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(From the Baltimore Sun.)
Later ironi Onba.—Aid to the Patriots.—Progress
ol the Revolution—Future Prospects, See.
Some important dispatches relative to Cuban
affairs will be found in our columns to-day. It
will be seen that in the South parties are already
huri ylng off from this country to their aid. and
that later advices Irom Havana seem to confirm
to a considerable extent the previous accounts of
the Principe affair, &c., with further rising at
Trurflad and Villa Clara. The “Patriots.” at
New York, through their correspondents at St
.lago lie Cuba, have, by the barque Sturges, at
New York, some further intelligence concerning
the state of affairs in that part of the island.
The dates from St. Jago, by the A. P. Sturges,
are to the 16th ultimo. The news of the insur
rection at Puerto Principe arrived at St. Jago on
the 9th ol July, hut the accounts were vague.—A
letter liom a Cuban there says:
“Or. the 11th, early in the morning, an express
arrived at St. Jago from Las Tunas, and soon af
ter two more expresses arrived, following in rapid
succession, bringing dispatches to the Governor.
An extraordinary meeting of the City Council
was immediately called, when the Governor,
General Manzano, announced that he had receiv
ed dispatches from the Governor of Las Tunas,
but that he was ashamed to show them to the
Council, because, in the first place, the Governor
of Las Tunas said that he was threatened with
an attack from the insurgents; in the second place,
that they had succeeded in capturing all the
Queen’s funds from the treasurer; and, in the
third place, that ‘he does not know what to do,’
and that he would have to abandon the place that
afternoon.
“J! the Governor was ashamed to show his dis
patches to the Council, you can form an idea
what their real contents must have been. We
think the affair at Las Tunas must be, indeed,
disgraceful to the enemies, especially as the Span
ish employers, usually so talkative, are now so
very silent, remaining shut up in their houses.
“On the 11th, at SP. M., our worthy Govern
or, General Manzano, started out of the city, ac
companied by Colonel Lanzarote, his secretary
and his aide-de-camp, 26 Lancers and four com
panies of Riflemen. Lanzarote is an effeminate
fellow.
In the 12th, the battery of Mountain Artil
lery left for Las Tunas, and it is reported that
500 more men are on the point of starting.
übiita yuu umjr aw wfitftlitri vitrs meui
gents number only 35 men, as the government
pretends, and if so, nobody can fail to conclude
that the Spaniards are the greatest cowards in
the world.
“We are only awaiting here to have more po
sitive news than our brethren in Principe have
risen, when we shall instantly unite and give the
Grito (Pronunciamento.) At this moment we
number five hundred men, all well armed with
muskets, ammunition and weapons, and ready to
|iousce upon the enemy.
“The feeling here for freedom is universal, and
the determination firm. All the young men of
the first families will join the ranks of the pa
triots. We at first lacked money to begin the
struggle, but since the news from Principe we
have raised a large sum. We are now all right ,
and by eight o’clock to-morrow night we hope
to have given the Grito ! (Pronunciamento) for
so we have arranged.
I’. S.—“ The latest reports that we have are
that Gep. Manzano has been unable to pass, at
Cayamo (96 miles from St. Jago,) being hinder
ed by the patriots, and that he has sent for more
troops. That in Las Tunas the Governor armed
150 countrymen to go in pursuit of the insur
gents. but that they had gone over to our side,
together with two companies of the regiment of
Isabel Segunna.”
The Cubans and the National Intelli
gencer.—At the request of the gentlemen whose
names are attached to it, the N. Y. Express gives
place to the following communication, which
speaks for itself:
To the Editors. —An article published in the
“National Intelligencer,” of the 31st ult., does
great injustice to a cause and to friends that are
deal to us. The Intelligencer being the reputed
organ of the National Executive, its article pos
serses an importance which induces us to give
an emphatic denial to all its assumptions, infer
ences; and insinuations. We also indignantly
deny that we have imposed upon, or sought to
impose upon the press and people of this country,
by manufactured and exagerated statements, or
by false and forced documents.
All statements and publications given by us
to the press of this city have emanated from the
so irees indicated in them—our friends in Cuba
—and they are neither “men of straw” nor men
capable of fabricating falsehoods.
On behalf of the Cuban exiles in New York.
Octaviano Duany, Departemento Oriental.
F Sedano, Departemento Central.
MigiiaM'. Tolon, Departemento Occidental.
New York. Aug. Ist, 1851.
Citbatj Affairs.—As the public mind must
be more or less excited in regard to the political
movements now transpiring in Cuba, we place
in our columns the following statistical table, ta
ken from Wilson’s Map of Cuba, published in
1950:
The whole population including troops, stran
gers. &c 1,247.230
The wnite population is 565,360
wThe tree colored population 200,370
J'he siave “ “ 436,100
Estimate of the number of men capable of
bearing arms.
