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JJV WILLIAM S. JONES.
OHRONICLE « SENTINEL.
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id advasm.
TO OLUBP or INDIVIDUALS Mailing B» Ten Dollari,
IIX copies of Ihe P»per #W MM', tr one year, tbusfdr
aithlng lie Pa;«r •* the rM * •*
SIX COPIES . OU tRR HOLLARH,
sr a fren copy t o all wno may wroean as in* mbacrtben
tad forward us the mono*.
CHRONICLE At HENTINEL
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Ire also poHished a. this j lice. aaa Based to mbteriberi
tt the folio w g rates, nam«t:
DailtPar«a,lf senthymall........ s7per annua.
lu.WaaaLrPares. * “ “
TERMS OF ADVERTIsne.
la Wm<u.l.—ieneoty-flvr cents per MoaredO line* or
i) fur the first Insertion, and fifty note for each in tee*
IJeet Insertion.
REMOVAL AND CHANOE.
IUMHSHH AM) ATI It ACTIVE STOCK.
MORRIS L. HALLO WELL & CO.,
PHILADELPHIA,
Ml WmuTt B ED Into their splendi.l'new Were
bouoe, *«Hranc€H No. t47,M»rket, aol So. 21, Nor h
’t‘f*Plr»<?', at a opening fur th« kl>riug trade on nooort*
BLLK AND FANCY OOODH,
tNt'.fo/ a*UM and Tarltly will surpass any stock «vor of
fired in that market Entering into their n*:w store which
in ONE OF TUB LARQRBT IN AMERICA, with a bum
!)•■*» of utioß ial amount already e*tabli*hed, and intend
lug largely to increase it especially with those who buy
FoR CAHII,
and believing that thi* f-tlreit r/ftirn in jobbing goods is
to have UNIFORM I'ftlJE9,they will be compelled to
11 a n much smaller profit than can possibly be afforded
• where long cred tn are given.
Us dar t' elr C xxn ffiioar Gitinrr system the necis
•ity for changing !*«■#« profits, dots not exist, and by sail
ing their good. a* a
V«*rv Hruall \ Wane* on llie Foreign Coat,
they in-an to make It the INTEREST of every judge of
goods, to buy upon Die fallowing
TKKMd:
04811 fsUYKKH will a discount of BIX per cent,
If the mon y be paid In par funds, within tcu days from
da to of bili.
Un ; iTrent money will only be taken at it* market value
on th»* <iay ft lx received.
To merchants or iirxl .übt<*»l etaoding ac redit of BIX
MONTHri will be given if <l.;4ire<i.
Where money i remised in a Ivanre of maturity a d.s
count at the ra-c of T With VIC |*EK OfcNT i»er annum Mill
be allowed.
They H»k from merchants vMUnjr the Kastern cities, the
favor of an cxntni- ailon of their stock, being satisfied that
they will be convinced that It itt not for their interest to
pay the large profits that are
ABSOLUTELY EBBKNTIAL
to those who give long credit*.
M 1,. lUu.ow«LL, Jamkh TaaqoAia, J. L. U4U/)wkm.,
A. w. i.ittik, T. W, Hwaauv. K. K. Hotohixfos.
LIMESTONE BPHING* FEMALE HIGH BCHOOL
fI'AKTANBt HO DIHTUIOT, 16£4.
Faculty of Itistrurlion.
Hev. T. CIIRII * t l> D , I* iricipal, and Instructor in Men*
tal end M >ral Sclerc c, iljftory and Km/lith Literature.
Hev. W. Cl KTIH, Principal, and Instructor in Natural
Balance.
Mr L A CU RTI S* Superinteudent of Domestic and Social
Duties.
Proto *.r LG. BLAISDKJ.L, Instructor in Music, Vocal
and Inatruincti al.
I’n.fei iV. I» >i I’A,* (of the University of Turin,) in-
Ntru tor irj Knuieli, Italian and the Ancient Languages.
Protom n <>.C ! AitKK, instructor in Mathematics.
M.». (J. CLAItKK, AHt-iitaoi Superintendent of Domestic
ID ami conuil Duties.
Mlm L. TKNNiCV, Instructress in English Branches.
Miss CATIIA HI N K CHITTENDEN, iubtructn-bB in Geo
graphy and 11-M-wry.
Mk- A WILH Instructress In Drawing, Writing and
Mi*> *M. It LA TO If LEY, Instructress in Vocal and
mental Mu to.
*. iguor ItoUa, a relative of Ihe celebrated Historian of
that name, ha mu crlir hchoiar and very accomplished
Kenth mui. Uepublsh. dat Turin, in IH6I, an elegant
ovo. volume, in the most classic It liaa on the rebgious
sects awd .u ate of education in Germany.
TtHMH,
yvr Ttnn <>f Ildf a Four, payable In Advance.
Instsci.tion —Ki rIIiIi Department f‘25.(»0
Duahd, imludi; g Was ing, Fuel and Lights 50.00
The above include a complete course of English educa
tion (for ♦ <f» ti.e terra,) which all the pupils are expected
to t»k'*. The following ure optional, arid may he taken
or not (in wide or in pari) hm may seem d* si cable.
Muaiu—Plaoo or Harp, including Vocal Music $25 00
Guitar or Harp,lncluding Vocal Music 20 00
Useof the I 1 rtno 2 50
list of the Harp 5 00
Fusncii 20 00
Italian 20 QO
DraWoiO I w> Pa riNQ 10 00
No oharges heoxle tin- above will be made in connection
with the School, except f >r Hooks and Stationary actually
Hied.
The en min < Term be ins on Wednesday, February 15,
1554 ; but any young Lady arriving a for might after Hit
term lias beguu, is charged from the fortnight of her aril
Vh\
Messrs. CUHTIB, on entering upon the Seventeenth
Term, (the truth year) of their echo I, would tender their
ii< knowledgtnonls ot the great and general kindues of the
pub i'*, particularly of the State of tkmih Carolina; aud
their ti« ep u eof gratl ude to those family conneotions
Which have continued with tntra from the commencement
of thoir underDtkiug. In the education of near 400 young
Ladies, uow Oiling it vai ic»y of useful and honorable sta
tio"« »n ovr"-* 'tK&xf ihq stits Aiyl m&r»arwoon, jumi
rat y trvtrwTnt;Trr-tinrtrrnjxt»r t*rctmrfgmai prospWua,
by a “ Feinu’o High Schu l,” offer ng “ every branch of a
superior American Education," will be apparent to pa
rents and gu irdiaus dispose 1 1 j examine their pretensions.
Hut they would, at the present juncture, submit some
of tiie chara lerUtlcs of iheir Establishment to those to
Whom it may not bo no well known.
HI 1 r. AND Old M ATE.—The premises are in the bosom
of hills on a tract «>f about 600 acres of land, in the lime
stnio >eglonuf t o Stale; having a ptinoipal four-story
brick building »*f 271 foot frontage, and 40 feet wide, with
a campus behind laid in blue grass and Hanked by two
correspond try frame houses ofa story and a half, and
Sevorai double Lamed cabins. Finn bed in I*4o, by an
opu entoorapany, as a watering place, no expense was
sp ired in re.idering them commodious for that purpose.
lr. tin neighborhood ore various interesting sites and ob
jects, id which the pupils make occasional excu sinus.
The H.illroads to t approach wi'hin 20 miles, and-n a
short it is expected wid reach within 18 miles of the
spot. A commodious Hotel has been established within a
few hundred yards. Tim excellence of the climate is at
tested »*y the fact of the hcaHh of the pupils.
KKi't i;\.u in i ■».. | : u- 1.1 is wit.' chiefly tattooed to '
puroh(*■<»• them* i-rtuiinu* by the picturesque retirement '
they effort!—“ The c.sihn retreat and si'ent bhaile.” They
ha<l bo >n long oouvlneeil th at the neighborhood of no eon- 1
lld treble town or villngtoould give them t n equal oppor
tunity for the unlnterrupteit und healthy pursuit of their
vocatlou. The Young UklUm* have daily exercise, unob
trutlal upon by -urungers or too frequent visitor*; and
form a ohuorful large family| strictly t evoted to itJ two
1 ACCOMMODATIONS.—The Intelligent parent or guar
dian, who tel tliltod th- «t»bl ihm» iws doTottd to feta alt
eduoation, North or South, Is requested to visit Limestone
on the p:aetic >1 qu« ■ ion, w hether any thus devoted have
superior, if equal
SO try 40, convenient recitation nud jnuslc rooms; a labo
ru oiy ; h museum ofntiuerulogtcl and other objects of
natural history; a hbrary an i literary society room; a
chapel under te principal roof—(so that all its services
cau oeat endc I without exposure to had weather)—are
among these acconuuoilstions.
KKnn.rsiN con i intkd andimprovkd hkai.th.
— l The teftlib of the pupils tea kns ualoterrupted for
eight ye im. Then* have been, in fact, by the kindness of
Providence, no deaths among them, and uocas s of serious
sic*ness. Tin* physic an’* account for the whole school,
1 16 per annum.—
Last year it wis only #lO. Young l.adies arriving in a
languid m i exh umo I s ate of health, return home with
well P* tab bhel const it tu ions.
* X PKN !>1 IT 11 P.—The Principals have labored to ob- 1
tain the brjt Teacher.* in every department, and have suf- 1
set ed no in* onvcuicnce of oci asionalchanges or increased '
expenditures lo obsti net them in V e pursuit of this great I
old ot. They might speak of connections, North, .South J
and Kurop* an, which ha c been placed in requisition to j
accomplish it their efforts, theyc .n only say, will be un* 1
falterii >g n this po lit. They aspire to having the School
rich in inti icncc, Iherarj and moral,rather than to enrich
themselves, or to acoomplish any personal or sectarian
old vet.
M iRAL ANI) KKI ItIUM ; TRAINING.—As at present
lArlMdi d.v'i.vi oed,tht onduotortof this Softool will
ho’d on their way of keeping strictly to thos.* instructions,
Mtil sad r»Hgl us which involve no denontlnatioiutl or j
i ir pupils are taught the entire 1
literature of t > Bible , the Geography,Chronology, Natu* r
ral ’ ctsn *OB, National Customs and Peculiarities, and all
it principles of Interpretation Involved to a fair 1
and saving uu ers'amling of the teored Volume. No •
mo ml r ipriroli Uls rogarde ias of light itnpor* 1
lance at Ume tone. Acceptable members of all the lead*
iug it*norm nation* of the St ite have been found annually 1
to uuite them * lve , fresh from this establishment, with j
the churches of their own iut diligent pre ereuce. Honestly
t tlna (found, Mm Teachers
must be of the sent proferreJ—-whichlavolvM the supposi
tion that each sect contains the best T. act-era in each de
pnrunem; a supposition coutrary to the facts of this esse.
6cb Mastic aptitu lo to teach, and certainly scholastic emi
nence are far more divided. Messrs. Curtis have been
w iling to obtain them wherever withrn the pale of the com
mon salvation they presented themselves, aud flud no ne*
ccs-ityiotht pith cither for compromising their own
view s, or casting a sliudtW of disrespect on those of other
QhrUiiaus.
gjfpr* One of the principals will be found at the Mills
Ho.oe, Oharlestcn, on Wednesday, Sth February, (to lake
the Railroad cars for Columbia on the 9th,) and at the
American Hotel, Columl i i,on the9th, (U take the cars
for YorkviUeou the 10th ) f4-w4
ro THE LUM3KRIN*} AND MILLING INTE
KKSTs.
T'HK subscribers would respectfully inform all interest
ed iti the Milling betiness that hating had experi
ence in the Machine and Mdl-Wrlght business, they are
prepared to execute MILL-BUILDING of every defcrlp
lion, by contract or otherwise.
Circular Saw MILLS constructed on the most simple
plans, and capable of being operated by one hand, will be
furnished t > order on the n *>t reasonable terms.
4TKAH KSiiINKA, WAT HR WUKKIA, SHAFTING
and GE tRINw, together with all kinds of IRON WORK
for Mills, will be furnished and put In operation by the
subscribers at short notice. •
Letters a id reused to the subscribers at Augusta, 6a.,
will rcc * vc prompt attention.
jsS w'Sra * RICHARDSON’ A HARLAN,
LOUISVILLE FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL.
rpilß .utxc'ibi-™ have opanvda School in the village of
1 l. L ,v,:1,., wlvi-e l> ty wilt be preparei lo Rive in
atraction toy.ui, Lillies, in the following branctiaa, at
the foil twing tales of tuition :
Ist Class—EirmenUrylGauchsa,per quartar.. J 5 00
41 Otiss—'ytUivin.itics, Saimal Scisncva.kc.. 600
SI Cits.—Laiicutiges, Drawing .nil Ktubroide
ry S 00
Music 10 00
r.reou »n.l liuintiaur »ro respectfully invited to c.ll
upon the-ui » ritn-rs, St their r’eho l Hoorn in the Court-
House, or at sir. Host ,vk's residence, ,nd examine the fa
cilities offered.
K./eresice*—L. 0. Bostick, A. R. Wright, E. W. Cars
wtl . tv. H.DICKINSON,
' - ' M. DICKINSON.
TEACHES.
VLADV, who has had seme years’ experience in
tea hing, desires an engagement as Music Teacher
on Pttno r Uniur. GcK*.i testimonials giten. Address
\ V . 'ofriltfl, Oso. Jal7-wAI
eiiiiu MILITARY IKSTITUTS.
THK of opening the lastitutiou has been changed
from the loth of Jaaua*y to the 00thof Kebmary. The
Academic Year will be divided, as heretofore, into two
se-si, is of five months each. The Ist commencing on the
Sflth >f aery » n i lid :.ron the 19th of July; the Sd
c turner,cm.- on ihe 'doth of July and ending on the 19th of
December. Itb4. A. V. BRUMBY,
dA- tins Superintendent.
POCKET BOOK LOST
]OsT, on i .ih lb , -.mb. r last,brtw.-enmmh.
a Wrg-.t-bon. and Mr. Bird Perry’s «BW3Sff*§!
