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gwemaanaenn iwht—-v—— mm — t —“ THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARDNER. JR. TBKias. 1 ).iily r>f r annum s'■' 00 Tri- Weekly, l*cr annum ...6 00 ii paid in advance. .00 Weekly, par annum, if paid in advance.... 2 00 I’nese terms are tn new subscribers aud all old subscribers who pay up all arrearages. In no case will the weekly paper be sent at $2, ntr.ess the money accompanies the order. in no case will it he sent at $2,00 to an old sub -r : ibor in arrears. ,0* When tne year paid for at $2,00 expires, the i» uier, if not discontinued, orpaid for in advance, 'vdl he sent on me old terras, $2,50 if paid at tha office within tne year, or $3,00 it paid after the expiration of iheyear. !Ij“Postage must be paid on ail communication* and letters of business. [ From the Columbus Times.] First Confidential Circular Os the. Whiff Candidate for Governor to his par ticular friends, as sting by him to the good old air of Daniel Tucker. Dear friends, now let us all rejoice. Since by long odds I am your cho cej In the Convention a« you know, The way I run it was not slow, Now let us take a drink together, Tis good for health in any weather. Yes that Convention lately said, I was the chap to run ahead ; See, how for me thev went it blind, And thus friend Holt was left behind ; It made him sick and others sicker, As I have been, when out of liqaor. Each though* that he would surely be, The candidate instead of me, The whig Convention as it ought, Ne’er took •* the second sober thought For if they had. most rationally, One Hill would be down in the valley. Rut to their credit be it said, They went it for your Li uclc Ned ; And sober candidates have failed, And I and Harmjny prevailed ; Then reign forever. Gin aod Brandy 1 From Maine down to the Rio Grande The ladies in their glasses look, And read themselves as in a book, Then leave—there’s no impression made, That will uot in a moment fade ! And hence they’re always found returning The same old thing, forever learning. I am a ladies’ man in this, Aud do not think a glass amiss ; They" drink down all the glass has told I swa'low all that mine can hold ; And both find very soon, ah, very ' Another drink —quite necessary. A fellow-feeling, bear in mind, Makes struggling mortals “ wondrous kind And every widow, wife and lass, Who finds much comfort in her glass. Must make a husband, friend or lover. From l.ocofoco ranks steal over And there are many Democrats, With ragged clothes woollen hits, Who, when they lake a horn with me, No other candidate can -ee ; And so with every glorious fellow ; Who loves to get a lit He mellow. The Temperance Whigs I am sure to get. They never left their leader ye* And sober Loco’s will be all That to poor Towns' lot will fall Over this Hill he cannot come it, Down in the valley is his summit. And also somewhat circumspect, And all shall say that Governor Hill, A second terra the chair should fid, But to the Senate I am going And then where next, there is no knowin r. Monsieur Heudebert. The organ of the cabinet is greatly mistaken if it supposes that we object to the appoint ment of Monsieur Heudebert by this adminis tration to the consulship at Lyons, because he is a good gastronomist and restaurateur. If, in the estimation of the cabinet, he possesses bet ter qualifications for that office than the in telligent merchants of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or New Orleans engaged in the silk trade, we certainly do not object to his appointment. We do not care how many French cooks nr even dancing masters, are ap pointed to high diplomatic places under the present conservative cabinet, with a view to get, if it can. a little democratic odor. We mentioned Monsieur Heu lebert’s case merely to show that offices are distributed under this administration by lottery, as was alleged long ago by the New York Express. Monsieur Heudebert, a notable oyster cook in Mississip pi, came here, as we are informed, first to get a small post office. Failing in that, he desired to be appointed bearer of despatches to France, in order that he might be enabled to visit his native country at the expense of the gov ernment ; but a friend suggested to him to apply for a consulship. He acted, as we un derstand, upon the suggestion ; and behold he was forthwith appointed to the important consulship at Lyons. It is no discredit to Mons. Heudebert, and it will probably be deemed a high and delicate compliment to our resident French citizens, as well as the grand French nation to whom he is accredited. Besides, it shows the democratic tendency of this administration. Men come here for hum ble places, when lo ! they find they have un derrated their own qualifications and deserts, and from cooks and dancing masters they turn up members of the corps diplomatique—per haps a consul, perhaps a foreign minister. These things are democratic. We approve