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~*• From the Savannah Ntws. 3 d insi )
The Caban Expedition—Cruise of the We
iaka «n searca of tho Expedit ouists-
We are furnished by our U porter, who
went with the Weiaka for that purpose, with
the following report:
The sudden departure o‘ the steamer Wela
ka, on Sundaj night, under orders of the
General Government, and carrying South the
U. 8. Marshal, caused considerable excite
ment during her absence, and induced the be
lief among our citizens that the Government
was in possession of information relating to
the Cuban expedition which had not teen
mide public. She returned early on Thurs
day morning, and we give below the informa
tion that we gathered at tie various points at
which she stopped during her trip.
At St. Marys then? were rumors that bo
dies ot men had passed through the interior,
destined south, and that in the vicinity of
Jacksonville, F orida, there were encamped a
onsiderabie fo* ce. As the steamer Welaka pass
ed up the 6it. John’s river, she was met by
the St. Mathews, a boat from which passed a
passenger on board the Weiaka. This indi
vidual was armed with pistols, and stated that
he thought the Weiaka was another steamer
the cbject of which was to take the Cuban
invaders on boxrd and land them at another
point below on the coast.
\>** At Jacksonville similar rumors of armed
men being encamped at different points on
the coast existed, but from reliable informa
tion, obtained from respectable sources, it was
ascertained that at the present time there is
no organization of men in the immediate neigh
borhood, and had not been. There were pro
bably some twenty or thirty men at Jackson
ville, who expr ased themselves willing to
, join the expedition, and who, no doubt, would
join it an opportunity offered. No principal
'officers of the contemplated expedition, has
been in Jacksonville lately. It was asserted
by some persons who are oelieved to be in the
mbvemen , 1 hat threat disappointment had been
experienced from the non-arrival ot a steamer
to transport those engaged in the expedition.
«Such a vessel had been expected for some tune,
‘but her unexplained delayed had damped the
ardor of some, and caused others engaged to
abandon the project, and had induced tne be
lief that the whole affair, as tar as Jackson
ville is concerned, would prove a failure.
At this place there are but few persons who
do not sympathise with, and would aid the
expedition as far as possible.
On the arrival of the Weiaka at Jefferson
ton, it was ascertained that tbere were no bo
dies of m.m encamped, as reported at Burnt
Fort. Some small parties, it was said, had
passed this point, but their destination was
» not ascertained, and but little reliance coutd
he placed on tne rumors.
Ob reaching Brunswick, it was ascertained
that some of the coast pilots had gone south,
with the intention of piloting over the St.
John’s Bar certain vessels expected at that
point. A gentleman, on w hose word every
reliance could be placed, stated that the day
before, he had passed an abandoned encamp
ment, some twenty miles above, where a large
body of men had but a short time before been
encamped. We also passed some ti.tv or six
ty men who had a baggage wago< ; they were
proceeding south, in the direct on of Burnt
Fort. They were not armed, to any extent,
and passed on in squads of from eight to ten
in number.
At Darien no particular information was
obtained. A body ot men, connected with
the expedition, had come down from the inte
rior and gone south. Some ten or twelve left
the mam body and weie making their way to
Savannah. Here it was ascertained that an
exp ess connected with the expedition had
f»#p**sed south through Darien to procure such
Jf information. He Lad pat-sed very rapidly, and
had procured relays ot on his way.
*> There can be no doubt that a movement o r
\ , eons-derable magnitude has been on foot in
* relation to an expedition destine< to Cuba.
But it is tUo believed tnat from causes un
known to the public, the mam body of the
men connected with it nave dispensed, and
that between this city and Jacksonville, Flo
rida, there is no organization at present.
But one thing is certain, that at all the
points between this city and Jacksonville, the
people, with but few exceptions, sympathise
with the Cubans and aie willing and ready to
jkm th< m aid, and to assist any expedition
* which may be fitted out.
From all that we cou d gather it was not
tha intention of the leaders to actually organ
ise the expedition in this country, but to sail
unorgan z d to some point beyond <he boun
daries of the United States, and there make
such arrangements as should be deemed ex -
padient.
Farther per steamer Niagara-
England. —I isstatea tnat tne Parliamen
tary committee of inquiry have re olved to
recommend that the American mail steamers
sail at Hv ly Head for the purpose of receiving
and landing mails.
The schism in the established Church is
widening The Bishep of Exeter proposes
the convening of a Diocesan Synod. Tne Gor
ham question is at the bottom of the difficul
- 1*
The great exhibition is to be opened by her
M jestyin state, on the Ist efgMav, but the
public are to be excluded until the ceremony
is over, when those holdi g tickets will be
admitted, f here will be 30,000 ttoops within
five miles of Hyde Park on this occason.
