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JAMES GARDNER, JR.7, )
and , Editor*.
JAMES M. SMYTHE, )
More of the Grope.
The following is from the Greensboro’ (Ala.)
Beacon of the 20th ult:
Planters in this vicinity are reporting more
favorably in regard to the cotton crop, and we
find the impression becoming quite general, that
the yield on most of the back lands, and on the
slough lands generally, will exceed that of last
year. From the thin sandy lands the accounts
continue to be unfavorable. The region lying
south of the ridge road leading from Marion to
Erie, will probably make more cotton than it did
last year; whilst that lying north will make
less.
The weather has been highly favorable since
the picking season commenced; but there are to
day, (Friday,) and have been for two or three
days past, indications of bad weather. As there
is now a v ery large amount of cotton open, a
heavy rain, accompanied by wind, would do
much damage.
The Natchitoches (La.) Chronicle of the 13th
ult. says:
The caterpillar has, during the last few days,
made its appearance, and our fields are already
almost stripped of their leaves. In a few days
more there will not be a green leaf left on any
plantation in our neighborhood.
The following is from the Holly Springs
(Miss.) Palladium of the 19th ult:
The weather still continues excssively dry.
Such a season has never been known in this
country since its settlement by the whites. We
hear some planters say they will get out their
cotton crop by the 15th of October. It is thought
the crop in this county will not average four
hundred pounds per acre. The supply of corn
is insufficient, and the ground is so dry that tur
nips will not come up.
The Richmond (Madison parish) journal of
the 19 th ult says:
Our planters are generally rejoicing in fine
picking. The crop in this parish will hardly
turn out as heavy as was anticipated a few weeks
since, still it will prove a fair one. We are told
by gentlemen who have visited that section that
the crops of cotton west of Bayou Macon, in
the parishes of Morehouse and Franklin, are
very interior; even the fine lands of Boeuf river
have failed to produce fair crops, owing to the in
tense drouth. And from all accounts, such is
the case throughout all Northwestern Louisiana.
Some of our citizens who had become almost
disheartened by the frequent overflows of late,
who have spent the summer in Mississippi, and
saw the miserable prospect there, now say that
the swamp lands are far preferable, even with
an overflow, to the hills. We have no doubt
that such is the cose, and the disastrous accounts
which reach us from the whole cotton-growing
region lead us to the conclusion that out own
neighborhood is better adapted to its culture, and
that the plant is liable to fewer casualties here
thau any other portion of the South.
Lieut. Van Vechten stated in his long ac
count of the Cuba expedition that General Lo
pez had a drunken frolic at Key West, and was
under its influence when the Pampero sailed for
Cuba. The engineer of that vessel, Isaiah
Evans, informs the New Orleans Delta that it is
a slander. He does not believe that Gen. Lo
pez drank a drop of spirituous liquors at Key
West, or elsewhere, during the voyage. It will
be recollected that before the departure from
New Orlcuns, spirits, by order of Gen. Lopez,
were prohibited.
We have no doubt that this is a mistake, if
not a slander. It has been mentioned by no
other writer, and could not have escaped obser
vation. But the letter of Lieut. Van Vechten,
is so full of contradiction, that none of its state
ments is hardly worthy of credence.
vouches lor as reliable, says that li'ol. (Jr l lien (ten
was detached from the main body of the expe
dition, against the desire of Gen. Lopez, but he
yielded through the advice of others.— Mobile
Tribune, 2UM ult.
Nkuotiations for the Sai.e of Cuba. —The
New York Herald extracts from the London
Leader of the 6th instant, the following article:
Terms for the Sai.e of Cuba. —On authori
ty which we believe to be quite trustworthy,
we learn the terms of the negotiations now go
ing on in London, for the sale of Cuba to the
American government. It is anticipated that
General Lopez will be repulsed; but after the
Spanish government Ims thus cleared its honor,
the island will be sold to the United States for a
round sum of money. More than one douceur
will be given—amongst others, an immense sum
to the Queen Mother of Spain. But the most
remarkable bonus is the allotment of half the
purchase money to the English holders of Span
ish bonds.
It is said that Lord Palmerston dislikes these
terms. Credat Juilaut.
We do not know how far the late explosion in
Cuba and New York will affect this negotiation;
but, according to our authority, it will make no
difference—General Lopez, the English bond
holders, and other influential parties, having been
engaged in the negotiation before the untoward
event, recounted elsewhere, occurred at Ha
vana.
