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For the Bun.
Mr. Editor: On Saturday next the voters
of Columbus are iuvited to approve or re
ject a proposition to subscribe $50,000 of
the Bonds of the city towards the building
of a Rail Road from Columbus to La
Graoge. The question should be consid
ered in all its bearings before a wise de
cision can be made. The first query
suggested is whether, with the aid of this
subscription, the Road will or can be
built, or is it only the entering wedge to
open the way for larger demands upon
the resources of the city ? Secondly—
what advantages is the city to reap from
its construction ? The distance by rail
would be about 48 miles, mainly through
an undulating and, in part, mountainous
country, intersected by many water
oourses. It is safe to estimate the cost
and equipments at $900,000, or a little
less than $20,000 per mile. The Musco
gee Rail Road, of 50 miles, cost $986,000,
and is through a country of far more
uniform grade. The South Western Road
cost about $20,000 per mile. Does the
town of LaGrange propose any large sub
scription? Will the LaGrange and At
lanta Road aid liberally in its construc
tion ? Are the residents along the pro
posed route pledged by subscription to
any considerable amount to assist the
work? These are questions full of in
terest to the tax payers of Columbus,
before they should embark in ihis enter
prise. Who will furnish the desired
information ? Let us next enquire to what
extent the trade of our city is to be
benefitted. By the common highway it
is 45 miles from Columbus to LaGrange.
By Rail Road, via Opelika, it is 68 miles.
Is it worth an investment of nearly one
million of dollars (of which the city, in
the beginning, is asked to pay $50,000) to
save about 22 miles in the transportation
of our bacon, wheat and born ? Is this
” $50,000 to be the end of our subscriptions
to this gigantic expenditure ? Let the
Rail Road history of Columbus answer
the question. But it will be answered
that our trade will be largely increased
from Meriwether and Troup counties, for
we already have the trade of Harris
county. This is a two-edged argument.
Will it not make LaGrange, sustained by
Charleston and Augusta capital, as good
a cotton market as Columbus, as her
proximity to the up-country will make
her a better bacon and grain market ?
If so, cotton may go on that Road within
five miles of Columbus and find as good
or better market than here. Flouring
mills and foundries will spring up to
compete with ours. In fine, all tbs ad
vantages of such a Road will accrue to
LaGrange, to the detriment of Columbus.
The only great advantage to Columbus in
the arrangement, in my opinion, is that
greater facilities will be afforded us in
the receiving of Northern goods by a line
competing a little more directly than it
now does with the Savannah route ; and,
secondly, in the more speedy shipment of
our cotton to Charleston. And in this
point of view, I think it can be plainly
shown that a much cheaper and more
feasible route is open to accomplish these
ends. Connect the Barnesville and
Thomaston Road at or near Geneva on
the Muscogee Road—a distance of 22
miles—and we reap all the advantages
from the receipt of up-country produce
that would be offered by the LaGrange
Road. There would be no transhipment
from Nashville and Knoxville to Colum
bus. This link being supplied, it is then
32 miles from Griffin to Covington on the
Georgia Rail Road, or 42 miles from
Barnesville to Covington. That South
Carolina Rail Roads and the Georgia Rail
Road would promptly cause this short
gap to be filled up by a Rail Road, is plain
beyond all peradventure. Then Colum
bus has the option of two Atlantic ports,
and the competition of the Georgia Rail
Road with the Central Rail Road for her
freights. Then the cry would never be
echoed from the Muscogee depot, “we
haven’t cars to carry off your cotton.”
Now the Central Road sends her cars
here for cotton only when she is not
pressed by her own and the cotton of the
South Western Road. We are served
third best. Then Central cars and Geor
gia Rail Road cars would always be at
your depot to take cotton, and bid for it
oheap at that, and so would it be with
our freights from New York. Can then
this 22 miles from near Geneva to Thom
aston be built? It would require no
equipment of engines and rolling stock,
for they would be supplied by the Macon
and Western and Muscogee Roads. The
iron could be cheaply supplied by that
which is being substituted by heavy rail
on the Muscogee Road, and which would
be good for some years on a road not re
quiring the speedy mail schedule demand
ed of the Muscogee and South Wes ern
Roads. Thus the cost of this 22 miles
could be brought to about $220,000. Let
the bonds of the city for $50,000 be is
sued and this gap will be filled beyond a
doubt. The Muscogee Road could and
doubtless would aid to the extent of her
ability. The citizens of Talbot are eager
for it, and assert their willingness and
ability to complete it. The Muscogee
Road would be a beneficiary of this en
terprise, and it is a matter of surprise
that her stockholders have not urged its
importance vigorously. It is to be hoped
they may yet be aroused and heard from
upon it. This movement would greatly
benefit the Mobile and Girard Rail Road,
and of course the city investment in its
stock, The |*hole work being completed
to Covington, we would be 20 miles nearer
Augusta than we now are via Macon and
Millen, and 63 miles nearer Charleston
than we now are via Savannah.
But, Mr. Editor, should this end not
seem worthy of beiDg secured for such a
trifling effort, the next interest of impor
tance to us, and of infinitely greater value
than tho LaGrange Road, is the proposed
road from Opelika in the direction of
Talladega, Ala. This penetrates a coun
try rich in agricultural and mineral re
sources, and possessed of no facilities to
invite them to this market. Its extension
would bring it into junction with the
Alabama and Tennessee River Rail Road,
and place Columbus iu direct communi
cation with Memphis, Nashville, and
Knoxville, and entirely Bupercede the
necessity of the LaGrange Rail Road,
with infinitely greater advantages to our
commercial prosperity.
These suggestions, Sir, are hurriedly
thrown together and require an apology
for their want of method and elabora
tion ; but if they shall excite any en
quiry, or direct any investigation into the
comparative importance of the various
projects alluded to, they will have ac
complished all proposed by the writer
and your FELLOW-CITIZEN.
The Mississippi by Night.
By night the scene is one of startling
interest and magicial splendor. Hun
dreds of lights are glancing in different
directions, from the villages, towns,
farms and plantations on the shore, and
from the magnificent “floating palaces”
of steamers, that frequently look like
moving mountains of light and flame, so
brilliantly are these enormous river levi
athens illuminated, outside and inside.
Indeed, the spectacle presented is like a
dream of enchantment. Imagine steam
er after steamer come sweeping, sound
ing, thundering on, blazing with their
thousands of lights, casting long bril
liant reflections on the fast rolling
waters beneath. There are often a num
ber of them, one after another, like so
many comets in Indian file. Some of
these are so marvellously and dazzlingly
lighted they really look like Aladdin’s
palace on fire, sent skurrying and dash
ing down the stream, while, perhaps,
just then, all else is darkness around it.
I delighted, too, in seeing, as you fre
quently do, the twinkling lights in the
numerous cottages and homesteads dot
ted here and there; and you often ob
serve large wood fires lit on the banks,
lookink like merry-making bonfires.
These, I believe, are usually signals for
the steamers to stop to take up passen
gers, goods and animals.— Lady Wortley's
Travels.
The Guano Trade.
From the official report, recently pub
lished at Lima, Peru, it appears that the
total quantity of guano shipped from the
i I B ' a nds to June 80th, 1868, was
1 1,9 tons, the net value of which
fewas $<>4,994,712. The number of vessels
SMOo aged in tra< * e * 8 b efc ween 400 and
For the Sun.
