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MACON , G A.
Saturday afternoon, march 2:?.
dyln order to enable us to give the latest in
telligence, we shall hereafter issue the Southern
Tribune in the afternoon, which will give us the
use of Friday night's mail. This arrangement
will not delay it to our country patrons.
The Georgia Citizen.— We received the
hrst number of this paper just as we were closing
ours, consequently can only bid it welcome. It
is neat in appearance, and filled with interesting
matter.
Mr. Benning’s Letter. —We commend the
attentive perusal of this able letter to our readers.
The events of the last month have satisfied us
that “ we are in the midst of a revolution, though
bloodless as yet”—and it behooves the South to
know who are prepared to stand by her in the
hour of ueed. So far the necessity for a Con
vention seems to increase. Look to the infa
mous Resolutions from New York, (and Ohio
and Rhode Island have recently passed similar
ones, for which we have not room to-day,) and
the votes in both houses to receive them, and
tell us if this looks like "all's well, the danger is
over.” No indeed—it is hut the delusion of an
artful Delilah, that is crying “peace, be still,”
until she shears us of our strength, and delivers
us over to the Philistines of the North. The
masses of the North we candidly believe are de
termined to restrict slavery to its present limits;
and they doubtless intend eventually to abolish
it in the States—this has been recently avowed
by some of the more candid among them. In
ten years how will the South stand beside
the twenty or thirty new States to be formed out
cfOregon,California, New Mexico and perhaps
Canada. This is no idle view of the subject.
But read the letter and judge for yourself.
Mr. Toombs’ Letter. —Wc publish in ano
ther column this strange production, not that vve
agree with him, but to show how far he is dis.
posed to go in maintaining the rights of the
South in relation to the admission of California.
We do not know whether he will vote for its
admission or not—it will be admitted however,
under the present organization, embracing terri
tory enough to form seven States as large as
Georgia, and embracing upwards off our hundred
thousand square miles! And yet we are told
the South must submit to this flagrant outrage,
•imply because Congress has the right to admit
new States Into the Union—a right which we
have no doubt will be literally construed and
exercised out of this very territory hereafter.
Can any sane mind think for a moment that if
an application were now made by the balance of
the territory for admission as a slaveholding
State, that it would be granted ? No indeed-
But it is for the people of the South to determine
whether they will tamely submit to the admis
sion of California, and the eventual abolition of
slavery in their own territory or not.
Nashvk.le Convention. —The following are
the candidates for election as Delegates :
For the State —C. J. McDonald and W. T.
Colquitt, (D.) W. Law and C. Dougherty (W.)
Second District —ll. L. Benning, (D.) M.J.
Crawford, (W.)
Fourth Dictrict—E Y. Hill, (W.) O. Warner,
<D.)
Fifth Districts. Fouche,(D.) 11. V. M. Mil
ler, (W.)
Seventh District —J. A. Wingfield, (D.)
Eighth District —Win. Terrell, (W.)
The First, Third, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth
Districts have not yet held or completed their
nomina ions.
Election on Tuesday', 2d day of April next.
inr'Ve learn from the Chattanooga Advertiser
of the 2Uth inst. that Bacon is seiiing there at 44
cents per lb. hog round—no corn nor potatoes in
that market.
The State Road. —The Chattanooga Ad
vertiser of the 20th inst. says,“The cars are now
running from the Depot at this place to Tunnel
Hill, under the arrangement mentioned by us
two weeks ago. The Passanger Car has been
attached to the small Engine, which goes and
returns daily, except Sundays ; while the
Freight Cars have been attached to the large
Engine, which makes nine trips per week,
taking off 130 bales of Cotton each trip—or
1170 bales per week. This arrangment will
enable the Cars to take off the Cotton now here
in about three weeks.
The Sea Serpent.— The Savannah Geor
gian of the 19th inst. says that the passengers by
Metamora state that the Serpent has been real
ly caught- He is a species of the whale family,
with several proturberances on his back, 'i he
head of a whale and a snake’s body. His cap
tors have drawn him to the beach, and covered
him over for security.
