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THE SOUTHERN WHIG.
__ The Stales of Honduras, Salvador
Wclearn from the Chattanooga Adver-j Mr. W. M. Gibson.who recently went l and Nicaragua have held a convention
; riser that a Company has been formed, to Mexico on official bosiness r anil who j for the purpose of uniting for self-pro-
i with a capital of $50,000, for ihe pur- has made a pretty' extensive survey of I taction. They design electing Repre-
reliminaries have been
amiii u»>« - — — # 0 —. — ■ signed and l& other Government* of
. . has all been subscribed, and Mr. Rob- cia! ami political condition. ^Tbe as-VCentriil America are invited to join
Smne three years.ago a small quan-; crt (3 ravcI1Sf one of the company, will peel of affairs was very stormy at the ! them.
lily of Chilian ciotrer seed was sent; to.j g | a rt to the North in a few days, for the time of Mr. G’s visit. Troops were at
'Governor “ ' ' ^ **
Opium Tradb op China—In 1796
r Brown from the Patent Of" i purpose of contracting for the necessa- one time ordered out to sorround the ey : ——— t- - . ,
ficc at Washington. Having tried ma-j L machinery and tlieexaminingsimilar cited localities. It is said that a feeling this trade xvas prohibited* by tne em-
ny experiments, in grasses ami been establishments in that section. Mai. in favor of annexation to the United peror. At that time the annua i
successful in none, ho.threw the reed ; ft # ft. Montgomery, has mnnificenliy Stales prevails among the monarchists,‘P°It.was about 1,000chests. A _ P^-*
.carelessly, into the ground,.altogether j mia t C d the company two ami a half who comprise the wealthy Spaniards; ent'k-is nearly 60,000 chests, nr 7U, -
out of respect to the person who sent] acres of land, not lar (rom the Depot, or, if that cannot be obtained, then they , 000 pouqds! It _« estimated to < e-
and in no oilier expectation than , nm j ncar the Rail Hoad track, for them wish the adoption of some mode of co- jstroy 100,000 lives annually,
it ^rould spring up, flourish awhile ami : crccl |i, c necessary building. It is Ionization from Europe, under the a; --
sun of our mid- ! lo he 160 feet long, and two stories high ey of American companies. THslat-j Little ‘Kindness.—, . s .,
to all his anti- v ,) ( |, wings. It is not yet delennhied ter feeling is earnest and extensive. 1 kindness— bow pleasant and desirable
igliirti with flic whether the building shall beol brick ami the plan for colonization is based they make life ! Every dark spot is
die so soon as it wit the
summer. But contrary to _ _
'Cipstions it seemed to briglncti with the . whether the building shall be ofbrick ami the plan for colonization is based j they _ .
•on—to care nothing forthe droughts, , or 5lonc ; the work is to be commenced .ipon the purchase of large tracts of made light by them and everv tear of; rich, and c
nnd has now been flourishing vigorous- ’ immediately. It is to be driven by land in the State of Vera Cruz, by sorrow is brushed away. When the be carried
Jrorn tDosIjinjjtim.
Correspondence of the Charleston Cornier.
W ashington, March 26.
Mr. Thomas Butler King’s Report
n the resources of California gives
great satisfaction to the Administration, i
and will be greedily sought for by the ;
public, not only in the United States,!
but wherever else the love of novelty j
and the thirst for gold may exist. In j
addition to the particulars which I gave,
yesterday, I may state that the ReportI
will occupy something like eight col-,
umnsof our city papers. It gives min-!
ute information as to the agricultural
capacities of the country. The wild j
oats of the region grows spontaneously,]
and yields forty bushels of grain-loathe
acre. The pastures -»
THE SOUTHERN WHIG.
JOHN H. CHRISTY, EDITOR.
ATHENS, GEORGIA: -
Thursday BUrniig, April 1, 1850.
ly, summer and winter, fur ibree sue- Meam power. 7 American capitalist?, and the settle-
ctessiveyears, without care or attention, We hope we shall shortly be able to ! ment thereon of a large emigration
and if, as we understand, a fool or stalCf that the stock has been taken for from Germany, France and England,
eighteen inches high. Tins clover, we ,j |C crccl j OI , 0 f a Rolling Mill, a Cotton in a body large enough to secure them
nBundcatlow^fojrU^lJtpeTrf
■re told, (for we have not
i it,) is 1 Miff and other. Manufacturing Estab- from loss by depredations or oiherwise.
