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About Daily chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1837-1876 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1847)
CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. gy j Tf/\~Sc W. S. JONES. J \MES JI. SMYTHE, Associate Editor DAILY, «fc WEEKLY. OFFICK IN RAIL ROAD BANK BUILDING. TRRMS —Daily Paper, per annum, in advance ••SlO Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ " •■• 5 Weekly, (a mammoth sheet) “ ; • • 2 DASH SYSTEM.—In no case will an order for the j i per be attended to, unless accompanied with the money, and in every instancewhen the time for which any subscription may be paid, expires before ihe re ceipt of funds to renew the same, the paper will 1 e discontinued. Depreciated funds received at value in this city. American Artists in Rome. From the foreign correspondence of the Boston Atlas—we gather the annexed intelli gence of the present occupation of onr Ameri can painters in the seven-hilled city. Turner C. Kellogg of Cincinnati, is justly spoken of in the following terms: A Circassian Lady, sketched from nature by Mr. K. when in Asia Minor, and painted for that munificent patron of American art, James Robb, Esq., of \ew-Orleans, is replete with the poetry of female beauty. The drapery which modestly shades her swelling bust—the dim pled hand raised to hold it, lest the charms it hides should be revealed by some passing breeze —and the full languid eye are so many gems, set in chaste, yet vivid coloring. It is rivalled by a scene in Valambrosa, that flowering vale near Florence, whose beauties have been so often sung by the poets. A Shepherdess, clad in the garb of the 15th century, is reclining in this beautiful scene, her flock asleep, and lan guidly watches the hues of departed day chase each other across the flowery landscape, though her eye beams with a hope that the comm* morning’s sun will be as bright as the one just gone to rest—all emblematical of this lovely land, which, though now in forced repose, is destined to rise again—nor do her sons cease to hope that they may again rank among the great prople of the earth. Kellogg is unques tionably one of the chosen few permitted to join in— “ The worship of the beautiful—where’er Its visible incarnation seems to be, In woman’s cheek seraphicallv fur, In rushing streamlet and leafclothed tree. In fleecy cloud, soft slumbering in air, In hues of sunlight, pictur’d on the sea. In all one glorious spirit shines around, Making the world for them one spot of fairy ground.” Mr. Brown of Boston is mentioned as stand ing, for landscape painting, at the head of his countrymen in Rome, and indeed, adds the writer, I doubt if any modern artist can excel him, though he paints far too rapidly for his re putation of his pictures, we have this account: Os the eight large pictures which he has al ready dashed off, L fancy most a View of the Caste/lo dell Ovo, at Naples, that charming promontory, once the residence of the Roman Lucullus, a man of acknowledged taste. Sol diers drawing cannon, idle Lazzaroni and boats dancing on the clear blue waves, give a life like activity, which contrasts admirably with the mellow color of the fortandthe soft cloud;?. In a scene from “ .Is you like it the painter gives us the fine old forest of Arden, with the melancholy Jacques: “ As he lay along Under an oak, whose antique roots peep out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood ; To the which place a poor sequestered stag. That from the humer’saim had taken a hurt. Did come to languish.” The disposition of the foliage and general tone ofthis picture renders it a general favorite, though not considered equal to a Scene from the Merchant of Venice: “'f he T° n shines bri gbß—in such a night as t’n-D. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees And they did make no noise, Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew, And with an untlirift love did run from Venice; As far as Belmont. And in such a night. Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well • Stealing her soul with many vows of faith And ne era true one. And in such a niefit Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrow, ° ’ Slander her Jove, and he forgave her too.” The happy lovers are well portrayed, bat the sweet “moonlight sleeps upon the bank” in delicious softness, giving a tone to the whole picture that when glazed down by the hand of Time, will render it a gem. Another Moon light Scene, painted for the United States com sul at Rome, is far inferior to it, nor can I say thtnt I was so favorably struck by a Vieic on the Rhone. A New-Yorker, Mr. Kenset, is placed nex.t to Brown as a landscape painter. He was originally an engraver, and has brought froi a that art to his atelier a delicacy of touch and a truthfulness ofdetail which characterises all hi s pictures; and the New-Yorker, Mr. Hicks, is i mentioned as evincing high promise, with urn- . common power of composition, and great read:.