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COLUMBUS:
Tuesday Horning, Not. 99, 1839.
There was frost and ice at Houston,
Texas, on the 12th and 13th inst. There
Were five interments from yellow fever at
Galveston on the 12th.
A bill has passed the House of Repre
sentatives of the Texas Legislature abol- !
ishing the office of Public Printer, and
letting the work to competition.
Hon. Jere. Clemens has left Memphis
for the North, whither he has gone to put
in press his new work, entitled “The
Rivals.”
A few nights since, the residence of
the City Marshal in Memphis, was fired
by an incendiary, and destroyed, with
most of its contents.
Mr. Dufour, present representative
from Camden county, has been appointed
Collector of the port of St. Mary’s, Ga.,
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the de
cease of Julius A. Barrette.
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The exports (exclusive of specie) from
New York to foreign ports for the week
ending Nov. 14, amounted to $1,504,820,
making, with the amounts previously re
ported, since January Ist, $57,826,676.
News from Virginia.
In our telegraphic column will be found
a dispatch, containing important and ex
citing intelligence in connection with the
recent trials at Charlestown.
The Wanderer Trials,
Are still progressing at Savannah.
Both sides at present are examining wit
nesses, but the testimony of all sum
moEed has not yet been taken. •
The New York Shipping List announ
ces among the freights, the following:
New ship Southern Rights, 1,000 tons,
now at Richmond, Me., from Charleston
to Liverpool, cotton 7-16d., or if to
Havre, $■ cents.
John and Jesse Lewis, brothers, con
victed in the Circuit Court of Anderson
county, Tennessee, of the murder of the
sheriff and deputy sheriff of Campbell
county, have been sentenced to be hung
at Jacksonborough on the third Friday
in December.
Codification of the Laws.
On Saturday the 19th, the two houses
of the Legislature elected two codifiers
of the laws, to fill the vacancies occa
sioned by the resignation of Messrs.
Johnson and Harris. On the first ballot
T. It. R. Cobb and R. H. Clarke, Esqs.,
were elected without opposition.
Fly In Wheat.
The Athens (Tenn.) Post says: Some
of the farmers in Sullivan and other of
tho upper East Tennessee counties, com
plain that the fly has made its appear
ance, and is seriously damaging the
young wheat. In this section, in many
places, wheat is up and growing off
finely, while others are not done seeding.
Texas Official Vote.
On Friday, the 11th inst., the vote for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor of
Texas was counted by the two Houses of
the Legislature, in joint session. Gen.
Houston received 36,170; H. R. Runnels
27,500; Houston’s majority, 8,670. Col.
F. Clark’s majority for Lieutenant Gov
ernor over F. R. Lubbock, is 1,133.
New Locomotives.
The Savannah Republican says that
the schooner Manhassett, Capt. Blake,
from New York, which arrived there on
Thursday last, had on board two new lo
comotives, one for the South Western and
the other for the Savannah, Albany and
Gulf Rail Road Company.
.
Senatorial Election.
In the House of Representatives, Sat
urday, a resolution was adopted, which
prescribes the time for electing United
States Senator to represent this State in
Congress. It provides that the election
shall come off at the session of the Legis
lature immediately preceding the time at
which the new Senator is to take his seat.
Accident on tlie Memphis and Char
leston Road.
From the Nashville Union we learn that
the passenger and freight trains collided
the night of the 15th, about nine miles
from Memphis. The locomotive attached
to the passenger train was smashed to
atoms, and several of the forward freight
cars were thrown off the track. The en
gineers and firemen leaped from the lo
comotives, and thereby saved their lives.
No person was injured.
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New York Election.
Up to this time the majorpy of Jones,
Democratic candidate for Secretary of
State in New York, is 308. The county
canvassers met throughout the State the
15th, to count the votes cast at the recent
election. Some newspapers of each party
claim the majority for their favorite can
didates, but there is no doubt of the
election of Jones.
“Sut Lorengood.”
The Nashville Union says: “We are
gratified to be able to announce that our
friend George W. Harris, Esq., has made
definite arrangements with Messrs. Dick
& Fitzgerald, of New York, for the pub
lication of a handsomely illustrated edi
tion of his “Sut Lovengood” and other
sketches. The merited fame of the au
thor, and the popularity 4 of his publish
ers, will secure for the work a large and
ready sale.
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Arrest of a. Convict.
The Upson Pilot says a man calling
himself W. J. Edwards, was arrested at
Thomaston, on Wednesday night, under
suspicious circumstances. He had on a
new suit of clothes, but upon investiga
tion his old suit was found, amoDg
which, was the Slate Stripes. He then
acknowledged he was Ruel A. Turner,
and that he escaped from the peniten
tiary last Sunday. He was carried back
to Milledgeville.
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The Atlantic and Gulf Road.
The Early County News learns from a
private letter, that an arrangement has
been effected with the Directors of the
Atlantic and Gulf Bead, by which they
agree to survey, locate and put under
contract, the Road from Bainbridge to
Freeman’s Landing, on the Chattahoo
chee, as soon as $150,000 is subscribed
for that purpose. It is contemplated
that the Road will run within six miles
of Blakeley.
. Mayor of New York.
The regular Democratic Mayoralty Con
vention to nominate candidates for Mayor
and Governor of the Alms House, met at
Mozart Hall Tuesday night. Fernando
Wood was nominated by acclamation as
their candidate for Mayor, and James
Lynch for Alms House Governor.
James O’Connor was tried for murder
in Apalachicola, Thursday last, found
guilty and sentenced to be hung the 30th
of December next. The case will be
taken to the Supreme Court.
The steamei"Florida, Captain Nelson,
left Apalachicda for New Orleans on the
J6th instant.
Alabama State Treasurer's Report, |
We are indebted to the Hon. E. C. Bul
lock for a copy of the biennial report of
the State Treasurer to the General As
sembly of Alabama, for the fiscal years
ending September, 1858, and September,
1859. The total receipts during the two
years ending September 30th, 1859, were
$1,710,549 03; the total disbursements
j during the same period, $2,714,141 83.
The balance in the Treasury at the date
of the last report, was $1,635,271 80.
! The amount of notes of the State Bank
and Branches burned by act of January
22d, 1858, was $1,189,928. Since the
date of the last report the number of
State bonds redeemed by J. Whiting,
Commissioner and Trustee, and filed in
the Treasurer’s office, is 137. The
amount for which they were issued is
$135,555 57, bearing interest at 5 per
! cent.
