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From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
Tlio Slate Aid Qnestlon.
As the question of further State Aid
to Railroads, contemplated to be extend
ed into the destitute sections of Georgia,
has produced much discussion, and occu
pied much time duritig the last two Ses
sions of the Legislature, a condensed view
may, with propriety, be given of the
grounds upon which such aid .has been
claimed and advocated.
It is contended that the duty of Gov
ernment does not end in giving protec
tion merely to property, the avocations
and lives of the citizens, but that every
civilized government on the face of the
globe, has contributed more or less to
works of general utility, and especially
works for internal transportation, and
that no government has ever made good
its claim to civilization, or a right to ex
ist, which has refused, or been unable to
afford such aid.
It is claimed that the State of Georgia
has from her earliest existence, acted on
this principle of duty, 3tid has contribut
ed by her treasury and credit, to the
constructions of Roads and other works
of internal transportation, in various
ways and forms, and otten when no re
turn was expected to the treasury, but
still more largely when a return was ex
pected to the treasury and the general
good was to be promoted. It is claimed,
and it is believed not denied, that the aid
which the State has contributed to such
works, has done more for the intellectual
elevation of the people, and wealth, pow
er and glory of the State, than all other
acts Which its Government has perform
ed, and so long as there is a wide field
for such enterprise, and so long as the
great resources of the State remain un
developed for the want of such improve
ments, and her people destitute, it is the
province and duty of the Government to
aid them.
It is claimed that the railway is the
most desirable means ot transportation
yet devised, and that so long as the sec
tions where it is needed, and where it
will contribute to the general good, are
unable to construct it, it is the duty of
Government to lend them a helping
hand. It is contended that all State Aid
to such works has !een extended on this
principle and ground alone, and that a
policy which has done so much for por
tions of Georgia, should not be aban
doned, until all portions of the people
have had some share in its benefits.
It is claimed, that notwithstanding the
power and attractions of the Railroad,
that even the most wealthy
sections of the State, have been unable
to construct such Railroads as were
clearly needed, without encouragement
and material aid from the State, either
direct or indirect. To aid aud encour
age the construction of’ the lines of Rail
road extending from Savannah and Au
gusta into the interior, the State under
took, at a heavy cost, the construction of
the Western & Atlantic Railroad. By
this project, the State intended to pass
the mountainous regions, and most for
midable obstacles, in reaching the West
ern country ; and it was the intentiou of
the State by this outlay, to insure to
these other lines of Road, an amount of
business and remuneration that should
warrant the investment of capital from
all parts of the country, sufficient for
their construction. The result has proved
the wisdom of such intention. The con
struction of the Western A: Atlantic
Railroad has proven to be far better aid
to these other Roads than the amount of
its cost, £5,000,000. taken in their stock,
or endorsed on their bonds. It has prov
ed, also, the means of increasing the val
ue of property along the respective lines
of Road, and in the cities of Savannah
and Augusta, £200,000,000, and w hat is
equally well worthy of note, it cannot be
denied, is the fact, that large sections of
the State, and a large portion of the peo
ple remote from the-e lines of Road, have
by the same cause been made compara
tively poor. \et the £5,000,000 invest
ed in this State work, belonged to the
whole people of Georgia; to the people
in the remote sections, who had been
made poorer, as well as to those along
the lines of Roads, who have been prof
ited to the extent of £200,000,000 from
this bounty on the part of the State.
But tffis is not all the aid and encour
agement which the State gave to the two
lines of Road, extending from Savannah
aud Augusta. At the beginning, the
State conferred on each of those Compa
nies, liberal banking privileges, which
have proven to be a profit to them of
over £*2,000,000, and will be millions
more. The State, therefore, aided these
two lines of Road, in the most desirable
and efficient way, that could now, or
could at the time, have been asked, to
the amount of about £7.000,000. This
aid has proven more valuable to them
than the ships of Ophir could have done,
laden with gold.
State Aid to Railroads in the destitute
sections, is also claimed under the prece
dent, that it has been granted totheMil
ledgeville Gordon Road, where not
exceeding twenty thousand people, all
told, were directly interested, and where
none of those w*>re very remote from the
great Modern Improvement; unless, in
deed, the grant was made to save a few
members of the Legislature from a walk
or a stage-ride of eighteen miles, which,
it so, should teach them to extend simi
lar aid to their brethren, who live fifty,
sixty and one hundred miles from this
kind of conveyance, for themselves and
the products of their lands. It is claim
ed on the ground, that £1,000,000 was
subscribed to the Main Trunk Road,
which was right, because it was intended
to develop the resources of the State,
and increase its wealth in the section
where it was given. It was right, be
cause it was intended to build up still
more, the wealth and greatness of Sa
vannah. a city which now opposes with
great fierceness, the aid asked by other
sections. It is claimed by these desti
tute sections, on the same grounds which
other sections have claimed it, namely,
that the people m the section needing
the Railroad, are unable, without such
aid.to construct it —the identical grounds
upon which the highly-favored and weal
thy city of Savannah asked it for the
Main 1 rwnk Road, the construction of
which is to add to her wealth alone, five
times the cost-. It is claimed on the
ground that th* parties now asking it,
propose to give double the security to
the State, ever before asked for or ex
pected, by investing l n each Road pro
posed to be built, a large amount of pri
vate capital, sufficient to ..tore than one
half construct the Road, a*d mortgage
all to the State lor tne secure y for the
interest and principal <>f the bonj K which
the State is asked to endorse*. It i V sked
on the ground, that it is only by
of the State endorsement, that the sloe*,
holders in these Roads can obtain *he
necessary capital on such terms as n*-w
Railroad Companies car atlord to pay,
that it is the only means by which they
can be protected from unreasonable ex
actions of money-holders, and that it will
save t the Company twenty to twenty
five thousand dollar* per annum, on each
<aie hundred miles of Road built, and
ihereby in thirty years, the usual time
lor State securities to run, about £500,-
000; and on 4000 miles of Road, more
than £2,000,000, to the Companies and
the people of the State. It is claimed on
ihe ground that each one hundred miles
of Railroad extended into destitute sec
tions of the State, at once increase the
value of property along its line 20 to
£30.000.000, and insure an indefinite in
crease thereafter, thereby causing an in
crease of the taxable property of the
State, sufficient, with an ordinary tax,
to pay off the debt incurred, without in
crease of taxation, if by any possibility,
the State should have it to pay, instead
of the Company. It is claimed on the
broader grounds of justice and equal
benefits in a common Government, whose
credit and means have been largely used
m some way, and is a far more excep
tional mode to build up the wealth and
prosperity of certain sections and locali
ties, and that the State is far more able
now, than ever before, to aid in extend
ing the great modern improvement into
the destitute sections and among her des
titute citizens. THE PEOPLE.