Eds. Sun : There has recently appear
ed iu your paper, a series of articles on
the subject of Rail Roads, and their con
nection with, and influence on the future
of our city. While I approve entirely of
the general views advanced in those arti
cles, I desire to call attention more espe
cially, to the proposed Road from Opelika
via Dadeville, to Childersburg. In advo
cating this especial route, I wish to be
understood as not being opposed to other
projects; Ido not love them less, but
the Childersburg route more. The La
Grange Road is a good one, and I am in
favor of the subscription proposed by the
City Council. The connection of t£e
Thomaston and Muscogee Roads is a
good move for us, but these two enter
prises are mainly outlets for our business.
The Dadeville and Childersburg is a feed
er, and hence nrites its superior impor
tance over any other route now proposed.
The truth is, that it is our last bdcl only
chance of tapping a new trade —a trade,
that in my humble opinion, will equal all
the Mobile and Girard Road has or ever
will bring us. Any man who will exam
ine the map of Alabama cannot, I think,
rise from its perusal, without coming to
the conclusion that we have no time for
delaying this matter. The people along
the route are anxious to build, and arecall
ing on us to help. It is an old adage, that
“hope deferred maketh the heart sick.”
We may talk around and beat the bush,
and consider, and while we are halting
between two opinions, some rival will
step in, and bear off the prize. We have
already, lost largely in trade by procras
tination in the past; let us learn wisdom
from that, and seize every opportunity of
enlarging the area of our influence, and
concentrating at this point, a commercial
influence and power, that will ultimately
bid defiance to all competition. I regard
the Childersburg Road as having more
elements in tho future, to build up our
city and give us a controlling influence,
than any Road we now have, or may be
hereafter built. When we get to Chil
dersburg we shall be near the Central
Road in Alabama, and by forming a con
nection with them, we go to Decatur on
the Memphis and Charleston Road. In
addition to this, by running from Chil
dersburg to Tuscumbia, we then have a
nearer outlet to the Atlantic, (I think
by one hundred miles) than any other
route. Columbus will become the grand
distributing point for all South-Eastern
Alabama, South-Western Georgia and a
large portion of Middle Florida—we shall
be to the regions mentioned, what Atlanta
is now. Our position be ; ng so much nearer
the consumer, this must necessarily be
the point to which Western produce will
be sent for a market. In this view of the
case—looking to future developments—l
repeat that the proposed Road will be of
more advantage to us, commercially,
than any we have now, and will be belter
paying stock. But lam told that there
is no hope of the extensions being made
to Tuscumbia ; I think there is not only
hope, but almost a certainty that it
will be done. This route will be a suc
cessful competitor of the Memphis and
Charleston Road for business, and the
Rail Roads East of us, (to say nothing of
the cities,) will find it greatly to their
interest to have such a feeder as this
would be. The bacon, pork, bagging,
rope, &c., of the North-West would seek
this route, because it runs directly to the
doors of large masses, who consume such
articles. But I will not argue the point.
I desire simply to call attention to these
prominent points, and leave the people
to form their own conclusions.
MERCHANT.
Arrtval of the Overland Mail.
St. Louis, Nov. 10. The overland
mail of the 17th arrived last night. Gen.
Scott arrived at San Francisco on Sun
day morning, the 16th, and received a
most enthusiastic reception. As the
steamer entered the bay, the battery of
Fort Point fired a salute, being the first
guns ever fired from that Fort, which
was followed by a like welcome from the
batteries on Alcatrez island, and the
revenue cutter Wm. L. Marcy.
On tho approach of the Golden Age to
the wharf, the steamers Sonora, North
erner, Clipper and Twilight each fired an
honorary salute. Various military com
panies and thousands of citizens awaited
Gen. S.’s landing on the dock.
Gov. Weller escorted Gen. Scott to an
open carriage, which was attended by the
military. He passed through a multitude
of people, whose cheers were almost in
cessant, to Oriental Hotel, where, being
loudly called on, be made v short speech,
remarking that the reception accorded
him, in its unanimity and universality,
had so astonished and confounded him
that words were inadequate to express
his sentiments. Speeches were also made
by Governor Weller, Gen. Clarke, and D.
Baker.
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Late from California.
New York, Nov. 10.—The steamship
Atlantic has arrived with California dates
to the 20th ult. She brings over $1,000,-
000 in gold.
The Atlantic left Aspinwall on the 2d
inst., up to which time the Vanderbilt
steamer, North Star, hence on the 20th
ult., bad not reached Aspinwall.
It was understood that Gen. Scott
would leave for Puget’s Sound on the af
ternoon of the 7th, on the steamer
Northerner.
Major Dodge, Indian Agent of Utah,
arrived at San Francisco with survivors
of the Mountain Meadow’s massacre—
five women and five children.
There were indications of another fili
buster expedition against Sonora organ
izing in San Francisco.
Business continued dull. Prices un
changed. Trade with the country showed
no improvement, and city jobbers were
buying nothing. The official returns of
the wheat crop, from fourteen counties,
show the product to be three and a half
million bushels against one and three
quarter millions in the same counties last
year. This immense increase is sup
posed to be general, which will render it
necessary to export half the wheat pro
duct to New York or Australia. Over
eighty thousand bushels have already
been shipped to Australia. The ship
Davy Crockett bad sailed for New York
with a cargo of wheat.
Lieut. Mowry, of Arizona, came pas
senger by this mail. He reports contin
ued depredations on the Mail Company’s
stations by the Indians. A force of two
hundred troops had gone to chastise the
Apaches.
San Francisco, Oct. 17.—Gen. Scott
spent the day receiving friends. He
started at 6 o’clock, this evening, for
Puget’s Sound, on the steamer North
erner.
A Snake Story.
The Savannah Republican says: On
Saturday last, a young gentleman at the
Central Rail Road depot, took up an ice
pitcher to take a drink of water, when a
snake started out and coiled itself around
his arm, frighting him considerably, but
inflicting no wound, as he was quickly
shaken off. It was a species of mocassiu,
not considered poisonous. How it came
in the pitcher is past conjecture.
The Southern Rail Road from Vicks- j
burg to the Alabama line and thence to
Montgomery has been let to contract from j
Brandon, Miss., to the Alabama line, to ;
be completed during next year. It will
cross the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road at
Meridian and the Tombeckbee at Demop
olis as is supposed—thence via Union- |
town, Selma and Marion to Montgomery. \
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We learn from the Huntsville (Ala.) J
Advocate, that the gin house of Messrs. j
Nicholas and D. C. Davis in Madison
county, was burnt on Sunday lost, to- ;
gether with about 70,000 pounds of seed
cotton. It is supposed to have been set j
on fire by one of the negroes of the place.
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Rati Road Fare to the Georgia
Conference*
Preachers attending the Georgia Con
ference, to be held in Rome, on the 14th
of December next, (says the Southerner
of that place.) will please call for Minis
ters’ Tickets, at the various depots where
they take the rail road, and they will be
furnished at half price.
Alabama Legislature.
Hon. A. B. Meek, the Speaker elect, j
upon being introduced to the House, made
the following address :
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives:
For the distinguished honor you have
seen ifit to bestow upon roe in selecting
me to preside over your deliberations, 1 j
return you my most sincere and heartfelt j
acknowledgments. To be selected to fill [
the position to which you have so gene
rously called me, is at any time an honor.
