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r JaM ES GARDNER, JR
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iT OUR RISK.
THE RETURN OF SPRING.
Dear as the dove, whose wafting wing
The green leaf ransomed from the main,
Thy genial glow, returning Spring,
Comes to our shore again;
For thou hast been a wanderer long,
On many a fair and foreign strand,
In balm and beauty, sun and song,
Passing from land to land.
Thou bring ; st the blossoms to the bee,
To earth a robe of emerald dve,
The leaflet to the naked tree,
k The rainbow in the sky ;
1 feel thy blest benign control
The pulse of my youth restore;
Opening the spring of sense and soul,
To love and joy once more.
He I will not people thy green bowers
With sorrow's pale and spectre band ;
Or blend with thine the faded flowers
Os memory’s distant land;
For thou wert surely never given
To wake regret from pleasures gone ;
But like an angel sent from Heaven,
To soothe creation’s groan.
Then, while the groves thy garlands twine,
Thy spirit breathes the flower and tree,
My heart shall kindle at thy shrine,
And worship God in thee ;
. And in some calm, sequestered spot.
While listening to the choral strain,
Past griefs shall be awhile forgot,
And pleasures bloom again.
Massacre of Christians at Aleppo.—
Aleppo, Jan. 6.—The most absurd versions of
the deplorable events of which this city was
lately the scene have already appeared in some
of the European newspapers. It is, unfortu
nately, but too true that blood was shed and
houses pillaged, and it is also true that the
Cnristians were the victims in the outbreak
and the Mussulmans the aggressors; but, in
stead of being a kind of O. iental St. Bartholo
mew, as many people in Europe 3eem to think,
not more than five Christians were killed and
six wounded in the fray. 100 houses belong
in Christians and five churches were pillaged.
As to the horrors of which the Christian wom
en were the victims, it will be seen that they
have been greatly exaggerated when it is
known that only one complaint of the kind
has been made to the new Governor Mehemed
Pasha. The insurgent Mussulmans did not
escape unpunished, for the troops called to
gether to repress the outbreak acted against
them with the greatest vigor. 600-of the in
surgents fell by the hands of the soldiers, and
the quarter of the city in which they lived,
and where they had taken refuge, was com
pletely destroyed by the cannonade. Os those
of the insurgents who survived the fray, 300
of the chiefs have been condemned to the
galleys, and loOof their companions will very
possibly meet the same fate as soon as their
trial shall have taken place. Moreover, all
those found guilty in a minor degree of hav
ing taken part in the insurrection, have been
embodied as soldiers, and sent to serve in the
Island of Candia. Part of the property of
which the Christians were plundered has been
already restored to them, and for the rest of
their losses the Porte has given orders that
they shall be fully indemn fied. Mehemed
Pasha, the Governor, is a man of intelligence
and vigor, and, though a strict Mussulman as
regards the principles of his religion, it will
be seen from the above statement that in the
execution of justice joe sees no difference be
tween the Giaour and the follower of the Pro
phet. Some of the European Powers, who
always are ready to come forward as the “pro
tectors of the Cristians in the East,” have, by
the indiscreat zeal of their agents, done of late
years considerabie harm. The sligh'e-' e> a
piaint made by a rayah to a French or Aus
trian consul is ai once seized upon and swell
ed into a political event. Governors and ma
gistrates have lately been dismissed on the
complaints of certain consuls who happened to
be dissatisfied with a verdict given on a mis
understanding between a Christian and Mus
sulman. The “Christians” are well aware of
the readiness of the agents of certain Powers
to come to their aid, and that effectually, even
when the wrong is entirely on their side, and,
acting under this conviction, they have for a
long time past changed parts with their for
mer masters, and from being the oppressed
they are now positively the oppressors.
Cargo of Elephants.— We are glad to
learn that Mr. S. B. June, whom, we former
ly announced as having come to Galle in a
veesei irom America for a cargo of elephants,
has succeeded in procuring the object of his
search. On his arrival in Colombo he was
informed that government had elephants for
sale; but we happened to meet him one day
in search ot what was here ca led “govern
ment. With his Yankee go-ahead business
notions he supposed that if a party had any
thing for saie,that party ought to know what
price to ask for it.—Government has ele
phants for sale, said every person; butnobodv
individually or collectively, could be found to
fix a price at which they would be soidjsothat
he declared there was really no eovemment
in Ceylon. Failing in the direction Mr.
June, a perfect stranger to the country, and
assured by many residents that he could not,
in any reasonable time, obtain the number of
elephants he required, went into the interior,
and, notwithstanding the unusual wetness of
the season, succeeded in picking up between
20 and 30 elephants, which are now on their
way to Galle, to be shipped on board the
American barque Regatta, now lying there in
waiting for him. We wish Mr. June and his
“boys and girls,” as he calls them, a quick
and safe passage to Yankee land.— Colombo
( Ceylon ) Observer, Jan. 3.
A. Resolution for the relief of Louis Kossuth
and his associates, exiles from Hungary.
