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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARDNER, JR. TERMS. Paily, 'per annum.-....... . •. .:*•*». $8 00 Tri-Weekly, per annum..-.* 6 00 If paid in advance.. .......................5 00 Weekly, per annum ‘I 00 If paid in advance.-, r..................... 2 50 To Clubs, remitting $lO IS AI)VA scf:. ClVfi COPIES are sent. This will put our Weekly pa per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. QjTSubscribers who will pay up arrearages, and j send four new fuhscrihers, with the money, can get ; the paper at JJ2 00. (CTAII new subscriptions must be paid in ad- ; vauce. • For the Campaign. Any one forwarding 50 cents, free of p*»stage, : will be furnished with the Weekly until the Ist October. 51} ’Postage must be paid on all communications and letters of business. [ From, Sharjte’s Magazine .] Helen Walker. It is to be regretted tliat no fuller account h:is been preserved of the act of high-minded, presevering courage by which Helen Walker, a simple Scotch, maiden, saved her sister from a shameful and unmerited death; voluntarily encountering untold difficulties and dangers ; rather than speak the one word of untruth, by j which she might so easily have gained the j same end. An outline, all that could then be learnt of j her adventures, came many years after to the j knowledge of a lady, who had the penetration j at once to perceive how well titled was such ! a history for the powers of the greatest novel- ; ist of this or any age. She worte to the an- | thor of Waverley, al first anonymously, re- I counting the story, and the circumstance t hrough which she had learnt it. Subsequent* lv her name was made known to him as Mrs-. Goldie, of Craigmure, near Dumfries** He entered as warmly as she expected into the beauty and the merits of her history, and, not | long after, the world was at once benefited j and delighted by perhaps the most interesting of his romances. “The Heart of Mid Lothian,” of which this incident forms the groundwork. Helen Walker herself suggested the beautiful character of Jeanie Deans. Subsequent inquiries have added little that can be depended on to the original account; ( but we have gratefully to acknowledge the ! kind and a. Tiling exertions of a lady, whose near connexion with Mrs. Goldie best qualifies j her for the task, to furnish us with any fresh circumstances which time might have brought j to light, correcting, at the same time, the mis* statements Avhich others have fallen into from ! the wish to amplify and enlarge on insuffi cient data. Helen Walker avos the daughter of a small ; f inner of Uahvhairn, in the parish of Irongray, in the county of Dunfrics, Avherc, after the death of her father, she continued to reside* supporting her widowed mother by her oavu | unremitting labor and privations. On the I death of her remaining parent, she avos left Avith the charge of her sister Isabella, much young er than herself, and Avhom she educated and maintained by her OAvn exertions. Attached to her by so many ties, it Is not easy to con ceive her feelings when she found this sister mibt be tried by the laws of her country for child-murder, and that she herself avo-s called upon to giA'e evidence against her. In this ; moment of shame and angish she Avas told by j the counsel for the prisoner, that, if she could , declare that her sister had made any prepara tions, however slight, or had given her any intimation on the subject, such a statement would save her sister’s life, as she was the principal Avitness against her. Helen’s answer was: “It is impossible for me to SAvear to a I falsehood, whatever may be the consequence; I will giA’e my oath according to my conscience.” The trial came on, and Isabella Walker was found guilty and condemned. In removing her from the bar she was heard to say to her sister; “O, Nelly, ye haA’o been the cause of my death;” Avhen Helen replied—“Ye ken I bute speak the truth.” In Scotland six AA’eeks must elapse be tween the sentence and the execution; and of this precious interval Helen kncAv hoAv to avail herself. Whether her scheme had been long I and carefully considered, or was the inspiration of a body and A’igorous mind in the moment of its greatest anguish at her sister’s reproach, avb ) cannot tell; but the very day of the condemna tion she found strength for exertion and for thought. Her lirst step Avas to get a petition drawn up, stating the peculiar circumstances j of her sister’s case; she then borrowed a sum ; of money necessary for her expenses; and that I same night set out on her journey, barefooted and alone, and in due time reached London in safety, having performed the whole distance j from Dumfries on foot. Arrived in London, j she made her way at onc6 to John, Duke of Ar- , gyle. Without introduction or recommendation I of any kind, wrapped in her tartan plaid, and carrying her petition iii her hand, she succeed ed in gaining an audience, and presented herself before him. She avos heard aftcrAvards to say, j that, by the Almighty’s strength, she had been enabled to meet the duke at a most critical moment, Avhich, if lost AA’Ould have taken away the only chance for her sister’s life. There must have been a most convincing air of