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EXCLUSIVE DEALING.
It appears thit the fanatical organiza
tion now on foot throughout the country
does not intend to confine its operations
to the regulation of the political affairs of
the nation, but takes charge of all indus
trial matters also, believing, no doubt,
li.at the republic is as much in danger
should any but Native American protes
tants he permitted to make our coats,
cut and sew our breeches, shoe our cat
tle, build our dwellings, set our type or
i Ook our dinners, as if the d —cl Dutch,
Irish and other foreign interlopers had
full possession of the government, just
as, until the Washington Union proved
the contrary for Franklin Pierce, they
were charged with having all public of
fices, under the present purely Native,
if not purely protestant administration.
So intense and overpowering has this!
fee ling of exclusive dealing been carried
in some sections as to lead to the most
ridiculous results and the most laugha
ble consequences. At Cincinnati par
ticularly, the principle has been fairly
tested, and with such comical results, as
to give the hole proceeding the air and
features of a broad burlesque from Punch.
A new courthouse for Hamilton county
(that in which Cincinnati is situated,) it
ajipears, was to he erected, or was ini
course of erection, under the superinten
dence of an American architect, called Mr.
Jesse Timanus. This gentleman find
ing himself continually assailed in the
‘•Know Nothing” presses, and orally by
individuals, for the employment of for
eign born mechanics and laborers on the
budding under his control, at length de
termined, being worn out with those at
tacks, to discharge every foreigner, and
employ native American Protestants in
their place. Jesse, accordingly, issued
the following notices: fiist,
Court-House Building Office, )
Cincinnati, August 22d, 1554 )
To the Superintendents of the new Court*
house.
Gentlemen: You are her. by not:fi**l
and directed to employ when applied ior
a situation in your several departments,
noi e but Americans and Protestants, to
the exclusion of any and all foreigners
and Catholics that may be engaged at
work at said Court-house.
Jesse Timanus, )
Sup. Ilam. Cos. Court-house. $
Second:
‘•340 mechanics and laborers wanted
to work on the Court-house.”
American Protestants preferred.
Jesse Timanus,
Superintendent of the Hamilton County
Courthouse.
Mr. Timanus, like Kendall of this post
office, thought he would make his removals
by piece meal, that is. to substitute the
native protestant workmen for the pop
ish and foreign, as the former presented
themselves for employment. An Irish
sione dresser and a German smith were
the first under inexorable rule to fed the
nxe of the executioner, but no sooner
had they l-een beheaded than to Jesse’s
extreme surprise, the entire body ul work
men marched offi.) a body. At that time,
there were at work on the courthouse,
the following laborers and mechanics:
tO Stone dressers, under the foremen
Bennett aid Hargraves. The workmen
ate all foreigners, and the foremen En
g'i-h pio'estanls.
12 Joiners, foreman John Bast, most
ail foreigners. Bast is a German Cath
olic.
63 Stone Masons, employed on the
rewjiil building, are mostly foreigners,
under the foreman Phillip Kippert, Ger
man and Protestant.
19 Bricklaj ers, about two thirds Amer”
icans; under the foreman, John Hawkins,
American and Catholic.
152 Laborers, nearly all foreigners,
Germans, Irish. &e., Superintendent
\V. G. Bagot, Irishman and Ca b bie
In this unexpected slate of affairs Col.
Timanus was “in a pretty considerable
sort of a fix,” extrication from which was
no easy matter, as the sequel will prove
By Ji t of very great exertion, he suc
ceeded in obtaining of the requisite or
thodoxy ofcree 1 and irreproachable na
tionality, five men to work as laborers,
b ll a few hours sati.fied them that the
preference was not flittering, and they
absquatulated incontinently.
Here was a plight f>r poor Timanus
to be caught in! —his foreign employees
a 1 gone, his Protestant native laborers I
and mechanics nowhere t > be found, the I
work suspended, every sensible American
outraged and disgusted. Os course,
those who had most clamorously assailed
him for employing good workmen, tor
any other consideration than their sobri
ety and capacity, cared little about his
einbarrass.neuts, or what subsequently
followed, namely his contemptuous ex
pulsion from a post he wanted the nerve
and the character to fi.l to the satUt’action
of an honest and impartial public. The
letter of Col. 1 imanus on his dismissal
from hi< place is fuil cf instruction; and
as it is the best commentary we have
seen oi, the fanatical spirit now abroad,
we append it for the moral it conveys:
Cincinnati, August 29.
I have been the subject of severe stric
tures by the city press and te public at
Hrge, for my late order for tbe employ
meal of Americau Protestants in the con
struction of the courthouse buildings.