Whereas the people of the United States
sincerely sympathize with the Hungarian
exiles, Kossuth and his associates, and fully
appreciate the magnanimous conduct of the
;n‘iti! > 8 r QOVe l r , nmenti,lreceivin g and treat-
D °H e ® xdea with kindness and
these exSi tn' * * herei8 ' ifit be the wish of
these exiles to emigrate to the United States
“ d “J*. *J U of the Sultan to permifthem ,o
leave his dominions—Therefore.
bythe Senate and House of Represen
tative* of the United State* of America %Con
that the / President of ?h;
United States be and he hereby is requested
[f of
the public vessels which may be now cruis
«S e v? nited ® tate *» the Mid Louis
Koftsu h and his associates in captivity.
Approved, March 3,1851.
A Table,
Showing tht time of holding the Superior Courts
for each County , and the place of holding.
Sp’g Term.
June 16
June 9
Feb 24
Jan’y 20
April 24
March 20
May 19
March 17
April 7
April 21
■ April 28
> Feb’ry 3
• May 12
. April 7
. Feb’y 17
. Feb’y 10
> April 7
. March 17
. March 3
. Feb’ry 3
. June 9
. April 21
. June 2
. March 17
. May 13
. April 28
. March 24
. March 17
• April 21
. March 10
• Janu’y2o
. Feb’y 24
. March 24
. March 17
. April 14
. March 10
. March 10
. March 10
i April 14
. March 17
. April 14
. March 10
. May 5
. April 14
. April 28
. May 1
. Feb’y 24
. April 24
. June 2
. April 21
. March 3
. May 26
. April 21
. April 28
. June 2
. March 3
. March 24
. March 10
. March 3
. April 17
r Feb’y 24
. March 3
y April 14
. Mar«h 3
. March 24
. VI ay 12
. March 24
. April 20
. May 5
. Feb’y 17
. April 2i
. March 17
. April 10
. April 14
. Jau’y 13
. April 28
. April 28
. May 19
, March 17
. March 3
. April 17
. April 28
. May 26
. May 19
. April 14
, March 10
April 21
April 14
Feb’y 17
June 12
April 7
March 24
■ April 14
, March 24
. April 7
COUNTIES.
Baldwin ...
Bibb .......
Bryan
Bulloch ....
Burke
8utt5.......
Camdeu ...
Campbell...
Carroll ....
Ca 55........
Chatham...
Chattooga..
Cherokee..
Clarke
Cobb
Columbia...
Coweta....
Crawford ..
Clinch .. ••.
Dade ......
Decetur ....
DeKalb....
D001y......
Ear1y......
Effingham..
Elbert
Emanuel ...
Fayette....
Floyd
Forsyth....
Franklin ...
Gilmer
Glynn
Green
Gwinnett...
Gordon .....
Habersham
Hall
Hancock...
Harris .....
Heard .....
Henry .....
Houston ...
Irwin ......
Jackson...,
Jasper.....
Jefferson ,
Jones
Laurens ...
Lee........
Liberty ....
Lincoln ....
Lowndes...
Lumpkin...
Macon
Madison ...
Marion
Mclntosh ~
Meriwether
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan ....
Murray ....
Muscogee
Newton ....
Oglethorpe.
Paulding ...
Pike
Pulaski....
Putnam ....
Rabun
Randolph...
Richmond..
Scriven ....
Stewart....
Sumter.....
Talbot ....
Taliaferro..
Tattnall....
Telfair
Thomas....
Troup
Twjggs
cmon t••••
Upson
Walker...,
Walton ....
Ware
Warren....
Washington
Wayne ....
Wilkes ....
Wilkinson..
i Wild Woman Caught. —The famous Wild
Woman of the Navidad has been caught. A
l party of hunters who were out hunting deer,
i came upon the camp of this singular creature
f and captured her.—She is an African negress,
; who fled to those wilds when the settlements
l were deserted just after Fannin’s defeat, and
> she has been wandering like an ourang outang
i for a period of about fifteen years.— Her food
l during that period consisted of acorns, nuts
and other wild fruits, with such other food as
she could occasionally steal from the neigh
boring settlements. She cannot speak any
, English, but converses freely with the Afri
cans on the neighboring plantations. Thus
is solved the mystery that has hitherto given
s a romantic interest to the story of the Wild
Woman of the Navidad.— Houston, Tel., 2 Is*
Feb.
Appointments by the Presibkxt, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate. —Robert
| C. Sehenck, of Ohio, to be Envoy Extraordi
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the gov
ernment of Brazil. John B. Kerr, of Maryland,
• to be Charge d’Affaires of the U. States to he
government of Nicaragua. Yelverton P.King,
of Georgia, to he Charge d’Affaires of the U»
States to New Grenada. Franklin H. Clack,
of Louisiana, to be Secretary to the Legation
of the U. Slates in Brazil. Samuel G. Good
rich, of New York, to be Consul of the United
States at Paris, in France, in place of Rob’t.
Walsh, resigned. John Howard Payne, to be
Cousul at Tunis. William S. Allen, of Mis
souri, to be Secretary of the Territory of New
Mexico. Elias P. West, of New Mexico, At
torney of the United States lor the Territory
of N ew Mexieo. Jeese Turner, of Arkansas*,
to be District Attorney of the United States
for the western district of Arkansas. George
Knox, of Askansas, to be Marshal of the U.