Southern Colony in California. —The fol
lowing appears in the advertising columns ofthe
Mississippian. In our opinion similar measures
should have been adopted long ago :
California —The Southern Slave Colony.—Citi
zens of the Slave States desirous ofemigrating to
California will send their nnmes, number slaves
and period of contemplated departure, to the ad
dress of “Southern Slave Colony,” Jackson,
Msssissippi.
All letters, to meet with attention, must be
postpaid.
It is the desire ofthe friends of this enterprise
to settle in the richest mining and agricultural
portions ofCalifornia, and to secure the uninter
rupted enjoyment ofslave property, It is estima
ted that by the first of May next, the members
of the Slave Colony will amount to about five
thousand, and the slaves to abont ton thousand.
The mode of effecting organization, &. c., will
he privately transmitted to actual members.
ttj*Thn trial of Professer VV ebster, for the
murder of Dr. Parkman, commenced in Boston
°D the 19th inst. The prisoner looked rnelan
eholy and haggard, the jury was empanelled af
ter fourteen peremtory challenges, during the
oxamination of tho witnesses for the prosecu
tion the greatest excitement prevailed
“ Watchman ! W hat of the Mght t» i
The Southern People and the Southern Press
have now but one theme to engage their thoughts
—and no iteration or change rung on this all
absorbing idea abates its interest. There is
good reason for it, for the theme is a grand one,
and the stake the noblest we have. Constitu
tional freedom is the argument —and equal rights
among equals the contest is waged for. The
most sluggish minded are aroused from their in
difference—those that have been foremost in
their tamperings with our safety have grown se
rious, and even the venal pack who have set
theircountry up for sale, begin to think they have
presumed too far on the weakness and the mean,
ness of human nature. The noblest minds that
figure on our stage of political life are earnest
and solemn in the exertions they are now making
to save the country from its present peril. They
work with a desparate energy, but yet not hope
fully. And well may the most confident trem
ble at the prospect before us. For if the evil
that is to be dreaded, is the dissolution of the
Union of these States (and not the loss of liberty,)
is not the complete extinction of fraternity and
good neighborhood that latter events have pro
duced, between the States, the surest forerunner
of this catastrophe. What respectcan men have
for a political union when personally, in their
heart of hearts they hate, and loathe each other?
What national glories are not eclipsed by the
vile epithets and rancorous recriminations that
daily arc bandied between the North and
South—and what faith can this Government in
spire when its parts are in open conflict because
of the corruption and insecurity which its histo
ry dcvelopos. That man who restores health
to the body politic, must invoke the power of
the Prophet who restored the sweetness to the
hitter waters. We must have back that old feel,
ing of heart-warm and unaffected brotherhood,
that used to be the right arm of the Constitution
—" that in honor preferred one another”—that
once felt an honest pride in the honor and ad
vancement of each section, almost as great as is
now felt in anew ly discovered blot and igno
miny,— we must be again not only the political
allies of each other, but socially, morally, every
way, we must have one fortune and one fate.
If there is no hope for this, it is the madness of
folly to talk about Union, if it be not a Union
for the bitter and more cordial hatred of each
other- For by a tendency as inevitable as natu.
ral, these hostile elements cannot commingle
without collision and the succombing of the
weaker.
The position that a few leading Northern
statesmen have at last reluctantly taken, has, in
our opinion, created hopes that arc doomed to
disappointment. For, first, there has in the
minds of these men been constactly present the
necessity, of npology and extenuation for the
presumption of doing the South justice, and
many of the reasons assigned for this course have
been so sophisticated, that so far from concilia
ting and convincing their constituency, they
have only exasperated them and strengthened
their delusion, by causing them to believe that
because a flimsy and untenable reason has been
given for doing right, that therefore they are
justifiable in doing wrong.
