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Ths Huron to the Sioux Maiden.
BY EDWARD J. PORTER.
I will fly to the mountains,
Where dark woods are waving,
Where the gush of the fountains
Wild flower-wreaths is laving,
Where streamlets are springing
To meet the caresses
Os the wind-spirit, winging
To bathe their bright tresses.
Through the depths of the forest
I will wander, still lonely,
And the spirit thou implorest
Shall be my guide only.
The star ot thy bower,
In bright, beauty gleaming,
Through Might’s silent hour
Shall illumine my dreaming.
And still will I bless thee,
Star of my youth’s heaven !
Though another caress thee,
And sing thee at even,
When sunset is dying,
Strains sweeter, not fonder*
Than his, who now sighing,
Still loveless must wander.
An Bnigrmn.
BY LORD NUGENT.
The moon rose high in her majesty.
Oyer glittering earth, and through deep blue sky,
Reigning in bright tranquillity.
One soft beam looked on a woodland glade—
Two lovers strayed
Down its close arcade ;
An 1 ’twas thus that the youth be poke the maid.
'•Dearest, I give my heart to thee,
Truth, love and changeless constancy,
All, all; —Yet more thou shall give to me.
Oh, give me what never yet was thine,
Nor is Yet ’tis thou who must make it mine.
No woman hath that which from thee I crave,
Or had; No. nor ever could wish to have.
Nor, when given, albeit I pledge thee now>
A true and an everlasting vow,
Life, fortunes, all, with thee, whate’ef
Is, or ever henceforth may be mine to share,
Canst thou ever share with me
That which now I am craving and claiming from
tbee.”
SOLUTION.
They were words of the fondest and firmest truth—
And ’twas thus the maiden bespoke the youth—
“ Yes. I take thy true heart and its fealty,
Thy love, and its changeless constancy ;
And yet thou demandest more from me?
Then take it. I give what Ido not crave,
Nor e’er had, no, nor ever could wish to have.
I give thee, unshared, and ungrudged, through life,
A Wife.”
[From the Savannah Georgian, 3d inst. ]
Tfcc only objection to Mr. Towns.
It must be very gratifying to the friends of
Mr. Towns to learn, that the only vulnerable
point which the Whigs can detect in his char
acter, is tho fact that he can out speak Gen.
Clinch —and that the columns of their papers
ore filled, not with arguments against his prin
ciples. nor with proofs of his incapacity to fill
the gubernatorial chair, but with long disser
tations upon the fruitfulness of our age and
country in public speakers, and melancholy
homilies upon the fact that all who mount the
*tump are not equal to Demosthenes —in other
words, to “Toombs, Crawford, and Berrien!”
They urge that it is a highly improper thing
for a candidate for the chief magistracy of the
State to address the people, because the result
of such a practice will be to throw the guber
natorial office into the hands of lawyers alone;
—-and forthwith follows an elaborate effort to
excite popular prejudice against the legal pro
fession. This argument comes but poorly from
Whig mouths. While they are disposed at the
present time to snarl at the lawyers, we would
simply ask, who have been their own candi
dates for many years past: —ever since they
have owned a party name? If General Clinch
had not been preferred by the Convention on
account of the gunpowder smell which was
supposed to hang around his name—would not
Dawson or Jenkins have been the nominee?
and are not both of these gentlemen distin
guished lawyers? Is not His Excellency, him
self, who has grown of late to be the Samson
of Georgia Whiggery, a lawyers Is not the
freat “Tantvlized” of Clark county, Judge
Jougherty, ho has been taken more frequent
ly into sight of the promised land of office, and
bas more distinct ideas upon the old adage —
“There is many a slip
Between the cup and the lip!”
thau any man in Georgia—is not he also a law
yer? And why were all of these lawyers nomi
nated by the Whigs: Was it not because their
talents were known to the people? And how
did their talents become known to the people?
Was it not because they had been in the habit
of addressing public assemblages? And we are
at a loss to discover what material difference
can exist between a speech pronounced at one
time or another, before tir after a nomination,
if the effect is the same upon the final election.
Now, we are sorry to see that our friends,
the Whigs, arc disposed, as the schoolboys
would say, “to take all under hold of us.”
They have nominated a candidate who has a
military handle to his name, upon the ground
that by means of this they can lift him so hand
somely into office. Might we not argue, that
thU is a highly improper thing, because the
result will be that only Generals will be eligi
ble to the office of Governor? But we are will
ing that the two candates should go before
the people upon their respective merits; —we
do not object to Gen. Clinch’s gunpowder j
smell, nor do we think that this of itself is any
disqualification, but at the same time we claim
for our candidate the right of wielding his
sword —we mean his tongue—whenever he or
his friends may think that it will do him ser
vice. We are greatly amused to discover, that
while the Whigs unhesitatingly place him be
low eight of the fraternity in Columbus in the
use of this bloodless weapon, and unquestion
ably far below the great Orators of the State, |
♦'Toombs, Stevens, and Berrien .” they never
theless display an exceeding amount of ner
vousness when they learn that he has mounted
the stump.
