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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARDNER, JR. TJ3HMS. Dailv, per annum $0 Tri-Weekly, per annum 6 00 If paid iu advance 5 00 Weekly, per annum 3 00 If paid in advance 50 To Clubs, remitting $lO is advance, FIVE COPIES are sent. This will put our VV eekly 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 inonei, can get the paper at $- 00. . jj-pjji new subscriptions must be paid in ad vance. (EJ-Postage must be paid on all communications and letters of business. [From the Washington Union of the 20th iust.] The Revenue. We publish a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in reply to a communication of Mr. Barksdale, by which it appears from the liooks and accompanying statement of the Register of the Treasury, that the nett proceeds o f the first nine months, from duties under the tariff of 1816, exceeds hy more than three millions of dollars the nett proceeds of the corresponding nine months under the tariff of 1812, It appears, also, the rate of augmentation is progressive; and that if the nett revenue from duties for the remaining months of the fiscal year closing on the Ist July, 1848, is in the same rate for the I tinexpired term as sot the first two months of ! July and August, then the nett revenue from duties-lor the first entire fiscal year under the tariff of 1846, would be $45,344,468. It may not he so large as this, but Mr. AV’alkei?cstflfcfc ted it at the sun of at least $28,000,000; and that minimum estimate was declared hy whig sen ators to be ridiculously large. Their estimate was from sixteen to twenty-one millions as s maximum. The most important part of the cKholc result is, that the e.rports have increased in a cor responding rate; thus verifying the theory of the Secretary,that the exports mould equal our imports. Treasury Department, Sept 16, 1847. Sir: The enclosed statement, prepared in the office of the Register of the Treasury, is trans mitted in compliance with the request in your communication of the 26th ultimo. The new tariff went into operation on the Ist December last; and the nett proceeds under if (after deducting all expenses of collection) actually paid into the treasury during the first nine months of its operation, is as you per ceive, $22,961,333 28 —being greater by the sum of $3,176, 018 57, than the sum paid into the treasury during the same period of nine months under the tariff of 1842; and exhibiting a gain, at the same ratio of increase, tof $ 1,234, - 691 42 of the first twelve months under the tariff of 1846 as compared' with the tariff bf 1843. The gross proceed received by the collectors is much greater, as the expenses of collection are deducted before the money is paid into the treasurj' and recorded by the Register. Most respectfully, your obedient servant. R. J. WALKER, Secretary of the Treasury. Toßi Barksdale, Esq.,Yazoo city, Mississippi. Treasury Department. Register's Office, Sept. 15, 1847. Statement of the Receipts into the Treasury, from Customs, during the undermentioned periotls. From the Ist October, 1845, to Ist July, 1846, $17,850,735 73 From the Ist October, 1846, to Ist July, 1847, 17,504,038 08 From the Ist December, 1815, to 31st Au gust, 1816, and from the Ist December, 1846, to 31st August, 1847, to wit — During the month of Decem ber, 1845, $1,289,484 97 From Ist January, to 30th June, 1846, 13,657,944 96 During the months of July and August, 1846, 4,817,884 78 19,795.314 71 • * During the month Dec., 1846, $1,451,076 00 From Ist Jan., to 30th June, 18 47, 1-3,952,845 86 DuringArthe months of July and August, 1847, 7,557,411 42 $22,961,333 28 DANIEL GRAHAM, Register. [From the NO. Delta 19 th inst .] infecting - of the Bar. At a meeting of the Bar of New Orleans, held in the Supreme Court Room, on the 18th dav of Seutember, 1847, the meeting was called to order by M. M. Cohen. Esq., and on his motion John R. Grvmes, Esq., was called to the Chair, and Arnold Bodin, Esq., was ap pointed Secretary. The Chair having explained the ob'cct of the meeting in a few fueling and eloquent remaiks, the following resolutions were proposed by Greer B. Duncan., Esq., and second by Robert ITeaux, Esq., and unanimously adopted: Resolved, That when a man, distinguished among his countrymen and amongthe members of thejprofession to which he was allied, is call ed away by death, it is the mournful privilege and duty of those who survive him to give ex pression to that feeling of public regret which clusters around the tomb of the departed. Resolved, That in the life and character of the Honorable Richard Henry Wilde, we recognize eminent talents and acquirements, such as adorned the profession of which he was a dis tinguished member, and that as a statesman, a