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MILITARY INSTITUTE
MAItIKTTA, GA.
la.tiiution will be odcii for the admission of CA
T PEI’ ™ Mohday tux 7t or Ji lt, 1831.
Vr fiuti'tutioa is owned by Stockholders, anil is under the
■ml nf a Hoard of Trustees.
“rSTlicultv elected consists of Mai. A. V. Urumbv, G*n
-3„ W tfmsiron?, Maj. D. 11. Hill and Thomas Steward.
“hr Saseftatenileni, Maj. Rrumby, Is a (tradunte of West
’ j|, comes to us with the best recommendations from
J” Academic Staff of that Institution; and. also, fra the
Fioilu of the University of Alabama, where he tau lit Ms
and Civil Enffineeriuff several years, f eu. Arm
imni nml Mai. Hill are also uraduales of West Point, and
crsinsfienced teachers. The latter is at this time I’rofes-
Lr of Mathematics in Washington College. Va.
Tlie course of instruction, reitulntions and discipline of the
r s Military Academy, so far as they are applicable to a
Slate Institution, have been adopted, and will be published
r&lion is organized upon the usual plan of font
Collsciste Classes. Kv reference to the following SYNOP
•ijor STUDIES. Parents and ttuardiaus can, at once, see
vtoure the requirements for joining either class.
FOURTH CLASS.
Arithmetic, Ateebra, Geometry, English Grammar, fieog
nfiii Composition and Declamation. French.
Tiuan class.
Tiijsnomotrv. Mensuralion. Surveying, Descriptive Geom
sninditsipiificatinns, Analytical Geometry, French, Draw
m Composition, Rhetoric, History.
SKCOSO CLASH.
Differential snd Integral Calculus, Natural and Experimen-
Isl Philosophy. Astronomy, Chemistry, Drawing, Evidences
KVii'.isuily, Moral and Mental Philosophy.
FIRST CLASH.
v,iuni History. Mineralogy, Ceology and Physiology, Po
,oil Economy,’ I .aw of Nations, Civil and Military Engi-
Beering. and Ci vil Architecture, Infantry Tactics, Science and
yntiirf of Artillery.
No Cadet will be admitted who is less than fourteen or
Bure than iwenty-flvv years of age ; or who is afflicted with
mdirtaur or infirmity which would render him unlit for
miliiarv dutv.
rir Cadets will be occupied about one hour and a half
atu [Uy in military exercises; but at suck times as net to
mtrrfirl mtli tbir regular studies.
UNIFORM. FUUXiTURF,, &C.
Tbe Uniform consistsol a light gray cloth coatee, trim mo
vilfa jilt convex buttons and black cord—while vest, and
white Russian drilling pantaloons, without trimmings—to
lumnur. for winter, gray cloth vest anti panta!oops,triinm
•and It wit the coat—black stock, white gloves and white bell
-Monroe shoes and a Forage cap. .Vo other dress mill te
tees; nor ml! Cadets be allowed to keep other doting in
line rent. Kaeh Cadet from a lstanc must provide him
self with a mattress and bedding to” a ingle bed, raatlres
sow and hed-sirap—one trunk, one cle'bes bng anil six
Each Cadet will unite w ith bis I -om-mates in pur
aUsiat. for their common use, one pine table, one lookiug
xlim. one wash pan, one pail and one broom.
In dew of the following regulations, parents nnd guardians
vending their sous and w ards to this Institution, are advised
todepoeit with the Superintendent, or with some friend in
Marietta, aunt of money sufficient to purchase the above
Af.ielev, ind to cover all necessary expenses lor one Session ;
Vlb.Superintendent should be authorized, in writing, lo
Bow the Cadet to make an account for a sprcijieil sum. The
Kulitioureferred to is as follows, viz: Every Cadet shall
wpairaall blank hook, in which shall be charged every
wtirlthe mavpurchase. I bis book shall be turned over lo
KSuperintendent for bis inspection at the cud of every
iMiiib. Any Cadet who shall contract a debt without per
minionof tiis Superintendent, or bo mistied with any ar
iriyvhitrver, by any storekeeper or Hut person, without
such permission, or whose parent or guardian shall pay ary
BtbtMU'.rarted by him during his connection with the In
Sauls, and in violation of this regulation, shall be dismissed
TERMS.
Tsiflon, Board, Washing, Kuo. iglds. Field Music, and
*s Mine contingent expenses, . per .icssioii o! live mouths,
gino oo
Taitaslone, ffnr resident Cadets,] per St-ssion, 2a nu
Field Music and other coutingents, - - - 2 00
Any Cadet entering the institute afler the commencement
•fa session, will be charged in proportion to the above rates.
Tutecharges must be paid in advance for ail expenses ex
•opt the fee for tuition. Every Cadet leaving the Institute
before the expiration of the period for which he has made
ualysace. uliall receive the unexpended balance.
tYThe Editor of any newspapei in 1 1 corgi a, South Car-
U. Fluriila, Alabama, Mississippi or Tennessee, by inserl-
Util advertisement in his paper, and sending a copy reg
My to the “Georgia Military Institute.’’ shall Ire entittml to
siion for one Cadet, or his IrU at the rat -of twenty-live
kta psr wjsion, payable' t tuition, and in favor of any
IkUt, will be accepted,
DAVID IRWIN,
‘ s5, Hit. jyld] Pres’t Board Trustees
TWENTY DOLLARS REWA ED
DIN'AWA froTi tho tinbscriborA, the 3d July, inMnn
11 two NEGRO \1 KN. Georire is about -0 yrar* old, dark
t|)!r\ioa, weighs about 140 pounds, about 3 fvvt hitch. —■
Btniwy !rv to get to South Carolina.—He was bought in
HirfhUo fh)tn Mr. Auslin, (a speculator.) Hen is 22 years
dark complected, weiichs about 140 pounds, about 5 feet
dose built. Roth went off toftether.
Tlicshore rewsrtl will be paid to any one who will deliv-
KK id negroes tu us, or loilire them in any jail in the State,
“J five us information thereof—or Ten Dollars for either.
JiM.-ea at Bald Hill Post Offle. Muscoeee eounty, ‘ a.
WtT.t.t am r„ ci.AHK,
JOSEPH KING.
LEATHER.
HARNESS, band and sole (.entlier, top leather, black
ud fancv enamelled l eather, whamc I.cather, patent
tare’her. Deer Akins, Sheep Siting Morocco and Itook-bintl
•O Skins, Cut kins, and all kinds of I .enther —for sale at
WADE Sc CO.'S.
*t tide It road at., Sisrn of Golden Mortar.
PREIiSTUM COTTON QINS.
