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(From ths New Orleant Picayune, 14/A iiut.)
Later from the Rio Grande.
The Revolution in Mexico—Surrender of Reynota
to the Revolutionist.
The steamship Yacht, Capt. Thompson, arriv
ed this morning from the Rio Grande. She
brought $8,658 in specie on freight. By this ar
rival we have a copy of the Rio Bravo of the Bth
inst., published at Brownsville. It appears that
the revolutionary forces are again in motion.
The Rio Bravo says:
We hear on the arrival of a special courier last
night, that a detachment of the troops of Col.
Carvajal. two days ago, entered the city of Rey
nosa, ana demanded of the Government forces its
immediate surrender. After some hesitation, the
demand was complied with, and one cannon and
a considerable supply of ammunition, provisions,
and small arms, fell into the hands of tne victors.
This was a bloodilcss triumph, and shows con
clusively that the people every where are in fa
vor of this revolutionary movement. The Gov
ornment troops meet with cold looks or hard
knocks wherever they turn.
At the latest moment the Rio Bravo learned
that Gen. Canales had arrived at Matamoros
with a considerable body of men. Gen. Avalos
went out to meet him, whether as friend or loe
is not yet known.
The Rio Bravo publishes the following sub
stance ot two letters—-one addressed to Gen.
Jauregui and the other to Gen. Amador—written
by Col. Manuel Molina, from Matamoros, before
the battle of Camargo, which were intercepted
by Col. Carvajal:
Id the letter addressed to Jauregui, under date
of the 18th of September last, he tells him iu the
first paragraph, that he had received from over
the river, four trackages of papers belonging to
the ancient frontier companies, (antiguus pre
aidiales) and which will no doubt be of advan
tage to the General in settling his accounts—says
he had them from a friend residing on the Ameri
can side of the river—gave him thanks in the
name of the nation and of Jauregui, for having
preserved them so many years, &c. Speaks of
people under Carvajal and others being opposite
Camargo for the purpose of driving the military
out of the State, establishing their own custom
houses, Ac. That they received in Matamoros
the pronunciamento, and Avalos immediately
sent expresses to Mexico, Tampico and to him
self, (Jauregui) for troops to be concentrated at
Matamoros and the frontier, to attack the pirates,
Carvajal, dec.; but imagines and believes that he
may have aeen wiiat has happened in Havana to
the pirates of the North, and finally to Narcisso
Lopez, whom they caught and garoted.
He complains bitterly that it is four months
since they have received any pay, and that the
city [Matamoros] is in a “deplorable state for
want of commerce,” and getting “worse from
day to day,” and which, as the General “may
have observed, is the case with the whole na
tion.”
The other letter is addressed to Gen. Amador,
and dated on the 32d, 13 o'clock M., says that
Camacho is at Camargo well fortified—had not
fought, and was only awiting the arrival of Gen.
Jauregui, with his troops and Indian hordes, to
attack the seditionists, and, if possible, hang all
who are caught; and with the ring leaders, Cara
vajal and Canales, do as was done with Narcisso
Lopez in Havana. Also sends him a copy of the
pronunciamento for the amusement of hiinselt
and friends —promises to send him news, and
that they are determined to die to the last man.
Col. Carvajal, chief of the revolntionary for
ces, has published the following proclamation
addressed to the troops under his command, ami
to the towns that have united and may unite
with them:
That having this day seen a commercial no
tice, issued by the commandant of the Counter
Customhouse Guards of Nuevo Leon and Taman
lipas, declaring that all cargoes attempting to go
into the interior, availing themselves, as it says,
of the disordered state of some places on this
fronter, will be confiscated wherever found; and
that no permit will be valid unless issued by the
employes the Government has at the custom
house opened to commerce, 1 have resolved:
1. That until the employes of the Government
of Mexico recogize the permits issued by the
Customhouse of the towns pronounced, [promm
ciados.] not to respect or hold as valid the per
mits issued by the custom-houses at the ports
occupied by the enemy.
3. That cargoes of goods travelling with such
documents, will be seized and confiscated as a
fraudulent importation, and the proceeds of the
same shall go into the funds spoken of in article
Bof the plan referred to. [Referring to Indian
depredation fund.]
The Rio Bravo says: -
We learn from a gentleman who arrived on
Monday evening, on the U. S. steamer Corvette,
that Col. Carvajal has received large reinforce
ments of efficient troops, and is now in a situa
tion to attack any point he may choose to assail
with a perfect certainty of success. We may
look for further operations shortly. Gen. Avalos
is busily engaged in strengthening his fortifica
tions at Matamoros, and the city looks almost as
warlike as when Gen Taylor eutered it in 1816.
The following circular instructions have been
sent to the officers of the customs at Browns
villes
Custom House, Point Isabel, 1
Collector's Office, Sept. 36, J
Sir The recent reported revoluion in the
neighboring Republic of Mexico, and the proba
ble confusion which will arise in the business and
trade on the Rio Grande, impose upon the officers
of the customs of this collection district addition
al moat important and delicate duties.