The people of the State have selected as
their representatives men distinguished I
for high abilities, undoubted patriotism, ;
and love for our institutions, beyond
probably any representative body that
has heretofore assembled iu this Hall,
and to be selected to fill the position by
such a body, I feel to be a very high and
unmerited honor. I feel the responsi
bility devolving upon me, and have a full
consciousness of my inability to discharge
fully the duties appertaining to me as
your presiding officer. I cordially rely,
however, on your generosity, gentlemen,
in the fulfilment of the duties required of
me. In the present condition of our State
i affairs, measures of the utmost impor
tance will come before you, requiring
careful deliberation and your serious at
tention. These measures cannot be pro
perly attended to, unless strict order is
maintained in your deliberations. Give
me your aid, then, in maintaining this
order, so that we may all properly dis
charge our duties and benefit the State.
It is by order that the grandest and great
est events go on.
I remember to have been present when
that question affecting the interests of so
large a portion of mankind was decided
in the Supreme Court of the United
States. I refer to what is known as the
Dred Scott decision, and I could not but
admire the simplicity, and yet the great
dignity that distinguished the Court in
that event —the grandeur with which the
decision was given. There sat the vener
able Chief Justice. Roger B. Taney, like
some old prophet lingering on the verge
of the other world, enunciating princi
ples of the greatest importance to the
people o*f this Union ; and, whenever the
slightest disturbance interrupted his pro
ceeding, he raised a simple pencil, the
murmur was hushed, and thus the great
movement went on. It was a scene
worthy of contemplation. In like man
ner, I hope order will be preserved in
this House, and that by the expedition of
business, the best interests of the State
will be duly attended to.
Thanking you, gentlemen, again for
the great honor you have conferred on
me, I will, in conclusion, request the
honorable member from Dallas county to
administer the usual oath.
Later from Texas.
New Orleans, Nov. 11.—Rio Grande
city has been attacked by a portion of
Cortinas’ band, and nearly every house
pillaged. It is reported that Cortinas
has two bands, numbering nearly 700
men. The people of Brownsville are in
great distress, as Cortinas threatens to
destroy the town and cut off and murder
all reinforcements.
New Orleans, November 12.—Corpus
Christi advices to the 7th instant, report
Cortinas encamped near Brownsville with
450 men, and as many more out in parties
scouring the valley of the Rio Gr nde,
plundering farms and attacking defence
less settlements. He has hoisted the
Mexican flag, and a band of 100 men
from Mexico have joined him. The
Mexican population on both sides the Rio
Grande appear to be preparing to join
with him in endeavoring to drive from
the valley all Americans.
The citizens of Corpus Christi have
called a meeting to take measures to pro
tect their town. They call on the resi
dents of the adjoining counties to arm
themselves and come to their rescue.
Nothing is being done in New Orleans
by either the Federal, State or local au
thorities towards the relief of the people
of the Rio Grande Valley. There are
volunteers enough willing to go, but lack
the means. Something will, undoubted
ly, be done to forward their wishes.
An extra from the office of the Ran
chero is as follows :
Danger of Nueces County from Cor
tinas.—A very excited meeting has just
been called, and the following gentlemen
named a committee of Safety : Chief Jus
tice 11. A. Galpin; T. A. Dwyer, G.
Pfeuffer, J. O’Connor and J. M. Howell.
Aid is most anxiously looked for from
our neighbors. We are short of men and
arms.
A reinforcement of Tobin’s company is
absolutely necessary, By order of the
Committee.
Corpus Christi, Nov. 7.—11 a. in.
The N. O. Delta of the 12th says: A
company of United States troops, about
seventy-five in number, under command
of Captaiu James Ricketts, who have
been stationed at Baton Rouge, left this
morning on board of the steamship Ari
zona, for Brazos Santiago, en route for
Brownsville. We learn that quite a num
ber of young men were down on the pier
wishing to go, but no one wanted to take
them. That General William Walker did
not go we can attest, as this reporter got
a glimpse of him indulging in a quiet
breakfast at Sam’s.
Horrible Affair—Murder of Mr. Page
The Montgomery Advertiser of yester
day, says:
It was with much regret that we
learned from our young townsman, P. D.
Page, Esq , that his father, who resides
in Conecuh county, was waylaid and mur
dered by a highwayman on Friday even
ing last, if we mistake not, near Clai
borne, Ala. The circumstances, as de
tailed to us, were about as follows: Mr.
Page and a brother in-law of his had been
to market to dispose of their cotton, and
on their return home, finding that an ob
struction had been placed in the road,
the latter got out of the buggy to remove
it. Whilst he was engaged in doing this,
someone, who was concealed near by,
fired upon the old gentleman, who had
kept his seat iu the vehicle—the contents
of the gun taking effect in his breast. He
is said to have expired in a few moments.
Subsequently, the kinsman of Mr. Page
was also fired upon, and severely, but
perhaps not mortally wounded. He suc
ceeded in getting into the buggy, and
driving at a rapid rate, soon reached a
house some two or three miles distant,
with the body of the deceased still in the
vehicle—thus escaping from the hands of
the supposed highway robber.
P. D. Page, Esq , left this city Satur
day evening for Conecuh county, and is
determined to use every exertion to fer
ret out the whereabouts of the inhuman
wretch who perpetrated this diabolical
deed. It is to be hoped that he may be
successful, and that justice may yet be
meted out to the assassin.
Profitable Rail Road.
The Petersburg Express says: “ The
Guanabacon branch of the Regia and
Mantanzas Railway, has thus far proved
more profitable than any other railway
in this hemisphere, and indeed, with two
exceptions, in the whole world. In fifteen
months from the period of its going into
operation it has returned 37 per cent, of
| the capital stock to the shareholders, and
I should the present rate of traffic contin-
I ue two years longer, the branch will
! have entirely paid for itself.”
Magnificent Fan.
One of the bridal offerings of Senor
Ovideo to Miss Bartlett, his wife, was a
magnificent fan, with carved pearl sticks,
! inlaid with enameled paintings, and fine
I thread lace top, chased gold ring for tas
sel, ornamented with diamonds, imported
I by order of Signor Ovideo—the whole
costing S3OO. Don Estaban could find
. nothing in Yankee land fine enough to
i suit, and so had to send to Paris for it.
Heavy Sentence.
, A few days since, Mary E. Jones, of
Lawrence, Mass., who pleaded guilty to
a charge of manslaughter, in deserting
her infant in the woods of Haverhill, was
sentenced to 20 years’ bard labor in the
House of Correction. She was only 18
years of age, and had been driven almost
crazy by her husband deserting her.
Cotton Shippers Application Books,
handsomely role *1 and bound, for sale at the
Oct. 20. SUN OFFICE, i
THE ATLANTA FIRE!
We find the followingparticulars of the
fire which occurred at Atlanta on Wednes
day night, in the Augusta Constitutional
ist, which were obtained by that paper
from the messenger of the Adams’ Ex
. press Company:
The fire commenced about half past 11
1 o’clock on Wednesday nighi, and was not
controlled until about two a. m. It orig
mated at or near the corner of Whitehall
and Alabama stre'ets, next to the Bank of
• Fulton. It then continued up Whitehall
I to tbe new brick building occupied by
; Beech & Root, as a fancy dry goods store.
