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[Trlrgarphrd for the Baltimore .fmrnatn j
Further Pur Steamer Atlantic.
New York. Sept. Ist, 12 M.
The steamship Atlantic has arrived, bringing
nearly 200 passengers, and Liverpool dates to the
20th ult. The Atlantic beat the America oot 7
hours.
Markets. —Cotton since the sailing of the
Asia has been very active at lull rates. Middling
qualities have advanced id. The sales of the 3
days are 21,000 bales, of which exporters and
speculators took 8000.
Breadbtuffs.— The favorable weather and
promising harvest have very much depressed the
Flour market, and prices have declined (id. a Is.
Sales of Orleans at 18s. fid. a 19s. Gd., and Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and Ohio at 19 a 20s. Wheat
is dull, and has declined Id. Corn is in fair de
mand at previous rates.
Provisions.— Transact ions are confined princi
pally to the retail trade at full rates. Lard has
advanced fid.
Groceries. —Coffee is in lair request at steady
rates. Purchasers of Tea demand a concession.
Sugars are inactive, but not lower. Rice is dull,
with downward tendency.
Trade in Manchester has greatly improved.
Money Market —Consols have declined to
96f a 961. Railway shares are declining.
American stocks are inactive and unchanged.
Mexican stocks are declining.
Qsnsral News.
There is nothing from F.nglainl of importance.
The first accounts of the Cuban difficulties
were received at Madrid on the 13th ult., and
were represented as very trifling and as speedily
suppressed. A royal decree had been issued de
claring the child to he born of the Duchess of
Montpcnsier, entitled to all the prerogatives of
the Infant of Spain.
Count Alexander Callandrelli, Minister of War
during the Roman Republic, will shortly be re
leased from prison.
There is no political-news from France, with
the exception that a laige majority of the Coun
cils favor a revision ol the Constitution. Com
mercial accounts are tavorable. The harvest is
a lull average one The potato disease has ap
peared in the neighborhood of Paris.
Additional per Atlantic. —The Great Ex
hibition is fixed to close on the 11th of Octolter.
The Royal Commissioners will receive the re
ports on the 13th of October, and the Jgoods will
be removed immediately afterwauls. The dis
tribution of medals will be awarded to juries, the
foreign commissioners, &e.
Franc! . —Some uneasiness prevails at Lyons,
owing to the sympathy which a portion of the
population fold for the prisoners now on trial be
fore the .court-martial. The military authorities,
however, has taken every precuatiou to pre
serve peace.
The President will be accompanied in his tour
through the departments by three of his minis
ters, -Messrs. Fanschu, Randon aud Foulil.
India and China. —A terrible accident occur
red on the I-Ith June, at Gobendpore. Seventy
prisoners, en route to Hasarebarg, had lieen
lodged hi a hut for the night, which took Are
and five only escaped. An extensive mutiny
of troops had taken place in Gualab Singh's do
minions, iu which four British officers lost their
lives. The Arabs were committing great de
predations. iu Nizami's territories and he was
(Kiwerless to check them.
The disturbances near Canton were continued.
Ireland. —A great meeting of
was to be held in Dublin, in opposition to the
Papal Aggression Act. It. is feared a formidable
riot may ensue. The crops throughout Ireland
were looking remarkably well.
England. —M. Charles Dupin, President of
the French Commission for the Great Exhibi
tion , before quittirfg London, wrote a letter to
Prince Albert, expressing gratitude for the inter
est the Queen had manifested in the Exhibition,
to which Prince Albert replied in appropriate
terms.
M. Kossuth was expected at Southampton in
October.
The firm of Richard Gould & Co., at Man
chester, had failed for £IB,OOO.
The steamship Glasgow, designed to run be
tween Glasgow and New York, was launched on
the 16th of August.
The Continental news is wholly unimportant.
Ths Wit of Charles H.
(From the “Story of Nell Gywn,” by Peter
Cuuningham in the Gentlemen's Magazine for
May]
“The satirical epitaph written upon King
Charles 11. at his own request, by his witty fa
vorite the Karl of Rochester, is said to be not
more severe than it is just.
‘Here lies our sovereign lord, the King,
Whose word no man relics on;
Who never said a foolish thing
And never did a wise ono.'
How witty was the reply: “The matter, - ’ he ob
served, “was easily accounted for—his discourse
was his own, his actions were his ministry"s."’
“His politeness was remarkable, and he could
convey a rebuke in the style of a wit and a gen
tleman. When Penn stood before him with his
hat on, the King put off his. ‘Friend Charles, -
said Penn, ‘why dost thou not keep on thy hat? -
‘Tis the custom of this place,’ replied the mon
arch in his usual strain of pleasantry, ‘that never
above one person should be covered at a time.’