The amount disbursed for educational
purposes for the ‘two years is $560,-
422 84 ; the pay of members of the Gen
eral Assembly, session of 1857 and 1858,
$58,979 80; the contingent expenses of
the State government, $10,481 51. We
may occasionally notice other items in
this report hereafter.
Important to Cotton Planters.
In the Petersburg Express we find the
proceedings of a meeting of the New York
Chamber of Commerce. The subject
principally discussed was the complaint
of the British manufacturers in regard to
the adulteration of cotton with sand to
increase its weight. To stop these frauds,
resolutions were introduced recommend
ing that three tickets, with the planter’s
mark thereon, should be placed at inter
vals on the packages ; also that the name
should be painted on the outside. The
planter would thus be made to pay for
any fraud when discovered, and the hon
est planter could be protected.
Pardon of Wm. A. Choice.
From the Southern Recorder, which
arrived here last evening, we learn that
the Senate, by a vote of 54 to 53, passed
the bill Thursday, pardoning Wm. A.
Choice, who ‘is under sentence of
death for the murder of Calvin Webb, in
Atlanta. A petition from his mother was
laid on the desks of the members of the
Legislature. The bill was the subject
of a long, interesting and able debate.
Messrs. Holt, Miller. Payne, and Hill ad
vocated pardon, and Messrs. Jones, Col
lier, and Williams against it.
Savannah) Griffin and North Alaba
ma Rail Road.
The Directors of this Company met at
Newnan, on the 11th inst Upon investi
gation there was ascertained to be $716,-
400 subscribed. Col. W. J. Jossey, of
Griflin, was chosen Secretary, and Mr.
Robert Douglas, Chief Engineer, who will
proceed to locate as soon as competent
assistants can be procured.
Identifying Brown’s Men.
The Washington States says detectives
Pierson and Woodall, of Baltimore, in
company with five residents of Harper’s
Ferry, reached the city yesterday morn
ing, on their way to Richmond, Lynch
burg, Wyethville, and other places, for
the purpose of identifying, if possible,
the five different persons under arrest at
those points for supposed complicity with
the recent raid of John Brown & Cos.
♦
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Norton were
together for the first time in several
years, at the funeral of their son, who
was buried according to the Roman Cath
olic ceremonial, at Wakefield, England,
on the 23d ult. They dined together,
and Mr. Norton paid his afflicted wife
every attention. The hope is expressed
that the mournful event may result in
their reconciliation.
“The United South.”
This is the title of anew paper re
cently commenced in Abbeville, Ala., by
Messrs. John B. Taylor and S. S. Curry,
editors. We acknowledge the receipt of
the first number, and wish it God’s speed
in the accomplishment of its object. The
editors are known as gentlemen of abil
ity, and are well qualified for the task to
which they have addressed themselves.
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Large Compensation.
The general agent for the Western
States of the famous and unprecedentedly
successful Etna Insurance Company, of
Hartford, receives a compensation larger
than that of the President of the United
States. The Hartford Times says bis
commissions annually range from $25,-
000 to $30,000.
Death of Ex-Gov. Gilmer.
The Augusta papers announce the
death of the Hon. George It. Gilmer,
which occurred at his residence in Lex
ington, last Wednesday morning, after
an illness of one month. Mr. G. was
twice elected Governor of Georgia, and
we believe, served the State several years
in Congress.
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“A Sea. ot Upturned Faces.”
The contest about the paternity of this
phrase has been settled. The New Orleans
Bulletin says it may be found in Scott’s
“Heart of Mid-Lothian,” in the interview
between Jenny Dean and her sister Eflfle,
then confined in the Tolbooth at Edin
burgh.
Election of State Printers.
In the Alabama Legislature, Thursday.
Messrs. Shorter & Reid, of the Advertiser,
were elected State Printers, they being
the only candidates in nomination.
In Mississippi, Major Barksdale, of the
Mississlppian, has been elected State
Printer.
♦
A. K. Moore, of the Petersburg Intel
ligencer, and formerly of the Savannah
Republican, is a candidate before the
next House of Representatives for the
Congressional Printing. The Intelligen
cer is a Whig paper.
A Million of Muskets for Garibaldi.
The Italians held a meeting in New
York city on Tuesday evening, to take
measures to aid Garib&ldj in his efforts
to obtain a million of muskets.
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Reprieve of Brown.
It is stated that a petition is in circu
lation at Manchester, N. H., praying
Gov. Wise to postpone Brown’s execution
until the meeting of the Virginia Legis
lature.
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Killing.
A young gentleman by the name of
McCrabb, formerly of Washington City,
but more recently of Columbus, Ga., was
shot and killed by some unknown person,
on the corner of Market and Perry street
last night. We understand from an eye
witness of the difficulty, that the deceased
gave his antagonist a blow with his fist,
whereupon the latter drew bis pistol and
shot him. Mr. McCrabb ran to the op
posite corner, and fell within a few feet
of the drug store of Messrs. Glackmeyer
& Hilliard. He did not survive exceed
ing five minutes after being shot. The
ball took effect in the left breast, just
above the nipple.
The person who committed the deed
immediately fled up Perry street. He
had not been arrested up to the hour of
our going to press last night.— Montgom
ery Advertiser of Friday.
Cotton Shippers Application Books,
handsomely ruled and bound, for sale at the
tet. 29. SUN OFFICE.
The “Chattahoochee Slack Water
Navigation Company.”
A few days since, we published a bill
which has been introduced in the Legis
lature by Mr. Cook, of Early county,
bearing the above title. It is a move- j
ment in which every man and place af- i
fected by the navigation of the Chatta
hoochee are deeply interested —particu- ;
larly the city of Columbus. What is
proposed to be accomplished by it 2 It is
to constitute a dozen men, one or more of
whom reside in Alabama, and not one in
Columbus, a body corporate, and invest
them with extraordinary and dangerous
powers and privileges—in short, to give
them the control and a monopoly of the
commerce and navigation of the Chatta
hoochee river.
Section 5 of the bill empowers the
Company, after they shall have built and
completed as many dams and locks as in
their judgment may be necessary, to levy
certain rates of toll upon the freight and
passengers of each boat navigating the
river, the correctness of the list of which,
when rendered, is to be authenticated by
the oath of the purser or commander of
said boat. For the sake of example, it
authorizes them to levy a tribute of five
cents per dry barrel, which of course
will be collected at every successive lock
upon the river until it reaches its desti
nation. Suppose that three locks inter
vened, a tax of fifteen cents in addition
to the freight will have to be added to the
original cost of erch barrel, all of which
must be ultimately paid by the consumer.
