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ttY WILLIAM S. JONES.
;iUmICLE & SENTINEL.
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CH (OMIOLG Ik HENTINEL
lI%IS V »MI I HI-A KKKI.Y.
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WOODLAND FEMALE SEMINARY,
CEDAR TOWN, GA.
''l'llK Pt>riner f‘<- »i ,n < f »hh lu.Utotlnn, for 1354, will
1 ,■ on the 1H Monday in JANUARY. All the
broil t it ICo le, 1: !• ur*e, lire U uglit by » Hoard of elB
- r,* *f 1 . !,* ■? t.* i-tly Oent>o en of good zcho anhip—
, , 1 ,i:h«rt,i,»U»» not inure than taenty pupil.. The
f.r Ho ril.nisd To.tlon fn the Library He
j,, r,t, *m, and for Unelr, *ls per annum. Tor a
ratal u«u "fpartleulaia, apply to
:ri J. M. WOOD,Principal.
FEW FIELD FEMALE iIEKXNABY.
1-}|r v y I i ea of t la tnHnoiiur. will lie remimed on
■ I IMI !M. l-.t V uarv. 1164. under t c >up.r
~ . r I. ,ury, M: a Evelina Macon and Mlia Cor
1' , Kyerv eifort will twirandeoy Ih .reconnect* I
w th t' 1 I .s'.tution, to secure t> each puni! a thorough
. Vi , .i-icatioD Ter inn more auccesaful ae
•• ~f th « •.tuwt.arairuiafixiurseoritu'lyha'
1 ... I, • mbri ng in addttMl to the elementary
~ . t’ i.igh r hraniJwaof itaWamntics. the Mental
■On.' i-d Latin Language.
r | ;.ic«l and Ornamental nraamea will receive the
„ , . ~, . whore naat onoeie nave nroven them
d J I riful liutnuiler*. "e call attention,
, . ■ tidal 1 million, whtnit. irom tne comnrehen
,lr 11. > fn lurae of at nlv—from Lie erueriewe of It.
I , , , d f 1.1 |u pUsaant antt retired location, af*
ford . ni rior a Ivantagea fcirFemale Bducation.
I <, i partioidars .tddreaa K. T. ABIIURY,
i.l i.vrtV! feofleld.Qa.
WILLIAM H. TBTT.
WIIOLF.iiALL AND RETAIL DRUGOIST,
Avgusta, J•,
*M NOW lIKrl-lt INI. a very, true and complete
I 1 -k ~f inter- , MKnIOJNKS FAINTS.OILS,GLASS,
P'.„r , 'ii:ar, itiiWAHM. i>yw nwrra. ami fancy
AKiK Lit. which 111 hat zvleowa. in nerson, with the
4„. from the 14 vest linnorsers and Manufacto
r| H j„ t t,i, o .ll,try, and which, lor aaMitr and cheapness
•an'iot 0.-cin '. .1. lie would resnectlullv Invite the al
to.: on of Men-hanta, Turners and ThvalcUni to hla
Ali '.r l. r* wiil be executed wltft We utmost neatness
an I d'.**i»x , eh. aeo7-dAirtf
FRENCH iIUKR MILL STONE MANUFACTORY,
CORNER BROAD AND UUMMINGSTUEETB,
Aoumi. it a,
rpilK HI IWrilllir.il takes mu occasion to Inform
1 Mu numerous fri'iili and the unac generally, that
1,,. 1,,, i, moil' -.1 the above business underthe mod fa
v„r.»>,b: ,• pie,-,, luving engaged ini services of an ca
per. I -i 1,111 highly iuallß,d workmen, ami Ratters him
.n il ih , t 1..- work w!li compare wltn ur ntner manufac-
I nr-r I i "icUuAcd .-,l.ate». !!•* amo aega lo apprise the
.1!,. rin. i itlrp'public, that all oraara »nn which lie may
10-1 -. .1, iiii.nl l.uvs ldn periooai auantion. prompt exe
cai| .. . patch. A ahar iof nueiie patronage la re*
«|I,I I.ii|v a - 1- !. PATRICK KuOL'K. Proprietor.
sepll-wly _____ _
CAIiSVILLE FEMALE COLLEGE.
WVV I KD-An expert need TBAOIIER (a Lady) to
u>'! ell irec of the Pruuaratort Department.
—AWL-
A Indy to teach Embroidery, Drawing and Painting,
Me. r oi I . Inairuct the Engnjn hranchca. None
to d apply uutei.a well recommended, Address
,l wil WM. A ItOHKKB. McDonough. Oa.
FAIR WARNING.
VI I, n r o ns indented 1 1 the estate nr W. 11. Candler,
lit •of Columbia enuntv. deed., iro Hereby notified
to o- 11 ii : n'w .ril mid make p ivmsoi on or ncfsre the Ist
of Hi •i.. rip xi, or they will lie deals with according to
law. This Is positively the laat call, l'he books and pa
p.ii, will be found In the lianas nl A. L. Massengale,
Wrl lit-Cora'. A. T. CINDLER. Adm’r.
s.'plß-wtUl
WANTINH
AT the Newton Factory, Oa., a Hnsbner and a Weaver;
gentlemen of pood moral ohiiraeter. ipjd that under
,taint, their business, none other need aunty. Address
n'J-wtf JOHN IVKIIB. Newton Factory,fia.
KANAWAY
IMU»M the subscriber, in Oanbarg, Wlllusooun- ».
s ty, on nr a .out 'lie fifth day of October last, a tiff
NKti',OMAN, I'd or 40years old, about 3 feet 9 or
in in h t hlga, supposed to weigh from IRQ to
nodi i dirk complexion, slow spoken—rather a down
ok whn spoken to; li s name!iHeaborif. Bald boy has
a wife In Columbus, Oa , and It Is rather supposed that
lie sill tiy I" make Ins way to that place. A reward of
I w t my Dollars will be paid to any person for his delivery
to in", or if lodged In some safe Jail, so 1 can got him.
W. B. NORMAN.
«r TheOcd inhus Enquirer will give the above two
in’, i a , and hr sard their account to this ofllce.
nIS-tt
UI,ENDINNING * CO’S
k a Altlil.pl U Ultllb, llromlStreet, Augusta,Georgia
i\i whero we have on hand and will continue to keep a
large st" !. nl both Italian and American Marble, for
M "mini lit-,Toombs, Head Stones, Ac., to which we res
j, ; II) ,'.||| the attention of those wanting work In out
Lie. ,Ve are now prepared to fill all orders at Short no
li ..... in as good style and as low as work of thesame, quality
in he furnished for from any establishment in the United
Suit . Pinna anti prices willbosentthoso whocannotea
and exainue for themselves.
p. ,i ijnlersf rom the country executed with neatnes
nil do,patch.
OSAUE ORANGE PLANTS FOR HEDGING
r|xllM Hi lI’CHIDKII will offer for sale, during the
I i tii- of D:-.. “ Southern Central Agricultural Society,”
TWISTY FI li TllOl ■ AND OSAGE OIIANUE PLANTS,
i,ff,.,ui onet" Dv, years' growth, suitable for setting out
the rnnling Kali They may he set one foot apart in the
bed., :".v, and will make an Impenetrable and permanent
lie.l ... with proper care, InSord years. Pamphlets, de
,,, il.il,g Die method of trimming and truluing the plants,
lun.h 1,, ill ill purchasers. Those desirous of engaging
. upply In advance, will address D. REDMOND,
;ii,Bl -ts _ Augusta, On.
TLAN OF THE CITY OF AUGUSTA.
r ■ MIR l.Yl)i;it‘sll,.YLU has been Far some time, and is
i n’>w, engaged in making a SURVEY and PLAN OF
TUB Cl TV for the City Council. The Plan will occupy a
sheet of a’ -tit three by five foot, and Ifo drawing will be
ms 1,. I, „ scale ofone hundred feet to Tall an inch. All the
public iiiiprovcinent; Willbeapprennaveiv designated, and
a REGISTER ol the nam s of the ownern or Real Estate
mil, m.tiny the Plan. It will contain a brief descrlp
lloii of the improvements on each 10l and their assessed
v.i.110. f ; lei the usual designation* lots bv numbers,
Bin plan will, as far ns prae'liable, anew their dimensions.
II a aulOcleat number of subsenesrs is obtained, the
PI .n e . 1 1 lleni t i-will bo printed and delivered to them
about tee ttr.it of January next. The slant cost of pub
lish,. In ' not boon ascertained. it bsanecn calculated,
hewi ver, that with one hundred and ttrtv subscribers It
can beh in h m lydono, aud that tnsv oan be supplied
withe pi . colored, varnished and mounted on rollers, as
usual ol from of,?»(lo tan dollars ontm.
la a hurt time the citterns will holurnished with an op
..orlunii v es sub wrlb.ng for the warx. a mailmen of which
~l!l th ibe exhibited. The nuimicf st conies published
al l bo limited to the subscription !'«■
j, lb dli.iawiJ in WILLIAM PHILLIPS. C. E.
CHOICE FAMILY MEDICINES. J
/V.uimi by J, bb MS 'IS. M. /A. Awust<i t Ga. (
/ \ t OiliilA tiAtitf IPAttlLlA* For Disease# of the i
l.Jf L!v r it» t> Puri if ill 3 B'ocHL This is the purest j
an lln -t preparation «»i' garnauirtlia now In use. the i
Dipltimat of me South lUrollua ln»uvute ami the State i
Fair of Ue >rgta have been awarilail this Preparation. |
Price, f> 1 per M.e I Six Bottlefl fbr SA. <
ANTMMLLtOU* PIuLS. A Mild. Bafto and Effectual Pur* \
gatlw, without Uangerou* eonjeinanccs following their ;
use. Prior 48 cent* per ho*. i
ASFKINGK.M* T »XIC. For llowti UomolHlnts, such us |
Ui.»rr.no», P liu in the Stomach. Unplug of the Bowels, i
\e. IMo $1 per Bottle i
811 M I'LALINO IHTTKRB. For Utar< i»U, Colds, and t
FcrmUi C )inpla:nta arising from Colds. Price il per
Bottle.
OOUO: t t*YHUP. For Coughs arisiov immediately from a
ihs used CoudUiou of the Lungs or Bronchial Tubes.—-
Pric ft»and V> cents per hottu
|{ KALI Ml SALV . A uvful and tavaluable article t >
o iuse Freih Wounds and other Soros to heal. Price 25
o uts per Box. 4
»nMUL\TINU LINIMENT, for Aheumatlc Pains, In- i
fluunv. try Swo liug*, Spraius. Swelled Breasts. Sore <
l'hr.'a', Tooth’Aehe, Ac. Price 2b oents oer bottle.
ANTI : PAStIuDIO T l NOTH UK. for ail Sudden and <
Dan t ; ous Attac ks of Diseases, in which immediate action i
i» ne;c,ry, h>m Fits or Convunums. Apoplexy, Lock ]
Jaw, Ci t -pcdie, Pneumonia. A3. For external use,
ia Fr sh Cut*, Bru,a t, Bite of Susies. Sting of Bees or
Bite of iVt. u us Insects, it will tmmuv relieve the sorr
n. < 1 1 produces its effect* by emwllimg the circulation
o' the l* 1 . n>d,aud by relieving Innammhuon.
For 11 v»U>‘this rioctuiol* a sore remedy in Colic, as
well as a v.Uau'de ivriicle to caute rm>h wounds and
other sore* to heal. Price, f l tier bottle.
Oct '5
TO COTTON PLANTERS
UtVDill s. cured the icmcMor Mr. 0 T. OGLKSUY
as the superintendent'together wttn other experienced
.vhu.;v>, 1 h ive established a tarn COTTON GIN TAC
-0 JUY,at the >hoal* ot Ogeechec. ua.. where l am pre
pared to make attd furnish the Plantar with the best arti
cle m the wv v of a COTTON GIN r»w nrodoecd In this
country.
Mr. OoUBBT 4 8time l devot d exciaaiveivln theshop.and
•eeaig to the patting up of every hm under his special di
notion, ami attaching all the mioro foments which he (Mr.
o.n f»t.' has gotten up within the tut two years, 1 am
ta'UV i I eat. snp.-rude anv made Mfctofsrt.ln Quantity,
quality and JurahUitj.
All Old Guo, (.When sent to the SMD.I will be retired,
and all i he imprOTetneata attached If desired, at a reaaon
bto charge.
The new Gins will be delivered at the I’tanter.’nearest
depot, or at their resilience if deslretf.lrce oi charge.
Prompt attention paid to all eoirannications addressed
to me at the above other.
THOMAS J. CHKKLY.
SHOALS OF OGKECHEK. GA., )
ASCII 5, ISSB. f
TO WT OLD PATRONS ill TailKBS.
As there has he u some eociolalntsl mr Gins, made du
ring the last two years: an explanation to Too in relation
to this mailer is due Mr. Caiui,.
I ha»a been absent a .-rest vortloa ot this time, on a
visit to the North, experimenting ann cettmg up a new
Oln, as w-'ll as .m.'roving, the c.nm aa I Saw Gin, together
with suitable mat'liinorjr forthls euimes*. to its highest
rfe'tim, as will be a.'knowledced b» all who have used
.hem, both in JurahtiitT and aualiti efCotton.
1 ' hall now devote mj individual attention ia the shop,
a, o see that every part of eachUm is duiud in the neat
est o ',-ible manner: in short, I trad make the original
Oj ' v Gin which has been so ceteormted for Us dnrabil
itv and f. 10 Cotton, having taken the premium in this State
at well a. tha. of South Carolina in ererv instance except
on., and then it was taM bv foreign dealers that my Cot
ton wt«of a superior Quaiitv. In conclusion, my late im
provements aide.! to toy former utns. cannot fail to give
entire satif urtion. 1 will alter anv otd Gtn (not too much
worn) to do better work than it ever did before.
Yours, most ro pe-tfully. M. T. OGLESBY.
raarS
CABBIAb .