“He was altogether in favor of extempore
preaching, and was unwilling to listen to the de
livery of a written sermon. Patrick excused
himself from a chaplaincy, ‘finding it very diffi
cult to get sermon without hook.’ On one oc
casion the King asked the famous Stillingrteet
‘How it was that he always read his sermons be
fore him, when he was informed that he always
preached without book elsewhere 'V Stillingfleet
answered something about the awe of so noble a
congregation, the presence ot so great and wise a
pnnee, with which the King himself was very
well contented. ‘But pray,’ continued Stilling
tteet, will your Majesty give me leave to ask you
a question ? Why do you read your speeches,
when you can have none of the same reasons? -
Why truly, doctor, replied the King, ‘your ques
tion is a very pertinent one , and so will be my
answer. I have asked the two houses so often,
and for so much money, that! am ashamed to
look them in the face.’ Thu ‘slothful wav of
preaching,’ for so the King called it. had arisen
during the civil wars; and Monmouth when
Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in
compliance with the order of the King, directed
a letter to the University that the practice of j
reading sermons should be wholly laid aside.
‘"Of Barrow, he said that he was an unfair
preacher,' because, as it had Iraon explained, he
exhausted every subject, aud left no room for
others to come after him; but the King s allusion
was made somewhat slyly to the extraordinary
length as well as to the usual excellence of Bar
row's sermons.
We have been conversing with several persons
from the country within the last few days. All
agree that the present crop of cotton cannot
amount to half what it did last year, particularly
on the hill land. It is now opening very fast,
and some planters are almost one third done
picking, though the month of August is but lit
tle over half gone which is little past the time
when picking commences some seasons. The
drouth has entirely ruined the crop. We know
of several planters who do not expect to make
over one third of their usual crop. The price of
cotton is on the rise, and we predict is bound to
rise much higher. Prices cannot rate below wha:
they were last year. The present prospect ts
dismal enough, and what is worse, iris grow.ag
daily more so. We hear of good crops no where
Even the swamp landsevince a remarkable tak
ing off.— Vicksburg ScMruri, 2W sir
The Caor*—The loUowiag is fro® tie Mass
field Advertiser of the Ifith xlt- pcbeufced tai'
! De Soto parish
We have seen a sample cm new rossoa nssed
on the plantation of Mr. M. Dins at Xusaeu.
The staple is short hot very rie It at proow
! bly be c.ased as t»:r —worth, aocn&ac to qpnCt
ttons 91 cents Mr. Bits Has already si-pced cdP
lour bales He planted for eighty bales, aed will
make perhaps twenty. Short as tus crop is. he
has done better than a majority of our planters.
The growing cotton crop of this parish will be
lamentably short. No change of weather can
possibly reclaim it. The drought has done its
scathing work, and general showers would now
fall powerless upon the desolation it produced.
Our planters will not make one-fourth of a crop.
We nave lately conversed with many of them
from different sections of the parish, and some
informed us that their crops will average three
hundred pounds to the acre, some two hundred
and fifty, some two hundred, and some no more
than one hundred and fifty. The average crop
of the parish will probably be between two hun
dred and three hundred pounds to the acre. As
far as definite and reliable information extends,
the crop in South Arkansas. Western Texas, aud
in all our neighboring parishes, will be fully as
short as in this.
A Giri, who worked in a Printing Office.
—A Cincinnati paper states that three years ago
a jioor orphan girl applied and was admitted to
set type for that paper.
“She worked two years, during which time she
earned, besides her board, about S2OO, ami avail
ing herself of the facilities which the printing of
fice offered, acquired a good education. She is
now an associate editress of a popular pa|>tr, aud
is engaged to be married to one of the smartest
lawyers in Ohio. We should be disinclined to
credit the above if we did not have so many evi
dences of the elevating influence of the printing
office.’’
[From the M tiledgevilie Recorder.]
Starkville, Aug. 25th, 1801.
Messrs. Grieve & Ormk: —We have had an
other severe storm of wind and rain, very much
similar to the one we had 12 months ago, but
more severe and of longer duration, bringing
with it more rain. It began about noon on the
23d, and continued till 9 of the night of the 24th.
Its effect upon the crop is, as I have learned from
the different portions of our county, quite injuri
ous. The rust is spreading its ravagespretty ex
tensively throughout the country, which lias
caused a considerable portion of cotton to burst
open precociously; this has caused the injurious
effect of the storm upon the cotton crop to he
greater than it otherwise would have been.
