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Rtptthlic. 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. ARTICLES- F«H WHOLESALE., DUTY. ,] ARTICLES. I PER WHQLESALeT" DCTT. Bank T v, »—■ 'fiSa-H S? ““-ttMJSrfcfeSlia*"'. t „ 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 4M S! J * HXndGi"::::.::::::::!?g 1 ?sloo**.! ° en “ kof a--.*..::.:;;;;:;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;. § 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.... •S- bleached 5-4.... U® » j S N.E ; Rum. hhdsA bbls... JO 34 @0 37 Bank of Camden » 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.. " FlSH—Mackerel, No. 1... bbl. |2*® 13! P. R. ASt. Croix .... 07 @ 8J Alabama Notes ?! ".j" " Do. N0.2..11® Hi) Havana, white...... |0 00 @ 00 Tennessee @ 3 dis. Do. No. 3. *i® 7fj2opct. : New-Orleans.... *0 7(a) G dis. FLOUR—Canal 64® 8 ) Clarified 8r0wn.).... 08* @ 0 9 ' . . xo £ BANKABLE. Augusta Canal. 64@ 8 ) White , bus.*o 9 (f) o*s Merchants Bank, at Macon.* Georgia, g00d... .... 6}@ Lump. i.]fe.:o 10 ®0 11 oq » c t EXCHANGE. FEATHERS—Live Geese, .fc. 32 @ 33 ) SALT—Liverpool 000 (a) 125 On New-York , GRAIN—Corn, loose bns. 80 @ 85 Ino » Loose ....0 00 ®0 45 Philadelphia ! prem Do. sack 90® 95 ( F ji SOAP—American, yellow. sack 0 s(§ 0 630 p cent. Boston Wheat— Good White @125 SHOT—AU sizes .1 62 @ 1 7520 p 1 cent. Charleston and Savannah.'.'.’.’".' Do. Bed. 1 .... @1 00 1 rto wy e , SEGARS—Spanish ....... .M. 20 00@30 cent. Lexington, Kentucky.... 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 Sweden, atuiorted.. .ton 4|@ P cent. Seine '0 30 (aj 0 50i a it ... „ 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. Nail Rods 5@ 6 Hyson j.... 070 @ 0 80, Iree ' ; LEAD—Bar 100 6 ® 7 1™ v,., Young Hyson 070 ffl 0 75! Savannah Chamber of Commerce. 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.