States for the western "district of Arkansas.
John Jones, New Mexico, to be Marshal of the
United States for the Territory of New Mexi
co
Officers of the Customs. — Collectors. —Thos.
Butler King, for the district of San Francisco,
Cal forma. William Henry Russell, for the
district of Monterey, California. Jesse S.
Hambleton, for the district of Sacramento,
California. Colin Wilson, for the district of
Umpqua, Oregon. Simpson P. Morse, for the
district of Puge ’s Sound, Oregon.
Surveyor* —Robert Goodwin, for the port of
Beverly, Maas. Edward C. Ward, for the
port of Jacksonville, North Carolina. Jesse
Lhomas, tor the port of Nashville,Tennessee,
lobias Wolf, for the port of Memphis, Ten
nessee. William Brown, for the port of Evans
ville, Indiana. Frederick Belden, for the port
of Corpus Christi, Texas. Samuel Harris, for
the port of Velasco, Texas. Samuel Barney,
Genr^P P °v ° f „ Sa , nU B «bara, California.
ntZnl P ‘i? eWel V 0 , r tUe P° rt of Pacihc city,
Oregon. Alonzo Leland. for the port of Wil
ualTy,°Oreg m. M * '° T the Port
Appraisers at Larye. Chales Bradley of
Massachusetts. Mathias B. Edgar
York. John S. R-ddle, of Pennsylvania * H
W. Evans, of Maryland.
The New Uxio.\J]Pxkty.— The St. Louis
Union, commenting upon Mr. Foote’s account
of the new Union party he is so busy forming,
as “composed of all the best men of both the
old ones,” This reminds us of Randolph’s
account of the “Union party” which was at
tempted during Thomas. Jefferson's adminis
tration. After Randolph had fallen out with
Jefferson, he was invited to attend a meeting
or caucus at Washington, to be composed of
the “honest men of all parties.” Randolph
says he was late getting to the meeting, and
when he got there it was organized with Aaron
#UJT in the chair.
bounty Sites.
Huntsville
Newton.
Milledgeville.
Macon.
Eden.
Statesboro’.
Waynesboro’.
Jackson.
! Jeffersonton,
Campbellton.
Carrollton.
Cassville.
Savannah.
Summerville.
Canton.
Watkinsville.
Marietta.
Appling.
Newnan.
Knoxville.
••••••••••
Trenton.
Bainbridge.
Decatur.
Vienna.
Blakely.
Springfield.
Elbsrton.
Swainsboro’.
Fayettville.
Rome.
Cumming.
Carnesville.
EUijay.
Brunswick.
Greensboro’.
Laurence ville.
Calhoun.
Clarkesviile.
Gainesville.
Sparta.
Hamilton.
Franklin.
McDonough.
Perry.
Irrinsviile.
Jefferson.
Monticello.
Louisville.
Clinton.
Dublin.
Starkville.
H&inesyille.
Lincolnton.
Troup ville.
Dahlonega.
Lanier.
Darnels ville.
Tazewell.
Darien.
Greenville.
Forsyth.
Mt. Vernon.
Madison.
Spring Place
Columbus.
Covington.
Lexington.
Van Wert,
Zebulon.
Hawkinsville
Eatonton.
Clayton.
Cutkbert.
Augusta.
J acksonbcro’.
Lumpkin,
Americus.
Talbotton.
Crawford’ile.
Reidsvilie,
Jacksonville.
Thomasvilte
La Grange.
Marion.
Blairsville.
Thomaston.
La Fayette.
Monroe.
Waresboro’
Warrenton.
Sandersville.
Waynesville.
Washington.
irwinton.
Fall Term.
Dec 15
Dec 8
Aug 25 1
July 7
Dec 4
Oct’r 24
Nov 17
Sept 15 |
Nov 17
Oct 20
Oct 25
Aug 4
Jan’y 13
Oct 20
I Aug 18
Aug 14
Oct 6
Sept 15
Sept 1
Aug 4
Dec’r 8
Oct 20
Dec 1
Sept 15
Nov 10
Oct 27
Oct 27
Sept 18
Oct 20
Sept 8
1 July 21
Aug 25
i Sept 22
Sept 15
Nov 24
Sept 8
Sept 8
Nov 10
Oct 13
Sept 15
Oct 13
Sept 8
Nov 3
Oct 13
Oct 20
Oct 23
Aug 25
Oct 20
Nov 10
Oct 20
Sept 1
Nov 24
Dec 1
Oct 20
Dec 1
Sept 1
Sept 22
i Sept 8
» Sept 1
l Nov 27
( Aug 25
1 Sept 1
- Oct 13
Sept I
Sept 22
Nov 10
Sept 22
Oct 20
Nov 2
Aug 18
Oct 20
Sept 15
Oct 9
Oct 13
June 9
Oct 20
Oct 20
Nov 17
Sept 15
Sept 1
Oct 16
Oct 20
Nov 24
Nov 17
Oct 13
Sept 8 '
Oet 20
Oct 13
Aug 18
Dec 11
Oct 6
Sept 22
Nov 21
Sept 22
Oct 6
(From the Journal of Commerce.')
