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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARDNER, JR teems. Daily, per annum ■ IVi-Weekly, per annum... 6 If pait) iu mirance ...ft I* l j Weekly, per annum, if paid in advance...." 00 , i be*e term, are offered to new subscriber* and ail old subscribers who pay up all arrearages | lu no case will the weekly paper be sent at $2, | auieos the. money accompanies the order. In no case will it be sent at $2,00 to an old sub- j »c tiber in arrears. o*When the year paid for at $-.00 expires, the iper. it not discontinued, orpaid for in advance, w.II be sent on tne old terms, $-.50 it paid at tha office within the year, or $3,00 it paid alter the expiration of tneyear. •p must be paid on all communications and letters of business. ( From the N. 1' Evening Pos‘.) WRECK OF THE EMPIRE. Further Particulars. A brief visit to the scene of this mournful disaster, and interviews with many of its wit nesses, enables us to lay before our readers the following additional particulars of what , has occurred, up to seven o’clock this morn- j ln g- Among the most afflicted of the sufferers j was a Mr, Noyes Ladd, last from btonington, j Connecticut, who was one of the party of fourteen —himself, wife, three children, mo ther, sister, four brothers, his wife’s sister, Miss Elizabeth Williams; Miss Delia Avery, of Preston, Connecticut; Miss Celia Gallop, of Ledyard, Connecticut —all on their way to Springfield, Illinois, to reside. The following is his statement of what he witnessed, made Friday night. At quarter past ten I was in state room No. 27, which was occupied by my wife and children and Miss Williams, when I heard a crash and some passengers rush. L opened the state roomjdoor; and heard somebody say all was right, that there was no danger. 1 went back and staid some ten minutes, when I heard a second rush of passengers through the saloon, who had come up from below, trying that the boat was sinking. My wife was sea-sick, and I was staying with her. I seized her and my children, and put them up through a sky-light on to the hurricane deck, and after them some twenty others, whom I lifted up as best I could, others above receiv ing them. Then I heard a cry from the stem of the saloon, of some in distress. The water was knee deep. The noise seem to be aft. 1 j opened some three state room doors that were shut. In the third, found a small boy, about seven years old, iu shirt and drawers. I put him upon the hurricane deck, and then climb ed up myself. Soon after, the Rip Van Win- ; kle came up, and I went on her with my family. My mother was taken out of the la dies cabin through a hole cut in the saloon floor. She had dimed up, put her feet on the rios of the ceiling. I had heard her screaming, ! but did not know who it w as, It was iu pur suit of her voice that 1 found the boy. She held her face to the cabin ceiling and scream- , ed. She had to raise her chin to keep it out of the water, which was constantly rolling on j to her face as the boat heaved. She says she coutd not have held out more than a minute : longer. There was another woman in the ca- j bin whose voice was not as loud as hers. Her calls ceased after a time. There is a rumor that a woman supposed to be her, was cut out to-day alive and carried to Fishkiil. This, however, seems incredible. [Undoubtedly a mistake, as no such person was cut out, alive or dead.—E».] My wife, mother, and children, are all ot j our party of whom I have any tidings. The rest are missing. (Mr. Ladd was probably gladdened this morning by learning from Troy, of the safe arrival in the Kip Van Win kle, at Albany, of two of their party, Miss Gallop and Miss Williams.) Our party came I on shore with the Rip Van Winkle and stop ped at the United States Hotel, all in the at tire in which they left their births. 1 had to go this morning and borrow and buy garments to cover them and myselt with. Net one of the company had a dress to put on. My wife was the only one that saved a bonnet. I should think there were about three hundred on board —I heard no alarm whatever till the crash came. I had with me some three tons of baggage, eight large boxes and several small ones, nine trunks —a wagon and several light articles. I went out there this morning about eight 1 o’clock; the captain went with me, and we found three or four of her hands there. They - had extricated bodies of two elderly women, already—one was Mrs. Norton, of Troy. Her brother, Gen.jßoss, came down to-day, in the John Mason, and will take up her body in the £ o’clock boat to-night. but a short time. 1 got two of my coats —that was all.