- ■ ness in transferring his thoughts to canvassi, I while Terry who isso agreeably known to man v 5 of our citizens is thus spoken of: \ Mr. Terry of Hartford, is the oldest Ameri*- ] can artist at Rome, and his paintings are much I sought after by our picture buyers. Without | the bold strokes of a great genius, he produces i pictures which are of real merit, and are snr»3 \ to please by their fidelity to Nature, couple*! \ with a uniform pleasing expression of the gen - '■ tier sentiments. Mr. TVs kindness to his count- i trymen who come here is proverbial, and it i s I to be regretted that he was not appointed cot i- i an! in place of the present incumbent—a ma n j well enough in his way, but who gives up th e office to a foreigner ill-calculated to represent | our country. Messrs. Cranch of Washington, Cameron ctf j Philadelphia, and Freeman ofthis State, are also mentioned, ams the writer closes his letle r with this remark. To have declared that I wa r writing for the press, on art, would have close d the doors of every studio against me; for. sine e Mr. Lester visited Florence to do Powers, gei i tlem.en “ takin’ notes” are shunned by all wh o ► may be victimised. This Mr. C. Edwards Lester seems to be fine [- ing his proper level at last. The same writer, in another letter, indulge s in the following remarks respecting America n ; sculptors in that country: The leading American sculptors are Powerr, and Greenough, at Florence, and Crawford ajt Rome. Neither of them would like to allow that either of the others was his superior, yet their geniuses do not at all clash, and they nee.'i not be envious oi each other’s fame. Craw ford is probably better than either in the group ing and expression of his figures. Powers ex cels in the beautiful finish of his marble, ami! Greenough certainly has a grander concep tion than either of them. Powers has atlengtlv accomplished his long cherished desire of send ing his statue of a Greek Slave to the U. States; for exhibition, having shipped it from Leghorn to New-York. The slave differs from a Venus merely in the accession of a chain on one of the lower limb*;, and is decidedly the chef d*oeuvre of modem? sculpture, though not entirely free from fault —it is rather stiff when looked upon from the rightside, and the lower limbs are certainly subject to the same fault. Powers commits the great fault of repeating this statue instead ol' striking into the higher region of his art and executing a group. His Eve has also been re* B peatedly modeled, and the last reproduction is lengthened out so as to improve the effect.— He is now at work on the statue of John C- Calhoun, a few inches larger than life, after which he will execute a statue of Benjamiw Franklin, for New-Orleans. Mr. Crawford left for Florence, on his way to Venice, where he proposes spending the summer months. There is a life and spirit aboutbis works not to be found in the studios of Powers or Greenough, but he is not very pro j Jific. The Daughter of Herodias is an exqui || site composition, representing, her going forr the head of St. John, by order of her mother, \ with her timbrel and a vase. The dress of the j dancing girl is elaborately executed the pose . naturally graceful—and the drapery worthy of high commendation. A bust of Mrs. Craw- > ford, in which a flying veil is used to give es- j feet to the head, finds many admirers, although { the artists criticise it severely. Mr. Greenough, as independentashe is bold 1 in his designs, is understood to be quite satisfied 1 that his Washington is finally put out of doors | —it is what he wanted He is now modelling a group which is said to be of high merit, but I have not seen it. He is also bringing out an 1 episode in his own history—to commemorate I the anonymous assistance he once received when almost despairing—sl,soo to enable him to study in Italy—a has relief, represent ing a young student working despairingly by a dying lamp, which is replenished with oil from a vase held by a hand coming from the darkness above. Thorwaldsen conceived nearly the same design, to commemorate a similar bene faction. There is at Florence another sculptor who is just commencing—Mosher. Having exe cuted several heads of merit, he has now at tempted an imaginative work, a bust of Poca hontas, and, so far as I can judge, he has suc ceeded most admirably in combining classic beauties with the peculiarities of the Indian physiognomy, and the queenly expression which is said to have belonged to the savage heroine. Mosher has several orders for this work, and, unlessl am mistaken, willyetmake a noise in the world. Chronicle anh Sentinel. AUGUSTA, GEO : WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. A, ’AT. FOR GOVERNOR: DUNCAN L. CLINCH, Os Camden. Ottr Mamiuoth Weekly, Containing its usual variety of miscellany, the late European and Mexican news, together with the current news of the week, will he issued this morning. Single copies for sale at the office. The Late Mexican News Will he found in our weekly to be issued this morning. Yankee Enterprise.--Fall River. Fall River, a manufacturing town, situ ated on both sides of the outlet of Watuppa Pond, (which outlet is called “Fall river,”) near its entrance into Mount Hope bay, has been recently brought into more intimate rela tions with New York, by the establishment of a dail y line of steamers. The additional impor tance which this flourishing town of 12,000 in habitants acquired in this way, has led to an in vestigation of the nature and extent of its busi ness operations by a correspondent of the New York Courier. Abundance of running water furnishes the propelling power of a large num ber of manufacturing establishments aWFall River, the productions of which are mostly forwarded to the New York market, and it was the necessities of the manufacturers for a rapid and direct means of transportation that originated the daily line of steamers between the two places. We condense, says the Balti more American, from the letter in the Courier some of its prominent facts : The Fall River Iron Works Company employs 650 hands, and its buildings cover several acres, and em brace, within their limits 4 double and 20 single fur naces, for puddling and heating, 1 air and 2 Cupola Furnaces, 3 Steam Engines of 70 horses power, 1 of 90 do., and lof 30 do. All these engines are driven by steam generated by the fires from the furnaces, the heat from which is used without additional expense and without detriment to the primary object at the furnaces. 