‘■-.-JfOfjd Londonderry has made very praise
s worthy efforts to prevail on the President ol
France to release Abdel Kader.
It is unders?o>d that whe steamer Great
Britain, when her fittings are completed, will
he entered for the New York trade.
Franc*.— Wheat is sail lower in the agri
eulturaitdistricts. Raw silk has receded in
pree. ■ .
The assembly has granted two hundred
thousand hfanes to celebrate the anniversary
Hr i
of the republic. The press favorable to the
ministry urges the presentation of petitions
for a revision of the constitution.
The President had changed many of the
judicial functionaries in the departments. At
the municipal elections recently held in Chat
ta Roux Indre and the Aubre, the conserva
tives gained signal triumphs. A bill is in pre
paration by the ministry for a general credit
of eighty millions, divided over twenty years,
for the repairs of all religions monuments and
edifices.
Prussia. —The Berlin Ministerial states that
besides England and France, Russia too has
remonstrated against the Austrian annexation
scheme; Russia has likewise desired that all
the German States should accede to the
Frankfort diet. Rumors of a Ministerial crisis
are rife.
Austria. —lt is stated that the Austrian gov
ernment is inclined to accede to the Frankfort
Diet. Prince Schwatzcnbuig is opposed to the
continuance of the Dresden Conference. There
is a deficit in the finances for the year of
77,161 625 dorins. Tne E nperor has granted
an amnesty to seven pol tical prisoners. The
Government demands from Sardinia a passage
for i*s troops in case of a rupture in Fra* ce.
Turkey. —The Austrian Ambassador has
received the as-urance of the Potte that Kos
suth, Ba hyani, Messare, and the two Perseels,
shall be detained at Kutayah; the other fugi
tives, some sixty, will be released.
Bosnia. —Tne 'a est accounts from Bosnia
are that the rebels wme retreading towards
Vehace. Many ot the chieftains are recruiting
their forces for renewel efforts. It is positive
ly stated that the Russians will evacuate the
Danuhian principalities 01 the 27tn.
India and China. —India remains tranquil.
A skirmish had taken place at Burrow ou tne
Moun'am, near the Kihat, between some rob
ber hordes ana a Put j*ub regiment, in wnich
the former were deieated and driven back. A
conspiracy had been discovered in Nepaul,the
object of which was to murder Gea. J ug
bahadbor. Tne conspirato.s were his own
father and brother. The General is a favorite
o the army, whom the conspirators endeavor
ed to gain over.
From China the accounts state that the
murderers ot Decasta had been taken. Four
piratical junks had been captured.
Exports heavy. The crop of Cotton is good
and clean.
From thb Jape op Good Hope. —Accounts
from the Cape represent ma ters in a very un
satisfactory state Tne Bruise forces had ob
tained some victories over the Kaffirs, witn
hard fighting. Fort Armstrong was recap
tured. “The greatest trouole I had to contend
with,” says Col. Somerset, commander, “was
to seperate the women and children, and save
them from destruction, before we could storm
the place.
The men in the tower would not surrender,
kept firing upon us out of the port holes,
and I could not take it. I was obliged to blow
it up with shells? they fought desperately in
the fort after it was stormed. We killed 27
Kaffirs and Hottentots in the fort, and 9 in the
tower. The Burghers had a desperate fight
before I came up; 3 men killed, 14 woun ted
They had to contend against thousands, and
fought most bravely. I had four men dan
gerously wounded and four horses* killed.
Sergeant Pit was badly shot through the leg;
also Daly and tsvo native soldiers. I have
upwards of 160 prisoners, 70 to 80 stand of
arms, 400 women and children- I have des
troyed the fort and all its contents. The Mis
sionary settlement a- Shelon had been burnt
down by the insurgents.”
Latest Intelligence by Electric Telegraph.
We are indebted to the Purser of tne steam
er for the following telegraphic despatch:
France. — London, April 15, 1851.—The
Moniteur publishes a decree convoking the
Consul General ol Vaucleur for the sth of May,
to deliberate On the expediency of admitting
matter free of duty for export.
The same journal publishes the law gran
ting the sum of five million nine hundred and
ninety-nine thousand francs for the works at
Cnerb iurg. The Charavari was seized on
Thursday for a caricature insulting to the
President and Ministers. Paris Bouise, April
18th, s’s 92 45, 3’s 57 10. The Globe corres
pondent reports a fall in the tunds, and a con
tinued depression was expected lor the peo
ple were beginning to feei anxious, and all
armed as to the future.
Prussia. — Berlin, April 16. —The Upper
Chamber has rejected the Ministerial Bili.
