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The Atlanta Bank.
So much has recently been said, through
Southern and Western newspapers, concerning
the Atlanta Bank, that the subject has assumed
a degree of importance sufficient to justify a
somewhat extended inquiry into the facts of the
case—more extended perhaps than we 6hail
have space to make in to-day’s paper.
The nature of the subject, moreover, is such
as to awaken public attention and should elicit
calm, dispassionate, unprejudiced investigation,
since there are few things in which the public
may be supposed to have a deeper interest than
in discouraging and avoiding unsound Bank is
sues, on the one hand, and of sustaining a sound
and reliable currency, on the other.
We know very well that where the standing
and responsibility of a Banking institution is
brought in question, it is one of the first duties
of an independent press, to ferret out and expose
abuses where found to exist, but it is not less a
duty to vindicate its character from unjust at
tacks, so far as a plain statement of facts, and
inferences fairly deducible from them, may con
stitute a vindication. We enter into no thought
less and unqualified defence of the Bank—we
wish it to rest entirely upon its own merits.
We simply desire that perfect fairness be observ
ed on all sides. And we assure our readers that
so soon as any evidence comes within our
knowledge, leading reasonably to the conclusion
that George Smith & Co., intend to do a fraudu
lent business, or any business not fairly within
the purview of the charter, we shall be prompt
to give it publicity through our columns and to
denounce the institution in such terms as the
safety of the public might require.
At the time the Atlanta Bank charter was
about being taken up, as well as since that time,
we, together with other citizens of Atlanta,
feeling an interest in the prosperity of the place,
sought, and have continued to seek, all the in
formation, from different quarters, necessary to
a proper understanding of the responsibility,
business character and privious history, of Geo.
Smith, the principle stockholder. And in this
connection, it is due to Mr. Smith, and the
officers of the Bank, to say that they have
shown no disposition to avoid investigation, but
have rather courted the most rigorous scrutiny.
From every direction in which inquiries were
made the responses were entirely satisfactory
both as to Mr. Smith’s integrity as a man, his
wealth, and ability to redeem whatever issues
of paper he might make in accordance with the
provisions of the charter. Accordingly we could
not help looking with suspicion upon the vague
yet virulent attacks which were made upon Mr.
Smith, and the Atlanta Bank, especially when
these assaults w'ere most vigorous in quarters
from whence opposition and embarrassment
thrown in the way of any Bank which might
be located at this point, were generally expect
ed by our citizens, even before the charter was
taken up by the present stockholders. Indeed
if we look to the localities in the West and in
this State, where these assaults have been fier
cest, it is easy to see that local interest and pro
fessional jealousy are both most zealously enlist
ed on the side of the attack, and this, in our
opinion, is the great moving power in the op
position.
In. answer to inquires addressed to the Presi
dent of the American F.xchange Bank, of New
York, one of the oldest and most reputable
Banking Institutions in the United States, the
following letter was received :
American Exchange Bank, )
New York, March 14, 1853. 1
Dear Sir:—Your letter dated 9th inst., is re
ceived. You inquire the ability of George
Smith to carry out the requisition of a Bank
charter, but do not inform mo what those re
quisitions are. I however state with pleasure
that Mr. Smith is represented to be a wealthy
man, and I have no doubt of the fact, and believe
him fully competent to carry out any under
taking he will engage in. Respectfully,
D. Leavitt, Presidenf.
In answer to inquiries of a more recent date,
the following letter has been received, which
we copy entire:
Office of Messrs. Duncan, Shf.rkan &)
Co., Bankers, N. Y., June 27, 1853. J
Dear Sir:—ln reply to yours of the 23d inst.,
we beg to say that the writer has had the pleas
ure of knowing Mr. George Smith, about whom
you enquire, for many years past—has had ex
tensive Banking transactions with him during
that period—has had opportunity to know much
of the extent and character of Mr. Smith’s
business, which to his knowledge has been
Banking entirely, and of a nature to be of im
mense convenience and value to the localities in
Illinois and Wisconsin, where his Banking offi
ces are established.
■ai believe Mr. Smith to be possessed of a
large fortune—a gentleman of perfect straight
forwardness in business transactions, of grea*:
experience and sagacity, and abundantly good,
in our estimation, for all engagements he will
be likely to contract. Your-ob’t. serv’ts.,
Duncan, Sherman & Co.
Such testimony as the above from probably
the wealthiest private Banking House in the
Union —a House whose circular letters of credP
are bankable in every part of the civilized
world, should, and will with reflecting men, re
move whatever doubts may have been excited
as to the character and ability of Geo. Smith,
by the abusive newspaper paragraphs which
have been set afloat in order to prejudice the
public mind against the Atlanta Bank.
Communications from other sections have
been fully corroborative of all contained in the
letter quoted above.
T'ne citizens of Atlanta have reason to con
gratulate themselves, we think, that so wealthy
and able a financier has located a Banking
House among them, and have good grounds for
assurance that the institution will be conducted
legitimately and with a due regard to the inter
ests of the place.
