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JAKES M. SMYTHE, )
| Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.]
Further per Steamer Cambria.
Hai.ifax, Nov. 13.
The steamer Cambria arrived to-day at 8
o'clock, and sailed for Boston at 10 o’clock, where
she will be due to-morrow evening.
The Cambria brings 50 passengers.
The steamer Humboldt arrived at Cowes on
the 31st. , .
Kossuth had paid a public visit to London, ano
been received with much enthusiasm. j
The Overland Mail had arrived. Ihe report
of the condition of trade in India was satislac
f The London money market was easy at 21 a 3 j
percent. Consul* closed at 971 a97 J. j
England.—The leading topic of remark is the I
visit of the illustrious Kossuth. He has been re- j
ceived everywhere with the most marked atten- ;
tion. The banquet given in his honor, at South- ;
ampton, was a magnificent affair. The London
Times, however, continues to attack him very j
severely, and its comments have, to some extent, !
influenced public opinion. Kossuth will leave j
with his family for America in the steamer j
Washington, which sails on the 13th inst.
Lady Franklin has made a powerful appeal to j
the admiralty to send out a steamer to explore |
the passage which Capt. I’erry thinks exists, j
Her appeal has been stiongly sustained by a large
portion of the public press and by many persons
of intluence.
It was thought the principal subjects which
would engage the attention of Parliament at the
next session would be the Custom House reforms,
the steam mail contract system, and law part
nerships.
France. —A general feeling ol uneasiness pre
vails in Paris and throughout the Departments,
and an outbreak is soon anticipated. The funds,
in consequence of this unfavorable state of af
lairs, are greatly depressed. The Prefect of Paris,
in view of the alarming asjiect of things, had no
tified the citizens to hold themselves in readiness,
as their services might be required in the cause
of order.
India. —The overland mail reports the state
of trade and the condition of political affairs, us
entirely satisfactory. The Governor General of
India had determined to seize upon the territo
ries of Dost Mahomed, which it was thought
would lead to serious results.
Liverpool, Nov. 1.
Markets. —Fair qualities cotton had declined
ia id Middling was unchanged. The sales of
the week 46,000 bale*, of which expoiters took
5800 bales. Fair Upland and Mobile 51; Fair
Orleans sid; Middling Uplands lid; Oi leans IJ
a 41.
Flour and wheat were heavy. Western llour
was quoted at 18 a 19s. Yellow corn 20 a 275;
mixed 25 a 20s. Corn meal was unchanged.
Trade in Manchester was generally unchang
ed trom previous accounts. The accounts from
India as regards goods, were considered unfavor
able.
London Money Market. —The funds have
fluctuated considerably, owing to the unfavorable
accounts from France. Foreign stocks, particu
larly American, are dull.
Boston, Nov. 14.—The steamer Cambria ar
rived at her wharf at an early hour this morning,
and her mails were forwarded in the morning
train.
England. —The news from England with the
excep'ion of the movements of Kossuth is un
important,
Kossuth and his family had accepted the offer
of a free passage on board the steamer Washing
ton, which would leave Southampton for New
York on the 14th. Mr. JCoskry, the American
Consul, had delayed her sailing to afford Kossuth
the opportunity of being present at the Polish
and Hungarian Ball which would take place at
Southampton on the 13th. The illustrious
Hungarian had been received most flatteringly I
at Guild Hall, in London. The address trom the j
corporation was read to him by the City Clerk; |
and his passage through the city was a continu- j
ous triumph. In the evening a large crowd j
gathered in frontot the Times ollice and burned I
several copies of that paper. Extensive prepara- j
tions were making to receive Kossuth at Liver
pool. Lord Dudley Stuart had been selected to
deliver the address u|>oii the occasion.
France. —The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Globe, under date of Thursday, still predicts
that there will lie a compromise between the
President and a majority of the Assembly. Bu
siness still, however, wears a gloomy aspect, and j
nearly all orders received by manufacturers have i
been suspended.
The Democratic socialists are furious against i
Kossuth, but have resolved not to give publicity j
to their opinions lor tear of injuring their cause.
The Semaphore of Marseilles publishes a letter !
dated Kabot, Morocco, October 11th, announcing j
that the French Consul had received orders to j
embark all the French residents, as the French |
fleet was about to bombard the town of Salo as
a reprisal against the Emperor of Morocco for
requiring compensation for the pillage of a French
merchant vessel wrecked on tlie coast.
In consequence of the ministerial crisis, the
Prince de Joinville's advisers have received in
structions that all proceedings with regard to his
standing as a candidate for the Presidency, be
withdrawn.
