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£nnstitntinnalist fo HtpuhSic. JAMES GARDNER, JR., j > Editors. JAMES M. SMYTHE, ) TERMS. Dailt. per annnm, in a<Jranee $8 00 Tri-WksklY. per annum 5 00 W RKKi.r. per annum, if paid in advance. 2 00 Them* term* are offered to new saWribem, and to old oubacribers who pay up all arrearage*. In no ms* will the Weekly paper be oent at $2, un !•*«* the nnmey aerompaniet the order. In u will it be sent at $2 to au old »üb*cribor in amar*. When the year paid for at $2 expire*, the paper, ' ilno*. dirteontinued. or paid for in ad ranee, will ■J®* On the . M terms, $2 . f »0 if paid at the office within the year, or fci if paid at the expiration of the jear. £7» Po«tafr» must l>e paid on all communication# ana Jwtters• I business. TKRMfI OF ADVERTISING. One *ijaare (12 lines.) 60 cent* the first inaertion. and 3~j cent* for the m-xt 5 insertions, and 25 cent* for each autwquent insertion. Contract. iua<le bj tiie year, or for a 1*«« period, on reason* hit term*. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS Sheriff* Lerion. 30 (1a,., $2 50 per let, ; 60 day*. $5. Executor'*. Administrator',and Guardian'. Sale*, K»al Estate, (per square, 12 lines) $4 75 Do do. Personal Estate S 25 Citation for Letters of Administration 2 73 Do. do. Dismission 4 30 Notice to Debtors and Creditor. 3 25 Four Months' Notice* 4 00 Rule. Nisi, (monthlr) f 1 per square. each insertion. (T7“ ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, iai AT oc* AIK*. Yankee Silsbee in Londo n The following is an extract form a letter writ ten by Y ankee Silsbee, now on a professional tour in England, to the Detroit Daily Adver tiser We roamed with a party of others through the various apartments of the Tower, and our guide, •who was a chatty, talkative little man, frisked about and showed us every object with a deal of gusto. At last he came to the great cannon and ordnance captured from the enemiesjot various natious. “This piece,” said our little guide, with all the pomp of a little Englishman, who never feels so nappy as when boasting of their victories, “this piece is from Waterloo. Lord, how we did beat them there. This is from Badajos; this is from ao and so,” and he ran over the cannon, dilating on the history of each with evident satistaction in every muscle of his countenance. 1 saw he was highly diverted with relating the exploits of his nation, so I thought I would “bring him to anchor” a little, as the sailors say. All at once I looked carefully about me, turned my head every which way, and then looked in quiringly at the guide. “What are you looking for, sir, may I inquire l ” at length said he; we’ve got trophies from all nations,” and he pointed to a number of inter esting specimens with their mouths gaping open like hungry bull-dogs. “Have you, indeed! said I,carelessly, “I was’nt looking for French trophies nor Spanish.” “Perhaps it’s the Chinese!” interrupted he. “No, nor the Chinese,” said I, “but I see you have got so much stulf laying about here, where’s all that was captured from the Americans, eh?” “Ah!” grunted he, looking amazingly blank, “the Americans—yes the Americans—from the Americans you mean!” “Yes," replied I, still looking, “I don’t see any from the United Slates—where is it all—l want to see it?” “Oh, yes! that taken in America—l see—yes.” “Exactly,” repeated I, “I heard you took a good deal at Bunker Hill and Bennington and Trenton and those places.” “So we did,” said lie quickly, “but it was such old stufftliat we died’t care about bringing it hornet Just then a sudden thought struck him; his eyes rolled up, a little blood llew to his cheeks and he evidently “smoked.” He took the queue and backed down. When the company were going out, he leaned over and whispered in my ear that I was a Yankee. “I’m nothing else, sir,” said I, “and as for that obi stulf’you • ook at Yorktown and several other places l might mention, I'll tell them to send it over to you when 1 get home.” To the Public. Post Office Drpaktment, Aug. 1851. It is represented to the Department that the practice of handing letters to the Mail Agents, or depositing them in the drop pouches or boxes ol the cars or steamboats, instead of putting them in tie Post Office, bus increased to such an ex tent that«t is not |Hjs»ible tor the agents to assort mid mail them carefully. Letters are often for ced into the pouches, and many prepayment stamps, such as are not put on with proper care, thus rtiboed oil'. Persons sending oil'letters or papers are there fore advised to place them in the Post ollice in order to secure tneir prompt and safe transmis sion. When tile community is aware that letters forwarded in the manner alluded to are, liable, from the causes mentioned, to delay and loss of stamps placed on them, it is hoped that the prac tice will be discontinued, except in cases of emer gency, and that mail matter will be deposited iu the Post Office liar transmission. The privilege ol putting late letters in the drop pouches, or sending them l>y the mail agents, was intended only lor cases ol exigency, which are few in number, anil not that any considera ble portion ol the uiuil should bo thrown iqioii the travelling agent to assort and arrange for transmission. Should this notice l*o disregarded, and the em barrassment of the mail agents he still continued, it will become necessary to forbid their reception , of any matter except what is regularly received from the Post Office, or at intermediate points 1 on their route, or to instruct them to dejwsite 1 mail matter in the Post Office, when a delay of i twenty-tour hours will necessarily be caused. N. K. HALL, FwhMMßf General. Akolition Outrage in Illinois.