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One Glass Too Much; or the Wife's Nightcap.
4 in der Voods.”
PT Mr. , who doesn’t live more than a mile
i 1 from the postoffice in this city, met some “North
ern men with Southern principles,” the other
evening, and in extending to them the hospitali
ties of the “Crescent City,” visited so many of
our princely Saloons and “Marble Halls,” im
bibing spiritual consolation as they journeyed,
that when he left them at their hotel at the mid
night hour, he felt, decidedly felt, that he had a
“brick in his hat.” Now, he has a wile, an amia
ble, accomplished and beautiful lady, who loves
him devotedly, and finds but one fault with him.
That is his too frequent visits to the places where
those “bricks” are obtained.
After leaving his friends, Mr. paused a
moment, took his bearings, and having shaped a
course, on the principles that continual angles
meet, made sail for home. In due course of time
he arrived there, and was not very much aston
ished,hut rather frightened to find his worthy lady
sitting up for him. She always does. She smiled
when he came in. That also she always does.
“How are vou, dear E?” she said—“you staid
out so late, that I feared you had been taken
sick.”
“Hie—aint sick wife—h-hut don’t you th-think
#Pl’m—Fm a little t-light?”
U A very little, perhaps, my dear—hut that is
nothing—you have so many friends, as you say,
you must join them in a glass once in a while!”
“Wife you’re too good—th-the truth is, I’m
d—d d-drunk!”
“Oh, no indeed, my dear—l’m sure that even
another glass wouldn’t hurt you. Now suppose
you take a glass of Scotch ale with me, just as a
nightcap, dear!”
‘•You are too kind my d’dear, by half—l know
I'm dhlnink!”
r Oh no—-only a julep too much, love—that’s
all!” /
“Yes'—juleps—McMasters make such still'
ones I”
“Well—take a glass of ale at any rate—it can’t
hurt you, I want one before 1 retire !”
The lady hastened to open a bottle, and as she
placed two tumbers before her on the side board,
she put in one a very powerful emetic. Filling
the glasses with the foaming alse, she handed one
to her husband.
Suspicion came cloudily upon his mind. She
never before had been so kind when he was
drunk. He looked at the glass,—raised it to his
lips.—then hesitated.
“Dear, w-wont you just taste mine, to make it
sw 7 eet—sweeter!” said he.
“Certainly, iove !” replied the lady, taking a
mouthful, which she vi as very careful not to
swallow.
Suspicion vanished, and so did the ale, emetic
and all, down the throat of the satisfied husband.
Atter spitting out the taste, the lady finished her
glass, but seemed in no hurry to retire. She fixed
a foot-tub of water before an easy chair, as if she
intended to bathe her beautiful feet therein. But
small as were those feet, there was not water
enough in the tub to cover them. The husband
began to feel, and he wanted to retire.
“Wait only a few minutes, dear,’’ said his lov
ing spouse; “1 want to read the news in this af
ternoon’s Delta. I found it in your pocket.”
A few minutes more elapsed and then—and
then,—oh ye gods and Dan o' the lake, what a
time! The husband was placed in the easy chair.
He began to understand why the tub was there;
he soon learned what ailed him.—Suffice it to
say, the brick had left his hat. It hasn't been
there since. He says he'll never drink another
julep; he can't hear Scotch ale, but he is death on
lemonade! He loves his wile better than ever.
Reader, this a truthful story. Profit by its mo
ral.:
Deaths in Europe. —The Duchess Amelia
of Leuchtenburg, died at Munich on the 13th, in
Her sixty-fourth year. The Duchess was the
eldest daughter of King Maximilian Joseph of
She‘was born on the 21st of June,
( A 1788, thus being 20 years younger than the ex-
Ludwig, her brother, and seven years older
Karl. She was married on the 14th
of January, 1808, to Eugene Beauharnais, Duke
of Leuchtenburg, and Prince of Eichstadt. Eu
gene Beauharnais, horn in 1781, was the son of
General Alexander, Vicomtede Beauharnais, and
Josephihe Tascher de la Pagerie, afterwards the
Empress Josephine. At the commencement of
the revolution, General Beauharnais joined the
popular party, voted for the privileges, and equali- I
ty before the law. In the reign of terror, he was
accused of having by neglect contributed to the
loss of the fortress of Mayence, arrested, brought
to Paris, and guillotined in 1794. Os his two
children, the daughter, Hortense, was married to
Louir, Bonaparte. King of Holland, whose son is
the present President of the French Republic;
the son, Eugene, was made Viceroy of Italy by
Napoleon, and married the Princess Augusta of
Bavaria, whose death has just been announced.
After the fall ol Napoleon, Beauharnais took
part in the Congress of Vienna, which awarded
him a donation of 5.000,000 francs, paid him by
the King of Naples. He made over the sum to
Bavaria, in exchange for the province of Leuch
tenburg J in the Oberpfalz, with the title of Duke.
