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WnrnuswAs'w GARDNER, JR. J\ m ter ms . HHHfr annum, in advance 00 WF* eklv, per annum 5 00 per annum, if paid in advance 2 00 These terms are offered to new subscribers, and to old who pay up all arrearages. ■ In no case will the Weekly paper be sent at $2. uu- the money accompanies the order. Btfnnoc&se will it be sent at $2 to an old subscriber in When the year paid for at $2 expires, the paper. discontinued, or paid for in advance, will be sent |Boti the old terms. $2 50 if paid at the office within the y«ar, or $3 if paid at the expiration of the year. W O* Postage must be paid on all communications and letters of business. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. s juare (12 lines.) 50 cents the first insertion, and 371 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 Rules Nisi, (monthly) $1 per square, each insertion. £7“ ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, arb at OCR on State Road, by Finance Committee. Milledgeville, June 14, 1851. 1 To His Excellency George W. Towns: Sir: —Until very recently the undersigned, the committee appointed by you under an act of the Legislature, were unable to comply with the desire expressed in February last of personally inspecting the Western & Atlantic Rail-Road, and reporting to you generally as to its condi tion, &c. On the 22d ult. we assembled at At lanta, and entered upon the discharge of the * duty imposed. Accompanied by Mr. Mitchell, and the late resident Civil Engineer, Mr. Wells, who'joined us above Atlanta, we proceeded slow ly, with a view to make a careful survey and examination of the entire Road to the Tunnel, a distance of 106 miles from Atlanta. With a view to perspicuity we place under appropriate heads the results of this service. OF THE RAIL. The entire length of the State Road to Chat tanooga on the Tennessee river, is 138 miles. Four kinds of Iron rail are used on the Road; thus: Atlanta to Casy’s water station, a plate miles. ■Bi Casy's to a short distance beyond the river, a bridge or U rail, 5 miles. V From that point to Ackworth, a plate or flat ■ bar, 24 miLes. B From Ackworth to Kingston, the bridge or U ■ rail, 25 miles, P From Kingston to Calhoun, a plate rail, 21 r miles. From Calhoun to Dalton, a flange rail of 40 tons per mile, 20 miles, ■I From Dalton to Chattanooga, a flange rail of j Z 50 tons per mile, 38 miles. Ttys statement exhibits the fact, that fifty the State Road is laid with a plated or flafe bar rail. It should be boine in mind that this rail has been in use since the commence ment of business on the Road, say 1845. It is much w’orn —broken in many places, and would be very dangerous, but for the numerous repair r ing parties, distributed along this distance en gaged actively in patching where needed. It appears to us that every particle of the flat bar should be removed at the earliest practicable moment. It has become exceedingly expensive to keep in a condition so as to answer the neces sities of the hour, as will be evinced by reference to the books of the Superintendent of Transpor tation. It is evident that it cannot be made to answer the anticipated freights of the next fall and winter. We were gratified to learn from Mr. Mitchell, that under an Executive order, he had purchased ot Messrs. Padelford & Fay, of Savannah, 1,005 tons of a good T rail, and which was daily ex pected, sufficient to displace at once tw r elve miles of the flat bar. With a view to provide for the remaining thirty-eight miles of flat bar, Mr. Mitchell had been in correspondence with Messrs. Padelford & Fay, as agents of a London house, which correspondence was submitted for our consideration and counsel. Whilst we dis claim the possession of any authority or power over the subject, and are entirely sensible that we have not been clothed with any advisory au thority upon which the Chief Engineer might safely proceed to contract for Iron, we did not hesitate to say to that functionary, that it was a responsibility which he should promptly assume, and that we did not doubt that the people and their representatives would commend the course which would so materially contribute to placing their Road in a condition to do the business pressing on it. We cannot permit ourselves to question the readiness of the Legislature in hastening to make ample provision for the faith ful fulfilment of contracts made by public agents when those contracts are manifestly largely con ducive to the public security and benefit. Nor are we disposed to think, from any considera tions, will the Legislature attempt to find in the fc exhibition of zeal, energy and intelligence in ground for censure, but on the con- HBh all liberal minded men, we should distinct and unqualified commenda- I ■PtIIES SUPERSTRUCTURE AND BRIDGES. The superstructure of the Road to the Tunnel, is in process\pf an early and thorough renewal. The were most carefully examined, and itglves us pleasure to say, that they have been > maditmguger and more secure than when first erect fidsupervision of Col. Long. In this re niarit we do not include the old bridge over the Chafi^hpovfi 6 ®} as that is so shortly to be super seded byUbe very superior bridge nearly