scholar and jurist,he had attained a well-found ed reputation at home and abroad; that in his death by a stroke from the invisible pestilence which has carried dismay and despair into the of so many of our fellow-citizens, the New Orleans Bar has been deprived of one of its most illustrious members; society of one of its most amiable ornaments; the country of one of its most distinguished citizens, and his immediate family has met with an overwhelm ing calamity. Resolved, That, in the judgment of the New Orleans Bar the deceased, in his professional intercourse with his brethren, was distinguish ed by a refined and urbane dignity, a calm and unpretending deportment, and an honorable and delicate sense of professional propriety; that in all these particulars his example illus trated the principles of his action, and furnish ed a model worthy the imitation of the junior members of the profession; by whom his worth was appreciated, and to whom his talents and jiis virtues formed an object of veneration; that especially is his loss to be deplored at the pres ent time, when his late acceptance of a Chair in the University of Louisiana promised a career of distinguished usefulness to the pro fession. Resolved, That while it does not become us to trespass upon the sacredness of private sor row, yet we cannot refrain from tendering to the relations and family of the deceased the ex. pression of our profound sympathy in their immeasurable loss. Resolved, That as a token of our respect for the character of the deceased, we will wear the usual badge of mourning for the next thirty • davs. Resolved, That while we thus express our sincere sympathies upon the death of a dis tinguished member of our profession, we avail ourselves of the occasion to say how sincerely we sympathize with the relatives of the many others of'our profession who have fallen vic tims to the insatiate disease which, has visited our city find covered it with a mantle of mounl iiig. .. .. Resolved, That the Attorney General be re quested to present these resolutions to the Supreme Court at the opening session of that tribunal iu November next, and to ask ou be halt ol the Bar, that they may be entered upon the records of that Court; and that the District Attorney ot the United States for the District of Louisiana* bo requested to present a copy of the same to the Circuit Court of the United States ol the said District, with the same re quest. On motion of IT. R. Denis, Esq., as amend ed on motion of H. St. Paul, Esq., it was Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be inserted in the English and French languages in the gazettes of this city. On motion of Ed. Rawle, Esq., the meeting then adjourned. JOHN R. GRYME3, Chairman. Arnold Bodin, Secretary. [From the Neir Orleans Picayune, 19 th inst.] The Epidemic. We write at the close of another week with somewhat lighter spirits in regard to the epi demic, for though it still prevails to an alarm ing extent, its ravages have been very much diminished within the past ton days. The report of yesterday is the most favorable we have had to make in many weeks. Compar ing the results of the whole week’s reports with those of preceding weeks, we have to note that the returns of two cemeteries, (the Catholic ! and Cypress Grove) for one day have been lost ! through some negligence. With this excep tion the results arc as follows; The total number of interments in the city for one week from Saturday morning, the 11th inrt., has been 249, of which 161 have been of yellow fever. The corresponding figures for the preceding week were 542 and 402. Even making allowance for the missing returns of two cemeteries for twenty-four hours, this shows a vast diminution of the mortality both bv'yellow fever and other diseases. The Lafa yette report shows a like decrease, the num ber of interments from yellow fever being only i 5i against 115 the previous week. At the | Charity Hospital, the returns exhibit a strik- ! ing improvement alfco. The admissions have j been 2/6, against 350, while the deaths of yel- , low fever have been only 56 Against 100 the ; previous week. The discharges of .yellow fe- ! ver have been 218) against 188. Iu the earlier part of the week, the weather 1 was unsually cool —quite like the autum, weather of the North, but within two days it has moderated, and at the moment Os Writing it is quite mild and summer-like. We are assured that within the last day or two the number otc-ases of fever in private practice has i decidedly increased. The type of (he fever is | also more distinctly marked than during the j earlier portion of the epidemic; at the same time i it is generally more manageable. If absent ! unacclimtited friends and those who design ; coming to New Orleans during the