E. T. TAYLOR & CO.
ROPRIF/I l >RS of the Columbus Ci
---1 ton Gin Manutartorv, have the satisfaction
■Mnnnunce to t'-cir patrons and the Planters fen
,r 'lty,thrnusfhnut the Cotton growing region, that
rs arapsred to supply any number of their
••■slinied Premium (Ins.
here there gin* have been onee used, it would
>jr S'emitd unnecessary for the maniifacturers to
1 word n t)isir favor, as they ’eel confi
‘titthe machines have been brought to such per
that their superior pertorm 1 * nor* will rc
t'ttttinesii them m preference to all other gins
Bo ” tn use. For the. satisfaction of those whe,
■"* not used the (vina, and are unacquainted with
•‘'re repa ation, the proprietors need onlv snv
• •the first Premiums have been awarded to
tn >, Inr the hesi Gtn exhibited at the ureal State
‘•it. hsld at Atlanta Gi. Also, at the Alabama
*M',*nrgi Agricultural and Mechan’c’s Fur.
r< At Columbus, and at the Annnai Fair ot the
J Carolina Institute, at Clnrleston. The cot
• 3ne.l nn these Gins, teceived the first Pro
,n '* *tthe eihihitio* held in Charleston, South
•tsuna.and at ev ,ry Fair where samples ot c*t
---l, ro ® them have been • xlnbitcd.
w Proprietors have jn thetr possession, nu
Hoiucertificates from Pianters. Cotton-Brokers.
c^.. n,l *“ , " n Merchants, and Manufacturers
g, l *n If 1 ’” ) s, esti ‘vinit that the performance
s • s..mple produced by them. can not
f tr- e h> , nv Gins ever manufactured.
|f 1 " r * *or Gins given either to our travellin
lr “ istentk, or forwarded to the proprietors bv
“tii, a-dl r
~ liw ns receive prompt attention.
4 ’ “ v * i ‘ be sent to any part of the conn r ,
. “'•'■'•.ted to give satisfaction.
, ‘ discount will in all cases be allowed
“ash is paid, and the Gin taken at the
• ‘ 1 niton .
“b'mhus, Ga. Dee. A, 1850 twd
flUiaEsS. IIARRIBON.
• j tion \n t u commission merchant
Will ~ roail 8t * Columbus Gs.,
t„ ail “ P ro *>Ptly to all business consicne
jan9
GIIKMIVHOI) & MoItKIS,
COMMISSION VIRRCHANI S,
No. 90 Camp Street,
NEW ORLEANS.
uhesley b. Howard.
attorney AT Lj.lV.
tOU’MBI'S, Ga,
Wftw Dß - J * c - ROOSEVEIT,
OMCBOPATHIC PHYSICIAN,
f .°v mbaß Geo.
pr,l3_ y Randolph Street,—near the Pom < >m.
(HI fie (f§ittt£oe
VOLUME XI. j
A SACRED MELODY.
BV WILLIAM J.BOOETT.
II yon bright stars that pern the n : ght
Ro each a blissful .Iwolllno sphere,
M here kindred spirits re-unite
M lioin Death has ‘orn asunder here,
How sweet it were at ..nee to die,
And leave this blighted orb afar—•
Mix soul with soul, to eleavo the sky,
And soar away fYoni star to star.
Rut oh ! how drk, how drear, how lone,
Would seem the brightest world of bliss,
If, wandering through radiant zone, ’
We failed to fin 1 the loved of this
If there no more the t : rs should twine
dieh death s cold hand alone ran sov*r,
Ah ! then these stars in moekerv shino,
hateful, as they shine forever !
It cannot be ! Each hope and fear
T.int lights the eye or clouds the hrovr
Proclaims there is a happier sphers
Than this bleak world holds us now 1
T. acre is a vo ce wh ch sorrow hears
When heaviest weighs life’s galhng chain
Tis heaven that whispers— ll Dry thy tears,
Tiie pure in heart shall live aga’u !**
ITEMS.
r^'HE Dinner at tii : Boston Jumi.Er..
The following comprise some of the. eatables
used at the great Jubilee dinner at Boston.
Me its 6000 pounds. Turkeys 100, Tonmies
100. Piireons 1200, Chicken's 1000, Ice Cream
1000 quarts, Grapes I()00 pounds. Pears 25
bushels. Peaches 50 bushels. Ice 6 tons.
Bouquets 1000. Piers 50. Geese 75, Ducks “5
Besides these, there were bread, cake oran
fifes, apples, etc., of the quantity of which no
estimate can be made* There wote two
thousand silver spoons, .and the same num
ber of silver folks on the tables: the rest
were common articles. The fragments that
remained after all that sat down bad eaten
their dinner, would be sufficient for 6000 per
sons.
trW” The fire Annihil.ator Company have
commenced operations in New York eitv.
Machines amounting to SIOO,OOO. wore dis
posed of on the first day. E. K. Collins took
six for each of his Atlantic steamers. Also!
nearly all the hotels in the eitv with the the
atres, have been supplied with them. Ma
chines were also purehesed for the Revere
Boston, and many of the southern hotels and
steamboats. A public test of the annihilator
bv setting fire to a three-story building, near I
New York, will be given about the sth of
October.
I taii— Dr. John M. Bernhissel has hern
elected Delegate to Congress from thoTurri
ritory of Utah.
Daniel Webster, —A New York corres
pondent of the Delta says that this distin
guished gentleman will resign his office of
Secretary of State, as soon as he. can dis
pose of some important matters before his de
partment. nnd, after that., he will visit the.
South, and may be expected, with certainty
in New Orleans on or about the first of Feb
ruary next.
Mr Webster would undoubtedly lie greet
ed with gr**qt honor, in the South, notwith
standing he has said that “if any Southerner
came to his house for satisfaction or redress,
&c., he would not get it.”
A Nut for the Union Safety Committee
to Crack.— The following appeared in the
\. York Tribune:
The “Syracuse Platform.”— There lr>-
been a good tier 1 of talk pro and con, in the
papers of both parties about the bearing of
the resolves of the two state conventions re
cently held at Syracuse on the fugitive slave
law. We respectfully ref-r all anxious in
quirers to the practical commentary of the
‘ people, of Syracuse. They seem to have a
! very clear notion oil the subject.
Meaning the mob,
ajgr* Whv is a pig the most extraordinary
animal in creation? Because he is always
cured after he is killed.— [Exchange Paper.
Smartness of a Bank Cashier.—NN
find the following credited to the New Y or
Journal of Commerce:
“A story is current hare.nf .a little sharp
practice on the part of the Cashier ot the
Peoples Bank of Patterson, which is too good
to be lost. The morning this Institution
failed, he came in town expecting to mske
arrangements to go on as usual: but nis agent
here very properly refused to redeem the.
hills unless supplied beforehand with the
needful, which was not forthcoming,-and the
Cashier accordingly started on his return to
make preparations for closing tlie hank.
