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S CUNSTWWTIONALIftI. 1
Ta(Vl£S GARDNER. JR- ,
r Stm the -V. Y. Sh>m*Z ** ' ; .
Statement of the Cotton Crop of the
ted States for t*e year endir
•Tint, I 0 - ,
, 35164
Is L- > T • • 5065
Texas.... 11356
88986
MOBILE. —1 1093797 119073:
report— To For. P0rt5...396341
Coastwise 141090
Pui nt at Mobile 400
Stock, Ist Sept., 1849.,., 5046
H 542877
Deduct— Stock, Ist Sept.,
R 23584
Kec d from N. Orleans.. 587
11
_ FLORIDA. 518706 436336
Export—To For. Ports... 79739
Coastwise 120339)
Stock. Ist Sept , 1819 ... 615 6
„ 200693
Deduct —Stock, Sept. 1, 1848,.. 507
TEXAS.
Export —To For Ports... 2495
Coastwise 36627
Stock, Ist Sept., 1849... 452 9
n „ 39574
Deduct —Stock, Ist Sepl., 1818. 747
„„ 38827 3974
GEORGIA.
Export from Savannah
To F. Ports—Uplands.2o7Q43
_ S.lslands 10622
Coastwise—Uplands 186853
Sea Islands, 938
__ 405456
from Darien —To
.V York none
Stock in Savannah,
Ist Sept,. 1849... 11500
Stock in Augusta Sc
Hamburg, Sept.,
1649 .13819
Deduct —Stock in Savan
nah and Augusta, Ist
Sept., 1848 35603
Received from Florida.. 28i)0
SOUTH CAROLINA. 391372 254825
Export from Charleston —
To F. Ports—Uplands. 2Bos7l
S,lslands id 111
Coastwise— Uplands... .163356
Sea Islands, 813
469951
Burnt at Charleston 150
Export from Oeorgetown —•
To N.Y.& Boston 3285
St’k in Charleston,
Ist Sept., 1849...23806
Deduct— Stc’k in Charles
ton, Ist Sept. 1848 14085
Received from Savannah. 17990
NORTH CAROLINA. 458117 261752
Export —Coastwise..... 10041 1518
VIRGINIA.
Export —T o For. Ports... 1406
Coastwise, and )
Manufactured (Taken > 14838
from the Ports) )
Stock, Ist Sept., 1849.... 1750
Deduct— Stock, let Sept., 1648. 444
JTotal Corp of the United States.... 2728596 2347634
Total Crop of 1849, as above ba1e5.2,728,596
Crop of last year 2,347 h 34
Crop of year before 1,778,651
Increase over last year ba1e5.3*0,962
GROWTH.
Total Crop of 1823—4 1 ales. 509.158
1824 569,249
1825 6 720,027
182*1—7 757,281
1827 720,593
1828— 9 857,744
1829 9 6.815
1831—1 1,038,848
1831—2 987,177
1332—3 1,070,439 j
1833—4 1,205,394 |
1831—5 1,254,328
1835 1,36*1,725 !
1836 1,422,930
IS3/—8 1,801,497
1e38—9 1,3**0,532
1839- 2,177,835
1840— i 1,634,945
184:—2 1,683,574
1842 2,378,875
1843 2,030,409
1 84 *—5 2,394,503 |
1845—6 2,100,537
184*:—7 1,778,051 .
1847 2,347,634 1
1848— 2,728,596 t
CONSUMPTION.
I Bales. I Bales.
Tntal crop of tire U. S., as above stated. 2728596
•Add —Stocks on hand it the commence
ment of the year, Ist Sept., 1848 :
In the Southern Ports 113471
In the Northern P0rt5........... 57997
Makes a stipp'y of 2901)064
Deduct therefrom —
The Exports to F. P0rt5..2227844
Less, Foreign included... 1122
___ >~
cs on hand Ist Sept., 1849;
In Southern Ports , '
In Northern Ports ,^26722
Burnt at Charleston »- . 72468
.... 8228 c
ud Mobile 550
Taken for Home use 51803!
Quantity cons umed by and in the hands of Manufacturers.
