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The extreme length of Mr. Choate's splendid
•nlogyon Webster he* very generally precluded
it* Insertion entire in the column’# ol the publio
prow*. The subjoined extract on Mr. Webster’#
public character and lile will be read with in
terest:
To his true fame, to the kind and de*ree of in
fluence which that large sense of freet actions,
and those embodied thought* of greet intellect
*ro to emit on the future—th>® *•
t»nt consideration. In the last speech which he
made in the Senate—the laid of those which he
msd* ss be said for the Constitution and the
Onion, and which he might have commended, as
Bacon, his name and memory, “to men a oheri
table speeches, to foreign nations, sod the next
M e»," yet with e baiter hope he asserted—“ Tbs
end« I aim at shall be those of ray country, my
God, and troth." I* that praise his !
Until the 7th day of March, 1860, I think it
would hare been accorded to him by a universal
acclaim, a* general, and as expressive of profound
and intelligent conviction, and ol eulhuaiaam,
love, and truat, as ever saluted conspicuous
Statesmanship, tried by many crisis of affair# in a
(r-nit Lation, agitated ever by parties, and wholly
he had admitted a desire to win, by de
aerving them, the highest forma of publio honor,
many would have said, and they who loved him
most fondly, and felt the truest solicilndt that he
should carry a good oonacienoe and pnra fama
brightningto the end, would not have feared to
concede. For he was not ignorant of himself,
and ho therefore knew that there was nothing
Within the Union. Uonstitation and law, too high,
or too large, or ICO d fficalt for him. He believed
that his natural or In- acquired abilities, and his
no'icv of administration, wonld contribute to the
true gli'ry of America, and he held no theory of
ethics which required him to dianenge, to
to ignore I’ast capacities of public service
Q b!5Z* they were hi. own. If the fleets
of Greece were assembling, and her tribw book
ling on their arm# from Laconia to Mount Trace,
from Gape of Bnuium to the westernmost Isle, and
the great epic action was opening, it was not for
him to feign in.-anity or idiocy, to eao.pe the pe
rils and tba honor of command. But that all
this in him had boon ever in subordination to a
principled and beautiful public virtue; that evory
sectional bias, every party tie, ** well as personal
aspiring, had been uniformly held by him for no
thing against the claims of country ; that nothing
lower than country seemed worthy enough
nothing smaller, Urge enough—for that great
heart would not have been questioned by a whin
ner. Ah! if at any honr before that day bo had
died, how would then the great procession of the
people of America-the great triumphal proces
sion of the dead—have moved onward to bn
“rava-tU * .hi’ n* «•*
trestsd, .not outraged by otto void* 0.
osJ oiny . ■ _
l» i -u« «•-art eut’ic lit«, smtnkviog lro>x
,' l : *.. -a psnoa ofthirty-eigh'.years—lflnd
am *pr .iti t* -he genuine"**# and eompre
v Mv- • • ’f bis patnoti«w, and the boldness
■,sUs Ue^MMjJlJkl".
SproLssK -Al ooinpardons ; such, Vib »ueh by
r.r v < rv onep-iae or caftaln rriponduranco, the
iyr. owi /ir which he war- bred and was to live.
Ifu.iur that nan e of party be entered Congress,
persr.iis'ly, and by ooune tier op, 'sed to d.s
war, i. M f ‘h -vas though’ ■- bear ...lb <*uoh
trains sectional severity upon the North and East.
And yet, one might almost say that the only thing
he imbibed from federalist or federalism, was love
and admiration for the constitution sa the means
of union. Thut passion ho did from them inherit
—that bo cherished.
lie otune into Congress, opposed, as I have said,
tolhe war—and behold him, if you would judge
of the qu lily Os hi" political ethics, in opposition.
Did those eloquent lips, at a time of life when vo
faemenceaud imprudence are expected, if ever,
and not iingruooful, let f« I even one word of lac
, ton f Did he ever deny one power to the general
~,,,•eminent which the soundest expositors of all
have allowed it? Did he ever breathe a
„p„i. which oould excite a region, a State, a
syllable s, #t6ll against the Union—which oould
y °!nr aid to the enemy—wbioh sought
* .. .. ,Ti. "> cheek the tide of a new and
to turn or • -n burst'll g up, to flow and
intense nationality, the. . . 8 i„-u to ,i 0
burn till all things appoint*?", t ,, eir
shall be f,.Hilled ? Those quest.“ el " H ““
stanoe. he put to Mr. Calhoun, in lbo
nutc, and that groat man—one of the suthoi»
war—just then, only then, in relation to Mr. Won ‘
ater, mid who had just insinuated arenroach on his
Con blot in tho wur, was silent. Did Mr. Webster
eontem himself even with objecting to the details
of the mode in wliioh the administration waged the
war? No, indued. Taught by his constitutional
slit lies that lho Union was made in part for com
innree—familiar with tho habita of our long line*
ofanast -knowing well how many sailors and fish
ermen, ilrivon from evory sea by ombargo and
wur, burned to go to the gun deck audavongo the
losg wrongs ol England on the element where
she had inflietod them, hia opposition to tho war
manifested itself by teaching the nation that the
deck was Iter fluid of tame. Non illi imptrium
ptlugi iMmmgut Iridentem, led nobit, eorte da-
turn.
lint I might recall other evidence of the ster
ling and unusual qualities of bia public virtue.—
Look in how manly a aort ho not merely conducted
a particular argument or a particular apoeoh, but
In Imw manly a sort, in how high a moral tone, he
uniformly dealt with the mind of hie country.—
Politician* got an ndvaulugo of him for thin while
bo lived: let tlio dead have juat pruiae to-day.—
Oi?r public life la a long oleotionoering, and oven
Biirk;* tell* you that at popular elootion* the moat
rigorous oaaaiata would remit something of their
severity Mu' wherever do you find him flatter
ing Iris'country."len.indirectly or directly, for a
volet On what oW he ever place himself but
good counsels and usoftn' Mrvlce f Hi* arts were
manly arts, and he never saw it uay ot temptation
when he would not rather fall, that* stand on at y
other. Whoever hoard that voice ohderiug the
pooplo oo to rapacity, to Injustice, to a vain and
guilty glory ? who over saw that penoil of light
hold up a pioturo of manifest dostiuy to dazzle tho
fancy? . , ~
How nnxloualy, rathor, In aoasoHand out, by the
energetic eloquence of his youth, by his counsels
bequeathed on the verge of a timely gravo, ho
prelerred to toaoli that by all possible acquired so
briety of mind by asking reverently of tho past, by
obedience to tho law, by habits of patient aud le
gitimate labor by the cultivation ot tho mind, by
the fosr and worship of God, we oducatu ourselves
for the tuture that is revealing. Mon said be did
not sympathise with the masses, beoauao bis
nlirss'oology was rather of an old and sitnp.e
school, rejeoting the nauseousand vain repetitions
of humanity and philanthropy, and progress and
brotherhood, in which may lurk herosios so dread
ful of socialism nr anti socialism, or disunion or
nr 'ipagsudism, In which a solflsh hollow and Iha
low ambition musks itself—the syren song Wbioh
would la 1 re tho pilot from hiß oourae. But 1 say
that ho did. sympathise with them; ar.d because
he ho came to thorn not with mluUtion, but
With truth ; not with words to plcaso, but with
measures to serve them ; not that his popular sym
palliios wero less, lmt that his personal and intel
lectual dignity and hia public morality wero
greater.
And on the 7th day of Maroh, and down to the
final scouo, might wo not atill say, as ever before
that “all tho ends he aimed at wore his country’s,
his Hod's and truth’s.” lie declared, “1 sneak
to-day for tho preservation of the Union. Hoar
mo, for my cause. I speak to day out of a solici
tous mid anxious heart, for tho restoration to tho
country of that, quiet and harmony which make
tho blessings of this Union so rich and so doar to
us nil. These are the motives, aud tho sole mo
tives that Influence mo.’’ If in that declaration he
whs sincere, was lie not bound in conscience to
give the oounsclsot that day ? What wore thoyf
Wliat was the singlo ono for which his political
morality was called in question i Only that a pro
vision of tho fedorul constitution ordaining the
restitution of fugitive slaves, should bo exoontod
according to its true meaning. This only. And,
he not In good censoicuce keep the consti
tution 'l this part, and iu all, for the preservation
of the Unic'Q.
Under his oatli to support it, and to support It
nil, and with his Opinions of that duty so long
held, prool dmed uniformly, lll whose vindication,
on some groat dnya, ho (I'd found the opportunity
of Ins persons! glory, might ho not, in good eon
scienoa, support it, and alt of it, oven it ho could
not, audit'no human intelligence o\ould certainly
know, that the ox’romo evil would follow', In Im
mediate consequence, its violation I Was it sd re
oent a doctrine of his, that the Constitution was
obligatory upon ttio national and individual con
sciences, "that you should ascribe it to sudden and
Irrosistilde temptation I Why, what hrd he, clear
down to the 7lh of March, that more truly indi-
Tidu-diaed him—what had he m ro charactarlsti
oalli his own—whore withal had he to glory more
or other than all b aide, than this vory doctrine of
the ssored and permanent obligation to support
each and all parts of that great oompact of Union
and justice I Had not this been his distinction,
his speciality—almost a foible of his greatness—
the darling and master passion evert Consider
that that was a sentiment which had been part of
his conscious nature for more than sixty years—
that from the time lie bought his first copy of the
Constitution on Ids handkerchief, and revered pa
rental lips had commended it to him, with ail oth
er holy and beautiful tilings, along with lessons of
tevervnco to Cod, and the belief of His Seriptnres,
along with the docline* of the catechism, the uuo
quailed musio of Watts, the name of Washington
—there had never hoen an hour that he had not
hold it the master work of mau—just in its othies,
oonsnmmato in its practical wisdom, paramount in
ila iuj motions, that every year of lifo had deepen
ed th.s original impression—that as bis mind open
ed and ,'iis associations widened, ho found that eve
ry one for whom lie felt respect, instructors, theo
logical and moral teachers, hie entire party connec
tion, the opposite party and the whole country, so
held it, too—thatita fYnit* of more than a century
of union, of happiness, of renown, bore constant
and clear witness to it in hia mind, and that it
chanced emergent and rare occasions bad devolved
on him instead forth to maintain it, to vindicate
its interpretation, to vindicate it* authority, to un
fold its wor ings and usee—that he had so acquit
ted himself of that opportunity as to have won the
title of its Expounder and Defender, »o that hia
proudes' memories, his moetprixed renown, refer
red to it, mid were entwined with it, and say whe
ther, with such antecedents, readiness to execute,
or disposition to evade, would have been the hard
eat to explain, likeliest to suggest, the surmise of
a new temptation! He who knows anything of
the man, knows that his vote for beginning the
restoration of harmony by keeping the whole con
stitution was determined, was necessitated, by the
great law ot sequences—a great law of cause and
effect, running back to his mother’s arms, as re
sistless as the law which moves the system shout
the sun—and that he must have given it, although
it hail been opened to him in vision, that within
the next natural day his “ eyes should be turned
to behold tor the last time the sun in heaven.”
The following tribute to Mr. Wabater's social
qualities, is eloquent snd truthful:
There must be added next the element of an
impressive charsolei, inspiring regard, trust and
admiration, not nnmingled with love. It had, I
thiuk intrinsically a charm suck as belongs only
to a good, noble and beautiful nature. In its com
bination ’with oo much fame, so much torce of
will and so muck intellect, it filled and fascinated
the imagination and heart; it was affectionate in
childhood and youth, aud it was more than ever so
in the few last months of his long life. It is the
universal testimony that he gave to his parents in
laiyest measure, -honer, love, obedience—'that he
eagerly appropriated the fir*t means which he
could command to relieve the father from the
debla contracted to educate bis brother and him
self—that he selected his first place of professional
practice that he might soothe the coming on ot
his old age—that all through life he neglected no
occasion, sometimes when leaning on til* arm of a
• friend aloue with tuitering voice, sometimes in
the presonce of great assemblies, where the tide
of general emotion made it graceful, to express
his “ affectionate vt Deration of him who reared
and defended the log cabin in which hia elder bro
thers aud sisters were born, against savage vio
* lence and destruction ; cherished all the domes
tic virtues beneath his roof, and through the fire
and blood of aome years of revolntionsrv war,
shrank from no danger, no toil, no sacrifice, to
serve his country, snd to raise his children to a
better condition than his own.”
