Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

; CONSTITUTIONALIST, | BY JAMES GARDNER, JR. Hfc TERMS. per annum, in advance $8 00 ilHr Tri-Weekly, per annum 5 00 per annum, if paid in advance 2 00 These terms are offered to new subscribers, and to old subscribers who pay up all arrearages. W In no case will the Weekly paper be sent at $2. un f less the money accompanies the order. [ In no case will it be sent at $2 to an old subscriber in r arrears. ■ When the year paid for at $2 expires, the paper, I if not discontinued, or paid for in advance, will be sent ft on the old terms. $2 50 if paid at the office within the A year, or $3 if paid at the expiration of the year. K O** Postage must be paid on all communications and letters of business. It**. terms of advertising. square (12 lines.) 50 cents the first insertion, and 37£ cents for the next 5 insertions, and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion. Contracts made by the year, or for a less period, on reasonable terms. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sheriff’s Levies, 30 days, $2 50 per levy : 60 days, $5. Executor’s, 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 x Rules Nisi, (monthly) $1 per square, each insertion. WL ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, auk at our RISK. 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