The effect it will produce upon our flour
ing mills is only an illustration of the
influence it will exert upon the general
commerce of Columbus up and down the
Chattahoochee. The result will be a di
version of much of our trade from that
channel, in favor of that from other
places.
If the successful and better navigation
of the river be the object of the bill, it is
a work of supererogation. In the winter
season the water is frequently high and
uniformly navigable, and in this season
our heaviest freight is carried up and
down the river. In the summer season,
when the water is at its lowest stage, the
difficulty of shipping freight has been
obviated by the construction of a light
draught boat, which was fully equal to
the exigencies of our commerce by the
river the past season. Should the light
draught boat be insufficient to meet the
demands of our summer trade, another
will be built. Capital rarely or never
fails to seek a profitable investment. On
the score of necessity, there is no de
mand for the passage of the bill.
Leaving out of view all other consider
ations, we desire to be enlightened as to
what particular section of the Constitu
tion of the State, or of the United States,
from which the Georgia Legislature may
derive authority to invest this company
with plenary power over the navigation
of a public highway ! Will some friend
of the enterprise enlighten us? If not
designed to cripple our commerce, such
will be its effect, as well as to create a
monopoly dangerous to our good. We
hope our representatives at Milledgeville
will uso their votes and influence to de
feat it, and should it be passed, the Leg
islature will be guilty of an unwarranta
ble usurpation of power.
Petition of Mrs. Choice.
To the General Assembly of the State of Georgia :
I am the mother of William A. Choice,
for whose pardon a bill is now pending
before your honorable body. I humbly
ask the privilege of saying a brief word
in his behalf. The law which cannot
know mercy has doomed him to die on the
gallows, but I am still his mother, and
that tie which Nature creates and makes
holy is most sacred—it is not weakened,
even by his impending fate. If any
among you be inclined to deem me intru
sive, let him remember this—let him re
member his own mother, and say whether
she ought to be silent if a cruel destiny
was about to consign you to such a fate.
Listen to me, then, patiently, if you
can, and in merciful kindness, I pray
you.
My son’s counsel, who are skilled in the
law, and conscientious in their duties, tell
me the law does not demand my child’s
life —that there is, to say the least, not
only reasonable doubt but strong doubt,
whether the killing of Webb, whose death
I shall never cease to deplore, was the
result of my son’s intoxication, on that
dreadful day, or of previous mental dis
order existing long before. If the latter,
then even according to the learned Judge
before whom he was tried, he is ex
cused—if there be a reasonable doubt
which of the two—then the humanity of
my State, justifies you in setting the
captive free. On this point I implore
you to examine the testimony with hearts
inclined to lift, if possible, the heavy
load of grief which is crushing me.
I, though knowing his state of mind
better than any one, was not sworn as a
witness. The reason was, I was struck
down with sickness which made it impos
sible for me to go to Atlanta. With pun
and sorrow, I have dragged myself here
to make this appeal to you, and to say
what I would have said on oath in Court,
if I had been able. My child, since the
year 1850, at frequent periods has not
been of sound mind—has not been able
to distinguish between right and wrong—
and this I know to be true, as well as I
know or can know anything, for I have
frequently consulted with my friends,
Drs. Hamilton and Douglas and others,
and the members of my family in regard
to it. The propriety of confining him
in the Lunatic Asylum, has been fre
quently and seriously considered by his
friends. lam getting old—the hand of
affliction presses heavily upon me—l
must soon appear before an All-knowing
power, to answer for the truth of this
statement and all other deeds done in the
body. That God, before whom you and
I must answer, knows this statement is
true. The cold dry law may say it is not
evidence—l can only reply it is truth.
Will you have mercy ? The life of my
son is in your hands. What small rem
nant of peace that is left to me this side
of the grave, is also at your disposal. It
is your high prerogative to be merciful
even to the guilty. Must I be crushed
and pressed down still more ? Great, it
may be, has been my child’s offence; and
grievously already has he answered it;
and grievously have I answered it. Oh !
spare me any further woe. If you deny
this, a mother’s prayer, I can only go
with my unfortunate child to the foot of
the gallows, and pray there that a merci
ful God may show you that mercy which |
you deny to me.
MARY A. CHOICE. )
Bxclttng Intelllgenae I
Col. Davis iu Charlestown telegraphs
to Mr. Barbour at Harper’s Ferry, to
telegraph the Mayor of Alexandria to call
Capt. M. Marye, or the Mount Vernon
Guards, to his aid immediately.
Mr. Barbour adds to the Mayor of Al
exandria, that the message to him re
ported 250 armed men encamped at Ber
ryville Ford.
Capt. Marye telegraphed that he would
leave Alexandria with his company at 5
o’clock on Friday morning.
Colonel Stewart and Major Duffy both
telegraphed the Governor requesting or
ders to take two companies and the
artillery.
Col. Davis telegraphs to Gov. Wise to
order out the cavalry, which he has
done. Col. Davis says there is a guer
rilla war here, and property of five of the
best citizens has been burnt. Upon this
the Governor has ordered the Ist Regi
ment (Richmond) to be in readiness,|and
they were awaiting orders last night.
The Governor has given the orders to
move immediately upon the Berryville
Ford, unless information guided them
otherwise —Richmond Index, 18lh
Alabama Legislature.
In the Senate Thursday, the President ‘
announced the appointment of the stand
iDg Committees. The most important
position is Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, assigned to Mr. Bullock,
Senator from Barbotir.
A resolution was introduced by Mr. i
Bullock, to bring on the election of Su
preme Court Judge yesterday, which was
adopted, and sent to the House.
A bill to incorporate the Western Bank
of Alabama, was referred to the proper
Committee.
In the House, Mr. Smith, of Lauder
dale, introduced a bill to amend the law
relating to the emancipation of slaves.
Mr. Clitheral, a bill to repeal the an
! nual settlements of Guardians aDd sub
stitutes annual statements.
Mr. Parsons, a resolution to appoint a ;
Committee to ascertain how much of the
two and three per cent, fund still re
mained in the Treasury.
The Rebellion in Northern Mexico.
The New Orleans Picayune of Tuesday
says: “We learn from private letters, by
the last Mexican mail, that the rebellion
at Victoria City, State of Tamaulipas,
has been entirely suppressed, and the
troops sent thither ordered on to the
headquarters of the Liberal camp at San
Luis Potosi. The leaders of the rebellion
—Jose Maya, Dionisis Hernandez, Anto
nio de los Reyes, and Ilipoliio and Ber
nabe Iliracheta—were all condemned to
death, which they suffered in the public
square on the 28th ult. Os their fugitive
companions, we hear nothing further.