The responsibility of Geo. Smith is so well
known among financial men, that very little has
been seriously said against him in this respect,
the assailants confining themselves principally
to intimations of fraudulent intentions. This is
an exceedingly vague and indefinite charge. It
might he brought against the most pure and
honorable man in the world and be impossible
to disprove, except so far as clear record of his
past life should serve as a guarantee that his fu
ture acts would be equally correct. The revil
ers of Geo. Smith have not descended at all to
particulars. They have not pointed to a single
act in his life that they pretend has been fraudu
lent. All the fraud lays in the future. He las
been doing an extensive Banking business all
his life and has never been detected in anything
like fraud, but he is going to perpetrate fraud
sometime hereafter. Well, we are disposed to
hold every man innocent until he is proved
guilty, instead of reversing the old principle, as
we are required to do by Thompson and oth
ers.
But let us glance briefly at the past career ol
Geo. Smith, and see if he is a man whose acts
have been of a character to excite distrust.
A Scotchman by birth, he seems from a!! ac
counts to combine in a marked degree, the char
acteristics of his nation—caution, discretion, and
sound common sense. He settled in the North-
West, at an early day, when that region had
little wealth and no credit. The vast resources
of that country only required capita! and credit
to be fully developed, and to make it one of the
most prosperous portions of the Union. Mr.
Smith accordingly opened Banking Homes in
Chicago and Milwaukee. By the exercise of
prudence and foresight which were extremely
necessary in the state of society it the West, he
not only added largely to his own fortune, but
contributed greatly, by the Banking facilities he
was enabled to afford to the developement of
the natural trade and commerce of the country.
His operations steadily increasing, he carried on
for many years almost the entire Banking busi
ness of Illinois and Wisconsin. The North
west gradually grew in wealth and credit, and
it is believed by many in that section, that had
it not been for the facilities afforded by Mr.
Smith, those States would have been many years
behind their present position. Geo. Smith’s
circulation in 1847-8 is supposed to have bepu
about two millions of dollars, widely scatteied
not only throughout the States of Illlinois a<nl
Wisconsin, but in portions of Michigan, Indiana,
Missouri and lowa. About this time a charge
was made against him in Thompson’s Reporter,
and re-published in the Western newspapers,
that he was not personally liable for this im
mense circulation, and that he would some day
quit the country and leave his bill-holders in the
lurch. On this the greatest excitement and
alarm spread over the country, which was fol
lowed by one of the heaviest runs ever made on
• any Banking institution in the U. States. The
anticipations of his enemies were not fulfilled.
Instead of closing his doors, and refusing to re
deem his issues, he at once advertised that for
the convenience of the public he would keep
them open several hours in each day longer than
usual. Day after day his bills were poured in
upon him from every direction, and in less than
a fortnight, it is said he redeemed nearly a mil
lion and a half of his circulation.
Considering that this storm came upon him
suddenly and unexpectedly—that his Banking
Houses were far distant from any point where
gold could be readily obtained, or where his
assets could be converted into money, we can
not help lo -king upon this achievement as one
of the greatest triumphs in the annals of-Bank
ing. It was so looked upon at the time. The
Western press and the public were loud in their
laudations of the man who had passed through
such an ordeal and come out unscathed. The
name and credit of George Smith were estab
lished and his issues once more circulated freely,
the people at the West regarding them as sale
as the notes of any Bank in the Union.
We find in “Kennedy’s Western Review and
Counterfeit Detector” for the present month,
published in Pittsburgh, an article referring to
this same affair, which agrees with our own in
formation, except as to the amount redeemed,
which is placed too low in the “Review.” We
give the article entire:
“Thompson’s “New York Reporter” is put
ting its best licks into George Smith and his
bank at Atlanta In the last number there
are no less than eight paragraphs in refer
ence to that concern, every one of which is
more or less depreciatory. Now, we recollect
when Tom, Dick and Harry, and the whole
West, made an onslaught on the Wisconsin
Marine and Fire Insurance Co ., of which Smith
was the principal manager and owner, and were
to run him to the girth, that George
stood up to the rack like a man, and never flinch
ed from the payment of every liability present
ed, to the amount of $600,000 or SBOO,OOO. In
short, he went throgh the ordeal triumphantly.
If there have been any streaks of poverty or de
falcation in Smith’s course, since then, we do not
know it; and if he chose to subscribe for the
ivhole of the stock of a bank, recently and le
gally chartered by the State of Georgia, and
thus cut out Thompson, perhaps, and a num
ber of others, from doing just what he (Smith)
has done, we can’t see the propriety of raising
the hue and cry of mad dog and swindling.
If all that Thompson has said about Smith,
were said by Smith and others about Thomp
son and the banks he is concerned in, there
would be a good deal of ill humor in the cellar
at the corner of Broadway and Wall streets.”
Unluckily for the disinterestedness of this
man Thompson, the publisher of the Bank Note
Reporter, whose attacks have been so frequent
and virulent, and who is now sued by Mr.
Smith for libel, it appears he is more directly
concerned in whatever may turn out to the pre
judice of Geo. Smith, than he is willing to tell us
in his Reporter. Some ten or twelve months
ago, Thompson established his son-in-law, as a
Broker in Chicago. Prior to this settlement of
his son-in-law, the Bank Note Reporter duly
quoted all Smith’s Banks, including the old
Wisconsin and the Bank of America, in Wash
ington, but since then he not only drops these,
but refuses to quote the Atlanta Bank, although
regulary incorporated and having similar condi
tions and provisions to other Banks of this
State, for the security and protection of the bill
holders. The inference is natural und reason
able—the Detector and his son-in-lew find
Smith & Co. a thorn in their side, too well es
tablished and too wealthy, and must be injured
some way or another. Hence his attacks upon
the Atlanta Bank, and his efforts to prejudice
the public mind against its issues. We might
go farther and inquire as to this Wall-street
Broker's (Thompson’s) connection-with the
“ National Bank” in Washington City, byway
of showing the character of the man, who has
set himself up as an abuser not only of the At
lanta Bank, but all the Banks in Georgia, as
well as our State Legislature. But we will re
j serve this for some future occasion,
j Mr. Smith is owner of the Bank of America,
iof Illinois, and the Marin*jt& Fire Insurance
! Bank of Wisconsin, both organized under the
respective Free Banking laws of these States.
