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BY WILLIAM S. JONES.
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or each subsequent insertion.
/or Salt.
FOR SALE.
THE UNDERSIGNED having deter
mined to remove West, offers her HOUSE
and LOT at Monroe, with about 100 acres of LAND
attached, for sale. Terms acc immodatinp. The lot
is well improved, having a large two story building
thereon in good repair, and necessary nut houses.
It is unuecesjwry to say anything in regard to the
health of this sccifou of cu&aiii 4 , a* it is’kauwii to be
as healthy as any section in Middle Georgia ; good
schools in Monroe, both male and female.
011-wlin MARIA WALKER, Executrix.
Valuable Real Estate.
ADMINISTRATOR'S Sale.— Will be sold,
on the first Tuesday in December next, at the
Market-house in the town of Louisville, Jefferson
county, the following described lands, situate in said
county, and sold under an order of the honorable the
Inferior Court of Richmond county, when sitting for
ordinary purposes, for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors cf Paul Fitzsimmons, deceased:
OLD TOWN PLANTATION.
That well known, erosive and valuable estate,
containing 4742 ac:ea, of which 2900 are open and
under good fences, situate on Dry and Spring Creeks,
bounded westwardly by the Ogeechee liver, six
miles above where it is crossed by the Central Rail
road. The improvements are of a substantial kind,
and in good repair, embracing all that is necessary
and usual, on a large and well ordered plantation,
among which is a water power occupied by a cotton
gin, a grist mill and a saw mill; the latter convenient
to an adequate supply of pine timber.
This plantation and lands will be subdivided, and
if desirable, offered in three portions. Th© same can
be examined at any time upon application to the pre
sent occupant, Mr* Owen P. Fitzsimmons, or ii
absent, to his Overseer.
ALSO—THE GREENE PLACE,
Contiguous to Old Town, containing 600 acres of
pine land, well timbered and convenient to the Saw
Mill.
ALSO—'THREE LOTS.
Containing together 551 acres of Pine Land, on the
opposite side of the river; known as a portion of the
Forsyth five bounty tracts, and by Nos. 4, 5 and 14,
in the sub-division made in 1845.
ALSO—THREE LOTS,
Containing together 457 acres of Pine Land, conti
guous to the foregoing, and known as part of the Tur
ner place, on Boggy Gut, Nos. 22, 23 and 24.
Terms—One-third cash, balance with interest from
date on the Ist January, 1851, approved notes and
mortgage on the property.
ROBERT F. POE, )
WILLIAM J. EVE, > Adm’rs.
GEORGE W. CRAWFORD,)
The papers in Savannah, Macon and Milledgeville,
will publish the above weekly until day of sale, and
forward accounts totfiis office.
October 2, 1849
MFOR SALE,
BY THE SUBSCRIBER,
whole concenxjn Jefferson county,
•ix iniics below Louisville, rnmprihiitg twenty- ■ "
five negroes, seven hundred acres of land, rock of
all kinds, corn, fodder, tools, together with all things
pertaining to the same. Come and see for yourself.
References— W m . H. Hatty, James T. Bothwell.
■‘-‘Sq., Augusta; Judge Asa Holt, Savannah.
*29-wtf S. ARRINGTON.
FOR SALE.
«■* THAT WEH. KNOWN and
jj; valuable SETTLEMENT OR LAND, 40
residence ofthe late William Gar-
RETT, deceased, of Walton county, situated about
three miles from Social Circle, and six from Monroe,
on the Alcovy River, containing one thousand acres
of land, at least four hundred of which is wood land
and well timbered ; a considerable quantity of fine
river low-grounds. There are upc-n the premises a
most excellent spring of pure water, Dwelling House
and all necessary farm buildings, large Gin House,
Packing Screw, and good Orchards.
The above lands aro offered at the very low price
, qf Fou r Thousand Dollars ; one-half cash, the balance
on a credit until the Ist January, 1851.
JOHN SCOTT,
BENJAMIN T. RUSSELL
Social Circle. au2-wlf
LAND AND NEGROES FORSALE
fifol THE SUBSCRIBER offers fi»r
Sale the tract of Lund on which he re- •XT
sides, in Columbia county, containing Five Hundred
and Sixteen Acres, with a good farm and comfortable
residence, and the necessary out-buildings. He will
also sell with the laud hit Plantation Negroes, con
sisting of men, women and children, most of them
very likclv and valuable. Terms will be liberal.
Persons desiring to purchase will pleave call and ex
amine the property. PETER WRIGHT.
au 7 wtNl
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.
THE SUBSCRIBER offers for
sale 150 ACRES OF LAND, adjoining W
and forming n part of the Village of So
cial Circle. Sixty acres improved with a good iwc
story Dwelling, (in town) new Kitchen and Smoke
House, and other comfortable buildings. A bargain
will be sold in the premises.
V. H. CRAWLEY.
Social Circle, March 5, 1849. wtf
Valuable Lands for Sale.
THE SVUSCIIIBKRS offer for mlr *
VALUABLE PLANTATION in Puhho
county, between Warren’s and Little’s Ferries*
on the Oconee River, known as Wilson Bird’s, Esq.,
and formerly owned by the late Joel Hurt.
The above Plantation contains 2,100 acre*, and
lies on the Oconee River, the River making a fence
to one-fourth of it. It has 150 ur 200 acres of rich
bottom land, lying atwwe all ordinary high waler, and
in a high sta:e of cultivation. It also contains 600
acres of heavily timbered Oak and Hickory Lt nd,
well interspersed over the tracts. The entire tract
under a good fence, and the open land in a fine state
of cultivation. The place has a good Dwelling house,
a large new Gin house and Screw ; also good Negro
houses, sufficient to accommodate 75 or SO negroes,
go<xl Crib* and Stables, everything complete to make
a crop. All of which we will sell low, and on terms
easy to the purchaser. We deem it to be one of the
most desirable plantations in this part of Georgia.—
Any person wishing to examine the land will call on
Mr. Broom, living on the place, who will show it.
AU commnnicarione addressed to either ofthe sub
scribers at Sparta, will meet with prompt '‘\enlhNU
JAMES B. HA NSC V.,
526 wtf JAMES B. EDWARDS.
hotels.
STATE RIGHTS HOTEL.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
THE UNDERSIGNED having
Bijil hec»M«e the sole proprietor us the State Si.r
’**“*■• Rights Hotel, would respectfully in
form hia friends and lhe public generally* that his
House will be open during the Session of the Legisla
ture for tho accommodation of Member* ami tran
sient visitors, an.l every effort will be made to give
satisfaction to all who may favor him with a call.
E. D. BROWN.
Milledgeville, Sept. 25, 1849. 529-5 t
RICHMOND HOTEL.
THE UNDERSIGNED haring taken
jg the above establishment, which has been tho
** roughly rej>aired, is now reaV.y accommo
date the travelling public, and hopes from his expe
rience and strict attention, to mem v liberal patron
age from lhe public and his former ftieuds and pat
rons. His table will be supplied w ith the l est the
market affords, and his charges as reasonable as any
other in the city. There is largw ami airy Stable
amt a grxxl drv Waggon Yard the premises.
«>4-w4 JOHN ROBERTSON.
COHUTTA SPRINGS.
THE PROPRIETOR of this de
jffijl lightful WATERING PI.ACE, would
respectfully aunounmy to the public,
that he is now pre pt re d to accommodate from one
hundred to one hundred and fifty visitors, in as eotrt
fartable and complete style as anv similar estab
lishment in Upper Georgia.
The Springe are k> ?a ted in the county of Murray,
at the base ot the < John it a Mountain, about twenty
miles from Dalton.
»u3l-wS WILLIAM WORLEY.
M/xRISTTA HOTEL.
OKS TH £ VKDKRSIONKD bega leare l»
B'it “fi* ™ <•>* JHlHie And his that he his
lakes * lease of this and will .»pen it
for the reception of boarders and visitors the first at'
September next, when he hopes by his promp: atten
tion to the bnsinees, and his anxiety to render his
gnest< comfortable, to secure a liberal patronage.
_ aulS-wtf J. P. ARNOLD.
WASHINGTON HALL,
ATLANTA GEORGIA.
BF EAKFAST AKI» DINNER HOUSE FOR PAS
SENGERS.
MEALS always in due C'r lhe de
■E-i parture of the cars. A share of publw patron
taij* are is restwlfollv solicited.
m»3O-wly ’ HOLCOMBE a RICE.
HOTEL!
MRS. W. J. JONES avails heroelf of
|B3l the unity to announce to lhe friends and
patrons of her late husband (W. J. Jonss), and the
public generally, that she intends keeping open the
Hotel beretafeiro kept by him at APPLING, and so
licits a continuance of the patronage hitherto bestowed
on the Ikwe. She hopes by her unremitted exer
tions and attention to the duties of her station to met it
the of those who ms v favor her with a
ejk S_
DR. MAGNIJTS LUCINA CORDIAL
4 SOVEREIGN remedy for Incipient Coa
V sumptKMi, Nervousness, Fluor Al
of Muscular Energy, Physical Lassitude.
Female Weakness, Debility, dtc.
O' Pnes three dollars per bottle. For sale bv
HariUnd, Risley <3t Co.. Th<xna« Barrett A Co., W.
K Kiteheft. Dft Ptomb 4k « w - fe iwJr w I
TUC ML COHBS, a great variety,
£ *** Co
h* chaidren. Combe of Shell, Irary. Bat-
ttec and English Horn. Ju-t received bv
THOS. RICHARDS A SON.
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QUiqiista, Qsa.:
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT.II, 1849.
Rnilroads-vlnlaikd Towns.
The generally received opinion at the South
(which we are pleased to know is fast giving
away) has been that tne passage of Railroads
by inland towns and cities destroys them, by
diminishing their business and consequently
reducing their population- The error of this
opinion has been most triumphantly shown, by
the effects upon some of the towns in Massa
chusetts, where the system of railroads has been
! carried to greater perfection, than in any other
; State in the Union, and where the miles of road
. in proportion to her extent of territory is dou
ble that of any other State.