Yacht “America.”—The Buffalo Commer
cial notices the fact that the “America” was but
a “second class” vessel in our waters—she hav
ing been beaten by the “Maria,” and relates the
following anecdote:
We heard of a circumstance, somewhat simi
lar to the late yacht race, that occurred in the
Mediterranean a few years ago. A down cast
schooner, named Jemima, in making the run
from Massina to Gibraltar, fell in with a crack
vessel belonging to the Royal Yacht Club. The
wind was fair, and the Englishman squared away
for a race. Jonathan packed on all the canvass
he could muster, and the result was he beat the
yacht at least a knot an hour all the way to Gib
raltar. When the Englishman reached there,he
waited on the Yankee to express his surprise
and chagrin—affirming, at the same time, that
his vessel had never before been beaten. “Jest
like my Jemima,” said Jonathan, “she never
beat nothin’ afore.”
The weather still continues cool. The mer
cury in the Thermometer in the rear of our Of
fice yesterday at 7A. M. stood ats6 deg, at 9A.
M. at 59 deg, at noon at 67 deg, at 3 P. M. at
68 deg, and at 5P.M.at 67 deg. At about half
past six yesterday evening the Aurora Borealis
appeared very brilliantly, and was as vivid as
flt any time in the depth of winter. It is a
phenomenon of rare occurrence here. In fact
this is extraordinary weather for the time of
year in this latitude, and so—as will be seen
from the subjoined remarks—thinks a venera
ble friend of ours in this City, on whom, though
long acquainted with him, old Time has laid his
hands so lightly as still to make him an acute
and sensible observer of passing events:
“The seasonable and pleasant shower of Satur
day afternoon has been succeeded,” writes our
friend, “by a delightful temperature and a lovely
sky, which will challenge tor sereneness and
beauty any climate.
“i'n Sunday, at 7A. M. the mercury in a
Thermometer suspended in a partially closed
piazza, stood at 5 ; deg, and to-day, Monday, at
the same hour, and in the same place, at 52 deg,
being the coolest September day experienced for
a very long period. The health ot the City, too,
is unparalleled,inasmuch as Charleston has never
enjoyed so entire an exemption from epidemics
of any kind tor many years.”— Chmrlettm Cou
rier, 30th ult. ,
Love and of a dreadfu
character was perpetrated in McDonough county, 1
HI-, on the 2d ult. A man named Frederick 1
Robert had been endeavoring to win the affec-11
tions of a young woman named Elizabeth Shan
non, without success. He persevered and impor
tuned until he became desperate by repeated
refusals, and at length came to the awful
resolve of taking her life. On the 2d he visited
her, and placing his hand round the waist of his
unconscious victim, plunged a knife into her
side and immediately made good his esc ape.
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE SP
For Governor.
Charles j. McDonald.
District For Congress.
I—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 MoMILLAN, of Elbert.
Representatives for Richmond County.
WILLIAM R. FLEMING,
WM. SCHLEY.
The Civil War Candidate.
Much clap-trap declamation has been indulged
in by the Consolidationists during this canvass
upon the horrors of civil war. Coupled with it is
the assertion made in all such cases, that the
purpose of the Southern Rights party is to pro
duce disunion by the process of secession, and
this must result in civil war. How ? By the
exercise of the military power of the Federal
Government to coerce the seceding State.
It is a falsehood willfully proppogated by the
Consolidation press and stump speakers, that it is
the purpose and aim of the Southern Rights
party of Georgia to produce disunion by the se
cession of the State, on account of the past. The
question was definitely disposed of by the people
of Georgia last fall in the election of delegates to
the State Convention. The people decided on
that occasion that Georgia ought not to tecede from
the Union. The Southern Rights party has ac
quiesced in that decision. In the present can
vass it has not gainsaid, or taken issue upon
that decision in any way. It has not urged its
reversal upon public attention, or set up candid
ates for office advocating its reversal, or taken
any steps which could by possibility lead to its
reversal by any -action or form of expression
through the constituted authorities of the State.
Should the Southern Rights candidate for Gov
ernor be elected, and every Southern Rights can
didate for the Legislature in the whole State be
elected, it would therefore be no declaration ot
the people of Georgia in favor of the secession of
Georgia from the Union. Georgia would remain
fixed as firmly in the Union, and her voice express
itself as explicitly in favor of remaining in
the Union, notwithstanding her causes of dis
content with the past action of the Government,
as though the opposite party succeeded. And
how would this declaration be deduced from such
a result? From the fact that Gov. McDonald,
the standard-bearer of that party—its candidate
for Governor, and exponent of its opinions, bows
to the decision of the people of Georgia as de-
TO BE DISTURBED.
