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Sheriff's Levies, 30 days, $2 50 per levy ; 60 days, $5. Executor’s, Administrator’s and Guardian’s Sales, Real Estate, (per square, 12 lines) $4 75 Do. do. Personal Estate 3 25 Citation for Letters of Administration 2 75 Do. do. Dismission 4 50 Notice to Debtors and Four Months’ Notices *. 4 qq Rules Nisi, (monthly) $1 per square, each insertion. O* ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, are at our BISK. The Webb and Willis Controversy in a new Phase. It was shown by our New York letter yester day, (says the Baltimore Sun) that the Webb and Willis controversy, which we hoped was silenced, has broken out in a new shape, w r hich will afford vast food for the gossipping appetite. The New York Post gives the following fuller report of the case in the Superior Court of that city: Smith Coddington, and Mary his wife, a gainst James Watson Webb. —The plaintiffs in this case are Mary Inman, a daughter of the late Henry Inman, and her husband. Mr. Coddington, of Rahway, New Jersey, who prosecute Webb for the recovery of certain letters w hich he ■wrongfully detains. The •omplaint sets forth that Mary Inman had a correspondence with N. P. Willis, in the year 1844, she then being about sixteen years of age, just from boarding school, which was simply sentimental literary, and not at all criminal in any respect, but which took place w ithout the consent of her parents, and was therefore ill-advised and improper. Her fa ther coming to the knowledge of the fact, desired to- procure the letters and authorised his two friends. Mr. George Buckham and Janies Wat son Webb, to request Willis to deliver them up, which Mr. Willis did; but Webb, though required and promising to do so, never gave them over to to Mr. Inman nor any of his family. These letters are still in Webb’s possession, and in a late controvery with Mr. Wills, he used them to make a false, malicious and most damning charge against Miss charge which has not one word of truth in it from first to last. The complaint then asseverates that the cor respondence with Mr. Willis grew out of a dis cussion of literary topics; that Mr. Willi’s wife, a friend of the plaintiff, was cognizant of it __ -daiDUghout; that it is absolutely and unquallified ly untrue that the plaintiff, Mary 1., was ever seduced by said Nathaniel P. Willis, or that she ever had any improper association or connection whatever with the said Willis; that there is no foundation in truth for any charge of want of virture and chastity, made against the plaintiff, Mary Inman ; that is absolutely and unqualified ly untrue that the father of the plaintiff became heart-broken, or that his death was in any man ner caused or expedited by reaaon of any corres pondence or association which had taken place between the said Nathaniel P. Willis and the plaintiff. On the contrary, that to the latest hour of his life, her father justly entertained the most undoubted confidence in her integrity and virtue. These statements are sworn to by Mary In-? man aitd her husband, and they ask an order from the court to restrain Webb from exhibiting the letters to any one. and to compel him to res tore them to tini rightful owners. Annexed is an affidavit of George Buckham, who says that he was one of the two persons appointed by Henry Inman to ask Mr. Willis for ifie letters; that he and Webb asked Willis to meet them at Buckham's office, which he did, but did not know the purpose of the meeting; that when he was requested 1 to deliver the letters, he said he be lieved he had some notes in his possession -which he would willingly relinquish the next day, which he did, first -wrapping them in a paper, sealing them, and then handing them to Mr. Webb, to be given to Mr. Inman, These two interviews between the two parties were throughout of a courteous nature—nothing like a threat or me nance was held out to said Willis, nor -was any charge or statement made that any improper in tercourse had taken place between Willis and the plaintiff. j}Jr. Buckham further testifies that for several years o.efore the death of Mr. Henry Inman, he was the most intimate and confidential friend of Inman; that he was always consulted by Inman, not only on his business affairs, but on the most private*family concerns; that they were in the habit of having a conversation upon this and upon other subjects, but that Inman never upon any occasion, either directly or indirectly, stated, or gave him cause even to imagine, that he had any knowledge, or thought, or suspicion that the daughter w r as otherwise than purer and virtuous. On the contrary, he believes that up to the hour of Inman’s death, he had the most perfect confidence in the chastity and virtue of his daughter. Hwnever expressed or intimated the least suspicion that the correspondence with Willis was criminal, or else k than simply indis creet. The first knowledge that Mr/ Buckham had that anybody supposed that the correspon dence contained any admission, or evidence of the seduction of Mary Inman, was through the article in the Courier & Enquirer, attacking Mr. Willis. He testifies also, that he demanded the letters of Webb for Inman, and that Webb promised to give them up, but has never done so to this day. Webb was never authorized to open the package, or to make himself acquaintedjwith the contents* Mm. Henry Inman, widow of Henry, next testified that neither she nor her husband ever entertained a suspicion that Mary had been se duced by W illis, or that the correspondence re lated to any improper intimacy. The .corres pondence was simply an indiscretion which, though censurable, was to be ascribed to extreme youth and thoughtlessness on the pert of Mary.