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[From the New Orleans Delta, 10 th inst.]
The Negotiations.
We cannot disguise our apprehensions that
the circumstances under which Mr. Trist en
tered upon his diplomatic-discussion, give no
promise or assurance that the result will be
satisfactory to the American people. W e arc
d 8 ippointcd in the hope much cherished by
the pro de of this Union,and especially enter- ,
taindiccd by the Commandor-iu-( ’hief oi our
arms, of tutiug a peace to tne Mexicans,in their j
own capital. TV e know not upon w hom the |
blame will fall but we think the author and pro
poser of the mode, time and place, which have
been selected for the diplomatic adjustment of
our difficulties with Mexico, will incur a heavy
and fearful responsibility.
We have ever feared for the credit and char
acter of our Republic, when its claims against
Mexico were subjected to the diplomatic or
deal. The Mexicans beat us hollow in all the
arts and cunning of diplomacy. In our vari
rious negotiations with them, through our
ambassadors, they have never failed to outwit
and hood-wink us. They are as far ahead of
us in duplicity and dissimulation, as we are
ahead of them in valor and prowess.
Will Mr. Trist form an exception to the
long list of American negotiators and envoys
whom the Mexicans have deluded and over
reached? We have not the slightest acquain
tance with that gentleman’s diplomatic capa
bilities, and will not therefore pretend to an
swer the question, whether or not he is an
equal to the combined skill and ingenuity of
one Mexican general and three lawyers*
Rut alas! that after all the <*lory and suc
cess of this war—after whipping the enemy
whenever and wherever we met him —after
penetrating into the heart of his country and
most signally defeating his last and largest
army under the very walls of the capital—with
the spires and cupolas of that magnificent city
in full view of the array—that then and there
Mr. Nicholas P. Trist, Chief Clerk of the State
Department, should be closeted with one
Mexican general and three lawyers to deter
mine ripon the peace, which we were all pro
mised, and the glory of this war
should he dictated to the enemy in the grand!
plaza of their capital. Jm
It destroys forever the unity and
our Mexican Epic- -it throws a universayßma
per and freezing disappointment over na
tional ambition —it makes us the
stock of that envious old world, wjpise awe
end respect we were just beginnindwo arouse.
Not the least mortifying consideration con
nected with the trist-fid is that it
should have been invited and solicited by our
selves. We were not stopped py a suppliant
and subdued enemy, approaching our victori
ous general as the mayor anti chief citizens
of Calais went forth to deliver the keys of
thnr city to the conquering EtlVard. TV e did
not even wait until awed and prostrated by the
last and heaviest blow which wo had inflicted on
his military power, by the destruction of that
gallant army which the day before had march
e I out of the city, with banners flying and
tr umpets sounding, but which now in broken,
bbody and frightened fragments steals into
the city like a thief by night. We did not
wait until the enemy himself, thus signally
and overwhelmingly defeated, prayed our mer
cy and solicited peace ? But we take the ini
tiative ourselves. Though the victors, the
humiliation of asking for terms is ours.
We are not sanguine enough to expect that
any peace thus patched up will be satisfactory
to the people. Its benefits and advantages
will have to be great and dazzling indeed to
reconcile the people to the circumstances under
which it was made.
But we have no hope of obtaining even a
fair compensation for the sacrifices and bur
dens of this war from such a peace. The Mex
icans fully appreciating their advantageous
position of respondent and defendant in the
peace discussions, will raise their pretensions
to the very highest point of arrogance and
presumption. Thus we see it stated that they
had the impudence to claim the Nueces as the
proper boundary of their country and to re
quire that we shall retire beyond it. What
other absurd pretensions they may be induced
to set up will never transpire until the pub
lished terms will enable us to guess how far
they moderated their first views.
But circumstanced as they are, can the Mex
icans agree to any such terms of peace as we
require, as the people at least require ? They
are a proud, sanguine people. They will con
strue our indiscreet peace solicitations as indi
cations of our weakness, and of the success of
their last efforts in defence of the capital.—
Deeply embittered and infuriated against us,
they will consider this a favorable opportunity
of satisfying the hatred which has long cur
dled their blood and steeled their hearts to
wards us.
Then, too, this negotiation is conducted un
der the auspices of .Santa Anna, and must ne
cessarily incur all the prejudice and unpopu
larity which have accumulated against the
Mexican President.
Already we hear of the rally of his opponents,
and of the opponents of the North Americans,
under his old enemy Bustameute—his later
enemy Paredes —and his still later enemy Val
encia, Can he succeed in resisting these for
midable chiefs, backed as they are by the rab
ble rout who rule the unhappy country? We
fear not.