It is deduced, also, from the fact that South
ern Rights candidates for the Legislature through
out the State, hold the same opinion. We defy
our opponents to point to a single candidate of
the Southern Rights party who maintains that
Georgia ought to reverse her decision and secede
from the Union on account of any past aggres
sions upon the rights of her people. Where is
the candidate who if elected to the Legislature
would not violate the position to which he is
pledged and commit a fraud upon his constitu
ents, were he to rise in his place and projxrse a
call of another Convention of the people to
reverse that decision *
The men who charge the Southern Rights
party with disunionism, know well when
making it that no such proposition is in contem
plation—no such issue is tendered by them—no
i such movement is really apprehended.
The men who express that apprehension are
insincere. Their cant on the subject is hypocricy
i —their tears for the Union are crocodile tears.—
I They are shed to deceive the weak, and alarm
• the timid. And it seems to us they must be
vtry weak, and viry timid, who in the face of
all the facts can be deceived by such shallow
tricks of demagogues and partizans.
But admitting for the sake of the argument
that the stern and uncompromising advocacy of
Southern Rights should either in the case of Geor
gia, or of any other Southern State, now or at
any future time, result in secession? Would
there be civil war ? And if so, who would cause
it and be responsible for it ? Would it be the
Southern Rights party ? No. For it is opposed
to the shedding of one drop of blood on account
of any such act by any State. It would op
pose the arming of brother against brother—of
neighbor against neighbor—of the citizens of one
State against the citizens of another State. It
would raise its voice, not only in the seceding
State, but throughout the South, and wherever
the banner of Southern Rights floats, and its
doctrines of State Rights and State sovereignty
prevail, in solemn protest against the use qf
force and the shedding of blood. Its hands
would unfurl the white banner of peace, and it
would appeal to the people of this great confe
deracy to abstain from striking down that ban
ner and trampling it in the dust, and staining it
with paternal blood. It would invoke the an
gel of concord to continue to preside over the
destinies of a once united confederacy of States,
whom a sense of wrong, or a conviction of ne
cessity had broken up into separate nationali
ties. It would raaiutain that each State and
! P*°P le were entitled to establish peaceably for
themselves new forms of government and new
safe-guards lor their future security.
On the contrary, Air. Cobb holds the doctrine
that a seceding State is liable to be coerced and
conquered back by cannon and bayonets that
her right to secede can alone be maintained by
an appeal to arms and the God of battles—that it
is a question of brute force, and the independence
of the State can only be maintained by the itrong
arm* and ttout hearts of the people. He direct
ly sanctions and justifies the use offeree on the ;
part of the Federal Government, as agent of the ]
Co-States, to conquer a State. His election by i
the people of Georgia, would give the sanction (
of their will to this doctrine offeree, and would 1
contribute its powerful influence to the destruc
tion of the principles of State sovereignty—to
the consolidation of power in the hands of the
Federal Government, thus making it a tremen
dous engine of military despotism, and the States
as abject dependents upon its will as is down
trodden Hungary at the feet of the Austrian
government.
I here is, therefore, singular aptness and truth
in the designation of Mr. Cobb as the Civil
War Candidate.
A Few Last Words!
Our weekly subscribers will receive nothing
more from us until after the election is over
which will declare the opinion of Georgia in re
ference to the wisdom, justice and liberality
shown the South in the Compromise measures,
and her position in reference to the great ques
tions of State sovereignty involved in the present
canvass. That it will be a fair and unbiassed
declaration of sentiment, we do not anticipate;
for demagogues have adroitly succeeded in alarm
ing timid men attached to the Union of the
States, and have taught them to believe that the
question of Union or Disunion is to be decided
by this election. They have doubtless persuaded
many into the Union ranks whose sympathies
and opinions are with the Southern Rights par
ty, and who coincide with them in the belief
that justice has not been done the South—who
are opposed to federalism and consolidation, and
who believe that the only security, in the last
resort, for the rights of the people, is in State
sovereignty, and who fear the despotism of a
federal majority in the action of the government,
over the rights of minorities.
But with all these drawbacks upon the legiti
mate strength of the Southern Rights party, it
will, we are confident, show a strength at the
polls which will astonish the Federal leaders.
