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SOUTHERN TRIBUNE.
EDITED AND HBI.ISHIU WEEKLY, BY
WM. K . HARKINON.
(jj'The following beautiful and affecting
“ Requiem,” originally appeared about eleven
years ago, in the Philadelphia Gazette. We
think we recognizo in these liues the poetic
genius of the late Willis Gaylord Ci.akk, who
edited that paper at the time, and lost in 1839,
a kinJ hearted, lovely and accomplished wife,
w’ho died of consumption :
I see thee still!
Remembrance, faithful to her trust,
Cailslthee in beanty from the dust;
Thou contest in the morning light—
Thou’rt with me through the gloomy night;
In dreams I meet thee as of old,
Then th’v sort arms my neck enfold,
And thy sweet voice is in my car;
In every scene to memory dear
, 1 sec thee still I
I see thee still,
In every hallowed token round
This little ring thy finger bound
This lock of hair thy forehead shaded,
This silken chain by thee was braided;
These flowers, all withered now like thee,
Beloved; thou didst cull for me ;
This hook was thine—here didst thou read—
This picture, ah ! yes here, indeed
I see thee still!
1 see thee still!
Here was thy summer-noon's retreat,
This was thy favorite fire-side seat,
This was thy chamber, where each day,
I set and watched thy sad decays
Here, on this bed, thou last didst lie,
Here, on this pillow, thou didst die !
Dark hour! once more its woes unfold—
As then I saw thee, pale and cold,
I see thee still !
I sec thee still ;
Thou art not in the tonili confined ;
Death cannot claim the immortal mind ;
Lot earth close o'er its sacred true!,
Yet goodness dies not in the dust;
Thee, oh ! beloved, 'lis not thee,
Beneath thecoflin’s lid I see ;
Thou to a fairer land art gone—
There, lot mo hope, my journey done,
To see thee still.
Interesting Correspondence.
Macon, March 25, 1850.
Mr. O C. Gibson— Dear Sir — As the
organ of the nominating Convention held
this day at Forsyth, permit us to iufotm
you, that you were unanimously selected
on the part of the Democracy as the can
didate to represent the Third Congression
al District, in the Convention proposed to
bo held at Nashville, on the Second Mon
day in June next.
Please advise us at your earliest convo
nience, whether or not you will accept.
Respectfully yours,
JOHN J. JONES, 1
S. W. BURNEY, I Com-
J. F. TROUTMAN, f* mittee.
J.W. HIGHTOWER,J
Thomaston, March 2S, 1850.
Gentlemen —Yours of the 25th ins*., in
forming me that my name would be pre
sented to the people for a seat in the Nash
ville Convention is received ; and while
it is matter of sincere regret with me that
one more and better known to the public
has not been selected, it is not my province
to decline any share allotted mo in the
conflict that must bo had for the protection
of the institution of slavery, forit involves,
in a word, all the interest 1 have in my
country.
The Government ordained and estab
lished by the Constitution of the United
States was organized among other things,
"to form a more perfect Union, establish
justice, and insure domestic tranquility" to
the States : Such ends kept steadily in
view, and faithfully observed by the Gov
ernment in its administration, would not
only make us a people emphatically blessed
but the great exemplar of the whole earth.
We may recur to the Constitution and
find these objects a chief consideration with
our ancestors to enter the Union ; but it is
worse than vain to look for such motives
shadowed forth in the iron rule of
States —no such objects make up the em
bodiment of their sentiment—one word
tells the Alpha and Omega of all they do
and all they mean to do, abolish slavery !
What if it does engender in lieu of “a more
perfect Union” most deadly hate ? What
if it does rob us botli of our cquali'y and
millions of millions ? What if it does tui n
“ domestic tranquillity” into honsehold
butchery ! Wipe the stain of slavery from
the escutcheon of the Union: This, this
is the word their babes and sucklings lisp
while the older ones but cry it the louder.
