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James Gardner.
OFFICE ON McINTOSU-STREKT,
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9a _ „ TERMS:
■9B Wuji in advance. .T...per annum.... >s& 00
jgH Tri-Weekly, in advance per annum 400
If notin advance..... .per annum 0 00
Weekly, in advance. ...per annum 2 00
H The Bombarding of Grey town
MBf"""*' (CONCLUDED.)
K Commlbcj/l Agency, U. S. of America, )
* San Man del Norte , Nicaragua, May 15, ‘54. )
the honor to acknowledge the
jjgi receipt ot flag and arms of the United Slates for
w this agency per steamship “ Star of the West,”
on the 2d March last.
I have also to acknowledge the receipt of
your despatch dated March 21, granting me
leave of absence for six weeks, agreeable to my
request, and it is my present intention to leave
per steamship‘‘Northern Light” on or about the
Ist proximo.
Dp Since my last despatch of 3d March there
have been some matters of difference between
■ the people of this town and the Accessory Tran-
H sit Company of Nicaragua. Mr. Joseph L
9 White, agent of the Company left here on the
tlement of existing difficulties between the
V Company and the town. Before leaving he
■agave instructions to the captains and pursers of
■Rue steamships to pay no more port charges at
DHSari Juan del Norte, and take no letters or other
or freight for and have no communi
-3 cation of any nature whatever with the people
U ot said town. This proceeding on the part of
the Company, exasperated much the people of
the town.
The ground taken by the Company in this
matter was, that the territory which they occu
pied, known as Point Arenas, was held by them
|i by virtue of their charter trom Nicaragua, and
jp was a portion of that State ; that their steam
-I,’ ships did not come within the jurisdiction of the
municipal authorities of San Juan del Norte,
and were consequently not to be held liable lor
any port charges levied by the authorities of that
town.
On the 15tb of April an election of town offl
s ‘ cers was held, which resulted in the choice of
an administration supposed to be friendly to the
Transit Company, and prepared to settle all dif
ferences w’ith the said Company upon the terms
set forth by Mr. White while here; but on the
evening of the sth inst, a disturbance took place
upon the shores of the harbor, the details of
which are fully, and as I believe correctly, set
forth in the accompanying document, marked
NflA ; and on the evening of the 6th inst., another
.and more serious difficulty occurred, which is
jcorrectly described in document B. The facts
forth in these two protests of Mr. Scott,
General Agent of the Accessory Transit Com
pany of Nicaragua, are substantiated by de
positions taken before me of several of the em
ployees of the Company. The point of conten
tion between the parties is, as will be seen, the
right of jurisdiction on the part of the Munici
k, pal authorities of San Juan del ‘Norte over Point
Arenas.
7 Since the occurrences described in the above
named documents, affairs have gone on quietly.
On the 12tb, Mr. Scott appeared in court that
■H his bail might not be forfeited, but declined con
■R testing the case, having already protested. At-
B ter a brief examination of the person presenting
B the complaint, he (Mr. Scott) was discharged.—
B The trial of Sloman will take place on the 20th
■ inst., when, as he acknowledges the offence with
D which he is charged, he will probably be con
demned to pay a few dollars flue and costs of
court.
9 I Lave brought this matter to your notice be
§§l cause [ believe that, until affairs are arranged
the Nicaragua Transit Company and
Bf Ihe town of San Juan del Norte, or until the
BB question oi sovereignty over this town and the
B| territory of Point Arenas is settled, there can be
D' no permanent tranquility or well-being on eith
eraide. I do not apprehend that any serious
■ distu'banees will arise tor the present; but I am
H nevertheless of opinion that the frequent visit to
harbor ot vessels ot war ot the United States
final influence upon the in
■D«4«ferneJ.
I am, sir, with great respect,
9 / your very oOedient servant,
Joseph W. Fvekns,
Hon. William L. Marcy,
"Secretary of State of the United States,
Commercial Agency U. S. of America.
San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua.
this public instrument of j be it
9H°w n unto all men that on this 12th day ot
A I> 1854. personally appeared Joseph N.
gjKßfcrnr, agent ot the Accessory Transit Company
Nicaragua, who, being duly sworn, did soi-
errmly depose and say :
HBKThat o ■ the evening of Fiiday, sth inst., at or
about the hour of 11 P. M., Wiliiam Creighton,
mate of the steamer “H. L. Bulwer,” belonging
to tne aforesaid Transit Company, being at that
time at the said Company : a station at Point
Arenas, didjobserve four men in the act of load
ing a yawl boat, belonging to the said company,
wirh merchandise, and suspecting something
wrong in conseque 1 ce of the lateness ot the
hour, did thereupon notify deponent ot the f act
The said Creighton regcogmsed the aforesaid
men as Robert Reed, J. Magravv, and two oth
. era, names unknown, but all at the time or pre
viously employees of the said company.
The deponent immediately proceeded to the
spot, but the boat was at some distance from the
__ beach at the time of bis arrival. He hailed the
lip boat, calling upon the said Reed by name to
BB come back. The parties in the boat made no
■Dpiy* although they were within easy hailing
HKtance, and their voices were heard irorn ttie
apparently exhorting one another to push
9K xle. the deponent, tenting that no attention
paid by the men m ttie boat to his com
9Httkl. at once dispatched a second boat, manned
William Creighton, Robert Buliis. and Wil-
Sloman, all employees of the said Transit
Company, in pursuit.
The boat that first left the aforesaid Point
Arenas shaped her course for the city of San Ju
an del Norte, end, arriving there before the se
cond boat, a portion of the men succeeded in
leaving her before the pursuers reached the spot.
One man, the aforesaid Reed, was found in the
boat,and, while, resisting the attempts of the
aforesaid Sloman to secure him, he was struck
upon the head by the said Sloman. The said
Sloman, alter knocking the man Reed into the
water, attempted to shove the boat offshore, and
while in the act of so doing, the soldiers trom
the station house threatened to fire on him ; thus
compelled, the said Sloman returned to the
shore with the boat. In the meantime the men
who had escaped from the first boat took refuge
■■in the station-house.
v He, the deponent, doth further solemnly de-
Bpose and say, that the yawl boat above describ
ed, together with the merchandise therein, con
sisting oi dour, ccrn-meal, &c., was the proper
ty of the aforesaid Transit Company, and was
stolen from the said Company as above describ
ed, and that it was in the attempt to recover
said property and secure the persons of the of
j fenders that the above specified difficulty occurr
** ed.
Jioou after the occurrence last described above
Mr. Hutch ison, clerk of the atoresaid Transit
Company, acting under the orders of the depo
nent, accompanied by three men arrived on the
spot, and finding the stolen boat on the beach,
jumped into her with his, the said Hutchinson’s
men. The said Hutchison then attempted to
shove off the boat, and was ordeied by a police
man with a musket to stop; but, no attention be
ing paid to this order, the man dropped the mus
ket and called on the crowd to assist him in tak
ing possession of the boat, which, being the
strongest party, they succeeded in doing. The
said Hutcuison then observing F. Diezman,
“captain of the port of San Juan del Norte,” ca l
ed upon him, the said Diezman, to deliver over
Hfo him, the said Hutchison, the aloresaid boat,
g§( agreeing at the same time to leave m his, the
said lUezman's charge the merchandize therein
until the following morning, that it might then
be identified, with the express understanding that
this property was not to be in any other way
E ’ispoaed of until such examination was made.
