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EDITED ASD PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
HARRISON A MfERM,
CITY PR l JYT ER S .
From the Yankee Blade.
LAMENTING.
BY PARK BEKJAMIX.
They're gone—all gonfi ! tlic early friends,
With whom I used to be
Sailing and sporting on the waves
Ofyouth's unruffled sea ;
The winds-of Time and Chance have driven
Our little fleet apart,
And nearer comes the final storm,
And farther we depart.
And over some the waters rolf—
Alas the angry gale
Has torn the loftiest pennant down.
And rent the strongest sail;
And not a wreck remains to tell
The billow where we flew,
When every breeze was fresh and fair
And every sky was blue.
It is the error of the young
To think the world in bloom,
When clouds are floating on to wrap
The sun itself with gloom ;
To dream of safety, peace and joy
When ruin hovers near,
And the star of love is sinking down
In the gloomy wave of fear.
Not now, as in those happy days,
Wh en friends were all around,
And every spot Affection knew,
Was consecrated ground.
Does my heart leap up to hear the voice
That fondly speaks and sings,
Or thrill at footstops that are soft
As the flight of airy wings.
For the grave has cast its shadow
O’er the beautiful and bright,
And the music of Life's dewy morn
Is silent in the night—
In the night of care nnd sorrow,
Where Memory finds no ray
From thosunny fount, that gushed and gleamed
In Youth’s rejoicing day.
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From tlic New York Sp 'n it of the Times.
A HO T DOSE.
Dcor Spirit —You remember Jack O’-
Flaherty, the man who said “you wouldn’t
take hitn for an Irishman to hear him
spa/ce.”
Well, this same Jack has afforded us
such a fund of amusement to several choice
spirits on L wharf', in this goodly em
porium (Boston) that your humble servin’
Bob, deems it expedient to chronicle a
few of the richest jokes wherein Jack has
been the sufferer.
Jack was passionately fond of smoking,
and was always in the habit of asking an
individual whom he saw enjoying the
weed, “ifhe had any more of the same
sort left?” On one occasion in answer to
this question he received a reply of “cer
tainly, Jack, there’s one on the desk that
you're welcome to.” Jack seized the de
licious twist, (a huge regalia, which had
been heavily charged with powder, for
his special benefit) “A light, if you
please,” said he to the donor; “don’t
bother me,” was the reply, “there’s a man
who will accommodate you,” pointing to
a full blown Emeralder, who stood on the
pier with both arms leaning comfortably
over a huge post, and enjoying the rays of
the sun and a short black pipe at the same
time. Jaok s epped briskly over, and the
Emeralder acceded to his request with a
nod, and without removing the pipe from
his mouth, Jack inserted the end of his se
gar into the bowl of the pipe, (bringing the
noses of the two smokers in contact) and
began to draw vigorously to ensure the
desired result; scarce had he commenced,
ere an explosion took place, which sent
the pipe in one direction andthesegar in
another, filling the olfactory organs and
eyes of the two worthies with any quanti
ty of gunpowder, smoke and fragments of
tobacco. When the smoke blew aside,
we beheld Jack and the accommodating
Hibernian engaged in a regular set-too,
each thinking the other the aggressor.
The roars of laughter, however, uudeceiv
ed Jack, who stepped over with a bloody
nose and savage demeanor to where we
were standing ; his eloquence was soon
hushed however, by an individual known
as “the Doctor,” from the fact of his keep
ing some “stuff” in the back part of his
store, which he sometimes served out on
“particu'ar occasions,” to his “particular
friends,” in “small doses.”
