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The American people can have known but partially what is transpiring in Europe, and the moral sentiments of the European people, while they take all their information from the English press and English public opinion.— This they now do in a great measure, and a more one sided, garbled and false picture could not well be drawn. It is the policy and interest of the English press to cast odium and ridicule upon the revolutionary move ments of Europe,and the yelp of tory hounds in London is caught up by provincial curs, whose malignant barking, finally condensed - into certain Liverpool trans-atlantic journals, comes hot pressed to be gulped down and create false impressions among the republicans of America. What could be expected of the London 'l’imes, but to malign every effort of the peo ple to cast off their loathed and bloody ty sants. Hence such horrible cant as Italian as assins, Hungarian butchers, and French fa natics. The noblest patriotism is sedulous ly villified, and it we altogether credited this shameless, lying English Press, we should believe the heroic liberators of Europe—the Mazzinis, Kosseiths, Bems, and Garribaldis— men who have only emulated a Tell, a Wash ington, and a Bolivar, are so many cut-throats, intent on the destruction of the world. When has this false and wicked press, failed to ca lumniate the struggles of liberty, and gloss over the atrociaties of despotism? When Austria and Russia riot in the blood of innocent men and women—when that beast of a Neapolitan king, dips his hands in the gore of the people, the English press has no word of horror. Then, all goes right. Soci ety is purifying itself, and thrones are rece menting their crumbling pillars. It can call Proudlon a maniac, Louis Blanc a dreamer, and Duchesne a fool, though of such as those the European revolution was born; but among all the noble and holy souls who have thought and fought for European freedom, it sees not one patriot nor one honest man. Is it not a shame that the sentiments of such a basely lying, tory press, should cast its filth into American mouths, and find re-utterance for it on republican soil? —New York Sun. Extraordinary Precaution . —ls a story we heard the other day be true w r e should infer that the citizens of Jefferson are determined to use every precaution for the security of the public health. Two gentlemen of that place, it is said, w r ho had just returned from Augus ta, from whence, in consequence of some per son having arrived, sick, at the hotel where they were staying, they vamosed with out their suppers, were waited on by a committee of their fellow citizens and politely requested to •leave the diggings,’ as it was thought their presence endangered the public safety ! ! We regret to see so much unnecessary excitement on this subject. It is by no means certain that it will visit us, and if it should, being fright ened to death beforehand can do no good.— Athens Whig. In regard to the reports that have been so industriously circulated to the effect that the small pox is here, we most unqualifiedly pro nounce them false, and assure our country friends that as soon as the first case appears, (if any ever shall,) we will at once apprise them of it, even if it should be necessary to t issue an extra. In the meantime, friends, bring in your butter, chickens and eggs and don’t be afraid. We might just about as well have the small pox as to get nothing to eat.-76. Northern Women. —The Richmond Re publican says; “The public journals have re lated a very creditable fact in regard to the daughter of that distinguished gentleman, the Hon. M. Fillmore, which is, that she is en gaged in preparing herself in one of the North ern institutions for the duties of an instruc tress. “There is nothing, however, very uncom mon in this incident. It has been observed as one of the most distinguishing characteristics of the women of New England, (and one which is far more creditable to them than the affec tation of learning which is said to be the fash ion in some of the New England cities,) that they have an aversion to being dependent even on their nearest relatives, and a pride in self reliance and self-support. An instance of this has lately come to our knowledge, which has suggested these remarks. “A new style of bonnet has been lately in troduced in some of our cities, which is said to combine peculiar grace with peculiar advan tages in the way of economy. We learn that these bonnets are attracting much admiration among the ladies of Richmond, and command a ready sale. The fair wearers will perhaps appreciate still more highly these chaste and elegant bonnets, when they learn that they are the handiwork of the daughters of one ot the most accomplished