A writer in the Baltimore American, illustra
ting the increased value of property from rail
. roads, presents the following statement of the
augmentation of population in some of the
towns of Massachusetts, since railroads were
extended to them.-—daring the five years be
tween 1839 and 1845:
Roxbury, 67 per cent. Lowell, 33 per cent.
Brookline, 50 “ Worcester, 56 ‘‘
Cambridge, 22 “ Springfield, 33
Chelsea, 128 “ Fail River, 59 “
To account for this augmentation of popula
tion in the towns mentioned, it is only necessa
ry fpr the reader to recollect that they are ma
nufacturing towns, and avail themselves of all
the facilities afforded by the roads, for the trans
portation of the products of their labor to mar
ket. Their labor is wisely diversified, and life
capitalistsand artizans bring to their aid, all the
advantages of steam, water power and machi
nery in the prosecution of their industrial pur
suits. At the South we are yet in our infancy
in this great and growing enterprize, and con
sequen’ly are just beginning to learn some
thing of the benefits resulting to a community
by the employment of these agents, and the
diversifying of our pursuits. Hence, we have
not as yet felt and witnessed the revivifying
influence of our roads upon our inland towns
and villages, to the same extent it is felt at the
North and East; but the spirit for improve
ment is abroad in the land, and the day is not
far distant when we shall witness a like aug
mentation of the population and improvement
of every village by which a railroad passes, if
the community shall wisely improve the ad
vantages which the road affords. We have
therefore every incentive to press forward—
to go on prospering and to prosper, and to con
centrate our whole energies to elevate our
State to the first rank among her sisters.
■ ■
Take a Newspaper.
“No mao should be without a well-conducted
newspaper; he is far behind the spirit of the age;
unless he reads one, is not upon an equal footing with
his fellow-man who enjoys such advantage, and is
disregardfui of his duty to his family, in not affording
them an opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of
what is pacing in the world, at the cheapest possible
teaching. Show me a family without a newspaper,
and I venture to say that there will be manifest in
that family a want of amenity of manners and indi
cations of ignorance, most strikingly in contrast with
the neighbor who allows himself such a rational in
dulgence. Young men especially should read news
pipers. If 1 were a boy, even of twelve years, I
would read n newspaper weekly, though 1 had to
work by torch-light to earn money enough to pay for
it. The boy who reads well will learn to think and
analyze, and if so, be will be almost sure to make a
rrtan of himself, hating vicious indulgence, which
reading is calculated to beget a distaste for.”
The above is the parting advice of Jo hh H.
Prentice to his readers, on retiring finally
from the editorial chair, which he had filled
with distinguished ability for forty two years.
It is full of wisdom and replete with truth in
every line and word, and coming from one
wholly disinterested, cannot but impress itself
upon the intelligent and reflecting. No man
better understood the great value to a family of
a well conducted newspaper, and we should
rejoice if every man, or even a majority in this
republic, eetimfted its worth so highly as did
Mr. P. If they did it would be a glorious thing
fur a nation and people,' and still more so for
the newspaper press of tho country, which
would bring to its conducta higher order and
greater amount of talent than it is now able to
connect with it, Rs a whole. The dignity and
character of the profession would be elevated,
aud, while they would impress upon the
masses, by lhe power and force of their intel
lect, the necessity for mental culture, would
also excite a taste for study and a thirst for
knowledge. These pre some of the benefits
that would accrue to lhe people and the
by a general distribution of well conducted
newspapers in families, and the sooner they
eow the seed the earlier will the fruits mature.
“The Union has charged Mr. Ewing with cor
ruptly getting up gold expeditions at lhe public ex
penne; it has accused him of making a fortune by
swindling the widows and orphans of revolutionary
soldiers; it has taxed him with corruptly voting, as
United States Senator, to improve his private means;
andon the s<h instant, in an editorial of a column’s
length, it accused him of promising to give away an
office for a bribe of three hundred dollars in the
way of house-rent." — Washington Repub'ic.
The Union, conscious of its own infirmity,
where the necessary appliances of pap are
concerned, unfortunately imagines all the
world equally corrupt. Mr. Randolph once
said of its senior that he had seven principles
—“five loaves and two fishes.” Few men were
better versed in character than Mr. Randolph,
and none probably understood Mr. Ritchie
better.
Democratic Malignity.
The subjoined correspondence of the Balti
more American discloses a system of attack
upon the President and bis family, as novel as
it is base and degrading, to those engaged in it.
We had supposed that the daily out-pourings
of lhe wrath of the disappointed spoils-men
through ’he columns of the Union, would have
satiated their malignity ; but il seems we are
mistaken. It is, we believe, the first instance
in the history of our government, that so vile a
system of attack has been adopted by any par
ty, and we hope, for the honor of the nation, it
may be the last. Such missiles, however,
while they fail harmless, cannot fail to recoil
upon their authors, and those with whom they
are connected:
“ Washington, Sept. 26, 1849.
It was solemnly proclaimed by ihe editors of the
“Union,” at the outset of Gon. Taylor’s administra
tion, that “no matter what face it might assume,
they were determined to opjKxe it to the bitter end.”
This unblushing announcement in advance was cha
racteristic ol the journal that professes to be lhe sole
organ of the <M*rty. What care they if it be the
studied and settled policy of the administration Io
filter lhe true interests of the American citizen at
home, er to protect him in his rights as such citizen
abroad ? If corrupt ininions are being ejected from
offices which they have long plundered, there must
nev«rthelei>a.be “ opposition to the bitter eud.” What '
if tire President demand the immediate restoration of
the persecuted foreigner to the ns) I tun whence he
had been unlawfully abducted bv lhe agents of a petty
tyrant or Captain General 3 His prompt action in
defence of the violated law has no merit in their eyes,
who have prodetertniaed “to oppose him till the bit
ter enJ.” What if, in order to preserve the faith
and peace of the country, he refuse to suffer vessels
of war to be built, armed and equippe d ia our ports
to fight against nations with which we are on terms
ot amity and friendship ? This does not restore lhe
spoilsmen to office and patronage, and they stdl cry
out —“ opposition to ihe bitter end.” Or, if seeing a
brave people sir ring for liberty against the combined
forces of Imperialism, he dispatch a friendly messen
ger to cheer them in their high am! holy enterprise,
the motives ot generosity which prompted him thus
to show our sympathy have no response in the bo
soms of those who have in the beginning resolved to
oppose biin in all his acts “ till lhe bitter eni.”
The same selfish and corrupt spir.t has marked
every means used by lhe against the ad
ministration. Discarding every thir.g like principle,
they have descended to the petty guerilla system of
personable abuse. One falsehood has scarcely
been nailed to thecounler before another of the same
spurious coin is uttered from this nch mint of menda
city. No act of the President or at'a member of his
Cabinet, whether public or private, has any merit in
their estimation. Even the former kindness of the
Secretary oi' State to a worthy and ta'ented editor —
his old person l friend—has been perverted by lhe
Cnien and its allies into an act of grossest corruption.
They stop at no fit Ise hood however mean—no calumny
IjgHKever malignant—no language however vile and
vitup'rative. Contemptible'seribbiers. such as “He
roic Age.” o 4 content with abusing the President in
lhe public prints, hare even invaded the sanctuary
of bisjamdy, and every day tbru't upon him letters
with fictitious signatures, filled with ihe most bil
lingsga’e compound of personal abuse and insult.
Nor Jo they Hop here : The ladies of the Presidential
mansion have had addressed to them, almost daily,
letters containing the most offensive and obscene lan
guage which a fiend can indite, until they can scarce
ly dare to open any letter unless from a well known
and tatniliar band. Such a mode of warfare mav
poerildy seem justifiable to those wbewe moral sense
is blnnted by the determination to oppose the adm*n
htfrat*« “tdl the bitter end;” hut honest aad well
meaning men of all parties cannot but condemn a
course so shocking to decency and morality.
Haxpdxm.”
Tub Expedition to the Salt Lake—The
National intel licence r of lhe Sth inst. nays:
By letters very recently received we learn that
the exploring party, under command of Capt.
Stansbury, of the Topographical Engineers,
now en for lhe Great Salt Lake in Upper
California, entered Fretnenfa South Pass tn
the Rocky Mountains on the sth of Aagual.
The party were all in good health and fine
spirit*, having accomplished two thirds of the
journey toward their destined field of explora
tion. They pursue lhe ordinary Oregon route
os far as Fort Hall, where they leave it and.
timing short to ihe south, enter the valley of
the Great Sait Lake and it* tributaries.
Mtn with Tails.
The extraordinary and generally supposed
exploded nSeryof a Scotch Philosopher of the
last century, that men originally had tails, and
through successive ages of progress and civil
ization, attained to their present advancement,
has recently received considerable support
from the researches of Colonel DuCouret, a
French traveller in Africa, who having been
sent out by his government, penetrated further
into the interior than any civilized man who
had preceded him, of whom we have any ac
count. When about entering upon a second
tour, he appeared before the French Academy
of Sciences, on tho 20th September, for the
purpose of receiving instruction, to whom he
read a report of his previous tour, from which
the following highly interesting extract is made,
by the Paris correspondent of the N. Y. Jour
nal of Commerce:
There exists a race of men who, according to the
report of certain travellers, are originally of the king
dom of Gondar, or of others, who says they inhabit
Soudan in the south, whose zoological characteristics
are remarkable. They have a tail-like appendage
formed by the elongation of the vertebial column,
and they are the last link in the human race. The
slave merchants cannot dispose of them without great
dilficulty; so bud is their reputation. The traits
which distinguish them arc hideous ugliness of face
and figure, ungovernable tempers, and stolid intellect.
Some of this race are to be found, also, in the Phillip
piue Islands, but they were, doubtless, carried thither
by the slave merchants. However this may be, when
a Levantine is looking oni for slaves in the East, he
is always warned not to purchase one who has a tail;
be is told —“of all slaves, this is the least profitable.”
This race of men is very far behind that of which
Pourrier dreaiued, and which was, some day, to be
came the type-of-manly beauty, amrally and physi
cally.