They have, perhaps, long ere this joiued
Cortinas and his gang on the Rio Grande.”
A Rescue.
The Richmond Dispatch of Wednesday
says: There are still occasional rumors
of a plot to rescue Old Brown and bis
companions. The Richmond correspon
dent of the Petersburg Express says that
orders have been given to the guard, in the
event of such an attempt, to shoot the
prisoners at once, and then defend them
selves from the attacking party.
The Governor is still in receipt of vile
and menacing letters from the abolition
ists. It is evident that a spirit of mis
chief is afoot which demands vigilance at
a’l points.
Hogs in Tennessee.
From the Athens (Tenn.) Post of Fri
day we learn that several large droves
of Kentucky grunters have passed
through that place within the last few
days. The “Mule season” is pretty well
over though there are small lots still
passing. This is the great stock route
leading from Kentucky into Georgia, and
the numbers that yearly travel it are
almost incredible.
A lot of pork was sold at Athens Inst
week, at 6 cents nett, and notwithstand
ing large numbers have died from “chol
era,” the yield will be large. Corn was
selling at 40 cents per bushel.
New Steamboat.
From the Evening Express we learn
that Mr. 11. F. Willink, Jr., of Savannah,
is about building for the Planters’ Steam
boat Company of Hawkinsville, anew
steamer for navigating the waters of the
Altamaha and Ocmulgee rivers.
From the same paper we learn that the
steamer Oak, snagged last year 18 miles
below Macon, has been repaired and re
fitted with new boilers and engines. Her
carrying capacity has been increased 300
bales.
New Patents for Manufacturing
Sugar.
From the Washington Constitution’s
lists of patents for the week ending Nov.
8, we take the following: Charles A.
Desobry, of Palquemine, La., for im
provement in pans for evaporating cane
juice.
John Aspinxall, of London, England,
for improvement in refining sugar. Pat
ented in England, February 8, 1859.
Tine Wanderer Trials.
In the U. S. Circuit Court at Savan
nah, on the 16th, the prisoners—charged
with bringing African slaves in the yacht
Wanderer, in the autumn of 1858, were
brought into Court. They had been con
fined a year. The full panel of the
jurors summoned were not present, but
tho counsel on both sides consented to
proceed without them. A jury was soon
empaneled, and the trial proceeded regu
larly.
Destruction of Newspapers.
By the recent disastrous fires in Griffin
and Atlanta, two newspapers have been
entirely burnt out, namely: the Empire
State in the former, and the Intelligencer
in the latter place. We deeply sympa
thise with our cotemporaries in their
misfortune, and sincerely hope they may
rise. Phoenix like, from their ashes.
Flection of Judge of tUe Supreme
Court of Alabama.
On Friday the Bth the two Houses of
the Alabama Legislature elected the Hon.
Richard IV. Walker as Judge of the Su
preme Court, vice Judge Rice resigned.
Judge Walker was appointed by the Gov
ernor to fill the unexpired term of Judge
Rice.
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Gin House Burnt.
The South Western News of Thursday
says : “The gin house of Col. D. B. liar
rell, of Webster county, was burned on
last Monday. There were some twenty
or thirty bales of cotton in the house at
the time. The house was set on fire, we
understand, by a negro girl belonging to
Col. Harrell.
Convict Killed.
The Wetumpka Spectator says a con
vict named Wm. Griffith was shot while
in a state of rebellion, by Dr. Burrows,
one of the lessees of the State Prison, on
Thursday, killing him instantly.
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Our Relations witb Mexico.
Washington, Nov. 14.—1 tis the belief i
in the diplomatic circles here that the
President does not expect to come to any j
treaty with the Liberal Government of i
Mexico, and it is understood now, that
Mr. McLane returns to Vera Cruz merely
for the purpose of watching the course
of events there, and of protecting Ameri
can interests.
The President, it is stated, will take
i strong grounds in his message od our re-
I lations with Mexico.
From present indications here, there
; would seem to be more chances of a war
with Mexico than the conclusion of a
; treaty.
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Barbarism in a Palace.
| A Constantinople letter of October 3d,
in the Gazette du Midi, says: “The barba-
I rous custom, dictated by reason of State,
. of not allowing any male children born ;
| by the daughters of the Sultan to live,
lis still in full force at the Seraglio. The
! Sultana, wife of Mahmoud Pasbn, was :
recently delivered of a son, who was piti
lessly strangled after his birth. The un
happy mother, who was well aware what
the fate of her child would be, if a son,
was in the greatest distress of mind du
ring her pregnancy, and her fears were i
but too well justified.
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Governor Wise to Mr*. Child,
The reply of the Governor of Virginia
to Mrs. Child, of Boston, (who solicited
the privilege of comforting and nursing
“Old Brown,” in prison,) is one of the
best turned epistles, that we remember
to have read. —New Haven Register.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Among the bills introduced in the
House on the 16th, we observe one by
Mr. Dixon, of Muscogee, to incorporate *
the “ Georgia Greys,” of the city of Co
lumbus'.
Williams, of Muscogee—To prescribe
the mode in which Judges shall give
their charge to Juries.
Also, to facilitate the rendition of judg
ments against Sheriffs and their Securi
ties.
The bills to change the time of electing
the county officers from the first Monday
to the first Wednesday in January, and
to alter the time of electing Tax Receiv
ers and Collectors in the State were
passed.
In the Senate on the 17th, the most
important bills introduced were by Mr.
Hall, of Meriwether—To alter the law in
relation to the expiration of the time
when evidences of debt, &c , shall go
out of date.
Mr. Jordan, of Pulaski—A bill to re
quire the concurrent opinions of two of
the Judges of the Supreme Court, before :
any decision shall be made.
Also, a bill to amend the act, exempt
ing from levy and sale, certain articles
necessary for the subsistancc of the
debtor.
Mr. Poole, of Hall —A bill to require
the names of all Becret prosecutors be
fore the grand juries, to be written on
the indictment.
Mr. Delaperriere, of Jackson —A bill
to re-organize the Militia laws of the
State, and to provide for a call of a con
vention of all commanding officers for
the consideration of the matter at Atlan
ta, on the second Monday in June next
Mr. McGebee, of Houston—A memo
rial in relation to the necessity of addi
tional means for the defense of Georgia.
Referred to the Military Committee.
