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Sauantjal) (griming Journal. BY J. 11. CUJIHKDGK. THOMAS W. LANE, Editor. rqgp* The Daily Paper, will be mailed to country subscribers at Si, and the Tri-wcekly at $2; per an- ! num—payable invariably in advance. All new ad vertisements appenrin both papers ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted at the following rates : kOR ONE SQUARE OF TEN LINES, One insertion $0 50 One month $5 00 Two “ 087 Two “ .... 800 Three “ .... 100 Three *• 10 00 Four “ ... 125 Four “ ....12 00 Five “ .... 1 50 Six “ ....15 00 Oae Week....... I 75 One Year 20 00 Contracts, tor yearly advertising may be made on liberal terms. [for the evening journal.] The Loved One. I am not charmed with beauty, however fair it be, Unless its form betoken both truth and purity; 1 count those who are dearest the beautiful of earth, Not for outward loveliness, but for their inward worth— Their memories I cherish, and deep within my heart Their images lie treasured, of my own life a part; And one there is more precious, than all on earth beside, On whom to look is pleasure, and to have won is pride. If you would see my loved one, look not within the hall Where all the gay and thoughtless have met at plea sure’s call— Not in the scenes of fashion, but by the household hearth Will you behold her virtues, her gentleness and worth— Art has not formed her manner, with sweet and win ning way She gains the heart’s allegiance, unconscious of her sway. Her voice, there may be sweeter, but kinder none can be Attuned to one soft cadence, love’s pleasant melody. I love her not for beauty, altho’ with charms the same Would many a youthlul fair one, her mead of hom age claim— Not for her faultless figure, nor for its willowy grace. Not for each perfect feature, but for th’ expressive face— That countenance so lovely, the mirror of tho soul, Like sunlight on the lily, throws radiance o'er the whole. Those eyes of love’s own lustre, which soft and pure ly shine Have chaimed me more than beauty, have won her to be mine. Ermione. Savannah, Ga. Onr New York Correspondence • New York, August 10th, 1852. I have been ill and absent, which will account for my sins of omission, as your correspondent, during the last two or three weeks. With the cooler breez es of September, I hope to be more punctual, and less dull. I have been to the City of the Three Hills—Copp's, Beacon and Fort. A steamboat trip to Boston used to be a thing to tell of, but now (to use FalLtaft’a word,) it is “as common as lying.” The Fall River line is preferred, I scarcely know why, unless half an hour quicker than the others. The accommoda tions, 1 think, somewhat inferior to the New York boats. The Bay State steamer is regarded as quite “ crack,” and she is handsome and substantial, nut not very convenient. With her different divisions she is not altogether unlike a three story house, with the parlors in the attic. Attic rooms being scarce, owing to the crowd, I took a berth in the basement. Shortly after leaving Hell Gate, (now rendered innocuous by the rock-blasting Frenchman whose name—fie upon my republican ingratitude— I forget) the bell rang for supper. So great was the throng that many were left without seats at the first table, and these unfortunates were compelled to eat (or lose their eapperj at the second table, with a very extensive and varied assortment of children and nurses, wet and dry. Several spans of fat and sleek coated coneh-horscs —the property of sundry Newport-bound fashiona bles aboard —shared the accommodations of the deck passengers, and gave them the night-mare with their noise. The quadrupedal concert, snorting and kick ing, made a most splendid accompaniment to the noise of the machinery, and the bawiing of sundry and divers Hibern’an infants, but it was not at all favorable to sleep in the cabin below, of which the deck was a sort of tympanum. Such a night as I had of it! I was fain to cry with the ancient bard. “Owhat a row, what a rumpus and a rioting, all those endure what go to sea !” In the first place, a mysterious coat and strange umbrella haunted my berth before and after supper —a rather disagreeable indication when sleepingpla. ceswere so scarce—and though I displaced them repeatedly, they would as often, by some unknown agency, re-nppear in the same place. The intention of somebody or other to establish a preemption claim, became at length so apparent that, putting out the coat and umbrella once more, I sat down to watch their movements. Presently there comes along, a precious lengthy gentleman with