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AUGUSTA, GA.
SATI'KDAY. NOV. 18: |
Death of Er James D. Maokio.
Wr. bad hoped that we had announced the
death ot the last victim of the terrible disease!
which has lately swept away so rr any o' our
citixeus and ot our personal Inetids, and it is
w th feelings ol Jeep regret that we are called up-
• on torecord the death ot one who has stood in tie
t front ranks among the combatants of the dread
ful disease. Dr. James D. Mackie expired at
•’ the residence ot his family, on the Sand Hills,
; yesterday evening, a victim to the epidemic
which he so successfully encountered in his prac
lice, and which could only be appeased by the
* sacrifice of his life. Not only was he untiring :
in his ministrations to the poor and destitute, as
. a physician, during the recent sickness, but also ■
as a member of the Good Samaritan Association, !
of which body he was Secretary, he contributed |
. no little to their relief. In his social relations.
Dr. Mackie leaves a void not easily filled.—
Ot varied powers of conveisatiou, and rare fa
cility in adapting himself to all classes of society;
intelligent, and with refined tastes and feelings,
be won hrs way into the hearts of all who knew
him. As a Physician, he bid lair to attain an
emminent position, and the profession have sirs ■
tuined a loss in the death of one so full of promise |
for future excellence.
The mysterious providence of God has seen ft I
to remove him trem the scene of his earthly la- '
bors in the prime an ! vigor oi manhood, ar.d al- ;
most at the commencement of his career of use- I
fairness to bis fellow-beings. But while we I
mourn his loss and will cherish his memory, w>-1
will still remember, that if hejias gone Irom us !
tuus early, it is to receive the reward promised j
to those who have, as he has so lately done, de- '
voted themselves to the relief ol the sick and ;
tire poor, and to the visitation “oi the fatherless i
and widows in their affliction?’
Suicide of a Poet.
A private telegraphic despatch was received
this office on Wednesday, which announced!
the suicide, on Monday evening, of William i
North, a [ropular tale writer and poet, in New 1
Fork City? We are informed by his friend, Mr.
James Redpath, that the deceased is by birth an
Englishman, and a relative ot Lord North, ot
Revolutionary celebrity. He is the author ot
several novels; which, however, were publish
ed in Euglan 1. He has been nearly three years
i« this country, and during that time has become
widely and favorably known by his contribu
tions to Putnam’s, Graham's and Harper’s Ma
gazines. Just previous to his death, he com
pleted an autobiographical romance, entitled
“The Slave of the Lamp.”
He was 29 years of age.
Our Banks.
In an article published in Tuesday’s paper,
commenting on the course of our Banks, we in
vited discussion on the subject, and our columns
are open to articles pro and con of moderate
length, say one column. We publish to-day a
communication signed “ Crawford'' to which
we would call the readers attention. Money is
power, but we hope never to live to see the day
when it can controll the press. The Banking
institutions of the country have had full sway
long enough, and it is time the people, (the crea
tors of them) should be enlightened bow tar the
trust reposed by them in granting charters, has
been carried out.
We hope “ Crawford, ” in his next communi- .
cation, will designate the banks alluded to as ex
ceptions. We are willing to do justice to all.
The State vs Keener.
The examination of Henry Keener, before a |
board of Magistrates was terminated, yesterday
and they have remanded him to jail to await his
trial under the charge of murder. We under
stand an application was made to admit him to
bail, which was refused.
Col. A. O. Andrews —The Charleston
Courier ot the 10’h inst. says : Col. A. O. An
drews returned home from Washington on 1 ues
day night, from his mission as the Delegate of
the Chamber of Commerce to the Post Office
Department, in reference to our mail difficulties.
Throughout his agency the differences between
the Department and the South Carolina Railroad
Catnpany, have been amicably and satisfactorily
settled, and a contract concluded until the first
oi January, by which our former mail facilities
will be continued, with a good hope of a perma
eent continuance thereof subsequently. Our
eommunity owe the Col. their acknowledge
ments for the alacrity and promptitude with
which he obeyed their mandate, and for the
faitbtul and successful discharge of the responsi
bilities entrusted to him.
Death of Eev. Rufina White. ,
We regret to learn, (says the Sav. News)that
the Rev. Rufus White,an Episcopal Clergyman,
formerly of this city, died at Petersburg, Vir
' ginia, on Monday the 30th ult. of consumption.