In view Jtherefore, of the important out events
■which are now transpiring on the Rio Grande,
y O H are hereby instructed to use increased vigi
lance for the due protection of the revenue, and
to report *ll violations of the laws of the United
States by steamers or individuals, forthwith to
this office. ...
You are especially requested and instructed to
discountenance and prevent, to the extent of your
ability, any invasion of the Republic of Mexico,
by armed expeditions from the U. States, and to
sustain the present constituted authorities of that
Republic.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
John 8. Rhea, Collector.
Another circular instructs the officers of
Brownsville to promptly seize and detain all ves
sels engaged in the transportation at men and
supplies, or arms and ammunition intended for ;
Uw revolutionists, or for the use of bodies of men
invading the Republic of Mexico from the U.
States.
The Rio Bravo, in an article under the head
“Who will lead,” says that Gov. Canales, acting
Governor of Tamaulipas, was marching on Mata
moros under pretext of putting down the revolu
tion, but in fact to head it.
‘"The Rio Bravo adds:
Should Canales become the head of this out
break, it will inspire every good man with dis
trust. He has been engaged in so many little
squables with the Federal Government, which
have all ended in his discomfiture and disgrace—
he has acted with so much perfidy, ana want
both ot honor and courage, that no sensible man
would put the least confidence in any thing un
dsr his control. His own countrymen cannot
help despising him—the Americans detest him
as one of the basest of mankind. His foul sacrifice
of the gallant Texans under Jordan is not yet and
never will be forgotten.
(From the Savannah Newt)
The Muscogee Railroad.,
We had the pleasure yesterday of an interview
with Mr. J. D. Gray, of the firm of John D Gray
& Co., contractors on the “Muscogee Railroad. - ’
This Muscogee Road, as perhaps our readers are
aware, commences at Columbus, in this State,
and proceeds Eastwardly, 00 miles, when it will
connect with the South Western Railroad, at a
place called the “Wolf Pens,” situated near the
three corners of the Counties of Marion, Talbot
and Macon, not far from the head waters o
White Water Creek, from whence the South
Western Railroad Company, under special aid
from the City of Savannah and the Central Rail
road, are constructing a branch road, of 22 miles,
to their main road at Fort Valley.
From Mr. Gray we learn that the Muscogee
Road is progressing in good spirit, and that 20
miles of the road, leading from Columbus, will be
open on the 10th day of next month and that
from the temporary terminus stages will connect
with Barnsville and Oglethorpe. Mr. Gray is of
opinion that, by this time next year, the whole
line will be open to Fort Valley, when passen
gers can pass from this city to Columbus in 15
hours.
The importance of a connection by Tailroad
with Columbus cannot be overrated by our citi
zens. It will open to us an extensive new trade,
while it will give to Columbus an immense ad
vantage, by affording her speedy access, at all
times, to one of the largest and best cotton mar
kets in the Union. It is well known that the
business men of Columbus are subjected to great
inconvenience by the uncertainty 0 f the river
navigation between that city and Apalachicola,
their only outlet to the seaboard- In dry seasons,
when the Chattahoochee is low, vast amounts of
cotton are compelled to lie in the Columbus
warehouses for months, to the serious injury and
inconvenience of both the merchant irid planter;
and even with a good boating river, the freights
to and from Columbus are obliged to traverse the
meanderings of the river, a distance of some four
hundred miles. The opening of the railroad con
nection between this city and Columbus will
make this the most accessible outlet and inlet for
Columbus trade, which, notwithstanding the ob
stacle we have mentioned, is daily growing in
importance.
We learn from Mr. Gray, whose firm also has
a contract on the Augusta and Waynesboro Rail
road, that that work, although it has thus far
from unavoidable circumstances progressed rath
er slowly, is now going on with vigor, and that
a portion of the road will very soon be open.—
From other sources, we have heard much of the
superior character of this road. Forty miles an
hour can be made on it, and we predict a ride
from this to Augusta, within 18 months, in 5
hours time.— Savannah News, 18 th inst.
Return of the Siill’ Adrian. —The ship
Adrian, Capt. Scott, owned, by Messrs. Allen Nt
Ball, of Savannah, arrived there on Friday fore
noon from San Francisco, via Calao, 100 days
from the latter place. The Adrian has been ab
sent from the Savannah port about eighteen
months.
It is almost time to doubt the declaration of
“ the preacher,” that there is “nothing new un
der the sun." Every day something new “turns
up,” as Micawber would say. Yesterday we
chronicled the invention of a Cold Water Steam
Engine, and now we see it stated that a gentle
man in Newport (Ky.) is perfecting an applica
tion of electricity for propelling a box containing
letters, over wires from place to place, on the
telegraphic principle. The experiment over
wires of six hundred yards in length has worked
to a charm. What next.— New York Courier.