1847 — 531,772
IMO-7 ....427,967
iJg-i;::;::;:
}«»-*
ltt4U *.. w)95 19
•IK
wits’ 246,063
183 T 222.540
j| %zi :"”'.v:::::::::;w33
i9d.4i3
-~f _ o 173,800
!£•*«
553
f 8 ; 8 "* 120,593
4 9 »516
In our last Annual Statement, the estimate of Cotton
taken for Consumption for the year ending September 1,
1848, in the Stales South and West of Virginia, was
probably bei>w the mark—the so lowing for the past year
i» believed to be very nearly correct. The number of
Mills has increased since that lime, and is sliii increas
ing The following estimate is from a judicious and
careful observer at the South, of the quantity so con
sumed, and not included in the Receipts. Thus, m
North Carolina baleß ‘?M^
South Carolina 2o!500
Georgia * * * * i\aa
Tennessee I^ooo
Kentucky *.”!!!*.” 9,000
Ohio. iq tnn
Pittsburg, Whee mg, q'TTA
Missouri, Indiana, l.linois, ate •
Total to Sept. 1, 1849. .ba'es. 110,000
Same lime, 164 S 70,000
Virginia manufactures more than 20,000 bales, and ob
tains a portion of it by importations trom the Southern
a To N wbicUshoa r dbe added the quantity burnt to th.
Interi r. and that ost ou ns way to market i
ed to the Crop as given above, receded at the Shipping
Ports, will show very nearly the amount rdl3 *“ *
United States the past season—say, in round numb r ,
8 ItAliesefigures be under or over-rated, we request of
gent v;aen interested in the Cotton Manufacture in
the several States namod above, or of any others well in
formed on »ue subject, to furnish us more correct ones.
*** «*uantivv of new Cotton received at the Shippm B
Ports u u to lni t. amounted to about 575 ba es,
b* es last year.
sh» Sn P ll V in the above Statement from
Texa-«, are 8 state only ; a considerable portion of
theCr ‘’r/,, mlu d way to market via Red
KiT*r, and w muaucu ; ti al iNeW Orleans.
“
I FURTHER ITEMS FEg.^e
find an
Austria an*? *~ o{ ' the Algemeine j
i - asserted that Georgey,
j , -afscontented with Kossuth's
surretu e r^fsp 08et j i a3 ear iy as t j le en j
i acccWmsh the war, and that this proposal (
-**’ conveyed to Prince Paskiewdtsch, who
transmitted it to Warsaw, Upon this Prince
Schwarzenberg was invited to come to the
Polish capital; and his consent having been
obtained, the memorable council of war was
held in Arad, on the 11th of August, in which
Georgey and the officers of his party insisted
upon Kossuth resigning his dictatorship in
favor of Georgey. The surrender was the
3 consequence of that act.
The Vienna papers publish the two follow
ing proclamations :
“Kossuth to the Nation.
“After the disastrous battles which have
taken place within the last few days, we can
no longer have any hope of carrying on the
war ot self-detence with success against the
great force which the allied Austrians and
Russians have br ought i nto the field. Under
these circumstances, tLe present and luture
salvation of the nation, can only be looked for
the hands of the leaders of its armies: and
it is my firm persuasion that the longer dura
tion ot the present Government would not only
be useless, but even detrimental. I therefore
announce to the nation that, instigated by that
pure, patriotic feeling which induces me to
dedicate my every measure and my whole life
to my native country, I for myself, and in the
name of the whole Ministry, lay down the
reins ot government, and invest General Ar
thur Georgey with the supreme civil and mili-
tary powers, as long as the nation shall not
make use of its right to dispose of them in
another manner. I expect from him tnat he
will employ the power vested in him, as far
as in his power lies, to preserve the national
and political independence of our poor father
land, as well for the present as the luture, and
lor this I, before God, make him responsible to
Jlhe nation and to history'. May he love his
country as disinterestedly as 1 have done, and
may he be more fortunate in securing the hap
piness of the nation than I have been!. My
actions can no longer he of service to my coun
try, but it my death could be ot advantage to
it, I would willingly sacrifice my Ife. May
the God of justice and mercy be w ith the na
tion.
“LOTIS KOSSUTH, Governor.
“B AR THOLOM E \V SYE MERE,
Minister of the Horne Department.
“SEBAbIIAN \ LKO\ ICH, Minister
of Justice.
“LADISLAUS CSANYI, Minister of
public Works.
“MICHAEL HOWATH, Minister of
Ecciesia>tical Affairs.”
It is worthy of remark that the style of the
original document is infinitely inferior to the
former productions of Kossuth’s pen:
“OEOUGEY TO THE NATION.
“Citizens, — Ihe Provisional Government
has ceased to exist. The Governor and the
Ministers have voluntarily retired from their
offices and the Government. Under auen
circumstances a military dictatorship is indis
pensable, and this, with the civil power, 1 pro
visionally take into my hands. Citizens! what
can be done in such an afflicting position tor
our fatherland I will do, either sword in hand
or by pacific means, but, at al! events, so that
fewer sacrifices may be required, and that per
secution, cruelty and murder may cease.
