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I.EOAL ADVERTISEMENTS Sheriff's levies, 30 days, $2 50 per levy ; 00 days. $5. Executor’s. Administrator's and Gnanlian's Sales, Heal Eatate, (per square, 12 lines) $4 75 Do. do. Personal Estate. 3 25 Citation for Letters of Administration 2 75 Do. do. Dismission 4 50 Notice to Debtors nnd Creditors 3 25 Four Months' Notices 4 00 Rules Nisi, (monthly) $1 per square, each insertion. jey ALL REMITTANCES PER .MAIL, Aia at oca Risa. [ From the New York Herald , Sept. 13.] FIVE DAYS LATER FROM CUBA. ARRIVAL or LIA)T. VAN VKCUTXN IN THE WlN fflrißl.D SCOTT. Highly Inlr reel inf Narrative of the Cuba Ex/iedi lion, by Lieut. Van Vechte n, Ipc. The steamship Winfield Scott, Capt. Coulliard, arrived at this port yesterday atternoon. She .left New Orleans at nine o’clock, A. M., on the 6th instant, and stopped off Key West on the Bth. She was six days and five hours in mak ing the passage. The Winfield Scott took on board, off Key West, Mr. PhilipS. Van Vechten, who was a Lieutenant in the Cuban expedition, under Gen. Lopez. Mr. Van Vechten was released lrom prison, and pardoned through the intercession of Captain Platt, of the United States sloop Alba ny. He was one of those who went from New Orleans, in the steamer Pampero. There are one hundred and sixty in prison at Havana, who will he sent to Spain. The United States sloop Albany brought Mr. Van Vechten over to Key West. We have received a complete history of the expedition from Mr. Van V., which we pub lish. We are indebted to the kindness of a gentle man of this city, for the following letter from on board of the Albany:— U. S. Ship Aluany, I Key West, Fla., Sept. 8,1881. ) The Winfield Srott passes here to-day, and by her I send you intelligence of the release of Col. Hayncß and Capt. Kelly, who were captured in the late Cuban expedition. They were released by the Captain General, Concha, upon their promise to proceed to New York, ami tell the truth in regard to the landing of Lopez, their capture, and treatment. It was the Captain General’s intention that they should have gone on in the Empire City, on September Ist, but by some accident, ti.ey did not get on board. They were to hnve sailed on Saturday, in the ship Norma, for New York, nnd I presume did so. Mr. Van Vechten, of Albany, was also released, at the rei|uest of Captain Plait, and he was as sured by the Captain General, that the lives of the other prisoners were safe. They are in num ber 1(10; all that survive of the 430 that landed on the 11th, under Lopez. Com. Parker, in the (lag ship Saranac, went into Havana on the niiirninjii of flu* Afch We sail for there to-mor row al) dayligiit. **##. Annexed is the narrative ofLicut. Van Vech ten ; it is highly interesting:— Tho Statement of Lient. Van Vochten. On Board Steam Ship Winfield Scott, ) September 11, 1851. J James G. Bennett, Es<| : Dear Sir: —Having been connected with the late unfortunate expedition against Cuba, under the command of General Naroiso Lopez, ami al lowed to return in safety to my home and triends, I feel it to be a duty which 1 owe to the friends of my unfortunate comrades, and the public at lurge, to publish, through the columns of your valuable and widely circulating paper, a true ac count o( the proceedings of that exjiedition, cor recting, as far as possible, the false reports which, for the last month, have been in circulation throughout the United States, and endeavoring to do just ice to all. I became connected with the expedition at New Orleans, receiving, on the 30th day of July last, an appointment as First Lieutenant of Com pany B, of Colonel W. L. Crittenden’* regiment, (Ist Artillery,) commanded by Captain James Sanders. The expedition, as you are already aware, left New Orleans at daybreak, on the inofniug of Sunday, the 3d of August, in the steamer Pampero. We were towed to the mouth of the river, our engine being out of order. Wc remained in the river until Wednesday, the 6th, and left through the North-cast Puss, at five o’clock, P. M. of that day, for Key West. The intention at the time was to go to Key West, and there take on board a pilot for the river St. Johns—ut which place we were to embark a light battery of artillery, with caissons, ammu nition ami harness complete, together with a number of cavalry saddles—and from thence were to run to the South side of Cuba, and land as near as possible to Puerto Principe. We reached K6y West, and anchored some distance from the city, at about three P. M. of Saturday, the 10th instant. While at Key West a quantity of brandy and champagne was receiv ed on board, which was imbibpd tolerably freely by Lopez and his staff. About dusk of that day, no pilot appearing, Lopez called a council, com posed entirely of the Cubans and Hungarians attached to his staff, (no Americans being call ed,) who decided to give up going to the St. John's river, and run immediately lor the coast of Cuba, which was done at 10, P. M. The next morning, owing to the variation of the con pass from muskets being stacked near it, we found ourselves in plain sight of the Moro Castle, and about twelve miles distant. The vessel was immediately headed to the northward and westward, and run out of sight of land. About a 3 P. M. of that day, Lopez took the captain and . mate out of a Spanish schooner to act .is pilots, jgiving them to understand that they would be fiiot if they showed any disposition to escape or deceive. At IP.M. we again stood in for land, arid soon after dusk sent in a boat to