On arriving at Jersey City, he found quite a
number of brokers collected, who had got
wind of the trouble, and were on their way to
Patterson to secure, it possible, the redemp
tion of the hills in their hands. The tr .in
started, tin* hungry hill-holders seated in the
cars, and the cashier, who is President ot the
Railroad Company, standing with the En
gineer on the locomotive. After si run of s
f-w mi'es. Ili bolt. 1 y which the engine
drew its burden, was quietly withdrawn, aud
the locomotive carrying the Cashier shot on
ward to Patterson, leaving the-e. rs to follow
rt their leisure. As soon as he had taken
leave of his passenger, the engineer put back
to bring up the tr in. and found it at a dead
stand in an interesting locality, where the
passengers had abundant time and oppoitu
nity to examine the scenery, and cool the fe
ver of th -ir impatience. When the train
reached Patterson, the score of brokers rush
ed to the bank, hut found it closed with
an interesting placard att tehed to the door.
Death ok Hon. Thomas C Ha* ket— **
announce with painful regret (says the Man
etti Union of the 9th iust.,) the death of this
gentleman, so long and favorably known to
the people of this Congressional District,
lie expired in Marietta on yesterday morn
ing, at 3 o’clock after long and painful ill
ness
S-gr-The Hon. Linn Royd, f Kentucky, is
spoken of ns the Deinoeratic eamiul. t’ i o
Speaker in the the next Congress.
r_£7“ A Balloon, in which Mr Pusey vvas to
make an ascension, at York, Pa., last batur
dav, slid otf without him, to the great disap
pointment of five or six thousand persons who
had assembled to witness his ascent
JQgT” Thirty-two steamboats have been
built at Pittsburgh, l’a., with an aggregate
tonnage of 5.255 tons. There are, besides,
twenty-four steamers now building.
The “Union” majority in Mississippi is
about 6000, and the vote 12,000 less than at
the last State election.
sole right and title to the use of
Phillip's Fire Annihilvtor in New Orleans
has beeirpurchased by Messrs, Mm. S\er
& Cos. They paid §20,000 for it.
The Tobacco Crops of Kentucky
and Missouri, this season, have yielded well
and are of excellent quality. The late dr\
weather has ripened tobacco quite fist, and
nearly all, if not quite all. is cut and housed.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
Non-Intercourse. —A public meeting at
New born, N. C. resolved that thev will not
pitot Rodney Futnch’s vessels into the har
bor, nor assist in freighting them on, account
<>t his opposition to the reclamation of fugi
tive slaves. Mr. French is a wull known
New Bedford abolitionist.
Large Failure. —Th firm of Dextet
Harrington & Cos., ,‘it Boston, wholesale gro
cers. failed on Monday, with liabilities
amounting to .-.bout h If a million of dollars.
Much of the paper is endorsed by u firm in
Salem.
Naval. Hie!.. $. frigate St. Lawrence
now ,~,t the L. S. Navy Yard, Brooklyn, is
nearly ready for sea, and is dsstiued for the
i I -icifie squadron. The following officers
have already received orders to report for du
tv- on board. C.ipt.. Henry, Lieut. Unv, Hen
mngton, t-s executive officer.
The steamship L .fiyette, from New \ ork
was burnt to the water’s edge on the l lth
ultimo while lying at Chagres. A'he had ar
rived there a few days previous, and had t.a
k*jn on board a fbvv passengers to return,
sotne of whom, suen was the rapidity with
w nidi Ihe flames spread, saved nothing but
the clothes on their backs. No lives were
lost. The fire is said to have oceured from
a quantity of comphino shipped on board the
steamer.
Jewish Anniversaries.— The following
anniversaries .arc to be observed by the Jews
during the present year: Oct. 11th, Feast of
i abernacle; 17th, Feast ofPalms and Branch
es: 18th End of the Host Feast: 19th, Ro
joiciag for the Law; Nov. 29th, Consecration
ot liie i cmple. The Fast of Expiation was
observed on Monday last.—S at. Xeics 9th
Tift.
WEDNESDAY’ MORNING, OCT. 15, 1851
THE WASHINGTON UNION.
The Montgomery Advertiser and Gazette asks
some very pertinent questions of the professed or
gan of the National Democracy at Washington
NA r itlx the A lr,Tiber, we to> w iuU like to know
wh:ch side tho hnio iison f It is certain that it
is giving no “aid and comfort” to tho Demoarat
ie parties of either Mississippi or Georgia. The
Southern lights party of Georgia is the old Demo
cratic party, joined by one out of ten of the Whig
party. The Inion party is the W hig party join
ed by a fraction of the Democracy, tolled away
from their political duty an 1 t'j'th by the ridicu
lous cry -if “union,” ra sed by a cedition formed
to save itself fro n imp ;u ling political ruin. The
same is true of Mississippi. And vet we find the
Washington Union omitting no occasion t*i put in
its oar in favor of Cobb and Foote, and against
Davis and McDouall. Mayhap, the Washing
ton L nton tli nks that outside barbarians like us.
who believe in the Old Virginia doctrine of State
Sovereignty and of the undoubted right of each
State to judge for itself of the “mode and measure
of redress’’of Federal grievances—have not the
right to queat'on its orthodoxy or complain of its
course. If the Wash'ngton Union is Democratic
—then were we never a Democrat. We learned
the Republican creed in a different school from
that in which the Union appears to have got its
teachings. In becoming a Southern Rights man,
per te, we have never, that we are aware of, aban
doned a single tenet of the Democratic faith. The
Baltimore platforms of the last 20 tears on Nation
al questions are firm resting places for our feet.—
The difficult}’ was that the Northern Democracy
did not stand tip to their platforms, and indeed
were swept from it by the avalanche of abolition
fanaticism at the North. Hence our desire to
unite the South on the Democratic pin*form of a
strict construction of the constitution, and a limita
tion of Federal powers, as the only security to
the iiiimSty States of the South. Wo have tailed
in til’s. And faded how ? A brief historical re
view will answer.
At the season of the Georgia Legislature pre
cedhtg the passage of the compromise by Con
gress, that question was the absorbing topic, it
i was then agreed by all parties in Georgia, that the
I man features of the forthcoming compromise,
i were alike unjust, illiberal anil insulting to the
| South. The question was, how to defeat it. The
! Democrats said to the Whigs, on this question—a
! purely southern one—let us act together—let
| there be no division betwixt us, but let us present
; a united front to our common adversaries and de-
I feat the measure, foreshadowed in Congress.—
j The Whigs accepted the overture, and it was
• agreed to recommend the Nashville convention
and to send to it, one Whig and one Democrat
from each Congressional District, and delegates
similarly selected for the State at large. It was
done. In this District, Beiming D. and Craw
ford, Wh g were nominated. Judge Ilill was
nominated for the Troup District, and so through
out the State an effort was made fairly to carry
out the arrangement. But before it was com
pleted, new lights beamed iqion the minds of the
1 Whig party. They had discovered the potency
j of the cry of “ Union.” and found that by taking
; ground against the Nashville convention as a Dis
i union scheme, they could subvert the Democratic
! power in Georgia and build up a strong party uli
j.Jeranew name sh its stead. The same thing
! occurred in Alabama and Mississippi, both power
ful Democratic Stales. In the former, Capt. Jas.