“Step in here with me, Jack,” said the
Doctor with a mysterious wink, “step in
hero and make it up with a glass of bran
dy.” Jack nothing loth accep’ed the in
vitation and followed the doctor ; arrived
at the p'ace of deposit, the doctor poured
out a half tumbler full of the ruby liquid,
and under pretence of adding a “little su
gar” he silly slipped nearly half a hams ul
of cayenne pepper f. om a box near by
in the tumbler. “Drink quick, Jack, be
fore the others come back here,” said the
Doctor,stirring the fiery mixture and hand
ing to Jack, who quaffed it off without ta
king breath ; scarce had he taken his lips
from the tumbler, ere his countenance be
gan to undergo the most ludicrous contor
tions. “ Wather, for the sake o’ mercy,
wather !” gasped he, his mouth raw, with
the burning draught. Just at this mo
ment one of the Doctor’s friends happen
ing accidentally to walk near the two, and
seeing the bottle from which the liquid had
been poured standing on a barrel in front
of Jack, he exclaimed with an anxious
look, “Why Doctor, you didn’t let the
man drink from that bottle !”
“Yes I did,” was the reply. “Then you
are a dead man !” said the other turning
to Jack, “for I prepared that bottle of
poison to kill bed bugs with.”
Jack turned ghastly pale, be gasped for j
breath, “Oh rourther ! I'm dead T run for
a doctor ! O, I’ll be dead afote you come
back ! Holy mother of Moses, why did
I taste the dirty brandy ! O, the pison
bums the inside of me ! For the love of
heaven, fetch a doctor ! I’m dyin*. Lord
have mercy on my soul!” and like exclam
ations did Jack pour forth with astonishing
rapidity.
“What’s to be done for the poor man!”
said the Doctor, “I’ll run and get him a
dose of Tincture Hokeepokee,” "'said his
friend; “it is the only thing that will save
his life and away he went and shortly
returned with the Tincture Hokeepokee,
as he called it, which was nothing more
than a rochelle powder. Almost every
one knows, or ought to know, that a ro
chelle powder is put up in two papers, one
blue and one white, and in taking it, the
contents of the blue paper are dissolved
in about a gill of pure water in one tum
bler, and that of the white paper in ano
ther ; the two are then poured together
when a lively effervescence takes place
making a foaming and sparkling drink.
Well, the two tumblers were arranged,
the rochelle powder dissolved in them,and
Jack was told to drink the first one, and
then the other immediately after it; he
followed these directions implicitly, and
the result was that thetwodoses met mid
way in his throat; the effervescence took
place and for a moment-or two he was a
perfect living fountain ; he literally foam
ed at the month.
The bystanders could keep silent no
longer, but gave vent to their feelings in a
laugh, long, loud and hearty. Jack start
ed off from his persecutors without his hat,
his iiands clasped over his abdominal re
gions and his hair streaming in the wind.
The next day, one of Jack’s friends see
ing him, inquired respecting the occur
rence. “O, bad luck to the scamp, the
Doctor,” said Jack, “he gave me such red
hot brandy it set my insides afire, and when
I drank the cowld wather it boiled over!”
Begin Right. —Arc you just stepping
on the threshold of life l Secure a good
mo:al character. This is the basis of suc
cess and true greatness. Without vittue
you cannot be respected ; without integ
rity you can never rise to distinction and
honor. You are poor, perhaps. No mat
ter ; poverty is oftener a blessing than a
curse. Look at the young man who is
heir to half a million. What is his stand
ing ? Os what use is lie to the world ?
You must make yourself. The richest
man in Maine was born of poor parents,
and earned by hard work the first dollar
he ever earned. The wealthiest man in
Massachusetts was born in North Yar
mouth, a small town in Maine, of parents
who were in humble circumstances. By
indu.-try and economy he has become im
mensely rich. The wealthiest man in N.
Y r ork, and the richest man in America,
was also a poor boy. The road to wealth
is open before you young man. Start
right and you will succeed. But remem
ber wealth is not everything* in life—it is
not man’s chief good. A virtuous charac
ter is better than riches. Expect not suc
cess where firm integrity is wanted Shape
your course by true wisdom, and let c >r
rect principle govern your action. In this
way only, you will gain the confidence
and respect of mankind. Y’ou know many
a wealthy man perhaps, who is despised
by his fellow citizens. Why is it so ! On
account of his niggardly disposition—his
lack of upright dea ings and right princi
ple. He makes himself obnoxious to his
neighbors, by his mean behaviour and gro
velling character. You had better live in
povcity than imitate such a person. Rich
es, with a destitution of moral principle,
would be only a curse to you.