In a word, after taking a full view of all the
ground occupied by our best friends at the North,
we confess we are not confident or trusting on
the points of controversy, because of the animus
by which they have been induced to give us
their support. We would not, for worlds, be
captious as this hour, nor aggravate by unreason
able exactions, the sore evils that now afflict our
unfortunate country ; but in sober earnestness,
we ask our readers, until the North and North-
West come to view this whole Slavery question
in some other light than as a moral or religious
one, what earthly hope have we, that this eter
nal torment to our national peace, is ever to be
ended ? And that it is now viewed as a ques
tion for the moralist and not the politician, but a
few moment’s reflection will satisfy any' mind.
For, viewed politically, what harm docs the in
stitution of Slavery work to any portion of the
country? What exclusiveness is there in its
privileges—what immunities from taxation or
governmental charge are enjoyed by it. None
whatever—and yet to mark the zeal and outcry
that are never still in their warfare, we would
suppose that some of the States were outrageous
ly burtliened for the support of an ungodly mo
nopoly. No, politically the anti-slave States are
vastly benefitted by Slavery and they know it.
They well know that to abolish this institution
is to beggar them by the blow that strikes two
hundred millions of yearly wealth from the face
of the earth. No, we say again this whole
movement has been from first to last projected
by unsound and wholly unjustifiable principles
of action, referring the question to our peculiar
form ofgovernment. Then admit the free States
so called, have viewed this as a moral question
in their attacks upon us, and where are vve ?
The next, and we are to be disfranchised for our
unreasonable and “God detested” want of free
schools; our thirty thousand adults that neither
read nor write, should not disgrace the country
and degrade the “ free North,'' the enlightened
North, by voting before they are made wise
enough to vote. Then the Temperance reform
will engage Congress—The Holy Sabbath, so
wantonly desecrated, will employ in its behalf
the noblest powers ofGovernment and we never
will stop in the mad career of reform, until a
Theocracy shall he established, with the smirk
ing, smiling devil of hypocrisy, at the head of it.
This may seem an extravagant picture, but its
typo has been found in history, and the history
tooof the very peoplo who havo taken us soul
and body into their keeping.
With us every thing that marks the day is be.
gun and carried on by an epidemic fury. There
are neither metes nor bounds to our good or bad,
and if slavery is to be abolished or restricted
from the motives assigned for it, there will be no
telling where we will stop. If, however, vve are
true to the fortunes of the American Republic,
we might turn the present unpropitiouscircum
stances of the country to a noble use.
We might, now all sections have been brought
to see the ruin of blind fanaticism, form anew
league—correct errors that aro gaining
that, sooner or later, must get the mastery over
us,—and for the future, for all time, by declara
tory acts, so palpably define the rights of all,
that to question them hereafter, will be, per se,
revolution and war. This would be a sensible,
manly course, and the admonitions of our recent
troubles, will have passed by as the idle winds,
if we leave things in their present undefined and
uncertain state. Will they so remain f We are
sure they will not. Better or worse they must
get ; and we are now, every hour, ice Southern
men, making up the irresistible destiny of our
children. This last week has been pregnant
with moral influences, and we fear, for us, of the
worst sort. We will, in the love of country and
fear of God declare, that if the course pursued
by some of the counties of Georgia in the last
two weeks, begonerally followed, vve will lose
every inch of ground we have lately gained and
never be able to regain it. Will Southern men,
and Georgians, by an apathy and unconcern in
regard to our present dangers, insult the spirit of
resistance to injury and wrong, and prostrate the
spirit of our councils, and unnerve tho strong arm
of defence? A few more unheeded calls to meet
in primary assembly and a word or two more of
threats/rom us, that the Government is to be
subsidized, when occasion calls, and our ene
mies will believe any thing, attempt any thing.
The Weather. —For a week or two past we
have had occasional heavy rains, accompanied
with thunder and lightning, which have raised
the streams and rendered the roads almost iin.
passable, as well as materially checked farming
operations. Notwithstanding this, it lias not
been as cold as might have been expected. We
notice that the rains have extended to the West,
and great fears aro entertained of extensive
damage being done on the Mississippi. At Au.
gusta on the 18lh, the water rose to about thirty
feet above low water mark, and being only six
feet and a half below the great flood of 1840,
which flowed a part of the city. We have not
yet heard of any material damage being done.—
At Chattanooga a few days ago, the water was a
foot deep in some of the stores near the river.