With such sentiments nurtured around
the family hearth, proclaimed from the sa
crod desk, and inculcated from the veriest
demagogue to the gravest Senators, all
alike, it were as wise to look for the clouds
to rain adroughth, as for such men volun
tarily to make a uni-on “more perfect” be
tween us and them— (only by tl»e use of
tho Army and Navy and thirty-six brace
Illinois Regiments !) to give us our ooin or
to maintain our domestic tranquility. Oh
no ! the tryc beats no such fruit, never has
and never will. Its legitimate fruit is just
what is falling red and ripe now before
our eyes. Long lived and time-honored
Senators, with gigantic intellects, may
demons'rate our denied constitutional
t ights in recapturing fugitive slaves, that
their own Legislators have almost, if not
altogether, perjured themselves to give aid
and comfort in the abolition of such rights,
but in the very same speech they will an.
nouncc to us are not fit to occupy
oar Territories as a State, unless we first
leave the sin of slavery behind us : and
these mind you are our friends, and such
as these our only hope for help to stay the
uplifted sword of Abolitionism —Webster
and Cass, ct ul.
What a broken reed to be offered to men
that have minds to knotv their rights and
courage to protect them ! Let such trust
to them for defence as may, I neither do
nor will. Why if they were truly with us
and for us theirs would be the very first
blood abolitionism would now drench its
field with.
If we will submit to be now robbed of
our share in the Territories, to the despo
liation of Texas of her true boundary, to
the safe keeping all out fugitive slaves; and
iu a short time to the abolition of slavery
in the District of Columbia, and the trade
among the States ; and after a while for a
constitutional majority to follow in the
footsteps of their illustrious predecessor,
the Mexican Congress, and abolish slavery
in the Nation, then icc may have a little
respite,and our posterity have \hc privilege
of taking the last of the dose.
In relation to the duty I owe myselfand
those who are to come after me, I have
now and had for many years a conclusion
that is not to be shaken—we must maintain
our rights at all hazards—and here I know
is the work ; for in doing it political (not
personal enemies, for we have very few
Abolitionists yet in our midst,) enemies at
home for party purposes, will brand every
move with the epithets hasty, hotspurism;
nay worse than that, disunion, traitorism,
and all such lifie will be the fancy words
of the opposition, while abroad we must
contend with every species of misrepresen
tation, deceit ami hate.
Well.for one I amtn/tnewilh my friends,
where they go 1 mean to go ; if it be thought
best to remonstrate, then my voice is for
remonstrance manly ; if, —and as I think
the surest way —it be deemed best to an
nounce that the Southern States will not
submit to be robbed of their share in the
Territories—to the despoliation of Texas,
nor to any other of the prominent abolition
measures, such as the stealing our negroes,
abolishing slavery in the District ol Co
lumbia :—That is my word—and “if l have
moral courage to sustain my physical a
bility, I will devote all I have and am to
maintain” the position, be it the one or the
other.
In the present condition of this move
ment it appears to me proper in this wav
to present my opinions to the District; for
while it would be a bright page in my life
to represent a constituency thinking with
me on this great question, it would be
a blot on my existence to misrepresent any
set of men ; and between (bis and the
Second Monday in June, there is ample
time for the people in the District to adopt
any proper measures to keep me where
both my inclinations and wants call me,
at home.
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
O. C. GIBSON.
To Messrs. J. J. Jones, and others, Com
mittee.
Treason, — It may not be amiss, at this
lime, to refer to some of the sentiments ofj
the past. Mr. Calhoun is charged with
the grossest ieconsistenry on the question
of the day. The following toast given
by him in IS3U, shows that he then
thought as he does now!
By Mr. Calhoun,
“The Union: next to our liberty, the
most dear ; may we all remember that it
can only be preserved by respecting the
rights of the Stales, and distributing c
qually the benefits and burdens of the U
nion.”
The following was given by that noble
intellect which now, alas! is completely
obscured by physical affliction.
By Mr. McDuffie,
“The memory of Patrick Henry: The
first American statesman who had thesoul
to feel, and the courage to declare, in the
face of an armed tyranny, that ‘there is
no treason in resisting oppression.”