com pleted by thereon tractor, Mr. Denmead. The apprehensions which we knew were en tertainea and freely expressed during the last year as to the Bridges and superstructure, have f been discovered by us, on examination, now to be unfounded. OF THE CARS EQUIPMENT, &C. The road is miserably equipped. We feel hu miliated, as Georgians who have stood by this enterprise in its infancy and through all the tri als and opposition it has encountered, to he com pelled to say, that it never lias received from the State “a decent suit of clothing .” It has been left to sustain itself by every shift and expedient w which those w’ho supervised it, could devise; beg ging, borrowing and making ruinous contracts * with other rail road companies in consequence of its poverty and dependence, until at length it is a bout being refused the hire and use of the box and other cars of the company to w hich so much has been paid and so much is still due. Can it be that this state of things will be permitted by the Legislature to continue ? It never could have ex isted for a moment, had the Legislature originally equipped the road. We feel constrained to pre sent the great deficiency w r hich has hitherto ex isted and now exists, that it may receive the consideration to w r hich such a fact is entitled. Belonging to the road at this time are thirteen Locomotives, of which seven have been purchas ed since April 1848, —and w hich may be esteem ed good: 4 Passenger Cars, 2 Baggage Cars, 4 Box Cars, and, 6 Platform Cars. The road needs at this time additionally: 10 Passenger Cars. 200 Box Cars. 100 Platform Cars. 4 Baggage Cars, and 15 Locomotives. In the absence of Legislative provision for a moderate equipment, as above suggested, with a view in some degree, to render the State Road less dependent than it is, and has ever been, at least, until a Legislature shall assemble, we have advised Mr, Mitchell to negotiate at once, if prac ticable, with the several Rail Road Companies connected wflth the State Road, the purchase from them of fifty box and platform cars. To obviate the difficulty frequently arising wflth the companies w r hose roads connect wflth the State Road, of fixing wflth entire certainty, w'hich should be responsible for loss of produce, or damage to freights, we w ould recommend that you invite the Legislature, having fully equipped the State Road, to prohibit the running of any cars whatever on that road except those ow ned by the State. A subject demanding legislation is the fact w’hich we have learned with reference to a pro hibition which exists on the Rome Branch R. Road, of the Cars of the Macon & Western Rail Road, not being permitted to go up to Rome for freights, w hilst the cais of the Georgia Rail Road may. As a general principle, w r e w’ould abstain from interference w ith the conduct of a private company, leaving it to regulate its business in its own w T ay; but there is an obvious propriety of interference on the part of the State here, to pre vent the perversion of her road from the great design of its founders. At Atlanta, it w r as ex pected and designed that competition should be gin; at that point, freights be distributed among roads connecting there. Perfect equality was intended to be dispensed, and no preference of the one over the other, to be given, through the instrumentality of the State Road. The pro hibition referred to, has this effect precisely—that to the extent of the expense of transhipment of pro duce and freights at Kingston, from the Rome Rail Road cars to the Macon & W. R. R. cars, and the delay attending it—a bounty to those forwarding over the Georgia R. Road, is given, and small as it may be, serves to give a direction to a very large and valuable trade, wfliich other wise might he divided between the great mar kets of the State. If the Legislature should equip the State Road, and prohibit the running of other cars on it except those of the State—no other corrective wflll be wanting. Depots, large, substantial and secure, are want ed at several points; indeed, we think they should be provided at every important point along the road. A machine-shop with capacity for every pur pose of the road, should be erected at or near Kingston or Adairsville, so as t# enable Locomo tives requiring repair, to be put in order, without traversing the whole length of the road. It occurs to us, that upon the completion of the Milledgeville & Gordon 11. Road, tne Peniten tiary might readily, and most profitably to the State, be converted into a shop for the manufac ture of Cars for the use of the State Road only.