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SOUT II Klt N TRIBUNE.
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C'orre»pondence ? oiitheru Tribune.
Millp.duev(i.le, Feb. 8, IS-50.
During llte present week some impor
tant matters have been acted on by the
Legislature, and considerable progress
made through the immense mass of bu
siness.
Tiie House and Senate yesterday repor
ted a Joint Resolution recomtneding the
15th of this month as the day on which
the Legislature should be dissolved. There
is hardly a doubt but the adjournment will
take place on that day, though at an im
mense sacrifice of private claims and in
terests. The alternative the people have
to choose from, is Annual Sessions, ora
period of four months for biennial ses
sions.
Yesterday we had quite an imposing
scene in the llall. 'I he Piesident of the
Senate, under the usual escort of the
Chamber, came into joint meeting for the
purpose of electing delegates to the Yush
ville Convention, for the State at large.
The result of the election, (which was bv
acclamation) was the selection of Messrs.
Writ. Law and Ciiaui.es Dougiiehtv, on
the part of the Whigs, and Messrs. M. H
McAllister and C. J. McDonald, on the
part of the Democrats. This looks like
being in earnest.
The House rejected yesterday, by a
very latge vote, all aid to the South Wes
tern Rail Road, and cutting off all debate
by the previous question. There seems
lobe a spirit of pence saving, pervading
the councils of our State, that cannot be
expressed by the force of language.
I very much doubt if any adequate pro
vision will even be voted for those unfor
tunate creatures at the Lunatic Asylum.
Yesterday carrying nut the same spirit,
the House gave the plainest indications
that if pressed, the claim of heirs of Shef
tall would be rejected, though based on
military services, a land warrant, warrant
of special survey, a plot and grant, with
the groat seal of the State, fifty years old.
This land was afterwards lotteiicd oil' by
the State, and so far as any body can tell,
never made for it compen alien.
There has been some feeling in regard
to the quarrel about the day schedule on
the Sale Road, and a committee has been
raised empowered to call for persons and
papers, and instructed to report on the
subject. We do not know if that com
mittee will he able to report.
To day the Tax Rill, once lost, but re
considered,cotnes up. Its fate is extreme
ly doubtful, though the original bill repot t
ed by the Finance Committee has been to
some extent modified by making a compo
site work of it, made out of the ad valorem
and specific principles. The ad talorem
seems to be approved by every man not
interested —the very best evidence in the
world that it is the proper and just system.
The friends of the original bill have had to
yield the Cow Tax however, there not be
ing the least chance in the world to tax
cattle at this session. While talking of
cows, it reminds me, that yesterday a most
singular bill was put on its passage and lost,
which provided for the prohibition of pas
sage for droves of cattle from Southern
Georgia through Cherokee on their way
to Tennessee. The House (ora large ma
jority of the Members) were taken by sur
prise, when gentlemen of the first respect
ability asserted for a fact, that the passage
of these large droves of cattle from the
South, though perfectly healthy, infected
the cattle throughout the upper region of
the State, (healthy themselves,) to such a
degree that they die by hundreds. It was
stated with much feeling that the evil must
be redressed by law, or the people affected
by it would rediess themselves. Already
numbers of the cattle iu transitu were for
cibly taken away and slaughtered in the
woods.
The Rock Island hill has passed, allow
ing John G. Winter the privilege of the
water of the Chattahoochee Riser at the
West hank. lie singularly placed his
Factory Buildings in the bed of the liver,
fortyfeet East of low water mark , for the
purpose of having them in the St ate of
Georgia, her line extending to low water
mark on the West bank. Mr. Winter is
to pay SI,OOO for this privilege, and we
hear since the passage of the bill, it has
been admitted that he can sell out water
power to the amount of $40,000. A good
bargain. Last night, after adjournment,
an invitation was publicly read bytheClerk
from the desk, inviting all the friends of the
Rock Island Bill, to meet him at McCombs’
to drink wine with him. It was very cool
—it was.