Besides, it is the general opinion that in. con
sequence of the weeds having been turned and
twisted about in every direction by the wind,
but so severely by the torrents of rain that at
tended the wind, that it has been so injured as
not to be able to continue bearing, but on the
contrary to throw off" a great deal that it already
has borne. Late corn that has not had the Ibti
der pulled off. is all blown down flat, having had
the blades split into strings which has put an end
to fodder gathering, and will prove quite injuri
ous to late new ground corn that has not so ma
tured. Trees, fences and chiinnies were blown
down profusely in many places.
The vast quantities of rain that have fallen
will conduce to rentier our county more un
healthy than it was before, I fear.
From Yucatan. —By the arrival of the schoon
er Star, Capt. Gammon, we have received Cam
peachy papers of the 10th ami 15th hist. They
do not contain much news, though they express
a conviction of the gradual subsidence of the In
dian troubles. Complaints of the interference
of the English in the affairs of the Peninsula
continue to be made. It is again asserted that
the authorities of the Belize settlement furnish
the Indians with arms ami ammunition to con
duct the war against the whites.— N. O. Pica
yune, 30M ult.
Chatham Mutual Loan Association. —At a
meeting of this Association, last evening, S3OOO
were loaned at a premium of 39J per cent,
average.
Twenty shares of stock were sold as follows:
5 shares, $25 paid, sold for $33
3 “ 25 “ " 32
10 “ 50 “ u 60
lScu-annaA Georgian. 3d inst.
What did the South Gain iiy the Compro
mise'—As Mr. Clay is one of the great leaders
of the “Union. Party,” we presume none will
dispute the truth of his testimony. On the 23d
of July, 1850, little more than one year ago, Mr.
Clay, in a speech delivered in the Senate, said
“Senators from the Northern States may go
home to their constituents, after this measure
shall have been passed, and say “the North
gains the admission or California as a free State.
This is sure. She is dedicated now and forever
to that freesoilism which you so much prize. - ’
“The North avoids the introduction of slave
ry by the authority of Congress in New Mexi
co and Utah—and as in our opinion, the lexloci
excludes slavery from the territories, it is highly
probable they will both remain and become free
territories.
“The North has New Mexico detached from
Texas, with a high degree of probability that
she will ultimately become, as before stated, a
free State.
“The North secures the abolition of the slave
trade in the District of Columbia.
“Are not these objects of sufficient magnitude
to satisfy any moderate, rational Northeru wish?
What concession of power and authority is
made by the North? What rights are sacri
ficed' Tell me, if the North does not get almost
every thing, and the South nothing but her honor.''
The New York Herald of the 30th ult., says:
Arms, ammunition, clothing, medicines and :
provisions, intended and purchased for the Cuban
revolutionary army, have been sent from this i
harbor. Two vessels, whether American or of
some other nation we cannot precisely say, !
were purchased some days ago, and freighted
with these articles.—Many thousand of dollars
doubtless, have been expended in the business,
and thus any one may judge that the number of
arms and quantity of ammunition were not
small. We have not heard that any citizens of
New \ork have taken any active part in
the enterprise, but have reason to believe that
the foreign capital has been employed for the
purpose. Hence the ease, security and secrecy
with which this undertaking has been carried
out. Indeed by this time, with ordinary speed,
both vessels must be at or near their destination,
and will supply any immediate necessities which
the revolutionary army may require, while the
arrangements made will add to the revolutionary
force several hundred well drilled and well equip
ped men.
AUGUSTA, GA.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 5
For Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD
For Congress—Eighth District,
ROBERT McMILLAN. of Elbert.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN Til STATE.
Dr William & Jones.
Circumstances have nude it necessary xv- me
publicly to expose Dr Wdhaai S. Jones, sor tvs
prostitution ol the press an«ie* his control, bus
equivocation. aad has cowarvftv ieotal or ssasesc
tioc to me. for a wUfnL. deliberate. ami igg-i'A.
tevi wrong ibar, or which sto aw.:ocab*e 'ey tie
mat wocM have heeat j-nltv. He us ateitsevi
three articles into the CVvnw e ,-i
whach pilfer he as She propceoUc a mi jttoiisnet.
»r <tiuhi*i rnsrepresen tabu*. ami svafointeipiiL.tiu.