The fire also burnt down Markum’s j
corner and up Alabama street to Sam
| Down’s grocery. It also extended up j
Whitehall street to Holbrooks’ hat store, j
which was saved, although some adjoin
ing rooms were destroyed.
Tbe principal bouses burnt were occu
pied as follows:
Miller & Cos., book and job printing
office; Braumiller’s music store; White
& Cos., dry goods store ; Brown’s clothing
establishment; J. 11. & C. 11. Wallace,
! hardware store; J. D. Lockhart, exchange
broker; Shackelford’s auction store; F.
H. Coleman, grocery merchant; W T . H.
Jones, stationery store; DeShong’sda
guerrean gallery ; Greenbaum’s clothing
store ; Giovanni & Venaglia’s drug store ;
Fish’s law office; Heinz's gun establish
ment; Cutting & Stone, large dry goods
store.
There were several small stores burnt
down ou Alabama street, occupied as con
fectionaries, barber shops, tailor shops,
jewelry stores, &c., the Dames of occu
pants not remembered.
During tbe fire, there were two children
burnt to death, and their remains found !
and removed from the burning embers, j
Another child is still missing, and sup
posed to have been burnt. The mother
of the children lost was also much burned,
and her recovery is doubtful. Her name
is Horton, and her husband is a painter
by trade.
Some of the establishments burnt down
are about the largest business houses in
Atlanta, and the loss is estimated at 1
| $300,000.
A private letter, received says :
i “W 7 e bad the greatest fire ever known
: in Atlanta last night. It was discovered
in the drug store near Mr. Shackelford’s
auction rooms. It soon spread, and in a
short time the whole corner was on fire.
It exteuded down to the Fulton bank.
The water gave out. The whole of the
Intelligencer office is in ruins, also the
two next blocks up Whitehall. Miss
Berry, a milliner, barely escaped with !
her life. Tlio cause of the fire is un
known. Several children were thrown
| from windows and caught by the crowd.
| The entire Coleman corner is in ruins,
I down to the Fulton bank.”
AWFUL FIRE IN GRIFFIN!
PART OF A SIDE OF HILL ST. IN RUINS !
Between 1 and 2 o’clock this morning a
fire was discovered in tbe Empire State
office, on the west side of Hill street,
which spread rapidly to adjoining build
ings, and as we write, promises to con
sume the whole block, if not more.—
Those burnt out at the time of writing (4
o’clock iu the morning) are:
Tbe Masonic Lodge building, occupied
I by the Empire State printing office ; W.
i R. Phillips & Cos., dry goods merchants ;
and Cherry & Brothers, grocers, are
burned ; and the south side of the block,
embracing tbe stores of E. Sherman &
Cos.. McWilliams & Roberts, Samuel Mc-
Williams, F. M. Ison, the Planters’ Bank
Agency, and Farrar & Redd. Doyal &
Campbell’s law office is destroyed, most
of the loss falling upon Mr. Campbell—
. the firm papers having been saved at the
expense of bis individual interests. Mr.
Frederick Dismuke’s law office, and Dr.
Daniel’s laboratory, were entirely con
sumed, with their contents. A. D. Nun
nally’s law office destroyed, but most of
his papers and effects saved. The Em
pire State office is entirely consumed, not
a book, type or paper being saved, so far
j as we can learn.
The fire was checked at tbe warehouse
: of B. W. Ferrill on one side, and J. A
| Beeks & Cos. on the other.
The warehouse of B. W. Ferrill is not
destroyed, but some 500 bales of cotton,
as far as we can judge, have beeu con
sumed. Planters’ cotton safe.
It is impossible, iu the present state of
■ confusion, to compute the loss. The In-
I surance offices have suffered severely.
The ./Etna, Hartford, and North American
I insurance companies will sustain a loss of
| not less than $32,000.
J. M. Cole’s loss on cotton is not less
I than $5,000. — Griffin (Ga.) South.
L-^_L—/
A New Gold Mine.
The Marietta Advocate says: “We
learn with much pleasure that a gentle
| man of this place has opened an exceed
j ingly rich gold mine, a specimen from
which has been exhibited to us, rich with
the precious ore. The ore is found in a
regular vein, cut open on the surface
about, five hundred yards, on lot of land
No. 15 of the 20th district, and 2d sec
tion, of this county, and in the Alatoona
gold belt of Georgia. The vein, near the
center of the lot, has been opened by a
shaft of 54 feet. The vein did not begin
to form until at the depth of 23 feet,
where it was one inch thick, including
slate, quartz, and iron ore, with some
gold. At 16 feet deeper tbe vein was 18
inches thick, with an increased quantity
of gold. At 15 feet deeper still, the vein
was three feet thick, with slate quartz
and iron ore bearing gold on the quartz,
(in the language of a friend who fur
nishes these details,) almost as speckled
as a guinea egg.
“Kansas Work” in Georgia.
The Savannah Republican of the 14th,
l says : “We were informed, some days
ago, by a gentleman whose statements
are entitled to credit, that seventeen gin
i houses, with their contents, have beeu
! destroyed in the course of the last two
weeks, in the county of Talbot alone,
i The number repels all idea of accident,
I and especially when we recollect that in
| cendiarism was one of the plans of “old
j Brown,” and that particular region was
specifically designated on his map. A
! further statement gives confirmation to
this conclusion. A letter reached Mil
ledgeville a few days ago, announcing
the belief that a squad of Brown’s emis
saries were concealed in the neighbor
hood of Pine Mountain, in Meriwether
county, and that an express had been
sent to Talbotton for a force to scour that
region and capture the miscreants, if
possible.
“Old Brown” In Georgia.
i A correspondent of the Savannah Re
| publican, writing from Upson county, the
; 15th, says it is all a mistake about seven
j teen gin houses being burnt in Talbot
county, where he has lately been and
I learned it from good authority. He also
I contradicts the report that a band of
Brown’s emissaries were concealed in the
| neighborhood of Pine Mountain, Meri
-1 wether county. He reports everything
quiet in that section of the State.
Brave Abolitionists.
Horace Greeley says in the Tribune,
j that he will be in Washington on the sth
December, and after the adjournment of
Congress for the da} 1 , he is perfectly
willing, on bis own expense, and without i
a requisition from Gov. Wise, too meet the !
latter on the Virginia side of the river 1
and give in, under oath, all he knows
■ bearing upon the Harper’s Ferry affair
Gin House Burnt.
On Saturday night about 10 o’clock, j
says the Canton (Miss.) American Citizen,
tbe gin house of Mr. E. R. Anderson,
with twenty-two bales of cotton belonging
to Mr. Anderson, and eight or ten be
longing Mr. Smith, was consumed by
fire.
Tbe Petersburg Express of Tuesday
learns that tbe gin bouse of Mr. T. C.
Heyman, of Edgecombe county, with
about 25,000 pounds of seed cotton, was
j buret on Friday of last week.
From the N. 0. Picayune of the 13th.
BROWNSVILLE TAKEN !
Desperate hand to hand Battle!
CORTINAS IX POSSESSION’ OF THE TOWS.
By the arrival, this morning, of the
steamer Charles Morgan, Capt. Lawless,
from Indianola and Galveston the 11th,
we have the following highly important
information:
Corpus Ciiristi, Nov. 7, 1859.