Friends of Southern Rights, of State Rights and
State Sovereignty, rally to the polls, and display
all your strength. The demonstration to be
made next Monday, is not for a day or a year,
but for all time.
If, by your exertions, you will bring out an
honest and frank expression of public sentiment
in Georgia, then no “grateful triumph”
awaits the Free Soilers of the North. You will
be saved the mortification of reading of bonfires
and illuminations, and the firing of cannon in
Northern cities, at the, to them, “glorious
news” that Mr. Cobb is elected Governor, and
that Mr. Stephens has supplanted the Hon. John
McPherson Berrien in the Senate of the United
States.
Remember that the election of Charles J. Mc-
Donald, and of the Southern Rights candidates
for the Legislature, will be gall and wormwood
to the reviiers ot the South, who have, in the
bitterness of their hearts, sworn to break down
and destroy her political power. Should the
Southern Rights party be defeated, the very bands
i which are stained with the blood of Southern
citizens, who tell on Northern soil, while seeking
the restoration of their slave property from Abo
lition clutches, will be waved on high, and the
shout will be exnltingly raised—Georgia is a
Submission State. Seward, and Hale, and Gid
dings will renew the boast made by the former,
that the love of the Union is strouger at the
■ I inalifaifiAH rtf cU-pry The SDU*-
it of Northern aggression will receive a new im
petus, and Northern Federalists will rejoice in
the practical triumph of Mr. Cobb’s doctrine —
j that in case a State ever attempts to secede from
the oppressions which Federal power may heap
upon her, the Federal Government can draw
the sword, bear down upon her with hostile
armies, and quench the spirit of resistance and
the ambition for independence in the blood of her
1 j people.
A hostile meeting took place by appoint
| ment, on Saturday afternoon, 27th ult., at Vienna,
S. C., 55 miles above Augusta, between James
M. Smythe, Esq., and Thomas W. Thomas, Esq.,
j which resulted in Mr. Smythe’s receiving, at the
1 third fire, a flesh wound through the thighs.
The parties used pistols at ten paces.
We take this mode of announcing to the nu
merous friends of Mr. Smythe, at a distance,
i that he reached home by a boat on Sunday night,
and is now suffering comparatively little pain
from his wound.
Very many friends have called to see him
who find him in cheerful spirits. He will pro-’
bably be out in a very few weeks.
Eatonton Branch Rail Road.
\\ e invite the attention of contractors to the
advertisement of Col. Wm. G. Bonner. Chief
Engineer of the above Road.
We are pleased to learn that the work on this
road is making satisfactory progress, and that in
one year from date, the whistle of the steam en
gine will be heard in the town of Eatonton.
This will place Eatonton in direct communica
tion with Savannah by Rail Road via Milledge
ville.
When are we to have a branch to Eatonton
from the Georgia Rail Road ?
Mr. Oobb and the Central Bank.
Since the publication of the letter written to
one of the editors from Milledgeville, the follow
ing letter has been received from the same
triumphs of the triumvirate, Cobb and Stephens
source, correcting some inaccuracy. The facts
do got materially vary irom the statement first
given of Mr. Cobb’s transactions with the Gen?
tral Bank.
Milledgeville, Sept. 36,1851. !
Bear Sir: I find by examination, that an er
ror occurs in my statement sent you ; I regret it j
should have occurred; but as I had to reply to ,
your note by return mail, and the Bank was >
closed, the facts could only be given from the !
Bank officer's recollection. Upon an examina- !
tion of the books of the Bank, the following facts t
are found: ° .
_ The contract with the third Attorney (Mr.
Kenan) was, that he was to' have all over one
thousand dollars he could collect. The ameunt
recovered was near $1,700. 700 of which went
to the Attorney. The whole claim amounted to
about *I,BOO. The Bank received $956, instead
ot $7 50, as I wrote you, something over 50 cts
on the dollar.
Through a private letteTtorT Athens, the
Londom Morning Chronicle learns that work
men employed four miles from the city, in drain
ing the field of Marathon, found the place of se
pulture of the warriors who fell there in the
memorable battle 490 years before the birth of
Christ.
AUGUSTA WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT, OCTOBERI, 1851.