The friends of new Counties are in a
peck of trouble about the number of grave
difficulties in the way. The evident con
flict between the intention of the law ma
king power and the letter of the law first;
then the doubt and misgivings as to the Su
preme Court; then (he fear of the veto,
&c., keep the citizens of Gordon Count 1/
on the tenter hooks. The bill authorizing
the formation of anew county out of parts
of Cass and Floyd to be called Gordon
has passed the Senate. A bill to form a
new county to be called Clinch out of parts
of Lowndes and Ware has also passed the
I loose.-.
The following bids have passed since
our last report:
The bill of the House to authorize the
South Western Rail Road Company to
construct its Rail Road through the Pub
lic Reserve adjoining the corporate lim
its of the city of Macon, and to grant the
said Company the use of a part of the
said Reserve for a depot. Also, the hill
to authorize the said Company to connect
with the Muscogee Rail Road.
To compensate clerks at elections, so far
as regards the county of Bibb.
The bill to incorporate a banking com
pany at the Town of Fort Gains in the
county of Early under the name and style
ofthe South Western Bank of Georgia.
'1 he bill to revive and amend an act en
titled an act to incorporate the Madison &
M aeon Rail-road company, and to define
the powers, privileges, and liabilities of
the same, assented to Dec. 19th, 1847.
The hill to authorize the subscription
by this State to the capital stock of the
Milledgeville & Gordon Rail Road Com
pany.
The hill to provide for the removal of
the present county site at Marion in the
county of Twiggs, &c.
The hill to authorize the Stock Holders
ofthe Milledgeville Bank to increase their
capital to sooo,ooo.
The bill to prevent the running of Freight
Trains upon all Rail Roads in this State
on the Sabbath Day.
Mr. Napier asked and obtained leave to
Repent a bill to incorporate a Banking
Company of the city of Macon, under the
name of the Manufacturers Bank of Ma
con.
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. !», 1850.
The Rev. Theobald Mathew —This gen
tleman, after spending several days in Macon,
left for Atlanta and Athens, Ga., on Tuesday
morning last. During his stay here he adrniriis.
tered the Temperance Fledge to four hundred
and fifty persons making one hundred and se
venty-five thousand in the aggregate, we learn,
since his arrival in the United States. He will
return in a few days to Griffin, and proceed
thence on his way to the West, via Columbus,
Montgomery, Mobile, and New Orleans, where
he will remain until spring, and thence ascend
the Mississippi rivor. Father Mathew was born
on the 10th of October, 1700, at Tbornastown,
near Cashel, in the county of Tipperary, Ireland.
Me is a Catholic Clorgyman of pleasing manners
and gentlemanly address, and it will be seen by
the following letter addressed by him to Dr. R.
McGoldrick, that his visit here has been quite
agreeable, and we hope it may prove of lasting
benefit to the great cause in which he has been
such an efficient and zealous laborer.
Macon, 6tb February, 1850.
Mv Dear Dr. McGoldrick,
Allow, me, prior to my departure from Ma
con, to return you my heartfelt thanks, for your
exceeding hospitality and kindness, whilst I
lied the honor and happiness of being your guest.
To my other Friends, from whom I have ex
perienced so much courtesy, and attention, I
feel deeply grateful.—As a proof of their friend
ship, I have to acknowledge the receipt of One
Hundred Dollars, the unexpected, spontaneous
contribution, principally of my beloved, kind
hearted Countrymen, for the completion of my
Church in Ireland. Amongst the generous do
nors, I find the honored name of your worthy
Chief Magistrate—To him,and totlie other con
tributors, a list of whose respected names, I
have the pleasure to enclose, I beg you will
present collectively and individually, my warm
est acknowledgments. Believe me, with high
respect, and ardent gratitude, my dear Doctor,
Your devoted friend,
THEOBALD MATHEW.
Godky’s Lady’s Book— The Febrnary num
ber of this work has been received. Its appear
ance is as usual good and its contents interesting
[O’Tlie returns as far as received indicate the
election of Col. Joseph W. Jackson, to Con
gress from the First District, llis majority in
Chatham over It is opponent, the lion. W. B.
