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Newspaper Page Text<llio tofddii (ioforaiix & (L'onstitutiimalist, UY JAMES GARDNER, JR. # r Hh’fkli) Constitutionalist. OFFICE OS’ McIXTOSH-STKEET. *!$rKUU> lIOOK FROM THE XllßTli-WEST CORNER OF BI'.OAD -BTBKKT. of LAND by Executors. Administrators or Ciuar- uiuiuii. betworo the hours of ten in ■fljtwwnoon and three in the afternoon, at to r-.urt ©Pete ijuabt-h the property IS situate. Notice of jg&Hlftx u>u*t be given in a public Uazetie. SIXTY to the day of sale. I of B&mw o*»«*t be at I’nl.lic Auction, on the f the inontti. between tin- u.-nal lootrs at the place of public stiles in the county betters Testamentary, or Administration, 'luardiausbip. may have been gtanted, first giving DAY’S notice thereof, in one of tbo public of ilvts State, and at the door of the Court ■nouse ■wlittre such sales arc to be held. for the sales of Personal Property mod lie given, Hjltho In.'inner FORTY DAY’S previous to dav of sale. ors and Creditors ot an Estate, must Hffjpbtiahuu for FORTY DAY* J ■■see that application nill be made to the Court of lor leave to sell !<.*.'D. must be publish' d Wf Hi f u ll MONTHS. H •“«««'• for li jvc to sell NEOROES, must be published mjp- , * MONTHS, before any order absolute can be ■gHe** by the Court. *%, f TERMS OP ADYERTISISG. K' IMiS square, 12 lines, 75 cents the first in>qrtion, mJ'DO ■lWtv ewtts afterwards. Knflc .LEOAL ADVERTISEMENT* s bevies, 30 days, $2 r>o per lew : 60 days, $5. H*«fc£|urtor Administrator's and OuardiaH'aSaleayllq®;' IP® 1 ’ square. 12 lines.) $4 78 do. Personal Estate 3 25 for .••■ter- of Administration............ 2 75 HjjNßAgjieMn Debtor, .>. ‘i Cieditur.- 3 25 Wjwßhth#’. biotices _1 <lO v<A .**" ‘"SATURDAY MORNING, JUL Y b. , * >e Weekly Paper. one year, TuniifVanee 82,00 wf Ts pau^i^n'he year 2,50 1U» 1 year 3,00 UHffaadPf 'J'ho above terms will be rigidly enforced. * THE VERY LATEST NEWS. ■r BY TELEGRAPH. riie Evening Edition of the Hail}' Constitu * tionalist conveys the very latest intelligence,com rl mercial and political, from all quarters that can reach the citizens of the interior towns of Georgia, Ti along the line of the Georgia Rail Road, and in Ky the west and southwest of Georgia: also, of many I towns in East and Middle Tennessee, North It' Alabama and Florida. L TIIE DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST, E reniug Edition, goes to Press at 5 o'clock, P. M., every day, and contains all the important r News of Foreign Markets, New York, Charles ton and Augusta Cotton Markets, up to that mo ment. It is consequently ahead of all other papers pussing through this city by the Northern Mail, for the South and West. Terms $8 Per Annum. It is a valuable paper to all business men inter ested in Cotton and Provisions. Persons wish ing to subscribe, will address James Gaudmer. Jit. Editor and Proprietor. Georgia Cotton Goods Abroad. ■L ' We noticed the other day, the increasing qunn ''tity of Georgia Manufactured Colton Goods fiud- I their way, through Savannah, to the Northern markets, for sale, but we had no idea tW:ii' repu tation had reached the Biitish Colonies, and that Georgia manufactured Sheetings Shirtings were of such high repute in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A friend has loaned us a file of the Halifax Sun. which wc copy t lie following ad \ erli.si'mon!. speaks for itself. ■■ Cottons, hiukct n:mi Gkoruia.—Landing Httnis day. from brig A returns— bales Brown Shift ■jtgs and Shirtings, extra heavy, and warranted to any other manufactured Cottons at Hresarne price. Merchants are invited to ex- the same at tin* store of If A. HUNT, ■b: Norloeru m.mulart me s plain Ion.!I \ losing business they am .'i.gaged in. and wf, .■*•»— ... b. . . i u r less* • this season in do fits and cents. IB|V 'lit cot L.IU .' ,u to sonic otflßoraneh more pro ! icv have had much experience. and .o In loitering care of the Govern , mum rof years, hut still they arc cry- r moi" protection, to enable them to with the cheap labor of Europe. The the poor degraded South, just in her • } m the niaiiufacluriiig line, finds a ready • i,.r ali site can produce, not only at home and t: • Northern nunkels, hut even in the markets ■4i in greatest compel it or the North has. Why Vhis ? The reason is plain enough. The goods [ manufactured at the Soutli are made of cotton which a* the North and in Europe is used lor more expensive goods, and as a matter of Bourse me | j'-aB- much better and heavier than the-same kind of goods maiiiuaciHied abroad; and meet with ready sale even in tlieir own markets. The South asPs Bjor no protection,for she needs none. Her resources |B-c not confined to manufacturing cotton, and HR-hen she finds it a losing business, she will turn attention to something else that will pay.— he South asks r,o favors of the North nor ol Britain. All she desires is, Free Trade. markets to buy and sell in. opinion is, that the day i> not far distant. Scut h cvmtinu - to .-how t lie same submi- JjiposiJjUJn she lias lately exhibited, lor the lorious Union, and continues to in- her manufactories.) when the North, the Hnagnanimons North, wiii ask protection of the Government against the South, because piiHlucts result from that great omination, labor, which it is not only degrading, but inconvenient for the North to con tend against. * Webster’s Buffalo Speech. H Why do not the Southern allies of Mr. Web ster publish this sjieech ? It has been now’ more than one month since it was delivered, and it has been published in pamphlet form, revised and and sent to the Southern cities. We of its having reached Savannaht jr %°k\ press of Georgia will, publish it, VS’^ if l ce promised to do so. What is the matter. Gentlemen t Is not Mr. B Webster the acknowledged leader of North- K lish his anti-slavery . V *J < ¥ Complimentary. ni- caption. tin* Columbus Times thus up- m the South-rn Banner, which accepts •..eiitary to Mr. Cobb, the remark that may. in a considerable degree, be ■ ’!••• impression upon us of the Com- ' legislation which insulted the - up tin■ bonds of fraternity between ilk **i *iu•. and fore ver destroyed the |K tin*, slave States in the cont'edcra ■ESXßust the positive protest and firm ■pfiaorgia Representatives, with Cobb ■ it is now historically true, that the K 1 not nave dared to force that ilifa ■ a proceeds: ■B' calls our remarks of Gth inst. in more of the same sort m {jaaEgai&Jl 1 1 • ami hiseditotial friend. I We sjioke of 'dr. Cobb's and di’iioiinced bis ' liii' "Ban:;. swallow s influx along with it. —11" ./.j|®jsTlii'. I. m a i .«fu • ® jsßk in it. You could at least, have protested against it, but you encouraged it. And now, you are before the people, arraigned and on trial for a treason to your constituents which you can only palliate and defend by treason to your principles. Yon have in Congress trampled on the rights of equality of the Slave States and you now in your pleas before the people, trample under foot the great principles of State flights in which you have been reared, and for maintaining which you owe all your honors from the people of Geor gia. If the people sustain that man in this trial, they offer a premium in advance, to their public servants to betray them in all time to come. They may he willing to accept the "treason" hut will thej* honor the traitor?"—The may agree to put up with the compromise, rather than try the uncertain and unexplored paths of separation— hut will they applaud the Southern man who took that compromise—not as a necessity—not as pis allcr. but as a choice, and as settlement, just and honorable to the South? God forbid that G#>rgia should so debase herself before mankind. His fate should be certain, and the popular ver dict on hit. infidelity as inexorable, as his pun ishment and example should he terrible.