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IIVi: (<l NKKAL DEPARTMENTS !
\ A COLLKOK DKPARTMENT, which embraces
the bran boa
* *:-■ •- . ry • . luako Voting Ladies thorough
iV A > ACJAd'kMIC DKPARTMHNT, In which pu
I properly r ‘pared forCt Uege, and ago 4basia
in i: - Ui-rt.wKh hoiarship.
ill -V JUt'SIU DEPARTMENT, with tried lead era,
?. i: Jl*ii Vi dill. Mute. Ac Advanced
P are ftt*.;:ht to ei.mpoa*’ Mudr, if desired. Pr.,f.
I i.qrh.'l In II I Admiral ** composer
\ ,OKN A V NiAl.li! PAUTMENT, in which
, M . vi- laii pM Pn.i.tii'K ii- • -il ami Water Colon. Ore
. . r.t i,t•),’ wth-i.ul i aint.u,;, Penciling, M-no. hro
i . r.iw it , , Wax fill tend Flown::i, Ciapu Woik,
I le.y, J ui-erF ower., Roam Fruit, Ac.
V A boMl-.S i .I>KPAKTMEnT. Iu wL cb i.u|.iU
•U it! ee - • ; it... 1 l'raetieai I'r.n. ipies nDo
i• ti A; 1 ii . Two hour.i -n every Tuesday, Thun
. 1 irlay will be devoted to this Depart me.', t
TANARUS: • i .ployed will lint lit tl i least mtn sere
vi 1 i*..- . i r:iry Departiunit.
‘I- ■ iDe .id (Joihige in Georgia giving attention to
I’ • : n'-'itl part ol Kdm a? m„.
. < - I teacher . Hue,. wi.om granual and wul.
1 - , . a: .'deicer Iln ter-nty.
\ HFNHVOLKNT IKSTITI/TION
A. -n-- M.e daughUi > “I M mi den of the Gospel of
(e ini-a: are educated WlTilOU'I CUa UIK
1 1 ‘ M on. umreov.j worthy ueiigent orphans
i I- 1 ..; h i’ rsot ne.dy MtnDtera will be boarded fioin
- to *> per . cut less than the usual rates,
i ! arc I.eiv tau.’ .t Kiouomy. Kxtravagauce is
i lowed. Jewelry is out w ru. A* pupil's Dresalug
i- :i >. ar, ..■i not i<* ,t more than from S;JO to got).
% KOAIU) OF TItI'STKKM.
He. AI>IFL SUr.UWOOI), l> D .ariffiu. Prca’t.
Kc . v'I.VAM A I.ANDIU’M, Macou.
i . ILI IA il .1 PANNAL, Lou ville.
I*, v \VM (’ VVILKFS Forsyth
Ho:, i INC INN A ITS PKBPLKS, Forsyth.
1 1 • >.i .IDIIN T CivOWDF.It. Mourve. county.
<’..l JAS S PINCKAKD Forsyth.
KUHN T AYbOlt, Ksq., A’olej sicheo.
m CAIN I PONllilt, Ksq , Forsyth.
Jti.KPilJ CARsiN,i>|, Ma on county,
i >ANIF.ti SANF4 *Kl>, *’• •t. Forsyili, Secretary.
! • - JOIP T. M F.CHFN.S, For.vth.
tii;o A CAUANISS. Fill, lieasm.r.
Kim.T \ .
Kcv.WM C WILKKS.A JVI, Presi.Uu.t
Fiol U T ASHIJKY, \.M
in tiF.O T WILBURN, A M.
lrot. WM FiSIIFK, A M.
Vi MAK V A WILKFS.
Mm KATK ASB 1 HY
Mr MAItY A LAND
V, JIfLIA A. STANFOiID.
Mi SOX 111 A Cil APPLLL.
M: AP.KIKF LAND
> I 4 to s;,ll yea. . Musi.-, hM; Buird
k . * •.*! uioiilli, exclusive ot lights aud washing
li,, Spi mg lerui will begin on the 17th JANUARY.
F. iTin .i-r itiformatioj, addieas auy member of the
Fa ulty,u Tm tics
WILLIAM C. VNILKU-J. Pres’t.
UITIAP.UT. AbBLltY, Sec’y.
Fortytli, (:a, Jan ht, lt>rD jans
MANUK ES.
I.MER *inee tlu* subject of Agriculture as a science,
j has engaged the morn particular attention of scien
tific men, their ouquirlos have been directed to the as
• . i taiiuncut, not only of the intrinsic qualities of various
soils and their adaptedness to the production of various
yr.iim. Ac , s. wed or planted therein, but also to discov
er how far the original fertilising; principles inherent in
I hen. could lie readily reproduced, after their exhaustion
by sttn c sUo crops.
And we cannot pet form a more valuable service to the
Ai;i uultural community than to call their attention to
i'.if i.- nits which ha\c crowned the labor* and research
oft • nt farmers and acientifle men in the line of
pc ■din-in m w and useful fertUir.or’s and manures—
m irl vpi i-to sing that we hall notice those only which
hat ted themself**
• 1.0 of gn at service and importance to the cultivators
..t the 0.l tM course, in applying manure the farmer
nlw.iN takes i*t consideration the quality of his soil
and tin* kind of crop to I>* produced, and acts according
! v There are many kinds of manufactured manures,
m kind -of w in. h every Agriculturist would find it
ki. atlv to h • protit to um*. and wc ay this with conti
d. tu -• from know ing the opinions of many w ho have ap
p ..-I large quant it ies, and with every successive appli
. ■ <M to their crops are more and more pleased w ith
the results.
3_i. S- HOYT’S
\iiinionitited llonc Siipcrpltosplinle
O P
jl. i; ivr E.
IViUaps no fertilizer lias ever given such universal
•Hi i.o imu as tlu* above manure, its constituent parts
a. i• required by almost ail crops grown in thisl: ntude,
were uru
t ii i. nt. ami from successive cropp.ugs have become
:• i t exhau-fed of those materials absolutely essential
t *i he growth of those plants. Wliat the soilfadt* must
b<* supplied by sums kind of manure. Experience has
shown that there is no preparation more generally
. ... , I .to liofl • Amnietiiated Bene
I•’ . eof Ii hat in.unit Chemist t
l Jackson. State \ av r. t Massachusetts, gives it
, . a I an 1 1 tot— it to ba i oai pid
as follow * :
\ • and
I o*l*
Sulphate of Ammonia and Animal Charcoal iM.9
< ofSvHtimn 3-4
t’arhonateof Lime Vf.s
Silicate of Lime . - 4-1
Was 16-4
99.6
Loss 0 4
1000.0
• !'•!. -ph"r eA< lan.tin ea shew n by the above
: 1 ■ * | , It n Ot a, tive S;i
perphosphateof L me.
Ii,■ „bo\e statement exhibits one of the most high -
i conceutrauui and generally applicable manures ever
dto the public l: coma.us the “food” of almost
all plants grown in this latitude.
i do - ring to know more concerning this fertilizer
wi t have full informaliou promptly mailed to them by
a Mrt’-.-mg their inquiries to
L. S. HOYT. Troprieter,
1 Water s* . New \ rk, adj iu.ng V S. Hotel.
N it PERI VI.W Ml AXO. t,Xo 1 Government
> . ml. Mitl AN UP ANO v Philadelphia Guano
i Rl SHBO BONES, GROUND
PLASTER, A. Ac. Orders for those Fertilizers m
;i\ q mM \ will receive prompt attention and be sup
i,i dat ne t prices for cash, it addressed as above
A tv .v* * v p i’.nd> f. oh American Rut* ltaga
ii RNIP SEED
Prs >idc bj i* w ith N.v. 1 Peruvian Guano upon
i .r ( - -. and see which is cheapest, safest, and
M> Su|n*phosphate of Lime is not an experiment
l-'i if li \EA Us TRIAL OF IT HAS PROVED
1 | s V ALT Vi each ye r and that it i- of uniform quality.
A discount made to buyers of tive ions or more.
< , npib.e i ? rsf PKRPHt>SPHATE Or LIME
.•. and OTHER FERTILIZERS, with cost of Freight add
~,l t |>ru- s Nv, -York. l>y
THOS. P. STOVALL & CO..
Agents. No. -?.* li road street, Augusta, Ga.
jan2wt>t
LOOK HERE.
Farmers, Planters and Keepers of
horses.
Keep your Horses in Good Condition..
iimnsHs
GEESU VEGETABLE USE POWDER.
• IMIK .'\T,oM a*ry virtues of th *•***•“*
I V \SH<>RSEPOWDKR.rMt*dbyUjonI*
have ltis L-ompowJ of VegotAb.e Rm.u
•: i Hit: -and ••* hijrh’.y recTinmondodl for
.Vs- -a ofs:towhH-fcthntnntonl tM
; - -. , ■ a- UHiomper,
r ■ trom har.l exertise OP w.'rk. Inflnmmntion of tt
.. Dei iv W*f. n* of Flesh, Ht. It carries off ml
. ■ ham rs.’ prevents horses from becoming stiff or
I . iore.l. pari lies nnd cools tb* blood, nnd improTO*
V . - • ti..u The constantly -.ncreJu-iE g ae
1: ft: r•. - celebrated “ HORSE MEDICINE is one
. arm. uskcable prooG of iu worth. In
t tK'und. 1. -of Appetite, Drowsinei*. Fat:g|te,
1> ;-mp r. Infia.c-.nuition oftbe Eye. It improves the
’ uof the Sxm ; irupArt? a fine glotsy coat of
Hft it is a a:,.versa! Condition Powder. Farcers and
1‘ * ‘ *-r> should uot be without this valuable Powder,
i >a.t-, wholesale and retail, by
FISHBR A HEINITSH.
Columbia, S. C., .
and by
PLUMB & LEITNER,
V* - •* - • a..J Retail Druggists. Augas;ta, (ka.
BANKS’ BANKS! LANDS! LANDS!!
A Planting and Farm-
1 t 0^ atilarm and elsewhere, tn
Tract* of SSO to *,WO aore* to soil purchasers. Also,
ten to fifteen leagues of select Texas Land*, with clear
titles is now offering at very low rates at the the Ge#rg;a
Land Office, in Augusta. •
Bills of the Augwta, Savannah, Athens, and the
Charleston and Hamburg suspended JSankg will beta
k.-u in payment at par va ue Negroee wiUbe taken al
so. and the higheet cash prices allowed
Persons desirous of forming •ettiemtnts, or making
safe investmenU,. wall find it to tuelr qiterest to call at
oar Office, Warren Ga.
*AS(£j if DAYIBON.
Land 4^^ nt Estate Broker
octl7 dlwA.wtf
ff . fl ,'i\) ■ rl <> .gg
; c-’ >’ ; yX <.• -A J M (yl-
C&ronirlf ft- Sentinel.
o
( onleotnient.
BT OLIVER WENPILL
Man rants but utU h*r t ■>/ ,v
| Litt e I ask , my wants are few
I only wiah a bou*e of st-.oe.
< A very pla.n brown %t -ne win and )
That J icay can tny own :
, Andi- res* a r . haul -r. h a one
In yonder street Fiat fronts tl <- -u i.
Pia n food is fjnite enough for n.e .
Three courses are a.> a- t.-fi ,
Ii Nature can subsist on thr. e.
Thank Heaven for tb--'* Aiucn f
1 aJway> thought cod vu TuaS.’n
My choice would be vanilU k e.
I care not for much gold or ian-I .
O.ve tne a trongage here > nd there —
•Sr me good back -m. k .. . La„',
Or tnilicg failrvad share
I only a. k :U* Fortune -■ nd
A little more than I (an spend
Honors are silly toys, I know,
And titles are but empty naev
I would, perLapi, be Piempo—
Hut oniy mean St Jame*
J in very sure I should nor c are
T o li.l oni Oubemat'.r’a chair.
Jewel* arc baubles, TD a ...u
To fare for ,-uch nnfruitfal thinpM,
One good s zed diamond m a pin—
Home, not so large, in rings—
A ruby and a pea'l or o
Will do for me —I laugh at show.
My dame should dress in neat afire;
(Good heavy s.iks are never dear
I own perhaps i might desire,
Home shawls of true Cashmere—
Hune marrowy crapes of China silk.
Like wrinkle* skins on scalded in lk
I would not have the horse I drive
Ho fast that folks must stop aud stare;
An ea-y gait—two forty-five—
Hu ts me, i do not care.
Perhaps I-r just a single tpurt,
Home seconds lees would do no hurt.
Os pictures I should like to own
Titian sand Raphaels three or four—
I love so much their style and tone—
One Turner and no more,
A landscape—foreground golden dirt;
The sunshine painted with a squirt)
Oi hooks but lew—some fifty score
For daily uc, and bound to wear ;
The rest nyo • an upper 11 K<r,
Home little luxury there
Os red morocco's gilded gleam, *
And veiiuiu, rich as country cream.
Busts, cameos, gems—such thing.-, as lLe*o,
Which others show for pride,
I value for their power to please,
And se.fish churls deride ,
One Ttradivarim, I confess,
Two Mecr ehauras I woul i fain ponses?.
Wealth's wasteful tricks i wiii not Uarn,
N .1 th.i glittcriug up.-tari fool
.Shail not car\ .1 tahlen serve my turn,
Bui all must be of buhit
Give grasping pomp its double share—
i ask hut one recumbent chair.
Thus humble let me live and die,
Nor long for Midas’s golden touch ;
Jl Heaven more generous gifts deny,
1 hball uot iu:m them much—
Too grateful tor the h)ensign lent
Os simple tastes, and mind coutenL
Yankee Doodle u lliv nvini Air*.
The Newbury Daily Newa published n curie ua
mid interHEtiogcomiQUuiC itioD touching or x nafic
; Rir We condense the introductory portion of
if.. The writer appeara, Home yev.a nine e, tti hv/e
visited St. Sebastian, a port iu the liaeqae FrovLi
ce, and there met with Sr. Qaeheill^, an .-.gad
Spanish Biscayan gentleman, who vma l T nif*'il
States Vice Consul. In reference to some ri.tii ‘uf
ty in which the writer ur.d his frienda. fc.aU found
themselves surrounded by angry Basques shouting,
“M uer an ! Mvemn /” (kill him 1) Sr. (f said :
Had it occurre i to you to whistle your national
air, it might have 6aved you.’’
