Newspaper Page Text
r,,„
CON STITUTION ALI ST.
BY JAMBS GARDNER, JR.
TERMS.
Daily, per annum, in advance $8 00
Tri-W’eeki,y, per annum 5 00
Weekly, per annum, if paid in advance 2 00
These terms are offered to new subscribers, and to old
subscribers who pav up all arrearages.
In no case will the Weekly paper be sent at $2, un
less the money accompanies the order.
In no case will it be sent at ?2 to an old subscriber in
arrears.
Qy When the year paid for at $2 expires, the paper,
if not discontinued, or paid for in advance, will be sent
on the old terms. $2 50 if paid at the office within the
year, or $3 if paid at the expiration of the year.
{£7* Postage must be paid on all communications and
letters of business.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.
One square (12 lines.) 50 cents the first insertion, and
37| cents for the next 5 insertions, and 25 cents for
each subsequent insertion.
Contracts made by the year, or for a less period, on
reasonable terms.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sheriff's Levies, 30 days, $2 50 per levy; 60 days, $5.
Executor's, Administrators 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 Creditors 3 25
Four Months’ Notices 4 00
Rules Nisi, (monthly) $1 per square, each insertion.
(T7~ ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, are at ocr
RISK.
PRAYER. —BV MRS. LOUISE WORTHEN.
Prayer is the incense of the soul,
The odor of the flower;
And rises as the waters roll,
To God's controlling power!
Within the soul there would not be
This infinite desire
To whisper thoughts in prayer to Thee, _
Had'st Thou not lit the fire.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth
To Thee whose love divine,
Steals gently down like dew to soothe,
Or like the sunbeams shine ?
For in the humblest soul that lives,
As in the lowliest flower,
The dew-drop back his image gives,
Ths soul reflects His power!
At night, when all is hushed and still,
And e'en soft echo sleeps,
A still small voice doth o’er me thrill
And to each heart-throb leaps ;
It is the spirit-pulse which beats,
Forever deep and true !
The atom with its author meets,
As sunlight greets the dew!
Marriage and Stockings.
The following letter accompanying a present
of a pair of Stockings to a young bride, is one of
the best things we have seen for some time :
Dear Cousin: —Herewith you w r ill receive a
present of a pair of woolen stockings, knit by
my own hands; and be assured, dear coz, that
my frsendship for you is as warm as the material,
active as the finger-work, and generous as the
donation. But I consider this present as peculiar
ly appropriate on the occasion of your marriage.
will remark, in the first place, that there are
tw r o individuals united in one pair, who are to
walk side by side, guarding against coldness, and
giving comfort as long as they last. The thread
of their texture is mixed, and so. alas! is the
thread of life. In these, however, the white
predominates, expressing by desire and confi
dence that thus it will be with the color of your
existence. No black is used; for I believe your
lives will be wholly free from the black passions
of wrath and jealousy. The darkest color here
is blue, which is excellent, where we do not
make it too blue.
Other appropriate thoughts rise to my mind
regarding these stockings. The most indifferent
subjects, when view r ed by the mind in a suitable
frame, may furnish instructive inferences as saith
the poet—
“ The iron dogs, the fuel and tongs,
The bellows that have leathern lungs;
The fire-wood, ashes, and the smoko,
Do all to righteousness provoke.’’
But to the subject. You will perceive that
the tops of these stockings (by which I suppose
courtship to be represented) are seamed, and by
means of seaming, are drawn into a snarl, but
afterwards comes a time when the whole is
made plain, and continues so to the end and final
toeing off. By this, I wish you to take occasion
to congratulate yourself, that you are now through
with seeming, and have come to plain reality.
Again, as the whole of these comely stockings
were not made at once, but by the addition of
one little stitch, after another, put in with skill
and discretion, until the whole presents the fair,
equal piece of work which you see. so life does
not consist of one great action, but millions of
little ones combined ; and so may it be with you.
No stitch dropped where duties are to be per
formed —no widening made where bad princi
ples are to be reproved, or economy is to be pre
served ; neither seaming nor narrowing where
truth and generosity are in question. Thus ev
ery stitch of life made right and set in the right
place—none either two large or too small, too
tight or too loose; thus you may keep on your
smooth and even course, making existence one
fair and consistent piece, until together, having
passed the heel, you come to the very toe of life,
and here, in the final narrowing off, and drop
ping the coil of this emblematical pair of com
panions and comforting associates, nothing ap
pears but white, the token of innocence and
peace, of purity and light—may you, like these
stockings, the final stitch being dropped, and the
work being completed, go together from the place
where you were formed, to a happier state of ex
istence, a present from earth to heaven. Hoping
that these stockings and admonitions may meet
a cordial reception, I remain in the true blue
friendship seemly, without seeming, yours, from
top to toe. ——,
The Responsible Editor. —On this subject,
the Baton Rouge Gazette has the following de
velopment of a new idea in journalism, which is
quite worthy of general adoption :
“ The Responsible Editor. —lt is not generally
known that there is one person about this office
who is particularly responsible for articles which
appear in our columns. Person are beginning to
find it out, and others will soon do so. After
our last publication, an individual, who consider
ed himself somewhat aggrieved, came to the of
fice in a great splutter, and wanted all manner of
explanations and retractions. Fortunately, the
responsible Editor was present, who distinctly
informed him that the article as published,was no
thing like so severe as he intended. The very
savage manner in which this was uttered, calmed
the offended dignity at once, and sent him off
murmuring at the liberty of the press. Now, we
would inform those who do not know it, that
there is an important individual in this office, the
author of all the principal matter, who delights
in being held responsible. He is a dangerous
man to trifle with. The grand hickory stick he
twirls in his hand would be enough (witnout his
dare-devil look) to frighten most persons, but
when we state that in the depth of the pocket
of the check coat he wears, he conceals one of
the most beautiful pursuaders' 1 ever manufac
tured by Colt, we are satisfied he will be a ter
ror to all evil-doers.