Our riverrose about six feet last night and is very
full. The weather has turned colder to-day,
and the prospect is good for its being clear now.
The weather has been colder the last winter
in England, than it was ever known to be in that
country.
Mr. C alhol'N. —Wc are pleased to learn that
the health of this gentleman is improving, and
vve hope will soon be entirely restored. His
presence in the Senate is much needed at the
present time, when his motives have been mis
construed, and the crusade against the South is
not only unabated,but on the increase. Should
his health permit vve doubt not he will be found
at his post during the present crisis.
Mr. Calhoun was born on the 18th of March,
1782, and consequently on Monday last he was
sixty-eight years of age.
Coin. —The Twenty Dollar Gold pieces have
recently made their appearance, and will be con
venient for those having large payments to make
in gold, although too heavy for the pocket.
Counterfeit half dollars, so accurately execu.
ted as to exhibit no perceptible difference from
the genuine coin are in circulation in New Or
leans. They can only he detected by ringing
them.
0"E. M. Moise, (D ) has been elected Speak
er of the Louisiana Legislature to supply the
vacancy occasioned by the death on the7lh inst.
of P. W. Farrar, Esq. The New Orleans
Crescent says -‘We are glad that he was elected,
if for no other reason than because the Whigs
attempted by deserting their seats, to prevent an
election. This mode of attempting to control
the majority is wrong, and always results in loss
to the party which adopts it. The W'higs claim
io he ihe conservatives, yet ii seems iiiey uo iiui
hesitate to resort to this most dishonest mode of
retarding business. Mr. Moise moved an ad
journment, so that it should not be said that he
was elected by surprise But ifmembors choose
to come off to the city, those who remain have
no right to delay business until the truants re
turn. It is wrong in principle—ruinous in prac
tice.”
ITT-The Remington Bridge which is now be
ing built at Montgomery, Ala., has a span op
four hundred feet, without piers or other inter,
vening support —the longitudinal supporters or
stringers being only three inches thick in the
middle. This Bridge, it is said, will be capable
of sustaining upwards 0f2,000 tons, and will cost
only SISOO.
Father Mathew. —The Mobile Tribune of
the 13th inst. says : “Tho success of this single
minded, benevolent individual, we are happy to
learn continues to increase. Already the num.
her to whom he has administered the total ab.
stinencc pledge in Mobile exceeds thirteen hun
dred.”
Oregon. —A writer from Oregon, describes it
as one ofthe healthiest and most beautiful por
tions of our country, and destined to bo one of
the wealthiest. They have there the finest cli
mate and the best water in the world, end never
have the fever and ague. He says it is a perfect
paradise for women and cows, but as yet raiher
tough for men, oxen and horses.
O’Tlie municipal elections rnme off in Mon
treal, Canada,on the 3th inst. and resulted in the
election of the Annexation candidates in both
wards.
O’Thc cars are now running on the Railroad
from Jackson to Brandon, Miss.—fare 75 cents.
Smoking Chimney. —Col. William Mason,
of London, in a letter to tho Builder, says—l
havo built many chimneys, in all possible situa
tions, and have found one simple rule always
succeeded, the Secret being to construct the throat
of the chimnoy, or that part of it jost above the
fire-place, so small that a man ora boy can hard
ly pass through it. Secondly—immediately a
bove this, the chimney should be enlarged to
double its width to the extent of about two feet
in height, and then dininish again to its usual
proportions. No chimney that I ever contracted
.thus, smoked
\ irgini a. —Gov. F loyd has recently commu
nicated to the Legislature of Virginia the fact
that the Governor of Ohio had refused, on his
requisition, to deliver up a free colored man, a
fugitive from justice. The pretext for the refu
sal is essentially the same as that under which
Gov. Seward, ofNevv York, a few years since
refused the requisition of the Governor of Geor
gia. Gov. Floyd in communicating this refusal
to the Legislature, recommends that some mea
sure be adopted to transfer entirely the trade of
\ irginia from those States, which have trampled
underfoot the Constitution of the United States,
to those which are still willing to abide by its
compromises, and recognise their rights under
it. The message concludes as follows :
“ A concerted and uniform action on the par l
ofthe South in this matter, will either redress
our grievances at once, or transfer the direct Eu
ropean trade to the Southern ports, or build up
manufactories ofall sorts in our country, which
would ultimately tend greatly to our strength
and independence.
