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. CONSTITUTIONALIST.
BY JAMES GARDNER, JR
[COMMUNICATED.]
“ THAT LETTHER ”
(Privit and Conjulinshal, to Howil (V Hopkins.)
Come Howil, come Hopkins, why pout or why fret,
Like some ould maid of forty, or some young co
quette,
O’er the swatc little note which to Bobby was sint,
(What a pity bejabers! but straight there it wint!)
AncPwhich Bobby so shlily shad into his pockjt, •
Laste Cobb wad bo ground up, if it wint on the
dhockit!
Why fret o’er the letther—why not bouldly deny—
Say the letther in question is “ all in me eye,
And Elizabeth Martin /”—a shlanderous tale
By the fire-aters made, and intirely “ a whale!”
“ Och !” Howell and Hopkins, ye both say in a
breath
That were laving the thruth—‘ give us rathor a
death
On the counthry’s high altars—Come again Tuga
loo!
Ananhias’, Sapphira! That game wouldn't do!”
Ye Spalpeens ye’ve shwallowed again and again
Os Camels and Ilephants twenty times ten—
Why sthrain and make faces at gnat small as this,
When the Camels ye’ve bolted ne'er yit wint amiss!
Well, well, I'll bo botherin me brain for a plan—
For you must bo saved Cobby, and you “ Hop,” his
man.
And while I bo afthcr a conning in mo mind
Just lot down tho curthain ; both of yo’s come be
fiind. ,
Jlere sthrike out thCsc lines, and these fines, and
these.
They’re too sthrong about now, for tho paplc to
plasc,
Whip off this whole page—too much powdhor and
shmoko
Nivcr let on to tho ox that you’ro houldin his yoke!
First pat him, and sthroke him, and tickle his back
Till yo git him safe yoked, thin como down with
yer whack.
I’m surprised at ye Ilowill—not surprised at yoro
views,
But yore blhunderin way ov adjustin the noose,
Yo havn’t forgotten Ilowill yit I am shurc,
That the diinagog’s first step is to tachc to indure.
Don’t you know how they patted yoro swate little
head,
And called yo swate names, and butthered yore
bread
With a double "per diem," and made you tho
Shpaker
Till yoro lovo for tlio “ nagors” grow waker and
waker.
And the first thing you know with ono jirk of tharo
coil
Shnap! whiz! tlicro you ware in the land of “ frae
silo”—
That’s ixactly the game that you’ve got now to
play
When yer'e playin for winuins, hide yore koords—
that s the way.
And dont bo too gripin j dont tako at ono grab
Tho whole haping pile, but leisurely nab
A little in this place—a little in that
Like sphiders catch flics, or grimalkins a rat.
But—tho letther—this little digrission oxcuso
If you’d mollify, shavo off, and smooth down your
views,
Cut out some fierce words, and burn up that tom
P^e.
The letther would suit both mesolf and tho ago.
Then sign it and sale it, and sind it to Bob,
Ho’s an iloguut hand at this kind of a job.
<i u&s get mm to ruriso it, and dress it up nate,
Mix tho sour and tho hot, with the cool and the
swate,
Round off a few pariods—and with withchical art
Lave a place for your entree with your hand on
your heart,
And nothin will bo wantin to make it good as the
best,
But the “ KurniTs” bold fist, by the way of attist.
Then sind it to “ Hoppy” and, git him to print it,
And the divil a boy'll be found to resint it.
Now, Howill a word—should ye come out ahead
Don’t fancy yore ould friends are buried and dead.
Thcro’s tho Kurnel ye know—ho’ll bo wanting a
thrifle,
I’d givo him I think, a revolvin big riflo—
Ono to shute round the corners, and go off by itself
Like me ould Irish riflo brought o'er by myself.
I’ll put up with some office—yes tho Sectary Privit
I reckon will suit me, be shure to contrive it.
Or “ faith and be jabers” I’ll open tho bag
And all the cats will be lot out by
PATHRICK McSCAO.
Away upon Tttga/00.
(From the Dalton Times.)
Mr. Stiles’ Letter of Acceptance.
Etowah Cliffs, July 12th, 1851.
Gentlemen :—By the last mail I received your
communication, advising me, that by the States
Rights convention assembled at Kingston, on the
3nd instant, I had been unanimously nominated
as a candidate to represent the sth district of
Georgia, in the Congress of the U. States, and
that you had been appointed to inform me of that
nomination, and to request my acceptance.
