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Contracts made by the year, or for a leas period, on reasonable terms. * LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS Sheriff's Levies, 30 days, $2 50 per levy ; 60 days, $5. Executor s. Administrator’s and Guardian’s Sales, Real Estate, (per square, 12 Hues) $4 76 Do do. Personal Estate 3 25 Citation for Letters of Administration 2 75 Do. do. Dismission 4 60 Notiee to Debtor- and Creditors 3 26 Four Months' Notices 4 00 Rules Nisi, (monthly) $1 per square, each insertion. tSy- ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, IRI AT oca BISK. [From the Savannah, Newt 24 M intt. | Cuban Matting, Pursuant to the adjournment on Thursday even ing, the friends of Cuba assembled in the Mon ument Square, last evening, at 8 o’clock. Mr. Cohen being indisposed, Judge Harden was call ed to the Chair. Dr. Arnold read the preamble and resolutions prepared by the Committee often, as follows: Whereas information has been received that the people of Cuba are engaged in an actual strug gle lor Liberty, against the oppressions of the Government of Spain, and that a revolution is now begun which promises success at no distant day, if success has not alrt :(y crowned the efforts of the Cubans to be free: And whereas it is highly becoming in the People of these United ' States to symathize with the people of all na tions, and to offer to them the expression of such sympathy in their attempts tothrow off the gall ing yoke of Tyranny, which has for ages bowed them in almost hopeless servitude: And where as the cheering news has just reached our shores that such succe. s liaas already followed the ris ,ng of the people of Cuba, as to leave but little reason todoubt that the day of their deliverance is at hand : Be it therefore Resolved, That we hail, with sin cere joy, the intelligence which is wafted to us on every breeze, and conveyed to us by every ar rival from Cuba, that the Island is in a state of revolution under the lead of General Narciaeo Lopez, which promises to he successful, if indeed Cuba is not already free. 2. Resolved , That we have no sympathy with any men’or class of men, who, from any cause, are the enemies of Cuban Liberty —that while we respect the rights and Qbligations of treaty stipulations, we cun see no reason why the op pressed subjects of old Spaif should not, without molestation from this or » any other country, achieve for themselves the liberty which we wrought out for ourselves in the war of Indepen dence. 3. Resolved, That as American citizens, proud pi our own independence, and zealous of the rights of all men to throw off the oppression of tyrannical tomis of government, destructive alike of the interest and the happiness of the people, we sincerely hope the just principle of non-inter lerence will be recognised and steadily pursued by the Administration at Washington, in the present contest in Cuba; and that any other prin ciple, any other policy, by whatever name it may be called, would be unjustifiable and inconsistent with the same principle, which, by the aid of our own strong arms and stout hearts, gained for us our independence mid liberty. 4. Retained, Th tin the opinion of this meet ing, the Island ot Cuba being in a state of actual revolution, it is the right of every American citi zen, without incurring the reproach of his con science or thejopposition of his government, to af ford all needful aid und encouragment to our Cu ban brethren, and that any attempt on the part of this government to restrain this just right of the'eitizen, is contrary to the spirit and genius of Republicanism, and at war with the first princi ples of Liberty. 5. Retailed, That any deviation on the part of the Spanish Government from the rules of civiliz ed war. whether by putting arms into the hands of the slaves, to be used against their masters, or otherwise, would not only justify, but demand the immediate interposition of the Government of the U. States. (1. Resolved , That in General Narcisso Lopez we recognize a true Patriot, who in the cause of Liberty has sacrificed a brilliant position, politi cal and military, in the service of Spain, and a large private fortune, and that whatever success may attend his present efforts, he deserves the admiration and respect of every true Republi can. 7. Resolved, That a committee of twenty-live be appointed by the chair, whose duty it shall be to solicit subscriptions in aid of the Cuban Pat riots. The Chairman put the resolutions to the meet ing, and they were passed with unanimous and enthusiastic acclamations. The following gen tlemen then addressed the assembled crowd: Mr. Segur, of New Orleans; Mr. Thompson, of New York; Mr. C. P. Cooper, of Florida; Col. R. B. Hilton: John Bilbo, and H. E. Cassidy, Esqrs Their addresses met with the most hearty res ponse. After a protracted stay in the square, the meeting reluctantly adjourned. The following Committee are appointed under the last resolution: Solomon Cohen, Esq., Capt. J. W. Anderson, Dr. K. D. Arnold, John Lama, Thomas H. Harden, R. B. Hilton, W. T. Thomp son, John Bilbo, J. F. O'Byrne, Thos. Purse, Thos. Holcombe, F. A. Tupper, Wm. Humph reys, Jr., John