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DAILY AMD TRI-WEEKLY,
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CM) for the ant InaerUon, and «sty eenU for each •abee
qaeut insertion.
DE CHAMPION’S ANTI-BILIOUS, AHTI-DYB
PEPTIC, PURIFYING, CATHARTIC PILLS,
w A b?a ß4^o»u^A^r«
' Thera' well known reliable Medleinee can ba had genuine
of the only authoriaed Agent* In Auguata.
7 HAVILAND, oISLEY A CO.,
WM. K. KITCHEN, and
D. B. PLUMB A CO.
N. B.—The public are cautioned again>t baying eUe
where, u there are ■purioo* Imitation* of k°th Ant ’
Billoua, and Ague and serer PIU. In urtA MIU£Y
mart-wSm* Agent for Georgia and South Carolina^
NOTICE,
ALL peraon* Indebted to the late firm of ADAMS,
HOPKINS A 00., are requeated to make payment.
Claim* not paid, or arranged for payment at an early
day, will, without discrimination, be placed In suit.
The death of Mr. Adam* render* thl* courae Imperatlre,
and we trust lho«e Indebted will promptly rattle the de
mand* again*! them. LAMBETH HOPKINS,
K PEANCIST. WILLIS.
Pebruary »th, 1858. f*b7-wßm
NOTICE.
WANTKD, at Newton Pactory, Ga.,aa experienced
WEAVER, to take charge of the Wearing Depart
ment. Aleo, ten or twelwo YOUNO LADIES, to operate
In laid department. Experienced hand* would be pre
ferred. The place ia healthy, and good Board can beh%a
on verj moderate terra*. For further^particra! rei#
President of the Newton Manufacturing Co.
Newton Pactory, Ga., feb. IM, 18BS. feMd-wtf
TO TEACHERS OF POOR CHILDREN OF COLUM
BIA COUNTY FOR THE YEAR 18M.
rpilOHK TKACIIKKK who taught this Clara of per
-1 rtonn under the law of 1848, are hereby notified that a
fund of will he paid to them on SATURDAY, 14th
dey ‘it May next, on the pre»entatlon of their account* In
strict conformity to the law.
Thl* fund wax received in January, 1862, and *uppo«ed
It waa to be disposed of under the law of 1851-2, till a copy
of those law* received and examined.
The law of IS4B, amended In 1845, so a* te Include all
chlluren between the age* of 6 and 16 year*. The teach
er presenting an account should get the certificate of the
then acting Ju.llcc of the Peace,that the children embraced
in his account were entitled to benefit of this fund,
mariil-fiw S. CRAWPORD, P. 8.0.
notice;
AM, PKKHONH are hereby notified not to trade for a
NOTE, given by me to Elllah Michaol, or bearer, for
Forty-three Dollar*, dated March 16th, 1858, and due De
cember 25th, 1858, a* the consideration for which said
Note wa* given has (ailed, and 1 do not Intend to pay it
unlesa compelled to do *o by law.
B. I*. MUUKK,
Oglethorpe county, Ga., March 28, 1853. marßo-w8
WATCHES REPAIRED.
rpilK NI.’HMCHIHIvK lira opened a SPECIAL (“SL
Jl ESTABLISHMENT for the repair of fine ]£7V j
WATCHES,of every description, in a thorough ,
and workmanship manner, and will warrant hia work for j
one year. Ilel* apractlcal WATCH MAKER,baOnglearnt j
hi* profession In one of the first Manufacturing House* ol ,
Part*, worked several years In New York, and the last two ,
years with Mr. 0. Gatlin In thi* city. He therefore confi- ,
dentiy offer* hi* service* to the cltlten* of Augusta and vl- ,
elnity, and will u*e every endeavor to give entire satlifac- (
lie will keep on hand a select assortment of fine Gold
and Silver Watches, together with rich articles of Jewelry 1
for the use of Ladle* and Gentlemen, all of which he will
warrant. ANTHONY PRONTAUT,
one door below the Auguata Hotel, Broad-*L,
n 22 6m Auguata, On. |
20 DOLLARS REWARD. I i
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, near Hawkins- 1
vllle, Ga., on the 25th November last, my Ne- 1
gro boy PAUL. He 1* about 25 year* old, 5 feet, 9“( R >
or lOlnche* high, weigh* about 170 or 175 lb*., —no—rah. <
particular marka about him recollected, except a very high
projective forehead, and black. He is probably making 1
hi* way to a free Slate when last aeen. Ho was travelling
with some unknown Irishman. The above reward will be
paid for such information that I may get him.
,17-wtf R. W. RADFORD.
A NEW INVENTION -THE BAT EXTERMINA
TOR.
ON the receipt of fifty cants, the ȟb*crlber will mad to
any address, plain direction* for making a mechanical
apparatu* for the complete extermination of RATB and
MICE, on any one person’* premises, in a very short time
after being put In operation. The Exterminator i* quite sim.
pie in Us construction, and any person can make one in lea*
time than an hour. All Uoura-keeper*, (Farmer* particu
larly) who Wish to save five or ten, or more dollar* a year,
will do well to secure these direction*. No letter taken
front the office unless postage is paid.
Address F. DAVID ROOT,
apr27-wfit Bltlmflle, 8. Q.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS- i
TIIK MIIIMKIHKHH have re- „ ’
reived, uni Intend keeping on mm I
hnml a nupplj ofnrtleleii in tlie ebove 1
line, eoneieting of KAN MIL LB, MHMHSNHBfe
THRESHERS. CORN BHELLEKB, STRAW GUTTERS,
SUIIS iIL, hi OK HILL and other PLOUQBS, all of the <
moot approved make. 1
They are alio dally looking for an additional aupply of <
Tin unit Roofing PLATES. Aleo.of NUTS and WASHERS, 1
aseorteil eliee. BONES, GILBERT k BONES. <
Hpr47-w(B_ |
THE PECTOBAI ELIXIR -!
IN ItKUOMMKNDKD and prescribed by many of the
moat eminent physicians in the South. 1
Pur affections of the Throat and Lunge, it haa no equal,
as hundreds or testimonials in our possession will prove. 1
Being very pleasant to the taste, It is peculiarly adapt
ed to the use of children, for which class of disease, partic
ularly Croup, It la especially recommended.
It may be had in Augusta of
BARRETT i OARTKR,
WM. K. KITOHEN,
W. H. k J. TURPIN,
PHILIP A. MOUSE,
• marlß-ilAw WM. H, TUTT.
AUGUSTA FRENCH BURE MILL STONE MANU
FACTORY.
THK subscriber, thankful for the kind patronage heretofore
extended to the late firm of SouiaMsa A Wiassn, would
respectfully inform his frlonds and the public, that he contin
ues to execute orders for his well known Warranted French
BURK MILL STONES, of every desirable slse, at the lowest
urloe and shortest notice. He also furnishes
KSOI’US and COLOGNE STONES,
SMUT MACHINES, of various patterns,
BOLTING CLOTHB, of the best brand,
CEMENT, ror Mill use.
And every other article necessary in a Mill.
Also, for Planters, small GRIST MILU9 te attach t# Gla
Gears.
All orders promptly attended to.
WM. R. 80HIRMER,
talSwtf Surviving partner of Schlrmer k Wlgand.
11,000 REWARD.
DH. HUNTKH’M celebrated SPECIFIC, for the core
of Gonorrhoea, Strictures, Gleet and AnalagousOom
plalnts of the Organe of Generation.
(W Os all remedies yet discovered for the above oom
plalnt, this is the molt certain.
(IT It makes a speedy and permanent care without re
striction to diet, drink, exposure, or change of application
to business.
inr If is perfectly harmless. Gallons of It might bo
taken without injuring the patient,
ur It is put up In bottles, with full directions aocom
allying it, so that persons can cure themaelvas without re
orttng to physicians or others for advice.
One bottle is enough to perform a certain oure. Price |l.
(SF* It Is approved and recommended by the Royal
ollege of Physicians and Surgeons of London and has
elr oertific.it> enclosed.
[WIt ie sold by appointments Augusta, 6a., by
PHILIP A MOIBE
der the new Augusta Hotel, and by W. H. A J. TURBIN.
Orders from the country promptly attended to. Je9
SIOOO REWARD,
TIIK ADOVK llBtV VRD will be paid to any one
who will produce a preparation superior to
DR. FRANCK’S SPECIFIC,
For the cure of Gouorrhoaa, Gleet, Svphilis, Strictures and
all diseases of the Kidniea and Bladder. It la preferable
to atl others, because,
Ist. It contains no mineral, whatever.
4ml. It Is purely vegetable,
3J. It requires no change of diet.
4th. 1: teuvet no bad odor on the breath.
sth. It Is pleasant to take.
dth. It has full directions, thereby obviating the neces
sity of consulting a Physician.
* lit. It generally cures In four or five days.
Sth. 11 does not injure the stomach.
9th. It promotes healthy digestion,
loth. It Is a general puriher of the Mood.
This Specific is prepared by the most able Physician hi
London, and sold by WM. H. TUTT,
fcblH wtf Solo Agent in Augusta.
HAND, WILLIAMS A WILCOX.
NO. 1 lIAYNE STREET, CHARLESTON, 8. C.,
Ark mow rkckivixb—
-1500 bags prime new crop RIO COFFEE.
900 hhds. P. R. and N. 0. SUGAR.
100 “ Clarified N.O. “
400 bbls. Refined SUGAR, A, B, and 0.
100 “ Crushed and Powdered SUGAR.
900 boxes Sperm and Ada. CANDLIS.
. 100 hhds. Cuba MOLASSES.
100 bbls. N. O.
100 “ New York SYRUP.
.. 100 boxer sup. Carb. SODA.
SOAP; POWDER; SHOT; LEAD; TOBAOOO; BE
GARS; Ac., Ac.; all of which wiU be sold low.
Charleston, s. C., March Ist, 1353. marl-w4mo
[ ‘ THE MONTGOMERY MANUFACTURING COM.
PANTO IRON WORKS.
M MONTGOMERY. ALABAMA
\ f \.MK\(TI RK, in superior style, Horizontal and
f .H Upright STEAM ENGINES, of all sites; Steam
BOILERS; LOCOMOTIVES; Cast Iron WATER WHEELS;
Sugar MILLS ; Saw and Grist Mill IRONS, es every varie
ty, Gncluding Hoxie'acontinuous feet for Saw Mills;) En
gine and Hand LATHES; Iron and Brass CASTINGS, of all
kinds, Ac., Ac.
All orders filled with despatch.
apS'l QINDRAT A 00,
FRANCK’S SPECIFIC,
PRttraasD BT
ROBERT FRANOK, M. D.,
uwnoa.
IN a certain, speedy and permanent care for CERTAIN
DISEASES. It is sold by WM. H. TUTT,
marS Sole Agent, Augusta.
PARTNERSHIP.
THR UXDBRSISNBD, who have long been eesi
uected with the CARRIAGE BUSINESS of the late
H. S. Houxt, have thia day formed a Partnership under
he style end firm of WYMAN A DARROW, for contino
ng the butineet at the same store.
G. N. WYMAN,
Augusta, Oct. Ist, 18fi9. J. DARROW.
We have on hand, and are receiving, an ateor
CARRIAGES, ROCKAWAtS, BUGGIES, HARNESS and
TRUNKS.
Orders received for building various styles of vehicles.
We respectfully solicit s share ofpetronag*.
Ocl. Ist, 1554. dSAwfimos WYMAN A DARRQ
TO PLAHTEBS.
WE are new daily receiving, at oar Old Stand, In addi
tion to oar present Stock, m large assortment, se
lected expressly for Planters' use, comprising—
St. Croix, P. R., Muscovado, and N. O. SUGARS;
Crashed, Powdered, Loaf and Clarified Do.;
Rio, Java and Lagulra Coffee;
Green, Hyson and Black TEAS;
BALT, in sacks and Bulk;
PEPPER, SPICE and GINGER;
TREACLE, SYRUP and MOLASSES:
BRANDIES. WINES and CORDIALS;
Domestic LIQUORS, of all qualities;
IRON, NAILS, STEEL, AXES end Wegon AXLES;
BELLOWS, ANVILS, VICES and Screw PLATES;
Trace, Tongue, Buy, Lock and Halter CHAINS;
Hollow WARE and SAD-IRONS;
BAGOING, ROPE and TWINE;
SADDLES, BRIDLEB and WHIPS;
BLANKETS, KERSEYS, SHOES and HATS;
Han. 'sand Sole LEATHER, Ki and Oalf SKINS;
Lamp and Tanner's OIL;
SOAPS, CANDLES and STARCH;
TOBACCO and 8EGAB8;
And many other articles too numerous to mention, whie
w3l be sold upon es good terms as any Louse in the city.
594-wly BUFORD, BEALL A CO.
HIRAM SMITH FLOUR.—4O bbU. Hiram Smith
Double Extra; 40 bbls. Double Extra Genesaee Val
ley Floor. Jnat received by
sprS am * RICHMOND.
MISCELLANEOUS.
BOOK BINDERY,
THB PKOPRIKTOH of the CHRONICLE * SENTI
NEL would respectfully notify his friend*and the pub
lic, th*t he his added to hia esubliahmen i a complete
BOOK BINDERY,
and having secured the aervicea of an efficient and compe
tent workman, is prepared to execute all order* for BIND
, ING in the beat ityle, and at short notice. Having al*Gt
most approved
RULING MACHINE,
all orders for BILL HEADS, BLANK BOOKS, Ac., will be
Ruled to any given pattern, with neatness and despatch.
He flatter* himself, therefore, that he will be able to exe
cute every variety of work in a moat satisfactory manner.
JOB PRINTING.
