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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.! JAMES GARDNER, JR. TERIMS Daily, per arm .........JHOO Tri-Weekly, per annum .......6 00 If paid v iince... ..................... .5 00 Week ■ , per annum, it paiil iu advanceoo i'ue»e i.fisfi are offered to new subscribers and all old subscribe! i >v uu pay up all arrearages. In no case will the weekly paper be sent at unless the money 'rcccnnvanies the order. In no case will it be sent at $2,00 to au old sub scriber in arrears. (O'When tne year paid for at 32,00 expires, the piper, if not discontinued, or paid for iu advance, will be sent on me old terms, $2.50 jf paid at tha Office within the year, or #3,00 if paid after the expiration of the year. (O'f’ostage mast be paid on all communications and letters of business. [Frow the N T . O. Delta 13 th tus£.j The Cotton Crop. We are in the constant receipt of innumera- i ble letters from the country, particularly from the States of Mississippi, Alabama and Texas, lamenting the bad prospects of the cotton crop, and the destructive ravages of the boll-worm. We shall be compelled, in future, to note the contents of those letters as briefly as possible, unless our country friends will condense their information into the smallest possible compass. The two following letters, however, coming from the centres of two important cotton growing portions of the country, as from very reliable sources: The Ouachita Country- The River Ouachita the Hudson of Louisiana. The Country - Cotton Crop — Emigration — Value of Lands. Monroe, (La.) September 10, 1849. Editors Della: Though personally a stranger to you, I am not to your valuable and widely circulating paper, and have a great desire to make it the medium of a communication on the beauties and advantages of this lovely re gion of our State. I am induced to do this be cause, though your paper is the paper in this part of the world, it has not, as yet, amid its great variety of interesting intelligence, tavor ed its inurnerable readers with any descriptions of the Ouachita country. The river Ouachita, which gives its name to the country watered by it, may, at this mo ment, be compared to the Hudson, so famed for the beauty of its scenery. The bed of the river is filled to the brim, and the banks are covered with rich and beautiful foliage, that extends its shade, and protrudes its branches some distance over the stream. Now and then you may see a large tract of opened land, with a delightful little cottage in the middle of a large cotton-field, from whose portico some in dependent planter, surrounded by a happy family, is surveying nis broad acres, now hung in gloom and desolation by the destructive ravages of the worm, and the ruinous effects of tne incessant rains. ine Omchita is now inline navigable condition, and is fall ing slowly. W r e have four packets plying be tween vou’ - city and Camden; Isay Camden, but the Captain of the steamer Exit, which is now at our landing, informed me that it w’as dangerous to attempt to approach nearer than ten miles to the latter place. Many persons labor under the erroneous im pression that this is not a healthy country; that fever and ague are prevalent among our people. s,This is a greater mistake. No country can be healthier than this, nor could there be one which presents great advantrges for the domestic market. We have beautiful pine hills at the distance of tw'o or three hours’ ride from town, where the coolest spring waters abound, and game of all sort is plentiful. Plan ters in this region often go into their orchards to shoot deer. This, 1 assure you, is no Maun chausen story, but a literal truth. Our soil is unequaled in the Union. Emigrants are flocking in here to settle west of the Ouachita, and yet there are still thou sands of acres of public lands, on which cot ton and corn would grow admirably, if cul tivated. These lands can be had at the low government price of $1 25 per acre. In ten or fifteen years they will be worth from S3O to SSO per acre. From October to February, emigrants pass through this place daily from Mississippi Alabama, and some other southern States. Last winter I saw as many as twenty three wagons of emigrants awaiting at the ferry in this town at one time; and as the ferry is worked by hand, a wagon is sometimes kept waiting two days before it can cross. You will gee a specimen of the production of our Ouachita land on the steamer Exit. It is a stock of cotton, over eight feet high, and the bolls on it are innumerable, and whilst a great many are open, there are yet blossoms on it. Stock is raised here