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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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C From the Savannah News, 10th inst)
The Contemplated Revolution in Cuba-
We statjd in a previous article that the signs
of the times indicated a speedy denouement of
the projected revolution for Cuban liberty, that
the Cubans were ripe tor the conflict, and that
there was no lack of sympathisers in their
cause in this country. In confirmation of this
opinion, we extract the following paragraph
from the Atlanta Intelligencer of Thursday :
“Ho ! vor Cuba !—One hundred and twenty
enterprising looking young men took the Ma
con and Western Cars from this city, this
morning, bound professedly for California, but
it is well understood here that their intended
destination is the Island of Cuba. Several
young men from Atlanta joined the Company
before it left. It is perhaps worthy of notice,
in this connection, that half a dozen boxes of
Rifles were yesterday morn ; ng shipped on the
Atlanta and West Point Rai.road from this
place.”
From what we can learn this premature
movement was occasioned by a rumor which
had reached the upper districts of this State,
that the revolt of the Cubans had already ta
ken place, and the men comprising the com
pany, among whom are some of the first
spirits of the Cherokee ,region, hastened to
Savannah to tender their services to Gen.
Gonzales, who is at present a resident of this
city. Sixty-three of the party came down as
far as the Twenty Mile Station on the Cen
tral Railroad, on Saturday, from which point
they communicated with this city ; and learn
ing that their movement was premature, and
also that they had mistaken the rendezvous,
they reiurned to their homes to await the
§ I proper time, when they will again seek an
opportunity to give their aid to Cuba. A
friend who visited them informs us that he
never saw collected together a finer body of
high toned chivairic men, and that they were
• in high spirits, eager for the struggle, and san
guine of the success of the cause in which
they came to embark. The balance of tho
Company, which passed through Atlanta, it
is presumed, learned the true state of matter
at Macon and turned back.
It is very evident that an outbreak in Cuba
cannot be much longer deferred. Prom the
tenor of the accounts received from Havana,
by the Georgia, at Nev York, it is, notwith
standing the silence of the Cuban press, very
\ evident that the government there is in a state
apprehension and alarm. The correspon
dent of the Nevr York Ezprest, who it will be
seen is no friend of Cuba, writing under date
of March 31st, says:—
Since my last, a thousand rumors have been
afloat, of the disaffection of the troops in the
interior, of arrests, of the expected invasion,
'&c., &c. lam satisfied that there have been
no arrest made th*t may be attributed to po
litical motives. As to the disaffection among
the troops in the interior not much can be
said, but here the troops are faithful.
And now for the “ invasion." It is known
in town, and, in fact, all over the Island, that
the Cap tain-General has informed Commodore
Parker, of the Steamer Saranac, which ?es
sel is now lying at anchor in our harbor, that
he had received positive information that Lo
pez & Co. would make a descent upon this
island within thirty days ; and as about fifteen
days have elapsed since the Captain-General
received this news, we may soon be on the
lookout for the "pirates." They are said to
number from 2,000 to 2,500. The Captain-
General very unwisely made this statement to
Commodere Parker and officers publicly, and
the consequence is that the whole island is in
a great state of excitement and alarm. That
the Captain-General has received this infor
mation there can be no doubt, but we do
doubt its correctness; the Captain-General,
however, undoubtedly places full reliance on
the correctness of the information, from the
fact that he has requested the captain of the
Prench war Steamer Mogador, who was about
leaving this port, to oblige him by remaining
a few days longer. It may be true that a party
is on its way to invade this island, and it may
effect a landing; but there is no one so san
guine as to believe that such an invasion will
be successful. By the next steamer, perhaps,
I shall be able to give you a more definite ac
count of this affair.
By this it will be seen that the government
is in daily expectation of an outbreak, and
that the Island is “ in a great state of alarm.”
The dates by the Georgia are to the 3d inst.,
and yet the papers contain not one word about
the contemplated visit of Gen. Lopm —on the
contrary, “ the greatest tranquility appears to
prevail.” This is not singular, when we con
sider that the press of Cubs is under the
strictest surveilance of the Government. The
only wonder is how a press, so restricted, is
able to sustain itself—valueless as it is, even
as a news medium, io its own people. The
following extract from a letter of a Cuban
editor, with whom we proposed a commercial
and news correspondence, will show how lit
tle freedom is enjoyed by the press of that
beautiful Island. The editor says :
“My paper I shall be happy to exchange
with you, but the little liberty that is allowed
our pens here makes them of small interest.
Thanking you for your kind offer of news and
correspondence, I can only, say that should
you write, our Censor so cuts up matter and
meaning, that you would not be able to re
cognise your own child."