Mr. Miller, of Richmond, introduced a
bill to pardon John Fundy, under sen
tence of death in Gwinnett.
On Friday, upon the reading of bills
the third time, the report of the Judi
ciary Committee against the bill to au
thorize the arrest and rendition of per
sons committing offenses against the
laws of the adjoining States, when they
have fled to this State, was concurred in
by 8 majority.
Friday, in the House, the motion to
re-cousider its vote upon the bill, calling
a Convention for the reduction of the
Legislature, was adopted.
The bills from Senate to pardon Wm.
A. Choioe and Francis I. Smith, now un
der sentence of death for murder, were
on motion of Mr. Williams, of Muscogee,
read first time. The house ordered 200
copies of the evidence printed.
The following were the most impor
tant bills introduced :
Mr. Lumsden, of Talbot—To appro
priate money for the purchase of fire
arras for the volunteer corps in this
State.
Also, to amend the act of December 24,
1857, in relation to carrying concealed
weapons, and also the act of Jauuary 12,
1852, amendatory thereto.
Also to declare certain words slander
ous per se.
By Mr. Anderson, of Bibb—To protect
holders of bills of exchange and drafts
drawn on shipments of cotton.
By Mr. Loften, of Oglethorpe—To au
thorize executors and administrators to
buy property at their own sales, on cer
tain conditions.
By Mr. Williams, of Muscogee—To
incorporate she Mutual Loan and Build
ing Association, in the city of Columbus.
On Saturday the Senate reconsidered
the bill for the arrest and rendition of
persons committing offenses against the
criminal laws of the neighboring States,
which the Judiciary Committee had re
ported against.
The following with other new matter
was introduced:
Mr. Boggs, of Liberty, a bill to point
out the mode of relief for widows and
orphans.
Mr. Flewellen, of Upson, a bill to au
thorize the Tbomaston and Barnesville
Rail Road Company to extend their road:
Mr. Hall, of Meriwether, a bill to de
clare the meaning of a certain section in
reference to the Ordinaries of this State.
Mr. King, of Glynn, reported in the
name of several members of the Commit
tee on Internal Improvements favorably
to the passage of a bill authorizing State
aid
Mr. Seward, of Thomas, a resolution in
reference to a difficulty that is likely to
occur between the citizens of Georgia and
Florida.
Also, a bill to abolish the laws of this
State in relation to the rates of inter
est, &c.
Mr. Ritch, of Appling, a bill to author
ize Ordinaries to act as Executors, Ad
ministrators, and Guardians.
A bill to compensate teachers of poor
children of Muscogee county, was read a
third time and passed.
HOUSE.
Yesterday the bill for the pardon of
Wm. A. Choice, was made the special
order. The bill for the reduction of the
General Assembly is the special order for
to-day.
SENATE BILLS BEAD TIIIBD TIME.
To amend an act incorporating the Sa
vannah, Griffin and N. Alabama Rail
Road Company. Passed.
Among the House bills read first time
were to amend the bill establishing the
Supreme Court of this State. Passed.
To amend the act relative to the issu
ing of attachments and garnishments.
Passed.
To require securities and endorsers to
give certain notices in writing. Passed.
To provide for the probate of wills,
by taking testimony by interrogatories.
Passed.
To authorize the Ordinaries to give up
marriage licenses, afterthey are recorded,
to the husband of the party marrying
under such license. The penalty clause
was stricken out, and the bill was indefi
nitely postponed.
The Senate resolutions, authorizing
the appointment of a special agent to re
pair to Florida, to settle a difficulty in
regard to the jurisdiction of Georgia and
Florida. Taken up and agreed to.
Another Fire.
From the Newnan Blade of Friday we
j learn that a fire broke out in the village
j of Bowdon, Carroll county, about two
o’clock Sunday morning, the 13th inst.,
destroying all the business houses iu the
| place.
Mr. Thomas Redmond, an old citizen
! of Charlotte county, Va., was shot a few
days since, by his son, aged 18, and died j
jon Saturday. The son had a difficulty
with his father, who drove him from his
house. Thirty-seven shot were extrica
ted from his side.
Health of New Orleans.
The report of the Board of Health for
the week ending Sunday, showed the
number of deaths to be 145. Os these,
three were from yellow fever and one
from cholera.
►
Supreme Court,
Met in Milledgeville on Monday last. ;
Judges Benning and Stephens present.
Judge Lumpkin was detained at home,
by the sickness of his family.
Official Vote of Alabama.
The vote for Governor was counted
by the two Houses of the Legislature on
Friday, and the result was as follows: j
For A. B. Moore, 46,478; for W. F. Sam- j
ford, 17,564.
Archbishop Hughes, of New York, has
been invited to preach the sermon at the
next annual commencement of the Uni
versity of Chapel Hill.
A military company has been organized
at Union Springs, Ala., by the election of
R. H. Powell, Captain, and the full com
plement of officers.
Sentence of the Prisoner*,
Eentence of death has been passed !
upon John E. Cook, Edwin Coppie, John
Copeland and Shields Green. Judge
Parker said:
Your trials, on which we have been so
long employed, have at length ended, ant
all that remains to be done to complete ;
these judicial proceedings, is to pronounce j
and record .the judgments which by law j
must follow upon the crimes for which
you have been tried, and of which yoir
have been found guilty.
These crimes lmve all growu cut of ft
mad iuroad upon this State, made with
the predetermined purpose to raise in our (
midst, the standard of a servile insur
rection. In the execution of this pur
pose, in the darkness of a Sabbath night,
you seized upon a portion of our terri
tory, captured several of our best citi
zeDS —holding them as hostages of war
until your party was itself overcome by
f orce —armed such of our slaves as you
could seize upon with deadly weapons,
which they were to use against their
owners, whom you denounced to them as
their oppressors ; and, in your efforts to
push your “bold and unholy scheme to a
successful issue, you have taken human
life in no fewer than five instances. The
evidence most abundantly proved that
all these things had been done, and by
the force of that evidence jury after jury
has felt itself compelled to bring in its
verdict of guilty against each one of you.
Happily for the peace of our whole
land, you obtained no support from that
quarter whence you so confidently ex
pected it. Not a slave united himself to
your party, but, so soon as he could get
without the range of your rifles, or as
night gave him opportunity, made his
escape from men who had come to give
him freedom, and hurried to place him
self once more beneath the care and pro
tection of his owner.
When we reflect upon all the mischief
and ruin, the dark and fearful crimes,
which must have attended even your
partial success, men everywhere should
be thankful that you were so soon and
so-easily overpowered.
