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Constitationflliat fc TUpttblir. JAMES GARDNER, " JR~ P ) and \ Editors. JAMES M. SMYTHE, ) TERMS. Daily, per annum, in advance ....$8 00 Tbi-Wbkki.t, per annum 8 00 >V khkly. per annum, if paid in advance 2 00 These term* are offered to new subacribers, and to old subscriber* who pay up all arrearages. In uo case will the Weekly paper be sent at $2, un less the money accompanies 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, it not discontinued, or paid for in advance, will be sent on the rid terms. $2 50 if paid at the office within the year, or $3 if paid at the expiration of the ye»r- # Postage must be paid on all communication* and letters v f business. TERMS OP ADVERTISING. One square (12 lines,) 60 cents the first insertion, and 37$ oents 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 Pour Months' Notices 4 00 Rules Nisi, (monthly) $1 per square, each insertion. £7* ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, aei at our BISK. (Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sim.) Farther per Africa. New-York, Sept. 24th—12, M. The steamer Africa has arrived, with Liver pool dates to the 13th inst. She brings 144 pas sengers. General News. —A violent gale has pre vailed on the English coast. The Spanish brig Cervantes was wrecked off Margate, and the Rotterdam steamer Apollo met with the same fate on the Kentish shore. In the county of Antrim, Ireland, while an amateur lecturer on biology was holding forth to about 500 personr, in the loft of a windmill, the floor gave way and precipitated them to the ground, killing four persons and dangerously wounding many others. Madrid papers state that the Spanish Cortez would be convoked early in November, The railroad from St. Petersburg to Moscow was to have been opened on the 3..stof August by the Emperor in person. A letter from Vienna, of Sept. 3d, says that the Austrian government intends taking severe measures against the press. Numerous arrests were made at Pesth on the 31st August, on ac count of the exhibition of the statue of St. Ste phen, the features of which resembled Kossuth. Beyond the political discontent which pre vails throughout Austria, Germany, and Italy, there is little news of interest. Berlin advices state that the police inspection of foreigners, so rigidly observed since 1848, had been discontinued. Ship Ocean sailed from Deal on Sept. 11th for Baltimore, and the Orion on the 7th of Sept., from Bremen for Baltimore. England. —A challenge has been sent to the yacht America by the beachmen of North Yar mouth, offering to put one of their clipper yawls against her for 10U guineas. Two cargoes of pig iron had bean imported into Liverpool from China. In the provincial towns several ladies had adopt ed the Bloomer costume, and even in London one or two cases had presented themselves. Great interest continued to he felt about Cu ban affairs, and further news was looked for with much anxiety. The papers are filled with de tails of the news, and comments on the same. Great excitement continued to he felt relative to the Archbishop’s recent letter. France.—A good deal of feeling has been ex cited by the promulgation of a decree compelling foreigners proposing to resiile in France to ob tain immediate leave so to do from the authori ties. This decree does not apply to travellers having | assports, but is aimed at political refu gees and agitators, and hence the excitement. Advices from Paris state that instructions had been sent by the Government to the comman dant of the French squadron at the Antilles, to assist the Cuban Government in repelling the invaders. Markets. —Barings’ circular quotes Ameri can stocks in limited request, and unchanged in prices. The reports in reference to the potato crop within the last few days, are much more unfa vorable. The Cotton market had been active during the week, and prices of qualities above ordinary and below fair had advanced during the week Jd. The market dosed less active. The sales of the week have been 50,600 hales, of which specula tors took 10,400 and exporters 8,800. The quo tations of fair cotton are unchanged. Trade in Manchester was good and business looking up, particularly in yarns. Some goods being more abundant, prices were lower. Brown & Shipley’s Circular states that flour and wheat arc unchanged since the sailing of the Europa, though a better feeling prevailed in the market. Corn had declined in consequence of the large quantities forced on the market. Middling Orleans cotton is quoted at 5 3-1 (id; Mobile s ld; Uplands 5. Sales oil Friday were 6000 hales; market closed quiet. Stocks. —Sales of U. S. 6’s, 1868, at 111 a 112; do. do., 1802, at 106| a 107* ; Maryland s’s, BSt a 894. The Paris Stock Market was exceediagly fluctuating; s’sclosed at 92145 c. Havre Cotton Market, Sept. 11th.—Sales of cotton for the week ending the 10th inst., were 3,400 bales. The sales up to two o’clock to-day have been 1,000 bales. New Orleans 68 a 94f.; Uplands 70 a 89f. The imports for the week have been 400 bales. The total stock is 43,000 bales, of which 34,000 were American. [Second Despatch.