“We now tax a tin pedlar ten dollars a year,
whilst a clock pedlar has to pay fifty. The ven
ders of all articles manufactured in the recusant
States could be taxed one hundred per cent., and
the vender be required to show where the arti
cles were made. Pains and penalties could be
easily attached to any evasion of the law,which
would insure the due enforcement of it. Tho
details could be made to embrace live stock and
the products of the soil.”
Mexico —Mr. W. M. Gibson, who recently
went to Mexico on oilicial business, and who
has made a pretty extensive survey of the coun.
try, has returned to New York, and communica.
ted several interesting items of intelligence con
cerning its social and political condition. The
aspect ofaffairs was very stormy at the time of
Mr. G’s visit. Troops were at one time ordered
out to surround the excited localities. It is said
that a feeling in favor of annexation to the
United Stntes prevails among the monarchists’
who comprise the wealthy Spaniards; or, if
thatcannotbeobtained,then they wish the adop
tion of some mode of colonization from Europe,
under tho agency of American companies. This
latter feeling is earnest and extensive, and the
plan for colonization is based upon the purchase
of large tracts of land in the State of Vera Cruz,
by Amcaican capitalists, and the settlement
thereon of a large emigration from Germany,
France and England, in a body large enough to
secure them from loss by depredations or other,
wise. Mr. Gibson has a memorial from theown
ers of fifty-two haciendas in the Slate of Vera
Cruz, asking that this plan may be adopted.
Many of them are decidedly in favor of annexa
tion. The desire for the return of Santa Anna
was growing extensive, arid it was felt that he is
the only man who can control the destinies of
Mexico.
The Tunnel. —The Ringgold Republican of
the 16tli inst. states that the first day of July
next, is the most remote period fixed upon, by
the contracior, for the consummation of this
great work. We are happy to inform the public
that anew system of management has been adop
ted at this point, by which the safe and speedy
transposition of goods across the Hill will be
effectually insured. A passenger train and
freight train are running daily between this point
and Chattanooga. The travel is rapidly increas
ing, and the freight both up and down, is accu
mulating. The “extension” is in fine order,
and everything is moving on likeclock work.
A Hurricane. —The Milledgeville Federal
Union of the 19th inst. says : "On Friday last
about 12 o’clock, M., this city was visited with
a gust of wind, accompained with rain, and near
its close with hail, that in severity, exceeded
any thing within the memory of “the oldest in.
habitant.” A singularly heavy cloud had gath.
eredin the North-West, which in its lower ex
tremity was of a deep sei green color. A short
time Oefore it began to discharge its contents,
the loud roar ofthe wind was heard; as it ap.
preached, fences and trees were prostrate! be
fore it. It continued hut a few minutes, but in
its progress over the city, a number ofehimnies
were blown down, many trees uprooted and sev
eral buildings more or less injured. Tho cop"
per sheeting on the roof of the Executive Man
sion, in several places was torn oft and rolled
into a scroll; the tin covering ofthe new cell
building in the Peniteutiary square was thrown
off; the roof, rafters and sheeting of the Steam
Factory, found a resting place in tho adjoining
lot; a chimcy of the Arsenal, was demolished
and a large amount of glass in the State House
destroyed. Several chimneys of private houses,
in different parts of the city were also blown
down, and other damages occasioned. Fortu.
ately, no personal injury was snstained.
We have not heard ofany damage being done
out of the city, except the prostration offences
and the uprooting of trees.
