr in the bitterest terms known to the
English language.”
The Republican goes on to say:
“We base our claims upon the principles of
equality aud justice, which lay at the founda
tions of the Government. A 111 ! h ere the peo
ple of the North may find a rock upon which
to split the Union. Hour only object were
; political supremacy, we might quietly submit
Ito defeat; but when vital principles—equal
justice—and honor, are the issues, there can
be no such thing as submission. Let them
beware, then, lest they deceive themselves.”
Hurra for the Republican ! Pretty strong
language this, fora paper that has “flung, at
us, every now and then, for our agitation.
But we positively will not rake up old
matters with any paper or person who talks
like the Republican does above. We cannot
see, however, how it can go for the compro
mise. We hope it will change its mind after
a sober second thought.
Alluding to the plans of Mr. Clay and Gen
eral Taylor it says ;
“As to the President, we have only this to
say at present: We are in favor of Mr. Clay’s
Compromise and opposed to the plan of admit
ting California and leaving all the other ques
tions open.”
“We prefer Mr. Clay’s plan, because it dis ;
poses of the whole question—stops all the
‘wounds’ of the country by the application of
a single remedy.”
To heal some wounds is certain death.
That would be the case in healing the wounds
efthe South by the aforesaid compromise.
Tbe N. Y. Courier reminded the Republican
that it had supported General Taylor for the
Presidency and ought to go for his plan. Tt:e ,
Republican replies, “we did not sell our con- 1
sciences and independence by that support, i
We did not bind ourselves to sustain every
thing the President might do. We reserved
the right, as all other honest men did, to think
and act as freemen."
Pretty good doctrine that. It reminds us
of some of our own talk for which we have
been charged witit being d'sorganizers and
other unruly tilings. But so far from ruffling
I our good nature, we are absolutely delighted
j to see our Savannah cotemporary dressed out
jin robes like our own. In part only however.
We can’t recognize that great compromise
: blanket. We do’nt believe in smothering the
■ south in that way! __
[For the Republic.]
’Tis a I,oneiy Place, our Hearth
Stone.
BY ALB US .
’Tis a lonely place, our Hearth stone,
A lonely, lonely place,
For many a sunny face we miss
And many a brow of grace.
By,the dim light of our taper,
Wo see each vacant chair,
And we almost fancy as we gaze,
We see the loved ones there. .
The mother’s form is bent with grief,
And her dim eye fills with tears,
As one by one she names them o’er,
The loved of other years!
’Tis a lonely place, our hearth stone,
No joyous voice is here,
For memory’s glow still pictures
The sable pall—the bier—
Again we see the ashy lip—
Again the dim, blue eye,
And we think we hear their low tones
In each breeze that passeth by.
In vain we strive to dry our tears,
t To stilj the. rising sigh, >
F With tho thought that they are happy
In their home, the azure sky.
’Tis a lonelv place, our hearth stone,
Although hours, days have fled
Since first we heard the yew tree sigh
Above our much loved dead.
We’ll see the tomb stones lower*sink,
And many a spot of moss
We’ll mark beneath the ivy leaves,
And yet we’ll mourn our lo s ;
And thus ’twill be, until we too
Are borne with measured tread -
Soft, solemn, still, spell bound and slow
To the city of the Dead.
Augusta, Ga., 1850.
(Editorial (Sorresponbenu.
Souther:! Convention.
Nashville, Tenn. June 3d, 1850.
The Convention was organized to day at 3
o’clock P. M., by the unanimous election of
Judge Sharkey, of Miss. President, and Gov.
McDonald, of Ga. Vice President. Judge
Sharkey, upon taking the citair, returned his
thanks very happily, and then proceeded to
state, in a very concise, able and eloquent
manner, the object of the meeting. He said
some persons had been attempting to attribute
to the Convention no other object than disuni
on. His understanding of its objects was, that
it was to perpetuate the Union. He then ask
ed, which was the better and purer patriot, the
man who saw evil afar off, and put forth his
arm to prevent it, or he who remained silent
and motionless, till all the mischief that could
be done was consummated, and then raised
the cry of dissolution. He was frequently in
terrupted with enthusiastic plaudits. His last
remark was full of beauty, eloquence, and
triotism. He said lie wanted no dissolution of
the Union,.but ardently hoped that when the
sun threw back its last ray upon earth, it Would
rest upon our government towering amid the
wreck of matter,.the last monument ol human
1 to lail.