There is nothing like making a good
beginning as you start in life. The foun
dation must be firm, then all will be safe.
Have an eye about you that nothing shall
seduce your virtue, no matter how strong
the inducements held out for your coun
tenance. If you see that principle is in
volved, do not for a right hand persist in
wrong doing. Present gain, at the sacri
fice of virtue, will be future loss and mise
ry. Tens of thousands have ruined them
selves by such a course. Be extremely
careful to begin right and do your fluty
carefully, and you will most assuredly suc
ceed.—John Neal.
Dr. Franklin’s Toast. —Long after
Washington’s victories over the French
and English, had made his name familiar
to all Europe, Dr. Franklin had chanced
to dine with the English and French Am
bassadors, when as nearly as we can re
collect the words, the following toasts were
drunk :
By the English Ambassador :
“Ln gland —The Sun whose bright
beams enlighten and fructify the remotest
corners of the Earth.”
The French Ambassador, glowing with
national pride, but too polite to dispute the
previous toast, drank :
‘ France —The Moon, whose mild, stea
dy and cheering rays are the delight of all
Nations; consoling them in darkness and
making their dreariness beautiful.”
Dr. Franklin then aroso and with his
usual dignified simplicity, said :
“ George Washington—The Joshua,
who commanded the Sun and Noon to stand
still, and they obeyed him.”
Industry. — If industry is no more than
habit, it is at least an exellent one. If you
ask me which is the real hereditary sin of
human nature, do you imagine I shall ans
wer pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egot
ism? No; I shall say indolence. Who con
quers indolence, will conquer all the rest - ’
Indeed all good principles must stagnate
without mental activity.
Y’ankef. Boaiuu.no. —What do you
charge for board ? asked a tall Green
Mountain boy as be walked up to the bar
of a #econd rate hotel in New York.—
‘What do you ask a week for boaiding and
lodging?’ ‘ Five dollars.’ ‘Five dollars! that’s
too much; hut 1 spose you allow for the
times I’m absent from dinner and supper/
Certainly—thirty seven and a half cents
each.’ Here the conversation ended, and
the Yankee took up his quarters for two
weeks. During this time, he lodged and
breakfasted at the hotel, but did not take
either dinner or supper, saying his busi
ness detained him in another portion of
the town. At the expiration of the two
weeks, be again walked up to the bar and
said : “Spose we settle that account —I
am going in a few minutes.” The landlord
handed him his hill—“ Two week’s board
at $5-slo.”—“Here stranger,” said the
Y’ankee, “this bill is wrong you’ve made a
mistake ; you’ve not deducted the times I
was absent from dinner and supper—l 4
days, 2 meals per day—2B meals at 37j
cents each—slo,so. If you’ve not got the
50 cents change that’s due me. Til take a
drink and the balance in segars.”
A Gem. —The sunlight that follows a
shipwreck is not less beautiful, though it
shines upon the remains of a broken bark ;
what is saved is so much more precious
than that which has been lost. The do
mestic circle is always too small to allow
of rupture ; it is always too precious to
make excusable any neglect to prevent or
heal disturbance. There are enough to
minister by hints and reports to domestic
unkindness ; and unfortunately the best,
under such circumstances, are much prone
to mistake, and thus misrepresent motives;
and trifles, which with no direct object,
are magnified into mountains of uninten
tional oflence. It is the samein social life.
Let us guard against it. Delicate regula
tions are like costly cutlery—dampness
corrodes, and rust, though removed, leaves
a spob
Stoop a Little. —The following story,
related by Dr. Franklin, in a letter to Dr.
Mather, has been often told, and is well
worth telling again :
“The last time I saw your father,” says
Dr. F., “was in 1724. In taking my leave
he showed me a short way out of the house
through a narrow passage,which was cross
ed by a beam overhead. We were still
talking as I withdrew, he accompanying
me behind, and I turning towards him, he
said hastily, “Stoop, stoop /” I did not
understand him until I felt my head hit a
gainst the beam. He was a man who nev
er missed an occasion of giving advice,
and upon this, he said to me, “Y’ou are
young and have the world before you ;
stoop a little as you go through it, and you
will avoid many hard thumps !” This ad
vice, thus beat into my head, has frequent
ly been ofuse to me; and 1 often think of
it when l see pride mortified, and misfor
tunes brought upon a people by carryintr
their heads too high.