POItTY -iON.it e [it ining Eleven Dsßatatnlt-l&lWlKj
money Aid a s- teoo l)r. L C Iteit, as
pal, aud Herry Jooet.s -euiity.fnrOne Thousand Dollars,
d .1, d sou etune in January, IsM, and due the Ist Janua
ry, ISA., and parable to J-nus C. Pcre, or bearer. 1
h’errbv f.rewarn a’l persons from trading for said Note,
an I Ibe is,- era fr tu paying the same to any other person
than mtself. L'lttc **lj JONATHAN PKRRY.
t 25 REWARD.
RAXAVVAY from the subreriber, last Spring,
ov NEGRO MAN, named Bonny,or Bonaparte, TO
about 55 or 60 years o’.l; black, stout built, weighs-Tl
about 170 pou: about 6 feet, tor S inches high, aW
turns out his toes very much in waiting; he is very artful,
and will be hard to detect. 1 will give the above reward
to any person who will lodge him in a safe jail, so that I
get him. JOHN McDADE,
dB-wtf Augusta, ua.
PIANO FORTES.
THK subscribers would respectfully call
tiieattention of their fri .ds and the
Cubiic, lo ihe-ir a- rortment of Rosewood and ’la lisaeff
lahogaoy PIANO roßTih, from the well Vl “ ■ U U
knoa'tiaiulsueily celebrated Manufactories of Bacon A Raven,
A. H. Gate A Co., aud Dubois A Se&bnry, New York, which
are warranted in aTery respect, to be at least fully equal to
Any msiruroenu manufactured io this country or Europe.
The subscribers would also state than the inßrumenu now
•n hand are «f the latest patterns and fashion, and fresh from
the manufacturers. Tor sale at very low prices for cash or
lity acceptances, At GEO. A. OATHS A OO.’B
to/18 Piano, Book and Music Depot, Broad-st.
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
1854. PROSPECTUS ~ 1854.
or THE
SOUTH CULTIVATOR
VOLUME XII, FOR 1854.
Dr. DAMEL LEE, )
and J. Editors.
D. KEDSOSD, J
TERMS.—ONE DOLLAR*A YEAR UI ADVANCE
Tux Soctheb* Ccltivator, a monthly Journal,
devoted exclusively to the improvement of South
ern Agriculture, Horticulture, Stock Breeding,
Poultry, Been, General Farm Economy, <kc. Il
lustrated with numerous elegant engravings.
Tuts TTtUTII VOLUME, GREATLY IMPROVED, COW
MENf.En IK JANUARY, 1864.
Tho Cultivator in a large octavo of Thirty-two
pages, forming a volume of 384 pages in the year.
It coutaine a much greater amount of reading mat
ter than any similar publication in the South—
embracing, In addition to the current agricultural
topics o< the day,
Valuable Original Contributions
from many of tho most inUlbyeru and practical
Planters. Farmers and Horticulturists in everyseo
lion Os tho South and Southwest.
TERMS OF THE CULTIVATOR ;
ONE copy, one year, ::::::: * ( 1.00
SiX conics, :::::::::: .00
TWENTY-FIVE copies, :::::: 20..'0
ONE HUNDRED copies,: : : : : : 75.0 t
The cash hVBTi.M will be rigidly adhered to, and
in no Instance will tho paper be sent unless the
money acoompanie* the order. The Bills of All
specie-faying Bank*- received at par. All money
remitrdd by iaajJ, postage paul, will bo at the nek
of the Publisher. Address
WILLIAM 8. JONES, Augusta, Oa.
FOR SALE.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOB BALE.
WILL BE ISOLD, in Warren county, on MONDAY,
the 6th day of MARCH next, at Hardaway k Kay’s
Hteam Mill, on the Georg a Railroad, two miles from
Thompson Depot, the following property, vlx :
One bteam Circular fcaw Mill, Griat Mill; Carpenters’,
Engineers' and Ml 1 Eights'Tools , One Log Wagon and
Harness; One Carry Log ; One Horse Cart: Two sets of
hiuab Kailroad Tim k* ; One Mill House ; Forty or Fifty
Thousand Bricks ; One yoke of Oxen ; Eight likely Mules ;
Six young and likely Negro Fellows, trained to the mill,
one of them a fair Engineer and a good Sawyer, two of
them good Wagoners,the othtr two good hands about the
mill, Ac. A !*o,l/imher,by the lot, and many other thing*
too tedious to mention.
Any of the above property can be treated for privately
any tune between this and the day of sale, by calling on
either or both of the Company at the mill.
The terms of the sale will be . all sums of Ten Dollars,
and under, Cash ; over Ten Dollars,credit until the 25th
day of December next, with notes and approved security,
febl w4t HARDAWAY k BAY.
VALUABLE LANDS FOB BALE
IN SWEET WATER VALLEY, EAST TENNESSEE.
1 AAH AI'HKH of LAND,whereon I now reside, ad
-1 joining Sweetwater Depot,on the East Tennes
seean I Georgia ailroad, in Monroe county, E. Tenn ,is
off* red for sale. The farm ii in a good ata eof cultivation
and is in good fix for a crop thfsyear. Has on it a com
fortable, but not fine Dwelling House, and out houses, good
Barn and Stables, a beautiful Apple Orchard—grafts of
the best fruit of the country—and many other fruit trees,
and many never failing springs ofpure, moeet water. It
is capable of being divided into two very good, well watered,
well limbered and conven.ent farms.
An early purchaser can have the privilege or raising a
crop the present year, and can be supplied with stook,
grain, tools, Ac., and some likely Negroes ; as these will
be for sale when the place is sold, J. T. LENOIR.
Ja2 k t-w4m
LAND FOB SALE.
rVl||K subscriber oflers for sale his PLANTATIONS in
X Wilkinson county, lying on Turkey creek ; one con
taining Three Thousand Acres of Oak and Hickory Land,
with a good Grist Mill, Dwelling House, aud all necessary
out-buildings. Also, One Thousand Acres, about four
miles above, on the same creek, containing some valuable
Hammock and Swamp Lands, with a good Dwe ling and
all out-buildings on the premises. Persons wishing to
purchuse, can get a bargain in either or both of the above
Blaces,8 laces, by calling on the subscriber, living one mile from
00l Spring, Wilkinson county.
p&twAwßm ANDBBBQK INGHAM.
AND FOII HALF.—The subscriber offers for £gk
Bale 820 Acres of LAND, lying well, 100 of which Tl*
arecieared and inclosed. It is in the 18th District and 3d
Section, and divided by the lately established line between
the counties of Gordon and Murray, and within 2# miles
of the Western and Atlantic Kail Road. A spring of good
water near the dwelling house. A number of lots can be
added on reasonable terms, forming a large settlement.
Porother particulars, apply to the subscriber at Rome,
Ga. Jaßo-wtf J. 0. MoDANIEL.
~ FOE SALE.
A LA HUE and convenient BRICK STORE, situated
in the centre of business, in the city of Rome, now
occupied by Koht 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
thcsale of Drugs, Dry Goods, or Groceries can hardly be
equalled in the city. Termseasy. Applyto
GEORGE BATTY,M.D.
Rome, April 4th, 1868. aprß-tf
LAND FOB SALE.
THE HLIIMIIIUFII offers for sale, 1400 acres of
LAND in Hancock. This Landlies well; has plenty
of timber; is under good fence, and has fair Improve
ments. Persons wishing to buy Lands, are invited to
oorae and look at it.
Also, 1400 acres in Carroll county, which lies npon the
Chattahoochee River, and embraces the Mclntosh Re-
MountZton, Ga., Juneß,lSßß. JelS-wtf
VALUABLE LANDS IN COLUMBIA COUNTY JOB
HALE.
Pt 1181! AXT loan order In Chancery, In the case of
AuKUtta A. Ooelchius and others, v». Rynear V. Goet
cliius, Trustee, 40., the uuderaigned offer, at private sale,
the following LANDS on Ucheo Creek, in Columbia county,
lately owned by Charles T. Beallc,deceased:
All that Tract, in said county, known as “ Lowiville,"
containing 491) acres, more or less, and adjoining lands of
Jesse Walton and Turner Clanton.
—ALSO—
All that other Tract, in said County, known as the “Home
Place," containing SdO acres, mnro or less, now divided into
two parts of 4.T0 acres each, and bounded by lands of Jesse
Walton, Crawford, Simons, and Ramsay.
Knot disposed of at private sale, before Thursday, the
99th day of DECEMBER next, said lands will then be offered
atpublieoutcry,en the premises, known as the “Home
Place." —ALSO—
At the same time and place, will be sold, in lots to suit
purchAsurs, all the perishable property. Stock, llorses,
Mules, Farming Implements, Ac., on the premises.
For Terms, apply to either of the undesigned, at Au>
gusta, Ga. WM. A. WALTON, Trustee.
n 4 THOS. W. MILLER, Agent.
&JT* Constitutionalist copy weekly till day.
WILLIAM H. TUTT.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGIST,
AcotiSTi, ~
IH NOW HKCKIVINfJ a very .line and complete
stock of DRUGS, MEDICINES. PAINTS,OILS, GLASS,
PERFUME it V, BRUSHES, DVB STUFFS, and FANCY
ARTICLES, which he has selected, in oerson, with the
greatest care, from the largest Imuotidrs and Manufacto
ri » in thiscountry, and which. lor anantv and cheapness
cannot be excelled. He would resnectruliv invite the at
tention of Merchants, Planters and Phvsicians te his
stock.
All orders will be executed with the utmost neatness
and despatch. aebT-diwtf
NOTICE.
TO THE OWNERS OE LAND IN CHEROKEE,GA.
TIIIV lADIiItfcItJAKD, living near Cedar Town,
Polk county, On., offers his services to examine and
reportthe value of LANDS in the Cherokee part of Geor
gia. He will,ln person, examine Lands, give full infor
mation as to value, location, ami probability ofimmediate
sale. Having no connection whatever with Land Specu
lation, he will engage to act as Agent for the sale and pur
chase of Lands in any of the Cherokee counties of Geor
gia. For the amount received or paid out, ten per cent
will be charged; and for examining tots In this county.
Four Dollars, and in allother counties, Five Dollars will
be charged.
Referkxcks:
Thos I*. Sparks, W. E. West,
H. F. Wimberly, W. F. Janes,
E. H. Richardson, A. R. Verdery,
G. W. West.
Address, Cedar Town. Polk county, Ga.
iIM-wJm BURTON CRABB,
CHEROKEE LAND OWNERS, LOOK AT THIS
r|MIK subscriber offers his services to persons owning
1 Land in Polk county, and living at a dittance, as agsnt.
He will carefully examine each lot, and faithfully report
Us situation and value, and prevent intrusion and tres
pass upon them for one year, for five dollars a lot, in ad
vance. lie will also attend to the selling of Land, for ten
per cent on the amount o; sales; and, for one dollar in
advauce.he will inquire into and report the value ofeaob
lot of Land Polk county is composed of the following dis
tricts :in the dth section, the Ist,2d and 17th; In the 8d
section, part of the ISth, the 20th and2lst districts, batis*
factory reference given when required.
Address the subscriber at Cedartown, Polk county, Ga.,
enclose the fee amt pay postage, and his services will be
procured. d’JO-wSm STEPHEN A. BORDERS.
GLEN DINNING COS
MAtlBi.K WORKS, Broadstreet, Augusta,Georgia
Where we have on hand and will continue to keep a
large stock of both Italian and American Marble, for
Monumcnta,Toombs, Head Stones, Ac., to which we res
pectfully call the attention of those wanting work in our
ine. We are now prepared to fill all ordere at short no
tice, in as good style and as low as work of thesame.quallty
an be furnished for from any establishment LntheUnlteA
States Plans and prices will be aent tboee who eannotca
andexamnefor themselves.
P.S.—Ordcrefrom the country exeouted with ncatnei
nd despatch. diT
OSAGE ORANGE PLANTS FOR HEDGING.'
rIK SI BMTUBKK will offer for sale, during the
Fair of the “ Southern Central Agricultural Society.”
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND OSAGE ORANGE PLANTS,
of from one to two years’ growih, suitable for setting out
the coming Fall. They may be set one foot apart In the
hedge-row, and will make an impenetrable and permanent
hedge, with proper care, in Bor 4 years. Pamphlets, de
scribing the method of trimming and training the planta,
furniehed to all purchasers. Those desirous ofengaging
supply in advttuce, will address D. REDMOND,
außl-tf Augusta, Ga.
CARRLAG .
\\ T K H-HK OX HAM), ul ire rKclrlat a good
>» assortment of CARRIAGES, ROCKAWAY 3; BA
ROUCHES; BUGGIES, a.id Lieht CARRYALLS. Alao,
Hack and Road WAGONS, togetner vita an assortment of
HARNESS: BUGGY; UMBRELLAS: WHIPS; TRUNKS;
CARPET BAGS; VALICES. CHILDRENS’ CABS and
WAGONS; CARRIAGE BOLTS, by Ok package or single
one; aUof which will be sold on reasonable terms, at the
atore formerly occupied by the late It. s. Hoatlxt.
fW* REPAIRING done at abort nonce.
Augusta, April!, 1358. -WYMAN A DARROW.
aprS-wly
WANTED,
AT the Augu-ta Cotton Mills, fifty Power Loom WEAV
ERS, and six or eight families of four or more OPE
RATIVES. each. Inquire at the Factory, of the Superin
lendem.or at the office, Broad-atreet. jalS wtf
~~ T BOARD FOR TRAVELLERS.
ANY of my ft iends and acquaintances Tiaiting Augua
ta, if they will call upon me, at my residence on
B road-street, abore the Upper Market, I will do all that
is in my pet eer to render their stay pleasant and satisfac
tory at a liberal charge. WILLIAM B. SMITH.
jals-wly
1,000. KRADICATOR. 1,000.
THIS excellent preparation for the core of Rheuma
tisrn and other local Pains, Ac., prepared by J. E.
MARSHALL, is for sale by Hariland, Rislay A Co ., M.
Clarke A Co., W. H A J. Turpin, D. B. Plumb A Co.
N. B. One thousand references can be given in this city
In proof of its superiority orer any other remedy now in
ate. Don't be without it.
