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(Constitutionalist ani> liemtblie.
13V JAMES GARDNER,
California Items.
I The leading event of interest and one which !
■ . U , eu the chief topic of discussion in political j
during the past fortnight, is the election
Bi,‘. state and country officers which was held on
'j instant. In this county the Whigs ob
an average majority of 695 for State otfi
_ for county officers the honors are about
■” ,iy divided. The returns from several of the
R v itier counties have not yet been received,
; Bithere is still doubt as to the result for tiovem
! ■ The vote is very close: both parties claim the
tßictory. and the official returns can alone decide
IKhe rietory. The remainder of the Democratic
ticket, including Messrs. E. C. Marshall
|m,"] McCorkle, for Congress, are elected. The
will be Democratic in both branches,
J will no doubt elect a Democrat to the U. S.
immediately after organizing. The vote
■ - -ighout the state is small. _
\ y ios t destructive lire visited Marysville on
H e night of the 30th of August, by which three
H uire squares, including upwards of eighty houses
Kud property valuer! at 5500,000, were consumed,
■ill the 10th of September, the same place was
■ , am visited by a disastrous fire, which destroy-
K ;wenty-five buildings and a large amount of
Haluable merchandise. Both fires are supposed
■ohave been the work of incendiaries.
■ The Nicaragua route has been opened by the
■rrival of the steamer Pacific from San Juan, in
■ little over 10 days. She left again for San Juan
Hi the 6th inst.
; ■_'! step has been taken by the
■ Yfj* ns ot the Southern counties, desirous of
■,N ‘ Jvftie State and forming a Territorial Gov
■ fVxJ'mf.that portion. Two addresses have
■..A so secure concert of action, and a
Convention of delegates has been called to as
semble in Santa Barbara on the third Monday
Hu October. Delegates have already been ap
pointed to attend from Santa Clara, San Diego,
Knd other counties. All the members of the
legislature recently elected from that section of
Eie"State are pledged to urge a division at the
enduing session.
Crime has most sensibly diminished through
out the State, and no execution has taken place,
either here or in the interior, since the sailing of
the last steamer. The Indians in the southern
art of the State are quiet; those in the North, in
t'rmitlad and Klamath counties, are becoming
lomewhat troublesome.
The gold diggings continue to yield rich re
turns tothe labors of the mmers. The auriferous
quartz veins are being extensively worked, and
generally With great success. The amount ship
ed by the steamer Panama, which leaves to-day,
51.7090, exhibits no falling off in the production
of gold in our State. In the dry diggings miners
ire only waiting for the rainy season, to take
mt large amounts ot gold.
San Francisco has recovered from the two
peat conflagrations of May and June, and has
iern rebuilt in far better style than before.
Numerous fireproof brick and stone buildings
lave been erected, and many others have been
ommenced. Altogether, the condition of affairs
n our State is highly satisfactory.
The Prospects of California.—' There is
io doubt that the emigration to and from Cali
ornia is very; nearly balanced at the present
ime. The facts, that the emigration of the last
•ear is small, that the returns for capital invest
'd are comparatively light, that some uncertain
y and alarm has pervaded the public mind, and
he general profits to all classes have been less
ened. though unpleasant and unfortunate, are not
import, when it is recollected that the
yield of gold during the present year has been
from twenty-five to fifty per cent, more than in
the previous one, and that the agricultural and
other resources of the country hat e been devel
oiied at least a thousand fold.
The excitement relative to California gold is
now over. But California is still where she was,
and just as rich in precious metal to-day as she,
was prior to the extraction of the three hundred
millions which have been taken from her soil.
The gold which has been carried away, is as no
thing—literally nothing—to that which remains;
and the success of her miners, as a general thing,
was never so great as on this very day. It is
certain that more public attention has been at
tracted by the richness of the quartz discoveries,
within the month, than by the prospects in the
Placer.
W e hear occasionally of fortunate “strikes. ’
among the canons by parties of explorers in
search of new Placer deposits, but we hear oi
tener of, and public interest is more elated by,
discoveries of Quartz veins in different parts of
the State.
The following mining article relates the pros
pects in the Southern parts as accurately and as
fully, perhaps, as the present state of affairs in
that region can be determined from the meagre
reports in circulation.
“The mines are yielding, at the present time,
unexampled returns to industrious labor; and the
aggregate yield for the next three months will
be greater than in any previous corresponding
period.
