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Cmiatitatianaltst K Eipuiilir.j 1
E? JAMES gARDITBR. j'
OFFICE ON McINTOSH-STREET,
THIRD DOOR FROM THE NORTH-WEST CORNER OF
BROAD-STREET.
TERMS:
Daily, in advance par annum.... ,$G 00
If notin advance per annum 7 00
Tri-Weekly, in advance .per annum...... 4 00
If not in advance per annum 5 00
Weekly, in adrance. ...per annum 2 00
Report of the Secretary of the Interior.
We condense from the report some additional
facts and suggestions of immediate interest to
the ci;izens of the District of Columbia :
After giving an account of the progress of the
construction of the Iron Suspension Truss Bridge
across the Potomac, at the Little Falls—two
spans of which, of 160 feet each, with stone piers,
will be completed so as to permit the passage of
vehicles early this winter—the report adds that
the engineer recommends that this structure be
extended across to the main shore in the district,
in order to make the whole permanent, and es
timates the additional amount required at $75,-
000. This is more than it was supposed the
work would cost, but the extraordinary rise of
labor and materials, and the unexpacted difficul
ties that constantly existed in its progress, have
convinced the Superintending Engineer that it
cannot be constructed for less.
The report next proceeds to point out ether
improvements needed to the public property.—
The following extracts, it is to be hoped, will
command the prompt and favorable considera
tion of the present Congress, now that we have
an overflowing Treasury.
The District of Columbia requires anu merits
the fostering care of the general government. It
is true much has been expended upon public im
provements within its limits, but they ary in
valuable to the different departments of the gov
ernment. There aie few who know their char
acter. extent and utility that can regret the ex
penditure.
There never was a more auspicious period for
erecting the additional public edifices so much
needed. Fire-pr of buildings are required lor
the State, the War, and the Navy Department.
All of these, together with one for this Depart
ment, cm be constructed in connection with
each other at an expense not exceeding three
millions of dollars. The pieient buildings are
not fire-proof, and the destruction of either of
them by fire, to which they are constantly ex
posed, and from which there is little to protect
them, would be a far greater ioss to the govern
ment even in a pecuniary point of view.
Much inconvenience and embarrassment are
experienced by this department, as well as most
of the bureaus under its charge, in consequence
of their distance from it. That freedom and in
tercouse which is essentially necessary to the
proper discharge of the duties incumbent on
each, cannot exist. Questions of moment are
constantly arising that might be considered, and
decided promptly, and without consuming much
time, if the head ol tbe department and the chief
of the bureau having charge of the matter could
readily and conveniently consult together. JTfais,
however, is not the most serious objection to the
present position of these bureaus. The Indian
office is in the War Department, and occupies
rooms which are not fire proof. They are also nee
ded,and have been demanded by that department,
and should be surrendered.
The General Land Office remains in the Trea
sury Building, notwithstanding the Secretary of
the Treasury requires the rooms, and has made
a pressing application for them. These rooms
are too small and too limited in number. The
Commissioner has been compelled, in several in
stances, to crowd eight or nine clerks besides
the desks, paper cases, and ordinary furniture,
into a single loom, where more than two clerks,
cannot conveniently be accommodated. In con
sequence of this, and the w ant of proper ventila
tion, the health of the clerks is impaired, and
their ability to labor much diminished. The
files and papers have increased so repidly, that
for want of space many cases of valuable papers
are placed in the passages, where there is not
that security from fire which is requisite.
The Pension Office is in a better situation,
but it occupies inconvenient and uncomfortable
quarters, belonging to the War Department.
The Indian and Land Bureaus must be remov
ed, aud the only question appears to be, whether
the west wing of the Patent Office Bulding,
shall up for the temporary accommoda
tion of these Bureaus, or they bg placed in rented
buildings, not fire proof, thus exposing to imi
nent peril papers of immense value to the Gen
eral Government, the States, and and private in
dividual*.
This building may be so finished within a
year, and until a suitable structure can be erected
for this Department, it will not be required by
the Patent Office. Some opposition has been
made heretofore to a somewhat similar proposi
tion, but this, it is presumed, was based on the
erroneous supposition that the cost of the entire
structuie had been defrayed out of the patent
fund. The amount thus far expended and ap
propriated is $1,367,750, of w'hich $1,048 750 has
been paid out of the Treasury, and only $319,000
out of the patent fund. Such' being the fact,
there is no reason why a portion of it should
not be temporarily used as proposed, until needed
by the Patent Office. It this should even some
what incommonde that office, it would be of
small moment, in comparison with the evils that
might result from withholding the use of it from
the bureaus. Skillful artizans are of the 05 in
ion that the necessary improvements can be ea
sily made, without interfering with or injuring
the original design. Unless, therefore, Congress
by express enactment, otherwise determines, I
intend to direct the completon of the west wing,
so as to accommodate these bureaus, and secure
the public archives.
Within a few years the Patent Office will
need the main building and the two wines for
its exclusive use. In the meantime a structure
should be erected for this department; and as it
consumes much time to complete such a build
ing, sound policy should induce its immediate
commencement. One sufficiently large and
commodious, and entirely separated from the
other departments, can be constructed jn a plain,
substantial manner for $250,000, and in the
most approved style, with all the modern im
firovements, for less than a half a million. Sure
y, at this time, there can be no more proper or
profitable application of the public moneys. The
considerations urging it are strong and apparent,
and it seems to me, cannot fail to convince eve
ry one w'ho reflects upon the subject of its abso
lute necessity.
Applications are made at almost every session
of Congress, for repairing the bridges crossing
the Potomac, from Washington city; although
in the aggregate a large amount has been expen
ded on them, they are in a most unsafe and inse
cure condition. Permanent and substantial
structures are required and ought to be erected.
In the end it wili prove a saving to the govern
ment, and in the meantime conduce greatly to its
interests, and the benefit of all who are in aoy
wise connected with this District.
The plan adopted fer improving and orna
menting the public ground*, should be vigorous
ly prosecuted. It will conduce to the health,
as well as greatly add to the beauty of the city.
These and other improvements that might be
suggested are required. They are not merely
for the use and benefit of the people of this Dis
trict, but they minister to the pleasure, comfort
and health of every one who visits it. This is
the metropolis of tae Union, and the pride and
ambition of its representatives should induce
them to make it worthy of a great nation. In
regard to all such objects a liberal policy should
be pursued; and, at least, all improvements
should be made which the public service imper
atively demands.
