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in the steamer, if the water admitted of it
The weather continuing pleasant., and think
in* th it T might be of service myself on board
the “ Eugenie,” I left my vessel at nine o'clock
in the evening, in my gig. accompanied by two
custom house officers, who came down in the
schooner and went on board of her. On my
arrival, Mr. Reilly, the master, informed me
that he was in charge of the “ Eugeniethat
the Captain had hesitated at first to give him
the charge, but had given it; that he had then
repeated the question whether he resigned the
charge to hiai, and that the Captain had again
done it, without hesitation ; that he had carried
out the anchor on the larboard bow where
there was deep water, and hove taut upon the
cable; that ahead, astern, on the starboard
side, and on the larboard quarter, there was
only between five and six feet water; the rud
der was fast, the vessel thumped some, but not
as much as she had done, and was very nearly
upright. I immediately ordered her to be
lightened, by placing the starboard bower an
chor in the launch, coiling as much chain cable
with it as could be come at, and filling the
launch up with such articles off deck as were
heaviest. I also filled my gig and cutter from
the deck. The long-boat of the Eugenie was
reported to me not to be in a fit condition to
receive anything, being very leaky, It was
now about midnight of the 16th. The pilot in
formed me that the tide was rising, and keep
ing the intensest strain upon the cable, m
which I broke the starboard arm of the wind
lass, the bow of the vessel gradually came
round. I ought to have mentioned that the
master informed me he had already hove the
bow round about two points; that, when he
went on board, the vessel was heading south
east half south. By little and little, I brought
the bow round to east half south. The wind
was from the eastward. All this time I had
been attending forward on the larboard bow,
but. going aft, I observed, by the light of the
moon, which was now well up, the rocky bot
tom; and, passing over to the larboard side, I
could plainly see the bottom all the way along
to the fore chains, where the water deepened
It now occurred to me to send every body
in the vessel on her bowsprit and jib-boom,
and endeavor by depressing her bow. to
cause her to slide off the reef. The effect
was favorable, and we immediately saw that,
as she rose with the sea, she also shot a
head. Heaving again on the cable, we found
we had gained, and persevering in this plan,
by degrees, we succeeded, at three o’clock
in the morning, in getting the •• Eugenie”
afloat. Having hauled her as far from the reef
as we could with the cable that was out, we let
go one of her anchors, and just at that moment,
the stream cable, which had all this time been
caught under a coral rock, got clear, proving
that the stream anchor was still some distance
farther off. I mention this to show what kind
of bottom there is along the edge of these reefe.
The “ Eugenie” was lying just on the northern
edge of the reef “ El Rizo,” her stern and star
board side resting on the reef, with deep water
from her larboard main chains forward. The
bottom was rocky, as are the bottoms of all
these reefs. Leaving the •* Eugenie” at anchor,
I returned to my vessel, and at daylight got
under weigh, and went round and took her in
tow, and towed her up to my anchorage at
Sacrificios, where we arrived at noon on the
17th.
A Literary Address,
At the recent anniversary of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society of Brown University, R. 1., an
address was delivered before the Society by
Geo. Russell, L.Li D., which seems to have
enchained and captivated all hearers. Mr. R.
is a merchant—a business man —and the ora
tion was upon a business subject. A thorough
ly educated merchant appeared before an au
dience of scholars, and treated of “ Com
merce.” It deserves to be spoken of, and we
will take the sketch of this performance made
by the talented editor of the Providence Jour
nal, the distinguished Whig Governor of
Rhode Island:
tl We speak the universal feeling in express
ing the hope that such visitations may be very
frequent, and the exception may tread close
upon the heels of the rule. Never have we
listened to an oration which was more faithful
to its subject, and united more manly sense,
and practical knowledge, with accurate learn
ing, pointed wit. and finished composition.
“ The orator, after a graceful and judicious
ly brief introduction, cave an elaborate and
graphic sketch of the History of Commerce.
We trembled at the announcement of this pur
pose, and looked at the clock to conjecture
how long it would lake to go through the dull
array of facts in store for us, and the dry
bones of geographies, chronicles and gazet
teers, seemed to be shaking on their sepulchral
shelves in readiness to rise upon a ghostly mis
sion. But the alarm soon went away, and
gave place to unalloyed delight, as we follow
ed Mr. Russell through his rapid and brilliant
survey of commercial enterprise, from its be
ginnings in China to its magical achievements
in our own day. Every old and even familiar
fact wns made vivid and attractive by its obvi
ous co? ections with man as he is now, and
even the most ludicrous follies of the past were
shown to have great affinity with the ways of
our boasted nineteenth century. We would
try to report some of the best hits, but their
force depends so much upon the exactness and
beauty of the expression that we forbear, and
refer hearers to their memory, and our readers
at large to the printed copies, which will with
out doubt be forthcoming to confirm what we
«ay.
“ The close of the oration, treating of the
several bearings of commerce and its relations
to scholars and the learned professions* was so
bold and racy, that we found it hard to believe
that we were standing on academic ground
and listening to one of the stated exercises of
an anniversary, far more remarkable for its dis
play of dry book learning, than for its flashes of
wit and dashes of freedom. Yet the grave
heads all seemed to nod approbation, and we
thought the venerated head of the University
showed his hearty response to the doctrine so
forcibly urged, that whatever a man’s educa
tion may be, he ought to And what calling he
is fitted for by talent and temperament, and
give himself to that with all his might, however
little or much it may consort with the dainty
notions of those who measure men bv their
professions, and not by the manner in which
they fill their profession, or by what they are
called, not by what they are,
** The crutor gives us, in himself, a capital
commentary on his doctrine, and proved that
the accomplishments of the scholar may be
united with the toils of the business man. He
is a merchant who has been abroad seeking
goodly pearls, and we thank him for the pearl
of great price which has graced our academic
festival—a gem shining with the light of the
Medici and Roscoes, and glowing with the
good-will of the Gurneys, and Buxtons, and
Browns.
“ Not the least of the excellences of the per
formance, was the bold humanity that pervaded
the whole. The manner was good, although
very simple and unpretending. Refreshing
indeed is it to listen to a man who has some
thing to say, and who says it in his own unaf
fected way, with all directness and heartiness.
1 o such a man the finest graces of expression
come far more freely than to the mere rhetori
cian, however gifted, who thinks more of words
and gestures than of truth or principle.”
From Havana, Yucatan, &.c.
From the N. O. Orleans Picayune of 2oth ult.
By the arrival here, yesterday morning, of
the brig P. Soule, Captain Williams, from Ha
vana lhe 16th inst., we have received files of
the Gaceta, the Diar<o and lhe Faro Industrial
to the date of her departure. The local intel
ligence by this arrival is, as usual, very barren
of interest.
News of a late date has been received at
Havana from Yucatan. It announces that the
government and people of the peninsula had
been again thrown into perturbation by the re
port that England was about to intervene in
the a flairs of Yucatan. It is stated that the
I resident of the Republic had contracted with
oor ambitious cotemporary to pacificate lhe
peninsula, by an armed intervention, on con
dition that the port of Bacalar and its jurisdic
tion be ceded to the British. Letters from
Campeachy. August 20th, and from Merida.
September 3d. state that the British man-ot
war bng Sappho arrived at the former port on
the 28th ot August, bringing a communication
from the Mexican Minister of Relations, and a
despatch from the British Minister in that capi
tal. for die Superintendent of the English co
lony of Belize, who was to forward them to
the Governor of Yocatan. The letter convevs
the impression that these oftcUl documents
embrace the project initialed by the British
Government. This is, dial a portion of the
peninsula be ceded to the Indians, where they
may live entirely independent of the Spanish
race governing themselves, without doubt
under the protection of the English, or in alli
ance with the famous King of the Musquito
shore.
The Merida letter of September 34. com
menting on this, say,: “War is bad enough,
but it m preferable to auy of the measures here
spoken of.” The territory of Bacalar joins
that ot the Musquito King, and it is probable
that the jurisdiction of the latter will be ex
tended, by the aid of the British, over the In
dians scattered in different parts of the peniu
aula. Letters, however, which have reached
Havana, state that the intervention of the Bri
tish. on such bases m are here mentioned, » ill
be rejected by the Yucatan Government. The
news from Tihoshco and other parts, Hatter 3
the \ ucatecoes with the belief that the India ns
will eventually be subdued without fore
aid. e
Papers from Guatemala ami Salvador to the
a>m July, hare reached Havana. The y state
that notwithstanding the arrangement between
the Present land Carrera, the rebellion in Us
Altos, headed by Cen. Guzman, was still pro
gressing, aided by Leon Raimondo a nd others
An attempt at revolt had been land y pin dowu
by the President tn Amatitlau.
i J"JB'' ,d % 1 eVerj “•*“« **• P«ceful and
cient f *1 ? The question of r» new j n g t h e an .
dur« had ? ° n K "u*? '“icr and Hon
auras bad been brought forward.
in -Nicaragua a civil war had broken out
1 effects on the
counry. The Government expected to be
able'to suppress the revolt. ACS Charge
d*Affaires had arrived a , q " , * , -
The President of Honduras opened th. Le
session on the 10<h June, and tender
-nil ft was supposed «>a: it
would not be accepted. Troops had been
collected ou the frontier, to make head .against
ue revolted in -Nicaragua, should they ap
proach. • 1
In Costa Rica all was tranquil. President
V astro, at the opening of the seamen of Con-
SJ-es* May 1, congratulated the country on
s,ncv ,he changes in Mirvh.
j ‘here was not a single political pro
senbed person m die Republic.
'j* t . L .°7 P J’»« « Nvw Okluvs There
-” llow fever in the Chanty
lienal w^^X LUD,t * r ° f de ‘ li “ lhe |
Augusta,
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 27, ’49.
Gen. Taylor—M. Poussin.—The reader
will find much to admire in the prompt action
of Gen. Taylor, in refusing to receive any
communication from M. Poussin, as announced
in our telegraphic dispatch. The fact is Old
Zack has got his dander up, and the ex-Min
ister will not find him so amiable —however he
may play the agreeable to him. There is no
act in the whole affair which more than this re
ceives our hearty approbation.
Plain and Honest Talk.—The New York
Globe thus speaks out plainly to the Hunkers
and Free Soilers to unite and harmonize:
“ Democrats I shall we go to work and elect our
whole ticket, which will enable us all to partake of
the fat things which will fall from the Democratic
cornucopia, or shall we remain divided, and be com
pelled for a number of years to feed on short com
mons and ‘cold fodder, ’ until we have not strength
to withstand a good, stout, old-fashioned Staten Is
land nor’wester? 11 hat do you say?”
Immediately after the appearance of this pa
ragraph, the Old Hunkers and Free Soilers
united upon a common ticket What a beau
tiful commentary upon the declaration of Mr.