—And now we false issue with the Banner and deny toto coin, thatk the Compromise measures have been sustained by the people of Georgia. The people took ifliem under duress —they took them, because they felt;'for the moment —and it was a moment of panic—-that it was better to acquiesce in them jfian to incur the hazards of resistance No aWir party dared defend Thern they; totajjiy m the canvass for the Conv> h«|nri'«i|ptadriiitted. (while doing jIWHMJir '_’.f was a hard bar “ain. IwSaTlplff%jy|»(p r’Tfif Uu - ion, it should In raliliw!; And the crowning proof is. Jiat lb j December Convention itself, ad mitted that theJCompromise was not fair and just to the Sotil/i, and that in consenting to stand by it,they had reached the last point of endurance; a nit that • the next aggression would be'the ‘•feather to break the camel’s hack.’’ 111 the face of this, the organ of the Clay Compromise candi date, tells u ■ that Georgia has sustained, the Com promise, and of course ought to sustain the Com promiser! Let him ‘stand or fall by the Com promise;' we accept the Banner's banter: If it has given peace to a distracted country, if it has quelled the heavings of abolition fury, if it has healed the sores ol'sectional antipaty hand antag onism; if it has stopped one breach in a riddled constitution, if it has done aught but to magnify all the evils, and, aggravate all the distempers of the times, then, we say too, honor Mr. Cobb. But if it has done none of these things and has only weakened the South, morally and territo rially, and rendered it more exposed to future ag gressions, then we say away with him! What u position does ho occupy before the people of a Southern State! First actively engaged jn patching up a dishonorable adjust ment in Congress; and then coming home to ad vocate the use of powder and ball to force it down the throats of an outraged manhood. We appeal to the ballot box for a verdict of stern justice on the offender. Docs Might Make Eight, The Southern Banner complains of us that we represent it as maintaining that a State has not the rigid to secede from the Union even “in case of deliberate, palpable, and dangerous infrac tions of the Constitution by the Federal Gov ernment.” As we published its entire editorial from which we deduced this position, it cannot suffer any injustice at our hands. The Banner admits this right, in the case stated: but at the same time asserts that the Federal Govern ment has also the right to prevent a State from seceding by a resort to the sword. How then, can il he. that a State has this right, if the Fed eral Government has also the right to deny and to take away the right ? Is not the admission of the right to the latter, virtually, practically and absolutely the denial of it to the former? The admission, that the Federal Government can rightfully draw the sword upon a sending State, and coerce her back into the Union—a Union that may have become hateful to her from its oppressions—is the assertion, that a State, by seceding, is in the wrong, and is justly liable to subjugation, by fire and sword. It would make the 1. Vr’3 iovenunent—the mere creature and agent 01 ,V jjtitcs—Uwt which Mr, Jeffer son, and all tho\y<e Rights Republicans of his 'day so* much deprecated, an absolute Govern ment—iisowii discretion, and not the Constitu tion, the measure of its powers. If the Southern States indorse this monstrous < doctrine, that the Federal Government has the s right, under any circumstances, to turn its arms i against a sovereign State, and crush it, and tram ple it down, as remorselessly as it would a rebel lious mob, then it is an absurdity and a farce to talk of this Union being a confederacy of free and sovereign States—the pettiest of German principalities have, in comparison, more of real independence and respectability, and the people thereof hold their liberties by stronger muni msid for what could our State do in opposi ng. to the jiower of thirty, wielded by an Exec utive and a Congress to whom the Banner con cedes the right to use it for the subjugation of the seceding State. We have done the Editor of the Banner no in justice in presenting his position as we have done. ]t is he, and Mr. Cobh, whom he sup ports, who have done gross injustice to State Rights and State sovereignty, by admitting that the Federal Government could thus make war upon a Stale without committing an outrage. a f The State Rights doctrine is. that it an outrage that should arouse everv State inJH9 Union to interpose its solemn protest, and. fIN cessary. its forcible interference to protect ceding State, " Now Books. Tin Sivii Pat avi xr llistoriaru.u Liuri, i., n., XXI., XXII. Zumpt. School Dictionary or tiie Latin Language. By Dr. Kaltschmidt. In two parts—l. Latin- English. 11. Eng/is/t-Latin. Belonging to the Classical Series. Edited by Drs. Schmidt it Zumpt, and published by Lea A Blanchard, Philadelphia. The above works have been laid upon our ta ble by Messrs. Thos. Richards & Son, and we take pleasure in recommending them as a valua cle contribution to our School Libraries. They are well got up, and are of a very convenient size for the student’s use. We are glad to per ceive. irom time to time, amongst the numbers of educational works pouring from the press, such works as these, of sterling merit, and practical ability. This edition of u Livy” is supplied with good and notes, and maps of the coun try where h'jtoTjis recorded. The Dictionaries esj ie (ially acceptable to the Tyro i "iuieimm-: vJ au gi igi'. giving not only copious definitions of worm* hut also their etymology, and their use in phrases and idioms. They have been adopted in some of the most prominent schools in the Union. We hope to see them brought into general use in our academies and schools. Also. llkna ; or, Tiie Snow Bird. By Caroline Lea Ilentz. * The Filibusters. —Although the intended descent on the Island of Cuba was recently pre vented by the watchfulness of the U. S. authori ties, there are indications that the project is not given up—merely delayed until a more conve-j nient opportunity. We learn that the steamboat Monmouth left Pensacola on the evening of the 22d, on her way to St. Marks and Apalachicola, A corespondent writing from Pensacola, ori the 23d. says: l 'F.Hire nous, I have not the least doubt but that the Monmouth is laden with provisions and armament* for the Filibusters,'and the same to be landed somewhere on our coast. E. Z. C. Judsori, alias Ned.Buntline, was on board, and seemed to have a good deal to say, and a suffi ciency to make me remain in my belief. We shall see.”— N. O. Trm Delta. The Central Georgian says: ‘‘We have a ru mor that Capt. Conner, the absconding Postmas ■ ter of Macon, has been captured somewhere in Ohio, and is in the hands of officers to Ire return ed to this State.” , Corn and Oats. —The Cecil (Md.) Whig of Saturday, says: “Our season, until within a ■cold, and there was h ult. The conse- ! ire unpromising.— f either in Cecil. — l although J uly and much for the corn, nd too badly to pro id.” Cuba. —The Savan hat a dispatch was y from |Count Vel- j leneuvo, Intendente General of Cuba, now in j New York, directing that the letters which be j had placed on board of the steamer Alabama, j should be taken oft'and placed on board the Isa j bel for Havana. The Alabama,however, did not arrive in time to have the letters placed on the I Isabel, which steamer did not arrive at the bar I until <3 o’clock in the afternoon. Granite Mill Flour. We have been presented with a bag of supe rior Flour from this Mill, ground from new Geor gia Wheat, which, for color and sweetness, will compare with any Hour ever brought to this market. We are gratified to learn that this Mill is now in full operation, anil that the proprietors find no difficulty in disposing of its products. Their best brands readily bring in this market $7 1-2 to §8 per bbl. Success to them. The city councils or St. Louis have passed an ordinance making a subscription of $200,000 to the Jeffersonville and Columbus Railroad, and $1,000,000 to the Louisville and Nashville Rail road, as toon as the company is organized. They also appropriated sLoj}.o for the survey of the Nashville route. The ordinance was to be submit ted to the citizens within sixty days, and, it is said, will lie approved by a large majority. JcpciE Leiui'KiN.—At -he recent commence rpo“4 o*’ ston -C.lfiegc, the trf L. L. D., was conferred upon Hon. Joseph Henry Lumpkin, of the Supreme Court of Geor gia. Rhode Island.