These sentiments were popular in 1830,
but to urge them now, is paying an hom
age too great to the sovereignty of the
States, and amounts to treason against the
supremacy of a grand national consolida
tion. Men, in the South, who once main
tained that the Constitution was a fixed,
solid work of our father’s hands, now con
stitute it an imageofwax and even squeeze
it into the shape of a central monster from
wh sc tyranny there is no escape ! !
Augusta Republic,
From the Augusta Republic.
We copy the following from the
Northern anti-slavery papers, to show how
much more justice even they can do Mr.
Calhoun, than some of our papers and
people of the South, whose interests he
lias so faithfully served. Mr. Calhoun s
health is represented as being worse than
ever. He had recovered in a great mea
sure. He attended the Senate at the read
ing of his speech, and continued to occu
py his seat day after day, mingling in de
bate, to serve the South at the risk of his
life, and how has he been treated by some
in this section. Wc appeal to the North
ern Free-soi! papers, to defend the great
patriot against the malice of some South
ern'' rs.
Mr. Calhoun’s Speech. —The New
York Globe says:
Os the speech itself, we may say that it
is vvoithy of the fame of Mr. Calhoun. It
is a cool, calm, dispassionate, argumenta
tive and logical production. Considering
the constitutional ardor of Mr. Calhoun,
the mild and sad tone of this final effort
of the great Southerner is remarkable.—
There is not a menace in it. There is
not even that impetuous outpouring of an
indignant Southern spirit that we had a
right to expect. It really seems as if the
eloquent Senator, feeling in his enfeebled
frame the silent advances of death, had
seated himself to pen a melancholy appeal
to the affection and judgment of his coun
trymen, and in view of his brief future, to
carefully avoid indicting
One line which, (lying, he could wish to blot
Thus; whatever may be the dif
ference of opinion amongst men in regard
to the sentiment of this farewell address,
there can be none in relation to its temper,
style or diction.
The corresponden of the Philadelphia
Inquirer (another Free-soiler) says:
Mr. Calhoun’s speech on the slavery
question in the Senate, yesterday, is the
topic on conversation to-day, among all
classes of our population. The effect
which it had here is to convince many who
previously had no thought thatt the South
were in earnest on the slavery question,
that the country is about to experience a
shock which may be fatal to the Republic.
I don’t believe that any President’s mes
sage for ten years has created as much
thought and reflection as the speech of Mr.
Calhoun has.
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
Washington, March 24.
The Report of the Hon. Thomas But
ler King, upon the resources and condi
tion of California was presented to the
Secretary of State on Saturday. The Re
port is very able, and is fraught with facts
and views of highly interesting and im
portant character. His views as to the
mineral wealth of California, far surpass
those of Mr. Wright, whose general state
ment I have hertofore given you. Mr.
King represents that forty millions have
already been taken from the gold region.
Fifty millions will he taken within the
present year. In 1851 and 1852, over a
hundred millions \v ill, as he represents,
be taken from the diluvial soil and from
ilie auriferous quartz mountains. He
says that 15,000 foreigners, most of them
from Chili, aie now engaged in gold hunt
ing, with seven thousand Americans.—
The Chilians understand the subject bet
ter than the Americans,and have been very
successful—far beyond any thing that has
been supposed. All of Mr. King’s state
ments are based on sa'isfactory data,
| which he presents. He shows, too, that
the immigration into the country will be
immense, atul that science and capital will
he employed in the mining of gold in its
native and inexhaustible beds. All the
gold hitherto taken lias been from the
j neighborhood of the streams, into which
| it lias been washed by torrents, in partic
les or in boulders, disintegrated from the
mountains of quartz. Ho confirms Mr.
Wright’s statement that, with a pestle and
mot tar, a single individual can make more
gold, from the quarz rock, than he can by
washing the earth and sarid. But, wash
ing is now to end, and all the appliances
of science are to be employed upon these
| gold-teeming hills and mountains. New
depositories of mercury have beendiscov
ered, and that metal will he used to profit
able extent in the separation of gold from
the pulverized quartz.
By the way, I learn, at the Patent Office,
that Com. Stocton’s machine for breaking
the rocks is highly recommended, and is
in practical use at his mines in Virginia.