A Spirited Lady, — A scamp in Henry coun
ty, Ky., recently slandered a young lady, who
sued him and obtained a verdict of SIO,OOO. The
lady scorned to receive the money—her only ob
ject being the vindication of her name from the
calumnious aspersions of the defendant—she di
rected her counsel to enter a remittitur for the
amount of the verdict, save what would be suffi
cient to compensate them for their services. Up
on consultation, they consented to be satisfied
with five hundred dollars.
To Measure an Acre ofGround. —ln mea
suring land, 30 j square yaads make one square
rod, and -10 square rods make one square rood,
four of which, or 160 rods make one acre. It is
evident therefore that -10 rods long by 1 roils
wide will make an acre. The same result may
be arrived at by measuring 229 feet in length
and 198 feet in width, or by measuring 731 yards
in length, by 66 yards in breadth. To lay out an
acre square , 209 feet on each side is the nearest
foot that will make an acre, being less than an
inch each way over the exact distance, •13,560
superficial feet, or 208,95-100 feet on each side
constitutes an acre of ground.
A Clairvoyant Prophecy about Sir John
Franklin. —In turning over the exchange pa
pers this morning, our eyes fell upon the follow
ing paragraph, which purports to have been cut
from a paper called the Edinburgh Advertiser,
but of what date it is not said:
“On the 17th of February last, a clairvoyant,
whose revelations are given in Dr. Gregory's
late work, stated that Captain Austin was at
that moment in lon. 64 deg. 43 min. west, which
corresponds exactly with the actual position of
the place where he is now found to have passed
the winter. According to her statement, Sir John
Franklin was at the same time in lon. 104 deg.
45 min., or about 400 miles to the westward; he
had been previously relieved.and a third ship was
then frozen up along with his two.”
Happening to have the work of Dr. Gregory,
which is here alluded to, on our table we turned
to it, and found, sure enough, that on page 306 of
the American edition, it is recorded that a female
in the magnetic state, while examining certain
letters said to have been written by Sir John
Franklin and Captain Austin, declared that they
were at that moment (Feb. 17th, 1851,) in the
longitudes above given. The book itself was
published several months since, and long before
the return of Captain Austin's expedition.
We next turned to our files of the London
Times, and found the report of Captain Austin
published, at leugth, in that paper of September
12th, stating, in the course of it, that, from the j
14th of February, 1851, until after the 18th, “he
was fast to the fixed ice, between Cape Martyr
and Griffith Island.'' Now, this point, according
to our rude measurements, on Johnson's map of
the Arctic Zones, is just about 95 45, west longi
tude, from Greenwich.
Here then we have a prophecy giving precise
numbers, and distinctly recorded previous to the
time when any knowledge of the event referred
to could have been had, and which turns out to
be quite correct. Clairvoyance, which has been
getting somewhat into disrepute, will probably
be looking up hereafter. It has never before had !
—that we are aware of—so decided and signal
a success.— N. Y. Evening Post.
A person being asked why he had given his
daughter in marriage to a man with whom he
was at enmity, answered—“l did it out of pure j
revenge.” 1
AUGUSTA, GA.
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21.
THE LARGEST CIRCDLiTIQNIN THE STATE~
Reorganization of the Democratic Party in Georgia
The decisive defeat of the Southern Rights
Party in Georgia ends its career as a sectional
party, organized to resist past wrongs perpetra
ted on the South, and to prepare for future ag
gressions.
Georgia has now twice emphatically declared
that she has suffered no wrongs requiring any re
dress, and therefore, acquiesces in the past. As to
the future,the State is equally committed by these
elections to resist, even to disunion if necessary,
certain aggressions specified by its Convention,
which the Southern Rights Party would be quite
as prompt as the dominant party to resist. If,
then, the Constitutional Union Party be sincere!
and stand firm on those grounds, there is no di
vision of public sentiment in Georgia as to the
proper policy of the State in the contingencies
supposed. When either of those contingencies
does arise, it is to be hoped Georgia will act as a
unit in the spirit in which her Convention has
spoken. That she will do so, is a matter of grave
doubt. When that time comes, the alternative
of resistance, for the sake of the South, or sub
mission, for the sake of the Union, will again be
presented—a Union party will again arise, and
brawling demagogues will again appeal to the
people, perhaps not vainly, to put down the advo
cates of resistance, as disunionists and traitors,
worthy of the federal hangman’s rope. The side
which the members of the Southern Rights Party
will take,is not doubtful. The side which many of
their opponents will take may also be inferred
from the events of the past.
