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Important to California Emigrants.
The New York Tribune has prepared an ar
tide in reply to many interrogatians received
from different parts of the country, asking infor
mation as to the best way of getting to Califor
nia, the cost See. We extract the important
parts of it, as follows :
The quickest and best route is via Chagres
and Panama. Between New York and Cha
gres there are now the following steamers run
ning :
Howard $• Co’s Line.
Empire City* Cbesext Ciff.
George Law’s Line.
Ohio. Georgia.
Howards is* AsspintralVs TAne.
Cherokee. Philadelphia.
These are staunch, safe and fast boats, and
well commanded. The price of passage by the
Howard line is SOS in the steerage, and 890 to
$125 in the Cabins. The steerage passage in
cludes matrasses and board. The prices by the
Law line are, State Room berth, SIOO ; standee
berth, SSO; steerage, sso—also including bed
ding and board. By the Asspinwall line, After
Saloon, $125; Forward Saloon, $100; Lower
Cabin, S9O. The prices by the Law line are
lower than by the others, because the steamers
do not go direct.
Cabin passengers are allowed eight and steer
age passengers six cubic feet of baggage, with
out charge. Frcigh *r uken to some extent
at 70 cts per foot, but the difficulty of getting it
across the Isthmus is very great. The cost is
about 25 cents per pound.
The transit of the Isthmus is made in two or
three days without much difficulty, at a cost of
about 825. Passengers go by the steamer Orus
or by canoes to Gorgona or Cruces, and thence
on foot or by mules and horses to Panama. At
Panama living is moderately cheap, and by hir
ing a room, and living at a restaurat one can get
along for'4 or $5 per week.
The boats on the Pacific, or to be there soon,
are as follows:
Howland ts* Asspinwall’s Line.
Oregon, Panama,
California, Tennessee,
Unicorn, Carolina.
Howard 4* Son's Line.
Sarah Sands, New Orleans.
M. O. Roberts’ Line.
Colukbvs, Isthmus.
There are also two other steamers soon to be
sent round the Horn to join Howard & Son’s
line.
The pi ices on the Pacific are the same to all
the above steamers : First Cabin 300 ; Second
Cabinor steerage, $l5O. Passengersare allow
ed ten cubic feet of baggage- Freight in the
Howard line is taken at $2 per foot, and we sup
pose in the others at the same price.
The Aspinwall steamers are full, we under
stand, on the Pacific side, up to May. The How
ard steamers are also full to May, and it is doubt
ful if a steam passage could be obtained from
Panama until after April. We believe that sail
ing vessels are running between Panama and
San Francisco, and passage can be obtained at
from $l5O to S2OO. Between New York and
Chagres there is no difficulty in obtaining the
steam passage.
Those who prefer a voyage round the Horn
can find at any time fast and substantial vessels
at this port about to sail for San Francisco.—
The time of the voyage ranges from five to six
months, and the price is 100 to S3OO, according
to the accommodations. Freight is taken at
65c a 75c per foot. There are some fifty-two
vessels of all sizes, including two steamers, up at
this port for California.
The overland journey from Independence, Mo.
is slow, tedious, and in some measure dangerous,
but cheaper than by the Isthmus or the Horn.
We do not know enough about it to go info any
detail. Persons wauling information should ad
dress someone to St. Louis.
The journey between New York and San
Francisco via the Isthmus of Panama can be
made in 32 to 40 days, and any one wishing to
save time should take this route. The others are
very uncertain.
We believe by all the steamers the passage
money, or security, is required in advance. The
*ule is the >ie. :>* vessels atound the Horn for
*>ns. , i iglu is taken frequently, the
;rr : o . ii. California.
A iittie pampulet, called “The Passage of the
Isthmus,” published lr, Messrs. Jennings &
Harrison, contains much information of value to
the traveller California ward.
Manifesto of the California Represent
atives. —The U. States Senators and Repre
sentatives elect, from California, have addressed
a long document to Congress, communicating
copies of the State Constitution, their credentials,
and a formal request for admission into the Union.