• more like Lucerne gras* than the Eng- , Hshments, The erection of such estab- [ Mr. Gibson has a memorial from the
list* clover, but it is a tri-foil, ait( I lislimems as these, will do more to cn- owners of fifty-two haciendas in the
hear* a bluish blo*som. In Chili, the I |, ance t h a value of real estate in Chatta- J State of Vera Cruz, asking that this
custom is to feed the year round oiler- ' noog.'i.nndaddlo her permanent prosper- j plan may lie adopted. Many of them
naiely upon three enclosures, and so I fiy, tl ian all things else. It would bring ■ are decidedly in favor of annexation,
plentiful and cheap grazing docs it! a j ar ^ e ca pj, a f here, which would re- The desire for the return of Santa An-
ofiord, that a horse in that scctionis ma ; Uf an j |, e constantly accumulating ; na was growing extensive, and it was
worth somewhere about ten dollars. ‘ and if the holders of real estate in this \ felt that he is the only man who can
It is the opinion of Gov. ; Brown and ; pj acc> a number of whom are men of 1 control the destinies of Mexico,
others who have seen this clover that j. trgc W cnhb, cannot get the stock taken |
it will do well in Florida, and furnish j crcc j 8UC l, establishments,- they
the great thing needed to ownpleie this j should erect them themsclves.asthey are
■Ii a farming country, to wit: agood nu- I abundantly able to do, and thus double f r „ m Dr. J. H. Pulie' of'Cincinnati,
trilinus gras* for slock. An effort will he ■ ,j, c value of their properly here. j who proposes the construction of a tel-
tnade to save seed from tbe little patch —-— egraph to connect the old world with
we have spoken of, but ns it seems to . Plauk Roads Profitable. j the new, and asks such action by Con-
ripen at no particular time, there isdif-j The St. Louis New Era throws somc ,gress as may contribute to the real-
ficulty in doing so. Application shnnjd i light upon the profits of plank roads, j ; zalon 0 f liis project. The route propos-
be made for more from the Patent J |i says that tbe experiment has been | e j j, a q ros3 ;|, e cmitinenl to some poim
Office; but probably, if upon further irieil in scveial parts of the Stale °f'| in Calif*;
observation there should appear to New York, with the following results:
be no good reason to doubt of the en-! The Waterville nnd Utica rouf ^ Q
tire success of ibis grass in Florida, • nineteen miles long, and-costing $34,- j ft uro p ei m St. Petersburg!!, and
the better way would lie to send for a ■ 000, has just declared a dividend of ten j western cities of Europe.
-quantity of it to our Consul at Valpu- ■ percent., payable to stockholders on} .. ...
raiso, or the United, States Charge at j demand, and ten per cent. for. repairs.
Chili. If wo could only secure a grass The Utica and Bridgewater road
which would make us fat and cheap
stock and n plenty of it, and serve as pay:
heart is sail, and despondency sits
the entrance of the soul, a little kind
ness drives despair away, and makes
the path cheerful and pleasant. Who
will refuse a kind act ? It costs the
giver nothing, but is invaluable to the
nd sorrowing. It raises from mis-
nd degradation,and throws around
the soul those hallowed joyr ,u
Paradise.
Among the memorials presented to the
j U. S. Senate, on Friday last,
a; thence along the coast to
Behring’s strait* j thence across tho:
i straits, and through Northern Asia and
the
clover i
Slates,
made to do in the Northern
most economical anil elli-
' Virginia-
. . 1A Gov. Floyd has recently communi
ty miics long, and costing $40,000, ca|eJ lo jl|e Legislature of Virginia '
twenty five |H?r cent, regularly, j p aC | ,j jal ,j, e Governor of Ohio had
The B«»oncville road pays twenty-five j* uge( j oll j,-, s requisition, to deliver up a
— - ’ nu - L, “— "‘id John 0 "" - 1 r
per
ent. The F<
cient fertilizer of the soil, we could not, j„ur miles loug,'" costing $S000, pay
fully estimate the substantial value of the
acquisition?”
HmIImM •( ihtCallfarala ncpreMaunl rc*
egularly fifty per <
Population of tbe United States.
that were
extensive and! “
cattle and sheep raising may;
to a vast extent. Enter- j
prises are already on foot for raising ,
cattle and wool growing. From Mexico, j 0ne ofthe p „ priet0 „ „,,hu paper will .need
ast number of sheep are to be in-!
a of the Superior Court i
, , - i iae ensuing Spring T*.