Citizens! the circumstances are so extraordi-
nary, and the blows of fate so heavy, that any
fixed plans for the future are impossible. My
only counsel and wish is,that you retire to yr
homes, and take no snare either in re»is f u *
or conflict, even it the enemy should or tfci a
town which you inhabit, as the pro h ja 5 U V t . n *,'
that you can only find safety hr y oursei } l *
and your property, by remai- lllng m
homes, and pursuing your w , Ual avocations
Citizens! whatever lot GoJ, m his inßcrutable
will, has destined for ’as, we will bear with
manly fortitude, m the blissful conviction that
the just cause cannot be lost for ever. Citizens’
may God be with us.
“ARTHUR GEORGEY ”
H, Th f e n V,oner Z r un * ot the 24th « Polishes
the following official explanation of the man- l
ner m which General Georgey’s surrender waa 1
brought about: 1
“During Georgey’a retreat, and after hr
feat at \V attzen, ne made repeated „ete- ■. I
treat, as well with the Russian s de ‘
diger and Tscheodajeff, as w fth \\v ' npt * to
Warsaw, but as his rnissßv. - ’ J [ aLS Ku ’
wish tor an intervention - o' ” Prince ol
not an unconditional nly expressed u
taken ql ihpirn v ° a pacification, and ;
letter ws,s, o' 3 " urr ender, no notice was
Arad, to Da the Hth mst., however, a
deci p by Georgey, from Alt
»- General liaron Rudiger, in which he
..red that, in consequence of the dissolu-
tion of the Hungarian Provisional Govern
ment, he found himself called upon to lake a
decisive step, and had therefoie determined
to surrender at discretion. He further stated
that he, as well as the ofiicers and soldiers of
the.army corps under his command, was pre
pared to surrender to the arm)' of Ills Majesty
the Emperor of Russia. Georgey also expressed
his conviction, that the chief of the other corps
would follow his examp e and tender their j
submission. Although the hopeless position !
of Georgey’s troops, who after being repeatedly
beaten by the Russian troops, were closely
pursued by them on the one hand, and by the
Austrian Commander-in-Ciiief,Baron Haynau,
on the other, left no doubt that the speed)
disarmament or annihilation ot Georgey s
corps must take place; still, the Prince ot
Wersaw, moved by the wish to prevent un
necessary bloodshed, and to save a part of the
Austrian States from the further ravages of
war, consented to accept the offer of uncondi
tional surrender made by Georgey and the
troops under his command. General Rudiger
accordingly received immediate instructions to
surround the enemy’s forces, and to disarm
them. The 138 guns, ammunition, horses,
weapons, and military stores taken Irom Geur
eey’s army, were deposited at Gross-wardein,
where they were taken possession of by the
Austrian troops. The Prince of Warsaw has
also taken necessary steps for speedily deliver- I
ing over the insurgents, who are at present
guarded in their camp by the Russians, and
placing them at the disposal of their 1 ege lord,
Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph."
(PER ETJROPA.)
[Correspondence of N. T Journal of Commerce.]
Liverpool, Aug. 31st. —On the arrival of
the last steamer with continued unfavorable
recounts ot the growing crop, a speculative
enquiry for cotton sprung up, causing a slight
advance in prices, but the demand trom the
trade having in no wav responded, the mar
ket again became unusually depressed and in
some instances sales were made at a decline
of fully Ja i per lb. The accounts from In
dia received yesterday being considered fa
vorable, the market rallied, enabling holders
partially to recover what they had lost in the
early part ot the week, thereby placing the
| official quotations at the same point as in our
last circular, though it would be still difficult
to realize them. Fair Uplands and Mobiles
s|, and middling of a 5-id. per l_b. The sales
tor the week are estimated at 35.800 bales, of
which speculators have taken 99-50 and ex- !
porters 5100 bales. The American descrip
tions sold consist of 8500 Upland at 5 a o| ; ;
14 100 Orleans at 4| a
Mobile at 41 a o|, and 500 Sea Island at 9* a i
per lb. The block in this port is esti 1
-*ated at 613,000 bales, of which 462,000 is
American, against a stock at this time last
year of 5-39,000 bales, of which 420,000 was
American. The total import is 1,494.000, of
which 127,000 bales, is American.
The continuance of fine weather and the
prospect ol a most abundant harvest have
caused much dullness in our corn market,
flour having declined 6d. to Is. per bbl. du
ring the week, with a very limited demand.
Baltimore and Ohio are quoted at 235. 6 a
245. per bbl.; old Western at 235.; uninspect
ed and heated, of which quality the late im
portations principally consist, 19s. a 19s. 6d.
per bbl. Indian corn continues quiet at 25
a 265. per quarter of '4BO lbs. for mixed and
sel low, and 2,5. Gd. a 28s. for prime white.