The erection, furnishing and fitting up of an
asylum for the insane of the District of Colum
bia, and the army and navy of the United States,
in the neighborhood of Washington, have not
progressed very rapidly, owing to to the difficul
ty of obtaining suitable machines and materials.
It is hoped, however, that the building will be
completed and prepared lor the reception of pa
tients by the first of August next.
The estimate# of the amounts required for the
service of the Indian Departments during the
year ending June 30, 1855, are $3,937,793 50.
[From'Jhe Savannah Republican.] |
Cotton Planters and Cotton Buyers.
The following bill is now before the House of
Representatives at Milledgeville. It deserves
the attention of merchants as well as of buy
ers :
A Box for the protection, in certain cases, of
Planters and Cotton Sellers within the State
of Georgia. »
l Be it enacted, &c. That from and
rftef the passage of this act, Cotton sold by
Planters and Commission Merchants, shall not
be considered as the property of the buyer, or the
ownership given up, until the same shall be ful
ly paid for, although it may have been delivered
into the possession of the buyer, any law, usage
or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
Section 2. And be it further enacted, That
any person engaged in the business of buying
Cotton, either on his own account or for others,
who shall buy or engage to buy Cotton from a
Planter or Commission Merchant, and shall fail
or refuse to pay for the same at the time agreed
on, or if no time shall have been specified, then,
when required, and shall make way with, or
dispose of, any Cotton purchased and not paid
for, shall be deemed.guiity of fraud and embez
zlement, and shall be liable on conviction, to be
imprisoned in the Penitentiary, not less than
one nor more than five years, at the discretion
of the jury trying the case.
Further Foreign New* by the Arctic.
The details of the news brought by the Arctic
to the 30th ulfc., have come to hand.
Great Britain.— During the past week about
one million pounds sterling in gold have been
shipped, mostly to Russia.
The strikes of operatives at Preston and else
where are as far as ever from being settled.
Sir Edward Parry, the veteran Arctic voyager
has been appointed Deputy Governor of Green
wich Hospital.
The anniversary meeting of the Royal Flax
Society of Ireland was held at Belfast on the
25th. The prospects of the Society are encour
aging. In 1848 there were 53,863 acres under
flax in Ireland, while this year there are 175,495.
In several districts the manufacturers have
come to a resolution to work only four days a
week instead of six. According to the notices
already given, 40,000 operatives will be affected
by this measure, irrespective of the 60,000 who
have so long suffered from their miscalculated
strike.
France. —None of the Paris papers mention
the circumstance of the “fusion,” or to speak
more intelligibly, the reconciliation of the
French members of the family of the Bourbons.
A correspondent of a London paper however,
gives an account of it, the Count de Chambord
on the 17th sending his carriage for his cousin,
the Dukede Nemours. When they met in the
presence of Duke deJLevis and Count Monte,
Chambord took Nemours by both hands, and in
a very friendly, but very dignified tone, said.
“My Cousin, 1 a.n happy to see you !” The
Duke de Nomours replied—
“lt is I, my cousin, who am delighted to be
able to do now what I have so ardently desired
to do long since. I declare to you in my own
name, and in the name of my brot ers, that we
recognise only one royalty in France, and that
royalty is yours; but one throne, and that the one
on which we hope soon to see seated Pairs de
noire moison —the eldest of our house.”
The Duke was further pleased to observe :
“I have just laid a bridge over the abyss that
separated us—a bridge that will lead its all back
to France.”
The Emperor Louis Napoleon is said to think
this “fusion very funny.”
The affair in regard to the Bourbon family is
causing much excitement throughout Paris.
The French army is being largely increased,
and there is a great desire among the people to
aid Turkey.
Count Roget, commander-in-chief of the
French artillery in Rome, died at Naples, whith
er he had gone on leave.
Turkey and Russia. —A Marseilles paper
has the following from Constantinople :
Admiral Slade, with the ship-of-the-line Med
jidieh, five frigates and a steamer, has gone to
cruise in the Black Sea, His object is to drive
the Russian cruisers from before Anapa, which
is the only port of the Caucasus on a coast of 80
miles. He is accompanied by Seffir Bey, the
Circassian Chief, who was so long detained at
Adrianople, and he is to supply ammunition and
arms to the Lesghians. the Laghes and Tcher
kasses tribes. This expedition is of the highest
importance. If the Turks succeed in taking
the fortresses that defend the entrance into the
Caucasus, they will put an end to all communi
cation, by land, between Russia and the Trans-
Caucasian provinces acquired by the treaty of
Gulistan.
Numerous Polish and Russian deserteis have
reached the Turkish advanced posts in Asia.—
2,000 deserter* are said to have reached the
camp—a large number—yet, perhaps, correctly
stated, as the Russian army in the Caucasus was
the receptacle of all punished and degraded sol
diers and officers, and consequently contained a
i great number of malcontents. Hungarian offi
| cers, who served with Bern and Dembinski,
have undertaken to organize these deserters into
serviceable corps.
From Bucharest, Nov. 21st, two words me tel
egraphed, “ nothing new.” From Belgrade
Nov. 24, “all quiet. ’
Besides the steamer that ran ashore at Batoum
another Russian ship, the Yenikale, had been
wrecked near Sebastopol.
The first regiment of Oostensacken's divis
ion passed through Jassy on the 12th. to re-in
force Gortschakoff.
Baron de Bruck, the Austrian negotiator, and
Maj. Wiidenbruck, the Prussian, had been re
called trom Constantinople. Baron Bruck will
resume his post in the ministry.
There were fourteen hundred lives lost on
board a Russian man-of-war wrecked in the
Black Sea.
Ten thousand more Egyptians were embark
ed from Alexandria on the 19th for Constanti
nople.
The Mohomedans of Hindostan are said to be
much excited with the news that the Sultan is
i *t war, and that the English are assisting him.
Recently it was announced that the Czar had
formed an alliance with the celebrated Dost
Mohammed; but present advices tell a different
story. This latest account comes from Constan
tinople, 16th, and says that Dost Mohammed
had notified the Shah of Persia that the Affghans
are at war with the Russians; that he (Dost)
means to attack them in the direction of Chirvan,
and that he will march through the Persian ter
j ritory for that purpose, with the Shah’s permis
sion, if he will give it—and without it, if relused.