— Mrs. Inman asserts that she had frequent, full and unreserved conversations with Mr. Inman on ih e whole subject of the correspondence and its ehatu 0^1- ; an d s^e knows that he never hod a doubt or suspicion °f the purity of the daughter.— She says further* that she has requested the let ters referred to from Webb, but that, though he promised to surrender them, he has never done so. Mr. Holbert Smales swears to having made such demand, in the name of the plaintiffs, and that Webb promised to deliver them to the plain tiff at the proper time. Judge Sanford, of course, with such a state of facts, granted the orders prayed for, and ordered that Webb do absolutely desist and retrain from maktoS- or permitting to be made, any copy or extract of, or from, the notes, letters, correspon dence. ana any other papers mentioned in the complaint in this action. He was to show cause yesterday why fee efepuld not deliver up the letters' Mrs SwissHELM on Marriage,— Mrs. Swiss helm has, in the wunetfhw editorial career, Mid many wise and pithy things; but there are Tmne, perhaps, in which the whole community «ri!l more heartily concur than in tha extract be which we copy from her paper. Mrs. S. j.s «fine writer, and has a happy way of saying Y? ne * h : J. everV one does not hi£sS%H confess that she has told 1 dear ffeourselves however, we ‘'blush and own the soft impe 'f opinion that if it were not 4 “Many are of he opimon _ all fa . j OT the stringency of the ci milies would be broken up, and society go into chaos. We have no such notion. If a procla mation were made to day declaring eveiy mar riage in the Union null and void and leaving it once more to the choice of the parties w hether the relation be renewed, business would be sus pended, newspapers would stop, stores, factories and workshops would close. The editors would be all at home getting married, merchants, opera tives and mechanics w ould each be waiting their turn to have the nuptial knot re-tied. Cross, fret ful, sickly wives, that had been almost felt a bur den before, w ould grow very dear at the thought of separation. Domineering, harsh husbands would be forgiven; and in all places where a spark of conjugal love remained, it would be blown to a flame; where nothing but dead em bers and the ashes remained they could be taken up, made into soap, and society elcansed thereby. {From the Savannah Georgian.) The Convention and its Resolutions. A portion of the Federal Whig and Constitu tional Union press, can see nothing but disunion and secession in the action of the late Democratic and Southern Rights Convention. The impres sion made upon members of the Convention and others present, w T as somewhat different from that received by our opponents of the press. The ac tion of the Convention, its nomination, and its resolutions, looked so little like disunion that a very respectable gentleman, a Southern Rights Whig from the County of Burke, withdrew from the body, on the adoption of the report of the Com mittee. He stated that he was a disunionist and desired to see some action in favor of disunion, but seeing none, he felt constrained to withdraw from the body. This he did, and his, we believe, was the only vote geven against the resolutions and the nominee of the Convention. Had he re garded it as a “secession” assembly and its nomi nee as a secessionist. w r ould he have withdrawn from it? But says the Republican “those of the party w r ho sighed to get back upon the old democratic platform had to succumb.” Ah indeed ? What said the Convention ? Resolved , That the harmony and safety of this Union depend upon a strict construction of the Constitution, and the salvation of the South now hangs upon it. And because w T e are for the Con stitution as it is , we oppose a United States Bank— all protective tariffs for pamper mg one section at the expense of another , all internal improvements by the General Government , and all legislation by Congress not strictly and clearly allowed by the Constitution of the Union. Does not that look like the Democratic plat form ? If not, what does it look like ? Is there any Federal Whiggery in it?—The Federal por tion of the Whig party, we suppose to be in favor of a modification of the veto pow’er. The Con vention said “we are for the Contitution” as it is. Is not that one plank of the platform upon which the Democratic party stood at the last Presiden tal election ? Again: “We oppose aU. States Bank.” Is not that Democratic ?