It is reported that the President intends to
make an appeal tothe Assembly, to hasten the
Presidential election, instead of waiting for the
period fixed by the constitution.
The new Cabinet gives great dissatisfaction,
and it is expected that some of the ministers will
retire before the meeting of the Assembly.—
Gen. Auranen (?) the Minister of War. has is
sued the following order:
“Soldiers. —The President of the Republic
calls me to your head. The honor is great, and
the task will be easy if you remain as you are—
united by the law of duty and strong in your j
discipline. In very post where order is weak-'
ened—in every post where the public peace is !
menaced, the honest people turn their eyes and I
seek you. Never was a cause more sacred en
trusted to men more worthy to defend it. For
get not that in difficult times, the army prevents
by mere energy ot attitude, the disorders which
it could repress by using force. Esprit de corps.
the honor of our flag, and the glory of the Em
pire, are the sentiments which should inspire
and sustain us. Let us carry military honor so
high, that in the midst of the elements of dis
solution fomenting around us. it may appear a
means of safety to menaced society."
Spain. —The Madrid Military Gazette states j
that one hundred cannon had been sent to Ha- j
vana, for the armament of the forts along the
coast of Cuba.
Algiers. —Large numbers of the southern
tribes of Arabs having assembled in various part*
of Onarglab and Menaub, Gen. De Salles. Com
mander of the Province, ordered 400 horsemen \
to proceed to Trigginth, which place the insur- j
gents expected to attack. They found the latter ,
had already commenced an assault, when they |
immediately assailed the enemy, and after two ■
hours fighting routed them.
Markets. —Baring's Circular states that the j
markets forcoloeial and foreign produce have j
been very dull throughout the week, and to ef
fect sales importers had again made concessions j
in many articles. Money continued extremely
abundant, but no change had been made in the
Bank rates of discount. Silver had been in de
mand for India, and had advanced J per cent.
The East India company had reduced their rates
ou bills of exchange on Calcutta to 2s Id., and on
Bambay to 2 s. id.
American Stocks are inactive. U. S. 6' s , 1868,
111 a 112; Pennsylvania s"s, 81 a 82; Alabama (
sterling 80, and Indiana s's, 68 a 70; Maryland !
sterling 88 a 89.
There is no political news of moment beyond !
what has been already furnished.
France. — The Journal des Debats, of Friday,
announces that it is assured that M. Corbin ha*
relused to accept the office of Minister of Justice,
to which he was appointed while absent from
Paris.
AUGUSTA, GA. ,
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE.
t See First Page of Daily and Tri-weekly.
Editorial Correspondence.
Milledgeville, Nov. 14, 1851.-
I The indications are that this will be a very
busy and working session. Some idea may be
formed of the prospect from the fact, that there
are already introduced in the House over one
| hundred bills. Many of them might, with much
! propriety, have been kept away from here, as
the objects they seek would be as well accom-
I plished, under the general law giving Inferior
Courts of the respective counties authority to
grant acts of incorporation, &c., which was in
tended to relieve the Legislature of a large class
1 of bills.
The business of the two branches of the Gen
, cral Assembly progresses with much harmony.
| Mr. Miller, in Hie Senate, and Mr. Meriwether,
| in the House, seem to get along very smoothly,
j and prove themselves efficient and courteous
I presiding officers. The election of the Hon. J.
W. Anderson, President, pro tem., of the Senate,
during the absence of Mr. Miller, was a well
bestowed compliment. Mr. Anderson was
Speaker of the last House ol Representatives,
and discharged the duties with great credit to
himself.
The affairs of the Penitentiary are to undergo
a very thorough investigation, and, in due time,
lto doubt, an elaborate report will he laid before
the Legislature by the Joint Committee. Until
that time, I shall forbear any comments upon the
subject. One favorable indication of its finan
cial management,however, may here tie mention
ed. Gov. Towns states, in his last message,
that, for the four years of his administration, it
has been conducted without any appropriation
I from, or charge upon the State Treasury.
1 The Senate, after rejecting, yesterday, the re
solution of the House, to authorize the Joint
Committee on Internal Improvements to appoint
a Sub-Committee of two from the Senate, and
three from the House, to examine into the affairs,
condition, Ike.., of the State Road, reconsidered it
this morning, and adopted it. If this Sub-Com
mittee discharged, thoroughly, all the duties as
signed them, according to the literal terms of
the resolution, the members will have but little
time left for any other duties this session. The
sentiment is general in this Legislature, in favor
of placing this great Road in thorough repair
| and equipment, and the probability is, that a full
and adequate appropriation will he made for the
purpose.