The Ivhan of Bokhara has been killed by a band
j ot Atlghan?, and his piace is taken by his late
uTu ie i r -’ Affijhan prince, named Ildhirim, or
| the lightning.”
A despatch from Vienna says : “ It is credibly
I reported that a serious conflict has taken place
between the Servians and the Turks near
Lsbitza, on the Servo Bosnian frontier. The
Tunis were repulsed.” The loss of both parties
is estimated at 500 men.
Germany.— From Freiburg. 26th November,
we learn that the government measures against
the reiractory Roman Catholic clergy had led to
deplorable .riots. A party of gens d’armes who
were ordered to arrest some priests, was at
tacked and put to flight by the peasantry m the
lauber \ alley. In other places the priests were
rescued by the people. It is expected that the
whole affair will be speedily adjusted. In Han
over* caange of Ministry has taken place.
China. —Advices from Shanghai are to the
27th ult. There was no change in the state of
affairs, the rebels bolding the city, disagreeing
among themselves, and ne government formed.
At Chin-kiang-foo the rebel force was report
ed to be increased by constant desertion from the
Imperial camp.
The rebels in Amoy still hold the island
against the Imperialists fleet. Canton was
threatened, and there was little doubt but that it
would have changed masters before the despatch
of the next mail.
The naval forces of the Imperialists now seem
to be concentrated around the Island of Amoy.
A stray shot from an Imperialist junk came on
board Her Majesty’s brig Rapid, and took off the
| carpenter’s arm.
I A lartar invasion in China is beginning to
Ibe talked of. The Mantchoo dynasty have
nothing to hope tor in such an event, lor they
are said to be very unpopular. In Chinese Tar
tary aud 1 bibet there appears to be no immedi
ate cause for apprehending such movement, and
we hear of no Tartar leaders.
In harbor, U. S. irigate Macedonian, At
Whampoa, U. S. steamers Susquehana and Mis
sissippi ; and steamship Supply. AtCumsing
moon, U. S. steamer Powhatan and sloop Vaa
dalia. At Shanghai, U. S. sloop Saratoga.
There were British steamers and ships of war at
various points.
The island of Fomosa is also the theatre of an
insurrection.
Between Canton and Hong Kong there is
still continued fighting.
We learn from a dispatch, received last night,
by the Agents, Messis. Padelford, Fay & Co.,
that the steamer Alabama arrived at New York
on Monday, all well. She was detained by the
severe storm, which prevailed on Thursday and
Friday.— S*v. Nsm, 14th inst.
| Ttkgr&phti for the Saltifmn Sun.]
Arrival of the Georgs Law.
New Yoke, Dec. 12. —The steamer George
Law, from Aspinwail, has arrived, bringing 467
passengers, and the Caliiornia mails of the 16th.
She has SBBB,OOO on freight. Among her pas
sengers are Major G. T. Andrews, of the army,
and Gen. Nevarro, late a member of the Mexi
can Cabinet, who has been sentenced to twenty
years’ banishment by Santa Anna.
The steamer John L. Stephens, which left San
I lancisco on the 16th. arrived at Panama on the
28th, bringing 600 passengers, and $1,200,000 in
gold.
The principal ieature of the news is the ex
citement incident to the report of the discovery
of the gold valley of Amazon.
Ihe expedition to Senora remained in statu
quo.
Intense excitement had been created at Sono
ra by the rumors of the sailing of the fillibuster
expedition. Yroops had been sent to Sonora
from Guayamas. It was reported that Gen. Ta
con was on his march with 2,000 men. Gov.
Guadara had authorized the settlement of a col
ony of Germans at Sonora.
A line of steamers was talked of between
San Francisco and Guayamas.
A company of U. S. dragoons had an engage
ment near Rogue river, with a party of Indians,
len Indians and two Americans were killed,
and many wounded on both sides.
A large meeting of squatters had been held at
Sacramento, at which exciting resolutions were
passed to the effect that the ground on which
Sacramento stands belongs to the United States
as overflowed lands.
The mining news was geneially favorable.—
The miners on the river beds were preparing to
leave on account of the near approach of the
rainy season.
A new filiibustering expedition was talked of.
It was said a party was to follow the Sonora ex
pedition, and another to go to the Amazon. It
was reported that a joint stock company had al
so been formed, witti a capital of $2,500,000, to
establish steam navigation on the Gila. The
intentions of this company were looked on with
suspicion.
Gen. Lane is pledged to a division of Oregon
Territory.
The schr. Capacity'-, with Government stores
was wrecked at Guaymas.
James C. Hackett, founder of Berford’s Ex
press, was killed on the 14th, by being thrown
from a buggy.
Proceedings against the brig Arrow, for being
connected with the Sonora expedition, have
been abandoned.
The magnetic telegraph line between San
Francisco and Marysville, is now in opeiation.
Two expeditions are now fitting out at San
Francisco, one for Peru and the other for Ecua
dor. The former was being organized under
the auspices ot the Peruvian Consul, lor mining
purposes, and the latter was said to be connected
with another Fiores expedition.
A piivate company, with a capital often
millions, has been formed at San Francisco, for
steam communication with China. The steam
er Fremont is to be the pioneer of the new line
to Guaymas.
A new line is also to commence on the Ist of
December, to run between San Francisco,
Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,
and Panama.
Mayor Gunnison has sent in a message to the
CommouCounc.il, stating that the funded and
floating debt of San Francisco is but little short
ot $2,000,000. The city is to be lighted with
gas on the Ist of January.
In Sacramento real estate has advanced 50 per
cent since last spring.
The markets in the mining districts have im
proved.
From Oregon.— Dates from Oregon are to
the 21st ot Oct.
The overland arrivals continue large. Many
parties had suffered severely on the route, some
having been compelled to eat their horses. Dr.
Evans, of Governor Steven-’, surveying expedi
tion, arrived at Portland on the 2Sth. He re
ports favorably on a Railroad route from the
head of the Mississippi to Pugets sound.
[From the N. O. Pic., llMinrt.]
From Mexico.
Important Rumars of Invasion—Arrival of
the Caroline at La Paz—Reported Seizure
of the City.
We have received by mail, though we have
not been able to ascertain by what opportunity
they were forwarded. papers from the city of
Mexico, to the 22d uit. We Lave the Trait
d’Union of the 19th, and the Omnibus of the
18th. 19th, 21st and 22d.