O’Thc Indiana Journal gives a description
of a “Self Waiting Dining Table,’’ invented by
a Mr. Lamb, of that State. The table is in cir"
cular form, and so arranged that the portion on
which the various dishes are set revolves slowly
around, so that you can help yourselfto whatev
er you wish. In the centre of the table, a fan
and fly brush is so arranged as to pass round that
portion of the table containing the dishes with
such rapidity as to drive off the flies and to keep
up a fine circulation of air.
Reform. —TheWashington Union of 15th ult.,
in an article showing the enormous increase of
expenses under tho present administration, in n
time of peace, says that in 1845, only $5,608,207
were expended for what is called civil fist; while
the present administration asks for over $14,000,-
000, or nearly tlireo times the amount. In 1845,
only $9,533,203 were expended for the military
establishment, while the present administration
asks for over $15,000,000. In 1845 the naval
establishment cost $6,224,639, while the present
administration ask for over $11,000,000.
Thf. Panama Railroad. —It is stated thattho
celebrated firm of Baring &> Brothers have ta
ken shares in the Panama Railroad to the amount
[ of £50,009'
Extraordinary Phenomenon in Sampson
County, N. C.—The Fayetteville (N.C-) Caro
linian of the 2th inst. gays : “We received on
Wedcnsday last, the following communication
from Clarkson, through Mr. Holland,of Clinton,
and take great pleasure in laying the astonish
ing particulars before our readers :
“On the 15th February, 1850, there fell
within 100 yards of the residence of Thomas M.
Clarkson, in Bainpson ceuntv, 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 bo flesh, liver, lights,
brains and blood. Some of the blood ran on the
leaves, appearentlv very fresh. Three of his
(T. M. C.’s) children were in it, and ran to their
mother, exclaiming, ‘Mother, there is meat fall
ing !’ Tlieir mother went immediately to see,
hut the shower was over ; but there lay the flesh,
&c. Neill Campbell, Esq., living close by, was
on the spot,shortly after it fell, and pronounced
it as above. One of his children was nbout 150
yards from the shower, and came running to the
rest, saying he smelt something like blood.—
During 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.
Holland you have pieces of the flesh, which arc
reduced by being kept so long
Yours, &c., T. M. C.”
The piece which was left with us, has been
examined with two ofthe best microscopes in
the place, and the existence of blood well cstab.
fished; but nothing wasshown giving any indi
cation ofthe character of the matter.
It has the smell, both in its dry state and
when macerated in water, of putrid flesh ; and
there can scarcely he a doubt that it is such.
It is astonishing, and we may say provoking
also, that an occurrence of the kind should hap
pen within thirteen miles of a village (thirteen
miles south-west of Clinton) of intelligent per.
sons, and no one felt interest enough in to go
and get information about it. It is three weeks
alter it occurred before any account of it is sent
to the press. An occurence that is calculated
to strike some men with awe; and wc are told
that some persons listened to the relation ofit,
and looked upou it as and idle tale, deeming it
impossible that such a thingcould have occured !
The cloud from which it fell is said to have
been of a red appearance, wl icli is ascribed to
the clouds in former cases of this kind.
Although by no means frequent, this is not
the first time that such an occurrence lias taken
place, even in this country. But as yet, the
most learned aro unable to give any rational con
jecture as to thefcause ofsucli a singular phenom
enon.
Plank Road to Waynesboro’. —We under
stand that a project is on foot in this city to
form a Company to build a plank Road from
Augusta to Waynesboro’, and that it is in con
templation to extend it ultimately to Louisville
and Sandersville.
These roads are now tho order of tho day.—
Their great profitableness has been fully demon
strated.
Those who have the above scheme in con
templation arc shrewd men, and not apt to em
bark in an enterprizo without being posted up
as to the facts, and probable results. The cost
of a double track Plank Road to Waynesboro’
will be about SIOO,OOO, or about $3,300 per
mile. ,
The Waynesboro’ and Augusta Rail-Road
Company may look out for a rival.