The creation of additional counties, and of ad
ditional judicial circuits in this State, are among
the important subjects of legislation at this ses
sion. The Constitutional Bill, to give each
county a Senator, has already passed the Senate
by the requisite majority. If it pass the House,
in like manner, then the Constitution becomes
altered to that extent, the bill having passed the
last Legislature. Thus we will have ninety
! five Senators.
Before this heavy additional expense is eiitail
! ed upon the Treasury, it is to be hoped that the
| ad valorem system, or some other system of tax
j ation, more just and equal than the present, will
\be adopted. Until then, no more new counties
should lie organized.
The organization of additional judicial circuits,
was needed to equalize, in some resjiects, the la
bors of the Superior Court Judges, and it is to he
hoped,the bill creating the Blue Ridge Circuit, and
j the Macon Circuit, which has passed the Senate,
I will journey safely through the House. Four of
I the Judges now have to l»e nearly hair the year
j nu the circuit, and though the presumption that
a Judge, while not on his riding, is in his library
| studying, is rather a violent one sometimes, yet
each J mlge should certainly have the privilege
i of being at home and among his books a reason
able portion of his time.
j Mr. Hardeman lias brought into the Senate a
j bill to protect the rights of married women. We
" ill have, l presume, this session, another of the
usual biennial discussions, affording such a fruit
ful theme for eloquence, upon this subject ot wo
; man s rights and duties. As there is room for
I amendment of the present laws on the subject,
it is to be hoped the question will be finally met
: and argued. There is no ground to apprehend.
[ from this movement, any formidable encroach
j ments upon manly prerogatives among us, from
the spirit of Blonmerism and Fourierism, which
| afflict other portions of our Republic.
I send some resolutions introduced into the
House by Mr. Seward, of Thomas, on the sub
ject of the Presidential election, and the appoint
j ment of delegates to a National Democratic Con
vention. The House refused to suspend the rules
in order to consider them. I also send a set of
| resolutions on the same subject, laid on the table
I by Mr. Tift.
[We have not room for these resolutions this
morning, but will give them in our next paper.]
The introduction of these resolutions at this
time, is of doubtful policy—at least by members
of the Legislature elected as Southern Rights
t men, though the resolutions themselves set forth
j correct views, and shadow forth the proper policy
jot the State. It would have been better for
: them to come from the Union side, for they
doubtless express the real views and wishes of
that party, or a large portion of them. But as
they are so fettered by their own pledges as not
to be in a condition, at present, openly to take
j democratic ground, it seemed, to some of the
I Southern Rights party, incumbent on them to
| make the first move.
j Both divisions of the people of the State are,
I apparently, moving to the same point, and will
j meet at the ballot-box next November, support
: ing the same candidates. Whether the move- i
ments ot Mr. i'itt and Mr. Seward, in the House. 1
will bring them together in a common move
ment before that time, so that Georgia may act 1
as a unit, remains to be seen. It is, in this con
ciliatory spirit, and with this view, their resolu- 1
tions were brought forward.
In the same spirit, a meeting of Democrats 1
took place last evening, and adopted resolutions a
for a Democratic meeting on the 25th inst. I
send herewith a copy of its proceedings. It 1
would have been better, in the opinion of some, j
to delay action, and await the development*
which the meeting of Congress will furnish.
One thing is probable. It is, that the proceed
ings of the National Whig party will not be such
as will enable the Union party of Georgia to
coalesce with them. In that case there will be
no obstacles, unless past party exasperations
should create them, to the Union of both parties
in a common convention, to appoint delegates
under suitable instructions, to the National De
mocratic Convention.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
A jiortion of the Democratic party, consisting
of members ot the Legislature, and others, con
vened in the city of Milledgeville, on Thursday
evening, the 13th November, 1851.
lion. Joseph Day was called to the Chair, and
A. A. Gaulding, appointed Secretary.
On motion of James Gardner, Jun’r.—
Resolved, That a meeting of the friends of De
mocratic principles, be held in the Representa
tive Hall, on Tuesday evening, the 20th of Nov.,
inst., for the purpose of making arrangements
for the call of a Convention to appoint Dele
gates to meet the National Democratic party, in
Convention, to nominate candidates for Presi
dent and Vice-President of the United States.
Resolved , That a Committee of Five be ap
pointed to draft suitable resolutions to be sub
mitted to said meeting.
Mr. Gardner, at his own request, having been
excused from serving on said Committee, the
Chair appointed Hon. 11. V. Johnson, Sam’). J.
Ray, Nelson Tift, R. A. L. Atkinson, and T. S.
M. Bloodworth, that Committee.
On motion— Resolved , That t/ie friends of De
mocratic principles, from every part of the State,
be cordially invited to attend said, meeting, and
participate in its deliberations.