heretofore, cattle were worth
rce or four dollars a head, anti their
free colored man, a fugitive from jus
tice. The pretext for the refusal is es
sentially the same as that under which
Gov. Seward, of New York, i few
, years since refused the requisition of
Were our country filled up like Ger- , t |, e Governor of Georgia. Gov. Floyd
The U. Slates Senators and Repre-! mal ,y t one hundred and seventy-;; n communicating this refusal to the
•entativet elect, from California; have j two persons to the square mile, the Legislature, recommends that some
addressed a long document to Congress,; population would be five hundred mil- ■ meaS ure be adopted to transfer entirely
communicating copies of tbe State Con- ' liens. Europe contained one hundred j t | ie lra( i e of Virginia from those States,
dilution, their credentials, nnd a formal j an ,| eighty-three millions inhabitant* ‘ ... ** - •
request for admission into the U
According to its statements,
••The superficial area of the Stale of j ihrce hundred thousand iu the same j ^ ^
California, according to the boundaries nre a. Excess of population, enormous j rights under'it. The
prescribed in her Constitution, is 165,- [ taxation, and the scarcity of subsis-' a3 follows: '
660 square miles, or 99,552,000 square tence has driven millions lo America , .. 4 concerted
^ which have trampled under fool the
j 1807; ia 1848 they had increased to! Constitution of the United Stales, to
two hundred and sixty-two ^millions, ' those which are still willing to abide by
! its compromises, and
^tiize their
ige concludes
acres, exclusive of the Islands adjacent
lo tbe coast. Two great chains of Moun
tains, the Sierra Nevada and the coast
range, traverse it in nearly its whole ex
tent Iron) North to South. The large
valleys that iie between these two
ranges, and the small lateral valleys
that pierce their rugged sides in every
ditrection^irc the valuable arable portions
of the land of California. Assuming
two-fourths of the whole superficial
area of the State is covered by moun
tains, another fourth is a desert waste,
and we have left one-fourth m
useful for agricultural purposes, that is
38,887* square miles, or 14,887,000
square acres of arable and productive
tfmd. After mil due allowance, howev
er, three-fifths of the whole territory
embraced in the Stnto of California,-
will never be susceptible of cultivation
or useful to man. This, then, would
give, as the remaining two-fifths, 64,220
square miles, or 39,820,800 square
acres, which would constitute the sum
total of valuable arable and grazing
land embraced fc'«lliin the boundary
fixed by the constitution of the State of
California, and distributed at intervals
over the whole surface «r the country,
from its extreme Northern tbits extreme
Southern limit. The foregoing are be
lieved to be substantially the reasons
which led to- tbe present boundary of
California,
; .Atier' glancing at tbe action of the
convention, and tbe election, tbe dele^
gates proceed to set forth tlie present
nd uniform action on
within the last twenty years. At a J t |^ e p art „j t j, e South in this matter,
former period religious persecution ban- ! will cither redress our grievances at
ished thousands from otherwise happy | ericet or transfer the direct European
homes. In a few months we willjiave j i rat ] e to the Southern ports, or build up
Caibmcre Shawls.
The seeret of the quality of lliesi
shawls is Dot in the working; it is ii
the beautiful wool from the goats of the
Upper- Thibet, the equal of which in
softness has never yet been found.—
The goats live in thehigh table-lands of
Tartary, where the cold is intense^nnd
to protect theta from the piercing Blast
of winter they have the under-hair, or
“Poshai,” of this deliciously soft and
warm material. This wool ts brought
down to Cashmere once every year by
merchants, and sold to the shawl-ma
kers. After thorough cleaning, it is dyed
of various colors; the dyers possess tho
vegetable or mineral ingredients for all
the colours except green, and this they
procure from English green baize by
boiling. This is a very curious circum
stance, oi»t only because tbe colour thus
obtained is a most beautiful nnd endu
ring one, but because-it is so much
prized by Mahommedans, being their
holy colour to be worn only'by descend
ants of the Prophet, or those who have
made the pilgrimage to Mecca. The
shawl.patterns ate drawn upon paper,
very minute, and with the greatest pos
sible accuracy; fifty rupees are^ some
times paid for the ineTe drawing of a
very elaborate pattern. The dealers in
shawls are the agents of merchants re
siding at Bombay, Delhi, Lahore, or
other large cities, and having branch
establishments throughout Asia. These
dealers give the order, and advance the
money to the shawl manufacturers,
is impossible to buy a shawl direct
from the manufacturer; he makes only
lo order from the dealer or middleman,
and is entirely dependent upon him.—
The loom is that of the common kind,
which the men work
the decennial census ofthe United Stales j manufactories of all
for 1850, and we have seen a calcula- j which would ult
tion making the population represented ! |y" lo
twenty-one millions twenty-seven thou- 1
and live hundred and twenty-seven,
hides were the chief article ot export
from California. Now, the cattle bring
a high price for the consumption of an
influx of population, all ol whom are
bent on pursuits other than agriculture
and growing cattle. The actual popu
lation in the State is now a hundred
and twenty thousand, and immigration
from all parts of the world will, within
a year from the first of May next, add
a population of two hundred thousand.
There will be wanted for the inhabi
tants, during the same year, two hun
dred thousand head of cattle more than
California can supply. From the At
lantic ports must be shipped to Califor-
during the same year, flour to the
e of four millions of dollars, lumber
to the value of six millions, and two
millions in other articles. The supplie:
of lumber must continue to come from
the Atlantic ports as long as the labor
required for cutting lumber in Califor-
shall cost over seventy dollars a
thousand. '• * '
Some idea may be formed of the gold
region from viewing its extent, as it can
be traced on the map. Mr. King de
scribes it as rising from the river Sacra
mento, as a base line, by an inclined
plane, till it reaches,-at the foot ofthe
hills, an elevation of four thousand feet
above that river. This region is about
five hundred miles in length, from North
to South, and averaging fifty miles in
breadth, from West lo East. This is
one cstitinuous region of quartz rock,
rich in gold—very little of it, if worked
with proper skill, capable of yield
than three dollars of gold to a
of the rock. From the valley east of the
hills, and between them and the Sierra
Nevada, a number of little
through the hills and westward to the
Sacramento; and, in llieir beds, gold
is found, in dust and lumps, which haCe
been washed, by the rains and streams
from the quartz masses which the rivers
traverse. Mr. King personally examined
of these rivers, and found their
,tely lend great-
strength and independence.
