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oh. Icb s' i>ooa ur i‘;<- l' lo d f i\OoO in r<
California-.a !*, I' 4 a jurfmiaiana SttW i ”
»iM i.Tjlion- cocwgnwl to l-“> ‘ a,
B 'Bk. ~ „ , was to leave Aspia- *
tfc» l" ib tor New Vor ! t > ~
w n ‘'' ' r , ... ci gar.,and #I,W*.OOO in £
with aignt ho'"‘ ,vJ * 1 *
tris-i.re. j , Stephen-arrived at Panama I 5
■fbo : l ■•• ' (j(i 16 . h f rom g an Fraaciheo, I
wich^r*'i.ii -.ved »vi paweugera audsl,- 1 £
Uncle Bam, aleo from San Fran*
„ r v ci at l’anama on the rain* .ley, with
l 'Srt>« hundred and eleven passengers, ami #lB4-,- t
(i 'i in treasure. c
•jbe 1’ ir- -r c.l the United Staton reports toe
! : f din o: toe Uthnms food, and the KailroaJ and ,
mr.ie path i« splendid order.
3y I hi- arrival we have San Kraucieco paoere to ,
the ’ i . in -tant, containing all the California and (
Oregon >:**«, and also late news from Kam'- ‘
:k*. We con nonce oor munmary with the j t
new? Ir in California.
Tii re i- no Intelligence of mneh importance 1 ,
fr.'-u tiie Knreka Slate. It. Sau Francisco oven- ,
ir./Newi lurnieiios a summary Iroin which we etc
, everji.ong of interest to our reader,, as loi- ,
■ iti .e j ft ■ boon the thenar of interest during
i . two weeks, to tne exclusion aimost of i ,
i . ;ij olber. Maltirg nominations for the election ! ,
w . i. ii t‘ cotoe oil' on the 6th Inst., when State, i t
( •; ty i municipal officers will have to Ire do- ,
ioneering and canvassing for those (
»iji. i■ vi : erii name t, have been the public am- ,
/ ; major portion of onr mascnline ,
L p ,i a - in the meantime business has eon- ,
! , r the i«ne state of denretoiou, and onr
~ . • r.uriity yet arff-jr from an over- j
crowded market Our account* from 'he mining ,
.~1 r..l regions yet continue tsvoralde, i
j. , ■, uiese itourt -wc rnns! look fir me .
...... j. : .-parity and wealth of our State.
ii.tr. If I. /go i reasons for despondency fonud
in our temporary hard limes.
Ah ■ ■ n o'c! >ck on the morning of August 20i.1i,
r Brc i.rokc out a' M ihelumuc Hul, which destroy- I
.l e, io ‘ the entite town. All tbe principal .
null i.i.g- n the plaoe, Including the otfee of tne j
i ah. ins' hronicle, were consumed. Tbeaggrc- 1
pnie of the lo it in believed, ill not fall Bhortof ;
$600,000. .1
Hr. the evening of tiit l»«h August, the town of
t„. 1.-min, ill Caiaveras county, was completely
d' irt e1 by fire. Lose estimated at $160,000.
On the 171 h of August the town cf Carnpo B#co,
in ■ .cnvefa.i county, was visited by a disastrous
coi.fitgralion, which, in tea* than an hoar, re laced
tne entire place to ruins, not leaving a single
hi.o .. ..lauding. The fire was tbe work ol an in
oer.diary, ki. *n as Seottie, who was publicly
wliii ped by the ciLuatm a abort Urn. previous for
•h.ii. T'>ul 10-t in computed at about $120,000.
The ovt.inmi emigration from the Mates has
Amu rapidly pouring in during the pas, two
w< ek». The new comer.- bring with them large
drovos of cal tin, and an nnus.naily groa' number
of lior.ii> - They appear generally in good health
ttijfl rsf>ir»t«.
frittttooo fuxusen and hundred Chiuewe I
njniiiffonir' havo arrived at this pert from Hong I
Km*'/, wUhin Iho luftt forlniffht
,S|; •.<; tfiO 1- ! ot Autrnat, the Chinoho emisrraiit |
H jiipw, J,'! •'ttt'i; AurstralJa, LiVaat, Exobungo, [
f ,i,i n Jut' oi .Johanna, have I,‘een by |
tii«; United htatftrt nriuraheJ, under libeln for vio
in (m of tbj>a act in carrying an cxce.-w of
Tiio i’rbir' h C übhl at thin port bus given pub
j ti.ru.igii tbo newftpaperH, that the com
,r, k . t t iio naval forces of France, in
ibe i'ac.bo. w II all vchhcls filing under
i. t, r <<t iriarqtio ‘ts pirate*, au<i as such will Lieut
t» f-ni if cm 'rrc I, m sloes commanded by a Russian,
. liii.s :nree fourths of it * crew oompoeod of
' !>' r* y tbe past two weeks the heat of the
* . ,cr tbror*?hcnt the inletior iiasboon unusual
lv ,t i -.;r -ive. In {bo townsth oughont Calaveras
ni, I ■ I.»T counties, especially alongtbeMoke
iunn'j rivfjr, ttie thermometer has indicated ox
tr.H>r<! i.firv high temperature. Some places the
Tu'u-niry ro-*o to 100 degrees and 10S degrees in
lJ ( .n - 'bnable rain fell in Nevada and vicinity
r • ijUt A’.gUrt*, an occuireiice which for the
; markable. A
! i ilu’ trei.k of Lite weather was experionoed on
the 'ttme day in and uhou Btockton.
'j’t .• Uriti n liarquo Bkimmnr of the Seas, from
K<»i g, which wa reported had been cap
taro i ; y sl Rns un frigate, arrived in our harbor
on * It" i August. „ .
tj’> the even’n g of tire 10th August the Untnh
frig ite Aniphiinto,‘i4 jtuins and the French cor
v6j.» Ij Artomise, 30 guns, being u portion of tno
i'nri ic a'hoi loot, rvrrivi; t in onr harbor, twonty
two riav: from Honolulu. They have, up to tho
f.n p-.rnained ft* an -ior < If Hancelito, where
they am jueaiv**:g >« >re and apparently making
preparations for a long cruise.
't'hi jruar nt-OTie of u inrgo and bountiful brick
edt'K" iiuudod h»r tho First Baptist Church Con
grori.ti-M'., located on tho north side of lluah
,si rti. *,. bi)tweou Dupont and Htocuton, wa** laid on
the l . iii Auguht, with interesting and appropriate
cerc’no-.ic:.
The «Hand State Agricultural Fair and Indus
trial ]i\bibitior is to be hold in this city on the
4th, . n und flth da.vs of next October. Five
thou d dollars in premiums arc offered for Hie
best p u imens of fruits, bower.., grain, manufac
tures, Indues, worKs of ait »sec.
Mr. L. Bateman, father of the Bateman Children
cbiiiged 'pon two uidie'nit iits with assaulting Mr.
fcionV, editor ol t o Chroniole, was tried befo r e
tho Court < i Sessions on tno loth of August, ani
diachargod.
( ■ ijo* ;hib August, forgeries to tho amount of
Bonn *7,000 wore discovered to have been c3in
miH** t upon Mci-srs. >wuetz 4 >r, Hmchings tfeOo.,
(Joo. O. Whitney tV, Co., and KUis & Co., by a
young min naniod Waiter Sherwood. Tho notes
wore . uklu by Sherwood, und 1 o names ot the
above firm w*oe foruod by him i*.a endorsers. It
tint he In a been currying on those forgeries
for w .ral months past, but taking up the nctoft
us the; toll ilno, with money obtained upon other
iorgi i p.’por for larifo amounts. Sherwood hi'B
Bince tti*u, and lius not yet been arrested.
Thorn have l» jii various false rumors sot afloat
during tho pi i> weak of iho ex stone * of cholera
in this city. Up to the present do well authenti
cated cases have transpired.
About a week since a light occurred at industry
bar between a large number of Indians and a par
party "t ton whltemen. Tho Indians assailed the
Whites with a shower of arrows, wounding several
and finally compelled them to rotiro. The dilb
oult.y ongluated in s ' attempt by tho whites to ar
rest some of the Indians wiiowore suspected of
tho murder of two Chinamen.
On 2'Hh of August, about one hundred citizens
of Nevada bunded i «gether a id demolished ail the
Chlnaai brbtliols in Unit, phioo. They afterwards
attaoked the Celestials autl . impel od overy one
of them, male and tom.bo, to abandon the town,
and have d elan d their determination of not per
mitting any lit *r« to locale in that vicinity.
Or th»» morning of Augu-t 23d, Amanda Car
cone, a Fr« 'lolimaii, Hid Peter Auohimbault, from
Illinois, who mid bcon arrested for btealiug csttle,
were t Wm ir )ii« tho i istody ol tho authorities ai
hail AQtonio, by » parly ot iynohow an 1 hung.
An «i f ■-i i.i viull ha : been bored in Sail Jose,
from which tin. water dews in a volume sufficient
to turn a mid. It boils up villi grout force, and
runs off « streuia tour teot v.do ami six inches
deep. A ,i, ruhou.denis arc otitertuinod that it will
i>o impossible to ■-'litrol the water anlflciently to I
proven'. : | iriia! inundation oflhetown.
The San Fu;m'is .*o Chroniolo, in its summary of
iho now , ays ;
From r ll purls - f the mines wo have cheering
account.-of Hie g-Id yield. Scarcity ot water in
some few lo -ilitics r t ‘lards operations somewhat;
• , ■
lion. Tin mw mines on Kern river arc steadily
growing in p-HVic favor.
The or .o- iluongkont theSt do ure rnost abun
dant. M>\ »e-,i ihoro v .ntaioly more than will
supply thud u-.in 1 "i ihcStato, and shipments of
this*grain Vo the AHuniic Slates, it is confldon dy
belloved by sonic, will inko place.
Ali over d.« * a'o murders and fights, with fatal
tomi!’ b mo frequent ooearrenoe; a ma
iorlty of i burn have been among Chinosaand Mcx
icno'*. T; ■ d.'Uu s would riu for bojoud the
ordinary lim I !r. umv; p iper.
Tlm-drii »'*• ..-o very dull—the Metropo itau and
Ueopl-’s the it' -iragging along with houses
that will scarce \ pay the.r gas bills. Mr. Non tic
made hie ipou. ranee before a California au
dleuw i”. iho i in-um, at Iho Metropolitan,
ills u-v -s has been very indiflferent. Tne Backus
■Mi'istruls, at : e ol 1 Ban Francisco, are drawing
tolerable houses,
Improves .ei.ts in city ocntiuue to progress
with remarkable rapid ty. Every day sous tho
Cflmmeiu'o.mwut ot new buildings and the ftnishing
of other... M ntg i nory, Sausome, Clay, Com :nor
oial and S lernuouto at recta have been made to con
f srn. t the now grade in nearly than- ont.ro length.
The now Ail ‘-'ll theatre is nearly finished, and
the Morel .. .» ’ Exchange pr-gres‘os as rapidly as
i* c>n t Unit with security ana solidity in its con
struction.
Throe candidates have been nominated for Mayor
of Ban Frai o - o. vi.; doshua I*. Haven by the
whig' 4 . t\ K. Genisoa (the late in_ruibont bv the
dcinoci.. I L.io.en llermaitu, formerly of thia
dty, by tho K* w Nothings.
Fax a i ; wos. —Advns • from i*ort!aud to tiie
Joth > i A nave been received at Ban Fiau
cis'Jc.
Great mrr ■».•s monts hevo boon made through
cut Umpqut. Vh ey during the past %e..r. »aw
mill? j; r l uu* • ar.d good dubsiH»ltial dwvdiiugs
ivrc being erected through the valley.
The For* nn I ays t wo ocean steam ships
ply r«vu::tri\ bet wt*en that city and Ban Franoisco,
und teat six'ri\er stoamers ply between Portland
and other towns on the river.
Old d :tg bn* dowered an extensive quarry of
gnvnu. i<n five milts of Portland. It is a val
uable discovery.
Gold liv been disuovarevl near Dallas. Two
persons \ sue \ it© loomiou wharo it was said to
lhe light house .*t Cape Disappointment haa
just been completed.
The paper »rl% c aec i’ *s of the prosperity of
the farmers :inu t o mpiil setUemont ol the eouu
trj.
IVirtland is improving rapidly.
The harve.;i was nearly over, and tho crops arc
abundant throughout the Territory.
lmtr.igra:uj wu -e arriving by a near road lead
ing to too i. ad of Willamette Valley. All wore i
ir. good condition. j
Tne Ban Francisco Herald furnishes the lollow
sewa.
From kv\ *■ ouatka.— By the arrival of the j
Anio’c;.:. : • ; Bo ton, Capt»i:i Hedges, we have
advices fro:., i’oiro'.'.nbsk.. a K '. sian poit on the !
i'enlnsi'.la o-. b imtsc* ail: .up to July lfiih. From j
a gcrun i.v. i. ud : e io.-tor wo have gath- I
yrea intoiugencc t much iut'rcst just at lhi.- j
ynuctnrt ru u-ir.l ng he movements of the Russians |
ni that p sue. At the lime the Boston lett, there !