Previously to the action of your convention, I
had been addressed by my fellow-citizens with
out distiction of party, in various parts of the dis
trict, and requested by them to suffer my name
to be announced as a candidate for Congress at
the approaching election. These applications,
for reasons then assigned and purely of a private
nature, I invariably declined with the assurance,
however, that I would not disobey what might
fairly be regarded as a decided expression of pub
lic opinion on this subject.
The application alluded to the generous con
fidence reposed in me by your convention and
' the prompt ratification of that nomination by
every county of the district yet heard from, have
leit me no other alternative than to consider the
question as closed.
I am a candidate, Gentlemen, and should the
principles herein hastily disclosed, (but which I
hope to be able hereafter in person more fully to
explain.) prove to be those of a majority of the
voters of this district, I shall endeavor to discharge
with fidelity and to the utmost of my ability, the
duties attendant on the post to which your suf
frages shall have elevated me.
Vou are correct in the statement that I am an
ardent and devoted friend to the “Union formed
by our fathers,” and to be so “recognized by all,”
is the highest reward I seek.
Early imbued with the precepts of Washing
ton and “regarding the Union of these States as
the main pillar in the edifice of our real indepen
dence, —the support of our tranquility at home,
our peace abroad, our safety, our property, and of
that very liberty which we so highly prize,” I
have never failed to “cherish a cordial, habitual
and immoveable attachment to it.” The first as
sociation with which I was ever connected, was
the “Union and States Rights association” of
Chatham county, Georgia, a society based as its
records show upon the following resolutions.
“That in attachment to the Union of States,
and in the determination to support the reserved
rights of the States, we yield to no men or party of
men, whatever name they may be pleased to as
sume.” That resolution embodied my political
sentiments— then it embraces my political views
now.
But the Union which I especially revered, was
not the ‘‘‘'glorious Union,” of Seward, of Giddings,
or of Hale, nor yet the rhasked battery from be
hind which the Constitution and the rights of the
South are to be assailed,” but it was the Union ,
as you remark, “ formed by our father »,” and be
fore its beauty had been married by any of those
“assaults,” which Washington in his farewell ad-J
dress so prophetically foretells. ' •
It was the Union ass it existed before any at
tempt had been made “to effect in the forms of
the constitution.” Alterations which will im
pair the energy of the system and thus under
mine what cannot be directly overthrown, be
fore any manifestation of “the spirit of encroach-,
ment tending to consolidate the powers of all the
departments in one, and thus create, whatever the
form of government, a real despotism.
But Union as you perceive constitutes but half
my creed, the reserved rights of the states, those
“powers not delegated to the U. States, bythe
constitution, nor prohibited by it to the Srlßel
(but) reserved to the states respectively or to the
people,” embraces an equal share of my devotion.
These rights, which in the convention’ which
formed tne constitution, Mr. Madisoq* said he
“would preserve with the same he
would trial by jury, “and on which Mr. Elpworth
declared” his happiness as much depended as a
new bom infant depends upon its mother for
nourishment. Rights in which abide the only
safety for the liberties of the people, the only
guarantee for the perpetuity of the Union; when
I be found to desert them, may the people of Geor
gia, indeed regard me as “the base Judean, who
for thirty pieces of silver threw away a pearl
richer than all his tribe.”
In earlier days, and among the monarchies of
Europe, the excellence of government consisted
in the concentration of power, but to modern times
and to the people of this country was reserved
the discovery, that in the division of power alone
could be found the enjoyment of true lißPfty and
the perfection of governmental
It is tilts' remarkable division between the re
served and the delegated powers, which consti
tutes the faith and excellence of our system, by
means of which our institutions may be spread
over any extent of country without exposing us
to disunion, whilst on the other hand it is
sufficiently effective in its operation without des
troying our liberty.
The danger which now besets us, is the threat
ened destruction of this well adjusted balance of
powers; upon its preservation and in confining
each government, both States and Federal, to its
proper and legitimate sphere, our own safety and
the existence of our country depend. Os the two
elements which characterize our system, that of
the reserved rights, from the usurping tendency
and all absorbing influence of the General Gov
ernment (the representative of the delegated pow
ers.) is exposed to the greatest peril, and it be
hooves every man of the South, as he regards the
welfare of his country, to rally without distinc
tion of party, to the rescue of those rights, as set
forth by Jefferson and Madison in the celebrated
Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798, and
which constitute, at this day, the “bill of rights”
of the South.