We now lax a fin pedlar ten dollars
_ ^ 1 a year, whilst a clock pedlar has to pay
»"J giving the Eastern Stales twenty-, fi| - Tbt) venders of all articles man-
five. the Middle, including Delaware, ufliClorei) jn lho rccu3anl Stales could-
fifty-eight. Western free fifty, l |, e used one hundred per cent, and the
eru or slave seventy-eight, Ucptesenta-1 venl|er be rcquire(1 3 |, ow w | lcre the
lives in Congress, at one member Inr j Rrl ioles were made. Pains hnd penal-
one hundred thousand persons, [ , ie , cou |d be easily attached loony eva
luated and eleven which is too small | sjon of ji|C | aw _ w l,icb would insure the
a number for the transaction of busi-| du) , cnr „ rcemelll „(■ it . Tho details
ness, and one representative lo l eoo lJ be made lo embrace lire slock and
hundred thousand constituents bv far |he products of the soil."
loo few. Eighteen hundred and nfiy-1 it<
one will bring us n decennial return A Horse’* Opiuion of a Plauk Road,
from the United Kingdom, which, in ... .. . r ..
1841, contained twenty-six millions I. The North Carolinian tells the follow,
ight hundred and thirty-five thousand "|g anecdote of an old farmer of tha re-
no hundred and three inhabitants, and ! g'“». who had tried the plank road: “He
return of nearly thirty mil-j was at first much opposed to the plank
rnigra- 1 road,"andJthought it would be a waste ot
years. 1 money lo build it. But he came to Fay
etteville with his wagon and produce,
and drove on it some miles. When he
got back lo Chatham, our merchant
friend asked him if lie had seen the
plank road? ‘Yes,’he said, ‘liehad seen
' .’ 4 Well, did you drive on.it?’ 4 Yes.’
Well, don’t you- think you can carry
tour limes as much weight on it, with
your four-horse team, as on a common
road?* 4 Oh, yes,* says he 4 il is first rate;
and it*a_ a fact that when the wagon got
to the end of .the'planks and struck the
heavy dirt road, «cery horse stopped, and
looked around. - '
may gi
lions persons notwithsiandingnnemigra- j
tion of more than a million i
—•National Intelligencer.
Newspapers In London.
Enormous Government Taxes on Ad
vertising.—The English journals, we re
mark, are strongly urging Parliament
lo abolish the present oppressive duties
levied upon every advertisement that
appears in their columns'. The people
—the business community, we should
siato of liic country. Wo quote the think, would demand such a reform
following concerning the preparation of j loudly.as the editors, for upon them it
the Slate: !operates quite as onerously. The Tax
•♦The population of California on the j Government imposed upon each Ad-
firat day of* Jannary, 1S50, is supposed j vertisement is onp shilling and
lo have been about 107,000 soul?.— pence. A correspondent of. the Phil-
Tbero an» qo means* of ascertaining
with certainty the number arid charac
ter of the large 'immigration which has
pod red. into the country since the dis
covery of the gold mines, but tbe un
dersigned, having taken much pains to
anjve at correct conclusions on this,
sulijectrsubmit tWfollowing estimates:
Caifcnusiw, " -> 13,000
Americas*. 8,000
• Foreigners,, 3,000
. Total, , V , J- 28,000
California Gold an old Discovery.
1, Hall, Forsyth, Lumpkin, Habersli
Franklin, for the purpose of collecting all dues
either for subscription, advertising or job work
and hope to find all indebted ready to discharge tht
me promptly.
O- All accounts due this office since 1st July
1846, will be put in suit immediately, it not settled
at this opportunity.
White's Statistics of Georgia."—'Our thanks
due thj author for a copy of this long-promised
but lately-issued work. From the examination we
have been enabled to give it, we are satisfied that
it is a very useful book of reference and should be
in the hands of every citizen of the State. Besides
giving a full and authentic account at the popula-
1, products, mines, minerals, streams and moun
ts—in short every thing, “ from the hyssop on
the wall to the tall cedars of Lebanon”—of each
and all ofthe counties iu this State, there are short
biographical sketches of the most distinguished
1 lieorgia has produced. VVe most cordially
unend Mr. White's book to the attention of our
readers.
“ Dark Scenes of History.” By G. P- R. James,
Esq.—It is hardly necessary to commend this re
cent work of the great English novelist’s to the at
tention of his admirers. The subjects are well se
lected, and the sketches touched by the band ot an
accomplished limner; Never did James’ fine pow-
s of description show to better advantage than
the '** Dark Scenes.” It is for sale at the book-
ire of Messrs. Chase & Peterson.
m Sir Edward Graham, or Railicay Speculators."
