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About Daily constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 1846-1851 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1849)
Ttt E CON STITUTION ALIST JAMES GARDNER, JR. T2BMS. Daily, per amt mb...... f 8 00 I’ri-Weekly, per aaDiioi...... ..............ft 00 If paid in advance ...5 00 Weekly, per annum, if paid in advance.... 2 00 I'Ueae terms are offered to new subscribers and all old subseribera who pay up all arrearages. In no case will the weekly paper be sent at si, unless the money accompanies the order. in no case will it be sent at 5:2,00 to an old sub scriber in arrears. d I*When tne year paid for at 52.00 expires, the if not discontinued, orpaid for in advance, will be seat on me old terms, 52,50 if paid at tha dice within tne year, or if paid after the expiration of the year. mast be paid on all communications and letters of business. (From the Baltimore Sun.) HEART-RENDING CALAMITY. Mrs, Miller—Strange and Sorrowful Nar rative. We copy the following history, notwith standing its length, from the Detroit Daily Advertiser, feeling pursuaded that it will be read wi th strong and general interest. The facts presented, if they do not clearly estab lish the unhappy suicide of Mrs. Miller, at least go far to negative the supposition of her shame. It appears singular, however, that the present abode, and the identity of the man and woman who left the Fulls together, have not before this time been ascertained, but per haps the activity and sagacity of the police have not as yet been very urgently called upon ; It is due to this community, who have mani fested ao much smypathy on the occasion, to the newspaper press of this city, and to that portion of it elsewhere, which has treated the subject iu a kind-hearted and gentlemanly spirit, that the following details of a late me lancholy and fatal event, disastrous in any light in which it can be viewed, should be made public. On the evening of Tuesday, the 27th ult., tho following telegraphic despatch was re ceived from the Hon. Augustine S. Porter, dated “Niagara Falls, Nov. 27. “ For J. Norvell :—Your daughter Mrs. Mil ler, with her two children, arrived here yes terday, stopped at the Eagle Hotel. Daring last night she disappeared, and is not now to be found. She lett a letter to the landlord, intimating the purpose of suicide. The mel ancholy evidence that the act has been done is before us, in the fact that her bonnet and scarf were this morning found on the Ins Is land bridge, two hundred feet from shore. Tho children are with me. Respectfully, A. S. Porter.” Tho following is the letter found on the ta bale of Mrs. Miller, in her room, the morn ing after she disappeared, addressed to the proprietor of the Eagle Hotel : "My mind L made up: —I have no wish to live any longer. No one shall gaze on my man gled remains. Please take care of my two lit tle boys till they can be sent to Detroit, where their grand-parents r?side. They are the sons of Major Miller, of the army now in Flori da, and grand-sons of Hon. John Norvell, De troit, Michigan. Please forward tny letters, and protect my children till some of the r re lations can come for them. 1. G. Miller.” A letter to her parents was also found on the table, of which the subjoined is a copy : Niagara Falls, Nov. 26, eve. Hon. John Norvell, U. S. Dist. Att’y., De troit, Michigan. “Well my dear father and mother, this, perhaps, is the last letter you will receive from me. I believe I left Winchester for Pittsburg, by way of Philadelphia ; but some how I got here ; I don’t know how; for I never traveled it alone before. Take good care of my two dear little boys. I intended, I think, going to De troit : But do all you can for my children.— My little girl is in heaven : 1 hope to join her soon, God alone knows w’hat I have suffered. My head aches almost to distraction now. — Good bye, dear parents, brothers and sisters. Don’t forget to do sll you can for Major Mil- ! ler. Ho has alway been a kind husband to j me. As ever, your affectionate daughter, 1. G. Miller.” A third letter, addressed to the husband of j Mrs. Miller, was likewise left one the table. — j In this letter, she assures him, that if he I should never hoar from her again, he and her children still possess her undivided affection, 1 and charges him to make them remember a mother who had always been so devotedly attached to them. In none of her letters except the one to the proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, does she inti mate her intention to commit suicide. Those to her parents and husband indicate a strange mixture of the seriousness, with slightly aber ration of intellect. Her two boys, the oldest of whom is up- | wards of six years of age, say that on the night of their arrival at the Falls, their mother put them to bed, and