of them in this administration. We do not care how many such democratic acts it does. They are complimentary to our intelligent American citizens, to adopted French citizens, and to the great French nation. But who believes that an American oyster-shnp keeper could get ap pointed consul under this administration ? Or, who believes a respectable and competent American mechanic—for instance, a black smith, shoemaker or tanner —could get such an appointment from th? Taylor cabinet 1 Nobody. Such honors are reserved only for french keepers of oyster shops, under the re publican administration ofthe '’Second Wash ington.” Since writing the foregoing we have received the New Orleans Daily Standard, which con tains the following sketch ot Monsieur Heu debert, copied from the Notches Free Trader, at which place this new Taylor consul to the great city of Lyons once resided. f Ft orn the Natchez Free Press ] Shameful Appointment. —We allude to the appointment of the notorious James Heudebert as Consul at Lyons, a city of the French re public, with a population of about iwo hun dred thousand. What on earth could have induced (Jen. Taylor to select such a vulgar specimen of humanity at Heudebert to act as our consul at the refined city of Lyons, we cannot imagine. Surely he did not know the character of the man, who, if sent any where at all, should be sent to the penitentiary as a nuisance and a curse to society. Some years ago Heudebert was a citizen of | this city, where he kept an eating-house. With his career in this city we are not acquain ted, but are informed that it was of such a character as to render him so odious that the , people refused to eat his cat soup, rotten oys ters and dog saussagea. He was in conse quence compelled to remove his culinary uten sils and kitchen furniture to some other place- After much trouble, he, succeeded in getting possession of the nice course in Jeffer son county, known as “ Hamberliu’s Track,” where he kept up a doggery and gambling house. Mr. Hamberiin, who resides near the track, soon became disgusted with Heudebert’s conduc*. and one clay told him he must keep a decent house, or he would be compelled to turn hiir. out of it. Not being able to comply with this very proper demand, Heudebert re moved his nefarious implements of trade to Pert Gibson. What kind of an establishment he kept in Port Gibson, we do not know, nor do we know how long he resided there, but we know he was ordered to leave on account ol bis vulgarities and insult to a very respectable lady. In fact such was the nature of his offence that he barely escaped the penalties of Lynch law. When we heard of Heudebert again he had opened a grocery and gambling house in Jack son. With his career in Jackson we are well acquainted. Ho has been several times in dicted for keeping a gambling and disorderly house; and at onetime he was informed by se veral respectable heads of families, that if he did not stop his keno table they would drive him a» a nuisance from the city, and throw his gambling cards and apparatus into Pearl river. This was a heavy blow- to his prospects. One week from that day the circuit court of Hines county met, the song of Heudebert’s dealer was heard no more, and Heudebert him self was forced to visit his friends in Louisiana, where he remained until the adjournment of the court, when he again returned to Jackson. He then returned to his pots and kettles, opened an eating-house, where he carried on gambling in all its various branches, and liv ing in open intercourse with a negro woman up to the hour of his appointment as consul at Lyons. The above is a true sketch of James Heude bert, the whig consul at Lyons. Comment is unnecessary. The whole country is insulte I and disgraced, at home and abroad, by such an appointment, as Heudebert is destitute of hon esty and capacity, and without a redeeming trait in his character. But he is a w hig I That covers a multitude of sins. [From the Charleston Mercury, 20 ih insf. Madison Springs, Georgia Mk. Editor: The prevalence o the two great epidemics of Cholera and Abolition at the North, has induced many of our travelling public to seek for recreation and health in the mountain region of North and South Carolina and Georgia, where they can be as readily and as cheaply found as in any part of our wide extended Union. In passing from Charleston to Rowland’s Springs, I have encountered a crowd of visitors, many on their first tour, and all expressing their admiration of both scenery and climate. Madison Springs are situated about twenty-five miles North of Athens, the nearest approach by Railroad; good four coach es ply daily between them, making the dis tance in about four to five hours over a very tolerable road. The whole ‘‘establishment” here is one of the handsomest I have ever seen any whet e; and as to our host, he is a host in himself, kind, courteous, and attentive —the Very type of good humor and good cheer