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&aiistitatafllist& Htpuhlir.' JAMES GARDNER, JR..T AND > Editor*. JAMES M. SMYTHE, ) TERMS/” DailT. jwr annum, in advance $8 00 T*:-Wkkklt. per annum 5 00 W kiki.t. per annum, if paid in advance 2 00 These terms are offered to new subacribera, and to old subscriber* who pay up all arrearages. In no ease will the Weekly paper be gent at |2, un less the money accompanies the. ordtr. In n- case will It be sent at $2 to an old snbscriber in arrears. Sy When the year paid for at f 2 expires, the paper, ltnoi discontinued, or paid for in advance, will be sent on the r Id terms. $2 50 if paid at the office within the year, or $3 if paid at the expiration of the year. i.y Postage must be paid on all communications and letters of business. TERMS OF ADVERTISING- | One square (12 lines.) 50 cents the first insertion and , 37$ cents for the next 5 Insertions, and 25 cents for i each subsequent insertion. Contracts made by the year, or for a less period, on reasonable terms. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sheriff's Levies, SO days. $2 50 per levy ; 60 days. $5. Executor'*. Administrator's and Guardian’s gales, Real Estate, (per square, 12 lines) $4 75 Do do. Personal Estate S 25 Citation for Letters of Administration 2 75 Do. do. Dismission 4 50 Notice t* Debtors and Creditors 3 25 Four Months' Notices 4 00 Hulcx Nisi, (monthly) $1 per square, each insertion. Sy ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, ana AT OUR RISK. Gambling at Baden Baden. A correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from this German watering place, thus describes the arrangements publicly made for gaming: I n the great hall are Roulette and Rouge et Noir tables. These tables are each presided over by four plainly dressed, excessively respectable, and clean-shaved gentlemen. I observed one of them who carried the joke so far as to wear gray hair and a white neck-cloth. They look like our men of the counting-room, or even of Wall street, only more placid. The tables are covered w ith green cloth, and there is no ostentatious rattling of coin. Pretty piecesof silver and gold lie in Iront of these gentlemen, from which some times they take a little portion and cast it over, piece by piece, to where the winner sits, in easy and graceful paraboles. When they draw in lost money, they rake it in softly and gently w ith their taper-handled rakes. They never laugh, never scowl. I should say that in their vocation they had brought “a subdued elegance of man ner” to its ultimatum. I saw men—among them one of your "above Bleeckors”—women, one very pretty woman—gray-haired men and young fellows, and, in two instances at Wisebaden, children gaming at the tables. I have not seeu much deep piny; at the four different times, how ever. when I have stood by the tables here and at Wisebaden, there hag been one or more who played only with gold. As the night wears, the play is said to deepen. 1 saw one man take near ly a hundred gold pieces at “Rouge et Noir;” he was very calm, rarely lost, and appeared to play by system. “Infallible rules for winning” at these games are published and for sale in the book shojgj, here and elsewhere, said to be writ ten by old gamesters, who, like old witches and gold-diviners, do not get rich hv their knowledge. This idea of getting blind luck into harness is, however, a very common one with gamblers. The tables here are said to bemainged by Mr. Benazet, a Frenchman, who was formerly large ly interested in the gaming-houses of Paris. For the exclusive privilege in this business, he pays to the Government (said to be paternal) of Ba den about SIO,OOO yearly, (:15,000 florins,) be sides this he agreeti to spend a very much larger sum in adding to the attractions ol the place—as instance his costly embellishment of the Hall. Still further, he must pay the lurge expenses of croupiers , hankers and attendants. Yet Mr. Bena zet's lease is supposed to be very profitable to him. At Homburg, a watering-place nine miles from Frank-fort-on-the-Mttine, and «t Wiesba den, French lessees (xiy a large rent to Govern ment, and make money. When the Revolu tionists were in power, three years ago, among other acts destructive of good order, religion, &c. they broke up the gaming at Homburg. The paternal und pious Prince,however, on the full re covery of his divine right of rule, restored the con servative institution. It is supposed by many that these gaming establishments and others at other German springs ou ned by one company, of which Messrs. Chabert, Benazet & Co. are the directors. The rules and icgulations, printed in French and German, are posted in the rooms here, and signed by Grand Ducal authority. 