— They were getting some things out of a state- i room, with a boat. The captain came back with me to attend tke coroners inquest, at 9 o'clock. This afternoon at 2 o’clock, I went down. They had got out several trunks—seven of mine, and some dozen or fifteen more, belong ing to other people; and they took out the bodies of two women and two children—a girl about seven, and a boy about nine years of age. One was a child of Carson, the emi grant. Carson lost his wife anti his children, and recovered the body of one of the latter and his wife. The other woman was rather large, well-dressed, in a light colored straw bonnet; had a gold ring on one finger and a ear-ring in one ear, the* other appeared to have been torn off in taking her from the water.— We left about sundown. My things wtye put on a sloop and sent up here. When the Boat was Struck A passenger in the wheel or pilot house, about ten or eleven o’clock, informed one of the reoorters of the Troy. Budget that he saw a vessel on the starboard. Smith says, “How is that vessel standing, to cast or west r” His men at the wheel with him replied, “Stand ing to the east.” Smith says “No, she is stand ing right for us; she will sink us. ' Smith then calling out “Go about,” four times; and he rung the bell for the boat to stop and go back. The vessel struck, and Smith left the wheel and went out. and Captain Tapper very soon made his appearance. Said Capt. T., “We will sink; get on boad the schooner as soon as possible.” Our informant then says he jumpt ed from the promenade deck, and rushed to the ladies' cabin, aroused hia daughter, and with her retreated to the hurricane deck. Da zing this time four minutes only elaps ed. We are informed by a person on the shore, that when the collision took place, the steam er was about four times her length from a bar which bounds the west shore; the schoon er inside. The Rip Van Winkle came be tween them. She did attempt to move the Empire, or to do any thing but labor for the extrication of the passengers until long after the possibility of saving life merely, was gone. She then ’towed the empire over as near the eastern shore as she could go herself without running aground, and there left her bvrden to drift a shore. The captain found faat the western bank was so bold as to make f it unwise to leave her on that shore, but pre- f ferred the more gradual descent on the oppo site side. The steamer sunk in about seven minutes, j ; The water was not at any time more than a | j foot deep on her saloon floor. She was float- i ) ed by the wood work, assisted perhaps by the \ condensation of the steam in her boilers pro- j : ducedby the sudden overflow of cold w ater. — | If the passengers had been aware that she | would have floated, many might have been | spared the dangers and sufferings they expe- I rienoed from throwing themselves into the I water. Passengers that Jumped Overboard. Daly 4; Garrison, fishermen, were out with | their men, in the river, fishing, when the col- I lisiou occurred. They rowed at once, with three boats well manned, to the scene. They say they carried off. at different times, fifty-six persons—at one trip, 16 ; at another, 7; at another, 10; at another, 23. Most of these went up the river in the Rip Van Win kle. Mr. Burden, of Troy, was found by Mr. Da ly, on a box, almost exhausted. He did not know how to swim. Ezekiel Jennings, one of | Mr. Daly’s men, found a thick-set man float ing on another box, who fell exhausted from the box just as Jennings came up. He seized him as he rose to the surface, and brought him into the boat. A Mr. Barry, agent of a Telegraph Compa ny at Montreal, was also picked up by the boats. He had once been wrecked in the Car- ‘ j ribean sea, and on that occasion, after clearing j the ship a few rods in a small boat, was near j being dragged down in the vortex made by i j the sinking vessel. He did not know how | | deep the water might be here, and so, being a i good swimmer, resolved to make the experi- , raent of swimming ashore. He was enveloped • in thick overcoats, which, when wet, effectu- ! ally prevented his swimming. He made for a plank on which a boy was j supported. The boy, frightened, begged him not to come to the plank, as it would not sup port two. He told the boy to be perfectly quiet, and stick to the plank and he would tow him ashore. He was picked up in a state of utter exhaustion, and thinks he could not have sustained himself but a very few min utes longer. Mr. Barry gives an illustration of the self ishness of fear that is almost incredible. Im mediately after the collision, some men jump ed into the boat, filled her, cut her loose and paddled otf a short distance, and lay to, near a light that seemed to belong to a small boat at anchor. They refused to receive a female who appealed to them to be taken in, either because they had no room, or fearing that if they came too near the steamer, their boat might be filled and sunk. Barry recognized one of these unnatural cowards on Wells’ landing when he came ashore. We are told a | Mrs. Tuttle, also from New York, who was on j her way to Troy alone, to see a child at school ' there, jumped