W heal ss. ass. 9d. per 70 lbs. do
ing in turpentine.
Hathe, Aug. 29.— Cotton.— The considera
ble advance in prices signalized in our last
Review, has made further progress since re
ceipt of the advices from the United States,
per steamer Europa. The reports of rain
and short crop, which, it is said, will throw'
back the exports for the coming year, added
to the high rates in all the American markets,
have engaged speculators here, as well as in
Liverpool, to make further purchases, and on
Wednesday, 4,000 bales were realized, a:. 1 on
Thursday, 2,000 bales; but on Friday and
Saturday, owing no doubt to the important
rise which has taken place during the last
fortnight, and a hich cannot be less than 7 to
8 tr., buyers appear to reflect and abstain
trom further transactions, consequently on
tnese days the sales only reached from S to
900 bales. On Sunday, we received the Liv
erpool circulars, announcing a certain flat
ness in that market, and sales not so impor
tant as were expected, with a rise of only Jd.
instead of which wms reported in the com
mencement of the week, also the enquiry
here has slacked considerably, and is confined
merely lo the strict wants of consumption.
The sales on Monday only reached 450 baies,
t»nd yesterday 499 bales. W e have received
1,522 hales by Alfred, and w’e only expect 10
ships from the States, of which 8 ‘ are cotton
laden vessels, including the regular packets
Loin Nsw y ork, and our stock is estimated
U .000 bales, as per statement annexed.—
The following were the sales effected, viz
4201 ’-ales New Orleans, 69 a 91 f.: 2355 Mo
bile, 73 a 90f.; 1532 Upland, 77 a 90f. The
imports during the same period amount to
1622 bales. Keal stock this day, 41,310 bale*.
ot which 40,659 were American.
Price of United States short staple Cotton, act ai d
ing to the Havre classification.
Upland, Tr-b. 72 ; Bas. 79 ; Tr-o. 86 ; Old. 90;
B-or.i. 93.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
The N. Y. Courier & Enquirer of the 13th
inst., con.ains the following highly impor
tant u.telhgence contained in. a telegraphic
dispatch, dated London, S*pt. p. Mr
Hungary.
Cow rn has capitulated. The Austrian Min
ister ot War >ntered the fortress on the 25th.
I n- C')U ..ry oi the Waag is entirely evacua
ted by trie Hunyur tans,
Kossuth is positively said to have left Arad
for England, on the Wth in u , the Hunga
rian Crown jewels.
p Trance.
v.vis, rrtj jy mormn g. —The permanent
committee r .r the Legislative Assembly ir t
lor tne r , ° . . ward
20;r . conv v allollof the on the
* * pteniher, as it was would be
~e case-the Assembly mil c u ntly
meet as origmahy hxed. on r ne ljt J ctober .
Ciener a o/hangarmer attF „ . , ~
° , -tided the meeting
ot the committee yesterd ... „„ A „„„ „ 5
tavoraol. report of the p , , tr - v
perfectly tranquil. °' wh ‘ ch “
A sec ond edition of the Cologne Gazette
r*! 1; Grand Unite Mieh.l
Ot Austria. He died of apopß. xy .
_ Italy
i ISOVBLE BETWEEN X l ' ‘
-Letters from Tou» France.
the arnvai there on -.ilh, mention
Veechia. It -of two couriers from Civita
tween the r was said that tne relations be
were r- x- rench and the authorities at Rome
the at at ail friendly, and that the issue of
* negotiations at Gaeta, would perhaps bat-
all calculation. The Homan population
and the French army were, however, on ex
cellent terms, and the French office s did not
conceal their disgust at the conduct ol tire
Pontifical Government.
The promises of the Pope were of a very
va iT ue character. It was believed at Civita
Yecchia that the Pope would at last go to
Cologne, and remain under the protection of
the Austrians, Neapolitans and Spaniards.
The number of sick at Home was considera
ble, and the hospitals were crowded. Two
hospitals at Toulon had received 1,000 sick
bet a een them, proceeding from Civita Yec
chia, and it would be necessary to establish
more hospitals.
Their batteries of siege artillery that had
been ordered back to Home, were counter
man led, and it was said that there was no
intention of reducing the expeditionary army,
and that it was impossible to assign a term
to the occupation of Home by the French.
The Times has received letters ot the 23d
i from its correspondent at Naples. The city
was perfectly tranquil. The new Cabinet
was proceeding to wise and moderately liberal
i principles, and a fair promise is held out that
the Constitution will be renewed as soon as
the north of Italy and the dominions of the
Pope had order restored to them.
The King and the Pope were expected at
Naples from Gaeta, and the Palace at Porticia
was being fitted up for the occasion of the lat
ter.
