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■STITUTIONALIST. HbY JAMES GARDNER. JR. BPr TERMS. Ipe r annum, in advance $8 00 per annum 5 00 annum, if paid in advance - • ■ 2 00 are offered to new subscribers, and to old BubwflHs who pay 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. (£7® 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 .forltbe 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, 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 Creditors 3 25 Four Months’ Notices 4 00 Rules Nisi, (monthly) $1 per square, each insertion. ITT* ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, ARK at OUR RISK. Marrying a Fortune. BY GEO. CANNING HILL. Full half of mankind will never get through searching up money-matches for themselves, until the other half has done with holding the money. That is a fixed fact, which no one will attempt to call in question. Tom Turnabout was one of the penniless ones. Not that it was, by any means, the fault of his own, but it merely happened to be so; it was “in his stars ” to be poor. And what made the mat ter worse, beside being poor, per se, he was a poor barrister —a situation rendered by all odds ex quisitely distressing; for a briefless barrister is al ways short of everything, from soap to suits. Tom was, withal, an individual of more than ordinary personal attractions—so far as the opin ion of the majority of the other sex went—and upon this opinion he early determined to found pretty much all his future.—With his affable and excessively social manners, it would have been no wonder at all if he did not have to under go many a pang in the measurement of his living by his circumstances. At last, by one of those most fortunate of the dice of chance of which we read or hear but rarely, Tom Turnabout was married, and to a lady of fortune. It seemed to him as if the fortune was accumulated for his use and behoof alone. And on his wedding day no man was any where to be found, who could make show of a larger share of enjoyment in prospect. Matters went on well enough for a time—as well, perhaps, as ought to have been expected; for the ‘briefless barrister 7 was now possessed of a com fortable home, and assured of an excellent living, with a young and pretty wife; for Mrs. Euphrasia Turnabout as every lady said, was a very pretty woman. Her hair curled, her eyes were black, her haud was delicate and lily-white, Bui she knew how to dispense the most gracious ■EI bewitching smiles: how could she be other- Hrtkan pretty < And if pretty, likewise amia ' ■ ■cask so thought lor a time Tom Turnabout. A BpLesteemed himself her liege lord and Sphere was one thing that seriously troub reslpH'' i. and that was. how to broach the subject ’ He h>- into due possession and management HJe’-fimroperty. For this he had married; that he was no better off now ? The alone made him giddy. He went«pound and round the subject in his mind ior a long time, at each revolution becom ing the more perplexed. At no single time dared he to nerve his courage up to the effort necessary to be made in order to have the matter completely understood between them. Euphrasia had never attended to the subject of money, simply going ahead and managing the household as if she had fully resolved to count at least one in its manage ment and classification. Tom had repeatedly hinted to her about “deposites,” “bank stocks, 7 ’ “taxes, 77 and all the other minute appurtenances to the possession of a fortune, but hitherto to just no purpose at all; she made neither revelation nor explanation—least of all did she betray her na tive acuteness by taking a hint. Such a state of affairs was worrying Tom into a fit of desperation, if not into his grave , he finally made up his mind to come to an under standing, in some way or other, just as soon as practicable. So long as it was necessary to keep the embers of hope alive, he had sedulously avoided all his former acquaintance, lest he might too suddenly give a shock to the delicate nerves of his wife and to lose his chances altogether. But as soon as h A found that disguise helped him not a whit, he screwed up his courage to venturing a bold push t&t vevdjjgrthe sentiment so epigramatically express ed b®he poet: either fears his fate too much, ■ Or his deserts are small, H Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.” HaSydingly he laid himself out to bring matters a head at once. .... , n sa m he to a companion of his, one al- K»moon, as they sat together in a little office of Pthe latter —“Dick, I 7 m in a quandary ! 77 I “A quandary ! 77 “Yes. 77 k “About what ?” r “I want some money. 77 “ You want money! Why, how much did you 1 marry* pray ?" “More than I shall ever get, I fear. 77 “Well, that 7 s a good one! But what’s the trouble ?” f “Do you keep a secret ?” asked Tom in a whis per. | “Try me, and see. 7 U “I married money you know. 77 Is “Every body says so. you know. 77 fi “And everybody thinks so but me! There’s a Iplenty of money in the case, but unluckily there’s none to be had! I cant lay hold of it ! 77 “Ha! ha 177I 77 laughed Dick, in his face. “You laugh, but what would you do?” “What would I do ?” “Yes —what shall / do ?” “Nothing is easier, 77 replied Dick. “J hope not, 77 said Tom, “but how shall Igo to work 7,7 “Have you broached the subject to your better half 77 “Haven’t dared to; she won’t let we, in fact! 77 “Then run up a bill or two. 77 “Then what? 77 asked Tom, earnestly. “Have it sent at such a time to the house, and be sure not to be at home/ 7 “I never thought of that. 77 “She’ll either pay it or blow, 77 continued Dick. “But what if the latter? 