Boston, O. A. Wood, George L. Cop, Jr. J.E. Gaudry, A. B Luce, Octavus Cohen, E. S. Kempton, Joseph D. Stebbins, Capt. J. H. Steigin, W. M. Davidson, T. M. Rosis, J. B. Cubbedge. EDWARD J. HARDEN, Chairman. J. T. Mitchell, 1 c J. T Webb, \ Secretaries. More of the Crops. The following is trom the Eutaw (Ark.) De mocrat of the 13th inst. We are informed by a gentleman just arrived from the neighboring farms, that the cotton crop, instead of being benefited by the recent rain, has been seriously injured. It has taken the rust, is shedding its leaves and bolls very rapidly, and it is doubtful if more than three hundred pounds will be made to the acre. In many places the corn crop is very light, and not enough will be made for subsistence. The St. Landry (La.) Whig of the 16th inst. says that the weather continues very sultry and dry in that parish, and the cane crops are suffer ing very much for wantof rain. Com is beyond redemption. Cotton is small. The Pointe Coupee Echo of the 16th inst says: The dry weather which we have this week must be favorable for picking cotton: we under stand that it opens rapidly, and very soon our cotton planters will be actively occupied in har vesting their crop, which, we hope, will prove a good one. The Farmersville (Union parish) Enquirer says: Since our last there have been copious rains in this and Jackson parishes; but they come too late to be of great benefit. The com crop is irretrie vably spoiled, and the cotton is not much aided by so late a rain. Boston, Aug. 21. Gpvebnok of Massachusetts. —The Demo- cratic State Convention ha* nominated Governor BoutwelLthe coalitionist, for Governor and ap pointed Thomas Davis and H. H. Childs as del egate* to the National Convention. —Resolutions to support the Compromise were passed, after a desperate opposition from the free-soil members. AUGUSTA, GA. Tuesday morning, august 26. For Governor. CHARLES J. MCDONALD. For Congress—Eighth District, ROBERT McMILLAN, of Elbert. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE. * Appointments of OoL McMillan. Col. McMillan will address his fellow-citizens At Augusta, Tuesday, Sept. 2nd. At Judge Neal’s Mills, Warren co., Thursday, Sept. 4th. Mr. Stephens. We have shown that Mr. Toombs has calru lated the value of the Union. We now proceed to show that Mr. Stephens has done the same thing. From Mr, Stephens’s speech of the 7th of Au gust, 1848, on the Clayton Compromise bill.— Alluding to what he called a false security offer ed by that bill he said: “ And this is the security for the South which I had the temerity to reject. Would that the peo ple of that section may ever have men on this floor of such temerity ! I did reject it, and 1 shall continue to reject all such favors. If I get no better compromise, I shall certainly never take any at all. As long as I have a seat here, I shall maintain the just and equal rights of my section upon this as well as upon all other ques tions. I ask nothing more, and I shall take no thing less. All I demand is common right and common justice; these I will have in clear AND EXPRESS TERMS, OR I WILL HAVE NOTHING. I speak to the North irrespective of parties. I recognize no party association in affiliation upon this subject. If the two parties of the North combine, and make a sectional issue, and by their numerical strength vote down the South, and deny us these equal rights to which I think we are in justice entitled, it will be for the people of the South then to adopt such a course as they may deem proper. Ido not stand here to make any threats in their name, nor have I authority to commit even my own constituents to any course of policy. They must do that for them selves. My commission here extends only to the maintenance of their rights upon all questions and measures that may come before me in this House. And this I shall do at all hazards. Nor shall I be awed or intimidated in the discharge of this duty, by any of the tiembling alarms of the official organ, that lire ‘ Union is in dan ger’ —that, unless AGITATION on this subject is quieted the ‘ free-soil movement’ in the North will sweep every thing before it, and that the government itself will be endangered. Such ap peals may have their effects upon the hearts of the timid. lam myself, not quite so easily terri fied into a surrender of my rights aiu! those of my constituents.' ’ From Mr. Stephens's speech of August the 9th, 1800, on President Fillmore's Texas Mes sage : ' “ I repeat, I am no enemy to the Union—and I am for its preservation, if it can be bone up on PRINCIPLES OF EQUALITY AND JUSTICE.” “We have heard but little from gentlemen from that section, (the North) for eight months past but EULOGIES UPON THE UNION. “ If they expect the South to make all the sa crifices, to yield everything, and to jiermit them to carry out their sectional policy under the cry of 1 our glorious Union” they will liml themselves most sadly mistaken. It is time for mutual con cessions.” “Allegiance and protection are reciprocal; where no protection is extended, no rightful, al legiance can be claimed. And no people, in my judgment, who deserve the name ot freemen, win continue their allegiance to any government which arrays