15,000 tons of Bituminous Coal from Pic i tou and Virginia, are used per annum. This estab -1 Hshment turns out 200,000 pounds of nails per week, 4 to 5 tons of castings per day, and about 80 tons of hoop and merchantable iron per w-eek. The Pig Iron used is from Maryland. The American Print Works Co. has a stone build ing, employs 325 hands, and prints 192,000 yards of cloth per week. The house of McCurdy, Aldrich ! and Spencer, of New York, sold last year more than ihalf a million of dollars' worth of the productions of those works. The Fall River Manufacturing Co. uses waterpow er, employs 150 hands, runs 9240 spindles, 209 looms, I and produces 33,000 yards of No. 32 printing cloths !* per week. The building is stone. The Watuppa Manufacturing Co. has a stone build ing, uses water power, employs 107 hands, runs9,6oo spindles and 224 looms, and turns out 45,000 yards 1 (No. 29 printing cloth per week. The Pocasset Manufacturing" Co. employs 300 hands in the Quequechan Mill , which is a stone building, containing 15,000 spindles and 400 looms. The same company has just erected another very large stone building called the Cocasset Mill, which will | contain 18,000 spindles, and, like the Quequechan , ij be driven by water. vl The Metacomet Mill employs 300 hands, runs 22,- ij 000 spindles and 504 looms, and uses both water and si steam-power. The Mill is capable of producing 6,000,- 1 000 yards of No. 30 printing cloth per annum. The building is stone. A Robeson & Sons’ Print Works employ 300 hands, i | occupy a stone building, use water and steam-power, J and print about 180,000 yards per week. | The Annawan Co. occupies a brick building, uses j water-power, employs 150 hands, runs 8088 spindles, j 191 looms, and manufactures 1,400,000 yards of No. I 35 printing cloth per annum. I Hawes, Marvel & Davoll’s Machine Works em j ploy 170 hands, use steam-power, and manufacture all ■ kinds of Cotton Machinery. Stone building. The Massasoit Steam Mill Co. has recently erected a very large stone building which contains 12,000 spindles and 300 looms, —170 hands are employed, i The machinery is driven by a steam engine of 120 horses power, and in a few days the whole will be in operation and produce 57 to 58)000 yards of No. 28 printing cloth per week. The Troy Cotton and Woolen Man’g. Co. employs 125 hands, runs 6,400 spindles and 175 looms, driven by water, and produces 30,000 yards per week of No. 28 warp and No. 30 filling printing cloth. The buildings are of stone. A new Woolen Mill has recently been constructed of stone, 4 stories high, to be driven by steam, and is expected to turn out 200 yards of fancy cassimeresper day. The Globe Print-Works employ about 175 hands, an J use water and steam-power in a stone building, Chace’s Cotton Factory runs over 2000 spindles in a stone building by water-power. Buffington’s Cotton Factory runs about 1000 spin dles in a stone building, also by water-power. Some of the factories are now lighted by gas. 1 and it will be introduced into all of them next winter. The whole town is to be lighted in the same way. We commend this picture to the Real Estate holders of Augusta, as one worthy of the ir con- j templation, because it is the fruit of Yankee enterprise and skill, aided by Yankee capital. The water-power at Fall River is obtained from a small stream, (although dignified with the name of river, is indeed a small creek,) which j falls 140 feet within 100 rods. A few years ago, it was a small village, now a thriving town with a population of 12,000 souls, and is daily increasing in its proportions, wealth and popu lation, so much so, indeed, that a line of dai ly steam communication, as already stated, has been recently established between it and New York. If Yankee enterprise, skill and capital, have accomplished all this in a few years, in a bleak northern climate, hundreds of miles from the sources of the raw material, ( which they consume in their Cotton and Iron Manufactories, what would the infusion of a little of the same enterprise into the'holders of j real estate in Augusta do for this city ? This is j r a question of some moment to property hold ers, which we think it behooves them to ponder ir well, just now, when rival towns are seeking to b withdraw the business from the city. Its con- is templation might prove beneficial, certainly J as profitable as croaking through the streets 3 about Canal taxation, low price of rents, and the dangers to be apprehended from a diver- t ( sion of trade and business, to retain which no 15 manly, vigorous effort is making, or seems like- R ly to be made. a We do not deem it necessary to offer any £ reflections to an intelligent mind, in reference 0 to the favorable position of Augusta, in the 0 midst of the Cotton growing region, and within ; a days travel of the rich beds of Iron ore of 1 northwestern Georgia, to show that what Fall River now is Augusta may be made in a few. a c very few, years, if we can only have a little 1 energy and enterprise infused into our people. Such a course of argument is unnecessary — ( for the facts are all familiar to every mind. What our people w r ant is energy and the enterprise to establish Manufactories. These j they w r ant much, for they are lamentably de ficient in both; and they want more, they want: more enlarged and expanded views of things, and they want the nerve to act upon those views. These are plain and homely truths, and they will doubtless be the less pa" latable because they are so. That, however, is a matter of little consequence to us. The most faithful friends are those who tell us frankly our faults—and whether our efforts in this be half be appreciated or not, we shall have the consolation of having done our duty. Gen, Clinch’s Financial Experience, Under this imposing head, the Constitution- \ alist yesterday gave us a chapter