1 translate a (xirtiou of them: “The fables are to lie opened yearly on the Ist of May, and closed on the Ist of October. Be tween these dates, playing commences daily at 11 o'clock, A. M., and continues till f o’clock, P. M. But on the Sabbath and religious holidays it shall not begin till after divine service. On days when balls are given (three times a week) I it may continue till midnight. “Countrymen, ( Lnndlsnte ) domestics, laborers and all such persons, are not permitted to play. “At Roulette, the minimum stake on numbers is two francs; on single chances, a half-crown; maxi mum stake on numbers, six louis d'or; on single chances, lour thousand francs. “At Rouge ct Noir, the prescribed minimum stake is a half-crown; the maximum, six thousand francs.” * A general law exists in the very States that draw up theso.rules, forbidding their own subjects to gamble, under severe penalties. If, however, one of these subjects wishes to play, and does not care t* pass over the boundary to some neigh boring State, which he can do in ail hour's rule on the railroad, he has only to engage the services ol' certain Professeurs tit Jeu , who are always in attendance and understand the game, who claim to have reduced it to a science, and assure their employers of success. The Election of Bishof Creighton. —ln the New York Episcopal Convention, when the election of Bishop Creighton was announced, there was great joy over the result, and an ani mating scene ensued. The organ pealed forth a loud and jubilant voluntary; the Convention, all the audience joining, sang, “Te Deum” ami “Gloria in Excelsis," and the Fishop elect thus feelingly addressed the body: “Brethren and Priends: You have elected me to the highest honor, in my estimation, to which any man can be raised. You have chosen me to the office of a Bishop in the church of God, a station to which there is none superior in res pectability, influence, usefuless, dignity, sanctity, solemn and awful responsibility. For the favora ble opinion, the kind feeling thus expressed, I thank you; with my whole heart I thank you! But, brethren and friends, it is well known that, on two suitable occasions, I declared my repug nance, my decided refusal to have my name brought before the church for this exalted station; and I thought I had expressed my sentiments in terms such as could not be misunderstood, and such as you have now taken. My opposition has been disregarded, and the office of Bishop over this large and influential Diocese has been rrotfered to me. lam not prepared to accept it. ought not, without some consideration, to de fine it. I must have time; you must give me time for consultation with judicious friends—for reflection—-for prayer—that I may be guided to 8 Th v eC ' MOU ' n ***** mome ntous matter.” the New York Commercial, in announcing the election of the new bishop, says: ■We believe that ho i s a moderate High Church-man, conciliatory in his views, and not disposed to push Ins personal predictions to ex tremes. The brief address in which he acknowl edged his election is indicative of the modestv and sincerity of his Christian character and visi bly affected the members of the Convention Dr Creighton is a native of this city, and graduated at Columbia College in 1812. For some years after his ordination he performed the duties of assistant minister in Grace Church, and was sub sequently rector of St. Mark’* in the Bowery, for i fifteen years. He is possessed, we are informed, f of ample private means, and from his own re- J I sources created a handsome church in his parish I | at Tarrytown, in which he has, for a number of; ! years past, officiated gratuitously.” A Beautiful Discovery in the Management of Bee.. It has hitherto been regarded as a well estab- j lished fact, that bees require the light to be care- i 1 fully excluded from their habitations. The Rev. ! L. L. Langstroth, of Chesnut street, a native of ! this city, and a gentleman of equal worth and accomplishments, who has been engaged for i many years in the scientific investigation of their ! habits, has most conclusively proved that this is j not the case. The various glass observing hives, I which have always been furnished with shutters, j to be opened only when the hives are inspected. ; Such a sudden admission oflight exerts a disturb i ing influence upon the bees. Mr. Langstroth 1 has hives of his own invention, in which the i bees are exposed to the full light of day so that all their beautiful works are as easily examined as the articles exhibited in a shop-keeper’s win dow. They do not manifest the slightest dis like to such a perfect flood of light. It is obvious that this unexpected discovery . must greatly facilitate a thorough knowledge o[ the habits of this wonderful insect; as the Queen is almost constantly in sight, and all the mys teries of the hive are unfolded in the most ample manner to *he lover of nature. We know that Mr. Langstroth has been repeatedly consulted respecting the best means of ventilating public rooms; and we strongly suspect him of having stolen some of his ideas from the admirable prin ciples on which bees ventilate their hives. We wish he could persuade the community that their public and private buildings ought to be at least as well ventilated as the humbler dwelling of the bee, and thus aid in effecting a revolution, the importance of which to the public health cannot be over estimated.