“Competition is the life of trade.”
Medical use of salt. —In many cases of dis
ordered stomach, a tcaspooriful of salt taken
three times n day is ceitain cure. In the vio
lent internal aching, (termod cholic) add a hand
ful of salt to a pint of cold water Brink it and
go to bed ; it is ono of tho speediest remedies
known. The same must be done on the first
symptoms of plague, and will revive a person
who seems dead from a heavy fall, &<:. In an
apoplectic fit no time should bo lost in pouring
salt and water down tho throat, if sufficient sen
sibility remain to allow swallowing : if not, the
head must he sponged with cold water until the
senses return, when salt and water will com
pletely restore the patient from the lethargy.—
In the fit, the feet should he placed in warm water,
with mustard added,and the legs briskly rubbed,
all bandages removed from tho neck, &x., and
a cool apartment procured if possible. In many
cases of severe bleeding at the lungs, when oth
er remedies fail, Dr. Rush found two teaspoon
fullsofsaltcompletely stayed the flow of hlood-
In case of a bite from a inad dog, wash tho part
with strong brine for an hour, then bind on some
salt with a rag. This prevents ill consequences
and cures. In toothache, warm salt and water
held to the part and renewed two or three times,
will relievo in most eases. In scorbutic habits,
use salt plentifully, imd a vegetable diet; if the
gums be affected, wash tho mouth with brine;
if the teeth he covered with tartar, wash them
twice a day with salt and water. In swelled
neck, wash tho part with brine, and drink it also,
twice a day until cured. Salt will expel worms,
if used in the food in a moderate degree, »nd aids
digestion, hut salt meat is injurous if much used.
(CrTlie New York canalsaro not to bo opened
before, the first of May, two months later than
the commencement of business upon the State
works of Pennsylvania.
The Hickman (Ky.) News Letter has been in
formed that during the last season, there was a
company of sixteen highly respectable gentle
men started from tho neighborhood of Bodys
villr, Tenn. for California, Out of this com
pany but two reached their destination. The
other fourteen died ofstarvation.
O* The celebrated mining district of Guana
juato, in Mexico, has yielded more during the
past > ear than any other time. There had been
coined up to December last, upwards of twelve
millions in silver, and about $700,000 in gold.
The mines yielded from 9 to 15 per cent, of gold.
O* The Hon. R. B. Letcher,U. S. Minister
to Mexico, was received with great cordiality by
| ‘he President of that Ropublie.
England and’ Venezuela. —The VVashing.
ton Globe of the 16th inst. says : "We translate
from the Courier des Etats Unis, tl e following
letter, lately received from Venezuela by tha
journal, which, as it is published without a name,
we give without comment:
“The threat of a bombardment, [of l.aguaira,]
just made by Admiral UocKBrRN to the Gov
ernment of Venezuela, is a natural consequence
of the system that Great Britain has been for
some years pursuing in South America- That
Power wishes to get a footing there, and above
all, to secure possession of the Point of Barima,
which commands the navigation ofthe Orinoco.
She has heretofore attempted to plant her flag
there ; and the resistance offered by General
Paez was the true reason for the support given
the party of General Monagas by the British
Charged’ Affaires. Thus, as I wrote you eigh
teen months ago, (see the Courrier of the 14th
January, 1849,) Mr. Wilson promoted, to thn
full extent of his power, the movement of the
24th January, anticipating, without doubt, that
the difficulties into which he was precipitating
Venezuela, would turn to the advantage of En
gland. But it appears that the hopes he field out
to his Government are too slow in being reali
zed, as it thinks, and it wishes, therefore, to
hasten the result.
“Hero is the whole question. Great Britain
wishes (o have a foothold on Terra Firma; and
as one is not offered her, she intends to help her
self to it. If threats do not succeed, then she
will try the big guns. But as siie must mask
her ambitious projects with a decent pretext, she
puts forward the interest of British commerce.
Observe, though, that this interest has not in
any manner invoked the support ofthe Govern
ment ; so far from that, it protested, in 1848,
against the predicament in which the intrigues
(menecs) of the Chaiged’ Affaires had placed if.