reconnoitre, which was hailed by a sentry on the walls of the tort, situated near Bahia Honda, the ship not being more than a mile from it. As soon as the boat reported, lights were extinguished and a press of steam put on, the ship running to the westward along the land. About 10 o’clock, while running ander charge of a pilot, under a pres* of steam, the ship suddenly struck, and be fore the engines could De stopped had run more than her length upon a coral reef. After examin ing her situation, it was found that she was ly ing in about eight feet of water, while her draft was over nine feet: and that it was necessary that the force should be immediately landed, which was done; and about two o’clock on the morning of the 12th of August the last of us disembarked upon the shore of what we had been taught to consider would soon be the free Island of Cuba. The first boats which landed were fired opon by a party of twenty men, who fled on their fire being returned from the boat which contained Capt. Gouti, (a Cuban com manding an American company.) Lieutenant Laningham, and about thirty privates of his company. OneofGouti’s men was wounded in the arm, and returned in the ship, and the cap of the Lieutenat was cut into halves on his head. At daylight Lopez sent a jjronuncimento to Los Pozas, a small village ten miles distant, in : which he informed the inhabitants that he was , about to march to that place, and would give no quarter to any whom he found there who did not join him. There being no means of transport ing baggage at Cabanss. where we landed, Lo pez ordered Colonel Crittenden to remain there and protect our stores, consisting of 100,000 musket cartridges, three thousand muskets and seven hundred pounds of powder, in bags, togeth er with the personal baggage of all the officers, saying that fie would march on to Los Pazas, with the regiment of Infantry, commanded by Colonel Downman. and send from thence trans portation, and t hat he would remain there until joined by Crittenden. Accordingly Lopez marched at 8 o’clock, with three hundred and twenty-three men,leaving Crittenden at Cabanos with one hundred and thirty men. At 11 o'clock that night Crittenden received two carts, and started immediately after to join Lopez at Los Pazas. The carts being heavily loaded, and the roads bad, our progress was of necessity slow, not ad vancing more than a mile an hour. About two hours after daylight, on the morning of the 13th, we reached a house containing a store and grog shop, about four miles from Los Pozas, The ad vance guard and main body only had reached the house, (the rear guard with the carts being still some quarter of a mile behind,) and were engaged in eating breakfast, their arms being laid aside, when they were surprised by the report of muskety, and the whistling of bullets, which proceeded from the advance guard of a body of the enemy, five hundred strong. We immediate ly seized our guns and killed nine of the enemy, and made one prisoner, none of our party having been injured. Not seeing any more of the ene my, the Colonel concluded it was but a forag ing party that had attacked us, and our rear guard having come up with the carts, ordered us to re sume our breakfast, which wedid. About ten minutes after, we were again attacked by the whole force of the enemy, they having advan tage of the position, being posted on the brow of a hill overlooking our position, with a belt of chapparal, some three hundred yards wide inter vening, over which we could not fire. Critten den immediately gave the order to charge, lead ing himself, and lorced the enemy to retreat to a large bixly or chapparal, some seventy-five or eighty yards in the rear of their first position, from which they opened a heavy fire upon our force as soon as it appeared in sight on the brow of the hill. Finding he could not maintain that position, Crittenden gave an order to retreat to the house, which was done, while the enemy re sumed his position on the hill, and again opened his fire; upon which Crittednen ordered a second charge, at the same time saying that he wished a small party to attain a position at the right flank of the enemy, to charge from that side at the same moment he charged from the front; second Lieutenant W. H. Crafts, (also of company ft) and myself volunteered, and succeeded in attain ing the position with twenty men. After re maining in it for atiout half an hour, and hear ing nothing of Crittenden, we returned to the house, where wc found Captain Kelly, of Cotn nany A, with ten men, guarding the carts, hut could hear or see nothing of Crittenden. The enemy soon after advancing towards the house, we were complied to retreat, leaving our bag gage and stores; and that night or rather the next morning, we succeeded in forming a junction with liopez at Los Pazas, half an hour before iiis march from that place. At the same hour that Crittenden was attacked at the hacienda, a body of the enemy, eight hundred strong, under Gen eral Enna, attacked Lopez at Los Posas. After a hard fight over two hours the enemy retreat ed, leaving the Americans masters of the field, and over two hundred of their number (among whom were several of their highest officers) dead and wounded—the American loss being, in killed, wounded, and missing, only about thirty men, among whom Colonel Downman and Lieut. Labuzan were killed, and General Paragay and Captains Brigham and Goull were mortally wounded. After the action,the Spanish wound ed were brought in, and ns well taken care of as circumstances would