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C|rotticlc # Sentinel. ;
MllllWM* Ct»— *•*«) K»«U»I» Mnmitor.
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The followiii*c paper, r*»-i lmfor* tf»* Hnlah ,
/UO-M tio» for too Advms n(.of S->«nce, by J.
T D»ro»>u »» fhv h,«lul; wr ,
nals itdiird. ten tl» atieuli.m y. !.. -u»eno Mu.- ,
„i*,ippi; hv M: Itofl**. a<opv vw procured and
w«* pabliiue •• in the N. O. Delta I
[A- the drift of tin* i>a)H»r lias nlr.ady lx-en ioj»- (
, out rued in sou* quarter*, one 01 In r.-.narlu by
way of preface and i-iplanation. will not l« out ol
* It if intended t« be. what it ought to be. purely :
»lati*tieal It in not uitanded to »upport, or to op- ,
lew, either slavery in Rouerai, o: any particular ,
torrii of it It. -«,le purpno ato bn*« un
der one view, taeta already well eitalehcd, to plaee
“hem in h«i-al .. queo <l and to .tote the .•.molu
»ione to which, being *•> pla. ed. they Uve enndueteH
AfoVmature iooMderaU-n. I -due. from the ma
terial* before me. and winch I tun ale.ut to lay be
fore you, the conclusion*—
l That, in the present state of the commercial re
lotions of the two oeon trios, tiie cotton planters of
the United State* an- interested to the extent of
about t wo-third* of their exportable produce, in the
mßnOmame of t he cotton maonfaet aroof the United
Kingdom, and—
-11. That, r .-sijn x;ally, the cotton inaunfuiturera
of tii«: United luagdem, and through them, the en
tire population of ti»e Kingdom, are interested to
the extent of about four-- fifth* of the raw material
ot that manufacture, in the exulting arrangement*
for maintaining the cotton culture of the United
State-*
These conclusions are based on the following pro*
positions:
l. That cotton must be grown, almost entirely,
out of Europe, ami wanufaetu ed chiefly in Europe .
and in Europe, chief!;, in Greet Uritain. (See
P *^ e jiltU cottou ha. hitherto been grown, and a*
fat a. vet appear*, mu-t continueto begrowu chiefly
by .lave labor. Seepagol
.l That for Ihe la.t tif.'y year., Great liritam,
.(•eking herauppiy of cotton all over theoarfb, with
a preference during a great part of that period, for
theprodu" of free labor, ha* yet received, during
the whole of that period, and continue* to receive,
nti the cotton *he imports, of the better qualitiea,
and by tar the greater part of all .he import*, in
hulk a. well a. in value, from countries in which it
i. grown by i lave labor. (Seepage 17)
4 i hut cotton is grown in the United State* ex
clusively by slave labor. See page gU.)
That two third* at least of the slave population
ol the United States i* employed in raising cotton
for exportation. (See page 21.)
, That of the cotton thus raised for exportalion,
about two thirds in quantity, anil more than two
thitd. m value, is raised expressly for the Hritish
market, and is regularly imported into and manu
laetured in the United Kingdom. (See page 34.)
; That of the entire quantity o( cot ton imported
into,and manufactured in, the United Kingdom,
nearly four-fifths in quantity, and much more thau
foui tilth* m value, is, on an average of years, ob
tallied from the United States (See page 37.)
The*, proposition* rest upon the follewiiig evi
deuce.
i ms i i-KoPii.trios.
That isitton mu*t be grown, aliruait entirely out of
Europe, and inanulaetured eliietly in Europe, and
in Europe chiefly in Great Kritain.
cottou—riii Locxi.mt'soi it*growth am>
MANU IAI ILK*.
The cotton plant appears to be indigenous be
tween Ihe tropics, wherever certain needful condi
tions of noil and climate are found Ittiourishe* best
neat the sea coast, aud the bent qualities can only lie
produced there. It cannot be grown, to any extent,
within the limit* of Europe
Napoleon I tried in !Htl?,to grow it m * ranee;
hut did not succeed. It lias been grown in the south
of Spain, and is grown iu Italy, but only in quanti
se* UHI small to lie appreciable in commerce.
The raw maleriul, Un-u, inuat. for commercial pur
tioseH, he produced out of Europe. (I.)
Hut it cannot witli one exception to be referred
to presently be manufactured, to meet the present
demand, out of Europe for nowhere else are to be
found Ihe ri qitisile appliances ui capital anil skilled
labor.
In short, nowhere »»u earth doe* there no exist,
not can we, under anything ltk«* existing circum
stances, expert that there will co-exist, on or near
the same spot, the ineaiiH of both railing the raw
material and converting it into manufactured good*.
The extent of the consumption of cotton goods in
the world is, therefore, the meusure of a commerce
between Europe and other parts of the world,
which inuri, with ull it* needful consequences, he
maintained, ho long as that consumption shall go
on.
Now for the exception. It is formed by the exis
tence of the cotton factories in some of the State* of
the American Union. Nearly all these factories are
in the States of north Virginia aud east of the
Ohio More than oiu-tbird in value of the goods
produced, are produced in Massachusetts alone;
and the greatest part of the real in Rhode Island.
New York und Pennsylvania. They evidently de
rive no appreciable advantage from slave labor.—
Nor have they much advantage in the proximity o
tin- raw material. The distance from Charleston,
the nearest ol the great cottou ports to Boston, by
sea, cannot betaken at lews than 1200 miles. The
price of labor (wages; and the price ol capital (in
terest) are both higher in these States than in Great
Britain Hence, Uis apparent why these factories
cannot compete with those ol Britain, except in the
supply of some coarse* lainics for American use—
tabncs in which the freight ol the raw material as an
element of cost, is at a maximum.
The following figures show the extent to which,
notwithstanding these domestic munerfuclures, the
people of the United States consume the cotton
manufactures of Europe ; and the very small extent
to which, notwithstanding theii inter
course with every part of the world, they i-an dis
pose of their own cotton goods iu foreign markets.
ft)
IMPORT* or COT ION M VMF \CTVKfcS INTO THE UNI
- STATUS.
A v enure annual value hi tin* four years, I S|H—’!)—
• »l! ’ ll ;
$19,964,702 C 3,992,940
EXPORT* Ol col ION MANUFACTURES FROM THE
INI I Kl» STMT XS.
Average annual value in the same four years :
s.>,*£>,74" JC 1,131,318
’Hie imports, it should be observed, were made
iu the face of heavy duties, intended to “protect
ihe native manufactures. Whence we may infer
thill, practically speaking, the raw material must
be raised out of Europe, aud inanulaetured in Eu-
rope.
It remain* to indicate the particular localities ap
pat ently most favorable to each process.
As to flu* raw material. Touching the capabili
ties, now or at any past time, of any given locality
to supply cotton, 1 assume that we can have no
titter test than tin* extent to which that locality
does supply, or has supplied it. Rojoureea merely
capable oi development are .not here iu question. It
is the past and the present, not the future —the
actual, not the possible—with which we have here
to deal.
Further, as the present paper lias uo direct refe
em e to tin* sources of supply to which other manu
facturing countries have had access, but only to
those to which we ourselves have had access, we
may safely simplify the application of the test by
applying it from the records of our own trade.—
Nor, as w»* have over since the manufacture as
sumed any importance in Europe, not only been
<he largest consumers of the raw material, but also
tin richest, the most active and the most enter
prising explorers of the districts in which alone it
could oe fouud, is it probable that thus to narrow
the ground of investigation will to any material ex
tent effect the result. The supply—it any such ex
ist not open to hh, is not likely to have yielded
much to anybody. In l<*<~ there were imported
into 41reat Britain 22,600,000 pounds of cotton, ob
tained from the following sources
British West Indies 6,600,000
French and Spanish Colonies. ti,000,000
I Mitch Colonies 1,700,000
Portuguese Co’onies 2,600,000
East India, procured from Ostend 100,000
Smyrna, «»• Turkey 5,700,000
None from the United States.
In the three years 1824-5-6, we imported an an
nual average of 150,605,000 pounds,and this quanti
ty was obtained from the following sources—the im
ports of the three years being reduced to a similar
average for each country :
| uited Statesof America 121,318,000
Brazil 22,600,000
East Indies 17,181.000
Turkey and Egypt 12,220,000
West Indies 11,108,000
All other countries 10,000,000
It should be observed that the imports from Tur
ney ami Egypt, during these three years sustained
a gie&<, but only temporary, increase.
In the three years 1853-4-.'*, tin* total quantity im
ported reached an average of 801,451,W0 pounds,
obtained from the following sources;
The United States 687,410,000
Brazil - 22,821,000
The Mediterranean 28,253,000
East Indies 148,054,000
West Indies 400,000
Other countries 3,602,000
Thus in 1.87 we received uopart of our annual
supply from the United States In 1824-6-0 we re
ceived thence 04 per cent, of all we imported, and in
1853-4-5 this porportion had risen to .7 per cent.—
Whence it may be fairly inferred that the United
Statc-s possess ad vantages in the culture ami expor
tation of ibis article which place them, in this re
spect, tar ahead of all their competitors.
As to tlw manufacture. It has long been, and still
is. a prime object with each of the commercial na
* t ions of Europe, to supply itself from the raw ma
terial with this description of clothing But the fa
ciltlme they possess fordoing this are by no means
equal. Not oue of them can do it with any degree
of completeness, and some of them cannot do it at
all.except by prohibiting the importation of foreign
(chiefly British cotton goods, or levying upon them
liaav y’ duties, to countervail the disadvantages un
der which the home manufacture is carried on. In
those couutnes. however, dear home produce is yet
very generally preferred to cheap foreign.
Toe only country in Europe which can, in any
-eu>o. be said to compete with our own in the supply
of the extra European demand for cotton goods, is
France. And when the character and extent of
this branch of the French export trade is described,
it will be seen that our most formidable rival is not
to be dreaded, though she undoubtedly otters us
something to learn.
The year 1853 was a favorable oue for the French
trade The French official accounts tor that year
show that tl»e quantity of raw cotton imported*ami
retaiued for home consumption was 7.001,000 kilo
grammes, or about 165,000,000 pounds, valued at
125,000,6*0 of francs The average quantity im
i»orud m th* five years 1848-52, Bad boon about
135 millions* of pounds. There was also
imported for French consumption. in 1553, to the
value of 1.400,000 tramps, which was not far from
double the quantity imported on an average of the
live veare, 1848-52. 1 lore, however, we observe
a rate of progression!aoaiceH* greater than might
safely l>e referred to the increasing wants of the
home cusio uers while the im l easing importation
4*f varn seoois to indicate a failure of competitive
power iu the first process of the manufacture. Nor
does an examination of the export trade lead to a
different conclusion
lu 1853. the cotton manufactures of French Pro
duction, exported from France, were valued at
71,1)00,600 francs (£2.870,000). This showed a
slight, but only a slight increase. a* compared with
the average of 1848-52. The cotton vara exported
was valued at v id,ooo fraiics (£343*40).
But before these figure* are passed, os marking
the extent of the export trade, there are one or two
allowances to be made The raw cation was bui
deued with an import duty, and a bounty was al
lowcd on the expo* tat ion of the manufactured goods,
rbe p’xvist effect of the c ounterpoise can only be
estimated somewhat regu! rly.
The French tariff, in 185 J, imjiowd live different
rates of duty on raw cottou imported in French ves
sels. according to w here it came from . and three
oth* r rates of duty, similarly distinguished, on cot
tou imported iu foreign vessels The duty most ex
teusiveiy operative —that on American cotton en
tering m French bottoms—was 20 francs per 100
kilogrammes, or about sixteen shillings per 220
piainds. And as the whole quantity imported.
($75.001,0tt0 ki’ograinmesj yielded to the revenue
17,270,000 francs, giving an average of 22.23 francs
pei 100 kilogrammes, it is probable that by far the
greater part of what was imported actually paid this
rate of duty.
The bounty on exportation was 25 francs per 100
kilogrammes of manufactures or yarn It was al
lowed in 1853 on 7.117,861 kilogrammes of manu
facture, and on 188,604 kilogrammes of yarn. Thi ,
with a moderate allowance for waste "of the raw
material, though called a bounty, could in effect
(1 ) The fact that the cultivation of cottou does f«»r*u
one of the industrial employments of the peasantry in
several suets ou the Southern confines of Europe, com
bined with another fact, that in the assortment of cargos
lor England, made up al -ame of the European ports ou
the Mediterranean, cotton, one of the articles most cer
tain to find a ready sale in this country, is, if found .»n
the spot, very often included, amt thence appears in the
import accounts for the year, published by the Board of
Trade, might, to a superficial observer, aeern u> invali
date this conclusion. But the cotton thus .-hipped from
European ports, eveu in the neighborhood of cotton plan
taliens, i- not often, or any great extent, of European
growth Wesometimes, under siin'lar circumstances,
receive cotton from French j»orts, and even those of
the North of Europe.
(•j.) Revenue Tatile- Hupp to Port XVIII Pp Ob—
■jo.
have been little at all. in-r» than a draw back of
the Import duty. .
