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Cnnstitatinnalist & JUphlit, ! JAME S GARDNER, JK., I and > Editors. JAMES M. SMYTHE, ) TERMS. Daily, per annnm, in advance $8 00 Tr:-Wekki.t, per annum 5 00 W a halt, per annum, if paid in advance 2 00 These terms are offered to new subscribers, and to old • übscribers who pay u p all arrearages. In no case will the Weekly paper be sent at (2, un less the money arrompanits the order. In n- case will it be sent at $2 to an old subscriber in arrears. When the year paid for at $2 expires, the paper, if not discontinued, or paid for in advance, will lie sent on the rid terms, $2 50 if paid at the office within the year, or $0 if paid at the expiration of the year. Postage must be paid on all communications and letters o f business. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. One square (12 lines,) 50 cents the first insertion and 37} cents for the next 5 insertions, and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion. Contracts made by the year, or for a less period, on reasonable terms. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sheriff's Levies, 30 days, $2 50 per levy ; 60 days, $5. Executor's. Administrator's and Guardian's Sales, Real Estate, (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 and Creditors 3 25 Four Months’ Notices 4 00 Rules Nisi, (monthly) $1 per square, each insertion. (0“ ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, akii AT OUR RISK. [From/Ac Mobile Tribune , 17/A in*/.] More Revolution. We learn from our Texas papers received yes terday, that there is every probability of an im mediate revolution in the Mexican departments of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila. We have had rnmors and predictions of this occasion ally for several months past. The object, as we learn from the Houston Telegraph of the sth in stant, is to establish a republic in all the valley of the Rio Grande east of the Sierra Madre. The plans for the movement are so well matured that a decisive blow, it is thought, will be struck within a few weeks. A great number of volunteers from Texas have been enlisted, and large quantities of arms, am munition and military stores have been procured to carry on the war. Upwards of two hundred Texian volunteers were encamped near Rorna a few weeks since, waiting lor orders from Canales and his associates. Carabajal at present is the ostensible commander of the revolutionary forces; but as soon as offensive operations arc commenc ed, it is probable that Canales will take the com mand in person. It is believed that a large num ber of the government troops will join the stan dard of Carabajal as soon as it is displayed on the west bank of the Rio Grande. On the Texas sideoftho river, the merchants are nearly all in favor of the revolution. Their trade with the country on the western side of the river has been almost entirely destroyed by the vexatious conditions of the Mexican revenue laws, which are administered as much to the de triment of this trade as posible. They are con fident, too, of its success, as the central govern ment of Mexico is so destitute of means so to be unable to pay the soldiers on the borders, and they are ready, it is represented, to give their aid to the revolution. Says the Telegraph: It is said that Gen. Avalos and the other offi cers in command of the Mexican forces, are aware that the great mass of the fieople of those depart ments are opposed to the central government, and they have intimated to the leaders of the revolutionary party that they can offer but a feeble resistance if a respectable military force is brought to operate against them. It is also said that Gen. Avalos has actually removed a portion of his property to Brownsville, in anticipation of the success of the revolutionary party. Gen. Avalos is the commander-in-chics of the Mexican forces in Tamaulipas. By the New Orleans papers we have some in telligence from Texas, in addition to that we published yesterday. Some of tile disbanded Cuba volunteers had arrived in Galveston, to proceed to join the ex- , pedition lor the revolution in Tamaulipas. It I ‘ is stated also that the organized bodies in Texas j , which, it was supposed some time ago, were des tined for Cuba, were actually intended for this new expedition. j The news of the ravages of the Texas Indians j in Mexico, is quite distressing. It is said that they are depopulating the country. The inhabi tants were being slaughtered in every direction, ' and those who can get awav leave with all des patch for the American side of the Rio Bravo, The remainder are threatened with starvation. Their crops have been destroyed and their flocks and cattle driven away by the savages. In the vicinity of Roma they recently murdered several shepherds. Charles Downes, an American merchant, oil', his way down the Rio Grande, on the Mexican j »ide, to Brownsville, was murdered at the ran- I cho Las Cuevas, and his body thrown into the j river. He was shot through the heart, and had • deep cuts in the head. The "Rio