Can a government, that finds it necessary
thus to suppress the freedom of the press,
long continue to rule one of the richest and
most lovely islands in the world? A few
weeks wiil solve the problem.
Mubdkr bt Negbobs in Lafatbttb Coun
ts Arkansas. —The Washington (Ark.) Tei-
K egraph of the 26th of March, says;
Mr. Thomas Edwards, who resided near
Lost Prairie, in Lafayette county, was inhu
manly murdered by two of hi» own negroes
*>a Friday last. The negroes who
the murder, were but recently purchased by '
him, and were engaged at the time in cutting
timber near the river. They have confessed
that upon the approach of their master, they
killed him with their axes, and, to avoid de
tection, disembowelled him and threw his
body into the river. The negroes are in cus
tody, and will no doubt meet the fate their
atrocity merits.
Edwards, we are informed, was originally
from lennessee, and has been engaged in
overseeing on Red River for a number of
years, devoting a large portion of his earnings
to the support of his mother and sisters, who
still reside in that State. The body at last
accounts had not been found.
(From the N. O, Daily Delta, April 3.)
Is Suicide a Grime ?
A Strange Story from Real Life in Ne to Orleans .
Charles Roussel, a poor French tailor, on
St. Charles street, being depressed in fortune
and spirits, a few days ago suggested, in the
hearing of his wife, the idea of suicide, as a
last resource against the ills of a hard exis
tence. This idea fell like a spark on the tin
der, on the susceptible and inflammable char
acter of his Parisian wife. She pronounced
it a heroie thought, and declared that she
would share his fate, —that as they had long
struggled together in life, so they would pass
into the other world, hand in-hand. Fortu
nately, she added, the means of carrying out
their noble purpose were conveniently at hand.
She had a quantity of arsenic, which she had
bought to poison rats. They could divide it
in two equal quantities, and drink it off to
gether. The Frenchman accepted the propo
sition, and they were soon seated at the table,
with a tumbler before each. Here was a ecene
for the pen of Sue or Dumas—a scene from
real life, equal to the most exciting pictures
in their wild romances! With slow precision
and self-possession, Mrs. Roussel measured
out the arsenic, and poured the two equal
portions into the tumblers. She then filled
them with claret. They then looked steadily
at each other, and a pause of some minutes
ensued, during which they seemed to be mak
ing up their last accounts with, this world.
At last, the wife spoke:
“My dear, you do not drink —you are not
afraid!”
“Afraid,” exclaimed the heroic tailor—“a
Frenchman afraid!” and then seizing the glass,
he drank every drop of it. The wife eyed him
closely, and when she saw that he had swal
lowed the fatal dose, her heart relented against
the cruel world,—new views seemed to spring
up before ner, and her mind resumed the bal
ance from which it had been disturbed by the
suggestion of suicide. She began to think she
had
“———better bear the ills we have,
Than fly to others, which we know not of.”
Under the impulse of these new feelings,
the heroine (!) arose from the table, threw the
contents of Her tumbler into the fire-place,
and proceeding to an old armoir, drew out a
much more powerful resource against the ills
of flesh, than suicide, —a bottle of eau de vie.
The Frenchman closely observed the move
ments of his better half, and at first, thinking
that she was only preparing to commit the
fatal deed, in the most dramatic style and at
titude, he did not express any doubt or alarm,
but when he saw her deliberately assuage her
grief and desperation in a long draught of eau
de vie, instead of the eau de mart, w hich had
been mixed for the occasion, it then flashed
upon his mind that he had been the victim to
i the wiles of a second Lucretia Borgia. He
j upbraided her in the strongest terms, and call
j ed in several of the neighbors, to whom he
! related the facts as detailed. The wife, how
| ever, assumed a distressed and affectionate
; bearing, and fondling her poor husband, de
j dared that she had only deferred her destruc
tion to see that his remains were decently
buried. Reconciled by these assurances, the
poor fellow forgave her, and after giving her
a last fond embrace, was taken by some kind
persons in a cab to the Charity Hospital. Be
fore he had arrived at this establishment, the
poison had perlormed its mission, and the
poor Frenchman was a corpse. The clerk at
the Hospital refused admission for a dead
body. It was then carried to the Workhouse
where a Coroner’s jury was called, and the
foregoing facts were elicited.