His fortune is made, but being an enterpriing
man, he must find employment lor his capital,
and no reasonable man will blame him for
seeking what he considers a good market, and
locating a portion of his wealth in Atlanta. We
have no doubt that he will do a legitimate
Banking business at this point, to the full extent
of the business requirements of the locality. If
he chooses to circulate a portion of his surplus
issues in the West, or anywhere else, where he
1 has cradit, it issimply doing what every Bank
i in the Unisn would do if it had the credit
I make its issues circulate. To bring the matter
| home—do not the Banks in Georgia and South
Carolina have agents for the circulation of their
notes, not only throughout these States, but in
the States of North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Florida and wherever else they may have
credit?
Within a year past a large number of petty
Banks have sprung up in Illinois and Wiscon
sin, under the new Banking laws of those States.
They naturally feel jealous of the mamoth in
stitutions of George Smith, and have got a num
ber of the press to side with them, in the work
of endeavoring to destroy the public confidence
which is so strong in his favor. But their at
tempts, though carried on with vigorous perse
verance, have proved futile. As an evi fence of
this we observe by the Chicago Democrat, that
the Banks of that city, the merchants and citi
zens are now taking the Atlanta bills freely.
In conclusion we w r ould call the attention of
readers to the notice of the Atlanta Bank in our
advertising columns, by which it will be seen
that the institution is opened and prepared for
Banking business. It will be seen that the bills
are redeemable in New York at three fourths of
one per cen. discount, orone-f'ourth percent, less
discount than the bills of any other Bank in
Georgia.
To D estrov Bonn Worms. —A correspondent
of the Mississippian, discoursing on this impor
tant subject, says:
Various means have been resorted to without
any, or at best, but partial effect to accomplish
the purpose. A burning of a portion of the flies
which produce the worm on log fires, or ensnar
ing some with plates of molasses, stiil leaves a
sufficient number to generate worms enough to
make great havoc in the fields. The only way
to avoid the evil, is to apply some general reme
dy which will prevent the fly from approaching
the plant altogether. The writer of this was
led by accident to the discovery, in 1850 of such
a remedy as lie believes will answer tnat pur
pose, at least his experience that year was such
as to convince his own mind.
The period of the year is now approaching,
when anxiety in regard to the crop is predomi
nant with all, and he gives it to the community
for what it may be worth : A smoke of tar and
sulphur, made between sunset and dark every
night fora week, the last of July or first in Au
gust ; and then thrice a week afterwards, for two
or three weeks, has been found, by actual expe
rience. effectually to prevent the flies from de
positing their eggs on the plant. The fires
should be placed one or. every five acres at least,
and nearer if convenient. An old stump or rot
ten log of any kind will do to make the fire
with.
President Pierce and General Scott. —lt
is said, in the Crystal Palace, last Thursday,
when President Pierce met General Scott he
shook him waimly by the hand, and said : “ Ah,
General, I never expected to meet you on the
I same platform l' l
JL_l_gii
[Frotn the Central Georgian .]
Scott Men Posts.
The Convention which assembled in Milledge
ville on the 22nd June, nominated the Hon.
Charles J. Jenkins as their candidate for Gov
ernor. At that Convention, a few Scott Whigs,
by appointment, and by proxy, attended, much
against the generally expressed wishes of a
large portion ot the party, who mistrusted the
ultimate designs of the leaders of the movement.
Several prominent and influential Scott Whigs,
delegates, refused to go into the Convention, af
ter arriving at Milledgeville, fully satisfied that
the getters up of the Convention, had for their
object the overthrow and extermination of the
Whig party in Georgia.
Others, however, were anxious and willing to
close up the breach between the two wings of
the old party ; and were disposed to abide, in
good faith by the nomination, as the means of
doing sonotwithstanding there were several
very prominent objections to the action of the
Convention ; which could not, at the time, be
conveniently reached, nor the real intentions of
its leaders be definitely determined by the read
ing ot the Resolutions, on the occasion. Still,
but for the subsequent occurrences, which have
ully unmasked their designs, and but too clear
ly expose an unjust, selfish, and vindictive
spirit, on the part of the Webster men ; and
which aims at nothing short of exterminating
the Whig name and principles from the State ol
Ceorgia. and crushing those who still adhere to
them—those objections might have been over
looked.
The strong points of objection to the action of
the Convention, and which are exceedingly dis
satisfactory to the Scott Whigs, may be briefly
stated as lollows:
First —Men were invited and encouraged to j
to co-operate in its deliberations, who had but
recently broken up a friendly alliance, of asimi- j
lar character, for the sake of old party associa- :
tions, when it was well known those associa- ;
tions were inimical to our best and dearest in- ;
terests. In the good faith of sudh men, we i
could have no confidence. Their principles and [
sympathies were not in common with us.