( Telegraphed for the Journal of Commerce )
Boston, May 1.
Arrival op the-Niagara at Boston. —
Whig Convention,&c —Tne royal mail steam
ship Niagara arrived here about half-past 6
o’clock this morning. Her mails will be in
! New York this evening.
The Whig Convention at the State House
last night was quite large. The Atlas says
the utmost harmony and good feeling prevail
ed, and the rematks of the several speakers
, were received with loud applause. Tne old
| W hig spirit was fully awakened and a deter -
i mination e/i iced to redeem the State next
; full from the hand of the coalition.
Ensign H. Kellogg, of Pittsfield, presided,
—and tne meeting was addressed by Myrow
Lawrence of Belcner l own, Frankhi Dexter
01 Beverly, and Benj.R. Curtis of Boston.
A State Committee was appointed, headed by
George Money ol Boston. Claimore, of the
last committee, and many of the committee
last year are upon it.
Combustion cp Oxygen in the Atmos
phere.—Mr Paine, wno claims to have in
vented a method of producing light and heat
by the combustion of water, not satisfied
with thisdibc very, has hit upon a st;ileneap
er and more abundant fuel. The Worcester
Spy ot yesterday says: “Although the pale t
of the Hydro E ectric Light has been secured,
|Mr Paine h.» not remitted his investigations,
and at last has discovered a process ot catahz
j ing the oxyg-n of the a mosphere, and ren
| dering it nighiy luminiforous at a mere nomi
; nal expense, without cost of machinery, or
any other apparatus than an air receiver, capa
ble or h ldmg common air. We saw it in
operation last evening in our office, examined
it minutely, cUalized the oxygen ourself, and
read by the light so is equal,
if not superior, to the best gat burned in the
cities. Tbe Him; is peculiarly white and
bril.iant, burns with a clear, steady light, is
entirely inodorous, and during the half hour
that we watehed its operation, we could see
no consumption ot the catauzing material.
Ihe whole apparatus wnich we saw, could
not hare cost more than a couple of dollars,
and it was capab e of furnishing all the light
neede 1 for the illumination of an ordinary
sized room. We snail give a more full de
scription ot the apparatus to mortow, and
hope to accompany it wuh an explanatory
diagram.”— N. Y. Evening Post, 30 th ult.
From Minnesota —The St. Paul Chronicle
and Register says, that the Indians above
Crow Wing are enduring extreme sufferings,
and that many have perished irom starvation,
Those who know the facts have estimated
that between five and seven hundred ot them
have died from privations. It is reported
that the chief, Hole in the Day, to whom
they have applied lately for advice, recom
mends them to sets of violence—among the
rest, to break into every house in which pr >-
visions could be ( had, and take forcible posses
sion of them. A delegation of Chippewa
chiefs had arriv d at St. Paul with a view to
lay before Governor Ramsey the distressed
condition of the nation, and to ask relief.
The situation of the Indians in the lower
country, is represented as peaceable and pros
petrous*
From Texas.— The steamship Galveston,
Capt. Place, from Indianola, via Galveston,
the 25th inst, arrived here on Sunday.
We make up the following summary of in
telligence from our Texas exchanges. Advices
received at San Antonio, from Eagle Pass,
state that the Mexican Government has
established a Custom-house at PiedrasNegras
nearly opposite the principal ford of the Rio
Grande, of the same name, and the officer ap
pointed to take charge of the same, is expect
in a short time. Tnis, it is thought, will
greatly increase the commerce of that portion
of our frontier with Mexico.
General Jaurigue, the Mexican Inspector-
General of the millitary colony of Piedras
Negras, and the other colonies in that vicini
ty, was expected the last of this, or the first ot
next month, with a large amount of money
for the payment of the troops, and purchase
of supplies for the colonies. VY ild Cat was also
awaiting his arrival to be put in possession ot
tne land-* granted to his tribe by tne Mexican
Government, as well as f~r the means for
their subsistence, <>nd purchase of agricultural
implements for their farms, &c.
There are five Chihuahua merchants in
San Antonio. Their goods nad been trans
ported from the N >rth to Lavacea, and they
were waiting thair arrival at San Antonio.
One of thim, Mr. Magoffin, had brought fif
teen large wagons ot h s own, each of which
will carry five thousand pounds.
A severe gale commenced in Galveston on
the night of Monday, the 221 iust at, and
continued during Tuesday. Tne water in 'he
bay rose so high as to inundate Strand and
Mechanic streets. We hear of nu damage to
vessels or property in this vicinity.
The Courtnouse at I'etersourg, Lavacca
county, was destroyed by fire on the 7th inst.