But leaving the future positions of men to be
determined by the events as they arise, the ques
tion now occupying the minds of the defeated
party in Georgia is, shall it keep up its sectional
organization, or shall it unite with that party
which assimilates nearest to its own principles,
and contends for the same general policy in the
administration of the federal government? If
the former, it weds itself to a Quixotic and hope
less struggle to revive issues which have been def
initely settled, and are now forever dead. If the
latter, it will survive to contend for issues that are
alive and practical—for principles which are dear
to every Southern Rights man, because he is a
State Rights man, a strict constructionist and an
opponent of federalism.
We believe the latter course will be preferred
and decided upon by the Southern Rights Party.
It would seem the part of patriotism, as well as of
inclination, for its members to unite with that
party, by whose aid they may best hope to estab
lish their principles sf State Rights and strict
construction, and stamp them upon the action of
the federal government. Through that, course
alone, can they best render their influence felt in
prolectingjthe South from the assaults which abo
litionism is striving to make upon her by means of
the federal arm.
Another question necessarily springing up in
this connection is, will the Constitutional Union
party of Georgia continue its organization as a
Union party, and aim toorganize a National party
upon its platform, or will it merge into the Fe
deral Whig party ? The indications are that
it is desirous of pursuing the lormer named course.
But the indications are very decided that this
desire cannot be accomplished. It cannot hold
its discordant elements together for that purpose.
The proclivities of the Whig portion are too
strong towards their old Federal Whig principles,
and leaders.
The only chance for the triumph of their prin
ciples is in the success of the National Whig
party. The Whigs therefore, forming as they
do, the mass of the Constitutional Unionists, will
control it in favor of Federalism.
But what will become of the Democratic por
tion of that organization ? What part will they
enact ?
The Washington Union undertakes to solve
this question, and it seems to speak “ by the card”
upon the subject. In an elaborate editorial head
ed “ The Georgia Elections,” it thus undertakes to
locate Messrs. Cobb and Foote in reference to
the Democratic party:
“Looking to Georgia and to Mississippi, where
Messrs. Cobb and Foote had been selected as the
exponents of the sentiment which refused to
sanction extra-constitutional means as a remedy
for the disappointment felt by the South at the
terms of the Compromise, we regard their suc
cess as involving no impeachmen tof their fidelity
to their ancient party, and, in the same sense,
none of the democrats who co-operated with
them as absolved from the responsibility which
properly attached to their previous public career,
when the emergency passed away which render
ed necessary that co-operation. Our language
was, that Messrs. Cobb and Foote, democrats Ire
fore their election, would be democrats after their
election, the two great parties naturally resum
ing their ancient position, as formed and defined
by the divisions and trials which hive deter
mined the res|x>nsibility of public men, and
tested the character and wisdom of public policy.
Were we wrong in this supposition? This
becomes now an important question, and one,
we conceive, that demands the prompt and seri
ous consideration of those who have aided in
guarding the country against the dangers, which
we trust are now passed, resulting from the il
legitimate efforts of the abolitionists, on the one
hand, to make the federal government their in
strument, and from those ofthe ultraists of the
South, on the other hand, who would have coun
teracted such efforts by extra-constitutional
means, and thus destroyed the Union.”
If the editor of the Union is not wrong in this
supposition, then the Constitutional Unionists
j have “ caught a tartar ” in the person of their
J Governor elect, and will not have his aid in
! forming their third party-.
The idea that the Democratic party may be
absorbed in a Union party, the editor of the
Union scouts' as absurd. He says:
“This democratic party has gone through two
national wars—has reformed our system of gov
ernment, and passed through many trials, from
the time of Jefferson to this day-, involving a
demand for all the searching labors of patriotism,
wisdom, and statesmanship, and has never had
cause to change its name. It was with the flag
of democracy that we fought our second war of
independence. If, in such a crisis as that, when
it was difficult to obtain form a j| ssunionparty in
our land a blanket to warm our suffering soldiers,
there was no necessity to take the name of Union
party, what is there now to justify us in doing
so? Granting (what is riot true) that the whigs
in the present agitations of the country stand,
as a party, as free from responsibility for these
agitations as the democrats are, is that a reason
why the democratic party should lose its
name?”
Further on he says:
“Regarding in this light the suggestion that
the democratic party may be absorbed by a per
manent Union party in the South, after the
prsent crisis has been'settled, we treat the inti
mation that Messrs. Cobb and Foote will not
hereafter act with the democratic party, or come
into convention with the national democracy to
select candidates for the presidency or vice presi
dency, as chimerical. If the whigs of the South
want a new name let thens) take it. They are
not unused to seek such change. But let them
not imagine that .the democrats need it, or will
make this sacrifice to make manifest their love
of the Union.”
The question here naturally arises, in the
words which designate a favorite old English
farce, “ Who's the dupe !”
It is plain that somebody has got to be cheat
ed. Either the Democratic organ at Washing
ton is badly deceived,or this Constitutional Union
third party movement will be a miserable break
down in Georgia, and the friends of Clay, Fill
more. Webster and Co., are regularly “ sold .”