M. Du Couret, who wasu’n Mecca in the year 1842,
saw an individual of the species we have just men
tioned, and belonging, he was told, to the breed of
Ghilanes in the South. Though it be not the first
time that we have heard the race of men spoken of,
who are furnished with tails, nevertheless the fact is
not sufficiently common to take away its interest.
We will, therefore, enter somewhat in detail upon
this strange organic manifestation. “I inhabited
Mecca in 1842,” says M. Du Couret, “and being
often at the house of an Emir with whom I was inti
mate, I spoke to him of the Ghiiane race, and told
him how much the Europeans doubted of the exis
tence of men with tails, that is to say, the vertebral
column elongated externally. In order to convince
me of the reality of the species, the Ernir ordered
before me one of his slaves called Belial, who was
about thirty yeara old, who had a tail, and who be
longed to this iribe. On surveying this man I was
thoroughly convinced. He spoke Arabic well, and
appeared rather intelligent. He told me that in his
country, far beyond the Sennar, which he had cros
sed, they spoke a different language; this for want of
practice, he had entirely forgotten ; that of his com
patriots, whom he estimated at 30,000, some wor
shipped the sun, the moon, or stars, others the serpent
and the sources of an immense river, in which they
immolated their victims—(probably the mouth of the
Nile) ; that they ate with delight raw flesh, as bloody
as possible, and that they loved humin flesh above
ali things, that after their battles with the neighboring
tribea, they slaughtered and devoured their prisoners
without distinction of sex ; but that the women and
children were preferable, the flesh being more deli
cate.
This Ghiiane had become a devout Mnssulman,
and had lived 15 years in the Holy City. The fond
ness, the necessity even, for raw flesh (it really was
a want for him) did not foil to return upon him ; and
his master, therefore, by a precaution, never failed
when this fit was on him, to provide him with an
enormous piece of raw mutton, which he consumed
ravenously before every body present. This eager
desire for jvw flesh showed itself periodically'; some
times twice a week. Being asked why he did not
try toeonect such a habit, he answered with great
frankness : “ I have often tried to overcome this ap
petite, which 1 received from my father and mother.
In my country, great and small young and old, live
in this manner, besides eating fish, fruits and vegeta
bles. If my master neglected to supply this require
ment of my nature. I am sure I could not resist the
desire which-possessor «.f devouring something,
and 1 should cause great sorrow by falling on some
person too weak to contend with me, an infant, for
example.” Having asked him toaifoir mo to see him
naked (for I wished to skztch him) he resisted for a
long time, but finally yielded, on receiving lhe pro
mise of an entire new dress, which to send
him. He came privately to my house. Where he
took off the scanty shirt of coarse blub linen which
he wore. I was thus enabled to contemplate him
quite at my ease, and to paint his portrait wiifiout
exposing him to the punishment which would. L c
been inflicted on him, if he had been detected by hi«
fanatical and superstitious master. The drawing
made under thnse circumstances has been placed un
der the eyes of the Academy.
Here are Rome extracts from the description given
by M. Du Couret, of the Ghilanes: —“The Ghi
lanes are a peculiar race of negro, which have a
strong resemblance to the monkey ; much smaller
than the usual race —they are rarely more than five
feethigh. They are commonly ill made; their bo
dies are lean and seem weak; their arms long and
slim ; their hands and feet me longer and flatter than
those of any other of the human species ; their cheeks
project, and their fore forehead i i low and receding ;
their ears are long and deformed; their eyes • ’
small, Mack, piercing, and twinkle constantly; their
noses are large and flat; their mouth wide, and fur
nished with teeth very sharp, strong and of dazzling
whiteness; their lips are full and thick ; their hair
curled, not very woolly, not thick, and remain short.
But what particularly distinguishes (hem is the pro
longation of tho vertebral column. This gives to each
individual, male or female, a tail of two or three
inches long.”
Finally, here is the portrait of Belial, the name of
the personage the author encountered at Mecca :
“He was thin and dry, but nervous and strong.
His skin was black, bronzed, shining, soft to the touch
like velvet. His feet were long and flat; his arms
and legs appeared feeble, but well supplied with
muscles. His ribs could easily be counted. His
face was repulsively ugly. His mouth was enormous,
his lips thick, his teeth strong, sharp and very white;
h : s nose broad and flit; his ears long and deformed ;
his forehead low and very receding; his hair not
very woolly, nor thick, but nevertheless curly. He
had no beard, and bis body was not very hairy. He
was very active and handy. His height was about
five feet. His tail was more than three inches long,
and almost as flexible as that of a monkey. His dis
position, setting aside the oddity of his tastes an i ha
bits, was good, and his fidelity was above praise.
The Land Slide at Morganza.—We learn
from the Pointe Coupee Echo of the 29th ult.,
that the bodies of Mr. Bisset and Mr. Boyd,
the individual* who perished in the land-slide
at Morganza, on the 27di ult , were recovered
on the morning after. The bodies of the ne
gro boy and girl, who fell at lhe same time, had
not been found. The Echo further says :
“ We have been informed that the levee and road
before lhe plantation of Madame Sirreau, in the
island, caved in on Thursday evening last, and she
was compelled to have a road opened through her cane
field. The grand levee, opposite to the house of Mr.
N. Carinouehe, is at present within ninety feet of the
river in consequence of lhe caving of the banks ; the
levee also at Mr. Charles Hogan’s has caved in up
wards of a hundred feet, and at the plantation below
twenty feet of the levee has disappeared. In our
neighborhood the banks have been caving for some
considerable time, and we know not nt what time it
will cease. The caving of the banks is attributed to
the cut-off.”
Large Pieces of Granite.—The workmen
are proceeding rapidly with lhe basement of
the new Customhouse, which, when finished,
will be the largest and grandest Customhouse
in the world, surpassing th >se of New York
and Liverpool. Four large vessel loads of
granite have already been landed on the levee.
This granite is hewn in immense blocks, and is
worked ofl’ smooth in Massachusetts, where it
is quarried. Some of these blocks weigh
twenty-two tons. They are all of large size,
and as laid on the foundation of the newsiruc
Hire, present an appearance of great solidity
and strength. The readiness with which these
immense blocks are moved from the levee to
the site of lhe Customhouse, is astonishing.—
N T . O.
Health of Charleston.—This morning
we publish the official report of the Board of
Health, which gives the information that there
were eighteen deaths by Stranger’s Fever, dur
ing lhe week ending on the 6th instant. Os
these it will be seen that 8 were natives of Ire
land. 4 of Germany, 4 of Scotland, and 2 of
the United States.
Eight of the eighteen died in the City Hospi
tai, being a strong evidence that the disease
prevails principally among those who are not
i careful in their habits, and do not seek medical
■ attendance promptly. At the same time we state
i that at no former period, within our recollec
i lion, which extends over a period of near lliir-
• ty years, have the ruses been of so mild a char
i acter. or so readily yielded to Medical treatment.
We have, on several occasions, staled that
• we would unhesitatingly announce to our read
j ers the true state of the health of the city, when
ever disease assailed ns, and therefore, shall not
refrain from giving our opinion, that from aft
we can learn, the cases of Stranger’s Fever,
have within the last eight or ten days, been
more prevalent than previously.
Most of the subjects of the disease have been
men of dissolute habit*, or those who have wan
tonly exposed themselves, and neglected to ob
tain early medical advice. Very few instances
of a total result can be adduced, where proper
caution has been observed, and we feel war
ranted in asserting that, as far as wc know, and
we have taken some pains to ascertain facts.
. no danger need be apprehended by those who
’ are prudent in not exposing themselves to the
, night air. and lake medical advice on the first
j symptoms of the disease.
We make these remarks as a mitterof duty.
| and as before s:ated. in the fulfilment of oft
j repeated promises. That the disease will not
be finally eradicated until after a frost, al! ex
pe.’ience teaches us. and until that period ar
rives, it behooves all to be cautious not to
expose themselves. We dislike concealment
of danger, when it exists, and will no: be par
ticipants in any attempt to deceive. A very
short time only will elapse before this, as yet
but slightly dangerous disease will certainly
leave us. We are well aware there has been
much mere alarm than lhe true state of affairs
would warrant, from the exaggerated reports
that have been promulgated throughout the
country, in many instances, doubtless, from in
terested motives.
We take lhe occasion to correct an erro
neous impression, which is generally erUrtain
ed abroad in relation to the mode by which lhe
City Register makes his report of the number
of deaths that occur within the corporate limits
of the city. The question is often asked whe
lher the report includes those interred in the
burial grounds on the Neck. The answer is
at hand. All persons who die in the city and
are buried on the Neck are included in the
report of lhe City Register.
Oar readers may be assured, that hereafter,
if on any occasion from thii time until we shaft
have the gratification of announcing that no
new caaes of fever can occur, anything should
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17. 1849.
transpire to require an especial notice, it will
be promptly given; but that such will be
the case we have not the most remote belief,
as the season is now so far advanced that a
short period only can intervene before it will
finally disappear.— Char. Courier, Itoth inst.
The United States and France.—The
Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Jour
nal of Commerce, writing under date of 3d
inst., says—
In some of the New York papers that were
received to day, notice is taken of advices from
Mr. Rush, to the effect that France entertains
hostile feelings and purposes towards this coun
try.
It is perfectly true that such advices were
received, and that they produced a deep im
pression upon the Cabinet—or at least upon a
portion ofit—and have induced more than one
of them to entertain the belief that we shall
have difficulty with the most ambitious and the
least scrupulous of the Bonapartes, who now
controls the destinies of France.
As to the discretion of promulgating such
despatches, I have nothing to say, but their
purport has been known here for a month or
more, to some persons, and has been the
subject of much speculation, if not of anxiety.
The letter of May 3d, which is alluded to,
distinctly asserts that when it may suit the poli
cy of France to go to war, she will commence
with the United Slates.
The N. Y. Courier has the following letter
dated
Washington, Oct. 2,1849.