It was supposed to be the work of an incen
diary. Judge Jones, the District Judge, and
members of the bar were present. They de
termined on dispensing justice beneath the
shade of a neighboring oak.
Judge Evans, o Marshall, and R Scurry, of
Clarksville, are candidates for Congress in
E 'stern Texas.
The Austin State Gazette announces its
preference for Col. Greer instead oi Col. Bell,
the present incumbent, for the office of Gov
ernor.
The citizens of Austin contributed four
hundred and fifty dollars to defray the expen
ses of the steamer Colorado on her experi
mental trip to that city.—N. O. Delta, 29th
ult.
Mb. Bulwer and tub Irish.—Mr. Bulwer,
the British Minister, has given great offence
to the Irish population of New York, by his
speech at the St. George’s dinner in that city,
in which he referred to the Celtic race, as
semi-barbarians, savages, Jfcc. Mr. Bulwer,
subsequer-tly, wrote a letter to the President
of the Friendly Si,ns of St. Patrick, assuring
him that he intended no offence by his re
marks, and that he was himself connected
with he old Celtic families This letter was
read to an indignation meeting of Irishmen
on Tuesday night,and was rectived with three
groans. Atier speeches from Michael Doheny,
Mike Walsh,fMr. Mallen, E E. Camp, and
others, who severely denounced Mr. Bulwer,
the letter was directed to be returned to him,
and a memorial was adopted, asking the Pres
ident to have him re-called by the British
Government. — Baltimere Clipper, 2d inst.
The editor of the Maysvilie Eagle, while at
Paris, Ky., the other day, saw fifteen, well
clad, and happy-looking jiegrees, who had
been taken there to be emancipated by their
owner. If they are to be sent to Liberia, it is
doubtless for their advantage, if they are to
come in Ohio, to lead the lile of a iorge por
tion of the colored race, their freedom will
only be an evil.— Cincinnati Enquirer, 20th.
The Tammany Society.
We recorded the triumph of the Barnburn
ers the other day, in getting possession of
Tamm my Hall, the heauquarters ofthaNew-
York Democracy.
As the organization of the Society is very
curious, and few persons acquainted with it,
we transfer the following particulars from the
New -York Evening Post, to oar columns :
“For the information of such of our read
ers as may wish to know something more of
the history and enaracter of this Tammany
Society, we may here add, that it was organ
ized in 1789, by William Mooney, an uphol
sterer, with a number of other citizens o<
New-York, for the purpose of opposing the
Constitut on of the United States, (wnich had
the* recently been adopted,) on acoount of
what were esteemed its federal and aristocratic
tendencies.
The instiution took its name fsom the cele
brcted Indian Chief Tammany, and ail its
| ceremonial nomenclature is adopted from the
habits and customs of the aborigines. It has
a Grand Sachem, and twelve additional Sa
chems, after the fashion ot the President and
Governors of the thirteen States then in ex
istence. It has a Grand Council, of which all
the officers and Sachems are members, whicu
is presided over by a Father of the Council,
and the proceedings of which are recorded by
aScribe. The society dates all ns transactions
from two eras, the discovery of America by
Columbus, and its own foundation. It di
vides the year into seasons —the season of
snow, the season of blossoms, and the season
of fruits. The 12th day oi May is commem
orated as its anniversary.
It was the first Society ever organized in
the country for the deience of State righto;
and one of the oaths wmch its members are
required to take is, that they will sus.ain
State insti utions, and resist a cor a lhdation
of power in the hands of the general govern
ment. At first it was not a poii ical organizi
tion, and it was so po, ular tnat most persons
of any note or merit beiooged to it, and its
anniversaries were celebrated as holydays.
But when President Washington rebuked
* -elf-created socie'ie*,’ from an apprehension
that their ultimate tendency was hostile to
public tranquility, many forsook it, and at one
of its anniversaries only three persons were in
attendance. But Mr. Mooney was one of the
three. From this time it leagued us destiny
with the so tunes of Thomas Jefferson.
The adoption of the several amendments
which were made to the Constitution, through
the influence of Jefferson aud Madison, recon
ciled the Society to that instrument, aud
from that time forth they were or processed
to be, apostles of the decentralizing policy ;
which has always been, aud still is, advocated
by the doctrinaires of the Democratic party,
and of which Mr. Jefferson was, in his day,
the most prominent expo- ent.
Since those days, however, the influence of
the Society has been very much diminished.
Is controls the disposition of Tammany Hall;
afld that, we believe, constitutes the chief, it
not the only element of its strength and per
petuity. We have only to add, that the pro
ceedings of the Society are secret."
