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COLUMBUS:
Saturday Morning, Srpl. <* ISSO.
LARGEST CITY CIKCCLATION.
Muscogee Rail Road.
We learn that tlic Rail Road bridge over Up
atoie creek, on the Muscogee Rail Road, which
was undermined and carried awuy by the gale
on the diet alt., has been put in complete re
pair, the oars having passed over it at 3 o’clock
yesterday morning. The work of repair has
been energetically and rapidly carried on—
trees that on Thursday ufternoou gracefully
waved their green boughs in their native for
est, now form a component part of the Rail
Road bridge. Truly, the march of enter
prise is onward, overcoming ail obstacles,
and, backed by determined resolution, even
the elements themselves seem impotent to im
pede its path.
The Fever in Charleston.
The board of Health report four deaths
from yellow fever, for the twenty-four hours
ending Wednesday evening 10 o’clock.
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New Hteamer.
The New York Journal of Commerce says
Wra. Collzer, at Green Point, is proceeding
with tho construction of a fine steam ship of
1900 tons for Spofford, Tileston & Co.’s line
of Charleston steamers, and will have her
ready for launching by the first of November.
She will have a side lever marine engine,
built at the Novelty Works. She is somewhat
larger than the other steamers of this line,
amt sharper, being calculated for a higher
rate of speed. She is 225 feet in length, 35 in
depth, and 23 deep. The same builder has a
propeller for James M. Eason, of Charleston,
which will measure about 409 tons.”
Theatrical.
We learn from the Savannah press, that Mr.
W. 11. Crisp, with Miss Rosalie Durand, and
Mr. Frederick Lyster, as Stars, opened tho
Theatre at Savannah, for a short season, on
Thursday evening. We have not heard what
his intentions are respecting our city, but pre
sume he will not slight his many admirers
here the coming winter.
The Army Bill.
From our exchanges which came to hand
yesterday, we learn that when the Army Ap
propriation Bill which passed tho House, as
stated yesterday, went to the Senate, that
body struck out the proviso and passed tho
bill, and the House concurred by a voto of 101
to 87. Thus has ended the drama. No doubt
tho order from the President to discharge tho
operatives in the United States Armory at
Springfield, Mass, and elsewhere, and the
firmness of the Senate, brought tho black Re
publicans to their knees.
More ol’ the late Gale.
The Americus (Ga.)News of Wednesday,says:
We were visited by a furious gale on Satur
day evening last—wind from East North East
for nearly twenty hours; then from West and
South of West till the subsidence of the storm
on Saturday uight, when it left us, wheeling
Northward. The enly damage suffered by our
city as far as lerned was the prostration of a few
shade-trees, and the tumbling of a lew illy
constructed chimneys. The cotton crop has
doubtless suffered, and much timber felled.—
Monday morning opened upon us bright, beau
tiful aud pleasant—the summer is past.
A letter from Mount Zion, Hancock county,
Ua., written last Monday to a Commission
House in Savannah, Bays :
The month of August was blown out by tho
equinoctial gale which commenced ou Sunday
morning before day, and continued with great
violence through the day, and until about mid
night, when it began to abate. The wind blew
furiously like a hurricane, and the rain de
scended sometimes in torrents and sometimes
in spray. The water courses are up, all the
corn and cotton on the low grounds is washed
away ; and on the high lands most of it is
blown down. All the blooms and open cotton,
and many bolls are blown away, so that what
the drought did not destroy, the gale has.
The Wilmington (N. C.) Journal of Monday
evening, says it rained very heavily hero the
greater part of Saturday night and Sunday,
until considerably after mid-day. Last night
and this morning it rained and blew terribly, in
fact, a perfect tempest. We hardly recollect
to have listened to heavier gusts than those of
last uight. The amount of rain which has
fallen sinco Saturday evening must be very
great, and if anything like the same quantity
fell in the interior, we may look for very high
freshets. Os the amount of damage to the
crops we can form no estimate, but presume
that it must be considerable. Certainly rice
has suffered, but we trust that the damage
may be less than has been anticipated. In the
course of last night the wind veered round from
north or northeast, to south or southeast, blow
ing on to the coast, and giving every reason to
fear for the safety of shipping. We look for
bad news within a few days.
Tho Camden (8. C.) Journal of Tuesday mor
ning says :
Since Saturday we have had rain in abun
dance, accompanied a part of the time with
heavy wind which has laid tho young corn
low in many places, and otherwise done injury.