77 “Then you’ve got at the core of your subject, and you can go ahead after that as k circumitances will best allow.” . “T’ll try it—l’ll act on your happy suggestion? 77 “Tra'“; what will you have? Shall we go into Carter’s an«i g e t one of his nicest teams and take a drive out to SpikeviUe? 77 “You couldn’t have hit the nail more exactly on the heed; let’s go at once! 77 said Dick. That was a “fast 77 afternoon —the remainder of it—and it began a new era. To be sure it was a step taken in the dark, but Tom hoped that it would lead to happy results and plenty of In (hie time the bills began to come in. One morning the door-bell rang, it chanced to be about nine o’clock. The servant answered the summons, and carried a bill up stairs to her Jnistress. The bell rang again, and there came a S bill. A third time, and another bill. Euphrasia Turnabout began to grow alarm- I presently came along the dinner hour. It duly found Tom Turnabout, Esq., at home and at the table. All during the meal he anxiously scanned the features of his wife, trying his very best to im agine her as feeling extremely happy in enjoy ing the privilege of paying her dear husband’s bills; but he succeeded in reading no such ex pression on her face; he looked for the slightest trace of it in vain. It was too perplexing. There sat Euphrasia, worth her fortune, over against him at table—a mountain of gold, as it were, within his reach, but he not able to pick off even a shiny scale from its surface. She was as calm as a delicious cool, summer’s morning; he, on the other hand, was burning up with disappointment and chagrin. He declared within himself that he could stand it no longer. It was a few steps beyond human endurance. Better die at once than live long in this suspense, So at last he meekly remarked to his wife— “Euphrasia, was there anything brought here this morning for me? 77 “Yes, dear, 77 she replied, “there were three bills for horse-hire, and cofectionery, refresh ments, and one thing and another; but 1 did not read them particularly—you know that’s not a lady’s business. 77 “Was there a bill for furniture, too? 77 inquired the agitated Tom. “Yes, dear; I paid that and took a receipt; but the others, cour personal matters, you know, those I carefully plaeed in your escritorie , where you could readily find them when you wished to. I hope you do not consider me too inquisitive in just looking at them to see what they were! 77 Tom was not possessed of any too much phil osophy, and this last serious sally of his wife quite upset what little he had. Swallowing his dinner as fast as he could with safety do it, he pushed as fast as he ceuld for his office. Ere long his old friend, Dick, made his appearance. “ We11! 77 said Dick, how goes it, Tom? 77 “It 7 s no go, 77 surlily answered Tom. “How now? Were the bills paid? 77 Tom explained the whole. His friend admitted that it would be exceeding ly hard to get round a womSti who understood herself so well as did his wife, more particularly when she held the purse strings. Tom gave it up altogether. That afternoon was spent in reflecting upon the extreme worth lessness of his dependence for an independent living upen another, and in forming a strong re solution to go ahead and do something for him self. The lesson he learned chanced to be a most valuable one, which many a married wife may at her leisure give her husband, to his decided advantage. Tom Turnabout, Esq. afterwards turned out a very respectable member of his profession; enough so, at any rate, to be able to earn suffi cient to pay his carriage and oyster-house scores. At home he hever knew what trouble meant. Deplorable Condition of Federalism in Alabama. We stated a few days since that Mr. Shields, formerly member of Congress and a professed Union Democrat, had loaned the use of himself to the Federalists of Alabama as their candidate against Gov. Collier, the choice of the Demo cratic party. We compared his position with that of Mr. Cobb, in this State, —Shields running against Collier in Alabama, as is Cobb against McDonald in Georgia. For though Cobb may still claim to be a Democrat, we presume that he w r ould not deny that in becoming the candi date of Federalism he is opposing himself to one whom four-fifths of the Democrats of Georgia prefer to himself. But alas for Federalism in Alabama! and its candidate Mr. Shields! Says the Montgomery Advertiser: “his doctrines were sq infamous and odious that the people have ac tually driven him from the field by their indig nation and refusal to support him, and although he has shown every disposition to run, yet the want of a response from the people has caused him to find an excuse in bad health, to decline the canvass. 77 What are these doctrines which are found to be so detestable in Alabama, that no candidate dare encounter the indignation of the people by professing them ? First. Shields like Cobb, was in favor of the Compromise. He actually furnish ed Foote with one of his numerous certificates in favor of that quack remedy for the “bleeding wounds of the country. 