The editorial of the Washington Union from
which we have already quoted so freely, thus
closes:
“Nor would we exclude from the democrtic
convention men who have acted in the present
canvass in the South with those who would have
prevented, under the name of State rights, the
acceptance of the Compromise as a final settle
ment of the slavery question, but now yield, in
good faith, to the sense of th# majority, and bow
to the sovereignty of the people. We have done
what we could to sustain the same general
views that Messrs. Cobb and Foote have, and
intend to maintain hereafter the execution of the
Compromise in all its parts as a democratic duty;
but this shall not prevent us from communing
with those who differed from us whilst that
measure was yet in transit as a legislative bill,
or as a question for the ratification and approval
of the people. When such differences of opinion,
submitted to the tests of party, are no longer
discernible or applicable, and men Jreturn to the
general platform on which democracy has chal
lenged its opposite, whiggery, as the'competitor
for the honor and fame arising from party agency
in securing the most good to our common country,
then we make those differences no bar to fellow
ship.
These remarks seemed to us to be called for
at this period as a general answer to many inter
rogatories coming in from various quarters of
the Union, the general purport of which dis
plays an unjust apprehension that the democratic
party is to be merged in a Union party. We
answer emphatically, No! and that it is not in
this sense we understood the union which had
taken place of the democratic party in the
South, and in all the other sections of our coun
try, in the maintenance of the Compromise as
a settlement of the slavery question. We claim
that Messrs. Cobb and Foote are good democrats,
standing where Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson
did.
Ihe Washington Union holds wide open, to
the Southern Rights men, the doors whirh leads
into 4he great National Democratic wig-wain,
and invites them in.
We presume they will reconnoiter a little and
watch who go into it, and are admitted into full
fellowship—who are likely to get the high seats
in the councils ofthe Sachems, and what sort of
influences are at work there, before many of them
avail themselves too readily |of the iuvitation.
If the National democratic party were now
what it was in its purer and better days—in
those days when it went uniformly to battle
against the hosts of Federalism with the princi
ples of the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions in
j scribed upon its banners, and an honest zeal for
the rights of the States, and the sovereignty of
\ the States glowing in the hearts of its followers,
the sympathy drawing the Southern Rights party
to the staudard of the united Democracy would
be strong and irresistible. They have seen that
party battling at the North, for Southern lights,
against anti-slavery, lanaticism and the dema
gogueism which fomented it, with a noble de
votion to the constitution, and a zeal worthy of
better success. They have seen it overwhelmed
and beaten down while so defending us. But
while its ranks were thinned by desertion to our
assailants, and devided by abolitiou heresies,
many of its old and tried leaders stood firm and
true to their principles and to the South. They
stood firm while Southern Democrats faltered.—
They claimed and were anxious to gain for the
South more than the South showed heiself wil
ling to insist on. They would have given the
Southern portion of the territories, divided by 36
30, had Southern statesmen not abandoned that
demand, and declared themselves content with
Mr. Clay’s compromise. Could such Northern
Democrats still exert their legitimate influence,
and become the exponents of Northern Demo
cratic opinion in future contests for equal rights
among the States, then nothing would be more
pleasing to Southern Rights men than to be iden
tified with that party. But barnburnerism and
free soilism have contaminated its ranks and
even striven to sway it to their fell purposes.
Ultra Federal doctrines have crept in among its
leaders, aud many who are Federalists at heart
are received as orthodox Democrats.
It is natural then that Southern Rights men
should be wary and suspicious. They should
watch the course of the Democratic party, and
note well its dominant influences, lest in trust
ing to its support of States Rights principles they
should find those principles engulphed and over
whelmed.
The Washington Union endorses Mr. Cobb as
a sound and orthodox Democrat. That he is,
and has uniformly been upon all practical ques
tions of legislative policy, a Democrat as between
Democracy and Federalism all parties will readi
ly bear witness. But if his views on Federal su
premacy and State coercion, as set forth in his
letter to the Macon committee are a fair exposi
tion of what the Washington Union considers
sound Democratic doctrine, then that paper and
the Southern Rights party understand the De
cratic creed differently. That letter contains
propositions as thoroughly Federal as was ever
proclaimed by Alexander Hamilton, or expound
ed by Daniel Webster.
Mr. Cobb may act with the National Demo
cracy, but before he can do so he has got a very
awkward task to perform in shaking off his
E resent Federal Whig associates, by whose aid
e has been elected to office, and who looked to
his election as a triumph to ensure to the be
nefit of their old party.
The Georgia Home Gazette.
We take pleasure in acknowledging the recep
tion of the first number of this new literary pa
per, published in this city by Maj. Robert A.
Whyte. Terms, $2 00 per annaum, in advance.
This is a home enterprize, entitled to the fa
voring smiles and fostering care of Southrons,
of Georgians, and more especially of the citizens
of Augusta. We cordially commend it to their
patronage and best wishes.