The Slave Trade and Slavery
Expansion.
At the present day. there is perhaps no
political question before the Southern peo
ple, of greater magnitude than that which
proposes to re-establish the slave trade upon
the coast of Africa. The discussion in the
last Southern Commercial Convention, the
arrival of the brigs. Echo and Wanderer up
on American soil, laden with cargoes of Na
tive Africans: together with sundry other
circumstances, have caused this subject to
assume an important position in the eyes of
Southern statesmen. The proposition to re
peal the laws which prohibit the importa
tion of African slaves, was, at the first glance
of the American people, assailed with an al
most unanimous condemnation. But a more
mature investigation of the subject, has pro
dueed a great revolution in Southern senti
ment. and taught the people of the cotton
growing States that the slave trade is one of
the necessities oj the times. The friends of
Southern expansion have learned that their
policy can never become operative without
an additional supply of slaves. This policy
has, within the last few years, been made
the test of Southern politics, and is now con
sidered essential to the safety of the South
nd her power, whether in, or out of the
Union. Southern expansion and slave ex
pansion are literally one and the same sub
ject. Yet it is no uncommon occurrence to
hear Southern men in the same breath, ad
vocate the one and oppose the other. How
long, in the name of consistency, will politi
cians cunningly make false issues ? How
long will the patienre of the masses endure
thus to be trifled with ? How long will it
be that in the popular apprehension, the op
ponent of the slave trade is distinguished
from the opponent of the slave institution?
How long will it be ere the twain are re
garded as the same character in popular ef
fect ?
Lrt us for a moment recur to the great po
litical straggle of 1556. Then the anti
slavery party supported their candidate for
the Presidency upon the issue that no more
slave States should be incorporated into the
Union! And had he been elected upon
that platform the ‘‘Glorious Union” would
doubtless ere this, been rent in twain. But
he was defeated, and therefore his policy of
using the Executive arm to influence the
decision of the slavery controversy, was not
enthroned in the Presidential office. The
Democracy triumphed, and Mr, Buchanan
was elected. But did that event secure the
admission of Kansas as a slave State ? Did
it open the door of the Confederacy for the
admission of any other slave State ? Did it
pave the way for Southern expansion in any
direction? The truth is, the whole Presi
dential struggle of ’56 turned upon a false
issue. If in that canvass, the South had
been really determined upon the expansion
of her “peculiar institution,” the all-control
ling issue would have been simply this :
SinceitbeMissouri restriction has been remov>
ed from Kansas, the Southern people shall be
permithd to obtain additional supplies'of slave
labor from Africa, and thus give practical
effect to the concessions of the Kansas Bill;
and the prohibit; on to the slave trade shall
be removed. Such, indeed, would have
been the true issue , more especially when
placed under the courtly phrase of South
ern expansion.
But it is not the only unfortunate circum
stance in the situation of the Southern peo
ple. that they are not permitted to spread
their institutions over new regions of coun
try. There is another misfortune that weighs
more heavily upon them. They cannot re
tain slavery in the “border States’ which
lie on the parallel of Kansas! Behold here
the wide-spread consequences of a greater
and powerful principle! It not only sweeps
away every impediment in front, but works
nightly and daly in every direction, under,
above, around.
The line of slavery is retreating South
wari The foundations of the institution in
a majority of the border States, are already
loosened, nothing can retain it there, but the
opening of new fields for the supply of the
cotton growing States with slave labor.—
Again, we assert, the slave trade is one of
the necessities of the times. It must be re
opened, at least, to the extent of the present
demand; or else in consequence of causes
commercial in their character —and hence
by the unthinking called “national,’’ but
which have really been summoned into ex
istence by Federal policy—all the border
States will, like Kansas, be coerced to em
ploy white labor, and thus drive slavery
from their bounds! Let it be remembered
that slavery was once legitimately planted
in Kansas, but in consequence of an irreme
diable want of slaves and slave owners, the
“institution” was compelled to fold its terns
and journey to other regions! Similar cir
cumstances in the border States, will indu
bitably produce similar results.
Let us pause- and gravely inquire whether
or not this result would precipitate revolu
tion upon the border states. Suppose the
question were stated in this wise: The Fed
eral Government desires to drive the negro
slave to the tropics. All supplies from Afri
ca are cut off by Legislative enactment; and
then, with a perfect knowledge that the pro
fits on the production of corn and wheat
cannot compete in the slave market with su
gar, rice and cotton—a great unoccupied em
pire producing largely those commodities,
is annexed to the Union, and the inevitab e
consequence is, that free hireling labor must
take the place of the slaves thus transported
to the tropical regions! By this covert pol
icy, emancipation wiil be forced upon the
South. Where is the efficacy, or the value
of State rights, when they can be thus set
at nought ?— Exchange.
———
Important if True. —A recent number of
the Milwauka True Democrat contains a
statement which is of value to the medical
profession. That paper says:
Some eight months ago, Mr. T. Mason,
who kept a music store on Washington
street, and is brother of the well known
Lewell Mason, ascertained that he had a
cancer on his face of the size of a pea. It
was cut out by Dr. Walcott, and the wound
partially healed. Subsequently it grew again,
and while he was in Cincinnati on business,
it attained the size of a hickory nut. He
has remained there since Christmas under
treatment and has come back perfectly cur
ed. The process is this:
The Fasiol'B Fountain of Fortune.— The
famous fountain, of whose miraculous qualities,
it was said, possessed the power of renewing
youth to the aged, has been equalled, in another
respect by a discovery which gives fortune to
the penniless Ponce de Leon traveled many
miles and many years to discover the pure foun
tain of youth. The ponce he Leons of the pres
ent day have only to travel by mail as far as
Yibniugton, Delaware, or Augusta, Go., to
hv* their hopes realized in the diecovery of
the Fountain of Fortune. Wood, Eddy ft oo.’s
legalized nttery is no myth—no fabulous foun
tain. Monej ig the stream which renews youth.
By sending ten five, or two and a half dollars
to either or thtst points, the lucky explorer of
its treasuries, entering with but this email
amount, may come forth invigorated with a for
tune of fifty thousand dollars, or its proportion.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Review of .Hr. Harper’* Pam
phlet on the African Slave
Trade.
NO. VI. ]
Dr. Andrews: —Mr. Harper says the low j
price of negroes makes the productions of
slave labor cheap, especially cotton. Now ■
I wish Mr. Harper to inform and instruct ‘
us, if he can, how it was that cotton sold in
1825, in England at 22c per jpound, while
negro men, in the Southern States only
brought from two to four hundred dollars
apiece ? Again in 1833, cotton brought in
England 16c per pound, while negroes only
brought from 3 to 5 hundred dollars apiece.