The JOET PRINTING department of the CHRONICLE*
SENTINEL Office ia now complete in all it* parte, havinj
been recently re-fitted with a most extensive supply an<
great variety of New Type, of the latest styles and mot
approved patterns. The Proprietor would therefore re
spectfully invite the orders of hi* friends and the public,
feeling assured that his facilities, and the superior skill and
taste of his workmen in that department, wiil enable him to
execute every variety of JOB PRINTING in aatyle equal
to any establishment in the South, and at mostsatisf&ctory
prices. mh2o
TOE THE WES I INDIA ISLANDS & CHAGRES .
■T TBS BRITISH ROYAL HAIL RTKAHhHIf
CON WAY,
Carr. ■■ , 650 Tons Burthen.
THI* HTKAMHHIP is designed to sail
from Savannah, Georgia, on the 4th De
cember next, and same day of each following month, for
Chagrea, touching at Nassau, N. P., Inagua, (with the
Turk’s Island mails,) and Jamaica. She will be due at
Chagres on the 14th of each month, and return on the
16th, by same route, to Savannah.
As this service contemplates arrangements only for a
limited number of-passengers, persons who desire to avoid
crowded boats, will find the route a desirable one - and in
valids, who wish to spend the Winter among the
Islands, may find conveyance in the Company’s .Steam
ships, twice a month, between Jamaica and the following
ports,in addition to those named above:
Antigua, Guadaloupe, Ht. Kitts,
Barbadoes, Havana, St. Lucia,
Oarriacon, Honduras, St. Thomas,
Carthagena, Jacmel, St. Vincent,
Demarara, Martinique, Santa Martha,
Dominica, Montserrat, Tampico,
Grenada, Nevis, Tobago,
Grey Town, Porto Rico, Trinidad,
Vera Crux.
THI RATKri OV FABBAOB ARM I
From Savannah to Nassau, S3O
M M Inagua, 56
44 44 Jamaica, 60
44 44 Chagres, 90
(Including Steward’s fees,)
and in proportion to the other Islands.
MP Each Ship carries an experienced Surgeon.
Freight and specie conveyed on the usual terms. For
•ngagements, apply to ANDREW LOW k CO.,
n7-w6m Agents, Savannah.
ICE! ICE!! ICE!!!
THE KIXIB HTHKKT ICE COMPANY have re
ceived the greater part of their supplies of ICE for the
season, and now offer it for sale: firnt selling from the Jack
son Street Ice House by retail, at cents per pound, or
by the $6 worth tickets at 3 cents, at which prices not less
than 2 pounds will be sold at a time.
At wholesale to Hotels, Bar Rooms, Soda Fountains and
other large cons imers by the S2O of tickets at 2 cents, for
which not less than 50 pounds will be delivered at a time.
Terms cash, on delivery.
All orders from the country, directed to A. Deas, Agent
Ellis Street Ice Company, Augusta, will receive prompt at
tention. Packages and Blankets furnished at the custom
ary prices, and the Ice carefully packed, to be sent by Kail
road, if desired.
rar The House will be opened from sunrise to sunset, I
and on the Sabbath, from 7 until 10 o’clock, A. M., and
from 12 o’clock until 2 P M. Tickets may be purchased
from the Agent, Mr, A. Dicab, at the Ice Ho se.
aprlO dfi&wUyl
/ 1 KOIIGIA, ItICHMON COUNTY.—SUPERIOR
Ur COURT.
Bknjamui K. Harris, Administra-'
tor of Polly Hakhis, deceased. Croß ,
William R. MoLawb, Trustee, Ac. Richraond Su F- Court
and James H. Harris.
The Court having, at the last term, passed an order to
perfect service on James 11. Harris, one of the Defendants
by publication, and such publication not having been
made: It is on motion of complainant’s solicitor, order
that said Rule be extended, and that the said James H.
Harris appear and answer the complainant s Bill, on or
before the first day of the next term, or said Bill will be
taken pro confesso against Idm; and it is further ordered
that a copy of this Rule be published once a week for four
months In one of the Public Gazettes of this city, or served
personally on the Defendant.
A true Extract from the Minutes of the Superior Court,
January Term, 1858.
Feb. 15,1858. OSWELL E. OABHXN, Clerk.
CARDS, CARDS.
COTTON, WOOL, Jim-Crow and Horse Cards of the
above celebrated stamps, are of unequalled quality, and
wherever introduced take the place of all others. They are
manufactured on our new improved machinery, and each
pair is warranted In every respect. Our inferior cards, the
common 44 Whitemore” stamp, are of the usually well known
<)uallty.
Bold by the Hardware houses in all the cities, and country
Merchants, and to the trade by the Manufacturers.
JOB. B. SARGENT,
mylO wly* 24 CliffStreet,New York.
CARRIAGES.
WE HAVK ON HA\O, and are receiving a good
assortment of CARRIAGES; ROCKAWAYS; BA
ROUOnES ; BUGGIES, and Light CARRYALLS. Also,
Hack and Road WAGONS, together with an assortment of
HARNESS; BUGGY; UMBRELLAS; WHIPS; TRUNKS;
CARPET BAGS; VALICES, CHILDRENS’ CABS and
WAGONS; CARRIAGE BOLTS, by the package or single
one; ail of which will be sold on reasonable terms, at the
•tore formerly occupied by the late H. 8. Hoadlry.
|y REPAIRING done at short notice.
Augusta, April 7, 1853. WYMAN k DARROW.
aprß-wly
TO COTTON PLANTERS.
HAVING secured the services of Mr. G. T. OGLESBY
as the superintendent,together with other experienced
mechanics, I have established a large COTTON GIN FAC
TORY, at the Shoals of Ogeechee, via., where I am pre
pared to make and furnish tho Planter with the best arti
cle in the way of a COTTON GIN now produced in this
countrv.
Mr. Ogukry’b time, devoted exclusively in the shop, and
seenig to the putting up of eWy Gin under his special di
rection, and attaching all the improvements which he (Mr.
Oolbhbv,) has gotten up within th 2 last two years, I am
satisfied I can supersede any made heretofore, in quantity,
quality and durability.
All old Gins, (when sent to the shop,) will be repaired,
and all the improvements attached if desired, at a reaaon
bie charge.
The new Gins will be delivered at the Planters’ nearest
depot, or at their residence if desired, free of charge.
Prompt attention paid to all communications addressed
to me at the above office.
THQMAS J. CHEELY.
SHOALS OF OGEECHEE, GA., 1
March 5, 1853. j
TO MT OLD PATRONS AND FRIENDS.
As there has been some complaint of my Gins, made du
ring the last two years: an explanation to you in relation
to this matter is due Mr. Chkblt.
1 have been absent a trreat portion of this time, on a
visit to the North, experimenting and getting up a new
Qln, as well as improving, the original Saw Gin, together
with suitable machinery for this business, to its highest
perfection, as will be acknowledged by all who have used
them, both in durability and quality of Cotton.
I shall now devote my individual attention in the shop,
and see that every part of each Gin is put up in the neat
est possible manner: in short, I shall make the original
OgUaby Gin, which has been so celebrated for Us durabil
ity and fine Cotton, having taken the premium in this State
as well as that of South Carolina in every instance ezeept
one, and then it was said by foreign dealers that my Cot
ton was of a superior quality. In conclusion, my late im
provements added to my former Gins, cannot fail to give
entire satifaction. I will alter any old Gin (not too much
worn) to do better work than it ever did before.
Yours, most respectfully, G. T. OGLESBY,
mar 8
GEORGIA MILITARY INSTITUTE.
THIS INSTITUTION went into operation in 1851.
At their session of 1851-*2, the Legislature incorpo
rated it as a College; by requisition on the general gov
ernment, furnished it with arms, both for Infantry and ar
tillery; and provided for the education of a certain num
ber of State Cadets. The Legislature also directed a Hoard
of Visitors to be appointed, of whom the Governor is ex
officio President, whose duties are to inspect the institute,
attend its examinations, and report on Its condition to the
Legislature; and, in conjunction with a committee of the
Board of Trustees, to establish and declare proper regula
tions for its government. These regulations have been
published. The course of studies, methods of teaching,
and the discipline which th* y prescribe are, as nearly as
possible, those of the United States Military Academy.—
Any person interested may obtain a copy of them by ap
plying to the Superinlendent.
The next Academic year will commence on MONDAY,
June 10th, and all who desire to enter should be present on
that day. mar 26 wtl JulO
PLANETT'S DYSPEPTIC BITTERS.
Psstimcmy from a Practicing Physician.
CUKTUAM, April 2so, ISSB.
DKAR SIR : —Having my attention called by afriend
to the article of PLANETT’S BITTERS, I was in
duced to try its effects upon a patient, who had been suf
fering for some time with Dyspepsia, attended with a very
Impaired appetite,—great difficulty of digestion, and ex
treme costiveness. 1 gave him of these Bitters a small
dose after each of his meals, which seemed to impart relief.
I found they corrected the acidity of the stomach, —in-
creased Its action, and augmented the tone so much so,
that It gave me great confidence in the preparation, and I
have directed the gentleman to continue its use, anticipa
ting for him a speedy recovery.
(Signed) ' A. L. HANARO, M.D.
Planett’s Bitters aresoldby WM. U. TUTT,
aprS-dAw only Agent in Augusta.
PARHAM S NEW HOTEL,
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.
M. D. HOG AX, Proprietor.
cirtHK SUB6CRIBKII begs leave to inform his
A friends and the travelling public that the above B 3
establishment is now open for the reception of visitors. It
is located in the centre of Business, commanding a beauti
ful view of the Kiver and surrounding country.
The interior of the House has been constructed with a
strict view to the comfort of its patrons—affording impor
tant conveniences rarely met with in country Hotels.
As the chief object of the Proprietor will be to give gene
ral satisfaction, his guests may be assured that no exertion
on his part will bo wanting to make their stay with him
worthy of their patronage.
There will be an Omnibus in waiting on the arrival of
the Bail Road Cars and Steam Boats, and a trusty, careful
man to take care of Baggage. M. D. HOGAN.
Chattanooga, May, 2#, 1552. my29-dtf
PIANO FOBTES.
rIE subscribers would respectfully call
the attention of their friends and the SC
public, to their assortment of Rosewood and
Mahogany PIANO FORTES, from the weU « ■ ■ U *
known and justly celebrated Manufactories of Bacon A Raven,
A. H. Oale A Co., and Dubois A Seabury, New York, which
are warranted in every respect, to be at least fully equal to
any instruments manufactured in this country or Europe.
The subscribers would also state than the instruments now
on hand are of the latest patterns and fashion, and fresh from
the manufacturers. For sale at very low prices for cash or
city acceptances, at GEO. A, OATES A CO.’S
mylß Piano, Book and Music Depot, Broad-st.
W. H. ft J. TUBFDf.
scoexssoas 10 w. h. trarm,
OFFER TO PHYSICIANS, Planters, Mer- q
chants, and the public at large, a choice and SOS
well assorted stock of DRUGS AND MEDI- V»
OINKS, OILS, PAINTS, DYESTUFFS, Glass Ok
and Putty, Brushes of every description, Straw Brooms,
Spirits Turpentine, Ac., Ac.
We purchase our goods for cash, and are prepared to sell
on the most advantageous terms. Merchants will find it to
their interest to look at our prices. All articles warranted
to be what is represented. Give us a call and satisfy vour
aelves. B js
PHILIP A . 0188, “
D IMPOITKR AND DKALKH IN -
• DRUGS and MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS M
YW DYE STUFFS, WINDOW GLASS, BRUSH-’ Ylf
tm ES, PERFUMERY. PATENT MEDICINES, A»
INSTRUMENTS, Ac., Ac.
Wo. 195 Broad Street, under Me Auffueta Hotel.
Has now on hand a very large Stock of the above articles,
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From the Dublin University Magazine.
THK BREEZY OF SPRING.
Dull winter hasten! to be gone,
He’s disappearing fast
The sunny hours are coining on,
The stormy time is past.
The ice no longer binds the rill;
Nor snows their manUe fling;
For every bleak and barren hill
Has kiss’d the breeze of Spring.
I hear its music in the wood,
It sighs along the vale.
Where summer flower* in beauty stood,
It liogers in the dale;
It p'ays upon the primrose banks,
And rests its merry wing:
The drooping snowdrop kindly thanks
The western breeze of Bpring.
Ah! well it knows where violets grow
In the lone ahd shady lane;
It bids its sweet, blue fav’rites blow,
And onward speeds again.
It wakes the flowers of the field,
And they their offerings bring;
The fl Ywers their sweetest Incense yield,
To setnt the breeze of Spring.
The blackbird, from the hawthorn bosh,
Renews his lively strain;
On topmost branc es stands the thrush,
And tunes his throat amain :
At close of evening calm and mild,
He makes the forest ring
With native woodnotes,, clear and wild—
He loves the breeze of Spring. .
The robin leaves his winter friends
For hedge-rows laraway—
Above his mossy nest he bends,
And pipes his plaintive lay.
The lark uprising with the light,
On merry mountain wing—
Strains all his might till out of sight,
And hails the breeze of Spring.
A hundred voices All the air,
The sun shines warmly down ;
Away with each intruding care,
And leave the gloomy town.
Come, roam along the woodpath green,
Hear nature’s favorites sing,
Enjoy the soul-enlivening scene,
And woo the breeze of Spring.
BY J. 0. CAUSING.
The winds that from Monadnock blow,
When April caps his head with snow,
Are not so cutting, not so chill
As woman can be when she will.
Yet, after all, an April snow
Is bat a transient thing, we know.
The blessed breeze that round us plays
In summer’s horrid, torrid days,
Is not with kindness so fraught
As woman can be when she ought.
So be she kind, or be she chill,
She’s dear, delightful woman still.
A PRETTY THOUGHT.