—The Cape Girardeau (Mo.) Eagle says : A negro ol Mr. Sherwood, of New Madrid county, ran off not long since, and intelligence was received that he was at Sparta, in Randolph ' county, 111., a little town about twenty mile* back of Chester. Mr. S. sent his son to bring the negro home, but when he arrived near the town, he heard of the rough treatment some other man had received who had gone over on a simi lar business, a short time before, and he conclud ed he would return without making known his errand, lt seems that the owner of the slave ar rested him, had started home, and gone but a few miles, when he was oveitaken by a parcel of white men, who rescued the negro, and then, with the aid of the slave, beat him most cruelly, breaking several of his ribs. They left him lying on the ground and return ed. Mr. Sherwood and a number of others went over some two weeks ago to obtain the negro, but the Abolitionists at Sparta, having heard of the object of their visit, armed themselves, and a large crowd, went out and met the Missiourians a mile or two from town, and threatened to shoot them if they attempted to take the negro away. The Missourians, being too few in numbers to contend with so large a gang of these negro thieves, made no farther efforts to get the negro, but returned home. We understand that Mr. Sherwood intends to apply to the U. S. Marshal of the State to enforce the recent law passed by Congress relative to fugitive slaves. If, in dis charging his duty, he should be resisted by these hypocritical outlaws, we promise he shall have • assistance sufficient to carry out the law to its fullest extent. We understand that there are several negroes belonging to persons in this part ! of Missouri harbored in Sparta and the neighbor- 1 hood by these villains, and efforts should be made c to recover them. t — c We perceive that Messrs. Todd and Russell {of the Anderson Gazette, have disposed of their in terest in that Journal to Messrs. J. W. Harri- * son and F. M. Norris, who will edit it in future, t The politics of the paper remains unchanged, j AUGUSTA, GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 17. THE IN THE STATE. For Governor. , charles j. McDonald. ! DUrrict For Oongre**. 1 I.—JOS. W. JACKSON, of Chatham. 2. HENRY L. BENNING, of Muscogee. 3. DAVTD J. BAILEY, of Butts. A JOHN D. STELL, of Fayette. S—WILLIAM H. STILES, of Case. 6 THOMAS F. JONES, of Newton. 7.— DAVID W. LEWIS, of Hancock. B—ROBERT McMILLAN, of Elbert. Qy Our letter sheet containing a review of the , Augusta market and the crop statements of the New York Shipping List, will be ready for de livery this morning at 9 o’clock. Extra copies | can be had at the office. Election Ticket*. i We are prepared to print election Tickets for [ any county in the Slate, with neatness aud des patch. Price 50 cents for 100—$1 per 1000. I The cash must accompany the order. |The Alberti Case—Gov. McDonald's Letters. We have printed an extra No. of copies con | tainingthe Celebrated Alberti case, Gov. Mc- Donald’s address to the Nashville Convention, his letter of acceptance; letter to the Lumpkin s committee; letter to the Charleston meeting, as [ also his letter in answer to Mr. Cobb's reported - speech at Rome. Circulate the documents—price $1 per hundred. The President's Proclamation and his Consul at Havana. The Diario Je la Marina , of August 30th, pub lished at Havana, gives a circumstantial, yet evi dently distorted, account of the military events of July and August, on the Island of Cuba. It is in the usual boastfiil, inflated and pompous style of Spanish glorification. The burial of General Enna is thus noticed: “The demonstration of general respect, on ac count of General Enna, who died of his wounds, was most intense, and his burial was most dig nified. All the inhabitants of Havana attended it—both the native and foreign residents. Other nations were represented by their Consuls, in cluding that of the American Union.' 1 Here is an officer buried with great pomp and parade, who fell in action while upholding the cause of despotism—a despotism the most merci less, grinding and ferocious which degrades the i age in which wt live—and the American Con ; sul obsequiously swells the pageant. He is there “ with baited breath and whispered humble . ness,” to flatter the arrogant pride of the bloody Concha, whose name will go down linked in ever lasting infamy with that of Haynau, the Aus trian butcher. 