Thb Latb Cuban Affair. —Every thing re
mains in statu quo for the present. We un
derstand there will not be any preliminary
investigation before the Commissioner, and
that no further ac ion will be had in the affair
until next Tuesday week, when bills of indict
ment against all the would-be invaders will be
sent before the grand jury of the United
States Court.— New-York Herald, let met.
Thb Statb Road. —We copy the following
from the General Presentments of the Grand
Jury of Cobb County:
“ We deem it our duty to notiee the pres
ent condition of the Western & Atlantic Rail-
Road. Our State has accomplished a great
work by completing said Road, but to meet
the publ c wants, it must be kept in good or
der ; to do this, will require a large amount of
money expended, without much delay. We
would recommend that our Senator and Rep
resentatives do, on the next meeting of our
State Legislature, urge the propriety of hav
ing a fair valuation Axed on the Western A
Atlantic Rail-Road, and, if practic ible, sell
two-thirds of the Road, which will be valua
ble property, as a fund appropriated for the
purpose of general education, the income of
which to be paid annually. By having other
stoekholdeis interested, the affairs could be
managed by a Board of Directors to much
better advantage. In case the State eh mid
deem it advisaole to sell a portion of said
Road, we would suggest the propriety of di
viding the interest between the Georgia Raii-
Road Company, the Western Rail-Road, and
the Central Rtil-Road Company, if practica
ble —that no one portion of the State should
have the control of said Road, but for the
good of the whole."
Large Increa-e of Immigration. — The fol
lowing exnibit of the ingress of foreigners at
this port for the first four months of the pres
ent year, shows an extraordinary increase
over the corresponding months of preceding
years. Compared with last year, it is as fol
lows :
YEAR 1850. TEAR 1851.
January 13 154 14,709
February 3,206 8.170
March... 5 569........ 16 055
April 14 627 27.779
Total 36,556 66,713
36,556
Increase this year over last 30,157
Os those who arrived during April, there
came from Ireland, 15,968; Germany, 6,372;
Englano, 2,679; Scotland, 726 ; and from
France, 717. It will be observed that the in
crease is almost entirely in the Irish immigra
tion. Os this class, a large proportion are
landed in a state of the most abject poverty,
and often incapacitated by disease, deformity,
or the infirmities of age, fur self-support. The
German immigration is not yet fairly set in.—
New-York Journal of Commerce , las inst.
Who is Charles Sumner ? The New-York
Express, commenting upon the election of
Sumner to the U. S. Senate by the Legisla
tur* of Massachusetts, says :
Tnat our readers may know who this man
is, we quote from his speech, delivered at the
Massachusetts Free Soil State Convention,
October 3d. 1850. We should like to see this
man as he appears, with the oath of God upen
his lips, to support the Constitution of the
United States. We should suppose a hand
thus raised would drop, and the tongue be
come palsied in its attempts to discharge a
duty required by the Constiiution, and neces
sary to secure che high office of an American
Senator; but we shall let Mr. Sumner speak
his own deliberate sentiments :
Charles Sumn-.r in State Convention.
“ We demand, first and foremost, the in
stant Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
“ *Ve demand that Congress receive into
the Union no new slave State.
“ And yet one thing further must be done :
The Slave Power must be overturned, so that
the Federal Government may be put openly,
actively, and perpetually on the side of Free
dom.
“ And, still further, as if to do a deed
which should make Heaven weep, ‘all earth
amazed,' this same Congress, in disregard of
ali the cherished safeguards of freedom, has
passed a most cruel, unchristian, devilish law,
to secure the return into slavery of those un
fortunate bondmen who are found sheltered
by our firesides.
“ Into the immorta’ catalogue of National
Crimes this act has now passed, drawi >g with
it, by an inexorable necessity, its authors also,
and chiefly him who, as President of the U
nited States, set his name to tne Bill, and
breathed into it that final breath without
which ic would have no life.
“Otner Presidents mav ba forgotten, but
the name signed to the Fugitive Slave. Bill
will never be forgotten. There are depths of
infamy as there are heights of fame: better
far for him nad he never been born ; better for
nis memory and for the good name of his chil
dren had he never been President.
“ Sir, I will not dishonor this home of the
Pilgrims and of the Revolution by admitting
—nay, I cannot believe—that this Bill will be
executed here. Individuals among us, as
elsewhere, may forget humanity in a fancied
loyalty to law; but the Public Conscience
will not allow a man who has trodden our
streets as a freeman to be dragged away as a
slave. The Fugitive Slaves of the United
States are among the heroes of our age.”
A Hundred Years Ago.—A hundred years
ago a'German monarch reigned over these U.
States —the colonies ot Great Britain—and on
the whole earth, with the exception of S witz •
erland, there was not a single republic of any
pretensions. A hundred yerrs ago the Fr« nch
lilies floated over Quebec, Pittsburgh, and N.