truth i and sincerity about her, for the duke interested himself at once in her cause, and immediately , procured the pardon she petitioned for, with | Avhich Helen returned to Dumfries on foot just in time to .save her sister’s life. Isabella, or Tibby Walker, thus saved from j the fate Avhich impended over her, was even- j tually married by Waugh the man A\ho had Avrongcd her, and li\ r cd happily for great part of a century, in or near Whitehaven, uniformly acknoAvledging the extraordinary affection to Avhich she owed* her preservation. It may h - we been previous to her marriage that the follow ing incident happened:— A gentleman avlio chanced to be travelling in the north of Eng la in on coming to a small inn, Avas st into the parlor by a female servant, who, vf\ gatiously shutting the door, said — am Aelly Walk er’s sister;” thus showing her hope that the fame of hgr sfi-r'W heroism had reached further than her oa'A C thorny of a far different nature; or perhaps, reinoA’ed as she Avas from the home and the scenes of her youth, the sight of a face once familiar to her may have impelled her to «eek the consolation of naming her sister to one probably acquainted with the circumstan ces of her history, and of that sister’s share in them. The manner in AA'hich Sir Walter Scott be came acquainted AA’ith Helen Walker’s history has been already alluded to. In the notes to the Abbotsford edition of his novels he ack nowledges his obligation on this poinst to Mrs. Goldie, “an amiable and ingenious lady, Avhose Avit and power of remarking and judging charac ter still survive in the memory of her friends.” Her communication to him avus in these words: ♦‘l had taken for summer loddings a cottage near the old abbey of Lineluden. It had form erly been inhabited by a lady Avho had plea sure in embellishing cottages, which she found, perhaps, homely and poor enough; mine pos sessed many marks of taste and elegance, un usual in this species of habitation in Scotland, where a cottage is literally what its name de clares. From my cottage door I had a partial “Wife of Tomas Goldie. Esq., Commissary of Dum fries. " ‘ : :q r ' T vlcav of the old abbey before mentioned; some of the highest arches were seen over and some through the tress scattered along a lane AA’hich led down to the ruin* and the strange fantastic shapes of almost all those old ashes accorded wonderfully well with the building they at once shaded and ornamented. The abbey it self, from my door, was almost on a level AA’ith the cottage; but on coming to the end of the lane it avos discovered to he situated oh a per pendicular bank, at the foot of Avhich ran the clear waters of the (Tuden, Avhen they hasten to join the sweeping Nith, ■"Whose distant roaring swells and Fii’sd As my kitchen and parlor were not Aery far distant, I one day went in to purchase some chickens from a person I heard offering them for sale. It was a little, rather stout-looking Avomun, Avho seemed to be between seventy and eighty years of age; she Avas almost covered Avith a tartan plaid, and her cap had over it a black silk hood tied under the chin, a piece of dress still much in use among elderly Avoriieu of that rank of life in Scotland; her eyes were dark, at id remarkably lively and intelligent.— I entered into conversation Avith her, and be gan by asking hoAv she maintained herself. &c, She said that in Aviuter she footed stockings, that is, knit feet to country people’s stockings; Avhich bears about the same relation to stock ing-knitting that cobbling does to shoe-ma king, and is, of course, both less profitable and less dignified; she likeAvisc taught a fcAv chil dren to read; and in summer she ‘whiles rear ed a Avheen chickens.’ “I said I could venture to guess from her face she had newer married. She laughed hear tily at this, anti said : T maun hae the queerest face that ever Avas seen, that ye could guess that. Now do tell me, madam, hoAv ye came to think sac ?’ I told her it Avas from her cheer ful, disengaged countenance. She said : ‘Mem, have ye na far mair reason to be happy than me, avl’ a gnde husband, and a fine family o’ bairns, and plenty o’ eA'crythiug r For me, I am the puirest of a’ puir bodies, and can hard ly contrive to keep myself aliA’e in a’ the avcc bit o’ ways I hae tell’t ye*’ After some more conversation, during Avhich I was more and more pleased AA’ith the old woman’s sensible conversation, and the naivete of her remarks, she rose to go aAvay, aa’Ucii T asked her name.— Her countenance suddenly denuded, and she said gravely, rather coloring, ‘My name is He len Walker; and your husband kens wed about me.’ “In the cA eniug I related how much I had been pleased, and inquired what avus extraor dinary in the history of the poor woman. Mr. said, ‘'There Avere perhaps feAv more re markable people than Helen Walker;’ and he gave the history Avhich has already been re lated here.” The writer continues : “I Avas so strongly interested in this narrutiA'e, that I determined immediately to prosecute my acquaintance Avith Helen Walk A - ; but, as I avos about to leave the country next day, I avhs obliged to defer it until iny return in spring, Avhen the first Avalk I took Avas to Helen Walker’s cot tage. She had died a short time before. My regret avus extreme, and I endeavored to ob tain some account of Helen from an old wo man who inhabited the other end of her cot tage. I inquired if Helen ewer spoke of her past history, her journey to London, &c. ‘Na,’ the old woman said, ‘Helen Avas a wiley body, and whenever any o’ the neobors asked any thing about it, she aye turned the eoiiA’ersa tion. In short, every answer I received only tended to increase my regret, and raise my opinion of Helen Walker, Avho could unite so much prudence Avith so much heroic A’irtue.” This account was enclosed in the following letter to the author of Waverley, without date or signature;— “Sir—The occurrence just related happened to me tAventy-six years ago. Helen Walker lies buried in the churchyard of Irongray, a bout six miles from Dumfries. 1 once pur posed that a small monument should have been erected to. commemorate so remarkable a character; but uoav 1 leave it to you to per petuate her memory in a more durable man ner.” Mrs. Goldie endeavored to collect further particulars of Helen Walker, particularly con cerning her journey to London; but this she found impossible, as the natural dignity of her character, and a high sense of family respecta bility, had made her so indissolubly connect her sister’s disgrace Avith her oavu exertions, that none of her neighbors durst ever question her upon the subject. One old woman, a dis tant relation of Helen’s, and who was living in 1820, says she worked in harvest Avith her, but that she never ventured to ask her about her sister’s trial, or her journey to London.— “Helen,” she said, “A\as a lofty body, and used a high style o’ language.” The same old wo man says, “that every year Helen rcceiA’ed a cheese from her sister, who lived at 'Whiteha ven, and that she ahvays sent a liberal portion of it to herself, or to her father’s family.”— The old person here spoken of must have been a mere child to our heroine, who died in the year 1791, at the age of cighty-one or eighty two; and this difference of age may Avell ac count for any reserve in speaking on such a subject, making it appear natural and proper, and not the result of any undue “loftiness” of character. All recollections of her are con nected with her constant and devout reading of the Bible. A small table, Avith a large open Bible, invariably occupied one corner of her room; and she Avas constantly obserA’od steal ing a glance, reading a text or a chapter, as her avocations permitted her time; and it Avas her habit, when it thundered, to take her work and her Bible to the front of the cottage, alleging that the Almighty could strike in the city as avcll as the field. | An extract from a recent letter says, on the subject of our heroine—“l think I neglected I to specify to you that Helen Walker in-ed in ' one of those cottages at the Chedar Mills which you and your sisters so much admired; and the Mr. Walker Avho, as he said himself, ‘laid her head in the grave,’ lived in that larger two s timed he -se standing high on the opposite bank. I?' Si ■ dead, or I might haA*e got. :ie panicukiism-orn him that avg Avanted: he vas a respectable farmer-” The men rial which Mrs. Goldie Avislicd to he raised over her grave, has since boon erect ed at the expense of Sir Walter Scott. The inscription is as folloAvs : This stone was erected by the author of Waverley to the memory of HELEN WALKER, Avho died in the year of God mdccxci. This humble individual practised in real life the A’irtues with AA’hich fiction has im-ested the imaginary character of t Jeame Deans : refusing the slightest departure from A’evacity, CA’en to save the life of her sister, she nevertheless shoAvcd her kindness and fortitude in rescueing her from the severity of the luav at the expense of personal exertions which the time rendered as difficult as the motiA r e was laudable. Respect the grave of poverty, when combined Avith the love of truth and dear affection. J eanie Deans is recompensed by her biogra pher for the trials through Avhich he leads her, with a full measure of earthly comfort; for few noA’elists dare A’enture to make virtue its own reward; yet the following reflection shoAvs him to have felt how little the ordinary course ! of Providence is in accordance with man’s na tural wishes, and his expectations of a splen did temporal reward of goodness : —“That a 1 character so distinguished for her undaunted love of virtue lived and died in poverty, if not want, serves only to show us how insignificant in the sight of heaven are our principal objects of ambition upon earth.” THE H LEDOn" NTS. FUHTHES EXTRACTS. From H Ulmer Jj* Smith’s European Times. Commercial Review. The period intervening between the sailing of the Cambria on the 4th inst., and the de- \ part are of the Caledonia to-day, has not been oiic of activity as regards commercial affairs., Nevertheless, favorable symptoms of improve ment have manifested themselves in the man ufacturing districs. This lias, no doubt, been caused in a great degree by the Unfavorable state of the weather and the continued prom ising appearance of the growing crops. The j money market is easier, artd cash can now be ! had on better terms. Taking every thing into ; account, the prospects of trade are encourag- . I ing. Should