Confinement to a sick room has pre
vented an earlier reply. 1 h a t such an
order should shock the public sense of
j .'slice is not surprising; that it would not
nave done so, would argue a prostitution
oi public morals to a degree revolting to
all sense of humanity. The reason of
that order was plainly this:
It i3 well known that in this country
exists an immense secret political organ
ic rtion, which has for its objects the po
litical, religious and social proscription
of all of foreign birth; in short, whose
object is avowedly the very purpose and
spirit of the act which has received so
much of the public censure-. I have
been assailed and vilified by members
of this secret order in every possible
way. My private character has been
assailed, my public acts irn peached ;.coin
munity has been rife with slander, be
- I w r as, as they charged, colleagued
with foreigners, to tire exclusion of Amer
iean laborers.
io demonstrate the utter and practical
impossibility of getting along without
tUese people, and to precipitate tire re
alization of Nativeism without the labor
anti delay oi an election, 1 gave that or
der. iNuiivetsm itself stood agli&siat the
odi.'U. exclusion of its own spirit. The
j>e i - 11 y <! making the demonstration at
ihe lime i was assured of— I have paid
it; I have been displaced from my posi
tion as superintendent of public buildings.
If the practical illustration of the princi
ples of Nativeism and religious intolerance
has thus been made by a sacrifice so
small, and at worst, only personal to my
self, I shall be happy in knowing myself
was the victim.
1 am a plain man, bred to labor in
mechanics; I cannot, therefore, resist the
fanaticism of religious hostility, prompted
by the bigotry of birth, without the rhe
toric of the learned. I have given a
practical argument in tones of thunder;
let Know Nothingism reply if it can.
The laborers I have employed have
been mostly foreigners. They have been
good and faithful men. Many Ameri
cans have not been employed, only be
cause they did not present themselves
! and solicit work. I applied the princi
j pie of Nativeism and religious intolerance
!as a qualification, and for this I am also
j denounced, as I expected. If such a
i spirit is revolting to men with hearts in
1 their bodies and brains in their heads,
j what nre we to say of the ten thousand
Whigs who claim to have the coming
| elections in their hands? I appeal to the
j whole tenor of my life to show that no
! such sentiment really existed in my heart,
j and hope 1 have demonstated Nativeism
j and religious intolerance are as impracti
cable as they are wicked and unprinci-
pled.
To my friends and the democratic par
ty, whose principles I have never desert
ed, I return my sincere thanks for their
confidence and support. My public du
ties are about being closed, and have
‘always been at a sacrifice of personal in
i terest. I am compelled to devote my
l time for the future more closely to my
own affairs. Will you, therefore, with
draw my name from the list of candidates
for the October election?
Respectfully,
JESSE TIMANUS.
Our readers will read the above com
! piete history of the first open attempt
made on a public work in the United
States, to exclude honest, capable and
industrious men from earning their daily
bread, because of their religion or their
birth place, the American Catholic and
the foreign horn being alike held unwor
thy and undeserving.
Men may well enquire whether this is
the nineteenth century, and these the
United States of America?— Daily True
Delta.
m mmmm.
GRIFFIN. OCT. 5, 1354.
Wore New Goods.
We refer our readers in and near Grif
fin to the advertisement of Messrs Sal
mons, Booth & Cos. Their stock is large,
and selected by Mr. Salmons himself, who
has just returned from market.
New Cotton.
This article comes into our market slow
ly, because, we suppose, of the favorable
weather for picking it out. A good arti
cle commands eight cents. There is p’en
ty of money here for all that can be
brought.
A Fi-ee Negro Consts* malty.
An excellent article, under this head,
will be found on our first page We do
not know to whom to assign its paternity.
We copy it from the Columbus Times A
Sentinel, where it appears as an extract,
j but without credit
Extravagaiace.
It is said that a “crash” is looked for
in the mercantile world, and about every
tenth man in business in New York looks
to “go by the board.” This is not at all
to be wondered at, for less than a very
snug fortune, but a few years back, is not
a genteel outfit at the present day; and a
princely income fifty years ago, will not
now afford means for one aristocratic fam
ily to live on; and the misfortune is, that
about one-half or more are “first farni
i lies,” or eudavoring to ape them. First,
here must be a house in the city costing,
when furnished, say only twenty thousand,
which would be considered quite moder
ate; then there must be a villa in the
‘country, with its grounds and gardens,
costing another moderate twenty thou
sand; there is forty thousand dead capi
tal. Then five thousand dollars is a mo
derate sura for such a family to live on,
with its hundred dollar dining parties
once a mouth, its five hnudred dollar balls
once or twice a year, its five hundred dol
lar visit to a watering place, its fifty dol
lar dresses, its thousand dollar shawls, and
S) on. There goes the interest on sixty or
eighty thousand more. We saw an ac
count of a shawl recently, which paid a
duty on twenty-seven huidred dollars.—
Os course it could not be sold for less than
about three thousand dollars. Can it be
wondered that such extravagance cannot
be sustaiae l, and that merchants must go
t) the wall ? In our opinion, the sooner
there is a “bust up” of all that kind of
cattle, the better for the people. We do
not object to any fool having the privi
lege of spending his own money in any
way he may proper, but the misfor
tune is, that one-half the time these fel
lows and their families, are spending mo
ney which is not their own. How can a
man fail as long as he only spends his own
money ? He may become poor, but he
can never fail, owing more than he is able
to pay. These extravagant families are
another portion of the uneonfined mid
men and mad-women, who are as deserv
ing of a lunatic asyliun as the best of
them. An occasional break up and gene
ral failure among such people, sending
them back to poverty aird the working
classes again, is the very salvation of a
country. So we say, with John Quincy
Adams on a very different occasion, “Let
it come.” The moral atmosphere at least,
is always the clearer and purer after the
storm.