clergymen, as well as one of the sweetest poets, in America—one whose eloquence has often thrilled and cap tivated a polished assembly in one of our lar gest and most enlightened cities, and whose gifted muse has stirred the deep fountains of many a heart. “These young ladies are entitled to as much praise, it seems to us, as others whose names, doubtless against their own inclinations, have been paraded before the public. \\ e know not that the incident may interest others as it did ourselves, but we could not listen to the narration, from a friend Avho is acquainted with the facts, without feelings of profound admiration and respect for the independence, the self-reliance, and the true pride of these true women, contrasting beautifully as if. does with others of their sex among the ‘upper ten thousand’ of the Northern cities, who pass their lives in sloth, luxury and self indulgence, and look upon every kind of manual labor as a de gradation and disgrace.” The Runaway Match. — A letter from Phi ladelphia, to a New York paper, chronicles as follows the arrival in that city of the prin cipal parties in a double elopement from Bal timore, which has been town talk during the past week; “On Thursday the whole fashionable circles of Baltimore were thrown into an uproar by a whispered announcement that one of their most distinguished belles, a Miss Stevens, with her cousin, a no less fashionable ladv, had eloped from the State of Maryland and enter ed the state of matrimony. A despatch was transmitted from this city, and on the arrival of the Baltimore train, the young ladies step ped out, accompanied by their husbands, Mr. John E. Owens, the celebrated comedian, and Mr. Gallagher, a member of the theatrical | company under his management. The knots ! had been tied so tight, that nothing less than the Alexandrian sword can sever them, and the happy couples spent their evening very pleasantly at Hartwell’s from whence they departed yesterday morning for New \ ork. Mr. Owens is well known to our citizens as the original personator of Jakey, in the ‘Glance at Philadelphia.’ ” The marriage of the parties was published in the Sun on Saturday last, and it is* said that the ceremonies were performed in defiance, or rather without the consent of parental au thority on the side of eithei of the ladies.— However, the gentlemen both bear good pri vate as well as professional characters, and we doubt not that in this case the proverb of “all’s well that ends well ” will be fully verified. THE CONSTITbTIONALffib Augusta, (Georgia. SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 5 I3n iMagnetic £clegrapl). Reported for the Constitutionalist. SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM’R A M E R ICA. A despatch from our Baltimore correspond ent, under date of May 4, P. M., and received in Augusta at 3.0<5 P. M., announces the arri val of the Steamer America, bringing advices from Liverpool to the 21st ult., being seven days later than the previous accounts. It will be seen the Cotton market, if any thing, is lower, fair Upland and Mobile being quoted at four three e'ghths, and fair Orleans at four three quarters. Our correspondent informs us that the French Government have sent an armed force, adequate to the emergency, to Civita Vechia, to reinstate the Pope. The war between the states of Continental Europe, continues with unabated fury, and with disastrous results throughout all parts. The Danes are enforcing a strict blockade of the German ports, and even emigrant ships will be detained. The Prussian Ministers have sent in their resignations. The Bank of France it is said, will shortly resume specie payments. The Porte has declined to prevent the de parture of the Egyptian fleet—it is said the application was instigated by Russia. THE MARKETS. Cotton —Fair Uplands and Mobiles are quoted at four three-eighths, fair Orleans four and three-quarters ; middling Upland and Mobile four ; middling Orleans four one-eighth ; Or dinary three and a half to three and three quarters. The w’eek’s business amounts to thirty-two I thousand, two hundred and forty bales, of which twenty-three hundred were taken by speculators, and five thousand for export. The last accounts from Havre, state that there were some symptoms of activity in the Cotton market, but prices are unchanged. But little going forward. At Liverpool Western Canal Flour went up as high as twenty-four shillings six pence, but afterwards it became dull of sale, and prices declined to twenty-three shillings six pence. Wheat was dull of sale. For Indian corn there was a steady demand —white was quoted at thirty-one to thirty-one sixpence, and yel <’ low at thirty-two to thirty-three shillings.