Mr. King recommends that the gold
oc-liiiiig luntrs, in Cam,.. 11. a, ohall— rc in*:i:* =
as public property. He opposes sales of
the lands. In regard to the diluvial wash
ings, he proposes that the workers or dig
gers shall merely pay the Government
one ounce a year for the privilege ; and
he estimates the revenue from this source
at SBOO,OOO. As the mining operations
in the mountiains require capital, lie pro
poses that lots be leased, on annual rent
of from six to ten percent; upon the pro
ceeds. He suggests, also, that no permit
should be given to any person who is not
a citizen of the United States, or has not
declared or may not declare in properfurm
his intention of becoming a citizen.
I have not, of course, seen the Report,
but the views above mentioned are pre
sented in it, as 1 learn.
Mr. Calhoun was much better to-day.
His fc ver was gone, and, though very
weak, he was not considered as being in
any danger. I find that the rumor of his
being engaged in dictating another ad
dress to the Senate is unfounded.
(Kelt is said that Mrs. Partington in
tends applying for admission on the floor
of Congress, as she believes all the bills
brought in there must he counterfeit, lluno
being such difficulty in passing them. i
ITCuaiif.ictures at tlic South.
To Freeman Hunt, Esq.
Editor of the Merchant's Magazine, ect.
Dear Sir — l have just read the article
of Mr. Gregg, in your December and
January numbers, in which be very truly
says that “the remuneration which capital i
receives, when invested in manufacturing, |
is nut a criterion from w hich to judge of
the profits derived by the country of large.” I
He then notices the fact, that New En- j
gland has grown rich, not merely the |
stockholders, but the whole people, in j
consequence of her spirit and power of
machinery. But great as the results have
been to New England, they ate not to be
computed with those now being produced
at the South.
The lower class of New England popu
lation are possessed of energy, inventive
genius, aud go ahead industry, with intel
lects brightened by a plain education ;
while the same class here are as inert as
indolence and poverty and total want of
education for ages can make a people ; and
the change wrought upon such a popula
tion, by transposing them from their mis
erable log-cabins in the pine-woods, and
equallly miserable food and raiment, to
the state of civilization that they meet
with in such a beautiful manufacturing
village as Graniteville, must be seen to be
appreciated. It is no wonder that Mr.
Gregg estimates the benefits to the body
politic so highly. The whole tract around
Graniteville, three years ago, was a wild
barren waste, and i lie greater portion of
the operatives almost as wild as the abo
rigines—living a sort of vegatale life, of
little profit to themselves or others. Presto
—change. The magic wand of the manu
facturer waved over the rocky bed of the
stream that for ages had spent its idle force
adown that \ alley, and up arose the gran
ite palace of the spindle and loom, and al
most a hundred neat and comfortable dwel
lings, now sheltering almost a thousand
souls, nine-tenths of whom had never be
fore been sheltered by a domicile worthy
the name of a comfortable house. And,
certcs, never before had they the opportu
nity of offering up thanks to God every
Sabbath day in such a chnrch as either of
those now pointing theirspires from Gran
iteville to realms on high.
But that is not all. Here the children
must attend school, and ifany one is oppo
sed to make a brute of himself over the
whiskey cup, he must go to some other
place, for neither in store nor tavern in
that village has that curse of the earth ev
er entered, or can ever enter until own
ers change.