Col. D. C. Campbell, G. W. Harrison, and
Mr. Boughton, were appointed a Committee to
make suitable arrangements for the meeting.
On motion, the meeting then adjourned.
JOSEPH DAY, Chairman.
A. A. Gailihng, Secretary.
Milledgevillk, Nov. 14, 1851.
Frocsediugg of the House.
On motion of Mr. McDougald, the bill to
amend the law concerning the collection of rents,
which was passed on yesterday, was reconsider
ed, by a vote of GS to 54.
The lollowing bills were introduced, and read
the first time :
By Mr. Morehouse To reduce the rates of
wharfage, dockage and storage, in the city of
Savannah.
By Mr. Wofford: To change the line of the
Western <k Atlantic Railroad, causing it to pass
through the town of Cassville.
By Mr. Shewmake : To incorporate the town
of Alexander, in Burke county.
By Mr. Felton : To prevent trespassers upon
lands, and to make it a penal offence for any per
son to cut arid carry away wood from the laud of
another, without his consent.
Mr. Bartow offered a lesolutiou, which was
agreed to, that a sub-committee be raised, from
the joint committee on Internal Improvements,
for the purpose of proceeding to the State Road,
in order to examine closely into its condition—
to ascertain what amount of appropriation will
iie required to put the Road in complete order—
to examine the books of the various officers, and
learn, if possible, the expenditures and profits of
the Road, Ike. All information collected by this
committee is to be uqiorted to the Legislature as
soon as practicable.
A resolution was also agreed to, investing the
committee on the Penitentiary with power to
compel the attendance of persons, and the pro
ductions of papers, in their efforts to look
thoroughly into the affairs of that Institution.
A similar resolution was introduced into the Sen
ate by Mr. Moore, and agreed to.
The following bills ware read the first time
in the Senate:
By .Me. Hardeman: To preserve and protect
the right, of married women.
By Mr. Wellborn : To change the time of
the meeting of the General Assembly.
Mr. Rellume, from the Joint Select commit
tee on the Executive Mansion, made a report,
recommending an appropriation of SBOOO for re
pairing and furnishing the Governor's residence.
The Governor transmitted a message to the
Senate,signifying his intention to exercise the dis
cretion allowed to the Governor, by the act of
1813, to require the assets of the Central Bank
to be deposited in the Treasury, whenever the
public interest shall require it. His intention is
to bring the affairs of the Bank to a close, as
speedily as possible. The communication was
referred to the Finance committee.
The bill to compensate Executors, Adminis
trators and Guardians, in certain cases, was pass
ed.
The President of the Senate, having obtained
leave of absence for a few days, the Hon. John
W. Anderson, of Chatham, was elected Presi
dent. pro tern.
M ii.leduevillk, Nov. 15.1851.
In the House.
Mr. Milledge, from the Joint Special commit
tee on the Executive Mansion, made a report, re
commending an appropriation of SSOOO to repair
and turnish the Governor's residence, and to erect
a building within the enclosure for servants.
The following bills were introduced and read
the tiisttime, viz:
By Mr. Jacoway: To amend the Judiciary
act of 1799, for proventing iraud, and the fur
ther protection of innocent purchasers, without
notice.
By Mr. Picket: To appropriate a sum of mo
ney to lay out and construct a road from the
foot of Rameome mountain, by Ellijay, to the
North Carolina line.
By Mr. Dawson, of Greene : To grant corpo
rate powers and privileges to the Courtright
Manufacturing Company.
By Mr. Mobley: To alter the 12th
13th division of the penal code, and for other pur
poses.
By Mr. Thurmond : To stop the running of
the statute of limitations in all cases where the
defendant shall abscond, or remove beyond the
limits of this State.
Also, to compel Clerks of the Superior, and '
Inferior Courts topiocure official seals. I
By Mr. Trippe : To endow the Southern Bo
tamcal Medical College, at Macon, Ga. 1
By Mr. Floyd, from Finance committee: To !
levy and collect a tax for the political years, 1552 ’
and 1853. •
By Mr. Russell: To amend an act to protect *
Religious Societies, in the exercise of their reli
gious duties. c
By Mr. McDougald: To require the Judges of
the Superior Courts of this State, to cause testi
mony, in Civil or Equity cases, to be committed
to writing, whenever demanded by either party;
and also, to writ# out, and read their decisions to
juries, &c.
By Mr. Milledge : To amend the act regula
i ting the fees of Magistrates and Constables, in
i the State of Georgia, and to provide the mode of
• collecting the same, so as to extend the provi
sions of the act to Richmond county.
Also: To appropriate money for repairing and
furnishing the Executive Mansion.
