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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. | JAMES GARDNER, JR. ” TERMS. Daily, per annum ............. 58 (X) TriAVeckly. per annum 6 00 If paid in advance ...5 (X) Weekly, per annum 3 (X) If paid in advance 5( • To Clubs, remitting $lO in advance, FIN F COPIES are sent. This will put our Weekly pa per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. who will pay up arrearages, and send four new subscribers, with the money, can get the paper at $2 00. {[IPAII new subscriptions must be paid in ad vance. [["pPostage must he paid on all communications and letters of business. A Little Woman. [From the Spanish of Juan Ruiz tie Haffo.] In a little precious stone, what splendor meets the eyes; , In a little sugar lump, how much of sweetness lies; So in a little worn an, love grows and multiplies— You recollect thv proverb says, “A word unto the wise.” A pepper corn is very, smallbut seasons every din ner. More than all other condiments, although ’tis sprinkled thinner; Just so a little woman is, if love will let yon win her; FUere’s not a joy in all the w'orld you will not find within her. And as within the little rose you’ll find the rich est dyes, And iu a little grain of gold much price and value lies, As from a Little balsam much rich odor doth arise, So in a little woman there’s a taste of paradise. The skylark and the nightingale, though small and light of wing, Y’ct warble sweeter in the grove than all the birds that sing: And so a little woman, though a very little thing, Is sweeter than all other sweets, e’en flowers that j blow in spring. [From the Athens Banner, 9 th inst.] 'Keep Up the Corn Trade.-C6 Farmers of the up-country of Georgia ! Not a single barrel of Northern and Western flour ; has been in your markets the present year to compete with yours, and of course to reduce the profits of your labor ! ! Where has it goner I To Europe—to England to feed her hungry subjects. Your flour, your wheat, your coin, j bacon and provisions, have all found a foreign j market. And why? Because their ports have been opened to yen. What opened the ports of England to you? Was it famine , and that only? Believe it not. It is a well known fact, that the repeal of the corn laws in England 1 by which your grain and provisions generally were excluded by high duties for the benefit of the nobility, who are the laud owners, was long a subject of agitation before the recent famine, and was actually passed before its oc currence. The gradual reduction of the du- | ties was a fixed policy, independent of the famine, under the triumphs of Free Trade, led on by Cobdea, Ratfsell and Peel. The Free Trade party, in the elections which have recently taken place in England, are again triumphant by an overwhelming majority. The crops in 1 that country bids fair to be abundant, and | trust not the man who tells yon, that, when the scourge of famine is removed, the duties on your corn and provisions w ill be restored. It is not so. Their free admission into all parts of | England i a “fixed fact” by the increased | majorities for the Free Traders at the late 1 election, as durable as everlasting mountains. We will now suppose the famine to be re moved. That far, the price of your corn, See., j will be lessened as it has been recently by the prospects, not of PLENTY, (for that thing can’t happen in England ,) but of their usual supply. They arc buyers at all times, and un- ■ <ler all seasons, in consequence of the millions in the mechanic arts, and the small quantity of land on the island. But you will see at once, that though your prices may be lessened by the removal of the famine, that the market is still yours at some prices, disencumbered w'ith duties, under the triumph there of Free Trade. HOLD ON TO THAT MARKET. This you can do only by taking in EX CHANGE the eloth, hardware and manufactures generally, of England, which you may need, at duties as low as is consistent with the reve nue of your government —by which we mean opposition to a Protective Tariff. When you bring a load of corn, or bacon to Athens, the merchant “will take it, provided you take his goods in return. If you do not, he will not buy. If you demand money exclusively, you can neither sell, nor can the merchant buy of you. This simple process is applied to trade between nations. If you do not take the goods of England freely, she can no longer take your corn, flour and provisions freely, and will, and must move Heaven and Earth to trade with some other nation, that will trade with her upon the principle of exchange of com modities! Even durin * famine, past or to come, how could she buy corn without selling her goods to some nation or other? And to whom more naturally than the people of whom she I buys her corn and provisions? Will you compel her, by a Protective Tariff, or high duties upon her goods, first to ship her manufactures to qther nations, and then to bring you her money for supplies! If she can find supplies where she unloads her ships, and she will ransack the earth fur