“‘ We would also, states, 7 that generally, he is
occupied doing out-door business, but that on
every Saturday, until l o'clock p. m., he is always
at the office, perfectly ready and willing to give
any, and every satisfaction for articles he pub
lishes. 7 ’
This reminds us of a story in our own little edi
torial history. During the Mexican war, it hap- j
pened that we unwittingly published in the Del
ta, an extract from some other journal, which
cast a slur upon the respectable and venerable
State of North Carolina, without, however, any
particular or personal allusion. It happened that
a portion of the North Carolina regiment was
then in the city, and a tall, stalwart officer of
that valiant body of citizens-soldiers, not having
had an opportunity of displaying his valor in
Mexico against our national enemies, though he ;
wouldn’t go home without some laurels; so, as |
the next greatest achievement, he thought he
would try his prowess on an editor. The article
in the Delta against North Carolina, he thought,
afforded him a good occasion, so he came to our
editorial sanctum brimful of war and whisky, and
demanded, in a very threatening and impera
tive manner, if the editor was in. It happened
the editor was out of town, —and only an assis
tant editor and some of the reporters were in the
sanctum. Among the latter was our amiable
and gifted little friend, now deceased, George
Washington Reeder. Mr. Reeder had a big soul
in a remarkably diminutive and juvenile body.—
He was about the average size of a boy of eleven
or twelve, and quite (frail. When the aforesaid
North Carolina Goliah came into our seantum,
Mr. Reeder, in a very bland manner, informed
him that the editor was not present. The visit
and demand were repeated several times, until
at last the valorous purposes of the North Caro
linian grew too hot and impatient to brook furth
er delay. So when he made his last visit, and
received from Mr. Reeder the courteous reply
that the editor was not in, the belligerent gen
tleman exclaimed, in a loud and sneering tone,
with a threatening doubling of his first and fear
ful frown, “It is d d strange I can find no
responsible man in this establishment!” As he
uttered this in a loud tone, Mr. Reeder slowly
arose from his desk to the full height of four feet
nine, and in a manner of great politeness and
urbanity, such as characterized his representation
of u Cool,” in “ London Assurance,” in the days
of his histrionic career, (when Mr. Reeder had
few superiors in that line of character,) inquired
if he understood the gentleman to ask for a res
ponsible representative of the editorial depart
ment of the Delta ?
“ Yes, sir,” replied the bellicose giant: “ I came
for that purpose.”
“ Then, sir,” rejoined Mr. Reeder, “ I have
the happiness to inform you that you see before
you the responsible man of the establishment. I
am at your service, sir,” —and the little Repor
ter’s bright eye flashed with the heroism of twen
ty Bayards.
“You—you!” exclaimed the seven foot fire
eater. “ Well, that is a good one,” —and burst
ing out into a loud guffaw, he turned towards the
door through which Mr. Reeder, with a sneer
such as would have curled the lips of the proud
est knight in the age of chivalry, when his chal
lenged foe rejected the tendered gauntlet,—grace
fully waved liis hand to the repulsed Carolinian,
who harshly left, and has never been heard of
since.— N. O. Delta.
Revolutionary Incident.
We will mention another bloody and horrible
massacre which took place on the road between
Greenville and Spartanburg during the Revolu
tionary war. Jacob O’Bannon Hite, a gentleman
connected with one of the first families in Vir
ginia, settled on the Enoree, where our friend Na
thaniel Morgan, Esq., now resides, some years
previous to the commencement of the American
Revolution. On hearing that there was some
danger to be apprehended from the Cherokee In
dians, he sent his son on a visit to their towns, on
Estatoe, in Pickens District. The Indians had
taken up the tomahawk before his son reached
them, and he was met and murdered by them.
The place was once pointed out to us by Bailey
Barton, Esq., whose father assisted in burying the
mangled corpse of young Hite. The Indians pur
sued their journey to Paris, 7 where the village of
Greenville now stands. Paris was an Indian tra
der, after whom the lofty and beautiful triangular
mountain, seven miles from our village, was call
ed and named Paris Mountain. He was sup
posed to have been the secret agent of the British
Government in stirring up the Indians to hostili
ties against the Colonies. Young Hite, as the le
gend has descended, was engaged to Paris’ daugh
ter, who communicated the dreadful intelligence
of his death to his father and mother. But they
had not time to fly from their danger before the :
Indians were on them. Mr. Hite and two of j
his sons were murdered at his house, on the banks [
of the Enoree. Mrs. Hite, with an infant child, |
was taken by the Indiads and carried into their j
towns. The infant was killed, being an incum- ;
brance on their journey, and Mrs. Hite was as- j
forwards recaptured and returned to Virginia. A 1
daughter of hers. Mrs. Buchanan, not a great 1
many years since, brought suits against Vardry
Mcßee, Esq., Dr. Richard Herrison, and others, to
recover the lands around the village of Greenville
which had been granted to some member of her
family after the close of the Revolutionary war, i
by the State of South Carolina.— Southern Patriot, j
A Visit from a Real Bloomer.