Calhoun, about the “cohesive power of the
public plunder. ”
Yellow Fever in Charleston.—The
Board of Health report 28 deaths for the week
ending last Saturday, of which 14 were from
yellow fever.
This is a very favorable report, and induces
the belief that the disease has not assumed a
very virulent form, and we hope will not. It
would, however, have been much better, and
have corrected many exaggerated and extrava
gant stories that have found their way to all
parts of the country about the extent and fatal
ity of the disease, if reports had been made
daily through the week.
The Southern Cultivator.
An intelligent correspondent of the Mobile
Advertiser, who has been spending the sum
mer in Upper Georgia, in a letter from Mari
etta, portraying in vivid colors the progress of
Georgia in internal improvements and in in
dustrial pursuits, notices the Southern Cultiva
tor thus:
Agriculture is advancing in Georgia with rapid
strides. That excellent publication, the ‘ Southern
Cultivator, ’ has done much to awaken and keep
alive an interest among the planters upon the subject
of agricultural improvement. I had the pleasure o rs
hearing a lecture on this topic from its accomplished
Editor, during court week in this village, and the re
spectful attention of the audience, most of them plan
ters, was good evidence that his discourse was not
seed sown on barren soil. ”
The Steamship Ohio.—This fine new stea
mer is now on her first voyage from N. York
to N. Orleans and Havana, touching at Charles
ton and Savannah. The Courier of Tuesday
says:
“ This leviathan steamer arrived off our bar be
tween 7 and 8 o’clock on Sunday evening, from New
York. About 7 o’clock yesterday morning, the stea
mer Etiwan proceeded to the bar, and placed the
mails and passengers on board, when the Ohio im
mediately got under way for her destination. The
Etiwan brought up two or three passengers from the
Ohio, who speak in terms of high praise of the ac
commodation she affords. She has between 2 and
300 persons on board. ”
The Savannah Republican of Tuesday makes
the following notice of her :
“ This steamer passed our harbor yesterday after
noon at 6 o’clock, having been boarded five miles
from Tybee Light House by the steamer J. Stone,
and the Mails for Havana and California put on
board* She was about SO hours making the run
from New York to Charleston, and nine hours from
Charleston bar to Savannah bar; and unless detained
by some unusual cause, must be much slower than
either of the Charleston or Savannah steamships
The Ohio has on board about 250 passengers, most of
whom are for California. ”
Maine Election.—lt is now definitely set
tled that there is no election of Governor by lhe
people. Os the Senators elected 13 are Dem
ocratsand 12 Whigs, while there will be a
small Democratic majority in the House of
Representatives. This secures to that party
the choice of their candidate for Governor, and
a United States Senator in place of Mr. Ham
lin, whose term will expire on the 4th of March
next.
Opium Trade of China.—A correspondent
of the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal, wri
ting from Canton, June 22d, 1849—after no
ticing the refusal of the Chinese to permit the
English and other foreigners to enter the gates
of the city in accordance with the stipulations
of the treaty with England, thus alludes to the
opium trade and its extent:
“ The relations with the Chinese are going on pret
ty amicably. This affair of going into Canton, is a
local one, and the inhabitants of the other ports do not
sympathize with the citizens of this, in their refusal
to permit ingress into their city. I hope however it
will induce lhe English to go to Pekin, in order to
communicate with head quarters and responsible offi
cers. If it was net for the opium trade, I should
think that every important question wore a favorable
aspect; hut thi* dixaMsouw trade is draining the coun
try of its stamina, to enrich a few merchants and
benefit the East India Company. You can judge of
its extent when you hear that nearly 69,000 chests
come on this year (almost eight millions of pounds)
and that last month nearly three millions dollars of
specie left this for India and England. It is a dread
ful trade to contemplate in its effects upon the indus
trial resources of this empire upon lhe operations of a
government without public faith, and of course with
out a bank or a debt, and upon the morals of the peo
ple generally. Had I not a sure trust that good can
be, as it has been, brought out of this evil, I should
regaid it as irremediable. When it is free in India,
there is hope for its cessation in China; it is an ano
malous spec taele to see the senators and lords of a
religious f>eople like England, laud themselves for
being able to get so much revenue out of a foreign
nation, as is done by the opium monopoly out ofChiiia,
entirely blinking the moral character of the traffic,
and its sad results.”
Railroad Couveutlou.
September 26, 1849.
At ar. adjourned meeting to this city of the
late Macon Railroad Convention, in the ah
senee of lhe President, Gen. Bledsoe, of Put
nam, was called to the Chair and John Mil
ledge, Esq., of Richmond, was requested to act
as Secretary.
The following gentlemen appeared and look
their seats as delegates, viz:
Messrs. Bledsoe, Young, N. Bass. Perry
man, Hudson, Moseley, Dennis, 11. Bass and
Wright, of Putnam.
Messss. L. N. Whittle. S. T. Chapman, T
J. Shinholster, R. A. L. Atkinson and Dr. Jas.
M. Green, of the city of Macon.
Messrs. John P. King, John C. Sneed, John
Milledge, A. J. Miller, Janies M. Smythe, 11.
C. Anns, VV. A. Walton, Pleasant Stovall, M.
I*. Stovall, B. H. Warren and W. M. D’Antig
nac. of Augusta.
On motion, Messrs. Cunningham and Lin
ton were requested to take seats as delegates
from Greensboro ugh.
Reports from Committees appointed at the
previous meeting were then called for- where •
upon Col. Bass in behalfofthe Committee from
Putnam, reported subscriptions to the amount
ot $72,950, with assurances of a considerable
increase.
Mr. Whittle, from the Macon Committee,
reported that, including private and public
subscriptions, the amount offered from that
city was SIBI,OOO.
Mr. Miller made some remarks in reference
to the action of the City Council of Augusta on
this subject. After remarks made by Messrs.
King, Bass, Chapman and Whittle, in regard
to ibis project, a motion was made and carried
that a committee of two froiu each delegation
b.e appointed by the chair to report to this meet
ing. at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The chair
appointed Messrs. Chapman and Whittle, of
Macon, Messrs. N Baas and Perryman, of
Eatonton, King and D'Antignac, of Augusta,
and John Cunningham, of Greensboro’, that
Committee. The President, on motion, was
made chairman of this committee.
The meeting then adjourned to 5 o’clock this
afternoon.
5 O'clock p. m.
The Convention met at 5 o'clock p. m. ac
cording to adjournment, when the committee
reported through their Chairman, lhe Presi
dent, lhe following resolutions, which on mo
tion, were received aud unanimously adopted
Resolved' That this Convention do recoin mend
that the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company
proceed, at the earliest practicable period, to con
struct, under their existing charter, a branch from
some point on the Georgia Railroad to the town of
Eatonton in Putnam county.
AWwrf, That the said Company be also recom
mended to apply to the next Legislature of Georgia
for an increase of its capital stock, and such other
legislative action as miy be necessary for an exten
sion of the said Eatonton branch to the city of Ma
con, and that stockholders in said branch be admitted
to all lhe benefits, privileges and immunities of the
present stockholders in the company—in other words,
that the stock of said Road and said Branch to Ma
con be consolidate J.
The thanks of lhe Convention were tender
ed to the President and Secretary, and ordered
that its proceedings be published. The Con
vention then adjourned.
ROBERT BLEDSOE, Chairman.
John Mill edge. Secretary.
For the Chronicle Sentinel.
Messrs. Editors: I have noticed severs
pieces in various papers in reference to the re
cent purchase of the Murray Springs. As .all
the writers are in error in regard to the pur
chasers, and as I have been interrogated not a
tittle in the matter. I beg the use of your valua
ble paper, tor the purpose of giving the names
of the real purchasers.
Dr T. W. Baltey, of Louisville, Maj. W.
IL Batter and H. H Hickman, of Augusta,
purchased lhe lot of land on which are sit
uated lhe principal cluster of Springs in ques
tion. Subsequently the adjoining lot was pur
chased by Dr. G McDonald, of Macon.
The purchasers of Murray Springs intend to
give the public an opportunity of testing their
virtue, as well as the salubrity of the climate.
k H.
For the Chronicle S? Sentinel.
Education.
iMessrs Editors: —So much has, within the ,
last few years, been written about educa- i
tion, that it seems a work of supereroga
tion for any one to attempt to enlighten the
public mind on so tritea subject, and I would
certainly shun the ordeal o£ public criticism,
fearing to hear your readers cry—
“ What cracker is this same, that deafs our ears,
With this abundance of superfluous breath ?”
did I not know that, to the mass, the science of
teaching in all its varied branches is yet a terra
incognita; that the Southern people, general
ly. have not yet opened their eyes to the light
which is irradiating other sections of the Union.
In the following remarks, I offer nothing
new—no crude theories, no speculative disqui
sitions, but, merely serve up, hotneopathetical
ly, the opinions of others as gleaned from
booksand men :
A WORD TO TEACHERS.—PART 11.
It has long been a source of regret that so
many young men engage in the profession of
teaching merely for its emolument, that they
may gain a support while pursuing the study of
law or physic or divinity. They feel no pro
fessional pride, have no heart in the business,
and no time to study and perform its duties.
Without enthusiasm, discharging the labors of
the school as a necessary evil, they fail 4o awa
ken animation in their pupils, and time drags
heavily away, tediously to him, worse than wea
risome to them. No man can be efficient as a
teacher who is not prepared to devote all his pow
ers to the performance of its duties. The office,
above all others, demands “ a vigilance that
never sleeps, a perseverance that never tires.”
The motto of Luther, “ Work on Earth, and
rest in Heaven,” must be the motto of every
faithful schoolmaster; and he who is not pre
pared to live and act in this spirit, had better
leave the service to warmer hearts and nobler
minds.
But why should this crying evil exist? It
cannot be for want of patriotism, for, at the
clarion’s blast, thousands rush to the embattled
field, crying, “ dulce et decorum estpropatria
mori;” nor from lack of a spirit of self devo
tion to noble purposes, for hundreds yearly
connect themselves with the church, and de
vote themselves to a life of penury and self-de
nial, as circuit riders or missionaries, that the
light of the gospel may be shed abroad ; nor
from indifference to rank in society, for hun
dreds yearly dedicate themselves to Esculapius
or Mercury, as physicians or lawyers, teeming
with “ longings sublime and aspirations high,”
to be deemed of “the upper ten.”
But, in spite of these virtues, which our
young men seem to possess in an eminent de
gree, few prepare themselves to enter the lists
;>s Teachers, and, of those few, the major part
cast off the armor as soon as circumstances will
admit, feeling that the office does not bring the
eclat that commonly attends the soi disant pro
fessions of preacher, doctor, lawyer. Well,
there is some reason in this madness, for how
often do we hear the lips of those who should
know better, give utterance to such pitiful ex
clamations as, “he is only a Teacher.” Why
is this ? Because the people are not awake to,
do not realize the dignity, the responsibility of
the Teacher’s office-t-an office which calls' for
more self-discipline, more intelligence, and as
much intellect as any other existing profession,
and which, to-day, throughout the length and
breadth of our land, presentsan array ofgifted
men, honored for their virtues and valued for
their talents, such as no other calling can excel,
few equal.