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BALE ROPE-Jute fc. Til 8*25 cent. Summerdo )...Jl 00 <§ 1 3 Bank of Augusts
Kentucky . 1 ! B j@ 9 Linseed bbl. 090 (a) 10020 p cent. Branch State of Georgia. Augusta
BACO *-*r i| 2 | w £S^.—:
Shoulders . ' »}@ 11') POTATOES 1bb1.,0 00 @0 oe Georgia Bail-Bead
BUTTER—Goshen, prime . jj. »@ 25 ,20 p cent. PIPES ■■ ~..|0 62 @IOO Mechanics'Bank
BEESWAX J 18 @ 00 PORTER ,d oz 225 @ 3 50. Bank of St Marvs
rANDLES—Snermacetti T I 45 ®SO PEPPER .]fc.o 10@ 12J „ , ‘ , T
CA. D Efe—.pe tt .... 15 16 20 cent. PIMENTO .“.0 16 10 OO Bank of Milledgeville.
Northern j.... 16 t2O tp ct.' BAlSlN3—Malaga, bunch. | box 000 ® 3 25. ct Bank of the State of Georgia, at Sarannah..
COFFEE Luba •••• 10 1 Fair...... '... .4 00 @4 50 Marine A Fire Insurance Bank. Sarannah
T.-i .1 ' 134(f) 15 . „ Good and Prime.. 000 (a) 000 Branch of ditto.at Macon
Latmarra’..... U"... 10 @ 11 , French ’gall 150 @ 2 00100 p ct. Planters'Bank. Savannah
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§ brown, yd. wide 1 .... 6i@ 8J |g American Gin 038 @ 0 40' Centra’ R. R. & Banking Company, Savannah «
C 5 SHEETINGS bro 5-4 .. 10 (w 13 X Jamaica Rum 150@ 200 100 ct. I! Charleston Banks....
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» CHECKS J,® If ” Whiskej.PhiUAßalt i ....o 25 @ 0 30; Bank of Georgetown
| BED TICK B*@ 16 |j D°- New-Orteana... ... 028@ 030 Commercial, at Columbia
= OSNABURGS, Boz ® J 3 l"i' I®9 «1 25 100 Pet. Merchants', at Cheraw "
YARN, (assorted) fc. X 4 @ 18 : SUGAR-Coba Muscovado .fc. 06J@ 800 Bank of Hamburg.. "
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Augusta Canal. 64@ 8 ) White , bus.*o 9 (f) o*s Merchants Bank, at Macon.*
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GUNPOWDER keg 5@5 25 ( v ' TALLOW—American 09 @ 0 1010 cent. Nashville, Tennessee.
HIDES—Dry 8 @ 9 1 20 Bct TOBACCO—Georgia Jb :0 00 @0 00 „ n STftrcn
Dry, salted 0@ 10 }2oFct. Cavendish 022@ 050 30 et ' R.n™ia * sTOCKa
IRON-Pig : 100 0 raj 00 30 p cent. TWINE-Bagging 018@ 025 - „ ® Percenta
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Hoop 100 5 @ 6 loovyct TEAS—Pouchong i.... 050 @ 0 75. er.Ml.n'k redeemsble lt the Pl »nt-
Sheet fc. lOJ® 11 j2O ct. Gunpowder A Imp... ~,]o 75 @ 1 00; | f ers Bank. >»'»nnah. at par.
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White Lead 7J@ 9 j"P“' WlNES—Madeira 'gall. 200 ffi 22530 V cent.f - - - ■
LARD ib. 12 ® 13 Claret, Marseilles cask 025 @ 0 6040 p cent. ROBERT HABERSHAM. President
MOLASSES—Cuba gall. 24 @ 26 Do. Bordeaux doz 13 00 @35040 f> cent, C. GREEN. Ist Vice-President
New-Orleansl @4O l %v t Champagne | 900 @ls 00 40 cent EDW'D. PADELFORD, 2d Vice-President
NAILS—Cut, 4d. to 20d. 350@3 75 ) v '4 Malaga '....'p 50 @ 0 6240 p eent.U OCTAVUS COHEN, Secretary and Treasurer.
Important Improvement in Telegraphing.
The Algemeine Zeitung of the 17th ult., states
that Monsieur Hipp a watch maker in Reutlingen
Wurtemberg, has lately perfected the “writing
telegraph” in such a degree that any person of
ordinary capacity can telegraph by it in every
minute one hundred and twenty letters, or as
much as a smart penman can write. The in
strument, consisting of the necessary number of
keys, on each of which the letter is marked,
writes with a glass pen filled with common ink on
ordinary paper, which is laid over a cylinder-
The machinery is very complicated, and its con
struction cannot well be described without
drawings. As two or more writing machines
can be set in motion by one and the same wire)
and as no transcribing becomes necessary, this
new invention, apart from its velocity, will re
commend itself especially for newspaper intelli
gence. This instrument promises to be also me
chanically true.
