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“ WcMet.
We met! ’twas in the street,
Aud I knew he would dun me;
He came! I could not speak,
For his eye was up« n me!
He spoke! his words were stern,
As his bill he presented:
! knew how mad he was,
For his heart ne’er relented.
I wore my bran new eoat,
And I telt quite a dandy;
A purse was in my hand,
Put ’twas light aud unhandy.
He call’d me bv ray name,
And I know 1 grew paler;
0 thou hast been the cause
Os this trouble—my tailor!
And once again we met,
And a sheriff was near him;
lie spake berth loud and gruff,
As i liked not to hear him;
He showed to me a writ—
’Twas for me and me only!
1 looked round for a friend,
Put the street was all lonely.
I jumped; he said “young man.
Don’t endeavor to dodge me;”
A n d swore, if 1 paid not,
la the ja i he would lodge me.
The world may think me rash,
As no doubt did the jailor;
Put thou hast been the cause
Os this trouble—my tailor.
[Jacksonville as.
Fur trier Foreign Extracts,
F. om Wiilmcr Smith's European Times.
We are now in a state of transition from a
system of commercial thraldom to one of com
parative freedom in many articlas of trade, and
of entire freedom in the main articles of food.
We shall doubtless suffer from the derth we
have undergone; but the vital energies of the
country continue unimpaired, and we shall
emerge from the present crisis with redoubled
, vigor and with more enlarged experience,
The Steam Ship Great Britain. —We think it
not improbable that in our next publication we
shall kave the satisfaction of announcing that
this magnificent ship is again afloat. Our last
report from Dundrum Bay gives the most
favorable opinion of the successful termination
of the skill, perseverencc and enterprise of Mr.
Bremer, to whom the owners of the ship have,
under the superintendence ot Capt. Claxton,
entrusted her recovery. The Lords of the
Admiralty have ordered the British steam
frigate Birkenhead to leave Portsmouth, with
a full compliment of the most effective, men,
round to Dundrum Bay, with instructions to
render all necessary aid to get the Great
Britain off,
French Atlantic Steamers. —The “Union,”
Captain Hebert, the Pioneer of the French
steamers to New York, arrived at Havre, on
her homeward trip on the 7th instant, at 3 p.
M., after a voyage of 13i days. tThc “New
York” steamer, of this line, takes her departure
from Cherourg to-morrow.
The two steamers, Monarch and Neptune,
that -were engaged as a part of the Flores ex
pedition, were sold a few days ago at £25.000.
The French Government are reported to be the
purchaser.
By the last British Mail Steam Ship to Bos
ton upwards of £12,000 of protested bills for
non-acceptance were returned. It appears
that the bills were drawn at New York for
corn speculation for a London principal, but as
the agent had exceeded his instructions, they
were dishonored.
Louis Philipp's new yacht, the corate d’En,
during a trial excursion on the 3d inst., burst
her boilers. Nine men were killed, and thir
t sen sent to the hospital with little hopes of
recovery, two of whom have since died. The
government has decided that the sons of the
j e sous who perished by the accident shall be
admited giatuitously to the Ecole dcs No
vices.
Ait American Yacht. —Amongst the Ports
mouth naval news wc find the following: A
crick yacht will shortly be looked for here from
New York, whose model is quiet a novelty.
The keel is feet broad, clear of the garboard
etrake, and 04 feet long. The yacht is about
75 tons, length G 9 feet on deck, width ofheam
20 feet 3 inches. She is schooner rigged,
masts 91 feet and 96 feet. From the end of
the main boom to the end of the jibboom 122
feet. She is called the Yarborough, after the
deceased earl, and commodore of the R. Y. S.
Royal Visit to Scotland. —Her Majesty and
Royal Consort, with the Prince of Wales and
Princess Royal, and suite, left Osborne Creek,
Isle of Wight, on the 11th inst. for their tour
through Scotland, which is expected to occupy
about five weeks.
A Court of Directors was held at the East
India House on the 4th instent, when the Earl
of Dalhoiuie was formally appointed Governor-
General of India, and Sir Henry Pottingcr of
Madras. With reference to Lord Dalhousie’s
appointment, Sir George Larpent, at a public
meeting of the India Rail Road Company, said,
in expressing the general satisfaction of all
parties with the propriety of Lord Dalhousie’s
nomination, from his high qualifications, that
his lordship hud observed significantly, “that
he went to India not so much to have to do
with wars as to bring cotton home.”
Sir Henry Smith succeeds Sir Henry Pot
tingcr as Governor of the Cape of G >d Hope.
Sir H- E. F. Young will, it is report I, shortly
assume the office of Lieutenant-Gt vemor of
Australia; and Sir Robt. Wilson, ,ow Gov
ernor of Gibraltar, is likely to reLcve Lord
Seaton in the administration of the lonian
Islands.