overboard and was picked up. How to Escape the Cholera j Although we have uo symptoms ot Cholera among us, yet we can hardly expect to escape the visitation that is afflicting so many of our I sister cities. It becomes us, however, to pre -1 pare at once to give it such a reception as will render its visitation as mild as possible. We therefore publish, for the information of the j public, the sanitary regulations of London, based upon one of the most minute investiga- : ! tions that ever was made into the circumstan ces attendant on an epidemic disease. The i editor of the London Lancet says: “ I'hese sim ple measures are worth all the nostrums or 1 specifics which have ever been vaunted for the | cure of cholera. —Baltimore Sun. I “Let every impurity, animal or vegetable, | be quickly removed to a distance from the | habitations, such as slaughter bones, pig sties, I cesspools, necessaries, and all other domestic* nuisances.” We do not believe that animal putrefactions Are ever connected with epidemic diseases, but there can be no objection to their removal from habitations. “Let all uncovered drains be carefully and \ frequently cleansed. “Let the grounds in and around the habi tations be drained, so as effectually to carry off moisture of every kind. “Let all partitions be removed from within and without habitations, which unnecessarily impede ventilation. “Let every room be thrown open for the admission of air; and this should be done about noon, when the atmosphere is most likely to be dry. “Let dry scrubbing be used in domestic cleansing, in place of water cleaning. “Let excessive fatigue and exposure to damp I and cold, especially during the night, be avoid | ed. “Let the use of cold drinks and acid liquors, especially under fatigue, be avoided; or when the body is heated, i “Let a poor diet, and the use ot impure water in cooking or for drink, be avoided. “Let the wearing of wet and insufficient clothing be avoided. “Let a flannel or woollen belt be worn around i the belly. “N. B. This has been found very serviceable | in checking the tendency to bowel complaint, so common during the prevalence of cholera. The disease has, in this country, been always : found to commence with a looseness in the j bowels, and in this stage is very tfactable; it j should however, be noticed, that the loose j ness is frequently attended by pain or unea siness; and fatal delay has often occured from the notion that cholera must be attended with cramps. In the early stage here referred to, there is often no griping or cramp, and it is at this period that the disease can be most easily arrested. “Let personal cleanliness be carefully ob served. “Let every cause tending to depress the | moral and physical energies be careiully avoid ed. “Let crowding of persons within houses and apartments be avoided. “Let sleeping iu low or damp rooms be avoided. “Let tires be kept up during the night in sleeping or adjoining apartments, the night being the period of most danger from attack, especially underexposure to cold or damp. “Let ail bedding and clothing be daily ex posed during winter and spring to the tire, and in summer to the heat ot the sun. Dr. Drake, a physician of Cincinnati, whose acquaintance with this disease is said to be as extensive as that at of any practitioner in the West, has published some suggestions on the subject, which we think worthy of notice: 1. That leaving the city can do no possible ; good. The disease is not contagious. The cause of it has already spread through the city | and been received into the bodies of the in habitants. Those who escape to the country are more likely to be ill than if they remained at home. 2. Epidemic cholera has uo premonitory - symptoms. The diarrhoea, which is supposed | to be its forerunner, is the disease itself, in its first stage; as positively so as when it has ad vanced to vomiting, or co'ldness and collapse. 3. Hie disease maybe general y stopped, if met in that early st age; if it cannot then, it cannot afterwards. It cannot even then, if the patient continues on his feet. His life de pends on his lying by. 4. All persons who have worn flannel during the winter should keep it on, until the epide i mic hac passed away. f Thk First Steamboat that ever Ascend-J kd the Ohio River.