The London correspondent of the Washington
National Intelligencer, writing under date of
the 14th ult., says that a very painful discovery
has lately been made, respecting the bad quality
of the preserved meats which have been fur
nished to|the British navy, at the Royal Clarence
Victualling Yard in Portsmouth, inasmuch as
the greater part has been found unwholesome,
and unfit for use. But what makes the subject
more distressing, is the fact that the supplies fur
nished to Sir John Franklin’s expedition were
from the same depot. The writer further states
that the whole business is under investigation,
but he fears that the broad fact is indisputable.
A late London letter says that Mr. McCor
mick’s reaping machine is acknowledged to be
' ! the great affair” of the great exhibition. It nas
been ascertained that the reaping machine will
cut from sixteen to twenty-six acres of wheat
per day, according to the position of the land and
the condition of the crop; to cut which in the
usual way, would require thirty-two and fifty
two men respectively. The machine may be
worked with two men and two horses, at an
expense of eighteen shillings per day, while to
do one of its average day’s work in the ordinary
way would cost seven pounds.
Texas. —The recent election shows very clear
ly that Texas is rapidly gaining in population.
The increase in the number of votes already re
ported as having been cast at the last election,
says the Texas Civilian, indicates a vote of at
least 30,000 for the whole State.
Health of Mr. Clay.— We regret to learn
from the New York Mirror, that the health of
Mr. Clay is in such a feeble state, that it is ex
tremely doubtful if he will ever again be able to
visit Washington. For the first time in his long
and glorious life, the great Statesman seems to be
physically desponding. The editor of the Mir
ror says that he writes this paragraph, as it will
be read, with a feeling of profound sadness.
A friend informs us, (says the Savannah
News,) that a light frost was discernible on the
ground in this vicinity on Saturday night. The
thermometer,) i the open air, stood atso degrees
in the morning. It was cold enough for frost
last night.
Aurora Borealis.
This splendid phenomenon, so seldom witnes
sed in this latitude, described in the following
paragraph from the Charleston Mercury , was seen
in this city on the same evening.
Unusual Phenomenon.— Last evening there
was a display of the Aurora Borealis, of a bril
liancy and duration very unusual, if not unpre
cedented, in this latitude. A rich flush of light
of various shades, from a pale green at the hori
zon to a glowing crimson at its upper edge, cov
ered nnore than half the Northern sky, and was
so vivid as to produce a general impression that
it was produced by a conflagration in the neigh
borhood. This extraordinary visit pf the Au
rora sis cop tjijqed until a' late hour of the
night, and it the exhibition was of a correspon
ding brilliancy in regiops further North, it will
afford a rich theme for scientific discussion.
Money Market, Saturday Sept. 27th. There
is less panic in the market, but no change in the
demand for money or the rates of interest. The
banks continue to accommodate their regular cus
tomers as tar as they can with their receipts, but
it is exceedingly difficult tq negotiate business
paper. Loans on call are rather more easily ob
tained to-day, although at h gher rates than were
current last week.
We quote:—
Loans on call, stock securities 7 a 10
Do. other good securities .10 al2
Prime endorsed bills, 60 a SO days Vo 2 is
Do. 4 a 6 months '..12a IS
Auctioneers'bills IV » is
Other good bills •••.Mats
Remarkable Memory.— The New-York cor
£Cng: ofthe BUrUngt ° n C ° Urier relate * £e
~“A . /“end of mine recently offered a
re^atfrnm Ughter ’ 3 g i rl flfteen y ear sold,
repeat from memory the entire contents of anv
page of any single copy of the New-York Sun
within twenty-four hours after its publication’ 1
You know of course that this paperuSn^tl
wholly filled with advertisements. Considering
the want of connection between the paragraphs,
and the number and variety of the advertise
ments, I thought I might safely venture a V, so I
; selected the third page of that day’s issue. Im
agine my astonishment, however, when the next
day the talented young lady, accompanied by
, her father, called upon me, and repeated the con
tents of the entire seven columns, verbatim et
literatim. I regard this as a most remarkable in
stance of the magic power of memory.
[communicated.]
BUSHVILLE, Geo., 20th Sept., 1851.