a sorpentine vi rtebral movement, not entirely unlike the sinuous locomotion of an An. aconda, and thrusts in his head at that identical berih. Probably with a view to his coat and umbrella, j “ Hold on I'* said I, by way of admonition. “ Aintthis No. 113 ?” he demanded. “ It’s 115.” “Oh, I thought it was 113 1” In a few minutes i the varmint was coiled in a state of torpor in the nest at the foot of mine. Shortly afterwards I,too, was snoozing on my shelf, when I was suddenly aroused by another passenger, who was to occupy the board under mine, with the inquiry, “Asleep, hey?” YVas ever inquisitiveness more preposterous! I could, like Sancho Panza, bless the inventor of aleep, but not the inventer of the steam-guage A.-h- i croft was never less in guaging than at that sus picious moment. Still in consideration of the good ; he has achieved in taking the harm out of steam en gines, I forgive him. Now sleep became as coy a dame for me to woo as she was to Richard 3d; however I got a doze that would have ripened into a full grown nap, it that very absurd steward had not shaken one of my limbs end inquired the number of my ticket; “Beg your pardiog, sure !’ said he, and passed on with ns much sangfroid as if he had not been guilty of ons of the most burbarous outrages which have happened since the Indian war ! Nor was this all ; for about II P. M. there came along anotlier nigger, with a like inquiry injbehalfof a very ridiculous passeng* r whom brandy and tobacco smoke had contused to “his exact number.” Well, if my vocabulary of invective didn’t rattl** upon his head like Inst night, thunder storm, l wouldn’t say so ! He cleared the coup of his presence, short metre To jcap \the climax, about midnight, 1 found a strange hand insinuating uuder my curtain and grasping my umbrella, at iny my side. “Let alone that!” 1 exclaimed, and seized the intruding wrist. “Did you think I was going to steal it ?” said the stranger indignantly. “Well, it looks much like it! ’ | letorted, in a very unarrnable mood. And so I j passed the night. This is no fancy sketch, but plain fact. Wasn't it fine? The New York and San Francisco line despatch j their next steamer (to connect with the Winfield | Scott* on the first day of September, from New York I j and again about the 10th*of September to connect I j with the splendid new steamship Cortez sent hpnce j j July 10th for Panama. * SAVANNAH, (1A- Tm*sdny Afternoon, August 17,155‘J. [Telegraphed for the Evening Journal.] Tlie Webster Convention. MACON, Aug. 17—12:30 P. M. The Webster Convention w’as organized this mor ning . Thirty eight counties are represented by one hundred and thirty-three delegates. Col. H. Wor rell was elected President,and Col. Gumming aud Gen, Rutherford, Vice Prasidcr* The following Resolution was adopted : “Resolved, That each county cast double the num’ 1 ber of votes they are entitled to members in the Le gislature. ” A committee of Conference was appointed to meet alike committee of the Scott men to-morrow. Adjourned to 3 o’clock, P. M. A despatch to the Agents states that the steam ship Alabama arrived at her wharf in New York at 11 o’clock la9t night in sixty three hours from wharf to wharf. All well Distinguished Arrivals.— Messrs. Hines and Knapp, who took rather precipitate leave of our city yesterday morning, (to attend the convention in Macon perhaps, a9 lookers on) have been arrested in Macon, by Mr. H. W. Shaw, on the strength ot in formation received from our city police, and will re turn to Savannah by this evening’s C o’clock train. We suppose a committee of reception will be in waiting to escort them to their recent apartments in Chatham Castle. We are indebted to officer Rus sell for a‘‘report of their progress:” it seems they took the cars at the 20 mile station, after a little spir itual aidandcomtort, in the shape of two bottles of “ Otard ,” supplied by the generous Hines. Our po lice deserve much credit for their vigilance and promptitude in this matter, and far more we fear than the ungrateful Hines and Knapp will extend to them. Alas for Hines, “ ’Twns ever thus from childhood’s hour! ” We look anxiously for a description of the tour in the Dr's next book-hope he will pay the proper tri bute to the Savannah department for the arrest of estrays. “ Our Sanctum*” We date this epistle to you reader, from our new’ sanctum— a cosy little room, on the right of the landing-place at the head of the main stairway, in Sorrel’s Building, and formerly occupied by the U. S. District Attorney. It isn’t much of a place just yet , but it is at least easy