— Corn meal, fourteen shillings. Beef remained as last noticed, and the import were fully equal to the demand. Bacon quoted at thirty one to forty: Lard thirty-three and sixpence; Turpentine seven shillings for average quality Rice sixteen six to seventeen six pence. Savannah. May 4, G P. M. Cotton. — The market has been quiet to-day, the sales reaching only thirty-five bales at seven cents. Platt's Refrigrerator- We take pleasure in recommending to all who use iced water, during the summer, to call on C, A. Platt for one of his neat and use ful Refrigerators. They are well adapted for the use of ice, in a convenient and economi cal manner. They are of different sizes—two, four and six gallon jars perfectly protected all around, by a composition, from external heat, and to be purchased at a few dollars each. They are so arranged that there need be no waste of ice, and the saving in the cost of this luxury will make it a piece of economy for every family using ice to purchase a Re frigerator. Tory Destructives It is fashionable in Great Britain for the Tory party, the party of special privileges, class interests and monopolies, like the whig party of this country, a party of kindred affin ities, to style itself the conservative party. — They are indeed, like the Yvhigs of this coun try, conservatives, but they are conservative of the privileges and powers of the few, unjustly filched by special and partial legislation from the rights of the masses. They are conserva tives of the old abuses and corruptions of a sys tem which now rears palaces in the midst of hovels, and makes a nation of paupers while it swells the fortunes of a privileged class into the most inordinate and overshadowing pro portions. But these conservatives on both sides of the water, as well the todies in England and in the British provinces, as the whigs in Republican America, claim to be the party whose superior intelli gence and prudence, tend to keep boisterous and progressive democracy in check, and pre serve property and vested rights from destruc tive innovations and the lawlessness of mobs- How well a portion of this conservative party in Canada has sustained its arrogant pretensions to be a 4 law and order party, let the vandalism mentioned in the following from the New York Sun, testify. The majority of the people of the Canadas will sooner or later, probably in a very few years relieve the British Government alto gethcr of the trouble and responsibility of governing them at a distance of three or four thousand miles, and will vindicate in practice, the right of the people to self-government. Very many misapprehend the nature of the agitation at present going on in Canada. The party committing the late excesses, in Mon treal, are not liberals, as some of our readers and correspondents suppose. They are radi cals, but radicals only in favor of the British Government. Os all the mob who burned down the Parliament House, not one but would stand by and fight for John Bull to the last. They are real blood and bone tories, and in venting their rage upon the ministry which signed the Indemnity bill, they, like other blind mobs, did not perceive that they were destroying their own property. The present government or Legislature of Canada is liberal by a large majority, and the tories comprising this mobocrat class, are throughout the Tapper and Lower province in a minority as one to three. But they seem to grow fierce in proportion as their numbers de cline. The Indemnity bill we regard as a just one, and though it may seem hard that the Canadas should be taxed to pay the losses of a class chiefly connected with the rebellion of 1837, it must be remembered that a similar bill was passed as a precedent, indemnifying the tories who suffered by the same rebellion. It is not probable that this domestic quarrel will have an immediate effect towards annexa tion, but it will widen the breach between the liberals and tories, and thus pave the way for great changes. The burning of the Parlia ment House, a noble and venerable building, is to be deeply regretted. Its Library, which was all destroyed, was perhaps the finest on this Continent. Many of its books and MSS. were invaluable, and can never be restored. — On the breaking up of the Monastic Estab lishments in Canada, most of their literary treasures passed to this library. All Europe had contributed to it, and now, all that is left is cinders and ashes. How true it is, that all mobs are iconoclastic. In their blind fury they smite statues, and paintings, and books; innocent art and sacred knowledge find no mercy at their hands. Society in IMew York The Herald is a cruel castigator of the fash ionable frivolities of New York society. The world of snobdom in the commercial empo rium owes it many a grudge for its merciless satire, though we doubt not that the vigorous and