By Catharine Sinclair.—This work of fiction is
rather refreshing, just at this time, when the coun
try is flooded with demoralising novels of the
French school, generally ofsuch tone and sentiment ^
recommend them.! ^ Banking Company, has caused
n Miss Sinclair’- ! . .
tever faults may be found
style, will be overlooked in cc
high moral tone which pervade;
work. It also may be found at C
Mask Raadi.
The importance of Plank Roads, although of
recent origin, as 44 feeders” to rail roads, is now,
almost universally acknowledged ;
while their practicability, in sections of country
unable to erect and sustain rail roads, has been, by
experiment, clearly demonstrated. We therefore
most cheerfully endorse tbe recommendations of
our correspondent in tho following article on this
subject, and earnestly commend his views to the
ittention of capitalists and the public generally,
who may be interested in the improvements he
suesests. r
At the present juncture, when the spirit of ira-
provemet reigns every where—when time and
space are almost annihilated by Steam and Elec
tricity—when Rail Roads are projected which are
to cross uninhabited barrens, or pass through ter
ritory known only to-the untutored savages of the
Western wilderness, and receive the sanction
of the great and the wise of our land,—we trust
that none will be startled at the seeming wildness
of a project to build one or more Plank Roads from
Athens into such portions of upper Georgia n»
trade at this point We feel quite certain that
noth ing but the extreme modesty of the proposition
will cause any to refuse it consideration.
With your permission, then, Mr. Editor, we pro-
pose discussing, with becoming brevity, the neces
sity of building a Plank Road from this place to-
Clarkesville, via Danielsville and Carnesville, and.
another to Gainesville, or Dahlonega, via Jefferson,
To those who are at all observant of passing
events, it is quite apparent that the improvements
in other portions of the country, are rapidly di- ^
verting trade from tho old beaten tracks to other
points, thereby building up new and prosperous
>wns, and causing the old either to remain sta-
ionary or decline. It may not be improper,there
fore, to glance at the present slate of trade in
Athens, with reference to its future prospects, lias
any of the trade that once came here gone else
where ? If so, why has it gone, and what measures
will induce a return of it ?
We assert, then, that a large portion, if not all the
trade of Gwinnett, and Forsyth, and Gilmer, to
gether with much of the trade ot Union, Lnmpkin
and Hall, which used to come to Athens, is now
diverted to the different towns along the Rail
Road, and more especially to Atlanta. Wagons,
ten in a train, drawn by from two to four oxen or
mules each, make trips from the more distant
counties to Atlanta. Reference to the map will
show, that the counties named lie as near to-
Athens, as they do to Atlanta, and that, conse
quently, by right of geographical position, this
ought successfully to compete w'ith any other
point equally distant, for the valuable trade of
those counties. Any one passing through the
above named bounties, will become thoroughly-
convinced, after conversing with the people, that
unless something is done by the people of Athens
to win back this trade, it will remain in its-
present channel.
The difference in the charge for transporting
goods in favor of Atlanta, made by the Geo. R. R..
~ erroneous
irnful intelligcr
Cal-
thc building:.
low, confined, and ill ventilated. Each lwe [
man (for. tea women work at the loom) borders and beds all very rich; and
sits with ms little bundle of coloured f rom trials made of the quartz, it is be
wools wound upon small spindles, and |j eV cd that the whole region abound
a written paper before him, by which j n gold. The whole of this region,
be is entirely guided as to the number j -\vitli the exception of one small tract, ^ ^
of threads, &c., to take up. Each man ; 3 public property, and is subject toL wev
works distinct from bis neighbour, on ihe disposition of Congress. The Pres- j t i men t
his own loom; and as all shawls are jdent will recommend Mr. King’s plan
made np of small pieces, each piece D f granting permits and leases, instead
being about eight inches long, by four u f selling the land,
wide, the qualities of every workman
can easily be detected. The most skil-!
‘ earn about eight anas (equal to 25 ;
ts) per day; this sum is, however.
On Monday morning the m
of the death of the Hon. Jons Caldwi
hoik, of S. C., (which occurred at hall-past seven
o’clock on Sunday morning,) reached this place.—
Although this sad event has been anticipated for
some time past, its suddenness at the very time
when reports of his improving health were being
home to all parts of the country, has had a start
ling effect upon the public mind of the South, and
it is now difficult to realize the fact that the great
orator and statesman who had spent
devoted to the interests of the South, and who,
nuch some of us differed with him in set
II long be lamented as one of the chosi
guardians of our rights and interests—we n
difficult fully to realize the fact that tl
adelpha North American, Writing from
London, in referring to this subject,
says':’ .
•• Tbe Times d^cs not comphm
these taxes, although 4 the leading ji
hid of Europe, pays annually to
government no less than h’ifiety-fiv
thousand pounds storting in Rife shape
of taxes! This is nearly half it millioa
of dollars. * This enormous sum is thus
collected : The tax'qn'the’unprinted pa
per amounts to *15,006 per annum ;
the taxes bp-the advertisements amount
The Remmington Bridge.—A bridge
which is now being erected at Mont
gomery. Alabama, has a span of four
hundred feet, without piers or othejr in
tervening support, the longitudinal sup
porters or stringers being only three
Washington, March 26.