77 In it occurred the fol lowing sentence: “I have no hesitation in saying that, were I a member of either branch of Congress at the pre sent juncture, I should vote for and zealously sup port the plan of compromise reported by Mr. Clay.” Again—Shields is quite as much a Union man as Mr. Cobb—altogether too much so for the peo ple of Alabama, as we may infer from the follow ing sentiment: “/ am for this Federal Union of ours, under all circumstances and at all hazards. Rights or wrong, 1 am for the Union.” Can Mr. Cobb beat that ? Add to all this, that Shields denies the right of secession, and what Southern patriot is there who does not rejoice that in the Sonthern State of Alabama such a man shrinks back -with dread, from advocating before the people his princi ples? What say the people of Georgia to the same doctrines? Will they give encouragement to them by endorsing the course and sentiments of Mr. Cobb ? Or will they not repudiate them by sustaining. Governor McDonald ? We hope that Democrats at least—they who have ever com mended themselves to the Southern people by professions of Southern principles, will show that they feel what they have taught, by sustaining an unflinching Democrat and truehearted South erner, in the person of Charles J. McDonald.— Savannah Georgian. The Growing Crops.—lt affords us pleasure to be enabled to speak favorably of the agricul tural prospects in this county, thus early in the season, as upon that species of prosperity depends the success and advancement, in a great measure, of every other industrial pursuit. We have been informed, within the last day or two, by several intelligent planters, that the appearance of the cotton plant is of the most promising character— the “stand” being better than they had ever seen. The corn is said to present a healthy, vigorous ap pearance. Since the Ist instant, the weather has been most favorable for both corn and cotton. The frost of that day did no damage in this re gion.—Helenah {Ark.) Shield. Cotton on the Rio Grande.—The first boll of the season was presented us by our enterpris ing fellow-citizen, Edward Dougherty, Esq., on Monday last, and was really as fine a specimen of the article as we ever saw, both in size and quality. It was produced on his valuable plan tation near Rudyville, on the river about forty miles above this city. Why should we not an nually furnish the market in New-Orleans with the earliest productions of this great Southern staple. We have the soil and the climate, let us add the industry, and nothing can hinder us from carrying off the palm. The history of the past admonishes us of the probable future. In former days, under the Mexican Government, this val ley produced its cotton fields and sugar planta tions, as well as numerous flocks and herds • and w r e most confidently predict, that the day is not distant, when the industry and enterprise of American citizens will cause it to rival and out strip all its former glories and prove to the world that this noble valley has become one of the richest and most productive regions of the great Southern States.— Brownsville {Texas) Sentinel, 28th ult. Great Family Meeting.—Ezekiel DeCamp, of Butler county, who has resided on the same farm for 38 years, invited his descendants to dine with him on Wednesday last. The larger part of them were present and partook of a sumptu ous farmer’s dinner. For want of house room an arbor was erected in the yard adjacent to the house, andtabies prepared for the occasion.— The old gentleman, 72 years of age, and his com panion for more than 50 years, sat at the head of the table. Then were arranged in order 14 chil dren, 88 grand children, 28 great grand child ren, and 30 who had intermarried with the fam ily—making 160—39 were dead or absent. The children of the Patriarch were 17 in num ber, viz: 12 sons and 5 daughrers. One died at 10 years old; the other 16 lived to be heads of famrlies, two of whom have since died.— Cin. Gazette. {Telegraphed for the Jour, of Commerce , June 11.) Further by the America. Halifax, June 10, P. M. The Royal Mail Steamship America arrived last evening. She has 61 passengers. She sail ed from Liverpool at 11.30, A. M., on the3lstul timo, and lias experienced heavy weather. The Niagara arrived home on the morning of the 25th. Neither the Lafayette nor the City Glasgow had arrived when the America sailed. England. —The debate on Mr. Baily’s motion relative to the Governor of Ceylon, terminated in a majority of 80 for Ministers, and that being the last motion of importance on the books, the Russell ministry is therefore safe for the remain der of the session. The debate on the Roman Catholic Titles Bill is itill going on, but no advance has been made with the measure. On the evening of the 27th, the Protectionists held a banquet at Tam worth, the residence of the late Sir Robert Peel, when the people of the town rose up en masse and dispersed the gather ing. Windows were broken, several persons in jured, and at length the military had to be called out to quell the riot. The crops present a promising appearance. Emigration continues as brisk as in spring. The English files received are of interest. The first clause of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill pass ed on the 30th, by a majority of 244 against 62. The Glass Palace continues to attract its thousands. Upwards