1 Under ordinary circumstances, the presence of i the American Consul, at this funeral pageant, would have been but a proper compliment to the , memory of a gallant officer, who fell bravely , fighting in the line of his sworn duty as a sol dier. But it is the contrast afforded by the con | duct of the American Consul, Allen F. Owen, , which provokes a comment. ■ But five days previous, a gallant band of fifty one of his captive countrymen—young, brave t and generous, with hearts beating high tor liber r ty, and impelled by the same lofty motives of ' sympathy for an oppressed jieople which brought LaFayette, and DeKulb and Pulaski, and Mont gomery ami Steuben to these shores in the dark hour of America’s struggle for freedom—are led with arms pinioned through the streets of Ha vana, and brutally butchered, in cold blood, by the arbitrary decree of the merciless Concha. What was their funeral ? After they were butchered, their lifeless bodies, mangled ami mu tilated, are thrown coffinless, ill undistinguished heaps, into rude trenches, strewed with quick lime and hurriedly covered over. And where was the American Consul? Did he step forward as a humane ami generous heart ed man, alive to the sacred appeal contained iu the word “ fellow-countrymen,” should have done, and remonstrated, in the name of the Ameri can jtfojde, and of humanity, against the wanton and worse than useless shedding of the blood of the helpless captives? Did he manfully urge upon the Captain General that merry to these captives would be polity, which he could truth fully have done? No, he did none of these things. He turned coldly away, and left them to the fate to which a sanguinary tyrant had ' doomed them. After the revolting tragedy was over, did he' step forward to protect their lifeless bodies from indignity, and secure for them Christian burial, so that their bereaved relatives could afterwards identify them, and bestow upon them those last sad tributes of affection in which the overburthen ed heart finds some alleviation ? No. Mr. Owen was snugly ensconced in his office, reading President Fillmore's Proclamation, behind which he takes shelter for his selfish and heartless con duct. What are the terms of that Proclamation ? They are worthy a cold blooded Free Soiler, " whose anti-southern prejudices are so strong that he would willingly see Cuba doomed to an eter nity of oppression, rather than see her free at the slightest hazard of her ultimate annexation, as an independent republic, to the American confederacy. They are worthy a supple and zeal ous ally of the bloody Sjiauish tyrant. The Proclamation opens as follow: “ Whereas, there is reason to believe that a ‘ military expedition is about to be fitted out in the 1 United States, with intention to invade the Island of Cuba, a colony of Spain, with which this country is at peace: and whereas it is be lieved that this expedition is instigated and set t on foot chiefly by FOREIGNERS, who dare to J make our shores the scene ot their GUILTY and hostile preparations against a friendly power, and f seek by FALSEHOOD and MISREPRESEN- 1 TATION to seduce our own citizens, especially a the young and inconsiderate, in their WICKED J SCHEMES—an UNGRATEFUL return for 1 the benefits conferred upon them by this people, 1 in permitting them to make our country an asy- J lum from oppression, and in FLAGRANT ‘ ABUSE of the hospitality thus extended to them. “And whereas such expeditions can only be f regarded as adventures for PLUNDER and ROB- . BERY, and must meet the condemnation of the civilized world, whilst they are derogatory to the character of our own statutes, which de clare,” &c. t This Proclamation set forth what was not true 1 as to the motives of the Cuban liberators, and i the character of the erp.xlition. It was an ex- i pedition, ill-timed perhaps, and injudiciously con- 1 ducted, but still honorable in purpose, and sane- ! tified by examples illustrious in the history of freedom’s battles throughout the world. This Proclamation bore date April Sf)th, 1851. This calumniated expedition did not proceed to Cuba until after the ball of revolution had been set in motion at Puerto Principe, July 4th, 185!, and a Declaration of Independence published to the world. After this, the President, instead of pleasuring it at fashionable watering places, should have re called that Proclamation, so untrue in fact and in its ascription of motives, and put forth one in conformity with the true state of the case. i But the sympathy with the tyrannical govern ment was too intimate—the desire to have the expedition overwhelmed by the deepest odium, voo intense. The Proclamation, as it stood, suit : ed the feelings of the President and his advisers, 1 and was acceptable to the Spanish Minister and ' to Concha. It was, therefore, allowed to remain 1 unqualified, and under its bloody sanction, the massacre of our countrymen took place. We find in the New York Herald of the 9th r inst., a letter from its Washington correspondent • of the Bth, in which occurs the following pas . sage: “ I understand there is no intention of remov ing Mr. Owen, the American Consul at Ha vana, unless, after a full investigation, it should - be demanded, he having acted consistently with - the President’s Proclamation.” i, The probabilities are