President Taylor and his cabinet do not en
tertain the slightest apprehension that our
friendly relations witn France will be inter
rupted as a consequence of the difficulty with
citizen Poussin. They think, however, that
the French Ministry may, in a moment of
giddy passion, resolve upon the rejection of
Mr Rives, by’way of retaliation,, ’’
of M. Poussin’s distriissal will reach Paris a few
weeks before the arrival of Mr. Rives, as he
will spend five or six weeks in England before
proceeding to Paris.
Emigrant Distresses on the Plains.—A
letter published in the Chicago Journal of the
25th, reiterates, with additions, the former sto
ries about the great suffering among the Cali
fornia emigrants on the far western plains, loss
of life from sickness, and the drowning of hun
dreds of teams in crossing the streams. The
writer adds:
“On the Fort Hall r>ad the suffering has been
very great, and a messenger has been sent from Fort
Hall for assistance. There weresoo wagons between
Green River and Fort Hall, perfectly helpless, hav
ing lost all their oxen and hundreds of others are dy
ing daily, from fatigue and starvation, there being
little or no feed on that route. They wish to have
the families which have been left destitute brought
to the Salt Lake to winter. It is also reported that
there are great contentions among the ernigranta.
They had become desperate, and are fighting and
killing one another, to obtain a chance to move on,
the roads and passes being entirely blocked up by
broken down teams. It is feared the suflering and
loss nf life yet to hear of, will be more appalling than
the first account.”
Naval —The United States steam frigate
Mississippi arrived at Leghorn on the 1J th, with
165 passengers, among whom was Commodore
Morgan, commander of the squadron of the
Mediterranean.
Hon. Bailie Peyton. U. 8. Minister to Chili,
is at present in New York city. The Tribune
says he will leave for his post on the 10th inst.
in the steamer Ohio.
Mr. John Colclough Jr. a most worthy and
estimable gentleman of Sumter District 8. C.
was recently shot dead by an enraged husband,
Richard Marshall, with whom Mr C was re
monstrating lor the ill-treatment of his (M’s)
wife. Marshall was arrested and committed to
jail-
What can be done on one acre or uround.
—Theeditorof the Maine Cultivator published,
a few years ago, his management ofoneacre of
ground, from which we gather the following
results: one third of an acre in corn usually
produced thirty bushels of sound corn for grin
diiig, besides some refuse. This quantity was
sufficient for family use, and for fattening one
large or two small hogs. On the same ground
he obtained two or three hundred pumpkins,
and his family supply of dry beans. From a
bed of six rods square he usually obtained six
ty bushels of onions; these he sold at $1 per
bushel, and the amount purchased his flour.
Thus from one third of an acre and his onion
bed he obtained his breadstuff*. The rest of the
ground was appropriated to all sorts of vegeta
bles, for summer and winter use ; potatoes,
beets parsnips, cabbages, green corn, peas,
beans, cucumbers, melons, squashes, &c with
fifty or sixty bushels of beetsand carrots fur the
winter food of a cow. Then he had also a
flower garden; raspberries, currants, and goose
berries in great variety, and a few choice
apple, pear, plum, cherry, peach and quince
trees.
Some reader may call the above a “ Yankee
trick;” so it is, and our object in puLlisliing it
is to have it repeated all over Yankee land, and
everywhere else. If a family can be supported
from one acre of ground in Maine, lhe same
can be done in every State and County in the
Union.— Ploughman.
From Yucatan.—By the arrival here this
morning of the bark Mary Parker, Capt. Auld,
from Campeachy the 29th ult., we have re
ceived numbers of El Eenix, of that port, to
the 26th. There was nothing of importance
stirring at Campeachy up to these dates.
The news of dissensions having broken out
among lhe Chiefs of lhe insurgent Indians at
Tihosiico and other points, seems to be con
firmed, and the Yucatecoes are in expectation
of being able to conclude the destructive war
that has been so long waging between the two
races by the quiet submission of the Indians.
This, El Tranal says, will enable the Govern
ment to get out of the snare into which it has
been led by the proffer of English mediation,
and which it accepted without duly consider
ing the consequences.
El Tranal denounces all connection with
the British, who from their colony of Belize
have been furnishing the Indians with arms
and munitions from the commencement of the
war. It states that the treaty with Spain in
1786, which s ill holds good with all the former
Spanish colonies, has been flagrantly violated
in this instance, aud that Great Britain in her
late answer to M. Lacunza’s remonstrance
against supplying the Indians with arms, shows
conclusively, by asserting that her subjects sold
them because they had a right to do so, that no
good can be expected by Mexico or Yucatan,
by the proposed mediation.
In another part El Tranal complains of lhe
little interest shown by Mexico in the wel
fare of the peninsula, by withdrawing the $25.-
000 which the Congress at first proposed to
appropriate monthly toward prosecuting the
war against the Y'icateco Indians. The nomi
nation to offices in Yucatan by the General Go
vernment, it also states evinces a most culpable
system of favoritism. — Pic oth inst.
Louisiana—lnterior. The Crops.— The
Planter’s Banner of the 27th ult., says: “It is
now reduced to a certainty that our cane crop
in most parts of the parish will be * short and
sweet.' Un some plantations a portion of the
crop is extremely good, while other portions
are extremely bad. There are great extremes
of good and bad cane, not only in different
parts of plantations, but also in contiguous sec
tions of the parish. It has rarely happened
that there has been so little uniformity in the
crons as appears to be the case this season.”
The Pointe Coupee Tribune of the 29th ult.,
observes: “ The army worm still continues its
ravages in this parish ; they are not quite as vo
racious as in 1844, for they jump from field to
field, without having done any material injury
to any. But. notwithstanding this, the cotton
crop here will be quite short of that of last year,
which, itself, was not very large. If the wea
ther continues of the same kind for two weeks,
it is the opinion of many planters that the cane
will turn out fair enough.”
The Monroe (Ouachita) Gazette of the 20th
ult., remarks: " The most alarming accounts
as to the probable meagreness of the cotton
crops, continue to reach us daily. Where rhe
overflow and continued rains have not consum
mated the work of destruction, the boll worm
and caterpillar have made almost a clean
sweep. Although the Red River country has
suffered more severely than any other portion
of the State, still, from present appearances,
we do not look for more than half a crop as the
maximum in Louisiana.”
Pictures on Glass.—The Phila. North
American has been favored by the Messrs Lan
genheim with a view of numerous pictures of
the photograph kind—true sun pictures—exe
cuted on glass. This is a new art. the inven
tion of the Messrs Langenheim. and beautiful.
There are portraits, landscape views, copies of
daguerreotypes. &c.. exhibiting the powers of
the new method, which admits of numerous
useful and important applications.
Death of Edgar A. Poe.—We regret to
learn that Edgar A. Poe. Esq . the distinguish
ed American poet, scholar and critic, died in
this city yesterday morning, after an illness of
four or five days The announcement, com
ing so sudden and unexpected, will cause poig
nant regret among all who admire genius, and
have sympathy for the frailtiestoo often attend
ing it. Mr Poe. we believe, was a native of
this State, though reared by a foster-father at
Richmond. Va., where he lately spent some
time on a visit. He was in the 38th year of his
age.— Balt. Sun Sth inst.
No Interference of Office Holders in
Elections.—Letters from New York relate
the promulgation of a nkaae by Collector Max
well, against the customhouse there interfering
in elections, as follows:
*' it seems that several of his employees held a sort
of meeting in ’.he large room of that establishment
on Thursday, after business hours, at which the pros
pects of the whig party at the coming election in this
Stale was discussed. As sx>n as Mr. Maxwell dis
covered what was going on, he emerged from bis pri
vate room, and addressing the gentlemen present,
told them that he would ox tolerate any proceedings
of the kind. He also said to them that be understood
some of the gentlemen were elected es delegates to
the convention, but that while it was out of his power
to prevent them from attending, he would consider
their doing »oas a decHnation of the office which they
respectively held. Gen. Taylor, he said, would not
countenance any attempts oo the part of those em
ployed in the public service to interfere with elec
tions, further than depositing their voces for any can
didate* they pleased, but when that duty was per
formed, they should return to their duties.”
<@eo :
FRIDAY MjpltSujU. OCT. 13, 18*9.
Bli.ni.slppl Convention.
This body, cahod.4o t»ke into consideration
he means necessary.To protect the rights of the
South, assembled >n Jackson on the Ist inst.,
and was organized Wai&ointing Judge VV. L
Preside** - and J. A. Orr and W.
A. Pardom There were only
thirty counties, by sixty nine dele
gates. A committ? of Jwenty was appointed
to prepare and report definite matter for the
action of the c^|ivf. s ticn.. consisting of the fol
lowing gent! (i rnen: Uis Excellency, Gov. Mat
thews, Hon.jfoin I. Gijion, Hon. Thos. H.
Williams, W. T. N. Waul, G.
N. Gordon, E. R- nuft, A. C. Baine, Hon. E.
C. Wilkinson, J- M. Chilton, A. Hutchinson,
T. A. Dabney, Hon. Geo. Winchester, R. T.
Archer, S. H. Johnson, Gen. D. H. Cooper,
John J. Smith, J. C. McAlpin, M. Balack and
11. C. Chambers.
The committee submitted majority and mi
nority reports, the latter was, however, afterde
liberation withdrawn, and the majority report,
after undergoing various modifications and
amendments, was adopted as follows :
We the delegates to i convention, called by
the people ofthe State of Mississippi, to de
liberate on the meansliprevent the unfounded
pretension, that Congress has power to legis
late on the subject iT slavery, and to pro
hibit its intro . in the terri-
- <dy consider
ed the important committed to our
charge, and make following report as ex
pressive ofthe voice of Mississippi.