For the price of cotton in those years, See
McCulloch's Commercial Dictionary, page,
of first vol. 518 and 521. I leave Mr. Har
per to reconcile the difference and tell how
it is that negroes only worth (in the above
named years) two to 5 hundred dollars apiece
produced cotton that brought in England
22c and 16 cents a pound. Try again, Mr.
Harper. It is only one more mistake to be
added to the many already exposed. Are
you, Mr. Harper, and those who act with
you willing to put it in the power of the
poor to own slaves as well as the rich? If
you are opposed to increasing the number
of negroes by importation you aro only in
favor of slavery from interest and not prin
ciple. You say, to reduce the price of the
negro, is to make valueless whathe pro
duces for market. To no extent is that
true. I have already shown that negroes
may be A erv low in* price and what they
produce bring a very high price.— With
what sort of grace can you and those who
act with you, ask a man or expect a man
to defend and protect slavery from prin
ciple when the conclusion of your whole ar
gument, is, opposition to the importation of
negroes from Africa, because it might re
duce the price, of the negroes now here. All
you say about the constitutionality, the mo
rality and expediency,all tend to one point and
conclusion, viz: interest, without principle.
You ask and desire men to defend slavery
from principle, while you, from your own
statement defend it from interest alone!—
You ask the man who does not own a slave
to defend slavery from two reasons, viz:—
principle and interest, while you defend it
for one reason only—interest! You, who
oppose the importation of negroes from Af
rica so that it might be in the power of all
classes to buy, wish and do require men not
owning a negro to support and defend slave
ry from principle and interest, while you
act alone from interest. As you and those
who act with you oppose the re-opening the
African slave trade from interest, you will
allow us to act from principle and interest
too, aud fivor there-opening the slave trade.
Those who favor the re-opening the slave
trade are influenced by motives above those
of interest alone. They act from high mor
al patriotic principle, and their courage will
never quail before the opposition of interest.
While you would say to j>oor men, lie ye in
terested without owning a negro, I would
say, he ye interested by owning a negro.—
That is to say, repeal all laws prohibiting
the African slave trade, that the price of ne
groes may be so reduced that the poor man
and all become, both in principle and fact,
interested in slavery. It is to our interest
that the price of negroes should be reduced,
ah! reduced ! that slavery may not be abol
ished in Missouri, Kentucky, and the bor
der States, because of the high price of ne
groes in the cotton growing States. Already
sales of negroes have been made in Missouri
for the cotton States. The high price of ne
groes in the cotton growing States is such
as to almost ensure the abolition of slavery in
that State in a few more years. Where is
the remedy for that evil to the South ? It
is only to lie found in the new importation
of negroes from Africa. We need a cheap
er negro labor than we have. We want
cheaper negroes for several unanswerable
reasons, flrst, that we may prevent the abo
lition of slavery in the border States ; sec
ondfy-, tin t we may improve by making and
preparing manure for lands that ar worn out:
thirdly, that we may be enabled, by reason
of the low prjee of the imjtorted negro, to
go into the new territories and make slave
States; fourthly, that we may increase our
power in the Government; fifthly, and not
the least, that all the classes, whether rich
or poor may become positively interested in
negroes—that all may own a negro. Drown
ing men catch at straws. The New Orleans
Bulletin has quite a lengthly article on what
someone said about the intelligence of the
African and really Captain Seymour seemed
delighted to think the moral act of bringing
a negro from Africa could no longer be used
as an argument in favor of the African slave
trade. Now, as the “Journal & Messen
ger” copied aud endorsed the Editorial of
the New Orleans Bulletin, I will ask him
one question. Why have you induced oth
ers and contributed your money that Alis
sionaries mighi be sent o so intelligent and
learned a people as you and Capt. Seymour
tell us the negroes of Africa aro ? For shame!
.All intelligent travelers have herefore told
us they were savages, and all religious de
nominations have raised money aud sent
preachers to enlighten, as I and you thought,
a benighted and savage people, but lo! it
turns out that the negroes in Africa can
speak three or four languages—are erudite,
ingenious, easy, graceful, something to he
looked upon, admired and almost to be lov
ed by some. I know the Captain, and I nev
er knew him an ardent and devoted defen
der of slavery. No, the Captain and the
“ Messenger” would defend as constitution
al laws passed by Congress prohibiting the
slave trade among the Southern States.—
They soon would learn to call it infamous
to buy negroes in Virginia and take him to
Louisiana or Georgia and sell them.
The defenders of the laws making it mur
der and robbery to buy a negro in Africa,
bring him to the United States, have been
driven from every position they have taken.
They have been forced to abandon their con
stitutional ground, their moral ground, and
finally, their ground of inexpediency, and
now you find them taking the startling posi
tion, that the negro in Africa is intelligent
and elevated ! No more tears will be shed
for benighted Africa. No more will any
one exclaim, “ Africa, how can I give thee
up!” No more will money be asked to sup
port Missionaries in Africa. No more will )
gentle persuasive woman leave her home
and country for Africa, for by the magic wand
of the Captain and “Messenger” the negroes
of Africa are intelligent and deserving.
GEORGIA.
Defeat of the Pacific Rail Road. —We
have the satisfaction to announce the defeat
of the Pacific Rail Road.
In the House several propositions for its
construction were rejected by decisive votes.
In the Senate itsfriends, on Thursday, ac
knowledged theirinability to passany project
during the present session.
We congratulate the country on the post
ponement even of this stupendous scheme
of federal aggrandizement
In this connexion, we have to thank Mr.
Benjamin, in behalf of the State Rights De
mocracy, for the efficient support of their
principles which he rendered by his oppo
sition to the Pacific Rail Road. It gives him
anew title to the confidence of his party,
of which he is already a distinguished orna
ment.— Washington States.
A spirited woman in Dayton, Ohio,
caught l*?r husband the other day in the act of
breaking up her hoops. The exertion, or some
thing else, had a singular effect upon him. His
hair came out at an aatouiahing rate.
Excitement in a Crowded Audience,
—The Lafayette (Ind.) Courier of the
18th, has the following:—A Panic took
place at Turner Hall, last night, during
the progress of a theatrical performance,
by which the lives of the audience, com
posed in good part of women and child
ren, were placed in eminent peril.—
The hall is in the third story of Stock
ton’s building, on the South side of the
square and is reached by a narrow stair
way. Some person or persons had ma
liciously dissolved a chemical prepara
tion in the hall below, emitting a dense
and stifling smoke which, entering the
room, occupied by the audience, created
the greatest consternation and alarm.—
There was an immediate rush for the
door, and men, women and children, hall
crazed with fright, crowded in a mass
upon the stairway. Fortunately, the
bannisters sustained the immense press
ure, and an appalling calamity was thus
presented. Several children were tram
pled under foot, but were not seriously
injured. We hope that an investigation
may lead to the detection of the guilty
perpetrators of this outrage, and that
they may be prosecuted to the full ex
tent of the law.