“From Mokelum»e Hill we have received the
most cheering intelligence. The miners have
discovered the ore in spots where they never be
fore dreamed of looking for it; and it would ap
pear fronj'the accounts that there is not an inch
of ground in that region where the soil is not,
strongly impregnated with the precious metal.
"The accounts from the bars on the Toulumne
ana the Mariposa mines are quite as gratifying.
Husin ess is brisk, and rich mineral developments
are daily made.” , ,
Vote For Governor. —We give the latest
reliable returns of the recent election for Gov
ernor. From these, Reading (w.) appears to be
‘250 ahead. Trinity, San Luis Obispo, K lamath
and SanTfieoo are still to be heard from. Pas
senge«®y the Chesapeake, which arrived on
Satu:faWnight. are of opinion that Trinity and
Kalmi-Swill give Reading a small majority.
The wite is exceedingly close, and the official
returns alone can deside the result. The rest of
tiie Democratic State ticket runs considerably
ahead of Bigler, and are all elected, with the ex
ception possibly of the candidate for Surveyor
General. Mr. Herron, the Whig candidate for
this office, runs nearly as well as Reading.
The Next Legislature. —From reliable re
turns thus far received, the Whigs have elected
two State Senators and the Democrats eleven.
One Whig and five Democratic Senators hold
over. The Senate consists o: 23 members. To
the Assembly fourteen Whigs, twenty-eight De
mocrats and two Independents have been elect
ed. The House consists of 63 members —of
which 32 is a majority. The counties to be heard
from will undoubtedly give the Democrats a clear
majority. That party will then have both
branches of the Legislature and the election of
!-’• S. Senator will rest with them.
Marriage of the Musqcito King’s Sister.
—A correspondent of the New-t 'rleans Pica
yune gives the following amusing, but evidently
exaggerated account of the late marriage of the
Princess Adelaide, sister to the famous Musquito
Kmg:
Greytown, Sept. 11,1851.
The day dawned with its usual splendor; my*
nidi of feathered songsters filled the air with
“*eir sweet melodies; the placid water in the
of Bluefields were undisturbed by a single
ri pple, and the little niggers set on their haunches
■grinning with pleasure and waiting for sunrise.
•vJ nature, in fine, was in a sweet repose. Sud
dealythe spell was broken. The sound of a
was heard from the distant hills, startling
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f the quiet citizens of Bluefields from their slum
! bers. The signal was answered from every hill
. and rivulet in the vicinity. These sounds were
followed by the barking of dogs, screeching of
parrots, and bleating of goats, and all the dis
cordant sounds known on earth seemed mingled
in sweet confusion. The martial music approach
ed nearer and nearer, and increased in volume
until I fancied that Pharoah had risen from his
slumbers, and was about to enter Bluefields in
his flaming chariot, to be present at the royal
marriage. In a few moments, about three hun
dred half naked Indians made their appearance at
the main entrance that leads to the palace. The
Princess had arisen from her couch of tigers’
skins, and was standing at the main gate of the
palace, barefooted and devouring a raw plantain.
The King soon made his appearance, and ad
dressed his subjects in the following eloquent
language :“ Me big King. My sister go marry
nigger. Me no like it. Nigger disgrace Indian.
Cussed shame—l drown myself!” His Majesty
could say no more. Overcome with grief, he
entered the palace, threw himself upon a pile of
dried hides, and there relieved the anguish of his
soul by giving vent to a flood of tears. “ Woh!”
said his Majesty, “es me, big King, feel so much
bad cause my sister marry nigger, how common
Mexican feel when him dog die ?”
The royal palace was tastefully decorated with
highly scentel hides. Every preparation being
made for the celebration, tne Princess entered
the Palace hall unattended except by her pet
goat. Her beautiful black hair greased with
| kiss um fat, hung in profusion over her shoulders,
and contrasted finely with her splendid dress,
which was made of a coffee sack. On the mid
dle finger of her right hand she wore a rich and
costly tin ring, made from a sardine box. The
guests were all assembled, but the happy lover
had not yet arrived. The Princess became im
patient, and went to seek him. She found him
playing at marbles. She accosted him thus:
“Jim, weddin all ready an you no cum!” Jim
replied that “he had cum to the elusion not to
marry, cos if he did Victory wood’nt give her no
more penshun.” The Princess was terrified;
but a lucky thought struck her. “Jim,” said
she, “bimeby my brother die, then you'll be
King. The words had their effect, Jim threw
his arm around the neck of the Princess; their
lips met; the saund that followed was like that
heard pulling a bull out of the mire. They pro
ceeded to the palace. The King had thrown off
his India robber crown, left the throne, (which
was a whiskey barrel) and vamosed.