fall or win ter, can be induced to keep away till we have had a sharp frost, we can hope to pass the few intervening weeks iii comparative exemption from the horrors of pestilence; but if, as is usually the case, they will crowd into the city unseasonably,the mouth of October, may yfet be the most fatal of the year. At present every thing indicates that it can only bo rendered so by the folly of those who would become the certain victims. The Whig’s and the Central Bank. For years past, the Whigs have been untir ing in their efforts, to make capital out of the Central Bank. Gov. Crawford after having done more than any other man living to de preciate its bills, because they could not be i kept down after the truth was made is now heralded forth by his friends ns the great founder!! In his famous report iu 18 P 2, when a member of the Legislature, he pro claimed to the world “ The Bank if now left to its own resources, would he utterly insolranf— it cannot pay its liabilities out of its assets .”— Has time proven this declaration to be truer In our last number wc shewed, that according to his OAvn statement of the assets and that of his committee in January last, that there should be an excess of assets after paying all liabilities of $105,130 24. In August 1845, the Recorder harping uprtn the same subject, with the view of advancing the claims of this same financier to the Exe cutive chair, figured out the deficiency of as sets at $1,683,210 75, and then broke forth in the exclamation “nearly two millions to he paid by taxation!!” That was a wide shot indeed! The Savannah Republican, has now taken up the cudgels against this ill-fated institu tion, and its figures are about as wide of the mark as those of the Recorder. Its state ments have been too often refuted to demand attention. While, however, that print is telling of the millions the Bank “made way with,” will it tell its readers how many of these millions were “made way with” to construct a rail ! road, to throw into the lap of its city the rich I products of the West, which by its own supine ness will never reach it* Will it tell its readers ' by whose votes these large sums were “made ! way with:” In short, will it tell them the j whole of the truth; or will it continue to illus- | trate upon this as upon other subjects, the | motto “all’s fair in politics*” —Federal Union, | inst. [ Correspondence of the Neic Orleans Delta.] The Crops, &c. Linden, Marengo Co. Ala., ) Sept. 13, 1847. 5 Eds. Delta . —l have just come out of my cotton farm, and as I notice you are asking information of you patrons, in the different counties, in the different States —I will tell you how it is with us. None of us made last year i half our usual crop of cotton —I know of no one who will make as much this year as last. We have had almost continued rains for the last sixty days, some of which were excessive ly hard, washing and inundating lands, and filling our creeks higher than they were any time last winter. The weather suddenly changed much colder two days ago, it is now seemingly settled, but much too cold for the season-producing much chills and fever among our people—but it does not in the slighest de gree affect the cotton worm; they are as busy as ever, boring into every square and form of nearly every half-grown boll. Our corn crops not near as good as many think them—much com sprouting upright on the stalk and near ly all that is down on the ground is rotting. Respectfully* yours, R. J. Forgery. —Wc are scary to say that to-day we have what is worse than bankruptcy. Mr. Francis Bartlett, stock broker, has been detected in forgeries of the name of his broth er, Mr. Edwin Bartlett, a merchont in South st.’, to the amount of more than s4o*ooo, The paper was considered unquestionable, and was negotiated readily in the street, and with the Banks. Mr. Edwin Bartlett has beeri in the habit, as we understand, of aiding his ‘ brother by endorsements to some extent, so that | he fraudulent paper passed without exciting tuspicion. The forger has disappeared. Dr. Cooper Safe. —By a letter received in this city from Lieut. Scars, of the second ar tillery, dated 24th August, we learn that Dr. Cooper and the twelve dragoons who left Capt. Well’s command, for the purpose of | joining Major Lally, and informing him of the approach of reinforcements, and who were supposed to have fallen into the hands of the Mexicans, reached the train at Cerro Gordo in I safety ori the 23d ult. This letter is the only one received that mentions this intelligence, which, we arc sure will be gratifying to the relatives of the Doctor, and the dr a goons ( as well as the whole American people.—l'. Herald . Augusta, Georgia, SATURDAY MORNING. SEIPTi 25. FOR GOVERNOR H3H. I* ¥/. TOWNS. | __ OF TAEBO T. Democratic Nominations for Senators. 