How to Spoil a Child. —Above all
mistakes, is that of supposing that the bet
ter nature ot a child is to be drawn out and
raised into strength, which we should de
sire to see in the man,by making him pass
through a cold and cheerless youth. A sys
tem of petty restraints, of privations, of
severe looks, and incessant chiding, only
results iu depraving the feelings, and per
verting the reason of a young person. He
is under such circumstances, entirely out
of harmony with nature. He is like a
flower, which requires light and warmth,
placed in a cellar where it can never ac
quire its proper proportions, color,or vigor.
It is quite impossible that a child so trea
ted can ever attain the proper character
istic of a well constituted manor woman.
Hard Times. —Boys have an unfair!
time of it in this world. They get the
drumsticks of the turkey for dinner, and
have to wait for the hot cakes at breakfast
till every body else is supplied ; they are
snubbed when they are in spirits and told
not to make such a racket ; they are sent
oft’to bed just in the sweet edge of evening
when it is so nice to sit by the fire and tell
s’ories ; in a thousand ways they are put
upon and robbed of their natural rights.
Beauty of Colors. —Nothing in Na
ture is more beautiful than her colors ; ev
ery flower in compounded of different
shades ; almost every mountain is clothed
with herbs, different from the one opposite
to it; and every field has its peculiar hue.
Color is to scenery, what entablature is to
architecture, and harmony to language.
Colors are indeed so fascinating, that in
the East there has long prevailed a me
thod of signifying the passions, which is
called the love language of colors. This
rhetoric was introduced into Spain by tire
Arabians. \ T ellow expressed doubt
black, sorrow ; green, hope; purple; con
stancy ; blue, jealousy; white, content;
and red, the greatest possible satisfaction.
In regard to mourning, it may not be irrel
avant to remark, that though most Euro
peans mourn in black, the ancient Spar
tans, Romans and Chinese, mourned in
white; the Egyptians, in yellow ; the E
thiopians, in brown ; the Turks, iu violet;
while Kings and Cardinals indicate their
grief in purple.
The Potency of Words. —On words,
on quibbles, if you please to call distinc
tions so, rests the axis of the intellectual
world. A winged word has struck ineradi
cably in a million hearts, and envenomed
every hour throughout their hard pulsa
tion. On a winged word hath hung the
destiny of nations. On a winged word
hath human wisdom been willing to cast
the immortal soul, and to leave it depen
dent for all its future happiness.
America as it is and will be. —A re
cent number of the Journal des Debats,
at the close of a long article on the late
Presidential election in this country, gives
he views of the writer in the following
complimentary manner:
“ For the rest, never did a President
come into power under happier auspices.
North America enjoys a degree of pros
perity lrigher than she has possessed since
the year IS3G, which was followed by a
disastrous reaction. Capital is abundant
in the United States. Europe, alarmed
by revolutions, is sending there a part of
her own. Agriculture is extending and
becoming more perfect. Manufactures of
all kinds are advancing with giant steps.
The probability of high prices of food in
England during the winter, determines
the embarkation of a great deal of grain
and flour at advantageous prices. Rail
road enterprises are multiplying, and a
railroad is beginning to be seriously talk
ed of 1600 miles in length,which will unite
the valley of the Mississippi to the Pacific
Ocean, and which, with the communica
tions already existing, will permit, one to
traverse from one part of the American
continent to the other, at its greatest
breadth. Happy country, flourishing Re
public !”