Fleming, was 402 votes. If lie is elected, that
will be honor enough for one day.
Delegates to the Nashville Convention.
It will be seen by our correspondence that
Georgia has taken the step that fully commits
tier, and from which there is no back out. The
gentlemen selected by the members of the As
sembly, are known throughout the country, and
we feel satisfied that all will go well with us,so
far as their fidelity is concerned. The whole na
tion will be obliged to respect the action of such
men,and we will see if they will be demoralized
by the charge of being “extreme Southern men,”
and agitators. It is thought by the best informed
that this Convention will not be a resolution
factory, but that things and not words will be
dealt in. It is thought that the great matter
that will engage the attention of the Convention
will be the surrender by Northern States of our
fugitive Slaves. The question is by far the
most important involved in our controversy with
the North, and until it is finally adjusted there
is to be no peace for this country, Mr. Cling
man states that there are now fifteen millions of
slave property withheld from us, and our citi
zens have not alone been outraged in their rights
of property, hut their lives have been brutally
sacrificed by mobs in tbeir attempts to right
themselves. This tiling must be remedied. It
must be understood again, as it was for more
than a half century, that a slaveholder can a s
easily recover his slave at the North, as a mer.
chant can recover his claim at the South. If
their courts are not to ho opened to us, so let
ours be shut in their faces. In less than six
months, that meritorious and liberal class of
men, the Northern merchants, would subsidize
our cause, by their intelligence and their money.
Their interests will be ours, and reciprocally
they would be gaining by their alliance with us.
Let the measures of redress, be what they may
t lie thing cannot be longer delayed.
From California. —The steamer Alabainaat
New Orleans brings news that Lt. Col Fremont
and Mr Gwin w ere chosen U. S. Senators from
California. Gov. Burnett was inaugurated. A
fire occurred at San Francisco on the 24th Dec.,
which consumed property valued at $1,500,000.
The Constitution was adopted by >\ vote of
12,000 foi up] 81. .gainst it. The cold and wet
vveather had nearly etopt the work at the mines.
The Southern Question.
llow are the spirit of fanaticism and the lust
for power which have manifested themselves at
the North to be stayed ?
To answer this question, it is necessary to
understand the motives by which these people
have been actuated. That the people of the
Northern States really rare any thing for the
slaves, no reasonable man can for one moment
believe.—There is among them too much un
relieved and uncared for human misery and suf
fering for that; they exercise power over their
white brethren, when they have it, with too re
lentless a hand to justify such a suspicion.—
If the abolitionism movement had derived its
existence and support from fanaticism alone, it
would long since have passed away—it would
have destroyed itself by its own violence, or
cooled down by its own evaporation. But it hud
its origin in a feeling, if not so violent, at least
much more powerful and enduring. The
violent feelings of our nature waste themselves
by gratification, or destroy themselves by their
own strength. Not so with the lust for power
and dominion. Every great action adds to it
fresh strength. This is the feeling which has
given rise to and sustained the movement. The
sluveholding States are eminently agricultural
and are obliged to remain so—consequently they
are necessarily opposed to all those schemes of
protection, National Banks, Internal Improve
ments and the whole horde of devices by which
the power of the government is to be used for tiie
benefit of one section of the country at the ex
pense of another.—So long, therefore, as this
power stands upon an equal footing in Con
gress, so long must those schemes he defeated.
\Vc find therefore, that the first clamor on this
subject was not on account of the moral evil or
the national disgrace of slavery, hut on account
of what they termed the unfairness and injus
tice of slave representation in Congress.— It was
an after thought to enlist sympathy for tiie suf
ferings of the slaves, and to appeal to the feel,
ings of disgrace on account of the existence of
slavery.
So long therefore, as they can feel that there
is hope of accomplishing their great object of
making us tributary and subservient to them,
by the agitation of this question, and by en
croachments upon our rights, they will not stop
There is only one way to stop it, and that is by
absolute, unqualified and unflinching resistance.