They express the astonishment and regret with
which they have “learned the existence of an
organized, respectable and talented opposition
to the admission of the new State,” and enter at
length into a history of the territory, the organi
zation of a State, the popoulation, and other mat
ters pertaining to the subject. The address is a
clear statement of the grounds upon which Cali
fornia presents her application for admission in
to this Union. According to its statements, Cal
ifornia now contains 107,000 inhabitants, nearly
double the amount necessary to secure her ad
mission into the Union. Os these 76,068 are
American emigrants, the remainder being Cali
fornians and foreigners. The address concludes
as follows:
This people request admission into the Amer
ican Union as a State. They understand and
estimate the advantages which will accrue to
them from such a connection, while they trust
they do not too highly compute those which will
be conferred upon their brethren. They do not
present themselves as suppliants, nor do they bear
themselves with arrogance or presumption.—
They cqmeasfree Americans citizens—citizens
by treaty, by adoption and by birth—and ask that
they may be permitted to reap the common ben
efits, share the common ills, and promote the
common welfare, as one of the United States of
America J
WILLIAM M. GWIN,
JOHN C. FREMONT,
GEORGE W. WRIGHT,
EDWARD GILBERT.
Washington, D. C. March 1, 1850.
The Illinois Fire Eater.
Under this head the Constitutionalist thus con
temptuously notices the bragadocio ot Col. Bis
eell’s late speech in Congress :
If the anti-slavery party of this country expect
that the South can be intimidated trom the main
tenance of her rights by threats ol Northern reg
iments being poured down upon us, they have
mistaken the character of our people. YV hen
men boast of what they will do, or their consti
tuents will do, to force an unpalatable and oppres
sive Union upon the South, a natural spirit of re
sentment prompts the wish that they may have
an early opportunity of displaying their prowess.
This Union is one of consent, and lor mutual
benefits. When those benefits cease, and that
consent is wanting, the sooner it is dissolved the
better. The game of bragadocio, by whomso
ever enacted, will be impotent to save it.
Col. Bissell, of Illinois, however, closes his
invective against the South by a threat of what
the valliant State of Illinois would do in such an
emergency intended, perhaps, to operate on
Southern nerves. It is as follows :
“I know the people of my State. I know the
people of the great West and Northwest; and I
know* their devotion to the American Union.
And 1 feel warranted in saying in my place here,
that when you talk to them of destroying this
Union, there is not a man throughout the vast
region who will not raise his hand and swear
by the Eternal God, as I now do, it shall nev.
er he done, it our arms can save it. Illinois
proffered to the country nine regiments to aid in
the vindication of her rights in the war with
Mexico. And shojld danger threaten the Union
from any source, or in any quarter, in the North
or in the South, she will he ready to furnish
twice, thrice, yes, four times that number, to
march where that danger may he, to return when
it passed, or return no more.”
Now, Col. Bissell may be a very redoubtable
individual, and when facing Mexican soldiery,
might have performed deeds of high emprise
that would have done honor to Harry Hotspur
himself. Hut if he were to come South with
his Illinois troops, to force Southern men into
subjection to a Government that had become
odious, he might find himself employed in a task
England, with all her power, could not accorn
plish in the days of’76.
Y\ hen tho neigh of Col. Bissell’s war steed
is heard South of the Potomac, he will find rath
er more troublesome antagonists than he has ev
er yet had occasion to couch his lance against.
He will find very soon that he has got into a lat
itude rather too warm for his comfort. Hut we
venture tho prediction, that were the citizens of
the South disinclined to the labor, they can mus
ter enough of faithful slaves to drive out of our
country with cowhides, all the regiments that the
Illinois fire-eater can induce to follow him on
any such Quixotic errand.
THE SOUTHERN SENTINEL.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, MARCH 38, JBSO.
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of our readers, this week. We have just receiv
ed our new materials, and to those who acquaint
ed with the operations of a printing office, we
need not explain why it was necessary for us to
appear this week on a half sheet. We shall
make amends, next week, however, by present,
ing our readers with anew and enlarged sheet .
Pun. Doc.—The Hons. Howell Cobb, M. J.
Wellbourn, and Robt. A. Tot mbs, will please
accept our thanks for favors received during the
past week.
Mr. Toombs’ Letter.