} New-York, Sept. 24, P. M. The Africa made the passage in about ten days and a half. She passed, on the afternoon of the 13th. the steamship Canada, bound to Liverpool. The Africa fired her signal gun off the battery, at a quarter past 7 o’clock this morning. General Summary. —The Queen is enjoying herself in short excursions among the scenery of her highland home. The receipts at the doors of the exhibition on the 11th, were £2,637, and the number of visi tors 54,800. The Kaffir war continues. A war on the River Platte has, ere this, com menced. While Northern Europe are conspiring against the liberty of mankind, the French Government are becoming alarmed by the alleged discovery of a conspiracy among the foreigners in Paris. The arrivals of specie in England are very large. For the week ending Sept. 12, say about three quarters of a million sterling. Money is easier. First class bills are readily discounted below three per cent. France. —Louis Napoleon proves more anx ious as 1852 approaches, and the alleged conspi racy was opposed to impart strength to his cause ; but the police, as if malicious, ridicule the plot by making razzio among some hundred and fifty German sailors—forty of whom, for sheer shame, had to be instantly discharged. The commercial prospects of France continue favorable. Denmark.— Hamburg correspondence men tions that the recruits drafted from the Duchy of 8c hies wig have been sent to Copenhagen, where they will be distributed among the Danish ‘regi ments. 1 his proceeding provoked violent pro testations from the German press Austria and Russia.— The treaty of the nav igation of the Danube, concluded between Aus tria and Russia, has been prolonged. Numerous arrests had taken place at Pesth on the 31st ult. Italy.— The Neapolitan Government had at length felt the necessity of issuing some sort of reply tdShe letters of Mr. Gladstone ; and their organ, after abusing Lord Palmerston, says that an ample refutation is on the eve of publication. According to the Lombardy 1 enetio, of the 2d, the Neapolitan Ministry intended request ing the British Government to recall Mr. Tem ple their present Minister at this court. Turkey. Advices from Constantinople re port a change in the Ministry, and such is the scarcity of money, that the Flirt was detained in port for a fortnight, wholly for the want of funds. An American steam frigate was awaiting the liberation of Kossuth and his companions, to bring them to the United States. Markets. Brown & Shipley’s Circular. —Liverpool, Sept. 12. —After the departure of the Pacific with our circular of the 2d inst., the cotton market continued very quiet until the beginning of the present week, when an active demand sprung up, aided by speculators and exporters, and prices of the qualities above ordinary and below fair advanced one-eighth of a penny per lb. Dur ing the last two days, however, there has been less buoyancy, and this improvement is only partially maintained. The entire sales of the week reach 51,640 bales, of which 10,480 have been taken on speculation, and 8.810 lor export. We quote fair Orleans 6d.; fair Mobile s |d.; fair Uplands s|d.; middling 5 3-16, 5| a sd. The stock of cotton in this port is 583,000 bales, of which 420,000 are American, against a total stock last year of 548,000, of which 356,- 000 were American. There has been a good business in Manches ter, especially for yarns, but some descriptions of goods are becoming abundant, and arc sold at lower prices. Notwithstanding the continuance of fine weather which has favored the completion of the harvest, there has been rather a better tone in the corn market for flour and wheat during the past week, but no advance in prices We repeat our previous quotations, viz: For Balti more and Philadelphia flour, 18s. a 18s. 6d.; Western Canal, l ls. to 18s.; Ohiit and Canada, 18s. to 188. 6d. Wheat, ss. 3d. ass. Cd. for white, and ss. ass. 2d. per 70 lbs. for red. In dian corn is neglected and difficult of sale, at a decline of about 6d. We quote white 275. 6d.; yellow 265. a 265. 6d., and mixed 255. a 255. 6d. per 480 lbs. Traces of Sir John Franklin—Amertcan Expedi tion. News from the American Exploring Expedi tion to the 17th September, 1850, has been re ceived in England, in a letter addressed to the Admiralty. It is transmitted by the master of the True Love, a whaler, in a letter as follows: “ Davis' Straits, July 2d, 1851. “My lords : May it please your Lordships to recive at my hands the enclosed testimony, re ceived on the 12th of July, of the American searching vessel, of the account of their voyage in search of Sir John Franklin. On the 13th of September, 1850, they left the searching vessels at Cape Martyrs, Cornwallis Island, they not being enabled to pursue any further westward direction from that date. A harbor, called the Assistant Harbor, discovered by Captain Om manney, three miles south of Cape Martyrs, was the place in selection by them to winter in. The bay ice was lorming very strong at that time, yet the Advance and Rescue were determined to proceed homeward; but unfortunately, however, a gale sprung up and drove them up Wellington Channel fifty miles,and afterwards they were frozen in. The American Captain, De Haven, told me that the winter was very mild, and that he can give no further particulars respecting Sir John Franklin than the enclosed account.