Creole whites 140,000
“ free colored 40,000
190.000—a1l of whom, it is said, are favorable
to revolution.*,
Spaniards.' 20,000
Spanish troops 23,000
43 000—who may be opposed to revolution.
In the jurisdiction where the revolution is said
to have commenced (Puerto Principe.)
Whites 40,000
Free colored 10,000
Slaves 13,000
Puerto Principe is about 350 miles from Ha
vana. The bay of Nuevitas is the entrance to
Puerto Principe, and the river emptying into the
bay i uns into the interior to the town of Puerto
Principe. The approach to the bay of Nuevitas
by tioops must be made by sea from Havana.—
On the opposite side of the Island, and equi-dis
tant lrom Puerto Principe, are the town and ri
ver St. Cruz, which is acccessible to small ves
sels of war. This is the point where the men
from this country will probably effect a landing
ii the revolution should not be more extended on
their arrival in Cuba.— Sav. Republican,
(Telegraphedfor the Baltimore Sun.)
Farther per Europa.
Halifax, Aug. 4, 1851.
The steamer Europa has arrived, bringing Li
verpool dates to the 26th ult. Her mails will be
due at Boston to-morrow night, at 10 o’clock.—
She brings 80 passengers.
The Europa ran into the fishing schooner Flo
rence to-day, sinking her in a very few minutes.
Fourteen ol the crew were saved and one drown
ed. ,
The steamship City of Manchester sailed for
America on Saturday morning, with 175 passen
gers.
No English or American steamers had arrived
at Liverpool since the 20th inst.
Accounts from France represent the country as
tranquil. The Ministry had tendered their re
signations, but the President refused to accept
them.
England. —A Cabinet Council was held on
Friday night at the Foreign Office.
The total numbers of visiters at the Exhibi
tion on the 25th, were 26,800, and the receipts
£3,000.
The remains of the late Mr. Shielare to be ta
ken from Florence to Ireland.
A number of gentlemen, with Lord Ashbur
ton at their head, have formed an association for
establishing a uniform rate of postage to all parts
of the world.
In London. Baron Rothschild attended a meet
ing at which it was resolved to petition Parlia
ment to reconsider the vote against his admissi
bility.
The crops in Ireland promise well, and their is
no truth in the report of potato rot.
At a meeting of the proprietors of the Royal
Bank, it was shown that the net profits of the
year, after deducting the interest on original and
other shares, amounted to £72,500.
The Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian
Church of Ireland has adopted strong resolutions
against the Liverpool proceedings in reference to
the Court of Rome.
Nothing of importance has transpired in Par
liament.
Portugal. —Rumors of a ministerial crisis are
rife. Saidanha does not command that respect
which it was thought he would.
A revolt had broken out in one of the regi
ments, which, however was soon promptly quell
ed by the Duke. Assassinations were becoming
more frequent than ever.
Turkey.— The relations between the Porte
and the Pasha of Egypt, are becoming uneasy,
owing to a disposition on the part of the Sultan
to bring the Pasha under stricter subjection,
which he resists.
Markets.
Liverpool ; July 26.—The total decline in cot
ton for the weeks is nealy Id. The sales have
been 46,000 bales, of which exporters and specu
lators sook 10,000. The quotation of fair Orleans
is 5 ?d. The sales at Havre for the week are
9,000 bales.
Transactions in coffee are limited, but for
some days the demand has improved.
Operations in sugar have been large at Lon
don and Liverpool at previous rates.
Holders ofTea show more disposition to sell.
Tobacco is quiet.
Trade in the manufacturing districts has im
proved.
Sales of Baltimore flour at 20s. 6d. a 21s. 3d.
Common rosin was scarce and in demand.
Sales of turpentine at 7s. 9d.
Money Market.
The London money market is firm. Tran
sactions in American securities are small. U.
Btates s’s, 1853,923, United States o’s, 1868, 112
a 1121. Railroad stocks are in improved de
mand.
Havre Cotton market. —The cotton market has
not been affected by the news from the U.
States, since Friday, when there was a decine of
la 2f. Sales of the week 9,000 bales.
Wind, Hail, Rain, &c.— Since our last i. e. on
Wednesday, we had a regular elemental set to,
in the heavens which terminated in a very de
structive wind, some hail and a deluge of rain.