The night is mother of the day,
The winter of the spring,
And ever upon old decay,
The greenest mosses cling.
Behind the cloud the starlight lurks;
Through showers the sunbeams fall;
For God who loveth all his works,
Has left His hope with all.
Heroism and Cruelty.
A most touching instance of heroism, and one
of the most atrocious acts of cruelty, the truth of
which is vouched for by the most rcspectablo au
thority, occurred during the Columbian struggle
for independence. The Spanish General, Morillo
the most bloodthirsty and treacherous tool of the
Spanish King, who was created count of Cartha
genia, and Marquis de la Pueria, for services
which rather entitled him to the distinction ot
butcher or hangman, while seated in his tent one
day during the campaign of Carracus, saw a boy
before him drownca.in tears. The chief demanded
of him for what purpose ho was there ?
The child replied that he had come to beg the
life of his father, then a prisoner in Morillo’s
cami).
“What can you do to save your father?” asked
tho General.
44 I can do but little but what I can do shall be
done.”
Morillo seized the little fellow’s ear, and said,
“Wpuld you suffer your ear to be taken off to pro
cure you father’s liberty ?”
44 I certainly would.” was the undaunted re
ply.
A soldier was accordingly called and ordered to
cut off the ear with a single stroke of the knife.
Tho boy wept but did not resist while thus barba
rous order was executed.
“Would you lose your other ear rather than fail
ofyour purpose ?” was the next question.
“ I have suffered much, but for my father I
can Buffer still!” waß the heroic answer of the
boy.
Tho other ear was taken off piecemeal without
flinching on the part of the noblo child.
“And now go 1” exclaimed Morillo, untouohed
by hia sublime courage, “the father of Buch a son
must die.”
In tho presence of his agonized and vainly suf
fering son, the patriot father was then executed.
Never did a life picture exhibit such truthful
lights and shades in national character, such
deep treacherous villainy—such lofty enthusiastic
heroism.
Items.
Horace Maun, in a recent lecture on Victoria’s
realm, said it might porhaps be worth whiio to in
quire, at what period in history, or in what par
oxysm of arrogance and Belf-esteem, a mere speck
on the ocean, an island not half so largo as some
of our States, eumo to be called “Great” Britain.
The whole island might be sunk in our fresh-water
lakes without at all obstructing navigation.
Wilkins Micawber, Esq.— We learn that this
individual lias amassed an immense fortuno since
tho gold “tnrnod up” in Australia, and will return
to England soon. Tho twins found each a large
nugget of gold which they intend to present to
“David Copperfiold.”
A furmor hired an old sailor to work on the farm
and sent him into the held with a three-cattle-team
to plough. The docility of the brutes enabled
Jack to go a few rounds without much difficulty;
bnt at one of tbo corners the team got into a snarl,
and Jack hastened to the farmer for assistance,
stating the condition of affairs in true nautical
style: “See here, skipper, the larboard ox is on
the Btarboard side, and tbo starboard ox is on the
larboard Hide; old Jenny’s afoul the rigging, and
they aro all going to the devil stam foremost.”
Complimentary.—“ Mrs. Polly,” said Uncle Eb,
of Up Town, ns ho hobbled one morning into her
entry, where tho good dame was busily handling
tho broom, “ Mrs. Polly, you are a first-rate sweep
er, —why, my Sally will sweep our house from top
to bottom, nud then not begin to get together as
big a pile of dirt as yon have swept up in ten min
utes!” Uncle Eb. loft, with a broomstick after
him, but not more rapidly than when, entering the
house of an ancient maiden lady—“staid, tidy
and discreet”—without wiping his feet, the offend
ed spinster exclaimed, “ Did you not observe the
scraper at tho door, sir?” “Tos’m,” said Uncle
Eb., “ and I intond to nse it ahen Igo oat I"
For every thing you buy or sell, let or hife, make
un exaot bargain at first; and be not put off to an
hereafter by one that says to you—“ We Shall not
disagree about trifles.”
The Lantern contains the following mflsical in
telligence :
Mr. Adolphus Spooneymng is taking lessons on
the “ flute,” Ho has put himself under a most
severe course of practice, always spending his
evening in breathing his soul through the keys of
his favorite instrument. He boards in Chamber
street, and when tho nights aro moonlight, ia con
sidered especially “great” in his “blowing." Such
is the inexpressible and mournful melody he gives
life to, that the lady on the floor beneath him has
already been seized with the nervous fever, while
the romantic chambermaid creeps on tip-toe to the
door of his chamber, and all shivering in her ha
biliments, sheds unceasing tears as the dulcst torus
reach her through the key-hole.
An illiterate correspondent, who is given to
sporting, wants to know when the “ Anglo-Saxon
raoe,” so much talked about, is to come off ? ”
A sentimental chap in Rhode Island intends to
petition Congress, at its next session, for an appro
priation to improve tbe channels of affection, ao
that henceforth the “ course of true love may run
smooth."
A man who frequented the circus, noticed a boy t
among the audience who was asleep every time 5
he happened to see him. Canons to know why
the urchin should resort to such a place for eomni- 1
serous purposes, oar friend went on one evening (
and accosted him—
“ My little fellow, what do you sleep for!’’ ,
‘ l l can’t keep awake,” rejoined the other; “it i
is such a bore to see them do the same thing every i
night.”
“ But why do you come ?" '
“On, I can’t help it—l must come—l’ve got a
season ticket.”
The Sea and Its Currents.
In a popular lecture lately published in Hunt’s
Merchants' Magazine, Lieut. Maury has discussed
the circulation of the waters of the sea. He as
sumes for the basis of his argument, the unifor
mity of component element* in sea water which
he thinks, must he dne to currents constantly
mingling the nearest waters with the most remote.
These currents do not perform their offices by
chance he thinks, but in obedience to fixed laws.
Their causes also, must be certain and permanent.
Powerful dynamic agencies of oceanic current*,
besides that of heat, are thought to be winds, ma
rine plant* and animals, and the salta of the sea
water.
On this subject the lecturer says: “The sea
breeze and sea shell, in performing their appoint
ed offices, act in such away a* to give rise to a re
ciprocating motion in the waters: thus they im
part to the ocean dynamical forces for its circula
tion. The sea breeze plays upon the surface ! it
converts onlv fresh water into vapor, and leaves
solid matter behind. The surface water thus be
comes specifically heavier, and sinks. On the other
hand, the little main architect below, as he works
upon his coral edifice at the bottom, abstract*
from the water there a portion of it* solid content*;
it therefore becomes specifically lighter, and up it
goes ascending to the top with increased velocity,
to take the place of the descending column, which
by the action of the winds had been sent down,
loaded with fresh food and material for the busy
little masons in the depths below.”—Sue. Chur.
Vice-Pbesipent of the United States.— The
offico of Vice-President has beer, previously vacant
on the following occasions, viz:—George Clinton,
April, 1812; his term expiring March 8,1818. El
bndge Gerry, November, 1814; hia term expiring
March 8,1817. Once by the resignation of John
C. Calhoun, December, 28,1882; his term expiring
March 8, 1838. Twice by the death of Preai
dents Harrison and Taylor, and the consequent ac
cession of Vice-Presidents Tyler and Fillmore to
the Presidency—the former in April, 1841; the
latter in July, 1850—leaving the Vice-Presidency
vacant for the remainder of their respective terms,
and the President ot the Senate with the right of
succession to the Presidency. The powers and du
ties of the Vioe-Preeident and the President of
the Senate pro tem., are precisely the same, exoept
that the Utter votes as a Senator, and has the cast
ing vote. Mr. Atchison, the present President of
the Senate, pro tem., has only two yean to aerrs
M U. 6, Senator.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1853.
From tie Pkiladtlpnia Bulletin.
The Kagliafa la MU.
The principle .abject before the British pnblic
jast now is the application of the East India Com
pany for a new charter. Not quits a generation
ago the present charter waa bestowed, to expire in
April, 1844, and under it all tbo old commercial pri
vileges of the company were withdrawn. The
question now ia, not whether thoae privileges shall
be granted again but whether the Indian empire
which was lef to it, shall not also be taken away.
A very few words will pnt the whole case before
onr readers.
'Aiio British East India Company is as old as the
reign of Queen Elizabeth. But it was not until
the time of James the First that it began to prose
cute its trade with any rigor. Even after it had
become extensively engaged in commerce, more
than a century elapsed before it became territorial
ly aggressive. It was not indeed until 1757 that
the career of conquest began which continued al
most uninterruptedly since, bsß led to the acquisi
tion of the present enormous Territory now held
by the Company. A hundred year. ago the Bri
tish possessions in the East Indies did not reach
five thousand square miles. They now fall little
short of six hundred thousand, containing apopn
lation of one hundred and twenty millions. In ad
dition an sresof seven hundred thousand miles not
yet definitely annexed as British territory, is virtu
ally governed by the Company through puppet na
tive princes, who are allowed to oall tnemaelvea al
lies, but are in reality slaves.
This immense empire hss been built up bv a
system, which if perpetrated by Americans, En
gland would not have hesitated to call piratical.—
Nor hss there been that excuse for it, whioh
Young Amoriea finds for similar projects, which
it wages in this hemisphere. Take Cuba for an
example. If ever that island is fraudulently an
nexed to the United States, no wrong, but on the
contraiy a benefit, will be done to its citizens, who
will be elevated, from abject subjects of an abso
lute monarch to independent voters in a free Re
public. Spain indeed will bs made the victim of
an outrage; and hence the crime of America in
stealing Cuba. But in tbo East Indies annexa
tions, while made equally at the expense of the
despots who had ruled the countries annexed,
have never advanced the political rights of the
people. The Hindoo has no morevoioe in the Go
vernment of his native land now, than he had un
der the Mahomedan conquerors, or even under the
more ancient tyrants of nis own race. The Eng
lieb have, in fact, done what former masters never
ventured to do, they have introduced their own
laws into India, and thus inexpressibly outraged
the Hindoos. Having taken six hundred thou
sand square miles from the Mahomedan princes
on similar pretexts to thoae which Yonng America
urges as justifications forseizing Cabs, they have
omitted to grant those privilege* of citizenship to
the one hundred and twenty motions of population
which alone could paliate the act. We will not
say justify it, because as we cannot admit that the
forcibly appropriation of Cuba would be justifiable
much the less can we concede that of these Hindoo
provinces to have been. And their seizure was
as less defensible than that of Cuba would be, a9
their distance from England waa greater than that
of Cuba from the United Btatea.
Even the English BeviewSj snoh at least as are
not thoroughly demoralized in regard to national
transactions, admit thatlndia has been acquired in
outrage and held in defiance of right. “We re
tain no hold upon India," says the Edinburgh,
“except by the sword. Our Government is the
government of the strange and nothing more."—
An eminent British Btatssmsn, personally familiar
with India, Lord William Bentick hss publicly
said that Hindoatan is governed, not for her own
sake, bnt for the sake of the thousand Englishmen,
who go thero to make their fortunes. As in Cabs
so in India. Nativos are shutout from advance
ment. They may acquire money by trade, they
may build ships out they cannst rise in the army
or the State. One hundred and twenty millions
governed with no end but to enrich the British
shareholders in the Company, or the employees
who are sent out from England to fill all public sta
tions of trustr-wns ever Buch a condition of things
since the proconsular daysof Rome! Nor does it
appear that this empire is to etop where it is. On
the most frivolous of pretexts, a part of Burmah
haajußt been annexed to it, and millions more
added to thoso who hste conquerors so hostile to
their race, their laws, their religion, and their
traditions. What a commentary on hnman con
sistency to Bee all England, bewailing the fate of
Italy, enslaved by the Austrians, yet permitting
English armies to perpetrate an outrage sven
greater than the Außtrian oooupation of the pe
ninsula.
Meantime this armed occupation has not been al
leviated by any attempts to improveeven the phy
sical condition of the people. Had the British in
denying political rights to the Hindoos, labored
honestly and earnestly, to advance their material
prospects, something, perhaps, might have been
urged in extenuation of their conquest. But with
the exception of a few publio works, of whioh the
irincipaf are to aid in irrigation,. and which fall
>elow what was done by the ancient masters of
India, the English have effected nothing whatever
for their East Indian subjects. The masses still
remain in the virtual personal bondage in which
they were found under the old Mahomedan prin
ces, a condition of which some of the worst evils
of poverty and some of the worst evils of easts
unite to make horrible beyond description. Sir
Thomas Munro, another statesman, personally fa
milinr with India, has declared that the inhabitants
of the Company’s dominion sre the mostabject in
India. But there is still snother disgraceful blot,
wo can call it nothing else than a great crime
which blackens the English rule in Hindostan.—
Nearly one-half the revenues are derived from the
tux levied on opium. This opium, as is well
known, is sold in China, and the revenue it yields
was the secret of the infamons Chinese opium war,
Elliott, the English Commissioner, wrote it is ad
mitted, that England must either give up India, or
force the opium trade on China at the cannon’s
mouth, for without that trade, he said no market
could o* found for the opium raised in Hindostan,
and without the tax on opium, the Indian treasu
ry would be bankrupt. The more the British rule
in India is studied, the more hateful it seems,
every new aspect of the subject present some fresh
enormity against man and God.
The British parliament may partially remedy
the wrong Britain has done to India, by taking
the government out of the Company’s hands ana
directing it directly themselves. Bnt even this
will only alleviate, not extirpate the evil : and_ the
alleviation, moreover, will be comparatively slight.
