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v. \ \ . 1 -1c- tic validity of the
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iLiutis* t • Mrv. Pecplo are* very
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an-tiH-; . ; r. i> • w tresu mus,
KE'rsiE W.: Tne Belmont in n work?, at
Wheel, •-. \ a.. 1 -its” 4 o;- isti m fn Monday
The . -lx j., . • at city, re-u-'-d on
Kst! , IM —ln ; e 6.-- •• at Tcrcct-oca
the t£M . - . svii. t for camege? was ren
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P*y. - Ben**. The plaintiff
it the a*..: 11 ai Mr. T. lWn*on. ot Port Hope. 1
who i- t} - ‘ o iit .'v-Mciuts’roadatthe
time of ’ -<r- -in ■ i.-ns on the IV?jarui *ca
tbe ver ‘ v.- a- . : . .1 among the Benson
family a, • : l-i • wVw IWnH fi.COfl, to
the p's.c.ff $ t.> K:. hud Benson tl,’Joo; to j
Ml.- Bi • >*’ A ;talVwaslj.V ; to Em- |
ma B, < • *1 ifdt..k Henson sl.- j
“Ihrrovedßid Mj • ’’-The Winnebagolndiana
in Mitt*- t \ raised, last year, over ;Vw buahela 0*
Wheat it I■! i. e:\it n. be ng us r • than half the
entire amount produced in B.oe Earth ooaaty
They have nine townships of laud, and T this HWO
a<i, r are und.r * u.t cat., n.
The C-hcr. a tinde is very Luch depressed in
Boston, tl. ■t: v; ’ . ,*! ea-i'-y f- iked with !•
diasiK .ir *. .• have arrived there from
India,i: „t l. t... , m.,r!ytr < that number
are doe.
iVuißiiu Cliectban Parson Green, of
Hemprte-td. L. 1., i t e must ■ -neralile cleigyman
in the l .6’ -. s, being tow L ;.ty Bins years eld,
Wben.uhs etv. it, en, year he was a e -dier in
tlie revolt . y *o my, was .mag i,n many of
the important .4 the war, anTwas one
of the b !’ow rquar .anders maid. ■ which ihe
Declare. : * HI thnd
pf July, 17*6.
’ i. ( eokV March in Joi.i the I'lmli Army-
Terrible
Co’. Cook’d report to the adjutant general of tie
Utah army, of his mar h from the Missouri to the
v Uy of the Salt Lake, i? full of matter of curio\iß
it >re#*t. lie starlet in command of six companies
record dragoors. from Fort Leavenworth, on 17th
fy -tember, and Lis journal ends w.th hia arrivaJ
♦ Ford Bridger on the 19th of November. He
‘i . .had been hastily recared from aer
% cin ti-e held, and aliowed three or four days only
-• my then commanding officer to prepare for a
of eleven hundred miles, over an uninhabited
.. f and i mountain wilderness. In that ;ime the six
* aui of the regiment who were to compose
oit ion were reorganized ; one hundred and i
: u neceesarily made from and to other j
_e -; horses to be condemned and many to !
f.ie companies pa ; d. and about fifty
. ‘ ‘ urred ; the commanders of four of j
! . ‘ ed them on the 17th. Then it was to be
three or four more days were to be lost
•r, v.n - :-.r the quartermaster’s department to
p; y the t aljeolutely necessary transportaLon.
(’ :i •18 h. i*-7 rcu'ers were furnished, wi ich the
‘iy i.ad arrived from a inarch of, prrhair.
at* and from Bridgsr’s Pass- aksjve llw
.ere nearly worthioes from want ana
ana re; t u . g hours to harness a team,
f h . r (, t th'* 19th twenty seven teamsters
. 1; amen were furnished utterly ig
, i. and without outfits. Had
, ikll ,, ‘,x r*ouot a day f com for Lorvet
, v - t, .• -argest .tern of transportation ;
• -^rrYo-jy ; \i ---ts, with their children, were
I . r , ... ,’ ur.iAl of each day's march is given,
. and how the rnuies died, and the mer;
’ ? .rj On October bth he arrived at Fort
K ..-I the loth crossed the South Platte—
.. * UiOineter wae at 13, and the river full of
. ~retionary with Coi. Cook to winter at
•• eor to po t to Salt Lake. lie prefer
• latter course On November 4th his com
. . Sweet Water Pass in the Kocky moan
next day they gained Devil’s Gate,
t!.; C:h we found the ground once more white,
*• fal.ing, but then very moderately. I
. i.**d as usual. On a four mile Li.l th north
Z snow became .-evere: the air
- - turned to frozen fog, nothing could be seen ;
t wer€ .struggling in a freezing cloud The lofty
. Jute Cro-sings’ was a happy relief, but
>. who L?id lately parsed there, was relent
i; }> iur :!i,g that there was no grass; the
. iof finding and feeding upon grass in that win
•vy P :**ria, uu . r tne deep snow, was hard to enter
■ .'• ••** a. .e promised grass and other shelter two
iurther, we inarched ou, crossing twice more
? : ,■< ky fdi earn, half choked with snow and ice ;
. i. ed us behind a gr ?at granite rock, but ail
1 ii.. i for the promised shelter, only a partof the
n j- 11 could huddle there, iu the deep enow;
. * th‘: ou J igiit through, the storm continued
v .■ - .:i ii eddies from above, before, behind,
* 1 ■./ and drifting snow. Thus exposed,
ii . ; ri gru i, the poor animals were driven
v, , t gr. o devotion by the men once more across
i e ; r.-Hin, and three quarters of a mile beyond, to
: a granite riege, but which almost faced
i. .‘-re tiie famished mules, crying pite
<• . !y, did not seek to eat, but desperately gathered
■i. inrih-. and some horses, escaping the guard,
’ > i kto the ford, where the lofty precipice first
•vo lh > p eai ant relief and shelter.
i. ..-i.ii g 1 ~!it had nothing cheering to re
>. ; -‘id li led with driven enow—the ani
iiinl • h;>on came driven in and mingled in confusion
. ir. :i went crunching the snow iu the confined
i . I camp, .ramping all things in their
y. It was not a time to dwell on the fact that
i mi iicuntaui desert there was no retreat nor
h.-r near, but a time for action. Hut for six
Mi.’ he fro.it or frozen fog fell thickly, like enow,
\/e inarched on as in a cloud. The deep
vo. impeded us much, and in crossing Sweet
A rll m broke in the middle. Marching ten
;. . only, J got a better camp, and herded the
•..r-, hill* it was a dillcrent road, where a
j . .. ‘ before the bodies of three frozen men
m -i iho ii.* rmometer stood 44” below the
,i* • * /.’ t r pf-ti.: The snow was deep ; twenty-three
; ou 1 ’ out, and five wagons were abandoned.
N ..f !r< pi r horses were left freezing and dying
•. ••. and a number of soldiers and teamsters
; had lo cn frostbitten. It was a desperately cold
; n f . ‘, t!i theniioineters were broken, but by com*
j p : muri ive marked zero A bot
! ileo! • s.y wine froze in a trunk. Having lost
ni.i’i in thirty hours, the morning of the
i ..•* report of the quartermaster, I felt
; bound to h ave a wagon iu the bushes filled with
•t* ;m :ty four extra saddles and bridles and some
.v v* day t , corn gave out, the mules were dy-
T. • v .v • and ami destroyed four wagon tongues,
► 1 wagon covers, ate their poles, and get
■ : * ate tne sage fuel collected at the tents.
■J • ,th‘*y aho attacked. Nine died
j'i ! .. t graving company of dismounted men
; . il. -d (•■fc.vther a-* a separate command by
i * morning of the Ldth a nu-i.ber of them were
to*. • ii? being in motion, although stand
i by lire;. Tt*n‘ day eighteen miles were march*
Ii: Sft .hy, vie the guide found grass, and
. <i:, good tha’ the I3llj wai made a day
mm” 1 i!r? were all herded on the grass,
i!• y . i Mil) iii 10.-:* .ce leaving Laramie.
ii e- -report of his march with the follow
! i ;*ve 111 MMprf and have lost 134. Most of the
. and much this side ot South Pas, in
• m i * v(• ly moderate weather. It Inis been of
i . . ‘ -i. 1 1 <-earth has ano more lifeless, treeless,
• ert; i\ contains scarcely a wolf to glut
A 2 ‘;,e hundreds of dead and frozen aminals
iur iliirty miles nearly block the road with
i :ied and shattered property. They mark, per
;i ;q b.-you'i example in history, tliesteus of an ad
! ... : ;i my with the horrors of a disastrous re-
Ki \rs for tiik Safety of an Exploring Pak
r \. —The Sin Francisco Herald aa>s : “We regret
t. learn that fears are entertained for the safety of
L Atur t Ives and his party, who left this city a
fe months ngo lor the exploration of the Colorado
river, under the orders of the General Government,
h i *ui u 1 -tier received, by the last Southern mail,
a rileman then sojourning at Fort Yuma,
v, i vc been \ •; t;fitted to make the following ex
ti : ‘ V u will be surprised to learn that lam still
. t lv! V.Hia. We arrived here on the morning of
• lib of I)o'ember, and have been waiting the
mo ;''\ .’’l of the i .er steamer, with news from the
r * j .! -.v fifteen days over due, and
v obo ■’ *to feel anxious for the safety of
I : ‘ut iv* ! r \ those who accompanied him.
Ii - not. Iu : ; lroin to-day, Lieuttnant Wiu
d , v. ~• is in C'-mmand at this post, will send an
cm, -s ii tl * river to ascertaiu, if possible, the
i • ‘! • delay. Dr. Newberry and party, who
I*l San Fnro. k o a fortnight* before us, also des*
to lor tin* mouth of the Colorado, are, like our
s .v , waiting the arrival of the steamer.”
\ Mil ntain or Gi.ass.—The San Francisco
(’ i f-r \s : “We have iu our possession several
s- oiioeiiA of gla s taken from a hill situated sixteen
mil - from the town of Napa, and on th** creek of
t : -.*T! :• article possesses all the characteris’
t, o , being hot u brittle and translucent. It
i , wi v.t, ofrathyra dark color, occasioned by
t’ pr - nee of oxide of irou. Those well acquaint
ed wit the proj rties of glass state that the only
op ration : • *.. .ry to make good marketable glass
o . . t Ic under consideration, is to extrack
t’ e : quantity of oxide cf iron it contains, which
l c ii be ’ adily done by melting, and an addition of
o\ do f UMo ganese. In face, experiments which
I have been made show that heating to a red heat in
|a i : .-•:<> ve has the effect to drive out the dark
j ... •mg : alter with which it is impregnated. The
l iil or mountain from which this glass is obtained
• ;to be con • ed almost entirely of this materi
la’ ! hscppablo of supplying the whole world for
many years with glass.”
I I?i -i ‘very in Gold Mining.—An important die.
o >or in gold mining is announced in Virginia.—
Under tics process gold is readily extracted from
; Mack sand which is found so abundantly in
\ . . . i.i and which i> similar to the black saudof
jt v - uH. Th;- yield from the pulverized ore of
Ii: miner is said to be from twenty to thirty dollars
l ii Th** plan has been putin operation by
| m ••!’v’-’-- Gold Mining Company, iu Orange
V. - lady who is expected to mftke Ms. Fillmore
• i Hp; S oC men” on the 11th of February
v t i Mrs Mclntosh, a woman disLinguished for
\ r ■/ of charms, solid as well as transito
ry Her former husband made & fortune iu the
ybus’-’essin Albany, and was President of
t A ’ u.l Schenectady Kail road during the ’aft
t r yen r pieceding the consolidation.
A Singular Lake—There is a lake covering
h ’red acres iu Wright county, lowa
j ■ *. hunch and and fifty miles west of Dubuque
| v.. ,ii i.s surrounded by a regular stone wall, five
j iv! the top, and iu some places, where the
j v. r. . - would be l.kely to overflow the prairie, ten
j•. ! i. As the pioneers found the wall there, the
c t iof - “Who built it?” Another remarka-
I • *..■ i- that the lake has no visible feeder or out-
Tiia v e lino at the West. — A western paper
f >; i: :we classes of travelers on our Rail
> . w i ; i aretb- ae who are running away
w;.o are after them. Very few ladies Lave
h n seen in the ears siuoe the panic Set in.
K <iTivE Slaves in Ohio.—lt will be remember
t .: i few yoai * the Ohio Legislature passed
r c-eoyimr the use of the jails of that State for
! t-.'utinement of fugitive slaves. The present
1 i/Vistur-. . -i ems. is disposed to repeal the law,
i a a • at effe t passed the House on Tues-
. • ‘if.'is F'rek Banks.—The Clarksville Chron
arns tl at the Bank of Taxe well, Bank of
l ’ .'. Bank of Jefferson and Bank of Trenton,
xv ■ : is ted to make the ID percent, additional !
>i< p ~ o’- bonus oa’.’.ed for. will be put into liquids- i
‘. by i c-mptrol.er. Ail the other free banks |
t sv, t tade good the auuitional call of 10 ner cent., !
to. i now i.aveff ) per oenL ot bonds on deposit above !
their circulation.
Cincinnati iloo ASH Cattle Trade.— I The Cm !