of 50,000 persons passed through it in one day. France. —There is nothing of moment from the French capital, beyond the fact that the Le gitimists are making every effort to attain their desired revision of the Constitution. The party of order remained firmly attached to the Presi dent. Commercial affairs continue brisk. The Bourse closed dull. M. Paschal DupralPs amendment to the Na tional Guards Bill has been rejected by the As sembly. Portugal. —The Duke of Saldanha has not yet promulgated any of his new measures since his arrival at Lisbon. Spain. —Large bodies of the reformers were calling upon the Queen to abdicate the throne of Spain. A telegraphic dispatch from Madrid of the 24th ult. announces that Marquis Miraflores has been named Minister of Foreign Affairs. An appropriation had been named for the manufacture of 30,000 percussion muskets. Austria. —The Emperor still remains at War saw, in company with the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia. The result of their con ference has not transpired. The Breslau Gazette of 25th ult. has the following:—“A great sensa tion has been created in Hungary by the arrest of the Countess Teleky and her companion Ma dame Erdley, at Del Talgo. They have been or dered for trial by court martial at Peterwardin. It is said that the Countess has been the medium of a correspondence between the refugees in Lon don and Asia Minor, and their partisans in Hun gary. Some of this correspondence has been seiz ed.” _ ' It is stated that Prince Christian of Blucks burg is to succeed to the throne of Denmark. Italy. —The disturbances between the Roman and French soldiers still continue. The French authorities in Rome have caused 10,000 rations and a large supply of ammunition to be taken into the Castle of St. Angelo. Alfgria. —Accounts from Algeria state that a conflict had taken place between the Kabyles and the French forces, in which the former were defeated, several hundreds having been killed i and wounded. 1 Accounts from Lower Falylih are not so satis factory. The French had entered the country on the 14th, and were desperately opposed by the inhabitants. They, however, were driven from all their positions, and the blockade of Gaj illa raised. The loss of the French was estima ted at 100, and 300 wounded, and that of the Kabyles at 437 killed, and 1.200 wounded. Forty-two villages were burnt on the 15th and 17th. Several tribes have made their submis sion. Latest intelligence by Electric Telegraph , May 31s£. France.— Paris , Friday. — The National as serts that the loss of the expeditionary corps in Africa, under General St. Arnlcdis, is much un derstated. The number killed was 306 ; wound ed, 1,333. The National affirms that this infor mation is derived from the best source. Paris. —Bourse, Fives, 91 f; Threes, 56,45. London. —Stock Exchange.—Three failures I were announced yesterday morning in connec tion with the shares settlement, the parties being Mr. Le Grands, Mr. Stephenson and Mr. K. Mor timer. The latter was compelled to suspend ! through the default of a principal at Nottingham. I The Great Exhibition. —The receipts at the door yesterday (Friday) amounted to £2,839 Bs., and the sale of season tickets to £6l 19s. Markets. Cotton closed with considerable firmness at the rates current the Friday previous, for all descrip tions. The committee place fair Uplands at Mobile 6d; and New Orleans 6 Jd. Sales of the week 51,080 bales, of which 5,040 were taken for specu lation, and 9,000 for export. Breadstuffs. —Tho market is firmer. Wheat in more request at late rates. Flour not so free of sale; rates unchanged. Indian Corn, a slight de cline, but in demand. Provisions. —Beef—Demand light. Pork—Spa ringly dealt in, owing to tho high rates demanded. More doing in Bacon. Hams dull. Shoulders not sought for. Sales large, at full rates. Tho market is well cleared of cheese. Havre , May 28.—Prices of cotton declined at sale the day previously to ff. under previous quotations. Sales of the week, 3,000 bales. Stock on hand 116,000 bales: and ten ships expected, in cluding the New York packets. Anecdote of General Jackson.— ln 1811 General Jackson visited Natchez, in the territo ry of Mississippi, for the purpose of bringing up a number of blacks, a part of whom had become his property in consequence of having been se curity for a friend, and the remainder were hands which had heen employed by his nephew in the neighborhood of that place. The road led through the country inhabited by the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians, and the station of the agent for the Choctaws was upon it. On reaching the agency he found seven or eight families of emi grants and two members of the Mississippi le gislative council, detained there, under the pre tence that it was necessary for them to have passports from the Governor of Mississippi. One of them had been sent forward to procure them. In the meantime the emigrants were buying corn from the agent at an extravagant price, and split ting rails for him at a very moderate one. Indignant at the wrong inflicted on the emi grants, he reproached the members of the coun cil for submitting to the detention, and asked the agent how he dared to demand a pass from a free American, travelling on a public road. The agent replied by asking, with much temper, whether he had a