Our conclusions then are that Mr. Trist’s
negotiations open most in aus pici ousi y; th at they
never should have been commenced until our
army had marched into the Mexican capital;
that peace should not have been sought or
»elicited by us? that the Mexicans will be em
boldened by the circumstances of the negotia
tion to place their pretensions at a high murk,
and that Santa Anna will not be supported by
the Mexican chiefs and people.
These are our views, and we leave it to time
to determine their truth and correctness.
A Mexican Account of the Battle.
An evening edition of the New-Orleaus, Na
tional, gives us the following particulars of the
battles from the Sim of Anahuac, of the 30th
utt.
“Two letters were roceivod this morning da
ted Mexico, Aug- 23, 1848. These letters are
from the best source and cannot be doubted.
They are from Mexicans of high respectability
at the Capital and addressed to commercial
houses here. They say that General Scott at
tacked El Pinon —took it, went around through
Guadaloupe where Valencia was in command
of 6003 men, (this was on the 21st) attacked
him and took a great number of prisoners, bu
i.TOrtjeaikrMaiiwi i^c^ajigeußg^
f the night coming the fire ceased on both sides
; and Gen. Scott surrounded Valencia’s troops.
The next morning they were again' vigorously
attacked ami* completely routed, leaving 4000",
between dead, wounded and prisoners.
“Valencia had received the order on the' 21st
to retreat on the capital, but he would not obey
it, and fought until his* command was nearly
all cut down, as we have already said.
“\\ hile he was retreating in disorder, say the
letters, Gen. Peres was on his march with 8,000
men to reinforce him; but on seeing the disor
der in which Valencia’s forces were retreating,
they themselves retreated in great contusion,
j leaving a great number of dead, wounded and
i prisoners.
“A proposition was them made to General
i Scott to grant an armistice of thirty-four hours,
j which he refused. Gen. Mora y A illamil was
then sent out to make a new proposition, the
I result of which was not known,
! “It is reported also that Santa Anna was op
| posed to the plan of operations which were put
in practice by the Mexican troops, but that the
plan had been offered by Paredes, who was with
Valencia during the engagement.
“All letters agree in saying that all was con
fusion in the capital.
“The letters to which we refer say that some
persons estimated the loss of the Mexicans at
FOURTEEN THOUSAND, but that it was
Very difficult to say exactly the number.
“These letters arc from Mexicans and there
i fore we can be certain that they would not say
anything to their disadvantage, if thay were
l not certain of their being true.
“It is reported that the loss of Gen. Scott is
i very small in Comparison to that of the enemy.”
——BMgSBM—aKaMMH Hl' ICHP—BB3BOHB——■BOGBPMa—
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THURSDAY MOUNTING, SEPT. 16
FOR GOVERNOR
HON. D. W. TOWNS.
OF TALBOT.
Democratic Nominations for Senators.
3d Dist.—Mclntosh ami Glynn—T. M. Forman.
4lh * 4 Camden and Wayne—Elias Fort.
sth “ Lowndes and Ware—■Geu.T. Hilliard.
7th “ Tattnall and Bulloch— John A. Mattox
Bth “ Seriven and Effingham — W. J. Lawton.
9th “ Burke and Emanuel— W. S. C Morris,
12th “ Thomas and Decatur—-Wh. 11. Reynold*.
Kith “ Baker and Early—Dr. Ww. J. Johnson.
Hth “ Randolph and Stewart— William Nelson.
17th “ Macon and Houston— John A. Hunter.
19th “ Dooly and Pulaski— Geo. M. Duncan*.
20th “ Twiggs and Bibb—W. W. Wiggins.
21st “ Washington and Jefferson—B.S. Carswell.
24th “ Hancock and Baldwin— S. Buffington, Jr.
25th “ Jones and Putnam— James M. Gray.
26th n Munroe and Pike— Col. Allen Cochran*.
231 h “ Mcrriwether and Coweta—Obb. Warners
31st “ Fayette ahd Henry— Luther J. Glenn.
32d “ Jasper and Butts—Col. J. C. Waters.
33d m Newton and Walton— Warren J-. Hill*
38t.yp Clark and Jackson— Samuel Bailey.
32 m li Gwinnett and DeKalh—Jas. !’. Simmons.
JRli “ Paulding and Cass —Francis Irwin.
F 43d “ Habersham and Rabhri— Bow’d Cof»ee*.
441 h “ Lumpkin and Crtion— Elihu S. Barclat.
Death of the Kon. H. H. Wilde.
The sorrowfill intelligence reached our city
yesterday Os the death of the Hon. Richard
Henry Wilde, who for many years held a
very distinguished position at the Bar of
Georgia, and represented her for a long period
with signal ability in the Congress of the
United States.