2d Dist.— Bryan and Liberty—.l. M. B. Harden. 3d “ Mclntosh and Glynn—T. M. Forman, Ith Camden and Wayne—Elia* Fort. •>th 1 Lowndes and Ware—(Jen,T. Hilliard. 7th “ Tattnall and Biißorh—John A. M attox | Bth “ Striven and Effingham—W, J. Lawton. ; 9th “ Burke ami Emanuel—VV. S. C Morris. | 12th “ Thomas and Decatur—Wm. If. Reynolds. l.fth “ Baker and Earl}' —Dr. Wm. J. Johnson. i 1 tth ** Randolph and Stewart—William \ej.*on, 17lh “ Macon and Houston—John A. Hunter. liHh “ Dooly and Pulaski—Geo. M. Duncan. 2Utb •* Twiggs and Bibh—W. VV. Wigoins. 21st “ 1\ ik-kiiigtoH ami Jelforsuu—B.f*. Carswell, 24th M ll;mrocW and Baldwin—-S. Buffington, Jk. 25th “ Jones and Putnam—James M. Gray. 2«th “ Munroe and Pike—Col. Allen Cochran. 2Sth “ Merriwether and Coweta—Obe. Warner. 31st “ Fayette and Henry—Luther J, Glenn. 32d “ Jasper and Butts—CoJ. J. C. W aters. j 35th “ Wilkes and Lincoln—lsaiah T. Irvin. j 33d “ Newton and Waiton—Warren J, Hill. j 3dth “ Clark and Jackson—Samuel- Bailee. flh “ Gwinnett and DeKalh—Ja*. P. Simmons. Hi “ Paulding and Cass—Francis Irwin. 1 41st “ Cobb and Cherokee—Wm. H. Hunt 43d “ Habersham ami Rabun—Edw’d Cofiek. 44th “ Lumpkin and Union—Elihu S. Barclay, Col. Johnson's Letter. We invite the attention of just and liberal { minded men of the wliig party as well as of : the democratic party to this letter. From bc j ing personally present at one of Col. Johnson's speeches, and a very able one it was, we can | vouch for the correctness of his sketch so far l as that one is concerned. Unless all his j | other speeches were wholly different in tone, | which have abundant evidence is not the ! j fict, the supporters of General Clinch have j no just cause bf complaint. Gen. Clinch has; been treated with great forbearance by Col. Johnson. Ifhehas been subjected to some : ridicule, and some dispassionate comments on his capacity fbr the high and reponsible office j to which he aspires, not by Col. Johnson alone, : but by the democratic speakers and editors, i and newspaper correspondents, it is an incident I of his position which he should have antici pated. His friends might have known R— j must have known it. They rife to blame for | placing their amiable but weak minded friend in so prominent a position, where his mental calibre would certainly be canvassed. Were he the intellectual giant, the renowned war j rior and the brilliant military genius his friends ; would fain represent him, he and they would not be so ridiculously sensitive to these com- j ments. They would never have deemed it ! necessary to resort to his defeated wvul, Judge Dawson, for a certificate that he was a man with “abilities vast]-v ABOVE the requisitions ; ; of the office” i I The public however arc difficult to convince \ ; of the correctness of that certificate. MILLEDG EVII,LE, So P t. 22d, 1817. To (he Editor of the Constitutionalist: IVT-Mi Sin : —The Chronicle is Sentinel of the Ist inst., contains two communications pxtr porting respectively to be faithful descriptions of the Democratic meeting at Dalton on the | 24th, and that of Westfield’s, near the line of Gilmer and Murray, on the 25th ult. They are referred to in the paper of that date, and also, ■ in the issue of the 2d inst., by the editors of j that journal, with evident gusto; and 1 am j represented as having abused Gen. Clinch— -1 as having cotnc down upon him without j mercy—as having said he was forced into the j ; battle, &c., &c. Distorted as are these ac- I , counts, I should not have noticed them, but for this endorsement of the Chronicle Senti- I nel. But to permit its comments to pass un noticed, is calculated to place Lie in a false po- I sition before the public. i j Towards Gen. Clinch, personally, I have j ; not, nor ever had, the first unkind feeling; \ neither have I ever made an insinuation a gainst his integrity or gallantry. There is no j temptation to do so, if I were disposed. — , There is enough that is vulnerable, inviting to j fair and honorable attack, in the political ; principles which he maintains, without resort to personal detraction. I have spoken of Gen. Clinch as a states man, and have sought to expose his deficiency in those high civil qualifications requisite to discharge the duties of the office to which he aspires. I have spoken of Gen. Clinch as a politi cian; and in contemplating him in this char acter, I have considered it enough, to insure his condemnation before the people, that he is a Whig —identified with that party, in its sen timents upon the Tariff, Internal Improve ments by the General Government, the Dis tribution of the proceeds of the sale of the Public Lands, a National Bank, the modifica tion of the Veto Clause of the Constitution of the