WO-C i*ort ad• -c banW Russian frigate of j
4i guns * the corvette Cheat**, of 22 guns, frou. '
the lie:*ie. with a Baltic crew, m gu&rdaccsta and j
K..S- »'«> Ksmts 1
oblikft, ; 'r.Lv-i >.-•!:» - guns, and with a c*ew ot i
twenty rueN ws of the war iu Korore had been
* l\*ro,■•n'ski by the Amencan barque I
Bher'ng. red the Kr-.-ian - weru' making great 1
prepaTtui-. rs torcs.s: a:, anticipated attack by the t
ft'i-ei i .;. Tht •' rt U dv-tended bv several
fort id cat ice ami new rues are bring erected,
conots’ing **t >no or two nnsked batteries with !
three or four morurs.
The t« .vertior under his ecmtnand a tull 1
Xtgimcnt ot oiuierw thoroughly equipped, aud ie |
coi r lent that t. e Cklß -. a » rrety h i,g sA-ge.
Feiropaubk. coutvdca between 3,s*F> *$ d 4.000 :
Inha; ivrr.tft, induxi • g a . w and Kug
iiehmen, and one Americao store. Every body *e
ebhgvv. to be a eoHior or a sailor, und to respeMid
to toe Gcvert-crN cail at a raon*ruiV» notice.
Tha town is sdoatexi ol an inlkt-d bay, the c*»- j
trance ;o wnich, the ooean, is throigl a L;.r- •
row iu lot. three mi Ns in ie .gti.. - added wji! »«■
land.*, a;.d x .muaaodoxi by : everal Liatucries. A
vraael may enter w ; ti cut danger, although thore
are many diffiondie.- to cuounter. Captain
Hodge?, with the Breton, beat iu and out tn a j
luc Governor thinks, and 2r inihrmant also,
that it would be impossible to t-ke »he post with \
any thing fthcr*. ol a . Kia- iers, a*, uew t*ai .
ter is© are be ill to cover every approach.
The Rus-ism were daily looking *or the arrive, at
Petro of uu English frigate and corvette,
cn their wty to A moor river, at the mouth of
which ibey (the Rusaiau ) havu baiit several
atrot g B<t».
The fiau Fraretaoo papers have news from the
JUet ludit« aiid China, bn* not of as Jute date aa
vre hare via England. We do not find any later
newt from vh«.- bawowicu Islands.
The Wkatheo.—For u wuek we have Lad
*ln.ot*l oousxant rains, and there every prospect of
soother wet wirner. The cotton crop, iu any
will b* in this region, and m curly frost will
jnftk* it most alanningiy so. —Cjuniiu A'Samimrd,
*Jkl>
Memorial on the Death of da*. O. (ionld. i.*q.
Oot’b Superior Court, Sept. 21, 1654.
In npeni-oort Joeeph E. Brown, an ettertrty nf j
>4xT..fToort, annonneed the death of .fca. G. Gould. 1
E-q , a member of the Bar ot thif* hu*te, res*ding
in the city of August*, who this day departed this ,
life, in the city oi Marietta—fend moved the ap- i
anointment cf & cotainitlee of live nifniber ot the
Bar to prepare and report to ih* CourPon to-mor
row morning, resoluiions exprear’ve of the feel
of r«gre» entertained by the Court ana Bar on j
account of the calamity which has. occurred in our
midst, thereupon it i» ordered by tbe Conn
thus, the following gentlemen be appointed that
committee, to wit J. K. Brown, Gol. N. B. i
Knight, Col. Wr.i, FhiiUps, A. N. Rirnp or, Kr
Major W. Y. limasell. j
And on motion it is fcrtiier ordered that ttaii ;
F irt do now adjourn until to-morrow *norning ,
8 o’clock. D. Ikwix, J. o. C. \
Beptember 22, 1854.
The Court met pursuant to adjournment, and
the Committee appo ; Died on yesterday, by their |
chairman made the following report:
The Court and Bar now assembled at thift place, j
Lav3 heard with deep regret the melancholy tiding*
o f the death ol our worthy and la monte! von ng
brother, JameeG. Gould,
( fortune to hare had r.n opportunity to cultivate to j
any considerable extent the acquaintance of our
I decoaocd brolheitf Wo were not, hewever, entiro
j ly unacquuioted with :iiir, although he reaid’ d ir.
I a diaturt pert of oar S.a e. Hb gentle and d gr.i- |
fled ir.anijer.-, his discreet and amiable deport- |
moot, his high-minded and gentlemanly bearing, j
attacked him to all with whom he became aae.oci- j
atid; while, a« we are ir- crated, his acoomplieh- ‘
manta ns & scholar, united with his ta’ent?-, his t
J energy, induft*ry, and profound reserrch as a law \
yer. rendered him not only tbe pt’d- of a father ;
! who i» him: elf an orouinent to our profenftion—and :
of other di.-*iaguish'. * relatives, and a large circle ;
of friend?, but ht l already, a*, the age of only
about twenty-seven y**»r?, given him an enviable
reputation tor beyond the circle ot fcia immediate J
mends. He leaves behind him, to mourn his irre- j
parable lo- , the partner of bin bosom, you? g, and j
hut yesterday buoyant with hope—herself the de- j
scendant of a lawver wbo?e memory is cheri- hed j
hy the neople of Georgia— the Ir.te lamented Gen.
Thomas Glascock.
Thus in the mortiii.g of life aDd in the midst of
usjoyp, with bright prospects cf honor and use
fulness. in the future, by a my: ter oua Providence
tho cold hand ot death is aid upon Lim. He
, sleep/? the loDg Bleep! Ve mourn bis los*, but
j we mourn not os those wh. are without hope.
We dare not arraign the dit pennation ol Prov:-
; dcncc, for whui He does is purely r ght. There- I
! fore— 1
. I R**oUed t That while wc deeply deplore the
d-ia’h of our young brother, and condole with the
affiic'.ed and bereaved family, we would exhort
them to remember that Heaven a’one can heal the
• broken-heurted, and pour balm into the severe
‘ wound which has been inllictcd.
That this Court and this P»ar, as a
! token of their respect, will attend the funeral of
; our deceased brother, and will wear th© usual
V i badge ot mourning for thirty days.
r j Henolved , That tbia memorial and these resolu-
I tions bo entered on tho minute?- of this Court, and
14 1 that a copy of them bo forwarded to the fa :ly of
5 I the decea.-.ed by the Clerk of this Court, and that
1 J ho likewise furnish a copy lo the E !i ; o of the
r i papers published in this city for publication ; and
that the Constitutionalist A Republic, and Kfaron
ioln & Sentinel of Augusta be requested to copy.
* * Tbe memorial and resolution' were unanimous
r J ly adopted.
[ Whereupon it is ordered by the Court that said
‘ | memorial and resolutions bo entered upon »ho
i , m'notu.-of this Coai i, ar.d that tbe court do now
' I adjourn until 11 o’clock tbib d.iy to attend said fu
neral. D. luwin, J. 8.
A trao transcript frorr tho Minutes of Cobb
Superior Court, September Term, 1854.
W. B. Taylor, Clerk.
rrogreiM of Abolition.
Tho reaolutiona of tbe New York Whigs con
firm our worst tears. They exclude the original
prinoiplert upon which the party was found d,
and announce a sectional mam. They doliborauly
appeal to the people of tbe Northern States loom- j
ploy thoir numerical Representative power, for
the purpose of dictating the policy of the Federal
Government. For the first time in the history of
tne country , the advico of Washington bus been
disregarded, and an open demand it made for tho
control ot the couLtry because of the superior
power of one of its soctions. Instead of the pat
riotic* declaration of Webster ringing in our oars
—adjuring ns to know no North or South—wc
are to bo r lroesed by the drill sergeants of party
upon a line of sectional latitndo. Tho men who
have nroatHutod in honored name—who have de
feated the adjudication of great constitutional
questions, pending for a quarter ot u century—
und adopted a new rule of organisation, deserve
V e execrations of ail who love their country, and
wiil diftt-end to posterity as trie conspirators who
have wounded ana perhaps destroyed that grcu‘
public institution, which comditutes the pride ot
those who uphold it, and the admiration of tho
world.
Tbe Now York resolutions coincide with those
of Massachusetts; they conform to those of the
Fusionists at Saratoga. Their tendency ir towards
opon and unqualified abolition; to undoubted ine
quality iu State and sectional rights. There arc,
lo be sure, certain resolutions in favor of measures
deemed popu’. r. The Union is worshipped in »
preamble to the doctrines which roscind its chief
principle. In it* holy nameaeotional legislation is
t-< be prescribed, and sectional policy established,
it is the Mass before tho massacre. It ri the flag
upon which tho restoration of the Holy Sepulchre
heralded tho hosts of tyranny, rapine ana injus
tice.
Do not tho authors of this plan know that they
deal wi'h a people who will resist whatever is une
qual ? Do they not know, that whether there may
he or not, disposition to rocoguizein other Federal
mem bora tho sumo rights which are already exist
ing in the old Staton or not, the very injustice and
the stigma of a disquafificati n on account of those
rights will stimulate resistance ? And it they shall
succeed in establishing this doctrine that numbeifl
makes right, will they reign over a discontented
und degraded people, u* England by her power
hu» Buojugated ana opprof«od Ireland?
Wo do not think the American people wi’l con
firm the acta of theso conspirators. Wo believe
the Union is too dear—tho righto of othors too
highly respected—the interests, social and politi
cd, too vital to he jo trifled 'vith. „
But tho event has occurred which confirms onr
course. We nnnonLCod that we c uld hold uo fel
lowship with the Whigs of M iHsacbuseUs because
they hail renounced the national doctrines of the
Whig party. We now make the sumo declaration
with respect to all who shall support the New
York resolution-. They have “stolen tho livery”
of & great constitutional party to secure the control
of our mofit precious int rests We feel it a duty
to the country to protest against tho fraud, and to
give notice that wo ur« ii: no manner responsible
for it.— Bo.lt.m re Pctrxot.
The Sandwich ’slands—Tkkms of Annexation.
—Notwithstanding tho contradictory rumors in
regard to tho treaty for thenum xstion of tho Sand
wioh IrtlaudH to the United States, there is no rea
sonable doubt not only that a treaty providing for
annexation bus been agreed upon, but that it is
now iu this country, tor tiie sanction of tho Gen
eral Government. It was a matter of notoriety ut
the rime, that Mr. Gregg, tho l r . S. Commissioner
at the Islands, wks sent out with full powers to
agree upon a treaty.
Mr. Gnvor, n* ift well known at Washington,
has been iudeihtigal >o in possessing the duties ot
his mission. He mot with obstacles at tho outset
front the fuel that he was a lioraal Catholic—an
almost un pardon able offence in the estimation of
tho present ruler of the Islands. But these ob
steclea were overcome * ; and Mr. G. Boon fouud
his propositions received with marked favor by
nourly ah, txcopt the heir upparout, and a few
of his immediate f riends and partisans. It is be
lieved that at least four fifths of the natives, and
nearly aa largo a proportion of the foreign resi
dents, arc in favor of this measure.
Wc learn from well informed sources at Wash
ington, that the terms of the treaty are substan
tially as follows :
The lslauds are to be at once ad mitt a rate «he
Union, not as a Territory 'airs a State with full
sovereign powers. In eonmdoraticn of tbo surren
der of their national sovereignty, the United States,
besides agreeing to respect all existing chart ere,
land, titles, s*: *., uroto pay some $300,009 or 14000,-
GOO annually, as life annuities to such persons as
the sovereign authorities shall designate.
It is believed that the number who will be de
clared entitled to a share in this annuity will no l
exceed thirty individuals, including tbe King, is
two sons, and the members of the Ilouso of Nobles,
all of whom are now rich, and constitute Iho great
land-holdore of tho kingdom. Their ages will
avo'.'Hgo about 40 years ; and the sum to be paid
to each will cease to boa debt on the U. S. Go
vernment at thoir death.
Besides tho sovereignty of the rilauds, ail the
government property —including buildings, claims
iipo"* foreign* governments, &o.—will, it is ur.der
st vd, bo transferred to tbe U. S. Government by
ini* treaty. Tho value cf these buildings alono is
said to oxoeed #1,500,000, and Iho claims upon the
British and French Government amounts to about
$500,000 more—making an aggregate of 42,C00,-
000. —Aitkiny Eeening Journal 2)tA met.
Death of the Hou Jo* »pli W. Jackaon.
Wo nro this morning called upon to record the
donth of oue to whoso worth those columns have
J again and again borne testimony—rot with reluct
ance, or by constraint—but in the full conviction
that too much could not be said in eomnicudatioa
of his virtues. Tbe Hvm: Joseph W. Jackson, late
member of Congress from t his District, died of
\ellow fever at his residence ir Bavcnuah, about—
o’clock yesterday. A man of sernpulou*
honesty and the most chivalrous and unbending
integrity, ho goes to tho grave Aith the respect of
ali w ho over know him.
The deceased was for many years connected with
the polities of his native State, and loss closely,
with, those ot the Union. II? commenced his
political hie trader the auspices of that illustrious
statesman. Gov. lronp, wnoeo disciple he ever
considers! himself, and whoso ccnfidenco, in an
eminent degree, he enjoyed up to the period of
his death. We i cod cot then aay thet ho was a
Btatis R’gbto p iticiauof the strietc.-; »ct.