that place, do you think she will or can sell her goods for money to buy your corn and provisions? Far from it. She will exchange her goods for corn —freight her ships with it where she throws out her goods, and leave your corn in your granaries to be eaten by rats and weavils —to be fed to hogs or cattle -which you could not eat —or to be made into whisky at cents a gallon, and thus drive 1 us into the glorious destiny of getting drunk upon our abundance!! Then, Farmers of Georgia, we invoke you by your dearest interests —by the regard you have for the morals of your children—by the plainest dictates of common sense, to come to the banners of Free Trade ! Keep down the odious Protective Tariff which has weighed like the nightmare upon your energies, until they we» partially released bv its reduction in a DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS. Since that time you have sprung like a strong man upon his feet, who had broken the chains that j confined him to the floor of his prison, and now walks abroad—you “ have corn to sell" — and better than that, a market at which you can sell it. Hold on to that market 1 Pour in your supplies to England, (she is alwavs a buyer) and remember to pour in your VOTES like a mountain stream for the Free Traders, on the first Monday in October next. Speak in a voice of thunder for TOWNS and every DEMOCRATIC candidate for the Legislature —and let your shout ans-vver back to the re cent triumph in England, “ Trade SHALL be free !!” Before closing this appeal to your practical judgment and good sense, it will be necessary to combat the only argument of the protection ists which can possibly mislead you. Their j only refuge is now to attempt to gull you with 1 the belief, that your great customer abroad at this time, will not remain sq .longer than the ! famine which desolates Europe generally—that she will import her grain from Russia and J ( other nations of that continent. A few facts ] and reflections will dissipate the delusion. | It is well known that the tendencies of all despotic governments like that of Russia, Den ; mark, and other European governments gene rally, are to cramp the energies of the produc ing classes, by high taxes, odious and tyranni cal exactions of all kinds, and the ever-resting cloud of uncertainty whether the husbandman will be permitted to enjoy the fruits of his la bor. In this condition of’ things, he will eith er not sow or plant farther than is necessary to answer the mere wants of life. If he be | comes a slave, as large masses are in Russia, he works like all other slaves, no longer than I the eye of his master rests upon him. Now it is a well known fact that one freeman will 1 raise more corn than two slaves under the average management of that class of laborers in any country. With a soil as fertile and seasons as genial as in any part of the world, the American producer Will far outstrip all others iu the abundance of his productions. — This fact is every where Written in characters which cannot be mistaken. It is no doubt uu j der this view that Sir Robert Peel, the great j advocate of Free Trade in England, has re cently said “that he looks to the American States as the great sources of supply to the wants of England for food,” and it is certain that your products in the markets of that coun try, with your vast capabilities, free institu tions, and teeming soil will enable you, not only to compete with the Europeans in the corn trade, but even to supplant them. To the polls, i then, and vindicate your interests by your ! votes! [From'tht N. O. Delta, \th Inst.] The Progress of the War. It is now understood that the Government i has changed its plan of op rations in Mexico. The contemplated advance of Gen. Taylor upon San Luis and the Capital has been aban doned. The troops now with Gen. T., will 1 he reduced to a irvere garrison force, sufficient ! to hold and 'occupy the principal points now | in our possession, and the surplus, consisting I of two brigades, will bo sent to N era ( ruz, via j the Brazos, to open the communication bc -1 tween Gon. Scott’s army and las depot at Vera Cruz. This division is, no doubt, al ready on the march, as we learned froiU Cflpt. j Corser, of the Secretary Buchanan, late L orn j the Brazos, that it was hourly expected by the I Quartermaster at that point, who was taking | measures to furnish the necessary supplies and ; transportation. Whether this division will be under the ; command of Gen. Taylor or Wool, we arc not informed, but we presume that it will have ! Gens. Lane and Hoppin as its Brigadiers, and 1 that it will include the force now encamped at ! Mier, and composing the school of instruction. This division will be about 3000 strong, and j will no doubt be amply sufficient to clear the rear of Gen. Scott’s column. Jalapa will be strongly occupied. This is highly dpsirable, for at present this place is the nest of the guer rillas. Here they obtain supplies, and here they can retreat from the mountains and find shelter and support, whenever they are hard pressed. Tire garrison