The Coroner immediately issued a warrant
for the arrest of Mrs. Roussel, on a charge of
being accessory to her husband’s suicide. This
proceeding brings up the inquiiy whether sui
cide is a crime. Unless it be, there can be no
accessories, and the warrant of the Coroner
has no foundation. Under the old common
law, suicide was strongly reprobated and was
punished. The person who destroyed himself
was buried with a stake driven through his
body at the junction of cross roads. We pre
sume, therefore, that a person who was acces
sory to such an act would not escape punish
ment. But our law makes no provision for
such a case. —There are, however, circumstan
ces in this case which show that there i 9 a
defect in our criminal jurisprudence. The
turpitude and criminality of a person, who, by
false pretences and promises, induces another
to deprive himself of life, are certainly quite
as palpable, as those of the obtaining money
or goods under false pretences, which latter
offence is made a serious crime.
Who Killed Tegumseh. —At a recent meet
ing of the New York Historical Society, as we
learn from the N. York Commercial Adver
tiser, Major Richardson, formerly an officer in
the British Army, read a paper on the “inci
dents of the war of 1812, embracing particu
lars connected with the death of Teeumseh.”
The Commercial Advertiser says:
•‘Major R. having been an eye witness of
most of the matter described, and a personal
friend of the great warrior, his narrative was
of more than ordinary interest, and command
ed almost breathless attention throughout.
He related many instances of generesity and
chivalrous gallantry on the part @f the Indian
chief, which would have done no discredit to
the knight of feudal times. In relation to the
manner of his death, Major R. is of opinion
that he fell by the hand of Col. Johnson. Such,
he says was the universal understanding on
the night of the battle, when all the circum
stances were fresh in the minds of the witnes
ses, and he sees no reason to dispute the fact
at this late day. The question *Who killed
Teeumseh?’ may therefore be considered set
tled."
Major Richardson is known to the reading
public as the author of “ Waoousta,” “Ecarte,”
and other novels.
The First Wedding. —The light gossipping
paragraphs of M, M Noah, always so pleasing,
have an added interest now that the pen which
so gracefully framed them, has been laid to
moulder by his side in the eofl|n. Here is one
in which he pleasantly and philosophically
discourses upon the first Nuptial Ceremony.
“We like short courtships, and in this Adam
acted like a sensible man—he fell asleep a
bachelor end awoke to find himself a married
man. He appears to have popped the question
almost immediately after meeting Md’ile Eve,
and she without any flirtation or shyness gave
him a kiss and herself. Os that first kiss in
this world we have had, however our own
thoughts, and sometimes in a poetical mood
have wished we were the man “what did it.”
But the deed is done—the chance was Adam’s
and h§ improved it.
‘f We like the qotion of getting married in a
garden. Jt is in gopd tast,e. We like a pri
vate wedding —Adam’s was private. en
yjous tyeaux were there; no croaking old maids^
no chaptering aunts and grumbling grand
mothers. The birds of heaven were the min
strels and the glad sky flung its light upon
the scene.
“One thing about the first wedding brings
queer things to us, in spite of its scriptural
truth. Adam and his wife were rather young
to be married—some two or three days old
according to the sagest speculations of theolo
gians—mere babies—larger but not older—
without experience—without a pot or kettle —
nothing but love and Eden.”
Moan Dining ‘in honor of the Compomise.
—The new patent plan of preserving the
Union, devised by the New York committee,
has been put in vigorous operation of late.
The hero of Rabelais is rivalled in his gusta
tory feats by the elect of Unionism, who eat,
drink, and are merry, while piously felicita
ting themselves that they are not like other
men.
Mr. Webster has recently been made the
chief recipient of the culinary congratulations
of these hungry patriots, and his speeches are
made the sauce piquante to flavor the enter
tainments. Scarcely has he “fired and fallen
back” from the Annapolis fea3t, before the
Legislature of Pennsylvania invites the mayor
and city council of Baltimore to visit that
city on Tuesday next, the 7th inst., and par
take of a public dinner in honor of the com
promise, sending simultaneously an invitation
also to Mr. Webster. The challenge has been
accepted, the day fixed, and
Stroke of knife, and thrust, of fork,
Flow of wine, and flight of cork,
will constitute an accompaniment to another
exposition from the Expounder.
Well, there are certainly many other mode 3
of displaying “patriotic devotion,” which are
more unpleasant than this mutual stuffing
with compliments, congratulations, and the
delicacies of the season. We sineerely hope
that they may not, while shunning the Scylla
of “disunion.” wreck their self-complacency
on the Charybdis of indigestion.— Southern
Press.