The deaths in Augusta for the week
eliding 25th u!t. were 32, of which 30
died of yellow fever.
TTlte Yellow Fever.
In Savannah there appears to be but
a few lingering cases remaining. Forty
interments by yellow fever took place du
ring the last week, of which fifteen occur
red on Sunday, leaving but twenty-five for
the other portion of the week, being an
average of but four a day.
In Charleston also, the fever has much
abated.
In Augusta it seems to be still raging
fearfully, though it must be of quite a
mild type, judging from the few cases
which terminate fatally. The deaths ave
rage about five per day. We regret to
hear of a number of cases in the Sand
Hills, near Augusta, carried there, no
doubt, from Augusta.
The terrible pestilence has broken out,
n Darien, and a number of Cases have
proved fatal.
In New Orleans there was some mitiga
tion of the disease at last dates, notwith
standing that strangers unacclimated were
arriving in iarge numbers.
In Galveston there appeared to be no
sensible abatement, bit the cises were
mostly those of unacelimated strangers.
There have been a few cases in Mobile,
Montgomery and Selma, and some deaths.
; From the cool and favorable character
! of the weather, we trust the malady, in a
| few weeks, will be extinct.
The Macon Telegraph, of Tuesday
last, says : “The health of Macon was
never better. We have heard of the
transmission of many very silly and un
founded reports, aid we hope to hear of
them no more. There is no yellow fever
here—never ha3 been—and there is no
reason whatever to apprehend its corn
ing.”
Editehal Folly.
Editors of newspapers frequently com
plain of their ‘indignities, and the disre
gard of pecuniary punctuality by their pa
trons. The one-half of them have nobo
dy but themselves to blame for all this;
and if the other half did not suffer with
them, it would be no matter how much
they suffered themselves. If a man wants
to be respected, he mast respect himself;
if he desires to be paid for his labor, he
must convince those who employ him of
the fact. If he make these things a mat
ter of sport, he may be certain that oth
ers who profit by it, will join him. We
have seen the two following paragraphs
going the rounds for some time past, and
found them both in the same paper last
week. They have already cost proprie
tors of newspapers probably huu Ired? of
thousands of dollars. Cheating a printer
is a mere matter of fun, an 1 an excellent
joke; expecting him to be the best inform
ed man in community, and treating him as
an ignoramus, is quite as common; for
which they are indebted, much ra >re to
themselves than to any one else. Just
hear :
“Why are printers’ accounts like faith?
D’ye give it up ? Because they are the
substance of things hoped for, and the ev
idence of things not seen.”
“A gentleman was promenading a fashion
able street with a bright little boy at his
side, when the little fellow called out:
“O P* ! there goes an editor !”
“Hush, son !” said the father, “don’t
make sport of the poor man. God only
knows what yon may come to yet!”
It is not to be w Hindered at that the ra
i bid abolitionists are moving heaven and
! earth, as far as they are able, over the
I Nebraska and Kansas enactments. They
| were never in a more ticklish condition.—
| The people at the North are fast opening
their eyes to the abolition movements, and
find they are all flummery and stuff. Tue
three thousand clergymen are looked up
on as three thousand arrogant and •med
dlesome demagogues, who left their calling
to pursue politics, and are not withall one
whit better than the most of them should
be. r l lie Whig party, who gave aboli
tionists of the North very efficient aid, a<
a quid pro quo for their services at the
polls, has fallen to pieces, and it well be-
comes the latter to bestir themselves.—
I But what have they and me? Dins far,
; nothing. Twenty members of Congress
| have been chosen since the passage of the
i Nebraska bill; and if they were to act up
j on that bill again, it would have nine votes
i from them, just the number it had from
j their predecessors; so that there has as
! yet been no loss of Congressmen on the
Nebraska issue, notwithstanding the noise
and confusion of the opposition. In re-,
ference to this point, the Albany Argun
says : “No member of Congress who vo
ted for the Nebraska bill, aud who was a
candidate before the people for re-election,
has yet been defeated; while three who
voted against it—one in Missouri, and
two in Maine—have run again and been
left at home by their constituents ”
The Mails.
