Geotgia Goid.--Large quantities of this article are continually arriving in our city from the upper counties, Hab. ersh-n, Rabun, Franklin and Hall, but principally from Habersham. Near

 $900O worth has been purchased with. in the last three weeks, by Messrs. Beer,

 Booth and St. John, besides what has been bought by the Jewellers and oth- ers.-.4ug. CAron.

 A letter addressed to MT. Carson. . representative in Congress from N. Car olina,andpublishedin the American Far mer, says, "in the single county of Ca- barrus there will shortly be in operation engines or machinery at six different places on extensive plans. One (Mr. Gelston's) has lately started, and though his ore is considered poorer than most in the county, has produced, 1t is said, l25 dwts. per day, which would be annu- ally 5000 dwts. or S35, f00: taking tbs as the basis of an estimate for the coun. ty, the amount produced by machinery (tosay nothing of what is found by baTd,Ai would be S2lG,600 annually, to which twenty thousand dollars may De added for what is found by hand thismay serve to give some idea of the extent of the gold operations. Mr. Bissel, an expe- rienced miner of Meektenburg, am in- formed, extends bis estimate for next year, to one million dollars in this state.

 Doraag dSsasslaatson.-Mr. JOSEPH WHITE an aged and respectable cit, zen of Saiem, Mass, was found deadiin ] his bed, in that town, on the morning of ssae Eth April April, with with ;s stab in his left breast directly through the heart! A plank was resting against the wlndowot ot his roomby means Of which the assassin or assassins, it is supposed, effected an entrance.

 Mir. White was 8l years of age, and E has long been considered, we believe, one of the most wealthy citizens of Sa lem. No cause can be assigned for the deed nor had any clew to the perpetra- tors been discovered when our infof- niaft left. Pilandcf, 1t would seem, was not the object, as the property in the house remained undisturbed: and rs- veage could hardly have been intended, where the victim was universally re- spected and beloved. [Bost. But,