Equally beautiful was his love of all his kin
dred. When 1 hear him accused of selfishness,
and a cold, bad nature, 1 recall him lying sleepless
ail night, not without tears of boyhood, conferring
with Ex 'kiel how the daring desire of both hearts
should be compassed, and he too admitted to the
-ycoioua privileges of education, courageously
nuTd'og the cause of both brothers in the morn
K. hv ifie wise and diaoerning affection of the
iliv'h.r ~u» lending bis studies of the law, and
mO . .irimr <W'ds snd teaching school to earn the
register! g h | vet) 0 f tb# opportuaitv
means of £d wit £n
the s{; lovfig Wm throogh life, mourning kirn
io- vwy woa '
Jarful—paaaing Mrrow WOB * n '
I recall the husband, ths father of the living
and the early departed, the friend, the counsellor
of many years, and my heart grows too foil and
liquid for the refutation of my words.
JD-chines, thundering against his great rival—
vulnerable hers, exclaimed—“it is impossible
the' the unnatural father—the hater of his own
blood should be an able, faithful leader of his
country—that the mind which is insensible to the
intimate and touching influences of domestic af
fections, should be alive to the remote influence
of patriotic feeling—that private depravity should
subsist with public virtue.” But our Demosthe
nes was unassailable by such denunciation.
“ Well night he be strenuous in hia country's cause.
Who owned the charities for whose dear sake
That country, if at *U, most be beloved
His aflecUouata nature, craving ever friendship,
as well as the presence of kindred blood, diffused
itselfshrough ell his private life, gave sincerity to
all his hospitalities, kindness to hi* eye, warmth to
the pressure of his hand, made his greatness and
genius unbend themselves to the playfulness of
childhood, flowed out in graceful memories indul
god of the past or the dead, incidents when life
was yonng and promised to he hippy, gave gen
erous sketches of rivals, the high contention now
hidden by the handful of earth, hours passed fifty
years ago with great authors, recalled now for the
vernal emotions which then they made to live and
revel in the soul. And from these conversations
of friendship, no man—no man, old or yonDg—
went sway to remember one word of profaneness,
one allusion of indelicacy, one impure thought,
one unbelieving suggestion, one doubt cast on the
reality of virtue, of patriotism, of enthnsissm, of
the progress of man—one donbt cast on righteous
nes-, or temperance, or judgment to come.
Every one ofhis tastes and recreations announ
ced thesame type of character. His love o' agri
culture, or sports in the open air, of the outward
world in star light and storms, and seaand bound
less wilderness—partly a result of the past four
teen years of his life, perpetuated like its older as
fe-jtions and its other lessons of s mother’s love,
the psalms, the Bible, the s'ories of the wars—part-
ly the return of an unsophisticated and healthful
and genial nature, tiring, for a space, of the idle
business of political life, its distinciions, its arti
fleislities, to employments, to sensations which in
terest without agitating the universal race alike,
as God has framed it, in which ona feels himself
only a man fashioned from the earth) set to till it,
appointed t» return ‘o it, yet made in the image of
his Maker, and with a spirit that shall not die.
I have learned, by evidence the most satisfactory
and precise, that in the last months of bis life, the
whole affectionateness of his nature, his considera
tion of others, his gentleners, his desire to make
them happy and to see them happy, seemed to
come out in more uni more habitual expression
than ever. The long day’s public tasks were felt
to be done —the cares, the uncertainties, the men
tal conflicts of high place, were ended, and be
came home to recover himself for the few years
which be still might expect would be his Wore
lie should go home to be here no more; and there
I am assured and fully believe no unbecoming
regrets puransd him,
; sefferti or exrxxiuiuor.ft nfllhifllled, no self r..~
i-osch for anything doue oi anything omitted by
* h.mi.eif; < o irritation, uo ponttßqeeetui worthy of
j hie noble nature, but instead, love and hope for
I nW-OOUOtry, when she bocame the subject of con
: versation, and for all around him, the deueat an -
| the most indifferent, lor all breathing thinabout
l h : r- *».-! -jarflorr. .loiaotg.’. ipWiMUrionay
| ns! ilrai, warm and ocmmunicativa. S- ffrr and
yet brighter grew th» •‘■nr- -a tie sky of parting
, day, and th# U-. ill age ring rays, more svon Mian
the gh.ne*. of upon, ar.noatesd How - divine was
th« souro* from wnioh they teorlod, h-.-w in
capable to be quenched, bow certain to rise on a
morning which no night should follow.
Such s character was made to be loved. It was
loved. Those who knew and saw it In heurof
calm— those who repose on tha' soft green, loved
him. His plain neighbors loved him; and one said
when he was laid in his grave, “How lono-oinc
the world seems." Educated young men loved
him. The ministers x>f the gospel, gentlemen ot
intelligence of the country, the masses afar off,
loved him. True, they had net fonnd in his
specces—read by millions—so much adulation of
the people: so much of the music which robs the
public reason of itself; so many phrases of hu
inanity and philanthropy. And some bad told
them lie was lofty and cold—solitary in his great
ness ; but every year they came nearer and nearer
to him, and us they came nearer they loved him
hotter. They heard how tender the son had oeen,
the husband, the brother, the father and the friend
uud neighbor; that be wns plain, simple, natural,
generous, hospitable j the heart larger than the
brain; that be loved little children and reverenc
ed God, the Scriptures, the Sabbath day, tho Con
stitution and Law—andtheir hearts clave ui tohim.
truly of h ; m than even of the great naval
*T „j< England might it bosaid, that “bispre-
If.w.TmnnM * tho ohuroh bells ringing, and give
bring children from
school und old mca from i,.' chimney corner, to
ga/.o on him ere he died." The £ reut JIV! u ?* v £ l j
ing lamentation first revealed the deeppiuce h» a
in the hearts of his countrymen.
On the oratory of Mr. Webster at the bar and in
the halls of Congress Mr. Choate dilated with great
force and eloquence, lie said :
“ But there were other fields of oratory on which
under tho influence of more uncommon springs of
inspiration, he exemplified, in still other forms, an
eloquence in which Ido not know that he hashed
a superior among men. Addressing masses by
tens of thousands in the open air, on the urgent
political questions of the day, or designated toleud
meditations of an hour devoted to tho commemo
ration of some national era, or some inoident mark
ing the progress ol the nation, and lifting him.up
to a view ol what ia and what is past, and some
indistinct revelation ol the giory that 1 es in the
futuro, or the dcuth of some groat hiatorical name,
just homo by the nation to his tomb, wo have
learnod that then and there, at tho base of Bunker
Hill, before the oorncr stone was laid, and again
when from the finished column the centuries'ook
od on him; iu Fanuil Hall, mourning for those
with whoso spoken or wri ten eloquonoe of free
dom its arches hud »o often resounded ; on the
rook ot Plymouth; before the capitol, of which
there shall not bo oue stone teflon another before
his memory shall have ceased to live—in snch
scenes, unfettered by the laws of forensic or par
liamentary debate, multitudes uncounted lifted up
their eyes to hitn ; some grout historical scenes of
America arouud him, all symbols of her glory and
art and power and fortune there, voicesof tho past,
not unheard ; shapos beokoning from the future,
not unseen.—Sometimes that mighty intellect,
borne upward to a height and kindled to an illu
miration which wo shall see no moro, wrought out
us it wore, In an instant, a picture of n vision,
warning, prediction; the progress of a nation ; the
contrasts of its eras; the Mrolo deaths; the mo
tives to patriotism; the maxims and arts imperial
by whion the glory has been gathered and may be
heightened, wrought out, in an instant, u picture
to fade only when all recoid of our mind shall die.”
A large portion of Mr. Choate’s discourse was
devoted to the consideration of Mr. Webster bbo
jurist and statesman. Os his eminence in these
professions tho speaker said:
In surveying that ultimate and finished great
ness in which he stands before yon in his full
ataturo and at ills boat, this double and blended
eminence is the first thing that fixes the eye and the
last.' Whou ho died, he was first of American
lawyers and first ot American Statesmen. In both
characters lto 00UtitU>® d discharging the foremost
nurt in each, down to the falling of tho awful cur
tain # * a t # *
I cannot here and now trace his careor at the
bar—define tho stages of his rise, or the moment
ho camo lo be first. I cannot onter even on his
diameter a< a jurist; nor sinoo the soparaio and
able treatment, of the topic by one so well qnali
fiod to do it justice, is it needful. Yet, let rnesuy
that herein,also, the first thing that strikes yon is
the union of diverse, and, as I have said, what
might huve been regarded, incompatible excel
lencies. 1 shall submit it to the judgment of tho
American Bar, if a carefully prepared opinion of
Mr. Webstor on any quostion ot law whatever in
the whole range of our jurisprudence would not
lie accoptod every where us of the most command
ing authority, aud as the highest evidence of legal
truth ? 1 submit it to that samo judgment, if, for
many yoars betore his death, they would not have
rattier chosen to entrust the maintenance and en
forcement of any important propositions of law
wlinfevor, before any legal tribunal of character
whatever, to his best exertion of his faeultios than
to any other ability which tho wholo wealth oftho
profession oonld supply ?
Aud this alono completes the description of a
lawyer end a forousic orator of the first class; hut
it does not complete the description of his profes
sional character By the side of all this, ao lo
speak, there was that whole class of qualities
which made him tbr anv description of trial by
jury whatever, criminal or elvil, by even a more
universal assent, foremost. For that form of trial
no difficulty was minsed or needless; but you
were most strnok there to see tho unrivalled h gal
reasons pnt off as it were, and re-anpear in the
form of a robust qommon sen«e ami eloquent feel
ing, applying itself to an exciting subject ofbnsi
ness: to sec the knowledge of men aud life by
whion the falsehood and veracity of witnesses—
the probabilities aud improbabilities of transac
tions as sworn to, wero discerned in a moinont—
the direct, plain, forciblespeocb—tho consummate
narrative—tho oasy and perfect analysis by which
lie convoyed his side of the cause to the mind of
the jury—the occasional gush of strong feeling,
indignation or pity—a masterly, yet natural way
in which all the moral emotions of which his cause
was susceptible, were called to use—the occasion
al sovereignly of dictation to which his convic
tions seemed spontaneously to rise. His efiorts in
trials by jury compose a more traditional and
evanescent part of his professional reputation than
his arguments on questions of law ; out 1 almost
think they were his mightiest professional dia
plays, or displays of any kind, after all.
I doubt if his prosecution of the murdererof Jo
seph White was not a far more difficult aud higher
effort of mind than his more famous “ Oration for
tho Crown ’’—the reply to Mr. Hayne, delivered a
few months before.
The Plymouth Celebration.— Monday was a
great day in New England. It was oelebrated with
a spirit becomingthe sons of the pilgrims. At
Plymouth, in particular, there was a great celebra
tion. Two or three thousand people, iadies and
gentlemen, assembled on the spot where the pil
grims lauded, to witness the laying of the corner
stone of a monument to commemorate the depar
ture from Delft Haven. It was a great occasion,
some pf the most eloquent orators of the Eastern
states being present to add intereat to the ceremo
nies.
Gov. Clifford, Senator Everett, and ex-Senator
Hale, of N. H., made the longe-t and most enter
taining speeches of the day. Gov. Clifford deduc
ed a lesson of conservatism from the lives and ex
ample ot the Pilgrims, and concluding that their
experience and teachings were a standing rebuke
of the spirit of manifest destiny and of progressive
democracy.
The speech of M. Everett, who replied to the
leading and characteristic toasts of the day, was
in a different vein. The Boston Post (Democratic ■
says that it wv« a speech of mneh power ami bean
ty. He was decidedly progressive in his idea d
American destiny, in opposition to Got. Clifford,
and waa as ardent in his anticipations as the veri
est voung American to be found.
Ex Sexator Hale, Mr. Sunnier, and other well
known pnblic speakers followed Mr. Everett, and
letters of decimation were reoeived from many
others.
It must be borne in mind that all this oratory
was delivered over the dinner table. The dining
tent wss fitted up for the accommodation of two
thousand five hundred guests, and t is said that
fnllythat number sat down, and discussed thegood
things provided. The general hilarity of the pro
ceedings was iuteirnpted only by "the death of
Judge Mitchell, a very old gentleman, who fell in
the street from an apoplectic stroke, or some kin
dred affection, and died almost immediately.
The monnment which is proposed to mark the
spot of the landing of the Pilgrims will be erected
without delay. The President of tbe Pilgrim So
ciety announced at the table that the peole of Plv
month alone bad subscribed six thousand dollars
towards it, and read a letter from Mcses H. Grin
nell. E»q ,of New York offering fiiono, a letter
was also read from the Hon. David Sears, Presi
dent of the Cape Cod Association, snbscrib>ng
8500 towards the object, and also claiming the
privilege to add as mnch more as he pleases.