Thanks to Providence, we have had during the
past week, rain in abundance.— Sandcrsvi/le
Georgian , s lh inst. i
We have been informed of an affair which oc
curred in Wilkinson county last week, of rather :
a tragical character. It appears that a negro
man attempted to violate the person of liis mis
tress in the absence of his master, and meeting
with resolute opposition by his mistress and a
young lady who was present, he knocked both
of them down with a hoe, accomplished his fien
dish design and took the woods. Fortunately,
however, he was soon overhauled by the neigh
bors, carried back and five hundred stripes were
given him. But the indignant and excited pop
ulace, who we suppose had by this time become
quite large, not satisfied with the punishment
already inflicted, tied the negro to a stake and
burned him up.
The ladies were not dead at the last accounts,
but it is supposed neither will recover from the
effects of the wounds indicted. We have given
this rumor as we learned it, and refiain from any
comment at present upon this truly horrid af
fair.—lb.
Panic in the Money Market—Gold in the Coun
try. The croakers are attempting to get up a
panic in New York, but they find it quite an
up-hill business. The Mirror says:
The gold that has gone to Europe, about which
we hear so much in Wall street, is sent in place
of Bills of Exchange, simply because it is cheap
' er; and it pours in lrom the West faster than it
I flows to the East. The U. S Treasury has $14,-
! 000,000 on hand, and the Banks their usual a
' mount.
The house of A. T. Stewart & Co., have re
mitted $400,000 to Europe within the last two
weeks, which is all they owe on the other side.
Messrs. Henrys, Smith & Townsend, one of
! the largest silk houses in the city, inform us
j that they have as much business as they can do,
and their country customers pay up handsomely.
A single jobbing house, we learn, opened an
account with the Metropolitan Bank this week,
and deposited in one batch, paper for collection
to the amount of $160,000. True, stocks have
fallen: and money is a little tighter. But it is
always so about quarter day, especially at this
season of the year, when all the “shorts’’ remain
in town. All the borrowers are here—whle all
the lenders are at the watering places; and the
men who croak loudest are the note-shavers.
Farmers who have the most corn or cotton to
sell, are very apt to cry “short crop.”
The Philadelphia Bulletin has an article
which shows that since the Ist of January, the
sum of $20,259,984 in gold has been deposited at
the Philadelphia and New Orleans mints, while
we have exported only 25,000,000. The exports
are now falling off, while from $20,000,000 to
$25,000,000 in gold will probably be received
from California by the first of January.
A Phenomenon in Nature. —Born upon the pre
mises of David J. Williams, in Jacksonville, Tel
laircounty, Ga., a negro child, weighing twelve
pounds, with two well formed and separate
heads and necks, two arms arid and two spinal
columns, three legs with feet attached, two in
their natural position and other coming out on
the back in the region of the hips, with two
hearts; partially joined together, two lungs, and
other anomalies. This fanciful freak of nature
is at this time in the office of Drs, Cohen and
Darr, of that place, where hundreds have exam
ed it.
J. COHEN, M. D.
M. A. DURR, M. D.
[Savannah Republican, Ith inst.
The Crops in New Hampshire. —The hay crop
in all parts of this State is very abundant and
the better part of it has been secured in good con
dition. The farmer is still busily engaged with
the scythe,rake and pitchfork. The crops of win
ter wheat, rye, oats, potatoes and corn, all appear
very promising. Corn is backward, but in all
probability there will be a fair crop.
AUGUSTA, GA
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8
For Governor.
CHARLES J. McDOK^D.
For Congress—Eighth district,
ROBERT McMILLAN, of Elbert.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION STATE.
TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
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able to supply all. To those who dd ilot receive the
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ing, and the Weekly will be regu/r/y sent hereafter.
We thank our many friends for tkir very kind and
acceptable favors.
“ Doctor.”
We shall dismiss this mali/nant wretch as
briefly as possible. In his artfcle, published in
the Chronicle of Wednesday, lie says:
To Mr. Smythe, Editor of He Republic.
Sin : —ln your reply to my article you have
seen fit to attribute my exposurt of your frauds
and falsehoods, to malice against yourself. This
is too old a trick to deceive any one in this en
lightened day. The cry of persecution shall not
avail you. If it be persecutioi to lay open and
expose your efforts to decei r e the people, you
may rest assured 1 shall confnue to persecute
you “to the bitter end.” Thepeople shall be the
judge between us. If I cann«t sustain my char
ges against you, I am a slaiderer, and let me
wear the brand. If I cansustdn them, you will
richly deserve what you will gjt—the execration
of all honorable men. I averiien. that as a jour
nalist you have willfully misstated facts, for the
base purpose of destroying the confidence of the
people in taithlul public servaits; you have been
guilty of the most shameful inconsistencies for the
purpose of sustaining your party, and I shall sus
tain these charges by evidence so clear and con
vincing that no other plea oriefence will be left
to you but insanity. You are either insane or
you are guilty as charged. lun actuated by no
malice, nor do I make any attickon your private
character as you would fain have the public be
lieve. It is with you, as a public journalist only,
I have to deal. Your private character, solar as
I know, or believe is unexceptionable. But while
it is doubtless true, that as a man no earthly con
sideration could induce you to defraud your
neighbor out of a single dollar, it is equally true,
lor one vote for your party you would publish a
thousand falsehoods in your paper. Anil you
are not the first illustration of this strange in
consistency. Bonaparte was a murderer, Wm.