‘aw their mup "r Pc RTV.'uar A Jfooes was
aware that tile pmcipa, groumi* ipou. wmh trie
wr.ter n ' itor" baaed ass if Uitse
hxv agpsmft rj Tse- t. were she muantfnnwi ae
ro** r* aseciex {easterns. *aa juror saeir wav
titc she iLswiia- w .theut ate uea iMtra. if i .w
--aest He was jwjfoctle aware seas saose rcror*
had teen corrected through the sine chaanei m
w hich publicity had been given to them. He
must have known that there was an immense
disproportion between the errors themselves, sup
■posing them all to have been committed and un
explained, and the charges made against me by
the author of “Doctor.” He was aware that
the author of those false and, scurrilous articles,
thru§t himself forward as a volunteer in detrac
tion and falsehood, to assault me for reasons
which found no justification in his personal con
nection with the matters treated of hy him. He
became an officious intruder in the first place,
and a malicious assailant in the second.
I do not deem it necessary to publish the arti
cle of “ Doctor,” upon which I founded my call
upon Dr. Jones, which will be seen below. The
public has already seen it in the prostituted
columns of the Chronicle § S r ntinel , and portions
of it in the Constitutionalist Republic. I charge
Dr. Wm. S. Jones,for inserting it, in his columns,
with sinking his paper into the lowest, and mean
est, and foulest depths of licentiousness. It was
disgraceful to him as a public journalist and a
man. and was utterly inconsistent with the pro
fession which he has publicly made as a member
of a respectable church.
The stigma, of the foul transaction, will re
! main upon him, at least, until he shall acknowl
i edge the w rong he has done me, and make atone
( meat for it.
I will take this occasion to observe that 1 have
I frequently declined publishing articles in the
: Republic, which I formerly edited, because of the
, harsh expressions they contained against politi
j cal opponents.
| 1 have subjected myself for it, on several occa
j sioiis,to the complaints and censures of personal
j friends.
The dignity, honor and fairness of the press,
should be always maintained. Its true value is
impaired, and even utterly destroyed, when it
cuts loose from the mooringsol decency ami vir
, I tue, and its great object, the dissemination of
useful information, to permit individual character
. to be falsely assailed, and that too in the lowest
terms of the blackguard. The Chronicle $ Senti
nel has been degraded to this base purpose, and
must henceforth, without an adequate purgation,
take its rank among the lowest and vilest publi
cations in the land.
I submit the following correspondence wth a
! few words of comment.
Augusta, August 29th, 1851.
Dr. Win. S. Jones :
Sir :— Considering the article signed “ Doctor,”
which appeared in the Chronirle h Sentinel of this
morning, of such a character as to make you. as
the publisher of that paper, a party to the out
rage, I demand of you that satisfaction, for in
serting it in your columns, which is due from
; 1 one gentleman to another.
This will be handed vou hy my friend, James
I Gardner, Jr., Esq.
Respectfully your ob’t. serv’t.
James M. Smythe.
This letter was received by Dr. Jones. On
j Tuesday, the 2nd instant, the following note
] was handed to my friend, Mr. Gardner, to be
delivered to Dr. Jones :
Augusta, Sept, 2nd, 1851.
Dr. Wm. S. Jonn
Sih A reasonable time having elapsed since
the delivery to you, on Friday last, of my note of
that date. 1 take occasion to call your attention
i to it. and inquire when 1 may expect a reply >
Respectfully your ob't. serv't.
James M. Smythe.
The card, of Mr. Gardner, below, will explain
what occurred on that occasion. Suffice it for
i me to say, Dr. Jones declined to receive it for
the reason assigned by Mr. Gardner.
On the 3rd instant, the following note was
conveyed to him by the hands oT my friend, Wm.
W. Montgomery. Esq.
Augusta, Sept. 3rd, 1851.
Dr. Wm. S. Jones :
Sir Considering the article under the signa
ture of ‘•Doctor," which appeared in the Chroni
cle Sentinel, of last Friday morning, of such a
character' as to make yen, as the publisher of that
paper, a party to the outrage, I demand of you.
lor inserting it in your columns, that satisfaction
which is due from one gentleman to another.
This will be handed to you by my friend, Wm.
W. Montgomery, Esq.
Respectfully your ob’t. serv't.
James M. Smythe.
This he declined to receive, alleging, in sub
stance, that he had nothing to do with the mat-
I ter; that the author of “Doctor " was responsi
| hie for its publication.
| It will be seen, from the card of Mr. Gardner,
I that Dr. Jones objected to receiving a third note
! from me, through bis hand, (for the reason as
signed,) after he had previously received two.
I neither of which had been, nor have been to this
moment returned. It will be seen, further, that
Dr. Jones stated, if I wished to make any com
munication to him, I must select another person
to convey it to him. I did so, and the card of
Mr. Montgomery will show what response he
made to my note of the 3rd instant. This es
tablishes his cowardly evasion of the responsi
bility which rested upon him in the premises.