We were completely taken aback yesterday i
morning by the entrance into our sanctum of a j
full-rigged Bloomer—with pink tunic, just reach
ing to the knees, jaunty blue silk cap and white
lace Turkish what-d'ye-cairems worn over anoth
er pair of unmentionables of a different material.
Luckily for us, we chanced not to be entirely
alone, or what would have become of us we are
unable to conjecture. As it was our well known 1
modesty was exceedingly shocked, and it was
some minutes before we could—encouraged as
we were by the presence of our friend—calmly
regard the novel spectacle. The wearer of the
new Costume was a very beautiful well formed !
large sized Doll , which had been dressed and sent
to us by a young lady friend, in order that we
might have a correct idea of the new dress, so
much talked of at present.
The dress is very becoming to Dolls, but if our
fair costumer would have our judgment on its
adaptation to her sex, she must present herself in
propriapersona, in the new Costume. After hav
ing seen the Doll, we believe we could venture
to look upon a real flesh and blood Bloomer,
through our fingers—especially if she were young
and handsome.— Savannah News , 12 ih inst.
Northern Hay.— We were not a little sur
prised the other day to see a bale of Northern
Hay pass through the streets of Rome, and this,
too, in the middle of the 19th century. And we
are informed that not long since some twenty
bales arrived on the Rail-Road and passed down
the river into Alabama, consigned to a very
worthy “ Southern Rights” Planter of that State.
Are not these tacts disreputable to the economy
and enterprise of the South ? There is scarcely
a grass grown at the North, but what would
flourish finely in upper Georgia and North Ala
bama ; and we gathered in a few days, last fall,
with one or tveo hands, some ten or fifteen loads
of as fine hay from our crab-grass fields as a
horse or cow could desire to smell or taste. A
portion of it still remains, and even at this season
is greedily devoured by stock. We would say,
then, to our agricultural friends, look well to
your crab grass. If you have no better, it will
amply repay your labor, if bestowed at a proper
time. Get your blades and sheathes in readi
ness, and when the grass is in milk, cut it and
dry and house it with care, and when bleak
winter comes, you will not be haunted by the
ghostly rappings of famished stock.— Rome Cou
i ner.
Charming Summer Bonnet.— The latest,
most fascinating and most unimpeachable of la
ladies bonnets is white tulle, made rather smaller
than the spring pattern and perfectly plain, both
inside and out. JThe crown is small and droops
gracefully and is absolutely plain, with a small
cape made also of tulle. The peculiarity of this
' style of bonnet is its positive simplicity, and the
entire absence of every species of ornament or
trimming, as well on the outside as within. The
consequence of this is a perfection of lightness
and grace never before achieved in the creation
of that delicate and difficult work of art, a lady's
! bonnet. Indeed, the whole affair looks more
like a little white cloud flecking the sunshine of
j a bright summer day, or a bit of sea foam blown
ashore by the mermaids in sport, or a bowl of
Alabama egg nog, rounded and running over,
than any mere matter of lace and needle work.
If the fairies .were to get up a Fairy World's
Fair, we can imagine that Queen Titania, when
she came to open the Crystal Palace amid her
splendid court and in presence of the aristocracy
of Englend, would covet the acquaintance of
Madame Malherbe, that she might appear in
| one of these exquisite bonnets.
{From the N. O. Delta , inst.)
Late from Tehuantepec.
By the arrival of the Robert Spedden, we have
j late news from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Vera
I Cruz, and the city of Mexico. Maj. J. A. Kelly
who vras lately connected with the surveying
party on the Isthmus, came over on the Robert
Spedden. The Major is direct from Mina-Titlan,
where he has been engaged for sometime in ob
serving and noting the tides of the Coatzalcos.
He reports that the vomito is prevailing at Vera
Cruz. The American Consul, Capt. Rogers, had
been ill of it, but was getting better when the
Spedden left.
The British steamer landed at Vera Cruz on
the 31st ultimo, and took on board her passengers
and left immediately for Kingston, Jamaica.
Maj. Kelly brings dispatches from Mr. Sidell
the engineer.
The survey of the isthmus is entirely com
pleted, and the hydrographic party was waiting
at Mina-Titlan for transportation home. Mr.
Avery's party was expected every day from the
Jultipan.
It was expected that Mr. Williams and his
party would be ready to move from Mina-Titlan
on the sth instant. A portion of this party was
at the Pass of Che vela at the latest accounts, and
the other part was at the Cerro Encantada.
Maj. Barnard was at El Barrio, where he was
daily improving in health. He also was expect
ed at Mina-Titlan by the sth instant.
The health of the members of the survey, we
are glad to learn, has generally been very good.