, .: , e.'tiinates that the sum total of val- I
id from cattle andHy-ts. either cured. ‘
.: carried alive Ohio, amoaute iu
r ; numbers, to $20,000,000.
r n. ; . P . p.rr or the Rothschilds. —Ac
c tiling. aHi 4, an paper, the funded property of
: H t'.-i-i . R tnsehiidsot Paris, amounts at pres
j et t to forty millions sterling.
I C. i ii An iKii. —Tbe French Government
i.- : ah mg great efforts to encou-age the growth of
c ton tr. Aige -la. A prise of 5000 francs was re
o- r.tly r. warded hy the Province ol Constantinople
to a sue* issfv.l cuitii - tor of this useful plant.
Elk Bn :-.)■ t Farm Libor.—The Humboldt
Ca i tmes te ot a larmer in that viciuity who j
..._, tw.’ y.kcs it aree elk broken to work like ox- |
et. Tney are not so valuable, however as the cat- ;
t e team, tor shill', reason, few have, as yet, been j
‘ br.-ken in.
Latest tkom the Utah K.vrEnmo*.—A letter j
, in tl.i Cot. lunati Commercial, dateand
; January says t
A git.tleman last returned from Fort Bridger.
i ivl ore Col. Joln-t-nacommand is stationed for the
I v • r. r t porta ihe snow iu places between here and
j ton place to be impassable, in many places except
!by. .: o out the reads. He reports the cattle.
Ito u'e.v Ac ,to be dyino rapidly. He says that In
; f ■ •she t otiid travel for two or three fcurdred
I id-os without Stepp,ng off the carcases of the -Mad
1 animals.
Hard Tire? roK Preachers.—The following is
an extract :r. r a letter sent from a minister in Illi
nois ••Preach. rs feel these hard times sensibly.
For more t .an two months I have not had a cent
except what I received for marrym ? and marriage
fees are not very large in this region.’
Ln!(*r from California.
The steamer Moses Tay or arrived ar New York
! on Wednesday, with taa California msi’s of the sth
inst., ands l,oUO v O(JO in specie. She connected with
the John I Stevens.
The esaion of the California Legislature com
menced on the 4th. The Governor s message bad
; net been received. It was thought he would pru
; bably recommend the taxation of mining claims, a
question which would probably cause a serious quar
rel in the Democratic party.
The greater part of Downievihe, Sierra county,
had been de&ruycd by fire, causing a ioss ol about
a ti .Mormon meeting at Los Angeios had me- i
inoriafized General Clark for 500 aoldiere for pro-
A Mr. had been arrested at Lima, charged
with having organised a filibuster expedition in the
i United Spates in aid of Gen. E hinque.
0 ij.t. Da&nc, of the American ship Lair.megur,
i complains of au outrage to his boats’ crew anil an
manii to himself by the officers of a Peruvian war
j steamer.
The mining news from California ia generally la
. vsrable. Bueinesswas dull.
Fine specimens of staple cotton have been raised
J in Tulare county.
The United States steamer Fulton left
on the filh for San Juan, to convey there General
Lamar
The Spanish fleet was passed off Havana by the
Mo=€ Taylor.
The Supreme Court of California met at Sacra
mento ou the 4th, and decided that the State debt
is legal and constitutionally valid. The Legislature
assembled on the same day. The democrats norni
nated Hon. Samuel Merritt for President of tne
Senate, and N. E Whiteside Speaker of the House.
The Alta California says that the miners were
never more prosperous, and all branches were be
ing pushed anead with remarkable vigor.
Oregon and Washington Territory —Oregon
dates are to the 29th. The official vote of the late
election Bhowa 5,000 majority against slavery, 7.500
against the admission of free negroes, and 5,000 m
favor of the new constitution. Toe Legislature
met on the 7th, and Ira Butler was chosen Speaker
of the House.
Ex Governor Gaines is dead.
The dates frviia Washington Territory are to the
6th The Legislature assembled on the ‘Jlh, when
J. Van cleave was elected Speaker. Gov. Me Muhin
sent in his message objecting to the imprudence of
the Oregonians in trying to take part in the move
ments in Washington Territory to organize as a
fctate.
Sandwich Islands. —The Sanwich Islands ad
vices are to the 10th. An American whaling eap
taiu lately tried to run off from Honolulu without
pa)ing his debts, but the authorities sent after him,
esught him within a league of the coast and made
him pay up. The American commissioner declared
the seizure lawful.
Central and South America. —There is no
thing important from Central America, except the
feartul ravages of the cholera in Honduras, 5,000
have died in one department.
Advices from Valparaiso are to the 15th. The di
plomatic question between the United States and
Chili respecting the ship Sportsman remains unset
tled . In the meantime her captain has resumed
command under protest, and sailed for Tioqua to
load for Baltimore.
The ministerial crisis had taken place, and the
ministers of justice and finance resigned. The
steamer Valdivia had been wrecked on the coast,
but the passengers aud crew’ were saved.
The New ministry had organized in Bolivia, and
the army was being reduced.
The revolution iu Peru makes slow progress.—
There had been several extensive commercial fail
ures at Laeua.
Appali.ing Accident—A Man Slowly Roast
ed. —One of the most shocking accidents ithaa ever
been our lot to record, occurred two days eince at
Mountain Ash, South Wales, to amannamed David
Thomas, who earned his bread as a lime burner at
some lime kilns belonging to the Navigation Coal
Company. Having drawn the lower part of the
kiln and got out about a cart load ot lime, he thought
that the burning stones on the top of the perfected
lime did not, descend as they oug-it, and he asked
his wife, who happened to be with him at the time,
if she would go to the top of the kiln and inform
him whether they had sunk or not.
The wife went to the top as requested, and see
ing that the atones had not sunk, but still preserved
a level surface, she called out, “ they had not mov
ed a bit.” He joined her at. the kiln, and taking up
a long iron bar, which kept there for the pur
pose of thrusting among the stones when any hitch
occurred, ho went toward the mouth of the kiln.—
Ills wife begged him to keep back from so danger
ous a position, at the same time reminding him that
if the stones should slip he would be drawn with
them into the kilo. lie said, “Oh, never fear; I
will take care of thataud disregarding his wife's
repeated supplication, he stepped forward to the
top of tne kiln and commenced thrusting at the
stones with his iron bar.
For a tew moments the mass remained firm and
resisted his attempts to disturb it ; but upon his in
creasing the violence of his thrusts they began to
descend, and, as his unhappy wife had nreli- ted, to
draw him with them. As tie descended slowly the
fiery stones closed around him, until at length the
lower part of his body became completely embed
ded iu the burning mass. His shrieks were heart
piercing, and his agonized wife endeavored to pull
him out. The state of the kilo made this a work of
difficulty and of the greatest danger, and when at
length she did seize his hand and endeavored to
drag him out, she tound to her horror that the burnt
flesh yielded to her touch and came off iu pieces,
rendering it impossible for her to obtain any hold.
The horrors of her situation can be better ima
iued than described. At length her cries attracted
the attention of a number of men who were stand
ing near an adjacent colliery, and who lost no time
iu repairing to the spot, in the hope of beqjg able to
render some assistance. It fiappaned that one of
Mr. Crawehay’s boats was passing at the time, and
the boatman having laid to to gaze at the accident,
u man named IIo; bs, ran to the boat, seized the
boat rope, returned with it to the top of the kiln,
and was preparing to throw it around the body of
the unhappy Thomas, who was still slowly burning
and writhing in the most intense agony, when the
boatman, David Jenkins, ran after him aDd took
away the rope, saying it was useless to burn it, as
he could let them ha\ ean old one. He deliberate
ly walked back to the boat, leaviHg the poor Buffer
ei iu the midst of the fire, picked out an old piece
of rope, threw it to the men on shore, and then
went oft’ witn his boat, without attempting to offer
the slightest assistance. Hobbs, and one or two
others, at length contrived to throw the ropeuround
the poor sufferer's body ; but, alas! they found
that they could not succeed in getting him out. At
length someone suggested that an iron bar should
be placed under him to lift him out. This was
done, aud the frightfully charred body of the otiil
living man, some portions of which had been lite
rally burned to cinder, was got out. Os course hu
man strength could not survive such sufferings, and
he died.
The Silver Mines of Mexico.— The establish
ment by the United States of military posts along
the Mexican boundary, (says theN. Y. Journal of
Commerce,) ia having the effect to recover large
tracts of territory from the incursions of savages,
and encourage a reoccupation of valuable in neral,
lands long since deserted. Similar results are notic
ed as following the restoiation of order iu Arizona
aud other mining districte once noted for their re
sources. Numbers of Americans are settling in all
these regions, where they are preparing machiuery,
opening shafts, digging wells, &c , with the most
sanguine expectations of future reward ; and they
expect to profit not cnly by the improved mechani
cal facilities at command lor prosecuting their work
but by the experience obtained in the mines of
California. The Mexicans, too , seem to be apply
ing themselves with renewed energy to mining
pursuits. We see it stated as a fact not generally
known, that large as was the yield of the silver
mines ot Mexico in the days of Spanish domination,
the product has rapidly increased of late, and w r as
last year greater than at any previous time—duties
having been paid to the Government on 35,000,000.
In tho year 1849, Brantz Mayor, of Baltimore,
during a visit to Mexico, obtained much valuable
information, serving to show that the productive
ness of the mines was far from being exhausted.
Indisputable evidence to the same effect was afford
ed by the operations of the mints. “During the
last peaceful epoch of Spanish domination, Baron
Humboldt calculates the annual yield of the mines
of Mexico at not more thau $:23,0n0,(KJ0, or 1.184,-
0410 pounds Hvondupois ot silver. From 1690 to
1803, $1,330,772,003 were corned in the only mint
iu Mexico ; while from the discovery until its inde
pendence, about $2,0*28,000,000, or two-fifths of all
the precious metais which the whole ot the New
World has supplied during the same period, were
furnished by Mexico alone.” It is also shown that
the amount of silver coined at the ten mints of
Mexico, during the ten years which preceded the
war with the United States, was equal to $13,136,-
735 per annum, making uo allowance for the large
quantities of uncoined silver exported, or which
was concealed or smuggled, to evade taxation.
Rachei/s Last Hours.— Parting with Her Jew
els. —In the early stages of Rachel's final illness her
fondness for gold aud jewelry did not desert her.
She frequently had her jewelry and rich garments
brought to her bed, and beguiled the weary hours
in looking then; over, and oil one occasion, after ta-
Riug one loDg lingering look at them, she exclaim
ed, with a sign of heartfelt distress, “// faut done
</uiUer tout! ‘ (“Must I then abandon ali'.”) Her
death struggle was long and severe, ana her last
hours are described as agonizing.
Cannes, the town iu which Rachel breathed her
last is, as a French journalist assures us, “a para
disaical resort in the South of France, the honor of
whose discovery belongs to Lord Brougham, who
has for years had his country seat in it, and recom
mend it to his countrymen as a winter residence ”
This winter, Cannes has been overflowing with visi
tors. Since the occupation of Nice by Russians,
such of the English as formerly wintered there have
resorted to Cannes. The recent reports of the im
proving health of Rachel—for up to a few days pre
vious to her death, hopes had been entertained of
her recovery—attracted crowds of consumptives to
the charmed spot.
A duck Whiffing an E AGLE.-Tbe Petersburg In
tellig-'ocer narrates the following incident: “A large
bald eagle pounced upon a sturdy muscovy drake
on Thursday evening, at Mr. John Rowlett's farm
iu Prince George, in order to make a meal of him ;
but the drake, not relishing such an unceremonious
call, put his mascular energies into very active ex
ere is e, and made so scientific a use of them as to
give his feathered majesty a sound drubbing ; where
upon the latter, determined not to * mount upwards’
again with an empty stomach, made a vigorous at
tack upon one of the lady ducks of the yard, who
i was fortunately rescued trom the hungry and savage
| bird before she sustained any serious injury. It was
decidedly one of the most fillibustering enterprises
that we have beard of for a long time. The eagle
narrowly escaped capture . and he will not again,
we imagine, undertake another expedition of the
kind.”
The Government and its Sailors —Quite a
number of sailors, recently paid off on the C. S.
frigate Congress, in Philadelphia, were in Wall
street yesterday, vainly endeavoring to exchange
the money they received from government for gold
or current bills’ It appears that about $160,000
! was distributed on that sh p ali in twenty live cent
pieces, and some of these tars had as much as S3OO
in this coin. Now, by a law of the United States,
; silver coin; are not a legal tender for a sum exceed
| ing live dollars, and yet government has imposed
! on the ignorance of these poor men, who earn their
i pittance so hardly, by paying them in a currency
which they could not dispose of in quantities at
i par. Jack used to be robbed after he was paid off
—but now he is robbed in the act. — Courier.
Anonher Old Citizen Gone — Mr. William
Starr, one of the oide.-t inhabitants of Savannah,
died suddenly Monuday night. He had been In
| spector of the Customs “at this port for many years,
and tbi ugh ninety-three years ot age, he has pre
served his mental and bodily activity to a remarka
ble degree, and was actively engaged in the duties
ot his post up to the very day ofhis death. He was
highly respected tor his personal integrity and ett:-
cieucy a? a man of business.— Sark. Rep. Jan. Slh
Senator Seward's eulogy upon the late Senator
Kusk is eloquent, end t: is suggestive. The aiiena
tion of section is not complete when men of tbe
North can speak thus of men of the South. Why
\ cannot the kindly charities of our nature and the
warm feelings of friendship be suffered to have a
! greater influence than they now apparently exercise
upon tbe course of our public men, and thus lead to
; more of peace and harmony in the conduct of public
affairs 1 Would mat ali men could be friends; and
i they might be so id they woaid . — Ale. r- uazette,
j Jan. H.