—“All protec tive Tariffs.” Democracy again, is it not ? In ternal improvements by the general Govern ment.” What is that but the faith of Jackson and Polk ? Are we not then Democrats still—still on the Democratic platform ? We say yes. And we appeal to all good Democrats to rally upon that platform. But even other resolutions were strictly ac cordant w r ith the previous action of the Georgia Democracy. One of them denounces the aboli tion of the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Well, did not the Convention w r hich nominated Gov. Towns in 1849 do the same ? Listen to the Resolution then adopted. '“Resolved , That we regard the passage of a law by the Congress of the U. States abolishing the slave trade in the District of Columbia as a direct attack upon the institutions of the Southern States to be resisted at every hazard.” There will be found the same harmony through out between the resolutions of’49 and 51, as that existing between these two on the subject of the slave trade in the District. The principal difer ence is that the first denounced evils which were then threatened, while the second condemns the same evils now consummated. Another point of difference is in relation to the doctrine of seces sion. No party in Georgia having denied that doctrine, prior to the meeting of the Convention of’49, that body, of course, said nothing upon the subject. This right however having been called in question since that time, the Convention of ’sl boldly asserted it. Furthermore, is not Gov. McDonald just as good a Democrat as Gov. Towns ? Are not their sentiments precisely identical? What reason then has any' democrat who voted for Towns in 1849, for withholding his vote for McDonald in 1851? _ But it may be replied that such a platform, with such a nominee, will exclude Southern Rights Whigs from our ranks. We say this is not the fact. Our Southern Rights Whig friends, while both in the Convention and out of the Con vention they disclaim for themselves the name of Democrat, make no objections to others taking it: and mindful of their oft repeated pledge to hold the rights of the South paramount to -all par ty considerations, with a patriotism signally horn orable, have determined to act with the Demo cracy for the sake of the South. Indeed with whom else could they with any consistency unite ? Op posed as they were to the “surrender” scheme, can they vote for Cobb, who still claims to be a pemocrat, and who was one of the supporters of that hill .of abominations ? We answer no. Con sistency and patriotism alike require, that they sustain him whom the Democratic party and Southern Rights Whigs, in Convention assem bled have put in nomination. And this they wi!J do, cheerfully, heartily, and enthusiastically. Encourage Mechanics. We have frequently thought that the practice of purchasing at a great distauce fixup home, in the Northern States, such articles as could easily be manufactured and furnished at our own doors, exhibits consumate folly on the part of the South, Such a course of trade is not only calculated (but certainly has the effect) to dram the Southern States of a large proportion of their cash re sources —to dishearten mechanics and artists, and expel them from among us. Only a few weeks ago on pur return from a trip up the Ohio river curiosity induced us to notice the marks on some of the freight and w r e saw more than a hupdred old fashioned, stained bedsteads made of poplar and other common wood, shipped at Cincinnati and directed to Mobile, Ala. On the same boat were six waggons taken to pieces and laid up on the hurricane deck. The woodwork was rough and smeared with red paint, and the iron work i Was not better than can be made in any town in the South, These exquisite speimens of North ern skill in the mechanic arts, were directed to Montgomery, Ala. a large beautiful, prosperous commercial city—the capital of the State. The presumption is, there were wood, iron, red paint an |j mechanics, in both of those Alabama cities: and there was no necessity for purchasing such wagons and furniture in a distant State. There is an unaccountable, and we think, censurable to purchase articles made in our own towns. We think it highly probable that if a hatter, shoemaker, tailor, saddler, or other trades man. who is amongst us, and not liberally sup ported, were to leave his residence and locate in New York, Philadelphia, or some other Northern city, his Southern acquaintance who might meet him there, would patronize him more than they did when he lived amongst them. Such is the passion for far fetched commodities. But we think the unkindnness, (to say nothing of the usurpations and arrogance) of our Northern hretheren is bringing us to effect and arousing us to a gep§e of our interest, on this subject; and un less they greatly rqva if* their department, they may hereafter expect to receive touch less of Southern cash than they have been auccstom ed to enjoy,:— Holly Springs Palladium. The great French Tunnel, three miles in length, is on the railroad between Marseilles an 4 j Avignon. Its height is thirty feet, and width ! 24 feet, and its depth below? the surface of the | ground 600 feet. The cost of tunnelling was j $2,050,000 I [ The Drunkard.—Poverty, in itself, is not a crime. No disgrace belongs to the man who, by reverses in business, is led down from affluence to destitution: The poorest man who walks this earth of sorrow, or who toils in vain to clothe and feed his children, can stand in the pres ence of the man of millions, with no conscious ness of inferiority. But when poverty is the re sult of crime, it becomes at once sinful and dis graceful: wfflen it is the result of gambling, or drinking, or lying, it covers its victims with a robe of shame.—Under any circumstances it is exceedingly unpleasant and inconvenient to the very poor, and by most men, poverty is dreaded as one of the worst of evils.