Oe said Hutchison, together witn the aloresaid
Buliis, and Creighton, having the three
in cnarge, then left the port ot Sau Juan
aioresaiiloo their return to Point Arenas
On the"'foliovtmg morning, 6th instant, the
said Hutchison returned to San Juan with the
said Creighton, to identify the aforesaid proper
ty in accodance with the agreement made with
Shu# M.id Diezman, »» above described. He, the
said Diezman, had not the property in charge*
but said be had handed it over to the marshal.
The said Hutchison then accompanied the said
“marshal” to a house, in the open yard of which
were some articles which he, the sard “marshal,”
asserted were the goods in question. The said
Hutchison finding the agreement made between
himself and the said Diezman above described
had been thus violated, and seeing that the flour
and other articles taken by the aforesaid Reed,
Magraw, and associates, were missing, and that
the wife of the said Magraw was apparently in
charge of the goods declined making any exam
ination of the same, and left on his return to the
point atoresaid.
On the same morning, 6th instant, A. Siguad,
mayor of San Juan del Norte, issued a warrant
for the arrest of the atoresaid William Sloman,
charged with assault and battery upon the per
son of the atoresaid Robert Reed, which was re
ceived by the said Sloman from the hands of the
said marshal. The said Sloman being in the
employ of the aforesaid Transit Company, re
quested to communicate with the deponent, agent
as aloresaid, under whose orders he had ’acted.
The said marshal then accompanied the said
Sloman to the office of the deponent, and the
deponent replied to the demand of the said mar
shal that, according to the views of the company
which he represented, the authorities of San Ju
an del Norte held no authority or jurisdiction
over the territory known as Point Arenas, and
that he should not permit the. arrest of the said
Sloman by them, except it was effected by force
and under protest; upon which the said marshal
departed.
On the afternoon of the same day the said
marshal returned, accompanied by an armed
force, when the deponent permitted the taking
of the said Sloman, protesting verbally against
the act at the time, and notifying the said mar
shal of his determination to send in likewise his
written protest to the authorities of San Juan
del Norte at his earliest convenience.
Now, therefore, the deponent, for and in be
half of the aforesaid Transit Company of Nica
ragua, doth hereby publicly and solemnly protest
against the authorities of San Juan del Norte
and their proceedings, as above described, in the
assistance rendered by them in harboring the
aforesaid Reed, Magraw, and associates, and re
ceiving the goods stolen by them, the said Reed,
Magraw, and associates, to the great detriment
of the Transit Company aforesaid, and in send
ing an armed force to the territory known as
Point Arenas, in Nicaragua, now occupied by the
Transit Company, by virtue of the charter from
Nicaragua, as a gross and unjustifiable outrage
upon the property, as well as the rights and priv
ileges, of the said Transit Company, and will
hold them, the authorities aforesaid, responsible
for all losses, damages, costs, charges, and inter
ests which are or may be occasioned by the
same.
• Jos. N. Scott, Agent.
(B.) Commercial Agency, U. S. of America.
San Juan del Norte , Nicaragua.
By this public instrument of protes, be it
known unto all men that on this 12th day of
May, A. D, 1854, personally appeared Joseph N.
Scott, agent of the Accesory Transit Company
of Nicaragua, who, being duly sworn, did sol
emnly dispose and say:
That, on the 6th inst., William Sloman. an
employee of the aforesaid Transit Company,W’as
taken by force and under protest of the depo
nent, from Point Arenas, in Nicaragua, and car
ried to the city of San Juan del Norte, by per
sons claiming to be in at thority there, under the
protection of the Mosquito flag. On the even
ing of the same day he, the deponent, did pro
ceed to the city of San Juan aforesaid for the pur
pose of making an attempt to obtain the dis
charge of the said Sloman from custody, he being
a man whose services were of great value to the ;
atoresaid Transit Company at the time being, j
While at the station-house, in company with J.
W. Fabens, United States commercial agent, i
after having obtained the discharge of the afore- i
said Sloman under bond, he, the deponent, was
declared a prisoner, and held to an examination
relative to a charge, preferred against him by the
marshal of the city, of having, while at Point
Areuas, objected to the taking of the aforesaid
Homan therefrom by the authorities of the city
of San Juan del Norte, on the ground that the
said authorities had no authority or jurisdiction
over the said point. The depouent was then
held to bail tor his appearance lor trial within six
days from that date, (6th instant,) which being
furnished by the United States commercial agent
atoresaid, he was released.
Now, therefore, he, the depondent, doth here
by in hi- own behalf, as a citizen of the United
States of America, as well as in behalf of the Ac
cessory Transit Company of Nicaragua, publicly
and solemnly protest against th." aforesaid author
ities of the city of San Jan del Norte for the com
mission of the above described outrage, and will
hold them lesponsible lor all losses, damages,
costs, charges, and interests which are or may be
occasioned by the same.
Joseph N. Scott, Agent,
Mr. Borland to Mr. Marcy
Washington, May 30, 1854.
Sir: Having arrived in this city trom my mis
sion m Central America, I beg leave to submit
the following statement of occurrence which I
regard os important, and ask for it your early
consideration.
Enclosed herewith, and marked A, is a prin
ted slip, cut by me from a Ne w York newspa
per, which purpoitsto be a statment of those
occurrences, prepared by the officers of the
steamer “Northern Light,” and which I find to
be correct in ail material particulars. I present
it in lieu oi any separate statement of my own,
and adopt it as such.
Enclosed also, marked B, I hand yon a copy of
the agreement made by me with the persons I
employed to remain at Punta Arenas as a guard
over the persons and property of our citizens.
In addition, l deem it proper to remark that
although I was personally cognizant of the con
duct of Capt. Smith, for which he was charged
with murder, and sought to be arrested by the
socalled authorities of San Juan, or Greytown,
and w’as, as I now am, clearly and decidiy of
opinion that he was justifiable in all he did, the
question of his guilt or innocence did not enter
into the considerations for which I interposed to
protect him. He was a citizen of the United
States ; and the persons who sought to arrest
and claimed the right to punish him were not
recognised by the United States as a Govern
ment possessed of the right or invested with the
power to exercise jurisdiction over any portion
of Central America, or to determine any ques
tion involving the |»ersons or property ot our
citizens.