It is boldly asserted, that Congress possesses
an unlimited power of legislation over all the
territories belonging in common to the people
ofthe United States—that it, consequently, has
power to prohibit slavery in these territories
that the exercise of such power is expedient
and necessary, inasmuch as slavery is an evil
which must be eradicated from the land. With
a few patriotic and honored exceptions, the
people ofthe Northern States seem determined
to adopt the Wilmot Proviso, or the principle
it contains. Every succeeding year brings
forth new expedients for the accomplishment
of the object. The press, lhe pulpit, and the
ballot-box, have all become tributary to
the fanatical hostility to lhe South. It is vain
to hope for an abandonment of this settled de
sign. Submission to our wrongs, provokes
perseverance on the part of the aggressors, and
it is wise in States, as it is in individuals, to re
sist encroachment. Unfortunately, we have
been but too passive under former encroach
ments. Our oppoments extdt in the passage
oi lhe Oregon Bill, as a full acknowledgement
ofthe principle, and build their hopes of further
success on that. In this unfortunate contro
versy there are but two alternatives—the one
is submission and the other is resistance. To
the one we cannot—we will not consent; the
other, we are reluctant to adopt.
In the name ofourconstitutents, wesolemnly
deny the existence ofthe power claimed, and pro
test against its exercise. We assert that it will
violate the Constitution and will lead to a disso
lution of the Union.
We have not met to discuss the question of
power or expediency. They have been argued
and re-argued, in and out of Congress, by our
statesmen and by our people. We have rea
soned and remonstrated in terms of conciliation
with our Northern brethren, until forbearance
has ceased to be a virtue. We have warned
them of the consequences of perseverance.
They have disregarded all our remonstrances,
and our warnings; they have disregarded the
most solemn compromises, in which we yield
ed too much. They have refused to submit to
judicial determination, preferring to decide by
lhe force of numbers. There is no common
arbiter; and we, 100, must decide for ourselves.
That decision is made, We take our stand on
the plain principles ofthe Constitution and in
tend to maintain it or sink in (he effort.
We assert that Congress has no power
over lhe subject of slavery, within the States,
or in the territories. That these States by the
revolution, by the declaration of independence,
and by the treaty of peace, beca.ne separate
and independent sovereignties, with all the po
litical power of separate and distinct nations ;
that they are still so, except so far ns they may
have delegated their sovereignty ; lhe fede
ral government is not a sovereignly, buta limi
ted federativesystem, possessing only such pow
ers as have been expressly granted to it by lhe
constitution, with such implied powers as may
be indispensably necessary as incidents to the
express grant. It follows that it can legislate
only on the subjects confided toil; and, on
them, only in strict subordination to every prin
ciple
As power is constantly tending to the legis
lative department, it is inexpedient that Con
gress should encroach on ihe liberties of the
people and the sovereignty of lhe States by ex
ercising doubtful powers.
We maintain that the system of slavery was
recognized by the constitution—slaves were
recognized as property, the full enjoyment of
which was guarded and protected ; guaranteed
by that compact. That Congress has no pow
er over such property. The right of property
preceded the constitution—it is coeval with the
history of man ; it exists by a paramount law
of nature. It is the subject of control by State
sovereignty only. This Union never would
been have formed, without the full and entire
recognition of slavery, and property in slaves,
and the guaranty to the owner which is con
tained in lhe constitution.
We assert that the territories acquired by the
late war with Mexico, are the common proper
ty of lhe United States; that the people of the
States have a right to move to it, and enjoy it,
and to take with them their property, their re
ligion, and their liberty. Congress did not
create property in slaves, nor can it say they
shall cease to be property. To abolish slavery
in the territories, is to diminish their value, and
limit lhe whole of the territory to the use of
one portion of the people ofthe United States
to the exclusion of another. The power of
Congress to legislate for lhe territories is a
power to protect the citizen and his property,
not to deciare what is property : Therefore
Ist. Resolved, That we continue to enierfain a
de7oted and cherished attachment to the Union, but
we desire to have it as it was formed and not as an
engine of oppression.
2. That the insiitution of slavery in the southern
States is left, by the constitution, exclusively under
the control of the States in which it exists, as a part
of their domestic policy, which they, and they only,
have the right to regulate, abolish, or perpetuate, as
they may severally judge expedient; and that all at
tempts, on the ('art of Congress, or others, to inter
fere with this subject, either directly or indirectly,
are in violation of the Constitution, dangerous to the
rights and safety of the South, and ought to be prompt
ly resisted.
3. That Congress has no power to pass any law
abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia, or to
prohibit the slave trade between the several States, or
to prohibit the intioduction of slavery into the territo
ries of the United States; and that the passage by
Congress of any such law, would not only be a dan
gerous violation of the constitution, but would afford
evidence of a fixed and deliberate design, on the part
of that body, to interfere with the institution of slave
ry in ihe Slates.
4. That we would regard lhe passage by Congress,
o< the “ Wilmot Proviso,” (which would, in effect*
deprive the citizens of the slaveholding States of an
equal participation in the territories acquired equally
by their blood and treasure.) as an unjust and insult
ing discrimination—to which these States cannot,
without political degradation, submit; and to which
this Convention, representing the feelings and opin
ions of the people of .Mississippi, solemnly declare
they will not submit.
5. That the passage of the Wilmot Proviso, or of
any law abolishing slavery in the District of Colum
bia, by the Congress of the United States, would, of
itself, be such a breach of the federal compact as, in
that event, will make it the duty, as it is the right of
the slave-holding States, to take care of their own
safety, and to treat lhe non-slave-holding States as
enemies to the slaveholding States and their domestic
institutions.
6. That the Legislature is hereby requested to pass
such laws as may, in their opinion, be best calculated
to encourage lhe emigration of citizens of the slave
holding States, with slaves, to ihe new territories of
the United States.
7. That, in view of the frequent and increasing
evidence of the determination of the people of the
States to disregard the guaranties
of the constitution, and to agitate the subject of slave
ry, both in and out of Congress, avowedly for lhe
puipweof effecting its abolition in the States; and,
also, in view of the &c?a set forth in the late “ Ad
diesa of the Southern Members of Congress.” this
Convention proclaims the deliberate conviction that
the time has arrived when lhe Southern States should
take counsel together for their common safety ; and
that a convention el the slave-holding States should
be held at Nashville. Tenn., on lhe Ist MONDAY
IN JUNE next, to devise and adopt some mode of
resistance to these aggressions; and that this Conven
tion do appoint twelve delegatesand twelve alternates
—bein£ double the number of oor Senators an I Re
presentatives in Congress—to attend such convention,
and that the other slave-holding States be invited to
apqioint delegates agreeably to the same ratio of re
presentation.
8. That in the language of an eminent Northern
writerand patriot —“The rightsuf the South in Af
rican service, exist not only under but aver the
Constitution. They existed before the government
was formed. The Constitution was rather sanctioned
by them than they by the Constitution. Had not
that instrument admitted the sovereignty- of those
rights, it never would have been itself admitted by
the South. It bowed ia deference to rights older in
their date, stronger io their claims, and holier in their
nature, than any other which the Constitution can
boast. Those rights may not be changed—even by
a change at the Constitution. They are out of the
reach of the naiioa, as a nation. The confederacy
may dissolve and lhe Constitution pass away, but
those rights will remain unshaken—will exist while
the South exists —and when they fail, the South will
perish with them.”
9. That to procure unity and promptness of action
in this State, this Convention recommends that a cen
tral or Stale associatioe be foruied at lhe capital, and
affiliated county associations within lhe several coun
ties of the State.
10. That we recommend to the Legislature of th’s
State, that at its next session, a law be enacted mak
ing it the duty of the governor of the State, by pro
clamation, to call a general Convention of lhe State,
and to issue writs of election based upon the ratio of
representation in the State legislature, upon the pas
saj-e by Congresa of the ‘ ‘ Wilmot Proviso,” or any
law abolishing slavery in rhe District ofCdumbia, or
prohibiting the slave trade between the States, u>
take into eoariderafion the act of aggression, and she
mode and measure of redress.
11. That a committee of six be chosen by the Con
▼entiOQ to prepare an address to the people of the
la ve nolding State*.
The delegates appointed under the seventh
resolution for the State at large, were:
VV. L. Sharkey, A. M. Clayton. 11. T. Ellet
and G. T. Sturges. Alternates—John I. Guion,
A. Hutchinson, VV. R. Cannon and J. T. Har
rison.
First Congressional District.— Jus. W. Mat
thews and T. J. Word. Alternates— ll. R
Miller and J. D. Bradford.
Second. District.— T. N. Waul and J B.
Cobb. Alternates— Reuben Davis and Chas.
B Sheppard.
Third District.— H. C. Chambers and E. C.
Wilkinson. Alternates— W. R. Hill and Pat
rick Sharkey.
Fourth District.— Geo. Winchester and D.
Cooper. Alternates— David Hurst and Henry
Mo unger.
The committee appointed under the last re
solution, to prepare an address, is composed of:
VV. L. Sharkey. A. Hutchinson, Geo. Win
chester, C- R. Clifton, W. R. Hill, John I.
Guion andE. C. Wilkinson.
Tehuantepec It ail road.
A very large, most enthusiastic and earnest
meeting was held in New Orleans on ffie eve
ning of the sth inst. for the purpose of taking
into consideration the best means of securing
a rapid communication with our possessions
on the Pacific, through the instrumentality of
a Railroad over the Tehuantepec route. The
assembly, was actuated, says the Bee, by the best
feelings of harmony, and a determined spirit
pervaded the vast meeting, giving earnest of
the ultimate accomplishment of the so much
desired object. Our citizens seem now to be
fully aroused to the necessity of at once enter
ing upon the important measure, of securing
to New Orleans something more than a tithe of
it*)vf. xi rfo*ts 6T th& TacWlcr <
Gov. Johnson presided over the meeting, as
sisted by numerous Vice Presidents. The
meeting was addressed by Messrs. Cohen,
Benjamin, Larue and Sigur, and the subjoin
ed resolutions were adopted by acclamation:
Resolved, That a communication across the Conti
nent of America, either bv Ship Canal or Railroad,
between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is an object
of the highest political and commercial imnortance to
the Government and People of the United States, ne
cessary to bind together the different parts of our ter
nt ry, and enable all our citizens to participate in and
be protected by the Federal Government, and in the
highest degree calculated to develope our resources,
extend our commerce, increase the wealth and power
of the country, and add to the prosperity and happi
ness of the people.