These papers contain the very important in
telligence that the Caroline had arrived at La
Paz, with a number ol men from San Francisco,
who had taken possession of the city.
The last accounts which reached us, having
relation to this subject, were to the effect that
nothing had been beard of the Caroline since
she sailed, and thattho Arrow, after having
been seized at San Francisco, on the ground of
her being engaged in an unlawful expedition
against Mexico, was released, though not, as it
would appear, in a satisfactory mariner, as warm
controversies were being waged in the news
papers on the subject. Our latest intelligence
from San Francisco is to the 16th ult. The
Trait d’Union, of the 19th, contains intelli
gence, which, after relerring to notices of the
proceedings on the matter at San Francisco, pub
lished in ttie San Francisco papers ol the middle
and latter end ot October, states that a commer
cial house of the city of Mexico had received a
letter dated Mazatlau, November 4th, in which
the writer says that the bark Caroline was seen
on the 31sfc ol October, sailing under the Mexi
can flag, with someone hundred and fifty or
two hundred men on board, near Cape St. Lu
cas ; that they had there seized some provisions
without paying for them ; and that it was sup
posed they would stop at La Paz for the purpose
ofrevolutionizing Lower California.
All this the letter gives on the authority of a
passenger who had arrived at Mazatlan in the
Julia, which had left San Francisco on the 18th
of October. It is added that the vessel had
been taken for the purpose in which she is en
gaged, without the consent of her owners; and
that the Captain of the Tirajo did not think him
self authorized to interfere with the expedition.
The writer expresses his belief that the expedi
tion would not go beyond La Paz, though it
was generally reported to be destined lor Guaya
mas.
The Trait d’Union then states that other let
tars, which the editor had not seen, were said
to state that the Caroline had touched at La
Paz, lauding forty men there, and taking the
Commandant, Sr. Rebolledo, prisoner, that the
Mexicans had solicited aid from an English
trigate cruising in the neighborhood, and that
she had accordingly set sail lor La Paz.
The Trait d’Union then refers to the official
paper for lurther details. The Omnibas of the
22d contains the article in which they are giv
en. The only important items which thisadda
to what we have just given, are that Sr. Rebol
ledo was taken in the vessel which was con
veying him to his command, and that Sr. Don
Raiael Espinosa was made prisoner in his own
house, as soon as the men had landed from the
Caroline and the steamer Arrow.
How tar the already questionable credibility
of the details of this account is lurther affected
by the fact that there is no such vessel as the
steamer Arrow, and that the brig Arrow of the
expedition was at San Francisco at dates a week
or two later than those ol the letters from whieli
these accounts . are given, we must leave our
readers to deckle. 1 here is doubtless something
in the report, but the details we can hardly con
sider reliable. We shall have the Texas here
immediately, with papers from the city of Mex
ico to the beginning of this month, in which we
shall in all probability find the correct account.
The other intelligence in the papers before us
is of no importance.
Santa Anna was busily engaged in distribu
ting orders, decoiations and medals.
The Indians still continued their ravages.
The cholera had altogether abated in Oaja
ca.
Fire. —On Sunday morning between 12 and
1 o’clock, the lock-up house was entirely con
sumed by fire. There were two women con
fined in it; the fire bad progressed so far before
assistance arrived, that they made quite a nar
row escape. The door was cut down barely in
time for them to get out. Supposed to have
been set on fire by the prisoners. But little loss
sustained, as it was only a temporary building.—-
Chattaneoga Gazette. 1.3 1 h inst.
Railroad Car Burned. —We learned on the
arrival of the Cars on Sunday evening, that
about 4 o’clock, A. M. a fine new passenger
Car belonging to the W. & A. Railroad, was en
tirely destroyed by fire, in Atlanta, the work of
an incendiary. We have not been able to learn
the particulars.— lb-
AUGUSTA, GA. _
FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16.
New Year’s Address.
One year’s subscription to our daily paper
will be given for the best New Year’s Address for
our Carriers, to be handed in by the 25th inst
Here is a chance for Poets.
Op- We received no letter yesterday from our
Milledgeville correspondent. We publish from
the Savannah News, the proceedings of Tuesday.
City Charters.
The article signed '"Richmond'' iu our paper
this morning, sheds much light on a question of
general interest, and but little understood. It is
very evident that the Pennsylvania decision is
sound law, and we do not question it, or the
general principles it enumerates. Many City
Corporations at the South, have transcended their
chartered authority, and their bonds are now out
for millions that were issued for illegal subscrip
tions. Whether this fact will ever be of practical
consequence, so far as those bonds are concerned,
it is difficult to say. We presume that the general
acquiescence in the original proceedings by the
respective citizens of each community, has giv
en a validity, moral, if not legal, which will se
cure their redemption. There is no case in our
knowledge in this State, where a question is
likely to be raised by a tax-payer, as to the ob
ligation resting on himself, as one of a commu
nity whose bonds are issued, to pay his share of
the debt thus incurred. But it is well that the
public should understand what are the limits of
authority to create debts by municipal corpora
tions, on the one hand, and the liabilities of the
citizen on the other.
Where there is a doubt as to this authority, the
safest course would always be to get an act of
the legislature, sanctioning a municipal subscrip
tion, or contract, for a public work not within
city limits, and in which the city would be only
incidently interested.
The subscription to the Savannah River Val
ley Railroad was certainly amenable to tne le
gal objection set forth by “ Richmond but per
haps other subscriptions to which objections, as
valid might be urged, have been made and have
escaped censure, or criticism. That enterprise
is destined, if completed, to benefit Augusta
greatly; and if the City Council erred in legal
knowledge in offering to make a subscription, in
a specified contingency, to its stock, it is an er
ror which should not be visited with harsh cen
sure, and in a resentful spirit. It is sufficient
that the error, and the legal grounds on which it
can be so made to appear, be plainly and calmly
set forth, that it may serve as a useful guide in
future. In this view, we cheerfully publish the
opportune article of our correspondent, “ Rich
mondV
More about Christina*.
Our enterprising townsman, J, W. Zinn, it
will be seen, has on hand a large assortment of
fireworks, toys, cakes and candies, for the
Christinas Holydays, which he says he has
bought cheap for cash, and will sell on the same
terms. Give him a call.
The Ballet Troup®.
I his is the last night of the engagement of this
troupe, who have been delighting our citizens
during tile past week. The bill they offer is an
attractive one, with an entire change of pro
gramme. W e hope to see the house feammed
on this occasion. Those who have not seen
them we would advise to avail themselves of
this last opportunity.