— The Legislature of Rhode Island at its recent session at Newport, passed a law requiring voters from and after Ist January 18-32, to enclose their ballots at all elections in self-sealing envelopes, (which are to be furnish ed beforehand, for their use, by the Secretary of State, through the clerk of every town and city in Rhode Island.) The ballot boxes are to be opencly exhibited before the voting commences, and each voter, upon offering his ballot duly en closed in an envelope, is required to announce his name so that it may be checked upon the voting lists. The “open ballot" system has * heretofore been in use, each voter endorsing his own name upon the ballot. The Washington Union denounces the Penn sylvania Whig State Convention, and calls upon the Administration papers to let the people know whether they favor the election of Gov. Johnston as by his speech he appears to be both an aboli tionist and disunionist. “The Philadelphia Pennsylvanian makes the most of the incidents at Lancaster. We quote: The line of detnarkation is now drawn be tween the two great parties in this State, and we enter into the contest assured of an honora ble and a commanding victory. The issue is, Bigler, the Constitution, the Compromise, and the rights of the States, vs. Johnston, Sectional ism, Free Soilism, and hostility to the solemn behests of the Constitution. What white’ man will hesitate between the two alternatives!" Mr. Buchanan seems to be carrying a decided majority of his Party in Pennsylvania. The Westmoreland Convention (strong Deni. Co.) unanimously nominating him. The Lycoming Gazette says, that in the recent Judicial Convention, out of 134 delegates, not over 33 were unfavorable to Buchanan's nomina tion for the Presidency. The Prospect. From every portion of the State (says the Federal Union) the intelligence reaches us. that the friends of republican principles, of the Rights of the States and of the South, are rallying to the standard of Chas. J. McDonald. The peo ple cannot appreciate a coaliation, the design of which is, after Mr. Cobb had rendered himseli odious to a portion of bis party on account of las r*f !v: j V,C made Governor by the friends of Toombs and Siypbens, on the consideration that-U- with his friends, should make Stephens Senator. The people are beginning to understand the game> and are refusing to ratify the contract—to play second fiddle to these tricksters—to be transfer red like sheep in the shambles, at their bidding. At their piping, they have danced once to the “Union" tune, but now understand the “masked battery.’’ Mr. Cobb and Alexander Hamilton. 11 would seem that Mr. Cobb has been an apt scholar since he attached himself to the federal school. He denies the right of secession. Alexan der Hamilton, the early teacher of that school, it now turns out, actually wrote the form for the ratification-, by New York, of the constitution in which ratification she expressly reserved the right of secession, whenever she may deem it neces sary for her welfare. We clip the following from the Southern Press of the 24tli ult. W e commend to the disciples of abject submis sion a developement in the volume recently pub lished of Alexander Hamilton’s writings. It is there distinctly declared that he himself drew the limn of Jar < 1 11: A 1.1 ' ah' .'it t i»i* 1 of tv. - ,-lai isli >1 vie she will endure until her suft'enmP^eimendurable —she substantially re serves the right of seceding at pleasure. Failure in New York. —We learn from the Boston Times, that the old-established house of E. D. Hurlbut & Co., New York, engaged in the Southern trade, has suspended. This is owing to heavy advances on cotton, shipped to Europe Mrs. Mowatt. —Niblo, it is said, has engaged Mrs. Mowatt to jrlay eighteen nights at hi* Theatre in New York for SIOO per night. The lady is expected to arrived from Europe in the course of another fortnight. The Michigan Railroad Conspiracy. —The trial of Dr. Abel Fitch, the chief of the Michigan conspirators, is progressing slowly. The testimo ny is of the most positive character, but it is the testimony of those who were concerned in the conspiracy. Fitch is a man of considerable in fluence, and has heretofore sustained a fair char acter, which will probably have its influence with the jury, against the class of witnesses who are brought forward to testify against him. The trial has now been going on lor more than twen ty days, and exposes one of the most villainous conspiracies ever known. It is doubtful, how ever, if any of. the parties implicated will be con victed. Mrs. Bloomer edifies the readers of the New York Tribune with a long communication in fa vor of the new dress. If she wants folks to read her arguments she should be more careful that her communications resemble her skirts, in point of length. Who wants to read a column or two about petitieoats, this warm weather ? The Bank of Hamburg has declared a dividend of Four Dollars per share (of SSO) out of the pro fits of the last six months. Queen V ictoria and the Olive Tree.—A correspondent of the English Family Herald says, that alter her Majesty Queen Victoria came to the throne, a present was sent to her, from Je rusalem, of an olive tree. It was shipped at Beyrout, kept on deck, and appeared to die on the passage. In that state it was intrusted to the gardener. On the day of the coronation, this young olive tree put forth twelve blossoms. The correspondent concludes from this, that the twelve tribes of Israel will be gathered in Vic toria’s reign! The ingenious editor adds, that some less theological and more genealogical seer might infer, that her Majesty would have twelve children! To Lovers. —The Hornets Nest says: “We promise to tell any one who will unriddle the following, where he may obtain a sweet-lieart.” Jl Problem. —A witty young gentleman living with a rich farmer, fell in love with his daughter. On hearing of this he said to the young man that there were three gates between his house and his orchard, and that if he would go to the orchard and get a number of apples and leave half he had and half an apple over, at the first gate; and half he had left and half an apple over at the second gate; and half he had and naif an apple over, at the third gate, and bring one to him without cut-' ting an apple, he might have his daughter. I wish to know how many apples he had left at each gate and the numlier of apples. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1851 II —* n .*«■<?^rvT*jer^ir,-sxr of the Constitutionalist .] Elbert County, June 24, 1851. Mr. Gardner It was a happy nomination, that of McDonald—and that of Cobb equally happy, for us. I have conversed with 10 or 1 2 influential Whigs, and notone will support Cobb and they are of the Constitutional Union par ty. by name, or rather have been —but are South ern Rights at heart, and want to corne to us, as is the case with thousands who were taken in at the last election—and we rather let the elec tion for members to Convention go by default. In the then attitude by the adroit use of the “ masked Battery we were beaten. But, now, the circumstances are changed. e tall back on State Rights and the old Republican doctrines of ’9B and ’99, so ably expounded in the Ken tucky and Virginia Resolutions. I am delighted to see that youjhave the enemy on your hip. Give them gall. You touch them under the fifth rib when you truly accuse them of Federalism! I am pleased that the great unshot, Cobb’s mouth-piece, shows his hand so plainly. He speaks by authority. By-the-bye, in all the va rious accounts of Jane Young and the unshoe, who was so willing to lay down his life as rifice on the altar of submission, I have never seen it alluded te, that His (the Great unassassi- s) house was urjjgrded by men L. many nights after the arrest of Jane. There are three things on the subject of which he is a monomaniac. They are—lst, Jane Young, the Agent of South-Carolina, employed to kill him off, and then the victory would be '•asy over his party. 2J, The sublime destiny that awaits Howell Cobb as certain ! ‘‘ as the progress of events .” And lid, The great wealth and distinction that awaits the Southern Banner, when invited to Wash ington to be the mouth-piece of Cobb's Admin istration, &c. &c. You open the campaign in beautiful style, and with great ability. Federalists are the only ones who can, and do, deny the right of secession If the States were sovereignties, the right follows as a matter of course. Yours, truly. Southern Rights Meeting in Scriven. According to previous notice, on the 28th of June, the Southern Rights Party in the vicinity of Mobley's Pond, assembled at the store of Roberts & Oliver—and, on motion of Maj. Mims. J. R. Paris, Esq., was called to the Chair, and Dr. R. W. Oliver, requested to act as Secretary. Mr. Paris, on taking the Chair, explained the object of the meeting in a few, but very impres sive remarks. Dr. J. H. Oliver then moved that a Committee of Three be appointed by the Chair, to appoint four suitable delegates to meet in Convention, on the 4th of July, at Sylvania, to nominate a suit able candidate to represent the county of Scriven in the next Legislature of Georgia. The Chair then appointed A. 11. Baxley, W. D. Campbell,and M. D. Oliver, that Committee. The Committee then retired, and after a short absence, reported the following names as dele gates : T. W. Oliver, M. D. Oliver, B. R. Mims, and J. R. Harris. On motion of B. R. Mims, Esq.