'1 he ceremony being over, a bull was led forth
to be slaughtered. The poor creature was sup
ported on each side by two stout men, whilst a
third gave the fatal blow. The animal yielded
up his life like a good bull, and as all gentleman
ly bulls ought to do, whose carcases aie to lie
devoured on like occasions.
The throne was now tapped; the whiskey
flowed freely, and the guests became men y. —
The feast came to an end ; the last drop of \\ his
key was drained from the throne; a tremen lous
blast was blown from the rams’ horns of all the
Mexicans of the King's household, and the giand
party broke up. Jim is luxuriating at Bluefi Ids,
waiting for the King to die. He says “it is his
contention to visit the ’Nited States as soon as
de equinomical storm be ober.”
A Circassian Favorite. —The favorite wife
was a Circassian, and a fairer vision it would not
be easy to see. Intellectual in expression she
could hardly be called, yet she was full of digni
ty, as well as pliant grace and sweetness. Her
large blacx eyes, beaming with a soft and steady
radiance, seemed as if they would have yielded
light in the dai Wiess ; and the heavy waves of
her hair, which, in the excitement of the tumul
tuous scene, she carelessly flung over her shoul
ders, gleamed like a mirror. Her complexion
was the most exquisite I have ever seen—a
mouth of pearly purity, being tinged with a color
unlike that of flower or of fruit, of bud or of ber
ry, but which reminded me of the vivid and deli
cate tints which sometimes streak the inside of a
shell. Though tall she seemed as light as if she
had been an embodied cloud, hovering over the
carpets like a child that does not feel the weight
of its body; and though stately in the intervals
of rest, her mirth was a sort of rapture. She,
too, had that peculiar luxuriousness of aspect, in
no degree opposed to modesty, which belongs to
the cast; around her lips was wreathed, in their
stillness, an expression at once pleasurable and
pathetic, which seemed to leave with regret
whatever they had rested on, and in parting to
leave something behind ; and in aIL her soft and
witching beauty she reminded me of Browning’s
lines—
-11 No swan-soft woman, rubbed in lucid oils,
Tho gift of an enamored god, more fair.”
Consul Owen removed. —President Fillmore
has removed Mr. Owen, the American Consul at
Havana, whose criminal neglect of duty in the
case of the fifty Americans who were shot at
Havana has provoked such universal condemna
tion from all except the whig partisan press in
the United States.
The act of removal docs not strike us favora
bly. If the administration had not been partireps
criminis in the matter, it would have been but
simple justice. If the sentiments of Mr. Fill
more, issued to the world in his proclamation,
had not warranted the conduct of his agent, then
this removal would not have struck us with the
dubious appearance it now does. But taking in
to consideration the whole course of the admin
istration—timid, wavering, and reprehensible as
it was—the present act appears like one of
treachery. It resembles the act of a principal,
who, having involved himself in an unpopular
transaction, endeavors to clear h’mself by using
his power to throw the odium upon his subordi
nate accomplices.
Mr. Owen was guilty of a serious misdemeanor,
but he can plead in excuse ot it the high authori
ty of the President’s proclamation. His fault, in
our eye, was that he did not disregard the plain
injuction of that proclamation, and act as became
an American Consul. But this, in the eye of the
administration, should have been no fault. He
acted out the spirit of the President’s published
instructions. If the administration repented
them, itself, and not its servants, should have
been the victim. The honorable way would
have been for Mr. Fillmore to resign, and leave
the task of removing Mr. Owen to his successor.
Then we could have ascribed to him sincere re
gret for the course he had taken. But now he
punishes his instrument, while he himself is be
yond reach.— Poughkeepsie Tekgraph.
Alias Two Per Cent, a Month! —We
never saw the other ends of some of the wires of
Wall street better designated than in the fol
lowing passage from an article in the Herald, on
“Sunday in New-York” :
“ If, during tne week, the stranger should be
surprised at the intense activity and insane ea
gerness to make money, which prevail among
our business men, let him look at their hand
some wives and daughters as they sail out to
church in full Sunday apparel, and he will won
der no longer. This vast, uninterrupted stream
of twenty-five dollar bonnets, fifty dollars silks,
yard-wide ribbons, embroidered shawls, velvet
robes, and costly feathers, bespeaks an unparal
leled, extravagance in the families of the indus
trious and prosperous many who make up the
great body of the population of every large city.