The Carolina Twins.
It will be seen by a notice in another column,
that the Carolina Twins, will remain on exhibi
tion at Masonic Hall, to-day and to-morrow.—
The price of admission has been reduced to 25c
Go and see them.
Death of Wm. Adger, Eaq.
Ihe Charleston Courier, of the 15th instant,
says:—lt il our melancholy duty this morning,
to announce the death of William Adger, Esq.,
fourth son of James Adger, Esq., and one of the
most esteemed merchants of this city, which oc
curred, as the Telegraph informs us, at New
York .yesterday.
Pknnsylvrnia Coal Trade.— The Anthra
cite coal trade, yielding to the season, ia begin
ing to fall off, the shipment# last week amount
ing to only 77,553 tons. Compared with last
year, the Schuylkill navigations shows an in
crease of 80,000 tons. The demand for coal con
tinues good, but many boats are drawing off for
fear of ice.
Death of a Merchant.— The Mobile Re
gister of the 12th inst. says :—We regret to an
announce the sudden death of John C. Hol
combe, Esq., a prominent merchant of this city,
on Friday night. He died of an affection olthe
heart.
It is estimated that the probable stock of cot
ton in Liverpool on the 31st inst., will be 277,-
490 against 333,820 bales at the same time last
year.
i- - •
[communicated.]
The recent action of our City Council, autho
rizing a subscription to the stock of the Savan
nah River Valley Railroad, has been the subject
of much comment. I propose to give it a very
cursory consideration; for a full discussion of
such a matter cannot be brought within the lim
its of an ordinary newspaper article.
It is fortunate, that the final resolution of
Council was not carried into effect: But the fact,
that such a resolution was passed, and under such
circumstances, renders it proper for those, who
must have furnished the means lor its execution,
to inquire by what authority it was adopted?
How is it that our City Council, at a moment’s
notice, can assemble an accidental quorum of
their body, and by a bare majority of that quo
rum, tax the city, for improvements, not only
beyond our corporate limits, but beyond the ju
risdiction of the State 1 The same principle,
which would sustain the intended subscription,
would authorize one to any enterprise in the
world ; and if this act be legal, we are liable, by
similar action, not only to be taxed for Railroads
in Maine, Wisconsin, or Texas—for the great
Pacific road, or a Ship Canal between the two
oceans,—but the Council may, in their discre
tion, take stock in a road across the isthmus of
Suez, or from Calcutta to Canton, and our citi
zens must foot the bill. Whence comes a power
like this ?
It must be recollected, that the City Council
of Augusta is not a sovereignty, with power to
appropriate public fund*, to any purpose, and to
any amount; nor a joint stock company, autho
rized to make contracts and investments at plea
sure, —but a mere municipal corporation , with no
attribute of sovereignty, no inherent power,—in
short, with no power whatever, but what their
charter gives them. The principle, that corpo
rate powers are thus limited, is too familiar to
require argument.
Now, the only grant, in our city charter, which
touches this question at all, is as follows:
“ And the said City Council shall be vested with
full power and authority to make such assess
ments on the inhabitants of Augusta, or those
who hold taxable property within the same, for
the safety, benefit, convenieaee and advantage
of the said city, as shai! appear to them expedi
ent.”
II this clause can be construed so as to give
the Council power, not only to tax us for im
provements within our own limits, but to bind
us, and our successors, to any extent, and for all
time to come, to pay for investments in foreign
corporations, it has an elasticity, far beyond even
that of the famous “general welfare” clause in
the Federal Constitution ; and it is time to put
some check on such authority. A Board of Al
dermen, even if elected under all the odium of
the “ Algerine Law,” would be less obnoxious,
and certainly less oppressive, than such unlim
ited power to tax the city lor any and every pur
pose under Heaven, vested in a majority of thir
teen men, who are not even required to be them
selves payers of the taxes they impose, and are
responsible for their official mistakes, only to the
extent of being turned out of office—an office of
which the labor is not small, the responsibility
great, the pay nothing, and the thanks less.
But let us come back to our text. We are lia
ble to be taxed, “ for the safety, benefit, conve
nience and advantage of the said city”—and for
nothing else. It is a fundamental rule, in refer
ence to all.corporations, municipal or not, that
their charters are to be strictly construed. They
have no powers by implication ; but only such,
as are expressly given, or are necessary to carry
out what are so given. Novi', can it be pretend
ed, lor one moment, that the power to become a
stockholder in foreign corporations is expressly
given here, or is necessary “ for the safety, bene
fit, convenience or advantage of the said city?”
Again: Ihe charter gives no express power
to make contracts.
“ When the charter, or act of incorporation,
and valid statutory law are silent, as to what
contracts a corporation may make; as a general
rule, it has power to make all such contracts, as
are necessary and usual in the course of business,
as means to enable it to attain the object for
which it was created, and none other.”. (Ang.
Amts, 145.) Is this subscription such a con
tract as “ is necessary and usual, in the course of
municipal business?” Is it a necessary “means
to enable it to attain the object for which it was
created?” What was that object? Municipal
government, and nothing more.
Now, without regard to the consequences of a
different construction, which would only go to
show the danger of adopting it, it does seem that
the total absence of the power claimed, is too
plain to bear argument.
But this question is not a new one. As long
ago as the year 1846, Mr. Binney, of Philadel
phia, who is well known, not only as one of the
ablest lawyers in the country, but as no “ strict
constructionist,” and no opponent of corporate
rights in general, published an opinion on the
right of the City Councils of Philadelphia to sub
scribe for stock in the Pennsylvania Railroad—
an enterprise, be it remembered, confined to their
own Slate.