“Wme n will our Countrymen learn Wis
dom."—This despairing ejaculation closes an
epistle put forth by our distinguished Minis
ter at London, in view of the state of trade, as
presented by our Secretary of the Treasury, ;
showing an eascess of importt over exports for
1850 of some twenty-six millions dollars.
What was the folly referred to? It was the
fact that our country had exported produce
to the amount of $151,000,000 to foreign coun
tries; had added thereto the freight on it by
our vessels, and the profits on the business,
and thereon imported into the country $177,-
000,000 of property in 1850. Was there any
! destitution in our country of any of the cotton,
rice, tobacco, lumber, flour, wheat &c. &c. con
stituting this $150,000,000, or any of them
during the year? The answer is, No, we felt
none. Then the injury has not been in the
exporting—and if it exists at all, it must have
been in the importing. Well, what was im
ported that was not necessary to our use or
comfort? The reply must be, nothing. For
the whole seems to have been sold, and the
imports continue. Then it was not in the im
ports —and as there was no cause of alarm for
injury to the country either in the exports or
in the imports oi 1850, whence did the dread
of our Minister arisr? Could the people have
done better by keeping any or all this produce
at home? Certainly not; they had enough
left for all their purposes—and any surplus
beyond that, would have been useless to them
and of course without value.
But suppose 100,000 bales of the cotton
which was exported in 1850, had been retained
at home; what wouid have been the results
and how would they have affected Mr. Law
; rence and his neighbors? Ist, The price in-
I stead of being 13 cents per lb., would have
: been 7c. per lb. at home, and Mr. Lawrence
j and his neighbors could have supplied their
i cotton mills with the raw material at about
i half price, making a difference of three million
i dollars to their mills. Nor would the benefit
j to them have been confined to that sum. The
» amount of foreign goods which were imported
| by the sale of those 100,000 bdes of cotton
i abroad, would have been deficient in supply
ing the home markets, and Mr. L. and his
friends could have furnished a substitute for
them, for a further profit of three to six mil
lion dollars more.
Well may Mr. Lawrence exclaim, “ When
! will our coun rymen learn wisdom I"
COMMERCE.
Cotton Panic-
The following observations addressed to
“Cotton Planters” by a Commission Merchant
of New Orleans, well describes, the process by
which Cotton panics are created by the En
glish manufacturers; enabling them by means
thereof to lay in their supplies at reduced
rates, to the great loss of the planter and
American Cotton Merchant. There can be no
doubt that the same game has been played
year after year. Still the planters refuse to
learn wisdom, and save themselves by holding
back their crops.
Gentlemen: —-You have lately witnessed
an almost unprecedented decline in your great
staple, Cotton. For this decline, I assert
without the fear of rational contradiction there
exists no good and sufficient cause. There is but
an apparent cause—the increased receipts up
to this date: but there is no man pretending
to the slightest knowledge of the subject, who
will say that there is anything in this fact
simply, to indicate a larger crop than the al
most universal estimate made some sixty or
ninety days since of 21 or twenty-two hun
dred thousand bales.
What, then is the cause of this decline? It,
in my opinion, results from a regular and sys
tematic combination on the part of the En
glish manufacturers, and their aids, to depress
the article which is the most desirable object
in the w’orld to them—and for this opinion I
offer the following reasons. Judge, then, for
yourselves.
* It is believed by many, even in Liverpool—
men quite as honest as those who are intrust
( ed with taking an account of the Cotton there
on the first of January—that the stock was
falsely reported and not to be relied upon; in
plain words, that it was not as large as it was
, given out to be.
Having got thus far, the manufacturers,
aided by the Bank, (for Cotton is the life blood
of England and the cheaper the more nourish
ing') and others interested, proceed to effect
their purpose of lowering the price of Cotton
in this manner: It is known that they are
literally without stock: in other words, that
they are working from hand to mouth, but
they report a stock of five hundred thousand
bales in Liverpool, and then, instead of purchas
! ing their supplies there, they leave that market
to sink by its oxon\iosight, and send Jure tobuy
just bare enough to keep their mills going. The
effect of this course is plain and certain—The
holders of Cotton in Liverpool—speculators
and shippers—find no demand for it there,
and of course the article rapidly declines, and
is followed by a still more rapid decline with
us.—Having gotten up this decline, and panic,
from which it is hard for us to recover, they
have from 60 to 90 days to purchase the bulk
of our Cotton at low prices, which they gen
erally succeed in doing; and this is repeated,
year by year, as it becomes necessary.
And now, gentlemen, is there a man amongst
you so dull as not to see the keen art and
terrible potency of these tactics, and the en
tire practicability of carrying them into effect
by such a body as the manufacturers of Man
Chester? You have felt, and are feeling, their
effects to your hearts’ content. Nor can aDy
man give you any other reason why Cotton,
that was worth thirteen cents sixty days since,
should now be worth but nine and a half
cents, and which will be worth thirteen three
months hence?