The expensive and ostentatious style of this im
mense class—both in their dress and manner of
living—is one of the most strking characteristics
of our country and our age. No where else in
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FR
*he world can one-tenth of so great a number of
expensively (we do not say well) dressed wo
men he seen in the same time or compass, as in
Broadway on a fine Sunday morning. When
we encountered this brilliant procession, last
Sunday, and remembered that money was worth
two per cent a month in Wall street, we could
not help roughly estimating the enormous in
terest the husbands and the fathers of New-York
bestow upon their wives and daughters.”— Home
Journal.
AUGUSTA, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23.
Election of Superior Court Judges by the People.
From the election returns it appears that al
though there was scarcely a Corporal guard who
voted against giving the elections to the people.
Yet those in favor of this policy have made but a
very meagre demonstration at the polls. The
election returns show the following vote:
By the People, 9,634
“ “ Legislature. 696
We sincerely regret this for we apprehend the
Legislature will not cousider itself instructed by
the vote to transfer these elections from their
own hands into those of the people. The ab
sence of opposition to the change is proba
bly one reason for the meagreness of the
vote. We believe there was not a paper in the
State which took open ground against it, and
therefore nothing like animated discussion took
place on the merits of the question. This is one
of the rare cases in which a measure received in
jury, and may be defeated by its popularity.—
Had it had more enemies, and open opposers, it
would have lared better. Had the issue been
made, and its opponents taken the field in
vigorous opposition, the proposition to give the
election of the Judges to the people would have
swept the State.
If either party had identified itself with op
position to this change in the mode of election,
it would have assumed a weight troublesome to
carry. Even Constitutional Unionism would
have been seriously embarrassed by if, and might
have broken down under it, notwithstanding all
its other clap trap advantages.
But this was a question very properly kept
clear of the political issues dividing the two par
ties, and, in the heat of the discussion was over
looked, and unfortunately voters neglected to en
dorse their preference on their ballots.
We hope, notwithstanding, this matter will he :
thoroughly discussed before the Legislature, and
that it will decide in favor of giving these elec
tions to the people. We are sure they will be
deposited in better hands if this is done, for then
some chance will exist for Judges to be elevated
on the strength of their professional abilities and
fitness for the judicial office. Most candid men -
who have seen the mode in which aspirants
so those stations have too often succeeded before
the Legislature, and the grounds on which
their claims are decided, will admit that intel
lectual merit and attainment have too often been
secondary considerations in determining the re
sult.
A Merited Rebuke.
The Mobile Herald 6f Tribune, in the follow
ing plain and sensible talk, reads a lesson to
the citizens of Sumter county, Alabama, which
will apply with equal force and truth to many
counties in this State, and in fact throughout the
South. When our planters learn to raise more
within themselves, and make the producing of
cotton a less absorbing object, they will keep at
home those vast streams of wealth which are
now drained off to fertilize other sections and im
poverish our own.
What is said of the capacities of the South j
here is eminently true. When will she realize j
the picture of independence, wealth and power j
sketched in the last sentence of the following I
article :
The Sumter County Whig—published at Liv
ingston in this state—says that, after a long spell j
of warm weather, there has been rain enough to ;
lay the dust. The sky then cleared up and be- !
came brazen, indicating no manner of prospect !
of rain ever again.
The merchants of Livingston, hopeless of wa- !
ter, were having their goods shipped by other \
than the ordinary ways—some to Prairie Bluff
and others to Kemp’s Landing, at prices for trans
portation enormously high.
The Sumter Whig seems to be contracting a
familiarity with necessity, as though it expected
presently to shake hands with Famine. It
writes thus:
“While this state of affairs lasts, will our coun
try friends remembei us and send in something
for us to live on ? It is true we have had a little
prairie beef at 4 and 5 cents per pound, and so
far flour has been plenty at $4,50 per hundred
pounds, but this is about all. We can get no but
ter, chickens, eggs, nor nothing!—not even corn,
the staff of life. Some planters have been around
us wanting to know if we would give them one
dollar per bushel for corn, —and vve understood
on yesterday that there was some western bacon
in town at 17 cents per pound. Will some of
our country friends bring us in some potatoes
and peas! If they do, the world may wag on.”
If these men in Sumter were not our brethren
we should say let them starve ! They deserve
no better fate.