Below wo publish the letter of Hon. R, A.
Toombs in reply to one from Gov. Towns com
municating the action of our state Legislature
making provisions for a State Convention. That
letter places him where he stood before the com
mencement of the present session of Congress;
it wrests him from the lofty position in defence
of the South, to which he had been elevated by
his recent eloquent speech. If we had the time
and space, it would he an easy matter to point
out the many glaiing inconsistencies both in let
ter and spirit, between his speech and his letter.
We must however content ourselves with one or
two extracts from the former, and leave our read,
era to compare them with the letter below. He
.ays in one place : “Though the union may perish,
(hough slavery may perish, I warn my country
men never to surrender their right to an equal
participation in the common property of the Re
public, nor their right to full and ample protection
of their property from their own government.” In
another place, he says : “My objections to the
California Hill of last session were numerous an 11
grave, but it had the advantage of settling the
whole question without any violation of sound
principles. I therefore overcome my objections,
and gave it my cordial support. The Bill now
before us for the admission of California has not
that merit. It has all the objections that existed
against the former bill, with still graver one 3
superadded, and is without the merit of closing
the question. It settles nothing but the addition
of another non-slaveholding state to the union*
thus giving the preponderating internst additional
power to settle more fully the territarial questions
which it leaves unadjusted. In this state of the
question it can not receive my support.” Again
he most significantly says : “the sword is the title
by which the nation acquired the country. The
thought is suggestive ; wise men will ponder upon
it—brave men will act upon it.” But it is need,
less to multiply extracts—read the entire speech
and then read the letter. Leaving the inconsist,
encies between the two, entirely out of question,
the letter itself is full of hereseis and strange
doctrines. These wo shall examine hereafter.
Washington, D. C., March 11, 1859.
Sir: I have received, under cover of your
favor of the 25th ult. the resolutions passed by
the late General Assembly of the State of
Georgia.
The Bth resolution of the series declares that
“it “will become the immediate and imperative
duty of “the people of this State (Georgia) to meet
in convention to take into consideration the mode
and “measure of redress, upon the happening of
either of “four contingencies :
Ist. The passage of the Wilmot Proviso by
Congress.
2d. The abolition of slavery in the District of
Columbia.
3d. The admission of California as a State in
its present pretended organization.
4tii. The continued refusal ot the non-slave
holding States to deliver up fugitive slaves as
provided by the Constitution.
The happening of either the first, second or
fourth of these contingencies would justify the
proposed measure, but, in my opinion, the hap
pening of the third contingency would not war
rant it. And I deeply regret that a just cause
should be endangered by the assumption of such
an unwise and untenable position. Congress
has the express power to admit new T states. Ihe
admission of California under that power is purely
and solely a question of Cogressional discretion,
and would present neither a just nor sufficient
cause for State interposition, or revolutionary
resistance. It would neither present a case ot
the usurpation of power not granted, nor t e
abuse of a granted power, I cannot but behave
that its insertion was not based upon a just regard
for the public welfare, but that it was prompted
mainly by that disposition to promote local party
schemes and objects which so eminently marked
and disgraced the action of the majority of the
General Assembly.
Asa representative of the people of Georgia,
I shall exercise this constitutional discretion with
out reference to the opinions of the General As
sembly. and shall vote for, or against the admis
sion of California, as in my judgment, will best
pfomote the public interest.
Asa citizen of the State, I shall oppose the
action proposed by the Legislature, even if Cal
ifornia shall be admitted against my vote.
I am very respectfully, your obedient servant,
R. Toomm.
To His Excellency Geo. W. Towns, Gover
nor of Georgia
Col. Henry L. Benninc. —We published
last week, the letter of this gentleman, in reply
to a communication which had previously ap
peared in this paper, over the signature of “Mus
cogee.” Our absence at the time of our last
publication prevented an editorial notice of Col.
Benning’s communication, and we now desire
more particularly to direct the attention of our
readers, to his position as set forth in that arti
cle* He sets out with the enunciation of three
propositions, the truth of which, it seems to us,
no mail iu his senses can doubt. They are as
follows:
1 That the North has already the will to
abolish slavery everywhere iu the United States
as soon as she can do it safely toherself.