Pitt sanctioned the buying of votes in parlia
ment. Clive, the very impersonation of British
chivalry, brave, daring, unselfish, committed for
gery. and I shall show you there is something
closer than a parable between Clive and your
self. All these justified themselves, and were
excused in their day and generation on the score
of policy. No such plea will avail you. The
people of this day fully assent to, and understand
the maxim, “honesty is the best policy.”
We made no cry of persecution. We could
not make that cry for the acts of one whom we
both despised and pitied. The crawling reptile
can strike at you, as you pass by, he cannot per
secute you. “ Doctor ” says : “If I cannot
maintain my charges against you, I am a slan
derer, and let me wear the brand. 1 ' _
—tt g Ttmt inmg tvitTT cittj imr-miiiueu ponncai
opponent in the State, (to say nothing of politi
cal friends.) judge between “ Doctor ” and our
self. They can see whether he is governed by
malice or not. A man to receive the execration
of all honorable men, must be very guilty.
“Doctor” says:
“And now to the questions between us. You
say you do not compla n that the Mexican law
exists and is of force in the Territories.”
Certainly we said that; and why ? because
we believed it was nullified by the American
Constitution. But the entire North, and a good<-
ly number of Constitutional Union men in the
South, thought differently. The majority held it
to be of force, and, for all practical purposes, that
made it so. “ Doctor ” says:
i “ You say in your reply—‘All the Abolition
ists, Free Soilers, and enemies of the South in
, Congress and out. said we had no such right; that
we were excluded Mexican anti-slavery
i laws.’
‘‘Again you say—-‘The majority decided in
; favor of the existence ot® he law; that majority,
acting in conformity with their judgment, not
ours, should repeal the law.’
“ Again, in your letter of Ist Nov. 1850, ac
cepting the Southern Rights nomination for the
Convention, you say: ‘ Slavery is practically ex
cluded from them. (Utah and New Mexico,) by
the unanimous declaration of the Northern mem
bers, that its exclusion by the Wilmot Proviso
j was rendered unnecessary by the existence of
j Mexican anti-slavery laws.’ ’’
He charges us with three times publishing a
| deliberate falsehood, in the above paragraphs.
The first paragraph is true. If it is not, let
“Doctor” give the name ol an abolitionist, free
soiler, or enemy of the South in Congress, or out
of it, who says we are not excluded by the Mexi
can laws.
The second paragraph is true. Every one
knows that a majority of the people of this coun
try, hold the absurd doctrine that the Mexican
anti-slavery laws are still in force in the ter
ritory.
The third paragraph is nearly strictly true,
and it is a pitiful quibble to dispute it.
“ Doctor ” says :
“ When and on what occasion did Giddings,
Tuck, Julian, Horace Mann, Wilmot, Hale,
Durkee, or any other abolitionist in Congress,
say. by word or deed, that the Mexican law ex
cluded slavery ? Your assertion is, all these said
so. Sustain it by proof positive or presumptive,
else what becomes of your character?”
“You have harped upon this falsehood month
after month and year after year, and yet never
will be able to bring proof to excuse you for ut
tering it: You have made it the foundation for
instilling into the minds of your readers dissatis
faction with the Compromise, and yet the whole
time you know it to be untrue. If the northern
members were unanimous in the opinion that
the Wilmot Proviso was unnecessary, as you say
in your letter of acceptance, why did a majority
of them vote against the bills organizing territo
rial governments for Utah and New Mexico?
Can you give any other reason except that in
their judgment the Wilmot Proviso u-as necessary
to exclude slavery ? If the Wilmot Proviso was
unnecessary in their opinions, why did sixty
nine of them vote for it, on the 7th September,
1850, when offered by Mr. Wentworth, the Utah
bill being under consideration. These questions
utterly confound you, and you will remain silent,
like any other man detected in a fraud on the
public.”