Messrs. Editors :—Perhaps a brief account
of recent political transactions in North-eastern
Georgia would not be uninteresting to some of
your numerous subscribers. Our old Democratic
Republican Franklin county has been pretty
thoroughly canvassed of late. Judge Hillyer
and Col. Jones have addressed the people of our
county at several places during the last few
weeks. The former apologizing for the late
so-called compromise measures, and supporting
Mr. Cobb’s floundering federalists doctrine!
The latter ably maintaining the old Republican
State Rights principles.
Many of our citizens had the pleasure of hear
ing them break lances on theie issues, in a Meth
odist Church of this neighborhood, about the last
of August, at one of Mr. Hillyer's appointments.
Mr. H. led off in a speech of an hour and a half,
with the privilege of an half hour’s reply. There
is no necessity of going into a strict analysis of
his remarks. Suffice it to say, that his whole
sjieech was a labored, but weak, effort to show
that the Southern surrender, called the Clay
bills, was a Southern victory! And he did prove
it, too, as clear as mud. As for the abolition of
the slave trade in the District of Columbia, he
IroU m, . vi-no —Him, 44m ponaliy attach
ed, for two reasons, viz: that Maryland, Geor
gia, Mississippi, &c., had passed similar laws—
and that the slave pens were a great nuisance.
But how he felt when Col. Jones got up and
told him that he (Mr. H.) well knew that the
United States Court had decided such laws un
constitutional, and also that the citizens of the
District had a right, in their municipal capacity,
to do away with any nuisance, without troubling
Congress with it, and thereby giving a precedent
to the Abolitionists, ruinous to our institutions!
I say, how he felt on hearing this, I can’t tell;
but this much I do know, he betook himself to
E. Y. Hill's battery—he was Gen. Mum.
Another point. Mr. H. fearing that there
might be some few in the crowd who sympa
thized with our gallant little sister over the Sa
vannah, made choice of Vermont to try the effect
of a small political clap of thunder. And, with
all the majesty and self-importance of a game
cock, he strutted back and forth in the sacred
desk of Him who died for ali-nand foamed and
blubbered oqt that, if she would disregard our
rights, he would batter her down—he would an
nihilate her people. Now, in all conscience
where was there any necessity for such fulmina-’
tion as this ? If Vermont should, for certain
causes, think it best to quit our Union, we State
Rights men say, let her go peaceably ; and then
she, to all intents and purposes becoming a for
eign people, would come to some treaty stipula
tions with us, in which we, of course, would not .
be regardless of our rights and interests. Then
why all this sustain of the Judge’s? Why all
this noise for nothing? You remember Homer’s (
account of the convulsive throes of a mountain
in travail, that murmured, and muttered, and <
trembled—but was soon safely delivered of a ,
nwuse! If Vermont, Massachusetts, Pennsylva
nia, Ohio and the other hireling States, aim to (
remain in the Union, and totally disregard our
rights and constitutional guaranties, why is nqf a
Mr. Hillyer and every Southerner, with the n
Southern Rights party, organizing a spirit of \
vigilance in the South, and bringing to renewed \
vigor the safe old State Rights doctrine j Buti
they tell us our platform is too narrow find *ec 1
tional! Well, if we cannot have union wi»’ n “ ' \ I
sacrificing the vital (mexests of the- Soi-' ch T, 1
one in would give » BtiV e r , ’ ,
State Rights platformu not sufficiently broad for ! '
Wndre7 y ° f the 1* them seek j
kindred spirits among the .-.objects of the British I
Another point. Mr, H. said, in regard to
that * should noticed, JL any
whatever /—that United States mo
ney had bought her territory, and that she had
no right to secede, and should not! So much
tor his notion of the right of peaceable secession.
If Louisiana has no right to secede for just cause,
no other State has the right, and our govern
ment is a consolidated despotism! Did not the
citizens of Louisiana pay government price for
their land ? And if she, for some cause, see fit to
leave the Union, would she object to an honora
ble treaty, granting the other States the right of
navigating the Mississippi ?
At the conclusion of Mr. H., Colonel Jones
T * n a *P two hours, plainly show- i
mg e outhern surrender in the compromise |
% bills, and also the right of peaceable secession
b But when he began to show up the consistency
I of Howell, in approving the abolition of the slave
- trade in the District of Columbia, in 1830, after
t so pointedly opposing it in 1849; and while he
f was reminding us that there must be danger
~ t brewing when such political antipodes as Cobb
- Toombs and Stephens agreed—the house roared
with the deafening cheers of State Rights men,
entirely to the consternation of Mr. Hillyer; for
no one but himself knew that Colonel Jones
t Wa » coming, and no doubt thought he had
around him an entire Sub. audience. But the
f State Rights men, like the ghost of Banco, ap
peared to his startled vision when least expected!