Congress has commenced the seven-
__enll» week of their session, and in a
equivalent to a much larger amount, if ver y quiet temper. Immediate action
reckoned at what it will procure.— ! on tlie territorial and slavery questions
These small pieces, when finished, are IS nol expected^ and, as Mr. Hunter
made oyer" to the agent or dealer, who 1 remarked in his speech on the general
has them sown together in a coarse man- subject, it is expedient to discuss the
ner, to judge of the general effect—they ! su |,ject very fully and act after, a full
are afterwards washed in parliclar pla- j comparison of views. Mr. Hunter had
ces in a stream branching from the th c fl oor yesterday artd spoke with his
river, and the water is said to possess,! p sua l fervor and ability. His views
peculiar properties in sofiening the vvere, for the most part, similar lo those
wool, and bringing out _lhe brilliancy' heretofore expressed by Mr. Calhoun,
of the colours not. found in any other! His general object was to urge the ne-
spot. But lew people visit Cashmere cessily of checking, in due time, the
for the purpose of purchasing shawls ;! S pj r 'n of encroachment on Southern
the distance is great,and the difficulties frights, which had been manifested!
of the road deter all but the very adven- ' Congress end in Northern State Legis-
turous; the agents,therefore,despatch the 1 fotures, of late years. The House also,
ing the deficiency bill, digest-
more speeches oh this still
engrossing subject.
. . The Committee on Territories of the
varieiies : g enale have j-eporled bills to establish
“ |he Territorial Governments of Utah
and New-Mexico, and without any pro
vision as to slavery. They also report
a hill on Mr. Benton’s and Mr. Bell’s
plan, to reduce and fix the limits of the
State of Texas, with her assent, and
mpression to take deep root in the minds of many
rmers, in reference to the prices of those articles
ost in request with them.
Another reason why some trade is diverted from
•re, is, a very general complaint that they can.
sell no produce without first agreeing to take a
certain portion of thc amount in trade. If this-
were not made to apply to cotton, and other arti
cles of prime necessity, not perishable, as well
as to perishable produce, the farmers would not
feel it so grievously, or complain so bitterly. Th^
remedy for this lies, in part, with the merchants
themselves, and wc feel certain that the bare men
tion of a complaint so general, will lead them to a
removal of the evil promptly.
The maincauso, however, of the withdrawal of
the trade from Athens, is the very bad state of the
roads leading to the town. Many, who prefer
dealing here t
lutely driv
going elsewhere, have been abso-
vay in consequence of this grier-
mce ascertained that if the citizens
loney, and work ifie~
icy hand of death has suspended the pulsations of | road towarda Lawrenccvilte a certain distan.
one of the wannest hearts that ever beat in defence j the differcnt neighborhoods would then take
shawls, after they have been wash- a fter p
ed, to the larger marts in Asia, and e j tV vo
from their correspondents the local |
merchants purchase them. Besides
the shawls, there are sever
of dress made from the wool—one the
Ahlwan, perfectly plain, of a dirty-
white drab and lilac colours; the tex
ture seems delighfully soft, hut the
large price asked for a piece five or six
yards in lepgth seemed far above the
value. , The shawl manufacture above j offering her a suituble remuneration for
described isjjbnt of the genuine nml he r as3c .„t. The plan provides lor ihe
much prized kind -in inferior sort called : rulure division, if Congress deem it
, he niches thick in the middle! This i (he “ zoznni,” or sewn, is that in which | prnperj D f Utah [now called Deseret]
bridge, will be capaWe of sustaining up-1 (here is a plain groundwork of wool, f nlo ‘ , wrt States, and also the division
wards of 2,000 tons, and will cost only; theAlbwnn dyed of nnv colour, upon j of N ew .Mexico into two States.
$1,500.. " ..... ..... i
' Traveling with
Sraithers
which the shawl pattern is worked with
_! tha needle. Many of ihese are very
ilberasays he always travels will, a! eK^nf^aUernsTbo^o^'e "eye "If'
“sulke/ -that ts. he always goes w, b , c0 ° n „J cur , h are alft1n / t des , iimc
to X».OqOarid the slump d,., amoums o( b°u5Zm^i ”< 'il«. The - fumnwnli" is a striped
'From an interesting Washington let- »o 260,000. ' The last sum includes the jjtraie till they get,'where they are j gowns°ladiesNkesse^
|i<r in. the Journal of Commerce, m re- ponny the regular double 1*^ ^ . The only time she ?ver S
nril to the_gnfd of Calitoraia. we lake sheet of the Times ; altd the half penny 1 sfoiled.hcsays, was when he broke his ; - , t v ja the cold weather
Ac following. whMigoc.-to Show thai (tamp onus supplement.” , QIDaotaiow^ainc eein weather,
tho mines fn ilia quartz region are nova ~—*^7" ' ; -.-r- ' —— _ ? \ . .