You who would “seek the bubble reputa
tion even in the cannon's mouth,” if it is strife
you love, try the Teacher’s life, and learn to
conquer yourself; it will bring you more true
glory than ever encircled the diadem of all the
Caesars; or, if it is to serve your country that
you seek “ the battle’s magnificently stern ar
ray,” know that “ the pen is mightier than the
sword;” that nations are prosperous, mighty
and happy, in proportion as the people are in
telligent, educated and moral.
You who would inform “ the people,” your
“ fellow citizens, of their rights, of dangers to
be avoided, aims achieved ; you whose public
spirit makes you shout yourselves hoarse, in
the vain attempt to keep the dffar democracy
from the hungry jaws of ravening demagogues
—go to the school room, teach the boys to read,
that, when the right of suffrage is theirs, they
may be able to judge for themselves. You can
not bend the gnarled oak, but the tender twig
is pliant.
You who keep long vigils by the unearthed
corpse, seeking the hidden cause of fell disease,
and tracing the wonderful formation of God’s
master-piece, till lost in that mystery, the brain
—go, with your accumulated knowledge, and
ins ruct youth in the fearful delicacy of their
organization, teach them the mysteries of physi
ology, <fec., and, if it is your wish to be useful,
you will have your reward. “An ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
You who burn the midnight taper, in studi
ous perusal of the musty tomes of pandects,
digests and commentaries, that you may be en
abled to unmask the guilty, and save the inno
cent—would you shorten the criminal docket,
become a teacher. Education checks the
growth of crime.
You who put on the armor of the Lord, and
go forth to preach Christ, and him crucified,
unto the uttermost ends of the earth, meekly
enduring the “ oppressor’s wrong, the proud
man’s contumely,” in hopes of a reward be
yond the grave, know that a field of extensive
usefulness is the Teacher’s province, and that,
in the school-room, as well as in the pulpit, the
“cross” must be put on; and that, in the
school-room, even before the church, the seeds
of faith and charity must be sown, if you would
not gather grapes of thorns.
To return to whence we started: Too many
young men engage in the profession of teach
iug, merely as a temporary necessity. True,
as a profession, teaching is poorly paid ; but,
is the salary all the Teacher receives ? Has
teaching no attraction, beyond the allurement
of lucre ? Aye, has it—and many. To the
pure and honest heart, the school-room is a
scene of overflowing pleasure, where all the
finer qualities, the cardinal virtues of man’s na
ture are called in play. There, surrounded
with a group of pure, bright beings, fresh from
the hands of their Creator, with living, think
iug, immortal minds, ready to be moulded at
his will, the Teacher’s heart swells with an un
told rapture as he recognises the truthfulness
of the lines—
“ Delightful task to rear the tender thought,
To teach t’.ie young idea how to shoot,
To pour the fresh instruction o’er the mind,
To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix
The generous purpose in the glowing heart.”
Hut I will not attempt to entice by enumerating
the pleasures attending the conscientious discharge of
the Teacher’s duties; “ ut pruerisolitn dant crustula
blandi doctores.” 1 will but urge in behalf of the
its utility. Man was made for usefulness ;
and he, who fails to contribute something to advance
the holy cause of humanity, has been made in vain.
I address myself, then, to those who are disqtoecd to
give their aid in forwarding the design of their crea
tion. Young men who are engaged in teaching
merely “ pro re nata,” where will you find a field
more fitted for the display of all the qualities which
stamp a man with the impress of a God ? The all
seeing eye of an approving Deity there marks your
endeavors, Christ, the Great Teacher, smiles en
couragingly upon your efforts. Certainly, He, who
sn loved little children, will not forsake the youth’s
friend, and, when at last, “life’s fitful fever’s” over,
with a smile of ineffable love, He will greet the chas
tened spirit, and welcome it “over Jordan.”
And what would you more! Wordly honor!
What profession is more honorable? Invoke from
their elysian fields the mighty Teachers who have
passed away. With a rushing of myriad wings they
come. “Sages venerable with th** ponderous lore of
antiquity, and severe in the gravity of ail philosophy,
and grand in the ineffable dignity of thought” are
there. Au assemblage before whom the proudest
monarchs of the earth might bow in homage.
Important! There is no profession equally so.
Close the school room and the age of progresses at an
end. Dispense with the Teacher, and “ veniet lus
tris labentibus atas,” where might will be right, and
ignorance, “monstrum horrendum, ingens,” reduce
man again to the level of the brute. All our institu
tions, civil, literary and religious, depend upon the
labors of the Teacher. W hat we are as a nation,
and what we enjoy as a people, we owe to popular
education as established by our fathersand transmit
ted to us. Since the village reboot has adorned the
village green, (within the last 200 years,) the world
has made more substantial progress in ait. science
and the knowledge that is above all price, than it had
done in all the 5,000 antecedent years.
Ere the Teacher grasped his lerule, (more potent
than the wizard’s wand) what was the calling of the
Physician? ask Romeo, and hj will tell you of
la tatter 4 d weeds • • ♦ culling of simples ;
Meagre were his looks, and in his needy shop,” &c.
Before the patient Teacher, by a long course of
skilful training, prepared the mental and moral being
for a |<roper appreciation of the truths of Holy Writ,
what was the rank of a minister of the Most High?
A shorn and h<xxied monk, an ignorant mendicant,
preying upon the fears the superstitious prufanum
vulgus.
What would avail the eloquence of the gentlemen
at the Bar, their profound erudition, their long list of
weighty autboritieo, if jurymen were the senseless
clodhoppers of the dark ages, instead of the intelli
gent fai .uers of the 19th century ? Break up the
school room, and the lawyer may cry, “Othello’s
occupatjon’s gone.” A n ignorant people are slavish ;
the will of the master supercedes the law, and tyran
ny dispenses with courts of justice.
\ oung men engaged in teaching, who have not de
termined to continue in lhe profession, 1 pray you, in
the name of philanthropy, cling to your integrity,
weary not in well doing, determine to go down the
vale of life a Teacher. And when at last your
Shall have fallen into lhe sear, lhe yellow leaf,”
how unlimited, how exquisite will be lhe enjoyment
to look back upon a long list of well spent years, to
see your quondam pupils “enacting and guarding
laws, administering justice, defending right,' punish
ing evil, vindicating the wronged and oppressed, pa
tronising lhe arts, asserting and defending truth,”
and to bear lhe blesssings of the generations whom
you have trained in virtue, strengthened in principle,
and guided in study, welling up from grateful hearts,
like fumes of sacred incense.
“ For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds.
And tho* a late, a sure reward succeeds.”
May the better counsel prevail with you, and our
voices blend in singing,
“ Let us then be up and doing.
With a heart for every ta’.e ;
Still achieving, still pursuing
to labor and to waiS.”
S.
The Abolition party proper in the State of
New York, being the Simon Pares who voted
for Gerrit Smith for President last fall, are in
’.he field with a State ticket, made out at Cort
landville last week. There is nothing new in
the phase of the ticket, unless it consists in the
sac; that these partisans, as if to exhibit their
unadulterated principles in stronger relief than
ever, have placed on it Mr. S. R. Ward, the
colored Divine, as Secretary of State.— Albany
Augusta, <sn.:
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FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 28, 1849.
Southern Wilmot Proviaoists.
While the organs of the Democracy of the
South are so vociferous in their denunciations
of the Wilmot Proviso, and so zealous in their
efforts to persuade the people that the Whigs
are unsound on this question, it may not be im
proper to lay before the country their votes in
favor of that measure. This has been done in
a most forcible style by a correspondent of the
Recorder, from whom we make the fallowing
extract—it is an abstract of the jdttrnals of
Congress:
“ Ever since the Wilmot Proviso was first started,
Southern democrats have supported that odious mea
sure, while Southern Whigs have uniformly opposed
it.
“ The first time this question occurred was on the
passage of the bill organizing the territory of Oregon,
on 4th February, 1845 The bill contained a provi
sion that slavery should never exist in that country,
and thereby excluded citizens of the South from go
ing there with their negroes. The bill, with this ob
noxious and unjust feature in it, was passed yeas
140, —nays 59. Among those who voted for its pas
sage, were forty-seven Southern Democrats, while
every Southern Whig voted against : ts passage I I
Now had these Southern Democrats been true to the
South, they might have defeated the bill—have
checked Northern aggression on Southern rights, and
thus secured those rights. But no; the object was
to make the Democratic party popular at the North,
and hence Southern Democrats betrayed their consti
tuents. Here are the names of these Democrats —
see Congressional Globe, page 236:
From Virginia — -Mesers. Atkinson, Hopkins.
Hubbard, Steenrod, Taylor and Lucas —6.
From North Carolina — Messrs. Arrington, Mc-
Kay, Reid and Daniel— 4.
From South Carolina. — Messrs. Black, Burt,
Rhett, Simpson and Woodward —5.
From Georgia—Edward J. Black, Absalom H.
Chappell, Howell Cobb, Hugh A. Harralson, John
H. Lumpkin, Wm. H. Stiles—6. While the only
two whigs from Georgia, Duncan L. Clinch and Al
exander H. Stephens, voted no!
From Alabama — Messrs. Belser, Houston, Me-
Connel, Payne and Yancey—s,
From Mississippi — Messrs. Hammel, Roberts,
and Tucker—3.
From Louisiana — Messrs. Laßrance, Morse and
Slidell—3.
From Tennessee — Messrs. Blackwell, Brown,
Cullom, Andrew Jonhson and Cave Johnson —5.
From Missouri— Messrs. Bower, Bowlin, Hughes,
Jameson and Relfe —5.
From Kentucky— Messrs. Boyd, French, Cald
well, Stone and Tibbats—s.
All, all voting for the Wilmot Proviso!
“ Now, had these forty-seven Democrats voted No,
the vote would have stood, yeas 93, noes 106 I Can
we hope to obtain our rights when Southern Demo
crats thus turn against us?
“ The Senate rejected this bill. On the 18th Jan
uary, 1847, the same bill, containing the same Wil
mot Proviso, again was put on its passage, and it was
passed—yeas 133, nays 35. Two-thirds of the
Southern Democrats again voted for it, while South
ern Whigs again opposed it. The vote from Geor
gia was as follows:
“ Yeas.—Howell Cobb, Seaborn Jones, John H.
Lumpkin. Mr. Haralson, who voted for it before,
dodged this time, and did not vote at all. Those
who voted No, were Thos. Butler King, Alexander
H. Stephens, and Robert Toombs. Thus, everytime,
the Georgia Democrats voted for the bill, and the
Georgia Whigs voted against it. This bill was again
lost in the Senate.