> By Mr. Bartow: To empower and force
Judges of the Superior Courts of this State, to
appoint Masters in Chancery in certain vases.
By Mr. Morehouse : To incorporate the Grand
I Division of the Sons of Temperance of the State
of Georgia.
By Mr. Tillman, of Tattnall: To amend the
• several acts in relation to issuing grants on head
rights in this State.
j By Mr. Bartow: To preserve the purity of
public elections, in this State; and to prevent
1 Magistrates, who hold courts, or city, or town
offices, from presiding at county, city or town
elections.
By Mr. Tift: To provide more effectually for
assessing and collecting taxes on lands or real
, estate.
Mr. Seward offered a preamble and series of
resolutions, in relation to our federal relations,
and recommending the sending of delegates to
a National democratic convention, for the pur
pose of nominating candidates for President and
. Vice President of the United States. On a mo
‘ tion to suspend the rule, to take them up. the
yeas were 20, and nays 92.
' Mr. Tift laid on the table a preamble and re
’ solutions, on the same subject.
The afternoon was occupied in reading bills
the second time.
In the Senate.
Mr. Walthour introduced a bill to incorporate
the Ogeechee Plank Road Company.
The bill, organizing a new Judicial Circuit, to
, be called “ Blue Ridge Circuit,” composed of the
counties of Cobb, Campbell, Cherokee, Forsyth,
Lutnpkin, Union and Gilmer; and another, to be
called “ Macon Circuit,'’ composed of the coun
ties of Bibb, Houston, Twiggs. Dooly, Macon
and Crawford, passed without a division.
The Senate has concurred in the resolution of
j. the House, providing for the appointment of a
sub-committee from the committee on Internal
Improvements, to examine into the affairs of
, Western & Atlantic Railroad, by a vote of 31
to 8.
1 Advertising.
When the publisher of a paper recommends to
the owners of goods, wares and merchandize, to
advertise, and that liberally, as the best means
of increasing their business and accumulating
wealth, it is often attributed to a selfish mo
tive. Perhaps there is no greater error than
this. Doubtless the publisher would be pleas
’ ed to advertise more, in order to increase bis
’ own gains; but that does not prove his sel
i j fishness in his advice to the seller. He knows,
that while he might make more, the seller would
profit perlups fifty, or a hundred fold more than
. himself.
We saw, not long since, a statement to this
effect, in substance, made by a gentleman who
visited a pateut medicine establishment in New
York. He said the proprietor showed him a
little tin case, with some medicine in it, for ad
vertising which, alone, he paid $7,000, and yet
reaped a profit ol $19,000. Some of these patent
medicine men pay out, annually, from 25 to 00
thousand dollars, and yet, in a few years, become
immensely wealthy.
A merchant buys a large stock of goods, rents
a fine room to put them in, and then wants
what? Why, of course, as many good custom
ers as possible. How is he to get them 1 Sim
ply by opening his door, and putting a sign over
it > (Some people neither advertise nor put up
signs!) No, he must advertise, and that liber
ally. A few lines wont answer the purpose.
He ought to mak’ a show in the papers in which
he advertises. His name should appear fre
quently, under numerous short advertisements,
detailing the names of bis various goods. This
attracts public attention, and the public will
wish to see those fine articles, of excellent quali- !
ty, sold at “ cheap prices.”
Some houses are so well known, that there is no 1
necessity tor the proprietors to advertise 1 Weil, !
let them depend upon being well known. A ;
younger house puts prominent cards in the pa- i
pers—'‘Great Bargains to be had here"—“The I
cheapest and best stock of goods or groceries ever !
brought to this market''—and the public will be 1
certain to go to look after those great bargains, !
and, by degrees, the younger house will draw off
the customers of the older, and leave them to !
wonder at the change, and rail at fate.
But there is another important view to be ;
taken of this matter. A merchant, for instance. 1
here in Augusta, has not only to advertise to j
protect his interests against the rivalry of his :
neighbors, but he, and the merchants of our city. ■
ought to advertise to protect themselves against |
the rivalry of other cities. If the public spirit of
all the merchants, and of every man who has
any thing to sell, in the city ot Augusta, was i
such as to make them advertise to even twice
the amount they now do, this parade of their
firms and articles for sale, in the public papers,
would draw a large amount of trade to the city
which is carried elsewhere. There can be no
doubt of this.
Augusta, her merchants and dealers of all
kinds, her great variety of all the articles needed i
by the country, would be seen and read, and hun- j
dreds would be attracted to her market, who ,
would otherwise deal in other places. It is uot
enough that our merchants are polite and accom
modating—possess every variety of goods which |
the country needs, of good qualities and at mo
derate prices— f hey must be known, and they
must le -iie people every where know what they !
have got for sale.