“Our national air !” his guests exclaim* and.
‘•Yes,” the old gentleman said, md c utiined,
“had you but whistled it, 1 repeat. they n:i ht have
taken you to be what they modestly ester, n them
seivea—the cream of all the Basques for p arity <>f
race and purity of language, and indeed •original
ity ot luinii . for the an is h. ld tliey be ii v. .ur
great forefather Tubal brought ;he tune v; th him
wdien he brought here our tongue. Many a man,
you are both aware, has been saved by jcu iwnig
the secret signs the Kreeinamnj use. Ctra tnba !
hijos (my oua,) it would have been worth the .rial.”
“But, tir, y*u are jesting.”
‘On my word, no. It is moat curtailJy ai old
Guipuzooau air ; J have known it from my
childhood. I was amazed—and amused, to
years ago, when 1 lira: heard it in Boston. I ;nik- and
a. gentleman what it was. ‘Our National sa ; d
he ‘No,* i replied, ‘it is ours.’ He said you !mi
got it from the British at Bunker Hill. 1 told him
t hat might be, but that originally it nmat iiave come
from the Pyrenees, lie did not believe bu.. 1
can prove the fact to you. Lei me see. To-mor
row is one of the days those gentry out>id< le’ their
women oome in with vegetables/ Come aud take
an early breakfast, and you shall be convinced. ’
Hia companion, next morning, were punctual to
the appointment. On proceeding to the Plaza they
found it thronged with market women from the
environs tar and near. A woman of ruddle nge,
who had sold her supply, was preparing to depart.
Accosting her in Ba- ipie, Sr. learned she
was from Toloaa (the capital of Guipu'zcoa. eome
Id or It! leagues south of St. Sebastain.) On lis
addressing her again she smiled, and immeo*ately
began to sing. Her language was strange t> her
American listeners, but the air thrilled upon their
erH. familiar as their dearest household words.
“There !” exclaimed the consul, triumphantly,
“is that not the tune you play on the Fourth of
duly, and wheu you go into battle /”
“The very tune.”
“Come along—wo have only begun the proof
and Si hurried his companions front point
to point of the handsome square, axldrearing here a
woman from Vergara, there one from Hern∋
now a girl from Irun, then another from Oycirzuu,
until lie had questioned the leugth aud breadth of
Guipuzc >a. The rtsult was iuvur.abiy the same.
Most could sing words to the ti xie; a few could
only hum it. like the children in oi r nurseries, from
the Penobscot to the Gila. The air, it was clear,
was not only known in that region, but it was uni
versally kuowu.
The “Tom Boy.”— Home persons, says n cotem
porary, 864.111 still to enteitain the notion that young |
girls need no training except that of the mental fa
culties . that their forms are of less consequences
than their dresses ; and that a development of phy
sical ctreugtn would impair tho delicacy, and tend
to make them masculine By restricting their phy
sical education and limiting their sphere of nctivi
ty, they are condemned for life to enfeebled health
and an aimless, idle existence. Let. such parents
ponder the truth embodied in the following remarks,
which we cut from the Home Journal :
“The‘torn boy’ is an eager, earnest, impulsive’
bright-eyed, glad-hearted, kind eouled specimen of
the f'cnut ft vuntr . It her laugh is a little too fre
quent, ami her tone a tritie too emphatic, ve are
willing to overlook these for the sake of the true
life and exulting vitality to which they are th- ‘es
cape valves;’ and indeed we rather like the high
pressure nature which mast close of. i'.s superflu
ous‘steam’in such ebulitiens. The glancing eye,
the glowiug cheek, the fresh, balmy breath the
lithe and giacefu! play of the limbs, tell a tale of
healthy and vigorous physical developeinent which
is nature's best beauty The soul end the mind will
be developed also indue time, and we shall have
before us a woman in the highest sense of the term.
“When the ‘tom boy’ has sprung up to a health
ful and vigorous womanhood, she wit! be ready to
take hold of the duties of life, to become a woiker
10 the gieat system ot humanity. Slio will not s;t
down to sigh over the ‘work given her to do.’ to
himper nonsense, languish in ennui , or tall sick at
heart; but she will ever be able to take up her bur
den 01 duty. In her track there will ba sound phil
osophy, in hei thoughts boldness and originality, in
her heart heaven’s own purity, and ‘the world will
be better than she has lived in it.’ To her allotted
task she will bring health, vigor, energy and spir
its, and the endurance without which her I.lc must
be.iu some respects at least, a failure.’
Strange Life.— Johu Stephenson, one of the
pioneers of the Wabash, died iu Fountain county,
Indiana, a few days since, at the age of about 70
years :
The Attica Ledger savft that in his younger days
he oocupi i a lair posiiiou, and hie future was
shadowed with bright prospects. He served with
Col (Toghan iu defence of Fort Stephenson, against,
the attack ot the British auu Indians, in thu war ot
ISUJ, for w hich the Government in his • l age
awarded him a laud warrant so one hu’idred and
sixty acies ot land. In the meridian of life tl.e evil
spirri of dissipation overtook him. and from ii i -r
----torth his proepeiriive usefulness was is; A mind
that was made fit by nature to adorn ftli-io.: “>y
station iu hie, was didtiacted and t. .u into
and b became a wilu wanders: amusnig
and exciting every one with his eccentricities and
vague imaginat ions He gave cogi.i
men, “ The Christian Phiioaopher of t e N“
tee&th Century,” which he retained i. r him;- 1- If to
the last.
On Making Poetry.— liev. Dr. Piumer recently
delivered an address at the opening ot a Female
Seminary at Wheeling, Va M in which he maue the
subjoined, among other sensible remarks. It (re
serves the consideration of a very considerable por
tion of the poet zers w hose effusions are forwarded
to newspapt-r editors, especially the closing sen
tence. Turning to the principal of the Seminary,
Dr. Piumer said :
“ I hope, sir, you will not teach poetry here —I
mean what some people call the science of com
posing poetry. If it will come from some of t .esc
youths, lei come, but dou’t force it. 1 ieel about
like the Methodist preacher who was giviug a
charge at a class-meeting about some regulations.
While in the midst of his charge, one old lady ut
tered a ebout. ‘ Now. says he, * brethren and sis
tere, since the subject of shouting has come up. 11l
give you my views on the subject Never shout
trom a sense of duty. It you teel that you cant
hold iu— why then shout—but not otherwise.
“ l hope. then, that no one here will ever write
poetry from a sense of duty. Poetry is despicable,
unless it is first class. Poor poetry is about the
meanest of all things. As the Latin satirist has
said. * neither gods nor men can endure it.* ’
We can see no sort of justice iu the present ine
quality between the pay allowed officers of the
army and that given to officers of the navy, of
about the same rank. A captam in the army is
paid $2732 per annum; a lieutenant in the navy.
slodl “.Y The salary of a lieutenant colonel i
tuj: that of a Captain in tbe navy, under five 1
years date of commission, is SJSyI A). A major is
paid a commander in the navy, $2591 A
colonel receives sUiiv a captain in the navy with
overlive years aate of commission, and command
ing a ship $3591 25. The pay of a brigadier gen
eral is $5214; that of a captain in the navy, with
*ver ten years’ date of and command
ing a ship. $-‘1591 V - A major genera. .$ paid s7*j9o
besides quarters and fu i; a captam in the uavy
with stimulated rank, and in command of a squad
ron. $4091 25.
The officers of the navy have petitioned for an
increase in their pay. and as that ot tbe army has
been raised, there certainly can be no reason for
j n ot placing the service “afloat ou a parity with
that “ashore,” at least in emoluments —N. O. Pic
ayune.
Pre'ENTIMEvt.— An hour before the North Caro
■ linaiook fire. Mrs. Clayton, one of the passenger,.
became euddeuly impressed with the beae: hum
üßMßdio* calamity wa* &: uand. anu torts
wuh an.L. dreeaed berwd. and prepared for it It is
rriartfor tact- thateeme persons are thus torwam
ifX* r and also with regard to other mat-
rod or bad. of a certain course of
■
l SrLS: n “ ,i.M . tj^rejd
and strong, though mysterioM influence ,-barfol*
8 Argus.
Health of Tampa. Fla.— The Tampa
lar of the Vtb nit., says the heal'h of “I^
* and that persons who have been deterred from-fte t
‘ init the city on account of the prevalence ot an epi
dein-.c fever, may now dismiss their tears.,
paper says there is not a case of fever in the plat e
or visinage.
I irOPSAN I NTLT.LI GL.N( L.
i * steamship A->., wlc-h s . led from Liverpool
all ;* ( - the rr. >g ■* the 1 January, arrived
a* Na Y r k. 4,M Mohdav. A- . ih“
Kangaro ■ fr >m L verpool on the VKi.
,J!AT URirii*. —Tfce 1,-*ud .hThi-sbbvb that n
„ r * rnrreu! :•• the effect that
ii"-” Vi >vert:i:ieot i*<l to take efficient
aiea-iired io: the protectu-n of BrituL mtereeta m
ilfiico . . , „ f
v) r DieraoUi v M loader in the
r. hi .r - • a'i a'-ori-.-e.! :h ii-Bile oolar u tte
A mil ."tra’i >n member” calling on them to be in
attendant* a: the opaaio* of the Beeeion on the o J
fr. : fi>m, Mi iiad delivered a
, ~ u/: i s’avcvy lecture before a crowded r.cd -
eigee at Liverpool. Tbe Uev. \V. H. Cummiog
j, :.c kR c j ; rroduc.cd tfce lary, who was received
V Mr’ V\ ordsw ‘ti. wid twos the poet, died lit
Kyda; Mount on the 17th of January, having rear u
* ih! &1 eged acceptance by tbe \i -v. ?Ir. Spurgeon
ff the offer of .C UUIOO in payment of his eegage
:• wr- ‘ l’rai A’ -. c < \s (■ * ra
d:t ted by the City Bre.-s, on the authority of Mr.
.Spurgeon himself, who “declined the offer ’’ Mr.
Spurgeon purposes to ret sail for America shortly,
1 u* not on the terms above referred tc.
The London Times devotes a*i editorial *0 Mr.
Nugent, the iat American Commissioner in Brilirh
Columbia, and to the manifesto he issued before
quit.ticg his post for Washington. Tfce Times com
mences by asking “when wul the euibsarisd of tbe
United States learn that notoriety h not fame, and
mat mischief leakier upon a large scale is not a tit!
r • | n >i:c gratitude ?” It then proceecs to criticise
Mr. N ugent’e act with much eev verity, tnd (oucludes
sou v. a; —“Such a man as this is a pub! c mi.-
ai •. ; : .. ];.w •■ • • . 1 es will
f- grat iff :d. T e American diggers Lave as a body
M f .her‘i* behaved in our colonmn with great order
and sobriety. Men who have to deal wi:.u gold very
Boon and mover that prompt protection f r life and
prop -r y is the immediate iuterest not only of tbe
wtak, but RUM) of the strong, p.rd trie tiv- old An
gh>-Saxon instinct cf law and order exists in British
Columbia as it doer else where, is lo reason
to believe that the A:’- r c ar. settlers will follow Mr.
Nugent’s evil counsels. But this is ro fault of Mr.
Nuge it’e. He has cone all in his power to throw
the c >iouy h.io confu t. aud to bring disgrace
upon the service t > whlbh he was attached.”
The .Shipping Grievance —The following ie c
copy of c* rrespondence between Me c fr?. Seymour,
Feac4>c.k 6c Cos , feiiipbrck- rs, lib and 117Ferchurch
street, L *ud. n. a.:J the Kight. lion, the Earl of
MuimesbUfy, licr Majesty’s Secretary of State h r
Foreign Affa’rs, relative to the operiffg of the
American coasting trade to British shipping:
Ilb and 117 Fer church street, KC , Jan. 8
My 1 .ortl :—We beg reference to the memorial
ag:eedto at. h -f the shipowners of the
United Kmgdum,,hold at the London Tavern, on
the loth ult.
Oue ol the prin q-a! com) laiuts at that meeting
was that tl.- A u* i‘ ‘'/Ii h pai ticip.ving in n! 1
our trade , dec'nKi to allow British to load
in. their coa-ting trade, and extended the meaning
< f tii 1 j term co as to cover voya/es from the A> lan
tic to the Pacific— -y from New York to California
be3ideH preventing oar ships from iakiug cotton
from New Orleans to Button.
Iu dojou-'smg tins impor t su‘ ject with an Sntell!
gent Anterican gentleman, he urged as an excuse
that we slid prohibit their ships from our coasting
e
<*d him that all restriction had been removed by !hlr;
country, aud he asserted that, in confoinrty with
the general policy of tl.e United Slates, they were
b< uud t g ; .va the British or any other nation what
ever advantage we or they gave them, and that
some of the northern States of Europe had by this
means procured important priviledgea even prior
to the repeal of tlieNavigation Laws.
Tuid cominurication having raised a doubt iu our
minds as to the qnerion being understood by li e
Americans, v/t- w ere induced to enquire at the Uni
ted Staler’ Consulate in ! Lie city, and, to ouraston
ish nent, found that, a doubt, existed there on the
subject, arid we were told at our interview that an
American ship could not load from Liverpool to
L mdon; but ou th;r making fuither inquiry tl.:
Cos -u! politely caded at our ofli, e, and intormed us
that tl is could be done.
Under these circuinsfano'p, we feel it our duty
thu-i t j adplress you, ito a-’k wbetlier the Auier
nan government is avx .are that our coasting track;
is open to hem, and that they are refusing tons
privileges we grant to them.
We wou'da’so iv-.k v/lieUu r the fact of the refu*
sal tl 1 lie United Stales Government to admit our
/hipping into their coasting trade b’ ing in opposi
tion t* their - vablish?d poi *.y has been brought
permanently before tliein.
Trnsting that the immense impoiriance of thin
question, not ca’y to ouvseivea bu- to British ship
owners in general, will induce your Lordship to give
us the inf imrdiou we require,
W Lave the honor to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship’s obedient servants.