altogether in favor of Mr. i Owen having acted too much in conformity with s the President’s views and feelings to lose his 1 office, or endanger his position as a favorite at : the White House. How different would have been the conduct , of a British Consul as the following anecdote il lustrates. A Canadian paper commenting upon the late summary massacre of Americans in Havana says ! that the impression is prevalent that had a British or French man-of-war been lying in the harbor, as was the United States sloop of war Albany, and had a British or French consul been in the • city, such a wholesale massacre of British or French subjects would not have taken place. It then relates the following anecdote: “In 18804,1 wo English sailors, who had com i mitted a crime in Havana, were about to he shot. ' They were clearly guilty, but the British Con- I sul insisted that they should be tried. This the ' Government refused. The Consul remonstrated, ' and the Captain General became insolent. The hour of execution cair \ and the Consul was on the spot; he brought with him the consular flag, the British “Union Jack,” and again earnestly remonstrated, but in vain. The officer on the plaza was about to proceed in the execution of his duty. The consul finding all further re monstrance useless, placed iiimself in front of the men, unfolded the ITnion Jack, which he threw ! over the kneeling prisoners, and said, “A»u> ihoot ■ at t/uil flag if you dare/” They were remanded r to prison, and that night ejraped.” it is very natural that the most intense indig nation should lie felt by the American people ■ against the present American Consul at Havana, but it it should turn out that he only acted ac f cording to the instructions of His Givernment, much ot the opprobrium will be removed from ’ him. No doubt when Congress assembles an in ! quiry will be made as to whether Consul Owens r had special instructions from the Government to . act as he is reported to have done. Tho Pennsylvania Tragedy. , Fora long term of years the North lias heap ed upon the South insults and wrongs, execra , tions and curses, because of her institution of slavery. Now, we have information, that seve ral citizens from the South, have been brutally I murdered, in endeavoring to recover fugitive slaves in accordance with the laws of the land. They were practicing no violence, but were with the United States Marshal in the legal prosecu tion of his duty. Mr. Gorsueh, a respectable and highly esteem ed citizen, an old and good man, was shot through the heart, and his son was also shot and killed. Their bodies were afterwards beaten with clubs and mutilated. The others, a nephew of Mr. Gorsueh, and a Dr. Pearce, were so badly injured as to make their recovery doubtful. Our opponents are constantly pointing us to the fugitive slave law. We point you, people of Georgia, to the mangled corpses of your fellow citizens of the South. What a scene for Penn sylvania, for our country, for the nineteenth ceu ttlry, in the open day, presented itself to thebe holder on Thursday last, in the town of Chris tiana, Pennsylvania. Hell itself could scarcely turn loose such a set of fiends, as those blacks and whites are, who committed the.danming outrage of Which we are treating. We have been fearing just such a result as this. We have repeatedly told our readers, that the fa naticism of the North was blind with rage and ferocity. It is a monster whose ilower can no longer be despised. Several attempts were formerly made, in other cases to kill the agents who sought to recover fu gitive slaves for their owners, but fortunately they escaped. How many owners of fugitive slaves will go after them, or how many agents will undertake to go after them, in view of this horrible tragedy. Between the enormous cost of recovering them, and the personal danger attend ing it, the law will be, hereafter, a perfectly dead letter. Such is the compromise which some of our opponents tell the people is fair, liberal and just. We have lost all the territory and got a fugitive slave law, the recovery, under which of our slaves, costs us more than they are worth, and the blood of our people besides. Unfortunate, murdered, mangled sitizens of Maryland ! Their blood rises from the ground and calls for vengeance. It does more, it tells 1 you, people of Georgia and the South, what your ! fate will be, should you be dependent upon the 1 justice or the mercy of the North on this slavery 1 question. “He” (Mr Toombs) “said in his speeches all t over the country, in 1848, that if those laws” 1 (the Mexican) “were not repealed we must fight.” — Constitutionalist, 20/A inst. * We take issue with the Constittitionalist on the 1 point of fact. We challenge it to the produc tion ot the speech of Mr. Toombs in which such i a declaration was made, or of a man, woman or j child, who will depose, upon honor, that they heard such a sentiment from Mr. Toombs in 1 1848, or at any other time. We need none of < vour arguments: you have made the statement, bring forward your authority to prove it.