United States, and the pending war -with Mexico. I have spoken of Gen. Clinch as a military chieftain, but have not said that he was forced into any battle. I have compared the battle of Withlacoochee, with those of Monterey and Buena Vista, and have ventured the opinion that it was not so brilliant an affair as either. Is there any thing illegitimate in this? Has not the federal press provoked the compari son, by placing his name in juxta position with that of Gcu. Taylor, at the head of their columns? Who that has any sense of the ridiculous, could suppress a smile at the a mazing contrast? Still, I have, on all occa sions, admitted that Gen. Clinch acted well his part on. that small theatre; that he did his duty, and was entitled to a degree of public gratitude, equal to the merit of his perform ance. But I have insisted that, this achicvc ‘ ment, neither entitled him to the Executive Chair of Georgia, nor proved that he was qualified for its duties. I have spoken of his ‘ 'whole souled and gener ous patriotism,” as his furnishing supplies to the soldiers in 1830, has been termed. I have said he received $25,750 25 at the hands of the Government, in consideration of this consump tion of his private stores; and I said at the | same time, that it was right he should have received it—that there was nothing dishonor- | able or r6p rehensible in his so doing; but hav- j ing received the compensation, the Whigs j should cease to boast over it as an act of gen- I erosity, which created an obligation on the part of the people to elect him Governor. Ido not remember but once, in a public speech, to have alluded to the St. Mary’s Bank affair.- But I did not do so, to impugn the integrity or honesty of General Clinch, but to show his utter destitution of business capacity, and the facility with which he can be used to answer flic schemes of others, I regard the argument as legitimate and forci ble. But it is really so ugly a transaction that it looks like an affectation of charity, to attri bute the part which he took in it, to mere gullibility. Therefore, believing as I sincere ly do, that General Clinch was actuated by no dishonest purpose, I have kept silence, lest I might not get credit for candour, where I should disavow any intention to assail feis moral character. In speaking on these topics, I have indulged i in playful ridicule, founded on facts, which usage, at least, sanctions as a legitimate mode |of party warfare. But I have done so with- I out acerbity of temper, and on all occasions, ; have ascribed to General Clinch horror as a i gentleman, and gallantry as a soldier, j These anonymous communications have | been made the basis and pretext for many un kind and unprovoked remarks by tlie Chroni- j, etc S; Sentinel, which have bwii copied into other Whig papers, and indeed, have intro duced me very generally to their attentions. 1 ; But I shall leave it for time and circumstances ! to work out my vindication. Respectfully, yours, &c„ 11. V. JOHNSON. Chatham County, | The Democracy of Old Chatham is in the field with an able ticket. For the Senate, Thomas Purse. Representatives, John W. j Anderson and R. 11. Griffin. We wish them 1 every success, and if they arc active and all pull together, we look with confidence to see ; j displayed at the head of the columns of the ( i Georgian, on the Ist Tuesday in October, 1 the welcomed old motto—“ Stand aside and let old (Democratic) Chatham speak.” The Democratic Tariff of 1846. We copy from the Washington Union of the 20th inst., a letter from the Secretary of the i Treasury, giving the receipts under the above Tariff for the past nine months of its operation. It must be gratifying to every Democrat and Free Trade man in the United States, thus to i sec the predictions of Whig leaders happily ! falsified. Instead of the Democratic Tariff producing less revenue to government, it will be seen that it already exceeds, by more than ■ three millions of dollars-, the "V big Tariff of 1 ’42, during the same period last year —that in } stead of reaching only sixteen to twenty mil ; lions, as predicted by the M higss Should the 1 remaining months yield in proportion to the i last two, the receipts will reach FORTY TO I FORTY-FIVE millions. Facts like those speak volumes in favor Os j Democratic Legislation —of low duties and an active foreign trade instead of high duties ! and prohibitions. If after such evidence as this Ls exhibited to Whigs who are at heart j opposed to a protective tariff, which trammels the energies of our people for the benefit of a ! few monopolists, we can only say to them that j —“they would not believe though one were to ; i rise from the dead.” East Tennessee Volunteers. J A slip from the office of the Knoxville Tri- ; j bune, dated 20th inst., states that with a promptness unsurpassed, Bast Tennesssc has made Up and reported fifteen companies for the war. This docs not tally well with the | ! assertion of the W higs that “Mr. Polk and ; his war” arc unpopular in his own State. In ; . patriotism, Tennessee cannot be surpassed by i ! any of her sister States. It is enough for her j people to know that their country wants i ! men to fight her battles—and whether Polk I , qj. Clav were President, it would make but I little difference to them, when called on.