It would A.-i-m that tlie Kre»< 1. export.- in Uit*
kind are not mote than d tenth in TUStae of our
"ati.l Where wej*%e. - m ai d why t Th- jarg
t,l cuatotoer for th.*< ft ■ nek manufacture.- taking
two (Mirt* in seven of tin who- \ alue) war A germ
But Algerian. ,in*uiri[ ' " ‘ <teem-d. prac-
crmtumptiwn The two tutomer f
next mi the list when arraaged in order «>f magtii
are the United Shales and tiie U»it<-d King- i
don. Tlicse mokjbet ween thon (wo other seventh
part* of the whole. And tM good* a Id iu the En
gfi» i and American market* are well known to owe
then peculiar value rather to ti..- designer and the
dyer than to the spinner ami weaver. Tueit eon
sumption doe* m t admit of any eery rapid or wide
increase Kreueli ta-t- and i-.■ • mistry have
deservedly won for Erem :. t- f..-. w-heievsr
they are apph-able, n , are .. u-a
it is im-onteslibie Hut 11.: i-a- l;ttl»-efiect iti (,e
--tenniniug the locaiily of Uie cotton manufacture ot
tlie wimlt.
With a few trifling.!.. |- -i.-.0l which cot: ; >u
lace, imported from H igiuin. is the ot.iy one wisrthy
ofnothv., no cotton foreign manufactures were, tu
1853, admitted to French < on.-umptim
Whence the inferei., not without . .ern e
—that of all th<- nation* ol Europe, our own t*.
apart from all artifie a! restricUon*. the best htted
for no carrying on the manufacture of cotton as
to supply the world wide u e it 1. .- now
and tLt the freer the trade Ihe >nve
fall into our land*, and the better. Ui-
and tlie more abundant wdH« th supply to a.l.
< 011011 « top.
We have token np the su:..-tka of Cotton oj
the last six years and give them as ioiiowe :
Tola! receipts “f Cotton at the ports in
IS,t<i ’J exclusive offctock. Sent 1 2^J3J,OIJO
Iteceipt* up to week iu January as
rnaoe up in New Y'ork 1
Qauntity ree d after 3d week in Jun 1^93.(Kt0
Total receipts in 180 l -* 3,018,000
Received up to 3d week iu Jan 1,141,000
(Quantity received after 1,815,000
Total receipts iu 1802-*3... 'ljtiXjM
Received up to 3d w'eck in Jan 1,303,000
(Quantity received aft..*r 1,028,000
Total receipts in 1853-1 2,887,000
Received up to 3d week in Jan 1,030,000
Quantity received after 1,852,000
Total receipts in 1854-’5. 2,784,000
Received up to 3d week in Jan 981,000
Qauntity received afterwards 1,803,000
Total receipts in 1833-’6 3,489,000
Received up U» 3d w eek in Jan 1,626,000
Quantity received afterwards 1,863,000
Quantity received after ihe third week in
J anu&rv 18-31 1,293,000
*‘ ißsg 1,877,000
«* IR',3 1,628,000
1854 1,852,0(H)
ii 1855 1,803,000
“ JBsb 1,8651,000
Total for six years 10,316,000
Average for one year 1,720.000
Receipts this year as per prices current to
Jan 16..... Ip 11,260
Would make a total for 1850-7 of 3,431,260
We do not think it probable that the receipts of
this year will come up to the average indicated,
but even with the lowest receipt ot the last flixyears
henceforward, the present highest CKtiinate would
be reached, say 3,000,000 bales. While, if the lar
gest figures should be touched, to total would be
nearly 3,600,0(H) bales.
The stocks in the interior are considerably larger
than at the same time last year, and the receipts
now pouring into the Gulf ports heavier than ever
before at tlie same period.— Savk. !{*]>.
Weathkr at Wilmini-ton. —The Wilmington
Herald, of Tuesday, has the following weather item.
It almost makes one feel comfortable byway of
contrast :
The snow, yesterday, up at Weldon, w;is some
sixteen inches on a level, and at different points on
the road it lay in drifts four or live feet deep, ren
dering a rapid rate of speed impracticable and pre
cluding the possibility of making connections. —
Owing tojhe unprecedented coldness of Ihejweather,
tanks, pumps, hose and pipes at the depots were
frozen up and unavailable without great trouble
aud delay.
However, the roads Nort li have made no connec
tiou, and, therefore, the detention of the through
mail does not belong to this road.
('apt. Fremont himself went with the train that
left here on Sunday afternoon, and fought his way
up to Weldon. lU* got down last night about 11
o'clock. lie had ft night of it going up.
We noticed ice floating down the river this morn
ing which had formed above we suppose. We nev
er noticed the like before, although we have heard
such things talked about as being not at all unusual
in old times. It is not so cold to day ns it was yes
terday or Sunday.
We got some three or four papers to day. None
North , none from Raleigh or Fayetteville.
IV S. —We since learn that this morning early the
river was actually frozen over from bank to bank,
a thin sheeting ot ice having formed at slack water
from the wharves on this side to those on the oppo
site side. The occurrence is unprecedented, at
least those who have resided here over thirty years,
assure us that they recollect nothing of the kind.—
The ice was a quarter to a half inch thick.
Cold Weather — Snow Storm— We have had
unusually cold weather for the last three weeks, the
thermometer ranging most of the mornings at from
10 to 12 degrees. (hi Saturday last, the cold mode
rated somewhat and considerable rain fell that
night. On Sunday morning the cold become in
tense, and early in the day the snow commenced
falling and continued to fall till late at night. The
snow was fine and dry and was driven by the wind,
which blew a gale all day, into heaps of two feet and
more in depth. Moat of the day the snow in tlu*
air was like a dense fog, rendering invisible all ob
jects at a few feet distant from the (ye. Late on
Sunday night the clouds pased off, and on Monday
morning the sun rose in a cloudless sky. The
thermometer on that morning stood at 9, and did
not fall mneh in tie* saade during the day. Ou
Tuesday morning, the thermometer, in the open
air, was a fraction below zero, the lowest poiut eter
observed here before.
On Monday evening, the river was frozen entire
ly over, a thing almost unheard of by our oldest in
habitant. Tin* ponds—one of them nearly a mile in
extent, are all frozen over.
The day train on Monday morning did not make
its usual trip, nor the mail train in the evening, as
our engines are not provided with snow plows and
scrapers. Yesterday tlu* train went down in the
morning and returned late in the evening without
accident
The intensity of the cold may be inferred from
the fact the that chickens, doves, and other birds
were found frozen.
The Snow and lee had ufforded Young America
an opportunity for the enjoym< ut of sports not com
mon here. Suow bulling, skating, and sleighing have
been the order of the day since Monday morning.
We shall not attempt a description of the various
turnouts which have passed our otliee window.—
Everything that could be made to answer tlu* pur
pose, from a dry goods box, nailed to a couple of
short plank, and drawn by a single donkey, up to a
four in hand team, bedecked with red ribbons and
bearing a brace of large cow bells have passed our
streets, amidst a general shout from the toys. There
was one team consisting of two oxen and one horse
—they called it two bullets and a biagger.
Altogetuer, we can say we have never witnessed
such a time nor such ludicrous scenes of meriment.
The Chcraie Gazette, of Wednesday 21s/ inst.
The Weather—Snow Storm, &c.—On Sun
day last, we had a regular Snow Storm from about
day-light to near night. Although the flakes were
very small, and the depth on the ground would not
average perhaps over two inches. The thermome
ter ran down to 7 above zero. The lowest it has
ever been within the last twenty two years. Feb
ruary sth last year it stood at 9. February sth,
1856, it stood at 6. Severn! of the thermometers in
this plaee stood at fi on Monday morning last.—
Syarta GY»" irian.
Cold Weather.—Tlie Thermometer stood at (»
above zero, at Mi Hedge ville, on Monday last- It
was about the same here, in Mae.oll, ranging from
7to 9, according to situation. At Atlanta on Mon
day morning the thermometer pointed to No. 2
above zero.— Macon Citizen
The Cold We ather.—The first snow of the win
ter appeared on Sunday last, just covering the
ground out of sight. It has been followed by seve
ral days or the coldest weather which has ever oc
curred in this county. On Monday night the Os
tenaula river froze quite over, an event which has
not taken place within twenty-odd years before. A
short distance up tlie stream wcare informed the
ice broke, and piled up into cakes several feet
thick.
Everything that can freeze—ns potatoes, ink. and
so on—ban friz up tight. We have had a regular
time of it making up forms, and getting to press so
as not to miss publication day.
It snowed on Tuesday night, and as we go to
press, there are further indications of more snow.—
Kome Adeerfiser.
The Cold Term. —All our exchanges agree in
representing the preseut as an unusually cold sea
son. At Albany. N. Y., oil the 19th, the thermome
ter stood at 19 and 20 below zero. The Louisville
Join ual of Tuesday says:
The weather was very cold yesterday, but it was
moderating somewhat last night. Our thermome
ter at 8 o'clock yesterday morning stood at 9 below
zero, at 12yesterday 10 above, at 9 last evening
above. The barometer is falling. The ferry-boat
was running again last evening.
Tue Weather.—During a residence of saven
teen years in Florida, we do not recollect of ever
experiencing so cold a “spell ’ of weather as the one
we have just passed through. Saturday last was
quite a warm day—in the evening a slight shower
of rain fell, when the wind chopped round to the
North, blowing a stiff breeze all that night, and in
creasing to nearly a gale the next day. reminding
us more of the bleak winds we were wont to face
on the banks of the St. Lawrence, than of the balmy
breezes of the Apalachicola. We fear it has great
ly injured, if not entirely killed, all the orange trees,
and other shrubbery imiigeneous to this climate.
At the present writing the weather is very moderate
with slight showers. —Apalackaeoi . !<
Tiu Wfa i her.— We are indebted to our friend
W iUard, of Decatur, “clerk of the weather, * for the
folk)wmg information in relation to the weulher •
Atlanta Intel.
“On Monday morning the thermometer stood at
On the 20th January, 1852, it was about the same,
which is as cold as any Weather rime Nil of Feb
ruary, 1535 wheu the thermometer at sunrise stood
10 degrees below zero, as is in the record now be
lore me."
Bvuidf oi a Criminal.— l'he C -' u > M--
M»*ippii Democrat, of the 15th inst . !*• \
youug man, named Henry Weeks, about twenty.
Sour years of age. wa.- condemned by the Circuit
Court of Winston county to be hung lor the murder
of a person named Norris, some time in lss|. L u
April, 1855, Weeks was sent to the jaii at this place
for sate keeping. His case was taken up to the
Supreme Court, and th 30th of tills mouth was"the
day fixed for his execution. Early on Tuesday
morning, wheu his room was opened, he was fouud
weltering iu his own blood, lie had deliberately
cut his own throat with a razor. Two physic aos
were called in, who pronounced the wound mortal.
He is unable to speak or breathe through his mouth,
aud is said to be in a dyiug condition.
Fatai Aeeray.—On Thursday morning last,
says the Camden Journal. Coroner D Hay’ ww call
ed upon to bold an Inquest oxer the body of Chas
T. Evans, who had been shot the night before at the
house of Mary Bowen, about 8 miles from Camden,
by a man named Chericy Boatwright. It appears
that the deceased and several other persons met at
Mrs Bowen's and among the number was Boat
wright. They had beeu drinking aDd dancing, and
when the party broke up and were about separating
a difficulty sprang up between Evans and l>oat
a l ight, which led to harsh words, anti terminated in
the death of Evans. We do uot fed inclined to go
into details, or to comment upon thh> shockin oc
curreuoe. Boatwright has been committed to Jail
to await his trial, and a Jury of the eoanti v , v ill ad
judicate the case.— Carolina Time*.
Main Trunk Railroad Coni are set..— We
understand that the conference between the author
ities of the Brunswick and Florida Railroad and of
the Main Trunk Organization, after two or three con
ferences, here and at Savannah, have not been able
to agree upon any basis, by which the Brunswick
Company will surrender theii chartered right.- to
the Main Trunk Company We are yet in the daik.
however, as to the difficulties iu Lhe way, or the
details of the negotiations had upon the subject.—
Macon Citizen.
Further by (be Persia.
New York, Jan. 23.—The Cotton market, a* the *
f ommencement of the week, showed prices general
ly on eighth penny higher, but since ednesday. the
7th, tin* day on which the Atlantic sailed, a more
quiet feeling prevailed, and quotations were barely
maintained. The sale* of the week amounted to
87,000 bales, of wbioh 19,000 were taken on pecu
lation, and 13,500 for export. The quotations so
middlings remain at the same figures as those men
tioned by the Atlantic s news. The sto< k on band
at Liverpool amounted 4541,000 bales, ot which
<HM) are of American growth.