It is but seldom we get a paper east of
Augusta now. We do not complain, as
we have no doubt the wurtliy Post Mas
ter in that city is doing all he can in his
present perplexed situation. All his clerks
have deserted him on account of the sick
ness, and lie cannot procure othors at any
| price. The condition of Mr. Sraythc calls
for our sympathy, not condemnation.—
The printing offices are in the same strait.
The Constitutionalist of last week, in a
hall sheet, remarked that their whole force
consisted of one compositor and one press
man. In ordinary times, their force, wo
suppose, is usually ten or twelve hands.—
While blest, as wo are here, with pure air
and good health, wo can well afford to be
patient, until the affliction of less favored
cities pass away.
Nupoleon Bonaparte’s Bequests.
Louis Napoleon is engaged in paying a
portion of the bequests made in the will of
the elder Bonaparte, am Hunting to about
200,000,000 of francs, or about 40,000,-
COO of dollars. Or rather, Louis Napo
leon is distributing a small portion of that
amount fronj the public treasury, to be ap
propriated according to the “little corpo
ral’s” will, while the large property, which
he intended should defray the bequests of
his will, is still held by Louis Napoleon,
and other members of the family. A
glance will show how exceedingly gener
ous all this is. The people’s money is ta
ken to pay the bequests, and the property
is retained in the Bonaparte family.
Yankee Cunning.
The bark Fraritfiii; from Jacksonville,
Florida, bound to Bath, Maine, lately put
into Holmes’ Hole, below Boston, and
gave information that there was a fugitive
slave on board, at the same time landing
the negro and turning him loose. Os
course when the marshal went down, no
negro was to be found, and it was pro
claimed he had made his escape. Does
any one think that that smart shipper car
ried the negro from Jacksonville to Bos
ton without bargain ami pay ? lie is ex
ceedingly “green” if *lie does. We think
the good people of Jacksonville would do
well to watch these Yankee cwp'ins.
Death of Hon. flu A- ilaraboii
The papers of last week bring us the
melancholy intelligence of the death of
Hon. Hu A. Haralson, who died at his
residence in LaGrange, on Monday even
ing, the 25th nit. The LaGrange Re
porter of last Friday, thus announces this
public loss :
How are tiie Mighty Fallen —Once
more we are called on to don the “habili
ments of woe,” and to mingle our voice
with sounds of lamentation. The Hon
Hu A. Haralson is no more I For up
wards of twelve months he has been bat
tling with a wasting, insidious disease,
which was slowly, but with fatal certainty
wearing away the machinery of life. He
had not been confined strictly to his bed
for more than a few months, although for
a long time too feeble for any exercise
On Monday, at about half past 3 o’clock,
P. M- lie sunk into the icy arms of Death.
‘‘Calmly, as it to a night’s repose,
Like flowers at set ol sun.”
Any eulogy from us is unnecessary.—
“None knew him but to love him—none
named him but to praise.”
From the New.ian Burner 29 h tilt.
It is with regret that we have to chron
icle the death of Gen. llu A. Haralson,
which took place, we understand, at his
home iw LaGrange, Monday morning last,
25th inst. We had understood, some
time past, that he was in feeble health, but
( did net expect that we would be under the
painful necessity so soon of recording his
death. He was in the prime of life, and
it was fondly hoped by his numerous
friends, that the days of his usefulness
here would still be many. But he has
gone—and a nobler spirit never took its
flight to the God who gave it, than that ot
the deceased. We have known him long,
and always found him live true hearted and
faithful friend, the high toned, noble gen
t einan, and an “honest man —the noblest
work of God.” lie was the peculiar favorite
of the Democracy and the people of this
Congressional District, and was frequently
returned to Congress as their Representa
tive, after many a hard fought battie be
tween the Whigs and Democrats in days
of yore. His name is identified with the
most interesting scenes in the political
history of the 4th Congressional District.
He was its first Representative after the
.State was divided off into Districts, and
continued to be re-elected until he decli
ned, from private considerations, to have
his name brought before the people for the
station he had lilied with honor to him
self, his District, and to the utmost satis
faction of his constituents. When such
men die, we ‘eel that a place has been va
cated upon life’s stage, and in the hearts
of the people, which it will be hard to fill.
Bat their memories are sacredly cherish
ed in the recollections of their country
men. With the family of the deceased,
we sincerely sympathise,. entertaining not
only the hope, but the “consoling confi
dence” that “their loss is his gain,” and
that to him
rhe King of Ferrers wis the Piiuje of Peace.”