Col. Jackson has been frequently a member of
our city council, M ay or of.Savaunah and has served
repeatedly in one or tho other branch of the Geor
gia Legislature. In Fobru .’■y, ISSO he was cloci
t*d to tbo Congress oi Uk* l’ .* 0.1 r'udcs, t fid iho \
vac?ncy occasioned by tne resignation A tho lion. ;
Thomas Butler King—receiving in this c’tylbe
then unprecedented Democratic majority of 402, j
and being the first Democrat evci elected from this j
District. A: the coocluti n of tho term, he cltu
i estly desired not again to be a caudidate, but was
| constrained by the pressure of his p .’dica! friends
to yield his wishes tc tueirs. He was elected by
aii .ncroused msicrity. 110 served out hia :?. :*d
term, commanding in an eminent - rc
epect of tbe House of Re; resentativws, fc-t too
porixy of hri eh-;factor, ar.d the man tes: coiu-crcn
tionsucss of his every political ac:. N • pereuas >ll !
could induce him to go back to V»’ashing:on, j
though it is probable that hud he been ag-.i? a .
candidate, he would have beeu elected wilho.it op
position. He withdrew from public station, “and
gave to repose at home that interval of thought
end quietude which every.who man v, raid w'sL t:
place bstweon the turmcii ol Hio and the stUlr .ss j
ot eteruiiy.”
iri these who kn«w him we would sa>, may we,
like him,
4 ji .° hvs*, that ahen our sxicjirioas comes to join
The inunmertbie e.tr«vaa that moves
To that ajrr.xr.. us re-ltn where each *haL take
” 5 y’ ;•= t v »* slh ai'hall# of xitath,
,t T- t>lU ,Uiry sllVtf at night,
to tos cu?s.-eoa; but, sa«* ue i and soothed
lrU ’v x.c- grave
lhsl d /* w> xlropery of hu couch
AW o ,h.a. *-d h«-d u wu to p.4.m dre«M.“
o*iV4t.n<ik 2j>M inst. J
Soi ATTEtt SemttuMt , v -
. g that .. T!-.\ ™ V hdar .from Fort
p -st t. ok t lai CrV TV° :iV at fJiu: i
Urge number of spect: c ; . '• 5 V r t. * !
2 't. -
Ihoir majesty, needed b? ex nv u>h^, s 0 f s > _ri l *
JBo.amnito the tx-eth/ T,o:r f wri’ :
ni derstcoil. They bad seteacd 5: >ts of tot i or
subxliVisions, a ,il n w-s much &»a mar te \i
was worth tx. bid rgainat these squalte s The re
sult was, tho: the whole re^ezration, amoun ?>g to
Blue thousuDd acres, and v 'rih so ' to 100 p?r 1
wm eoldat CoogrtM pita, $1.25 per
* ’-is i-» neither Kama** :.or Nebraska tsrrit ry, bat
•t is squatter prac’ice, a iopt*rd many yet re ago I*.
upper ilUiiori and lowa, and 10 be > owed oat iu
ol* new ten. orie«, wnether slavery be
iu ihem or not. When a good piece cf land ri to ,
be obtained, we d r not see much difference be
tween 1a» kee pertinacity and tne oix*n. above- j
board abortion of Lis righto bv the Western r.io !
petr. If tfc. luu.r ou lilid bluosth*
tret., or mark, n dowi a, his on, Ihlt m , who
auempt. m ,» lt ,fcuW belt, r do’scSw S1 wj k
ing—l. does not matter much wbe^hpr,» K«, rc
in WiMMun
WJUri Uuu AV,a.f*.ux. .Vs r. li ‘ 01 ** 1 '"
Tne a-oa,»d vacation of vroja-rty i u li^- on '
Uus yaar $225,000,000, a gam of $i»,000.000
ovtr laat jear. i
FYum the PenneyLiania Enquirer.
Extraordinary ( ue of Bou^evUy.
A f9CMt or Ge*. Wa-:. xt&Ti< *
this STAfK. 120 Years Qu>.—Marvellous and in
credible as it may >eem, there is at [ reftent, living |
in Fayette county, in tlili Stale, an aged negro "
who was & slave ol General Washington, and who
cannot now l*e less than 120 yco d. His history
is A»riefiy this; He was breugh.; In a slave febip j
fronvtLc coast of Guinea, tbe port of Philadelphia, t
sometime betweou the vearv 176 G and *7O and wo* 1 - ,
purchabod, together with nine others, for form j
cn the Mount Vernon estate, then ownsd
by Qpl. George Worthington, (alnaiya man of
note :u the mmy.) Dia namu in hi? native coun
try, was’-Funteiiian,” bat at Mount Vernon they
gave him the *e-b barbarous appelation of “Bl
mcn,*’ to which he ai.erwar Js added the name of
*in honor of Lis good matter. S;
non con*i?.ued to rcajidf' at Mount V ernon until the
time of the Bevolutio.i, wnen, with others, he wo?
sent out to a tract of land in Fayette county. Pa., |
owned by General Washington, to assist rathe
erection of mill. After .anorieghere for eorae
years be was so l d to Baz’.i Brown, from whora the
town ot Brownsville is named, and he Bold him to >
Got. Edward Cook, in wt *se service he remained
as long as he was recognised as isia«e.
These Are the main points of his life. In proof
of their authenticity, we have tbe old
negro’s own story which be has told in the dame
way, and without shadow of variation, to his
neighbors, rime out of mind, and his exceeniLg
! simple mindedne**, entirely precludes the slighted. J
i suspicion of its being as invention. Besides, |
j there are those who remember him wuen Genera’ ,
! v% u L’l-gton was yet living, and th-- fact of having
been b'h slave no wonder at all then—only grown
bo bv his surviving him »o long. General Joseph
' Markle, Whig cami ; iate for Governor in 1344,
; himself now 73 years ot age, testifies that 4 he has
known Simon lor more than 58 years, and tiiat
w 1 -n he fir-t knew him. bn wa.* apparently an aged
man.’' Every one at all acquainted with tbe ch&r
--: acteristics ot the necro race, (especially the native j
- African.; knows that they raiely exhibit markn of
! age until they are beyond three score years. Hon.
James Todd, of Green.-ourg, formerly Secretary of
this Commonwealth, says *n an alii davit, that u thc
i laots of the case, as aoove stated, are such oft have
. been credited by uli Lift neighbors lor the last sixty
years, and he regards them oa indisputably true. i
Andrew Lim, esq., a reapectable farmer of 1
Westmoreland county, now nearly ninety years of j
age testifies that “in the year or 8), he wool
to Washington’s mill, as it was then called, and
that there he found a colored man, named Simon,
residing, ' Lai ha was a siave of General "W ashing
, ton’s, that he has known him over since, and cun
j vouch for the truth and accuracy of his Btatcmon*.
' regarding himself.” W ith all these proof? it would
heem the verieht infidelity to disbelieve that old
Simon wa? iu rea ity the blave of Washington, and
tha* his age cannot be short of six score years—
perhaps it exceeds it.
Old Bimon bus of late years been a beneficiary
ot Col. Joseph Snider, of W’estmorciaud county,
r who has kindly protected him in hip age and in
' d gence. Last autumn he look him to the Agri
cultural Fair at Pittsburg, whore he was visited by
thousanda. It is understood that he will bring
’ him also to Fair, to bo held at Povrelton
P next week—he a ill no doubt be entitled to tbo
premium for tbe “oldest inhabitant,” the individ
ual whose power of memory is so olten invoked.
M In cu«3H of extreme age, »nch oa this, the bare
1 namerieai statement oi yoconveys no clear
idea of what it really it*. It is only by comparison
that wo cun ever approximately gain u conception
of it. The Gountxiftft Desmonds who flourished in
, the reigns of Elizabeth and tbe first James, and
j attained tho uge of 140 years, greatiy *urp*rifted the
; Count by declaring ooe hundred years after Lsos
! worthfieid, that Richard Third was one of the mest
; elegant gentlemen she hud ever danced with. So
old Simon, were he only ol educated intellect,
might create equal umfiaement by telling us that
ho was well in his “thirties,” when Napoleon and
Wellington wore born. That he was past forty
when the Declaration of Independence was writ
ten; that he is older than Mr. Jefferson would be
if living; although ho went to his grave a ripe oc
togenaiian twenty eight years ugo—that ho ro
membered well when Puiludelphiu was a slave
mart, and our good old great grand sires bid lusti
ly at sired auctions for “Guinea Riggers” and
Pennsylvania farmers thought themselves poorly
c lF without their compliment of blacks—that then
King George’s name was every where raised, and
it was treason to say ought against his majesty.
Important Railroad Connection
Wo learn from the Cleveland Despatch of the
20th inst., that the location of the Cleveland and
Chattanooga Kail road has been completed, and
the charter will soon bo transferrud to the East.
Tennessee and Georgia Company, preparatory to
placing the line under contract.
The establishment of the connection by Kaii
road between Cleveland and Chattauogu, will
when completed, con.it tit a an important linkjin
the chain or Railro.ds from the Northern Atlantic
cities to Now Orleans, through the vallies or
Western Virginia and East Tennessee, and should
the present prevailing fears in regard to the in
flated state ot Railroad operations throw uo serious
impedimenta in the way ot the oomp'etion 01 the
different sections composing this long and impor
tant chain, a line ot Railroads will in a short time
be in operation in that direction, which will ma
tcrially shorten the time and distance between
Washington and New Orleans, and doubtless di
vert a large share of travel between those points,
from its present channels. With these ccnsider
tions in view the progress of the different sections
projected becomes a matter of soma interest to us
in this part of Georgia.
The East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad be
tween London and Knoxville, wc learn, is in a
forward state, and is expected fco be completed in
a lew months. The East Tennessee and Virginia
line extends from Knoxvillo lo the Virginia line
in the direction of Lynchburg, is steadily progres
sing, and the. work of Uying the tiack will
Boon commence. TheJVirginiaand Tennessee line
to connect withthat, one and extend to Lynchburg
is completed to within fifteen miles of Wytheville
and much of the grading from that place to the
State |!iiie is finished. The Orange and Aiexan
m.dria Road, connecting Lynchburg and Wash
ington, is also, wo understand, progressing rapid
ly*
From Chattanooga, in the direction of New Or
leans. the link is is yet to be made to Tuscaloosa,
and this portion seeema to be under favorable
auspicices. The Tuscaloosa Minton y speaking of
the efforts of the President of tbisßoad, Doctor
Garland, says:
1 “It is with groat pleasure we learn that sub
! scriptions have boeu obtained to an amount suifi-
I cieui to grade and cross tie the road from Ohat
j tauoogadown to Tuscaloosa, with the exception
i of twenty miles, of which thirteen uro in Joffer
| sou and seven in St. Clair. The Dr. starts back to
I those counties on Wednesday the llith, to make
! up these dcficioucio, . Thus it appears that this
great work is steadily progressing in moar.s and
in the favor of the public, ami already it can be
looked upon by unprejudiced minds in no other
than a certainty.”
Ilf wo wero to toll a number of our friends thr.t
they don’t kuow what a “borne” is, they would
grow somewhat indignant—perhaps, use hard
words. And >et x; may bo remarked that the num
ber of persona who know what a genuine home is,
by experience, is surprisingly few. Ouo mail in
good oircumsUuceß will toil us that ho has a lino
house of his own, in which every comfort and
convenience are province!, 110 has a wile and
children then-, also, and they give life to the place.
Very true. Cut does he prefer that home, thus
furnished and thus enlivened, to every otherplace
in the world? Does tie sigh when the hour for
leaving comes, and smile when he is permitted to
return ? Does he love to sit by the cheerful lire
and fondle the children, entering into all their
little disputes with a curious interest? Does ho
lake particular note ot the bird in the cage, and
the cat near the fire? If rot, he has no homo, in
the dearost sense ol that dearest of words. If his
mind is altogether absorbed in the dusty ways of
of business—it ho hurries from the house in the
morning, and is loth to return at night—if, while
ho is at homo, ho continues to think of the journal
and ledger, and repulses the advances of the prat
tling children, he has no home; he only has a
place where ha lodges and takes his meals.
Ah! happy is ho who knows and appreciate*, the
full bliss of home; whoso heart is warmed and hu
manized by i'.s cheertul influences, and who fouls
how superior in purity of pleasure arc all its en
joyments to the termoil delights ot cut door life.
Thrice happy is such a man. 110 has discovered
the only Paradise this world cau now afford. It is
only such a man who can have u deep and sincere
pity for the unfortunate creatures wuo ure home
less. He regards them as being cut off from the
best influences oi tho earth, and exposed to the
action of all tho darker waves of Use. He feels
keenly for him who has no fireside—no dear ones
to welcome him with smiles, and prattle over the
history of tho day —< o tongue to soothe when
heavy cures have troubled the mind and rendered
the heart sere; and tho sympathy of such a man is
no* slow to overflow in acts of benevolence. A
i good homo is the source of U e fountain of charity
m the heart.
I Our advice to those who have no homos, such a3
we have described übovo, is, to get them as soou
as possible. They can never be contented and
substantial citizens, nor thoroughly happy men,
until they follow this counsel. Get homes! Fill
them with the objects ot love and endearment,
and seek there for the pure delights which the
world beside cannot afford.