oewdiscovery.' - I Tbe President has issued an cmler'to:^ At a debating club, the question was^ - - - . ; . , ,
•♦These mines have undoubtedly be*j> tilib. Secretary of War, directing ihatlhc! discussed whether! here-is more picas-;
worked some period Tar b*c\C. Mr. Iffill uniform now worn in ^Hie army, ajbre in’ the possession or; pq, shit of an.f^^gy*P- ‘ ^
Wright slates that an opening was lately - Utie dress coal with thc while buff.lin- object; “Mr- Prcsrdent,” said an ora- c *nbrace you, ^as the trap r p t
discovered in one of- these. quariz. hills ’ in^s, hapd-box hat, &c., shall he thrown lor, 44 suppose I Was codrtin* a gal, and ra{ * " / ? .<■
«nd it wai.lnund to he ..heft very deep-1 .nd. the «,dress frocks now .be was.ltfruo away aotl I vvusto run Talleyrand declared,™ ooeoccaaion.
ly sunk. Upon, exploring it,.threq gsl-i worn shall be the lull umfonn, with the after her, wouldn’t J be happier when 1, h<j , The rea .
’ lrries were found lending from it.; addition_of ^rauJetu. sash. the re- t cotch’d her, than when I was running ^ Jon# . :obiBf i d fcarras, 44 U very B ppa-
' nnd safely roofed... The rock was found L privates is substituted by a sack. f There is such an enormous amount f ^ Wj
to be very richin g«ld,'atori the amount -r—— : qf jLegisIativc stupidity at the present
*•-*—-^frotn jl"uvust have been immense.; Tlie London Economist aavs tfel “^hc time,' that it Is really refreshing to nieet^spenda»th».'*sj
JI il H ^— fc.ii.t.. _r—eimeo of as good Legislative 1 ^ •
wit as the following*:--- 44 A wag in one i * " . _ ., ... .
.appeared in that 1 «*f Wr Sum hero Legislatures,' perceiv-V The;
il^s folly prqvedihattheyniiedLin,g'a uiosquitp alight ou 'a.neighbor’s -• 8 ’ n *, rw5l * l ^;*7 8 T
The Deseret delegates do not desire
. „ Territorial Government, because the
) Government would send them territorial
officers from the States who would
. - r >- mn. »»wkji**iKrBosios.-^-A-pmjectia oft foot
of^Lcgislattvc jVnptdity at the present^ ^ dtizens- in Fanned-Hal I, to. re
time, that it Is really refreshing to nieet lipoodajtbueiiOtnento^xpTeaseif in tbe speech sf
of Southern rights. Long will his memory be
cherished by not only his immediate constituents
in South Carolina, but by the whole American
people, who, now that he is dead, can forget his
faults in the contemplation of the many virtues that
distineuished him while living.
Mr. Calhoun was born in Abbeville District, S.
C., on the 18th of March, 1782, and having died
on the 30th of March, 1850, had just entered upon
his sixty-ninth year. At the age of 13, he com
menced his education under the tuition of the Rev.
Moses Waddel, who was afterwards President of
Franklin College. His studies being interrupted
by the death of his father, he devoted his time to
agricultural pursuits until his eighteenth year,
when he again availed himself of Dr. Waddee’s
instructions, and subsequently entered Yale Col
lege, whereat, the termination of two years,he
completed his collegiate course, with the first hon
ors. The next eighteen months he devoted to the
study of law, when ho at once took rank as one
of the most eminent lawyers of his circuit.
s polities! career began in 1809, when he
elected to the State Legislature, where he
id two terms. In 1811 he took his scat in
Congress, as representative of the districts of
Abbeville, Newberry and Laurens. He greatly
distinguished himself while a member of the House
of Representati
In 1817,'he was appointed, by Mr. Mokroe,
Secretary of War. From the War Office, he was
called, by .the popular voice, to the Vice Presiden
cy of lho United States—serving during Mr.
Adams' term and one term under Gen. Jacksok.
This place he resigned, when he was elected U. S.
Seualot by the Legislature of S. C. He
in the Senate for many yeajrs. Shortly after his
retirement to private life, he was appointed Secre
tary of State by Mr. Tvler, which place he held
until that gentleman’s term expired. He again re
tired to private life for a brief period; but his na
tive State demanded his services in tbe Sen-
ill times past, acquired vast anil untold-p
treasures, but from.vliat sotlrcqs —
iib jealousy and cupidity wouU
* allow to b*-cooie known/-
lertaitt no sympathies In common with . ate when it was feared that Mr. Polk was about
the Mormon people. They would pre- ( to precipitate the country into ft war with Gi
fer simply a recognition of their own 1 Britain lin tjw Oregon question. His course
laws and authorities and, with an appro- , this, as well as the Mexican war question, if he
priation of a suitable sum to defray '*** done nothing else, entitled him to the lasting
expens es-df Government. This, logetb- gratitude of th. American people. * He remained
cr with some military protection, is all ,B 'J e Senate until his death. *
Ihev will require forbears. ! Th,Ch„l„.o; Ovnv.from which we e 1,a»
Deseret will gain populalion aS rapid- feels, hes.il,- toicn Mother; v„,
ly as Kew-Mezico.They will reciivo «•““ •» •“* *•*
an nccessinn ofiwenlynhousand people ^iwwing rem,i-s.
during the present year. Neither Dei- i “ th»t he was one of the gretest men
eret-nor New-Mexico are destined !(> he of the nation—like Clat of the West. *nd Web-
populons countries, their resources be- of the East.our ilfn.lnoiis Soiitberner to«er-
ing very limited. 1 It,is very doubtful. | edamong his countrymen, both morally and in-
I Think, whefher these Territorial Gov. i telleeto.lly, io eolosral .nd pyram.d.1 grandeor.-
ernmeuts will be granted by the House. | s ” k ' h ‘ ' am ” ot “™"».