2. That she is rapidly acquiring the power to
carry out this will,
3. That of all the calamities which ever af.
flictcd a nation, there have been nono which
would equal those which abolition would visit
upon the Southern States,
Each of these propositions is accompanied
with a few explanatory observations, not so much
for the purpose of enforcing them, hut merely to
call public attention more particularly to their
fearful import. The conclusion irresistibly de
duced from these premises, is of incalculable
magnitude to the South, and the inquiry, aroused
in every breast not already dead to the honor
and interests of this section of the Union, is,
how can the evil so portentously threatened, he
averted? This question, it would seem, would
earnestly address itself to the hearts of all South
ern men, and the reality and immensity of the
issue should call into active exertion every in
strumentality at their command for its aversion.
The expedient which has been recommended by
the State of Mississippi and seconded by Geor.
gia, presents to our minds, the most reliable
promise of relief. On this point, however, the
South is unfortunately divided, and thus we nre
likely to lose by our own dissensions, all the
moral power which the friends of this measure
had hoped for it. Col. B. has been nominated
as one of the Delegates to this convention, and
in the article referred to, he has favored us with
a statement of what he understands to he its de
sign. He says:
“It should he to provide a remedy for the
! coming evil, that is to say, to devise some means
; by which the fixed determination of the North
I to abolish slavery shall he abandoned, or if that
j is impossible, by which her acquisition of the
! power to abolish it may be arrested. The rern
\ edy must he adequate to the accomplishment of
! one of these two thing*, or manifestly it will
j prove a mere delusion and a snare,
i “1 have no doubt the Convention will have in
it wisdom enough and potriotLm enough to hit
upon and to recommend for adoption such a rem
edy. Should the one selected ho found within
the Union, it will afl’ud me so far as I ant indi
vidually concerned, high gratification—sliouid it
not, still I will accept it, even at the expense of
the Union.”
Now, if Col. B. is correct in the propositions
indicating the necessity for such a convention,
he is undeniably right in his estimate of the rem
edy which it must provide. If we are serious
in our remonstrances against the North, and are
determined upon a vindication of our rights, then
nothing can be a sufficient reason for hesitating
in the demand which we make. We repeat it,
if the South is determined to protect herself,
then the only question in adopting a remedy is
a6 to its sufficiency, not as to the consequences
which it may entail. Os what avail will be our
loudest complaints, if they are to be accompani
ed with the declaration that we consider the pre
servation of the Union of paramount importance ?
Our position should he, the South must be se
cured, not the Union must be preserved. Both
are objects of immense interest to us all, but of
the two, we ought not to hesitate in our choice
of the former. We have been told by Southern
men that they will vote for no delegate to the
Nashville Convention who will go there to dis
solve the Union. Neither will we rote for any
man who goes there for that purpose, but at the
same time \vc would scorn to vote for any man
who would falter in his choice between the Un
ion and the South. We can not be represented
by any man who wishes to sever the political
bonds of this Union, but such a man would far
belter represent us, than the craven, who, for
the sake of the Union, would sacrifice the South.
With Col. B. we hope that the remedy for our
wrongs may be found witnin the Union, but with
him we would not hesitate in looking beyond
the Union when it became necessary.
The Girard and Mobile Railroad —The
last number of the South Alabamian contains a
long and interesting article from the pen of Jos.