with great facility. A twelve hundred pound ox has been butchered at this place for market. Our swamps afford an immense quantity of timber, which adds greatly to the value of the country. Large quantities are taken down this river for the ■outhern portion of the State. It is carried through the various bayous that permeate every portion of the State. The Ouachita country, by which 1 mean all the parishes which border on this river, is becoming a great cotton growing country. Not less than 9,000 bales were raised here last season, which was a large increase on the year before. This year the crop will be smaller on account of the unfavorable weather and other causes. Persons can go from here by land to the popular Hot Springs of Aarkansas, in a few days. The road is a good one all the way for carriages. The immense curative value of those springs is well known, and justly appre ciated throughout the Union. The U. S. District and Supreme Courts will meet at this place next fall, when lawyers will come from every part of the State. They will find the McEnery in fine order to receive all who visit our town. Considerable dissatisfac tion exist here on occount of the suspension of business in the office of the land Receiver, the gentleman who was appointed not heaving given his security, and his predecessor having no power to act. This g.ves great trouble and dissatisfaction to planters, and exposes them to the danger of losing the land they want. Your friend, O’TOOLE. The Cotton Crop in Mississippi- Liberty, Sept. 3, 1849. Eds. Della: Permit me, through the columns of your widely-circulating journal, to com mnnieate a tew facts, to those whom it may concern, in relation to the prospects for a cot ton crop in this and the adjacent counties. Many may perhaps be led to suppose that this year will yield as large a crop as usual, but, so far as this portion of the cotton-growing region is concerned, they are most egregiously mistaken. In the first of the season, when a majority of the planters had sown almost all their seed, we were visited with a severe frost, which destroyed a great portion of the plants that had emerged above the surface ol the earth. Then followed the rains, which were go incessant that it was, and has been, utterly impossible to prevent the grass and weeds from almost swallowing up the meagre prospects left by the destroying frost. But the greatest had not yet come. About the first of August, and in some farms earlier, the bore worm (by some called boll worm) made its ap arance. fi rs t, it seemed content at des troying the forms and younger bolls; but it has increased in size and audacity, until now, I even the full grown bolls are being destroyed by them, thus leaving the naked weed, a> a memento that it was once intended as a great means of wealth and lucre; hut now it is strip ped of all its charms, and stands forth as any other wil dplant of the forest. I have been informed by many experienced p’anters. that the damage is a great deal worse than that , sustained from the ravages of the real “army worm." To conclude, there is no one can estimate i any thing near what amount of cotton will be made. As far as I can ascertain, 1 have no hesitancy in saying, that an averaged ne thircl of a crop is as much as can be expected in this county; a great many farmers s.iy le--, and some think, perphaps, that they will make | more. We shall see in the sequel. Yours, &c. AMITE. The Bungling Administration We stated a few days ago, that persons who have business at the Land Cilice in this city, arc suffering serious inconvenience, and incur- j ring loss in some instances, in consequence o the arbitrary, if not illegal order from the Ge neral Commissioner at Washington, addressed to Mr. St. Martin, the late Register, that he should cease exercising his functions the mo- ! ment the order reached him. Mr. Thorne, formerly one of the editors of a whig paper in 1 this city, was appointed to succeed Mr. St. i Martin—but turned up his nose at the favor offered him by President Taylor, and w uld not accept of the office. We understand hi commission has been lying in the Post Office ever since the Ist August. Mr. St. Martin received the peremptory or ders to cease exercising his functions on the 31st July, and from that time the office has been closed. A short time ago Mr. St. Martin, perceiving the embarrassment and distress which the closing of the Land Office occasioned to large j numbers of his fellow citizens, addressed to 1 the General Commissioner at Washington a j full and true statement of the condition in) which the business of the Land Office was placed by his