— The employment of convict labor in this form, will prove more profitable to the State, and be less liable to the objections w r hich are constantly and speciously made, to bringing such labor into com petition with other mechanic labor. The condition of the finances of the road, up to the first day of October, 1850, having been pre sented to your Excellency, and published, our examination w r as limited to the operation of the road to the last seven months; and as the expen ses of the maintenance of w r ay, and of transpor tation, could not be precisely arrived at by us, until the adjustment of some accounts, now under examination by Mr. Mitchell, w r e refrain from the presentation of any.statement connected wflth this department of our service, except that ot the gross receipts of the road during the seven months counting from first October last. Reviewflng the whole subject, with all the lights w’hich have been throw'll upon it in the full and free intercourse w r e have had wflth En gineers of other roads, and with gentlemen of intelligence familiar with the wants of the State Road—w r e are persuaded that a sum less that five hundred thousand dollars wflll he inadequate to placing it in a condition to meet the accumulat ed and rapidly increasing freights, W’hich aw’ait the action of the Legislature. We doubt not that the expenditure of a million of dollars, so as to relay the entire road with a rail ot from 85 to 90 tons to the mile, and the substitution of a much heavier class of Locomotives, wflll be found in the end to be the wiser and better policy. In thus recomending the thorough renewal and equipment of her great road, we cannot for a moment indulge the idea that Georgia will be insane enough to disappoint her own high destiny by allowflng this w’ork from any of the consider ations which w r e have seen stated, to pass into other hands. Now, when nearly all our troubles and difficulties arising from this source, have end ed; w r hen the State debt springing from it has ceased to press heavily and to give annoyance; when the friends of the road who did battle ori ginally, and those who continued to battle since in its behalf, are reposing in their tents, thinking that no further exertion w r as necessary on their part to sustain a policy w’hich they had labored so long, so zealously, and as w r e think, so wflsely, to establish, w T e are pained to find that the ques tion of the sale of the road, at the moment of the full fruition of the rich, varied, and illimitable re turns wfliich the State is on the eve of receiving, has been agitated, and enforced wflth every ar gument, w’hich the experience and mental re sources! could supply, of gentlemen distinguished for reputation and unquestionable patriotism. We beg leave to differ wflth them entirely as to what is the true policy of the State of Georgia. In this connexion w e lament, as the sincere friends of Education, to find some more distin guished by zeal in its cause, than we claim to possess, are desirous of the sale of the State road with a view to found with its proceeds a scheme of general education. A noble purpose indeed, and w r orthy of the attention of the Philanthropist and Statesman! But w’hat prospect can there be of the application of the proceeds of such sale to this beneficent purpose? A brief reflection must dissipate such hopes. It should be remembered that upon the road are existing liens to a very considerable amount W’hich must be first paid, for the public faith is pledged to such payment. A debt of near tw r o millions in bonds, growing out of the building of the road, exists in addition to these liens. Can any one, after the statement of these facts, seri ously believe that the people wflll tolerate the ap propriation of the proceeds of the sale of the road, or any part thereof, to an Education scheme, un til that debt and liens are paid, say $2,500,000? Will the road sell for more? We question it. We may safely predict that no Legislature wflll venture to found with the proceeds of the sale of the State Road, an Education scheme, which leaves the State debt to be paid through all time to come, by an annual, never-ending, never-di minishing taxation. Why then, should the friends of education favor a sale of the road—since it must be evident to every man who wflll allow r himself to be directed by his common sense— that not a dollar of the proceeds w ill, in any rea sonable probability, be applied as they would de sire? The true policy of every friend of Educa tion, is to stimulate the Representatives of the I people, to the wise expenditure of the amount indicated by us, on the road, that its capacity for profit, its ability to maintain itself thereafter, and ability to repay all the money which has been expended on it, may be, as it w ill be, fully dem onstrated. Let the future nett proceeds of the road, after the payment of the entire State debt, be set apart as sacred to the cause of general edu cation; and wejdoubt not that the time is rapidly approaching, when they wflll be found to be am ple. A sale of the road is not only desired—but by some, it is insisted that the sale should be made to the tw o great companies—the Georgia R. R. Company, and the Central R. R. Com pany, or rather to a new Company, to be com posed of Stockholders of both. Whilst we have never belonged ;to that class of politicians, wfliose apprehensions of monopoly are alike excited, and equally, by the incorpora* tion of a burying ground —or a bank—we must be permitted to say, that w r e view wflth serious alarm the project of a sale to these Companies, of the State Road. From the instant of the con summation of such an idea, wflll the star of Geor gia pale in the constellation of the States. Her legislation wflll be no longer free ; it can be, and w r ho doubts,if it can, that it wflll not be dictated, by two overpowering