Our river is quite high and is likely to do con
siderable hartn by overflowing its banks.—
From 10 o’clock oil Saturday, until Monday j
morning 5J inches of rain fell in this vicinity. !
Since tho above was written we learn that the |
River has overflowed its banks and is higher |
than it has been this year. Immense damage
must follow.
This morning is bright and beautiful.
Bed and Board
A Richmoud, Y'a., letter to the Petersburgli
Express, say 6: The most extraordinary circum
stance of the morning has been a little affair
which happened up town, wherein a popular
dentist, Dr. R. D. Addington by name, was
specially concerned. Os course 1 dou’t pro- !
fess to be conversant with matrimonial se
crets; but still it is reported about town that
certain little difficulties have occurred in this
family yesterday. Dr. Addington saw fit to
advertise liis estimable lady iu the newspapers
as having left his bed and nbodo, and caution
ing the public in the usual form.
Now hear the result:
Mrs. Addington, being a lady of great beau
ty and one of the leaders of tho bon ton, na
turally the upper ton felt aggrieved at such con
duct. Theroforo, this morning Addington’s
door was completely disguised with a coating
” * ar and feathers, and the probability is that j
it Addington himself could have beeu caught,
a scene would have been euncted in our city I
which we would have regretted for years to
come. I
AFFAIRS IN NICARAGUA.
From the Charleston Courier.
From the correspondence of tho New Orleans
Picayune, which appears as a supplement to
the morning issue of fbo 28th ult., wohave re
ceived full accounts and details of the affairs j
in Nicaragua of which startling rumors had 1
reached us by telegraph. We condense a few
particulars in explanation of the despatches
wc have laid before our readers.
On the 21st July it was announced at Gran- j
ada that 600 Salvadorans had concentrated at j
Leon, and that 500 Guatemalans were encamp- I
ed near at hand, forming the advance guard
of the Northern States; who were associating
with the disaffected Nicaraguans to expel the
Walker Government. The components of this
army were not well harmonized, and could not,
it appears, unite so as to render their numbers
available against Walker, whose forces although
inferior in number wore superior in spirit and
personal.
The invad'tig armies at and near Leon were
nominally under command of Cabanas, soi
d'sant President of Honduras, but the active
spirit of opposition and operation against Pre
sident Walker was Mariano Salazar, the in
triguing partizan of Rivas. Through liis ma
chinations and artifices the seeds of disaffection
were planted to some extent in the forces of the
Walker Republic, and some desertions were
the consequence. It does not appear, how
ever, that the deserters had joined the camp
at Leon.
In this state of affairs President Walker
seized Salazar—the capture being made by
means of the armed schooner Granada, Lieut.
Callender Fayssoux commanding, in the bay
of Fonseca, and ordered him to death by exe
cution that evening.
lie was visited by the American Minister
and Padre Vigil. Among Salazar’s papers
were found letters from Thos. Manning, 11. b.
M. Consul at Leon, which induced President
Walker to withdraw from that functionary his
Exequatur, and also to declareblockadeagainst
all the ports ofCentral America, with the ex
tion of the interoceanic transit route, via San
Juan del Norte and San Juan del Sur.
We leave tho correspondence of the Picay
une, so far as we can find space, to explain it
self. With these remarks, we annex in full
the letter relating to the rumored fate of Dr.
Livingston, late United States Consul at Leon,
and the prompt and energetic interposition of
our Minister, tho Hon. John Jl. Wheeler.
The cose of Dr. Livingston, United States Con
sul at Leon —His Banishment and Subse
quent Arrest—Report that lie had been
Shot—Representation of the Case by the
United States Minister to his Government—
Necessity for tho presence of American
Ships of War on the Pacific coast of Central
America.
Granada, Aug. 13, 1856.
Wlteu Salazar was shot, it was feared by
some here that the enemy would retaliate upon
several American citizens residing in or near
Leon, and when Mr. Myers catne down he
brought intelligence that Dr. Livingston, for
merly American Consul at Leon, had been ban
ished from that city, where he was residing,
and ordered out of the country, and it was
hoped that ho at least was beyond their reach,
but in this it appears we were mistaken, for
on Monday lust the following letter was re
ceived by the United States Minister here from
Mr. Maiming, the late British Consul at Leon:
Leon, Aug. 6, 1850.