Marshall's Ringworm and Tetter WASH, also for tale
by W. H. A J. TURPIN, HAVILAND, RISLEY A CO.,
M. CLARKE A CO., D. B. PLUMB A 00. nls-wly
FRENCH BURR MILL STONE MANUFACTORY,
CORNER BROAD AND CUMMING-STREETS,
ArocSTA, Ha.
’T'HK SIBtjURIBKK takes tha occasion to Infbrm
-*- numerous friends and the oaotic generally, that
he has commenced the abore business under the most fa-
Terable auspices, having engaged too serrices of an ex
highly qualified worxman. and flatters him-
JSniriV.K i"°' k P lll compare sltssat other manufac
turerintheLnitedSutes. He auu sees to apprise the
binhToiSfh bhC ’m “* u orJ *™ wun which P he may
despatch* *£
'^sepll-wly 11 ** 1 '«Ric*SS)SKSS?
AN OPENING FOR A MERCHANT.
THK eubscriber offers for rent a STORE-HOL'SE in the
most business part of the town of Greensboro’ The
building it two stories high, and has a front of 76 feet. The
S resent occupants, with limited means, sell from 16 to
13,000 per annum; and, as they design retiring from
business on the first dsy of January next, any ons soo
t?"ding them immediately, will hare the refusal of their
trade, which, with proper management, can, with ease, be
increased to it or SBO,OOO. Any wishing further informs-
Lon, can address C. A. DAVIfi,
die* wtf Greensboro’, Ga,
WEEKLY
! CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
THI CONQUEROR'S MARCH.
BY Wk. CUUJM BXTXjrr.
Within this lowly grave the Conqueror lies,
And yet the monument proclaims it not,
Nor round the sleeper’s name hath chisel wrought
The emblems of a fame that never diet,
Ivy and amarath, in a graceful aheaf,
Twined with the laurel s fair, imperial leaf,
A simple name alone,
T> the great world unknown,
Ii graven here, and wild Cowers, rising round,
Meek meadow sweet and violets of the ground,
Lean lovingly agfkinst the humble stone.
Here, In the quiet earth, they laid apart
No man of Iron mould and bloody haDds,
Who sought to wreck upon the cowering lands
The passions that consumed his restless heart;
But one of tender spirit and delicate frame.
Gentlest, in mien and mind,
Os gentle womankind,
Timidly shrinking from the breath of blame ;
One in whose eyes the smile of kindness made
Its haunt, like Cowers by sunny brooks in May,
Yet at ths thought of otbers’ pain, a shade
Os sweeter sadness chased the smile away.
Nor deem that when the hand which moulders here,
Was raised in menace, realms were chilled with fear,
And armies mustered at the sign, as when
Clouds rise on clouds before the rainy East-
Gray captains leading bands of veteran men
And fiery youths to be the vulture's feast,
Not thus were waged the mighty wars gave
The victory to her who fills this grave;
Alone her task was wrought,
Alone the battle fought;
Through that long strife her constant hope was staid
On God alone, nor looke*for othtr aid.
Shegfet tt*v hosts of sorrow with a look
That altered not beneath the frown she wore.
And soon the lowering brood were timed, and took,
Meekly her gentle rule, and frowned no more.
Her soft hands put aside the assaults of wrath,
And calmly broke in twain
The fiery shafts of paid,
And rent the nets of passion from her path,
By that victorious band despair was slain.
With love she vanquished hate and overcame
Evil with good, in her Great Master’s name.
Her glory Is not of this shadowy state,
Glory that with the fleeting season dies;
But when she entered at the sapphire gate,
What Joy was radiant in celestial eyes!
How heaven’s bright depths with sounding welcomes rung,
And (lowers of Heaven by shining hands weie flung!
And He who, long before,
Pain, scorn and sorrow bore,
The Mighty Sufferer, with aspect sweet,
Smiled on the timid stranger from his seat;
He who returning, glorious, from the grave,
Dragged death, disarmed, in chains, a crouching slave.
See, as I linger here, the sun grows low;
Cool airs are murmuring that the night is near.
Oh ! gentle sleeper, from thy grave I go
Consoled, though sad, In hope and yet in fear.
Brief is toe time, I know,
The warfare scarce begun:
Yet all may win the triumphs thou hast won.
Still flows the fount whose waters strengthened thee :
The victor’s names are yet too few to fill
Helen's mighty roil: the glorious armory,
That ministered to thee, is open still.
How AND WHAT THEY I’CNISHED IN OLDEN TIMEB.
—On tha Massachusetts records appears the fol
lowing order:
Whereas there is no express punishment by any
law-hithorto established or affixed to the evil prac
tice of sundry persons by exhorbitancy of toDgue
in railing and scolding—
It is therefore ordered that all such persons con
victed before the Court of Magistrates, that have
proper cognizance oftho case for railing and scold
ing, shall be gagged or setin a ducking stool, and
drenched over head and ears three times in somo
convenient place of fresh or salt wator, as the Court
of Magistrates may judge meet.
In 1644, the o urt ordered, among otker inte
esutingmatters, that every town should take care
that “there boa pair of stocks, a cage and a
couching itvol ereted between this and the next
court.” The“couckingstool,” or “duckingstool,"
as it was oftener styled, consisted of a convenient
■eat attached to the ond of a beum, precisely as a
bucket is hung from the end ot a well sweep; this
was placed over a pond of any deep wator, and the
porson to be punished having been well secured in
tbo soat, was let down or “ducked” into the water
at the pleasure of the officer. This was the most
oooling modo of punishm- nt then in use, and was
therefore specially reserved for scolding women.
There was also a provision for a whipping-post in
the vicinity of every justice of the peace, presum
ing tho number honored with that office was not so
groat as in our day.
Coffin, the historian of Newbury, finds a record
of 1751, “for carving tho head oftho whipping-post,
eighteen shillings,” and iu 1765, “iron works for
the town Btocks, four and sixpence.” Tho whip
ping-post and pillory in Boston were stationed in
Btato streets, in the square below the State house.
We have heard that the last person set in tho pillo
ry in State street, in public, was a black woman
oonvic.ed of stealing. —Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Partington. —“So our noigbbor, Mr. Guz
zlo, lias been arranged at tho bar fordrunkardioe,”
Baid Mrs. Partington, and she sighed as she thought
of his wife and children at home, with the cold
weather close at hand, and the searching winds
intruding through the chinks in tho windows, and
and waving the tattered curtain like a banner,
whilo tho little ones stood shivoring by the faint
embers. “God forgive him and pity them,” said
she, with a tone of voice tremulous with emotion.
“But ho was bailed out,” said Iko, who had de
voured th» -e-* of tl>- and laid the pa
per in a pan of liquid custard that the dame was
preparing for Thanksgiving, and sat swinging the
oven door to and fro as if to fan the fire that cracklod
and burned within. “Bailed out, was he?” said
she; “well, I should think it would have been
cheaper to have pumpod him out, for when our
oollarwas tilled, nrtor the city fathers had degra
ded the streets, we had to have it pumped out,
though there wasn’ half so much in it bb he has
swilled down.” Sbo paused, and reached up to
tho high shelves of the closet for hor pie plates,
whilo Ike busied himsolf by tasting the various
preparations. The damo thought that was the
smallest quart of sweet cider Bhe had over seen.—
Boston Post.
Look Up.— lt is what wo rejoice to *ee — men, f
womon, aud children—tho rich, the poor—the old t
and the young always looking up. It shows the (
purity of your intentions, and the determinations ,
of your own hearts. We seo in him the elements >
of a truo man. No mattor if the seas have
swallowed your property, or the fires have con- j
Burned yonr dwellings—lookup, tako froah cour- |
age. Is your name a byword, or a roproach? ,
Look up to the purity of the skies, and lot its i
imago do reflected in yonr heart. Detraotito, |
then, will rebound from yocr bosom. Are you ,
trod upon by the strong? Look up—pushup—
and you will stand as Btrong as lio. Are you
crowdod out of the society ol the rich ? Lock up,
and soon your company will be coveted. What
over may be your ciroumstancos or condition in ,
life, always make it a point to look np—to raise (
higher and highor—and you will attain your ,
fondest expectations. Success may ce slow, but
sure it will come. Heaven is on the side of those \
who look up.
The Dboovfry of Gold in Australia was made
by two poor men named James Esmonds and
Thomas Hiscock. They have been long overlook- 1
ed in tho scramble for gold, but latterly a monu- i
rnout has been mado to commemorate tho service
they havo done the world. A sum has been collect- i
od aud they are to bo presented with two gold flag- 1
gone at a public banquet. Further, a petition has
been put up asking for them a reward from the 1
revenue aocruing from their discovery, which is 1
likely to be granted. To show the estimate in
which their service is held, we quote the follow- i
log from the Geelong Advertiser :
“Hiscock and Esmonds, with a bit of gold and a
bit of quartz, added more substantial happiness to
the community than Alaxender with his oohorts,
or Ca’sar with his legions, Napoleon with his
glory, or Wellington with his senso of duty. His
cock and Esmonds have chosen the pebble, and
have smitten the Goliah of poverty in the forehoad,
rescuing the people from the thraldom of want and
a state of servility.”
Action and Re action in Farming. —Fences op
erate in two ways—if good they are a defence, if
poor an offence.
Many a farmer, by too sparingly seeding his
now meadows, has had to codo his wholo farm.
Every farmer should see daily every animal he
has and inspect its condition. Weekly visits, as
with some, soon result in weakly animals.
Tho man who provides well sheltered cotes for
his sheep in winter, will soon find plenty of coats
for bis own back.
A good housewifo should not be a person of one
idea, butshould be equally familiar with the flower
garden and flour barrel; and though her lesson
should be to lessen oxpensc, vet t' o scent of a flue
rose should not be less valued than the cant in the
till. If her husband is a skilful sower of grain,
she is equally skilful as a sewer of garments; he
1 keeps his hoeo bright by use; she keeps the hose
of the whole family iu order. —Albany Cultivator.
Large Salk of Railroad Bonds.— The first im
portant sale of American Railroad Bonds made
abroad, for some months, has been effected in Paris.
The agent of the Nashville and Louisville Railroad
has negotiated, with a Paris banking bonse, the sale
of the six per cent bonds of thst Company to the
amount of two millions, seven hundred aod fifty
thousand dollars. So we learn from reports brought
by theßteamehip Asia. Hitherto, for many months
the stringency of the European money markets has
caused ail applications for aid to American railways
to be returned unsuccessful. The negotiation above
mentioned is nothing but an indication of a grow
ing disposition among European capitalists, whom
the prospect of a general war has made distrustful
of European securities to seek investments on this
side of the Atlantic. Should this great conflict ac
tflally take place, it seems by no means improba
ble that a large amount of money will find its way
to this country, to be laid out in American State
and Railroad Stocks. —Savannah Gtoraian.
Serious Accident, —Mr. Findley Riley, Car In
spector, was very seriously injured on Saturday
night the 4th iust. We understand he was be
tween the cars, repairing the “Coupling,” when
the cars came together with a considerable foroe,
catching Mr. Riley’s lett arm between them, and
mashing it so severely that it was thought for some
time that amputation would be necessary. We
are glad to learn ihat he is better to-day, and that
this painful operation will not have to be resorted
to. —Dalton lunc-t.
1 . McMinsvulk, Tens., Feb. sth.—Awful con
-1 Legation. This evening about four o'clock, a fire
broke out in the third story of Farmer’s Factory,
which was burned down, machinery and building
a total loss.
The fire is supposed to have originated from
a lot of waste cetton in the corner of the room,
which ignited.
Loss SBO,OOO to SIBO,OOO. We learn there is no
Insurance.
[ A p'geon rocst ten miles long by five broad, in
Franklin county, Indiana, it is said, is now swarm
'■ ing with pigeons. The roar of their wings on ar
' riving and departing from the roost is tremendous,
and the flocks during the flight, darken the hea
, vens. The ground is covered to the depth of
several inches with their manure. Thousands are
killed by casualties from breaking limbs of trees,
, and hundreds of hogs live upon them.
i ——
- Loan to the Baltimore and Ohio Eailrod.—■
- The bill Authorizing the loan es $5,000,000 to the
" Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was passed
" by the House of Delegates of Maryland on Satur
. day by a vote of 45 to 6. It had previously passed
. the Senate bv a unanimous vote. The principal
- object of the loan is to enable the company to sup
ply its road v ith a double track as far as Piedmont.
A few moments after the express train from Bos
ton to Albany crossed the State line, on Thursday
a afternoon, the passengers were agreeably surprised
* at witnessing the marriage of Mr. Wart Arnold, of
a Canaan Four Corners, to Mist Mary Braxee. The
J ceremony, saya the Troy Whig, was performed by
a the Rev. Mr. Shaw, and the passengers presented
” a puree to the groom for the purchase of a piece cf
plate for the bride.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15.1854.
MISCELLANY.
*
A ABHATIVK
Os the Severing* or Mr.. Jooe Adeline Wilson,
Daring her Captivity ntnoug the Cainnnche In
dians.
It was announced a short time ago that an Ame
riean woman had been rescued from theCamaoahe
Indians. The following is her narrative of her
captivity and sufferings:
I was bom in Alton, Illinois, on the 18th day of
June, 1887, end am, therefore, in the seventeenth
year of my age. My father’s name was William
death ; my mother's maiden name was Jane Cox.
I had five brothers and four sisters. I think it
was in 1548 that we moved to Missouri, and settled
st a boat landing or ferry called Jamestown, on
the North Grand Biver. My father kept the
ferry.
About eight year* ago we moved from this place
to Texas, and settled near Paris, in Lamar oounty.
Here my father and mother died within one day of
each other, leaving six orphan children behind
them. Three of my brothers had died before the
death of my parents. My eldest brother, who was
in s ranging company, now came to settle my
father's affairs and make provisions for our sup
port. He secured homes for ns with different
neighbors, but took the youngest sister, our pet,
with him to place her with one of our aunts.
One day’s journey from the place where he left
us, he was attacked by the winter fever, and died
in one week. I lived with several neighbors until
the first of last February, when I was married to
Mr. James Wilson, a young farmerjust beginning
life, with a little property, consisting in horses and
oattle. He was but nineteen when we were mar
ried. We knew little of life for I was not yet six
teen. 1 fear wo were orazy in getting married
while we were so yonng.