One of the Princes Poiignac was married a short
time since to Victorine. the great dressmaker, and
a module of the Hue Richelieu has just bought the
hand of an influent - member of the Senate, and
descendant of one of the noblest bouses of France,
by means of ihe great wealth she has amassed in
her calling. The Court Journal, from whiph we
earn these interesting facts, mentions them to show
“the confusion which exists in Parisian society just
j now.”
\ An individual in Buffalo, supposed to be a dis
charged schoolmaster run mad. has been kidnap
ping young school-boys in the streets, taking them
into a garret or basement, and asking them to recite
portions of the multiplication table. If they fail, he
lather* them with a leather ‘trap, which he carries
for that purpose. The little fellows are thus fright-
I ened so that they fail to identify him and the po
< lice can’t catch him.
From the Constitutionalitf.
The Bank Bill Veto.
Mr. Editor: When this document finjt appear
its opponents congratulated themselves tha
the question was one, above the party contests of
the day. The veto was not a party act. The Go
vernor s predecessor, as distinguished for zealous
devotion to Democracy, as for eminent talent, had
taken a statesman’s view of the subject, and acted
only with reference to his opinion of the public in
terest. A legislature, in which hia party had an
overwhelming majority, had passed the bill, over
the veto, by a vote of two thirds of eachfHouse. —
There was every reason, then, to hope that the sab
ject might be calmly considered, without regard to
mere political effect.
Unfortunately, the discussion, which immediately
followed the publication, assumed a vituperative
tone, which was, at least, ill judged; and this is
continued, in various quarters, by abuse of the mes
sage, on one side, in terms wholly to the
high position and personal character of the Gover
nor, and by a blind support of it, on the other, from
those who give no reason for their support, but that
it has been abused. This state of things is wholly
unfavorable to the investigation of truth. The mes
sage is one ot great importance ; for though no im
mediate practical result can now follow from it—
the law having been passed, despite the veto—yet
the doctrines, advanced in it, are bo startling, and
bo opposed to the views of practical men, that if
not denied and exposed, there is danger of their do
ing infinite mischief.
The moat prominent points in the message are the
fol owing :
1. Banks have •‘exclusive privileges,” which give
“to a favored class immense advantages over the
great body of the people.”
2. The result of these advantages is that banks
realize from thirty to fifty per cent, per annum, on
their capital, while “the laboring man” is limited to
seven.
3 For this immense privilege no equivalent is
rendered.
4 By paying a Kin all share of their profits as a
premium for specie et the North, the banks might
have continued to redeem their notes, restored pub
lic confidence, and prevented the decline of cotton.
5. In suspending, the banks committed a “high
commercial, moral, and legal crime,” bringing on
thia crisis for selfish purposes, deranging commerce,
and producing a heavy fall in cotton.
6. In previous periods of distress, the banks have
“amassed fortunes, while the people, the laboring
classes, have borne the loss.”
7. The suspension was a mere speculation, for
which there was no necessity.
8. The banka control the cotton trade; and have
only to require gold for the staple, to stop the drain
of specie.
9. The suspension was not necessary to afford
facilities for the cotton market, for the manufacturers
must have the cotton, if they have to pay for it in
gold.
10. Cotton would find a market if there were no
banks.
11. The proposed law is unconstitutional.
These, with some incidental matters, which I shall
incidentally notice, and 6ome recommendations as
to the proper policy of the State in future, from the
substance of the message.
The opponents of these views are not, of course,
opponents of their author. Among the most deci
ded of them are many of the leading men of his own
party, who stood high in the confidence of their
friends, and were prominent, in the very front of
political conflict, long before Gov. Brown became
their standard bearer. He cannot, therefore, in this
matter, be considered the impersonation of Georgia
Democracy; and the most zealous member of that
party might, without any imputation on his political
orthodoxy, make every possible effort to bring pub
lic opinion into opposition to the views here present
ed. It is not as a partisan, therefore, that I take the
pen. I propose to discuss a financial question, with
which party has no connection. For the Governor,
personally, I have no feeling but respect; and I re
gret exceedingly that, in justice to the subject, and
to myself as attempting a full commentary on it, I
am compelled to notice—what I will not dwell upon
—the extremely bad taste, in which the paper ia
written, from beginning to end. If it be improper
to use the language of vituperation, in a newspaper
criticism on a public document—and the Governor’s
advocates complain bitterly of this—how much more
is it unbecoming the dignity of the Executive chair,
and the gravity of a most important State paper, to
indulge in wholesale denunciations, and resort to
inflammatory language, in order to rouse the passions
and prejudices ot his readers.
Os this character is the attempt to make this a
question between rich and poor. This old song,
about “privileged classes,” and the “dangers of ag
gregated wealth,” was sung to death, in former
years. It had its day, and served its purpose ; but
when it had rung through the land, till its senseless
clangor palled on the ear, even to loathing, it was
suffered to sink into its appropriate oblivion. I re
gret that the Governor of Georgia has thought prop
er tb disregard the “ Requiescat in pace,” long ago
carved on its tomb.
So far as our banks are concerned, the cry of a
“ favored class,” is not only groundless, but ridicu
lous. The illustration of a supposed legislative pre
ference given to one of two itulividauls , is not in
point. Such a cource would create a “ favored
class,’ but our banks were never chartered on such
a basis, nor for such a purpose. The financial ope
rations, necessary to carry our cotton crop to mar
ket, (to eay nothing of other important transactions)
if based on specie circulation aioue, could not get
through a single season. When the culture of thia
staple was in its infancy, such a thing was practica
ble ; but now, that the annual crop of the United
States sella for more thau one hundred millions of dol
lars.the thing is simply a physical impossibility. This,
with a similar necessity in other branches of busi
ness, made it expedient to establish institutions,
which, by the use of credit , might facilitate large
aud complicated operations. To give them this
credit, a known accumulation of capital was neces
sary. This necessity has long been recognised
throughout the commercial world. The countries
with which the great bulk of our commerce is car
ried on, transact their business by the aid of banks.
All the other States in our Union do so too —and
what would be the condition of trade in Georgia, if,
with the facilities of banking all around us, we were
to attempt competition with opr neighbors, stand
ing alone ou a metallic basis ? If banking privi
leges were granted to named individuals alone, his
Excellency*ti illiu-tratiou would be carried out, and
a “ favored class” established. But instead of this,
when a back is to be organised the stock is open to
any who choose to invest iu it; and at aDy time
afterwards anybody is free to buy it at its market
value. Asa matter of practical experience, a very
large proportion of it is held by persons of small
means, and by widows and orphans, whose daily
bread depends on their dividends. These are, for
sooth, the “ favored class” of aristocrats, who amass
enormous fortunes by grinding the face of the poor!
The truth is, our banking system is the only finan
cial democracy. It is the only one in which people
of small means can have an immediate interest in
the great operations of commerce. W here there are
no banks, and no currency fiut coin, none can afford
f acilities to men of business but people of large for
tunes ; and with a specie basis only, and such a
etaple as cotton, none could do it but those of great
fortunes. Thus, the very system clamored for to
save the “ laboring poor’ from the oppression of
the wealthy, would, if carried out, throw all the
money power iuto the hands of the rich, and the
poor would lose, Dot only all the iuterest in it which
their holding bank stock now gives them, but all
the facilities tor business which they now derive
from bank discounts. Competition among holders
of money would be at an end, and the wealthy
would have an entiro monopoly of loans.
The Governor’s estimate of the profits made by
the banks is extravagant, to a degree that provokes
a smile. If it he within the utmost limit of the
truth, how does it happen that State bonds, railroad
bonds, and bonds of our several cities, bearing in
terest at six or seven per cent, find a ready market
at a rate not far from par, and United State six per
cent stock is far above par. Monied men are
strangely blind to their own interest, to make in
vestments like these, with the option, at the eame
time, of procuring stocks, at a moderate premium,
y ielding an annual income of thirty to fifty per cent.
But one fact is worth a dozen arguments. At this
moment, the Btock of our State bank bears a higher
prioe in market than any other bank stock in Geor
gia. The dividends of that bank, for twenty years
past, have averaged less than seven per cent per
annum.
Byj appropriating a fraction of their “enormous
profits” to the payment of a small premium for
coin, his Excellency thinks the bauks might have
procured specie from the North, and avoided sus
pension. A suspension of payment could, no doubt,
have been avoided, by a total suspension of busi
ness. But if trade was to continue—if any dis
counts were to be made—the thing was impractica
ble. This is shown, beyond all controversy, by re
ference to the amount of funds required by our bu
siness community.
From the first of January to the first of August ,
1857—a time of mere ordinary business, wholly
free from pressure or panic—the banks in Augusta
brought here, from the seaboard and the North, for
their usual purposes alone, two millions and seven
ty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifteen dol
lars, in gold coin—an average of seventy-five thou
sand dollars a week. One morning fiuring that
time the writer happened to be in the Express office,
whea a number of Dsgs of gold were handed out for
delivery, and enquiring how much coin they had
brought up that day, was answered, three hundred
and forty thousand dollars ! Within the same pe
riod, the amount of drafts on New York, sold by the
Augusta bankp, for remittances, at their counters
in this city, was &ix million nine hundred and nine
ty-six thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dol
lars and ten cents—within a mere fraction of one
million a month l 1 *
Now if such a stream was necessary, for ordinary
supply, in ordinary times, would the current slacken
in speed, or diminish in volume, under the influence
of paaic? And how could the banks have found
funds at the North, to pay for the coin wanted, in
time to meet the demand f As long as they could
draw at all, the most convenient form for their
customers, as well as the easiest for themselves,
was by exchange. But when drafts could no longer
be furnished, coin would be required, and there
would be no fund at the North to procure it.
The Governor seems to have overlooked the
usual course of trade. In ordinary times, when nor
thern banks pay coin, and those on the regular line
of remittance between us and New York, do so too.
there is no drain of specie that way. Our banks
have only to answer the local demand; and of tbe
extent of that, I have given some idea above. But
when tbe banks in New York; or in Charleston
have suspended (as botn had in this case) an instant
demand for coin for those markets springs up, and
the drain is all in that direction, with no means of
supply. It is true, as the Governor states in ano
ther part of his message, that the northern people
do not hold our bank notes, to any extent; but
they hold debts due from our citizens, to tbe amount
of millions, daily maturing, and daily requiring re
mittance , and to pay tjjem, while northern hanks
are in suspension, one unbroken stream of gold
would flow from our basks, which would at onoe
empty their vaults. The idea cf attempting to sup
ply this drain, by using a part of their “enormous
profits” to pay the premium in New Y'ork, on coin
fresh from their own coffers, and thus to keep
bringing it back, only to be instantly sent on again
is such a self-evident absurdity as to need no com
ment TLe only means ot preventing the drain of
gold is to send on the cotton. Cotton will not move
unless facilities are furnished to pay for it, and those
facilities cannot be furnished in coin, while New
York banks do not pay coin. They can only be
furnished in bank notes not instantly redeemable in
com. Suspension in Charleston alone, though less
important in its operation than that in New York,
is. for ail practical ptirpo es. nearly as decisive in its
effect. Our gold wiil go there, so far as they have
the means of demanding it; and while their banks
are in suspension, if ours still pay, they will draw
coir for all our notes which they can get hold of,
and their notes wili fil all the channels of oupuia
tkm. This is the testimony of* all experienoe—a
depreciated currency always drives out a better
one. Our banks, of course, could do no business,
and all ourootton must goto Charleston and be paid
for in non-specie paying notes. The only way to
keep any portion of the trade in our pwn hands, is
not to resume til! the banks tn Charleston do so too.
The process by which the message proves the
“ commercial guilt” of,the backs in su pending, is a
curious specimen of argument. It is said that they
“ brought the present crisis on the people for selfish
purposes.’’ Now the fact happens to De that there
never was a commercial crisis, panic, euspension
revulsion, or any thing of the sort, in which the bank
did not suffer enormously. From the very nature
of the case it must be so’ Panics always produce
failures. Ths .pen whs fail always owe thj banks,
and the banks consequently always lore. What
selfish purposes. ’ then, could they possibly have
in bringing on this crisis t If they have intention
ally. aided in bringing it on, their folly is greater
than the Governor represents their crime.
Bat, again, .says the Governor, they have thus
“ deranged commerce, and caused onr great staple
to fall several cents in the pound.” It is a most ex
traorainary tiling teat wtile commerce waa going
regularly on. a parcel of institutions, whose very
depended on their regularity, should all at
’ once conspire, for thsir own “selfish purposes, ’ to
ruin their own business, “derange commerce,” and
bring heavy losses on themselvee. This statement
does not require contradiction. If commerce had
not been already “deranged,” there could have
oeen no mobve tor the suspension, and none would
bave occurred. That the Governor, in this particu
. lar. nuts cause for effect and effect tor cause, is self
evident.