and w T eaithy monopolies, act ing in unision, as their interests will then have become identical. Separately, the influence off each of these Companies is now felt in the halls of legislation. United , their power, for any pur~ pose , will be irresistible. It is the dictate of pru dence to preserve the relations of honorable ri valry now existing—certainly not to invite, to bring about, such a union between them, as that proposed —a union which tvould place the interests of Georgia at their mercy. It will be no answer to this view of the question, to reply, that in the contract of sale, restrictions can, and will be, im posed by the Legislature, for the protection of the people. So they can —and a subsequent Legisla ture nominated and elected by the power and influence of these companies, can annul or release those restrictions, and where then will be the boasted protection of the three great classes of the people, the agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing? In ; making these remarks we would, by no means, be understood as imputing a design on the part of these Companies, to possess themselves of the State Road, at the supposed sum of $2,500,000—a large sacrifice upon its cost —or any wish or purpose to control the legisla tion of the State. We simply state with free dom, our views, and run out the consequences which appear to us, will necessarily flow from the act deprecated, no matter by whom the com panies may be managed. Under the control of their present very distinguished heads, we should feel less apprehension| than under the manage ment of any two other eminent citizens of Geor gia ; but what assurance have the people, that gentlemen of their probity and high character, will always be at the head of these Companies ? A reason assigned for the sale of the road is, that it has been, and ever will be, used as a party engine in our State elections. This perhaps is the strongest reason which has been, or can be, presented in support of such policy. We think that it requires no very great skill to devise a system of control, by which this great enterprise can be withdrawn almost entirely from the vor tex ol party. Why may not its agents and employees be placed in an independent position in reference to the Executive Department, and to ensure capacity and probity, why may not such a term be given to their offices, as to allay the fever for place—often created by the fre quency of change ? If this may be done, and we do not doubt it, much, if not the whole strength of the argument, will be thereby des troyed. The magnitude of the interests of Geor gia—present and prospective—would seem to require that a hearty effort should be made by our public men to the system—and in all its details to demand of, and fix responsi bility upon its agents; and until this shall have been attempted, and failure has been the result, we cannot think the idea that a State cannot manage as well as a private corporation, her in terests, should receive an assent from any intel ligent man. Herewith, we present a tabular statement of the receipts of the road. The increase annually, and as the road was extended, demonstrates the truth of the proposition, that if Georgia will do her full duty, and that without a blind parsimo ny, she will receive in a few years, a large re venue with which she can easily provide for the payment, at an early period, of her public debt, | and for other important purposes. Under a libe ■ ral and proper policy , we venture to assert, that j she will, in five years, be in the receipt of a net; income from the road—of not less than half a mil lion of dollars annually. That such an anticipa tion is not extravagant, let us refer to the sources of supply, all of which are connected intimately with the business of the State Road : Railroads. Miles. i Georgia R. Road to Atlanta, 171 Athens Branch, 39 Warrenton, 4 Washington Branch, (in progress,) 18 232 Central R. Road—Savannah to Macon,.... 191 Milledgeville & Gordon, (in progress,) ..... 17 Eaton ton to Milledgeville, “ 22 Macon & Western to Atlanta, 101 South Western to Oglethorpe, 51 Columbus R. Road, (in progress,) 73 455 Waynesboro’ R. Road, (in progress.) 52 Atlanta & LaGrange R. Road, 85 Rome Branch R. Road, . 18 Nashville & Chattanooga, (in progress.) ... .151 Hiwassee R. Road, “ “... 110 Memphis & Charleston R. Road, projected,..29o 654 In addition to the roads enumerated, built and in progress, may be added the roads in Alabama and South Carolina, as also the extension of the Hiwassee Road, from Knoxville, East Tennessee, into Virginia, to Lynchburg, a point east of the Alleghany mountains —this latter extension, ren dering the States of Kentucky and Virginia, and a portion of North Carolina, tributary to our road. In fact, through the instrumentality of some of the roads in progress beyond our limits, the Cumberland, Tennessee, Ohio, and Mississip pi rivers ?nust necessarily furnish passengers and freights. Nor should we omit the important fact, that throughout the greater part of the entire length of the road (138 miles,) we have a dense, active, industrious and thriving population, the products of whose labor are to be borne to mar ket over this road, and its return