unit ed. Ascending a hill, a half mile off, the prin cipal building comes suddenly into full view, ninety-two feet long and forty wdde, entirely surrounded by a piazza, fourteen feet wide, ornamented by twenty-eight immense square columns, twenty-eight feet high. Besides this immense building, which contains the Dining room, ninety-two feet long by forty wide, a Ball-room, forty by forty, and betw-een twenty and thirty chambers, he has sixteen double cabins with pizzas, neatly white w’ashed, the w hole ( apaUo of* ftooomtv»mlat ng two huntlror] visitors. The consumption of food for such numbers must of course be large, and our host slaughters a Beef every other day, besides Mutton, Veal, Fork and Poultry. What think you of one hundred and fifty Chickens per diem- Verily it would have been a sad mis fortune if Noah had neglected to take a pair with him into the ark, as no substitute could have been found in the w ide world. The Spring is situated about tw-o hundred yards from the house, just in sight, in the midst of a forest of nicely trimmed oaks, with shady paths leading to if, and beyond to the Bathing House, where you may select the temperature of your Bath, taking it from a spring of moderate heat, or from tlie mineral spring of 60 degree Fahr. This is one of the greatest luxuries of the place. The bath is exclusively appropriated to the ladies from morning until 2 o’clock, after lhat to the gentlemen until bedtime. It is much frequented by the ladies, and 1 do not doubt, when combined with early rising, morning air, and exercise, with great benefit to their health. That they enjoy it extremely, I judge by their half suppressed screams and ringing laughter, which may be heard to a considerable distance, upon subjecting themselves to ‘‘the cold wa’er treatment.” Ofthe medicinal qualities ofthe mineral spring, I have not been here long enough to judge, but one who is fully com petent,* who to his ardent love of science, adds an equal love of “cold water,” assured me lately that he thought them amongst the very best he had ever visited in this country or Europe. But my principal object Mr. Editor, in this rambling “scribble,” was to say a word about the Fancy Ball, which, as the jockeys say, “came off’’ last night, according to advertise ment; it was indeed a splendid affair. Appen ded to this you have a list of those ladies and gentlemen who were in costume, with the char acter sustained LADIES. M ss E. Augusta, a Swiss Girl. M isses H. Soutli Carolina, Swiss Girls. Miss T. Augusta, Novice. Miss C. M. Augusta, Sultana. M iss F. M. Augusta, Scotch Lassie. Miss H. Washington, Shepherdess. Miss M. South Carolina, Spanish Lady, Mrs. A. Savannah, Daughter of the Regiment Miss W. Madison, Indian Squaw. Mrs. B. Augusta, Morning Star. Miss E. B. Augusta, Cracovienne. Mrs. A. South Carolina, a Bride, Miss W. Savannah, Swiss Girl. Miss A. M. Augusta, Swiss Girl. GENTLEMEN. Mr. H. Savannah, Don Coesar De Bazan. Mr. A. Savannah, a Spanish Don. Mr. H. Columbia county, Spanish Nobleman Mr. R. South Carolina, Highlander. Mr. B. Augusta, a Clown. Mr. E. L. Charleston, Grand Pacha. Mr. B. South Carolina, Grand Vizier. Mr. B. Athens, Indian Chief. Mr. W. Germany, Sailor. Mr. S. South Carolina, a Fisherman. Mr. B. South Carolina, a Fisherman. Mr, S. Alabama, Apollo. Mr. B. South Carolina, Guerilla Chief. Master H. Charleston, Swiss Peasant, aster M. Augusta, Page. All acquitted themselves w-ell. The coun try folks, male and female, came in from twen ty miles around to see the novel sight, and it was amusing to witness their astonishment. One unlucky “Cracker” thrust himself party through a window, with his eyes rivetted on a group, when the fair “Daughter of the Re giment, who had been amusing herself with Don Caesar s dagger, approached him unseen, and mischievously placed herself in the atti tude of striking at his breast; turning his eves accidentally to another group he discovered his danger, when springing back, he nearly , cleared the railing of the piazza. But this dagger, in the same fair hand, was destined to create a greater sensation a shoi t time after wards. During a dance, it accidentally came in contact with the arm of one of the poor fishermen, and “drew the claret” freely; in stantly the Daughthcr of the Regiment was in t a new character; she flew to his assistance, i bound up his wound, nor would she desert ( him for the ball room, until she saw him pre paring again to trip it with her on the light tantastic toe. Thus is it ever with woman— 1 alwa’vs.true to her instinct. No matter what character she may assume for a time, she is ever a ministering angel of mercy. So much for the Fancy Ball. And now, Mr. Editor, why should we be eternally running in a stream to the North every summer, spending immense sums of money which never return to us againr Let us all resolve to patronise our mountain region, where we are sure to meet none but friends. The Southern character is open, confiding, emi nently social. Our interests, our opinions, our habits, our very prejudices, are all South ern, We only require to be brought into con tact with these Georgians, to know and to ap preciate them. They are indeed a noble race. COLLETON. 