The eldest daughter of the deceased Duchess is
Queen of Sweden; the second, Duchess of Hohen
zollen Hechingen: third is the widow of Don
Pedro of Brazil. The oldest son married Donna
Maria of Portugal in 184.?. but died the same
year: the second son. Max Eugene, is married
to a daughter of the Emperor Nicholas, and re
sides at St. Petersburg. The state funeral of the
late Duchess took place at Munich on the 17th
ultimo.
The London Globe of Saturday, the 24th ult.,
states that Major General Pitt, who had com
manded the troops in New 7 Zealand since 1847,
died in January last. The late General Pitt en
tered the service in 1805; in 1807 he served in
the West Indies, and was present at the capture
of the Danish Islands in that year. He served
at the capture of Martinique in 1809. From
1811 to 1814, he served in the Peninsular war,
and was present at Albuhera, in the actions of
Laarge and Almarez, the siege of Badajoz, the
battles of Vittoria Pampeluna, and the Pyre
nees, for which he had received the w 7 ar medel
and four clasps. In 1836 he w 7 as nominated a
Knight of Hanover, and in 1850 was placed on
the list of officers receiving rewards for distin
guished services.
A Low r ell “factory girl,” writing from one of
the inteior towns in Georgia (Columbus,) to the
Low'ell, Advertiser, gives the follow ing descrip-
tion of a southern cotton mill:
.. “When I first went into the mill. I w r as
speechless, but my tonge has* since been loosened [
and I have expressed my mind in telerably plain
English. The girls in the mill are so ignorant
that we have to talk with them as though they
w 7 ere children not more than three years old.
They keep their bonnets on, when in the mill,
and also the men, their hats. There is but one
clock in the mill, and no looking glass until we
carried in ourow’n.
“A Northern hog pen is a parlor, when placed
in comparison with the mill. We had such a
disturbance about the dirt, that the first superin
tendant came in, with a hoe and shovel, and com
menced work, around the sink, as though he was
in a barn yard. Nearly all the girls in the mill
chew 7 tobacco. They have also a small stick,
nearly as large as a pipestem, one end of which
they chew, until it is something like a brush,
then they dip it in snuff, put it in their mouths,
and suck it like a babe.' They pay 25 cents a
bottle for snuff one of which will last them a •
week.”
A Railroad through the African Desert.
An English paper, by the last arrival, has the
following article in relation to this enterprise, and
its results:
The Viceroy of Egypt has sanctioned the pro
ject of a Railroad from Alexandria by the w r ay
of Cairo, to the Isthmus of Suez, and the work
w T ill he commenced without delay. With the
most skilful European engineers at his command,
and able at any time to summon one hundred
thousand Arabs and Copts to the labor, the ener
getic and enterprising Ibrahim Pasha will not
allow a long time to elapse before the whistle of
the locomotive will w 7 ake the solitudes of Petra
and Mount Sinai, scare the marauding Bedouin
out of its wits, and render the journey from Al
exandria to the Holy land as easy and as rapid as
the passage from Buffalo to New York. The
traveller will start from the base of Cleopatra’s
Needle, reach Cairo .in six hours, refresh himself
at a mammoth depot in the midst of the “ waste
howling wilderness,” and stand upon the ancient
shores of the Red Sea in two days after leaving
the Delta of the Nile.
A railroad through the scene of Israel's flight
and Pharoah's keen pursuit—through the regions
w 7 here the silence of death has reigned ever since,
amid thunderings and loud elemental strife, the
law 7 was given from Mount Horeb—now for the
first time in thousands of years to be disturbed
by tbe clanking and roar of modern machinery.
Here Job drove his numerous flocks to the great
marts of the South. Over this hallowed ground
his contemporary Moses led the murmuring and
mutinous Hebrews to the Land of Promise. In
this now drear solitude the hand of cultivated
architectural science scooped magnificent palaces
out of the solid rock, and sumptuous mansions
and temples and mighty cities rise at its mandate.
This was the path of the multitudinous hosts
of Amru, the successor of Mahomet, w 7 hen he
led his fanatical and victorious thousands from
Syria to Cairo and Alexandria, poured his dense
dark masses upon Southern Europe, and aimed
to subject the Cross to the Crescent. ' These vast
and arid deserts, over wffiich the bald and rocky
Sinai frowns in stern grandeur, long afterwards
trembled beneath the tread of armed millions,
whirling like some horrible tempest through the
scene of Israel’s trial and punishment. He who
from the position of an humble subaltern, reach
ed the throne of the Bourbons by a series of
usurpations, the most wonderful on record, w 7 ould
rival the fame and miracles of the Hebrew 7 law 7 -
giver. He eyes the same waters that closed over
the engulfed chariots and horsemen of Pharoah,
and exhibits the temerity of attempting to pass
dry shod through the stormy waters of the Ara
bian sea.
But what w r as this desecration in comparison
with the panting and coughing of the iron horse,
within view of the spot wffiere the burning hush
exhibited its mysterious sign to the trembling
Moses, where the tables of the law w 7 ere broken
into fragments, and over which the pillar of cloud
by day and of fire by night, hovered, and guided j
the people of Israel to the lovely region of the
Philistines nnd Canaanites..