Resolved, That we are in favor of the construc
tion of a Railroad to the Pacific, entirely within lhe
territories of the United States, if, upon examination
and survey, such Road shall be ascertained to be
practicable ; and that we will heartily aid, so far as
our efforts may avail, in the support and prosecution
of such an undertaking, whatever maybe the route
which shall be finally determined upon.
Resolved, That while we are anxious to witness
the completion of so great a national work, we can
not shut our eyes to the fact that many years must
elapse before so desirable an end can be attained, and
that in the meantime some other mode of rapid com
munication with our territories on the Pacific is es
sential to the safety and well being of the country,
and would immediately add to its commercial great
ness.
Resolved, That in our opinion, a Railroad across
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is the cheapest, speediest
and best means of obtaining, at once, objects of such
importance, and that the people of New Orleans and
Louisiana ought to and will aid in its construction
without delay.
Resolved, That the Delegates from this State to
the Memphis Convention be requested to bring this
subject before that body, and endeavor to obtain its
concurrence with us in behalf of the Tehuantepec
Railroad, as a present measure beneficial to all, and
as a most powerful aid, by demonstrating the great
advantages of rap'd communication, in furthering
the great work in favor of which the convention is
convoked.
Resolved, That a Permanent Committe of twenty
gentlemen be appointed to prepare an Address to the
President, asking for the negotiation of a treaty, if
practicable, with lhe Government of Mexico, permit
ting of the free transportation of the mails, troops and
military stores of the Government, and of the goods
and merchandize ofthe citizens of the United States,
across lhe Isthmus of Tehuantepec ; a memorial to
Congress for the passage of a law directing the Post
master General and Secretary of War to make yearly
contracts for the transportation ofthe mails, troops and
military stores from the Atlantic to the Pacific ports
of the United States, giving preference always to the
shortest route, where the price is the same ; and an
address to the Congress and People of the United
States nn the advantages of immediately construct
ing a Railroad at Tehuantepec, and generally to fur
ther the object which this meeting has in view.
Resolved, That, in the opinion of this meeting, an
object so vitally concerning the interests of the Ci’y
of New Orleans, deserves the support and fen-opera
tion of the several Municipalities of New Orleans
that, with this view, our Senators and Representatives
be respectfully invited to urge, at the approaching
session of the Legislature, the passage of a law au
thorizing the Councils to lend their aid, both in the
preliminary examinations and in the subsequent exe
cution of the proposed wotk£, in such manner and to
such extent as shaft to said Councils ajipear expedi
ent and j rupri J .
Resolved, That the Permanent Committee be re
quested to solicit subscriptions for the purpose of de
fraying the expenses of printing, publishing, and the
obtaining ot all necessary information for the further
ance of lhe enterprize.
Fatal Steam Boiler Explosion.—The
boiler of the engine of one of the downward
freight trains on the Georgia Railroad, while
ascending the tip grade just below Belair yes
terday afternoon, exploded, carrying away the
dome part of the boiler, and so seriously in
juring the engineer, Richard T. Allen, one
of the most experienced and cautious engineers
on the road, that he died about 7 o’clock. The
two firemen on the engine escaped uninjured.
This is the first accident of the kind that has
ever occurred on lhe Road.
The Augusta Manufacturing Company
have declared another quarterly dividend of 3
per cent., from lhe profits of their business for
lhe last 3 months.
A Grand Scheme.
The necessity of affording cheap and com
fortable houses for the mechanics and laboring
men of the country, as a means of promoting
their prosperity and establishing a higher stan
dard of comfort for them and their families, is
beginning to command merited attention at
the north; and we are pleased to learn from
the following extract from a New York letter
to the Detroit Free Press that the philanthropists
and capitalists of that great commercial mart
are directing their attention to the subject of
building up a town for lhe accommodation of
these worthy classes:
“A move ia making in New York to meliorate
the condition of the laboring clasw. Several large
capitalists are at lhe head of it. z\ large tract of land
is to be bought some 15 miles from New York to erect
a new city upon it. Two millions of dollars to be the
capital. The company are to build 5,000 bri< k
bouses at SSOO each, including the lot of 50 by 200.
These houses are to be let at $52 each to mechanics,
or $1 a week, which will pay 10 per cent, on the
capital. All the houses to be uniform. Each oc
cupant to have the right to purchase his house, by
paying $2 a week and keeping up the interest of 7
per cent. In this way he gets a title to his home
stead in about six years. A negotiation is going on
with lhe Hudson River Railroad, that the occupants
will have the privilege to commute with the Railroad
company for their passage to New York and back
again, at a price not to exceed six cents a day for
going and coming; the distance each way will not be
far from 15 miles, at 3 cents a head. In this way
they can reach the city in half an hour. If 10,000
laborers reside there it would give the company S6OO
a day, or $187,000 a year.
“The great drawback to the prosperity of me
chanics is high rents. SIOO to $l5O has to be paid
for very indifferent tenements. By living in the
country and going to his work by railroad, on the
plan proposed, he can posses* a house of bis own in
five years, from the saving he would make froro'New
York rents. The project is highly praiseworthy.
The originators, when the work is finished, would be
considered benefactors. Mr. Minturn, of the wealthy
shipping-house of Fish, Grinnell & Minturn, ia at
the head of it. He is now in Europe getting infor
mation on the subject —there being a similar associa
tion in successful operation in England. Professor
Mason, ofthe New York University, is also engaged
in it, both with his time and parse. They can now
count on a million dollars capital that is ready to em
bark in it as soon as the plan is perfected.”
Bishop Onderdonk —The New York State
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church
only recommended the termination of the sus
pension of Bishop Onderdonk to the House
of Bishops, who alone have power to restore
him. He is not therefore re instated, as staled
by us on Wednesday.
Increase of Wealth by Railroads. —Bus-
ton and New York furnish apt illustrations of
the influence of Railroads in the production
and increase of wealth. By a comparative es
timate of the real and persona! estate of lhe
two cities it is found that the former is indebt
ed fur her recent rapid gro"'lh, to her supe
rior enterprise in railroad*. The valuation of
real and personal estate in New York, at the
commencement of the present year, was $254.-
193.5*27, which, compared with that of 1840,
exhibits an increase of only $1,350,373, while
that us Boston shows an increase of $73,097,-
400, during the same interval. In 1840, the
wealth of Boston in real estate amounted to
$94 631.600, while at the present time it is es
timated at $167,728,000.
A Floating Saw Mill.—The Alabama
State Gazette learns that a gentleman on the
lower part of the Alabama river, is now con
structing. and will soon have in operation, a
Floating Saw Mill, to be propelled by steam,
so as to travel to any point on the river, and
deliver orders for lumber. This, no doubt,
will prove a profitable investment.
The Detroit Daily Advertiser of the 4th inst,
states that the steamboat Nile, on her late trip
up the lake, lost 17 of her passengers by chole
ra. The disease was still prevailing in Macki
naw, and a few deaths were occurring daily.
The receipts of the recent Salem Mechanics’
Fair, for admission at its doors, were $1,933.70.
Statistics of Lowell Manufactures.
A correspondent of the New York Spirit of
the Times gives the following interesting statis
tics touching the condition aud prospects ofthe
I city of Lowell, Massachusetts:
. The first objects of interest are the factories, which
! extend in a continuous line on the Merrimack River,
I from Pawtucket Falls to the junction of the Merri
. mack and Concord Rivers. A mile of mills and ma
chinery. Then on the opposite side of the city are
other mills, numbering about twelve.
The first corporation was commenced in 1822, un
der the direction of Messrs. Patrick T. Jackson, Na
thaniel Appleton and Kirk Boot, taking the name of
Merrimack Manufacturing Company, for making
prints and sheetings. In 1810 the Merrimack com
pany employed nearly 1700 hands, male and female,
this year about 2050. li. Te are twelve corporations
incorporated in the following order :
Merrimack Manufacturing incorporated
in 1822. Capital stock $2,000,000. There are six
mills exclusive of print works, containing 67,965
spindles and 1920 looms, which produce 345,000
yards of cotton cloth weekly. Emory Washburn,
Esq., Agent.
Hamilton .Manufacturing company, incorporated in 1
1825. Capital stock $1,200,000. Four mills and
print works are included in the company, containing
j 6,228 spindles and 1086 looms, which produce 180,-
000 yards of prints, flannels and sheetings weekly.
They hire 1200 hands. John Avery, Efeq., is Agent
of the cotton department, and Wm. Spencer of the
Print Works.
Appleton company, incorporated in 1828. Capital
S6OO 000. Two mills, containing 17,920 spindles,
and 600 looms, producing 130,000 yards of sheetings
and shirtings weekly, with ihe aid of 520 hands. —
Agent, George Motley, Esq.
Lowell Manufacturing company, incorporated in
1828. Capital $900,000. Two mills, one cotton and
one woolen carpet mill; 220 cotton looms and about
60 carpet power looms, which, with 800 persons,
manufacture 6500 yards of carpeting, 40 woolen rugs
and 95,000 yards cotton cloth, weekly, all under lhe
agency of Alexander Wright, Esq.
The Middlesex company was incorporated in 1830.
Capital SLOU.QQQ. There are four mills, and three ■
, j*s4«o<hs«
for broadcloth, and 325 for cassimere, employing I,- '
750 hands, and making 18,957 yards of cassimere,
and 2334 of broadcloth. Agent, O. H. Perry, Esq.
Suffolk Mills, incorporated in 1830. Capital stock
$600,000. 14,448 spindles, and 489 looms, under
cover of two mills, and worked by 500 hands, ma
king 100,000 yards drilling per week. John Wright,
Agent.
The Tremont Mills were incorporated in 1830, and
have a capital stock of S6OO 000. Two mills, contain
ing 14,560 spindles, and 517 looms, producing 120,-
000 yards of sheetings and shirtings, with the aid of
500 bands, weekly. Under the agency of Chas. L.
Tilden, Esq.
Lawrence Manufacturing company, incorporated
in 18iK). with a capital el $1,500,000. There are five
spindles, and 1260 looms, worked by
1400 hands, who produce 260,000 yards of printing
cloths, sheetings aud shirtings, weekly. Agent, John
Aiken, Esq.