Latest Commercial Intelligence.
American Stocks. —There is but little in
quiry for American securities, and prices not
sustained.
Paris Money Market, Aug. 31.—The
Bourse continues.active, and the transaticons
| considerable.
Liverpool Cotton Market, Sept. 1. —The
market has opened with quietness, but is at
! the same nine steady; and holders insist upon
obtaining the quotations declared by the com
mittee o£ brokers yesterday, namely, for
I fair Mobile and Uplands, and s|d. for fair
Orleans. At the present hour we cannot es
■ timate the probable sales of to-day.
Liverpool Corn Market, Sept I.— The
weather continues all that could be desired for
securing the grain crops. The market, there
i fore, is still languid, and very little business
is going forward in any article of the trade.
Prices continue to have a declining tendency.
London Corn Market, Sept. I—ll1 — 11 A. M.—
This market continues to be dull and languid
in the extreme. There is hardly a transaction
going forward in either English or foreign
wheat, and prices are only nominal; indeed,
to effect sales, a decline on Monday’s prices
won dbe accepted. Barley, oats and beans
are neglected. Nothing passing in flour or
Indian corn. The yield of the new wheat is
most favorably spoken of.
Manchester Gc ds and Yarn Market,
Sept. Ist.—The market, which was dull and
inanimate during the early part of the week,
improved on the receipt of the Overland news,
) To-day there is more activity, and holders
1 both of Yarns and Cloths are firmer in their
I operations, whilst the demand for export has
! increased,
GolsuoW. — We have letters from th is city,
! dated last night, which inform us that the Pig
i [ iron market is without any change, and that
t ! little business was going forward. The nominal
i price is quoted at 44s Gd for round numbers,
f Cotton continues quiet, but holders are rather
firm as to price. Goods and Yarns w r ere in
; fair request, at full prices.
; i Havre Cotton Market, Aug. 30.—The mar
, i ket is not active, and but. little done since
- i yesterday’s report.
‘ Til E CONST i T UTIONALIST.
dngnsta, (seorgia.
TUESDAY MORNiIMG, SEPT. 18.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
FOR, GOVERNOR,
GEORGE W. TOWNS.
Elec lion Tickets.
Neatly’ printed, will be furnished from this
office at 50 cent? per 100, when ordered by the
600, or at $4 per 1000. All orders must be
accompanied by the cash.
£n Imposition-
On tlic 10th inot. we received the following
letter from Charleston, accompanied by an ad-‘
vertisement inserted on the 11th,headed “Res
toration of the Hair."
Charleston, Sept. 9th, 1819.
Dear Sir :—I intend visiting your city
without fail, on the 15th instant, at which
time I will have finished my engagements here.
I send you the annexed advertisement which
I wish inserted in your paper, in order that I
may have the names of all those who wish to
employ’ my services in my voca’ion. as I do
not intend to ’make my stay in your place
longer than six or eight days, that being the
farthest time requisite to have the desired ef
fect, I will not receive any more names after
that date, as I might be unsuccessful, not hav
ing sufficient time to experiment before leav
ing. I have never failed but in two cases, and
these, one of them a very aged person, the
other not allowing me time to experiment.
Yours, M. WISE,
of Rockingham County, Va.
As it had the appearance of a genuine let
ter, and the thought never struck us that
there lived a scoundrel, so base and wanton,
as to commit a forgery of Mr. Wise's name,
we published it and complied with his request,
in filling up the blank left with the “ Consti
tutionalist office.”
A number of our citizens, who stood r
of Mr. W ise’s services, have placed th
_ , , .eir names
on the list, and many others wop ,
the same, had the teams, be*' * A ave °" e
will be a great dis.appcin.br - J s P c<^ lUe< * *
, „ • mnt to them, and
we are sorry that. uuinii«- r , ,
- , .itlv, we have been the
means or eating- th»' * .
vir , , . disappointment.
A e been tr , 1 . .
, } ~ . aposed on, and the scoun
drel resides m t
* uarleston, trom the post mark
of the letter. , . . . .
. We will send the original to a
friend the acquainted with the hand
c i t j zen3> and we will willingly
a reward of FIFTY DOLLARS for the
of the author, not that we would
take legal measures of him, for such a rascal
would be honored by confinement in a Peni
tentiary. Our only object in wishing to dis
cover the author, is that we may hold him up
to the world, so that travel where he will, the
brand he would bear on his forehead would
be sufficient to point him out to rogues as
well as honest men.
The following despatch, revealing the for
gery, came to hand yesterday morning. It
bears date—
Richmond, Ya., Sept. 17.
Editor Constitutionalist : —We are authorized
by Mr. \\ ise to say, that the advertisement in
your paper over his name is a forgerv.