— The following article ° possesses intrinsic interest, as a means of show ing how great has been the progress in steam boat building, steamboat navigation, and in i the facilities for commercial intercourse with the est within the last thirty -four years : [lrom the Cinncinati Oasette, of 1815.] The Steamboat Enterprize. —This is the first steamboat that has ever ascended the j Ohio. She arrived at Louisville on the Ist inst., sailed thence on the 10th, and came to : at this port on the evening of the 13th, hav ing made her passage from New Orleans, a j distance ot 1800 miles, in twenty-eight run- j ning days; (by the aid of her machinery alone, ; which acts on a single wheel placed in the , stern,) against the rapid currents ot the Mis sissippi and the Ohio. This is one of the most important facts in the history of this country, and will serve as a data of its future greatness. A range of steamboats from Pittsburg to >ew Orleans—commencingr Pittsburg and Ciuci nati; Cincinnati and Louisville and Smith land, at the mouth of Cumberland, or some eligible place on the Mississippi below the mouth of the Ohio, thence to Natchez, and from Natchez to New Orleans, will render the transportation of men and merchandize as easy, as cheap and expeditious on these wa ters, as it is by means of sea vessels on the ocean, and certainly far safer! And we are + happy to congratulate our readers on the pros pect that is presented of such an establish ment. Two steamboats, considerably larger than the Enterprize, and yet not too large for the purpose, are already built at Pittsburg, and j will no doubt commence running in the | autumn. Others will follow; the success of j the Enterprize must give a spring to this busi ness that will, in a few years,\carry it into | complete and successful operation. The Enterprize is a small, vessel, carrying only 35 tons of cargo, exclusive of her ma chinery. She has, however, very good accommoda tion for between thirty and lorty passengers — the ladies' apartment separate from the gen tlemen’s. The price of passage from New Orleans to Cincinnati is $l3O, aild hence to Pittsburg S3O. The Enterprize brought an assorted cargo of cotton, sugar, lead &c. She sailed for Pittsburg on the morning of the 17th, and was expected to arrive there in eight or ten davs; but we learned from Marietta that some part of the engine got deranged, which prevented its oper ations, and it was not until the 25th that she arrived at. that place. She started from Mariet ta on the morning of the 2Gth, but we have not yet heard of her arrival at Pittsburg. Since the arrival of the steamboat, several barges also arrived here fiom New Orleans, in ■ passages of 130 and 142 days. We have recorded these facts on the same ! page, in order to call the attention of the pub- I lie to the superior merits of the steamboat ’ navigation, to mark particularly the period when this navigation may be said to have commenced, and to excite, if possible; and ar dent desire to promote its extension. How to Enlarge Vegetables.— A vast in crease of food may be obtained by managing judiciously and systematically—carrying out for a time the. principles of increase. Take, for instance, a pea. Plant it in very rich | ground ; allow it to bear the first year, say | half a dozen pods only ; remove all others, save the largest, the following year, and re tain of the produce three pods only ; sow the largest the following year, and retain one pud; again select the largest, and the next year the sort will by this time have trebled its size and weight. Ever afterwards, sow the largest seed, and by these means you will get peas, or any thing else, ot a bulk of which we at present have no conception. The Mobile Register, (Deni.) says that Gen. Taylor assured the late Marshal of South Ala bama, at Pascagoula, last October, that he should not he removed. Last October ? Whv, If we remember aright, Gon. Taylor was not then President. Be more careful of your dates, Mr. Register, the next time you attempt to trump such a fabrication. We are certainly indebted to the Washing ton National Whig, from which we clip the above paragraph, for the information that Gen. Taylor was not President last October. It is a wise announcement, and should have been headed “Official.” But the statement we made is nevertheless true. Gen. Taylor, while at Pascagoula, made many declarations of what he intended to do, if elected ; and j among them was the one in question. This, j at least, is the assertion of the late Marshal i himself, and his testimony of the fact will be forthcoming soon. Its publication has only been delayed by his illness. It will show whether Gen. Taylor lias not violated private electioneering pledges, as well as the public and important ones he gave to the country. We advise the National Whig to be more decorous in its phraseology hereafter, than to speak of “ trumping up fabrications ,” when | the statements are sustained by indisputable | evidence. A few days will show, we think. I what were trumps at Pascagoula last October Mobile Register. i Bishop Onderdonk. —The* Episcopal Cou j vention of Pennsylvania, now in session in 1 Philadelphia, has adopted the following reso i ° | lotions almost unanimously : Resolved, That the removal by the House of Bishops of the disabilities imposed by that body on the Right Rev. Henry IT, Onderdonk, D. I)., would give great satisfaction to the in dividuals, clerical and lay, composing this Convention, and also, it believed, to many others, as well