at Puebla, too, will be reinforced. We trust whilst the Government is taking these judicious and energetic mea sures to protect the communications of oUr i conquering army on the Jalapa road, it will also see the importance of occupying the Ori zaba road, and protecting Gen. Scott’s rear from that direction. A force of 1000 meu, with 500 horse, thrown into Orizaba, would shut in the guerrillas, and Very raUch cramp the 1 sphere of their operations, and cripple their I resources. When these points are occupied, let the Government raise two or three addi tional regiments of Hangers, and a corps of light Flying Artillery, to operate on the line of j our posts, and we guaranty the guerrillas will | sood disappear. | To further this plan Mr. Marcy has only to send a written request to Jack Hays and j Ben. McCulloch, authorizing them to raise j two regiments of Rangers, and furnish them with the necessary equipments, acting towards * them with some liberality, and we are certain the required force will soon be in the field—a i force, the very whisper of whose appro;wh will clear the rocks and chaparral of the whole horde of guerrilla vermin. This change is the mode of operations, and the consequent division of a large portion of Gen. Taylor’s command, is to be regretted by all those who, like ourselves, warmly hoped to see the old hero,who has so nobly borne the brunt of this war. completing and rounding off the epic of his exploits by a triumphal entry into the city of Mexico, after a victorious march through the interior States. But we do not see how it could be avoided. The present aspect of affairs indicates very clearly that the Government will be Under the neces-dty of occupying and holding Mexico after its conquest; that the Government of Mexico has neither the will nor the power to make peace, and that no ingenuity or conces sion on our part, short of national dishonor, can save us from the necessity of taking “cor poral seizin” of the country, as the lawyers say, and holding it until our Congress shall determine what further step shall be taken.— To do this requires a much larger force than Gen. Scott had when he left Puebla. There j should at least be one line of communication I kept open between the Capital and our ports of deposit and supply. What avail would it be for both Gens. Taylor and Scott to advance at : the same time on the Capital, when the rear of : both arms is loft uncovered and their commu nications closed ? They would, of course cap ture the city, but all the country around them would be in the hands of the enemy, and they would be shut out from their supplies and re inforcements. The passage of the armies through the States leave the people as far from being suddued and as hostile as they were be fore. The mere conquest of the Capital will not be the great difficulty of this war. Our serious difficulties commence with its capture and occupation. A line of 350 miles, through a thickly settled and inveterately hostile country, admirably adapted for partisan and guerrilla -warfare, will have to be occupied by our troops —large cities will have to be fortified and garrisoned, and valuable trains will have to be continually guarded and escorted from the coast to the Capital. To perform all these difficult duties will require at least 30,000 men. But the whole number now in the field docs not reach this figure. It appears, therefore, to us .to be, not only the wisest and most judicious, but the only I course left to our Government, to concentrate all the troops not necesary for the garrisoning of the towns and depots in our possession, upon th© main point of our military operations, in order to secure and render more effective and available the hard earned fruits of victory. The Epidemic. —The number of deaths still increases. For the 21 hours preceding nine o’clock yesterday, there -were seventy victims. We hear of a great increase of cases during the prevalence of the cold Northern winds, for the last two or three days. There are sevwal physicianswho have lived a long time in the city taken dow r n with the fever, and many citizens who passed safely through former epidemics 1 ure now' suffering irom severe attacks of this ; strange and fatal disease.—We trust uo stran gers will come into the city during the preva lence of the fever. We were not a little sur prised and concerned to observe several strange 1 young officers on our streets yesterday, who | had just arrived here. They should not have been ordered here or permitted to come here by their commanding officers. 'With its pre : sent headway and an atmosphere so favorable to its increase, nothing can stay the onward course of the epidemic but the exhaustion of inrterial for it to operate on. If unacclimated persons will come into the city and supply it with new subjects, there will be do abatement ; of its ravdges Until it is nipped and extinguish |ed by frost. If it is to continue* at this early stage of the season, to increase at the rate it now is, our city will be decimated by the Its November. We entreat, then, all Unacclimated persons I —all persons who haVe not had the fever-to re move out of the city until the epidemic has disappeared.