Bravo” says : j It appears that he had stopped at the rancho in company with a Mexican stock driver, for re freshments, when he was so foully dealt with. More than a dozen Americans have been mur dered at that place within a year or two past. It was there that Capt. Wilson met his end. It was by that nest of robbers that the three Cali fornians were tied together ami thrown into the river. It was there that Lavalle was killed a few days ago. The election returns, are sufficiently authen tic to show conclusively that Bell has been chosen Governor; Henderson, Lieut. Governor; Hemphill, Chief Justice; Wheeler and Lipscomb, Associate Justices, and Crosby, Commissioner of the General Land Office. The Rio Bravo of the 10th inst, gives the fol • lowing account of an unfortunate affray in Brownsville: We have to record an unfortunate occurrence in our streets, which has produced considerable excitement. On Sunday evening, about 8 o’clock, a dispute arose between Mr. W. H. Harrison, of this city, and W. G. Clarke, of Point Isabel, which resulted in the instant death of the latter. For some days past a serious misunderstanding has existed bet ween a brother of Mr Harrison and the deceased, which threatened to end in a duel. On Sunday it seems to have been stopoed, or in some way abandoned, and was regarded of little further importance. In tlie evening, about 8 o'clock, the parties met accidentally at the Gem, and another contest sprung up between the par ties of this melancholy affair. A sort of informal duel with five-shooters, was proposed and accepted on the instant, in the street. They went out and at fifteen paces com menced the contest. Both pistols missed fire in the first attempt; the deceased’s pistol missed a second time; bis antogouist fired, without effect, and again fired a second time, when tlie deceas ed fell by a shot near the regiou of the heart. Though comparatively a stranger among us, he was buried on Monday and his body attended to the grave by a large and respectable concourse of citizens. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Mr. Harrison, but he passed the river into Mexico before it could be exeauted. We learn that he will return in time to meet any investi gation that the authorities may institute in the case. Women and Dancing. We know that we have published the follow ing at least hall a dozen times within as many < years, but it looked so fresh and funny yesterday, 1 as we were running over our exchanges, that vve ■ thought we would give it another send-off. It t is almost needless to say that the humorous yarn 1 was spun by Lever,the facetious author of Charles r O’Malley.—The bloomers may take a hint y from it, and partly on their account we give the ii extract a place.— Picayune. t “I believe a woman would do a great deal for 0 dance,” said Dr. Growling: they are immensely d fond of saltatory motion. I remember once in my life I used to flirt with one who was a great favorite in a provincial town where I lived, and confided to me she had no stockings to appear in, and without them her presence at the ball was out of the question.” “That was a hint for you to buy the stockings.” said Dick. “No, you’re out,” said Growling.—“ She knew that I was as poor as herself; but though she could not rely on my purse, she had every con fidence in my taste and judgment, and consulted me on a plan she formed for going to the ball in proper twig.—Now what do you think it was?” i “To go in cotton, I suppose,” returned Dick. “Out again, sir—you'd never guess it; and only ’ a woman could have hit upon the expedient. It , was the fashion in those days for ladies in full dress to wear pink stockings, and she proposed 1 painting her legs !” “Painting her legs!” they all exclaimed. I “Fact sir,” said the doctor, and she relied upon r me for telling her if the cheat was successful.” “And was it?” asked Durfy. 1 “Don't be in a hurry, Sam. I complied on one condition, namely—that I should be the pain ter.” J “Oh you old rascal!” said Dick. 5 “A capital bargain,” said Durfy. 5 “But not a safe covenant,” added the attorney, o “Don’t interrupt me, gentlemen,” said the j! doctor. “I got some rose pink, accordingly, and I defy all the hosiers in Nottingham to make a R tighter fit than I did on little Jenny; and a pret tier pair of stockings I never saw.” * “And she went to the ball?” said Dick. “She did.” “And the trick succeeded?” inquired Durfy. “So completely,” said the doctor, “that several - ladies asked her to recommend her dyer to them. * —So you see what a woman will do to go to a 8 dance. Poor little Jenny!” she was a merry e minx—by the by she boxed my cars that night * for a joke I made about the stockings. ‘Jenny,’ ' said 1, ‘for fear your stockings should fall down ‘ when you are dancing, had?nt yon better let me ltaint a pair of garters on them? (From the Savannah Republican, 20/A inst.) c Late from Havana. , The mail schooner Chatham, Capt. Gladden, ' arrived hereon Saturday morning from Havana, I via Key West. She left, the former place on the I 12th inst., and the latter