The schooner Helen Mar, Capt. Selkirk, was
seized at Mina-Titlan, on the 19th ultimo, by
the Mexican authorities. Ten soldiers and a ser
gent were placed on board, and the next day the
rigging w r as cut away. The captain entered a
protest before the American Consul, J. A. Pleas
ants, Esq., and thus the matter stands at present.
The Helen Mar had cleared at Vera Cruz for
Mina-Titlah, and the captain was unaware that
he had committed any violation of the Mexican
laws.
The revenue cutter Duane had gone down to
the Coatzalcos, the commander having given
notice of his intentions to the Collector at Vera
Cruz. The Sears had also left for the Coatzal
cos.
Thirty-four Californiaus came passengers from
Vera Cruz on the Sears. They had taken the
Acapulco route, and had been four months at sea,
having been becalmed that length of time on
the Pacific.
Mexico. —The shooner Robert Spedden, ar
rived in our port yesterday, bringing files of pa
pers from the city of Mexico to the 26th, and
from Vera Cruz to the 30th ult:
The Mexican Congress adjourned on the 23d,
leaving the finances of the Republic in the same
embarrassing situation in which it had found
them. The proposition which had been pending
for several weeks, to give extraordinary powers
to the President, with regard to that important
department of the Government was finally lost
by a large majority.
The resolution adopted by the Senate, annul
ling the decree, (virtually annulling the Garay
grant) passed the Lower House by an almost
unanimous vote, and received the signature of
the President.
The proposition to abolish the tobacco mono
poly also failed.
The Monitor says, that an extra session of
CongresSjWill be called in a few days.
The Religious Character of John C. Calhoun.
At the time of his death and since, there have
been many surmises on this subject. There was
such a complete absence of all profession in his
last moments, that the most opposite inferences
might be drawn. It is difficult for the Christian
to believe that so much purity of character—so
much rectitude in all the relations of life—could
have been the fruit of sceptical opinions. The
I fact which I here relate, coming to me from the
i highest authority, has a strong bearing on the
j subject. On one of his most recent visits to the
| metropolis of South Carolina, he had occasion to
I request the visit of an eminent divine on some
! question of mutual interest. This having been
; discussed, the subject of his health was introduced,
i He remarked that whilst his dearest friends had
not a suspicion ot it, he was conscious that he was
i near the end of his course, and would probably
lay his bones in Washington the ensuing winter.
He stated that he hadjaiways been a believer in
the great principles of Christianity, and that he
• was devoting himself sedulously under its gui
j dance to preparation for his great change. In
| earnest as he was about every thing he undertook,
| it is to be hoped t hat he attended to the one thing
j needful, and that the calmness of his death, in
stead of being the indifference of Stoicism, was
the resignation of the Christain. W.
[A. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Mysterious. —The Memphis Enquirer, of the
j 3d inst., states that within the last few days pre
| viously two dead human bodies had been dis
| covered in the neighborhood of that city under
circumstances which go to show that their deaths
occurred at or near the same period of time. The
similarity of circumstances wrnuld go to demon
; strate, not only that the deceased died almost
! simultaneously, but that they came to thir deaths
by the same means. Both were found dead about
the same distance from a public traveled road
along the banks of the Mississippi, and within a
short disrance of the river; and in both cases the
! head was found at several yards distance from
the body. The bodies were so much decomposed
as to make it impossible to recognise them, and
no clue could be had to unravel these mysterious
murders.
Bob and Jonas were taking a luach, a day or
tw.o since, from cold pork and bread, making
frequent requisitons on the castor for seasoning
to the feast. Just as Bob had swallowed a mouh
ful, Jonas asked him the most horrible conun
drum of the season.
“Why was that last mouthful of yours, Bob,
like a Belgian army ? 55
Os course it w T as given up.
“Because,'-’ said he, preparing for a dopge, “it
was mustard on, the Rhine.
An Irish Salute.— Two Irishmen were left
in charge of a ship while its officers went ashore
and strictly enjoined not to make or permit any
noise on board; but a jug of “ ould Irish’ 5 one of
them had, and the opportunity for a “ bit of a
spree,” was too great a temptation for them to
resist. They indulged freely, and as many of
our public men have been known to, soon drank
themselves into a very patriotic spirit. When
one says to the other—
“ Be jabers, and lets fire a salute.”
“ Agreed,” says the other, “ but that wud make !
the divil’s own noise.”
“ Tut man,” replied the first, “we’ll stop that.”
“ J ust you hold a bag over the mouth of the
gun me darlint, and we’ll have a roarin’ salute
without any noise at all.”
Pat acquiesced in the arrangement, and held
the bag as directed, while the other touched off
the cannon. The officers, hearing the report,
hastened on board, where they found one of the
Irishman, and every thing in a great state of be
wilderment. He was asked what had become
of his comrade. “Sure,” said he, “Pathrick was I
houldin’ a bag over the mouth of the cannon, to
stop the noise, while I touched it off, and the
last I see'd of him or the bag, they were goin in
a great hurry towards shore, and that's the last
account I can give ye.”