in the Church generally as in the Diocese once under his jurisdiction. Resolved, moreover, That while such removal ‘would cheer the declining years of a venerable and distinguished servant of the Church, it would secure to his many admirable produc tions their just estimation by posterity, and be in accordance with the charity so eloquent ly portrayed in the teaching, and so consist- I emly exemplified in the conduct of the great Apostle of the Gentiles. The S a I've Crevasse. — We have nothing further to report horn this crevasse. When we visited it last night, it looked just about as near being stopped as it did a week ago —and |no nearer. It is true 'the volume of water ’ pouring through the breach was not so large last night as it was some days ago, but that ' could only be attributed to the river having | fallen some within the last few few days.— X. iO. Delia, 19 th inst. The Crevasse at Tunis.— This crevasse, which there was at oup time souie hope of soon stopping, is now, it is feared, beyond ordinary i power to chock it. The-river has made a se | cend breach, a few' feet from the first, and the two having united, the crevasse is now one j hundred and twenty to one hundred and thir ty feet wide, and the Hood i ashing through it is between three and four feet deep. The I whole neighborhood is inundated, and disas- I trous consequences are anticipated from the i union of the waters of this crevasse with those | j of the Powder Magazine crevasse, which have ! not had time yet to flow' off. Notwithstand ing the formidable strength of the torrent, the people in the vicinity are exeiting themselves to the utmost to repair the breach. — lb. | HE CONSTITUTIONALIST. Augusta, oeorgia. SATURDAY MORNING MAY 26 S3 5 * SEE FIRST PAGE. Proscription for Opinions Sake The Whig papers are down upon the { Wanhington Union most furiously fur the fol ! lowdng annoying suggestion : “Now what is the duty of the democratic I Senate, in view of such an unjust and infam ! ous system of proscription as this ': We be i lieve the whole country will respond to the i declaration, that it is the dul y of the majority iof the Senate to vindicate tlie reputation of their political friends from the imputation of disgrace which their removal implies, by call ing upon the P. isident for the.reasons of the removal, and publishing them to the world. Then will the innocent and the injured have an opportunity for vindication and redress against the political assassins, who attempt to stab at, their characters under the cloak of al leged official moral delinquency. And, in our belief, should do even more than this, it should withhold its approval of the nomination of any officer who has taken the place of a democrat removed for a falsely al ledged cause; and this should be done, how ever worthy or meritorious the appointee. If the majority of the Senate do not vindicate, in this or some efficacious way, the injustice done to their political friends who have been removed, they Cannot expect to keep up the organization and efficiency of the democratic party.” Now, what valid right Gen.“ Taylor or his supporters wculd have to complain, if the Se nate adopted exactly this course,we cannot per ceive. The Senate owes it to-the American people to hold Gen. Taylor to his electioneer ing pledges to the whole country on this very subject of removals from office. If ever a can didate was pledged in distinct, unambiguous and undeniable terms, not to dismiss men horn office simply because they differed from him in politics, Gen. Taylor is that man. That he made these pledges cannot be gainsaid —that they were believed by the people, and had their influence in getting votes for Gen. Tay lor is equally clear of doubt. To suppose that the people who so voted did not believe them at the time, is to suppose that they believed their candidate was insincere—a hypocritical demagogue —was attempting to practice a | fraud upon tbo country, and yet voted for him ! with this conviction of his duplicity. Such an idea is as absurd as it is unjust to the peo ple. They may be too credulous; but they are not wilfully corrupt. If General Taylor believed that removing from office for opinion’s sake was right, he should never have railed against it, and promised not to practice it himself. If he believed it wrong, he should respect both his pledges and his own convictions, and abstain from the practice. If he will not, of his own accord, the Senate should compel him to do so, as far as lays in its power. Mississippi and Pacific Rail Road. The Governor of South Carolina has ap pointed a large and able delegation to attend the Rail Road Convention, which will assem ble at Memphis, on the 4th of next July.