I have never had the good fortune to see this
entire opinion ; but the following is a brief ex
tract from it:
Speaking of the City, he says: “When we
come to the consideration of matters which are
not part of her local duties, and are not within
her local superintendence, but operate indirectly
upon her welfare, as everything done by the
State anywhere in the State does, more or less
—roads, bridges, canals, public works of any
kind—these, as they are matters of public con
cern, and operate upon others as well as upon the
City, and no part of them rs within her limits,
are altogether within the duty of other persons,
and no power can be implied in the Corporation
to effect them or any part of them. The State
may tax our property to make such works; the
City cannot. * * *■ The power to carry on
such public works by the resources of her in
habitants, or the power to make them because
they might afterwards, by a local work, be made
available within the City, cannot be maintained
without throwing the State out of her orbit and
putting the City in her place J ”
The power in question, is here treated as an
act of sovereignty, to he exercised only by the
Legislature. Well,—the Legislature of Pennsyl
vania was applied to. Various laws were pass
ed, giving to the City Councils of Philadelphia
power to make such subscriptions. They made
them. But, even under these positive acts of
legislation, the power was considered so doubt
ful, that interested parties applied to the courts
for an injunction, on the ground, that the law
was unconstitutional—that even the Legislature
could give no such power to the city. The case,
that of Sharpless and al. vs. the Mayor , sc., of
Philadelphia , came before the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, in September last;
and even when backed by express legislative
authority, the power to take this stock was sus
tained, only by three Judges against two—a bare
majority of the court.
If such a power was doubtful, when specially
authorized bylaw, what becomes of it, when
resting only on an act of incorporation, by which
no such power is granted? But the case de
cided does not leave us to mere inference, on
this point. In the opinion, sustaining the law,
the Chief Justice says : “No lawyer doubts that
a borough can only subscribe to a Railroad, when
ezpressly authorized , by law, to do so.” This
able court, then, while a majority of three held
the law, giving the power, to be constitutional,
unanimously concurred with Mr. Binney that,
without such law, there could be no such power.
But, even thus limited, this decision has. by
no means,met universal acquiescence. It has been
already stated, that two of the J udges dissented;
and the American Law Register for November
contains a very able opinion to the contrary,
from Judge Lowrie.
The same Magazine also gives us an excellent
review of the opinion of Chief Justice Black, 1
from which the following are extracts:
'"T. he proper iunctions of such corporations
are confined to the government of the place, to
preserve order and to promote the health, com
fort, convenience and weliare of its people by
police regulations, by opening roads and streets,
and by the erection of buildings, and such other
accommodations as may be required. For these
purposes they may impose taxes and make or
dinances, but beyond these local purposes their
power does not extend. They cannot enter in
to schemes for the general welfare of the place
requiring action beyond its limits. They can- !
not attempt to promote the wealth or commerce
of a city or district, or its interests of any kind,
by other means than local government for local
objects.”
# * * * * #
“The power to appropriate private property
for public uses, without compensation except |
from such uses, in other words, the power to tax
is an attribute of sovereignty—a high preroga
tive of government. This power, by the com
mon law and by giant, municipal corporations
possess and have always possessed, as a nectssary
incident, to be exercised for local purposes and
limited to local purposes.”
******
“To bestow, therefore, on municipal corpora
tions, power beyond these limits, power over
things which concern directly or indirectly the
whole State, is to bestow on them legislative
power which the Constitution declares shalt be
vested only in the government of the Common
wealth, and which it has no authority to dele
gate ; it is “throwing the State out of her orbit,
and putting the City in her place.’ ”
* . * # * • *
“Ihe times are not without warning that the
power possessed by government to borrow mon
ey and to impose taxes, though exercised only '
by the government, guarded as it is by the con- j
stitution, is dangerous enough—that it is not ,
sufficiently guarded. The influences to which j
it may be subjected, the purposes to which it
may be perverted, the eofruptlon of. which it i« }
t,® P-ohflc sounce, are revealing themselves to ;
all observers. To delegate this immense power !
over the property of every citizen, to the petty \
authorities ot cries and counties and districts to I
obscure tnen elected by small portions of the '
people for small objects; to give to such rneu i
power to borrow millions, to impose taxes for !
millions, for the construction of works be«innitw ;
and ending hundreds of miles fiom the lnni's of '
their minute territories, and embracing in their
scope the material interests of the whole State •
to subject such men to the seducing influences of
capital, of superior intelligence and social posi
tion, seeking their own ends, cf transient, ig
noiant, local popular opinion artfully manufac
tured, inflamed and exaggerated by demagogues;
what is it but to sweep away every restraint
established by the constitution, every defence
that stands between cupidity and property, and
to convert the government into an oligarchy,
leaving only the mocking forms, the empty
shell of a republic?
“This power so rashly granted, has already !
been exerted to such an extent that important i
interests have grown up under it. Valuable iin- j
provements have been commenced, millions :
have been borrowed, and the bonds which rep- I
resent them have passed into the hands of inno- j
cent holders. A vast amount of property Was
therefore at stake upon the decision of this case,
shat is to say, the practical question involved
ia the case was, who are the rightful owners of
this property ? Ought the money to remain in
the pockets of the people taxed, or is it to be
paid by them to the holders of the bonds ?
“Had the decision of the Court been different,
much financial confusion and alarm, much dis
tress and loss to individuals would have been
produced, and this is the natural consequence of
unjust legislation and usurped power. The de
frauded holders of the bonds would have had
great reason to complain. They would have
had a meritorious claim to indemnity, but upon
whom ? Obviously upon the Legislature, whose
error, or something worse, had produced the evil,
and through it, upon the peop'e of the State,
whose interests these works will so extensively
promote. The Legislature is competent to tax
the w'hole people for them or any part of them,
because the whole State is benefitted by them.
“But such consequences, however disastrous
and deplorable, sink into insignificance, when
compared with the importance ot maintaining
inviolate, the great principles which are the
foundations on which rest the liberty and secu
rity of society. The destruction of any amount
of property, is of small concern, when compared
with the destruction of those constitutional de
fences by which all property is protected. Fi
nancial derangement and pecuniary loss, are
soon repaired by enterprise and industry, under
free institutions, but it is a hard and painful and
perilous task to re-construct a government, to
restore the walls of safety which have been un
dermined by corruption or shattered by popular
violence arid folly. The losses or gains of indi
viduals, however serious, which hang upon the
decision of principles of law, above all, of great
principles of constitutional law', are interests of
the tew and of the passing hour, but the princi
ples themselves command the destinies of the
whole people, and of all the future.”
To these remarks from a writer, who, though
not named, evidently understands his subject,
nothing need now be added. The question is
one of great importance to our citizens, and to
their “sober second thought” it is confidently
submitted. Richmond.
[Correspondence of the Savannah News ]
Milledgeville, Doc. 13.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Editor: —The rule being suspended the
following bills were introduced, viz :
Mr. Riley—A bill authorizing the Justices of
the Inferior Court of Lumpkin county to levy
an extra tax tor the purpose of erecting a jail in
said county.