As long as India is ruled as a oonquered country,, .
her wrongs will substantially be ineradicable.—
Yet while she remains in possession of the Bri
tish she will be treated as a subject kingdom for
never yet in all her long oareer of power, has Eng
land voluntarily let go her hold of any conquered
realm. Alas! therefore for India. To her may be
applied the words of the poet:
"Bap* never comee i
That cornea at all." ‘
c
Touching.—The following lines were taken from £
the cell of a convict now in Sing Sing Prison, nn- t
der sentence for life: j
The laat golden beam of the sunlight haa fled
It kissed my pale cheek in my dark lonely cell, a
And I thought of my mother eho sleeps with the dead, l
And brothers and sisters, and home where they dwell: t
I ft 11 on my couch and I wept bitter tears,— ,
(For a convict can weep o’er the bright scenes of youth)
And the loss of theloved ones of earlier years, '
Was told in the still dying whispers of truth.
I thought of the hours when my baart was as pure e
As the tear-drops that fell on the stones of my floor,
And the bride ot my youth, whose love none was truer. r
And her grief and her death—oh, what could be more f
I thought of all these as that last golden beam e
Left my cell and the world, on its mission forever, <
And I tried to believe ’twas a horrible dream, 1
From which I’d awake—but ah, never, no never I ,
a i
Blessing the Beasts.
Grace Greenwood, in a letter from Home, dated (
January 29th, furnished this description of a '
peculiar religious ceremony:
We went last Sunday to see the blessing of (
beasts—an annual ceremony, which takes place j
at the church of San Antonio Abate. There was ,
au immense crowd of all descriptions and classes j
of people; among the rest, a vast convocation of j
beggars—the crippled and maimed in endless vari- ,
ties, wrecks and remnants, divisions and subdi- j
visions of men. ,
A priest stood on the steps of the church, with (
a holy water sprinkler in his hand, and a little boy
at his side, bearing the benitier. The animals were f
trotted up before him; he read a form of bene- ,
diction in Latin, shook the sprinkler at them, and ,
they were good for a twelvemonth. Os oourse, t
this is done for a consideration, as what is not, ,
in the way of churoh parades, privileges and im- <
munities! The first applicants for abenediction f
after our arrival, were two miserable old oart- (
horses, who looked as though the blessings of all ,
the fathers of the church could not keep them on ■
their legs for twenty-four hours. I fear the rite ,
was extreme unction to them ; and yet the owner ,
doubtless led them ajvay, rejoicing in the faith that j
the crowß were cheated of the poor skeletons for a ;
vear to come. ,
Next came a drove of donkeys, with their heads j
and tails deoorated with gay ribbons. One of •
these committed the ever-to-bo-apprehended asi- (
nine impropriety of braying in the midst of the |
ceremony. So absurd, ludicrous, and pompously ,
farcical was this scene—so stupid, yet consciously ,
ridiculous seemed the obief actors, that it atruck ,
me the benediction might have commenoed, with- ,
out great inappropriateness, with an apostolic ,
“ Dearly beloved brethren!”
Do not think me irreverent, from this, or any ,
thing of the kind I may say. I feel a daily in
creasing indignation and contempt toward the
monstrous absurdities of this system of religion,
and the actors therein. To reverence such things
and such men, were an insult to the God in whom
1 believe.
There came up a sudden and violent shower,
and we were driven, for shelter, into thechur.ch,
where we were brought iato more intimate rela
tions with the lower classes than was altogether
safe or savory. I am a democrat, even in Italy,
till it comes to garlie and paid, when. I most con
fess, my democracy assumes a mors abstract char
acter. After the storm was passed, the Pope’s
stud came, mostly driven in carriages, magnificent
turnout*. Then followed those of the cardinals,
scarcely less stately and gorgeous. Next came
twentv-four superb horses, belonging to Prince
Piombino, attached to one carriage, all decorated
with plumes and ribbons—really a beautiful sight.
The horses which are to run in the Corso, during
the Carnival, were blessed amid unusual demon
strations of popular feeling; and so it ended, the
oddest, absurdest, most utterly ridiculous reli
gious ceremonial I ever beheld.
To-morrow, Carnival begins. It is late at night;
all is quiet in the streets, exoept the noise of ham
mers next door, where they are putting up a
balcony. The sound, at this hour, has something
strange and sinister in it—something to scaffold
suggestive, that it almost gives one a to-be -hung
next morning sort of a feeling.
We need not, however, go so far for examples
of this kind: for here in this city, bureaus, bed
steads, barrels of salt, Ac. Ac-, are “ blessed” for
a ll consideration;” but this concerns us only from
the feet, that an attempt is now being made to
educate American youths as fcr as possible, who
are hereafter to wield the destinies of the Repub
lic, by men engaged as principals in this sort of
business. — Oin. Times.
Two Geiat Discoveries. —We are told that two
important discoveries have recently been made in
the manufacture of oil and the production of light.
Although probably known to quite a number of
persons, the details have not yet been spread be
fore the public. If we are correctly informed ,
the oil is obtained with singular economy and
abundance by an improved process in the distilla
tion of coal; while, with alike degree of economy
and abundance, benzole, which is also one of the
products in the distillation of coal, is, by an im
proved apparatus, converted into gas from illumi
nation.—Bolton Transcript.
Property Lett by a Passenger in Railway
Car.—According to a recent English decision, the
law with regard to the finder of lost property does
not apply to the case of property of a passenger
> accidentally left in a railway carriage, and found
there by a servant of the Company; and ruck a ssr
r vatU it guilty of larceny, if, instead of taking it
to the station kouee or superior oficer, he appropri
ates it to his own use.
[ Lamartine is dying; his physicians have flb
hopes of him.
CALIFORNIA INTELLIGENCE.
The New Orleans papers of Sunday, received
yesterday, bring us the details of the California
news, by the UniUd. State*, sketches of which had
been received by Telegraph. We extract copious •
)y from the Picayune't collation :
The United Statet made the trip from Aspinwall
in & days 3% hours.
The health of the Isthmus was very good. No
trouble is experienced by passengers'in cross.ng.
While the United States was at Aspinwall a son
of Mr. E. E. Duckworth, about 15 years of age
took an express from Aspinwall to Panama in eight
hours and a half, the shortest probably ever made
across the isthmus.
The steamship Cortes, (of the New York and
California Steamship Company’s Pacific line,) ar
rived at Panama on the 15th inst., having made
the passage from San Francisco in 14 days. She
brought down 800 passengers, mostly for New
York, among whom were the Chinese dramatic
troupe, (forty-two in number,) who embarked on
board the Uncle Sam.
By the arrival of the United States we have
San Eraneisco papers to the Ist instant, inclusive,
being fourteen days later than previously received.
The most important news is that of the loss of
the steamship Independence of the Nicaragua line
on her upward trip from San Juan del Sad to San
Francisco. It will oe recollected that on the arrival
of the Falcon on her last trip, and also on the ar
rival of the Daniel Webster ou the 6th instant, we
stated that great anxiety was felt at San Francisco,
for the safety of the Independence, which was over
due, and was iaßt seen by the steamship Golden
Gate off the Gulf of California. We also stated
that the steamer Sea Bird had been chartered to
go in searoh of her.
We learn from the San Francisco papers that
up to the 81st of March nothing was beard of the
Independence, and of coarse the anxiety for the
safety of those on board had become intense. —
On that day, CapL Samson, who oommanded the
Independence, arrived and communicated the
dreadful intelligence that she was totally lost,
and that 120 of her crew and passengers had pe
rished.
It appears that on the 16th oi February tho In
dependence struck upon a reef extending to the
south from the island of Margarita, off the coast of’
Lower California. She wasgotoff but commencing
to leak badly, it was found necessary toarun her
ashore. While searching for a proper place, the
water so gained upon the engines as to olose their
drafts and on the instant she tonced the flames burst
out from the furnace, and rapidly enveloped the
neighboring wood work. A fearful panic ensued,
and the surf was presently tilled with drowning
wretches who had leaped blindly into the boiling
waves.
Capt. Samson on arriving at San Francisco, was
accompanied by Dr. Torbett, surgeon of the Inde
pendence. They left the whaleship Meteor early on
the morning of the 80th of March 50 miles outside
the Heads, and arrived at an early hour on the
81st, after a row of sixteen hours. Capt. Sampson
immediately after his arrival had the following ao
count ol the loss of the Ihdependonce, his own
statement published in the Herald:
lam under the painful necessity of reporting v
the loss of the steamer Independence, lately under ?
my command, on her passage from San Juan del *!
Sud to this port, and about one hundred and ?
twenty-five lives, consisting of the passengers and d
fifteen of the crew. She was lost on the island of 0
Margarita, off the coast of l,ower California. As- f'
ter leaving Acapulco we experienced strong breezes ?
from NW.to N. Passed Cape St. Lucas on the ,
morning of the 15th of February. At 12 o’clock •
M. of the 15th we were in lat. 23 deg. 04 min. N., ri
lon. 110 deg. 42 min. W.; Bteered NW. by W. half 0
W. per compaßS, intending togo to the westward of 0
Margarita Island. On the morning of the 16th, at
1 o’clock, A. M., made the main land to the east- 0
ward ol the island, having been set in shore by "
the current. Altered the course to SW. At 2 o’- ?'
clock A. M., made tho island ol Margarita, the ,
south point bearing W. by S. per compass; then b
altered the course to WSW. 1 intended to give n
the points berth of threo miles, but owing to a f.
haze over the land, I was deceived in the distance. 1
At fifteen minntes past 5 just as day was begin- ”
ning to break, she struck a sunken reef, extending 11
off from the south point of the island about a mile 0
from the shore. The sea was very smooth at tho ?'
time, not breaking on tho reef at all. Baoked the R
engine, and she came off; examined tho hold, and D
found that she was filling rapidly; know that "
I should have to beach her to keep her from sink
ing ; got a sail over the bow (under her,) to try .
to stop the leak, and set a gang of men at work at 11
each hatchway, bailing, and ran along the west ?!
side oftho island, close in, to find a good place to ;
put her ashore. Told the engineer to let mo 1
Know five minutes before the water got high P
enough to put out the fires. When he had run b
about four miles the engineer camo up and report- 11
ed the water nearly up to the fires, and that they E
would be extinguished in a few minutes. Put the ,
helm hard aport, and ran her ashore in a small 1
cove on the BW. side of the island, head on. — J!
Lowered a boat, and sent tho mate and two men in 11
her to run a line ashore to the beach, which was R
about one hundred yaids distant, but the boat J;
broached to and was swamped in the surf. Low- c
ered another boat, and sent three men in her with ?
another line, which they succeeded in getting °
ashore. I now ascertained that the ship was on fire. a ]
Told the engineer to take his men and put out the ?,
fire if possible. Ordered tho other two boats to ,
be lowered, and to come forward, and the women tl
and children to come to the forward gangway ; c<
loaded both boats with women and children and 61
sent them ashore. The ship had now swung
around broadside on. The mate and two men 8 f
came off with the boat that tobk the line ashore, :!
and she was immediately loaded with women and
children and went ashore with them. Tho fire “J
originated from the furnaces.
It was necessary after the steamer struck on the a ]
roes, to use wood and boards for fuel, in order to ?
keop up the steam until she struck on the beach 11
when the water was so high as to stop the w
draft from the lower flues, whioh forced open the c !
furnace doors, and the flames rushed out and 8
oaught the wood work in the fire room, and also a
around the smoke rack, thence spreading very w
rapidly. Every effort was made to get the fire un- .
der, but of no avail. The flames were now com- 11
ing up from the hatchways, lire room, engine Cl
room, ventilators and around the smoke rack; a<
everything was consternation and dismay; the peo-
pie seemed completely bewildered, and wero jump
mg overboard by dozens. The scene was perlect
,ly horrible and indisoribable—men, women and r
children screeching, crying and drowning. I or- R
dered the spars, hatches, tables and everything j"
that would float to be thrown overboard, which 8
was done, and they were immediately covered ™
with people. About an hour after the ship struck "
the beach she was a perfect Bheet of flame, and °
there was no one on board of her except one of ® (
the ooal-passers, named Beaumont, and myself. 8 ,
The smoke raek had fallen and the promenade
deck forward had tumbled in ; the flames were .'!
coming out of the side lights, and it was impossible
to stay on board any longer. A boat came off from *
the shore with two of the deck hands in her. ?
Beaumont, who was near the fore rigging, jumped b
into her, and I jumped overboard, swam to her, "
and commenced picking up those who wero afloat. °
After picking up three boat loads, Thomas Herron,
the steward, succeeded in launchinganother boat *
and saving some of the people. When all that »
were alive had been picked up, and some of the e
baggage, I landed and had tne spars which had
drifted ashore hauled up into a ravine, and with :
an old sail that had washed ashore made a tent
large onough to shelter the women and children, g
The ship waß still in flames, so that it was impos- ‘
sible for any one to board her. I gave the mate and ,
engineer orders to have the dead taken up above R
high-water mark and bnrried, and to board the J
wreck as soon as possible and save all the provis- ,
ions and water that they could. I then took a
boat and four men and started to pull round the °
north end of the island to Magdalena Bay in search 8
of assistance, expecting to find some shipß there. _
We pulled until 10 o’clock that night, when, not
being able to see any vessels, and not knowing in -
what direction to pull, I landed on the north shore
of the entrance to Magdalena Bay, hauled up the .
boat and waited for daylight, when I started again
to pull across the bay; after pulling an hour and a
half I dbcovered a vessel close under the main
land, pulled fer and reached her at 11 o’cloek, A.
M., found her to be the schooner A. Emery, Capt.
Gordon. The captain and most of the crew were
ashore looking for water; set a signal, and they '
came on board.