Death of Han. Joseph W. Jack
son.
We are this morning called upon to re
cord the death of one to whose worth
these columns have again and again borne
testimony—not with reluctance, or by
constraint—but in the full conviction that
too much could not be said in commenda
tion of his virtues. The Hon. Joseph W.
Jackson, late member of Congress from
this District, died of yellow fever at his J
residence in Savannah, about o’clock,
yesterday. A man of scrupulous honesty
and the most chivalrous and unbending
integrity, he goes to the grave with the
respect of all who ever knew him.
The deceased was for many years con
nected with the politics of his native State,
and less closely, with those of the Union.
He commenced his political life under the
auspices of the illustrious statesman, Gov.
1 roup, whose disciple he ever considered
himself, and whose, confidence, in an emi
nent degree, he enjoyed up to the period
of his death. We need not then say that
he was a States Iliglits politician of the
strictest sect. ‘ 1
Col Jackson hasbeen frequently a mem
ber of our City Council,-Mayor of Savan
nah, and has served repeatedly in one or
the other branch of the Georgia Legisla
ture. In February, 1850, he was elected
to the Congress of the United States, to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the resigna
tion of tho Hon. Thomas Butler King—
receiving in this city the then unprece
dented Democratic • majority of 402, and
being the first Democrat ever elected front
this District. At the conclusion of the
term, lie earnestly desired not again to be
a candidate, but was constrained by the
pressure ol his political friends to yield
his wishes to theirs. He was elected by
ait increased majority. Ho served out his
second term, commanding in an eminent
degree, the respect of tbe House of Rep
resentatives, for the purity of his charac
ter, and the manifest conscientiousness of
his every political act. No persuasion
could induce him to go back to Washing--
ton, though it is probable that had he
been again a candidate, he would have
been elected without opposition. Fie
withdrew from public station ‘‘to quie
tude, which every wiseman would wish to
place between the turmoil of life and the
stillness of eternity.”
To those who knew him, we would say,
may we, like him,
“So live that when our summons comes to join
The innumerable caravans that move
To that mysterious realm where each shall take,
Fiis chamber in the silent halls of death,
YVc go not, like the quary slave nt na
Scourged to his dungeon 5 but, sustained and
soothed
By an unfalterin “ trust, approach onr “rave,
Like one that draws the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”
Savannah Georgian 29th tilt.
For the Georgia Jeffersonian.
Sun cupiditate, non utililate communi, im
pellitur.
Selfishness sways the human
heart.
Sir : In one of your issues some time
since, the remarks made by yourself on
the bolitionisra of Harper’s Magazine,
are just and true. 1 have often wondered
why southern readers do not notice more,
that the spirit of fanaticism on the sub
ject of slavery enters now into almost all
northern literature, and therefore cease to
patronise it. It is surreptitiously intro
duced like poison into food, into all their
publications which flood our houses, libra
ries, Sunday schools and book stores. Its
authors know the sure though slow and
silent working power of insinuation.—
“ Guild cavat lapidem , non vi, sed sape
cadendo ln his comments, which in the
main, are beautiful and instructive, on the
investigations and astonishing discoveries
made by Lieut. Maury, U. S. N., in the j
science of the “atmosphere and ocean,” or j
as Ilumbolt calls it, “the physical geogra
phy of the seas,” and their influence and
effects upon land and sky, cold and heat,
animal and vegetable life, he drags in,
without any but a forced connexion, the
subject of slavery, which has no analogy
to that grand scientific or philosophical
system. What has the natural currents
of air ami sea to do with the political or
moral condition of any portion of the hu
man race ? No —he brings it in to flat
ter, and secure the patronage of, the frec
soil States, as he does, for the same pur*
pose, in some instances, “few and far be
tween,” compliments to the sunny South,
and thereby makes applicable to himself
our caption, ll sua cupiditate, non u'ilitate
communi, impellilttr .” Speaking of the
groat equatorial current, lie says, “passing
down the eastern shore of Africa, it dou
bles the stormy Cape misnamed Good
Hope, skirts the coast of Guinea, and the
dolorous region cursed by the slave trade,
abhorred by God and man.” Now I
would ask, in becoming diffidence and re
verence, what have the slave trade and
abhorrence of God and man to do with
the great Equatorial current ? Is it the
cause of the slave trade ? If it were,
God, who made and put it in motion, in
his abhorrence, could stop it. “ Sed am
nis hbilur et labetnr in omnt volubifis
oevum.”