Neither “Doctor” nor anybody else doubts
that these men hold that the South is excluded
by the Mexican law. If “Doctor” will say
that he doubts it (and he is morally not too good
to say so,) he cannot get the certificate of an in
telligent man in Georgia to back him in the as
sertion. It is a few of ttyese most
rabid Wilmot Proviso Free Soilers may have
•thought it necessary to pass the Wilmot Proviso,
but we very much doubt it. If they did, it very
slightly impairs the correctness of our statements-
They were but few in number, some twelve or
thirteen. The reason for the large vote in favor
of the Wilmot Proviso, was a desire to make as
surance doubly sure, but more particularly to ex
press, on the statute book, their hatred of our in
stitution. Now we leave it to every candid
man to decide whether we intended to perpe
trate a frawl upon the public.
Mr. Clay’s report said, that
“ The (Slave Trade) Bill has been framed af
ter the model of what the law of Maryland was,
when the General Government was removed
to Washington.”
Not having the Bill before us, we said “we
are certain it imposed a fine upon a violation of
the law.” This, “ Doctor” charges as a delibe
rate and wilful falsehood. The malevolance of
this charge is apparent to every one, for we
would not, if we had been mean enough to do
so, have published a falsehood so easily detected,
especially, while engaged in a controversy with
one who says he has been taking the Republic
to watch us closely.
Our reason lor being so certein was, that Mr
Clay, whose report was lying bafore us, used this
language. It is found in his report to the Sen
ate May Bth, 1850.
“Art. 7. Abstaining from abolishing slavery;
but under a heavy penalty, prohibiting the
slave trade in the District of Columbia.” The
words heavy penalty led us to suppose that it was
a pecuniary fine.
“ Doctor” (juotes from us as follows:
“We stated that, while we di tiered widely
with them (Messrs. Toombs and Stephens) about
the existence of the Mexican law, that we did
not hold their opinion to be inconsistent with due
fidelity to the South, if they would see to it that
the law or impediment was removed. Many of
our readers will remember that we had a con
troversy with one Democratic paper on this very
subject of our defence of Messrs. Toombs and
Stephens. But they went back to Congress and
nuidc no effort to have the Mexican law repealed .”
He says the concluding sentence contains a
falsehood, and goes on to show that in 1850, Mr.
Toombs did try to get the Mexican law repeal
ed. This vile creature, who has watched us so
closely, knows that we were referring to the ses
sion of 1948-9. We defended Messrs. Toombs
and Stephens in the fall of 1848. upon the ground
of their declarations every where, that the Mexi
can laws should be repealed. They went back
to Congress after they were elected, and Tay
lor was elected, and during the whole, session
made no effort to have those laws repealed.—
“Doctoi” knows,’and every body else knows,
who has read the Republic at all, that we eulo
gized Mr. Toombs in 1850 for his efforts in fa
vor of the South. We have repeated in our pa
per, twenty time within the last twelve months
that Mr. Toombs tried to get the Mexican laws
repealed in 1850.
So much for the charge of falsehood on this
head. “ Doctor” says in reference to our state
ment, (which was true,) “My opinionis, the pil
lory would be merciful for so black a crime
“ I believe I have read every editorial (at
least the leading ones) you ever wrote, and I
have paid two dollars in advance annually for
the privilege. You need not count therefore on
escaping my vigilance, and I warn you to keep
strictly in the narrow path of truth, however in
convenient such a restraint may prove.”
Now is he not a convicted slanderer foi attack
ing us as he has, when he has read our editorials
and knows that the statement which we make is true.
And now as to the Clive parallel, he says:
“ I promised to show there was something dos
ser than a parallel between Lord Clive and
yourself. Last fall you published in your paper
something substantially as follows:”
“ If the people of Georgia understood this slave
ry question as well as I do, they would not stay
in the Union five in ; nutes.”
This, he says, we falsely attributed to one of
Mr. Toombs’ speeches. Again he refers to an ex
tract published from one of Mr. Tooombs’ speech
es about California, which was attributed to one
speech when it was uttered in another.
Now this close reader of the Republic, who has
read all of our editorial S? knows that we publicly
declared through the columns of the Republic ,
that these errors found their way into it during
our absence. He knows, also, that we corrected
them as soon as we had the opportunity. When
pointed out at Lexington by Mesrrs. Stephens
and Toombs we were not aware, that they had
ever appeared in our paper and so stated to the
assembled citizens.