Hon. John H. Wheeler, Granada :
Dear Sir—Wc are all in some consternation
for tho fate of Don M. Salazar, who was cap
tured a few days ago in the bay of Fonseca,
and per all accounts lie must by this time be
in Granada. This occurrence has placed Dr.
Livingston in a similar predicament by these
people, who, after having obtained a passport,
has been detained in Shinandega under guard.
Asa father of a family, and knowing your hu
mane feeliugs, allow me to crave your good
offices ou behalf of Salazar, which I am per
suaded would be attended to by General Walk
er.
It is becoming of us, ns official representa
tives, to do all we can in such cases, not only
for our conationals but for our fellow subjects,
and I feel persuaded that your accustomed
philanthropy will be exercised to its utmost to
save the life of Salazar. No doubt it has been
customary to take the lives of opposing can
didates for the Presidency of Nicaragua, but 1
rest assured that this would never enter the
mind of Gen. Walker, who is not made of such
corrupt material as those of this unfortunate
State. Under this confidence 1 write, although
it is here a general impression that the fate of
Salazar is sealed.
You will comprehend the interest 1 take in
the affair, as not only the fate of l)r. Living
ston is so far compromised, but also that of
the v. hole of poor Senor Castillon’s fami
ly, who receive their only support from Sala
zar. With all 1 consider your presence here
of necessity, and I hope you will at onco come
this way, for the sake of the Doctor,
believing me ever,
Your obedient servant,
T. MANNING.
As soon as this was received, Col. Wheeler,
ever alive to the interests of American citizens
in this country, wrote the following letter to
Mr. Manning in reply, and sent it by a special
courier, provided with a fast horse, and the
necessary passports from Gen. Walker :
Legation of the United States, i
Near the Republic of Nicaragua, [•
Granada, Aug. 8, 1856. J
Thos. Manning, Esq., Leon.
Sir : I received last uight yours of 6th inst.,
relative to Don Mariano Salazar. As you seem
ed to anticipate, he was captured in the bay
of Fonseca, by the forces of this republic ; and
t-i Saturday night last was brought to this
city. On Sunday morning, in company with
Padre Vijil, at his request, 1 went to see him
j in prison, and offered to him any services that
j might be in my power. He seemed conscious
j that lrs fate was sealed, and requested that I
would have forwarded letters to his wife, and
j made other requests which have been complied
; with. He was shot on Sunday last, 3d inst.)
! between 5 and 6 v. m,, in the public plaza,
but you inform me that this occurrence has
placed Dr. Livingston iu the same predicament.
There is no connection between them, and no
parallel in the case. Salazar was one (and a
most prominent one) of a faction revolting
against tho lawful Government of the Repub
lic, and a general in their forces, lie knew
that ho was liable to the peunlty of treason.
l)r. Livingston is an American “citizen, much
loved and respected, and owes no allegiance to
the authorities of Nicaragua, much less to a
disappointed faction, nor has ho ever been
mixed up with the parties by any overt or bel
ligerent act. As Consul of the Uuited States,
and a citizen of the same, he has been resident
ten years in this country. He has been re
cently absent to the United States, from which
he is just returned, where he had been to pro
cure medicines, and other articles to aid in the
comforts ami ameliorate the condition of the j
people of Leon. So unconscious was he of any j
suspicion of danger, that he left liis family (a
wito and five young children.) in Leon, and :
passed through here, in the last arrival from j
New Y ork, to join his family. The charges j
against Gen. Salazar will doubtless be made j
known, nnd the country will judge of their
justice, but were it otherwise, like “Duncan,
lie is iu his grave; after life’s fitful fever, ho ;
sleeps well: nor steel, nor poison, malice,
domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him
further.”
Can the cold blooded murder of an excellent
and accomplished gentlemen connected with
one of the best and most honored names of our
country ; the father of a young and helpless
family, aud in no wise connected with the pre
sent state of affairs in Leon, (for he was absent ,
in New York when they broke out,) bring Sa- i
lazur to life, or remedy the ailedged error ? I
have written to the commander in chief of the
allied forces at Leon on the subject. 1 use,
as you will see, no entreaties nor evasive terms.
For your kind and earnest exertions in behalf
of my innocent aud suffering countrymen, I
thank you, nnd be assured that as soon as pos- i
sible 1 will be at Leon.