Mr. White, we believe, was a native of the Stale
.of New York. He was for some time Rector of
Mt John’s church in this city. In consequence
of ill heal.h, he relinquished his charge in this
•tty, and became connected with the Montpelier
Episcopal Female Institution, near Marietta.—
He lately visited Cuba, in the vain hope of bene
-o‘tir.g his rapidly declining health, and was re
turning to this city when he was stricken down
by the hand of death.
Ralz.'oh and Gaston Rail Rgad Comcast.
—The annual meeting of this company was
feeld at Raleigh, N. C., a few days ago. The en
tire receipts of the company for the year ending
I »th September, 1854, have been 8238,410.21.
The entire expenditures on all accounts, includ
ing dividend, were $159,701.97, leaving $68,-
708.25. The receipts from freight passengers
sad mail were $173 923.77, and the current ex
pense* 870530 96. showing a profit on the yeai’s
b»sineM of 8103,300,81—0 r over 10i per cent.
A» “Old School” I’/nson.—About the
Mme that temperance and anti-slavery begrs: I
flotirhb, a committee waited on old parson Mil
ton, of Newburyport Mass , requesting him to
to advocate those causes. •‘.Shan’t do’t I” said
tile Parson of the ol 1 school, “ when you hired
me, it was to preach the gospel—now it’s rum
and niggers I ’
A correspondent »-• the Cherokee Advocate
•ays that Mr. Josiah M. Daniel, who resides
ab.--.it ex miles south of Marrietta, Cobb ro.m
ty, riiredon 13 acres of common branch l.md,
300 barrels. I bushel and 1 peck ofc rn.tbepi'a-
1 rent year
Destructive Conflagration in Brooklyn, N
York.
I Between one and two o’clock on Sunday morn-
I ing a fire broke out in a row of eight two-aud-a
--j half story frame building®, cn th? north side of
’ Gates’ avenue, between l>. wni >g-street ai d
I Classon avenue, Brooklyn. They were recently
I erected by Messrs Durham & McNevins, and
I were just finished but nut yet occupied. The
! flames spread along the whole range with great
I rapidity, being aided by a brisk breeze from the
I North, and communicated with three buildings
j on the opposite side of the street, owned and part
ily occupied by Mr. Joseph Brooks. The houses
| in which the fire originated were totally con-
I snmed, and those on the South side were so
J much damaged as to be rendered totally- unten
i antable. The occupants barely escaped with
- their lives, not being aware of the danger they
I were in, until apprised of the fact by the fire
i men, who broke in the doors and succeeded in
! carrying some of them out, having become so
much bewildered as not to know which way io
turn.
Messrs. Durham & McNevin’s losss atn mots
to $24,000. Insured for $16,000 in the follow
ing offices : Phrsnix, of Bicokly n ; Atlantic, do.;
Williamsburg City, and National, of New York.
The loss sustained by Mr. Brooks, on buildings
i and furniture, reaches from $12,000 to $15,000 — i
I insured in the Atlantic, of Brooklyn, $4,000;
Brooklyn, $1250 on buildings, and $750 on fur-
I niture; National, Nt w York, S2OOO.
I'he lire is supposed to have been the work ol
an incendiary.
A man belonging to Engine No. 10, was run
over and his leg broken while engaged at the
fire.
Diamond our Diamond.— fbe New York
Express says:—"A curious fact has just trans
pired that -ay be set down as ai.other evidence
o! the universal business tact of the prince ol
i modern show-men. It appears that, before clos
j ing with his American publisher, Redfield, Mr.
i Barnum had sent out MS. copies of his autobi
ography to London, Paiis. Madrid, Leipsic and
. Stcekholmn. and settled his arrangemens with
! celebrated European publishers, without ac
i quainting any one with the fact.
When Redfield bad concluded his purchase of
I the copyright, he also despatched letters to Eu
i rope, proposing negotiations for the publication
of editions in various languages of the work in
question. Imagine bis consternation, when in
formed, in reply, that the same work had been
furnished, by the author, five months before, and
was already in type in Berlin, Paris and Vi
! enna.
i When shown the letters, Barnum frankly ac
i knowledged the corn, but insisted upon his right
Ito make any such preliminary contracts. Red
! field submitted, of course, and treated to a glass
j of water; but he shakes his head whenever he
' expects to realize from bis copyright among the
! parlez vous and the sauerkrauts.''
j The Louisville Times states that a young gen
tlemen of that city had been tendered a colonel’s
j commission in the Russian army, and that he
will probably leave the United States about the
j first of February or March, in company with
j several other Kentuckians, for St. Petersburg,
unless something else turns up nearer home.
: Advices from Bermuda to the Ist inst., state
j that the cholera had disappeared from Barbadoes,
and the reports from the other islands are favora
ble.