From the well written salutatory of the edi
tor, which presents modestly and gracefully its
claims upon public favor, we select the fol
lowing :
“ Our design is to make a Southern Literary
and Family Journal, —such a journal as shall be
worthy an extensive patronage. There is scarce
ly a weekly paper of this class now in existence
throughout the entire Southern States, and yet
the inhabitants of this section are as refined, in
tellectual and moral as those of any other portion
ofthe Union.
“ In Georgia is such a paper particularly need
ed. The money of our citizens is now unspar
ingly sent abroad to obtain that which we might
with equal ease and far greater propriety obtain
at our own doors. Would one but reflect for a
moment upon the vast sums which are expend
ed by our citizens for foreign magazines, periodi
cals, etc.—the larger number of which are mani
festly indifferent to our interests as well as un
friendly to our views of public policy—and the
benefits which would .inevitably result from the
establishment and proper support of such enter
prises in our own midst—he must acknowledge
the supineness into which we have fallen, and
be willing to aid, to the extent of his ability, in
effecting a reform. There is an existing, abso
lute and widely felt necessity at the South for
papers for the fireside—for the home circle—
papers which may afford entertainment and in
struction to intelligent and reading families.
Such a paper it is our desire and intention to
make in “The Georgia Hose Gazette,” and
while the man of business will not search its
columns in vain for that in which he takes the
deepest interest, the inmates of his family may
also find something which shall furnish amuse
ment and instruction to them. Should we suc
ceed in making such a paper as we propose and
confidently expect to make, we shall rely upon a
support equal to its merits—such a support as
will evince the favorable opinion entertained of
our exertions, and which may serve the purpose
of urging us on to still more arduous labor in the
great field upon which we have entered.”
California Land Commission. —We learn
from the Washington Telegraph , that Geerge W.
Cooley, Esq., a member of the Boston bar, has
been appointed by the President of the United
States, Attorney to the Board of California Land
Commissioners.
|Tue Havana Consulship. —lt is announced
that Charles C. Langdon, Esq. of Mobile, has
been appointed United States Consul, at Havana,
vice Owen, removed.
[Telegraphed for the Baltimore American.]
St. Louis, Oct. 17.
We have advices from the treaty grounds near
Fort Laramie to the 28th ult., by the arrival of
Major Chelton and Colonel Cooper, of the Army.
They bring news of the conclusion of the treaty
with the Western Indians.
The necessary presents had all come to hand
and had been distributed among the various
tribes. Three companies of rifles were detached
as an escort for the Commissioners’ Delegates,
for the Indians are on their way to Washington.
Maj. Chelton’s Company of Dragoons came on
in advance to Fort Leavenworth. Every thing
terminated satisfactorily. The whole force is
expected on next week.
Washington, Oct. 16.—There is much inter
est manifested in diplomatic circles relative to
the expected arrival of a special Minister from
Spain, to demand satisfaction of the United
States Government for the loss to Spain and Cuba
from the late invasion of Cuba.
Philadelphia, Oct. 17—10 P. M.—ln 53
counties Bigler lias 6,500 majority. Goldsmith,
for Coroner, is the only Democrat elected tor the
State House row of officers.
In Philadelphia county, Hambleton, Native
American, is elected to the Senate by 126 ma
jority. The Natives elect five members of the
Legislature, and all the City and County officers
except the Coroner.
For the Supreme Court, Coulter, the highest
on the Whig ticket in the city and county, leads
Campbell, the lowest on the Democratic ticket,
9,747, and leads the h'ghest on the Democratic
ticket, 6120.
The election of the Whig and Native Senator
in Philadelphia County, and of a Whig Senator
in Northumberland District, gives the Whigs a
majority of one in the Senate.
Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 17.—The examination of
the cases of Ira H. Cobb, J. Moses, editor of the
Standard, Stephen Porter, A. Dutcher, Amos Da
vis, all whites, and a colored man named Brown,
charged with a participation in the riot on the Ist
of October, in aiding the arrest from the officers
ofthe U. S. Government of a fugitive slave nam
ed Jerry, at Syracuse, is progressing here, but
nothing has yet transpired to indicate what the
result will be. They were brought down on
Wednesday from Syracuse, to be examined here.
There is great excitement both here and at
Syracuse, and the court house is crowded to
overflow. District Attorney Lawrence, under
directions from Washington, insists on their full
committal on the charge of high treason. There
are still a number of warrants out for the arrest
of other accused parties.
Buffalo, Oct. J 6.
The steamer Lord Stanley was burnt on Lake
Champlain,on Tuesday last.—Fortunately there
were no lives lost.
The brig J. R. Giddings with a full cargo,
bound from here to Chicago, has not been heard
from, and is supjiosed to have gone down with
all on board.
Later from Santa Fe.