For these offeucesthe law demands the
penalty of death, and imposes upon me
the duty of pronouncing that sentence.
It is the most painful duty I have ever
been called on to perform.
Iu spiie of your offences against our
laws, I cannot but feel deeply for you,
and sincerely, most sincerely, do I sym
pathize with those friends and relations
whose lives are bound up in yours, and
whose hearts will be so wrung with grief
when they shall hear of the sad fate
which has overtaken you, the object of
their warmest and holiest affections. For
them we all do sorrow ; whilst a due re
gard for our safety may not permit us to
forgive the offences of which you have
been guilty, I hope that they will turn
! for consolation, and you for pardon, to
that good Being who, in His wrath, re
inembereth mercy. Make, then, your
peace with him—for you must soon be
ushered into His presence, there to be
dealt with as Ilis justice and llis mercy
may ordain.
To conclude this sad duty, I now an
nounce that the sentence of the law is,
that you, and each one of you, John E.
Cooke, Edwin Coppie, Shields Green, and
John Copeland, be hanged by the neck
until yiu be dead—and that execution of
this judgment be made aud done by the
sheriff of this county, on Friday, the 16th
day of December next, upon you, Shields
Green and John Copeland, between the
hours of 8 and 10 in the forenoon, of that
day—and upon you, John E Cooke and
Edwin Coppie, between the hours of
twelve (noon,) and five in the afternoon
of the same day. And the Court being
of opinion that the execution of this sen
tence should be in public, it is further
ordered that this judgment be enforced
and executed, not in the jail yard, but at
j such public place convenient thereto as
the said Sheriff may appoint—aDd may
God have mercy upon the soul of each
one of you.
During the delivery of the sentence
the utmost silence was observed, and the
: solemnity was very marked. A large
number of the spectators wept, as also
did the Judge.
The prisoners were remanded to jail,
j there to await the execution of this judg-
I ment.
For the Sun.
Eds. Sun: My attention has been ar
rested by a bill introduced into our Leg
| islature, under the ponderous title of
| “ The Chattahoochee Slack Water Navi
■ gation Company,” with a proposed capi
tal of only one million of dollars ; for what
purposes is not very clearly defined in
the body of the bill. Is it to clean the
channel of the river from obstructions,
and improve navigation generally ? If so,
the General Government should be truly
grateful to those citizens for this propo
sition of disinterested patriotism. Perhaps
j it may. as incidental to this national
j work of love, desire to levy tribute upon
the commerce of Columbus. The powers
asked for are ample for this end. If our
j citizens do not share in this outburst of
public benevolence, let them speak out at
once. Let them instruct our agents in
Milledgeville to oppose the bill. There
should be no delay. Let all opposed call
at your office and register their names
immediately, and the list be sent on, that
our views may be heard against this mo
nopoly. _ ARGUS
Incendiaries About,
A friend writes us from Greeuville, in
this State, under date 11th inst., that an
alarm was given on Tuesday night pre
vious, that some person or persons were
attempting to set fire to-the residence of
Mr. Wm. S. Lawson, of that place. A
negro woman ran into the house appa
rently much frightened, and said that
six men were sitting on the fence, one of
whom asked her if her master was at
home, and on her answering that he was,
the man (old her not to say anything about
their being there, as they intended set
ting fire to his house that night. On ex
amination in the morning, a partially
burnt chunk and a bundle of fat light
wood splinters were found under one
corner of the house. Our informant says
that there has been considerable excite
ment on the subject in Greenville, and
that the town has been under strict
i.. uard ever since. He also says that sus
| picions are directed towards a man who
is often there, and whose head-quarters
’ are at Macon—a man whose name is
somewhat familiar as having been con
nected with the Burdell murder case of
New lork. This is tlie substance of the
statement made by our correspondent.
We repeat, as in another article, it be
comes our people to be very vigilant.—
Ind. ( Ga .) South.
Telegraph to T&llaUassee.
Wc l ave the pleasing asssurance from
Mr. Howe, superintendent of the work,
j that the line projected between this city
and Marianna, will be completed by the
last of he present month. It is known
: that the progress of the work has been
materially retarded by the delay of the
vessel containing the material, otherwise
the line would now have been in opera
tion
The vessel, however, arrived at Apa
lachicola some weeks ago with material
all safe, and Mr. Howe bad in the mean
time placed an efficient force on the other
end of the line, and is now pushing the
work forward as rapidly as circumstances
I will permit. A letter from him bearing
j date at Quincy, on the'2sth ult., gives
I assurance that the line in all reasonable
probability (barring unforseen accidents)
will be completed by the last cf the
month. Tallahassee (Fla.) Sentinel , Bth.
“I never,” says a lady, “sent that mes
sage to the door but once, and for that
once I shall never forgive myself. It
was more than three years ago, and
when I told my servant that morning to
say “Not at home.” to whomsoever might
call, except she knew it was some inti -
mate ftiend, I felt my cheeks tingle, and
the girl’s look of surprise mortified me
exceedingly. But she went about her
duties, and I about mine, sometimes
pleased that I had adopted a convenient !
fashion by which I could secure time to
myself, sometimes painfully smitten with
the reproaches of conscience. Thus the
day wore away, and when Mr. Lee came
home he startled me with the news that a
very dear and intimate friend was dead.
telegraphic.
’ .—
TELEGRA PH ED TO THE DAILY SI'S.
ARRIVAL
UK THE STEAMEK
CANADA.
Ootton Steady Consols 06/S.
Halifax, Nov. 19, 1859.
The steamship Canada has arrived.
She left Liverpool on Saturday Nov. sth, !
but brings Liverpool dates to Monday,
the 7th, which she received by telegraph
! from Liverpool to Queenstown.
Licervool Cotton Market.— Sales of the
week GO,OOO bales, of which speculators
i and exporters each took 8,000 bales.
Middlings, extreme prices, show l-10d.
advance for the week, while other quali
ties remain unchanged. Sales of Friday
10,000 bales, the market closing steady.
Liverpool, Nov. Ith—By telegraph from
I Liverpool to Queenstown. —The cotton niar
: ket was steady to day, but opened quiet
under the news brought by the steamship
Africa.
| Breadstuffs were quiet.
London, Nov. s —By telegraph to Queens
; town. —Consols closed at 96g.
Nothing of general interest was fraus
| piring.
ADDITIONAL BY THE CANADA.