admit. Lopez rode entire ly unarmed over the field, through the hottest of the fire, occasionally applying a red raw hide, with a great deal of vigor, to the shoulders of such men as he thought could be hurried into firing a little faster. On the morning of the 14 th, at 2 o’clock, Lopez marched from Los Pozas into the mountains, leaving there seventeen wounded Spaniards and thirteen of our side, all of whom were bayoneted by the Spaniards, and their bo dies piled in a heap, cross-ways, at the foot of a i hill. Two days after, (on the 10th.) Lopez was again attacked by three hundred lancers ami six hundred infantry, while encamped at a hacienda which formerly belonged to himself, but was : confiscated some three years since. Here the action lasted from 11 to 2 o’clock, on one of the hottest days I ever experienced. The enemy were again compelled to retract, with a loss of three hundred and twenty men, and at the same moment that the retreat of the Spaniards in one direction was reported to Lopez, he issued an order to his own force to retreat in the opposite, and actually, that day, made a forced march of eighteen miles in five hours, over a muuntain road. On the 19th, being still on the mountains, we were overtaken by a severe rain storm, which destroyed the greater portion of our am munition, and rendered our guns entirely usoloss. We encamped, on the evening of that day, at a rancho at the foot of the mountain, about two leagues,from Bahia Honda. We remained un disturbed that night, and were attacked, just at breakfast time on the morning of tho 29th, being taken by surpri e, the sentry on the outpost hav ing left his post to wash himself in a creek, where he was killed. Owing to the unservicea ble condition of their arms, the force under Lo pez was completely routed, flying to the moun tains in all directions—Lopez himself barely es caping on horseback, with the loss of his saddle, pistols, ami spyglass—of every thing, in fact, hut what he wore. That night he encamped on the top of one of the highest mountains on the island of Cuba, exposed to all the violence of a terrific norther, without neither shelter, lire, or food. It is impossible for me to describe the suffer ings of that night. Heaven forbid that I ever pass such another. The rain fell in torrents, while ever and anon a terrific crash would an nounce that some massive tree had fallen either before the force oi the wind, or the still mightier lightning. That night equalled an ordinary life time. On the evening of the 21st, having been 48 hours without eating, we killed a horse, which was divided among one hundred and twenty five men, who were all that now remained with Lopez. We wandered through mountains, unable to extricate ourselves, subsisting on such leaves and roots as we could find, until mid-day of Sun day, the 24th, when we succeeded in reaching a road running from Bahia Honda to Sau Cristo bal, along which we advanced until nearly night, when two Spanish lancers were discovered ad vancing, but fled on seeing us. A halt was im mediately ordered, and an examination made of the state of our forees, which showed a total of one hundred and twenty-five men, eighty mus kets, about twenty of which were serviceable, and about forty dry cartridges. Under this state of affairs, it was deemed advisable to retreut, which was ordered, and a pursuit commenced by the enemy, wholay in ambush some few hundred yards in advance, with a force of nine hundred men. On the approach of the enemy, the whole force of Lopez separated into small bodies, and dispersed through the mountains, throwing away their guns and every thing which could encum ber them in their flight—seven men only remain ing with the General. A large number were overtaken and immediately killed. I myself, was one of a party of eight who had previously determined on leaving Lopez, and attempting to escape from the island. We remained in the mountains until the morn ing of Tuesday, the twenty-sixth, when, having had but one meal in six days, and feeling that we could bear it no longer, we determined to go into the plains, considering that it would be bet ter to be killed outright than die a lingering death from starvation, which we certainly would do in the mountains. We accordingly advanced to a house where we were treated with a great deal of kindness, and received a most excellent breakfast. An ar rangement was made to procure a guide to the south shore, with provisions, &c., and we were about to leave and conceal ourselves until night, when, in the twinkling of an eye, we were sur rounded by two hundred armed countrymen, who immediately bound us securely, and inverted our pockets; considering the contents lawful plunder. That day we reached San Cristobal. Until we reached San Cristobal, we were under the im pression that we were to be immediately shot, our only consolation being that we were to die with full stomachs. On our arrival there, we were informed that a proclamation had been issued ten hours before our arrest, sparing the lives of all fillebustcrot who were made prisoners, or give themselves up, within four days, except the traitor Lopez, after which, an order, dated, I think, the 24th of April, 1800, (by which all foreigners found in the island were ordered to be put to death,) was to continue in full force. On the 28th, there being then forty-seven prisoners we, left San Cristobal for Havana; and on Friday night reached Guayamas, the terminus of a rail road from Havana. There an order was received from the Captain General to proceed to