—Y. O. Delta , 4/A Inst. £GrreSpOitdence of the Flag ami Advertiser.] Lowxdesboro/ 4th Sept. 1847. Gentlemen* I have delayed writing to yoli till now, in order to obtain as much informa- , tion as possible from the planters in this neigh- ; borhood respecting the cotton crop, and as far , | as my information extends, the prospect is any i thing but Haltering. During last month the j weather was rainy and wet, and this week we | have had a great deal of rain and tolerable high winds, which I think has done a great deal of , injury to the crop; the worm has been very de | structive, and I believe worse on the sandy | I lauds than on the ptaries; and where the weed is rank, the rot is very destructive to the bolls. ■ Take it ort the whole, I am of opinion that we shall not gather or make more than last year, if as much< I hear some planters say that they wotild like to see the army worm come back — ' as they only strip the leaves, they would be of service to the rank cotton, and would stop the rot ill it, [Correspondence of the N, O. Delta.] Cuxtox, La., Aug, 23, 181?* : Eds. Delta —As one of your subscribers, and , a planter who feels a deep interest iii every • thing that relates to the productions of ollr State, I beg leave to submit for the information 1 of my fellow produces the following observa* ; j tions. Corn, you know, is made and will sdoil be ; dry enough to be housed. I find that there is f, i quite a difference of opinion among experienc ed farmers as to the best mode of preventing ; j the depredations of the weavil. Some advise to j gather corn as soon as it is dry enough to keep, . in order to anticipate the fly which deposits the I eggs in the car. Others say, let the com re -1 main in the field until exposed to frost —which : will effectually destroy the insect. Others again tell you to gather corn when damp, for then it M ill heat jusi enough to consume the weavil. These are td - modes which I have heard ad , vanced—have fried oil of them and had the weavil annually L’v permitting corn to lie in the field until aftar you may calculate on losing a portion by rotting —which in a M'et fall will amount to a least G;ie-foHrth. By gathering it m hen damp, you run the risk of souring and injuring in the crib. In ’42, I gathered mine a little too damp, I suppose, and lost tM-o or three hundred barrels in conse quence. Throughout the parish, the crop is said to be the best M’e have had for some years. { The season has been neither very good nor very bad for Cotton—the crop of the parish ; will, I think, average about fair—but if the weather should be very favorable henceforM’ard •we may yet have a very large yield. General ly all blooms that open by the loth Sept., Mill be sufficiently matured by frost to be secure 1 against injury. Tor fourteen or fifteen days past we have had freqltcnt, and in some places heavy showers-**Which of course have been of no advantage. Too much rain is injurious in two M'ays —first by causing the stalk to groM* • j too rapidly, when the joints M ill be long, ac j compmiied by more ox less sheddirig—and se -1 corn!, by falling on the white blooms. My ’ ; owrt observation proves to Jae that every white • bloom exposed to a shower is destroyed- If I this bo so you may form some ides of the im mense damage caused by repeated rains at this season of the year, when our cotton fields each morning arc almost Avhitc’ With blooms.- The boll oX boring worm is doing much mis chief on old and thin lands. Indeed, Sirs, the i ; cotton crop is liable to so many casualties that it seems to me sheer folly to make an estimate j ! of the result until frost; and even then, the quality and quantity would depend somewhat on the character of the weather for picking, Yours, &c., a. j. x. [From the N.- O. Delta.} The Courthouse at Biloxi. j (SO., Tit E MAIDEN AND THE JU D O E,- The Temple of Justice at that beautiful M-atering place, Biloxi, is no common affair. Like an oyster, the richness arid value of the 1 i inside make full amends for the roughness of 1 the exterior. The careless observer wotild j pass this building by Mith a sneer, thinking probably that it Mas nothing but the hut of some poor fisherman; but the philosopher is ' richly rewarded for his pains in entering the premises. It is a small room about twelve by 1 fourteen feet. On one side there is a counter, ; and beyond, shelves which are ornamented with dumpy little jars filled with all kinds of gay colored sugarcandy. Indigo, brass rings, 1 combs, raisins, coffee, ground-nuts, barrels with suspicious looking spigots, and ill fact almost every article that is to be met Avith in a country grocery store, decorate this portion 1 of the apartment. Directly opposite the coun ter is a venerable looking piece of furniture, something between the cut of a desk and a bedstead, M'hich is the postoffice of Biloxi. Beside the postoffice is as mall pine table orna mented with various ink-spots, and a high backed wooden