I Liverpool Cotton Market. —Ihe sales of
cotton for the week reached 60,000 bales,
of which speculators and exporters each
took 8,000 bales. Some circulars state
that all qualities had slightly advanced,
and Fair and Middling qualities had im
proved Other circulars state that
Middlings were very full and firm in
price, and in some cases 1-l Gd. advance
had been realized. The sales on Friday
were 10,000 bales, of which 2,000 were
taken on speculation and for export.
The authorized quotations were, for
Fair Orleans ft and. Mid. Orleans 7 7-16.1.
‘- Mobiles 7%<1. “ Mobile 7!4<1.
“ Uplands 7%<1 “ Uplands... 6 15-led.
The stock of cotton in Liverpool was
457,000 bales, of which 308 ; 000 were
American.
Liverpool, Saturday, Nov. s.—Sales of
cotton to-day 10,000 bales, at full aDd
steady prices. Speculators and exporters
took 2,000 bales.
Liverpool, Monday, Nov. 7 —By telegraph
to Queenstown. —Cotton market steady.
London Money Market. —Consols closed
on the sth at 96J to and a telegram
received on the 7th at Queenstown quote
! consols at 96§.
General News.—lt was rumored that
! England had consented to send represent
j atives to a European Congress, and that
j France and England had agreed on the
i basis of negotiations.
It was reported that Garibaldi, at an
! interview with the King of Sardinia, had
j declared that Italy had been betrayed,
and that he would head a revolution to
| restore her her lost rights. The King
j protested against his proceedings.
! Threatening Aspect of Affairs in
Virginia.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 19, p. m.—Coi.
Davis has telegraphed to Gov. Wise that
a large force of armed men were ap
| proaching Charlestown from the direc
tion of Wheeling. A regiment of 400
strong has just left Richmond in an extra
train. Gov. Wise accompauie3 them.
More troops have been ordered to hold
themselves in readiness.
Mobile Cotton Market,
Mobile, Nov. 21, 1859.
Sales of Cotton to-day 3,000 bales.
The market closed quiet. Middlings lOf
to 10| cents.
New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans, Nov. 21, 1859.
Sales of Cotton to-day 12,500 bales,
j Prices stiffer, but quotations unchanged.
The Wanderer Trials.
Savannah, Nov. 21, 1859.
The arguments in the Wanderer trials
were concluded to-day. The case will be
| submitted to the jury to-morrow.
—
Reported Attempt to Rescue Brown
Washington, Nov. 17.—There is great
excitement in Richmond and Alexandria,
In consequence of the repon that an arm
ed force was somewhere in the vicinity of
Charlestown, for the purpose of attempt
ing to rescue Brown. The military have
been called out and will leave for Charles
town early to-morrow morning.
Washington, Nov. 18.—Nothing has
| yet been received here to justify the re
port that a large force of armed Aboli
tionists were near Charlestown. There*
was another large fire in that neighbor
hood last night, and the troops were
called out, expecting an attack, but none
was made.
Three companies from Alexandria went
up this morniDg to Charlestown, to
! strengthen the force that is already there.
The government to-day forwarded two
thousand pounds of powder, and several
hundred pounds of Minnie balls to Ilar
| per’s Ferry.
i Charlestown, Va., Nov. 19.—Colonel
Davis has called for more troops. A ru
mor says that letters have been inter
| cepted cheering Brown and his associated
■ culprits, and giving assurances that they
! shall be rescued. The property of seve
i of the jurors has been burned.—
Troops leave Richmond for Charlestown
i* n D ie morning. There is considerable
, excitement here.
Charlestown, Nov. 19.—There was
i not Die slightest cause for the ridiculous
panic. The fire seen was simply a stack
of wheat burning.
j r Texas News.
, Washington, Nov. 18.—The Star says
i .at the War Department have received a
dispatch from Geu Twiggs, aated at San
j on Die 12th, saying thatCortinas
j hatl laid Brownsville in ashes, and killed
one hundred Americans. He (Cortinas)
then marched towards the Nueces, with
eight hundred men. There is some doubt
as to the truth of this report,
j New Orleans, Nov. 18—The Indianola
Courier of the 12th instant says that the
express from the sheriff of Nueces coun
ty had arrived, and reports that Cortinas,
with 1500 men and nine cannon, was in
full possession of the Rio Grande from
! Brownsville to Roma, and his forces are
scouring the country. All the mail com
munication west of Nueces has been cut
off. Corpus Christi, however, was not
j threatened.
Capt. Tobin, with 150 men, from Cor
pus Christi, had been defeated, and it was
feared cut off. The reports were conflict
ing, and probably exaggerated, as no
Brownsville dates were given.
The latest reliable accounts are by the
New Orleans merchants, direct from
j Brownsville on the 4th inst., when affairs
: were unchanged. General Twiggs tele
graphed to the Government to day re-
I specting the matter.
Arrival of the Overland Mail.
St. Louis, Nov. 19.—The overland mail
arrived here to day, with California dates
; to the 28th ult.
Gov. W’eller has appointed Judge Hawes
(formerly of Kentucky) to fill the vacan
cy occasioned by the death of Senator
Broderick.
There was a stampede of the miners to
walkers river, in consequence of a
mound discovered, the dirt of which was
realizing from SSOO to $2,500 to the ton. I
Brown Refused Another Trial.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 19. — The Court
0 . PP ea^s of A irginia refuse to award a
writ of error to the Circuit Court of Jef
erson county in the case of John Brown.
Brown will, therefore, be hung on the 2d
of December.
Savannah, Nov. 19.—The steamship
Star of the South, from New York, and
the ship Emily Gardner, from Liverpool,
arrived here to-day.
From the Home Journal.
N. P. Willis* Visit to the Watch
Factory of the American Watch
Company.
Novelties in mechanism having always
been most iuterestiug to me—see • ing,
as it were, supernatural and sudden ap
parit ons of things hitherto deemed im
possible—l accepted very gladly an in
vitation to go where I might see watches
made by miebinery-. How a watch should
be made at all, is mystery enough: hut,
that this ultimatum of human ingenuity in
hand-labor should be reduced to mechan
ism, so that a hundred watches cau be
made with the thought aud labor hitherto
expended upon ona, was a marvel worth
making sure of having seen on this plan
et—being very likely to be “a dropped
stitch” (like an antediluvian lost art) in
a’world to come. If asked, therefore, at
some scientific party in the Evening Star
(our next pluuet, the poets tell us,)
whether I have ever been to Waltham, I
am happy to have it to say that I visited
the Watch Factqry there, in one of the
last years of my previous existence. I
may add, for a side ear (a fact about which
there is likely to be a sidereal curiosity,
I think), that Governo- Banks comes
from the same place.