While we would be pleased to see other papers
used as media of adver.ising, we would take i
occasion to say. that the Constitutionalist Re- i
pullic has the largest circulation of any paper in ' i
the State. It would afford us pleasure to make ;
its columns mutually beneficial to ourselt ami the
advertising public. While it would be thus ad- <
vantageous to both, there is no question that the j
advertiser would reap immensely more profit j (
than the publisher. |
Kossuth —One of the officers of the U. S. fri- j J
gats Mississippi publishes, in ths New York i b
Times of the 13th inst., a letter speaking in
terms ot indignant denunciation of the assertions
made by foreign letter writers, to the effect that
the officers of the frigate were disgusted with
Kossuth and his friends, ar.d their conduct in the
Mediterranean. He denounces all the stories in
circulation about them as sheer fabrications, and
invites the public to visit the officers of the fri
gate, and ask them personally on the subject.
Good Dividend.
The Board of Directors of the Bank of Au
gusta, have declared a dividend of Four Dollars
per share out of the profits of the past six
i months, payable on demand.
Gy We would call attention to the Auction
sales of Mr. A Lafitte, and of Messrs. Girardey
& Parker, which takes place this day.
Mods. Adrien
Gives his last entertainment this evening at
Concert Hull. He is, next to his father, one of
| th i best magicians we have'seen. Mons Andrieu,
' who accompanies him, is an excellent imitator
in the line of Characters selected by him, and the
travelling agent, Mr. Reinenter, has proved him
self a gentleman in all the transactions we have
had with him.
Mons. Adrien leaves to-morrow for Madison,
: Athens and Atlanta, in which towns he intends
| giving specimens ol his art. Those who visit his
entertainments will go away well pleased.
The editor of one of our exchanges has insul
ted the whole female sex. He says that ladies
wear corsets from a feeling of instinct, having a
natural love for being squeezed.
\ Naval. —According to (he last accounts from
j Valparaiso, the U. S. store ship Supply would sail
for home about the 10th or 15th of October. The
Falmouth expected to follow in a week or ten
days after, or as soon as her crew recovered from
scurvy and diarrhtea, from which they were
suffering, in consequence of arduous service.
The St. Marys, it was thought, would be dis
patched as soon as the troubles in Chili were
settled, to San Francisco, for the purpose of taking
to their homes eeitain Japanese, who have ten
' promised a passage by our Government. From
the East Indies she would return home, via the
I Cape of Good Hope. The officers of the squad
ron were all well.
A celebrated gambler, after attending a great
revival meeting, experienced, as he thought, a
1 a change of feeling, and was finally induced to
' take his seat on the‘‘anxious seat.” The minister
commenced examining them on their experience
and the state of their feelings, and finally ap
proaching the gambler, asked, “Well, my friend,
wiiut do you say?” ••Oh,” replied he, uncon
| sciously, “I pass! —what do you do, old fellow!’ 4
t turning to his left hand neighbor
, New Flying Machine.
, i The thousand and first new experiment for
j (lying by jnaehinery is just reported by a cor
! j respondent ot the New York Times. It is the
j invention of a M.ons. Petin, who has been fifteen
years engaged upon the machine. He claims
for his discovery that it is devised under the
application of well known laws, and the most
I rigid analogies, to a new form. He has exjieri
i molded largely in studies of the laws of motion,
j exemplified equally in animated and inert bodies.
[ In this pursuit he has expended immense sums
| of money, which he needs now only a voyage
in thin air to realize again. His model is now
• on exhibition and is described as “a light open
| framework of wood, nearly two hundred feet
i in length by twenty feet in breadth, which with
j all its apparatus of cordage, sails, steam engines,
' (of which there are two small ones) ballast,
! crew, (of eight men) and with the three balloons
j to which it is attached, and which have an ele
-1 rating force of 10.000 kilogrammes, weighs
I 7000 kilogrammes, (15,500 pounds.) The es
j sential features of Petin’s discovery, are a ful-
I crum or {centre of resistance, [point d'appui)
> which is in that part of his machine below the
| balloons, that may be called the hull, and the
| production at will of a continued ceries of mo
i tions whose lines are descried by the lines of a
j continued series of inclined plaips.”
Marriage or Mary Taylor.— Miss Mary
j Taylor, the celebrated actress, “Our Mary Tay
| lor,” was married on Tuesday last,at NevvjYork.
1 to a Mr. Ewing, who, we believe, is an actor, and
j a young man of great merit and respectability.