— Washington Gazelle. My attention was called to the above para graph some time after its publication, and even < at this late period, I shall take a brief notice of it. ' On their return from Congress, in 1848, Messrs. \ Toombs and Stephens were invited to address ) the people of Richmond county at the City Hall. 1 They did so the night they reached Augusta. I» 1 was a short time before, that Mr. Stephens, J and a few other Whigs, had defeated the Clay- - ton Compromise Bill. 1 Mr. Toombs, in his speech at the City Hall, i •n the occasion referred to, justified Mr. Ste phens’s vote against the aforesaid Bill upon the grounds, that it left the Mexican anti-slavery laws in full force in the newly acquired territo ries, and subjected the rights of slave holders of the South, to hold their slaves as property there, to a test in the courts of the territories, and the Su- ! preme Court of the United States. Mr. Toombs insisted at much length, and with great earnestness, that slave holders would be excluded till those laws were repealed. At the conclusion of the speech, I understood him to ' say in substance, “Do you ask me what we shall do if those laws are not repealed ? I say I we must fight.” I have had an opportunity of seeing but few j who were at that meeting. It is difficult to as ; certain who were present. The assembly con -1 sifted almost entirely of Mr. Toombs's political friends, and I have, I think very properly, felt a delicacy in calling upon those who are in politi cal fellowship with him, to certify to their recol lection of what he said. I have not been able to ascertain the names of but two or three op posed to him in politics who were present. I append the certificate of John C. Snead, Esq., which sustains my recollection of what Mr. Toombs said. JAMES M. SMTTHE. AUGUSTA, Sept. 16tb, 1851. James M. Smytiie, Esq.: Hear Sir. —You ask me to state my recollection, of what the Hon. Robt. Toombs said the South should do, if not admitted to an equal partici pation in the Mexican territory, in a speech made by him at the City Hall, in this place, in the fall of 1818, on the return of himself and Mr. Ste phens, from Washington City, shortly after the defeat of the Clayton Compromise. I was present and heard both of the gentle men ; and Mr. Toombs, about the close of his ad dress, having justified Mr. Stephens in the course pursued by him in relation to the Clayton Com promise, said : “You ask me, what we shall do, if those anti-slavery laws are not repealed, and the South admitted to an equal participation in that territory ? I say we must fight.” These may not have been the precise words used by Mr. Toombs, but they were to that pur port. I am, yours, &c., JOHN C. SNEAD. Georgia Home Gazette. It will be seen, by a card in another column, that the publication of this new Literary and Family Journal has been unexpectedly delayed f by the non-reception of type and other material!. I We understand, however, that the first number of the paper will appear at the earliest possible ■ moment. We are pleased fo learn that the enterprise i 3 ; meeting with gratifying success. The Southern , people need papers of this character. The “ Ga -1 zrtte,” we doubt not, will be worthy of the ’ most generous patronage. It will lie a Journal , of the larger class, printed upon paper of the finest quality, and containing more reading mat ter than the Home Journal of New York. It should receive the fostering support of every one, who desires to see the intellectual resources of the r South developed and who feels a just pride in every token of her progress. We have heretofore, on several occasions, ex pressed our confidence in the ability and compe tency of Major Whyte for the conduct of the Gazette. As an advertising medium, the ‘•Ga zette- ’ presents considerable inducements. The first issue of the paper, it is confidently believed, will be from 2000 to 2500 copies. Received and read also in families , its contents will come un der the eyes of many who seldom scan closely a political sheet. The advantages presented to ad vertisers by a paper of this description should not be overlooked. The regular publication day, we understand, will be Monday. This, to city subscribers, will be a decided gain. No daily papers are issued in the city oh that morning, and there is conse quently a blank which the Gazette will most pleasantly fill. Those of our citizens, who de sire to sustain the enterprise, will find lists of subscribers at each of out Book Stores. The Sacrifice of Judge Berrien. Judge Berrien is among the victims offered up to that intolerant spirit which rides the Consti tutional Union party, and demands that every memberofthat political church shall bow down at the feet of its high Priests, Cobb, Toombs and Stephens, and with their hands on their mouths and their mouths in the dust exclaim, verily the Compromise measures were a great triumph for the South! They were wise, liueral and just! It has not been sufllcitr.it that men should de clare a willingness to conform to the action of the Georgia Convention. If they dare to differ in opinion as to the wisdom, justice and liberali ty of those measures with their anointed leaders— if they hesitate to sustain the nomination of a can. didate