Capt. Gordon said that he had been in the bay a
five days, and that there were no other vessels in ®
the bay. After stating the circumstances of the
wreck to him, he consented to get under way (al- 8
though he had but sixty gallons of water on board 8
at the time) and take the survivors to San Jose or ;
Cape St. Lucas, whore they could get tbe neces- ■
series of life, until other assistance could be ren- ?
dered them—and he immediately got under way j;
and commenced beating out. At daylight of the
18th, it being ealm, and the schooner being a long 1
distance from the wreck, I took twenty gallons of 1
water and a sack of bread in the boat, and started '
for the camp, expecting to find the people suffer- 8
ing for water, as there was none op the island fit :
to drink. Arrived abreast of thi wreck at 2P. \
M., having been gone from there fifty-one hours. 1
The surf was breaking very heavily, making it J
dangerous to land. Tne mate came down on the ?
beach and said that the passengers bad gone across j
the Island, and that I had better pull round tbe
Southend of the island to the other side, which I *
did, and found the boats and crews lrom the whale '
ships Omega, James Maury, Meteor and barque j
Clement, busily at work taking the passengers on f
board the Bhips, which lay about twelve miles dis- j
tant from the point of embarkation in the lower
bay. While I was away in the boat the mate and 1
engineer had gone across the island, seen the ships
ana boats and signalized to them, and so obtained i
relief. I then took a boat and crew and started off t
to meet the schooner and lake her back into the i
bay where we arrived on the morning of the 20th. i
I then went on board the ships and mustered a 1
party of men and went across the island to the i
wreck, to save and bring over all tbe provisions 1
we oould find.
While at work getting provisions from the 1
wreck, we saw a steamer bound down the coast,
about six miles distant. We made signals for her,
but she did not notioe them. Launched a boat and
took two men in and attempted to get off to speak
her, but the surf, which was breaking very heavi
ly at tbe time, swamped tbe boat and broke one of
the oars, and when I reached the shore again, I
was so much exhausted that I could not make an
other attempt.
After getting all tbe provisions that had been
saved, which occupied two days, I chartered the
ship Meteor, Capt. Jeffries, to take us all to San
Francisco, to sail as soon as the vessel could be
made ready. While tbe ship was being fitted I
took a boat and crew from the ship Omega, and
lay off and on the island on the look out for a
steamer, hoping to speak one on her passage np,
and get some assistance from her, but none came
in sight of us.
On the 8d of March, everything being ready,
and the passengers all on board, (except a few
who chose to go to the Sandwich Islands in the
other ships,) we sailed for this port.
I was on the larboard paddle-box when the
steamer struck, and had been on deck the whole
night. If the steamer had not taken fire, not a
soul would have been lost, for they could all have
been landed safely if there had been time.
The reef on which the steamer struck is about
two miles long, making off in a south-easterly
direction, and is not laid down in any of the
charts that I have ever seen.
Too much cannot be said in favor of the hu
mane conduct and kind treatment received from
' Capt. J. Fisher and officers of the ship Omega,
Capt. Wheldon of the ship James Maury, Captain
Jeffries of the ship Meteor, Capt Lane of the bark
Clemente, and Capt. Gordon of the schooner A.
Emery, who promptly came to our relief as won
as they heard of our situation, and rendered us
i all the assistance and made us as comfortable ss
possible daring our stay in the bay.
*The San Francisco Whig, of the let inst., fur
nishes many interesting particulars of the dread
ful calamity, obtained by conversation with Dr.
, Torbett, the ship’s surgeon. As the Indtpen
, dence had on board many persons who took their
' departure from this port for California, we copy
: the Whig’s article, and append thereto the lists
* of passengers and crew saved and oi passengers
‘ and crew loot. The Independence, as we stated
i on a former ooeasion, connected with the Daniel
Webster on her trip from this port, January 28d,
* and the Northern Light, from New York, January
30th, and was reported to have on board about
four hundred and fifty passengers. The Whig’s
* account is as follows:
The island upon whioh the ill-fated steamer waa
wrecked is situated on the coast of Lower Califor
l nia, one hundred and sixty-seven miles north of
the point known as the Cape St Lucas. The
coast in this region, bold and rock-bound, is in
l many places inaccessible for vessels or boats, and
presentsaniron barriertothe luckless ship coasting
its rocky projections. The spot where the steamer
struck was on a point of sand beach, extending
seaward from the coast of the island, but covered
at high water.
The steamer was going under a fine head of
steam on the 16th of February, when at daybreak
though before the light was per ectly clear, she
suddenly struck and stopped. The land could be
seen towards the coast, but very indistinotly. At
the moment the vessel- struck an indescribable
scene of confusion occurred on board. A rush
was made by the passengers to the various hatch
ways, and the upper deck was soon entirely crowd
ed with human beings. Capt. Samps -u was on the
wheel-house, and at once ordered tne engineer to
back her, which was done, the steamer backing off
with apparent ease. The land at this time appear
ed on the larboard bow, and made out in a narrow
point or cape ; the sea was smooth, and the steam
er drawing seven feet of water; no breakers were
visible from any quarter. The concussion was not
violent but of such force as to arouse the wholo
ship, and in a few moments every soul on board
was on the upper deck. As soon as the vessel was
backed into deep water, Oapt. Sampson gave secret
orders that the pnrnps should be sounded, when
it was discovered that there were eight feet water
in the hold. It was of importance that this alarm
ing fact should be kept from the passengers to pre
vent confusion, while instant measures were adopt
ed to beach the ship at the nearest available spot.
The news, however, quickly flew from mouth to
mouth, and then ensuod a scene of which no idea
can be given, save to those who have been similar
ly situated. Here was the population of a small
town, with many women and children, death star
ing them in the face, and no visible means of suc
oorathand. A rush was at once made for the
most valuable articles of private property. Many
were thus trampled and bruised. But it was soou
found that the ship could be kept afloat, and her
head was pointed up the coast with the intention
of beaching her in some convenient and safe place. |
To facilitate this, an immense amount of dry wood
was heaped into tho furnaces, and a havy head of
steam kept up. Our informant thinks that they 1
must have run up the ooast nearly five miles before '
a suitable place was found. During this time quiet 1
had been somewhat restored on board, and the '
greatest anxiety was manifested in the progress of ’
this vessel. Daylight had now dawned, and they j
found themselves running along a rock-bound ]
coast surmounted by stupendous mountains, en- i
tirely destitute of verdure, and apparently nnin- ,
habited. At length a large gulley or ravine was 1
discovered, which appeared to make out into a J
send beach, and into this nook the bows of the
steamer were turned. The crowd was now so great ]
around the stern to avoid the anticipated danger ,
of the concussion, that the helmsman could with i
difficulty steer the ship. She was,however,botched <
handsomoly and with considerable force.
Had this been the only danger there is no doubt 1
that every soul on board would have boen saved ; 5
but in tho exertions to get up steam to hurry the ]
vessel’s progress, a tremendous heat had been ,
made in the furnaces; the water now fast increas
ing in tho vessels hold, stopped the flues and ob
structedthedraughtlntothechimneys; thcfurnace 1
doors were of courso burst open,and a vivid volume J
of flame twenty feet in length shot into the fire )
room, driving every body before it with the intense e
heat, and instantly setting the wood work into a j
blaze. All efforts to control tho flames were utter- i
ly ineffectual, and from this moment the fire ran J
rapidly over the vessel. But In describing the
origin of the fire we have gone beyond tho story of )
our informant: r
“ When tho steamer had beached with bor bows j
on,and before tbo flames had broken out, a rush i
was made for the bows; but the sea, though C
smooth off the shore, ran in heavy surf on tho '
beach, and there was a distance of some 800 yards ■!
between the vessel nud tho land. Capt. Samson j
now gave the order to lower nway a boat, and tho 8
chief mate with the other undertook to carry a s
tine to the shore. The progress of tho boat was A
watched with eager eyes by tho assembled multi- *
tude on board the ship; but, as BOtno of the sailors *
on board had predicted, she was swamped by the J
surf, the line was lost, and the ventureis’ with their j
boat were thrown upon the boach, the two men
barely escaping with .their lives. A second boat
was now lowered, manned by volunteers from f
among the men. These brave fellows reached j,
the shore and succeeded in making a small three- s
inch hauling line fast to a projecting rock, whioh A
was at once hauled taught oy those on board. A C
third boat was lowered by order of the captain; s
this boat was put in charge of Capt. Steel, an ex- J
jeriencod shipmaster who was a passenger on rj
>oard. During this time the ship remained im- a
movable, the surf striking her in the stern and \
perhaps tending to set her firmer into the saud. I
The third boa; was then lowored; it was found a
that she was half full of water and of no service j;
unless bailed out, and Dr. Corbett sprung into her j;
for that purpose; this offected, six ladies were j,
passed down i to the boat, among whom were Miss c
Conway, Mrs. Haley, Mrs. Seymour and Mrs. it
Coots. There -were two other ladies whose names h
we have not learned. The boat rode tho first J
breaker, but was filled and swamped by tho second, *
and those already on Bhore rushed to the rescue v
of the ladies and dragged them on board. Dr. k
Corbett was in this boat, and gaining the shore b
turned towards the ship at the cries of terror pro- C
ceeding from her, and beheld the quarter deck S
enveloped in flames.
“ And now ensued one of the most harrowing J
scenes ever recorded in the history of shipwreck ; ,
the flames leaped rapidly across the after part of
the ship, driving the masses before them, and
dozens sprang into the water, and were seen strug- j
gling in the snrf. All tho boats were now gone, c
and it was impossible to regain the ship from the 2
shore, or to render nny succor whatever. Dread- C
ful cries and screams proceeded from the ship, J
which, mingled with the roaring of the sea, tne J
crackling of the flames and shouting of those on 2
shore, who could only gaze helplessly on the sight, B ,
must have been an era of terror in the lives of those x
who beheld it from tho beach. As the flames ad- L
vanoed forward the unhappy victims were forced 5
into the sea, and every surf came freighted with ®
corpses or exhausted half-drowned men, women 1
and children. Such a scodo has never before been
witnessed on the Pacific coast. To add to the ex
citement, the flames had now communicated to C
the powder magazine, which exploded, tearing tho <i
run and stern to pieces, and splintering all that 1
Dortion of the ship; the two gnus, surrounded by £
;he flames, also sent their solemn booming over the a
scene. Those who were fortunate enough to get
within reach of their friends on shore, were drag
ged, half dead, out of the reach of the snrf, while ii
others were swept around the stern of the steamer
or out to sea, there being a strong current making F
seaward from the ship. At one moment not less s
than thirty corpses and bodies of the dying were
in the edge of the surf some of them divested of 1
‘clothing. Out of a party of eighteen Jews who 1
were on board, sixteen perishea from the weight t
of coin, it was supposed, which they attempted to t
bring with them through tho waves. The out- i
ward currentabove mentioned carried off numbers t
of persons who were good swimmers or floated. I
who would otherwise have beon saved; several «
women thus floating were swept away; tho bag- I
gage, such as would float, also went ont with tne i
ebb; none of it was saved by drifting to the shore.” «
We have spoken above of the manly conduct of c
the sailors, firemen and coal passers. Some of c
these noble fellows, disregarding their own dan
ger, seized tittle children in their arms or lashed <
them to themselves and attempted to gain the
shore; several are known to have thus sacrificed S
themselves. We have no space or heart to insert f
the numerous affecting instances of courugo and f
self-saorifloe of which wo have received accounts. 1
Among them most conspicuous ia that of Mr. Tarr, f
of Sacramento, who lost his life in attemptin'; to i
save a son of Mr. Watson; they came ashore toge- t
ther, both drowned. Oun of the firemen, whoso
name we did not 1 am, brought on shore two child- I
ren whose parents were both drowned. Another t
fireman brought a beautiful boy ushore to Mb mo- \
ther who had just been washed to the beach ; her <
husband and two children were drowned and she l
supposed this child had shared the same fate; the *
the meeting may be imagined.
The pnrsor of the ship, Mr. James Freeborn, 1
remained upon the deck until driven off by the fire, i
when springing overboard he clung to a floating i
spar and was washed ashore insensible; he was t
recuscitatcd, bnt barely escaped with his life, being ]
attacked with a violent fever. There is one fire- i
man, known as Tom Sawyer, a wild, reckless,
Bcamp, but whose faults, be they what they may, f
should henceforth be forgotten ; this brave fellow, 5
entire y stripped, went to and from the wreck four
times; he is only nineteen years of age. After!,he
third time, and when nearly exhausted with his I
exertions, he learned that the chief engineer, Mr. f
Collins, was unable to swim and likely to drown; t
he immediately started off again through tho surf 1
with a life-preserver, fastened it around the help
less man and accompanied him to the bcacli; he i
was also instrumental in preserving the lives of I
several others. Most of those ashore were too ex- t
hausted to render assistance to those beating about
in the surf. People ran about the beach perfectly .
frantic; one party attempted to launch a boat to i
reach the steamer, bnt it was overwhelmed by the
surf, and this accident intimidated others so that j
it was impossible to muster tho requisite force to
launch a second. Meantime the ship had become |
a living mass of fire; the heat was intense, even on
the shore, and every moment the beach received ,
new accessions to the list of dead and dying. The
scene was truly borrowing, and when at last the
Bteamer was a charred and smoking hnlk, her stern
lifted, and she swung heavily round and went up ,
broadside on the beach.