Mariel, and embark, he being fear ful that the prisoners would be torn to pieces by the rabble at Havana. We reached Mariel on the evening of the 30th, and were embarked upon the steamer Almendares, to proceed to Havana, when an express arrived, bringing informatioaof the capture of Lopez, and the steamer was de layed to await his arrival, which took place at two o’clock, P. M., on Sunday, the 31st., when we immediately left for Havana. Lopez was entirely at liberty, and smoked his cigaretto with as much unconcern as he ever did in his life. Outside of the harbor of Mariel, Lopez was trans ferred to the steam frigate I’izarro, which con veyed him to Havana, and which he did not leave until he lelt next morning for the place of execution. The remainder of us were confined that night, in the City Prison, in the rear of the fort called the Ponta. The prisoners passed through a re gular process, their hair being first cut close to their heads. They then passed into the hands of another barber, who deprived them of their whis kers; then, another provided them with a prison uniform, and the exercises were terminated by a big negro, who securely fastened them in pairs by a chain, similar in size and weight to a long chain, firmly secured to the ancle. At the time of my release from prison, which was at 10 o'clock on the night of the 4th inst., there were 160 of our force prisoners. They were all chained, and confined in one large room hardly large enough, however, for all to lie down at once. They were treated very kindly, and allowed all the privileges that could bo expected. As a matter of courso, where so many men are confined in a limited spare, and not allowed to leave it under any circumstances, it naturally follows that it must he very unpleasant. Their sentence is ten years’ hard labor in Spain, pro bably in the construction of a canal. They all appeared to be ill good spirits at the time I left, being under the impression that they would soon be released after their arrival in Spain. Lopez was brought from the Pizarro, and pub licly garrotted in the square adjoining the prison, at seven o’clock on the morning of Monday, the Ist of Sept. With him ended not only this ex pedition, but I sincerely trust all expeditions to Cuba. Up to the time 1 left, the Spaniards could ac count for two hundred and seventy-one Ameri cans—including Crittenden’s command—whom they had killed, that is, in action; wounded men who were left on the field, and sick and fatigued men who gave out on the march, and were left behind and men whom they hunted down in the mountains with dogs. Those, with the one hundred and sixty taken prisoners, make a total of four hundred and thirty one men accounted for—leaving a balance ol tvVcuty-two men whose fate is yet unknown—the total forco landed be ing lour hundred and fifty-three men. Os these twenty-two, probably the greater portion are yet alive anil in the mountains; and as the troops . have all been recalled to Havana, it is probable some of them may yet succeed in getting home. 1 Out of the whole number made prisoners, but | two others besides myself have been pardoned Those are Col. Haynes and Capt. Kelly, whom the Captain General pardoned, and sent home, unsolicited. They were to leave Havana for this port in the pucket ship Norma, on Friday. My own release was granted as a special favos to Capt. Chase. T. Platt, of the United State ship Albany, oil board of which I was conveyed |by an aid of the Captain General, at 11 o’clock | on Wednesday night, the shipjproeeeding to sea | immediately. His Excellency sent a govern ment tow boat and pilot to take her out. Lopez was caught with bloodhounds, in the mountains, on the morning of Friday, the 29th inst. The dogs being some distance in advance of the men, bit him badly in the left leg. There were seventeen countrymen in the party who captured him, each of whom was publicly pre sented with *I,OOO ami a cross of honor, jroroe* diatcly after his execution. Let us now review the causes and results of this expedition. At the time I received my ap pointment from Mr. Sigur, one of the editors of tho New Orleans Delta, I was told by him that a rovolt was regularly organized among the creoles throughout the Island of Cuba; that they hi. 4 elected General Lopez as their leader, and their obeject was to free Cuba from the tyranny of Spain, and either form a republic of their own, or annex the island to the U. States. He told me that Lopez was about to leave New Orleans for Cuba, with about five hundred Americans; and that his landing was the signal for a general rising, and that within ten days after landing he would be at the head of an army of ten thousand men; that there were also two whole regiments of Spanish troojis to oome over to him with their equipments. The same story was told to all. Was it so? As I have already stated, our first salutation was a volley of musketry, instead of, as the Delta asserts, a large body of friends, with horses, stores, kc., for our use. Instead finding the creoles our friends we foupd, them our most bitter enemies, far more so than the troops— keeping tho troop constantly informed of our movements, and hanging on our skirts; putting to death, without mercy, all those who straggled on the march. Os the troops, I cannot but speak in praise, without a single exception. They treated the prisoners with the utmost kindness, giving them wine, segars, bread, tobacco, a, n J aguadenie, freely, and from their own small means. I imagine no one will say that we had any right to