Boott Cotton Mills, incorporated in 1835. Capital
$1,200,000. Five mills and picker house; 41.712
spindles, and 1338 looms, worked by 1100 hands,
making 220,000 yards drillings, shirtings and print
ing cloths, weekly. Agent, Hon. Linus Child.
Massachusetts Cotton Mills, incorporated in ]839.
Capital $1,800,000- Six mills, including the Pres
cott Mills under the same agency: 45,720 spindles,
and 1459 looms, worked by 1500 hands, making
475,000 yards sheetings, shirtings and drillings.—
Agent, James White, Esq.
Lowell Bleachery, incorporated in 1832. Capital
$210,000. For bleaching and dying cotton goods 220
hands are employed, dying 2,000,000 yards, and
bleaching 4,000,000 lbs. annually.
The Lowell Machine Shop, employing 700 hands,
unther the agency of W. A. Burke, Esq.
One pound of cotton will make, on an average, 3
2-10 yards of cloth. The wages of the operatives are
paid to them once a month, regularly, and always
sure pay. There are three banks in the city, viz:
Railroad, capital $600,000 —Lowell, capital $200,-
000 -and Appleton, capital SIOO,OOO. There are
two Savings Banks, and the principal depositors are
operatives. There is also a hospital established by
the companies, for the accommodation and comfort
ofthe operatives when sick, under the management
of one of the ablest physicians and surgeons of the
Eastern States, Dr. Gilman Kimball. The popula
tion in 1820 was 200, now it is estimated at 35,000.
There is a valuable library owned by the city, con
taining about 8000 volumes, to which any person can
have access by paying the small sum of 50 cents per
annum. The terms are so low that the working class
have access as well as the wealthy.
The fire department is perfect. There are 11 en
gines fully manned, together with 16,410 feet of hose.
The firemen are paid in service time by the city, at
20 cents per hour. There are also force pumps at
regular distances, on the principal streets, but more
particularly around the corporations, through which
waler is forced by the action of the mills, and with
which most of the streets are showered in the warin
season, instead of the old custom of a “cistern on
wheels, ” and done much quicker.
The average wages of females, cleor of board, per
week, $2 —men, per day, 80 cents.
The Middlesex company annually make use 0f6,-
000 000 teasles.
Each corporation has boarding houses to accom
modate their own help.
The city is one of the healthiest in the Union.
The population, as a class, are an active, Yankee
set.
The Powder Mills, belonging to Oliver M. Whip
ple, Esq., are situated about half a mile from the city,
and produce a large quantity annually.
The Mechanics’ Reading Room contains all the
principal papers of the United States and England.
Tlie public schools are nonerous, and on
au average, by four thousand daily.
$500,000 was expanded in making “The New
Canal, ” so called, commenced in June, 1946, and
opened on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 25. 1847. It is
nearly one mile in length, an immense work, a quar
ter of a mile being cut through solid rock. It was
under the direction of James B. Francis, Esq. An
iron fence is erected from one end to the other, and
on each side trees are set out, which makes a delight
ful promenade.
Beautiful Passage.—Lord Morpeth, in one
of his addresses to the electors of the West
Riding of Yorkshire, uttered lhe following
beautiful passage:
“ Reference has been frequently made to the reigns
of our former female Sovereigns, and indeed every
Englishman must fondly look back to the wisdom of
Elizabeth and the victories of Anne. But, tn sha
ping the desired career of their fair and young suc
cessor, we do not wish that her name should rise
above the wrecks of the armada; we do not seek to
emblazon her throne with the trophies of such fields
as Blenheim, or the yet more transcendent Waterloo.
Let her have glories, but such as are not drained
from the treasury or dimmed with the blood of her
people. Let hers be the glories of peace, of indus
try, of commerce, and of genius; of justice made
more accessible; of education made more universal;
of virtue more honored; of religion more beloved;
of holding forth the earliest gospel to the una
wakened nations ; the glories that arise from grati
tude, for benefits conferred ; and the blessings of a
loyal and chivalrous, because a contented and admi
ring people.”
Boston Banks.—Twenty-seven Banks in
Boston, having an aggregate capital of $19,-
280,000, have declared semi-annual dividends,
the aggregate amount of which is $740,550.
The dividends range from five to three perct.
Two of the Banks declared five per cent. ; one
declared four and a half per cent. ; thirteen de
clared four per cent.; nine declared three and
a half per cent., and two declared three per
cent.
A New Invention.—Huffman’s Patent
Spring and Tackle for raising Windows, in
vented by a Philadelphia mechanic, is intended
to supersede the weights and pulleys, or the
common springs now used.
This is done by inserting a spiral spring in
the frame of the window, connecting with the
sa*h by a cord, so that it assists the hand in
raising it, and holds it at any point of elevation
desired. The advantages claimed for it over
the weight and pulley are, that they can be in
serted for less than half the cost of labor and
material ; and it is perfectly hidden from the
eye, and can be applied to windows already
made.
Glass Works in Tennessee.—The Knox
ville Register says: “It is gratifying to learn
that the experiment made affords every en
couragement —indeed it removes all doubt as
to the ability of this enterprising company, and
the skillful workmen engaged by them, to man
ufacture a superior article of the various sizes
of Window Glass.”
Life at the Spaas.—There is a fine op
portunity to study character and ‘ poor human
nature” at the fashionable watering places.
Men and women in all places are there te be
met, and somehow or other they will show their
“ bringing up,”as they say in lhe country. To
one everything is fair and beautiful, as it should
be. What is set before him he eats or drinks,
and there is an end. He likes lhe soup, the
meats are cooked to a turn, the desert is all he
desires,in quantity and quality,and the lartuiord
and servants treat hitu I.Ke a gentleman. He
went to the Springs to enjoy peace and con
tent. and renovate his health, and he accom
plishes it, fees the servant, pays his hill, and
leaves a happy mortal. The personage at hi#
elbow is another kind of being altogether.
Nothing i- as it should be. He sees a thousand
things that ought to be done so and so. The
waiters are not attentive, and half his time is
occupied in schooling them upon their du
ties. The cooking is not to hi* liking ; this is
overdone, that underdone, not fit for a can
nibal. The soup is too thin, the potatoes are
cold, and the chickens have their pin-feathers.
Hi* wine is not iced to his liking, and poor
biddy, who always does her best, does not lay
an egg to suit his palate. He has sucked better
eggs at Con-taniinople, and seen better cook
ing at Nootka Sound. This man is what the
books call a Snob. He makes but one journey
a year, and takes his dictionary with him ; is
determined to make a spread and as much
noise as possible in spending his borro wed mo
ney ; he “cuts a figure,” and proves himself “a
vu'gar fraction,” as any one can see who notes
bis movements. He leaves without a fee to
“the boots” or the chambermaid, and disputes
his landlord’s bill, goes home dissatisfied and
miserable. I: takes ail sorts of people to make
a world and generally ail sorts can be found at
watering places.— Transcript.
Tea.—The definition of this word, two hun
dred years ago, was: “ A kind of drinke used
in China made of hearbes, spices, and other
comfortable things, very costiie ; they drink it
warme, and with it welcome their dearest
guestes and friendes.”
An Illinois Farm.—The Baltimore Patriot
states that there is in Illinois a farm which con
tains 27,000 acres, and that the proprietor of
it, the present season, raises 13.000 acres of
corn, 3,000 of which is in one field. At fifty
bushels per acre, this would give 650,000 bush
els.
VOL.LXIII - NEW SERIES
Tlugusta, (©co.:
SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 13,
National Prosperity.
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adtnHii-ir.tiion, th«- country, w> sinct.
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.Much as lhe Administration may
by its peace policy, it can and
greatly increase the prosperity of the
a judicious modification of lhe present
Let it be so adjusted as to afford sufficient
venue for the wants of the government, aifl
secure to American labor aud manufacture?
ample protection against the pauper labor of
Europe, and an impetus will forthwith be given
to the development oi‘ tfie g?eat resources of
the country, agricultural, mineral. manufacJ
taring and mechanical, which have never beJ
fore been witnessed. That “ confidence 1 '
which the Times speaks as already pervadiM
the commercial classes, will be greatly
ed and will diffuse itself rapidly through all
ramifications of society., verify rffg
truth that the true elements of every
strength, greatness and safety, lie in their owWI
labor, their own internal resources, aud the
exercise of their own inventive powers. This
great truth is made more and more apparent
every day, and is beginning to be generally
recognized even in the South. The true policy
ofthe Government will be to foster agriculture
and the mechanic arts, and afford proper pro
tection to home manufactures.
Improvement in Railroads.
Some months since Mr. J. S. French of
Old Point Comfort, published a paragraph des
cribing an invention of his to enable railway
engines to ascend heavy grades, without in
creasing the friction by the use of locomotives
of great weight. The idea impressed itself
uponthe mind of Mr. J. H. Gilmer of Rich
mond, Va., as one of great importance and
originality, and he prepared for the Whig a
synopsis of the result at which he arrives, from
which we subjoin an extract. If Mr. F. can
succeed in establishing the utility of his dis.
covery, it is certainly one of great value. For
instead of, as now, using locomotives of such
immense weight as-to require the strongestaod
most substantial tracks, those much lighter may
be introduced into general use, and accomplish
the same results, with much less injury to the
roads. It is therefore a most important dis
covery if it can be brought into practical use
and accomplishes all that is claimed for it.