We had heard that people became rich very fast
in California, so we concluded to move and com
mence life in that distant country. We gathered
together the little property we possessed, and
joined a party of emigrants consisting of 52 meD,
12 women, snd several children. The father and
brothers of my husbaud were among this number.
There were in all twenty-two wagons, and the
whoA company was placed under command of
Mr. Henry Hickman. Wo started from Hunt
County, on the 6th of April laat, and took the
route for El Paso. We arrived at the Guadalupe
Mountains about the Ist of June. Here the Mes
calero Apaches stole from us nineteen head of cat
tle : six men started in pursuit, but were driven
back by the Indians. We went thence to El Paso.
My husband not being able to travel well with
Mr. Hickman’s train, he determined to remain at
El Paso till the arrival of another party of Califor
nia emigrants. Five of Mr. H’s men staid with ns.
While here, the Mexicans stole nearly all the pro
perty we had, and loft us unable to prooeeu on
our journey. We could do nothing now except
make our way back to Texas.
About the last of July we started on our return,
with the fragments of our property which the
thieves had spared. On the first day ot August,
ray husband and his father left us, and fell into
the bands of the Indians. I saw them no mors
after this. I was told that they had been murder
ed. You may, perhaps, be able to imagine my
feelings when I found myself thus bereaved and
destitute in a land ot strangers. My misfortune
scorned greater than I could boar but I knew not
that heavier trials were in store forme.
Unable to continue my journey, I returned to El
Paso, where I remained till September 8, when I
started once more for Texas with my three bro
thers-in-law, in company with a small party con
sisting of five Americans and one Mexican. Mr.
Hart, who owned and commanded this train, hav
ing some business in Texas which required his
immediate at tention, traveled very rapidly, and I
hoped in a few days more to be in the midst of
my friends.
As we had seen only ono Indian on the route wo
flattered ourselves that we should not bo molest
ed by any ofthe tribes which infest this route.—
W hen near the borders of Texas some of oar party
stole three animals from Mr. Hart, and ran off. —
Mr. Hart, anxious to overtake the thieves, started
iu pursuit, taking with him my eldest brother-in
law, a lad some fourteen years of age, leaving my
solfj a Mexican, and the two boys to follow as
rapidly as we could. Wo were at this time within
throo day’s journey of a military post at Phantom
Hill, and wore considered oat of danger. A dis
charged soldier being unable to keep np with us
was some distance behind, but I saw nothing of
him after this. The day after Mr. Hart left us, as
we were traveling, about noon, we saw two Caman
cho Indians charging up>on us in front, and at the
same time two others wero seen driving up bebiDd.
Wo wero all very muoh frightened, and the Mexi
can jumped out of the wagon and went toward
the Indians, in order, if possible, to gain thsir
friendship.
The mules of our wagon, four in number, be
coming frightened by the war-hoop of the ssva- i
gee, turned out of the road and commenced run- t
ning as fast as they could. One of them iell down i
before wo had gone far, and the othera were then ■
obliged to stop. The Indians now came upon us, i
and orded the Mexican to take the mulesout of the i
harness. While this was going on, I got out of the 1
wagon, and lookod on in breathless suspense.— I
Alter the mules were unharnessed, the Mexioan (
was stripped of his clothing, his hands tied behind t
his back, and ordered to sit down upon the i
ground. One of them went behind him and shot t
him with a gun, while another stabbed him several c
times with a largo butcher knife. Qia scalp was t
cut off before he was dead, and put into bis own t
hat; the hat was then worn by one of his murder- c
er* - I was Btppified with horror aa I gazed on this 1
mpoßU'.;\ ,|.»«—id li. it U.J wmu.il native a
next. But the Indians having secured the plun
der of the wagon, mounted us on the mules, and t
ordered us to go with them. a
As I left I looked back and saw the poor Mexi- i
can weltering in his blood and still breathing. i
We took a northeast direotion, and traveled 1
slowly till sunset, when we encamped. Here the 1
plunder, consisting of blankets, bedding, clothing c
bridles, and some money which I had in my c
pocket, was divided among the Indians. My t
clothing was taken uway, except barely enough to 1
cover my person. In the distribution of the oap- (
tives, the eldest boy about 12 years of age, was i
claimed by the chief. I became the property of i
one of the others. I should have mentioned that \
one of our captors was a Mexican, who had been .
stolen from the State of Chihuahua when an in- I
fant. lie was now as savage as the Indians, and
claimed the youngest boy for his prize. The scalp ’
of the Mexioan was strotched on a Btick and dried t
hytnefire. «
After giving us some meat for our supper, the 1
Indians began to secure us for the night. The i
boys with their arms tiod tightly behind them, i
wero taken under guard by two of the savages.— <
My feet wore tied together, and I was obliged to lie t
between the other two. I did not sleep any during i
the night for 1 was afraid of being killed. I
The next day we resumed our journey, and tra <
veled in the same direction. The boys were <
mounted on good animals, and had bows and »r- 1
rows. Their fucea wore painted Indian fashion, j
and they lookod like young savages. They appear- <
ed to enjoy this now mode of life, and were treated i
treated with excessive cruelty. 1 was mounted on ]
a good horse, but being obliged to sit astride the i
animal, the journey was exceedingly painful. t
I had a tine head of hair, which I valued very
much, but the chief ordered it to be cut off. I was 1
not n little mortified in soeing it deoorating the i
heads of the heartless savages. My head was thuß
left entirely unprotected from the intensely hot
rays of the sun.
Nothing of interest occurred except repeated !
acts of inhumanity towards me until the twelfth
day after my capture. At this time wo were joined i
by two Indian men and a squaw. These wero all i
tno Indians I saw till after my escapo. Up to this
time my Buffering had beeu so severe as to take i
from me all desiro to live, bat now they were
greatly increased. The squaw, from whom I
might have expected some compassion, was evi
dently the cause of the new cruelties which I now
began to experience.
M horse was taken from me, and I was mount
ed on an unbroken mule without a bridle. I had
a saddlo but it was worn out and good for nothing
except to torture me. Thisanimaiwo rid frequent
ly top me over its head of its own accord, but not
being wild enougn to gratify the malice of the In
dians, the ohief would sometimes shake the Mexi
can’s scalp before its eyes. The beast would then
rear nnd plunge in the utmost fright, and I would
be thrown upon the ground with great violence. I
havo been tossed from the mule’s back as many as
halt a dozen times a day, and once I was so stunned
that I lay a considerable time before my senses re
turned. My repeated falls greatly amused the In
dians, whose horrid peals of laughter might have
been heard at a great distance.
I never saw them exhibit the first sign of pity
toward me. It made no difference how badly I
was hurt, if 1 did not rise immediately and mount
the f nimal which had jnst thrown me, they would
apply their riding whips, or gun-sticks, or the end
of a lariat, to my unprotected body with the great
estvioler.ee. The squaw would also help me to
rise by wounding me with the point of a spear
which she carried. You may understand ono ob
ject the Indians had in view in putting me upon
this wi’d animal and causing me to be thrown so
often, when I tell you I expected to becomes mo
ther in as ;w weeks. They understood my situa
tion, but instead of softening their hearts it only
made them more inhuman, and subjected me to
greater sufferings.
1 was obliged to work like a slave while in camp;
while there was any service to perform I was not
allowed a moment’s rest. I was oompelled to car
ry large loads of wood on my back, whioh, being
destitute of sufficient clothing, was mangled till
tbe blood ran down to my feet. I had to onase the
animals throng); briars and bushes, till what little
clothing I had was torn into ribbons. I brought
the animals into camp in the morning, and had to
watch them till they were ready to start, and if one
more wild than the rest ran off, I most chase and
bring him back, and then be knocked down by the
savage ohief for my want of skill. When all were
ready to start, I had to catch and saddle my own
wild mule without assistance. If the party did
□ot start immediately, I was compelled to pull at
the end cf a lariat which the Indians would fasten
to a bush. They seemei to study every method
of putting me to death by piecemeal.
Exhausted by incessant toil and suffering, and
extreme anguish from my wounds, I oould not
work as fast as the Indians desired, and often when
scarcely able to stand, and hardly knowing what I
was doing, I have been recuired to do the work of
the strongest man. And because of my inability
to accomplish my task satisfactorily, I have been
whipped till my flesh was raw. Large stones were
thrown at me. I was knocked down and stamped
noon by the ferocious chief, who seemed anxious
to crush me like a worm beneath his feet. My
head sometimes fell under the horses’ feet, and
then the Indians would try to make the beasts
kick me. After all was ready for the day’s jour
ney, I was obliged to travel as fast as the others,
riding sometimes over rocks and through busi es,
sching and sore from head to foot, ana exposed
aline to coldand heat, sunshine and storm.
1 have gone two days at a time without tasting
food. The Indians depended on hunting for their
subsistence, and sometimes had nothing to eat
themselves—unless there was an abundance of
f iod, I received little or nothing—when any game
was killed, the Indians would tear out the heart,
liver, and entrails and eat them raw. I suffered
exceedingly from thirst. I wa* not allowed to
drink, except while in camp. We frequently
crossed beautiful streams daring the day, and I
would beg the privilege cf dismounting to quench
my thirst. But the Indians would always deny
my request with contempt. It was .n vain 1 point
ed out ray parched tongue and head blistered in
the rays of the sun. Nothing could soften them
into pity, and I ardently desired death that my tor
ments might come to an end.
Every indignity was offered to my person which
the imagination can conceive. And lamatalcss
to know how I have lived through the barbarous
treatment which was inflicted upon me. Fre
quently my feelings were so outraged that I was
tempted to kill my inhuman masters. My indig
nation burned particularly against the chief, and I
thought if I could only c:t him to piece* I conld
die content.
We travelled every day—we usually started about
10 o’clock in the mor.ing, and halted about four
in the eve. ing. The Indians were accustomed to
go to the tope of the highest hills and stand there
, gazing in every direction. We always spent the
night on a biff and were thus exposed to the oold
i autumn winds; we slept on the ground, generally,
• without covering. When it reined the Indian*
made a tent of the blankets and wagon sheet they
. had stolen from ns, but I was not allowed to taka
’ shelter in it—l preferred sleeping ootaide in the
(torn.
After my mule had become anfijentle that 1 could
ride it without being thrown, £ was taken from
me and I was obliged to travel-4’jjfeot. The road
over which we passed was oft r -»jßry rough and
stony, and full ot thorns. My teat were wounded
and bruised till they were covelXxf jvi.h blood and
greatly swollen. But still I was ahfiged to keep np
with the rest ot the party, and-Ml fell behind I
was beaten till I was nearly haualeaa. The In
dians often urged me ou by its6ißt«Ung to ride
’ h eir hor-.e * over rae; many a mifisaj that road is'
marked with my blood, and nwirsf hill there las
echoed tu my uselssa cries.
I traveled thus on foot some five oraix days.
As er s party were ready to start in the morning
the direction of the route was pcbjted out to me,
snd I wss required to go beforMMhtthers, in order
not to hinder them. They us>i<J.y overtook me
before I travelled tar. I had hiintended to
make my escape a» scon as I found an opportunity.
I never expected to reach any friendly settlement,
but I did not wish to give the Indians the plea
sure of seeing nie die. On tffi morning of the
twenty-fifth day after my capture, I was sent oniu
advance as usual. I had and
was very weak, but the hope of escape now sup
ported me. I hastened on as fsaXUs I oouid, and
finding a suitable hiding place I turned aside and
concealed myself in the busheav " After this I saw
nothing more of mv captors. I focad afterwards,
by the tracks ofthe animals, that they had search
ed for me ; they probably thought 1 would die,
and therefore took less trouble to tod 1 me. I have
no doubt the next time they past that way they
will look for my bones. *
My situation was now distressing oeyond all de
scription ; I was alone, in an li.ilirr vmntry, some
hundreds of miles from the nearest friendly settle
ments. I was without food, wii! lut shelter, and
almost without clothing. -was full ol
wounds and brudp,, s 3xijr .cot ■"b«WtouWv)ilKfa
that I could hardly stand. Wild beasts were
around me, and savages more wild than beasts,
roamed on every hand. Winter was coming on,
and death in its most terrible forms stared me in
the face—l sat down and thought ot my lonely and
exposed situation; but I could not weep—my heart
wt £> too full of woe. I remembered the events of
the few proceeding weeks. The husband of my
choice had been murdered, and I wss not allowed
the melancholy privilege of closing his eves, and
seeing his remains decently interred. My little
property had been stolon, snd when within a few
days maroh of sympathizing friends, I was cap
tured by savages, and after three weeks of inde
scribable sufferings, found myself wandering soli
tary and destitute iu the midst of tho wild prairies
—my cup was filled to overflowing, but I resolved
to live in tope, if 1 died in despair.
After remaining three days in the place where I
first conoealed myself from the Indians, I went to s
frove about half a mile distant and built a little
ouse of bushes and grass. Hero I lived nine
days. My only food wss the hackberries which
grew on the bushes around. I quenched my thirst
at a spring near by. My wounds pained me ex
ceedingly, and I wasted to a more skeleton for
want of proper nourishment. It rained upon me
seven nights in succession, and my little house
was unable to proteot me from the oold storms.
More than once 1 spent s sleepless night, perfectly
drenched in rain; while the wolves sometimes
coming within five steps of me, would make tho
woods ring with their frightful howlings. They
would also follow close behind me when I went to
the spring during the day ; I expected sometime
to be devoured by them, but they were great cow
ards, and 1 could easily frighten them away.
W hen absent from my house on the twelfth day
alter escape, somo New-Mexican traders passed by,
on their way to the Camanche settlements. While
standing on a small hill, looking after them in or
der to be sure they were not Indians, I was discov
ered by some three or four of tho party who hap
pened to be aome distance behind. They imme
diately came toward me, and soon understood my
situation. They kindly offered to tako me wi;n
them, and I gladly bade farewell to my house in
the wooda. The Mexicans put me upon a barro ,
and gave me a blanket and some men’s clothing,
in which I dressed myself very comfortably.