Hard to Ploaso.
Mr, McAllister, in 1845, travelled through a
portion of the up-country of Georgia, so as to
make acquaintance with many of his fellow ci
tizens, and renew an acquaintance with old
friends, yet neither speaking on the stump or
elsewhere, and those who were disappoint! 2d in
the hope of misrepresenting his remarks, abused
his personal appearance, his equipage, &c
♦‘Swelled head”and“Broken Topped Barouche”
were the weapons of his opponents, not to
speak of the secret slanders uttered and some
time whispered against him.
Mr; Towns, on the contrary, has yielded to
the solicitations of his political friends in Dooly,
and made them a speech; For this Mr. Towns
has had opened upon him the artillery of the
whole Whig press.
We wonder if Judge Dawson had been no
minated by the Whigs, whether, the Whigs
would have objected to his smooth and facile
tongue being used in addresssing his fellow ci
tizens of the Whig party. No, that would
have been very different. It would have been
all right for “Cos Dawson,” he can talk, “and
is fond of hearing himself speak.” But for |
Towns to presume to address his Dooly friends, i
it is wrong.
Judge Dawson, if a candidate, might have
travelled hundreds of miles by railroad to this
or that Whig gathering,and he would have been
praised in the Whig columns for his grandi
loquence and able illustrations of W hig prin
ciples, now unneccessary to be “reiterated.”
Every village in Cherokee and Central
Georgia might have been crowded with listen
! ers to hear the Whig lawyer who would have
decried a patriotic administration, and sought
! on the back of “Old Hough and Ready” to
have ridden, booted and spurred, into the
• Government House, at Miledgeville, where lots
I of Madeira wine would be visible, ready to
| pour out their contents, for rejoicing friends,
; and it would have been all right.
The people —the Whigs then would have
| contended, desired discussion, and were pleas- }
ed at judging for themselves of the intellectu- ;
i al calibre of those who were before their suf- ,
frages.
But Dawson was thrust aside for a more I
convenient season. And as the Whigs have |
put Dawson on the shelf, it is wrong—very
i wrong for lawyer Towns, a Democrat, to visit
his plain fellow Democrats of Dooly and, face
| to face, explain that like themselves, he is a
: straight forward Democrat, and sustains the
I administration in a just war, and in all those
measures which conduce to the good of the
country and the welfare of all.
I From the Columbus Times, 211 k tdf.J
G-corge W. Towns.
We learn from the Albany Patriot, that this
gentleman being at Dooly court last week, ad
dressed a large auditory of the people assem
bled under the shade trees near Mr. R. B. Da
vis’s house, there being no room large enough
to hold the audience. Tie paid his competitor,
General Clinch, (says the Patriot) “many high
compliments, and then proceeded to explain
the leading principles of the Democratic faith,
i He ably and successfully defended the Ad
: ministration of Mr. Polk from all blame in
; commencing and carrying on the Mexican, war.
He showed that the war had been forced upon
! the country by the Mexicans; that it had been
! recognised and adopted by Congress with but
j fourteen dissenting voices; that Congress had
j voted the men and money for prosecuting the
; war, and made it the imperative duty of the
President to carry it forward. This he had
done with unexampled vigor and success. He
contrasted the situation of the country under
I the high protective tariff of 1842, and under
the present democratic tariff of 1846, and asked
1 the people to choose between them.
The Col. then made some happy remarks
! upon the resolution passed at the Whig Con
vention in Millcdgeville, which declared in
j substance, that “Whig principles were so well
i known as to need no repetition of them in that
place,” and asked if any one present knew
I what Whig principles were at this time? No
one answering, he went on to explain what he
believed whig principles once Were, but ac
; knowledged that he did not kriow what they
* were at present. He then warned the people
! of the South of the danger which threatened
their institutions from the combination of poli
tics and fanaticism, and urged upon them the
necessity of a strict adherence to the letter
and spirit of the Constitution.
Col. Towns was frequently cheered by tbc
audience,and concluded amidst repeated shouts
of approbation from the multitude. If we do
not greatly mistake the signs of the times,
Dooly will give him next October the largest
majority that any candidate for Governor eVcr
received in that countv.”
We suppose all this will be very distasteful
to the whig papers, as they have taken up a
violent dislike to speaking candidates of late—
that is, ever since they determined to trust
their fortunes for tho fall elections to the
“grace of gun powder,” and nominated Gen.