The tour of the Holy Land, which, in the days
of the Crusaders, w 7 as a pilgrimage of imminent
peril, and accompanied by privations and suffer
ings little short of martyrdom, w'iil soon be ac
complished by a party from New York or St.
Loius, within the limit of a single season. The !
tomb of Aaron, the site of Calvary, the Mount:
of Olives, and the shores of the beautiful Sea of
Galilee, will soon he as accessible as the Tower
of London or the Lake of Como are now 7 , and all j
the scenes of Scripture History become familiar ;
to the eye, and common-place in the mind of al- j
most every transatlantic tourist.
A Ludicrots Combat. —They had funny !
w 7 ays of settling vexed love suites in old times.
Here is an instance which we cut from an ex
change :
Two gentlemen of high birth, the one a Span
iard and the other a German, having rendered I
Maximiliam 11, many services, they each, for
recompense, demanded his natural daughter, He- l
lena Sehaseuquin, in marriage. The prince, who 1
entertained equal respects for them both, could
not give either the preference, and after much
delay he told them that from the claims they both
had to his attention and regard he could not give
his assent for either of them to marry his daugh
ter, and they must decide it by their own prow
ess and address; but as he did not w 7 ish to risk the
loss of either, or both, by suffering them to fight
with offensive weapons, he had ordered a large
hag to be brought, and he w 7 ho w 7 as successful
enough to put his rival into it, should obtain his
daughter. This strange combat between to gen
tlemen w 7 as in the presence of the w 7 hole Impe
rial court, and lasted half an hour. At length
the Spaniard yielded to the German. Andre El
hard, Baron ofTethred, who, when he had got
him into the bag, took him on his hack and plac
ed him at the Emperor’s feet, and on the follow 7 -
ing day married the beautiful Helena.
( Romance in Real Life. — l'here was a singu
lar circumstance occured, the like of w 7 liich w r e
have seldom heard or read of.
A gentleman not a thousand miles from this
place some seventeen years since became very
much embarrassed pecuniarily. He went to
Santa Fee, but left w 7 ith his disconsolate better
half no trace of his whereabouts. She mourned
him as dead, and after her grief w r as over, took it
into her head, that as it was not good for man
to be alone, that the same rule w T as applicable to
womankind.
She married, and lived w r ith her husband sev
eral years, and he died.
Her situation by this time was a painful one
and she determined to try Cupid once more.—
Her paramour had gone to town for the license
by which the nuptial knot was to be tied, when
to her astonishment up stepped her long lost
husband. At first she feigned to not know him,
but he being versed in human nature, managed
carelessly to display a silken purse well filled
with the yellow hoys. As a matter of course it
had the desired effect.
She told him that although he had treated her
badly, that a first love w r as the best after all, and
it he w r ould go and get license before that other
man, that she w r ould marry him, and in case the
othericame first she w 7 ould announce herself “not
at home.”
The man went as he w 7 as hidden, but w 7 as
beaten by his rival to the office—they both! ob
tained license, and hurried hack for the wed*din‘ jr .
Ihe husband w 7 as first and on the arrival of the
other very courteously introduced him to his
wife, past, present and future It is needless to
say that he lias not been seen since.— Lewisbur*
( Tcnn.) Telegraph. °
The Boston Transcript oi Thnrsday last says:
—Several “Bloemers” made their appearance on
Washington street yesterday afternoon—some
dressed very richly and in fine taste, according to
some of the morning papers. It is evident that
the new style is increasing gradually the num
ber of its wearers, hut far more rapidly the num
ber of its advocates.
The Journal, w r hich has named this fashion the
“Camilla costume,” says “the ice Has been bro
ken in this city, and the fair sex can now walk
J the streets in the new dress, without risk of be
| ing annoyed by the impertinent curiosity of the
throghtless.” The same pape states that “yes
terday, five of the most lovely and pleasing
belles of Somerville, publicly appared in the new
costume. Their appearance was better than a
thousand arguments in favor of its adoption.
Those who were beforo opposed, were perplexed,
to say the least. Those who were wavering,
were decided/’
Robbery. —On Sunday evening last a young
nrlan by the name of Wm. P. Purdy, who was in
the employ of Lewis Lawshe as a tailor, opened
the safe of Mr. E. Lawshe, jeweller of this city,
and took out watches, jewelry, kc ., to the value
of between fourteen and fifteen hundred dollars
and left. He was caught next day at Lithonia
by Mr. E. D. Wood who having heard of the
robbery, suspicioned him for the thief, and brought
him to this city in the evening. He was brought
before Messrs. Buel & Welch, and committed to
jail in default of $3,500 bail. He had also taken
between twenty and thirty dollars, the greater
portion of which, with the principle part of the
jewelry was recovered.
Purdy had been in the employ of Mr. Lawshe
about three months, and was familiar with every
thing about the premises ; and having ascertain
ed where the key of the safe was deposited, was
enabled to help himself without difficulty. We
are pleased to learn that the amount of money
and jewelry not recovered, does not exceed some
twenty-five or thirty dollars.
Upon the delivery of Purdy in this city, Mr.
Lawshe promptly paid to Mr. Wood a reward of
one hundred dollars. We hope that an increase
in his business may soon make up for this loss.