Gentlemen, I have given you but one speci
men of legerdemain: many more could be pro
duced.
Rising of the B’hoys.— Our quiet and
peaceable village was on Tuesday night, the
scene of an amusing outbreak of youthful fire
aad fun.
A dioramic exhibition, which had been
heralded by flaming red handbills, was open
ed at the appointed hour, and a goodly num
ber of young men about town flocked to the
show, lhey at once saw that they were
most egriously sucked in, and determined to
get the worth of their quarters by a little fun
of their own making. Accordingly, having
permitted the lecturer and expositor of the
Grand Diorama, to complete all his perfor
mances, they at once commenced theirs by a
simultaneous attack upon the Revolution, its
battles and heroes, with sticks, pocket-knives
and finger nails. The enchatment of art fell
before their charge, and in one brief minute
the grand artistic representation was torn into
a hundred fragments. The proprietor fled in
dismay, and, we are told, was discovered this
morning perched upon a ten-pin-alley, and
endeavoring to conceal himself behind a chim
ney.
Poor fellow! His feelings must be gloomy;
but this will teach him perhaps to beware
how he practises such gross frauds in iuture.
[Edgefield Advertiser.
Melancholy Death On Sunday after
noon, Miss Hetty Way, an amiable young lady,
daughter of W. I. Way, Esq., of this city, died
suddenly of a disease of the heart. She had
been in ill health for some time, but was able
to sit up in her bed, and was quite as well on
Sunday, till within a few minutes of her death,
as she had been at any time for two weeks.—
Savannah Mspubliean, 18 th inst.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST,
Augusta, ©Georgia.
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 20-
i The new steamer Albatios, attached to Lin
| tin's Charleston line, left Philadelphia at U
o’clock on Saturday, on a trial trip, with a
large number of invited guests on board. It
was intended to go as far as New York and re
turn on Monday next.
Shipwreck. —The Norfolk Beacon, of the
14th inst. says “The schr. Monterey. Copes,
of Norfolk, from Charleston, S. C., in ballast,
bound to Baltimore, struck on Cape Lookout,
on the 7th inst. and unshipped her rudder,
and being unmanageable, was run ashore one
mile north of the Cape. Crew saved. The
vessel was fully insured and has been given
up to the underwriters.
A telegraphic despatch to the New-Orleans
Picayune, announces that Jenny Lind had a
great triumph at her Concert in Natchez.
There were 780 ticke'.s sold, the Church
wherein she sang, only holding 800 persons.
The proceeds of the Concert were $6,600, of
which SI,OOO were devoted to charitable pur
poses. A great crowd assembled outside and
around the Magnolia, which left at midnight
with Jenny Lind and suite on board, amid the
cheers of all assembled.
Geo. Thompson, M. P. is going over to
Canada, for the purpose it is said of inquiring
into the condition of the fugitives who have
fled this Country to “Her Majesty’s freer
domain,’’ and if they be found suffering, to
take steps to provide for their necessaties. He
will return in several weeks to this state, says
the Syracuse Journal, to pursue his labors.
One of the labors, says the N. Y. Express, is
slander , of which the following, from his
; Springfield speech, is a specimen:—
“Your country (said he) is not visited by
j the calamities of Pestilence or Famine , but
| w^at i p worse. God has rained down upon you
; more than thirty thousand Priest a”
'&Jn.' k a late, speech he denounced the late
Florida and Mexican wars of this country as
the most outrageous and disgraceful wars that
had ever been waged by a civilized nation.
All this is tolerated by a people professing the
loftiest patriotism.
Flax Cotton— McNair, Greenhow and
Irving, in their last Manchester Trade Report
says, “We may mention that the attempt to
spin flax in ordinary cotton machinery, which
has been some time before the public, with an
extravagant indulgence in anticipated success,
has for the present at least been abandoned in
tuis neighborhood. Whatever further prose
cution in the design may effect, it is clear that
the idea had its origin chiefly in the dearness
of cotton. To enable flax to supersede ma
terially the use of cotton and wool on the score
; of cheapness, is what we have been unable so
far to comprephend."
Bishor Hughes a Cardinal— A report has
been received by the Asia, that Archbishop
Hughes has been made a Cardinal. Our for
eign papers do net mention the fact, but it is
very probably true.
The Methodist Lawsuit.— A New York
correspondent of the Pittsburgh Advocate say s
that counsel in the suit of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, South, against the Methodist
Episcopal Churcb, for its share of church pro
perty, are making progress, and that the case
will probably be tried at the April term of
the Circuit Court in this city.
Edward Stiff, formerly editor of the Chero
kee Sentinel, who killed a man named Wil
liam Gilbert, in De Kalb County, in May,
1847, and who was out on bail, was arrested
at Washington on the 15th inst, by Ebenezer
Pitts, one of his securities, who followed him,
he having fled.
Rifle Corps*
A meeting is advertised to be held at Lam
back s,This Evening, of those disposed to form
a Rifle Corps in this city. We have been
shown a list of about thirty who have already
put down their names. We hope there will
be a full attendance, and that the company
will be speedily formed.