The people of the South have vainly and fool
ishly resorted for years to every other plan, and
every year things get worse.
If we intend to preserve ourselves, and pro
tect our rights, we must in the first place leave
otl the foolish and senseless prating about our
love for the Union.—Why should we love the
Union, if it is to be made the engine of wrong
and oppression to us ? Why should we love the
Union if we are no longer to be regarded as
equals? Why should we love it, if it is to be
the instrument by which we are to sutler the
degradation and injury of having our rights wres
ted from us? Under the present state of things,
there would he just as much sense in hearing
the starving and down-trodden peasantry of
Ireland, shouting for their “glorious Union”
with England, as there is in hearing Southern
men talk about “our glorious Union.'’ Yet
scarcely a man speaks or writes about the evils
that surround, and the dangers that threaten us,
but lie piefaces his remarks with a siring of non
sense about his undying attachment,and his un
alterable devotion to “our glorious Union,” and
the utter impossibility of giving it up.—O no!
that is a thing lie cannot think of. Yet in the
same breath lie will toll you, “we must not,
cannot, will not submit.”
Well then, what will we do? Shall vve vote?
They out-vote us.—Shall we petition, beg, re
monstrate, rant and threaten ? Threaten what?
Why that we will get into a passion and abuse
them, and all the time toll them, that we cannot
and will not, adopt the only remedy that is
left us.
No, no, we must adopt a different course, wo
must teach them that if they are so contamina
ted and disgraced by slavery, they need have
nothing to do with it—that if they desire to ex
ercise power, they must exercise it over them
selves.—We must teach them to know that vve
came into the Union for the protection of our
rights, and that if we cannot protect them by it,
we will try and protect them without it.
Mr. Hit.LIARD very foolishly said the other
day, that he “would not be driven to calculate
the value of the Union.” Why not? Itisthe
proper mode of estimating all human institu
tions— they are formed for their value.—There is
but one thing left for the South—yes, there are
two—the one is to require of the North a full
and entire recognition and acknowledgment of
our rights, or to dissolve the Union—the other
is to submit quietly to all their exactions and say
nothing more about it.
O’ It has been computed, says the Public
Ledger, that the United States lias a frontier
line of 10,~10 miles, a sea-const of 5,400 miles,
a lake coast, of 1,160 miles. One of its rivers
is twice as long as the Danube, the largest river
in Europe. The Ohio is 600 miles longer than
the Rhine, and the noble Hudson lias a naviga
tion in the “ Empire State” one hundred and
twenty miles longer than the Thames. Within
Louisiana are bayous and creeks, almost un
known, that would shame, by comparison, the
Tiber or Seine. The State of Virginia is one
third larger than England. The State of Ohio
contains throe thousand square miles more than
Scotland. The Harbor of New York receive
the vessels that navigate rivers,canals and lakes
to the extent of three thousand miles, equal to
the distance from America to Europe. From
the capital of Maine to the “ Crescent City” i s
two hundred miles further than from London
to Constantinople, a route thut would cross
England, Belgium, a part of Prussia, Germany,
Austria and Turkey.
(npThe boiler in the machine shop of Mr.
Taylor, exploded in New York on the 4th inst.
killing about one hundred persons employed in
the building.
Goon —Mr Root’s Territorial Bill, in which
was the Wiimot Proviso, was voted down in the
1 1 ouse of Representatives on the 4tii inst., by a
considerable majority.
Northern Kttlmate of Eouthrrn Character.
“I was surprised last winterto bear a Northern
Senator say, that in the town in which he lived,
it would excite great astonishment if it were
known that a Northern lady would, at the time
of the meeting of the two Houses, walk up to
the capital with a Southern Senator; that they
had been taught to consider Southerners gene
rally as being so coarse and ruffianly'in manner
that a lady would not trust herself in such a
presence.”