indiscreet orders, and Mr. St. Martin suggested that it might be well to per mit him, St. Martin, to transact the business of the office until h:s successor was installed. This has been the practice of ali preceding ad ministrations and it is the only way by which the public interests can be secured. This morning, Mr. St. Martin received an answer from the General Commissioner, iu which he repeats the order that the office should be closed from the moment when the lett rot dismissal reached the late Register; a. I the Commissioner writes further, that ii Mr. Thorpe has declined accepting the office, still the office must be closed until a successor enters upon the discharge of his duties. Meanwhile ihe embarrassment and pecu niary loss sustained by persons who have bu siness with the register, are not tu be di seab ed. Old men, and in some cases, women, come to the city from remote parishes, making the painful journey at great exp -use, aid to their mortification find the doors of the office closed. A suit is now proceeding in on- of the river parishes, involving a quantity of \vi ; valuable land. One of the parties has called upon the late register for a certificate to prove the title. But the register shews him the per emptory orders of the commissioner—and the suit may be lost by this scandalous neglect on the part of this wnig functionary. I’he party to the suit to which we have alluded, threat eus to sue out a writ of mandamus to compel Mr. St. Mitftm to make the certificate. But, however disastrous to the gentleman requii ing it, may be the want of that certifi ate, it is evident that the late register cann >t issue an official document of any kind whatever, fiom the moment when he was told by the commis sioner that his functions ceased and the office was closed, until it should be opened by his successor. Instead of suing out a mandamus j upon Mr. St. Martin, a more effectual and j .- | dicious mode of proceeding would be to serve ; a writ of mandamus upon the land comuds- | sioner, and afterwards to bring suit ag bust : him for damages —tor he is in reality the ob author of all the damage which those gentle- | men suffer for want of a certificate from the ! register. We learn that another important office in this city connected with the federal govern ment is in precisely the same situati on that the land office is placed in by the guilty neg lect of the commissioner. We expect to be furnished with the particulars of this second case, and will lay them before our readers as soon as we are able.—Y. O. Cour. 10 th inst, (Correspondence of the S toaun tk Republican j Sr. Augustine, Sept. 13ih. From Indian River—More Depredations The steamer Nina, Captain Mager, arrived here yesterday from the Southern coast, whith er he she had gone to convey three companies , of U. S. troops. By her we learn that the j Indians had returned to the settlements on Indian River, and burned several more ol tire houses. Messrs. J. 11. Gattis, Livana, and others, who mads their escape in July last, on the flrst outbreak, had returned to Indian River, to look after their property, and with l the intention of endeavoring to maintain their position. They have now', the second time, 1 been compelled to flee for their lives, and have j gone to Key West. They discovered the ap proach of the Indians in time to make thr r escape. One or two Companies of troops are now stationed at Indian River, and if the Indians again make their appearance, it is lo be hoped they will meet with a warm reca p tion. The steamer Nina proceeds this day to Pa latka, for the purpose of conveying Major Rowland’s company down the Southern coast. The three masted schooner Andrew Mitch ell, from Philadelphia, is now in port, and will sail first wind. The schooner Three Sisters, Capt. Lovitt, arrived here on Sunday last from Charleston, and is now discharging. The schooner Del Norte, Capt. Pinkham, arrived here last week, from New York, after i a passage of 38 days. The schooner Josephine, Capt. Burnham,) arrived here on Sunday last, from Jackson ville, Fla. Yours, &c., R. Jail Burnt. —We are informed that the Jail in Trenton, Dade country, Georgia, was burned down a few nights ago. It was sup posed it was done by some persons to destroy ; a prisoner by the name of Russel , whose evi dence would convict others of crime. But fortunately the prisoners were not destroyed or permitted to escape, ihese are the parti culars as we heard them. —Cuattanooga (Jaz., 14 th inst. Steamer “Nicholson” Sunk. —Ju-t as our paper is going lo press (Thurday evening,) we learn that the Steamer “ Nicholson/’ Do>s, master, sunk this morning, about two mi lea below this place. She had just left this place from Decatur, with merchandize on board, and with a Flat Boat in tow, also loaded with Goods, for merchants of Nashville, and other places below. The boat took a sheer in spite ; of the efforts of the Pilot, and ran upon a rock in the shoals, knocked a hole in her bottom and sunk to the guards in a few minutes. — Some hands immediately come up and got a boat to take off the freight, and we hope she may soon be raised, with as li’tle damage to the goods and boat as possible. \\ e regret this unavoidable accident, as Capt. Dass is one | of the most careful and enterprising naviga- I tors on the river.