Two or threo dnyß after this we came in sight ot
a band of Camsnches, and as it was not sate for
me to be seen by them, Lwas left behind in a ra
vine, vrttli a promise that the Mexicans would
return for me at night. As they did not fulfil their
promise, I started toward their camp. About
midnight, while wandering among the bushes, a
Camanche Indian passed within twenty steps; I
thought I was a oaptive once more, but fortunate
ly the savage did not see me. I threw myself on
the ground and waited for day. In the morning 1
started again for tho camp of the Mexicans, but
before I reached it I was discovered by one of the
trading party who was herding the animals. This
man is a Puebla Indian, of San Ildefonso, and is
named Juan Jose. Tonimmoro than to any other
man in the party, I owe my present freedom.
He told me the camp was fallofCmnanches,and
if they saw ms it would be impossible for the party
to save me. Ho made me lie down on the ground
while he covered me with dried grass. I lay here
all day, and at night erept forth to quench my al
moat intolerable thirst. Juan came and brought
me some bread, and told me not by any means to
leave my hiding place the next day. That day
lagged slowly along, and I oould hear the dreaded
Camanches passing and repassing, and shouting to
each other. At night Juan returned, bringing
another blanket and several loavoa of broad, and
told me that I mast remain here for seven or eight
dtys longer, as the party ware obliged to go far
ther on, and could not take me unless I was willing
to beeome aoaptivo once more. I saw the party
disappear the next day, and it seemed' aa if my
hopes of rescue disappeared with riism. Bit I re-
WVeaHeW. iUi »A., r
In a ravine near by 1 tonnd a la.g ■ log which
had been left burning; this fire I kept alivo day
end night till the Mexicans returned, and without
it I should probably have frozen to dtath, as the
weather had become very oold. I covered a hol
low cotton-wood stump with bark and leaves to
keep out the cold wind. The stamp 4as my house
during my stay here. When I could endure the
cold no longer I would leave my houieand run to
tho fire, but was afraid to stay there lorg lest the
Indians should see me. The wolves soon found
out my place of retreat, and frequently, while I
was in the stump, they would oome rod scratch
around and on its top. The hack berries were
very scarce here, ana had it not been fer the bread
Juan Jose gave me, I do not see how I could have
been kept from starving to death.
The eight days passed slowly by, and I knew not
whetherto give way to hope or despair. But on
the Bth I heard several parties calling to each oth
er. I feared they were the Indians, but thoy be
longed to the trading party, and were on their re
turn to New Mexico. They had lest the place
where I was concealed, ana were shouting to each
other toattract my attention. I was so overjoyed
that I rushed toward them unmindful of briars
and sore feet. Juan gave me a fine horse to ride,
and tbe whole party treated me with the utmost
oivilty and kindness. On tbethirty-fourth day of
our return toward New Mexico, we reached the
town of Pecos. Hero I met Major Carleton and
Mrs. Adams of the U. 8. Army, who took the
deepest interest in my comfort. Here I laid aside
men’s apparel, and was furnißhsd with a snpply
Mrs. A.’b wardrobe. After remaining at Peoos a
few days I was conducted to Santa lb by the son
of Governor Merriwether.
To Gov. M., and also to the American ladies of l
this placo, I cannot be too thankful for their c
friendly sympathies and uniform kindness. i
The past seems like a horrid dream. I have re- 1
lated nothing but faots, and no language that I can <
nse can fully expross the sufferings of mind and t
body which I have endured. My two brothers-in- <
law are still oaptives and unless reclaimed will be
come as savage as the Indians. The Mexicans saw
them with the Camanches, but were unable to pro
cure their freedom. One is twelve years old, the
other ten, and unlessthe strong arm of Govern
ment is lifted up for their redemption there la no
hope for them.
From the Oharleeton Oourier.
The Augusta Bridge, No. 4.
The distinction between a Bridgo and a Charter
is jußt the same as that between Whitney’s Cotton
Gin and Whitney’s patent. The maohine is the
tangible oorporeal sensible object; the patent is the
privilege enjoyed by the inventor of using that
machine alone. In fact, a charter is a patent. It
gives to a man the sole right of transporting pas
sengers and merchandize across the river for a
limited time, just as if he had made a discovery of
the art of bridge building, and had got a law to
prevent any person using his discovery without
paying him for it. Mr. Shultz really labored under
the delusion that he was an inventor, or something
more, and as he was the first man that had put up
a bridge at Augusta to stand, he concluded, ana
caused a great many simple people to believe, that
he had an inalienable and natural right to the
bridge, which may account for what would other
wise appear to be very reprehensible in his con
duct.
The mistake of Messrs. Jones and Kennedy, is
to suppose that a man’s bridge cannot bo made
use of by him unless he has a patent. It would
be just as reasonable to argue that if Whitney had
not had a patent, he would have had no right to
take money for showing people how to get out
their cotton by machinery.
In their justification, those gentlemen claim for
our State naif the tolls which the city of Augusta
have reoeived einoelß4B, as if it was an unlawful
thing for a man to take toll when he ban no char
ter. The distinction is between takjng toll which
belongs to another, and taking toll \> which no
one else has any claim.
Now it is impossible for and Ken
nedy, to produce a case, where a man has been
prosecuted or convicted merely fbr taking toll. He
msy be sued for taking toll to the injury of a char
tered bridge. But if there be no bridge within
three miles, and an individual will be at the ex
pense of making a bridge and opening facilities
for travel, he is entitled to compensation from
those who me his improvements. A private
bridge is exposed to the competition of rivals, and
what is more, if some rival should get a oharter
for hia bridge, the owner of the private bridge will
have to give way.
The Legislature has hitherto considered that
bridges and ferries are proper subjects es protec
tion. It la thought that to ensnre good bridges, it
is necessary to protect the business, and to prevent
any man from competing with the owner of a char
tered Bridge, lest be shoold from competition be a
loser by his efforts to accomodate the public. But
no one can find a case or an anthoritv to punish a
man for erecting a Bridge for the public uso where
there is no other bridge.
The Legislature have the right to protect this
species ot industry, and they may grant a oharter
to a Bridge, which like a patent, excludes compe
tition, but what would the publio think of giving
Mr. Jones a paten i for bis neighbors’ invention !
Yet that is just what they have done. They have
given Mr. Jones a charter, authorizing him to take
toll for a Bridge belonging to the city of Augusta.
In the worst time of history, among all the abases
which disfigure the government of James the First
previous to the celebrated act of Monopolies, 21,
Jne. 1, cap- 8, no abase so wanton as that commit
ted by the Legislature of South Carolina, in 1858,
can be bronght to light. The act can only be as
cribed to surprise. It was passed against the
forms of the constitution, without three readings
in a thin house, on the lsst night of the session’
and the marvel is, that any one should be found
hardy enough to vindicate an act, which has found
its way into the Statute Book ciancestinely, in vio
lation of every principle of constitutional law or
private right.
So much for the law of the case. As an attempt
is made to justify this unheard of violation of th
ordinary principles of justice, as a proceeding cal
led for by the policy of the State, some remarks on
that head will appear in onr next.
No Minbib.
aowzoKTiL acwxos or a t euro.
Leaves have their time to fall.
And so likewise have I:
The reeson too’s the same—it ail
Comes of our getting dry.
Bat here’s the difference ’iwixt leaves and me,
I falls “ more harder " and more frequent- -lee.
Tats puts ns in mind of the connnndrum, which
runs thus:—[Coiirosrrog.
“ Sam, what is the difference 'iwixt the trunk of
e tree and the trunk of an Elephant P< “Don’t
know Gum.” “ ’Cwnse one leaves in the Spring
and the other leaves when the Menagre dose.
Dal’s da difference twixtdem.”
After s csrsful exeminstion of the matter, Dobbs
has come to the conclusion that there are only two
kinds of children in a large city, one of which has
i just escaped from the wheels of an omnibus, while
the other is just getting under them, »
/Km t)u y. 0. Picayuru of Saturday Morning.
GREAT CONFLAGRATION IN N. ORLEANS.
f“'“«4-NMrl, Forty Uvea Lort
h.lnj.ieU Lou «f Property £600,000.
h.^, tW ? eB *? d 4 o' olo ** this morning, tha in-
D PP* r part of th. town war.
b^Jtinl d on b tV he « U3n *‘ aUrms sounded on the
ner t * re * Thoae reaiding in the up •
80 ? n that tha scene
“evet ( ? | d r S “ ter . w “ th ® sUnmboat
levee at the foot ot Julia and St. Joseph atre. a
hremon 3 whh°.'h° : Thous * nd;i of citiiena, and tho
opines, were noon on tha spot,
aud tb * alarma " ere redoubled,
LhV. XCI - ement 80011 became immenae, and the
wnoie oity was aroused.
The flames had commenced on board the Charles
Larlhe, which had arrived from
k 1 e during the night. Some reports *tate
0,1 dre when she arrived and pnt in
mong the lieet of boats at the levee: but, as far
as tneao involve the insinuation that her officers
were aware oi the fact, and yet recklessly ran her
m, they will be considered as utterly unworthy of
a momeut s credit, unless and until unequivocal
proof of them be established, which we, st least,
canhot believe possible. The tire certainly was
discovered no long time after she had arrived, but
it is fer from following that she was tht n on fire,
and utterly incredible that if eh. waa her officers
were aware of it. Short a time as it was alter
her arrival that the fire was discovered, it was yet
long enough to bring it within the limits of pro
bability, that feeding on cotton for their fuel, the
flames would not have attained a far greater as
cendency than they had. And there are other c,r
cumatancca which deprive the reports of even the
aemblanco of probability. They, wars first di*-
oortnai rft-cr. rhe iower deck, where they could'
not have burnt any length of time without being
discovered. When discovered they spread so
rapidly that the boat was almost inßtantly envel
oped in one vast sheet of devouring fury, and it
was with great difficulty that the passengers and
officers saved their lives. Mis. Cartile, the wife of
Capt. Carlile, sick in her berth, only saved her’s
and that of her child, by jumping from the hurri
cane deck on to the Mohican.
From the Charles Belcher the fire communica
ted to the Mohican, Capt. Irvin, loaded for Ten
nessee river, and the fine new steamboat Natchez,
Capt. Leathers. From these it spread to tho Liah
Tuna, Capt. Haygood, the Creaeeut, Capt. Mooro,
and Saxon, Capt. Keroheval, all loading for St.
Louia, all of wiuoh woto totally destroyed, with
all the cargoes they had on board, by 5 o’clock.
They also caught the Sultana, and a heavily laden
barge which sue had in tow, the latter of which
waß totally destroyed, and to the barge of C. E.
Watkins, which arrived yeeterday in tow of the
steamor David Gibson, from Cincinnati, laden with
a large quantity of Western produce, and which
was slso totally consumed. Tho Sultana, having
only just arrived from Louisville, although she had
commenced landing, still had her steam np, and,
with the aid of her doctor, was ablo to put oat the
he flames which took hold of her several times,
and she finally backed out into tho stream, and
gave what assistance she could in saving life and
property. Os the boats spokon of as destroyed
all have sunk, at the time we write, with the ex
ception of the Natchez, whioh lies a charred,
smouldering mass of ruins, flouting within a sow
teet of where she lay when she took Are. Tho
Grand Turk, which lav next tho Saxon, while she
was burning, also took fire several times, but sus
tained comparatively little damage. The levee is
now covered with half burned cotton, damaged
provisions, &c.; but, what may be considered
rather strange, under the oircumstances, the
wharf is said not to have sustained tho alightest
injury from the fire. We regret to have to add
that the occasion was seized by many who prowl
about, wretches as they are, watching for such
occurrence, for tho purpose of plundering what
soever thoy can lay their hands on. Some thirty
of these havo already beou arrested, and numbers,
perhaps quite os bad as thoy, lie drunk about the
levee, from the effects of the liquor to which they
doubtless helped themselves, as others did to
hams, baggage, dec.
All thia is sad enough, but reports, whioh,
however, yet lack confirmation, givo much more
affiioting cause for sorrow. As many aH forty lives
are stated to nave been sacrificed on the occasion.
Inquiries, howorer, lead us to hope that it will be
found that this number is much beyoud the real
ity. We learn on tho beßt authority that Capt.
James Leathers, brother of Capt. T. P. Leathers,
of the Natchez, is among the sacrificed. Beports
also announoed the destruction of Capt. T. P.
Leathers, but this is certainly incorroct. They
also report tbs loss of the mate of the Natchez,
but this we have good reason to doubt. The
chambermaid, hor daughter,,and the pastry cook
ol that vest el were, however, all destroyed, and
under shocking circumstances. The first had gone
ashore, fallowed by her daughter, but notwith
standing the entreaties of the latter, returned to
enfeavor to save some of her things, bnt only to
lose her life and cause the loss of that of her
daughter, who accompanied her, ou her persisting
in going. The pastry cook is said to have been
so intoxicated aa to bo unable to save himself.
Ou board the Charles Belcher thcro wero thirty
negroes, men, women, and children, who wero
prevented from getting on from the after-deck to
the wharf, in consequence of tho engine room be
ing crowded with freight, and they were reported
to have all perished, either in the flames, or in the
river on jumping overboard. We have good rea
son to hope, however, that some of them have
been found to have escaped, and others may have
been equally fortunate. Two deck hands, howev
w nLj wto pooiii*‘ij
to nave escaped. The report of the wife of Capt.
Leathers having been lost, we believe to be un
founded.
(Some of the books and papers, and also tho val
uable letters, of the Charles Belcher, wore saved.
Tho passengers, however, lost all their luggage.
The Natchez had arrived hero only yesterday,
with some 8,600 bales of cotton on board, of which
at least 2,500 bales yet remained to be discharged.
The Mohican had a large and valuable cargo, and
was to have loft this morning for tho Tennessee
river. The Crescent and Liah Tuna had dis
charged most of their cargoes. The Saxon was
loading for St. Louis, and had about ono-halfof
her cargo on board. The Antelopo, Capt. Brown,
and the Texas steamship Louisiana, were in con
siderable danger, but fortunately esoaped without
any injury.
The loss is variously estimated at from half a
million to a million. We think tbe former figure
nearest the actual mark.
Tho following is a copy of the manifest of the
Charles Belcher :
One hhd. tobacco Bryan & Kobinson, 11 hhds. ;
tobacco and 8 bbls. lard C. Boyd, 192 hhds. tobac- .