Tho New York Journal of Commerce, ofTburs
t day, says:
1 “We look for large shipment of spcc : o during
1 the next six weeks, pronably $9,000,000 in a 1.
; Os thit $*.000,000 will come from California, and
j tl e remainder from the biuks and sub-treasury.
whl h will still leave .no total in the banks at a
j little over $10,000,000. Six weeks will carry us
• into November, atter which an abundant cottor
j crop, wanted in Europe, now’ .hat they are to have
, cheap breadstuff*, will case the market, a d re
’ liove the fears of iho most timid. During those
1 six weeks we look lor rapid fluctuations in sleek:-,
| and occasional gripings in the money market.
Those who arc venturing beyond ti eir depth,
, thinking that 'lie trouble is 11, over, will do better
j to keep an eye ou Octob: , m i still remain within
soundings. On tun other hand, those who are
: ready to give up in despair, seeing no light for the
j future, if they can sustain present sqceezlng, and
come out with whole ribs ir. Novemfce/, may hope
f or c brctslhi ig time thereafter.”
‘ We loar from a gentleman arrived yesterday
from Jacksonvil e, Fie., that the steamers from
Savannah and Charleston were now permitted by
the municipal authorities to pass that term, pro
vided they have a clean bin of health. They are
to etop, however, at Quarantine, opposite Jack
sonville, to deliver their mails and -ueh passou
ssugers as nave not been over twelve hours in
either of the citiot. Ou their return frem Paiatka
ti -. may deliver ah the : r freight and passengers ,
l at Jacksonville, provided they continue to show a
i clean billot health.— Cn. Courier.
Fisa at St. Andrew's Bat.—W e clip the > >lk-w- |
ing paragraph from the Eulaula Spirit j the \
11 We received a letter s few da\s age, from St. [
Andrew’s Bay, Florida, informing us bat Mr L. ?
J. Loairu who recently moved there from this j
t lace to go into the sterna mill business, had the !
hiislortuoe or. the li’gnt ot the 15th instant, to 1
h.s whole establishment destroy ol by fire. There j
are, including in the los* a blacksmith shop* and
all the tools, 100,000 feet ot lumber and 75 >trds j
of railway, besides a great deal of new r ccLinery j
just received. The ioss will donbliecs :i heavily i
upon Mr. JLoaird, as ho ha i a good deal invested ;
in tho enterprise.
The Cincinnati Caz.it* says: “TheDistrictCourt <
cow i i scssi >n at At:: ns, in Athens county, of j
this State, Judge Whitman, Nas . and I'eck. cn j
the bench, have fully sustained the const* tntion
ality or the Liquor Ltw. passed by the late Legis-
Aiure, overriding the decision cl Ghiet Justice
Corwin, ci the Supreme Court, The opinion was
delivered by Judge Whitman.”
The Howard Association of New Orleans has
sonttwo of its members, two physicians, and ter
nurses, ;o sssbt the sufferers by vehow fever ic
G'y. Mr. D. i. Ricardo, Socrevary of the As- j
j'vciation, cod Doctors Cross and Campbell, ac
oompanii d eight nurses, arrived last evening.
, • Eivingst n with two other nurses, wc have \
.i.r-c . ’y uutioed, arrived the day previous. The j
r. 5 i-es who arrived last evening are : Mrs. Carring
b n *. u ti Mr.-. B rohfield, Mrs. Wilson,
f/ J Baker, £ >. Dudley. G. B Doherty and S. '
Davis.—iSi . I2*p.
Tue New \ork Daily Sun, one of the oldest
penny pap rs in Uie country, appeared on Monday
considerably reduced ii > ze. ihc ally Sun in
Balt more, &i_d the Public Ledger in Philadelphia,
are now the two largest penny papers in the coun
try, each with a circulation double &Dd in many
oases treble that of any paper published out ot
New York city.
The New York Herald states, in connection with
the reduction in size of toe Sun. teat it ia willing
to join it * contemporaries in a substantial premium
for the discovery of some new. cheap and aban- 1
dant material for good white paper.— Ch, Q?ur,
WEE m
o‘iji'aiuclc Snithut
AIuISTA. GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING OCT’E. 4 1854.
~a"g ri cT ltT ra l f air iTP
I*<i»TPO.\ am ex t.
Owing to the prevalence of Yellow Fever in
Augusta, the Fair of the .S' ■utkern Central Agri
cultural Society heretofore advertised for October
23d. will not take place until
MONDAY, NOVEMBER -20, 1854.
It will be continued during the entire week, ac
cording to the Rules and Regulations heretofore
published ; and as alt danger of contagion will
then be over, tt is hoped that the Agricultural and
Manufacturing interests of Georgia and her sister
! Suites will be favorably represented. Copies of
, tiie Premium List may be obtained by addressing
j ■■ Editors of Southern Cultivator, Augusta, Ga,”
i and all other information will be furnished by the
undersigned.
D. W. LEWIS, Secretary. Sparta, Ga.
■ "s r Our exchanges, and all papers friendly to
j the cause, are earnestly requested to give the
above an immediate insertion in their columns, or
I an editorial notice.
The Georgia Railroad.
We Lave r aroly seaii, in any journal having
j ciaim* to r^ r c •.ability, a more malignant and nn
-1 1 'ii tided tirado of abo.so, than appeared ia the At-
Ilanta Examiner against the road. Heretofore the
trains over this read have been remarkable for their
j regularity and freedom from accidents of all kinds.
Within the last two tfeeks, however, from a con
currence ot causes partly accidental and partly
: Providential, the trains have failed to make the
! connection a lew limes, and one disastrous collision
| has occurred, upon which this prejudiced journal
seizes and seek' to bias the public mind against
the general management of the road. And to
make u piau.-ible excuse for the malignity of the
article, introduces charges which every intelligent,
impurtiui mind must know arc wholly unfounded,
as we shall show.
The absence of the Superintendent, Mr. Yonge,
, prevents our entering minutely into details, nor is
it necessary, as a gcueral statement of facts is quite
sufficient. The running over co ws, and the contact
with a tree that had blown across the road, pro
i duced two failures if not more. Others, perhaps
1 most of them, were caused by the panic in this
I <dty. The trams for several days wore delayed in
j starting, by the great influx of passengers, who
worn fleeing from the pestilence. Additional cars
• had to be added to the trains, und immense
amounts of baggage put on boa’d. Hence they
t started behind time, and much delay was occaaion
\ od on the line in putting them off at unusual
[ places. The Company tried to avoid these dolays
i in starting, and detention on the l : uo, and were
ceusured for seeking to bo so prompt under the
circumstances. The last failures were caused by
the late collision, which rendered the track im
l passable for a day or more. “Misfortunes never
* come single,” particularly with Railroads. One
[ lailure frequently cau.-os another, because of the
derangement which il is apt to produce.
All those tailuros are strangely enough and very
erroneously attributed by the Examiner , to 4; a
1 narrow minded, penurious policy,” in the employ-
I nioiit of new Engi/uers, when in truth the new
Engineers were not at fault in a single instance !
0 This matter about tko employment of new Engi
neers, ts we have use rtained i:, is briefly this: —
11 On the late change of schedule, by which each
a irain had day service, and the v. T ages of the Engi
® uoero having boen recently increased, Mr. Yonqb
i suggested u change of service, and the reduction
-of the number (7) of Engineers to six.; which, on
s separate consultation with one or more of them, it
was thought would be acceptable to all. The pro
u position was therefore fora*&ily made to them in
writing, for their consideration , in the most civil
* manner, without threat or menace of any kind.—
ls They met, ai d not only rejected it, hat in a harsh
and disrespectful manner requited an increased
s number, and pledged themselves, if their dicta
tion was not complied with in a mw hours, they
wouUl quit service of the Company in a body.
11 Ho jieldcd, of course, as ho was obliged to do, or
* stop business. But ho would have boon unworthy
0 of his place, and would have incurred the just
oensure of all Superintendents and Engineers if
e he had submitted any longer than ho could flil
jr their places. The position of managers and em
o ploy cos should always bo one of mutual respect,
e but here ; 3 eo»ns to Lave been a mere wanton dis
. play of supposed power over a new Suporinten
- dear, without the slightest provocation.
With one or two exceptions, these Engineers, wo
loaru, were good and experienced men, and were
o discharged with great reluctance. There was, how
‘ over, no other course, for to have submitted to
r such dictation would have destroyed all reliable
organization otr the road. Was there any econo
my hero! Wo have inquired, and learn that there
[ mo now seven Engineers upon the trains, who re
j coivc precisely the same wages each paid the old
o I ones. W here then is the c harge of narrow minded
c i policy, preferred by the Examiner?
( j j Not content with aasaiiiug the Company lor this
a affair with the Engineers, the Examiner brings for
r ward tho old und exploded charges of unfair deal
ing with the State Road. Bkce 1852, we had
thought those ma’icious insinuations had been put
to rest. Mr. Walley examined the accounts ful
f ly and thoroughly. They woie fouud to bo gone
l rally very simple—he admitted then to he just ar.d
allowed them. The State hnd aa unfinished und
impoverished road, and from a mistaken policy no
n appropriation was made to supply these deficieti-
I cies. Tho road was obliged to have money er
i stop business, and tho account was mostly for
Georgia Railroad freights, received at points on l he
a State Road and net paid over. Tho balances there
r foro appeared on tho books of the State Road, and
* oa tl.e published statements of the Georgia Road
r show that the debt has not yet been paid, wo
j should suppose the Company has not been very
l rigorous with the S'ate Read.
J Another charge ia, that the trains do not stop
t for passengers to eat supper in Atlanta. This is a
) grave charge truly, and very probably true, ls it
! be rot for the travelling public it ought to bo. We
have lately travelled over the road, and know that
i tho connection is very clove at Atlanta. There is
birely time under the schcdu’es to change tho
bag;:: ;e, Ac.—and sometimes, we arc told, not
i sufficient time without delay in starting. Puss an
gers are beset by drummers from -various Hotels,
* who, when scattered, oro liable to be left or detain
| tho * rains. By remaining together, they proeeod
i to tho Stone Mountain, where they have an oxcel
lent supper specialty prepared for them, and have
\ fall lime allowed to eat. Is there uny selfishness
i it! ll '> T Does the Company make any thing by its
1 j Wo neve heard that the Company own the Stone
' j Mountain Hotel, bnt they have leased it to respon-
I ■ -ible proprietors and have nothing farther to do
> | with it.
Bat. the Company from selfish motives wish to in
jure How absurd. Whore is Iho con
Ristency of such a supposition ? Atlanta is the
terminus of the Road, and is the competing point
for a lar_e trade north of Piuo Mountain. The
larger Atlanta is the more attractive it is as an in
land market, and the better tor the road. If the
Company studies its true interest, tho stockhold
ers wou id rejoice to see Atlanta as large as Lon
don ; and we know tho principal officers of the
Company entertain these views of the interest of
the Company.
Who, wo would ask in conclusion, is Mr. Yonoe?
He : s a Savannah man—long an ablp assistant on
the Central Road—ln d the entire confidence of
Mr. Wapley, who left him in change of the State
Road. His able management ah parties acknow
ledge. With the exceptions before alluded to,
his tniMfoment of the Georgia Road has been
equ.nlly The tr;.ir. - are again running
rct'-darlv, aud notwithstanding the present em
barrassments of the Compaoy, by the desertion cf
t-herr simps in consequence of the epidemic in this
city, we hope the trains may hereafter run with
their accustomed regularity.
The following statement of Mr. Puintet, in re
iiationtothe late collision, wo publish at hi 3 re
quest—wo doubt not it is entirely correct, and it
mav astonish the Examiner to learn that the
1 Engineer who was running ovi of timc t was an
| old and experienced one , not one of the new
j Engineers. Th : s statement forcibly demonstrates
the difficulties Railroad managers have to con-
I t:-ad with. Here we see the plainest regulations
i and instructions overlooked or disregarded by
‘ both Engineer and Conductor, both experienc'd
! *JHt#rs; by which two lives have been lost, severs,
; rsoas seriously injured, and the Company’s
property greatly damaged. Their own safety, in
this instance, was cc guarantee for vigilance.
This, we believe, is the first serious collision that
has ever happened on this road betsoeen stations,
yet we hear of them aiinost every week on ether
r s is. Several have occurred lately, wc believe,
on the State Road, yet no blame was attached to
tiie Superintendents. Superintendents can only
i make rules and regulations—subordinates wiil
sometime* neglect or disregard them, and the only
remedy is to discharge them. The only safe rrie
to guard against collisions, is that which we under
stand the Georgia Road has adopted, viz: tha*. i
in case of failure! to meet at the proper point, one j
! of the trains shall still till the other is heard ,
i from. But to the statement of Mr. Tbinttp, here !
' it is:
| To the E *. J- F. King, Fresident Georgia K. R. do !
| Ranking Company :
As many fiying reports a’.e out. some of which
are not correct in relation to the collision which
took \ lace on the night of Sept. 20th, 1654, upon
the Georgia Railroad, between Thomson and Ca
mas, between the up eight passenger train and
down night express freight train, on a curve just
below Morgan’s station. I dtem it my duty to
state facts as they were, so that no b ame may be
attached to the innocent, and at the sa . e time to )
let the blame rest upon those who are guilty.