■ Extensive Yield.—Mr. E. A. McKay, of
I Naples, Ontario county, New York, has one acre
of ground from which he has gathered over 10,-
! 000 pounds of grapes this year. The soil is san
j dy loam with gravelly sub-soil. \
Frightful Explosion at East Boston.—
I The boiler attached to the steam engine at the
I Sectional Dry Dock, East Boston, exploded on
i Friday, doing much damage. Mr. A.ustin, the
I engineer, was thrown against a vessel with great
| force, and is not expected to survive. Fragments
' were thrown in eveiy direction. One piece
struck a horse on Lewis street, killing the ani
mal. Another penetrated a moulding shop near
by, and nearly cost three workmen their lives.
The Official Catholic Organ.—The Catho
lic Vicar General of New York, having an-
- i-.uunced that henceforth the Freeman’s Journal
is to be recognised as the “official paper” of
Archbishop Hughes, the editor, in referring to
the announcement, intimates that it imposes cer
tain restraints upon him to which he has hither
to hesitated to submit, but to which he has at
l length acceded. The Irish American, another
| Catholic paper, is not at ail pleased with this
| official endorsement.
Passengers.—The Savannah Repub'ican
i says: The steamship Knoxville, arrived yester-
I day, brought 275 passengers—l2s of whom came
lin the cabin, and 150 in the steerage. The cars
by the Central Railroad, the stages, steamboats,
packets, and ind.ed every other mode of con
veyance, are contributing to fill up our lately
deserted city, arid hurry and bustle is now the
order of the day. Housekeeper?. K . well as com
mercial folks, are having their bands full ofbusi
ness ; and things are getting just as they should
be, by the growing influx ot absentees and stran
gers.
Under the arrangements made by the Nicara
gua and Aspinwall lines, the California steamers
will now arrive and depart from New York
weekly. The rates of passage and freight have
both been advanced. The result of this advance
in the rates of passage, it is thought will be to
deter thousands from coming to the Atlantic
States this winter.
Thelast mail from California brings intelli
gence that the Supreme Court of that State has
decided that the Chinese fall under the meaning
of a clause of the Constitution of California"
which soya that no black or mulatto persons
snail be allowed to give evidence in favor of or
against a whi e rnar.
The Aldcrxr.cn of Brandon, Miss., have deter
mined to insure lha health of those v ho are out
a.de their limits, by passing an ordinance forbid
ding the return ol tuny of their absent citizens
until there«hall have been three good frosts, un
der a penalty oi five dsllais for each and every
infringement.'
I he steam ship Jewess, x’nptair. Wright from
Lavantr for New York, Udeiz with sugar, cigars
and oranges, went ashore on Saturday morning,
on Brigantine Beach, about four a iles from At
lantic City. N. J. The vessel is 3hout 1000
tons, «r::i was insured for SIOO,OOO The carp/,
wuriosuiud for SBO,OOO.
A Clear Conscience.—The editor of the
South Boston Gazette reports that a lady of his
acquaintance says her conscience is so clear you
can see right through it.
Hogs versus Sheep.—The number of hogs
in the United States is said to exceed that of
sheep by nearly ten millions.
A Noble and Generous Action.—A seaman
on board her British majesty's ship Encounter,
at Hong Kong, having lost an arm, by an acci
dent, while firing a salute in honor of the 4th of
July, the officers and crews of the U.S. ships
Susquehanna and Vandalia, sent him a bill ol
exchange, lor £283, which was acknowledged,
with suitable letters between the United States
and Biitish commanders.
The damage to the drawbridge at Grey’s Fer
ry, is not yet repaired, and it will, it is said, oc
cupy several days to make it all right again.—
Hence the failures of the Northern mail beyond
Baltimore.
New Town in Minnesota —A new town
is to be laid out on the Minnesota river, near
the rapids. It is christened San Francisco.
Tho Weather, £cc.
The weather we are now experiencing is de
lightful. Cool and bracing mornings and
evenings, and comfortable sunshine midday.
As a matter of course we have olten seen the
city more lively, and more wagons and bustle in
our streets, but after the spell of sickness we
have recently passed through, it makes one feel
good to see the number of Cotton, Poultry, and
other wagons laden w ith the stamina of life, dai
ly visiting our city and filling up its street-.
Business may be said to have fairly opened. We
understand our banks are daily losening their
knot strings, and everything is progressing
finely.
We would advise all of our country friends
who have any produce ready lor market, to send
it forward# We now have the buyers on band
realty to purchase and with means to pay for all.
From a Friend.