bade them good bye. When they awoke in '.he morning, Tuesday, the 27th of Nov., they, as usual, went to the bed which they supposed she had slept. She had not apparently been in bed. She had, early in the evening, sent down for pea, ink and paper. i Upon the alarm being given of her disap pearance, much excitement took place in the village. Finally, her new silk bonnet or hood, trampled, was found on the abut- j ment of the bridge which leads from the main shore to Goat Island, about twd hundred feet from shore. Her crape shawl, I torn into three pieces, tied together by very hard knots, was fastened to the bridge, ap parently to let her down, first to the abut ment, and then to lower her down towards the rapid current which sweeps over the I 1 alls, j This is the last trace which could be dis overed of her, so far as regards her medita- | 1 self-destruction. ?efore she started from \\ inohester, ir- ; whence she proposed to eome to her pa !; en ' home, her oldest boy says she packed a ; largt unk full of clothes, and deposited it at a or He further states that a number of gentlemen, some of whose names Ro men accompanied his mother to the £ ars a Jiester, and there took leave of i u her states that the first place she and the* tQ the carß) was Harper’s - retry,, the ns Baltimore, the third Phila- j delplua, the ne York, and then to Bus- j falo. I hese are, ie prominent places on the ; C L Ute u i rl ccurately remembered by 1 the child. He * a ?» ba t no gentleman came j with "Lem from W.. Chester, no one joined them on the way to % alo> but that he saw a man at the railroad i at Buffalo hand | his mother a letter. aad nmediate | y i eaV e the depot. Mrs. Miller, with her i ildreiu a£r j V ed at Buffalo on Sunday morning the 25th of Nov., and went in a carriage to tlu public house of Mr. Lovejoy. She then and read the letter which, was handed to he at t h e depot, i Finding that she had made a n gta ke in go to that house, she said , b e had a friend, or some friends at the^ xc and desired to go there. Upon the fcggestion of the landlord, she wrote a short gome on© at the Exchange. In a few miiutes a man came from the Exchange, and imbued for the lady wto had am tpf MtP ghp * a id ——MU"—!■ I ■!!»- I——ill I that she would see him iu the public parlor, f Accordingly she cams . »wn, saw this person ; 1 a moment, and, after kfaat, ordered a car- i 1 riage to take her anc • children to ti e Ex- j i change, where she ained till th' next j morning, and procee n the cars, with her < children, to the Fall r Viagara. At the Ex change she was no* e. i company with the ( stranger. When &. went to the cars this ’ man did not accompa y hc r ; but he was seen near the cars, and dii cted the conductor to , put the lady into the; i. On Tuesday prior the arrival of Mrs. Miller at the Falls, a stranger came to the Eagle Tavern at that place, and put up. The bar-keeper requested him one or twice to en ter his name. He reluctantly took up the pen, wrote" Henry,” threw it down, and ask ed the bar-keeper to finish the rest, saying that his fingers were cold, and giving his name as Henry) BLakemer. On the Thursday after, he arrived at the Exchange, in Buffalo, and remained there several days. In the books of that house he entered his name with simi lar reluctance as Henry Blakemer, of Philadel phia. The man is represented to have been from five feet six or eight inches in height; thin in person and visage; with dark eyes, dark hair, dark whiskers, mustachios, and a large quauti- ! ty of hair on and under his chin. He occa- , sionally wore a hat, and then a cap. Occa- j sionally he put on green spectacles, to which ; he was evidently not accustomed. His tic- ; portment was restless, and his motions ner vous. He kept a constant look-out for the eastern cars, and directed the porter of the Exchange to notify him every time they ar rived. His whole conduct demonstrated that he was not a gentleman in feeling or manners. When he arrived at the Exchange, he insisted upon a bargain to pay only for the meals of which he actually partook, and refused to give any thing for abed the night he purported to leave Buffalo for Tonawanda. In engaging a buggy and pair of horses at the livery stable, he complained of the price, and induced the owner to reduce it. Late on Monday afternoon, the 26th of No vember, having engaged the horses and bug gy, he set off, as he said, towards Tonawanda, I saying that it was important that he should go two miles below Tonawanda the same night. The next morning, at three o’clock, long be fore daylight, he arrived, with a lady, at the j Mansion House in Buffalo, and the two left ; that city in the first train of Eastern oars, at | five o’clock the same morning. Mr. Fargo telegraphed to this city io know whether he should dispatch a police officer in pursuit of the parties. He was immediately