chair. Back of the chair are I sundry rows erf brooms and any quantity of tin canteens, M'hich, together with several coffee bags, give a very splendid effect to the M'hole. ’The Senior Judge, who presides over this legal 1 sanctuary, is a Doctor Pangloss in the Avay of learning, He will quote Latin m hilst deliver ing you a letter, and ejaculate in Greek whilst putting on his boots. Apart, however, from a slight disposition to be pedantic, he makes an excellent magistrate, and is one of the most amusing elderly gentlemen M’e ever met M’ith. There is but one way in which you can offend the Judge, and that is by “niggering” M'hile Court is in session. There is a solemdity at tending his Court that must not be invaded by the vulgar laugh nor the simpering smile. And yet Death, himself, M’ould laugh until his ribs ached in paying a visit to this court. For instance, the worthy Judge is head-over-ears engaged in taking down the evidence in re gard to some important case. “You say that this man had the knife in his : hand ” ( “You want to buy any crabs or oysters to day?” inquires a bare-footed, red-faced, sun : burnt fishcr-man. “The Court must not be disturbed in this manner,” says the Judge, looking very solemn ly thro’ a huge pair of spectacles, but scarcely are the words out of his mouth, -when in comes a gawky boy, Mho elbows his May through the croM’d, and inquires, “what’s the price of a picayune’s worth of fish-hooks?” Thus the poor Judge has it during the time that court is in session. Corn and Coke, blacking and | Blackstone, jeM'sharps and Justice, caution and crabs, and eloquence and eels mixed all up in one confused mass. But to our story about the maiden and the Judge. Now, be it known to all men, that the Judge, though a great admirer of the fair sex, is one of the most modest men alive, and we believe that he M’ould run sooner than permit himself to be kissed by the handsomest woman that ever breathed.—The other day a strapping young M’oman, M’ho spoke a little bad English and any quantity of verybad French, came to the Judge to lodge a complaint against a negro woman, M’ho she said had insulted her. “My dear young lady,” said the Judge, tak- j ing a huge pinch of snuff, “what is the com plaint you have to make?” “Why, sair, I be one strhek by one naigre. I find de blood draw an de—de—” ; Here she commenced sobbing as if her heart would break, and his honor thinking that some matter of delicacy restrained her from telling all she kneM’, spoke to her in a fatherly man ner, as follows: “Now my dear young lady, strive to be calm. Tell me all—tell me every circumstance connected with this horrid affray* You must i recollect, my dear yourtg lady, that in my ca- ; I pacityas Judge, you may unbosom yourself to I me.” “Ah,” said the fair one, “I sail unbuzzum ! myself to yoii. It was zero zaze naigre frap : pe me.” The Judge raised his eyes, and there stood his fair complainant, with her dress opened down the bosom, pointing to a small blue spot ; ! on he Aiakcd breast. “Good God! ma lamed'’ cf'.ed he, starting ! from his seat like Macbeth, Avheu he sees the ; ghost of Banquo, “I did not mean that you j should unbosom yohrself in that manner.” The last that M’as seen of the Judge that day he was taking a glass of “tansy bitters” at Michael Hughes’, opposite. n—«g—a—■aaroaagaa. ihwiibb—npa—— 51 n4ns ta, ocorq ia .* SATURDAY MORNING. SEPT. 11. FOR GOVERNOR HON. G. W. TOWNS. OF TAI.BO r. Democratic Nominations for Senators. 3d Dist. — Mclntosh and Glynn —T. M: Forman: 4th Camden and Wayne— Elias Fort: .'Hh “ Lowndes and Ware—Gen. T, Hilliard; 7fh “ Tattriaii dfld Bulloch—John A. Mirtot Bth “ Sctiven and Effinjrhriin—W. J. Lawton. 9th “ Burke and Emanuel— W. S. C Morris. 12th “ 1 hoiuas and Decatur— Wm. H. Reynolds. j 13th 11 linker and Early — Dr. Wm. J. Johnson. 14th “ Randolph and StcM ; aft— Will*am Nelson, I'th “ Macon rind Houston —John A. Hunter. 1 19th “ • Dooly a fid Pulaski—Geo. M. Duncan. i 20th “ Twiggs arid Bibh--W. W,- Wioglns. | 21st “ Washington and Jefferson—'B. S. Camwelu 24th “ Hancock and Baldwin— S. Buffington, Jr. 25th “ Jones and Putnam —James M. GraT.- : 26th “ Munroe and Pike-=Coh Allen Cochran. 28th “ Merriwether arid CoWeta-— Ore. Warner. 31st “ Fayette and Henry —Luther J. Glenn; 32d “ Jasper and Butts—Col. J. C. Waters. 33d “ Newton and Walton— Warren J. Hill. 38th “ Clark and Jackson— Samuel Bailey. 39th “ Gwinnett and DeKulb— Jas. P. SimmoNs; ,49th “ Paulding and Cass— Francis Irwi£. 41st “ Cobb and Cherokee—Wm. H. Hunt i 43d “ Habersham and Rabun— Edw’d Corm. • 14th “ Lumpkin and Union— Elihu S. Barclay. Do Bow’s Commercial Review. The .September number is on our table. This is an especially valuable number. It con tains an amount rif information in reference to the agriculture, commerce, and improvements 1 of the Southern and Western States, and of the M’hole Mississippi valley. It has a finely executed engraving of the late Stephen Girard. Caesar’s Commentaries. We have received from the publishers, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, a very neat copy j of Cai.sar De Bello GaUico, with numerous | English notes. This is one of a classical se- : rios, intended for schools, by Drs. Schmitz and i Ziimpt. Gen. Clinch and the Bank of St. Mary’s. We are waiting with all due patience for the letter of Mr. Preston, M'hich the Savannah ; Republican promises the public* We cannot account for the' delay.