Abercrombie who was lately elected to Congress
as a most reliable union man, was a member of the
Nashville convention, and we believe, voted for
the resolutions and address. In Mississippi, Judge
Sharkey was the originator of the convention and
elected its [’resident, aud he is now a unionist of
the purest water, and the Whig candidate for the
Senate of the U. States.
The trick succeeded most admirably ; and just j
as t!e brilliant Mexican war,—a Democratic mca- j
p „ re —inured to the benefit of the Whig party, who j
opposed it, by the use of the name of the brave ;
soldier, but imbecile man, Zachary Taylor; so !
has the Whig party in these three States obtained i
power and ascendancy, by going against the rights
and interests of the South. •
There is no room to doubt, that if, in the Nash
ville convention, the South had been fully repre
sented, and had unanimously adopted its recom
mendations, the Federal Government would
have been brought to a pause in its aggressions,
and been force.! to settle the territorial question on
the line of 36. 30. But the South faltered, and
divided, and by its divisions placed her at the
mercy of a Free Soil Congress. The Whig party
of the South, (aided by Cobb and other Southern
Democrats, themselves become weak and odious
to the South by their time-serving ajd timid
course in Congress.) is responsible for the defeat of
the South in this great battle.
And now where do we stand ? Hat not the
North learned the trick of dividing and conquer
ing us ! Is it not proven to the most sceptical that
the South is incapable of un on in its own defence;
and are not we, and our property, our lives and
liberties, exposed naked to a fanaticism unparallel
ed in atvocilw and reehle*nes* and whieh has wot
“THK UNION OF TUB STATH* AND THK SOYBRBIQNTY Os THH STATKS.”
yet exhibited the first symptom of a purpo
to abate in its fury, or r.dent in its infernal pur
poses? The Demoivacy of Ge >rgia would hav
been nearly united but for the baleful influence <
the Washington Union. Its circulation pervade
the State, and it sowed its po’son of disloyalty t
the State, in the minds ofgool meu, whoj confi
dence it had previously won.
If the National Democracy sLoul 1 ever be n
united, (as many believe is to be the inevitable r
suit) it must find an organ more true to the Deni’
c-rntie Republican State Rights creel, than tl.
Wash’ lgton Uifion has shown itself to be.
Frun the Montgomery A<lr. and Gazette.
The VVashikqtos Union.—This paper would inur
oblige the democracy of the south if it would state sp’
ciflcally and categorically, whether iU intention U to ai
wliiggery or democracy here:
It prrfesses to be the organ of the democratic part’
and abounds with able and just strict tires in rebuke
the iinheciie and pusulanimous administration of Pres
dent Fillmore; at.il yet, there Is scarce a paper from i”
office that hns not an illiberal fling at such democrats r
Davis. Quitman and -McDonald, and at the same tine
warmly espouses iFe cause of those men at the south
sueh as Foote, Cobh A f'o who are the most zealot
advocates of Mr Fillmore's administration of any met
even In tiie whig ranks. Surely it cannot be lgnorat:’
that Vr. Foote, dur’ng the canvass in Mississippi, ha
made Mr. Fillmore the special theme of his praise, ad
miration and commendation. Now, we don’t see clear
ly—and hope the Union will deign to enlighten us—how
Mr Fillmore and his administration are so censurab'e it
Its eyes at Washington, they can be so commcndabh
anti proper to it through their (V end Foote in Miss.—
Whatever exctise may have been found for such a esur-'t
on Hie p.-rt of our metropolitan contemporary, we con
ceive that it has entirely vanished now, that the sontherr
rights men in Mississippi have—in obedience to the peo
ple-abandoned their opposition to the compromise,
and taken their stand in the ranks : and ’
the Union is really desirous for the ascendancy of the
democratic party and democratic principles in tho south,
it will surety cease Its censures and rebukes of such met
as Davis and McDonald, and discontinue its aid in behal*
ol the Union party—which everybody here understands
as the old fedora! whig party—the Fillmore and Webster
party in disguise.
The matter with us ! reduced simply to this, The
democratic party, under its proper name, must organise
and hold the ascendancy, or the whig party, under th,,
new name of “Union,” must supplant it and prevail.
Which will tho Union aid ?
Dkath oi” Mtt. Lkvisox.—We regret to learn
from the New Orleans papers that Francis M.
Levison, Esq., di,e<l at Baton Rouge ou the Bth
inst. of injuries received by the explosion of the
steamboat Brilliant.
Mr. I-evison lias friend* in tills city who will
deplore his untimely end. He was known here
as a most amiable, intelligent aud clever young
man.
JUDGE BERRIEN.
The Washington (Ga.) Gazette, understood to
be Mr. Toombs’ organ, ha* put forth a Ukase
settling Judge Berrien’* ca*e with the “Constitu
tional Union’’ party, so far as the Sc-natorship is
concerned. He is to be proscribed. Tho Bill of
Indictment, judgment and seuteuoo are all sum
med up as follows ;
‘We it wish dlstlnetly to be understood, injustice to our
Judgment and feelings in this issue between Judge Rer
rien and the people of Georgia, that we design no reflec
tion upon his personal integrity, tiis patriotism, or his
loyalty and devotion to the Union. We do complain,
though, of his extraordinary silence when he, above all
others, should have been heard. We complain of his
neutrality, to say the least, at ntime when no true friend
of the Union should have been found unclad in the armor
of war. We complain that, throughout the iate crisis of
onr destiny, the friends of the Union had to struggle un
aided by the power of his strong arm and the influence
of his high position, while he remained silent under the
boasts of its enemies that that power and influence were
enlisted in their cause. Our cause for dissatisfaction is
just, and Judge Berrien cannot complain that the Union
parly of Georgia should desire to be represented t>v an
other equally loyal to the government with himself, and
who. unlike him, has shared their hardships and their
fortunes in the fiery struggles of tlie past.”
! To be suspected of being on the able of the
; South is enough. No doubt, says the Gazette
1 about Judge B.’s “ personal integrity, patriotism
\ anil loyalty to the Union,” but he didn’t bawl
i out strong enough on the Northern side; he didn’t
j do what the Georgia Convention refused to tin,
|to wit: praise the Compromise as “ wise, liberal
; and just bo did not “share’ the hardships and
| fiery struggles” of fighting the masked battery !
I So, “ off with his head.”