—Now poverty is as sure to follow a course of intemperance, as light and heat to follow the rising of the sun. God has so ordained. In his word he has declared that the drunkard shall come to poverty, and whenever w r e behold drunkenness, we also gaze upon squalid misery. Go into any community and you will find affluence to be the result of sobriety, and destitution the sure attendant of dissipation. You will expect to find in the neat, vine-covered cottage, a frugal, temperate man; and in the hovel unpainted and desolate, the windows shattered, the doors unhinged, an in temperate man. The Florida Indians. We are indebted to the Ocala Argus, for the following extra: Tampa, May 25,1851: An inquisition was held yesterday morning on the bodies of three Indians found hanging dead in our jail on the 23d ult. Verdict, volun tary suicide by hanging. These Indians were delivered to Capt. J. C. Casey, Indian Agent, (on his requisition) at Fort Myers, some time last week, as the murderers of Daniel Hubbard, of Marion county, on the 6th day of August last, and by Capt. Casey delivered to the civil authori ty of this county, on the 20th ult„ by order of the Secretary of War. They were detected in trying to break jail by means of fire on the 23d ult., at which time their means of making fire were taken away from them and they given to understand that they would be fastened to the centre of the Jail to prevent further attempts, and while our Sheriff went to a blacksmith’s shop for additional fasten ings, it seems they hung their bodies by the neck by means of small cords taken from their eloth ing. to the iron grates in one of the windows and escaped by flight in air, thus cheating Marion county out of three Indians. SIMON TURMAN. The jug is the most singular utensil. A pail, tumbler, or decanter may he raised, and you may satisfy yourself by optical proof that it is clean; but the jug has a little hole in the top, and the interior is all darkness. No eye penetrates it no hand moves over the surface. You can clean it only by putting in water, shaking it up and pouring it out. It the water comes out clean, you judge you have succeeded in cleaning the jug, and vice versa.—Hence the jug is like the human heart. No mortal eye can look into its recesses, and you can only judge of its purity by what comes out of it. Ladies’ Costume at Panama.— The Panama Herald says it has seen a native girl wearing twenty-one American double eagles ($420) linked together so as to form a chain. On the persons of two others we have seen from $3,000 to $5 - i 000 worth of pearls and diamonds, with hundreds | of dollars’ worth of rich lace; and yet all were bare-footed, deeming shoes and stockings un necessary to complete their costume. Land Reform Meeting. —A Land Reform meeting was held last evening at Tammany Hall, in which resolutions were passed recommending the Democratic party throughout the U. States to make the question of free homes for all one of the cardinal issues of the party in the next Presi dential canvass, and pledging the friends of land | reform to oppose every candidate not endorsing j their views. Letters of approval were read from j Senator Walker of Wisconsin, ex-Senator Nich- I olson of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson, member of Congress for Tennessee, and others.— Neeo York Courier. Railroad Accident— The Express train in coming down from Hamburg, yesterday, and im mediately on crossing the Bridge over Edisto River, above Branchville, came in contact with what is termed a snake head. The engine pass ed over it safely, but slowly—the passenger car was smashed all to pieces—injuring slightly one of the passengers, Mr, R. Douglass, of Georgia. Fortunately no lives were lost. The Engineer deserves much praise for the cool and intrepid manner in which he acted—never for a moment forsaking his post, and making good his time into the city with a baggage car of live lumber.— Charleston Sun, 10 th inst. The Whigs of the city of Norfolk, in general meeting a few days since, among others unani mously passed the following resolution : Resolved , That we have the most unlimited con fidence in Mr. Fillmore, and cordially approve of his administration, which has been conducted with that prudence and wisdom so well calculat ed to promote the gteat interests of the country and harmonize the threatening elements of its different sections. Cool.— The following orders were given by the captain of a Western steamboat, when she was about to engage in a race with another boat: Rosin up, thar, and tell the engineer to shut down the safety valves. Give her goss. Gen tlemen who haven’t stepped up the captain’s of* fice and settled, will please retire to the ladies’ cabin till we pass that boat or bust. Fire up !” Prince Albert.