We received with pleasure your kind letter
and return you oui sincere thanks for the present
accompanying it. If it is tneonhj fruit raised in
your section oi the country at this season of the
year, it is nevertheless acceptable, as the speci
mens sent are muck better than we can procure
in our market for love or money. We shall take
I care they are done up ftrouui, and think they will
; prove very palatable to the rest of the family,
! coming from the source they have.
The Weather.—Winter (says the Cassville
Standard of 17th inst.,) has been down upon us
for some days past, in good earnest. On Monday
morning we had a fine prospect of a snow storm,
small particles of the frozen element having de
scended for a short time, “but not enough”—as
we heard a representative of Young America re
mark—“to do any good.” For two or three
i mornings past, we have had heavy frosts, and
there is every appearance, at the time we go to
press, of continued clear and cold weather.
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad
The masonry of the bridge over the Tennessee
river at Loudon, has been finished, and also the
wood work on six spans is nearly done, leaving
but lour miles to finish the entire bridge. The
whole work is a noble structure, being about
1700 feet long, and 80 feet above water surface
at low water. This is the last bridge of any
importance to build, and in January it is expect
ed that the trains will pass over. The iron for
the road to Knoxville (29 miles) is nearly all
here, and on the way up the railroads and river;
it will be laid down as fast as re<eived. That
received at Loudon before the bridge is <?one,
will be boated up the river and landed at conve
nient places. It is expected that some fifteen
miles will be laid by the time the engine crosses
| the river.
The New York Election.— The latest re
turns from the election, seems to warrant the
conclusion that Mr. Clark, the whig candidate,
has been elected Governor by a small plurality
over Mr. Seymour, the next highest candidate.
I This result however is not certain, as the votes
i yet to bear Irom or the official returns may re-
I verse the present position of the two contest
| ants.
The return from the election in Massachusetts
I which took place on the 13th, for State Officers
and Congresssional Representatives, indicate as
far as received, that the Know-Nothing candi
date for Governor, Henry J. Gardner is elected
by a large majority ; and, also, that the same
political combination have carried nearly all the
State Officers and a large majority of the Legis
lature.
■ A Mr. James Woode being dissatisfied with
I terms allowed him by the Pittsburg and Stuben-
I ville Railroad Company, lor crossing his poper
ty near his extensive lolling mill on the Ohio
river, opposite Manchester, collected and armed
his mill-men to the number ol 200, and attacked
the Railroad laborers when they undertook to
comence making the road there on Monday.
The laborers were obliged to flee in great con
fusion, and several of them were badly injured.
The Newport (R. I ) Mercury says it is sur
prising the number of lobsters a codfish will des
troy. In opening a hundred codfish oue will
find lobsters, whole or in part, in at least nine
ty. Some will be found entire and apparently
just gorged, and others perfect in form but near
ly digested. We have repeatedly taken from a
codfish, that would weigh no more than six lbs.,
a lobster 'weighing not less than a pound.
The number of lobsters destroyed by the cod in
a season must surpass all conception.
The Louisville Courier says that $225,000
have been subscribed to the capital of the Lou
isville and Memphis Air Line Rail Road. The
amount required to organize the company is
3,300.000.
The Whataer—Winter at Last.— On Fri
day and Saturday last, veiy heavy showers fell,
which w ere succeeded, on Sunday alternooh, by
a sharp wind from the north-west. Monday
op«ned cool and cle.ir, and we are now in the
enjoyment of the blessing ot wintery weather.
Columbus Times, lUlh inst.
J hi: Chattahoochee River —The late rains
have made tire river navigable. The South
Carolina, Capt McAlister, the D. J. Day, Cap:.
Van Vechten, ttie Orwicbee, C pt. Barden, anti
Ihe Ci sseta, Capt. I lutr, are now making week I \
trips between tins city and Apalachicola.— lb.
Stbawricrkiks and Snow.—We saw on th r
rnoinirg ol the 13:li inst., a law strawberry
lines, trem the plantation ot C. A. I’eabudy, o>
It'e Soil oi the South, on which wr re large, In:,
cious, ripe s’eawbellies. On Hie same day, a
s! i el.'t S' uw fol) B this place, in be is” .toe u> • ft.
(communicated. I
Mr. Gardner.—l notice, -in your paper of
yesterday, some very deserved strictures on the
course pursued by the Banks ol this City— and
/et severe as I have heard some pronounce them,
they are not near so much so as they really mer t.