— He said he was determined to go to the seat of search again, after having wintered ; and all the documents received from the admiralty, and others 1 gave to him. “John Parker, master of the True Love'” mlmoranda. “1. On the 26th of August, 1850, traces were found to northward of Port Innis, Wellington Channel, confirming those previously found at Cape Riley by Captuin Ominanney. These consisted of fragments ot clothing, preserved meat tins, and scraps of paper, one of these bear ing the name of M’Donald, medical officer in the expedition.” “2. On the 27th, Capt. Penny's parties re ported graves. These were at once visited by Captain De Haven, Mr. Penny, and Dr. Kane. They bore respectively the names of W. Brainc. R. M„ and John Hartnell, of the Erebus, and John Torrington, of the Terror, the date ot the latest death being the 3d of April, 1810. [These persons belonged to Franklin’s crew.j Added to these sad but unmistakeable evidences were the remains of the observatory, carpenters’ shop, and armorers’ forge. Upon the hill side and beach were fragments of wood, metal, and clothing, with stacks of empty meat tins. Everything indi cated permanency and organization. There can be no doubt that the cove between Cape Riley and Beechy Island, facing Lancaster Sound, was the first water station of the missing vessels.— On the 31st ot September the impervious ice of the Wellington Channel underwent a complete disruption, and by the 6th several vessels pene. trated the Cornwallis side. Such, however, was the impenetrable character of the pack in Lan caster Sound that by the 10th of September the entire searching squadron were again concen trated about eight miles south of Griffith's Is land. This was the furthest westing attained by the American expedition. The latest dates from Commodore Austin are of the 13th of Sep tember. They were then in momentary expectation of making winter quarters, and it is probable that a small liarboi discovered by Capt. Ommanney, about three miles east of Cape Martyrs, will be the haven selected. Thence the American ves sels, while proceeding homeward, w’ere frozen in, opposite Wellington Channel, drifting during the ensuing winter from a latitude of 75 25 through out the channel and sound of Baltin's Bay. Their liberation, after much exposure and trial, took place on the 10th of June, 1851. at a point south of Cape Walsingham 65 30—a linear drift exceeding 1,060 miles. The commotion of the ice with its attendant uncertainty was their chief source of trial. Every officer and man had mark ed scorbutic disease, but no deaths have occurred. The crews are now refreshed, and the expedi tion is endeavoring to regain the seat of search —I have, &c. “E. K. Kane, Surgeon, to the Expedition.” The London News, of the 10th inst., gives great importance to these notes, and says: “The intelligence of traces of Sir John Frank lin and his companions has been scanned with eagerness by the veteran Arctic explorers now reposing on their laurels at Woolwich, and many of them are sa 'guine in the expectation that they may yet have the pleasure of welcoming at least the surviving portion of the noble crews who left Woolwich in May, 1545, with the Erebus and Terror. It may be interesting to know that the Royal Marine whose grave was found was Ser geant Wm. Braine, of the Woolwich division, who volunteered to proceed to the Arctic regions with the Exploring party, although he had only recently returned from service in China.” It would be curious if the American expedition should be the first to discover Sir John or his fate, with certainty. Singular Cure. —A curious remedy is preva lent among many of the slaves on the sugar plan tations in this State, whenever a valued Iruit tree is attacked by disease. A black cat is caught— “black” it must be—and, after varions mystic cer emonies, the unfortunate animal is killed and buried under the roots of the wooden patient. This is supposed to be a sovereign cure for the maladies of orange, banana, pecan, lime and other tropical fruit-bearing trees. The practice derives no doubt from the superstitions of Africa; through, we believe, the inhabitants of Chili, in South America, prescribe a similar dose in similar cases. The coincidence of superstition is some what remarkable, to say the least of it. A wag at our elbow hints that this medical practice here may b« the reason why so few black cats are to be seen in this city or along the coast. That is a question in natural history which we leave to our readers to decide.