No change is mentioned as regards terms in •
money market. Consols are quoted at - .*t
Breadstuff?, quiet, with an average busines- i* t
quotable change in prices. Corn—white in rat-nei j
improved demand yellow and mixed quiet . j
Cotton active on Wednesday, and firm at previ
ous quotations,
Money market easier. Conunbj &&*%•
Lofcfiov, Wednesday, 12 M.—Consols are ‘footed |
to-day at 941 , . ,
Ksoi.A Nn.—Lord Napier lias boeaa«>u;uted Mm- j
istor t<i Waatiii«ton- He i* » practiced iJpaimat;.-3.
having tK-rvi-lin that rapacity in Austria, Persia. )
Kussia, Naples and Turkey
Fkakck — l Tlie Arel)bi*bop of Pan* utr been ns :
sassinat'-i The circumstances of tin: bloody deal j
were a* w follow.- • J
Wiilie Archbishop White was officiating ia t
Church of St. Stephens, in Pari?, he was atabbea b* |
:be heart by a discharged priest,_ nßiaed \
Tlie Archbiahop instantly expired. This affair j
caused much excitement.
The Conference at Paris rema. .o obacure. lx ;
Pay* aays the Conference met on the 3d, but t;;e
Moniteur is silent on the sulked. The delay is at
tributed by some to time necessary to prepare, pro
tocols ; aud by others to a new disagreement in ,
the details, but not as to the principle respecting
the compensation to be paid Russia. No appro- J
he us ion is entertained of any ether than a pacific i
result.
Switzerland. —The Swiss difficulty remains as
before, but expectations of a peaceable settlement |
increase.
China. —The London Gazette publishes official
accounts of the hostile operations .against China,
confirming previous details.
Later from Mexico.
The schr. Minna Schiffer, Capt. Blaekpey, from ’ j
Vera Cruz, arrived yesterday. She left that port I (
on the 7th inst., and brings $1(5,705 in specie on l ;
freight.
By this arrival we have Vera Cruz papers to tec j
fithirat, which contain intelligence from the City ■
of Mexico to the 30th ult. j '
The following is all the news of interest we und | ,
in our exchanges:
From Mexico we have the welcome intelligence I
that Don Miguel Lerdo had consented to resume ;
the Ministry of Finance. Notwithstanding this, how- j
ever, the ministerial crisis stiil continued. j
The Monitor, of the 27th ult, has a report that tlx*" :
insurgents, at Ban Luis Potosi, were preparing to •
occupy the road to Parral.' There was a rumor cur- j
rent in the city of Mexico, that much dissatisfaction j
existed among the insurgent troops in consequence ;
of not having received any pay for several days,
aud that the leaders were thinking of risking an ;it- | ;
tack in order to divert the attention of the troops
from their cause of dissatisfaction.
President Comonfort has granted pensions to the
families of the officers and soldiers of the war steam
ship Iturbi e, which was lost on the 20th ult.
Aguas Calientes was visited on the 14th uit., by
a band of two hundred robbers, all armed and moun
ted. The Gov. of the Department marched against
them, but the robbers having already vamosul he
could not find them.
The eondueta from the city of Mexico had partly
arrived at Vera Crux, Up to the 4th inst , forty
five wagons had come in with about $3,000,000. —
Tlie road between Jalapa and Mexico, the drivers of
the wagons declared, was terribly bad.
On the 4th inst., the sum of $1,800,000 in Mexican
coin was shipped on the British mail steamship.—
X. (). Picayune, Jan. 21.
From Florida. —We are indebted to Captain
Surftis, of the Carolina, for Jacksonville and PilTli
ka papers. The Pilatka Democrat of the 22d inst.,
says .*
On Monday morning last we experienced the
coldest weat her that has been known here for many i
years. The thermometer indicated the cold at 16
degrees above zero. We saw ice three inches thick
in a barrel of water. Truly, the North is bearing
upon us.
Orders from Gen. Harney. —We were permit
ted to see orders issued by Gen. Harney and trans
mitted to the commanders of companies. Tlie or
ders were to the effect that each company should en
gage in active duty in scouting the country for 50
miles around their respective stations. If an I ndian
sign was discovered, it should be pursued up to the
capture or extermination of the Indians. Not ice of j
any Indian discovery should be oomraunieated
promptly to head quarters. It is promised that the
soldiers shall be supplied with all the necessary mu
nitiong of war. It is ordered that the frontier settle
ments must be protected from the Indians.
Gen. Harney has a high reputation as an Indian
warrior, but it is all at stake against Bowlegs. The
attention of the country is fixed on Gen. Harney.
Tliejinterests ofSouth-east Florida are suffering from
this war. We heard the opinion expressed by a
gentleman who acquired some reputation as a suc
cessful command erin the last ludian war, that if
Gen. Harney would use the diligence and prudence
which Gapt. Coxeter, or any of our steamboat cap
tains use in navigating their boats that it would he
impossible for an Indian to be at large in Florida in
three months from this day. Said lie, wherever an
Indian can go, a white man can follow. There i*
more apprehension of danger felt than there is any
occasion for. It is true that occasionally the Indians
murder a family which is exposed on the frontier,,
but they do not think it prudent to venture where
there is much danger.— Char. Cour.
Very Probable.—The Louisville Jaunml says
that tlie Albauv Argus, a leading Democratic or
gan in New York, expresses the belief that Mr. Bn
cliannn and the Democratic party arc more anxious
than the Black Republicans that Kansas should
come in as a free State, and that, if r she so comes in
“in spite of I’anybody, 1 ’anybody, it will be “iu spite of the
Republicans. The Boston Post, the leading Demo
cratic organ in Massachusetts, approvingly copies
this remark of the Argus. Here is a pretty prospect
for .Southern Democrats. — Ala. Journal.
One Day Later from California.'—By thcar
1 rival of the steamship Texas wc have the San Fran
cisco Alla California, of I bjceinbcr 21st, being one
day later than we had via Panama. The following
is the only paragraph of interest it contains :
It is said that a party is about ready to leave
here, who will go in a sailing vessel to the head of
tin* Gulf of California, and from there to the vicinity
of the Arizona copper mine, in the Gadsden pur
chase, where they will rendezvous, with the inten
tion of making a descent upon Sonora. Thu osten
sible purpose of the party will be to go to Arizona
to settle, but it is said that they will go well armed
and equipped, and that about five hundred of jthem
will soon leave hero.
Transfer of the Hermit ace to the United
States.—The Legislature of Tennessee, at its last
session, passed an act authorizing the Governor ol
that State to purchase five hundred acres of the
Hermitage, including the mansion of Gen. Jackson
and the tomb where now repose the remains of the
illustrious hero and patriot, aud those of his beloved
wife, and to make a tender of the same to the Gene
ral Government; provided a branch of the Military
Academy should be established at that place. In
pursuance of this act, Governor Johnson purchased
p the Hermitage for the sum of forty-eigl t thousand
‘ dollars, and on Wednesday arrived in Washington
j and made a formal tender of the property, with the
condition annexed, to the President. The Presi
dent, in reply, stated that this offer by the State of
, Tennessee would be promptly communicated by him
to Congress.
Joking by Accident.—Nothing is more amus
ing than to hear people use language which has a
double meaning of which the speaker is unconscious
while everybody else sees the joke as “plain as a
spikestafi’/ Sometimes the “fun of the thing" con
sists in one’s telling, in this way, an unintentional
truth; as when the man who carried round the
contribution box in a church observed to another,
who enquired the amount of liis own contribution
—“Other folks gives what they likes , what J gives
is nothing to nobody V Another instance is that of
1 a gentleman who was boasting of the rapidity with
which he could write verses. “It takes some
people,” said he, “half an hour to make a couplet;
but I write a forty-line poem in twenty minutes,
and make nothing of it!" There was doubtless
more truth than peotry in the confession which af
fords a capital comment on “fast writing." —Boston
Post.
Melancholy Occurrence. —AJ r - Jacob Binder,
of Macon, Georgia, having become a lunatic, a
friend srarted to bring him to our Asylum. On
Wednesday last, wheu the car stopped at Orange
burg Depot, he managed to get out, aud to escape
the vigilance of his attendant. The latter followed
irn from place to place, but could not overtake
im, and on Thursday lie procured the assistance of
everal persons to prosecute the search. After
fracing him for some time by hia tracks, his body
was found, drowned in a mill pond.— South, Caro
linian.
Thf. Congressional Bribery Case.—The mem
ber of the House whom Mr. Paine of North Carolina
c-axges with an attempt to bribe him to support the
Minesota land bill, is said to belong to the New i
York delegation. He alleges an excuse, that :
Mr. Paine misunderstood him! It is to be hoped !
tlie case will be fully investigated, and a beginning I
made iu the expulsion of the swarm of plunderers I
who now infest the halls of Congress. —Alabama
Journal.
If “the swarm of plunderers who infest the Jialls j
of Congress” were expelled there would be no quo
rum in that body, certainly until, the people should (
hold a new election : nor even then, unless they i
should make a decided improvement in tla ir s.lec- j
lions.
Sol THEKsN B.\NKOF GEORGIA,—BrOWnIOW. WRITOS f
the public against the Southern Bank o. f Georgia,
located at Bainbridge, with a branch at Greenville. 1
Tennessee. He says it is a regular wild cat con
cern, aud will cave tn the first time a run ol SIO,AGO 1
is made upon it. As the notes of this Bank are in
circulation here it would be well for all to re 1 use |
them. —Memphis Euquirer.
A Gem. —An eminent modern writer beautiful v ;
says.—“ The foundation of domestic happiness i' j
taith iu woman; the foundation of all political hap
piness is confidence in the integrity of man. and the
foundation of all happiness—temporal and eternal — '
reliance on the goodness of God. - ’
New Steamship Line. — A circular received by
the last steamer informs us that a new steamship i
line has been organized by t e Liverpool and Port -
land Steamship Company, calling at St. John s. N
F. and Halifax, out and home. The steamship Cir- i
casaian, Charles Powell commander, 2400 tons bur
then and 350 borue power, will leave Liverpool for ,
Portland, on the 7th of March next, and will be
succeeded by the Kfcersouese. to sustain a month!}'
communication. — Nrtc York Journal of Com- |
A New Count! .—A public meeting ■:’ diizefis .
from Thomas and Lowndes counties, was held at !
Grooveryille, on the 17th instant, tor the purpose (
of petiiiouing the next Legislature for a new conn- t
ty. to be formed of portions of the above named j
S
Destructive Fire at Lot witii.—On Wed- !
needay night the lower moulding shop of the exten- !
sive :ouudry establishment of Wallace. Lithgow vV
Co., situated on Wutei street below Second, caught
fire trom the cupola of the melting furnace and in a
short time the entiie building was in flames. The
house was a wooden frame, which, together with j
the mouldings, patterns. Ac., all of the same indain
able material, were «oon entirely consumed. The 1
fire next communicated to the two old dilapidated
frame houses of Mr. Mcßuenie. next above the foun
dry, and, these were burnt to the ground. The brick
row belonging to Sam. K. Pagt. on the comer of
Second and Water streets was in danger butsav- :
ed. On the lower side of the foundry was a three :
story row ot bouses, the first occupied as a cooper
shop. This, though in great danger, was also sav
ed.
The loss ot \\ allace, Lithgow «5c Co., by this tire is
not very severe, as the shop consumed was some
distance from their mam foundry buildings and will
cause no interruption whatever to the enterprising
firm in the prosecution of their business. The dam
age by the loss of the building and material will not
exceed $2,000. ail of which ie covered by insurance
in local agencies.
A man, name not given, was dangerously stabbed ‘
- Inring the fire, by some person unkn own.— Xa*t -
cUle Banner.
Philadelphia, Jan. 23.—The argument in the <
trial of Isaac C. Sherlock, for killing Philip S.
Claurgei-for the seduction of his wife, was conclud
ed this evening. The prisoner has the sympathy of
the public on his side, and will probably be acquit
t«*d, though the counsel for tee defence brought in
the plea of inaenity. which, it ia generally believed, !
damaged the cause. The case will go to the jury
to-morrow on the* Judge’s charge.
Richmond lienm.
Wc find in the Dispatch the following items:
Accii ent at thf Black Heath Tits— Fire
| Person* Killed. —A serious accident oocurred at the
Black Heath Pits, in Chesterfield county, on Mon
tv morning last, by which live persons, four blacks
and hne white, lost their lives. The particulars, as
detailed to us by a gentlemen in the neighborhood
are at- follows:
A hour half-poat 7 o’clock Monday morning, toe
i.vemiffl, Mr. Allen, went down the shaft, in compa
ny with three others, iu order to see that the shaft
and pit were in proper condition for the men to work
in and having satisfied himself that they were so.
j the box or rag-- in which he descended was sent up i
; —but in order to test the machinery, which, in ths“
I present state of the weather, was deemed judicious,
a full box was sent np* and down the shaft. Boeing
that everything worked h&nnionaiv, four negro men
i and a white lad were allowed to descend. At this
! time and for some time previously, the Mining
' Agent, Mr. Job Atkins, wa j at the “pit head.’’seeing ,
Ito the safety and due order of every thing. He re-
Trained there until the men had descended about
halfway, when he turned from it, but had hardly
’ done so before it was obvious from the stoppage of
the engine, that something was wrong. It w*as soon
discovered that the cage which contained the men
| had by some means or other, become detached from
* the rope and fallen down the shaft, a distance of
! three hundred feet. Three.of the men were instantly
killed, one survived about ten minutes and the oth
er about thirty minutes, but without betraying any
I consciousness, and consequently without throwing
any light on the cause of the accident
As to what caused the accident it is difficult to
>ay, but one thing seems clear—that by some means
• r>r other a momentary stoppage of the cage in its
j descent must have occurred, which caused a jerk,
1 and which first broke the heavy ring which attached
the cage to the rone. It is possible that one of the
| men might have haa Ills arm out, or the sleeve of his
| coat, or his torch—or it might have been a jerk of the
' engine—but this is mere conjecture. The overseer
j of the pit, who was at the mouth of the shaft, does
I not think there was any stoppage whatever. The
| ring was of very heavy dimenfcions, and would not.