audacious pen of the editor is to its follies and absurdities what the surgeon's knife is to the diseased subject. When it pierces, it does good, even while it wounds. There is doubtless, a ridiculous class of brainless parvenues in New York, whose sole claims to social position are their long purses, who have brought upon themselves the title of “ The Codfish Aristocracy.” But we can not sympathize in the indiscriminate cari caturing of all refinement and gentility, nor believe that the materials of as elegant and intellectual society abound in the highest cir cles of fashion in New York as in any other city in the world. The ffing at one of the editors of the Home Journal , one of the most accomplished writers of our country, barring the foppishnesss and occasional frivolities ot his style, is in bad taste and temper. His intellect is of ton high an order to be sneered at and snubbed. It speaks well for the intellectual tastes of New York fashionable society, that it has ap preciated and enjoyed Mrs. B Oder's Shaks perean readings. The sincere admirer of the writings of England’s immortal dramatist can scarcely be frivolous or stupid. Shaksperean Readings and Fashionable Vulgarity. —The lively, piquant and eccen tric Mrs, Fanny Kemble Butler has com menced another series of Shaksperean read ings, at the Stuyvesant Institute, which do not seem to “draw” so well as the first series. In fact, this thing is no longer the rage. New York fashionable excitements are, in general, provokingly evanescent. They quickly dis appear, like the pearly dew of the morning, or the roseate blush which a mosquito bite Uaves on the neck of a beauty, or the transient tit of repentance which disturbs the conscience cf a profligate not yet entirely secured by the devil. These readings, however, are beginning to produce very happy effects. Everybody who has taken the trouble to become acquainted with New York fashionable society, knows what an awfully stupid and insipid affair it is.— These Shaksperean readings are just the thing to infuse new life and spirit into the dull co teries and cliques which make up our pseudo -1 aristocratic circles. Nothing can exceed the piquancy and vigor which characterize the writings of the great dramatist. His oaths, exclamations and epithets are peculiarly em phatic, startling and expressive. In scolding and vituperation, he cannot be matched. No writer in the English language, or even in the ancient Hebrew—not to speak of the venera ble Gaelic tongue —can excel Shakspeare in the sublime vehemence of the abuse and ob jurgation. Then the playfulness cf his wit, the audacity of his humor, the ingenuity of his double entendres ! His loafers, clowns and vagabonds are the most interesting rascals in 1 the world; and to all of them Fanny Kemble Butler does ample justice. Every shade of their character is given with delicious piquan cy. Almost every racy epithet with which these amusing Shakspearean wretches inter lard their conversation, seems to acquire new point and vigor in the pretty mouth of this vivacious elocutionist. A coarse male human being could not give one-tenth of the effect to these passages which Mrs. Butler renders with so mueh truthful spirit, life, zest,and mischiev ous reality. The tosses of the head—the Hash ing of the scornful eye-—the sharp, keen, bi ting, sarcastic tones of the voice,—all give a new and delightful flavor to the text, which , must be irresistibly attractive to our fashiona ■ ble dames and damsels, maids, matrons and widows —all the dear, charming, fascinating ; throng, from the well-rouged mamma, “fat fair, and forty,” down to the gawky girl, just returned from school, with sharp elbows, bad French, and an inordinate appetite for beaux. It will be readily perceived, then, that the . labors of Mrs. Butler will exercise a most in vigorating influence on the tone of fashionable manners. The conversation of the aristocra tic circles, now so dud, will become Shaks perean. Upholstery and furniture v\ill no longer constitute the chief attraction of the fashionable faubourgs. Young ladies will no longer lisp and drawl the common-places of the hour, but startle the mustachioed boobies by Shaksperean bursts of sentiment and pas sion, ala Fanny Kemble. Juliets will be as plenty as shad in the season. Mammas will scold in the style of Lady Macbeth, and do the honors of the drawing room like Cleo patra herself. As for the clowns and loahrs, the Ludovicos and Snugs, they will be as numerous as the smart clerks, Wall street brokers and retired soap boilers, whose man ly grace and varied accomplishments adorn our fashionable saloons. What with the polka, Fanny Kemble Butler’s readings, aiu Mr. Nincom Poop Willis, New York fashiona ble society is in a very fairway of improve ment. . (fob