The Senate may assent to them. 1{ '.ndin honor,^them, she b.tho.o« he,«lf. Of
tbe Territorial Governments be not pro-' J P-i'-e'*.'»
vided.il will next be proposed lo^^ao-i ^i
thorlze the-President' to-pay an amount! e ** K • ^ W> ° d . •
‘ i- _ i mourn th«rbereavement and e arn*w
-UoLtxceeding a certem sum "> ' «f , ti „
the support of their Provisional' Gov- . ri-.
ernmenis. California tvill .undoubtedly t. ^The annual production of the mannfactories of
|3Efiiireereiid wilie'vfr hav^ avi ? iu- f huriti, immedialely, arose. an~<t address- r**«y»rA ’ ' j . I>e aduiilted, and law, will becrated | mans (boraknow, u hraQre, re tius^dtustta,
: a! monopoly pfjhe raw; cotton of coin- 'ing the chair, reqdesj^d safd mosquito I ' M;. fylboan-. vnts. iomonthe 18 th of Jjmrrij, jdjf ifie.rejdtotion and. proteclioa of.thej isstated to b* in value^twcnty nrillioasjif dollar*,
[ uicrtre.' " jhavtf leave to iitkdraK his bill/ 1 ' M782, and consequently was G3 years old. ' •_ ,puh!tfc property. . ' givi»f employment to sixty-thousand pdreeot.-
up, and work it through, and thereby benefit all
concerned. There was not enough interest felt
re success, and tlie project was aban
doned. In consequence of this ueglect, nearly lho
whole trade of Gwinnettt now travels towards At-
inta. For a number of miles from Athens, in
very direction, during a rainy season, the roads
re impassable, or present obstacles to the wagoner
hich he dreads to encounter. People more re
mote, as in Union, Lumpkin, Gilmer and Hall,
knowing this, and knowing the roads to Atlanta
lo be far superior, are also going in the direcu'on.
ot content with this better state of the roads now
the people of rival towns seeing the value of
the trade they have gained, and wishing to retain
are building Plank Roads in every direction.
The necessary amount has been subscribed to
sure the building of a road from Marietta to
Cuinming, and in all probability this will be fol
lowed by another from Atlanta to Rosswell, there
ntersect the Marietta and Cumming road.—
This accomplished, it is in contemplation to con-
» the road from Cumming to Dahlonega.
Judging from the feeling now predominant in that
region, all of these roads will be built. Men have
taken the matter in hand, whose business, energy
and sagacity are best attested by the very suc
cessful manner in which they have conducted their
affairs—who make calculations before be-
committed—and who, when once con
vinced, move directly forward, to the attainment of
The completion of a road from Atlanta
to Dahlonega, will forever secure the trade of that
growing country to Atlanta—to regain which, for
this place, every effort will be utterly fruitless.—
vert such a result, while in our power to do
dictated by every motive,having at heart thd"“
growth and prosperity of Athens.
Notwithstanding the enterprise in that direction,
there is another which, although a little more re
mote, demands our attention. We allude to tho
Rail Road now in progress to Anderson, South
Carolina. This raid w ill be completed iu a short
time, when not only Ihe trade now coming hero
from North Cerolina, and the higher districts ot
South Carolina, will bo cm off, but very probably
that ol Rabun, Habersham, Franklin and Elbert,
and that which now remains to ns from Hail. Alt
this may happen with no other than the preeent
convenienees of travel-but how ranch more cer.
tainly will it take place, eheold the people of the
coontiee above ne unite, with those of Sooth Caro,
line, and build Plank Ronds from Ciarkcsvillo and
Carnesville to Anderson Court House! Wo deem
this to be within the range of probabilities, and the
danger sufficiently, imminent to merit a serious
consideration.
Thus will the trade of Athens be reduced talbe
counties of Jackson, Madison and Clarke, with *
portion of Oglethorpe, Walton end Gwinnett. As
important as we willingly concede this to be, w*
ask, in alt candor, whether it is sufficient to kesp
up the present merchants of the place, or continue
prafitable tlift existing investment ill stcre houses.
As already intimated, then, every consideration
ilietates bnmediate and energetic, hut prudent ac
tion, in reference to the subject of this epoitaupL
estion- Thilth* two roads feezed.to,**, be
ginning of this article, ought lo‘be built once,