He died on the 1 Oth inst. of yellow fdver, at
New Orleans, to which city he removed three
or four years ago, and where, during that pe
riod, he had placed himself iii the front rank
of Iris profession.
It should devolve on an abler pdn to write
the eulogy of this very distinguished citizen
and accomplished gentleman. In common
with our fellow-citizens of Augusta, among
whom he had lived respected and honor
ed, we shall lament his loss as a public
bereavement, while We s} r mpathize deep
ly with the large circle who will keenly
feel this sundering of the ties of freindship.
His afflicted relatives here, will have the con
solation of knowing that this sympathy in
their misfortune is wide and universal.
All must feel sad and mournful at this strik
ing dispensation, for in the deceased was ex
tinguished one of the intellectual luminaries
of the age. In him was combined the pro
found jurist, the sagacious statesman, the
elegant writer. Independent of those forensic
and legislatorial honors which were the re
j wards of his talents and attainments, his polish
! ed and classic pen has enriched the literature
of his country. Public opinion has long since
awarded to him a high place among our coun
i try’s poets and crowned him with her bright
i est chaplet. Though his presence will no
longer adorn, and his wit enliven the social
; circle—though the places which knew him
once shall know him now no more forever,
yet his name survives in his country’s litera
ture. His is
‘‘One of those few, immortal names
That were not born to die.”
Columbia Court, now in session,
James Gardner Gould and Am. Huguenin
Me Laws, were admitted to plead and practice
Law in the several Courts of Law and Equity
■ in this State.
The Hon. John M. Berrien on the Stump.
This gentleman was last week stumping it
at Dahlonega. On the 9th inst. he addressed
a whig meeting, and undertoo I', 1 ', among other
often attempted things, again to define his po
sition on the tariff. TVe are surprised that the
experience of 1844, has not had a more salutary
I effect upon him. He then injured both him
self and his party by his stump efforts on this
subject. We doubt whether the repetition of
the task will mend the matter. On the point
oi dignity, which is the greatest “let doten for
t a hoary ex-Senator, a candidate for re-election
to the United States Senate.to take the stump,
|or for a candidate for Governor? As the
whigs seem to have an aristocratic scale of
i dignity on this subject, perhaps they may
solve the problem.
Duty on Salt.
The Savannah Republican has shown a re
| markable degree of industry in firing small
; shot—very small slujt at Col. Towns in refer
i ence to his Congressional career. Among the
; very small shot recently fired, we notice that
the Republican refers to his vote to tax Salt 20
per cent. This was one article among the
1 many hundreds taxed by the tariff bill of 1846.
j Why does not the Republican inform its read
ers of the fact that the whig tariff of 1842
taxed this'Tery same article one hundred ter
gjjjj | -■ ■ i i ■ U..
f cent? To show the superiority of the demo- *
j cratic revenue bill, over whig tariffs, in refer
ence to the rights and interests of the pe° r
j man, wc are always ready to compare items.
We arc equally ready to argue upon the in
fluence of the two opposing systems. Col.
Towns has never been found among the sup
j porters of the party who tax the people ot the
whole country 100 per cent, for the benefit of
the few Salt manufacturers of Virginia and
western New York. The Republican and his
i friend General Clinch are apart of that croud.
This the whig tariff did, which the democrats
repealed with the aid of Col. Towns’ vote.
Something to Read. —We have received from
the publishers, through Thomas Richards, of
: this city, the following books :
j Endless Amusement; A collection of near
ly 400 entertaining experiments in various
Ibr unches of Science. Lea % Blanchard.
Dombcy & Son,—First part. Containing
i the first 10 Nos. Lea & Blanchard.
Fresh Gleanings ; Or a New Sheaf from
the Old Fields of Continental Europe, by J.
j K. Marvel.—Duodecimo. In two patts, eom-
I plete. Harper &: Brothers.
This work contains a great deal of pleasant
reading on interesting subjects. We have
dipped hastily into its pages, and were pleased
with the style and general character of the
book.
Louis the Fourteenth, and the Court of
| France, by Miss Pardoe. Complete in 4 parts
j —duodecimo. Harper J Brothers.
| VS e have already noticed the receipt of the
! Ist and 2d vols.—V\ e read them with great
I pleasure. The sketches of public characters
; an d events of the time of which it treats, and
i the remarkable Court intrigues of that bril
i . °
liant and profligate Court are rich, racy and
instructive. We now acknowledge the re
ceipt of the remaining two volumes.