Mr. Stapleton—A bill to incorporate Bethany
Camp Ground Academy.
Mr. Brown—A bill to add lots No. 152 and
122. ia the 11th district of Marion to the countv
ot Talbot.
Mr. Mobley—A bill to incorporate the Colum
bus and Hamilton Railroad "Company.
Mr. Redding—A bill to change the name of
“ Forsyth Female Institute to Monroe Female
University.”
Ibe bill to repeal the present tax laws and
revive the laws which it repealed, having been
made the special order of to-dav, was taken up
and made the special order of Friday next, to
gether with a substitute offered by Mr. Philips,
ot Habersham. One hundred copies of each or
dered to be printed for the use of the House.
Bills read the third time.
A bill to organize a new county from the
county ofjßaker, to be called Dougherty. This
bill elicited some argument in which Messrs.
McDougald and Pottle were the leading dispu
tants, the former against the name of Dougherty,
the latter in favor—Passed.
A bid to appoint Commissioners with authori
ty to raise by lottery a sufficient sum to com
plete a monument in the city of Savannah, to
the memory of Greene and Pulaski—Passed.
A bill to compel all persons owning land in
the county of Decatur, to pay taxes therefor in
said county—Lost
A biii to authorise the organization of a Firs
Company in the City of Macon, to be called
“Macon Fire Company. No. I—Passed
A bill tor the relief of Hannah Levy, of the
county of Cass—Passed.
A bill to allow John A. Lyons, of the county
ot Cherokee, to practise medicine on the Botan
ic system, and charge therefor—Passed.
The House adjourned until 3, P. M. F.
IN SENATE.
Milledgeville, Dec. 13, 1853.
Mr. Editor: The Senate met at the usual
hour this morning.
Mr. Saffold reported a bill to amend the Pe
nal Code, and add an additional section to the
same.
t Mr. Miller: a bill to incorporate “Beilville
Factory.
1 Also— To provide for a call of a Convention
* to change the Constitution of this State. The
i Convention to convene next year, and 100 cop
ies were ordered to be printed.
’ Mr. Mosely introduced a resolution as to the
’ meetings and adjournments of the Senate, inclu
• ding night sessions. The yeas and nays were
r called—Ureas, and 42 nays. So the motion
L ; was l° st and very properly. Members have
{ enough to do of Millhorse W'ork in the day time
i , without night sessions.
Another new county bill was brought for
i : v ) rari f by Mr. Hubbard, to dismember the coun
| ties of Carroll, Paulding and Polk,
i Ihe bill for the pardon of Bird was called up
’ j as the regular order ol the day. Some speaking
i was had, and the bill put on its final passage.—
| On counting the yeas and nays, they were tound
I to be 41 to 41. The President, Col. Stell, deci
-1 ded it in favor of Bird by voting yea. Thus is
1 the poor lellow saved by one vote. He should
be thanklul for small favors.
The Senate had a long discussion upon a bill
designed to effect loans from the State to Rail
road Companies, and the yeas and nays were
called for. The yeas were 32, and the nays 56.
So the bill was lost.
i The Senate then adjourned. F.
DIED
! In Edgefield District, S. C., on the Ist inst, Mr.
John W llerkin, in the 70th year of his age.
McLaae’s Worm Specific.—The fol-
Bf*-*!*!!-* lowing, from a customer, shows the de
mand which this great medicine has created wher
ever it has boon introduced:
| Blossburg, Tioga Co., Pa., March 30,1850.
Gentlemen: In consequence of the great con
sumption of your “Worm Specific’ in this p!aco
and vicinity, wo have entirely exhausted our stock.
W r o should feel obiiged, by your forwarding, via.
Corning, N. Y. 20 dozen with your bill, on the
reception of which wo will remit you the money.
From the wondorful effects of said “ Specific,”
in this neighborhood, there could be sold annually
a large quantity, if to be had (wholesale and retail)
from some local agent. If you would compensate
a person for trouble and expense of vending, I
think I could make it to your advantage to do so.
Yours, Respectfully, Wm. M. Mallory.
Messrs. J. Kidd A Co. Per W. E. Porter.
bold by Ilaviland, Rislcy A Co., and Wm H.
Tutt, Augusta, Ga.; P. M. Cohen A Co., Charles
ton, S. C.; Hill A Smith, Athons, Ga.; E. C. Jones,
Madison; A. A. Solomons; Savannah; and by all
Druggists and Dealers in Medicine throughout the
South. 12 dec 14
fjir- —Notice.—-Office Iron Steam Boat
~Company. Augusta, Dec. 5, 1853.—A
Special Meeting of the Stockholders of this Com- j
pany will be held at this office, on Wednesday,!
the 21st inst., at 10 o’clock. A full attendance is
requested, as business of importance will be laid
before the meeting. By order of the Directors. j
dec 6 td G, McLauqhlin, Seo and Trees. I
1
lhrec
ARRIVAL
as i a .
Cotton Market Unchanged.
The steamer Asia 1 *
York with later European inWli s , ow " ' Wk
Liverpool Cotton Market— The. .
the week reach 45,000 bales, ot which
tors took 6,000, and exporter, 3,000 ift*'
quotations are unchanged. S '
li n^rXsw F l£r p ret;l 1 :1‘"- k '''
ly d," 1 * manof * Cl "™S *** U
dee,m K rS ke,WaStiShfer -
Jm. tMaaCtio, ' s “ Securities
The war makes but little progress t ft ,
battles fought, are still i„ f„ vor of tl , ll '
1 here is a new' project for an am *’
proposed by Austria. * ‘‘ lUlgetlle nt
New York, Dec 15_ D
Cotton. —Sales to-day 4250 hales T h
ket is firmed price, have an upward tendency
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier l
Columbia, S. C„ Dec 14 ~
Legislature. —The Committees on Ftluc^™^ 0
both Houses have recommened an -in Catlon in
of *3OOO for the Charleston Col!w PP '“ t ““
Bali mow, Dec 14 _C m g™s,w.-r„ ft,
L. o. Senate on Wednesday, the nmc. <r v
were unimportant. p oceedings
In the House of Representatives Mr R ar L
of Mo., declined serving as cha“ma„ ™ft'
Committee on Military affairs. ” on
Various railroad bills were offered
Mr. Boyce, of South Carolina presented a vh
fm the reduction .1 the tariff to, revenues^!