This delectable picture of Southern civiliza
tion as expressed in the appreciation of us by
Northern people, is furnished by Mr. Clixgman,
in It is recent speech in Congress. Some few
years ago, when the Methodist Church divided
upon the slavery question, we remember to have
read an editorial comment upon this portentous
event in the Charleston Mercury, in which this
separation was called “ The first dissolution of
thuUnion.” It was well and philosophically said.
First because, if violence, injustice and factious
intemperance could not be kept out of the
church, what could we hope from the unsancti
fied selfishness of worldly men. If the churrh
under its holy sanctions, acting so powerfully
and directly upon the social fabric, was acting
perversely against that spirit of “ Peace on earth
and good will to all men,” what right had we to
look to the venal and profligate—for these mod
erate and unselfish counsels which would stay
the ruin that was tlircatened by the defection of
the “good men and true.” We would have
stultified ourselves by hoping for any such
tiling. The well affected horror at our barbar
ism which was so rife in the townofthis North
ern Senator, is the language of the whole North.
Not ofthe ignorant masses only, but ofthe
elite—of the primest men and women in the
land. This then, is the danger that leaves the
sober minded, thinking man nothing to hope, or
next thing to it. If sordid minded politicians
were alone concerned, that very time serving of
tiie same, and truckling to the majority, which
made them sell their souls to the wicked cause,
would, when they saw their thrift in it, soli
themselves back again for the same reason. But
not so with the multitude who are not accessi
ble to these plastic influences, which might be
exerted upon their minds by the justice of our
cause. With the country- population at least,
we have no doubt that hatred for the institution
of slavery and hatred for those too , who sustain
it, has bccomo a part of their religion. Who
can reason with the chafed tiger, or the no less
insensate bigot that sees, or that thinks he sees,
the finger of God pointing the way. Tiie whole
“head is sick and the heart is faint.” We have
often thought that the isolation of the masses of
population North from us, was a groat misfortune.
Could the honestly deluded among that people
see us as vve are, wc could hope that the force of
truth would break down the miserable preju
dices which venality and fanaticism had built up
between them and ourselves. But as the social
bias exists against us, no step however daring—
no wrong however shameless—no curse however
blighting upon us, that Northern politicians may
meditate, but would find a second by the acclaim
of thousands and tens of thousands of their
constituents. Men in Congress, in all they do
or say, are backed at home, and would be, were
they to press matters as fur as the wicked old
Nestor among abolition malcontents would have
had them. Seeing this state of' things, South
ern men must not stop at gentle measures. It
will take the shock of an earthquake to wake
the North, and let them have it. Let them see
that if they wish to be united longer with us—
after they shall have made amends for the past,
and assured as for the future, vve will tolerate
them, but make no further promises. That
whenever they wish it, we can turn on our heels
from them, and forget they ever existed. That
barbarians as we are, our self-respect will not
permit us tamely to submit to be jostled by
men below us in every tiling but presumption,
and in this quarrel, live or perish, we shed no
more tears over this Union. If a division is
forced on us we will ungrudgingly take our
share, and with it live if wc can, and perish if
me must.
Decreasf. in the Size of Men. —ln the re
cent number of the North British Review, the
curious fact is stated, on the authority of the
French statistician, Tapies, that the bight of the
natives of France has decreased since the break
ing out of the Resolution towards the close of
the last century.
The physical dcvelopement of the human
race in France, says the Reviewer, whether
from the effects of the conscription, or from those
of the extreme and increasing division of the
race, it is no longer what it was. This had been
curiously remarked by travellers, but without
any pretensions to accuracy ; it seems now,
however, to be incontrovertibly true that the
general bight has been diminishing gradually
since 1790.
Before the Revolution the slandered for the
grenadiers was 5 feet 10 inches (English) under
.the Republic 5 feet 9 inches, under the Empe
ror 5 feet 8 inches, and at the present time, men
of 5 feet 2 inches are admitted into the infantry
of the line.
It has been calculated, that even under the
most favorable circumstances, it will still require
two generations to enable the human species
in France to become what it was in 1790.