— lb. 0 TEE iMSXiTUTIONALISTJ! Augusta, Georgia. WEDNESDAY IWGRNING, SEPT. 19. ' E-■ 1 d r ifocit atic nom inatiokt. I’OH GOVERNOR, GEORGE W\ TOWNS. Cor/er,pondents—“Batchelor,” is re lu .. attended to, as also “Marr.” JJn illaguctic (lelcgrapi). Reported for the Constitutionalist. New York, Sept 17. Cotton, —The cotton market is firmer, but prices remain unchanged. Prime western Flour is quoted at $5,25. Corn 59 to 62. Red wheat sl,lO. Mess Pork $10,25. Lard C-Y Rice market quiet. Stocks are null. Sterling Exchange 94 prexn. The Grand convention of Odd Fellows, met in Baltimore to day. There were 82 delegates I present. i President Taylor has nearly recovered. Baltimore, Sept. 18, P. M. THE FRENCH MINISTER. Some weeks since, M. Poussin, the French Minister, resident at Washington, sent an im pertinent note to Mr, Secretary Clayton, lor which President Taylor immediately demand ed his recall. The French Government not complying, the President has intimated to M. Poussin that his passport is ready for him. PORT AU PRINCE. Advices have just been received from Port ■tu Prince, which state that the Republic of Hay ti has been dissolved, and Solonga e has been proclaimed Emperor. Naw York, Sept. 18, 7.30, P. M* Cotton —The cotton market is firm. The sales to day reach 300 baits at sih advance. Flour is unchanged. 3000 bushels corn have been sold to day at 59 a G1 cents. THE FRENCH MINISTER. The reported dismissal of the French min ister, has caused a heavy decline in Govern ment Stocks. It is behoved France will sus tain her minister’s course. A despatch just received from high autho rity at Washington, strongly intimates some thing serious Brewing, but our correspondent thinks the facts not sulficiently matured fur publication. HEATH OF DR. HOUSTON. Dr. Houston, the former official Reporter for the U. S. Senate, died yesterday. 1 DEATH OF CHRISTOPHER HUGHES. Christopher Hughes, former Charge to Swe den, and subsequently to Holland, died at his residence in Baltimore to-day. MAINE ELECTION. The Governor is not chosen by the people. The Senate is whig, and the House democra tic. Henry Clay arrived at Cincinnati yesterday. Charleston, Sept. 18, P. M. Cotton. —Prices are stiff. The sales to-day reach 1030 bales, at prices ranging from 84 to 10* cents. The Surplus in the Treasury “ How happens it,” ask the whigs, “ that Governor Towns made so wide a miscalcula tion as to realize a surplus of SBO,OOO from taxes, when he estimated that there would he a deficiency of $86,000.” The answer to this question is, that of this SBO,OOO surplus, $50,000 was, according to an Act of the Le g Hature, set apart to pay a debt due to Reid, Irving & Co., for advances made on our ster ling bonds, hypothecated to them. That act provided for an annual payment of that amount. This then, left a surplus of $30,000 only. It so happens, however, that the sum of fifteen thousand pounds sterling, which is all ; that rein lined unpaid at the time this surplus was reported la-t winter, to be in the State | Treasury, was n o longer held by Reid, Irving | & Co. They had sold this amount of Bunds, and they were held by third parties. As they i are nut yet due, the Governor did not feel au j themed to redeem them, without special au thority of the Legislature. The committee of I investigation, therefore, recommended that this sur lus be applied as an advance to the I contractors for finishing the State road, on a hypothecation by them of six per cent State bonds, in which they are paid aa the work progresses. This has been accordingly done. About $75,000 has been appropriated in this j way. I But there is still a miscalculation of $30,000 j surplus. This is to be accounted for by the increase in the value of taxable property, over the same in 1316 and 18-17, and amounts to an increase for the years of 1818 and ’49, of about $15,000. The calculation was made by the Financial Committee of the last Legislature, of the.Govcrnor, and of the State Treasurer, that the