The St. Louis Republican of the 3d instant
gives the following additional and later news
from Santa Fe:
The mail from Independence yesterday brought
us a brief letter from Sente Fe. dated on the 2d,
at night, in which it is said:
I hasten to inform you that an express has
just arrived from Bornallillo county, with the
news that there had been a fight at the election
polls, and three Americans killed. How the row
commenced, I do not know, but have heard that
Reynolds was receiving all the votes, and the
prefect ordered out fifty armed men to drive his
friends from the polls.
There is great excitement here. At least one
hundred men will be raised to proceed to-day to
regulate the perfect and his minions. God knows
where it will end.
P. S.—One of the wounded men has just got
in. He is wounded in two places. His name
is Candido Ortiz.
A slip from the office of Santa Fe Gazette of
the evening of the 2d, gives the following re
turns :
Santa Fe Countv. —Majority for the Inde
pendent ticket about three hundred and seventy.
This is about one hundred less than the majority
for the same ticket at the spring election, but at
the spring election there were over two hundred
soldiers and Quartermaster’s men who voted
unanimously for the Independent ticket, who, at
this election did not vote at all.
There is, therefore, a real gain of about one
hundred for the Independent ticket since the
spring election. Will the Occidental Messenger
please say that the Ashurst platform in Santa Fe
county is O. K. Ashurst and Brent are elected
to the House of Representatives as the Indepen
dent candidates. R. M. Stevens elected sheriff.
South Carolina Election—Number of Vote* Pol
led, as far as heard from.
Districts. Co-Op. Seces.
First Congressional District 3797 2314
Second do. do. ...3181 1488
Third do. do. ...3015 2979
Fourth do. do. ...4041 2377
Fifth do. do. ...3369 2475
Sixth do. do. ...2824 1359
Seventh do. do. ...2134 2716
Total 22361 15708
The majority for Co-Operaton out of the above
38,069 votes is 6,653, from which must be de
ducted the Williamsburg and Union Secession
majorities, and added, the majorities in Anderson,
Pickens and Clarendon, which will give a to
tal thus far of 7,577.
[Charleston Courier inst. I
3Btj jffioprtic €tltpp|.
Reported for the Constitutionalist k Republic
New-York, Oct. 20.
Cotton.—The market is quiet and steady.
The sales are 800 bales.
The ship Eclipse has arrived with ten days
later news from Rio Janerio. The steamer
Susquehana had completed her repairs and was
I about sailing for the East Indies, via Cape of
Good Hope.
Montevideo dates to the sth of September state
that the siege, it was expected, would be shortly
raised.
The Buenos Ayres market was unsettled, the
Brazilian Admiral, Glenfelt, having assumed a
hostile attitude.
At Auburn, the parties engaged in the Syra
cuse outrage have been held to bail on a charge
of misdemeanor. The trial takes place at Buffa
lo, on the 11th November.
(Telegraphed to the Charleston Courier.)
Baltimore, Oct, 18, 11.20 A. M.
The Washington Union of Saturday morn
ing contains the address of Kossuth to the people
of the United States. It makes five columns of
that paper. He gives the history of the Revolu
tion in terms of burning eloquence, explains his
object, and the causes that led to his defeat, and
says that had the United States been a neighbor
ing nation, the whole of Europe would have
been revolutionized.
Additional per Illinois.
_ Baltimore, Oct. IS.
The Steamer Constitution arrived at rmu,,,.
on the sth, with SIOO,OOO in gold dust. Senator
Gwin was a passenger by the Illmois. The Pan
ama Rail Road is progressing favorably. The
Engineers expected to have been able to run the
cars to Gatoon on the 12th inst. Among the/
passengers on the Illinois are seven persons who
dug SIOO,OOO worth of gold dust. The election
in California was undetermined. It was sup
posed, however, that the democrats had been suc
cessful in electing the Governor and members to
Congress. The general news is unimportant.
The markets are more active. Flour, Provisions,
Groceries and other articles were improving.
New-York Markets. In the New-York
Cotton market on Saturday, Middling Upland
was quoted at 81, and Middling Orleans at 8J
• cents. The sales of the week amount to seven
thousand bales. Rice has declined during the
week, and the transactions comprise five hun
dred tierces at 2i a 3 5-16.
Mobile, Oct. 18—1.45 P. M.
The steamship Brother Jonathan,bound to New
York, put into this Port to-day for coal. She
brings 128 passengers, San Francisco dates to
the 14th ult., and Chagres to the 14th inst.—
The Vigilance Committee of San Francisco have
resigned their functions in favor of the authori
ties. The election is yet doubtful. The chances
ate in lavor of Bigler. Heydenfeldt will proba
bly be elected Judge of the Supreme Court. The
mail steamer Carolina when between Panama
and San Francisco on her last trip sprung a leak
and put into Acapulco, where she has been con
detned.
New Orleans, Oct. 17.
Six hundred bales of Cotton were sold to-day,
Friday. No material change has occurred in
prices. The sales of the week are 34,000 bales—
the largest this season. The receipts of the week
are 32,000 bales. The stock on hand to-night
amount to 95,000 bales. The Price Current
quotes low to strict Middling 5J (?) to 7 cents.