Thisground I was not only authorized, but re
quired to assume, as well by the precedents of
interposition to protect our citizens at the same
place, and against the same persons, heretofore
directed and sanctioned by our Government, as
by the special instructions under which my mis
sion was undeitaken. Besides, even supposing
the socalled authorities of San Juan, or Grey
town, to be a Government invested with the
rights and powers I have denied over the territo
ry embraced within their town limits, they cer
tainly had no jurisdiction over that portion of
the territory upon which the obnoxious act of
Capt. Smith had been done, as that was.although
on the north bank, yet some ten or twelve miles
above the moth of the San Juan river. So of the
place where his arrest was attempted—Punta
Arenas—on the south bank of the San Juan
river, and the opposite side of the bay from San
Juan, or Greytown. The act, then, of Captain
Smith, whether criminal or not, was done with
in the territory of Nicaragua, and for it he is
amenable to Nicaragua alone, if to any authority.
And the place of his attempted arrest—Punta
Arenas—is territory in dispute between Nicara
gua and Costa Rica; so that no legal profess,
civil or criminal, could rightfully be executed
there, unless by the authority of one or the other
of those Powers.
It will be observed that one moment I resorted
to a threat of violence to repel the armed men of
San Juan from the steamer. I wish it to be dis
tinctly understood that I did this from no im
pulse of passion, nor with the expectation that
my threat would have to be executed, though if
unheeded it would have been.
My course was adopted from a conviction of
its necessity as the only mode then at my choice
to prevent a collision which could hardly have
ended without the destruction of many lives.
It is true that the mayor (Ligand) came to me
and disavowed the acts of those who arrested and
assaulted me; but it is equally true that he presi
ded at the meeting in the station house, (Iron
Hall.) in which it was proposed (by Martin, the
ex-mayor) and resolved to arrest me; that the
authorities tooK no steps to prevent it; and that
the armed men who arrested me were composed
mainly otthe police guard of the town, and were
armed with the muskets of the corporation.
Their leader declared that he came by the order
of the mayor to arrest me.
From the best information I could obtain the
population of San Juan, or Greytown, numbers
about three hundred, of ail sorts, and consists of a
few Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, and
men fro m the United States, but mainly of ne
groes from Jamaica and some natives of the
Mosquito shore. There also some two or three
natives from the interior of Nicaragua. When
I reached that place last September the number
ot negroes was much smaller than at present.
This number has been increased, as I am inform
ed, by recent arrivals from Jamaica, until now
they constitute the majority and exercise the
greater influence. At the last election and cor
porate organization no American, except one
mulatto roan, (from New Orleans,) was includ
ed.
Os these people I am informed that some sev
enty-five to one hundred can be mustered for mil
itary service, and they have in.their possession
three brass cannon—one 18-pounder and two
15-pounders—and some two hundred Jmuskets.
With the exception of a few persons these people
own no property and have no ostensible means
of livelihood.
In their anomalous condition, without a gov
ernment which any civilized nation recognises—
indeed, occupying by usurpation territory which
our Government recognises as belonging to Nica
ragua—being persons, almost without exception,
of notoriously bad character, some of them dis
charged penitentiary convicts and refugees from
justice ; habitually manifesting evil dispositions
towards our citizens, and indulging those disposi
tions to the injury of persons and property when
ever they are not restrained by force, I am una
ble to regard them in any other light than as
pirates and outlaws upon whom punishment, to
the extent of extermination, may be rightfully
inflicted,by any hand that has the power; and
in my opinion, the interests of good government
and humanity impose the duty upon any offend
ed party of inflicting such punishment in a man
ner at once summary and effective. Heretofore,
when these persons have committed their law
less acts upon our citizens, the armed hand of
our government has been interposed, not to
punish for the pastoffence, but only to prevent
its threatened repetition. As a consequence,
as soon as the restraining force was withdrawn
the offence was repeated, until now they have
got to believe that restraint for the time, and not
punishment, is the worst they will have to suf
fer for their worst acts. When I warned them
of the consequences of their bad conduct, they
boldly told me they intended to do as they
pleased and were reckless of consequences.
Under these circumstances, and informed by
our commercial agent, Mr. Fabens, as also by
Mr. Scott, the agent of the Accessory Transit
Company, who has under his care many thous
and dollars worth of property, that in view of
the evil dispositions of those persons, as manifes
ted for some time past in a state of high excite
ment, they did not consider that the persons and
property of our citizens would be sale, after the
steamers had left, unless protected by an ade
quate force, I deemed it my duty to employ the
services-efthgfmen, as set forth in the printed
slip and the agreement enclosed, in order to afford
that protection. As these circumstances are, so
far as I am informed, without precedent, so, I
presume, is the couise of conduct I pursued un
der them. What I did I found to be necessary
and believed to be right. I therefore assumed
the responsibility, not doubting that it would be
approved by my Government.
It will be observed that the compensation I
agreed to pay is large; that is, it would be consid
ered so under ordinary circumstances ; but under
the circumstances ot the time and place, added
to the fact that the men employed were our citi
zens, who had been long from home, and were
anxious to return, some of them being half way
the voyage, 1 do not think the amount can be
deemed unreasonable. The refunding passage
money, provided for in the agreement, was su
perseded subsequently by the stipulation in the
postscript—to pay fifty dollars in addition to the
one hundred first agreed upon. The reason lor
adding the fifty dollars was the difficulty l found
in getting the requisite number of men, after a
few had enlisted, for the hundred. Without this
addition I could not have male up the number.
The free passage home is still provided for by the
agreement of the Transit Company to receive
the tickets for the remainder of the trip.
An additional item of expense, tne amount of
which could not be ascertained at the time, and
which I do not yet know, is the cost of arms to
supply a portion otthe men. These purchases I
authorized the agent of the Transit Company to
make. The subsistence of the men will be fur
nished on account of the agent of the company.
It the service shall continue longer than one
month the rate of compensation lor the additional
time will be SIOO per month.
I expressed the confident opinion to the men
employed that they would not be detained longer
than one month; and I promised that they should
be paid, through our commercial agent, when
their services expired, at Punta Arenas. For this
opinion and promise I confidently reliedupon the
approval and co-operation ot my Government.
I have the honor to be, most respectfully, your
obedient servant, Solon Borlrnd.
Arrival of the Northern Light—Serious
trouble at Nicaragua —Arrest of Mr. Borland,
United States Minister.