Clinch, who does not speak. We suppose, too,
that they hold a speaking talent, as entirely
superfluous, at present, inasmuch as their con
vention declared that Whig principles were so
well understood that they required no itera
tion. An expression by the way, which we
always interpreted to mean, that Whig princi
ples were so tangled up with Nortlircn notions,
and so floored by experience under a Demo
cratic administration, that it was worse than
useless to try to straighten them out, or “resur
rect” them. Hence a dumb candidate was
the very thing for the occasion—one who is in
no danger of committal or entanglement, even
without a committee to keep him. It is a cun
ning game, and the Whigs deserve credit for
their sagacity.
Pleased with tha Nomination of General
Clinch.
A writer in the Journal &; Messenger, who
signs his name Etowah, says :—'“He has just
returned from a trip through the counties of
Northwestern Georgia, and no where has he
found the people more pleased with the nomi
nation of Gen. Clinch than in those counties.”
We have no doubt of that, these northwest
ern counties are strongly democratic, and the
democrats are every where pleased with the
nomination of Gen. Clinch. They think it
will be easy to beat him, and they are there
fore pleased with his nomination. It is just
so down in the Wire Grass. We are pleased
that old Withlacoochee is nominated. We
believe we can beat him and not half try. —
The whig* are the only persons who appear to
be chagrined at his nomination. They hang
down their heads and appear chop-fallen. We
think Etowah will find that in the whig dis
tricts of the State the people are not half so
well pleased with the nomination of General
Clinch as in the democratic. We do n»»t
know a single democrat but what is pleased
with it. Had Dawson or Jenkins been nomi
nated Mr. Etowah would not have found the
people in the democratic parts of the State so
WELL pleased. —Albany Patriot.
[From the Vermont Patriot .]
Censurcrs of Taylor.
Never seemed retribution to follow closer
the commission of a political blunder, than in
the case of the traducers of General Taylor.
That vote of censure adheres to the sinners
like the poisoned shirt of Ness us. No expurga
tion will clear them from their wilful attempt
to outrage alike the national gratitude and
manifest truth; repentance cannot save them
from the swift punishment that awaits them.—
N. Y. Tribune, July sth.
Who the revilers of General Taylor and his
brave associates arc, may be seen from the fol
lowing quotations from Senator Corwin’s
speech, as reported by tho Tribune. After de
manding what the triumphs are for which the
American public utter such thanksgivings, the
Senator says:—
“Far gaining three victories in three battles
j with the Republic of Mexico, who, in the year 1836,
■was conquered and bereft of a territory as large as
the ichole empire of France, by seven hundred men
! under the command of the honorable Senator from
I Texas, coming from about ten thousand peo
| pic, gathered from all quarters of the Union,
i who had a few months before set themselves
i down in the Republic of Texas I I expect this
will be a very glorious chapter in your history —
won’t it? [A laugh.]
“Why, sir, must not this melancholy affair
excite the RIDICULE, nay, it must excite the
CONTEMPT of every man acquainted with
the history of the wars of thd world.”
Kir. Clay and the War.
“Mr. Clay, in reply to a letter from some
gentlemen in Maine, who had sent him a pres
ent of some scythes, and referred in their letter
to the Mexican war, says: ‘Yes ! gentlemen. I I
j certainly concur with you in deprecating the ;
I Mexican war, the causes which brought it a- |
i bout, and the manner of its commencement, j
I I sincerely wish that every bayonet arid sword |
employed in its prosecution, by both bellige
rents, * were converted into scythes, plough
shares and axes, and dedicated to their rcspec- j
tive uses in the innocent and peaceful arts of !
; life ’ Tribune.
Mr. Clay at New Orleans, said he “felt in
clined to ask for some little nook or corner in
the army in which I might serve in avenging
the wrongs of my country —I have thought I
might yet be able to capture or slay a Mexi- |
can.”
“Innocent and peaceful arts of life! I”
“The causes which brought about the Mex
ican war,” the federalists say, was the annexa
tion of Texas — to which Clay declined that
“personally he had no objections , but should be
glad to see it /”
Augusta, (Georgia.
F EID A Y N?NSrAUGUS T 6.
r GOVERNOR
HON. G. W. TOWNS.
OF TALBOT.
Democratic Nominations for Senators.
sth Dist.—Lowndes and Ware—(Jen. T. Hilliard.
j
7th “ Tattnall and Bulloch— John A. Mattox.
9th “ Burke and Emanuel— W. H. C Morris.
12th “ Thomas and Decatur—Wm. H. Reynolds.
13th “ Baker and Early—Dr. Wm. J. Johnson.
| 14th “ Randolph and Stewart—William Nblson. j
17th “ Macon and Houston—John A. Hunter.
20lh “ Twiggs and Bibb—W. W. Wiggins.
25th “ Jones and Putnam—James M. Guat.
2Gth “ Munroe and Allen Cochran.
28th “ Merriwether and Coweta—Ore. Warner. j
31st w Fayette and
32d “ Jasper and Biitts —Col. J. C. Waters.