expect such treatment. Our con duct forced and demanded their respect, but cer tainly we had no claim either on their sympathy or generosity, Much has been said relative to the execution ol Crittenden and his men. Among all the pri soners now in Havana much as they admired Crittenden, there is butjone opinion, and that is, that that execution was justifiable—was merited. That they were deceived all know; but that was no business of the Spanish authorities. Surely the provocation received was sufficient to justify not only the execution of those merf, but of every man connected with the expedition. Why look at this affair in its proper light! When even in history, in the annals of the world, do you find a similar occurrence ? Here four hun dred and fifty men, without having received the least provocation, leave there homes, and invade the shores of a perfectly peaceful island, expres sing a determination to take that island from its lawful owners by force. Self preservation is one of the first laws of nature; and if the law will uphold and protect that American citizen who without hesitation, shoots down the midnight robber iu defence of his property, certainly that law will uphold the officers of the crown of Spain in exterminating a band of men who attempt to wrest its brightest jewel from that crown. I consider that every man connected with that expedition deserved death. At the time I was made prisoner, I fully expected it, and, although the reflection was anything but pleasant, my own j conscience told me that it was just. Crittenden 1 with his force not only committed a crime in 1 landing on the island, but actually committed an act of open piracy in taking those vessels in which he was caught, the punishment for which is, by the laws of all nations, death. Much has been said relative to the mutilation of the bodies. Certainly I was not present at the time, and cannot speak positively, but I can not learn from a reliable source that such was the case. • I have conversed with the officers of the Unfted States ship Albany on the subject. They are men of high standing in society, and they assure me that such was not the case—that they were shot in accordance with military usages on such occasions, and all that occurred that could be condemned was the way in which they were dragged to and thrown into cart* by the negroes ordered to bury them. It has been reported that Crittenden wrote home that he had been abandoned by Lopez, without arms or ammunition. Ido not believe that Crittenden w r rote any thing of the kind. Attached to his command—in hourly contact with him—l knew him, and do not hesitate in saying that a braver, nobler, more honorable man than William L. Crittenden, never lived. In stead of having no ammunition, he had all, and was particularly selected to guard it—that being the most difficult and yet most honorable service. Lopez did not desert him, but in leaving him, in dividing his command, committed one of those errors which eventually cost him his life; but had Crittenden, on the morning of the 13th, gone on and joined Lopez at Los Pozas, instead of retreat ing to the sea, all would have been well—then he would have lost only the stores; as it was he lost all. Why he did so is inexplicable, and must ever remain involved in mystery. Had Lopez carried out his original intention of landing near Puerto Principe, the result might perhaps liave been different—he might there, perhaps have found friends, and raised a force sufficient to sus tain itself until reinforcements were sent out from the States. In landing where he did, Lo pez without doubt acted as he thought for the best; but there, as in many other instances, he erred. Os his personal courage there is no doubt; but when we speak of military knowledge; of judgment, of his ability to lead an expedition, I say he had neither. Lopez was probably as much or more deceived than any man in the ex pedition. His ambition led him to be the tool and victim of heartless speculators. Avarice, not philanthophy, was the main spring of this expedition. 1 now distinctly, ojienly' assert, that all those letters purporting to be from Cuba, which were published during the month of July last, and copied throughout the Union, were base forge ries, for the express purpose of deceiving the ci tizens of the United States, and advancing the sale of Cuban bonds. Knowing the ambition of Lojxjz and that strong disposition to extend the glorious boon of -freedom which fills the breast of every American citizen, these speculators in human blood took advantage of their knowledge to furtheir their own ends. They well knew how little effort was required to start and keep alive',this excitement. They thought, or at least , they hoped, that more men would go out to join this little band, and that eventually the island would bn tree. Cuban bonds were worth, or were selling at from 10 to 20 cents on a dollar , when this expedition left. Naturally they would increase in value, as the prospect of liberating Cuba became more certain; and if this expedi i tion succeeded, as they pretended to think it would, Cuba, when liberated from what they denominated the tyranny of Spain, would have been burdened with a debt of from fifty to one I hundred millions of dollars, at least fifty per cent of which would have-been in the pockets of 1 these would be philauthropsists, who, active as they wished to be thought in the bold cause of liberty, took the best of good care to peril neith i er life nor their own precious liberty in its be half. At the expiration of the war, and after l Cuba should have become free, then it was to > be annexed to the United States, and as a matter ofjeourse the payment ol these Cuban bonds was i to be assumed by that government. What do ; they care for the mothers, wives, and sisters of the gallant men who formed this ill-fated expe dition, who have been rendered utterly wretch ed and miserable forever ? They do not feel the chains, the anguish, borne by those one hundred and sixty noble fellows, doomed to spend the best ten years of their lives in a Spanish prison. No. they feel the blood money in their pockets, and laugh over the result of their speculation.