Cotton at tux Crtstal Palace.— We are in
formed that samples of the bales of cotton exhibit
ed at the Crystal Palace were submitted to the ex
aminstieu ofa committee of three gentlemen of our
city, two of them cotton brokers, and the other a
merchant, for their opinions on its merits. They
decidad the samples were beautiftil in the highest
degree—thst the one marked (B.) of Dr. Sam’i
Bond of Memphis Tenn., wss most attractivein
oolor.hut the one marked (A.) are exhibited by
Col. John Pope, of Memphis Tenn., was superior
in fineness, better ginneJ and wss entitled to the
preference. The latter sample is the product of a
new variety of cotton called the golden teed obtain
ed from Central Mexico. Iu peon liar excellence
ia its unrivaled fineness of staple and the large
size of its bales. Col. John Pope obtained the
prize at the World’e Fair at London. He is an ao
oomplished planter,—A'. 7, Exprut, July 80.
Commencement at Franklin College.
The Athens Utrald of Thursday last says: Again
is our beautiful town crowded with the sash .on.
beauty, wealth and intelligence of Georgia and
some of the neighboring States. Learning, litera
ture and politics are all ably and very numerously
represented.
The public exercises began at the Chap-lon Sab
bath morning, on which occasion the Eev. W.
I'reston, D. D., of Savannah, according to appoint
ment, preached the Commencement Sermon. We
were not present, but understand it wasa beauifnl
production—worthy of the oocaaion and of the
lame of the author.
At 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon, a numerous
audience attended at the Chapel to witness the
contest in l'rize Declamation by the Sophomore
Clam. Theyonnggentlemenaoqaitted themselves
with great credit. The following was the order of
the Exercises:
Jos. Armstrong, Macon, Ua.—lllustrations of
Oratory — Clayton.
J. H Ware, Columbus, Ga.—Vindication of
South Carolina — Havru.
W. 8. Sheperd, Columbus, Ga.—lmpossibility of
Conquering America.— Chattam.
W. Me. Bray, Athens Eeply to Mr. Cory’s at
tack on hi* character.—Grafton.
W. M. Flournoy, LaFuyette, Ala.—Lays of an
cient Rome.—T B. Macauly.
W.s. Chisholm, Liberty county, Ga.—Defence
of Southern Institutions.— Dr. Bote.
Geo. W. Calloway, La Grange, Ga.—“ Murder
will out.”— WtbtUr.
J. F. Baker.—On charges against the Roman
Catholics — Sknl.
D. 8. Scott. Summerville, Go.—The contested
election of Mississippi.— Prevt'm.
E. 8. Law, Savannah, Ga.—l’ower of Eloquenoe.
—Carey.
F. It. Miller, Augnsta, Ga.—Mahmond 2d.—
Anmynirut.
M. H. Waddell, Athens, Ga.—Death of Senator
Bates Wettter.
R. T. Fouehe, Cass county, Ga.—Supposed speech
of an Indian Cliiet.— Everett.
D. A Walk-r, Hamilton, Ga.—The Death Pen
alty Victor Hugo.
On Tuesday morning the Junior Exhibition took
piece, which consisted of the delivery of original
speeches by s portion of the Junior c’ass. Both
the manner and matter of many of them were very
creditable iudeed. We have not in this brief
sketch time to partioulariae. The following was
the programme of the exercises.
D. E. B. Hamilton, D. S., Cass county.—Exam
ple ol Pnlaski.
N. W. E. Long, P. K. S., Russell county, Ala.—
Usurpation of Napoleon 111.
Jos. B.Cummmg, D. 8., Augnsta.—Chatham and
Clay.
T. M. Daniel, D. S., Danielsville.—Poetry of the
Bihlo.
Thos. B. Cabaniss, D. 8., Forsyth.—Genius of
Milton.
Edward N. Brown, D. 8., San Franoisoo.—Bri
tish Depreciation of American Literature.
Madison L. Lenoir, P. K. 8., Gwinnett county.
! J hu Harv'.e IluiL D. 8., Athens.—Burke and
I Wi-hater.
| RD. Blackahear, P. R.S 'ex-used,,. Thomas
! county.—The Jews.
I G. A. bull, P. K. 8., Lsgrange.—linele T’om’s
| Cabin.
! At the <.cno.uau>n *f the speeches above, the
1 toWcwßKiy had W# swarded
I Wednesday, Commencement TMy as follows:
Jss. D. Wilde'. K. ° G Ga.. (Sd
i honor.—Latin hieiularjry.
' Isaac lisrdbuian, &. 8., oones county, cnu—The
genius of Voltaire.
Henry F. Hoyi. D. 8., Athens, Ga. —Wealth un
favorable to the development of genius.
Valerius 0. Mu-on, D. 8., Auburn, Ala.—(lst
honor. Excused.)
Robert N. Howard, P. K. 8., Rusßell county,
Ala.—(4lh honor.)—Pulpit eloquence.
John H. Echols, P. K. 8., Auburn, Ala.—George
McDuffie.
Jus. N. LeConte, P. K. S., Macon, Ga.—(Excus
ed )
W. U. M. King, D. 8., Hamilton, Ga.—Excess of
literature indicative ot a feeble age.
John 8. Baxter, P. K. 8., Athens, Ga.—Warter
loo and Yorktown.
A. MctJnlloh, D. 8., Early county, Ga.—(2d hon
or.—Excused.)
Joseph M. Carey, P. K. S., Chnnnenuggee, Ala.
—A spark, tho’ a molecule of matter, may set the
world on fire.
G. T. Burnes, I). 8., Augusta, Ga.—(Bd honor.)—
Story and Webster—the judge and the advocate.
Jas. D. WaddeL, P. K. S., Greensboro’, Ga.—
The periodical press and political institutions.
John F. Cooper, D. 8., Etowah, Ga—(lst hon
or.) Valedictory.
On Thursday morning the annual Oration was
delivered before the Literary Societies by John E.
Ward, Esq., of Savannah
From the. N. O. Picayune, 8 d inst.
Later from Texas.
The U. 8. Mail steamship Mexico, Capt. J. 8.
Thompson, arrived yesterday afternoon from Gal
veston and Indianola.
The Gonzales Euqnirer says that worms have
made theiruppearance In sOmoof our cotton fields
The cryis generally are doing well since the rains.
Tho Ledger announces the arrival of Col. May
and ludy at San Antonio. Tho Colonel proceeds
to Fort Mason, wtiere he takes the command ot the
Sd Regiment of U. 8. Dragoons.
The Austin State Gazette says:
Gen. A. Sydney Johnson returned on the 22d
July from a trip to the military posts of Fort
Croglmn, l’hantom Hill. Fort Belknap, Fort Worth
aud Fort Graham. We learn from him that the
frontier is entirely quiet and peaceful, and that
the farms in that section of the State are it a pros
perous condition and promise full crops. General
Clarke and Lieut. Tyler had returned from their
exploration of tho route of the Paoiflo road, and
Gen. Johnson lias a map of tho explorations made
out by Liout. Tyler. Starting 'join Fort Graham
they progressed in an almost direot line to the
Caldo Mounds, near the road from Fort Croghau
to Phantom Hill, a distance of about one hundred
or ono hundred and ten miles, und found no ob
stacle of uny sort in the way of an easy and cheap
construction of a railroad. After returning from
thisHiirvoy, Gen. Clarke passed down the country
by tho way of Snringfiold to Naoogdoohes, die.
lie thinka this is the most favorable route tor the
main trunk of the Pacific road, and we are truly
glad to learn that such is his opinion, for it secures
the route of that road through the central, most
populous and wealthy portions of the State, to con
nect with the Opelousas road.
Gen. Johuson ulaoinforms us that the farmers
iu Turret and Dallas countieß are offering to take
the government contracts for furnishing the posts
in that region with flour at rates very favorable to
tho Uovernmont—ensuring a saving of from three
to four dollura per barrel—and the examples ex
hibited givo assurauce that the future supplies of
this article can be had of a quality nearly equal,
all things considered with Baltimore, flour.
The Galveston News says of this survey and of
the report of Gen. Clarke :
lie found thu entire distauoe quite fiivorablo
for the construction of a railroad, without either
objectionable deflections from a tangeqt lino or
the requirement of heavy work. Ho also found
that the mountains so liberally distributed on
maps throughout this section, and apparently so
serious a hindrance to tho successful construction
ofa railroad over it, are emphatically “mountains
in the moon,” so fur as correctness of position is
concerned. They are greatly mislocatcd, (not leas
than sixty or seventy miles Gen. Clarke thinks,)
on llic maps and can oiler no barrier to the direct
ness (so desirable) of the great Pacific line of road,
near the parallel of 82 degrees.
Tlie State Gazette of the 23d ult.,says that some
gentlemen who had just returned from the head
waters of l’ecau Bayou, where they had been lo
cating lands, saw but few Indians, and those all
friendly. On their return they captured just
above Hamilton’s valley three runaway negroes, a
woman and two men, and brought them into town.
The negroes said they belong to a Mr. Roberts,
a negro trader, from whom they abaoonded
either in Arkansas or Louisiana. They say they
were purchased in Virginia by Roberts.
Tho Texan (Viotoria) Advocate says:
Mr. E. Bennet informs us that his sugar cane is
very promising this season. Ho has stocks, six
joints of which have already ripened. He thii ks
tie will average two hogsheads of sugar to the
aero. Two hands have perfi rmed all the work of
cultivating his cane, sixteen acres and fifteen
acres of corn, which he thinks will yield Arty
bushels to tho acre. A portion of his cane was
planted six years ugo last fall, which will produce
os well as that which was planted more recently.
Arrivals at Madtaoa Springs.
J CNB 27.
T.C. Elliott, Charleston.
Miss Ediot,
M rs. McGill, and two servants, “
Miss Levet, New York.
Aaron Gage, Mobile.
Mrs. Gage,
Miss U-ge,
Three children andservant, s
Mrs. Conthouy,
John Schley; Augusta.
Mrs. Schley, 8 children and 2 servants, “
JCLT 5.
Albon Chase, Ath ns.
Mrs. Clm.-e, “
Mrs. Capers, South Carolina.
Miss Capere, “
Lewis Muyer, Charleston.
A. Hitt, “
H. Ottard,
F. Steel,
Solomon Strauss,
Jfit 11.
E P. Clayton, Auguata.
Mrs. Clayton, 4 children and 2 servants, “
Miss Bradford, “
Mr. B C. Yancy, Alabama.
Mrs. Yattey, 8 children and 2 servants, “
H. Schour'and lady, Charleston.
Jcit 15.
.1. P. Dickerson, Abbeville, 8. C.
W Id Appleton **
Coi W. A! Carr,’ Athens.
Mrs. Carr,
Miss Carr and servant,
Wm. M. Morton, and servant,
Thomas M. Hamilton,
Mrs. Homilt m and servant, *'
A. F. Holmes, Charleston.
C. 0. Hommock, Georgia.
Wm. Eberhart,
S. R. Dcadwt ler,
J. W. Hanoock and servant, “
Jolt 28.
J. W. Harris, Alabama.
Mrs. Harris, child and servant, “
Miss Harris, “
Mrs. Jane L. Allen and 8 servants, Elbert.
Miss Allen, “
Geo. Williams, Athena.
Mrs. Williams, and S servants, “
Y. L. G. Harris, “
Mrs. Harris and servant, “
Miss Comer and 8 servants, “
T. W. Kuekeraud £ servants, Elbert.
Mias Rucker, “
Master pucker, ‘i
w, Morion, . M “
July 25.
H. H. Bruce, Anderson, 8. C.
J. R. Bruce, ‘‘
John T. Banks, Alabama.
Walker Richardson,
JCLT 28.
Rev. Geo. McAulev, Milledgeville.
Mrs. McCombs and child,
Mm. Lewis,
Miss Lewis,
Mr. Sluts, Augusta.
Miss Mary J. Sims,
Mr. Carter and child,
Mr. J. C. Evans, u
Arses* 1.
J. R Sun ford and 3 servant*, ClarkasviU*.
Mrs. Stanford,
Miss Stanford, “
J. E. Tripp and lady, Beaufort,S. C.
T. B. Tripp and iady.
Miss C. Jenkins,
Miss A. Jenkins and servant,
Miss Chaplin,
J. F. Chaplin, ‘
Rev. J. B. Seabrook. Ed sto.
Mrs. Seabrook, child and servant.
J. Williams and servant,
The New Secret*** of Lkoatjo* to Enslake.
—The New York Evening Post thus pointedly
alludes to the characterof areoent appointee of
President Pierce:
“The appointment of Daniel E. Sickles as Score
tary of ti e American Legation to the British Court
has occasioned some surprise. It is not to be sup
posed that the Execntive will make no mistake in
bestowing office, but the profligacy of Sickles is so
notorious that we do not see any possible room for
mistake in regard to it. His personal charaoter is
such that the appointment is a serious disgrace to
the administration which makes it. It is said that
Governor Marry was so sensible of the impropriety
of the appointment that he declined giving his
signature to the commission of Sicklee, which had
to be certified by another officer of the State Das
pertinent."