38th “ Clark and Jackson-»SAMUEL Bailee.
39th “ Gwinnett and DeKalb— J is. P. Simmons,
4fHh Paulding and Cass— Francis Irwin,
41st “ Cobb and Cherokee —Wm. H. Hunt,
43d “ Habersham and Rabun— Edw’d Coffee,
44th “ Lumpkin and Union— Elihu S, Barclay,
i•— ' 1
following is a portion of an edito
rial which appeared in the Columbus Times of
the 13th ult., to the entire truthfulness of
which the heart and the memory of every |
democrat in the country will responds
“The Democrats deeply and warmly sympa
thize with Gen. Taylor. He is the fortunate
! soldier of their nurture. They gave him the
brilliant opportunities which he has so bril
liantly improved. They have followed his |
i banner with straining eyes and beating breasts |
at every step of his victorious progress. When
gloom for a season hung around his path, it
was the Democrats, who refused to give way
to dark presages of defeat and boldly maintain
ed their con tidence that the gallant leader with
his gallant men would yet pluck victory from
seeming disaster, and hew his way through
| surrounding foes. When triumph followed
his eagles from held to field, it was the Demo
crats who most fervently rejoiced, as Americans,
j —in the glory of the success of a just cause, |
and as party men, —that the soldier of their
1 appointment had vindicated the judgment of I
the President and justified the expectations of
the country# Everything, indeed, conspired
to cause the hearts of American Democrats to |
i leap towards Gen. Taylor.” — Times, 1 3thult.
Yet, says the Times, two whig papers, the
Augusta and the Macon (Ala.) Repuh-
I Ucan bounced it as something monstrously 1
heretical and incredible:
It is one of the Whig articles of Creed to be |
maintained at all hazards, that the Whigs, and
the Whigs alone, arc the admirers and friends I
of Gen. Taylor. No miserable Loeofoco' is to
be allowed to indulge in the Itixury of an eri- |
thUsiasm fir this victorious American General, i
Nobody but the party that Tom Corwin be- j
longs to, the party whose presses have de- j
nounced him as a “skillful throat-cutter, and |
skull-breaker” and the leader of a “damnable !
President’s war,” is to dare to have or express !
any emotions of regard, gratitude or admira
tion for Gen. Taylor. And whys Because,
their lordships the Whigs, oilr privileged par- |
ty in America, have chosen to appropriate
Gen. Taylor, his glories and his popularity to
their uses, and to prostitute his noble charac
ter to the ignoble purpose of imposing unpop
; ular and pernicious measures of policy upon
| the American people#
■ ’The Times might have added that this is
the same party that the whigs of Massachu- ;
setts belong to, who voted in their legislature I
against a resolution of thanks,to General Tay-
I lor for his gallant and patriotic services in
Mexico. It is the same party whose members ;
| in the New Hampshire and Connecticut legis- :
latures did the same thing. It is the same I
f party whose presses and prominent men, one
of whom is a conspicuous candidate for the
Presidency, have reviled this war in which
General Taylor has won his imperishable lau
rels, as unholy, unjust, unprovoked, and those
engaged in it, little better than a band of rob
bers. It is the same party from whose ranks
the cry has already gone forth, “stop the sup
| plies —refuse all aid to the administration for
the prosecution of this abominable war—com
pel the President to call back our armies and |
abandon the contest.” It is the same party
which contends that Mexico is the injured
party, and opposes the exaction of indemnity
: from her for this war. It is the same party !
with whom the Senators from Georgia, to be ;
elected by a whig legislature, if the whigs car
ry the election in October next, will vote in j
the next Congress.
The Times goes on and gives the whigs a
castigation, as well laid on as it is deserved, in
the following style:
But will the “Chronicle & Sentinel” and the
“Republican” be so good as to tell us, what the
Whig party has ever done, to enhance the fame
of Geu. Taylor, or to entitle itself to the arro
gated claims of being his especial friends? Did
I they move a finger to help him until after the
I President had placed him in a position to win
I the brightest laurels,that ever, with two or three
1 exceptions,graced the brow of an American sol
dier? When overwhelmed with superior num
j hers, before the sun of the Bth and 9th of May
went down over his victorious fields, did they
cheer him with confidence in his unequalled re
sources to beat back the fearful odds and extri- j
cate himself from unusual difficulties? No:
: The hoar se murmurs that rose from their press
es during those gloomy days, showed that they
were gloating over the prospects of defeat, and
watching the hour that should proclaim it, as“
a signal for turning it to the account of wrath ‘
and vengeance against the administration —of
producing a Democratic defeat, which the
whole history of this war proves to be dearer
to their hearts, than a Mexican defeat. Fol
low the Whig party (we speak of it now as a
party, entirely disconnected from those gallant
Whigs who have separated themselves from
the sympathies of that party, and by their
words and writings, as well as by their deeds
in the field have exhibited a patriotism supe
rior to its traitorismj and the successful Gen
eral through the war—and point if you can, to
one instance in which he has received their
sympathy or support, except in the hour of
glory or victory, when his great fame and
magnificent successes were found useful to
prop up the waning fortunes of exploded prin
ciples and an unpopular cause. They were ;
“sunshine friends” always —standing ever rea- ;
dy to.damn the administration, and if neces- j
sary, himself, wlicii he should fail, and to ap
propriate all the honor and profit, if he should j
succeed. What moral comfort and support
has Gen. Tayldr ever received from the Whig
party, to strengthen his hands and cheer his
| spirits, during the ardiiotis years of his ser
vice in the field? Have they told him, your
cause is just—our hearts are with you—if you
fail we will console you with oitr confidence
that you have done all that man could do; if
you triumph, we will rejoice in your victories?