“Large amounts were also told, by their tgencie* in
other pla-es bnt my purpose is to give statements, only
if Actual transactions tt* AUUT’*This Is sufficient, for
the purpose of iuuttranny my positions, and that is til
I that is required—l do n-1 pretend to go Into the general
statistic* of the State The business of Savannah would
j probablv show results still more striking -. but I hast
no ready see its to tbe neeeeeary Information about Si
- vnn■ -1 gad what relates so Angerta is sleee a hand.
But—and here is what cornea home to the busi
ness and bosoms of the people—it is said that the
suspension reduced the price of our great staple.—
Every planter knows that the price of cotton in
Georgia depends on the Liverpool market; and
every dealer in the article knows that from before
the suspension until now, the price in Augusta and
Savannah has been, without any exception, always
fully up to what the Liverpool quotations author
| iaed. Immediately before the panic, Middling U -
lands so Id there for nhu: pence half penny. A rapid j
decline immediately took piacs; and the tin;.* 1
this message was written, or a few days thereafter, |
the quotation was five peme halfpenny. How the ]
t of the Georgia banks produced this re- s
vuls on in Liverpool, which began before the sus- j
| pension took place, the Governor does not inform j
us. How that revulsion brought dowu the price j
here, is perfectly understood by every warehouse ;
clerk in Georgia, who also know perfectly well tbt: i
if our bank.■ iiad continued to pay coin, ar. I as c. !
matter of inevitable consequence, lrom physical
necessity, ceased all discounts, the price of cotton j
here must have sunk far below the proportionate ;
rate in Liverpool. The Governor assumes the con :
trary as self-evident and self-evident it will be when j
it becomes self evident that prices do ne t depend on >
the relative amount of supply and demand—that by j
diminishing the amount ot circulating medium, you j
increase the price of staples, and diminish t.\et price \
by increasing the circulation.
Again, we are told that, since our present bank
ing system was adop ed, we have passed through
three periods of distress, in which the backs by
speculation, “amassed fortunes, while the people
the laboring classes, have borne the loss.” A prop
er answer to this astounding statement can hard y
be given consistently wi:h the respect due to the
Chief Magistrate of the State, and that which the
author feeis for th Governor personally. That the
banks Lave suffered enormous losses, iu each period
of diatiess referred to, and been, more than once,
shaken by them to their foundation, is jest as noto
rious and indisputable a tact as that the Bank of the
United States no longer exists.
We are farther told of the continuance of specie
payments by banks in Alabama, Kentucky. Louisi
ana and South Carolina, and by some ol our own.,
Os the three States first named, I # know nothing,
saving and excepting what dees not exactly av,res
with a proposiiion already considered—llia the
price of cotton in the specie-paying cities of New
Orleans and Mobile, has never been higher than in
Savannah and Augusta, allowing the usual diffe
rence between “ New-Orleans” and “ Uplands.”
But, as to the specie paying banks in South Caro
lina and Georgia—if any such there actually be—
they are these, who, not having any amount of cir
culation, had no difficulty in redeeming it, and who
do not now issue any of their own notes, for the
purposes of business. Having never rendered any
efficient aid to the commerce of the country, they
simply go on in their former course, doing nothing.
But the oldest of exploded theories seem to be re
vived in this extraordinary message, in the newest
sort of ways. We are told that, to cure all the evils
under which our currency labors, au infallible reme
dy will be to require gold , in payment for our cot
ton. How we are to become gainers by taking the
risk, troub'e, expense and delay ol’ bringing one
hundred millions of dollars , iu gold coin, p.cross
the ocean, to pay for cotton, and then sending it
back to pay for goods, is certainly not obvious; for
it must not he forgotten, if gold comes here to pay
for all the cotton, there will be no means of pa>iiig
for goods, but by sending the same goid back again.
But there is another practical difficulty. Where
is all the gold to come from ? Taking one hundred
millions of dollars in coin, from the usual ramifica
tions of trade, andjdevoting it exclusively to pay for
a single article, ia an operation which would hard
ly be ventured ou by all the spinners of Lancerehire,
with the Bank of England to back shem. If it were
possible (which it is not,) for all the holders of cot
ton to unite in forcing on this measure, where would
prices go to ? In the first place all the cotton spe
culators in England could aot rake the gold; aud
secondly, if they could, the only purchasers in our
markets would be English houses and northern
agents. Four-fifths, if not nine-toutlw, of all the
present buyers would be driven out of the market;
tor that proportion, at least, of all of them are with
out the capital necessary to purchase, and depend
solely on the facilities obtained by drawing bills.—
Then, instead of the present competition among
buyers , we should only have competition among
sellers , and instead of speculators, bidding up, we
should have planters bidding down..
What would cotton sell for then 1 lr would not
be respectful to ask the Governor to answer this
question; but I should be glad to see it answered by
any of those, who, in newspaper essays, public reso
lutions, and political speeches, try to sustain the
veto before the people.
The Governor s opinion tLat, it there were not a
bank in Georgia, cotton would still find its way to
market, ia doubtless true, as an abstract proposition.
So it would if there were not a railroad, nor a steam
boat, nor a cotton factor, nor a seaport in the State.
But again I ask, what would cotton then sell for, in
Georgia ? By destroying cur banks, you destroy
the chiei source of the means for paying for it; and
without means, purchases cannot be made.
Again, w? are told that the banks, if forced to
resume specie payments, would still furnish their
notestopay for cotton, because it would be their
interest to do so. This assumes, as granted, the very,
important point that, under such circumstances,
they could, by possibility , furnish these notes ; ami
that happens to be utterly impossible. Iu a time
of pressure, like that in question, i suing notes is
precisely equivalent to paying out coin—for they
come back for coin almost on the instant. How
long could all the banks in Georgia furnish coin, to
buy cotton, during a panic, and where would they
got it, and how ■ The detail of the operation by
which they discouut cotton bills, and get the pro
ceeds back, is given, iu this message, under an en
tire mistake as to the facts. It is not true that the
bank, taking the bill, controls the cotton—except in
a very few unusual cases, in which, for their own
security, they may be allowed to do what, under
ordinary circumstances, is expressly prohibited by
their charters. But, if not so prohibited, this is not
the appropriate business ot banks, nor have they
the nessary facilities for doing it. The cotton gees
to the peison on whom the bill is drawn, who is the
agent, not of the bank, but of the shipper. The
bank takes me bill and torwards'it to their agent
for collection, aud the two agents are never the
same persou. Admitting the fact to be—what it is
not —that in thirty oreixty days the bank has gold,
or sterling exchange, in lieu of the bill discounted,
how are they, in panic times , to meet the notes is
sued, before that date comes around ? The panic
brings their notes immediately home for redemp
tion ; and if it did not, while New York is iu sus
pension, the demand for gold carries it all there. In
ordinary times, bank notes go out through the usual
channels of circulation, and come back, as they are
issued, gradually aud naturally ; and it is in view
of this well known fact, that our banka are not
limited, in their issues, to dollar for dollar of coin,
but are expressly authorised, by their charters, to
go far beyond this limit. This is considered, and
in ordinary times properly considered, perfectly
safe. But, when thefie notes are, by a strong casual
excitement, like the late crisis, forced back in mass,
there is a physical necessity for one of two courses
—either paymeut of coin must be suspended, or al
issues must cease. Here ia a choice of evils. To
the banks, if they were not dependent on the com
munity, suspension would be the greater evil.—
Their interest would be to close their discount books,
pay their debts, and make their debtors pay them.
What sort of a crash would that step have brought
Upon us ! I have no means of verifying the figures
given iu the message, of five millions said to b 3 due
by the banks, aud twenty-two millions due to them,
as I have no access to the returns. I should doubt
whether the difference could be so great; but very
great it certainly is, aud a process of forcing the
banks to redeem their entire circulation at once,
would re-act, with tremeudous force, upon their
debtors. The “laboring poor,” not the “favored
class,” would be the ultimate sufferers.
The Governor's unaccountable error, as to the
“exact balance ’ always shown by the bank returns,
has been commented on by others, iu atone, which,
for reasons already given, I do not choose to imi
tate. He certainly ought to know that the b oka
ot every man of business, if correctly kept, always
■how an exact balance, even when his means ex
ceed his debts, by millions, and that no merchant
consider any calculation of his affairs safe, it that
balance be not “exact.” I have known a fortnight
spent in looking for a difference of one cent, in a bal
ance sheet that footed near two millions of dollars.
Another writer has very properly suggested to
the Governor, that if he would look into the items
on the two sides of this “ exact balance,” he will
find the difference between the amounts due by,
and to the banks. Aud, let me add, the probable
consequence of immediate liquidation will then be
manifest. True, most of their claims are upon our
own merchants. But the planters owe the mer
chants, and to an extent that would astonish
any one not acquainted with the facts. For ex
example—ten mercantile houses can be named in
Augusta, whose country customers owe them over
twelve hundred thousand dollars. And this is only
an example.
In such a state of things the only mode of prevent
ing a dead lock —an universal bankruptcy—was to
avoid, if possible, the abstraction of all circulating
medium; and to do this, as a choice of evils, our
merchants called on our banks to suspend npeoie
payments. Nothing was wanted but time for the
crisis to pase. When business resumes its usual
channels, as in the ordinary course of events, it soon
must, if lei alone, resumption will follow as a mat
ter of course ; for it is the interest of the banks, and
they know it, that the r notes be always equivalent
to specie.
Since this article was written and actually sub
mitted to the editor es this paper for publication—as
the editor will vouch if necessary—the banks in Au
gusta have unanimously agreed to a proposition from
the banks in Savannah, to resume specie payments
on the first of June, or earlier, it the Charleston
banks will coupe into the same arrangement. The
writer had no idea, when he wrote the above sen
tence, that it would be thus fully verified before hid
remarks could get through the press.
The Governor insinutes that the meetings, recom
mending suspension, were gotten up under bank in
fluence. The r e is no difficulty in throwing out a
suggestion ci thia kind ; and by these, whose suspi
cions are already awakened, it ia readily believed.
In this particular case, nothing is more gratuitous.
That there is any evidence of the fact, nobody pre
tends. Os the meeting in Savannah I know noth
ing, except that such a charge, in regard to it, is
utterly improbable. But, 8a to the meeting in Au
gusta, so tar was it from being instigated by banks,
that when its committee galled on them with the re
quest to suspend, the majority of them were very
backward in complying, and two or three of them
refused to do so, and went on paying coin, till forced
into compliance by the external pressure of public
opinion. But aside from this, it would only be ne
cessary to name the leaders of that meeting, to
blow this gratuitous, and I must be excused for
calling it, most unwarrantable insinuation to the
winds. The most prominent person in the move
ment was Wm. Schley—a man not holding a share
of any bank stock, nor borrowing from any of them
one dollar—long a leading Democrat—Democratic
Governor before Gov- Brown had even commenc
ed the business of life—and still earlier, a prominent
advocate, in Congress, of Gen. Jackson's policy to
wards the Bank of the United States. If such a
man, at his time of lite, retired, in the full vigor of
hia intellect, from the political struggles of the day,
seeking no office, and having no possible motive for
course in this matter but the public good, is to be
suspected, and that, too, by his Democratic succes
sor in office, of being the cats paw of our monied
corporations, the Lord have mercy on the reputa
tion of any many, who may hereafter question the
infallibility of an Executive veto.
Os the concluding objection to the Governor to
the act in question, I have already published a brief
notice in th.c . iper ; and repeat the substance of it
here, only to present, in one view, all the comments
I wish to offer on this message.
The constitutionality of tne act is denied, on the
ground that it impairs the obligation of the contract
between the bank and the bill holder.
This contract is to pay coin on demand, for the
amount of the bill—and this is the whole contract ,
the obligation of which is not in the slightest degree
impaired by this act. Nor does it even affect the
remedy of the bill holder. He can do all he could
uo before the bill was passed—sue, recover, and
collect in coin, principal, interest, costs, and ten
per cent damages. But even if his remedy were im
paired, so long as the right , under the contract, re
mained entire, the law would constitutional.
This simple distinction, indispensable to the power
of regulating by law the administration of justice,
has been fully understood and settk and for near thirty
years, and daring that time has never been double
before. But as above remained, the holder's. iem
sdy iemainj antii'e. The act oniy waives a penalty
imposed by the State, from motives of public policy,
which the State only could enforce, and which she
has an unauestionable right to remit.
Os the Governor’s recommendation for guards
against future trouble, including his plan for a sub
treasury, I have nothing to say. They are theatres,
on which opmions wh- ooubtiaaa differ. I have con
fined my attention to such parts of the message as
depend on facts and experience.
One inference I wish to negative. lam no ad
vocate of the details of the bill on which the veto was
placed. I know nothing of origin, and there
fore, am unable directly to deny what the Gover
nor intimates—that it was gotten up by agents of
the banks, now far such antimation respect
ful to the two Houses who had passed it, I will not
pretend to inquire. But if it be true—if the banks
could really dictate to the legislature the terms of
the intended act —they used that power to bring
about a most ime and impotent conclusion ; for
though tne act of 1840 is suspended by this law, the
terms on which this is done are such as to embarrass
all action of the banks, and cramp all their efforts
to relive the community. But my business is cot to
criticise the act itself. It was all that could be done.