In the first place, the up night passenger tram
was detained between Bel-Air and Augusta, by the
o'*lapsing of a fine. Mr. Hardman (Sap’t Motive
Power in Augusta; and I went down with the
day mail, and found a signal man some mue or
more above the train with a light. We took him •
on and run down to Ihe delayed train pushed it j
back to Augusta; left the down day mail train in j
Augusta, aud with the same engine that run the .
day mail down, we hauled the ap mail train to j
Bei-Air. At Eel-Air, we took tho freight engine .
“Liberty”—Mr. Spencer, engineer of the engine q[ 1
Libertv, was in bed, I understood. While Mr.
Hardman went after Mr. Spencer, 1 asked Mr. ,
John Stcb'aa to run the engine Libel ty oat and i
eoople to the mail train, and take wood an a water. |
While at this, Mr.Spenoer came out and got upon |
his engine. We left Bel-Air utlO.-CS P. M. I m e ,
the calculation between Bel-Air and Borze'ia, how j
far we could run to meet the down night Irmg t ,
train, according to their schedule and r«dcs. As
Mr. Kirkpatrick’s house wo* shut up when we ar
rived there, wo did not stop tor supper. Arriving
at Thomsou, I assisted Mre. Sullivan and children
out of the cars, and assisted with her baggage by
her reqeet. When all was ready, Mr. Jas. Young,
conductor o' the train, looked at hi* watch end
observed, that it was just 12 o’clock 8 min Mow.
I looked at my watch, and said right, we have J
minuteb to run toCamak, belorethc leaving time
i of the down train. I fc&id to Mr. Young, ‘he ccn
i doctor, go and say to Mr. Spencer, that he baa 32
minutes to make Caraok, and to run a good speed
!soas to g6t there in ample good time 1 won i say
I that I made u*e of those exact words, but they are
j the purport of what I said. Mr. Young went on
a run and delivered the message to Mr. Spencer,
; engineer of the train. We left Thomson exactly
12.-08 o’clock.
I was setting in the passenger car, at the end
next to the baggage car, when tho collision took
place. All the light* we'C immediately extin
guished—there was such a confusion with the pas
sengers, that it took me some time before I could
get out of the car. I cannot say, exactly, how iong
after the collisaion took place, I found Mr. Dorsey,
engineer, and Mr. Golding, conductor, of the down |
night freight train. I should think it was between
7 and 10 minutes. I asked Mr. Dorsey and Gold
ing how it con d be possible for them to run there
on that time. Dorsey replied, we are on our time.
I SH ; d, “how can it bo possible, show your time.”
Dorsey pulled out his watch and said bis watch
was broke or stopped, but said, my conductor ha»
the right time. Golding then showed his time, it
compared with my timo, and Mr. Young s, and
the time was then 12.-25 minutes—lo minutes be
fore their time for leaving Camak , according to
scbednle and rules in their possession, to govern
them. I give the echedulo and tho rules, viz:—
They are to arrive at Gumming, coming down, at
0.-05 P. M. Leave Camming, 9.-80 P. M., and
arrive at Camak 10.—10 P. M., leave Camak at
10.-85 P. M. The rules that govern them, in
case tho night passenger train is behind time,
are as follows, viz:—Down night freight arri
ving at Cummfcjg will wait there two hours, if
the up night passenger train do4s not arrive in
time f c enable it to make its connection with tho
an night freight at Dealing. Or should the down
night freight be detained by nou-arrivai of op
night freight at Dearing, the down uight freight
will wait two hou+s past its leaving time , and then
proceed, continuing exactly two hours behind its
schedule time for arrival and departure from stations.
But in all cases, when unable to make the connec
tions under these rules, and those governing other
trains, it will keep out of their way. The regular
time for the running ot the up night passenger
tram between Thomson and Camak, is 27 minutes.
On tlii* occasion, they had 32 minutes—five min
utes grace, as tho leaving time for down night
freight from Camak was, according to the rules,
<fec., twelve o'clock and thirty-five minutes . It. is
just 8% miles from the place where the collision
took place to Camak, and ten minutes is ample
timo to run it with almost any engine and train.
It is very often run by passenger trains in 7 to 8
minutes. Respectfully,
P. W. Pbintcp.
Wk understand that tne Georgia Rail read Com
, puny has, within a few days past, had the flues cf
, several valuable euginos burnt out by some prow
ling miscreant, who stealthily turns the cock®,
after the Engine has been fired up and le»s the
l water off. The Georgia Railroad is not alone in
terested in this matter—the entire public are also
s interested to a great extent. Ono who will perpe
trate such an act, will do any thing . He would not
hesitate to fire the City to satiate a petty spite cr
L to rob the citizens. Wo would therefore suggest
to the City authorities, the propriety of adopting
{ the course pursued by the cuergotic Mayor of
present, who is out of employment, or not bound
i by some known ties of interest or duty. That a
man, therefore, who remains without such induce
ment, is sufficient evidence of criminal intention,
f and the authorities should promptly give them
notice to leave the City, or put thorn in jail as sus
; picious characters.
N.B. The guilty individual above referred to
is said to be well known, bnt without legal ovi-
P deuce for his conviction. Ho is a very proper per-
I son for the exercise of the wise discretion and
power of tho Mayor, and the City may be saved
by his riddance or confinement.
Illness of Dr. Baoon. —Wo regret to learn from
the Savanuah papers, that Dr. H. S. Bacon, of this
city, who, with such a self-sacrificing devotion to
5 his profession and the causo of humanity, repair
ed to Savannah in the hour of her deepest dis
tress, to aid in the relief of the sick has boon at
> tacked with yellow fever. Such & man deservoß a
5 | bettor late, and wo hope soon to hear of his com
plete restoration.
A Generous Donation. —Wo received yesterday,
[ says tho Constitutionalist Republic of Wednesday,
[ from Mr, H. A. Kenxick tue President of the
Hamburg and Edgefield Plank Road Company,
i the following note, aooompaniod with a large
coop of chickens. At his request, we will willing
ly distribute them to the needy of our city aud
[ from our knowledge there are many such. Any
persons in needy circumstances, who stands in
need of chicken broth, by sending to my resi
dence, first white heuso with atoop in front on
i Reynold street, left hand side, below Centro
street, can Lava their immediate wants supplied
, while a chicken remains on hand. As our car
riers for the lower division of tho oity are both
sick. Physicians who have patients in the first
and second wards, will please avail themselves
, of this notice and extond it, for the benefit of
which as the donation is intended for.
This is tho second kind act oxtendod to the
citizens of Augusta by Mr. Kenrick, as President
, of tho Hamburg and Edgefield Plank Road, and
in after times should cause himself and Company
to bo remembered by our citizens:
Hamburg Sept. 2lth, 1854.
Mr. S. M. Thompson,
Dear Sir.—A lev/ days since two men, whoso
wagons were loaded with chickens, wore detected
in fauduiently passing a toll gate on the “Ham
burg and Edgefield Plank Road,” Tho flue was
compromised by their forfeiting 150 chickens.
You will please receive them of the Company, ft r
tho benefit of the sick of your city. Yours truly,
11. A. Kenkick, President.*
Cotton Cordage.— ■ The New Orleans Bulletin
publisUes au interesting article upon cotton cor
dage, which, with the aid of un invention by one
of the most ingenious of living mechanics, a citi
zen of Providence, promises to ejme into such
general use as to supersede all other Kinds. Tho
superiority of cotton cordi'go consists in its ligfct
j ness, its resistance to water, its durability, the
closeness of its texture, which protects it against
mud and saud f its flexibility, aud the vaiue of tho
material when worn out. For all these reasons,
and the now sof manufacturing it, this cor
dage is fast coming into use. The Bulletin esti
mates that the commercial marine of this country
will require 800,000 bales of cotton annually, as
soon as a kuo • ledge aud experience of the superi
ty of cotton cordage shall bring it into gonerai* use
—Ealtimore American.
The difficulty, wo apprehend, which will be
found insurmountable in tho attempt to introduce
cordage, will be the high price of tho raw material.
So long as cotton keeps up, vre think it doubtful
whether the manufacturers of this cordage can
compote successfully with hemp, except, only
when hemp, as now, is very high. Possibly if
Cotton ever goto down as low as it has been in for
mer years, this cordage may be extensively intro
duced; but such a decline in cotton cun only be
tempo rpry if ever it occurs. We, However, wish
Ihorope makers may succeed, the extensivo ure of
the rope will consume a very considerable portion
of the cotton crop.
A decision recently made in the Marino Court,
New’ York, establishes that shipowners arc re
spousibie for the loss or miscarriage cf tke bag
gage or clothing of passengers. A trunk contain
ing clothing was supposed to have been stolon bv
some of tho crew of a vessel, and the plaintiff
proving the loss, obtained a judgdment against
the owners of the ship.
An immense amount of fraud and corruption
covered over by perjury, nas been discovered in
tho management of the New York prisons. Com
missioners are examining into the charges, and
some of the officers examined have been arrested
for perjury in giving their testimony.
Locust Devastation in Central America.—
The Gaceta of Costa Rica calculates the destruo
i tion of locuat3 in that country, in consequence of
i the measures dictated by the government, at 150,-
! 400,000 insects. Up to the 24tb of July, 8,000
j sacks of the insects, weighing each 60 pounds, had
been presented for the purpose of obtaining the
bounty offered by the government for their de
struction.
The Ladies North are introducing what is called
an 44 Ugly,” as a compensation for the infinitessi
maliy small bonnets now worn. The **Ugly’'is
i nothing more than whit years ago used to be term
j eda‘* calash.” Tho 44 Ugly” is to the head wha;
a top is to a gig, or a chaise. The “Ugly” lets up
j and down like one of those tops. The 4 ‘ Ugly”
j of a different color from the bonnet, and it migh.
| bo called a parasol, a veil, or anything else, de»-
• eriptive of what hides or shades the face. Ladies,
j hence, now often wear two bonnets on their bead
! instead of one.
! Ashland Not to be Sold. —James B. Clay, son
; of Henry Ciay, in a note to the editor of the Lex
! iegtoo Observer, contradicts a report that Mr. Geo-
Law, of New York, had sent an agent to Xe -tacky
j to purchase Ashland, the home residence of tho
• late Henry Clay, and which now belongs to his son
j J. B. In his note, Mr. J*mes B. Clay Bays :
j 44 Never having offered Ashland for sale, I pre
! same neither Mr. Law, cor any one else, would
| venture to offer me the iusult of proposing itr.
j purchase.’*
Fuel fob American Rail
road Journal says that “under the present high
price for wood, eight dollars per cord for Southern „
pine, our northern roads are looking with increased
interest to the employ m6ul of Cumberian n or other
description of bituminous coal, ’ and that (
“the New Haven road has, for several weeks, '
been running its freight trains with this deacrip
tion of oeai, ourned in one of s large en
gice»”
A steam fire engine for Boston will bo finished i
t,; CiDci nnA ri by the 20th of November. (
Beard cf Health—Toe flew Case*.
It is matter of regret to us, and particularly so
to the public generally, who desire tho fullest and
most satisfactory intelligence of the progre.-s of
the epidemic, to percoivc that tho Board o' Health
omit to report the new cases daily occurring.—
There can be r.o satisfactory or sufficient excuse
ferthis ommisaion. The public, and especially
our own citizens, both in and out of tho city, arc
deeply interested to know whether the pestilence
is increasing or abating, and nothing could fur
nish evidence so satisfactory, as the daily reports
of the new cases. Tnese reports are now mado to
the Board—'why are they concealed from the pub
lic ? If they are of no interest or value, why does
the Board request them of the physicians? If
they are of interest to the Board, they arc of
equal interest to the public, and should have
the same publicity as the dea’ hs. It is uo suffi
cient excuse to say that the physicians will not all
report regularly—that some will neglect it. That
is t» be expected—for no man can reasonably cal
calate that the reports will be complete and strict
ly correct—that is scarcely possible. Yet they
sfccula be made, approximating as nearly as pos
sible correctness, and if there be omissions on
the part of physicians to report, the fact should
be noted in the published statement.
We hope the Boa'd 11 see tho necessity for
publishing the r*portr>, and thus do all. in their
power to satisfy the public mind on the subject.
Health ot the City.
The report oi the deaths from Yellow Fever for
the last 48 hours, ending Monday afternoon, is
more favorable than for several days past. It is,
however, we regret to say, no correct index of the
progress of tho disease ; for we are induced to be
lieve, from all ibw Information wc can get, that
more now cases havo occurrod within the lust three
days, than at any period during the past week or
more. All concur in the opinion that the disease
is on the increase.
Beic w is the otal number of interments from
Yellow Fever for the week onding Monday, Oct.
2, 8 P. M.
Dr. Carle Fiaskewsky, aged 42 years, Poland.
Julia Cohn, aged 14 years, Germany.
Mrs. Cecelia Clayton, aged 26 years, Georgia.
Morris Rhine, 85 years, Ireland.
Mary Cooney, 85 years, “
Eliza Brennan, 25 years, “
Marcus Warner, 5 years, M
Miss Ellen Ward, 16 years, Augusta.