I now leave the conduct of Dr. Wm. S. Jones
with the publication of this correspondence and
the foregoing remarks, to the judgment of the
public. JAMES M. SMYTHE.
Augusta, Sept. 4, 1831.
Mr. James M. Smythe:
Dear Sir In compliance with your request.
I state that I called on Dr. W. S. Jones, on the |
3rd instant, and handed him a communication
from yourself—a copy of which, I believe, had .
beer, previously handed him by Mr. Gardner—
which communication he declined to receive,
upon the ground, as I understood him, that he
did not consider himself in any way responsible
for the attack upon yourself, contained in the ar
ticles iu the Chronicle $ Sentinel , under the sig- j
nature of " Doctor.”
Very respectfully, yours, Ac.
W. W MONTGOMERY.
AUGUSTA. Sept. tth. 1831.
Jakes M Smtthe, Esq.—
iW Sir —At your request 1 state, that on
the irttb ult.. 1 bore two communications from
you to Dr 'V. S. Jones. To the one first
presented, be wrote a reply and handed it to me at
that interview. The second he received ami
wad ta my presence While reading it I said
to star ‘it will be proper for you to answer
tnat taxough your trisnd." 1 then withdrew. ;
N j Answer lav ■ 04 been received to that com- !
TmoiOAttott. 00. the dad tost 1 called on him at
lis ■rftce with another communication from
1 <m. Tit* he Archived to receive. He stated
that you. Mr Smytfce, desired to make any
MKauneastern to him, you must do it through
sense other channel, as he would entertain no
comar.uucmtion through me. He assigned in
that interview as his reason for thus declining,
iu reply to an inquiry to this point from me. the
terms of enmity existing, and known to you to
exist between him and myself.
This reason, if sufficient on the 2nd of Septem
ber was equally so on the 29th of August, as no
change had taken place in the relations ex
isting between Dr. Jones and myself between
those two dates. The sufficiency of the reason
I am content to leave to the judgment of hono
rable men.
Yours respectfully,
JAMES GARDNER, Jr.
New Express Lins.
We would call the attention of our readers to
the advertisement of Messrs. Combs & Chamber
lain, in this day’s paper, from which it will he
seen that they have recently established, and
now have in successful oi«nition, an Express
Line from Charleston, through Augusta, to Chat
tanooga, in Tennessee, and Montgomery, in Ala
bama. Messrs. Combs & Chamberlain are well
acquainted with the business they have under
taken, and, so far, their line has been found a
great accommodation,both hy our inercliants and
citizens. They deserve and should receive en
couragement.
Temporary Editorial Change.
We perceive from the last Southerner , that
Mr. J. W. Dodd has retired from the editorial
department of that paper for the balance of the
year, and that the paper will, during that period,
be under the editorial management of Messrs.
Patton and Garlington. We welcome them into
the corps, and hope they may find their labors
pleasant, and that the cause of truth and justice
may be promoted by them.
We copy only two or three sentences, as fol
lows, from the address to his patrons of Mr.
Dodd;
To the Patrons op the Southerner. —
O wing to private engagements that will demand
his absence from Rome the greater part of the
remainder of the year, the undersigned relin
quishes for a time the post of editor to F. Patton
and R. Garlington. He regrets that circumstances
compel him to leave his station at this critical
and interesting period ol the contest in Georgia,
but is more than gratified that the defence of the
principles for which he has contended will be
left to abler pens. Messrs. Patton and Garlington
are gentlemen of talent and ability, and zealous
defenders of the rights of the South.
Irwin County.— The Federal Union says : A
friend who has lately been travelling through
Irwin county, writes us that Irwin will give
McDonald and Benning from 250 to 300 majori
ty. We liave also received most interesting ac
counts from many comities in the upper part of
the State. Let the friends of the South every
where be up and doing and all will be well.
Hogs and Crots in Kentucky. —The editor
of the Cincinnati Price-Current has addressed
a letter to a gentleman who has been travelling
through Kentucky, and visited perhaps every
county in the State, relative to the supply of
hogs, and the prospect of the grain crops, and
gives the following as. the substance of his re
ply:
He says the number of HogsJn Kentucky this
season is about the same as last, but they will be
much heavier, and will consequently yield an ex
cess of both Meat and Lard. Feeders are antici
pating fine prices, and Corn being plenty, and
comparatively cheap, the Hogs will be made as
heavy as possible. For stock Hogs $3 50 per
100 lbs was being paid in Madison county, and
83 25 was paid for fat Hogs for delivery.
The corn crop promised well, and the yield of
Tobacco would be very heavy. He thinks the
market will be glutter! with the latter article.