— Among the names of the delegates we notice the Hon. John C. Calhoun, Col. Jas. Gadsden, Hon. R. B. Rhett, Hon. J. B. O’Neal, lion. I. E. Holmes, Hon, Robert Barnwell, Gen. J. H. Hammond. Col. G. C. Meminger, and Hon. A. P. Butler. The object of this Convention is to confer with the delegates from the various States in terested, on the expediency of constructing a Rail Road to connect the valley of the Missis sippi with the Pacific Ocean. We hope the State of Georgia will not be unrepresented in that Convention. We are largely interested in the question. Our cities will derive very great benefit from this stupendous enterprise, if it is over accom plished. Our Rail Road companies will ob tain an immense increase of business from it. The advantages to accrue to this section of the country from suoh a road cannot be enume rated in a paragraph. But many will suggest themselves readily to the reader. We think the subject worthy the action of our municipal authorities, and hope delegates will be"sent from our city to the Convention. Roads- The Marietta Advertiser describes mi im provement in the mode of constructing Plank Roads, which lias been suggested since the importance and value of these roads have been brought prominently before the public. It is to be tried by the Company formed for the purpose of constructing a road from Grif fin to West Point, and for which the capital slock, $30,000, has already been subscribed. We extract the following paragraph in refer ence to this improvement: This consists in laying the plank for the out side, so that the wheels may run upon them in the direction of their length, while in the centre the horse-track crosses them. These have been called the “People’s Railroads,” because, with a grade similar to the latter, they are adapted to the use of wheel car riages and wagons of every description. The construction of the Griffin road will test the economy and practicability of the plan in our State, and, if successful, will open the way for others. DeßovPs Commercial Review. — The N-T) Picayune of the 20th inst., says—We are happy to learn that this valuable Southern and Western work, which lias been tempo rarily suspended in consequence of some dif ficulties in the publishing arrangements, will be issued again by the first of July next in an improved manner. Messrs. Weld & Co., No. 72 Camp street New Orleans, have become the publishers of the work, and we are assured that the merchants of New Orleans, and of the South and West generally, as well as the planters, manufacturers, and intelligent citi zens of this section, will give the work a.libe ral and unstinted support, Godey’s Lady’s Book The June number, rich in embellishments i and prepared for the public eye in all its de partments, with excellent taste, has been laid on our table by the Agents, Oeo. A. Oates & Co. \\ e are indebted to Messrs. Oates & Co., j also, tor sarnie fashionable music. m The Diplomatic Smuggling - Case. The following we take from the Baltimore Sun : 1 he N. \. Tribune publishes from Hun. H. 5\ . Ellsworth, U, S. Charge d’Affaires in Swe den, a copy of a c ircular letter, dated Stock holm, April 20, in which he 1 disproves satisfac torily the charge ot smuggling or attempting j to smuggle goods through the Swedish cus tom-house. Boxes were sent which Mr. Ells- j worth suspected did not contain what he had ordered. lie had them opened in the presence of the Inspector of Customs, and his suspi cions were confirmed. He instantly rejected them, handing them over to the custom-house authorities. The shipper afterwards sent a letter, stating that the articles had been sent by mistake, and Mr. Ellsworth’s still remained at Lubec. This letter was also put in the hands ot the custom house officers, Mr. Ells worth says : “ Under existing regulations of the Swedish custom-house, no such attempt can be made as to articles admitted free of duty for a minister. The boxes which contain them must invaria bly be opened, and the contents journalized at the custom-house before delivery.” lie also sends a confirmation of his state ment in letters from Baron Manderstrom, Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from Baron Stierneld, the Minister, in which he says he had informed the Swedish Charge at Washington that no doubt could be entertained of Mr. E.’s perfect innocence of the malicious charges against him, which he says first appeared in an obscure and scurri lous Sunday paper in* Stockholm, and were never copied in any Government journal. The Recent Catholic Council. —The Bal timore Sun of the 21st inst. says ;—“ In addi tion to the proposed elevation to archbishop rics of three of the present sees, and the crea tion of a new bishopric by this body, lately in session here, it is understood that the Pope is also petitioned to make Rrimatial the metro politan see of Baltimore. A pastoral letter, put forth by the council, recommends also to the American church pecuniary collections in behalf of the Pope, and, by unanimous vote, urges that functionary to ‘ define as an article of faith’ the immaculate conception of the \ ir gin. Though this point has always been main tained by theologians of the church, it has never been uttered as a positive dogma from Rome.” Inequality of Rephesention in the Brit ish House op Commons. —A London paper of May sth, contains a list of the twenty-nine smallest constituencies, comprising only 6764 electors, and represented by thirty-eight mem bers; also a list, numbering eighteen, of the largest constituencies, comprising 289,4 70 elec tors, having only the same number of repre sentatives (38) with the 6764. Wheras, if the same ratio of representation obtained in the large as in the small constituencies named, the former would send to the House of Commons, 1626 members. The same paper says, the ICe form Act requires as many as forty-three in dependent electors of the great seats of wealth and Intelligence, to be the equal of one voter in pocket boroughs and counties notorious for servility and corruption. A Portrait. —ln a recent conversation about great men, one gentleman asked another if he had ever seen Col. Benton, and if so, to de scribe him, “ Why,” said the interrogated, “whether sitting, standing, or walking, the Missouri Senator looks as if he were carry ing on an inward and gentle remonstrance with himself for being of so much more conse quence in the world than any body else.” The more this portrait is examined, the more cor rect and life-like will it appear. Tremendous Fire in China.— News has reached Canton of a great fire at Kwai-lam, the capital of the Kwanse province. It is said that upwards of 4,000 houses and shops have been destroyed, including the Ya-mum, or ■ offices, of the Viceroy. Many people have perished. — China Mail, Feb. 8. The Steamboat Empire. —The Jury at N ewburgh, N. Y. inquiring into the cause of the deaths of those drowned on board the Em pire, acquit those in charge of the schooner Noah Brown of any negligence or improper conduct, but find that the conduct ot the pilot of the steamboat Empire was injudicious, indiscreet, and highly^bnsurable. Exportation or Cotton Goods. —Our par agraph yesterday morning, noticing the ship ment of Cotton Goods from the Graniteville Manufactory, has induced one of our mer : chants, who is agent for several factories, to examine his shipments for the past year, which footed up tiro thousand seven hundred and ten bales. These goods consisted of Yarns, Osna burgs, Sheetings, ike., all manufactured wi thin this State end Georgia. The shipments were made to various ports in the Union, but this amount of business was done by one house | alone. We should bo pleased to receive furth er information on this subject, from those en gaged In the business.— Charleston Courier 2 nth inst. The Whig nominations for Congress are now complete throughout Louisiana, as fol lows : Ist Dts r. Hon. O. P. Jackson ot Orleans. I 2nd I) IST.- Hon. C. M. Conrad, of Jefferson. 3n Dist. —Rev. Col. Richard .Stewart, of Iberville. 4th Dust.— Hon. Octavus N. Ogden, of j Rapides. Election of Judges. —The Legislature of 1 Pennsylvania has passed a resolution for an amendment to the Constitution, to give the people the power to elect their Judges. The Philadelphia Ledger, an independent paper, j referring to the fact, says ; “ It is difficult to imagine an objection to this popular mode of choosing Judges. We elect Presidents by the suffrages of the peo- I pie, without distrusting their capacity to make j a judicious and wise election. We elect Gov ernors. Canal Commissioners, Senators, Rep resentatives, Congressmen and Sheriffs ; all of equal, and some of them of far superior im portance to the Judiciary. Then why not elect Judges? Too many entertain a dread of the ballot-box, not warrant d by the truth.— “Oh ! ” they exclaim, but the Judiciary ! It ought to be independent! So it ought, and this is me only way to make it independent. Responsibility to the people for their acts, is the only safe rule for all public servants.— j Then dependency upon correct public opin } ion for auppoit, is the beat safeguard to socie j ty for the honesty and justice of tneir action,” [Telegraphed for (he Charleston Courier.' New York Market- Nkw York, May 23 —5 P. M. Cotton’. —Sixteen hundred bales sold this day, at prices slightly in favor of buyers.— The market was quite buoyant, and the de ; mand good. Othbr Articles. —Rice was firm and in fair i demand. Two hundred tierces sold at s3.i for fair to s3f a s3i for prime. Flour and Wheat has slightly improved. Pork was dull. Trea sury Notes 111. New Loan 114-i• The Cholera Four more new cases were reported at New York on Wednesday. The disease is said to have made its appearance in Philadelphia.