to find, and not so high up “ in the atmosphere” as the eyrie we formerly inha bited. Small though it be, oui friends will find a hearty welcome whenever they are pleased to “drop up,’’ and such accommodations as we can afford them, in the way of a pleasant seat, papers to com and a quiet chat (if we are not too busy, and they will submit to it,) are placed most cheerfully at their disposal. We shall miss here the tick of the type which was ever as a pleasant song in our ear, but the tide of the fall business will soon set, in upon the Bay, and we shall find that, we hope, inspiriting enough. Down-town, and next door to us, is the sanctum of our brethren of the Georgian , and not far up town, that of our brothers of the Republican: despite the thick walls that intervene between us, we shall think of them often and wonder how they are getting on this hot weather, with their par ties and politics, from whose perplexities, oh ! patron saint of Editors (whoever thou art,) deliver us! The front room, (for by good luck we have two.) we are fitting up for a few Political, Agricultural, Religious, Literary and Scientific papers; the Geor gia papers, together with our city contemporaries, the News, Georgian, Republican , True Whig, and Courier, (we hope in a day or two to place the latter on our files, and will leave a place lor it.) Our table will not present much Variety for a week o r two, or perhaps a month: but our friends can in dulge in anticipation, (which we shall try to have realized,) and which even unfulfilled is said to be a great deal better than possession. We shall say no more of our little reading-room, for like our sanc tum it isn’t much just yet. We hope to improve on in the course of tune, but in the interim, reader, you will ever he welcome there, and “ free as the wind to read whene'er you please.” i The Temperance Banner nnd the Maine Li qnor Law. “Uuncle Ben Brantley,” Editor of the Temper ance Banner at Peufield, is down on us in his paper of the 14th inst. about a late paragraph in the Jour nal, on the subject of the Maine Law. We clip I from his paper as follows : Our exchanges are full of jokes and items turning upon the Maine Liquor Law. VVe are getting tired of the subject—its agitation we opine can do no good nor can the law be carried into effect. It is doubt less well intended, but we know ot no better way to increase the vice of intemperance than legal piohibi tion will effect.— Savannah Journal. Pray, Mr. Journal, do the legal prohibitions in crease the number of destructive conflagrations in your City ? Is not this the true inference to be drawn Irom your notions? Andwhy not the idea as 1 sound in the one case as the other ? Then sir, re peal all prohibitory enactm nts against arson, and j license the incendiaries which infest your thriving j City, at five dollars each and let us see the effects. Now there isn’t n man in Georgia for whom we have more respect than “Uncle Ben Brantley he anJ the Banner have done a world of good, and long may they live to battle in the cause to which they are tru.y devoted. With due deference, how ever, to Uncle Ben, we are compelled to differ with him on this subject (we infer from the above, and j from other paragraphs in his paper that he is in fa vor of the Maine Law) and before attempting an ; answer to his logic we shall state our reusons for wilting as we have done, and tor our opposition to the law We are tired of the subject, because it is ! treated with unbecoming levity ; because we hear | of all sorts of evasions of it, through fraud, chicane ry, lying, and “striped pigs;” because it is a dead letter, and a nullity.shorn of all majesty of law, which alone could entitle it to respect. VVe ure opposed to it, because wo believe it unconstitutional ; the law has the same right to prohibit the use of tobacco, se gars, and oaths, that it has to prohibit the use of ar dent spirits; the same right to dictate the forms of worship, and prescribe the cut of a coat, thnt it has to dictate the meat, or drink of those whom it holds in abeyance. We are opposed to it, because we believe it to have a direct tendency to increase the I very evil it prohibits. Do you ask how ? By inflam ing the passions of men who can be led , but will die : sooner than be driven. The Maine Law is a death. 