N. Cardozo, and Charles K. Bishop
| have sold out their interest in the Charleston
Evening News, to Messrs. Burgess & James,
; and Mr. Paxton, one of the former proprietors,
by whom the paper will be hereafter con
ducted.
I’rom.Santa Fc.
Advices from Santa Fc to the sth August
have been received at St. Louis, brought by
' Capt. McKinney’s company of volunteers from
i Munroe county, and a train sixty-five U. S.
j wagons, under the charge of Mr. King. Mr.
! James Aull, the partner of the late Col. S. C.
j Owens, had been murdered by four Mexicans.
Vermont.
The Brattleboro Eagle of Friday says: ‘‘The
! Legislature will be closer than we apprehend
| cd, and maybe Loco.”
Gen. Kearney arrived at Washington on
Friday night last, from Missouri. He is said
to be in good health, and is desirious of joiniUg
• I the army in Mexico, as soon as he can be re
leased from his engagements at Washington.
Colonel Fremont is expected at Washington in
| a few days.
The Magnetic Telegraph.
The editor of the Charleston Mercury learns
froin Mr. Shaw, the Supcrintcndant of the line
between Charleston and Petersburg, Ya., that
the posts are all erected between the two points
; with the exception of about thirty miles; that
i he has a strong force engaged, and will com
i racnce putting on the wire the ensuing week;
and that the line will be in operation, and
Charleston placed in magnetic communication
with New York, by the first of December
next.
The Mobile Register, of the 11th instant,
sdys —**We are glad to see that the work on
this pdrtidn of the line is proceeding with en
ctgy and vigor. The agent of the work, Mr.
I Llo}'d, returned to this city two days since
and with him the party under charge of Mr.
Griffin. The erection of posts, and cutting
out and preparing the line for the reception of
the wires and insulators is completed from
here to New Orleans, except the masts at the
Rigolets near Fort Pike—which arc progress
ing with as much rapidity as practicable, and
some eight miles of posts near the city on the
Spring Hill road, which having by some mis
j conception been improperly selected, are to be
: replaced next week by durable cypress posts.
! The wire hooks and glasses will then be
: placed and the wires soon afterwards pilt up.
i These materials are being shipped from New
York as rapidly as the'ability of the manufac
| turcr to supply them will admit. Several tons
of hooks and glasses and 40 or 50 miles of
wire cord are already received in New Orleans
| and at this place. We are informed also that
: the line is nearly ready for the hooks and
| glasses and wire from hence to Montgomery,
and will be completed about the middle of the
present month.”
The Epidemic.
The New Orleans Southerner, of the 10th
- instant, says—The report of the Board of
Health shows a decrease in the number of
deaths. There is good reason to suppose how
j ever, that the sudden change in the weather
i which has taken place within the last 24 hours
will again increase the mortality. About 2
j o’clock yesterday morning it became cold and
■ chilly and has continued so since. It is con
' 1 sidcrcd very unfavorable for those having the
| fever.
[communicated.]
Should All Vote for Col. Towns?
Whig. —How do you do, old friend, I’m
very glad to see you, but very sorry to hear
tkat you intend casting your vote against our
S old General.
Democrat. —Yon have been correctly inform
ed; such is my intention.
IV. —Well, what can be your reason? Did’nt
j you fight under him? And did’nt you find
him a first rate old man?
D. —Does it follow that because I fought
under Gen. Clinch, I am to vote for him? I
believe him to be a fine old man, and am
ready to figbt under him again, but when it
comes to making him Governor, that’s a dif
ferent thing. Have you yet to learn that a
man may make a very good military , and yet
not be a competent civil officer?
tr.—Well that’s just what Smithson, Wcl
f don and Snooks told me this morning, and I
said to them that I was astonished to hear
men who had fought under Gen. Clinch talk
that way.
D. —Well, why do you support him? Do
you vote for him because you were in the wars
with him?
W. —Oh no; I vote for him because he’s a
Whig.
D. —Very good; suppose you were a Demo
crat, would you still vote for him?
W. —No; I Would not.
D. —Then, why do you wish me to sacrifice
my principles? Arc they not as dear to me as
yours are to you?
IF. —That’s a tough - question —you are right
—do your duty —your country expects it of
you*. „
D. —Well, but leaving tire party considera
tion out of the question altogether, do you
believe (ini. Clinch capable of filling the of
fice to which he aspires? Do you not candid
ly think your convention made a sail* mistake
in nominating him?
W. —To confess the truth, I must say he is
not my choice; I know he is not bright, either
as a financier or statesman, and if I thought
my Whig brothers would not lecture me about
it, I’m not so sure but I would give one De
mocratic vote.