\-|T|; i|\\ K OX H\XD. and are recelvtnwa good
assortment of CARRIAGES: ROCK AW AYS; BA
BOOC :K.<; lUraOIES, and Light CARRYALLS. Also,
H tek an I Rond W AGONS, toeetner wnn an assortment of
HARNKSi, BUGGY; UMBRRLLAB: WHIPS: TRUNKS;
CAR 'Vr BAGS VALICES. CHILDRENS’ CABS nnd
WAGONS; CARRIAGE BOLTS, brute nackage or single
one; all of which will be sold on roasonvble terms, at the
store formerly occupied by the late It. M. Hoaplit.
REPAIRING done at short notice.
Aug.is’a, April!, ISSB. WYMAN A DARROW.
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rHK MONTGOMERY MANUFACTURISG COM
PANrSIRON WORKS.
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.
if ASI V Vl'Tl HK, In smiarmr styte. Horisonta! and
all Upright STEAM ENGINES, oi all .iset: Steam
BOILERS ; LOCOM OTIVES . C a.tlr o n WATER
lugar MILLS ; Saw and Grist Mill IRONS, of every varle
y, (including Hoxl. scontinuousfeet lor Saw Mills;) En
gine and Hand LATHES; Iron and BrasaCASTINGS. of all
kinds, Ac., A-
All orders Ailed with deapatett.
Apt* MINDRATn CO.
BAKER COUNTY LAND.
Tim BUBSt HIBKH offers Ibv sale gk.NW Acres Aril
quality Oak, iii 'knryand Pine LAND.in Baker coun
ty; among which are several tmprovea and partially im
proved PL ANTATIONS, of TAP to !LOWI Acreaeaeh.
Theae Land* have been selected wtn gnat care, and
e?wpr se wme of the most valuable Oottnn Lands in the
BsU'hern Btatea.
lfdeslr «,ucreditofl,land* yearswIRbe given, with
iutere-i aided WM. W CHEIVEA.
A.bsii>, Ga., AagustlO.lHHt
au«t -awdAtwAwtf
en M. Imported aad Asaertaaa HDGABS,Iast received
OU and In Mis by HIB A RICHMOND,
•X4M IHmt bs Gray Brother!,
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
WR SALE.
800 ACHEB LAVD FOR SALE.
ÜbCIIIUKII offers for Mile a choice tract of
! X LAND,c»uuimn(r Ki»iht Huadred Acres, lying six
i miles fru u U*rn srille, in Frxnkiin county, »»*., on the
i road leading to AtianU.on the waters of Nail's, Littie'saad
Crocket's cr eks. Said tract of Lund contains One Hun
dred Acres «f choice bottom Land. Said place is rery well
improved. Purchasers are invited to call and see for
th* tnselm. anl4 SATHANIF.L HOLLKY.
LAND FOR »ALB
r r % IIU hl BHCKIBI.It offersf-r rate his PLANTATION
X on which he now resides, containing 810 acres, (three
hundred and ten acres) be the same more or less, lying im
mediately on the road leading from Raytown to Crawford
viile. The Wilkes Branch Railroad runs through the south
west corner of said Lands. Immediately on which is a
large body of Woodland, well timbered, affording great fa
ciiiHe* to those who may be desirous to engige in the
speculation of wood and timber on said road. The above
Lands a ill be sold in a body, or divided to suit buyers
Those wishing a go id Cotton Plantation wili do well to
call and see for themselves. Early applications are very
necessary, as I wish to make other arrangements.
june22-tf WILLIAM T. BROOKS.
ALABAMA PLANTATION FOR SALE.
'PIIK undersigned offers hi* valuable PLANTATION,
X on the Chattahoochee River, for eale. It is in Russel
j connty, Ala., about 8) milts below Columbus; contains 12
to 1500 acres, 6K> of which are in cultivation, well im
proved, with two O n houses, the machinery of which are
propelled bf water, and a valuable Ferry.
Terms—One, two and three years. For farther particu
lar* addre s MATUfcW, EVERETT, VlUula, Ala.
19T PROVISIONS for the supply of the Plantation
wili be sold on the premises, if desired. nIG w 8
LAND FOR BALE
THU Htßkl/81881l offers for sale Five Hundred
Acres of Oak and Hickory LAND, situated directly on
the Augussta and Waynesboro Rail Road, one mile from
the latter place, two hundred and fifty acres of which are
cleared and under fence, the balance timbered land ; em
bracing every variety known to that section of country,
with a small creek running the whole width of the tract
that nevtr fails in the driest season. There is also upon
this stream some of the finest meadow land in this State.
Those wishing such » place would do well to call on the
subscriber at an early period, ai he will sell at a very
reason ibie price. Residence two miles from Waynesboro'.
012 wßm JAMES W. JONES.
PLANTATION FOR BALE. ~
r rim fcLBSCKiIRRII offers for sale the Plantation on
X which he lives In Telfair connty, seven miles above
Jacksonville, immediately on the road to liawitinsville,
;md about two mi'es from the Ocmu'gie r ver, containing
about six hundred acres Pine Laud. On the place are
comfortable Log Houses, Gin House*, und Cotton Press,
and about 150 acres cleared land, under good fence.
Price *2,000.
There is a considerable quantity of merchantable Pine
Tiraberon the land—enough to pay for it—and any quan
tity of well timbered Pine Land, adjoining out back, might
be added to It at very low prices.
In connection with the above, I would sell,if desired,
another body of Land, containing over six hundred acres,
mostly Bottom and Hammock land. On this land there
U a convenient settlement, and buildings enough for the
accommodition of a few hands, and about 100 acres clear
ed and being cleared.
For further particulars call and see or address the
subscriber at Mcßae's Store, P. 0., Telfair Co., Geo.
dl7-w8 D.MoRAE.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
THE riUUHCKlßEii,intending to remove from A
; this part of the State, offers for sale, his present P&
I HENCE, nine miles from Augusta, near the Savannah
Road. The Dwelling House is good, and attached to it are
allout-buUdingsneces3ary, not only for a Dwelling, but also
fora small Farm. There are about two hundredand forty
acres of LAND belonging to the place, of which one hun
dred are inclosed and under cultivation. The Land is of
good quality, and adjoins the Lands of Maj. George L.
Twiggs.andßobt. A. Allen, Esq., and Is about one mile
from the Augusta A Waynesboro’ Railroad.
-ALSO,—
Two hundred and sixteen acres of first quality River
LAND in Beach Island, 8. C., opposite to New Savannah,
and avoiding Lands of Twiggs and Mason. This Land is
now in cultivation, and has on it all necessary buildings.
—ALSO,-
Three thousand acres of LAND in Barnwell District, S.
C.,eight miles from Aiken. The Charleston and Hamburg
Railroad rnns through the Land ; and upon it, and one
mile from the road is a good Grist and Haw MILL, now in
operation,and near the Mills a comfortable Dwelling House
in J all necessary out-buildings. This tract will be sold
entire,or in parcels to suit applicants.
Applications may be made to the subscriber at his resi
dence in Richmond county,or to hisson at the Mills in Barn
well. WM. J. MIMS.
marl3-wtf
lAND FOR SALK.—The subscriber offers for
J Sale 820 Acres of LAND, lying well, 100 of which Tl*
are cleared and inclosed. It is in the 18th District and 8d
Section, and divided by the lately established line between
the counties of Gordon and Murray, and within 2# miles
of the Western and Atlantic Rail Road. A spring of good
water near the dwelling house. A number of lots can be
added on reasonable terms, forming a large settlement.
For other particulars, apply to the subscriber at Rome,
Ga. Jaßo-wtf J. C. MoDANIEL.
FOR SALE.
ALAHUR&nd convenient BRICK STORE, situated
in the centre of business, in the city of Rome, now
occupied by Robt Batty, Druggist. This store was fitted
up as a Drug Store, without regard to any reasonable ex
pense, and with a little alteration could be converted into
an elegantly arranged Dry Goods Store. The situation for
the sale of Drugs, Dry Goods, or Groceries can hardly be
equalled in the city. Terms easy. Apply to
GEORGE BATTY, M. D.
Rome, April 4th, 1858. apr*-tf
LAND FOR SALE.
TIIU BLHBI UIUKIt offers for sale the PLANTA
TION on which he now resides, containing nine hun
dred and thirty (980) acres, more or less, situated in the
lower part of Taliaferro county, and lying on the road lead
ing from Crawfurdvilie to Powelton, Hancock county—7#
miles from Crawfordville and 2)4 r rom Powelton. The land
lies well, has excellent water, location beautiful, and health
cannot be surpassed, with all useful buildings, Ac.
W. R. BATTLE.
Powelton, Hancock county, Ga. 021-wst*
LANDS AND MILLS FOR SALE.
r~pHK BUBBCRIIIKII, being determined to ggk
X move to the West, offers for sale, his valuableJjJ
and well improved PLANTATION, lying aloDg the Chat
tahoochee river, in Troup county, Ga. This plantation
contains about Eleven Hundred Acres, nearly one-half of
which is in a fine state of cultivation; the remainder being
well limbered woodland. Its productiveness is not excell
ed in this section of the country. On the tract is an ex
cellent set or Mills both for wheat and corn; the mills are
“nkw,” built within the last twelve months, now getting a
good run ot custom. I will sell the Land and the Mills to
gether or sepsrately. 1 have no hesitation in saying that
this settlement is quite as desirable as any now offered for
sale in this region. The place is healthy.
Any person, wishing to purchase such property, would
do well to call and examine for himself, as great induce
ments will be offered to purchasers.
022 wtJal JOEL M. CHIVERS.
VALUABLE HIVES LANDS FOB BALE.
MV PLAtXTIXU interest being too large, I oiler dNh
for sale a portion of my Sava nah River PLAN-3J
TATION. This place is too well known to require descrip
tion, and persons wishing to purchase would do well to
look at it, as 1 know it would satisfy any one who is ajudge
of good Lands Terms made easy, WM. J. EVE.
oSA-tJal
A CHOICE PLANTATION 808 SALE.
IaHAT well known and celebrated FARM, in Mu-nJh
con county, 5 milea east of Oglethorpe, and SluTr
miles from Montetuma, recently owned by Maj. John
Young, deceased, is now offered for sale by the undersign
ed, heirs to the Land.
The Plantation contains 1,21A acres, between A and 600
open and In a high state of cultivation—the entire Farm
being well hedged tilth the Cherokee Rose. The Ane
spring water, health, beauty and fertility of this place, ren
der i. second to none in thebtate In point of value. The
place will be sold to the highest bidder (on the premises)
the 18th day of December next, if not sold at private sale
before that time. Terms on the day of ale. Persona
wishing to examine the plaoc. will call upon the subscri
bers upon the farm C, H. YOUNG,
JOHN YOUNG,
oM-wtd E. Jtt.JfOUNGj
FOB SALE.
A PLANTATION, containing 840 acres of choice Land,
In Talladega connty, 14 miles south of the Court
Uju9e. This place is decidedly healthy, ia very fertile,
and Is adapted to Cotton, Corn,and small grain. It abounds
with Springs of the Anest water, has a Creek running
through its whole length, and is the Aneat range forstock,
that the advertiser has ever seen. It is situated on the
road leading from North Alabama and Georgia to Mont
gomery, and should a Railroad from Montgomery connect
with the Railroad that is now in progress of construction,
it must run through this place, as it is only two miles from
the mountain gap. There is Iron Ore or the best quality
on it, abundance of Wood, and a mountain stream of Wa
ter for Iron Works. Gold has been found on the place,
also. There arc about 880 acres cleared, all under good
fence —barns, corn cribs,stables, Ac., all new. I will aell it
far below its value, as lam upwards of 80 years of age,
and have no family, but blacks. Any farther information
may be had by addressing a letter, pre-paid, to theaub
scrioer, “ Colita P. O , Talladega county, Alabama.”
ALEXANDER McCAINE.
N. B.—Titles good, and payments made easy.
junel4-wtJayl
LAND FOB BALE.
THK SUBBCMBKR offers for sale, 1400 acres of
LAND in Hancock. This Land lies well; has plenty
of t imber; is under good fence, and has fair improve
ments. Persons wishing to buy Lands, are invited to
come and look at it.
Also, 1400 acres in Carroll county, which lies upon the
Chattahoochee River, and embraces the Mclntosh Re
serve. Robt. H. S.’Ringkb will show this place to any
person who may wish to buy. ELI H. BAXTER.
Mount Zion, Ga., June 3,1858. jel2-wtf
CEDAR VALLEY LAND FOR BALK
OWE OF THE MOST VALUABLE PLANTA
TIONS in Georgia; lying 9 miles north of Cedar
Town, Polk county, and 1$ southwest of Rome ; contain
ing between 12 and 1250 acres—soo in cultivation and in
good repair; which produces as much cotton and grain in
the year, by moderate industry, as can be well saved
through fall and winter. It has produced, for the last two
years, near a bale of cotton per acre; the last ye*r
S 5 bushels of corn was measured from an acre of new
ground (upland) without manure or extra cultivation. A
part of the place has grown over 80 bushels of heat per
acre, over 40 acres. The place is well imi- oved, with
a very good Dwe 'ing, well finished ; brick kitchen, just
completed, with two rooms, and all other necessary out
buildings well watered with several Urteblue limstoue
Springs, and Cedar creek running through it over 2 miles
—a fine outlet for stock —healthy location, and convenient
to Churches and good Schools, with nearly all one could
desire. Yet, even strange to myself, offered for sale. Any
wishing auch a place, and willing to pay the worth of it
which is difficult to determine, would do well, perhaps, to
call very soon and look. THOS. H. SPARKB.
04-w2m
COLUMBIA LANDS FOB SALE.
IX accordance with the will of Samuel Haws, late of
Richmond count;, deceased, the LANDS in Columbia
count; belonging to his estate are offered for sale, 9 miles
from Augusta. Lands known as the old Haws place, on
the Washington road, and the farm known as the Roberta
place, on the Fur; Ferry road, on which the said Samuel
Haws resided, containing in all about 600 acres, which
will be sold on liberal terms, and on time, to an approved
purchaser. Will be sold iu a bod; or divided, and in such
Daniels as purchasers may wish. If not sold before the
first or January next, will be rented for the next ;ear.