— N. O. Picayune. [From the Charleston Courier .] Hydrophobia an Illusion. Mksses. Editors—l was startled by some re marks in a late Westminister Review, on the sub ject of Hydrophobia, which, if well founded, must produce a revolution in the apprehensions and practice of mankind in regard to this fearful dis ease, or rather, it would seem, this disease no longer. Will some of your medical correspon dents give the community the result of their ex perience or researches on this interesting topic? If the statements of the Review be true, our city authorities need no more persecute with their ordinance our unfortunate dogs every summer, nor our police shoot down or poison every inno cent, luckless Ponto that happens to stray from his master’s premises. The Reviewers say: “The world is not so much wiser in our own day that we can at all afford to smile at the cre dulity and superstition of the past in regard to diseases. The belief continues unabated, even among the majority of medical men, of the con nection of hydrophobia in human beings with the bite of a mad dog, and every year hundreds of persons bitten by dogs allow their wounds to be cruelly cauterized with a view of extirpating the poison supposed to be communicated by the saliva of a dog— a poison abundantly proved by chemical analysis and experiment to have no exis tence. An injury to a nerve, when of such a character as to be difficult of healing, whether oc casioned by a bite, a scratch, or even the prick of a pin, may so affect the system, as to bring on, in some cases, tetanus or lock-jaw, and in others deaths by convulsions: but beyond this the only poisonous influence to be feared is that of a morbid fancy; the effects of which may, however, be suf ficiently serious. Many have undoubtedly gone mad from the belief that madness was inevita ble.” In a marginal note to the foregoing passage, the Reviewer thus further insists on the doctrine which he presents; “We regret to see this popular error counten anced by so high an authority as that of the Re gistar General. In his report for the third quar ter of the present year it is stated, after alluding to the decrease of nervous affec'ions, and to the fact that there had been no death by hydrophobia recorded in London during the last five summers, that ‘hydrophobia disappears when the dogs which arc liable to become mad, or to be bitten every summer, are removed by police regula tions.’ This statement it would be very difficult to support by any evidence entitled to credit. 1. There has been no such extraordinary vigilance of the police but that unmuzzled dogs have been seen running about the streets in summer time; and especially on Monday, in Smithfield Market; whatever formal instructions may have been issued respecting them. 2. In the cities of the East, as in Constantinople, where the heat of Summer is greater, and where clogs and pigs are the only scavengers, the inhabitants do not suf fer more from hydrophobia than in Europe. 3. It has been proved by Mons. Trolliet, who pub lished, in a memoir, the dates of all the cases of hydrophobia of which any account had appeared, that the greatest number had occurred in Janu ary, the coldest month of the year, and the smal lest number in August, which is the hottest. 4. It has been shown by the records of Hospitals, that not one person in twenty-five said to be bit ten by mad dogs ever suffers from hydrophobia; and in that case the influence of fear on weak nerves may have been as much a cause as the actual laceration. 5. Although there are few persons who have not been bitten by dogs or cats, the disease has frequently occurred in hu man beings where no possible connection could be traced bei ween the malady and any previous bite or scratch.” And is it possible, Messrs. Editors, that Hydro phobia is to be set down among the nonentities of the past, and to scare future generations no more than the existence of witches or ghosts! If the Reviewer’s doctrine be true, a great struggle surely is to be carried on with the general belief j of the world, and one generation at least must! pass away, before the error becomes fully eradi- j cated. If any one conviction, more than another, i is entertained by all civilized nations, including every age and condition, it surely is, that hydro- ! phobia will be almost certainly caused by the saliva communicated through the bite of a mad ! dog. But this is an age of wonders, and scarcely a day passes, that, shaken in our beliefs, and as tounded in our experiments, we are not con strained to exclaim, WHAT NEXT. ♦For Jan. 1850; Art. 1. The Great Earthquake in Naples. —Over Two Thousand Lives Lost—Cities Destroyed and Damaged. —The Washington Republic publishes j a letter from the Hon. E. Joy Morris, the Ame rican Minister to Naples, giving a minute account of the terrible earthquake which occurred in the western portion of the Kingdom of Naples, on the 14th of July, by which some 2,500 lives were lost, and several towns either totally prostrated or greatly damaged. Mr. Morris says that pre vious to the shock a small stream that runs near the city of Melfi suddenly disappeared, and adds: At the first shock, Melfi, which contains ten thousand inhabisants, was prostrated in the dust, nothing but a few crumbling walls surviving the general ruin. An unknown number of its in habitants were buried under the falling mass of fabrics. Up to the present moment, seven hun dred dead bodies have been disinterred, and,many others are constantly being found. More than two hundred persons lie in the adjacent hospital, suffering under grievous wounds, while many have been dug out alive from the ruins. A mon S s t others, a female iijfant, a year old, after lying buried for two days, was brought out living and unharmed, and restored to its afHicted mother, widowed by the same calamity. The shocks and rumbling of the earth still oc casionally occurred at the time of writing his j letter, and all eyes were turned upon Vesuvius as ! the safety valve through which the struggling