The opiruoli is rife here thatji large majority
are br ’favor of settling the question on the
compromise line.
The State of Tennesse lias the largest dele
gation here—then comes South Carolina—
Georgia has eleven delegates. There are
about 150 delegates in the Convention. I can
give jou, however, facts more in detail in my
next. The mail leaves only three times a
week, and I had to write to night or not at all
for three days. D.
National Monument.—lt is proposed by
the Board of Managers of the Washington
National Monunlent Society, to take up collec
tions throughout the Union, on the approach
ing Anniversary of our Independence, to aid
iu the gn-at Washington National Monument,
now being erected at the seat of Government.
Launch.—A new steamer, the Isaac Scott,
was launched from the ship yard of Messrs.
Jones & Pupot on Wednesday last in Savan
nah. She is to take the place of the steamboat
Robert Collins, and will be commanded by
Capt. Tavlor. She is intended for the Oc
mulgee trade, and owned by Brigham & Co.,
of Savannah, Carhart & Co., of Macoa, and
Capt. Taylor. She is 130 feet extreme length
—breadth of beam, 27 feet -over all, 45 feet,
depth of hold, 5 feet, and will, when loaded,
draw 4 feet water. She is to be propelled by
two high pressure engines of 30 horse power,
taken from the steamer Collins.
Honour to whom Honour is due.—lt is
understood that the gallant Gen. 'Twiggs is
about to leave his command in Florida on
leave of absence, and that he may soon be ex
pected to arrive in this city. We trust that
the opportunity will be seized upon to give
the General some public and cordial reception
on the part of our citizens. It would te ex
ceedingly proper, in our opinion, for the city
authorities to render him proper honours, and
for oqr citizens to tender him a public dinner.
Gen. Twiggs has not, we believe, visited
this State since the Mexican war. The hon
ours to which he was then entitled are still
eminently his due, and we may add, that it
would be a proper occasion on which to pre
sent the sword voted to him by the Legisla
ture of Georgia. We have thrown out this
brief hint, hoping that it wifi be Improved upon
—Savannah Republican, 6th inst.
[Correspondence of the Savannah Geotgian.]
Washington City, May 22,1850.
To the Editors of the Savannah Georgian :
i Gentlemen :—I have read your article upon
the Southern Address. Whatever of fault
may attach to Southern members of Congress
who sustain the proposition to a
Southern press in this city, irrespective of par
ties, I am willing to bear my full proportion.
I consider it to be a purpose highly patriotic,
and one wbicn should be sanctioned by all
Southern men. It may be the means of uni
j ting Southern people—and it may possibly
i enlighten Northern mind. Rely on it, whether
I a compromise be made now or not, there will
i be no settlement. There will be no fixed
1 peace for us —and agitation will continue.
: The party press will never have undivided
confidence of the Southern people.
I would give them a press free from party set-
j ters.
But it was not my intention to defend a pro
, position sustained by a respectable majority of
I the Southern mt mbers, and a majority of that
I majority, one of high-toned, honorable. Demo
cratic members. Aly object was to do justice
|to “:h? Union,” and justice to myself. I have
: always read Mr. Ritchie’s paper with respect,
I finding fault withit sometimes, but generally
I giving it the meed of my approbation, however
, humble. I did not see the address, nor did 1
hear of its contents until a copy of it was
i placed in my possession in pamphlet form. I
' was not at the meeting of members to which
it was reported- I have circulated the address
to some extent in the First Congressional Dis.
I :rict; but always with the intention to avail
myself, as I now do, of the first favorable oc
casion to sav that advocating its object, my
mind does not yield assent to much in it,em
| bracing unfavorably “the Union.”
I am very respectfully,
JOSEPH W. JACKSON.
Newspapers.—Among the many advanta
ges of newspapers that of saving time is not
the least. One man of business inquires of
another, “What’s the news ?” “ Nothing but
what you gee in the papers” is the reply, and
without spending more time on the gossip of
the day.tliey are ready to proceed to business.
A friend enters the counting-room of a busi
ness man with *• Pray where is the best place
to purchase goods ?” “Where shall 1 goto
get this work done?” “Where can Intake
the most advantageous bargains?” “Just take
a seat, sir, and I will hand you the paper
where you will find .the advertisments of our
prominent and energetic business men. They
are the men who advertise and they are the
men who can afford to give you good bargains,
and they are the presons who will he most
likely to have the articles you want.” This
said and done, the man of business is at liber
ty to assume his vocation.