— Resolved, That we recommend W. W. Oliver as a suitable candidate to represent us in the next Legislature. Dr. Mims then introduced the following re solutions, which were adopted: Resolved, That our delegates be instructed to vote lor no candidate in the nomination on the 4th of July, who is opposed to immediate State action. Resolved, That we approve of the proceedings of the meeting at No. 6, Central Rail-Road, on the Ith of May, in the nomination of Maj. Wil lis Young, to represent the counties of Scriven and Bullock in the Senate of Georgia. Resolved, That we consider the Clay Comp: i- , mine in.-tt-Mich unfair. iPiiwrot, nrrd that we Van see no reason why we should waif for further federal encroachments, t Resolved, That the States are sovereign, and that the General Government is one of limited powers; and that should South-Carolina secede, and the General Government attempt to coerce, by the force of arms, we pledge our aid to the brave Palmetto State. Resolved, That Col. Joseph W. Jackson’s let ter of acceptance breathes a spirit of submission to the Clay adjustment measures, and we cannot support his election. On motion of T. W. Oliver, Esq.— Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be tendered to the Chairman and Secretary. Which was also adopted. On motion— Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Constitutionalist and Republic, Augusta, and the Georgian, Sa vannah. J. R. PARIS, Chairman. R. W. Oliver, Secretary. Southern Rights Senatorial Convention. A large and enthusiastic meeting of the South ern Rights Party of Lincoln and Wilkes, assem bled at Rehoboth, on Saturday, the 28th ultimo, to nominate a candidate to represent the people of this district in the next General Assembly. On motion of L. J. Gartrell, Esq., the Conven tion was organized by the appointment of Col. Charles L. Bolton and Francis F. Flemming, Esq., Chairmen—and, on motion of Dr. John Wilkes, of Lincoln, George S. Chenault, was re quested to act as Secretary. Mr. Gibson Collins offered a resolution that a Committee of Ten (live from each county) be appointed to report suitable business for the ac tion of the Convention, which resolution being adopted, the Chairman appointed the following gentlemen—to wit: Dr. John Wilkes, Col. Ben jamin W. Heard, Gibson Collins, L. J. Gartiell, Adam Harnesberger, Henry F. Mercier, Wil liam D. Holliday, Thos. P. Burdett, Peyton W. Norman, and John Tatom, Esqs. On motion of Thomas P. Burdett, Esq., the Chairmen of the Convention were added to the Committee. After a short consultation the Committee re ported the following resolutions, which were enthusiastically received and unanimously a dopted: Resolved, That this Convention, reflecting the unanimous sentiment of the Southern Rights Party of Lincoln and Wilkes, do now nominate, by acclamation, our esteemed fellow-citizen, N. G. Barksdale, Esq., as a candidate to represent the people of this Senatorial District in the next General Assembly. Resolved, That the Southern Rights Party of Lincoln and Wilkes, hail with entire satislac tion, the nomination of that sterling Republican, Charles J. McDonald, as the Southern Rights candidate for Governor, and that we will use our best efforts to secure his election. The Chairman, upon motion, appointed the following gentlemen as a committee to wait upon Judge Barksdale, and notify him of and request his acceptance of the same—to wit: Dr. Wm. Jordan, Mosely Hawes, John C. Fanning, F.theldred B. Ross, Milton G. Robert, William D. Walton, Wyche S. Jackson, J. L. Zellars, Richard T. Walton, and Alex. Gullat, Esqs. On motion of Dr. Wilkes, the proceedings of this Convention were ordered to be published in the Auguste Constitutionalist and Republic. The Convention then adjourned, and partook of a sumptuous dinner, furnished by the citizens in the neighborhood of Rehoboth. CHAS L. BOLTON, 1 chairmen FRAN. F. FLEMMINp,) Chairmen. Gf.orge S. Chenault, SecjSj^ary. Meeting of the Burke CojuitY Southern Rihghts Waynesboro. July 1, 1851. The Burke County Southern Rights Republi can Association convened to-day. according to adjournment, Maj. Jno. C. Poythress in the Chair. A letter was read from the Jefferson County vigilance committee, suggesting Davis’ Spring, and the 16th inst., as a suitable time and place for meeting delegates from Burke, to ap point a candidate for the 9th Senatorial district. It was resolved that the place suggested be adop ted, but that, whith the consertt ot the party in Jefferson, the time be changed to the first Satur day in August. On motion of M. D. Jones, Esq., resolved, That the district meetings for the appointment of delegates to the above Convention be reques ted to inform the President of this Association of the gentlemen so selected, and that in the event of any district failing to select such dele gates, the President oall a meeting on the 22d inst. to supply the omission. On motion of Col. A. J. Lawson, Resolved, That the Southern Rights Party of Burke are hereby particularly requested to at- te id, thralled meeting on the22d inst. to nom inate candidates for the State Legislature. A package of papers received from W. B. Davis of Wilmifigton. N. C., were referred for exami nation ton special committee, consisting of Jno. J. Jon< MM. D. Jones and Dr. E. .1. Carter. Dr. E. J. Causer proposed Mr. Davis as an honorary member rs the society, and he was unanimously ( accepted.! *mnt and Quintilian Skrino were ( mmittee to confer with the Jefibr lilance committee, with regard to tie givev to the delegates to the District Convention. , lyf proceedings of this days' ( Wished in the Augusta Southern ( ng adjourned until the Q2d. j * JNO. C. POYTHRESS, Pres. J.xt. R. Sturges, Sec. 4-i ~ s '“ the Savannah Georgian. J Abuse of Mr. Cobb. We \iji.l make one other remark. The pa- 1 pers oppoj J' to Mr JJobb seem to vie with each other in h tuping upon L'rn the coarsest kind of abuse. ,r —ri>'puliliam. * What/K' have to say in reply A the se- 1 verest charges against Mr. Cobb which wo have ’ ever seen-v-charges wjiieh, if true, show him ut terly uav c thy of tie meaues* ■ot to say 1 j“gt office i|, S, 1 ? '* people, were nuur* y l . the Say ax:- u RsfUUX.’ • f It wan <4 'i view of lub so bitierly de- Qy ricecuk li*L. 48121 vlw to <• \ - claim. “ iVWars at least can never vote for Cobh ! We add, if these charges are well founded, no pa triot of either party ever ought to support him.— We give a few of them: From the So. jnvnh RejoiMican, December 28, 1849. “We cannot approve of Mr. Cobb’s political course towards .he South, and have no confidence in him but as a political trickster.'’ From the Sin.annuh Republican. December 18, 1819. , “ We thought we had of late shown, sufficient ly from the records, that Coins, had by his votes rendered himself odious not only to the Whigs, but to the Democrats oi the South, and we are i surprised that the organ here, after what has pass- i ed should have entertained a hope much less ex pressed a wish that the Whigs should have sup ported Conn. Poor abused, despised Whigs of Georgia—in their extremity our assailants cast a i wishful eye towards us to help them to elect the man who wsc willing to, and did. vote away ] their rights for a mess of pottage.—No ! Whigs, i AT LEAST, CAN NEVER VOTE FOR CoBB. We have i the records of the country, and the testimony of i Wilmot himself, to prove that Wintiirop’s po- 1 sition towards the South is not more inimical 1 than Conn's. No matter what may have been ’ Winthkof's course towards the South, it is i enough lor the Whigs of Georgia to know, that t Cobb Has betrayed our Rights, and they were i right in casting their votes for Gentry if they ' could not vote for Winthrop. The Whigs have ( had enough of “ Northern men with Southern s Principles ' —we want no Southern men with i Northern principles. 