For further particulars apply to Mr. Edward Hawa, on the
premises, or to LEON P. DUS AS, Augusta,
Executor of the will of Samuel Haws, dec’d.
nll-wUal
5,000 ACBEB PINE LAND FOB SALE.
THK 61'BSC RISER offers a larg! Tract of well tim
bered PINE LAND for sale, ';iog in Edgefield Dis
trict, 8. C-, and situated in the immediate vicinit; of
Graniteville, a flourishing manufacturing town, and the
South Carolina Railroad running through the entire length
of the whole Tract There is on the premises an excellent
set of Saw Mills, running two upright Saws, driven b; a
never failing stream of water, alto a Mill for grinding
Corn attached; together with several handsome Cottages
on the premises, all of which are in good repair. The
water power is saheitnt to drive machinery for an exten
sive Factor;, an d aflbrds all necessary facilities for rafting
Lumber for the Augusta or Savannah markets; and the
Railroad pasting within two hundred ;ards of the Mills,
affords transportation to the Charleston market also.
A portion of the Land is well adapted to the calture of
Grain, and offers, under all the advantages, a strong in
ducement for a profitable investment.
To an approved purchaser, the terms will be made eas;,
and for farther particulars, uppl; to B. 8. DUNBAR, or
the subscriber, at this place. ROBT. G. LAMAR.
Hamburg, 8. C., Sept. 15,1858. sepl6-tf
fW The Charleston Courier will please cop; tri- weekl;
for three weeks, and forward bill to B. 8. Dunbar.
" A TEACHES WANTED
*T APPLIAG, Columbia County Academy, who can
A. come well recommended. A Gentleman with a fami
ly whoae Wife will take charge of the Female Department,
would be preferred. A comfortable House, with a Garden
attached, and Fire-wood, will be furnhhed. Address
NATH’L BALRY,
n*4-w<t President of th« Board.
NEGRO BOYS WANTED.
TUT ANTED, two sprightl; NEGRO BOYS, about lfior
W IT .years old,to learn Black Smithing I wBl
take them tor 5 years, and will pa; *SO a year for each,
and learn them the trade. Apply to
ST W. FOSBETT A SON,
nls-wS* Winfleld. Colutubii Co.
WOP THE VILLIAN!
XT' SCAPED, from Chambers county, Ala., a tow weeks
Hi since, CHARLES JEFFERSON JUNES, tor the at
tempt of Rape. Said Jones it about 21 rears old, dark
har, dob.footed la both feet. I will reward liberally any
person tor information of him. When last heard of, he
wss to Georgia above Columbus. F.H. BOATMAN,
nfit-wfit Rough and Read; P. 0., Alai,
FRANCE'S SPECIFIC,
raaraan »•
ROBERT FRANCK. M. D„
I B.
•M* Roto Agent, Augusta.
WEEKLY
(MOW & HI
Tbe Penitentiary.
Georgia Penitentiary, i
Office Principal Ktcptr, Oct. 4 th, 1858. j
To Hi» K»cellcncy, llowell Cobb, Governor, &c.
Sm In endeavoring to diwharge ttio respon
ribility devolving on me at. Pr-ncipal Keeper of
tlie Georgia Penitentiary, I herewith present to
your Excellency the liuit Annual Keport which I
ahall have the honor tocommunicate to yon—being
for the particular year terminating October 4tb,
Since my last Annual Keport, I beg to inform
your Excellency that the behaviour of tbo unfor
tunate inmates of this Institution has been gene
rally good for the last four months, and that du
ring the past year I have had proportionately to
the number under ray charge, but few occasions
to administer punishment. In regard to some oi
them, I may safely say, considerable improvement
has taken place since they entered the establish
ment. The chaplain has been generally punctual
in the performance of religions services ol the Sab
bath, and it is gratifying to know that his labors,
which are mticn liked by a majority of the cen
vieta, have not been unattended with benefit. A
Sunday School and several Bible classes have been
established among them, with wiiolesomo effect,
and besides tLC moral and religious instruction
thus communicated, I am happy to say to your
hreellency, t hat some have even acquired a know
ledge ot reading and writing daring their confine
ment here. In connection with this branch of my
Keport, I desire to present a very important im
provement in my humble judgment—in the man
agementoi this Institution, which 1 sincerely trust
your Lxcellency will recommend to the Legisla
ture ; Tine of the great ends, in the administration
of puuishment tooffendersagainst the Laws of the
Land, is their reformation, and every means
should be adopted to secure so desirable a result.
The a icoramodations in the Penitentiary, as is well
known to yon, aro ofsach a character, as to throw
all clvsos of offenders together without discrimi -
nation or separation—among them are many
young men, who have taken only their first step
in crime, and who by judicious treatment, might
be reclaimed and sent forth to the world benefits
to themselves, their families and sooioty. But
how soon by association with the hardened and
corrupt offenders who are sent here, is every ves
tige of virtue obliterated, and how soon the
wicked thoughts, evil manners, and depraved
purposes are acquired by these novices in crime,
and they go forth from our walls, only to continue
their vicious career, better prepared than ever. I
trojtose to remedy this by making Degrees in this
nstitution, and for this another building should
be erected ; the labor of which can bo done with
little expeuso, if the Legislature will appropriate
lur.ds to obtain materials. In this way, the young
and tboso who are least dangerous and wicked,
may entirely be kept apart from the confirmed and
irreclaimable inmates ol the Institution.
I have to inform your Excellency thatduringthe
past year, the Car Shop lias boon entirely comple
ted, and that it baa been found a most profitable
enterprise B'rom the first of January, 1853,
to the first of October, 1858, thirty-five box, five
break, twenty platlorm, and fifteen stock Cars,
have been constructed by the labor of 80 hands,
averaging about two hundred and twenty days’
work to each hand. Tlio amount cleared is $9625.
From an examination of the tabular statement ac
companying this Keport, it will be clearly soen by
your Excellency ana the Legislature how much
more profitable tho business of Gar building has
been, tnan all the other earnings of the Institution.
It is therefore to be hoped thaiyourExcelieccy will
recommend, and the Legislature appropriate funds
to extend and enlarge this building ana branch of
business, so as to employ three times as many
hands as are now engaged in the work. If the ma
terial be furnished for this purpose, tho labor can
be done by tho convicts, under the direction of a
Master Workman. I think it advisable that ail tho
shops within the walls of tho Penitentiary, should
be constructed with reforonae to the main build
ing, so as ultimately to become a part oi it. A
uew Burk House, and also a now Bark Mill, have
been recently erected on the promises. A now
Grist Mill has boon put in operation, a new I’aint
Shop has been nearly completed.
I respectfully solicit your Excellency’s attention
to the subject of tho Cell Building, and the con
dition of the cells now in use. There has been a
a great deal of neglect in regard to this matter
which 1 have been unable to remedy, even with
tbo outiay of a considerable amount ot money.—
The recent heuvy rains have done considerable
damage to tho cells, rendoring them exceedingly
unhealthy forthoconviotsto live in. The tinning
and roofing upon them is in a very imperfect state,
and ought to do ropaired us soon as possiblo. It
will be found indispensibly necessary to build
about fifty new cellß, in order to accommodate tho
increaso which is continually and rapidly taking
place. Tho number of cells which wo have at pre
sent, is about one hundred and filly, and they aro
now nearly all filled.
The business of Tanning has been followed to a
considerable extont iu tho Penitentiary, but 1 uni
disposed to think, it is far from being profitable
to the Stato, and I therefore present it to your Ex
cellency’s consideration, asa branch of our proseut
employment, which might prudontly bo discon
tinued. The price of Tan Bark is, and has been
very high, and indeed it has been difficult to ob
tuin it at all in such quanties as wero necessary for
the proper carry!ng on of the businoss. 11 is truo
that if the cash system were uniformly pursued, in
making our purchases of Tan Bark, tho expenses
would be oonßiderubly diminished, but tbiseannot
always be doue. Iu our sales, I have, under the
prudent instructions of your Excellency adopted
,ho cash systom entirely, and I am happy to in
form you, it has reulized all that wo anticipated.
Since tho second day of May last, much of my
time lias been oocupied in tho construction of a
liailroad running from the Penitentiary, to iutor
sect tho Eatonton and Gordon Koads uear the De
rot. Tho embankments and excavations aro no r
y completed, and I am in hopes that the road wili
be entirely finished and ready for operation in six
woeks, provided, tho ’roil with which to lay the
track, can be obtained. Tho work has been done
at but little oxpouse, and almost entirely with the
labor of the convicts, and this enterprise is there
fore so much lubor gaiuod. for had they not been
thus engaged, they would have beeu unfit for al
most anything olse; lam fully pursnaded that this
road will prove a groat facility in carrying out the
business which now chiefly occupies the" time of
tho inmates of tho Penitentiary.
From my observation and experience during th*
time 1 have had the honor to hold tho office of
Principal Kocper, under your Excellency’s ap
pointment, I have bucome satisfied that in order to
enable the Chief ot tho Institution to carry on its
business and government successfully, he should
havo the ontire control over overy Department,
and that all tho officers connected with the Peni
tentiary should bo selected, and appointments
should bo made by him with tho concurrence of
the Executive, and that they should hold their offi
ces during good deportment, subject to removal
for misconduct, neglect ot duty, or violation ol any
rules established for tho government of the iusti
stution. Adequate salaries, and such as would
secure the whole time of oompotent men, should be
raid. If this plan wore carried out much more
mrmony would exist among the officers, there
would boa more efficient discharge of duty, und
all tho offleors would be constantly compelled to be
punctual in the performance of every trust devolv
ng on them. I deem it proper to submit to your
Excellency that the salaries at present, paid to the
officers, and especially to the mechanical over
seers are entirely insufficient to oomtnauJ the boßt
services, and I suggest tho propriety ot your re
commending the Legislature to incro-t-c" them.
Out of the number of offleors which are now ap
pointed by the Principal Keeper, all that aro abso
utely necessary for tho safety of tho establishment
aro : The Captain of the Gate nnd one Sergeant o
tho Guard, those being the only indispensible offi
cers, together with nine privates, so as to have
throe Beliefs ou all ordinary occasions, with how
ever, tho power on the part of the Principal
Keeper, to appoint during any emergency, or any
circumstances of an unusual character, an addi
tional number of six, for any time not exceeding
three months. Under this view I think tho office
of Lieutonaut of tho Guard is only asinecure, used
as the patronage of favoritism, and might with
safety be dispensed with entirely. In this connec
tion I have also to suggest the abolition of the of
fice of Inspector, which is practically little less
than a sinecure also, tho duties of whieh are by
no means arduous, should como properly under
the attention of the Principal Keeper, who can
easily discharge them, without much inorease in
tho amount of his labor. Your Excellency will at
oneo see the propriety of making this suggestion
to the Legislature ut its approaching session, so as
to diminish as mncli as possible, the expenses of
this Institution. It is proper for me to state hero
that by Law, tho officers and guard should be paid
their salaries quarterly. In couseqnonce however,
of thoro being an insufficiency of funds in tho
hands of the Book Kooper, the salaries of several
of the officers and guard were unpaid for illtecn
months. I there!' ire submit it to your Excellency,
wliethor it ought not to be so directed that tho in
terest accruing therefrom should be paid to said
officers.
1m regard to the heal Hi of this Institution, 1 beg
leave to refer your Excellency to the very favora
ble report of the Physician, herewith aunexed.
Your Excellency’s attentiou is called to the Re
ports of the Book Keeper and Inspector accompany
ing this Report, for information as to the condition
of the Finances and Indebtedness of the Peniten
tiary, I herewith annex also several tables, show
ing the number of convicts that have been received
since the fifth (sth) of January, 1852, up to the
present date ; also the number that have served
out the period of their sentence ; the numborthat
have been pardoned, and the number that have
died ; also a table showing the loss of time by
sickness, and the number of lost working days,
also a table showing the number of convicts that
have been received into the Institution from its
commencement un to the present date—the num
ber sent lYom oacn county, and the nature of their
offences. I have examined all the appropriations
which have heretofore been made by the Legisla
ture for the Georgia Penitentiary from its com
mencement up to the present time, and I find from
a call made by the Legislature the 10th of Decem
ber, 1b45, on the Treasurer of the State, that up
to that, there had been appropriated the sum
15>47.... 8,150
14 1849 and "50. qjq
44 1851 and’s2 24150
Aggregate.. *411,678 43
Being annually an average of *11,485 87-11-36
during the period of its existence.
Congratulating your Excellency upon the cloee
of a brunt ut adnunistiation, and upon the unin
terrupted pleasant intercourse which has existed
between us during our official connection,
I have the honor to be
Your obedient servant,
Lewis Zacuaky.
Principle Keeper Georgia Penitentiary.
the November number of De-
Bow’s Review, it appears that the total cotton crop
of the United States in 1552-5 S was 8,262,882 bales;
to which, if we add the previous stock on hand of
91,176 bales, we have for the total quantity now
8,854,058 bales. Os this amount, after deducting
the foreign export and a stock on hand in the
oonntry of 185,648 bales, and 20,861 bales burnt
at New Oi leans, there remain 671,009 bales for
home consumption, against 608,029 last year, and
404,108 the year before, exclusive of the amount
consumed by manufacturers south of Virginia, I n
this and southern establishments, it is estimated
that 20,000 bales are used in North Carolina, 10,000
in South Carolina, 20,000 in Georgia, 5,000 in Ala
bama, 5,000 in Tennessee, and 80,000 on the Ohio;
making a total 90,000 bales; which, if added to the
stock of interior towns’ etc., give a total crop of
the United States, last year, of about 8,860,000
bales.
In 1851 the cotton exported from the United
States amounted to *112,815,817. In 1852 the
value of the cotten exported from the Gulf of Mexi
co alone amounted to about *100,000,000; and the
other products from the same porta amounted
to *100,000,000 more. The total value of the cot
ton exported from the United States from 1790 to
1851, was t1,TH,691,676.—CWktf0» Cotir.