“In 1849, the same bill was offered in Congress,
and (hen passed both Houses. In the Senate, there
was a tie between the North and the South, but two
Democratic Senators—Thomas H. Benton and Gen.
Houston—betrayed the South, supported the bill, and
it passed. But for Democratic Senators it would
never have passed. Every Southern Whig voted
against the bill I. 1
Nor is this all. Mr. Polk gave his assent to
the Proviso, thereby admitting its constitution
ality in connexion with almost all his Southern
Democratic supporters in Congress. Yet, for
all this open betrayal of the South and her
rights, has any man ever heard these men de
nounced by their party or its organs ? No,
never. So far from it, they have in every in
stance where they could, re-elected them to of
fice! And with all these votes staring them in
the face, they have the cool impudence to as
sert that the Whigs of the South are unsound
on this question.
Railroad* in Alabama*
The spirit of internal improvement seems
to have acquired a new impetus recently in
Alabama, and the people are moving with great
apparent earnestness in the work of building
railroads. The most important of these, which
we have heretofore noticed, is that connecting
Mobile with the mouth of the Ohio—a most im
portant and gigantic work. Next in impor
tance is one s arting on the Alabama river,
probably at Montgomery, extending to North
Alabama and terminating on lhe Tennessee
river near Huntsville, and the last route sug
gested is to connect the Montgomery and West
Point Railroad with lhe Coosa river at Gads
den, and thence to the Tennessee at or near
Gunter’s landing. These two latter routes pro
pose to secure to Mobile the trade of North
and Northeast Alabama, and if ever comple
ted cannot fail of producing immense benefits
to that city. The spirit of improvement is
abroad among her citizens, and whether it ac
complish all it proposes at present or not, it
will certainly do much to develope tho great
resources of the State and add lo the prosper!
ty of the people. We have high hopes of Ala
bama. Indeed with the immense annual rev
enues of her people and a population so intel
ligent and enterprising, it requires no stretch
of the imagination to place her destiny high
among her Southern sisters. She has all the
elements for constituting herself a great State,
and it only remains for her to direct her ener
gies wisely to attain true greatness.
The Union vs. The Administration.
The carping of the Washington Union, at
the Administration, is admirably hit off in the
following article from the Washington Repub
lic. It has, perhaps, not escaped the attention
of those who see the Union, that no act of the
administration receives its approval. What a
wonderful change lhe absence of the spoils
has produced in this Swiss guard! Turned
from the public crib, nothing goes to please
him, and nothing will please him while he is
thus excluded. This is to be expected—it is a
characteristic trait of those who are accustomed
‘‘to bend the pliant hinges of the knee that
thrift may follow fawning.”
How things Ought to be Done. —It is evidently
the opinion of the sole organ, that the American peo
ple have done a very foolish thing in making General
Taylor their President, instead of Mr. Ritchie’s can
didate. Nothing will account for it but the idea that
the people have been •* humbugged.” When Bob
Acres, in the play, was explaining to his friend how
badly he had been treated by a young lady who had
been disposed of to another gentleman, Sir Lucius
O’Trigger observes to him —“ z\ rival in the case, is
there? and you think he has supplanted you unfair
ly?” To which the gallant Acres replies—“ Un
fairly! to be sure he has. lie never could /tare
done it fairly." Mr. Acres thought the girl was
humbugged. So Mr. Ritchie thinks of lhe American
people.
It the Union is right, it is clear enough that the
people would have done a much better thing if they
bad made Mr. Ritchie himself President. Then
they would have had every thing right; now they
have everything wrong, if we can credit the ex-offi
cial organ. The Union tells the people, every day,
in effect, that they have stultified themselves by ma
king a Chief Magistrate of a man who has not a sin
gle qualification for his position. He has not made a
movement which the sole organ has not condemned—
telling the people that they could not expect anything
but blunders, when they made a President of such an
“imbecile.” If he makes a speech, Mr. Ritchie
tells us that it is a very bad speech, with lhe impli
cation that the critic could make a much better speech
himself. If he writes a letter, we have Old Mentor
nt him again ; leaving us lo infer, how much better a
letter he could have written. Mr. Ritchie would not
have agreed to the capitulation at Monterey—not he ;
it was a great military blunder! Mr. Ritchie would
not have put the war-steamer United States under
bonds—not be ;it was a great political blunder! Mr.
Ritchie would not have rec immended a fast, nor is
sued a proclamation of neutraiiiy —not be ; he would
have done something or other a great deal better than
either, though he does not know exactly what. So
with the Florida war—he would have managed that
ten thousand times better than this “blundering, in
competent and imbecile” President. In the same
way is it with lhe affair of M. Poussin—if Mr.
Ruchie had only had lhe management of it, this thing
would have gone oil' very differently. As often as
M. Poussin wane a note, using offensive language,
he would have sent for him, and politely requested
him to withdraw it I Wonderful old man! Not on
ly “old man eloquent,” but old man wise, old man
military, old man grammatical, moral, political, litera
ry, dip! xnatic; old tnan every thing.
Clearly enough, the author of the Shockoe resolu
tions—the aaaassin of “that sweet little fellow, Mar
tin Van Buren,” the organ of the sweat-house, the
ex-printer of Virginia, the ex-organ of the ex-admin
istration—is laboring under a sort of monomania.
He is disgusted with the people, tiecause they took a
man for President who “ knows nothing of politics,”
and passed by a man like himself, who, for 60 years,
has done nothing under heaven but—peg away, peg
away on matters political, til! he is convinced nothing
can go right unless it goes precisely according to his
say-so. If lhe people only appreciated Mr. Ritchie’s
capacities, his accomplishments and his deserts, to the
same extent that he does himself, it is obvious that
they would call in a committee of the whole on “ Old
Zach,” and request him to resign in his favor. Then
things would be conducted “on the square then
the Richmond elite would flourish, to be sure —with
Mason in the Navy, Osborne in the Treasury, Denby
in lhe War Department, Stevenson, Attorney Gene
ral, and all the midshipmen’s warrants and all lhe
clerkships in the hands of Virgiiians as ardent as a
Southern sun could make them '—then what fine fun
we would have with Cuba ! Then there would be
cakes and ale and nats to crack for your Round Is
land boys! Then should a French minister write
what he might please to a Secretary of Slate—provi
ded he bad gone in fir 54 deg. 40 min. in the time of
it, though Mr. Polk was glad enough to settle on 49
deg. Then the iron masters might look out; and if
they made any wry faces —whack should the duties
go down to nothing, to punish them ! We shall nev
er have a political miilenium till there is a restoration
of lhe peculating Bourbons.
Census of Laurens District. 3. Carolina.
Free white population of Laurensl2.o2s
Slave 5,10,505
Free Negroes- 96
Total population 22.623
Stock in trade •••$49,205
Ain’t of prN-i-sejonal income taxed- ••• 14,910
Value of Village Lots 55.220
Land for which taxes are paid, 420,515 acres.
The white population, according to the cen
sus of 1840. was 12.572, which by comparison
with that of this year, shows a decrease since
1840, of 574.— Herald.
A new railroad switch regulator has been in
vented by Mr. John McGinley, of Philadel
phia, by which the engineer of a railroad train
can open or shut the switches at pleasure. —
The Inquirer thinks the invention will suc
ceed.
From the Pottsville Emporium.
National Washington Monument.
The following letter from an esteemed lady
friend at Washington, proposes a great work,
well worthy the perseverance and devoted pa
triotism of the women of America. Although
the precise plan suggested by our fair corres
pondent may not be adopted, yet we trust the
suggestion will bo acted upon in some shape,
and that it will lead to a speedy completion of
the great and glorious national work referred
to, and which has so far baffled the efforts of
the We commend the letter of
our correlpondent to the attention of the edi
torial fraternity throughout the Union, believ
ing that it will meet a hearty response. The
letter is dated
Washington, Sept. 14, 1849.
Mr. Editor lam not aware that the La
dies of this Union have as yet taken any public
interest in behalf of the National Monument
now progressing in this city. Then, is it not
time that some manifestation of this kind should
be made ?
In view of this important subject, I would
suggest a plan to them for completing this Mo
nument of the Nation, which their influence
will be able to accomplish. I appeal to every
sister of our glorious republic to aid in secur
ring this desirable result—a result which would
add imperishable honor to their patriotism and
zeal in the great cause of rearing a suitable
Monument to the Father of his Country, and
those worthies of the Revolution by whose va
lor and indomitable virtue the liberties of our
beloved country, and the rights of women,
have been secured.
Let each of us. then, in every State of this
Union, put forth our energies and influence to
procure the passage of an act by each of our
State Legislatures to appropriate annually a
certain sum, which, among all the States,
shall amount to SIOO,OOO, to complete this
great work; and let the guaranty of our
fathers, brothers and friends ensure the passage
of this act by voluntarily engaging to pay into
the treasury of their State, in the shape of a tax,
five cents each, every year, until the Mo nu
ment shall be completed. Who would refuse
this small pittance when it would accomplish
so great an object? Certainly not one.
Two millions of voters paying an annual tax
of five cents into the treasury would ensure one
hundred thousand dollars towards completing
the National Monument, which, in ten years,
would accomplish the whole object, and realize to
our country the most stupendous work of the
age or of past ages, which shall tell of the gra
titude of our republic to its benefactors.
You, my countrywomen, can effect this no
ble work ; your power, like the women of old
Rome, “ who agitated the republic by the im
pulses of the# hearts,” can arouse the latent
spark of national pride in every bosom, and
perpetuate the greatness and wisdom of the
women of the Revolution by an act of devotion
to their exalted virtues. Then let me appeal to
you again to commence this glorious pilgrim
age, which will end in entire success. J. S. P.
New Invention.—Among the articles exhi
bited at the magnificent display, just closed, of
French domestic products, we remarked corks
for bottles, which are made by machinery. Nu
merous and costly experiments to supersede
manual labor had entirely failed. But Messrs.
Duprat&Co. of Gastres, devised and execu
ted an apparatus, by which at their great man
ufactory of corks, they turn out a hundred
thousand daily of the best formation and finish
easily to be distinguished from those of handi
craft in common use. By multiplying the ma
chines, the manufacturers could meet any a
mountof demand. Hitherto, for lhe essential
operation,—the rounding (tournage)—work
men of special skill and practice were indis
pensable, and received wages of four francs
per diem, for the thousand corks they were
able to furnish. By the machine called La Toul
neuse, plied with little fatigue, by a woman or
child, the supply is 25,000 per day ; an econo
my in wages of nearly a hundred francs —Pa
ris correspondent of the N. Y. Jour, of Com.