- As Mr. Preston, by his Picas,’ got his client the old General into , the scrape, or rather, exposed the scrape that somebody else' had got him into, it is but right | that he should get him out, if he cant j The first letter of Mr.- Pres tori;, addressed to ■ us, and which the Whig papers pronounced “a | full vindication of GeU. Clinch,” turned out, i in public estimation, rfo vindication at all, at , all. So thinks the public'; arid so, it seems, think the Republican and Mr. Preston. The | latter is to try his pen again. We M’ill pub lish the letter as soon as it comes to hand, “That Same OldCocm?^ We noticed a new riamo for Whiggery, a dopted in New York City, There is an associ ation of Whigs, called the Young Men’s De mocratic Whig Association. Is this in con tradistinction to Federal Whigs ? If so, wherein do they differ, save in name? What Democratic doctrines do they adopt—and what Federal doctrines of the great, universal Whig party do they disclaim? This, avc suspect, is only a JackdaM’ pro ceeding, to shine in borroM ed plumage. The people will see through the deception. Our attention, however, M’as called to this association by noticing, that the Democratic Whig Y oung Men’s General Committee nomi- I nates HENRY CLAY for President in 1848. Just as we expected. They have probably found out that Gen. Taylor is not a good enough“//e/t --rg Clay Whig ,” If his name could be made use of to promote their party schemes, well and good. They never intended to make use of him, ex cept for that selfish purpose. That game be ing blocked by Old Zach's flat footed refusal, they drop him like a hot potato. Col. Towns and the Central Bank. A communication in the Journal $ Messen ger, published at Macon, M'hich will be found below elicits some comments from the Chron icle $ Sentinel, under the caption “Is Col. Towns a Central Bank Defaulter or not?” We have but little doubt from the tone and temper in which this estimable man is spoken of by the whig journals and their correspondents, that it M’ould be very gratifying to them if they could succeed in affixing a stain or the suspi cion of one upon his integrity. In this they M ill be disappointed. The question put by the Chronicle M ill be ansM'ered —satisfactorily to the friends and admirers of Col. Towns— not very satisfactorily to those who would make him out anything but an honest, and an honorable man if they could. This Central Bank question Col. Towns has no disposition to dodge and does not intend to dodge. Both his friends and his political opponents may rest assured of that. As the writer “Y” “asks the favor” of their neighbors of the Recorder to make due inquiries on the subject, M’e hope the request will be complied M’ith. If the editors of the Recorder will call on Col. Thomas the Director of the Central Bank, and get a statement from him, they M’ill find the facts to be substantially as follows : I Col. Tom'iis M’as a member, some years ago of the firm of Sturges, Towns & Benning. While that firm was in existence, some notes, amounting to bctM’een four and five thousand dollars, M r cre placed in the hands of that firm for collection. Judge Sturges received them, collected the money and paid the amount over to the Bank. Col. Towns never had posses sion of the notes, or saM’ a dollar of the money. There was some delay in paying over the mn , ney, and Col. Towns’ attention was called to the fact. He immediately urged and insisted ;on a settlement of the business. As a volun tary thing oil the part of the Bank, some in ; dulgence as to time was allon-ed the senior partner, tlioUgh Col. Towns urged an imme diate settlement. Finally a gross amount was ! paid in, over four thousand dollars, sufficient 1 as Col. Thomas believed, or nearly so, to cover J the M'hole amount the Bank claimed after de ducting commissions. Judge Sturges contend ed that theßank Mas over paid,and on this point a dispute arose. Col.ToMhs called in person and requested Col. Thomas to state Avhat amount, if any, Mas claimed by the Bank as still due. He replied that he did not know that any M’as due, and could not tell Until Judge Stilrges rendered a statement. But that the amount could not in any event exceed two hundred dollars. Col. Towns immediately offered to pay him two hunched dollars to cover the claim. Col. Thomas declined receiving, it as he was not prepared to make out tlic account. Col. ToM’iis well aM’are of his legal responsi bility for any deficit, though personally he had had no part in the business, M as then rea dy, has always been ready, and is now ready to make the payment. Having never had any of the papers, he cannot tell Avhdt that deficit is, or if there be any. Thus stands the case, as we are informed. Col. Tom