(ttcteuMn.
‘I tbank thee, Jew, fur teaching me that word.’
Merchant or I mice.
Oar nppaoenU made an awful attempt at the
opening of the Campaign to preiodioe the inte
rests of the Eepuolican Party by branding it as
Sectional. Tbe charge itself, is so sublimely ri
dicalous that they appear to have finally abandon
ed it aa “flat and unprofitable,” bat we shall not
permit them to escape from tbe inquiry they them
selves have provoked. If it shall torn oat that
they are “hoisted by their own petard” it may,
perhaps, serve to make them a little more circum
spect in their plans of attack.
The candidate of the Secession party for Go
vernor, goes a bow-shot beyond the more cautions
disciples of tbe Nashville Convention school, and
. boldly proclaims his advocacy of a Sectional Con
gress, unknown to the Constitution and Laws of
theconntry, sud well adapted to destroy both.—
Many of those persons who sustained the scion
of the Nashvilie Convention were intimidated
into a respectful silence by tbe emphatic condem
, nation of the Union-loving freemen of Georgia;
but Herschcl V. Johnson, goaded on by that spirit
of reckless, daring and fiendish hostility whicn
prompted him to stigmatize the Georgia Conven
tion as a “contemptible pack,” declared in favor
of calling t. .gather a Southern Congress—the pro
bable effect of which wonld have been to kindle
tho flame of civil war, and extinguish in kindred
blood the altar fin s of American liberty.
To prove these statements, we adduce the fol
lowing extract from a letter of Judge Johnson pub
lished in 1850:
“Let these propositions be distinctly propound
ed to the North for their solemn reflection and to
our Bißter Southern States for their co-operation
and adoption. And let os invite the latter to send
delegates to a Southern Congress to meet in Mil
ledgeville on the 4th of July, 1851, not to dissolve
the Union, but to devue measures for their enforce
ment, with the viev, to presene' the rights of the
South, m the Union.
As to the means such a Southern Congress
ought to adopt to enforce these propositions, it
would be presumption in me to ventare a
tion. I prefer rather to stand mute before the
wisdom of its oounsels and bow submissively to
its decisions. lam willing to confide the interest,
the honor and tbe rights of the South in the hands
F °f 8 “oh a body, and sure I feel that its moral in
i fluecce, representing, as it would, the patriotism,
the intelligeoce and firm resolve of the South,
wonld be potent to save the Union and awaken tbe
North to the danger with which their misguided
fanaticism has imperiled it.
I am aware, gentlemen, that those who enter
[ tain views like these or who are even opposed to
uncomplaining submission are brandea as dis
, unionists. But such denunciation! have no ter
rors for me. I bid them Boornful defiance, sus
f tainod by a consciousness of their falsehood and
of the rectitude and singleness of my purposes.”
We grant that in the foregoing extract Judge
Johnson pointedly disavows any design on tho in
. tegrity, of the Union but a slight examination of
I the oiremiistHiiees axial'tog at that period might
: , lead us to distrust his tair professions.
; The Compromise Measures had already been
enacted, and had likowiae been generally en
dorsed by the Conservative [loople of the nation,
i Wheretore, then, tbe necessity for convoking a
Congress of the alavsholding States ? Judge Jofcn
i son tolls as lbstfl jpu* to protect oanwwe ,
lot 'th» fact that We new find Mm upholding the
present Administration in its appointments to
i office of notorious Abolitionists and Froe Soilcrs.
Is this the wav in which Judge Johnson proposes
j to shield the South from anti-slavery encroach
ments < Is it not more reasonable to conclude
. that, having failed in his effort to crußh the Con
servative men of the South, (whom he vulgarly
t denominates “fools and kuaves,”) he is now en
deavc ring to root out the last vestige of coaserva
, ti«m at the North by oountoDoncing the ap
pointment of Dix, Vroom, and others of that.
9 kidney i
When the National Whigs and Democrats of
. the North shall have euch and ail, felt the axe of
the executioner, and their antagonists areelevated
f to the high places of the Government, th-n might
another disorganizing movement be made with a
. better prospect of success, and the Abolitionists of
Now York again send friendly greetings to their
_ brother Secessionists of South Carolina.
How strikingly do these semiments cf Judge
i. Johnson contrast with tho broad sympathies and
0 National views ofMr Jenkins. The one a States
man whose standing point is far above the herd of
. party tricksters, and who looks only to the Wei
1, fare of the whole country—tho other a flippant
. Demagogue, who eaters to the morbid Sectional
ism of his own particular locality.
No such “damned spot” blurs the escutcheon
of the Republican candidate. While he has never
II sought the “loaves and fishes” of Federal pa
|, tronoge, but has consecrated the maturity of his
physical and intellectual powers to the promo
tion ot Georgia’s prosperity—yet bis patriotism is
tar too expansive to bo hemmed in by “State
lines.’’ He has always cherished the doctrines of
Washington’s Farewell Address, and constantly
. opposed every project, open or insiduous, which
- was calculated to embroil the North and Soutli
and lead to an eventual dissolution of the Con
s federaoy.— Some hour.
The Distress Madeira.
The following letter from Com. Mayo confirms
the worst accounts that have been received of the
distress and destitution of the people of Madoira.
It has been transmitted to us by Messrs. George
M. Lewis, 61 Front street, and Wm. Depew, 185
Pearl street, who “will most cheerfully receive and
forward such assistance as the charitable mny
place in their hands for that purpose, following
the donors’ direction in regard to any special dis
posal thereof:”
Flag Shu* Constitution, )
Funchal, July 2, 1858. )
Dear Sir, —A letter, purporting to come from
the Uuited States steamer Powhattan, dated Fuu
chal, March 6, has recently gone the rounds of the
American papers. This communication, coming
from one of our national vessels, may create an
impression upon the public mind at home, and
serve to repress that active sympathy manifested
toward the starving poor of Madeira by our gener
ous countrymen.
1 desire, therefore, peremptorily to contradict
the statements of the anonymous writer, and as
the Commanding naval officer of this Btation, to ex
pross my entire conviction that the general repre
sentation of the torrible poverty and suffering
brought upon the laboring classes in this island,
by tho successive failures of the vintage, has been
in no degree exaggerated.
I am in possession of the moat authentic proofs
that the contributions from the Doited States havo
not only alleviated much distress, but have saved
many persons from starvation.
The Portuguese authorities, so far from thro u
ing impediments in the way of those charged w
distributing the provisions sent from our count;
havo most promptly suspended their tariff, an",;
admitted the donations free of duty; and these
donations Beem to have beon distributed with ad
mirable judgment by the committee to which they
have been entrusted.
In passing over the island, I havo been forcibly
impressed by the gratitude exhibited towards our
Seonle for the prompt aud efficient aid extended to
lauoira in her sore necessity, and I have felt most
proud of that far-rcaching churity that kiows no
limit of nation or language, but has sought out
the famine-stricken sufferers in this distant island.
There is every rcasou to fear that the distress of
the coming year will be even greater than that
which is past, and our countrymen may still find
most worthy objects of their charity in this island,
so beautiful, but by the visitation of Providence,
so foil of misery.
1 am, dear sir, with groat regard, faithfully
youis, (Signed) T. Mato,
Commander in chiefU. S. Naval forces,
J. Howard March, E-q., West Coast of Africa.
U. S. Consul Madeira.
The Emperor’s True Motive.
Tbe Paris correspondent of the National Intel
ligencer, in speculating upon tlio real policy which
controls the movements of the Russian Courts,
signifies his disbelief in tho motive generally at
tributed to it, viz: a hungering and thirsting af
ter the annexation of the Ottoman territory to the
already unequalled aroa of the Muscavite Empire.
Allowing this opinion all the weight it may be en
titled to, we do not see how the ambition oi Rus
sia is a particle more recommended to the tolera
lion of the public seutimont of the world. The
independence of Turkey, and with it all hope (lit
tie or much as they may be) of the improvement
of the magnificent regions included therein, is as
effectually excluded by it as by actual Russian oc
cupation. li the elevation and advancement of
adjoining nations in the arts of life and political
importance are bugbears for Russia, instead of
being received as excuse or apology, this new con
strued n adds ten fold to the repugnance the
friend ol his raco must feel towards the vast des
pot:c incubns.
In view of the tenor of the extract from Count
Nesselrode’s despatch, we find no room to wonder
at the tone adopted in the late communications
addressed by Meuehikoff & Co. to the Sultan. In
Russia’s eyo Tursey is already and has long been
her vassal, and will find her first duty in render
ing to Russia most liege obedience. Nicholas be
holds himself as the Sultan’s rightful master, and
when the Sultan talks of independence and the
like, he talks rank rebellion.
Possibly, the tone of indignunt innocence which
pervades the declarations of the Russian Cabinet
hus its basis on this consideration, and the Empe
ror may take it upon himself to claim from his
constructive conquest of Turkey a constructive
right to control her, using Abdul Medjid in the ca
pacity of a Vice Royal. If this be so, the Empe
ror cannot lay claim to much generosity in sparing
the Capital and the existence of Turkey as a State;
he did so only in appearance and for his own con
venience, and because he thought it better to
keep Turkey Biraplv “to execute henceforth only
his desires’’’ than’ to risk ebaugos which may
eventuate in putting her territory into hands that
would bring out its resources, and become the ri
vals of Russia “ in power, in civilization, in indus
try , and in wealth.
Written to the Grand Duke of Constantine
there is no room for surprise at the candor of the
acknowledgments in the following extract. On
reading it one is incited to the wish that it were
possible similarly to look behind confidential com
munications of considerably more recent date. It
ia from a despatch dated Bt. Petersbnrgh, Febru
ary 4»b, 18*0, and addressed by Count,Nesselrode
to the Grand Duke of Constantine Amtr.
“The end to be attained by our relations with
Turkey is that which we proposed to ourselves in
the treaty of Adrianople itself, and in the re-estab
lishment of peace with the Grand Seigneur. Oar
armies had only to march on Constantinople, and
the Turkish Empire wonld have been overthrown.
No power would have opposed us there; noim
mediate danger would have threatened us if we
had given the last blow to the Ottoman monarchy
in Europe. But, in the opinion of the Emperor,
that monarchy, reduced to exist only under the
protection of Kossia, and to execute henceforth
only his desires, suited better our political and
commercial interests than any new combination,
which would have forced us ei her to enlarge our
dominions by conquest, or to substitute in place of
the Ottoman Empire States which would have
soon become opr rivals in power, in civilization, in
industnr, and in wealth. It is upon this principle
of his Imperial Majesty that are regulated for the
present our relations with the Divan. Since it
has not pleased ns to extinguish the Turkish Gov
ernment, we are seeking the means of maintaining
it» its actual condition; siuce that Government
can be useful to us only by its deferrence towards
us, we exset from It the religious observance of its
wishes ”* nt * * Dd th ® realisation of all our
C,T ” AL Pslaci—The New York Herald
“Tne machine department will be ready in two
weeks at the farthest. A double engine of siuv
horse power has already been received, and will
be put up in a few days. When the whole of this
lection of the building ia completed, there will be
no less than 85“ separate places of machinery put
in operation, consisting of engines, weaving looms,
spinning machines, p lining, slide lathes, slotting,
md other machines- The only extensive contri
butors to this department are England and the
United fctajes, but it is probable that France will
send some before the dose of the exhibition.
Hereafter, we ars informed, the Palace will be
thrown open every day at 8 o’clock.”
It is said that John P. Preston, Esc., bis con
sented to send Powers’ Eve for exhibition in the
Palace, and that the statue will be shipped from
Charleston, S. C., by the next steamer. Mr. Pres
ton has also determined to send De Veenx’s paint
ing of The Brigand.
On Friday B.MS persons were admitted on single
tickets, and 1,7*0 peraona an aeason tioketa. The
c sh receipts were $1,*88.50. The contributions
to the Washington National Monument fund,
amounted to 941.40.
A Baltimore deposit iathua nouoed in the New
York Evening Poet:
“ A magnum bottle, by the side of which an or
dinary claret sinks into insignificance, is exhibited
by the Baltimore Glass Works, and shows the
height of art in the bottle way. Booh • Mf&BB
would floor* Brobdif&if."
k
WEEKLY
& Sentinel.
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
... -jp; *
WEDNESDAY MOMTOTO AUBPIT 10, 1858.
FOE GOVERNOR,
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
OF RICHMOND.