Tax Bill of 1815, would realize the same for the last two years as it did the first ! two years. It has exceeded it, by the increase in the value of property, about $30,000. It would have been imprudent and unwise to take for granted that there would be that in crease, it might have been otherwise. The .fluctuation in the value of property might have been in the other direction. But why did the Governor suppose that I there would be a deficiency of $36,000 ? The answer is, becau-e a large amount of the tax- I es are usually paid in by the Collectors late in the year—as lute as November. The Govern or apprehended that the Treasury would be drained of its means by necessary calls upon j it before the greater amount of the taxes ! could be called in. This he avoided by issu- j mg circulars to the Tax Collectors to be vigi lant in collecting, and to make returns early In the year. This enabled him to meet the heavy demands on the Treasury in 1818. In addition to which, ho postponed to 1819, when I the demands on the Treasury were much lighter, all the payments that he could, lor i which there were not special appropriations. < The apprehension of a deficiency of $36,000, was grounded on the taxes not coming in soon - enough. This, however, was prevented by the 1 prudence and good management ct the Gov ernor; and thus was the State Treasury saved from becoming exhausted, and the State credit impaired. If he has been too solicitous to ac complish this, and took extra pains for this ( purpose, the people of Georgia will not look upon it as a very heinous offence. California Gold. We have before us a sample of California Gold, left at our office by Mr. Bassford, who received it from his brother, L. G. Bassford, now in California. It can be seen today and to-morrow, at this office. Mr. B. also favored us with a letter from his brother, from which we make the follow ing extracts. It is dated, “Near Smith s, oi North Fork, one of the tributaries ot the American River.” “ I have been in this place about two weeks digging and washing tor Gold, with tolerable success. I was some eight or ten days miles above here, without d ung much, and for several days here, before we i.*und a place with much gold. It is a very uncertain busi ness, and the proceeds ot the hr.-t five or s,x days was only $72, to divide between tloco of us. After two or three Jays spent in hunt ing and moving to better diggings, we com menced here on the 9tli inst. and got and on the 10th $lB. After trial thus tar, we abandoned the spot, and located in an old hole that some fellows thought was worth no thing. The first day we got sl2, the second S6B, the third SBS, the fourth SIOB, the fifth $206, the sixth $297, the seventh, $3014. the eighth; two men got $l5O. To-day be ing Saturday, we quit about 10 o clock, by which time I suppose we had SBO. W e have to go some two or three miles to got our pro visions.” “ One day I worked alone, my partners be ing a little unwell. I took out in a day about $164 worth of gold. I have made within the last two weeks about $l5O, but you a must recollect I have been very fortunte. One ounce per day is considered a very good busi ness.” Speaking of the country, ho writes, “ It is the roughest and the most mountainous 1 have ever seen. The river is very rapid when high, and is full of small rapids. When the water is low the gold is found on the bars ot the river.” “ The worst feature in the gold business is the necessity of moving from place to place. F’or instance the hole we are at work in may run out or become exhausted in a few days, and then we will have to hunt another, per haps a mile, and maybe twenty. We have to carry our own things or pack them on ahorse. “ Provisions are high here, as might be ex pected, forty miles above Suter's. Flour sells at 30 cents per lb.; Bacon GO to 75 ; Coffee 30 to 37 ; Sugar 10 to 50 ; Beans 30 cents ; Dried Apples $1,50 per lb; Vinegar $1,50 per bot tle. Other tilings are in proportion, for in stance wo pay for a common blue pail $1,50, for a tolerable good one, heavier, $3. It costs to get things from Suter’s here, 16 to 18 cents per lb. “ I enjoy better health than I ever did, and I find myself much more industrious that I thought 1 would be. We do not, however, work very hard for fear of getting sick. We commence early and work until about 11 o’- clock, and then rest until about 1, but in the meantime wc have our house work to do.