Neymour, Peacock n Cos.
To the Eight Tloii. the Lari of Malmesbury,
Her Mjec?t>’a Sec’y of .Slate for Foreign Affairs.
Foreign Office, Jan. 13.
Gentlemen lam directed by the Earl of Mal
mesbury to acknowledge the receipt oi your letter
of the Bth inst, enquiring whether the American
Government is aware that the coasting trade \\ ith
• ia country has been thrown entirely open to Ame
jit-'in vessels, and l am to slate to you in reply ii .j
Lord Malmesbury can hardly conceive that tbe
American Government can be in ignorance upon
this point, but that u view of the f-.cta Hlafeu in
vour letter, his Lordship will instruct Her Mcjesty’s
Minuter at Washington to make enquiry ofti.o
I'm: i Sta-i i-/ Governmeir, and to seize the oppor
tunity of again urging upon that Government the
justice and good policy of conceding corresponding
advantages to British vessels in American waters.
I am, gentlemen, your most obedient humble ser
vant, “ fcl. Hammond.
To Messrs. Seymour, Peacock \ Cos ,
1 Iff and 117 Feuchurch street, E. C.
France.— The Paris correspondent of the Ti-nes
aa y H^: —**jn epito of the less warlike aspect of af
fairs for two or three days past, we are still to’d
that the preparations are continued, aud that at the
war office here few or none breathe a doubt of LO3
♦iliri, a lor th*? spring. But an the fact of the prepa
ration at Toulon is too potent to be denied, they
art intended, it is i-n.d, for Senegal, Algena and
Chita. Conffdenoe in the maintenance of peace
appears to be rutuming elowly and uncertainly.’’
The Dabats, in alluding to the settlement ol the
diplomatic difficulty with Austria in regard to Ser
via,says:—“As t..e question of Servia ba now ;
been brought tc uougnt, there are excellent reasons :
fur trusting in the preservation of general peace ’ !
The strain engines a* ViriCt-nues were still at
wo:k, ma’iufacturing ritb*d cannon. On the tilth (
ultimo, ifce svir.i-<-ffi< iai Patrie contained an art ole j
to the effect lhat tin* avoidarice of war was not; to j
be co; .ddtred altogether certain. This, c?upled
with a f.iJsc rep it that a” insurrection had broken j
out at Milan and Venice, aud an equally unfounded |
rumor of u coilbicn b.ei veen Austrian and Saruiu- |
inn troops, caused a reaction in the Bourse, aud a i
considerable portion ot the previous improvement
was lost—the deed’ 0 of the day being equal to
percent. On the fo,lowing day the market was
more steady and closed at a fractional improve
ment. # •
0.1 Friday tLe .‘ls , the Bourse opened firm and
animated at <VJ, 35 a fill, 10 for the three per cen s.
Subcoquently the? market became heavy in npite ot
o rumor that Count Walewski had written a coocili
atory note, and prices declined to (>B, 95 for both
money aud account, at which figures the market
closed very fiat.
The statement received by the Kangaroo, that
the Moniteur had announced the entire abolition of
uses tor passports iu France, was an exaggeration.
The new rule merely makes some modifications in
tbe existing arrangements
It was said mat an alliance tffsnatve and defen
sive had been concluded between France and Sar
dinia.
The Paris correspondent of the Loudon Herald
affirms that coufidei.ee in the maintenance of peace
appeared to be daily losing ground, and that the
warlike preparations continued on a scale of great
niaguiiutde. The French garrison at Rome is
to be rein forced by two regiments of the line.
Xofcwlu .‘islanding the assurances of peace the
daily N. h’ Paris asserts his belief
that there was no change whatever in t.': situation.
Nai-i.es —OnThursday, the a telegram an
nounced lied the King of Naples was seriously ill,
and or i.- h liowii.g u.ry the Loudon Morning Post
published u cispatch fr m its Paris correspondent
sts iiigthat > dispaich had ju w t reached Paris from
\ i.• aim- unci;.-; * r.at the King died ou the morn
Ifu, oi ■ . No other journal had he new* and
the report sib. lacked confirmation when tho Asia
left Liverpool. , , T ,
The Naph'A correspondent of the Loluou Times
in a letter denoum ing the so called clemency of the
Government in exiling us political prisv ners says :
“1 am told that their de/.iuation will the United
Slates, and there is leas 11 lor believing that an mat
ter of” c nrte.sy the Neapolitan Government la
communicated its intent tons to the Min.ster of tbe
l •<1 S’ ties, who as the Minister of a tree country,
is n. t in a position to eu'.er info a treaty with any
•ii er Scale either to receive or reje ‘ emigrants
Prrliaps this is & sac: of which it will be difficult to
persuade the Neapolitan Government, but such iu
ioj .m*: n as Mr. Chandler could communicate he.
ether Corr.tr.issi. ns which watch over the state oi
the emigrants, 1 do not know whether I may rely
upo.l au impression that I have received from a
person affect .eg to be well informed, but, if to, the
Neopolirau Government will not allow its subjects
to be a burden ou the Government of tbe United
tales.”
Sardinia —Prince Napoleon continued at Turin,
lie had he.u a review ot 1000 veterans of the Grand
Army. Among o'.ker patriotic shouts by the -vete
rans and tire crowd assembled, were \ iva l’Al’en
za ‘ —(the alliance.) and “v’iva Italia. ? *
The Turin correspondent of the Times asserts
that the reception given to Prince Napoleon while
proceeding from the railway terminus to the Palace
was extremely cold. The Turin journals likewise
make no mention of enthusiasm. The marriage
was said to be exceedingly unpopular at Turin with
tbe higher classes, and is asserted that the King
of Sardinia did not give his consent to the marriage
without much hesitation and some difficulty.
The Turin correspondent of the Times asserts
that the belief iu a coaffug war was decidedly on
the increose.
Lombakdy.— The official gazette of Milan had
pnb .... and an arti.ie endeavoring to weaken the
senna:: n produced by an article in tbe Austrian
Gazette, which announced a system of terror fur
the Loinbardo-iVccetian Kingdom. The accounts
from M:lac are far less exciting tha-i of late, and i.
i? asserted lhat the condition o: affairs was never
.'o bad as has been represented. Le::ers from rs
la-’e auti orities assert that there wi- cot the least
chance of an insurrection. The story of soldiers
fra-eraiaine with the people, and shouting tva
rlf a’la,” and others of a tike nature, are pronoucc
ed imrudent fictions.
II w ? . g reported that tue sending of troops from
Austria had been suspended on account of die ap
parent tranquiSTy which prevailed.
At stkia.- Negotiations were to be immeatate.y
commenced ia the London Money Market tor a
loan o: about jCd.UOO.bOo Terhng for the Austrian
Gove-nmeat. Baron B:s-teuo, who v.susd hagtano
s ! x years ou a similar mission, was on ms way
from Vienna to London. The rate of intrres. is
stated at 5 per cent. T _
Tae Vienna correspondent of tne Lonaon iimts
*> :na: in Southern Germany there has not been
such a political terment since laio. 1 opmar de
monstrations of sympathy and iovaity were taxing
place wnenever “the Emperors lather appeared m
—Tue Swiss National Counci', had
’voted a credit of half a million, iu oroer to change
immediately tbe guns cf the waoie federal in antry
imo arms of percuseian.
Ki ssia.—A tircuiLciance recent y occurred at
Mo?C‘<w which created a great eensaticn. Tne :
students of tfce University of Moscow Lisaed one ol
profess rs who had displeased !ncin. The
academic authorities resolved to punish the guilty,
and gave orders tu arreet those who had commenced
the disturbance. In consequence of Lilts resolution
thrre hundred atudeuts waited on the Dean, and
requested him to strike their names eff the list of
stndexffs of the University. This tumultous mani
festation gave a more serious character to the affair.
The President of the College immediately apprised
of Public- Instruction of what had oc
curred. At Moscow this movement was described
Ua a political insurrection, but the government wks’
not alarmed by those reports. When the Emperyr
heard of what had occurred.be merely sent M.
1 ‘Koytdewski. the Minister cf Public Instruction,
and the Dean of St. Petersburgh, to Moscow-.
These functionaries made a report representing the
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY Hi, 1859.
affair a schoolboy riot, an*l not an affair of Slate,
i j' S tf Mi:ii T r iec< anmended the students who had
j quilted the to return and gave them eight
, Gajs t J COL di r. Du- i g this peri.-d their pa-ei-.u
” c-oLleu, arid on tue fir iideyoue hundred and sixty
1 student:-returned to the College. The ot-.-rs soon
* their example, and the Minister expelled
only a few of the iingieader.-.
) L-? Nor J announces that a treaty cf commerce
!* ‘ and nav ; g tion b*‘ween Kus-ia ana Great Britain
1 vv*s signed at St. Petersburgo on the ld?b.
1 j Tt KKr.k —Acv ce j from of ifce
! 15th ult., state that the reports ot an approaching
j war had caused a pame on the Bourse. The .Jour
nal de bud published a tranquihzing
article
The disturbances in ihe provinces surrounding
Bagdad a t v*-\)> r‘?-j to have bes me more eerkm*.
New * ff :cts I-.Hd arisen betweentt-e Oamaikans,
arj'i ; e slate cl tl! ..rr wa* particularly grave in
MoMavif.
!mm v—The Time,-’ correspondent that Nat a
Safc’b, ’orceu v. l’uh: ‘re- (.’ .u de, mV** nor*'.
ot Bnraitrh, had fled to a jnrgle fort n.-r:: w.-t *:
that place.
• : - y Brigadier Park
Vfcif ’ > - r y u ‘-'‘ ii. :en y♦< ught well end
sustained great Tlie rapidity with which
I act:a moved, servtd to fcarra j s tuc Br ri?h troop?.
No errioud vliHturbance was expected from arty
quarter except Talatncn, where & large number of
hepoy.-i had shut themselves up. Oll.tr leader,,
‘-'•••ff ‘ r •; J , wer tif-H-’K join them
*
K >ugto the 30:h of November, and .Shanghai to
N’ ver.ff lt “-Jd reached L ndon an tin*lff h Janu
ary.*
i'he Hocg Kong correspondent of the Times seyp
that the Tariff regoiations had been signed by L?rd
L gin and Mr. iiecd, but Baron Ur oh had not a:-
tached his signature when the mail left .Shanghai;
but it was understood that he would do so, and
then proceed to iicng Kong, where !;'* Excellency
Mi. Rtea ..ad aiieaay arrived iu Lie United Statts
steamer Minnesota.
The same writer, in allusion to the tariff and
trade regulations, which had unoffioial'y found their
way into print, sayj: “I'ue export dutio? ‘'iiteri
auu e;.k remain as belore, and the only mention of
any importance ie on cotton manufactures. Opium
h Lgahztd, aud tl: import duty is fixed at 3(i teais
per picul. This ia somewhat under the amount
levied at present at the southern ports, but above
that exacted at Shanghai, which has been sirictly
prid, although not acknowledged by the Imperial
government The transit duties to and from the
interior are fixed at one-half the amountj levied at
tfce ports, and this applies to all imports and ex
ports, with the exception of opium which ia not in
eluded m luis arrangement. At the northern ports
ol Tang-Chew and New-Chang there ij a vast •rar
lie !i pear-, be .us, A: -., but although by the treaty
of Tieo-Mi), this carrying trade was opened to Bri
tish vessels, by article five (J the regulations now
made, the privilege js surrendered, which is much
to b * regie.led, lor not oniy is the export trade it
ae.t lost to foreigners, hut veHoeia going to those
ports with cargoes wsi! i-.ave to return in ballast
Asa whole, however, the treaty appeals to give
general satisfaction, though on the manner in which
it, is carried >ur by buh Chines*- nnd foreigners
must depend the benefit of its re cults
Nothiug was known in regard to Lord Elgin’s
expedition up the Zang tne Kiarg beyond Ihe fact
that two of the vessels—the steamers Rt*?ribu;i n
ad Furious had grounded about 40 miles from
V\ff;oaung. They got off’after being lightened, and
the expedition proceeded.
At Koo cc-ow, advices of short supplies of tea had
caused eager in k* to purchase, ana the n.&iket had
been cleared of Cougons at an advance of 5 a ii taels.
At Shanghai the advance in teas was 2&*J taels.
ouCoßgous. Imporia were depressed. At all the
a large budiueea had Ucdii clone in teas lor
America.
The f l owing American men-of war were nt
Hong Kcug : —tue at tamers Minneeola, Mississippi,
and Powhattan and the irigate Germantown.
The Latest..
London, Jan. ffi.—The Daily News’ City Article
of Friday Evening says:
The funds were i.< avy tc day. Consols were
quoted { ptr Celt, lower than yen’- rday. The ru
m ol an Austrain loan, of an offensive and de
fensive ail -.* i- pel ween Fram e aud .Sardinia, and
the generally disquieting anpect. oi <!ontiueuf.&l poli
ties weighed up;>n the market. In the most of the
other departments of the Stock Exchange the ten
dency was l.kewite unfavorable, iu the discount
i ■ iikti some activiiy prevailed in exceptional cases
hu.:i'.t. ;j i-done ai a iractionul redu< tion fiom the
Bank udnimu n. Prices on the Paris B *mse to day
. one ol yesterday.
At \ icnua aid r’i;ii.ik!i_rt on Thursday a fal of
per c.-i.t. took place in the Austrian funds. The
Austrian Exchange this afternoon was quoted
lower. Ti e rates for short bills on Amsterdam and
Paris were Pkewrie rather, less favorable to this
country. Hamburgh firm.
The T ines City Article of Friday evening says :
i'he Engliih Funds opened this morning at a de
cline of an arid remained without animation
1 tiroughout the day, and after regular hours expe
rienced a further tali. The causes of the heaviness
at the commencement coiu isied in the btatenieutof
an Austrian loan being about to be proposed, and
the apprehension, that owing to the contemplated
augmentation of the Navy Estimates, the Budget
ot Air Disvaeii in March will not. be satisfactory.
t
purchase of the Great Eastern by the Great Ship
Company was concluded yesterday. £30(1,000 has
been bubneribed, and this, it is believed, will be
amply bufiicienf, not only for the purchase nnd
cti. iuplctiou ol the ship, but also to provide working
capita'.