The Purser of the steamer, by the authority of
Capt. Churchill, furnishes the following report
of extraordinary proceedings at San Juan, in
volving the arrest of Air Borland, the American
Minister. The Purser says:
On the evening of the 16th instant the river
steamer Routh, Capt. T. T. Smith, arrived at
Punta Arenas, and was lying alongside the
Northern Light to deliver her passengers. About
dusk, while the passengers were passing from one
steamer to the other, a bungo, having on board
some 25 or 30 armed men, mostly Jamaica ne
groes, headed by a mulatto man calling himself
I the Marshal, came over from San Juan, or Grey
-1 town, and ranged up alongside the steamer Routh.
! The so-called Marshal, accompanied by several
ol his armed men, jumped on board the steamer,
and announced their purpose to arrest Capt.
Smith, by virtue of a warrant from the Mayor ot
Greytown, upon the charge of murder. Captain
Smith relused to be arrested, and armed himself
for resistance.
At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Borland,
the American Minister, who was at the time on
board the Northern Light, was informed of what
was going on. He immediately went on board of
the Routh, where he found a crowd of persons,
among them a number ol the aimed men from
the bungo, in a high state of excitement. The
Marshal, with his men, was attempting to ar
rest Capt. Smith; and the latter, standing at the
cabin door, was keeping them at bay. Mr. Bor
land at once interposed, telling the Marshal that
no authority recognized by the United States
existed at Greytown to arrest, or in any way to
intertere with, an American citizen, and ordered
him to withdraw his men from the steamer and
go away. The Marshal proposed to exhibit the
Mayor's warrant under which he was acting.
This Mr. Borland declined to examine.
Alter some hesitation, the Marshal announced
his purpose to withdraw, as advised by Mr. Bor
land. While this was goiu on, and before the
Marshal and his men had left the steamer, much
excitement was mariilested among the men who
had remained on board the bungo; loud, threat
ening language was used by them, and brandish
ing their weapons, several at once rushed on board
the steamer. At this moment Mr. Borland,
taking a rilie trom the hands of a bystander, step
ped over the railing upon the guards, warned the
men in the to keep off, and at their peril
not put a foot on the steamer. Upon this the
movement towards boarding the steamer ceased,
and in a few minutes the Marshal and his men
letumed to the bungo, and she returned to the
opposite side of the harbor.
About dark Mr. Borland accompanied by Mr.
Scott, a son of the agent of the Trunsit Com
pany, on board of one of the boats of the Northern
Light, went acro-s the harbor to San Juan, or
Greytown,to visit Mr. Fabens, our commercial
agent. Soon after arriving there Mr. Boiland
heard that at a meeting of the people of the town,
held at the station house, presided over by the
Mayor, it had been proposed, and seemingly
agreed to, that he (Mr. Borland) should be ar
rested. In a few minutes the execution of this
proposition was attempted. A loud knocking
was beard at the lower doors of Mr. Faben’s
bouse, and upon his going to asceitain
a body ot men, armed with muskets, consisting
in part ot the regular police of the town, and
headed by a Jamaica negro, inquired lor Mr. Bor
land, and declared their purpose to arrest him.
Mr. Borland, hearing this, went down stairs,
confronte i these men, and demanded their busi
ness with him. 1 heir leader informed him they
came by order ol the Mayor to arrest him because
of his preventing the arrest of Capt. Smith. Mr.
Borland then repeated to them what he had said
to the Marsha! about their want of authority,
&c., and inquired of them il they were not aware
of his exemption from arrest in hie capacity of
Minister of the United States. To I his they
answered,.they cared nothing for all that, but that
they had come to arrest him, and meant to do it.
He then warned them of the serious consequences
to themselves and to all concernod with them if
they proceeded to the extremities they proposed.
They replied that they knew the consequences,
and were prepared to meet them.
Mr. Borland said to them that they must pro
ceed at their peril, and called several gentlemen,
who were in an upper room, to come down and
be witnesses of the threatened assault upon him.
Upon this the leader of the armed force called
Mr. Martin, (ex mayor) as if for the purpose of
consultation, and Martin not answering, they
went off a little distance from the door in the
direction where, from their manners, they ex
pected to find him.
About this time, Mr. Borland still standing at
the door, the mayor, (a Frenchman) came upanp
said these proceedings had been without his or
der and authority; and, while the conversation
was going on, some one from the crowd threw
the fragments of a broken glass bottle, which
struck Mr. Borland, and slightly wounded him
in the face. The particular person who threw
this missle was not recognised, as the night was
dark and a crowd in the porch and about the
door. Soon after this blow was inflicted upon
Mr. Borland the crowd dispersed.
Mr. Fabens, the commercial agent, procured
a canoe and passed the harbor to the Northern
Light, to make known to Capt. Churchill and
the passengers the state of affairs on the other
side. A meetin.-, was held, at which it was
agreed to send a committee of three gentleman
to consult with Mr. Borland as to the best steps
to be taken ; these gentleman, with Mr. Faoens,
proceeded in one of the steamer’s boats to the
town, but upon approaching the shore they were
hailed by a number of armed men, who fired
one gun over the boat and threatened to fire in
to them if they attempted to land, and this al
though informed that Mr. Fabens was on board
and desired to go to his consulate. Thus forci
bly prevented from landing, the boat return
ed to the Northern Light. During the night
the town was occupied by armed men, whose
sentiuels were stationed between the American
consulate, where Mr. Borland was, and the
harbor, challenging all who attempted to pass,
preventing the boats from landing or leaving the
shore, and thus keeping Mr. Borland a prisoner
all night.
The next morning he procured a boat, and
returned on board of the Northern Light, when
he was informed by Mr. Fabens, our commer
cial agent, and Mr. Scott., the agent of the Tran
sit Company, of the violent and lawless dispo
sition manifested by the people of San Juan.
1 hey did not deem ihe persons and propeity of
our citizens safe from aggressions, or even des
truction, in the absence ot force sufficient to
protect them. Mr. Borland, concurring in this
opinion called a meeting of the passengers, and
proposed to engage the services of fifty men to
remain and afford the necessary protection, un
til our Government, informed of the state of
affairs, should send a proper force for the pur
pose .
The requsite number of men volunteered, and
were organized under the command of Craw lord
Fletcher, Esq., formerly from Tennessee, and
now on his return from California.
Mr. Fabens, our commercial agent, has taken
up his abode under their protection, and Mr.
Borland embarked on board the Northern Light,
to proceed forwith to Washington, to lay this
matter before the Government.
Punta Arenas, May 17, 1854.