1 blow to Temperance Banners, and /Temperance So cieties. How, do you ask ? By drawing a line ot demarcation between the sober and the dissolute— by raising a feud between them as impassable as the | fathomless abyss that intervened between Dives and | Lazarus—by deafening the intemperate to the voice ( of persuasioiijandjhardeningtheir hearts—by making j j their rise into recklessness and rash, | and bitter defiance. There arc few men so lost to 1 SAVANNAH JOURNAL, TUESDAY. AUGUST 17, 1852. ; virtue, that they cannot be won and wooed into the j path from which in an evil hour they departed. The | ! drunkard’s salvation, is not in the law, but in the j i calm j rgument, the solid reasoning, such as you > Uncle Ben, can, and do often write—the voice of 1 affection, and brotherly kindt’ -s, the gray hairs of a j mother, the tears of a sister, the prayers of a father, I the ‘ )ft sweet voice of friendly counsel,the restraints | of societies, and the might of the press, have snatch ed many an inebriate from ruin. But the Maine Law hath no modulate tones ; it has one voice for all.— It drives men like brutes, and muzzles them like dogs, and the day you establish it in this country, farewell to Total Abstinence. The question can be begged by throwing the blame upon the perverseness of the human heart; but that argument is thread bare. Why did martyrs perish at the stake ? Those who burned them will tell you, it was not the fault of the stake, but of the martyr, who refused to accept the religion prescribed him. The stake was a terri ble establisher of religion, but it was intended, so goes the argument, for the good of men; and you may soy that the Maine Law is intended for good, which we do not doubt. We oppose it because it effects no good, and does effect incalculable harm. But perhaps you will upset these arguments, by say ing that the law does not deny to any man[the priv. ilege of drinking when he wishes, and allows him a certain modicum of spirits in his house. Exactly! that is why we oppose it; because it forces it into his house ; because it makes a grog shop of home; be cause it turns the domestic circle into a groggery, and substitutes the demijohn and the gallon jug in the pantry, for the wine-glass and the tumbler at the Dar-room counter—because it gives to the ine briate opportunity to indulge at all times, and in any quantity—gives it to him ! yea! forces him to it; because it brings to the lip of wife and child thepoi floii that might have stopped on the lip of the hus band and father. Do you deny that this is the effect of the Maine Law ? Then answer this question.— Does not this law present these two alternatives to the drunkard, either total abstinence, or, a jug at home ? You have seen enough and know enough* Uncle Ben, to give an immediate answer to the ques tion, which would he choose ? Our article lengthens, so we must content our. selves with a notice of your arguments. You have assumed the premise that arson, and drinking, are on a par. If this were true, we would give up the question; but the premise is false. The law has a right to prohibit arson, and murder, and •theft—they are sinful in any light—sinful inthemselves. There can be no moderation in arson—no degreesin its crime. The man that fires a houee has committed a sin ; but the man who trkes a glass has not necessarily sinned. (Perhaps you think otherwise Uncle Ben—but you have not just cause to think so—that argument is un tenable.) The law has a right to prohibit and to punish incendiarism, and the incendiary acknowl edges it in the outset, but the law has not a right to prohibit that which is in itself innocent. But for the sake of argument, admit that the law is vested with this power, men can never he made to think so, or to yield to it, and therefore we have said, and still sny, “ we know of no better way to increase the vice of intemperance, than legal prohib.tion will effect” It It be admitted that the law has a voice in this mat ter. it is admitted that the law has a right to prohibit Infidelity, Universalistn, Atheism, Deism—it is ad mitted that it has a right to require belief in Baptism, or in Election, or Transubstantiation, or Confession, and disbelief in their contraries. Yet you would no t hold such a doctrine in yonr paper Uncle" Ben—you could not sustain yourself. We have only to say in conclusion, that our opposition is not to the good ef fect which the Maine law aims at, but to the evil ef fect which we solemnly and sincerely believe it will bring t bout. Continue to waveyour Banner—cheer console, encourage, reason, persuade, but attempt not to drive total abstinence into men who will never take it at the hand of the law ! Deference to the opinions of those you would convert, is the shortest and surest road to success ; show us the deference of the Maine Law; or one iota of tolerance or Chris tian forbearance which it contains. If you reply to tills Uncle Ben. will you put it before your readers if you please, if its not too long ? Senator Dawson was to have addressed a Whig meeting yesterday at Cambridge, Maryland, iu favor of Scott and Graham. Messrs. Stanly and Morehead of N. Carolina, were also to speak in the | same cause and on the same occasion. BP Eleven old paintings by Murillo, Sponoletta, and other old masters, have recently been found at Cadiz, and have been appropriated by the govern ment. They were supposed to have been stolen many years ago from the Monastery at Seville. New Yoiik Crops.