on Finance and Banking generally, and in reference to Gen. Clinch’s connection with the Bank of St. Mary’s particularly. It would perhaps be for tunate for the country if all those who attempt to lecture upon finance and banking, were suf- | ficiently familiar with the subject to be capable | of distinguishing between a 11 change bill'' of the Bank of St. Mary’s, and an individual’s draft. But it seems such knowledge is by no means necessary among the teachers of Dem ocracy, who have shown by their practices in Georgia, what perfect command they have of these intricate questions. The editorial of the Constitutionalist, to which we have referred, is not only grossly disingen uous, but betrays a want of correct information in reference to the history of the Bank of St. Mary’s, and Gen. Clinch’s connection there with. Equally unfortunate was its allusion to j | the days of “Rag Barons,” among whom our 1 neighbor was then assigned a position by his present political associates, who, unfortunately > for the country, were then in power in Georgia, ' and created quite all of the Banking institutions of that period. The Bank of St. Mary’s was managed with fidelity under Gen. Clinch’s administration, securing to the country through which it circu lated, as safe a currency as any other institu- 1 tion in the State, and it was not till after Gen. Clinch ceased to be its President, that it was removed to Columbus. Jt never “ migrated to the city of Augusta,” as stated by the Consti tutionalist, or it might have called to its aid the skill of the financial doctor of the Constitution alist to have restored its ‘“delicate health,” who, 1 in his capacity of consulting financier, might have learned the difference between a draft of John G. Winter on the Bank of St. Mary’s, for twenty-five cents, (which he copied in the j Constitutionalist of yesterday,) and a change ! bill ” of that bank. The Constitutionalist well knows that Gen. | Clinch had no connection with these “ change bills,” and was not, and is not responsible in any manner for their issue. Fire at Greenville C. H. By the Mountaineer we learn the destruction I of the dwelling of Col. David Hoke, Sheriff of the District, on the night of the 24th ult. ! The furniture was all saved, but the loss of Col. H. including about $2700 in Bunk bills and notes, is estimated at between four and five thousand dollars. Messrs. Hasie and Nicol, who occupied the ; Store-house near Col. Hoke’s dwelling, with a large and valuable stock of Goods, were also serious sufferers. The Store-house caught on fire several times, and the Goods were all re moved. Many things were broken and dam aged in the muddy street, and some perhaps stolen. It is said .S3OOO will not repair then loss. Mr. Nicol was insured for $2500. The Athens Whig states that the Walton Cav alry, a company which some months since tendered its services to the Executive, has been accepted, and some fifty or sixty of the original company have expressed their willingness to serve. A meeting was to have been held in Monroe on the 31st ult., for the purpose of completing and organizing the company. The Columbus company was mustered into service by Lieut. Ward, on Monday last. Six Days Later from the Rio Grande Successful Attack upon a Train. The schooner Sarah Churchman, Capt. Er rickson, arrived at New Orleans on the 29th ult., having sailed from the Brazos on the 23d. The Matamoros Flag, of the 21st July, contains the following important intelligence in relation 1 to an attack upon a train, which was partially 1 successful : | “ The last arrival from Caniargo brings an account ; of a recent attack by the Mexican l -, supposed to be a detached party of Urrea’s troo , upon a train, on its 1 way to Monterey. The wagon train was attended by a small escort, and following in the rear were some ' sixty or eighty pack mules, freighted with goods be- ( longing to the merchants c: Matamoros. The train * was attacked near Marin, and the r anlt was direct- ' ed against the rear, with a view of cutting off the 1 pack mules, in which the Mexicans were completely s successful —all the mules with their packs were c. p- C tured by them. A considerable booty has thus fallen | into their hands—some say about $3U,000 worth of j dry goods and a quantity of tobacco. The principal ' t locs sustained by Mr. Tarniver, one of the n st re spectable merchants of Matamoros, who loses np wards of $25,000 in dry goods; Mr, Kingsbury was the owner of the tobacco.” c Vessel Missing. —The schooner Butler, c Capt. Shoemaker, cleared from New Orleans on the 20th of December last for the mouth of e the Rio Grande. She has never reached there ti nor been heard of since she left our river. No y doubt is entertained that she has been lost at seaand all on board have perished.— Pic, f Tlie Cotton Crop. An intelligent correspondent of the Alabama Journal makes the following sensible remarks 1 n reference to the cotton crop : “ The present state of the cotton trade is such that a nuch interest is felt in regard to the growing crop ; C he result of which at present is equivocal. It may t | >e of interest to some of your readers to know what g s the comparativ# forwardness of the present crop, rj vith a few preceding ones. In iecurring to ray ; Jiary I find that in 1839 I found cotton in bloom on the Id June; in 1840. 