! in spite of the weather, have broken without a sud
den and unusual movement.
The vi Mfe person who lost his life was a lad,
about 13 years of age, boh of Mr. James Pemberton,
who resides near the pits. The negroes were Ben
jamin and Washington, belonging to Mr. Spindle, of
"Caroline county ; Bartley, ownea by Mr. John Far
rar, and John Logan, a free man. ' •
Our informant says that the accident was one not
to be anticipated, and of course not easily guarded
against. He relieves the managers of all blame, as
they had tested the machinery before the men start
ed down the shaft.
From the South. —Our telegraph from Peters
burg announces the arrival there of some two hun
dred passengers by the Southern train. They ar
rived here last night, and, added to the numbers al
ready beleagured here, have nearly filled up our
hotels, which have assumed somewhat the gaiety
aud bustle incident to some fair or great conven
tion.
Cot.d in the Neighborhood.— We learn in dif
ferent localitiei in the neighborhood of this city, ear
ly Friday morning, the thermometer ranged from 18
to 20 degrees below zero.
Burnt to Death. —Two negro children, the
property of Mr Peter Boisseau, were accidently
burnt to death at Battersea, in Diuwiddio county,
last Wednesday.
Charity.— Two hundred and forty families have
been supplied with food aud fuel within the last two
days from the depository established in the West
ward in Petersburg.
Richmond and Petersburg.— The only chance
we have for news now is from Petersburg, and Pe
tersburg’s only chance is Richmond. We call upon
the citizens of Petersburg to be as interesting as
possible,.and we shall endeavor to reciprocate the
compliment. Let us help each other in these hard
limes. V. e have no earthly evidence that there are
ut this moment two other places in the world be
sides Richmond and Petersburg. Let us, therefore,
be kind and affectionate, and kick up as many
rows as possible in each place to entertain one
another
The Weather, Hail*, &c,
Washington, Jan. 23. — N0 trains from Balti
more arrived here last night or this morning. The
laborers employed in cleaning the track left off work
at midnight, and started again at seven o’clock this
morning. The snow must have fallen heavily. No
mails from the South have arrived.
The Baltimore evening train is frozen up at the
Annapolis junction. The train which left Washing
ton at half-past 4 yesterday, arrived back at half
past it this morning.
Last night and this morning were the coldest of
I lie season. The thermometer at 7 this A. M., mark
ed 1 below zero.
The Baltimore train has arrived. The Washing
ton train will start at the usual hour.
Philadelphia, Jan. 23, 11 A. M.—Five mails
from Baltimore arrived here during ihe night. The
New York train of last evening has not yet arrived,
the snow having drifted on the track again. The
II an is burg road is still blocked up, and about a
thousand passengers bound East are detained at
Lancaster and Harrisburg. Some have passed over
the Auburn road to the Reading road and reached
the city by that route.
This morning about daylight the thermometer
ranged from fi to 10 below zero.
Ti. union, Jan. 23. —The train which left New
York yesterday morning, arrived here at 12 o’clock
to day. No trains arrived from Philadelphia this
morning.
Baltimore, Jan. 23.—This is the coldest day of
the season thus far. The thermometer at 7 o'clock,
A. M., marked five degrees below zero.
The train from Philadelphia, started yesterday at
nine o'clock, reached here at eleven o’clock this
Uiiii uing. The Washington train, which left at five
o’clock last evening,has not yet arrived.
White River Junction, Jan. 23—At half-past
eight o'clock this morning, the mercury was twenty
si/. degrees below zero.
The thermometer here, at 5 P. M., registered 26
degrees below zero. The snow drifted last night
very badly. The train from Rouse’s Point, due
here at mum, has not yet arrived. The Northern
train for Boston, yesterday, is in the snow this side
of Conoord.
Montreal, Jan. 28.—The thermometer this
morning registers 28 degrees below zero.
Quebec, Jan. 23.—1 n the upper town, the mer
cury this morning is 30, and in the lower town 21
degrees below zero.
Albany, Jan. 23.—The thermometer in the upper
part of this city at 7 o’clock this morning, registered
twenty six degress below zero; colder than it has
ever been since 1833.
Oswego, Jan. 23. — The weather to-day is colder.
At 8 a. m. the thermometer marked fourteen, and at
11 eight degrees below zero. This evening the cold
is still more intense.
Springfield, Jan. 22—10 P. M.—This has been
the worst day, in many respects, of the season, for
railroads; The trains were frozen up in the drifts,
aud the cold was so intense that their rescue in some
cases was almost impossible. No train has yet ar
rived to-day from Boston or Aibany. Probably one
hundred men on the line of the Western Railroad
have been frost-bitten on their ears, noses, and
hands and feet to-day. The New York train due at
I o’clock arrived at 4, and started for Boston at 5,
with Colonel Benton, who lectured at Amherst last
night.
Jan. 23 —Fire a i Lee, Mass.— At Lee this morn
iiig Eldridge’s block, Webster’s block, the Congre
gational. Church, the Lee Bank, und the dwelling
house of Mr. Porter, were all burnt. The Housa
tonic Hotel is also badly damaged.
Boston, Jan. 23. —The morning train from New
York arrived at 10 o'clock last night, and the after
noon train t'romN. Y. reached Worcester at 11 o’-
clock this morning, and will probably get here about
two. There is considerabie drifting on the road.
At seven o’clock this morning, the standard ther
mometer at Cambridge Observatory exhibited 10
degrees below zero. The ferries are greatly impe
ded, and foot passengers cross from the city to East
Boston with perfect safety.
Providence, Jan. 23.—T0-day has been the
coldest on record for forty years. The thermome
ter this morning ranged from 14 to 20 degrees below
zero in different parts of the city.
Hartford, Jan. 23.—The mercury at 7 o’clock
this A. M. was twenty degrees below zero, and at
II o’clock six below.
Buffalo, Jan. 23.—The boiler at Colliquin &.
Kmgett’s brass foundry exploded this morning, de
molishing the outer building in which it was situa
ted, killing the engineer’s child, dangerously
wounding the mother, and also seriously injuring
the engineer.
Love, Jealousy and Murder. —The murder of
Geo. Gamhart in Gabon, Ohio, by a jealous husband
named Starr, has been published. The Gabon Dem
ocrat, of the 14 th inst., gives the following history
of the affair
A difficulty had existed between Gamhart and a
man by the name of S‘arr, in relation wife
between whom and Garah&rt a warm attachment
existed before her marriage. Several times Starr
had threatened his life, and but a 9hort time before
his death, Gamhart received an annoymous letter
stating that Starr contemplated taking hia life, and,
although he was boarding at the same house with
Starr and on terms of intimacy, he became alarmed
and apph dto his friends for advice. He proposed
leaving but those with whom he counselled rejected
the idea and related the adage that “a barking dog
never bites."
; During Friday the youngsters of Gabon were in
vited to attend a merry-making at the house of Mr.
; 11. Fortaev, about half a mile from town. In the
1 course of the day, young Gamhart asked permission
l of Ins employer, Mr. Stentz to attend, which was
granted, and shortly after o’clock he left the 6tore
1 alone. Starr, who was in the store at the time went
I out a moment afterwards, and started towards the
depot. About fifteen minutes after Garuhart left
j the store, several young gentlemen passed by, en
route tor tuc party, and when opposite the residence
I of Mr. Riblet, they discovered a person lying in the
middle of the wagon track, who they supposed to be
drunk; and, after making several jesting remarks
one. with a lantern in hand, approached to the scan
more closely his features, when judge their horror
and astonishment, they discovered it to be their
! friend. George Garuhart. Immediately upon hear
| ing of the frightful tragedy, the friends of Gamhart
unanimously rested their suspicion upon Starr, and
immediately repaired to his residence for the pur
pose ot arresting him, but he was not to be found.—
Search was immediately instituted but it was una
vailing. Telegraphic communications were then
had with all sections of the country, but as yet his
1 whereabouts has not been discovered.
After Starr left the store it is supposed that he
, proceeded in a roundabout manner, and came upon
his victim in the hollow below the house, aud shot
him in the side.
While our estimable citizen. Mr. Peter Steutz
was a resident of Plymouth, Shelby county, an at
tachment sprang up between his daughter Mary,
I then a more child, and Starr who was a resident of
:ke >ameplace, but quite a youth. Starr proposed
marriage, was accepted, and applied to Mr. Steutz
for his consent to the match. The old gentleman
; refused on at c« ui .i of their extreme youth. Starr
; then proposed to go *o California, and marry on
his return. Mr. Stentz agreed to this, and shortly
afterwards he departed lor the Golden State.
During ms absence, Mr. Steutz moved to Gallon,
aud entered the dry goods business. Young Garn
ffert had iust returned from California, and Mr.
Steutz employed him as a clerk in the store. After
ids engagement as clerk, Garohart boarded at the
l house of his employer, and being thrown constantly
together, an intimacy sprarg up which soon ripened
« into an ardent attachment, and resulted in an en
gagement Mr Stentz observed the drift of matters
j and cautioned his daughter against centering her
affections upon Garuhart while she was engaged to
‘ Starr, but gave her permission to keep his company
» provided she would write to Starr and break the en
gagement . but this she refused to do.
* Last June Starr came home and demanded his
bride. The lady objected to filling the engagement,
he insisted and her parents insisted that she should
not thus trifle w*th him. and being prevailed upon,
they were married in July, and moved immediately
i to Davenport. lowa. After their marriage, Gam
1 hart and Mrs. Starr exchanged likenesses, and kept
up a regular correspondence, she directing her let
l urs to “Geo Sims." Gamhart*s daguerreotype was
found by Starr in his wife's trunk, and sent home.
Later from Nicaragua.
The steamship James Adger. Capt. Murray, ar
rived at New York from San Juan on Saturday
last.
From the Purser’s report, as furnished to the N.
York papers, we extract the following :
The James Adger experienced strong head winds
and heavy sea. almost without intermission, from
San Juan to New York. On the ‘23d. between lat.
37 ana 39, passed through fifty miles of field ice.
The fields were sometimes very- large and thick,
making it necessary to stop the engine, and eventu
ally to allar the course of the steamer.
Cholera had entirely disappeared on the isthmus.
From reliable sources, we learn that Walker is in
better condition than ever, having 1,200 able-bodied
men at Rivas, well supplied with provisions and
ammunition ; while at Point Arenas, is a body of
nearly 300 meu under Col Loughridge. who intend
to attack the Costa Ricaue at Castillo and San Car
los, and re-take the river as soon as be has means of
portal ion. For this he depends upon a steam
er, w hich Mr. Scott expected to have in readiness
by the i7Ch.
El Nicnraguciitfe, Walker’s organ, has been dis I
j continued •
, WEEKLY
(L|n)iiuk & .Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, GA.
W£»N£*!)AY MORNING JAN’Y. 2S. 1850.
Southern Cultivator*
The February number of this popular Agricul
tural Journal has been laid on our table. The in
telligeat reader can form some idea es its merits
from a perusal of the t 110 ving table of contents:
Plantation Economy and Miscellany.—Work
for the Month; A Lecture on Labor: Cotton Spin
ning Plantations -Mr. Henry's Patent Machinery;
Rural Architecture—Ornamental Gardenings. &,e.;
The Art aud Principles of Soap Making; Northern
Cotton and Woolen Fa? lories Agi k allure in Geor
gia—Fair, Ac..- Steeping Seed-. A e.: D von Cow
Kate Kearney,(lllustrated ; i Tne Farmer's Private
Library. Fish Experiment, Ate.; Information want
ed of the China Berry Chinese Sugar Cane; Uhl
Side DiPking: The Chinese Prolific P u—letter
from Co!. Marshall; Thu Moon > luffnonce on man
aud plants. Never give up, Ac., Chinese Sugar Cane
as a Fertilizer; One of the roads to Crime : Peas for
Ilogs, Ac.; Chinese Suga a*, the North: Holton
Thresher and Cleaner; Chinese Prolific Pea—letter
from Ex-Gov. Dr.-w, of Ark.; SteaovPiow; Defend
ing the South; C’ninese Sugar Cane, &i\: Sea ls
andCotton; Sheep in Ohio, Are.
Editorial. —Our B *>k Table, &c.; Answers to
Correspondents, Ate.; Plastic Cotton—Valuable lu
vention . Mustang Wine ; Cotton Packing, Ate.;
Cotton Crop of 1850.