He deserves, and ought to receive an increased
patronage. —Atlanta Republican , 18 th inst.
Still a Candidate.— Afgentleman came into
our office the other day, who says he is 92 years
old past. He was married at 21 and lived
with his wife 30 years—she had 10 children and
died.
He then remained single 18 months, and mar
ried again. By his last wife he had 11 children,
lived with her 32 years, she has been dead 8
years, and he is still a candidate for matrimony.
Every ojie of his children lived to the years of
maturity, and 19 are still alive.
He can see to shoot a rifle nearly as well as
ever—can thread a needed without spectacles
hearing but very little impaired and nervous sys
tem perfectly steady. He says he can cut and
split 150 rails a day and jump up and hit his
heels together twice before striking the ground
at night. In appearance he does not look to be
over 60, and is as straight as an arrow—and says
that except the rheumatism he feels nearly as
young as ever!! Lewisburg (Tenn.) Telegraph .
Poor Old Woman.—An old lady. 90 years of
age, named Elizabeth Wolflnger, died last week
in Upper Dublin township, Montgomery county,
Pa., where she had long been a resident, and un
til within six months of her death, occupied a
small hoitse entirely alone. Upon examining
the house after her decease, the neighbors found,
carefully stowed away, in different places, no
less than $1,400, all bankable money, except a
SSO bill, together with some $2,000 in bonds and
mortgages—making, in all, the snug little sum of
over $3,400. Ihe old lady always represented
herself as very poor. She was accustomed to
have her tax remitted, as it was generally be
lieved, according to her own story, that she had
only the interest of SSOO to live upon.
Murder at Carthage. —A most brutal mur
der was perpetrated at Carthage on last Monday
night, by a man named Turpin. It appears that
Turpin took offence at some remark made by one
ol old Joe Sweeny s Band of Minstrels, who
were performing in Carthage on that night, and
determined to kill him. Alter the performance
was over, Turpin passed down the street and on
hearing a music teacher named Chapman, per
forming on a violin, he conceived this to be the
one who had offended, and rushing into the house,
with a large knife, inflicted three or four mortal
wounds on the lett side of his inoffensive victim,
who expired in less than an hour. Next morn
! ing Turpin was found, apprehended and lodged
j in jail to await his trial.— Lebanon ITenn.)
Packet.
Health of Boston. —There has been only
1 sixty-one deaths in this city this week, which is
smaller than the average. Os consumption only
! six deaths occurred, a less number than for any
week for a year past. There were five deaths of
I small pox.
Arrival of the Alabama. —The steamship
l Alabama, Capt. Ludlow, arrived here yesterday
morning in 61 hours from New York. She brings
8 cabin and 12 steerage passengers.
We learn that the Alabama would have arrived
earlier, but in running along the coast on Mon
! day night, the weather being thick and dark at
i the time, she struck on the shoals of Hunting Is
i lands. She was got off after some delay, leaking
) considerably, and will have to go into Dry Dock
for examination, but will not be prevented leav
ing at her regular time on Saturday. She shows
externally no marks of injury, but a weaker ship
would not have fared so well. Her cargo in the
lower hcdd is somewhat damaged.— Sav. Repub
lican, 18m inst.
New Steamer Calhoun. —This new Steamer
as we have already stated, arrived here on Mon
day, in sixty-six and a half hours from New York.
This was an excellent run r especially when it is
remembered that her machinery is new and un
tried.
The Calhoun is the consort of the Gordon, of
which she is the exact counterpart, and as we
| have already given a minute description of her,
it is unnecessary to repeat it here. The C. be
longs to Messrs. Brooks & Barden’s line of steam
ers, which are to run outside between this city
and Charleston. She is a splendid boat, reflect
ing great credit upon the enterprise of her worthy
owners and builders. She came out in charge
of Capt. Barden, who we understand, is to com
mand her. This the public will be glad to learn,
as there is not a more courteous and reliable of
ficer on the whole Atlantic coast.— lb.
Capt. Howes of the brig A. Dunbar, arrived
at this port yesterday from Boston, reports having
picked up on the Bth instant, in latitude 39 deg°
08 min., longitude 70 deg. 53 min., a boat con
taining Capt. John Mitchell, and crew, six in
number, of the brig Topaz of, and from East
Port, (Me.), bound to Philadelphia with a cargo
of Plaster of Paris and Laths, which had sunk
about four hours previous in a severe gale from
the N. E., the Captain and crew not being able
to save any thing.
June 10th latitude 36 deg. 56 min., longitude
73 deg. 53 min., spoke a brig from Port Prince
bound to New York; on which he put Capt. M.
and crew.— lb.
Religious Revival. —The revival to which
we aluded|in our last is still going on without
abatement. The Methodist church has heen
crowded day and night up to the present writ
ing, and some two hundred and upwards have
confessed conversion. Amongst the other denom
inations and in other churches there is a wamth
and zeal which promises to be followed by lively
times. In short, it seems to be a season of gen
eral enquiry and a day when the power of the
Most High is moving among his creatures below.
The end of the good work is not yet.— Columbus
Enquirer , 17 th inst.