on the 13th. The Chat ham has been detained on the passage by severe , gales. We learn from Capt. G. that there is , no news of importance in Havana, the city be ing quiet and business getting brisk again. By this arrival, we have received files of Ha vana pajiers. About 870,000 had been collected by subscrip tion, for the relief ol the widows and orphans ot : those who fell in the late engagements. On the 9th inst., funeral obsequies were cele brated at the Cathedral, which was hung with . black and decorated with trophies, &c. The so lemnities are said to have been very grand and imposing. The pullers contain accounts of great rejoicings all over tlie island, on learning the news of Lo pez's capture. The new Spanish steamer Fernando el Cotoli co arrived at Havana on the oth, from Cadiz. The American brig Fregisoll, Plummer mas ter, with a cargo of ice, was lost on Key Breton, on the 27th lilt. The captain and crew had ar rived at Trinidad. Extract from a letter, received by a commer cial house, in this city: “Havana, Sept. 11, 1851. “Our market is very dull—and but little do ing in Sugars. “Molasses, 3} rials—some holders ask 2} rials. “Exchange on the North l} a IJ per cent. dis. “Sales of Rice since our last at 12 } rials., and a small lot of 80 casks retailed at 12} rs.” Cotton Crop.— We are informed by intelli gent planters that nearly all the cotton grown upon the sandy lands of this and the adjoining counties will be gathered by the last of October or first of November. Almost all the bolls on the stalk are open. This fact is sufficient to show how far short the crop must fall. The ravages of the boll worm have reduced the crop [ in the prairies and canebreake at least one-half i below what it promised to be a short time ago. The crop of cotton this year in Alabama must, from all accounts, fall considerably below that of j the last. t The reports from the other cotton-growing ; States are not more favorable. The long con tinued drought which prevailed throughout the - entire south west during the last summer, must necessarily have every where curtailed the crop. As some compensati i for the want of quantity, the dry weather w'. we have had thus far in the picking season, has enabled the planter to gather his cotton unusually free from dirt and trash.— Selma (.din,) Reporter, 19/A inst. [From the Southern Democrat.] To my friends in Dooly and elsewhore around tho Globe. I I have recently been informed that it is cur -1 rently reported in the State of Dooly, that 1 have ! changed my political principles, and allied my : sell with the Constitutional Union Party. Though l never expect to figure largely in the political arena, and seek no station above that of an humble citizen, I am unwilling that my name should be used falsely in connection with political issues to give any effect whatever to the objects contemplated by it, and though I am merely a private in the ranks of my political friends, my character as a man of consistency is as dear to me as though 1 were President ol the United States, for 1 should lie but a man then. A due regard for my character, therefore, induces me to make the following statement: I have ever lieen a Democrat, and have ever acted in concert with that party. When the is sues of Southern Rights, and Union, were sprung upon the Country, and the ery of Disunion was raised, by some of the ultras,' 1 was induced to believe that the Southern Rights Party were for immediate, Disunion—and 1 was then, and yet am opposed to Disunion. I was deluded in ref erence to the real issues, and 1 am frank to con fess that my predilections were in favor of the Constitutional Union Party, until they nomina ted Mr. Cobb for Governor. Upon that event, 1 hastened back to the Southern Rights Party, sought forgiveness for my imbecility, and obtain ed it, and I have been a good Southern Rights man ever sinee. The nomination of Mr. Cobb satisfied me, that federalism was at the bottom of it. I voted for him, when he was a democrat, and was ever afterwards ashamed of it, on ac count of his votes in Congress, and if God will fogive me for it. I will stand, pledged not to vote for him again. lam for Gov. McDonald and Southern Rights—Oglethorpe and Dooly, now and lorever. THOMAS A. SWEARINGEN. Buffalo, Sept. 18. The New York Liberty Convention to-day i nominated Gerritt Smith for President, at the next election, and Chas. Durkee, of Wisconsin, for Vice President. Mr. Durkee was lately a member of Congress from Wisconsin. The Editor’s Drawer of Harper's New Month ly for September has a good story, telling how a Western lawyer once addressed a jury in a mur- j der case. “The Bible has it,” said he, “Thou j shalt not kill!" Now, do you know, gentlemen, that il you go to haug my client, the prisoner at | the bar, that you commit murder? You do. and ! no mistake;’ for murder is murder, whether it is 1 committed by twelve men, in what is called a ■ box—and a ‘bad box' you'll find it if you don't 1 give a righteous verdict—for an humble indivi dual, like my client. S'posing my client had . killed a man; I say, s’posing he had; is that any reason why you should kill a man?