itself, not only against their proper ty, but against their sociul and their civil organi zation. If you geutlemen of the North, then, in tend to engraft upon the policy of this common • government your anti-slavery views, and make its action conform to your sectional purposes, it is useless to say any thing more of compromise, settlement, adjustment or Union.” “ I do not place a low estimate iqioii the value of the Union to the South; but Ido not consider its dissolution, with all the manifold attending evils of such an event in full view before me, as the greatest calamity that could befall us. Far from it. There is iro evil which can befall any people, in my opinion, equal to that of the degra dation which always follows submission to instill, injury, outrage anil aggression.’’ “ Ami whenever this government is brought in hostile array against me and mine, lam for disunion — openly, boldly and fearlessly for revolu tion. I speak plainly. Sir, epithets have no terrors for me. The charge of 1 traitor’ may be whispered in the ears of the timid and craven hearted, it is the last appeal of tyrants.” “ I have told you, sincerely and honestly, that I am for peace and the Union upon any fair and reasonable terms, it is the most cherished senti ment of my heart.” “ But if you deny those terms—if you continue deaf to the voice of that spirit of justice, right and equality, which should always characterize the deliberations of statesmen, I know of no other alternative that will be left the people of the South but. sooner or later, to acquiesce in the ne cessity of holding you, as the rest of mankind, tiumies in war—in peace, friends.” We have shown that Mr. Stephens very liber ally calculated the value ok the Union.— We will now show what he esteemed in part, at least, the cause of Southern discontent. We copy from his speech of the 9th of August, 1850: “ A public domain has been acquired by the common blood and common treasure of all, and the South, who is charged with endeavoring to control the government lor their purpose, ask nothing but that the common territory which is the public property, may be opened to the entry and settlement and equal enjoyment of all the ci tizens of every part of the Republic, with their pro perty of every description ; while it is the North who comes here and detnands that the whole of this common domain shall be set apart exclttsive lyfor themselves, or for themselves and such per sons from the South as will strip themselves of a certain species of their property, and conform their views to the policy of the North. I submit it to every candid man in this House, and to every intelligent and candid man in the world outside the House, if this is not a fair statement of the question.'’’ 1 u If that is the basis you propose, we need say nothing further about argument, or adjustment— upon those terms we cannot settle.'’ u But you men of the North say that we of the South wish to carry our slaves ami chat the free labor of the North cannot submit to the de gradation of being associated with slave labor.’’ We will now show what Mr. Stephens de manded of the North. From his speech of August the 7th, 184 S : “In regard to these territories and rights of the South, I hold that when the stipulations of the late treaty shall be complied with, and the money paid which is provided for in it, they will constitute an acquisition made at the cost and treasure of the whole Union, towards which the South contributed as generously as the North, and in which the South is entitled to a just and equal participation; and that it is the duty of Congress to see to it, that the just and equal rights of my section are GUARDED, PRO TECTED aid SECURED by all necessary le gislation. The right to acquire and to hold ter- ; ritory brings with it the duty to govern it. The Supreme Court has so decided, and in governing, I it is the outt of Congress to act justly and fair ly towards the rights and interests all who are entitled to an equal shake in the common do main. This, sir, is MY POSITION and upon it I shall STAND or FALL.” ‘•Now, sir, I do not believe in compromises or settlements that are not fully and dearly and dis tinctly understood on BOTH SIDES at the TIME,” “.As long as I have a seat here, I shall main tain the just and equal rights of my section upon this as upon all other questions. I ask nothing more and shall take noihtng less. All I demand is, common right and common justtce; these I will have in clear and express terms, or I will have nothing. I speak to the North irrespective of parties. I recognize no party association in af filation upon this subject.” From his speech of August the 9th, IS.iO. “I am for conciliation if it can be accomplish ed upon any reasonable and just principle. I am also for making a dean breast of it. lam for no partial arrangement. If we aim at peace, let us have no temporary truce, but pennanent quiet and repose. This in my opinion can onljr be done by a settlement of all the questions ing out of these territorial acquisitions upo(|F lib eral and proper terms. What are such terms? This is the practical point for us to consider.” f “The people of the South have as much right to occupy, enjoy