Horticultural Department.—Report of the
Committee Ad Interim t f the Pomological Society
of Georgia ; Low Fruit Trees, Arc .. Pears—Profit
of, Arc.; Farm Gardens; Raising Mushrooms ;
Peach Worm* ; Winter Pears The Fig.
Domestic Ecuuumi , Arc.—A New Mode of Sa
ving Bacon ; Antidote for Poison : To Preserve
Hums ; llow to make Tea Properly ; To Preserve
Citron; Quinces for the Table ; Sealing Wax lor
Cans ; To Keep Flies off Gilding.
Illustration.—Devon Cow Kate Kearney.
The Poor—Charity.
In this extremely severe weather, the necessities
of the poor of the city speak in trumpet tones to the
more fortunate for aid to protect them in this trying
hour. \\ e know too well the generous impulses of
our citizens, not to know that they are ever ready
to respond, promptly and liberally to aid the desti
tute; and we feel that it is only necessary to call
their attention to the tact that there is much desti
tution in the city among the poor. We are assured
from the most reliable source that there are mauy
very many, who are suffering for fuel and the com
mon necessaries of life. This should not ho, and wo
feel confident it will not be so a moment longer than
the benevolent aud philanthropic can find them
out.
We appeal then to the charitable, to come at once
to the rescue, and aid to relieve the sufferings of
these destitute beings—contribute whatever you
can to gladden their hearts and to make their bo
soms swell with emotions of gratitude.
Will not some of the Ladies, who are ever ready
to aid in so good a work, aided by some of the
strongei sex, at once form themselves into a com
mittee and take up a collection fur the benefit of the
poor ? We hope so. If they will, no time should be
lost, or while they aie slumbering upon their luxuri
ous couches, some innocent babe, or promising
youth, or bright eyed little girl, or noble hearted
mother, or stricken father, may fail by the wayside,
the victim of destitution, never again to rise. Come,
then, we invoke you, to the rescue, and let it not be
said of Augusta, that one has ever perished in her
limits for the want of the comforts and common ne
cessaries of life.
Aid to the Pool*.
We feel si acre and heartfelt pleasure in publish
ing the following card from Mayor Evans :
Mayors Office, )
Augusta, Jan. 21th, 1857. )
I have the pleasure to acknowledge, tne receipt
of the following sums for the relief of the indigent
poor of the city, and in their behalf lender sincere
thanks to the liberal donors; and to the hulas who
interested themselves so efficiently in procuring for
them such timely material aid. The wants of all
that have come under my knowledge have been
supplied, aud it is believed that this fund is quite
sufficient for the present emergency.
Amountof contributions made directly tome..* 151,00
Amount collected by the several Committee
of ladies and handed to me 400.50
Amount collected at Constitutionalist office
and handed to me 15.00
Total §500.50
Geo. W. Evans, Mayor C. A.
Hon. IL Si. Hill.
The Sparta Georgian says :—A writer in the
Chronicle 4* Sentinel , over the signature of “Talia
ferro,” proposes the name of B. 11. Hill, Esq., of
Troup, as the Americ n candidate for Governor.
Most heartily do wo endorse it, and we but speak
the sentiments of the party in Hancock and the
whole State, as far as we have heard an expression
of opinion that Mr. liill is the very man for inis po
sition. Uniting a cool head and cultivated mind
with a warm and honest heart, he is eminently
qualified for the high and responsible station of
Chief Magistrate. We are told that Mr. Iii ! l is the
very idol of the community in which he lives, that
he has been pronounced by the Judges of the
Courts in which he pleads, to be the best lawyer of
his age in the State. The recent political campaign
has placed him in the front ranks of the orators and
politicians of the day. Many of his political opponents
even admitting that he has proved himself the victor
in every contest. For a man of his age to have risen
so rapidly in the estimation of the people, with so
much mind to contend with, not to say envy, malice
and political asperity, is proof positive that he is
a great man. Aud for him to have the moral cour
age to brook public opinion in an affair of honor,
and lean to virtue’s side, because his country and
his God demanded it, is the best evidence that he is
a good man, one who fears God and eschews evil.
Such a man is eminently qualified to be the Gover
nor ofa Christian people. Let all who appreciate
true moral worth, combined with intellectual great
ness, respond to the call of Taliaferro.
The Columbus Defalcation.
The Savannah Republican , of Monday, contains
an article in reference to the defalcation of Bicu’d.
Patten , late Agent of the Murine Bank in Columbus,
from which we infer that the defalcation extends to
the enormous sum of three hundred aud fifty thou
sand dollars.
If the defalcation approximates this sum, it de
serves a much harsher name than defalcation —
while it is a severe reflection upon the mother Bunk
at Savannah. For it is very apparent, that if pro
per attention had paid to the business of the
Agent, and the statement of his accounts, he never
could have abstracted such an amount from the cof
fers of the Bank. llow the directory will or can
excuse themselves for such neglect of duty we can
not imagine. It appears to us they are very culpa
ble, or nothing like so extensive a fraud could have
been perpetrated.
Atlanta Election.—The election on Monday
for Mayor and members of Council, resulted in the
triumph of the eutire American ticket by a small
majority.
This must have been a terrible disappointment to
the Democracy if the following statement of the Re
publican, published before the election, is true :
“We had already taken some notice of the efforts
of the State Road Democracy, to control our city
electiou, when we learned that we had exposed blit
half the infamy. The law regulating our city elec
tiou, admits persons who have resided in the county
six months, and are residents of the city, to vote,
Our Democratic friends have? gone to the country
and secured the services of 100 men, to be employed
ten days by the State Road, during which time
they are to reside in the city, and then vote on
Monday next.”
Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad. —
This Road has been completed as far as the east
bank of the Coosa river, und the first trip across
the river was made on Friday, 10th inst., by the
President of the Road aud a number of others. A
cannon was taken up from Selma, and eighty-five
rounds fired, it being eighty-five miles from that
city.
The Florida Indians.—-We learn that the Uni
ted Stateß officers do not yet despair of the peace
able removal of the Seminoles to the West. The
Government, as we learn from the Tampa Peninsu
lar, has consummated arrangements for a party of
Western Seminolee, headed by Jumper, to visit
Florida, and exert themselves to prevail upon Bow,
legs and tribe to remove peaceably.
That paper does not despair of the success of their
mission. A late letter from Tallahassee also ex
presses the hope, though not very confidently, that
the Indian war is at an end.
Artificial Stone.—Anew material, composed
of sand, plaster-of-paris, and blood, reduced with
water to such a consistency as will permit pouring
into moulds of any required form has been patented.
The composition hardens in a very short time, ai d
it is said, increases in firmness and compact texture
until it finally turns into solid stone. Another de
scription of artificial stone is that manufactured of
fine sand, united together with a fluid—silicate of
soda. In consequence of the peculiarly simple com
position of this material, it has been found easy to
manufacture of it porous as well as compact stone,
and also such articles as grindstones and scythe
stones. Ihe purus stones are peculiarly useful, as
they make admirable filters, and by placing a coat
ing of fine pure white sand upon them they can
never be chocked.
Rice in California.—The San Joaquin (Cali
fornia) Republican states that a tract of land con
taining some thirty thousand acres, is being survey
ed with the design of cultivating rice. There is a
company farming in San Francisco and another in
Stockton, for the purpose, whose intention it is to
introduce at an early day, laborers from the rice
fields of China. The San Francisco BuUcUn,
speaking of the subject, says that there are L-dffuu
of acres of wasted laud in California which practical
rice growers assert may be made to yield that grain
abundantly, and the culture of rice may prove to
be in a few years one of the great resources of the
State.
Fires—Two slight fires occurred in Savanah on
Monday night, about 9 o\ 1 ck, one originating in
the store of Messrs. Akin A: Burns, was soon extin
guished. destroying only a few bales of domestics.
The other consumed an old soap factory, the prop
erty of Mr. M. A. llendercon. L very trifling.
Fkeioht for Baltimore.—The Wheeling Ar
gus states that Col. B. F. Kelly, freight agent of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, who has been on
a bumneoo tour Weat. reports that the freight now
waiting for shipment Ea*t. via the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad is perfectly incredible. It will be
sufficient, he says, to keep the road taxed to the
utmost for four months to come.
Fire.—A fire occurred in Tuekegee, Ala., on
Wednesday last, which destroyed a large buffding
occupied as Masonic and Temperance Halls, and
various Law offices. Loas estimated at about
SB6OO. _
Last Thursday, a negro belonging to Mr. Hatch
er, in Laurens county. Gt, cr.nfr- *ed to bis master
that he had, during three days, swq)k>w*d twenty -
/ live gold dollars, which he had -t* leu
We wouhi correct some errors iato TflueH our co
temporary of the Augusta Chronicle-has alien, rela
tive to the Colqmbus Agency of the ll&i is Bank.
The inference from our art icj# that the defefc at ion
extends to the onormon> sum of “threelum lre*: md
fifty thousand dollars, incorrect. Wo l.«r no
doubt, from what we have l)eeu able to learn, llifct
the deficit is large, but until au investigation, now
in progress, shau have been completed, it is im;
sibie to fix it at*any definite sum. We sincerely
hope that it is much smaller than the amount named
by the Chronicle.
We are not the champions of the Bank, nor d >
we profess to be fully posted in their manner of bn
ainess, but we would suggest that the Chronicle
should have waited for the facts before it essayed to
place the Directors iu the wrong. From our know
ledge of the men who have charge of the affairs of
the Bank, we feel well assured that they have exer
cised ordinary care and diligence in the manage
ment of the trust committed to their hands Even
allowing that great losses have been suffered, it
does not necessarily follow that they are at fault.
As regards the “singular correspondence” to
which the Chronicle alluded some days age—if on. ,
cotemporary will read it again, and with greater ,
attention, he will fail to discover any evidence of |
au approval of the course of their Ageut by the i
Board. They do not “regret” his resignation, bqu
that “circumstances” should have ocuurmUol n
character to “render it necessary." At least such
it* our reading of the letter of the Cashier.
Ir. discussing the subject of “Bank Agencies,” ; j
few days ago, we referred to this defalcation anu
spoke of certain developments of “fraud and mis- \
management” on the part of the Agent. This Tan- j
guage was based, not upon mere rumor, but upon
statements generally circulated among our business
men, and purporting to be founded on well ascer
tained facts. These statements, however, were c.i
parley and upon refle tiou, we feel that the imputa
tion o i fraud was hasty, iuasmuch as it was made
before the party implicated had been heard. With
out reference, then, to any opiuiou we may enter
tain iu the matter, we feel bound, as an act of jus
tice, to withdraw all imputations of dishonesty,
leaving th 3 question of fraud to be settled by a full
and impartial exposition of the facts. We do this
of our own seuse of right, and without a require
ment, or even a suggestion from others. We have
had no communication with either the ageut or his
friends. —Sac an nah Repu blica n .
We give the Republican the full benefit of Us
disclaimer, by publishing it entire. In the previous
article on “ Bank Agencies," which was called forth
by recent developements in the Agency of the Ma
ria© Bank at Coiambus, the Republican stated that
the surplus fund of the bank amounted to $360,000 ;
and in the same article referred to the “blowing up 1
of the Columbus agent, by which “ the bank finds
its accumulated profits scattered to the four winds."
Hence our inference , that the defalcation amounted
to the enormous sum of three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, which, we think, was pe fleetly
legitimate. We are glad to learn that the Republi
can now “hopes it is much smaller.”
We took it for granted the Republican was well
posted, and therefore spoke by authority,, iu refe
rence to “the developments with regard to frauds
and mismanagement in the Ageucy at Columbus/’
which it now withdraws, as “hasty ”
Whether the Agent has perpetrated a fraud or
not. We of course do not know; but that the Marine
Bank directory so believe, and they have the evi
dence at their command, is very apparent from the
fact, that they have dishonored and suffered to be
protested the Agent’s draft or drafts, for a very
large amount, (rumor says fifty thousand dollars.)
If these drafts were based upon legitimate transac
tions, which the Bank hostile means of ascertaining,
having the books of the Agency in possession, it
could not excuse itself for dishonoring them. The
Bank would not dare to dishonor the drafts of its
recognised Agent, unless satisfied that a fraud had
beeu committed by him. Again, if the Board of
Directors are not convinced that Mr. Patten has
committed a fraud, he has great and just cause of
complaint agaiust them. He has been publicly
charged with the offence, aud if he is innocent, they
owed it to him, as well as to the Bank and the pub
lic, to have promptly proclaimed his innocence to
the world. So far from doing this, they have not
only not attempted his vindication, but it is upon
their givings out that the charge lias been circula
ted. These tilings speak trumpet tongued against
the Agent.
Wiiether the directory are culpable or not will, of
course, only be known in the sequel. We did not
suppose for a moment, that they had connived at
any misconduct of the agent : but that, they had not
used due diligence in the examination of his office
and accounts' or the defalcation could not possibly
have reached such a large amount without detec
tion. And this wo have no doubt will bo shown to
be the case upon investigation. This, however, is
a matter more immediately between them and the
stockholders. The public, who are not likely to
sustain loss by the Bank, are only concerned to the
extent they are interested in the proper and legiti
mate management of all Banks. To that extent
the directory are amenable to the public.