Nothing of the kind. On the contrary, it has
been thundered in his ears, by day and by
night, that his cause was an unholy one, that
he was a God-defying throat-cutter; that the
war was waged without cause, was atrocious '
1 and unjust in its origin, cruel and abominable
; in its prosecution.
I It is the Democrats, as a party, and many :
I patriotic individual Whigs, segregated from i
; their party, who have cheered Gen. Taylor on j
1 to victory, sustained him in his trials, and tri
i umphed with him in his brilliant successes.
It was the Democrats in Congress, and the
1 Democratic press, out of Congress, who repro
bated the delay, interposed to the ten Regi
ment bill, by a discussion of the three million
; appropriation, and the Wilmot proviso—a de
lay which has retarded the movements of both
j Scott and Taylor, nearly four months; and
i which, (their own act,) is now charged back
! upon the administration. Gen. Taylor has
himself admitted that the administration had,
| he believed, done all in its power, with the
' limited means in its hands, and thwarted and
I restricted, as we know, by a factious party in |
and out of Congress, to furnish him with sup
plies and re-inforcements. And if the secret
emotions of the old hero’s heart could be read,
who doubts, but that an echo of scorn and
contempt would be found to all that the Whig
party has done, to advance his fame and what
he holds dearer, the glory and honor of his
countrVi That party has stood by, either giv- :
ing a cold shoulder to the cause, but more fre
i quently breaking out in open sympathy for
I the enemies side, and when, success has crown
ed the administration and its General with
glory, they coolly step forward to grasp the
I plumes from the cap of those who won them,
and to claim them as their legitimate spoils.
Blit neither Gen. Taylor nor the country,
will submit to such impudent misappropria- i
lion of honor and fable. Like a true-hearted
man, as he is, he has told the Whigs that he j
will yield His name aild fame to no such
{ “schemes;” thereby giving them to under
stand that he despises their tardy and selfish
friendship, and scorns to be the tool of any
party, that is false to His country;
Volunteers Ho-Enlisting 1 *
In spite of the terrible stories of the sitffcr
; ings of the volunteers, many Os those* who
have returned to their homos are re-enlisting.
I Lieut. Col. Irvin, of the 2d Ohio Regiment,
calls upon the officers and men to volunteer
, again for the war, and the Ohio Statesman |
says: “As far as we can learn, there will be
j hut little difficulty in re-organizing the 2d
Ohio Regiment, under Col. Irvin. The re
j turned volunteers, very generally, are highly
pleased with their camping in Mexico,- and j
feel a pride in seeing the war out.”
A Bank Officer Defaulted.
The Richmond En juircr learns that one of ;
the officers of the Branch Bank of Virginia, at
Lynchburg, has absconded, carrying off some
13,000 dollars of the funds of the bank. He
i is said to be a man of high standing in the
I community, and has hitherto borne an irre
proachable character.
i A letter from Columbia, to the editors of the
Charleston Courier dated 2d instant, says:
“Rain has fallen almost incessantly since Satur
i day, and the Congaree has risen, from last
| night, twelve feet, and is now rising ten inches I
per hour; and many fears are entertained that
much damage will occur to the crops below
j this.”
[communicated.]
Ninth Senatorial District.
I At a meeting of the Delegates of the Demo
cratic party, convened at the ninety-five miles
station for the purpose of making a selection
of a proper candidate for Senator from the 9th
i District,
Eld. Swain of Emanuel, was requested to
i act as President, and B. E. Brinson and W. M. j
Janes as Secretaries.
On examination, the following Delegates !
were found to be present.
Emanuel. —G. W. Clifton, Stephen Lewis,
Wm. Stephens, Wm. Twombly, A. A. Atkin
son, James Cannedy, Newton M. Perkins, I
Kinchcn Kemp, Elcazer Darden, Matthew
Overstreet, Absalom Gay, Pleasant Wiggins,
Eldred Swain, M. G. Fortner, L. J. Kilpatrick,
| Wm. Cannedj%
BurJcc. —lsaiah Carter, Alexander McKenzie, j
B. L. Perkins, Joseph A. Shcwmake, John j
Jones, Robt. J. Skinner, John C. McLean, Wm.
i B. Douglass*. Allen Innman, Jerry Innman,
George Nasworthy, Samuel Brinson, F. Nas
i worthy, J. A. Rosier, J. Atkinson.