Annexation of Cuba.
“It is of infinite importance that an is
land which has been fitly described as
being, in fact, on the right bank ot the
Mississippi river, controlling and cover
ing all that issues from it and come into
it, which lies almost within sight of three
or four slave States, and contains a vast
African population, should be held and
governed so as not to disturb the social
condition, or endanger the political rela
tions of the Union ; and it is demanstra
ble that this can never be securely ac
complished but by bringing ('uba within
the range and influence of our own sys
tem. There is no part of Europe in which
under circumstances such as these, a
great power would not, long since, have
seized on the indispensable vicinage ne
cessary for its own security ; and the
public law of Europe would have ac
knowledged the plea of self-protection,
and yielded its assent. The history of
Europe is full of similar appropriations
and divisions and subdivisions of territo
ry, made by conquest or by the irresist
ible dictation of great powers, circum
scribing small States, abolishing or con
solidating „hem to create compensations
and balances of power, so that States
might readily defend themselves, or be
restrained from ofiending or Assailing
others.
Instead of ambitious aggression to
wards Cuba, America has exhibited un
der many provocations and in restraint
of the most powerful impulses of inter
est, a forbearance which would never
ha*ie been practiced by France, England
or Spain ; and when thepublic judgment
has decided that further forbearance Is
unworthy, or may prejudice great inter
ests that are entitled to prompt and sa
cred care, America wiil stand acquitted
to her own conscience of precipitancy or
injustice.
Indeed, the only one of these opposing
elements to which consideration is due,
is that which proceeds from Cuba. If
opposition to a change of the political
state of the Island were a real, deeply
seated feeling of the people of Cuba, it
would be a very serious objection to any
effort to change it. But those senti
ments as expressed in the bulletins which
have gone out under the inspection of the
Captain-General, are very fallacious in
dications, and the reasons and probabil
ities are all of an opposite character. It
must not be overlooked, as an essential
part of this question, that the acquisi
tions of territory by the United States
are not conquests, nor do they ever im
pose governments on reluctant subjects,
nor do they make sftbjects at all.
To be annexed to the United States is
to become citizens of a State, not sub
jects of a government; to acquire prac
tical independence, to enter into anew
system in which the several parts enjoy
self-government and all are allied lbs
mutual defence or support. Territorial
ambition, which has this result, has no
aggressive or minatory character. Ex
pansion by giving our own institutions
aud the free control of their own aflairs
to those previously the subjects of des
potic government, is a blessing, not an
aggression, and the ambition which
prompts it may be avowed as a # virtue,not
denied as a lault or extenuated as a ne
cessity—N. 0. Picayune.
“Ail Argument, Ac.”
A gentleman has sent us the industrious
ly circulated pamphlet of Mr. Harper, which
is called “An Argument against the policy
of re-opening the Slave Trade.” But we
beg to excuse ourselves from replying to or
seriously weighing an “Argument” in which
we find such a sentence as this :
“To bring down negroes, is to bring down
cotton and land.”
Or this—
“ Reduce negro labor —reduce its produc
tiveness, which is the only way you can re
duce its price — and you bring upon us uni
versal stagnation.’ ’
Or, worst of all, this—
“ Take it, then, that this is true, and let us
see w’hat would be the consequence, reason
ing upon the hypothesis of S3OO as the price
of a negro, which was the amount mention
ed by a gentleman in the Southern Conven
tion, as a result desirable md attainable by
the African Slave Trade, ‘’’he three and a
half millions of negroes wc now possess are
worth, at their present valuation, more than
three times what they would be worth after
the reduction of field hands to S3OO. So
that, when six millions are added by that
policy to our present number, the negro pro
perty of the Southern States will be worth
no more than it is at present upon his valu
ation. Would the South gain by the ex
change in numbers ?”
The learned author has not, apparently, a
single glimpse of the fact that the value of
negroes, or of any other instrument of labor
(that is their value to the community) is
measured not by the price they will bring,
but by the price that their products will
bring. Their high price where it is main
tained by a monopoly, is no gain, but loss,
to the community, because it restricts the
cultivation of land and the demand for land.
“Would the South gain *by the exchange in
numbers?”
He might as well ask would a farmer of
1,000 acres gain by having four draught
horses instead of two ? This pamphleteer
would absolutely argue that the two would
be as valuable as the four if they only cost as
much. Keep up the price of horses, then,
by some monopoly or other, and your three
horses will be as valuable to you as nine!
Os course this writer has presented what he
calls the “moral aspects” of the question. —
We can tell him that to re-produce these old
well-worn “arguments” of all monopolists,
as if they had not been refuted a thousand
times, wears in our eyes a very immoral as
pect —Southern Citizen, 29th.
Appointments by toe President By and
with the advice and consent of the Senate. —
James B. Bowlin of Missouri, Commission
er of the Uuited States of Paraguay.
John P. Brown, of Ohio, Secretary and
Dragoman of the legation of the United
States at Constantinople.
Garey W. Rockman, of California, Secre
tary of the legation of the United States in
Chili.
Demosthenes Walker, of Mississippi, Con
sul of the United states at Genoa.
Robert Dowling, of lowa, Consul of the
United States at Cork.
Joseph W. Livingston, of New York, con
sul of the United states at La Union, San
Salvador.
Albert Mathieu, of NewYork, Consul of
the United States at Carthagena, New Gren
ada.
Charles A. Leas, of Maryland, Consul of
the United States at Revel.
Henry Anthon, Jr., of New York, Consul
of the United States at Batavia.
George T. Ingraham, of Maine, Consul of
the United States at Laguna, Yucatan.
Edward P. Peters, of New York, Consul
of the United states at Trebizonde, Asiastic
Turkey.
J. W. Mandvile,Surveyor General of Cali
fornia.
“ They never Make Money.”
In speaking of editors and authors, we often
hear people make the remark, in the course of
conversation, that “ They never make money!’
As far as editors are concerned the reasons, in’
many instances, are obvious. There is no class
of men who make more money than they do;
but it is all for other people. They labor for
the good of the public. Their lives are dedica
ted, as it were, to the good of their fellow-man.
Their aspirations, generally, are of a nobler, su
blimer character, than merely to strain their
nerves in grasping after the “tilthy lucre” with
which to satiate the cravings of a selfish appe
tite for gain. Their mission is more sacred. —
Their hearts pulsate with more generous emo
tions. It is their business to feed the mental
appetite with food prepared with the utmost
skill.