— They are the men to be punished. It is on them the shades of our murdered countrymen call for vengeance. Heavy, indeed, must be their pun ishment, when, at the last day, an offended and just Judge shall demand of them retribution for their deeds. This is, I believe, a correct account of the cause, proceedings, and result of the unfortunate expedition. 1 have endeavored to give an impar tial account, and if any man, either North or South, considers himself aggrieved by any remark contained herein, I will endeavor to afford him such satisfaction as the nature of the ease may demand. There have also been, I understand some reflections made on the conduct of our Consul at Havana, Mr. Owen, and also on the officers of the Albany, at the time of that execu tion. At that time Air. Owen not only was un able to do any thing to assist them, hut, as I am informed and believe, was actually in danger himself, from the rabble of Havana, a guard of Spanish soldiers having been placed over his property and person, by order of the Captain General. As lor the Albany, she was power less, on that occasion. Her officers and crew, to a man, sympathised with and deeply regretted the melancholy fate of their unfortunate country men ; but they could do no more. My word for it, if ever an opportunity should occur, the offi cers and crew of that ship will not only uphold the honor of the American flag, but add new laurels to its wreath, Anil now, in conclusion, let me, through the medium of your columns, return my sincere thanks to his Honor the Mayor, to Col. O’Hara, Captain Carv. and other citizens of Key West, for the many kindnesses and attentions shown to me, assuring them that I shall over remem her them with gratitude. I annex for the benefit of their friends, a list of the officers who left New-Orleans, in Crit tenden’s regiment. I remain, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, PHILIP S. VAN VECHTEN, Late Ist Lieut. Cuba Expedition. Officers of Crittenden’s Command.— Col. W. L- Crittenden, Com. Gen. Cook, Q. M. Gen. - Vesey, Reg. R. AI. Felix Houston, Jr., Reg. Adjt. Stanniford, Reg. Com - Bell, Capt. J.|A. Kelly,Co. A.: Ist. Lt. T. C. James, do.; Sd Lt- John Brice, do.; 2d Lt Stevens, Co. A.; Capt. Jas. Sanders, Co. B.; Ist Lt. P. S. Van Vechten, 2d Lt. B. E. Hunter, Co. B.; 2d Lt. Wm. A. Crafts, do.; Capt. Victor Kerr, Co. C.; Ist Lt. James Brant, do.; 2d Lt. Robinson, do,, Serjt. Alajor Vean. Os the above. Captain Kelly, Lieut. Crafts, and myself now only survive. Yours. &c., p. S. V. V. [Telegraphed to the Charleston Courier.] Columbia, Sept. 17—7 P. M. There was a fair demand for Cotton to-day, at full prices. The outside figures of yesterday were freely paid, and one hundred and seventeen bales were disposed of at from 7 to § 35-100 c. Fatal Accident. —Yesterday morning while some ot the laborers at the Passenger Depot of the South Carolina Rail Road, in this city, were shifting a car, a white hand named Massey, by some accident got jammed between the car and the wall of the Depot, and was injured so serious ly, that he died within a few hours afterwards - Charleston Courier , 18(A inst. T ADY STUART IVORTLEY.—Another sup <£\ Jy E ' Stu " t , Wortley's Travels in the tmtod States, received, by sep 16 THOS. RICHARDS Jt SON. AUGUSTA, GA. — ■ FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 19. TEE LAR3EST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE. For Governor. Charles j. McDonald. Diztrict For Congress. 1. JOS. W. JACKSON, of Chatham. 2. HENRY L. BENNING, of Muscogee. 3. DAVID J. BAILEY, of Butts. 4. JOHN D. STELL, of Fayette. 5. WILLIAM H. STILES, of Cass. 6. THOMAS F. JONES, of Newton. 7. DAVID W. LEWIS, of Hancock. 8. ROBERT McMILLAN, of Elbert. Election Tickets. We are prepared to print election Tickets for any county in the Slate, with neatness aud des patch. Price 30 cents per 100—$4 per 1000. The cash must accompany the order. The Alberti Case—Gov. McDonald’s Letters. We have printed an extra No. of copies con taining the Celebrated Alberti case, Gov. Mc- Donald’s address to the Nashville Convention, his letter of acceptance; letter to the Lumpkin 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. Mr. Oobb and the Committees.