The reason why the goods from this es
tablishment have entered so successfully
into competition with those of the North
ern mills, can be easily understood by
those who have travelled much in the cot
ton-growing region, as I have done. The
handling ot cotton is one continued scene
of waste, from the lime the first bolls open
until the bales reach the New England
cotton-mill, and there the picture is re
versed, for every item, even the dirt that
accumulated on tho hales, serves to ma
nuro the soil. In the field much of the
cotton is unpicked until mid-winter, and
much of it blown out, parts stained and in
jured. At the gin-house tha waste is still
going on, arid most commonly is put up in
bagging that is more like a net than like
cloth ; and, after being tumbled about in
the mud, and exposed to the rain, is per
haps hauled a hundred miles, through mud
dy road*, and then tumbled out upon the
ground to rest awhile before it makes a
steamboat passage, still exposed to rain
and dirt and smoke, and then put on shore,
as 1 have often seen at New Orleans, in
mud and water 6 inches deep, to stand,
perhaps, a week. By this time the sack
ing is half to; n off; hut, notwithstanding
that, when the sampler comes round, if
there is a whole spot left, he will cut a
most unmerciful gash into it and extract a
few pounds from each bale, although there
may be a hundred alike. And why ? The
samp’es are his perquisites, and, therefore,
the largest possible quantity that can be
gouged out without having it called steal
ing, is most to his profit. The practice is
a shameful one, and not only a direct lax
upon the planters for the amount taken,
but it leaves the balance of the bale open
to injury. At all the cotton yards, and
depots, and wharves, the bags are tumbled
about in the dirt, and the ground is white
with cotton trampled under foot and was
ted. But wasto and injury docs not cease
her; for 1 have seen it tumbled about in
the same way in the streets of New York.
You will now see the advantage of the
cotton manufacturers who are located
where the staple grows". At Augusta,"
Georgia, the cotton can be taken into the
mill right from the planter’s boat that
brought it down tho Savannah River, and
through the canal of nine miles that brings
the power to drive tho spindles.
Nearly all the South Carolina cotton is
put up in good bags, and if it was only
decently handled and not thievishly sam
pled, it would reach the manufacturer in
better condition than the New Orleans cot
ton of the same quality.
The manufacture of cotton is extending
all over the Southern States, a'nd if there
were a few more such men as William
Gregg to build up in wilderness places a
few more such villages as Graniteviile, it
would prove a great blessing to the lower
classes of people, for it would elevate their
character to a position of far greater use
fulness than they will ever attain by any
oilier pursuit.
The following is the cost of manufac
turing cotton, per pound, at Graniteviile,
for the week ending July 5 :
Picking, one mill and eight hundredths ;
carding, eight mills and fifty-eight-hun
dredilis ; spinning, spooling and warping,
one cent and eight-hundredths of a mil l ;
weaving one cent, eight mills, and seven
ty-four-hundredths ; dressing, three mills
and sixty-five-humlredths ;ba!eing, eighty
five-hundredths of a mill ; sundries, five
mills and sixty-three-hundredths; total cost
of labor, four cents, eight mills, and sixty
one hundredths. The week ending De
cember 8, shows a cost of four cents, eight
mills, and eighty-one-liuudredths.
These two weeks are about the highest
that I noticed among many, and will show
you that the company are not losing mon
ey, at least, and 1 fear that is more than
some of those at the North can say during
the present high price of the raw material.
I am, most respectfully, &c.
SOLON ROBINSON.
Charleston, S. C., Feb. 15, ISSO.
From the Scientific American.
The Electric l.iglit, Ac.
During the winter of 1844 5, the late
Col. Bomford, of the Ordinance Depart
ment, and myself were engaged in some
experiments, having for thhir object the
precipitation of silex (in solution) by the
action of electricity ; it being expected
that glass so formed would be very dense,
and consequently possess a high refrac
tory power. During the course of experi
ments I became satisfied that so long as
•he whole body of water around the poles
remained a conductive or diffusive medi
um, the action of the passing currents
would be limited, and the results desired
unattainable. With this view of the sub
ject I sought for some method by which
; the atoms of water in contact with the
| poles, could be effectually barred from
\ communication with any conductive sub
| stance, and yet admit of a continual sup
j ply of the water to be decomposed.
Believe in the doctrine of impondera
bility and immateriality ofthe electi ic fluid,
all efforts to accomplish the desired result
failed, and the experiment was about lo be
abandoned, when a doubt as to the truth
ofthe books, on the question ofthe nature
of electricity, arose in my mind, and on
the faint hope held forth, the experments
were renewed, and the results more than
realized the most sanguine expectations ;
for not only was the insulation of the wa
ter perfect, and the decomposition rapid,
but the electric fluid was found to be sus
ceptible of accumulation and condensation
to an unlimited degree. The ease and ra
pidity with which the water was resolved
into its component gases, naturally sug
gested the ide of applying ihe discovery to
some practicle use, and that of light was
selected, as the most simple an and inexpen
sive in its application. But on the very
threshold ofthe experiment, an apparently
insurmountable obstacle was met in the
inability to separate the gases. After a
number of serious explosions.