Trouble among the Indians—We learn
from the Frontier Guardian, of the slh instant,
that Mr. Reed, a gentleman connected with the
missionary station at Bellevue, has returned to
Kanesviile, from a journey into the Northwes
tern country, some 300 or 400 miles, with the
Omaha Indians, who were out on their summer
hunt. At this distance they were in the neigh
borhood of the Pankas Indians.
They were very successful in their hunt, kil
ling and .packing away about 16 or 20 tons of
buffalo meat. While there the Pankas sur
prised and killed three of the Omaha young
men, who had separated from their party. —
This was regarded as a declaration of war.—
They formed a circular breastwork of their skin
bags of dried meat, and entrenched themselves
as well as they could. Just at sunrise on the
4th of August, the battle commenced, and lasted
until 8 o’clock.
The Pankas then retired, having killed four
Omahas and wounded eight or nine, not mor
tally, and lost about a fourth of their dried meat
and forty-two of their best horses. It was sup
posed that fifteen or twenty of the Pankas were
killed—among them their head chief—although
only two scalps were taken, lhe bodies of the
others having been removed by their friends.
This attack was made to punish the Omahas
for stealing four horses, two years ago.
The cholera is represented to have been very
fatal among the Pawnees, and to ndd to their
calamities the Sac and Fox Indians were about
to make war upon the remnant of them — St.
Louis Republican 17th inst.
Ship Building in New York—From the
first of January to the present time there have
been built and launched at New York 28 ves
sels, whose aggregate tonnage is 20,252 tons;
and there now on the, stocks 22 whose ton
nage amorirks to 28,960 tous, making a total of
fifty vessels and 49,211 tons. The value of the
whole is not far from three millions, three hun
dred thousand dollars.
Father Mathew arrived in Providence, R.
1., last Wednesday, and met with a most cor
dial reception from the authorities and citizens.
He administered the pledge to large numbers
on Thursday and Friday, and on Saturday af
ternoon left for Fall River, where he would be
Monday and Tuesday.
Decrease of Population in Ireland.—A
letter was read in one of the churches of Wash
ington on Sunday, says the Republic, from the
pastor of a parish in Ireland, stating lhe alarm
ing fact, that the population of his parish has
decreased in four years fully one-half.’ The
number of persons in his parish in 1846 ex
ceeded 9,000 souls, while, by a census recently
and accurately taken, lhe number was found
to be only 4,500. This great falling off is attri
buted to (amine, starvation, or consequent dis
ease; while hut a very small number have
been able to escape these miseries, or the sight
of them, by emigration. Unhappy Ireland !
Ship Charleston Destroyed by Fire
Yesterday morning a telegraphic dispatch, da
ted at Savannah 15 minutes after 10 o’clock,
received by Mr W. B. Smith. Agent of lhe
Union Lineof New York Packets, announced
tne startling intelligence that lhe ship Charles
ton, of that line, was burnt at sea, and that the
crew and passengers had arrived at that place.
We immediately sent to Savannah, by tele
graph. for the particulars of the disaster, and
were last evening kindly furnished by our cor
respondent with the following information :
“ Savannah. Sept. 25—5.45 P. M — The ship
Charleston took fire about 140 miles northeast
of Charleston, on the 22d inst. The fire was
discovered al 6 o’clock in the morning. The
hatches were opened, but so great was the vo
lume of smoke issuing therefrom that they were
immediately closed. Soon after the fire was
discovered, saw the brig Philura. from New
York, for Savannah, and made preparations to
pul the passengers on board her. They left
lhe ship at 3 o’clock P. M. and the captain and
crew at 7 P. M. at which time the flames had
burst through her deck. The cause of the fire
is unknown. The Charleston experienced a
gale on the 20lh,and the weather was bad on
the 21st and 22d. The captain saw the flames
on Sunday, at 3A. M. There were 13 pas
sengers on board and the crew numbered 16.”
The Charleston left New York for this port
on the 15th inst., and had on board a large and
valuable cargo. Her commander, Capt Mor
rison, is a seaman in whom every confidence
is placed, and the occurrence is one which it is
probable no human foresight could have pre
vented. Il is a matter of much gratulation that
there was no loss of life.
Convention or German-American Citi
zens.—Since The news of the stirring revolu
tionary events abroad have come to us, the
Germans resident in the United States have
had a desire to form a league by which to ren
der. in the moat effectual manner, encourage
ment and aid to their struggling friends in the
“fatherland.” To accomplish this,associations
have been formed in the different States, and
on Thursday last a general Convention com
menced its sessions in New York at Stuyve
sant flail, for the purpose of organizing a
“ Universal Patriotic League,” in order to
centralize the efforts of the subordinate associa
tions. Delegates from Virginia, Indiana. Penn
sylvania. Maryland, Massachusetts and New
York were present. — Phila North American}
From Mexico. —It appears by an article
in the Stgfo of the B‘h that Gen. Don Mari
ano Paredes, Ex-President of the Repub
lic. died in the capital the preceding day, after
a lingering illness. The editor abstains from
panegyric or censure of the deceased General.
A communication from the Mexican Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs has been addressed to the
British Minister, through the Governor of
Belize. Honduras, complaining of the assistance
afforded bv that colony to the insurgent In
dians. A replv has been given, in which the
English Miui-ter asserts that in reference there
to, the colony has limited itself to the simple
exercise of its undoubted rights.
Gen. La Vega has collected al Tampico 850
men, eight pieces of artillery, and armed the
steamer Herrera and a sloop, to defend the
river there, in order to oppose the landing at
that port of Col. White's anticipated expedi
tion. ' A brig with five pieces of artillery, 200
muskets and a quantity of ammunition had
been sent to Tampico from Vera Cruz. By a
recent Bull issued by the Pope. Vera Cruz has
been erected into a Bishopric.
The cholera is mitigating its ravages through
out Mexico. Robberies seem to be less fre
quent in the country, and with the exception
of the war in the Sierra and the perennial out
rages of the Indians on the frontier, the Repub
lic notwithstanding the spasmodic movements
of the Santanists, appears to be unusually free
from perturbations — P' r - 2'2na
Ths Weather — Cotton Crop.— We be
lieve that since 1839. our planting friends have
not been favored with such a propitious fall
for picking cotton. For weeks back, we have
not bad a shower sufficiently heavy to “lay the
dust.” and the consequence is, that the dust
has become a very palatable ingredient in our
present atmosphere. There seems to be no
doubt that the cotton crop in this vicinity will
be very short. Even the fertile land of the
Warrior Bottom, which for years have proved
the most certain and reliable as they neve al
ways been amongst the most productive in the
state, will, under a combination of d’isastrou
causes—late planting, worm, &c.—fall short
by at least one half, of their usual yield— Tut
cuioosu Monitor “XA inst.
CAugusta, ®a.:
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 2U, >49.
Manufacturing in Manchester, N. 11.
The Manchester American furnishes some
very interesting statistics of the manufacturing
establishments of that flourishing city of the
‘•Granite State,” which we subjoin:
Operatives. Cotton
r c. , annually
Capital. Male. Female, used (lbs.)
Amoskeag Co. 3,000,000 475 2,100 15,000,000
Stark Mills, 1,250,000 250 1,200 7,000,000
Manchester Pr’t
Works, 1,200,000 450 600 450,000
Besides the above, the machine shop of the
Amoskeag Company employs 500 men. The
aggregate of some of the principal items con
nected with manufacturing in Manchester is as
follows:
Capital employed.*ss,4so,ooo
Spindlesl3o,4oo
L00m53.593
Males employedl,67s
Females employed3,9oo
Yards of Cloth made per annum... *43,000,000
Pounds of Cotton used per annum,
(about 45,000 ba1e5)22,450,000
Pounds of Wool per annuml,2oo,ooo
Gallons of Oil per annum42,9so
Cords of Wood per annuml3,7oo
Tons of Starch per annum26s
Boarding Houses3lß
Amount paid out annually at the
workssl,2lo,ooo
Among the other valuable institutions of the
place, (and which we trust ere long to see es
tablished here, for the benefit of the mechanics
operatives and others who desire to lay up
their daily earnings,) the American informs us
there is connected with the Amoskeag mills a
Savings 1 Bank, in which there is now deposit
ed the sum of $55,000, by persons in the em
ploy of the company.
In looking to our Gazeteer we find that
Manchester, which has now five million four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars employed in
manufactures, had only $569,512 in 1840.
That its population in 1840 was 3,235, while
now it has 5,575 persons actually employed in
the factories—what an increase in nine years,
and that, too, in the frozen regions of New
Hampshire, than which, there is scarcely a
more inhospitable climate in America.* Yet
in this region, so cold as to keep them frozen
up for several months in the year, these enter
prising and industrious people find it profita
ble to invest their money in cotton factories,
near or quite fifteen hundred miles from the
cotton fields of the South. What then, we ask,
may not the people of the South anticipate
from similar investments, bringing the spindle
and loom along side of the cotton field ? Here
the climate is more genial, equally healthy,
laborand living as cheap, and the immense ex
pense in the transportation of the raw material
to the mill saved to the manufacturer, which of
itself would amount to a good per cent.
The effects of the system on the other indus
trial pursuits and prosperity of the country,
apart from pecuniary considerations, will be
the same here as there. The laborer will find
a market for his labor at remunerating prices,
the poor will have an opportunity to educate
their children, and rear them to enter upon the
duties of freemen, and the State will grow in
population, and her people become more pros
perous and happy.
These are not mere speculations of an ex
uberant fancy. These effects have already
been produced to a limited extent in our own
State, and the North and East abound in evi
dences of the truth of our declarations. What
the North and East have done we can do, if we
will only loose our purse-strings and apply the
water or steam to the driving wheels of the
spindles and looms. Let us not then hesitate.
The South Carolinian essays a lame and
impotent defence of its effort to make the im
pression that South Carolina manufactured
15,000 bales of Cotton, and Georgia only
20,000. When called upon for the evidence
that South Carolina manufactured 15,000 bales
lastyear, “ it prefers (the guessing)— (for it was
evident to every intelligent mind who ever read
the statistical report, that it was mere guessing,
in reference to the quantity manufactured by all
the Southern States) —of the N. Y. Shipping
List to the authority of the Chronicle Senti-
The Carolinian knew that the Shipping
List over estimated the consumption of South
Carolina, and it has had abundant evidence at
its command, that it underrated the capacity of
Georgia.
We thank the Carolinian for publishing even
a portion of our article, and only regret it had
not the manliness to publish the whole, that its
South Carolina readers might have learned
something of the industrial progress of Geor
gia, while South Carolina had been luxuriating
upon resolutions—the emanations of her “ res
olution monger.”
The extreme littleness and the puerility of
the Carolinian in attempting to parry the force
of our remarks by attributing them to tho
“ famed Agricultural Editor.” is characteristic.
But unfortunately for the point and force of
its logic, “ the famed Agricultural Editor” has
been absent for a month.
