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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