Sentenced. —The negro boy Gerald, convict
ed during the present term of the Superior Court
of an attempt to commit a rape on a white female,
was sentenced on Saturday last, to be hung on
Tuesday, the 12th day of August next. There
was no reason urged against the sentence of the
court nor are we apprised that any effort will be
made to prevent its execution.— lb.
Explsion and Loss of Life. —Dewes’ Fire
works Factory at Jersy City was blown up with
a tremendous shock Saturday morning. Mr. D„
who was alone in the building, was killed in
stantly—his body was awfully mangled.
AUGUSTA, GA.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 207
For Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
The Convention to nominate a Southern
Rights Candidate for the Eighth Congres
sional District, will be held in this City
on SATURDAY, the 12th day of JULY.
Democrats turned Federalists.
The Democrats in Chatham, who voted com
plimentary resolutions to Col. Jackson last sum
mer, for his opposition to the Clay Compromise,
and who now manifest an inclination to join the
Cobb and Toombs coalition, and bring a Whig
out in opposition to him for Congress, are truly
assuming a rather awkward attitude. The Sa
vannah Georgian has been showing up this in
consistency with such a degree of point and se
verity as to call forth a long letter from Dr. R.
D. Arnold, one of the converts from Democracy
to the ranks of the Consolidationists, in which
he seeks to justify Iris change of position. The
Georgian makes the following comment upon the
f position of Dr. Arnold, and of those, who like
him, find now that a Whig of the Cobb, Toombs
and Stephens cast of politics, would better repre
sent them in Congress than a Democrat, whose
position last summer received nothing but com
pliments at their hands.
We publish these comments for the additional
reason that they show Democrats throughout the
State that in sustaining Mr. Cobb, in preference
to Gov. McDonald, they are throwing themselves
into the arms of Federalism and Consolidation.
If they are Democrats from conviction, and from
a sincere attachment to Democratic principles,
they should see that they can pursue no more ef
fectual mode of striking that cause a fatal blow,
than to support for office one who has formed
with the leading Whigs in Georgia a coalition,
which must enure to the sole benefit of the Whig
party. Those who pursue this course, by this
act, cease to be Democrats, and become Federal
ists. i
“ To this complexion it must come at last.”
{From the Savannah Georgian.)
Dr. R. D. Arnold’s Letter.
In the article which called forth Dr. Arnold’s
letter, addressing ourselves to the Union Demo
crats ol this city, who in July last had condemn
ed the Omnibus Bill, we asked, “ How can you
who then voted your thanks to Col. Jackson for
his hostility to the Conipromise now oppose him
for his resistance to that measure.” To this Dr
Arnold replies:
As Col. Jackson s vote on the Compromise
was cast after the meetings in question, it can
have no bearing on the subject, one way or the
other.”
Grant that Col. Jackson’s vote was cast after
these meetings, yet his position in opposition to
the Compromise, was well known to those who
took part in them. He had made a speech in
Congress, in which he asserted that in his judg
ment “ there was nothing in the proposed ad
justment which ought to be acceptable to the
South.” Yet with this attack of Col. Jackson
upon the Compromise, fresh in their minds, one
meeting unanimously,” and the other by an
“overwhelming majority,” Resolved, That the
course pursued in Congress upon the slavery ques-
by the Hon. John McPherson Berrien, and
the Hon. Joseph W. Jackson, prove them warm
and devoted patriots, worthy the confidence of the
ivhole Soutn, and the esteem and approbat'um of
their immediate constituents. Did not Dr. Arnold
vote for that resolution ? Did not an overwhelm
ing majority of the citizens ol this community
approve of it ? Is not Col. Jackson’s position
now precisely what it was then ? We answer
yes. Col. Jackson was friendly to the Union
then, he is friendly to it now. He was a Demo
crat then : he is a Democrat now. He did not
approve the Compromise then; there is no reason
to believe that, though he acquiesces in it, he ap
proves it now. If he was a “ devoted patriot”
then, is he lese so now ? If he was then “worthy
the confidence of the South, and the esteem and
approbation of his constituents,” (Dr. Arnold a
mong the rest,) is he not equally so now ?
Col. Jackson is now a candidate for Congress,
distinctly as a Democrat, determined to maintain
his connection at Washington as elsewhere with
the Democratic party. Can it be possible then
that Dr. Arnold, Democrat as he is, and of the
strictest sect as he would have us believe. can
it be possible that he is striving to bring out a
Whig, and will, in October, vote for a Whig, in
opposition to Col. Jackson * Who can believe
this ? Not his “ friend Forney” of the Pennsyl
vanian, we are very certain. For how any Dem
ocrat who, alter Col. J s. speech in Congress.
thought his course worthy of approbation, can now,
when he is running as a Democrat,' withhold
from him his vote and give it to a Whig, is to us
utterly incomprehensible. True, Col. J. though
willing to acquiesce in the Compromise, and *to
“ accept” the Georgia platform, declines going in
to the same organization with Toombs, and Ste
phens, and the Savannah Republican, and the
Augusta Sentinel. If he is guilty of any other
sin than this, in the eyes of “Union Democrats”
—what is that sin ? by all means tell us.