A few words in conclusion, in reference to
the “singular correspondence’Vwhich the Repub
lican suggests we should road “with greater
attention.” With all due deference to the Republi
can,, we may remark that we read it attentively in
the first instance, and a re-reading has not changed
our opinion. That opinion was not complimentary
to the Cashier, who evidently concealed the truth-
Mr. Patten alledged as lfis reasoon for resigning,
the pressure of his private business. The Cashier,
in reply, expresses his “regret that circumstances
should have occurred to render his resignation ne
cessary.” What circumstances could the public, in
the absence of subsequent developments, suppose
the Cashier referred to, but the pressure of Mr. Pat
ten’s private business ? Will the Republican ex
plain/ {Suppose Mr. Patten had promptly made
arrangements to protect the Bank against loss, could
he not have produced the Cashier’s letter as a good
and sufficient voucher for the faithful discharge of
his duties as agent l Most assuredly he could, and
the world would construe the Cashier's letter as ex
pressing his regret that the private business of Mr.
Patten was so pressing as to deprive the Bank of
his services as ageut. Hence the correspondence
was not only singular, but extraordinary.
We presume, however, in charity to the Cashier,
that he never for a moment imagined that the cor
respondence would be . published. We have no
doubt lie was influenced by the kindest motives,
and a sincere desire to discharge a very unpleasant
duty in the most agreeable way.
Fatal Shooting Affray in Memphis.—Ou the
evening of the 10th inst., a difficulty occurred in the
Metropolitan Restaurant, Memphis, between a
waiter named G. W. Reddick and Capt. Pow
ell, and the former shot the latter with a pistol, in
flicting a wound from the effects of which he died
the next day. The moment the shot was fired it
was returned several times by the Captain’s friends
find Reddick was severely wounded in the thigh.—
Powell was a native of Philadelphia.
Important Suit. —We learn from the Galveston
News that the important 6uit brought by the State
of Texas against the firm of R. *Sc D. G. Mills, was
decided iu the District Court at Galveston, on the
14th inst., the jury bringing in a verdict of guilty,
and assessing the penalty at §IOO,OOO. It appears
the suit was brought by the State to recover penal
ties from the defendants for having, in violation of
the law of Texas, issued drafts to circulate as mo
ney in the State.
Electric Telegraph Apparatus.—Mr. Game
well, of Camden, South Carolina, is the originator of
an apparatus for discharging atmospheric electricity
from telegraph wires. The theory on which this in
strument is constructed, says the Scientific Ameri
can, is based upon the established principle that at
mospheric electricity will leap from one conductor
to another, but that a galvanic* current will not pass
through the smallest space without a continuous
conductor. Mr. G. provides an angular coil of
wire, placed near the telegraph instrument or re
ceiving magnet. The wire composing the coil is
either made tapering and diminishes from the size
of the telegraph wire to a very small diameter, or,
in lieu thereof, the elbows of the coil are made of a
poorer conducting metal than the other portions
This is for the purpose of causing the atmospheric
electricity, when it arrives at the elbows, to leap
from them on to some conducting points of better
metal, which are placed almost in contact with the
elbows. The conducting points are all arranged on
a metallic bar, and this is connected with the earth
by a rod. The apparatus is placed between the end
of the telegraph wire and the telegraph instrument,
so that all electrical currents, in approaching the in
strument, must pass through the elbowed coil. The
conducting points attract off the atmospheric elec
tricity and convey it safely to the earth, while the
galvanic current passes freely to the instrument.
Liberal Donations. —We are informed that
about §3lO have been collected by those who were
engaged in soliciting subscriptions to alleviate the
present distresses oi the suffering poor in our city.
The appeals to the charity of our generous citizens
have been most liberally responded to, and the
amount collected will be speedily disbursed for the
relief of the distressed. One lady, whose generous
acts deserve the highest commendation, contribu
ted the handsome sum of one hundred dollars.—
Theie is ample room for yet more, and we hope
t hose of our citizens who have not beeu called upon
will respond willingly to so worthy a demand up -n
their sympathy.
Savings. —The operatives of the Lowell factories
have over one million of dollars deposited in the
City Institutions for saving in that city. The num
ber of depositors is 4,413, and 1.475 new accounts
have been opened during the year. In January,
1853. the surplus profits then on hand were divided
among the depositors. Eight semi-annual dividends
(includingthe one payable next Saturday) at the
rate of 5 per cent, per annum, have since been paid,
and there is now a surplus profit amounting to § 17 .-
147.7 1; this amount, together with the future earn
ings. will lie divided in January, 1858, among the
persons who shall have beeu depositors for one year
next previous to that time.
Engineer Appointed. —At a meeting of ihe di
rection of the Charleston aud Savannah Railroad
Company, held on Wednesday. 21 instant, Major
Edward Mamgaui.t was appointed Chief Engi
neer of the company in place of T. 1\ Drayton re
ANt • French Fashion.— A Paris correspon
dent of the N. Y'. News says a ringnl r robbery wes
recently committed on one of the French railroads.
T» e foilairing is a synopsis ol the “modus of the
thing—“A stranger enters into a familiar conversa
tion, takes a dram from the cup of hi® driuking flask,
begs pardon for not offering you a horn first, and
turns out another; the cup has a secret compart
ment filled with drugged liquor. Yon dimk and go
to sleep ; the rogue takes your money und goes off
the train at the next station.
A Memphis Forger.—The Memphis papers
contain accounts of Mi. Samuel J. Bunck, former
ly a conductor and attache of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad, but not connected with that
road for some time past. The amount of his for
geries is only between s<3oo and §7OO.
National Academy ok Design.—T. S. Cum
mings, the artist, is engaged writing the history of
the National Academy of Design. Os the twenty
five artists who, in 1825, were the founders ol this
instilution, only five are now living. These are
Moi** , Duraud, lughain, Cumuiiug> and Ebeqg.
liiHtnrd Pollen'.
\W have befrn surprised to sbe in several of our
< xcksngcs, the name of our townsman R. Patten.
l’> (! ite agaul In this city of the Marine Bank)
ifiect t*> as a jgeftiulter tq*Uie Bank. This will;bc
news fco out oiUzens.
li sttch bcrtluteiee. why in it so much bi-ltoi known
ut il cli liu* tii ;i at hotio* ■ Portions of an article
intho tvivdimuh Kepublu tin of Tuesday morning,
hen i ■ . ’liank Agencies, needs esp'anation.
hr.r ii sen., oi honor, business integrity and
capacity no gefit(email stands higher in the estima
tion o1 our business men, than this gentleman.
AVe may nave more to say of the matters of which
the Republican treats, hereafter.— Cohimbn* Sun.
Ot r contemporary oi the S»n is evidently e\-
Uemtiy sensitive about the reputation ofMr. Pat
ie.s, otherwise it couid not elevate itself to such a
efimai oi grandiloquence, about -high sense of hon
or, business integrity aud capacity.’’ This also
’■•funds very lAndsome on paper, but it the ono
fourth that is told of Mr. Patt*k and his ageucy
be true we imagine that business men generally
will not feel \ cry much flattered by the S«'< class
ilic.ition and rath-r equivocal compliment, to their
high sense of honor, business integrity and ca
pacify.
Yve ho- o tin. Republican will make the desired
eiplanat on ai d submit all the facts that can beob
tnii'f.! from the Marine Hank parlor to the public.
It Aii . Patten i- properly classed by the Hun, it is ,
du.- to him that the world should know it.
We sincerely l ope that the Sun may not bo cou
vin od, that defaulter, is altogether too mild a term
to conv -y any Just conception of the sequel to Mr.
I*at i en s Agency.
ItanU of Columbus.
Please inform us in the next issue of the (Jhcvfi
ci, ,y ~(inel if the bills of the Bank of Columbus
are tuken by your City Banks, aud how that iustitu
tiou stands, and oblige, Many Souscbibers.
Iti:marks by the Emtoiv.—Tbe bills ofthe Bank
of Columbus are not received by any of the Banks
of Augusta, either in payment or on deposit. The
standing of the institution at home, aud where tbe
stockholders and directors are known, is, we be
lieve, very fair. We regard it a safe and sound
Bunk now, though past experience teaches a sad
lc- on in reference to Columbus Banking institu
tions. There is not one of the many old Banks of
that place left to toil the story of their swindling
and frauds. The atmosphere of the Bank parlors
of Columbus has t \ ideally beeu Ivery pernicious to
sound, legitimate and honest banking ; whether it
lias become more salubrious, remains to be tested by
this new Bank. I
The worst feature connected with this Bank, that
we have seen, is the signature of the President to a
miserable, dirty, mean-looking shin-plaster draft on
the Eagle Manufacturing Company of Columbus,
which is altered, published and circulated in viola
tion of law. True, ii purports to be issued in Flori
da, but that is a moi\. trick of modern financiers to
avoid prosecution. This is decidedly a bad sign for
a Bunk President and docs not furnish a very high
guarantee that a man who deliberately violates the
laws of the State, to f -ue and circulate a shin-plas
ter, will not violate a Bank Charter whenever his
interests may be subserved thereby. We, how -
ever, have confidence in the Stockholders, many of
whom we know to be men of character and wealth
—and w<j are informed the President possesses ex
tensive means and enjoys a high reputation for in
tegrity and business capacity. His sliin-plaster
connection is, however, a decidedly, bad feature.
II„x Bem. II IlfLi..—The Columbus Ew/uircr
says: We are glad to see that a writer in the Au
gusta Chronicle nominates this able and indefatiga
ble champion of the American party for Governor
of Geo; gia. If there is any man in the State who
has Haim* upon r.he party, Mr. liill is that man ;
and Ids talents and personal character qualify him
for any stmion in its gift. It is yet too early for us
to calculate the chances ofthe success ofthe Ameri
can party in Georgia, next October—perhags ensu
ingpolitical oven!.- may so greatly break iu upon
old parly organisations as to impart quite a differ
ent aspect to the political contest; perhaps we may
byreerui .id hv P o accss iott of thousands of de
ceived .'.ml indignant Buchanan men; perhaps fur
t her weakened by a stampede of the timid and faith
loss. In cither event, we should have fora leader
a man of eliaiactcr'aud ability, and if any party of
any State ever hud a leader in every way worthy
of its entire confidence and enthusiastic support
that party is the American party of Georgia, and
that leader is Bknj. 11. Hill, Esq., of Troupe.
IvU UMovn Xei.ro Market, —The editor of the
Warrenton \Vk who was recently on a visit to
Richmond, wus informed by Messrs. Dickinson,
Him. A Co , auctioneers of that city, that the gross
amount of their sales of negroes last year reached
the enormous sum of two millions ? The entire sales
of ctln-r houses ofa similar kind in Richmond, it is
said, v. ould make tbe amount to go over four mil
lions—and still the business is increasing.
Coal Monopoly.—The poorer classes ofthe citi
zens of Cincinnati are suffering severely from tho
want of fuel, on account of the extortionate rates
demanded by Railroad Companies and other monied
monopolists, who have so advanced tho rates for
oi-al aud wood as to place it beyond the reach of
many to obtain the requisite supplies. Meetir r of
the citizens have been culled, and resolutions pass
ed d niuickih.ry of their speculations in au article
o essential to life and comfort. Measures are be
ing taken to relieve the distresses of tho suffering.
The Oi V ■■ ■> Mre a m ebb—Prom statistics publish
ed, We learn jhol the average time made by the
Collins steamers in their trips to and from Liverpool >
w.-.s twelve days eight hours, and the Cunarders
eleven d:iys three hours, showing that the hitter
were I lie swiftest by one day five hours. In the trips
from Liverpool, the Cunard steamers, on an ave
rage, beat the Collius lino one day and eighteen
hours. The Collins line carried und brought 3,085
passengers, while the Cunard line carried and
brought 5,3? 8. • The total number of passengers who
sailed from and arrived at New York in all Trans
atlantic steamers, last year, was 30,159.
The Ackok.y Borealis and the Telegraph.—
The effect of the aurora on the electric telegraph is
g nerally to increase or diminish the electric current
used m working tim wires. Sometimes it entirely
neutralizes them, so that, in effect, no fluid is dis
coverable in them. The aurora borealis seems to
be composed of a vast mass of electric matter, re
sembling iu every respect that generated by the
electro-galvanic battery. The currents from it
change coming on the wires, and then disappear as
the mass of the aurora rolls from the horizon to the
zenith.
Dr. Rupert Remuk, ofthe University of Berlin
Prussia, noted for his microscopical discoveries, has
lately invented aud applied a new method of intro
ducing constant galvanic currreuts into the nerves
and ov,i U-., of patients, whereby cases of palsy of
every kind, apoplexy, atrophy of the muscles and
of the phial marrow—some of them from ten to
twenty years standing—have been, it is said, en
tirely oil cd in a few minutes. A synopsis of tliis
scientific discovery and its results have beeu trans
mitted by the aulhorAa,this country, and willsoon
be published. '■
Vv.iiti es of old Nepyi ne.— On Long Island,
while the western shore is increasing by deposit aud
drift, the eastern extremity is yielding to the waves-
Many farms, the deeds of which are recorded in the
county Clerk’s ofiice, are-out several miles from the
present shore, deep buried in tbe Atlantic Ocean.