Very faithfully yours,
JOHN H. WHEELER.
by the samo courier lie sent the following
communication to Don Ramon bellosa, of San
Salvador, who, it seems, is in command of the
united forces of San Salvador and Gautemalo,
at Leon. As the leaders of the native forces
there are in open revolt against the Govern
ment of the Republic, which latter lias been
formally recognized by Col. Wheeler in behalf
of the United States, of course he could not
address any of them, and was therefore com
pelled to direct his protest to bellosa, who sit
least was acting under the orders of a legiti
mate Government.
Legation of the United States \
Near the Republic of Nicaragua, V
Granada, August 8, 1856. )
To Gen. ltainon Bellosa, Commander-in-Chief
of the Allied Forces of Gautemala and San
Salvador at Leon:
Sir:—l am just informed by a letter from
Thomas Manning. Esq., that Dr. Jos. W. Liv
ingston, a citizen of New York, and who re
turned from tnat city in the last steamer, has
been arrested by the forces now at Leon. As
the Government of the United States im.e rec
ognised tho autli .By of the Governmct of
Nicaragua, I cannot address any other person
than yourself, as commander-in chief of the
allied forces at Leon, protesting against the
imprisonment of Dr. Livingston and demand
ing liis immediate release. He is a citizen of
the Uuited States. No act of his lias been
charged by which lie is liable to any molesta
tion, much less imprisonment, by any power
whatever; and I now inform you, as common -
der-in-chief of the forces of San Salvador and
Gautemala, that should any harm befall Dr.
Livingston, the Government of the United
States will promptly hold the Governments of
the said States to a severe responsibility.—
While my Government would rejoice in the
prosperity and happiness of sister Republics,
and abstain from ail interference in any shape
within their internal concerns, yet the Presi
dent of the United States declares that lie will
maintain sacred the rights that belong to an
American citizen, and that “any citizen shall
realize, on every sea and shore whose enter
prise may seek protection of our flag, that
American citizenship is nn inviolable panoply
for American rightsand that no American
can wander so far from home that the Chief
Magistrate of the Union will see that no rude
hand of power or tyrannical passion is laid on
him with impunity. I cannot but believe that
you will see that Dr. Livingston is forthwith re
leased. From Mr. Manning’s letter fears are
entertained for his life.
The President of the United States has scon
with regret, in the hostilities between Central
American States, a departure from the laws of
war in force among civilized nations. The
party which resorts to such barbarities forfeits
its claim to all sympathy from neutral powers,
and exposes itself to the enmity of those whose
citizens are tiie innocent victims of savage cru
elty,
be assured, sir, that if one hair of Dr. Liv
ingston’s head is injured, or his life taken, or
that of any other innocent American citizen,
your Government and that of Gautemala will
feel the force of a power who, while it respects
the rights of other natiuns, will be ready—and
it is able—to vindicate its own honor, and the
lives and property of iis citizens.
Faithfully yours,
JNO. 11. WHEELER,
Resident Minister of United States.
This is all the cetain intelligence we have of
the fate of Dr. Livingston, but yesterday there
was a rumor in town, brought by a native, that
he had been shot in the plaza of Leon. I cun
not believe that this is true—that these people
would be so mud as to select for their victim a
gentleman universally respected and beloved,
and who had taken no part whatever in the
recent troubles of the country. But, if it
should be so, if Dr. Livingston lias been sacri
ficed as a peace offering to the manes of Sala
zar, what will the U. S. Government do ? Arc
the doctrines enunciated in the inaugral of Pres
ident Pierce, a portion of which is quoted in
Col. Wheeler’s letter, to be carried out iu this
instance, or are they, like similar language in
previous documents, mere words, never intend
ed to have any meaning except to gull a listen
ing multitude ? What safety is there for the
lives aud property of American citizens if this
murder should be consummated and passed over
without even a remonstrance ?
Col. Wheeler has made a strong representa
tion to his Government of the facts in this case,
and 1 trust they will be attended to promptly.
The presence of an American ship-of-war in
the Bay of Fonseca would have prevented this
deed of blood, but I believe the Americnu flag
has never been seen there, except on a mer- j
chant vessel. The recent interference of Mr.