requested to do so. Accordingly, an officer 1 proceeded along the route to New York, dis covered no trace of them, and in tho city could only learn that two persons corresponding in description, had gone on towards Philadelphia. The officer was then, by telegraphic dispatch, directed to follow’ to Philadelphia, and if he could learn nothing there, to return to Bus- I falo. The only evidence leading to the conclu- , sion that Mrs. Miller ivas th iady brought | back in the buggy by the disguised stranger, is the fact of their seeing eac/ ther in Bus- j falo; her going to the Exchange; his loitering about the ears when she left for the Falb:; and the size of the lady, on arriving at the Mansion House, appearing to be about that of Mrs. Mil ler. No one saw her face. She was thickly veiled; and may, though that is uncertain, have worn a black straw, hat, which she had with her. To this relation, embracing all the material facts now known here on the subject, it is proper to add that, at Winchester, the infant daughter of Mrs. Miller was distressingly ill for several months. Os course, she felt called on to devote her days and nights to the sink- j bed of the child. A young mother, with an ! ardent attachment, seldom equalled, to iier | children, her unremitted attentions, her sleep less vigils, her loss of rest, made heavy draughts j upon her constitution and mind. In her let ters to her mother, she evinced an admirable ; spirit of fortitude, but occasionally intimated | that the absence of all rest, and her distress of I heart, had affected her health in various ways. On the decease of her child, in answer to a letter of condolence, she addressed to her father | the following letter, which was dated the 19th of November, but postmarked November 13, and was received by him on the 16i.ii of that month: “Winchester, Nov. 19, 1840. 1 “My Dear Father: I have recently received i your affectionate letter, expressing sympathy I for my late loss. It was soothing to my fell i ings, and to be valued is coming from one i whom I could believe c d feel to be sincere. ■ I am anxious to be with you again, as I cannot i be with my husband; I x I have been obliged Ito study his interest?, a am awaiting to hear i his final wishes on the ect, before leaving ' here. My health is ;ir r,i being good, and i spirits are still wors lue oys seem very healthy, and are neve* -nek. 1 should be gratifl | ed to hear from you again, and as soon as I your business will allow’ you to spare me the j time. Best love to mother and all the chil dren. j “Your affectionate daughter, I. G. Miller. “Hon. J. Norvell.” Mrs. Miller is 26 years of age. She was the mother of four|children, tlio-eldest and young est of whom died in early infancy. She was married when she was seventeen and a half ; years old. From infancy, she possessed, when in re ! tirement and in the domestic circle of the family, a touching and melancholy expression jof countenance. Part of her youthful educa tion was received at the nunnery in this city. ! She was a short time at the academic institu -1 tion of Madame Grelaud, in Philadelphia, and j for some months at that of Miss English, at | Georgetown, in the District of Columbia. Well educated, intelligent, accomplished, she was a universal favorite among ail her acquain tances, of whom she had an unusual number, i Os a sensitively delicate disposition, a refined : taste, a romantic cast of mind, she invariably, j but unaffectedly, recoiled, with intuitive loath j ing, from all freedom and coarseness of man ners and conversation. She blended with these ! a piety which seemed natural to her from the first dawu of her creation. That such a woman, of a purity of soul nev | er suspected, with a character unblemished, a I Christian communicant from early age. with a family upon whom all her earthly affections : were devotedly concentered, could have been induced by any cause except momentary men j tal hallucination, to attempt self-destruction, jis incredible. That she cotild have placed herself in the power of a stranger, left her poor little orphan children several hundred miles | from any of their relations, helpless, thrown • upon the mercy of persons to whom they were S unknown; that she could have done so, blight ing the hopes and affections, humiliating the ' pride, tarnishing the reputation, lacerating the feelings of family and connexions, is still more beyond the poss ibility of belief. If she left Ihe Falls with the perso* des eribed, he must have been a mere agent. All her tastes, all her previous sentiments, must have caused her to revolt from such an associa tion. It has been suggested, that she may have finally determined to retire into the seclusion of a convent for the residue of her lifie: But why adopt the course she did, if that were her object? Why practice what it was not in her nature to