the weather continue seasonable, i an abundant harvest we may reasonably ex- ; pect will be the restilt. The transactions in ! foreign and colonial produce have been to a i considerable extent, and, as holders have evinc ed a strong desire to realise, prices have de i dined below our last quotations. The depres sion alluded to has been chiefly in Haw Sugar ; and Coffee. The Cotton market has been steady, and a | fair amount of business has been transacted > during the fortnight. The sales for the two ! weeks ending Juno 18, amount to 53,530 bales, j j which include 9100 American, 2000 Surat, 800 I Egyptian, and -50 Pemam, taken on specula- j tion, and 8050 American, 900 Surat, 580 Bra- j zil, 1080 Pernam, and 40 Macaio, for export, i Among the sales of the last fortnight we note, j 12,150 bales Bowed Georgia at 0 l-8d to 7 l-2d; | 22,240 Orleans at 5 8-4 d to 8 1-2 cl; 8700 Ala- I bam a and Mobile at 5 8-4 d to 6 l-2d; and 280 ''Sea Island at 12d to 22d. The import of Cot ton this vein', as compared with that of 1846, is about 8825 hales deficient, and the estimat j ed stock 238,280 bales less than at the corres- i ponding period last year. The accounts brought by the steamer as to the prospect of the new j crop, and the general state of trade in the ci ties and towns in the Cotton districts of the | United States, his not had any very peculiar or remarkable effect. That there would boa i much more extensive and active demand for | the raw material if the price of Com, Sec., was | more moderate, is evident from the fact, that | as the Grain trade becomes depressed and fiat, i that of Cotton exhibits buoyancy, firmness, and in many instances higher prices are paid, , i whilst both speculators and exporters operate to a certain extent. The Corn markets throughout the United Kingdom have been in a very fluctuating posi tion since the 4th inst—rising and falling ac -1 cording to the nature and extent of the reports circulating respecting the sup]dies on hand, the aid to be had from foreign countries, the pros pects of the growing crops, and the many and unauthenticated rumors afloat touching the potato blight. Comparing our quotations of grain and grain produce to-day with those given on the tth inst., we find that American Flour is now 4s, to 4s. 6d. per brl. lower, In dian Corn 10s. to Us., Indian Meal 6s. to 7s. per brl., Canadian Wheat 1 s. per bushel, United States do. 0d to Is. Canadian Peas 4s. per qr.; | the market remaining flat, with a tendency to recede still further. It should be observed that there is a good deal of Indian Corn now arriving in a spoiled condition, and unmarketa ble; such descriptions are not worth more than 80s. to 84s. per qr. The demand for Indian Corn Meal has completely subsided, and yes terday it was not possible to effect sales at 235. per brl. Our attention has been directed to I tKc cxton.nve loss which importers of Indian ; Corn Meal sustain in consequence of the “leak age,” as it is termed, which it is impossible to ; avoid in every stage of shipping, landing, ware housing, &c. It has, therefore, been suggested j i to use fine canvass bags in .place of barrels.— Many parties are also in the habit of packing Corn Meal warm from the kiln in green and unseasoned barrels. By such a procedure ship pers encounter a heavy loss, inasmuch as the extraction of the sap from the wood deterio rates the whole contents. A remedy for this serious evil would, wc think, he found by sub stituting bags for barrels. With respect to the supplies of. Breadstuff's on hand, we are unfor tunately in that position which does not ena ble us to arrive at the truth with any degree of accuracy, as,to what we may expect from other countries. Our latest advices from the continent of Eu rope lead iq* to expect numerous arrivals of j Wheat, Maize, &c.; an immense number of grain-laden shins have sailed for this country, and passed the Straights of Gibraltar some time ago. The intelligence brought by the Britan ia on the 13th instant is very satisfactory, as it informs us that the stocks of the interior of that country are reported to be much larger than previously estimated. The weather here is every thing that could be desired. Copious and refreshing rains, with pleasant sunshine, are giving to the growing crops a rich and in teresting appearance—full of promise that we shall bo blessed with a timely and abundant harvest. Respecting the potatoc disease, of which so much is being written, we do not be lieve that it exists to anything like the extent , put forth by some “interested croakers.”