The loes of it would have le f t the banks at the mercy
of the Executive, so far as the act of 1840 could
have been enforced against them and what oourse
the Governor would have taken, is not left to con
ject re. AH the banko iu the State, who are sub
ject to the act of iSIO. would prooabty have got e
(into liquidation; and the whole fe&rtnl atr.ount of
debts due them from the people, must have been
put at once iu a course of summary collection to be
paid in coin, wiluout bank facilities. The , ressore
iof such a proce wou'd have produced a d-p-ree of
j pecuniary distioua in Georgia, compared to which,
j the troal'l-- off rmer yeais would cave been but
j c;- the diett- -■ nit;.ning of the thunder to the burst
~.:.x of tie-, on- EtCHMOSD.
b'r -\i f. Rom-’ Con.: r. Extra, of Friday, Jan
Terrible ('QnfiajO’atioo in Koine.
At halt past two o’clock this afternoon a fire broke
I out in the building occupied by Bowman as a Ke
j tail Grocery. It was a wooden building, and the
! dames spread rapidly. Hundreds of our citizens
| were soon on the spot, aud fought the devouring
; element like men—but we had no lire engine nor
’ no organized Company —not even a Hook and Lad
der Company, whieu in th;3 instance would have
been of eminent service. The tire started iu the
j middle of the square, and it spread both w tys, un
j til it consumed the entire square, including Nor
i ton’s store, and tho Kiehange Building o: iteei
j tremes.
We do not know who was iusured. A large
portion of the goods in the stores burn;, were saved
’ though iu a damaged condition.
; The following were the buildings burro: RS,
} Norton's store and back store house—rues of the
I goods saved iu a damaged condition. Lumpkin *t
I Myers’ family Grocery ; Turnley & Baker's Grog
i Store; A. 1* Neshl’s Tait-'f Shop: Ctoi rwood’s
| Grocery; the buildingoocunied by Bowman, where
the tire broke out; tlie office occupied by Grs.
I Wooten &. Gregory; H A. Smiths’* Book store—
ino insurance: N J. Omberg’s Merchant Tailor
[ Siiop; S. Jonas’ Clothing Store; Sanders A Bro.’s
I Dry Goods and Grocery Store . Morris Koto’s Dry
Goods and Clothing Store, with D. S. Printup’s and
H. A. Gartrell’s Law Office? above; the building
occupied by Underwood dr Smith as a Law Office
—B- Underwood aud Fred. Cooper—Law Office,
and tho Exchange Building, containing the Post
Office, (most of the important papeis were saved,)
Burnett’s Gro. ery Store, Hugh's Dry Goods Store,
and the “Southerner & Advertiser” Office.
The file was stopped at the Exchange Buiidiug
by the extreme exertions of the daring, earnest ef
forts of cur citizens.
The firs is still burning aj half past five, bat no
farther spread is apprehended—several buildings ou
the opposite side of the street caught but were put
out. Most of the goods were removed to the street.
The Choice,Hotel narrowly escaped.
The loss may be estimated from seventy-five to
one hundred thousand dollars.
Washington Items —The Committee of Ways
and Means meet regularly every day and dispose of
a vast quantity of business. They have cut down
already upwards of ten million dollars from the es
timates sent in by the various Secretaries. They
are determined to bring the appropriations down to
the lowest mark. The Commi tee, it is said, have
discovered a leak in the outlays of the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, and that only $'200,000 will be recom
mended as an appropriation for that, station. The
investigating committees have commenced their
labors. Hon. Robert Smith, of 111, was examined
ou the Fort Sneliing affair, and Mr. Fay on the SB7-
000 mystery.
It is now positively asserted that Gen. Scott will
proofed to California in the steamer which sails
from New York on the 20th proximo. Orders wiii
be issued from the War Department in a few days
to that (-fleet. The ollieers at present detailed to
accompany him are Col. L. Thomas, Assistant Ad
jutant-General, Lieut. Col. George W. Lay, Aid-de-
Cainp, and Assisiant-Surgeon Chas. 11. Crane, Med
ical Department.
Ex Secretary Stanton, in conversation held since
his arrival at Washington, is reported as saying that
if the Leeompton Constitution is imposed upon the
territory by Congress, and the slave ticket is return
ed elected, the Governor will never dare to reside
in the territory, nor will the legislature dare to
convene there. I’bat neither would be safe for an
hour, unless protected by the United States troops.
That nothing but an armed force could compel any
thing like submission to the Lecomptou government,
so flagrant were the frauds in which it originated,
and the tyranny by which it is enforced. Nor is
this foiling confined to the eastern settlers nor to
anti-slavery men. btanton does not hesitate to say
that he would have preferred tha Kansas should bo
a tla-.e State, but the feeling of the territory is so
decidedly, so overwhelmingly against it, that it is
utter ma iness on the part of any southern man to
attempt to make it anything but a free State. The
Washington correspondent of the New York Times
say 5
The aspect of the Kansas question lias ehnnged
in the House since last week,and changed forihe
worse. As there is hope oi a Pro-Slavery State
Government and Legislature under Calhoun’s coan
tiug. it is determined that the Lecomptou fraud shall
bo put through.
And it probably will be. Douglas has spent his
force and weakened bis position by ostentatiously
clinging to his party. The Northern Democracy
arc backing down.
Ten Pennsylvania members have given in their
adhesion to Leeompton, among them Mr. Lately,
previously reported to bo anli Leeompton. Os the
New Jersey Democrats Mr. Adrian alone hold out.
Os the six Indiana Democrats, four are for Lecomp
tou. Clay Jewett, and Stevenson, Kentucky, are
also claimed for Leeompton, though reported last
week to be against it. The Vice President, who, it
has been asserted, sympathized with Douglas, is for
Leeompton.
Mr. Shaw, of Illinois, will make a Douglas peech
iu the House to-morrow, but it is of no use. Doug
las has fallen between two stools. The attempt to
sit on Kansas and on Nicaragua at the same time
has not succeeded.
Washington Items—lt is .stated that the Ad
ministration have information to warrant the belief
that the Free State party have carried everything
in Kansas. In other quarters it is alleged that the
returns communicated through Gen. Denver con
clusively settle the election. The fact is not dis
guised that within a few days signs of resisting Le
compton in the House are much modified, and this
tendency is strengthened on the ground that the
Constitution can be changed immediately after ad
mission.
The Administration are in possession of highly
important information relative to Mexican affairs,
ai.u also respecting the situation of Cuba and Spain
in regard to Mexico. The existing convulsion in
Mexico will probably result in its disintegration.—
Dora long time it has been in contemplation by
Mexican leaders to separate the northern provinces
of Mexico from the central government and estab
lish the independent republic of Sierra Madre. The
present Governor of Monterey, Gen. Vidaurri, a
very able end vigorous man, has, it is said, cherish
ed this scheme, and the present is a tit time for car
rying it out If Spain should persist in hostilities
against Mexico, it will tend to complicate the
whole matter, as far as the United Stated are con
cerned. The present Minister of the United States
is about to return, having asked and received
leave. What may be the policy of ihe Administra
tion in jegard to Mexjco is unknown, for in his an
nual message the President was entirely silent.on
the subject.
Gn. Scott, according to some statements, has
postponed, and according toothers Las reconsidered
his purpose of going to California, and the project is
definitely relinquished. The intention was predica
ted on the expectation of Congress authorizing the
increase of regiments asked for by the President, so
that the force on the Atlantic might be transferred
to the Pacific, the vacuum being supplied by new
levies. The adverse indications by the vote in the
Senate yesterday, and the sentiment, of the House,
led to the abandonment of the policy.
The receipts from Customs do not materially in
crease, ranging in New York from $200,000 to $300,-
000 per week. The Government obligations are
now chiefly discharged in paper money, Treasury
Notes, li will not be difficult to get oft’ in this way
the six millions of dollars already printed. Three
per cent, h jwever, is a very small interest, and
some difficulty is found in calculating it. It is sug
gested to adopt a simpler mode, and to make the
interest one cent a day on each SIOO note, and in
proportion for those of larger denomination.
Disaster of the Fanny Fern.— The steamer
Fanny Fern, which exploded her boiler below Cin
cinnati on Thursday last., was owned by W. W.
Martin, Pittsburgh, and valued at $12,000, and in
flured in the Pittsburgh Offices for $9,000. Tlie fol
lowing persons are known to be lost: Capt. Ben j.
Woodward, of Newport, Ivy.; Mr. and Mrs. Mur
phy, of Pennsylvania; Wm. Wilson, an English
man ; James Anderson, oi Xenia, Ohio ; James Ma
loy; Michael Donohue ; James Kuvanagh ; Thomas
Walker and Robert Riddle, of Pittsburgh; a widow
lady and child, unknown , Hannah Thomas, cham
bermaid, of Allegheny city.
The following were scalded : Alfred Rogers, of
Pittsburgh, severely ; Harry Drum, of Pittsburgh,
slightly; Adrian J. Kirkpatrick, slightly; John
Flynn, William Paul, John W.Kerr, and Henry W.
Casey, severely. Several others were more or less
scalded and burned.
Immediately following the explosion, the cabin
and part of the boat wa3 tilled with steam,
and the widest confusion ensued, rendering any
thing like system or order utterly impossible. In
the cabin there were twelve male and two female
passengers, and on deck eleven males and three fe
males—2B passengers in all. The survivors repre
sent the crash which followed the first explosion a3
terrible and deafening, the upper portion of the
steamer falling in one general mass upon the lower
deck, as the underwork was carried away by the
exploded boiler.
The explosion of the boiler scattered the fire from
the fumaca, and in a few moments the boat was in
fie nes. The passengers who were uninjured ran
wildly about and several jumped overboard and
were drowned, while others w'ere picked up by the
small boats and conveyed to the shore. Those who
were saved describe the scene as one of great con
sternation, the passengers who were not thrown
overboard by the explosion running about shrieking
and screaming in tlie wildest manner.
The steamer headed for the Kentucky shore after
the explosion and gradually floated down the river,
and at a dial a nee of a mile and a ha'f from the scene
of the catastrophe burned to the water's edge, when
the hull sunk within thirty feet ot the land.
The Fenny Fern was owned by Capt. W. W.
Martin, of Pittsburgh, and was valued at $12,000.
She was insured iu three offices at Pittsburg for
$9 000.
i he trip on which this painful cataetrope occurred
was one of the imoet successful of the sea?on. She
had on board about 160 tons of friegut for Cincin
aita of various kinds, and took on board *it Louis
vi le, Aurora and Lawrenceburgb, for PiUsburgh,
640 barrel? flour. Nearly two hundred tou3 of as
sorted freight were en route for Pittsburgh.
The way the little sou of Louis Napoleon takes
his airing is a show for any one to see, though ali
may not regard it in the same way. He rides in a
large coupe carriage, drawn by four horses, con
ducted by two. postillions, and the nur - h-ilds him
up at the"window, that the people may see uns real
ly fine looking baby. Two liveried servants cm
horseback precedes the cairi&ge about two hundred
yards, and are followed by half a dozen lancers,
bearing, of course, the email uniform flag upon
each lance, ae if to amuse the youngster, imme
diately in front of tha leading carriage-horse is
another mounted servant, and two others are seated
in the rear. At the side of the carriage rides a
gentlemen in plain clothes, called in English a i
equerry, and in the rear is a detachment of lancers
—perhaps ten or twelve in number—under the
charge of an officer ; the whole cavalcade mo tir g
at a rapid pace. To one who has had several boys
quite as promising as this Prince, escorted at his
age by a eingle nurse, this expensive show seems
useless, if not ridiculous ; but it iu not so considered
by the French people.
Strawberries —We were ehown the other day
a number of large strawberries, ripe and luscious,
ills* plucked from tha vines in the garden of J. L.
McFariin, Esq , of this city, who we understand has
plenty more of the ‘same sort left’’ —now matur
ing. They were of the variety called “Peabody’?
Hautboy Seedlings.'’ This may seem ‘strange and
out of season to the people living in a more north
ern latitude, but to those who reside in our genial
ciime, it is no new thing to have strawberries, as
well as other garden vegetables, in abundance at
this season of the year.— Commercial Advertiser ,
Apalachicola Fl?
Liect A. K. Allen Supposed to be Lost.— We
learn that about two weeks ago Lieut. Allen with a
small party of men, left the Dalles for Fort Simc e.
When they reached the Simeoe mountains there was
a severe snow raging, and the men fearing they
would not be able to make the trip in safety return
ed, leaving Lieut. Allen to pursuers journey alone
Since then he has not been hsard from, at.d it ip
supposed he perished on the mountains. He had
about $-is,ooo‘in cash with him — Oregonian.
Important to Postmasters. —The postmaster
General has recently decided that if Postmasters do
not give publishers of newspapers notice that their
pacers remain in the post office without being ta-
out by the subscribers, within five weeks, they
are liable tor pay.
Pigeons. — A letter Lorn Campbell county, Va ,
states that probably 100,000 pigeens have been re
cently killed in one section of the county. The lo
cality on which these birds are found is the territory
be’ween the Little and Big Falling iiivsre, in Camp
bell county. The T’aioa Hill Church is about th.
central point and Lead-quarters. They come in
their oamp by thousands at night, and leave w
tbe morning light, and go out iu armies into the su -
rounding country for acorns. Their numbers 1.
not diminishing, but are represented as rather . -
creasing. They have already occupied this grot: 1
for months. Two hundred men and boys are sc*’ -
times found in pursuit of the birds in the night t; \
■ within the limits of the pigeon camp.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Washington News.