We advise Judge Berrien to join the Democra
cy. Wliiggery lias cut him, an 1 installed new
i idols in his place, such ao Cobb and Foote.
I
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA,
j The Steamer Georgia arrived at Now Or
i leans on the 6th inst. She brought 400 p.as
: sengers .and $78,000 in gold dust,
i The accounts from tli it Statu are of the
| most shocking and terrible character —rnurd-
j ers, robberies, thefts, mobs, lyneh-law, &c..
were the supreme order of the day. The fol
! lowing is but a specimen of many others oj
j lhe “same sort” in different parts of the coun
try. We copy from tliu Alta California of
lbs Ist ult:
“Events of more than common magnitude
have filled up the brief period which has elap
sed since the departure of our Atlantic mails.
The eitv of Sin Francisco has been convulsed
with e tcitoments. Never within the recollec
tion of any of our citizens, have such stirring,
fearful scenes been witnessed, occupying so
brief a space in the chronicle of the times, and
I never h ive the troubles of excitement and
I passion boat higher, or followed faster, one
j upon the other, than in this community, since
j the ifitli ult.
Shortly after the departure of that day, the
newspapers were fiiled with the revolutions of
crime, wrung from the two prisoners, Whit
taker and McKenzie, who were in the custody
of the Committee of Vigilance, and who, it
was reported, had been adjudged guilty and
deserving of death. Their confessions impli
cated a number of men in this country, who
had previously enjoyed a high reputation.—
About the 21st before daybreak, a party of
individuals, among whom were the Governor
of the State, and Sheriff H iys of this county,
obtained access to the committee chambers,
and the sheriff entering, seized the two pris
oners before the sleeping guards could be
aroused, and bore them off to the county pri
son,having previously obtained a writ of habeas
corpus with which to execute the duties of
his office. For this act, Gov. McDougal was
long, loudly and justly censured by the press
and by the people. His proclamation was al
so treated with contempt.
On Sunday, 24th ult. the city was startled
by the peak of the Vigilance, bell, and before
the excited multitude could concentrate at
any point, to impede or promote action, a car
riage had dashed through the principal streets
and conv eyed the two prisoners again into
the hands of the committee, at their Chamb
ers. They hid been recaptured in broad day,
from under the bars and bolts of the autho
rities. They were hung at high noon from
the loft of the Committee rooms, the fifteen
thousand people beneath venting their appro
bation in one, unanimous and terrific assent.
This event only occupied eighteen minutes cti
time.
nE*rjESJE2 PS^ML-TST.]
FOR THE TIMES.
Mr. Editor —lt is the province of a good
“eneral whether in defeat or victory, to sur
■ ev the battle-field after the clangor of arms
-i over, and gather from the past, material to
mprovo tho future. If he be a victor sur
eying his conquest, it is his duty to make
mod the earliest moments to improve the
Vuits of victory: if lie be vanquished ho is
hen to turn to the past for the errors which
i-ne caused his defeat that they maybe avoid
d for the future. And again in defeat or
ictory he rnay pause to sen if there is more
’o be won or battled for, and so choose be
-■•veen a cessation of arms and continued con
Jet.
A similar duty devolves at present upon the
Southern Rights partv. A Waterloo defeat
ias been theirs, and the question is. shall they
■ield to the fates that are against them, or
hall they war on to the last? To determine
his question it is necessary to recur to the
‘omineneotncnt of tho struggle which is just
•ver and see how the Southern Rights party
wrung into existence, what causes have kept
•tn its organization to the present time, and
vhether there remains anything upon which
‘t shall act for the future?
The acquisition of boundless Territories
conquered by the Wood and treasure, mostly
of the South, opened ns they supposed a wide
and profitable field for slave labor, an oppor
tunity for its diversity which would benefit
all classes, as well the slaveholder as non
slavedolder. Tho attempt to organize these
Territories according to the custom of our
fathers, was met by fanatical opposition from
the entire whig party of tho North and a por
tion of tho Northern Democracy, who insist
ed upon the interpolation of a clause in tho
Territorial bills known as the Wilmot Provi
so, whereby tho South would be excluded
from any participation in the newly acquired
Territories. This -degradation—for in such
light in addition to its injustieo, it was viewed
by all parties South,—was met by the united
opposition of both the whig and democrat par
ties of this section, and almost every leading
politician of either party sounded tho alarm
and called upon their respective constituen
cies to resist this attempt to deprive the South
of her equality in the confederation. Partisans
united who had been antagonists for years and
met at Nashville to determine the mode
and measure of redross—democrats .and whigs
met there, irrespective of political differences,
to make preparation for maintaining the rights
of the South to an equal participation in tlie
Territories—all went on harmoniously, until
measures of Compromise were proposed by
Mr. Clay,’ which were eventually carried
through and which ia a different nianuer pro
ducted the same results, to-wit: tho ex
clusion of the South from all the Mexican
Territories. While theso measures were pen
ding the great body of the Democratic party
of Georgia and a respectable minority of the
whigs formed themselves into a party by the
name of the Southern Rights Party. Its ob
ject was to unite the South in opposition to
the measures of compromise, feeling confi
dent that if they could unites majority of
both parties at the South in opposition to
these measures that they would not pass the
Congress of the United States, and that
measures containing some ingredients of
equality if not strict justice, would he adopted
in their stead. Unfortunately on the proprie
ty of this course a difference of opinion exist
ed and an opposition party arose under the
name of tho Constitutional, Union Party, who
by at first exciting tho fears of the people,
and misrepresenting tho Southern Rights
Party as Disunionists, and afterwards advo
cating the compromise measures as a triumph
on the part of ths South, have so changed
public sentiment as to obtain from the people
of Georgia by a majority of some 16,000 votes
a vord'ct of “fair liberal and just” upon the
very measures which under a different name
less than two years ago ivcrc deemed “ tyran.
nie.nl, oppressive and degrading.”
This being a simple and condensed rela
tion of the facts, for what purpose shall the
Southern Rights party keep up its organiza
tion?
Not to redress wrongs, for Georgia to whose
voice the democratic portion at least of tho
Southern Rights p.artr must yield, has decid
ed upon two occasions by overwhelming ma
jorities, either that no wrongs have been com
mitted, or at least that they are not so great
but th it ac juieseeaca th irein becomes a vir
tue.
Shall w? kn npthe organization of the
Southern Rights party to redress further
aggressions that may or may not bo commit
ted at some future time? Surely not, for the
Constitutional Union party to w hom wo are
opposed are equally committed upon that
point, and there can he no doubt but thM
these aggressions will be less apt to happen
with the united front of Georgia in opposition
than they would be., were we to continue s
separate organization which might he misinter
preted .at the North, and create nn impression
that the Constitutional Union party, the mi.
joritv of the State, had abandoned the points
of resistance laid down in the Georgia Plat
form. It seems to that this would b- the
only construe .ion that th -a North could place ,
npon the continued organization of two par
ties—it would scarcely occur to them that
wc were, .agreed in opinion, and yot .acting in
opposition to each other.