A young physician askTng permission of a law
to kisa her, she replied:
“ No, air, I nsvgi ilk* » doctor's bill stank in aj
faot*”
AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1853.
From He Baltimore American.
Will the Ministers or be Turned Osll
Under the Esetera Empires |» Vizier most an
w‘ •> his head for the >■ access of his measures.
In Europe an unpopular Minister receives leave to
retire. In Mexico a revolution marks the popular
disapproval, and the obnoxious measure is buried
health tbe ruins of the government. In the Uni
ted States the defeated ministry await with patience
the expiration of the constitutional term of their
appointments, and then submit to the grand in
quest of the uation the comparative merits of the
policy which they condemn, and of the system
which they would substitute;
lint a ease baa arisen for which precedents have
ma le no provision. An administration has been
charged with a failure to administer the govern-
m «pt according to the principles of the party to
which it owes its election. The issue has gone to
the people otthe State in which the question has
arisen, and it lia- beeu decided against the govern
ment ; first by the triumph of their recently de
feated political antagonist, and secondly by tbe
ballots of a majority of the political party to which
the administration belonged. The question then
arises, how shall the Democratic party enforco the
execution of its own priuciples ? The ordinary
remedy would be to asait the expiration of the
Presidential term; but that would perhaps involve
the installation of the Whigs in power without
giving to the Democratic parly, iu the meantime,
an opportunity, to prove either their sincerity or
the ailedgcd superiority of their measures. From
this dilemma there is but one means of relief.—
This is obvious and simple. The ministry should
resign.
Mr. Pierce accepted the Democratic nomina
tion with the inscribed obligation to maintain
the compromise and preserve the Union. He re
newed his engagements in an inaugural address,
pronounced before tbe people, to whom he was in
debted for his authority. He summoned a Cabi
net to whom were submitted tbe execution of bis
pledge. They were to carry out the details, so far
as it was within their constitutional competency
to do so. This Cabinet has adopted a policy
hitherto unknown to our government. The Sec
retary of State, pursuing the system with which
he has been so long identified, employed the
power of reward, aud tbe fear of removal as the
means of carrying out the obligations of the ad
ministration. In this he bus been ably aided by
the Attorney General. Emulating the example
of tbe notorious Lord North, these gentlemen
have endeavored to seduce and to iutimidate the
“rebellious provinces of New York aud Massa
chusetts” by promisesof confiscated office or threats
of royal indignation.
Copyiug the practice of an earlier and yet more
corrupt period of English History, the Secretary
of the Treasuiy—the Western Walpole—has,
with the assistance of experienced clerks, es
tablished a political price current, in which the
salurcd value of his fellow-citizens is regulated by
their several capacities for partisan services.
The Secretary of War has co-operated with his
associates He has presented himself like a Guild
hall champion, reuay to maintain the supremacy
aud the succession. He is clad in the complete
puuoply of a consistent life, and dares to single
combat all who insinuate that he ever meditated
disunion or consorted with Freesoilers.
The system of North aud Walpole hassignally
failed. Tko people have spurned the bribes, they
have despised the threats, and with a love of free
dom which was superior to the ties of party, they
have overthrown tbe combinations which had
been projected for their subjugation. This has
been evidenced by the loss of New York of more
than thirty thousand votes, by an irremediable
division in the Democratic battallion, and by tbe
oapture,in conscquonce of their strongholds and
military cheat. The Department cf the South has
been neither gulled by the bait of a Railroad which
cannot be built in ten years, and is thus “neces
sary to tho protection” of a State whose establish
ed ability to protect itself will render the Railroad
unconstitutional on the day of its completion; nor
could the whole Southern Department be terrified
into approval by tho artillery of the War Depart
ment. This was shown by the loss of more than
seventeen thousand votes by a Gubernatorial can
didate standing upon and justifying the policy of
tho administration.
Can any one say that the spoils system has not
had a fair trial i The Cabinet was headod by Mr.
Marcy.a veteran intriguer, aud for years the lead
ing spirit of the Albany regency. lie had learned
to roly upon human venality, as the great lever of
party enccos3. A Democrat in name, his policy I
was based in contempt for popular virtue. A
statesman in position, he has applied to tbe en
larged policy of a nation the plan of bargain and
sale which had disgraced a State. Occupied with
settling tho account curroat of party, he has per
mitted foreign affairs of the most momentous con
sequences to remain in arrears, or to suffer from
neglect. Our fishermen nearly ruined by the delays
of diplomacy, were anxious to tost their rights bo
foro our government had a vessel upon the dispu
ted grounds. The imperial policy of France was
vacillating between the preservation of iis ancient
friendship and the establishment of an alliance
with despotism, and all Europe was discussing the
policy of a general war, belore we had a Minister
at some of the principal courts of the continent.— ;
Spain, pressed by her importunate creditors, was -
on theeve of pawning the richest jewels of her i
dirdom. England, dictating her colonial policy,
was just proceeding to foreclose her ancient mort
gage, ana (Juba was lying at the mercy of foreign
machinations. Yet our government had not even
despatched its Minister whose imputed disposi
tion to despoil the government to which ho had
been accredited, was ofitselfsufficient to defeat the
intended policy of our government. Mexico had
been for months lyiug in a stato of legarthy. She
was slowly drifting into anarchy, insolvency, or a
foreign protectorate ; yet not until August last
was a Minister despatched with authority to sustain
tlio independence of Mexico or to counteract the
tendencies which surrounded her. i
llow wa- the Premier employed during all this <
seed-time of diplomacy ? Weighing the compare- :
live influence of partisans —examining the signs of
of showers or sumfhine for the Administration— i
compoundinga panacea of popularity by a due pro- 1
portion of “softs” and “herds,” of “nationals” and :
“secessionists,” and uniting the dissonant ingre- I
dients in a menstruum of public money—looking ]
not to tho Qualification of tlie officer but to the in- i
fluence of the man, aud regarding not the stand '
which tho nation oocupied before the world, bnt i
employing its authority to perpetuate a party. i
This is a new era in Atnorioan hißtory, and we i
must he allowed to expatiate somewhat upon its !
peculiar charaoteristlcs. i
From tho nature of our institutions, every Anie
rican who allows political distinction must bo in- i
debted for popularity or promotion to some origi- i
nal and distinctive view of the theory upon which !
our Government should bo conducted. Mr. Jeffer
son was a true Democratic Republican. He bo- i
lievod in the capacity of the people to govern
themselves and devoted his life to secure their ex
periment a fair trial.
Mr. Hamilton was a Federalist—a ohivalrons sol- i
dier who had periled his life for bis oonntry. He
honestly yet erroniously believed that our govei n
mont required a greater dogree of power to insure
its success than has been since found to be neces- i
sary. He thought the tendencies ol our govern
ment centrifugal—we have found them to De cen
tripetal. i
Mr Clay believed that a system of national ap
propriation was indispensable to the establishment
of certain interests—indispensable to national in
dependence. lie planted himself upon “the Ame
rican System.”
Mr. Calhoun) regarding tho Union but a conge
ries of States, lived in a nigbt-mare of apprehen
sion, lest the creature should absorb the creator,
lie studied Federal astronomy through a smoked
and distorted lens, and closed the telescope with
the conscientious conviction that the snn ot the
Union would go down in blood. His system was
based on “ tho rights of th 6 States.”
Mr. Webstor commenced os an astute New Eng
land lawyer. He expanded into a great American
statesman. He commenced by advocating the
varying interests of a calculating constituency.—
He died sacrificing his love ot a section to his
duty to tho whole Union. Mr. Wobstor was the
lion of the North, and the bulwark of the Consti
tution. ...
With an interval of decline, which it would re
quire the highest combination of mathematical
science to calculate, Mr. Marcy has sucoeedod these
men of immortal minds and etornol doctrines, with
the base and shameful motto that “to the victors
belong tho spoilsand to the humiliation of the
American name, he has undertaken, with the as
sistance of tho very competent professors who have
been associated with him, to buy upenough of his
follow citizens to govern the rest. We have given
the motto which has embodied the principles of
Mr. Marey. He will go down to posterity as the
founder of s syßtem which will not even endure
till the close of his own short life, and ho will be
designated by the historians as the “ Statesman of
the Spoils.” . . .
Mr. Pleroe is still under obligation to maintain
the Union and to execute the Compromise law. He
must carry out the programme of the Platform, and
perform the promises of the Inaugural.
The failure of his Cabinet to realize the expec
tations of the democratic party, and we may add of
the country, does not exonerate him. Augus
tus, lie may call upon his generals to “give him
back liis legions” which they have led to improvi
dent and unnecessary slaugh'ei, but nothing ex
empt a radical change ol bis administrative system
will rodccin his pledges, or satisfy the people. The
inaugural bond can only be discharged by a prompt
and full paymeutof the consideration upon which
it was founded. Aud in the common anxiety for
the success of the inaugural pledges, oven the
Union Whigs have forgotten their animosities and
their defeat. Consoled with the hope that the
President would give peace to the country, they
have submitted to ejection from office, nor pave
they rejoiced in the dissensions of their political
foes. They have, so for, regarded the disappoint
ment of the President as the fault of the policy
presented and persisted in by the Cabinet. II Mr.
Pierce shall retain a Cabinet condemned tor its
mercenary system, he will be himself held respon
sible for its iniquitous and disgraoeful doctrines.
No public man has ever been treated with more
forbearance, so long as he has been regarded as
sincere in the avowals of a political intention. But
let him beware of clinging to ministers whom the
people have condemned. Already the popular de
mand is heard for those who have dared to bribe
and to threaten the people, and who have disgraced
the Government by avowing the system of spoils
as the rule of Amerioan administration. Let the
ministers relieve tbe President from the perform
ance of an inevitable duty, by resigning into his
hands the power and appointments wnioh they
have disgraced, or let the President redeem him
self by dismissing them.
The Late Explosion.— From a gentleman who
reached onr city last evening, direct from the
scene of the late disaster on the Robert Martin,
near Port’s Ferry, Pee Dee, we learn the following
particulars:
The bodies of fonr persons killed have been
fonnd and buried near the landing at which the
explosion look ploce.
Five persons were still missing when our infor
mant left, via: the Pilot, 8d Engineer, Cook, fire
man and one deck hand.
Mr. Peter Elmo, chief engineer, was slightly
wounded by a fragment of the wreck, and hia es
cape was almost miraculous, as he was standing at
the door of his room directly above the boiler,
when the accident occurred. He was winding in
his watch at the instant. •
Capt. White was standing on the landing and
.'vrl*.u* rthe boat '. m °° m P»ny with a ladywhen
the alarming sound was heard. He fortunately
had presence of mmd to hurry off his companion
and seek partial refuge himself undaratreenear at
hand, in tune to escape some of the fragments
which were thrown up to a great height and fell all
around him.
. The Robert Martin is shattered completely, and
is left a mere wreck. Her ireight, of whi& ah*
had a considerable amount for all the landings
above Port a Ferry, was strewn in all directions
and some boxe> and packages have been found
floating down the nver Ck. Cour.
Wakd, the Louis vnxa Mixdzbzb.—A letter
written at Cincinnati states that Ward hie em
r«T*rJ of ability in Louisville, to
defend him on thetnal. He remains in confine
ment, occupies a Urge apartment, well furnished
in the City Prison, being accommodated with every
luxury. From his greet wealth and influential
family connexions, it U already intimated that he
will not be convicted, though hit offence was an
Ml of open end direct BMurdw.
From the Southern Uecorder.
Debate la the Senate.
Mr. Pope, of Wilkes, introduced the following
resolutions:
Jietolced hy the Senate and house of Repreeen
taticee of the State of Georgia in General Astern-
My met, That while we approve the sentiments
and doctrines promulgated m the Inaugural Ad
dress of President Pierce, we can only regard his
attempts toproduce harmony in the Northern De
mocratie party by inviting known tree sobers lo
participate in the administration of the govern
ment as a compromii-e of principle aud as an am
nesty to factions that have for years bee., arrayed
against the Union aud the Constitution.
2. That the sentiments of devotion to the Uuim
and the Constitution, carried President Pierce into
power—a d that all efforts by his administra ion
to force the recoguitiou of tree soilers as sound
and true men, by placing them in offices ot honor
and profit, are in direct oppositiou to that great
national sentiment, and an outrage upon the pop
ular judgment.
8. That the appointment of men to important
offices who were prominent actors iu the freesoil
movement at Buffalo iu 1848, is an insult to the
people of the South and to the sound aud true men
ol the North.
4. That we heartily sympathise with the Hoti.
Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York, and his uoble
associates iu their efforts to purge the National
Democratic party of its freesoil elements, and that
we hereby tender to them our heartfelt gratitude
for their patriotic devotion to the Union aud the
Constitution.
5. That it is inexpedient and unjust forCongress
to appropriate money trom the public Treasury to
aid in constructing the great Railroad now ooo
teorplated from the Mississippi to the Pacific, or
to grant the public lauds for a like purpose, they
being the property of all the States, old as well as
new.
Mr. Saffold of Morgan, moved that the resolu
tions of the Senator trem Wilkes be nriutedtor
the use ot the Senate.
Mr. Sturgis of Muscogeo, moved to lai Mr. Saf
fold’s motion on the table; which was 10.-t, the
yeas eing 45, nays 48.
Mr. Hull of Clark, then culled for the previous
question, the motion to print, and said he hoped
there would be uo objections to priuting the reso
lutions. Ii had been customary in this body when
ever any respectable number of Senators desired
to have a paper printed for their information, not
to retuso their requestj and as an act of courtesy,
if uotbiog else, he hoped the resolution would bo
printed.
Mr. Sturgis called for the yeas and (.ays on the
question.. There was no use in printi Jg these res
olutions, it would bo an expense to the State, all
for notbiDg. They wore entirely useless, not worth
the paper on which they were printed, or on which
gentiomcn would wish to have them printed. Be
sides, continued Mr. S., tlie matter of whieh they
treat was not a subject of legislation. We wero
not scut hore to intermeddle with the politics of
the Hards aud Solis of hew York , or any other
party, and we had nothing to do with President
Pierce s Administration. He knew the gentle
men s motive in introducing these resolutions
here! It was to bolster up a party in its last
dying struggles, which will cease to exist in forty
hour*. (Laughter.) For one, he was opposed to
printing the resolutions, and hoped it would not
be done.