Second —lt was not attempted to be dis •
guised by the Webster men, or the leaders of,
the movement, that a decided preference was
given to these men, over our higher claims to
consideration and respect. This could have j
arisen from no other cause of offence, on our ,
part, than a high devotion to principle, and a re- j
tusal to follow the dictation ol certain leaders,
at the sacrifice of principles, which are eminent- [
ly conservative and dear to every true hearted
Whig.
Third —ln the leaders of this movement, we j
discovered men, who have not only violated i
grossly the integrity of the Whig party : but who , 1
while she nursed them to her bosom., have omitted no j
opportunity, in the last four years,of defaming , her
honor and making her name odious to the people of
the Slate. They have now united with her ene
mies, and our enemies to exterminate.her name
and principles.
Fourth —They pretend to be Whigs yet; it
can only be for the purpose of better practising
their deception upon us. until they shall have ;
fully succeeded in their designs. For they have '■
already, without a moment’s hesitation, aband- j
oned name, principles, and national affiliation, i
They have sacrificed these, to gain their present |
alliance.
Fisth —While they are certainly no more ;
accountable to us for their conduct, than we are ,
to them ; yet, their having failed, even in an j
expression of a desire , for a re-union of the Scott
Whigs, by this act, they have virtually refused our
association, unless upon terms at once humilating
and. degrading. With such leaders, and such
men, henceforth, we can make no terms. They
have no confidence in each other. The one lacks
integrity—the other a proper regard for principle.
Our only, and just course is. to withdraw’, and!
assume the independent position of true old line
Whigs.
Subsequent events furnish other reasons for j
repudiating this organization, which may be thus j
stated :
Sixth —A Resolution of the Convention was
intended as condemnatory of the Whig party,
while it seemed to bear a literal expression of
patriotic motive; by which gross deception,
many have been duped into its support.
Seventh —During the sitting of the Conven
tion, and since its adjournment, Scott Whigs,
when placing their names befoie n: minating
conventions, have been defrauded of the notni
nation, by the trickery and management of the
Webster men ; as in the cases of the 3d and
7th Congressional Districts. r i
Eighth— At a Ratification meeting, m 1
the city of Savannah, on the evening of the j
Bth inst., by the friends of this movement, a ;
Resolution was passed, which casts an unjust '
reproach upon the Whig party ; and which j
clearly defines the meaning and intention of the i
leaders of the organization to be, the total de- j
struction of the Whig party and its principles in
Georgia; and to ostracise those w 7 ho are, and j
shall remain true to its great and conservative j
principles.
And finally, that an attempt is now open- i
ly made, to form a party’ upon a system of
selfish, narrow, venal, local politics ; isolated, j
and cut off from all national interests; merely;
to uphold and sustain certain designing leaders, j
whom the public mind has long since pronounc
ed devoid of principle, or political integrity.
That the plea for doing so is, the people, of Geor
gia's “ social , moral,and intellectual interests /” A
reason, which coming from the diseased brain
of an inmate of a lunatic asylum, might have
the semblance of reason; but coming from the
brains of men, high in public station, might
rather entitle them to the sympathy of the be
nevolent.
To this “ Utopian ,” scheme, w’e 6ee with pro
found sorrow, the nominee of the Convention,
giving the influence of his reputation. The
justness of public sentiment, which gave fame
to that reputation, might well be questioned, if
it rested on this opinion alone, and under less
popular circumstances.
For these good and sufficient reason-, it be
comes our imperative duty, as Scott men of the
Whig party, and all honest, firm, true-hearted
Whigs, of the old line, to stand aloof from this
unholy, narrow’, selfish organization. To de
clare openly, that on the conservative princi
ples of the National Whig Platform of 1552, we
will abide, through evil and through good re
port. To our countrymen we have given re
peated and ample proofs of firm devotion to
principles and party’ obligations- Through all
trials w’e have been true to them, —it now be
comes our high and sacred duty to be true to
ourselves.
To this end, and to rescue from the vandal
hands of those who would allure us but to de
stroy our principles and party, let us prepare to
present to the people of Georgia, an illustrious
citizen, a true Whig, and a sterling patriot, for
their Governor; whose heart and mind is suf
ficiently’ capacious to embrace the great interests
of the w’hole Union, and yet advance '* tlu social,
moral , and intellectual interests ” of our own glori
ous State.
A Scott Wins.
South-Western Georgia. —We have the
most gratifying intelligence |from this section of
the State, and can safely rely upon its correct
ness. The coons are all taking their hollovvs.and j
the algerines their caves all through South-west
Georgia. Union Democrats and Southern Rights
men are standing the administration,and are
determined not to sacrifice our patriot President
by the false issues of his foes, and the support of
his most inveterate enemy, Chas. Jenkins. We
shall carry every Congressional district, save the
7th and Bth, and our majorities will graduate,
accordmg to the extent of union and co-opera
tion. We want to see our standard bearers upon
the rostrum; we want to see the people moving;
they have all to win and nothing to sacrifice,
by a strict scrutiny of their princples; the hotter
the furnace, the purer the gold. —Griffin Jeffer
sonian, 21 st inst.
Kissane, who has been granted a new trial on
one of the indictments against him, and who
was delivered up by his bail, has been unable
thus far to give new security.
The Question of Slavery in fia Njw York
Legislature.
The Whig journals in other States, and the
Jenkins journals in this, are unfortunate in their
allusions to the late action ot the New York
Legislature on the subject of slavery and the
fugitive slave bill. That action, while it proves
that a few’ professed Democrats are, in their
hearts, traitors to the Constitution, establishes
the same fact in relation to nearly the whole
body of the representatives of the Whig party.
The following is the test resolution :
Resolved, That the State of New York reaffirm
the doctrines of the inaugural, ‘that involuntary
servitude, as it exists in different States of this
Confederacy, is recognised by the Constitution ;
that it stands like any other admitted right, and
that the States where it exists are entitled to
efficient remedies to enforce the Constitutional
provisions;’that‘the laws of 18-50, commonly
called the Compromise measures, are strictly
Constitutional, and to be unhesitatingly carried
into effectthat ‘ the constituted authorities of
this Republic are bound to regard the rights of
the'South in this respect as they would view
any other legal and Constitutional right;’ and
that the laws to enforce them should be respected
and obeyed—not with a reluctance encouraged
by abstract opinions as to their propriety in a
different state ot society, but cheerfully, and
according to the decisions of the tribunal to
which their exposition belongs; and that the
S'-ate of New York pledges her faith to the
Union, that every law adopted by the constitu
ted authorities of the United States, including
the fugitive slave law. shall be faithfully enforced
within the limits ot the State.”
For this resolution, forty-three Democrats and
only/our Whigs voted : against it, nineteen Whigs,
and four professed Democrats. Os tne absen
tees, twenty-seven are Democrats—fourteen
Whigs.
Taking this very exhibit as an index of North
ern sentiment, can there be any doubt as to
which of the two parties the South should be
united in her political associations ? Can any
Georgian hesitate whether to go with Jolfcison
and the Northern Democrats, or with Jenkins
and the Northern Whigs? For the question
between Johnson and Jenkins reduces itself to
this; shall we sustain the party which voted for
Pierce, or that which was defeated with Scott ?
Jenkins is in favor of keeping up his connection
with the Whigs—Johnson with tha Democrats
of the North And these are the only alterna
tives left any of us. For a sectional party,
whether calling itself Southern Rights or Union,
can not be maintained in Georgia, as is proved
by the fate ol both these temporary organizations.
Shall we, then, by supporting Johnson, be found
in political association with Northern Democrats,
led by Pierce, Buchan nan, Cass and Douglass;
or by supporting Jenkins, become the partizans
of Scott, Corwin, Seward, and Everett. The
majority of the voters of Georgia will hardly hes
itate to choose as allies Northern Democrats in
preference to Northern Whigs.
Electricity and the Electric Light.—
The thousands of holiday people who, on Mon
day evening, returned by steamboat or railway
via Hungerford Suspension Bridge, came unex
pectedly upon an extraordinary and interesting
exhibition. Two miniature suns—for so with
out hyperbole we may characterize the electric
lamps—one in each tower, converged their in
tense rays on the centre of the bridge, and effec
tually illuminated the whole of the intervening
space, feebly lighted in general by about 100 gas
lamps. The lights remained in continuous ope
ration from nine o’clock p. m., till past midnight.
Are the days of steam and gas numbered ? Elec
tricity is now evidently destined to take the
place of both. Os the applicability of the elec
tric force as a motive power, as a substitute for
steam in every branch of industry and enterprise,
and as a source of illumination for streets, public
buildings, lighthouses, mines, railway-tunnels,
bridges, diving bells, &c., some practical men of
science have never doubted; but until recent
discoveries had exhibited the economy of “ this
wonderful power.” by making its production
economically profitable, the man of business had
not contemplated its application to the daily
purposes of life.
The inventions ofDr. Watson, the basis of the
intended operations of the Electric Power and
Color Company, it is said, have now removed |
the only obstacle to the universal use of electri
city, and to its immediate application to
tion, mechanical arr<i»f^m^iTV? , «f all {finus, na
vigation. chemical decomposition and illumina
tion. For '“while, in ordinary galvanic instru
ments, the outlay in {he destruction of petals
is altogether unproductive—absolutely wasteful
—every shilling’s worth of material used in Dr.
Watson’s batteries returns half-a-crown in the
shape of valuable pigments, (which can be
sold pure and unadulterated at a lower price
than the adulterated articles in the market.)
bleaching powder, and other commercial pro
ducts readily saleable. We are, indeed, inform
ed that contracts can at once be entered in
to for the profitable disposal of all that the com
pany can produce in the shape of chromes and
Prussian blue, and that these contracts represent
an actual demand to the extent of £40,000 per
annum for the Russian market alone.
As regards the mechanical perfection with
which the illuminating process is applied it is
i sufficient to advert to the fact that the Great
I Northern Railway Terminus at King's Cross,
; extending 500 yards in length and usually lighted
| up by 250 °;as burners, was completely and con
-5 tinuously illuminated by two electric lamps
I placed at one extremity, for several hours, du
j ring which the gas lamps were extinguished. By
this light alone the trains entered and de
parted during the evening, and so intense was
the brilliancy that the smallest print might
be read with facility at the remote extremity
opposite to the source of light. In the same
manner as we have already mentioned, two
lamps, one in each tower of Hungerford Sus
pension bridge, lighted that thoroughfare for
several entire evenings from nine p. m., till
past midnight, completely “paling the inef
fectual fires” of nearly 100 gas lamps. Several
i perfectly efficient motive power engines have
i been constructed, and are now in existence,
! adapted to be worked by electricity, but the
i cost of that power has hitherto precluded their
j employment for any practical purpose.
| The economical solution of the question being
| attained, who can say that the wonderful inven
| tionsof Watt will not be, to a vast extent, su
| perseded by those of Watson? The various
other uses to which this new power can be
made subservient embrace the desulphurization
of coke (of which 6000,000?. worth is consumed
yearly by railway companies alone), telegraph
ing, electrotyping, smelting, and the manufac
ture of steel. With such extraordinary advan
tages and elements of success—considering that,
as regards only one application of the electric
power, that of illumination, no less than 11,000,-
000?. sterling are now invested in supplying gas
to London, Birmingham, Liverpool, and the
other cities and towns of England, it may be
that the Electric Power and Color Company
must, to their own enrichment, speedily revolu
tionise the world of arts and industry.— London
Record.
The Mississippi Bonds. —The Sonthern and
Western papers are exhorting Mississippi to pay
her repudiated bonds, both for her own sake and
that of the country, as well as in justice to the
greatly wronged bondholders. They remind
her that her projected works of internal im
provement will require the use of some credit,
and that no-body will trust her while the pres
ent stain rests upon her character. It was re
marked, when her reputation was first made
known to the public, the time would come when
she would be thankful for the privilege of pay
ing her debts. She is abundantly able to pay
them, and has no excuse for her delinquency,
which is satisfactory even to herself. —Baltimore
Sun.
Divorced. —The Richmond Enquirer says
that in April last, a decree in divorce from the
bonds of matrimony was granted by the Court
of Common Pleas of the city and county of
Philadelphia, Pa., to John Tyler, Jr., Esq., from
Mrs. Martha F. B. Rochelle, of Southampton
county, Va.
L From the Baltimore Sun.]
The Crystal Palace Exhibition.
On Friday, the exhibition was opened to the
public, and was visited throughout the day by
about 7,000 ladies and gentlemen, besides the
exhibitors and those holding season tickets, and
the receipts amounted to 53,639 50. Workmen
are still busily employ* d in different parts of the
structure, particularly in the Machine Arcade,
which is, at present, only about half finished.
About one-third of the exhibition stalls have
been arranged, and it is thought that the exhi
bition will not be complete in all its parts for
about two weeks more.
The total amount of space on the floor occu
pied by different countries for exhibition, exclu
sive of the naves, is about 152,000 square feet,
of which 94,102 is on the ground floor, and 59,-
000 is in the gallery. This space is divided as
follows:
Ground Floor. Gallery.
England 10.570 7,081
Switzerland 1,458 2,970
Zollverein 6,196 6,053
Holland and Belgium 2,916 729
Austria 1,458 729
Denmaik,Sweden and Nor
way 2.916 1,315
Russia, &c ... 729 *
British Guiana and West
Indies 1,093
British Colonies 2,369 3,429
The total amount of space occupied by foreign
countries is 98,749 square feet.
The United States contributions occupy 34,555
square feet on the ground floor, and 19.945
square feet in the gallery.
The total number of exhibitors from abroad
are 2,605, of whom England sends 677 ; France
521 ; Switzerland 116 ; Zollverein 813; Holland
and Belgium 155; Austria 100; Italy 185;
Sweden and Norway 18 ; West Indies 3 ; Prince
Edward’s Island 18 ; Nova Scotia 2.
This list will be somewhat larger, from the
fact that the local committees of Canada have
not yet sent in their list of contributors, and it
does not include quite a number from British
Guiana. A small number of Turkish and other
contributors are also to be added, making the
sum total of foreign exhibitors not far from 2,700.
In the United States department the number
ofexhibitors is 1,178. and applications have been
received since the Ist of March, amounting to
over 400, which have not been acted on for
want of space. The total number of exhibitors,
both foreign and American, is 4,383.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
From the official publications of the Associa
tion we compile a description of the Crystal
Palace. Reservoir square, on which it is erect
ed, lies at the northern extremity of the city,
west of the Cretan distributing reservoir, and
between that vast erection and Sixth avenue.—
The Sixth avenue railroad runs directly past it;
the Fourth avenue railroad runs near it; and it
lies immediately in the vicinity of the Fourth,
Fifth, and Sixth avenues—the main thorough
fares of that part of the city.
The main features of the buildings are as fol
lows: It is, with the exception of the floor, en
tirely constructed of iron and glass. The gene
ral idea of the edifice is a Greek cross, surmount
ed by a dome at the intersection. Each diameter
of the cross will be 365 feet 5 inches long.—
There are three similar entrances; one on the
Sixth avenue, one on Fortieth and one on Forty-
Second street. Each entrance is 44 feet wide,
and that on the Sixth avenue is approached by
a flight of eight steps; over each front is a large
semi-circular fan-light, 41 feet wide and 24 feet
high, answering to the arch of the nave. Each
arm of the cress is on the ground plan 149 feet
broad. This is divided into a central nave and
two aisles, one on each side—the nave 41 feet
wide, each aisle 54 feet wide.
The central portion or nave is carried up to the
height of 67 feet, and the semi-circular arch Dy
j which it is spanned is 41 feet broad. There are
j thus in effect two arched naves crossing each
I other at right angles, 41 feet broad, 67 feet high
|to the crown of the arch. 365 feet long; and on
! each side of these naves is an aisle 54 feet broad,
: and 45 feet high. The exterior of the ridgeway
of the nave is 71 feet. Each aisle is covered by
j a gallery of its own width, and 24 feet from the
i floor. The central dome is 100 feet in diameter,
j 68 feet inside from the floor to the spring of the
i arch, and 118 leet to the crown : and on the out
i side, the lantern, 149 leet. The exterior
of the building are ingeniously filled up
witH a .triangular lean-to 24 feet high, which
give the ground plan an octagonal shape, each
side or face being 143'leet -4 t each-angle
is an oetagonal tower 8 leet in diameter, and 75
leet high.
Ten large, and eight winding stair-cases con
nect the principal floor with the gallery, which
opens on the three balconies that are situated
over the entrance halls, and afford ample space
for flower decorations, statues, vases, &c. The
ten principal staircases consist of two flights of
steps with two landing places to each ; and eight
winding staircases are placed in the octagonal
towers, which lead also to small balconies on
the tops of the towers and to the roof of the
building.
The building contains on the ground floor
111,000 square feet of space, and in its galleries,
which are 54 feet wide, 62,000 square feet more,
making a total area of 173,000 square feet ior
the purpose of exhibition. There aie thus on
the ground floor two acres and a half, or exact
ly 2 52-100 ; in the galleries one acre and 44-
100 ; total, within an inconsiderable fraction,
lour acres.
There are on the ground floor 190 octagonal
cast iron columns, 21 t’eet above the floor, and
S inches in diameter, cast hollow, of different
thicknesses, from hall an inch to one inch. These
columns receive the cast iron girders. These
are 261 feet long and 3 feet high, and serve to
sustain the galleries and the wrought iron con
struction of the roof, as well as to brace the
whole structure in every direction. The num
ber of lower floor girders is 252, besides 12
wrought iron girders of the same height, and
41 feet span, over a part of the nave.
The second story contains 148 columns of the
same shape as those below, and 17 feet 7 inches
high. These receive another tier of girders
numbering 160, for the support of the roofs of
the aisles, each nave being covered by 16 cast
I iron semi-circular arches, each composed ol 4
; pieces.
The dome is supported by twenty-four col
umns, which go up above the second story to the
height of 62 feet above the floor, and support a
combination of wrought iron arches and girders,
on which rest a cast iron bed plate, so construct
ed as to receive the 32 ribs of the dome. The
light is communicated to the dome through the
lantern, as well as from the sides, on which 32
escutcheons, in colored glass, representing tiie
arms es the Union and its several States, or the
emblems of the different nations, form a part of
the decoration.
The building is supplied with gas and water
in every part. The gas is designed for the use
of the police, in protecting the property by night
but is so arranged that, should it be deemed ex
pedient to open the building in the evening
there will be ample light. The water is acces
sible at numerous points, with convenience ior
drinking, also for the attachment of hose, in
case of fire.
The general mode of erection by base pieces,
columns, connecting pieces and girder.-, is the
same with that of the great Hyde Park building,
but the construction of the arched nave and ol
the dome is of course entirely peculiar, and the
general effect of the building is completely dif
ferent.
Armed Fishermen. —The Gloucester, Mass.,
Telegraph says—
“ Quite a number of our fishing vessels have
sailed this week for the Bay of St. Lawrence.
Altogether about forty vessels are there, or on
their way, belonging to this port. Some of them
are armed. We shall probably begin to have
news from the Bay before many days have
passed.”
Fashion atJWatertnc, Places. — A corres
pondent, in speaking of the ladies at Saratoga,
says they *' wear their shoulders bare to the low
er edge of decorum.”
LorcST '
ALEXANDER SMITH.
The fierce exulting worlds, the motes in rays,
The churlish thistles, scon ted briars,
Tho wind-swept blue-bells on the sunny braes.
Down to tho central firos,
Exists alike in love. Love is a sea,
Filling all the abysses dim
Os lornest space, in whose deeps regally
Suns and their bright broods swim.
This mighty sea of Love, with wondrous tides,
Is sternly just to sun and grain;
’Tis laying at this moment Saturn’s sidC3—
’Tis in my blood and brain.
AH things have something more than barren use;
There is a scent upon the briar,
A tremulous spiendsr in the autumn dews,
Cold morns are fringed with fire.
Tho clodded earth goes in sweet-breathed flowers'
In music dies poor human speech,
And into beauty blow those hearts of ours,
When Love is born in each.
Life is transfigured in tho soft and tender
Light of Love, a a volume dun
Os rolling smoke becomes a wreathed splendor
In the declining sun.
How to Spoil a High Spirited Wife.
“ What did you speak in that way to your
wife for, young man ?” asked old uncle Rogers
of his nephew.
” Because it’s fun to see her spark up,” replied
the hopeful Benedict; “ I like to make her black
eyes shine, and her round cheeks grow red as
my damask rose. And it’s quite tragic the way
she puts her little foot down and says ‘ s-i-r.”
By the muses ! If you’d staid long enough un
cle, I’d have shown you a Queen. You've no
idea how grandly she tosses back he: fierce lit
tle head—or with what a Dido like air she
wrings those delicate hands of hers. It quite
breaks the monotony of life to get up such a
tempest to order. You see, uncle, one tires of
clear sunshine and blue sky—and so, as I know
she owns this spunky temper, I just touch it up
with the spur matrimonial, and let it gallop till
I see fit to reign in.”
“ I’ve as good a mind to root out that sap
ling, Hal, and use it over your shoulders, as L
had this morning to eat my breakfast before
you spoiled my appetite.