practice, wanton cruelty to her chil dren and parents, to attain a religious aim and pnd? All this appears improbale, it not impoasi- f ble. The prevalent opinion, at the scene of i the recent tragedy, is more than probably cor rect. To that impression her relations must adhere till eradicated by indubitable evidence | of a different and worse catastrophe. Took, out vor Another Inundation. —On Sunday last, the river at Bonnett Carre Bend, i thirty-five miles above this city, was, we learn, even with the top of the banks, and still rising. To add to the alarm created by the sudden rising of the river, some twenty or tweniy-five acres of the battle at that place, had caved in, leaving no obstacle in the way to prevent an overflow of that section of the country. Have our city authorities yet taken any steps to pre vent a recurrence of the scenes of last spring, out of which so much individual suffering and misery were entailed on the community, apart from the heavy debt which the inundation saddled on an over-taxed population? We shall refer to this subject again.— N. O. True Delta 12 th hist. Manufacture or Cotton. —The following ! statement of the number of spindles at work, appears in the Borsenhalle (a German paper) ■ of 10th ult: Spindlers. i Great Britain 17,600,000 I France 4,300,000 U. States, where cotton spinning was first commenced in 1824 2,500,000 Austria 1,600,000 Zoll-Verein 815,000 Russia 706,000 Switzerland 650,000 Belgium 420,000 Spain 300,000 Italy 300,000 E Giving a total of 28,985,000 Coroner's Verdict in the Case of Doctor Farkman. At six o’clock yesterday afternoon, the jury j of inquest on the remains of the body found I in the Medical College, made up their verdict, and the members of the press, who were wait ing in an adjoining room, were called into the jury room to near the verdict announced. Af ter they had taken their seats at the tabic, Col. Pratt, ;he coroner, addressed them, as fol lows: “Gentlemen, the object of inviting you in here at this moment, is to annourtce to you the I conclusion to which the jury has arrived in re lation to the matters which have been the sub- I ject of their investigation for several days, and to make some explanations to you of the course which has been decided upon as to withhol ding the evidence at present. It is the advice of the attorney general, and such is the vote of this juiy of inquest, that no part of the testimony shall be developed until the matter has been laid before the grand jury. There j lias been a large number of witnesses examin- I ed, but I am not at liberty to state the num ; ber, and the testimony covers eighty-four pages, closely written, on large foolscap paper. All, therefore, that can be communicated to you now is the conclusion to which the jury I : have arrived. The verdict will now be read \ , you by the secretary.” Mr. John!.. Andrews, the Secretary, now proceeded to read in a solemn, emphatic, and | distinct manner, the verdict, as follows : “Suffolk, ss. An inquisition taken at the j city of Boston, within the county of Suffolk, ■■ 13th day of December, 1849, before Jabez Pratt, Esq., one of the coroners of said coun ty, upon the view of sundry parts of the body of a man, viz : a thorax, kindeys, pelvis, two j thighs, left leg, and sundry bones, there lying dead, by the oaths of Osmyn Brewster, John 1 L. Andrews, Pearl Martin,Thomas Resticaux, 1 Lewis Jones, and Harum Merrill, good and I lawful men, who being charged and sworn to inquire for the commonwealth, when, how, and by what means the said dead man came i ! to his death, upon their oaths do say, that ; j they all have been demonstrated to be parts 1 of one and/the same person, that these parts t of the human frame have been identified and j 1 proved to be the remains and parts of the dead i body and limbs of Dr. George Parkman, late a citizen of said Boston, aged about sixty years ; that he came to his death by violence at said Boston, on the 23d day of November lost, or between the hour of one and a half of the clock in the afternoon of that day, (about I which time he entered alive and in good health into the Massachusetts Medical College building, situated in North Grove-st., in said ■ Boston,) and the hour of four of the clock in the afternoon of the 30th day of November las* - , ! (when a portion of the said remains were found concealed in and under the apartments of Dr. John VV. Webster, of Cambridge, in the 1 county of Middlesex, in said college build- j ing,) in which building the residue of said re mains were afterwards discovered; that he j was killed in said college building by a blow j or blows, wound or wounds inflicted upon him with some instrument or weapon to the jurors i unknown, and by means not yet known to said ; jurors, and that the said blow or blows, wound or wounds, were inflicted upon him and said means were used