Manning in tho internal affairs of this Country,
tho letters from Lord Clarendon which were
intercepted and have already been published
in the papers of tho United States, and the
presence of a strong English fleet in the bar- !
bor of San Juan del Norte, nil show the inter- |
est which that country takes iu the affairs of
Central America, and -how gladly she would
see Walker overthrown aud the Americans dri
ven out. And yet not a single American ves
sel of war is to be seen or heard of in u.iy of
the ports on either ocean. One did couie into
San Juan del Norte some months since, but left
in twenty-four hours, on account of the alleged
scarcity of provisions. How is it that a Brit
ish fleet of ten or twelve vessels can find pro- |
visions when one American ship cannot? This
should 1.0 remedied. Our naval officers should
be taught that tho Government aud people of
tho Uuited States expect them to earn Jieir
money by doing their duty wherever that duty i
may call them, and not by lounging about in
the harbors of Havana and other pleasant
stations, giving balls and attending dimu. par
ties.
While 1 sinceiely trust that Dr. Livingston
has escaped the fate threatened by these blood
thirsty hounds, yet I cannot but fear the worst.
Whether the letter of Mr. Manning was dicta
ted by a desire to save the life of Salazar, and
the threatened death of Dr. Livingston was
merely held up in terrorem, to stimulate Col.
Wheeler to increased exertions, or whether he
was actuated by a sincere desire to save Liv
ingston, the position of the latter must have j
been one of great peril at the time it was writ
ten. Ho was beloved by the people of Leon, I
among whom he had resided for several years, i
hut the leaders of the faction which now con
trol that portion of the State might think it
policy to take his life in revfnge for that of
Salazar, or their blind spirit of passion might
induce them to wreak their vengeance upon
the first unhappy American who came within
their reach. 1 hope that he may be saved,
but if not, the Government of the United
States must rouse itself and exact a bloody re
tribution from his murdurei s.
The fact that such a thing eouid be threat
ened, shows most conclusively the necessity
for the presence of American ships of war in
the Pacific, and particularly in the Bay of Fon
seca, which, I will add for the benefit of our
naval conimaders, is one of the pleasantest
places in tho world.
The American Minister here is ever ready to
interpose in behalf of distressed American cit
izens, but he can only remonstrate, having no
force to support him, and these Governments
know this fact but too well. Great Britain
has never less than on vessel on the coast of
Central America, and let but the consuls of
that power give the word, and a force sufficient
to overawe any of the puerile States in this
section is at once concentrated on any given
point. But the American minister has nothing
to depend upon but bis own personal weight,
which great as it is generally, is not sufficient
always with these impulsive and revengeful
people. If the rights of American citizens are
to bo respected here, the minister must have a
force subject to his orders sufficient to com
mand respect. C. C.
NEWS FROM KANSAS.
From the Savannah Georgian.
Capt. E. M, McGee lias handed us an extra
sent him by his brother in Kansas City, with
accounts from Lecoinpton to the 15th. It con
veys intelligence of a terrible state of things,
and also warns tho South of the necessity of
decisive action. We have seen several private
letti..s from the Territory, all confirmatory of
the facts stated in the extra. This nows ap
pears to have been contradicted in our account
the other dny, but it comes to us in a very re
liable form.
Very Latest News.—Lecoinpton Taken by
Abolitionists.
Just as we were going to press, wc were fa
vored by our gentlemanly friend, Col. A. G.
Boone, with the following startling news :
Lecoinpton, ere this, is in the hands of the
Abolitionists. Let every Southern man arise
nnd do his duty. Our friends, our brothers
are being butchered. Let not the war cry stop.
Read the letter from Mr. Whitlock:
Lecompton, lv. TANARUS., Aug. Hi, 1836.
Col. A. G. Boone :—Dear Sir—l write at
fifteen minutes past-three o’clock, A. M. We
have been up all night, every man with gun in
hand. We expect an attack before day. Our
picquet has been driven in, and ten of our
men killed.
The enemy is in four miles of this place,
five hundred strong, with General Jim Lane at
their head. We want help, and we must have
it quick. Can you do anything for us ?
Ere you receive this the probability is that
we have been taken. For God’s sake send us
some aid to protect our women and children.
I write at the suggestion of Governor Shan
non and many others.
Our families are cut off from many of us,
and we have no means of protecting them.
Tell our friends to come, to come now and
help us. Let the Macedonian cry’ of “come
over and help us,” lie sounded throughout
Missouri and the South.
Yours, in haste,
James Whitlock.
Later.—Lecompton Taken.
Near Lecompton, Aug. 15, 1856.