No county any where in the world has more
fertile lands than this of Sumter. It will produce ;
potatoes, corn, wheat, oats, apples, pears, peas, j
beets, cabbage, cauliflowers, hogs, neat cattle,
sheep, chickens—and every thing else that civiliz- j
ed and luxurious man needs: and this, too, with
out any manner of nursing or coaxing. Its peo- j
pie ought to be able to stand up and say to all
the rest of the world, “You may go. We need j
none of your aid!” For rivers, in emergencies,;
they ought to have a profound contempt. The ;
price of bacon or com in this or any other mart \
ought to be to them as the price of opium in the i
marts of Canton—yet Sumter has so stultified j
itself that, upon the coming of a rain—whose
absence is not singular in this region—it falls into :
travail, like pismires suddenly overtaken in Au- j
gust by a frost—and has no rest save in the hope
that the elements will let fall their sympathetic 1
tears and fill up their rivers to bring bacon and j
flour from the far west!
But Sumter is not alone in this lamentable and j
beggarly condition : the whole drouth Alabama j
is hardly more provident or independent. And ;
yet it were impossible to find in any part of the
world—with an enlightened system of agricul
ture and a proper knowledge ol political economy
—a section which could be more independent
than this. It ought to produce a surplus of every
thing. It ought to compete with the west in
corn and meat. In the industrial arts its cities
DAY, OCTOBER 24, 1851.
! ought to be hives of mechanical skill, and. in
! stead of being the servant of foreign dealers, it
i ought t° gi' e laws to our cotton trade and govern
: commerce with an exclusiveness which no alien
j influence could shake.
The Code of Honor.
Many persons have expressed a desire to ob
tain a copy of The Code of Honor, prepared by
Ex-Governor Wilson, of S. C., and published by
him in pamphlet form in 1838. As the edition
is now nearly out of print, and in compliance
with many requests, we avail ourselves of the
permission to publishers of newspapers, given on
the title page, and present it entire to our rea 1-
ers. It will be found on the fourth page of our
Daily and Tri-Weekly.
The Isabel.
It will be seen by the advertisement of the
agent that the days of departure of this steamer
from Charleston is changed from the Ist and 15th
of each month, to the Sth and 22d. The Isabel
is one of the finest steamers which runs out of
Charleston, and by the above change, will make
Charleston a favorite point for California adven
i turers, to take their departure from, as she will
connect with the Chagres mail steamer at Ha
vana, as also with the New-Orleans steamers.—
Passengers taking the Isabel at Charleston will
be conveyed to California for at least twenty
dollars less than by any other route, and in less
time than from New-York.
The reported fruads in Jlhe Customs, by Mr.
Herrick of New York, have been compromised
by the payment of a certain per centage.
Ex-Alderman Deoven, who distinguished him
self in the Mexican war, committed suicide in
New York on Friday afternoon. Pecuniary dif
ficulties, it is said, led to the rash act.
The authorties of Jersey City intend inviting
Kossuth to visit that city on his arrival in this
country.
The United States mail steamer Washinton
left New York at noon on Thursday for South
ampton and Bremen.
The United States steamer Humboldt left
New-York, at noon on Tuesday, for Southamp
ton and Havre. She takes out 6-1 passengers and
$280,000 in specie.
The new propeller Pioneer left New-York at
noon on Saturday for Liverpool, with 24 first
cabin jiassengers, and 136 in the second cabin.
Receipts of Cotton Yesterday. —The re
ceipts of cotton at this port yesterday amount to
9,638 bales, brought by the following steamers:
Gem 2.389 St. James 1,725
Emperor 1,966 E. D. White... .1,612
Concordia 1,878 Other boats 64
Total 9,638
[A. O. Pic., nth inst.
Direct Trade.— We yesterday made a few
remarks on a plan that is now in progress for
rendering our Planters independent of New
York and Liverpool, by exporting themselves
their produce to those parts, which are now sup
plied with it through the medium of houses in
those cities. To-day we have the gratification
of noticing a circumstance, which may well be
regarded as an era in the commercial history of
Charleston—that is, the arrival of the British
ship Grasmere, Captain Vaile. from Calcutta,
with eight hundred bales of Gunny bagging
fi r the house of Messrs. John Frances & Co.—
This is the first direct communication with the
East and this city, that has taken place within
the recollection of our oldest merchants, and with
a tonnage, which is rapidity increasing, and
which would do credit to any port, we venture to
say that the day is not far distant when our com
merce with the East will be in no measure in
ferior to even that of Boston.
Messrs. J. Fraser & Co. are likewise the im
porters of 1980 bags of Coffee, by the Hanoverian
schooner Oste, which arrived yesterday from Rio
de Janeiro—thus setting an example which is
worthy of imitation—and for which they de
serve the thanks of our citizens. Let the sug
gestions of our correspondent “G.” be adopted
relative to the deepening of our harbor, and the
system of direct trade—export as well as import
—systematically pursued, and Charleston must
become the Emporium of the South.— Charleston
Courier, 2‘id inst.