'Rev. Dr. B of your city. Augusta, (Scorgtci. THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 23. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. FOR GOVERNOR, GEOSGE W. TOWNS. by magnetic ®dcgrapl). Reported for the Constitutionalist. ARRIVAL OF THE STE A M E R CA N ADA. SEVEN DAYS LATER NB ST3 AT HAND A despatch from our correspondent at Balti | more under date of August 22 1, evening, gives us the information that the Canada had been announced as arrived at Halifax, but no news from her had been received at New York, in L consequence of an interruption to the wares bevond Boston. 1 ' _ New York, Aug. 20, P. M. Markets. -Cotton. —The Cotton market to day is steady but not active. The sales reach j 1200 bales, at cents for Fair Uplands, and ; 11 cents for Fair Orleans. Flour - Western, $5,14 ; Corn, 60 a 62; Provisions unchanged; Sugars firm ; Coffee improving: Rice, 4 1-16 a li. Tobacco firm. Freights dull. Treasury Notes are quoted at 11 prem. Cholera. —There was 59 cases 23 deaths i bv Cholera to-daj'. The epidemic has en tirely abated at Philadelphia. 1 Gen. Taylor leaves Pittsburg to-morrow for Beaver county. He is enjoying good health. , j At St. Louis. Nathaniel Childs had undor l gone trial on the first charge of robbing the i State Bank, and was acquitted. New evidence was subsequently discovered, and a true bill 1 was found against him, and ho was bound over in the sum $30,000 dollars. New York, Aug. 21, P. M. Cotton—The Cotton market is quiet—Fair I upland quoted at and Orleans 11 cents. Sales small 61 a 63, Rice 4. , Cholera. —Seventy cases and thirty deaths 1 reported to-day. The disease has abated at Philadelphia, and in most of the western and eastern cities. Distobhances i\ Canada.—Several serious disturbances have recently occurred in Mon treal. At one of the riots the Police fired on the people, wounding numbers. A thorough revolution it was believed was now at hand, and there was great excitement. New York, Aug. 22—Evening. The steamer Crambria’s arrival at Halifax is announced, but no news yet received, —the svires beyond Boston being interrupted. Cotton. —The Cotton market is drooping, but prices are maintained. The sales to day reach 1000 bales. Breadstuff's are unchanged. Corn 61 a 63. Canada. Despatches from Montreal report that the city is in much confusion. Riots seem to be the order of the day, and several houses have been burnt. It was believed a revolution was approaching. Cholera.—The cholera was abating in Phil adelphia and most Western cities, but was ra ging in New' York. Damaciatic Victory in Tennessee, and its Causes- Less than one little year ago, Gen. Taylor carried the State of Tennessee by a majority exceeding six thousand votes. Now- the demo cratic candidate, Gen. Trousdale, is elected by a majority of about two thousand. His oppo nent was notoriously very popular—a most energetic and untiring elec ioneerer—a famous and remarkable stump orator, and the present incumbent of the gubernatorial office. Added to all this, he was an enthusiastic Taylor man, and was distinguished for his efficient exer tions in bringing forward that extraordinary no-party candidate before the American peo ple. Yet with all this prestige in favor of Gov. Brown, he w r as defeated, and in his defeat Tay lorism stood signally rebuked. How is this to be accounted for r This is the natural inquiry that rises to every lip. Even the Whigs, after recovering from thestu psr of surprize, become desirous of knowing how it was, and why it was. We will furnish from the Nashville Union. an able Democratic paper, an extract, being a portion of an editorial detailing the causes. Let the friends of Judge Hill, in Georgia, take warning. The whig papers have follow ed the policy of Neil S. Brown and John Bell. They have denounced the democratic party as disunionists and disoryanizers, because that par ty has nobly resolved not to submit to the Wilmot Proviso, and have denounced the lan guage of their resolutions, passed in Conven tion, that they would resist i; and all kindred measures “ at all hazards and to the last extrem ity,” as treasonable They have denounced all primary meetings of the people wheie similar language was used, as the language of disor ganizes and traitors:’ The vote in October in support of Governor Towns, and through him of the resolutions of the Convention, which nominated him, will proclaim that language to be |the language of patriotism, and a just regard for the rights of the South. They will find too, that the disgraceful vio lation of pledges by the President, will be re buked by the people of Georgia. The first proscription which has been put in force by this most proscriptive and