D. —This is a free country. I vote for Col.
; Towns, not because he is a Democrat, bxrt be
{ cause I believe him more competent for the
; office. He is a man ready for any emergency
i that may arise—his familiarity with the Gov-
I eminent makes him so, whereas, his competi
tor is comparatively a novice in State affairs.
IF.—Your language seems to carry truth
with it. I will consider well the matter be
tween now and the first Monday in October.
D. —Do that, friend T., and I feci assured
that you, and many other Whigs, will give
their votes to Col. Towns.
Health of Mobile.
The Register of the Ilth inst. says—We re
gret that we cannot announce any abatement
in the disease that prevails at this time in the
city, and we are concerned to add that the
cases now occurring are assuming more of a
malignant character, and yield less readily to
medicine. The number of deaths however is
exceedingly limited. During the last 24 hours
cold northerly winds have prevailed any they
are always considered unfavorable to health.
We hear of new cases daily, and unless a favor
able change in the weather takes place, it is ap
prehended that the diseases will increase. We
make these remarks on the highest medical
authority.
Col. Towns and a Roorback.
A correspondent of the Macon “Journal”
under the signature of “Chattahoochee,” has
discovered two bran new “mare’s nests.” He
asks the following questions:
“1. Did or did not Col. Towns desert his post
in Congress and leave his constituents unrepre
sented in order that he might engage in Wes
tern land speculation?”
We answer by authority* “No Sin, he did
not do any such thing. He never bought a
foot of said lands after the event as charged.”
“2d. Did not Col. Towns obtain the funds
with which he embarked in that speculation
in whole or in part from the Central Bank —an
institution which he favored and sustained and
which Under Democratic management has not
I only squandered and lost the people of Georgia
! over a million of Dollars, and which, when
; wound up, will probably leave them a debt of
three or font hundred thousand dollars to be
paid by taxation upon their property:’'
Wc reply, again, by authority, “No Sin* tie
did not do’any stich thing, as charged. Mr.
“Chattahoochee” threatens to “draw the docu
ments” if disired. We say “draw away” and
“lay on Macduff.” It is a Whig Roorback, and
cannot be sustained. Mr. “Chattahoochee”
had far better attend to Gen. Clinch and let
Towns alone. The Whigs have far too much to
answer for at their own doftrs, to be carrying
this “war into Africa.” Shinny on your own
sides gentlemen! — Columbus Times.
“ Artful Dodging .”— Os all the “dodging” wc
have seen, for a long time, that of General
i Clinch and his friends, in relation to his note
to the Bank of St. Mary’s, is decidedly the most
“artful.” The General himself, by his plea in
Court, in trying to dodge its payment, shew
ed that he had dodged the charter. He has
since dodged all public explanations of the
transaction, but has excused himself to his
friends, as we have more than once been told,
by asserting, that the note was given in lieu of
another, executed by another stockholder, who
had subsequently failed. This we have no
doubt is the true history of the transaction. It
is consistent with his plea, and with all the
facts in relation to the case, exhibited by the
records and the statements of the Plaintiffs
Attorneys.
It is not. however, consistent with the state
ments of the Savannah Republican.—ls that
print dodges one way, and other friends of Gen.
Clinch dodge another, there is but one way
that the truth can be ascertained, and that is,
for Gen. Clinch to make a clean breast of it.
’This he has been called upon again and again
to do. While he dodges this and his friends
dodge all sorts of ways, the people will settle
down upon the conviction that the record tells
the truth, and that Gen. Clinch sought to
dodge the payment of a note which was given
to dodge the charter of a Bank of which he
was the President. — Federal Union.
Tactics of the Whig Press. —Several of these
j prints, whose editors fancying thev have some
character to lose, have not ventured them
selves, but have permitted their anonymous
and irresponsible correspondents, to prefer a
gainst Col. Towns charges as base and un
founded as they are contemptible and malig
nant. Until these charges find a responsible
endorser, wc do not feel ourselves called upon
to treat them with any further notice than
fiatly to deny their truth, and to call upon the
public to mete out to them the contempt they
so richly merit.
Among the charges that a licentious press
has thus spread before the people, without the
slightest evidence to sustain them, arc the fol
lowing.
Ist. That Col. Towns borrowed funds from
the Central Bank to embark in speculations.
2d. That he used fictitious names in effect
ing loans.
3d. That he is a defaulting attorney of the
Central Bank.
4th. That he is pledged to veto any and all
bills passed for the extension of the State Rail
Road.
The •barges shew the malignity of those
who prefer them, and the manner in which
they are preferred, shews that their authors,
skulking behind the protection of an anony
mous signature, cannot prove what they dare
to assert. In what estimation should a press
be held that permits itself to become the
vehicle of such unadulterated slander?— Fed.