From Boston to Waltham, by rail road,
is but ttie taking of a seat for a few min
utes: and our guide, Mr. Robbins (one
of the Company of Proprietors, to whose
courageous faith and persevering rnake
work-ativeness, much of the success of
the enterprise is attributed), soon opened
| the door for us at the shop of the Time
j smiths- Three of our party were broth
er-artificers, Mr. Stuart, Mr. TiltoD, and
myself, being “manufacturers of public
opinion and the fourth was a lady not
altogether of an unsympathetic profes
sion, Miss Booth, the lady-historian of
the “City of New York.” To the worth
while-ativeness of so intelligent a group
of companions, lowed the obliging par
ticularity with which the riddles of me
chanism were unraveled to us.
It is a curious necessity of a watch-fac
tory that it should form a part of a beau
tiful landscape —a secluded place, a moist
soil, or the bank of a river, being requis
ite to its operations. The original site
of the factory, at Roxbury, was aban
doned, because the light aud dusty char
acter of the Soil aud the degree to which
the atmosphere was charged with dust
by the winds and the industrial move
ments of the neighborhood, materially in
terfered with the nicety of the work.
Hence was chosen the present beautiful
hillside on a bend of the Charles river,
where the hundred or two of male and
female operatives, as they sit at their
benches, regulating the different move
ments of the machinery, can look out of
the windows before them, upon hits of
river scenery that would enchant an artist.
Itis another poetic peculiarity of watch
making (at Waltham, at least), that the
more delicate fingering of woman is found
to work best at it. Os the large number
of persons employed in th factory, more
than half, if I observed rightly, were of
the sisterhood left idle by the sewing ma
chine—a happy compensation of Provi
dence! Gradually, in this way, proba
bly, the indoor employment of all trades
and vocations that do not require mascu
line strength, will be given over to woman.
The Watch Factory is of brick, two
stories in height, aud enclosing a quad
rangular court; and, along the closely
placed inner and outer wiuduws, stand
the work-benches at which are seated the
succession of operatives—each of the one
hundred and twenty parts of the watch
requiring separate manufacture, and ad
justment. What impressed me particu
larly, as I walked through these long
galleries of seated and patient artificers,
was the exceeding delicacy and minute
ness of it all—the inevitable machinery
accomplishing, with such powerful ex
actness, the almost invisible wonders of
transformation aud construction, and hu
man aid seeming only needed to supply
the materia! and measure the work, with
movements of hand scarce perceptible.
’ The succession of minute instruments
| were like long ranges of little fairies,
: each weaving its cobweb miracles, under
’ a careful sentinel’s superintending eye.
| It is the novelty of the Waltham Factory
| that this is so—machinery doing the
! hundred little dexterities which have
I hitherto been dona only by the variable
hand of the workman. With the machin
ery once regulated, therefore, a number
of watches of the same size and pattern
are made with invariable exactness—all
equally sure to keep lime, whereas, for
’ tnerly, each watph was only a probability
j by itself.
The minuteness of very essential parts
!ot the watch astonishes the visitor. A
small heap of grains was shown to us,
looking like iron filings, or grains of pep
per from a pepper caster—apparently
the mere dust of the machine which
turned them cut—and these, when ex
mined with a microscope, were seen to
bo perfect screws, each to be driven to its
place with a screw-driver. It is one of
| the Waltham statistics which is worth
remembering, that “a single pound of
steel, costing but fifty cents, is thus man
ufactured into one hundred thousand
screws which are worth eleven hundred
dollars.”
The poetic part of a watch, of course,
is what the truth in a woman’s heart
has been so often compared to—the jew
el upon whicit all its movements arc piv
oted and which knows no wearing away
or variation—and to see these precious
truth-jewels and their adjustment was
one of my maiu poiuts of curiosity. The
aid of the microscope was again to be
eaiied in, to see these—the precious
stones, as we first saw them in the glass
phial, resembling grains of brilliant sand.
They are rubies, sappnires or chrysolites,
inferior only to .the diamond’s point in
I pivoted reliance. The process is thus
’ described in the article to which I atn
indebted for my statistics:—
“1 he jewels are first drilled with a dia
: mond, and then opened out with diantoud
j dust, on a soft hair-like iron wire, their
nerforations having ceriain microscopic
differences. In like manner the pivots
: of steel that are to run in these jewel-,
i without wearing out in the least, must
|be exquisitely polished. By this opera
; lion their size is slightly reduced. The
jewels and pivots, after being thus fin
! ished, are classified by means of a gauge,
| so delicately graduated as to detect a
difference of the ten thousandth part of an
inch. The jewels are classified by means
of the pivots, the jewels and pivots of the
same number fitting each other exactly.
The sizes of the several pivots indjewels
in each watch are carefully recorded un-
I der its number, so that if any one of
| either should fail in any part- of the
, world, by sending the number of the
I watch to Waltham, the part desired may
be readily and cheaply replaced wi ; h
i unerring certainty.”
Os this, and all the other operations,
too minute for detailed descriptii.n —th®
■ first cutting of the stamps and dies fro®
| sheets ot brass, hardening and forming
the barrels and chambers, coiling and
tastening the main springs, gearing
j wheels and cutting their teeth, shaping
of pinions and axels, cutting off escape
wheels, burning and making the porce
lain dials, and final putting together and
adjusting of the various parts —the super
intendent, Mr. Denison, discoursed to us
most interestingly. I could not but
think, as I listened to this philosopher
of mechanic art, telling us these beauti
ful secrets with his quiet concentratiTe
ness of voice and eye, and his brief ex
pressive language, how much better i [
; was than the “seeing of a play” or the
■ reading of a Dovel. My two hours, 0
I following him and listening to his “d l3-
I course with illustrations,” were like the
passing of a dream. N. !’• “•
A queer Remedy. . ..
A good lady, who bad two children sn>
with the measles, wrote to a friend tor
the best remedy. The friend had ju -t
received a note from another lady, inquir
ing the way to make pickles. In th e
confusion, the lady who enquired about
the pickles, received the remedy of th°
measles, and the anxious mother of th®
sick children read with horror the fu 1 ’
sowing: “Scald them three or four tim° s
in very hot vinegar, aud sprinkle the®
well with salt; in a few days they
be cured.”
The Mobile Medic*. 1 College was open
ed on the 14th inst. Forty or fifty stu
dents were enrolled.