— There is but little theft here. Leave what you please about your tent or any where else, and no one will touch it. Tools left in a hole is a sign it is occupied, and no one will trouble your diggings. If a follow is accused of stealing, he is tried fairly, and if found guilty is tied up and whipped, and must then leave. Wherever he goes, the news of his crime is of ten before him, and it he stops at any other digging he is whipped again, and the only safety he can find is to leave the country as quick as possible.” Editor ial Chaug’e—-The Columbus Times The last Columbus Times announces the withdrawal of Gen. James N. Bethune from the Editorial chair, and the return to it of John Forsyth, Esq. During the short period Gen. Bethune edited the paper, its columns displayed much vigor and originality of thought. We could not but admire the bold ness, straight forwardness and independence of his views, and his zealous devotion to Dem ocratic principles. The return of Mr. Forsyth to a position which he has so well graced, and which is so congenial to his fine talents, is a source of congratulation to the Democracy of Georgia. He is an able champion of its sacred cause. We feel more than ordinary gratification in welcoming his return, and hope the Demo crats generally will show their appreciation of the event by an increased patronage of the Co lumbus Times. Judge Hill's Answer. We will publish, with pleasure, in our next, the expected answer of Judge Hill— provided we can find it in a Whig on Democratic pa per; and provided further, it is not as great in Length , as it has been in length of time com ing. Discoveries in Africa. — A French explo ring expedition has partially ascended the Grand Bassam River in Africa, and has dis covered it to be a confluent of the Niger. Cap tain Boilet, the commander of the expedition, writes that he has discovered two magnificent lakes, where palm oil is so abundant that the ship had not vessels enough to hold it. Now, according to the dealers themselves, palm oil gives a profit of 80 per cent., whilst gold only yields 50 or GO. The adjoining villages aresaief to oveiflow with produce of all sorts. Capt. Boilet, has, however, visited unknown regions, and eatablLhed relations in the midst of a country the very centre of the gold trade, the only commerce hitherto carried on at Grand Bassam. It being the dry season, the want of water prevented its entire exploration ; but in the rainy season there are six feet of water, I |II|MI 11 ami the river may be ascended as tar as the cataracts of Abouesson, fifty leagues distant. At that place, the traveller is within »i xt y leagues of Scgo. and the course of the Niger is still continued. • (communicated.) Mr. Editor: —An article in a late number of “The Chronicle & Sentinel,” over the signa ture, “Aristides,” attacking the financial poU cy of Gov. Towns’ administration,and lauding, without regard to facts, reason, or truth, the financial skill of his predecessor, is so full of error, falsehood and unfairness, that you must pardon me for taking a short notice of it. Ths writer, after giving a glowing descrip tion of the depreciated condition of the State s credit, before the commencement of Governor Crawford’s administration, which could, with much propriety, be applied to the condition of almost every State in the Union at that time, proceeds to claim lor his guiding spiiit the credit of having, in an incredible short space of time, restored order and produced form out of chaotic mass. Does not every body know that the laws which improved the condition ot the finances of the State, were passed at the session ot 13-12, by a democratic Legislature, one year before the "great financier” gave the State the benefit of his wisdom and skill; always ex cepting his celebrated report upon the condi tion of the Central Bank, which caused hun dreds of the citizens of Georgia to lose thou sands of dollars upon the money of that Bank, held by them. Relying upon the correctness of that report —believing that Mr. Crawford was “ capable, faithful anil honest ,” they sub mitted to ruinous discounts in order to get ’it off their hands. The condition of the Bank having very soon been found to be so very different from what he reported it was, and would be, that many have been led to believe that._his object in making such a report, might have been to ad vance and interests of his immediate constitu ents, the shavers and brokers of Augusta. But, says Aristides, “he found the Peni tentiary a heap of ruins, saddled with a debt of $63,000 ; every department of it in disor der and confusion, and calling for the exercise of a vigilance and ability rarely, if ever, d - manded by any similar institution in this, or any other State.” It is well known that that institution suf fered a disastrous fire the week Crawford was inaugurated —and this accounts for the “heap of ruins” and the “disorder of its various de partments,” and the Legislature, then in ses sion, appropriated SIB,OOO for rebuilding it, and for the “pay of officers and subsistence of convicts.” But surely, the reader will say, Crawford and his man Redding did not have any further assistance from the Treasury ol the State in supporting the Penitentiary and paying off its “ old debts” as they always call ed it liabilities, when they were annually, as they represented, making money for the State. Just allow me, Sir, to undeceive you on this point.