by the hands of said Dr. John W. Webster, by whom he was killed. In witness whereof, the said coroner and jurors to this inquisition have set their hands and seals the day and year above said. Jabcz Pratt. Coroner, Osmyn Brewster, Foreman, j John L. Andrews, Secretary, j Pearl Martin, Thomas Resteiaux, Lewis Jones. Harum Merrill.” The jury was impannelled on Saturday, the Ist inst., met at th* Medical College in the af ternoon, examined the fragments of the re mains found there, appointed a committee of doctors to examine them more particularly,and adjourned over to Monday, 3d. On that day and the following, they made a very careful examination of every part of the college build ing, vaults, passage ways, private and public entrances, &c. On the sth, 7th, Bth, 10th and 11th, they were engaged in taking testimony. On account of the absence of a witness, they on the 11th, adjourned over to yesterday. Thursday morning, 13th and at 12 o’clock the taking of testimony was closed. They then adjourned till 3 P. M., when they met again, and were occupied till six o’clock, in reading the testimony, making the verdict up in form, and signing and sealing it. The new grand jury, summoned for the Ist Monday in January, will take the case up, Dr. Webster in the meantime remaining in jail.— Bouton Post, 14 th inst. C aliform i an Drunk, in the Streets. —One of the New York police picked up a man, drunk, on Saturday night, in the street, hav ing in hu; possession a bag of gold dust, weigh ing 25 pounds; also 32 lumps of gold and SBS in bank bills. The California gentleman had just returned from the land of gold, by the Crescent City. He was properly taken care of. Diabouca.,— A correspondent of the New \ ork Journal of Commerce, writing from Slat ford, Connecticut, states that on Thursday morning ax trees were found laid across the track of the Housatonic Railroad, and fixed so tight, by means of grooves, to the rails, that it was difficult to remove them. The peculiar ' object of the perpetrator, whoever he appears i to have been, was to destroy the conductor of the ( express engine, hourly expected to run with the President’s message to Albany, at the rate of I 90 miles in one hour and 45 minutes, j THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. ! J “tnquata, ©corgia. \, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. 19 s Seven Days Later From Europe. ; A fit fit If V A la HIBERNIA. COTTON DECLINED 1-81). „ Protest of Austria against Convocation of Germany. DISTURBANCES IN FRENCH CABINET. British Fleet withdrawn from Dardanelles. AUSTRIA AND TURKEY. This afternoon we received a despatch Irom our Charleston correspondent, which announc ed the arrival of the steamer Hibernia at New York on Monday evening, with dates from Liverpool to the Ist inst. The news brought by her is highly interest ing, although of not much importance further than in a commercial point of view. At Liverpool on the Ist inst., the Cotton market was dull, with but a moderate de- ■ ■ mand, and a further decline of an Jd. since the last steamer. The week’s sales reach only 19,000 bales, and the Committee’s official quo tations are : for fair Upland and Mobile, GAd.; fair Orleans, 6sd. The Grain market was quiet, and holders were willing to accept low prices. Rice steady, and Carolina was quoted at 16 a 21s. The Money market W’as easy, and Consols had advanced to 954. POLITICAL. The Austrian Cabinet has made a firm pro test against the convocation of the German Parliament. The members of the French Cabinet have had full half dozen duels, in which Rienne figured in sou proved fatal. The British fleet had been withdrawn from the Dardenelles. Austria was satisfied with Turkey so lar as regards the transportation ot the Hungarian refugee?. Our despatch concludes —“nothing else of importance —you have alias yet received. Charleston, Dec. 19, P. M. * Cotton. —The market to-day is quiet, only j 800 bales having changed hands at price* ranging from 94 to 104 cents. Nothing was j done after the receipt of the steamers news, - The Mails. We have repeatedly noticed the failure of the Northern mail per steamers at Charleston, but we must, this morning, do Mr. Collamer the justice to say, that for the first time foi a j lomj while, the New Y’ork papers of Saturday, | due per steamer, came to hand last evening. Madamoiselle Nicicski j This young Lady, and her sister, will give ' their first Concert in thus city, on Thursday i Evening, at the Masonic Hall. She comes among us highly recommended, and a friend in Savannah assures us that our citizens, if disappointed at all in the Entertainments given ; by her, will be agreeably so. The Concert Given last evening byj Madame Biscacianti and Mr. Srackosch was well attended by our i citizens, and gave general satisfaction. It will beseen they give another and their last in tins | city, this evening at the Masonic Hall. Those who stay awa> wdll miss a musical treat not 1 often enjoyed. Augusta Mechanics We have at our office, where it can be seen i for a day or two, a sample of Cabinet Furni i ture, manufactured atMr.C. A. Platt's estab lishment, in this city, by Mr. J. M. Brown, ! which, for workmanship and beauty of finish, will compare favorably w ith any piece that has come under our inspection. It is a Candle Stand, made of Mahogany, Rose and Satin woods, neatly and tastefully blended together, and handsomely polished. It was intended I for the Charleston Fair, but was not finished I in time—Mr. Brown devoting only his leisure | moments after dark, to its completion. Had i it been exhibited in Charleston, we feel sat isfied it would have commanded the first premium. The Bridge Case. We give below the action of the House of Representatives of South Carolina, in relation to the application of Mr. Shultz, to collect tolls on the South Carolina end of the Bridge leading from this city to Hamburg. If he fares no better in the Senate than in the House, his annoyance will not be felt by our citizens. This is a question with which the Legislature of South Carolina has but little to do. Mr. Shultz has carried his case before her tribu nals, and not satisfied with their decisions, has it now' before the Supreme Court of the Uni ted States. If ho has any claim, let that Court decide it, —until that is done, any action on the part of South Carolina, in his favor, will prove detrimental to the interests of her citi zens. The House then proceeded to the conside ration of the Generel Orders, when the debate, which was of no general interest, on the bill, mentioned yesterday, to establish certain roads, bridges, and ferries, was resumed, and the fol lowing section was read: •* Sec. 28. That so much of the twenty-second i section of an act entitled ‘an act to establish cer tain roads, bridges, and ferries,’ ratified on the I9th day of December, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, as does not allow Henry Shultz and John Mc- Kinne to collect toll at the South Carolina end of the bridge across the Savannah River, at 1 Augusta, be, and the same is hereby repealed ; and Henry Shultz and John McKinnebe, and they are hereby authorized, to collect the rates to toll now established by law’,at the South Carolina end of the said bridge.” Mr. Singleton moved to amend the section, by adding thereto the following; “From all i persons coming from the §outh Carolina end, i but not from persons coming from the Georgia end of the bridge.” It passed in the affirma tive. On motion of Mr. Yancey, the section was farther amended, by adding thereto the fol lowing words: “But the collecting of said toll shall not subject the Railroad Company or the community to the payment of double toll; which passed in the affirmative. Yeas 56 Nues 37. The Bill was then ordered to be sent to the Senate. Augusta & Waynesboro’ Rail-Read- The following extract ot a letter from a friend in Savannah, will be read with interest bv those who take an interest in a Hail-Road connexion between this city and Savannah . “Yesterday, (Dec. If,) it is understood, Mr. Holcombe, with his corps of Engineers, en camped at the 79 mile station. If that be the best route for the Augusta Road, it will be adopted. The President, A. R. Lawton, Esq., and some of the Directors, will be there on Monday. A sufficient quantity of heavy T iron for the Road, as far as W aynesboro , is now under our control; and we intend to open the Road to that point, for the next crop. The Road will be put under contract, all the way to Augusta, as last as the Engin eers can prepare the estimates. “ It is designed by the Board of Directors, to make the Waynesboro’ & Augusta Road, a model Rail-Road, and a perfect one, from the start. We have the science, experience, en ergy and money, for this object. Our citi zens are determined to establish close relations with the wealth, intelligence and power of "Middle Georgia; for these attributes of this great State lie there. W e must, and will, see the faces and shake the hands of our friends in Augusta. Our social and commercial rela tions demand it. “ On the 15th instant, there was a meeting held here, of the Central Rail-Road Stock holders. Major J. Howard, from Columbus, addressed the meeting. Assurances were given, that the Rail-Road from Columbus to > join the South-Western at Fort Valley, would receive the aid and support ol Savannah. “ There can be little doub‘, that in two years from this time, the Roads to Augusta, Columbus, and the Great South-West, being open, that Savannah will become the largest exporting market for Cotton in the I niled States, next to New-Orleaus.” ( Correspondence of the Constitutionalist .) MILLEDGEVILLE, Dec. 17, 1849. Editor of the Uonstitotionamst— Sir ;—Through