—twelve of you on one! No,gentlemen of the jury, you may bring the prisoner at the bar, my client, in guilty; i the hangman may do his duty, but will that ex- 1 onerate yous No such thing! You will all, in- 1 dividually and collectively, you will all of you be I ’ murderers." This profound argument had its | effect,.the writer adds. Th£ verdict of the jury ! was: i: Not guilty , if he’ll quit the State!” i AUGUSTA, GA. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 23. " the”largest circulation¥the state. Tor Governor. Charles j. McDonald. District 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 50 cents per 100—$1 per 1000. The cash must accompany the order. State Rights in 1833. The Chronicle If Sentinel, of Sunday morning, denies the truth of the 7th, 9th and 10th propo sitions laid down by ns, in our article of the 14th instant, as a part of the creed of the State Rights party of 1833. ; We shall not follow the obscure and muddy reasoning of the Chronicle , but simply state those propositions, and sustain them by proof. While i we do not admit that the declaration of princi r pies, made by the State Rights party at its great meeting held at JVlilledgevilie, Nov. 13th, 1833, is the only test of its principles, yet as the Chron icle (f Sentitiel makes that the test, we will abide i by it, and look to that for our proof. The fol lowing is the 7 th proposition : l '7th. That each State had the right to secede from the Union, without coercion, by virtue of its sovereignty.” Upon this proposition the Chronicle if Sentinel remarks as follows: “The seventh pro)x>sition has not even a color of support by the State Rights party of 1833. The assertion of the right to secede under certain circumstances not named, is no assertion of the right to secede ‘ without coercion, by virtue of sovereignty.’ If the meeting had intended to assert so broad a right, it would have been much more explicit than simply to deny the doctrine of the proclamation. If a State Inis the right to secede without coercion, simply by virtue oi lier sovereignty, then, as the State is always sover eign, it always has the right to secede, under any circumstances , with cause or without. Sovereignty is her's always, without intervals, whether with cause of secession or without. That, ‘by virtue of’ which she secedes, perpetually exists, and gives a corresponding perpetual right of seces sion.” We merely ipiote this from that paper to show that it does indirectly deny Me doctrine of the right of secession without coercion. It is as plain as any thing can well be, tb it it holds to the doctrine of State coercion in the event of its attempting to secede. Such is the position of a paper which probably has the largest circulation of any sub mission paper in the State. Such is the present position of a former organ of the State Rights party of other days. Rut look at the seventh proposition and see if we do not prove its truth from the acts of the Slate Rights meeting of 1833. That meeting stated that General Jackson's proclamation held— “ 3rd. That the States have no right to secede from the Union, under any circumstances what ever : inasmuch as secession would destroy the UNITY OP THE NATION.” The meeting declared that, against this as well as other positions of the proclamation, “this meeting doth solemnly protest,” &e., “and as solemnly deny (its and) their legitimate deduc tion from the compact which established the Federal Government.” It will appear plain to minds of ordinary com prehension, that the meeting, by denying the proposition attributed to the proclamation, held its converse to be true. That is, that a State had the right to secede, even if it should destroy the unity of the nation. Now the main object for coercing a seceding State, would be to prevent a destruction of the unity of the nation. The State Rights party, in 1833, held that a State had the right to secede lrom the Union, although it would destroy that unity—subtract one State from the Union of States—and give the withdrawing State a na tional position. The State Rights party of 1833, plainly did ■ iwt admit the power of State coercion, but denied i it in the declaration, that a State could secede, j even if the unity of the nation were destroyed by j it. For that unity would not be destroyed, if j the other States held her in the Union by force. I Then it is manifest that that part of our 7th J proposition which declares “that each State 1 HAD THE RIGHT TO SECEDE FROM THE U.NION, I WIIHOUT COERCION, ■’ is sustained by the meeting of 1833. Now we will show that the other branch of it, that a State had such right ■ “nv VIRTUE OF ITS SOVEREIGNTY,” is also SUS" \ tained by the acts of that meeting. The meeting of 1833 objected to the proclama- I tion upon the ground that it held— ‘ sth. That the States have not retained their entire sovereigntyP Against this doctrine, the meeting protested, \ and of course indirectly declared, that the States ■ did retain their entire