Mr. Stephens, of Hancock, said: The Senator
from Muscogeo objected to printing the resolu
tions because, as he says, it is not a fit subjeot of
legislation, and is a matter with which we have
nothing to do. Are we to be told that Georgia,
our own great State, one of the members of this
great confederacy, and one of the great sovereign
ties of this Republic, has nothing to do with tho
politics of those United States—nothing to do with
the execution of our laws or the policy of our Go
vernment—nothing to do with the national ad
ministration i Thu gentleman says this is the last
struggle ol a party now in its dying agonies, and
that its existence is confined to the brief period of
forty hours. Now, according to tho rules of all
the courts, dyiug declarations are always admitted
as evidence in law, aud sir, we now ask the privi
lodge of recording what tho gentleman from Mus
cogee would term our dying declarations.
Mr. McGohee, of Houston, said he was opposed
to printing the resolutions, aud could not seo why
any gentleman wished them printed. Such reso
lutions could do no good—they were utterly use
less—they could not niako one hair white or black.
We had business enough, sir, of our own, and he
was opposed to any further discussions. He was
entirely indifferent as to the Softs and the Hards,
contended wo should have nothing to do with
Now York politics and tho President’s Adminis
tration. Why should we print these resolutions '!
What would we gain by it? The resolutions aro
porfectly useless—they can’t change one hair white
or black, it was all a useless consumption of time.
He as as indifferent to tho difficulties between
the Hards and Softs, as a fight amoug the Camau
che Indians.
Mr. Pope, of Wilkes, said he had no intention
of producing this discussion when he introduced
these resolutions. But he must say there was a
great difference between the party contests of our
country aud a Camanche fight. Shall not Georgia
sympathize with those taking her part, in opposi
tion to thoBC who would trample upon her best
interest? Shall we withhold our gratitudo aud
smiles of approval from those who are laboring for
the peace and safety of our own firesides, for fear
of offending thoso who would crush us in the dust
and laugh when our calamities come upon us?
If weeunnot extend the helping hand, we can, at
least, signify our approval. But he would not
now enter into the merits of this question.
Mr. Moseley, of Spalding, said be arose not to go
into tho merits of the resolutions, for that was not
the question before tho Senate. Former Legisla
tures had always extended the courtesy of printing
so important a document as that which now claims
our consideration. He would vote for printing tho
resolutions, and when they came up for that pur
pose, would vote to adopt them. We are sworn to
support the Constitution ol tho United States, and
may therefore introduce such resolutions as look
to, and scrutinize tho conduct of those who are ap
pointed its guardians. Aud when resolutions are
introduced, it is the provinco of each Senator to
know and understand what they are before he is
called upon to cast his vole for or againßt them.
The Senator from Muscogee had soul something
about the struggles and convulsions of a dying
party, and mention had been made of dyiug decla
rations. Now, he never saw a brave man exult at
his enemy’s calamity. The course of gentlomeu
reminded him of tho Irish woman whose husband
was very sick, even unto death, who, on the return
ot some of her friends, was found choakiug him;
and when asked what she was doing, said, I’m
helping the Lord to kill John. (Laughter.) So,
Mr. Fresident, it seems that the Senator from Mus
cogee would help the struggling party to die airy.
For one, he should voie to print the resolutions.
Mr. Miller, of Richmond, said he would not go
into the discussion of the merits of these resolu
tions. This discussion was out of order. Thissub-
C' was clearly a matter of legislation. Such had
n tho genera! custom heretofore, and he refer
red to oertain resolutions iutroduced by the honor
able President of that body in 1849, to be found
on page 68 of the Journal of the Senato for 1849-
’6O. One of these resolutions ho would read; it was
similar to those now before the Senate. It such
resolutions were appropriate then, no one could
doubt that the resolutions of tho Senator from
Wilkes were equally so, now. The resolution to
which I refer, is in these words :
“ Resolved , That the present Chief Magistrate of
these United States wont into office with profes
sions of moderation lingering upon his lips, and
with the potent declarations that ne had ‘no party
projects to build up,’ ‘no friends to rowurd, nor
enemies to punish; and that, iu no case, could he
permit himself to be tho candidate of any party, or
yield himself to party schemes ;’ that all such pro
fessions and declarations have beeu falsified by his
selection of an ultra party cabinet, and by a pro
scription whoso ferocity is as appaling to th* peo
ple aa it is disgraceful to the authors; and that in
relation to the appointing power, ha did most so
lemnly proolaim that the only prerequisites to of
fice Bhould be ‘honeety, capacity and fidelity'’, aud
yet in the exercise of that power in this State, the
present Federal Administration has, in its indis
criminate butchery, sacrificed men whose lives are
above reproach, aud whoso only crime was, the
exercise of the right of private opinion—‘a right
inestimable to freemen, and formiaable to tyrants
only.’ ’’
This resolution, continued Mr. M., was printed
without opposition for the use of the Senate. Gen- i
tlemen would perceive the similarity of the two i
oases, and he hoped no one would object to print- ]
ing theso resolntions. i
Mr. Dunagan, of Hall, said he voted for the mo- I
tion to lay on the table, but would now vote' to i
have the resolutions printed. <
Mr. Sturgis said they were not now discussing <
the merits of these resolutions, but whether we
shall print them or not. And what earthly nsewas i
there for this expense i What matters it ns whe
ther Bronson or BedfielrL or any body else, is to I
oollect the Custom Houso dues at New York ?
Mr. Stephens, (in his seat) Abolitionists or not ?
Mr. Sturgis. Yea, Abolitionists or not, for we
could have nobody else there if we had to select
one ol the gentlemen’s friends.
Mr. Ridley, of Troup, called the gentleman to
order.
Mr. Sturgis (resuming,) Wo!!, Mr. President, L
have no sympathy for Mr. Seward, Daniel S. Dick
inson, or any other Abolitionist or Freesoiler—
The Chair called to order.
Mr. Sturgis (again resuming,) Well Mr. Presi
dent, there is great dissimilarity between thcae
resolutions and those introduced by yourseelf in
1849. The circumstances are different, and 1 hope
we will not bo governed by the precedent of 1849
I know, Mr. President, that dying declarations
are received as good evidence, but they must be
made under consciousness of the fact that one is
in his last illness, and in the greatest extremity.
Now if the Senator from Hancock will admit that
these are the declarations of the great Con
servative party and that it is now in the last ex
tremity, and will consent to have this admission
published with the resolutions, I will withdraw
my objections to having them printed.
Mr. Stephens said we might admit being in ex
tremity, it we are not dead. But as the blood of
the martyrs was the seed of the chnreh, so our par
ty, if it were dead, would leave a memory and in
fluence behind mighty in the reproduction of these
principles without which this Union can never en
joy a tranquil existence. The Senator from Mus
cogee has confessed that he was indifferent as to
whether the custom houses of this country were to
be filled with abolitionists or others.
He has said that he was indifferent whether
Bronson, Redfield, abolitionists or any one else, is
to be collector of the customs in New York.
Mr. Ridley said, this is a snbject of legislation,
and sustained by precedents in Georgia and every
State in the Union. Tbe printing is for reference
and to prevent tbe possibility of misunderstand
ing. The resolutions have been read to the Senate,
bnt how manv Senators know now what those re
solutions are.' Because we are in the minority,
shall we be gagged down, and deprived of the pri
vilege of seeing for ourselves and knowing what
the resolutions contain? ’Tis well to have a giant s
power, but to use it like a gaint iB tyranny.
Remarks of Mr. Irvttt, or Wilkes,
On the motion to print certain resolutions intro
duced by him in the Hoose of Representatives—
the same as these introduced by Mr. Pope in the
Senate:
I cannot see what reason can be given by gentle
men on tbe other side of the House for refusing to
print the resolutions offered by me on yesterday.
This is a courtesy alwaya extended by the majority
to the minority. From time immemorial, it has
been the custom to introduce resolutions upon our
Federal relations, in both houses of the Genera!
Assembly, and each party has uniformly extended
to the other tbe courtesy of printing them, if de
sired.
In every Legislature in the Union, the relations
with the Federal Government and with each other
as sovereign Slates, have been considered legiti
mate subjects upon which to express opinions.
Georgia has done it time and again; mid this is
the first time, at least within my knowledge, where
the party holding the majority, have refused to
let such matter be printed and thereby spread be
fore tbe country. 1* not the minority entitled to
a? nSFr ,i not re F T ® B ® ct °n this floor over
47,000 of the freemen of thia Bute! Do we not
represent within HO of the number represented by
gentlemen on the other side? Why, then, should
wenot be heard? Do you desire to throwobeta
*° °» opinion* from
being heard and known by the petiole of the State?
ww ratios flap nut ft» thi% m*ai|e»t*ttos Os
opposition to printing these resolutions? Are
you atraid to do so ? Do you dread the effect that
, these resolutions may produce upon the con'' ?
> Do you dread tho truths which they contain?
Are you afraid to face them ? Do you not proltss
to belong to the unterrijied liemocracy, and <lo a
■ few short resolutions terrify you to such a degree
1 that you can't even look upon them in print ! I
myself belong to tho company of “ tlie unterrinrd
but not to that crowd who can bo frightened . ven
frem an act of courtesy, by refusing to do that
which has been uniiormly done on all similar
occasions. Uuterrified Democracy, indeed ! The
very reading of the resolutions ou yesterday, unde
the whcle party flutter like a flock of frightened
partridges. You have no longer claims to be called
the unterrified Democracy. The old Hunker J ck
son and Polk Democracy uever faltered iu gi-. ng
expression to their opinions. Their position.- be
ing based upon principle, they uever r tus d to
meet all opposition, face to lace, aud with hold
aud fearless resistance. •* Policy,” not prinei| 1 .
now seems to be the order of the day.
Bat, perhaps, 1 can appeal to my o'd Union
Democratic friends on the other side of the hoii-e,
to extend to us this act of justice. 1 trust I on
find in many of them a hearty response to the
spirit of the resolutions. I do not believe that
they are ready so soon to abandon all former prin
ciples and msb into the toul coalition which \ as
been formed by President Pierce with the Free
soilers for the sake of power and plunder. All
my sympathies, aud I know yours must a'so be
with those uoble old Hunker Democrats of New
York, who are battlii g for priuciple against a cor
rupt and despicable coalition. Can 1 not then sole
ly appeal to you to aid Id giving these reso'u’e s
to the public? Are you not willing to rn\ ’ 1 et
you disapprove the conduct of the President in
bis late appointments? Are you not willing lo
say that the prominent actors at Buffalo, in 1843,
are unfit men to pa-ticipato in the administration
ot the Government! Do you not know tin t the
sentiment of devotion to the Union and the Com
promise carried President Pierce into power, at d
are you not willing to say that great national se>
timrnt has been outraged in selecting the enem es
of the Union aud the Compromise to a imin’srer
the Government ? Has not that noble old Hunker
Democtnl ot New York, Daniel S. Dickinson, ever
been true to the South, the Union mid the Con-ti
tution? Audare you not ready and willing toten let
to him aud his gallant associate your gratitude for
their patriotism and self-sacrificing devotion to
truth and the country ? Hus lie not, for ye .r ,
stood out in bold defiance of the Buffalo faction,
now the fuvorite ol the present Administration
and without favor or affection, reward or the hope
of it, manfully resisted all attempts to abolition: a
the Democratic party ? Have you no svinpatl \ t'"
him ? or, are your sympathies with the Van But ; n
Fresoil taction ?
Have you sosoou forgotten the glorious triumph
of 1851? And is it possible that you, the old U ton
and Compromise men of 1850 and ’sl, are tn .kii g
ready to march to Nashville ? Beware ! for they
who travel that road, are iu danger of landing in
Buffalo. Remember that the road to Buffalo leads
through the very gates of Nashville; that name,
the mere mention of which, onoo made you In in
ble for the safetytif the Union aud the Constitu
tion.
And again, are you not willing to say that it is
unjust and inexpedient for Congress to aid in
building the great Pacific Railroad ? Aro you not
willing to say that it is unjust to squander the
public money und the public lauds upon any si c't
gigantic schemes ? Has not the Democratic party
for years past, laid it down as one of their cunli
nal principles that Congress had no right to
oommence and carry ou a system ot Internal lin
provomonts ? Have not the Democratic platforms
for a quarter of a century past, always maintained
the injustice and uncertainty of such a system ?
And from tho signs at Washington, is it not pro
bablo that tho Administration will, in some form
or other, favor tho great scheme now contemplated i
of building, by means of Government patronage,
the great Railrcad from the Mississippi to tho Pa
cific? And are you unwilling to express your dis
approbation of such a project? I hope not. I
trnstthot you at least aro willing to spread their
rcsolutiouß before thocountry, aud at a proper time
mauifest your disapprobation of the President’s
conduct, and show that your feelings and sympa
thies are still with the good old Hunker Democra
cy that have stood by us in n thousand battles,
and who are still fighting, sword in hand, against
thoenomics of tho South, and tho enemies of our
common country.
From the Savannah Republican.
Meeting of the Republican Members of tlie
Legislature.
The following resolutions wore adopted at a
meeting of the Union Republican mombors of the
Legislature at a meeting held in the Senato Cham
ber, on Thursday night. It will bo seen that tlie
friends and supporters of Mr. Jenkins, tlie true
and unflinching union and republican men of the
State, are determined to maintain their organiza
tion, and that they will coutiuue to war against the
spoils policy of the preseut hybrid administration
at Washington. A portion ot the resolutions arc
substantially the same as those adopted by the
convention wltioh nominated Mr. Jenkins; tlie
others condemn the policy of President Pierce in
preferring Freesoilers over National men, and cx-
Eress warm sympathy for Daniol 8. Dickinson and
is associates in New York who have refused to
barter their principles for place. The resolutions
are as follows: .