and colonize these territories with theirprojrerty, as the people of the north have with theirs. This is the basis upon which I stand and the principles upon which it rests are as immutable as right and justice. They are the principles of natural law founded in natural jus tice, as recognized by the ablest publicists who have written upon the laws of nations and the rights pertaining to conquests. These acquisi tions belong to the whole people of the United States, as conquerors. They hold them under the Constitution, and the General Government as common property in a corporate capacity. “Under our constitution, the power of making regulations for the enjoyment of the common domain, devolves upon Congress, the common agent of all the parties interested m it. And so far from this common agent having any right to exclude a portion of the people, or “to make tinctions to their disadvantage” it is the duty of congress to open the country by ,the removal of all obstructions, whether they be existing laws or any thing else and to give equal protection to all who may avail themselves of the right to use it.” “Now sir. all that ice ask, or all thatj I ask. is for Congress to ojien the entire country and give an equal right to all the citizens of all the States to ENTER and. colonize it with their projterty of every kind, or to make an equitable divisimi of it. Is this wrong'” ‘‘Well then we say, as the patriarch of old said to his friend and kinsman, when disputes arose between the henlmen of their rattle: Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herd men, for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee, separate thyself. I pray thee from me. If thou wilt take the left hand, then will I goto the right; or if thou wilt depart to the right hand ,then, I will go to the left”j “In other words, we say, if you cannot agree to enjoy this public domain, let us divide it. Yon take a share, and let us take a share. And I again submit to an intelligent and canlitl world if the proposition is not fair and just? And w hether its rejertion does not amount to a dear expression of your fixed determination to exclude us entirely from any participation in this /mblie do main: Now, has Mr. Stephens got the equal participa tion which he so strongly and so constantly de manded ? Was it not REJECTED ? and yet Mr. Stephens cannot now see iu it the “ fixkd determination ” of the North to exclude vs ENTIRELY FROM ANY PARTICIPATION IN THIS public domain! Here is the proof of its RE JECTION. The following is a part of the de bate in the House of Representatives: “Mr. Seildon, of Va., moved the following amendment, to come in immediately after the provision that the Territories when formed into States, should he admitted with or without slavery, as the people should in their contitutions declare: ‘“And that prior to the formation of State con stitutions, there shall he no prohibition by rea son of any law or usage existing in said territory, or by the action of the terriWWal legislature, of the emigration of all citizens of the United States, with any kind of property, recognized as such in any of the States of the Union? ” This proposition, to open the territories to the South, was rejected by an overwhelming vote. It met with no favor on the part of the North. Mr. Stephens has admitted, as Mr. Toombs has also done, that Congress refused to repeal the Mexican laws, (which they say exclude us with our slaves,) —that they were not repealed by the measures of settlement over which the South is now called uixm to rejoice by some of our presses and politicians. • As the stars fade, when the sun rises in the East, so do the ingenious sophistries of those who insist that the South has obtained her rights, or an honorable settlement of this question, pale before the light of truth. When men resolve on death or justice by profession, and tamely submit when the latter is WITHHELD, they are not proper leaders for freemen who have rights in jeopardy and honor at peril. Let the people then take the protection of both into THEIR OWN HANDS. It will be seen that Mr. Stephens declared that he was not to be "awed or intimidated" by “ trembling alarms " that the “ Union is in dan ger"—that “the Government will be endanger ed'' He then stated, in his place, as a matter of reproach to the members from the North, that for i eight months they had done but little more than pronounce “eulogies upon the Union"! Mr. Stephens said that “ it is the duty of Con gress to see to it, that the just and equal rights of my section are GUARDED, PROTECTED and SECURED, by all necessary legislation.” “ This, sir, is MY POSITION, and upon it I shall STAND or FALL.” He said, “ I ask nothing more , and shall take nothitig less" “ Now, sir, all that we ask, or all that I ask , is for Congress to open the entire country, and give an equal right to all the citizens of all the States to ENIER, SETTLE and colonize it with their property of every kind , or to make an eqtiitable division of it. Is this wrong ?” Again Mr. S. said, “In other words, tee say if you cannot agree to enjoy this public domain, let us divide it. You take a share, and let us take a share. And I again submit to