(Signed) EDITOR REPUBLICAN.
Direct Importation-
Among the consignees per ship Harriet &
Jessie, arrived at Charleston from Liverpool,
we notice the firm of A. W. & W. P. Car
michael, of this city; by ship Elizabeth
Bruce, from same port, the names of J. & S.
Bones & Co., and A. W. & W. P. Carmichael.
High Doties Make Low Prices-
This fraudulent and swindling proposition,
intencfiii to cheat people into the support of
high protective tariffs, for the benefit of the
manufacturing capitalists of the country, is
thus refuted by a whig piper.
We find it copied into the editorial columns
of the Chronicle $ Sentinel, which thereby ex
hibits how much it cares for the interests of
the people, in comparison with the interests of
the American iron masters.
The iron Manufacture.—How much the
iron interest is suffering in this country by
foreign competition, says the Philadelphia
North American, may be judged by’ the fact
stated by the Albany Eoening Journal, that
the Directors of the Hudson River Railroad
Company have actually paid to Peter Cooper,
Esq., of Trenton, the large bonus of $54,000
for permission to retire from a contract enter
ed into with them lor rails. The contract was
made for $67-50 a ton, but since the English
rails are ottered in the market in unlimited
j quantities, itt about S4O per ton. the company
, had it profitable to pay Mr. Cooper $54,000 to
i render the contract with him a nullity, and
then turn, around and buy English iron. Ame
rican iroii masters cannot live in the face of
such competition. A contract for a parcel of
British railroad iron has been made at $37.50
per ton, delivered at New Orleans.
These lordly owners of iron mines, would
be masters indeed, and would rule the people
with rods of iron, if tiTc whigs could get the
power and establish their protective _jg-v
1 ; policy in this country. They would protect
| these iron masters in extorting from the people
two and three prices for the iron they use.—
j Hoes, axes, nails, horse shoes, trace chains,
pots and ovens, and railroad iron are doubt
less too cheap entirely for Whig notions. The
’ people should not be allowed to get cheap iron
L from England, our great customer for our
, cotton. Notwithstanding three thousand
i miles of ocean roll between us and the British
| | iron mines—notwithstanding the expenses of
i transportation to the sea-ports, and the va-
I rious charges of loading, unloading, and pro
-1 fits of merchants added on, and on the top of
1 i all this a tariff duty of thirty pet cent, ad
’ valorem, the American iron master com
s plains that he has not got protection enough
■ ■ —that iron is still too cheap. The Whig pa
‘ pers talk mournfully of how “ the iron inter
est is suffering in this country by foreign competi
' tion. ”
Is it not better that the “ iron interest should
t suffer by being compelled to take the fair mar
ket price for what it has got to sell, than that
all the people of this country should suffer by
being compelled, by unjust laws, to pay to that i
interest double prices ?
We see no hardship or injustice in our peo- j
pie and railroad companies being allowed to ;
! buy English iron for $37 50-IGO per ton, in
stead of being compelled to pay the American
iron master $67 50-100 per ton. If the latter
cannot do a living business by selling as cheap
as our people can buy from others, let them try
some other business. In this country, every
body can live if they will work, without the
help of the government to legislate money in
to their pockets.
Thl*eubject is worthy the attention of our
citizens interested in railroads. It behooves
them to show, by their votes, whether they
sanction a policy, and will give power to a par
ty whose object is to force up the prices of iron
in order to benefit comparatively a few' per
sons in Pennsylvania and Maryland—a policy
which would tax our people tens of millions
of dollars a year, and at the same time cut off
our government revenue —a policy which aims
to drive off the best customer the South has
for her cotton, W'hich England takes in ex
change for what she sells us. Exclude her
iron, by prohibitory tariffs, and England is
made less able to buy our cotton and pay us
good prices.
The Pardon of Robert Burns.
It is the policy of the whigs to keep the de
mociatic press employed in defending the pre
sent Executive of Georgia from, petty and fri
volous charges, trumped up at the last mo
ment to answer a transient purpose. They
thus seek to divert its enemies from the proper
advocacy of the great principles of democrat*'
policy, and the exposure of the corrupt an( j
wicked designs of whiggery—its reckf . ss £ ac .
tiousness—its anti-republican tende’ uc i es _its
only half disguised sympathies wit* l European
despotism under the name o.V congervatism ,
which in both hemispheres, ha , a kindred
meaning and puru, 08e _ a nd m.ore than all. they
thus aim to < uVert the popular attention from
whig tvp ac hery to Southern rights.