Another projected Railroad to the
Pacific. —A new project for a railroad to
the Pacific has been brought before Con
gress iu the shape of a memorial from
William Bayard & Cos., of New Y’ork,
who propose to construct a railroad from
St. Louis to California, via the Rio Grande
and the Gila rivers. The memorialists
ask for a survey of the route by United
States Engineers, and the grant of a strip
of land of twenty-five miles on each side
of the road; they covenanting on their
part to deposit in the treasury $5,000,000
in Government security, as a guaranty for
the work, which they are to complete
within eight years. They propose to sell
the land in small proportions to actual
settlers, at Government prices; to build
the road of heavy iron ; to carry army and
naval stores free, and troops and sailors at
one-fourth the regular fare, which they
propose shall not exceed one-half the rates
now charged on the Panama mail steam
ers.
New Line op American Steamers.—
J. Brown, E. K. Collins, E. Riggs and
W. S. Wetmore have announced their in
tention to apply to the Legislature of
New Y’ork. at the present session, fir an
act to incorporate themselves and others
under the name of the “ United States
Mail Steamers Company, New Y’ork and
Liverpool Line,” with a capital of $2,000,-
000, for the purpose of running a line of
steamers between New York and Liver
pool.
t3P*A Philadelphia paper mentions the
case es a young lady who has been brought
up in the family of a benevolent friend,
until site lias reached the age of sixteen,
wi hout any knowledge as to who her pa
rents were : ‘ She feels herself alone in
the world, and daily, as years ripen and
strengthen her mind, the one idea of
knowing the author of her being takes
deeper and deeper hold of her faculties,
so that now her solicitude on the subject
is at times painfully affecting to witness.’
This brings again to mind Carlyle’s ad
mirable description of the emotions of a
foundling; ‘ Ever in my loneliness have 1
turned full of longing to that unknown
father, who perhaps far from me, perhaps
near, either way invisible, might have ta
ken me to his paternal bosom, there to lie
screened from many a wo. Thou beloved
father ! dost thou still, shut out from me
only by the penetrable curtains of earthly
space, wend to and fro among the crowds
of the living ? Or art thou hidden by those
far thicker curtains of the everlasting
Night, or rather of the everlasting Day,
through which my mortal eye and out
stretched arms need not strive to reach !
Alas, I know riot, and in vain vex myself
to know ! More than once, heart-deluded,
have I taken thee for this and the other
noble-looking stranger, and approached
him wistfully, with infinite regard ; but
he. too, repelled me—he, too, was not
thou!’
The Sense of Duty. —There is no evil
that we cannot either face or fly from, but
the consciousness of duty disregarded. A
sense of duty pursues us ever. It is om
nipresent, like the Deity. If we take to
ourselves the wings of the morning, and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
duty performed, or duty violated, is still
with us, for our happiness or our misery.
If we say, the darkness shall cover us—in
the darkness, as in the light, our obliga
tions are yet with us. We cannot escape
their power, nor fly from their presence.
They are with us in this life, will be with
us at its close; and iri that scene of incon
ceivable sjleninity which lies yet further
onward, we shall still find ourselves sur
rounded by the consciousness of duty, to
pain us wherever it has been violated, and
to console us so far as God may have giv
en us grace to perform it.— Wtbstcr.
Saying of a Dying Man. —The late
Professor Caldwell, of Dickinson College,
a short time before his death, addressed
his wife as follows : “ You will not, I am
sure, lie down upon your bed and weep
when I am gone. You will not mourn
for me when God lias been so good to me.
And when you visit the spot where I lie,
do not choose a sad and mournful time ;
do not go in the shade of the evening, or
in the dark night. These are no times to
visit the grave of a Christian ; but go in
the morning, in the bright sunshine, and
when the birds arc singing.” j
Crying and Groaning —A French snr
geon lately published a long dissertation
on the beneficial influence of groaning and
crying on the nervous system. He con
tends that groauing and crying are th e two
grand operations by which Nature allays
anguish,and that he has uniformly observ
ed that those patients who give way to
their natural feeling more speedily' recover
from accidents and operations than those
patients who erroneously suppose that it
is unworthy a man to betray such symp
toms of cowardice as either to groan or
cry. He is always pleased by the crying
and violent roaring of a patient during the
time he is undergoing a severe surgical
operation, because be is satisfied that he
will thereby so sootii his nervous system
as to prevent fever, and insure a favorable
termination. He relates a case of a man
who by crying and bawling reduced bis
pulse from 120 to GO in the course of two
hours. That some patients often have a
great satisfaction in groaning, and that
hysterical patients often experience great
relief from crying, are facts which no per
sons will deny. As to restless, hypochon
driacal subjects, or those who are never
happy but when they are under some
course of medical dietetic treatment, the
French surgeon assures them that they
cannot do better than groan all night and
cry all day.