S. Winter, Esq., of Montgomery, on the subject
of the “South Plank Road,” the object of which,
however, seems rather to disparage the Mobile
and Girard Railroad, than to array the advanta
ges of the enterprise in which the writer is more
immediately interested. W e have no sort of
objection to the construction of the Plank Road
from Montgomery to Mobile Bay, and indeed we
shall hail its completion with delight, but at the
same time, if the people of East and South Ala
bama prefer a connection with the markets of
the country by means of a railroad, they should
at least be allowed to determine the question for
ihemselyes. We have no idea that the writer
of the article in question intended to misrepre
sent the facts in the case, but we are very cer
tain that he is incorrect as well in his premises,
a a in the conclusions which he deduces from
them, in .peaking of this enterprise. We shall |
next week review length, the communication
in the Alabamian, and tor want of time must con
tent ourselves this week, with bui 2 brief notice
of a few of its positions. In the first plac\ *l je
cost of the Girard and Mobile Railroad is esti
mated at four millions of dollars at least! In
this, Mr. Winter is certainly in error. Every
gentleman at all acquainted with the cest of such
enterprises, who knows any thing of the two
routes, agrees that the Girard Road can be
built at a much smaller cost per mile, than the
Muscogee Road. From a letter now before us,
from Mr. Jones, the Engineer of the Muscogee
Road, we gather the following facts. The first
estimate made for this road was $9,105 per
mile. Since then, more accurate estimates
have been made, and Mr. Jones says, that “the
cost will be less by SIOOO,I think slsoo’ ’ per
mile than the amount ofthe former estimate. Al
lowing that the Girard Railroad will require the
same expenditure, and that the distance is 210
miles, we have the aggregate cost of whole at
SBOOO per mile, $1,680,000 ; considerably less
than one half of Mr. Winter’s estimate. This
estimate includes graduation, masonry, bridging,
superstructure, and iron.
•The second mistake made by Mr. Winter, is,
as to the time required in the construction of
this road. “Our children’s children may live to
see it consummated-” In our opinion, the road
will be in operation from one to the other in less
than five years. As before remarked we have
not now the time logo extensively into this mat
ter, and must therefore defer the further consid
eration of the subject to next week, at which
time we hope to be able to present our Ala
bama readers with a clear and satisfactory an
swer to all the positions of the article before us.
We publish below a synopsis of the speech
recently delivered in the U. S. Senate, by that
arch-fiend and enemy to the South, Wm. H.
Seward. Mr Seward, after dwelling briefly
on the rapid growth of California within the
last four years, considered the question of boun
dary, which, in his opinion, was no obstacle to
her admission into the Union. Executive in
terferenee was sternly denied by the Senator,
as no evidence had transpired which could es
tablish the charge. He next proceeds to no
tine the resolutions of Mr., Clay, to which he
w'as opposed :
He was opposed to all the compromises
which had been submitted. All legislative
compromises were necessarily vicious and dan
gerous. They always take away the right to
reconsider the subject, and are an usurpation
of the powers of future Legislatures.
What did this compromise offer to him ? For
forbearance as to slavery in the District of Co
lumbia—for forbearance as to the fugitive
slaves—for forbearance as to slavery in the
Territories—for forbearance as to slavery ev
ery where, he was offered freedom in California,
where freedom was already established. For
a small portion of human rights this compro
mi*e required him to use forbearance towards
slavery everywhere.
i/e considered that California should be ad
milted independent of the subject of slavery ;
ho would have voted for her admission as a
slave or as a free State, i/er admission would
take place in either case, and therefore herad
"'.lliion should form no p".:t if a compromise.
i/e gave the history of the legislation on the
subject of fugitive slaves, and declared that ii
the laws now in force were inoperative and in.
efficient, no more stringent laws would avail
the slaveholder i/e considered the compact
in the Constitution and law of 1793, as to the
rendering up of fugitive slaves, as against the
laws of nature. There was but one precedent,
which was in a treaty between Russia and
Constantine, in the year nine hundred and two.
He pronounced it inhuman, but it was law,
and il slaveholders desired to carry out the
law, they should make the law less stringent
and secure to the alledged fugitive the common
privileges of men—the right of trial by jury,
and the presumption of freedom
He would vote for the emancipation of the
slaves in this District. No compromise could
purchase his forbearance on this point, i/e
would vote any sum of money to purchase the
freedom of slaves. He could never consent
that a law to abolish slavery in this District
should be defeated by an implied agreement
that such a law should not be passed at the
proper time.
Another feature in this compromise was the
omission of the YVilmot Proviso in the Territo
rial governments. Such an omission could not
be satisfactory to the people of the North, and
if a bill should be passed without the Wilmot
Proviso, the spirit of the people would rise, and
they would not leave in the Capitol one ser.
vant who knew his master’s duty and did it
not.