Religious .Statistics. —The Puritan Recorder
suim up the statistics of Evangelical religion iu
the United (States, as follows : Over thirty thousand
working ministers of the gospel, sustained by four
millions of communicants, and heard by sixteen
million of churchrgoing people. Church property,
seventeen millions ; religious contributions, twenty
tour millions of dollars per annum.
I) iTi i or \ Clergy man.—The Rev. Charles S
Walker, of the Ssouth Carolina Conference, Spar
tanburg Circuit, died in Spartanburg, S. C\, on
Sunday la«t. He war a brother of R. D. Walker,
Esq., of S avannah, and has numerous friends and
acquaintances in the Methodist connection in Geor
gia.
City Mortality.—The number of interments
d..ring the year 18qC in the four principle cities of
ri Extern Slates was quite large, amounting to
13,13 J, divided as followsl‘.’,ofio in Philadelphia
91,495 in Xew York; 5,(5 7 in Baltimore and 1,170 iu
Boston. Iu the four cities 21,707 children under five
years of age perished during the year.
Ice —The River, opposite the city, this morning
was tilled wish masses of floatingice, many of them
very huge and about half an inch iu thickness, itidi
. ug that the river above here had been complete,
iy frozen over, which lias not occurred since the
memorable coid spell of February, 1835.
Longevity.—Two persons died in Charleston
last week, who are reported to have been each be
tween 100 and 110 years old.
The Fifth A. en ue Theatrical Debutante.
—Jt vAuns that Mrs. McMahon, of Madison Ave
i. ~ Few York, the fair and aristocratic aspirant
for histrionic honors, is not d’ucouragtd by the ali
gn .ant criticisms of the Buffalo editors and her un
appreciative reception by Buffalo audiences, but is
etermined to try again. According to the Xew
York fie. aid, she has ’ taken Burton's old bijou
theatre, in Chambers street, for one month, paying
five hundred dollars rent for the- first week, and
three huudred for each week succeeding, which we
consider preLty good—for Burton. She has en--
_aged a number of the first artists now in the mar
ket, and is rapidly filling up her company with the
b i talent llmt can be had. She has engaged a
prompter who has very superior talent for his post,
and a ireaeurcr who has two in valuable and very
scarce articles—honesty and integrity. The fair
j: ~../. will appear first in Juliet or Bianca it is
not yet definitely settled which :
In her farewell -pecch, at Buffalo, Mrs. McMahon
paid her Western aud Eastern friends the following
compliments:
■ 1 tin well sw are, ladies and gentlemen, that the
style of acting liked in the Western cities Is quite
different fr- .: that which the i astern and Southern
;ud ace admire you like mouthing aud couveu
liolviities; iu a word, the more noise your actor
makes, the better you are pleased; hence you are
ii, capable of appreciating artistic performances, and
i was ..ware of this previous to my Cimiug among
you < ensequently. I came, not to be appreciated,
ue. if I had desired that, I should have remained at
Louie in Xew York, where I had friends not defi
cient in quantity or quality.”
Me achi- asi> Charleston Railroad. —The
Corinthian rilku of January lMtbsays: “Mr. Arms,
the chief engineer anil superintendent of tbe Mem
phis As Ciia; leston Railroad, Avho hus been in our
our town this week, informs us that the connection
will ccriaudy be made by the middle of March or
the fii-st of April. This is much sooner than was an
ticipated by many .but Mr. Arms speaks witli a full
knowledge of the ,übiect and know s what lie says
to be eyoiid,itU contingencies ’
Xr V Turk. Jan. J3.~ Flour (hooping , sales of
<♦»*.. „. Jo ! « 55. Wlical buoyant, white
•HI K- re a unchanged Corn nominal with a
downward tendency. -
' Fu -~77 t \. Sar'^T
|* K - Bdit H: tJ u the CY Option which was re
cently heldi |onr cU; . : ,r. thepv i >se oftidriag
itiut* vstpy t» .nm ', , u
Railroad, whU 1 hould < iHthe city of AwgtMla
with ti e c ity . t Mucoi follow in# re* dm,
ainorg other
J{c* yfred, That the Ma_ . and Council ot ibccity
o(*Augu*»fif Ik* ami fncyjaro hweby respectfully re
quested. to cause expei iu.entidsurveys ot the seve
ral routes of a Railroad from the city of Augusta
to the city OX Mavuu, wiacu nave been proposed by
the mpmner? of this the sum several
surveys to eommeuce at such points below and
above Camak. as may be designated by the friends
ot each route (the route ilium Wancutou or Laiaak
having been already surveyed' whenever there
shall be a sufficient fund raised and put at Hie dis
posai of said City Council to defray the expense of
the same, by the trieuds of those several contem
plated routes ; aud that us soon as these several
surveys shall have beou made, and lor which pur
pose time shall be allowed until the thud Tuesday j
m April next, the Chairman of this Convention is
requested to call a meeting hi the city of Augusta
of all parties interested.
It is manifest from the above resolution, that there
wasaomo disagreement among the delegates in re
gard to the alignment of. the contemplated Road- j
From the proceedings of pnuyyy as pub
lished in the papers prior to iho asoombiio of the |
Convention, it was expected that *neh w. mid be !
the case, if admission to scats sTtonld f>e g -aided lo
all the delegates that- were appointed. * TLie Cou
vention v > ; s called by Hi • friends of the “ W;uivit- j
ton and Maceu Railroad.” Uepre?eufati\ lof no «
other Road, or cuiitempmted Road. hostib* to this j
enterprise, h.ul auy right to bo present, and p utioi- |
pate in its deliberations.. Yet it is evident, from
the above resolution, l-uul sucii were not only ad
mitted, but that their influence was felt to suoh a
degree, us to deior.t to some oxUnt, tho original in
tention of the in cimg. ji w they succeeded in
obtaining souls is not inode public, it has be- n
rumored that in the opening pf the Convention, it
was proposed to receive'tin m ihivuji eourb sy, but
upon one of the int erlopers bee dining indignant at
this suggestion, they were admitted into full Ulmv
ship, with all the privilege s of Ihe Convention
Howmuclisoever the wants of harmony in the Con
vention, on account of the discordant elemtHits, is
to be regretted, it is not my , Hec 1 at this time to
deal in censure. Being ail advocate of the "War
rentou and Macon Railroad,” L desire to invent a
few facts aud arguments in its favor, to t he conside
ration of the people of Warren county. Inis would
be unnecessary, if other routes were in.>l spoken of
and authorized to be surveyed. Everybody is in
favor of connecting Macou with Augu. ;a. finly
one Road is desired, or will be built, for! his pur
pose. How much concern others may fuel in re
ference tt> the location! of this lioad, there r none,
in my opinion, so deeply and vitally interested in
this matter as Warren -county. Noi a few indi
viduals in the county, bnt tW imri \ Tiiei e is not
a man wilhin her limits, who isfiot devoid of county
pride, but what shoulj be wide awake upon this
subject.
j will say mailing .about the "Ifoible V\ -*llri’
route. Ido not think that "th er eis any placability
of that ever being surveyed, much less of a con
struction ul a Ruud to tliai point. But the friends
of the lower or ‘‘Hearing” route, if not mpmrou.:,
are active ami zbalous, and, as has already been
seen, are not without inllu nec, 1 know nothing of
the arguments employed by thorn in advocacy of
this route, besides those winch have been given to
the public through fin* p The resolution^
adopted by them in their previous to the
Convention in Augusta, embraced those arguments,
and, with the exemption of tfiopo which apply to the
Warrenton, equally with tin* 1) a lug route, 1 recol
lect only three. The first of tho;;e is, llmt there is
an abundance of pine timber in tho seoth-u of
country through which the Road would pass; the
second is. that the value of real estate in its vicinity
would be enhanced ; and the third aud luejt, that
they will try to obtain the right of way. From the
manner in which these arguments have been put.
forth, one may reasonably suppose that they are
considered as superlative and convincing, sufficient
to induce the investment of capital to an extent, to
secure for themselves ami their po W-ri y.ail lli ad
vantages and convenience of a Railroad. .4 ,
weak and futile aa tiny are, I have i.<» fault o find
with them, for they have baen r. lu< *d, Imi no
better could be given. Nothing is said ab->ul the
probabilities of the bn inessofth Road being en
larged, so aa’to warrant the utiditiojuihnifcL'iv, which
would be necessary for the extent ion . As that
route ha : never been surveyed no orie can tell at
what point the Dcarii g route v.-uyld cr- . s the Oge
chee river. It is thought Hit it would not lie far
from the place where Bonner crossed in his survey.
Ifthisbeso, the cost ‘from the river to D earing
would be about double what ;{ Would bo to Wai
renton. The former distance Is a .out twice the lat
ter, the character of the'country is very near tho
same, whilst an evpur.sive bridge, on t.lio lower
road, would have to be built across Sweet-water
Creek. All that could be reasonably calculated up
on, as to an increase of business on account of the
extension, would be a few more bales of notion, ami
a few more passengers, (farmers going to market to
sell their produce) during the winter months. Du
ring the summer, in all probability, the blininesn
would not be so great as it would if (he roadshould
have its terminus at Warrantor). If I am correct
in what I have stated, not another w< r<l would he
necessary in order to ensure the election of the
Warrenton route. Yet there arc other consider#
lions of infinitely more importance than anything
to which 1 have alluded. Ii this lower Road should
be built, the consequences would bo disastrous to your
county town. From a thriving -and beautiful vil
lage, sounding with the hum d stir of business, it
would eoon become entirely changed from its pre
sent character.
At this time Warren ton bo* tij of a larger amount
of mercantile business t han any village of its size
in the Slat- . Since tho lire, no expeu o ha» been
spared in the 'coiLstructfou < f sf6re-hoßscs hud
dwellings. Anew Court house has not long been
completed, which has no au,p rior, and hut lew
equals anywhere! These tasteful and substantial
buildings have all been con.-U acted with consider
able outlay, and they stand as an evidence and a
monument of the thrift aud munifiei nee of the vil
lage and the county. Wi 1 you remain idle aud in
different whilst the friends of l! “ Hearing Road”
are active and vigilant, and mai iuilliug every
energy in aid of that enter'prize?. A work, in
which if they succeed, will completely prostrate the
business of Warrenton, and depreciate to an un
known extent the value of l: r.I ( State, Grass would
grow in the streets, and those elegant structures
which have so recently bee" erected, and which
beautify aud adorn' so much y our county town, of
which you should be proud, will be decei t* d. War
renton will not be the only sufferer. All those who
own real estate in its vicinity mo t be f i .o» dip the
same category. The value of their property b iug
enhanced on account of its proximity to Warrenton,
it will certainly be depreciated as the village de
creases in importance. The Georgia railroad will
also be injured. Tin* branch from War'renton to
Camnk .would in a slant time be abandoned—its
business would not wn-runt (lie exp. n o of equip"
meet, and repairs. This w**uld be another severe
blow to the town. Y»»u may think I hat I am coler
ing the pic.lure tec high, but reffeefr sefToifsly upon
this matter, aj d you will find,that I am right. War
renton, with arauroed on each aide, bringing the
people in all parte ot the country in proximity with
Augusta, would suffer, --md suffer f.q o inc.doulablo .
extent. Thousands and ten.,«i thousands of dollars
which are now paid for goods in the former, would
certainly go to the latter place.
If the Warrenton and Macon load idiouid j>e built
all the purposed of a connection bet ween Augusta
and Macon would be answered It would add to
the thrift arid prosperity of Wnrn nton, inoreaec its
business and enlarge its limits, without injuring any
body. The advantages and convefficacies of the
road would be the same to the uppei and lower part
of the country. It is unnecessary for me to dilate
upon this subject, as the benefit which would re
suit readily suggest, them -Ives to every f fleeting
mind. All win. fee! an inter** Un t vell/m; and
prosperity of their county town should be np and
doing. The welfare and proFp rity of V* air* uton is
indissolubly connected with the prosperity ot the
county. Injure the one and you injure' (!•<• other.
It is not essential that you should f t bicrilfor
stock, although this should be <!**n*: by all whose
means will justify it. _ _ Sanum.
For the Chronicle 4* iScuUnv.L
Mule Road Depot at Cliailunooaa.
Mu. Ejjitok.—A good deal has been said about
the falling of the walls of the Depot Building :n pro
cess ©l construction at Chattaaoggu. bpon emiuiry
as to the cause cl the accident, it was replied by
those interested that a violent wir blew th'o v/alls
down before they were Completed. Tina was an
extraordinary wind. As the watte, fell inward, the
wind must have blown tw . ways at once. TTow
could tins be? •Porlmps If w/;s a Kansa.i wind,
which is said sometimes to blo w Koi th au4 South
at the same time.