Mississippi Senators. —The next session of
the Mississippi Legislature will probably have
two United States Senators to elect—Jefferson
Davis having already resigned his seat, and Foote
having promised to resign his. Judge Sharkey,
a prominet Whig, is, it is said, a candidate for
Davis’ vacancy. On the otherhand the Adver
tiser, one ol the two Democratic Compromise
papers of Mississippi, proposes, J udge Price, a
“ Stirling and talented Democrat,” and says that
“ the Democratic party upon the old issues have
a large majority in the State, and are clearly en
titled to both Senators.”— Sav. Georgian.
Pomegranite Cotton. —We were handed a
specimen of this cotton, grown on the plantation
of Mr. W. E. Caldweil, in this district, which
shows a decided superiority over the common
cotton. One limb of a stalk contained twenty
bolls of a large size, and mostly with five locks
or pods. Two open bolls of the same were shown
to us by Mr. Thos. Taylor, of this district, hav
ing five pods, which looked like they might con
tain almost a third more than an ordinary Petit
Gulf boll with the same number of pods.—Lau
rensville Herald.
The River. —Numbers of steamboatmen are
here, and have been for some time, waiting for
the upper rivers to rise sufficiently to enable
them to resume tbeir usual employment. The
Mississippi has not been known to be so low as
it is at present, towards the Ohio,for many years.
Usually, at this season of the year, the large up
river boats are running, and doing a heavy busi
ness in bringing down Western produce. Old
steamboatmen say they have rarely known the
Mississippi, Ohio, and other main rivers to be at
this period of the fall, in so unbeatable a condi
tion. From various accounts we have received
by letter and otherwise, we should think that
the excessive dry weather in the interior had
much to do with this low stage of water. Much
injury must be done to business men in conse
quence, to farmers and forwarders. One injury
it will do our city that may hereafter have results
of no beneficial character .to us. Many mer
chants and farmers in the Western States will
be induced to send their flour and bacon by the
numerous rail roads to New York and Boston
instead of again depending on the capricious dis
position of the Ohio, Wabash and Mississippi.
Those railroads! those railroads! When we think
of them—extending into Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
TennesseeJ and Kentucky—of the immense
amount of produce they carry off from our ware
houses, we almost wish the Mississippi could be
filled up, or evaporated, or done away with in
some summary way, and New Orleans forced to
j construct a half dozen iron roads at once, in or
der to keep herjsupplied with the necessaries of
existence. We have the case of a gentleman
who arrived here the other day from Cincinnati,
after only twenty-five days confinement on
steamboats! What say the lovers of the river to
that? Some of our friends are even now waiting
at various points on the Ohio and Mississippi for
a raise in tne water, and a chance boat, in order
to return to their homes and business. How
long they will be obliged to wait, it is impossi
ble to tell. They had better return by railroad
to New York, and take a steamer for this place.
In the meantime we remain in hopes that Father
Mississippi will go on a bend-erand get high.—
N. O. Picayune.
Official—Congressional Returns.
First District.
Counties. Jackson. Hopkins.
Appling. 157 164
Bryan. 109 107
Bulloch, 391 30
Camden, 241 70
Chatham, 810 750
Clinch, 76 037
Effingham, 159 172
Emanuel, 269 211
Glynn, 65 61
Liberty, 175 192
Lowndes, 358 400
Mclntosh, 98 134
Montgomery, 243 55
Scriven, 303 147
Telfair, 142 194
Tattnal, 109 358
Thomas, 484 297
Ware, 177 112
Wayne, 105 92
4283 4007
4007
Majority for Jackson, 276
Second District.
Counties. Jas. Johnson. H. L. Bennino.
Baker, 301 693
Decatur, 437 298
Dooly, 375 573
Early, 383 369
Houston, 612 598
Irwin, 118 278
Lee, 463 210
Macon, 552 383
Marion, 711 537
Muscogee, 1095 950
Pulaski, 522 208
Randolph, 799 793
Stewart, 885 705
Sumter, 824 370
8107 6985
6985
Majority for Johnson, 1122
Third District.
Counties. D. J. Bailry. A. H. Chappell.