Although the practicale experiments were
abandoned, the mental action on the sub
ject was not, and during some time in the
fall of 1848, 1 concluded that the iavv w hich
demanded and aqueous communication
between the poles, or that the positive and
negative poles should both enter one body
of water, was not correct—a conclusion
which a very simple experiment decided
to be correct. One pole was inserted into
a glass cf water in the corner of a large
ro-m, and the oilier pole in another glass
in the opposite corner, and an electrical
communication made between. All the
water in one glass was decomposed, and
hydrogen only obtained. All the water
was decomposed in the other, and oxygen
only obtained. The resu't was known,
the experiment was considered fully su;
cessful, and a small electromagnetic ap
paratus, having its helices kept iu motion
by clock work put in operational my
dwelling,aud was found capable of supply
ing three burners with an abundance of
the gasses. It was at this period of the
expeiiments that I issued the circular an
nouncing the discovery, and with an invi
tation to the citizens of this place to call
and examine for themselves.
In tho spring of 1849, a light-house was
erected on an eminence, near this citv,
and the experiment tried on a lame scale
for several months, at the light house,
besides lighting of a store in the city, the
results being entirely successful in'both
places, and fuully justifying the assertions
made in in the circular of announcement.
And here I wish it to he understood, that
ihis must not be considered a mere state
ment of mine, but the history of the fact is
familiar to all whose appreciation of the
discovery was sufficient to prompt them
to visit my tower or dwelling. The ex
periments at the light-house continued un
til September, when an explosion occur
red which cast a momentary damp upon
the bright prospects of the discovery.—
-Thrrnxplosion wan -not due, an intimated--
by ‘‘Carduretted Hydrogen,” to the cx
ptosive nature of the gases, hut to an en
tirely different cause—one peculiar to the
construction and action of the instrument
under consideration. The slate or action
of electricity known a3 Galvanism, pro-I
duces decomposition : while that known I
as intensity, causes repulsion to take place I
at the electrodes, and deflagaration of the !
decomposing cellsis the consequent result. I
It was to the latter action that the explo- |
sion referred to was due ; tho gases being !
fired by the melting elactrode.
The realizing of the possihilty of such
an accident made it appearant that some
method should be devised, other than
that of personal observance, to prevent
such explosions in future. The same a
gent that caused the danger must be made
to remove it. This was no easy task, for,
independent of the natural difficulty in
the case, the press was teeming withscur
riiious inueniioes; the only difference in
whoso tenor was that one journal con
signed me to contempt as a humbug, and
another to confinement as a lunatic. It is 1
well, however, for the cause of the sci
ence, that inventors are ganerally stub
b m beings,, firmly believing that they are
able to perform all they promise, against
all the sneers or contempt that may be
brought to bear against them ; and so in
this case, perhaps, the “captious,” feeling
saved the invention, for the difficulty was
overcome and the apparatus made to gov
ern itself, by the breaking of its circuits
when a surcharge is passing.
It has required the labor of months to
accomplish this last mentioned part of the
invention, and although at the period of
writing this, tho danger of an explosion is
entirely lemoved, yet the loud reports
made by the breaking cf the circuits, are
deemed adverse to the successful introduc
tion of the invention to the public, but it
is confidently expected that this difficulty
will be overcome in the course of a few
days. Meantime theapparatus and its ac
tion is the daily subject of inspection at
myroomsinlhe Exchange—nothing be
| ing screened but the interior of the heli
j ces and electrodes. The whole process
, of the decomposition can be seen, and if
| necessary, felt of. The result of all ex
periments up to ibis date aie as follows ■
The descent weight, 67 lbs. a distance of
9 feet, will generate 600 cubic feet of tlio
gasses, at no other expense than the inter
est ot the cost of the apparatus, say SSOO.