He did not agree with the Senator from Mas
sachusetts (Mr. YVehster) that, by the resolu
tions of annexation, Congress was bound to ad
mit new States formed out of Texas, even if
they were slave States. He thought that the
power was in Congress to give its consent to
the formation of those new States. He would
never give his consent to the admission of a
slave State.
He contended that, in the Convention which
formed the Constitution, it was strenuously kept
in view that no provision should be allowed
in that Constitution which recognized slavery
as property; and hence he argued that the as
similtaion of the purposes of the union of the
States with the nature of a joint stock associa
tion was unfounded in law and fact.
He examined the nature and character of
slavery as an institution, holding it to b*e wrong
and unjust, and that it was the duty, and with
in the power of Congress to resist it now ; and
that, hereafter, Congress, in all cases, upon the
admission of new States, should require, as an
absolute prerequisite, that the new State should
be a free one. In regard to the Territories,
he considered the power to exclude slavery
was vested in Congress, not only by the Con
stitution, but by the treaty-inaking power.
The question was : Should that power be ex
ercised ?
He was told that nature forbade slavery in
the new Territories, and that the Mexican
laws prohibiting slavery were in force there.
Admitting both propositions, he still thought it
wise and proper to carry the laws of the Amer
ican Union into force there, even if it was to
re-enact the law of God.
I “I ask, sir, when did the North seek to injure
the South in the mere wantonness of oppression?”
This enquiry was propounded, no doubt in
great sincerity, by Gen. Cass in a late speech in
the Senate. That there has been an effort on
tiitj part of the North, to legislate in a way that
would be elJremely injurious to the South, Gen.
Cass will not deny ; he only questions the wan.
toness of the motive which prompted that effort.
Well, suppose it is conceded that the was
perfectly honest and sincere in endeavoring 10
effect this injurious legislation, what difference
does it make so far as the effects upon us are
concerned. Indeed if these encroachments are
the result of a deliberate determination to debase
the South, in the discharge of an honest concep
tion of right and justice, it only makes the neces
sity for resistance, more imperious on our part.
The South can never consent to a sacrifice of all
she holds dear, merely because the North is
honest in demanding it.
Delegates to tjik Nashville Conven
tion. —The following are the candidates already
nominated by the respective parties for election
as Delegates :
For the State— C. J. McDonald and YV. T.
Colquitt, (D.) YV. Law and C. Dougherty (YV.)
Second District —H. L. Banning, (D.j M. J.
Crawford, (YV.)
Fourth District —E. Y. Hill, (YY r .) O. YY’ar
ner, (D.)
Fifth District- J. A. Wingfield. (D.)
Eighth District —YVm. Terrell, (YV.)
The First, Third, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth
Districts have not yet held or completed theii
nominations.
Election on Tuesday, 2J day of April next.
YY r e cordially adopt the following, from the
editorial of the Augusta Chronicle and Senti
nel, a paper, which, however it may swerve
from the interests ofthe South in other partic.
ulars, has never been behind in the advocacy
of this most essential element of national pros
perity.
“The old ‘Bay State,’ with all her faults and
fanaticism, has many redeeming traits in her
character, which every American must contem
plate with pride and pleasure ; among the
most prominent of which is her earnest and
constant effort to educate her people. She
properly estimates the value of mental culture
upon the morals and progress of her citizens,
and therefore deems it far better that they be
taxed to educate her children, than to support
the idle and dissolute in alms-houses and pris.
ons ; which her wisest statesmen deem a ne
cessary sequence, in many instances, of the
absence of education.
It has for years been her boast, that no na
tire child of hers who had attained the ngo of
twenty.one years within her borders, could not
read and write. Nor is this surprising when
the reader reflects, that within an area of 7,50
square miles of territory, over three millions of
dollar* have been expended in the erection of
Schoolhouses, to say nothing of the sum annu
ally expended by the State in the procurement
of teachers. These facts speak volumes for
the State, and illustrate in most forcible terms,
the value which she so justly and wisely places
on the education of her sons and daughters.