.ese reflections occurred to us with double
ji ce, when a correspondent of the Chronicle
,x Sentinel sprung the question of Burns’ par
don upon the public. Whether it be agreea
ble to the friends of the lamented dead thus
to drag the bloody corpse of one w-hose spirit
now rests in peace, into the turbulent arena
of politics, is, perhaps , better known to “Au
gusta” and the Editor of the Chronicle & Sen
tinel, than to us. We are as well prepared
as that paper can be to discuss the merits of
that tragical affair, by which Eiward Collier
lost his life, and would not shrink from doing
so if we imagined that such a discussion would
be acceptable to this community. We con
ceive it, however, to be more consonant to the
public taste, more regardful of its quiet, and
more respectful to that tribunal of justice
which decided upon the degree of guilt in
volved in that lamentable transaction, to
discuss that question in the spirit that prompt
ed the following solemnly beautiful lines :
‘•No farther seek his merits to disclose.
Or draw his liailties from their driad abode,
There they alike in trembling hope repose.
In the bosom of his Father and his God.’'
But the propriety of the pardon of Burns is
sustained upon other grounds, submit
some documents connected with it, which we
have taken the pains to procure from the Ex
ecutive Department.
The first, is an Executive Order, issued by
his Excellency George W. Crawford—an order
prompted alike by considerations of humani
ty, justice and policy.
The Second, is the recommendation of the
Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary, which
of itself would go far to show the propriety ot
the pardon.
The third, is a Petition signed by gentle
men of unsurpassed respectability, of both po
litical parties, and not liable to be influenced
to sanction in advance a wrong step by the
Governor—gentlemen whose social virtues and
high standing gave a strong claim upon the ear
of the Governor, and a w eight to their petition
which no additional accumulation of names
could materially have increased.
Executive Department, Ga, >
Milledgeville, 14th Dec.. 1844. )
To A. W. Redding, P. K. P.:
It appears proper that in relation to such
convicts in the Penitentiary, whose conduct
has been orderly while in confinement, and
justify the belief that they may be safely re
stored to society nvith all their civil privileges
unimpaired.
It is therefore ordered, that the Principal
Keeper of the Penitentiary be required to re
port ail such cases, just preceding the expi
ration of the sentences by which such cop .
victs are imprisoned, to the end that pard on 3
may be granted in all cases in which £ x .
ecutive may interfere.
Georgia Penitentiary >
Office of Principal Keeper, Jan. 221*,, 1849. (
His Excellency G. W. Towns :
Sir Agreeably to Executive Order of the
14th December, 1844, I hereby certify to you,
that the conduct of Robert Burns, a convict
in this institution, has been obedient, orderly,
industrious, and exemplary, since lie has fall
en under my observation—and I cheerfully
recommend him as worthy to receive the bene
fit of said Executive order.
WM. W. WILLIAMSON, P. Keeper.
Milledgeville, Jan. Ist, 1849.
His Excellency Geo. W. Towns :
Sir. ihe undersigned ask leave respect
fully to so’icit your attention to the case of
Robert Burns, confined at present in the Pen
itentiary ot this State. The officers of the In
stitution ascribe to him a course of conduct
the most exemplary, since his imprisonment,
Having been employed to work on the man
sions ot several ot us,we have been furnisaed,
. by actual observation,with an insight into the
traits ot his character, and find him possessed
of qualities of head and heart elevated far be
yond the level of a common felon—qualities
P thr t fit him for the duties of an active, useful,
and honorable life.
We represent to your Excellency that his
imprisonment has been long, trying, and borne
with manly fortitude. For two years he was
incarcerated," previous to his trial—and he is
now completing the third of his confinement
in the Penitentiary. Is it not time for mercy
■ to interpose, and the small remainder of his
punishment ?
We assure your Excellency, in making •
application in behalt of an unfortunate man"
who has suffered severely the vengeance of
the law, we are influenced by no other motive
than to see restored to society and to use
fulness an intelligent and honorable citi
zen. We sincerely believe that his future
life and conduct will be such as to leave noth
ing to be regretted by us who solicit,nor you,
; that may confer, the boon of his pardon.
To a mind constituted like his, five years
condemned to pine in a forced, unnatural com
munion with low born profligacy and vulgar
vice,is a punishment more grievous than wonitf
be fifty to one of an opposite texture.
Considering the purpose ot justice answer
ed by the punishment already borne, we do
respectfully unite in imploring from your Ex
cellency his favorable consideration and
don, to obtain which we approach in this nun.
ner the seat where mercy is presumed to
dwell.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servants,
Peter Fair, John W. Baker,
P.' M. Compton, Geo. W. Kimball,
Harper Tucker, D. M. Edwards,
E. 11. Pierce, Allen Little,
A. M. Nesbit, T. D. Edwards,
I). E. Both well, K. L. Hunter l
Matt. C. Butts, W. A. Mobi,
Otis Childs, J. W. A. Sanford.