(B) -The undersigned agree with Solon Borland,
U. S. Minister Plenipotentiary in Central
Ameri a, to remain at Punta Arenas; on the har
bor of San Juan del Norte, as an armed guard, to
be dully organized, until he can have them re
vived by tne orders of the United States Gov
ernment. The compensation to be one hundred
dollars a month—a full mouth to be paid for
even if the service shall be of shorter duration ;
subsistence and quarters, and a free passage to ei
ther of the ports of New York or New Orleans
at the expiration of the service , that is to say,
the proportion of passage money already paid
from Punta Arenas as to New York or New
Orleans shall be refunded. Payment of the cash
compensation to be made at the expiration of
the service. The purpose of this service is
the protection ot the United States commercial
agent and agency, a d of the agent, agency
and employees of the Accessory Transit Com
pany.
P. S.—ln addition to the above cash compen
sation, fifty dollars will be paid to each of the
undersigned.
Solon Borland, United States Minister.
[Here follow the names of fifty-one persons
who agreed to remain at San Juan as an armed
guard, under the command ot Crawford Fietch
•er.l
Mr. Fabens to Mr. Marcy.
Commercial agency U. S. of America.
San Juan del Norte , Jnne 16, 1?54
Sir : I have the honor to acKtiowledge the
receipt of your despatch of the 3d inst.
I am very much gratified to learn that the con
duct of the people of this town towards our cit
izens will not be passed over unnoticed.
My last despatch, dated May 30, gave a brief
statement of affairs since the departure of the
‘•Northern Light,” 17th ultimo. There is but lit
tle change to the present tune. Some oi the
aiders and abettors in the outrage perpetrated
upon Mr. Scott, agent of the Accessory Transit
Company, as well as upon Mr. Borland. United
States Minister to Central America, have es
caped per British steamer to Jamaica, via Navy
Bay ; but I believe that the chief instigators are
yet among us.
With regard to the losses suffered by the
Accessory Transit Company, I am of an opin
ion that no suitable indemnity can be obtained
Irom the parties now in possession of and hold
ing the territory of Musquito, so called, beneath
whose flag the outrages ui question were perpe
trated.
With the hope of receiving further instruction
by' the national vessel soon to arrive.
I am, sir, very respectfully, yourooedient ser-
S vant,
Joseph W. Fabens.
lion. William L. Marcy.
Secretary of State, Washington.
I . S. Mr. Scott, agent of the Accessory
Transit Company, has uotified me that he does
not considered it advisable or safe, under the cir
cumstances, to leave Point Arenas unprotected,
and requests me to keep the guard now thereon
service until the arrival of an armed vessel of
the United States; which request (as it is in
perfect accordance with my own opinion in the
case) 1 have complied with, by giving an order
to Captain Fletcher, in command of the forces to
remain until the arrival of the next steamship,
due her 30th June, previous to which date I hope
the United States vessel vv.ll be here.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Joseph W. Fabens.
! Two more letters complete this correspon
dence. They are both from Mr. Fabens to Mr.
Marcy—the one relating to the proceedings of
the people of San Juan towards Mr. Borland, in
consequence of his interferrence to prevent the
arrest o! Capt. Smith ; and the other giving in- !
formation of the proceeding of Commander Hol
lins and the destruction of the town. The re
publication of these two letters would be mere
ly a repetition of what is stated in the letters of
Mr. Borland and Capt. Hollins in reference to
the same transactions.
Electrical Phenomenon. —Evening before
last, between the hours of eight and nine o’clock,
i our attention was attracted to the curious ap
f pearance of the sky, by the almost continuous
flashes of lightning which followed each other
without a moment’s intermission. We, in com
pany with many others, were tempted by its
singular brilliancy to watch it lor a considerable j
time. Stretching from south east toward the
north, a mass of grotesque and fantastic clouds, i
occupying about one sixth part of the circle of i
the horizon, formed as it were a vaporous wall J
behind which a sea of intense electric light, pos- j
sessing somewhat of the appearance of the aurora
borealis, filled the entire space; whilst momen- i
tary Hashes of what is called chain and forked
lightning rent assunder the masses of the clouds
with streaks. These streaks varied in color
from the pale efulgence of a silver line to the
•earful blood red streak of angry omen in super
stitious minds. Its forms were still more won
derous, lar eclipsing the noblest efforts of the
pyrotechnic art. Letters of the alphabet were
distinctly visible; L. J. and K were as plainly
seen as the moou then calmly filling her accus
tomed place in another part 6ftbe heavens.
In former dajs, like appearance filled the
minds of many with dread—and widespead ter
ror followed in their wake; but now, reason im- j
proved by knowledge, sees in them but another ! i
smile on creation’s face, and exultingly exclaims,
“Behold how wonderful is God !”
[Savannah Republican , sth inst.
laorr from Brunswick. —The scbr. Elias
Reed, Capt. Reed, arrived here yesterday from
Brunswick with 728 bars of the Railroad iron,
shipped to that port some months since, and in
tended for the Brunswick and Florida Road.
Ihe Company having failed to pay for it, it was
sold by agents in Savannah for the parties in
England This is the fourth load received here,
comprising about one halt of the cargo sent to
Brunswick. The remainder of the iron is being
shipped in vessels at Brunswick, and will be for
warded to this place as rapidly as possible.— lb.
ALUtLISSTA, ItA.
TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 8, 1854.
See first page of Daily, this morning.
have received an advertisement head
ed O. G. Q., which we decline publishing, as we
are unacquainted with the parties, and our rule
for such advertisements is, that they must be
paid for in advance.
The Bombardment of Grey town.
After a careful perusal of the documents eluci
dating the affair, we arrive at the conclusion,
that Greytown deserved the fate the folly of its
inhabitants brought down upon it. They might
have averted that fate, and rendered extreme
measures unnecessary, but they perversely re
fused to take warning, and preferred to adhere
obstinately to the wrong, and to defy the power
of a government, whose citizens they had rob
bed, and whose minister they had insulted. Was
such conduct to be allowed to go unnoticed ?
Clearly not. It was not only due to the dignity
of this government to demand an apology, and
due to the violated rights of her citizens to de
mand pecuniary reparation, but it was in view
of the threats made, and of the effects of immu
nity for such conduct, necessary for future secu
rity. Had such conduct been allowed to pass
unnoticed, it would 4 have been a virtual expulsion
of the American Transit Company's agents, and
the destruction ol their business. They would
have been driven away under the humiliation of
feeling that they were citizens of a government
that had not the spirit to protect and vindicate
its citizens—that they could be trampled upon
with impunity, even by such a mongrel set of
outlaws and thieves as constituted the ruling
power at Greytown—a majority of its inhabi
tants being free negroes from Jamaica.