j fires might escape, although no local signs were yet apparent. The neighboring towns of Atella. Rionero, Barile and Rapolla are sufferers by the same con vulsion. Rionero is a general wreck, not a sound house remaning—more than a nundred persons have here perished, and as many have been maimed or wounded. In Barile, the only edifice not entirely destroyed is the orphan asy lum, while the discovered dead amount to about one hundred and fifty. In the commune of Bari, the towns of Cerato, Minervino, Spinazzola, Andria and Trani were all injured more or less. In Canossa, the ancient Canosium, founded by Diomed, and whose walls once enclosed a circuit of sixteen miles, three hundred and seventy-six houses were thrown down. At the last report the shocks around Mount Volture continued, and one-halt oi the city ot Venosa, the ancient Venu sia, containing six thousand inhabitants, and cel ebrated as the birth-place of Horace, was de stroyed. The mountain provinces of the Abruir zi and of Calabria, where the earthquake of 1783 destroyed three hundred cities and buried thirty thousand human beings, have thus far escaped. Harrisburg, Sept. 35. The Christiana Tragedy. —A man answer, ing the description of Pinckney, with three others, who are supposed to have participated in the Christiana outrage, were arrested to-day, in Fisherville, Dauphin county, and committed to prison for an examination before Commissioner McAllister to-morrow, at three o’clock. All three admitted themselves to be fugitives. Stopped Payment. —Montgomery & Co. ex tensive manufacturers of boots and shoes, at Bradford, Mass., and wholesale dealers in boots, shoes and leader, in this city, stopped payment on Tuesday. This house is one of the largest of the dealers and manufacturers of these arti cles in New-England. Their trade is largely with the South and West.—.Botfo* Trans., Thurs day. The Journal says their liabilities is stated at $500,000. AUGUSTA, GA. | TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 30. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE. For Governor. Charles j. McDonald. District For Congress. 1. IOS. 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. Representatives for Richmond County. WILLIAM R. FLEMING, WM. SCHLEY. received no Charleston papers by last evening's mail. (XT’ Proprietors of Warehouses in Augusta and Hamburg, will oblige us by having the stock of Cotton in their respective Warehouses carefully counted for us this morning. Heavy Damages.— Messrs. Bowen A Mc- Namee, the celebrated dry goods firm on Broad way, New York, have entered suit against the New Haven Journal for libel, in false ly stating, on Wednesday, that they had fail ed. The damages are laid down at $50,000. The Journal, of Thursday, however, contains a full retraction, saying that they had been de ceived by others, and it is to be presumed, there fore, that Messrs. B. & McN. will forego their severe measures. The Tribune says they stand ready to shave their own paper at anything above legal interest. Death of Brig. Gen. Whiting. —The St. Louis Republican, of the 17th inst., announces the death of Brig. Gen. Henry Whiting, of the U. S. Quartermaster’s Department. Gen. Whit ing arrived at St. Louis on Sunday, the 14th inst., from a tour of official duty in Texas, in his usual health. On the afternoon ofthe 18th, while in his room in the Planter’s House, he was, without any premonition whatever, stricken suddenly dead. His wife was in the room, and isjcompletely overwhelmed at the suddenness of his death, and her melancholy bereavement. We have not been able to learn the cause of his death but it is attributed to an affection of the heart. Gen. Whiting was a native of Massachusetts, and among the oldest officers of the army. His remains were removed to Jefferson Barracks, on the 17th inst., for interment. Col. Haynes vs. Van Vkchtkn. — The New York Sun lias had communication with Colonel Haynes, of the Cuban expedition, now in that city, who denounces Van Vechten as a “coward,” “deserting his command,” Ac. Col. Haynes don’t yet seem to be cured of “liberation,” but thinks the Cubans are still anxious to be rid of their gevernment. Barnl-m all Over— The notes of the new bank of Bridgeport, of which Mr. P. T. Bar num is a principal stockholder, have a portrait of himself on one end, and one of Jenny Lind on the other. New Poet Offices in Georgia. Office. County. Postmaster. Winchester, Macon, Jas. A. Stubbs. Troublesome, Clinch, J. P. Prescott. Gum Swamp, Pulaski, Charles Love. Etna, Paulding, L. P. Garrison. Sharp Top, Cherokee, Ladson Worley. Polk, Clinch, S. W. Nicholls. Debut op Catharine Hayes in New York. —The most noted city item in the New York journals is the advent of Catharine Hayes, the ‘swan’ that does sing, and not in dying notes either. All speak of her voice, itg delicacy, and power, Ac. Ac., with enthusiasm, and of the rap tures with which she was received, Ac. but some say she can not, re-make the Jenny Lind mania. As to Messrs. Braham and Mengis, who assist her, they are passed over slightly by the critics. We subjoin a few extracts from the leading jour nals, in regard to Miss Hayes’ voice— (From the Journal of Commerce.) She sang splendidly; her voice is inconceiva bly fine, and of a quality and purity