the courtesy of the Execu tive, I have been allowed to take a copy ot the following letter from the Hon. T. Butler King, received on the 14th inst. It appears not to have been mailed until late in October. E. San Francisco, (California,) ) 29th September, 1849. $ Sir:— lt being usy intention to remain in this Territory until some time after the com mencement of the next session of Congress, 1 deem it due to those I have so long had the honor to represent, to resign my scat in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to which J was elected in the First District of Georgia, on the first Monday of October last. This communica tion would have been made to you by the steamer of the Ist inst., had not illness pre vented. I embrace the first opportunity after returning health enables me to write. On my return, I shall address a letter to the peo ple of the First District, which the state of my health docs not permit me now to do I have the honor to be, with great respect, j your most ob’t serv’t, T. BUTLER KING. His Excellency the Governor of Georgia. News of a recent date has reached Havana from Yucatan, announcing that the Indians, more and more dispirited with their losses,had relaxed their exertions in the field. The war was evidently drooping, and in the opinion of the Yucatecos, was drawing near extinction. A commission of officers had been nominated at Merida to go into the country and to offer the olive branch to the Indians on masse. Much good was expected from this movement. Snow (says the Baltimore American of Fri day) commenced falling shortly before dark yesterday and at the lime of writing this there is every appearance that it will continue to fall during the night, and the ground being well prepared to receive it, there is some prospect that the merry music of the sleigh bells may be heard in our streets to-day. Winter Arrangement of tuf, English Steamers.—Hereafter the Cunard line of royal mail steamers will arrive and depart every fort night, instead of every week, which arrange met will continue until Spring. The follow ing are the dates of sailing from Liverpool for the month of December : The Hibernia for N. York,on Satin day. Dec. 1. “ America “ Boston, “ Dec. 15. “ Canada “ New York, “ Dec. 29. ~m - New York. Money Market The Post of Thursday evening says : —“The money mar ket shows a considerable increase in the de mand, and paper has been offered in much larger quantities. Boston has contributed very greatly to this increase, and the offerings from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the South, are also at the same time much greater. This sea son of the year is the usual time for the settle ment of a great variety of accounts ; so that the increased demand coming from so man y points, has caused, for the time, a rise in the rates, and 6 per cent, is more readily obtained for 60 day paper, and 7 a 8 per cent, foi long paper.” We are gratified to announce, says the Sa vannah Republican, the arrival at this port from her long and tedious voyage, and in a safe and sound condition of the new Iren stea mer D. L. Adams. Nearly ten thousand tons of Railroad Iron were imported into Savannah on Friday last in two cargoes —one from Wales, the other from Liverpool. [ Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier I New-Orlkans, Dec. 16. i The Market.— On Saturday, barely 1,300 bales Cotton sold. Prices are steady. One thousand bags Rio Coffee sold—prime new brought 12 cents. Whisky has advanced 1 to 25$ cent*. ( Correspondence of the Baltimore lSu».\ Washington, Dec. 14, A Quiet Dug in the House—Regrets for da fa Excitement—Suppression of all D sion—Position of the Parties — Determinate, of (he Impracl{cables—Pag of Members, \V e have had a comparatively quiet d.iy V the House, and some good results have arrived at. The excited discussions of yestet day seem to be universally regietted, as pre mature and uncalled for.—Such grave decla mations, involving not only the Union, butte. domestic peace of the country, might properly take place in act an to exclude the Southern States from an equal right with other Stat in the enjoyment of the common domain - But in a question of the mode by which u„- House should proceed in an election, or up , the character of pledges trom a Candida' e.wh is not to be trusted by either party with , Ui pledges,the expediency of dissolving the Ida is not necessarily involved. It may withsotr*- propriety, be said that when it shall come to this —that no man In the House can he trm- P : with the Speakership without pledges to one particular section of the Union, or to tempo rary factions—it will bo time to discus [\ lc propriety of disolving the Union. 