Let me enquire what is the Christian
condition now of the descendants, though
in slavery, of the people of that coast,
compared with the heathenism of iheiran
t cestors and themselves, had they remained
| there ? Here is a moral current greater
j and more sublime than the natural one
j roiling from Amerjpa to that “dolorous
coast,” - the current of the gospel chris
tianizing all biblical so that if
slavery be an evil, God brings good out of
it, and thereby blesses it, and what God
blesses as an instrumentality in enlarging
his kingdom, who has a right to calf it a
curse ? It is presumption, a blasphemy.
Beside, look at the astonishing contradic
tion and glaring inconsistency of men and
nations calling themselves Christian, in
) Western Europe, nowin arms to defend
; the Ottoman Dynasty, which lias for cun
| turies enslaved both heathens and Chris
tians, against a Christian power, whose
policy as a result, is to christianize it ?
Does not our caption here apply again to
England and France engaged in this war ?
‘•‘Sua cupiditate, non utiLtate communi, im
peltilui.” Slavery “abhorred by God
and man 1” What will be done with all
his directions as written in the bible by
Moses, his pensma ;, and others, from No
ah, who doomed the descendants of one
of his sons to servitude, Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, and throughout the whole Ju
daic polity, during the period of'its con
tinuation, down to Paul and Onesimus ?
But I am not learned in such lore, much
less am I qualified to interpret the dispen
sations of Divine Wisdom. 1 rest satilied,
in all things He will do right without en
quiring whether man is pleased with his
a ‘ministration, I know that all the phe
nomena, moral or physical, presented to
our view, wid finally have their proper
and just issue, in the perfect completion
of their design according to Ilis owr.
counsel and eternal purpose. F. D. C.
Tlie Soil of the South.
The October number of this excellent
Agricultural and Horticultural work is on
our table. The following is the table of
contents of this number:
Kditorial,.— Work for the Month; Cot
ton Picking; Putting up the Corn Crop;
Saving Wheat; The Field Pea; Circular
of the Commissioner of Patents; The Fair
—lts Regulations; Garden Work for Oc
tober; Literary Horticulture; Guano for
Gardens; Planting Fruit ‘Frees; Agricul
tural Report of the Patent Office; The
Month of Fairs; Flowering Bulbs; Alaba
ma Apples; The Quince Tree; The Straw
berry bed; United States Patent‘Office;
Acknowledgements.
Communications.— Gen Hunter’s Texas
Letter; Grasses at the South; Topping
Okra.
Miscellaneous. —Regulations of the
Fair of 1854; Address of the Trustees of
the University of Georgia on the Endow
ment of the Terrell Professorship of Agri
culture; Agricultural Circular; Night Soil;
The Venom of Serponts; Southern Pacific
] Railroad; Portablo Soup Cakes; Method
‘and Order; Improved Harness Buckle;
Donjpstic Bread ; Hoo Sung; Pomological
Literature; Raising Water by Wind Pow
er (Illustrated); How to lay out a good
Garden; Arboriculture—Treatment of the
Soil; A Garden Apologue; The Anemone;
Planting Trees of House Plants;
Nosegays; Watering; Making Hot Beds;
What Culture will do; Invocation to rain;
Colza and its Cultivation; Disinfecting
Agents; Oil for Machinery.
Address Lomax & Ellis, Publishers,
Columbus. Terms $1 per annum in ad
vanco. ,
Yellow fever in Angnstii.
Ihe Hamburg Pioneer , the publisher
of which lives in Augusta, gives a worse
account of the state of things in that citv
than we have been disposed t >• credit.—
T hat paper of the 27th ult. speaks as
follows:
No business is doing; stores nearly all
dosed, and scarcel y a person to oe seen
in the streets. It is a difficult matter to
procure the necessaries of life. Articles
of consumption have advanced from 25
to 59 per cent. The butchers, poultry
wagons and vegetable carts have nearly
all deserted the market house.
From the scanty material left in the
city to feed the fever, and the rapid pro
gress it has made, it cannot take it very
long to get through its desolating work.—
It is the opinion, that not over five hun
dred white persons remain in the city.—
Every while family has left, only the few
wl.o had members of it sick. The desti
tute were provided with ways and means
to flee by the Mayor, A. P. Robertson,
who acted nobly, for we are informed
that the members of Council and City
officers nearly all fled, and left him to per
form the duties they all should have done.
The fever is on the increase; the number
of new cases reported on Monday lust was
20, and they of a severer type than any
heretofore. Since our last issue, up to
Monday, the number of new cases per day 1
is from 10 to 12. Below will be found 1
the number of deaths on each day. Wed
nesday, the 20th, 2; Thursday, the 21st,
7; Friday, the 22J, 3; Saturday, the 23d,
5; Sunday, the 24th, 5; Monday, the 25th,
0; and tlie report of yesterday was not
made at the time we went to press. The
weather is very unfavorable; the atmos
phere being damp and heavy. We learn
the mortality is as devastating among
those who removed to the country as in
the city.