{Reportedfor the Baltimore Sun.)
Proceedings of the United States Senate.
Washington, March 13, 1851.
The Senate assembled this morning, and
immediately proceeded to the consideration
of Executive business.
After the doors were opened, Mr. Gwia
offered a resolution, which was agreed to, re
questing the President to lay before the Sen -
ate, at the next session, all the information in
the possession of the government in relation
to claims against the United States growing
out cf the conquest of California.
Mr. Dodge submitted a resolution, which
was agreed to, directing that certain Geologi -
cal surveys in Missouri and lowa be said be
fore the Senate at the next session.
Mr. Walker offered a resolution expressing
the thanks of the Senate to the Hon. W R
King for his able and impartial discharge of
the duties of the chair—which were unani
mously adopted.
Mr. King responded, and then pronounced
the Senate adjourned tine die.
We are stunned daily with southern news
paper declarations that the northern states are
perfectly sound on the fugitive slave law
How easy it were to prove this on the part of
those states! Let their legislatures, in solemn
form, approve of that law in express terms,and
then all doubt will vanish. The absence of
some sueh declarations is, under the circum
stances, the most satisfactoryjproof that they
are totally, radically unsound.- Mobile Tri
bune.
Can anything exceed the incredulity and
presumption of these fire-eaters. Here’s an
editor that does not believe ihat the North is
perfectly sound on the fugitive slave law,and
has the impudence to require that the North -
ern legislatures should repeal their uncon
smutional laws by which that law is render
ed inoperative, before he will put faith in such
assurances. In the name of the Constitution;- !
? atlßfy these “Southern:
ultraists --these pesky “agitators!” What I
if the nothem Legislatures have refused to
repeal their anti-slavery laws? What if the
people have resisted the execution of the fugi
tive slave lawr What if the United States
officers in Massachusetts have neglected and
refused to discharge their duties under the
law. What, if it has been nullified by the
States of Veimont and Ohio? What, if Ohio j
has passed a law, giving the fugitive trial by ;
jury in that State, in direct contravention of
the law of Congress? What of all this? Has
not the President turned out no, he hasn’t
yet turned out the Marshal of Boston—but
has he not issued a flaming proclamation and
a message of two mortal columns of newspa
per print against the perpetrators of the Bos
ton outrage? And has not the “conservative"
press of the South abused Boston all black
and blue about that disgraceful affair In the
name of the Constitutional Union, we repeat
what more do these uncompromising mad
caps want.— Savannah News.
( From the N - O. Pica une, Uth inst.)
i _ Further from Mexico.
j our f- les of A ? ex »can papers we find some
j additional items of news from that country
;S T V ( ‘ he '“‘“P-* Zempoalteca
says, that thv, Tehuantepec treaty was before
a committee composed of members of t£e
House and Senate, and that the princioa!
features of the report had already been agreed
mAfdln C tnl e h nte TT l 8 ***•* a S itiUin g t» be ad-
V*® Um ° n 88 * Se P arate State. At
present she forms a partofZacetecas.and con-
P e° PU aUOn °l B °’ ooo ‘ Aguascalien
tes is the only one of the departments formed
by the law of June 30th, 1838, that is not
now an independent State.
, T alle ’ Gditor of the Noticiosoat Puebla,
having been arrested for expressing some of
his poiitioal sentiments a little too freely, has
bem sentenced to six months solitary confine*
ment. An editor has a poor chance in Mex-
Jose Maria Esteoa, of Vera Cruz, has ob
tained the privilege of constructing a railroad
from v era Cruz to Medellin.
Agapito Garcia Davila has been elected
Governor of New Leon.
Col. Peralta, a Guatemalan refugee, has
been arrested atOajaca, on a charge of having
participated in the recent rebellion in that
State.
*^ uau Manuel, one of the secretaries of
the Senate, was recently robbed of $ 250 in
broad daylight, in the city of Mexico.
The contrabrand trade is greatly diminish
ing at Acapulco.
During the year 1850, 2,994 persons were
received into the hospital at Tampico. The
number of deaths was 206.
t on ®£? ss k as refused to accept the renort
of the Finance Committee, allowing Herrera,
the late President, $4,000 a year during his
retirement.
The chiefof a band of robbers, Agassita
Gonzales, has been arrested in New Leon.
This band had committed many depreda
tions.
Estimates of the Cotton Crop
Below 1 hand you estimates of the Cotton
crop—if it be wrong in any part, I wish to
havethe error pointed out, and some good
reason given to show that it is an error. In
many instances, I think, the figures are too
high, and think I ventured little in asserting
tha: I can show more clearly, that some es
timates are too low, than any person can show
that any one of the estimates is too high. If
these estimates are any where near correct,
is it not manifest that some very extraordi
nary causes are, and have been, at work, pro
ducing the present depressed prices? I ask
all paaties interested in the great staple of
the South, to inquire into this matter—if
there are errors in the estmate, point them
out, and if there are “extraordinary causes"
at work, point them out too. My object is to
arrive at the truth—the whole truth—and
nothing but the truth:
Estimate of the Cotton Crop of 1850-51
March 8, 1861.