an intelligent and candid world, if the proposition is not fair and just ? and whether its rejection does not amount to a clear expression of your fixed determination to exclude us entirely from any participation in this public domain l'' Now mark, Mr. Stephens says, a refusal to grant us an equal participation in the territory , or to agree to an equitable division of it, will amount to a clear expression of a fixed determination to EXCLUDE us. The North has refused to divide it, and we will demonstrate that, in his opinion, we have been denied, also, an equal participation in it. It will be remembered that Mr. Stephens, aid- ed by a few others, defeated the Clayton Com promise bill. Upon what ground, then, did Mr. Stephens rest his justification for defeating that bill ? He said: “ It is my object, at this time, to speak upon that measure which some gentlemen are pleased to call the ‘ Compromise bill,’ but which might be more properly entitled, articles of capitulation on the part of the South. So far from being a compromise, the bill proposed nothing short of an abandonment of the position of the South, and a surrender of the just rights of her people to an equal participation in the new acquisition of territory. The surrender was covert, but it was no less complete and absolute .” Why, then, in the opinion of Mr. Stephens, would that bill have proven to have been a capitulation on the part of the South; a surrender of the rightsofher people , See. ?’ He tells us, him self, as follows: “Never was any measure more grossly mis named or miscalled. It was no compromise, in any sense of the word. A compromise is a mu tual yielding of rights, for the purpose of adjust ing and settling difficulties and differences. But, in this case, there was no such mutual conces sion. The whole question was to be left, in the last resort, to the Supreme Court of the United States, upon whose decision the party was to get all or lose all. And entertaining not the slightest doubt that, under it, the South was to lose all, I adopted the speediest and most effec tual means of defeating it.” Again he said: “It [the Clayton bill] merely prohibits the territorial government from passing any law upon the subject; and leaves the Southern man, who may be inclined to go there with his slaves, to contest his rights to the best of his abilities, with the courts of the territory in the first in stance, and then, if he chooses, with the Supreme Court of the Union.” Again Mr. Stephens said: “ This Compromise bill, sir, did, in my opinion, endanger and surrender the then rights of the South by 4 a continuance of the municipal laws of Mexico,’ which were of force at the time of the conquest, and by which slavery was abolish ed there.” Again he said: “Then, sir, what are we of the South to gain by this compromise? Nothing but what we would have, even with the Wilmot Proviso— the poor privilege of carrying our slaves into a country where the first thing to be encountered is the certain prospect of an expensive lawsuit. which may coat more than any slave is worth, and, in my opinion, with the absoltUe certainty of tdtimate defeat m the end, and with no law in the meantime to protect our rights of property in any way whatever.” Now let every man remember, that Mr. Ste phens himself admits that the Mexican laws have not been repealed, and also that the bills establish ing territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico, leave the decision of the right to hold slaves, within their limits, first to the territorial courts, and finally to the Supreme Court. What, then, becomes of Mr. Stephens’s lofty demands, grandiloquent words, and sublime de votion to the rights of the South ? He reminds us of the dandy at the theatre, into whose hat some one had poured a quantity of lamp oil, which streamed over his clothes and down his shirt collar, when he put the hat upon his sweet ly scented head. The dandy proffered to give a hundred dollars for information of the one who put the oil in hia hat. A large and ferocious looking fellow stepped up and said, “Sir, I did it.” “ Well, sir,” said the dandy, “if you did it, you are a” “Mind what you say, sir,” said the club-fisted perpetiator of the deed, and he accompanied his warning with an exhibition of the aforesaid instrument of battle. “ Well, sir, l say, sir—if you, sir—put, sir, that oil in my hat, sir,” “Well, sir, and what then?” “Why then, sir, (said the dandy,) let’s go and take a drink.” We leave it to a “candid world'' to say if that is not the condition of the Hon. Mr. Ste phens, who now proclaims that the loss of an equal participation of the territory—of any share of it, and the failure to get an exemption from the vexations of a lawsuit, constitute a fair, liber al and honorable settlement, for the South, of her slavery and territorial difficulty with the North ? Come, Giddings, Hale, Fillmore, let's go and take a drink! No mail last evening from offices North of Charleston. This is a disappointment to us, and no doubt will be to our readers, as the arrival of the Cherokee at New York, with later advices from Havana, was due and partially received at Baltimore at our latest dates. Storm and Bain. We were