— No case yet occurred at Baltimore. The deatlri on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers are said to he to a terrible extent. Steam Ship Crescent City, This vessel sailed from New York for Cha gres on Wednesday, with a large number of passengers on board. t Polk has quietly settled down in his beautiful residence, on an emi | nence near the Capitol. The cares and re ' sponsibilities of the most exalted position in the civil governments of the earth are laid aside, and the late President, mingling daily with his fellow'-citizens in the streets of our beautitul city, as one of the sovereign people, is, we doubt not, a happier man- than, when in Washington, burthened with the weight of his vast responsibilities, and surrounded with the throng who looked to him as the dispense! of patronage and place. Mr. Polk looks ten years younger than when ho landed here six weeks ago. The fire of his eye has never been quenched, and he has recovered the elasticity of step and the healthful complexion of which sickness had temporarily deprived him. Nashville Cnion. The Money Market. A New Y'ork letter, of Saturday evening, to ! the Philadelphia American, says: ! “The specie in bank has been counted, ‘and reaches $8,238,000, estimating the small up town banks. This is an increase of $4,000,000, or nearly 100 per cent since 31st March, when the amount was $4,200,000. There is also in the sub-Tieasury to-day $2,107,800, making a total of $10,345,000 in the city. The banks have many of them more than they want. The Merchants bank has $1,200,000. On the Ist July next —a little more than a month —? million of dollars will be paid out here from the Sub-Treasury for interest, which will be added to the amount in bank, and tend to make money still easier. “ The money market to day is abundantly supplied and capital cannot be safely used with freedom at 5 per cent. Some loans have been made at 4A per cent, and a large loan was made for twelve months on Treasury Notes at (5 percent. ilia *>l> r (—— nil —■ mil 11 ■ ’ I FUNERAL NOTICE O’ T Ije Friends and Acquaintance oi Mr. Dawson Atkinson ami family, are invited to j attend the funeral of the iormei from his late resi -1 deuce in Beach Island, at 10 o’clock THIS I MORNING. utm in niMiiiiiiimutiii iiM4»inaiiirMfaiHi>MTiwiinn—M—iin—nMiurmiTiir i SPECIAL NOTICE?. NOTICE TO BTOCKHOLDERB. O’ A Meeting of the STOCKHOLDERS in the Central and Western Wharf Co., will be held at my office THIS AFTERNOON, at 4 o’clock, on business of importance. By ordei of the Presi dent. ci. McLaughlin, may 26 Sec. & Treas. TUBTLE SOUP TO-DA V tNT-- Another fine fat GREEN Ts RTLf ■cX-ilW# has been received bv HOGREFE &- SCHNEIDER, and will be served uj ITIIS DAV, from II to 2 o’clock. (FT Families can he supplied by sending, may 26 I AU GU3TAT'IRL r COMPA NY. ITT A Called Meeting of the" Augusta Fire Company, will he held at the City Hall, on SATURDAY EVENING. May at 8 o’clock By order of p. LAM BACK, Chief Engineer. Alkx. Philip, Sec’y. may 25 2 , RAFFLE ! RAFFLE : ! To he disposed of by Raflle, a fine Parlor sett [ of Rosewood Furniture, consisting of 12 Pieces. . 40 Chances at 10 Dollars each. Please call and examine. > may 15 C. A. PLATT CLEV FLAM) A SPEAR, SUBBEOM DENTISTS NO. 215 (Over Aldrich iV. Green’s Shoe Store.) Nov. II ly F. A. SOI) FLAK I), COMMISSION MERCHANT. SAVANNAH GA Nov. 3 d&wl v - MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COM PANY of new York:, ; , iioBKKTSoN, Presi. 1 Sami., 11 ann ay, Sec’v Applications received hv > GREENVILLE SIMMONS, 1 N ov. 24 1 y Age nt. PIANO FORTES EXCELLENT SECOND-HAND PIANO FORTES, tor stile cheap. ; K. S. J ACKSON. ‘ First Room over Gustav Volger’s Segar Store, jau 24 fimos Broad street • ■ PKOTE CTIONINS UR ACE COMP A NYOFNEWJBRSEY. ’CAPITAL $200,000. ‘J. V. Vook'hkks, Sec’ry Wm. Thompson, Pres ! B. S. Whitney, GenT A gent, 65) Wall-st ,N. f Fire and Marine llisks are taken in this Office •»n the most liberal terras,-by JOHN HILL, Agent, Next door above the Mechanics’ Bank Sept 2 I V [Jj=Dr. GEO, w. W I S I respectfully ten f Jers his PROFESSIONAL SERI ICES to the Citizens of Augusta. Office, as heretofore, in the lower front co-nerof the Eagle and Phouux Hotel ap 18 3mos art union engraving and DARIA S ILLUSTRATIONS OF “ RIP \A|\ WINKLE,” Given to the subscribers for 1848 , to be deliver cd in May. A specimen of each just received and can he seen at Cuts. Catmn’s Jewelry and Music Store, a few door- below the United States Hotel. Subscriptions received by the underdgned tor i'l ). per annum. I hose subscribing earl\' i>. the year will get their Engravings sooner, and it is very desirable, that the Institution collect then binds at an early day. The Engraving for 1344 will be the plate of VOUTIL” being the second 1 Picture ot Cole’s celebrated series of the Voy age of Life, an etching of w hich can also he seen as above. As an extra inducement to early sub seription,every member is entitled to receive gra tuitously, copies of the Bulletin, which aie is-ued i after the payment ol his dues provided he sigin ties his wishes to that effect to the officer who takes bis name H. W FARGO, i april Imo Hon. Ciec'y.