1 From the Savannah Republican. December 25, 1849. * Mr. WiNTiipop is abused by Southern Demo crats, because lie voted lor the Wilmot Proviso, , &c.. &c., and how stands Cobb upon this ques- j tion. Let the records speak. In the House of Representatives the Bill for establishing a Ter ritorial Government for Oregon came up for con- , sideration. This Bill container! the Wilmot Pro- j viso. Mr. Burt, of S. C., offered an amendment, , as a condition fir its passage, that it was North of the Missouri Compromise line!!.' This amend- j ment failed. Subsequently this Bill came up for ( its passage with the Proviso attached— unrondi- ( tionully attached —We find Conn and other lead- , j ing Democrats of Georgia recording their votes j with Winthrop and Wilmot for its Passage. Messrs. < Burt. Toombs, Stephens voted against it. If Cobb , is the special guardian of Southern Rights, why do ■ ive find him vothg with Wilmot, Chase and ethers. for the Wir.nor Proviso, and establishing by | his own act a precedent for Congress to legislate the South out of her equal rights in our Territo- ( rial domain. VfiNTiraop has done no more than , this, and this is proof No. I that his “posiuon j towards the South is not more inimical than Cobb's.” 1 “ We here find then. Cobb's votes recorded nine Several times with lUionists for on .dbo/ition . J s.” (From the Ssvannah Georgian, July Ist .) ( Mr. Cobb’s Letter. ( It is to be feared that the Republic was right i in designating Mr. Cobb a “political trickster." At any rate his letter of acceptance may be quo ted as strongly confirming its charge. We wil' refer to a single portion of it, in which he asserts that there is a political organization in the State, 1 (meaning doubtless the Democratic and South- 1 ern Rights Party.) bared upon a repudiation of 1 the Georgia Plat lorm. Now, in making this as- t sertion. Mr. Cubb certainly appears very much 1 as a political “fickster” or deceiver, lie asserts, either ignorantly, or for the purpose of misleading the public, whai we deny to he the tact. There is no political organization in Georgia, based upon the repudiation of the Georgia Platform. The Convention wlich nominated McDonald, passed no resolution, and took no action repudiating that platform. McDonald in his letter said nothing repudiating it. Col. Jackson, a prominent leader of the Democratic and Southern Rights party, says distinctly that he accepts the Georgia Plat form, and will endeavor to hold this State and the Northern States to it. Does that look like re pudiating it ! Even in Columbus, the very head quarters of dissatisfaction with the Compromise, if we recollectrightly, the Southern Rights As- 1 sociation has resolved that it will acquiesce in the decision of Georgia—or in other words it does not < repudiate the Georgia platform. Yet our neigh- 1 bor's "political trickster,” fixing himself behind ; Toombs’ “masked battery," does not hesitate to assail his opponents, with the charge that there 1 is an organization in this State, based upon re- 1 pudiation of the Georgia platform. ; Had Mr. Cobb asserted that some of his own supporters in repudiating the right ot secession ! —the very basis ot that platform—are repudiat- ; ing the platform itself—he would not have been far wrong. But this unfortunately he failed to do. But in regard to this great question now be fore the people—the right ol a State to secede— What says Mr. Cobb upon that ? —Has he dodged it ? If so, loath as the people may be to believe it, they must conclude that lie is appearing very much in the character which the Republican as signed him—of a "political trickster.' It on the other hand lie has not entirely dodged the sub ject, but has so spoken as to leave his readers in doflbt as to his meaning—uncertain whether he admits or denies the right—still the popular ver dict must be in favor ot the Republican, to wit: that we, the jury, “have no confidence in him but as a polit.cal trickster. We are sorry that Mr. Cobb has not availed himself of the opportunity, which writing this letter gave him, of stamping the accusation that he is a “political trickster” as unfounded, by an open, truthful and straight-forward document.— Such a course would have done much to vindi cate him from some of the imputations which his present supporters have heaped upon him. Anothf.b Deskerate Gang of Villains.— A late numbtr of the Shawneetown Advocate, gives an account of the discovery and arrest of a gang of villains, who have carried on, for years past, a regular system of kidnapping slaves, for gery, thieving, and perhaps murder. The des perate character of these villains appears to have been only equalled by the gang which was re cently broken up in Michigan: “ Their head-quarters were on Wolfe’s Island, Ky., near the corner of the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois and Missouri. The band was discovered not long since, through the failure of an attempt by one of the ring-leaders to murder a Dr. Swayne. who had recovered a judgment for some SiU.OOO against Newton E. Wright, an otherjjrominent member of the gang. In May, 185)?, Wright gave Abe Thomas, a man of des perate character, $l5O to kill Dr. S. According ly, Thomas, pretending to wish the Doctor to visit his sick father, enticed him from home, and attempted to murder him; but the Dr., after be ing shot in the arm, gave the alarm, and the des perado escaped. Notwithstanding every exer tion was made to ferret out the villain, so deeply was the plot laid, that he was only accidentally discovered a short time ago; and his discovery led to the disclosure of the whole affairs of the company. “They seem to have made a regular business of stealing slaves in one State, running them off to another, and there selling them. Another of their modes of speculating in negroes seems to have been as follows: Some of their emissaries would make a tour through same of the neigh boring slave States, enticing slaves to run away and providing their victims with means to get into southern Illinois. Arrived there, the fugi tives were arrested by others of the gang on the lookout ibrthe runaways; fictitious claims to them were then set up, and maintained by false tes timony and perjury. The slaves were then taken into one of the slave States and sold. “They carried on another species of swindling upon an extensive scale, by means ol fictitious claims against estates of deceased persons. Hav ing forged notes for large amounts against such estates; the v would prove the validity of the claim by some oi their gang, in some cases, they hail grjme so far as to take depositions; and were provided with county seals, and every ’ thing requisite to give their prools the semblance of legality, j (From the Macon Telegraph , Is/ inst.) The Messenger on Cobb. The public will remember that our Union co temporaries of this city, Savannah, and Augusta, said a good many hard things touching the Hon. Howell Cobb, and his actings and doings in con nexion with his refusal to sign the Southern Ad dress, and of his election to the Speakership. As we are very desirous of finding out who has changed, Cobb or the editors who dealt UiuH+iese pretty compliments, we propose from time to time to refresh our readers by quotations from these scattered sweets not quite eighteen months old. If we should believe some of these charges on their authority, and even repeat them, the editors whomeuie them should be the last to con demn us. commence with our neigh frirs ot the Journal and Messenger, and prove to theirrSfiJers if not to themselves, that to be con sistent, “Whigs at least can never vote for Mr. Cobb." On the 14th of February, 1849, the present editors of the Messenger wrote and published the following: The Wilmot Men of Georgia. Our readers have doubtless been at a loss to un derstand how it happened that only one member of the Georgia Delegation, originally, signed the address ofMr. Calhoun, which appeared in our paper of last week. The secret has at last ieak- It appears that the address, as originally contained a severe censure upon those voted for the Oregon Bill of last year. This, afeoiSU.bore hardly*pot only upon Mr. Polk, mho approved the BiilTbut also. Messrs. COBB, Lumpki i, Haralson, and Iverson, allot wWaat various times, have either sanctioned vr voted for it, despite the Wilmot Proviso which it contain ed. The passage, as originally reported