Received at all the ports to date as
per Price Current 1,693,185
Received, and now at interior towns, viz •
Augusta & Ham. Feb. 1,’51 65,558
Columbus, Ga. “ 22, “ 17,741
Macon, Ga. March 4, “ 17,780
Montgo’ry, Ala. “ 1, “ 16,759
Memphis, Tenn. Feb. 18, “ 20,000
Columbia, S. C. “ 1, “ 5,000—142,838
Total received and on hand 1,836,023
Estimated amount to come from
sundry places :
Yazoo river and tributaries.. 20,000
Vic’y Memphis&Hatch. river 15,000
Tennessee river & Nashville 40,000
Arkansas and White rivers.. 4,000
Red and Ouachita livers 15,000
Scattering, from Miss, river.. 15,000
Texas 20,000
Tombigbe,War. & Ala. rivers 40,000
Interior of Georgia 50,000
Interior oi South Carolina...so,ooo
Florida 40,000—309,000
Estimate of whole crop 1850-51. ..2,145,023
But there is to be deducted
from this amount, Cotton
to be bo't at Memphis for
manufacturing at the West
Pittsburg, Wheeling, Wells
burg, and Caunelton 25,000
Deduct 5 per cent for short
weight 106,000
Deduct for trash, motes and
unmerchantable Cotton, 20,000—151,000
Leaving for the crop only 1,994,023
{N. O. Commercial Bulletin.
{Telegraphedfor the Charleston Courier .)
Baltimore, March 18.
ihe Secretary of the Interior has officially
declared that Military Land Warrants are not
assignable.
The extensive Assembly Building in Tenth
street, Philadelphia, was totally destroyed by
fire to day. ' J
Marriage.— A very singular and extraor
dinary marriage took place in this city yeter
day. ihe names Ot the happy cbuple made
man and wife ate Mr. ihomas chores and
Mrs. Susan Anderson, whose united ages
number over one hundred and forty yeas or
seventy years each. What is stili more’ ex
traordinary about this youthful and newly
wedded pair, is that the minister wno united
them in the holy bands of wedlock is the son
of the happy bride. Verily, wonders will
never cease.— Madison, Indiana , Banner .
It seems by the following that the lady who
sweeps the sidewalks has gone to Boston:
Etiquette—Fashion.—A fashionable lady
reeenUy made a morning call on a friend in
Mount Vernon street, Boston, and such was
the condition ot the skirt of her fashionable
new plaid silk, owing to the condition of the
pave, not the length of her dress, that the ser
vant showed her into the kitchen instead of
the drawing room. There is nothing like spring
mud to disguise a good sized ankle.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.
THE SUBSCRIBERS have entered into
Copartnership for the transaction of the
above business in all its branches, and respectful
ly solicit a share of public patronage.
vvm McLaughlin,
PHILIP CA VENDER.
N. B.—Our Shop is on M'lutosh-sf. opposite the
Post Office, the second Paint Shop from Broad-st.
sept. 7 tt
NEW SPRING GOODS.
HICKMAN, WESCOTT & CO.
ARE now receiving tneir Spring and Summer
siock of STAPLE AND FANCY DRY
GOODS, which they will sell as low as they can
be sold in any house in the Southern States.
Call and see us at tne rld stand of Cress &
Hickman, between the Globe and U. S. Hotel Au
gusta, Ga. Imo feb 23
Commercial.
Bv illagnetie (Eelegrapl).
Reported for the Coiistitutionalis*.
Charleston, March 19—P. M.
Cotton. —Sales to-day 800 bales, at 8| to
11 cents. The market is depressed, and prices
irregular and decidedly lower, having lost
nearly all it had gained since the arrival of the
steamer.
Augrusta Market, March 19 —p. m
COTTON.—There has been a fair demand to
day, with sales of about 400 bales, at yesterday’s
prices.
Extracts of letters received in Charleston.
Liverpool, Feb. 28.—The more favorable
tone of our Cotton market reported last week
has continued to mark it during the present,
holders have not pressed sales, and buyers
have shown more disposition to operate, and
but for the unsettled state of public affairs,
they would have done a large business. The
last advices from America, per Canada, show
ed the increase of the receipts as stili only mo
derate, and being taken in conjunction with
the reports as to the crop,shake the opinions of
those who recently had been calculating upon
a large yield, and have tended to give the im
proved feeling to the trade. We raise out
quotations for American descriptions £d per
lb., but a little more has been got on some
qualities of Orleans, which are scarce. Su
rats and Brazils we note £d. per lb. higher.—
Sea Island are a turn cheaper.
“P. S.—7 o'clock—Sales to-day are 8,000
bales, 1,500 on speculation; firm prices. Noth
ing decided as to the Ministry.”
“Liverpool, Feb. 28.—With the exception
of Saturday last, when only 3,000 bales were
sold, there has been a large amount of busi
ness daily transacted in Cotton this week;
the character of the intelligence received from
the United States on Monday morning, gave
additional confidence to holders, and led to
the establishment, by Wednesday, of an ad
vance in American kinds of fully pi per lb*
upon the quota ions of Friday last. Less ani
mation was evinced yesterday,but the advance
named was well supported. The quotations
for “fair” Boweds and Mobiles, are placed |d
higher.”