Mr. Gilmer is so thoroughly satisfied of its
utility, regarding it an invention "next to steam
itself, 11 that he is urging it upon the considera
tion ofthe Board of Public Works of Virginia,
who he thinks should aid Mr. French to make
a fair test by affording him the necessary
means :
Mr. French proposes to build lighter roads, use
lighter engines, and to create a mechanical adhesion,
by the use of an under set of wheels, corresponding
in position and working in mechanical unison, with
(bedriving wheels. As adhesion is as essential to pro
pulsion as steam power is to the rotary motion of the
wheels, this quality must, in some way, be procured
The heavy engine dispensed with, the pressure of
the driving wheels on the rail will not be sufficient
to produce the desired adhesion. To obviate this, it
is proposed to apply a mechanical pressure, which
can be increased or diminished at will. It will not
be contended that a mere mechanical pressure, pro
duced by a power drawing the driving wheels in
closer contact with the rail, will not procure adhesion
as readily as if those wheels were pressed on the
rails by a superincumbent weight. The adhesion
is all that is wanted—supposing propelling steam
power to exist. If then the driving wheels us an en
gine weighing five tons, can be compressed on the
railway, with a power of thirty tons weight, and
yet exert as great a steam power as an engine of thir
ty tons, we have the steam power of a thirty ton en
gine, plying a five ton engine with the full capacity of
adhering the driving wheels to the railway, with
the adhesive force of a thirty ton engine. Thus five
tons of weight are empowered to draw as much ns
thirty tons can now do. Here we dispense with
twenty five tons of dead weight, and possess the
same degree of adhesion ? Thus producing the pow
er of propulsion without the additional dead weight.
This is accomplished by the under and upper
pressure of two wheels which act in a common mo
tion, and made to lite or revolve on opposite sides of
the railway, bv a very simple yet perfect contrivance,
but which cannot well be described in the absence of
the models.
This point gained, the great question of ascending
and descending high grades is solved. Steam power,
being a thing which can, to a certain extent, be in
creased at will, and the mechanical adhesion of the
driving wheels to lhe rail, being thus reduced to a
mere steam level power, it will be found an easy mat
ter to ascend very high grades. The power which
can propel by adhesion and ascend a difficult grade,
can, with the same adhesioility , descend the same
grade—the steam propelling power being removed.
Here, then, we have an invention by which very
high grades can be ascended and descended by a
lighter engine, carrying as much paying weight as
the “ heavier class,” and with the additional advan
tage of its being next to impossible that an engine
or car can ever run o(f the track. Each car having
to its axles a stationary under axle with wheel* di
rectly under the carrying wheels of the car, which
in the event of a sudden jostle or throwing off power,
will Ute the rail and draw the carrying wheels back
to their proper position.
In addition to this, there is another and equally
important improvement, invented by Mr. French,
which by the use of a connected series of stoppage
axles attached to each wheel of the engine and cars,
can, by a pressure lever plied by steam, in an instant,
lock every wheel attached to the train ; thus prevent
ing those sad accidents so fatal to safety, on lhe pre
sent trains. By another and very simple invenlion,
it is rendered perfectly practicable to turn short
curves with ease and safety, and without injury to
the road or cars.
Such, briefly, is the outline of Mr. French’s inven
tions and proposed improvements.
Hon. Thos. Butler King.—The Savannah
Republican says: In addition to the intelligence
regarding Mr. King’s health, which will be
found under the head us California news, it
gives us pleasure to say, we have seen a letter
from Purser Price, ofthe Navy, postmarked
at San Francisco, Sept. Ist, to a gentleman in.
this city, which confirms the favorable inteftfl
genee alluded to. Mr Price says:—
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Deed Mr. iliuef* a*
add that h 1-» m»*dical aUeiiflarfts
out of danger; and lean give hi*
*trnnge*t assurance of his recovery.
no (,> •; a-ion <»f apprditn/ioti or al
Mr. King was stopping at the house
Price, where he ha* every care and
Dr. Bowie, of lhe Navy, a gentleman of
experience in hi* profession, is his
More Gold. —’I'l.e steamship
wiios? arrival at New York from
been heretofore announced, is said
$640.9-0 in gold dust.
D-.’H-ig the rrmrf.g <Tn :
number of death* at Boston was <
cholera is mentioned a* having caused 4;
ra morbus 1 ; diarrhoea 12, and dysentery
Going Back.—Train’s packet ship Wash
ington Irving, for Liverpool, was lowed to sea
this forenoon. She carries out from 150 to
200 steerage passengers, (returning Irish.) —
Boston Journal.
A Paris correspondent of lhe Glasgow Daily
Mail says: “The Venetian people, after aft
their sufferings, raised one million of francs in
one day for the emigrating patriots. The
names of Venice and Rome, in 1849, will rise
to glory beside the post of infamy on which
will be written the France and Austria 0f1849.”
Letters from Independence, Mo., bringing
intelligence from Chihuahua and Santa Fe to
the 28th of August, have been received at St.
Louis. Advices had reached Chihuahua that
great numbers of goods were in transitu for
that point, and a general depression of the
market was lhe consequence. The cholera
was raging with fearful violence. At Santa
Fe everything was in a quiet state with ths ex
ception of the troubles occasioned by ♦he
Indians, whom Governor Washington and his
troops had gone to chastise.
Michigan.—The growth of this youthful
member of the Confederacy has been wonder
fully rapid. In 1830 her settlement had hardly
commenced; now her population is not less
than 400 000. Her soil bears every species of
grain which thrives in the Slate of New York.
In 1847, she exported over one million of bar
rels of flour, an amount ten times greater than
ali the wheat and flour that passed through the
Erie Canal from west of Buffalo in 1835. Her
total tonnage in 1847 was over 35,000. and its
value is estimated at $1,757,250. The aggre
gate commerce for the same year was over 13
millions. Her fisheries yield $200,000 a year;
her wool product is overs4oo,ooo. Iron, cop
per, salt and plaster are indigenous and abun
dant—Baltimore American.
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tioin cannot liol.l I.Mother. fl' .’ •» . .'i
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elements will dissolve into iheir . / ;
thingness. The parly of the.
the whole Union—that is the Whig
rise triumphant over all. It must be bornein
mind that in the earlier period of Gen. Jack
son's administration, he who was so triumph
ant at its close was very feebly sustained at its
advent. Gen. Taylor’s popularity is and will
be after this fashion — N. Y. Express.
Boston.—The subjoined is an estimate given
by the Boston Courier, of the amount its citi
zens have embarked in a few leading enterpri*
ses, principally since the Spring of 1846 :
In Factories and Manufacturing Cities,
the cities enumerated, §13,000,000
Purchase ofßailroads out of State, 8,000,000
Extension of old lines of Railroad, 6,000,000
Construction of new roads in Massachu-
setts. 7,000,000
Couetruction of new lines out of the State, 12,000,000
Boston Aqueduct, estimated cost with
reservoirs and dead interest, 4,000,000
Stock taken in United States Loan, 7,000,000
•57,000,000
Amount unpaid Jess than 87,000,000 July 20, 1848.
Estimated dividends to be received by citizens of
Massachusetts, April to June, 1848: —
From Banks, 82,000,000
United States Loan, 400,000
Railroads, 3,000,000
Factories, 3,000,000
Accumulation of Saving Banks, 1,000,000
•9,400.000
The valuation of the State for 1848, if the
increase of value in Boston and its vicinity be
any criterion, must exceed $150,000,000, and
the annual accumulation little short of $22,-
000,000.
The Newspaper.—We extract the follow
ing from the Speech of Rev. J. Aspinali, on
Education :
Nor, while speaking on the schoolmasters, in
whose hands the printing press is such a pow
erful agent of public instruction at the present
time, must we forget newspapers Whether
we regard them as the guide or echo of popu
lar opinion, and, in some sort, they partake of
both characters, we are lost in amazement and
admiration at the quantity and quality of mind,
and that of the highest order, now to be found
in the columns of the daily, weekly, and pro
vincial press. From being a mere chronicle of
passing events, a dry register of dates and facts,
the newspaper has grown into one of the leading
schoolmasters of the day. Its articles amuse
us with their wit, and instruct us with their
wisdom. They exhibit the brilliancy of the
classical scholar, and the close searching rea
soning of the logician. It is an encylopsedia in
itself. It reviews all books, and treats of all
sciences. It is familiar with all geography, and
at home in all history. It is the CEdipus to
read the riddles which every political Sphinx
may set before it. It dives into cabinet se
crets, and anticipates the purposes of states
men. It has the hundred eyes of every wake
ful Argus, the hundred hands and fifty heads of
Briareus. Andas omnipresent as omniscient,
as übiquitous as versatile, it is here, there, and
everywhere, from Indus to the Po, from China
to Peru, compassing the world with its corres
pondents, and with its expresses, and the elec
tric telegraph racing against time to communi
cate its intelligence of mankind in every re
gion of the earth. The ancientg counted up
seven wonders of the world. If they had pos
sessed a newspaper press, they would have
had an eighth, more marvellous, and more
worth than all the rest together.
Frost.—We are informed by a passenger
who arrived in the cars yesterday, that there
was distinct appearances of frost in the neigh
borhood of Columbia, and for ten miles below.
—Charleston News, 9th inst.
Miss Martha Clough, a daughter of Elisha
Clough, was born in Kingston, N. H., July 12,
1749. She married Peter Gilman, and settled
in Exeter, April 5, 1775. They soon removed
to Pembroke, and then to Plymouth, N. 11,
and shortly after to a town near
then MaHMaehtKetfs. In 1792
tipir abode in Norridgewock. -1
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neat in dress, an enemy of tobacc
and the conventionalities of society, to act
amanuensis, as she is compelled to lay aside
the duties and pleasures of writing. He must
also be familiar with cribbage and backgam
mon.
Ikon for the Railroad.—One cargo (273
tons of T Iron for ie-laying the track of the
Wilmington and Roanoke Railroad, hasarriv
ed here, and will be put down expeditiously,
commencing at this end of the Road, beyond
the two or three miles now laid with Iron of
that description. The balance of the Iron will
be brought over as fast as it can be used by
the company's workmen. We presume it
will take from fifteen to eighteen months to
re lay the Road throughout— Chfon.
A late London I etter, commenting on the
practice of burying the dead within the limits
of that city, says that one spot of ground only
74 feet square, had had over 50 000 bodies bu
ried in it within fifty years, and 3000 within the
iast two years 1 Another lot of ground of less
size had had 12,000 bodies buried in it in nine
teen years
Napoleon's Tomb, at St. Helena, is adver
tised in the Helena Gazette for sale. 0 Why
not,” says Major Noah; “the bones on the
field of Waterloo were sold to make manure
of, and why not the tomb of the chief whose
ambition strewed them there Z”