Mr. Ingersoll, of Pennsylvania, offered an*.
!ut:on, cal mgfor any corre» : v,„dence betiZ
the Lnited States and Spain, relative to the im
prisonmentof American citizens at PortoE
in March, 1850. K|L0 ’
r«* Ar u. IMOREI eC * Quarrel Settled— A
difhculty occurred on Tuesday between Senator
Gwin and Secretary Gutherie, in Washington
on account of an alledged incivility on tberart
ot the latter, and a duel was at first anticipated*
m J.U- S Wm i e T nded an apol but nit,-
justed” ’ * 18 Sald> the matter was amicably ad-
Sawuiok. Decemher 14. — The Fry Case-
Mr. Fry has recovered in his suit against the
New York Herald, $ 10,000 damages. '
Baltimore, Dec. 14. — The Baltimore Mar
kets on Wednesday had experienced no change
from the preceding day.
Baltimore Dec. 14.— 1 n New York, on
Wednesday, Cotton was firm, and the sales
comprised 3,750 bales. Breadstuff were firmer
and Coffee was steady.
New Orleans Dec. 14.-Six thousand bales
ol Cotton were disposed of in New Orleans on
Wednesday at previous ie.es. Middling was
woKh 9k cents. Exchange on New York at
s,ght was quoted at par. Freights of Cotton to
Liverpool had advanced to R and to Boston i
cent.
”1 he schooner A. J. Horton, arrived at Balti
more on Tuesday, as did the brig Pamaho, on
Wednesday, from Charleston.
The schooner Francis Satterly arrived at New
York on Tuesday, from Savannah.
The barque Ellen Parsons, from Boston, and
the brig D. Maloney, from Philadelphia arrived
at New’ Orleans on Wednesday.
CwwKgraf.
Augusta Market, Dec. 15—p. m.
COT ION. ibo demand has been good to
day, and holders have been able to Irealize better
prieos thau could be obtained yesterday. The of
fering stock is on the i icrease.
SA\ ANNAH, Dec. 14.— Cotton. —There was jb
active demand to-day, which resulted in the saleof
1,r43 bales, at a very full range of prices. The
following eompriso the sales: 27 at 8: 20 at 8|: 29
at 83; 362 at 9; 54 at 9£; 2% at 9f; 173 at 430
at 9J; 48 at 9 9-16, 54 at 9|;f55 at 9j; 46 at 9j;
118 at 10, and 33 at 10f cents. The market close!
firm.
SAVANNAH EXPORTS—DEC. 13.
Per schr Maria Pike, for New York—160,001)
foot Timber.
S'OijijJMij Jistriiijprf.
arrivals from charleston.
Steamship Jas. Adgor, Dickinson, New York.
Steamship Union, Adams, New York.
Steamship Palmetto, Vardy, Baltimore.
Barque Edisto, Kendrick, at Boston.
Brig Painaho, , at Baltimoie.
Schr. A. J. Horton, , at Baltimore.
LOADING FOR CHARLESTON'.
Ship Cleopatria, Brown, at Liverpool.
CHARLESTON, Dec 15.—Arr., ship Waterw,
(new) Hammer, Bath, Me.; barques J. W. Dyer,
Dyer, New Orleans; Henry Kelsey, Curtis, Pensa
cola; Kotch Brothers, Carver, Cardenas; schr.
Eli Townsend, Vaneman, Philadelphia.
Chared, steamship Isabel, Rollins, Key Best
and Havana; ship Fairfield, Loveland, Liverpool;
barque Julih Dean, Mallory, Now York; brig Ti
berias, Bramhall, Boston.
Went to Sea, steamship Southerner, Ewan, be*
l T ork.
' | SAVANNAH, Doe. 13.—Arr, steamship Flor
i-3 da, Merritt, New York; Br. ship Marion, Bonam,
i i Liverpool; ships Coosawatteo, (new) Paxton, Bat ,
; 1 Me.; Consul, (new) Mills, do; brigs Philura, bra -
j ' fan, New Y"ork; Gen. F. Picree, Qoodmanson.ha
j timore; schr. Cataract, Rico, New York.
Cleared, sehr. Maria Pike, Ormach, New xork
! Proclamation.—Friends, country
, men and lovers! —hear me for my
. j cause, and be silent that you may hear; discar
\ ! prejudice that you may beliove, and read Facts
i you may act intelligently. Who, that is ycuj,
1 ; but values the luxuriant locks of youth and <-
'ty ? Who, that is middle-aged, but shudde
' Grey Hairs? Who, that is oil, but would *veri
I Baldness ?If any, speak, —for him have I o
1 none speak, then none havel oflen o
addressing twenty-four million people- ,
, j Not one ol these many million who have a
: the virtues of Lyon’s Kathairon, for Pres® >■’
(Restoring and Beautifying the Hair, butw V
: claim its beneficial effects far and near. un /
will convince the most incredulous. >-old un
for 25 cents, by every Druggist in America.
D. S. BaRNS t s -
Proprietor, 161 Broadway, J*-
[Y7“ Sold by every Druggist in Augusta-
D. B. Plumb & 60,
nov 29 1m Whojesale^l! 0 ?-
THE AUGUSTA FEMALE HIGH sC^ be
WILL be re-opened in Augusta, <->*>•■ g
first Monday in October, unuei t
rintcndance of compotent Teachers, at Cfgtei
donee of Mrs. Sabal, opposite the unite
Hotel, No. 142 , --.ffnctiofl
Young Ladies and Misses will receive id
in the Primary and higher branches ol an
French and Latin Education, at very ■
rates. There being no extra charge for u *
French, the pupil may cultivate, t h° ra “» i 2 tb*
J uninterruptedly, the aoove languages a
; whole course of education. , ve( i ' B
| The very best of teachers will be cm.' rU
I Vocal and Instrumental Music. t ; n „ Po
will take charge of the Drawing and t °
partnaents. . „„„ ob-
Board for Y r oung Ladies and Misses t.
tained by applying at the Institutiem^^
ei L Princi^
sep 21 om -
' NOTICE. abo0 t
TO all whom it may concern.-! erson=
purchasing TIN in the Augusta
respectfully requested to call ami «a 0#
stock in store, second door above Bndg
Br °nov S 6l, PreVi ° US JOHN
~ BRICK WORK WANTED- . j
THE subscriber is prepared to do
Brick Work at short gSf ogj)