Some provisions were saved from the wreck,
such as salt beet, pork, molasses, vinegar, a few
tin cans of preserved meats and some cheese, bnt
no watt r, nor was there a drop of water on the
island, whioh, we have before observed, was utter
ly barren and uninhabited. The nsual amount of
suffering, particularly among the women and chil
dren, was experienced. During the first day at
tempts were made by the survivors, after burying
the dead, to procure water by condensing steam,
bnt the expenment failed. There were now some
270 sonls congregated on the beach, and they a.l
went without tasting water for 56 hoars; the salt
provisions only aggravated their sufferings. Short
y after the scene we have described above, a party
started for the neighboring mountains, and on
reaching their summit they were enabled to descry
Magdalena Bay on the main land opposite, from
which the island of Margarita is removed some 15
miles, here they observed four ships at anchor;
they proved to be the whalers, busily engaged in
trying out oil, while beyond in the vast panorama,
they aii covered several email boats in full chase af
ter a whale, for Magdalene Bay is resorted to by
whales in the winter season. Observing this, the
party descended to the wreck, and the chief mate,
the engineers, and a few others, slung one of the
cannons of the Independence, dragged and lugged
it with great toil to the top of the hill, and with
what little powdei they bad, fired twice to attract
the attention of the whalers; the boats, in their
pnrsnit of the whale, had insensibly neared the
eastern shore of the island, and were at once at
tracted by the discharge and the smoke against
the clear sky. The sound was also heard by those
on board the ships, and signals were observed to
go npto each mast head recalling the boats. While
this system of telegraphing was going on between
the shipwrecked and the whaling fleet, another
party had taken an iron boat belonging to the
steamer and carried it bodily across to the lee side
of the island and there launched it to poll for the
fleet; on their way they fell in with the returning
whaling boats, who were obeying the signal to re
turn. The news of the wreck ot the steamer and
i the dreadful suffering of the passengers aroused
all the natural instiucts of sailor hospitality in the
crews ot the ships. Every boat was at once called
i into requisition, they were loaded down with pro
i visions and despatched to the scene of the wreck:
i the assistance did not arrive a moment too soon ;
the women and children were completely exhauat
- ed by abstinence, and their sufferings by the de
- privation of water was most acute. Purser Free
. born went on board the ship Omega, Capt. Fisher,
- where every attet tion was shown him and his
r companions. Capt. Fisher also sent directions that
u the sufferers should cross over to the lee side of
s the island, where boats would be in readiness to
s convey them on board the ships.
i Among the incidents of the day after the wreck,
il a child was bom on the beach, and is now healthy
I and thriving; the mother was earned across the
y mountains in a hammock, and even walked part
it of the way to the boats. Many of the passengers,
s especially among the females, suffered much from
want of clothing. The dead were boned near the
ia wreck. Holes were dug in the sand-with boards,
- and each corpse received a separate grave. The
t number kDown to have perished is one hundred
i and forty, and as the graves number sixty, there
were, of course, eighty .who were drowned or
burned, and whose Dodies wore not recovered.—
" ® have not yet completed our list of those who
were buried on the island, but notice among the
names those of Mrs. Mary Ann Carnes, of Eng-
Otis Hale, of Massachusetts; RufusMosier,
of Newport, N. Y.; Mr. Chancey, San Jose, Mi
chigan; John Baum, Newark. N. J.; Mrs. How
land and three children, of Michigan, (Mrs. H.
wason her waytojoin her hnsband;)Mr. Leh
man, of Missouri; Morris Kemp, Maria Wilson,
stewardess; Mr. Carrington ana wife, (two chil
dren, both saved;) Asa Kittredge, Wakcgan, 111.;
nm. Abram, Cornwall, England; a lame man,
name unknown, had a wife and child near Eliza
beth, 111,: Robert Taylor, Boston: Chas. A. Ward.
No. 364 Broome street, N. Y. All the a. ovc haa
money on their persons, which is in the keeping
of Mr. Brigham, at the office of the Vanderbilt
tine. The bodies of Mr. Tarr, of Sacramento, Mr.
Knox, of R. 1., and of Senor Larco, of Valparaiso,
were not recovered. The last named was a gentle
man of wealth and standing in Valparaiso.—
Finding himself driven into the waves by the
flames, he turned to a few who wore about him,
and offered $50,000 to any porson who would as
sist him to save his life; but in snch a moment
none could think of the offer. Seeing that his
end was near, Senor Larco said, “ Farewell! It
is only once 1” and plunged into the water. He
waa quickly drowned.
Tho body of Martin O’Mora. an Irishman, was
also lost. He had manyfrienas in New Orleans.
Dr. Shaw, who waa among the passengers, wont
back to Mexico by the way of La Paz and Mazat
lan; ho was carried by the under-tow of the
surf beyond the steamer, but eventually reached
the shore by incredible exertions. When he had
landed, he threw himself upon the beach and
wept like a child. After tho Independence swung
round broadside to tho beach, her coal took fire,
and tho sight will long be remembered by those
who saw it. The mass of coal became thoroughly
ignited, and soen through the blackened ribs of
the ship, it gave her the appearance of a gigantic
grate ol coal-fire.
LIST OF PASSENGERS SAVED.
B. P. Harvy, Wm. Emery, J. 8. Ellwell, J. Caldwell, Wm
Pierce and wife; J. W. Collett, M. Barber, P. Baxter and
wife; H. W. Pell, Wm. Bacon, A. Hemphill, D. Murphy J.
Murphy, Wm E Ellwell, 8 P Somers, J T Veastress, E Ell
well, Chas Pish, H B Batton, E R. Drake, D P Bishop J 8
Taylor, wife and child; J P Kenal, H Charles, T 8 Vaugh,
W G Stokes, E Light and wife; Laurence Nolan, G W
Howe, B. F. Cameron, C W Cook and wife; A P Rogers,
Mrs J B Farr, Horace Parr, (boy) Mrs Seymour, Miss A J
Weddell, 8 D Gillmore, E G. Cook, E Flemming, J Davis,
A Richardson, P Bchelley, P Murphy, M Purey, H Eular,
E K Manning, J C Willoughby, G P Davis, T G Rankin, J
A Trothen, K Coilins, J Schmidt, Wm. Scott, J B Arndt, A
P Lancaster, H H Douglass, J H Leadlry, II G Babcock,
John Croots, F M Grotrel', John Howland, A Lincoln, Louis
Day, H Gorton, T Arnaugh, Harper Molt, W P Lincoln,
James Cross, M. McDonald, E P Tinser and wife; H Tay
lor, M Davison, George Peshim, Frias Muffin and child; L
C Sutton, John Flemming, G W Spott, C D Bellows, Morris
Denham, L P Dexter, M Van Lann, H S Greenfleld.C P
Pattereon, J Guignon, David Hazleton, R Gittings, C Ken
dall, Obid Wood, wife and child; T E Miner, W S Babcock,
Mrs E Ingalls, Mrs Bloomfield, Mrs Bolle and two children;
Miss P Hauber, MrsJ Maher and child; C O Hall and
child; John Downard, J F Hollis, A M Dunham, Robert
fusrgle, Horace Simms, Mrs R Haley, Mrs Dickey, Mrs
ullivan, Mrs S P Ltman and child; Capt. Joseph Steele,
W B Hatch, Dr O R Cullen, 8 H Knowles, O C Hardy, W
Mosher, H C Richmond, II Smith, Jr., G W Lapier, John
Stine, Anthony Fisher,J P Fisher, C Gilmore, J Hyer, J II
Little, J Packer, R Straus, Robt P Stockdale, J Weav
er, Th Robinson, A Bettis, A Soward, 8 Robbins, N Bacon,
John Carrington (five years) Mrs Schofield, Isaac Wash
ington, Edward W Buffum, L L Grey, S L Porter, Joel
Aobot, E H Newell, P M Whittmore, J 0 Parmanter, Cyrus
Thayer, L Cook, W Cory, Chas Fisher, J C Pelt, L P Pelt,
Walter Chase, J D Nelson, J T Halstead, Joel Halstead, A
W Turner, A D Turner, Jacob Brewer, W H Searies, S
Davidson, Wm Bell, A C Bowers, L C Stevenson, G Morris, i
Jno Blanchard, F Gillmore, Win Harris, S Larimer, J J
Murphy, Isaac Pleasants, Ira Smith, David Findley, Jas
Glass, B Glass, B Ruinvoght, J M Cole, Joseph Gorton,
Walter Holmes, E Brown and child, Dr J B Shaw, Joseph
James, C W Toler, R. R. Dickey, W S Borden, W Whiting, |
Joseph Green, John Brown, W Borden, Isaac Richardson,
D Owens, J 8 Walton and wife, Misses E J and Elsie Wil
son, Alfred Howard, Reuben Willis, C W Howard, James
Saundeas, J Uixon, L. P Fuller, L B Cross, II Brace, Wm
Andean and wife, Lorenzo Sweep, Thomas Burges, Wm
Finch,A Weatherington, Peter Carter, JO Hale, AF
Gillmore, Wm Lebalister, Peter Cox, 8 8 Paul, A Parker, D
W.Byars, U garnhart, J A Nichols, Preston Siinms, Wiley
More, J W Greanbank, Jesse Cody, Wm Tuttle, 8 Burtis,
L Donnelly, Wm Orr.
LIST OF PASSENGERS LOST.
W Argali, Wis; Mrs Ayres and child, Ga; W Abraham,
Eng; W Adler, Tenn; J Abraham, E Abraham, Ohio; A
A Carringtonand wife, A k; J. Allen, Texas; Chauncey,
St Jose; C J Coots, boy, St Louis; E Collins, Mr and Mrs
A Come and child, Eng; J Morris, Albany ; A Carmichael,
Ohio; Miss J Banecum, St Louis; W Brown, Mass; J Baum,
NJ; W Bateman, Ohio ; M M Berwin, G Berwin, M Ber
win, Tenn ; P Baker, F Baker, Mass ; Brewington, St
Louis; S Barnurn, Ohio; W Bignell, Mich ; J G Hatch,
Texas ;J T Jeffries, Ohio; Mrs Hall and child, III; Mary
and Maria Ingolls, Oregon ; Johnson, Boston ; T Jones, N
Y; R A Knox RI; J C Kolp, Cin ; M Kemp; A Kittridge,
III; J Kelley, N O; J M Larco, Valparaiso ; S P L man
and 2 children, Miss; J P Luce, Ct; M Lacke , Ga; E
Light, J Light, W Doyle, NY; G W Boswell, III; Mrs B
Brown, lowa ; RDavy, Eng; H Ford, A Bignell, Mich ; M
Frost, Germany ; E Block, Albany ; B Whiteman, NO; P
Francis,Eng; E Garrett, Ohio; Griner and wife, Cin; C
Grannis, 111; Hartman. NY; O Hale, Mass; Mrs How
land and 3 boys, Wis; W Leonard, It Mosher, NY; E C
Marvin, Pa; J Waterman, Mich; J Myers, T O’Neal, N Y;
M Murphy, Boston; Mrs Muffin, T Oberlee, 8 Pendea, N
Y; W H McCandless, Ohio; W S Moulton, Mass; HO
Zin.lnd; TM Wilson, Pa; Ventroff, III; D Nichols, Ga;
W Newell, E Willis, III; W Peid, La; A Penny; J Rearson,
N H; Mrs T Robinson and 3 children, St Louis ; II J Ro
berts, Wis; A Reynolds, NJ ; J Sparhawk, Nil; A Scott,
Ohio; W A Schofield, Pa; J Schmidt, Ma; J Stevens, Wis;
S Taylor, N H; J B Tarr, Mo; 0 Teats, Cin; It Taylor,
Boston; C O Taylor, child, Mo; J St Louis; B
Ward, Mich; A Watson, boy, St Louis; B M Weddell,
Ind; 0 A Ward, N Y; J Williams, Ohio; Ann Welch,
Boston.
LIST OF CREW SAVED.
F A Sampson, master ; J Freeborn, purser; Jas Merrell*
Ist officer; Mr Bean, 2d ; J B Torbert, surgeon; Jason
Collins, engineer; John Boston, lstassis’t; Chas Stanley,
2d do; Robt Clohecy, 3d do ; J Jackson, L DeMott, Wm
Orr, Jaß Banks, P Jones, firemen ; F ByrneT C O Gale, Geo
Merrill, Jas Cormick, Thos Sawyer, coal-passers; Thoß W
Herron, steward; J P Shemdan, 2d do; John Weir, baker;
J Robinson, butcher; Geo W Smith, porter; H Sandford,
2d do; John Lane, mess room steward; John Keenan, st’g
stevd; J Campbell, waiter; A Imbuston, 2d cook aft galley;
Thos Berry, Ist forward galley ; F Daniels, J Inahman, J
Ly ons, J Frank, Constantine Augusto, E H Pray, David
Mcßean, seamen ; F Latgster, water tender ; A Lebeau, J
Grillis, Peter Reilley, J McGrath, John Murphy, Jas Ward,
Henry Morgan, waiters; E Harris, firemen mess boy.
LIST OF THE CREW LOST.
Martin O’Hare, storekeeper; Maria Wilson, stewardess;
Charles Anthony, first cook, after galley; Charles ,8d
do. after galley; John Gleen, 2d cook, forward galley; J.
Tulley, assistant butcher; C. Sewell, fireman; Feter Lein,
coal passer; William Smith, John , seamen; Wm.
Brook, pantryman ; Thomas Jones, 2d do; William Leon
ard, J. McNelly, Edward Kelly, waiters.
