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To the People of Georgia. {
A few friends of education, during the past i
year, published a call fjr a convention, to take
into consideration the great subject of common 1
schools. To that call about sixty counties in <
the State responded by sending delegates, num
beringabout one hundred and fifty, who met in 1
convention at Marietta in July last. The large 1
number of delegates, comprising so many of our >
most intelligent citizens, men known to feel a i
deep interest in this matter, and in all things i
likely to effect the condition of the people; also t
many experienced and practical teachers; shew- i
ed the interest that was taken in the subject by 1
the people ol Georgia. Although there was not
that unanimity so much to be desired, although a i
great diversity of opinions and views was enter- «
tuined and urged in the convention,yet all seem- !
ed to have the same great objects iH view, an 1
anxious desire to do something to excite that in- <
tercst among our people in the subject, without i
which nothing effectual can be accomplished, I
Hither by Legislative enactments or much less by i
tin: resolves of a convention. After much do- i
liberation and a very full expression of opinion
by a large majority, the convention adopted a
preamble and resolutions, recommending the es
tablishment of a systom of common schools for
the State of Go, rgia, and the establishment of a
bureau of Education. Under a resolution of the
convention the undersigned were appointed a
committee to address the people of Georgia upon
the subject—sustaining and urging the views of
tbo Convention. We well may, as we sincerely
do, distrust our ability to do justice to that body,
much less the great subject of education—a sub
ject so intimately connected with the interest
and happiness ol the people individually, and its
unspeakable importance in a social and political
point of view. The cause of education received
an early attention, and a liberal patronage, from
the framers of the government; large appropria
tions have been made from time to time ; various
systems of education have been adopted, modified,
then rejected and repealed, and tbo present sys
tem but a modification of some others must be a
bandoned and superceded us not calculated to effect
the object intended to he accomplished—the edu
cation of the poor. We believe there should bo
a new system adopted—one that can be under
stood and enjoyed by tire whole people ; that the
time has arrived when the system in force in
other States, both free and slaveholding Staves, a
system approved ami in practical operation, and
that too after a trial of many others, should In
introduced into Georgia, by which wholly abol
ishing the odious distinction of “ poor scholars,'-
all the children of the State should be educated
at common schools to he established and sup
ported, if not entirely, mainly at least by the
State. As the establishment of “ common
schools” involves the rejection of the present
“ poor school system,” it may be proper to state,
as briefly as we can, the leading provision of tho
law establishing it. The law makes it the duty
of the magistrates in the district, to report to th'o
” Inferior Court” annually, the names of all the
children in their le.spective districts deemed by
them proper persons to receive a portion of the
fund set apart for the education of the poor;
these returns are sent by the Inferior Court to
the “Executive office,” and form the basis for
the distribution of the timd, which is about twen- .
ty thousand dollars. To supply the balance of j ;
tlie moans necessary to educate the poor, the ,
grand juries are requested, not required, to re- ,
commend to the ‘ Inferior Court,” the levying of ;
such per cent on the State tax as they may think
necessary to educate the poor in their respective
counties. A statement of a few facta will, we j
think, clearly show that the above plan, adopted
in 1843, is very defective, unjust in its operation j
and not at all calculated to effect the object in ]
view, and that it should be superseded, or great
ly modified, if the common school system should I
not find favor with the Legislature. In the first j
place, any one who will take the trouble to look
into the matter, will find that the duty of the !
magistiates under the law, to make returns ofthe !
poor children is often entirely neglected, and'
that the returns which have been made are 1
very imperfect, not more than three-fourths of !
the poor children are returned, and of those re- i
turned, it is ascertained from the commissioners ;
ofthe poor school fund in a few of the counties, j
iitile more than half are sent to school, and their i
average attendance is not four mouths in tlie i
year.
The whole number of poor children in the j
State may be safely estimated at from forty to 1
fifty thousand ; about one-third of all the chil- !
dren in the State between the ages of six and ‘
sixteen—the whole number being by estima- !
lion something over one hundred and forty thou- J
sand. It is ascertained from the returns in the!
Executive Department, that in the year 1849. j
thirty thousand eight hundred poor children were [
returned; and in 1850, thirty-two thousand and j
nine hundred were returned. The imperfect re
turns, together with the fact that little more than
half of those returned are sent to school, and that
their attendance is not more than four months in
the year, show conclusively, we think, that
there is something essentially wrong in the pre
sent system. Again, the provision of the law of
1843, authorizing, not requiring, the Grand Juries
to recommend, not to require, the Inferior Court
to levy such tax as they may deem necessary to
educate the poor in their respective counties, has
not accomplished the intended purpose. We
have conclusive reasons for asserting that iu many
counties no recommendations have been made,
and in some when they have been entirely dis
regarded by the Courts ; nor can it be expected
that the Grand Juries, wlto are usually together
only for one week, and who have so much other
business requiring their attention, or that the In
ferior Courts, with their many duties, can give
the subject that attention which is necessary in
order to form a correct conclusion what amount
of tax would be necessary, and which would be
agreeable to the people. We have ascertained
Irom the proper record in the “Executive office.”
that in the year 1849, thirty-two counties made
no returns of their poor children, and in 1830,
fifteen counties made no return. Can it for one
moment be belioved that the people in these
counties were taxed, or that their poor children
revived the benefit of th,. provision, when the
magistrates and J edges of the cou. ts did not feel
sufficient interest in the matter to take the ne
cessary steps in order to get their share of the
s3o,ooo—the State fund tor the education of the
poor? The law provides that counties making
bo return shall receive of the educational fund 1
agreeably to the last return on record, and even I
with this provision, eight counties in 1850, re
ceived nothing, never having made a return.