pass. “Yes, sir,” replied the General: “ I always carry mine with me: I am a free born American citizen, and that is a passport all over the world.” He then directed the emigrants to gear up their wagons, and if any one attempted to obstruct them, to shoot them down as a high way robber. Setting them the example, he con tinued his journey, regardless of the threats of the agent. Alter concluding his business, he was inform ed that the agent had collected about fifty white men and one hundred Indians to stop him on his return, unless he produced a passport. Though : advised by his friends to procure one, he refused to do so, stating that no American citizen sh ould ever be subject to the insult and indignity of pro- | curing a j>ass to enable him therewith to travel ! a public highway in his own country. Like all I travellers among the Indians, at that time, he was, armed with a brace of pistols; and having added a rifled another pistol, he commenced his return journey. When within a few miles of of the agency, he was informed by a friend who had gone forward to reconnoitre, that the agent had his force in rediness to stop him. He directed his friend to advance again, and tell the agent that if he attempted to stop him it would be at the peril of his life. He then put his blacks in order, and armed them with axes and clubs, at the same time telling them not to stop unless directed by him, and if any one offered to oppose them to cut him dow r n. Riding by their side, he approached the sta tion, when the agent appeared and asked wheth er he meant to stop and show' his passport.— J ackson replied, “ That depends upon circum stances. lam told that you meant to stop me by force; whoever attempts such a thing will not have long to liveand with a look that w r as not to mistaken, he grasped his bridle with a firmer grip. His determined manner had such an effect, that the agent declared he had no inten tion of stopping him, and he and his party were suffered to pass on without further molestation or interruption. He afterwards reported the con duct of the agent to the government, and he W'as dismissed from his agency. AUGUSTA, GA. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 15. For Governor. CHARLES J. MCDONALD. Mr. Cobb’s Acceptance. As ample time has elapsed for the acceptance by the Hon. Howell Cobb of the nomination made, or rather ratified by the Toombs Conven tion, and no publication is yet made of that ac ceptance, the consolidation Unionists not behind the scenes, may possibly feel some uneasiness on the subject. To relieve their anxiety, we pub lish a statement from headquarters, Washington City, where the nomination of Mr. Cobb was originally made. “ Mr. Cobb of Georgia. —We place in our columns to-day the report of the speech deliver ed by this distinguished gentleman at the Athe naeum of Savannah, as contained in the Savan nah Republican of the 10th instant. Every thing now said by the gentleman assumes great impor tance on account of the nomination he has accepted as the Candidate of the UNION party of Geor gia.”— Washington Union , May 31st. It will here be perceived that Mr- Cobb has not only been nominated, but had actually ac cepted the nomination some time before the ratifying Convention assembled at Milledgeville. If President Fillmore had issued his proclama tion, countersigned by Messrs. Webster, Toombs, Stephens and Daw r son, to the faithful in Georgia that Mr. Cobb had already been selected as their candidate, and had duly accepted, it might have saved many of the Union delegates a hot and dusty ride to Milledgeville. v Hon. A. H. Stephens. —The latest intelligence from this gentleman is that he is decidedly better, and is considered out of danger. Charleston & Memphis Rail-Road. At the public meeting in Charleston, on the 13th inst., a resolution was passed almost unani mously requesting the City Council to subscribe $250,000, unconditionally , to the above Road. A letter, received by a gentleman in this place, from a distinguished Georgian, a few weeks since, stated that the people of Augusta were hastening the completion of their railroad connection w T ith Savannah, in order to be prepared for our seces sion, and have no interruption to their commerce. —Southern Patriot. The “ distinguished Georgian I'’ 1 '’ above referred to has misinformed the editors of the Patriot. — He has indulged in a mere random assertion of a fact which does not exist. Those editors too, are entirely too ready to catch at such statements, however improbable. The question of se cession has not been discussed, or been in any w'ay influential upon the people of Augusta, in connection with this rail-way enterprize, nor has it added a single dollar to the subscription list of the Waynesboro Railroad, or hastened its opera tion in any w r ay. The w T ork had been determined upon long since and is now progressing without any re ference whatever to South Carolina politics. The Soil of the South. We are pleased to see that this excellent monthly, published at Columbus, Geo., at $1 pe annum, and edited by Messrs. Peabody and Chambers, both fine waiters and practical agri culturists, is growing in public favor. Its pros pects are thus spoken of in the last number: Not more for our gratification than that which we feel the announcement will afford to our friends, we again allude to the cheering