Union.
Special Notices.
mrßesolved, That all Accounts against the
City Council, and all Reports and Returns of Offi
cers, shall be left with the Clerk of Council, on or
before noon, the Friday immediately preceding
the Regular Meeting of Council, that the same
may be submitted to the examination of his Honor
the Mayor, as required by the 83d Section of the
General Ordinance.
A true extract from the minutes of the Citv
Council of Augusta, Sept. 4th, 1847.
W. MILO OI.IN, Clerk.
Sept. 3 71
John L. Cope. Oscar L. Shewmake.
COPE & SHEWMAKE,
Factors and Commission Merchants,
SAVANNAH. GEORGIA.
Sept. JG ths2m
DLTRELL 3. #REC2ORY,
DAHLONEGA, LUMPKIN COUNTY, GA.,
Will practice Law in the Cherokee Circuit. He
will also act as Land Agent, where the land
lies in that or the adjoining counties.
References. —F. M. Cabot, Esq., A. G. Wim
py, P. iT., J. A. Smith, Esq., Dahlonega; Gov. C.
J. McDonald’, Marietta; Hon. Hiram? Warner,
Greenville; Col. K. L. Haralson, La Grange.
Sept. 13 ly
1 rF DRTjTa. S. MILLIGAN, wilTat
tend to the practice of Medicine and Surgery, in
Augusta and its vicinity.
Office in Metcalfs Range,- up stairs. Entrance
one rfoor below Mr. J. Marshall’s Drug Store.
June 13 Gm 215
(o"Tlic founts of Bourgeois and Long Prim
er on which the Constitutionalist was recently
printed, cun be purchased cheap, if early ap
applieatiou is made.
AMERICAN BOOK AND TRACT SO
CIETY.
fTT The Rev. Dr. Mc Whir, a Voluntary Col
porteur of this Society, is nowin this city, and
may be found at the Presbyterian Lecture Room,
where he has a - n-umber of Books and Tracts 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- frii
Election Tickets.
Those wishing to have Election Tickets
printed, can have their orders executed at this
office at 50 cents per 100. The money should
accompany the order. Sept. 7
DALTON HOTELS
BY SAM’L. WILLIAMS,
[a colored man.]
Under the supervision of Henry Bolton, Esq.
who is prepared to accommodate VISITORS in
good style. A good table, prompt attention, and
good stables. Give me a call, and
As you find us. recommend us.”
August 29 —ly 57
JOHN H. RICE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
CASSVTLLE, GA.
Will practise in the Counties of the Cherokee
Circuit. Collecting business will be thankfully
received and despatched promptly
Aug. 21 ly 30
ALEXANDER McKENZIE, JR.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WAYNESBORO’, GEORGIA.
April 20 :■ ly 170
Let all who are afflictc i with Asthma read
the following - letter;
Mr. Seth W. Eowle :
Sir—^-Having been afflicted for more than thirty
years with the asthma, at times so severely as to in
capatiate me from attending to business, and har
ing adopted many medicines without any but tem
porary relief, I purchased about three years since,
of Mr. Edward Mason.your agent in this eity, seve
ral bottles of Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry,
from (he effects of which I obtained more relief
than from all the medicines I had ever taken for
that distressing disorder. I have by the repeated
use of your valuable Balaam been rhore free of
pressure for breath, and opppressirm on the iungs,
than 1 had anticipated, and indeed conceive my
self cured of this most disheartning malady.
I do most cheerfully tender you this acknowledg
ment, which you will use as your judgment dic
tates. C. D. MAYNARD.
Argus Office, 7
Portland, March 26, 184 G. }
None genuine Unless signed I. Butts ott the
wrapper.
For sale in Augusta, wholesale and retail, by
HAVILAND, RISLEY A CO., and also by
• THOMAS BARRETT A CO., and Dealers in
Medicines generally in Augusta.
Sept. 16 3—f
Sands’ Sarsaparilla.
This unrivalled preparation has performed sonic
of the most astonishing cures of diseases that arc
recorded in the annals of history, thus proving con
clusively that it is capable offulfiling the high aim
and purpose for which it is designed. Patients
suffering for years from various chronic constitu
tional disorders, after trying different remedies,
spending thousands of dollars in travelling and doc
toring, and suffering all that human nature is capa
ble of enduring, have by the use of a few bottles,
entirely recovered their health. Chronic Rheu
matism, Scrofula or King’s Evil, Sait Rheum and
Ringworm, Ulcers and painful affections of the
bones, Ulcerated Throat and Nostrils, Scurvy,
Biles, Chronfc Sore Eyes, Blotches, and various
cutaneous eruptions, Glandular Enlargement, Hip
Diseases, Ac., are effectually cured by its use.