6th June; 1842, 28th May ; 1843, \ fih June ; 1844, 31st May; 1845, 26th May; 1846, | v 11th June; 1847, 11th June. In 1839, the first cot- | t ;on that was open, was on the 24th July ; and I com- j I menced picking cotton on 12th August. In 1840, t he first open cotton was on the 30th July, and com- i t menced picking on the 24th August. The year 1842 s md 1843 was about the same as 1810. In 1844, I commenced picking cotton on 7th August. In 1845, r the first cotton open 17th July, commenced to pick j on the Ist August. In 1846 the first cotton open was j on 27th July, commenced to pick on the 26th August. This year I do not know when my cotton will open ; it is now the 27th and none to be seen. The year 1839 was a large crop year. 1840 not good; 1841 1 very bad ; 1842 good ; 1843 good ; 1844 not good ; 1 1845 very good; 1846 very bad. I have myself s come to the conclusion that the time of the first 1 blooming, opening, and picking is not any indication ( of what will be the result of a cotton crop—more de pends on the clouds than any thing else —and it is my ; opinion that the chances are against the present crop.” More Indian Depredations. —The St. Louis Reveille publishes the subjoined letter from Henry P. Paulsell, Esq., of Jefferson City j Mo., to Gen. G. A. Parsons, of that place. It was written at Fort Arkansas, on the Santa Fe road, on the 21st nit.: Dear Friend —We arrived here yesterday, after having much difficulty with the Indians: we have been surrounded by them for the last six-days, and have a fight every day and some times two. They charged on ns this morning about 6 o’clock, but we repulsed them. Dur ing the day they made several attacks, but at every charge our boys acted well their parts and repulsed them with some loss. They were 200 strong —our force 83; they lost nine men that we know of, and six or eight horses, while we lost four mules and not a man hurt. I cannot tell why they did not kill some of ns, as the balls flew and fell all around ns like J hail. It is a very common occurrence for ns to get 1 np of a morning and go to fighting. It is like ; everything else, though—nothing when we get use to it. On the 19th hist., they had a big fight at the for'. Only ten men were in it, and they were attacked by 400 or 500 Indians. The ! ten men fonght4)ravely and killed sixteen In- ! dians and many horses. They lost no men in j the fight, but after it was all over, thinking the Indians had gone, three men went out of the fort and were caught and cruelly butchered. A party of hunters and traders which arrived at St. Louis from the Upper Missouri reports the Indians in that quarter quiet. Commercial. —The impulse given to our Cotton market by the recent favorable accounts from England continues, and the sales yester day ran np to 6000 bales, principally on English account —prices are firm at an advance of f to since the steamer arrived. Arrived past four days 659 bales—cleared in same time 15,903 bales; of Flour only a few hundred bbls. sold 1 at $4 to $4.25 for sweet Ohio, and $3.50 per j t bbl. for sour, and $5.25 to $5.50 for St. Louis; j Some small lots of mixed Corn sold at 41 to | ; 44c. per bushel; prime yellow is worth 50c. per 1 bushels; No sales of Wheat; of Corn-meal j ! 400 hbls, prime kiln-dried brought $2 per bbl.; A sale of 64 bales Dew-rotted Hemp at $97 per ton; Provisions—inactive—3o casks of : good Bacon Shoulders sold at s|c. per lb ; Small sales of Whiskey at 20c. per gallon.— N. O. Delta, 28 th ult. Steamboat Accident. —We regret to learn 1 that the steamboat Niagara, on her passage np this morning, while between Sing Sing and Tarrytown, at about half past eight o’clock, burst her starbord steam chimney, with most disastrous results. Seven of the passengers were scalded; two, Mr. N. Avery and wife, of this city, very severely. They w-ere brought down to the city by the Thomas Powell, of their humane treatment by whose officers they speak in the highest terms. Also of the kind attention 5f Mr. Robert Sinclair, who was on board the Thomas Powell. The other five passengers were less severe ly scalded, but we hear, from a passenger, that two of the firemen of the Niagara are missing, 1 supposed to have been blown overboard at the ; time of the explosion . The Niagara, we nn ' derstand, was racing with the Roger Williams. She had about 200 passengers on board.— The two persons who came down in the Thom as Powell, are now at the city hospital. They have been examined by Drs. Griscom and i Thompson, and are not considered in danger. I The Niagara is now lying at Sing Sing. A boat has been sent to bring her down. The explosion carried away, it is reported, the bar- ; ber’s shop and fireman’s room.— N. F. Com mercial Advertiser, of 31 st ult. Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot . Washington, July 30, 1847. 1 tllll pleased to inform yon that the Secretary of tile Navy has contracted with Maj. Arnold Harris to car ry the U, S. Mail from Chagres to Astoria, in Oregon, in steam vessels of one thousand tons each. This is a continuation of the route contracted for by Messrs. Sloo &. Co., from New-York to New-Orleans, Hava na and Chagres. Major Harris has left here for N. York to complete his art ;ngements. The Letters by the Washington.— ls we | are correctly informed there is little disposition | on the pari of the British Government, to ar range plans with the American Post Office De partment. We understand that the same post age —that is, both the island and ocean rate— was charged by the English post-office upon letters sent by the Washington as upon those sent by the Cunard steamers, thus depriving this Government of the postage from port to pgrt, or compelling it to make the charge over and above that already made on the other side We understand that Mr. Bancroft has sent in a strong protest on the subject, but when the Washington sailed Mr. Hobble hadnot learned that any notice had been taken of it by the Brit ish Government, although some days had elapsed. It is not surprising that the English Govern ment feel unwilling to relinquish a source of income secured by their priority of enterprize in trans-Atlantic steam navigation, without soma equivalent in one way or another. That is natural enough, and probably