us at all events is not in fault in this matter; Col. ToM’ns stands high in his circuit as a prompt, efficient and able attorney. lie en joys a large practice, and the unlimited Con fidence of the community in his integrity and fidelity to’ his clieilts. His assailants must try it again. They must try some other tack, for on this they M’ill find themselves foiled, as they will in all attempts to impugn Col. ToM’ns' professional reputation, or his character as an honest man. Is CoL Towns a Central Dank defaulter? This is an important question just at this period of time, and one M’hich it will not be come Col ToM ns to dodge: This remarkable faculty of the Colonel will not avail on this occasion; the people want full arid frarik re sponses to the question. They M ant to knoM', too, M’ho M’as this partner of Col. Towns— whether or not he, too, is not some favored Democrat, upon whom the Democracy of Georgia have again and again bestowed officer These are all pertinent and important inqui ries, M'hich are suggested and rendered more forcible by the subjoined communication, M'hich M e copy from the hist Macon Journal & 1 Messenger. Os the writer, we of course have j no knowledge, but there is an air of confidence about the communication M'hich indicates a ! knowledge of some facts not generally kuoM u ! to the people : —Chronicle * Sentinel. [communicated.] i Messrs. Editors : —As the friends of Mr. Tom’iis have ventured to assail the private character of Gen. Clinch, with charges of mal administration as President of the St. Marys’ Bank, from M'hich he stands triumphantly vindicated, the friends of the General M’ill be excused, if they should turn the tables on his competitor, and show that in certain Bank transactions he has not exactly “toed the mark” himself. I remember some years ago, seeing a black list of defaulting Attorneys to the Central Bank, published by order of the Legislature, in which, it I am not mistaken, i a legal firm, of M'hich Mr. Tom iis M as a part ! nor, appeared to be included. I knoM’ noth ing of the circumstances, and cannot now state the amount they owed the Bank; as your neighbors of the Reconhr, from their proximi ty to the Bank, can have access to the records, alloM' me to ask of them to favor the public with a knoM'ledge of the facts, M'bether Mr. ToM'rtSf as one of said firm, M'as a defaulter to the Bank? and if so, the amount? and finally, M'hether said defalcation has ever been paid? This is a matter affecting Mr. Towns as a public agent, and as such, may aid in settling the question as to his qualifications for the high and responsible office he now seeks. It is therefore a legitimate subject for this kind of investigation. Y. Augusta Rifle Club.—A Good Target. Some three months ago a Rifle Club M’as formed in our city, and at present numbers about a dozen members. Dr. J. G. McWhor ter is the President, and E. H. Rogers, Secre tary. Although but new beginners in the manly art, their progress in improvement has been rapid. For the information of some older clubs, and particularly the Old Rifle Club of Savannah, M’hich has long borne the reputa tion of “being, hard to beat,” Ave give beloAv their Target shooting of Saturday last. If any of them can beat it, avc M ould like to see the “Record.” There Avere onlv seA’cn members shooting— distance 120 yards, offhand, 12 shots each, as folloAvs: No. 1, measuring in the aggregate 71 inches. No. 3, “ “ “ 37.3-10th. No. 6, “ “ “ 57.4 NO. 6, “ “ <• 47.0 No. 7, “ “ “ 72.3 No. 8, “ “ “ 65 8 No. 12, " “ u 51.5 402.5 inches. Each ball averaging 4J inches from the centre; all in board, and tliirty-tAvo in the white spot. Official Denial. The Washington Union denies that peremp tory orders have been forwarded to Gen. Tay lor, directing him to send tM’o regiments from his command to Yera Cruz. If, says the Union he selects and sends on two regiments from his command to Yera it is only in con sequence of the discretionary orders forM'arded on his own suggestion, as avc haA’e already noticed. XVlr Benton and President Polk The Washington Union publishes a note from Mr. Benton to the editor of the Wash- ington National Whig, in M’hich he says:— “Gentlemen: On seeing the article from the : Louisville Journal headed, ‘Mr. Benton and Mr. Polk,’ in your paper of this day, I have to , request that the paper be no longer left at my house.” The article in the Louisville Journal refer red to some remarks which Mr. Benton is re ported to hav T e made at a tov nin Kentucky* where, as it was said, he heartily abused Mr. Polk and the management of the Mexican M ar. Democratic Nominations. The Democratic party of Bibb county, have nominated R. A. L. Atkinson, and Elisha Da vis, Esq Ts. as their candidates for the House of Representatives in the next Legislature. The Democrats of Columbus, have nomi nated Porter Ingham, Esq., for the Senate, and w Messrs. John A. Jones, and James Johnson, for Representatives. Three good men and true : men of sound Republican principles, of talent, intelligence and energy arc presented to the voters of Muscogee for their