For further particulars and conclusive evidence
of its superior value snd efficacy, see pamphlets |
which may be obtained of agents, gratis.
Prej ared and sold, wholesale and retail, A. B. A |
D. SANDS, Wholesale Druggists, 100 Fulton, cor
ner of Willi, ni-strcet, New \( rk.
Sold also by
HAVILAND, RISLEY A CO. |
And by Druggists generally throughout the Uni
ted States. Price $1 per bottle, or six bottles for
$5. Sept. IG j
Never Despair.
Philadelphia, July 2G, 1346. |
To the Public. —l certify that before my re
membrance, 1 became afflicted with what 1 iivsi
cians called Scrofula. It made its appearance by
pain and swelling of the joints—more especially of
my ankles, knees, wrists and elbows, after which
the glands of ray throat and neck became inflam
ed and swelled, attended with the most excruciat
ing pains. 1 was often confined entirely to my bed,
andfor weeks together could not move my neck or
turn my head. Several physicians attended me at
different times —but they did not appear to do me
any good.
About a year ago, I was attacked with vomiting,
which continued every few minutes all one night.
The next day an eruption appeared on the sides of
my neck, which soon spread all over my neck,
head and face, with inflammation of my eyes and
eyelids, which destroyed my eye-lashes, and cann
ed the hair to fall off my head, and soon the dis
ease spread all over me; my limbs were one entire
scab. 1 could not bend my hands or arms with
out causing the skin to crack open, when the blood
would run out. Some of my linger nails came off.
-a short, I was unable to get rav own living, and in
this condition I called up>n Dr. Jayne, in order
that he might undertake my case. He directed
mo take his Alterative three times a day and
his Sanative Pills as often as I should find U ne
cessary. I have now taken his Alterative four
m inths, and am most happy to say that it has er*.
tirely cured me. Caroline Newberry,
No. 113 North Teath-st., Philadelphia*.
If any person d mbts my statement, they wilf
please call upon Mrs. D. Stewart and Mrs. FI-
Doughty, 332 Spring Garden street; or on Mrs. Ta
bour, where I reside, who are acquainted with my
situation before and while I was taking Dr. Jayne’s?
! medicine. C. Newberry.
Prepared o ily by Dr. D. Jayne, Philadelphia, ami
: sold oa agency by
W. K. KITCHEN, Augusta,
■where may be had all the other valuable prepara
; lions of Dr. Jayue.
Sept. 16 fc
31 ARiIIEI>,
On Tuesday evening, the 14th in«t., by tlie Rev*
J. E. Evans. Mr. Willivm S. Royal to Miss
; Caroline M. Frazer, both this city.
In Burke county, on the I-1 lli inst., Gv the ReV
| P. Duncan. Mr. Josiah Pollock, of Scriven
: comity, to Miss Aurelia E. Mixon, of the former
| place.
Commcrc i a I*
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LATEST HATES IRON I.ltKltPOOl Al'U. IR
I. AT ENT IVVT'T.S VRavM H A Vila ,AI U. 14
! CHARLESTON, Sept. 13.— Cotton.— There
was quite an active demand with stiffening priee*
■ during Saturday and Monday, the sales on each
day amounting to rising of .>OO bales. Yesterday
the market was again verv quiet, only 89 bales sold,
making the total sales of the three days 1160 bales,
)ai prices ranging from 10,1 a 12J, principally 1 a
12, Dealers quote an adv nee of o all descrip
tions since our last report; from our own observation*
we would coniine this advance to the liner qualities
j only.
Rice —Som- 400 bbls have taken since Fri
| day last at prices ranging from sl7-16 a,§s*. a de
cline of § a on former rates. The market is very
unsettled, buyers keeping back for lower rates,
while holders are still endeavoring to uphold prices.
NEW \ ORK, Sept. 11.— Colton —The reports
of more extensive injury to the growing crop, re
ceived within the last lew days, have arrested tire
downward tendency of the market, which closes
with a lirni feeling, at an advance of j of a rent
per lb. over the currency of Tuesday last The
sales arc 6800 bales,of which 8000 are Upland anrf
Florida, thus; Ord. to good ord. a II4; mid. to
good mid. llg a 11£; mid. fair to fair 12 a 12J;
fully fair to good fair a fine —.
2 P. 31.—Cotton sales 1640 bales, prices jc. bet
ter than yesterday.
Flour steady, with a small business; wheat very
heavy; rye 75c. bid, 80 asked; com 65 a 71c.; 1000
bushels round whhe corn at 7Qjr.;'oats 40 a I tC.