Prosperity and Adversity. —If you
listen even to David’s harp you shall bear
as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the
pencil of the Holy Spirit hath labored
more in describing the afflictions of Job
than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity
is not without many fears and distasters ;
and adversity is not without comforts and
hopes.We see, in needle works and
emborideries, it is more pleasing to have
a lively work upon a sad and solemn
ground,than to haveadarkand melancholy
work upon a lightsome ground: judge,
therefoure.of the pleasures of the heait by
the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue
is like precious odors, most fragrant when
they are crushed: for prosperity doth best
discover vice but adversity doth best dis
cover virtue.— Lord Bacon.
“Pyf. dons, with Tobacco.”—A wri
ter in the Boston Recorder cordially and
justly congratulates the authorof the above
decision, on behalf, first, of personal clean
liness ; second, the joy of his wife ; third,
his pew in the church ; fourth, his purse ;
and fifth, bis children. 1 make you wel
come, he says, to all the quietness of mind,
calmness of nerves, cleanliness of person,
household purity, femenine smiles, which
thorough purgation from tobacco carries
in its train.
The expense running the Cunard line
of steamers across the Atlantic, is five del
lars a mile, making the trip to co t over
thirty thousand dollars.
Mr. H. O’Reilly, the enterprising pro
jector of the Western lines of telegraph
has sent in a memorial to Congress, pro
posing to establish a line of telegraph to the
Pacific Ocean, to be completed in eigh
teen months shou'd the desired encourage
ment be given.
Mr. and Mrs. Randall, the celebrated
Scotch giant and giantess, have tecently
had a son born to them, at their residence,
near Mineral Point, Wisconsin, whose
weight at three days old, was twenty-two
pounds!
For Croup or Quinsy. —For a sudden
attack of quinsy or croup, bathe the neck
with bear’s grease, and pom it down the
throat. A linen rag soaked in sweet oil, but
ter or lard, sprinkled with yellow Scotch
snuff, is said to have performed wonderful
cures in cases of croup : it should be placed
where the distress is greatest. Goose
grease, or any kind of oily grease is as good
as bear’s oil.
Equal parts of camphor, spirits of wine
and hartshorn, well mixed, and rubbed up
on the throat, is said to be good for the
croup.
Severe cases of croup have been cured
by the liberal application of cold water to
the neck and breast, then rubbing with a
coarse cloth, till a glow is produced.
OCT’Masses of golden rocks are said to
have been found in the California moun
tains* One man found a lump weighing
250 lbs. The American fleet in the Pacific
are orderd to rendezvous at San Francisco
to protect the treasures.
Railroad from Atl »nta to La
orange.—We learn that the scheme for
the construction of a Railroad from Atlan
ta to LaGrange, in this State, has been
placed beyond contingency. The amount
of funds requisite to build the road from
LaGrange to Newman, in Coweta county,
has been raised ; and it is said that, for its
completion from the latter place to Atlan
ta. the G. R. R. C ompany are pledged.—
Ihe construction of this road cannot but
prove of considerable advantage to the in
habitants of this section of the State, inas
much as it will establish a connexion,
much more direct than now exists, with
one of the most important and populous
portions of the country.— Ringgold Re
publican.
Time.— We all complain that our time
is short, yet we know not how to employ
that which we have ; our lives are vvasied
in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing
to the purpose, or .in doing nothing that
we should do. We complain that our
days arc few, and we act as though there
would be no end to them.
lr7*The best remedy for passion is si
lence ; it you say nothing, you will have
nothing to unsay.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston] Courier j
In the Senate, yesterday, the
of the New Y’ork Assembly in
to slavery and the slave trade in the Dis.
trict of Columbia, were presented by Mr
Dix. The motion to print was warmly
debated for four hours, in the course of
which Mr. Butler is stated to have made
a most eloquent speech. The motion to
print was agreed to by a vote of 45 to 6.