Few men are less appreciated according to
their true merits than editors. In expanding
the arms of commerce and enterprise, it is their
part of the work to give them nerves and sineiv
and impart to them the power and strength nec
essary to consummate the objects of their ex
istence. (In building up towns, editors are called
upon to give their “name and local habitation,”
by presenting them to the public. In building
railroads, it is the part of editors to inspire the
first spark of vitality, as it were, into a chaotic
enterprise to nurse and mature it into vigorous
existence. In making sympathetic or charita
ble appeals to the public, editors’ hearts must
first receive th 9 electric emotions before the pub
lic heart can respond. Editors are expected, as
a matter of duty—when in fact it’is only option
ary with them—to build up the interests of pub
lic institutions—to have a kind word for every
man’s private enterprise—to bring to notice
every thing calculated to put money into every
body's pockets but his own. Sometimes he is
properly appreciated— sometimes he is not.—
Sometimes editors do make money —but oftener
do not. Nearly every public man or private
enterprise seem to think they have a mortgage
upon an editor’s life—that his pen may be-gui
ded by his own hand, but the course or direction
of it must be given by them. We mean that
those things are expected.
As far as we are concerned, we claim to be
independent. If we choose to assist in build
ing up an enterprise of any character, after be
ing fully convinced that it is worthy of such as
sistance, we shall certainly give it with all our
heart—with all our mind, with all our strength!
If we choose to denounce any thing which is
unworthy, we shall endavor to do it with as
much vim as we are capable of. We have al
ways made it a principle to maintain an inde
pendence of thought and action without any
body dictating as to the course we should pur
sue in our editorial conduct. In fact we have
never placed ourself in a position to be the tool
ofany man or party. We feel free, at all times,
to advocate only that which receives the appro
bation of our judgment and conscience. Some
things we write are no doubt, appreciated, while
others are not. There is but one course for an
editor to pursue, and that is comprised in the
famous motto of David Crockett—
“Be sure you're right—then go ahead,’ 1
which we endeavor to carry out in letter and in
spirit, whether we make money or not —wheth-
er we are applauded or hissed.— Lagrange lie
porter.
Eott*r of lion. J. II Hammond
to the Webster ISaliquet.
Wanhington, Dec. 30. 1838.
Dear Sir —l am grateful to you and to
those whom you represent, for your polite
invitation to attend your dinner in Boston
on the 18th prox., in honor of Mr. Web
ster’s birthday; and for the kind assurances
accompanying it in which I have full confi
dence.
My duties here, however, so entirely en
gage all my time that I most respecfully de
cline your invitation.
You say that in the Revolution Massachu
setts and South Carolina stood “shoulder to
shoulder.” It would be well lor the world
if they stood so now. And why do they
not ‘t To have brought about their present
relations one of them must have erred much;
possibly both; another age will decide be
tween us.
Born and bred in South Carolina, of which
State my mother is a native —my lather was
a Massachusetts man, a College friend of Mr.
Webster—and descended, I am proud to
say, Irom your earliest Puritan emigarnts.
In the antagonastic positions of these two
small but noble States, 1 have personally
much to regret —as a patriot still more. I
wish the breach could be filled up and oblit
erated. if we have done you wrong, if we
have been the aggressors, I think 1 can as
sure you that there is not a man in South
Carolina who is conscious of it; not one
who would deprive Massachusetts Oi a sin
gle political right; notone who would thwart
in the least any of her peculiar and le
gitimate interests; and could it be shown
that we have done any of these things, not
one but would desire to make prompt and
ample reparation. If the same spirit ani
mates the people of Massachusetts to the
same extent, we may justly hope that —the
deluding falsehoods of political aspirants
trampled under foot—our States may yet
stand “shoulder to shoulder,’ the pillars of a
constitutional republic, wisely and justly ad
ministered for the protection and advance
ment of all, without privileges or endow
ments to any section, class or individual, bnt
insuring to all and each the full development
of themselves.
1 have the honor to be, most respectfully
your obedient servant,
J. H. HAMMOND.
Peter Harvey, Esq., Boston.
From the Washington States, Jan. 25.
United Slates Senator* EEert.
The following gentlemen have been elect
ed to the United States Senate for the term
of six years, from the 4th of March next:
Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat, of Illi
nois, re-elected.
Henry B. Anthony, Black Republican, of
Rhode Island, vice Allen, Democrat.
A. O. P. Nicholson, Democrat, of Tenn.,
vice Bell, Know Nothing.
Albert G. Brown, Democrat, of Miss., re
elected.
Clement C. Clay, jr., Democrat, of Ala.,
re-elected.
Willard Saultsbury, Democrat, of Del.,
vice Bates, Democrat.
James Chestnut, Democrat, S. C., vice
Evans, Democrat.
Win. P. Fessenden, Black Republican, of
Me., re-elected.
John P. Hale, Black Republican, of N. H.,
elected.
R. M. T. Hunter, Democrat, of Va., re
cted.
J. W. Grimes, Black Republican, of lowa,
vice Jones, Democrat.
Governor Bragg, Democrat, of N. C., vice
R , Democrat
Wm. K. Sebastian, Democrat, of Ark., re
elected. f
Kinsley S. Bingham, Black Republican, of
Michigan, vice Stuart, Democrat.
L. W. Powell, Democrat, of Ky., vice
Thompson, Know Nothing.
Robert Toombs, Democrat, of Ga., re
elected. f
Henry Wilson, Black Republican, of Mass,
re-elected.
J. W. Hemphill, Democrat, of Texas, vice
Houston, Know Nothing. ,
J, P. Benjamin, Democrat, of La., re-elec
ted.
Senators are yet to be chosen in place of
Mr. Wright, Democrat, of N. J., and Gen.
Shields, Democrat, of Minnesota.
91a‘oii A BruiiMwirk Railroad.
We are gratified to see the efforts being made
to build this road. The citizens of Macon have
made a liberal subscription to the stock,and with
proper energy the road can be built. This is the
way to go to work. Many worthy and wealthy
men will lend aid to this road, who oppose the
State endorsing its bonds and becoming ulti
mately liable for their redemption. One is a
matter of interest and the other of principle -
We shall rejoice to see this road in successful
operation—it will benefit not only Macon, but
remotely Columhus. It will throw open the
best port in the state, and bring a road into
competition with the Central road.— Columbus
Timet. ]
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, FEB. 4, 18597
Prof. H. G. Turner’s reply to “ Black
Hawk ” is in type t and will appear next
week.
Macon, Feb. 3d.—There is but little Cot
ton coming in. at present. Sales from Bto
flj, extremes. If the receipts continue
light, there may be some improvement in
price.
Railroad Meeting To-day -The
Stockholders of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad Company will meet at the Council
Chamber, in this city, this morning, at 11
o’clock, for tlie purpose of electing a Board
of Directors for the ensuing year, and for
the transaction of any other business that
may come before the meeting. A punctual
attendance of all the stockholders is earnest
ly solicited.