Preserve them and we are safe, desert them
and we are gone. That these dangers are not
imaginary but do exist, and imminently threaten
us, 1 need only refer to the proceedings of the
late convention in Georgia, when upon the hap
pening of certain contingencies it was resolved
to resist even to a disruption of every tie which
binds us to the Union.
The adjustment measures of the last congress,
for the consideration of which the convention of
Georgia was called, and which that body was
unable to approve, I cannot but decliare illiberal,
unjust and aggressive upon the rights of the south.
But upon this subject a question no longer ex
ists. The state of Georgia, in the most solemn
manner known to our institutions, in a conven
tion of the sovereign people, called together by
an act of the legislature, having determined to
offer no resistance to these measures, as state
rights men we cannot object to Georgia’s deter
mining her our course, as good citizens we can
not but bow' in obedience to her decree, however
injurious to our rights or destructive to the best
interests of our country. When Hanibal had for
lYlOn}/ HAU rej /VUAfUUn tklA lltVinlrt i t«1 1 .»•*
when after the deadly struggle at Conno, the
power of Rome seemed cloven to the earth,
when the noblest families loosing upon their
country as lost, were planning their escape, the
Roman Senate, with moral courage which no
disasters could daunt, without a weapon or a
blow, saved the republic by the passage of tne
single, short but all efficient resolution. “We do
not despair of the common \yea th.”
Let us then imitate this example of moral
daring, and ifthe prospect for the purmanent
prosperity of our country does seem at this time
discouraging and dark, let us reflect upon the
comparatively hopeless condition of Rome, and
like her senate, rising to the full importance of
the occasion, resolve “no/ to despair of the com
monwealth''
I regard it as by no means a settled matter
that we cannot, by calm, determined and united
action on the part of the south, preserve our
rights under the constitution and our equality in
the Union, and no effort on our part should be
spared to accomplish an object of such immeasu
rable importance. But on the other hand,should
“repeated injuries and usurpations” on the part
of the General Government evince the design of
establishing an absolute tyranny over these
states “of the south,”we will bear in mind that if
the precept of Washington enjoined upon us the
preservation of Union, his example taught us
that union, whether with our sister states or
with the mother country, was not to be main
tained at the price of liberty or the sacrifice of
honor.
No! when under the bond which connects us
with our sister states of the confederacy we can
exist no longer with safety to our rights and our
honor, we will not hesitate to appeal from the
cancelled obligations of a once venerated consti
tution, to our own “inherent and inalienable”
right of self-protection.
I have the honor to be,
Your obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. STILES.
To Messrs. John Thomas, A. K. Patton, and
W. W. Bruce, Committee of States Rights Con
vention.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier .]
Baltimore, July 20.
The sales of Cotton in the New York market,
for the week ending on Saturday, amounted to
7100 bales. The quotations were—Middling to
Good Middling Uplands 7£ a 81; Orleans 7J a 9
cents. A decline had been submitted to during
the week of three quarters of a cent on the low
er grades, and from a quarter to half a cent on
the better qualities.
The Baltic sailed from New York for Liver
pool on Saturday, with seventy-five passengers,
and six hundred and twenty thousand dollars in
specie.
A great storm of hail and wind had occurred
at Martinsburg, Virginia, which had caused much
damage.
Baltimore, July 21—10.5 P. M.
In the New York market to-day, Monday, Cot
ton was quiet and unchanged.
Advices have reached Washington of there be
ing in existence an intention of renewing the at
tempt to invade Cuba.
The Crescent City has arrived at New York,
with eleven hundred thousand dollars in gold.
The Pacific reached her wha:f at eight o’clock
to-night, with one engine disabled. Her advices
shall be forwarded soon.
[At eleven o’clock last evening we were in
formed that the Washington office had closed,
and that consequently the Pacific’s advices could
not be obtained until to-day] — Eds. Courier.
New-Orleans, July 18.
Cotton has been in good demand to-day, and
2500 bales were disposed of. Middling was quo
ted at 7Ja 8, and Fair at 101 cents. The stock
of Cotton on hand is fifty thousand bales.