freights. Already new subjects of labor are springing up by its wayside, and furnishing large and profita ble employment to the road. Articles of trans portation, not contemplated when the State road was projected, now demand from their quantity and value, our attention; as for example, tan bark, large quantities of which are being pre pared for shipment to France; feathers from East Tennessee, by the hundreds of thousand pounds; coal, sandstone, cedar, and other woods used in various manufactures; and last, though not least, cotton. Yes, the valleys of Cherokee are now competing in the production of the great staple, with South-western Georgia. A paper of this description will not admit of a full survey of the illimitable fields , in which a great internal commerce is struggling to find an out-let; that outlet is through our mountain gates. The subject admits only of a faint illustration by maps delineating the streams of trade and inter course which have gushed forth as almost under providential bidding, to renovate a land before decaying under various causes and deserted by our children. The subject is so vast that it can be measured with any tolerable certainty, only by an arithmetical mind, and by entering into a computation of the various articles of a nation's wealth and produce along the whole stem and branches of the Western & Atlantic Rail Road. The name is strikingly indicative of this gigantic State work. Georgia has been lauded as the Empire State of the South. To what other cause has she been indebted for this distinction,so much as this work, which, breaking through the mountain barriers which seemed to defy her labor and perseverance, has made smooth her way to the valley of the Mis sissippi lying beyond them. Let the fruits of this labor and] perseverance, of her revenue expended and of the power she now possesses, be parceled out, or sold wider con ditions if it please the Legislature; and the moral of the Drama of him who parted his kingdom among his two daughters, will find a quick reali zation in the insignificance to which the State will be reduced. GEO. D. PHILLIPS, ) WM. W. CLAYTON, > Finance Com. °IVERSON L. HARRIS, ) J Business of the Western A Atlantic Rail Road from the 15 th Sept. 1845, to 30 th April, 1851, in clusive. From 15th Sept. 1845, to 30th Sept. 1846, $ 38.127 32 “ Ist Oct. 1846, to 30th “ 1847, 89,483 86 “ Ist Oct. 1847. to 30th “ 1848, 115,585 30 “ Ist Oct. 1848, to 30th “ 1549, 132,105 70 “ Ist Oct. 1849, to 30th “ ISSO' ‘198,564 34 Ist Oct. 1850, to Ist May, J sl, is 7 mos. 170,713 45 $744,579 97 James A. Nisbett, Esq. has been appointed Postmaster at Macon. ARTICLES. BAGGING —Gunny ..... .' Kentucky... BALE ROPE—Jute Kentucky... BACON —Hams Sides Shoulders BUTTER —Goshen, prime BEESWAX CANDLES —Spermacetti.. Georgian made Northern CHEESE—Northern COFFEE—Cuba Rio J ava .......... Laguayra . SHIRTINGS, bro., 3-4 * “ 7-8 j © brown, yd. wide! ® SHEETINGS, bro., 5-4| .2 bleached, 5-4 \ * CHECKS ! | BED TICK ® OSNABURGS, 8 0z... Q (.YARN, (assorted) .... FISH —Mackerel, No. 1... Do. No. 2... Do. No. 3... FLOUR—Canal Augusta Canal.. Georgia, g00d... FEATHERS —Live Geese. GRAIN —Corn, loose Do. sack Wheat —Good White. Do. * Red. GUNPOWDER HIDES—Dry Drv, salted IRON—Pig Swedes, assorted.. Hoop Sheet Nail Rods LEAD—Bar White Lead LARD MOLASSES— Cuba New-Orleans NAILS—Cut, 4d. to 20d. AUGUSTA, GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25. 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. to Advertisers.— Our advertistng friends will please hand in thir favors'by 5 o’clock, P. M. hereafter—the recent change in tho timo of arrival of tho mail, inducing us to close our adver tising colums earlier than heretofore. Western & Atlantic Rail-Road. We publish, to-day, a very interesting Report of the Commissioners, appointed to investigate the subject, upon the condition and prospects of the State Road. It must gratify the pride of every Georgian to contempiate the great results which that noble enterprize is likely to achieve for the people of Georgia, and for the finances of the State. It is, at the same time, mortifying to learn in what a very shabby condition the Road and its equipment are, growing out of an un wise reluctance on the part of the State to appro priate the proper amount to place the work in efficient order. This Report furnishes the facts to account for the many causes of complaint against the Road by those having produce and merchandize to forward upon it, and for which the Chief Engineer and other officers have been so unjustly denounced. The fault has been with the wholly inadequate and “ shabby ” equipment of the Road. If the State keeps the Road, an appropriation of one million of dollars should, doubtless, be made to render it adequate to the public exigencies, and a source of revenue to the State treasury. The impolicy of selling the Road is placed by the Report, in a forcible point of view, and will make a profound impression on the public mind. A Palpable Hit. We copy the following from the last Savannah Georgian. That ably conducted paper is always to the point, both in its pithy paragraphs and its leading editorials, and it seems never weary of the amusement of showing up the inconsisten cies of its neighbor of the Republican. “We prefer an open Abolitionist to a trim ming, half Southern, half Northern Free-Soil er.”