read as follows: “At the last session, they (the anti-slavery men) passed a bill to establish a Territorial government for Oregon, containing a provision to exclude sla very, unaccompanied by compromise, or by ma king any concession or equivalent whatever to the South. It was so passed, professedly to assert the ultimate control of Congress over the subject. — It teas the first bill of the kind ever passed, and marks an important stage in the progress of aggres sion aAd encroachments in reference to slavery in Ihe territorial aspect of the subject. It has given a new and powerful impulse to the abolitionists. Instead of resting satisfied with so great .a step in tiler progress, they are now urging with greater zeal than ever, towards the accomplishment of the object they have in view.” .Mr. Calhoun spoke the truth in its naked sim plicity. The bill in question has done more to embolden the anti-slavery men of the North, than any tiling else which has been done. The Demo cratic President had given his official sanction to the bill, and his political friends and-associates in Georgia, had sustained this dangerous measure, which Mr. Calhoun, no doubt, honestly affirms, has given a new and powerful impulse to the aboli tionists ! ! How then, could they in conscience approve of the report.' Mr. Calhoun, it seems was too honest, too frank, too candid for these lea ders of the Wilmot Party in Georgia! The pas sage was accordingly striken out, in order to de ceive the honest Democrats of the State in regard to the conduct of their faithless representatives.— COBB and Lumpkin persisted in their refusal to sign the address, even after the passage was stick en out, while Messrs. Haralson and Iverson, like a couple of whipped school boys, sneaked in at the eleventh hour and stealthily afflixed their sig natures to the pamphlet copy. These are the men, who, according to the out givings ot some ot the Democratic prints, are ar ranging to come home from Washington, and to traverse the State of Georgia to enlighten the people on the subject of Southern rights. Having by their own acts, aud for party purposes, “ given a new and powerful impulse to the abditionists,' 7 they are about to imitate the example of the rob -1 her, and raise the cry of "stop thieff to divert at tention from their own shameless desertion of Southern rights in voting for the Wilmot Pro viso, as contained in the Oregon Territorial Bill. They have become dlarmed at their own party recklessness; they are afraid that the lash ol pub lic indignation will fall fast and heavy upon their own backs, as well as upon that of their Demo cratic President, and hence they desired to conceal the truths developed in the first copy of Mr. Cal houn's address, and then set themselves up as the pioneers in Southern agitation ! We mention these facts in order that the peo ple of Georgia may fully understand the tn,*: pos d:-'! of the men who are now endeavor!/’jto agi tate too country, and some of wliouJ/Ms said, leave wirtiLci Uk.U names worn aL M Wi nun s address for the avowed reason that is suffi ciently partisan in its character. One more example to-day. Aagain on the Kith of January, 18.30, soon after the election of Mr, Cobb to the Speakership, the Messenger renewed its compliments as follows: Mr. Oobb and the Frcesoilers. It would seem as if Mr. COBB were resolved to carry out his l'reesoil propensities in the ap pointment of the several committees. The com plete list will he found in another column. The ibllowing summary will show that he has given the fanatics a prominence altogether dispropor tioned to their numbers : Democrats. Whigs. Frcesoilers. On Claims 4 3 2 Boot & Wilmot. Post Ofiice, &c. 5 3 1 Durkee. District of Col umbia 4 4 1 Allen. Judiciary 5 3 IP. King. Public Expends 4 3 1 Booth. Military Adairs 0 .3 ■ IP. King. Territories.... 5 3 1 Giddings. Revolutiona r y i Pensions.... 4 4 IT uck. Hoads & Canals 0 2 1 Howe. Revisal, &c... 2 2 1 Julian. Enrolled Bills.. 11 The Richmond Times in giving the above, re marks as follows: “It will be observed that wherever the Whigs and Democrats are of equal number on these committees, the remaining Freesoilerisone who was elected by Democratic votes; and where the Freesoiler was elected by Whig votes, the clear majority in the committee is given to the Demo crats. Mr. COBB has therefore maintained his adherence to a party rule, even in dealing w r ith the Freesoilers: and we must remark that he seems to us to have done towards them, without a pledge, all that Wm. J. Brown promised to do. Alien of Massachusetts, is placed on -the District Committee to Hood the House with minority re ports in favor of abolition in the District of Co lumbia. The Wilmot Proviso is sure of having a full hearing through the oliices of Joshua R. Giddings on the Committee of Territories. Mr. Durkee will have the privilege of reporting to South Carolina about her interference with the mails. And, finally, we suppose, the combined exertions of Mr. Root and Mr. Wilmot may be employed to vindicate the claims of fugitive slaves to their freedom.” Cheraw, July 1. The Weather and the Crops. —We have had ra ther too much rain in this neighborhood the past week, the land in many places, being too wet for the How. This, owing to the good condition of the crops, will do little if any injury, if it does not continue.— Gazette. Daring Assassination. —On Wednesday night last, about eleven o’clock, Mr. Leads Melton, of this district, was most brutally assassinated near his residence, which is in the neighborhood of the Court House. The particulars as far as we have been able to learn, are these : Early in the morning of that day he left home and went into another neighborhood, where he spent the day with a company, driving. Late in the evening he killed a deer, soon after which he parted from the company, with his gun emp ty and started for home, and was found within about one hundred yards of his house, shot dead. He was shot through his heart, the load entering at his back and coming out at his breast, leaving a large tow wad in his breast, which was pulled out by the Coroner. So close was the gun to his back, that the shot all entered at one hole, and all but two came out at his breast together. One of his negro women heard the gun, and soon af ter the tramping of a horses feet, which caused her to go out, when she found her master’s horse without a rider. She then awaked her young master, who upon search found his father shot, as above described. From the tracks of the horse, and other circumstances, it is evident that who ever committed the deed, first stopped him and had a conversation with him. Suspicion has not, as yet, fastened upon any one. Naval. —The Annapolis Republican ofSatur day says— The U. Stales steamer John Hancock, arrived here on Saturday from Boston and anchored in the Severn river near the Naval School. She is intended to assist the Mipshipmen at the institu tion, in obtaining a knowledge of the practical part of their profession, and has already made a short excursion for that purpose. Lieut. Jas. Rowan has been ordered to com mand the U. S. store ship Lexington, now taking in stores at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, and des tined for the Pacific squadron. Commodore Joseph Smith, Chief of the Bureau of Navy Yards and Hocks, arrived at Norfolk on Thursday from Washington, on a visit to the Navy Yard. The New-York Journal of Commerce of Sat urday says — The U. S. store ship Lexington, for the Pacific is fitting out at this port. Lieut. James Rowan has been ordered to take command of her. The frigate Macedonia is to be razed into a corvette. She was captured from the English in 1812. The U. S. steamer Fulton is fast approaching completion, and it is expected she will be launch ed in about six weeks. The order for the dismantling of the United States frigate Cumberland at Boston, has been suspended, VOL. XXX NEW SERIES - VOL. VI. NO. 22 (From the Southern Press.) The returns of the census are vindicating the institutions of the South in the most triumphant manner. The following are a few items con cerning Georgia. population. Whites 526,417 Blacks 382,294 908,711 Value of real and personal estate $331,660,217 Amount of State tax 328.217 18 county 11 ....' 