From the same paper we learn that
Hamburg, separated from Augusta merely
by the Savannah River, bus thus far es
caped the epidemic.
Yellow Fever in Atlanta-
We hear i l , in our preregrinations, that
we have yellow fever in Atlanta. We
have heretofore, given this rumor a flat
denial; we now repeat it, most emphati
cally, that we have no yellow fever in
this city, nor have we had any cases of
it. We have conversed freely with Med
ical men in the city, and we have no idea
that any Pnysieian in our cily ever saw
: u savß two venerable jjontlsincn
jand these cases were riot in Atlanta.
! The idea of yellow fever being here is
perfectly preposterous—it is a whim, and
j destitute of any foundation in truth.
We know some Medical men get up such
j panics to In,row themselves into business,
but we neither admire the judgement of
j such, nor do we envy the future reputa
; lion of such an individual, if there be one
I ‘U this community. If yellow fever
| should appear in our city, we beg our
readers to believe that we shall instantly
advise them of it. — Examiner.
Atlanta Medical College.
We are authoiised to state that the an
nouncement of the first regular course of
lectures of the Atlanta Medical College
has been delayed in consequence of the
death o! J. W. Gordon, M. D , of Savan
nah, who was to have filled the chair of
; Obstetrics. Iho trustees will meet in a
lew week*, when an election of a succes
sor will be held, and the board being com
plete, the announcement ot the first course,
to commence the first Monday in May’
will t*e published. The prospects of the
success of the institution, we understand,
are of the most promising kind- Ex.
Tiik Democracy of Philadelphia.—
The Pennsylvanian says that at the great
Democratic meeting in Philadelphia last
week, there were thirty thousand persons
in attendance, and pronounces it the great
est political assemblage ever convened in
that city.
The following among the resolutions
are adopted:
Resolved, That the doctrine which
would exclude our fellow citizens of for
eign birth, or any particular religious sect,
from all the equal privileges of the Amer
en Government, is dangerous to the best
interests, glory, and power of the nation,
and it is in violation of the true spirit and
intendment of the Federal Constitution.
Resolved , That the administration of
President Franklin Pierce has been direct
ed with a single eye to the true interests
of the people; and that the President’s
enlightened approval of the recent legisla
tion of Congress for the formation of the
leiiitories of Nebraska and Kansas,
proves him to be a Chief Magistrate, im
bued with just principles of Constitutional
Freedom, recognizes in its broadest sense
the principle of self-government and is
eminently entitled to the warmest support,
and cordial confidence of the tJnited De
mocracy.
Political News.
The Austrian government has officially
notified the Western Powers that in con
sequence of the Czar’s rejection of all pro
posals, they arc determined to remain neu
tral.
The Allied forces, consisting of 70 000
men, and 700 vessels, were before Sebas
topol, on the 10th ult. News of their
landing was expected at Varna on the
16th.
Jour thousand Austrian troons entered
Bucharest on the 16th inst.
1 lt , was reported that the Baltic fleet
was about to return to England, and that
it was Admiral Napier’s intention to re
sign.
1 ho Republicans in Spain are reported
as being very active. ‘
Trade in China was stagnant. Canton
had not been attacked at last accounts.
From Havana aud liey West.
The steamer Gov. Dudley brings Ha
vana and Key West dates up to Sept. 22d.
There is, however, very little intelligence
of interest from either port. The Spanish
steamship Francis o dt Jisis arrived at
Havana on the 21st, with Co.vcha, who
succeods Pezubla, in the Captain Gene
rulcy of the Island. The correspondent of
the Charleston Courier says :
‘I cannot at this moment attempt to
describe the scone that took place upon
his landing, at 3, P M. yesterday. The
city was literally one scene of flagstaff's
and flags and fire works, crackers by day
and rockets at night. The streets were
flooded with light from the illumination
lhe coqquct of the Marquis do la Puezela
wag noble and manly. He received his
successor as his guest. There are three
bails to-night. I have been kept awake
a 1 s,loutin g s °f “Viva Con
elm, \ iva Espariol.”. The poqr fools
SUMMARY.
A few days ago, says the Niagara Mail,
an enormous servent was] discovered in
the garden of Moffat’s Hotel, Niagara.
This most truculent looking reptile was
about twelve feet long, and as thick al
most as a man’s leg. sundry strat
agems, he was taken alive by Mr. Mof
fat, and safely barrelled up. It turned
to be an anaconda which got away from
an exhibition that had been held on the
Common about a fortnight previous, since
which time his snakeship had been enjoy
ing himself at large, and feeding luxrious
ly on chickens, of which a considerable
number had disappeared very mysterious
ly from the neighborhood.