Bacon—Shoulders command 7 cents.
Columbia, July 21, 9.45 P. M.
We have no transactions in Cotton to report
to-day. The market remains the same as at the
close of last week.
AUGUSTA,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 23.
For OorerMr.
Charles j. McDonald.
IXF”Notiee to Advertisers. —Outadvertising
friends will please hand in their favors by 5 o’clock,
P. M. hereafter—the recent change in the time of
arrival of the mail, inducing us to closp our adver
tising colums earlier than heretofore.
The Civil War Candida^
Notwithstanding the suppression of that letter,
Mr. Cobb’s opinions on the right q[ secession,
and on'State coercioh, are in a fair i&ay of being
fastened upon him in away to defy quibbling.
The Southern Democrat of the 12tb inst. gives
the following statement of his positions in his
Lanier speech:
‘•We will say readers, that he oc
cupied precisely on all the po
litical topics of the day that he has bdert suspect
ed of occupying, and pjpaded “guilty,” to many of
the charges alleged against hjnrf. He extolled the
“Compromise (!) measures” of the last Congress,
as a great triumph’for the South, and-maintained
that the North and not the South was the ag
grieved party. Mr. Cobb may preach such po
litical heresies “toffhe marines, but sailors will
not believe it.” He’declared himself opposed to
the doctrine of the right of secession,and believes
the only redress that the States have against Fed
eral aggressions, lies in the bloody right of revo
lution. He contended that the Federal Govern
ment has the right to coerce a sovereign State
that might attempt to secede, and inJfcnated very
strongly, that if elected Governor, Kind South
Carolina should secede, he would, if required,
call out the militia to assist the General Govern
ment in subjugating her. Will the people of
Georgia tolerate such odious doctrines as these ?”
The Columbus Times says of his "Columbus
speech, the strong consolidation sentiments of
which the Enquirer has endeavored to smooth
over:
“ We hear at every turn, wonder expressed at
the hardihood of the Enquirer’s version of Mr.
Cobb’s speech in this city on the subject of force
and secession. We have it from the lips of a num
ber of gentlemen who heard the speech, that he
not only did not hold the language which the
Enquirer alleges, but directly the reverse. They
all agree that he maintained openly, in, the event
of the withdrawal of any one State, and the
General Government should choose to use force
to drive her back, it would be the duty of every
other State to respond to the demand "for troops
in aid of that nefarious and bloody act.”
Here, then, in case South-Carolina secedes, is
war—civil war—war to the knife, to be waged
upon her under the auspices of Fillmore of the
North, whom Cobb delighted, in 1848, to hold
up to the people of Georgia as an Abolitionist,
and Cobb of the South. Merciful God !. what a
spectacle for Southern men to behold ! - A Gov
ernor of a Southern State calling out the militia
to aid the Abolitionists of the North to conquer
with fire and sword—to slaughter the citizens of
a sister State of the South for exercising<a sacred
and inalienable right 1 Who will aid in eleva
ting such man to office ? What Georgian is
willing to cast his vote for a man who wouTd, if
elected, at the bidding of a Free-Soil Prudent
who has spent nearly his whole political hfe-in
stirring up Northern sentiment against slave
summon him to take up arms in such a
Let every such Georgian lay his hand on his
heart and ask, if his proper place is shoulder to
shoulder with Northern Abolitionists under the
bloody banner of coercion.
If there is fighting to be done—if Southern
soil is to be drenched with blood—let Southern
men be standing shoulder to shoulder with each
other, and strike their blows against the inva
ders of State Rights and Southern Rights. They
should spurn the proposition to aid in the subju
gation pf q sister State at the beck and call of an
Abolition President, and should indignantly re
pudiate the Southern man who admits that he
I would consent to be used in such a disgraceful
! and horrible service,
To Southerners Travelling North.