partizan adminis tration, after all its anti-proscriptive, no-party professions, has shocked and disgusted the moral sense of an honest and just minded peo ple. i< Taylorism was in the ascendant in Tennes see and in the Union! And then came the hour when the people could judge by deeds instead of words ! The disadvantage of rally ing a party after so overwhelming a defeat as the democracy sustained in this State last fall, so soon after the election, was great, and, un der ordinary circumstances, it would have been insurmountable. Had the least regard been paid by Taylor to the promise ■- which preced ed his election, his paity would have been in vincible here, for the men who voted for him would have sustained him with enthusiasm. But these pledges were wickedly and in famously falsified in the very advent of the new administration. In the first hour after his inauguration, Gen Taylor trampled under his feet each one of his solemn “ no-parly ” pledges. The guillotine was erected, and its knife whetted almost before Taylor had taken his first breakfast as President, and hecatombs of victims had been sacrificed—“proscribed” —before he had taken his tenth dinner. Back to the ranks of the rallied democracy stepped each deceived ‘Taylor democrat” on ‘the in stant when that guillotine was erected, with a vow to atone to his party in redoubled de votion to its cause the Injury inflictad upon it by the temporary desertion. “ But, more than all other causes in Tennes see, Gen. Taylor, who had been supported as ‘a true friend of the South, because he lives in the South and owns slaves,’ called into hi-* councils us cabinet advisers two furious and fanatical abolitionist®, and two others, whose views coincided with those of the more moderate of the free sellers. He had thrown away the veto power by a pledge to which it was known that the northern whigs would hold him, or disgrace him. His leading friends South new- this, and they were compelled eith er to abandon him, and, with him, all hope of office, or to adopt the ‘ submission to the Wil mot Proviso’ doctrine which they knew he would carry out in practice. Under the lead of John Ball, who .wants to conciliate south ern freo-soil support, they adopted the latter alternative ; and the whigs of Tennessee woke up in amazement, on the opening of the can vass, to hear Neil S. Brown stake his election upon the issue tendered to the people by the sixth resolution ol the Democratic Couven tion, which proclaimed resistance to the Wil mot Proviso and all kindred measures at all ha zards. and to the last extremity. Neill S. Brown denounced that resolution, as leading to dis union, all over the State, and proclaimed an acre of Bunker Hill worth all the valley of the Rio Grande, although studded with dia mond-, and tilled with slaves. Upon this is sue, the people have left him almost alone in his glory. We call attention to results ! Thou sands of true friends to the South have voted for Neill S. Brown through the strength of old party attachments, and yet firmly resolved to resist when the proper time for resistance ar rives ; but thousands of others have dropped him in disgust. John Bell, the master, and Neill S. Brown, the servant,‘.have received the most signal rebuke ever inflicted upon erring master an 1 man, ami Taylorism as now practis ed, has fallen to rise no more forever, in the very seat and centre of its former power. Mystery and Romance.— The editorial un der the above title, copied from the New Or s leans I Pita, will be found interesting. It gives a graphic and condensed statement of the great abduction ease at New Orleans. Jiq d* esprit. —Wo publish a very good lyric which reads very whiggish in some re spects. It may or may not be from, a Whig pen. As we find it! in the Columbus Tunes, the presumptions are that it is written by a democrat. Whoever is the author, it is a clever production, and all except rabid whigs will be amused by it. Those who are too much of parti/ans to like it will have to lump it. Whig papers having gravely introduced thesubject of Judge Hill's habits to the pub lic, it would be hard if the democrats may not treat the subject playfully ami have their joke. Extract from an article in the August number of Hunt’s Magazine, headed “Professor Pa ge’s new Electro Dynamic Power.” The last Congress, after a careful investiga tion of the subject by a special committee, be fore whom Dr. Page exhibited his engine and drove a printing press, appropriated twenty thousand dollars for further prosecuting this discovery, under the supervision of Dr. Page, the results of whose labors will be anxiously looked for by the scientific world. We have before us a pamphlet of sixteen pages, octavo, printed on a single napier print ing press, having a bed of 24 by 51 inches, driven at the rate or 1200 impressions per hour. ******* We hail the new era with pleasure, and look forward to other achievements with the same confidence