170,803 53 $499,050 53 Number of deaths for the year pre ceding Ist June, 1850 9,099 The mortality of the whole pop ulation in 1849-50, was one in 91 1-2 [Richmond Times. The white population of Georgia is about one sixth of that of the State of New York. Yet Georgia has nearly half the property. Hence a white person in Georgia is on au average nearly three times as rich as one in New York. Even if slaves are excluded from the property of Geor gia, she is wealthier in proportion to white po pulation than New York. And then the health of Georgia is vastly superior. Out of a total po pulation of 908,711. the deaths in a single year were9,o99. Tn the single city of New York, with about half that population, they were about 18,000, or r iy double. Hence the average mor tality of lh"city of New York is four times as grenfc-ttfv that of the State*>f Georgia, c "* ' The taxation of Georgia, State and county, is about half a million—that of New York exceeds seven millions. Hence the taxation of Georgia, compared to that of New York on the basis of population, is less than one-fourth, on the white basis is less than one-hall—on the property basis is less than one-sixth ! Yet with this overwhelm ing evidence of the superior, social, political and financial condition of Georgia, she is excluded by New York from a common territory, as immoral and unthrifty and—submits! Advices from Santa Fe—Rise of the Missouri River. St. Louis, June 28, 1851. An engineer attached to the Boundary Com mission, and Mr. Duncan and lady, of New York, have arrived at Independence. Large bodies of friendly Indians are encamp ed on the Arkansas, waiting to go over to the general convention of Indians at Fort Laramie, next August. The elections in Npw Mexico are over. The Legislature was to meet next June. H. N. Smith was elected to the Senate. Much indig nation was excited on account of his rejection as Secretary of New Mexico. A large body of Indians of the l'icos, it was feared would attack trains of traders. They were watehed by two or three companies ol dragoons. Many traders were met all along the route, by Col. Sumner's command. At Pium Bute much sickness prevailed, five or six dying daily. The cnolera has abated at Independence, but is prevailing at Westport. The Missouri river is again rising, and over flowing its banks. Our whole levee is covered with water still. Democratic Ratification Meeting in Pennsylvania —Speech by Mr. Buchanan. A despatch from Lancaster, June 28, says that the Democratic. Ratification Meeting has con firmed the nominations ol the Reading and Har risburg Conventions, for Governor, Canal Com missioner, and Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A series of resolutions was pass ed, one ol which recommends and insists on a faithful adherence to the compromise measure, as the duty of the North and South, and con tends that the iiigitive slave law is in accordance with the constitution, and asserts that the duty of the North is to enforce its provisions. They also denounce Governor Johnston as a truckling abolitionist, and declare in favor of the revenue tariff based on the ad valorem system, which equalizes common interests. Hon. James Buchanan made his appearance in the meeting, and was received with great enthu siasm, and delivered a very eloquent and effec tive address, which lasted about fifty minutes, during which he was repeatedly cheered. He began by saying the conventions of both political parti's were now over,and eachhaiW^jsentheir standard-bearers. The issue fairly joined, ail* the democrats hudslaiMfllflßk'ohlpd ro vatity the acts of the Reading ami Harrisburg Conventions. » He spoke in the highest Jtossible terms of the character and quulificat ions/of the nominees. He denounced, in round terms, the infamous attempt made by certain politicians to injure .1 udge Camp bell as a candidate, because he happened to be a Roman Catholic i and argued, it such principles were tolerated and carried out, the destruction of the democratic party must be the consequence. He next adverted to the danger of the Union if the North persisted in resisting the fugitive slave law, and quoted the history ol tiie compact be tween the North and South, and expressed his fears tor the safety of the Union, though he hoped the best. He next referred to the position of South Caro lina, and the fixed determination of other South ern States on the subject. After which, he paid his respects to Gov. Johnston, and entirely dis* approved his course. He insisted that the com promise measures must be carried out, or most direful consequences must inevitably ensue. He concluded his very able and powerful effort, by conjuring a benign and merciful Providence to guard the United States from impending dangers now, and in all time to come. Value given to Cotton in its Transforma tions. —The enormous value given to cotton in its various transformations, is shown in the ar ticle of lace, of which there is at the London ex hibition, doubtless, a richer display than the world ever saw together before. India, France, Belgium and England are vieing lor supremacy in this manufacture. A manufacturer of Man chester furnished samples ol one pound of cot ton spun into 900 hanks, of 840 yards each, ma king a distance in all of 430 miles, should the single thread he extended to its utmost. Anoth er firm exhibited 1200 hanks, of the same num ber of yards each, from a single pound of cotton. The first then exhibited one pound of cotton spun into a thread of 2000 miles long, which shows the perfection to which cotton machinery has arrived. Brussels lace, all made from cotton, is exhibited, worth .£2OO sterling ($1000) per yard. A lace shawl, made in France for the duchess of Sutherland, is exhibted, the cost of which is £ 1000 sterling. A bridal dress is shown, for which the owner wants £SOOO. The girl who wrought at it the first three years became blind from the heavy task it put upon her eyes. Just think of simple handiwork enhancing the value of a shilling's worth of cotton to $25,000 ! [Philadelphia Ledger. Macon, June 28, 1851. To the Editors of the Savannah Republican : Gentlemen :—I see you have fallen into error, by quoting from the New-York Christian Advo cate, concerning the proposition to arbitrate the Church case between the Church North a».iL South. That paper says that the Commission ers. l>oth at New-York and Cincinnati, in behalf of the Church North, hav; decided to propuseqWj the South, without delay, to arbitrate the dispute as recommended by the Court, not knowing now the Church South would meet the proposition. Now this is strange, when Dr. W. A. Smith, the representative of the Church South, states in the last Southern Christian Advocate, that he had at once, without delay, made a proposition to the North to arbitrate the case, as recommended by the Court; and that as the J udge had settled the points of law which had induced the North to refuse to arbitrate the case before, he hoped they would now do so. Now, the Editor of the New York Christian Advocate, is one of the Commis sioners for the Church North, and was in New- York during the trial before the Court; and it is strange that he knew nothing of the proposition of Dr. Smith, and should seek to make the im pression that the North was ready for equity, but it was doubtful about the South. The South never wanted more than equity. J. E. Evans. Quite an Excitement. —A late London pa per says that a few days ago, the inhabitants of one of the principal cities in the West of Eng land were tilled with conjecture at the follow ing notice, painted in large capitals, on the front of a house recently fitted up and repaired : “Mrs. M , from London, ‘ deals in all sorts of In dies.'” All was consternation. Inquiry was instantly set on loot as to who this Mrs. M , might be. No one could tell; she was a stranger, from London. Great anxiety prevailed as to this proclamation of the new establishment. For two whole days all was surmise and consulta tion. On the third morning, behold, the mys tery' was unraveled. The house painter, who had, it seems, been suddenly attacked by a severe tit of the gout, returned to finish his work, and concluded by adding: “ ami gentlemen's wearing apparel.'' A few days ago vve noticed the elopement of the wife of Dr. Sell, from Beaver (Penn.,) with Ira Ransom, a railroad contractor. The Cincin nati Enquirer says the parties were followed and the wile was reclaimed at Wooster (Ohio.) The woman was dressed as a boy and w'as greatly admired as a boy by the citizens. Punch gives the following as a lady’s reason for liking the Great Exhibition: “My dear, it is so very agreeable. You cannot tell how amus ing it is! It is much better far than going a shopping. The whole place is full of some of the prettiest things in the world—laces, silks, bro cades —and such lovely jewels—and the beauty is, you may look at them ever so long, without being expected to buy a single thing 1” Bi) JHaprtir f deflrajjlj. Reported for the Constitutionalist. LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL ica. Lower qualities Cotton Advanced t-S!. llßeadstuffs improving. Political News Unimportant. Charleston, July 3,11. LI M. The steamers Hermann and Jlfrira arrived at New-York on the 2d inst. Liverpool, June 21.