Sir B. Martin is to be the Vice Admiral of
the United Kingdom, vice Sir Geo. Martin,
who onlyjlived a fortnight in the enjoyment of
that dignity. Sir Geo. Cockburnis to be Rear-
Admiral.
The great constituency of the West Riding
of A orkslure, the most numerous in the king
dom, proposed Mr. Cobden just prior to the
nomination day; and his name threw such ter
ror into the hearts of his opponents that Mr.
Denison, who had represented the West Hiding
for six years, did not venture to demand a poll”
and Mr. Cobden was by acclamation elected
the colleague of Lord Morpeth. Such a step
cannot fail to have predominating influence
over the Free trade discussions in the ensuing
Parliament, Mr. Bernal Osborne, a Liberal,
has displaced Col. Wood, a Conservative, in
the county of Middlesex. Sir George Grey
has also gained a county seat in Northumber
land. In Ireland, our apprehensions of the
loss of Mr. Shiel’s seat have proved un
founded,- but he gained his election only after
a severe contest; whilst we regret to say that
Mr. Wyse, one of the most enlightcqaed Liber
als of Ireland has been defeated. Sir Denham
Norreys, a rising influential member 6f ex
cellent principles, has been successful again at
Mallow.
A new telescopic comet is now drawing the
attention of astronomers. On the 4th of the
month, M. Mauvais, of Rome, made the first
observation of it in Cepheus.
The Iron Duke. —The Atlas, speaking of the
reported marriage between the Duke of Wel
lington and Miss Burdett Coutts, says : “There
is no longer any doubt that the preliminary ar
rangements are nearly completed.”
Great mortality prevails this year in Galicia
among the peasants and the lower classes. In
the district of Gadowiz, about 40,066 persons
have died within a short time.
Throughout the history of Europe there
never existed similar examples of so many
sovereigns threatening to resign their thrones
as .at the present moment. The autocrat of
Russia stands highest in politicial importance.
He is said to be suffering great mental anxiety
from some unexplained cause; and, having
provided the moans of supporting himself lib
erally during life, by considerable investments
in the English and French funds, under color
of a great financial operation, he intends, it is
said, to retire to Italy, and there pass the re
mainder of his days. The King of the Bel
gians seems to be equally afflicted. He has
returned to the Palace Laecken at Bru sils, j
from Paris, in such a mentally debilitated state, j
that he is unequal to the cares of government, j
and all parties seem at a loss to conceive, what
will be the upshot. Turning to Spain, the
last accounts from Madrid state, that the Queen I
has expressed to her Ministers her resolute in- 1
tention to abdicate the throne, and it was re- ;
ported that a special council was summoned to
deliberate upon the subject. The unhappy
marriage of the Queen of Spain, brought a
bont by French intrigue, is doubtless the cause
of her Majesty’s disgust of her present posi
tion; but her youth, and still more her politi
cal importance in the preservation of the bal
ance of European politics, preclude the thought
of any such serious change of dynasty in Spain.
With these singular and unprecedented events
hanging over the fate of Europe, it is a great
happiness for mankind, that the general ten
dency of political opinion is to maintain
peace, and to enlarge the sphere of human in
dustry by the general adoption of free trade
principles.
The rumore 1 abdication of the King of Hol
land i c ''ontradicted.
m the L melon Times of Aug. 11.
The present pressure teill pass away, per
haps more rapidly than the former; miich of
it is owing to a sudden influx of produce
which will be checked by oiir fall in prices—
much to the demand which the elections have
caused for Coin that will find its \vay back
when its immediate Uses are overhand miich
‘ to the alarlh Os daily failures.
In what do our circumstances differ at the
present moment front the prosneCt they pre
: sented at the commencement of the year, ex
! cept that the stock of bullion, upon the hold
: ing out of which mil 4 depend our safety, is
now £9,000.000, arid it was then £15,000.000?