New York Flour. —A gentleman who is
largely engaged in manufacturing flour, in the
lr/erior of New York, and who has been so for
tunate as to establish for his mill a high reputa
tion among favorable brands, unable to make as
much of the article as he can sell, has been en
gaged lor some months past, and is now engaged
m this State in buying up certain brands of Mi
chigan flour, for the purpose of taking it to New
i ork and there re-packing it into new barrels,
upon which he places his own well kown brand,
for which flour, when so put up, he realizes from
four to six shillings more per barrel than the
very choicest kinds of Michigan flour in the best
order, will command under the most favorahle
circumstances. — Detroit Adv ., sth inst.
An exchange asks, “ What becomes of all the
pins that are bought and used ?” True enough.
We know how many of these are manufactured
and sold. Now what becomes of them? They
do not wear out. Yet they are gone in immense
numbers. Let a housekeeper take note of how
many pins are brought into the house, and let
her tell, if she can, where they are gone. Are
they used ? So are knives and forks; yet the
latter remain on hand. But the pins—where are
the pins ?
A Beau of Former Times, —Sir Walter
Raleigh wore a white satin pinked vest, close
deeved to the wrist; over the body a brown
doublet, finely flowered and embroidered with
pearl. In the feather of his hat a large ruby and
pearl drop at the bottom of the spring, in place of
a button ; his trunk or breeches, with his stock
ings and ribbon garters, fringed at the end, all
white; buff shoes, with white ribbon. On great
court Jays his shoes were so gorgeously covered
with precious stones as to have exceeded the va
lue of £6,600; and he had a suit of armor of solid
silver, with sw r ord and belt blazing with dia
monds, rubies and pearls.
(From the Federal Union)
Mr. Cobb, the Cobb Convention, &|Mr. Buchanan.
It will be remembered by many of our readers,
that in December last, at the formation of the
“Constitutional Union party,'’ Mr. Toombs, one
of its reputed fathers, was enthusiastic in his ad
miration of Mr, Buchanan, and openly avowed
his preference for him as the successor of Presi
dent Fillmore. Since then, some of the leading
papers of that party have advocated his claims
and zealously urged his nomination. The “Ma
con regency” had promulged that he would cer
tainly be nominated by their Convention, and
the same opinion has been publicly expressed by
those who assume, if not to be leaders to be cog
nizant of the counsels of the Union sanhedrim.
Well, the Convention has assembled, and not a
w’ord said about Mr. Buchanan !! What is the
meaning of all this professed and ardent love of
Mr. Buchanan? What now -will those Union
democrats say, who have been boasting that they
would bring the Whig party on the old democra
tic platform, and who referred to the contem
plated nomination of Mr. Buchanan as an evi
dence of their influence with their new associ
ates ? The convention had a whig president!
The whigs had a controlling majority in the com
mittee of 33 ! Col. Toombs was the self-consti
tuted Chairman of that Committee, and the lea
ding spirit in the Convention !! Asa matter of
course, Mr. Buchanan was dropped. The use of
his name had subserved the purpose for which it
had been brought forth. It had entrapped de
mocrats. It had brought them into the fold, and
caused them to be committed. They were noos
ed, and that was enough. Whig admirers of Mr.
Buchanan, had then no further use for him.
It cannot be doubted, this abandonment of Mr.
Buchanan at this juncture , is a bitter pill to Mr.
Cobb. Unquestionably he wished his own name
coupled with that of the distinguished Pennsyl
vanian till the first Monday in October. But his
w T hig allies have told him emphatically, if you
take honors from us, you must be of us and act
with us. They have said to him, we made Fill
more President: he stands on the compromise
platform: we have commended him for the past,
and do not design to abandon him for the future;
if you act w r ith whigs, you must be a whig, and
support whigs. We have never for a moment
believed that the leaders of the Union party in
Georgia, had the most distant idea of sustaining
Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency. We should
not however, have been disappointed had they
nominated him—gone thus far in their strategy.
But they have not done it, they have had self
respect enough not to commit themselves by for
mal written resolutions. They have left Mr.
Cobb to paddle his own canoe, with the aid he
has heretofore borrowed of Mr. Buchanan, and*
the future capital he can make out of his own
declarations, but with the distinct understanding,
that they will not be committed to Mr. Buchan
an.
We cannot close this article, without saying a
word to the Pennsylvanian of Philadelphia, the
friend of Mr. Buchanan and his distinguished ad
vocate for the Presidency. That Journal wholly
misconceives the politics of Georgia. It has re
ceived the impression, that democrats, friends of
Mr. Buchanan, control the Union party of Geor
gia. It has doubtless attained its information
from those, whose “wishes are fathers to the
thought. ’ The action of the late Convention
ought to undeceive the Pennsylvanian. It ought
to learn that the only party in Georgia really
friendly to Mr. Buchanan, is that which occupies
his platform—the Virginia and Kentucky Reso
lutions. It ought to learn too, that its support of
the Cobb party in Georgia, is aid rendered to the
enemeies of Mr. Buchanan.
Experimental Culture.— Last year an in
telligent farmer of Murray county made an ex
periment in Corn culture which is worthy of
note. Four rows were selected, some two hun
dred yards long; from two the Fodder at the
usual time was gathered; upon the other two it
was suffered to remain unstripped. The Corn
upon the four rows weighed the same per bush
el, but upon the two rows upon which the blades
were suffered to remain, two bushels more were
gathered than upon the stripped rows. We hope
the day is not distant, when Hay and Oats will
be substituted for corn-fodder, especially in Che
rokee Georgia.— Rome Courier.