Until the last steamer arrived the general
impression here, found on reports from Cali
fornia, was that Colonel Fremont could not be
elected to the Senate from that State. The
cause assigned was hisdisposition to defend the
titles to land in California, derived from the
Mexican and Spanish governments. This was
not popular with the mass of America emi
grants. But, now it seems that Colonel Fre
mont, has become a very promising candidate
ag jin. On looking over our files of California
papers, we find the cause of this change. We
find that Colonel Fremont’s friends are urging
his election, on the ground that he is in favor
of making the public lands of the United States
in California free to all the people there. So we
go. The Nroth robs the South of the right of
buying and occupying the territory of Cali
fornia.—Now here is a proposition for Cali
fornia to rob the United States of the land
itself. The South thus loses not only the use
of the lands, but the price—which ought to
go into the federal treasury. And senators
canvass for re-election on such a proposition.
If Mr. Fremont were, to offer a member of
the California legislature a tract of his own
gold land for a vote, the election would be
void for bribery. But to propose to all of
them to take the land of the government is
patriotism, and wisdom.
Mississippi Whiq9 Backing out. —It seems
that the Whigs in this State have no idea of
giving the direction of affairs over to ‘Union’
Democrats, as Georgia whigs have been pleas
ed to do. They have party pride yet, which
they are not willing to forego, in order that
Democrats may be promoted by the relin
quishment of their old affiaities. —A leading
whig paper alluding to the call for a Conven
tion by a Union Democratic paper, says:
Federal Union.
Several of our exchangers are urging the
assembling of a Union Convention, to nomi
nate candidates for Governor, Congress, &c.
We are opposed to the Convention so far as
we are personally concerned, and expect to
stick to the old Whig landmarks, and de
nounce Conventions. Why, we should lose
half our thunder by not being able to de
nounce the ‘Jackson clique,’ as in times past.
It won’t do friends. It is a Locofoco sugges
tion, and comes or taking the Locos into our
church without a thorough conviction except
upon one point. We must remember that
‘evil communications corrupt good manners’
We will not object to their voting for our
friends and claiming affinity with us but they
are rather too new converts to ba taking hold
of the reins of Government. We have never
yet seen such ones do well or stick long to
theirnew profession. Again we say, let’s stick
to our old landmarks.
Nrw Three Cent Coin. —The Philadelphia
Ledgar says:
The die for the three cent piece, ordered to
be coined by the last Congress,has been finish
ed, and the coinage would ba proceeded with
at once at our mint, but fora defect in the
law, which makes no provision for procuring
the silver and copper to commence with. In
consequence, the coinage will be delayed un
til the proper steps are taken by the authorities
at Washington to remedy the deficiency. The
new coin is decidedly neat and tasty, and will
be in a measure a convenient substitute for
coppers. It is one-fourth copper and three
fourths silver, so that the baser metal effects
the color but slightly. In size it is between
the gold dollar and the five cent piece, but it
is so much thinner than either that a blind
man can easily distinguish tnem apart by the
touch. The face of the coin has a capital C,
with 3 innumerals indicating the value of the
coin embraced within it. Around the edge
are the thirteen stars for the original States.
On the reverse is a star having in its centre an
American shield, and around the edge “Unit
ed States of America, 1851."
Gueiosity op the Census. —The county of
Lauderdale, in Alabama, is remarkable for
many things; but not the least of its wonders
is the fancy some of its people have for names
of portentous length. Little Master Smith’s is
J. W.T. H. A. G. C. R. E. Smith, which the
census taker has kindly explained upon the
margin, by writing the full name, or all the
names as lollows: James Weßley Turner Ho
gan Anderson Gabriel Canton Hoger Ebenezer
Smith,—The young gentleman was a month
old when this affliction was visited upon him.
Miss. House was three years old when her
parents responded for hei.and gave the initals
of her name or names as follows: S. M. C. J.
E. D. F. House. Here, also, \ye have the
benefit of census man’s mariginal notes, and
learn that Sarah Mary Catherine Jane Eliza
beth Deborah Francis House accord with the
parents’ notions of euphony, burely no more
children could have been looked for in these
homes.— Washington Telegraph.
Delightful. —The True" Delta’s Tehuante
pec correspondent gives us some insight into
the beautitul regions explored by the survey
ing party—a country where eternal spring
reigns, and where the earth is constant.y cloth
ed in the most beautiful and gorgeous livery
of nature. His letter is dated I9ch March.—
At present, he says, we are only annoyed by
a. few of the insects and vermin of which these
latitudes are prolific. What will the summer
season bring forth ? The vampyre bat is nu
merous at Bo3a de Monte. It is a kind of
amateur physician of the Sangrado school, al
though it eschews warm water and in its place,
while the patient is undergoing depletion,
keeps him in a deep sleep by •ooling the air
with a constant action of the wings. The same
operation is performed on horses, cattle, &c.