—'The Chronicle It Sentinel. The Chronicle (f Sentinel, of Wednesday, con tains some comments upon our article in refer ence to Air. Cobb and the appointment of Free Soilers upon important Congressional Commit tees, which appeared in the Constitutionalist fg Republic, of the 10th instant. We did not charge Mr. Cobb with collusion with the Abolitionists, nor did we insinuate such a charge against him, as the Chronicle says we did. We shall not stop to show this by our lan guage, used in that article; We say now, what we said before—-Mr. Cobb appointed Free Soil ers and Abolitionists on the Committees. Why did he do it? We said that Mr. Cobb gave the Aliolitionists and Free Soilers a majority of the Judiciary Committee. Parties in Congress were ■ divided into Whigs, Democrats, Abolitionists and Free Soilers. These were the party names under which the members were ranged. Tech nically speaking, our statement was not cor rect, but practically it was. The Judiciary Committee consisted of Jive Northern men and four Southern. The five Northern men were Preston King of New York, Thadeus Stevens and James Thompson of Pennsylvania, Miller of Ohio, and George Ashmun of Massachusetts. King and Stevens were notorious Abolition ists. No one will dispute that Miller, of Ohio, was a bitter anti-slavery man. We saw it re peatedly stated that Mr. Thompson was a free soil Democrat. He voted, on two or three occa sions, in favor of the Wilmot Proviso. Wilmot ■ Proviso men are pretty good Free Soilers! George Ashman was afree soil Whig. We can prove that by Mr. Webster. He said, in a speech at Marshfield, Alassachusetts, in 1848: “ 1 know not ten men of any party who are more zealous and firm and inflexible, m their opposition against slavery in any formP .He was alluding to the Representatives of Alassachusetts. of whom Mr. Ashmun was one. But we will let Mr. Webster define a Free Soiler for himself. In that same speech, he said: “If, my friends, the term ‘Free Soil ’ party, or ‘Free Soil’ men, is meant to designate one who haS been fixed, unalterably, to-day, yesterday, and for some time past, in opposition to slavery ex tension. then 1 may claim to be, and may hold my self as good a Free Soil manas anx member of that Buffalo Convention.” There it is. Now we say that all of these five Northern men, whom Mr. Cobb appointed on the Judiciary Committee, come within Mr. Webster’s description of a Free Soiler. What more is wanted of us ? We say they were all Free Soilers. What is a Free Sailor ? A man who is opposed to the extension of slavery to the territories, and who will oppose it with all his influence and his votes. These men belong to that category of politicians. But the Chromic (g Sentinel says the Constitu tionalist, in January, 1830, said the Free Soilers were allowed one member on three of the Com mittees, and that it was neither unjust nor dan gerous to the South to put them there. The ar ticle about Air. Cobb, under the caption “ Can the spell of delusion be broken,” was not written by the former editor of the Constitutionalist. We remember well that the newspapers, generally, about the time the Constitutionalist put forth the above statement, that one Free Soiler was ap pointed upon each of three important Commit tees, said the same thing. Technically speaking, they were probably right in saying so, for at that time there were but a few, probably not more than eight or ten members of Congress, who were designated as members of the Free Soil party. There were many persons in the South who thought then, that the putting of one Free Soiler upon a Committee was not unjust or dan gerous to the South. That Editor did not doubt, at the time, the purity of Mr. Cobb’s motives; nor does he believe now that Air. Cobb intended to do injustice or injury to the South, by those appointments; nor does the writer of this arti cle think that he did. But both of us now believe, from subsequent developments, that he acted unwisely, and that his course is liable to the suspicion that he used the appointing power with a view to his own selfish promotion. His object was not to injure the South, but to give himself a Northern popu larity ; and he has certainly obtained it. The people of the North want Air. Cobb elect ed Governor of Georgia, and one of their anti slavery papers has said his election would be to them a ‘‘grateful triumph.” They have no use for Governor McDonald. They would rejoice to see him defeated, and for a reason too obvious j to be mistaken. What the Chronicle Sg Sentinel, the Savannah Republican, and the Macon Journal Messenger thought of Mr. Cobb’s appointments upon those Committees, we hare recently shown, very much to their discomfiture. They cringe and ; twist and wriggle under the exposure, to the j amusement of the public. They will continue to look odd and feel abashed at the lovely consis tency which stares them in the face. The Travelling President.— The Balti more American of Tuesday last, says.—“ The President of the United States, accompanied by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secre tary of War, reached this city yesterday morn ing, by the early train from Washington, and after breakfast proceeded in the nine o'clock train for Philadelphia. His journey is in fulfil ment of his promised visit to Boston, proceeding first, however, to Newport, Rhode Island, to join Mrs. Fillmore, who went thither a month or two ago for the benefit of sea-bathing, and where she has been detained for two or three weeks by an accident. The President will reach Boston probably on Wednesday Statement of Lieut. Van Vochten. We publish in full the Statement of this offi cer of the events connected with the Lopez expe dition, of which he was an officer. He was par doned by the tyrant Concha, and we think the whole tenor of his Statement indicates that he is disposed to tum-King's evidence as the price of his liberation. He has evidently taken the Spanish side. He denounces the expedition and many of those concerned in it, in terms calumniating and false. He makes the impression upon us, that in all probability he was morally the least worthy of that gallant and ill fated band to re ceive pardon and favor. We shall publish other