Dr. Arnold goes, at length, into a consideration
of the respective claims of McDonald and Cobb,
to the support of the Democracy of the State.—
With a few words on this point we take our
leave of his letter.
Grant, for the sake of argument, that the two
candidates have been equally Democratic: fur
ther, that neither nominating Convention took
the Demouatic name,—we yet have facin o1 * us
this palpable fact, that the McDonald Conven
tion adopted as the platform of its candidate and
its party, the cardinal doctrines of Democracy
while the Cobb Convention did not express it
self favorable to a single Democratic measure or
article of Democratic faith. Is it not Democrat
ic priaciples which make those who profess them
the Democratic party? The McDonald, or Dem
ocratic and Southern Rights party, boldly pro
claimed these Democratic principles; the Cobb
and Toombs, or Federal party, has, so far as si
-ICIIC6 Ccin do it, entirely repudiated these princi
ples. Which candidate, then, has the stronger
claims upon the Democracy—he who runs upon
Democratic principles, proclaimed by the Con
vention which nominated him, or he who is
made by the silence of his friends, to pass them
by, or forget them, as a thing of no account ?
For a party in the minority to select a candidate
from the ranks of the majority, when one can
be found willing to be thus used, is a device as
old as party organizations. And it is just in this
way that nearly all those Democrats who have
in time past gone over to the Whigs, have been
led to renounce their principles. It usually oc
curs in this wise. A Democrat by putting him
self, on some important question, in opposition to
the great body of the party in his State, (as did
Mr. Cobb by his support of the Compromise.)
partially forfeits its confidence. While thus sit
uated, with a few friends still attached to him.
what is more common than for the Whigs to
make him their candidate, with a view to defeat
their opponents ? And how few are the cases
where a Democrat accepts a nomination under
such circumstances, that he ever returns to his
old party ! Look at Wm. C. Rives, (one out of
many.) He opposed the sub-treasury. The
Democrats of Virginia, dissatisfied with him,
nominated John Y. Mason for the Senate as his
successor. Rives, who had remaining a tew
Democratic friends, was nominated by the Whigs,
and was run against the candidate §f his own
party. He has been a Whig from that day to
this 1
Any Democrat who, under such circumstances,
will accept a nomination from the great body of
the opposite party, against another Democrat,
thereby forfeits his claims to the support of Dem
ocrats. Mr. Cobb has, we think, done this. He
must, therefore, look rather to his new than to
his c-ld friends for supporters, at the ensuing elec
tion. Those Democrats who sustain him will
soon, if not watchful, find themselves with him,
absorbed in the ranks of Federalism. Some may
hereafter make a retreat; he and most of them,
however, will never come back.
“ Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain—
They are gone—and forever!”
John Gorman, Assistant Marshall who was
engaged in taking the census of New-Mexico,
discovered in the Town of Chimailo, in Rio Ar
riba c ounty, a substance resembling soap. It
makes a lather like soap, and has the property of
removing grease spots or stains out of any kind
of cloth.—When put in water it immediately
slacks like lime. At thefplace where the discov
ery was first made, it is even with the surface,
and about fiiteen yards square. It is rotten on
the top to about the depth of three feet, but ap
pears cleaner and sounder at greater depth. It
can be taken out in large lumps, of ten or fifteen
pounds weight. It is as white as snow, and
seems to exist in large quantities. Specimens
have been forwarded to the Census Office at
Washington.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Kentucky have
sent on a magnificent block of marble for the
W ashington monument.
The Attorney General has decided that mem
bers ol Congress have the franking privilege du
ling the w hole time for which they may be
elected.
We are requested to call attention to the
sale of the Stock of choice Groceries by A. Lafitte
in Hamburg, this day. See advertisment.
Severe Hail Storm. —The Chronicle & Sen
tinel of yesterday says: The following extract from
a private letter to a gentleman of this city gives
an account of a severe hail storm:
Lexington Depot, June 17.
w e were yesterday evening visited by the
most terrific and destructive Wind and Hail
storm, that it has ever been our misfortune to see.
Our crops ol Oats and Cotton are a perfect wreck.
Cotton on our place cannot make an ounce to
the acre. We are gratified to believe it was not
extensive. Yours truly.
Southern Congress.— His Excellency Gov.
Means of Soutn Carolina has issued his procla
•mation for holding an election on the second
Monday in October, for Representatives to a
Southern Congress.
The New York papers state that Capt. Wilson,
tne commander of the steam *ship Empire City,
has brought into the city of New York $12,-
340,000 in gold, within the past fourteen months.
The Secretary ol the Navy gives, in the Wash
ington Republic of Monday, official notice that
neither the President nor himself have authority
to appoint Midshipmen at large.
The 801 l Worm.— The editor of the Vicks
burg (Miss.) Sentinel of the 10th instant, says
“ that W. W. Neely, an old planter of Warren
county, had shown him, on the Bth instant, a
cotton form, on which the boll worm had been
making its ravages. This is a much ealier ap
pearance of the boll worm than usual, and this
fact will be apt to create some uneasiness among
the cotton planters.”