We have thus shown that “Doctor” had no
just grounds upon which to attack us with a
venom, as poisonous as that distilled from the
tooth of the adder. He has shown himself to be
a calumniator of the worst character. There is
nothing fair, honorable, or high-souled in his as
sault from beginning to end. A wreath of Hel
lebore and Hemlock would be a suitable garland
for his malignant brows. He has woven it for
himself. Let him wear it. We quote for him
his own language. He cannot fail to feel the
application. “lam a slanderer and let me wear
the brand.' 7
Having said thus much in reference to our po
sition which have been assailed, we shall say a
word or two, upon another branch of the contro
versy. “ Doctor” says:
“One word more before I enter into the case
against you. You say in your reply, speaking
of myseif, “let him show his face or acknowledge
his name if he dare.” Now sir, you must have
felt mean when you wrote this. Your talents
and your energy, though in a bad cause, would
win at least that respect which ability always
commands, if such braggart airs did not make
you contemptible. You woidd have your readers
believe you are attacked by some secret foe
whose name you could not ascertain, and upon
whom you would wreak some terrible vengeance,
could you but find it out. You know very well
you can get my name whenever you please,
upon complying with the usual conditions. These
conditions are simple and easy, and it would not
consume five minutes of your precious time to
gratify your wish if you want to know who I
am. You tell me “Rwarc.” Beware of what?
It you know anything, tell it—if you dare to do
anything, do it. lam responsible for everything
I have said or shall say, in any manner it shall
suit you to hold me responsible.
When we said “ let him show his face, or ac
knowledge his name if he dare,” we did so to
tell him as we did, that the exposure of his face
or name would get him a title which would
“ damn him to everlasting fame.”
We considered him to b%rome vulgar minded
wretch, and noticed his article only, to prevent
some injury to the Southern Rights cause intend
ed to be inflicted through ourself. We shall
make no application for his name. We could
not receive it from the editor of the Chronicle
without first pledging our word that we demand
ed it for the purpose of holding the of
“ Doctor' 7 to a personal account. He might, and
probably would prove to be a blackguard. In
our article of the 19th of July, we applied to
him the epithet of “ crawling miscreant.” and
charged him with “falsehood,” and “ detraction.’ 1
He has remained concealed under those epithets.
We are known, and if any gentleman will
avow himself the author of “ Doctor,” and de
mand satisfaction of us, we are ready to afford it.
Views of Southern Consolidationists on State
Ooercion.
As that suppressed letter of Mr. Cobb has not
yet emerged to the light, and probably never
will, wc are left to derive, from other sources, the
opinions he entertains as to the course he would
sustain the Federal Government in, towards a
seceding State, after it had been conquered. The
first step would be to conquer her. That is a
part of the programme upon which the leaders
of the Georgia Consolidationists seem to be
agreed. Even Mr. Toombs, who was once a
State Rights man, afid a bit of a Nullifier, says
that the end of secession is the rope. The rope is
to be introduced, to wind up tfie show by hang
ing all the prisoners that Fillmore, Webster &
Co.’s cannon and bayonets have spared.
Having, by this process, thoroughly subjugated
the seceding State, the next question is, how is
she to be governed? We should like to hear
Mr. Cobb’s views on that point. The suppressed
letter may have contained them. But the pru
dential committee who took charge of it at the
Toombs convention, have fobbed it, and we are
excluded from that source of information.
As there is an intimate sympathy among Con
solidationists every where, from Daniel Webster
down to Henry S. Foote, we may conjecture
what the plan would be from the notion enter
tained and openly avowed by a leading Missis
sippi Consolidation ist.
One of the most distinguished and able of that
party—Gen. John D. Freeman—a Constitution
al Union candidate for Congress in that State,
thus expressed his views of the case :
“ A declaration of Independence and Secession
of Mississippi, will not repeal the constitution
and laws of the United States. The President,
having no option, will be compelled to enforce
them both; and unless we make forcible and
successful-resistance, we shall be in the Union,
but not of it. Having abandoned our position as
a State , and. withdrawn our representation from
Congress , we shall be reduced to a territory atul
governed as such.”
Now there is not much danger of Mississippi
seceding. Georgia has resolved that she will
not; and the only State where the purpose of
secession is now seriously contemplated, is South
Carolina.
According to the above, in case she secedes,
she will be reduced to a territory and governed as
such.
Fine times then there will be for the Consoli- 1
dation Unionists. All the best and ablest citi
zens ol South Carolina will have been shot, bayo
netted and hanged, and those who are left would
scorn to accept olhce at thehaiula ofan
» - r-mmorn could not get a native
South Carolinian who would digrace himself by
accepting office from his blood-stained hands.
What next would be done. He would have to
send Governors, Marshals, Judges and other civil
officers from other States.
It might prove a harvest for disappointed of
fice-seekers in Georgia among the Unionists.
There are a good many more of them hungry for
office than can be gratified. Perhaps even Mr.