On the 29th October, Cortinas and his
band surrounded the town of Brownsville.
On the 30th, Cortiuas ordered the barri
cades to be charged, at the same time his
men made good au entrance from the
yards at the back of the stores and
dwelling houses ; in a moment his men
and ours were mixed up in a hand to
hand fight, and in a moment more the
barricades were forced. After five hours
hand to hand fighting, we were forced to
retreat, and succeeded in making our es
cape to the other side of the river.
Cortinas’ attacking party consisted of
about 400 men, and he has, in all proba
bility, 200 men patrolling the country to
prevent communication with the city.
In all told, we had abont fifty white
men under arms, and these were aided by
one hundred and fifty Mexicans, sent
from Matamoras. Col. Manuel Narnnco
commanded this force.
I can form no idea of the number of
men killed on either side. The cry of the
Mexicans was, “Death to all Americans!
No quar'er!” And such was truly the
case, as is proven by the death of every
man Cortinas has taken prisoner.
On Tuesday morning Cortinas had en
tire possession of Brownsville.
In preseuce of L. Meyers and John I.
Morris. W. A. MILLER.
TnE State of Texas. 1
County of Nueces, f
Before me, E B. Moseley, Notary Pub
lic in and for said county and State, per
sonally came and appeared W. J. Miller,
who being duly sworn according to law,
declares that the foregoing affidavit is
strictly true.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
signed my hand and affixed my seal of
I office the 7th day of November, A. D. 1859.
E. B. MOSELEY, Notary Public.
Mexican and Texas News.
Nkw Orleans, Nov. 14. —The rebellion
at Victoria, in Northern Mexico, has
been quelled, and the leaders shot. The
troops seut to quell it marched to Gen
DcGollados’ head-quarters, at San Luis.
The affidavit.of Mi'ler, (by the Charles
Morgan,) stating that Brownsville had
been captured, is pronounced unreliable.
! The previous affidavit is not credited.
[The outbreak at Victoria, the Capital
of the State of Tamaulipas, in Mexico,
originated with prisoners in jail there,
on the 10th of October. They were
joined by the jail guard, and took posses
sion of the arsenal, and made prisoners
of the men stationed thore. The insur
gents were repulsed with some loss of
life. Gen. Guerrero said that the mu
tiny was merely initiative to a proclama
tion in favor of the reactionary party ;
the mutineers extended their theater cf
operations, but have now been success
j fully checked.
j New Orleans, Nov. 15. —Advices from
the City of Mexico, to the sth inst., are
at hand. Marquez boldly avows the
seizure of the funds in the hands of a
conducta, for patriot’s purposes. Mar
quez is expected at the Capital. There
are prospects of superseding Miramon.
From Washington.
Washington, Nov. 11. —Reliable in
formation, just received from Utah,
states that Judges Sinclair and Cradel
baugh are on their way to Washington.
Mr. Hartnell, Secretary of the Territory,
arrived here yesterday. It appears that
there continues to be frequent murders
and assassinations, but no arrests, as the
Mormons systematically obstruct the
course of justice. The opinion prevails
among all the Gentiles that the Courts
will be useless unless the Government
changes its policy. Gen. Johnston is so
restricted by his instructions that he can
not move to afford the necessary protec
tion. The continuance of the army, at
•Camp Floyd, only serves to add to the
prosperity of the Mormons, by means of
large sums of money spent iu the Terri
tory for supplies.
Fires at New Orleans.
New Orleans, Nov. 14.— There have
been five fires since Saturday—three of
them unimportant new Basin row, and
six stores on Rampart street were burned
with a loss of seventy thousand dollars.
Also nine squares containing eighty small
buildings above Chippewa street, in the
fourth district were destroyed at a loss
of one hundred thousand dollars. No
water could be obtained to control the
fire. At least one hundred families were
burnt out, and all the work of vile incen
diaries.
Mexican Protect prate.
Washington, Nov. 14 — lt is reported
here, in well informed circles, that Gen.
Sam Houston’s proposition for a limited
Protectorate over Northern Mexico, has
been increasing in favor with the Admin
istration. Since the Rio Grande dis
turbances, it is not unlikely that this
Protectorate policy will form an impor
tant feature in the debates of the next
Congress.
Judge Douglas Alarmingly 111,
Washington, Nov. 14. — The Hon. S. A.
Douglas is now alarmingly ill. A council
of physicians were all night in attendance
on his case. Some difference of opinion
exists among his professional attendants
as to the probability of liis recovery ; but
all admit that he is dangerously ill.
Washington, Nov. 15.—Senator Doug
las was considered better to-day by his
physicians.
Resignation of a Judge.
! Baltimore, Nov. 11. —It is announced
| that Judge Kemp, of the Orphan’s Court,
| who was elected on both the Reform and
| American tickets, has written a letter to
| the Governor declining to accept his com
mission, on the ground that the election
was so vitiated by violence as to afford
no test of the popular choice.
Gerrit Smith.
Utica, Nov. 10 — Gerrit Smith shows
continued marks of insanity. No one is
allowed to see him, but it is understood,
that he refers in his ravings to the Harp
er’s Ferry matter, and Supposes himself
arrested.
Horse Census.
The following curious account is given
; in Appleton’s Cyclopaedia, of the number
i of horses in the various parts of the
j world :
! The general estimate has been eight cr
I ten horses in Europe for every hundred
j inhabitants. Denmark has 45 horses to
! every hundred inhabitants, which is more
I than any other European country. Great
! Britain and Ireland have 2,500,000
horses; France 3,000,000 ; Austrian em
pire, exclusive of Italy, 2,600,000; Rus
sia 3,500,000. The United States have
5,000,000, which is more than any Euro
pean country: the horses of the whole
world are estimated at 57,420,000.
Rail Road Accident.
The Louisviiie Journal of Tuesday,
says: “After the morning train from
Nashville had passed through the long
cut this side of Muldrough’s Hill, and
when turning the curve, the engineer per
j ceivud a horse lying on the track and a
man close by. The locomotive was only
< some twenty feet from them and it was
impossible to check it. The train passed
| over the horse and killed it. The man
i was picked up in an insensible condition,
, with a dangerous cut on the forehead.
One of the assistant female teachers in
one of the public schools of Cincinnati,
undertook to chastise a little urchin a
few days ago, and the little scamp raised
her garments and took refuge beneath
her hoops. She was compelled to agree
to a truce before the little scamp would
come out.
An Old Line Whig, in a neat after-din
ner speech, remarked that “fugitive
slaves should be given up, because “we
should render unto the seiztrs the things
that are the seizers.’”