Prince’s Protean Fountain Pen.
Mr. B. P. Driggs, Agent for the improved
style of pens is now in Macon, and will remain
for a few days. The pen which he offers for
sale combines Both pen-holder and inkstand,
and is highly recommended by those who have
tried it. He will wait upon our citizens in per
son, or application can be made at the Auction
store of Amos Benton.
Mr, and Mr*. Florence.— We take
pleasure in announcing these great Representa
tivesofthe “Yankee Gal” and “Irish Boy,” will
appear in Macon,on Monday night next and for
each sncceeding night of the week. They
come under the auspices of that gentleman
ly Manager, Mr. Fleming, who is ever alive
for the rational instruction and amusement of
the patrons of the Drama. Os Mr. and Mrs Flor
ence, it is not necessary for us to speak. They
are celebrated in their line, and stand at the
head of their profession, as chasteMelineators
of character. They will be sure to draw crowd
ed Houses notwithstanding the surfeit of amuse
ment, our people have had, of late.
Tlic Mar*li Family.— This Troupe
have been performing, this week, to overflow
ing and delighted houses. The recent sad ac
cident which resulted in the death on Thursday
evening, of last week, (after our paper went to
press) of little Mary Marsh, has enlisted the
sympathies of our community, in their behalf
and the beauty and novelty of their performan
ces have done the rest. The performances t
night and to morrow night will close their en
gagement in this city.
Continental Min*trcls. —We are
requested to say that Barnum s Continental Min
strels the Star Troupe of the world, comprising
the greatest array of the most brilliant stars of
Ethiopian Minstrels, ever concentrated in one
company, will shortly arrive in Macon to give a
series of Brilliant entertainments.
The Public Press and its Duties.
There is a good article on this subject, in
to-day’s paper, from the Lagrange Reporter,
which we commend to our readers. The fol
lowing paragraph from the Atlanta Ameri
can has also a pertinency, very applicable to
the existing state of things :
“ It is not uncommon that newspapers in
this country are as effectually put down for
daring to utter the dictates of Conscience as
was ever done in France. It is not done by
mock assemblies and imperial edicts, but the
same end is accomplished by sectarian or
partizan influence.
Every friend of Truth, every philanthro
pist, every patriot, in every climate, where
Error reigns—where suffering prevails—
where tyranny exists, must deplore a truth
so blighting—so stultifying—so infernal, as
the fact, we assert, that the Press is vile and
slavish, and the best intellects have tlieir
masters. Free thought, as fragrant as the
breath of spring—as beautiful as the stars of
night—as sublie mas the music of the spheres
—free thought, that should exist as the vital
air, is a nullity, and in its stead men think
to please—to obey masters. How revolting
—how utterly loathing the fact that the no
blest attribute of man—that which should
elevate him to a god-like existence—is a
mere “hewer of wood and drawer of water!”
Our idea of one of the duties of a public
Press is to protect the public interests, by
timely warning of danger from any and ev
ery source, and by such suggestions as the
Editor’s experience anl sense of public safe
ty may prompt the expression of. This we
have generally done, “without fear, favor
or affection,” and with an eye single to the
well being of the people for whom we labor.
It seems, however, that we have occasionally
erred in our estimate of our duty as a Con
ductor of a public Journal, and have suft'er
ed not a little abuse sometimes on account
of such error of opinion. But we have nev
er been so grossly insulted, in this regard,
as we were on Saturday last by the Proprie
tor of Ralston’s Hall, on account of the sug
gestion we made in the Citizen of Friday
last, as to the provision of additional means
of egresss from said Hall, in case of “sudden
panic from fire or other cause.” The said
individual not only indulged in considera
ble abuse of ns for making such suggestion,
but threatened personal violence if we ever
transgressed again ! Well, we shall endea
vor to meet what may befal us, with becom
ing resignation, but one thing is very cer
tain, we shall not alter our course one hair’s
breadth to please him, in any matter of so
much public concernment as that under con
sideration. And we have the satisfaction of
knowing that the suggestion we made, in a
kind spirit, has been favorably received by
the community. In fact, it is admitted, on
all hands, that public buildings of every
kind, such as Churches, Theatres and Lec
ture Halls, should have more than one way
of egress, especially when such halls are in
the upper stories of the building.
Our paragraph therefore, was calculated
to give confidence to persons attending the I
Hall, as it was suggestive of a way of avoid
ing danger. It, at least, has done no harm, I
as is evinced by the unusually large crowds I
in attendance the present week, on the per- I
formance of the Marsn Family.
To show that there ts great danger, to all
large assemblages, from a want of sufficient
egress from public Halls, we have copied an
article, in another column, proving the fact.
We also subjoin the following item of news,
just come to hand, to the same purport, and
with it we wash our hands of all responsi
bility for any accident resulting from a dis
regard of wholesome suggestions for the J
public safety which we have made:
“Sixteen boys were crushed and trampled I
to death at the Victoria Theatre, London, j
on the 27th December, in a panic caused by
a false alarm of fire. The excitement speed-1
ily subsided and the performance was pro -1
ceeded with as usual.”
Codifyer* of the Law.
We understand Gov. Brown has appoint
ed Thos. R. R. Cobb, of Clark, and Richard
H. Clark, of Dougherty, to fill the vacancies
in the Commission created by declension of
Gov. Johnson and Maj. Harris.— Telegraph.
Twenty Tlillioii* deeded.
Washington, Jan. 29.
I learn that the President has prepared a
special Message to Congress, showing that
an increase of revenue is needed, and that I
twenty millions of dollars jvill be required
to meet the deficit of the present fiscal year. I
Death of Prescott, the Historian.
Boston, Jan. 29.
Wm* H. Prescott, the Historian, died
yesterday, aged 62. He had been in his usual
health, and his death was very sudden, from I
paralysis. 1
Tribute of Respect.
At the present term of the Supreme
Court, G. L. Barry, Esq. announced to the ’
Court the death of the Hon. John A. Tuck
kr, an attorney of the Court since its organ
ization, and moved that a Committee of
three be appointed to prepare a tribute of
respect to his memory.
thereupon the Court appointed Judge
Geo. L. Barry, Judge Wm. C. Perkins, and
t 01. A. Hood, the Committee, who made
the following
REPORT:
The ( ommittee appointed to prepare a
tribute to the memory of the Hon. John A.
Tucker, report—
Cheerless, indeed, would be life’s pilgrim
age, if man was deprived of the privilege of
sympathizing with misfortune, or mourning
the loss of faithful, cherished friends.