for Governor, made by wire-pulling, fede ral politicians at Washington City, and carried through the forms of ratification in a Convention at Milledgeville, they are compelled to walk the plank. It is probable that the triumvirate, Cobb, Toombs and Stephens, were not content that Judge Berrien should swallow the Compromise, but they insisted that he should do it without making any wry faces. Though his Southern stomach should revolt at the dose, they require of him to pronounce it sweet and excellent. Re fusing to do this, he is to be pitched headlong off the Georgia Platform, and Mr. Stephens clothed with his Senatorial robes. Even Mr. Jenkins, the boss carpenter among those who constructed that platform, is pushed off likewise, from his high seat upon it, as he might interfere with the division of the spoils planned at Washington city. The following letter from Mr. Jenkins, which appears in the Chronicle of yesterday, gives some indication of his views of the justice of the pro ceeding. To his own fate he submits with the composure of a philosopher, and the forgiving piritofa Christian. ( From the Chronicle Sentinel of yesterday.) ' Dr. Jones:— Will you permit me, through the 1 columns of your paper, to correct an erroneous impression concerning myself, which I have rea son to fear obtains to a greater or less extent. Rumors have reached me, inducing the appre hension, that I may be understood to concur in • the resolutions adopted by the Union Nominat ing Convention of Richmond County, which I , first saw in a neighboring State, on my home ward journey, after an absence of several weeks. That, l know, neither is, nor will be understood ! here. But, where I had been previously report- j ; ed. opposed the re-election of Senator Berrien, ! to whom those resolutions refer, and where it is unknown that my name was before that Con vention, with my consent, accompanied by the distinct declaration that if nominated, and elect ed, I should most certainly vote for that Gentle man. such a concurrence may, and probably will be inferred. Without any expectation of in fluencing the opinion of any human being, but to avoid the appearance of vacillation, I desire to repeat what 1 have recently expressed to a lriend. on that subject, substantially coinciding with remarks repeatedly made by me during the summer. After alluding to Mr. Berrien's dec laration in the Senate of the United States, on the occasion of calling the attention of that Body to the proceedings of the Georgia Conven tion, in erifect,that they indicated the settled pur pose of her people, to which he would conform his action as their Representative. I added: “l know well his attachment to the Union. I know the cincerity with which that declaration was made, and l temsider him as good a Union man , and at safe a representative, of that party, as any in its ranks.'’ Such is still my abiding conviction, without which, mere personal attachment could not have induced the declaration made to the Convention, through a friend. I have only to ask, that you will indulge me further in the remark, (unnecessary I hope) that I have no personal grief connected with this nomination—no sense of unkidness done me, or of distrust manifested towards me, by political friends, with whom, in all else, I have been, and am thoroughly identified. There was fair deal ing on both sides,developing a conflict of opinion, and theirs was entitled to prevail in the nomi nation. Respectfully, &c. Charles J. Jenkins. Cobb, Toombs and Stephens. It is singular to see how these gentlemen have got together after abusing one another for so ’ long a time. But it is a clear case that they car ry their parts very well, in the tunc of Yankee Doorile, considering the discord of their notes be fore they got together behind the masked battery Cobb did his best to sink Toombs and Stephens down, and Toombs and Stephens did their best to sink Cobb down. Cobb charged them with doing the South immense harm upon the slave ry question, and they made a similar charge against Cobb, and out of sixty-three chances, they had to vote for him for speaker, they refused to give him a single vote. Stephens and Toombs found that they were going down with the Whigs, for sustaining the Mexican anti-slavery laws, and other misdeeds, and Cobb found that he was going down with the Democrats for playing into the hands of Northern abolitionists. Hence, they concluded, that if they could unite a majority of the Whigs , and a minority of the Democrats under the “ cry 1 of Union,” they might sustain themselves and get ! the loaves and Ashes. They immediately set to work, and by the ' help of Fillmore, Webster, and perhaps one or two 1 others, soon learned the tune of Yankee Doodle which they are singing every where with a ! mock pathos, that a great many people take for > genuine feeling and sentiment. There is a note called mi in Italian which these gentlemen pro nounce me. W T ith them it is the leading note. — I And if singing it can lead Mr. Cobb into the ' Vice Presidency, Mr. Toombs into an Embassy to France and Mr. Stephens into the Senatorial seat now occupied by Judge Berrien, it will