00, 1005bbls. pork, 1405bbls. lard, 818tcB. lord, 90 (
sacks bran, 190 hams Fellows & co., 4 hhds. tobac
co, 461 bbls. tallow, 78 half bbls. tallow Howitt, j
Norton & 00., 684 sacks corn T. Hamilton, jr., 8 (
bhds. tobacco D. B Moore & co., 70 bbls flour I’er (
kins,Campbell & co., 47 hhds. tobacco F.Rodwald ,
& co., 14 hhds. tobacco W. G. Robinson, 31 bbls. j
pork J. Raos & co., 94 hhds. tobacco, 142 bbls.
pork R. Short & co., 98 bbls pork, 16 hhds. tobac- |
co, 24 bags wheat Wm. Soery, 62 hhds. tobacco ,
Tumor, Wilson <& co., 28 hhds. tobacco, 607 bbls. :
flour, 46 bhds. shoulders, 9 hhds. hams, 24 casks
bams, 8 casks bacon, 21 casks pickled hams, 1800 ,
casks pickled hams and shoulders Wells & co., 21 :
hhds. shoulders Rawlins, 94 bales cotton Williams,
Bathurst & co., 61 bales cotton Williams, Philips I
<fc co., 8 casks pork G. Wingfield & co., 55 bhds.
tobacco, 15 caskß bacon, 7 tcs. bacon Yeatraan &
co. Total cotton, 155 bales—tobacco, 521 hhds.
From the Picayune of Sunday moving.
The Great Fire Yesterday.
Since our account of the groat conflagration of
yesterday morning, which we gave in onr last
evening’s edition, we have g; theredthe following
corrections and additional particulars. One of the
most difficult inquiries to be answered is in regard
to the loss of life. There are a thousand rnmore
floating about, but few of them can be traced to
any reliable source.
James Leathers, the brother of Capt. Leathers,
of the Natchez, is not to be found, and it is feared
that he was burned up on board of that boat.
The mate of the Natchez is said to be missing.
The chambermaid, her child, and the pastry
cook, belonging ot board of the Natohez, are said
to be lost.
One whito man was seized by the hair, while
ha was in the water, by persons In a boat. Tney
ei go their hold, and the man was seen to sink.
Thirteen negroes belonging to Waddle, five ne
groes belonging to Mr. Galbraith, threo negroes
belonging to Mr. Cannon, and three negroes under
the charge of Gen. Miller, are supposed to be lost,
as they have been missing all day yester lay. These
twenty-four slaves were all on board of the Charles
Belcher.
A man, whose name was unknown, yesterday
morning seemed to be overwhelmed with grief as
he said that he bad lost all of hia property and his
friends by the disaster. He attempted to jump in
to the river, when he was prevented. lie then
drew a sheath-knife and stabbed himself twice in
in the breast. He was taken to the Charity Hos
pital by the police.
A whito man was found during the morning
clinging to the limbers on the nndtr side of the
whurf. He was nearly dead when he was rescued.
He stated that he had been too weak to make
bis voice heara amidst the great noise and confu
sion.
The police boat of the First District, which was
under the charge of officer Wendover, did great
good service. The crew of the boat saved six per
sons from the water, who would otherwise have
soon been drowned. We hear many glowing ac
counts of the bravery and coolness of officer Wen
dover daring the battle with tbe fire.
A gentleman who saved his wife and child, states
that when he made his escape with great difficulty,
he left ten or fifteen persons on board of the
Natchez. He thinks that most of them mast have
been lost, bat he is not certain that any of them
were lost.
Many of the passengers lostaiearly all their bag
gage, several of them escaping in their night
clothes. There was a large quantity of freight and
country produce on the wharf near tbe burning
boats, some of it was removed to a safe place,
much of it was damaged, stolen and burnt. Tbe
police were very active, and succeeded in arrest
ing over a hundred persons who were lound in the
act of committing larcenies. The Chief of Police
hired several yawls, which he manned with offi
cers, and sent into tbe stream to check the thieves,
who were in boats, picking up valuable property.
A large cumber of tranks and a great qnantity of
half burnt goods, were taken from thieves and de
posited in the police office.
The following estimate of the valne of the boats
and the insurance on them, we take from the True
Delta of last evening.
The Ssxon, Capt. Kercheval, was to have left for
St. Louis last evening. She was valued ats2B,ooo;
owned by Frank Johnson and J. C. Shannon, of
this city; insured in Louisville for $14,500. Her
cargo, principally dry goods, was valued at $50,-
000.
The Charles Belcher cost $93,000; insured in St,
Louis for $80,000; owmd by Cotter & Valentine,
of St. Louis ; cargo valued at $200,000.
Tbe Crescent, Capt. Young, was to leave yester
day afternoon for St. Lonis. Value, $22,000; in
sured in Cincinnati for $10,000; owned by the
captain. Her cargo was valued at $35,000.
The new Natchez, (packet,) Capt. Leathers; val
ued at $85,000; insured in Lou.svile and Cincin
nati for $30,000; owned by Capt. Leathers andT.
C. Holmes, of this city. Cargo worth SIOO,OOO.
The Liah Tuna, Capt, Haygood ; owned by Hew
itt, Rowe & Co., of St Louis, and the captain ;
worth $80,000; insured in St. Louis for $20,500.
Books and papers saved. No cargo on board.
The Mohican, Capt. Irwin; owned on Tennessee
river valued at $20,000; no insurance; cargo, pork
and groceries, valued at $40,000.
The bark Ivanhoe; owned by Smith <t Shotweli,
of Louisville; cargo consisting of up country pro
duce ; was insured in Louisville for $20,000.
It will be seen that none of the boats were insur
ed in this city.
Capt. Carlile, of the steamboat Charles Belcher,
which was burned yesterday morning, at the foot
. of Girod street, has called upon ns, SDd states the
following particulars of the orig.n of this lamenta
; bie disas'er.
' Tbe Charles Belcher, which is one of the largest
• boats on tbe river, arrived from Naahvill at 8
o’clock on Friday evening. The passengers (ats,at
fifty in number,) remained on board to sleep
> The captain and Mrs Carlile, with an inlant child,
> retired to rest, in the captain’s room, on the hnrri
» cane deck, about 10 o’clock. At about 4 o’clock,
* they were awakened by an alarm of fire whiohwaa
given bye gentleman who wee sitting op it) the
eabiu. Capt.Carlile immediately rose and want
below, and found tha wood pile, oa the after-gaard
larboard aide, on firs. It being found impossible
to bring the hose to bearupon the burning wood,
an effort was mads to extinguish it with buoketa.
But no impression oouid be mads upon tha confla
gration by thia meant, tb. flames spreading so rap
idly as toon to oommuuieate with the cabin floor
above, and flom that moment tbs workofdeatrue
tion was to rapid aatobe uncontrollable.
The particulars of tha eoramuuicatiou of the fire
to the other boats, and their eone.qu.nt destruc
tion, together with the lost of freight, dko., have
already been given.
Capt. Carlile expreaaea his utter lnebili'y to ae -
count for the eause of thia disaster. He suggests
that the Are may have bssn accidsutally communi
cated by aparks from tho torches ot soma boat or
otner during the night, attempting to get into a
berth near the Belcher. But there was no possible
way, he says, in which it oouid have happened from
any cause originating on board bis boat. The fire
most have been kindled from the outside of the
boat. Such was lha diroolion of its oourse.
Ths escape of Mrs. Carlile, the lady of the cap
tain, and her infant, waa truly wonderful. Aiterdis
oovering that he could not extinguish the fire, Capt.
C. returned to hie room on the hurricane deck, to
?* v e hii wife and child. On his wav he met Mr.
Thornburg, one of the pilots, who offered his as
sistance. He took Mrs. C. end the captain took
thai child. The pilot tripped aud fall, with Mrs.
C. in his arms. Being asperated from her, be re
turned once more for her, on attempting to reaoh
her, fell again from the hurricane to the boiler
deok, and thenoe to the main deck. Meanwhile
Mrs. Carlile lay on the hurrioane deck, nearly suf
focated with smoke. A puff of wind olearing it a
Uttie, .he caught a aight of th. atepa leading to her
room, which ah. aaoendttd, and entered tt. lie
one was there. Th. engineer, Mr. Packard, who
was endeavoring to save his clothes from his room
which waa idjoiuingthe caplin's, seeing the lady,
asked her if she would jump with him to the dock
below. She replied affirmatively, and he took her
in hia arms, and jumped on the starboard aide.
Thenoe he took her to the adjoining boat, the
Mohioan, and from there to the shore, where Capt.
Carlile, who had made several efforts to regains
foothold on Iheßeloher, but in vain, was awaiting
in agonizing uncertainty of her fats. He took her
in his arms and bore from tha scene of tho disaster,
and he had not passed over half the width of the
levee, when she exolaimed that the chimneys of
the Belcher had fallen, ao rapid had been the work
of devastation aboard the fated boet.
Capt. Carlile aaya that ho oan never express,
muon lest repay, the.deep obligation he feels under
to the noble engineer, Mr. Packard, for the intre
pidity ho manifested amidst aurrouuding and im
pending danger of the most appalling kind, in the
successful effort to reaone Mrs. Carlile, and to res
tore her to her husband and her child; regardless
of every selfish consideration, and forgetful of
everything but tho claims of disinterested humani
ty. We are happy to say that Mrs. Cariilo is with a
friend in this oity, and is doing well.
Mr. Douglas, the olerk of ths ill feted steamer,
states to us that he was sleeping in hia office, in
the forward part of the boat. On hearing the
alarm of fire, he called up the passengers, and
returning ti th# office endeavored to save the books
and papers from the sale. He succeeded in oary
ing them to the bottom of the cabin stairs, when
he was knocked downjby a trunk thrown from the
boiler deok, which occasioned him to drop the
greater part of the hooka and papers, and he bare
ly succeeded in getting out before the chimnies fell.
Among thepapers lost was a portion of thepsssage
money, in Tennessee funds principally. The val
uable letters and drafts were saved.
With regard to the loss ot life, it is the opinion of
Capt. C . that out of some forty negroes, belonging
to passengers on board the Belcher, about twenty
one are lost.
From the Fieayaune, of Sunday.
Anotiieb Dbbtxuctive Fm*.—As we go to press
a fire is raging in Chartres street, with a prospect
of tbe moat alarming result. The alarm was given
between 12 and 1 o’clock and was found *o proceed
from J. J. Albert’s hat manufactory, No. 87 Char
treß street. When our reporter reaohed the soene of
the conflagration this establishment was oomplete
ly wrapped in ffamea, which were bursting forth
trora all tho windows ou Chartres street. The fire
department was on the spot in full force, and was
exerting itself nobly to confine the fire to the ciugle
building in which it originated. But it soon com
nunioated to the drugstore, No. 89, end tho roof
of the clothig store, No. 45 was in flames as our
reporter left the spot, for the purpose of making
this report. There was a prospect that, despite
the exertions of the firemen, the conflagration
would conaume at least three stores. The fanoy
store of Pfeiffer, direotly opposite Albeit’s, soem
ed in great danger. The supply of water appeared
to be short. The fire is raging es ws go to press.
From the ilittouri Rtyublican.
Atlanta Bank—Queer Being*.
Caioaeo, Jau. Bd, 1858.
A soene was enacted at that wild cat banking
noose of George Smith & Co., last week, whioh
will appear a little strange to the banking and bu
siness men of St. Louis, and exhibits the arrogance
of a purse proud aristocracy, whioh seema to have
obtained an elevation here whioh easts terror upon
all who have to ask f>r pecuniary accommodation.
Mr. George Smith, yon will reoollect, is the rep
resentutive and manager of whatthey call a Bank,
in Atlanta, Georgia.
Thia Atlanta Bank ooncern has made efforts to
push the Atlanta Bank bills into circulation here,
and ~ltb f*WL*M..o.f..<*r»eiaJe:dl»i'.!: • n ’ ruinv
of the batiks of this State, in and out of the oity,
are enabled to get the people somewhat familiar
ized with them. The want of confidence, howev
er, of the intelligent portion ot the business com
rnuuity, in their strength and ability, drives them
in for redemption before they pass through many
hands.
Mr. Smith once possessed an unlimited credit
in this oity and vioinity, and yon will also recollect
his “Wisconsin Fire and Marine Insurance Com-
K’s bill,” obtained a large circulation in St.
s. Bnt this confidence is entirely shakeu in
those who formerly defended him and sustained
that credit, in consequence of his singular method
of “raising the wind,” by first issuing Bank hills
with the cognomen of “Bank of America,” of the
District ofColumbia, aad second, of issuing another
batch of Atlanta Bank bills, both of doubtful le
gality, and most bare faced contempt of both the
aws of thia State and of public opinion.
These bills are now being presented for redemp
tion rather faster than suit the taste, interest or
convenience of the bankers, and they begin to ex
hibit a rostiveness as well as oonsiderablo temper
in tho matter, and tho soene alluded to below was
an act of violence to S. Lisle Smith Esq., an elo
quent lawyer, well known East and West.
Some few thousand dollars of the Atlanta Bank
bills, came into the hands of Mr. 8. Lisle Smith, in
the course of his professional business, and it be
came necessary fbr him to procure other funds
which he conld use; and on applying to the Bank
ing house for that purpose, he could not bo accom
modated. He immediately called a “Notary Pub
lic” to protest them upon whioh high and exciting
words between thiß attorney and Mr. Willard, who
is the right hand man of tho Bank, and the latter
rushing the former out of the room, throwing him
prostrate npon the side-walk. This is another of a
series of fatnitous acts committed npon those who
have called to get ueabte funds for Atlanta bills.—
The general expression seems to bo that it was
neither safe nor j ust to take this money as a circu
lating medium, aiid many now aretryiog to act up
to it.
I will give you a specimen of how they get the
Atlanta bills into circulation. The regular banks,
or some ofthem are to blame. A friend of mine
from Kankakee county brought to market wheat,
whioh he sold to a miller here for fifty-seven dol
lar ; the miller gave him a check for tbe amonut
on one of tho regular banka in the city. 1 wentto
the bank with mv friend, when the check was pre
sented, it was paid all In Atlanta Bank Bills. My
friend told the clerk that ha did not want suoh
money. The clerk with a great deal of contempt,
threw back the check, saying that it was (good
money and he would pay ne other. My friend
took the check and started out, bnt was called back
and paid good money; which shows that if the
farmers would eonsult their own interest, they
would getjgood money for all their produce, and
Wild-cat Banks weald be et a discount.