sovereignty. Again, the meeting said the proclamation 1 held— “7th. That the edltgiance of our citizens is due to the United States ‘in the first instance,’ and not to their respective States.” Agaiust this the meeting of 1833 also solemnly \ protested. Hence it is palpably inferable that it j held that allegiance was due, in the first in- j stance, to the State. If the State Rights party of 1833 held that the Stales have retained their entire sovereignty —that allegiance was due to each State by its people— j that a State had the right to secede from the j Union— it follows, of course, that in their opin- ■ ion, THAT RIGHT EXISTED BY VIRTUE OF ITS SOV- ! KKEIGNTY. We believe that we have now demonstrated j the truth of our 7th proposition, subjecting it to the test selected by the Chronicle if Sentinel itself. The following is the 9th proposition which we said was held by the State Rights party in 1833: “ 9th. That secession was a peaceable right, and any attempt to prevent its exercise by the General Government, would be a glaring infrac tion of State Rights, and a gross outrage upon the liberties of the people.” The Chronicle Sf Sentinel denies the truth of our statement, and the inference is clear that it holds that secession is not a peaceable right. We might rest our declaration of what the State Rights party of 1833 thought upon this subjest, upon our toregoing exposition of facts. But we have direct testimony at hand, which we furnish, as follows, from the proceedings of the meeting to which we have so often referred. The meeting declared that the object for which it proposed the formation of Southern Rights asso ciations was, in part, to resist the doctrines of the Proclamation and Force Bill, and it had special reference to the right claimed in that Proclama tion and Bill, to force a State to submit to the laws and remain in the Union. The meeting said: “ These last measures (the Proclamation and Force Bill,) have aimed a deadly blow at State Rights, and seem now to require the united and concentrated energies of the friends and advocates of those rights to be directed to THIS POINT OF AT TACK, deemed so important by our enemies to be CARRIED ; and in which, IF SUCCESS SHOULD CROWN TIIEIK EXERTIONS, ALL THAT IS DEAR AND VALUABLE TO FREEDOM WILL BE WRESTED FROM THE STATES.” Here is a plain denial of the doctrine of State coercion. The meeting of 1833 stated that the united and concentrated energies of the friends of State Rights should be directed especially u to this point of attack ,” namely, the avowal that a State could be subjected by force. Os course, then, the State Rights party of 1833, held that secession was a peaceable right. We thus amply and perfectly sustain our 9th proposition by the test which the Chronicle itself has applied to it. The tollowing is the 10th proposition, which the Chronicle if Sentinel says was not maintained by the State Rights party of 1833 : “ 10th. That the right of secession was not the right of revolution, which implies the right of the party revolted against to maintain its power by the sword, but the right peaceably to with draw from the Union, and assume an indepen dent state and position among the nations of the earth.” If we have shown that the right of secession was held to be a teachable right, we have shown that it teas not held to be the right of revo lution—a right of a ]>eople merely to revolt against their Government. We laid down, in our article of the 11th inst., ten propositions, containing what we declared to have been the positions assumed by the State Rights party in 1833. The Chronicle $ Sentinel has not pretended to dispute but the three fore going ones. We have sustained them by ample proof from its own chosen medium of testing their validity. Hence all of the ten propositions stand out untouched and mirefuted, though as sailed by Federalistic missels. Our positions remain a solid fabric, without the loss ol a piece of timber of a single brick, and it will stand like a monument to rebuke the a|xistates, of these modern days, from the true republican faith. State Rights men of Georgia, Whigs and Democrats, will you madly cling to a party whose principles lead you to the graves of the rights of the States— to the graves of State sover eignty and State secession ? Can you be so in constant—such blind and hapless wanderers from the shrine of your former principles ? Break off at once from the delusions of party, and follow the pathway of light and hope, of honor and safety. Does he worship at the Shrine of Principles or Party. We are obliged to the Federal Union for the few extracts which iollows: “ Finally, we deprecate the thought, that the bay onets of the Federal arm should reek with the blood of our brethren of Carolina.”—Southern Recorder, January. 