Washington, Feb. I.—The Leeompton Constitu
tion and President Buchanan's message on that sub
ject will be sent into Congress to morrow.
In the Senate to day, the Hon. James F. Doolit
tle, of Wisconsin, presented a petition from a por
tion of the people of Wisconsin, asking the Gov
ernment to adopt some policy looking to the acqui
sition and annexation of Cuba.
The bill for increasing the army was under dis
cussion in the Senate.
Ia the House, resolutions were adopted instruct
ing the appropriate committee to consider the ex
pediency of abolishing all import duties, and insti
tutirg diiect taxation.
Abstract of the President’* Message.
Whashington, Feb. 2. — The message of the Pre
sident, accompanying the Leeompton Constitution,
was read before Congress to-day.
The President says great delusion prevails about
the condition of parties in Kansas. He recapitulates
the history of past affairs—pronounces tho Topeka
g <veminent a usurpation—and declares it impossi
ble t. at any people could have proceded with more
regularity than the people of Kansas in the forma
tion of the Leeompton Constitution. The Conven
tion of June last was a propitious moment to settle
all difficulties in the Territory, but the Topeikeitee
suffered the election to go by default, hence they
have no right to complain. The Leeompton Con
vention was legally constituted and invested with
poK-er to frame a Constitution, which it did, and
submitted the question the people of Kausas.
whether Kansas should be a free or a slave Stale.
The President believes that under the organic act
the Convention was bound to submit this all import
ant question to the people. Aud they did so, and
agaiu the Topekeites refused to participate iu the
elections.
At the electiou for State officers, on the 4th of
January, a wiser spirit prevailed, aud the vote was
much larger. The people of Kansas have, there
fore, in strict conformity with the organic act, frain
ed a Constitution for their State Government, aud
submitted the slavery question to the people—elect
ed their State officers—and now ask admission into
the Union under this Constitution.
The President is decidedly in favor of the admis
sion of Kansas, thus terminating the excitements of
the Kansas question by tranquilizing Us distracting
influences.
Asa question of expediency even, Kansas should
be admitted; inasmuch as it, would restore quiet to
the Union and prosperity to the Territory and to
the people of Kansas.
I lie only practical difference between its admis*
sion and rejection is, whether they can more speedi
ly change their present Constitution, oi frame a
second one, to be submitted to Congress.
It should never be forgotten that in proportion to
the insignificance of the slave question, as affecting
the lew thousand inhabitants of Kansas, the fourteen
Slave States wdl feel the rejection of the Constitu
tion keenly.
M nen Kansas is admitted, the excitement be
comes tranqualized and readily cools off, and jthe
troops canbe withdrawn.
Ihe President concludes by declaring as his con
sciential belief that the dark clouds now over the
Union can be dispelled by the admission of Kansas
under the Leeompton Constitution, or darkened by
ts rejection.
Congressional.
\\ ashington, Feb. 2. —ln the Senate the Mes
sage was received. lis reference was discussed,
but no action taken.
In the House tho printing deficiency bill was de
feated. The President’s message was received,
and a warm debate ensued, but no action taken.
Arrival of the Isabel.
Savannah, Jan. 28.—The steamship Isabel
ed off Tybee yesterday evening. Her mails and
passengers were brought up to the city by tho
steamer Columbus.
By this arrival we learn that the mail steamer due
at Havana from New York and New Orleans, nor
the English mail steamer had not reached Havana
on the 25fck inet.
The Granada, from Aspinwall, arrived on the 23d
in?t. The frigate Wabash was at Key West, and
all the crow were well. Several of the inen, belong.
• ing to the Wabash, have reached here, their time
having expired.
The Isabel ext hanged signals with tho schooner
Elydia Gibbs, bound South.
Charleston, Jan. 28. —The Isabel reached here
this morning, with Havana and Key West dates to
the 25th inst.
Sugar was unchanged, and Molasses had a declin
ing tendency.
Exchange on Loudon, 1G per cent premium,
and New York and Boston 3 to 4 per cent premium
Col. Auderson, with six officers and thirty-nine
men reached Key West in the United States steam
frigat: Wabash on tho 17th inst. All of these offi
cers aud men were arrested by the United States
Marshal. The Court decreed that they should be
held for trial to the U. S. District Court of Louisia
na. _ln default of bail they are still in custody.
Nothing said about the existence of yellow fever
in Havana.
markets.
New York, Feb. I.—Sales of Cotton to-day 2000
bales at J cent advance; Middling Uplands 10$
cent;?. Flour dull; sales 5000 barrels, Southern
$4,50®54,85. Wheat firm, Southern White $1,25
Corn firm, sales 13,000 bushels, White G 7
®7O cents. Turpentine steady. Rosin dull.
New York, Feb. 2. —Sales of cotton 2500 bale?,
with a firm market. Flour firm, sales 8500 barrels.
Wheat very dull. Corn dull, with sales of 12,000
bushels, at a slight decline. Coffee firm, with sales
of 3500 sacks, from eta. Molasses, N. 0.,
25©26c. per gallon. Turpentine firm at 42£c. Rosin
steady. Rice firm, with sales of 400 tierces.—
Frieghta dull.
Savannah, Feb. I.—Sales of Cotton 1,100 bales,
at prices ranging from Bto 10$ cents. The market
advanced £ with a brisk enquiry.
Savannah, Feb. 2.—Sales of cotton to-day 1600
bales, at prices ranging from 9to 10$ cents The
market is brisk at an |c. advance.
Charleston, Feb. I.—Sales of Cotton 1 MM) bales.
The market is firm at full prices. Middling Fair
10$ to 10| cents. * *
Charleston, Feb. 2.—Sales of Cotton 2200 bales,
at advancing prices. Middling Fair 10}® 11 cents.
Mobile, Feb. I.—Sales of Cotton for Iwo days
6500 bales; Middling 10 cents, with a firm and ad
vancing market. Receipts 7500 bales.
New Haven, Jan. 30.—The examination of A. S.
Tuekerman, charged with robbing the mails, began
before Commissioner Ingersoll yesterday.
This morning the prisoner waived further exami
nation and was bound over in the sum of $20,000 to
take his trial on the fourth Tuesday in February.
The witnesses identified the various documents
and packages found in Tuekerman’s possession, and
proved when they were sent by mail. li was shown
that he was in the habit of riding the mail, and
that his conduct was suspected.
Mr. Holbrook testified that when he w.as in the
cai closet watching Tuekerman he heard footsteps,
the rattling of a mail bag, aud its fall into a trunk,
and the trunk shut. As they reached New Haven
he saw Tuekerman take a mail bag from his trunk
and put it back.
He then arrested him and found various missing
packages upon him. The prisoner for want of bail
was returned to jail.
Washington, Jan. 30.—The Government em
ployees are being paid their monthly salaries to
day.
The official advices from the Pacific show that
the Indian tribes though peaceble have been much
excited by the rumors which reached them of the
destruction of the government store-*, and it was
feared that there is a disposition on their part to
break out into open hostilities.
The committee on foreign affairs of the House is
engaged in preparation of a report on Central Am
erican Affairs, which it is said will support general
ly the views of the President.
Philadelphia, Jan. 30.—Richard B. Jones, for
merly proprietor of Jones’ Exchange Hotel, acci
dentally fell from a third story window this morning
and was fatally injured.
Washington, Jan. 30.—Mr. Molina, the Minister
from Costa Rica, has been officially advised of the
negotiation of the late treaty between that Govern
ment and Nicaragua. As it settles to a certain ex
tent the business for which Mr. Escalante was
specially dispatched to Washington, he will soon
return to Costa Rica.
A private letter from a high functionary of Nica
ragua received in Washington states that the feel
ing now existing between the Nicaraguans and
Coßta Ricans is of the most friendly character.
The sum of $200,000 in treasury cotes were to
day paid to the mail contractors.
The government employees are being paid their
monthly salaries to-day principally in SIOO treasu
ry notes and a small portion of specie.
Weather Reports. —Saturday, Jan. 30, 9 A.
M.—
New Orleans—Clear, mercury 55 1 2 J 4
Vicksburg—Cloudy, wind northeast, mercury
47 J .
Natchez—Hazy, mercury
Louisvdie—Cloudy, wind north east mercury
Pittsburg—Appearance of snow, mercury 32 v .
Philadelphia—Clear, wind north-west, mercury
38°.
Boston—Blustering, wind north west, mercury
Bt. John’s—Drifting snow.
Sackville—Tremendous snow storm,mercury 24°.
Halifax—Cloudy, mercury 35°.
New Orleans, Jan. 30.—Cotton: Sales 4090
bales. Prices unchanged. Molasses stiffer. Sugar
firm. Corn 59. Freights and exchange unchanged.
Cincinnati, Jan. 30.—Isiour dull. Whisky 15.
Hogs and provisions unchanged. Mesa Pork sl3 25.
Lard 8J © B^. Oats 35.
Boston, Jan. 27.—At the first meeting oft! e ere
filters of Charles P. Mills & Cos., in the Court of
Insolvency, claims to the amount of $1,200,000 were
proved, and additional debts, to the amount of seve
ral hundred thousand dollar-i, will be proved at the
next meeting. Messr.. Ezra Lincoln and B. K
Mudge were chosen assignees.
Harrisburg, Jan. 28. — The Senate passed a joint
resolution 10-day authorizing the Goveruer to open
a correspondence with the Governors of other States
for the calling of a convention for the adoption of a
measure to prohibit the issuing of notes under five,
ten < r twenty dollar*.
W ‘ soy on, Jan. 29.—The Navy Department
has re ‘ ived advices to the 25th of November from
Cos n. Armstrong, in command of the squadron in
the Chirr f-e Seas, enclosing di patcha from Capt.
DtiiiOi • t the steam frigate Minnesota, which ar
rived a U >ug Kong on the sth of November—her
sailing time from Hampton Hoads being 105 days.
The unusual length of tho voyage was occasioned
oy the caution with which Capt. Dupont tested the
steaming and sailing qualities of the vessel. In clear
weather the easily made 13 or 14 knots per hour
Many foreign officers who visited her pronounced
her the moet admirable war vessel in the world.—
Com. Armstrong pronounces the coal at the de
pot at Hong Kong almost worthless for war steam
ers.
Dispatches dated Honolulu have also been receiv
ed from Commander Davis, of the idoop-of-war Bt.
Mary’s. He says that since the last advices from
him were transmitted, over one hundred Ameri'an
vessels have anchored in that harbor, having prop
erty on board worth $20,000,000.
Lieut. Craven, in command of the Atrato survey
ing expedition, writes to the department from Camp
Toucey, on the Imando river, under date of the sln
inst.. stating that he had arrived within 35 miles of
the Pacific ocean, and expected to reach it by the
middle of this month. He engaged in discharg
ing his provisions from the lungoes and had sent to
Carthagena for new supplies. He complains that
the axes furnished by the Bureau of Construction
have proved so miserable as to ocnsideiably delay
’he party in cutting their way through the forests.
Buffalo, Jan. 28 —This morning’s Express pub
liahea a statement of lake disasters during the year
1857. Total loss of property $1,870,935 decrease
as compared with latt year's loss, of $1,738,808. To
tal loss of life for 1857 , 490—an increase of 83 over
last year.
COMMERCIAL.
Beware of Wild Cate,
In the present monetary crisis, it behooves the
peoplo to watch carefully, and avoid all contact
wi, h the Wild Cat Banks and their issues. Be espe
cially careful to give them neither countenance or
Circulation; avoid them as you would a highway
man, and the contents of your purees will be xrnch
more secure and valuable. To enable the people to
protect themselves, as much as possible, &<rahit
these institution, wo subjoin a list of all of
which we regard totally unworthy of confidence or
credit:
Merchants’ Bank, of Macon.
Interior Bank, Griffin.
T Bank, LaGrange.
Southern Bank, Baiabridge.
Cherokee Insurance & Banking Com'y, Dalton.
Plasters’ &. Mechanics’ Bank, Dalton.
North-Western Bank, Ringold, Ga.
Bank of Greensboro’, Greensboro’.
Exchange Bank, Griffin.
BROKE.
Man u f act ure rs’&Mechas ics’ Hank, Columbus
COTTON STATEMENT.
Comparative Statement of Cotton in Augusta and
Hamburg, Febuary 1, 1857 and 1858.
1858. 1857.
Stock ou hand September l, 1857 2,717 1.766
Received from Sept. Ito Jau. 1 .. .76 4IK) 138,692
Received iu January 27,760 .<1,447
Total supply aud Receipts 106,997 171.907
Deduct Stock, Sept. 1 2,747 1,768
Total Receipts 104,250 170,139
Decrease 65,889
SHIPMENTS.
To Savannah in January 4,291 12,312
“Charleston “ 16 593 25,081
“ Sav’h and Charleston previously. 55,577 95,877
Total Shipments 76.461 133,270
STOCK.
In Augusta 26,660 35,266
“ Hamburg 3,876 3,371
Total Stock 30,536 38,637
AUGUSTA MARKET.