Bibb, 738 683
Butts, 480 207
Crawford, 442 395
Jasper, 550 443
Jones, 404 374
Monroe, 067 703
Pike, 831 858
Talbot, 642 772
Twiggs, 376 290
Unson, 341 671
Wilkinson, 534 157
6011 5853
5853
Majority for Bailey, 158
Fourth District.
Counties. Chas. Murphky. J. D. Stell.
Campbell, 372 485
Carroll, 658 747
Coweta, 761 721
DeKalb, 1395 627
Harris, 699 310
Fayette, 636 587
Heard, 141 404
Henry, 965 631
Meriwether, 717 745
Troup, 1106 324
7750 0601
3601
Maj. for Murpliey, 2149
Fifth District.
Counties. E. W. Chastain. W.H. Stiles.
Cass, 1218 683
Chattooga, 637 205
Cherokee, 1250 743
Cobb, 1202 1309
Dade, 259 174
Gilmer, 1217 88
Gordon, 668 396
Floyd, 1037 407
Forsyth, 713 620
Gwinnett, 808 617
Lumpkin, 902 267
Murray, 1230 813
Paulding, 556 263
Union, 1001 204
Walker, 1190 640
13882 7481
7481
Maj. for Chastain, 6401
Sixth District.
Counties. J. Hillybk. T. F. Jones.
Clarke, 605 383
Franklin, 1082 387
Hall, 723 351
Habersham, 1030 202
Jackson, 825 403
Madison, 613 61
Newton, 1000 400
Rabun, 232 168
Walton, 827 464
6937 2819
2819
Majority for Hillyer, 4118
Seventh District.
Counties. A. H. Stephens. D. W. Lewis.
Baldwin, 347 299
Greene, 760 164
Hancock, 543 188
Laurens, 569 66
Morgan, 456 290
Oglethorpe, 528 248
Putnam. 382 295
Taliaferro, 355 41
Washington, 804 364
4744 1955
1955
Maj. for Stephens, 2789
Eighth District.
Counties. Robt. Toombs. R. McMillan.
Burke, 537 421
Columbia, 406 240
Elbert, 1034 217
Jefferson, 526 117
Lincoln, 270 162
Richmond, 821 645
Warren, 643 421
Wilkes. 467 318
4704 2538
2538
2166
NEW SERIES -VOL. VI. NO. 127
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Reported for the Constitutionalist ic Republic
New York, Oct. 22.
Cotton.— The market is firm. Coffke is
advancing—sales of Rio have been made at 7}
to 8J cents.
The Asia sailed to-day, with $400,000 in
specie.
Charleston, Oct. 22 — p. rn.
Cotton.— The market is active. The sales
are 1063 bales, at 0i to 8 5-16 cents.
Hints as to eduoation in bodily orach.
[lna mere introduction to the mention of Wells’s
new dancing academy, the following sensible re
marks were made by the accomplished editress
of the Verdict. —J
“When girls have grown up to that awkward
age when they are all legs and arms, when they
have sat for years (those years during which
their form is hourly growing) with protruding
shoulders, walked with slouching gait—then, just
as the awkward girl is required to be an elegant
lady, she is taken to a dancing-master, and dan
cing-lessons are administered to her. None of
the evils we have signalized are noticed, but she
is taught, with these ungainly limbs, the wait*
the polka, or any other dance that may be the
fashion. Now, a girl is called on to dance per
haps twenty times in the course of a year, and
lor only live or six years of her life. She is des
tined to walk, sit and move all her life. It is
essential, therefore, that she should be taught
all these things; for, in the first place, grace ia
essential to beauty and essential to health; yes
to health, tor grace means that every limb should
be in its proper position, and should fulfil its al
lotted duties. Therefore, unless this is accom
plished, the whole system of our nature is im
paired, and some evil will ensue. In this coun
try, of all others, this subject requires particular
attention. How many lovely faces are here mar
red by narrw contracted chests, curved spines and
pointed elbows'? Then, women walk here with
the twitter of a bird, hopping from branch to
branch. They must be taught to walk, that
“ft T>: “«!“»? strength bv a proper balance
of the body. Women must be graceful, for from
harmony of motion we judge of harmony of mind
Besides they are, in the world of slovenliness
and toil, the embodiment of the beautful, and
are bound to be graceful in all they do, in order
that we may not lose all memory of classical
perfection. —Home Journal.
Good Fortune to the Lafayette Familt.—
The Paris correspondent of the Boston Atlas re
lates the following anecdote :
“I am sure that your readers will be glad to
hear that the Lafayette family have recently re
ceived a very large addition to their fortune by
a lawsuit i ecently decided, which has created
some coversation during the past week.