prospects of our enterprize. The circulation of the June number amounts to about seventeen hundred and fifty copies , which, considering that we issued our first number only three manths ago, we regard as doing very well, indeed. We receive some new names every day, and occasionally w T e get as many as fifty names at one time. We attribute our success to two causes: First, we think The Soil has really deserved it; and second, the planters, gardeners and housekeepers of the South, are alive to the importance of sustaining such a w'ork. We shall endeavor to increase the merits of the work, and we hope the public will not grow weary in a good cause. To the numerous friends who have voluntarily stepped foiward in our behalf, we return our sincere thanks, and hope that they may live to see the fruits of their labors in the substantial improvement of our common country. Fold your Letters Carefully. We received on Friday a letter from Winns boro 7 , S. C., in W'hich had been inclosed to us six dollars, a five, an d a one dollar bill. It came to us rifled of the $5 bill. The $1 w'as in it, some what mutilated by the instrument w hich had ex tracted the other. The inside of the letter bore marks of a sharp instrument—a cork-screw per haps—which had been inserted, and which had fished out one of the bills. The other being old and easily torn, the instrument could not hold it. We mention this mode of fishing money out of letters as a caution to persons remittiug, that they should fold their letters more carefully. As all remittances are at the risk of the publisher, w'e have put dowrn this to profit and loss, and have turned the letter over to the proper authorities in the hope they wrill fish out the thief and put him in a dry place. The Mempqis Enquirer of the 4th inst., says: “His excellency Gov. Jones received a present yesterday morning going to show the [donor was a believer in the Patriarchal system. A plump female child, evidently of but a very youthful age, was left at the door of the Governor, snugly ensconced in a basket and wrapped up in a blan ket. The Governor being absent the little stran ger was sent to the Mayor’s office, by whom it W'as placed in the ha nds of one of our most re spectable citicens. We presume that the par ents considered that the Governor ought to be the father of his people.” [communicated.] “Connexion of Charleston and Augusta by Rail-Road.” nder the above topic, a communication has appeared in the Constitutionalist of the 10th inst., ! over t e signature of “ Augusta.” The subject brought to the consideration of the public, by the author of the communication referred to, is of deep interest to our citizens generally—and particularly to such persons, whose capital is vested principally in real estate within our city. It must be admitted, that the value of real estate in all cities, is mainly dependent on commercial enterprise and as there is therefore a recipro city of interest between the landholder and the merchant—legislation lor the advancement of the one must necessarily affect the prosperity of the other. If it be conceded, as a self-evident j proposition, then, that the value of real Estate in our cities, is mainly dependent upon the commer cial interest, it is vitally important to the former, that in legislating for the enhancement of its value, the prosperity of the latter is not put in jeopardy. Real estate is permanent and station ary in its character—w'hile the capital vested in commercial enterprise may be considered ever on the wing. Consult the mercantile interest of Augusta, as to the expediency of allowing the Hamburg and Charleston Rail-Road to cross the river, and it will be found, there is considerable contrariety of opinion, as to the effc o upon our city in a commercial point of view. Some indi viduals w r ho were irreconcilably opposed to the project, as fatal to the true interests of Augusta, now consider the future prosperity of our city, as inseparably connected with the consummation of this projected scheme. If asked, what has produced this change of view's, in the policy of a measure only a short time since condemned, and now as strongly advocated, the reply is at hand—“ Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur cum illis.” When opposed to the crossing the river by the Charleston Road, the commercial interests of such individuals may have centred in Au gusta—perchance those interests may now', in part, be transferred to Charleston—or possibly identified with the future prosperity of the Geor gia Rail-Road. In eithe ■ case it is very natural that the project of crossing the river by the Charleston Road, should commend itself to the favorable consideration of individuals at one time, when under a different state of things, an opposite opinion, as to the policy of the measure, may have been entertained. SuclAs the uncon scious effect of the operation of self-interest upon the minds of all men—and without, in the ■ slightest degree, intending to impugn the moral integrity of individuals thus changing their opinions—they must, on the other hand, have no right to complain, that their opinions, under the circumstances, should be received “cum grano sal is.” A large majority of the merchants of Augusta, it is believed, are decidedly opposed to ihe cross ing the river by the Charleston Road—believing the junction of that Road