A BILL
To incorporate the Chattahoochee Slack
Water Navigation Company.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State of
Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same
That Alexander McAlister, Hezekiah in
crate. Thomas T. Smith, Martin I. Alex
ander, J. C. McClay, Henry R. Taylor, |
Thomas P. Painter, Nicholas T. Christian, (
Eli S. Shorter, James Buchanan, John M. ,
Wade, Thomas B. Andrews and their as j
sociates and successors in office, are hete
by declared to be a body corporate under !
the name and corporate style cf the Chat
tahoochee Slack Water Navigation Com .
pany, and by that name shall have power
to elect a President and five Directors,
and shall have perpetual succession of
officers and members, and by that name
shall sue and be sued, plead and be im
pleaded in any court of law or equity in
this State, and shall have power to pur
chase and hold real and personal estate,
make and use a common .seal and the
same to alter or change at pleasure, and
the full and complete power of establish
ing such a constitution and by-laws and :
regulations ns may be adopted by the ,
officers and members of said Company , :
Provided, such constitution and by-laws j
be not incons.stent with the Consitution j
and laws of this State, or the United
States.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted , That said
Company so incorporated, shall meet at
Fort Gaines within twelve months after
the passage of this Bill, either in person
or by proxy, to elect a President and five
Directors out of their number, who shall
hold their reipective offices until the 2d
Monday in January thereafter, and until
others shall be elected.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted , That said
Directors shall have power to open books
and receive subscriptions under such rules
regulations as they tnay see proper to
adopt, for any amount of stock not ex
ceeding one million of dollars.
Sec. 4. Be it. further enacted. That said
Company shall have full power and au
thority to erect and build dams across the
Chattahoochee river, with locks and gates
at any points that they may deem neces
sary, or that shall be necessary for the
successful navigation of such river, not
exceeding ten in number; That said
Company shall be required to keep said
dams, locks and gates so built, iu good
repair. ,
Sec. 5. And be it farther enacted, That
after said Company shall have built and
completed said dams and locks, or any
one or more of them, it shall be author
ised to receive and collect from each and
every boat passing said locks, or either of
them, in cash, the following rates of toll,
to-wit :
For each bale of cotton, the sum of 10 cents.
“ dry barrel, “ “5 “
“ “ wet barrel, “ “ “ 7'A “
“ “ sack of salt, “ “ “ 3 “
“ “ cvvt. of heavy goods, “ “ 2)4 “
44 •• passenger, “ “ 25 “
j And upon all articles not enumerated
above, a proportionate toll; That each
and every Purser or Commander of any
boat plying upon said river, shall be re
quired to give, in writing, under oath, to
the keeper of each lock through which
his or their boat may pass, a full and
plain list of all of the freight contained
upon said boat, and a list of all of her |
passengers, before she shall be allowed
to pass any of the locks constructed by
this Company ; and the person or persons
keeping such lock or locks, are hereby
fully empowered and authorised to ad- .
minister oaths for that purpose. No !
stockholder shall be liable for the debts
of said Company, farther than the amount
of his stock in said Company.
♦-
From the Federal Union.
An Appeal for tlie Supreme Court.
The members of the Legislature are not
unmindful of the fact that the Supreme
Court is au unpopular institution with
the people. That it is growing more so
every day is also known, and that now is
the time to re-organize it or abolish it
altogether. Believed of its itinerant
character —its justly wou title of “saddle
bags” Court—the J udges given more time
to pronounce their decisions, and other
lesser changes made, the Court would be
a monument to the wisdom of those who
advocated its organization. The frequent
changes of the Judges impairs its useful
ness, while the removal of a Judgo for
his mere opinion in a case, is a precedent
dangerous to be set, a blow at the inde
pendence of the Judiciary, and the erec
tion of a standard for the qualification of
an officer destructive to the rights of the
people, an l prejudicial to the ends of i
justice. Were men infallible, the rule j
would be a good one ; but in view of the
weakness of human nature, a correct
version of the law would be a matter of
less moment than the effect of its enun
ciation upon the popular ear. Passion
and prejudice would turn the scales ot
justice as quickly as the coat of the po
litical trickster, and firmness and integ
rity, honesty of conviction, and purity of
purpose, would yield before the despotism
. f public opinion. Let us rally together
to preserve the Court. The emergency
has arrived The people expect to hear
from their Representatives upon the sub
ject. Will they not counsel together and
adopt a plan for its re organization?—
The Judiciary Committees of the two
Houses should mature a bill at the earli
est day. Will they do it, or abolish the
Court? CHEROKEE.
Our Cotton Trade with Great Britain.
The following statement, which the
Washington Constitution condenses from
the British official custom-house returns,
shows the regular increase in the impor
tation into Great Britain of American
cotton, and the gradual diminution in the
quantities supplied by all other countries.
Raw Cotton imported into Great Britain from Jan.
1 to September 1.
1859. 1858. 1857.
cwts. ewts. cwts.
From United 5tate5...6,302,411 5,780,040 4,871,411
From Brazil 89,037 101,297 174.551
From Egypt 214,090 218,454 153,061
From Br. E. Indies.... 094,791 612,118 1,090,380
Other countries 54,375 75,305 31,408
Total 7,404,710 6,787,114 6,327,417
The following presents the values (es
timated at the rate of $5 to the pound
sterliug) of the cotton imported into Great
Britain during the seven months, ending
July 31, of the same years :
1859. 1858. 1857.
From U. States.s97,o4B.Boo $86,029,770 $85,593,020
From Brazil 1.195,825 1.737,230 3.158,980
From Egypt 3,452,655 3,324,200 3,062,385
From Br. F. 1... 7,363,390 7.210.545 11,621.530
Other countries 613,765 1,066,930 518,905
Total 110,274,535 99.868,675 103,954.520
The Electoral College of 1860.
The free States will be entitled to votes
in the Electoral College as follows:
Maine 8 Michigan 6
New Hampshire 5 Indiana 13
\ ernoont 5 Illinois n
Massachusetts 13 j lowa 4
Rhode Island 4 j Wisconsin 5
Connecticut 7 California 4
New York 35 Minnesota 4
New Jersey 6 Oregon 3
Pennsylvania. 27 1 Kansas 3
Ohio 28 j ’
Total 188
The slave States will be entitled to
votes in the Electoral College as follows:
Virginia 15 Louisiana 6 1
Delaware 3 Arkansas 5 i
Maryland STennessee 12 !
North Carolina 10 [Kentucky 12 :
South Carolina 8 Missouri “ ip
Georgia 10 Florida 3!
Alabama OjTexas 5 j
Mississippi’ 7
Total 420 1
Total vote of free States . ..186
Total vote of slave States 1
Majority for free States
Aggregate vote of free and slave States 307
Majority necessary to elect a President..... Paul
,
Gone over to the Enemy.
We publish this morning an extract of a
speech by Hon. F. P. Stanton, delivered
recently at Lecompton, Kansas, in which
he formally takes leave of the Democrat
ic party and espouses the cause of the
Black Republicans. We had heard it in
timated some months ago that he intend
ed to do so, and hence we are not at all
taken by surprise, and can only express
our regret. He is in pursuit, as he has
always been, of his private and individu
al fortunes, and under the plea of prin
ciple he throws himself into the arms of
the stronger party in order that his aspi
rations may the more certainly be pro
moled. Let him go. We will not mourn
over the loss of one we can so well and
reasonably spare, —Memphis Appeal.
Later from Kansas and Utah.
Leavenworth, Nov. 11.—The Express
from Denver, 3d imt., has arrived with
thirty five thousand dollars in treasure.
B. D. Williams, delegate elect from
Jefferson, has also arrived. It is said bis
seat is to be contested by Dr. Willing, lor
whom it is alleged that over two thousand
votes were cast, but were thrown out by
| the canvassers
The election of Mr. Steel for Governor
I is confirmed.
■ The Legislature would meet ou the
i 7th instant.
From New York..