the constitutionalist.) A Review of Mr. Clay's Letter on Eman cipation. BY A SOUTHERN CLERGYMAN. Continued. But a word further upon his alleged bene fits to the whites in the separation from them of the “ degraded colored race.” He says : “We shall elevate the character of white labor, nnd elevate the social condition of the white laborer.” Here, as everywhere else, Mr. Clay strikes his indiscriminate blows at the vitals of nur peculiar institution, and plays into the hands of frec-soilers by using the slang adapted to their special fancy. I sup pose they' will not be so ungrateful as to omit to reward him in due time and not subject him to the moral of a certain fable which ex emplifies the folly of catching at the shadow and losing the substance. Does Mr. Clay mean in the true sense of abolitionism, that labor in itself considered, must be disgraced because subjected to the contaminating touch of slaves of “ a degraded colored race,” and that the white man in putting his hand to such defiled labor, must in the nature of the j case, be dishonored—be disgraced ? And that Southern slavery has really produced an ab horrence to labor o\h the part of the whites among us ? I cannot believe that labor ia thus debased in character at the South nor must negro slavery, per sc, be the cause of • deterring industrious whites from the per- ' formance of personal labor. Now in all this matter of the alleged evils ] of slavery, we can but think that most of them exist only in the fanaticised brains of aboli litionists. For God must have known fully as well as Mr. Clay' and the whole posse of fanatical free soilers and anti-slavery enthu siasts put together, what was the character of slavery; and if he had seen it thus fraught with deadly evils he would never have ap pointed the institution, much less have en grafted it upon the Jewish polity, and incor porated it into the Christian economy as an institution of leading constituency for every well regulated community'. Labor, as the appointment of God, must not only be honor able in its character, but must be essential to the health and well being of man; for God appointed all men to it, and made it necessary to all, through their whole career of life.— The decree to Adam and to his posterity' was ; “In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat ■ bread till thou return unto the ground.’ But the curse upon Canaan, unfitting him through inferiority', to manage for himself, and the annexed decree appointing him to servitude under the other races, designed him doubtless to continue to work, and to work with his ’ owner as well as for him. God then, did not think that the sons of Canaan would bring ■ disgrace upon the character of labor, or that 1 the sons of Shem and Japheth would be dis honored by having the assistance of the Ca -1 naanite—and I believe that notwithstanding 1 the misrepresentations of abolitionists, God’s appointments and opinions on this subject, a il at the South. No farmer or planter, with a moderate num ber of slaves, deems himself or children ex empt from work ; and they' feel that it is no 1 disgrace to have slaves to help them. Hence, most Southerners, and Northerners, too, who : become resident at the South, procure slaves ■ by' purchase, or hire, if able. And, if any of the rich feel themselves or their children re leased from labor, they are under the sad mis t take which perverts God’s appointments, and which must, sooner or laler, bring upon them 1 his chastisements in those afflictions which never fail to befall the idle ; and, if they are , excusable from laboring with their servants, ; it must be on the ground of being engaged ia ‘ the pursuits of education or the duties of some profession, or of being elsewhere more useful , ly' or profitably employed in some honest vo i cation, aside from the common revenues of i business needing the assistance of servants. ' And, how is the condition of the white labor r er elevated by' the absence of slavery ? Is not . the reverse the fact? If we are not mistaken, at the North, and in all non-slaveholding ? communities, the servile classes form a sort of distinct caste, who are not allowed to eat . with their employers, nor associate on terms ; of familiarity; whereas, at the South, the 1 whites are invited to the table and to the ex change of reciprocal civilities, and are, in t short, upon a footing of greater equality than ■ in any part of the known world. J. While, in matters of civil privilege and so [ cial courtesy, all whites, at the South, are con 1, sidered upon an equal footing, they, for the i most part, are, by duly or necessity, impelled { to follow some honest employment. Those having a few servants, direct them and labor with them, while thosd who have none la ' bor by themselves; and