30M, 1833. That is what the Recorder said about the peo ple of South Carolina, when she took an attitude of resistance to a high tariff, a mere thing of a few more dollars and cents. But now, when she decides to resist insult, wrong, and outrage upon her rights and honor, and a course of policy which even hazards the personal safety of her peo ple, in the future, we say, the Southern Recorder does not seem to “ deprecate the thought, that the bayonets of the Federal army should reek with THE BLOOD OF OUR BRETHREN OF CAROLINA ! He seems now to think that it will follow, as a matter of course, that troops, seat from Georgia by Air. Cobb, would be in the line of duty in bayoneting those Southern brothern across the j Savannah, and holding up the weapons of death, I reeking with the warm blood of their hearts. It ] could not contemplate such a picture, in 1833, ; without shrinking with horror. How is it that | it can look upon it now with patience and ac [ quiescence ? What shadows have clouded its intellect, what influences have preverted its former noble and generous instincts, to bring it down at this time to the smell of blood, of the blood of the brave Carolina freeman, shed in de fence of liberty and lire. Will it justify itself, now, because Southern Carolina dares to secede from the Union. See what it said about the right of secession in 1533. Read the following extracts from the editorial columns of the Recorder in 1833 : “ The States, as sovereignties, have rights not specified in the Constitution, aud with which the Constitution has nothing to do. Among others of such rights we believe to be that of peaceful secession, although there is no provision for this to be found in the Constitution, but flow ing AS WE THINK FROM THE VERY NATURE OP our Government itself. This right can as little be called unconstitutional as constitutional, but is one beyond aud antecedent to the Consti tution, and a necessary INCIDENT TO TRE SO VEREIGNTY on the States.”— Southern Recor der, Feb. Gtli, 1833. i “The question is a very plain one. If the people of a State have not the right to govern themselves as to themselves njay seem best, then 1 State sovereignty is an unmeaning prsase’ and was a rightful subject to the jeer the scoff, and : the contempt which it received at the hands of ! Air. Webster. If the people of a State, driven < by intolerable oppression, and unconstitutional and \ tyrannical enactments, are denied the right of withdrawing from a compact, the only ! OBLIGATORY BOND OF "WHICH AS WE SUPPOSED WAS THE ENTIRE CONSENT OF THE INDEPENDENT parties forming it ; and to be told that all at tempts to exercise such right, will be met with * GUNPOWDER LOGIC AND THE CONCLUSIVE ARGU- J MENT OF THE BAYONET—THEN HAVE WE NO RIGHTS, BUT SUCH AS WE DERIVE FROM THE General Government, those of the States S ARE BURIED, AND IN OUR HUMBLE OproNION WE 1 MAY AS WELL CLOSE THE SCENE BY WRITING THE EPITAPH OF HUMAN FREEDOM WITH ALL ITS HOPES, AND ALL ITS BLES- 1 SlNGS.”— Southern Recorder, March 20th. 1533. c Then State sovereignty was something, and c not a mere phantom of the crazy brain of a disunionist. Then secession was a right which a State could peacefully exercise. Then Mr. Web ster, whose praise now flows in honied words, and mellifluous paragraphs, from the lips and the press of Constitutional. Union orators and writers, was the Prince of Consolidationists and the champion of anti-State sovereignty and anti secession. Our Constitution is the same now that it was then. Our rights are the same. Then the Re corder approved the logic of gunpowder and the ar gument of the bayonet. Alluding to the denial of State sovereignty, and the right of peaceful secession, and the use of force, to prevent its exercise, the Recorder said in 1833, THEN HAVE WE NO RIGHTS, BUT SUCH AS WE DERIVE FROM THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, THOSE OF THE STATES ARE BURIED, AND IN OUR OPINION, WE MAY WELL CLOSE THE SCENE BY WRITING THE EPITAPH OF HUMAN FREEDOM WITH ALL ITS HOPES AND ALL ITS BLESSINGS ” The farcoming storms and dangers which the Recorder saw, in that day, whistle and roar, and thunder, at this moment, almost at our doors; but the Recoder s ears have closed,its eyes have grown dim, it can neither hear nor see them. We ap peal from the Recorder to the people—from the leaders to the rank and file—from sleeping sen tinels upon the watch-towers, to the people them selves, whose property and safety are endanger ed, and whose good and protection is the great object of our watchful and anxious solicitude.— What can we do ? How impotent are our ef forts if the yeomenry of Georgia and the South, will not rally in their own defence, and for the protection of the family altar. Fugitive Slave Law. Suppose it were fully enforced and worthy of being held up to the South as Ihe great panacea for all her evils, as our Constitutional Union teachers pretend. Where did it come from ? From one of these great Union mongers? No. It was introduced into the Senate by that good old Republican, Mr. Mason, of Virginia. It was introduced by a Southern Rights man. How many Northern Democratic votes did it get ? Twenty-seven, if we remember right. How many Whig votes did it get ? Three, and one of them, in a recent election has been defeated for voting for it ! Just think of it. Out of about one hundred and seventy odd Northern votes, the only one of the Compromise Bills, at all favorable to the South received 27 votes! And yet we are told to de pend ou the North! What folly, if it is nothing worse! The Constitution, in plain terms, gives us the right to recover our fugitive slaves. 