— His own anxiety and that of the Queen, about the success of the London Exhibition.may be accounted for from the fact that he advanced $500,000 for the preparations for the show. His public spirit does him honor, and is not likely to be costly to him after all, as the re ceipts from which he was to look for his .indem nity already exceed that sum. . Battle of New-Orleans. —A correspondent informs us that the late Major Davezac, when a passenger some years ago, on board the packet ship Cambridge, from Liverpool to New-York, related the following incident illustrative of the sharp shooting at the battle of New-Orleans. He stated that, on the morning after the battle, twelve broiled robbins were placed on the break fast table, prepared for General Jackson, and his suite, which had been shot with a rifle, through the head, by one of the Kentucky Riflemen who had been in the conflict; he hail fired thirteen times and missed hitting his bird, 'in the head, only once! This circumstance being soon known in the neighborhood, a certificate of the fact was requested of and obtained from Gen. Jackson and his aids, by the British officers, that, by such evidence, on ther return to England, they might exhibit to their Government the character of the enemy at New-Orleans.— N. Y. Courier. Unfortunate Coincidence. —Two negroes, whilst engaged in placing rafters on two build ings, one of which was in Queen, and the other in Beaufain-street, were precipitated to the ground on Saturday, and injured so severely, that they are not expected to recover. The accident, in the instance of one, was occasioned by his stepping op the brick-work before the mortar had sufficiently dried to support him. It is a singular coincidence that they both should have . been engaged in the same business at the time of the accident.— Charleston Sun. In. the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, re cently, Chief Justice Gibson decided an auction case as follows, • , The employment of a puffer at a public auc- i ion, vitiates a sale, and the buyer is defrauded, 1 even t tough he did not pay more than the article was i wo/th in the opinion of witnesses. A man is de- 1 fiauded whenever he is incited by artful means 1 to bid niore than he otherwise would; and when- 1 ever th*pnce is even so little enhanced by a se- l cret contrivance, he is cheated! Judgment* re- i versed” j AUGUSTA, GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 11. For Governor. CHARLES J. MCDONALD. Our Weekly. We issue our Weekly to-day in an entire new dress. It is a large and handsome sheet. Its ap pearance will vie, in beauty of typography and general neatness, with that of any paper pub lished in the Union. The size of the sheet does not vary from that hitherto issued weekly from this office, but, owing to a change in the type, the amount of matter it contains is much greater. If our friends like its appearance and its con tents, we hope they will use some exertions to extend its circulation. Northern Conservatism. The Constitutional Unionists in Georgia talk much of Northern conservatism and unionism, and no words are too honied in which to praise the sublime patriotism of their model Unionists. Mr. Webster is confessedly their leader—the very incarnation of patriotism—and his advocacy of the Compromise is considered, in itself, evi dence that it is, as Mr. Cobb declares it, “ wise, LIBERAL AND JUST.” It would abate somewhat of the pretensions of Mr. Webster to be a counsellor and guide to Southern men, if the Compromise presses in Georgia would publish his speeches in which his real views on slavery, and his views of confin ing and cramping the slave power, are freely given. They will be found in his Buffalo speech. But we have seen no where in the compromise press of Georgia a word of denun ciation or of dissent to the abolition sentiments oi that speech—nor do we remember even to have seen those portions of that most obnoxious speech in their columns. The Anti-Slavery Standard , however, the or gan of the abolitionists, publishes the speech in full. The abolitionists evidently find comfort in that speech, especially in that sentence which says— “ Gentlemen, I regret extremely that slavery exists in the Southern States, and that Congress has not the power to act upon it. But it may be, in the dispensation of Providence, that some remedy may be found for it.” Who knows how soon the Abolitionists and such model Union compromise men as Mr. Webster—yea, the great Daniel himself—may be lovingly concocting some plan by which Congress may be enabled to act upon it?— Where there is a will , there is a way' ) At least, anti-slavery ingenuity and latitudinarian feder alism, are not often at a loss for modes of giving powers to Congress not dreamed of in the school of strict construction. The declaration put forth by Mr. Webster, on the part of the North, that no new slave States shall ever be admitted into the Union, is another significant sign. It is another one of the fruits of Southern submissionism to the Compromise. Mr. Webster has seen the South robbed of all the territory, and that she has submitted to it and sees a party among us, denouncing as traitors, all in the South who raise a voice of remon strance to it. Well may he feel emboldened, now, to speak of the future, as well as of the past, and declare that never, hereafter, are the Southern people to have a share in any territory beyond that they now hold. Yet, as Mr. Webster, too, like Mr. Howell Cobb, is a compromise man, and a Union man, it is, we presume, considered by the Georgia compromisers, impolitic to object to his opinions. So far from it, those who would warn the people of the tendency of this sort of Constitutional Unionism, are to be overwhelmed with abuse, and Daniel—the God-like—commended to their admiration. He has been even talked of as their next candidate