A cotemporary gives the following seasonable
warning to Southerners going North. We would
suggest, however, that instead of staying away, j
, those who are anxious to visit Massachusetts— :
! particularly those who have never been there,
j and would like, once before they die, to see Bos
| ton—Bunker Hill the Monument, Faneuil Hall,
! (the place where Daniel Webster was not al*
; lowed to speak because he was not a strong
enough Free-Soiler,) and other wondrous sights,
had better go soon, or it will bo too late. True,
Sumner is elected Senator, and his opinions are
gaining ground. But a little time, it is hoped,
will yet elapse before the Southern slaveholder
visiting his State, will be overwhelmed in the
style set forth below :
“We invite the attention of Southern gentle
men who design travelling North this summer
for recreation, to the arrangements which have
been made to give them a warm reception—
premising, however, that if they are submission
ists, we have no objections to their going, but we
protest against any Southern Rights man aban
doning his post here, even to exchange the heat
of our Southern summer for the special attrac
tions held out in Massachusetts in the following
programme issued by Mr. Sumner, the Senator
elect from that State :
“Into Massachusetts he (the slave owner)
shall not come. # * # # The contempt,
the indignation, the abhorrence of the communi
ty, shall be our weapons of offence. Wherever
he moves, he shall find no house to receive him—
no table spread to nourish him—no welcome to
cheer him—the dismal lot of the Roman exile
shall be his. lie shall be a wanderer without
roof, fire or water. Men shall point at him in
the streets, and on the highways. The cities,
towns and villages shall refuse to receive the
monster; they shall vomit him forth, never
again to disturb the repose of our community.”
Colquitt in the Field.
We hail with pleasure the appearance of this
able champion of State Rights upon the field of
discussion.
He was to have addressed the people of Co
lumbus on Monday last. His stalwart arm will
do execution in the great battle now going on
for the rights and sovereignty of the States, im
perilled by the joint forces of consolidationists and*
abolitionists. His ardent temperament, his glow
ing zeal, his long devotion to State Bights princi
ples, will find full play, and will make the ap
peals of this great and popular orator to the hearts
and minds of the people irresistible.
We hope Judge Colquitt may be induced to
visit this section of Georgia, where he has many
warm admirers.
The Fire Annihilator.— Mr. Thos. Daven
port of St. Louis, informs the Missouri Republi
can, that he has received a bill of lading an
nouncing a shipment of muchines to New Orleans
from Liverpool, which he expects to receive in
St. Louis about the middle of next month, by
AUGUSTA WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT, JULY 23, 185 1.
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Kentucky $
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FISH —Mackerel, No. 1... bbl. J**
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FLOUR —Canal 5 '
Augusta Canal j* (on if*
Georgia, good ® @ 5 20 p 1 ct.
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GRAIN—Corn, loose bus. 75 («? »o 20 p ct.
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Wheat —Good White @ 7 -a
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Nail Rods 6 (g! 6
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White Lead H ® >
LARD lb • 77 @
MOLASSES— Cuba gall. » @ £6
Ncw-Orleans . ...' 07 ® 40 l3op ct
VATT.S nut,. 4.1 to2od 350 (to 400 l
which time he hopes to give such a demonstra
tion as will convince the most sceptical of the
power as well as efficiency of Phillips’ Fire Jlnni
hilator to accomplish all its name implies.
Col. Henry L. Benning.
This gentleman is going to work in good earn
est, and his appointments are out already to ad
dress the people in all the counties of his district.
He will sweep away, with the hand of a giant,
every seed of consolidationism and servile sub
mission to the Federal arrogance which Mr.
Cobb may have sown in that part of Georgia.
What little popularity the doctrines of coer
cion and civil war survive, the electioneer
ing tour of Mr. Cobb in the 2d Congression
al District, will suffer still greater damage
under the splendid invective and powerful logic
of Col. Benning. His is a masterly intellect,
and he will pourtray to the people their danger
from consolidation in a startling and convincing
light.
05** We are authorised by Thomas J. Burney,
Esq., of Morgan county, to state he declines the
honor of acting as one of Executive Committee
of the Constitutional Union party of Georgia.
Mr. Burney requested us, in a private letter
containing somewhat more on the subject,to make
the simple announcement to be found above.—
We cannot refrain, however, from adding, that
Mr. B. is one of the many thousand who while
they voted last fall with the party now calling
itself the Constitutional Union party, “ does not
' feel himself under any obligations to follow Mr.
Cobb off into the mazes of Consolidation.^
We hope Mr. Burney will carry out his ori
ginal purpose of “ giving his reasons at length for
declining the trustP We feel assured that they
will convluce many others who voted with him
I last fall, of the propriety of cutting loose from
Mr. Cobb, and the party that seeks to foist him
into office.