27 Northern votes out of a hundred and seventy odd was given in favor of the constitutional rights of the South! The North then opposed the enforcement of our right. It is as clear as light itself. How fair, liberal and just !! All the Southern mem bers voted for the bill, and only a few Northern members, and all is fair, liberal and just!! Historical Collections of Georgia. This is the title of a forthcoming work from the pen of the Rev. George White, whose “ Sta tistics of Georgia” has met with such marked and deserved success. He is now collecting ma terials for his new work, and in corresponding with us with a view to this purpose, furnished us with the following little scrap of statistics. As it may be quite interesting to many citizens of this now flourishing city, we here insert it. It is a leaf from an old pamphlet of that period. A List of the whole Inhabitants of the Township of Augusta , Georgia, in 1741. Men. Women. Children. Mr. Kennedy O'Brien... .5 3 0 Thomas Smith 11 0 Messrs.M'Kou/.ioAFrazer 5 1 0 John Miller 2 11 Thomas Goodale 2 1 2 Samuel Brown 2 11 Sanders Ross 2 0 0 A Sadler 11 1 A Tailor 11 0 William Clark 11 0 Henry Overstreet 11 4 Locklan M'Bean 2 2 1 * William Gray 4 0 0 William Callahern 0 2 2 29 16 12 The Late Storm.—A highly esteemed citi zen of Gadsden county, (Fla.,) writes as fol lows: “The damage done in this county is incalcula ble—the whole county presents the appearance of a continuous hurricane ground. Nearly all the forrest trees of any size, in the swamps as well on the ridges, are levelled. About eight tenths of the tobacco barns, and one-haif of the gin-houses in the country, so far as heard from, are blown down. We estimate three-fourths of the tobacco, one-hall of the cotton crop, and at least one-fourth of the corn crop, destroyed. Hundreds of out-buildings, (negro houses,stables, smoke-houses, etc., down,) as well as chimneys, and some dwellings. The escape with life has been truly miraculous.” The Hurricane at St. Johns, p. r. We learn from Captain Bibber, of the schr. Hope, says the New-York Journal of Commerce, that St. Johns, P. R., was visited by a hurricane on the 16th of August, which destroyed a large quantity of sugar in the store-houses, and that all the sugar cane in the fields was blown down. The tide in the harbor rose 26 feet higher than usual, and swept a large number of houses off with the flood. At Aricebo, the gale drove five British ves sels ashore, all of which became total wrecks. Culture of the Olive.—R. Chisholm, Esq., of Beaufort, S. C., is cultivating the olive tree from plants procured in the neighborhood of Florence, in Italy. He has made arrangements to get some trees from Spain. His trees bear abundantly every year, and grow satisfactorily. He has not commenced the manufacture of oil, except a few bottles for experiment. The olive tree will grow throughout the cotton growing re gion. The plant is of slow growth and very hardy. That highly conservative Union loving print, the New York Tribune, justifies the killing of Mr. Gorsuch, and counsels resistance to the fu gitive slave law “to the last.” Is not this trea son against the Government and the Union? It would be so regarded here. Memphis and Charleston Railroad. The Memphis Eagle, of the 11th inst., says that the corps of local engineers appointed to commence operations at this end of the above great work, have reached that city, i^i•„ c _-1~7 upon their duties. W ‘ U forthwith ent « Mr. Thomas Ritchie, Sr., has\ ver his name positively declined to accept the noni ,„ tio for Governor of Virginia. The Vicksburg True Issue has been informed that Col. WcWille has abandoned the contest with Gen. Freeman in the Third Congressional District of Mississippi. The last number ofthe Republican.published at Lake Providence, Louisiana, says that the cotton picking is going on very fast in Carroll Parish. Most ofthe crop will be thrown into market early, as the cotton, from the effect of extreme dry weather, has ceased to grow. Kentucky. —The Governor and Lieut. Gov i ernor elect of this State were inaugurated at Frankfort on the 2d instant. Governor Powell . promise to requite the confidence reposed in him . Hon. John B. Thompson, in entering upon his duties as Lieut. Governor, “in a few pertinent re marks returned his acknowledgments the to peo ple for his election, and congratulated them upon I the admirable working oftheir political system, t under which the highest officers of the State pass to and from office by the quiet and peacea ble fiat of the public will, and not by revolution s ary violence nor military power.” The cotton crop in the vicinity of Victoria, . Texas, has been nearly destroyed by the worm; as a general thing, however, the crops through the State are good. Office Board of Health, I Augusta, Sept. 23d, 1831. ) Since my report of the 16th inst., no new 3 cases, either of Small Pox or Varioloid, have oc curred. The two cases of Varioloid mentioned in my last report, are now well. f WM. E. DEARING, Chairman Board of Health. i Austrian Impudence.