for the Presidency. Globe Hotel. We had an acceptable specimen of the cuisine of this excellent house, in the shape of a bowl of Turtle Soup, sent us yesterday, by Mr. L. S. Morris, the enterprising proprietor. If he serves up such dishes often, he bids fair to retain the many friends he has won for his house, and to increase the number. Richmond Superior Court—Carelessness in the Telegraph Office. Judge Starnes was at his post yesterday morn ing, and opened Court at the hour ’to which it stood adjourned. We understand, from him, that being disap pointed in reaching Charleston, from Sullivan’s Island, in time for the train on the morning of the Bth, he called, on Monday morning early, at the Telegraph office in Charleston, and handed to one of the operators there, a despatch for the Clerk ot the Court, directing an adjournment for one day, with a request that it be forwarded im mediately. The importance of promptness was specially urged. He was assured that it would be forwarded without delay. The despatch did not reach Augusta until about six o’clock, P. M.—a half hour after Judge Starnes himself arrived. Such carelessness should not be allowed to pass unnoticed. We leayn from the Georgia Citizen that on Wednesday last, a young man named J. M. Clif ford, was arrested in Macon, charged with the offence of attempting to abduct negroes from their owners. Information had been forwarded from Virginia to Macon that a man of the name of Crawford had there been arrested on a charge of theft, in whose possession a letter was found post marked Macon, and signed by J. W. Clifford, which was a detail of some plans meditated to "raise the wind,” by running off negroes. A copy of this letter was sent out; and we under stand that, taken literally, there is sufficient evi dence in it to show a felonious purpose. After examination before a board of Magistrates, Clif ford was sent to jail, to await the receipt of the original letter, which has been written for. The Battery of the city of New York is to be enlarged by adding 11 acres, 3 rods and 32 poles to its present extension line, at a cost of $27,152. The present size of the Battery is 10 acres, 3 rods and 32 poles, and the extension will make 24 acres. < A letter from London says the most stupend ous failure of modern days is the Thames Tun- 1 nel. Built at enormous cost, it was intended that it should become a great avenue of commu- < nication between the two sides of the Thames, c Unforseen difficulties in the way of getting heavy 1 teams up gnd down at the entrances prevented £ this, and now the wonderful Tunnel is become a r paltry penny exhibition, with toy stores, gftind- 1 ing organs, and Punch Judy shows scattered i through it, i [communicated.] Chattanooga, June 4, 1851. Mr. Editor: —Appreciating the deep interest which your journal ever manifests in regard to Georgia, I take the liberty of forwarding you - some statistics, which the late census has, in part, developed, and which may be as new and inter ' esting to yourself and readers as it has been to Your friend, G. 1— Os the thirteen original States, Georgia and s New York alone have regularly progressed in 1 rank from the taking of the first census, in 1790, to the completion of the census in 1850. Their relative ranks have been as follows: • 1790. 1800. 1810. 1820. 1830. 1840. 18,'SO. ■ N. Hampshire.. 10 10 11 11 H H n 3 Massachusetts.. 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 Rhode Island... 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 Connecticut.... 8 8 8 10 10 10 10 New York 5 3 2 11 1 l New Jersey.... 9 9 10 9 9 9 9 Pennsylvania... 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 c Delaware 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 Maryland 6 77 7 8 8 8 Virginia 11 1 2 3 3 3 i N. Carolina 3 4 4 4 4 4 6 S. Carolina 7 6 0 6 6 77 ‘ Georgia 11 11 9 8 7 6 5 By this table it will be perceived that New T York, from being the fifth, in 1790, has been, for a term of decades, the first; while Georgia has ’ advanced from the eleventh, in 1790, to the fifth in 1850. None other of the States have advanc -1 ed and maintained their rank. 3 But the most remarkable point for observation 1 and comment consists in its prodigious relative s progress in comparison with the other States. New York—again in this instance—alone proves ' worthy of comparison, and even she lags be -3 hind. 3 The ratio of increase of these two States, ac cording to the different census, gives— s 1790 to 1800, Georgia 96 per ct.—New York 72. > 1800 to 1810, “ 55 “ “ 63. s 1810 to 1820, “ 35 “ 11 43. 1820 to 1830, “ 51 " « 39. 1830 to 1840, “ 34 ;i 26. * 1840 to 1850, “ 33 “ 27. l i Av. for each 10 years, 50 u t: 45. i The proportionate advance of all the States has been, from the census of 1790 to that of r 1850, as follows : 3 New Hampshire, 124 Pennsylvania, 432 ’ Massachusetts, 162 Delaware, 53 J Rhode Island, 113 Maryland, 82 Connecticut, 56 Virginia, 87 1 New York , 811 North Carolina, 93 New Jersey, 166 South Carolina,' 153 Georgia, 1,014. J If extent of territory, or more rapid advance of population, entitles a State to the name of Empire , certainly Georgia deserves it over that ’ of New York. r Further per Steamer Pacific. > [ New York, June 7. The U. S. mail steamship Pacific, Capt. Nye, from Liverpool May 28th, arrived this noon, 1 having made the voyage in ten days and two s hours, not allowing for difference of longitude. f She brought 60 passengers, Liverpool papers of the 28th, and London of the evening of the f 27th. The political and general intelligence is not of l striking interest. Commercially the news is . more favorable. The monetary crisis was be lieved to have past. Emigration.