The tears of sorrow—the emotions of svm
pathy—are the evidences of the truth, “that
no man liveth to himself, and no man dieth
to himself; painful but salutary, poignant
yet consolatory, and tell of the ennobling
qualities of the human heart. The mourn
ful gratification of the living, as well as a
proper respect for the memory of the dead,
demands tliat the names and the virtues of
departed friends should he had in remem
brance, and be embalmed with the tears of
regret.
Friend after friend departs—
Who hath not lost a triend ?
There is no union here of hearts,
That finds not here an end.
M ith what painful emotions may the Bar
of Georgia adopt this sentiment, and attest
its truth. The brightest ornaments of the
legal profession—names that reflected their
own greatness upon its character, and won
for it undying renown, have passed from
the theatre of their glory and their fame, to
the silence of the tomb. How long the cat
alogue of illustrious names! With sadden
ed hearts and feelings of unutterable sorrow,
we add that of John A. Tucker—our friend
—our brother. Long associated with him
in the arduous though pleasing toils of pro
fessional life—mingling with him in the en
joyments of the social circle—we loved him
for his virtues and honored him for his in
tellect. Noble in nature—candid and sin
cere in conduct—he secured the admiration
ot all with whom he associated. It were
useless to speak of him here as a lawver; his
commanding talents have here been often
displayed; he has left the impress of his
greatness upon your records.
We would not draw his frailties from
their drear abode; let them lay buried in
the gloom of the grave. Be ours the more
pleasing task to speak of his virtues, and
hold in grateful remembrance his noble,
generous nature. With what a warning
voice does his death proclaim the divine ad
monition—“ let him that tliinketh he stand
eth take heed lest he fall.” His triumph
oyer the difficulties that beset his early life,
will be a beacon light to guide aspirants for
forensic honors in the path of success. Mav
his sad and untimely fate ever remind them
that—
Weak and irresolute is man,
The purpose of to-day—
Woven with pains into his plan,
To-morrow rends away.
And while they profit by the teachings of
his success, may they heed the warning
voice of his example. His surviving associ
ates who thus bear testimony to his virtues
and his worth, may be taught by the mourn
ful circumstance of his death, tliat—
Some foe to our upright intent.
Finds out our weaker part;
Virtue engages onr assent.
But pleasure wins our heart.
We respectfully ask that this tribute to
the memory of our departed brother be
spread upon the minutes of the Court.
GEO. L. BARRY,
WM. C. PERKINS,
A. HOOD.
A true extract from the minutes.
R. E. MARTIN, Clerk.
We also append the eloquent and impres
sive words of Judge Lumpkin on the occa
sion, who said—
“ The great and eminently pious Dr. Rob
ert Hall, of England, in a fit of insanity,
rushed from his bed into the open air. It
was winter, and there was deep snow on the
ground. He stumbled and fell, and the
sudden shock of his half-naked body restor
ed him to consciousness. He knelt down on
the snow, and looking up to Heaven, ex
claimed, ‘ Lord, what is man! ’ How viv
idly did the death of our friend recall this
incident to my recollection.
“ Brethren of tlie Bar—l cannot enlarge
on this occasion. I declare unaffectedly
that my feelings will not allow it. The im
age of John A. Tucker has rarely been ab
sent from my mind since the sad intelligence
of his untimely death stunned my ears.
“ We will cherish in our inmost souls the
memory of his noble stature—his great and
gifted intellect—his large and loving heart
—his ingenuous disposition—his guileless
nature—his strong and sincere devotion to
his friends, whom he never betrayed—his ur
banity to the Court, to the Bar, and to all—
his quick apprehension, his sound judgment,
his fertile fancy, his ready elocution, his
many social qualities, which endeared him
to everybody—his sympathy with his race,
which made him the popular favorite that
he was. Os these the grave cannot rob us.
How touching, tender and thrilling, was his
valedictory address to the State Senate, of
which he was a member, the last night of its
session. But his tongue is now palsied in
death! Verily, our days upon earth are a
shadow! Passing away—is written on all
things earthly.
“Would that I could whisper a word of
consolation to those who were the last ob
jects of his dying thoughts! Prayerfully
we commend them to Him who will not
break the bruised reed, and who tempers
the wind to the shorn lamb! ”
The IVlacon & Briiu*wiek Rail
road.
In opposing the policy of State aid to this
enterprise, and to all others, we desire not
I to be understood as occupying an attitude of
indifference to the object. On the contrary,
we regard the construction of the Macon and
I Brunswick Road as a matter of vast and vi
tal interest not only to the section through
which it will pass, but to the whole scope of
Western and South Western Georgia.— ,
Bounded by the Central, South Western
and Atlantic and Gulf Roads is a vast ex-
I tent of country, nearly in the shape of apar-
I allelograrn, capable of sustaining an immense
I population and augmenting, incalculably,
I the resources of the State. A large portion
of this territory, by reason of the difficulty I
I of access to market, remains undeveloped, I
and, without a change in this respect will I
perhaps for long years to come, continue to I
repose in the gloom of it primeval forests.— I
The Macon & Brunswick Road would divide I
almost diagonally, this area. The vitaliz- I
ing energies of such a communication with I
the centres of trade would subdue its wild- J
ness and cause it to smile and blossom un- j
der the magic touch of labor. Os inferior, I
I yet appreciable and manifest advantage would
I the success of the proposed undertaking be
J to Columbus and all those interior towns
I west ofthe Ocmulgee, which, under the pre-
I sent Railroad system of the State, find an
I exit for their produce through the city of
{ Macon. Arriving at that point they would
I have two bidders for their trade, and two
[ roads competing for its transportation. The
necessary result of this state of things would
be the highest practicable price for produce,
and a reduction of freights and seaboard I
supplies to the lowest possible point of re-1
muneration. —Columbus Times, 22 nd inst. I
Lotteries in Delaware. —Final Passage of
| the Bill. —The great battle in the Legislature of
Delaware over the lottery grant has resulted in
the final passage of the bill. It passed the Sen- I
ate by a vote of 5 to 4, having previously pass- I
nd the House by ayes 12, nays 11, a majority of I
lin each house. It goes into immediate effect, I
and grants to Richard France, Esq., of Baltimore, I
the privilege of drawing lotteries and selling I
lottery tickets in that State for the period of I
twenty years, in consideration of which he is to I
pay a bonus of $729,000. *
Cash System.