We have, it is tnie, the certainty almost of ah
1 average harvest; but, setting aside the proba
bility that an importation of food tnli«t td a
greater or less extent talfe place iil 1848, there
would be no better prospect of momentary se
curity. It is not the fact of a corn importa
tion that will explain an increase in the con
sumption of sugar in the first six months of
1847 to the extent of 539,000 cwts. oVcr that
1 of 1846. It is not the pressure of famine and
indigence that will explain an increase during
the like period in the consumption of brandy
of 135,000 gallons, of rum to the extent of
365,000 gallons, of coffee 2,000,000 lbs. and of
tea, cocoa, tobacco. &c., in something like the
same proportion; to say nothing of the impor
■ tation of 117,000 extra cwts. of meat, and of
: 107,000 cwts. of butter and cheese. These
arc more or less luxuries, and it is usually one
consequence of a food pressure to induce an
economy which shuts them out, and which by
causing the masses to be content almost with
; bread alone, soon produces a re-action. It is
not a deficient harvest, or the dread of it,
which sends no the price of iron to a point at
’ which the United States and other countries
decline to take it of ns. It has not been the
food question which has caused us to allow’
our stocks of raw material to be so reduced
’ (even w’hile the rate of money was only 3 per
cent.) that now the lightest demand for our
manufactures causes a rise in their price which
* at once checks the foreigners from buying.—
- Again, it is not this cause which sends money
' up to b\ per ct. at a time when general busi-
ness is contracted, and when the circulation
1 may be termed full. The fact that none of
these things will furnish the explanation,
1 stares us plainly in the face, and there is hard -
lv a person who does not know in his con
science the real cause of our present state,—
But we are a nation of shareholders from the
■ highest to the lowest, and wc all keep from
1 each other the secret of our ruin.
The battle is clcarlv, as we have all along
L proclaimed it, one of life and death between
: railways and trade. It is useless to attempt to
1 disguise. One or the other must fail. Firm
’ after firm will be heated down, and the sacri-
fices of the past week will prove only the forc
' runners of what are vet to come.
Perhaps it may he urged that a considerable
number of the public have already discovered,
now’ that money for long periods is worth 7
per cent., that investments in railway deben
-1 turcs, at 4i and 5 per cent., to be paid off in
. three or five years, when Consols may be again
at 95, are not so desirable as they were repre
sented; but still it is only when this feeling
can be made general that an effective suspen
-1 sion can be hoped for. Mean w’hile calls can
; not be resisted, and these, wc may •be sure,
will be remorselessly made, (no matter though
’ mercantile houses break down hour by hour)
5 until the public, as sooner or later they will,
’ shall denounce the madness with one voice.
Finally, it can scarcely' be necessary to sav a
w'ord of the mortality of those who in this
I state of things clamor for an “expansive ac
“ tion” on the part of the Bank of England as
the panacea for all existing evils, and who by
this cry retard the correction that must only
fall the more terribly in proportion as it is de
’ laved. Advance money' —facilitate imports of
• provisions and an export of gold in the face
both of railway consumption and free trade—
reduce the rate of interest and bring a French
loan of £14,000,000 at once upon our market
—see the last bar of gold exported from our
vaults, and add the rush of home discredit to
the force of a foreign drain, and all will then
be righted. This is the language of a large
majority of financiers—worthy rather of the
other side of the Atlantic than of England—
and there is no little peril that, as the next
; i parliament is constituted, their efforts will
find expression in more than words. Let what
may happen, however —let palliative after pal
liative be adopted—we once more put upon re
cord the assertion, that there is no escape but
in a recognition that the railway expenditure
must be stopped, and that traders must be
| prepard to groan and many of them to suc
-1 cumb under such rate of interest and for such
' time as may be essential to effect that object.
Let things take their best and natural course,
and the evils to be endured will still prpve
L | sttt'h as few have even yet ventured to con
template; let the painful process of cure be re
tarded by the tampering concessions of sin. in
! terested Legislature, and the long and grind
ing period of distress before wje shall ao-aiti
breathe freely will be such as. to wcar °out !
heart and hope, and to sicken all men with the
struggle.
{From the Savannah Georgian, 2 d insf.]
Gen. Clin ch's Claims to Patriotism.
Our opponents have arrogated to General i
Clinch i;he reputation of k hero ! They have
faded ih abstaining the pompous prevention,
i History does riot record a,mere signal discofn- j
fitiire than has Attended their efforts to excite i
the military enthusiasm of the State in his
favor; those who cherished the highest respect |
for true military glory, hot being disposed to
waste it on a spurious article, begotten for po
litical purposes. Not satisfied with this un
reasonable..claim* however, they have been
guilty of a still mpre monstrous absurdity, and
have endeavored to tinker up for him the repu -
tation of a great patriot and public benefactor.
We would direct especial attention to the fol
lowing extracts from the Savannah Ilcpubli-
I can.of the 10th July. The first is from the
letter of “Vindex,” the Milledgeville corres
pondent, who, by the way, has been dabbling,
off and on, in Federal politics, contrary to the
established party system, and has not unfre
quently placed himself in drowning water, if
any body had thought it worth while to souse
him under.
“How bitter is party spirit when it gets to
i this! That the man who has grown grey in
; the service of his country—whose life has j
I been exposed again and again in defence of our |
citizens— who has tendered his own private j
j credit to an Executive of Georgia to furnish
| means wherewith to protect our Southern and j
| Southwestern frontier when the Seminoles s
! were butchering the women and children,” etc.
Republican , 1 [)th July.