The English Language. —The English lan -
guage is yet destined to be the universal lan
guage It is now spoken by more people than
any other ianguege, and is inceasing in range
and extent two-fold faster than any other. It is
now spoken by fifty-five millions, and the next
to it is the Russian—forty-three millions, thir
teen million less. In eighty years more it will
be spoken hy three hundred millions, and our
Republic will be the greatest on the face of the
globe, provided we are true to ourselves and the
principles of liberty, justice and equity.
Needles. —These indispensable little things
were first made in London by a negro from
Spain, in the reign of Mary; lie dying without
teaching the art, it was lost till 1566, when it
was taught hy Elias Grorose, a German. In
significant as this little instrument appears,
there are but few commodities which in their
manufacture require more skill, und provide
labor for a greater nqmbor of artisans.
The State Road. —The Ringgold Republi
can ofthe 2d inst , states that the new and splen
did Locomotive, the Toccoa, with a passenger
and several box cars, made its first trip to Chat
tanoogaon the 30th ult. The road has been re
spiked and the depressions in the track, caused
by the unprecedented bad weather, have been
raised. Since this has been done every thing
seems to glide along with rnurg ease and safety.
The Messrs. Gray have, at this time, upon this
portion of the work, an ample force ditching,
filling up, and spiking down the track, and
will soon have it finisned, if the weather should
continue good.
Memphis and Charleston Railroad.—
The Cherokee Advocate states that a charter
lias been obtained from tiie Legislature of Ala
bama, for the purpose of connecting Memphis
on the Mississippi, with the Nashville and Chat,
tanooga Road or w ith the Western and Atlantic
Road. A similar charter had been previously
granted by Tennessee. The title is rather ex
clusive, and the object somewhat contracted as
announced in the act granting the charter for Ala
bama, namely, “for the purpose of establishing
a communication by Rail-Road between Mem
phis, Tennessee, and Charleston, South Caro
lina.’ We hope the work will be completed
Thatit will result in wider and more enlarged
benefits than announced above we cannot
doubt.
Blowing Up Wrecks bv Electricity.—
The wreck of the Illinois steamer, near the
wharf, at New Orleans, has been removed by
blasting, using the galvanic battery. A tin
cylinder, containing a large quantity of powder,
was let down on tlieside of the bow, and drawn
toward the other, until it was deemed far enough
placed beneath the bottom of the wreck to pro
duce, by its explosion, a powerful and imrr.edi
ate effect. As the means before adopted to fire
the powder, when thus placed, had proved in
sufficient, the attention of the gentleman super
intending the work, was drawn to the use that
might be made of a galvanic battery, and wires
attached, to effect the desired object. A battery
of eighteen or twenty jars was brought to the
spot, the cylinders with the wires from the bat
tery being attached to it, filled and sent down,
and soon, upon a slight gesture from the opera
tor, the electric fluid darted down the metal,
sped on its destructive errand, a dull heavy
sound stunned the cars of those standing near,
a volume of water, like a column, rose twenty
feet in the air, and when it fell, the workmen
sprang on the floating staging, the diving bell
plunged into the foaming current, and in a short
time all hands were busily engaged in hauiing
up large pieces of the shattered wreck.
(UP The Madison Family Visiter ofthe 2d inst.,
says: “Tho number of bales of cotton delivered
at the depot in this place, up to the first of Feb.
ruarv, 1849, was 10,800. Up to the same time
in 1850, 15,000. The bales of this season arc
heavier than those of last; most of them being
square bales, weighing from 400 to 500 pounds.
It is hut a few years since half the cotton crop of
Georgia was packed in round bales, weighing
from 300 to 400, which are counted in estimating
the cotton crop against those of 400 or 500 made
now.”
O’ A series of resolutions were introduced in
the New Jersey House of Delegates, on the 10th
ult. instructing their Senators and Representa
tives in Congresss to vote f.»r the application of
the ordinance of 1767, generally known ns the
YVilmot Proviso, to all territorial governments
and to all States asking admission into the Union.