In the minds of the Directors of these insti
tutions, it seems that they have conceived these
monopolies tu have been created, not for the
benefit of the public, nor to aid the produce of
the country on its way to a market; but as pri
vate and special instruments of extortion and
oppression—machines to expand a limited capi
ta) into thrice its power, and to pass manufac
tured rags as a representative of money at a
usuance never contemplated by the Legislature
chartering them.
Yet in your criticism there should be a just
. discrimination made between those who are ob
i noxious to the charges, and those who have pursu
ed a legitimate and straight forward business.
! They alone who have used their means for spec
ulative purposes, so hazardous, that such changes
as we have known in the staple of our country
more than once, and within but few years, would
have produced bankruptcy'and ruin ought to re
>ceive that merited castigation which their reck
less course deserved ; butthose which have kept
within the metes and bounds of a healthy busi
ness, should be named and excepted from the
general and sweeping denunciation of a deceived
community.
You, as well as myself, must be aware that
there are honorable exceptions, wiihout whose
i aid the ineicantile portion ot the city would
i have bee: [reduced to the necessity of seeking, in
I other cities, for necessary accommodations to
j rtrry on'their business, or to have drawn their
I business within the limits of a cash capital
i But as 1 know it will be only necessary to call
i your attention to the fact of such exception, to
I you I leave it to give their names as an act of
| justice to them and the people—l say people, be
cause they ought to know which of our money
■ institutions are sale to hold, and which had bet
j ter be first disbursed.
! Charters have been granted by the Legislatme
! and privileges conferred for the purpose of aid
j.ngthe agricultural and mercantile community
' to enter into honorable competition with other
j cities, in the purchase and sale of produce and
I merchandize; and so long as the capital of the
s ihiirk can be used safely ai d to advantage, within
■ the limits of the circle in which it is located, it
I is a right which its citizens should claim, and not
I sue for as a lavor.
! The privilege of issuing three dollars of pa
! per for one representative in specie, is a great
j one, and one of very doubtful propriety, and
ruglit only to be granted, under the most stfin
, gent conditions. Virtually, Banks are restricted
I in the amount of interest per annum, but they are
I actually restrained within the limits of a legal
j .zed usuance ; or do they, under another name,
| ask and receive double of what the Legislature
I marks as the proper value for the use money ?
What is the fact ? Go to any of these institu
tions, and offer them a note made by a person as
responsible as the Bank it elf, payable in this
city; what answer do you receive? “We are
only doing exchange;” change the lace of the pa
per, make it payable out of the city, so as to as
sume the character of Exchange; offer it again,
and if you are willing to allow the extra per
centage, which they demand as Exchange, you
get the mohey eyen without the formality of a
Board. But how do you get it; not at the rate
rq intereat as established by the State, but nt 10,
12 or 13 per cent, per annum—the excess, to
>yoid Iha statue, being charged to another ac
count. And yet, all the time they are talking of
Jhe vast accommodation they extend to the Mer
chant and Planter!
Again ; a merchant of this city, in the course
ol his business, gives his note in N. York, payable
there or here, and if here, with the current rate
of Exchange. The agent of a Bank in this city,
I residing in New York, supplied with funds, goes
into the market, and in time of pressure, buysup
the paper at 1,1 J a 2 per cent, a month, and
sends it home for collection, and the maker here
pays it at the counter of the Bank with J per
cent, exchange, and the money goes back again
to buy more or other piper. Is this Banking or
i shaving? They can take but one step more de
grading, and then three balls, or a Barber’s pole,
as a sign, would more faily designate the charac
ter of the institution, than the four letters usual
ly stuck over the entrance represent. 1 tell you,
Mr Editor, this thing has been permitted to
slumber too long, and the fear of offending, arid
the consequence of offence taken, has kept many
silent who have suffered, and who still suffer
i non a power never intended to have been grant
i ed by the State ; and it is time that some en
quiry be made, and examinations gone into, to
see if in even the lawless and open charters of
some of these institutions, enough has not been
done to werrant a call for their repeal. 1 con
i ceive it to be part of the duty of the public press
I to keep the people “ posted up” upon the affairs
ot Banks, as well as upon political matters; and
! if as much attention was devoted to the subject
! as the interest and prosperity of the planter and
■ merchant demands, we would have less com
! plaint of “ hard times”—with a safe filled with
I good notes running to maturity—which the
■ Banks will not discount, because they are only
! entitled to simple interest on them for the time
I they have to run. So that I have known a mer-
chant ol this city, in the usual phrase, well off,
I with plenty of notes, perfectly good when due,
! having to borrow, from day today, to keep up bis
■ credit and pay his notes—unable to get a dis
i count from the Bank ; when another, not worth
, a cent, could borrow thousands, because he
; can offer bills, payable in other cities, and be
cause he does so at a rate of Exchange, probably
equal to the interest itself, the Bank thereby ma.
king 10 or 12 per cent, by the transaction.