Thomas Purse, Esq., lias been nominated, by
) the Democratic party of Savannah, as their can
' didate for Mayor, and the following gentlemen
| for Aldermen:
j Messrs. Janies P. Scriven, John F. Posey,
| Robert D. Walker. J. R. Saussy, John Mallery,
i Thomas M. Turner, John F. O'Byrne, Samuel
| Solomons, John McMahon, B. R. Daniels, A.
B. Luce, C. P. Richaidsone.
During the twenty-four hours of Wednesday
i there arrived at the port of New-York, eleven
emigrant vessels with 3,340 emigrant passengers
I on board.
| The Legislature of Louisiana will have a
| United States Senator to elect at the approach
ing session. Among the candidates who are
spoken of are Duncan F. Kenner, Randal Hunt,
: and J. P. Benjamin.
A dreadful fire broke out on Wednesday last.
; at about six P. M., in the large factory owned by
Mr. James P. Bruner, at the South West corner
of Nixon and Hamilton-et., near Fairmount,
Philadelphia. Several lives were unfortunately 1
lost, and property to the amount of between thir- ,
ty and forty thousand dollars destroyed. l
It is said that Captain Parker has been sent as 1
special agent to Havana, to inquire into the con- 1
duct of ex-Consul Owen. 1
Lady Franklin has made a powerful appeal to !
the British Admiralty to send out a steamer, to 1
explore the passage which Capt. Perry thinks *
exists. Her appeal has been strongly sustained
by a large portion of the public press and by (
many persons of influence. E
The Wilmington Journal learns from Mr. t
Fleming, the Resident Engineer of the Wilming- c
ton and Manchester Railroad, that on the 12th 1
inst., a section of about ten miles on the 'South- | a
Carolina end of the road was opened for freight j v
and travel. The laying of the iron is said to be j
progressing with considerable rapidity. I
In the Court of Common Pleas and General
Sessions for Greenville District, S. C. last week, a i
his Honor, Judge Frost presiding, James Me- 1 N
Clure was found guilty of assault and battery f°
with intent to kill Mr. Andrew Joyce; and 31
Margaret Hitt was convicted of Infanticide, ''j
but recommended to Executive Clemency. ar
—
{Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier)
Baltimore, Nov. 15—0.40 P. M
In the New-York market, on Saturday, Cot
ton was dull and unchanged, and eight hundred
bales were sold. The sales during the week
comprised eleven thousand bales. Six hundred
tierces of Rice were disposed of at from S2l to
83 3-16. Five hundred barrels of Rosin changed
hands at 51,35, and three hundred of Turpentine
3t S 3.
Mr. Webster has made a proposition to the
Spanish Minister, which it is said, will, in all
probability, remove all difficulties.
Ex-Governor Jones, Whig,of Tennessee, has
been elected C. S. Senator.
l i,^* scons * n > Governor and Legislature
are Whig.
In Michigan, the Democratic party has been
successful, and the new Banking law has been
adopted by a large majority.
The official returns of the election forthe State
of New York show that a Whig Treasurer and
Canal Commissioner have been elected The
remaining officers are Democratic.
New Orleans. Nee.’. 14, o.io P M
The sales of Cotton for the week have amount
ed to twenty-eight thousand bales, and prices
closed firm and unaffected by the European ad
vices. Middling was worth from 7to 7} cents.
The total receipts amounted to 27 I,QUO bales,
against 156,000 at the same period last year'
The stock to-night comprises 117.000 bales. The
weather has lately been unfavorable for picking,
heavy rains having fallen in the interior of Lou
isiana.
The steamship Falcon has been repaired, and
is to sail for New York on Monday. The steam
ship Winfield Scott leaves for the same port on
Saturday.
Foote s majority in Mississippi will be above
fifteen hundred. The Louisiana Congressional
Delegation is composed of three Union Democrats
and one Whig.
New Orleans, Nov. 15.
Four thousand bales of Cotton were sold on
I riday, and to-day, Saturday, three thousand
have been disposed of at full prices. Middling
was worth 7a 7J cents. Prime Molasses was
worth 24 cents. Fair Sugar was worth 4 jc.
Since the storm all the Telegraphs have been
out ol order both Last and \\ est. The weather
to-day scool and fine. The steamer from Eurojie
is anxiously looked for.
The brigs Telegraph, Capt. Rich, and Ketch
Brothers, Capt. Lovett, have arrived from
Charleston; the ship Java from Bristol, and the
steamship Union, and the barque Lucine from
New-York.
The Result. —We have carefully revisedonr
election tables this morning, and find no error.
Still, exactness is not to be presumed. If we
can determine u-ho is tlertcd , when the majority
is only about 200 in a total of say 100,000 votes,
it is as much as can be expected.