—American Subsiis - sion.—The Austrian authorities at Venice have . opened a package, containing a printed circular I and a pamphlet on the Austro-Hungarian ques -5 tion, with refeernce to the case of Mr. Dudley ■ Mann—addressed to the United States Consul - there, bearing the seal ot the department of State. ■ In reply to the protest from Mr. Flagg, our f representative,they stated that the Council of Re - vision claimed the right to inspect all publica tions entering the Venetian territories. The Consul declared that the occurrence of a similar act will demand of him a similar protest. Here the matter remains for the present. [communicated.] ; Public Meeting and Barbacue at Stoney Bluff, i In pursuance of public notice, previously giv en, the people of Scriven and Burke commenced assembling at an early hour on the 10th instant at Stoney Bluff, and was organised by calling Maj. Janies A. Mims to the Chair, and apjtoint iug Jacob G. Glisson and R. R. Alims, Secretaries. Many of the chivalric sons of Carolina were also present, and were greeted with true re publican friendship. It was altogether a large and enthusiastic meeting. After a few remarks explanatory of the meeting, by the Chairman, the Hon. A. J. Miller was introduced to the meeting, and delivered a very logical and elo quent speech, justifying, with but few exceptions the great Compromise measures, adopted by the last Congress, as honorable and just, (though not liberal to the South,) as they were adopted on non-intervention principles contended for by Calhoun, Berrien, H. V. Johnson and others. As respects the Southern Rights party, he said they claimed to be on the Georgia platform, yet were striving for power, but what he did for not know unlessto be used at some subsequent pe riod. After the expiration of an hour, the time allowed to Mr. Miller, the Hon. E. Bellinger was introduced to the meeting, and was received with considerable demonstrations of applause, by cheering and plaudits, and like his predecessor, delivered a very able speech of one hour and a half. As an eloquent speaker and politician, Mr. Bellinger, as is generally known, ranks with Carolina’s most gifted sons. He battled strong ly for Southern Rights, contending that fraud had been committed by the interventoni of the late Federal Executive, and by Congress, by practically adopting the Wilmot Proviso in the Compromise measures, as they are generally known. After the conclusion of his speech, dinner time having arrived, an intermission of half an hour was given, when the assembled crowd indulged themselves in the sumptuousness of a well prepared and elegant Barbacue. The animal appotites having been gratified, the crowd returned to the stand, and Mr. Miller again, as before, in a very able manner, concluded his speech in half an hour, the time allowed him. Mr. Miller is a man of fine talent, and his sound argument cannot fail do a great deal of good for the political party with which he is associa ted. At this stage ofthe debate, the name of Law son seemed to issue from nearly every mouth ; when the Col. ascended the rostrum, and in a speech of half an hour, employed his time in the exposition of the political course of Messrs. Toombs, Stephens and Cobb, showing that they had alternately been strong Southern Rights and Submission men; and that disunionism origina ted with the Whig party, in the person of the Hon. JonnQ. Adams, an avowed abolitionist— and has been progressing ever since, notwith standing they had assumed a new and fair name for the disguise of their treacherous cause—and that their course warrants the conclusion that their object is to monopolise Constitutional pow er and force submission, if possible, on the South. The Col. concluded, by saying, that he believed that the destiny of the South depended upon the action of South Carolina. Col. Lawson is a man of admirable ability as a speaker, and cannot fail to do the Southern Rights party a great deal of good in the present state of affairs. JAMES A. MIMS, Chairman. J. G. Glisson,! Sp „ ptarlp - B. R. Mims, J Secretaries. The Army Worm.—This destructive insect of the caterpillar species, we have been informed, has commenced its ravages in parts of this Dis trict. It is entirely consuming the hay-crop, making the fields look like a fire had swept over them. If its appearance should be general, it will add much to the calamity of a short crop.— Many years ago, it swept over the country like an army of locusts, devoring every blade of grass —peavines—fodder, that had been pulled from the stalk and left to cure, and even that which had been hauled in. As it marches forward like an army, it is said its progress may be arrested by cutting small ditches around a field if it has not entered. — Anderson (S. C.) Gazette. 17 th inst.