—Wheat harvested, and the yield good; Oats pretty good; Indian Corn not turned out well. Rye, little planted but a tine yield; Potatoes abundant; Fruit scarce; Hay and grass about two-thirds of a crop. The Seasons in Iceland.—From the 16th or 18th of June to the end of the month, there is no night. The sun disappears for a short time behind the hills, nut twilight and dawn are blended together, and the last rays of evening have not faded from the sky be fore the morning light breaks forth witn renewed j brilliancy, I was in Iceland lrom the 15tli of May till the 29th of July, and although 1 never went to ‘ bed before 11 o’clock, I < id not once require the light of a candle In May, as well as towards the end of July, the twilight lasted ab-mt two hours, but it was never dark. Even at th*; time of my departure j I could see to read till half past eleven. At first it j seemed very strange to go to bed at broad day light; | but 1 soon got used to it, and no sunshine was brightenough to keep me awake afrer eleven o’clock It often struck me as very ridiculous, however, to go : out for nn evening stroll about ten, and find myself ! in the full light of day, instead of he soft glimmering i of the moon and stars, What an instance of the “ tempora mutantur”’ is ! the death of Samuel Townsend, who died of starve- i tion and penury in Saint Giles’s. This man was the son of the celebrated Mr. Townsend, so well known ’l attersali sand on the turf, and in early iite drew a cheque ot eight thou-and pounds on his lather’s bank ers, and spent the money in tolly and dissipation in Paris ; after which his family discarded him. For sometime previous to his death he picked up a pre carious existence by begging and looking after the horses of the hack cabmen, and slept about at night in cellars, doorways, lanes, courts, or anywhere, and literally died in aaustho'e, in which he was found ’ with his face downwards, ami hurried in the dust and fiith ! Consumption.—Two or three years ago experi ments were made by the members of the London Faculty ofphyi-icaus indifferent hopitale. for the cure ot diseases of the lungs by breathing warm, medicated vapors. The success of the experiments were so gratifying that an institution—the Hromptun Hospital—for the cure of broru iritis and consumption w'aa immediately established ; and so favorable lias been the result of the treatment, that the number of patients admitted during the year is between two and three thousand ; *nd the hospital report shows that lull seventy-five in every one hundred have been eompletly cured. Dean Store, when residing on a living in thecoun try, had occasion one day tc unite a rustic couple in the bonds of matrimony. The ceremony being over, the husband began to sink in resolution, and ; tailing (as seme husband might do) into a fit ot re- I pentance, he said—“ Your reverence has tied tho : knot tight 1 fancy,but.under tavor,mayl ask your rev erence if so be you could untie it.again!” “ Why no.” replied the dean, “ we never do that oil this part of the consecrated ground.'* * Where then,” cried the man, eagerly !“ On that!” pointing to the burying j ground. Telegraphic Abstract. ( From our various Exchanges.) FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. New York. Aug. 16.—Steamship Franklin arrived. Havre and Liverpool dates to the *Lh inst. Mi ktls. Liverpool, Aug. 4. —Cotton —Prices unchanged. Sales on the 2d inst. 7 to 8 thousand bales; on the 3d 4 to 5 thousand; on the4th 7000 bales. Domestic Mnrkcl*. New York, Aug. 16, Cotton.— Sales to.day 1500 bales at full prices. Aug. 13.—Miscellaneous sales as follows : Flour— -12,500 bbla (State) at $3.94 a4. Southern unchang ed. 18000 bushels Upper Lake Wheat at 65 a 66c,; 20,000 bushels mixed Corn, at 66 a 67c. 1500 bushels of Rye at 77c ; hhds. Sugar (Musco vado) ssc. £nd 500 boxes Havannu at 5Jc.; 2000 bags Coffee at 9 a 9fc. for Rio, and 10* for Java. 700 bbls Rosin at $1.37; 200 bbls. Turpentine (Spts.) at 43c. 500 tierces Rice at 5 a s±c.; 400 bbls .Whiskey at 22c. Stocks—Erie 89*; Reading 92*. New Orleans, Aug. 10.