— Huzza for East Tennessee. Five companies wanted and only fifteen volunteered. Kentucky. TheSouthernßanncr says-“By the official re turns of the recent Congressional election in Kentucky, we learn that the democrats have a majority of 17 votes, in the aggregate vote of the State, over the Whigs, counting out 3, 143 Native Americans! The banner-State of Whigery is thus shaken to her centre —half of Rhode Island is redeemed—and even Ver mont is quaking under the onward march of Democratic principles! People of Georgia, while light is breaking over the East and scat tering the clouds in the "\V est, will you not be true, to the cherished principles of your an cestors—and vote down, once and forever, the whole system of Whig measures, at which you revolted in times past, and which were so signally defeated in 1844! Prime, Ward £c Co. The New York Correspondent of the Wash ington Union under date of the 20th inst. says .«The acceptance ofPrimeWard,& Co’s drafts* ■jjy Overend, Gurney & Co., of London, to the amount of £70,000, and of some others on other houses to the amount of £30,000 more, have given marked satisfaction in W all street, and greatly relieved the feeling of those who had bought the drafts for remittance. The fear that those very drafts would not be accept ed, was the immediate cause of the suspension of Prime, Ward & Co. They could have had ' ample means to enable them to go on, but if those draft were to come back upon, them, it was thought unjust to the creditors at large to attempt it. Now it appears that from those drafts nothing was to be apprehended.” From an intelligent correspondent—a citizen of Mur ray county. SPRING PLACE, Sept. 21, 1847. Mr. Gardner: —Dear Sir—The editor of the Chronicle Sentinel, seems monstrously tic kled at a communication signed “Murray” pre tending to give the particulars of the Cohuttah barbacuc, and of the speeches of Cols. Towns and Johnson. Not having been present my self, and having to rely as I do on the informa tion of my friends who were, I pronounce the communication alluded to grossly, wilful ly and essentially false—in the main, and if the writer, whoever he may be, will unmask himself and hazard his reputation for veraci ty, before the people of Murray, whose know ledge of the facts have been so shamefully outraged, he shall be placed in bis true posi ; tio»- I The career of Democracy is hotiyant, march i ing forward conquering and to conquer in the Cherokee country, despite the wishes, the falsehoods and misrepresentations of a few scribbling- whigs to the contrary. A long and intimate acquaintance with this part of the State ehables me to know, and you have the assurance accordingly that the Democratic party are freely and frrrrdr united cm the main issues. They will give to Col.- Towns a tri umphant majority, aar?d send men to the Lcgis | lature firmly opposed to the Federal Senator, i John McPherson Berrien, he who has so often misrepresented the people of Georgia in the National Councils. “We know our rights and knowing dare maintain them,” our principles are good, our cause is just, and We mUst and - will succeed. Respectfully yours. Sec* Private Mail It is announced in the New York papers that a private mail has been organized be tween Boston and Philadelphia, and that no charge win be friatlc 6'xccpt a penny post de livery in the places of destination. It is in l tended to beat the mail half a day. It is pro ; posed also to supply the citizens of Philadel i phia and New' York with a mail so early in the morning that letters can be replied to in both cities, after business hours, on the same day. 001. Fremont. The Charleston Mercury, of the 24th instq says—“We regret to learn that Col. Fremont, | whose departure for Aiken we noticed a few I days since, did not reach that place to see his | mother alive. She died but a few hours be fore his arrival. lie accompanied her remains the next day to this city, and after witnessing the hist sad rites, left here the evening follow ing (Wednesday) on his return to Washing ton. In his affliction, rendered do ably poig nant by his deep disappointment in not re ceiving her parting look of recognition after i his long and eventful absence, he has the sym pathy of our entire