There is another, the Tarantula, which by
licking the feet of the horses causes a lame
ness called the “Yerba.” Another is called
the “ Nigua,” better known in the States an
the Chigger. The writer had the pleasure of
removing four families of this interesting in
sect (each in a sack) who had taken up their
residence in his toes, without asking if the
premises were to let. A fly is there that de
posites a worm in the foot, which can only be
removed by seducing him to the entrance of
the wound by the application of the oil of to
bacco, when the orifice is seared with a coal of
fire and the animal squeezed out. He wit
nessed the operation; the result was a worm
half an inch long, covered with small hairs.—
This worm will in time eat into the bone, and
the pain it occasions while at work must be
intense. For a few of the rest, they have the
Buffalo gnat, that works upon them with un
wearied industry during the day, and when at
eve, fatigued with their honest toil, they re
tire to their happy homes, their place is sup
plied by that nocturnal vagabond, the mus ■
quito, who is no less attentive than his cousin -
german, the gnat.
The whole country abounds in game, such
as deer, wild hogs, royal pheasant, Montezu
ma chicken, (similar in appearance and move -
ment to the guinea hen, but smaller,) the Chi
chilacas, &c. The sloth is found there in great
numbers, finding, the writer supposes, the
habits of the people vety congenial to his own!
The cosmopolites, the kildee, the jay and the
yellow hammer, are also to be found in the
woods. The two latter, however, instead of
having their plumage improved in brillancy as.
is generally the case near the tropics, put on
a much more sombre suit than they wear with
us, and look among the other gay denizens of
the air like mourners at a funeral; this is only
in appearauce, however, for they make up in
noise for what they are deficient in apparel. —
Mobile Tribune .
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Augusta, (&toxQia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING APRIL 16-
Rain and Hail!
We have had, for two or three days, very
changeable weather, being visited alternately
with sun-shine and showers. On Monday
there were two heavy showers of rain, accom
panied with hail, and the temperature became
very considerably lowered. We understand
that the hail was very severe a short distance
from the city, and extended for many miles
to the South.
The hail stones, as large as pigeon’s eggs, cov
ered the ground in some places. One gentleman
brought a large supply enveloped in a blanket,
yesterday, into the city, as a specimen of the
storm. Another told us that, after witnessing
the quantities of hail that fell on Monday, he
has not the least remnant left of scepticism
relative to the celebrated hail storm in Jasper
county, which was graphically described a
few years ago by a well known gantleman of
that county.
We hear of severe hail storms in the upper
part of the State. They must have done
great injury to the young corn, and to the
wheat and oat crops.
Dodge's Dagaerrean Gallery-
We indulged ourself, a day or two since, in
a visit to this attractive place, and found much
gratification in examining M\ Dodge’s nu
merous and beautituliy executed Daguerreo
types, and Miniatures. He is an acc >mp!ish
ed artist, and paints miniatures on ivory in
the most finished style. His specimens of
miniature painting are gems of that beautiful
art.
He has also a superior apparatus for taking
Daguerreotypes, as the specimens he has re
tained for exhibition of many faces well
known among us, fully attest.
Mr. Dodge has now been several years a
resident of this city, with his interesting fami
ly, and we hope the patronage hitherto so lib
erally extended to him, will be continued, so
as to retain among us one so capable in his
art.
The ladies will find adjoining his operating
gallery a tastefully furnished parlor, in which
is an elegant piano, where they may beguile
their time pleasantly, while friends whom
they accompany, or others who are in advance
of them, are sitting for their likenesses.
Boot and Shoe Business in New-York-
The New-York correspondent of the Sa
vannah News gives the following statistics of
this business in that city. Large quantities
of these Boots and Shoes are made for South
ern use. Why cannot they be made at the
South, and thus create among ourselves a
large and respectable class of artizans ?
It is the encouragement of industry like
this in the North, which helps to build up
their cities, and to drain the South of her
wealth.
“ A curious statement has appeared of the
shoe and boot business of New-York City, by
which it seems that there are made here, in a
week, 100,940 pairs, as follows : Ladies’ gai
ters, 59,500 ; Misses’, 14,000, and children’s
14,000. Men’s fine boots, 13,440 ; estimated
value at wholesale prices, $l4O 000. There
are employed 11,900 men and 10,500 females
aggregate wages paid, $115,500. Men earn
from $6 to $9 per week, and women, (bind
ers,) $2 to $3. There are 2,000 master boot
and shoe makers up town, and about 600 boot
and shoe warehouses and stores;,”
The Late Floods.
We have accounts from all quarters in the
South of heavy rains and disastrous floods.