Orleans. A hundred years ago the old French
monarchy existed—the Bastile reared its ao
cursed towers —Louis XV. dallied with infa
mous wantons,squandered his suhjacts’ money
and blasphemed, in his own person, the name
of man. Fifty years ago the name of Napo
leon was still comparatively unknown. Fifty
years ago cotton mills had, as it were, just
been invented: and railroads, loeomotives, and
magnetic telegranns were practically un
known. Fifty years ago th re were scarcely
five millions of people in the United States,
and Onio was almost as much of a wilderness
as Oregon is now. Fifty years ago Washing
ton had just died. Jefferson was still living,
and Clay, Webster and Calhoun, were names
as yet unknown to fame.
Ancient Manuscripts.— Public attention
has oeen greatly excited hers, in Constanti
nople, by the discovejy of an immense trea
sure of Greek manuscripts, of the highest an
tiquity, found by a learned Greek of the name
of Simonides, in a cave situated ac the reet of
Mount Athos. According to this account, the
importance of this discovery is incalculable,
since it brings to light a vast quantity of ce
lebiated works quoted by various ancient
writers, and hitherto deemed entirely lost.
They furnish, as may be imagined, an exten
sive list of proper names, calculated to throw
gr?at light upon many obscure periods of his
tory. Among these precious volumes, which
are composed of evry thin memorances, (the
nature of which is not sta/ed.) filled with ch tr
aders, some are calculated to give a complete
interpretation of hieroglyphic writing—the
fortunate discoverer having alrea ly success
fully applied them to the interpretation of the
inscriptions engraved on the obelisk of the
Hippodrome at Constantinople.
Some Cows.—We learn from Mr. L. P.
Thomas, of the Thomas Hotel. Gainesville,
that he has two cows, either of which gives
as much milk as that of Mr. Peter Tarr’s of
Maryland, which we stated last week, upon
the authority of the Easton (Md.) Gazette,
gave 740 gallons within the space of eight
months.— Athens Herald,
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
3lttgnota, Georgia.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 6-
Southern Rights Meeting.
The members of the Southern Rights
Party of Richmond County , are request
ed to meet at the CIT Y HALL, in the j
city of Augusta , on THIS DA Y, 6th of
MAY, at 4 o'clock, P. M., to appoint
Delegates to the Convention to nominate a
Candidate for Governor at the ensuing
election .
receivedjno papers by last evening's
Ma il from offices North of Charleston.
Constitutional Union Meeting.
At the meeting of the Constitutional Union
party, at the City Hall, on Saturday, the fol
lowing gentlemen were appointed Delegates
to the Convention to nominate a candidate for
Governor:
Hon. W. W. Holt, Col. John Milledge, R.
F. Poe, and G. F. Parish, E*qs.
To the Convention to nominate a candidate
for Congress from the Eighth Congressional
District:
Col. H. H. Curaming, Thomas Skinner, T.
W. Miller, and Wm. McLaughlin.
As the Hon. Howell Cobb has already been
appointed at Washington city, by Fillmore,
Stephens, Toombs & Co., the duties of the
first named delegation will be light. They
will not task their deliberative powers very
seriously. The same may be said of the sec
ond named delegation, as the new Regency at
Macon, has already designated the Hon.
Robert Toombs as the candidate for Con
gress.
Common School Convention*
Messrs. J. R. Sturgbs and R. S. Schruogs,
have been appointed Delegates from Burke
ounty, to this Contention, which meets at
Marietta, on the Bth of July next.
The Oratorio.
It will be seen by a notice in another col
umn, that the Oratorio, which gave such
general satisfaction, on Fri Jay Evening last,
will be repeated on Tuesday evenning next,
13th inst., at the Baptist Church. Our citi
zens and such of our country friends as may be
in attendance on the Rail Road Convention,
should not lose this last opportunity of list
ening to such Vocal Music as is not often to
be heard in Augusta.
Another Cotton Factory-
We are pleased to learn that the eitizeus of
Stone Mountain have subscribed thirty thous
and dollars for the purpose of erecting a Cot
ton and Wool Factory in that vicinity. The
location selected is within sight of the Geor
gia Rad-Road, and steam power will be used.
It is always a source of pleasure to us, to see
Factories starting up in our midst—it is the
surest means of teaching our Northern breth
ren, that the South can feed and clothe herself,
and still have sufficient to spare. There is
one branch of industry, however, much need
ed in the South. We allude to the manufac
ture of Leather, Boots and Shoes, and as the
capital of our Stone Mountain friends is lim*
ited for a Cotton and Wool Factory, we
think it would be much more profitable if in
vested in a Shoe Factory, for which purpose
it is amply large, and, in our opinion, would
pay a better per centage, and employ more
operatives. We suggest this lor their consid
eration.