This information we regard as most reliable,the
gentleman who communicates it having mingled
with the citizens of the several counties through
which he travelled.
A Few Corrections.
The N. O. Picayune, of Friday morning says:
—“The disorders in this city on Thursday last,
were bad and discreditable enough, without the
blunder and exaggerations which have got abroad
through hasty telegraphing.
In Charleston, for example, a dispatch is pub
lished, dated here on the day of disturbance in
which it is said:
“The Cuban liberators, mostly Western men
exasperated by the tone of the Spanish paper,
La Patria, this afternoon attacked the office, &c. - ’
The office attacked was La Union, not La Pa
tria. The assailants were not Cuban liberators
at all; on the contrary, in the course of the dis
turbances of that day, scarcely one of this class
were recognized among the rioters, and a con
siderable number were forward in volunteering
to preserve the peace. The following is an ad
ditional dispatch, dated the next day, when, ac
cording to our experience here, everything was
quiet:
Aew Orleans, Aug. 22.—Two thousand men
this morning surrounded the City Prison, where
the Spanish Consul has taken refuge, and threat
ened to demolish it unless the Consul is delivered
up to them. About fifty police are on the ground.
1 he cigar shops kept by the Spanish were nearly
all destroyed during last night. Minute guns
have been fired since sunrise in honor of the
murdered liberators. The bodies of Victor Kerr
and Col. Crittenden attract many visitors, and
produce much feeling.
This is news in New Orleans—never heard of
before it came from Charleston. The City Prison
on the morning of the 22d, was as undisturbed as
a church. The Spanish Consul was never in
danger nor threatened, that we heard of. The |
attack against his office was sudden, but neither I
then, nor during the succeeding demonstrations
against the cigar shops, were the persons of any
Spaniards molested at all. The Consul might
have walked the streets, and we doubt not that
his person would have been safe. The refuge
in the prison, and the crowd demanding him, are
sketches from the imagination, or a vague street
rumor which had no foundation at all. The pub
lic visitation to see the bodies of Kerr and Crit
tenden are also the creation of fancy, for these
last relics of the brave have not been received in
the city even yet. •
There was a report on Friday morning that a
1 vessel had arrived with these bodies, but it prov
, ed to be untrue."
The Cuba Meeting.
We have seldom witnessed a more animated
and enthusiastic assemblage than that of the
friends of Cuba, at the City Hall, on Wednesday
evening. A brief report of the proceedings will
be found in another column. Our space only
permits us to add, that over thirty uames were
placed upon the muster-roll, after the adjourn-
I rnent of the meeting, and we understand that the
number was considerably increased yesterday.—
, Success to the Liberators.
Since the above was in type, we learn that the
: Cuba Volunteers, at a meeting held yesterday
evening, elected John Jhinizy, Jr., Esq., as Cap
tain. We are gratified to state that he has ac
cepted.
The election for other officers will take place
this evening, at the City Hall. All who desire
to aid Cuba, in her straggle for liberty, are invi
ted to attend.
Mr. A. F. Owen, Consul in Havana, was hung
in effigy in Baltimore on the 29th ult. by a crowd
of several hundred persons.
[COM Ml XICATED.J
Arouse, Sons of Cuba, why linger you now !
When tho flag of thy freedom so proudly uprearing
Its folds to the breeze from Mount Coscoro's brow,
Its message of hope to the bold heart is bearing.
Its calls thee to dare "
The bright Steel te bear,
And implant thy freedom o'er tyranny's bier,
And shout the proud triumph whose echo shall be
Tho Queen of the Antilles—Cuba is fret!
Bear that banner aloft in thy day 's early light,
Its tricolor folds o'er your heads proudly streaming’
When like freedom's sun breaking thro tyranny's
night,
Tho lone star of Cuba emblazon'd is beaming.
As its motto yon spy,
Your hands raise on high,
And swear neath its shadow to conquer or die:
And shout the proud triumph, whose echo shall be
The Queen of the Antilles—Cuba is free ''
’Neath the banner of liberty—fear nor. dismay
Ne cr can cuter the luiart that s by freedom's fitta
lighted; • « '
The craien may crouch, and the steal ajfuv,
The freeman to vict'ry or death theTe sVamfsi
plighted, .. K
And calmly and brave . * t-*
Treads fiftn on his grave, - . *
Condemning tho tyrant—contemning the slave,
And shouts the £[oydtriumph, whose echo shall lie
The Queen of the Antilles—Cubs IS free ’!!