The Steamship Winfield Scott has arived from
New York.
Later from Mexico.
By the schooner Bonita, which arrived yester
-1 day lrom Vera Cruz, we have received files of
papers from the city of Mexico to the 28th ult.
being twenty-six days later than our previous
advices. The Bonita left Vera Cruz on the 4th
inst. and brought $35,000 in specie on freight.
We learn from our Mexican papers that the
. national affairs were in apparently inextricable
confusion. Numerous but unsuccessful efforts
had been made to form a Cabinet. Senor l'obles
has accepted the office of Minister of War. but
Senor Esteva has positively refused a place in
tc-- Cabinet.
A conducts, which had left San Louis for Ca
l' ye, was robbed of $50,000. The conducts was
e. fried by twenty-two soldiers, who were over
pc ~ ered by more than a hundred robbers. None
of the money has been recovered.
The Spanish residents of the city of Mexico
have raised $5,000 to be contributed to the sup
port of the families of the Spanish soldiers who
fell at Las r > '.as and other places in the contests
with Lopez.
The roads betw.ci. . .. a Cruz and the city of
Mexico are said to bi i., horrible condition.—
IV. O. Picayune, 14/A ink.
A Profitable Voyage. —The clipper ship
Surprise, built at East Boston by Mr. Hall, is
making a profitable voyage. On her arrival at
London, her freight money to San Francisco and
Canton, and thence to England, will have en
tirely paid her cost and expenses, besides nett
ing a clear profit of $50,000 for her owners. This
we may call truly an “agreeable Surprise."—
Boston Courier.
<£omnmciaL
Augusta Market, Oct. 20—F. M.
COTTON.—There has been a good demand to-day,
and the sales made were at full prices. We quote Mid
dling at 7| to 7§, and Middling Fair to Fair at 7f to 7|
cents.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 19.— Cotton. —The market waa,
rather dull on Saturday, the sales amounting to only
345 bales, at prices ranging from 6| a 7s, the bulk at 7f •
a7| cents. Prices about the same as the day previous.'
SAVANNAH EXPORTS, OCT. IS.
Per steamship Florida, for New York—4ls bales t.T
ton, 30 bales Domestics, and sundry pkgs.
Perbarqno Peter Demill, for New York—lls bbk
Rosin. 26 bbls. Spirits Turpentine. *2 tierces Rice, 355
bales Upland and 90 do. Sea Island Cotton.
Per brig Madison, for Boston—637 bales Cotton.
Per sehr. Virginia, for Philadelphia—3l2 bales Cotton,
294 Hides. 6 bales and 2 crates Rags, 6 bales Wool, ami
2 bales Bags.
Shipping intelligence.
SAVANNAH. Oct. 19.—Arr. ship Hartford, Saimer
man, New York; barque Harvest, Nichols, do.; sclir.
Cataract, (new) Rico, do.
Cleared. barque Peter Demill, Hoey, New York; brig
Madison, Clarke, Boston; schr. Virginia, Syrnmes, Phil
adelphia.
Went to sea, steamship Florida, Lyon, New York;
ship Chaos, Dnnton, New Orleans.
CHARLESTON. Oct. 20.—Arrived, steamship Osprey,
Power, Philadelphia; ships Franchise, Tucker. Liver
pool; Napoleon, Hunt, Boston; Br. barque Clarence,
Cumming, New Orleans; brig Mazatlan, Lewis, Boston;
schrs. Exceed. (Br.) Saunders,.Green Turtle Kev /Bah );
R. M. Price, Chambers. Philadelphia; Col. Satter'iv, bi
wood. New York. '
In the offing, barque Bay State, from Baltimore.
Went to sea. steamship Southerner. Dickinson. Neff
York: barques Isnarden, Adams. Mobile; Ellen Morrison,
tiavet. Baltimore; Aaron J. Harvey, Cope. Philadelphia;
brigs Ann Maria, Smith. Providence; Somers, Watson,
West Indies; schrs. Isabella. Gage, do.; T. C. Bartlett,
Hopkins, Mobile; Ellen Perkins, Blethens, New Bedford.
COAL! COAL!!
Semi-bituminous Tenneßscc coal, suita
ble for Parlor Grates, Ac., and better adapted
to this climato than any other Coal, for sale at the
Georgia Rail Road Depot. ts sept. 30
RICH CARPETS AND RUGS.
GRAY BROTHERS
HAVE JUST RECEIVED, splendid Tapestry
Velvet, of rich and beautiful styles.
Three Ply and Ingrain Carpets, bright rich colors,
and pretty patterns.
Ingrain, Cotton and Wool, and Cotton Carpets,
very low priced.
Beautifhl Chenello, Tapestry and Tufted
aod Matts, to match. oct. Si