But that matters nothing. The mask, has fallen
off, but still it was a mask, and is now no longer
needed. F.nglnnd demands of Mon ao as that he
shall pay her reclamations ; and it is not in his
power to do it. What will happen theu ? If
Monagas is obstinate, the English will com
mence with a bombardment, and theit an ar
rangement will take place, and tho point of Ba
rium will be ceded to them. Tho intervention
of the United States can alone prevent this result.
But will that be proposed, or will it come in
time? This is the question.
Manufacturing Establishment —Wa learn
from the Chattanooga Advertiser that a compa
ny has been formed, with a capital of $50,000,
for tho purpose of erecting a Foundry in that
place, for the manufacture of Engines, Railroad
Cars, &.c. The capital stock has nil been sub.
scribed, and Mr. Robert Cravens, one of tho
company, will start to the North in a few days,
for the purpose ofcontracting for the necessary
machinery and to examine simitar establish
ments in that section.— Maj. B. R. Mont
gomery, has munificently donated to the compa
ny two and a half acres of land not far from tho
Depot, and near the Rail Road track, for them
to erect the necessary buli Jings upon.—The main
building is to bo 160 feet long, and two story*
high, with wings. It is not yet determined whe
ther the building shall be of Brick or Stone; the
work is to be commenced immediately.—lt is to
be driven by Steam Power.
We hope we shnll shortly be able to state,
that tho stock has boon taken for the erection
of a Rolling Mill, a Cotton Mill and other
Manufacturing Establishments. The erectionr
of such establishments ns those, will do more to
enhance the value of real estate in Chattanooga,
add to her permanent prosperity, than all things
clso.—lt would bring a large capital here,
which would remain,and be constantly accumu
lating; and if the holders of real estate in this
place, a number of whom are men of large
wealth, cannot got the stock taken to erect such;
establishments, they should erect them them
selves, as they aro abundantly able to do, and
thus double the value of their property here.
Great Fire in Buffalo, N. Y.—On Satur
day last a firo broke out in Stewart’s Globe Sa
ioon, in the nortli wing of rile North American
Hotel, and burned seven hours. The Hotel*
was entirely destroyed, togethsr with tho La
fayette Street Church, Bloomer Hall,and, fifteen
or twenty other buildingw. Tho loss is estima
ted at $200,000, of which one-half is insured.
The most beautiful portion of the city is laid in
ruins.
[TT 1 The only copy of Audubon's work on ths
birds of A.morirn, which was saved from the
great fire of 1635, in New York, has been pur
chased by the corporation of that city, for SIOOO
—The subscription price was SSOO.
O’Mr Foote’s proposition for the appoint
ment of a Committee of Thirteen has been held
hack until the propriety is further discussed
many question its efficiency in settling the didr
cullies between the North and the South.
o°The sales of Cotton at Charleston on the
20th inst. reached 1,000 bales at prices decided
ly in favor of purchasers. Tiie prices rangad
from 10.} to 111 c.
MACON MARKET, MARCH 23.
COTTON—The Canada’s accounts caused
prices to recede from |to one cent per lb. Our
market opened on Monday at 10 a 10}<S. On
Tuesday the accounts from Charleston and Sa
vannah shewed more doing and out market im
proved 3 a }c. with a good feeling. Should the
accounts hourly expected shew an advance, we
may coon look for old prices.
The receipts at all tho ports shew a falling off
of some 350,000 bales.
HALL & BBAATLEY,
HAVE just received a well selected assort
ment of DR Y GOODS and GROCERIES,
which embraces almost every article in their
fine of business. These Goods make their stock
extensive, which has been selected recently by
one of the firm, and they are determined to sell
their Goods upon reasonable terms, and at the
lowest prices. Whilst they are thankful for past
favors, they respectfully iuvite theif friends and
the public to call at their Storo on Cherry Street,
and examine their Goods and prices, before pur
chasing elsewhere J
march 23