Another Line of Steumshijisfrom Boston to Liver
pool.—The Boston Journal says, that Mr. Donald
McKay, the well known ship builder at East
Boston, has commenced the construction of a
steamship of 2,500 tons, for Messrs. Enoch Train
& Co., being the first of a line of propellers be
tween that city and Liverpool.
We give below the officiaf vote for Brigadier
General, 2nd Brigade, 12 Division vice General
Beavers.
A. K. Patton. Sam i. Stewart. F. J. Sullivan.
Chattooga, 147 41 yg
Dade, 38 16 2
Floyd, 137 135 73
Murray, 174 24 47
V atker, 86 25 44
582 241 204
A Key West paper says that the sponge w r hich
wil he gathered in that neighborhood during this
season, will be worth fifty thousand dollars. A
number of French manufacturers are said to be
using the material in the making of the finest
broad cloth, by mixing it with wool or with cot
ton. The fabric produced by this combination
equals in lustre the finest Saxony, and is as strong
as linen.
Silver in Pennsylvania. —A mine has re
cently been opened about two miles from Phce
nixville, Chester county, which yields about three
ounces ol pure silver to the ton, and fifty per cent
ol lead. Ihe Westchester Jeffersonian says that
the whole valley of the Schuylkill teems with
mineral wealth, such as lead, copper, iron and
coal.
Sequel to the Shadradh Case. —A Boston
correspondent of the New York Herald thus
frankly admits the farce which is now playing in
that “loyal” city in mockery of justice and law.
Any sop, it seems, is deemed good enough to stop
the mouths of Southern “acquiescents:”
The trials of the persons charged with having
reduced the “higher law” to practice, by the
rescue of Shadrach, are regarded here as
neither more nor less than jokes, and too dull to
be laughed at. The inability of the jury to
agree in the case of Scott, which is said to be
the worst of the entire batch, is supposed to in
dicate what will he the final result of the affair
—a legal farce. The jury was equally divided
—six for conviction a«d six for acquittal. Now,
it there be any merit in the juste milieu , so much
admired by some people, our jury are entitled
to praise, for they hit the mark exactly in the
white, and so happily that they did nothing at
all. Uncle Sam will get this purse pretty well
emptied by these trials; and that will be the
whole of the matter—and a very pleasant whole
it will he to the legal gentlemen and others who
are in the employ of our venerable relative.
Suicide of a Bachelor. —Aaron Street, of Ho
lyoke, a bachelor farmer aged 40 years, and in
easy circumstances, committed suicide by drown
ing himself in the Connecticut river on Wednes
day, His faithful dog was fould watching the
spot where his master disappeared.
Robbery. —The premises of Messrs. Paine &
Lucas, situate at the Sout-east corner of North
Atlantic wharf and East Bav streets, was forcibly
entered during Tuesday night last. The robbers,
with the aid of an iron bar, forced open the shut
ters of one of the windows, opening on the pas
sage leading to the wharf, and having obtained
ingress into the store, rifled a drawer of one of
the desks, of a small sum of money, and made
off with their booty— Charleston Courier 19th
instant ,
pi) JHngttftir Cflfflrapj).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
Charleston, June* 19—p. m.
Cotton. —Sales to-day 170 bales. Sales of the
week 2745 bales at 6to 10 cents- The market
closes unchanged. Middling Fair 9 1-4 to 9 1-2,
Fair to Fully Fair 9 3-4 to 10 cents. Receipts
of the week 4000 bales. Stock on hand 21.000
bales. Trade is generally dull.
New York, June 19, 7.30 P. M.
Cotton. —The market to-day has been stea
dy, and the sales 800 bales. Prices are un
changed.
|[Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier .l
New Orleans. June 14, 5,42 P. M.
The Alabama has arrived here from Vera Cruz,
with later and highly important intelligence from
California. A destructive fire had occurred at
San Francisco, whereby nearly the whole of the
city had been reduced to ashes. All the news
paper offices, except that of the Atla Californian
were destroyed. The loss is estimated at fully
$15,000,000. The Custon House, and all the prin
cipal edifices are in ruins. A great conflagration
had also taken place at Stockton, and over a mil
lion of property had been destroyed.
There were fifteen hundred bales of Cotton
sold to-day in this market. The sales 'of the
week amount to eighteen thousand bales. Prices
are steady. Fair is quoted at 10 1-4 cents.
Columbia, June 18, 6.30 P. M.
AJ better feeling prevails in our market to-day.
Since the recept of the Humboldt’s advices, two
hundred and four bales have been sold at from
5 1-2 to 9 cents.
(Teleragphcd for the Baltimore American .)
Washington, June 16.
Washington Affairs. —Secretary Corwin has
not yet gone to Ohio. He was engaged to-day
in a lengthy conference in the Treasury Depart
ment with the President and Secretaries Stuart
! and Hall.
Hon. A. W. Buel, of Michigan, was admitted
into the Criminal Court to-day, and is supposed
• to have been retained as councel for Brown, of
i Illinois, the individual charged with forging land
warrants.