The most prominent female in the Court of
the Restoration, was Madame du Cayla Young
beautiful, accomplished, endowed with great
talents, which consummate and practiced tact
had rendred most useful, she won the affections
of Louis XV 111, and scandal attributed to her a
more intimate position than that of friend It
was in her chateau of St. Queentin, the charter
of 1814 was signed. She has disappeared from
the world of politics for more than 25 years, and
from society for more than 15 years—living in
retiremeiit,surroiinded by old and faithful friends.
About two years ago, chance placed in her
hands different papers, belonging to the estate of
the late Marquis de Lusignan.then recently ds*d.
T. hese Lusignans, who once ruled provinces in
the east, one of whom married the famous Vene
tian, Catarina Cornnaro, left immense estates
and a large number of muniments of titles and’
er ,“ n I X)rtan t papers. In hunting through
these Mme. de Cayla fouud the materials for a
great suit in favor of the Lafayettes. She of
fered them to the Marquis George Washington
Lafayette, who refused to embark in a costly
law suit. 1 hen Mme. du Cayla olfered to under
take the suit at her own risk and perils, upon
condition they gave her half the proceeds of the
amount recovered. This was agreed to; she ar
ranged every thing, paid every thing, and has
gained the cause, the Court at Bordeaux having
decided in her favor. The whole amount re
covered is 2,100,000 francs, of which she has re
ceived 1,200,000 francs—about $240,000.
T he Election.— The returns frm all the coun
ties in the State, give Mr. Cobb a majority of
18,660 over his opponent. We will give the of
ficial vote as soon as it is ascertained, after the
meeting of the Legislature.— Southern Recorder.
A poor man died of starvation in Cork, Ire
land, a few weeks ago. The coroner’s jury ren
dered the following verdict:
That we find the deceased, name unknown,
came by his death through starvation, being in
the prime of life, owing, in our opinion, to the
reckless and careless treatment of our governing
ministers, in not giving more attention to the
distress of the country.
Commercial.
Augusta Market—October 22, P. M.
COTTON—The demand to-day has been steady for
the higher qualities. Middling fair to fair is worth 7f
to 7J cents. The other qualities are neglected.
SAVANNAH, Oct, 21.— Cotton—' There was a fair de
rnaud for cotton yesterday. The transactions amount
ed to 610 bales, at the following particulars , 55 at 61
}« 7 > 11 at 7 *’ l7 at ’it 63 at 7j,92 at 7|, 146 at 7»I
183 at 8, and 29 at 8j cents. Prices firm and in favor of
holders.
SAVANNAH EXPORTs7oCT. 21.
Per schr. H. N. Gambrill, for Baltimore—94o sacks
Salt, 17 bales Yarn, 16 bales Domestics, and 8 rolls Leath
er.
Per schr. William & John, for Charleston—2,ooo
bushels Kougli Rice.
Per barque Exact, for New-York—6ls bales Upland
and 33 do Sea Island Cotton, 190 Hides, aud 1 box Mdse
Per brig Alfred Exall, for New-Y0rk—133.200 feat
Lumber.
Slipping Intelligent.
ARRIVALS FROM CHARLESTON.
Steamship Southerner, Dickinson, New York.
L\ S. steamer John Hancock, Livingston, New York.
Ship Julia noward, Bulkley, New Y’ork.
Barque Fairy, Cook, off Malaga, for Marseilles
UP FOR CHARLESTON.
Schr. Qeo. Harris, Somers, at Philadelphia.
CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON.
Ship John Rutledge, Wambersie, at Baltimore.
Schr. E. H. Rowley, Rogers, at Philadelphia.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 23.—Arrived, steamship Marion
Berry. New York; Br. ship Grasmere, tale, Calcutta
Hanoverian schr. Oste. Steffens. Rio Janeiro.
Below, barque Bar State, Dill, from Baltimore.
Cld. steamship Isabel, Hollins, Key West and Havana:
brig Lucy II- Chase, Knight, Boston 5 U. L. brig Mooes,
Wicks. N. York ; S. L. brig Calvert, Kiely, Baltimore
schr. Samuel Butler, Booze, Baltimore.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 22.—Arr. steamship Alabama, Lud
low. New York.
cleared, barque Exact, Stevens, New York; brig Al
frod Exall, Odder, New York; schr. H. N. GambrUl,
Whorf, Baltimore.
..I 7 *,?* 10 ?® a > bar <lH« Exact, Stevens, New York; brig
Alfred IxaU, Odder, d O ,