community. ” Col. Louis D, Wilson, of the 12th Infantry, who lately died in Mexico, bequeathed to the ; “chairman of the county court of E Igccomb, (his native county,) in North Carolina, and to liis sucessor in office, forty thousand dollars, to be applied to the support of the poor of said county.” Post-office Arragncments. General Armstrong arrived from Liverpool in the Britannia, intending to return to his duties at Liverpool by the steamer of October Ist* This gentleman is the bearer of dispatches Frofn OUr Minister at London. The most in . tercstiilg subject at present under discussion is i in reference to the transatlantic postage; the j letters carried out by the Washington having | been charged the same as those sent by the i “Canard line.” [ COM M UNICATB D.] The Pric6 of Sprees- Sprees are a luxury peculiar to a state of ■ : civilization, and the gefieral style, quality and i j complication of the same depend very much j upon the advance of society lit refinement ami taste. In the modern acceptation of the term, . : sprees are enjoyed chicfiy in cities,- Some times they spring np within the corporate limits, and diverge into the surrounding coun i try to a moderate distance. As a tariff is usually laid by corporate authorities on the article, it is advisable that publicity should 1 bo given to it for the benefit o\ the un wary citizen, and the casual visitor. The table : of prices should not be posted up high on I street corners and in small letters, as was the fashion in olden time with a famous tyrant, so ; that the passer by could not decipher the sig nificant characters. Nor ought the prices in all cases to be left within wide limits to the discretion of the Police Magistrate. For here is room for betrayal of imbecility, or shrinking from responsibility, or partiality to favorites, or a culpable propitiation of the politically in fluential in city elections. All this may hap pen—perhaps sometimes docs happen, and will perpetually be liable to happen where the price is never known until after the article is enjoyed, and then can vary so widely accord ing to the caprice of the assessor. Sometimes a snatch of a song, or a swelling chorus, indulged on the quiet street, in “the silent watches of the night” by robust lungs stimulated by a generous glass too much,would be called a spree and cost five or ten dollars to the musical amateur. Or perhaps an extra shout or two, to w'ork off the exuberant steam engendered at a convivial meeting, which dis turbs some drow’sy watchman on his post, or reaches the ear of some skulking constable ly ing in w'ait for fees, may subject the luckless pedestrian to a similar infliction. I his i§ a very grave offence. It disturbs the peace of the city in a petty way, as the near buzz of a muquitQ is more annoying than the grow 1 of a bear at a safe distance. Sometimes a little puerile impertinence in the day time to an or derly citizen passing the street will come un der the classification.. The anxious mama, or papa may not know’ that the young oixe is out, until called on to pay into the City Treasury, the price of the aforesaid luxury. Sometimes an insult is passed and a blow follow's between two citizens, and both are found guilty of a spree and fined accordingly. The idea that one may be an innocent and an aggrieved party never suggests itself in passing sentence. There is a higher species of luxury, how - ever, occasionally enjoyed in our community, which is more favored in the eye of the Law as administered. This is not a vulgar, com mon place affair, like any of the above des cribed. It is of a more patrician order, and \n viewed with more favor, perhaps to encourage improvement in knightly prowess, in feats of horsemanship and cudgel playing. This con sists in riding on a high mettled horse through the crowded market house with brandished stick, knocking down unoffending citizens, upsetting old women and emptying fruit and vegetable baskets, charging along the side walks, and into bar-rooms —shouting, yelling and cursing like a wild Indian, and bidding de fiance fo* a train of supplicatory constables, who in the mildest manner imaginable entreat the valiant knight to be nos q trite so boisterous in his sport. An enjoyment of this stirring luxury, which has no name in the ordinary nomenclature of frolicking, is charged by tlur Police Court of Augusta, ox* dollar. Thi* is, probably, the cheapest luxury of the hind to be famished in this market. It is at the" rate of about 60 cents per hour of good, hard/ steady frolicking. One is sure thus to get the worth of his money. And s JMcft are re commended, for economy's sake, when they Misfit to take - a regular burst, to go it on horses back, b(x>ted and spurred. If they happen to* occupy the attitude, towards the powers that be, of 'fear, favor or affection” they stand a good chance of having the onerous penalty of oue dollar remitted. T&ff experiment has been successfully tried- EQUAL RIGHTS'.