Dr. Andrews, of the Georgia C>n
vertises that he will, on the a ad
(no April fool we hope) cut off * pnl
quent subscriber on his book del *
Merchants in Macon, who advert 4
him. Right, Doctor. Give u s you *
ence about this time a year
perhaps, are no worse off for tfo,
any other of our afflicted brethren** I’V 1 ’ V
we could, to-day, collect two-third* 7*-
is due us for subscription alone ° f
through a period of eight year* ’
wdhngly melt our type into buC,* 01
little boys, sink our press in the f
up our ledgers and shut up 4 , ?’ V
a remedy for this evil, it ,g sai( f
the cash principle. Several of our i ,es
temporaries practice it, and have ‘ y Cor ”
themselves highly gratified at
Me know of no weekly paper ■! r es " lu
yet, that has put this rule stnctlv in r
We expect to get into it after
a foundation stone to build on . A ’
mend to all our newspaper
the name of no new subscriber pi -
books, without the cash in ° n - v
mark it off the day the subscription? 1
-you will soon find out whoare fi P "’
• and who are the worthless subset g
your papers. Within three week?*!? v
• have received letters informing Us R *
subscribers at one office who have
parts inaccessible, whoae aggregate
ness amounted to sixty-three cWfeJ? ~
this is a common occurrence.—/ Lu ) r .-
Ist inst. scrol l nib,
Our new volume will commence k
the right time to make our “cash ■ *
proposition an “April fool” busi n 7
nevertheless, he who counts on onr ‘
mg a joke m this matter, will make a
of himself, to a dead moral certaintv jf
expects to get the Citizen without’ ?
“ pewter ’’ in advance.
The Cotton Market.
Hr. Editor :
As the supply and demand of (v
seems to be a subject of investigation -
me to state a few plain facts, going tO ,,
the extent both of the growth
lion of cottOD. The crop will be three -
lions five hundred thousand bales. I-,
be three million seven hundred thou-?
bales. The consumption of America:
ton will not fall short of three million *
hundred thousand bales. England w,
sume of American cotton, two million
France and the continent of Europe *
consume nine hundred thousand bales.
United States will consume seven hun •.
thousand bales. Add those facts of w
sumption together, and what becomes y-,
idea of an over abundance of cotton,
ton will, beyond doubt, sell much higher :
the spring or summer than the present pr
JUSTICE.
si 10.000 sit ole ii front Adam,
Express.
Montgomery, Ala.. Jan. 3.—Adam- : .
press Company was robbed on the 20th i®. j
$40,000 in bills, mostly of fives and tens,
Bank of Augusta; Exchange Bank of Cole:
S. C.; Farmers and Exchange Bank of Chans
ton; Bank of Charleston ; Bank of Coma
Savannah; Planters Bank of Fairfield, -
Union Bank of Augusta; Marine Bank oii
vannah; and bills of the Bank of the Sta:-
Georgia.
Fatal Accident.— We are pained to hi
to record a fatal accident which happens ,
Mr. Richard Coleman, overseer for Mrs. he
Dougald, ten miles below this city, on the ’
gia side of the river. While out duck k::.
on last Saturday morning, by some mearn a
gun was accidentally discharged, lodging a
entire contents in his left side, and causae:
death almost instantly. A negro boy wbowi
in company with him says he only excls
“I am a dead man,” and immediately eipw.
Mr. Coleman was only 27 years of age.-S*
The Planter’s Convention.
Mr. D. W. Lewis, of Sparta, through th
Augusta Dispatch, corrects a mistake made :•
Howel Cobb, Esq., in his call for the aw
bling of the Executive Committee of the i*
Agricultural Society at Macon. The time (on
meeting, he says, is the 2d Wednesday in ft •
ary, instead of the 2d Monday. He v
have written to Mr. Cobb, to call his atte
to the error, and let him correct it himsei
for the shortness of the time.
Another Payment from lit
State Road.
Thirty-one thousand dollars was, we tat
paid into tbe State Treasury from the West
and Atlantic Railroad last Friday, the earn
for the past month. The Rome Courier in
formed by an officer on the road that one t:
sand dollars for each day, through the je*
will likely be earned and paid over.
The Rolling Mill at Atlanta we learn is - 1
in operation, and has re-run a good deal ofim
worn out iron into new heavy rails, costing -
State half price. They are now being *
down at certain points.
A Rolling Mill is also about to be erect*-,
a New York Company at Chattanooga
These things are certainly evidences of
stantial improvements in tbe south.—/-
Feb. 18 th.
Facts and Rumors. —Under this bea -
the Washington Star of the 28th ult., sa.T
is stated that a number of gentlemen n
this city from the Forth, are doing all in
power to prevent the favorable action oi
gress on the proposition to acquire Cum ‘
cause it will ruin their business —t.e.
break up the clandestine slave trade, in v
they are supposed to be largely interest?-
Cli<‘apeake steamer Bin"”
Baltimore, Jan. 30. —The favorite and
! known steamer, North Carolina, was bur: •’
the waters’ edge on Friday night, on the
age from Baltimore to Norfolk. A clerp
by the name of Curtis and the colored Sie* 4
perished. The steamer was insured -
000.
Beaver in Georgia.— Mr. Burch F-
I DeKalb county, attracted considerable notj*
j Wednesday in the streets of Marietta- d ’
I couple of beaver’s tails in his ox wagon. *-
I were curiosities to many. Mr. Jett infor^- 4
I that he has caught in traps within the last
I seven Beavers on Pumpkin Tine Crees 3
I its mouth, within fifteen or twenty mil®®..
I rietta, three of which would weigh ea*
I pounds. We were not aware of the
lof Beaver in this section. Mr. Jett toid ■”
I that the winter before last he trapped “
I en on Stone Creek, near the Ucmulge#. a
I 25 miles below Macon, taking eight a
I night.— Marietta Advocate, 2 8th.
A “Dependent’'SoiiH l,
The New York Tribune has this choice {*
agraph—
“Not only is the South entirely dependent
on New England for ice, hay, potatoes, th.
plows, hoes, rocking-chairs, and a" 1 ; “
Jions without number; it is only by ® ,
con tant importations from New hng liU ; 1 ’
the South is able to keep up its supply &
ers, preachers, lawyers, doctors, euitof’
I even politicians. .
, I Potatoes and politicians— lawyers
I ice and editors—preachers and nc*m
lit seems we are “dependent” for these [V
IDo we not pay for them ? And wo
I North refuse us her preachers.andi ’ ‘
I price, if the Union were dissolved-
I would be hard. Perhaps, also she wO , • t ,-
I fuse to build ships for us, at 30 per #
I prices than Nova Scotia would demand ,
I catch cod for us, unless upon the .
I getting first one dollar as the price 018 ’
I then two dollars as a bribe for going w go
Let not the Southern mind be alarm i[ ,. a
long as we have money to buy ice we
’ Boston will not deny us the article. “
also can we “import” teachers, P reaL ’ ande j)d
as many as we want, but we even app
glut of those articles. — Southern t ‘ ! ‘~
“Do not cry,” said Saphir, the
ic, to a lady who was evidently rouges.
tears will make you pale. ”