The Season.— The Greenville Mountaineer
oi 2d inst., says: “Spring seem to have set in
earnest at last. For the past week the weath
er has been genial and cheering to the farmers.
Wheat is assuming a promising appearance,
and the prospect is for a fine crop."
The Price of a Slave in Massachusetts.
| —Tpe National Anti-Slavery Standard, says :
“ The surrender of Sims is said to have cost
the General Government ten thousand dol
lars, the City of Boston about the same a-
I mount, and Mr. Potter, the claimant, about
| twenty-four hundred, making altogether
something more than the pretty sum of twen
ty-two thousand dollars as the price of a slave
in Boston."
Government Funds.—The U. S. Govern
ment had on deposit, on the 28th ult., subject
to draft, the snug little sum of $15,772,672.02,
ojf which amount $60,991.46 was in the Balti
mote depository; $3,552,800 in New York;
$2,008 059 in Boston; $85,620 in Washing
ton, and $6,711,150 in the Philadelphia Mint.
Congressional Nonination.—We under
stand that Col. Wm. L. Yancey, (says the
Montgomery, Ala., Advertiser, Ist inst.) has
been nominated by the Convention at Clay
ton, as the Southern Rights candidate for Con
gress in this Congressional district.
A Frost.—The Winnsborough Register of
Saturday says : “We regret to learn that on
Friday morning last, a heavy frost was visible
on most of the grounds in the country. Cot
ton, we understand, shows distinctly the in
jury which it has sustained. The trees being
well leaved, we apprehend, fruit generally,
will escape the effects of the frost.”
Messrs . Jabrz Williams & Son, at Green
| point, on the East River, New York, havere
| csntly opened a large and convenient yard,
! near Bushwick Creek, where they have com*
| menced a steamship, measuring 200 feet keel,
| 37 beam, 30 hold, and about 1350 tons burth-
I en, for the route between Liverpool and
Charleston.
Petersburg Cotton Statement, May 1, 1851.
Receipts, 15,025 bales. Stock, 1,500 bales.
Jj ; Mr. H. Brown, of New York, has nearly
completed his yacht for the World’s Exhibi
tion, and she is expected to leave that port for
Europe, on or about the 20th instant. Her
name is America.
The sugar crop of Louisiana, for 1860, was
211,203 hogsheads, equal to 231,194.000 lbs.
There are 1,495 sugar mills, 908 worked by
steam, 587 by horse power. The produee of
molasses is 10,500,000 gallons.
Cross in# m Atlantic.—'''Crmmumpaw,”
the London correspondent of the Boston Post,
gives the details of the new route by which it
is confidently predicted that passengers will,
within the next five years, be carried from
Boston to London within seven days. There
se ms nothing improbable about it. He says ;
“When the railroad is finished from Galway
to Dublin, which will probably be during this
year, a line of steamers must be opened from
Galway to Halifax and Boston. Then a trav
eller can attend church in Boston on Sunday,
take an evening or midnight train for Halifax,
(after that gieat “Yankee and British down
east railway" is done,) and on Monday start
for Galway, arrive in five or six days, and in
twelve hours (a sea passage from Dublin to
Holyhead of four hours,) arrive in London,
via Dublin, Holyhead, the Britannia bridge,
and Birmingham, and be in the British me
ttopolis to attend divine service seven days
alter he was in Boston. This is no fable, but
will be realized within" five years; provided
that the Halifax and Portland railwa) is built;
and will be withm one day of it, if not built,
l’he Liverpool merchants will fight stou ly
against that Galway packet station, but the
mail service of the two countries demand and
will have it. And farther, it will open up a
field for the regeneration of Ireland, by sen
ding travel, traffic, business, and money into
the country."
Losses by Crevasses.—l he Baton Rouge
Gazette of the 26th ult., again urges on the
Legislature of Louisiana the nece sity of or
ganizing a Levee System, and preset ta a fear
ful record of loss in support of its project.—
Leaving the losses sustainad by the destruc
tion of cattle, horses, machinery, fences, mix
ed crops, etc., and, most severe of all, the suf
ferings of the poor people, as beyond calcula
tion, the Gazette shows the State what it los
es in its sugar crop alone by i‘s culpable
want of a proper system of levees :
“In turning to Champomier’s statement of
the sugar crop of 1849 and 1350, we find that
the sugar plantations in the parishes of Iber
ville and Ascension, now submerged by the
Doyle and Gourrier crevasses, male nearly
four thousand five hundred hogshead of su
gar ; there are three other crevasses along the
river, below Baton Rouge, and one above in
West Baton Rouge, the united injury of which
will be at least four thousand hogsheads. We
have, therefore, a loss in the State this year,
in sugar alone, amounting to the enormous
nurrberof eight thousand hogshead of sugar.