Huch valuable has been overflowed, and
the business of planting must be materially
retarded. The Columbus Times makes the
following noteworthy comments on the sub
ject ;
“The effect on the crops of the year must
be sensibly felt. Not more than one planter
out of ten has planted cotton, and the tenth
man is more unlucky than the nine. The
seed is better out of the ground than in it after
a beating rain like the one that has fallen.
The crust formed on the surface is unfavora
ble tq germination, and when the plant comes
up it is liable to injury from the hardness of
the surface. As a general rule, it is better to
plough up and plant again, than trust to a
crop started under such circumstances. The
effect must be to retard the general planting.
—And it is safe to say, that the seed will not
be generally in the ground before the 20th
of this month. This destroys one of the ele
ments of a large crop—to-wit: an early plant- (
ing, and a good early stand. ‘
The Savannah News contains the following j
in reference to the Boston fugitive slave case. :
“ Messrs. Pearson & Co. are the owners of
the line to which the vessel belonged in which
Sims made his escape from this city. We
understand that these gentlemen have been
active in their efforts to procure the return of
the fugitive, and that they generously offered
a free passage to the agents of Mr. Potter,
for themselves and the boy Sims. Mr. Pear
son is a gentleman well and favorably known
in this community, having on a previous oc
casion taken much trouble, and incurred heavy
expenses, to secure a runaway slave in Boston.
Such conduct entitles this firm to the respect
and confidence of the true friends of the
Union everywhere.
Cincinnati, April 10th.
Fire at Cincinnati.—A fire broke out at
half past 6 o'clock this morning, in the store
of Campbell, Ellison & Co., Columbia street,
which, with the extensive furniture warerooms
of Mitchel & Rammelsburgh, and the whole
sale grocery werehouse of Pullan, Hatfield &
Brown, adjoining, were entirely destroyed.
The loss is heavy, but nearly covered by in
surance.
New York, April 11.
Arrival op the steamer Washington—
Fire — Coin in the Sub-Treasury. —The steamer
Washington arrived here last evening from
Southampton, after a passage of 15 days. She
brings $250,000, in doubloons.
The arrival of the U. S. frigate St. Lawrence
at Southampton, had been followed by a se
ries of gay festivities.
A fire originated last night in the establish
ment of Hudson, Robertson & Pendleton, No.
180 Broadway which communicated to the
gun shop of Mr. Cooper, adjoining, speedily
destroying both buildings. The Howard
House was also considerably damaged.
The coin in the Bank and Sub-Treasury
wag counted yesterday, and amounted to
$11,505,000.
( Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier .)
New Orleans, April 11—9,15 P. M.
The Market , April 11.—There has been a
quarter of a cent advance in the Cotton mar
ket since Africa’s news received, and 6,500
bales sold. The price current quotes low to
strictly middling, 10£ to 11c. Choice Molas
ses 33c.
New York, April 14.
The Market. —Three thousand bales Cotton
sold to-day at £ to §c. decline, since Africa’s
accounts. Rice unchanged, 3£ to 3£e.
Baltimore, April 14.
New-York Market. —Couon has declined one
quarter of a cent since the receipt of the Afri
ca’s news. Uplands are quoted at Ilf, and
Orleans Ilf, at which prices 3000 bales were
sold to-day The sales last week were 17,000
bales.
Truthful Sent iments Forcibly Express
ed. —The Mississippian, in closing an able ar
ticle on a call of a State Convention in June,
uses the following language, which is as ap
plicable to our atmosphere as to that for
which it was written :—[ Federal Union.
“ But let it not be inferred that we, or any
Democrat, would wish to exclude from our
deliberations the State Rights Whigs, who,
indignant at the usurpations of a Free-Soil
Administration, and disgusted with the shame
ful recreancy of their former political associ
ates, who have constituted themselves leaders
of the Submission party, are acting with the
Democracy in behalf of Southern Rights.
Villified and ostracised by the Submission fac
tion —pursued with blood-hound fury by the
Submission press—they are to be recognised
by the Southern party as worthy, patriotic
coadjutors in a glorious cause.
“We repeat, again, to our political breth
ren, that the time for action has arrived. Let
| meetings be held, and let faithful and true
men be appointed in all parts of the State, to
meet together on the third Monday in June,
and select our standaid bearers in the contest
which we are about to wage with Federal
Whiggery in its deceptive guise of ‘ Union
ism.’ Let the North come forth in all the
majesty of her strength. Let ihe voice of the
great East be heard. The game is up l ‘ The
wolf of Whiggery, gaunt, famished, malig
nant and exterminating,’ is on the walk. The
demon of Abolition, too, which Submission
encourages, must be met. It now looks upon
the South and meditates her destruction,
with the feelings which preyed in the bosom
of the spoiler of Paradise, • when on the tree
of life he sat like a cormorant,’ plotting the
ruin of mankind. Let us, then, press for
ward to the work before us, determined never
to permit the strong hold of Democracy to
fall into the hands of the enemy.”