1. Resolved, Tltat we adhere to the Repot t and
Resolutions of tho Georgia Convention c f 185°,
because we consider the principles therein pro
claimed not less important to the maintenance of
the rights of the States than of the union of the
States; and that we consider the rights of the
Southern States as in great and imminont danger,
and the principles of the Georgia Convention
greatly jeoparded by any political party, whatever
may be its name, which recognizes Abolitionist*
and Freesoilers an worthy of public honors and
public emoluments.
2. That in our opinion both the Whig and De
mocratic parties of the United States have been
faithless to thehrofteu repeated pledges of econo
my in the expenditures of the public money, aud
that we view with great alarm and disapproba
tion the partial, unequal, aud unjust appropria
tion of the public lauds to Internal Improvements
in particular States and of a local character, and of
the public money to wild, reckless and gigmtic
schemesof Internal Improvement, intended forthe
promotion of particular interests rather titan the
general benefit of those who bear the burthen oi
taxation.
8. That the Public Lauds are the common pro
perty of all the States of the Uniou, and in tlicir
appropriation, equality is the only trtn rule of
equity, and that any alienation of them except to
bringmomy into tho Public Treasury, should he
for the equal benefit of all tho States of the Union,
old as well at< now.
4. That while struggling freedom everywhere
enlists our warmestsympnty, westill adhere to the
doctrine of the Father of his country, as announced
in his Earuwell Address of keeping ourselves tree
from all entangling alliances with foteigu coun
tries, and. of never quilting our own to stand on
foreign ground—that our mission as a Republic
is not to propagate our opinions, or impose on
othercountries our fiorm of government, by artifice
or force, bat to teach by example, and show by our
success, moderation, and justice, the blessings of
self-government, aud the advantages of free insti
tutions.
6. That in our opinion the honor aud dignity of
the position assumed by Georgia in 1850, and the
promotioii of the moral, social, intellectual, and
material interests of iter poople, aro objects of far
greater importance than the success of any sec
tional party.
6. That we are ready aud willing to co-operate
heartily with all men, North and South, who egree
with ub in the foregoing announcement ol national
principles, and that wo invito them irrespective of
localities and of previous party affiliations, to unite
with us iu the formation of a National Organiza
tion to carry out theso principles ; and that Daniel
8. Dickinson and his fricuos in New York lm<e
our warm sympathy in their struggle to establish
national principles against the false poliey <f the
Administration, which is seeking to combine men
of hostile principles by the mere power ol public
patronage.
7. That we, as members of the Georgia Legis
lature, belonging to tbo Union Republican party,
nre willing to co-opcrate with any political or
ganization upon the principles herein announced.
The forogoing resolutions were agreed to unaui
mously, when the meeting adjourned to tlie eve
ning of the.2Srd insti, at which time it waa pro
posed to cal another meeting of all persons who
subscribe to them, and submit them tor their adop
tion. Patriotic speeches were made daring the
meeting by Mr. Thomas of Elbert, Mr. Hulsey of
Clarke, Mr. Chisolm of Paulding, and Mr. Milter
of Augusta. We have neglected to suy, that Mr.
Lambreth, of Floyd, an old Union Demo.-rat, pre
sided over the meeting, and that Mr. Dixon, the
Assistant Secretary of the Senate, acted as Secre
tary.
The Late Disaster.
The following letter, which has been kindly fur
nished u», will give some particulars of the ct.l un
ity noticed by ns yesterday morning. Written
soon after the occurrence to wbicli it relates, it
caiiuot bo expected, of comec, to Con'idn all de
tails, but it will be reutl with a melancholy m er
est, and will elicit the sympathies of every render
for the sad fate of thesnflerers, and their survivors
and friends:
Post’s Ferry, Nov. 20,1858.
Dxab Bbothee You will be astonished en re
ceiving this from Port’s Ferry, and it is a sad aud
painful duty I haveto perform, bnt I cannot flinch.
The Robert Martin’s boilers exploded at this
place yesterday morning, at half-past six o’clock,
and I am thankful s» many of us arc saved as there
are, viz: 17 out of 27.
The cause of the explosion is to us unknown.
One thing is certain, it was not for the want of
water in the boiler, for about two or three minutes
before the accident I was at the boiler’s head and
saw tbe water tried, and there was plenty.
The engineer, mate and myself are bare—the en
gine very slightly injured.
Ben Williams, the cook; Peter, one ol the fire
men ; Joe, 2d engineer, are all missing. Simon,
Stephen, and 4 other deck hands, were killed; one
of the above died this morning; they have been
buried. Dandy, Boh and Burns are wounded,
but I think not seriously. The boat is literally
tom to pieces. She is now about one and a half
miles below here. 1 will Bave all I can from- the
wreck, and will write more fully as soon as pos
sible. In haste, C. Carrol White.
Since tbe above was in type, we have received
additional particulars by the steamer Pee Dt e,
I Capt. Coatee, which arrived yesterday evening,
having passed the scene of tbe disaster.
Capt. Coates informs ns that the Robert Martin
presents as complete a scene of rain as he ever
saw, eves tbe anchors, chains, and a heavy iron
capstan which was on deck were blowr on the neigh
boring bank, and ber deck was torn up, and frag
ments of the machinery, cargo and hall, blown in
every direction Mr. Ulmo, the Ist engineer, es
caped almost miraculously—being on the upper
deck when the explosion took place, he was blown
np and decended head foremost on the deck of the
boat, bis hands probably striking first no doubt
saved him, but bis head had received a bruise in
tbe encounter, bnt nothing serious. Capt. White
and Mr. Gage, the mate have both escaped without
injury. Some of the hands have not been fonnd
since the occurrence, being no doubt blown to
pieces. The boat had been taking in wood at
Port’s Ferry landing, and was about starting when
the accident took piece.—Charlatan dour.
Ecu over by a Car.— We learn by a letter from
Maooia, dated November 20th, that a young man
named Cowan, from Twiggs oonnty, was ran over
by omeof tbe cars of tbe Southwestern Railroad,
at Foot Valley, on Saturday last. He was on the
back platform of the passenger car, and from
thence jumped down behind the car as it was
backing. He fell, raised himself np, and was in
the act of crossing the east rail, when run overby
two of the wheels. Hie body was dreadfully
mashed and mangled—both tbe ancle and thigh
on one side were broken. A physician was im
mediately called and in a few minutes reached and
prescribed for the unfortunate being, but with
very little hope of a favorable result. He is probe
biy dead ere ahia. . _
From the sooount which has reached us, ns
blame can be attached to the officers or agents of
the Company for the deplorable casualty. It■ »
Attributable ajk>U6 to intoxication OS the part of toe
auffkrer.— Qiorjia*,
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.
Washington, Nov. 21.
I learn through private, but authentic sources,
that all prospect ot the conclusion of u treaty be
tween tho United States government and that of
Great Britain in regard to the subject of the fisher
ies and reciprocal trado has disappeared. The
fishery business of our Eastern States is therefore
at an end. The fishing fleet, during the past sea
son, found that they wore practically excluded
from the British waters, and there will be no
chance, hereafter, of making good lares.
Both of the State Conventions recently held in
Massachusetts adopted resolutions declarative of
the necessity of recoving the lost fisheries.
It now appears that the British colonies, and
their Homo Government, are determined to insist
upon the registry of colonial vessels, and a full
participation iu our coasting trade, as an equivalent
for admitting our fishermen to equal prtviledgos
with their own in their waters.
Our diplomacy has not yet opened to us tlie freo
navigation of the Amazon, notwithstanding the
reported achievement of our Consul at Bahia.
Nothing lias ever been heard of Bennett’s
treaty at the State Department. Os course he had
no authority to make one. The government of
Brazil is still jealous of strangers, nnd will be slow
to adopt liberal commercial ideas. By recent ac
counts we learn that tho Brazilians were exces
sively alarmed by Lieut. Maury’s letter concerning
lie uavigation, commerce, and products of the
Amazon, and that they are shaking with apprehen
sion lest the Lieutenant and a large forooof Amer
ican progressives should come down upon them
out of their rich possessions. lon.
Correspondence of the Baltimore American.
New York, Nov. 21.
Within a few days a force of between five and
six hundred of the UhitcdStati s troops, at present
stationed at Governor’s Island, will Icavo this port
for California, whero their presence is considered
necessary to suppress the Indian disturbances in
the interior of that State. Their baggage andoamp
equipage is already prepared for shipment, ana
each company will take with them two thousand
rounds ot ball cartridge. The whole force, consist
ing of companies, A-, D., K., J., G , H., L. and M.,
will be placed under the command of Brevet
Lieut. Col. J. M. Washington aud Major C. 8.
Merchant, who aro at present in this city.
Tito efforts which are making in this city, to
raise $250,000 to orect a commodious Hospital
have hecu seconded by subscription to about halt
the amount, including aprincely donation of $25,-
000 from James Lenox, Esq., aud another of $lO,-
000 from Joseph Sampson, Esq.
The Hards Lave just is-Uid an address to tho
“National” Democracy, and intend tofollow it up,
with a great mass meeting on Wednesdsy night.
The Softs meanwhilo content themselvcß with the
federal patronage, and “paying” off tho adaman
tine’s by excluding them from the public club.
The total immigration at this port, from foreign
countries, during the present week, foots up 10,-
281. From the Ist October to date, 28,606.
New Y'iuk, Nov. 22.—The Tribune of this morn
ing, by authority, and at the request of the Banks
implicated iu the article publised in the Herald in
regard to Bank defalcations, gives an unqualified
denial of tho truth of the charges therein made,
as far as regards the Batik of Commerce, Mer
chants’ Bank, Metropolitan Bank, and American
Exchange Bank. The Hanover Bank matter is un
important, and an old difficulty, going back to tho
administration of the first officers of that Bank.
The State Bank affair has been settled. The wholo
foundation of the sweeping statements of the Her
ald is rosolvod into these two unimportant diffi
culties.
The pacer Hero, the fastest in tho world, who
was reported doad last woek, is still alive, and, thoy
say, doing well. The rage for trotting and high
betting was never higher than it is now at Union
Course.
The N. Y. Bible Society held their annual meet
ing last evening. The receipts of the year have
been $81,755.59 ; th? expenditures, $81,446.
The work on the now Assay Office is going on
with euergy; and expectations are entertained that
it will be completed in about three months, unless
something unforseen should occur. The building,
which is situated directly in the rear of the old
United States Bank, will boa very substantial struc
ture, four stories in hoight; besides the basement,
built upon the most improved plan, with iron roof
and beams, and essentially flro proof. It will havo
a large stack or ohitnnoy, 144 feet in hoight, lined
with fire-brick, and by moans of furnaces, an in
tense heat will be gonerated in them, so as to ef
fectually consume all the offensiv gasses which
would otherwise bo thrown off into the atmosphere.
The basement and first Btory of the building are
of cut stones—all tho superstructure, brick. In
cluded in the various apparatus connected with
tho establishment, will be a fino steam engine of
oight or ten horse power j a crushing mill for pul
verizing the dross or scoria; an improved hoisting
machine for raising heavy articles from the baso
raont to the upper stories; twelve or fourteen lur
uaces to be located in tho first story aud basement,
and to form two distinct sets at tbo extremity of
the building, one of which will bo for refining gold
aud tho other for silver. With the facilities it will
afford, a vast amount of work may be accomplish
ed. It is judged that teu or fifteen mon will be
employed iu the assay office—though the number
is not definitely known—one man being compe
tent to make three molts iu a day, of 1,600 ounces.
Another fleet of European paokets came into
tort yesterday. One of these—tho Fidelia, from
jivorpool—reports twenty-four deathß on tho voy
age, from ship fever.
As compared with their last weekly showing,
the Bank statements to-morrow will exhibit an in
crease of about $2,000,000 in the specie items ; in
crease of $600,000 in the loans, and about $2,000,-
000 in the deposits. The circulation will show a
falling off of about $400,000.
Tho Battery enlargement goes on well. When
completed—which they think will be the caso in
some eighteen months from the commencement of
operations upon it, tho area will ombrace twenty
four acres.
Raising Vessels by Eelctrlrlly.
Attracted by a notice published in the morning
tapers, a considerable crowd assembled on the
lottery on Monday afternoon, to witness tlie
raising of a submerged vessol by Foreman’s Elec
trio Apparatus, invonted and constructed for that
purpose, by the gentleman whose nemo it bears.
As the new discovery is ono of the utmost import
ance and utility to the maritime and commercial
world, among the throng collected to witness tlie
announced experiment, wero many of our first
merchants and ship owners. Alter waiting some
time without perceiving any signs of the promised
trial, the spectators ascertained that owing to the
unfavorable weather, and tlie roughness of the
Bay, Mr. Foreman had, at a late hour, issued pla
cards anuouncingtothe public that his experiment
would be transferred to the Atlantic Docks, in
Brooklyn. Very many of thoso present hastened
over to tlie scene. They had been preceded by
another mass of spectators, who lined the Docks
adjacent to where Mr. Foreman’s apparatus was
arranged, and crowded the decks of a Spanish
steamer, lying in the neighborhood, to such a de
gree that she careeDed to a dangerous extent.
About 4% o’clock, the time specified in hie last
handbills, Mr. Foroman commenced operations.
Owing to the weak nature of tho materials cm
Eloyed in the construction of the apparatus, which
ad been prepared economically for this occasion
the heavy sea running even iu tho Dock, sotno de
lay occurred iu bringing tlie force to bear upon
the submerged vessel—a craft of 90 tons, resting
on the bottom of 18 feet water. Tho buoys, used
as floats to receive the gas, or, iu technical
phraseology, the camels, were Bimply water tight
casks, so constructed that when the charge ge
nerating the gas should be fired, tlie gaß would
enter through India rubber pipes into one orifice,
and the water that had filled the casks up to the
moment of the experiment, would thus bo forced
out at another. It so happened that these casks
wore of uneven buoyancy, and when the charge
was at last fired, the gas entered those ranged above
one side of the vessel, with greater rapidity than
it could force its way into thoso above the other—
so that the former raising very swiftly, added to
the pressure upon the latter, which, remaining
full of water, aud inporvious to the gas, sank in
stead of being inflated and buoyed up, and the
vessel rose to tho surface of one side only. The
principle, however, was fairly illustrated, as the
submerged craft came up, amidst the cheers of the
throng, iu about two minutes after the charge was
touched off; and remained suspended in her posi
tion. The material used in the apparatus waa alone
defective—a fault that can readily bo avoided upon
a future occasion, by an outlay of more money.