The practical question was, how to punish
these people, after it was evident they intended
to refuse all reparation, and to defy our authori
ty ? What other plan could have been resorted
to than the one adopted ? None other occurs to
us than for Capt. Hollins to have lauded a suf
ficient force, captured the town, seized prop
erty enough to indemnify the Transit Company
for the repeated plunderings to which they had
been subjected, caught the ring-leaders of the
mobs, and those in authority, who countenanced
them, and inflicted personal chastisement upon
them. The only way to reach the sensibilities
of the free negroes, would have been by means
of the cow-hide. But this course would have
been attended with blood-shed, and, perhaps, an
indiscriminate massacre. It was better then,
since the innocent had to suffer with the
that propeity, instead of life, should be destroyed.
When men live in a town under the dominion
of a lawless, silly and perverse mob, they must
abide the consequences. It is a hazard they vol
untarily incur, and they must expect to share
their portion of the punishment, that sooner or
later the community will suffer for its folly and
misdeeds.
The Barbary powers for a century or two, car
ried on their piratical depredations upon the
commerce of Christian nations with impunity.
Their comparative insignificance was, perhaps,
their protection; for it is certain, that either one
of the leading commercial nations could have
crushed them. They preferred, however, to buy
these pira es off by paying tribute. But it re
mained tor the Ameiican government to teach
them in the example of Tripoli, that our people
are not to be plundered, or outraged with impu
nity, and that while powerful governments are
held to a strict accountability, even the slightest
wrong, by the weakest and most insignificant
power, is not beneath its notice.
If it were desirable to push the matter further*
it is quite competent for this government, with
in the strict lines of retributive justice, to seize
the site of Greytown and adjunct territory which
has been subject to the authority of the Grey
town Banditti, and hold it as indemnity, or as a
pledge for the payment of damages to her citi
: zens. When the governments of Costa llica and
Nicaiagua, and his majesty, the Musquito King,
settle the question of dominion among them there,
the territory could be redeemed bv the true own
er, on payment of all damages, costs and charges.
Melancholy Accident.
We regret to learn, that about one o’clock on
Sunday morning, a young gentleman named
Charles Hiel,accidentally lost his balance, and
fell trom the third story window of one of the
biuldings on Warren Range. He received a frac
ture and dislocation of the left arm, together with
severe internal injuries, which, it is feared, will
prove fatal. Although he still survives, but lit
tle hope is entertained of bis recoveiy.
Mr. Heil has been, for some time, connected
with the jewelry establishment of Messrs. Clark
& Co. He also he'd the office of First Lieuten
ant in the recently formed volunteer corps, the
Y\ ashington Artillery. He has many friends
who deeply lament the sad accident which has
befallen him.
Our Fire Department.
I he Second and Third Division of the Augus
ta Independent Fire Department paraded yester
day afternoon in full force and made a fine dis
play. Both engines were well manned, and in
good condition for duty, and should their services
unfortuntly be required, will beyond doubt do
good execution.
A Good Ordinance.
We ander9tand that the City Council, at their
meeting on Saturday last, removed the toll on
j Poof Passengers over the Augusta Bridge, up to
i ten o’clock at night. After that hour, full toll
| will be charged. If the Legislature of South Ca
roiina will, at their next session, grant the City
Council of Augusta, a perpetual charter, with
the restriction, that the Augusta Bridge be kept
up as a free bridge duiing the day, we think it
! will be accepted and carried out.
Houghton Institute.
We learn that our City Council have appoint
j ed a Board of Trustees for this institution, who
will have the entire management of its affairs,
: and in future elect the Teachers of the Male and
! Female Departments.
New York Market.
The Telegraph being out of order, we copy
from the New York Her. Id of Saturday last the
following notice of that market:
* Within the past three days about 2 800 bales
of cotton have been sold, at an advance of ic on <
middling grades, upwards: while other descrin- I
tions were dull. About half the sales were made i
for export, and the remainder for home use •
Sugars have been quite active and firm and yes- :
teiday an 1 the day before the aggregate sales J
amounted to about 3,500 hhds.,7oo or 800 boxes
and about 8,000 bags of Manila,
The Mails.
Complaints continue to reach us of the irregu
lar receipt of our papers, particularly from offices
supplied by the State road. We would like to
remedy the evil, and U Post Masters will inform
us when our papers fail to reach their destina
tion when due, and also of the name ol the tra
velling Post Master, on the State road, they will
materially assist us in finding out where the fault
lies.
The following letter came to hand yesterday:
Post Office at Rome, Ga '(
August 4tb, 1854. |
Dear Sir I regret that I have to inform you
that the Tri- Weekly Constitutionalist & Repub
lic has not been received at this office since Mon
day last. The Weekly is also behind. The Dai
ly fails occasionally. What is the matter?—
Your subscribers complain heavily. Some ot
them think it is your fault, but I tell them it is
not, for it is to your interest to mail them regu
larly. Something rotten in Denmark.
Byway of encouragement, I will itate, that
your paper is not the only one that runs off the
track.
Hoping that the evil will, ere long, cease to
be, I am, most respectfully, your obedient and
humble servant, Thos. J. Perry, P. M.
James Gardner, Editor Constitutionalist Sc
Republic, Augusta, Ga.
The Cholera.
The Cholera appears to have broken out with
great violence on Blackwell’s island. During
the week ending on the 4th inst., at the Lunatic
Assylum there were in ten days fifty cases and
ten deaths occurred. The fatal cases were con
fined to the lunatics. At the Work House there
was but one death. At the Alms House since
the 31st July there had been thirty cases and
fifteen deaths.
New York City.—The following is the re
port from the Franklin street Hospital, in this
city, for the twenty-four hours ending at eleven
o’clock on the 4th inst:
Remaining at date of last report 26
Received since 13
Died a
Discharged cured 8
Remaining 26
The following is the report of the Mott sreet
Cholera Hospital for the same time :
Remaing at date of last report 8
Received since 3
Died 0
Discharged cured 0
Remaining 11
Brooklyn.— The Board of Health report
eleven new cases of cholera and four deaths in
the twenty-four hours ending at eleven o’clock
on the 4th inst.
East Tennessee and Geo. Railroad.— The
Athens Post says : By a lesolutiou adopted by
the Board ot Directors of the East Tennessee and
Georgia Railroad Company, a semi-annual divi
dend of $3 per share on ail paid stock was de
clared, payable in scrip, convertible into capita*
stock. In order that the resolution may be com
plied with, and the scrip issued, it is neccessary
that the Secretary of the Company be informed
of the post-offices, towns and counties where the
stockholders reside.
Death of Rev. Thomas L. Hamnkr.—We
regret to hear of the death of Rev. Thomas L.
Hamner, well known in Savannah and other
cities, as General Agent of the American Sunday
School Union. Mr. Hamner was biother to Rev.