onr own Gov ernment, in a reverse of present circumstances, I would feel a similar hesitation, and would not j rashly commit itself to any change. But aj ' change will have to be made, for American en terprise once fairly aroused, cannot long be thus 1 impeded. Arrangements will have to be con ceded, and the whole may as well be done with J a good as with a bad grace. Between Governments so intimately united ( by commerce, mere priority of advantage must j give way to mutual advantage and accommo- I ( dation. This spirit is already shown by our Government in that the Canadian mails are for- j warded, if we are rightly informed, direct from ? the steamer, without detention at Boston for in spection, on the simple representation of their e contents by British officers. In this spirit we * hope the whole matter will be arranged. It is , just possible that the British Government and g the American representative are mutually r waiting definitve proposals. _ | “The Q,uip modest and Retort Courte- c ous.—We cut the following short but piquant a colloquy between an inebriate and a ruraseller: n Landlord. —“‘lf yon had avoided rum, your r early habits of industry and intellectual abili- n ties would have placed yon in a high station, and s foil would now ride in your own carriage.” a Inebriate. —“ And if you had never sold rum t< forme to buy, you would have been my driver.’ I From the Savannah Georgian. Southwestern Railroad. We are informed by a getlemau recently Vom Ainericus, Sumpter county, that the Rail s tload Convention re-assembled, pursuant to 1 idjournment, on Tuesday- the 27th ult. The i Chairman, Judge Lott Warren, being absent, 1 ;he Hon. Joel Crawford, of Early, was appoint ' sd Chairman of the Convention, and Mr. Thomas Sullivan resumed his office of Secreta ry. ' The Minute? of the Convention of May last were then read, and the various committees, then appointed, were called on for reports. — No reports were made, except from the coun ties of Bibb,*Baker. and Sumter. No subscrip tions were reported by any of the committees save from the county of Bibb. The Convention was addressed by Judge Taylor, of Randolph, and by R. R. Cuyler, Esq., President of the Central Railroad, and Mr. De Graftenreid, of Early. The Convention resolved to appoint other Committees to ascertain the feeling of theseve ral counties interested in this great work, and to have county meetings at which addresses should be delivered by gentlemen selected for that purpose. As there appeared to be some diversity of opinion as to the route of the pro posed Road, it was resolved that when subscrip tions were solicited by the Committees they should be made, according to the choice of the subscriber, either for the route by Albany, in Baker County, or the more direct route towards Fort Gaines —so as to ascertain as fully as pos sible the views of the people of South western Georgia on the subject of the route. Our informant thinks that the people of this interesting section of our State are now alive to the|j importance of this Railroad ; and he doubts not that they will ere long come up to the work in good spirit. The Chairman took oc casion to say to the Convention, that he intend ed to devote his time and attention to the matter, and from his efforts and the aid of other intelli gent gentlemen, it is expected when the people again meet on this subject that action will be had to begin the Road with a determination to carry it through. We earnestly hope that vigorous efforts will be made by the recently appointed Committees, for we know of no proposed Rail Road which | offers better prospects for the agriculturist and j for the subscribers for stock, than the one in : contemplation through this region. It is truly j a great enterprise, and here, and in Macon, as ; well as in the counties of the Southwest, it j should not be suffered to linger any longer.— We shall take occasion hereafter to give our views on this subject more at length than our time will now permit. Editor of the Southern Banner is j informed that this paper is the organ of no man. It is the advocate of the cherished principles of the Whig party; and to carry them out, audio preserve to the people of Georgia an honest and economical administration of the State af fairs, it advocates and supports the election of that tried patriot and sterling Whig, General Clinch. We have never approved of the vote efcen j sure upon Gen. Taylor by the late Democrat ic House of Representatives. We have never supported the President in his studied and marked effort to defame our gallant leaders in Mexico—Scotland Taylor. ! We never supported the darling scheme of I the Administration, to supercede and disgrace I Scott and Taylor, by the elevation of humbug Benton, a Wilmot Proviso Democrat, over I their heads. We never approved of the famous “pass” to j Mexico given to Santa Anna, by which our ! enemies were supplied with a skilful General and leader. We never sustained or approved of the con duct of this war by the President —of the w an ton sacrifice of life on the banks of the Rio Grande by pestilence, owing to the shameful neglect of the Administration, in not providing the most ordinary means of protection from the inclement weather during the sickly sea son. We have never given ‘ aid and comfort" to j our enemies, by assuring them that one half of the people of this country were traitors to their | country, and Mexicans in sympathy. We never advocated the commencement of this war to recover from Mexico the debt she owed us, as well as the expenses of collection, and after we had got into it, the more disgrace ful scheme of buying a peace. We advocate a vigorous and energetic prose cution of the war with all the means within the control of the Nation, and by the cordial and hearty co-operation of every branch of the pub lic service—but we will unceasingly denounce the demagogue who, for a temporary personal or party benefit, defames our best Generals— paralyzes their efforts, and jeopardizes the safe ty of our entire army. When the Editor ofthe Banner can say as much—when he (having been one of the principal instruments in the Annexation of Texas, the election of Polk, and the consequent War with Mexico,) shall buckle on his armor, volunteer for the war, and take his stand with that gallant body of patriot Whigs who, by their unflinching bravery, for titude and skill, have reflected additional lustre upon the American name —w hen he shall have become as one of these, he may, with some show of decency and propriety, question the patriot ism of others.