— Coffee.—A bout 1000 bags of Rio including 339 bags inferior sold on the 9th at Sic., B*, 8$ and B£c. Total stock on hand 32291 Dags against 1050 same time last year. Imports 6ince July Ist, 17,039 bags against 4500 same time last year No arrivals during the week. Aug. 14.— Cotton— Stock on hand including 1700 shipboard.7Boo bales. Charleston, aug. 16.—Prices hi' 1 sales for the past three days, 520 bales, at from 8$ . 11$- cents. renter from California* Steamship Illinois arrived at New York. Dates fruir ‘ev Francisco to the 15th July. She bri 340p?>a* gere, and $2,000,000 in gold F mining districts —yield of go'd still plentiful, era disappearing on th iimu3. Indian difficulties still continue, but a is on foot to drive them out from the Mariposa j .untry. News from the mines favorable. Steamship Daniel Webster arrived at New Orleans with San Francisco dates to the 15th ult.—reports $4,000,(100 in gold en route Jo U. States from Panama. Emigration increasing. Crime on the increase, and reports from the Mining district favorable. Health of California good. Troubles with the Chinese continue. Court martial in session at San Diego. San Francisco markets healthy. Pi races unabated in the Sandwich Islands Advicesfrom China report rebellion against Tartar dynasty un’ checked. Steamship Northern Light from San Juan del Sud arrived at New York on the 15th. She brings California dates to the 17thult. and $150,000 in gold- Difficulties between Americans and foreigners in the Mariposa country settled. Georgetown reported to be burned down. Democrats carried California Legislature. Further fugitive slave arrests made. Bark Cornelia lost 30 passengers on her voyage to Panama. The Fisheries. Schooner Pilot has been seized on the fishing ground. Schooner Ellen Mar released. A ball was given to Commodore Perry at St. Johns, on the eve* ning of the 12th. The British war st- amer arrived at Bathurst. United States steam frigate sailed for Halifax on the 12th. St. Johns papers state thnt the question has been taken out of Mr. Crumpton’s hands by the government, and that the colonies would be sustained. At Washington the prospect of early and amicable settlement said to be bright. General News, City of Glasgow sailed for Glasgow from Philadel phia on the 14th, with 73 passengers. The Whigs have carried lowa by a large majority; elected Con gressmen and have control in Legislature. (Ano* iher account gives the Legislative majority to the Democrats ) Capt. Marcy and bis command repor ted to the War Departmental Washington, as safe* Mr. Rice, U. S. Consul at Acapulco arrived at City of Mexico. Sloop of war Decatur arrived at New York. U. S. rigate Cumberland at Naples on the 17th ult. All well. Crops. These tables are prepared with great pains and labor, and planters should tile them to compare with our semi annual summing-up ot the “ Cotton ! Crop,” and Tobacco, and Sugar production of the ; United States. There is no Journal p a easing the same means of information as ours. We tender our thanks to “old correspondents,” and so.icit “new ones” from the various counties : Maryland.— Grain. —Corn, oats and wheat look well . remarkably good: above average: never bet ter. A few indifferent yields. The crop is excel lent. Tobacco. —Promises well. Gland generally was good. Rains have improved the crop : good body and flavor anticipated. Virgin a.— Grain' —Wheat was never better : corn in many places short. The small grain crops remar kably good. Tobacco. —The crop will turn out extremely good. Texture and superior flavor in the favorite districts, maintained : a fine crop of “ Extra.” North Carolina.— Grain. —Corn is good except in the uplands where drought has affected it. The rains have improved the crop . prospects generally lair. Cotton. —Not over promising : affected by drought in cotton districts : however, some good crops antici | pitted. South Carolina.— Grain. —Rice crop is reported t good : corn not as well spoken of: wheat indifferent and small yield. Cotton —ls reported generally good, but serious apprehensions of short crop, tfea Islands fine. Georgia.— Grain.— ln the upper counties the grain crops are good. Rice excellent. Groat im ! provemrnt in quality of grain. Cotton. —Our special correspondent expresses i fears that the rains have made the stalk too rank.— j the reports of the .State generally are good, j Elorida.