The Times pays :—“il may be presumed that the
negotiations in ; regress for anew Austrian Loan
v.f about jC 0,000,000 will terminate successfully ; the
trai.ee. iuu involves nothing objectionable, and
Austrian Bond, , like every otberci qiinodity has its
value. It is pimply a question of price. A mar
gin must be taken against the imminent risk of
war.’’
The Pyet tlijs morning regret at l aving
been led into ihe error ot announcing yesterday the
death of the King of Naples.
The death of Lord Northwick is announced. 110
was in his SUJi year.
The Times gives a plan for adjusting the represen
tation of England and Wales, which it considers
very much superior io that of Mr. Bright, w ho, ac
coruing to the Times has distributed the seats taken
| Iron: the small b-trouglis iu a spirit of the moat bare
faced partii-anship. i'ho scheme in the Times gives
•14 additional teats to douot.ieH, and 53 to boroughs.
Maitciiftbter and Liverpool each get b members oh
ij Mr. Blight - bill, and and Sheffield eaoh 3
The Daily News says ihe result of recent diplo
i mafic e -mmunications between France and Prussia
j ii believed to he this : Prussia signified that while
j nhe w ould prefer to act in a spirit cf strict neutrali
j ty should war on cay arguable cause of a grave
| character arise between France and Austria, the
| g .vermnent of the Prince R -gent wru.d loi Iv not
j with indifference, buL with great anxiety on any un
! provoked attack on Austria by France.
} Mmll Boston have Lines of Stenmri'H Io
Southern PorlH.
At this time, when business Las revived, and a
large number of merchants are in our city from the
South and West to purchase their ppi ing stock, it is
well to bring before the mere ban!; f Boston the
necessity ti nt exists for increa-ed facilities of t.rans
portation. It. was expected that the of Trade,
in their annual report, would nave alluded to it, and
made 11 the subject of action for a special commit
tee. The difficulties which result from the want of
these facilities, and the complaints which arise lroru
the present unsatisfactory tariff of freights upon the
several railroads, are serious obstacles in the way of
increasing tha “trade of B reton to that extent do
mccli desired by our leading jobbing house . The
necessity that existed for taking prompt action
with regard to breaking up the “Branch House
System,” iu checking its further spread, was not
mere urgent than is the necessity for extending and
improving tbe means of transportation.
The chief, and wet Link it can Le said, the only
complaint lhat is made by the Southern and Wes
tern merchants, 1* the unreliability that attends the
shipping of their goods by water, ami ihe excets of
’ eight, they are obliged lo pay by rail from Boston
ever New-York. I'lieae objections to purchasing in
Boston, existed prior to the establishing of ag-i;eiea
iu New-York, and if not* the chief arguments in
their favor, were certainly among the strongest. If
Boston had established lines ofsteamers !<> Charles
ten. Savanna', and New-O.icaus, when New-York
did, she would have Loth retained and secured
more trade than has been lost by the establishment
of branch house*. There are r—i tain deeci iplions of
goods that require pptedyand direct transportation,
whose value will admit of a high rate of freight,
and that class, to->, which affords the jobber the
greatest profit. This is, therefore, a line of trade
most desirable to cultivate. If th** merchant in
Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah (r NewOr'eana,
ml o gives our market‘he preferecc3 in the selec
tion of coarse, cheap fabrics, that cp.n go as well by
.* ail as steam, was sure of rapid conveyance for hie
more costly purchases, are uot the chances equal
I that he would buy -.is whole stock here.
Instances cccur frequently, especially in the fall
where goods a. e purchased or ordered trom Boston,
to be chipped to New Orleans, via New York, by
steamer, and the delay of one day only between the
twocit'-e • makes it Accessary for them to lay over
in New Yoik a fortnight. It is do to Charleston,
Suvanm.'s, Memphis, Nashville and ether cities. In
this v ay the c-hi.net . of sale are often loet, aud the
loss l; depreciation and interest is frequently se
rious. Th*r: e are not merely illustration*, but tacts
of weekly recurrence, which the correspondence of
onr merchants, and the sad experience of tbeir cus
tomers substantiate. How long eba;l Boston sub
mit to this drawback upon her prosperity, or eom
p. i her customers to submit ft such inconvenience 7
Nor can Boston hope to permanently increase her
business, so long as she allows advantages to be set
off by such disadvantages. The amount that would
be saved yearly to the Southern and Western trade
by a liberal ou iayof capital in substantial line oi
eieauiers, and a mure equal tariff of raiiroad freight,
is far more t har; the proth ikevmake on many kinds
of goods. The South are ready to meet us iu such
an enterprise ; they would furnish their proportion
of capital. aLd consider it money well invested.—
Waat need then of auy delay ? Will the next year,
or tbe year after, find us better prepared? No!
The burden of the past eighteen months has roiled
off, and the business interest of Boston is in the full
vigor of renewed strength and better able now than
ever to complete this important work. —Boston
Trace Her.
Ths Ocean Mail Service. —Tne bill which has
been introduced into the House oi Representatives
irom the Post Office Committee, provides that a
line of mar. steamships shall be established under
the control 01 the National {Steamship Company,
for semi-weekly service between the United States
and Europe. There shall be two divisions of the
service : the firs: division shall be in alternate trips
from the porta of Portland, Bos on, New York and
I Llladelphia, to Liverpool, England ; the second
divisi n shall be in alternate trips from Baltimore.
Norfolk, Charleston. Savannah, and New Orleans,
to the pL it of Southampton, in England. The de
partures to be determined by such schedule as the
Postmaster General may adopt, to give one depar
ture in each week to and from ice porta of the
South, and one departure io each week to and from
the port? of the North, ana the eteainers in their
voyages from and to New Orleans shall touch at the
p- :*.= of Havana, Cuba, Santander, in Spain, and
Bordeaux, in France. Eight first-class steamers
are to be built and equipped for the Southern ser
vice,—and the Secretary of the Treasury ie direc
ted io issue oonds towards this object to the amount
01 two-thirds of their whole cost. The steamers are
to receive the gross sum of the sea and inland pos
tages for the Wti;oie ten years, and this is guaranteed
to be equal to .wo dollars for each statute mile ot
distance run by tfce said B‘eamers. Tie Postmas
ter is further autfc rized. if in his opinion the inter
est of his department requires it. to cause the ser
vice to be extended by auxiliary steamers, to Ha
vre. Antwerp. and Bremen, upon such equitable
terms for said extension of service as he may agree
with said Company; and further, to alter and de
termine the departures cf tae whole said service,
with consent of the contractor, but in no way to
diminish tfce whole number of departures of eemi
wetkly service. Ambrose W. Thompson, President
of the National Steamship Company, is named in
the” bill as the party with whom the contract is to
be made.
On Saturday evening the National Telegraph
line worked in an unbroken circuit from Now York
to Leavenworth. Kansas, and subsequently to
- Prairie do Chien. Wisconsin. Messages were ser.t
and received with tae promptness with which
they could have been sent fifty miles. Tne distance
by tae wires to Leavenworth is nearly 2.000 miles.
Despatches were also dropped at all the principal
1 cities on the route.
■; From tki Seir Orleans Delia, of the ffPA u'u.
Great U.iiture of ike I *.
We,earn by a gt-utlemaii who arrived to-dav
v from Marshall. Texas, that *he Agents of the old
Cuinpeny or the Southern Pecific Kailroaii. who
■ proceeded to Marshall s o uuike trie payment re
q nred by the award, “uid not,’’ to use a fistic
.. phrase. “c.'ir<- fotiirc.” fi'ced to make the pav-
J ment. and consequently the pun iiasers under the
Deed of Trust, have become vested with all the
8 ! trh(p, trunchise.*, A. , ot the i-ompany. This is
. f *-rtainly an -:et lame and mpr.tent conclusion or
’ nil the loud taking, angry disputation, aud big
r promises w our*-uy rifng, aud the very at
mesp:.ere vibia’ed during tiie Christmas holidays
r Dr. I- ‘•> kt-s, we l&tr.fcn: -ay. Las not come up
* to the high mark of tinar ii at -. ty arid resources
w h:cb his enthusiastic ad : re: a assigned to him. It
was v. pared a!: oyer tvv. ;it'a’ tbe Doctor had,
soroey ars ago, Ui:played his skill, lac aud man
ageinent, by buy itup a bank in Tennessee with
L t.iem* infinitely small amounf of:*, and it was
hi err - ‘ :i>at in ti.o same manner’.: ■ would ranstm
* ha u:.firtuua.e Ta: ihe Railroad Company frcmthS
4 rxaii Pi.nistiues. Alas ! how ;*auly 13 this hope
’ bl&rted!
Srsutday before last, the Iff.h January, was the
d ay^appointed for the payment ot one-third of the
$.1^7,( UO, the amount required to release the deed
of trust and to-r.instate (he old company in its
rights.
Ihe Committee of Award accordingly met at
Marshall on the day designated, and in 1; spirit of
great liberality and generosity protracted their ses
sion ui til 12 o'clock at night vs the 15th.
The agents of the old Company were politely re
quested to fork over. \\ ith a confident air, and
tiie thuiisb of aa of tue Rothschilds, the re
prcsenta'.ives ot the Company spread on the tabls
the sum of $22,M0 iu money aud bank certificates.
It was ail counted out. So well, so good.
Now h>r thebalanee. “Well, ht-re aro some
ninety odd .thousand dollars in good notes; pro
mi <:y notee, e:gued by ‘-Does any
-■ dy know the make..: / ’ inquired the Chairman of
• he•Committeeof Award. Severe! gentleman re
sponded. “Yes, we know'them as insolvent.” “lu
<*oiveut! i ’ exrlanued every memb&r of tbe com*
m.ttee ; “the notes ot iusolvents are not money.
We must have something more tangible and cur
rent.”
The awarders must indeed have been a* much
surprised as Maj .r Rtcior, the great Indian Com
u-issit ner, wad when, having sold a large amount of
goods to certain ludiane, under expectation of be
ing paid out of c ertain treaty appropriations, anti
the treaty nut. being made, win told by the Secreta
yof War to take the notes of the Indians for the
;i:ouey due.
“Ingin notes bed and,” replied the emphatic
but Dot ov*-r courily Kackensacker. “Ingins all
named Tubby and Chubby, with no property but
breecb-cloths and old blankets just as leave have a
note on a red headed woodpecker in Illinois!’’
The Fowlkeaites asked for delay. The intrepid
Wig fall, the Marshal Ney of the holders under the
Deed-of-Trust sale, called for the execution of the
Heed, aud proposed to cut the rope and let the old |
company swing.
The awarders were more meicii'u!. They would
wait a little. Dr. Fowlkes had not arrived, acci
dent may have detained iiji. Let the matter go
over rill Monday. Accordingly the Dv>etor reached
Marshal) on Sunday, amt appeared befoie the Com
mittee. There was some loud talk iu the nation.
The Doctor was eensative and demonstrative, and
< (manded to know w hether his integrity and honor
were questioned / The a warders disclaimed any
u’lher imputaliou thsa might bo conveyed iu a
very urgent request 10 pay over the money required
to ransom tne old company.
Finally the conference broke up in a row. The
Committee of Award declared thet the payment
Lad not been made and then adjourned sine die. —
Tue n*w company immediately entered upon pos
session of all the rights and franchises of the corpo
ration and proceeded to advertise ail bona fide
stockholders that they could come in on the
same terms with themselves. The liogi, however
are ignored, Annihilated, and now only live in the
P^t,
“(Joue glimmering i the sream of things that were.*’
The representatives of the old Company, who had
been in session from llm 13th, pursuant to adjourn
ment in thi? city, made the little town of Marshal!
iiot with their wra h aud hideous witii their bowl
ings!
In to morrow morning’s edition of the Delta we
may be able to give further informal ion in regard to
(henew phase oi thri great but very Qontenltous.
The Tin ii! Gan run.
The caucus of the Demo*, ratio Members of the
ll*>:c-e. <>f Representatives, held at Washington on
Saturday evening, appears to have proved a very
rou-.arkabln failure. Although the invitation waa
general, the larger proportion ot the members ro*
luseti to eider the caucus, and only about fitly per
sons attended. About two thirds * were
uiulhern men. None of the Pennsylvania delega
tion v/ere in attendance.
Th* lion John Cochrane was in the chair, nnd
the lions. Messrs. Kuliiu and Cavuuuugh acted as
Secretaries.
Mr. Garnett, from the committee appionted in
pursuance of a resolution ot the former caucus, sub
mil ted (he following resolution :
Resolved , That means ought to be provided for
the payment of the outstanding Treasury notes,
and that the deficiencies ot the Treasury should be
met by reduced expenditures of the Government.
This reeol ition lie supported at length, showing
in wh.nl particulars the inductions can be made.
Mr. Yallandiugham advoea'eri retrenchment, and
claimed that it was the duty of the Democratic
|j*rfy to effect, retorm.
Mr. Crawford stated his programme, by which
there would be a surplus of three millions ot dollars
in the Treasury. It would, however, be necessary
to extend the operations ot the-Treasury note law
tor one or two years.
Mr. Phelps, of Missouri, would go as far aa any
one to reduce unnecessary expenditures, but argued
that it was necessary to grant, the Govern cent a
sufficient sum to defray unavoidable expenses.
Mr. Stephens thought it necessaiy to check this
tendency to expansion, and mentioned that a letter
of President Buchanan, complaitniog of the in
created expenses ( f the Government, was one of
the strongest electioneering documents.
Mr. Smith, of Tennessee, did not believe that the
expenses could be curtailed in the manner s : ated,
but expressed his willingness to retrench where il
could be done without detriment to the public ser
vice.
Mr. Sickles believed the estimates had been re
duced to the lowest point by the Executive Depart
ment, and did not agree with gentlemen in cutting
them down in the absence of a knowledge of all
the tacts.
Mr. Smith, of Virginia, presented his programme
—to reduce th*; pay of members of Congress and of
the clerks in the various department cutting
off large slices from the army and navy appropria
tions, and from those of the Post Office, etc. He
eaid he would try to introduce his plan iu the House,
and make it a test, question.