—During the past week no few er than 366 emigrants have left the port of Gal > way for America, and the tide from that quarter ; li is flowing with undiminished vigor.” Sailing of the Prince Albert.—Aberdeen, ! May 24th.—Ihe Prince Albert, Kennedy, sailed on Thursday afternoon, for the relief of Sir John Franklin. The boat’s crew of the French corvette Ale- ! mene were sent, on the 29th Nov. last, to find a ! passage for her on the Western side of New Cal -1 edonia in the Pacific. As they did not return, the barge was despatched, and found that they had been killed and eaten by the Menema and Bellep tribes, except three, who were made pri soners, and forced to witness the feast. These men were given up when the barge arrived. 1 The huts, plantations, and canoes of the canni , bals were destroyed; some persons taken, and twenty others shot. The failure of the firm of W. and D. Oldenburg, a German house at Leeds, has been announced. The total liabilities are stated at between .£50.- . 000 and £60,000. London and Manchester firms are losers. The accounts of the state of trade in the pro- , vinces during the past week give satisfactory in dications that the resumption of a steady busi- : ness will take place at Manchester so soon as the the cotton crisis shall have been entirely ad justed. From Nottingham a very favorable change is reported in the lace trade, while in the ! woolen districts the markets remain without any I material alteration. Extension of Steam Navigation.—The British and North American Royal Mail Steam- | ship Company have decided upon a weekly com- j munication between this port and America all ! the year round, calling, as at present, at Halifax on the alternative voyage. Heretofore weekly departures were confined to the summer months. It is expected that in January, 1852, Holyhead will be made the mail station. (Correspondence of the Courier.) Washington, June 7. The Democratic State Convention held a few days ago in Reading, Pennsylvania, is to have an influence on the future political course of that State, and it may have a decided influence upon the next Presidential election. A large majority of the Convention were undoubtedly in favor Mr. Buchanan, as the nominee of the democracy of the key-stone State for the Presidency. Mr. Buchanan, during the agitations of 1850, was in favor of the Missouri Compromise line, and pre pared an argument in support of that measure, but did not publish it, inasmuch as he feared that the measure would not succeed. Among •ther de mocratic candidates whose names have been mentioned in the review are Gen. Cass, General Houston, Judge Woodburry, Senator Douglas, and General Wool. The American Colonization Society whose seat of operations is in this City, have appealed to the public for collections in aid of the object, during the months of June and July. On Saturday last, the President held a consul tation with all his Cabinet, and others, whose presence he invited, on the subject of the various plans for the enlargement of the Capitol. Five or six distinguished architects who had offered plans, were present; but no conclusion was arriv ed at. The President found probably as many opinions as there w'ere men. He says he will hold no more meetings, and conferences on the subject, but will proceed to act. The great object in view, is, or ought to be, to obtain new, suitable and commodious halls for the Senate and House of Representatives. This can and ought to be done without destroying the symmetry of the Capitol. It is now suggested that the President will hasten the decision and the commencement of the work, so as to be pre pared to lay the corner-stone of the new edifice on the fourth of July. The Factory girls, at Lovrell, are going in for the new costume. A letter to the Tribune says: Four young ladies have been perambulating our streets all the morning, dressed in light blue de laine skirts, long enough to reach below the knee, with full Turkish trousers of the same, and neat blue gaiters to match. They certainly made a very neat and pretty appearance, and be haved themselves in a very modest and becom ing manner. This change in the ladies’ costume is much approved of by every body here, and bids fair to become the rage, particularly among the factory girls, of whom we have some t welve or fifteen thousand. A Terrible Explosion. —The Madrid Opopa of the 15th ult., quotes a letter from Seville, an nouncing that a frightful catastrophe had occur red in the garden of the Duke de Montpensier, at Alcala del Rio. The Prince had caused a steam engine to be placed in it for its irrigation, and the 10th ult. was fixed for its trial. His royal highness could not assist at the operation as he intended, having been obliged to repair on that day to Villamaurique. As the boiler to be used for the experiment was not new, it was agreed that it should be slowly heated, but, either from neglect or imprudence on the part of the engi neer, the boiler exploded, and overthrew the building, burying under its ruins 60 