From the St. Louie Republican of Jan. 39.
Tbe Cruelties ol the Indians.
In our paper of day before yesterday, we give the
narrative of Mrs. Wilson, who recently made her
escape from the Camsnche Indians, ller account
of her suffering and ill treatment seoms to be almost
incredible. It. is difficult to believe tbst, at this
day, and in this enlightened age, there are any
tribes associated with the whites who conld bo
guilty of such barbarities We lesrn, however,
from Major Steen, of the United States army, who
has been stationed in New Mexico, and has had
much intercourse with these and otter Indians,
that the narrative ie not at all likely to be over
wrought. He has givon ne a narrative of females,
whom be has released from the Indiana that even
exceeds Mrs. Wilson’s account of snffering. In
one instance, he released five Mexican girls. The
Indians had attacked a Mexican ranch, murdered
the parents and men, and taken sway the women
and children. The boys they train to be more sa
vage and brutal than themselves ; the women and
females they nsefor all kinds of drudgery and the
mostlicontions purposes.
The Major informs ns that, among the five taken
from the lndiane, there waa a little girl ol About 2
or 10 years—that she had been compelled to drive
cattle, stolen from her father’s ranch, a distance of
more than three hnndred miles. Bbe was bare
footed, and tbe thornsofthe cictns were planted
in her feet seemingly as thick as the hair on a
man’s heed. The soles of her feet bad bnrst from
the irritation, and some of her toes were protru
ding from the flesh and the bones wore exposed.—
Her whole body was bruised and mangled from
whippings, and tbe piercings of the spears which
the old squaws carry. The other four girls, older
than thia one, were in nearly the same condition.
With much difficulty, he secured possession of
them, and after proper treatment and supplying
them with necessary clothing, Ac., which had to
be done at tbe private expense of tbe officers of
the post, (tbe United States Government having no
fund for cnaritable purposes,) they were sent to
their relatives in Mexico.
Major Steen succeeded, at hisindividnalexpense
and that of another officer, in rescuing from the
Indians s Mexican woman, aged about 23 years,
who had been well and tenderly raised, and as
well educated as tbe country where she resided
permitted, and of her son, a small child. Her nar
ration of the sufferings and indignities to which
she wsb subjected, can scarcely be described. On
another occasion, tbe Major and another officer
hired a Mexican to steal a Mexican woman whom
tbe Indians had in captivity, and when she was
delivered to them she was in the most deplorable
condition—destitute of clothing, end physically
reduced to tbe merest skeleton.
The persons thns rescued from captivity were
returned to their relativos is Mexico ; and up to
tbis time, the oost, labor and expense of captnriDg
them from the Indians, of medical treatment, and
supporting and sending them home, has been paid
oat of the private purses of the officers. Is this
just or right, on the part of the United States
Government! .. . . ,
Major Steen informs ns that amongthe band of
the Camanche Indians from whiob Mrs. W ilson
escaped, there ere full 200 white persons held in
captivity, chiefly Mexicans. The Indians justify
their conduct by alleging that the Mexioans steal
their children and make slaves of them.
Be this as it may, it must be admitted, that it is
the duty of the government promptly end efficient
ly to famish the means of patting an end to this
cruelty, and of punishing the Indians. In the
early history of onr oountry, the Indians paid some
respect to tne virtue of the female; in the progress
of hie connection with civilization, he has loit even
this attribute. He is now as beastly as he is savage,
and the Government shoold provide the means to
pnnish them whenever they violate the laws of hn
manity.
A sleighing party waa returning to Sackett’s
Harbor daring the atorm which prevailed on the
evening of the 23d. All the party but two had got
out of the sleigh, when blinded by the enow, the
horsea pitched over an embankment thirty feet
high. The driver was instantly killed, the young
man stunned, and the young lady was uninjured.
With great presence of mind ehe proceeded to
bathe tbe temple, of her Insensible companion
and soon restored him to oonsoion.nees, when they
groped their way to a plaoe of safety, where help
was procured. The horse* and »leifh were bat
slightly injured.
VOL. LXVni.—NEW SERIES VOL.XVIII.~NO. 7.
Npeech tl Hr.TtonM, ilMimin,
Oa • motion to postpone indefinite'y the Ellis
for the Lease and Male of the Western A Atlantis
Rail read.
Ma. Srxaxmt'The two propositions opoa your
table should command the serious and deliberate
consideration of this House. Oar decision upon
these measures will mark an Important era In the
history of Georgia. We air, legislate not lor a day
or a >ear, not for the present generation, but for
years, when yon and 1 shell have been laid beneath
the silent clod, and for generations yet unborn.—
1 regret exceedingly, that I cannot agree with the
Committee on Internal Improvement, and give my
support for the bill to lease the Western A Atlan
rio Railroad. Permit me briofly to state the rea
sons which have influenced my mind in coming to
that conclusion. In the first place, Ido not think
you can get a responsible oompany to take the
roadattliesumstipulated, to wit: $800,000: and
should yon do so, that there oa.mot and will not
be a guarantee that the road will be returned in as
good oondition as when you parted with it. Sup
pose for inatanoe, that the road should be deterioa
ted in value one-half—that the bridges should be
in a decayed condition, the iron worn out —the su
perstructure rotten, the engine and cars broken
down—two millions of dollars leas valuable than
when you madethe lease—(and allwilladmit, that
it is now worth $4,000,0>i4) wbat guarantee have
you for $9,000,000 ! Can you ever recover this
sum out of a private oompany I Mr. Speaker there
are suits too large to be gained; this would be one
of that class. The powerful interest and the out
side pressure brought to bear upon future Legis
latures, it would be impossible to resist.
Secondly—the revenue whioh you might obtain
from a lease, would never be applied to the pay
ment ot the dfeV, of the Stare, or to the stimulation
of other works of Internal Improvement. It must
be ovious to every gentleman, who has given this
question a moment’s reflection, that in less than
ten years there must be a double traok upon this
rcml, whioh will require an appropriation of at loaat
$9,000,000. Within a loss period than I have
named, the road from Chattanooga to Memphis
will have been completed—the road from Chatta
nooga to Nashville is slready completed—the road
from Dalton to Knoxville, and from thence to con
nect with tho great line of Virginia Roads to Rich
mond, and thenoo to New York, will soon be in
successful operation. Tho immense increase of
trade and travel which these great linos will throw
upon tho Btato road, seeking an outlet to the At
lantic and the Gulf, will moat assuredly demand a
double track. And now will you build it!—by
another appropriation from the pooketa of the peo
ple ! I ask of you, and demand an answer, in the
name of my constituents, if this everlasting appro
priation to the State road is never to coaso f I
protest, in their namo, if wo aro to be taxed for
your benefit—when will it ever cease! We have
borne it for eighteen long years, with patience and
without murmuring, but patience hath oeuaed to
boa virtue. W hat aro the facts, at thiß time !
Your Finance Committee tell ns, that we must
raise over four hundred thousand dollare, and for
what!—two hundred thousand of this sum to meet
the interest on tho State dobt, incurred for, and on
account of tho Western & Atlantio Railroad. One
half of all the taxes my constituents pay, go to
snpport and uphold au enterprise, whioh lias not
and never will benefit them uno oopper. My oon
stituents pay into your Treasury annually, twelve
thousand dollara —b\x thousand of that sum for the
last oigliteon joars, or since thoyesr 1838 has gone
to the Western <Jc Atlantio road ; making an ag
gregate of ovor $119,000, paid by the people of
Muscogee, to build and support this enterprise.—
And not one dol sr have you ever, or will you ever
givo to my constituents, or to Western Ueorgiu
for any enterprise whatever. That Government
which takes from me and mine, to bnild up another
section, at our expense, is a robbor—ana should
not bo tolerated by free men. I want tho people
of Georgia to know whut disposition is mado of
their money, and whut haa gone with it, for tho
last eighteen years. lam willing to be generous
and liberal. 1 liave as much Slate pride as any
gentioman upon this floor. I am a Georgian by
birth and by education, and I am proud of the
ntme; it is a title far surpassing that of a Grecian
or ltoumu citizen in the palmiest days of their
glory. But the question to take all—or divide, I
shall never surrender.
For these, and many other reasons, Mr. Speaker
I have Introduced my bill to sell the State’s inter
est in this road, as a substitute for the c nnmittee’s
bill. I propose to divide the road into silty. thou
sand shares, valued at one hundred dollara per
share, and to sell thoae shares to the highest bid
der. Gentlemon may think my estimates too large
hat they are based upon the estimates of your lato
able superintendent, lie says on pago— of his re
port, that the road made nett last year SBOO,OOO,
whioh is six per oent. upon my estimation of its
worth. Hu further states, that it will increase fifty
thousand dollars par annum, if properly managed,
which will make this year 7 per cent; In 1855, 8
per cent.; in 1856,9 per cent.; in 1857, 10 per cent.;
and so on, nntit in 1867, according to his estimates
it wi I reach 20 per cent: on the amount proposed,
$5,000,000.
Now sir, let us como to the question, shonld the
road be sold or not! And first, 1 lay it down asa
broad proposition, that there is not in the United
States a single work of public improvement by a
State whioh has over paid one dollar into the Trea
sury of that State. And sir, 1 have the statistics to
provo any proposition, furnished me by the able
and distinguished Senator from Clark, and collect
ed by the learned Professor of Mathematics in
your State Urivereity. Lot ns glance at tho groat
State of Pennsylvania, with her 1118 miles ofKuil
road, snd 69'jjitlos of ftnnsl, built at » m‘t"f
thirty millions. For thayeais 1818, ’-19 and ’f!o,
they only, jleldod 16-10 per oentage on their oost
Aud in.Bl years, the whole receipts have not been
on tbe prime cost, and the interest paid on her
bonks during that time, one year’s Georgia inte
rest at 7 per cent. From 1885 to 1851, her Rail
roads have not averaged 2 per oent—and where
comes tho five andsix percent, which she is paying
upon herbonds ! Why sir, out ofthe sweat and
toil of her citizens, by taxation. And sir, wlmt are
the tacts in Ohio, whoso public works are all Ca
nals, ooßting fifteen millions I For the years 1846,
’47, ’4B, ’49, tho avorago por contage is less than
2X per cent. —leaving the balance to moot the in
terest on her bonds to be met by taxation. Lotus
turn to Maryland. The sti ck owned by tho Btate
in Railroad and Canals, nino millions ; tho bonds
and payments for thorn, besides the stocks, wero
nine millions one hundred and twenty-seven
thousand dollars. Os those sums, there was total
ly unproductive sixteen millions seven hundred
andoighty-four thousand; Bnd nearly five millions
in the Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad, and Balti
mo.o and Susquehanna iitilroad, paid no interest
from 1883 to 1849.
Let us turn to Indians. Her pubiio works op to
1841, were $11,000,000. Os these, the Madison
Railroad, costing over half a million of dollars,
was surrendered to a private company, for no
thing ; so also other works, Canals and Railroads,
costing over five millions, were entirely abandoned,
by transferring them to private oontnanies, togeth
er with over s million acres of public lands do
nated by Congress. Why, sir, sho could not even
give them away, and had to pay a company over a
million of acres of land to take them. This re
minds me of the boy who won the elephant in a
rattle—ho could not keep him, nor give him away,
nor sell him, but must pay some one to take him.
How is it with Illinois! Her Canal debt in
1851, was over $7,848,028. Other debts for In
ternal Improvement $8,784,481. All the works
for which this immense amount was expended,
have been lost to the State. Let us now turn to
the great State of Now York, of whom it is said
boastingly by the friends of keeping tho State
road, thai the Erie Canal pays handsomoly. This
work has cost the State s4s,ooo,ooo—and for tho
yoars 1849, ’6O and’6l, paid an average of6>{ Per
oent. Most of hor bonds aro at 6 per cent.—thus
leaving % ner cent, to be met by taxation, or $155,-
000, to be taken ont of the pockets of the people
to pay the interest on her bonds. So much for the
boasted State ot New York.
Mr. Speaker, 1 believe it trill be conceded that
I have clearly demonstrated the proposition that
no State in this Union has over received one dol
lar into its Treasury by works of Internal Im
provement by a State—not even enough to pay
the interest on their bonds; bnt most grind it put
of the people by taxation and when those bonds
fall due must sell out, (as I propose to do In Qeor
gia before they fall due,) or repudiate. Another
view of this subject. Great works held by a
State, whioh must be managod and controlled by
a number of agents, are corrupting in all thoir
tendencies —politically and morally. An over
flowing Treasury is sapping the very foundations
of this great Republic—fraud, corruption and
peculation, are found in the highest aeats of honor
and distinction. But, sir, this part of my subject
was so well elucidated by my friend (Mr. LamarJ
from Newto i, that I will not attempt it. lam In
favor of a sale for another reason: one half of the
citizens of Georgia cannot read or write, a disgrace
to the boatttd Empire State of the South. Fifty
thousand children are claiming the benefits of your
poor school fund, and they receive the pitiful sum
of 80 cents per soholar. (sell the road—the inter
est on the amount will pay sevon or eight dollars
per head, a sum sufficient to give them a good
English education. So that in ten years there will
not bo«in all the borders of Georgia a man or
woman SI years old, who oannot read the Consti
tution of your State, or repeat the Ten Command
ments of the Saviour of the world. If you wish to
build railroads, here you have an opportunity of
taking stock and building a road from earth to
heaven! Ilere yon have an opportunity of build
ing monument more lasting than that ereoted to
the Duke of Wellington from the oannon taken at
the battle of Waterloo.
Sir, I have trespassed too long upon the pa
tience of the Committee, but I shall be brief in
the few remarks I have yet to make. I favor
the sale of the Road from another consideration.