— Savannah Republican. It is said that the funds to pay the interest on the debt of Michigan, due in January next, are now on hand, and that Michigan will then wheel into the line of interest paying States. The debt on the Ist of January last, including interest, was reduced to $1,987,140 by the sale of the Central and Southern Railroads, costing $3,333,284 for $2,500,000. A tax of SIIO.OOO has been laid for the punctual payment of in terest after January next. The purchasers of the road are to pay a tax of £ per cent, on their capital until 1851, and after that time a tax of | percent, on all their property. It is estimated that in 1852 this tax will be $52,500, leaving but $57,500 to be collected by general tax. about equal to a mill on the dollar of the taxables in the State. T.ie debt will also be decreased by the sale of lands, &c., belonging to the State, valued at over $600,000, for which State indebt edness w ill be received.— N. Y. Tribune. Pennsylvania Finances. —The Harrisburg Union says : “We are highly gratified in being able to state that the temporary loan of hundred thousand dollars, which was made to supply the deficit in the treasury on the first of February last, to pay the interest then due. was promptly repaid out of the Treasury at the time stipulated, and that there will be in the Treasury, on the first of August coming, ample funds to meet the interest which will then be due, and probably a surplus left.” The Empress Josephine. —“We lived to gether (said Napoleon) like honest citizens, in our mutual relations—and always retired to gethertill 1805, a period in which political events obliged me to change my habits, and to add the labors ofthe night to those of the day. This domes ic regularity is the best guaranty for a good esiablishmen . It insures the respectabil ity ofthe wife, the dependence ofthe husband, and maintains the intimacy of feeling and mo als. If this be not the case, the smallest cir cumstances make people forgeteach other.”— * * “ I was the object of her dearest attach ment; and lam so convinced of it, (he added smiling,) that I believe she would have left the rendezvous of love to come and find me. If I went into my carriage at midnight for a long journey, there, to my surprise, I found her seat ed before me, and awaiting my arrival. If I attempted to dissuade her from accompanying me, she had so many good and affectionate reasons wherewith to oppose me, that it was al most always necessary to yield. In a word, she always proved to me a happy and affection ite* wife, and I have heretofore preserved the ieuderest recollections of her.”— Montholon's ! History. From the Savannah Republican. The Democratic Candidate. “ The State of Georgia is very uncertain say many of our opponents. “The Whigs have had a Governor four years, and under the law of change, it is time that w r e should have our Governor at the coming election.” § This is the best reason that we have thus far heard advanced why the Democratic candidate should have any chance of success. It is very true that Georgia has been a most uncertain State. Until within the last four years the most abrupt oscillations, the most marked changes have attended her progress of development, sometimes propelling bar forward, sometimes arresting her march, and too ofien, we are ashamed to say, causing her to retrograde. But is it sure that this calamitious “un certainty" is forever to attach itself to the for tunes of this State. If ever a State had just cause to discard the trammels ofhungry par tisans, that State is Georgia. There is hardly a single citizen within her borders, who has . not, since the year 1835, seen both sides ofthe picture. Say what we may about principles. Democratic or Whig, there is one thing that stamps a State with a good credit, that gives exemption from burdensome taxes at home, and a just title to respect in this great family of States around us, and that is a sound and strictly honest administration of the finances. It is that which, within the few past years, ha: raised the State of Georgia from a condition of absolute degradation, to one inspiring the most unbounded confidence. Never perhaps in the history of any State, was so much good done in so short a time. And who brought this about? Who arrested the infamous career of the Cen tral Bank, compelling her to stop issuing her depreciated notes to a deceived people, who, r unhappily' for them, believed for a time the language of the Federal Union, that it was “ The People's Bank V' It was the Whigs of Georgia, aided by a minority (and what a mi nority) of Democrats. Luckily for the Whigs, these events are so recent, that no words need be wasted to prove that the great mass of the , Democratic party were opposed to this healthy reform. What a spectacle w.as that exhibited a few years past, when Dr. Fort, and Col. Hayne, j the latter a defaulter to the treasury in the sum, j of slßor $20,000, presided over the finances of | the State, underthe name of loans to the Coun i ties. The Central