Thomas McCanno, 30 years, Ireland.
Mary Cavonder, 18 “ 44
Mrs. Mah&r, 4) “ 44
J. Tweedy, aged 45 years, England.
Charlotte Knell, aged 20 years, Germany.
C. Rooney, aged 25 years, Ireland.
C. Hanzo, aged 22 years, France.
P. Bradley, aged 50 years, Ireland.
Mr. Waltine, aged 28 years, Germany.
John Clark, 26 years, residence at Sand Hills.
J. Mahar, 18 years, Ireland.
Christian Gtlov, 19 years, Switzerland.
Frederick Noack, 28 years, Germany.
W’ilson, a colored bey, property cf W.Bostwick,
34 years.
1 Negro woman, property Miss Savannah Beall,
1 44 child 44 Richard Norrell.
Death Mr. Courtlaml Symmes.
It becomes our painful duty again to announce
the death of another of tho most useful citizens cf
Augusta. We learn that the above gentleman
died in Atlauta on thCjinorning of tho 29th Sep
tember, after a painful illness of one week.
We understand that Mr. S. was a native of
Ohio, and oame to our city about six years ago in
the capacity of a Teacher, for which calling he was
eminently qualified. His school has always been
one of tho largest and most efficient in our city,
and wo regard the discontinuance as a public
1 calamity. Ho has left many friends in Augusta
who will long remember with pleasure the many
excellencies which adorned his character. Mr. S.
' left Augusta on 18th September, was seized with
Yellow Fever on 22d, and breathed his last on
29tli in tho 85th year of his ago. He died at tho
residence of John L. Harris, Esq., aud received
»n his sickness every attention that could possibly
be bestowod, but all without avail, the fell destroy
er claimed him as his victim. His wife arrived
just in time to see him sioep in death.
i Death of Gen. Haralson.— Tho Nownan ban
ner announces the death of Gen. Hu. A. Haralson
, on tho 26. h ult., at his residence in LaGrnnge.
• His amiable character in private life, endeared
him to a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
He had been a prominent man in the State, hav
• ing been an active member of the Legislature for
several years, and thrice elected to Congress.
Few if any enjoyed in a higher degree tho confi
dence of those who knew him in all the private
I relations of iifo.
Health of fea v annaii.
l Thursday, Sept. 28. — Tho Board of Health re
i ports H interments to-day of which 8 were from
» Y'ellow Fever.
The Georgian ot Saturday morning romarks
that: “The foregoing most gratifying report
shows bat six interments yesterday, only three of
, which are cases of yellow fever. Wbat a contrast
with many which we have published! Yet let
nono of our absentees think of returning for sev
eral weeks. There has probably boon no time
when their presence here would hive exposed
them to greater risk than now.
1 Friday, Sept. 23 ; 9 P. M.—The Board of Health
reports 8 deaths for the past 24 hours—four from
1 Yellow Fever.
The BepubV can of Saturday afternoon, says:—
It will be seen by tho health report published to
day that there is z decided improvement in our
■ condition. There is ground for .hope that wo will
scon be able to announce a still more rapid decline
1 in tho number of d. aths among us. The number
’ of new cases has also diminished considerably.
There were no interments in the Cathedral Cem
etery yesterday—the first day in tho last nine
1 months that such has been the case.
' Wc learn that ot the Infirmary, recent by estab
' lished, tho patients, of whom there are some 15 or
• 20, are doing well, aud that the attentions of the
physicians and nurses are most assiduous and
1 praiseworthy.
We again caution our absentees to keep away,
1 and not think of returning to their homes, until
r a heavy frost will render their advent secure. As
it is now, the want or subjects is all that keeps the
pestilence from swelling our bills of mortality.
The fever, ; though Btill epidemic, is not of as ma
lignant a typo aa heretofore.
The first heavy frost here last year was on the
26th October; in 1852 not until tho 15th Novomber.
In 1851 there was a killing frost in the interior,
but no cold weather in the city noticed by our
files of that year until the 12th November, on
which date there was a heavy frost. In 1850 the
first frost appeared as early as the 21st October.
Charleston Board of Health.
Office of City Rfgister, \
Wednesday, Sept. 27,10 P. M. )
There have been 8 deaths from Yellow Fover
for tho past twenty-four hours.
Oar coders will, we are confident, peruse with
unfeigned gratification the above report, which
scenti to indicate that the violence of the dis
ease is on the wane. Wo learn, also, from au
thentic sources, that the few cases that now occur
appear to yield very ieadily to medioal treatment.
Favorable, however, as presoni appearances are,
precaution against the disease should not be re
laxed, nor absentees venture to return until a frost
shall have effectually banished all symptoms of dan
ger. Like the lull of the temptosttne pestilence
may have partially ceased, only to rage with in
creased violence. We devoutly trust, however,
that its strength has been expended, and that
health is again about to bless with its presence our
afflicted city.— Oh. Govr ., 28 thinst.
Office of City Register, I
Sunday, Oct. 1.10 P. M. J
There have boon 15 deaths from Y'ellow Fever
lor the past 43 hours.
JOHN L. DAWSON, M. D., C. B.
Samaritan Association.
An Association, under the above name, has
been formed and organized in our city. Subscrip
tions to carry out their benevolent intentions may
be left with the President, the Treasurer, either of
the Ward Committees, or at this office, and will
be faithfully appropriated.
We appeal to the sympathies of all good citizens
and Philanthropists, to come forwaid and help
them in alleviating the distress which prevails in
cur city, in consequence of the scarcity of Nurses,
Money, Provisions, and all comforts which are
needed among our panic strickeu people. Physi
cians T9' l! piease notice tho names of the Ward
Committees, to whom they are requested to report.
The following are the Officers and Ward Com
miiteea of tho Association.
officers.
Bov. J. E. EVANS, President.
Rev. CHARLES KING, Vice President.
EDW ARD WILLIS, Secretary.
N. J. FOGARTY, Treasurer.
WARD COMMITTEES.
Ist Ward— JOS. A. BEALS
EDWARD WILLIS.
S. M. THOMPSON.
P. L. WELTCH.
2d Ward— JOHN W. SPEAK,
J. A. GRAY,
F. E. COOK,
P. GALLAGHER.
J. R. SCHNEIDER,
W . D. DAVIDSON,
&d Ward-W. D. DAVIDSON,
JOHN W. SPEAR,
J.C. SMITH,
4th Ward —W H. D’W READ,
JAS. HffBPEB,
J. J. BYRD,
W.H. HOWARD.
New PuM( n tUou.
Putnam’s Monthly, for September, is on our
table. We have neither time or disposition, at
present to bpe&k of its newly developed abolition
tendencies as they deserve ; but have no hesitation
in predicting the ruin of its circulation at the
South, if the offence is repeated. We are willing
to allow ail reasonable latitude to a free aud inde
pendent literary magazine, bn* when it becomes
the vehicle cf incendiary siang and vituperation,
it ceases to command our respect.
Tne present number contains a very fine por
trait of Hon. John P. Kennedy, author of 44 Home
Shoe Bboinson,” <fcc., <fec.
It may be obtained at the book store of Gao. A.
Oates <fe Brothers, who will also furnish the fol
lowing Lew and interesting publications:
The JScrutiful Cigar Girl j The Highwayman's
Strut :g-.m ; Ths GMin Snob • Progress an*i Pre
judice. By Gore, Ac., some of which we
may notice further hereafter.
Another vessel for the navigation of the Orinoco, 1
South America, was launched in New York on Sa I
turday. This is the lourth steamer sent out for the '
navigation of the Orinoco.
t
Dr. J.C. Patterson, charged with robbing the i
mail, has been found guilty in the United States *
Court sitting in Nashville. 1
Mali Service on the South Carolina Railroad. "
The President of ibis road, J W'. Caldwell,
has published a letter, in reply to one of the Post- (
master General, giving tho reasons, why the Com- t
pany declined to run two daily mail trains on the
road, and show, very satisfactorily and conclasivo ,
ly, that tho blama should properly attach to the
miserably apology tor a Postmaster General, who
now presides over that department of the Govern
ment. The ohiet points of the letter ot Mr. Oald
well are embraced in the following extracts, to
which wo invite the readers attention— e*ptciah\
those who, front the Postmaster General's statement
of the matter, havo been induced to boliove that
the Railroad Company wore to blame lor the failure
to run a second mail train.
If any evidence were wanting of the inefficiency,
not to stay stupidity, of the postmaster General in
tho management of the department, it wuald bo
foond in the foot, that he is paying to run two
daily mails to Wilmington—an important office,
while for all points sonth of that tfcero is but cno
daily mail. It the public interests require two
daily mails, they should be extended through tho
entire line, and the roads south of Wilmington
should roceivo a compensation equal to those north
of it. This is a proposition which no impartial
mind will controvert:
iho increased compensation asked for by ibis
itompanv, for the increased servioe required, was
*> 8 000, equal to $62.50 per mile, on two hundred
a ad* nine miles of road—that is, from Char o.rton
to Augusta, and from Branchville to Columbia —
makin • $8 .0 per mile, tho rate paid to all the roads
from New York to Wilmington on the same tine.
It mast bo also observed, that the expense of run
ning the train on the South Carolina Road is great
er than on any other on the Hno, from the fact that
the trains have to start from Charleston ar.d run
to Columbia and Augusta separately, making the
whole distance ran two hundred and seventy miles,
while we only receive pay for two hundred nnd
nine miles of mail service.
The additional train roqutred wilt cost the com
pany s'>B,ooo per annum, cxc'usive of the wear and
tear upon the road. Tne following statement from
the Chief Engineer, Mr. \\ . M. Stockton, whose
professional ability and veracity none will douot,
gives the items of this additional expense •'
Oil and tallow J™
Wear aud tear of engine and cars gs uu
Extra train 13 05
Cost of train for Hamburg road tl- 25
“ for Colombia 72 25
Daily expense •
Or for the year $52,742 50
Tho additional pay allowed by the Department
to other roads for a doubls daily mail is $62.60 per
mile, which would give some two huudred and
five miles of road $12,812 50, leaving $89,930 to be
made up by an ino eased travel to the extent of
about twonty-sovon passengoro per day.
Tho I’resident of tho South Carolina road says,
with regard to tho probable inoroaso of travel:
The increase of passengers on our road, how
ever, cannot be groat, inasmuch as tho company
now ran two daily passenger and mail trains over
thßir road, neither, however, suiting the require
meet of the department as to the additional ser
vice proposed. Under snch circumstances we
could not expeot a larger increase than ten pas
sengers daily, producing an inoomo of $14,400.
The additional mail pay claimod by the company
ie SIB,OOO, making $27,400, tnus leaving a loss to
the company of $25,600. But if we should com
ply with the requisition of the department and
perform tho additional servico without the in
crease of pay, the company would lose siiS,6oo an
nually, or, under a contract of four years, the sum
of $154,400. Such a sacrifice cannot in justice bo
required of any company, and will not bo made by
us.
In relation to the charge of tho Post Master
General that the Company has failed to mu two
trains daily, tho explanation is as follows:
The facts on thi3 point are as follows: W hen
the presont contract was mado it conditioned that
an oxp r ess train should leavo Charleston for Au
gusta at 11 o’clock, to s euro tho connection of
the mail when the Wilmington boats did not ar
rive in Charleston in timo for the 8 o’clock train.
Sometime in 1852 this contract was so modified
by tho department that, the running of the express
train was dispensed with, except when the mail
should arrive in Charleston after the 8 o’clock train
had left, but before 11 o’clock. In making this
modification this company agreed to start a train
at 5 o’clock, I\ M. from Augusta and Charleston,
which has boon done up to this time; and this
company, moreover, has started a train from Colum
bia and Charleston about the same hour, carrying
an important mail, for two years, for which thoy
received no additional compensation wliatevor.
It will, therefore, be seen that die charge made
by the Post Master Geueial, that this company
was under a eoutract to porform double daily ser
vice, which they failed to perform, is utterly
groundless. A copy of tho order modifying this
eontruc has boon furnished to the department by
this company. We havo faithfully performed tho
service required by the contract.
Tho statement closes, by announcing that as the
PostMastoi General has ordered tho Company to
change its schedule, without increasing the com
pensation, they havo given notice to the Depart
incut of their intention to abandon the contract on
the Ist of October, which by its terms, they havo
a right to do; but that tho public interest might
not suffer, they are willing to extend the time of
discontinuance to the Ist of November next.
Bituminous Coal. —Tho New York Courier sayp,
* that the extravagant price ot Anthracite eoul has
directed tho attention of largo consumers to the
practicability of substituting bituminous coal for
. the anthracite, and in most instances the expori
i mont has been attended with entire success.
The Williamsburgh Ferry Company have, within
i a few days, commenced the uso of Cumberland
t coal, and the result has been satisfactory. With
f oue cart loade per day less on each boat, better
t and more regular fires * have been kept up; and
there is no longer any occasion for loss of time
in 44 hauling fires.” The Brooklyn Ferries have
, been using Cunib3rland ocul for several weeks.
[ The change made by these two Companies will re
lieve tho demand upon the anthracite miners to
the extent of thirty or forty thousand tons a year.