New York, Nov. 13.—A sergeant and
’ eight men left Governor’s Island yester
day for Harper’s Ferry, to strengthen
the military force and arsenal at that
place This addition will raise the num
ber of men on duty there to forty men,
which is deemed sufficient to protect the
place from all apprehended assaults.
From Haytl.
New Y'ork, Nov. 14. —Hayti advices
state that twenty individuals connected
with the recent conspiracy and murder of
j the President’s daughter, have been con
! victed and sentenced to death, sixteen
| have already been hung, < ue respited and
! three escaped. General Ocean Ulysses,
j for the suppression of the facts, was sen
tenced to three years’ imprisonment.
Ship News—Disaster.
Savannah, Nov 16—The steamship
Augusta from New York has arrived
The schooner Ka*e Brigham, which ar
rived to day reports passing about sixty
miles from Charleston, the wreck of the
schooner Swan of Philadelphia—she was
dismasted, water logged and abandoned.
The Wanderer Prisoners.
Savannah, Nov 16 — The cases of
Brown, Ragesta and Aguiria, seamen on
j board the yacht Wanderer, were brought
I up for trial, to day, in the United States
Court. The jury was empanneled, and
the trial commenced.
Judge Douglas’ Condition.
Washington, Nov. 16.—Judge Doug
las’ condition is improving.
Washington, Nov. 15.—Mrs. Douglas
is considered better to-day.
Marine Disaster.
New Orleans, Nov. 15—The steam
ship Robert Waterman has been aban
doned, and is a total loss. Her cargo
was plundered by the fishermen tn tLe
coast.
Fever—Snow.
New Orleans, Nov. 15.—There were
but three deaths from yellow fever in this j
city last week.
Snow fell, Sunday last, in the State of j
Mississippi.
Texas News.
New Orleans. Nov. 16.—The Legisla
ture has been organised. The Ilouston
ists elected all of the officers.
Lieut. Hogan was badly wounded in a
battle with the Indians on the fourth
The Indians were defeated.
Safety of the North Star.
New York, Nov. 17. —The steamship
| North Star, about whose safety a great
deal of anxiety was felt, has been heard
of. She went ashore on the French Keys
on the 29th ult., having been seven days
out, but she was got off without any as-
I sistance, and proceeded on her voyage on
’ the 2d.
Ship News.
Boston, Nov. 17.—The schooner C. 11.
Pearslee, from Jacksonville bound to
Philadelphia, capsized when five days out
and the captain, his wife, and five seamen
were lost. One of the seamen, George
Slatterly, was saved, and has arrived j
here.
Another Fire.
New Orleans, Nov. 16.—Ten dwell
ings in the fourth distriet, were burnt to
day by an incendiary.
Havre Cotton Market.
New Y'ork, Nov. 17.—We have received
Havre dates to the 31st ult.
At Havre, on that day, the cotton mar
ket was stiff. The sales of the four pre
vious days were 8,700 bales. Orleans
Strict Middling was quoted at 105f. The
stock was 40,000 bales.
Excitement at Charlestown, A a.
We learn, says the Petersburg (Va.)
Express, that considerable excitement
1 still exists at Charlestown, Va., caused
j by nurner us inceudiary fires in the
j neighborhood, and a belief among the
inhabitants that “old Brown’s” emissaries
were still lingering about. The Mayor
i of Charlestown has issued the foilowiug
proclamation :
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, it is deemed prudent and j
right, by the town Council of Charles
iown, that there should not be longer
permitted to retuaiu iu our town or coun
ty. any stranger who cannot give a satis
factory account of himself, now, there
fore, 1, Thomas C. Green, Mayor ot
Charlestown, do hereby proclaim, and
make known, that all such strangers must
immediately leave the town or county,
and if they do not, any member of the
Town Council, the Town Sergeaut, Col.
Davis, Lawson Botts, E. M. Asquith,
Wells J. Hawks, are requested to make it
their special business to bring such stran- !
gers before the Mayor, or some Justice of
the Peace, to be dealt with according to |
law; and the authorities of Harper’s Fer I
ry, Bolivar, Shepherdstown, or Middle- I
way, and all other authorities in the
county, are hereby requested to take like j
action. THOMAS C. GREEN,
Nov. 12,'59. Mayor of Charlestown.
On the appearance of this proclamation, i
Mr. Hoyt, who had returned to toe town, j
Mr. Seunot, one of the counsel for the j
prisoners, and Mr. Jewett, connected j
with Frank Leslie’3 paper, received an
intimation from Col. Davis that they were |
amoDg the strangers whose presence was ;
not satisfactory to the people, and that !
their personal safety would best be se- j
cured by an early departure. Mr. Sen- j
not declined leaving until he had con- j
eluded his business. Mr. Hoyt had i
already made arrangements for his de- j
| parture before the proclamation appeared,
and he, with Mr. Jewett, left there on !
Saturday. Mr. Jewett was suspected—
unjustly, he declares—of being the cor
respondent of the New Y'ork Tribune, j
i which paper has recently published some
; letters trom Charlestown of an irritating
! character.
“When an Old man Marries a
Young Woman,’’ <fcc.
We are reminded of this melancholy re- \
flection of Sir Peter Teazle, on reading
among the Paris gossip of the Boston
Post the following paragraph :
The connubial “miseries” of the Prin
cess Clothilde, form the subject of a Lon- 1
don newspaper letter, which relates that I
“a very unpleasant, but not wholly un- i
expected, affair has occurred in high
quarters in Paris. The Prince N. leit
laris about ten days ago to travel in
Switzerland. Ilis royal and imperial
! sP° us e hearing that the suite of her hus
band comprised other persons than those
1 strictly necessary to keep up the state of
| a Prince, resolved to join him without
j farther delay. Iler unexpected arrival
j at Geneva angered her lord beyond con
j Irol, and he asked by whose authoriza
! tion, and by what right she dared follow
him ? 4 The right that every wife has to
join her husband,’ she replied, ‘but since
my pr sence is so obnoxious to you, 1
i will return to my father, whose love for
me will prevent him lroin considering
State interests before the happiness of
his child.’ So saying, the young Prin
cess C. left the Prince, who has just
spent the dowry she brought him in the
purchase of an estate in Switzerland
1 be Princess is now in Paris making all
the necessary arrangements for her final
and entire departure from the scene of
(to her) so much untiappiuess.”
Awful!
t Somebody, in discoursing upon the
skeleton fashions of the day, utters the j
following j
A woman in thi- rig hangs in her skirts
like the clapper of a bell: and I never
meet one without being tempted to take
her by the neck and ring her.
SOPUHF,.
BT H. L. V.
Oh muse, long dumb, come hack to-night a whit, ■,
No common theme I ask thee now to sing:
Did st know tiiat Sophie—erst an angel’s smile,
Had flitted from tne clouds on cherub wing •
The heavenly wanderer o'erthe homes of earth,
Hovered a'season, hiding calm and storm,
i Then chose a spot for her terrestrial birth
In the bright South, where skies and hearts
are warm.
’ 011 1 much 1 marvel that she left her place!
N'ay ! do you uoubt that she is from the skies;
Just scan the wondrous beauty of her face!
Look at the Stars, where other babes have
eyes !
And still you doubt, and say those stars shall
weep—
That cone, dire, nor plain, nor lovely spares.