Bank, not content with 1 squandering all the treasure at her disposal, j obtained from the Democracy, an act to bor row-money in New York at 8 per cent., to loan to the people (speculators.) at 6 per cent. Floods of Central Bank Notes were issued from the Treasury, to receive, soon after their emission, the value of but 40 or 50 cents on the dollar, to be returned back again at par , in pay ment of taxes, the people, of course, paying for the transaction. To facilitate this financial operation—to render the corruption more complete, the disgrace more thorough, and the taxes on the people more onerous, another Democratic law was asked for and obtained, that the Central Bank alone of all the Banks in the State, should not be required to redeem its brills in specie. This flagrant system would not have been complete without assurances of belter times, and accordingly there was no want of promises in Executive Messages and elsewhere, of a diminution of taxes ; and to save appearances, an act o I this nature was ac tually passed, which Gov. McDonald found it impossible, with all his good will, to sign.— From such scenes, from such times as these, we have but very recently emerged, and God grant that we may never again witness their recur rence. It was then that bonds of the State of Georgia were hawked about in New York, which could hardly be sold at any price. It was then, under this Democratic financiering that Geor gia 8 percent, bonds were offered in this city for 55 cents ou the dollar, and refused at that. Those bonds are, since the Whig party- has re formed the currency, above par, and the dear people have paid, and will pay the interest on the whole amount for which they were draH-o, and the difference between the par value and the depreciated value when they were first is- \ sued. What a picture to contemplate? The reverse of the medal we need not depict. The people have it before their eyes, Will the people of Georgia consent to ex change a certain advantage for the notorious uncertainty (should we call it uncertainty ?) of Democratic sway ? Will they run the risk of a departure from the sound economy now exist ing—of a repetition of such grossly corrupt le gislation ? Will they gratify the expectants who win them with fair promises of some un defined future benefit, by returning Democrat ic majoril ies to the next Legislature, or willthey seal their approbation of a good policy, (cull it by what name you will,) by not withdrawing their confidence from those who have carried it out.so well and served them so faithfully ? Will they', by placing the affairs of the State again under Democratic control, give another trial to the men who have so wronged, so de ceived them? Above all, will they give their votes to Mr. Towns—one of the very men who has afflicted the Slate with high-sounding speeches about hard money and a Sub-Treasu ry at one time, and voted at another against a bill to compel the chartered banks of the State to redeem their notes in specie ? Is be worthy to receive the suffrages of his fellow-cit izens, who has shown himself in favor of Bank expansion, who voted for the charter of the in surance Bank of Columbus, and particularly of the Commercial Bank of Macon, bv which the people have lostso many thousands ? These are questions which the people have to answer at the ballot box ou the approaching election. We trust they will balance nicely the pretended claims of Mr. Towns and ofthe De mocracy, against the acts of the Whigs, and the sound, and practical, and honest judgment of I Gen. Clinch. From Silliman's Journal for July. Hiekoglyphicai, Mica Plates from the Mounds ; by E. Geo. Sqnier, (in a letter to Prof. Silliman,) —You have probably observed a paragraph, going the rounds of the newspa pers, credited to a, journal published at Lower Sandusky in this State, to the effect that a num ber of inscribed plates of mica were recently discovered on excavating an ancient mound near that place. These plates are represented in the accent as“ oval in shape, measuring se ven by ten i.idiea, and covered with hierogly phics of different and beautifo) co]ors, betoken ing a more advanced and entirely different state ofthe arts than has heretofore been discovered in the remains oflndian tribes.” As this an nouncement has created some degree of inter est, and elicited some inquiries, it will not be out of place to observe that one ofthe plates has been placed in our hands through the kindness of a Friend residing at the point mentioned.— The form of the plates and their size are cor rectly represented, but the hieroglyphics are 4 : nothing more or less than discolorations caused either by the infiltration of mineral solution be tween the laminae, or by its presence at the pe riod of crystallization. The material is very well known as graphic or hieroglyphic mica, a deposite of which occurs upon the Schuylkill, not far above Philadelphia. Although the dis coloration, following the planes of crystalliza tion, falls in places into right lines, it seems utterly unaccountable that they were mistaken for the work of man. This is another illustra tion of the very loose manner in which facts relating to our antiquities have been placed be fore the world :—alooseuess, unfortunately. n ot entirely peculiar to newspaper statements.— The plates are very pretty specimens of the mineral, and each perforated, near one ol the ends, with a small hole. They were undo nbted ly used for purposes of ornament. Mica w common in the mounds, sometimes cut into the form of scrolls and other ornamented plates. I have taken a bushel ofthe sheets from a single mound. Pauperism. —The N. York Journal of Com merce has the following startling statement re specting the extent of pauperism m Aal city - Our citizens ought to know and feel the