Nine wagons, “loadod to the guards” with men
women, aud children, and banned by several out
riders, passed through St. Louis on tho 21st inst #
This noblo oaravan was from the State of Indiana,
and going by the way of Springfield and Arkansas,
to Texas.
Memphis Navy Yard.— The City Council of
Memphis have resolved, by a vote of niuo to two
to accept tho grant o l the Navy Yard made by
5 Congress. There is still much opposition to this
procedure on the part of the people of Memphis,
and the Enquirer undertakes to affirm that there
is not one in twenty who does not desire that
| Congress should be appoalod to before any dispo
sition is made of the property.
» Greytown Affair. —A despatch from Washing*
1 ton says that Lord Clarendon’s despatch about the
9 Groytowu bombardment has been communicated
2 to Mr. Marcy by Mr. Crampton. It is very mild,
• and will scarcely call for any sharp rejoindor.
- England appears to have hor bands so full in tho
East that she is more than usually polite to us.
3 Mr. Marcy has sont a long despatch to tho French
. Government about Dillon, tho French Consul at
t San Francisco. It is very severe on the Cohaul’s
r oonduot, and fully sustains the action of the
i American Government. Important despatches
3 have been roceivod from China representing the
unsettled condition of affuirs there, aud tho dan
ger of injury to American commerce from the law
lessness of all parties. Mr. McLano will probably
be instructed to remain perfectly neutral, and re
r aoguizo any de facto Government which ho may
f*ud.
| Lieut. W. A. Bartlott writes to tho Now York
Commercial that tho lengthened voyage of the
- steamship Atlantic was oauaed by ono of the most
r violent and prolonged harricane gales ho ever ox
’ perienced. For tho twelve hours preceding the
! noon of the l#Ji, tho Atlantic made but 55 miles
t to the West. From noon of the 12th, to noon of
the 18th, she did not make a single mile, although
hor engines worked beautifully six revolutions per
, minute, all that cou'u be permitted in such a sea.
1 From noon of the 18th, to midnight, only 00 miles,
the captain gradually easing up engines, as the
wind and sea fell.
r The St. Louis fire companies are disbanding in
anticipation of tho adoption of steam fire engines,
the committee who visited Cincinnati having re
ported favorably to tho reform.
s Tt e revenue received by the General Post Office
Department for the fiscal year ending 30th Juno,
r was from letter postage $4,473,227; newspaper
P ditto |611,888- Total $5,084,560. Last year tho
I amounts wero for letters $4,226,792, and for news
papers $789,246. Total $5,016,138. As compared
k with last year, there is this year an increase in the
total amount of $68,522. The excess from letters
this year over last is $246,485 ; while the decrease
in the amount received from newspapers is $177,-
| 918.
The Cunard screw steamer Alps, expected at
; Boston this woek from Liverpool, will touch at
Halifax on hor return, to embark the seventy
eacond Highlanders,and a company of artillery,for
conveyance to England.
The Philadelphia Ledger learns semi-ofliQuJly,
‘.hat daring the past year, Gov. Bigler has paid off,
by the judicious administration of the affairs of
the Commonwealth, nearly one million of dollars
of the State debt.
Coal, of good quality, has recently been discov
ered at Corunna, Michigan, 100 miles from De
troit. Ten thousand bushels have already been
taken out, and it is now being mined at the rate
of five hundred bushels per day, and sold at the
rate of ten cents per bushel. This is better than a
gold mine for Michigan.
A sectarian rict took place in Cincinnati on the
evening of the 25th. Bome Protestant* having at
tempted to organize a Sabbath school, a mob of
German Catholics attacked the house rented for
the purpose, and threatened death in case of per
sistence in the undertaking. Three persons were
wounded by pistol shots.
Octavius A. Norris, died in Philadelphia
on tli* 20th Norris was late of the flrm’of
Norris Brothers, the celebrated locomotive engine
builders, to the success and reputation of which
his peculiar abilittes bad largely contributed.
A Heavy Debt. —The Ledger says that Phila
delphia is fast vergiagon to a Mnnic ; pal debt of
Twouty Millions, boaides the full proportion of a
State debt of Forty Millions.
The steamer St. Louis sailed from New York on
Saturday for Bremen and Southampton, taking out
48 passengers and $475,000 in specie. The ex- i
ports of specie still continue quite large. i
The correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, at San
Juan dei Norte, writing cu Sept. 16th, says that 1
Doctor Green, British consul to Moequito, bad j
arrived. The news of the bombardment of Grey- v
town was not known in England when he left; <S
but he has officially announced to the people that t
England will not protect them unless they manage ti
to live in peace with all men. Affairs in Granada C
remained about the same. Surgeon Davis, of the tl
revo'utionary party, shot a brother surgeon in a oj
treacherous mauner at Virgin Bay. $1
The Washington Democracy.
A few days sinco the democracy of Washington I
City, backod by tko Administration of course, at- p
tempted to make a demonstration against Know e
Nothingism and for that purpoao called a public 1 t
meeting. Bat in their anxiety to colloct a large 5 «
number, hoping thereby to demonstrate the >
strength ot the Administration, they made their <
cull too general, and the Know Nothings came and t
pnt the " down in their own meeting. Finding s
they could do nothing, they adjourned tho meet
ing finally, and the following account furnishes a ,
brief report of their action.
Verily the President must bo weak indeed.
Washington, Sopt. 22.— The meo* tng to organise
tho Democratic Association in opposition t-> the
Know Nothings was held this afternoon at Curuai’s
S loon, agreeablo to adjournment from Wodnea
day night. The hall was crowded to overflowing,
and a largo number wo to collected outside.
Messrs. Florence and Carrigan, ot Philadelphia,
and Stanton, of Kentucky, addressed the mee'.ing.
There was no disturbance beyond tho usual iutor
i rapt ions of such pro j.iacuoue gatherings. The
j theme of each oaker was laudation of tho Demo
cratic party, and bitter denunciation of the Whigs
and Know Nothings.
It wa* apparent from the first that tne audience
was composed of three-fourths opponents to the
stated objects of th meeting, and the fact was do
moustraied when tho regularly organized body
was dissolved, in the forming of a couuter-mootiug
i of those opposed io tho proceedings.
When the meeting dissolved the opposition
moved foi tho stand, and something of a rush
occurred in tho efforts to «eop them eff, on the
part of indiscreet sympathisers. Order was re
stored in n brief spue • oy Postmaster Berret sta
ting that the regular meeting had dissolved, and
there was now an opportunity for those to bo
hoard who dissented from the \ii>ws ot the prece
ding speakers. Ho was greeted with hourly cheers,
and the counter meeting was quiotiy and orderly
organized.
The meeting was addressed by Captain Culler,
ol Kentucky, and Captain Carrington, of Wash
ington, and their remarks were received with much
enthusiasm. There appeared but little diminution
[ iu tho number in tho hall during th 9 procoding
, meeting, and alter voting to adjourn to Tuesday
j evening next, tho vast crowd quietly retired.
On this occasion thore can bo no complaint on
* either side that liberty of speech had boon abridg
> cd iu tho least. As a demonstration, the effjitin
) this quarter of the Democracy versus Know No
) things must be sot down as a complete lailuro, not
) w thstand ug the distinguished talent engaged and
the favorable auspicts which seemed to smile
_ over it.
5 Tho grout number of Government employees
5 present and appointed as officer gave it tho ap
pearance of being an Administration move, and
0 contributed much to defeat, it.
Dr. Hacou.
It affords us sincere pleasure, as it will to overy
gonerous heart, to aunouncc that a privato letter
. from Savannah conveys tho gratifying intelligence
that Dr. Bacon is convalescent. May he long bo
spared to ininistor to the wants of the sick is tho
sincero prayer of every philanthropic heart.
Great Bridge. —The Detroit Inquirer in a no
tice of the Railroad suspension Bridge on tho
j Groat Western road, states that tho work is beiug
• crowded forward lo rupid completion. The wires
• arc all put together, and aro being wound. This
J is tho heavy part of the work, as The bridge por
tion, which is to be suspended, will bo ready by
1 the time tho wire cable is completed. Tho bridge
' is to bo swung twenty feet directly over the pro
* sent carriage bridge, and when complotcd will bo
o ono of tho most magnificent structures in tho woild.
7 It is thought that the cars will cross by tho first of
r December. There aro to bo three different guages.
j That of tho Great Western is five foot six inches;
that ol tho Niagara Falls and Elmira Railroad, in*
1 tersectingthe New York and Erio Road, is six
. feot; and that of the Now York Centra! Road, via
f Lockport and Rochester, to New York, and tho
" Buffalo and Niagara Fulls Road, is four fool ten
j inchos. It is iu contemplation to lay down a track
8 tho same width of tho Great Western Railway,
1 from the Suspension Bridgo to Buffalo, so that
a ears will run from Windsor, opposite to Dotioit,
n directly to Buffalo.
i,
s A Negro man named Henry Massey, was ar
- rested at Harrisburg, Penn., on Saturday, claimed
by Franklin Bright, of Maryland, as a fngitivo
slavo, and on the same evening, ut Philadelphia, a
e hearing was commenced before a Commissioner,
y who adjourned tho case until Monday morning, in
y order to allow the alleged fugitive tune to procure
b counsel. Accordingly, on Monday, the examina
y lion was renewed, when the identity of Iho negro
0 was fully ostablishod. But a question being raised
o by counsel as to whether Henry belonged to Frank
-0 lm Bright or James Bright, a brother of tho claim
ant, a further postponement until Monday next
was grantod, in ordor to afford time lor the pro
q curement of the necessary documents to establish
l an ownership. Tho hearing was conducted with
1 out tho slightest attempt at disorder, low specta
tors being present, and but two negroes among
, the number.
ls On Friday, just as the train of the Merrimac and
e Connecticut Rail Road with tho mails and about
•r twenty passengers, was about to leave Manchester,
i N. H., it w s suddenly stopped by tho sheriff lay
ing an attachment upon the engine oars, to recover
n $ 000 duo the Eastern Railroad. The company
d owe some $50,000, n;.d it is said all the property
h of the road hue been attachod.
r ♦
i Tho BraUloboro’ Eaglo gives an account of a
q mau who lived some time after having his nock
q broken by an enraged stallion. The fracture ot
. tho nock compressed the spinal marrow so violent
ly ae wholly to prevont it from affording any com
) municution between the biniu and the body. Aa
. a consequence tho whole body below tho fraetuio
was paralyzed, deprived alike of sensation and tiro
1 power of motion ; but ho retained the full pc.s*oa
* Bion of his mental faculties and conversed inUlli
• gently.
’ Adoption ov tue Constitution.— It was sixty
seven years on Sunday, tho 17th of September,
1787, that the Constitution of tho Unilok Slates
was completed by the Convention ol Delegates
0 appointed by tho several States “to form a more
y perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic
3 tranquility, provide for t o common defence, pro
, mote tlio general welfare, and secure tho blessings
0 of liborty to ourselves and our posterity Tho
Convention assembled at Philadelphia on tho 14th
( _ day of May, 1787, and concluded its labors on the
17th September, 1787, after a session of four
months and thiee days. Tho Constitution was ro
ported to the Congress of tho Confederation, on
o the day of its final adoption, by Georgo Wash
d ington, President of tho Convention. The Na
1, tional Intolligonoer calls to mind these onu other
r. interesting circumstances oonuected with tho
io adoption of tho Constitution, and of the subsequent
s. amendments lo it by the States, and concludes
ih with tho suggestion :
ut Hardly inst ror, then, in importunco to tho Decla
’s ration of Independence stands in his ! cry the epoch
of the Constitution of the United Statesf and
hence our suggestion that the day of its adoption,
** like the Fourth of July, ought to celebrated as a
ie National Anniversary; since, on that occasion,
was brought about the consolidation of our Union
in which, said the Father of his country most tru
-7~ ly, is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety* and
y perhaps our national existence.
y It is said that Mr. A. Dudley Mann was tho
bearor to Mr. Belmont of instructions to act more
energetically In the case of Capt. Gibson, and also
that orders have boon sent to two vessels of Com.
e Perry f s squadron to romain in the Eastern waters,
to be ready in case tho American Government
c ‘ should determine on reprisals against Netherlands
10 India, for the injuries thore done to Capt. Gibson.
:S Other accounts, however, say that Capt. G. has
boon acting very indiscroot since his return to the
k Hague, and that he lias published in a paper there
)r a violent attack upon tho American Minister, bo
*• cause, it is alleged, he refused to loan him SSOO.
a,
iO New York Post Office.—Tho account of tho
New York Post Office for the fiscal year, ending
80th Juno, 1854, has been renderod to tho Post
D Office Department. It embraced receipts and col
lections for the Post Office Department, disburso
merits and payments into the Treasury, which
amounted to $1,265,445.18. On the 11th inst., N.
o P. Freeman, Esq., tho Cashier of tho New York
’ Post Office, paid a visit to the AudPor’s office,
* when, on final adjustment and comparison of his
c account with that kept at tho Auditor’s Office, a
balanco was found due the Government of $12,-
, 460.77—without tho disagreement of a cent,
u
e There were 273 deaths in Philadelphia last week,
8 of which 20 wore from cholera, and five from yol
-0 low fever.