The Height of Impudence.—A young sp&rk
who boarded at one of our principal hotels, man
aged, for a long time by one artifice or another, to
postpone the payment of his bill. At last the
landlord became quite impatient, and stepping up
to his juvenile boarder, slapped him gently on the
shoulder, and asked him for some money. “I have
not a red cent about me at present,” was the la
conic reply. “ But, my dear sir,” said the land
lord. “ I cannot afford to keep a boarding house
without being paid.” “ Well, d—m it,” exclaim
ed our young philosopher, “If you cannot afford
it, sell out to some one that can!'—San Francisco
Public Balance.
The Ten Dollar Gentleman. —A person is
making himself notorious in New York for send
ing anonymously ten dollar pieces to various per
sons, for various objects. Having set the town
all agog with this remarkable exhibition of ec
centricity, he is reported to have taken his de
parture tor the East. The Newark Advertiser
supposes that he is on his way now to present
some of the eagles to the American Anti-slavery
Society in Boston, which never sends back as
I every body knows, anything that comes to them
| from the South, whethor it be black, white or yel
low.
If girls will kiss, let them perform the cere
mony as if they loved it. Don’t let them sneak
about the thing as if they were purloining cheese,
nor drop their heads, “ like lillies overspread with
rain. On the contrary, they should do it with an
appetite, and when they let go give rise to a re
port that wiil make the old folks think somebody
is firing a pistol about the house.
The oldest Sovereign of Europe is Ernest,
King of Hanover. On the 2d of June he com
pleted his 80th year. He is the only surviving
son of George the Third, and was formerly
known as the Duke of Cumberland. He, instead
of Victoria, ascended to the throne of Hanover on
the death of his brother, William the Fourth, in
June, 1837,0 n which day the thrones of Engiand
and Hanover were separated—the prevalence of
the salic law preventing the accession of females
j [Senatorial Nomination. —We have only
room to refer to the Secretaries’ account of the
proceedings of the Convention held in this place
on Tuesday last, for the nomination of a candidate
for Senator of this district. It will be seen that
Col. R. W. McCune is the chosen standard bear
er. He is a young but gallant leader, impetuous
and fervent, and will give a good account of him
self in the ranks of his adversaries.— Griffin Jcjf
???*. 1,1 1, JJJJJIIA 1 - 1 ' 1
AUGUSTA, GA.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 14.
For Governor.
Charles j. McDonald.
A o papers received last evening from of
fices North of Charleston.
Ex-Governor McDonald’s Pr^ects.
The Central Georgian , which favors the elec
tion of the Hon. Howell Cobb, makes the follow
ing frank admission of the superior popularity of
Gov. McDonald. We think the “ Union friends”
of the Editor right in thinking that Mr. Cobb
will beat his opponent “ with little or no ease at
all.” They will certainly find it no easy job. !
They are very ill at ease on this point, now, and
they will have " very littte or no ease at allfi be
tween this and the election. After the election,
they must take the result philosophically, and, if
as Paddy said, “ they cannot be asy, they must be
as asy as they can ” :
“It is rather early in the canvass to give out
any surmises as to which ‘ way the cat will
jump,’ and indeed how far she will assume to
leap in this quarter. We know that with our
Union friends the matter is not questionable, for
they think that Cobb will beat Ex-Gov. Mc-
Donald with ‘ little or no ease at all.’ We must
candidly admit (so far as the vicinity is con
cerned) that there seems to hang a moral cer
tainty about this, which is not at all pleasing to
the Iriends ot Judge McDonald, yet we are in
clined to the opinion, from the manner in which
his nomination has been received, that McDon
ald will receive the support of a very considera
ble proportion of his old friends, who are not
affiliated as partizans with the Southern Rights
party, while Mr. Cobb will receive but little, if
any support from the opposite party. Os this,
however, better opinions can be formed as the
canvass progresses.”
We learn from the Savannah Evening Journal
that the steamer Wm. Scabrook has been pur
chased by Captain Peck and a company in that
city, for the purpose of plying between Charles
ton and Savannah, via Beaufort, when the new
arrangement of the first of July goes into effect.
She will, probably, be the only boat to touch at
Beaufort, as the new mail steamers are to go out
side.
John C. Hunter, of this State, has been ap
pointed a Purser in the Navy; vice Hugh W.
Green, resigned.
Gen. William O. Buttler, of Kentucky, was
nominated at a large meeting of persons from six
counties in Ohio, lately, for the Presidency.
The Weather and Crops.— After a drought
of nearly two months, (says the Georgetown
Observer of Wednesday) we were last week
visited by refreshing rains. On Wednesday
night we had a most terrific thunder storm ac
companied with a heavy rain. On Thursday we
had a very fine rain, and the prospect of the up
land crops is brightning. The weather,however,
continues warm and sultry with a prospect of
more rain.