With these views it occnrs to me that the
duty of the Southern Rights party, at some
sacrifice of pride, is to acknowledge that a
change has been effected in the opinions of
the people of Georgia, a majority having de
termined that the compromise measures ere
not wrongs to be redressed, and that th# pur
pose for which the Southern Rights party was
organized no longer existing ia the opinion
of a majority of the people of Georgia, it is
their duty toeease all further opposition to
the compromise measures, holding themselves
in readines at all times to co-operate With
their fellow-citizens to resist any and all eu
■, eroachments which may hereafter b© made np
#n the rights of tho Smith.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 21, .851.
If the Southern Rights party is disorgan
ized, the next question is to consider w hut
will be the duty of its members.
I shall in a future number show that they
will consult their duty by allying themselves
with that national party in connection with
which they can most reasonably hope to avert
the evils which the farther agitation of slave
ry will induce, and that with this end in view
they will necessarily uniw.i with th? N M->n
al Democratic party, to -rhi -h in >:t us th m
belonged before the org mi; iti in >'fths South
ern Rights party, and to which ihj whole
State ought to return since the aliianco of
the National Whig party with abolitionism
precludes from that quarter all hope of con
servatism.
A Sottas as Rights Democrat,
[jteoiTayx Lirrst from II ?.x. Geo. M.
Dallas.— -Tin Southern Press says;—
•Wo find in the Galveston News, of the
23d ult., which cams last evening a letter
from ex-Vic i President Dallas, dated 25th Ju
ly last, to Hou. Guv M. Bryan, of Texas.
IFe shall publish this lettar to-uiorrovv.
Meanwhile, vvj state th at it cunt tins th i dis
tinct admission of the failure of the compro
mise mossuroa, and a proposition equally
distinct to decide the slavery question, once
for all, by an amendment of tha Constitu
tion.
Next to Mr. Paulding’* l etter tins, of .Mr.
Dallas seems to us, in its leading sentiments
the most reasonable of anything which has .
yet emanated from Northern statesman on
this subject.
ImportantANNOUNCEMENr.-The South
ern Press, received last night contains,
in the first of the following paragraphs,
an announcement of the highest impor
tance to the Merchants and Planters,
and indeed all classes of the South.—
The question arises, shall our people
avail themselves of the offer now about
to be made to them. Can they hesitate.
Most sincerely we hope not.
The Planter's Convention at Ma
con.—We u iderstand that Mr. Baylor,
our consul tor Amsterdam, and who is
in this cou itry on leave of temporary
absence, will attend the Macon Conven
tion of Planters on the 2Gth, and that hr
is authorized by merchants and capital
ists of Amsterdam to tender to Southern
planters ancf merchants ample cash ad
vances, at a low rate of interest, on di
rect shipments of cotton to that port, and
also to guarantee at least the market
prices of Liverpool.
We think this atfords an excellent
opportunity for the establishment of a
direct trade between the Southern ports
and those of continental Europe It is
the interest and policy of the South to
decentralize the cotton trade—to dif!use
it over the various markets of Europe,
and to avert as much as possible the
costs and charges of needless tranship
ments.
It is peculiarly important in another
aspect. England lias of late years giv
en a good deal of aid and comfort to
abolition. Her Westlndia policy proves
her antagonism to African slavery and
her intervention in Cuba shows it still
more, to say nothing of the money ac
tually remitted hv her anti slavery so
cieties, to promote abolition in this
country. Hence it becomes important
or the Soulli to foster the cotton mani
tufacture of the continent of Europe, so
as not to be dependent either on Old or
New England. Iftlie Ams erdarn mer
chants will afford equal facilities to cot
ton producers and cotton dealers, let
Amsterdam have the preference to the
extent of her demand for her own and
heri uteriorconsumption.
The Truth Coming Out
The Washington papers publish the follow
ing letter of Can. Scott, who was “written to
some months since, by a gentleman of Penn
sylvania. ut the request of eight members of
of the. State Senate, addressing him as the un
i doubted Whig candidate for the Presidency,
’ and requesting his opinions upon the various
political questions which have agitated the
country.” As the. New York Express says,
the letter is “characteristic”—for there is no
other man prominently named for the Presi
dency, who would have written a letter so af
fectedly sprawled out. like the counts in a
bill of indictment. We stated the other day
that we had been positively informed that
Gen. Scott was under a pledge, to Seward to
write no public letter expressing his opinions
on subjects of “grave public interest”—the
policy being, as in tie’ case of Gen. Taylor,
to get votes North and South, by vague rep
j rssentations of bis advocates in each section.
The following letter comes in to confirm the
same viev. —for Gen. Scott, in the language
of the Republic, “refers so his past life and
liis character for his oni n ions,” and positively
efiiscs to avow his sentiments on points of
“ rave public interest.” Os course, there
to i coming in such a questionable shape, he
cuts himself from the support of the SSouth
j ern Whig party, if their leading organs are to
be believed. Does not th’ publication of this
singular letter look as if the Fillmore men
sought to produce some such affect?—[Rich
mond Enquirer.
Gen. Scott.—The New York Express
says—Gen. Scott, being written to some
months since by a gentleman of Pennsylva
nia, at the. request of eight members of the
State Senate; addressing him as the undoub
ted Whig candidate for the Presidency, and
requesting his opinions on the various politi
cal questions which have agitated the coun
try, wrote the following characteristic letter
a reply:
Washington, March 26, 1851.
Sir: I have received your letter, (marked
‘•confidential,”) in which after committing the
error of supposing me to be “fully before the
country as the Whig candidate for the Presi
dency,” you proceed t<> interrogate me on ma
ny points of grave public interest.
Permit me. to say, th it. considering we
shall probably only bas e a Whig candidate
for the Presidency through a National Con
vention. and that \ cannot bo its nominee ex
cept by the force of the unsolicited partiality
of large masses of my countrymen—
Considering, also, that if my character or
principles be not already known, it would
now be idle to attempt to supply the deficient
information by mere paper professions of wis
dom and virtue, made for the occasion—
And considering that, if I answer your que
ries, I must go on and answer others already
before me, as well as the long series that
would inevitably follow to the disgust of the
public—
I will beg permission to close this acknow
ledgement of your letter by subscribing my
self, -
With great respect, vour obedient servant.
WINFIELD SCOTT,
esq. Harrisburgh, Pennsyl
vania.
P. S. I mnst add that I write and say noth
ing. on public subjects, which I am unwilling
fa see published. W. R.
| NUVcBhJR 4-.
Q3~ The brig Rescue, companion of the
Advance in the Arctic Expedition, has arriv
ed at New York.