— Grain. —Little notice of grain: there j ports of “ seasons very favorable to corn,[[rice, i wheat and oats. Tobacco. —Very fine crop—texture of wrappers j beautiful, equal to Havana. Reports are very cheer ful. Private letters inform us that the yield will be good, and superior quality. Cotton.Frova Apalachicola our advices report good stands and luxuriant g owth but fears that the yield will fall short: in the interior, crop good. Alabama.— Grain. —Wheat good : corn very good. Cotton.— Small: short crop anticipated in upper part ol the State. South Eastern Alabama, crops reported good ; western counties not so good. Mississippi.— Grain. —Wheat not noticed : corn good, promising, luxuriant. Cotton. —Very prom ; <'pecinlly middle and upper counties: river >t so good : average crop. Louisiana.— Sugar.— The crop is highly estimated. The improvements in machinery with yicbl expect ed will .mprovethe sugar product of i* ate. — borne plantations suffering for want * •• plants or seed. Cotton. —Some counties good : especially on Red River and the Bayou’s growth; however, generally stuLted by early drought, or too luxuriant from late rains. Tennessee.— Grain —Wheat and oats, rye above average. Corn in the bottom lands good crops expected. Cotton. —Our reports are not flattering in regard to cotton. Private letters speak cheerfully,but other sources incline us to the opinion that the crop will be short. Kentucky.— Grain —Wheat, oat, rye and corn crops extremely good. We notice good accounts of flax also. Tobacco. —A fine market promised. The quality not so good but the yield satisfactory. Missouri.— Grain. —Above average ; (our reports are very meagre in this State, having no correspon dent yet.) Grain. —Wheat good : c u n luxuriunt, especia’ly in the bottom lands and in the north western coun | tiee from Wahshington county to Batesville- Cotton, —The accounts aie very contradictory.— Our private information cormp nds, however,with report. The gem ral crop may be put down us promising: average, and good quality* Texas— Grain —A heavy cop of wheat reported. Corn was never better, especially Colorado valley; supply on hand small, on account of demand from new settlers and emigrants, (good demand lor flour and provision. Sugar —l lie caney plantations are in fine condition. The new ones on the Warloupe are yielding well; the cane is reported luxuriant and rich;great increase in cultivation and improvement in machinery; pro visions in demand. Cotton —Promising an average; a large quantity of land ploughing up for cultivation uext year, by new comers. The crop will be increased next year to a large amount. The staple is reported good; condition clean. Brazos and Colorado furma in fine order. Northern States.—The crops are reported pro mising. In no case under‘fair,’and generally‘good,’ ‘very good,’‘never better,’Ate. Consumption, Grain. —There will be an increased demand in Europe especially on the Continent for Bread stuffs. 3iie reports from the Mediterranean justify a good market there/; The South American market is also good. [Cotton Plant.lßh inst. “Dr. Parr,” said a young student once to the old lsnguist, “ lets you and 1 write a book.” “Very well,” replied the doctor, “put in all that I know, and all that you don’t know, and we’ll make a big one.” ° It in a dark business we perceive God to guide us by the lantern of his providence, it is good to fol low the light close, lest we lose it by lagging behind; Way to lay up Real Wealth.—A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment- Those that como unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.— Lord Bacon. he strength of an Elephant is equal to that of 147 i) . Smith tells us of a Virginia slave who could . i iectly imitate with his voice, the compound mu sic of a drum nn i file. FUNKItAh iMVITATIox! The friendsand acquaintances of Mrs HARRIET STILLMAN COOKE, those of Lewis F. Cooke,and of S. A. Patot and family, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of the former, from her latt resi * dence, east end of Charlton-strect, and near the cof tageof Mr. Robt. A. Lewis, This Afternoon at half past 5 o’clock. COMMERCIAL,. NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 11— Cotton The sale. embrace 150 bales, including 73 bales Middlin', at 9} cents. °’ Cotton Statement. Stock on hand September 1,1851, bales 16,108 Arrived since 1,417,069 Arrived to day jog 1,433,899 Exported to date, 1,425,733 Exported to day, 1,425,733 Stock on hand and on shipboard not. cleared 8,116 Flour —Sales 100 bbls. St. Louis at $3 75 and 625 extra Missouri and 250 fancy St. Louis to a dealer on private terms. Corn— The receipts were only partially landed when tlie rain put a stop to business. Whiskey —s 2 bbls. Rectified were sold at 18}c. Pork— 86 bbls. uninspected Clear Mess were sold at s2l 75 ; Mess firm at $22. ItIiCEJFTS UP COTTON, Aug 14 & 16. 