Liverpool, Feb. 28.—An evident tendency
to improvement, as well in confidence as in
prices, prevailed at the close of last week,
which the advices received by the Canada on
Monday, have confirmed. The estimates
formed of the extent of the crop do not in
crease as the season advances, few ranging
higher than 2.200,000 bales. The receipts
did not materially exceed those of last year,
although influenced by powerful inducements
to their early transit to the ports. These cor
responding causes influenced sales on Monday
to the extent of 8,000 bales ; on Tuesday
they were 8,000 bales, and cn Wednesday
8,000 bales ; and they were accompanied by a
general advance in American of pi. per lb.
Yesterday the demand was less general, and
Cotton was more freely offered; the sales
were only 4,000, making the total sales of the
week 39,460 biles.
To-day there is a good attendance of the
trade; Cotton is freely offered, and the sales
are about 7,000 bales at yesterday’s prices,
American descriptions have been in general
and good demand, and partial sales have been
effected at an advance of |d. per lb. on pre
vious rates : to-day the market closes firmly,
and the authorized quotations for “ fair” qual
ities of Upland and Mobile are advanced fd.
per lb., that of “ fair” Orleans pi. per lb., and
the lower and middling qualities having ex
perienced a corresponding increase in value.
SAVANNAH, March 18.— Cotton.—' The sales
yesterday were limited to 428 bales, at the foL
lowing prices : 12 at Bpsß at 9; 30 at Sp 81 at 9A:
21 at 9|; 55 at 10; 147 at 10p 3 at 10p and 21 bales
at 10£ cents. Trie accounts per Asia, announced
yesterday morning, caused prices to advance £ a
fc. on the lower grades, and even more was eff’ered
on the better classes, without any disposition ou
the part of holders to operate, hence the limited
transactions.
SAVANNAH IMPORTS—MARCH 17.
, Br ’ bar( l ue Jenny Lind, from Liverpool—
-4,000 sacks Salt, to J P Graves.
Per Br barque Clansman, from Greenock—loo
tons Coal, to order.
Per br gR B Lawton, from Havana—2Bs hhds,
20 tierces and 12 hhds. Mo’asses, to
Padeiford, Fay £ Co. " ' ** U>
SAVANNAH EXPORTS—MARCH 18.
Per brig Macon, for New York—463 bales C -t.
ton, 21 casks Rice, 2 bales Deer Skins,2lo Hides
and 123 empty barrels.
Per brig Augusta, for New York—Bo6 bales
Mdze* 1 Hldes ' 3 bales y ki. iS , andlOpkgs.
Sapping JnttlUgnutT
ARRIVALS FROM CHARLESTON.
Ship Ontario, Holmes. Havre.
Dan brig Sleipuer, Oligaards, Copenhagen.
Swe brig Active, Ekcrman, passed by Deal for
Rotterdam.
Brig John S Gittings, Watts, New York.
Brig Matamoras, Wass, New York.
Schr Col Satterly, Davis, New York.
Schr Maria, Greeuleaf, New York.
Scbr Zephyr, Byers, Havana.
Schr Eliza, Frisbie, Boston.
Schr Sarah Frances, Hathorn, Fall Riv« r .
Schr G W Gandy, Townsend, Philadelphia.
Schr Geo W Conner, Trimyer, Norfolk.
UP FOR CHARLESTON.
Schr Floreo, Eaton, at Baltimore.
LOADING FOR CHARLESTON.
Ship Geo A Hopley, Pierce, at Liverpool.
Br ship Aberdeen, lsbester, at Liverpool.
Ship Harriet & Jessie, Conner, at Liverpool.
ShipOntaria, Holmes, at Havre.
Br barque Carnatic, Rogers, at Liverpool, via
Staten Island.
CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON.
Br ship Queen Victoria, Moat, at Hull.
Brig Corinth. Smith, at London.
Brig Orray Taft, Cowell, at Providence.
Schr J Raymond. Bourne, at Philadelphia,
Schr Express, Stoddard, at Alexandria.
SAILED FOR CHARLESTON.
Br ship Triton, Smith, from Liverpool.
Barque Express, Whitty, from Liverpool.
CHARLESTON, March 19—Arr. steamship
Southerner, Dickinson, New York. *
Cld shipChicora, Holm, St. Petersburg Russ ; a*
barque Neptune, Dwyer, do.; Br. barque John’
Atchison, Liverpool; brig J. A. Lancaster, Moore’
New York; schr. Gen. Taylor, Abbott, Baltimore’
Went to sea, Br. ship Seostris, Logan, Glasgow-
Sp. barque industna Prieto, Maiaga; Br. bafque’
Isabella Stewart. M Kenny, Mobile; Dan. brie
-1 DaU, Rotterdam; Dan. brig Klisa Jor* sn g .
sen, Baltimore, schrs. Tionesta.Thompson Bridge
port, Conn.; Woodwell, Hatnaway, Baltimore. 8
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