In Boston there were 83 deaths, of which only
four were from cholera.
t In Baltimore the deaths for the past week num
-1 bored 185, of which 25 were from consumption,
24 from bowol diseases, and 54 wore of children
under ten years of age.
We understand that tho small pox is prevailing
atPortland (Mo.) to a considerable extent. In a
! communication to the Portland Advertiser , it is
j. stated that the whole city is liable to bo swept
away in consequence of the gross carelessness
that seems to exist among the city authorities in
relation to the matter.
James Cooper, United States Senator of Pono
eiyvania, recently sent a challenge to fight a duel
1 with Mr. McMLichael, editor of the Philadelphia
) North American, which the latter, after due con
: aideration, declined to accept. Tho quarrel grew
k out of certain strictures of the editor upon tho |
conduct of the managers of the Eric and Sanbury j
Railroad, of which Mr. Cooper is President, rcia- !
tive to the subscription of the city of Philadelphia J
’ to the stock of the company. William Cost John
son was the bearer of the belligerent missive. By
I this act Mr. Cooper has rendered himself liable to
I a forfeiture of his civil rights.
Good Dividend.—The Union Bank (!ato Bruns
w»ck) bas declared a dividend o? five dollars pei
share for the past six months.
Peruvian El volution. —The rebels have made
ail aDfcu<-ce?sful attempt to cap f urc the Custom
House a* Islay, but were beaten off by government
troops. A battle had also occurred at the bridge of
Ischachuca, where the revolutionists under Cas
tilla, being strongly posted, the government
troops under Col. Salavery vainly attacked them.
Being subsequently rciuforced by the Pr
Exchiuique, with a company of infantry and f>ur
pieces of artillery, the attack was resumed with
no better effect, and the government troipo_re
treated with some loss.
Damages Awakoed in Vikoixia Cocbts— The
‘Winchester Virginian says, iu the Court of Ap
peals the jury awarded Reiglo <IO,OOO damage.-,
who was injured by the upsetting of one of Parish
A Co.’s stages. Parish & Co. took appealed from
the decision of the court below, aud brought it to
the Court of Appeals, which sustained the Circuit
Court, thus imposing upon Parish <X Co. not only
the payment of the original damages, but the coat
of the suit, making in all but little short Os
*II,OOO.
Rn ox vim.k. Afottet/ierd </ the OtoUra.— The
Register of ti c 27thsays: “It affords us sincere
pleasure to bo able to stuto tfcattho health of our
city has grea ly improved within tho last two or
three days. On Saturday, the dated ol our lust is
sue, there was ono death ;on Sunday thore
were three deaths; on Monday one; on Tuesday
ono; on Wednesday ono; ‘•r.d we have heurd of
no deat h yesterday, nor have wo heard of a now case
since Tuesday evening.
“On Tuesday wo had a goutle full of rain, which
continued during tho greater part of day and night
and the atmosphere is now fr*. m fifteen to twenty
degrees eoldorthan previous to that day ; indeed
I it was so cool yesterday as lo render fire necessary.
This change in tho tomperature of the atmos
phere is regardod .a highly favorable to the fi llß i
disappearance of the cholera, and wo ferveutjy
hopo to bo able iu a sow days to announce the
complete restoration of tho health of cur sorely
scourged city.”
Ukaltboi? Ksoxville.—The paragraph in oar
paper ot W ednrvlay m relation to the health of
tho city, -waa prepared on Tuesday wornme Al
ter a had been « to the printer we bewd of
hu . r " Ul ,orm! •*“«» the trow case noticed as
hnv."« recurred °u Monday ui K ht. There wS
also a hath this (Thursday) evening, tho caJo
havmo occurred Wednesday right. These are
l'e or.iy deaths that h .vo otcurroj up to this
evonibg. v. 0 tmdeiMaud tl.ore was another now
, tu '°, ol tr-day, the result 0 f very groat im
pr t.Janco in d ot, ns we are .nformed, a., was tho
case terminating faialiy,
fkh 0 J ,r R laM . 13 ( a0 r, "t 0 Published tho report
ot the Boatd of [.edth, m wliich the opin
, ■oosexproasooihal ‘nh.ro is now no cause for
alarmiii icgard to the prr valence of ohoiora in tho
city.” The corrte nets of thi, opinion has been
; shown by tho sac that there has not been » sin
gle case ot cholera m the city during the last toil
days that has not resulted from the grossest
> lmpludencj in diet. We can net too forcibly im
press up.-n our citinoiiß tne advice, ot the Hoard
. ol Health ill regard lo diet. A reckless dlprcrard
, of this advice, has be, n scon, is sure lo bring
on its own pnniabfu >nt. 6
' Thore has been no cholera, or other biokness
that wo can liohr of, among those who pay proper
attention to their manner of living. Excepting
n coses which are the result of imprudence, Knoxville
is as healthy as it ever wa s end, us stated by the
Board of Health, “those who have gone to the
country need be under no apprehension of
returning.” Gentleman having business in Knox
viho will bo perfectly f-afo in coming hero to
attend to tho same. No one uccd now stay
away from Knoxvillo Iroui a fear of the cholera.
K'MvUle HeguUr, 29(A uU.
iInDiOAL, Aid.—L'rs. Campbell and Caosa, of
fvow Orleans, deputed by tho Howard Associa
tion of that city, accompanied by a number of ex-
poriouced unrsop, arrived ill this city Wednesday
night, 7 I’. M., m, route for S. vunnah, for which I
pdace tlioy '.eft, by tho morning train of Thursday.
During thoir stay hero, they examined several
cases ot follow tovor, and pronounced it tho same
type of diseasethat prevailed : u New Orleans last (
summer. Wo are gri lled lo ioaru that Dr.C'Aup
dell will return lo Augusta, and romuiu during
th l prevalence of he epidemic, to offer whatever
aid ho can for tho relief ot the sick. Tho con
duct ol ruck mon needs no commendation—the *
world can and will propotiy appreciate it.
Wo copy from tho New Orleans Vrtoleoi tho
23d inst., tho following notice:
“Oar benevolent and ever watchful citizens—the ni
Howard Association—are on tho alert, to sue in
what way they may effeot the most good with thoso
princely ro venues which tho American people
have entrusted to their management. Having
known most of tho genliomou personally, and
knowing that our opinion aa to character will be
received with reliance in far distant places—wo
state with pleasure, that tho bonovoicul donors,
of every sect, creed and nationality, have a suffi
cient guarantee in the private, public and official
character of thoso thirty good Samaritans, that
whatsoever means aro entrusted to thorn will bo
judiciously and economically disbursed, and duly
accounted for.
U our object, however, is not barely to bestow
upon tho ixowards the praise duo them; but to
announce that they have been taking active meas
ures to relieve Hie present distress at Savannah,
Augusta and othor places.
“Wo understood yesterday that Dr. S. D. Camp
boll had been engaged by iho Association for n
mission of mercy to Augnata, Ga., and thut ho is
to tako along a number of nurses. Dr. Campbell
has been residing on Dryudee street for some j oars
—a region abounding with very poor people—es
pecially the laboring Irish. Wo watched his
courso throughout tho epidemio, and never know
hiu; to neglect tho poor, who were unablo to pay,
in order to servo the rich. He was very success
ful too, with Romo hopeless oases. Verily tho
young gentleman deserves well of his country.—
Ho is a true sou of the generous old North Slate—
and a well rend atd a skillful practitioner.”
“God speed thee on thy errand!
Thy ra’Vionis divine !
Would that this world of bitterness
liai more each heart* as thine.”
Tue Crops in the United States, according to
tho census of 1850, were as follows, for tho year
1849, since when there has been a large increaso,
from the additional lands placed under cultivation,
ar.d the improvements in agriculture within tho
last five years, viz:
Bushels. Bushels.
Wheat 100,485,944 I Oats 140,684,779
Indian corn 692,071,104 Barley 5,169.014
Rye 14,183,818 j Buck weat 8,036,912
Os potatoes, the quantity produced was as fol
ows:
Bushels.
Irish pota’ces 65,797,596
Bweet potatoes 88,268,143
Total 101,0^6,044
The States producing the largest quantity of
wheat ujo tho following:
Bushels.
Wisconsin 4,236,181
Ki-ntu ky 2,9? 1,652
North Caioli.ia 2,(80,102
i'cnue.'Ree 1,619,866
N.-w Jeisey 1,601,190
lowa 1,580 681
Total 05,630,612
Buhc’s.
Pennsylvania 15,867,091
Ohio 1 ? ,487,852
New York 18,121,49a
Virginia 11,212,610
Illinois 9,414,675
Indiana 6,214,45-'
Michigan 4,925,889
Maryland 4,494,681
Wo tire ifruliliod to lcaru that a Chuinbor of Com
merce fcvd Merchants* Exchange has recently been
established in Nashville upon i\ pcimanont basis.
\V o wish it success.
A letter from Shanghai, under date of June 18,
states that tho Susquehanna would soon sail for
Philadelphia. Thu writer states that the port was
in tho utmost disorder, and was biiffjring nil the
horrors of civil war, and adds:
“ Thero is no tclliug when the present condition
of things will end. The rebels still occupy tho
city, and arj besieged by tho Imperialists. Nearly
every day fights oecur outside of tho wails. Du
ring thot>« engagements it is difficult to prevent
tho contending parties from encroaching upon tho
grounds of the foreign residents. All tho ships
cf war in the harbor, r,a wuil us ouraolvos, have
sent detachments of men to pro: orvo the neutrality
of the place, notwithstanding this, they frequent
ly cross the linos, and expose themsolves to tho
shot jf onr mon. Just be'oro our arrival, a brisk
little pkirmish took place bctwcon tho Pl\ mouth’s
crew and tho Imperialists. About sixty of tho
former, supported by one hundred from the Eng
lish vessel, succeeded in beating off 2,000 China
iron, suffering but trifling loss in killed and
wounded.”
The Iftuasarhasotts Democratic Convention has
| nominated Henry W. Bishop lor Governor. A
loiter from him was road, declining the nomina*
1 tion, and endorsing the Nebraska bill. Tho Con
vention refused to accept his declination.
Tfie passengers by the City cf Phiadelphia are
well, and will be sent to Boston. The steamer will
be a total loes.
David Pingrco, Esq., for along time President
of tho Naumkoag Bank, Salem, Mass., it is said
failed about two years ago for a large sum of mon
ey. Ho then owned a largo amount of property in
that, city, ships at sea, immense timber lands in
Maine, and any amount of wild lands from that
State to tho Mississippi river. He got extension,
bought up his own paper, and his property has
risen so fast on his own hands that it is thought
ho will como out of it with about two millions of
dollars.
Kansas Emigration.— The second party of emi
grants, sent out to Kansas Territory by the Now
England Aid Society, has icached its destination
all in good health and spirits, and pleased with
tho prospects. A ptoam mill was purchased at
Kochcstor, and has been sent out for them. The
third party leave Boston on the 28th instant,
and will be uccomp tnied by Mr. Branscomb, tho
Company’s agent.
Post Offiol DErREnATio.<B.--Tbe editor of the
Trinity (La.) Advocate, who is himself a postmas
ter. says that “post office and mail route robberies
ar3 becoming almost an common as railroad colli
sioup, murders or stoamboat oxplosious.”
lluno.—Kinman, who was roeentiy convicted of
negro stealing in Newberry District, So. Ca., was
executed on Friday ia3t.
A uteam boiler oxplosion took place in the Fac
tory of Hall & Spear, at Manchester, Now Hamp
shire, Tuesday morning. Tho boiler was thrown
200 yards into an adjoining factory, destroying the
ohimney stack. The boiler head was th rown in
in an opposite direction, unroofing and nearly de
stroying the engine house. Loss SB,OOO. hour
men wero injured.
The Supreme Court ofV'ermont, through Chief
Justice Bedfleld, has just given judgment in favor
of the constitutionality of tho prohibitory liquor
law of that Slate, assailed on tho ground of its
submission to tho people.
The Yarmouth (N. 8.) Herald says that within
tne last ton days tho b'ight has committed serious
I ravages on the potato crop in various parts of that
| township.
I By a lot'cr from D. M. Stiver, State Treasurer
'of Wisconsin, we see r hat ho has disposed o* the
whole cf the public school lands of that Slate,
amounting to two hundred thousand acres, to one
individual in Milwaukee.
From a statement famished by the New York
Journal of Commerce, it appears that, sinco the
middlo of Mry last, 12,621 persons have died in
that city, of which number 2,263 were from
cholera, against 5,015 that died from the same
malady during the corresponding period in 1349.
On Tuesday there was issued at tbe State De
partment a passport for Yung Wing, Dsq., who
has just graduated at Tale with the highest honors.
The .Star says Air. Wing is a young Chinese gen
tleman of fine talents and great learning for his
age, and has been eight years among us. Do is
about returning to China, to see his friends, for
the first time. _
The Government, or Navy Department, has de
oidod to award the contract for building three en
gines for the contemplated steam frigates, to
jtessrs. Merrick <k Townes, of the Richmond
Works, Philadelphia, and to the West Point
Works. The remaining throe contracts have not
yet been made.
Prolessor Morse is said to havo discovered the
skcloion of a mastodon near Poughkeepsie, and
is now at work excavating it. It is spoken of as
the most perfect specimen ever yet found. The
bones are partly petrified,