294 ba.es cotton and mdze to E Pa-'sons tie Cos, Rob erts &. Foote, Wells, Rowland &. Cos, Charleston steamboat Cos, Washburn, Wilder & Cos, Caldwell, Blakely & Cos, Webster & Palmes, J M Butler, W E Long, C R Moore, D G Stern, C Haitri.ige, T S Wavne. ami order, SPECIAL NOTICES. |jr3K= BOARD OF HMALT!I - -d Board of Health, will oo nnu tu-uiu ioh, ( Wednesday ,Jthe ißtb inst.,(*t 12 o’clock M. Mem bers will examine their Wards and report accord ingly. By order. S. A. I’. LAWRENCE, See’y. aug II __ B. H. JT3P 0 NOTlCE.—Consignees of three bundles of Hay, marked I H B, Savannah, received per steamer Alabama, from New York, will please cull, pay charges and take them away. aug 16 PADELFORD, FAY & CO. N OTICE . —'Pile Consignee of Three (3 ) Bundles Mouldings, marked 1 HB Savannah, received per steamer Alabama, from New York, will please call, pay charges and take them away, aug 14 PADELFORD, FAY <fc CO. “THE CAMPBELLS ARE COMING.”— Those who visited this celebrated corps last season, will be pleased to learn that they will visit our city in a fsw days, (aug 6) J. JONES, Agt. jjrjgpj 0 NOTICE.— During my absence from the State, Mr. John G. Neidlinuer will act as my Attorney, and attend to iny business generally, july 29 WILLIAM HEIDT. jjpaS 0 NOTICE TO VOTERS.—AII persons en titled to vote for Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah and Hamlets thereof, under the ate Registry act, are hereby notified that the Registry Book will be finallv and absolutely closed on the Ist day of September next. R.. F. AKIN, 5 Register of Voters. jnSpDR. LAC RUE’S TOOTH ANI) GUM WASH. ILrj? Those who would wish to preserve a good set ot teeth, and have unsound and sore gums and mouth restored, we would say, try a bottle of Dr. Lacrue’s French Specific,prepared by Clarke &. Cos. It has testimonials in its tavor bv all those who have used it. For sale by JOHN A. MAYER, aug 3 PROCLAMATION.—SOO Dollars Reward, ‘k-s? Mayor’s Office, Savannah, June 14, 1852. A reward of Five Hundred Dollars is hereby of fered for the apprehension and conviction of any person guilty ot setting fire to any house within the limits of the city of Savannah RICHARD D. ARNOLD, june 15 Mayor. Op HOWARD Insurance company.—This Company Continues to take risks as usual, and during my absence from the city Mr. Charles H. Campfield will act as my Attorney, to whom all applications for insurance or oth* r business ap pertaining to the above Company, may be made. _ j uly 31 lmo S. C. DUN Ni NG, A gent Op* PROTECTION INSURANCE COMPANY °f Hartford, Conn.—The undersigned, agents cf the above Company, are prepared to take risks against Hre, on buildings arid their contents, cu the most favorable terms. July 10 BRIGHAM. KELLY & CO. jngp SAVANNAH MUTUAL INSURANCE CO Office, No. 114 Bay-street. This Company* r continue to take Marine,Fire and Inland Navi-- ’ n risks on the most favorable terms. enryD. Weed, President. Trustees—Henry I). ‘W red, II F. Waring, I.W. Morrell, N. B. Knapp, Hiram Roberts. E. F. Wood, Henry Lathrop. John R. Wilder, Secretary ju e 13 f DERY.—Having fitted out a : tirt* ’ y.aud engaged the services °iuiu . oku.an, the subscriber is prepared to execute in the best manner every thing in the line of Book Binding. Demi, Medium, Royal and Super R. yul.and all other sizes of blank books will he ruled and made up to any pattern, and of the best material. Books of all kinds will he hound in any style, from Boards to Extra Turkey Morocco, and the workmanship warranted. A share of public patronageis respectfully solicited. Orders may be left at Cubbedge’s Bookstore, Market-square, or at the Bindery, Sorrel’s Building, over Messrs. Ro binson & CampV. J. ip CUBBKDGK. jr-p BOOK AND JOB PRINTING.—The sub- U-Hw scriber having supplied his office with a large assortment ot plain, ornamental and fancy types, is now prepared to execute at short notice, all orders entrusted to him in the best manner, and equal to any establishment m the South. Pamphlets, Law Blanks. Circulars, Catalogues, Business Cards, Hat Tips, Bills of Lading, Visiting Cards. Bill Heads Dray Receipts,also Posters, .Show and Hand Bills, in Gold. Bronze, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, and every kind ot colored InkF, faithfully done at short notice and on reasonable terms. Orders may be lett at the Office, SorreJ’e Building, or at the Book Store, on Market square. J. B.CUB BF.DGE.