that Columbus sought a new world, or the modern philosopher a new planet; and we are happy to perceive in the little pamphlet before us, promise that we are not likely to be doomed to disappointment, for by it we learn that another brilliant invention is about to rise above the horizon which bids fair to eclipse many a minor star, and should it prove suc cessful, as the learned and tvell known inven tor anticipates, it may totally annihilate our old and long tried servant, the steam engine. If, however, it comes into successful competi tion with this giant agent, it will be glory enough for one man, and one age. \ ale College Commencement, the 149th one, took place on the 15th and 16th. There were addresses from Professors Silliman and Goodrich and Rev Drs. Lyman, Beecher, Ba con, De Witt and others. The graduating class numbered ninety-five. Forty-one received the degree of A. M. in course; four the degree of LL. 8., and one, Joseph Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut, the degree of LL. D. The oldest living graduate is Dr. Joseph Darling, of New Haven, who graduated in the class of 1777, or 72 years since. Health of Charleston —There werej ten deaths in that city for the week ending the 19th inst. —of which five were white and five blacks and colored. Virginia Legislature.—The General As sembly, which have been ia session at the Warrenton Springs for two months, closed their labors on Friday last, after having com- * nleted the revision of the code of the State. , They have made some important amendments in the laws, and directed 10,000 copies to be i | published for distribution. The St. Louis Republican ot the Bth inst., < contains a table es interments in the different public Cemeteries in that place, from the 23d April to the Gth August, from which we learn that the late epidemic at that place carried off 5,939 of its inhabitants, out of a population of less than 60,000 souls. The receipts of the New \ ork Custom House are said to be unusually large at the present time, reaching in the neighborhood of one million a week. Wednesday last, was the heaviest ever known in the custom-house annals; the deposites in the cashier's office reaching two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, an amount which exceeds, by twenty thou sand dollars, the receipts of any previous day. United States Mint —The coinage at the U. S. Mint, in Philadelphia, during the month of July, was as follows : Gold coinage $1,098, 690 Silver 28,000 Total $1,126,690 The Crops in Louisiana. —The Pointe Cou i pee Echo, of the 11th inctant, say*: “The I heavy rains we have had for some time past have materially injured the crops of both cot ; ton and cane in this parish. In passing through portions of East and West Feliciana, we ob ! served that the cotton crop was unusually j backward, and must fall much short of the i ordinary yield. What cane we saw was, on | j an averege, superior to the] cane of the iow , ; lands. The planters say it is superior to that | i of last year." The same paper adds: “The late rains have j seriously injured the crops by their long con tinuance, and induced a more sickly season than we havejjhad for years. Fevers are quite common.” The Baton Rouge Gazette, of the 11th inst., remarks : “ The weather for the last week has been favorable to the crops, although the late heavy rains have caused severe injury to the cotton and corn. The average of the latter will not be more than half an average crop, and no fodder has been gathered. The cane generally presents a fine appearance.” The St. Landry Whig says that the corn and cotton crops on Bayon Bosuf have been al ‘ most entirely destroyed by the excessive wet L j weather. The cane crop has not been much | injured. j Bem’s Announcement of his Victory.— j ! The Baltimore Sun says—The dispatch of Bam the victorious Hungarian, the Philadelphia j Bulletin thinks, ought to read, “Bern, Ban, 1 Baum”—in other words, that Bern defeated the Ban at Baum. This is probably correct ; but the wagish editor of the New York Mir ror is at a loss to tell whether it means veni, vidi, vici, or fee, saw, sum. In point of brevi ty, however, if not of beauty, it is equal to Ckesar's famous dispatch, and records a much more glorious victory—it being on the side of true liberty. The Philadelphia Sun says ; “We have learned that these words mean j 'Bent has beaten the Bin,’ at least we judge so, as Baurnos means a threshing Hail, in the iluu i garian language.” I i {Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.) New Orleans, Aug. 20 —11.09, a. m. r j On Saturday six hundred bales Cotton were ; sold. Middling quoted at 9 cents. ’ Twelve bales new Cotton, have been receiv -1 ed from Mississippi, making a total of four i taen bales, . Further returns of the Texas election indi cate that Howard will be elected to Congress over Paulding. Business in New Orleans is quite dull, and i the weather extremely hot. New Orleans, Aug. 21 —lO a. m. Nothing doing in Cotton yesterday. The asking prices are still too high for buyers. The city is perfectly healthy. Last week there were 106 interments, two of which were by yellow fever. More steamers have been chartered by the i Government to convey troops to Tampa Bay. They are to touch at Pascagoula, to take Gen. Twiggs and Staff on board. Flour has declined at New-Orleans. Com mon Western brands are quoted at $4,50 choice 5,50 to 5,75. The Northern Telegraph, as we learn, is down beyond Raleigh. From the Journal of Commerce—By Telegraph. The Romo Convention. WINDING t T P the free soil convention. Rome, Aug. 17th—10 A. M.