support. A steady and enthusiastic support of it will insure its success. They deserve such sup port, let them have it. State Elections to Take Place. The following general elections arc vet to take place for legislature, &c.:— Maine, Sept, 6 Michigan, Nov. 1 Vermont, “ 7 Mississippi, *• j Georgia, Oct. 4 Louisiana, •• j Arkansas, “ 4 Texas, >* 2 Florida, “ 4 New York, •• 2 Maryland, ** 6 New Jersey, •« 2 Pennsylvania, “ 12 Massachusetts, « h Ohio, “ 12 Delaware, “ 9 Business by Telegraph. The Baltimore Clipper says that a Merchant of New York wishing to draw upon a debtor of Cincinnati for S2OOO, sent a Telegraph des patch. Within forty minutes from the time of writing the order in his counting room, a dratt was returned, and the merchant had his money in his pocket * Fourteen hundred miles besides the business details, in loss than forty minutes! The Weather and the Crops 2 The Georgetown Winyah Observer, of Wed nesday last, says:—“We have had rain every day for the last week. The rice harvest has generally commenced and if we are saved the calamity of a gale, an average crop will be gathered;” Items. Suicide. —The Buffalo Commercial Adver* tiser of Tuesday, notices the death, in that city, by sdicide, of Mrs; Mary E. Parker, who in a state of mental depression, caused Hh't death Sundav before last bv taking a large • OO dose of opium. She was about 25 years of age, and has Ifcft a husband and children in New York city. Fuel. —The fuel annually consumed in t Yttf United States,-is estimated at $100,000,000. It is stated as a well known fact, that there is now more wood around the city of New York, than at the time of the revolution. There arc’ large traefs of Woodland oU Lurfg Island, which have never been used on account of the more general use of coal, and these forests have since increasing in extent. [com muxicatedV] The People Will Remember That. Whig editors do sometimes utter things that put to flight all and not un frcqucntly remind one of the little bc'V wluf said to another, that if He coUhl trot whip* him, he could, at len&f, make mouths at hi* sister. When anything is’ said of Gen. Clinch' that they cannot answer, they fSy right into a passion, and give vent to their feelings’ in lan guage, which, reduced to its into meaning, ought to read something after this f ishihW :—- “Now, aint you ashamed to speak of the old man in that way : hut never mind ! the peo ple will remember that.” When Mr. Clay was running against Mr. Folk, according to Whig shewing, Mr. P. was a diminutive mouse by* the side of a huge elephant; even then did any one dare to intimate that Mr. Clay was not a perfect saint, we heard the same cry, “Nev er mind, the people will remember that.” And the people did remember —and will again/ When the same Mr. Clay was a candidate, he was the Sage of Ashland ! the orator! They w anted a speaking President, —but it’s not at all necessary for a Governor. Marvellously consistant! At the very moment that they are laboring most assiduously to throw dust in the eyes of the people, some wag gives them the information that Mr. So-and-so intends to Vote against Gen. Clinch. Whereupon they address a note, to ascertain the truth or falsity of the report —it is answered with a flat de nial —the answer is spread before the people, perhaps to show that the Democrats are a set of villainous scamps. “Oh!” say they “we’ve caught you, eh ?—-but never mind, the people will remember that.” The truth is, Mr. Edi tor, the people remember more than the Whigs desire that they should. They remember that Whig success is the country’s ruin, and re membering that, they will consign “Old With lacoOchie” alias “Old Sugar Cane” to his pri vate home, and elevate Mr. Towns to the Gov ernor’s seat. No Mistake. Special Notices. (TF NOTICE.—The Rev. WM. T. HAM ILTON, D. D., of Mobile, is expected to preach in the Methodist Church, To-morrow morning, at half past 10 o’clock. There will be preaching in the Presbyterian Lecture Room, To-morrow After noon, at 4 o’clock. The Rev. M. A. WILLIAMS, will preach in the Methodist Church To-morrow- Night, service to commence at-J before 8 o’clock. Sept. II AMERICAN BOOK AND TRACT SO CIETY. (pf* The Rev. Dr. Me Whir, a Voluntary Col porteur of this Society, is now in this city, and may be found at the Presbyterian Lecture Room, where he has a number of Books and i raefs for distribution among the poor, and for sale at low prices to those who are able to purchase. The services of any young and active persons who will undertake the distribution in this city will be thankfully received. Sept. 8 3 Cio Election Tickets. Those washing to have Election Tickets printed, can have their orders executed at this office at 50 cents per 100. The money should accompany the order. e P t * * ILT DR. J. A. S. MILLIGAN, will at tend to the practice of Medicine and Surgerj , itt Augusta and its vicinity. Office in Metcalfs Range, up stairs. Entrance one door below Mr. J. Marshall’s Drug Store. June 13 6m - JAMES GARDNER, JR., attorney at law, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA