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BY JAMES GARDNER.
OFFICE OS MoINTOSH-STREET,
TtflßU UOOK FROM THE NORTH-WEST CORNER OF
B HOAD "STRUT .
TERMS:
Daily, iu advance per annum .$6 00
If notin advance per annum 7 00
Tri-Weekly, in advance, per annum 4 00
If notin advance..... .per annum 0 00
Weekly, in advance....per annum 2 00
'jyNo Discount for Ci.cbs.
Where Rest may be Found.
Tell me, ye winged winds,
That round my pathway roar,
Do you not know tome spot
\Y r here mortals weep no more.?
Some lone and pleasant dell—
Some valley in the west—
Where, free from toil and pim,
The weary soul may rest ?
The low winds softened in a whisper low,
And sighed for pity, as they answered, “No!”
Tell me, thou mighty deop,
Whose billows round me play,
Know’stthou some favored spot,
Some Island far away.
Some wretehod man may find
The bliss for which he sighs f
Where sorrow never lives,
And friendship never dies?
The loud waves relling in perpetual flow,
Stopped for awhile, and answered, “No !*'
And thou, serenest moon,
That with such holy face
Dost look upon the earth, *
As sleep in night’s embraoe—
Teil me, in all thy rounds,
Hast thou not seen some spot
Where miserable man
Might find a happier lot ?
Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in wo,
And a voice sweet, but sad, responded, “ No !”
Tell me, my secret 9oul,
0 ! tell me, Hope and Faith,
Is there no resting place
• From sorrow, sin and death ?
Is there no happy spot
Where mortals may be blessed,
Where grief a balm,
And weariness a rost ?
Faith, Hope, and Love, best boons to mortals give*.
Waved their bright wings and whispered, “Yes’
in Heaven!”
Memorial.
In Relation to the Charter Granted by the Legis
lature of South Carolina, to Messrs. Jones <s•
Kennedy , in December , 1853.
To the Gentlemen of the Senate and *
House of Representatives of South Carolina :
The memboriai of the undersigned, citizens ot
0 District, South Carolina, praying a consid
eration of the constitutionality and justice of the
Act passed by the Legislature of said State, in
December, 1853, authorizing Messrs. Jones &
Kennedy “to collect tolls from. all persons passing
from either side over the’ bridge across the Sa
vannah river at Hamburg Augusta,” and of
the practicability ot repealing, or, otherwise
granting relief against the same.
For many years a large poition cf the citizens
of South Carolina have depended upon their trade
with the city of Augusta as the chief, or only
source ot their revenue, and consequently ot their
maintenance and prosperity; and upon the use of
bridge, to effect this trade, which to them is
ita! and invaluable importance.
The practical effect of the charter to Messrs.
Jones 4c Kennedy is to subject your memorialists
to the payment of additional toll—to render their
trade in all respects of less value, and in many
important particulars, unprofitable, and therefore,
to prohibit an intercourse and traffic of the ut
most importance to them, and to which their
pursuits,efforts, and investments have long been
purposely and profitably adapted.
Hut while its practical effect to them isattend
ed with such prejudice and disaster, its severity
is not relieved by the consideration ol any meri
p torious claim on the part of Messrs. Jones & Ken
nedy, nor by the exaction from them of any corn
s’ pens&tion in behalf of tbe State whatever,
jfc If it were intended by this means to assert the
IP boundary which the State claims between her
self and Georgia, it is unprecedented as well as
unjustifiable : lor the State does not require a
sacrifice ot the public interests in order to vin
dicate this claim, since nothing is more common
and easier than to negotiate an adjustment ot
such matters by proper functionaries appointed
for the purpose. W v
. And we earnestly submit therefore, to jour
whether the said Charter is not to
Messrs. Jones & Kennedy a gratuitous munifi
cence, and to the public an unwarrantable bur
then.
Your memorialists would not he understood in
this document as espousing the cause of the City
Council ot Augusta, nor would they in this form
attempt fully To discuss the conflicting claims of
the public on the one hand, an i ot Messrs Jones
& Kennedy on the but would respectfully
submit a lew of the considerations, which per
haps may necessarily engage your attention, be
fore understanding the justice and merit of their
complaint; and of their right to relief, viz: 1.
Whether the City Council ot Augusta are the
owners of said Bridge. 2. Whether by the Act of
the Legislature atoresaid, Jones & Kennedy have
been put in possession of, or authorized to collect
tolls upon this Bridge, not upon public necessity.
merely for their own private interest. And 3.
WhaV|jjjfhis legislation can be sustained upon
the i domain, or of constitu'ionai
law. jSib answer to the first inquiry depends
greatly upon the deed made by bouth Carolina
to Samuel Hale, under which the City Council
claims. The part which relates to this question
is as follows: “Also a piece or parcel ot ground
situated within Covington-street, as laid down
the original plan of the following dimensions,
to wit: extending from the maigin of the river
at low water mark, to the southern line of Mar
ket street, and bounded by east and west lines
ot the width of the Augusta Biidge, running the
course of Covington street, it being understood
that the last piece or parcel b to be used, held
and enjoyed, solely and exclusively for the pur
pose ot the Bridge abutment and a highway, to
gether with alt and singular the rights, members
hereditaments, and appurtenances to the said
premises belonging or in any wise incident or
3s, appertaining. To have and to hold all and sin
s gular the premises before mentioned unto the said
/ Samuel Hale, bis heirs and assigns forever. And
the said Baylis J. Earle, late'Solicitor as aforesaid,
by virtue of the authority herein before recited
and referred to for and on the part and in behalf
of the State of South Carolina, doth hereby cove
nant and agreie to and with the said Samuel Hale,
his heirs anjtassigns against the said State, against
She undersigned and against the claims of eveiy
person whomsoever, lawfully claiming or to claim
ifie same or any part thereof.” This is a con
veyance to “Samuel Hale his heirs and assigns
forever,” of the soil upon which the "end of the
Bridge and the abutment are builtf and here we
«ee the solemn covenant of South Carolina, that
they should be entitled “to use, hold aad enjoy”
the same "forever f as a “Bridge abutment and a
highway against the claims ot said State—against
the undersigned (Earle) aud against the claim of
every person whomsoever lawfully claiming the
same or any part thereof.”
_ It is not intended that any stipulation con
gjjjpill*" this deed has been violated on the part
of the grantee. Ihe bridge has been kept in ex
cellent repair, the tolls usually low, and general
ly speaking every facility afforded to the trading
r » nd travelling community, and the purchasi
from the State has been “ used, L«ld and enjoyed
aolely and exclusively lor the purpose ot the
Bridge-abutment and a highway.” There has
been no forfeiture of the grantee s right upon this
-A ground. If upon the expiration of the charter
tbe right reverted to the State to resume the
jpossessicn and emoluments of this end of the
* Bridge and the abutment” in what sense were
If "Samuel Hale, his heirs and assigns forever,” to
i hold, use and enjoy the same» Can the State
make an express, absolute conveyance in fee ot
HI property, and then re take the same by irnplica
, tion, to the utter destruction of the grantee’s in
terest, and oi the purposes for which he bought?
or Such an interpretation is without a parallel.—
’h For until the terms of the deed are violated, the
far right of the grantee remains unimpaired, and the
grantor is bound to defend and preserve and not
J* to despoil the right. In this case, the State be
? jflng the owner both of the soil and of the high-
offered for sale the soil which was covered
fiyAhe highway, not with a view to close her
. road and to appropriate the soil to other uses,
I 'jjiiffin the contrary, expressly stipulated that the
be used solely and exclusively for the
wEfepose of tbe highway. If, under these cir-
the purchaser should not acquire
some advantage iu tbe highway, he would be
paying for the shadow, while tbe vendor retain
ed the substance. He would acquire the naked
title to the soil, while its exclusive use and ben
efit is to be retained or resumed at the pleasure
of the grantor.
The soil here had been appropriated to a cer
tain purpose or use—-that use was to continue—in
that use there accrues to the owner a lucrative
income, and without it the soil is comparatively
of no value. Now we ask what wouldthepur
chaser naturally expect and desire to obtain by
his title—the profitable use and purpose to which
the soil had been dedicated, or tbe mere naked
title to the soil ? The entire value consists iu
the highway and bridge to which the soil had
been appropriated, and it was to the interest,
and at the suggestion of the purchaser, that the
stipulation in this case was inserted, that the soil
should be “ Used, held, and enjoyed solely and"
exclusively lor the purpose of the biidge abut
ment and a highway.”
Upon what principle of construction, can the
State hold that in this deed she conveyed the soil
in fee absolutely ’and forever, but retained its
only valuable appurtenance ? or was permitted
to resume it after a few years ? Wasthe grantee
. forever ” to hold the land for the ase and benefit
ot the grantor—to hold and preserve the tree, the
fruit of which was to be gathered by another?
It is true a franchise, like any other vested prop
erty, may be taken away or prejudiced by right
oi eminent domain, but nothing of this sort is
here pretended, and we are at a loss to under
stand upon what principles ot law or justice the
State would defeat the purpose and ruin the in
sere6ts of her own grantee—an interest which
she is solemnly pledged to preserve and defend.
In his report, Mr. Earle says, that “in rela *
tion to the ground on which the end of the
Bridge aud the abutment are built,” there was
some misunderstanding. For this ground “Mr.
Hale seemed to have expected in fee and which I
declined conveying in that way, because I sup
posed the State might think it advisable to re
tain some control over the Bridge in future.
Earle, the conveyance expected by Hale would
take fiom tbe State all “ control over the Bridge
in future,” and vet the deed, which in his opin
ion would have had this effect, and which he
therefore declined to make, was afterwards ac
tually made under authority from the State.
So much as to the Deed made by the State “in
relation to the ground on which the end of the
Bridge and the abutment are built,” as to the in
trinsic meaning of said Deed, and as to the opin
ion of Mr. Earle in relation to it, who as agent
for the State executed it.
But connected with this subject, the implied
obligations of the State are not less distinct and
stringent, than are those express ones referred to.
If one make an express transfer ot property to
another he implieldly transfers whatever is in
dispensable to its proper use and enjoyment, if
such be in his pow’er, and be not expressly pro
vided against. To hinder the proper use is to
defeat the object of the title to the property. Im
plied contracts are such as the nature of the case
demands. They are such as “reason and justice
dictate from the nature of the transaction, and
which therefore the law presumes that every
man undertakes to perform. The Constitution
makes no distinction between one class of con
tracts and the other. Indeed, as by far the lar
gest class of contracts in civil society, in the or
dinary transactions of life are implied, there
would be very little object in securing the invio
lability of express contracts, if those, which are
implied might be impaired by State legislation.
Ihe Constitution is not chargeable with such
folly or inconsistency. Every grant in its own
nature amounts to an extinguishment of the
right of the grantor, and implies a right not to
re-assert it. A party is, therefore, always estop
ped by his own grant. How absurd it would be
to provide that an express covenant by him, as a
muniment attendant up rn the estate, should bind
him forever because executory, and resting in
action; and yet, that he might reassert his title
to the estate and dispossess his grantee because
there was only an implied convenant not to re
assert it.” If therefore, the grantor (the State)
retained the Bridge between low-water mark
and tbe centre of the river, she impliedly bar
gained with her grantee to permit him to use and
hold so much thereof as was necessary to the
full, unimpaired and proper use ot that which
she expressly conveyed to him. And upon this
principle the grantor, having the power, was
equally bound in law and good conscience to re
new the Charter in behalf of the grantee, since
such renewal was absolutely indispensable to the
use and purposes ot the grant. It these views,
which are respectfully submitted, be correct, the
City Council of Augusta are tie owners of the
Bridge, and are entitled “to use, fold and enjoy”
tiie same “solely and exclusively for the purpose
of a highway against the claim of the State, and
against every person whomsoever lawlully
claiming the same or any part thereof.” The
next inquiry will not detain us.for any length of
time, for it will not be seriously denied that the
Charter to Messrs. Jones & Kennedy operators
exclusively for their private good, and was not
founded in public necessity. By it they impose
upon the publ.c an additional burthen without
making any additional advantage in return,
which in effect is the very reverse of the inten
tion of a Chaiter.
Public necessity being out of the question,
their Charter is attempted to be sustained upon
some claim through Shultz & McKinne, whose
right and title to the t ridge have been found by
the highest judicial tribunals of this State and of
the United States, to be utterly wanting and
merely pretending. The next inquiry is, wheth
er the City Council of Augusta can be deprived
of their possession of this Bridge and of its emol
uments for the mere private benefit of Messrs.
Jones & Kennedy.
By eminent domain we understand the “right
which the people (government) retain over the
estates of individuals to resume the same for
public use.” The reservation and exercise of
such a right are indispensable to the practical
administration of government. The resumption,
however, must be for “public use and public use
only.” And even when resumed for this pur
pose, the general opinion is, that the principles
of the American Constitutions require that com
pensation should be made to the owner.
“A provision for compensation is a necessary
attendant on the due and constitutional exercise
ot the power of the law-giver to deprive an in
dividual of his property without his consent;
and this principle in American constitutional
jurisprudence, is founded in natural equity, and is
laid down by jurists as an acknowledged princi
ple of universal law.” But when the public ne
cessity does not require it, and “the Legislature
should vacate a grant of property, or of a fran
chise under the ptetext of some public use or service ,
such cases would be gross abuses of their discre
tion, and fraudulent attacks on private right, and
the law would be clearly unconstitutional and
void.” This is the view of that able jurist,
Chan. Kent. Another authority equally dis
tinguished (Mr. Justice Story) says, “it seems
to he the general opinion, fortified by a strong
current of judicial opinion, that since the Ameri
can Revo'ution, no State government can be
presumed to possess the transcendental sover
eignty to take away vested rights of property—
to take away the property of A and transfer it
to B by a mere legislative act.
1 hat government can scarcely be deemed to
be free, where the rights of property are left
solely dependant upon a legislative body without
any restraint, i'he fundamental maxims ot a
free government seem to require that the right
ol private propety should be held sacred. At
least, no Court ol Justice in this country would
be warranted in assuming that any State Legis
lature possessed a power to violate and disregard
them, or that such a power, so repugnant to the
common principles of justice and civil liberty
lurked under any general grant of legislative au
thority—or ought to be implied from any general
impression of the will of the people in the usual
forms of the constitutional delegation of pow
ers.” Such are some few ol the considerations
which we beg to submit in respect to the legal
right of the parties to this controversy.
We beg leave to invite your attention to the
Justice of the case as an important consideration
also. 1
I* “ ot be denied, that if one by his geni
n - en furnishes his country with the
which o conrf.f^ an r a * ranclrji ße, the exeocises of
to the nubile 0 ,h > e §eneral welfare, justice
not be suDnre«J»? tb e fr anc bise shall
tinued in the Lands of him u shou,d . be con T
enterprise gave rise to it BiuTri?* 6 - ® en , lu . 9 and
these enternriaina m j. , tb e just claims of
tnese enterprising men, bhultz & McKinne to
this property, have been sold by them £%h«
City Council of Augusta, for a high and valua
ble consideration, as has been adjudged again and
again after mature argument. Notwithstanding
th!s sale and adjudication, the Legislate of
South Carolina has exercised its power virtuallv
to annul the sale made by Shultz & McKinne
and disregarding the polemn screes made by
the Courts of Justice, has reinvested them, or j
rather their assigneess, with the possession and f
emoluments of this propeity: Whereas it is
respectfully submitted that if such an interfere j
fence be warranted by the principles of law and
justice, its power should have been exercised not
to make void, but to reform, if necessary and
perfect to the titles which Shultz & McKinne
had endeavored to execute.
A sense of justice detached to your Honora
ble Bodies in Decamber 1848, not to ignore the
claims of the City Council of Augusta as com
pared with those of Shultz & McKinne, and
induced you to insert in their Charter the pro
visio that the said Henry Shultz & JohnMcKinne
shall not be allowed to charge and collect toll at
the South Carolina end ot the Bridge until the
litigation pending in the Supreme Court of the
United States in relation to said Bridge, and the
proceeds ot the sale shall be determined aginst
the City Council of Augusta.” The decision
against the City Councilwhich was to justify
their collection of toll, has not been found, but de
cree against Shultz & McKinne esttabished. To
renew the Charter in behalf of their assignees as
is now donejis to repudiate this decree-to depart
from this just couree of your Honorable bodies,
in respect to this subject heretofore—to violate
and abuee the public conscience, and to prejudice
the public interest.
Under these circumstances, your memorialist
respectfully submit to your consideration the
propriety and practicability of repealing said
charter, or of otherwise relieving the public from
its unjust and disastrous effects. If by their
charter Messrs. Jones & Kennedy are constitu
ted a corporation, the right to repeal or amend
'their charter is secured to your Honorable Bodies
by the 41st Sec. Act 1841, and your memorialists
presume that this isceitainly true of quasi cor
porations, by which they understand a “ body of
men, who, though not vested with the general
powers of a corporation by any express law, are
yet recognized by statute or immemorial usage,
and the body they compose is a person or an ag
gregate corporation, with powers and dutie<
which may be enforced, and privileges which
may be maintained by suits at law. Such bo
dies are considered quasi corporations , with lim
ited powers co-extensive with the duties imposed
upon them by statute or usage, but restrained
from a general use of authority which belongs
to those metaphysical persons by common law.”
Such are “ commissioners of a county, supervi
sors of highways, overseers of the poor, loan offi
cers of a county, and the like who are invested
with corporate powers sub modo, and for a few’
specified purposes only.” Besides the Act of
1841, which reserves the power to repeal, &c.
is not less applicable to private than to public
corporations; and certainly Messrs. Jones &
Kennedy, considered with reference to the
I “ powers and duties which they may enforce,
and the privileges which they may maintain by
suits at law,” are not wanting in analogy, either
as to form or substance, to “ commissioners of a
county, supervisors of highways, overseers of the
poor and the like,” and therefore their charter
; was given, “subject to amendment, alteration or
j repeal by the Legislature.”
In any event franchise is vested private
j property, and subject to the control of the Legis
lature by right ot eminent domain, and may be
taken, or wholly or partially suppressed accord
ing to the public exigency, upon the same prin
ciple that the private property of the citizen is
taken for a public highway and tor the public
welfare.
Your memorialists, citizens of South Caroling,
have telt the necessity of presenting a brief out
line in part of the argument in favor of the right
of the City Council of Augusta, compared with
that of the assignees of Shultz & McKinne, and
ot the superior claims of the former, in order if
possible to vindicate their own right ) as well as
I their necessity to ask relief.
And they trust that their prayer will be duly
! considered.
Details by the Ealtic.
An expeditionary -force against Crimea and
Sevastopol had left Varna. The attack on Se
vastopol was to have commenced on the 29th
ultimo, by the combined forces, numbering 80,-
000, both by sea and land.
The Russian steam frigate Vladimar has made
a mqg£successful sortie from Sevastopol. She
| destroyed three Turkish merchantment, and
gave chase to the British steam frigate Cyclops.
The Turkish army were advancing cautiously
on Bucharest, the Russian rear guard being about
half way between Bucharest and Buscoon.
It was reported that, according to agreement
entered into between the Porte and the Austrian
envoy, the Turks would not actually enter Bu
charest, and that the troops would be withdrawn
1 Bum tite Danube on the arrival of the Austrians.
Omar Pasha had promised that VVailachia
should not be made the theatre of military
events.
Advices from Jassy of the 2d, state that sever
al Russian regiments are retiring behind the
Pruth. Philo Russo journals at Jassy confirm
this fact.
It is reported that Bavarian auxiliary troops
will replace such Austrian troops as may be
withdrawn from Itaiy.
Occupation op Aland.— Paris, Sunday, Aug.
6.—The following despatch has been received
here:—“The Berlingske Journal publishes a tele
graphic despatch from Swenska, announcing that
on the 2d of August twelve ships of-war made
sail for the Aland Islands; and on the 3d of Au
gust, after a cannonade o! seven hours, the
French rroops occupied Aland.”
Bucharest, Aug. 2.— Turkish Occupation of
Bucharest. —The Russia s hold a position on the
Jolomnitza. The Turks remain on the right
bank of the Argisch. Omar Pasha awaits rein
forcements before entering Bucharest.
Malta, Aug. 2.—Advices from Constantino
ple of the 27th ultimo, state that 14 vessels and
transports, with 15,000 men, sailed from Balt
shik on the 21s*;, steering for the Crimea. The
Viadimar, Russian cruiser, near the Bosphorus,
chased the Cyclops, which escaped.
The correspondent of the Tunes says: “On
riding into Varna to-day, (July 29th) I learn
that there were 33 cases of cholera in our hos
pital last night, and a much larger number of
men from the same cause in the French hospital.
The Duke of Cambridge has been suffering from
diarrhoea; indeed, a large percentage of officers
of the different divisions have been attacked by
this complaint, but great precautions are taken
by the medical officers.”
Vienna, Sunday.—On August Ist the Rus
sians retired from Bucharest, after having broken
up the road between that city aud Kalugereny.
Omer Pasha had sent a message to Bucharest, re
quiring lodging arid provision for 12,000 men
within the city, and rations for 20,000 outside
the walls. Beiore leaving Bucharest, Gortscha
koff assembled the Boyards, and thanked them
for the manner in which they had treated the
Russian troops during their stay. He added, that
stratagetic reasons induced him to quit the city,
hut that it was not improbable that be might re
turn at an early period.
The combined fleets appeared off Sevastopol
on July 30th, with a number of transports.
The Vienna coirespondent of the London
Times wiites:
1 am Informed, on the very best authority, that
Austria will make known—through a manifest
—her close alliance with the Western Powers.
This manifest, which will appear before the 20th
of August, is to express her firm determination !
to co-operate with France and England, and at !
the same time to announce to the world that
Imperial troops will, on the 20th insfe., take pos- J
session of Wallachia.
Vienna. Friday Evening --Preparations for
War at Vienna. —The Oest Correspondent says
that Baron Osten Sacken has arrived at Jassy,
as commander in-chief of all the Russian forces
in Upper xVloldavia. It is reported that he is
also appointed civil aud military governor of Mol
davia. It is believed that Austria will simply
notify to Russia her intentions, and then enter
Moldavia.
The Austrian colonel Lwwenthal, left this 1
morning with despatches for the Turkish head-!
quarters. The Russian prince Lobaloff brought
most impoitant despatches for Prince Gortseha- j
koff last night, and it is said that the Russian
embassy is packing up prior to departure. After
a military conference held this morning, the |
Italian army is ordered to be made mobile, and |
its cavalry reserves called out.
Rejection of the Russian Propositions.--
The reply of the French government to ti e Aus
trian note arrived at Vienna on Friday, when
the English and French Ministers officially com
municated to Count Buol the unconditional re
jection of the Russian propositions by France and
England.
Warsaw, Aug,si.—Gea. Rudiger, who gov
erns the’kingdom of Poland in the absence of
Prince Paskiewitsch, ffas thought it necessary to
order the directors of the Bank of Warsaw to
remove its bullion (14,000,000 of Polish florins)
to the citadel of that city, as a measure of safety,
il he considered the cpital of Russian Po
land to be in imminent peril.
Movements of Russian Troops. —The Czar
is borrowing from the army of Orenbury, to
make up the deficiencies in that of the South,
and several thousand soldiers are to be marched
from it to the capital forthwith. Two regiments
of cuirassiers of the guard have just been sent
from St. Petersburg to Prince Gortschakoff’s ar
my. A great movement is noticed in the camp
at Krassnee Seto, which is composed of the bat
talions of the reserve of the guard formed about
three mouths ago; and it is supposed at St. Pe
tersburg that they too, a3 well as the guard it
self, will soon be sent into tt e field.
St. Petersburg, Ist July.—The Czar, sup
ported by the Grand Duke Constantine, will re
sist to the last, and since the fleets of the enemy
have left Cronstadt, he is more determined than
ever. Count Nesselrode and the Grand Duke
(Kronprinz) try all they can to prevail on the
Emperor to alter his policy. Their efforts are
in vain, and although their paitisans increase
daily in numbers, the old Russian party has yet
the preponderance.
The Invasion of the Crimea and Attack
gn Sevastopol, —The London Times says :
About the time we wite, if not on this very day,
a force made up of Euglish, French and Turks,
and amounting to between 80,000 and 100,000
men, wili invade the Crimea, and attempt to ef
fect a lodgemeut on the.heights commanding the
harbor of Sevastopol.
The preparations have been some time in pro
gress, and the rumored visit of Generals Brown
and Canrobert to the Circasian coast, with 5000
men was really to secure a landing on the Cri
mea. It is then with the greatest satisfaction
that we now announce an enterprise correspon
ding to the dignity and ot the two
great western powers, England and France, and
so far justifying the confidence of Turkey. A
fortnight will probably elapse before any tidings
of the result can airive, but at an earlier date
we shall learn from the East that all the dispos
able forces have embarked for the neighborhood
ot Sevastopol. It is possible that the attack
may degenerate ruto a b'ockade; and, it we on
ly"persevere, we must ultimately starve out the
garrison ot this proud foitiess, but we hope to j
report an end ot the affair long before it comes I
to that, pass ; and, with the forces at our dispo- j
sal, there is no reason why every stone and
every plank in the fort shoultf not be at the mer
cy of the allied armies in a very few weeks or
even days. We may then, if we please, hold
the Crimea against the Russians as long as it
maj answer our purpose to retain a material
guarantee.
England. —The news of the bombardment ts
Greytown has reached England. The Liver
pool Times, after referring to the events that led
to the bombardment, says :
“ But we must say that the burning of a pal
try town for such an absurd insult to the Ameri
can flag, or to enforce the payment of such a tri
fling sum as twenty thosand dollars is one of the
most disgraceful events that could have occurred
in the nineteenth century. It has but one paral
lel in modern history, and that is the announce
ment of the ratification of a treaty between the
United States and Russia, in which the Czar’s
charge d’affa.rs at Washington, and Mr. Frank
lin Pierce’s Cabinet of the United States, mutu
ally bind themselves to perfect neutrality in the
present war. The neutrality of the States, pend
ing the contest in which England is engaged
with despotism, has been naturally and consist
ently anticipated: but it never has been hum
bly solicited, nor will it be mawkishly craved.”
As the American press generally, the Times
says, has denounced the atFair, it concludes that
it will be best to leave it to them to rebuke the
administration tor its diplomacy.
The piorcgation of Parliament, by the Queen
in person, had been postponed from the 12th to
the 15th iast.
There was considerable pressure in the Lon
don money market in consequence of the pay
ment of ,£500,000 on account of exchequer bonds.
The cholera was prevailing in many parts of
England.
Ireland.—-The reports of the partial appear
ance, in Ireland, of the potato blight, are becom
ing more numerous, and there seems to be no
longer any doubt that a portion ot the crop—per
haps an insignificant one—wiil be unfit for hu
man consumption. Private letters from Cork,
speak of the failure in several districts of that
county, and the accounts from the western pro
vince, although not so desponding, are by no
means as satisfactory as could be desired.
ISrAiN.—The government of Espartero appears
to be firmly established. Madrid is fast resuming
its wonted appearance, the barricades in the
streets having been taken down.
-It is reported that an armed mob had foi bidden
the departurne o: Queen Christina f rom Madrid
until she had disgorged soma of her ill-gotten
gains. A nottser report is that she has fled to the
frontier.
Some of the wealthy inhabitants of Barcelona
were leaving the city,tearful of an insurrection.
General Dolce has teen reinstated in his rank
as Director General of Cavalry.
It is stated that the Queen will shortly leave
Madrid, to take sea baths, accompanied by Es
partero.
On the night of the Ist inst., the ‘’defenders
of the barricades,” to the numcer of 2000, and
divided into three battalions, defiled under the
windows of the Queen, uttering loud shouts in
honor of her Majesty, who beheld the spectacle
from the balcony.
Egypt. —The governmSfc3t corn monopoly is
abolished. Free trade in cotton is re-establish
ed, and various taxes are modified.
Denmark —A* tlie sitting of the Frankfort
Diet on the 4th, Denmark gave in her complete
adhesion to tne Austro Prussian treaty.
It aly.— The cholera is increasing at Naples.
All quarters are broken off. No English resi
dents had been yet attacked by the cholera.
India. —Dates from Trieste to the 7th, have
been received. Accounts fiom Bombay to the
Ist July, indicate peace with Ava.
The Russians had taken the fortress of Eocan.
The Dutch expedition against Borneo has suc
ceeded.
The corvette Sumatfa was burned in Kema
roadstead, and the crew saved.
[Front Brou'n fy Shipley's Circular.]
The Markets.
Liverpool Mug 9. —Cqtton—sales of the three
| days 23,000 bales, of which speculators took
J 3,000 and exporters 2.000. The quotations are,
| New Orleans lair 6J, middling s§, Mobile fair
Si, middling 5 5-16; Upland lair 6i, middling
51; the market closing steady. The demand
wasgrod from the trade, and freely met by hoi- !
ders, with sales of 3,000 bales to speculators, and !
2,000 bales to exporters. Trade at Manchester
had slightly improved sinceonr last.
I From Richardson's Circular.]
Liverpool, Jug. 9.—Breadstuff's— Wheat has
advanced 2 cents; white 94 a 104, red and mixed
9 a 91. Flour is firm, and transactions moderate, j
Western Canal 31s. a 32s ; Philadelphia and Bal
timore 325. Gi. a 33s ; Ohio 345. Corn has ad- j
vanaed Is.—sales ot white at 345. Gd. a 355. 6d.
and yellow 355. a 365.
Latest by Telegraph.
The War.—A despatch from Vienna, dated
Tuesday ’says that the Russian rear guaid was
about half way between Buchirest and Busco.
| On the 3d the Turkish army hod not entered
| Bucharest, and it was said that a retrograde
movement was being made to Moldavia.
Power or the Imagination. —Dr. Noble, in
a very able and analytic lecture at Manchester,
‘‘On the Dynamic influences of Ideas,’’ told a
good anecdote of M. Boutibouse, a French sa-
I vant, in illustration of the power of imagination.
' As Dr. Noble says—“M. Boutibouse, served in
Napoleon’s army, and was present at many en
gagements during the early partot last century.
At the battle of Wagram, in 1809, he was en-
I gaged in the Iray; the ranks around him had been
terribly thinned by shot, and at sunset he was
| nearly isolated. While reloading his musket, he
| was shot down by a cannon-bait. His impres
-1 sion was, that the ball had passed through his
legs below his knees, separating them from tne
thighs; for he suddenly sank down, shortened, as
he believed, to the extent, of about a foot in mea
surement. The trunk of the body fell backwards
on the ground, and the senses were completely
paralj zed by the shock. Thus he lay motionless
amongst the wounded and dead during the rest
of the night, not daring to move a muscle, lest
the loss of blood should be fatally increased. He
felt no pain, but this he attributed to the stunning
effect of the shock to the brain and nervous sys
tem.
“At early dawn he was aroused by one of the
medical staff, who came round to help the wound
ded. ‘‘What’s the matter with you, my good
fellow?’ said the surgeon. ‘Ah ! touch me ten
derly,’ replied Mr. Boutibouse, ‘I beseech you; a
cannon ball has carried off my legs.’ The sur
geon examined the limbs referred to, and then
giving him a good stake, said, with a joyous
laugh, |‘Get up with you, you have nothing the
matter with you.’ M. Boutibouse immediately
sprang up in utter astonishment, and stood firmly
on the legs which he had thought lost forever.
‘I felt more thankful,’ said M. Boutibouse, ‘{ban
I had ever done in the whole course of .my life
before. I had not a wound about me. I had,
indeed, been shot down by an immense cannon
ball; but instead of passing through the legs, as 1
firmly believed it had, the ball had passed under
my feet, and had plowed a hole in the earth
beneath, at least a foot in depth, into which my
leefc suddenly sank, giving me the idea that I bad
been thus shortened by the loss of my legs.’ ”
The truth of this story is vouched lor by Dr.
IN oble. —Jt hence um.
-UiGLiWTA, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 24, 1854.
Soe first page of Daily, thi7morning.
* Yellow Fever.
That this much dreaded disease has made its
apperance in Savannah and Charleston, there is
now no doubt. The Mercury acknowledges
some deaths among the shipping, while the
Standard says no deaths have occurred either on
shipboard or in the city. Private intelligence
from that City mentions fourteen cases and four
deaths up to the 21st inst. The Courier is silent
on the subject. Why this silence ? A state
ment of facts will go far to remove the daily re
ports spread abroad, which grow as they travel,
and would not injure the trade of the city half
as much, as the present uncertainty in which
the public are left by the silence of the Charles
ton press. We hope some one of them will
come out and give a true statement of deaths and
cases in that city.
We are pleased to see that two of the Savan
nah papers, the Georgian and Courier have come
out and given all the information within their
reach. We hope the Board of Health of Savan
nah will adopt the suggestion of the Georgian,
and make up their reports daily.
Yellow Fever.— ln the report of the Board
of Health for the week ending on Wednesday,
published in the Georgian of the next day, there
were three cases of yellow fever. Since that
time there has been a good deal of uneasiness,
not to sav excitement on the subject, in our
midst. As the result of that excitement rumors,
the most exaggerated have been flying in every
direction. To ascertain the truth, amid so many
conflicting statements, we have found utterly
impossible : This must be our excuse for remain
ing silent, when it is clearly a matter of great
importance that the facts, as they exist, should
be given to the public. It may be very easy for
readers abroad and at home, anxiously looking to
our columns for information, to complain that so
little has been given them. But if they knew
how little, in the absence of daily reports of the
Board of Health, can be ascertained, they would,
perhaps, excuse silence, when its alternative is
the promulgation of false statements.
That there has been for several days an un
usual amount of fatal sickness in Savannah, is
unquestionable. We have evidence of this in
the fact, which has just reached us, that there
were last Sunday 18, and last Monday 9 inter
ments. How many of these were yellow fever
cases we shall not know until the Board of Health,
to-morrow, gives us their weekly report. Yes
terday (Tuesday) the Physicians were, we un
derstand, agreed in stating that the disease was
subsiding—an inference which the public would
itself make from the falling offin the interments
from Sunday to Monday.
We hear of many persons who are leaving the
c'ty on account of the presence of disease in our
midst. To all who feel alarmed we think this
course decidedly advisable, provided they can go
consistently with the duties which they owe to
others. Ihe lact that they are heightened ex
poses them to danger, when as regards others
there may be no ground for apprehension.
We would most respectfully, yet most earn
estly urge upon the Board of Health the impor
tance of relieving public anxiety by publishing a
daily report while there shall continue to beany
cases of yellow fever in the city. That reports
will be daily and hourly promulgated is absolute
ly certain. Is it not better then that they should
go forth in such a form as shall silence exaggera
tion ?— Sav. Georgian, 22 d ins/..
Howard Association.
As the existence of Yellow Fever in Savannah
is no longer a matter of doubt, and as there is
likely to be much suffering among the sick and
destitute, we would respectfully suggest the pro
priety of organizing a Howard Association, for
the purpose of co-operating with the Authorities
and Board of Health. Such an organization
would be of immense service in ascertaining the
number of cases of sickness, and providing for
the relief o' the unfortunate. At present, we
have no doubt the disease is increased and aggra
vated by the fact that nurses cannot be obtained
except at enormous prices, and that in many ca
ses persons find it difficult to get even the neees
saries.of life. The alarm, too, is much greater
than if authentic reports were daily made of the
number of cases and interments. We have no
disposition to find the slightest fault either with
the Authorities or the Board of Heatth for the
course they have pursued. It is true we do not
agree with them in regard to the policy adopted,
but the present is not the time to discuss that
matter. The disease is upon us, and it will as
sume the iorm of an epidemic unless the proper
means for its suppression are used. We do be
lieve that the feeling of aiarm is unnecessarily
great. It is doubtless occasioned by the exagge
rated and faise reports which are daily circulated
both in and out of the city. The occasion re
quires the utmost coolness and deliberation.
We therefore suggest that His Honor the Mayor
call a meeting at once .o effect an organization
of a nature sufficiently thorough and extensive
to embrace the whole city, and that will insure
daily reliable reports of the disease.—Soy. Jour.,
22d inst.
Since the above was written, we have receiv
ed the Charleston papers of yesterday morning
i which contain the report of the Board of Health
for the week ending on the 19th inst., from
i which it appears the deaths sum up 30, of which
I 16 were whites, and 14 blacks and colored—four
| ol the whites by Yellow Fever.
The City Register’s report is also published,
i from which we learn, from the 11th May to 22d
inat, that the total number of cases in that cit
from Yellow Fever have been twenty-three,
and the number of deaths nine. Os these cases
| eight occurred in the city, and fifteen amongsai
, lots on shipboard, four ot the fifteen being im
ported.
The following eitide we take from the Cou
lter oi yesterday. We will make no comments
on it, further than to say “io our country friends”
they can read it over, and judge tor themselves
whether there was no foundation for the reports
which have been in circulation for the past
week, as regards the health of Cbaileston. If
the Charleston press would give us daily repoits
of Yellow Fever cases, perhaps all apprehensions
I might be removed. Until they do, the blame
for all exaggerated reports must rest on them and
the Board of Health of that ei y.
I The Health of our Crrr.—The weekly Bill
of Mortality, and the special report ot the City
Register to the Board of Health, both of which
we subjoin, will we trust, quiet the apprehen
sions of our country friends, who seem to have
become unnecessarily alarmed at the sanitary
condition of our city. That yellow fever has
existed at the Lazaretto for some time, and that
fatal cases have occurred there among persons ar
riving from ports in Cuba, has been well known
to the majority of our citizens, although they
have not been reported by the City Register, in
asmuch as it is not customary to do so 'No
alarm, however, was felt, as the same thine
yearly occurs not only at this, but at all the At
lanhc ports The city, also, enjoyed unprece
dented health, and up to the date of his making up
his report for the week ending the 12th inst. the
City Register had heard of no deaths from that
disease in the city. This week four have oc
curred the circumstances attending which are
duly set forth in ms report to the. Board of Health
but even this can excite no alarm, as it is a well
known fact that sporadic cases annually occur in
every Atlantic city without exception, and that
the only victims are those who injudiciously ex
pose thernselves, or whose general habits are ini
mical to health.
We have, also, been positively assured by em
inent members of the Medical Profession, and
their views are fully endorsed by the City Reg
ister, who has dilligentiy ivestigated the whole
subject, that the disease is entirely sporadic, and
gives no indications of becoming epidemic.—
J*hould it, however, do so, prompt notice of the
fact will be given, as there is no desire whatev
er to conceal anything frrom the public, as is
evident from the very |full report Dr. Dawson
has presented to the Board of Health. At present
Charlesson is the healthiest city in the Union,
and there is every prospect of her continuing to
be so. Our country Iriends, therefore, we trusts
will not be deterred from visiting us by repoits
which have no foundation but in the minds of
•vil-disposed people,whose sole business, it seems,
is to propagate false rumors.
From the very first appearance of the disease
at the Quarantine ground until the present time,
we have daily kept ourselves advised as to its
progress, but did not make any mention thereof,
as we do not conceive it to be the duty of pub
lic journalists to excite the fears of any, when
no real danger exists. Our investigations, how
ever, will not be relaxed, and should an epidem
ic appear we shall then as fearlessly caution all
unacclimated persons to stay away from the
city, as we now pronounce the slanders current
in neighboring cities against its health to be
without foundation.
Under our telegraghic head will be found a
despatch from Savannah, from a reliable souice,
to which we would call the attention of om
readers who feel an interest'in the progress ot I
the Yellow Fever in that city.
More New Cotton.
Col. F. Clanton of Columbia county, sent to
this city yesterday, two more loads of New Cot
ton. We did not learn whether it was sold or
not.
Vegetable Dentifrice.
Messrs. N. J. Fogarty & Co., have presented
us with a t ox*of superior tooth-powder manufac
tured by themselves, bearing the above name.—
It is a choice article and has already become so
popular, that we understand Messrs. Fogarty &
Co., are almost unable to supply the demand for
it.
Valuable Plantation.
We would call attention to the advertisement
Mr. N. Cruger, of Savannah, offering for sale a
valuable plantation in Baker county.
We would invite attention to a very ably
drawn memorial to the Legislature of South
Carolina, on the subject of the Augusta Bridge,
which we publish elsewhere in our columns this
morning.
The Oldest Clergyman. —A correspondent
of the N. York Evangelist states tint the Rev.
John Sawyer, of Garland, Me., is in all probabil
ity the oldest officiating clergyman in the United
States. He says that “ Father Sawyer will be
ninety-nine years old next October. He was
born in Hebron, Ct., on the 9th of October, 1755
He was ordained in 1787, and has ever since
been active in Lis duties of the Christian minis
try. He recently preached three.seimons on one
Sabbath.”
Fulfilment of Prophecy. —An exchange
in noticing the marriage of Mr. Arthur C. Lyon
and Miss Cornelia A. Lamb, says :
Who now can doubt the lulfiiment of the an
cient pidphecy which declares ‘ The lion and
the lamb shall lie down together ?”
We trust that the experience of the happy
pair may as fully verify the concluding clause of
the same prophecy,and that in due time “A lit
tle child shall lead them.”
[communicated]
Mr, Editor: —Being desirous of improving
my soil, but from the different opinions given in
regard to the use of Lime, I am unable to decidei
whether it is most profitable to use Stone Lime
or Shell Marl unburnt. Can you give me light
on the subject, and oblige
A Pint Woods Farmer.
The Weather, Crops, &c. —During the past
wuek om city and the region round about have
been visited with copious and refreshing show
ers, which have had a decidedly cooling effect
upon the temperature of the atmosphere, and as
far as our advices have extended have somewhat
improved the crops, particularly of corn, which
we are now encouraged to believe will be much
nearer an average one than was supposed a few
weeks since. Cotton is being somewhat injured
by the rust in many places, and complaints of its
shedding are general. The prevailing opinion is
that the yield in this section must necessarily be
materially cut off.
1 he health of our city and the .adjoining coun
try continues to be remarkably good, comparing
favorably, we think, with that of any portion of
the State, or, we believe we might say, States.—
Columbus Enquirer, 22d inst.
The Weather, Crops, &c. —Since our last
issue we have had generally throughout the
county abundant rains, and the prospect is now
flattering, that the injury to the corn crop (which
in some sections of the county was as great as
that by the drought last year) may be counter
balanced by a heavy pea, potatoe and turnip
crop. Cotton looks well and although the w£ed
is generally smaller than usual there is little
doubts of an average yield ,—Santlersville Geor
gian, 22d insi.
A Colored Duel at New Orleans. The
i old Louisiana Race Course was on Monday a
scene of some excitement to a party of colored
, genamen, who went there (or the purpose of wit
nessing a hostile meeting between two of their
lriends. One of the hostile party is called Adol
phus, and boasts of being a native of Yazoo, the
other is a creole of Louisiana; and is named
Eugene. Both are free and somewhat aristo
cratic in their beaiing, and both loved—well
but, perchance, not wisely. Within the limits
of faubourg Marigny, lived the lady of their love,
a mulatto beauty ot pert and coquettish inclin-
and the susceptible hearts of Adolphus and
Eugene in turn acknowledged the supremacy of
her charms It so fell out that they both visit
ed her on Sunday evening last, and their rivalry
becoming apparent, a quarrel ensued between
them in the most natural manner imaginable.
I Having a nice and punctilious sense of honor j
! they agreed to meet on the following morning :
on the Louisiana Race Course, and with blood !
wipe out their deadly feud. The choice of the 1
weapons fell to the lot of the creole darky, and
| he selected email swords a clss of instruments in
| the use of which he considered himself tolerably
j skilled. As Adolphus knew nothing about
; small sword exercise, he went out with a friend
and practised ail night, but as Jus progress and
skill was by no means rapid, he was advised to 1
make a savage dash at his antagonist, and ter- 1
minate the difficulty at once.
. Accordingly, when the parties met. and the *
signal to commence was given, Adolphus with !
desperate determination, made a lunge at Eugene !
and stuck his sword through the thick muscles'
at the juncture of the neck and shoulder. Thus I
terminated the light, though, for the honor of '
| creole courage, we feel obliged to state that
I Eugene, badly wounded as he was, wished to
have a second opportunity of doing justice at
once to bis skill and love. The seconds, how
ever, considered that as blood had been drawn,
the parties were bound to be satisfied, and so the
matter for the time being, ended. We presume
that Adolphus will in future be the declared I
hero ot fauburg Marigny, and the beau of its !
yellow belle.— N. O. Delia. ’
Preserved Tomatos. —A friend in this city
nascent us the following receipe lor preserving
tomatos, a most healthy and nutricious vegeta
ble) which places it in the power of every
housekepper to have upon her table every day
in the year, fresh at a nominal expense. We
have availed ourselves of his information so kin
dly furdished.
“Take ripe tomatos, wash them in cold water,
and boil them for twenty minutes; have your
cans (or bottles) prepared in the mean time by
placing them in cold water in a bailer; put your
tomotos in the cans with a very little salt and
pepper, and set the boiler with them over a slow
fire, where let them remain, until
boils, at which time cork and seal them Hermet
ically. By this simple process you can have the
vegetable always ready for your table, with all
the freshne*; and flavor of the season. k
BY TELEGRAPH.
Yellow Fever in Savannah.
Savannah, Aug. 23—1 50 p. rn.
The Board of Health report sixty-seven deaths
during the last week, including six colored, for
ty-four of which were from Yellow Fever. The
Board will make daily reports hereafter. The
disease is subsiding, and there are only a few
new cases to-day. Many of our citizens are
leaving, particularly females. There is no gen
eral alaim. The disease is confined to the
eastern part of the city.
Charleston, Aug. 23.
Cotton. —Sales to-day 828 bales at 7 to 10
cents. Ten bales of the new ciop were sold for
101 cents.
New York, Aug. 23.
Cotton. —The market is quiet and firm. Flour
has advanced; Ohio $9.75 to $10.12.
The Arabia sailed to day with $1,150 000 in
specie.
Alfred Edwards & Co., Silk Jobbers, Las failed
for $500,000.
N .p” ~W ill iY
In the last number of the Home Journal, he
takes formal leave ot his readers and his voca
tion in a letter of great beauty, and of pathetic
interest. We quote below a brief passage ot
this letter, in which the dying man with a phi!
osophy truly admirable, seeks consolation and
elevation of spirit even from that power which
is absorbing his life •
But consumption mourned over a9 it is, see ns
i to me a gentle untying of the knot of life, in
stead of the sudden and harsh tearing asunder
jof its threads by other disease—a tenderness in
| the destroying angel, as it were, which greatly
softens, foi some his inevitable errand to all. Ic
is a decay with little or no pain, insensible al
most in its progress. delayed, sometimes, year
alter year, in its more fatal approaches, And it
is not alone in its indulgent prolonging and de
leting, that consumption is tike a blessing. The
cords which it first loosens are the coarser one*
most confining to the mind. The weight ot the
material senses is gradually taken from the soul
with the lightening of their food and the lessen
ing of their strength. Probably, till he owns
himself an invalid no man h;,s ever given the
wings of his spirit room enough—few, if any,
have thought to adjust the ministerings to body
and soul so as to subdue the senses to the second
| ary place and play. With illness enough for
this, and not enough to distres or weaken—
with consumption, in other words, as moat com
monly experienced—the mind becomes con
scious ot a wonderfully new freedom and pre
dominance. Things around alter their val lie
Estimates ot persons and pursuits strangely
change Nature seems as newly beautiful as
if a fim had fallen from the eyes. The purer
affections, the simpler motives, the humbler and
more secluded reliances for sympathy, are found
to have been the closest linked with thoughts
bolder and freer. Who has not wondered at
the cheerfulness of consumptive persons? It is
because, with the senses kept under by invalid
j treatment, there is no “depression of spirits.”—
With careful regimen and the 6"ysten; purified
and disciplined, life, what there is of it, is in
the most exilerating balance, of its varied pro*
I portions. Death is not dreada 1 where there
j is, thus, such a conscious breaking through
j of the wings of another life.
Woman. —Theodore Parker, in a .recent “ser
mon,” uttered the following, touching woman.
There are three classes of women :
First, domestic drudges, who are wholly taken
up in the materia! details of their house keeping
and'child keeping. Their house keeping is a
trade, and no more : and after they have done
that, there is no more which they can do. In
New England it is a small class, getting less
every year:
Next there are domestic dolls, wholly taken
up with the vain show which delights the eye
and.ear. They are ornaments of the estate. Sim
ilar toys, I suppose, will one day be more cheap
ly manufactured at Paris, Nuremberg at Frank
fort on the Main, and other toy shops in Europe,
out of wax,, papier inache, and sold at B iston at
the haberdashers by the dozen. These ask
nothing beyond their functions oa m> Is, and
hate attempts to elevate woman kind.
But there are domestic woman, who order a
house and are not mere drudges; adorn it, and
mere dolls, but woman. Some of these
—a great many of them—conjoin the useful of
the drudge and the beautiful of the doll into one
womanhood, and have a great deal left besides.
They are fully taken up with their function as
housekeeper, wife and mother.
Spiritual Book-making.— Hon. N. P. Tall
madge writes to the National Intelligencer about
a wonderful book which is in course of prepara
tion by a spiritualist nam d Linton. Mr. Tall
madgesays: “In November last, Mr. Linton
was directed to right no more miscellaneous
communications, but to give his attention to
writing a book, which would be dictated to him
by spiritual influence. He procured, accordin'*
to direction, a thick bound blank volume of the
largest ruled letter sheet, and in that volume
commenced writing. The volume itself is al
most a miracle. The chirography is beautiful.
His handwriting as a medium is totally different
from bis ordinary handwriting, and can be read as
easily as piinfc. He writes with a steel pen, ami
the original writing is in this bound volume. A
large portion of the book has b en written in
my presence. When Isa w it, there was nearly
four hundred pag->3 written, and the mast expert
copyist could not do it more accurately or more
neatly. Ihe medium knows nothing of what
is written, except as, word by worn, it is im
pressed on mm. Many hioimy and scientific
gentlemen have seen it. ami pronounce itbeyor \
human conception, i. he style is simple anu
faultless, and .Adapted to every capacity.”
COMBS & CO.'S EXPRESS.
Consignees per Combs & Co.’s Express, Aug. 2;».
B. F. Livermore; Mrs. E. Ewing; L. K.Caho
W. Hudg’ns; J. P. Lopez; Watts„& Robinson; J’
C. I' argo; B. AJ. A. Holt; L. S. Morgan; Graves
A Marks; C. A. Piatt A Co.; Miss Mary P. Robin
son; A. B. Coolcdgc; Luther Bill; Jno McMaater.
J. H. Mathews; Lamback A Cooper; J. M. Gibbs:
j John Rivers; Mr. Wilkinson, Thos. Ryan; P. l>.
j Marsh; 11. T. llall; Hon. R.Toombs; A. K. Childs;
| Barrett & Carter; J. S. Peterson; Wm. Garvin
: P. Brenner; E. Saulesbury; Jas. F. Coopar; A.J.
I N °hle; R. J. Morgan; Traux A Vanderberg; Ju
j Hus Sinenski; Casper Fohr; E. L. Rav; E. E. C.
j Mitchner; Coffin A Beals; W\ M. Yarnum; W. II
AJ. Turpin ; John J. Gresham; Hr. Bloutt; J«.c
E Raines, J. IS or cross; Rev. W.J. Saunders; Wm,
McEvoy; N. J. Fogarty; Russell A Renneau; Jas
J. Hart; Daniel Lodd; Geo. Young; Isaac Levy;
P. Rossignol. M. L. Allieud.
, Arrivals at the Stoue Mountain Hotel.
Clark A Hitchcock, Proprietors.
! August 21, 1854.
j L. C. Skinner and Lady, Augusta; J. Nelson, do.;
[ J- C. Clark, do.; A C. Rudolph, do.; C. H. Kenny,
I Ala ; S. C. Itomelin, do; J. C. Bradford, La.; T.
j M. Clark, Atlanta; W. Rutherford, Georgia; T. B.
! Swanson, do.; N. L. Hutchinson, Lawrenceville
| D. W. Spencer, do.; D. Roper, Eatonton ; Miss a!
L. Hudson, do.; B. W. Adams, do.; C. Shall and
Lady, Savannah; S. Dunlap and servant, South
Carolina; R. Robert, Griffin.
Paid for WOOLLEN, LINEN,
COTTON and sAk RAGS, by
E. CAMPFIELD,
ian 20 ts Corner Riverand Jackson st
PremiumJßaguerreanGalier
j tirtn of Tucker & Perkins having
been dissolved by limitation last February The un
dersigned will continue to practice the art of'Dag
uerreotypingin all its various branches, and from
experience ho feels confident of
his ability to please the most fastidious
The pictures now being taken at this Gallery are
pronounced b T those who are judges, superior in
tone and life-like expression, to any ever before
produced in Augusta. Isaac Tuckfr
• N - B a Arties purchasing Stock wfn please beer
in mind that materials are sold atlower rates than
at any other house this side of New York. may
n.ARI)E.\ SEEDS FOR - FALL PLANTING.
, —Large Flat Dutch, Ruta Baga, Red Top,
-Largo Globe, and the Seven Top Turnip, just rt*-
ceived from Tennessee. Also, Large Drumhead,
Tork, Green Glazed, Buncombe, Flat Dutch, and
Large Bergen Cabbage ; Carrots ; Beets; Kales,
assorted; Radish; Mustard, &c. A full supply of
all the above now on hand, and for sale by
WM. HAINES,
aug23 lm 217 Brcad-tf, Augusta,