be of some advantage to them to sing it. They are not scrupulous about metre. There are long, short and particular metre. The last is their favorite, as they are fond of a personal applica tion. The coalition of Cobb, Stephens and Toombs is a complete Yankee Doodle rase, and the song which they sing has much more of me iu it than any thing else. Me comes first, and country last. The latter is held up only as a guise to sustain the former. Hurrah for Messrs. Stephens, Toombs and Cobb the glorious Union at all hazards and to the last extremity—and the masked battery that universal white-washer of every political sinner. The Alberti Case Again. We shall dismiss the Chronicle's article of the 14th inst., upon this subject, with a few words. We do not believe that the report sent to Mr. Mil ler, which it published, is a fair report, notwith standing that (taper vouches for the good char acter of the Messrs. Johnsons, Book-sellers of Philadelphia. The Chronicle intimates that as the report we. published was “ for the benefit of Alberti's fami ly, it must necessarily be a one sided affair. Not so. It was published to show the wrongs which had been done that old man, to secure his family from the disgrace which would attatch to them, hut for the injustice which had been done their head, to excite a helping sympathy for him in his unjust and cruel fate. Dili the report sent to Mr. Miller and published iu the Chronicle tell the fact that Alberti had, in the presence of the counsej and Alderman, requested Betsey, the mother of Joel, whom Alberti was charged with and con victed for kind napping, to leave Joel behitul, and that the Alderman gave her the same advice, but that she refused to follow it. Does that report tell that a free ncgroc and a ! convict of the Penitentiary were the witnesses I against Alberti and Price ? Does it inform us j that the said convict was pardoned by the free . soil Governor of Pennsylvania the day before the] trial, that he might a (.pear as a witness against them ? Does it inform us of the rejection of tes timony in favor ol these men by Judge Parsons, in the most cruel and arbitrary manner? Does it tell us of the unfairness and arbitrary cruelty an.ltryanny of Judge Parsons, throughout the whole trial? No, not a word of all this. One would suppose from the report in the Chronicle that the witnesses against Alberti and Price were respectable men, instead of bein g as they were a lying free negroe, and a thief, a con- j vict of ti e Penitentiary, who had been severe l times found guilty of larceny. Respectable citizens s were that they would not believe him upon his oath. Why has no one in Pennsylvania denied the report, as originally published in defence of Al berti ? Why has not Judgo Parsons who was so deeply implicated in Judicial villainy by that report, contradict it before this ? We do not doubt that the reports of cases which came under the jurisdiction and decision of that corrupt and bloody minded Judge, the celebrated Lord Jeffrys, were apparently so fair, as would have satisfied every one who was ! unacquainted with the facts, and did not know Judge Jeffrys, that he was a pure and honest Judge, whose ermine was unstained and sacred. , Judge Parsons will take his place among ty- I rants and bloody minded abolitionists in. all fu- 1 ture time. And his apologists in Georgia will, , sooner or later, be overtaken by the vengeance of j a wronged and injured people. j i The Southern Quarterly Retiew.—The July number of this excellent Review is upon our table. Its contents are as usual of much in terestand valuable. This review is published by Messrs. Walker & Richards, at Charleston, S. C. Terms $5 per annum in advance. Southern Literary Messenger. —The Sep tember number of this Monthly has been received. We are pleased always to receive it and read its useful and entertaining pages. The Literary Messenger is published at Rich mond, \ a., by Jno. R. Thompson, Editor and Proprietor. 1 erms 5 per annum in advance. The Georgia University Magazine. We have received the first number of this Monthly published in Athens, Ga., under the patronage of the Senior class of Franklin College. The Editors are E. W. Abrahams, Y. J. An derson, J. S. Cothran, J. R. Repsess and L. W. Hayes. They appear in a modest and appro priate salutatory. We wish them much success in their new enterprise. Terms $1 a volume, $2,00 a year, in advance. Single copies 2-5 cents. Address the Editors, G. U. M., Athens, Ga. Election In Arkansas. An election took place, last month, in Arkan sas, for a member of Congress, which resulted in the election of Col. R. W. Johnson, by a majori ty of 3064 votes. Arkansas being entitled to but one representative, this was a general election throughout the state, and may therefore be con sidered thejvoice of Arkansas in condemnation of the compromise measures. We copy the follow ing fiomthe little Rock Gazette and Democrat. The Result of the Election. —The election of Col. Johnson we regard as a triumph of South ern Rights over pseudo Unionism, by a majority decided enough to indicate unmistakcably the voice of Arkansas as to her own rights, and the