On motion of Alexander McKenzie, Esq.:
j ßesolved, That Wm. S. C. Morris, of the
county of Burke, be nominated by acclamation
as the candidate of the Democratic party for
the Ninth (9th) Senatorial District—composed i
of the counties of Burke and Emanuel.
On motion of Joseph A. Shewmakc, Esq.:
Resolved, That we unanimously agree with
the Preamble and Resolutions adopted by the
Democratic Convention held at Milledgeville,
and that we accept with pleasure the nomina-
I tion of the Hon. George W. Towns for the Gu
bernatorial chair, and will use all honorable
means in our power to secure his election.
On motion of George W. Clifton, Esq. :
Resolved, That we solicit every Democrat in
our district to subscribe for some Democratic
paper, so that our principles may be more clear
ly seen by tho whole people.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in the Georgia Constitution- |
alist and weekly Georgian.
* ELD SWAIN, Chairman.
B. E. Brinson, > c . .
I W. M. Jakes, ] Secretaries.
• [From the Baltimore American, ?>d inst.J
Arrival of the Hibernia.
FIVE DAYS LATER PROM EUROPE.
The Canard steamer Hibernia, arrived at
Boston at an early hour yesterday morning,with
dates from Livet'pool to the 20th ult. Our at
tentive correspondent at New York immedi
ately forwarded us the following despatch, con
taining the latest European markets ;
New York, Aug. 2, 11 A. M.
LIVERPOOL, July 20.—Flour, sweet, 31s
| to 355; sour, 29s to 29s fid; Wheat, red, 9s 4d
j to 9s 8d; white 9s lOd to 10s 2d; Beef, Prime
i Mess, 88s to 91s per tlcrcc; 55s to 60s per bbl.;
Pork, now Mess, GBs to 725; new Prime 60
to 625.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, July
20. —Ordinary to Middling New Orleans to
7J; fair to good fair 7| to 8; good to fine 8i
to 9.
After the foregoing was put in type, wo re
ceived the following despatches from our cor
respondent in Philadelphia:
Philadelphia* Aug. 2. Hi A. M.
The letter prepared by our Liverpool cor
| respondent has not come to hand. The follow
ing abstract has been prepared by our Boston
j Agent: Flour 345. to 355. Cotton the same as
| when the Washington sailed.
Philadelphia, August 2,1 P. M.
The communication with Boston was inter-
I
rupted between Boston and Worcester at ten
minutes before 1 o’clock, and before our report
of the Hibernia’s news was ready, since which
I time we have been unable to communicate
with points east of Worcester.
| The following is a comparative statement of
| the prices of Breadstuff* at Liverpool on the
sailing of the steamers Caledonia, Britannia
and Hibernia, on the 19th May, and 4th and
21th July.
Caledonia, Britannia, Hibernia,
May 19. July 4. July 20.
Flour 38s. a 40s. ( 345. a 355. I 345. a35 s-
Tndian Meal.93s. a 945. 90.5. a2l s. | —s. a —a.
Indian Corn .475. a 525. j 445. a 455. I —s. a —s.
Wheat, 11s. a 12s. 6d. [ Bs. a 105.6 d. | 95.4d.a105.2d.
Arrival cf the Philadelphia.
New York, August 2, 6 P. M.
The French Royal Mail steamer Philadel
phia, which sailed from Cherbourg on the 15th
ult., is now coming into port. She has made
1 the passage in eighteen days, but of course
brings no news, the Hibernia having sailed five
i n
days after her.
FURTHER NEWS BY THE HIBERNIA.
By Magnetic Telegraph.
[Transmitted for the American.]
Philadelphia, August 2, 11 P. M.
The wires between Boston and Worcester
have been repaired, and the Telegraph is again j
| in operation to the former city, I am therefore
enabled to forward you the following addition
| al news by the Hibernia.
| At Liverpool at the date of the Hibernia’s
' sailing, the Times says, the weather was fine
! for the growing crops, and indeed for the pre
vious ten days it had been uninterruptedly
good; arid each day stfeiigthens the expect a
- tious entertained of an abundant harvest of
; grain throughout the British Islands arid all
I Europe* The prospects of still receiving large
supplies from the United States and byway of i
the Mediterranean, added to the fine weather j
which prevails ill all quarters, flic markets
, have become depressed, and they now present
j every aspect of a further downward movement*
I The potatoe crop is represented to be free from
j danger arid contributed not a little to affect
| prices. During the' past week, however, the
markets have been mtich firmer. The’ prices
; of the 12th became current arid we're maintain
ed throughout the week, and on the 19th, in
Mark Lane, a further decline of one shilling in
Flour took place. The trade in Indian Corn
was, however, quite paralized and Flour, in
bbls., was quite neglected.