Then rouse, Sons of Cuba—up, np while you may,
Nor deem you alone will be left in ycur daring
Columbia's bravo sons soon will rash to the fray,
In thy need, by thy side, in thy victory sharing,
Till o'er hill and dale,
Up borne on the gale,
Thy banner—the banner offreomen—we hail,
And shout the proud triumph, whose echo shall be
The Queen of the Antilles—Cuba is free.
To the Southern Bight* Party of Columbia County.
An important crisis in our political organization
is now impending. An election is just at hand,
and upon its issues must be determined the nu
merical strength and destiny of our principles,
so far as Columbia county is concerned. The
contest Is one for principle; the issues involved
are great and fundamental constitutional rights,
which the Southern Rights party think have, in
spirit or letter, been infracted. While contend
ing as a party for what we concieve to be cor
rect principles, it would be the extreme of folly and
a positive abandonment of principles, yea, a de
reliction of duty, to cast our suffrages for any
man unless he is essentially de jure and de facto
a Southern Rights man. We gain nothing in
point of principle, or political achievment, by
voting for a man unless he is in tobo with us.—
From these facts, it strikes us with great force,
that the party in Columbia cannot, with a just
regard for principles, vote for any man, whether
he runs by nomination, or as an independent , unless
he be thoroughly identified with it.
There are now three gentlemen before the
people of Columbia for their votes, all of them be
long to the same party, in oar estimation, hence
there is no necessity for Southern Rights men to
cast their votes for either. The true and intrinsic
policy of the party, is to run its own candidate
and let the motto be " sinJc or swim, survive or
perish we go for our country and our principles.
A precedent independent of this, would be
fraught with the worst of consequences to the
future success, organization, and harmony of the
party. In conclusion, we can only say, stand
finp friends, let no political uspirant divide our
ranks, or secure our suffrages, merely for the sake
of gratifying his own political thirst. There is
no prudence, no principle or sound reason in such
a course, it is suicidal and fallacious. If a man
is not with us, he is against us, and let men of
the Southern Rights party, who believe in the
justice of the cause, and the purity of their doc
triae, resolve to stand to their colors, or fall tri
umphantly attempting their defence.
Let us run a candidate '
Peyton.
SEPTEMBER 4th, 1851.
Messrs. Editors : —Yesterday it was brought
to the notice of your fellow-townsman, Dr. Wm.
E. Dearing, that a poor family, seventeen miles
from Augusta, were suffering from that loath
some disease, Small Pox, and from causes useless
to mention, medical attention could not be pre
cured ; immediately, his services were perferred,
and in one hour he was on his journey. Such
energy and pure disinterestness, 'tis hoped are
not unrewarded in your city. Medical skill a!oi:e
was wanting. The prudence and benevolence of
Brothesville and its neighborhood had provided
against the spread of the disease, and the for com
fort of the afflicted family.
Y° u rs, Piney Woods.
The Cholera in Missouri.— The Cholera is
said to prevail to a considerable extent in Jeffer
son City, Missouri.
AUGUST 26th, 185 i
Messrs. Editors ; —A writer under the sir.
nature of “ States Rights" in giving an account
in your paper, of the meeting at Woodstock
makes several misrepresentations in reteien >
to my remarks on that occasion, which I
to correct. He represents me as saying that
Southern Rights men were infamous and cow
ards." I made no such remark. I did say, how
ever, whoever believed that he had been robbed
cheated and degraded by the National Govern
ment. and expressed a willingness to submit to
it, was either insincere in the declaration. or
cowardly. The Union party have been, and
are now called the basest submissionists. My p,,
sition was that they were the true submissiuniut wl lo
acknowledged their degradation, and yet w ere
willing to submit to it. The writer, likewise
thinks proper to construe my rebuke of those
that were on that occasion hissing and groaning
at the speeches upon the Union side into abuse
and villification of the whole Southern Right,
party. As to the sorrow which he expresses lor
me, he had better reserve it, as the time may
come, when it will be needed for himself and hit
friends.
Yours respectfully, I. T. IRVIN, Jr.
Public Meeting.
Pursuant to public notice, a very large and em
thusiastic meeting of the citizens of Augusta, fa.
vorable to the cause of Cuban liberty,' assembled
in the City Hall Park, on Wednesday evening,
the 3d in«t., at 8 o'clock.
On motion, James Gardner, Jr., was called to
the Chair, and Robt. A. Whyte, requested to ar
as Secretary.
The Chairman, in a brief and appropriate ad.
dress, explained the object of the meeting to be,
to give an expression of sympathy in behalf oi
the oppressed people of Cuba, and to aid those
gallant spirits, in our midst, who might feel dis
posed to volunteer in the noble cause for which/
they are now contending.
At the conclusion of bis remarks, Messrs. A.