And dread dentition shall begin to creep
Upon my angel baby, unawares.
Well, be it so. 44 We love her more,” we ll say.
That she is of the earth, and earthy too;
Y et, oh, believe me, she’s no common clay,
But yoU dust, every whit—l tell you true!
And since, alas! for gems, to earth she comes,
Behold the biamoxus, wiieie you mocked the
stars;
Pearls, too, shall spring from out those coral
gems,
E'en tho a transient wail their beauty mars.
The day before she came —with drooping grace,
Proud Summer died, in youthful Autumn's
arms,
But left sweet Sophie,whom she biushed to face,
Sole legatee ol all her boasted charms.
The flowers, since she is here, ashamed, lie dead,
But, lo! we mourn not o'er their leaty pall,
Nor do we miss their precious odors, tied,
She is the very essence of them all:
But, whether she be rosy, brown or fair,
1 may not mention, as 1 know not yet,
Nor may i sing the color of her hair,
The g'lossy rnestnnt brown, or gold, or jet.
But, jet or gold, or like her mother's brown,
Ye,Southern winds, 1 charge you to beware—
Blow not too rudely when her curls are grown,
But tarry with your softest wooiugs there.
And, oh! presumptuous winds, I bid you seek
The sweetest ouors of the flowery South
Before you dare to fan her velvet cheek,
Or sip the nectar of her lovely month.
Say, hearts that know and love my tiny maid,
(Os all earth s jewels rare, your dearest prize,
If Fancy, fond, too brightly has portrayed
This - Golden baby, with the diamond eyes
: \h,_no I and since I've pictured her so fair.
Come, crave with me, the richest gifts for her,
God keep her guileless as the angels are.
And happy as the guests of Eden were:
May she be spared to light the path we tread,
Till our unwilling feet are safely home,
And ‘l ime, full justly, many a silver thread,
Even in her bright tresses shall have sown.
Manavunk, Pa., Oct. 13,1859.
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Absconding Sheriffs.
George YV. Glass, Sheriff of McDowell
county, N. C\, (says the Raleigh Stan
dard,) left home about the middle of Sep
tember last, ostensibly to visit Raleigh
and settle bis taxes with the Comptroller
and Treasurer of State. At Salisbury, it
is presumed, he took the wrong end of
the rail road, and, so far as we are in
j formed, be has not since been heard of.
: No doubt he has absconded, carrying off
j a large amount of money.
Mr. Glass has always been considered
| an honorable, upright man and a good
i citizen. His flight has much surprised
aL his friends and acquaintances ; and
for some time it was supposed that he
hacl been murdered on his way to Raleigh,
his friends chosing to think so, rather
than that he had betrayed his trust.
Last week the Magistrates of the county
elected James M. Neal to fill out the un
expired term of Mr. Glass.
Solomon Ray, the Sheriff of Y'ancy
county, (says the Standard,) has also ab
sconded. He came to Raleigh in due
time and settled his tax account; but a
few weeks ago be left home to attend
Court in Madison county, and has not
been heard from since. It is supposed
that he carried off about SIO,OOO.
The Magistrates of Y'ancy have elected
Charles Byrd to fill out Ray’s unexpired
term.
The Citadel at Quebec.
A correspondent, writing from Quebec,
thus depicts the famous citadel: “When
its massive walls were erected, so great
j was the draft on the treasury of France
I that the Queen asked if they were build
ing it of gold! This frowning fortress
stands 400 feet above the river, and has
been appropriately called the ‘Gibraltar
of America.’ It includes about forty
acres on the summit of Cape Diamond.
This mount is composed chiefly of dark
slate rock, witli veins of quartz crystals,
sparkling like diamonds —hence the name.
In its deep vaults are deposited 57,000
tons of powder. Four Martello towers
forty feet in height, stand upon the plains
about half a mile in advance of the other
fortifications. This old walled city has
a dark, dingy and forbidding appearance,
and one feels on entering its low and
massive gates ns if he were going into
prison.”
Serious Aecident
Col Washington Toney was accident
ally shot in the arm, whilst out limiting
on Saturday evening last, near this place.
It seems that the Colonel was creeping
on some wild turkeys, closelv followed
by his little son Sterling, who was also
provided with a gun. The little boy in
attempting to cock his gun let the ham
mer slip and discharged the piece, wheD
■ the muzzle was in two or three feet of his
father. The most of the load fortunately
passed between the arm, just- above the
eibow, and the side. Some few of the
shot grazed the Col.’s body, and twenty
or thirty large shot passed through, nr
lodged in his arm. The wound is very
severe, but is not considere t dangerous
by the attending physicians.— Eufouk
Express.
The Palmer Case—Failure of the
Writ of Habeas Corpus.
i YVe understand that the Criminal Court
refused this morning to release Palmer
, on a writ of habeas corpus, and that be
| will be retained in custody. This is,
| perhaps, the wisest course that could be
j pursued, taking into consideration -
| the circumstances connected with the
i case. Although every one admits that
■ the present evidence against Palmer—
• being without corroboration—would be
i totally insufficient to convict him of the
; charge alleged, there is still a deep feel’
| ing in the community in regard to the
i affair, and trivial circumstances are daily
| coming to light which decidedly preju
j dice the public mind against the pris
j oner. For the present Palmer had better
I remain where he is.— Memphis Argus.
j Sentence of Cook and other Insurreu
tionists.
Charlestown, Nov. 11.—When the
■ prisoners were brought out for sentence.
| the negroes Copeland and Green decline -
|to say anything. Cook’aod Coppee bait
addressed the Court, denying that the;
had any knowledge of Brown’s intention
I to seize the Ferry until the Sunday p re
vious, when they were called upon
take the oath of obedience to their cot
mander. They expected to be punished
but did not think tliey should be bun;
I Ilaz’itt will not be tried until the M 3 . 1
| Term of the Court.
The negroes are to be hung ou ‘
morning of the 16th, and the whites J’
j ring the afternoon of the same day-
Head of the Rothschild’s Estabii** 1 ’
meat.
j The New Y'ork correspondent o. l
\ Savannah Republican says :
“It is rumored here that Auguste I
monte, known to be a relative of tbe lJ
raous Rothschilds, has consented to
come the European manager of that tu
This arrangement will put him flt ‘
head of the international finances of
rope and the United States. lie ba’
sided for twenty years iu this city a L
still young and ambitious. His i.ev
tion will give him more power and •
ence than any public office in eiibe
the continents.”
I The Herald of Freedom, the * e ’
j Republican paper of Kansas. P ,f “' : ,
! John Brown as a cold-blooded assa--^
| and fixes upon him the massacre ■ ot ’
| ral citizens of Pottawatomie, i” ,
with other acts of lawlessness, am
“up to that time not a hair of 0A ‘
Brown's head, or that of any of his
had been injured by the pro slavery P an L
So much for the plea of Norther 11
publicans that he was driveu to l !l *‘ .
ness and madness by the murder 0
family. He and his sons went to R*
as the hired ruffians of the New Yor ‘
Massachusetts Republicans.
Boston, Nov. 13.—Francis
Merriam, of Bostim, who was ‘' e P‘
tu have been w ith Brown id the I 1 4 , lV f
Ferry trouble, and subsequently |(
died of his Wounds iu Phil'delp 11
alive, and at present in Canada-