The heavy decline in Cotton which took
place at the begining of the month has been
j checked, and the market has been steady since
the 10th. The sales have been pretty large
with a considerable demand.
THE NEWS AND THE MARKETS.
FROM NEW YORK.
By Magnetic Telegraph.
[Transmitted for the American.]
New York, August 2, 6 P. M.
The Hibernia’s news was received here at
10 o’deck this morning, and has caused quiet
i an excitement in the market for Breakstufis.—
Flour was firm, before the receipt of the news,
| at $6 a 6.12 i for Genesee, but it has since de
clined considerably, and sales of 5000 bbls.
have taken place at $5 25 a $5 50.
In Wheat, and other descriptions of Bread
sutffs little or nothing has been done to indi
| cates prices under the news, and the market
i will not become settled until after the private
letters have come to hand.
Secretary Walker, we sec it stated, intends
despatching, by the Boston steamer, Charles
Welden, Esq., as an agent to collect facts in
relation to the operation of the foreign warc
| houses.
[From the N. O. Southerner .]
We find the following remarks in a letter
: from Vera Cruz of the 22d inst., to the La I*a
j tria:
‘T wrote to you that there was considerable
confidence here in the rumor that a commis
sion had been instituted by the Mexican gov
| eminent for the purpose of conferring with
i Gen. Scott or with Mr. Trist at St. Martin de
Tesmelucan, but I am able to inform you that
by late letters from the capital, nothing of this
kind had taken place; on the contrary, it is
believed that the government will continue the
I war with vigor. This is confirmed by the pre
parations which are making to resist the at
tacks of Gen. Scott upon the capital.
“Nothing more is heard of the assembling of
Congress, which will doubtless not occur, be
cause it would be against the interests of Santa
Anna. Persons who know the movements of
the President, say that he works with assidui
ty to prevent any re-assembling of Congress;
and in the event that Scott does not attack the
capital, Santa Anna, by means of one of those
manifestos in which he is so well skilled, will
make it appear that in view of the impossibili
ty of assembling the national Congress against
all the efforis made for this object, and consid
ering that the safety or ruin of the nation de
pends upon it, he will require a convocation of
notables, who are in his interest. This body
| wall occupy itself with the last mission of the
* cabinet of Washington, and will respond to
| the wishes of Santa Anna. But before this hap
| pens, it appears to me probable that Gen.
Scott will have forced the Mexicans to peace
at the point of the bayonet.
“Letters received from Puebla announce to
| us that Gexieral Scott was preparing to march
I for the capital about the 15 th, leaving at Pue
bla two points fortified with small garrisons.
I To-day it is stated that the advance posts have
i pushed on to Ayotla, distant not more than
| eight leagues from the capital. If tins it true,
and it seems sufficiently probable, adieu the
convocation of Congress! the assembly of nota
bles! and for the plans of the campaign and
the cries of war:
“In looking over the journals which accom
pany my letter, you will see what preparations
arc made by Colonel TV ilson.the coxmixandant at
this place.' They believe here that Yera Cruz
is menaced with an attack by 2000 or 3000
guerillas, but it is probable that these forces
are more disposed to attack the train which
departed a few days ago under the camnxand
of General Pierce, with more than 3000 men.
“Be assured that the Mexicans are incapable
of accomplishing axxy enterprize like that of the
siege of Yera Cruz.”
Dr. Samuel Henry Dickson. —We regret to
state that our talented townsman, Dr. Samuel
Henry Dickson, is about to exchange his situ
ation as Professor of the Ixistitues and Prac
tice of Medicine in the Medical College of the
State of Soxitli Carolina, for the professorial
chair in the same department, in the Medical
College of New York. On the scientific abili
ty and literary attainments of Dr. Dickson it
i is unnecessary for us to enlarge, or to recall to
I the recollection of our readers the fact that
I his name has been associated with many of the
public enterprises which have been matured or
I projected for some years within the bosom of
Our city. The departure from among us of
one who combined, in an eminent degree, in
tellectual gifts -with social virtues, will long
continue among our most poignant recollec
tions.— Evening Nem, ith inst.
Specie-. —The ship Birmingham, which ar
rived from Liverpool this day, brought $121,-
1 000 in specie, in addition to a very valuable
assorted cargo of merchandize* It is a remark -
, able fact, as evidence of iilcrease in the com
merce? of Charleston, which has not ricctirred
for some years, that an assorted cargo of mer
chandize shoxild have arrived at this port so
early as the 2nd of August: The ship James
■ Calder is on her way with a similar cargo.—76;
More Rain. —On Sunday we bad two Heavy
showers. In the afternoon it did not rain—it
| poured. At night it cleared off beautifully,
| the moon thx-owing her silver rays, alter ten
1 o’clock, over the surface of saturated streets
and dripping roofs. But yesterday morning
j clouds upon clouds again poured their liquid
’ contents upon our city, checked o'xily b‘y tlid
high puffs of wind, which dispersed them fax
! a brief period.— Savannah Georgian , 2d inst.