The Crops on Red River. —The Alexandria
(1,a.) Republican of the 31st ult., has the follow
ing:
We were shown on Thursday, two Cotton
blooms from the plantation of R. C. Hynson,
Esq., on Bayou Rapides. This is right early for
them, considering the season we have had, but it
is no indication ol the crop throughout the parish
or on Red River generally. The crop out ot
which they came was one of the earliest that
was planted in the parish, and has been well at
tended to and cultivated. Few crops, if any, are
as far advanced, while perhaps the much larger
portion of the Cotton in the paiish is from three
weeks to a month behind it. For the want of
ram, it is feared the young Cotton will not come
to anything.
Ihe bulk of the Corn crop has already been
destroyed beyond redemption, for the want of j
ram. Very few planters indeed will be able to
make more than a third or fourth of a crop.
The sugar cane is suffering almost as much, ow
ing to the drought, as corn is.
Lake Superior Operations.— The Lake Su
perior Journal has the following items:
Shipments of Copper. —The propeller Manhat
tan arrived from Copperdom on the 14th ult.,
having something over seventy tons of copper
from the North American Mine, and forty-one
tons from the North-west, in masses and barrels.
The propeller Napoleon brought down on her
first trip about thirty tons, and on her second trip
about forty-five tons, in barrels and masses, from
the Cliff Mine. There is a large amount of cop
per at Eagle River, of the Boston and Pittsburg
companies, yet to come down.
Since the opening of the land office here this
spring there has been a perfect rush that way,
particularly to the register’s, for the purpose of
entering lands, and of proving up leases and pre
emption claims,
Changes in Mining Companies. —The Douglas
Houghton Company, formerly owned at Detroit,
and Cleveland, has passed into the hands of Phi
ladelphians. Mr. C. C. Douglas, for a long time
the able and perserving agent of the mine, is now
in town, on his way to Detroit, having given up
his agency of the company.
The possessions of the Eagle Harbor Mining
Company, consisting of nine square miles of mi- j
neral and agricultural land, including within
their limits the village of Eagle Harbor, have been
purchased by a company from Waterbury, Ct.,
and the same company, we believe, who have
erected the copper smelt ing establihment at De
troit.
Failures in Yew York. —The New York
Post of Saturday evening says:
A failure has been announced on the stock ex
change—Mr. Benjamin Nathan, who w T as specu
lator in the Dauphin Coal Mining Company,
Pennsylvania, the same company in which Mr.
SB. Ruggles was largely concerned. Mr. Na
than, it will be recollected, was one of the suf
ferers by the failure of Mr. Ray Tompkins.
The failure of Francis Griffin, esq. wffiieh creat
ed so much of a sensation a day or two ago, is
said to have been brought by certain land specu
lations and endorsement for Mr. Sam’l B. Rug
gles. His liabilities, as endorser, the financial
editor of the Post puts down at SIOO,OOO.
. Newberry, June 11, 1851.
A ills District is now enduring a drought of six
weeks duration, and the prospect for rain seems
even quite unpromising. Some few localities in
the different quarters of the District have been,
in the mean time, refreshed by light showers*
But in this immediate vicinity there has fallen at
no time since the 4th of May more rain than
sufficed to settle the dust in our streets.
The crops of spring Oats has been almost en
tirely cut off—scarcely worth harvesting. The
Wheat crop has been generally gathered, and is
both abundant of excellent quality. Corn is very
small, and unless we have abundant and frequent
showers from this time on to its maturity, the
yield will be insufficient to supply the wants of
the District. It is now in a very critical stage
of its growth. Cotton is very backward, but is
not suffering. We have heard many planters
complain of bad stands and of the difficulty of
cultivating it in consequence of the hardness of
the soil. The Thermometer in the shade, all the
while, has ranged from 85 to 92 degress.— Senti- ]
nel.
Weather and Prospect for Crops.— Our i
long continued hot weather has given rise to
violent storms of winds and rain in many seo-
(From the Federal Union.)
The Voice of the People.
The action of the late Republican Conven
tion is every where hailed throughout the State,
so far as we have learned, in the highest terms of
admiration. The following letter from a promi
nent gentleman in a distant county, is a speci
men of the intelligence that is pressing in upon
us, from every quarter. The friends of Repub
lican principles have but to make one bold and
desperate rally, and federalism under its new
name of Union, will be banished from Georgia :
June 6, 1851.
Mr. Editor : —Allow me £o express to you my
sincere gratification at the result of our late Con
vention in your place. The Resolutions are ad
mirable and breathe the proper spirit—they pre
| sent the old republican issues, and upon which
with such a candidate as McDonald, we cannot
be otherwise than victorious. How superlative
ly pitiable is the position of Mr. Cobb at this
moment! Unchastened ambition has arrayed
him in hostility—bitter hostility—to the party
that has honored him and the principles he has
always professed. Well, let him go, but the force
ol public opinion will annihilate him ultimately.
He will fall powerless from the political stage,
and wander while his body lives a shadow and
phantom over the land. The same unenviable
doom awaits the other two Triumvirs—Toombs
and Stephens. Our friends here are buckling on
their armer—they are going to do battle in good
earnest for the old Republican cause, and for their
old friend, McDonald. The old Democrats will
generally support him and not a few of the
Whigs.
Here is another:
Thomas County, June 4, 1851.
The State Rights Party in this county, are in
fine spirits, and it is believed by many well in
formed men, that Col. Jackson will get from
250 to 300 majority.