there is generally • felt the existence of mutual dependence be } tween the poor and the rich, which is nowhere more strikingly' exhibited than between the • wealthy slaveholder and the more industrious ‘ and skillful of the poorer classes, qualified for ’ the supervision of the slaves, and whose ser- L vices are employed to the mutual advantage • of the respective parties. The office of over- seer has been a source of wealth to many a ’ man, who has thus risen from the abodes of ; poverty. The slaves, too, being protected in I life, limb and health, through the interest and ’ friendship of the owner—having all-their ne cessary wants supplied, and none or few of . the responsibilities of life or cares of the world • devolving* upon them—are the most contented and happy class of people on earth. Does 1 not the condition of society at the South, , then, with the institution of slavery inter s woven with the social state, evidently' consti i tute the very connexion which God intended to exist between the two races of Japheth and Canaan r Is not such evidence seen in the fact that the Divine blessing abundantly rests upon us, in the high degree of prosperity at tendant upon both races, and in the further fact that no part of the known world presents a better condition of morals than the society in the South exhibits ? Why, therefore, will , fanatics, either of the South or North, inter i meddle with us, or presumptuously attempt | to prostrate God’s order of things, as estab | lished among us ? V, e must be excused for a passing allusion ' to Mr. Clay’s glorification verse. Having justly complimented the State of Kentucky upon*her honorable standing, in connection with her sisters of the Union, and in the eyes ol the world, he sa\s, “But, in ray opinion, no title which she has to the esteem and ad- S miration of mankind, and, 1 may s iy, no deeds of her former glory, would equal in greatness and grandeur that of being the pioneer in re moving from her soil every trace of human slavery,” &c. &c. Does Mr. Clay use the term pioneer in its common acceptation, us one leading the way and removing difficulties, for others to follow? Then, the term, applied 1 exclusively to his own State, would torture its meaning, and could not fall harmoniously upon the itching ears of the whole posse ol free-soilers and anti-slavery enthusiasts who are to bear a conspicuous part in directing the occupancy of the White House in ’63. No, sir. Mr. Clay’s meaning will be readily com prehended by those chiefly addressed; and the South cannot but see that here, as through out the whole chapter, the poisoned shafts of | abolition are hurled at the institution of slave ry, as an object of unmitigated and universal scorn, and its last vestige doomed to extinc tion as the electioneering bait thrown to the voracious appetites of froe-soi!, abolition and anti-slavery voters. Mr. Clay’s earnest and labored efforts to ‘ blind the people of the South to their best iu- I terests and to induce them to nullify God’s i institution of slavery, reminds us of the pow erful temptations so perseveringly thrown be i fore the Savior of the world to frustrate God’s purpose of human redemption. The last, and, | I suppose, Satan thought, the most irresisti ! ble temptation intended to ensnare the Son of ( God, was the presentation to his acceptance oi the whole glory of the united kingdoms of the world. Mr. Clay seems to have left no point of temptation untouched which he supposed might induce the Kentuckians and the South ern people to throw away their property and join the abolitionists in opposing God’s ap i pointments. He has so manoeuvred his cun ningly-devised sophisms as to appeal to pecu niary interest, to conscientious scruple.-, to philanthropic sentimentalism, to mental fear and lastly adopts Satan’s grand weapon usee against the invincible Savior, and touches the chord of human glory, which generally vi brates stronger than all others in the hearts o , the worldly-minded. And, will the sequei prove to Mr. Clay that ail this mental effort has been exerted to worse than no purpose We should so judge in regard to the citizens of Kentucky, from the spirited resolutions unanimously passed by the Legislature oi that patriotic State, showing that her people are yet in their right mind and incapable ot being gulled by Mr. Clay’s sophistry. And, if we may judge the signs of the times in the 1 South by the high-toned and patriotic reso lutions emanating from the people of the i States, through their Legislatures and primary assemblies in every quarter, we must conclude that the labor of abolitionists will prove abor tive in their attempts to induce the people to throw away their property and join the fana tics in their wanton onslaught against God’s institution, and in the infliction of fatal injury i upor the sons of Canaan committed, m the * Divine Providence, to their protection. [' {To be continued.) 