—Republican. That surprises us. We did not know that you had any choice between the two classes; from your ardent devotion to Webster and Fill more, however, and an occasional fling at Gid dings and Garrison, we were inclined to think you preferred “ a half Southern, half Northern Free-Soiler,” to “ an open Abolitionist. ;; We are glad to find that for once we are agreed: our decided opinion is, that Webster and Fillmore are far more dangerous to the South than the noisy fanatics.— Georgian. Crops in Southwestern Georgia. —A letter from Albany, in this State, dated June 18th, states that Southwestern Georgia has been visit ed with copious and refreshing showers. Late conr crops have heen very much revived and benefitted, and cotton crops are represented as promising, bearing and blooming well. Philadelphia and Savannah Steamers.— Messrs. Vaughn & Lynn, of Kensingston, Phila delphia, have contracted to build the first vessel for the Savannah steamship line. She is to be 200 feet long, 32 feet beam and 20 feet hold. She is so be side-wheel with a powerful engine, 70 inches diameter of cylinder and 12 feet stroke. The Prospect in South-western Georgia. —The Albany (Ga.) Patriot, says : “ Within the last two months, we have been in many of the counties in South-western Georgia, and conver sed with many men from various parts of this section of the State and we believe that the pros pects of Mr. Cobb in South-western Georgia are decidedly bad. The coalition between Cobb, Stephens and Toombs is looked upon with great suspicion by honest men of both parties. Many of the Whigs appear to regard the nomination of Mr. Cobb with disgust, and the Democrats gene rally look upon him as a man who has barted his principles for office. If the prospects of the coa lition are no better in other parts of the State, a Waterloo defeat awaits them. Let the friends of the South everywhere, rally and organize for the contest, and Georgia redeemed from the disgrace of being sold, to gratify the ambition of three men.” The Crops. —We learn through a friend, (says the Columbia State Rights Republican of the 21st mst.,) just returned from the back country, that cotton is in many parts, in a flourishing condition. The wheat crop has also been highly prolific. Com and oats, however, are in a deplorable state, and planters have been compelled to substitute wheat for corn and oats, in feeding their horses and cattle. We were visited, (says the Abbeville Banner, of June 2lit,) with a fine rain on last Tuesday AUGUSTA WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT, JUNE 25, 185 1. DUTY. ' 20 p cent. 25 p cent. j 20 p ct. 20 p cent. 20 p cent. } 20 p ct. 30 p cent. [■free. J | 20 pet. | 20 p ct. | 20 Ip ct. } 20 p ct. j 20 p ct. 30 p cent. !30 p cent. | } 20 p ct. J 20 p ct. } 30 p ct. WHOLESALE. 15 @l6 i 00 (a} 00 8 @ 9 ; Bj@ 9£ 12 @ 13 10J@ 103 00 @ 91 23 @25 : 18 @ 00 40 @ 45 15 @ 16 1 14I@ 16 9 @ 9j ioi@ ii ; ioJ@ ii 14 @ 15 00 @ 11 6 @ 00 7 @ 00 8 @ 9 12 @ 15 13 @ 18 11 @ 16 10 @ 18 10 @ 11 19 @ 20 12*@ 13 11 @ Hi 7!@ 8 64@ 8 6j@ 8 6 @ 7j 00 @ 33 85 @ 95 1 25 @ 0 00 1 00 @ 0 00 00 @ 00 5 @ 5 25 8 @ 9 0 @ 10 o @ oo ; o @ 4j- : 5 @ 6 ! 10£@ 11 5 @ 6 6 @ 7 U@ 9 11 @ 12 | 25 @ 26 j 37 @ 40 3 50 (a) 4 00' PER lb if l yd. *!•••• >! i1.... i“:* |_ • ib' bbl. ::::i ib bus. •keg TOO .ton .100 • lb ’.ioo ib gall, i .... ARTICLES. OILS —Sperm, W. Strained Full Strained Summer do Linseed 1 Tanners Lard i POTATOES jl PIPES j PORTER PEPPER I PIMENTO j RAISINS —Malaga, bunch. Muscate j RICE —Oordinary I Fair | Good and Prime..) French Brandies...... I Leger Freres ....) 32 Holland Gin American Gin PS 1 Jamaica Rum 7" N.E. Rum, hhds & bbls w Whiskey,Phila. & Balt Do. New-Orleans.. Peach Brandy SUGAR —Cuba Muscovado P. R. & St. Croix Havana, white.. New-Orleans.... Clarified Brown. White.. 1 Lump SALT—Liverpool . - Loose SOAP—American, yellow, t SHOT—AII sizes SUGARS—Spanish TALLOW—American TOBACCO—Georgia Cavendish.... TWlNE—Bagging Seine TEAS—Pouchong Gunpowder & Imp. Hyson Young Hyson WlNES—Madeira j Claret, Marseilles! Do. Bordeaux;! Champagne ! Malaga ! morning, which has had a most revivifying in fluence upon all sorts of vegetation. The rain was; accompanied with a sudden change in the atmosphere, the thermometer falling from 90 to 65 in a few hours. The weather has become plesisant again. Jackson, July 17.—The Southern Rights Con vention met this morning, and nominated Gen. Quitman for Governor by acclamation; Joseph Bell for Secretary of State, Richard Griffith for Treasurer, and George T. Swan for Auditor. The Hon. Charles Murphy, of DeKalb, has been nominated for Congress by the Constitu tional Union party of the fourth district. North British Review.