But there is a corrective, —even outside ot a
violation of their charters, —and that is in the
purple. Let it be known what Bank thus spec
ulates upon the loss of the planter—lor all this
Exchange comes out of the planter at last—and
let the plante'r refuse to take the billsoi the Bank
10. his produce, or if he lakes them, Jet him at
once present them at the counter for payment in
s|»ec e, and B trial of one season will settle the
question. 1 ney will be forced to fall back upon
a legitimate business, or do no business,or go in
to liquidation at once, and the sooner two or
three are forced to this course, the better it will
be lor the community.
1 have not leisure, at this time, to make such
remarks as naturally suggest themselves upon
this subject, nor to comment more at length on
rh • policy pursued by some of these institutionr,
but ill. ■v.tb youi j eimissioii, do so a! .-omelu
lure dj.t, It is enough at present to call atten-
tion to the fact, that we have Banks in name
only, which are weights upon the trade and pros
perity of our city. Hereafter it will be time
enough to say in what way the evil is to be
remedied, when an appeal can be made to the
body that created them, to restrain their power
to do evil, or abate them altogether.
Crawford.
\Telegraphcdfor Baltimore American ]
Emigrant Ship Ashore—Terrible Loss of
Life.
New York, Nov. 13.—The ship New Era
from Bremen, with 360 passengers, went ashore
last night during the prevalence of a thick fog,
off Deal, on the New Jersey coast, a point about
16 miles south of Sandy Hook. The vessel will
probably prove a total wreck. No particulars
have yet been received and some anxiety is felt
for the safety of the passengers.
(second despatch.)
New York, Nov. 13.—Various reports are
afloat this afternoon of a serious loss of life by
the wrecking of the ship New Era. The most
authentic and reliable statement is that about 29
ot the passengers, with the captain, succeeded in
reaching the shore, but that the rest were unable
to do so and were left on board. Os these one
half were drowned either between decks or by
being washed overboard.
Every effort was being made at the beach to ;
rescue the survivors.
(third despatch.)
New Y’ork, Nov. 13.—The ship New Era lies i
broadside to the sea three hundred yards from I
the shore. In the effort to make a connection i
withthe ship ajl the balls at the beach were shot I
without success and no line could be thrown to !
the wreck Those on shore sent to the other '
stations for more balls, bi t without success—l
Only twenty passengers succeeded in getting ;
ashore, in the ship’s boats. The lite boatsuccee- :
ded in reaching the ship but once, when ten pas- i
sengers attempted to come ashore in her. She j
ruined over twice and at last righted, but only |
five of the ten passengers were saved. It is :
thought that seventy persons were washed over- j
beard. The sea was breaking over the ship, and i
it was likely that many more would be washed !
over before morning. Capt. Henry was saved :
in the life-boat.
The ship is a total wreck. Two hundred pas- i
sengers are clinging to the rigging.
The ship went on shore at eight o’clock this
morning. It is doubtful if she will hoid together
till Tuesday morning.
New York,7Nov. 13.— Evesiing.— The latest,
accounts from the wreck of the New Era are that
the steam tug Achilles was laying offthe wreck
ed ship and the Leviathan steamer was nearing
the spot. The vessel was on her first voyage
and will p>rove a total loss- She had only a
small cargo. The ship lays broadside to the sea
i and the sea is heavy with foggy weather.
[From the Albany. (Ga) Courier, 11th insZ.j
Dougherty County—its Statistics.
I We give below a short statement, showing the
I value of the real and personal estate of this coun-
I ty, made up for us from the Tax Digest of our
: county CoLector, by our friend Mr. E. H. Swin
i ney. By this it appears that Dougherty is, per
i haps, the richest agricultural county of its size in
■ the Union—and certainly, for its voters the most
( productive. It appears that there are 370 voters
; each of whom, on an average, have 10 slaves
. worth $5,000, and nearly 800 acres of land worth
i SI,OOO and over —to work them on, —besides
I this these figures show that each voter on an
I average is entitled to about $2,700 of good notes
j or merchandize —making the total amount ot
i property that each voter of our county repres
l ents (plantation and mechanical tools, Libraries,
! School and Church property, annual crops and
■ provisions, and other statutory exemptions ex
cepted} at or near the sum ot $14,600. Each
■ one payson an average into the State Treasury
I over sl3, and into the county treasury $26, be
sides the city tax upon the citizens of Albany—
! the total sum of the State and county tax being
. $39 to the voter. The county tax, we would
state, is for building Court-house, Jail, &c., and
I will cease next year or be a mere nominal tax.