— Phi/adeliphia North American. Crabs. —l’aley, in his Natural Theology, tells us how lobsters and crabs get on when their bo dies|beconie too large for their clothes. It seems at certain seasons of the year that the shell grows soft, the small animal swells like an alderman at his turtle-soup, the seam opens and the claws burst at the joints. The animal now makes a second effort, and by a strong spasmodic motion casts his coat, pantaloons, and boots away from him. He now seeks cover, where he stays till a new suit is fitted to his back, and which is generally measured, cut and made in the short space of a few hours; that is a new shell forms. Lobsters and crabs are obliged to change their shells as often as their bodies become too large to contain them. The younger the animal the more frequently he must lie in a state of eedysis or moulting. A daphnia has been observed to moult as often as eight times in seventeen days. When he arrives at years of maturity he grows no longer, and wears one suit till death. A sci entific writer states that the tfcne for moulting is proceeded and accompanied by fasting .and sick ness, and the animal is disquieted anu out of or der. He adds, that the difficulty attending] its extraction Irom the old shell is sometimes so great, that the animal perishes or leaves a limb behind. The thinness of the limb at the joints would render extraction impossible, if the shell did not split longitudinally. Both crabs and lobsters are endowed with the singular faculty of being enabled to throw off a claw if they be seized by that part. The claw is renewed, but is ol inferior size. A sudden stimulus, as pain or tright, will sometimes occasion them to cast a claw. In the museum of the College of Sur geons in London, there is an interesting series ol preparations, showing the process of moulting. Lobsters and common crabs are unfit for food while in this state, the fiesh being salt and wa tery; but there are other descriptions of crabs which are then in a perfest state for the table.— Philadelphia Enquirer. A manicil gentleman, every time he met the father of his wife, complained to him of the ugly temper and disposition of his daughter. At last upon one occasion, the old gentleman, becoming weary of the grumblings of his son-in-law, ex claimed: “You are right, she is an im|>ertinent jade, and if I hear any more complaints of her, 1 will disinherit her.” The husband made no more complaints. Packard's I)istii,un<s Appraratus.—Mr. Packard, of ”119 Water street, who furnishes ships with cabooses, etc. has just put up, in the clipper ship Wild Pigeon, a machine for conver ting salt water into fresh, at the rate of four gal lons per hour. The operation of it thus describ ed: On the top of the galley, or cook's house, is placed a tank capable of holding two hundred gallons of salt water, which supplies a large wooden tank inside the galley; this feeds a j wrought iron boiler kept on the stove, which is connected by pipes, and the steam escapes into a j lead tube running through the lower tank, in the i same manner as a distil worm: the cold water in I the tank condenses the steam in the tube, and 1 from a faucet in the bottom of the tank a stream of cold fresh water constantly runs. If this in j vention performs all this, it will prevent a good deal of suffering among vessels on long voyages, who invariably get out of water before reaching their destination. It is said to be in general use among the French vessels.—A'. Y. Evening Poll. A Coon Specimen. —A lady was with her : three little children in a coach, awaiting the re turn of the driver, who had left his horses unat tended while he stepped for a moment info a neighboring hotel. During his absence the horses started, wheeled the coach about,and trot ted off down the street at a moderate speed. The lady who naturally enough, was somewhat alarmed at the incident, called out to a gentle manly dressed man who was approaching the carriage from the opposite direction, that-“the horses were going without a driver.” “I see they are," said the fellow with entire sang froid, and passed on. The lady said she was so much amused with the impudent nonchalance of the rascal that it quickly lestored herequaimity till a true gentleman, in the livery of a charcoal man, came to the rescue.— Boston Post. From Nassau. —A friend has favored us with a file of the Nassau Bahama Herald, to the 10th ult.. brought by the Br. Schr. Eliza L. Susan, Capt. Sweeting, arrived here yesterday, from Harbor Island, from which we perceive that since the Ist of August, 12 vessels have loaded with Salt at Rum Cay. each taking on an aver age, 10,000 bushels. Cash was paid for ten car goes, at 10 cents per bushel. Raking still pro gresses. Provisions are very scarce at Long Cay, Crooked Island. Not a barrel of flour can be had, nor can provisions be purchased at any price; one vessel took away a cargo (8000 bush els) of Salt in August. No summer crops have been made at the out Islands in consequence of the dry weather.— Charleston Courier, 2d inst. German Agriculture. —Each German has his house, his orchard, his roadside trees, so laden with fruit, that if he did not carefully prop up and tie together, and in many places hold the boughs together with wooden clamps, they would be torn asunder by their own weight. He has his corn plot, his plot of mangold wurtzel, or hay, for potatoes, for hemp, &c. He is his own master, and he. therefore, and every branch of his family, have the strongest motive for con stant exertion. You see the effect ofthis in his industry and his economy. In Germany nothing is lost. The produce of the trees and the cows is carried to market; much fruit is dried for winter use. Yon see strings of them hanging from their chamber windows in the sun. The cows are kept up for the greater part of the year, and every green thing is collect ed for them. Every little nook where the grass grows by the road side, and river, and brook, is carefully cut with the sickle, and carried home on the heads of the women and children in bas kets: or tied in large cloths. Nothing of any kind that can possibly be made of any use is lost; weeds, nettles, nay, the very grass in waste places, is cut and taken for the cows. You see the little children standing in the streets of the villageg, in the streams which generally run down them, busy washing these weeds before they are given to the cattle. They carefully collect the leaves of the marsh grass, carefully cut their potato tops for them, and even if other things fail, gather green leaves from the woodlands. One cannot help thinking continually of the enormous waste upon such things in England—of vast quantities of grass on banks, by road-sides, in the opening of plan tations, in lanes, in church yards, where grass from year to year springs and dies, but which, if carefully cut, would maintain many thousand cows for the poor. AUGUSTA, GA. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATIT 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. S.—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 J WILLIAM R. FLEMING, WM. SCHLEY. We received no papers by last evening’s mail from offices North of Charleston. The let ter mail was as far North as Weldon. Allen F. Owen. Much of the eloquent denunciation contained in the following editorial from the Savannah Georgian, meets a hearty response from our judg ment and feelings. It contains true American sentiment. It speaks the voice of a nation whose sense of right and justice, and humanity has been outraged by cold blooded, and shameless official misrepresentation on the part of.the President, and by the dastardly recreancy of the American Consul to every proper impulse of manly sym pathy for his unfortunate countrymen so vilely calumniated—so brutally butchered. The barbarity and cowardice which kept Owen away from the noble Crittenden and his hapless comrades, scarcely surpassed in moral atrocity the callousness of heart which kept him aloof from the prison of his countrymen about be ing buried for ten years in the gloomy mines of Spain. The force of public censure upon Owen should not be broken by the interposition of official nstructions from the President as to how he should deport himself. The Presidents pro clamation was an atrocious document both as to the ruthless spirit which it breathed, and the vile calumny it uttered against the Cuban liberators. The Consul construed it as placing his coun trymen out of the pale of law, even before they had a trial to determine what crime they had committed—what law they had violated. They were condemned without trial. But what ingenuity could construe it as placing them out of the i>ale of humanity. The vilest, the most depraved culprit who ever ended a long career of crime upon the gal lows, has never been ruled to be so cut oft' from the sympathy of his fellow-man, as to be un worthy of a word of kindness, or a look of com passion. No such code is found in the teachings of scripture, or the practices of the sacred profes sion—which of all others is most devoted to the duty of turning men away from the path of crime. But wo feel that the cause of outraged hu manity which demands the execrations upon the head of the recreant Consul, would be in a man ner desecrated, if used for the purpose of making political capital against parties who may have no sympathy with his depraved feelings, and no disposition to defend his conduct. We think it premature to hold Messrs. Toombs, Stephens and Cobb responsible for the conduct of Mr. Owen. It is true their inlluence aided in placing him where he is. But we should be sorry to believe them capable of approving his course. We should be sorry to believe there is a single Georgian that is not ready to denounce it as a disgrace to our State, to our country, and to humanity. It is time that the influence which was used to place Mr. Owen in the position he basso signally disgraced, should be set to work for his removal. If he is retained in office, it will prostrate Fillmoreism with the people of Georgia forever. If Cobb, Toombs and Stephens should persist in upholding Fillmoreism with such a load of oblo quy resting on it, they must be inevitably over whelmed with it. We have already published the circular of Mr. Thrasher and the letter which have elicited the comments below. Intelligence from Cuba—Mu. Owen.—No American can read without painful and thril ling interest, the intelligence which we publish from Havana. The circular of Mr. Thrasher, we received lYom that gentleman, with a request that it should be published. That and the letter to the New-Orleans Picayune, recite the facts in relation to the confinement, condition, and the sufferings of the captured members of the Lo pez's brave band. It is not easy to read the letter to the Picayune without the deepest emotions—partly of satis faction partly of shame and indignation. Who can find words in which to condemn the heartless indifference which seem to have been manifested by the American Consul > Our readers remem ber, that we censured, less severely than others, his bearing on the occasion of the butchery of men. We were not disposed to denounce the subordinate, for the crime of his principal. We felt that the guilt of their mur der was not that of Mr. Owen, nor entirely that of the Spanish Governor, but of him who by denouncing as adventurers for ROBBERY and PLUNDER, had given authority to Concha to hang or shoot them. Yes Millard Fillmore is not guiltless of their blood! Fillmore having pro claimed them pirates and robbers, we were not surprised that his Consul did not prevent their execution, though we condemned his apparent indifference. But how stands Mr. Owen now, before the public? How has he borne himself towards his helpless, homeless, suffering, imprisoned coun trymen—men whose condition and fate appealed to him with pathos beyond measure touching for a word of consolation—for the slightest kind ness.