Col. Lane and others :
Friends of Law and Order, the Abolition
forces have attacked us. The attack was made
at day light—our men are whipped and takdh
prisoners.
Lecompton is in the hands of the Abolition
ists. Lane’s men numbered about eight hun
dred.
The U. S. troops were whipped.
Will our friends come to our rescue before
we are all murdered. We are out of ammuni
tion. Our friends are now stationed in Sher
iff Jones’ house, as many as can, and will
fight to the last. Col. Titus and his men are
taken prisoners. Come to our rescue.
Yours, &c. L. J. Hampton.
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The Bank of Columbus.
The Bank of Columbus was chartered by
the last Georgia Legislature, with a capital
stock of $250,000 ; with the privilege of in
creasing the same to $500,000. The require
ments of the charter, as we learn, have all
been complied with, 25 per cent of the capital
been paid in specie; and the bank is now
ready for business under the fotlowing officers
and board of directors:
William H. Young, President.
David Adams, Cashier.
Jordan L. Howell, Teller.
A. O. Blackmar, Jr, Book-keeper.
directors.
John McGough, R. M. Gunby,
John E. Hudson, J. Ennis,
William Rankin, J. P. lllgess,
J. N. Barnett, Samuel Hatcher.
The Banking House is located two doors
north of Gunby’s corner, on Broad street, at
the old Arbor Saloon.
The Stockholders consist of many of the
wealthiest and the most extensive business
men on the Chattahoochee river, from Colum
bus, Ga , to Apalachicola, Fla., and two of the
| wealthiest merchants in the city of New York,
who however, hold only a small proportion of
the stock.
The new Bank is obliged to succeed, and
will, we predict, demonstrate, in a very lew
i years, that there is not only sufficient capaci
| ty, hut sufficient honesty among the business
i men of Western Georgia, to do a safe as well
as profitable banking business, in the city of
| Columbus.
Asa home institution, in the hnnds of many 1
} of our most worthy citizens, the Bank of Co- j
lumbus lias strong claims upon the confidence j
■ and patronage of the community.
The new bank commenced business on
Thursday, 4th inst. We wish it a long nnd
prosperous career of usefulness and profit.—
; Times of yesterday.
Slavery in Africa.
Intelligent travelers state that the popula
tion of Africa is about fifty millions, of whom
} forty ,hree millions are slaves. Their slavery i
is of the most degrading and horrid kind. The
masters are cruel and barbarous iu the ex
treme, and, in most instances, have the power
of life and death over the slaves. Upon the j
death of a chief, some two or three hundred of
his slaves are put to death nn 1 buried in the i
same grave with him. The negro king of Da
homy, lias his court yard paved witlTthe skulls
of slaves, and graced with pyramids of the j
same material.
A cow belonging to Mr. Meredith, near Cool
Spring, \\ Ukinson county, gave birth to four
calves about two weeks ago. Three of the
were dead and the other one living whenfound
but shortly alter died. They wero of medium
size and well formed in every respect. There
was one male and three females.
Columbus Relief Association.
Editors of the Daily Sun :
1 notice in your issue of this morning
article making enquiry as to what lias beeoa
of the C. R. Association. Having been c .,
nected with the movement from its incipi en !
to the present time, it may be proper j n
to answer your enquiries. lam happy to . 1
form you that the association is still i; ?
aud doing well. The Board of Managers
met, organized and appointed visiting Conn.,
tees for each ward, &c., &c. These coiul,-
tees are discharging their duty promptly
efficiently, and every case of real destitut J
has or will be speedily relieved.
W e are happy to be able to report from i,
turns made by the visiting Committees ti, I
far, that while they have found quite a m;i J
ber of cases of real want, and in some iiiq...|
ces suffering, at the same time they find | ja . I
few cases of sickness, aud the health of th . j
city good, never better.
As the objects of this association seem- -
have been misunderstood by some and misrep.
resented by others, allow me to state in biv
what its real objects are, and the causes ol it. I
organization;
Its main and leading object is, to relieve the
wants of the really destitute sick poor—-souk j
of which class are to be found in every cite tb
size of Columbus ; another object is to recoin. I
mend to such families and the city, from time I
to time, the use of such sanitary means and I
measures as will be most likely to promote tin I
health of such families and the city generally [
aud still another object will be to endeavor it f
elevate the degraded and outcast members ol I
the community (whom no body 7 cares for) in a I
moral and intellectual point of view, by gooJ
advice and encourage them to become indus I
trious aud sober, and thereby become respect-1
able aud useful members of the community
Who will say that these objects are not praise I
worthy ? and who will refuse to lend a helping
hand.