- Special Notices. O’NOTICE.—There will be Preaching in the Presbyterian Leetart' Room, To-Morrow Marts' ing, service to commence at half-past 10 o'clock. There will be Divine Service in the Baptist ClfirrCh, To-Morrow Morning and Afternoon. Sept. 23 AUGUSTA FIRE COMPANY. There will be a regular Quarterly Meeting of the Company on Saturday Evening next, at eight o’clock, at the City Hftß By order of Chief Engineer; ... Wb-maji Phhaws, i F. LaMBACTK. Sec’y A. Fire Co. £ Sept. 23 Jayne’s Expectorant. Cure*! Cures! Cukes! are constantly being performed by Dr. Jayne’s Family Medicines. Mr*,' Sabra,wife of Capt. John Dunham, No. 6 Galbraith's Court, Philadelphia, had a very bad cough, sore ness of the breast and side, sore throat, costive hab it, lowness of spirits, with weakness and pain in the small of the back. Spitting of blood and l Aci‘V rnirtplaiat has been entirely cured, By dking- Dr. Jayne’s Sana?ire Fills, Alterative and Expectorant: [From the Great Falls, ( N. II.) Northern Light.) It is with pleasure that we give place to the fol lowing letter fiom Mr. Ira Huchi.vs, of TardO worth, who was supposed to be past cure of Con-* i sumption, hut was restored to health* bV the tbse of ! u Dr. Jayne’s Expectorant.” We can speak wit& ! confidence of this medicine, as we know of many i of our friends who have been greatly benefitted by it- Enitb’fi. Tainworth, N. H., Dec. 10, Dear Sir—l feel it my duty to intake known to you, for the benefit of {lie public, the aid I receiv ed from the use of a bottle of Dr. Jayne's Experto rant, which I purchased of you/ i had sick between five and six month's, caused by the lung fever, which left me in a very low state of health,, with a very bad cough, and for about three months I could only speak in a whisper. My friends all thought me in a decline. My physician said he had done all for me he could. About this time I fortunately saw advertised in the papers, “ Ur. Jayne’s Expectorant,” for sale by you. I immedi ately sent to you fora bottle,and in two days after using I began to feel better.—-in a6h*t fCU days f recovered my voice and coukl speak tolerably tfcell, and before using the whole botfhV I was nearly a» well as ever. My health rs good. ! attribute my cure wholly to Dr. Jayne’s med - cine. Ira Huchiss. I To Mark Noble, Esq., Great Falls. N- 11. Prepared only by Dr. D. Jayne, Philadelphia, and sold on agency by * W. K. KITCHEN, August*, Where may be had all the other valuable prepara tions of Dr. Jayne. Sfpt.2s 1c Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry. Has the great Afßhor of Nature provided u» with no remedy for Consumption—and the disease* leading thereto which are so fearfully common in our country? Has He lett us to find reliet from* that fatal scourge by ransacking other lands? No, it is not so. The best—Nature’s own remedy, is ready at our hand. The Wild Cherry and the Pine furnish us with a cure, where a cure is possi ble. Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry. formed by chemical extracts from Wild Cherry bark and tar, relieves all cases of consumption, and effectu ally cures it where it has progressed so far as to be beyond cure —subdues the most inveterate cases of the Asthma, even of 30 and 40 years stand ing—slops raising of blood, after other remedies fail—and removes every kind of affection of the Lungs and Liver which our climate induces. The remarkable efficacy of this wonderful medicine, in many diseases hitherto deemed incurable, has ex cited among physicians great curiosity as to the precise nature of its ingredients, let purchaser# beware of imitations and counterfeits. None genuine unles* signed I. BUT PS on the wrapper. For sale in Augusta, wholesale and retail, by II AVAL AND, RISLEY & CO.,and also by THOM AS BARRETT & CO., and Dealers in Medicines generally in Augusta. Sept. 22 ° • W. MUSGROVE 8080, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAMBURG, S. C. Office opposite Smith & Benson’s old Warehouse. June 9 IT J 2l ! STEAMBOAT COMPANY OP GEOR GIA. Hjp This Company having been re-organized and placed in an efficient state for service, are pre pared to send forwarded without delay all freight that may offer. Goods consigned to W’jVU P;. WILLIAMS, Agent at Savanquh, will be forwarded free of ( ommxs- Sl °The connection of R. M. Goodwin with, this Company has terminated. r GUIE(J June 6 1-y Agent at August O’ DR. J. aTsTmiIIiGAN, will at tend to the practice of Medicine and Surgery. »« Augusta audits vicinity. Office in MctoalPs Range, up stairs. Entrance one door below Mr. J. Marshall’s Drag Store. June 13