But another objection to this plan, and which
we think is fatal to its continuance, is its gross
injustice to the poorest counties, w here there is
the greatest number of poor children, and the
least ability to beartaxation. It is deemed unne
cessary to argue this point an example will il
lustrate it conclusively.
The counties of Newton and Jasper pay into
the treasury as State tax eight thousand nine
| hundred and ten dollars, and return some hun
j dredand twenty poor children; whilst the coun
; ties of Union and Gilmer, which pay fifteen hun
j dred and ninety four dollars of State tax, return
I two thousand eight hundred and eighty-four poor
j children. Thus in the two conutics where com
paratively little is wanted there is much ability
to bear taxation, and in the other two where
much is wanted the people are unable to bear the
tax necessary to educate their children! All
must see the injustice of such a plan. The
children of Union and Gilmer, and all counties
similarly situated, must grow up in ignorance or
the people be ruined by taxation. Thus we be
lieve that we have demonstrated that the pres
ent system has not and cannot answer the ob
jects of general education or the education of
the poor, and that it should be superceded by
another. Wc believe that Georgia should profit J
by the experience of other States —the experi- ;
ence argument is worth all others in this matter
—and adopt at once the system of common
Schools,” discountenancing the odious distinc- i
tion of poor children, which has kept so many at '
home, and in ignorance, and adopting the name
of “common school” for all the children of the :
State. This was the opinion of the convention,
in which the committee fully concur.
The recommendation of the convention that
there should be established a “Bureau of Edu
cation,” is directly connected with this matter.
The committee deem this indispensable in giving
life and force to any law upon the subject. At
the head of this department should be placed a
superiutendant, whose duty it will be to receive
all returns and all communications connected
with educatian in the entire State. He will be
the bead or Executive under the law to super
intend tho whole subject and to carry out the
law.
He will annually report to the legislature the
working and progress of the system, suggesting
such detects and alterations as his experience
and high qualifications will enable him to detect.
It will be his duty personally to visit the differ
ent school districts, and to consult ths select
men in each, in order to ascertain tlie want of
the different counties, and tlie adaptation ol the
system to such as may be peculiarly situated on
account of the sparseness of population. Tbo
superiutendant is an important and indispensible
officer in every well regulated system of common
schools known to the committee.
We have stated that the Convention was not
unanimous in its rccomcndation. Some believ
ed tliat tiie present plan was the best; we think
we have shown, no matter what may he the ob
jections to the “common school system,” that
the system now in force in Georgia, does not,
and has not, answered the wants of the country.
Some'of the friends of the proposed system doubt
ed its practicability, on account of the inherent
diffeeence in the charcter ofthe people of Georgia
and those of the Stales in which the system is
in vogue, and that slavery and thesparseness of
our population would interfere with its success
ful operation. We must be allowed to spurn
the insinuation that the sons of the Cavaliers
are not as capable ol appreciating and sustaining
any great and good cause as the descendants of
the Puritans. Neither does slavery nor sparse
liess of jxipulation constitute objections to the
system. Kentucky and Tennessee, have good
common school systems, and wc infer that Lou
isiana has, from the fact that a very distinguish
ed gentleman has recently been chosen superiu
tendant of her schools, and they are slave Stater.
To meet the d.fficulty of sparse population,
there is in cveyy good system a power of exten
sion or expansion. In the State of Maine,
(which has long had one of the best systems of
“common schools,”) some of the counties, from
the spars-ness of their population, have not yet
received the full benefits of the system, but it is
extended to them bs they become fitted for its
operation. And in Wisconsin, just settling, the
common school system was adopted, before the
formation of her constitution, preparatory to her
admission into the Union.
[OONCLUDBII TO-MORROW.)
(From the Columbia Times.]
“It is Good to bs Taught by ono's Enemy."
‘"Fan esl ab hosts JoctriT In the sense of this
wise old saying, the article of the N. Y. Tribune
on the Georgia elation, which we copy contains
some rich reading, instructive to the people of
Georgia, and a most luscious nut for the triumph
ant party to crack. We will not ask the reader
to peruse it, for we know everyone will read it.
Mr. Horace Greeley,of the “Higher law" branch
ofthe abolition humanity school, is “gratified (o
a giatification” at the Cobb victory in Georgia—
and he proceeds to a philosophical dissection of
the elements which have produced this result,
j His conclusion is, that the germ of the whole
I matter is, that the Free or White labor of the
J Cherokee country has run a successful muck
j against the slave labor of the Cotton and Rice
j sections, and that the issue is a very substantia!