so rare and beautiful that it strikes the heart at once. It is truly sympathetic. She was encored in every thing; her ballads seemed to touch every heart, and indeed we never heard so muoh passion and so much feeling thrown into a simple melody before. The leadings were new. and they were as beautiful as new. We could not fail to ob serve that she executed the more difficult pas sages with a degree of effort that gave anythin-* but a pleasing expression to the face ofthe vo calist. believe, even her warmest friends have never been so injudicious as to compare her with Jenny Lind. (Front t\e Tribune.) We confess we were startled with the inten sity ot leeling—the almost painful intensity— which she threw into this exquisite aria (the Ah, mmt fils of Meyerbeer.) The piece was wisely chosen, as exhibiting what, we think, the best point of her singing—her extreme pathos—and we thought it the gem of the evening. Catharine Hayes’ voice is one of marvellous compass, exten ding from the highest soprano tones to the deep, est contralto.—Her highest notes are inferior in purity, in strength and in sweetness to Jenny Lind’s, but her lowest are fuller and finer. She seems possessed of all vocal accomplishments, [From the ff. Q. Picayune, 33d inst.] The Crop*. We have received the following from a gentle man residing at Rose Hill in relation to the cot ton crops in Amite county, Miss: Rose Hill, Amite county, Miss., Sept. 17, Eds. Pic.—l see from the circulars of some of the cotton factors in New Orleans, that they are calculating on a large cotton crop, from the fact that new cotton has been received in the city earlier this season than last. Such a crite rion will prove fallaciious, as far at least as re lates to this county. It is true that the cotton commenced opening earlier this season than last, and has continued to open unusually fast, but this is not to be attributed to aa uncommon yield, but to the protracted and severe drought which prevailed through the summer. So severe was the drought on many plantations in this county that the bolls were forced open before they were fully grown ormatured. Should the dry weather, which prevails now, continue for any considerable length of time, it will destroy the crop of young bolls which the August rains produced. Be this as it may, I do not think that the most favorable fall can bring this county up to an average crop. And if the youn<* bolts are cut off by another drought, and there sterns a tar prospect for it,this will rank among the short est crops that the county has produced. As a portion of your paper is devoted to agriculture, and as I suppose you wish to get all the informa tion you can obtain on this important subject the extent of the present crop, I have deemed it I not out of place to say this much in relation to the crop of this county. -Yours, respectfully, s. m. o. The Concordia Intelligencer, of the 20th inst., acknowledges the receipt of a communication from a planter in the parish, residing on Black river, who states that the army worm has made its appearance on a plantation in Catahoula par ish. The Intelligencer says: Without question the army worm has made it appearance in Tensas parish, and in portions of Madison and Carroll. Rumors have also reach ed us of the appearance of these worms in great numbers in the neighborhood of St. Franci6viile, in West Feliciana parish. Since writing the above, Mr. L. H. Ireson has sent us a phial oi worms from Major James Sur get’s plantation, in this parish. Our knowledge of the natural history of the animal does not enable us to say whether they are the army worm or not. The Red River (Alexandria) Republican, of the 13th inst., says: There is no longer any doubt of pre sence of the caterpillars. They have already overrun and destroyed many cotton fields, leav ing not a leaf on them. They are busily at work on other places, and will no doubt shorten the crop one half. It is estimated the damage from them will be about the same as woul-l have re sulted from a frost at this time. (From the Mobile Tribune, 24M inst.) The Crops. —The Selma Reporter of the 19th inst., says of the cotton crop: We are informed by intelligent planters that nearly all the cotton grown upon the sandy lands of this and the ad joining 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 canebrake at least one-half be low 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 the last. The editor of the Eutaw (Greene county) Whig, who has been absent for some time tra velling through portions of Perry, Shelby and Talladega counties, says in his paper ot the 19th inst.. that he found generally, the corn crops were very poor; in one place corn was selling at $1,25 per bushel, in the field, and the citizens anticipated that it would soon be worth $2. The cotton crop varied with the land, the culti vation and the rains. Some portions, scattered all along the route, were more highly favored than others, and produced better, but generally the plants were small, and the bolls few in num ber. A number of gentlemen who had been travelling all over the South, one in Tenuessee and North Alabama, another in South Carolina and Georgia, and others, with us, over smaller sections of the country, united in their belief that the cotton crop