with the Georgia Road, ( the necessary consequence in a very few years. In that event, it is contended, the products from the interior will seek to reach Charleston as speedily^as possible—escaping the present detec tion at Augusta, and to that extent inflicting an injury on the commercial prosperity of our city; while goods for the supply of the wants of the interior, wall be purchased on the seaboard, to the prejudice of the mercantile interests of Au gusta. To obviate this difficulty, the author of • “ Augusta ” contends, that the holders of real estate would demand conditions precedent to the privilege of crossing the river by the Charleston Road, w'hich w'ould prevent a junction betw'een the Charleston and the Georgia Roads. These conditions w'ould, no doubt, operate as a preven tive to the junction of the two Roads, until the . force of public opinion sets those conditions aside; and the arrival of the period for the operation of that moral pow'er, may be conjectured, in view of “ the progressive spirit of the age,” to which it is urged by the author of “ Augusta” “it is not unreasonable, that w r e should be willing to make some sacrifice.” Such is the deference ac knowledged to the force of public opinion, that the undersigned believes with “ Augusta” that “we have now' the power of making the sacri fice gracefully, which hereafter may have to be made without grace.” It is not reasonable, however, to suppose that the moral pow'er referred to, can bring about a junction of the tw'o Roads, in less than five or six years, and in the interval, w'e shall be enabled to judge of the probable effect upon the commer cial prosperity of our city, as may be inferred from the operation to be produced upon Macon by the junction of the Western w'ith the Central Road. This interval of time will secure to our city for that period, the same revenue from toll as heretofore—together with all the commercial advantages, either real or imaginary, that those of our merchants, who are opposed to the cross ing the river by the Charleston Road, conceive they are now enjoying. At the termination of five or six years, the citj r of Augusta w T ill be in a more advanced con dition as respects her manufacturing enterprise, as well as in the probable establishment of more numerous and extensive wholesale stores, and will be so much the better prepared to contend with our seaport towns, in the laudable competi tion, as purchasers and venders, for the exigen cies of the insatiable cravings of the great West. While, then, it is probable, that the prosperity of our city would not suffer by the delay of a few' years, in maturing an opinion, as to the ex pediency of yielding to the overtures of South- Carolina, let us look to the probable effect of such delay on the interests of the Charleston Road. The junction of the Western with the Central Road at Macon, will shortly be con summated—and probably in less than two years, the connexion of Savannah with Augusta by Rail-Road will also be effected. When these projects are completed, what is to be the effect upon the Charleston Road, and upon the city of Charleston ? Can Charleston expect to com pete successfully with Savannah, in securing to her port the trade W'ith the great Valley of the Mississippi, and so onw’ard to the Lakes—to gether W'ith the trade and travel destined to pass over the Georgia Road from other points? Let Savannah monopolize the advantages to be de rived from an intercourse by Rail-Road with Augusta, together w'ith the trade and travel pass ing over the Georgia Road, through Augusta, and by the w r ay of the Western and Central Roads, through Macon for a few years, and it will be difficult to divert it in favor of Charles ton, when she may have effected a crossing of the liver, some five or six years hence. In the interval, will not the Charleston Road and the city of Charleston herself have sustained an an nual loss, from the diversion of the trade and travel in favor of Savannah, to an amount in comparably greater annually, than is required to be paid at this time, to effect a junction by Rail- Road, of the metropolis of Carolina with the city of Augusta? The very hesitancy evinced, in postponing a compliance with the terms on which the crossing the river by the Charleston Road can now be ef fected, seems suicidal to the interests of the Charleston Road, as well as casting a shade over the commercial prosperity of Charleston herself. It is believed that the privilege sought for, might at this time be obtained, by paying the sum of $300,000 to the City of Augusta, ora perpetual annuity of S2O or $25,000. It is the opinion of the undersigned, to be the true policy of Augusta, to require the annuity stated, in preference to re ceiving the sum of $300,000 —for the simple rea son, that a receipt of the latter sum might, in a very short time, be prodigally expended, in some magnificent but no less visionary project. Where as the annuity would, from year to year, be in vested in some judicious manner, for the benefit of posterity, which time and experience would point out and direct. The author of “ Augusta ,” invites the atten tion of the public, in contemplating the project before us, to collateral circumstances, as 44 conse quences, results and contingencies,” over and be yond the mere consideration of the sum told as expressed in dollars