| Pulls, 370
■ Professions, 26
Dentists 1
Negroes nominally slaves, 5
Free persons of color 3
Slaves permitted I
to hire their time )
First quality Land, 14.872 j acres
2nd “ “ 55,486 “
3rd “ “ 9 192 “
Pine Land
Aggregate value of land $1,892,539 33
“ “ of city property. 200,340 00
No. of slaves 4.057
Aggregate value of slaves 2,174,345 00
Amo. of money and solvent debts 783,518 51
, Merchandize 81,073 50
I Capital invested in shipping 225 00
j All other capital invested 22,550 00
■ Value of household and kitchen
j furniture over S3OO 13,755 00
1 Aggregate value of all other pro
| perty not above enumerated ex
cept plantation and mechanical
j tools, annual crops, provision,
! &c., 282,671 50
. Aggregate val. of whole propertv $5,451,017 84
I Add default list ’ 61,580 00
$6,512,597 81
I Total amount of taxable property
after deducting S2OO allowed
each individual giving in pro-
i perty 5.418,056 84
, State tax a 9c on the SIOO valu-
| ation of property 4,876 24
. Polls professions and free col’rd
persons 572 50
j Aggregate State Tax $5 148 72
i County tax 200 pr cent on State tax 10,297 50
Poor school tax 15 pr ct. on “ “ 512 87
’ Total ain’t, tax of Dougherty for ’54 $15,961 12
The Mineral Wealth of Fannin.
There is no county in the State so rich in
minerals as Fannin. The White Path Gold
Mines are in active operation, and are yielding
handsomely, while a large number of peisons are
testing for Copper in various portions of the
county, with fair prospects of success. Up to this
time, however, but one company in Fannin or
in this State, have succeeded in raising Copper.
The mines of which we speak, are located in the
eighth district, about one and a half miles from
Pierceville, and are owned by Messrs. Smith &
Summerour. They have already raised over
twenty font of ore, and are preparing to increase'
tneir force. When in full operation, they will i
employ from 250 to 300 hands, and will proba- '
bly ship more ore than any other company now I
mining. ,■
In Mr. Smith, the Superintendent and part
proprietor of the mines, we recognized an old
acquaintance from Middle Georgia, and we can j
state, in connection with this matter, an inter- I
esting fact—he was the first man to leave Geor- I
gia loi California in search of gold, and he will ’
be the first man in Georgia to ship Copper to '
market. He is an energetic and thorough-going
fellow, and we congratulate our Fannin county !
friends on his accession to their number.
These mines are about 60 miles distant horn I
Dalton, and about the same distance from Car- I
tersville. The ore will be transported in wagons I
to one or the other of these places, and thence !
shipped either to Charleston or Savannah. The <
company prefer to ship byway of the former i
city, if the Georgia and South Carolina railroads
will make the expense the same as byway of
l Savannah. The amount shipped in the course
of the year, by-this one company will be sufficient
to make it an object for these roads to see that
their scale of prices is so arranged ;.s to secure it,
and we respectfully call their attention to the
matter. Il other mines in Fannin and Gilmer
piove as valuable and productive as there is < very
reason to believe they will, the entire business
of transporting the ore might beeecured by thr •••
two roads, if proper measures are adopted.
Ti e mines ut Bdensrs, Smith & Sumuaeroui ere
among the richest that have been discovered—
and are probably, in depth and size of vein, supe
rior to any one of the Duck Town mines. They
yield the Black Oxide and the green Carbonate
of Copper, some of which is thought to be worth
at least 80 per cent, and a very superior article
of Bell Metal, in great abundance, worth about
36 per cent — Cassville Standard, 11th inst.
Health of the City.—We give below the
report ot interments in Laurel Grove Cemetery
si nee the first of the month up to last evening.—
The whole number for 15 days was 30—14 of
which were of negroes, and but 5 of persons who
died of yellow fever. The yellow fever cases
were mostly of persons who had remained
throughout the epidemic, having the seeds of
the disease in them, the recent change of temper
ature doubtless tended to develope it. Os the
number of interments three were of remains
brought from the conntry, to wit: one from Gor
don, Wilkinson county, one Irom Hancock coun
ty, and one from Macon. Ofcasualties 2, of in
temperance 1, old age i, teetl:ir.'g 2, consumption
1, spasms 1, convulsions 1 congestion of the
brain 1, dysentery' l,and yePow fever s—total
16 whites. Os the negroes, 14 in number, in
cluding children, r one died of yellow lever.