of this season could not equal that of last year. A gentleman just returned from a visit to many of the plantations below Eutaw in the Fork informed the Democrat that the cotton crop for the previous week or ten days had been bloom ing and bearing better than at any previous pe riod during the season. As to the result, there are various opinions, many believing that from the second growth nothing can be expected, whilst others are hoping, that with a la'.e frost a good top crop may be gathered. Should these late blooms yield nothing, the crops will certain ly be shorter than they have ever been before. We are happy to learn, remarks the Democrat, that the corn crops are better than anticipated before the fodder was pulled. We have been favored with a letter of late date from the Choctaw Agency,(from which wo ex tract the following: “In regard to tho crops, I would say that it is no exaggeration that the cot ton crops from Demopolis to Starkville, Miss, (which I have seen) will not average over half what they did last year: from Demopolis to War saw, those I saw on the sandy lands will not average over 250 lbs. seed cotton per acre. Mr. B. told me that his crop would not average over 400 lbs. and that his crop, with but few excep tions, was about an average one of his section. The planters from Demopolis to Starkville, witn but few exceptions, will make with close econo my enough corn to do them and many of those planting prairie lands will have some to spare. From Warsaw to Starkville I think the cotton crop will averge 450 to 500 lbs. (seed) to the acre, and many planters who cultivate flat prairie and slough lands will make from 800 to 1200 lbs. per acre. In the \ioinity of Vienna, Pickens county, they are making neither corn nor cotton —say of the former 6 or 8 bushels per acre, and of the letter 200 to 250 lbs. to the acre. We learn from the Greensborough Beacon of the 20th that planters in that vicinity are report ing more favorably in regard to the cotton crop, and the impression was becoming quite general that the yield on most of the black and slouch lands will exceed that of last year. From the thin sandy lands the accounts continued unfavor able. The region lying south of the ridge road leading trom Marion to Erie will probably make more cotton than last year, wlfilst that lyin'* north will make less, ° Money Market, Friday, Sept. 26.—Returns fcgve been made from the Philadelphia Mint of about $700,000, in cash, which has been thrown into the banks to-day, and has thus increased the amount of specie on deposit in the City to about $10,600,000. This U sufficient for all practical purposes, and as all of the institutions here have reduced their discount lines, they o% cupv g very strong position. The Salisbury Bank of Maryland, which has been in bad repute for some time, has failed to-day, and its notes are not purchased here except at 4 very low price. A rumor was in circulated here yester day that the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank of New Brunswick had failed, and some ofthe city papers this morning asserted it as a fact. We gave no credit to the rumor, and have since re ceived a despatch, confirming our views. N Y. Jour. Com. St. Louis, September 26. Intelhgence from Independence, Mo., to the 35th, states Shat accounts from Santa Fe had been received to the 2d inst. Reynolds has a large majority in Santa Fe for Congress, but it was supposed that Weightman would defeat 1 .w »? ' .Summers, with his command, had lett for Naviso county. The Apaches, leagued with the N avisos, had carried oft'a large portion ot the stock belonging to the Boundary Com missioner. Bartlett was to leave the Copper Mines for Gila, about the Ist September. Grass and water were plenty between Santa Fe and Independence, New-York Sept. 25.— The Empire State reached her wharf this afternoon. Her bulwarks and forecastle deck have been carried away about eight feet. The name of the schooner run into was the F. T. Tollman, from Alexandria for Hightpa, Ihe repeated failure of Bowen A McNamee is wholly without foundation, and that firm is about commencing proceedings against the proprietors of the New-Haven Journal, which paper first gave currency to the report. The trial erf J. L. G. Sullivan, and Capt. Lew is, charged with fitting out the Cleopatra, has been set down for the next month. California Lioness. —A noble animal, pro nounced by naturalists to be of the true lion species, and caught a few miles above Sacra mento city, California, is now on exhibition at No. 404 Broadway. She is owned by Mr. J. Q. Adams (formerly of Gregory’s Express.) who purchased her soon after her capture for 52.000. — N. Y. Journal Commence. Detroit, Sept. 26th.—The jury in the arson case came in last night and rendered a verdict of guily against 12 of the prisoners. The others were acquitted. | 33i[ iHagttttit €tltgrapjj. Reported for the Constitutionalist k Republi, LATER FROM EUROPE ARRIVAL ~~ BALTIC. New York, Sept. 2S. The steamer Baltic has arrived from Liverpool, bringing dates to the 19th inst. and ninety-seven ! passengers. Cotton Market.