Also, for the abolition of slavery in the District
ofColunibia, and not for one moment be deterred
from their duty by threats of disunion, the with
drawal of members, or the solemn actions of the
legislatures of Southern States.
Texas. —The Select Committee to whom was
referred to the joint resolutions on slavery, and
that portion of the Governor's message on the
same subject, have recommended the passage of
these resolutions with some amendments adding
to their force, and sustaining the views of the
Governor to the fullest extent. They have re
commended an additional resolution, making it
the duty of the Governor to convene the Legis
lature in the event of the passage hy Congress,
oftheWilinot Proviso, or any kindred mea
sure.
The Fortunes of M. Lamartine. — A French
journal gives some particulars of the estate re
cently bestowed hy the Sultan on M. de Lamar
tine. The domain lies in the immediate vicini
ty of Smyrna, and is nearly as large as the Isle
of Wight, being about fifty-four miles in circum
ference. It has hitherto belonged only to the
crown, as we should say in England. The soil
is described as wonderfully fertile, like most of
the land in the neighborhood of Smyrna, as be
ing well planted with oranges and olives, and as
eapab'e of every variety of cultivation. The
chateau, built for the resident of an imperial of
ficer, is commodious beyond the usual run of
Turkish houses; and under the windows lies a
fine lake of more than a mile across, which is
described as weii stocked with fish. The estate
includes five villages. M. de Lamartine, it is
said, goes to Asia Minor in the soring, to take
possession in person of his territorial gift.
New Rotary Engine. —Mr. George Creavy,
machinist, of this city, says the Scientific Ameri
can, has invented an improved rotary engine,
which is said to remove ail the decidedly good
objections made against the other engines of the
same class. It works on the expansion princi
ple, and it takes in the steam at two opposite
sides,and does not work tlic valves, as is com
monly the case, by the pistons.
M ACiiiNES for Repairing Roads.— Mr. N.
Potter, of East Hamburg, Erie county, N. York,
has invented a machine which removes heaps
on the sides of ruts, and fills them up at the
same time. It can also plough up high places
or heaps on the road, and, by back moveable
scrapers, the dirt can be directed to the middle
or from the middle of the road. It is drawn
like a wagon, and is otherwise very simple.
Measures have been taken to secure a patent.
Gold Bearing-Uu artz.— By a report of
Hon. T. Butler King, it appears that gold-bett
ing quartz is to be found in the inexhaustible
masses or quarries, through the whole mountain,
ous region, which forms the western slope of
the Sierra Nevada, yielding from one to three
dollars in gold for every pound of rock ! The
Pacific News, of November 29, in referring t 0
this matter, says that specimens of this quartz
are in the hands of Mr. Wright, member elect
from California, who is on his way to Washing,
ton, and who will make a report on the subject
and adds:—“The samples ofthe rock which Mr.
Wright has tested, have been taken from many
different viens. In no sample tested has the
yield been less than one dollar to the pound of
quartz. The acerage yield of the different vein,
has been, as determined by the sampels, from
one dollar and a half, to two dollars to the pound
of rock. A single fact will show the unheard of
and astonishing character of the results which
have been thus arrived at. Mr. YVright informs
us that he has recently conversed with an intel
ligent gentlemen, now in this country, who has
been long conversant, in the capacity of an
overseer, with mining operations, as carried on
in the quartz veins of Georgia. From this source
Mr. Wright learns that a fifteen horse steam
power, working twelve stamps, will stamp B
thousand bushels of quartz rock iu the day—each
bushel of quartz weighing about eighty pounds.
If ticenty-fvc cents worth of gold is yielded from
each bushel of eighty pounds, the busines is con
sidered a good one in Georgia. If the yield be
fifty cents to the bushel, the profit is large. Now
the yield of the rock which Mr. Wright has col
lected and tested, instead of being a quarter ofa
dollar, or a half a dollar to tiie seventy-fivo
pounds, is, in one great vein, nearly three dollars
to one pound ! Abate this, in view of possible
or probable, mistake, or in view of tho superior
yield of a single richer vein, to an average of
two dollars, or of one dollar or of half a dollar
to the pound, and the result still remains, in
every point of view, almost equally unexampled
and momentous."