\ou may use tho gasses for light, power,
or purposes of caloric. (I have as yet ex
perimented only with tho former,) and
make your own deductions.
I receive many letters from yourreaders
asking what I claim as my invention : per
mit me here to reply, that I clain to have
: discovered anew principle in electricity,
\ viz : ponderability, materiality, and obe
dience to the laws of gravitation. I claim
to be the first to accumulate and compress
the electric fluid ; and I claim to have in
vented a machine or apparatus which ena
bles me to use electric fluid for useful pur
poses in the arts and sciences, at no other
cost than the interest of its price.
HENRY M. PAINE.
Worcester, March 7, 1850.
M A C O N,GT
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 30.
[fj’Mrs. Lawton will open her School in
Vineville on Monday next. This lady is a com
potent teacher, and parents wishing to send their
children would do woll to commence on that
day.
Mn. Gibson’s Letter—-\Ve received last night
the letter of O. C. Gibson, Esq., which will be
found in another column. \Vc have no time to
make any comments—lt speaks for itself, how
ever, and will amply repay perusal.
1 he Weather.—On Wednesday night last,
we had the heaviest fall of snow experienced
here for several years past, which was visible in
various parts of the city until nine o’clock the
next morning. On Thursday night there was
a severe frost, which we learn has killed the cot
ton and cut down the corn which was up in
many places, in some of the counties below this.
Last night it was cloudv and threatens rain to
day.
Steamboat Disaster.—The Columbus En
quirer ofthe 2Gth inst. says : “Just as wc were
going to press we learn that ihe steamer H. ft
Smith, which left here on Saturday evening for
Apalachicola, took fire about thirty miles below
this city, and was entirely consumed. She had
on board about one thousand hales of cotton,al|
. "" the most of which was burnt.
Our informant, who escaped from the Boat,
was not able to state whether any lives were
lost, owing to the fact that some ofthe crew and
passengers escaped to ihe east, anu some to the
west side of the River, and there had been no
communication between them, up to the time of
his leaving.
Nashville Convention.—The following are
the candidates for election as Delegates :
For the State —C. J. McDonald and W. T.
Colquitt, (D.J \V. Law and C. Dougherty (W)
First District — lion. G. M. Troup,(D.) J.H.
Couper, (VV.j
Second District — lt. L. Benning, (D.) M.J■
Crawford, (VV.)
Third District —O. C. Gibson, (D) JamesJ
Scarboroug h. (W.)
Fourth District —F.. Y. Hill, (VV.) O. Warner,
(D.)
Fifth District —S. Fouche,(D.) H. V. M. Mil
ler, (W.)
Seventh District — J. A. Wingfield, (L).) J. A.
Meriwether, (W.)
Eighth District —L. J. Gartrell, (W ) W' l *’
Schley, (D )
The Sixth District, (Mr. Cobb’s) is the only
one in the Slate that will not be represented.
Tins fHrctiim —w4H —pl-'c« mi Tuesday
next, 2d day of April.
New Fork Dry Goods Sale 9 large
public sales nltractod the attention an and invited
the attendance of tho trade on Tuesday-
Though the number of public sales have in'
creased within the lasi fortnight, yet the
amountof goods offering is not near so large
in the spring of last year.
The carpet stock in the Thompsoville Manu
facturing Company was offered for sale by Me®-
Austenss &. Spicer and occasioned a very
spirited competition among the bidders.
sale resulted in higher prices for the best qua! l '
ties of their goods. The attendance was ury
hirge, and the goods were all sold.
The pachnge sales of assorstd dry goods, by
Messrs Haggerty, Draper & Jones, brought 1°
gather a largo company, and realized fair price®
The attraction of the sale was in tho offering o
fancy spring prints, which sold satisfactorily st
an average of cent per yard.
Messrs. Warren t Co's sale of assorted tj
goods, of which the principal articles were d® 11
and cassimoros, realised for these goods in P*
ticular fair avosage prices \V 00l blacks breng
$2 05 to $2 3 o*