Our candidate for Governor will do as well.
tions. A few days since, a violent storn passed
over the neighborhood of Huntsville, Ala., caus
ing considerable destruction of growing crops.
On several plantations, the cotton seemed to be
entirely destroyed.
On Sunday last, a storm of hail, wind and rain
passed over Harrison, in this county, prostrating
a Church that was in process of erection, also do
ing much damage to corn, fruit, &c. The storm
was, however, quite circumscribed in extent.
From gentlemen who have travelled through
the upper portion of East Tennessee, we have
very flattering accounts of the prospect of crops.
It is supposed that the Wheat crop will far ex
ceed that of any previous year. The Smut has
slightly affected it in some sections, but it has
escaped a worse enemy the Rust. Corn crops
too, are very promising, at present. —Chattanooga
Advertiser , 1 1th, inst.
Important to Old Maids. —-We find the fol
lowing in the Albany Knickerbocker:
A company has opened an office in Boston
to insure women against dying old maids. The
rates of premium differ according to looks and
disposition: While a smart, tidy girl is insured
for 2 per cent., brazen, ill-natured spinners are
charged as high as 10. Where snuff is used, 1
per cent extra is charged.
Dr. Johnsons Courtship. —When Doctor
Johnson courted Mrs. Porter, whom he after
wards married, he told her he was of mean ex
traction, and had no money, and that he had an
uncle hanged. The lady, byway of reducing
herself to an equality with the doctor, said that
she had no more money than himself; and that,
she had fifty who deserved hanging!
Human Thoughts. —As a creature of memo
ry, every thought which man voluntarily enter
tains will abide with him forever. If it be a
thought in harmony with divine will, and he has
acted in harmony with it, it will never cease to
yield him good; if he have not so acted, it will
never cease to reproach and condemn him. If it
be an evil thought, and he have repented of it,
and not carried it out into action, it can never
yet cease to be an occasion of regret. If he have
not repented of it, it remains with him in effect,
as an overruning fountain of solution. How ter
rible the ordeal of having to meet with the sin
ful thoughts of a long life of guilt! How fearful
the prospect of having to confront them not for
an age merely, or a million of ages, but to have
one ordeal repeated through every point of end
less duration.— Harris' Man Primeval.
Gold in Maine.— Gold, as rich as that from
the mines of California, is said to have been re
cently found in Maine and in a portion of the
State on the borders of the line which separate it
from Canada, heretofore considered a wilderness.
So great is the excitement created by the disco
j very that raftsmen are said to have abandoned
I their logs, and the farmers their shovels and
j hoes, to engage in searching for the precious me
| tal. It is a great pity if that is the case.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier .l
• New Orleans, June 8.
On Saturday eighteen hundred bales were sold
lat previous rates. Middling is quoted at from 8
to 8 1-2, but opeartors are awaiting the Pacific's
advices.
Columbia, June 12—9,53 P. M.
The market is at a stand. Not a bale was
sold to-day.
A Good Reason. —Blitz had a bright little fel
low on the stand to assist him in the “experi
ments/’
“Sir,” said the Signor, “do you think I could
put the twenty cent pieces which that lady holds
into your coat pocket ?”
“No,” said the boy, confidently.
“Think not ?”
“I know you eoldfft, “said the little fellow,
| with great firmness.
“Why not?”
“Cause the pocket is all torn out!”
Terrific Storm.— The Mad River Valley
(Ohio) Gazette records the particulars of a great
hail storm which swept over that region a few
days since. Stones fell the size of the common
mineral door knob, some spheroidals, others had
the appearance of jagged ice. Lambs and poultry
were killed whenever exposed. The cattle ran
around frantic and bellowing; their hides being
severely lacerated by the hail stones. One hail
stone which was found weighed four and one
half ounce!
Cincinnati, June 9.
I he cholera is on the increase throughout the
West, and is very fatal. Among the victims at
Paducah, Kentucky, is Dr. Newton Lane, the
Democratic candidate for Congress at the last
election, from Louisville district.
ARTHUR’S WORKS—Poor Wives; or Lost
and Won, byArthur.
Home Scenes, and Home Influence, by Arthur,
Woman’s Trials, «fcc., by Arthur.
The Ways of Providence; or He doeth all thinzs
Well, by Arthur.
The Regicide’s Daughter—a Tale of two Worlds
by W. H. Carpenter.
Also—Scenes in our Parish, by a Country Par
son’s Daughter; J
Williams' Traveller’s Guide through the United
States and Canada. For sale by
June 12 THQS. RICHARDS & SON.
INDIA RUBBER DOLL HEADsT
THE Subscribers have just received an assort
ment of Doll Heads, made from India Rubber
ot both large and small sizes,
GEO. A. OATES & CO.
J une 12 Broad Street opposite the State Bank.
HATS, CAPsTaT^tEanTgoODS
at charleston prices.
T T . A p L, \ co *’ w °uid respectfully
y V inform the Merchantsof Georgia, and ad- M
joining states, that they are now receiving additional
supplies of Goods in their line, their stock being now
tho largest and best selected of any ever offered in
this city and are prepared to sell HATS on as rea
sonable terms as Groceries, Saddles, Drugs, <fcc.,caa
be bought in this city. 6 ’
Please call before going below. apr 8