visited on Saturday night last with a heavy blow from the South-east. The storm commenced about eleven o'clock, on Saturday, and, with but little intermission, continued till nearly the same hour on Sunday night, blowing most of the time from the South-east. The fall of rain, was very heavy, and was driven with great violence. (luring most of the time by the high wind. We are pleased to learn, so far, that the damage has not been very great. The river is high, the water at sundown oa last evening was about four feet above the edge of the lower wharves, and slowly rising. It will be seen from our paper that there have been heavy rains in the interior of South Carolina and Georgia along the line of the river. There is a prospect of a good boating rivei for two or three weeks. The Telegraph. We learn that the Telegraph is out of order South and West of this city, and North of Co lumbia. No despatches from any quarter came to hand last evening. See how he was Nicked. There were but THREE Whigs in Congress from ALL the Northern States who voted for the Fu gitive Slave law. One of them was Mr. Mc- Gaughey, who represented the 7th Congressional District of Indiana. He was defeated by Jno. G. Davis, a FREE SOIL DEMOCRAT. Thus have his constituents heaped approbatory honors ! upon Mr. McGaughey. He had the audacity to vote with the South, on the Fugitive Slave ques tion, and the Moloch of anti-slavery fanaticism has crushed him for it. It is surprising that our opponents dont fall right down, and kick with fits of joy, at the signs in the North of a returning sense of justice ! Three Whigs only, voted with the South, and one of them has already been pitched head foremost into the anti-slavery lake of fire and brimstane! This same spirit that has sacrificed him, will, after a while, wake up some of our people from their dream of voluptuous se curity and ease. The N. O. Delta of the 20th inst. says—Some of the Conchaites are getting very noisy, threat ening, and bellicose on our streets. We would counsel them to be a little more prudent. Their journals may, with impunity, try to insult and provoke our citizens, but when individuals pro ceed to the extent, we have heard, of some of them, we would warn them to beware and use a little more prudence. Safety of theJfPampero. The Savannah Georgian of the 24th inst, says: “By the arrival of the St. Mathews from Flori da, we are rejoiced to learn of the safety of the Pampero, and a number of the particulars of the expedition of Gen. Lopez, trom the time of his departure from New Orleans, to his landing at Bahia Honda. The Pampero having left New Orleans, pro ceeded to Key West. Near there she remained for several days,’for the purpose of evading the vigilance of the Spanish ships.—lTrving learned from the Key West wreckers, that the inhabi tants of the district of Vuelta Abajo, (nearly op posite Key West) were up in arms, Gen. Lopez determined to avail himself of this information, and make his landing among them.—Steering for Bahia Honda, his purpose was to land at a small port called Morillo. When about eighteen leagues from Havana, the machinery of the Pam pero got out of order, the consequence of which was that she floated for two hours along the cur rent of the Gulf Stream, approaching all the while towards that city. Before the accident was repaired, she was car ried full in view of the Moro Castle, and even in sight of the soldiers on the Water Battery. Get ting up steam again, she bore away for Bahia Honda—intercepting on the way a coasting ves sel, from which Gen. Lopez obtained two pilots The Pampero approached within fifty yards of the Coast, when a landing was made without difficulty. Lopez and his comrades were received by the inhabitants (who congregated in great numbers) with open arms, and indeed with every demon stration of favor. The planters brought forth fruits and provisions of all kinds; and soon a large part of Lopez’s force were mounted on horses, the voluntary offerings of the people. The Pampero having remained all night, left for Key West the next morning, nearly destitute of coal. Her want of fuel accounts for her not having been earlier heard from. She is now in a position of safety. We will only add. that we have these particu lars trom one who was on board the vessel from the time of her departure from New Orleans. The recent Riot in New Orleans, &c.— ln addition to wliat we published on Saturday in relation to the recent riot at New Orleans, we learn from dispatches in the Savannah Republi can of Saturday, that the Spanish Consul at New Orleans lias been compelled to surrender to the committee who caller! upon him, the names of the fifty-one Americans, who, in one of the en gagements, while making a flank movement in boats, were captured, taken to Havana, and executed. Several letters from some of the de ceased wore likewise given up by the Consul at the same time. At first he hail refused to do so. One of the Republican's despatches states that among the captured were “ Crittenden, James Kerr, and Boyce, and almost all the artillery.”— > It is also stated that five hundred Creoles had i left Havana to join Lopez, and that the Creoles 1 were flocking to his standard from all directions. 