I Whig and Free soil triumph. His remarks about
| the contest in this district and the issues in the
| canvass against Mr. Johnson are, to ray the least
lof it, cruel. We commend that part of it to some
, of our heavy union planters to whom we ad
dressed our "last warning” just before the elcc
: tion.
i The Tribune makes some mistakes in facts.—
j For example it says that McDonald beat Hill for
; Governor two years ago. It is needless to nay
! that he should have said Towns; instead of Mc
; Donald. He also classes Mr. Johnson of this
iDistiictasa H'Ai'g, in former times. Mr. John
| son used to be what the Whigs called a “Locofo
| eo" of the rankest stripe. But we think he is
bagged ior a Whig for tho future.
This Gkorcsia Election. —Two years ago,
i Charles J. MrDonahlwas chosen Governor of
| Georgiaover Edward Y. Hill, the Whig candi
; date, by 3,192 majoiity — the vote being a very
j large one. The State is very evenly divided be
, tween the two great parties, but McDonald rode
the high horse ou Southern Rights.' while Hill
pointedly refused to do any such thing, and that,
refusal turned the scale against him. The Mate
was thus put decidedly against the Whig party.
McDonald seems to have been in earnest in
his semi-Calhoun ism. He knew how he had
won his election, and he went ahead accordingly,
Southern Conventions, Southern Congress, and
‘various games of that sort, found in him a ready
and ardent supporter. About halt his party,and
a very light sprinkling of quasi Whigs earnestly
sympathized with him. But the mass of the
People did not—far from it. Thousands who
had humored the joke so long as they regarded it
as a mere party ruse to beat the Whigs, began to
back water so soon a* the matter came to look
sei ious ; At the head of these stands Howell
Cobb. Speaker ot the last House, a shrewd and
strong man, wiio has made many a stump speech
to prove the Northern Whigs essentially, Aboli
tion ized, and quoted, the Tribune to prove his
assertion, but who has no idea of going out of
the Union, Proviso or no Proviso. And this
brings us to another interesting feature of the
present contest.
Georgia, like \ irginia, and. less thoroughly,
Maryland, N. Carolina and Alabama, is a State
containing two antagonist Social systems—the
Slave system in the South-East and the Free
Labor system in the North-West. When the
Slavery Propaganda compelled General Jackson
to drive the Cherokees out of Georgia, in atro
cious defiance of justice, humanity and publie
faith, it had previously been found necessary, in
order to stimulate the whole People of Georgia
to sustain the Nullification position of Gov.
Troup toward the Federal Government under
the Presidency of Mr. Adams, to set npall the
lands to be obtained from tha Indians to be gam.
bled for in a gigantic State Lottery, every Geor
gian having a free ticket. Thua the Cherokees'
lands, before the original and rightful owners
ha/1 been driven away from them, had already
been distributed by lottery, mainly in small
tracts, to many thousands o( citizens.—A gold
fever broke out about this time and precipitated
the settlement while preventing the aggregation
of these lands: and thus North-Western Georgia
has been recently settled in farms too small to be
profitably cultivated by slave labor and by far
mers who had no slaves to work, even though
they had land on which to employ them.
And thus it happens that the most thrifty
and powerful [in voting] section of the
State, which has hitherto gone ‘Democratic,
because their lands were wrenched from the
Indians by Gen. Jackson has now put its
veto on Slavery Propaginda by going almost rn
muss? for the ifnion ticket. In the older Coun
ties generally where slavery beats sway. Cobb's
vote is that of the Whig party and very little be
sides ; in the most Southern and peculiarly Cot
ton and Rice growing section, Cobb has less than
the Whig vote in former years; but in the
young North-west the majorities for Cobb roll
after this fashion :
DeKalb 727 Chattooga 400
Cass 550 Floyd 6SO
Cherokee 550 Habersham 773
Jackson 414 Madison 524
Lumpxin 796 Walker 555
Newton 633 Walton 825
Gilmer 1,006
Most of these counties gave McDonald large
majorities two years ago. They have now de
molished him. The less populous counties also
of the Cherokee country have generally given
Cobb decided majorities.
Os the members of Congress elect, two are
‘ Southern Rights' men, elected by meager ma
jorities from the Savannah and Macon districts
respectively ; three democrats of very moderate
party prepossessions. Messrs. Toombs and Ste
phens, who used to be whigs, as we think Ste
phens still is at heart, and James Johnson, a
whig who had to encounter in the canvass, and
did not contradict, affidavits charging him with
having maintained that the North did right in in
sisting on the exclusion of slavery from the New
Territories, and with having lately sold his pro
perty in Georgia in ordor to remove to a tree
State, expressly on the ground that he would not
subject his children to the evils and contamina
tions of slauery. We feared these affidavits
would damage him in the canvass, but they do
not seem to have done so. He is atall events tri
umphantly elected, from a district hitherto re
presented by a Loco-Foco Propagandist.