New Books,
“Mornings among the Jesuits at Rome:”
Being notes of conversations held with certain
Jesuits on the subject of religion in the city
of Rome, by the Rev. M. Hobart Seymour,
M. A. of the Church of England. We are
indebted to Harper Brothers for this
very entertaining volume, which is little else
than a transcript of familiar conversations with
the distinguished Priests of Rome in reference
to the Catholic religion. The author seems to
have enjoyed in a high degree the friendship
and intimacy of some of the most pious and
learned men of the Church of Rome, with
whom he communicated freely,and from whom
he derived much valuable and interesting in
formation in reference to their religious senti
ments and their views of other denominations,
which he has embodied in the volume before
us. The work is for sale by Thomas Rich
ards Son.
From the same Publishers, we have received
the second Part of “The History of Pen
dennis,” by VV. M. Thackeray’. Those who
have read the first part, will need no incentive
to purchase the second. The interest already
excited can only be satisfied by the perusal of
the entire work.
Fossil Remains of an Elephant.— The re
mains of an Elephant were found a short time
since, in the construction of the Rutland and
Burlington Railroad, upon the slope of Mount
Holly, one of the highest mountains in Ver
mont. Professor Agassiz states that this is the
first true elephant found in a fossil condition in
the Northern States. He says it is certainly
not the same kind of elephant which had been
found in the Kentucky cave, and that it is a
question whether it is identical with the fossil
European elephants or not.
Religious revivals seem to be much in vogue
in parts of Mississippi. At a camp meeting
held near Paulding there have been seventy or
eighty converts. At Pontotoc there have been
one hundred and fifty ; at another meeting five
miles south of that place there have been fifty
twelve miles east of it twenty-five; a large
nmber at another place, and about one hundred
and fifty at a place twelve miles south of Hous
ton.—Mobile Tribune.
Curious Vegetable.—Prof. Gray read a pa
per before the Scientific Convention at its last
session, on the Polar Plant.
lu 1843. he made known to the National In
stitute at Washington, the fact, previously un
known to the scientific world, but notorious a
mong the hunters and trappers of the Western
prairies, that the leaves of this plant face uni
formly east or west, so that their edges point
north and south. This fact has been called in
question ; Prof. Gray adduced abundant testi
mony to establish the fact In endeavoring to ac
count for it, some have suspected the presence
in the plant of iron in some of its compounds,
but none has been discovered by the most deli
cate tests. Others have conjectured that the
polarity is due to electrical currents, as the
plant is full of resinous matter, and sometimes
is called the Rosin Weed. The more proba
ble solution is. that the leaves present their flat
surface towards the rising and setting sun, thus
causing the numerous points around the edge
of the leaves to point north and south.
An Irish woman made her appearance at the
Marshall’s office, Boston, with a request that a
rope, with which a man hung himself in Charles
town a short time since, might be given her.
to be worn about her shoulders as a cure for
the king’s evil. No persuasion could induce
her to give up the folly of such a belief, and
she finally got possession of a rope, which she
believed to have been once used in the com
mission of suicide. With thia she went to her
home manifesting a great amount of gratitude.
A Hint to Clerks.—Dr. Bacon, of the
Day Book, makes the calculation :—“ If a
clerk will commence on a salary of S6OO a year
at the age of twenty one, with a merchant hav
ing a capital of $20,000, and save out of his
salary S2OO a year, and lend it to his employer
at 7 percent, on his note, at six months, add
the interest to the principal when the note is
paid, and lend it again, and so receiving his in
terest, semi-annually, reinvest it, he will, at
the age of forty, have possessed himself of all
his employers capital, and a large share of his
profits.
Crops —The advices from the States West
of us are exceedingly wormy—and from all we
learn from the interior of this State, the worms,
both boll and caterpillar, are beginning to be
very destructive. We have every reason to
believe that the accounts daily published by ns
are not exaggerations. The weather for a few
days past has been excessively hot, without any
rain in the city, though the sky has been fre
quently over shadowed around us. The city,
nevertheless, remains perfectly healthy. Sick
ness is not spoken of even in remote anticipa
tion.—Mobile Adv. 22nd.
CAugusta, Oco.:
MONDAY MORNING, OCT. 1, 1849.
M anchester Cotton Spinners.—The Con
stitutionalist of yesterday contained the follow
ing item of-English news received by tele
graph :
At Manchester the spinners are repotted to have
passed the following resolutions :
Resolved, That we will continue to buy sparingly
until later advices regarding the growing crop in the
United States are received.
That inundations, worms and short
crop, are ail humbug.
Nothing new in the Corn market, though holders
are rather firmer.
Whether true or not, it is certain that meet
ings of cotton manufacturers in England have
been heretofore held to devise means to de
press the price of cotton, when the prospect of
a short crop rendered it probable that prices
would range high.
This fact should open the eyes of Southern
planters to the necessity of building up a home
market for the consumption of their great sta
ple by the erection of manufactories, and if need
be, by the adjustment of the Tariff to afford
them protection against the English and other
foreign products. Let us protect our own
manufactures and our own labor, and we raise
up a home market for cotton (in a few years
equal to England,) and we will thereby protect
the labor and foster the interests of the cotton
planter. The price of our staple will not then
be under the control and decision of a few
Manchester spinners, who can in a few hours
assemble together and resolve that the price
of cotton shall not be influenced by the laws
of trade, the law of supply and demand.
The French paper in New York (the Cou
rier des Etats-Unis) takes a sensible and just
view of the difficulty with the French Minister.
It concedes promptly that it is altogether per
sonal to Mr. Poussin, and that the honor of the
French Government is not at all impugned by
his dismissal. It does not doubt, that amicable
relations between the two countries will be
maintained.
Fire in Vicksburg.—The most destructive
fire that ever visited Vicksburg occurred on the
21st ult., which consumed about twenty dwel
lings and stores. The extent of the loss, or the
amount covered by insurance, had not been
ascertained, at the latest dates.
“One of the Regulars,” was received
yesterday morning, but as our paper of this
morning will not reach Warren and Taliaferro
till after the Election, we deemed its publication
unnecessary.
Butterfly Flower.—The Charleston Cou
rier contains the following notice of a new
flower in this region :
“ Flora plays some fantastic tricks, at times,
almost always, however, giving pleasure to the
sense of sight or smell. We were yesterday
favored with the sight of one of her imitations,
in the shape of a “butterfly flower,” so perfect,
as at first view to completely deceive the eye.
It was the size of one of the largest kind of
butterflies, beautifully variegated in color, and
the wings and body covered with afine down or
floury substance, very similar in appearance to
that on the living insect. The plant, we are
informed, was brought from Trinidad, and the
flower shown us, was the first product ”
Counterfeit N. Carolina Bills.—The
Raleigh Register says:— We understand that in
consequence of there being in circulation a
number of well executed counterfeit Fifty Dol
lar notes of the Bank of the State of N. Caro
lina, payable at the Branch at Morgantown, the
Bank has determined to retire from circulation
all Branch notes of that denomination asspeed
ily as possible.
Cultivation of Sugar abandoned in the
British East Indies.—The regular Paris cor
respondent of the New York Journal of Com
merce thus adverts to the frustration of the ex
periment for the culture of Sugar in the British
colonial dependencies in Southern India. We
are of opinion (says the Charleston jEfoemnjr
News} that a similar failure awaits the attempt
to introduce the culture of Cotton on a scale
adequate to the expense incurred and the wants
of the parent State, notwithstanding the large
outlay for a rail road communication connect
ing the more remote portions of the peninsula
with the coast.
“ You will notice that the Messrs. Arbuthnot
& Co. have abandoned their great experiment
of cultivating the sugarcane under European
superintendence. The Madras Athemeum ex
plains the causes of the miscarriage of their
expensive efforts. It says of the firm :
“ ‘ For many years they have been the most
extensive manufacturers of Sugar in Southern
India, converting, to the extent of thousands of
tons annually, the coarse jaggery made by the
ryots into the fine product which finds its way
into the market; but the first attempt to raise
the cane was made about two or three years
since, and it is needless to say that no cost or
skill was spared to render it successful. Plant
ers were brought from the West Indies, at libe
ral salaries, to direct the cultivation, and ma
chinery of the most complete and extensive
character was imported from England to irri
gate the soil and manufacture the Sugar on the
spot. No project could possibly be set on foot
under circumstances more favorable; but the
upshot is, that the land taken in Rajahmundry
and Dawlaish has been relinquished, and the
cattle turned into the fields of standing cane. 1
“ The Athenaeum concluded with these re
marks :
“ ‘The question of competition to be main
tained on the existing system with the West
Indies and the country in which slave labor
prevails, must rest for future consideration.
At present we have arrived at the important
conclusion that, under the most favorable cir
cumstances, we cannot hope to alter the pre
sent mode of cultivating the sugar cane in
Southern India. 1 ”
St. Louis, Sept- 24.—Intelligence has reach
ed here of a serious riot which occurred re
cently near the town of Yellowville, in Arkan
sas. The difficulty originated in an attempt
of the Sheriff’ of the county to arrest some per
sons in the neighborhood charged with murder.
A parly had collected to defend the accused,
and upon the Sheriff proceeding to perform
his duty, he was resisted, and a serious fight en
sued, in which eight persons were killed and
several wounded. The latest accounts state
that a large party had armed themselves and de
termined to resist the authorities. Serious
difficulties are apprehended.
The Capture of Captain Bourne by the
Patagonians. —The New Bedford Mercury
publishes a letter from Mr. J. D. Parker, dated
Valparaiso, June 21, which gives a more par
ticular account of the capture of Capt. Bourne,
of the schooner John Allyn, in the Straits of
.Magellan, by the Patagonians. The following
is Mr. Parker’s account of the matter :
“At 11 o’clock on the night of April 30th,
we anchored in Possession Bav, about five
miles from the first narrows. The next day,
the tide not serving until about 1, P. M., about
half of our company went on shore gunning.
At 10, A. M., they returned and said the na
tives had some deer, which they wished to bar
ter for bread and tobacco, and they wanted to
see the captain for the purpose. Capt. Bourne
went on shore, and leaving one maij to take
care of the boat, the others (that is, three be
sides Capt. Bourne) got on their horses and
went back with them to their encampment,
about ten miles. Our men were thus sepa
rated, when they were attacked by the natives
and deprived of their guns and ammunition
Capt. B. and one other were bound, and the
remaining two were robbed, but not detained.
“ A few hours after they released the man
who was with Capt. B. telling him that we
could have the captain by paying twelve
bottles of rum, one bag of bread and twelve
pounds of tobacco. The articles were accord
ingly seat on shore with two boats’ crews
well armed where they found about 300 nati
ves all on horseback. They would not give up
Capt B. until the ransom was paid. We par
leyed with them until dark to no purpose
when they came to the beach with Capt. Bour
ne sitting in front of a native on horseback.