We understand that Mr. Foreman is having India
rubber camels of precisely equal sizo and buoyancy
prepared, and will soon make another experiment.
-N. Y. Times.
Louis Napoleon Tlilting b Old Prison.
The Journal de St. Quentin givea the following
details of a visit which the French Emperor and
Empress paid to the fortress of Ham:
“ On Wednesday afternoon, about 4 o’clock, the
Emperor, accompanied by the Empress, the Prin
cess Matilde, and some persons of the court, ar
rived here incoanilo. Without having given any
intimation of his intention, he proceeded at onco
to the fortress, his former prison during a period
of six years. When he crossed the draw-bridge
hi» feature* appeared much changed—his emotion
was great, dis Majesty went to the gate through
which he had effected his escape, and the porter
having opened it, the Emperor immediately related
to tha Empress with the greatest detail ail tbe cir
ca' mces of his flight, lie afterwards ascended
to nis old apartment, and when they arrived there
the Empress threw herself into his arms and em
braced him with a tender emotion. After this
scene which much affected the persons present, the
Emperor went out on the terrace, and examined
the remaining flowers of those which he had for
merly cultivated. The Empress plucked a low
bouquets and distributed them around witli a
mournful smile. A simple and frugal repast was
then served to their Majesties under the trees in
the court of the fort, aud they were still occupied
in partaking ot it, when M. Alart, the Mayor, ar
rived, accompanied by civil and ecclesiastical au
thorities, and by the Bishop of Adras, formerly
cure in that place when the Emperor was oonfined
in the fortress. The rumor being spread about
that the Emperor was amongst us, a crowd soon
assembled, and Baluted their Majesties with loud
cries of ‘ Vive l’Emperenr!’ ‘Vive l’lmperatrice 1’
and accompanied them to the gates of the town.
The whole visit lasted somewhat more than half
an hour.”
An Intebestino Fact.— One of the missionaries
of the New York City Tract Society having sup
plied the crew of a vessel going to Hajfti not only
with tracts, but also with some religious papers
and books, the men, upon theirsrrivul there, made
them into a parcel, and were taking them on shore,
when they were stopped by a Custom House officer.
This being observed by a superior officer, he di
rected that no duty should be charged upon the
parcel, and promised the Captain that whatever he
might bring of the same kind should be passed
duty free. Just at that time the Emperor Faustin
passed that way, and hearing of what bad taken
place, immediately gave command that hencefor
ward no duty should be charged upon Bibles, Tes
taments or Protestant religious books or tracts,
or other publications ; and then, turning to the
captain, he said, “ I shall be happy to have on the
Island as much of such reading matter as you can
bring, and if any person interferes with you let me
know it.”—A'. Y. Triimiu.
Mr. Wm. L. Faber, the Mineralogist, in passing
through our city, mentioned to us his opinion that
free phosphoric acid is the cause of the ma h
dreaded milk sickness. He is now engaged in a
chemical examination of the subject, being assist
ed in the medical department by Dr. 8. L. Love,
of Haywood county, N. C.; and we hope soon, to
receive the results of his investigation. If be is
correct, he believes the cure of the disease to be
easily affected by the use, both internally and ex
ternally, of alkaline solutions; and expects to be
able not only to entirely prevent its app arance in
animals, but even to turn the cause of it to good
use as s fertilizer. — Ck. Cour.
Two hundred and fifty-two passengers arrived
here on Saturday in the barque Copernicus, from
Bremen. This would be thought a small Dumber
at New York, but it ia unusually large for an a--
rival at this port. We understand that a portion o*
tbemproceed to the flouriahing German settlement
of Walhalla, in Pickens district, and that others
aretojoin their friends, who have preceded them
in differant part* of the Stata.—Ok. QourUr.
VOL. LXVI.-NEW SERIES VOL.XVn.~NO. 46.
From the L uteviUe Journal.
TH* MIDNIGHT PRAYER.
o’er the sleeping earth
AilSnlii- re T. h t r "ing, and the pale moon,
a*Tn,* h J sb ' ,hcd ove? tree and tower
tz* 1 , Ilight. 1 light. The evening breeze
th * e * rl > Bowers of spring
K l leaves, while on the air
fl ? ,twl upward like the rich
And spicy odors of tame censer rare
K'otlevoice
TV, ° i ' n , a “urmured forth his name
ro Heaven—and from her young » n a ardent soul
The fervent ‘prayer of faith’ 1 was breathed on high—
An answering echo from the courts ahoy™ 8
seemed whispering near, as if some seraph bright
Had been commissioned to attend her there,
And bear her sacred message to the skies.
she prayed—u My Pathtr! hear thy child,
Who lowly now before thee pleads forone-
Aloved one, far away! Toou, Thou alone
Dost know the anguish other aching heart
And canst supply the balm! Her spirit e'lngs
To Thee! Oh! leave her not in this dark hour
Os trial; for no cheering ray of hope.
Save ftom Thy Throne, cm pierce the deep’ning gloom.”
Atone she prayed —the heav y dews of night
Tell on her drooping head, like angel tears,
And mingled with her own; still was that voice,
In mout nful cadence beird upon the breeie,
Pleading in tones of burning eloquence
Thatseemed as if by inspiration given—
“My Father I shield him from the tempter’s power,
And teach his heart to trust iu Thee for aid!’’
Atone she prayed—" Oh! ir each fervent wish
We mortals utter here below is borne
Forever through the circling air to Thee,
May this fond prayer ascend! “ StiU bteas our love,
And reunite twin Thy home on high I ”
Her prayer tors heard above, and a deep calm
Through all her senses stole; for Heaven’s own light
Had shed a peaceful halo round her heart.
CARIANA.
The Day of Rest.
This tuoruiug’s sun rose over a hushed and quiet
world, rassionsand impulses are calmed, thoughts
and longings of business-racked minds have relax
ed their intensity, and the hand of industry has
ceased to wiold the implement ot labor. ’Tis the day
of roßt—the day for reflection and reform. The way
ward child of faahion awakes to thought and recol
lection while from the retrospect comes tho momory
of early lessons, geutieteachingsand holy oouusels,
which were given by lovedlips, perh: ps long since
closed in eternal silence, to do faithful guides in
future years, but which were forgotten and de
serted in the pursuit of scorning pleasure, whioh
now with its exposed skeleton hands sketches up
on the satiated mind phantoms that glare hours of
agony in moments, and will not vanish. Tlie
peaceful home, tho simple song, the smiling chil
dren, tlie guileless sport, joys whioh once iortnod
a Paradise ; that Paradise like tho first deserted,
swell ont before them as a mookory of their present
woe and disoontent, while tears and tremblings
follow the threatenings of that mental monitor
whioh probes the memory with ruthless hand.
The votaries of ambition who havo been hnrrlod
on by a thousand munduuo novelties, oocupied iu
chasing shadows which oludo constantly their
eager grasp, dazzled by the prospect ol ovor re
treating amid happiness and success, unmindful of
that quiet beauty aud pure wisdom, which shine
in undying brightness over a mind contontod with
and thankful for that which a Divine Dispenser
has allotted thorn, find in rofloction no soothing to
tho heart, no balm to tho troublod conscience.—
Thoughts are to them now tho threatening thuu
der-cloud, pregnant with destruction and growing
wrath, the heavy tempest whieh envelopes ttemin
gloom, and dashes from their vision that pure sky,
the sky of Faith, which we must behold or forever
dospond.
But there are others to whom memory is a
beautiful calm firmament of stars, twinkling hope,
and thought, like the glorious rays of moonlight
dancing ovor the expanse of waters on which their
barks of life gently ride. To them the day of rest
and thought comes as a glad messenger, with
“sweet seraphic inspiration rife,” for it approaches
like a universal dolivorer in the land of hondago
striking off tho chains in which the spirit is’
bound, aud finds them strongor, nobler, purer,
and more advanced in the path that loads to eter
nal peace. With them, tho images which thought
stretches upon the canvass of memory aro bright
jromisos, whioh causes tlie hoart to glow with
lappineßS. To them the doods of a well spent life
come back, giving tho hues of liopo to tho fu
ture, and forming the outlines of holy promises,
whieh are given to those who obey the Word.—
Thoir’B is tho pure life of oontentmont and hope,
secure and sate amid werldly temptations, for tho
anchor of Faith holds them safe in tlie haven of
Purity.— hashville Gazette.
Lot’* Wire.
A Frouch savant, M. do Sauley givos tho follow
ing interpretation of the sacred narrative of Lot’s
wife:
“The Djebbel-el-Molehh, orDjebolSdoum, pre
sents a compact mass of rook salt, tho height of
Nhieli varies, but never exoeods 100 yards. At the
summit, the salt is covered ovor by a stratum of
clay of a dirty white hue. The whole of the
hill side presents numerous fissures hollowed
by tho winter torrents, and the constant crumbling
of the soil. At many points appear vast pyra
midal columns of salt, one of which has no doubt
boon taken by Captain Lynoh, for tho famous pil
lar into whioh Lot's wife was tranformod. All the
disconnected masses, and those whieh Btill adhere
to tho mountain, have their surfaces deeply furrow
od and indented by the rains. And lastly, wherever
the rook leans over, its lower part iB hung with sta
lactites of salt. Is it possible to explain the death
of Lot’s wifo ? I am inclined to boiieve so, and this
would be my solution: At the moment when the
huge mountain was heaved up voloanically, there
must havo beeu throughout its whole extont, tre
mendous fails of detaohed masses, similar to those
we have obsorvod at overy step. Lot’s wife hav
ing loitered behind either through fright or curi
osity, was most likely crushed by ono of these de
scending fragments, and whon Lot and his ohil •
dron turned round toward look at the place where
she had stopped, they saw nothing bnt the salt rock
which covered her body. The catastrophe may be
explained many ways; but having visited tho spot
I hold the opinion I havo now advanced, without
seeking, however, to impose it on others.”
The Srutii or the Religious Press.— While the
secular press is daily growing more liberal and
courteous, the religious press appears to be run
ning on tlie opposite track. The New York Ex
press, which copies over a column of extraots, for
the purposo of showing tho “spirit of the religious
press, says;
“They Beem to be infinitely more desirous of
disparaging, every one his neighbor, than of uni
ting to advance the common cause of Christianity,
which all of them profess to serve. Come, oomo,
gontlomon! drop your fino drawn distinctions
about what is ‘Evangelical,’ and what iB not—
what is ‘Catholic’ or ‘Roman,’ ‘Orthodox’ or ‘not
Orthodox’—and help us of the day press to do some
of the real, practical good among our fellow-men,
which tho Redeemer himself would engage in--
wero ho among you. Tho city is full of heathens !
The juils are full of murderers and thieves 1 We
have still a plenty of ‘Five Points’ among us I
each and all of them inviting you to a more accepts
able work than that of uncovering one another’s
faults, and calling ono another namos. That may
be good enough sectarianism, hut is •'•it Christi
anity.”
From the N. Y. Conner <t- Enquirer.
Dreadful II all road Accident.
The train which left Bouton on Monday evening
for Fall Kivcr brought with it, as usual, a cur
which was detached at Braintreo, eleven milos
from Boston, where a locomotive is kept in waiting
to follow, as an accommodation train. The steam
boat train proceeded without interruption for
about ten miles further, when a car wheel broko
and the train stopped. The Conductor, Mr.
Olaflin, immediately sprang to the ground, and
finding the train could not be moved, started at a
full run to warn the accommodation train, which
was following his train, of the danger. He Boon
saw the accommodation train, and signalled to
stop, but the night was hazy, and the light upon
the approaching locomotive so brilliant the engi
neer did not boo Mr. Claflin’s light until directly
abreast of him, when the signal to break up was
instantly given, but the momentum was so great,
and the distance from the disabled train so short
—only about forty rods—that the advancing train
was moving at the rate of twenty five miles an
hour when it struck tho stationary train. But few
passengers were in the hindmost car, and those
hearing the approach of tho train, wore striving to
escape by the forward door. The locomotive und
tender wore driven completely into the passenger
car, but two feet of the tender projecting from the
rear of the car, the sides and top of which were
not injured, the smok-pipe of the locomotive hav
ing been knocked down by contact with the frame
° The scene within the care was atthis moment
dreadful. Steam, and smoke, and darkness, and
shrieks, and groans were mingled together in
dreadful confusion. Some of the pipes of the lo
comotivo having been fraot.ured, the escaping
steam was inflicting torture upon ail unfortunates
who had failed to make their escape from the car.
Five of the passengers, all males, were very badly
scalded, two of them probably to a fatal extent.
Among the injured was a Mr. Thompson, of
Brunswick, Maine. The farm houses in the vici
nity wero thrown open and the injured conveyed
to them, whero every attention was bestowed.
The engineer and tho flroman escaped without
serious ir jury. The former remained at his post
and entered the car in his usual position on tho
engine.—Tho escaping steam alone prevented the
car from being destroyed by fire, which was scat
tered from the stove.
Mr. Lake Damon, Express Agent, was in the
car next to the last, and was accompanied by his
wife. When the train slopped he knew that there
was danger from the train behind, and ho stepped
upon the roar platform of the car he was in to see
wnat measures were taken to prevont collision.—
Ho saw the conductor running back with a lantern
and supposed all would be well. In another min
ute he saw tho advancing train, and his experienced
eye told him that a fearful collision must occur.