Other persons, however, think that iherc was
nothing extraordinary in the wind. But the De
pot, according to them, was budiy situated—they
say that the foundation wan originally bad—that
the walls were placed across a holluw, down which a
large quantity of water occasionally runs, and that
no outlet was made for this water —that it made
worse the originally bad toundation—that the out
side ot the foundation walls was built of large rocks
and the inside of smell ones, so as to bear pressure
unequally, and that the parties concerned were
warned that the Walls would soon fall and would
fall inwardly— in short, that it was a Job carelessly
devised, carelessly supervised, and carelessly ex
ecuted. It is proper to acquit tho present Superin
tendent and Engineer of the Road of any *hare in
this accident. From the way in which they are
having their work done, it is not to be expected
that they will be compelled to invoke the assittunce
of the windu of Kanssi. i •
For Ike Chromde 4' SenU wl.
The tin ID to \\ i«hin«io»i.
WasiiivgtoJ, Tho. i\ y 807.
Ml'.. Kdi i j—Kor theVt -r tw;. i U*ink
your paper hap come i< gu!itfly, aU/iU one out oi
three maiie, whieii wabout a* weil fwioulil heex
pecteil considering the pirciuni'Uii''' * ; tut for the
last teo cluys but lialfof ,'our (iuil.. b.u hceu )
larly received.
lean hardly hope l-.r iny iinproyMnerd mul-bs
iu one particular. I think quite ludf ot our Satur
day mails from Augu ta have tai! d, at letwt ao t«r
as your daily is concerned ; but now it seems we
need expect no paper Saturday »%«. > h “' rc
iniasedmy paper for fie J. wo last Saturday 1 "•
Now the humble petition 1 have to 1 rake >•
powers at fault U, if they are determ.ded that we
shall have your paper only scmi occmioually, that
they will rend Hon Saturday and g.v • - more
failures the balance of the week • fee n wtti -be well
understood that as we I.avon-* mail-on Sunday, we
feel the failure on Saturday mw tlfrm- any other
day.
Our mail usually comes roguiarlyHorn all direc
tions except Augusta. Even the Savannah mail
which comes to us byway **l
A SUB*CRIi»EK.
7’ * - the Chronicle t\- Smtiwl.
of (Jin,
Mf^Euiiou: —Allow umj to say a few words ill
> ’T- 1° th- ;u tklo hi your paper of yesterday over
th«'signature of “A Consumer,” who sets out with
■ tho v uppoailion that tho good people of Augusta are
paying higher lor (las than any one else in the Uu
ion* II would seem that the writer is not aware of
I ut* ftdotiw value of th c Urmia (ins mode here,aud
( l> f that made in other places where Coal is used in
its numutacture. And yet, I believe that there is
notl uig better established aud recognized by writ
ten authorities, as well as by practical men, than
the mot that the Gas made from Rosin is (leaving
cut uuiinportaut fractions) about twice as luminous
as that made from Coal —or, in other words, that
om cubic foot of Rosin Gas will yield as much light
as two cubic teet of Coal Gas, aud, consequently
that it the consumers wishes a given quantity of
light, he will haA e burn twice as much of the one
as of the other kind of Gas.
1 lie cost of making Gas from Rosin is so much
gre ter than its generation from Coal, that Coal is
used wherever it can be bought for a reasonable
I pin > , and Rosin only where the transportation of
Co: makes this too expensive. But, while Compa
i i ’• ud it to their advantage to use Coal, there is
1 bu* ittle doubt iu the mind of practical men that
i lx u Gasis tho cheapest to the consnmer, as long
| as l doe's not pay more than twice as much for it
j ilia (he Coal Gas would coal him. In Augusta*
j c ni l 'miners are charged $7 per thousand cubic foot
J f.>r ‘"sin Gas, of tin* best quality that can be made
1 by killful manipulation. This is believed to bethe
< h:u go tor Rosin Gas wherever it has been used in
our country, with but only few exceptions; one of
iln exceptions is ii neighboring city, where, un
di r mw misapprehension, the price was reduced
from to £•>, a lew months ago. lam now credi
biy informed that the company will have either to
forego any dividend hereafter, or logo to making
GSa ’fa cheaper quality. In nearly every city oi
the Union having less than 50,000 inhabitants, tin*
charge for Coal Gas is about five dollars, which is
oq wd to about ten dollars for Rosin Gas. We there
for* , in Augusta, actually pay less for Gas than it
cost* in other cities of equal size.
\\ dig regard to a reduction of price said to have
been contemplated by the Augusta Company, I
may he permitted to say that I believe such to have
bc»*ii and to be still the earnest desire of the stock
holders, whenever it eouldbe done with propriety
Invi stigationa have been diligently made in relatiou
1 to the various modes proposed for cheapening the
| production of gas, and they have in every instance
I piY*Y ,v n that it is to the interest, of consumers to have
>d rather than cheap gas, inasmuch as their bills
I fi v the cheap article are always larger than they are
foi I bust quality. There is, at (his very time,
qi uu ( AcUemeut iu -New York, and also in one
of mallei cities oft he North, because of the in
ci '.ru-d bills the consumersha\ oto pay since the
pi l■. adiuvo been reduced. Tins cheaper the quali
t v *»f'llie gas, tho larger urns! the consumption be
\\ . do* s n*»l know thui it is cheaper to burn good
tl*'** bad candle*, notwithstfiiulingthe diflerence oi
c A ! The same rule holds good with regard, to
gas. If you use coal gas, or gas of any other interior
kid, you mu.it iueicUbc th«( size of your burners,
& ! therefore consume a nnu li larger quantity
T« e c<» ! ot gas to the city is, I believe, less he»w
than in most of other small places, and, if I be correct
1,) informed, the camphene used in Home of our street
lamps costs us about eight hundred dollars per an
mi.n more than we would have to pay if they w'ere
supplied with gas, to smvnothing of the difference
in M. * fight. With regard to tin* bills of private con-
Ur iel's, these may, of course, be made large or
small, according lo the quantity used, which is at
the option of the party. There arc not many fmni
li* s who would desire more than Iwo sperm candles
for ordinary social conversation , but because they
<mif get more light by turning the gas key, many
ar iffy satisfied with even one burner, which gives
a light, equal to five sperm candles. Many of our
shop ,in wliioh the proprietors were satisfied with
a br riit light at their writing desk, have now light
enough to read in any part of the establishment.
Pari os cannot, under such circumstances, expect
ti < Ir light to ( ri them less than it did formerly
V. ti consumers wall recollect (and impress it upon
iln.-ii faraikes ami clerks) that they are burning mo
ney win n lh* y bum gas, their bills will he smaller
r i .io collection of dues monthly instead of quarterly,
a ; u is formerly done, lias already had the effect of
hi* uingvery materially the amount of consump
tin. for with a largo increase of consumers during,
th • * .it yearlhe aggregate consumption has been*
curs durably diminished. Now, in it just, is it fair,
that ilie Company should bo censured for having
larger bills to collect, when the size of the bill is en
tirely under the control of the consumer? But, I
r* peat, tlm bills have been smaller during the past
than previous years, and it is to be hoped that con
sum rs will learn to graduate their consumption of
thi as they do that of other luxuries, to their circum
s( unces.
WI on the subject of introducing Gas into our city
v. as agitated, it was with great difficulty that sub
scribers enough could be obtained, in addition to
the foreign capital pledged, to accomplish the work.
The; e who took stock, took it with the risks atten
dant upon all new projects. If the undertaking had
proved unsuccessful, as has been the case with too
many others, would tho outsiders have come to
Lh ii relief ? And yet, because they have been eu
aided by judicious management to make dividends
m no of those who have been enjoying the udvantu
g* i and luxury of gas-light, without having risked a
cent in the enterprise, are among the first to raise
th«’ -ry of imposition! I leave it to the candid and
ui. issetl reader to determine the equity cf the
ci. .f. Otttzfn.
Augusta, .Jan.tif.
[COWMINICATKD.)
Tlio Ocoee ll:nth of Tenneoen.
tidi-torn Chronicle 4’ Sentinel: —l have observ.
• •'I. W vouv issue of the 21 st, your remarks upou tlue
published statement of the condit ion of this Bank on
1 lie first of the present, month. 1 know you too well
to think you would discredit the notes of Bunks you
believed to be good, and doing a legitimate, sale
Banking business, :uid yet the conclusions to which
you have arrived, in reference to the Ocoee Bank,
I cannot think fairly deductible from the facts. If
the oldest and bout Banks of our State keep in their
vaults at home, and subject to draft abroad, an
amount of specie assets, sufficient to redeem their
whole circulation at any and all times, then clearly
the < )coee Bank ought, but if they do not (as long
experience teaches is wholly unnecessary) why
should it be expected of the Ocoee Bunk 7 If tho
bills und notes discounted by this Bank, amounting
to three hundred and thirty-one thousand two bun
dred and eleven 28*100 dollars, are good, solvent pa
pei and we have no reason to doubt it—there is
not .t more solvent Bank iu Tennessee or Georgia,
in my opinion. J have heard several Bank men, as
w e c all them, speak of the statement of the Ocoee
Bank as a good one ; and although you have ren
dered much valuable service in holding up in a pro
r ;i light “Wild Cat” Banks, yet, in this instance,
I think you have done a solvent Bank injustice in
cia? dug it with “East Tennessee,” and some of our
own State s irresponsible corporations. The officers
aud stockholders of this Bank, though few in num
Li . are gentlemen high standing foi respecta
biiily and wealth ; and as my name has been refer
red to, i feel called upon to say this much.
Respectfully, W. TT. Stark.
For /hr Chronicle. 4* Sentinel.
fat* Alanul'melory.
In accordance with a previous intimation, 1 will
cad the attention of your readers to the Car Manu
tin tory of Mr. Win hi. llTght. ft is situated uu
the track of the Georgia Railroad. His yard
large and commodious, and the buildings are new,
an*l built expressly for the Lusiueas. The machiue
ry in operated by ft fine specimen of a llorrizonta|
Engine, and wriuit i \- ry rare, it has poppet valves,
oparuted by amw device. From a brief examina
tion oi its motions, I was pleased with its perform
ance. Our Engine builders would do well to see
this Engine.
Mr. I light has been building some superior freight
ears for ihe Charleston & Memphis Road. I no
tic* d that each car was supplied with breaks. In
(•or sequence of the January settlements and divi
dends, his yard is, at present, not very full of work,
but he is prepared to do a large business; and as
he is par t owucr in the American Iron Works, his
facilities for making cars must be inferior to none
i , th** eountiy. We trust he will receive the pat*
rmiage he so well deserves. For when in full ope
ration he gfves employment to n largo number of
the right sort of mechanics, and thus creates tax
, payers, and helps to sustain and build up the bite*,
l* ‘V of the city. 8—
For Ike Chromrle S? Sentinel.
>: j Em tor :—ln your issue of the Mtii instant,
xvr notice a weU written and well timed article,
| over the signature of Taliaferro, suggesting th
j no) e ufHou. B. If Hill, of La Grange, “os the nox*
Am ricnii candidate for Governor.' 1 We speak
advisedly when we assure you, that we know of no
m&jt/Mi the American party that would br better re
ceu ed iu Cherokee Georgia than Mr. Hill. Talia
fen.) saya: “Let the people speak out on this sub
jecl aud, it ii Ui£ opinion of the writer, that before
the first.of Juue, it will be so generally admitted
that Mr. Hill is the first choice of the American
party, there will be no necessity for a Conven
tion We would be proud to see American
paity speak out oa the voice ol one man, and ten
der Mr. Hill that position without calling a conven
tion; but in the event they should fail to do
that, or should Mr. Hill decline to run, we would
propose to the favorable consideration of the Ame
rfcdft party Dr. H- V. M. Miller, of Floyd county, as
a man well qualified to perform the duties of that
office. But we are willing to abide the actiou of
the majority of the American party when fairly un
derstood, aud use what little influence that we may
have to secure the election of the nominee of the
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TiifN ton , G a., J actuary 19,180<.
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Gait.
"Citizen” attempts,lo reconcile us to the high price
oi C.iß in Augusta, by asserting the superiority of
the light, over that given by the Cool Gas. We
have only to remark, that if Coal Gan can be found
iuamy (Sty lmo U . giviuK “» ‘ nfcriur u « ut to
the Kofin «»* of w, ‘ * hoM likß to be
infornltd of its locality.
Wc would gladly reefir" Maorted superiority
of the Kosin (ini'. Oars Itcing Uto proof if seven
dollar* a thousand is a necessary concomitant.
“Ove of the Sufferers.”
[COW.MUNH.ATKU.]
Su vimervii.le, Jan. a*l, 18i7.
Mr. EntTUR *-You will permit me through your
columns to endorse the sentiment of apiece over the
.iguature of “TalUaferro,'* in your last weekly. I can
say no man will meet the approbation of the people
of this county as well as the Hon. B. H. Hill, of La-
Grange, aa their next choice for Governor of this .
State, and I hope all the counties in the State will
speak out. Yours truly, Chattooga.
New \ ork, Jan. 13.—Theschr. Mary Charlotte,ut
Baltimore,from Bostom was abandoned on the 10th
inst. The crew were brought here to day by the
British I ark Voyager, from Pernambuco.