—for the smallest attention, —in the utter desolation of their hearts and desperation of their hopes,— and appealed in vain! Americans desir ing to do something for their comfort, had no meant of contributing to the amclioriation of the con- I dition of these unfortunates, but through Mr. Smith the attache of the British consulate. The officer of their own government afforded no facilities for this work of charity and humanity!—While sub jects of Great Britain—all honor to their names —touched with generous sensibility, were un wearied in their attentions, —while American residents, both from the North and South, were eager for an opportunity to solace, aid and cheer —while Cubans, at the hazard of their lives, were giving money to contribute to their necessities— one man —he a Georgian—the Representative (heaven save the mark!) of his Government, seems to have been unconcerned. His visit to the prisoners, was to tell them that “/Ac Presi dent had proclaimed them without the pale of the law, and he could do nothing for them!'' The question is asked, should not efforts be made to bring about the removal of an officer so objectionable to his countrymen. We say r yes— not however by application to Fillmore—but by the overthrow of the present federal administra tion which gave him the appointment.—by a rebuke from the people of Georgia to that ad ministration and its supporters—a rebuke to the triumvirate of Toombs. Stephens and Cobb, by the influence of some, or all of whom, the post was given to Owen. What say the freemen of this State ? What say the voters of this district —of this county—of this city ? Are you pre pared to sustain Fillmore’s administration, Qr any party that does sustain it l Are you prepared to endorse the conduct of Mr. Owen, or of the man who appointed him, or of the men who obtained for him the appointment ? If not, say so. by your votes on the 6th of October. Overwhelm on that day Federalism, and Fillmoreism, and Owenism, and Cobbism, by the unequivocal manifestations of your opposition to the whole concern —collectively and in all its parts. I. W. Harris, Esq. We regret that this gentleman who has been on a short and unexpected visit to this City, was constrained to decline a request preferred by a large number of his Southern Rights friends, that he would address the citizens of Augusta at the City Hall, on the political issues of the canvass. He replied that business required his immediate return to his residence at Athens. Early Frost.— We noticed (says the Savan nah News of the Ist inst.) the appearance of frost in this city on Saturday night last. A friend informs us that a slight frost fell on Sunday night at Lott’s Creek, Bulloch county. It was not, however, sufficient to injure the vegetation. At the same place on Monday night, there was a killing frost, by which the cotton, gourd vines, &c. &e., were killed. On the same night, con siderable frost fell at Point Taylor, Isle of Hope, on the seaboard, about nine miles from this city. At 6 o'clock the same morning, the thermometer in this city, in the open air, stood at 46 degrees; This, we believe, is the first season during thirty years, in which we have had frost in the month of September. The frost, together with thestorm last month, and the late dry weather, cannot fail t« cut off a large portion of the late cotton. The publication of the annual financial state ment of the Austrian Government, which show ed a deficit of nearly 700,000,000 tlorins for 1851. ’52, had caused a panic in the money market of Vienna. Gold was at a premium of 27 and silver at 21 per cent. The long anticipated Austrian loan is announced for negotiation, and subscrip tions were to be received from the 9th to the 27th Septemher. The amount is for 85,000,000 florins, about $25,000,000, but the London capi talists were not disposed to embark in the enter prise; and the loan would, therefore principally be negotiated in Paris, Frankfort, Amsterdam, Vienna and Brussels. The steamer Pampero, which has been made to play so conspicuous a part in the late Cuban expedition, was built in Baltimore, some eigh teen months since, for J. P. Heiss. Esq. and Lieut. Hunter, of the U. S. Navy. Subsequently, it is said, the latter disposed of his interest in her to the former. The Pampero in the late move ment appeared as the property of L. J. Sigur Esq., one of the proprietors of the New Orleans Delta. We now observe in that paper of the IRth uVt., that Mr. Sigur's interest in the Delta, had been purchased in June last by Mr. Heiss, and the presumption is that the Pampero was taken in payment. From New Brunswick.—We have St. John papers to the 25th ult. There were heavy show ers of rain on the 24th, which were very accep table. The drought was beginning to be seri ously felt throughout the Province, no rain of any consequence having fallen for several weeks. No other news. The Washington Republic of Monday, pub lishes an official notice to mariners and others interested, informing them that the floating light which for some time past has been stationed at Carysfort Reef, on the coast of Florida, will on the Ist of November next, be removed to Bren ton’s Reef, Rhode Island, and will exhibit tivo white lights. Marine Disaster.