Infamous. —We understand that the
Georgia Railroad Company has, within a
few days past, had the flues of several va
luable engines burnt out by some prowl
ing miscreant, who stealthily turns the
cocks, after the engine has been fired up
and let the water out.— Jiuqusla Chron.
Riot in Cincinnati. — A riot took'placc
lately at Cincinnati between the Protes
tants and German Catholics, in which fire
arms were freely used, and three persons
shot.
The collections in the city of New York,
for the sufferers at Savannah, have amount
ed to ten thousand dollars.
We regret to hear lof the death of
James Ri-iind, Esq. Cashier of the Branch
of the State Bat.k at Augusta. He died
at the Sand Hills, of the prevailing epi
demic.
The interments on last Sunday, (from
yellow fever,) were 15, Monday 7, Tues
day 4, We nesday 5, Thursday 3, Friday
4, and Saturday 2—making the deaths by
yellow fever during the week 40; from all
diseases Go. — Georgian of Sunday morn
ing last.
There has been a severe gale on the
coast of Texas, lasting from the 13th to
the 22d ult. Vessels were wrecked, lives
lost, crops ruined, and the town of Ma
tagorda destroyed, with the.exception of
three houses. The waves swept entirely
over Galveston Island, carrying off a great
deal of property
The Albany (Dougherty county ) Patri
ot, of last Friday, says, the weather is
pleasant. Health of ’the country first
rate
Cholera at Pittsburg. —The cholera
has been making awful ravages at Pitts
burg. From the 14th to the 221 of Sep
tember, there were upwards of five hun
dred deaths.
Census of Savannah. —The Young
Men’s Association of Savannah took a
census of the city on Saturday last, by
which it appears that the population re
maining in the city is as follows :
Wiiites, 0,313
Blacks, 5,583
Tota', 11,895
The Fair of the Southern Central Ag
ricultural Association which was to have
been held in Augusta in the latter part of
October, has been postponed in conse
quence of the epidemic in that city, until
■the 20th day of November.
Population of Texas. —The present
population of Texas is estimated at five
hundred thousand, and the annual increase
at one hundred and fifty thousand. ‘There
are thirty-four newspapers published in
the State.
The “Angel Gabriel” blew his trumpet
in Independence Square, Philadelphia, on
the afternoon of the 26th ult. according
to previous announcement. A crowd was
gathering, when the police interfered and
removed him to the lock-up.
Emigrants —Nine wagons, “loaded to
the guards” with men, women and chil
dren, and flanked by several outriders, pas
sed through St. Louis on the 21st nit. —
This coble caravan was from the State of
Indiana, and going, by the wav of Spring
field and Arkansas, to Texas.
Import v\T from St. Domingo.—Kings
ton, Jamaica, papers received by the Pro
metheus, state that they have intelligence
of the fact that the Dominican govern
ment had appointed a commissioner to
treat with the United States authorities
and commanders of the squadron there,
on the subject of the cession of Saniaim,
either by purchase or treaty arrangement,
to our government.
Ax American in the Turkish Army.—
Mr. Burr Porter, a young man of high
respectability, of Newark, New Jersey, of
a ro nanite mind, conceived a fancy of join
ing the Turkish service at the opening of
the present war. He succeeded in being
made a captain of artillery, and recently,
in preventing a town from being racked,
was promoted to a colonel-
The returns of a census of the city of
Memphis, taken by order of the city eoan-.
cil, although at a time when many are
absent, show the population to be ~
being an increase of 25 por oent. since the
last census.
Porkeis.— The Nashville True Whig
says, six thousand porkers passed through
Jeffersonville, one-day last week, en route
for Lafayette, I ml. , in which vicinity they
will Ue fattened.
The publishers of the Cincinnati papers
have raised the price of subscription 20
per cent, owing to the advanced price of
labor and material.
A Woman Arrested —A woman giv
ing her name as Sarah Hubbard, about
twenty five years of age, was arrested in
this city on Friday last for attempting to
steal a negro man. belonging to Mr.
Brooks, of LaGrange, Ga. According to
the negro’s statement she was to take
him to a free State, and he, in return,
was to work for her long enough to pay
expenses. —Atlanta Intelligencer.
They are about establishing a Mutual
Loan and Building Association in Griffin.
These associations improve upon acquain
tance. The more they are known the
more they come into faVor. The one in
this city, which has been in operation
about a year and a half, is in a most pros
petous and flourishing condition.—Atlan
ta Intelligencer.
A G9OD Deed:— We see that Mr. Nes->
bit, tho>excellent and energetic Post Mas*
ter at Macon, has requested Mr. Smythe,
the Post Master at Augusta, who is des
titute of help, to forward the mails to Ma
con for distribution.