He then had abundant opportunity to place him
self biyond the reach of danger, bnt he could not
leave bis wife in the car,and springing to her side,
under the impulse of the moment, colled npon
hei to leave the car; but his better judgment in
stantly prevailed; he knew that if the passengers
attempted to escape, they would crowd the plut
f-rms and be crushed to death, and be exolaimed
that a collision would instantly occur, but that all
must keep firm. His voice was obeyed; in a mo
ment the crash took place, most of the seats were
torn from their places, but in that crowded car not
one passenger was injured. The agony of mind
Mr Damon suffered in tho few seconds which
elapsed between the time that be saw the ap
preaching train and the moment when he felt that
his wife was safe, can only be imagined. HU dis
regard of selfish consideration was heroic.
Borne one will surely be held responeible for
this dreadful disaster. With onr present informa
tion, theblame would seem to be with that officer
who permitted two trains to be running at high
speed so near each other. It would appear at
first that the Conductor would have acted more
prudently had he first warned the passengers in
his train to abandon the cars, and so have loft the
empty train to receive the shock. But he knew
that, long before all the passengers could by any
possibility escape from the ears, a collision must
occur unless he could wsrn the approaching train,
and in that case the platform, between the cars,
would prove the jaws of death to lhose who would
be crowded upon them.
Meeting or Stockholder of the Pensacola and
Geoboia Kah&oad.— Under a call from tbo Com
missioners, a meeting of the subscribers to atocK
in the Pensacolala and Georgia Railroad was held
in this city on Wednesday last, for tbe ©lection of
nine Directors, as provided for in the a r|®£
Although the day was very inclement, near y
$600,000 was represented by persons present. The
Bradford, Edward Houstoun, of Leon, and Ar
thur J. Forman, of Gadsden.
We understand that the Board will meet on
Wednesday, the 28d iust., for the election of a
President. Jm-tnalXUk intt.
Chikksk Coolies job Tbnnxssek— The proprie
tors of the Cumberland Iron Works, on Omnbar
land Biver, Tennessee, have engaged the services
of twenty Chinese Coolies, as iron workers. Vey
are expected to arrive ahortly at Cincinnati, from
whence they will be forwarded to thair destine
tion. It is stated that the Chineee are very expert
in working irom—(Jiatt. Qat>*
From tht LouitvilU Jour, al.
The Autumn*! SeMon.
Tfae hills and the plains have lor a fortnight been
in ablaze of glory. The rich green foliage of sum
mer was breathed on a month ago by the Frost
Spirit and ohanged into as many oolors as are ever
presented in the bow and the olouds of heaver.. It
is a beautiful provision of a bounteous Providonoe,
that the most gorgeous coloring of tho forests
should immediately precede their desolation. The
trees are brightest at the close, and their beauty is
never bo brilliant as when they are about to' bo
stripped. Thus, also, la it with the soul of the
Christian about to pass away. Its closing moments
are its brightest, for then the light of a better world
is reflected on it and all its thoughts and feelings
are full of immortal radiance and glory I
The beauty of tho earth is truly wonderful
Each hour ot eaoh day and each night is clothed
with beauty as is tho mane of tho lion with strength.
rheroare the constellations glittering in their un
sounded depths forever—and the moon in her
mqjesty to make the night glorious, and there tire
tho mountains and tho plains, old ocean and run -
uing streams. birds and flowers without number
to sh;d delight on tho day. Let tho annointed eye
turn where it will and a world full of tho forms ot
beauty awakens its raptures. Boauty is throned
in every light cloud that floats within our atmos
phere as well as in every object which these clouds
look down upon. It is at this period of the year,
when Autumn relgnß supremo, that the visible
oeauty of earth seems most marvollous. Go and
stand where the mighty forest stretches out before
y°. u and whence you can look down on it* varie
gated foliage and gaze on the maases of color before
you until their richness and their brightness im
press themselves fully upon yon, and then say, if
nature is not a most skillful artist, and whether
thoro is any eoliool so grand as hors. Tho picture
boforo you is one which art may not hopo t< rival
Art is very striking and admirable in many of her
teeming creations, but their beauty depeuds alto
gether on tho closeness and fidelity with which she
bus copied nature. But there are many things in
nature which art oan nover portray, l'bo flower
by tho wayside, but not tho grand old forest tree
clothed in !its autumnal glory, may bo accurately
represented by art. Then how shall Art’s daring
hand portray yon glorious hillsido in ull its breadth
and splendor, where twonty different varieties of
trees, each in its own peculiarly gay garniture
differing from all the rest, and ouch seeming to
aspiro to bo most worthy of admiration, and tho
whole lornting together one mighty massivo pic
ture abounding in points of hoautv on twhioh tho
eye would vainly dwell forever ? There is a power
and a majesty and a depth of harmony in such a
picture which fills tho Bonl with the shadows of
groat thoughts and lights up the eyo with visions
of a beauty such as may not be realized on this side
of heaven. Wohnveottcn stood in the presonoe
of such gorgeous displays of the autumn time and
azed upon the splendor spread before us until we
wore fully possessed with tho glory of the scone,
and felt that it was a privilege indeed to live in a
world of suoh rare and exquisite beauty.
It is ut, this season of the year also that the hea
vens grow briglrost, as if in rivalry of the radiance
of earth. Tho western sky, as the sun wheels
dowuward through his pavilion ot olouds and his
golden rim tonehos the far off hill, presents a
scone of tho most inspiring character. In the
forms of the vuriouß clouds aro soon gigantio rep
resentations of battles, statutes of heroes and deml -
gods, and pictures of gentle beauty, all glowing
with warmth and lustro. Tho whole western
houvon is grand beyond description. Brilliant
hueH of all kinds are seen blonding together in suoh
haimony that no eye can detoct whore tho presence
of the one ceases or that of the other begins.—
There is at that hour and this season u unity bt
twoen heaven and earth whioh may be felt. Tho
cloud calls to the forest and tho foreßt returns a
gonial responso. Tho crimson shadow of tho sky
tails upon tho placid bosom of tho river, and river
and sky seom to be holding blessed communion
with each othor. Gradually the glory fades from
heaven and that of earth is soinborod beneath the
thickening veil of twilight. The stars eome out to
replace the lost glory of tho sky. and soon tho
hoaven which so lately was so full of fervor and
grundeur, and the earth whioh so atoly was so full
Os rplendor, sre lookedin the embruceof darkness,
and night reigns supreme with her sentinel stars
to see that as the hours pass away all goes woll on
earth.
We think that the different varieties of tho gum
tree have a decided taate for solitude. They are
all now as red as boiled lobstors, and soem to like
to get as far away irom other trees as possible,
that all other troos may look on them and admiro
the superiority of their bran now' wardrobe. In
tho centre of yonder Hold stands a noble sweet
gum looking redder than n painted Indian, and
seemingly conscious of tho flguro heouts as woll aa
of tho riohnoss of the crimson coat he wears. In
virtue of his boauty he thinks himself every inoh
a king, and says With the desolate Fernandez—
-111 am monarch of all I survey."
Were wo to add that tbero are none to dispute
his rights, we fancy that every hickory, every ma
pl«, every red oak, and indeed the whole forest
beyond him would shako their branching heads in
derison and their leafy sides with laughter. To
what tree Bhould be yielded the palm of boauty
wo ounnot say, but certainly the grand old gum,
that noble fellow of which wo spoak, as ho looks
uround and scorns to swell with a aonso of his own
importance, has a right to consider himsolf “ the
observed of all observers.” In the great nursery
of naturo, he is neither last nor least. Indeed,
when wo look at him with the rays of the setting
sun smiling on liis branches, we would as soon
think of denying the beauty of our sweetheart as
his. The woodman does not like him because of
the compactness of his fibres, and the axe rings
against his sides on a frosty morning as if metal
had smitten metal. He Is lamous for the backlogs
ho furnishos, and often have wo on ioy nights
watohed him mouldering into ashes by slow grada
tions while wo enjoy ed our mug of older and
cracked nuts and “jokes” with the possessors of
happy faces around us.
Did you ever watch the maple from the time he
first feels the frost on his upper limbs until he
sheds his loaves and becomes a more skeleton of
his former self) The boautifui stages that he pas
ses through are worthy of the admiration of
the painter and poet, when ho has reached the
height of his glory, he seems to represent the four
seasons—the groennoss of spring, the sun-touch
ed verdure of summer, the fine fire of autumn,
and the duskiness of winter in his breaches. He
is a very gonoral pot, for he has wonderful bounty
of outline and is unsurpassably flno in his filling
up. The birds love its foliage and there from
morn till night the catbird pours forth a tide of
melody, while his mato sits upon her neat droum
ing of the brood that will soon chip the shell and
oome out and delight her maternal heart. The
maple, so to speak, is the most rhoumatic of
trots, the inflammation breaking out first in one
placo and then unexpectedly showing itself in an
oth# quarter. Mis rheumatism, howovor, is un
attended with pain, and as for inflammatory symp
toms, they are the pride of his heart.
Thero is a peculiar fitness in tho atmosphere
for the scenery at this season of the year. The
brightness of the foliago would bo too glaring
were it not softened by the haziness of the Indian
Summer. The smokiness of this season affords
tho finest of back grounds for the display of au
tumnal pictures and then how germain are the
quiot and tho warmth of these days, to the best ob
servation of the forest I Tho worm beams of the
sun invite you out into tho open air and the hush
in tho atmosphere is most favorable to a satisfac
tory study of the entrancing scene presented on
every hand. Theso are tho qualities that mako
tho Indian summer tho most delioious seuson of
the year. It is very proper that naturo should be
brightest before she assumes the churlishness of
winter. It is oxceodinglv becoming in her to
mako her exit in a blaze of glory.
The (armor’s boys are very happy at this pe
riod. for these are the days in which they go a
nutting and when they strive to ensnare tho fool
ish rabit and entrap tho pretty patridgo. Karly
each morning, while the town boy is dreaming of
the party ho attended last night, his happier
brother in the country buries his hands In the
depths of hia breeches pockets and starts off on a
dog trot to see what luck lias betalleu him during
the night. Onward he goes, orushingtho crack
ling grass beneath hia foot, until lie reaches the
atrip of woods beyond tho cornfield, and there
comes within Bight of the oruel snare which he
contrived for the rabbit. His heart swells with
pleasure as ho seos the poor oreaturo hanging like
a criminal with his limbs rigid and his eyes for
ever fixed. The noose is soon undone and the
snare is again set with the hope that other rabbits
may also place their nocks in jeopardy, and he
picks np his trophy, and whistling “Lucy Neal”
or “ the I)sys of Absence,” proceeds witli a merry
heart and a light step to other snares. Having
secured all Ids game, he reaches the barn-yard in
time to drive the lowing herd afield, aB Jenny has
just eoneluded her labor on the last oow and is
about leaving with her pails for tho house. The
young hodge returns in time for his breakfast
whieh is smoking on the table beforo him, and he
wages a war of extermination on biscuits, rolls,
and dodgers, on cups of hot coffee and glasses of
cool milk until bis stomach is satisfied. He per
forms all the woik he hue to do obeerfuliy, and
then starts to gather "he rich brown chesuuts and
white hiokory-nuts for tho winter nights that are
approaching. The uuts fall on the crisp leaves
and in their fall make muaio to the boy-farmer’s
car sweeter even than the Bongs of sprtDg. Be
foro sight closes in, be has secured as many nuts
as bo can carry, and goes cheerily homeward
while the indignant squirrels bark at him from a
dozen trees. Happy indeed is such a farmer-boy,
and happy are the influences of auoh a boyhood
on the strong man into which the boy will In a
few years rapidly mature^
Navigation ox tbx Amazon. —We have noticed
in several journals a statement to the effect that a
company is in progress at New York for the pur
pose of navigating the river Amazon by steam. It
would certainly be very desirable to sec the riches
of the vast interior of oouth America opened to the
enterprise of our merchants by means of tbo Ama
zon end ita immense tribntanesj but from the te
nor of tho announcement, and from what wo have
heard, we infer that tho parties coneerned have not
teceived, and we apprehend have noteven asked,
leave of the Brazilian Government to prosecute the
enterprise. We hope that this may be imputed to
ignorat ce that that Government owns the country
on both Banks of the Amazon as far as the fron
tiers of Bolivia and Peru; that it has no port of en
try to foreign commerce above Para ; and has by
law expressedly forbidden the vessels of any coun
try, save perhaps those of Peru, from asoendmg
that river. We oan hardly suppose that, knowing
all this, any of our citizens will attempt to violate
the laws of Brazil. Still less can we believe thatany
military or naval expedition will be set on foot or
will be allowed to be act on foot, for this purpose,
in violation of the laws of tbo United States. If,
however, any United States stoamers should
venture to proceed to . the Amazon for the
purpose of carrying ou private war and of forcing
a passage up that river, it is obvious that both ves
sel and cargo will be liable to seizure and con
demnation. It strikes us that those who might
thereby suffer would have no moro reason to com
plain than would tho owners of a Brazilian steamer
and her cargo which may attempt to proceed to
British territory washed by the Colombia river,
supposing that river to be navigable from its mouth
to those latitudes and longitudes within whioh
British territory may lie. . .
We know not whether any negotiations have
been undertaken by our Government for the pur
pose of obtaining for the vessels of the United
States the privilege to navigate the Amazon and
ite confluente. if. however, suchjshould prove to
be the fact, as we hope it may. we have sufficient
confidence in the sagacity ofthoee by whom such
negotiations have been authorized to feel sura that
they must be well aware that their success would
by no means be promoted by any suoh rash *d ven
tures as thoee to which we have referred.—Act.
Intel.
Great Fbeshbt at Pobtuand, Maine —There is
the grestest freshet on the I enobeoot known for
iweulv veers The boom at Vaaaie has given way
and Kt number of log. are floating down the
river *A dam has been carried away at Kendns
keaj and that village ia bad.y flooded. A team
*!?n»med Day was drowned in the mad «t K<-n-
Huskeag by the overflow. The mills and dams on
? h „ rfvfratand firm se yet, though they are hard
preeMd.
Fibs.— A Are ooourred yesterday morning, about
daylight, In a warehouse in reer or Harrrison s Ho
tel The building was ooneumed and about SB,OOO
worth of ootton bagging, the property of John
Caldwell, Eetj. Nothing w»» insured.