Turning again to Cnampomier'a statement
for 1840-’SO, we find the following appalling
losses by crevasses detailed :
hhds.
Overflow of Red River 2.900
West Baton Rouge crevasse 5 600
Ibverville (by W Baton R mge) crevasse 1,200
Ascension, Dorsime Landry's crevasse, 1,200
St. John the Baptiste, from Fortier’s
crevasse 1,000
St. Charles —same crevasse, I,ioo
“ Bonne Carre Bend crevasse, say. 3 000
Jefferson, Fortier's crevasse 4 600
“ Sauve crevasse..... 1,200
Orleans..... 600
Total 22.000
Which will make, in two years, the enor
mous sum of twenty-two thousand hogsheads
of sugar, worth at the lowest calculation at
least $1 250,000, the greater part of which
might have been saved to the planters and to
the State, if a more perfect system of leveeing
was in force —a sum that would have protec
ted the coast, for an indefinite number of
years, from inundaiicn.”
{Correspondence of the Charleston Courier ,)
Georgetown, May 3, 1351.
We regret exceedingly to say, that at about
2 o’clock this morning, the Calhoun Mill, in
this place, owned by Messrs. J. J. & P. Tam
plet Sc Co., was discovered *o be on tire. Every
exertion was made to subdue the fire, but the
rapidity of its progress was such as to pre
vent all efforts, and in less than four hours,
the mill was totally dstroyed, together with
100.000 feet sawed lumber, which was lying
on the wharf ready for shipment. The brigs
Emily and Pacific, lying at the Mill wharf at
th* time, sustained some little damage in the
loss of sails, rigging, See. We understand the
mill was insured for SBOOO in the Snuth-Caro
lina and Nashvlle Companies. The origin of
tha fire, up to this time, has not b6en ascert.n
ed.
A Millerite Convention is now in session at
New York, endeavoring to fix the day again
for the final end of all things. One of
their prophets, Mr. Reed, declared he was
ready, with posit ve proofs, to convince them
that Ch ist would come betore the 23d day of
July next. But the convention were not en
tirely satisfied with his proofs, and kicked at
the idea of his fixing another day, especially
so soon. When the 23d day of July arrives,
we shall see what we shall see.
A second Advent excitement appears to be
beginning at Morrisville, near Trenton.
Net** York Money Market , May I.—There is
more inquiry for prime unendorsed bills with
a less abundant supply. Prime endorsed pa
per is also less plenty at 7 per cent., although
at 6 a 6£ per cent, long lines could be obtain
ed. On the whole, notwiths;anding that this is
settlement day, the tendency of the market is
again toward easier rates.
The stock market continues very much as
noticed yesterday, with a moderate business
jat easy rates. At the first board United
S Sta'es 6’s of'67 brought of 117$,
A Modern Frankenstein. —A Cincinnati
paper sta'es that a scientific gentleman of that
city has within the last six weeks, at various
times, produced animal life soiely from the
action of certain chemical preparations on
each other, m such a manner as leads him to
the conclusion that a more perfect developed
process, aided by further scientific discoveries,
will produce results ruiracu ousty astounding
to the world ! The specimen of life produced,
did not exist m'.re than twenty four hours in
either instance; but the simple fact of iife
power being thus manifested and attested, as
it is, by the personal ex unination of five or six
eminent physicians, may lead to something of
which the whole world of science, as at pre
sent, may look forward with awe and amass
ment !
The Turkish Drb-s.—Quite an excitement
was produced at the steamboat landing day
before yesterday, at 'he appearance of a oou
ple of ladies with a short Turkish dress. Taey
were travelling in company with gentlemen,
and were evidently people of cultivation. A
revolution in female c >stume is undoubtedly
in preparation. There can be nothing more
ungraceful than the long, drabbling dresses
which sweep the streets and sreps wherever
ladies move. As a matter of personal com
fort, the Turkish dress must be most agreeab e s
in addition to i s beauty. - Otioeyo Journal .
Washington, May 1, 10 p. m.
lAt the dinner table to day of the National
Hotel, a misunderstand ng occurred between
Lt. Alvarado Hunter, of the navy, and CaDt.
Chambour j, formerly of the army, which led
to an altercation between Chambourg and
Lt. Nicholson, of the navy, and terminated in
a regular bat le with canes and fist*. Nichol
son got thejbetter of Chambourg, and a ohal
lenge will probably be tne consequenee, al
though it it not determined who shall be the
challenging party.