— Capt. Blankenship of steamer Welaka, at Savannah, reports that the brig Venecia, Capt. Doliver, loaded with lumbur. from Doboy, for New-York, got ashore on the 2Bth ult., on the nortTi breaker of St. Andrews' Sound, and is now full of water, and has been abandoned by rhe crew. From Hayti. —The schr. Isis, arrived at Bos ton, brings dates from Port au Prince to Septem ber 6th. An English steamer of war was in port, which had previously conveyed the British consul to the Cape, where the Emperor of Hayti now is. Gay times are expected in the capital during the ceremonies of the coronation of the Emperor, which are to take place about Christ mas times. Coffee is scarce and high at Port au Prince. The new crop, which is said to be above the average, has not yet commenced com ing in. The Mayor of New Orleans, Mr. Crossman, denies, over his own signature, in the papers of that city, the statement made by some of the letter writers in Havana, that he advised the Spanish Consul to leave the city, as his lite was in danger from the mob. On the contrary, he advised him that he was not in the least danger of even an attack, and should such a thing occur, he would be protected by all the power of the city and State authorities. The United States Consul at Paris, S. G. Good rich, Esq., has published a notice in the Journal des Debats, to the effect that the laws of the Uni ted States require that all merchandize imported from a foreign nation into the United States, be stated by a declaration under oath by the person to whom they belong. A neglect of the pre cautions which the Treasury Circular published a short time since, viz : that a Consul's certifi cate should accompany the invoice from foreign | countries, will cause much delay to importers ! and involve considerable loss, as goods offered without such documents will be refused entry, and they will be sent to the public stores at the expense and risk of the proprietors till the arri val of the proper certificates. Eye- The Oglethorpe Loan Associa | tion held their first meeting on the Evening of the first instant. Twelve hundred dollars were j loaned as follows: SSOO at 30 per cent premium; SSOO at 31J per cent do; and S2OO at 32 per cent. Georgia.—The following is an abstract of the Seventh Census of the State of Georgia, just pub lished hy the Census Bureau at Washington: j Dwelling houses in the State 91,011 Families 91,471 White males 266,096 White females 255.342 Free colored males 1,368 • Free colored females 1.512 Total free population 524,318 Slaves 381,681 Total population 905,999 Federal representative population. .753.326 Deaths during the year 9,920 Farms in cultivation 51,759 Manufacturing establishments producing SSOO and upwards annually 1,407 The Athens Banner says—A beautiful Aurora Borealis was distinctly seen at this place on Monday night last, at 7 o’clock, and lasted for several hours. (COMMUNICATED.) Messrs. Gardner and Smythe — Gentlemen : —My attention has been called to a communication in your paper signed A Vo ter, propounding questions to all the candidates for the Legislature from this county. Recognising the right of the people at all times to know the opinions of those desiring their suf frage—l frankly and without hesitation reply, that I am in favor of giving the election of the Judges-to them. And I am also in favor of carrying out their wishes as expressed at the late city election, to have the Acts of Incorporation so altered, as to give “ the election of the City Officers to the people. Yours, very respectfully, WM. SCHLEY. Augusta, October 3d, 1851. [communicated.] Messrs. Gardner Sr Smythe :—ln reply to the first interrogatory of “ A Voter,”—“ Are you in favor of giving the election of Judges to the peo ple ?”—I answer, that from my present convic tions, I should feel constrained to vote against any change from the present system ; but would yield my opposition to the public voice, whenev er fairly and fully expressed. To the second—“ Are you willing to carry out the will of the people, as expressed at the late city election, in this : To have the acts of incor poration, or charter, so altered as to give to the people the election of City Officers V' —l answer, that in the derision of this question by the peo ple, I, as one of them, voted for the change. I believed it desirable then, and am of that opinion now, and, if elected, will use my best efforts to carry out their expressed will. W. R. FLEMING. The Destruction of Forests by Fire. The Portland Advertiser, of Wednesday morn ing, has a letter from Cherryfield, Me., giving distressing accounts of the spread of fires in the woods in that vicinity. No less than fifteen different fires were coun ted at one time. The inhabitants are occupied a good part of the time in protecting the houses from destruction. A number of dwellings had been destroyed. The Cutler Company, exten sive owners of forests, will, it is estimated, lose $150,000, and the losses to individuals will be very large. The rain of Sunday was not suf ficient to put out the fires, which are still burn ing. A letter in the Portland Advertiser says that the whole of Hancock county is burned over. The fire has swept over Mount Desert, and de stroyed several houses. Two dwellings in Jonesport had been burned. The dams on the West branch of the Narraguagus were burnt to the bed of the river, and most of the meadow hay on the river was lost. The St. John's (N. B.) Chronicle of Septem ber 19, remarks.