— j That it has become visible in some parts of the j country wc do not deny; but our opinion is 1 that its appearance is only partial, and in this ! view wc are borne out by the resolutions ■ adopted by the committee of the Royal Agri- I cultural Society of Ireland at their late meet- \ ing. Letters from Naples, where th* potatoc | disease was so bad last year, speak in die high est terms of the appearance of the crop now; ; and similar accounts have reached ns from | Holland, Belgium, and the North of France. All discript ions of cured Provisions are in moderate demand, and prices pretty veil sus tained. Bacon of good cure has advmccd in prices during the last fortnight. The deliveries i are slightly on the increase, whereas the arri ; vals continue small. American Bacon is sold I as high as 60s. to 705., according to quality. I ■ No change can be quoted in Hams; holders are ; more anxious to clear off their stock so that a large business has been done. The money market has continued to improve j slowly but steadily. The continuance of fine ! weather acting upon the Corn market has ad vanced the price of Consols until they reached 89. Although they have since receded a little, the tightness in the Money market has greatly i abated. Discounts are now easily obtained; the Bank has been taking bills due La Septem- ! her at 5 per cent., and the discount houses at | about 5 1-2. The supply of bills however, is not largo, owing to the severe depressiok that pre vails in business generally, and thodisinclina tion that still exists on the part of nany pru dent people to enter into nciv engagements at present. Exchequer Bills, after a lorjg struggle, seem to have now attained a degree of firm ness which wc have not witnessed for, some time past. The New Scrip has also advmced from 1-4 to 1-8 dis. Consols shut on Triday pre paratory to the payment of the July dividends. The market for the last few days has been in what the brokers call “a very ticklish state,” I alternating with the sunshine and shower per petually; in fact, the state of the weather ap pears to be the only guide by which the market is regulated. As however, the chances of fine warm weather appear to have increased in the last 4 8 hours, wc trust that the maket will at tain a greater device of firmness. i Miscellaneous. The Ten Hour Factory Bill received the royal assent by commission, on the Bth inst. The wine growlers in the south of France entertain hopes that the vintage will be unu sually plentiful. The lords of the treasury have ordered Man dioea flour to Ik* admitted without paying duty, until the Ist of September next. So late w as the spring in Sweden, that on the 21st of May, show was six feet deep on the road from Stockholm to Swartwick. In a destructive lire that occurred lately, in the large village of Branitz, Silesia, more than ; 230 houses were destroyed, and three persons j burnt to death. Measure< arc being taken at Edinburgh, for j the erection of the statue of the late Dr. dial- | mers, which is to be placed within the new college. The Lords of the Treasury have ordered foreign hulled barley to be admitted without paying any duty until the Ist of September, j A German newspaper states that the potato ! rot has appeared near Heidelberg, and that the potatoes affected by the disease become de i composed sooner than was the ease last year. Several ships have Lately been wrecked in ! the Baltic among the floating ice, which is ; found in greater masses than during former Springs. Two stockjobbers have been Apprehended at Marseilles for endeavoring to bribe the man i employed at the Telegraph, to obtain more speedily the quotations of the public funds at ■ j Paris. More recruits have enlisted at Skibbcreeil, 1 Cork, where distress has been extremely great, | during the past eight months,than during twen- i | ty years previous. The gross receipts of the German Customs ; Union, in 1846, amounted to 25,746,831 tha- I levs. The King of Prussia has charged the cele brated painter, Cornelius, to prepare the draw - iugs for a monument to be erected at Berlin, 1 to perpetuate the remembrance of his decrees of the 3rd of February, for the constitution of a general diet. The Prussian diet has petitioned the King that the financial estimates and accounts may : be referred for examination to a committee, in I order that the correctness of the ministerial , ; statements may be tested. The Spanish papers state that alarming corn ! riots occurred on the 27th ult. at Aviles, in the ! Asturias. The mob threw stones at the sol- i I diers, who fired and wounded nine of the riot- i ers, whose object was to prevent the export a- j tion of some corn. A premium of £IOOO has been offered by j the Royal College of Chemistry, for a discove- 1 ry by means of which iron, when applied to or dinary purposes, may be rendered as little lia j bio to rust as copper. Baron Solomon dc Rothschild, of Vienna, has established a great manufactory of beet root sugar on his demesne of Ostran, in the district of Odersburg, in Moravia, in order to employ the laboring classes. The French Government has ordered that scientific men in all tire departments shall ex amine microscopally,every fortnight, the grow ing potatoes in the several districts, with a view to discover if the plant be again tainted, and the cause of the disease, if it should again appear. The gross total quantity of grain and meal landed in Ireland during the ten weeks pre ceding the 22d of May last, amounted to 1,298, 074 quarters, of which 900, 176 quarters came from foreign countries and British possessions, and 397,898 quarters from Great Britian. The Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland held a meeting on the 10th inst., and after reading a considerable number of letters from all parts of Ireland, drew Up a report to the effect that there are no grounds for apprehend ! ing a recurrence of the potato disease of the 1 previous ]^har. The Egyptaln