—The lowei qualities of Cotton have advanced one-eighth penny. The better qualities are unchanged. Fair Orleans is quoted at 6 l-2d. The sales of the \v ek reach 53,000 bales. » , Breadstuffs are improving. The Political intelligence brought by those; steamers is unimportant. < r 4 New York, July 3, Cotton.—Prices are firmer and a shade better. Sales 800 hales. »- tr / r Albany, June 28, Jvcw lerl- Legislature. —The whigs of the Sen ate and Assembly held a caucus last evening All the members were present hut three. It \v-, decided to go into the districting of the State The bill for the relief of the New York volun teers who served in the Mexican war, was or in’.r to 11 third reading in the Senate,this morn r,- ~„„ . Salem, (Mass.) June 2s. t talent 1 hinder Storm at the East. —A violent thunder storm passed over Waver!y and Sarem last evening—the wind blowing almost a tor nado. Ihe lightning passed along the telegraph poles some hundred feet each way. splitting the posts and destroying the insulator! S [Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.) ... ~ . „ New Orleans, June 30. lwo thousand five hundred bales of Cotton were sold to-day. Middling is quoted at fro n 7 3.4 to 8 1-1 cents. Com is held at 60c. for prime Yellovv. Bacon is steady,and sides com rnand Bto 8 1-4. Prime RlO Coffee is worth 0 Whisky ranges from 18 1-4 to IS 1-2. An arrival from Texas reports that the steam ship Globe was lost on the J7th June at Brazos Santiago. Iho crew and a jtortion of the cargo was saved, hut the boat was a -total loss. , Columbia, July I,7’p ji Phere was a fair demand for Cotton in this market to-day, and the sales amounted to one hundred and fourteen bale-, at from r, , , cents. We were informed, lass evening, by the opera tors, that the Telegraph wires were out of order somewhere beyond Raleigh. N. which pro eluded our receiving our Northern dispatches (Telegraphed J'or the Charleston Courier.) Baltimore, July 1. in the New-York market on Tuesday,a thou sand bales of Cotton were sold. Middling to Good Middling Uplands were quoted at from 8 3-1 a n 1 -2. Orleans 9 1-2 a 10 1-2. Mr. Thomas D. Johnston, an eminent Bank er, late of the Firm of Johnston & Lee, died at Baltimore on Monda,» S. Jaudon & Co., Nt .v-York i ankers, failed in that city on Monday. The ; were unable to meet their acceptances. Conrey. of New-Or leans, will pay over the debt. Advices received from Bogota, New Granada up to the 20th May, state that the Governo, had recommended that war should be declared with Equador, and that ten thousand troops should be levied. The auxiliary force under General Flo res, was expected at l’eru. The sluum vis -wCrWi rnTTcVu at her wharf in New York, at 7 o'clock, on Tues day morning. The Florida, also arrived in New York on Tuesday from Savannah. New Orleans, July 1. Cotton was active to-day and six thousand bales were disposed of. Prices, however, had ox - perienced to change. Bacon is firmer, and rib bed sides command from S to 8 1-1 cents.and clear 8 1-2 cents. Rice is dull here at $3 3-1. Prime white Corn is worth Ors, yellow .77, and the Grain market dosed steady. The Union sailed for New York with 108 pas sengers to-day. 1 Columbia, July 2—5.23 p. m. No change occurred in our Cotton market to day. The sales amounted to one hundred and twenty-four bales at from (> 1-8 a 8 5-8. Later from Mexico.—By the arrival of th« U. S. revenue cutter Duane, we have received papers fiom Ihe city of Mexico to the 7th in»t., being two days later Ilian our previous dates. The Correo, of Chihuahua, announces that sev eral persons have formed a company to work the mine of Guadalupe y Calvo, which lor some time has been almost abandoned. The com pany will have a capital of 8200,000, divided into 100 shares of $2,000 each. The mine is said to be very rich. The famous criminal, Josquin Polocio, was lately executed in Victoria. The Monitor says that a short time since, a priest of Oajaca committed a rape on a beautiful girl, belonging to one of the first families of the place. The most open robberies are committed with impunity in the neighborhood of Aguas Cali eutes. Many of the surrounding ranchos have been plundered, and sometimes the inhabitants murdered. The papers from the Mexican capital are en tirely destitute of political or other intelligence. [N. O. Picayune , o,lth nil. The Southern Standard, a neatly printed sheet into which the Daily Sun of this City has been merged, according to previous annuncement.made its first appearance yesterday morning. In po litics it is "opposed to the present or early seces sion of South Carolina,” and is published and ed ited by B. C. Pressley, Esq., assisted in the lit erary department by W. C. Richards, Esq., Edi tor of the Southern Literary Gazette, and in that of local and foreign news by T. C. Skrine, Esq., late Editor of the Sun. We tender to all con cerned in this enterprise the right hand of fellow ship, and feel.assured that the entire Press of the State, however some may differ from its opinions will treat it with that courtesy, for which the Journalists of South Carolina are so preeminently distinguished. —Charleston Courier. 2 d inst. A Tumble. —A Dutchman thus describes an -accident:—“Vonce, a long vile ago, I vent intos f~ mine abble orchard, to climb a bear tree to get some beaches to mine vrow a blnm bud roit; and ve i T gits on the tobencost branch 1 vail awn the lowermost limb, rnit von leg on both sides oi the fence, and tik m stove mine outsides in!" Death ok Mrs. Flynn.—A quarrel occurred between Mrs. Matterson and Mrs. Flynn, at St. Louis, on the 14th ultimo, which resulted in the death of the latter. They both lived under the same roof, and jealousy is said to have been the can e of the difficulty. Mrs. Flynn was a MissTvvibillof New York, and married many years since the well known Tom Flynn, the actor, who came to this country in Finn's Company, with which he opened the Federal street, Boston, 1825. Flynn was a very handsome man at that time, and a great favorite. His wife was for many years one of the most beautiful women on the American stage. Lola Montes. —A recent letter from Paris, says the celebrated Countess of Mansfield, the* noted Lola Montes has concluded to resume her former professional career of a dancer. This world known lady is practising, and will make her first appearance at New York in about three months. Os course the New Yorkers will give her a pub lic reception. Homocide.—We regret to learn that a difficul ty occurred at Iligden'.s store, in Laurens county, on Friday evening last, between Mr. Crosbey Horn and Mr. William Hampton, two worthy citizens of that county, and which residted in the death of the latter. The parties, we learn, were brothers-in-law, and had previously been very friendly. It seems that they had been out hunting, and, .returning, stopped at Higdon's store, where they became somewhat intoxicated, commenced quarreling, an alfray ensued, in which Horn struck Hampton with a stick over the head, of which he died on Saturday night.—San dcrsvillc Georgian , Ist inst. “Mr. Jenkins," said mine host of the Swan, “as you always come in late, have you any ob jection to this gentleman occupying your bed until the stage goes out!” “Not the least. I will be infinitely obliged to you if ypu put him there, so that the bed-bugs can nave their supper before I come.” Going a Little too Far. —The Rev. Mr. Store, of Southampton, Mass., has informed a young lady,who appeared in the Camilla costume, that, unless she abandoned it, he would turn her out of the church. We don’t exactly understand in what the impiety of wearing short skirts trousers consists,