Sterling heavy at 8J a francs have declined to'
. 5/25 a 27^;
NE W (HU Ai AN s'[d ’ otton . —The
sales have been confined to 200 bales, without anv
j change in prices. For particulars of the Caledonia‘V
I news, We refer to our preceding columns,
Sugar and Molasses —Confined to retail sales.
Flour. Wheat. Corn and Oats. —Without any
sales of inportance.
Freights. —A ship taken for Cette at SSO per
I thousand staves.
MOBILE. Sept. 11 .—^Coltoir- —The receipts si net
the commencement of the year are 07 bales, and
| the exports 400'bales. leaving the stock on hand
and on shipboard not cleared 28.869 bales.
During the first five oT six days of the month
there was considerable excitement in the cotton
1 market, with large sales for the period of the year,
and at very full prices. The advance was nearly
Ic.per pound.. The excitement was caused bv the
daily receipts of the most unfavorable account*
! from ail parts of the country in reference to the
| c indilion of the growing crop.. We have now to
i remark that the excitement has entirely subsided,
| and that during the present week the demand has
materially tallen off—the sales not exceeding 1500
bales. 7’his condition of the market is attributa
j hie to the very high point to which holders have
raised their figures, and to the unfavorable tenor
of the advices by the steamer Guadelqniver. re
ceived here in the early }*art of the week, in rela
tion to the monetary affairs of England, though
more particularly perhaps to'thc fact that the or
ders in hand restrict buyer's to a range below the
rates demanded.
We give our quotations in accordance with the
sales made, but consider therti merely nominal—
not over 2 to 300 bales baring changed hands since
Tuesday last.
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION.
Good and fine... . nominal.
Good lair nominal.
Fair 13 a—
!Mid. fair. 12 Aa —
Middling 12 a—
j Ordinary II |al 1£
In relation to the incoming crop our accounts
continue to be extremely discouraging. It is now
| past a qne«tifm that the crop of the fit ate general
■ ly has suffered severely by the wet weather ami
! the bofll worm, whilst in the lower counties the ;»r
--;my worm has swept many of the plantations. No
J condition of the weather for the remainder of the
season can give us an average crop, and ths pro
babilities at the present time seem to be that the
receipts at this port will not greatly exceed those
of the year just closed. It is too early for esti
mates; our best attention, however, will be engag
ed to obtain the most accurate information, which
we shall be prompt to lay before our readers.
Freights —We have heard of no transactions in
foreign this week.—the last engagement to Liver
pool was at |d. Coastwise Ire also very dull, the
! only vessel taken full was a bark for,Boston at
| To New York only about 300 bales have been ship
! ped at $2 per bale. The disengaged tonnage in
| port is fast increasing.
Shipping intelligence.
ARRIVALS FROM CHARLESTON.
Brig Charles, Beales, Boston.
MEMORANDA.,
j The ship H. Allen, Campbell, for Charleston,
| sailed from New York 11th inst.
The bark Avola, Kendrick, for Charleston, was
j up at Boston 10th to sail 11th inst.
The brig Emma, Dickson, for Charleston, was
I up at Philadelphia lith inst., with despatch.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 15.—Arr. steamship
Southerner, Berry, New York; brig Caspian, Wil
loughby, Philadelphia; schr. Le Roy, Bedell, New
! York. '
In the offing—Bark Jupiter, Carter, fm Havre.
Cld, brig Centurion, Richmond, Philadelphia.
Went to sea, ship Marion, Thompson. N. York;
! brig Creed, Holbrook, Savannah; schr. M. B. Ma
■ honey, Dole, Philadelphia.
1 SAVANNAH, Sept. 14—Arr. brigs Sterling,
f 3lacey, NVork; Alert, Jameson, do., schr. Jno.
Hartman,Stinson, do.; steamers Ivanhoe, Jarmon,
Augusta; Chatham, Hubbard, do.; Lamar;Philpot,
do.
Cld, schr. American Eagle, Moslander, Phila
delphia.
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ITxOUR 3IONTIIS afterdate, application will
be made to the Honorable the Interior Court
of Burke county, when sitting lor ordinary pur
poses, for leave to sell a Negro Man belonging to
WILLIAM R. ROBERTS, a minor.
JAMES A. MURPHREE, Guardian.
A.■ «r 07 55
AX ~ _
NOTICE. —All persons indebted to the estate
of THOMAS GRAVES, late oi Walton co.,
(la., are requested to make immediate payment; and
all those having demands against said estate, to pre
sent them in terms of the law. .
GEO. W. GRAVES, Ex r-
Jilly 11 l "