Let ns not be misunderstood. The people of
Upper Georgia, like those of Western Virginia,
are hostile to Abolition as it has been present
! ed to them, and in favor of upholding what they
; term 1 Southern Rights.’ But at heart they
wish every negro back in Africa, and, instead of
: consenting to dissolve the Union in behalf
of the extensi :a of slavery, they would wel
come the Union without slavery as an alterna
tive to slavery without the Union. In support
of this assertion, we confidently appeal to the
future.
| *
( From Ihr Journal of Commerce, 23d iiut.)
Arrival of the Hermann.
The United States mail steamship Hermann,
; Capt. J. I). Wilson, has arrived here with the
! English, French and German mails, and dates
; from Bremen to the 3d. Havre the 7th, South
ampton and London to the Bth inst.
She brings over 100 passengers and a small
freight from Germany and France.
The great event and topic of conversation
when the Hermann sailed, was the expected ar
rival at Snuthamption of Kossuth the Hungarian
leader. He was expected to reach Southampton
up or about the 12th October, having sailed from
Marseilles on the Ist inst. in the American steam
frigate Mississippi. Kossuth was accompanied
by his wife, child, and mother-in-law, and 5S
other refugees from Kiilayah.
Our private letters inlorma that Lord Dudley
Stuart having,obtained intellengence from Vienna
: that an attempt to assassinate Kossuth would he
made, at his landing in Southampton, and that
two females had left the Austrian capitol for the
express purpose of making an attempt upon the
life of the illustrious fugitive, at Southampton,
; great precautions were to he taken by the au
thorities of Southampton to frustrate the satauic
. design of these fanatic women.
The approaching close of the Great Industiial
! Exhibition created great interest and excitc-
I meat. Monday the Gth inst., being the first day
, of the last week, the enormous number of 107,815
persons visited the building and £5175, was
taken at the doors. On the following day the
numbers were 109,915. Notwithstanding this
immense, throng, everything went otT with per
fect order and no accident of any sort occurred.
Business matters in England were an impro
ving appearance and the influx of Bullion into
the Bank of England was beginning to he sen
sibly felt in the Money Market. The English
i funds and railway shares having considerably ad-
I vanced. The monthly returns of the Board of
| Trade for September showed an increase of near-
I lv £700,000 in the Exports over the coriespo.i
ding month oflSso, and the quarterly returns ot
the Revenue made up to the 10th October, ex
hibited the finances ol the country in a most pros
perous condition. The reports of the state of
trade from Manchester describe less general ani
mation, buyers waiting for lower prices in the
cotton market.
The woollen districts showed a slight revival,
hut orders were less abundant in Birmingham.
The Provincial Corn Market had established
a rise ot one to two shillings per quarter for corn.
\ At Mark Lane on the Gth inst., the tiesh supply
; of new Wheat being small, English qualities re
alized an advance ot one shilling. Foreign
i Wheat scarcely obtained any advance. Peas Is.
‘ per quarter higher.
The Liverpool Cotton market was tame, with
sales on the Gth inst. of 5000 bales at steady
prices, equal to those brought by the last steamer.
On the 7th inst. the sales amounted to 8000 bales
at rather dearer prices.
Great and expensive preparations were being
made both at Manchester and Liverpool for the
reception of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Pile enthusiasm attending the royal visits to
those democratic places was tremendous.
In Continental politics there is literally noth
ing new, and we cannot chronicle any event of
striking importance brought by the papers of this
packet.
The commercial accounts from Paris are not
so good. The wine crops of the South of France
will be on the average deficient.
A secret society, with deposits of arms, has
been discovered in Berlin, and ten of its members
arrested.
The Queen of Spain has conferred a pension
of 20,000 reals on the widow of General Enna,
in consideration ol the gallant services of her late
husband.
From Vienna it is reported that the whole of
the new Loan has been subscribed. The Em
peror of Austria was at Trieste.
A Horns Without Hair !—An extraordinary
phenomenon, in the wly of “horse-flesh,” was
brought to town yesterday afternoon by the
steamer Gordon. It is a mare, captured on the
plains of Venezuela by a party of American hunt
era. headed by the well known traveller, Juan
Percy, and Capt. Hall. She is 15* hand high,
ot great beauty and symmetry, and without one
particle of hair on any part of the body! The skin
resembles India-rubber, aiid is as soft almost as
velvet.
The owner of this singular animal is now on
his way to Macon, where he intends to exhibit
her at the approaching Fair. From Macon he
will return to this place, when those of our peo
ple who are curious in such things will have an
opportunity to see her. She will spend the win
ter at the South, as it will be rather cold to return
to the North, from whence he brought her. in
her present hairless condition.— Savannah Re
publican, 34/A inst.
AUGUSTA, GA. »
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE.
07” SEE FIRST PAGE OF DAILY.
The Sierra Madee Revolution.—Procla
mation of the Preiidenl. —The Washington Re
public and Intelligencer , of trie 23rd inst., publish
the following proclamation:
A Proclamation. —Whereas, there is reason to
believe that a military expedition is about to be
fitted out in the United States for the purpose
of invading the Mexican Republic, with which >
this country is at peace; and whereas there is i
reason to apprehend that a portion of the people
of this country, regardless of their duties as good
citizens, are concerned in, or may be seduced
to take part in the same; and whereas such en
terprises tend to degrade the character of the U.
States in the opinion of the civilized word, and
are expressly prohibited by law.
Now, therefore, I have issued this my Procla
mation, persons who shall connect ,
themselves with such enterprise, in violation of;
the laws and national obligations of the United
States, that they will subject themselves to the j
heavy penalties denounced against such offen- i
ces: that, if they should be captured within the '•
jurisdiction of the Mexican authorities, they
must expect to be tried and punished according
to the laws ol Mexico, and will have no right
to claim the interposition of this government in
their behalf.
I, therefore, exhort all well-disposed citizens
who have at heart the reputation of their coun
try, and are animated with a just regard for its
laws, its jieace, its welfare, to discountenance,
and by all lawful means prevent, any such en
terprise: and I call upon every officer of th s
government, civil or military, to be vigilant in j
arresting for trial and punishment every such
offender.
Given under my hand the twenty-second day
of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-one, and the seventy
sixth of the Independence of the United States.
MILLARD FILLMORE
By the President:
J. J. Crittenden;
Acting Secretary of State.
It will be perceived that the tone of the Pre
sident is very materially moderated from that as
sumed in the Proclamation against the Cuban
liberators in April last. The latter were re
morselessly denunced as pirates and plunderers,
and with that denunciation resting upon their
heads, fifty of them, American citizens, were
foully butchered in cold blood, and that toot
without a trial, to which they were entitled by
the terms of an existing treaty between Spain
and the United State*. The difference in the tone
of the two Proclamations is an implied admis
sion by the President that his first was an out
rage upon justice and truth. The motives,
prompting the unfortunate Crittenden and his
followers, were not a whit more worthy of such
ruthless denunciation than those of the Sierra
Madre expeditionists.
Barnist Words to Yount (Men, ins series of
disconrses, by Rev. E. P. Rogers. Pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Geo., and
author of “ Discourses on Rlection.”
We have the pleasure of acknowledging the
receipt of a copy of the above from the Rever
end author, and are pleased to meet with some
old and pleasant acquaintance* in a new and
very neat garb. We had the good fortune to
j hear several of those discourses when delivered,
j They are now published in duodecimo, making a
neat and tasteful volume of 288 pages.
Published by Walker ft James. Charleston,
S. C.,and sold by J. A. Carrie & Co., Augusta,
Geo.
We feel well satisfied that this interesting vol
ume will be a means of profit and instruction to
the class of society to whom these discourses
are specially addreaaed, and we commend them
to the careful and serious perusal of all young
men whose eyes this short notice will meet.—
They are truthful, eloquent, and impressive.—
The thoughts of the author are conveyed in a
graceful and forcible style.
These discourses are eight in number, and are
upon the following subjects :
1. The True Glory of the Young Man.
3. Intemperance and Profanity.
3. Sabbath Breaking.
4. Gambling.
5. The Infidel, the Young Men’s Enemy.
9. True Manliness.
7. The Obligations and Duties of the Scholar
to Religion.
8. Labor.
Gov. Reid of North Carolina, has issued his
Proclamation appointing Thursday the 27th day
of November next as a day of Thanksgiving,
to be observed through out that State.
The Steam Ship Asia which sailed from New
York on Wednesday with 61 passengers for Liv
erpool, took out 8290.500 in American Gold.
£16,840 in English Sovereigns, and £1,057 3s.
6d. in English silver, a total of about $379,885.
Hon. David Platt, ot Stratford, Conn., while
returning from a visit to a neighbor, fell in the
street and instantly expired. He was in the
69th year of his age. For many years he was a
prominent politician, having been a member of
Congress, and for two years Lieut. Governor of
Connecticut.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph of the 17th
inst. learns that the corn crop on the Guadaloupe
has been so abundant that there will be several
hundred thousand bushels for sale in the counties
on the river. Some planters have actually rais
ed more corn than they could harvest, and have
allowed their neighbors to gather it free of
charge.
James Buchanan, Esq., for many years British
Consul in New York, died on Saturday last, at
Elmswood. near Montreal, in the 81st year of
his age. Mr. Buchanan, some years ago, when
he retired from the office he filled for so many
years, removed to Clifton, (Niagara Falls.)
where he had a most delightful residence, and
m here he received his old friends with great hos
pitality. At the time of his death, he was on a
visit to his daughter. —Southern Preti.
A gentleman who has lately travelled through
Indiana says, that the emigration to the West.
lowa, Illinois and Missouri, this season, is im
mense. He drove a buggy himself, and says he
had to keep constantly on one side, on the Na
tional and Vincennes road.— lb.
We learn from the N. Y. Commercial Adver- j
tiser, of the 13th inst., that a young scamp named
Thomas Andrews lately escaped from the prison
in that city, in the following singular manner:
There are a number of barrels placed in the
yard of the city prison for the reception of swill.
When these are filled the lids are closed, and
they are earned away to the place of deposit in
the upper part of the city. Andrews, noticing
that on# of tha barrels waa not quite full, jnmp- |
ed into it unobserved, and closed the lid. Thus |
submerged to his throat in the offensive liquor, :
he patietnly awaited the carman, who shortly
arrived, and taking the supposed full barrel on !
his cart, carried it off. When he stopped to un- .
load, Andrews sprang out. and the carman was 1
so paralyzed with astonisment that he could of
fer no impediment to the young rogue's flight.
So much fortitude and ingenuity in such a lad
are truly wonderful.
—— i
Defining a Position. —The Marion (Ala.)
Commonwealth, was the only Whig paper of
Alabama that espoused the Southern cause in the
late canvass. That paper announces its acquies
cence in the decision of the South, aad adds that
hereafter it will fight the battle of the South on
the Democratic platform. The editor says:
“For ourown part, we see nothing better than
to fall back upon the Democratic platform, and
assist in making the principles of the Democratic j
party the prominent policy of the country. For a
limitation of the powers of the Federal Govern- j
ment an oppos tion to that bane of the South— j
high protective tariff, and a maintaiiiance of the
J doctrine of State Rights, we can look alone to
, the democratic party. Acting upon this convic- |
tion, the result of of our best judgment, we take
j or stand upon the Democratic platform, for weal
J or for woe.
The whig party of the South is virtually dis- •
1 organized. It can never make another stand up
on its principles, and the measures for which it
has contended for years. The leaders of the
i party see this, and thir effort now is, to keep up
; the false issue they presented during the last
j canvass, of “Union" and “Disunion” and upon;
1 that to fight thejnextjpresidential campign. With
such jnggerlery we shall take neither part no:
lot.”
Sentimental; —Bulwer, or somebody else,
J writes:
“What more precious offering can be laid upon i
; the altar of a man's heart than the first love of a
l pure, earnest, and affectionate girl, with an un
divided interest in eight corner lots and fourteen
! three-story houses'"
The revolution in northern Mexico begins to
j assume a graver and more important aspect than
| was at first apprehended. It is yet a question
how far Americans are mixed up with it. Three
hundred are said to have joined Carvajal from
Texas, and, if true, they will no doubt be useful
auxiliaries: and, though few in numbers, not a
little influential in all that touches the move
ment.
The commencement of a revolution ao near the
United States boundaries, will naturally suggest
to the mind the interposition of our country
men: and.anyway.it is impossible for them to
avoid taking an interest in what is so near to
them. The contiguity of a nation of self-gov
erning Europeans is, of itself, a provocative of
revolution. No people, however morally misled,
can shut themselves out entirely from the in
flunces and example of a neighboring freer sys
tem. Mexico is a mere mockery of a republic.
In her, as in other of the new republican Span
ish States, the great essential condition of liber
ty, moral reformation, has never yet commenced.
She contains within herself, on the contrary,
two undying, antagonistic principles—absolutism
in action, in all that concerns her morally, and
liberty, in name only, which she grasps at in
stinctively, without comprehending its depth,
its force, or its obligations.
Interaal anarchy is the result—revolution the
perpetual type of its existence—dissention, mili
tary dictation, idleness, indifference, want of en
ergy, and misery, is the real condition of the
country. To such a people, th* prosperity, the
spirit, the intelligence of the Americans, is a
perfect mystery; and they arc themselves so far
removed from that moral independence, which
is the secret of our progress, that their attempt*
at imitation are absolutely useless and ludicrous.
Thus, thinly scattered as we are towards those
regions, and though not occupying a tenth part
of the lands lying on their borders, we, the more
enterprising nation, just as naturally find our
selves ever encroaching upon the other, influen
cing and directing it: us the other, the Mexican,
aware of its feebleness, and despite of its hatreds
and prejudices, follows, imitates, and appeals to us
for aid, for counsel, and for action.
So appealed the down-trodden, mystified na
tions, to the Roman people, until Rome at length
embraced the world, and c.vilized it by her no
ble principles.— Southern Press, 24 th inst.
Large Receipts or Cotton.—The recipts of
Cotton, yesterday, amounted to 13,393 bales—the
largest receipts of any day this season. The
Magnolia, from Vicksburg, brought 3.041 bales;
the Montgomery, lrom Vicksburg, 2831 bales:
the Princess No. 3, from New Carthage, 2825
bale«; the Bulletin, No. 2, from Memphis, 2664
bales; the St. Charles, fiorn Napoleon, 2032 bales.
—AT. O. Delta , 21s/ inst.
Augusta Fire Department.—The regular
semi-annual parade of the “ Augusta Fire Com
pany” took place on Saturday evening last in
front of the Methodist Church. Washington,
No. 1, Capt. Welleaur; Clinch No. 2. Capt.
Platt; Vigilant, No. 3, Capt. Nelson ; and Phce
nix, No. 4, Cap-. Bones, were upon the ground
and presented their usual attractive and impo
sing appearance. With their showv uniforms
and new and beautiful engines, they" never ap
peared to better advantage than on this occa
sion.
Fifty-seven years have now elapsed since the
j first act of Incorporation of the “ Augusta Fire
Company"—the charter having been granted in '
1794, during the administration of Governor :
Mathews. Only one engine was then in pos
session of the Department. In 1846, a new act ;
of incorporation w-as granted conferring addition
jal rights and immunities. The Company under \
! this new charter is allowed one hundred and j
| eighty men, including the officers who are divi- |
j (led into six Companies of thirty men each |
The following are the names of the officers of !
; the General Department:—F. Lamback, Chief :
j Engineer, Wm. H. Goodrich, Geo. H. Crump, I
j Assistant Engineers, Alex. Philip, Secretary. A I
Iverson, Treasurer.
The Fire Department of our city, as now con- :
stituted. forms an association which may chal- :
lenge comparison with any similar body "of men !
in the Union.— Georgia Home Gazette , 37/A inst.
New Sugar.—The steamer New Latona, j
Capt. Landry, which arrived yesterday, brought
down 21 hhds. sugar, of the new crop, being the
first received this season. The whole of which |
is lrom the plantation of Madame Malancher ft I
Sons, Parish of St. James, and consigned to :
Messrs. Darby & Tremoulet. This is one day j
la er than the first arrival last year, and eight
j days later than in IS49.—A". O. Bulletin,2oth inst.
Suicide op a Deserter.—A German named
Reinhart, a private in Capt. Wharton’s company
ot the 6thU. S. Infantry .stationed at Fort Kearny,
deserted from that post on the night of the 7th
ult, taking a Government horse to make his es
: cape more sure. He was tracked in the direction
' of Fort Leavenworth, promptly follow'd by a
: sergeant and three men sent out oy Capt. W.,
overtaken the next day on the Little Blue. Rein
hart made no resistance whatever, said he would
go back peaceably, and no suspicion was enter
tained that he had a design upon his life; but
while the eyes of his captors were turned from
him a moment he seized one of their pistols,
presented it at his own heart, pulled the trigger,
and inflicted a wound from which he died in a
few hours. He was described to us as a man of
good education, but of a misanthropic turn of
mind. Adversity had probably induced him to
enlist, and the thoughts of being compelled to
serve as a common soldier for years, drove him
first to desertion and afterwards to suiside. —N
O. Pic.
CAKE, SPICE AND SUGAR BOXES, of every
variety and size, some very beantiful, and the
Tery beet artiel* that can be had anywhere. Tor
sale by
*.<>•» U t Mt'STIN * LATHBOP.
stj Hlagnrtir IMegraplj.
Reported ior the ConolitationalUt &.• Reput,||,
LATER FROM EURORh
ARRIVAL
°F THE STEAMER
P A C l FI G.
Charleston, Oct. 27.
The steamship Pacific arrived at New York
yesterday.
Her advices report the Liverpool Cotton mar
ket as fully supplied, and prices in favor of buy
ers. The sales on Monday and Tuesday were
14.000 bales. Brown & Shipley's Circular quotes
Middling Orleans 5d., Upland and Mobile 4 13.115
to lid. The sales in Liverpool on 14th wei e
6000 bales. There is a decline of jd.
Charleston, Oct. 27—P. M.
Cotton. —Sales eleven tindred and fifty bales
at 61 to SI cents. There has been no material
change in prices during the week.
I Ttltgraphed for the Charleston Conner ]
Arrival »f the Pacific.
Baltimore. Oct. 26. 8.55 P. M.
_ The U. S. steamship Pacific has arrived at N.
| York from Liverpool, which port she left on the
: loth inst.
j The Markets.— The Liverpool Cotton Mar.
| ket has been freely supplied, and prices were in
| favor of buyers. Adeline ot an eighth hadta
; ken place in the lower qualities. The sales on
! the 13th and 11th amounted to 14.000 bales, of
j which exporters took ■">000. The sales on the
j 14th were 6000 bales. Extra-superfine Floui -m
■ was dull, and other qualities were rather lows, A
| —Western Canal was quoted at 18s. to 10s., and
1 New-Orleans IDs. to lys. Od. Corn was steady *
j —White was quoted at 295., and Yellow at 265.
id. Prime Wheat commanded full rates, the
other descriptions were dull—White was worth
ss. Od. tons. 9d. Early arrivals of Bacon would
meet with ready sales.
Beef and Pork were dull. Lard was from Is.
to 2s. lower. There was a fair enquiry for Cof
fee and sales of Brazil had been effected at 335.
6d.> to 465. Sugar had ailvanced 6d. There had
been no sales of Rice, which was quoted at from
14s. to 19s. Molasses was a shade lower. Salas
of Rosin had been effected at 3s. Id. for common
and 7s. to Bs. 6d for fine. Trade in Manchester
was dull, but to promote activity spinners and
manufacturers were disposed to effect sales at
lower rates. Money was easier. Consols had
declined, and were quoted 96J to 97L American
Stocks were unchanged.