Our neighbors fearing that their readers |
might not take in the immensity of General
Clinch’s public patriotism, deemed it neces
sary to comment upon the suggestion of Yin- j
i dex in the following words;
“An allusion is made in the letter which \
I may require some explanation. During tbe
administration of Gov. Gilmer, the Indians
about the Okafenokee in Camden, and other
i surrounding counties, made hostile demonstra
tions at several points, and committed many i
murders and outrages. Gov. Gilmer called
out several companies from the frontier, and
1 the State being straitened for money, he made |
i an effort to borrow from tbe Bank of St. Mary’s
the requisite funds. Gen. Clinch, as we all i
i know, was then President of that Institution,
but it, like all other Banks at that time in this
State, could not with safety advance a dollar.
In this emergency, Gen. Clinch, while re
! FUSING TO ADVANCE MONEY AS PRESIDENT OF
I the Bank, tendered to the Governor his
, ' OWN PRIVATE CREDIT FUR THE USE OF THE
| STAtR.” •
This is the pretension set up by “Vindex”
| and the Savannah Republican for General
Clinch. The fabric of his fame rests upon the
’ broad foundation of their assertions. We will
now show bow industriously our neighbors
have been Working to overturnthesuperstrue- |
| tlire.
In tbe first place, wc are told, that as Pre
sident of the IBank of St. Mary’s, Geil. Clinch
refused to aid the OdVcriidr, tis that institu- ;
tion, like “all other banks at that time in this
State, could not advance a dollar! ’ At wh at
time, wc ask? By consulting the history of
the State, we discover that it was after ‘‘the
last of May,” 1838. We refer to Gov. Gil
mer’s message to the Legislature, dated 6tli
Nov. 1838. But, according to the Republican
of 30th August, 1847, (in an editorial pointed
, I at by hands in every direction,') Gen. Clinch
; himself effected a loan from the bank of one
thousand dollars in that year. Ilei'e is the
statement:
note of One Thousand
to, was not made for
s3Tthan ONE YEAR AFTER THEjggi
COMMENCED BUSINESS,
it bears date, THE
DAY OF JUNE, 1838.
What strange patriotism is this ! He re
fuses to loan the State, yet I ans to himself!
i Ho knew that “the bank could not with safetv
; I advance a dollar” even to Georgia, and yet
he has his Own note accepted for a thousand
dollar* ! 11l perfect keeping with this re
markable view which lie seems to have taken
of his comparative Obligations to the State
and himself ! he is said, in the second place,
’ *Yo have mode a tender of his private credit to the
Governor for the use of the State.*’ Now, if Gen.
Clinch’s private credit could bare bech blade
available, his tender was worth something;
otherwise —nothing. If it was worth nothing,
: any beggar deserves the. fame claimed for
Gen. Clinch, who might have offered his
name to the State, as he knew that it could
not be used. There is one way in which it
would seem that Gen. Clinch’s credit might
■ have been made available. The State could
not procure money from the St. Marv’s bank ;
Gen. Clinch as president , won 11 not allow it; vet
h ! Hivself COULD procure it ! Consequent’}-,
by using his credit with the bank, he could
h ive aided the Governor. Did he do it f NO ! !!
In what other way could his credit have
• j been made available? Our neighbors have
| labored to show that his credit was low in
1838 ; that he was involved in pecuniary dif
ficulty. In sole justification of the charge
brought against him, to which we shall refer
hereafter, of not selling his crop in Savannah,
and trad ng here, they say, in their paper of the
I 19th ult., we think:
grave charge can be very easily
met. Gen. Clinch, by his losses in Florida,
and the total failure of the crop of 1837, was
obliged TO MAKE A LOAN TO ENABLE HIM TO
meet his ENGAGEMENTS. He made applica
tion here and could not get the necessary
means, and was forced to go to Charleston,
whore he was successful, and this is why he
sendshis crop to Charleston.
In what year did he attempt to make this
loan ? Mind you, the Republican has never
proved that he attempted to make it here in
Savannah! But if he did, when was it ? Af
ter the failure of his crop in 1837. Consequent
ly it must have been in the same eventful j r ear
of 1838. But this was the year in which “he
I made a loan” from the hank of St. Mary’s !
i This then is the amount of his patriotism !
REFUSED A LOAN TO THE
THE BANK OF St. MaUY’s, YET MADEjjggl j
I A LOAN POKfHIMSELF ! AND ADDING Jggj
i iggriNSULT TO INJURY, MADE A TENDER
rgig“HlS PRIVATE CREDIT TO THE GoVEBNOII,^^!
1 HE HAD TO GO OUT OF THE STATE,|
IS2TAND CARRY HIS PATRONAGE FROM
iggrOWN SEA-FORT, “TO MAKE A LOAN
HIM TO MEET HIS (PRIVATE)
T his is certainly a granite foundation upon
which to build the General’s reputation for
distinguished patriotism ! It will doubtless
be fully appreciated hy the citizens of the
State at large, and of this city in particular,
which he continues to slight, even after he
has been paid the enormous sum of $25,000
for green com, and half-grown sugar cane.