Mr George Taylor rose, not to make a speech,
but to show at least five hundred thousand dollars
might be saved in printing and on the Congression
al Globe.
Several other gentlemen indulged in the debate.
No question was taken 0:1 any 01 the propositions.
An adjournment, without day, took place. It
was understood, however to have (mother caucus,
tj which all the Democratic members will be in
vited.
While the above mentioned caucus was in pio
gress, all the Democratic members of the Pennsyl
vania delegation convened in the room of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means. They unanimously
res Ived : 1 That the creation of a permanent
national debt is at war with the principle of republi
can simplicity on which our Government is found
ed, and dangerous to our future prosperity, and
that we all earnestly oppose any attempt to inau
gurate such a policy. *J. That, we esteem the re
commendation of the Prescient, in his last annual
message, on the subject of a revision of the Ta
riff, as eminently wise and politic* that the best
interests of the country demand legislation in ac
cordance therewith, and that we will use all legiti
mate means to secure such legislation at tbe present
session ol Congress 3. That we do not recognize
the acts or prooeediugs of the caucus now being
held ip the Hi use cf the Representatives as binding
upon ua in any matter whatever. 1. That a com
mittee of three be appointed to confer from lime to
time wiih the Democratic members of the rielega
tion, and to take such steps as may bo necessary to
obtain united action.
Amlrican Locomotives in Eoypt On the rail
mad bet wet u Alexandria {.• gypt) and Suez, recent
ly finished, there are four locomotives— taro of them
of Engli-hmaLUtHC ; ure,and the ether two were built
at tbe Taunton Works, Massachusetts. It. seems
ri.at the Pasha’s earn are open to flattery, ami the
hng'isli engineers, through their consul, used every
means to get rid of the American engineers. They
were told by the railroad company that the engines
w< uld r.ot be used, and their services would not be
ne*- < (?. The excuse for hauling thenvup was that.
• hey wer* not strong enough to haul the heavy
trams. One of the Americau engineers, getting an
opportunity to speak with the Pasha, fold him that
he would haul &8 many loaded cars as would reach
from one end of the r*;;d to ihe other. According
ly, seventy-five heavily loaded cars (which all
they could mister) were put in a train, the Pallia's
own car attached, and the whole were taken through
to Suez, a distance of two hundred mile , in twelve
hours, makiug stoppages for fuel and water. Tbe
Pallia exclaimed, in Egyptian, “God great, lu’ a
Y ankee is very near perfection! ’ <)u Lis return he
uncharged the English engine drivera, aLd now
uses the Taunton engines altogether.
Improvement in the Aquarium.— Almost every
one knows that the “ocean and river gardens”
which are now so popular iu this country, as well as
in England, are tfce result of the application of an
established natural law, the plants supplying
the oxygen the animals require, and the animals
the introgen which the plants need. A more per
fect aeration, however, has been desirable, and still
more, a slight agitation, current or motion in the
water, it being well known that eome animals and
some plants do not thrive well in perfectly sriil wa
ter. One of cur countrymen. M J. A. Cutting of
Bos on, has. by the application of another law of
nature, achieved what English naturalists have
vainly sighed after, and by a very simple apparatus
has produced perfect aeration witb a corresponding
ariiationor current in the tank. The plan ia pa
tented. and so wonderfully successful has been its
operation that Mr. Cutting and Mr Butler, (of the
Museum ia this city are about to open an exhibi
tion of fluvial and marine aquaria in Boston on a
scale of unpara Jelled magnificence, upward of ten
thousand doiiars having been expended upon it
The apparatus will also shortly be appended to
every aouarium in the American Museum here.—
N. Y. Cam. Adv.
Extraordinary .Melting of Whales— We
have been informed that a meeting of whales took
place the other day off a large iceberg in the Arc
tic regions, to take inta* consideration the probabil
ity of their speedy extinction iu case of the much
longer continuance of ho**p and spring petticoats.
The meeting was rather thinly attended, in conse
quence of tfce number of Cotacca which have been
lately destroyed for the sake of the whalebone
which they supply for the manufacture of crinoline,
or some of its machinery. A great butaon-noeed
whale stated that the price of whalebone bad risen
to full four times tbe amount which it cost previoue
to the outbreak of the orinoiinomania. According
to a Thyseler macrecephaius, spermaceti had risen
as high as whalebone for the same reason, and there
would very socn be an end of ©iqtment if the ladles
went on causing the existing consumption cf whales.
Several whales complained bitterly of the Em
press of the French for setting the fashion which is
threatening to destroy them trom eff the bosom of
the ocean, and threw torrents of ridicule on the la
dies of England for tbe servility and sheepish or
goos'ehke gregariousDess with wh ch they imitate
Ler. A Narwhal w : sfced Ids horn was in the crino
line of her Imperial Majesty with her Imperial
Majesty in tbe crinoline. He added that he deriv
ed some consolation for his bereavements and bod
iiy fear, from the fact that if the hoop faehion was
deadly to the Whales, t was suicidal to the
wearers, and that it was better to be harpooned
than burnt to death. A suspicious looking craft
here heaving in sight, the whales ceased spouting
and broke up their assembly with & sagacity which
was very like a whale —Boston Courier .
Daniel Webster— Rev Mr. Dwight, officia
ting clergyman at the North Congregational Church,
in tae course of his sermon on Sunday evening last,
related the following striking anecdote of tae “man
of giant mind. ’ Upon entering church one Sabbath
a triend remarked sneenngly, “llr. Web
iter, you worship where the doctrine of ‘One in
three, and three in One’ is upheld.’* *My friend. ’
replied Mr. Webster ‘neither you nor I understand
the a return sue of Heaven /”—Nantucket Inquirer
Poor School Fund for I V 39.
This fund war* apportioned to the several coon
’ ties, as fellows, on the *2d inst., and about ninety*
‘ four counties have already drawn it.
Appling siv'.‘ J'Utfi SL27
Baker Laurens 175
Baldwin 19*2 j Lee 99
Berrien 1-0 Liberty 155
Bibb 3i*? j Liucoln 72
B van. 92 | Lowndes 282
Bui.oih 149 Lumpkin 351
Burke 158 j Macon 12/
B U-ts 1• *9 j itl au i!>n 181
Culhuui ldS j Marion 267
Camden 26 Mclntosh 4*2
Campbell 336 I Meriwether 174
Carre II 00*2 1 Miller 73
Cass 388 . M i ton 278
Catoosa 218 j Mitchell 222
Cl.at bam 391 M 0 n roe 2( 8
Cua tahoo; hee ‘2 Montgomery 146
Chattooga 270 j Morgan 127
Cherokee 540 j Mm ray 397
Charlton 42 j Muscogee :‘24
Clark . : -0 J Newton 298
CUy. 134 | Oglethorpe 131
Conch liO j Paulding 308
Cobb 640 j Pickens 637
Coffee 124 Pierce til
Columbia 137 Pike *220
Colquitt 93 | Polk ‘204
Coweta 214 I Pulaski 319
Crawford !27 Putnam 83
Dade 117 j Rabun 345
Dawson 11l Randolph 329
Decatur *2BO I Richmond 837
DeKalb 271 j Schley 73
Dooly 201 | Sv-riven 100
Dougherty 118 j Spalding 209
Euly 90 J Sr wart *231
Effingham 168 Sumter *250 j
Ebert 173 Talbot 248
Kmanuel 251 ral'aferro 75
Fannin (500 Tattnall 64
Fayette 249 Taylor 117
Floyd 562 Terrell 175
Forsyth 353 Telfair 118
Franklin 452 Thomas 300
Futon ~411 Towns 330
Gilmer 761 Troup 172
Gat cock 59 T wigge *2Ol
Gynn tit, Union 538
Greene 231 Upson *259
Gordon 421 Walker 560
(Jwinnet f 498 Walton 285
Habersham 411 Ware 132
Hall 111) Warren 143
Hancock 77 Washington 275
H arai? on SI Wayne 76
Harris 27 l Weoster 116
Hrt 214 White 183
Heard -...220 Wilcox 132
H u .ory 280 Wilkes 157
Houston 193 Wilkinson 220
Jackson 290 | Worth 109
Jasper 126 1
Jefferson 73 $29 575
Whole nu’fiber of children returned, 61,753
about lice jis to each child.
TNcwwjmperH in {4eoi-*iiti.
In B!iew r to the enquiry of a cotemporary sto
the number of Newspapers printed in the State,
wt: give tie following list, coming within our
knowledge,, making the number at present eiity
one, viz :
In Savannah—Republican and New? 2
August Hr —Chronicle 6c Sentinel, Constitu- f •>
tionalipt, and Dispatch ( **
Brant wick Herald !
Wayneaborough News . _ I
Sandereville G orgian \
Washington Republican 1
Greenes borough Gazette i
Miriedgeville—Recorder ami Federal Union... 2
Lawrence ville News I
Dahlonega Signal |
Clarksville Journal 1
Athena Watchman and Banner 2
Covington Times 1
Madison Visitor ****** j
Atlanta American, Intell gmcer and Cru- /
nader * 5
Calhoun I’latform 7.777*.*..77... 1
Marietta—Advocate and Patriot 2
1 ,1. S3vi ae.Standard 1
l barters ville Express |
Rome—Courier and SjurtLseriier 7777777 2
Ringgold Express j
Daiton Times 77777777 1
Newnan—Blade and Sent'fc iel 2
LiGrange Reporter ]
Woet Point Citizen * 1
Co.un,bus—Enquirer, lime, Sun and Cor- > .
uer Stone 1 1
Macon Messenger, Telegraph, Press, Citi- 1 r
ssen and Index c -• 0
Forsyth Journal 777777 1
Tnom>• stou Pilot 1
Bainbridge—Georgian and Argus 2
* Albany Patriot 1
Troupville Watchman 7777777. 1
Hawkinsviile Tine?
Cut liber t Reporter.. 7777777777 77 1
Griiih— Union, Empire State and Ind. South.. 3
Lumpkin Palladium 1
Americus—Republican and News.... 2
1 humasville—Enterprise and Reporter .... 2
r ayettville Literary Casket 1
61
Nearly one newepapor to every two counties’
(counties now 132) with several prospectuses oul
- more papers. —Milledgeville Recorder.
Annual Convention of ihe Georgia Air Line
Railroad Company.
Gainesville. Hall Cos., Feb. 3, 1859.
The stockholders of the Georgia Air Line Rail
road Com pm y met in the court house and organ
ized by calling Col. Win. Turk, of Banks county
to the chair, and D. G. Chandler was appointed
Secretary.
():i motion of E M. John3on a committee con
sisting of Messrs. E M. Johrfßou, G. G. Thompson,
A. Paterson, Minny&rd, Sanders aud Mr. Light,
were appointed to examine proxies and determine
the votes authorized to be cast by each proxy.
On motion of Dr. Rivers the reports of the offi
cers were called for, whereupon the President of
the company, Air. J. Norcross, submitted his re
pori, which was received aud approved, aud, from
which, it appeared lhat the amount received ou in
fetallmenta jn cash or its equivalent, ie, as far as can
be ascertained from partial returne, about $9,081 00.
In bonds cf the city of Atlanta, 5,C00 00
Discount on same 10 per cent 500 00 4 500 00
Total, • $13,581 00
EXPENDITURES:
Survey under Mr. Worrell, $2,198 22
“end Location under Mr. Blount, 3,588 49
“ “ “ “ “ Morse, 3 818 51
Outfits and other items, 1,531 49
Compensation to the President, 1,590 00
$12,466 71 1
Leaving a b dance on ha and, .subject to modi
fication from returns jet to be made, 0f,.. $1,114 29
K. M. Johnson, Esq., read a statement of collec
tions and disbursements by him, as agent of the
Company in Hall e unty.
Ou motion of Johu E. Brown, tbe Convention
proceeded lo the election of President and ten Di- 1
lectors for the eusuiug year. Upon counting the
ballots it appeared that Mr. J. Norcross was elect
ed President of the Company, aud that Messrs. E.
W. Holland and L E. Bleakley, of Fulton; Thos.
H. Jones of Gwinnett; Raymond Sanford, of Mil
ton; George Kellogg, of Forsyth; Minor W. Brown
and E. M. Johnson, of Hall; John W. Pruiett. of
Banks; Thos. Morris, of Franklin; and Juo- Alc-
Curry, of Hart County, were elected Directors for
the ensuing year.
On motion of Col. O. Thompson, it was
Resolved , That the Georgia Air Line Railroad
must not be abandoned, and tiiat we are in*favor of
the board of Directors going ahead aud letting out
contracts as early as practicable.
Resolved,'2d, That we request the Directors of the
Company to compel tli 3 collection of installments
on stock wheu called for.
On motion ot Juo. W. Pruiett, Esq , the conven
tion adjourned.
W.Tukk, Chairman.
1). C. Candler, Secretary,
We are informed that great unanimity and a res
olute determination prevailed among the stockhold
ers to go lor ward in the work—this in fact appears
from resolutions adopted.
On the 4th the Board of Director?, in answer to
the demands of the stockholders on the east end of
the line, ordered he work to be immediately let out,
commencing at the the Savannah river, depending
tor the cash payments on the installments of that
part ot the country east ot Hall County. They
confirmed former resolutions in regard to this, the
western portion of the R >ad, and adopted the follow
ing :
“ Resolved , That an installment of ten per cent, ia !
hereby ordered on the etock oflha Company, to be
paid (‘ii or before the Ist day of May next,, and that
all stockholders, who do not pay t ecarii by that 1
time, be and are hereby required to give their notes
for such installment, and ail former unpaid install
ments bearing interest from date, and no note to
run for a logger time than four months ’’
Messrs. Minor W. Brown a/.d L E Bleakley
were appointed a committee to examine acc unts.
We are informed that the note feature in the
payment of instal ments is no new thing in Railroad
operations, and is adopted to accommodate stock
! holders who do not wish to t ake coatrects. but wiah
’ t* pay their installments in work by the day or
i m uta, also to give greater certainty to the officers (
and contractors of the means to be relied upon for
payment ftr work.— Atlanta Intel.