— The May number has been received by Mr. Thomas Courtney, Agent for this city, to whom we are indebted for a copy. The Washington papers of the 21st inst., state that the corner stone of the addition to the Capi tol, authorised by the late act of Congress, will be laid by the President of the United States, on the 4th of July next, in the presence of such offi cers of the government as may then be in the city, and of all citizens who may see fit to assem ble to witness the ceremony, and that an address on that occasion will be delivered by the Secre tary of State. Crots in Alabama. —The Wetumpka State Guard of June 16th, says : A friend writing to us from Talladega, under date of the Bth instant, says the crops are suf fering considerably from the exceeding dry weather. There has been no rain in some parts of Talladega county for nearly seven weeks.— The corn crop has already been injured greatly— cotton,however,is doing very well,though, would be better of a good season. Crops in Mississippi. —The Brandon Repub lican of the 11th instant, says: We understand that a violent hail storm oc curred about ten miles south-wast of this place on Saturday last, which did serious damage to corn and cotton. This was also accompanied by torrents of rain. The extent of the hail we have not be able to learn. We had a slight rain at this place on the same evening. Arrival of the Cherokee. The United States mail steamship Cherokee, Henry Windle, Commander, from New-Orleans the 13th, and Havana the 16th inst., arrived this morning. The steamer Falcon arrived at Ha vana from Chagres, on the 15th, with 500 pas sengers. There were no American vessels of war at Havana when the Cherokee sailed. The town is perfectly quiet. The sudden departure of the Intendente to the States caused a little excite ment and much regret. The Cherokee brings the California mails. She has also 300 passengers. Died at sea, on board the steamship Cherokee, June 20th, Augustus Thomas, of Westerly, Va., aged about 40.— N. Y. Journal of Commerce , 21 st inst. The U. S. mail steamship Pacific sailed for Liverpool at noon, with upwards of 180 passen gers, $928,000 in American gold, and $3,000 in English silver.— lb. Money Market, Saturday, June 21st.—There is a better feeling in the money market to-day, but no decline in rates. Those who were sud denly called on for the return of short loans hav ing straitened their accounts, the demand for loans and discounts is less active. The general feeling is favorable to a return to the easy market notic- { ed two weeks since. This is a season when the ! regular payments of business paper are far from I heavy, and the disbursements for dividends, &c. unusually large. A considerable amount of money, j probably not less than four millions, most of I which is now locked up, will be put in circula tion on or about the Ist proximo. The Pacific to-day took out $928,000 in Am erican gold, and $3,000 in English silver, making a total of $931,000 for this steamer, and including the Asia’s shipments on Wednesday, $2,047,000. Thus our first estimate, published ten days ago. of two millions for both steamers has been realiz ed. This will make the total shipments from this port since Jan. Ist. about $18,000,000. The stock market was still further depressed • although there was a better feeling towards the close. We notice sales of United States 6’s of ’6B, Coupons at 121 a 121 1-4; do. s’s of 53 101 1-8; Erie 7’s of 59,103 1-4; do. of’7l, 95 1-2 a 96 1-4; Hudson, 2nd mortgage. 97 1-4; Reading mort. bds. S 3; Erie Railroad 81 3-4 aBl 7-8- Harlem 73 5-8 a 73 3-4; Reading 55 1-2 a 56 1-4- Long Island 20 1-4 a 19 7-8; Utic and Sch, 128- Portsmouth 6 5-8; Edgeworth 9; Canton 72 a 73 1-4; Farmers’ Trust 67 3-4; Nor. and Wor. 63 a 63 1-4. Fojfcign Exchange closed a little flat at 110 1-2 a 110W-4for bills on London; Paris 508 3-4 a 507 1-2.— N. Y. Jem. Com., 1 9th inst. Monsters of the Deep.— A Shark,of the Tiger sptecies, measuring eleven feet nine inches in length, and six feet two inches in circumference, was taken in our harbor yesterday morning; and shortly afterwards, another was caught, measur ing nine feet four inches in length. We under stand that the harbor is full of these “monsters of the deep.”— Charleston Courier , 2Ath inst. The Forgery Case. —The lamentable dere liction of Mr. Stoddard, mentioned by us yester day, is more disastrous in its consequences to others than we had supposed. His forgeries ap proach in amount, if they do not reach, SIOO,OOO. He had always maintained a good reputation, and in common with the whole community we re gc;rd[his fall with the deepest sorrow.— Roch . Adv. Thursday. | DUTY. ‘free. i i 120 p cent. ) i l| >| } 40 p ct. l I i 1 100 P ct. i 1 100 P ct. ) I loop ct. ;| *IOO pet. 1 I | 30 p ct. J j } 20 p ct. i] 1 30 p cent, i 20 p cent. (40 p cent. 110 p cent. | } 30 p ct. ; } 30 p ct. ' ) »; K reo - H J > 30 p cent. ) 40 P cent. )!40 p cent. )|4O P cent. > 40 p cent. 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Augusta Insurance & Banking Company par Bank of Augusta « Branch State of Georgia, Augusta “ Bank of Brunswick “ Georgia Rail-Road “ Mechanics’ Bank <• Bank of St. Marys » “ Bank of Milledgeville “ Bank of the State of Georgia, at Savannah .. “ Branches of ditto Marine & Fire Insurance Bank, Savannah “ Branch of ditto, at Macon “ Planters' Bank, Savannah “ Central Bank of Georgia “ Central R. R. & Banking Company, Savannah “• Charleston Banks “ Bank of Camden u Bank of Georgetown Commercial, at Columbia “ Merchants’, at Cheraw “ Bank of Hamburg u Alabama Notes 2 @ 3 dis. Tennessee 2 @ 5 dis. NOT BANKABLE. Merchants’ Bank, at Macon.