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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,