Wool*
The woolen manufactories of the United States,
have to rely upon foreign countries for about one
‘bird to one-half cf the wool they consume. It
seems somewhat singular, that this should be so
when we have eo much waste land on which there
is good pasturage nearly the whole year round,
thus enabling us to raise sheep at a comparatively
trifling cort. These remarks are peculiarly appli
cable to the South, where the winters are never, or
at least very rarely severe enough to require any
extra attention. We see no reason why Georgia
should not raise fifty times as much Wool as she
does without any more trouble, and very little ad
ditional expense The importance of Wool is se
cond only to our great staple cotton, and by more
liberal attention to the cultivation of the 1 former,
the South could occupy almost as complete a mono
poly of its trade as she now does of the latter. By
the census returns, we find that in 1850, Georgia
produced 990,019 pounds, [against 371,303 in 1840,
an increase of two hundred*and fifty per cent., and
we have no doubt that the ceneus of 1860 will show
a proportionate inc-ease in the last ten years. The
quantity shipped from this port this year, is quite
heavy, and some of our commission houses have
now, a3 they have had for several years back,
men travelling through the country, looking it up
in tbe bye-ways and concentrating it here lor ship
ment.
InTexa3 ther has been an immense increase in
its cultivation, md with marked success. Avery
-ingular fact presents itself in examining the sta
tistics of this article in the Census returns. The ag
gregate increase in the ten years ending with 1850,
is 17 000,000 pounde. and yet every New England
State raised less in 1850 than ia 1840—the Southern
and Western States making up the deficiency in
tlaem, and carrying the increase to what is above
stated. The greatest increase has been in th t Weet
ern States, where the attention of the people has
been turned to etock raising to a greater degree
than here, where the raising of cotton ie so profita
ble. Much of the belt of country surrounding our
city for from fifty to eighty miles, it ie hard to dig a
bare subsistence out 01 the poor and Bandy soil.—
Tee timber, which is now the chief reliance, wiii be
cut off after a while, and this tract of country wiii
present no inducements for new settlers to locate
on it, without it is for some such purpo’e as raising
etock.
A division of our productions would bean advan
tage to all; but there is no necessity for raising less
of anything else to increase the production of wool.
After the eheep are bought our generous climate
furnishes them food the entire year. Neither drowth
nor too much rain effects this crop; and a flock of
five hundred sheep causes but little more trouble,
except in sharing, than a flock of one hundred.—
There is no more convincing argument of the ed
voutages possessed at the eoutn for raising wool
than tae fact that while the production is decreas
ing at the North it ia increasing at the South. May
we not reasonably hope that this increase will con
tinue until our barren hills and flats are covered
with countless flocks.— Sack. Repub.
A party of U. S. coast eurvey officers ia at pres
ent encamped near St. Augustine. Fla., engaged in
a survey of the harbor, coast and North river; also,
in establishing a base line for connecting the work
of the triangulation party north, and for entering
tae same south.
Starving Pan per Children io Dentil.
Oue of the most touching epLodes in Dickens’
works is the story of the charity children who were
boarded out at so much a week, and drugged, star
ved, beaten and abused by the women who had
j charge of them. Perhaps every American reader
, has congratulated himself that iu this country uo
: ,such enormities could be practiced. Yet something
very much like it has just come to light in New
York. In searching a tenement house lor stole:
goods, the following terrible develop*. >
mad** :
In the course of their examination of the premi
ses. Messrs. Barker and Stakely found three little
cradles in a dark bedroom, and drawing them out
to the light, discovered that they contained three
infants. The little creatures were covered with
filth, and eeeir.ed not to have been washed for sev
eral day.u The beds on which they lay were rotten
with foulness, and the rags which covered them
but little belter. Each of them lay quiet and mo
tionless as death. They did not have strength en
ough to ciy. If you pinched them or rolled them
over they gave no motion nor sign oflfe. The
oldest wa said to fcs 28 innilbs, the youngest 13.
Every one of them was absolutely a living t-keleton,
and the largest would not weigh more than a
healthy,Tobuet babe of three months. Their little
limbs were not much over an inch in diameter at their
thickest parts At the end of their shadowy arms
were little bauds that looked like birds’claws. One
of the wretched creatures lay upon its side, with the
thick part ot its left arm in its mouth, from which
it appealed to draw its principal nutriment. Dur
ing the days and months in which it had laid in this
position, it had sucked away at the limb until the
flesh had grown up to the size aud shape and ap
pearance of a large, raw nipple. They had evi
dently been drugged, as usual, to keep them quiet,
and their great, wide, staring eyes, which were the
only tigns of life about them, were vacant as idiots’.
It was a painful, yea, a horrible sight to witness—
these three suffering and helpless little old people.
“Who &rethefle,in Heaven's name?” inquired
the gentlemen. “Please, Sir, they be the children
missus trkes to nurse tor the Almshouse, and I’m
the girl she hires to lock after ’em. - ’ replied a slat
ternly looking girl. “What does eh** get for taking
care of them?’’ they asked. “A dollar apiece for
’em, every week, Sir;” aud then the girl explained
tha’ Mrs. Cuiiough was one of the out door nurses
employed by the Almehouse Governors, and show
ed the gentlemen the nice rolls of diaper, flanneling,
muslins, aud bunches of warm stockings which the
Almshouse people furnished for their comfort. The
girl said that this supply was renewed eveiy three
months. Y'et those children were naked, and cov
ered up with old filthy rags.
“Does any visitor come toseethechildren?”—
“Oh,yeß, sir,’’ said the gir!; “Mrs. Frost comes oust
a month, and Mr. Maloney, oneol the Guv’ners,he
comes ere often, too.”
When our reporter called at the house in company
with Mr. Stokely, on Thursday, he found that the
woman which Mr. Barker had employed to take
care of the children, in the absence of Mrs. Cuiiough,
had stirred around and put the little mannikins into
c eau dresses. As if expecting a visit from the
powers that be, tbe two children of Mrs. Cuiiough 1
were left as dirty and ragged as usual, to had the
visiter to think, “Well, this woman is a good nurse
after all—see, she neglects her own children to care
for ours.”
But the cotton frocks could not hide the wasted
skeletons that moved under them. In a tew weeks
they will in all probability be duly recorded as hav- 1
ing died of marasmus. How many more of “the |
children of the city” are slowly murdered by mi3
usage and neglect in this same cruel way ? 1
Yesterday the Almshouse officers removed the 1
children, when it transpired that Mrs. Cuiiough had ‘
been drawing pay for four children. The fourth
child. Mrs. Cuiiough says, *was taken some weeks *
ago by a friend in Third avenue, who had lost her ’
own child and wished for this 0119, which looked *
so much like it, to supply its place.
Increase of Old Maids.— The Philadelphia
Ledger has discovered that there is a heavy in
crease iu the number of old maids, and that the
number is augmenting sadly every year. With an
increase of old maids of course comes an increase
of bachelors; and this last class of persons are much
less deserving of sympathy or interest than the first.
The causes of this extended life of HingleTjlessed
ness, or of single misery, as fancy or tact may
choose to consider it, are mainly attributed to erro
neous ideas ot living. Many young men have not
the courage to meet, the expenses of supporting a
family, and are often deterred from marriage by a
positive apprehension of waul
The fact is apparent in the United States and still
more obvious in Europe, especially among the mid
dle or upper classes. The Ledger thus points out
the moral effect of this state of things;
It produces a bad state ot society. Aa tor the
bachelors, they become corrupt, travel, and die off
surprisingly fast; or at least descend into oblivion,
their sun soon setting in the great world of fashion
and society.
But the hold of the other eex upon society ia not
as soon lost. Fine girls and well educated young
women freeze up by degrees into well preserved old
inaids, some of the best of them being very handy,
very interesting, and very useful, iu all the little de
tails of society, but sadly insignificant; either pen
sioned off on little bits of salaries, or more depen
dent still; and the less interesting portion of them
driven *0 consider every possible art by which a
scanty suhsietance may be eked cut without any
derogatian from their fancied dignity aud station.
Invitations for a few weeks are looked for, and
means of ingratiating and flattering and genteelly
begging resorted to, that would hardly be credited.
All sorts of employments for females, that have any
pretensions to respectability, tre eagerly sought af
ter at the most pitiful prices, and the paintings, and
sketches, and drawings, and fancy ornaments,
from which the dealers enormous sums, are
really the work of ladies who would not have i;
dreamed that they touched such things lor money.
Yet they are glad to do them quietly for prices at.
which many a washerwoman would hardly sell her
time. Every pensicn*aud gratuity, every place ae
governess or companion, ia crowded w’ith appli
cants.
The Children Survivors of the Mountain
Mea now Massacre. —lt will be recollected that on
the occasion of the massacre of a train of emigrants
eu route to California in 1857, >A the Mountain Mea
dows in the Southern section of this territory, that
eome children were saved by the Indians; they
were afterwards rescued by the rebidents near that
spot. Soon after Dr. J. Forney, the Indian Super
intendent, came into this territory, he caused the
children thus lescued to be gathered together. There
are fourteen ot them, from ngos of four to seven of
both sexes, all in the care of Mr. Hamblin at Fort
Clara. They are all comfortably clothed, and at
tend school, and in the spring will be sent to their
relatives, if any can be found. Two of the children
answer to the name of Dunbar, the remaining twelve
know of no surname, nor can they give any account
of any friends or relative. That whole affair re
mains yet uninvestigated. During my late visit
South, I ascertained beyond a doubt that they were
massacred by the Bah Vant band of Indians, assis
ted by the Ules. The alleged cause was, that the
emigrants poisoned the water, and threw a poisoned
ox m a spring, arid shot at Indians indiscriminately
on the road. The Indians} say the fight lasted for
several days, and that finally truce was made,
when a large body of Indiana went into the camp of
the whites, and then tak ng them unawares, the
work of destruction was completed. No papers can
be found to give any clue or information to the
names of the murdered or their exact number.—
Salt Lake Cor. Alla Cal. Dec. 19.
Tb the Planet Mars Inhabited ? —The oppo
nentsof the doctrine of a plurality of worlds allow
that a greater possibility exists of Mars being in
habited than in the (ate of any other planet. His
diameter is 4,J DO miles, and his surface exhibits
spots of different hues ; the seas, according to accu
rate observation, appearing to be green and the
laud led. The variety in the spots, it is thought,
may arise from the plane! not being destitute of at
mosphere and cloud; and what adds greatly to the
probability of this, ia the appearance of brilliant
white , o<h at its poles, which h&ve been corjectur
ed to i e snow, as they disappear when they have
long been exposed to the sun, and are greatest when
emerging frem the long night of their polar winter,
the snowline extending to about six degrees from
the pole. The length of the day is almost exactly
twenty-four hours, the same as that of the earth.
Continents and oceans and green savannahs have
beenjobserved upon Mars, aud the snow of his polar
regions has been seen to disappear with the heat, of
summer. Clouds may actually be seen floating in
the atmosphere of the planet, and there is the ap
pearance of land and water on his disc.
Mutilated Coin. —Last Saturday officers Dilko
and Tumas, of the 14th precinct, arrested a woman
on the charge of passing lightened coin. From in
vestigations made by tbe officers it is fair to pre
sume that there is many thousand dollars of this
coin in circulation. The manner of fighting the
coin is very ingenious. The coin is placed in a
lathe, and as it revolves a narrow chisel cute from
the edge and peuetrates deep into the coin, leaving
but two thin scales connected by the centre. The
orifice is then filled up with bade metal, the edge is
knearled over again and galvanized. The work is
executed in such a skilful manner that it ia impoesi
ble to detect the fraud except by weighing the coin.
Indeed, it has been offered to, and received by,
many of the banks in this city and elsewhere, and
by exchange brokers who have heretofore been
considered infallible in their judgment as to bogus
coin. The woman, who is an Italian, was held for
examination.— N. Y. livening Post.
The Fire at Boston.— The destruction of the
mechanical bakery in Boston, ou Sunday night, ap
pears, according to the statement in the Boston pa
pers, to have been the work of most determined in
cendiarism. Great opposition to the establishment
was manifested by the bakers, and it is darkly .hin
ted that they were accessory to the fi-e. Mr. Rus
sel, the proprietor, loses, beyond his insurance,
about SIOO,OOO. The bakery/had been in opera
tion but three days, and had worked successfully
If it had continued it would have thrown a large
number of bakers out of employment. The Bos
ton papers state that similar establishments had
been destroyed by fire soon after their comple
tion, both in this city and Philadelphia. But
there has been no mechanical bakery in this City.
There was one in Brooklyn, which was destroyed
by fire two years ago.
Interesting Presentation. —On Saturday af
ternoon the Rev. Dr. Newton, of St. Paul’s Epis
copal Church, presented five elegantly bound Bi
bles, one to the first and third mates, and one to
each of three of the crew of tLe packet ehip Tusc.a
rora, who, eome time since, during a voyage from
Liverpool to this port, manned the life boa’ of the
Tuscarora, and rescued the crew of a vessel wreck
ed on tbe English coast. The Bibles were gifts
ftom s'<(J Sunday School echolars of the churdb, and
eacfc contains a narrative of the occurrence. The
presentation took place on board the sLip. —Phil a.
Ledger.
Washington’s Birthday. —The r-e*ebrat.ion
the birth day of tbe immortal Wafhmgio; . ju ~e
22d of February, inst., will b; observ-ju w;ta more
than usual eclat. The Seventh regiment, National
Guard; the Seventy-first regiment. American Guard,
and the Eighth legiment, Washington Grays, will
make full cress parades on the occasion. On that
day each member of the National Guard will bo
presented with a handsomely bound volume, con
taining tbe history of Mount Vernon and a full ac
count of the visit to Richmond, a'eo a complete his
tory of the regiment from its organizition to the
present day. Thp bock is got up by a gentleman
of this city at an expense of $5,000. After the pre
sentation, the officers of the regiment will give a
frand banquet. The order of United AmeritaL.4
ave invited Hoc. John Minor Botfs to addrecathem
at the Academy of Mneic.— N Y. Herald.