statements in reference to this matter which will present the case in a very .different light. Gov. Quitman’s Withdrawal. We publish Gov. Quitman's letter, withdraw ing from the canvass, in our paper of this morn ing. We are compelled to defer publishing, till our next, the comments it has suggested. We look upon this step as unwise, and unjust to the cause of State Rights, and therefore re gret it. We have seen no papers from Mississippi, commenting upon it, and are not apprised what view of it is taken by his political friends in that State. s We have (says the Savannah Republican) to record the death (in England) of A. L. Moly neux, Esq., who, tor many years, filled the post of British Consul, for the State of Georgia. The steamer Prometheus left New York on Friday with a large number of passengers who are bound for the Pacific by the Nicaragua route. The steamer Ohio lfcft New York on Saturday for Chagres, with 616 passengers. The U. S. sloop of war Cyane was put in com mission at the Gosport Navy yard yesterday. It is stated that in a single day in the begin ning of last week Adams It Co.’s Express de livered nearly a million of dollars’ wortli of gold dust at the mint. The Industrial Fair, now open at Providence, R. 1., has received for admission about $3,500. The New York Historical Society has procur ed, at its own expense, from Henry Stevens, Esq. now in England, an abstract of the contents of historical documents in the Colonal Office in London, which it is proposed to publish in a volume. Our Book Table. Messrs. Thomas Richards & Son have placed upon our table “ A History of Alabama, and In cidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest period. By Albert James Rickett. It is in two octavo volumes, neatly bound and hand somely printed. We have only glanced at a few pages of the work, and cannot therefore decide upon its mer its. It is written in a pleasing, sprightly and entertaining manner, and we doubt not contains much valuable information. Plenty of Corn in Indiana. —The New Castle (Indiana) Courier says, the growing corn crop promises to be the most abundant there has been for years; and we find on inquiry that there is an evident scarcity of hogs to feed it to. Three dollars and fifty cents per hundred, gross, is freely offered for hogs fit for feeding; but far mers who have hogs, prefer feeding them with heir corn to selling at this price. Unless there hould spring up some unforeseen demand, we do not see what is to be done with the large sur plus of com that will be left in the country after fattening the limited number of hogs that are on hand. Gen. Quitman’s Withdrawal. —The N. O. Picayune of the 13th instant, says: “Gen. Qit man has really withdrawn from the canvass for Governor of the State of Mississippi. The fol lowing is his Sddress, we find it in the Natches Free Trader: To the Dctnocratic State Rights Parly of Mississppi. The result of the recent election for the Con vention, however brought about, must be regard ed at least, for the present, as decisive of the po sition of the State on the great issues involved. The majority have declared that they are con tent with the late aggressive measures of Con gress, and opposed to any remedial action by the State. Although this determination of the people is at variance with my fixed opinion of the true policy of the State, heretofore expressed and still conscientiously entertained; yet as a State Rights man and a Democrat, I bow in respectful submission to the apparent will of to people. It is true the State has not yet spoken authori tatively; even the acts of the convention will not be binding until they shall have been ratified by the voice of the people; but the election ol non-resisters to the Convention, a majority of the people have declared against the course of policy on the slavery questions, which I deemed it my duty to pursue while Gevornor; and a gainst the principles upon which I was nomina ted, upon which alone I had consented to run as a candidate. I might perhaps be elected, not withstanding this demonstration of public sen timent in the election for the Convention ; but as 1 have been mainly instrumental in seeking the expression or the will of the people through a Convention, I ought, in my political action to abide by it. Therefore, upon full consideration of all the circumstances, respect for the apparent decision of the people, duty to the noble and patriotic party who are struggling to maintain the rights of the South againt Northern aggression, and to preserve our institutions from the fatal effects of consolidating all power in the Federal Govern ment, and a sense of sell-respect, which inclines me not to seek a public stat’on in which my opinions upon vital questions are not sustained by a majority of my constituents, all concur in in ducing me to the opinion that my duty requires me to relire Trom the position which I occupy as the Democratic State Rights candidate for Gov ernor. With emotions of the deepest gratitude to the patriotic party by which I was nominated, for the evidence of tbeir unfaltering confidence, both in the nomination and in the warm and hearty reception with which I have been met every where in the canvass, I tender my resig nation of the high and honorable post of their chief standard bearer in the pending canvass, pledging myself to them and to the country, that I will, to the last, serve the great cause ol State rights as faithfully in the ranks as I have en deavored to do in high position. J. A. Quitman, Monmouth, Sept. 6, ISSI.