For Congress righth District,
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS,
of xxuafkßßo.
Tbe Warehousemen.
The following communication is published, as
the basis of some remarks, which should have ac
companied that of “ A Burke Planter ,” had we
been at home:
warehouse gentlemen.
Mr. Editor :—lq response to the communication
of “ A Burke Planter’’ I would inquire the names
of the Warehouae merchants who are not of the
“ combination.” I have hitherto sent my crops of
Cotton to a gentleman who isof the “combination,”
though 1 shall not do so again; but I had supposed
I should havo to “ ship through,” thinking all had
joined in the little business. Probably those
warehouse gentlempn who are willing “ to live and
let live” had best publish their card also; one of
this stamp shall have my little patronage, certain,
and I have heard all my neighbors sing the same
song. Tali about a thee cent piece !
Oglethorpe County.
Without stopping to reply to this in the tone
ar.d spirit in which it is written, we take occasion
to remark that, to many of those who are making
such a fuss about “combination,” “extortion,”
<fec., a “ three cent piece" doubtless looks quite as
large as an ov*r-»bo* water-wheel to many of the
Warehousemen who are in tbe “combination.”
But it is not cur pmpose to indulge in auy such
vein; we prefer ratjjr to submit a candid state
ment of facte .a T-'Wjr to the matter, to tbe end
that no wrong be done to -he Warehousemen, and
no imposition be practised oc planters, with both
of whoso interest* core are identified. This we
shall do, wholly Indifferent as to who uxay be
pleased or offended; because we believe tbe ad.
vance in tbe rate of gommiasion for selling Cotton
is justified by sound policy and a due regard to
their own interertfcOur motto is, let Inatioe be
done, no matter who ma\ be offended, and to this
motto we aboil adhere.
Ie elucidating '-iM euiyect, it will be necessary
to revert back jo the period wfion, by common
consent, and whneut any ootnpjuat from the
voluntarily reduced
(’WcMhor iT’Tt/'"-ontttc bronpt from sls to
j S3O per halt. Tr.ta and clerk biro were low, and
! iiving in4iibor were cheap. Now, however, eot-
I tor commal Is ffir to SSO per bale, an advance ol
over 100 percent., and rents, clerk hire, labor and
living have advanced in nearly the same ratio;
yet Warehousemen, of oil other classes of laborers,
must bo prohibitt J from receiving increased pay for
their labor. Is tlcru either reason, sound sense, or
justice, in this t No honest man will say there is.
If the common negro now gets his dollar per day
for working in trie warehouse, where years ago be
only got 50 celts, why should not tho proprietor
advance the price of his labor! He is equally en
titled to an advance, as tbe negro laborer, the
clerk, the landlord, or the seller of provisions.
Such bus been tbe advance in labor, clerk hire,
rents and living, within the last few years, that a
rate of commissions that wonld thon support a
man aDd enable him to lay up money annually,
will not now support him. These are fuctß known
to every observing, reflecting, intelligent man in
the community; they have a direct and important
bearing on tho question in issue, aud, in our opin
’on, fully justify thoadvaucein commissions.
Again, the commissions aud expenses of the
sale of cotton arc now less under tbe new arrange
ment, in Augusta, than in Charleston and Savan
nah; taking the lowest rates for which cotton iB
sold in those places and the highest rate in this
city, as we will demonstrate. And here let us re
mark, that the following charges aro made in Sa
vannah and Charleston for one week's expenses,
supposing tho cotton to be sold in that time,
while the charges In Augusta cover the expenses
for one month.
IN' SAVANNAH.
Cents.
Dray age per bale 10
Storage lor first wtek 8
Insurance alwayß (barged 10
Weighing 6*
Commission 50^
84^
IN CHARLESTON.
Cents.
Drayage per bale 12*
Storago for first week 8
Weighing 6
Insurance, * of 1 per cent., about 12*
Commission 50
89
IN AUGUSTA.
Cents.
Drayage 8#
Storage i'or first month 25
Commission 50
88*
Both in Charleston aud Savannah many houses
charge 2* por oent. commission, whichattho pre
sent price of Cotton is $1 to $1.25 per bale.
If the Cotton remains unsold in Charleston over
one week, there is an additional charge for storage
of 5 cents per week, for evory week till the last,
winch is Bc> »; and in Savannah for every week
"'i.,.:firsi 1 cents per week till the last,auds
iw!t < Cox th*- ► --In
in A g ’...i .he charge for storage is 25 cents for
tWnisiAio.i l, and 12* cents per month after
ward.
In Augustu, the Warehouses are oxtensive and
lire proof, and all the Co’ton put under cover, ex
cept at those periods when the stock is very large.
In Charleston and Savannah it is either under rude
shelters or exposed in tho open air on the wharf,
exceot a very small portion. Indeed, there is no
city in the commercial world whore Cotton is bet
ter taken care of than in Augusta, and very few as
well. We do not know of any. Here, too, Cotton
is always sold for cash, and tho funds promptly
paid to tho planter, while in Savannah and
Charleston it is sold on a credit of one to two
weoks, and if the buyer fails to pay, as is frequent
ly the case, the planter loses the money and Cot
ton, because it is the enetom of the places to sell
Cotton on credit.
Os the character of the men composing “ the
combination ,” their fidelity to the interests of their
customers, their prompt business habits, and tbelr
integrity, we need not say more, (they are so well
known,) than that they will, as a whole, com
pare favorably with any business men In Amerioa.
All these are considerations which should and
will operate upon all intelligent men, in inducing
them to sond tbelr Cotton to Augusta for a market;
aud go far to satisfy all such that the advanced rate
of commissions is no “extortion." Indeed, we feel
assured that it will, in the main, be cheerfully
paid.
Mr. Teomba’ Appointments.
The Hon. Robt. Toombs will address the people
at the following places and times, at which all par
ties are invited to be present:
At Palmetto. Campbell Co., Thursday, August
11th.
At Hamilton, Harris co., Saturday, August 18th.
At Greenville, Meriwether Co, Tuesday, Au
gust 18th.
At McDonough, Henry Co., Saturday, August *O.
Appointment of Mr. Stephens.
The Hon. A. H. Stephens will address the peo
ple ut Monroe, Walton county, on Saturday, Au
gust 20th. AU parties are requested to be pre
sent.
Congressional Nomination.— The Couservativea
of the Fourth Congressional District have, in Con
vention at Newnan, nominated James M. Calhoun,
Esq., lor Congress. The nomination is, we think,
agood one. Mr. C. is well known in the District,
is a man of high eharacter, and infinitely snporior,
intellectually, to his opponent, Mr. Dent. If the
Conservative men of the District do not elect him,
the fault is their own. Success is certain if they
make the proper effort.
Mr. Stephens' Appointments.
T' Ti <T. Aluianper H. Stephens will address
the ..ti n the political questionsof the day,
at Athi' M. ■ a ” edr.taday night, the 10th inst.,
and »V> . * > ; le, Chattooga county, Satur
day he Hthiiisi.
Sor’--:. in Fe'vu & Surgical Journal. —The
August N0..0f r'us valuable Medical periodical has
been on our table for some days, and ailera careful
perusal of its contents we cheerfully recommend
it to the profession as an invaluable anxilliary in
Southern Medical literature —both its original
and selected articles are good.
It is edited by Prolessor L. A. Dugas and pub
lished monthly in thiß city by James McCafferty
at $3 per annum in advance.
The Rio Grande Movement.— The Washington
Republic states that the order for an increase of
the Umted States force on the Rio Grande has been
issued. Among the good results likely to be re
corded iu this new chapter of onr history is a set
tlement of claims of citizens of the United Btates
■gainst Mexico, to indemnity for outrages and
losses suffered by them at the hands of Mexican
officials; also for losses incurred through the faith •
lessness of Mexioo with respect to her grants to
parties of the United Suites with whom she bad
entered intq agreement for the right of way and
the construction of a railroad across the Isthmus
of Tehuantepec. Any new treaty that may be
negotiated between the two countries will neces
sarily review all these questions, and provoke a
decision of each, one way or the other.
Putnam's Monthly, for August, with a rich and
varied table of contents, has been laid on onr table
by Geo. A. Oates & Co.
Plane Road to the Sand Hills —lt will be eeea
by reference to the advertisement, in another
column, that this Road win be opened on Monday
next. For rates of toll <scc. ace advertisement.
Week Will Mr. Buchanan Sail f— This ques
tion isanswered by the Lancaster Intelligencer, his
home organ, thus:—“We inform tho public, on
the best of authority, that it is his purpose, life and
health permitting, to sail from New York on
Saturday, the 6th of August, that being the time
when the next American steamer leaves for Earope,
In which he hw engaged a passage. He would
have sailed on Saturday, the 13d ult, bnt was dis
appointed in receiving certain despatches and
State paper* from Washington ee toon as he ex
p acted,"
SM-BMUMg—Msoltrte Haase.
As this is the season when those of our citizens
who love to snuff the refreshing sea b rasas, and
delight in the luxury of a salt water bath, ora wont
to wend their way northward, to avail themselves
of the invigorating and health restoring properties
of both, we may perhaps perform an acceptable
service to. some of them, by bringing to their at
tention the advantages which Sullivan’s Island af
fords for their enjoyment. And in doing so, we de
sire to say, we speak of those things only, which
we have seen and know, having recently sojourned
a few days with the accomplished host of the Moul
trie Hobse. We shall not, therefore, “extenuate
anything, or set down ought in malioe.” All fa
miliar with the location of the Island, need not be
assured that ite facilities for a breeze, are unaur
paased ; hence a temperature is attained which au
inhabitant of the Green mountains might envy.
Nor is it with a beach, which nature herself in
her happiest mood, could scaroely improve upon,
less favored in its advantages for surf bath
ing. Yet much as we delight in the breeze, and
highly as we appreciate the benefits of sea bathing,
and the other beauties of that delightful retreat,
we very frankly oonfeee that there is in tbe Moul
trie House, to one who like ourself, has a fond
ness for the good things which sustain the inner
man, a magnet, if not of greater, certainly of pow
erful attraction. What can we say more ! Shall
ws descant upon the admirable adaptation of the
building to the purpose tor which it waa designed;
its neat, handsomely furnished and well ventilated
apartments ; of the refined and cultivated people
who make up its society; of the splendid entertain
ments whioh are spread in the spacious dining
room; the exquisite music which s most accomplish
ed troupe of Artists discourse at night and the
dinner honr; or the fascinating waltz and the gay
quadrille, in whioh the fashionable and the beau
tiful are wont to mingle 1 Shall we speak of all
these 1 Nay, nay. It would require more time
and space, oould we hope to do them justice, than
we can possibly bestow to-day. We will say, how
ever, not less in obedienoe to our own sense of
propriety end conviction of duty, than in justice
to mine host, Niokxrson, of the Moultrie House,
that U is, in all its appointments, one of the best kept
Hotels in the Southern States; snd we doabt wheth
er it is surpassed by any similar establishment in
the Union. It affords us, therefore, sincere plea
sore to urge upon those who disire to inhale the
sea air, or lave in its waters, to mingle in the gav
aud fnsfcioi *ble throng who male* up the refined
and elegant society of the Mcuixu* ilo.as.
The distauoe from Charleston is six or seveu
miles, snd steam ferry-boats ply constantly be
ween the City and tho Island.
Hau—Hemaikable OolncMcoee.
Aue..;, .■. sis llsen, ron-cif --..0f or. at ehtsna
remarkable coincidences whioh seldom oconr more
than once in tbe ordinary life time of a man, and
is it relates to Hats, of which J. Taylor, Jb. & Co.,
are said to have a very superior stocK ot the “ very
letest” end “mostfashionable” styles, we may
be pardoned for chronicling it. We had but just
emerged from the railroad cars on Thursday, and
after having performed the* necessary ablutions
and adjusted oar toilet, with brush in hand, pro
ceeded to relieve our hat from the dirt and dust
collected in a seveu hours travel, when suddenly
the thought flashed into our mind (although ours
was not “a shocking bad hat,”) that this was
about tbe period for introducing the “ new fall ”
styles, and we wondered if our friends, Taylor A
Co., had yet received an importation of “the latest .”
Having brushed this indiapensiblo covering of the
upper msn, we quietly placed it on our head and
repaired to our sanctum to receive the greetings of
those we might meet after a three and a halfday’s
absence, a very protracted one for us, and we had
scarcely taken our seat when a cheerful, sprightly
boy with a pleasant smile wreathing his whole
face, eutered with a curious, conical shaped band
box, and a card, on whioh was written “J. Taylor,
Ju. & Co’s compliments.” Marvel.not kind reader
at our surprise on openiDg the box at finding one
of “the latest” style of Gentlemen’s Black Hats.