Mr. Clay out of the Brooks,
late co-editor and Washington correspondent
of the New York Express, writes from Utica
to the Boston Whig, that he considers Henry
Clay, “fermany reasons, as entirely out of the
question as a future candidate for the public
honors of his country.” And why ? Because
of his declaration in New Orleans—“l feel
half inclined to ask for some little nook or
comer in the army, in which I might serve in
i avenging the wrongs of my country, " I hijvc
thought that I might yet he able to Capture or
I slay aMexican.” ■ These sentiments, this Mexi
\ can. Whip says, *‘in the estimation of every
1 reflecting mind, must be deemed alike abhor- j
! rent to every principle of true Christian morali
: ty, and unflitting to be proclaimed by one
now in tbe sere and yellow leaf,’ and having
already passed the ordinary bounds allotted
| to human life here below.”
It was “unbecoming in a moral and religious
people to rejoice over the victories gained a
: gainst the British in 1812.” So said the op
posers of their country then. It is “ abhorrent ”
to Christian morality to speak of “avenging
our country’s wrongs” by capturing and slay
ing one of its enemies in 1847. So say the op
posers of their country now. Let the people
—the patriotic of all parties—mark these men;
and when the day of retribution shall come,
as it surely will, visit upon them the just re
ward of thdir treason. Brand them, as did our
fathers of the Revolution and of the last
war.— Floridian.
The Epidemic. —At the end of another breek
a few words upon th£ prevailing epidemic may
be looked for by our readers. It is consolato
ry to know that the ravages of the disease
have not been much more extensive the past
week than the one preceding it, at the same
time it must be confessed that it is extending
itself in classes which were in the earlier
: stages of the epidemic almost exempt. The
reports of interments in the city during the
week ending yesterday morning at 9 o’clock
shows a total of 442, of which 311 were of
yellow fever. The reports of the week im
; mediately preceding, showed a total of 427 in
j terments, of which 307 were of yellow fever.
This shows but a slight increase in the num
ber of deaths, but the number of cases was no
doubt very considerably larger the past week
than the one previous. The fever prevails
: now among classes better able to withstand its
I ravages.
Upon referring to the report? of the Charity
Hospital it is gratifying to perceive that a mttch
smaller number of cases terminate fatally
there th-lil was the c;Vse a few diys since.—
The admissions there the past week were 434
against 376 the previous week, and yet the
deaths by yellow fever were only 92 against
133 the previous week. This is an encourag
ing sign, if anything may be called encourag
ing in the ravages of a pestilence which threa
tens to make this year noted as among the
most fatal years of epidemic.
We cannot forbear again from Calling atten
tion to the fact that so many die from re- I
lapses. So far as we have been personally ac
quainted with those attacked by the fever who
were in circumstances of ease and competence,
but one or two have died unless the r deaths
could be traced directly to feme act of flagrant
imprudence. It is appalling to hear, as we do
daily, of the death of individuals who had
been pronounced convalescent, and who have
been betrayed by their feelings and good spir
its into acts of imprudence which have proved
| fatal.— N. O. Pic. 29 th ult.
Rev. Mr. Hinton. —Among the deaths from
yellow fever, yesterday, we arc grieved to an
nounce that of the reverend gentleman whose
name is given above. He belonged to the
Baptist denomination, and was eminent for
his piety and usefulness. — lb.
The Crops, &c.
In Alabama. —The Marengo Lodger, of the
23ci tilt., has the following paragraph in regard
, to the Cotton crop in Marengo county and
vicinity;
The accounts which we hear of the growing
cotton crop in this vicinity are of the most un
favorable character. Complaints arc general
of the ravages matte by the bull-worm, and it i
is confidently asserted by those who have the j
means of forming a Correct judgment upon i
! the subject, that the coming crop will not ex
ceed that of last year* find great fears arc en-
I tertained that it will fall greatly below; Wc
were told on yesterday* by ail intelligent plan
ter, who owns a large plantation A few miles
| from this place, that he would not get more
than 100 bales where, foUf weeks ago, he cal
culated with entire certainty Upon at least 400. !
Another one who expected to raise 100 bales, j
says that he will not get 20. And these rep- |
i resentations are by no means confined to a few
i individuals—the complaint is general.