May we not hope that Georgia, and indeed
every State in the Union, will ere long follow
in the footsteps of Massachusetts ? It is a
burning shame and a disgrace to the legisla
lion of many of the States that so little atten
tion is and has been bestowed upon the educa
tion of the masses ofthe people. It is truly a
reproach, and one which should not exist
against any State of this Union, that too little
attention is bestowed on education. YVhat
signifies the erection of Colleges and the high
er order of Schools to the great mass of the
people who are not able to incur the expenses
necessary to educate their children ? Such in
stitutions are of no use to them and consequent
ly confer no practical good on that class of so
ciety in the attainment of an education.
YY'hat we want is a system of Free Scheols,
sustained and supported by the State, in which
the rudiments of an education are thoroughly
taught, and the youth of the country fitted for
tho practical dutiex of life. There, if any dis
cover, high intellectual capacity, however
humble his or her sphere in society, or howev
er humble their names, facilities would be easi
ly procured for the obtainment of finished edu
cations.
Then there would be frequent instances,
where now only a solitary one cheers the heart,
in which the sons of the poor and destitute
would be seen rising to the first stations in the
Republic, and in time contributing their aid.
their energies and their cultivated intellect?
to elevate and meliorate the condition of the
masses of the people, by the developoment ol
their mental faculties.”
Burniicg of the Steam Boat H. S. Smith. —The
Steamer H. S. Smith, which left our Wharf for Ap
alachilcola on Sunday last, caught on fire about fifty
miles below this place, about 9 o’clock of the same
evening, and was entirely consumed. So far as
heard from there were three lives lost, and among
those who are known to have been drowned, we re
gret to mention Gen. Irwin of Henry county, Ala.,
whose age and infirmities disabled him to make his
escape. The other two were negroes, hands on the
boat. The Smith had on board about one thousand
bales of Cotton, and some six or seven thousand dol
lars’ worth of other goods. The Cotton and part of
the goods were insured. The boat, valued at §BOOO,
is a total loss. Besides the goods, there was a loss
of between six and eight thousand dollars in cash.
The total loss may be estimated at $75,000.
The magnanimous conduct of the Pilot, Peter, a
negro man, deserves to be mentioned in connection
with the disaster. By his coolness and presence of
mind, he saved the lives of a lady and young gentle
man, who without his timely assistance would inev
itably have been lost.
Several articles intended for this week’s
paper have been unavoidably crowded out.
Rossitek’s Scriptural Paintings. —Such
splendid exhibitions of art are rarelj seen in our
city. The painting of the Return of the Dove,
is indeed magnificent. The grandeur of the
conception, and the accuracy of its delineation
are alike truly wonderful, but it strikes us that it
is in the richness of the coloring, and the beau*
ty of the drapery that the great excellence of
the painting consists. In these it is unsurpass
ed by any work we have ever seen. Miriam is
also a beautiful painting, and apart from the
othci’ would be regarded truly a triumph of art.
Mr. Rossiter, (he artist, is a native of New Eng
land, and is yet but thirty years old.
“Thu Georgia Citizen.” —We have re
ceived the first number of a paper bearing the
ibove title, published in Macon, Ga., by Dr. L,
F. W. Andrews, formerly the Editor of the
‘Muscogee Democrat.” It is a large sheet and
well filled with an unusual amount of original
•natter. The Dr’s, well known capacity in this
ine gives promise of a popular and readable
sheet.
From the Georgian Extra.
Savannah, March 23, 10, P. M.
Telegraphed for the Saumaah Georgian.
FOURTEEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA, AT HALIFAX.
Cotton. —During the fortnight, ending March the
3th, the market was dull, and to effect sales holder*
were obliged to submit to a decline of l-8d on all
descriptions below fair Uplands. There has been
no change in Mobiles or Orleans. The Committee’s
quotations are for Fair Orleans, 6 7-8 ; Mobiles,
6 3-4 ; Uplands, 6 5-8. Sales of the fortnight, 63,-
350 bales, of which speculators took 12,000. Th®
irade still purchases very sparingly. Sales of th®
last week, 25.600 bales, of which speculators took
3,000, exclusively American.
A Hurricane.
On Friday last, about 12 o’clock, M. this city
was visited with a gust of wind, accompanied
with rain, and near its close with hail, that in
severity, exceeded any thing within the memory
of “the oldest inhabitant.” A singulaily heat,
cloud had gathered in the North-west, which ia
its lower extremity was ofa deep sea green color.