or 70 specta tors. M. Latour, Secretary of the commands of the Duke, on hearing of the accident, immediate ly repaired to the spot, accompanied by the physician in attendance at the palace. On their arrival, eighri dead bodies and sixteen wounded had been removed from under the rubbish. The best thing about a girl is cheerfulness. how ruddy her cheeks may be. or lips if she wears a scowl, even her consider her ill-looking, while the young lady who illuminates her counte nance with smiles, will be considered coarse j enough to grate nutmegs on. As perfume is to the * rose, so is good nature to the lovely. Girls, think of this. [Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier. 1 New Orleans, June 6. Cotton has been dull to-day, and barely a thou sand bales have been sold. Prices remain un changed. The sales for the week amount to thirteen thousand bales. The brig Carribee. Crabtree, has cleared for Charleston. We learn from a despatch, received by the agents in this city, that the steamer Osprey, from this port, arrived at her wharf in Philadelphia, at 5 o’clock on the morning of Saturday last. The Steamship Union.— -We learn from .a private telegraphic despatch received in this city, that this fast steamer arrived at New York on Sunday evening last, after a quick passage from New Orleans of six days and nine hours. New York Money Market. The Journal of Commerce of Friday evening says: The offerings at the Banks are less than their income, and some of these institutions are taking advantage of the amount to reduce their discount lilies. All sound business paper is freely taken, with no advance in rates, and the market con tinues in favor of the borrower. The tendency to unlimited expansion in speculative movements has been checked and some who had their mouths ! at the bubble have been a little straightened, but | in general confidence is fully maintained. | _ Foreign Exchange is firm at the quotations ' given this morning. We learn of engagements ; of nearly $700,000 in specie for the Baltic and i she may take more. | Crops.— The Memphis (Tenn) Enquirer, of | May 29th says: “We are informed by intelligent gentlemen I from the county, that the crops of all descriptions, wheat cotton and corn, present the most promis : ing appearance. The ill effect of the early bad I weather has been entirely surmounted, and the j planters are confidant of a plentiful reward of | their labors.” Robbery. —The book Store of Messrs. Paine i & Lucus, at the corner of East Bay and North Atlantic Wharf was entered on Saturday or Sun -1 day night last by some miscreants who forced 1 open a substantial lock, that fastened the door | which faced the wharf.' Fortunately they were j unable to effect an entrance into the main store, and ali the booty they obtained was about four or five huudred pounds of sugar. They attempted, likewise, to force the shutter of the next store occupied by Messrs. G. B. Lucke & Son, but were unsuccessful in this instance. We under stand, however, that they cut the hinges of the door of Mr. J. Chapman’s Store, in Exchange street, although we believe, they failed in their attempt at plunder.— Ch. Courier , 10th inst. Aberville, June I he Weather—Crops.— After seven or %ight weeks of parching, hot, dry weather, we were visited on Wednesday evening last with quite a refreshing shower. Considerable damage has been done to the crops by the long drought, and especially the oats, which is looked upon L an entire failure. From all that we can learn and we nave been somewhat diligent in making en quiries—the wheat crop is a large one, and will even exceed the expectations of planter —Ban ner. We are happy to learn that Mr. R. C. Gordon, whose house was robbed some time ago, has been ab eto recover the notes; they were found in an old held, some eighteen miles from Mr. Gordon’s belonging to Maj. Larkin Reynolds, by one of his negroes. Ihe money has not been recovered nor as yet has any cine been given to the villains who perpetrated the robbery.— lb. OBITUARY. ~ Mrs. Elizabeth G. Thew, wife of George M. Thcw of this city, departed this life on Saturday May .41st, m the 43d year of her age. ! In the decease of this estimable and lamented in dividual, the iarnily circle of which she was an af fectionate judicious and faithful head, and the Church of Christ, of which for twenty-seven year, she was a zealous and consistent member, have suf fered no ordinary loss. Around her own fireside' m the social circle, or in the religious meeting she over displayed those frank and engaging manners and that sincre and cheerful! piety whfch so endear ed her to her friends and fellow-christians Ad. voted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church' her heart was always open to Christians of every name and the hospitalities of her house were a? ways freely and cordially extended to them. Many in all the churches will mourn her loss nnrl £ with the members of her beloved Zion,'in the sor rowful exclamation, alas! my sister With twL •ft T* »“»»<’«*'•«. fclibrThoy I S that though her sun has gone down at noon, it has only ‘-melted away into the light of Heaven.” In Sparta, (Ga.) on the 23d day of May, R IC ha ED P. Sasnett, Esq., in the 39th year of hia a protracted iHness of several months, whieffhe bore with Christian fortitude. 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