Without being sufficiently acquainted with
the facts and reasoning of che foregoing peti
tion to warrant our signing it as a whole, we
unite with the petitioners in their request for
his pardon and release from the remainder o.
his imprisonment.
Win. B. Tinsley* B . p. Stubbs,
M. Grieve,
I. I". Green * I). (j Campbell.
In compliance *,vith this petition, and with
the recommend of the Principal Keeper
of the Penitentiary, Robert Burns received the
Executive Pardon, and was discharged on the
a of last January'.
Gov. Towns on Taxation.— The manner in
which Gov. Towns has conducted the admin
istration of the State Government is often
made a subject ot congratulation by his friends
and supporters. They even speak of him as a
“ financier Whether he is deserving of praise
or censure for the acumen he has displayed in
the management of our financial affairs, is a
matter of easy elucidation. We have demo
cratic authority for saying, he had it repre
sented to the House of Representatives, dur
ing the last session of the Legislature, that t <,e
then existing Tax Act was inadequate; that
it would fall short by at least forty thousand
dollars of raising the necessary means 1 < r the
support of the Government for the fi cal year
of 1848, and that he therefore recommended the
rate of taxes to he increased 25 per cent. — Sav.
Republican, I! 2th inst.
Will the Savannah Republican furnish its
readers with its “ democratic authority ” for the
above statement ? We deny that Governor
Towns “recommended the rate of taxes to hr
increased 25 per cent,” We would like to
know the name of the Republican’s democratic
informant. No such recommendation wa
evei made.
The Whig Party and Gov. Towns
The whigs must be hard run lor mater, U s, as
they catch up every idle rumor and put it a .
float as a fact, if they think make po
litical capital out of it. The fountain Eagle,
seems selected for the starting post. The small
iry, publish its articles, sometimes without
giving credit, but all the respectable whig
journals are very particular in their credit*,
and some of them publish the articles from
that paper with a bad, grace, and stick it elfin
one corner.
We saw going t\ie rounds, in whigs papers, a
day or two agr,, a story about a Mr. William
Graham, a G m Maker, who was pardoned by
Governor Towns, and afterwards taken to his
plantation in Talbot. There, it is said, he
worked for his Excellency some months at the
rate ol S;2O a month,"and after he got through
with the Governor’s work,his Excellency sent
him adrift without paying him for his servi
ces.
Mr. "W illiam Graham, the person alluded to
above, called on us yesterday, and reoyuested
us to give the story a flat denial. He says the
Governor acted like a gentleman and paid him
full compensation for all the service s render
ed by him.
e hope those whig papers who have done
Gov. I owns injustice by circulatin g the report
will have the magnanity publish, the above.
Barnburner* Co*fVKM" 1 - lOlf , Union of (D
Democrats IbeConve ia tion of the Free Soil
division of the Deraoc- :&ts of New York, as
sembled at ITtica, has e adopted the proposals
tor a union tenderer , to them by the Syracuse
Convention, and hr mceforward they will again
move together one body. Ihe convention
then nominated the following candidates:
For Judge of Appeals, Freeborn C. Jewett;
for Secrotary- of State, Henry J. Randall; for
S.tace treasurer, Benjamin Welch, editor of
, the Buffalo Republican ; and for State Engi
neer, A.ie?.ander Campbell, of Albany. The
remai nde r of the ticket is to be nominated by
the Old Hunkers.
Governor French, of Illinois, has published
a proclamation convening the Legislature ot
that State on the 22d of October next, for the
purpose of electing a United States Senator.
The Governor also announces, as additional
reasons for this extra session, various other
matters of important domestic interest.
The Post Office Department announces th; ( 1
the next mails for Chagres, Panama, Monte
rey and San Francisco, will be despatched by
the government steamship Ohio, from New
York, on the 20th instant; from Charleston,
S. C., on the 23d, in the morning; from Sa
vannah, Ga., on the 23d, in the evening ; and
from New Orleans by the steam packet Fal
con, on the 6th of October next.
The Hon. Geo. Bancroft, late Minister to
Great Britain, and family, have returned to
Boston in the steamer Europa, just arrived
there.
By a letter from St. Augustine, dated 13tb
inst., we learn that the steamer Nina, Capt.
Magee, had just arrived from the Miami#
where she had been to land some troops. No
thing important had transpired since the last
dates in that part of the Peninsula, except the
burning of a few houses by the Indians.
• When about twenty miles to the North of
Indian River, the Nina experienced a heavy
gale of wind, which she rode out without the
slightest accident. She was expected to leavs
St. Augustine immediately for Palatka.