* EXCHANGE. On New-York | prem. Philadelphia ’ “ Boston u Charleston and Savannah par. Lexington, Kentucky Nashville, Tennessee « STOCKS. Georgia, 6 per cents. par. *Not taken by our Banks, but redeemable at the Plant ers’ Bank, Savannah, at par. Savannah Chamber of Commerce. ROBERT HABERSHAM, President C. GREEN, Ist Vice-President. EDW'D. PADELFORD, 2d Vice-President. OCTAVUS COHEN, Secretary and Treasurer. |ij Jltagtrrtic Crlrgniplj- Reported for the Constitutionalist. New York, June 23, p. m. Cotton.—The sales to-day reach 1,500 bales., n some instances an 1-8 cent advance. Rice is dull at 3 1-4 a 3 1-2 cents. Charleston, June 24, p. m. Cotton.—The market is depressed. Sales to day 642 bales at 6 to 9 3-4 cents. Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier. New Orleans, June 21. Cotton was steady in this market to-day, Sa turday, and fifteen hundred bales were sold. Low to Strict Middling commands 8 to 8 1-2 cents. The receipts are one hundred and fifty-six thous and hales ahead of last year. The stock to-night amounts to ninety thousand bales. The steam ship Georgia has arrived with the California mails, as also the schooner T. P. Al ston, Adams, from Charleston. Columbia, June 23, 9.10 P. M. No effect has as yet been experienced from the Arctic's advices in our Cotton market, in conse quence of the short supply on hand. The sales to-day amounted only to some twenty bales, at prices ranging/rom 7 to 8 1-2 cents. We learn from a private dispatch received in this city that the steam ship Osprey from this port, arrived at Philadelphia Sunday last. [Correspondence of the Phil. Ledger A Williamsport, Pa., Junejl7,lßsl. The Fugitive Slave Case at Williamsport. —The fugitive slave case has ended in smoke. It was understood that Jameson Harvey was to be tried for assisting in the escape of a fugitive slave, and the bill had been presented to the Grand Jury. This morning, however, the Court ordered a nole prosequi to be entered in the case, and the bill was withdrawn. It is currently reported here that this proceeding is the result of a compro mise, by the terms of which Harvey pays S9OO to the claimants of the negro. The Court ad journed this afternoon. The United States Cir cuit Court will meet here on Monday next. Judge Grier will preside. The Memphis Enquirer has the following al lusion to the Cotton crop: The Prospects of the Cotton Crop. —We are daily receiving from all sections of the cotton grow ing States the most flattering accounts of the growing crops. Some of the cotton growers in this section will make double the quantity they did last year; they have been making a profita ble business for some time in growing cotton, which have enabled them to increase their forces very considerably. With a continuation of sea sonable weather for a few weeks longer, it will be impossible to estimate what number of bales the crop of the United States will yield—it will not, however, be less than three millions of bales. We say to our cotton growers, sell immediately what they have been holding on so contrary to our advice. It is to be regretted that the present stock now in warehouses had not long since been disposed of. We hope to see new cotton pouring in our market in less than sixty days. Weather—Crops—Health.—The weather during the week has been cool and cloudy with some rain. Crops look well considering the un favorable circumstances which attended the spring season. The county is very healthy.— We believe that for the past two or three years this has been the healthiest part of the Btate. Albany (Ga.,) Patriot , 20 th inst. Superior Court.—The case of Hiram Wood all, charged with the murder of John Smallen, after occupying the Court during eight days, was submitted to the jury on Thursday evening, and at three o'clock the following morning, they re turned a verdict of acquittal. For the State, Messrs. Lyon & Clark, Strozier and Solicitor Per kins. |For the defendant, Messrs. Morgan, Dunn, A. Colquitt and Walter T. Colquitt. The case of the State vs. |[James Addison was taken for trial on Thursday morning, and will probably occupy the week.— lb. Special llotirw. Periodicals.—Mrs. Whittelscy’s Magazine; Robert Mory’s Museum, and the Dollar Magazine for May and June have been received by june 25 1 THOS. COURTNEY, Agent. 03*” We are authorize to announce the name of Brigadier General STEPHEN DRANE, as a can didate for Major General to cemmand the Second Division of Georgia Militia. june 11 □^“Notice. —Post Office, Augusta, June 2d, 1851.—0 n and after this date, the Western Mail will close at 3 P. M. Northern and Charleston Mails at 5 A. M. Savannah Mail at 8 P. M. The Office will be opened at 7A. M. and closed on the arrival of the Northern Mail, which will be ready for delivery by 4 J P. M., after which the office will continue open nntil 8 P. M. On Sundays, the office will be opened from 8 to 9 A. M., and from 5 to 8 P. M. Persons having Key Boxes and wishing Letters charged, are requested to make the following de signation: “Charge Key Box No.— june 3 BENJ. F. IIALL. P. M. 03?“ Soda Water.—Cold SODA WATER, with a variety of Syrups, at the Drug Store of PHILIP A. MOISE, Metcalf’s Range. N. B.—Congress Water always in lee, may 24 5m