Cost op Going to the World’s Fair.—The
New York Tribune is giving some calculations
as to the expense attending a visit to the
World’s Fair. The conclusion it comes to is
as follows :
Fare going and returning in a steamer. .S2OO
Gratuities to servants on sieamers 5
Railroad fare to London and back 14
Board in London four weeks 85
Hack hire, (look out sharp for the dri
vers) 16^
Amusements, excursions, &c 25
Fare from London to Paris and back.... 15
Expenses a week in Paris 40
S4OO
This is as small an amount as the trip can
be made for, and any one intending to make it
had better add 30 per cent, to the calculation.
Baltimore Sun.
A Flowery Preacher. —One of the best
illustrations of a “flowery” discourse, which
we can remember, is that of a gentleman who,
in lecturing to an audience, eclipsed Paley’s
Evidences in the following manner: “Ladies
and gentlemen, I am as certain of the existence
of these truths as I am that flour comes from
Rochester, and that I know for certain, my
brother having this morning received three
hundred, barrels of superfine, which, he de
sires me to state, will be sold for cash or ap
proved paper, as any in the market!”—Draw
ing Room Journal.
Counterfeiters,— «■ We iearm from the Mem
phis Appeai that Alfred H. Gay and George
. who were recently arrested in that
city on a charge of counterfeiting, have been
commited lor trial. The Appeal says:
iVe learn that their operations were carried
on in a flat boat at the foot of Beal Street in
which their implements were found. Their
mode of counterfeiting consisted in changing
cenominations of bills, which was done with
such skill as to enable them to pass a Qonsid
erable amount of the money upon our brokers.
Murder and Suioide in Drew County,
Arkansas. —The Pine Bluff (Jefferson county,
Ark.) Republican of the 31st ult. says :
“We learn that a most tragic and horrid
murder occurred in Drew county during the
past week. Mr. S. Condren returned home
from Napoleon and being displeased bis
wife, he seized her by the hair of the head
and cut her throat; causing immediate death.
It is supposed that'his conscience so effectu
ally got the ascendency for the horrible crime
done, that he immediately cut his own throat,
causing death. The deceased formerly
esidents of this county.”
3 p magnetic <&eUgrapl).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
New York, April 15—P. M.
Cotton. —There has been a farther decline
in the market to-day. The sales were 3,000
bales. Middling Upland 11, Orleans Hi cents.
Other things unchanged.
Charleston, April 15 —P. M.
Cotton.— The sales to-day amount to 1800
bales at 9 to 12 cents. No material change
from yesterday. The lower qualities are fur
ther depressed.
Detroit, April 10th.
Death of General Brady. —The gallant
and venerable General Hugh Brady, of this
city, is dead. He was killed a few moments
since by a fall from his carriage in the upper
part of the city. He was upwarps of eighty
years of age and universally beloved.
Bread. —l'he London Tunes swears sol
emnly that the English people will never con
sent again “ to eat bad bread,” as they were
foreed to do by the spirit of “ protection” in
1817. On this point the Times is emphatic,
even in the menace of revolution. It says :
“ We warn these noblemtn, then, that any
attempt, whatever, under whatever name or
pretence, to restrict the people of this coun
try to the short and spoiled harvests of our
own soil, will be met by the most determined
resistance. Should any body of persons in
the position of her Majesty’s advisers only
divulge an unmistakable intention to bind
again the chains of monopoly, and to stretch
the victim once more upon the rack of death,
there would certainly be an almost universal
determination to resist, at all events, even to
the last appeal; and there is not an institu
tion in the country that would stand before
that resistance. The British people will not
have 'protection.’” So that John Bull has
“ got his dander up” about good bread ; and
wo to those who would confine him to short
provender! Let all nations feed their mil
lions.—Philadelphia Ledger.
(Kommemal,
Augusta Market, April 16-
COTTON.—The arrival of the Africa , with fa
vorable advices from Liverpool, has not had the
effect to advance prices here. Since Friday last,
the market has been dull, with a slight decline.
The sales are irregular, and unsettled. We quote
Middling to Good Middling, a 10|3 Middling
Fair, 10| a 10| ; Fair, 11 a 11$ cents.
' RECEIPTS OF COTTON.
From let September , 1850, to latest dates received,
1851. 1850.