—This same Legislature, on the 23d December, 1813, appropriated the farther sura of $32,000 “to pay the debts due by the Penitentiary of this State to individuals.” Out of this “heap of ruins,” Mr. Redding, on the Ist day of January, 1811, receipted Gen. Charles 11. Nelson for $29,265 72, for raw materials, tools, machinery and bricks turned over to him, —and, on the same day, as his reports show, he received from C. W. Choate, book-keeper, in cash, debts and man ufactured articles, the farther sum of $30,- 661 07—making the sum of $59,926 79, turn ed over to Gov. Crawfoid and Redding from this “heap of ruins.” Now every body will certainly believe that with assets to the a mount of nearly $60,000 00, assisted by $50,- 000 from the Treasury of the State, and when, according to their showing, the Penitentiary instead of being a drain upon the Treasury, had, under their skilful management actually become a source of revenue to tho State, that oil the debts of the institution were paid off, and that plenty of money was to be found in its Treasury. But hold —examine the matter a little farther, and you will find that the Le gislature of 1817 made another appropriation ofsG,ooo, to pay the interest upon these “old debts” —yes, the Legislature had to make an appropriation to pay the interest, which the boasted profits of this money making concern, under the financial administration of Geo. W. Crawford and Anderson W. Redding, w»s not sufficient to liquidate. And when, on the 3d day of January, 1818, Mr. Redding gave place to his successor, he had in his till sixty-txco dollars ! and that too in actual cash. Again, “Aristides” says, “arrearages due to teachers of poor children in 1812 and 1813, amounting to near $30,000, were paid by him.” This is a piece of information, doubtless, that will astonish all who see it. This "great Financier,” of his own free will and accord, in the benevolence and liberality of his soul, and without any authority from the Legislature, as one would presume from the manner in which it is stated, paid this large amount upon these just and meritorious claims; and it would be a pity to break the charm created by the contemplation of this act of consummate financial skill, by informing the public that in this instance Gov. Crawford was merely the instrument of the Legislature, by whom was drawn from the Treasury, for this purpose, about $21,000, specia ly appropriated by the Representatives of the people. Many other assertions, without any evidence of their truth or correctness, and the fallacy of which might be as easily shown as those al ready alluded to, are made by this reckless correspondent, which I will pass by at this time, as it is not Gov. Crawford who is now offered to the support of the people of Geor gia by the party whose sinking cause is now sought to be bolstered up by the undeserved reputation which many have claimed for him. This writer expresses his apprehensions that the administration of Gov. Towns has not been so able, skillful, and economical as that of his illustrious predecessor, and says that he understands the Printing Fund of 1848 has been all drawn, and he inquires whether or not Gov., Towns "stuck to the law in causing the laws and journals to be printed.” Does this wise political economists and reviewer of it is a violation of law to cause the 1 journals to be printed for the use o ■ pie of the State r If haviu: the i div journals printed, as directed by law, ing for this the rates established by ; violation of law’, then is Gov. Towns Does not this man know that the-, 1847 was lynger than usual,and that th • ed matter of that session exceed th e session of 1843 over 300 pages r If he does not. Vie should have know fore he undertook to pronounce judn n ,V on the matter. The Legislature of 1847 set apart as H i ing Fund for 1848, SIO,OOO, and ior ls 4 000. By reference to reports puHliq if the authority of the Legislature, I g, ■. Oov. Crawford in 184 4 and 1845, p a jj the Printing Funds $12,931 —which i* one thousand dollars more paid out (■ taonomical