— For the last three days the city has been so completely enveloped in smoke, as almost to ex clude the sight of the sun. The tires are rang ing along shore between this place and St. An drews, several dwellings have been destroyed, as well as damage done to crops and fences. It was a pertinent and forcible saying of the Emperor Nanoleon, that a handsome woman pleases the eye, but a good woman pleases the heart. The one is a jewel and the other a trea sure.” Young gentlemen who would prosper in love, should woo gently. It is not fashionable for ladies to take ardent spirits. New York Dry Goods Market. The Dry Goods Reporter of Saturday says: Since our last report the demand for domestic dry goods has received a check from the failure of two or three houses engaged in the manufacture and distribution of goods, and though there is no real cause or reason for alarm, commercial confi dence has been somewhat impaired. As an offset to this unsettled state of things we have to notice a better feeling in regard to heavy cotton goods, and an advance of 1-4 cent in prices from second hands. Agents now re- < alise 6 1-2 cents readily, and very favorite styles ! are engaged ahead, the price to be settled at the time of delivery. , 1 For Woolens the New York demand has been ! hardly so good, but the drought, which has ex- 1 tended over the whole producing region, must have materially lessened the production of all - descriptions. This however, is more perceptible - m Satinets, Tweeds, Sheep's Greys and Fancy , Casimeres. , In the two last issues of the Reporter we have advised a decline in the demand for Foreign Drv t Goods from first hands, and the existence of an ! 1 active determination among Jobbers to confine their purchases to quantities barely sufficient to j ® meet immediate requirements. This determination has been so rigidly adhered j to, that in many instances we find heavy mer- I j chants, who in former years were wont to pur chase “lines" of favorite styles, now contenting ! t themselves with half packages of the most desi- ! s; rable. | t; The receipts during the week have been about 1 *- the same as last season, but the quantity thrown I upon the market aggregates $158,327 less than ! J 1 during the same period in 1849. Should the ” present prospects for receipts be realized, the im- j b portations ot Dry Goods will, at the close of the j season, exhibit a falling off of $2,000,000 a $3,- i y 000,000. Our accounts from Europe are to the 14th inst. The shipments at that time were very small, and B gradually decreasing. fij Mr. Cobb in New England.—A friend, who has just returned from a tour through New Eng- t 0 land, inform* us that Cobb’s popularity in all ' 6< those abolition States, is almost unbounded On the contrary, he found there not a single friend of McDonald; and thinks if it were left to our •Northern brethren” to say which of the two should be our Governor, that the vote would be nearly or quite unanimous for Cobb. The solic itude felt by them for his election, is such as was never before witnessed in reference to the result i°* a canvass in Georgia. Horace Greely. the prince of New York Abolition Whigs, says he will regard his success as a “ grateful triumph/’ Now we would ask, is this endorsement, , which Mr. Cobb receives from Northern Free soilers, Whigs, and Abolitionists, a sufficient | guaranty, to the people of Georgia, of his fidelity to their interests ? Is it not almost conclusive I evidence that he is not worthy of their confi j dence ! Is not the abuse of such men a higher recommendation for a Governor of Georgia, than j their praise ? Has not, then, McDonald, who re ceives nothing but the first, higher claims upon ! us than Cobb, upon whom is lavished so bounti | fully the last ? Voters, think of this. —Savannah Georgian. The Crops. Extrcuts of letters received in Charleston: Savannah, Sept. 30. “ I have just returned from Florida, and have opportunities of forming some opinion as to the crops there, and from all I could learn and see, this State will yield more to the general crop than last year—the weather throughout has been fine, and the plant producing abundantly. The storm has had little or no effect, on the Sea Island crops of this State, which the planters tell me will be much larger than last year, as in some places twice the quantity of land is planted; indeed, I am assured that there is more made than ean be picked. On the extreme seaboard of Georgia and coast of Florida, they have suffered somewhat by the gale of the 21th August last, but they say not materially—the weather is fine for picking and maturing the fruit.” Oak Place, Miss., Sept. 26, 1801. "Our crops are not altogether flourishing. — Some plantations have suffered from drought ; some are finer, and producing more abundantly than ever before. One-half of my crop was in jured by this drought, by my low lands will by far, make up for tins deficiency. I think, on the whole, I shall do better than last year, and if the present fine weather continues until 15th Octo ber, 1 shall secure at least one-third more than I expect now. From what I have seen of the crops generally, I should suppose the aggregate crop will much exceed that of last year’s; we are all doing better, but not as well as we once expected, for had my high land had timely rains, I should probably have lousd it difficult to have gathered all in time for preparing it, and the laud for another year. of the Georgia Telegraph .