Cobb, should he be disappointed in being made
Governor, and thus not have the privilege of send
ing Georgia troops to the conquest, might at least
come in for some of the spoils at the hands of his
new friends, Fillmore and Webster. He might
become Governor of the territory of South Caro
lina. His darling aspiration for Gubernatorial
honors might then be gratified at last. Lest his
subjects should prove refractory, a few regiments
of United States soldiers would be quartered in
the State, and, if necessary, a life guard placed
around his sacred person. Then there are the oth
er offices, civil and military, to be filled by his
Constitutional Union friends. What a nice time
they would have, and how jovially they could
laugh at the verdant enthusiasm of their young
days, when they believed the States had rights,
and that State sovereignty was something too
sacred for the jest, and scorn, and contempt of
Federalists and Free Soilers.
[communicated.]
Mr. Gardner—
Dear Sir: —As I have within the last three
weeks been through a number of counties in
upper and middle Georgia, I cannot refrain from
giving expression to the cheering prospects every
where of Governor McDonald's success in Octo
ber next. I have not been in a single county
where he is not gaining ground—all that is ne
cessary, is that the people should know the true
issues and he must succeed. I know that but
little reliance is usually placed upon newspaper
communications, but I know also, that I have
neither desire nor interest, to mislead, or speak
ought but truth—and the above I know to be
true.
You have been truly fortunate in your choice
of a candidate for Congress in your district. I
had frequently heard of Mr. McMillan, but never
saw him until Friday last. I stoped at a dis
cussion and Barbacue at Elbert Camp Ground,
and was amply compensated for the delay ; the
speakers were, Mr. Miller of your city, Mr.
Toombs and Mr. Stephens on the Union side—
Mr. McMillan and Judge Dougherty, on the
Southern Rights side. Mr. Miller opened the
discussion, then followed Judge Dougherty, Mr
Toombs, Mr. McMillan and Mr. Stephens, in
the order in which l have name them. There
was a large audience and very attentive. The
speeches were all able, but I must say, that
though from what I had heard of McMillan, I
expected an able effort, I was carried away by
the force and power of his arguments, and his
manner of enforcing them.
There is a degree of frank independent earn
estness about him, and a vigor of thought and
expression, which impresses his views upon the
minds of his hearers. It was evident to every
unprejudiced mind present, that the whole crowd
was enchained by him at times, and he frequent
ly drew from those evidently opposed to him,
bursts of applause. His reply to Mr. Toombs
concerning the Compromise measures, was the
most triumphant, clear and convincing argument
upon these questions I have ever heard. His
friends should not suffer him to be a day out of
the field, such a man is a host in tim*r like these.
Those who were present at the above meeting
may act upon their prejudices and vote against
their better judgement for Cobb and Toombs,
but I cannot believe it possible that the old
States Rights men of Georgia will, at the bid
ding of Messrs. Toombs and Stephens, join them
in the consolidation with Mr. Cobb, and thus
renounce every principle which they once held
dear, and give in their adherance to his Fe
deral Consolidation doctrines. I cannot, I will
not believe it.
Yours, &c., CHEROKEE.
Extract from a letter, dated
Athens, July 29th, 1851.
As I see, by the papers, the fine prospects of
the crops highly spoken of throughout the South.
I drop you a line to dissent from such an account.
But a few days since I returned from a trip
through the middle counties of Georgia, and I can
say with truth that I have not, in the course of 30
years, seen such poor prospects for a crop as I
have this season. Many fields of corn which
came under my observation, will not yield a
bushel to the acre, and the cotton will not aver
age one foot in height. As this is the last of
July, how can it be possible for it to make an
average yield ?
My own opinion is, that if middle Georgia
makes five eighths of an average crop of cotton,
the season must be more propitious for the fu
ture than it has been for the past; and as for
corn, it will be very short. And if corn is short,
what do you suppose will be the heighth of the
Cobb about the first Monday in October? It
will be Shorter.
Through my travels, in every crowd, cross
roads, rail roads, and every other sort of road or
place where I went, a large majority were in fa
vor of McDonald—except in your hot and dusty
city of Augusta.
American Shawl Manufacture. The Bay
State Mills have recently sold 100 cases, number
ing nearly or quite f>,ooo shawls, for the Canada
market, to a regular dealer there, who can afford
to pay a duty of 12 per cent, and sell his goods
alongside of British productions at a profit!
The production of shawls from some of the
principal mills the current year will be as fol
lows: James Roy & Co., nearly all long shawls
of beautiful designs, 30,000; Bay State Mills, the
great pioneers in this work, 385,000; Waterloo
Company, 32,000; Empire State Mills, 30,000;
Peacedale Mill, Duncan & Cunningham, undone
or two smaller makers, say 25,000; making a to
tal of 192,000, or nearly half a million of the me
dium and better class of goods, produced in this
country in a single year !