financier, Geo. W. Crawford', was appropriated by the Legislature • two years of Towns’ administration. As this writer has attempted to dnu parison between the economy ol Tow Crawford, in reference to the public j.» and which I hare shewn is in Tow;,,- , let us examine the state of that fun : A Gov. Crawford in his message of 1845, , terized as “ above all others, most obn to abuse” —to wit: the Contingent Fun I find also by reference to the •lluded to, that Crawford in 1844 tot; of October, had drawn ot the Cor Fund $3,180 00, and by the report of th nancial Committee of 1848, it appears th to the 20th of October of that year, (1 , Towns had only drawn of the Com Fund $f,324 91—making a difference j vor of Viis administration of $1,85-5. From this it is evident that the L, tion of Gov. Towns is more eeononi; even that of his immediate predecess, whom so much has been claimed by 1, mirers and puffers. The success of Gov. Towns’ admin;,, has given great trouble to his opponent they feel that that the people,‘seeing credit of the State is higher than it ev. before—the Rail Road more successful, prosperously managed, and that too u permanent reduction of fare, and the un;, ed portion of the work being with enei, industry pushed forward to a more » aompletion than anyjpublic work in or - at least, ever was, will on the first Mon. October, approve the administrau m able and faithful public servant, and . their candidate to enjoy, with judicial di.-. that positioa which he seems so unwiil;:, yield, that he violates a long establish., proper custom, by holding on to it fear will not have any place logo to alter th-. voting day, should lie leave the Bench. JEFFEHSOS L COMMUNICATED.] Mr. Editor :—l have been reading sv.- che Whig charges against Gov. Town chat I thought them at all worthy of a sal, but merely for pass-time, and 1 do the gentleman making these charges, v, think that I intend the remotest dUrr; I positively assert, that I can discover ference between what they have written Sambo’s discourse on the hiccough whiokups, said he, “am brought ah „ dis way. Man, by eating too much freshn —bacon, and greens would not have do desuit—causes de organs of indegestibi. prolong, and in prolonging de press on dec ing pan, and dal, causing de zuberance T por to vaporate, make dat noise whi heard, an which we nominate, in physics ~ guage, de whiokups.” Now, a good if tor this may he found*by reference to os two numbers of the Augusta Reptihli-. i paper ventured to affirm that Judge Hal - reply to any proper call made upon Iran that without one word being said, as to w: the call had to emanate from the Whi,' or a union of both. The truth is, tiie 1. lie was right—it had good reasons to I that the Whig candidate would r spendfi proper call made upon him, and is no disappointed and chagrined, that JuJ. has remained silent, for the Editor says know that he can be depended on. Vfi , say this, we admit frankly that, wifi news, we should respond to calls from respectable quarter.” I remember a said to me, immediately after the iTa - Gen. Harrison, that lie was very glad - 1 tie had fallen on such shoulders as John lei’s, and was just as honest in bis be , the Editor of the Republic, and yet t! cabulary has not furnished language enough to abuse the said Tyler, for no: what the Whigs thought he would; and knows what Judge Hill will do ? Is L of those sort who have “no opinions to 1 and yet you can got nothing from him • time once existed when this might ha" swered very well, but it is not now. ' questions which have been propounded t candidates, are pregnant with inter a South, and the people have a right to -1 ! full and explicit answers to then. 0;' fr: Towns has replied, and if the Whigs ha“ objection to his answer, why do they t- 1 i so? Because they well know it would Burning dangerous ground, to take sides s: i the sentiments contained in Town’s : they must trump objections foolish enow make a man of ordinary capacity sick through them. Gov. Towns, like a true' - ern man, has come out boldly; he teD where you may find him, whac you m* pect from him; while Judge Hill, forte* unknown to us, is silent. How Gcc r will relish this, I am not able to say time ago Gen. Glascock, while in Coifi t took so active a stand in favor of the ’ ’ that at the subsequent election he re nearly the unanimous support of both p jr Let both Whigs and Democrats turn In tention to Governor Towns—his opinion known, if they are satisfied wi th the®' they are such as a Southern man should at tain —let them support him, as it is c^ rt ‘ better to vote for one whose opini° ll3 known, than for one whose are not-. XJNIO>