*7eekly Report Tuesday, p. M.
COTTON.—The week past has been marked by
steadiness in the prices and activity in the demand.—
Sales reach near 4000 bales, including all lots of every
description ottered. The better grades, as heretofore
repeatedly noted, command the most ready gale. Tho
business to-day lias been less extensive, owing to the
strirgent prices asked by Factors. We quote
inferior 6
Ordinary 8 ft > 9
Middling 9J ft) 10
Good Middling ]o4@loi
Middling Fair 10j| <J>
RECEIPTS TO LATEST DATES.
. 1858. 1857
New Orleans, Jan. 26 794,880 1,093,601
Mobile, Jan. 22 247,218 353,191
Florida, Jan. 24 28,r24 70,387
Texas, Jan. 15 57,802 47*578
Savannah, Jan. 27 109,829 218,7 fl
Charleston, Jan 28 141.471 242/285
N. Caroliua, Jau. 20 4 377 10,870
Virginia, Dec. 1... 2,806 6.797
Total Receipts 1,387,207 1,953,416
Decrease 566,209
STUCKB 1N SOUTHERN PORTS
Now Orleans, Jau. 25 .....341,826 .‘189,242
Mobile, Jan. 22 134.222 10i>!*447
Florida, Jan. 22 1 1,t70 38.563
Texas, Jan. 15 18.888 5,737
Savannah, Jan. 27.. 33,000 £8,657
Charleston, Jan. 28 25 328 57*433
N. Carolina, Jan. 20 350 900
Virginia, Dec. 1 900 426
Total Stocks 565 584 750 405
New York, Jan. 26..... 14,3-7 85,620
EXPORTS TO F(>Hi:iGN PORm
To Great. Briiain 492,169 454,324
“ France. 184,121 189.5C0
** other Foreign Ports 118,389 129,613
Total Foreign Exports 794,670 773,469
To Northern U. S. Ports 115,472 459.814
BACON. —There is a light demand aud prices aie
very irregular. Wo refer to quotations below, as the
nearest, approximation we can give to present rates.
FLOUR. —Transactions a; c confined to filling sma’l
orders for the retail trade, aud prices remain without,
alteration.
GRAIN.—We have nothing new to report. There is
very little ou the market, aud transactions are unimpor
tant.
SUGAR, COFFEE and MOLASSES, are dull and
prices are little more than rominai. We refer to our
“Prices Current” for quotations.
EXCHANGE—S’ aue—Sterling selling at 3 per cent,
premium.
FREIGHTS.—The River is in fine navigable order.
The rates of Freight to Savannah by River remain at
30 cents per bale for Cotton. By Railroad to Sava? nab
80 cents, and to Charleston 80 cents.
AUGUSTA PRICES CURRENT
WHOLESALE PRICES.
BAGGING.—Gunny ip yard 11 ft 15
Kentucky s>• yard none
Dundee & yard non
BACON—Hams ip Ih 12 ft 13. V
Shoulders <jj v IU 10 ‘ft 101
Western Sides lo lUf © li’
Clear Sides, Tennessee Ift 11 ft 12
Hog round -jp Ift 11A ft 13
BUTTER.—Gosheu -p Ift 25 ft 35
Country It, 20 ft 25
BRICKS & 1000 00 ft 850
CANDLES. —Adamantine tft 21 ft 25
Chemical Sperm fer ID 35 a. 374
Pure do <#*■ Ift 45 ft 3O
CHEESE—Northern tft 12 ft 13
English Dairy 4* tft 13 ft 15
COFFEE.—Rio ft 10} ft 12
Laguira Ift 13 \ ft 15
J- a 4P* lb 18 ft 19
DOMESTIC GOODS—Yarns w 1 124
I Shirting yard 7 ft 8
5 Shirting <#>• yard 8 ft 10
1 Shirting & yard 8} ft 10f
5- Shirting 4? yard 12 ft 14
6- Shirting %>’ yard 14 ft 16
Osn&burga yard 12i ft 13
FEATHERS ft 40 ft 45
FISH. —Mackerel, No. 1 bbl 14 00 ft 17 00
No. 2 bbl 12 50 <2/15 CO
No. 3 V bbl 10 00 ft 11 00
Large No. 1 bbl 18 00 <2)20 00
“ No. 2 -P bbl HOO mti 00
f ‘ No. 3 bbl 11 00 ft I'2 00
Herrings box ft 1 00
FLOUR.—Tennessee Extra 4P* bbl 575 ft 600
Tennessee Superfine & bbl 525 ft 550
Tennessee Fine 4P’ bbl 5 00 ft
City Mills bid 650 ft 750
Denmead’s bbl 575 ft 725
GRAIN. —Corn, with sacks & bush 60 tv 65
Wheat, white, bush 1 10 ft 1 15
Wheat, red *>’ bush 1 U ) ft 1 05
Oats bush 55 ft 60
Rye bush 75 ft 100
Peas bush H<t ft 1 00
Corn Meal bush 60 ft 75
GUNPOWDER.—Dupont’s...#** keg 725 ft 750
Hazard keg 725 ft 750
Blasting & kog 550 ft 600
IRON —Bwedcs ft 5$ ft 5f
English &ft 34 ft 44
LARD 4P 1 Ift 10 ft 11
LEAD. —Bar Ift 8 ft 9
LlME.—Country l? box 125 ft 150
Northern bbl 175 ft 200
LUMBER.... & 1000 10 00 ftl\ 00
MOLASSES.—Cuba gal 25 ft 30
Golden Syrup gal 45 ft 50
New Orleans Syrup gal 40 ft 45
NAILS VIB 41 ft 4f
OlLS.—Sperm, prime 4P* gal 200 ft 225
Lamp 4 v gal 110 ft 125
Train gal 75 ft 100
Linseed -P gal 110 ft 115
Gas,or •P’ gal 200 ft 225
RICE 4P* ft j ft 41
ROPE. —Handspun Ift 0i ft 104
Mac) uue 4P ft 10 ft 11
RAISINS <#>’ box 300 ft 350
SPlßlTS.—Northern Gin gal 45 ft 50
Rum ip gal 50 ft 55
N. O. Whiskey gal 27 ft 33
Peach Brandy ip gal ft 2 50
Apple Brandy ip gal ft none
Holland Gin ip gal 150 175
Cognac Brandy gal 300 ft 600
SUGARS.—New Orleans ip ft 8 ft 9
Porto Rico ip ft Oi ft 0i
Muscovado ip Ift 8 ft 94
Loaf ip ft 13 ft 14
Crushed ip Ift 12 ft 13
Powdered Ift ly ft 13
Refined Coffee A -P Ift 12 ft 124
Do. do. B ip ft 10* ft 114
Do do. O ip Ift 94 ft 10f
SALT ip sack 1 00 ft 1 10~
SOAP.—Yellow ip ft 6 ft 8
SHOT ip bag 2 124 ft 225
TWINE.—Hemp Bagging ft 22 ft 25
Cotton Wrapping ip Ift 23 ft 374
It is proper to remark that these are the current
rates at wholesale, from store—of course, at retail, prices
are a shade higher, and from the Wharf or Depots, in
large quantities a shade lower.
MARRIED
. On the 19th inst., at tbe residence of the Bride’s
father, by Prof Geo. W. W. Stone, Mr. GEORGE W.
JOHNSON, of Fort Va‘ ley, Ga , and Miss VICTORIA
A , second (. aughter of Rev. A. Means, D. I)., of Oxford,
Ga.
City papers please copy.
In Wilkes county, on the 22d January by the Rev.
G. G. Norman, Mr. GEO. 11. LEE, of Mississippi, and
M's. &ALLY M. ARMSTEAD, of Wilkes.
SPECIAL NOTICES,
EOOK AND JOB PRINTING.
fnx Chronicle A Sentinel, Job Printing Office,
prepared to print in tbebeststyle, and at short notice,
BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, POSTERS,
TICKETS, BILLHEADS, LABELS,
RECEIPTS, CIRCULARS, NOTES
SHOW-BILLS, CHECKS, DRAFTS
AND COLORED AND BRONZED LABELS,
Including every variety of Letter Press Printing! n Plain
nd Fancy Cflora.
BOOK-BINDING.
Connected the office of the Chronicle 6c. Senti
nll, is a BINDERY, furnished with every requisite for
ih< execution of good work.
i.aving secured the services of a very superior B n let
w<. arc prepared to execute all orders for making
BLANK LOOKS,
AND
UNDJNG MAGAZINES, PERIODICALS, Ac.,
every description, in the best style, at short notice
RULING
done to any pattern and in the neatest style.
j No Family can afford to be without MUS
TANG UNI ME vT in their house. The many acci
deiiU we are 1 abie to, may render it necessary any mo-
LOfc.it, and nothing is capable of performing such a cer
tain cure. Extract.—“ In liftiEg the kettle from the fire
it caug’;t and sea ded my hands and person very severe
ly—one hand a'mo;t to a crisp. The torture was on’
be? “able. It was an awful sight. * * The
Mu.tar j Liniment appeared to extract the pain almost
imm 2diui. y. It healed rapidly aud left no scar cf ac*
count — Chas. FOSTER, 420 Broad at., Phiia.” It is tru
ly a wonderful article. It will cure any case cf Swell
ing Bums, Stiff Joints, Eruptions or Kcoumatism For
Ho -ies, it should never be dispensed with. One dollar’s
worth of Mustang has frequently saved a valuable horse-
It cures Galds, .Sprains, Ringbone, Spavin and Founders’
Beware of imitations. Sold in a 1 parts of the habitable
globe. BARNES 6c PARK,
feb3-d&wlm Proprietors. New-York
A FORTUNE OF
$70,000 !
TO BE IIAD BY RISKING
*lO ONLY!
IN S. SWAN 6l COMPANY’S LOTTERY,
To be drawn each Saturday in February, 1858.
1 Prize of $70,000 !
1 Prize of $30,000 !
1 Prize of 810,000 !
1 Prize of 85,000 !
1 Prize of 84,000!
. Ac., Ac., Ac
Nearly One Prize to every Nine Ticketa!
Whole Ticke’s 810.00 ; Halves 85.00 ; Quarters $2.50.
Address orders for Tickets to
S. SWAN 6c CO. Augusta, Geo.,
orS. SWAN A CO., Atlanta, Geo.
For particulars, see Scheme in another column.
jan3i-d4Awl
LAFAYETTE COURSE.
rSPThe Annual Races over the LaFayette
Course, will commence TUESDAY, J6fh February
next. Fine sport may bs looked for, a- there will be
MULE RACING for three days. Jan2B-twAwtd
ADVERTISE ft 1 ENTS,
LOST,
ON tho Ogeechce River, in the settlement of Dr. Lew
is Per ks. near Veasy’s Mills, January 22d, a fine
HOUND SLUT, two years old, of medium size, slender
built; cars red, neck and h ad white, with the exception
of a red spot on the back of her neck; feet and legs
white ; body red and whit; gives her mouth short and
shrill while running. She wai lost from the pack on the
above day, while running through that settlement. She
may have strayed towards White Plains, Union Point,
or m she direction of Little River or Powelton. I will
give 65 for her delivery, or any information so that I can
get her. JOHN H. FELTS, Raytown, Ga.
ftb3-w2t
BROUGHT TO JAIL.
f vN the 15th of Ja inary, a Negro Boy by the uame of
® Frank, about 22 years of age at>d a cut 5 feet Bor
9 inches hi-fa, weighs about 160 pounds, dark complex
ion, bushy h -ad of hair, front teeth rather wide apart
The said boy says he was taken from Norfo.k, Va., by
Mr. Lumpkin, of Richmond Va, aud sold to Air. John
Wade, of Mississippi, in tho neighborhood of Marietta,
Miss. The. owner will please come forward, prove pro
petty, pay expenses and take him away.
URIAH SLACK, Jailor, R C.
Augusta, Ga., Feb. 2, 1858. d3fcwtf
LEATHER MACHINE BELTING
AND FACTORY FINDINGS.
I)ATKNT Riveted, Stretched aud Cemented Leather
BELTING, single aud double, all widths, 1 to 24
inches, curried and stretched by our-elves. Quality
tuarantied. A large stock always ou hand
ALSO,
Rubber Belting and Steam Packing, Copper Rivets
and Burrs, Ac.; Washers, Ring Travelers, Roller
Brushes, Roller Cloth, Stripper Cards, Pickers, La*
Screws, Ltg Leather, and a variety of Factory Find
ings. For ;,ale on accommodating terms by
SHERMAN, JESSUP A CO.,
No. 341 Broad street, 2d doer above Eauk of Augusta,
jant dtw&wlm
GEORGIA SARSAPARILLA COMPOUND,
OR DENNIS ALTERATIVE!
L V PINT BOTTLES.
I>KKiMIIED by J. DENNIS. M. D., Augusta, Ga ,
for diseas ? of the Liver and to Purify the Blood.
ClOMrosiT ON. —It contains, in addition to Sarsapa
rilla, the Hydro Alcoholic Extract of Queen's Delight,
(Stilliu^ia); White Ash, Grey Beard or Friugo Tiee,
tChtenanthus); Tincture of May Apple or Mandrake,
(Podophyllum,) and Blood Roo k , (Sanguinaria.)