—The Free Soil Convention assembled at 9 A. M. when the Journal was read. The Chair announced the receipt of a communication from the Con vention, which, in substance, opposed the ex tension of slavery in the territories, and con sidered the power of Congress on the subject a controverted question, &c. , Mr. Van Buren proposed a resolution to . be sent to the Hunkers, that they agree to as much of the said Resolution as expressed an ' opposition to slavery, but will not accept them as a full expression ; believe there is 1 such an agreement in favor of the principles of human freedom ; he demands a reunion of the Democracy so as to unite in one body Recommended the single State ticket at the election in the Fall. Mr. Brown said that the Hunkers had come to the grounds of the party in 1847, They had made great advancement. He urged ac tion at once in the matter. After some remarks by King, of St. Law rence, Loomis, and others, the resolution, amidst much applause, was adopted, when a recess was taken. At. 3P. M., on re-assembling, the Chair announced a receipt from the Hunkers to the effect that they had declined to adopt the Van Buren resolutions. Mr. Talcott said that as eveiy means to se- j ! cure a union of the two parties had failed, he would go no farther. Mr. King, of Saratoga, thought not. Several othei members expressed their views on the subject. Mr. Talcott moved to notify the Hunker Convention that they had no far- i ther communication to make, which was re ceived with great applause. A recess of one hour was then taken. At the appointed time the Convention re assembled. A committee of one from each Judical district was appointed to prepare the address and resolutions, and shortly after- j wards the Convention adjourned sins die. ( From the A. O. Delia.) Mystery and Romance. The late abduction trial has developed scenes, characters and incidents, that trans ceiid in mystery, in romance, in all the ele ments of a dark and involved tragedy, the wildest creations ever wove from the teem ing fancy of novelist or romancer. VS about invoking the imagination, the simple facta ot the case make up a tragedy of intense inter est, ot startling incidents, stirring narratives, and various characters. A brief sketch of these events, without exaggeration or sup pression of the main frets, will illustrate the hi**h estimate we place upon this atfair, as materials for a deep and interesting tragedy. Juan Rev is a poor turnkey in the gloomy prison ot Havana. He is a young man ot weak character, of nervous and timid tempera ment. He is entrusted with the charge ot two conspicuous prisoners one V illaverde, a patriot conspirator, who seeks the emancipa tion of his country from the Spanish yoke.— He is a scholar, full of the generous enthu siasm and patriotism natuial to a cultivated mind. Ho is the organ of a formidable or ganization. extending throughout the islands and embracing many respectable and influen tial families, whose object is to achieve the independence of Cuba. The other prisoner is a merchant, who has been unfortunate in trade, who once controlled millions, but owing to the destruction of certain large factories and other establishments, on the coast of Africa, in which he had an interest, i —bankrupted. Desirious of saving t. wreck of his fortune something with whit. commence the world, he conceals a portion ot his assets, is found guilty, and sentenced to the prison for ten years, as a fraudulent bank l Upl. These two prisoners plan an intrigue to se duce and currupt Key. Ihey finally over come Ids scruples so iar as to induce him to consent to their going out of the prison at night, and taking the rounds of the city to gether. This they do several times. At last, they persuade Rey to escape with them to the United States. They eo aboard an Ameri can ve-sel and depart for this port. Viliaverde, ! the political prisoner, apprenending danger in | New Orleans, lands at Apalachicola an 1 pro 1 ceeds to New York, where he arrives ju t m I time to hear of the untimely and mysterious 1 death of a compatriot. Machin. an agent of La Verdad, the paper devoted to Cuban inde pendence. Machin is reported to have com mitted suicide. Buc letters received from him, shortly before his death, give color to the suspicion that he died, just a ; Viliaverde feared would h ive been his fate, il he landed in New Orleans instead of Apalachicola,bv the hand of an assassin. A confession is said to have been left by him, but the confession can not be found—when the suspicions that his death was not a suicide, became current. In his letters, written a -hort time before his death, he speaks of one Liorente, as having threatened to make way with him, A he did not cease his traitorous designs at circulating La Verdad among the Spaniards. This intro duced Senor Fulgencio Liorente, who is poet, politician, and intriguer. He seeks to repair his decayed fortunes by zealous in trigues in behalf of the Cuban authorities. He undertakes the small jobs of the Spanish Consul, a gentleman oi pride and hauteur, de voted to his government, and not over-scru j pulous as to his means of can ying her wishes into effect. The Consul is a fiienJ and eleve of Munoz, the husband ut Christina, the Queen Mother of Spain. He'wishes to secure a high position in the affections of the Span ish Government, by zeal and activity in the performance of his duties as Diplomatic agent of Spain. If he can only manage to make himself a martyr in such a cause, his fortune, is made. The Consul, too, has another agent besides Liorente. He is a man of years, of siuistei aspect, and deep, designing character. This is Ayala, a Cuban, who, sixteen ye..rs ago slew liis own cousin on the highway, and escaped the garote by Hying to this city. He has property in Cuba, and the great reward he looks forward to for his efforts in behalf of the Consul, is his pardon and permission to re turn to Cuba. The two arch conspirators un dertake to hunt up Key, and either bv force or seduction induce him to return to Havana, so that he may expose the parties who aided the escape of the prisoners. These intriguants decoy Rey from the protection of the friends of his brother refugee. They place him where they can have access to him. The poor fright ened youth becomes sick and half dead with terror. He no doubt secs the dagger in the netted sheath, which Ayala always wears.— He distrusts the countenance of Liorente. In this condition, the Consul is brought to him in the character of a physician. He agrees to confess all the facts, if he is pardoned bv the Captain Ger.eial of Cuba. The pardon i's ob tained, but still some difficulty seems to ex ist. Hey acta throughout like a man deeply affected by conflicting apprehensions. It W | came necessary to u»e other means than per suasion and promises. Marie is then intro duced. He is a public man, who lives myste riously, having no apparent occupation, but who is always supplied with means, and fre quents public resorts, ready to attend to the wants of fashionable gentlemen. His talent tor executing is equal to Llorente’s for plan ning. He is, too, a stout man, of formidable aspect, and carries a large stick. He is re commended for the office by the fact that lie had been once before employed in an attempt at abduction. It was supposed that he was an adept in the science of kidnapping. He is therefore brought into the councils of Liorente and Ayala. In the meantime, the latter becones the hero of a romantic episode. He returns to Havana on some business connected with the intrigues of the Consul, When he lands, , there he is taken by some unknown person I and lodged in an aparfmerit of the Palace prison, and placed under the guard of a man with a silver-headed cane, the insignia of the police-guard. He remains there for five days, is then taken aboard and American ship, and returns safely to New Orleans. Then we have the tacts of the abduction. The departure of Rey from the house w here he had been board - ing w-ithout bidding his hospital entertainer adios —without taking any clothes with him —his going towards the levee—his drinking at a cabaret with Liorente and four other "friends,” whom Liorente introduces to him —his parting w-ith Liorente—his bei # leen just as the vessel is hauling off from thevlharf, dragged along by neck and heels by four strong levee runners, the same that were in troduced by Liorente. and pitched aboard like a bale of goods. Then we have the mysteri ous disappearance o‘‘a bank defaulter of this city, strongly resembling Rey in dress, size, and general appearance, who goes to Havana, it is suspected, by the same ship that bore Rey, and who serves to represent Rev, whilst the latter, according to rumor, is confined be low docks. And here we will suspend our narrative. The further events —those of which Havana was the scene—have not yet been* fully de veloped. e must leave them for future acts of this tragedy. What w’e have already rela ted—and they are facts which, in the the main, have not been disputed in the late investiga tion—afford abundant material for a romance which, in stirring events, dark shades, and mysterious occurrances may compare with some of the most sombre inventions of tits Italian dramatists.