The Alberti Case.
As the people of Georgia will probably not
see a syllable of this monstrous outrage in any
of the Consolidation Union papers, we beg our
subscribers to read, and then circulate our Week
ly of to-day among their Union neighbors. They
will find the Alberti Case in it, which furnishes
| some idea to Southern men how the Northern
j people carry out the Fugitive Slave law. But
all such conduct is studiously concealed from
their readers by the Southern Submission press.
I They are afraid that our glorious Union would
1 be less popular, and a spirit of resistance to abo
lition aggression would spread, if they allowed
the people to see the true state of things at the
North,
They therefore, conceal, if they can, and when
they can’t do that, endeavor to smooth over any
Northern outrage upon Southern rights as the
work of only a few fanatics. They will insist
that the Northern people are generally true to
their duty in enforcing the Fugitive Slave law.
Mr. Cobb in his speech at Columbus eulogised
abolition Massachusetts as loyal to the Constitu
tion.
The disgraceful collusion between the Governor
of Pennsylvania and the Judge on the bench to
sacrifice innocent men to the moloch spirit of
abolitionism, is evinced in the pardon by the for
mer, the day before the trial, of two convicted
felons, in order to make them competent wit
nesses.
How long will Southern men be humbugged
by the delusive song of demagogues, behind the
masked battery , that the rights of the South were
never safer than now ?
learn by a despatch from the agents,
that the steamship Florida arrived at Tybee last
evening, in sixty-three hours from New York.
New Publications.
Abbott’s History of the Empress Josephine.
This is one of the historical series of J. C.
Abbott. The work is not entitled to praise be
yond being a rather readable book of a very in
teresting and distinguished female.
Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution—
No. 15.
Stuart Dunleath .• A Novel. By the Hon.
Mrs. Norton.
The above are for sale by J. A. Carrie & Co.
Exchanges between Magazines and News-
PAPERS.-r-Inquiries having been addressed to the
office of the Washington Republic, with a view
of ascertaining whether newspapers can exchange
with Graham’s, Sartain’s, Littell’s, and other
similar magazines, that Journal sought the desir
ed information of the Post Office Department,
and has received the following answer, from
which it appears that newspapers are entitled to
an exchange of a single copy with each of these
magazines, inasmuch as their weight respectively
is beneath the maximum prescribed by law :
Post Office Department, )
Appointment Office, July 18,1851. J
Sir In reply to yours of yesterday you are in
formed that, by the provisions of the second sec
tion of the new postage act, all publishers of
pamphlets, periodicals, magazines, and newspa
pers, are entitled to interchange their publica-
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tions reciprocally, free of postage, provided such
publications do not exceed sixteen ounces in
■ weight. The law restricts such exchange to a
single copy of each publication.
Very respectfully, yourobd’t. serv’t.
FITZ HENRY WARREN.
Nicaragua. —Fruto Chamorro, the Nicara
guan Minister of Finance, in his report dated
the 3d ult., estimates the receipts for the present
year at $122,682, and the expenses at $173,
616, leaving a deficit 0f550,946. This added to
the standing debt of the State, $523,905, makes
a total debt of $574,869. There had been some
disturbance in Leon, the commander of the army
General Munoz probably, having without any
authority from the Executive, to whose direction
the Constitu’ion confides the forces of the State,
advised the Leonese in a publication of the 21st
of June, that he had withdrawn from service the
few troops who formed the garrison. The Pre
fect of the Department, however, took immedi
ate measures to establish the public security,
and the President issued a proclamation, detail
ing the affair, from which no particular conse
quences seem to have arisen.
03*- We received no telegraphic despatches
yesterday, the line is still down between this
city and Charleston.
It is currently reported in Washington, that
President Fillmore and family, together with
Secretary Stuart, will leave that city about the
18th of the ensuing month, on a visit to the
White Sulphur Springs of Virginia.
Tremendous Conflagration at Cincin
nati. —On Monday morning, July 14, between
one and two o’clock, a fire was discovered in the
Apollo Buildings, containing Woods’ Museum,
Hawkins’ Daguerrean Gallery, Gundry's Com
mercial College, several stores, &e., at Cincin
nati. The total loss will not be far from SIOO,-
000. The fire was, no donbt. the work of an
incendiary.