Gaverifmcnt has decided that the inhabitants of each village shall be botlnd to deliver every month to the collector of tax es, accounts of all the children horn among j the inhabitants since his last visit, in order that measures may be taken to establish a regular j census in the country. The Neapolitan Government lately refused to allow the Topic's decree convening a re ; presentative assembly, to be published in the Neapolitan papers; but the papal nuncio at j Naples remonstrated so vigorously that the document was ultimately inserted. Ireland. Requisitions are pouring in from several pro vinces of Ireland to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, calling upon him to convene a national meet ing to take into consideration the most appro : priate means by which the memory of O’Con nell could he perpetuated. I A correspondence has taken place between Mr. Smith O’Brien and Mr. Maurice O’Con nell, which has been the subject of much con versation. It was rumored that it was the wish of Mr. Connell’s family that the Young Icelanders should take no part, as a body, in ! the public funeral to be accorded their late father. Mr. Smith O’Brien, in order to test the rumor, addressed a letter to Mr. John O’- Connell, in which he inquires “whether it is their (the family’s) wish that those who dis sented from the policy adopted by the Repeal Association during the last twelve months should attend the funeral.” The duty of re plying was devolved by Mr. John O’Connell upon his brother, Mr. Maurice O’Connell, who i replied that “the arrangements for the funeral having been intrusted to the Glasnevin Gcme j tery committee and the Rev. Dr. Milov, the | family leaves it entirely in their hands.” Mr. | O’Brien interpreted this into an intimation that : “lie should not attend the funeral;” and it 1 seems indeed pretty plainly to bear that con i strnction. The Repeal Association have not given up the usual weekly meetings. On the 7th a ! large number of members mot in Conciliation Hall. Mr. Maurice O’Connell, M. P., eldest son of Mr. O’Connell, deceased, and Mr. John O’Connell, were present. Several addresses and resolutions from the various bodies of the Roman Catholic clergy, from several corpora tions and other public bodies, were read, pro claiming adhesion to the political conduct and teachings of the late Mr. O’Connell, and pro | mising that they would on fide in his son, Mr. John O’Connell, as the expounder of that con duct and policy. Mr. John O’Connell stated that he would not presume to accept the leadership, but that with the advantage of his brother’s counsel and experience, he would en deavor to walk in the paths of his father. It i would seem, therefore, that the two brothers will, for the present at least, assume to guide j the movements of the Repealers. The funds | of the Association have been placed in the guardianship of trustees, that of Aldermen j McLoghlin and Keshan. The rent acknow ledged was nearly fifty pounds. The state of the country is not improved. Crime and outrage still stalk throughout that unhappy land. It would seem as if frauds on the relief funds were being perpetrated. A circular has been issued from the Relief-office to the several in specting officers, which indicates the existence of shameful frauds. The Relief Commission ers state that various abuses exist, “some in volving a most unjustifiable expenditure of the relief funds, amounting to fraud; and others to “an abstraction of the food provided as the re source of families that are entirely destitute,” The inspectors are recommended to endeavor to fix the culpability on individuals, that they may be punished or exposed to prevent an opinion gaining ground that such practices ac quire an impunity from being common in the j country. A circular has just been issued to the engi neers in charge of the several districts in which public works have been hitherto carried on, announcing thafrthe Lords of the 1 rcasury having given instructions that all the works, whether they consist of roads,bridges,thorough drainage, &c., shall be finally discontinued on or before the 15th of August. Wherever it may be found impossible to complete the works before the specified time, plans and esti mates are to be prepared for the country sur veyors, so as to obtain presentments in the or dinary way for the execution of such unfin ished works from the grand juries of the conn- ! ; ties in which they may be situated. The prospects of the crop are in general of ; a gratifying character. The rumor of the re : apperance of last year’s decease in the potatoes appears to have excited a g *neral exainintion of the crop, and the result is such as to inspire? a confident hope that the produce will be fur and every way greater than was at any time this year anticipated, while in no single in stance were true symptoms of the disease dis covered. Decagonal blighted plants arc found, hut the most healthy fields of potatoes have always exhibited such cases of failure. On i the whole the farmers are in the best possible : spirits at the prospects of the coming harvest. Augusta, (Georgia. SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 10,1547. GOVERNOR H2N. 8. W. TOWNS. OF TALBOT. General Taylor’s Letter.