Citv of Boston.— On Monday last the Mayor
of Boston communicated the Annual Message
respecting the internal affairs ofthe city, from
which it appears that it has a population of 140,-
000 souls ; that the assessed value of properly
amounts.to sl74,ooo,ooo—the actual value not
being short, probably, of .$200,000,000. There
are 497 schools supported by the public, with
20,000 pupils, and on account of which $334,-
000 were paid during the past year for tuition
and expenses. There are two thousand children
at other schools.
A Suggestion. —The New Orleans Bulletin,
in commenting on the late disorganized stale of
the House of Representatives, suggests, as an
effectual gumd to the recurrence of such a slato
of things, an amendment to the Constitution,
providing that whenever either House shall not
complete its organization within ten days after
the legal day of meeting, that House should be
ipso facto dissolved and new elections slialltak e
place within thirty days throughout the Union.
With such an amendment the organization would
always take place in due season.
Connection Between the Lakes anotiie
Gulf of Mexico. —We have hitherto omitted
to notice, says a New Orleans paper, the arrival
of the schooner Diamond at this port, from Chi
cago, Illinois. The Diamond is a snug-looking
craft, of about two hundred tons. She left
Chicago on the 25th of November, came through
the Illinois Canal,thence totlie Mississippi,and
descending the mighty river, arrived at this port
several days ago.
Coloring Green Tea— A correspondent of
the Athenaeum, says :
“ I took some trouble to ascertain precisely the
quantity of coloring matter usea’ in the process
of dyeing green teas; certainly not with the
view of assisting others, either at home or
abroad, in the art of coloring, but simply to
show green tea drinkers in England—and more
particularly in the United States of America—
what quantity of gypsum and indigo they cat or
drink in the course of a year. Tolljlbs.of
tea were applied rather more than an ounce of
matter. For every 100 lbs. of green tea which
are consumed in England and America, the con
sumer really cats more than half-a-pound of
gypsum and indigo; and I have little doubt that
in many instances Prussian blue is substituted
'or indigo. And yet, tell these green tea drink
ers that the Chinese eat dogs, eats and rats, and
they will hold up their heads in amazement, and
pity the taste of the poor celestials.
O’ The Mormons have fixed their boundaries
for the new State of Deseret, as they have chosen
to call it, so that it embraces about one half of
the United States territory west of the Ri°
Grande and the Rocky Mountains, giving then l
an area of 435,000 square tnilcs
Vast Plains of the Earth. —A writer in the
Quarterly Review thus graphically enumerates,
as the mighty plains of the earth, the great san
dy deserts of Sahara, and the saline steppes of
Asia, and the sterile and shingly plains of Pata
gonia. To tiie.se he adds the Pampas, forming a
bare horizontal surface of nearly one thousand
miles from the Atlantic to the Andes ; —the Silj
vas of the Amazons, a dense tropical forest,cov
ering a level more than half as large as Europe ;
—the Elunoa of the Orinoco, a plain of grass,
twice as large ns France, and flat as the surface
of the sea; —the vast proirics of North America,
stretching westward from the Mississippi to the
Rocky Mountains ; und the wide luxurant plains
of Hindostnn.
Amount of Coin in thf. World. — It is ef ’ 1 ’
mated that the whole amount of coin in the
world at this time is 225,000,000 of uMlars, of
which 380,000,000 is circulating, and 24 5,000,-
000 is in hank. As the earth’s population is set
down at 800,000,000, each individual’s share of
rain, if the whole were equally divided, would
he 78 cents.
Good. —An English paper says that n German
writer observes, in a recent volume on the social
condition of Great Britain—
“ Tliero is such a scarcity of thieves in I ' ,
land, that they arc obliged to offer a reward »t
their discovery.”