The road has accomplished all and more than the
wise projectors of it even anticipated—it has pene
tratod the great Alleghany chain of mountains—it
has connected the waters of the Mississippi with
those of the Atlantia—it has extended its arms,
and penetrated the Cumberland mountains»-it has
bound yon in iron bands to the Hermitage of the
immortal Andrew Jackson, and will soon conneot
you with the land of Daniel Boone—it has opened
op to the commerce and enterprise of your State
the beautiful and fertile valley of the Tennessee—
it has bound you with books of steel to the Old
Dominion, the land o! great men and great deeds.
Sir, it has in our own State caused the valley v>
blossom as the rose—it has onbanoed mo value
real estate from $1 to *SO per acre-it
cities in your vallies, and villages upon y
mountain tops—it ha* opened » There
our’ ?orefl(h h e“, Tho P projected U, -no,paled.
One ,n’my mind to all others,
this, sir, ta paramount in y dlffor with me
though other genUeme , tu the duty of
Georgia Tn the pursuit of a wise policy, to aid other
wmk! of internal Improvement in other sections
Ts the state. I do not say to bmld railroads, bnt
to Uke stock, or to loan her credit I ark not for
one dollar of money-I only ask for yonr credit.
Yon have already given to one seotion of the State
over five millions to build the Western and At
lantic Railroad, whioh 1 do not believe, trom the
hiatory of other States (ae I have shown,) wtfl
ever pay one dollar into your Treasury, except by
a sale. I do not, on the part of Southwestern
Georgia, ask one dollar; but we do ask of you the
irople credit of the State, when amply secured.
Thirty counties In Western and South-western
Georgia, pay over one half of the taxes into your
Treasury, and have done so for ten years, one-halt
of wh°cThas gone to build and support your
Western and Atlantic Railroad-and I do think
that we are entitled to the crumbs that fall from onr
Sneaker I advocate my bill to sell, because
the retention by the Stato of this road is the great
stumbling block in the way of the future progress
of Oeorgi Sir, lam for progress, upward and
onwaVdfand this one piece of nubile property
wiU hinder and delay the onward march of our
Bute for half a oentury. Georgia occupies the
most advantageous position of any State in ths
South, if she will only toko advantage of her po
sition. We have the key to the Aiteghaniee, whioh
we have already unlocked. We also hold the key
which unlocks the Gulf of Mexico and unites it
with the Atlantic. Sir,thißisa great enterprise,
and one for which I would vote the credit of the
State, to-day. We owe it to ourselvee as Geor
gians, at members of this great Confederacy, to
connect the great port and mart of Alabama, Mo
bile, with our seaport, Savannah. This, sir, is s
grast national work—one worthy of ths nams and
the energy of Georgia. She owes it to herself, she
owes it to the Union, to accomplish it. Sir, my
constituents have never received one dollar from
tte State, and they do not ask you for mot ay. but
they do ask to be relieved from taxation—they
nave borne it for eighteen years, to enppert anoth
er section of the State, and now we tax to be re
lieved, or that our money shall be expended in our
section of the State. And if you will relieve u»
from the burthens of taxation for the interest and
benefit of others, we will soon beoome the Lowell
of the Sonth. And, sir, it you will loan ua the
credit of the State for $200,000, we will build a
railroad from the Queen City of Western Georgia,
where she site on the banks of the beautiful Chat
tahoooheo, to West Point, thns developing the
most magmfloont water power in the world ; and
then, sir, wo shall become not only the L twell of
tke South, but the Manchester of the New World.
From tht CharUtlon Oruritr.
Auguste Bridge. i
In reply to the communication signed “Many
Citizens,’’ published some duyssiuce in the Courier,
inviting tho Charleston Delegation to give some
explanation as to the passage of a late Act of the
Legislature, authorizing two individuals to exact
toll on this sido of the river from all personecross
ing the bridge over the Savannah, whioh now bo
longs to the oily of Augusta, the following state
ment of facts ismbm tied:
A memorial to the Legislature was presented in
the Senate on the Ist December by Col. J. P. Car
rol, Senator from Edgefield, under the title of “the
memorial of Jam is Jones and J. J. Kennedy, pray
ing an amendment of their ohartor to the Augusta
Bridge,” and was referred to the Commilteo of
Kotos, Bridges aud Ferries. Thiß it apposrs pray
ed for the memorialist* the authority to exact tho
tolls In question, but no report was ovor made ou
the subject by oommitteea of either body, nor was
any farther attention paid to it on tho floor of either
'House until the night of the 17th, in tho Senate,
when the genoral bill for the ca’abliehmcut of
roads, bridge* and ferries from the llot.se was be
fore that body on its second reading. On that oc
casion the following olause wui moved as au
amendment to the bill:
That James Jones and Joseph J. Kennedy, as
signee* of Henry Shultz and John MtKinne, be
and they are horoby authorised to colloet tho tolls
prescribed by tho 21st section of the Act to estab
lish certain roads, hridgos and ferrios, passed the
19th December, 1848, from all persons passing
from either side over the bridgo across tho Savan
nah river, at Hamburg and Augusta; provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall in
any wise impairor prejudice any right or proporty
claimed by the City Council of Augusta, in respect
to one half iu tho material struoturo of tho said
bridgo within tho Territorial limits of this Stato.’’
This was supported by Col. J. P. Carrol, adopted
bv the Senate, and incorporated into tho bill.
The bill, thus amended, cume up for its third read
ing before the Uooeo on the night of tho luth, tho
day boforo the adjournment. When abolition was
called to it by the Chair, Mr. Hatnmoud, ono of
the representatives from Edgefield, opposed the
amendment, and was supported by Mr. Mitehell,
from Charleston; it was howover, defended by
Messrs. Middleton, from Georgetown, Boylßton,
rom Fairfield, Sullivan, from Laurons, and I’crry,
from Greenville, and receiving tho warm support
of thesogculleuicn, was, upon a division, adopted
by a majority of thirty-six against thirty-ono. As
above remarked, no report had boon made oil tho
• ibject during tho session by any oommittue, in
which mode matlors of importance are generally
brought to tho atte, tion of the llouso.
The geueral roud bill is one, for the most part, of
mere local coucern, and in which the oitucus of
Charleston have little or no interest. Such of our
membei a as were present voted, against tho moa
auro; audit is believed that the wiiolo delegation
was opposed to the action. There were, as appears
by the vote abovo staled, a grout many members
übaent, there boing scarcely more than ono half
present, say sixty Bevon out of an hundred and
twenty four, and untortutiutely the Chairman of
the ooininittoo on roads had boon compelled pre
viously to leave Columbia, so that ho could not be
in his place.
On behalf of the delegation,
W.l>. Port**.
. G. N. Kbxnolds, Jr.
\\ oalilngton On4it>.
The speoial Washington •orrospoudent of the
Baltimore Mmrittm, wi itos under date of 4lh inst.,
thns:
The Cabinet had another long aitting over the
Gadsden Treaty without however, that 1 cun learn,
deciding definitely what oonree to pursue iu rela
tion thereto. lam still confident, however, that
it will eventually bo sent, and that it will be rati
fied with some amenments.
The members of tho Senate friendly to tho Ne
braska bill have had another caucus, uud it is un
derstood that the bill will be further modified by
strikingout the clause declaring tho Misaouri Com
promise “Buperceded,” and substituting therefor
the distinct proposition to repeal tho ait of 182(1,
iu terms. The proposed movement is kept sumo
what secret, hut there is littlo doubt, I think, that
it is substantially as above suggested.
It is probable that two of the new regiments for
the Army, recommended by the Secretary of War,
will be armed with the rifle. It will bo remem
bered that the Secretary himself commai ded a rifle
regiment in the Moxicuu War ; and a new system
of rifle drill and mar oeuvre is being compiled, by
his ordor, by Brevet Lieut. Col. W. J. Burdio, of
the 2d Dragoons, The new drill adopts the de
plojment by groups instead of by flics.
CJlarke Mills, the sculptor, bus completed lus
new studio and fbrxadrg onjfee [jUco b.o,.i>uyohased
'will execute the oquentian statue ot'Coorge Wash
ington, ordored by Congress. The appropriation
for the work was only $50,000; but the urtist de
signs to erect the most imposing equestrian statue
over raised, regardless of expense. Judging from
some rough sketches anil estimutos on tho wails of
tiis studio, and of several detached fragments of
the piece designed, there can be no doubt be will
succeed perfectly. The location be proposes for
the piece is on Pennsylvania avenue, in this city,
near tho Market House, which ho would have
moved back to tho Canal in ordor to give the re
quired room to erect a gigantic pedestal upon
which to place tho colossal representation of the
Pater Patrier.
Tho following are tho purchases of the U. S.
Stock made at the Treasury Department during
last week. It will bo seen that tho (Secretary's hid
is no longer tempting enough to draw out theso
Government securities from the hands of piivate
holders.
Loans of 1842 $10,600
Loans of 1846 47,100
Loans of 1847 47,700
loans of 1848 B,uoo
Texan Indemnity 18,000
Treasury notes outstanding 50
Q. $126,450
Biotarun Excitimint. —Tho New York Journal
of Commeroe says that there is an acrimonioue,
revengeful state of feeling in that city, between
urge classes of both Protestant and Romanists,
which justly exoites apprehensions of future evil.
The Journal adds: —
“This feoling lias long been growing more and
more deoided, and thcro has beon an increasing
disposition among both classes to associate on
purely denominational diatinctions, aa opposing
bodies. Bevoral occurrences lisvo tended to ag
gravate and develop tbia disposition. Laat 4th of
July, tlis Hiberian procession, iu consequence
of tho indiscretion of some of its members, be
come involved in a sorions riot, during which their
banners wore torn up, and many persons more or
loss injured. Moro reeontly, disturbances have
resulted from street-preaching; and now, again,
the supposed presence of the Pope’s Nuncio, Be •
dini, gave riso to evident indications of mutual
hostility. Bishop Hughos’ proclamation, in jnartio
niar, has awakoned tho attention of every Reman
Catholic, anil plaoed them in an attitudeol defence
if not of doflanoe, and a largo portion of them
suppose that they are in momentary danger of be
ing attacked, and their churohes burned. Th 6
language of tho Germuu papers lias been very in.
temperate, and often accompanied with threats;
and their influence iu this matter is to be greatly
deprecated. An attack from them, in connection
with other religious zealots, was seriously appre
hended, in connection with the supposed prosenco
of lisdini in the oity, and many Catholics collected
to prepare for the emergency—to protect Bedini and
defend their own property and lives,—and armed
themselves. Borne ecclesiastical functionaries,
holding high positions in the Church, wero con
sulted with reference to the mutter, bnt resolvod
to adhere atrictly to tho recommendationa of the
Archbishop, to refrain from participating in any
riotous disturbances, until it should bo considered
necessary to act for self protection. It is common
ly reported that many of the Romish churches
have been made depositories of arms; but this
oonld not be very easily proved.
An ominous circumstance to bo considered in
connection with this subject, is the rapid organi
zation of Booieties, (adopting secret signs,) with
the avowed purpose of opposing the Roman Cath
olics in case of a collision. Occasionally, all the
mechanics in manufacturing or other establish
ments join these organizations en ma«st. The most
oonspiuous societies of this character are the
■‘Guards of Liberty,” which is now laid to num
ber 5,000 members, and the “ Know Nothings,"
which probably number as many. The “ Order
of United Americans” is reputed to number
about 12,000 members. Co operating with the
above, or coinciding with them in all essential
points are many German, Orangemen, or Irish Pro
, tesants, and a number of Italians.
. The social incongruity here presented, of one
portion of oitizons arrayed against another with
! hostile intent, may be the precursor of untold
evils. By no possibility can any good result from
, it. Better that a thousand lives were lost by caa
, ualty or disease, than one in religious strife.
’ What t axr won’t own to.— l’unoh says, in his
' Pocket-Book for 1854, “there are several things
w hicb you never can by any accident get a lady—
i bo she young or old—to oonfess to. Here are
some o/vhem : “that she iacea tight. That her
’ shoes are 100 sittall for her. That she is ever tired
: at a belt. That she paints. That she is as old aa
she looks. That slit has been more than five min
utes dressing. That she kept you waiting. That
she blushed when a certain person’s name was
mentioned. Thatshe over says* vhingabe doesn’t
mean. That she is fond of scandal. Thatshe
oan’t keep a secret. That she—Me is of all persona
in the world—is in love. That ahe doesn’t want a
new bonnet. That she oan do with one single
thing less when she is about to travel. That she
hasn’t the disposition of an angel, or the te iper of
attaint—or how elße oeuld she go through one-half
cf whatßhedoest That she doesn't know better
than every one else what i» best for her. That she
is a flirt or ooquelte. That ahe is never iu the
wrong.
Absconded—Laro* Reward.— We learn from
Dr. Fisher, of the firm of Fishei, Agnew <& Co., of
Columbia, that a man bv the name of James Phil
lips, absconded from Winnsboro’, 8. C., on the
24th nit., with about $20,000 of their monev, in
bills, it is believed of the Planters’ Bank of Fair
field. A reward of SSOOO is offered for the appre
hension of the delinquent and recovery ol the
money,nnd a proportionate reward fortborecovery
of any portion of the funds abstracted. Phillips is
said to be about 80 yearaof ege, five feet ten inches
in height, well proportioned, dark hair and rather
inclined to baldness, has a red face and a flesh
mark on one side of his neck, approuohing a claret
color. Our contemporaries generally will further
the ends of justioe by inserting a notice of the
above facts, and Banks, Brokers and others who
may have negotiated recently any large amount of
the bills in question with strangers, would confer
a fa or by communicating the particulars forthwith
to Messrs. Fisher, Agnew & Co., at Columbia.—
Char. Courier.
We understand that Msssrs. Hand, Williams <fc
Wilcox, have purchased from L. M. Wiley, Esq.,
the store* they ocoupy on Hayne and Market
streets, for $20,000. The premises extend 200 feet
from Hayne to Market-street, and nave a front of
76 feet on the latter. It is the intention of the
firm to make considerable improvements on the
1 property for the purpose of adapting them for
their extensive grocery business.— CA. Courier.
i Jokes, to be appreciated, should not be written.
[ but told. Ozteh the sparkling foam of the sea and
i bottle it, and what was a moment ngo living pearl*
r dreeaed in aunahine, Jawwabad aample of por*
t pi-**,