Just look, if you please, and see whether or not,
it is not “just the thing” in style, fit and finish,
and if you want one call and see Taylor & Co.
Fine Hats.
We take great pleasure in recommending those
who are in want of a neat, beautiful and fashions
ble article, to our friend, G. W. Ferry, who has a
lajge assortment of Beebe’s new Fall style Mole
skin Hate. Mr. Ferry’s appliances for fitting and
adapting the Hat to the head, will no doubt give
full satisfaction.
Poet Oetioe Stamped Envelopes.— The Post
Office Department has recently had occasion to in
struct a deputy postmaster upon the subject of the
use of the stamp ot the Nesbit envelope out from
the envelope and pasted on another. We here
with present the offioial letter to our readers, who
will peroeive that the envelope and stamp can only
be used as a whole without mutilation:
“In reply to yours of tho 22d inst., informing
me that a 1 letter with a stamp out from a stamp
envelope and pasted on another envelope’ was
dropped into your office, aud that you had for
warded it as unpaid, is received.
“ Your action in the premises was correct. The
act authorizing stamped envelopes to be provided
aud used, authorizes them to be used only as a
whole, as a union of the stamp on, and with tho
original envelope; and no privilege is granted,
either by the law or by any instructions of the De
partment, to use them iu our mails in any other
manner.”
Steamship Racinb on the Atlantic The New
York Commercial deprecates the exoitement which
is displayed respecting the performances of the
Collins end Cnnerd Steaners. The editor says:
“ We sinoerely hope that merchants and under
writers, and the public generally, will earnestly
discountenance this whole business of betting on
the performances of our ocean steamers, and con
verting the Atlantic ocean intoa race oourae. The
insurance companies can greatly aid in suppress
ing the dangerous practice, if they be so minded,
end to them the community have a right to look
for snob protection as they can give. If they raise
the rate of insurance as the exoitement and bet
ting increase, or refuse to insure when money ie
known to be staked upon the rate of speed to be
accomplished, the evil would soon be abated.”
At a meeting held in New York in May last, it
was resolved to appoint a committee, consisting of
one from each State, to make arrangements to hold
a world’s temperance convention. That commit
tee, comprising most estimable and respectable
gentlemen, have called the meeting to be held in
New York city on the 6th of September next.
A well was cleansed at Lawrencebnrg, Indiana,
last week, in which were found two buckets of,
butter in a state of entire preservation, although
they had been in the place at least fourteen yearst
as the well had been closed during that time. The
buckets were much rusted and the outside of the
butter dirty, but, after scraping a little of the ex
terior off 1 , it looked as natural as if churned the
day before, and did not smell near as strODg as
wbat is often sold at the stores.
The Fishery Question.—British Demands A
correspondent of tbo New York Express says that
the British Government baa put forward the fol
lowiug demands as the condition for the settle*
ment of the Fishery Question;
Ist. The admission of Bi itish built vessels to
the privilege of American register.
2d. The free admission of the British Flag to the
coasting trade between the American, Atlantic,
and Pacific Ports.
Bd. The abolition of our present bounties to the
American Cod fishery.
4th. A farther modification of our Tariff—of
course with a view to favor British interests.—
And
6th. Tho original demand of reciprocity of
trade with the North American Colonies.
These demands, if correctly stated, are too un
reasonable to secure even the respectful considera
tion of Congress, and have already put a close to
the negotiations that were in progress. It will be
seen that every one of the items would require
the Legislative action of the two Houses before
any treaty stipulations of the kind could go into
effect. To grant them would be iu direct and ob
vious opposition to the interests of our agricultur
alists, our manufacturers, our ship owners, and
onr fishermen.
The United States mail steam ship Franklin,
Capt. Woo ton, sailed from New York at noon on
Saturday, for Havre via Cowee, with $86,876 in
specie, and 85 passengers, arnoag whom were Wm.
Courtin and child, E. S. Haines, Charles Kilgore,
E. G. Palmer, and L. Trapmann, of Charleston
The net amount subject to the draft of the
Treasurer of the U. States on Monday, July 26th,
was $22,896,808.76, of which $28,559.66, were in
the bands of the Assistant Treasurer of Charleston.
The British war steamer Medea, arrived at Bos
ton on Saturday, from Halifax, which port abe left
on the 28th nit. It ia anppoaed she brings dis
patches in regard totha fishery question.
The Amazon steamship and Trading Company
of New York have in progreaa of building at the
latter place a large sea steamer and several small
er ones for river service. Large grants of land
have been made to this company by the Brazilian
and Bolivian governments; and an agent ia to be
eent out without deley to take charge of them to
form stations along the river, and to perfect the
enterprise.
Advices from Curacoa to the 16th nit. state that
the health of the island is restored, the lever hav
ing entirely disappeared. The trouble in Vene
zuela baa not yet subsided, bnt still exisjs, espe
cially in the southern parts. President Monegss
has called the fleet home in great baste. The
trade between Curacoa and Venezuela ia dnll.
A serious acoident oocorred on the 27th alt., near
the depot of the central railroad at Phillipsburg,
Pa., by which three men were seriously injured—
one, it is thought, fatally. The accident was caused
by the gravel train being thrown off the track by
running over a hog. The injured persons were
hands on the train.
Several banks are springing np in New Orleans
under the new free-banking law, among which
are the “ Southern Bank” and the “ New Orleans
Bank.” The Mechanics’ and Traders’ Bank, we
perceive, has also reorganized under the new act.
At the commencement of the New-York Colum
bia College, on Wednesday, the degree of D. D.
via conferred on the Rev. Thomas T. Davis, the
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Bouth-Carolina.
Term Drawing a Madrid-— The authorities of
Madrid have deemed it neoeeetry to prohibit tbe
drawing of teeth in the public street*; first, bee
cause it ia derogatory to ia dignity es a dentist’s
profnaion; and, aeoosdly because “it stuns the
$nM with blood."
New B» li*. ' 1
The Southern Orator, c ..sigt.urg of A
of Elocution, and selection. Stable for DeV
tion aud Recitation, from eminent
tors and Writers, and others. Macon, Ga.: \
Games.
The above work seoms vi i! well adapted t]
object for which it is inten led, aud is a uoat*
creditable sample of Southi u book makinr. /
paper, printing and bind! * are all tho wori St
Southern industry and skill, :,nd the work decokes
the encouragoment due to “ homo iud a ry.’ 1 It
may be had at the Book-store of Tho- Hu burps*
Son.
The Heavenly Home ; or,Tea Employment end
Enjoyment of the Saints in Heaven. By Rev. H.
Harbaugh, A. M-, author of “ Heaven ; or Tho
Sainted Dead,” &c., <fcc. Second edition. Phila
delphia : Lindsay & Blakiston.
Tho subject discussed in this volume has more
interest for the hninnu heart than all others, and
the manner in which the author treats it will,
*o most minds, be both satisfactory and consoling.
The work will receive from the pious and reflec
tive of all denominations a most welcome reception
and its perusal will afford pleasure and profit.
For sale by Jos. A. Carrie & Co.
The Half Yearly Abstract of the Medical
Sciences. No. 27—January to June. Philadel
phia : Lindsay & Blakiston.
This valuable Medical work is promptly ou our
table, enlarged and improved, and containing a
great amouut of interesting matter. It may be ob
tained from Jos. A. Carrie <fc Co.
Wo have also received the following valuable
Medical works, from the Publishers, viz: “ The
Charleston Medical Journal and Review ;” “ Nash
ville Journal t>f Medicine and Surgery ;” “ Annual
Circular of the Medical Department of the Universi
ty qf Louisiana."
New Publication!.
Putnam’s Monthly, for August, is a capital
number. It contains, among many other articles,
the following: “ Our Crystal Palace;” “ Cariosi
ties of Puritan History;” “ Keeping School iu
Texas;” “ Letter from Hiram Powers;” “Acade
mies and Universities“ Russian Despotism and
to Victims;” “On the Gothic Stylo in tho Fine
Arts;” “Reminiscences of an Ex-Jesuit;” &c.,
&o. There is a lresh and vigorous nationality
about “ Putnam * that wc greatly admire. It is
totally unlike auy other magazine, aud in point of
merit occupies the very foremost rank. It may bo
ordered through Gao. A. Oater A Bbo’s., of this
city.
The KniolEesookkr, as fresh, racy and enjoya
ble us ever, has also just reached us from tbe
publisher,;«« gfa, Jieamtpr Kivuum-a’.reet,
New York.
Alabama Election.— The returns freon *he Mon*- J
gomery diatric* show ike c.cctioii ol aberukombie
by an increased majority.
The Recent Defalcation Charge.— Tho N. Y.
Times says the statement of tho defalcation of
Wm. Zantziuger, late Disbursing Agent ol the State
Department, undoubtedly had its origin in malice.
He had accounts with Corcoran & Riggs, under
several heads, and drew his cheek for SIO,OOO
against a certified balance due him on one ac
count, which the bank teller declined to honor, be
couse he had overdrawn in another private ac
count. The Department failed to notify him that
the obeck was not honored, and no opportunity
was therefore afforded him to arrange the matter.
His accounts would be immediately and satisfac
torily adjusted.
A new edition of Wilton’s New-York Business
Directory contains 87,212 names of persons, firms
and companies doing business in that city, classi
fied under 873 headings; the trade, commerco aud
professions carried on being subdivided into as
many distinct branches. Retail grocers, number
ing 2,828, are the most numerous; porter houses
2,848; boot and shoemakers 1,183; boarding house
keepers 1,378; lawyers 1,840; physicians 1,078;
olergymen 451; brokers 736, and butchers 772.
The list gives some idea of the amount and variety
of business transacted in New-York.
The Cleveland and St. Louis Air-Lino Railroad
Company has been organized. The road is in
tended to be as near straight os possible. Seventy
miles of it, on one stretch, will be perfectly
straight and the whole distance will be only 375
miles. The company is to have a capital of ten
millions of dollars. Already eight millions havo
been raised in New England, and the road, if such
is the case, is sure to be a fixed fact within a short
time.
The Costa Affair. —A correspondent of the N.
York Courier and Enquirer calls attention to the
fact that previous European advices stated that tho
American officer who figured in this affair was In
graham, which was then unquestionably correctly
given, but as the sound is not altogether inhar
monious with Stringbam, it has been converted
into the latter. The sloop-of-war St. Louis is under
tbe immediate command of Commander Duncan
N. Ingraham, while Commodore StriDgham is the
Chief of the Squadron, and was, by last accounts,
at Constantinople, in tbe frigate Cumberland, tho
ship that bears his broad pennant.
The Trenton American announces the death,
on Sunday, at New Jorsey, of Edward McCall,
Post Captain in the United States navy. This
gentleman has been for many years in the naval
service of his country, having distinguished him
self on Lake Erie under Commodore Perry, and
was presented with a sword by Congress for his
gallantry at that time.
Ibeneas, one of the editors of the New York
Observer, now abroad, in a late letter to that pa
per, in speaking of that class of England’s nobility
who heedless of the suffering humanity in their
own land, pour out an untold amount of sympathy
for the enslaved in America, says that they no
doubt would follow the Scripture injunction, by
taking the beam out of their own eye, provided
they could sebl the timber.
The Governor and Council of New Hampshire
have taken time by tho forelock, and appointed
Thursday, the 24th of November, as a day of
thanksgiving and praise.
Statue of Washington. — The President has
just completed a contract with Clark Mills, Esq.,
for the erection, in Washington city, of a colossal
bronze equestrian statue of George Washington,
according to the terms of the act of last Congress.
The statue is to be similar in style to that of An
drew Jackson by the same artist. The contract is
for s6o,ooo—that being the limit of tho appropri
ation—s2o,ooo to bo paid during tho progress of
the work and the remaining $30,000 at its comple
tion.
A Chance fob the Ladies.— The Agricultural
Sooiety of Columbiana county, Ohio, at its exhibi
tion, commencing on the 12th of October, in order
to afford the ladies of Columbiana county, and any
from a distance who may bo in attendance, an op
portunity to display their agility on horseback,
have raised a purse of $250 to be d : stributed,
in premiums, worth from $5 to SBO, to the best fe
male rider, or to those most skilled in reigning a
single horse or a span of horses in harness.