A fight occurred at the National Hotel this af
ternoon, between Mr. Fuller, late proprietor of
the United States Hotel, and Capt. Shambourg,
; in which the latter was considerably worsted.
1 Providence, R. 1., June 16.
Brutal Murder — Fire. —An Irishman,
. named William Hannegan, murdered his wife
) yesterday by breaking her scidl with an axe.
1 he cause of the horrid act is not known.
Iwo large dwellings in Fall River were de
stroyed by lire yesterday. The loss is $3,000.
Middleton, N. Y., June 16.
Locomotive off the track.—- The freight train ran
l off the track down a high embankment yester
i day afternoon, at 3 o’clock. The conductor was
killed and the fireman badly injured. One of
the cars contained fifteen head of cattle, two of
which were killed.
3
1 (Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.)
Washington, June 15th, 1851.
Mr. Webster is to.leave Wasliington on Mon
day, on a short excursion to Maryland.
Mr. Corwin is to leave Washington for Ohio
b v^a New York, on Monday or Tuesday.
T Nothing will come out of the trial of Colonel
Talcott. Colonel Huger, of the Ordinance corps,
hdd made a contract, as it seems, for some cannon*
and some dispute arose between Colonel Talcott
and the Secretary of the War in relation to facts
> in the matter; all oi which will be easily ex
t plained.
, Lieut. Charles G. Hunters dismissal from the
A avy is a subject of regret, as he is a very bril
i liant- and capable officer for command in active
. service. For an acting purser, he was not fitted
5 h V any commercial or business knowledge or
method.
5 Ihe government bring him in debt, on account,
some three or four thousand dollars. The law
peremptorily requires dismissal in such cases.—
' But the law also enables the President to receive
explanations, and upon the payment of the mo
b ney to reinstate the officer.
1 N. Y. Money Market, June 14—6 P. M. —The
1 stock market remains without any materil al
. teration. Prices have not advanced or receded,
and the steadiness is indict-ive of increasm tr
strength on the part of holders. The transac
r tions to-day were principally for cash, and there
I is evidently a growing disposition on the part of
capitalists to employ their surplus founds in in
\ estments in the best rail road stocks on the mar
• ket. The fluctuations in Reading Rail Road
have caused several failures among speculators,
and a great many more must be weak from the
loss of a great deal of money. The tendency of
all stocks, this morning, was upwards, and it is
our impression that higher prices will rule before
the lapse of many days. The movements of spe
cie have ceased to effect the stock or the money
market, and until there are more indications of a
3 contraction in the supply of capital seeking in
vestment, than at present exists, very little ap
prehension need be entertained of any important
. depreciation in prices for stocks of any kind.
The receipts at the office of the assistant trea
■ surer of this port, to-day, amounted to $65,222 22-
l payments. sS,so9—balance, $2,627,919 54.
: The steam ship Washington, for Southampton
and Bremen, carried out $265,684 in specie
This will make the aggregate for the year, si4 -
211,205. The exportation this week has been
comparatively limited, but very large amounts of
com have been engaged for shipment by the
steamers leaving this port next week. The afrt
ticipatrons are that the exportation of specie
Lom this port next week, will exceed that of
any previous week this or any previous year
The proposals for the Panama Railroad Com,,
pany s $900,000 Seven per cent, coupon Bond- . •
were opened in New York on Saturday at n
o ? clock, P. M., and $271,000 more than theC'
pany proposed for or required were obtain J
iV. Y. Herald , June 15.
Damages for a Husband.— Francis Oakec
the mate of the ship Rio Grande, at Boston who
was arrested some time since for kill in,* J o h„
Desmond, but against whom the grand jimr found
no bill, is now m jail on a civil suit brought bv
the widow, for damages to the amount of
000.
We understand that on Saturday last, there was
a large and enthusiastic meeting of the friends of
Southern Rights in Macon, which was ably and
eloquently addressed by Judge Dou°hertv of
Clarke, and Col. Hunter of Crawford. °The con
solidation, Union spoils men, it is said received
some awfully severe thrusts. The ball is mov
ing; the omens are propitious. Nothing is need
ed to sec.ure a gloiious triumph, but zeal, union
and energy on the part of the friends of republi
can principles the rights of the States and of a
Constitutional Union.— Federal Union.
The Soldier’s Offering.— We learn from the
Republic, that company I, fourth regiment of in
fantiy, stationed at F ort Howard, Wisconsin, have
contributed a sufficient sum for the preparation
oi a block of marble, for insertion in the shaft of
the monument in memory of Washington.
BELL-AIR TRAINS
The Bell-air Train will commence its FK
Summer Trips, on MONDAY, June 9th, leav-#H
ing Bell-Air at A. M., and Augusta at P. M.,
daily. No free seats. j une 7
forsaTle!
The subscriber s summer resi-^-
DENCE, on the South Sand Hills, on theiSiiL
first eminence south-west of the Turknett Sprang.
The situation is a pleasant one—of easy access to,
and in full view of, the Geo. Rail Road. The Dwel
ling is large, commodious, and in good repair. For
further particulars, apply to
SAMUEL C. WILSON,
may 31 stutr3e3