The French Vintage. —Nothwithstanding tbe
large yield of tbe vineyards ot France the lost year,
it is stated that the demand fo** wines fcaa been no
large that prices are on the ri3e. The demand has
been checked by scarcity and high prices for some
years past, and now the abundant supply has
brought immense orders for the products of the last
vintage. The N. York Journal of Commerce says
the last steamer from Europe brought advices of a
new rise in the price of brandies iu France, and an
increased demand for them.
A writer on theatricals, in describing the last scene
of “Othello,'’ has this exquisite passage:
“Upon which the Moor, seizing a bolster full oJ
rage and jealously, emotheis her.’’
Where’s Wilsc-n on punctuation?
No Wonder ! —A Japanese nobleman, upon
being shown a fashion plate in an American maga
zine, waemuch startled, and exclaimed: * How very
fat your woman are!”
VOL. LXXII!.—NEW SERIES VOL.XXIIT. N0.7.
Correspondence of the Petersburg Express.
j Yoiul Demruciiuii f Wi'fmi and >lar> i ol-
It*ac ly Fire.
WiiHAMM.i m., \ a , Feb 8, 18
Messrs Editors • —As the mail close at 6 A. M ,
i hasten tu mtofin y-;u 11 • he venerable ('ollege,
know u as \S ihu; was destroyed by tiro
•a-t night, ° r . , _ morning, $a the fie was
woout 3o'clock, ai.H then it uad
. “ r niug ftr sometime
-10 originate nor lw ,ar the binary, one oi
mo.-t extfuuvH and valuable in llib couutrv,
j■. i. V a:, unavoidably couamiu-d ff. t a volume
[ The library anil’lurnilmfl of th PI Literary
‘ft'* H Ulnt ” bu? , * le ‘""-ka ,oid furniture
*->! tl.r 1 InloiiiOlbean Society were i.outi ;
The Laboratory of tlie luslituikm w t* aloo i . u
aumed.
It ie supposed by eome to have beeu tbe work
nu incendiary. Tide, however, 1 very much dm.lr
L cannot behove that we have in our indict auy
capable of perpetrating such a tiendieh act.
William and Mary College, as you er, probably
aware, was the oldest institution of ie.'nn’!:;, !!:
America,except Harvard l T niversity,Ht Cambridge
Massachusetts, which was founded in ItiiiS la
169 fl a charter n-ae obtained from Kngland, tbiough
the agency oftbe liev. James Blair, and the assis
tance of Lord Nicholson, then Lieutenant Governor
of tbe Colony. The Institution took its name trom
the Royal Grantors, who appropriated lunds. land,
and ordered a revenue on tobacco for its support
The bui.dings Were erected with all possible doa
patch, (the bricks coming from England.) and the
Kev. .lames Blair became its President.
Rev. James Blair continued President of t n ln
afititution to his death, which occurred in 17-13; he
was succeeded by the Rev. Win Dawson, who
continued till I7.">tj; Wm. Stiih was ite m (’resi
dent, aud filled the office until 17J5; bow; suc
ceeded by Thos. Dawson, who continued 17(11;
next came Wm. Yates, and remained un 1701;
next came Jao llmroch •, until 1771;!, , ,L,nn
Camm, until 1777 ; acd he by Bishop Jap Madison,
until hie death in ; the ne-1 President was
John ltrs. t-n, who leiniined until 181-1; next
President was John Augustus Smith, who m-cnj icil
the Chair until ISJll; then the l.’ov Win II Wo
rn,-r, who tilled the post until his death in IM.-7 ; ihe
next President was the Uev. Adam Enip.c. who
continued until Dttfi; and he was succeeded by
Thos. K Dew, wl o continued until hwdoa’h. which
Occurred cn Ihe European C mtinent in I Sid, Robt.
Saui.d-is wan the next President, who continued
until ISIS; and tiien Benj. S Ewell, untii 181!).
It,-hop John J h;ui sin ceeded, aud continued until
1S11; and Bishop J. war, siiecei ded by his prede
cessor, the present incumbent.
The faculty now consists of President Bei jamii)
S. Kwel! and Professors Totten, Morrison, Jnynes
and Taliaferro.
The building was I .C feet front, four stories high,
and insured for ft!'*, (Mil). The library contained about
20,1100 volumes.
There are fifty students 1 lie present unions, on
ly nine of whom slept in the Uo.lege kill Id ing. They
barely esraped wilh their Jives. S- me of tin tu lost
nil tbeir clothing, books, aud everything elpe
l have no time for further partioulare Indeed,
the foregoing hart been almost too harried y written
to be legible. Yours truly, Veritas
From the Xe/r Orleans Picayune, h'rb. 7th.
I.nte and ItiteresiioK iroai Mexico.
The Quaker ( ity, arrived yesterday from tlie
UtlmiiH, brings us live days later Mexican advice.-,
to the 28th overland trom Vera Cruz The church
military party has been lettered to power again,
Zulo&ga, President; Robles has been ousted from
his command ol the army of the district; Salta n,>
pointed in his place; and Miranurn, at the head of
one thousand cavalry, is giving laws in the capital.
This import aid, news, with other equally intercut ing
is furnished lid by our correspondent oi Minafdlan,
who enjoys the advantage of receiving the latest
and most reliablo intelligence from the interior.
Mina rn lan, Feb. 2, 1859—The latest news
from Mexicoo is of interest; Gen. Miramon return
ed to the city of Mexico about tbe 2fith nit, with
an escort of 1,000 cavalry; disapproved of tLe acts
of poor Robles, displaced him , and put Gen Sales
at the head of the army, and recognized Zulouga
aa President Os course Zuloaga is replaced in
power, that ne nmy retire very shortly without di.<
grace, and what tho game w ill bo thereafter God
only knows. It is reported that Miramon intends
inarching against Veia G’rnz with a strong force.
“The Liberals are concentrating their forces, and
il centred at one point, they will have about 9,000
men, but only about half ot the n are armed. 1* is
hoped that n great battl j will be (ought and decide
the fate of either one or the other party. However
With present data, it is almost impossible to draw a
conclusion.”
By this arrival ako we have files of Mexican pa
pers to the 27th, several days later than those
brought by the Tennessee. A letter from Jalapa,
under date of January 23, announces the complete
route of Negrete’s army by Carbajal. The engage
merit, took place at Tepey&bualoo. It seems to
have been a surprise, and the general hansel! was
uot present. On hearing of the defeat, he hastened
with tbe force he tin n had with him to the rescue, but
it woe too late, and he immediately returned to his
“hiding place,” Perote. The same letter says the
reactionary army suffered daily Irorn descitions,
while the people were every where rushing to the
standard of the Liberals. Tnia news is fuinished
by the Vera Cruz Progreso.
Ou tbo other baud, the Dinrio de Avisos, a Reac
tionary organ of the capital, admits the steady ad
vance of Carvaj'il. At Apam lie had taken 22 pris
oners, among them the administrador of the hacien
da Teoocomulco, J) Facundo Cueto. “Tlioee who
bed money were h,- 1 . g s those who had none
are still in prism
Tlie Liberal nis ride had also occupied
the tow, o ’ ... under Gen Rodrigeus. There
w\ howev t: ,no engagement, as the Reactionary
General Gavito tlduon his approach.
Nothing further had been received at Vera CYuz
from the riege of San Luis Potosi.
From the other side, via the Capital, this sums
up the news: Gen. Moreno .still held Colima in the
name of Miramon. His force consisted of two
battalions, numbering in all 2500 men. Col. Joaquin
Miramon, brother of tlie president, was, at last
accounts, in Zacatecas with 500 men. He wk.-<
hastening to the relief of San Luis. Gen. Perez
Gomez was left in command at Guada'ajara Gens- j
Lecaza and Ordonez were left by Miramon, wilh;
their divisions, at Guanajuato and Queretara. At i
the latter city several arrests had been made by
Geo. Mejia, commanding the vanguard of the Fede- I
ral army. Gen. Miramon’a journey to the cap't&l !
was made in the moat leisurely manner, and name- i
rous officers and politicians went out to various
points to meet him and render homage to the man ‘
ot t he day.
The papers before us say nothing further of the
catastrophe at Guadalajara , ‘hey also fail to furnish
us a Jiri. of tho victims. Everything is swallowed
up in Miramcn’s approach to the capital.
Dr. Latrobe—One of his Lies Proven.—The
following note from “Mrs. D.” reached us too late j
Saturday lor insertion. We cheerfully give it iu ;
this issue, with the hope that, all papers i , have
published the account of Latrobe s (Farm sworth’*)
rascality, will copy this: —[Montgomery U
Eds. Mail You will confer a favor I ontra
dicting the assertion of the Judge Latrol in re
lation to tbe engagement with Mrs. D.; it is as false
as his other cta and assertions have already proven
to be. I think it very unkind and unjust lo use a
lady’s name in connection with one of his stamp,
and that alone upon his assertion. By rectifying
the error, you will bestow upon tho lady an an! of i
justice, and beside the reward of her gratitude, will
confirm the hope that prompts her to make this ap
peal, that you are just and honorable men—true
gentlemen.
With tho hope that all the editors who have copied
the affair, will as readily me their efforts to rectify
the error, I subscribe myself,
Yours, with true respect,
Mrs. D.
From Cuba —By the arrival of the Black War
rior at New Orleans, we have advices in m Ila
vana to the 3d inst. The political uew prim ipally
concerns tho great queMiu of the day, Ihe pur
chase of the Island, the discussion of which was
vigorously renewed on the 30th The occasion was
tlie receipt of the debate in the Spanish Chamber ,
ou the -Ith, and the recent report of ihe Committee
of Foreign Relations in the Senate; hot water and
cold, almost, at the same moment. The first, irt pub
fished in full, to the great gratification ot our Island
neighbors; the latter oniy in a brief analysis ami
accompanied with ridicule of its positions and hi
gument. The old charges of lawlessness anti torn
tonal rapacity are also agaiu renewed with consul
erable bitternesa against us, aud the assurance re
iterated that the Island can never be alienated trom
the Spanish dominions, moreover, that any further
procedure in tho matter of its purposed purchase,
can only be considered as a national insult.
About three weeks since a cargo of A fricanfl wh?
landed on she inland, to the westward of Havana.
The government officials succeeded in capturing
eome of them, as also the crew of the ves-el, whic.u
was made up of Spaniards, Portuguese and Irish.
Doctc-ks Differino —^The New York Academy
of Medicine have been holding a Jong discussion
upon the cause of|the death of Mr. Whitney, whose
windpipe, it in alleged, was perfV rated with a pro
bang, while administering nitrate of silver for an
in 11 amed throat and lungs. A few days afterwards
the patient died, exhibiting very extraordinary
symptoms and very great dietrees. A physician,
formerly attending tbe patient, charged malprac
tice upon the latter employed coder, and this was
the subject that was up before the Academy of
Medicine. Aa usual, there was the greatest differ
ence of opinion among the doctors; so, for peace
p.ake, they almost unanimously passed a compro
mise resolution, declaring, virtually, that the mao’s
death was uot in consequence of the treatment of
any of th ee doctors who attended him, but a com
plication of diseases. The opinion most prevalent
is, that the man died from a complication of physi
cians, and the New York papers are now discussing
whether the unusual mortality of that city—twice
as greaf, in proportion to population as a; y other
eity—is owing to local causes, injurious to public
healtn, or to the absence of medical ski.l in the doc
tors.
A Shocking Tradgkdy.— The most shocking
tradgedy we have yet been called upon to record,
took placj on Tuesday night lat, & few miles north
of this place at tbe residence ol Mr. James K.
Humphreys. A negro woman belonging to Mr.
f fumphreys took her two children, a boy about five,
and a girl about three years of age, to an old well
some three or four hundred yards from the house,
and threw them in, where they were found next,
morning drowned. Marks of fingers and toes on
the side of the well down to the water, would indi
cate that sh also went down, whether to drown
herself, and afterward changed her mind, or to et
fectually put an end to ■ bildren, is not known,
but it is thoug! * v . the latter. She then
went back nr-ii piled all her th ugs in
the midd* fio-.r, set tire to them, and ran
awv i. ip to the present time, do trace other
. . ueen found. As she is represented a.- having
been heretofore an ordinarily good negro, p.ud it
being well known that her master wan a kind and
lenient one, no cause for this unnatural and diaboli
cal act can be assigned unless it be that he wan
laboring under some aberration of the mind —Mad
ison {Fla.) Messenger s th inst.
Burring of a Bolt Manufactory.—^ The extern
Bive Bolt Works of Plant's Manufactnrinjf Compa
ny, in Southington, were burnt on Monday, inveiv
i-g a ‘osa of *1(10,000, on which there are insurance
only to the amount of *05,000. The fire ic thought
to have been the work of an incendiary. It has
thrown some two hundred men out of employment.
A train on the Philadelphia and Morristown Rail
road ran oil the Irack when entering the depot at
Easton. Pa , on the flßth ult. The engine, tender
aud several passenger cars were broken up, and tbe
engineer, conductor and many passengers wereee
riously injured. No lives were lost.
In a Nut-shell.— A screwed business man, w’bo
takes little interest in politics, ia reported to ha*e
remarked, that the propositions to buy Cuba seem
ed to him “ like an offer to give money that we Lad
u ot got, for a thing we didn’t want, to a nation that
wouldn’t sell!”— N. Y. Evening Post.
Later from Hatti.—Later advic* m Hayti
gay Geffard’s force is estimated at 18,i • ten. All
the northern part f the island is repoi to have
dared in his favor. It was feared thr. e muten
eers would attack Aux-Cayes, many de ttieg from
the Emperor Soulonque.
A young lawyer of Philadelphia wrote to an old
limb near Chicago, thu3 : “Ia there an opening iu
you part of the country that I can get into ?” An
swer, “There is an opening by my back yard, aboyt
thirty deep, nu curb around it. It it will suit,
come on.”
Ti'rrlbli’ Piic in Hroolihu.