A short time before it began to discharge its cot
tents, the loud roar of the wind was heard ; as
approached, fences and trees were prostrated b®
fore it. It continued but a few minutes, but in
its progress over the city, a number of chimnies
were blown down, many trees uprooted and eev.
eral buildings more or less injured. The cop.
per sheeting on the roof of the Exective Mansion,
in several places was torn off and rolled into 9
scroll; the tin covering of the new cell building
in the Penitentiary square was thrown off; th®
roof, rafiers and sheting of the Steam Factory,
found a resting place in the adjoining lot; a
chimney of the Arsenal, was demolished and a
iarge amount of glass in the Slate House destroy
ed. Several chimnies of private houses, in difi
ferent parts of the city were also blown down,
and other damages occasioned. Fortunately, nt
personal injury was sustained.
We have not heard of any damage from th®
storm out of the city, except the prostration *f
fences and the uprooting of Ircet.—MilledgevilU
Union.
Great Fall of Flesh and Blood.
Extraordinay Phenomenon in Sampson
Cos., N. C.—We received, on Wednesday last,
the following communication from Clarkson,
through Mr. Holland, of Clinton, and take greaA
pleasure in laying the astonishing particulars be
fore our readers:
“011 the )sth February, 1850, there fell with
in 100 yards of the residence of Thomas Jft-
Clarkson, in Sampson county, a shower of flesh
and blood, about 30 feet wide, and as far as it
was traced, about 250 or 300 yards in length.
The pieces appeared to be flesh, liver, lights,
brains and blood. Some of the blood ran on th
leaves, apparently very fresh. Three of his (1
M. C.’s) children were in it, and ran to theii
mother, exclaiming, “Mother, there is meat sass
mg!” Their mother went immediately to se®,
but the shower was over ; but their lay the flesh,
&c. Neill Camybell, Esq., living close by, wu
on the spot, shortly after it fell, jand pronounced
it as above. One of his children was about 160
yards from the shower, and came running to th®
rest, saying he smelt something like blood. Du
ring the time it was falling there was a cloud over
head, having a red appearance like a wind cloud.
There was no rain
The above you may rely on, and by Mr. Hoi
land you have pieces of the flesh, which are re
duced by being kept so long.
Yours, &c., T. M. C.”
The piece, which was left with us, has been
examined with two of the best microscopes in th®
the place, and the exisience of blood well estab
lished ; bnt nothing was showh giving any indi
cation of the character of the matter.
It has the smell, both in its dry state and when
macerated in water, of putrid flesh; and ther®
can scarcely be a doubt that it is such.
It is astonishing, and we may say provoking
aleo, that an occurrence of the kind should hap
pen within thirteen miles ofa village (thirteen
miles south-west of Clinton) of in intelligent per
sons, and no one felt interest enough in it to go
and get information about it. It is three weeks
after it occurred before any account of it is sent
to the press. An occurrence that is calculated
0 strike some men with awe; and we are told
that some persons listened to the relation of it, and
iooked upon it as an idle tale, deeming it impos
sible that such a thing could have occurred !
The cloud from which it fell is said to hav®
•teen of a red appearaace, which is ascribed to
the clouds in former cases of this kind.
Although by no means frevuent, this is not th®
first time (hat such anoccurrence has taked place,
even in this county. But as yet, the most learned
are unable to give any rational conjecture as to
the cause of such a singular phenomenon.
Fayetteville (N. C.) Carolinian, March 9.
CONCERT POSTPONED!
mj-R. TRUAX has concluded to delay giving hi®
iTM proposed Concert fora few weeks, on accoant
of conflicting entertainments, &c.
Due notice will be given of its fture fulfilment
Thursday, March 28, 1850. It
SELLING OFF AT NEW YORK COST.
THE subscriber quitting business, offers his stock
of French Broad Cloths and Casimeres at
New York Cost, until the 25th of April; at which
time they must be closed out. Those in want of
any of the above goods will do well to give me a sass
a? the most of the goods have been laid in within
the last month. THOS. KNOX.
(Over the Store of J. P. Illges.)
Columbus, March 28,1850. Ik 2t