Gen. Foote and thf. Compromise.—
gentleman is mistaken if he expects that hie s
constituents will approve of his course, if he
votes for the (Joinpromise Bill reported to the
Senate on the Bth inst. We have conversed
with many of our most intelligent and iiilluen
tial Democrats, who avow their eternal oppo
sition to the bill, or any thing like it. The
Southern man that sanctions tiiat Ixil of abom
inations is recreant to the South, ani unwor
thy of the confidence of the Southern people.
This is strong language, but we feel and know
that it is true. - .
The people want the question of slave.y
settled. They want no truces that leave
every question of importance unsettled, ex
cept against the South.—Miss. Jacksonian,
30th ult.
[From the Tuscaloosa, (Ala.) Monitor.]
Death ofjMhs. I’af.tington.—We regret
to learn the demise of this estimable lady,
which took place, recently, between Mobile
and New Orleans. Her disease was evident
ly of a typeoid character. Although she re
fused to make a “last will and testament”
upon the ground that she was always opposed
to any innovation upon, or addition Jo, the
present version of the scriptures, yet her ver
bal donations were of the most-liberal ck<rac
terter. To Mr. Ritchie she bequeathed her
entire wardrobe, including several pair of fine
silk stockings, and many other articles of fe
male dress which that venerable Editor has
been wearing for some time past. Mr. Ballen
tyne, of the Mobile Herald and Tribune,-for
whom she is supposed to have entertained a
very tender penchant, was affectionately pre
sented with a lock of her hair, to be worn in
place of those orid mustashers” upon which
the temperance lecturer White, so impertinent
ly commented. To her beloved cousin, John
Hardy of the Wetumpka State Guard, she
bequeathed the pocket edition of her famous
dictionary, from which “ John” has alre.dy
been drawing so largely for the edification of
his readers. The editor of the Eutaw Dem
ocrat is, we understand, in possession of her
celebrated “ magnifying glass,” which will
enable him, hereafter, to observe with accura
cy, every phase in the “growing greatness”
of lite distinguished representative of the fourth
. congressional district. Nor, ns we are pleased
to learn, was our neighbor of the Observer
entirely forgotlon. To him she is said to have
kindly donated her “infallible dream-book,”
by which he will at all times be able lo an
swer the question which is so often asked by
democratic editors :—“ Will Gen. Taylor veto
the Wilmot Proviso ? ”
In addition we have only space to remark
that the useful labors of this estimable lacy,
were continued to the very last moments of
her existence; she being engaged at the time
of her decease, in assisting Col. Langdon, of
the Advertiser, in preparing “ the ninety-ninth
number of his reply to the committee of twenty
seven.” 1 !
“Requiescat in Pace.”
KrStephcn Doles was killed in Muscogee
county on the 3rd inst. by Thomas Terry.
Wound inflicted with a knife. Terry has fled.
A lisping, bashful sort of a genius went to
see his sweetheart one night, and being rather
hard run for conversation said to her after a
long pause:
•Th.tlly did you ever thee an owl?—What
cuthed big eycthes they got, haint they Thally?
A her eye put out
<n a blowing
~~M A R R I E D.
1 n Thursday morning last, 6tlf inst. by the
Rev. W. 11. Thompson, Mr. Gordon Fargo
and Miss Isabella S. Miller, both of this city.
DIE D .
Another Revolutionary Soldier Gone!
Departed this life, at his residence, in Hen
ry county, on the 30th ult., Ezekiel Cloud, a
revolutionary patriot, in the 97th year of his
atre. *
THE SI BSCKIBLIJ.