Army Worm. —Our friend, Mr. Edmund
Whaley, showed us yesterday a specimen of a
reptile which has made its appe;iranee in the
cotton, axxd is comxxxitting alarming ravages. It
was sent by one of his correspondents from
Madison county, and he writes that it is there
in some parts sweeping every green thing,
! bolls, leaves and buds froxn the fields.
I The worm showed us was not the army worm
of last season, and is not a catterpillar —or at
least does not hang by a web w r hen shaken off
! the leaf, as catterpxllars do. It seems a genuine
[ cut-worm, of some of the grasshopper tribe,
thoxxgh to first view, it very much resembles
; the army worm. Whether army worxxx or not
however, it eats cotton, as we had occular de
monstration, and if it comes in axxy numbers
i will perhaps do as much damage by one xxanxe
{as another. The destruction will be immemo
if thus early, and in the state the recent rains
; have left the cotton plant, its great enemy now
| appears upon it. — A'icJisburg , (1/b) Sentinel, 271 h
j ult.
■ Bfvtal and Rash. —An insignificant fellow by
j the name of Eton, or Eaton, exhibited a pla
i card in front of his store, at Worcester. Mass.,
; as the funeral of the gallant Lincoln neared
his place, upOri which were the words, “No
homage to murderers.” The chief marshal of
the day. Hon. Isaac Davis# happexied to own
the building, and he promptly caused this
ignoramtis to put the placard out of sight. The
fact that this fellow belongs to the Peace
Society should not militate against the high
aims of that body. It is but an additional in
stance of the bigotry and blind indiscretion by
which some persons, attaching themselves to
a good cause, wholly pervert the salutary ef
forts of others they pretend to act with.
Singular Con session Troy Whig says:
—“Possibly one reason why Gen* Taylor de
clixies to run as a partx' candidate, is that he
docs not wish to be harrassed by such a flock
of office-seeking cormorants, as that which
hovered roxxnd General Harrison from the time
of his election to the hour of his death.”
Old Rough and Ready, who never retreated
before a foe. recoiling at the bare idea of those
unmerciful Racheros, the whig office seeking
cormorants! We put some faith in Ibis; and
we cannot but think that in repudiating the
whig party, Gen. T. has made a retreat as
masterly as any of his victories. —Albany Atlas.
i If your sister, while tenderly engaged in a
tcxxder conversation with her tender sweetheart,
tenderly asks you to bring a class of water
fronx an adjoining room, you need not return,
i You will not be missed, that’s certain—we’ve
| seen it tried. Don’t forget this little boys.
rawawiiiwwiiß'iUi.M iwwwiMii m —n—
Special Notices.
I O. O. F.
AUGUSTA ENCAMPMENT, NO. 5.
A regular meeting of the Camp vri.l be !.•!<!
1 This (Friday) Evening, at 8 o’clock. Ofilceis and
| members will please take notice.
By order of C. P.
AugustG WM. HAINES, Scribe.
[FT A Female Teacher, who can come well
recommended as being capable of teaching all the
j branches usually taught in a first rate English
! School, is wanted to take charge of the Alexander
i Female Seminary. Apply to Rev’d. Homer V.
Mulkey, Alexander, Burke county, Ga.
Aug. 3 3 35
STEAMBOAT COMPANY OF GEOR
GIA.
[UP Tliis Company having been re-organized
, 1 and placed in an efficient state for service, are pre
! pared to send forwarded without delay all freight
that may offer.
1 Goods consigned to WM. P. WILLIAMS, Agent
at Savannah, will be forwarded free of Comrais
; sions.
The connection of R. M. Goodwin with lh» s
Company has terminated.
JOHN B. GUIEU.
June 6 I—y Agent at Augusta.
O 3 DR. J. A. S. MILLIGAN, will at
tend to the practice of Medicine and Surgery, in
Augusta and its vicinity.
Office in Metcalf’s Range, up stairs. Entrance
j one door below Mr. J. Marshall’s Drug Store.
June 13 Cm 215
PLEASANT STOVALL
Renews the tender of his services in the STOR
AGE AND SALE OF COTTON AND OTH
ER PRODUCE, at his Fire Proof Warehouse.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 4th, |SI7. 8 mos. 35
;i Doctors EVE and CAMPBELLS^wiII at
| tend to my Professional Business during my absence
! I for the summer from the State.
. July 17 PAUL F. EVE.