rights of her sister Southern States. Such a de cision, in the light of sober reason, and without any of the extrinsic clap-traps of highsounding catch-words, cannot but be regarded as more fa vorable to the maintenance of the constitution and of the Union, to which it gives vitality and vigor, than the election of a candidate who holds to the doctrine that the South has got all by the late compromise that she ought to ask or desire. The sanction of this latter doctrine we have ever regarded as the most dangerous and destructive policy for undermining aud finally destroying our institutions, by encouraging that sectional policy in the North, whose whole history and tendency is to consolidate the Federal government against the peculiar institution of the South. Such a consolidation must eventually destroy this gov ernment. It is the evil principle in the Federal system against which every Republican and pa triot ought ever and continually to war. Nor are wc wanting in Confidence that the success ful candidate will carry out in good faith the poli cy indicated by him in his speeches throughout the canvass. But it is noteworthy just here that the issues in the canvass before the people were confined to a discussion of these measures, and if the result of the election is the index of that canvass, (as cannot be denied.) we are sor jry to see a disposition manifested to claim per ; tonal triumph for Col. Johnson over Senator Bor- I land, with whom there have heretofore existed, ! unfortunately for harmony, differences of a per -1 sonal nature, and in regard to local legislation in Congress. These differences Senator Borland proposed to discuss before the people during the late canvass, in such a spirit as was due to their ! common constituents and their position, and to I his action in the premises. He, however, quick ly postponed this discussion, in consequence of a mutual agreement between himself and Col. Johnson, until after the election, when, if then I deemed necessary, it could be resumed. Sickness and Death at Sea.— A brig was discovered on the Bth inst, off the Passes, drift ing about. One ol the towboats went to her as sistance, and found her to be the brig Orizaba, Capjt. Hines,ot Bath, Me., from Navy Bay, bound to Belize. Honduras, for a load of logwood. On bearding herthey found the captain, (Hines.) ; the chief mate and two of the crew dead, and the remainder of the crew sick with Chagrcs fever. The brig had been drifting about for eleven days previous to her being discovered. Capt. Bruchwopd, ol the revenue cutter, placed Lieut. Sands anti three men on board, who I brought her up to the Point, where she is at anchor. The sick crew have been taken to the Marine Hospital.— N. O. Picayune, 1 Uh inst. Mr. T. C. Charles, clerk of the steamer Em ; peror, informs as that on the sth inst, a mur der was perpetrated at Oakland College, Port Gibson, Miss., by one Geo. A. Briscoe, on the person of the reverend and venerable Jeremiah Chamberlin, President of the College. It ap pears that Briscoe went to the college, called for Mr. C., who came out, when Briscoe inflicted upon him a mortal stab with a sword cane. The murderer was hotly pursued and was found the next morning on the public road, having cut his ! own throat from ear to ear. The difficulty arose ! in political excitement now existing in that : State.— lb. j Sleam Propeller John Hancock.— The : United States Steam John Hancock, ! from New York, reached Savannah yesterday. The following is the list of her officers. Lieut. Commanding, J. W. Livingston; Lieut.. J. R. M. Mullany; Acting Master, L. Pattison; Past Assistant Surgeon L. J. Williams; Past Mid shipmen W. C. West, Geo. H. Hare; 2d Assis tant Engineer E. He Lace; 3d do. do. C. Loring. We learn that the steamer put into our port for orders from Washington. —Savannah Geor gian, 16th inst. [Telegraphedfor the Charleston Courier.) New-Orleans, Sept. 15 — 8.21 p. m. Twelve hundred bales of Cotton have been i disposed of to-Jay, but the market has been , heavy in consequence of the tenor of the advices brought by the Pacific. Middling is worth B|c. j Flour is down; St. Louis is quoted at from $3 ! G2i to S 3 75. Corn is firm, and Yellow com mands 48, and White 55 cents. The ship Mount Vernon {has cleared for N. York. Comtmbta, Sept. 15, 7.25 P. M. The demand for Cotton to-day was active, ' and prices in favor of sellers. Fifty bales were sold at from 7J to 9i cents. [Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.] Key West, Sept. 7. On the evening of the 31st nit. about thirty persons, principally seamen, attacked the stores of Messrs. Ramon Preeno, Padro Aberti, Jos. Vehill, Bartolo Sintes, and Albert Arnow, Span ish residents of Key West, and destroyed the whole contents of the stores. One of the party, Ramon Presno, who was charged with holding correspondence with the Officials of Cuba, fled from Key West in a Spanish smack for Havana previous to the riot; the others were charged with being opposed to the Cuban Expedition. The Sloop-of-war Albany, Commander Platt, arrived here yesterday from Havana. Nothing new — all quiet since the execution of General Popez.