The Dallas Gazette, (published at Catawba) |
of the 25th ult., says :
A planter informed us yesterday, that he
had learned from the overseer of his river
plantation that the caterpillar, the same as the
insect which committed such depredations on
| the crop of last fall, has made its appearance,
i though it has not yet done much damage.—
Similar complaints reach u? from other sec
tions of the same import. It will be recollec
ted, perhaps, by our planting friends, that the
caterpillar commenced its work of destruction
last fall in South Alabama during the first
week in September, and by the middle of that
month had entirely stripped the stalk of leaf,
square and small bolls. We confidently anti
cipate its approach again about the same time,
and should we not be disappointed, the crop
will fall short of that of last year, for the
reason of its lateness.
In Louisiana. —The Concordia Intelligencer
of the 21st ult., says ;
In the large and fertile cotton region formed
by our own and parishes adjacent to us, the
crops look more promising than they have been
seen for five years past. The bolls are full and
healthy, and everything seems to give good
hope to the planter. So far as we can learn,
after the most anxious and full inquiry, not a
worm is on the cotton within a considerable I
distance of us, and our own opinion, based on
the opinion of the most observing planters with \
whom we have met lately, is that there are no
army worms anywhere in the State of Louisi
ana, as yet.
But the cotton crop is the most precarious on
earth, and the present fine appearance may
very soon bo changed. All we can do is to !
hope that the present favorable weather may
continue. A few weeks of it and the fears !
over.
The crops in the parish of Iberville pro- i
mise luxuriantly. The cane crop particularly
looks well.
The Ibervillian says : ’flic prospect of an j
abundant crop, this season, throughout the j
State, both of cotton and sugar, seens never
to have been more flattering than at the pre
sent time. The cane in this region is most pro
mising, and accounts from other sections which
J we have received, are also most cheering, Cot
ton picking has already commenced to a con
siderable extent, and the only fear we need
now entertain is that the prices may not be
such as to give our planters the benefit of their
abundance.
The Worm again—Prospect of the Crops. —
The serious apprehensions entertained by our
planters a short lime since for the safety of
their crops, we are happy to learn, were with
out foundation. The worm, which at one
time threatened destruction to the growing
crop of cotton, proved not to be the cotton
worm, and has entirely disappeared. It seems,
lorn the evldenc now before us,that it prayed,
upon the cotton only when there was noth- I
thing else in its reach upon which to sustain
itself. An inteF'gent gentleman, who resides I
in Jefferson county, was in our office to day,
and states that he has lately been over some
half dozen of the lr -gest cotton growing coun
ties in the State, r id is satisfied from the ob
servations he made, that there will not be ten
bales less of cotton gathered in consequence
of the worm. No intelligence we have recei
ved this season gives us more - pleasure than
this, for, up to the period when the worm
made its appearance, the information received
[ from every quarter gave assurance that the
crop was unusally promising. A heavy crop
of cotton this season will do much towards
relieving our planters from the pecuniary dis
tress in which they have been involved, part
ly from the mal-legislation and partly from
the afflicating hand of Providence. — N. 0.
National , 28 th ult.
Invaluable Remedies. —An exchange says: We
have no faith in quack medicines, but think it
always the safest plan to apply to a regular
i physician in all cases of indisposition. Here
are some remedies however, for very prevalent
disorders, that we have no hesitation in re
commending them as quite infallible. Try
them:
For sea sickness—stay at home.
For drunkenness —drink cold water.
For health—rise early.
For accidents —keep out of danger.
To keep up your credit—pay your debts.
To please all—mine your own business.
To make money —advertise.
Tb do right—subscribe for a newspaper.
To have a gdod conscience—pay the printer.
21 it 9us t a > otor g i a .
SATURDAY MORNING. SEPT. 4.
FOR GOVERNOR
HON. D. W. TOWNS.
OF TAI.BOf.
Democratic Nominations for Senators.
4th DiM.—Camden and Wayne— Elias Fort.
sth Dust.—Lowndes and Ware—Gen. T. Hilliard.
7th “ Tattnall and Bulloch—Jdßfr A. Mattox
Bth “ Striven and Effingham—W. J. Lawton*.
9th “ Burke and Emanuel—W. S. C Morris.
12th “ Thomas and Decatur— Wm. H. Reynolds.
13th “ Baker and Early—Dr. Wm. J. Johnson.
14th “ Randolph and Stewart— William Nelson.
17th “ Macon and Houston— John A. Hunter.
IDth “ Dooly and Pulaski —Geo. M. Duncan.
20th “ Twiggs aftd Bibb—W. W. Wiggins.
21st {< Washington and Jefferson— B. S, Carswell.
2oth “ Jozies and Putnam— James M. GV.aV.
26th Munroe and Pike—Col. Allen Cochran.
2Sth “ Merriwether and Coweta— Obe. Warner.
31st “ Fayette and Henry— Luther J". Glenn.
32d “ Jasper and Butts—Col. J. C. Waters.
33d “ Newton and Walton— Warren J. Hill.
j 38U» “ Clark and Bailey.