The Countess of Lans field—Lola Montez.
The European correspondent of the New
\ ork Express speaks’as follows of this cele
brity :
“The most curious event of the week has
been the debut of Countess de. Lansfieid—Lo
-1.. Montez, (the final letter a and not an s)
as a danseuse, before an audience of about
two hundred invited guests, at the Salle Ma
bille. After a long quiescence, this extraor
dinary woman is about to set forth again on
anew knight-errantry of adventure. She
dances at Rouen, Havre, perhaps at Paris,
and thence starts for the New World,* there
to exercise her new profession. The above
mentioned performance was preliminary to
this car er. The persons present comprised
most of the critics and literati of Paris, with
a sprinkling of ladies and strangers. The
dances she has practiced are six in number,
though on this occasion she only executed
three—a Bavarian, Hungarian, and Spanish
dance. Her drosses were in exquisite taste,
and her appear nice was that of a spirited, hand
some woman of 19 or 20, though she has en
tered her 28th year, having been born in St
villein 1823. Her face is very like the por
traits of her, with a wide forehead, betoken
‘ ing powerful intellect, combined with aeliiu,
mouth, and teeth, exceedingly juvenile.
If I mistake not, this contradictory physiog
nomy is an index to her character, for it be
speaks at once that commanding intelligence,
and that fickleness of design, which have
marked and governed her career; “which have
made her at one time the baffler of.Metternich
and the ruler of the king and court of Munich
and at another the roving ballot-dancer over
half the continent. Her eye of gray, tinged
with blue, is the leading feature of her coun
tenance, and when once seen is never forgot
ton. It is very large, filling a prodigious soc
ket. and seems, in its Hashes, to become all
pupil. No one who has observed this atten
tively, can be at a loss to believe, what indeed
is well known, that her power over the King
ot Bavaria and his ministers, sustained for
two years and a half, was wholly a triumph
of intellect; and not the sorcery of a courte
zan.
The outline of the story of Lola Montez is
well known, but. her real eharaeteris not gen
erally understood. She is the centre, here,
of a large circle of admiring friends, consist
ing of the beaux esprits of Paris. She is a
cherished member of the Artists’ Club, com
posed of four hundred men of genius in eve
ry line of art. Lola Montez speaks nine lan
guage fluently. When the Nepaulese Prince
was here, she was the only person in Paris wit h
whom he could converse. She is famous for
her daring and dashing eloquence in conver
sation. Viewed as a man, with the latitude
taken to themselves by the lords of creation,
she would have claimed and won general ad
miration: as a woman, she is. of course, ban
ished from the greater part of the sisterhood,
and finds what consolation she can in the so
ciety open to her. She and her friends deny
and denounce as false the gross libertinism
imputed to her. How much of the irregula
rities of her career may be explained and ex
tenuated by the adversities of a life betrayed
at the outset by a corrupt mother, and abase
brutal husband, it is not for me to say. At,
all events, while I make no apology for her,
it is proper to state that those who know her
ideelare her to be noble, generous, and unself
sh, even to a degree of romance.
lu3uran33 and .the Fire Annihilator.
The following communication, says the N. Y.
Tribune, is from the pen of a capitalist of this city,
one of the shrewdest business men, a large owner
of real estate, and, as he also himself avers, “a
holder of insurance slocks for no inconsiderable
amount,” in this goodly city. The remarks of
such gentlemen are always entitled to serious at
tention.
VYali. Street, Sept 29, 1851.
Messrs Editors of the Tribune ;1
Gentlemen—l am a holder of insurance stocks
to no inconsiderable amount in this city, and am
much interested in property of various kinds, all
deeply affected by such a contingency as that of a
conflagration. Os course, therefore, l have not
been an inattentive observer of the progress of
Phillips’ Fire Annihilator in this country, and of
course I have been questioned, particularly in
Wall street, over and over again, about the proba
ble effect that the general use of the Annihilator
would exercise upon the stocks of our Insurance
Companii s.
Some of our stockholders, in fact, seem quite
alarmed upon this subject. But why ? I cannot
participate in their apprehensions. And the rea
son is simple as well as obvious. Supposing Phil
lips’ Fire Annihilator to accomplish ail it proposes
—supposing it capable of extinguishing a fire at its
inception, and thus putting out of the category the
chance, in future, of any great destruction of pro
perty by the flames—supposing all this, and (as
lion Elisha Whittlesey observes,) “ If human tes
timony can be relied upon,” the supposition a quite
legitimate, what must be tin-immediate effect? A
reduction of the rates of insurance! Granted.—
That is inevitable. But does it follow that the
profits of the underwriters must be reduced in
proportion ? Will not the diminution in the losses
of the Insurance Companies handsomely afford a
reduction so calculated to benefit the public! And
will not the reduction of the rates of insurance in
crease the demand for insurance—just as the re
duction in the price of newspapers has multiplied
tenfold the readers of newspapers, and just as the
reduction in the .-ost of travel has made it difficult
to find one man content to remain forever by h ; s
own fireside ? Will not thousands insure at a re
duced rate of insurance who cannot afford to, or
do not insure at prt-sent prices, just as thousands
now write letters every dav, under the cheap post
age system, who rarely ventured upon a corres
pond’ nee when postage ran so high 1
It seems to me. therefore, that the Annihilator
can have none but a beneficial effect upon insur
ance stock as well as upon real estate. Property
of a'l kinds must enhance in value in proportion
as it is exempted from the common perils of its
nature, and in proportion to the cheapness with
which that exemption can be purchased. Real
estate, rendered more secure by the Annihilator,
and the consequent facility with which it can be
insured, will he worth more to its owners and the
public : and the insurance offices, profitting bv the
diminished average of destruction, as well as by
the increased application for a popular, because
cheap, system of insurance, will make greater divi
dends with less risk.
This is my view of the subject, and as it may
interest many besides myself who have their means
embarked in. enterprises affected by such a topic,
be good enough to give this communication a place
in the Tribune, and oblige.
Yours, respectfully, isslxa.nce.
What Next! —The Cincinati Nonpar
iel says:
‘ By invitation ofMr. Wood, weyester
day had the pleasure of witnessing Mr.
McCromick’s experiment of walking
on an inverted plane. The experiment
was a private one, only a few persons
being present, and was made under
very disadvantageous circumstances,
the preparations being necessarily in
complete, and the health of Mr. Me-
Lromick being somewhat feeble. The
experiment, however, passed off to the
entire satisfaction of all present. A
heavy frame was erected, with a slab of
marble nine feet at the top, the under
surface being polished like a mirror.—
We saw the experimenter mount his
platform, and adjust his unwieldy boots;
then, placing both feet against the sur
face of the marble, he swung himself
off with his head downwards. Diseon-
nectmgonetootfrom the slab, and plac
ing it firmly several inches in advance
of the other, he continued the alternate
movement till he had tajten ten steps,
and arrived at the othef end of the
slab. ‘ ‘
!‘We held our breath during ex
periment, expecting mdfftebfanly’ ttrlt
he would fall, but he Appeared Jo. walk
as safely as a fly runs a rd'Rgthe'ceding.