From Porto Rico. —The schooner Fear Not.
arrived at New York Friday morning, from St.
Johns, P. R., July 3d, reports sugar very scarce
—prices 4d. a 4i —on account of late heavy rains,
which had inundated the plantations.
The Cuban Invaders.— Judge Betts ’ Derision.
At New York, on Wednesday, Judge Betts of
the U. S. District Court gave an opinion at much
length on the motion to quash the indictment a
gainst John L. O’Sullivan in the Cuban inva
sion case.
He considered that charging the offence in the
language of the statute is sufficient; also that
the law was not intended merely as a neutrality
act to operate when other -nations were at war,
but to prevent citizens and residents of the Uni
ted States from beginning or setting on foot a
military expedition against the territories of an
other country at peace with the United States.
The motion to quash was denied, but out of re
spect to the counsel, the opinion will be submit
ted to the Judge of the Circuit Court, with a
view that should he disagree ■with it, that the
case may be referred to the Circuit,and, on a di
vision of opinion, carried to the Supreme Court
of the United States.
[communicated.]
Morgan County.
Mr. Gardner : —Believing you a good friend of
State Rights, I take pleasure in informing you
that the cause is rapidly advancing in this coun
ty. Saturday last I attended a Union meeting
held in Wellington District. We had five
speeches—three in behalf of Mr. Cobb, and two
for State Rights and McDonald. The speakers
on the part of Southern Rights were taken en
tirely by surprise, the idea having gone forth
that no one except Union men would be allowed
a hearing—nevertheless, State Rights won a vie- !
tory. The meeting was organized for the avow
ed purpose of giving the “ country light upon
the political subjects of the day.” A few more i
such rays, and Morgan will again be worthy of j
her name. Yours, in haste.
[From the Columbus T/mcx.]
Mr. Benning’s Acceptance.
Columbus, 19th July, 1851.
Gentlemen : I have received your letter dated
Albany, the 14th of this month, in which you say
to me that you have been appointed a Commit
tee by a Convention of Southern Rights men
composed of Whigs and Democrats, held 011 that
day in Albany, to inform me of my nomination
as a condidate to represent the Second Congres
sional District in the Congress of the United
States.
I beg to assure you, gentlemen, that I am ful
ly conscious of the high honor which such a no
mination confers, and that I duly appreciate the
regard, which selected me on this occasion as
the object on which to confer it.
If 1 consulted my own interests or my own
inclination, I should ask to be excused from ac
cepting the nomination, hut in deference to the
will of the Convention which you represents and
that of their constituency as expressed by them,
I resist personal motives and aceept it.
I deem it not inappropriate to add, that since
the receipt of your letter, I have seen a report of
the proceedings of your Convention, and that
the resolutions which it adopted meet with my
entire approbation.
Allow me to say, too, that I expect after the
adjournment of the Supreme Court at Americus.
to address the people of the Second District, at
Bank Note Table.
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Central Bank of Georgia “
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Savannah Chamber of Commerce.
I ROBERT HABERSHAM, President,
j C. GREEN. Ist Vice-President.
EDW'D. PADELFORI), 2d Vice-President.
.[ OCTAVUS COIIEN, Secretary and Treasurer.
I most of the prominent points in it, in support of
the principles which are asserted in those reso
, lutions, and upon the questions of the day gene
rally. To this end I subjoin a list of appoint
ments, and beg you to announce them to the
public, together with a respectful invitation to all
to come and hear me.
Be pleased, gentlemen, to accept my thanks
for the polite manner in which you have made
this communication, and believe me to be, with
sentiments of respect,
Your obedient servant,'
Hf.nby L. Benning.
To Messrs. J. B. Hall, David Kaigler, Addison
E. Harris, Abel Holton, and Joel R. Sorter,
Committee.
List of .Appointments.
Americas Saturday 9th Aug.
Lanier, Monday 11th
Perry, Wednesday....l3th “
Haw kins ville,.. ..Thursday 14th “
Vienna, Saturday 16th “
Irvinville,....,. .Monday 18th “
Starkesville, Wednesday... .20th “
Albany, Thursday 21st “
Bainbridge, Saturday 23rd “
Blakely, Monday 25th
Cuthbert, Tuesday 25th “
Lumpkin, Wednesday...Q7th “
Buena Vista, Wednesday 3rd Sept.