He hailed the boats and told them to pay the
ransom, and by no means to fire into them.
The ransom was immediately paid, when the
chief said it had not been given to him and he
would notgive him up. As it was blowing a gale
the boats did not dare to stop any longer, and
they came very near being swamped in gening
on board.”
The gale increasing in severity, the schooner
was forced to make sail and got out of the
straits, being short of wood and water.
Slaveholding and Non-Slaveholding
States in Congress.—The slaveholding and
the non-slaveholding States have, respectively
thirty Senators. The latter have one hundred
and thirty-one Representatives—the former
ninety-one Representatives. It is easy to see.
therefore, how a Wilmot Proviso bill, or any
other anti-slavery bill, could get through the
House. But that it could obtain a majority of
the Senate, can only be attributed to the deser
tion of Southern men. We rejoice that such
apostates as Benton and Houston do not be
long to the Whig party.
Another mysterious thing is, how, when a
Wilmot Proviso bill has forced its way through
Congress, it could escape the hands of a South
ern President. Yetthelateadministrationsigned
two bills containing this identical abomination,
upon the bare suspicion of favoring which,
Southern Democratic presses which sustained
that administration, are cursing Gen. Taylor
in advance.
This is consistency ! This is conscience!
We would trust the rights of the South, any
day. with Old Zach, sooner than with the most
ultra of his denouncers. In fact, what could
a Northern man, if at the head of the govern
ment, do more towards establishing the princi
ple of the Wilmot Proviso than was done by
the late administration, without incurring the
censure of its Southern supporters?
If the country prefers words to deeds, let it
turn its back upon the Whigs, and give its con
fidence to the opposition— Rich. Repub.
Mr. Benton and the Presidency.—The
union of the democracy in New York is meant
and intended, the New York Herald says, as a
primary step in an effort hereafter to be made,
to bring forward Col. Benton of Missouri, as
a candidate for the presidency, at the proper
time. It appears that the leaders of both par
ties have given out at Utica and Syracuse, such
to be their purpose.
Corrrespondence of the Columbia Telegraph. ’
Lo well, , 1849.—Mr. Editor I
have visited scenes and places, made sacred by
recollections of the past, and adorned with the
toombs and monuments of the great ones,
whose lives were our nation’s pride, and whose
breath was the very inspiration of freedom.
Many of these monuments were erected upon
eminences without the town, but are now sur
rounded by the splendid residences of the rich
or cast their hallowing shade over the busy
shop of the operator and manufacturer. But
the great deeds of these great ones did more
than hallow the spot upon which they fell, and
the influence of their spirit and courage, has
erected a monument in this continent, whose
shade shall refresh the labor and industry of the
world. Our Fathers, no doubt, thought they
“ had done a good part by us”—they “ had
started us in the world.” But they had no con
ception of the effect of that spirit which they
breathed into us. Little did they think their
old barns would be too small, and that we would
so soon pull them down and build new. Even
these new ones have been added to, and shed
ed round, and still having more than we can
house, we are feeding and clothing destitute
humanity wherever it is to be found. Those
who seek ns out from the stews and shanties
of degredation and suffering, are received, re
lieved, and sent on their way rejoicing.
New England has many towns and villages,
which contribute a respectable quota to this
world-wide enterprise; but there is probably
not one more distinguished, either for the
amount contributed, or for the strength and
prosperity reflected upon itself, than the city of
Lowell. In 1820, a few houses surrounded by
small patches of potatoes and corn, and a few
acres of hay land were the only objects of inter
est in this neighborhood, unless we except the
salm »n and trout, which had not yet been
frightened from their accustomed haunts by the
clatter of machinery.
The Merrimac Manufacturing Company was
incorporated in 1822. In 1828, the population
of the town had increased to three or four thou
sand, and the citizens began to think of the ne
cessity of municipal regulations, of churches,
schools, fourth of July celebrations and such
other conventicles as characterize American
Society. There are now twelve incorporated
Manufacturing Companies in Lowell, with a
capital stock of more than twelve millions.—
Three hundredand ten thousand spindles, and
nine thousand looms, give employment to ele
ven thousand operatives, and twist and weave
nearly two millions ofyards of cloth per week.
The machine shop, and other branches of ma
nufacture conducted by individuals, yield near*
ly two millions of dollars income per annum,
and employ more than a thousand operatives.
The population of the town is about thirty-five
thousand ; and for the accommodation of this
hive, thirty six trains of cars pass here daily,
not counting those moving store houses, in the
shape of freight cars.
The schools of Lowell are of the best char
acter, to which every one may go free of charge.
There is a valuable town Library of six or se
ven thousand volumes, to which any one may
have access by paying fifty cents per annum.
The use made of these advantages will be best
understood by those who read the periodical
edited by Factory Girls; and the habits and mo
rals of the laboring class, are indicated by the
institutions for Savings, which have now a
stock of near a million, owned exclusively by
the operatives.
Yankee skill and energy in the acquisition of
wealth, are proverbial; and I think few who
visit their cities, and see their magnificent build
ings, both public and private, their delightful
country.residences, and, above all, their noble
institutions of learning, from the primary school
to the university, will deny that wealth is devo
ted to its legitimate uses—to minister to the
taste and comfort of its possessor, to adorn the
country which has produced it, and to relieve
the wants of society.
Some men profess great indifference to
wealth, and are frequently sneering at the in
fluence which it gives to individuals. I have
known persons who had such contempt for
money that they would never keep it about
them and thought it decidedly vulgar to leturn
a few dollajs, which had been borrowed upon
a pressing emergency. I think myself fortu
nate in differing, in opinion at least, from per
sons of this description. I have no sympathy
for the misanthrope, the spendthrift, or the
pick-pocket ; and I consider wealth, honestly
and honorably gained, and usefully employed,
a gift of Providence not inferior to the early
and latter rain, without which this earth would
be a barren heath. But contempt is not felt
for wealth in the abstract. The sneer is not
meant for money per se. It is the persons who
hold it, who are obnoxious to censure. By a
strange ordination of Providence, bread comes
by the sweat of the brow. Wealth is the fruit
of industry, patience, forbearance, and fre
quently of frugal temperance, and stinting
economy. But these are modest, negative
virtues, and it is too often forgotten that they
exert a positive influence upon the character,
without which courage would be mere bravado,
generosity, indiscriminate wastefulness, and
kindness, a whim. Capital is the ballast in the
ship of society, and though lifeless in itself
and apparently inert, it keeps her steady amidst
the tempests of popular commotions. It in
spires a feeling of security under the darkest
clouds of tyranny and misrule; so that the
wisest men are not alarmed, and are seldom
moved io resistance, until the reckless prodi
gal begins to throw it overboard.
Numerous examples might be cited of the rapid
growth of States and communities, when stimulated
by this wholesome security. In the reign of Charles.
Manchester was called a busy and active place, sup
porting a population of near six thousand souls, and
consuming in its manufactories nearly two millions of
pounds of raw cotton per annum. The population is
now two hundred and fifty thousand. Between 1814
and 1828, two hundred steam engines were set up,
carrying thirty thousand looms. The raw cotton con
sumed annually is more than one hundred millions
of pounds; and the machinery employed is equal in
power to the united manual'force of the whole Island.
Sheffield, during the same inglorious period, waaa
miserable village, built under the castlaof tho propri
etors for the double purpose of protectron, and of di
minishing the walk of the destitute beggars who re
sorted thither for the crumbs which fell from the rich
man’s table. Its population is now more than a hun
dred thousand; and Sheffield axes have long resounded
in the forests of the Mississippi Valiev, and Sheffield
razors have been quite as efficient upon the no leas
thickly grown chin of the rude forester. In 1685 Bir
mingham boasted a population of two thousand. Her
wares were known throughout the kingdom. But
since her manufactures have been carried to the cen
tre of Africa, and her vessels have become the seeth
ing-posts of the Arabs and Chinese, her population
has increased nearly a hundred fold, and in the place
of miserable shanties and tents, covering a squalid
and degraded race of half starved mendicants, the
e/e of the traveller is greeted with tall steeples, spa
cious and busy work-shops, and splendid private re
sidences, around which taste and wealth have thrown
the garments of magnificence and beauty. Money
has produced these changes. The rich, the contem
ned and envied rich, have stood front and foremost in
this enterprise ; and it is no exaggeration to say that
the enterprising capitalists of these towns, have done
more for mankind than if they had walled with grrn
ite and covered with tile the whole British empire,
for the purpose of making it one magnificent alms
house for the human race.
Now, Mr. Editor, why cannot the resources of our
own State be turned into these channels of wealth
and prosperity ? Why are the waters of Carolina
allowed to glide aa listlessly and as uselessly by, as
when the red man plied his rude canoe upon "their
waves'? We have the capital and the si.es for the
mills. We have a population upon the poor ridges
of pine land in our State, quite competent to man
thousands of spindles and looms, who, if brought to
gether in manufacturing villages, might be educated
and raised quite above their miserable blind beasts
and wood-carts, by which they now earn a scanty
and precarious subsistence. A few dollars a week
more than the expenses necessary to life, would
make these people stockholders in Banks, their
children projectors of Railroads and builders of Fac
tories, and their grand-children Counsellors of State
and Senators of the nation.
MBDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA.
THE NEXT COURSE OF LECTURES
will be commenced on the FIRST MONDAY
in November, (stli) and continue until the first of
March following.
FACULTY:
George M. Newton, M. D., Professor of Anatomy
and Dean of lhe Faculty.
L. A. Dugas, M. D., Professor of Physiology and
Pathological Anatomy.
Alexander Means, M. D., Professor of Chemistry
and Pharmacy.
I. P. Garvin, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and
Materia Medica.
L. I). Ford, M. D., Professor of the Institutesand
Practice of Medicine.
Joseph A. Eve, M. I)., Professor of Obstetrics and
Diseases of Women and Children.
Paul F. Eve, M. D., Professor of the Principles and
Practice of Surgery.
H. F. Campbell, M D., Demonstrator of Anatomy.
Robert Campbell, M. D., Assistant Demonstrator.
A course of Lectures npon Medical Jurisprudence
will be delivered by Professor Garvin. The Faculty
will endeavor to make their instruction as demonstra
tive as possible.
Ikxird may be obtained at from sl3 to sl7 per
month, everything included.
The fees for the entire course of Lectures, inclu
ding Hospital ticket, are 8115. Matriculation ticket
(once only) 85. Practical Anatomy (to be taken
once) 810.
The friends and alumni of this Ins'itution are invi
ted to send to the Faculty, during the course of Lec
tures, persons in indigent circumstances who may re
quire surgical operations, as provision has been made
for their accommodation whilst under treatment.
aul-w2m GEORGE M. Dean.