After his descent, however, we notieda
that he was much exhausted, owing fa
the excitement and exertion. The pub
lic exhibition of this wonderful experi
ment will take place at the Melodeon
on Monday evening next.”
From tlie South ru Press.
The Letter of Ex-Vice President E alias.
We publish this letter to-day. Mr. Dal
las is well known all over the Union as a
•fatesinan of long experience in public affairs,
■nd as one of the very ablest ineu in Penn
sylvania. His admission of the failure of
(he compromise is extorted from his candor—•
for lie was warm supporter of that scheme
—at least alter it was adopted.
Mr Dallas is right in say ing that an amend
ment of the Constitution would be the best
mode of settling the slavery question, in ref
erence to the federal government. But whilst
almost every man in the N„rth must admit
this, we are quite confident that not. one hi
ten believes such an amendment possible or
probable. They all know too well that tho
power in the North which assails the South,
is too st 1 ong to permit its own control thus
to be taken away. And they know more
than that—they know that if such a thing had
boon practical before, it is no longer so, since
the wide-spread display of submission that
has been made in the South.
If the Southern States had remained unit
ed in their resolutions of 1848—49, the new
territory would have been divided with some
pretence to equity. If two or three Southern
States had determined to resist the comprom
ise at ail hazards and to the last extremity,
the compromise even then would have been
amended—tho Constitution might have beorf
amended.
But now tho peril of tho Union is greatest.
The South has no further resource iu words,
and that is of itself a catastrophe. Every
man in the South must feel that there is no
mode left for a Southern State to express it
selfin language that would be respected at
the North.
It seems to ns that the submission States
have arrived at that position. Ilence, when
ever the time comes when aggression has ex
hausted patience, there will be no words,
there will be no opportunity for protest, for
conference, for compromise. There will be
acts. Now this is a dangerous state of things.
This we strove to avert—and for this we were
denounced as disunionists. We are much
mistaken if it will not be found, if disunion
comes, that the architects are of a quite diffkr*
ent school.
Difference Between Iron and Steel.—
Steel is iron p issed through a process called
cementation, the object of which is to impreg
nate it with carbon. Carbon exists more abun
dantly in charcoal than in any other fusible
substance, and the smoke that goes up from
the charcoal forge is carbon in a fluid state.—
Now, if you can manage to eonfinethat smoko
and put piece of iron into it for several
days, and heat the iron at the same time, it
will become steel. Heating the iron opens
its pores, so that the smoke or carbon can en
ter into it.
The furnace for this purpose is a conical
building of brick, in the middle of which ur*
two troughs of brick or stone, which hold a
bout four tons of bar iron. At the bottom
is a large grate for the lire. A layer of char
coal dust is put upon the bottom of tho
troughs, then a layer of bar iron; and so
on alternately, until the troughs are full.—•
They’ are then covered over with clay,to keep
out the air, which, if admitted, would prevent
the cementation. Fire is then communicated
to the wood and coal with which the furnace
is filled, and continued until the conversion
of iron into steel is completed, which gener
ally happens in about eight or ten days. This
is known by the blisters on the bars, which
the workmen occasionally draw out to deter
mine. When the conversion is completed,
the fire is then left to go out, and the bars re
main in the furnace about eight days more to
cool.
The bars of steel are then taken out, and
either sold as blistered steel or drawn to a
convenient size, when it is called lilted steel.
German steel is made out of this blistered
steel, by breaking the bars into short pieces
and welding them together, drawing them
down to a proper size for use.
New York Money Market. —The Jour
nal of Commerce of Thursday evening 9th
inst, says:
“There was a little feverishness in the mar
ket early in the morning, but it has mostly
passed away, and the regular business ot tha
day has been uninterrupted. The banks with
larger receipts are able to discount more for
their regular customers, and prime paper is
selling more readily in the street, although
at very high rates.
A statement in a morning paper that it
house engaged in the linen trade had been
detected in illegal entries of goods at the Cus
tom House, has no foundation in truth. No
such difficulty has occurred. The rumor pro
bably grew out of the fact that a largeinvoica
of linens had been vigorourly examined by
the appraisers, who found everything about
it strictly correct.
Foreign Exchange for Saturday’s steamer
is heavy at the closing rates of Wednesday;
on London 109 a 108 i for commercial signa
tures, and 1091 a lit for bankers; Paris 5,16 J
a 5,13 J for 60 days.
The End of the World—To-day, to
morrow, every day, to thousands, tho
e.id of the world is close at hand. And
why should vve fear it! We walk hero
as it were in the crypts of life; at times,
from the great cathedral above us, we
can hear the organ and the charming
choir; we see the light stream through
the open door, when some friend goes
up before us: arid shall we fearto mount’
the narrow staircase of the grave, that
leads us out of this uncertain twilight
into the serene mansions of life eternalk
Kavanagh.
Incidents of the Fair.—From Wilmer &•
Smith’s European Times we copy one or two
ketches humorously illustrative of the ex
sent of the Chrystal Edifice. Every ticket
holder seemed bent on going the wrong way,
and could get no one to set him right.
“Now, then, Policeman, where is stair No.
sr
Ans. —“In China, sir; go to, China if yon
want to go to stair No. 5.”
“Here, you No. 101, where am I to go with
this?” .
-You must go round by Greece, sir, and
along the corner of Prussia, down by Asia-
Minor, to the staircase.”
“And this ticket here! I know it’s all
right”—calling to No. 11—“ which way!”
“Any way, sir; anybody will fell you asyon
pass by Turkey, at the end of which you will
find yourself but forty yards from Italy. Go
on, sir, go on, it’s but a few minutes stride.
Thus has the Chrystal Palace magically
transformed the relations of Kingdoms and
States, not only by verbal dialect, but by ac
tual representnCou. Surely Aladdin s won
derful ’amp could have done no more.
Thanksgiving. —Governor Boutwell, of
Massachusetts, has appointed Thursday, tbs
twenty-seventh day of November, a a day
of public thanksgiving and praise. The Bos
ton Post says that there is an understanding
among all the Governors in the Union to ap
point the above day for the observance of the
annual holiday.
Sir John Franklin. —Captain Griffin, of
the brig Rescue, of the American Artie ex
pedition, which reached New York on Tues
day entertains the same hypothesis, as fa the
fate of Sir John Franklin, w ith Lieut. De Ha
ven, and some of the officers of the British
expedition, namely, that be is hemmed in bjjjj
the ice at a point to which these exptTtions
have not yet been able to penetrate. jg