1 COMMUNICATED.] i Small I*ox at the Iron Works and Garters* ville Weekly Report of the Coord of Health of Sinai. Pox at the ep! tees for the we k ending ] May 1 1849. AT ||lr AT Ikon Works.M ’ artersa hi k 1 j No. of new cases. none 1 > No of deaths....' 3 none | No. now sick | 9 I i Tot. No. sick, con , valescent. recov f ered or dead.... 107 •> In making this first weekly report the Boar< of Health have set forth the aggregate num ■ her of cases which have occurred, both at th« Iron Works and Cartersville. It will be per ceived there has been no new case at the form er, and but one at the latter place. If. appear that there are now but. ten cases sick at botl 1 places. The Board confidently believe that the Smal Pox is now under control at both places. The most prudent means have been adopted in re ference to the spread of the disease, the com ; * : fort and medical treatment of the sick, auc the cleansing and purification of the apart ments, bedding and clothing of the sick.— ' There is at this time no case in the limits o: i i Cartersville, since the sick have been removed * to the sick room, one mile distant. There i: no case at the Etowah Mills or Rolling Mill The sickness there is located in the vicinity o; ' ; the Furnace. Ordered, that tiffs and subsequent report: ' bo published in the Cassville Standard, sign ‘ ed bv the Chairman, and counter-signed b\ * the Secretary. MARK A. COOPER, Chm’n. Joashly Jambs, Sec'y. Telegraphed to the Char. Mercury. New \ ork, May 3, fi p. m. i There is no change in our markets, parties f awaiting the arrival of the steamer. The ship Robinson arrived to-day at New Haven with $40,000 in California’ gold or 1 board. Government stocks have declined \ ; Sterling exchange, 7:j. .• j Baltimore, May 3. 7 f. m. The appointment of some unimportant Ous i tom House officers is announced to-day. The Kentucky Anti-Slavery Convention has | adjourned without having accomplished any thing. The Whigs have elected but one Represent ative to Congress from "\ irginia. Montreal, May 3J, —noon. No riots have occurred since the issuing of the address by the British party to the people, urging upon them the muintainance of order and tranquillity. Parties are organizing in the different wards of the city for ulterior ! measures, should the response from England to their address render decisive measures ne cessary. The military guard for the protec tion of the Governor and the Parliament is continued. Further debate upon the Indem nity bill was postponed for a fortnight by a majority of one, in order to gjt a full house. On account of the efforts made to overawe the deliberations of Parliament by the Radicals, it has been proposed to transfer its sittings to Quebec. The Duel at Old Point. —The Portsmouth Daily Transcript of Monday says. “\Ve understand that the recovery of Mr, James Hope (one of the principals concerned in the late duel) is considered somewhat doubtful, the ball having entered his side just above the hip, whore it still remains. Passed Midshinman J. P. Jones is slowly recovering, the ball having been extracted from his side. “The pistol used by Mr. Jones in this affair is the same which was in the hands of the grandfather of Mr. Hope, Com. Barron, in the memorable duel with Com. Decatur, in which the latter was killed. Mr. Hope, we learn, received his wound immediately in that part of the body which proved so tatal to Com. Decatur.” Cotton forwa.-ded >rora Griffin. Prom Sept. Ist 1845, to March Ist, 1849. 34.541 •• Dt March to Ist April. “101 m “ Ist April to Ist May, 5 643 bales, 47,288 | Up to the same time last year there were received 25,940 bales, showing that this year's receipts have nearly doubled the last. The above figures further show that there will be upwards of fifty thousand hags of Cot ton received at this place within the present season. The projected PI ink Road and other sources of increase will add 30 or 40,000 more. With an ordinary crop, the receipts of Cotton at Griffin next season will amount to at least 80,000 bags.— Jeffersonian. Another Crevasse. —The clerk of the steam er Viola, arrived last evening from Bayou La fourche, reports that a break took place xn the levee at Mr. P. L. Cox’s plantation on the bayou on Monday night last. Ihe crevasse was between forty and fib. y feet in extent, and the water rushed through with great force. A number of hands w'ore employed in endea voring to stay the rush of water, but their es forts were almost futile, and much damage is ’ anticipated.