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE STATE
OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE LECTURES of this Institution will
commence on the first Monday in November,
and terminate the first Saturday in March, on the
following branches:
Anatomy, by J. E. Holbrook, M. D.
Surgery, by John Bellinger, M. D.
Institutes and Practice, by E. Geddings, M. D.
Physiology, by James Moultrie, M. D.
Materia Medica, by Henry R. Frost, M. D.
Obstetrics, by Thomas G. Prioleau, M. D.
Cbemisiry, by C. U. Shepard, M. D.
Demonstrator of Anatomy, St. Julian Ravenel,
M. D.
The Anatomical Rooms will be opened the Ist day
of November under the direction of the Demonstrator.
Clinical Lectures will be delivered by Drs. Cain
and Havne at the Marine Hospital and Alms House.
Surgical operations furnished by the College Hos
pital are performed before the class.
Good boarding and lodging can be obtained at
from three to four dollars per week.
au22-w8 JAMES MOULTRIE, M. D., Dean.
Fine Watches Clocks, Jewelry
AND SILVER GOODS.
XJ > THOMAS W. FREEMAN, £5.
athis old stand, nearly opposite the Bhim-EtX.
Bank, respectfully informs his r us-CriSrL
tumors and the public that he h ison hand a fine as
sortment of GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, of the
most approved makers, with a choice and fashionable
STOCK OF JEWELRY,
allof which he will sell at very low prices for cash
T. W. F. solicitsa comparison by purchasers of the
quality and prices of his Goods, with any other house
either here or elsewhere.
WATCHES and CLOCKScarefully repaired, and
warranted. Mr. Wm. G. Woodstock continuesto
give his utmost attention to this part ofthe badness.
N. B. —New Goods received weekly. 014 d<fc
Flour Barrel Staves Wanted.
<|AHE SUBSCRIBERS now want, delivered
A at the Cunningham Milla, Augusta Canal, a
quantity ofgood OAK FLOUR BARREL STAVES
AND HEADING. By calling at the Barrel Shop of
this Mill, specimens will be shown,
S. D. LINTON & CO.
Augutta, July 6, 1949. ts
T/Wk BBLS. HYDRAULIC CEMENT, for
JL sale by
fes HAVILAND RISLEY & CO.
|TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Transmitted for the Chronicle & Sentinel.
LATER FROM EUROPE!
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ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAME3 AMERICA.
Liverpool Dates to Sept. 15.
COTTON EASY.
AFFAIRS on the continent quiet.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 27.
The steamer America has arrived with Li
verpool dates to the 15th inst
Liverpool Market.
Liverpool, Sept. 15.—Cotton is a little
easier. The sales of the week sum up 32,000
bales. The following are the Committee's offi.
cial quotations: Fair Upland and Mobile 5jd,5
I air Orleans 5Jd. [The above shows a de
cline of Jd in Fair Mobiles ]
Breadstuffs are firmer.
Political matters generally are quiet.
[Another Dispatch ]
Baltimore, Sept. 27, P. M.
The steamer America arrived at Halifax yes
terday. She brings Liverpool dates to the *i
15th inst. I
Cotton Market.
Liverpool, Sept. 15.—Cotton has been stea
dy, with moderate sales. The qnotations are
for Fair Uplands and Mobiles 5Jd.; Fair Or-'
leans 5Jd. Sales of the week 31,700 bales.
Stock in Liverpool 539,700 bales, against 550,-
200 bales last year. :
Grain, Provisionsand Breadstuff* are all
firmer. Large sales of the latter have taken
place in consequence of the unfavorable news
from the Potato crop. Os Indian Corn there
was little offering—holders holding back in ex
pectation of higher prices.
Political.
The political news by this arrival is unim
portant.
Gep. Rawdon has been appointed to the
command of the French army in Italy, with in
structions to pursue the French policy inf,
Rome, should the Pope not return.
The fortresses of Comorn and Pelerwarden
had not yet surrendered.
Garibaldi was at Genoa in charge of the
military governor.
The Pope was at Naples. Affairs at Gaeta
were getting worse.
All the northern German States except Ham
burg, have accepted the articles of Confedera
tion.
From tile North.
Baltimore, Sept. 25—P. M.
Pierce M. Butler has obtained a full divorce
from his wife.
Baltimore, Sept. 26.
Through the interference of the English
Charge, M. Poussin has submitted conciliatory
propositions to onr Government. General
Taylor promptly refused to permit him to re
sume his official duties until the receipt of
further advices from France. ■
New York, Saturday Evening.
The Astor House Opera Rioters have been
convicted. Ned Buntline, the instigator, was
sentenced to one year's imprisonment in the
Penitentiary, and a fine of $250. The others
were sentenced to shorter confinement.
New York Market.
Cotton has settled down at Jc. advance. :
Sales small. Stock much reduced.
From the Welt.
Dates from Santa Fe to the Bth ultimo,
state that two Americans have been mu Aer
ad and two hundred government horses
by the Apache Indians. Several skirmishes
between the Indians and United States troops
had occurred.
Fort Bent has been burnt, and all hands sup
posed murdered. Col. Washington with all
available force had gone in pursuit of a large
body ol Indians.
Great excitement existed at Santa Fe rela
live to calling a convention to form a State
Government.
Charleston Market.
Tuesday, Oct. 2, P. M.—Cotton.— Sales of 400
bales at 9to 10a cte. Prices full.
EXTRACTS FROM OUR EXCHANGES
FURTHER BY THE AMERICA.
Baltimore, Sept. 27,1849.
The Markets.— Business has not been as ac
tive this as it was during the preceding week.
The Cotton market was steady, with moderate ’
sales, and prices not very materially changed.
Sales for the week 31,700 bales. The Com
mittee’s quotations are 5| for fair Upland and -
Mobile, and 5Jd. for fair Orleans. The stock!
on hand is 539,450 bales against 555,230 bales?
same time last year. C..
The Grain market is a degree firmer, hold- T||
ers supposing that prices had reached their '
lowest point.
Provisions in moderate request, and prices
generally well supported.
Funds are steady, but only a limited business
going forward. J*
The accounts from the manufacturing dis
tricts are less encouraging, but trade, howeveij.
is in a healthy state.
The sales of Breadstuff* are large, and the
trade firmer, owing to the unfavorable advices
regarding the Potato crop. Wheat and Flour
have been tolerably active.
The demand for Indian Corn has been limit
ed ; many holders have withdrawn their earn- j
plea, expecting better prices. £
Western Canal Flour is quoted at 225. 6d. a
235. for prime qualities; Baltimore and Ohio
24s ; White Indian Corn 275. to 295.; Mixed fR
Yellow 26 a27s. per quarter; American Wheat
ss. ass. 9d. per 70 lbs.
Among the distinguished deaths in England
is the Bishop of Norwich. The deaths from
Cholera inthe city of London, on the 11th and
12th, were 840. The Cholera is also prevail
ing badly in Scotland.
France.— A letter from Louis Napoleon to a
friend, published in the Moniteur. has been vir- .
tually acknowledged by the Cabinet, and has
made some talk in political circles. The letter
says, that the French Republic has not sent an
army to Rome to put down Italian liberty, but
on the contrary to regulate it by preserving it
against its own excesses, and to give it a solid
basis by replacing on the Pontifical throne, a i
Prince who firs: took partin all useful reforms.
Most persons appear to wish to make proscrip
tion and tyranny the basis of the Pope’s re
turn. He tells Gen. Rostolan not to permit,
under the tri color flag, any act which can low
er the character of French intervention. Ho
thus cuts off the restoration of the Pope’s tem
poral power and secures a general amnesty as
well as a secularization of the administration
code of Napoleon's liberal Government.
Gen. Rawdoii is appointed to the command 1
of the army of Italy. He received his instruc
tions, which were, that should the Pope not
come to Rome he is to carry out with rigor the
line of conduct specified in the President’s let
ter Gen. Rawdon started on the same night
to Join in,, ■"mmand.
A telegraphic <usp.?'ch reached the President
on the 6th, who issued six ships to
be held in readiness for sea. Their
is supposed to be Tahita.
Spain.— The Cuba insurrection had excited I
lhe Spanish Cabinet. Mr. Arther Kelly of
England, attached to the Legation at Washing
ton, has been transferred to Lisbon.
Hungary.— There is very little of importance
in relation to the Hungarians. Comorn and
Peterwardin had not surrendered. No news
from Kossuth.
Germany.— All the Northern States of Ger
many, except Oldenberg, have acceded to the
alliance proposed by the Provinces. Every
thing remains quiet.
Italy.— Letters from Genoa state the arrival
ofGarabaldi at that city. He arrived in an
open fishing boat, accompanied by a single vo
lunteer, at Fort Venora, on the slh inst. He
then went to Chiavari, where he was recogniz
ed by the people, and crowds assembled to 4
greet him. He was escorted back to Genoa,
there to remain until he could find an opportu- ,
nily to leave.
Nothing certain received from Gaeta, except
that the Cardinal Triumvirate refused to pay a
demand on the public debt due in June.
Letters from Gaeta to the sth, mention that
the crisis becomes more menacing, and a rup
ture more imminent was considered probable.
The Pope would end by placing himself under
the Austrian flag at Gaeta, or that Russia would
take him under her protection.
Letters from Naples to the 4th announce the
arrival of the Pope at that place.
Further and Later News by the Ame
rica.
New York, Sept. 28. — On looking over the
foreign papers, 1 find that the details of the
news by the America are without much inte
rest or importance.
The Maltese papers state that letters from
Tricola, the capital of Thessalonia, announce
that a dreadful conflagration, supposed to be
caused by incendiaries, had destroyed 320
houses, 646 shops, and lhe whole of the Jew
ish quarter of the town.
Over 2,000 deaths from Cholera occurred in
London during the weekending the 15th.
General Rostolan has resigned the command
of the French army in Italy. His reasons for
so doing have not been made public.
Comorn still holds out, though Klapka and
the chief Hungarian officers are in the Impe
rialists' camp.
Haynau had left Vienna for the purpose of
considering lhe terms of capitulation offered
by the garrison of Comorn, who demanded a
complete amnesty in Hungary—the garrisou
to retain their arms, with permission to re
tire into some neighboring country, with
an independent ministry for Hungary, Hay
nau, on the other hand, required an uncondi
tional surrender, and said he had an army of
60,000 men to besiege the fortress.
Some official letters from Belgrade
that Bern and Dembinski were far
intention of imitating the conduct of * n Y
and that they had determined to fiztjf . ie .° r ß e y
last drop of blood had been spill-jF.? 1 " the
flight of Kossuth and others comr^F I ,’, *? ut the
to relinquish their design. The lajf •", *^ en >
between Kossuth and Georgey wJr „
AH Kossuth’s eloquence and pres>?„“'her.
forsook him. The next day hX“ . m,n d
. was in r..»