Another Murder in Virginia.—We are
shocked to have to record another of vio
lence and death in our immediate neighborhood.
On Wednesday last, John S. Wormley, of Ches
terfield county, deliberately shot down his son
in-law, Anthony S. Robiou, of the same county,
at a house in the neighborhood of the Black
Heath Pitts. It appears that Wormley and Ro
biou had been at variance some time previous—
that on the day of the fatal occurrence, Worm
ley had loaded a rnusket and repaired to the
house where the deed was committed, that after
remaining at the house a short time, Robiou
drove up in a gig, got out and entered, when he
encountered Wormley, who, after exchanging a
few words with Rim, Rere.Uo* bres -mv.r.frcf ■gm*.- ■ '
shot him, killing him almost instantly. Both
parties were men of respectability—Wormley
bting a lawyer by profession, and Robiou hav
ing been formerly Deputy Sheriff', of the county,
and a man ol wealth. —Richmond Times.
Capt. Moses, of the packet ship Western World,
for Liverpool, returned to New York Friday
morning, from the S. W. Spit, in the steam tug
Achilles, for the purpose of procuring assistance
for the arrest of some of her men, who have mu
tinied. One of the crew is very dangerously
stabbed, having severe wounds from a large dirk
knife.
An Independent Southerner. —The South
ern Advertiser commenced its career at Buena
Vista, six W'eeks ago, as an independent or neu
tural paper, under the charge, as editor and pub
lisher, of Mr. T. P. Ashmore. Its plan was not
to meddle with politics.
The strolling candidate for Governor, has late-
I ly paid a visit to Buena Vista, and made /ki
j speech which the Enquirer understood so dijfer
| cutty from every body else. The editor ot the
I Advertiser it seems heard it; and independent
: though he is in politics, it contained some Federal
I doctrines rather too strong for his Southern di
j gestion. He commented on it, and thereat the
Gobbites become not a little hostile. In his pa
-1 per of last Thursday, the editor comes out in a
manly vindication of his right to find fault with
doctrines in a Southern candidate which are at
war with w'hat Georgia and the Southern States
have always maintained as essential to their in
dependence and well being as political commu
nities.
The Editor holds up for his State in the fol
lowing manly strain :
“ Here we would close this editorial but for
the fact that we have been charged with getting
into politics and inclining to the Southern Rights
candidate, when in our prospectus, we promised
neutrality in politics. But if we recollect what
was our feeling and meaning, we reserved the
right of expressing our opinion on any impor
tant measure of public policy. And is not the
right of secession a question of importance to
every State and citizen in the Union ? Mr.
Cobb says the right belongs not to the States,
and asks any one to put Ids finger upon even a
syllable favorable to such a right. We challenge n (
reference to that clause of the Constitution ta
king that right from the States. The Constitu- 1
tion plainly declares that no power, not delega
ted to the general government, therein, can be i
exercised by that government; but is reserved
to the States. Where is the delegation of that
power in the Constitution; it is not there; then
it is the right of a State to secede.
“ No, we neither incline nor recline, but stand
erect upon the freedom, independence, sovereignty
and rights of the States."
The August Elections. Elections will
take place in the States of Kentucky. Indiana,
Alabama. Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and lowa,
on the 4th of August, and in North Carolina and
Tennessee on the 7th of August. Kentucky is
to choose a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Le
gislature and ten members of Congress. Indi
ana has likewise to choose ten members of Con
gress. The election in Alabama is for Governor,
Legislature, and five members of Congress. In
Arkansas a member of Congress is to be elected.
Missouri, Illinois and lowa have already chosen
their Congressional delegations. This year they
have simply to elect local and judicial officers.—
North Carolina will choose nine members of Con
gress. In Tennessee, the election is for Cover
nor, Legislature, and eleven members of Congress. #
Money Market —Saturday, July 19.—There
is no change to notice in the rates of interest; j
the activity still continues, the banks freely dis
counting for their regular customers, but doing
very little for outsiders. The Baltic to-day took ;
out $620,000 in American gold. Foreign Ex
change closed steadily, with a moderate quantity
of bills offering. Bills on London 110* a 110$ ,
Paris 5,10 a 5,08 J. — N. Y. Jour. Com.