TheU. S. Navy. —The Journal of Commerce
urges the attention of the government to the in
crease of onr naval power, as necessary to secure a
due respect for our neutrality, and for our com
merce. When our minister to France complained
to Napoleon of the violation of our neutrality, un
■ der his edicts, which were retaliatory to tho Brit
ish orders in Council, he exclaimed—“ Let Ameri
ca declare her rights, and defend them on the
ocean with her cannon.” The Journal sayß:
“ Tbs presentation of a respectable naval force
by the United Btates, might deter foreign powers
from a renewed experiment upon our meekness
and forbearanoe. In a word, our government
ought to be prepared tp declare and enforce onr
neutrality, In the wars that may happen. It is by
this means alone that the United States may be
kept ont of the coming straggle—forcomo it will,
whether from the present or a future state of
things. It is to be remembered that it is not upon
the sea alone that foreign powers may violate our
neutral rights. They, In former times, took pos
session ofour ships and of their guaranty both of
treaties and of tne laws of nations. The same
things will happen again, beyond a donbt In
whatever war such aggressions should involve us,
is it certain it will be confined to a naval disputa
tion V’
At the Crystal Palace, on Friday, 8,848 persona
were admitted on single tickets, ann 1,760 on sea
son tiokets. The cash receipts were $1,632.60.
The contributions to the Washington National
Monument fund amounted to $41.40. The report
that ladies were not admitted to the Palace unless
accompanied by gentleman has been contradicted;
and it ia said that all the employees iD the build
ing are inßtrnoted to pay particular attention to
them.
Death of a Pioneer. —Jeremiah Butterfield, for
merly of Cincinnati, died at his residence, in Ross
Township, Butler county, Ohio, on the Isth inst.,
in his 78th year. When the B’reets of Cincinnati
were surveyed and laid out in 1790, says an ex
change, Mr. Butterfield, then a mere youth, car
ried the chain. He iived to see the city he helped
to lay out become the habitation of 160,000 aouls.
The Wab Question.— Th i Courier and Enquirer,
doubting that there will be any war in Europe,
says:
« The truth is, that in spite of all thebluster and
the turmoil, the sending of diplomatic protests,
the concentration of fleets, and the proffers of me
diation, it seems at present as if the Czar were
about to have his own way, and have it quietly
too.”
Florida Ahead! —A Spanish needle-worked
handkerchief, the handiwork of a lady of St. Au
gustine, we learn from the Ancient City, drew the
highest prize in the World’s Fair at London, of '
any article of the kind exhibited there.
Snow Arch on Mount, Washington.—A] party
of travellers just arrived at Portland, from the i
white mountains, report that on the the 13th inst., f
in ascending the Bummit olMonnt Washington,by 1
a new route, they passed under or through a natural t
archway of snow, twenty feet high, and one bun- ’
dred and sixty feet long—the crust above their I
head forty feet in thickness. The surface of this
mass of snow extends over several acres, and has
no signs of ice or crystalizstion.
A New Ruse !—M. Delhomtneau, a gardener at t
Le Mans, France, has at the present moment a
rote tree in bloom which ia the admiration of all
amateurs. It is a hybrid, and bears a flower of a t
bluish lilac color, a tinge which has never before «
been obtained. The flowers produced are most t
abundant, very atrong and regular, and measure t
nearly four inohes in diameter. It haa flowered I
tbit jeer tot the bit tine. I
The Prorct* Ahead.
W ecopy from v . Hrnne Courier the toilowing
uttering intulti--uee ettraoted from its eorres
tondoce >.
! A promum-L Union Deuioorut in Chattooga
coumy sends us a list ot eighteen subscribers,
fur. d concludes by saying that“ The Union D* mo
ors ts of this section are, without a single excep
tion for Jenkins und Tkiti’E."
A worthy citizen writing from Hall county, in
forms ns 'that “There is hardly any division
amongst the old Union party in that county.”
Another, writing from Middle Georgia, says
that “ All the Union Democrats and Whigs, aud
a number of SoutKm I ights men in this oounty,
are strong supporters t>l Jenkins.”
Genera! Patton, who has just returned from
canvassing the countios of Polk, Paulding and
Carroll gives us the most cheering intelligence of
the Republican party in that quarter.
Everywhere, indeed, tho same spirit of noble
emulation animates onr party, and tho Secession
ists may prepare tiiemsci ves for another W aterloo
defeat.
Tho Savauuah Repnblican has the following ex
tract from a correspondent:
“ 1 feel a deep intorest in the present political
canvass. lam a Jenkins mac to the core, and 1
think I can safely say that old Pike has a large
majority of the same sort. I have not seen a sin
gle Johnson uian yetj, and if there are any in this
section they are ashamed to own it. The two-elded
secessionist will make a bad showing with tho
honest yeomanry of this section.”
Rai-id Growth or Oregon.— From the first week
in 1868, to the intelligence by last dates, itappoars
that tho amount of immigration to the territory of
Oregon, is over 10,000 ; whiob, added to the 80,000
already settled on her soil, and the natural increase
since the taking of the last census, must bring her
present population up to 44 or 45,000. So that wo
may safely calculate that Oregon will be tho next
claimant for admission to the Union as a Stato.
A new motive powor, it is said, lias been dis
covered by some one at Frovidenco, R. I. Tho
force applied is magnotic attraction, and the power
is applicable to driving machinery, locomotion,
navigation and all other purposes for which steam
is employed. It is also capable of lighting aud
warming. The great advantage of this powor, it
is alleged, is its cheapness, nothing being consum
ed, and no cost being nocessary in generating it.—
The Providence Journal says:
The maobinc has been applied to tho magnetic
telegraph with entire success. An engine is near
ly completed to tost the invention as a motive
powor on a largo soak-. The Stock is i» the hands 1
ot ‘-he shrewdest buaiuo.-s mon in Providence, and
so much confidence »a felt m the success of the ca
per: ment, that shares, the original coat of which |
was 160, have changed hands at 1350. If it an
swers tho expectation of its frionds, limits can
hardly be put to ita value; if it fails, it will be in
the category of many other good things.
Machines for Gl ove-Bew us.—A complete re
volution is about to take place in tbe manufacture
of gloves. Tw-i inhabitants of ureooblc, Franoe
inverted, aoonttho samotime, a machine for Suw
ic.g , • ves ■ but in place of competing with each
other, they agreed to unite tho advantages of each
invention. One found means to sow, mechanical
ly, tho fingers of gloves; while the other, after
sewing the remainder of the glove, was compelled
to employ operatives losew thotingors. Thoinven
tors, by combing the two machines have produced
one which sows gloves perfectly. This discovery
has produced a great sensation at Grenoble, whore
tho manufacturers wore not able to supply the de
mand for want of a sufficient number of opera
tives.
Culture of the Grape in the West.— The cul
ture of the grape in tho West, especially near tho
shores of the Ohio rivor, has lately become of
considerable importance. The Cincinnati Gazette
says:
Mr. Longwortli will this year have on hand and
for sale about 200,000 bottles Sparkling Cntawba;
Messrs. Longwortli <fc Zimmerman, some 611, 0U0
bottles Dry Catawba, exclusive of a quantity of
wine sufficient for 1110, 00bottles; Mossrs. Bogon,
Corneau & Son, Werk and others, from 80 to
10",000 bottles Sparkling Catawba.
The adjacent country of Cincinnati has about
1,500 acres of land in cultivation and hearing
vines ; other places in the States of Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky, about 500; Missouri end Illinois,
200 ; together, 2,200 acres. The average crop of
an ucre is 200 gallons of wine, amounting, there
fore, in the aggregate to 440,000 gallons annually,
which sells readily at $1 per gallon.
A Pierce Appointment.— The St. Louis Repub
lican of the 14th contains tho following announce
ment:
Ralph W. Kay has boon appointed Pastmaster at
CarroFton, 111., iu place of R. B. Hill, removed. It
is not known, wo understand, who recommended
him. He is a Froosoilor, a (armor, and nut a citi
zen of the United States, having never transferred
his allegiance from <duoen Victoria to this country.
Ho will be somewhat bothered when ho comes to
take the oath to support the Constitution of the
United States, before entering upon the duties of
bis office.
G*n. Eli Warren. —The attempt of open ene
mies and professed friends to ereate dissensions
in the Union ranks, has proved an utter abortion.
With characteristic nobleness, Gen. Warren has
defined his position in the following note, which
we take from the Georgia Citizen :
Perkt, July 22, 1858.
Dr. Andrews— My Dear Kir :—I deem it dao
to myself and my frieuds to say that I feel no dis
satisfaction, whatever, nor have 1, of oourse any
thing to complain ot in reference to the nomina
tion, by the Corsorvative Republicans of the 8d
Congressional District, of a candidate for Con
gress, and that I shall give to Col. Trippe, the no
minee of the Convention, my warm support, ns I
shall also, most cordially support Mr. Jankins for
Governor. I never thought of doing otherwise.—
Intimations that I might not do so, induce me to
ask of you the favor to publish this note.
1 am very respectfully,
Your obedient sorvant,
Eli Warren.
Yellowever In New Orleans.
The total number of interments in all the ceme
teries in New Orleaus for the week ending Sun
day, July 81st, at 6 o’clock, A. M., was 880, of
whom 602 died of yellow fever.
The Royal Mail steam ship Europa, Cuptuin
Shannon, sailed at noon on Wednesday from Bos
ton for Liverpool with $288,000 in gold ingots
and $1,500 in English silver coin, and eighty-six
passengers.
At a recent meeting of the Mississippiana in San
Erancisco, it was resolved to present to the Hon.
Jefferson Davis a sword of Oaiifornia manufacture
with a set in its hilt, to be selected from the gold
bearing mountains of California, “as he risked his
life to obtain them forthe United Statesof Amer
ica.”
The cholera, yellow fever and small-pox are
making fearful ravages on tho estates in tho inte
rior of Cuba. The thousands of recently intro
duced Africans have brought with them a terrible
kind of diarrbosa, which is carrying off vast num
bers of victims, and rapidly extending its frightful
progress through the Island. In Havana the troops
are said to be dying like rotten sheep. In some
regiments of a thousand men there are scarcely
four hundred available, hospitals are as fullasthey
can hold.
The Course of tub Administration. —The Mow
Tork Commercial dilates on what it calls the “in
explicable course of President Pierce’s administra
tion.” The editor thinks—and a good many peo
ple think with him—
“lt is about timo that the country knew some
thing of the general principles, domestic and for
eign, which are to guide that Administration du
ring President Pierce’s incumbency of office; and
yet in every truth, scarcely two of the Democratic
papers seem to agroe in their estimate of what will
be tbe Administrative policy. The general em
barrassment on this subject is not a little increas
ed by tbo contradictory course of the "Washington
Union, which claims, with what justice we are not
prepared to Hay, to speak tho sentiments of tbe
President and his Cabinet. One day that journal
lauds Itussia, and the next utters contrary semi
tnents;—now it asserts that the President will
neither place nor retain in office a free soiler, and
then endorses without qualification, tho appoint
ment of a gentleman notoriously a free soiler; it
approved one day Governor Lane’s proclamation,
avowing his intention to seize upon the Messilla
Valley, and again condemned it as unwarranted:
now it reads a Barnburner journal out of the par
ty, and anon a Hunker until its readers are lost in
its maze of contradictions."
Choice Livino.—The St. Augustine (Fla.) An
cient City, says beef is sold daily at that market,
at three cents per pound, and four cents for choice
pieces.
Furious Attack of a Peacock upon a Child.—
On Saturday week, a peacock attacked oni ufsnt
daughter of John Kreutzcr, of Summit tewnship,
Somerset county, Pa., with such fury that he
pecked out one of her eyes and wounded the other
before he was driven away. The child had a glass
of milk, which ii appears the bird wanted. The
wounds are not likely to be fatal.
Con Liter Oil.—We find in the Repertoire d»
Pharmacie the following paragraph recommending
butter as asubstitnte for cod-liver oil in certain
cases:
“Cod-liver oil is an aliment which restores and
reconstitutes the tissues ; in a word, itis an ana
leptic medicine, by the aid of which the disor
ganizing action of tubeicle is combatted. The
only inconvenience attending its use is, that it Is
sometimes difficult of digestion. In this case Mr.
Trousseau substitutes with advantage for it the
following compound:
Fresh butter 4 ounces.
lodide of potassium 5£ of a grain.
Promide of Potassium 3 grains.
Common salt Ji® drachm.
The butter is eaten during the day, on very thin
slices of bread.”
The Fishery Qcestioh. —A Washington rumor
asserts that the British Minister, Mr. Crumpton,
Mr. Marcy, Secretary of State, an'J Mr. Cashing,
Attorney General, will leave Washington for Berk
ley Springs, there to proceed with the fishery and
reciprocity negotiations in a quiet manner, free
from the frequent official interrnptions necessarily
met with at Washington.
The Steam Ship (My of Manchuter sailed from
Philadelphia, on Saturday for Liverpool with fifty
six passengers, $20,000 in specie and a large
freight.