The reasons for its organization :—lt is wei.
known that what is any body’s business is no
body’s ; and while it is doubtless the duty of
all to find out aud relieve the distresses of tin
poor, there are very few who feels that it i>
their particular duty. Nearly all are willing
to give to the really needy and deserving pool
if they could only beg-ssured who were of that I
character.
The Relief Association will fill this desider
atum ; it is an organized system of Benevv
lence. Through its Visiting Committee is
each Ward it will find out every case of res!
suffering, and in conjunction with its judicious
officers and managers, afford relief promptly
to every really deserving case.
It is jnst such an association as we have for
a long time needed ; and such as any towuoi
city ought to have. It was not organizedas
some parties at a distance have said, on ae
count of the large amount of sickness existing
in our city; but because it was one of those
humane institutions that we have long needed
to relieve promptly and fully every really de
serving case of suffering that may occur in the
community.
The association is now fully organized and
in operation—the officers are composed cf
some of the best men in the community—men
who will do to depend on at all times, and into
whose hands every citizen may place liis char
itable gift with perfect assurance that it Fill
be faithfully and jndiciously appropriated.
This Association proposes to take active
charge of the poor of the city, and relieve en
tirely the citizens from any further trouble in
the matter ; in doing this they expect to be
sustained by the community, and from the in-j
dication, thus far exhibited, they feel perfect
ly satisfied that all will contribute liberally t
the general fund of the society.
Sept. 4. M. WOODRUFF.
Letter from Captain Henry D. Clayton
Kansas Emigrants.
The editors of the Times, of this city, are
in receipt of a letter from Captain Henryk
Clayton, dated August 27, iu which lie give:
the most fluttering account of the progress of
liis Company of Kansas Emigrants. We cs
tract such portions as will interest the public
“This,” says Capt. C., “is written from
Paducah, Kentucky, on board the small steam
er Commerce, moving slowly down the Cum
berland. The boat is very light, aud drove
abovit eleven inches water, but it strikes occa
sionally on the flat rocks and gravelly bottom
There is, however, no danger from this source
It only occasions delay. The crew jump h' l
tho water, and, by pushing and prizing with
their hands, or else, by the use of the wind
lass and rope, we are soon on cur way aga' ll
“My company consists of 94 white person--,
and one of the darkest specimens of our ‘p*
cular institutions;” and, believe me when I
say, a more orderly set of men never travele
on any boat. Tho small size of the boat niw
it necessary for us to take deck passage, an
that too, very rough, yet 1 have heard no lniu
mur of complaint from any one. *
All are well and doing well. *
“Our expenses have been very light, thus
far. To the Mobile and Girard, Columbus aid
Opelika, Montgomery and West Point, ami
Western nnd Atlantic Companies, wc are
debted for a free passage. From Chattanoo
ga to Nashville, we were charged only had
price. But on the Railroad from West l’oim
i to Atlanta, we were forced to pay full price.
: and what was absolutely mean, to use
| stronger word, we had to pay three dollan
! extra, upon baggage, when 1 know we dui nui
have as much baggage as we were entitled tn
I carry. ******
“Excuse me for repeating—the good conduct
i of the men, and the harmony with which “ f
j have proceeded thus far, is without a parulte
in Kansas Emigration.”
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Belle Brittain’s Apology-
Bello Brittain, who writes to the New Mb’
ror from Newport, thus apologizes for her free
j dom of style:
“The only piquant items to be added to tlm
idle communication, I shall not add to-do.’
They arc of the most scandalous description
and will, doubtl.-ss, get wind through the
unins of some less fastidious journal than u r
Mirror. Perhaps I havo betrayed too nn- ■
‘•knowledge of good and evil,” even b. v
allusion. Just as the lady who was dr‘ vl [' p
with Charles Lamb near where some gun* 1 *
men were bathing in puris naturahbus, w.a *
Charley remarked, after an awkward sdc'U
that “it was shameful for woman thus to
pose themselves.” “Women! ” exclaim^•”
prude by liis side, “they are not; the.’ ‘•
men.” — “Ah,” replied the gentle-bear.-
Charles, “I didn’t observe! ”