—ls it a Forgery? The Taylor* whigs seem to be trembling on i their last legs. They cling fondly however j to one hope, and that is that the letter puh ! lished in the Cincinnati Signal as coining from General Taylor, is a forgery. They cannot hear to contemplate the hard necessity entail ed upon them, to rely upon their principles alone—to defend them —contend for them and to rise or fall with them. They have got it to ido however. The)' hope, against hope, in 1 hoping that this letter is a forgery. In their | hearts they believe and know that it is a gen i nine, veritable document emanating from the i | old Hero. The whigs feel that their doom is ■ recorded in the following significant sentence j ] “/« no case cun I permit myself to be the candi date of any party, or yield myself to party schemes'' The support of his great name being thus snatched away from them, on what will the Georgia whigs now lean: Will they now come out and reiterate “the often declared prin ciples of the whig party?” and trust to their “ benign influences" for success? Is it upon the of General Duncan L. Clinch that they rely? If so, it is to bo hoped that they ..will give to the public some evidence of those talents and that ability. In what speech—essay or pro duction arc they displayed? Upon the min utes of what court —upon the records of what legislative body—in the columns -of what pa per are they to be found—in what legislative halls has the voice of the champion of whig principles and their beniyn injinences been heard? The people want light—they w;mt in formation on this point. The dim and tradi tionary, perhaps apocryphal glories of the swamps of the Withlacoochee are not of them selves sufficient to induce intelligent freemen to give away the highest civil office in their gift without further information. Those mar tial exploits have somewhat faded and become indistinct in the more brilliant lights that have illuminated our hemisphere, ds they have re cently blazed tip fnmi tin; fields of Buena Vista, Sacramento and Ccrro Gordon The Whig Convention, in nominating a Hero,- should at the same time have appointed a poet laureate to write an Cpk.9 The mi nob-ad I would be a good title, and might snatch from oblivion much for which we should be grateful,- “Brave men were living before Agamemmm,- And since, exceeding valorous and sage, A good deal like him too,though quite the same none,- But then they shone not on the poet’s page And so have been forgotten.” For the present, we will not discuss the military abilities of General Clinch. We are j certainly not disposed to question them. But wc* are curious to see in what way they have illustrated the c apacity of the whig nominee for the Chief Magistracy of this State. Wc wish to know how they will demonstrate to the people the propriety of selecting him for the Executive Chair, in preference to tluit long tried, talented, and distinguished civilian George W. Towns, who has exhibited in the legislature of Georgia, and in the Halls of Congress for a great many years, an intimate acquaintance with the theory of government and its practical details—whose training, edu cation, and pursuits all prove him to be fitted for the high station for which he is nominated by his party, Helen Walker. The sketch of this heroine, the original Jeanie Deans, in Scott’s Heart of Midlothian, is fraught with interest, and will fully repay the reader. This is no “lonov’s sketch.” It • • is “an o’er true tale.” Cheap Travelling. —By reference to the ad vertisement of the Chesapeake Bay Company, and the Petersburg Rail Road Company, our readers will perceive that the trip can be made from Charleston to Baltimore for Four teen Dollars, meals included—and from Charles ton to New York, Twenty Dollars, arriving at the latter city iis early as by any other line.— We invito attention to their Schedule. It of fers to the traveller the double inducement o* economy, both in money and time. disgraceful affair occurcd at Annapo lis, Md., on the oth inst., between some per sons in that city and the passengers and mili tary on board the steamer Jewess, which boat was on a pleasure excursion from Baltimore, The Baltimore papers give the particulars, but as usual in such cases, they arc contradictory. Five persons belonging to Annapolis were shot, and three of them, at the latest advices, were in a dangerous situation. The Difference. A gentleman of Ohio, twenty-eight years ago, left Canandaigua, in New Y*ork, for Jef ferson, Ohio, and was four weeks in perform ling the journey. Last week he was only six teen hours in accomplishing the same journey. The Telegraph between Philadelphia and Baltimore was out of orrder on the 7th iust., and we are, therefore, without any ad vices of that date, from New York and Phila delphia. . The Weather. Hie Savannah Republican of the Bth inst. sa vs —“The weather continues to be most «u --propitious for the crops iu this region, as well as for all out-door industrial pursuits. We i never remember to have seen so copious a rain as yesterday, between the hours of 1 and 2 o’- | clock. The quantity of the downfall of wa ter was almost incredible, converting all the lower levels of the city into lakes of no con temptible size, to which some of the streets acted as outlets. The basement of the Baptist Chur ch was, we are informed, partially tilled with water, the scats there being quite alloat. | We have heard of several houses whose base ment stories received during the rain from one to four and five feet of water, according to their position and exposure. Very deep gul lies were formed in several of the roads lead ing down to the wharves, the sand carried down, forming, as at the store of Messrs. Wood & Clughom, considerable hanks in front of the doors, and exhibiting too clearly, the importance of guarding the river from these i deposited by a judicious system of paving.