— Cotton is a shade dearer since the sailing of the Africa. The sales reach 19,000 bales, of which speculators and exporters took 7000. Flour is dull, but prices are unchanged. There is more demand for Corn, and prices are higher Coffee dull. Wheat has declined a penny. p ro . visions unchanged. At Manchester trade was healthy, and full rates were paid for goods. Funds depressed. Consols'closed at 96. Charleston, Sept, 29, P. M. Cotton —Prices are about the same as on Sa. turday. Sales to-day 1100 bales, at 7to 93 cents. Office of the Board of Health, \ Augusta, Sept. 30, 1851. J Since my report, on the 15th inst., no new cases of Small-Pox or Varioloid, have occurred. The city is entirely free from these diseases, and from the time that has elapsed, since the break ing out of the last cases, I feel warranted in saying that I believe we shall have no more Small-Pox or Varioloid in Augusta, unless brought from other places. Persons may visit the city without fear 0 f Small Pox as the disease has entirely disapi-, ear . ed. Wk, E. DEARir <(J , Chairman Board rlealth. St. Lons, Sept. 25. Late and Interesting from the Plains Mr. Polk and two others have arrived here in sixteen days from Fort Laramie, unmolested by Indians. The treaty ground had been removed 35 miles this side of Fort Laramie, where 12,000 Indians were assembled. Col. Mitchell arrived on the Ist inst., but a council for treaty purposes had not been convened. It was expected nego tiations would close about the 25th. The Ca manches and Blackfeet would not be preseut. Mr. Kendall and most of the amateurs had be come disgusted with the trip, and were return ing. A company of Californians had arrived in St. Joseph's in 62 days from Sacramento, havin'- had five skirmishes with Indians. An em ; ® tion train composed of 367 families, 600 3,000 head of cattle, were getting on ’■-.n -P? 118 ' had had a fight with the Snake D ' 'tl wounded. ™d X* we" Madison’ deathS L ’ holera are re P° rted in We understand that several gentlemen of means intend forming a joint stock company, for the purpose of manufacturing clothing. The object ol this move is understood to be to pro mote the industry of our city, by giving employ ment to a large number of worthy females who, trom the large amount of clothing sold in this city ($197,000) are denied the privilege of earn ing a decent subsistence. We are informed that not more than one-tenth of the ready made clothing sold is maufactured in Norfolk.—Nor folk Herald. The Woodville Steam Saw and Grist Mill, be longing to Leitner & Davison, were destroyed by fire on Monday morning 22d inst., about 3 o’clock. It is believed to have been the work of an incendiary, as there had been no fire about the premises from Saturday previous, and Mr. Emery, the Superintendant had examined the Mills at bed-time on Sunday night. The Mills were in successful operation, and a valuable pro. perty. No insurance, and consequently a t- o tal ioss to the proprietors.— Temperance Bannr f 21th inti. Richmond gent 26 The Democratic State Conv' . n ti on * me t at Staunton yesterday, and itwwa ved from in . dications that Green B. Sam' Je]s of Shenandoah county, would be nominate j , or Governor. Con siderabla nva ry exists w nong the friends of the different candidates. in the first ballot, John ston received 14,00.0 votes; Samuels, 9,800; Floyd, 9,300; Wis 3oo. The counties iepre sented were entitled, respectively, to the Demo cratic vote polled at the last Presidential elec tion. Gov. Floyd’s ehance is bad. MARRIED. 7? Fa V® tto county, Ga., on the 11th inst., by J. L. Bra jscll, Esq., Mr. Britton W. Allford, of VIKO county, and Ludicy M. Bras6ell, of tho ■o.rmer placo. On tho 23dinst., by D. B. May, Esq., Mr. George J. Miles and Miss Queen Zepporaii, eldest daughter of William and Elizabeth May, all of Fayette county. Ga. On the 26th inst., by D. B. May, Esq., Mr. Mar shal M. Harold, of Henry county, Ga., and Miss Susan Brown, of Fayette county, Ga. Commercial, Augnsta Market, September3o—P. M. COTTON.—There has been a good demand to day, and the sales have been at a slight improve ment on Saturday's prices. SAVANNAH EXPORTS, SEPT. 27. Per steamship Alabama, for New York—4Bl bales Cotton, and 1 box Mdze. Shipping intelligence. SAVANNAH, Sept. 28.—Arr. barque Exact, Stevens, New York; brig Eliza, Emery, Balize, Honduras. Cleared, U. S. M. steamship Alabama, Ludlow, Now York. Went to sea, steamship Alabama. Ludlow, New York; ship Marion, Johnson, do.; brig W.L. Jones. Kolly, do.; schr. Julia Eliza, Higbee, Philadelphia- BALE ROPE, BAGGING, COFFEE, SU GAR, Ac. 1000 COILS Northern and Western BALE 2000 pieces and bales of Dundee and Gunny BAG GING, 1000 bags fair to prime RIO COFFEE, 1000 barrels assorted DOMESTIC LIQUORS, 100 hkds. fair to choice Cuba and N. O. SUGAR, 1000 boxes “Star' 1 and Adamantine CANDLES, 200 hh s. BACON SIDES and SHOULDERS. Tho subscriber keeps constantly on hand, all de scription of GROCERIES, Ac., which he offers for sale on liberal terms, and solicits orders from those interested in the trade. THOMAS G. BUDD, 76 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. aug 13 w«ts2mos BOYD’S PERMANENT MARKING INK.—A fresh supply of tho above celebrated marking INK, superior to anything now in use, has been received at GEO. A. OATES A CO., sept. 26 Broad street. SEGAR CASES Gentlemen can- now be sup plied with a neat SEGAR CASE, at the Book Store of THOMAS RICHARDS A SON. sept 23