So much for that meeting. We had a discus
' sion, at this place, a short time before the one
r spoken of, and I shall pass it by unnoticed, ex
\ cepting a remark or two of the main Submis*' lon
speaker.
• Ha admitted that Mr. Cobb did vofe y or the
; Wilmot proviso in the Oregon bill 1 He Wa3 sot
• him notwithstanding. He also stated that the
1 Californians would not suffer slaves to be ad
mitted there, because they would We consider,:
themselves degraded to work by the side of negroei
' I have worked by the side of 'negroes, and the
most of Georgians have; then, according to him
; we are poor,degraded beings! Thank Heaven!
' the gentleman who said this was not bom in Gear
' R' a - How the Submissionists were met on that
f occasion by the State Rights party, those who
s heard can judge. But, to cap the climax of out
' glorification up here, on Friday, the 12th inet
’ Charles J. McDonald and Col. Jones both ap
‘ peared at this place. Notwithstanding t v .,e busy
fodder season, and the ignorance of Governor
Mc ' s - coming, there was a considerable col- i
lection. The old Governor Tose f, r3t ,
when he turned to address his old Demo
cratic friends, exhibiting a face whose every
( feature was stamped with honesty, every eye
, wa * {ixe d and every hekrt appeared to beat a
• hearty God-speed to the old statesman. He
then, in a most simple, unaffected and beautiful
manner, told us his principles, viz : that he be
| lieved the States to be sovereigns, and that ant/
1 one of them had the right to secede from the
Union, whenever it saw that the powers entrust, j
to the General Government were exercised to
its injury or disadvantage—that each one had the
right to judge of this matter—that we had „et
got justice by the Clay bills; but, that prv.Jenee
demanded the non-exercise of the right of seces
sion for past aggressions. He then cleared up
some false charges that he had -understood were
alleged against him as Governor of the State, and
took his seat, after pleasing every one that heard
him, both political friends and opponents,; of the
latter, there were very few. Then Colonel
Jones arose, and for one hour held the audience en
chained by his eloquent and argumentative man
nei. They then left for Clarkesville—no oppo
sition. After they were through, Col. Morris,
who had received such a basting from Col. Jones
the day before, especially for reading extracts
from that paper, which was drubbed out of Ma
con some time since tor its abolition sentiments,
got up and talked a little; but, when he saw that |
there was only one who kept time with him on
an old box, he concluded it was a water-haul, ar j
wound up in a sort of confab with the South', ra
Rights boys. If lam any judge of the sign so s
the times, just as sure as this pen is in ray
McDonald and Jones will get a vote in th - , sixth
Congressional District alarming to the * „ r j U mvi.
rate.
One thing had almost passed avy no tice; the
Cobbltes are circulating through this quarter, a
paper called the Me con Unio n Banner, edited by
an wntamet* committee, an«l without a responsible I
name, w ja (. g en t[ eman _ -would circulate it!
gentleman would read it with confidence '
-y, they might call me a sheep-stealer, and 1
could have ho recourse against the slanderer!
j As the old lady says, “me honor is not safe un
der such a contraption.” If Mr. Cobb is elected,
we hope that his Keeper of the Penitentiary
! willfor the Loris sake be as easy as possible on
i Miss Jane Young.
Yours, &c., Broomstick.
i Should any among our community haV'e
the ill luck to contract a cold, or the prevalef jt
influenza, Ayer's Cherry Ptctoral is recommend ,ed
to such as an efficient agreeable medicine — I are
to relieve them.
[Telegraphedfor the Charleston Courier)
New Orleans, Sept. 29, 11.55> .A. M.
The steam ship Yacht from Galve.'/ton has ar
rived to-day at the South West Pa ss, and a dis
patch from thence states that the i evolution in
Sierra Madre has been entirely sue cessful.
New Orleans, Sept. 29,. 8.27 P. M.
On Saturday nine hundred bal es of Coiton
changed hands, and to-day two hu ndred. Pric.“ s
have experienced no change from the Baltic?*
advices. Middling was worth BJc. Flour is in
better demand at $3,75. Mess Pork is worth sls.
Columbia, Sept. 29, 6.20 p. m.
The tenor of the Baltic’s advices has had a
tenoency to keep the Cotton market firm at the
current rates oflast week. Seventy bales were
sold to-day, at prices ranging from 6} to 9 5-16 c.