Os the fifty three species of the four legged ani
mals known to exist in Australia, not one is to be
found any where else; they are all residents of New
Holland exclusively, or of the adjacent islands. On
the other hand, the very commonest of the old
world quadrupeds are not to be met with other
wise than as colonists in Australia.
Fontenelie, when describing the difference in
the mental constitution of the sexes,says: “Wo
man has a cell less in the brain, but a yiire more in
the heart than man.’’
The Washington Star says that perhaps there
never was a time before when so great a difficulty
existed in inducing men to enlist in the army of
the United States. This is attributable wholy to
the gratifying condition of things in the way of
plenty of work for everybody who will work, and
»l UMIIUtJVMM,tOO.
~ .Inigo». ■»
Onis friends, ot the Colmab.u. linjuirtr, (who is
generally acknowledged to be “some, in a bar
fight,”) i'ok s tho following sharp sticks at the
“secession” candidate. Tho hits ere palpable,
and not to be parried:
Wo norecivo from the public prints that tlic Hon.
11. V. Johnson is abroad traversing tho Stute on
an electioneering tour. Ho addressed tho people
ot Henry county ai McDonough tho other day, and
from all accounts, his effort would not have killed
a respectable sized, possum, much less a well-grown
00011. We see that he is also to Speak At Newnan
somo dav shortly, and wo hope in tho course of hie
porigrination lie will not omit to give onr place a
cull. Wo would like to hear what ho now has to
say to that “contemptible pi ck” w ich he was ho
free to sposk of in Millodgoiillo in December 1850.
Docs he call them by tho same namo now lhat lie
did then ? Or has a change come ovor the “anirtl”
of his dreams, and does he call them by a different
namo, as lie culls his own parti byadiffercnl name
new from what he did tl 011 ? Detnoermv wsson
athema mnranallia with him then, and Southern
Rights was the Baal before whom he bowed down
and worshiped, and upon whoso altar his pnr'y
was thjn williug to offer np human victims as a
sacrifice. Will lie point to those “brilli; lit ilus
trutions” of Democracy under Gen. Pierce’s ad
ministration, such as theappointment of pix, and
Vroom, and l’oasloe, and llkot, and William J.
Brown, anti the editor of the l'kin Dealer, to lu
crative and important offio s of honOt and trust}
Will ho attempt to vindicate this pditii n of Gen.
Pierce’s administration before the intelligent and
bonest voters of Georgia, or will he dodgo tln-ni
and run iff on appointments that may liuvo been
made by former administrations? Wo should like
to hear him, und learn, for ourselves whether he
is really adroit at roeoneil'n g incongruities— at
mixing oil and water—at backing and tilling 0
dexterously that no 0110 can tell when liu’s back d
aud when he’s filled.
Wo should like to hear him explain at what
time the party to which he belong- ceased to bo
“sectional” and became “an integral portion of
tho National Democracy.” Was it, as some of his
friends claim, immediately after the acmns . f
the Georgia Convention of the lmh Dveemhcr
1850? If so, how is it that we find him in 185'j
and up to the Ist Monday in October, of that yea ,
urging tho otuiuis, and voting tor ono for the higl -
esto ffieo in our State, whoso known toolings mid
political views were indirect antagonism to tlieao
tion of that Convention ? We should liko to hear
hitn talk about there tilings. We should like to
know for cm tain whether he is going round eaiing *
up tho words lie uttered two or throe year.-, ago.
It so, we hopo he'll liavo a good lime of it. It is
certainly no very pleasant sight to see a man en
ned in eating his own words as soon as lie finds
argo majority of tho pooplo are unwilling to
swallow them for him. But wo suppose ho only
eats them like the English laugh, ‘‘from :! '
tv elt low B of whether Mr. Jenkins intern'* to , »
“ mono: the stomp ’ or aot. Neither do wo think
ita loader of any Importance. His reputation ns
a Statesman, his ability assn orator, his deep, all
abiding devotion to the y interests of liis na
tive State, are all well know ... bis fell.-w citizens
in ovory county and preedit. ~ natoa i,. • nhiar
as house hold words arouni every ' c - «ii no
throughout the broad expanse oi the mfid. He
needs uu\ to go upon the stamp with the words of
;yh“ leattgoguß aud the trick oi Uu< politician to
•a.-I- 't: away pa-t political fins. His past history
ia op-iti the record* of his State, und lie seeks no
shuffling concealment, or false Construction of that
record. Wo repeat, we know not whether Mr.
Jenkins intends to tuko the field on an oleetio- oer
ing tour or uot, but hope his opponent, as lie inis
now “broke grouud,” will extend thetheutrcofhis
operatlous at loust as tar as Columbus, that our
good people may aee and hear for thouiseivos what
raannor of man 110 is. Wo think a tuir exhibition
of him out this way will make votes lor Mr. Jen
kins.
What Sort of a Democrat Is Judge Johnson.
In a published lotter written by H. V. Johnson
dated Doc. 10, 1850,w0 find tho following opinion.
Will our rea : era believe, says the Marietta Union,
that ho iu w has faith in tho national domocrutio
party ? Ou.ht ho not to como down and support
Mr. Jonk : ns, who belongs to neitli r of the “ ac
cursed alliances” instead of attempt ng as he
does, to defend the presen administration in fos
tering the froesoil influence of tho North? But
nere are his opini ns of democracy in lfc'so:
“A very few reflections will detect the most
fruitful source of ull tho evils inflicted upon tho
South. Prior to 1886, there wero scarcely tiny di
vision of opinion tu the South, in relation to tho
national questions. In 1840, the divis on of the
South was completed, and, ttndch the bitnucrs of
whiggery and democracy, tho respective parties
rallied to the support ot Gen. Harrison nmi Mar
tin Van Buren. Each allied with corresponding
parlies at the North, and formed what wero called
greet national organizations. Since that time, each
party luis vied wi h the other iu making advaucea
and surrenders, so as to meet the North in sup
port of oaudidatos for tho Presidency, nominated
by national party conventions. At every step tho
South has grown weaker and tho North stronger:
und to preservo the integrity of those national
parties, wo have yielded and yielded until our
power is paralized; ami for the suke of elevating
partioulur men to the Paesidoncy, and lltolr min
ions to subordinate lienors, we have to some ex
tent, dosed our eyes to our constitutional rights
and grown insensib e to wrong.
What then is tbogmt thing to ho dono f Re
trace our steps we cannot, hit iee cun at leant ter
minate these accursed alliaecn, Then, let the flr-t ob
ject of our State convention he tho const suction of
a true Southern Rights Platform,on which ntuy bo
rallied and organized it true Soul In rn Rights Putty,
whoso watohward shall bo nncompiomising hos
tility to all men and ail parties, either North or
South who aro not only ahuve sospioion , hut uppity
and, uni quivoo, illy in favor if the constitutional
rights of the South. Such a parly will hold tho
balance of power botwocn contending aspirants
for tho Presidency. Its support and suffrage will
be courted by tho North; und it will very soon
result iu the formation of a sound Southern Rights
party at the North, who In their turn, will exert a
salutary oheok upon tho action ot parties there.”
It was not a Southern Rights party in the Union
that Judge Johnson so much desired or Ids place
would now be with the Republican party of Geor
gia. He was dreaming of something ciso. In the
course of his long letter ho intimates vory strongly
his moaning, a glanco ut which may bo had in tho
following paragraph:—
“ Wo have been yielding inch by inch, and stop
by step, for the Inst fiitcen yours, until we huvo
become almost insensible to the wrong, and id ruid
to avow our rights. It aots of aggression, such us
those of which we now complain (tho Compro
mise,) had boon perpetrated in 1882, tho South
would not have submitted “ thirty days," and any
man would buve been “tarred and feathered-” 1
who would havo counselled subrai-sioii. Our ten
dency has been and Continues to ho downward,
yielding position after position, Ip fho vain hope s—,
that wo would flnully roach a point, at which
Northern fanaticism would be satisfied and permit
us to enjoy tranquility. But it has not abated one
jot or tittle of its demands; and every year we
grow less and less inclined to tako a'flim aland
and say to theflery flood, “thus fur und no far
ther shalt thou como.” How then can wo trust
ourselves, or believe ofbois, it wo conliunoto say,
not now but whenithc next act of aggression shall
beoonsummatcd-Avo aro resolved upon resistance f
Gentleman, 1 thwk the time has now come, when
the South should look this question full in tfic face.
Lot us not listen tothe sireu song of peace, whott
there is no-peace. ■
Items.
ale Delioaov I—A young lady roocntly fell
in n alarming fit of the “highstrikes” upon
hearing her lover remark that tue wind had »/lif t
ed.
Death to Romance!—To seo a wusp-waisted
young lady, in ringlets and an abundance of floun
•es, grac. lully sailing to the head of the table, and
with a voioe as angelic us a tenor flute, cull to the
wuiter lor u plate of cold pork and beaus, is the
most trying thing romunco can encounter.
Fies a Kemedt for Biles.—As we ure now in
the midst of the souaon of figs uud grapes—“every
mun Bitting uuder his own vino and his own lig
tree, and none daring to make him alruid ’—it may
be as well to remind our readers tnal tigs, accor
ding to the Scriptural record, ure au excellent re
medy for biles. Clnr readers wilt find in Isaiah,
ch. xxxviii. v 21st, the following passage: “For
Isaiah had said, let them take a lump ol ligs, and
lay it fora plaister upon the bile, and he (Ilozekiah)
shall recover.”
broKlTNe Ibtelliqenoe.—The great race be
tween a nightmare and a clothes-horse, came off
yesterday. Tho inau who entered the mure wasn’t
wide awake—so the horso dashed on and o»inu in
at the winning-post a length ahead 1 Where is
the man who, some time ago, was endeavoring to
raise u colt Irom the night inure i
“ Harriet Beecher’s too! (Stowe)—Harriot
Beecher’s toe 1” exclaimed an old darkey, with a
puzzled expression “ob countenance,” as he passed
his sable digits slowly and thoughtfully through
the wooly covering of his occiput. “1 beer all de
wito people talkin’ ’bout Missus Harriet Beecher’s
so«, but dey nebber suy uull'in ’bout her heel, orany
odder part ob her foot. Wonder wat d» mattah
wid dut too 1 ’Peers to mo it’s a long time u
trubblin’ her;” and with a sympathizing shake of
the head, tbo old man continued his occupation.
We Knew he Could’nt do it !—'The report
that the people of Buffalo were about sending Ni
agara Falls to tbe World’s Fair is flatly contra
dicted. The mason who proposed to take them
down abandoned the job in disgust, and left for
the Great Salt Lake, some days since. So says the
Albany Dutchman. Well! we knew tho thing
was impracticable, from tbo first, und never did
consider the Crystal Palace the proper place for
auoh things! Glad they did’nt bring tho Falls
down, as it might have produced dampness and
••riieumatlz.”
lAreaxsas Senator.— The Governor of Arkan
sas has appointed the lion. Kol.ert W. Join -on a
Senator in Congress to fill the vacancy occasioned '
by the resignation of the Hon. Solon Borland, ap
pointed minister to Central America.
Death of Kkv. Eli Ball. —The numerous
friends of this vetoran minister,will read with pain
the following announcement of his death, which
wo find in the Baltimore Truo Union, of the 28th
instant:
“ We learn that this excellent Brother died on
Tbun-day last, in Richmond. Tins seems a mys
terious and painful Providence. Under an ap
pointment by our Southern Missionary Board 10
re-visit our Africuu missionary stations, and
anxiously pieparing to depart with enlarged plans
and hopes of extensive usefulness before him, tlio
Great H« ad of the Cl utch suddenly calls him
home. Let the enquiry, and the admonition come
to all of us: Who next will be summoned ? ‘Be
ye also ready.’ ”
Memphis and Charleston Railroad —The trea
surerof this road, Mr. Samuel Tate, gives notice,
in an advertisement in another column, that on
the Ist September next and on the first day of each
month following until the Ist April, 1854, the
stockholders w II be called to pay eigh. percent,
on their stock Hav. Rep.
We understand that a railroad is in contempla
tion from St. Paul to Fonddu Lac, Lake Superior;
that a charter has been granted, a company has
been organized, and the stock all taken. There is
to be a meeting of the stockholders some time
during the present month, at St. Paul, to make
preparations for immediately commencing the
work.
This road will bo from 80 to 100 miles in length,
and its great importance will be manifest to every
one at all familiar with that seotion of the country.
It will open an outlet, and the most legitimate one,
for the trade of the whole Upper Mississippi re
gion. It will also bring into use a vast and fertile
trsot of land now considered almost out of the
world.
The Ship Wm. R. JIaIUU, cleared at Mobile,
on the 80th nit. with a cargo of 3680 bales of cot
ton, and 80 ton* of logwood.