1 1 think the whole American people v\., unite in censuring the bandying of section" denunciations in the House. If one man denounced as a disunionist, and another as ; abolitionist, it will be very difficult for the House to preserve order and decorum, t; _ House has gone as far in that direction, ar: and as far also in sectional menaces, as it can go with safety in reference to its own respec tability or the public welfare. That the members elect have seen their ei ror in permitting debates, in their present con dition, which must lead to personal and tional crimination, recrimination, and menace-: we have evidence in the fact that they have with singular unanimity, agreed to siippre,. all discussion until a Speaker shall he elected The position of the three principal part.; in the House is*this. The whips have agree t to scatter among their candidates, for the pi, sent, till they have seen the tactics of the oth er parties, and find out who is their strongest man. They are now reserving chiefly on \\\< throp, Morehead and Duer. The Southern demon a’s will nut vole lot ; Northern man without pledges, and scarce!) with, after what has happened. They had,a, it appears from Mr. David Hubbard's state ment, a verbal pledge, the other day, which was satisfactory to many, but which wassut sequently found to be insufficient. They now present their most unexceptionable mar Mr. Linn Boyd, and adhere to him with ei> ; tenacity. It will be seen, in a day or tw whether he can carry more votes than M Cobb. The T’reesoilers held a caucus last night, art agreed to pursue the same policy with that. which they first commenced—to wit: toe’- for some of their own men, and not go off u. on the whig or democratic candidates vui* out pledges as to the constitution of certai committees. In this state of things there cm be no election until the six seceding whig-, now voting for Mr. Morehead, shall go for Mr I Boyd ; or until the Freesoilers shall give way and vote for the regular whig candidate—a event not likely to happen. I understand that the I’rcsidenl does r regard the condition of the H use as alannu:. In fact he laughs at the spectacle they pre-er: Corcoran & Higgs, it is said are willing h advance a part ot the money due to rnemlerj on the mileage and pay account. Some u*. u.- membfrs have, it is sis 1, already anticipated their pay and mileage by borrowing money here. I am not sanguine in the expectation iLr there will he any election to morrow. SPECIAL NOTICES. POSITIVELY THE LAST BRILLIANT MUSICAL FESTIVAL m?, Madame BLSCACCIAVIT, celebrated American Frimalfc^v Dona, and M, STKAKOSf H, anist to the Emperor of Russia, a--isted by ! distinguished Yocailst, Signora CALM, snJ i , Signor BICACCIANTI. the Violoncellist. give positively their last GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL, On This Evening, Dec. 19th, at the bn, Hall. Air. Strakosch will play upon a. splendid Pi; Forte, from ('bickering’s manufactory, I jr-?i Charles Calfin & Co. (FT* l ickets one dollar, to be had at the u places, and a! the door, on the evening of thf forniauce. Doors open at 7. and performance toe -j mence at 8 o’clock. t ] e c 11 GRAND CONCERT. pi , li y Mad emoiselle AMI£ LA . NTECIESKA. Violiui-f, at the | ; Masonic Hall, on THURSDAY I. V ENL\G. Dec. 20, 1810, on which occa-i i wid be assisted by the following talent Mademoiselle H. GIRARD, her SISTF.K I Mr. O. MAY ER. fj Tickets $1 —to be had at the Music Shore* Hotels, and at the door on (he evening ot per ance. Doors open a* 7 o’clock—Conceit t ; j ut'Uie at 8. I*. M. dec! J I AUGUSTA COTiLON CLUB Postponed j/ om Thursda y last on account W ’ | (IT THE SECOND PARTY will be given>9 HiIDAY , the 21st inst., at the Masonic ID I, Ladies having tickets of invitation to tbe lasl 1 ty, are respectfully requested to attend. Members ol the (Hub will call on Mr. * * ' ! I for the.r tickets of admission. dre P MASONIC. \ j* / TT Social Lodge, No. l,"i‘ m W ht-Hte the FIFTIETH A.VMVI'T/yf “or* of their ('barter on the Festival Ad the Evangelist, 27tb instant. An ad 1 . ** ! delivered by Brother VV. 11. ID m,ot At a j ! V isiting and transient brethren are t.irdin-" I j viled to attend. WM. T. Hoi to, ] Lkmoei. UimiE, | W,«- E. Bearing, j t'ori* I Bknj B. Russem., j \rr»r>t’ * Hko. VV. Ferry, ( D. Butt, dee 1 : Id GEORGIA, RICHMOND < Ol The Honorable the Justices of the hu'e- nfl j for the county aforesaid, will elect a KEEf 1 the Boor House, on the 22d day ot i)oc«*n»b£f Applicants will make their proposals so the ; signed. By order of the Court. dee. 18 ’td JAB. Me LAW’S. CD-1 PORTRAIT PAINTING ITT. J. JACKSON luih now at Rooms a number of Portrait-, of ritia'Jh " gusta, and of the State, finished. Ike p j invited to cal! and examine, them Mr.J./f uaran/ee* his likene-s&i. ; be made where entire sulisfactre/i is i*oi | i will continue to paint, until he leaver i- ir 1 | the following rates ; Heads, £3O; Hu-ts 1 with Hands, £.50 ;KA K*t, Cabin l ' | j sls. 5T H >otns in tha Washington Hah . .Viclnlus-h strtot. laio*