The general news from California by this arrival £
is interesting. i
Mining operations were in the highest degree (
prosperous. The Alta California of tho Ist inst. j
Bays:
Nearly all the principal placers, old and now, ,
have been yielding handsomely through the paßt |
mmth, while the low prices of provisions and f
tho increased facilities for transportation have (
turned the advantages and profits to tho miner. ,
A month ago the merchant and the trader reaped (
the larger proportion of tho Iruits of the mining ,
labor, by the enormous prices paid for provisions t
and other necessaries of life. Tho proceeds of i
hard labor in the placers wore in many instances ,
more than counterbalanced by tho coßt of living, i
and nothing left at the end of a month to the (
credit of the miner. A different state of things ,
exists at present. ,
Tho State Legislature was expeoted to adjourn i
on tho 15th inst. i
A terrible stesmbost explosion oocurrod on the j
28d of March, on the Sacramento river, by which
several persons lost their lives. The stoamor, a i
small ono, named the N. K. Pa?e, was on her trip i
from Marysville to Sacramento. It is stated that t
sho was racing at tho tims. Tho persons killed i
wore Lieut'. H. Moore, Capt. Moore, Thomas Kirby ,
and Gilman Follows. j
Lieut. Edward Russell, of the 4th Infantry, was ]
killed by tho Indians on the 25th of March, near ,
the head waters of Tom’s creek, near Colusa. He ]
was ordered by Col. Wright to that portion of the ,
country for tho purpose of protecting the ranch
men and others from tho torments ot the Indians, i
and was murdered while on that duty. ]
The City of Maryville had been again inundated
by a rise of the waters of the Yuba and Feather i
Rivers. The city was navigable tor small boats in t
almost every quarter. The loss, however, it is j
said, will not be heavy, as merchants were pre t
pared for the overflow. The farmers and gardners
would suffer to s considerable extent. ,
Tho steamship California which sailed from i
San Francisco on the Ist inst., for Panama, had ,
$2,234,808 in gold on freight. Intelligence had |
just been received from the northern part of the
State of a painful character. The Indians in the
neighborhood ofShasta, Colusa, and Trinity had ,
again become troublesome, committing the most (
savage depredations wherever an opportunity of- ,
sered. *
The announcement of the establishment of a
a weekly mail between San Francisco and the At
lantic was received at San Francisco with much j
satisfaction. * ,
Wo tuko the following paragraphs from the (
Alta California’s summary, of the fortnight’s
news: ,
The town of Weaverville recently destroyed by i
fire is fast rising from its ashes. j
A rain storm commenced oh the 28th, and con- i
tinued almost without intermission till the 80th
ult. The weather is again clear, and will probably 1
ramain so during the season.
The bill authorizing the extension of tho city
front 600 feet, will doubtless pass the Legislature
in opposition to public opinion and the remon- (
strances of property holders. The fraud is per- 1
haps one of the boldest and most infamous ever 1
perpetrated upon a community.
The Collector ot the port, with the aid of the Su- (
perrateudent of Light Houses, has been locating
the lights authorized by Congress, for this harbor,
and two or three of the principal ones are in rapid
course of construction.
The Foreign Miners’ Tax bill for the levying
and collecting of taxes upoh foreigners working
the mines ot this State passed the Legislature on
the 19th ult.
The inhabitants on the frontier of Sonora are
abont emigrating to the arable lands on the banks
of the Gila, near its junction with the Colorado.
Accounts from Lower California represent that
State, like all the rest of the Mexican confede
racy, as in a state of hopeless anarchy and confu
sion. .
A spurious coin, about the size of a frank piece,
has been imported in large qbantities from Ger
many, and circulated freely through the Slate for
the value of twenty-five ceDts. Chinese and other
foreigners not acquainted with the value of coins,
are the greatest sufferers.
Tho clipper ship Tingqua sailed on tho 80th ult.
for Whampoa, with upward of 200 Chinese return
ing to their homes.
Three men, named George Stewart, Thompson,
and Barney Ackerman, noted thieves, were sen
tenced to be hung at Sacramento on the 29th inst.,
for the murder of a man named John Carroll, one
of their own gang. *
Five Frenchmen, encamped near Mariposa,
were attacked by some Mexicans a few days
since, and the whole party was mnrdered and
robbed.
The steamer Tennessee, on the beach outside, is
entirely abandoned, and is going to pieces.
From Oregon. —We have newß from Oregon to
the 19th of March.
The question of establishing a State Government
was mooted. The small pox was still raging among
the Indians down the coast. The Democratic
Convention to nominate a candidate for Delegate
to Congress was to meet at Salem on the second
Monday in this month. There had been much
rain, but at last accounts the weather was fine.—
The miners in Southern Oregon were doing well.
The farmers were busily engaged in preparing the
ground for seed.
From Paget’s Sound we learn that the weather
was delightful. Large crops of wheat, oats, and
vegetables, it is'said, will be harvested in Northern
Oregon during tne approaching summer.
The Hudson Bay Company’s brig Vancouver
bad sailed from Victoria for th'e Sandwich Islands
with a cargo of Balmon.
From Panama. —We have Panama papers to the
15th inst.
H. B. M. ship Dtedalus, 20 gnns, anchored in
Panama Bay on the 12th inst. She was from Ma
zatlan, San Bias and Acapulco, and had on board
$700,000 in Bpecie, for England. Her purser was
assassinated at San Bias. On the 14th she up
anchor and sailed for Valparaiso.
Scnor Jose Gregorio Paz Soldan, tho newly-ap
pointed Minister from Porn to Bogota, was lately
, robbed whilst crossing the Isthmus, on route for
J .sL -k; Mks LkiMfci At.;
VOL. LXVI.—NEW SERIES VOL. XVII.---NO. 18.
Bogeta. The robbery appears to have been pre
concerted. The total amount stolen is valued at
$18,500, iacluding some valuable jewels and about
$4,000 in money.
From the Sandwich Islands. —The San Francis
co papers have aooounts from Honolulu to the 26th
of February.
Several Mormons has arrived from San Fran
cisco.
Much excitement was raised in Honolulu against
the captain and consignees ot the oiipper ship
Sovereign of the Sobs, for having aided or eu
cou raged the desertion of a number ot men from
whale ships in the harbor.
A HYMN TO THE NIGHT.
Oh night! moat beautiful I mot t rare I
Thou giv’at the heaven* their holiest hue;
And through the axure field* of air
Bring’st down the gentle dew!
Most glorious occupant of heaven,
And fairest of the earth and sea I
The wonders of the sky are given,
Imperial Night, to thee!
For thou, with breathless lips apart,
Did ’at stand in that dim age afar,
And hold upon thy trembling heart
Messiah’* herald star.
In Olivet, thou heard’st Him pray,
And wept thy dews Inioßer light,
And kissed his sacred tears away 1
Thrice blessed, loving Night I
And thou did’st overweigh with sleep
The watchers at the sepulchre,
And heard’st the asking Mary weep,
Till Jesus answered her.
For thia I loved thy hallowed reign I
For more than this, thrice blest thou art I
.Thou gain’st the unbeliever’s brain
By entering at his heart I
Oh Night! most regal! moat divine!
Thou lift’st the spirit from the dust I
God’s best and brightest gifts are thine,
AUthine, and it is Just!
From the Savmnah Georgian, 26 th intt.
Presentation of Colors to the Auguata.
Yesterday, at 12 o’clook, M., the decks of the
new steamship Augusta presented a most gratify
ing spectacle to a largo assemblage of our citizens.
It was the occasion of the presentation of a full
suit of colors to that noble steamer from the cor
porate authorities of tho city ot Augusta, through
u deputation composed of His Honor Wm. E Hear
ing, Mayor, and Aldermen S. M Thompson and
John Foster, of that oity. At the hour appointed,
u salute from the decks of the steamer announced
the arrival of the deputation, who were oordially
greeted by Capt. Lyon, and other representatives
of the Steamship Company, Mayor Wayne, and
many distinguished citizens of Savannah, among
whom were several members _£>f the City Council.
Dr. Dcaring, in behalf of our sistor oity, Augusta,
took the colors in hand, and addressing himself to
the officers of the ship, who woreimmediately rep
resented by the Hon. K. R. Cuyler proceeded as
follows:
"Officers qfthe Steamship Augusta :
“The City Counoil of Augusta, entertaining a
high appreciation ot the compliment paid their
city in having so noble a structure as this to bear
her name, have deputed me as her representative
to present to you this suit of Colors, as a token of
that appreciation, and of the value she seta on the
honor conferred u on hor.
“ Being fully conscious of my inability to
do justice, either to giver or rceoiver, I havo
accepted this mission only from a sincere de
sire to do all in my power to promote and cul
tivate tho social and commercial intercourse be
tween the two cities, to see this monument to
Savannah enterprise, and to make tho personal ac
?uaintance to thoso who havo so honored our oity.
n undertaking the pleasing duty, I have only to
regret my inability to do justice to the occasion, 1
and that the gift is not more worthy your accep- 1
tanoo. Tako them—may they long wave over
your ship; aud may every breezo that unfurls
them waft you on to your portandto sucooss. May
l ho Auguata I now stand on be as prosperous as the
Augusta I represent. May eacli successive voyage 1
bo but a triumph over tho preceding one. May I
your cabin bo always full, and your freight list |
equal to the capacity of your noblo vessel: and
let me assuro you that you will always carry with 1
you on each and every voyago, tho kindest wishes
of tho people of Augusta. Take them—would
they were more worthy of your acceptance.”
Tho speaker was soveral times interrupted by !
the hcariy applause of those presont. After the
close of his remarks, Mr. Cuyler stopped forward,
and, in a manner peculiar to himself, made the
following reply in behalf of those whom he repre
sented :
"■Mr. Mayor, and Gentlemen
of the Oily Council of Augusta :
“The pleasant duty is devolved on me to ren
der in behalf of the New York and Savannah
Steam Navigation Company and the Commander
of thiß ship a hearty acknowledgment of the
handsome present whioh yon have just made.—
Although theso colors are not destined to wave in
battle, und wc Bro not called on therefore to give
you assurance of onr determination and courage
to defend them, yet we can, and do promise you
that whilst they iloat over the peaceful pursuits of
commerce and of social intercourse, they shall
never be tarnished by any want of good seaman
ship, fidelity, or urbanity. I tender to you the
sincere thanks of the Directors of the Company
und the Captainof the ship, notonly for the pre
sent made, but the kind and acceptable remarks
which you have been pleased to make.
It may not bo amiss on this occasion, briefly to
advert to the relative position, in days past, and
now of the cities Savannah and Augusta. Forty
years ago this city enjoyed, almoßt exclusively,
tho trade and business of the interior of Georgia.—
By tho application of Btcam to the navigation of
this fine river, that trado and business wore, for
tho greater part, transferred to Augusta, the head
of navigation. Your rapid prosperity and our
comparative decadence wero the natural conse
sequence. Our peoplo could not feel jealous, or en
vious of you, but it was natural for them, in the cir
cumstances which surrounded them, to make vigo
rous efforts for the return to them of days of pros
perity, even if their succoss should take somewhat
from your city. Hence the Central Bailroad lead
ing to Macon. So soon, however, as that work
was accomplished, Savannah turned to Augusta,
Beeking a close connection, commercially and so
cially with her people. In 1885, your city was
swift to see the advantages of her locality, and
your sagacity, as u community, has been evinced
by the great work which you havo accomplished.
We saw you being woed and won by Charleston,
and as you were “bone of our bone,” we felt anx
ious to bind you to Savannah—jealous it may be,
of our sister Atlantic City, but yet, I trust, not to
be condemned on that account.
“My fellow citizens, here present, will bear me
witness that our efforts, and our aims, have been
tor that intimate connection with Augusta, which
should mark the two principal oities of the State—
one at the head, the ether at the seaward outlet of
navigation, as twin sisters of Commerce. At this day
circumstances are greatly changed. You have your
railroad crossing of the State and your connection,
through the mountain ohains with the West, reap
ing therefrom, most justly, rich reward for your
enterprise and keen foresight. We too have con
nections of like character. No longer is there, or
can there be the least diversity of interest between
us—no circumstance or state of things is likely to
create the slightest jostle. I oougratulateyou Sir,
and the people of Savannah here assembled, on
this auspicious condition of affairs. Your position
is eminent and commanding : you are at the point
where the great vehicles of intelligence—tho mails
and newspapers from the '.-rest city of the North—
are first to enter our domain. We are to receive
that intelligence through you. We are not
far from the realization of our bright hopes of
communion and fellowship with you. Wo anx
iously desire to do for you all that business which
requires rapid and safo communication with the
sea, inward and outward, and we shall leave
nothing undone to bind ourselves more closely to
you.
“Accept then Sir, and Gentlemen, the assurance
that we reciprocate the kindly feeling which it
has been onr pleasure to hear expressed by you.—
With the iron link soon to bo completed, wo feel
that your prosperity will be our prosperity, and
that the remotest parts of Georgia will be bound
in patriotic as well as profitable bonds with this
sea-port.”
During the delivery, and at the close of Mr. Cuy
ler’s remarks, tho most pleasurable emotions and
hearty concurrence in the sentiments uttered,
wore visible in the countenances of tho large num
ber present, and whioh were audily tested by fre
quent- and emphatio applause. All seemed to tool
a just pride in the evidences of prosperity around
them, regarding in tho felicitous language of Mr.
Coyler, our sistor city and her well directed en
terprise, “as bone of our bone,” as also the en
terprise and prosperity ot the Steamship Compa
ny, and the Augusta and her officers especially. —
After the addresses the Colors were delivered into
the hands of Captain Lyon, and immediately run
up to their respective positions, under a salute
from the gun on the forward deck.
As we left the decks the crowd wore filing into
the saloons to test tho quality of such things as
might be set before them, many of whom doubt
less partook as they thought becoming the occa
sion, asking no questions for concience sake.
Thus has terminated an occasion mutually pleas
ing and creditable to all parties concerned.
Election! for 1853.
The following table give* the day* on which the
State Elections for the present year are held
throughout the Union:
STATES. TIME.
California lstTuesdayin January.
New Hampshire. ...2d Tuesday in March.
Connecticut Ist Monday in April.
Rhode Island Ist Wednesday in April.
Virginia 4th Thursday in May.
Alabama Ist Monday in August.
Arkansas Ist Monday in August.
Indiana Ist Monday in August.
lowa Ist Monday in August.
Kentucky Ist Monday in August.
Missouri Ist Monday in August.
Texas Ist Monday in August.
Tennessee Ist Thursday in August.
North Carolina 2d Thursday in August.
Vermont Ist Tuesday in September.
Maine Ist Monday in September.
Florida Ist Monday in October.