and cents.” Among these consequences and results, the public mind is di rected to the ferment that has for years past been experienced, particularly within the month pre vious to the election of the municipal officers, re specting the building of a bridge in the upper part of the city. The author of u Augusta ” may be reminded, that there have been other “ bones of contention” that have brought the u uptown and the down tow'n” citizens in collision for more than thirty years past; and at one time it was carried so far, that the project for building the present upper market, with the private funds of individuals residing in the upper part of our city, and then to be passed over gratuitously to the City Council, for the benefit of the public at large, could not be consummated, but under so lemn protest, emanating from the lower wards. These petty jealousies have happily been fast dy -1 ing away, under more enlarged and generous . policy between the rival sections of our town.— It is considered exceedingly unfortunate there tore, that while the author of - 44 Augusta ,” should invite a more harmonious feeling between the “up town and down town” citizens, he should at the same time have disturbed the smouldering embers of sectional jealousies, in attempting to dictate as -to the location of the Depot of the Charleston Rail Road, when a crossing of the ri ver is effected, by limiting it to 44 Washington street ,” as the extreme western boundary, beyond which it shall not be allowed to extend. If this recommendation is to be heeded, it were better there should be no public meeting of the citizens to discuss the expediency of allowing a crossing The river by the Charleston Road, as every hon est effort will be made by the citizens in the up per wards to defeat the measure in toto , if such ! contracted policy is resorted to. The selection of the location for the Depot should be left en tirely to the applicants from the Charleston Road , | and let them establish the location of their Depot, ! where their interests shall direct them—giving ! at the same time to the rival sections of our city, | equal chances of benefit that may result from the selection, as they are burdened equally in the as sessment of the rate of taxes for the pnblic ben* j efit. In this way, sectional jealousies will be made to give place to the consciousness of the enjoyment of EQUAL RIGHTS. {Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.) Boston, June 11. Mr. Webster — The Slave Rescue Trial, fyc. —Hon. Daniel Webster has been invited to visit Lowell by a large number of citizens. The case of Hayden, charged w r ith being en gaged in the rescue of Shadrach, is not vet con . : eluded. ' j The America arrived this morning, but not in ; ; time for her mails, to go south in the morning ; train. > Concord, (N. H.) June 11. Democratic Presidential Nomination. —The De mocratic Convention to-day was attended by 250 ; delegates. The Hon. Levi Woodbury was unan imously put forward as their favorite candidate for the Presidency. Richmond. June 11. Death of Mr. Terry. —We learn from Lynch burg that Mr. Terry, the editor of the “Virgin ian,” who was shot by young Saunders, died on Sunday evening, at 7 o’clock. Georgetown, June 11. The Weather and Crops. —We approach weekly this interesting theme. Since our last, we have | had fine rains, and although we have had exces j sively hot weather since, a change took place on Monday evening and yesterday was clear and delightfully pleasant. The crops are recovering their temporary in jury from drought, and we understand begin to grow finely.— Republican. Marine Disaster— The brig Amanda Parson, Capt. Dnnkwater, was capsized in a squall on the 3d inst., lat 33.49, 4 miles North of the Fry ing Pan Shoals, lon. 77. The Captain, wife and child, about 3 years old, and crew, all of which remained on the bottom of the vessel which they had reached with some difficulty, until the next day, remaining in that situation 12 hours, and then taken off by Capt. Fish of the brig William, from Fair Haven to this place. The Captain and all on board saved only what they stood in—and arrived at this port on last Monday, all well, but in rather a destitute condi tioh. The hospitality of the citizens, soon, how ever, supplied their wants in clothing, and the following day (on yesterday) a subscription of upwards of one huudred dollars was soon made up for their relief. Captain Drinkwater was from New York and bound for this port.— lbid. [Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier -1 Baltimore, June 12. The New York Cotton market on Thursday was steady and five hundred bales were sold. Middling Uplands were quoted at from Sl-2 to 83-4. On the last ballot in the Connecticurt Legisla ture to-day, for the U. S. Senator, Mr. Baldwin Whig Candidate only lacked three votes of being elected. There is nothing purer than honesty—noth ing sweeter than charity—nothing warmer than love—nothing richer than wisdom—nothing brighter than virtue—and nothing more stead fast than faith. These united in|one mind, form the purest, the sweetest, the warmest, the rich est, the brightest and the most steadfast happi ness. If girls would only spend as much time with Encyclopedias as they do with Milliners, they would soon find their heads as attractive as their hats. Queer that no young lady will believe this.