— 'Die water, in pouring from the bluff behind the counting room of Messrs. Andrew how Co., found its way into one of their warehouses, and dissolved some suit, but the loss is happi ■ ly trifling. The Cottou. Crop. The Charleston Mercury of the 9th in<t. says —“The follonwing are extracts of letters re cifcved in this city from gentlemen whose character and means of information render their statements of the highest authenticity. The first is from Abbeville, and is as follows: ‘Our Cotton crops in Abbeville are more un promising than I have ever seen them, and they are suffering under evils that no future : events can entirely remedy.- ! ‘The stand of Colton is very ultlcli injured 1 by the lice, and the plant is very backward; moreover it lias been a difficult season to keep a dean crop* Corn is promising; Wheat only tolerable. Could the Savannah river be made navigable for steamboats for eighty miles above Hamburg* we could grow rich by fitr i Ui'hiug you with Corn, Wheat, Oats and | Hay. ‘We have all the elements of a fine farm -1 • 1 mg country; The other is dated St. Matthew’s, and says : ‘Our prospects for a Cottou crop are worse than I have ever known.’ “This information is but confirmatory of that derived from various sections of the .Slate, all | going tp show that so far as .South Carolina is concerned, the Cotton crop nor _ fall far be low an average one; and from the accounts re ceived, we are led to inter n similar result iu Georgia and Lower Alabama. From Missis sippi and Louisiana the accounts are more fu j rorablc. £arly Cotton. 1 The. Albany Patriot of the 30th lilt, says;—- We were shown on Monday last, two stalks of ' Cotton from the plaatati<ni Os Mr. Robert ! Thompson, of Lee County, One stalk was of the Grand Golf Cotton, and was itbont six feet high, and had aortic eight at ten full grown bolls on it. W e were as*,tired that there were several bolls opcried in the field from which tin* was taken. The other stalk was nearly six feet high, and had oil it Upwards *rf one hun dred bolls and forms. It was Pot quite so for-' i ward oii the other strdk. There is said to Ire? j two hundred acres of Cotton on the same plan-' tat ion nearly as good ns these specimens.- Since the above Was written, Capt. HardF I Griffin has presented us with a stalk of cot tor* on his pine land plantation three miles from this place, which mea-ures o feet 8 1-8 inches i . I Hi leitgtb, two inches and a half in cixcuinier ' encc above the first limb, and has on it Ho boll* j ami formsv Presidential Rains. The Boston Transcript says—'-If is ti fact worthy of note, that the three Presidents who | have visited that city during the last fourteen yearn, have been greeted with showers of rain on their entrance into town, viz: Gen. Jackson, i on Friday, June 21st, 1833; Mr. Tyler, on Fri day, Jime IfiTh, 1843; and Mr. Polk, on Tues day, June 29th, 1847.” This is right enough—it ought to rain when a Democratic President visits that federal city, j to purify the atmospher. Odds and Rads. “Married iu New York, by the Rev. K. Mil ler, Mr. James E. Ends, of Westfield, to Miss Martha Ann Odd.” Though by this union odd has met an end, yet the supposition is fair that it will result in many odds and cuds. [COMMUXICATKD.] The Burke county delegation to the Demo cratic Convention for nominating a candidate j for the Senate, for the sixty-second Senatorial : District, agreeable to previous notice, having met at the ninety-five mile station on Satur day, June 26th, and ascertaining that there | was a misunderstanding with the delegation | from Emanuel county in regard to the time ap ; pointed to meet, held a meeting; A. Inman, ! Esq., presiding, and 11. Byne Secretary, and ! passed the following Resolutions : Vv hereas, we regret the disappointment of j the Emanuel delegation (there being a misun derstanding with them in regard to the day ap pointed to meet,) and feel desirous of their as ■ sistanee iu nominating a candidate. 1 Resolved, Ist. That, a Committee of four be ap j pointed to confer with the Emanuel delegation j in writing, soliciting their attendance at a Con vention to be held on the last Saturday in J ply 31st, ut the ninety-five mile station. It being moved that the Chairman apjioiut the corresponding Committee, the follouing gentlemen were appointed. B. L, PERKINS, E. W, LACY, Dr. FUKSE. On motion, the Chairman, A , Inman, Esq., was added to the Committee. Resolved , 2nd. That, the minutes of this meet ing be forwarded to the Constitutionalist for publication, A motion then being made to adjourn, the meeting adjourned over to the last Saturday in July. A. INMAN, Chairman, 11. Byne, Secretory.