Dr. Hamner of Baltimore. The Savannah New*
says, he died on Wednesday, at his residence in
Philadelphia, ofdysentery, and his body was de
posited in Green Mount, on Thursday afteraoon.
His death will be a great loss to his family, and
the religious community generally, as he had no
superior in his particular calling. We unite our
sympathies with those of his relatives, who are
thus most sadly bereaved.
3 ( Telegraphed, for the Baltimore Sun.)
3 President's Message.
f VETO OF THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
. To the House of Representatives :
I have received the bill entitled “An act ma
-1 king appropriation lor the repair, preservation
s and completion of certain public works hereto
- fore commenced under authority ol law.” It
; reaches m in the expiring hours of he session,
t add time does not aliow a full opportunity
of examining and considering its provisions, or
t of stating at length the reasons which forbid me
to give it my signature. It belongs to that class
, of measures which are commonly Known as in
ternal improvements by the general government
and which, from a very early period, have been
3 deemed of doubtful constitutionality and expedi
i ency, and have thus tailed to obtain the appro
bation of successive Chief Magistrates.
On such an examination of this bill as it has
1 been in my power to make, I recognize in itcer
* tain provisions, national in their character, and
1 which, if they stood alone, it would be compati
ble -vith my convictions of public duty to tssent
’’ to, but at the same time it embraces others which
■i are merely local, and not, in my judgment, war
- ranted by any sate or true construction of the
, constitution. To make proper and sound dis
crimination between these different provisions
would require a deliberate discussion ol general
1 principles as well as a careful scrutiny of details
lor the purpose of rightfully applying those prin
■* ciples to each separate item of appropriation.
I Public opinion with regard to the value and
9 impoitance of internal improvements in this
" country is undivided. There is a disposition on
all hands to have them piosecuted with energy,
J j and to see the benefits sought to be obtained by
1 j them fully realized. The prominent point of
. j difference between those who have been
| ed as the friends of a system of internal improve
: merits by the General Government, ami those
1 | adverse to such a system, has been one ol consti
: I tutional power, though more or less connected
. j with questions of expediency. My own judg
( | merit, it is well known, has, on both grounds
' j been opposed to a general system of internal im
! | proveinents by the Federal Government. 1 have
i j entertained the most serious doubts from the in
i herent difficulties of its application, as.weii as
| from past unsatisfactry experience by the Gen
! eral Government, as to render its use advanta
geous to the country at large or effectual for the
: accomplishment of the object contemplated.
| 1 shall consider it incumbent upon me to pre
sent to Congress at its next session a matured
view of the whole subject, and to endeavor to
j define, approximately at least, and according to
my own convictions, what appropriations of this
nature by the Genital Government the great in
terests of the United States require, and the con-
I stitution will admit and sanction, in casenosnb
j *titute should be devised capable of reconciling
difficulties both of constitutionality and expe
diency.
In the absence of the requisite means and time
for duly considering the whole subject at the
present, and discussing such possible substitute
it becomes necessary to return the bill to the
House ol Representatives, in which it originated
and lor the reasons thus briefly submitted to the
consideration of Congress to withhold from it
my approval. Franklin Pierce. 1
Washington, D. C., August 4, 1854. <
Grain.—\V e learn that large quantities ol
grain are being sent forward from the Charleston
Depot, Bradley county. As yet, but few of oui
farmers have put their wheat in market, although
tue price offered is as high, in all probability, as
it will rule this season. The surest way is to
sell whenever the market reaches a paying fig
ure. The duration of the Eastern war is uncer
tain—its termination may be announced in a
' month, and in that event, and the re-opening of
the ports of the Baltic and Black Sea, the grain
market would tumble a considerable distance.—
Better strike while the iron’s bot. —Athens Ttnn.
Post, 4th inst.
The weather is very warm—crops of corn and
cotton are*generally good—rain is beginning to
be needed —the health of the country continues
good. —Albany (6 a) Patriot, 4th inst.
BATHING SPONGES,— A great variety of the
above, just received and for sale low by
N. J. FOGARTY * CO.
Apothecaries Ball, under Augusta Hotel—-jy6.
BY TELEGRAPH.
. Charleston, Aug. 7.
Cotton. —The market is drooping. Sales 180
bales at 8, 9 and 10 cents. *
[Telegraphed far the Baltimore Patriot.]
Raleigh, N. C., Aug. s —North Carolina State
Election —The election returns are coming in
from various parts of the- State, showing very
Urge gains everywhere for Mr. Dockery, the
whig Gubernatorial candidate, leaving scarcely a
doubt that he has been elected by a considerable
majority, over his democratic competitor. Two
democrats and one whig have been elected to the
Legislature, from Wake county.
Despatches from Fayetteville, Elizabeth City,
Wilmington, and returns from various other parts
of the State, show large whig gains. There is
scarcely a doubt that the whigs have been tri
umphant.
Washington, Aug. 5. —All is confusion here;
members are packing their trunks and preparing
to be off. It is difficult to obtain a quorum in
either House. President busy examining and
signing bills.
Washington, Aug. s. —The House met at 10
o’clock this morning. The speaker signed sev
eral bills, when a recess was taken till 1 o’clock
P. M.
The Senate met at noon to-day, and only a
small attendance, Up to 1 P. M. t nothing of
moment had been done,
Augusts, 1£ P. M.—The House re-assem
bled, but up to this time has transacted no busi
ness of moment.
New York, Aug. s.— Mortality — Cholera
The total number of deaths in this city, accor
ding to the official report ending to day, is 1,133,
of which 286 were ol cholera. Os the latter, 93
were on Ward's Island. I’his is the largest mor
tality of the season.
The cholera, however, has not assumed a decid
ed epidemic form in this city.
New York, Aug. 5. — D ath of a Foreign Min -
liter. —Genera! Barundid, Minister to the United
States from Honduras, died here last night after
a brief illness, something similar to cholera.
[There may be some mistake about this dispatch,
as we saw accounts recently of his being sick in
Washington]
Philadelphia, Aug. s. — The Sunday Law Af
fair. —Mayor Conrad says he will abide the de
cision of tiie Supreme Court in regard to the ap
plication ot the Sunday law, to tavern keepers,
making them liable only to a fine of $4 for keep
ing open on Sunday, but that they shall be hand
ed over in every instance where the house is dis
orderly.
Boston, Aug. s — Schooner Ashore—Healthy
Business —The schooner J. H. Roscoe from
Cape Haytien for Boston, is ashore on Cape Cod.
Crew ali safe, but the vessel will probably be
lost.
There : re s' ill som* cholera cases, but the dis
ease is not effective, ami the health of the city i 3
good.
New V >rk, August s.— Salingof the Pacific.