Savannah, April 10 254,030......275,811
Charleston, April 10 304,537...... 295,109
Mobile, April 4 386,621 299,34 L
New-Orleans, April 8 823,757 703,469
Florida, March 30. 134,080 ..... 147,495
Texas, March 29 24,007 20,314
Virginia, April 1 14,086 8,330
Mi rth Carolina, March 29 11,245 7,845
Total Receipts ..1,952,363 1,757,714
1,757,714
Increase of Receipts this year... .194,649
STOCK OF COTTON
kemaxiiing on hand at the latest dates received.
Savannah, April 10 31,966 42,223
Charleston, April 10 38,502 53,363
Mobile, April 4 ..154,504 .103,291
New-Orleans, April 8 245,883 194,239
Florida, March 30 40,104 35,057
Texas, March 29 2,501...... 521
j Augusta &. Hamburg, April 1.... 61.089 60,265
Macon,April 1 20,946 15,806
Virginia, March 1 1,900 806
North Carolina, March 29 400 536
New-York, April 9 74,323 122,477
Total 672,118 628,572
628,572
Increase in Stocks 43,546
GROCERIES. —The stock of Groceries on
; hand was never better than at the present time,
i The business during the past week has been ra
i ther limited and confined to supplying small coun
try orders. Some few merchants have completed!
their orders in this market, and at satisfactory
prices. *
BACON.—Baltimore and Cincinnati Sides are
worth 9| a 10 cents ; Shoulders 8 a 8£ cents ; Ten
nessee, hog round, is worth 9| a 10 cents.
LARD.—The stock of good on hand is light,—
demand good at prices ranging from 11 to 12
| cents.
MOLASSES.—Good stock of Cuba on hand
and sales have been reported to us this week of
about 300 hhds. at prices not transpired. New
Orleans is scarce and sells readily at 36 to 31
cents per gallon.
SALT.—Our merchants are well supplied with
this article, and but little is coming to hand. Sale#
are making from Stores at #1,15 per sack.
STOCKS.—We have heard of no transact ions
this week in the stock market.
CORN.—The market is well supplied with
Maryland, and it is dull of sale at 80 a 85 cents
according to quality snd quantity.
OATS.—Good supply on hand. Selling a,t 60
cents per bushel.
j FLOUR.—Demand limited. Stock on hand
' § ood - Northern is selling at $5% to 7^—fancy
brands b y re ta d ) g 8 per bbl. Augusta Canal is
selling at to 7by the quantity, and at 7A by re
tail. 1
COFFEE. —Supply of Rio on hand good, and
sales made at prices ranging from 12 to 12£ ot#.—
principally at 12£for a fair article.
DOMESTIC SPIRITS.—SuppIy on hand suf
ficient for demand. New Orleans is selling from
stores by the bbl. at 33 cents.
FEAI HERS.—There is a good demand for
heathers and notwithstanding the receipts are on
the increase, holders are selling at 35 cents per lb.
EXCH ANQE.—Our Banks are checking on
New Y ork and other Northern cities, at sight, at 4
per cent prem. On Charleston and Savannah at
par.
FREIGHTS.—The River is now in excellent
boating order from the recent rains. Not much
down freight offering. Up freights plenty. YVe
have no change to notice in rates to either
Charleston or Savannah, which continue at sft
cents per bale for Cotton.
SAVANNAH, April 14.—C0«o».—The market
was very dull on Saturday} only 99 bales having
changed hands at prices ranging from 9 to ll^c. —
We have no change to notice in prices.
SAVANNAH IMPORTS, April 13.
Per brig Larch, from Maiiei, (Cuba)—2B3 hhds.
and 12 tierces Molasses, to Cohens <fc Hertz.
Per schr E.meline, from Carchatae, (Cuba) 278
hhds. Molasses, to W. C. O’Driseoll.
SAVANNAH EXPORTS, April 12 13.
Per steam ship Alabama, for New York— 501
bales Upland Cotton, and sundry pkga Mdze.
Per Br ship Robt A Lewis, for St. Johns, (N Bl
—130,000 feet P P Timber.
Per barque Texas, for New York—7lß bales
Upland, and 269 da Sea Island Cotton, 24 bales
Rope Cuttings, 120 bales Domestics, 170 barrels
Ro.-in, 12 boxes Tobacco, 388 Hides, 94 bags
Fruit, and 8 pkgs Mdze.
Per brig Rockingham, far Camden, (Me.)—B2 -
O’JO feet Lumber,
Per brig Alferrelta, for Boston—loo,ooo l'eet
Lumber.
Per schr Cohasset, for Boston—7s,ooo ft. Lum
ber.
Per schr W H Smith, for New York—34B bale*.
and 21 bales Rope Cuttings.