H. H. Dawson and John Phinizy, Jr. were called 1
for, and addressed the meeting in a forcible aud ]
eloquent manner. Brief and fervent appeals 1
were also made by Messrs. A. M. Rodgers ami ■
T. W. Lane.
After the reading of correspondence, by the j
Secretary, and an announcement from the Chau
that a muster-roll and subscription list would be ]
opened immediately after adjournment,
On motion, the meeting then adjourned.
JAS. GARDNER, JR., Chairman
Robert A. Whyte, Secretary.
To the Friends of Cuba.
At a meeting of the citizens of Augusta, favora- ■
hie to the cause of Cuban liberty, held in the city !
Hall Park, on Thursday evening, the 28th ult. \
the undersigned were appointed a committee “to J
tfeeive contributions for the equipment of such I
JACK; fellow citizens as are willing and aiixiou- I
M#.he*oßp- identified with the career of thestaroi |
' liberty which is now rising on the lovely yet 1
ffttetedlfiltleen of the Antilles. 7 ’ Accepting the
appointment, they hereby announce their readi
ness tiyeceive all contributions designed for the
furtheiilftce of this noble object, and express a
liope that the citizens of Augusta wiH come for
ward liberally for the purpose in view. All con
tributions by mail, or otherwise, directed to the
committee will he properly appropriated.
JAMES GARDNER, Jr
JOHN PHINIZY, Jr.
A. H. H. DAWSON.
WM. E. DEARING.
ROBERT A. WHYTE.
(From the M Sarannah News, 'idins/.}
Meeting of the Friends of Cuba.
Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weath
er last evening, a large and enthusiastic concourse
of citizens, assembled in Monument square. The
meeting was organized by calling Dr. R. D. Ar
nold to preside, and appointing Robert H. Hab
ersham, Esq., Secretary.
The meeting was addressed in eloquent and
appropriate speeches by Dr. Arnold, W. S. Bat
singer, Esq., and Maj. Samuel Hoyt.
The following preamble and resolutions were
submitted by Mr. Duncan, and were unanimous
ly passed:
The glorious intelligence of the success of Gen
Narcisco Lopez and his gallant army having
reached this city, the people of Savannah favora
ble to the disenthrallmentof the Island of Cuba
from the oppressive and corrupt bondage of the
Spanish Government, have assembled to congra
tulate the friends of Liberty and the exiled Cu
bans throughout the United States, on the joyful
prospect of this object being speedily accomplish
ed.
Be it therefore Resolved , That the glorious caus*
in which Gen. Lopez is now engaged, being
similar to^ hat which animated our revolutionary
heroes, deserves the hearty sympathy of the
American people, and that the exiled Cuban.-,
who are now in our midst, anxious te join their
brethren in the struggle for independence, are
worthy of all the assistance which a generous
nation can bestow.
Resolved, That should any foreign intervention
be attempted to maintain Spain in her conflict
with the revolted Island ot Cuba, it would be the
duty of the American Government to use all the
means in their power to oppose such interven
tion, even though a war should be the conse
quence.
Resolved, 1 hat the barbarous and inhuman con- j
duct of the Spanish authorities in putting to«
cruel death Crittenden and his unfortunate com
panions, finds.no justification in themselves of 1
civilized society, no palliation in the emergencies
ot their position and that, deserving the severe
reprobation of all good men, the American peo- 1
pie pronounce on it their unqualified condemns-)
tion, and in the opinion of this meeting it is the
duty of our Government to demand an explana
tion from the proper authorities regarding it.
Resolved, That it is the hope of this meeting
that the American Consul at Havana may be
able to clear himself of the imputations he has
incurred by refusing to interfere in behalf of his
countrymen, about to fall victims to such atro
city, not only for the sake of his character as
an officer of this government, but also for his char
acter as a citizen of the State of Georgia.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to each of the papers of the city of Savan
nah for publication.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
New York, Sept. 1, 10 A. M.
Judge Nelson delivered his opinion in the case
of the slave Bolding, surrendering him to bis
South Carolina claimant.
Boston, August 31.
It is reported here that the entire Naval force,
at Halifax, will soon proceed to the vicinity of i
Cuba.
Ithaca, Aug. 28, 5 P. M.
The steam boilers attached to the furnace and
machine shop of Messrs. Freemans, lias just
blown up with tremendous force.
Three men were badly scalded—two supposes
fatally. The boiler was carried eight feet from
its position against a stone wall, which stopped
its progress.
Buffalo, Sept. Ist.
Daniels, the Kentucky fugitive, was discharg
ed to-day upon a motion made upon the return
of the Marshal,and he was immediately hurried
off to Canada by his friends,