England.—Thomas Alsop a celebrated Stock
Broker in London had suspended payment. Kos
suth had not arrived on the 11th inst.
France.—The President is said to have ac
ceptedthe resignation of Ministers, and Mods.
! Emile Girardin is reported to be a member of the
new Cabinet.
! _ Stain.—The frigate Gautamalu had arrived at
I Vigo with 116 Cuban prisoners. A court had
' been sunnnond for their prompt trial. The
widow ot Genera! Enna has also arrived. A
member of the Cabinet Council at one of the ses
sions had proposed to sell Cuba and Porto Rico to
; England for one hundred and fifty millions of
dollars.
Baltimore. Oct. 25, 6.35 P. M.
Cotton in the New York market on Saturday
was firm and 1800 bales were sold at SJ for Mid
dling Uplands, and 8 j for Orleans. The sales of
the week comprised SOOO bales. Rice was steady
at 3[ to 3 15-16,thc sale during the week amoun
ted to 600 tierce*. Naval Stores were steady.—
Flour and Grain were firmer. Coffee is advan
cing and Rio is worth 7j to D cents.
The Governor of Maryland has appointed the
37th of November as a day of Thanksgiving.
Ferdinan Cox has been ap]>ointed by the Pres
ident as Secretary of Legation in Brazil.
The Virginia Congressional delegation stands
politically about the same as it did in the last
Congress. The Whig party have gained on •
member in the 10th district, and have lost one
1 in the Wheeling district.
, Jacob Little A Co., have made a proposition to
the board of brokers in New*York to deliver va
rious fancy stocks at certain rates, in settlement
of their liabilities, which has been generally ac
, cepted.
A great demonstration, in favor of Mr. Web
ster s election to the Presidential chair is to take
I place on Tuesday in Boston.
In the great India-rubber case that has been
tried in Boston, Judge Sprague has decided in
I favor of the defendant Day.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
—_ -
j The Friends and Acquaintance of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Dwell 0, are invited to attend tho Fu
-1 neral of their only Daughter, from their rcsi
; donee, on Ellis street, This Afternoon, at 2
o'slock. oct. 28
Commercial.
Augusts Market, Oct. 27—P. M.
COTTON.—We hare no alteration to notice in price*.
; The market Is dull with a dowuwari tendency. Fair 7f
; to 8 cents.
I —mmmmm
sl)ippintj Jntelligtnce.
ARRIVALS from charlmstos
j Briff Souther. Ryder. Boston.
1 Schr. C. F. A. Cole. Myeri, Baltimore,
j Schr. A. B Wetmore. Vanderbilt, Portsmouth.
CP POR CHARLESTON.
; ShU Carndeu, Sherwood, at New York.
Barque Gon. Green, Hammer, at Baltimore.
CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON.
Brig L. Baldwin, Share, at New York. f
j Schr. Sam i. Brown. Baker, at Baltimore.
CHARLESTON. Oct. 27.—Arr. steamship AlfKtfvo*,
Dixon Philadelphia; ship Austria, Borland, LirespooU
, brigs Eureka, (Br.) Sloan. Newport, (Eng.); Clara El
len, French. Camden, (Me.); Ava. Adams, Portland .
I (Me.)
In the offing, the barq-io Jupiter, from Portland, a
| brig, supposed the Keying, from Newport, (Eng.) and 2
schooners.
Cleared, schr. Rdward S. Janes, VTestcott, Philadel
phia.
Went to sea. steamship Marion. Berry, New York,
ships Gen Parkhill, McKown. Liverpool; Susan G
Owens. Michaels, do.; Isaac Newton. Bush, a port in the
Gulf of Mexico; Sp. pol. Antonieta. Carapdera. Barcelo
na; brigs Emily, Revill, New York: Wicks, do ,
schr*. Exceed. (Br.) Saudera, Green Turtle Key, (Balo;
Milton. Keene. Baltimore: Truth, Baker, do.; Lucy
Ann. Ogden. Alexandria, (Va.)
“AT HOME.”
IFM. T. INGRAHAM has roturnodfrom
\Y New York, with an extensive and JR
choice selection of CLOTHS, CASIMERES iff
and \ LSTINGS, of the latest French and English
manufacture, and newest patterns and styles, which
we will sell by piece or pattern, or make up to
measure, in tho most approved style, at Now York
prices.
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
Os the best goods and manufacture, of all the
modern styles of make, which we will sell as cheap
as ever offered before in this market.
HATS AND CAPS,
Os the newest fashion, and the best to be had.
HOSIERY, GLOVES, Ac.
Under Shirts and Drawers, of all descriptions.
New stylos Scarfs, Cravats, and all articles for
dross and eomfort. WM. 0. PRICE & CO.,
Qftt. 0 Drapers and Tailors, 258 Broad-it.
BEHN Ac FOSTER, FACTORS AND COM
MISSION MERCHANTS, Bay-st., Savan
nah, Gftft. P. H. Bihn.
ts John Foster,