You are taking the surest way to ruin a
finely strung organization. Saving your pres
ence, I despise the man who thus tampers with
a passionate but loving spirit. Look at your
wife—how delicate her beauty ! Look at your
household—the very temple of taste and neat
ness. The little fixings on the mantle, the
fringing and tasseling here and there give a
touch beyond the common to your humble fur
niture. That lounge that lends so grand an air
to your parlor. I had set down for no less than
a fifty—when lo ! it turns out that five dollars
and a woman’s ingenuity, deceived an old, ex
perienced upholsterer like myself.
Then look at the vines she has trained, the
flowers she has planted, that lean toward her
when she approaches them, as if she was their
guardian angel! Why, Hal, is it possible the
possession of such a being as this, tempts you to
an absurdity that will surely end in destruction
of your domestic happiness V’
“You are mighty serious about this little
thing, uncle.”
“ Serious! unfortunately I am something more
—a victim to my own indulgence in a similar
infatuation. You have heard”—here uncle Ro
gers gave a great sigh—“ that lam not happy at
home. My own fault! Every bit of it! and
the old man gave mother earth a savage blow
with his cane.
“ If a tnan marries an angel and torments her
into a fiend, who’s to blame but himself.” My
wife was very handsome, and as you say spunky.
There never needed to have been a warm word
between us, but I liked to see her angry. I
iikedtosee the delicate nostrils expand—the
large bright eyes scintillate sparks of fire—but
[ did it just owe too often. I know she very
time that anger raised the final barrier of oppo
sition, and that nice sense of right became an
exacting and imperious tormentor.
“And now your uncle is driven from the
home of his nephew, where he hoped for peace,
and tortured with the fresh opening of old
wounds.
“ I tell you, Hal, you will spoil your wife, you
will ruin her: it’s not manly; it’s a burning
shame”—and the old man’s thin lips quivered
with excitement.
Hal said nothing then, but when be returned -
he ground his pride between his teeth, and beg- .J
ged his wife’s pardon.
“I’ll never taunt you for fun again, Carry,”
he said in a low tone. And she replied as she
hid her tearful face in his bosom—
“I am ho quick, so passionate—but indeed I
never begin it; and you have been so nobiethat
I will try and conquer this hasty temper. But
Hal,” she added roguishly, shaking her curls in
his face, ‘‘what will you do for your queen ?
what will become of Dido tragedy, etc.—ha?”
Her husband blushed [I contend that a man
looks handsome when he blushes] and a kiss
sea'ed the reconciliation. To day, alter forty
years of wedded life, Hal boasts that he remem
bers but once making up after a storm—and
that wa« away back in the honey-moon. Ever
since he has had still waters and a steady voy
age ; and uncle Rogers, who died years ago—
peace be with his ashes—used to call Hall's home
a paradise on earth.
A Horrible Storv ok Destitution.— l Mis
ery and Crime im Boston. —A few days ago Con
stable E. J. Jones, discovered in a cellar in Still
man Place, a family who were living in a state
of misery incredible. Their subterranean apart
ment, which was not over ten feet square, was
occupied by a man, his wife and a daughter of
about six years of age. The furniture of the
room consisted of a miserable apology for a
straw bed, impregnated with filth, and laid oti
the floor in the corner of the room. There were
no sheets, blankets or quilts, and the only cov
ering for the occupants was a few old dresses
torn into shreds. The remaining furniture of
the room was a broken down table, a chair,
minus a back, a broken pitcher, a saucer, and a
spider. The floor was covered with filth of the
most disgusting character. There was not a
parcel of provisions in the house of any kind.
The dress of the mother consisted of a piece
of calico, in part strung together with wicking,
and the little daughter had on a simple skirt,
confined at the middle, and a shawl over her
shoulders. The lather of this wretched group
a short time since, while drunk, broke his wrist
which was properly set, but the next day he
got drunk, forced the bone from its place, and it
not having been afterwards attended to, it had
knitted together so as to deform the limb.
A son of these parents is at the State Reform
School for stealing, and a daughterat D er Island
for the same offence. The remaining daughter
was sent out by her parents to beg. If she ob
tained any money it was spent for rum, both
parents being drunk for the most part of the time.
When the officer enteied the cellar, the little
daughter had in her arms the kitten which she
was pressing to her bosom. Last night the
whole family were taken from this horrible den
to the watch-house As they were leaving, the
husband remarked to h : s wife that she had bet
ter put a nail over the window or some one
would be getting in and taking the things. The
man and his wife who are named Maurice and
Ellen Hearn, were sent to the House of Industry
for six months. The child will go to Deer Is
land. — Boston Traveller.
Mr. Appleton’s Win..—The late Samuel
Appleton, of B ston, was worth one million of
dollars. By his will he leaves to his widow
specific bequests amounting in value to $200,000.
He makes 42 other bequests to nephews and
nieces and others, amounting in all to $320,000
more; among which may be mentioned $5,000
“to his friend and pastor, Rev. Ephraim Pea
body,” and SO,OOO to the servants living in his
family at his decease, to he distributed among
them iti the manner ai d according to proportion,
to be fixed upon by his widow. He then be
queaths to his executors manufacturing stocks
of the value of $200,000, to be by them distribu
ted for scientific, literary, religious, or charitable
purposes. The residue lie also bequeaths to his
relatives.