Georgia Ist Monday in October.
South Carolina 2d Monday in October.
Ohio 2d Tuesday in October.
Pennsylvania 2d Tuesday in October.
Mississippi Ist Mond. * Tuesday in Nov.
New-Jersey Ist Tuesday in November.
New-York Ist Tuesday in November.
Wisconsin Ist Tuesday in November.
Michigan Ist Tuesday in November.
Louisiana Ist Monday in November.
Maryland Ist Wednesday in November.
Massachusetts 2d Monday in November.
Delaware 2d Tuesday in November.
Fortune Favors the Brave.—There is much
truth in the following lines. They should lend
fresh spirits and energy to the most unfortunate
and despairing.
Has fortune frowned, my honest friend f
Don’t hang your head so low;
This is no time to falter now !
Up! strike another blow!
Don’t sit and groan, and grunt, and tell
What you have tried to do;
But place your shoulder to the wheel,
Strain nerve, and put her through 1
The Efeeots of Our Kail and Plank Roadb.—
We some time ago briefly noted some of the effects
of our projected Rail and Plank Roads upon the
prices of real estate in their vicinity. We are now
able to state that the improvement then noted is not
confined to a few isolated cases, but that it is gen
eral. Within the past week an assessment of the
real estate within the corporate limits ot the town
has been made for the purpose of taxation, and we
understand it has been rated full 25 per centabove
the last assessment. Indeed, much property shout
town, which could scarcely have been sold at any
price a few years ago, now find ready purchasers
at good prices. Out of the corporato limits of the
town, the improvement is not less marked. Every
acre of land in the neighborhood has been en
hanced in value, to a greater or less extent, by our
Rail and Plank Roads. Norarethe effeotsof these
confined to real estate Every other speoies of
property have felt the impulse. Now, if such are
the effects of these improvements, by anticipation,
who can predict their results when we reap the
fall harvest oftheir fruition.— CUteraw OaieUe,
A MAIDEN'S SOLILOQUY.
[A Malden alone—Milton In her hand. She opens At the
, passage “Hail wedded love! mysterious law,” etc. »n«
thus aoltloquisies:]
It must be so! Milton, thou reasonest well;
Else whence this pleading hope, this vain desire,
This longing after matrimony !
Or whence this secret dread, this Inward horror
Os dying unespouacd! Why shrinks the heart
Baok on itself, and startles at celibacy V
Tis reason, faithfol reason, that stirs within us;
Tis Nature's self that points out an alliance,
And intimates a husband tc the sex.
Marriage! thou pleating, and yet anxious thought!
Through what new, various changes must we pass!
The married state in prospect lies before me,
But shadows, clouds and darkness rest upon it.
Here will I hold. If nature prompts the wish,
And that she does is plain, from all her work,
Our duty, interest, pleasure, bids indulge It,
For the great end of Nature’s law is bliss.
But yet—in wedlock woman must obey—
I’m weary of these doubts; the priest shall end 'em.
Nor do I rashly venture loss and gain;
Pleasure and bondage meet my thoughts at once.
I wed—my liberty is gone forever,
But happiness itself from this secured 1
Love first shall recompense my loss,
And when my charms shall have faded,
Mine eyes grow dim, and stature bends with years,
Thou, virtuous friendship, shall succeed to love;
Thus pleased, I'll scorn infirmity And death,
Rene-red successively in another race.
From the Louiiytlle Journal.
THE 80NG WITHIN.
BY JOHN K. HOLMIS.
There is a music in the heart,
A lonely, deep refrain, •
That oft o’er memory’s chords will start
LikeMemnon’s melting strain—
The noon day carol of a bird,
The smile we cannot win,
A leaf by morning’s sephyr stirred
May touoh the heart within.
At times the past appears all bright,
The future grows Bereno;
Within the soul gay thoughts unite
To charm the present scene.
Tis then that care forgets to fly
Where we in pleasure stray;
Tis then some angel from the sky
Would point to us the wAy.
The light would want its secret spell
If we no shade could find;
Nor should we love the spring so well
If winter’s face were kind!
So if the soul has never known
What care and grief impart
It cannot tell how rapture's tone
Steals o’er the longing heart.
Plttoburg, Pa., 1888. *
Cask of Rev. Dr. Kino at Athens.— The New
York Journal of Commerce says—
Wo understand that the following is the position
of Dr. King’s caso The Ron. W. Maisb, our
Ambassador at Constantinople, was sent last sum
mer to Athens, as our readers know, to examiuo
the whole affair—both as to the piece of laud
which the Greok Government had takou from Dr.
King without indemnification, and his imprison
ment on account of his missionary lubors. After
having examined the ease, Mr. Marali transmitted
hie report to Mr. Webster, late Secretary of State.
It consisted of 200 foolscap pages, and arrived just
before Mr. Webster was taken ill witli what
proved to be his last sicknoss. Os oonrso Mr. W.
could not give his attention to the matter. As
soon as practicable after ontoring upon liis ofllco,
Mr. Everott took up Mr. Marsh’s report, and gave
it a thorough investigation. liis decision has boon
transmitted to Mr. Marsh, who had wnitod for it,
sponding his time in tho North of Italy, at tho
baths, and in Austria, for tho health of Ills wife.
Mr. Marah lias been directed to go buck in the
fVigato Cumberland to Athens, und there arrange
the difficulty according to hia instructions. W hat
those instructions aro, we cannot, of course, say;
but it is believed that they are such us will bring
about tho adjustment of tho difficulty, in away
that will aeoure to Dr. King his right, and protect
him in the same in the future.
Flohida—St. Augustine—-The Conohmen.—Flo
rida has a whito population of Icbs than 60,000,
sraallor than any other of tho thirty-0110 States,
yet St. Augustine is the oldest town in the United
States, having been founded in 1564, and the
“City" of Key West is tho most populous town in
the State, ana is the southernmost settlement in
the United States. Tho “city” contains about
8,000 inhabitants, of which 800 arc slaves—well
cared for, choorful und happy —1700 arc Conolis,
and tho remaining thousand may be designated as
the “ rest of mankind.” A oorrospondent ol the
Louisville Courier gives tho following description
of the “ Conohmen
“Tho Conohs, or a largo portion of the inhabi
tants, are peculiar specimens of human kind—they
immigrated to this Key from the Bahama Islands,
some 260 milos cast of this upon tho other sido of
tho Gulf stream. When first, or wheroforo they
were called Concha, authentic history has not in
formed us; we know, however, that they are the
descendants of English emigrants and tho Koyul
ists of Georgia and Carolina, who settled up
on and fled from tho Bandy and barren Baha
mas. Living tlioro in comparative indolence, and
disregarding tho laws of Nature and ot Naturo,a
God, by marrying and intermarrying withiu tho
prohibited degrees of consanguinity, tlioy have
become a distinct class or race, whom tho Almighty
has, apparently, marked with degeneracy. Among
their children—and they are legion—you can only
occasionally rocogiiiztwan expression or a feature of
the ‘ human face divino.’ They are proverbially
peaceful, honest, temperate and religious, but have
none of the pugnacious energv, scheming j roolivi
ty nnd perpetual mobility ot’ tho Yankee genius.
Their ohiefbußincss is fishing, sponging, tnrtling
and wrecking—and generally on their own account
and not ns the ‘hireling’ of othorß. The lubor
which a Northern or Westorn man porforms at a
dollar a day, and one hundred and fifty dollars a
J’ear, tho Conch regards ns servilo, and throe dot- >
urs a day would not hire him to perform tho sumo *
labor.”
Tunnels.— On tho line of tho Hempfleld road,
seventy-six miles long, leading from Greenburgh,
Pa., on the great Pennsylvania road to Wheeling,
there are in process ot construction seven tunnels,
the lengths of whioh are respectively 2600, 1500,
1200, three of 200 and one of 800 feet.
In Europe, tunnels of two and throe milos in
length are not unoommon. The Nertho tunnel, at
Marseilles, Franoe, is near three miles long. The
coatto the company for excavating tho tunnol was
*705,060. I
The Thames and Modway tunnol botween Grave
send and Chatham, England, is miles long. It
was commenced in 1819 and finished in 1824. The
Box tunnel on tho Great Westorn railroad is one
of very large dimbnsions, being 89 feet high by
82 wide, and 4576 foet long. There are many
more extensive works of a similar character, both
in England and Continental Europe; and in tho
extensive mines of Cornwall, Wales, there are
adits and tunnels nearly thirty miles in length.
There are also nearly thirty miles of tunnoling
connected with tho Duke of Bridgewater's canal.
Tub Schoolmaster Abroad. —The following
from one of our exchanges (we regret wo know
not which,) is so good as to deserve a nicho in the
temple of the ftiture. We, therefore, rescue it from
oblivion by giving it a place in our oolumns:
Got -me there.— An examination committee,
about to test the capacities of an individual for
school teaching, put the following questions to
him:
“ At what time did France produce her greatest
general 1”
“At what period?” pausing and scratching his
head—“ at wliat—ah I you’ve got mo there 1”
“ Well was it before or after Christ ?”
“ 80-foro or as tor Christ. Before or after.
Well, old hosses, you have got me again\ ”
Scientific Prophecy. —An exchange panor states
that about 18 years ago, a Mr. Bait, of W ilton, in
Fairfield County, Conn., then a remarkably good
student in his collegiate course, was suddenly de
prived of his memory and reason. Under these
ciroumstancos, his fattier, the Rev. Mr. Bait, sent
him to Hartford, but finding no relief, he sent hitr.
to Dr. Chaplin, of Cambridge, Mass. The Doctor
said there was no present relief for him, but at the
ago of 88 or 87 there would boa ohungo; that the
brain was too much expanded for the cranium, and
there would bo at that age a contraction, which
would enable it to act healthily. His anxious
father and friends saw their hopes peremptorily
deferred for 18 years. That timo has recently ex-
Sired, and to their great joy the prophecy is ful
lled. The man began to inquire for his books as
if ho had just laid them down, and resumed his
mathematical studies where he loft thorn. There
was no trace in his mind of this long blank in his
life, or anything which had occurred in it, and ho
did not know that he was almost 40 years of age.
Another Railroad Tricsiph.— lt cannot now be
said that our people are not alive to the importance
and necessity of railroads. We did, it Is true,
sleep a long time, and our rivals got ahead of us
while we were slumbering: but when we awoke,
we went to work with a will that has never been
equalled, much less surpassed. New Orleans at
once voted a tax of three and a half millions of
dollars; the parishes have, and will vole, lurge
sums; individual subscriptions have been liberal;
and the State has subscribed three million and six
hundred thousand dollars. All this has been
done in leas than a year 1 And in one year more
wo shall have at least three hundred miles of rail
road in running order.
But to our text—the triumph of railroads. An
election was held in Caddo parish on the 16th inst.,
on the question of subscribing or non-subscribing,
on the part of the parish, the sum of one hundred
thousand dollars to aid in the construction of the
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Kailroad. The
railroad carried the day by a majority of fifty-seven
votes.—JV. O. Bulletin.
The Steamer Augusta. —Capt. Lyon entertain
ed yesterday afternoon, on board his excellent
Bteamahip, the Augusta, his Excellency Gov. Oobb,
the Hon. Wm. E. Hearing, Mayor, and Aldermen
Foster and Thompson, of Augusta, with a small
number of invited guests from thiß city and other
parts of the State. It is unnecessary to go into do
tail, or indeed, to say more than that the dinner
was a very pleasant one, got up in Chick’s best
style, ana highly enjoyed by all present. Soverul
appropriate sentiments were given and many good
speeches made. Among those who were called
up was Gov. Cobb, Mayor Dearing, Professor
Bache, Judge Jackson, of this city, Judge J ackson,
of Walton, Mr.Cuyler, Mr. Bartow, Mr. Marshall,
of Mississippi, Mr. Thompson, of Augusta, I.ieuts.
Gilmer and Ord, Mr. Locke, M*. Ward, Mr. Wad
ley, Mr. Lawton, Mr. Fay, Mr. Green, and others
whose names have escaped us. Altogether the oc
casion was a very pleasant one, and passed off to
the great satisfaction of those present.— Sat. Hep.,
Tuetday.
A Second William Tell. —About a month ago,
as we learn from the Courrier des Etats Unis, a
case was brought before the Correctional Police of
Spires, acity of Baden which is certainly without
a . parallel in the annals of Justice. A weaver of
Spire, who had been much extolled as a marks
man, undertook by a desperate experiment, to es
tablish his reputation beyond dispute. To this
end, he loaded his pistol and repaired to his garden
accompanied by his son, a lad about 12 years old.
He ordered the child to stand at fifteen pacos from
him with a potato upon his head. The boy obey
ed, without making any resistance, and the father
preserving the utmost coolness, fired his pistol
and dislodged the potato, the ball pteroing it
through the very centre.
The veaver’s neighbors to whom the fact was
related, refused to believe it, aud would only be
convinced by a repetition of the fool-liar.'y exploit.
It was now night; but the intrepid marksman in
sisted upon an immediate repetition. Instead ot
the potato, he placed upon his boy s head alighted,
lantern, at which he discharged his pistol with
the same success as before. The fume ot this ex
traordinary exploit coming to the ears of the
police they deemed it their duty to arrest the
the seiond William Tell, and put a cheok to his
wild ambition by the agency of the law. The jus
tice before whom thecuse wus brought, not sym
pathizing with thoadmiration which the affair had
exoited among the weuver’s neighbors, and having
ascertained by a careful investigation of the cir -
oumstaiieos that the seoond time the pistol ball
had slightly grazed the boy’B oap, condemned the
marksman to eight days imprisomeut.— li.xtore
Tr atelier.
A ball recently given by the Legislative Corps of
France to Louia Napoleon and his wife, which ooslj
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