— N. O. Picajune 29 th uit. ! The Galveston Civilian of the 23d says: Accounts from the country represent that the late frost has done considerable damage to " the growing crops rs corn and cotton. In 1 many cases the corn has been so much injured that the farmers are replanting. The first plan- ting was unusually forward and promising, being waist high and jointed in many places. ‘ There is time enough yet, with a good season, to plant and raise crops; but the labor is great - ly enhanced by the destruction of the early crops. N On Saturday evening last, the Sons of Tem (l perance, of this place, hid a real “jollification” over the balance of the stock in trade of a Gro cer, of this place, who had just joined the Division. The “Sons” mode up a purse by 0 voluntary contribution, and purchasing the ;1 remnant on hand, walked from their Hall at t the close of the meeting to the Grocery, and : having taken the casks out on the public square, staved them, and then set fire to the s | flowing contents. Thi.-f looks as if they were s in earnest in this cause. —Marietta Advocate. J p Small Pox. — So far as we can learn, this di.sease is fast disappearing—no new cases * ' either at Atlanta or the Iron Works. We hope j to have the pleasure of soon announcing to our e | distant friends, that there is not a single case I in the Cherokee country.— lb. e j We have had refreshing showers within the y j last few days—every seasonably for our far e mers, the previous day weather having been unfavorable to the growing crops and to farm j ing operations generally. We are gratified in 1 learning that, though the wheat has suffered - , severely from the recent frost, many of our h farmers will make fully an averge crop. — lb. ? Fire. —Yesterday, about half-past 1 o’clock, e* a fire was discovered in a wooden house in Henrietta street, owned by Mr. Chnstafell, and occupied by colored persons. The fire be ing confined in a small space was extinguish t t-. without much damage. It was evidently I the act of an incendiary.— Charleston Mercury, 4th inst. i' ’m•i mm mu rmrai mm 1 ir~r - r h*rf y • ~*nff iiTffigirrTjMraaawagsnM SPECIAL NOTICES. A CALLED MEETING j Os the First Division of the Augusta Independent ' Fire Company will be lie LI at the Company £n- I gine House this afternoon at o’clock. Pune tual attendance is requested. By order of the Captain. HRNRV MOORE, _ j May 5 Secretary. d 1 GKO. ft. it. ,V ISANK’G C OMPANY, ) - j Augfsta, May 3d, 1849. i e I The next Annual Meeting of the Stockholder, j of this Company will be held, in accordance with the Charter and By-Laws, at the Banking House ; in Augusta, on TUESDAY , the loth inst., being . j the *• the Tuesday after the second Monday in May.” J W. WILDE, Cashier, i (UP Trams of Cars will leave Covington and * Athens at i> o’clock Monday Morning, the 14th in e ; slant, for tlie conveyance off Stockholders and - | their families free of charge, and of oilier per - 1 sons at half the regular charge. J .Stockholders residing above Covington will he conveyed in the regular trains to Augusta, free of charge, at any time within four days of the meet if ! iM -' N. B.— The families of Stockholders will be held d ' to consist of wives, children and necessary ser 19 vanls —constituting the usual household. '• j The Agents at the different stations will furnish u j Tickets, without which, all passengers will he i charged the usual rates. td may 3 ! S ART UNION ENGRAVING AND ' i DARI.VS ILLUSTRATIONS OF RIP VAN >’ | WINKLE,” Given to the subscribers for 1848 , to be deliver ed in Mav. A specimen of each just received, and can be seen at Chas. Catlin’s Jewelry and Music Store, a few door.- below the United States Hold. Subscriptions received hi the undersigned tor 9 1849, $5 per annum# Those subscribing early iu the year will get their Engravings sooner, and it V j j, ve ,y desirable, that the institution collect their ” | funds at an early day. The Engraving for 1849 | will be the plate of “ VOUTH,” being the second Picture of Cole’s celebrated series of the Voy j 3 tre of Life.” an etching of which can also be seen * I as above. As an extra inducement to ea dy sub scription, every member is entitled to receive gra * tuitously, copies ol the Bulletin, which are issued j after the payment of his dues, provided he signi j ties his wishes to that effect to the officer who takes bis name. H. VV. FARGO, apnl 20 lino Hon. Sec’y. NOTICE TO THE HOLDERS OF GEORGIA 8 PER CENT BONDS. ■i CENTRAL HANK OF GEORGIA, ■ , ! Millfdgeville. April 17th, 1849. ) ■ j . The holders of Georgia State 3 per Cent Bonds, are hereby notified to present them for payment, at the Bank State of Georgia, Savannah, the Bank ol Augusta, and this Bank, where they are 5 respectively made payable, on or before the first dav of MAV NF.X I’. After that dai m inleiest i will be paid on any of the said Bonds, i By order of the Director, , ap 20 c 6 A. M. NISBET, Cashier,