| IRWINTON, Sept. 25,18*1. We had a fire in this village on Tuesday night, which destroyed property to the amount of 8,000 to 810,000. It broke out in Barnum & Gardners’ store, which was entirely consumed, together with a stock of goods estimated at upwards of *6,000. The dwelling of Mrs. Cannon was also burnt, togetherjwith the adjoining building occu pied by N. A. Carswell, Esq., as a law office. Insurance upon the property destroyer!, 86,300. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. W. (Sominfrrial. Augusta Market, October 2.—P. M. COTTON. —Since the last steamers news came to hand, prices have given way in this Market J cont. The sales to-day were generally at this decline— some buyors claim j. The domand is confined to the higher grades. Cxtract* of letters received in Charleston. “LIVERPOOL, Sept. 16.—Thedomand for Cot ton has continued steady both from the Trado and Exporters, and the sales for the four days ending to-day, amount to 26,000 bales, without any no ticeable change in prices. “ The Corn market has been very heavy to-day. Flour is difficult of sale, except at a decline of Oil., and Indian Corn is likewise 6d. lower per quarter.'' “ hl\ ERPOOL, Sept. 17.—The sales on Satur day were 6000 bales, 1250 bales for export anil speculation. On Monday 7000 halos, 1500 bales speculation nnd export. Yesterday 6000 bales. 1000 bales on speculation, and to-day the sales will reach about 5 to 6000 bales—the market to day being stoady. No change in price sinco Fri day. The Manchester market was quiet yesterday —prices both for Goods and Y arns were well sup jiorted and stocks continue light.” *’Live Ai’ooi., Sept. 16.—Tho reports brought by the last steamer have not produced any effect upo'n our market: business has not been brisk, and it Ls only owing to a good export demand that prices have been well maintained. Ihe trade have taken about 4000 bales per day, tho estimated sales for four days amount to 26,000 bales, of which 9000 bales export and speculation, prices are the same as quoted la«t week.” “Havre, Sept. 16 —The Cotton markot is firm, but without any rise in prices. We quote:—Mobile tres bas. f 65; has, f7B: tres ordinaire, fBS. Georgia tres bas, fBS; bas, f 77; tres ordinaire, 183. Stoek 25 to 27000 bales from the U. S.” NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 27.— Cotton.— Arrived since the 19th inst. 22,.'149 bales. Cleared in tho samo time for Liverpool 3079 bales, Havre 1740 Genoa 363, New York 2068, Boston 294.3, Pensaco la 20. together 10,213 bales. Stock in presses and on ship-board not cleared on the 26th instant’ 47,860 bales. ’ Our last report left the Cotton market with a moderate demand, at firm prices, as there wa3 no considerable supply pressing on the market. On Saturday there was again a moderate inquiry and the sales were about 1800 bales, at the rates of tho day previous. On Monday the market opened with some inquiry, but the arrivals being quite large most buyers subsequently retired, and thejnarket became unsettled, with some sales near the close at irregular and somewhat lower rates. The sales of tho day summed up only about 1600 bales, and the business of Tuesday was about 2200 bales, with a rathor steadier market. On Wednesday the tele graphic accounts by the Africa came to hand with Liverpool dates to tho 13th inst. Y esterday the markot presented a very quiet appearance, the rather heavy receipts, and some difficulty in freight and exchange negotiations appearing to disincline parties generally from operating. The sales were about 2000 bales; making a total for the week of 16,000 bales, taken for Great Britain, France, tb Continent and our Northern ports; and prio which have presented considerable irrcguls -^ s ’ during the week, close at about a ie. decline A Saturday last, with a heavy market. The total receipts at this port since Ist Septem ber, (exclusive of the arrivals from Mobil e Florida and Texas) are 52,696 bales, against T / 351 bales last year. New Orleans Classification, (assimilating to that of Liverpool.— Louisiana ar tt i Mississimn Inferior, —a —: Ordinary to Go'jd Ordinary 7a' 7i; Low Middling to Middling, 77 r,B|; Good Mid dhng, 8i a 8f; Middling Fair 8’ a 9: Fair 94 a 9i; Good Fair, nominal: Good s.ud Fine, nominal i'll gar. —Louisiana —i he business in Sugar on the levee continues to bo confined mainly to mere retail transactions, in which the following ciuots tions arc the ruling rates—Ordinary to Common 5 J si, Fair to fully Fair 5Ja 6L Prit/o to Choice £ bj cents per 'b. The s.ock of old crop unsold is now estimated at about 1000 to 1200 hhds a°-.: 3 ed since the 19th instant 194 hhd« 84 mv J bbls. Cleared in tho same time for Boston Molassis.— Ihe receipts and sales are unimpor tant, and we have merely to notice sales at 2o a 30 cents per gallon, according to quali dleared r rn d e. SmCe 130 bS. Baron. There has been no improvement in the domand, and business continues confined to retail transactions on the most limited scale. Cincinnati Sides aro nominally 12c., and Shoulders 9. Ham, range from 10J a 12c. according to quality Ar sasKi* MACON, Oct. 1. — Cotton —Market rather dull. 3ut few sales over 81 cents. YVe quote extremes >i to 8J cents. ” n Savannah, Oct. 2.1# Cotton The sales reported yesterday amounts o 123 bales, as follows: 54 at 81 , 10 at 9: 12 at li; Bat 9 6-16; 33 at »j; and 16 at 9jc.