59th ** Gwinnett and DeKalb— Jas. P. Simmons.
40th “ iPauldidg aiid Cass— Francis Irwin.
41st ‘ l Cobb and Cherokee—Wm. H; Ilortr.
43d “ Itabershani add Rabun—Bow’d Corrrr.
I 44th “ Lumpkin and Union— Elihc S. Barclay.
A Whig 1 Principle Out.
Do they advocate the principles of the pro
tective tariff of ’42, and condemn those of the
revenue tariff of ’4O? No, on this subject*
“mum is the word.”— Federal Union.
Mum is not the word* They do advocate
the discriminations of the tariff of 1842 in favor
of American industry, and abominate those of
1846 in favor of the British . Chronicle $ Sen
tinel, 2d inst.
So we have at last an open declaration from
the whigs in favor the tariff of 1842. They
abominate, it seems, the tariff of 1846. We
admire the frankness of the avowal. The
Chronicle is entitled to the credit of being a
bold and fearless advocate of whig principles.
It docs not wait to be pushed. Practically it
does not conform to the opinion of the AA hig
Convention —“that it is unnecessary to reiter
ate the often declared principles of the whig
j party.” We are pleased that it considers it is
necessary to do so. Wc shall take an early
occasion to show up in their true colors some
of these “discriminations of the tariff of 1842,”
and to show' in favor of whose industry it dis
criffiinates. We will show how much the in
dustry of the South is favored.
! The tariff of IS4G is now speaking for it
| self, aild shows whether it benefits the British,
or the Americans solely. Look around fel
low-citizens over oUr vast dobntry. Where is
the blight of its footsteps? Where its vic
tims? We will examine in future essays the
difference between this tariff that the whigs
“ abominate ” and the tariff they far on
The Baby Jumper.
“Consarn my skin,” as the countryman said
yesterday, on reviewing one of these patent, la
bor-saving, self-moving machines, at the store
of Messrs. Bowdrc & Clagctt, on Broad-st.,
“if it haint the mightiest invention I ever
seed —if I had John in that ar machine, he
would’nt squall again, I reckon.” And wc
don’t believe he -would, for if there was any
thing ever invented to please a child, even
against its will, the Baby Jumper is the thing,
and the inventor should not only receive the
thanks, but the patronage of every mother.
Such is now the case and facility with which
these little family incumbrances are protected
and reared, that we apprehend it will be an
inducement to their future increase. The
great objection which has heretofore existed,
so far as -we understand the matter, to an in
j
crease of children in a family, has been a want
of servants and nurses to attend on them, and
in some instances this expense has been con
siderable, owing to the fact that one genera
tion has, with great velocity, rushed upon
I another before it was cleverly discharged from
the arms of the attendant. The consequence
was that sevex*al nurses were absolutely ne
cessary for the safety of the younger, and com
fort of the older members of the household.
What a day of deliverance has dawned upon
the married portion of the community! We
sincerely congratulate them upon the benefits
which so simple an invention has brought
about. No lady, having children,should allow
herself to be a day longer w ithout this infant
self-acting-contrivance, by which the trouble
of handling and rocking and dandling a squall
ing child is dispensed with, and by which he
is thrown early in life upon his own resources.
The child in after days can say that he swung
himself and took care of himself long before
he was able to crawl. There is nothing like
an early lesson of self independence in develop
ing greatness, and we have no doubt but that
the future history of the babies of the present
generation will depend upon, and be greatly
influenced, by the mode which mothers now
adopt in raising them. If a man is hereafter
imbecile and sluggish in mind or body, the
shrewd opinion of human nature will say at
once, he was handled and carried too much in
the arms of his nurse before he could walk.
The effect of his early treatment has been to
make him lazy ami inactive in nis habits, and
his temper is cross and ill-grained—he squall
ed in his infancy for change, and he had it —
if he has not his way now, he is out of sorts
with,every body. On the other hand, if he
is quick in his actions, with broad chest and
well developed figure, stout legs and a strong
grip of the fist withal, gay in his tempera
ment, ready in his comprehension, equible in
his disposition—he is destined to be a great
general or other shining light to the world—
and the cause is at hand; his biographer in
writing the life of such a man will commence
his book by describing the scene that occurred
the first time his anxious and delighted mother
put him into the Baby Jumper.
The line of Communication between Vera
Cruz and Perotc.
The Washington Union of the Ist inst. savs
—“A letter has just been received from Lieut.
Col. Hughes of this city. He arrived by the
river route at New Orleans on the 19th Au
gust, and left that place in the Mary Kings
land on the 23d. He expects to reach Vera
Cruz in advance of his command, unless they
should have made an extraordinary run from
the Capes of Virginia. Lieut. Col. Hughes
" ill have under his command the six compa
nies which sailed from Baltimore some time
since for Vera Cruz; and also one artillery
company that lias been raised in Baltimore,
one company that is now raising in Washing
ton, and perhaps two others that may lx; rais
ed elsewhere. Should these arrangements be
completed, the Colonel will have under him a
regiment. It is destined for the line of com
munication from Vera Cruz to Julapaand Pe
rnio-.