A dreadful *IV iro.vt: i-i on the c.untr •; Eu’l n
Avenue I’ln l*iaeo Brooklyn, on Sunday ir.or< -
in-j last, involving t*tc destruction of near'-;, a wit e
iami ! y. It broke cut about Mir oY.I* i. in a fom
aiory b:iok li >U;O in the obA’o !•* illf y, ** 1
on the tiist tin >r as a Mkery, n::d eon> ••ionery
afore by S M -.u: \N,am.l ihe upper p • .-i tt •i r -
in# by Mr. Kmv utn (1m ‘ ‘l'stb following ar.
is given in the N <v, *'ik paper?:
Mr Then. Gill was tlie (’oat olio in ih •h. w. >
dKoov-rd the tire Mr immcdia: !v ayon •’
c •nipHi.io.'i and gave the alarm The inmates all
n .-eu-d to #he stairway, b l Mind li. ;r vHivaf cat
off iv the tire this direction; Ike; could . even
•It end to h** second story, i.i the -xi -t. ment. ot
il emoment ftli entered Mm Gill s loom.
Air. G. t. ok several blanket an . tied theta tope*
ther and. fastening one end, threw the oilier our i
de window, and low ereii himself part of the w.-y
down, when he missed his hold and tell to the!:- >•;>
ground be*!, w. h\ in* lvi, t: * l.mi uuir in eonM.
w tlh mi iiou l*u:co, aid he received a n-v.'i, ec i r
wound. He wan loilowtd by Mr. (lra\ . wh*
<• li u portion of the distance ami spraineM h’.a an Etc
Out* of the aimers (livegan) went to the l>a< k loun
nbout this time, and wita l Otse |&ind of a etrinp
l\t oed horseit out of the back window. The ;-od
was uot long enough to reach the ground,’ and i-!n
ton '.irtpei:dod iu this position until the nightcap
.ni hei head caught the, when she let. go her liold
and t-ll into the yard. Ouo thigh and one arm
.w to broken by the fall, and she received other in
juried.
\\ ha! wc have related thus far transpired within
ate w minutes. Mrs. Gill, about this lime, was seen
at the window implyiiiig for help. Tim blanket
rope still hung out off lie wiudow. lm< she could rot.
be induced to take hold ot it. A fireman at this
time seized hold of it. and giving a slight jerk, it
t rok * loose. Mrs. Gill was then urged to throw
out a bed and jump upon it. but she emu di.-nn
peared. By said time Hose Cos. No. it and E.giuo
(• *. A•. I hid streams of water upon t • i/iv. Mini
il was uoon extinguished. As noon :n i’ u,i.<n - ,
Lie i. reach the third story Mrs Gill’s 1* idy . .
Muni in a sitting position, near thrt window of
room, vi‘li her aims c abbing !. r two children
Near them wo* the girl Keegan. They v/ero but
little burned, and a c.*rouc*r * jury Im-ren i*tod >i
wrdutl that all died from solb.cM-n Tim ihhuh
and bitch of the victims are as toll*• - Mrs. I
beth Gill, aged ‘J7 yeuis . Mary K Gill, . and **
jean . (i•'.*u E <}iil.ag Gytara
aged 17 year*. Thel’dlnwing were injured : Thom
an Gil, brother ol Kiwurd, dangerously iiyuied .
Olio Graves, slightly injured; IL.nora Kreguu
dangerously and pi rhaps nitaily burned.
It :m not definitely known how !• lir-c
It. appears, however, that Miv. (till hi .1 ho !. >ij
in-nw returned from a visit to New York about I
o’clock, on Saturday night. Shu retired, and Mi
Gill and Mr. Graves sat i.i I'm dining room u , ;
about two o'cleek, smoking aegars, wlmu th y
\-i.: i.i be 1.
with live c.wilrt a’ the time, idt .o eupjo ,>n i
that some oi th( li V• < 0 ils miglit h l* .• fallen on lln
Hour. All appeared ea< wlo nthey reiired. ’i .
ward in-, •ruing liny arouacd by siili'oi'ating
smoke win *h proceeded fiom ihn dining mm. h? <i
finding all inodes if egrets shut ofi’erc&pi by tim
window.
Ttie < o> ci miH in Oi pn .n Fnvoi oi iini-in/
flic Dude'..
The Washington Union, eorciud. . a I.’ - am.
oii tho public revenue and cipei.dituit H, ,n t,.:.
lows ;
The mly lemainiug iuqu’ry, thcrefon*, i.. Mh.-ih
er the tavdV/.v saudjusteu us to produce a i . v<-mi
sufli •lent, with the aid we have mention <t, to e . •
• utu tho laws of Congress, and condncl. tl. gove •
*unt of the Union. Tue actual rnsultaot tnopi.-.-
♦nt tarill uh >w a product of p.-c n-!y niimtooi t .
cent, ot revenue on the dutiable iuipoiisol i!i<*
country. With this datum, let. us’see what r. v uu.
may bexpec.*d Sjum th. importa'i. i.iot the* *:i
try, ae estimated ly thorn ot pas] y u • since I
W<! append a table showing the aitioiinf. of dm mi
goods wldc’.i havo been iiuported into the , <*umiv
during the years designated, and append in each
case the amount of which w uld bv.c
been yielded u sue.!i iiinportatious by the tarill’ - •
1857, if it had been in operati-m, i?t umting >.t tin*
iats of nineteen per cent. \V alno append itn
ninouiits uhioh were actually raised by tin* taiifi’ oi
18 Ifi.
Year euding, Dutiable Reveuu > vil i h Aeiua! ■
Goods. would hare venue im
baea raised der urn i
by taiifi’ of IHiii.
Ir.*7.
June3o, I..s!lM,llH;i|f dhvi,-. 11,017^0.7
“ Vy.. iKi.sfs*j,. r *ud :i4,bt7,y.; ,
“ V> L. iidr.,595,1 Id 4 1 1,071 , f .- •’ (|'m. .
“ V 4.. a7i,tt?( PiJ . I J,. I ‘ li 1. .•I, I >
“ •'•.. ‘ 1 . 1 . 1 -,,
“ Trti.. sis7j)rt4 idii I'jl ioi.oi lii.ud ;n,i
“ V 7.. 1(0,8.{5 ,
“ ’at.. ~od(actual -I.* ol /J77
The third col uiuu represents whal would ba\-
prodkot of tl 1 :
operation previously to the fijeal year > at )
shows that thorn would have been an average re
ceipt under that tariff of ouly about £ 11, hilt) oik)
Tho fourth column represents the actual cu-m -:.
received from the tarilTof 1810 during the \- >. ..I
designated; whicn were equal to an avorni • <<•
venue per annum for the five last yours of .'ll.! nun
IKK). *
< It is only, however, with the tar If law of is..;
that wo h Ivoto do ; and ir. j 5 plain horn th- t imd
column above presented, that the importationa !
the country for a period of seven yearn would lmv<:
produced a revenue of only an average of $ I l.fihO,
hOt) per annum, on a tariti levying nineteenth pi r
cent, ot revenue. Nor must it be forgotten that
tins small )<?venue i:i calculated upon imiMuLut:‘>i •
fto large, ao eiirbitant as to havo ended in a no!
lapse in 1807 which bankrupted the whole country
There is no chance, therefore, of an increase v\ tin
revenue from an increase of importation* ; and :•
can only be t(V*cted by an iucreane of did in Im
portal ions greater than thoae of JSbl-.V *. i won
produce another frightful collapse in the : mini nc •
of the. couutry.
U is therefore clear that, either the duties ! -vml
on importß musl.be increased above the pn
! rate of nuieteeu per cent-, or that tin# pienenr s v
1 tern of legislation calling lor the expenditure of up-
I wards ot .*i!n,(K)o.ot)U must be changed. lvil.< r lh
j garment mu t be Gretched to fit the mai:, nr the
! man dwarfed to fit the garment.
:• It- would aee.m to be 1.00 late in the. session for ti.
I second alternative, and it follows that Goiigre.vi . .
j bouud,on the basis of itsowu Icgidafion, t*i;he<
• raise the dutieH on iuiporfatioiirt above the av<
1 rate of nineteen per cent, tc ariandaul ::ore u-.\
! that of a revenue standard, or to adop tl;c jmma.
j that a “public debt is a public bierising, “and j
j vide for meeting L e demands us their o .vn i< ;j- i
it ion by adding new loans t> the public debt. T'h*
diletamiairt purely and exelusively n >; m,, ,
j dilemma, and remains to be ueea whetl.ei ;:.i*ei!ii
\ lnanship of the present Congress is iquul to the en
j geneu sot the occasion.
Notaiumtiks in Havana. A c. n .i • n<Jf n , j
Him N. O DrUu . writing flow Havana un < r dat*
of Jan. “J, gives the following :
There are a great many Anglicans in llhvwi
no 7, and also ollwr foreigners*, pome cl whom m>
perPonß of distinction. Recently a party of young
English nobps visited tliiscity, ami stopped at the
110 el Cubano, \t'bere they exhibited their go- *1
breeding by appearing at the dinner fable in i*
flannel shirts There is also a Mr. I).* H>moihing
oilier, nlfio an {Englishman, whose uifo i-; n i,i-
Lord Napier, and who in Innif'elf, Ininga <l. ni,
>ih he assures us, Mi** solitary r ji<-. • :.t :ivu . t .
title now extinct in England, .-roept, in l.i in i
Ahhw>h an bis eminent poult ion wan anoerlnim and,
the Americans in the house rcque, ted the piivil-g
of a formal presentation ; but the Count and (Vim
test* would . nno account permit ri public dcm. .
ntration of thin character. 1 have itinaikeu int*l) ,
that it it; quite the fashion now to put in;..,,
initials on oneY card, in order to obi .in .*• .
and attention abroad. A In ad ol mine in New
Tork, a member of the l.'ity Council -not much of
ho honor at home—-when he visited Europe, wn-i
presented as a member dv ('onitnl, and wan con
ndered to be one of t lie Presidt ntY Cabinet at - ;.
A geuifciuan to whom 1 was recently intioduc u,
informed me, through hi -card, that ! wan an n
her of the Geographical Society of Par ih, a * i.-
ol information which is no doubt exceedingly in alt
tying to an anxious and inquiring world, ns it wh .
a perfect “stunner” to m**. Another gentleman,
now favoring the people of this island with hie pr
pence, appends the mysterious characters “F. A “
to his name. On inqui.y they are asi-i tamed to
signify Fifth Avenue, and thence, by au easy men
tal process, we a<rive at the inference
that the gentleman in question in the happy incum
bent of a residence in the very center ol hew V ,ik
nnubdom. Thun you will perceive, that with mem
bars of Geographical Hocieties. English Counts and
Fifth Avetioodles, we are at no loss for notabilities.
The Sketch Ci.i i: ok <*rr cues vri. -The artists
comprising this ciub are in ttie hab.t of holding
stated meetings, at. which t ■ketches are shown,
made upon subjects given our previously. For in
stance, the subject ie “ Broke.” and the iugenuM ,
of the artists i.* shown in illustrating thin word. T
different ideas suggested were of a creditor leaving
the door of a broken bank, a fast horse who hasbrn
ken his gait, and everything else conr.H-!’ <1 y. itb
him —a boy with a broken knife—a fat old gmtte
man in a broken down swing One of the int.rt
elaborate and affecting sketches was one in which
the large centre piece represented a scene on the
river. <)ne or two trees are tumbled ovei md bi
ken, and there are ugiy jagged pplinters of ice
round a hole in the frozen sheet in the foreground.
Underneath are the words •• [I Broke. ’ Thu tr-!
ot the story is told in some little vignettes at the
corners. In one the mother bids her boy b earn
fu!, in another the boy is skating; in the third the
father seeks with a setting tool*-for the bo .
through the ice, and in the fourth the motbei stands
at the bed on which is stretched her son’s lifeless
corpse. Another vignette, at the top, of a weeping
woman, adds to the pathos.
From Havana.—Havana advices so the .'loth
ult, have been received. The growth of tho cauo
is a large one, the quality excellent; but the wotk
ot getting it i is inure than usually behind le.nd.-
Aud tui-* principally because of the remarkably
heavy rums which ai a very la:o season have fallen
throughout trie tropica, making the roads bad and
impeding the grinding. At Havana the arrivals
had been so email, or the transactions therein s
tew, as scarcely to give character to the inaiket.
The same is said of Matanz&s, where there was au
unusually large number of buyers on the ground.
The rains, however, had been heaviest in the ea-. v
ern part of the island, where,especially on the large
plantations near Cardenas, the work was most be
hind.
Sharp Practice at Philadelphia —A young
gentleman on Saturday afternoon called at a shoe
store in Pine street, and asked for a pair of French
hoots. The French were handed down
Young gentleman tried on French boots. Having
done so, young gentleman remarks, “junr tho
thing; what’s the price?” “Seven dollars, sir ”
wan the reply. “ Cheap enough,” said young gen
tleman, “ 11! take them.” Just hero another young
gentleman rushes into the stor, , and informs the
shoemaker that his roof is on lire. Shoemaker pan
ic struck, rushes to tho rescue, lie ascends the
garrett steps, and finds he has been sold. Shoema
ker returns to shop and finds it empty. Youi g gen
tleman had disappeared, and with him that seven
dollar pair of boots.
A proposition is made to Congress by Geo.
Washington Greene, Bon of Gen. Nathaniel Greene,
to purchase the papers of his father, connected with
the war of the Revolution in the South. They are
voluminous, embracing, among other documents oi
interest, two thousand original letters ol the General
himself. There is, besides, a connected series rs
papers, which, taken in connection, furnish a com
plete history of the Quartermaster’s Department,
during the whole time of Gen. Green’s command
it. the South. Os all the men who figured in the
var of the Revolution, none had such high claims
upon the gratitude of the country as Greene, Wash
ington alone excepted. Had the latter been carried
i*off by sickness, or a shay bullet, or any of the other
chare-s of war, his place would undoubtedly have
been tilled by Greene —Richmond Whig.
j N Bloom —We were shown yesterday afternoon
a sprig taken from a peach tree from the orchard
cf Mr. 11. Winter, near the Arsenal, which wn so
swollen in the bud as to develop* its bloom Wo
may safely say that pea* h trees in Colutnlra are in
bloom aud w regret it very much, ter i is likely
that the fruit may be lost to us tine season —Colt m
bid Bulletin, Fib. 10.