High Rates of Premium. —At a meeting of the
Savannah Mutual Loan Association held last
evening, at the Exchange, four thousand dollars
were loaned at rates ranging from 15 to 17 3 per
cent, premium. The two Loan Associations re
cently organized in this city have done a profita
ble business—funds selling at extremely high
rates since their commencement, and we believe
a third Assoctation could be readily got up if the
subject was agitated.— Savannah Journal, fith
inst.
Price of Lwtul .. —lVtov#» tSon >**»<, - r — TottF
has just been paid tor a lot, .70 fee t by 52. on the
c• «,..« utraii, in otewiork,
by the Seamens’ Saving Bak. The entire cost
of the lot is s>Bo,ooo. This, together with the
bulding to be erected upon it, and the value of
present bank adjoining, will amount to about
SIIO,OOO.
Revenue of the Post Office Department.
—The National Intelligencer says that the ac
counts for the quarter ending March 31,1851,
which have just been settled at the Post Office
Department, show that the nett receipts of post
age during that quarter amount to $1,723,828 13
For to the coiresponding quarter of
1850 the amount was 1,102,102 04
Showing an increase of $201,702 79
or about 173 per cent.
Should the receipts of the last quarter of the
fiscal year (the accounts lor which will not be
fully settled until October) show a similar in
crease, the revenue account for the year will ex
hibit the gratifying increase of eighteen per cent
nearly.
Sims the Fugitive. —We state for the informa
tion of these editors who have reported Sims to be
in Cuba, and various other parts unkuown. that
since his arrival from Boston, he has been in ex
cellent keeping in the Savannah Jail, and that
he will leave in the cars this evening for Augusta
Ga., in charge of Mr. Officer Holland, who will
deliver him up to Messrs. Poullain Ik Son of tha
city, where he will be employed as a mechanic,
and much better cared for than the suffering
fugitives in Canada.— lb.
A German Astrologer is said to have ascer
tained that in twenty-two millions of years this
earth will he destroyed by a comet! Who cares '
MARRIED,
At Alta Vista, Albemarlo county, Yd., on tho
15th ult., by the Rov. C. E. Ambler, Dr. S. E.
Hahkrsha.ni, of South Carolina, to Lucy E„
youngest daughter of Richard Pollard, Esq., de
ceased.
OBITUARY.
Died, In this city, on Thursday morning, tha
7th inst., after a painful illness, JULIA 80P11RO
-2n’lA, eldest daughter of Samuel M. and Julia I>.
Thompson, aged eleven years and eleven months.
“ Tho Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away—bless
ed bo the name of the Lord. - ’
The Relatives, Friends and Acquaintance
of tha family, are invited to attend her Funeral
THIS morning, at 9 o’clook, from tl-,o corner of
Greene and Wushington streets.
My mother is dead ! It i* a sad reality ! It is a
melancholy record to make—tho death oi'one s mo
ther, when that mother was a mother in ovory ac
ceptation of that term. Her death brings to mv
recollection all of my earliest days, and impresses
the solemn truth upon my mind, that hut few had
such a mother.
Mary Sthreshly White, departed this life at
the house of her son, Thomas S. White, in Coweta
county, on tho morning of the 12th of July, in the
7Jrd year of her ago, after laboring under severe
indisposition for many years. She became a mom
her of tho Baptist Church, at Vann’s Creek in
1831. Sho was horn in Hanover, Virginia, on the
30th April, 1779, and soon after her intermarriage
with llonry White, which took place in 1805, they
emigrated to Elbert county. Sho was descended
from one of the oldest and most rcspoctnblo faini
lies in Virginia. Her maiden name was Starke, a
name familiar to almost overy person with whom
you meet from her native State. Her husband
died in 1842, and sho concluded to live among her
children, there being no young ones, and the mel
ancholy announcement is made from the house of
her son. Her character as a lady, wifo, mother and
friend, needs no eulogy. Sho left fivechildron, two
sons, and threo daughters, and reared thorn in all
tho paths of truth and virtuo, and should they ever
depart from those paths, they will be but exceptions
to the teachings of the wise man. Her worth tu
her family was inestimable; her example to her
children will over bo their beacon light to direct
their way through tho difficulties and trials of life.
She is gono from all tho ills of life. She is gono
from sickness and sorrow and pain of which she
suffered much and long, to reap tho reward of all
hor toils in tho abode of tho blessed. Farewell
dear mother, thy loving kindness, thy maternal
care and thy honored namo will live in perpetual
vorduro in the memory of thy children.
KT* Chroniolo & Sentinel will please copy.