—The American mail steamer Pacitic sailed to
day for Liverpool taking out 113 passengers and
nearly one million dollars in specie.
Niagara Falls, Aug. s.—There is a large
number of visiters here. The cholera has entire
ly disappeared horn the vicinity of the Suspen
sion Bridge. Perlect health has prevailed at
the Clinton house. Not a single case of cholera
there this season. The same may be said ot the
Cataract and other hotels. Strangers are arriv
ing in large numbers.
Philadelphia, Aug. 5 — Mortality —There
have been in all 46S deaths in our city for the
week ending today, of which 83 were from
cholera,
New York, Aug. 5. 1J p m.— No tidings of
the steamer now du« from Europe.
New’ York, Aug s. —The money market
continues stringent and Stocks closed dull: Can
ton 22 j ; Erie 48f ; Reading 02 j : Cumberland
32f ; M. Canal 14i ; Nicauraga 19i ; M. Gold
U
Breadslufflj quiet; sales of 3000 bbis. Flour at
So 21 a 7.18 for common to good .State ; South
ern $8.44 a 8 87.
Wheat dull ; sales of 5000 bushels Southern
white at $4 80 ; red $1.60 a 1.67. Corn—3o,-
000 bushels, common mixed 64 ; white 69 a 73,
yellow 86 cents.
I Telegraphed for the Charleston Cmrier.]
New Orleans, August s.— Destructive Fire at
New Orleans. —A fire commenced at noon to-day
in Tehoupitoulas street, and spread rapidly
through Foucher, Lafayette and Magazine sts ,
destroying large quantities of piovisions and
Navai stores. The piincipil sufferers were
Messrs. Converse 6t Co., \V. S. Wright, and E.
J. Hart. They were, however, for the most
part insured. The loss is estimated at $1,000,-
000
New Orlevns, Aug 2.~ Flour was dull to
day at from $6,75 a $7 per bbl. Corn was dull
at from 56 a 60£ cents per bushel.
New Orleans, Aug 4 —The sales of Cotton
during the last three days have comprised 3000
bales, making a total during the week of 5000
bales. The market was dull with a declining
tendency, principally on the fair qualties. Mid
dling was worth from Si a Sf cents per lb.—
The receipts during the week were 3500 bales,
and the stock on hand, exclusive of that on ship
board, comprised 50,000 bales. Flour wa3 un
changed at from $6 75 a 7 per bbl. Corn was
dull at from 56 a6O cents per bushel. Rice was
firm at $0.25 per 100 lbs. Rio Coffee was worth
from 9f a lOf cents.
COMBS & CO.’S EXPRESS.
Consignees per Combs & Co.'s Express, Aug.
Mrs. Wra. Luoas ; S. Brown ; A. A. Cleaveland;
Baron Forstncr ; Miss Mary 11. Ketchum : Isaac
Levy; Bank of Charleston; Hatch & Begbie.
Luther Roll; Barrett & Carter.
Arrivals at the Stona Mountain Hotel.
Clark <fc Hitchcock, Proprietors.
August 4. 1854.
S. B. Prince, South Carolina ; J. Krause, Savan
nah: 11. Castellow, Atlanta, Ga ; C. Bates, New
\ork; E. VV Taylor. Augusta; D. Roper, Eaton
ton: Miss Hudson, do.; B. W. Adams, do.f T. J.
Neal, Florida: J. II Hollingsworth, Lady, and two
children, Augusta, Ga ; J. G. Hand, Ga.; Col. Ben
son, lexas; J. S. Ross, do.; A. W. Davis, Augus
ta; E. A. Mills, Ga; J. P. Simmons, do., J. C.
Evans, do; Miss L. Swanton, Decatur; B. W
Bonner, dc.; J. 11. Pittman, do.; W. L. Exzard,
Cassviilo; Miss E. Murphy, do; C. M. Ward; N.
Hutchins, Lawroncevillo; S. S. Chavis, Florida-
A. M. Worthy, Alabama; W. R. Jones, Georgia •
J. M. Lee, Augusta; Miss M. Osmond, do.; C. n‘
Alander, do.; VV. C. Jones, New Orleans.
August 5, 1854.
J. Bryson Alabama; C. W. Johnson, N. Caroli
na; S. B Taylor, New Orleans; J. King, do; B.
R. Carroll, and Family, Charleston; T. J Wilcher
and Lady, do.; J. T. Gormon, New York; J. M.
Moode. doj Miss M. Merritt, South Carolina; E.
L. Hohis, do.; C. Lewis. A- gusta.NJ. Dear, do ;
O. H. Vance, Savannah; J. S. Blacke. do ; C H.
Gilmer, La ; S. C. Cotton, Ala.; C. H. Nealy, do.
}}
IVTEW BOOKS.—The Pilgrims of Walsingham,.
x x or Tales of the Middle Ages, an Historical Ro
mance, by Agnes Strickland, just received and for
saleby jytt McKINNE 4 HALL.
COFFEE. —200 bags liiolCoffoe, common to ex
tra, for sale very low by
jy 2 c. A. WILLIAMS.
Liquors
100 bbls. Rectified Whisky ;
50 “ Rye Whisky, fine to common;
40 “ New York Rose Gin ;
40 “ Rock Spring Rum;
50 “ Brandy.
For sale by jy2 C. A. WILLIAMS.
' NOVELTIES IN SUMMER HATS & CAPS.
< /"'I EO. W. FERRY, now in New York, has se-
VjT lected and sent in an assortment ol the new
ost and most fashiocable styles of fancy Summer
Hats and Caps, among which are Black, White
Pearland Drab Jullien; Know-Nothing; Wide*
Awake; Young America ; and Cavalier Felt Hats
White and Tea colored Senate and Rutland Straw'
and Leghorn do.; Drab Watered and Glazed Silk
Caps, Ac., Ac. Call and seo them at
GEO. W. FERRY’S
Fashionable Ha * Establishment
-> ul ? 26 Masonic Hall Building
Bacon jowls.-1550 if and
sale by S. 0. GRENVILLE A CO.
NEGRO CLOTHS" ' ~~
WJLM AM SHEAR ha 9 received a full sup
ply of Cloths, of the Augusta Man
ufacturing Company, to which he respectfully tn
vßesthe attention of Planters.
•)( W i ft BS - Green Ginger7~ " ~
® *hs. Frosh Bologna Sausage j uat
receded by DAWSON A SKINNER
Jt £v F fc* ll 2 h Xrana P are ut - G^a^eT - 25lbi'
f n g hsh rebn J e (l Liquorice, very superior ar
tides. Just received and lor sale by
A. J. FOGARTY A CO..
J®* ApotheoarU* Hall, Auguita, G« (