“besides Ikcsc, thefd art five companies of
mounted volunteers from Lodisiarta, some of
whom have already arrived at Vdra Cruz, and
the others were cn Ytntte —the whole, iii all
probability, have arrived by this liriid; txi Ad
dition to these, there are five companies df
horse from Georgia, and three from Illinois.—
These are believed to Be all en r&ute for Vera
Cruz.
“Then, there is the regiment of Texas ran
gers diider llayes, or such part of them as
Gen. TaylOr cdh spare for the service—at least
five companies.
“All these mounted volunteers have been
called otit to operate principally against the
giierrillos; and when the line of conmmu
uicaiion is opened, they will join Gen. Scott.
Gen. Patterson, who left Washington vestcr
dAy dii his way to Norfolk—there to deliver
some baggage, which is td go rodnd to Pen -
sacola in the Water Witch—will go thence to
Pensacola, where he is to “embark in the same
vessel, with other officers, fur his point of des
tination. It is said that lie is to take charge of
this military force, unless orders should hath
been recivcdfrom Gen. Scott to change these
arrangements; and aftfcr he has opened the
line of cdmmunciation, he will join the Gjne
ral’s catnip.”
The Stigsv Crop;
The Kcw Orleans Picayiiiie of the 28th lilt
says—“From every section of the sugar-grow
ing region of our State we have the most
gratifying accounts of the prospects of the
growing crops. At Lake Borghe, a day or
two ago,we met with several intelligent plant
ers, who expressed the opinion that the ap
pearance and condition of the cane at this thne
justified the belief that the production of sugar
this year would exceed that of the last by at
least 50,000 hogsheads. The plant, it is true,
is subject to disaster before the crop is finally
saved; but present appearances unquestiona
bly indicate a very large yield. We congratu
late our friends engaged in this important
branch of agriculture, And the country at large,
upon the flattering prospects before them.”
Another Letter from Gen. Taylor.
The old General has written a letter to the
Clarksville Democrats, Tennessee. It carries
Out the idea of the “Signal” and “Maloney”
letters, that he will go into the Presidential
chair, if at all, as a no-party man —bound to
serve 110 party view's —“untrammcled and un
pledged’'—Ariel repeating what he had said on
another occasion, that he was “no politician,’*
having had little or no time to investigate the
great measures of the government, and to form
any opinion upon them. He says he has not
cast a vote since he has been in the public scr*
vice, for upwards of 30 years perhaps*
D££
At the residence of his father, in Jefferson coWn*
ty, on the 29th inst., of typhus fever, after a pain
ful illness of 24 days, Mr. Sami’ki. Flemming, Jr.,
aged 24 years, 6 months and 4 days. He was a
young man of most exemplary character, and was
highly esteemed by all who knew him. 1 lis friends
are consold by the hope, that their loss is his gain.
Special Notices.
O NOTIC E. -The Rev. Mr. A. WIL
LIAMS, from the Columbia Theological Semina
ry, will preach in the Presbyterian Lecture Room.
To-Morrow Morning. Service to commence at
half past 10 o’clock. The public arc respectfully
invited to attend. Sept, 4
DALTON HOTSL, *
BY SAM’L. WILLIAMS,
[a colored man.]
Under the supervision of Henry Bolton, E«q.
who is prepared to accommodate VISITORS in
good style. A good table, prompt attention, and
good stables. Give me a call, and
u As you find us, recommend us.”
August 29 —ly *>7
STEAMfIOAT COMPANY OF GEOR
GIA.
O' This Company having been re-orgam*ed
and placed in an efficient state for service, are pre
pared to send forwarded without delay all treight
that may offer.
Goods consigned to WM. P. IVILLIAMS, Agent
at Savannah, will be forwarded free of Commis
sions.
The connection of R, M. Goodwin with this
Company has terminated,
JOHN B. GUIEU,
(Commercial.
LATEST DATES FROM LIVERPOOL AVO. If
LATEST DATES FROM AtG *
~~ By Telegraph.
£ Correspondence of the Daltimore Sun.]
NEW YORK. Ang. 31,6 V M—The
the steamer has not had much effect on the flour
market, prices of flour ranging to-day at ȣoutthe
same rates as prevailed w batun ay. f or
to-day are to the extent of 8000 b hh. at go
good Western and Oswego, and $6,70 tor u
In wheat there is not much doing. Abo
bushels Ohio mixed and red sold at 5 * ’
P “cV? Udro maintaining Us previous role* d„-