Mr. Foote submitted an amendment to
the California State Bill, and also one in
reference to the survey.
In the House, Mr. Hilliard moved for a
suspension of the rules to allow him to in
troduce his Territorial bill, which motion
was rejected. Mr. Flournoy asked leave
to introduce a bill retroceding the Dis
trict of Columbia—leave refused. The
bill compensating D. D. Henry for servi
ces in Mexico has passed. The Civil and
Diplomatic bill was further amended. A
petition from the citizens of the District
of Columbia to abolish the slave trade
therein was presented.
The Southern meeting took place last
night. It was believed that Mr. Berrien’s
substitute for Mr. Calhoun’s report would
probably be adopted .—Charles on Courier
of the 23 d inst.
THE TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
We find in the Charleston Courier the
following Circular, addressed by Mr. Ha
ley, the original contractor for the erec
tion of the line, to the stockholders of the
Washington and New Orleans Telegraph
Company, proposing to lease the line :
Charleston, (S. C.) Jan. 13.
Dear Sir: —Having been mainly in
strumental in obtaining the subscriptions
to the Stock of the “ Washington and New
Orleans Telegraph Company,” and having
enlisted many personal friends and valued
acquaintances in the enterprise, I feel it
incumbent upon myself to use every effort
in my power to make the stock profitable
to the owners and serviceable to the pub
lic, and to offer some plan for the benefit
and satisfaction of both.
Notwithstanding the dissatisfaction re
cently manifested, and the fears which
have been expressed in regard to the value
of the investment, 1 have not changed my
opinion in regard to the ultimate profita
bleness of the Line. I have also unabated
confidence in the officers and operators
1 believe them to be faithful and able men.
Experience, however, lias demonstrated,
that no public company, managed by pub
lic officers, can observe the same economy,
or compete with private enterprise and in
dividual efforts, when men’s wits are
sharpened by a sense of private interest.
I his is particularly the case iti a Company
like ours, where so much personal at’en
tion is daily required over so long a line.
I o satisfy my friends the Stockholders
that I haue not deceived them, and that 1
am serious in the belief above expressed,
I now propose to lease the wlio’e line from
\\ ashington to New Orleans for a term of
from three to five years, and will pay for
the same given per cent, on the wholea
m unt of capital invested in the line. The
piayments to be made quarterly, in cash.
ll this proposition is accepted, and I
should undertake the work, I shall have
associated with me a few energetic, en
terprising business men, whose great aim
and object it will be to make the line all
that was ever promised for it, viz: profita
ble to the owners and a great convenience
to the public. At the same time, though
individual attention and exertions, we
hope to realize a fair compensation for
ourselves. The line of course to be re
turned in good condition to the owners,
at the expiration of the lease. The lessees
binding themselves to use the line only for
legitimute purposes, and to keep it entire
ly flee from all monopolies or commercial
combinations, intended to restrict its use
fulness to particular parties.
Such Stockholders as agree to this pro
position, will please sign the annexed con
sent and return the paper to me as scon
as convenient, at Charleston, S. C.
Yours, &c. J. J. HALEY.
Climate of the Gold Region. —The
gold region of California (according to Col.
Fremont) is in the Sacramento river and
its tributaries. The clima’e of the coun
try has no winter in the valley, but the
rainy season and the dry. The rainy sea
son begins in November and continues to
the middle of February or the beginning
of March ; the rest of the year is without
rain, but the streams from the Sierra Y’e*
vada afford all the facilities for irrigation
in the heats of July and August. The
whole valley abounds in wild cattle, wild
horses, elks, deer, antelopes, grizzly bears,
partridges, water fowl, salmon, bcc. All
the products of the States from apples to
oranges, from potatoes to sugar cane, may
be produced iu the valley of the San Joa
quin and Sacramento.
Such is the California on the Pacific,
one of the richest, most picturesque and
beautiful regions for i's extent, uj>on the
face of the earth.