BEING desirous of concentrating his busi
ness, offers for sale the following property in
Georgia, Florida and Tennessee:—looo acres of
Land in Clark county, Geo., with good dwelling,
large and convenient, with every necessary out
building. The most of this tract within three—"
quarters of a mile of the Colleges and Chapel at
Athens, with three splendid water privileges; vne
on the Oconee river, just below the Athens Fac
tory, which will require a small darn which can
be built at a trifling expense, say only G feet high*
which will coriimand water enough to turn 12 or
]5 thousand spindles, which is within a mile or
less of the Rail Road Depot; also, there is a water
privilege on a creek, and a sett of Granite M ills
in a state of progression which will have a water
wheel 26 feet in diameter Uy 10 feet buckets, and
the dam complete, made us stone, which will give
a head aud fall of over 25 feet, on a never-failing
stream, within less than three-quarters of a mile
of the Colleges. It is thought sufficient to drivo
a saw and three or four run of stones, or a cotton
factory. There is also a smaller stream, with 18
feet head and full,sufficient for a mill or a
«n the direct main road that leads to Athens; and
the wood that is on this tract (being near 700
acres of woodland,) will pay, at the low price at
which it is now selling, between 30 and 40 thou
sand dollars. This tract may be divided into
three very valuable settlements, with a splendid
water privilege on each, and an abundant supply*
of fine springs aud fine wells of water. Also, 109
acres of Land, twelve miles west of this place*
half woodland. 500 acres of Lund in Decatur
county, on the Ocklockony river, with a charter
for ferry or bridge, lying on the main road from
Bainbridge to Thomasville. Also, 40 lots in
Habersham and Rabun counties. The follow
ing lots in Ist district, Rabun county, 490 acres
in each lot: Nos. 29, 89, 32, 96, BG, 50; and in
the 2d district the following lots, each 250 acres:
N 05.85, BG, 110, 111,112,65,64,67, 194, 139,
195, 168, 137, 116,42, 170, 166, 73, 87, 151,
157,188; and in 3rd
each coatuhuwg
37, 98, 61,116, 115. And in Habersham coun
ty, lots No. 83, 13;h <U»t., Nos. 41 and 18, in 6th
dist. Also, 40 loti in the Cherokee district: No.
958, in 4th dist, Ist sect; No. 460, 4th dist, Ist
sect; No. 559, 4th dist, Ist sect; No 699, 4th dist,
Ist sect; No 649, sth dist, Ist sect; No 1054, 17th
dist, 2d sect; No 651, sth dist, Ist sect; No 492, -
20th dist, 3d sect; No 536, 4th dist, lai sect; No
694, 4th dist, Ist sect; No 765, 4th dist, Ist sect;
No 442, sth dist, Ist sect; No 784, 4th dist, Ist
sect; No 332, sth dist, Ist sect; No 656, 4th dist,
Ist sect; No 279,4th dist, Ist sect; No 641, 4th
dist, Ist sect; 165,4th dist, Ist sect; No 362,
4th dist, Ist sect; No 976, J4th dist, Ist sect; No
636, 4th dist, Ist sect; No 263,4th dist, Ist sect;
No 555, 2d dist, 4th sect; No 449, 4th dist, Ist
sect; No 566, 20th dist, 3d sect; No 265, 20th
dist, 3d sect; No 755, Ist dist, 4th sect; No 342,
Ist dist* 4th sect; No 250, 11th dist, Ist sect; No '
306, 2d dist, 4th sect; No 142,11 tii dist, Istsect;
No 170, Ist dist, 4th sect; No SWB, 4th dist, Ist
sect; No 464,15 t dist, 4th sect; No 140, 11th dist,
Ist sect; No 698,20th dist, 3d sect; No 88, 11th
dist, Ist sect; No 302, 3d dist, 4th sect; No 303,
3d dist, 4th sect; No 1002,20th dist, 3d sect; No
i 255, 20th dist, 3d sect; No 288, Ist dist, 4th sect;
i No 301, Ist dist, 4th sect; No 237. Ist dist, 4th
! sect: No 934, 20th dist, 3d sect; and one ’«ot in
i Union county, No not recollected And the fol
lowing Lands in the State of Florida: about 2000
acres, in three tracts, all contiguous, with a first
rate Plantation, of between five and 600 acres
cleared land, now in a high Hate of cultivation,
with every improvement lor convenience or com
fort, with a.good cistern for holding water, spring
and well of water, and lying immediately upon
Lake Jackson, which abounds in the finest fish
in the spring, summer and autumn, and abound
ing with water fowls of the finest kind through
the winter and spring ; 10 miles distant from the
city of Tallahassee, and in an excellent neighbor
hood, and but a few miles from the Ocklockony
river. This tract is ,now capable of affording
comfortable quarters for a large family, having a
good dwelling house, 60 feet front by 44 rear,
with six rooms and two passages on first floor, and
four rooms and passage on second floor, besides,
piazza in front, and good framed negro houses
Also 5000 acres of Land in Cocke county, Ten
nessee, in all of which a great bargain will be
sold. And if the Lands can be sold, 50 Negroes
and Stock of all kinefo will be sold with them, be
sides Corn, Fodder, Blacksmiths’and Plantation
Tools of every description.
August 21 ly WM. A. CARR,