1 Charleston Courier, 25 th inst. < (communicated.) 1 We are requested to announce that the follow -1 ing list of Delegates were appointed at a meet ing of the Southern Rights party, held in Sparta, on Wednesday, the 20th instant, to meet the De legates of the same party from the county of ; Baldwin, at Carr's Mill, on Town Creek, on Sa turday the 30th instant, to nominate a candidate for the Senate, in the 24th District. They are authorized to nominate a candidate for the re presentative branch of the Legislature, for Hau cock county, if they think proper to do so, and to nominate candidates for the various coun ty offices. It is expected that all who see this notice, will attend at the time and place desig nated. The Delegates in attendance will con sider themselves lully authorized to fill vacancies. Members of the party generally are invited to attend. The Delegates are Messrs. Fayette In gram, Wm. B. Hunt, Wm. E. Bird, John Dewitt, J. B. Johnson. Henry A. Hunt, Marcellus Sim | mons. B. A. Jones, Alpheus Dickinson, Joseph Lilly, John Wilcoxen, Gideon Holsey, James Rudisill, Josiah Carr, John N. Bledsoe, John W. Allen, Henry L. Burt, Judkins Hunt, John Bon* ; ner, Robt. H. Mapp, Jr., Peter Scott, John La | timer, Jr.,* John Laughlin, Thomas J. Dickson, Wm. Rachel, Wiley Arnold, Obadiah Arnold, Wm. M. Devereaux. Wm. F. Brantley, James Rushing. Shadrack Trawick, and Nelson White. [communicated.] AUGUST 18th, 1851. Messrs. Editors: —There is something of a novelty in the form of a meeting which was held at a place known as Temperanceville, on the Central Railroad, below Bethany Camp Ground, in Jefferson county, Georgia, on the 14th ultimo. It seems that a Constitutional Union man had taken it upon himself to call a meeting, consist ing entirely of men of the same political faith, and among them the Constitutional Union can didate for the 9th Senatorial district, Capt. P. B. Conne'.ley. There was something strange that these men should assemble at that place; but not so strange when we remember that the men who reside there had formerly acted with the Whig party, but now refused to act with the firm of Cobb, Toombs & Stevens. When the crowd had assembled at the house of one of the geritlsmen, he proposed to them to appoint a Chairman and Secretary, and have a regular organized meeting. One of the party, seeing that it (the meeting) was not going to pass off so finely as they had anticipated, moved (no doubt to bluff him off.) to appoint two of each, which put a stop to the organization. The candidate then proceeded to enlighten the audience upon the political issues of the day, by abusing Charles J. McDonald, and extolling to the skies the political trickster, Howell Cobb, the man that sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Now imagine the candidate, as above stated, with some fifteen or eighteen of his asso ciates, at the house of a Southern Rights and that under a call ol a Constitutional Union man, in discussion with the owner of the house, and he backed only by two- others, a young man who lives with him, and his brother-in-law, who lives hard by; and he showing up their Constitutional Union candidate for Governor in his true colors- as he had learned them from the Chronicle & Sentinel and Savannah Republican, which seemed to gall them very much. They left, no doubt, sorry that the meeting ever had been called; and I presume they will not call another, unsolicited by the owner of the house, where he or they can have access to his or their files of papers, ag I am informed he read to their full satisfaction. Now for the effect: If they all went away still Constitutional Union men, it was as much. It is very evident they left three Southern Rights men much stronger than they had found there. I would advise them never to attack a man at his own house again, for the purpose of influenc ing his mind upon any subject, especially that of politics. I hope when they wish to get up another meeting, they will let the rest of us in the S3nl District know it, and we will help them, and in vite our candidate (John T. Brown) to be pre sent, and he will then discuss the subject to their hearts : content. An Old Union Man, But not of the late firm. (communicated.) To John Scott, Wm. W. Sturges, S. Randolph. J McKenzie , and S. P. Davis. Gentlemen :—ln answer to the first question. I say, u that the States bear the same relation to the General Government, that the creator does to the creature • and each State in ratifying the Constitution retained its entire sovereignty , (sov ereignty being indivisible ,) and delegated certain powers to the General Government, which can be resumed by the States, whenever the Federal Government shall fail to answer the purposes for which it was created.” In answer to the second. I say, “ that the ulti mate power of deciding upon the constitutionali ty or unconstitutionality of any law of Congress, is lodged exclusively in the States—they beii»jl sovereign , and being parties to the compact IU( Union, —they alone can judge for themselves v any infraction upon the Constitution.”' In answer to the first " jwrtment question." I say. that u under existing circumstances ,” Ido sot go for disunion; as Georgia in her sovereign ca pacity, has decided that question.” In answer to the second “ pertinent question'' I say.as a States Rights man, “that Georgia had aright to decide this question for herself, and that as a States Rights man, I bow to the majori ty of that decision.” In answer to the third, I say, “ that whilst I hold that a State has the right to dissolve her connection with the government at her pleasure, yet it is not to be presumed that any State would be so foolish as to act without a cause." To the fourth, I answer in the affirmative. Respectfully yours, S. VV. BLOUNT. The Cuba F.xpedition. —Our New-Fork ex changes learn from Capt. Coullard, of the steam ship Winfield Scott, from New'-Orleans, August lfith, that the steam ship Pampero, Capt. Lewis, anchored in the harbor of Key West on the 10th inst.. and remained there till 11 P. M., when she departed for Cuba, with Lopez and his force of 450 men, whom she landed at Cubanos, 40 miles West of Havana. The Pampero then re turned to Key West, but remained in the harbor only an hour, fearing seizure. She cruised oft that port until the lfith inst., and then having taken on board from 20 to 25 recruits, she left at evening for Jacksonville, Florida, to embark Gen. Gonzales and his company, with the in tention, as was thought, of taking them to Cuba to retlnorce Gen. Lopez. That Gen. Gonzales, however, did notembark in her. is evident from the fact, that he arrived at the Charleston Hotel in this city on Saturday,which he left for Colum bia yesterday morning. The severe storm of yesterday precluded our receiving any dispatches, otherwise doubtless we should have been able to lay before our readers some important intelligence, inasmuch as we perceive from the Baltimore papers of Friday, that the steamship Cherokee arrived on Thurs day evening at New York, in four days from Havana; and that the news brought by her is important may be inferred from the following fragment of a dispatch received by them, the con clusion of which, in consequence of electricity interrupting the wires, could not be obtained in time for publication that morning. “ The accounts from Havana are of the most serious nature. We are indebted to the Purser of the Cherokee for the following fearful narra tive. The steamboat HabaneTo, while cruising off a place called Bahia Honda, 40 miles west of .” Violent Storm. —Early yesterday morning our city and its vicinity was visited with a heavy gale, which blew all day from South to South South-East, and caused considerable damage to several buildings, out-houses, trees, &c. A new two-and-a half story wooden house, at the south west corner ot Smith and Beaufain streets, par tially completed, was totally destroyed. The Kitchen also, which was finished with the ex ception of the chimney, in consequence of the foundation giving way, came to the ground. The premises were the property of Dr. Joseph Daw son and brothers. A carpenter’s workshop, just finished, owned by E. M. Curtis, in Rutledge street, was likewise demolished. There are, doubtless, other sufferers; but we have not been enabled as yet to ascertain full particulars of the damages that have been sustained. We are graft ed, however, to state that we have not heard of any-seiious injury occurring to the shipping in the harbor. The steamers Calhoun, for Savan nah, and C. Vanderbilt, for Wilmington, in con sequence of the inclemency of the weather, were prevented from leaving port, and, up to the hour of our going to press, the Gordon had not arrived from Savannah, having been detained, doubtless from the same cause. A heavy rain prevailed nearly the entire day. It is rather singular that, on the 21th of August, last year, a somewhat similar storm occurred here, which, like the one yesterday, at one time threatened to do damage to the shipping in port, but subsided without causing any material inju ry.—Charleston Courier, 2-jt/i inst. Rain ! Rain !!—Yes, we have had rain at last, and a delightful season it has been. On Wednesday last we had a fine shower, and since then, in various parts ol the District, fine rains have fallen. Last night we a had spendid rain, which continued falling at intervalsfduring the night, and from appearances there will yet be more. These rains, although too late to benefit much the growing crops, will enable the people to prepare to advantage their turnip lands, which they should not fail to do extensively. Turnips are an excellent feed for cattle and sneep in the winter; and as provender must undoubtedly be scarce with us next winter, those who have the means of doing so, should sow turnips largely.— Anderson Gazette, 20 th nut. | Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier. I New-Orleans, Aug. 22, 9.50 p. m. Four hundred bales of Cotton were sold on Fri day, part of which was of the new crop. Mid dling was quoted at from S to 8J cents. The re ceipts for the week compromise one thousand bales. The total receipts at all the ports amount to 204,000 bales ahead of last year. The stock on hand here consists of 14,000 bales. The re ceipts of the new crop so far amount to on* thousand bales, against three bales at the sam; period last year.