In onail doses it i.i alterative or laxative - in large
doses it acts generally as a mild purgative. With some
it is an act ve purgative. In some cases there Uno per
cept.ble action on the bowels ; yet, in Liver Complaint,
or in diseases arising from impurit es in the blood, its
continued use produces a ma. ked Improvement in the
general health.
I ingredients are well known to be good. Its forum
lar has been highly approved of by eminent physicians.
It sells readily and gives g od satisfaction.
The publication of its composition is the best certlfl
cate or recommoud&t on that can be given. It is not
offered to the public ns a universal Specific , but as one of
the best Mdicinesfor diseases ot the Liver and for
purifyiug the Blood, that can be ohtaiued.
For -ale by Druggists generally.
Rkfkkkncks—E. E. Ford; I>. IV, Augusta, Ga.; Hou.
A H. Stephens, Ex-Gov. H. V. Johnson . Hon. W. Gil
more Simms, Charleston ; Gen. James Jones, J. Cald
well, Esq., Columbia, S C., Rev. W. A. McSwaiu, aud
Rev. J. A Porter, Sumter, S. C fel>2
IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRY,
Augusta, Ga.
HIUIIT A iIIACIII’RPHY continue the above
. business at the old stand, near the Factory. Will
be .hankful for oid rs for all kiudj of Iron and Brans
CASTINGS, or for MACHINERY iu general.
janiS ’SB ly
SITUATION AS TEACHER WANTED.
A YOl Mi liFNTLKJIAN, from Virginia, who
/jL was educated at one < f the best C lieges iu the
United States, wishes a SITUATION as Principal of an
Academy, Assistant Tea.h.r in some good School, or
Tutor in a private family.
Would be competent to teach tho Latin, Greek and
Mathematics. The best of reference given, r.s to char
actor ami capacity. Phase address
,i n>3l-;kVwtf H. V. SMI msON, Augusta Ga
J. W. PRiTOIIETT.
VTTOKNUY AT LAW, Fair Mount, Ga., will
pay prompt attention to the collection of claims in
Gordon, Cass, Whitfield, Cherokee, Pickens, Gilmer
and Murray counties.
Refer to Messrs J. A. fc S. Erwin, Cartersville, Ga.,
Laws, Camp 61. Cos., Calhoun, Ga.; lfoyle 6c Field, Fair
Mount Ga jan’sß-ly
NEW DRUG- AND SEED STOiSE.
VT LA T.WTH, respectfully informs his frierds
• ill at he has opened anew DRUG AND SEED
S roRE, at tho old sla and recently occupied by Mr W
Haiues, on Broad street , two doors below the Post Office
The Drug aud Medicine department will be under the
direction of Air. F. J. bn.hfclt, an experienced Druggist
and Chemist, who will give strict attention 10 the putting
up of Physicians’ Frescriplior.s
lu the REED department, Air. L. Impel that an ex
perience of ten years will be a sufficient guarantee that
his customers will be supplied with none but genuine
SEED. Information as to Planting and Cultivating will
be always at the command of Lis customers. For the
present, Mr. L w i Ibo ass sted by his ton, E. G La-
Taste.
Mr L. rcspectftilly solicits the patronage of tho pub
lie, under full coufiden’ e of giving general satisfaction
Both depar.ments will be well supplied —tbeAledical
wi:h the be t from the North t e Beni from tho same,
with the import* and from the celebrated house ot Vilmorln,
Os Pari . ift ‘O and Sr.wtf
THE SUMMERVILLE ACADEMY
\\FILL be re opened ‘or tho reception of pupils on
MONDAY, the Ist cay ol FEBRUARY next
The Scholastic Year will consist of four quarters, of
eleven weeks each, with the following rates ol tuition :
Beginners iu Oitliogia by, and Reading, Primary
Geography, and Metal Arithmetic, per quarter,.slo.oo
Classics and Higher English 15.00
Intermediate Branches 12.50
No pupil admitted tor less than one quarter, and no de
duction for atsence except incase of protracted sickness,
payments bciugmude quarterly.
A l.mitcd nuinbt-r of pupils can be accommodated with
Board by the Principal. Board can bo obtained within
convenient distance of the school, < n leasonable terms.
jan22v3c S. W. HATCH, Principal.
CATAWBA GRAPE CUTTINGS,
AT sl2 PER THOUSAND.
1 L. Ar S. W. WYNN, Mallorysville. Ga.. will
•/ • supply purchasers with very superior CUTTINGS
of the genuine CATAWBA GRAPE at twelve dollars
per thou.-and. They will l>e carefully packed and for
warded as directed, per Railroad, from Washington.
Ail orders containing the cash, will be promptly ai
tended to. Address J. L. Ar 8. W. WYNN,
Malloryavillo, Wilkes co, Ga
Constitutionalist will copy. jam. 4 w2m
DISSOLUTIONS.
Copartnership heretofore existing between Dra
X HCBERT, CULVER <v MALL, was dissolved on
the Ist day of January, 1658 ; and that of Drs. HU BERT
A-,CULVER, was dissolved on the 21st day of January,
1858, both by mutual consent.
HUBERT, CULVER & IT ALL.
HUBERT & CULVER.
Warnnton, Ga , Jan. 27, 1858 ja- 30d&wl
Ji; Fit:RSON SIIKUI FF>S SA LK.—Will be sold
on the first Tuesday in MARCH next, between the
usual hours of sale, at the Market House, in the town of
L'mioville, Jefferson county, a tractor parcel of Pine
Land, lying in said connty, on the waters of Ogeechee
river, joining lands of A lie t 8. Futrofi and others, con
taining sixty acres, more or less : Levied on as tlie pro
per ty of Ethcldred Ganns to catisfy two Justices’ Court
li. fas. issued from the 85tli riatrict G. M, in favor of
Leituer & Merry vs sa:d Ethcldred Gan us. Property
pointed out by the defendant. Levy made and r. turn
ed to me by a constable.
Jan. 30, lr<:.B. J ESSE TANARUS, MULLING, Sheriff.
OULETIIOItI’K SHERIFF’S SALE..—’Will
be sold, before the Court House door in the town of
Lexington, Oglethorpe county, on the first Tuesday iu
MARCH next, within the usual hours v'l sale, one
tract ot Land in said county, containing slur hundred
and five acres, more or less, adjoining lsnai of Jesse
Dalton, William Agee, Wiliam Adkins, aud others, as
the property of Eth hired Drake, to*pat sly a li. fa. from
the Inferior Court of said county iu favor of Geo. F
Piatt, vs. . aid Drake. F. M. bMITH, Sheriff
Ja ury2l, 1858.
I EFFEIi SON tOIvV Y , A .—Whereas, Titos
11. P.illiili and Geo go Miller, Executor* on tho os
tate of John King late of said county, deceased, applies
me for Letters of Dismission -*
These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and sin
gular, the kindred and cred'tors of said deceased, to be
and appear at my office, w l;.in tho time prescribed by
law to show cause, if any they have, why aid letters
should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office in Louisville.
Jan. 28. 1858. NICHOLAS DIEHL, Ordinary.
lINC OLN 811 Eli I FF\S H\ L E W ill be sold,
J on the first Tuesday in MARCH next, before
the Com t-housc door iu Linculnton, Lincoln county,
within the legal hours of sale, a tract of Land, in said
county, containing three hundred acres, more or less, ad
joining lands of Samuel Glaze, Harvey Wheat, Amanda
Albea, estate of Ezekiel Reid, and others, as the proper
ty of Joua’Lan Wall, to satisfy ali. fa. from the Justice's
Court of the 2691 h district G. M„ in favor of Henry W
Tutt. Levy ma c and returned to mo by William G
Conner, constable, this January 22, 1858.
THOMAS D. COLLARS, Sheriff
January 28, 1878.
1 INCOLN COUNTY, (iFOKGIA.-Whereaa, the
estate of Thomas Ayres, late of said county, de
ceased, is unrepresented:
Those are therefore to cite and admonish all and sin
gular the kindred and creditors, ami all other persons in
terested, to be and appear at my office on or before the
first Monday in March hf xt, to show cause, if any they
have, why said letters of administration should not be
granted to Alexander Johnston, Clerk of the Superior
Court of said county, or to some other fit and proper
person.
Given under my hand and official signature at office
in Lincolnton, this2stli Jair.aiy, J 857.
Jan. 28, 1858. B, F. TATOM, Ord’y.
j INC OLN COUNTY, CM.—Whereas, Edmund
J J. Lye a applies to me for Letters of Guardianship
of the person and property of Mahaiia V. fchipp, tniuoi
lieir of Mark Shipp, Sr., deceased :
These are therefore to cite and admonish ail and sin
gular the kindred and friends of suid minors to be aud
appear at my office within the time prescribed by law,
to show cause, if any they have, why .‘aid Letters should
not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature at office
in Lincolnton, this January 25, 1858.
Jau. 28, 1858. B. F. TATOM, Ordinary
JEFFERSON HU ERIK F\S HALE.—'Will be sold
on the first Tuesday in APRIL next, at the Market
House in the town of Louisville, Jefferson county, be
tween the usual hours < f kale, the following property, to
wit: One Negro Man named Jack, 45years old; one Boy,
Tom, 14 years old. one Iloy, Bob, 5 years old; one
Woman, Easter, 40 years old, aud her Child, 2 months
old ; ope Mare end Buggy, and one 1000 bushels of Corn
Levied on as tin. property of James B Davis to satisfy a
mortgage fi. fa. in favor of Green Brantley va. said Da
vis. Property pointed in sad xaoi tgage n. fa.
Jan. 28, 1858. JESSE T. MULM G, Sheriff.
QTATE OF GhOKLIA, RICHMOND COUNTY
—Whereas, Margaret .Shaw applies to me for
Letters, of Administration, ou the estate of Charles
Shaw, late of Charleston, 8. C.. deceased :
These are therefore to cite andailmonish.allandsingu
lar, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and
apjx-ar at my office on or before the first Monday iu
March next, to show cause, if any they have, why
said Letters should not be granted.
Given unde? toy hand and official signature at office la
Augusta.
FOSTER BLODGET, Jr., Ordinary.
Jan. 30, 1858.
r l l WO MONTHS alter date application will be made
A to the honorable the Court of Ordinary of Rich
mond county for leave to eell tbe Negroes belonging to
the estate of Charles C. Dearraond, deceased.
Feb. 1, 1858. JAMES M. HlLL.Adm'r.
O fI t; c..—Ail persons indebted to the estate of
Wiiiiarn Fulcher, late of Richmond county, de
ceased, are requested to n.akc payment, aud thoe bat
ing demands against eaid estate are notified to present
them in terms of tho law. B. F. II ALL,
Adtu’r de bonis non cum tr stamento annexo.
Feb 3 1856.
NOT! C K.—Ali persons indebted to the estate of
Cnarles C. Dearmoad, late of Richmond county,
deceased, are requested to make immediate payment;
and those having demands again*! *aid estate will pre
sent them duly authenticated within the time prescribed
bvlaw. JAMEd M HlLL.Adm’r.
Feb. 3, 1858.
t a , *,vo JJO.VA'iiri afterdate application wxii be made
J_ to the Court of Ordinary of Oglethorpe county for
leave to sell tho ht.nl Estate and two Negro Men belong
ing to tbe estate of J atph L. Colquitt, late of said
county, ilecea led.
Jam 28. 1858. AYA ANN COLQUITT, Adm’x.
’ ■” POSTPONED BY CON ft NT
LIU FF>B SALK.—WiII be sold
at the Lower Market House in the city of Augusta.
ou tbe first Intsday in MARCH next, within tbe
legal hours oi sale, the foiiowi-ig property, to wit: A
negro woman slave, named Mary, about fifteen years
old, of yellow complexion. l evied on as the pioperty
of Wm. li. Culbreab, to setisfy a li fa. cn foreclosure
of mor gat;e, issued from tbe Inferior Court ot Richmond
county, in favor of John A. Christian against Wm. H.
Culbreath. Aforesaid property described ia said mort
gag’; fi. fa and pointed cut by John A. Christian, this 2iat
day of November, 1857. „ „
WILLIAM DOYLE, Sh’ff. R. C.
February 3, 1858.
” i OSTPONKJJ
EICHMOM* SHKKIFI ’.-H SAI.K.-Will b.
sold on tbe first Tuesday in APRIL next,
within the legal boars of sale at the Lower Market
House in tlie city of Augusta, the following property,
viz : All those tracts and parcc.s of Laud, situate, lying
and being in tbe county of Richmond, and .State of
Georgia— one known aud distinguished as the Haynla
MMtSrt adloluing lands of William t\ Rhodes, Hugh
Mil. tract, a J t others, containing one
Ingiett, (.coigc W Man. a an ori j^ ly K ,.ted part
|i§lS3S3^
t> ftt^acr ■• Levied on a the propert7 of Daniel
fj fa on foreclosure of mortgage
and levied on
February 3.1856.
GRAPES! GRAPES!! GRAPES!!!
„TV have ind K'Ph << CATAWBA
W ROOTS and UiTlNti*. whv.-U wiK he sold
v ” low! yausn O.rtiin A- LciITNEB
t., * 1 i., (lout, o r.diLel
Slow'/ (dec 17] WiLU. TUTU