The Albany Argus of this morning arrives at
the same results us ourselves, though its majori
ties ditier somewhat from our own. It gives
Wright 4V5 majority. Cook 202, Chatfield only
185, Fitzhugh 702. Ol the votes for the other
candidates it furnishes no tables—the majorities
being so decisive, that no nice calculation was
deemed necessary.
In regard to the four above mentioned, the
Argus says: " The vote is so close that any com
paratively small inaccuracy in the returns ma>
reverse the supposed success or defeat of eithei
candidate.’’
The Argus concedes two Whig members lo-
Niagara enmity, (contrary to the report in the
Albany Evening Journal which we copied this
morning.) and thus makes the House stand—
Whigs 05. Democrats 63. Whig majority two.
Senate, a tie.
The Albany Register makes the majority 0 f
Wright 464, Chatlield 286 j Cook 57, Fit/.lnch
743.
It says the latest account from Eric gives
Cook in that county 2324 lnaj. instead of 2434
as reported to us last evening' from Bullalo by
telegraph, this would reduce Cook's majority
by our table to 146.
The Register concedes one of the Niagara
members to the Democrats, and thus makes the
House, as well as the Senate, a tie.—A'. Y. Jour
Com., 14/A inst. m
W ASHINfiTON, Nov. 11, P. M.
The Collector and Surveyor of the port or
Philadelphia this morning had a long interview
with the President. It is surmised that they
will tender their resignations, which, rumor adds,
would be very acceptable.
Hon. Mr. Levin is still here, engaged, it is be
lieved, in pressing the claims of certain compei
tors for the work on the Capitol.
Buffalo, Nov. 13.
Ihe Syracuse Riot, Ac. —The Grand Jury
are examining witnesses in the case of the SyraJ
cuse rioters, which will consume several days. *
Nine of the Irishmen tried for a riot on the
State Line Railroad were found guiltv to-day,
and 23 others are to be put on trial for a similar
offence to-morrow.
Jerome Fuller passed through this city yester
day, enroute to St. Paul's, Minnesota.
Washington, Nov. 14.
Captain Long publishes an extract of a letter
received by him from Kossuth, in this morning's
Republic, and says that nothing but the most
pleasant intercourse passed between them. The
letter is enthusiastically expressive of gratude,
concluding: -‘may the blessings of God, and pros
perity and happiness, attend you and your officers
and crew, wherever you go.
Spain and the United States.
A Washington letter in the New York Jour
rial ot Commerce says—
The negotiation 'with Spain, through the
Spanish minister here, on the subject ot the re
lease ol American prisoners, and the satisfaction
to be rendered by this Government to the Span
ish Consul and Spanish residents of New Orleans
has gone on very smoothly; and it was the gen
eral impression that the Whole matter would be
soon and definitely settled, and to the mutual
satisfaction of both Governments.
All that Spain was supposed to demand, or is
entitled to demand, of this Government, is com
pensation to the Consul and other Spanish sub
jects for their losses in the New Orleans riots, or
in consequence of their expulsion trom the city,
and a disavowal of those injurious acts and of any"
violation of the privileges of the Consul by this
Government.
A week ago it might have been, and was. sup
posed that the whole difficulty was ended. But
it appears that the Spanish minister has deman
ded that a salute of twenty-four guns be fired
upon the return of the Spanish Consul to Nsw
Orleans. If I understand it, it has been required/
that the Spanish flag, when hoisted over the
Consular office, shall be saluted with twenty
four guns.
Air. Webster has. as I surmise, refused to as
sent to this. But he proposes that the acts com
plained of be disavowed by this Government
and that it be recommended to Congress to make*
an appropriation to pay the sum which may L»
agreed upon, as a suitable compensation to the
Consul and to the Spanish subjects who are re
sidents in New Orleans.
The subject is still before the President a -'d
the Cabinet, and it is not decided whether to ac
cede to Mr. Calderon's terms or not—in the
particular which he insists upon-—that i« a na
tionalsaiute to the Spanish flag. Mr! Calderon,
rvt v rea,on / O . elievc ' is in tl,e meantime
anxious as to the result.
ivitl °tl d *l*' C< ? ,deron * s demand be complied
With, the American prisoners in Cuba and in
spam will be immediately released.
Let rs all Laugh —A Southern paper tells?
bout a talking-match that lately “came off” at
'sew Orleans, for five dollars a side. 14 continued
or thnteen hours, the rivals being a Frenchman
mil a Kentuckian. The bystanders and judges
vere talked to sleep, and when thev waked tip
n the morning they found the Frenchman dead"
nd the Kentuckian whispering in his ear