The report is even more favorable than could
have been anticipated and goes tn show t! e re
established healthfulness ol our city.
There has been no new < > e of yellow fever
within a week past.
There were 67 deaths from yellow lever in
the city, in November, 18'20, when the popula
tion was much smaller than it is now.— Sav.
Rep., 1 6th inst.
Return of Mr.. Alexander. —The readers oi
the Republican will be rejoiced to learn that Mr.
P. W. Alexander, its Editor, arrived last even
ing in improved health, prepared to resume his
editorial duties. During his absence we have
attempted to keep up the interest of his paper
but our teebl** abilities, clamper! by our other du
ties in this office, we trust, will be regarded with
due allowance fortbe manner iu which we have
performed the task. Adieu, reader! our occu
pation’s gone; and,congratulating you upon his
' advent, we drop back into the shade of obscuri
ty.—ft.
jFzorti the Cdrolina Tinies of Thursday \
South Carolina Conference.
Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1854.—The South
j Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
I Church, South, met, pursuant to adjournment, in
j the Sunday school room of the Washington
j street Church, Columbia, at 9 o’clock, A. M.
Bishop Pierce not having arrived, on motion of
i Rev. N. Talley, Rev. Charles Betts was called
ito the chair, and proceeded to open the session
! with devotional exercises. The Secretary ol the
! last Conference called the roll, and eighty-eight
I members answered to their names. The whole
! number belonging to the body, including fifteen
■ who are on probation, is one hundred and thirty
j three. Conterence proceeded to elect by ballot,
! from among the Presiding Elders, according to
I the discipline, a President pro tcm., and the Rev.
'C. Betts was duly elected. Paul A. M. Wil-
I liams, the Secretary of the last Conference, was
| re appointed to that office, and A. G. Stacy was
elected Assistant Secretary. The following re-
I gular committees were appointed :
On Public Worship.— W. ,Crook, C. Murchi
son, W.E Boone, and N. Tally.
On Memoirs — S. Leard and W. A. Gamewell.
O« Periodicals.— A. W. Walker, H. C. Par
j sons, F. A. Mood, M. L. Banks, and P. G. Bow
man.
I Ort Rducatian.—W M. Wightman, White
i footd Smith, T. R. Walsh, Jos. Cross, James
j Stacy.
: The Second Question was taken up—“ Whor
e! main on trial?” and the characters of the fol
| lowing brethren were examined, and they were
! continued on trial; Edmund D. Boyden, Jacob S.
I Conner, Joshua T. Dußose, Robt. W. Burgess.
I R. Thornton Capers, Lewis M. Hamer, Daniel
' A. Ogburn, Basil G. Jones.
: The Fourth Question was taken up —“ Who are
I the Deacons?” and the character of the following
I brethren was examined and approved: John D.
W. Crook, Osgood A. Daiby, and Wm. Easter
ling.
The Fifth Quessiun was taken up— 11 Who
have been elected arid ordained Elders this year?”
and the following brethren, being approved by
the Cot.ference, were elected: F. A. Mood J.
W. Miller, W. W. Mood, Thomas Raysor, Wm.
E. Boone, G. W. Ivy, Daniel Mav, W. A. Clark,
J T. Kilgo, W. B. Currie, W. W. Jones, and D
D. Byers.
The case of G. O. Lamotte was laid over.
The First Question was taken up—“ Who are
admitted on trial?” and the following brethren
were presented and admitted: F. M. Kennedy, A.
1 R. Stevens, Casper E. Wiggins, J. W. Crider.
The following were appointed a Committe on
Book Accounts:!'. R. Walsh, H. Mood, W. P.
I Mouzon. The President presented a communi
! cation to the Conference from Stevenson and
■ Owen, Book Agents of the M. E. Ch.JS., which
was on motion referred to the above committee.
1 The First Question was resumed, and the fol -
1 lowing were admitted: James H. Ward, Geo. K
! Andrews, and L. Connelly.
i The hour of adjournment having arrived Con
! lerence closed with prayer by the Rev. A. M.
i Forster.
(From the Baltimore Ameruan.)
• Great Railroad Speed.—Judge Meigs, in a
j paper lately read by him before the American
1 Institute Farmers’ Club at New York, stated so
i far from tbe locomotive having reached its uiti-
I matum ot speed—one hundred miles per hour—
I it was his belief, that tire road would yet be con
j structed over which the “ iron horse” will move
I with a velocity of r/rree hundred miles an houi.
; Then, travellers could take an early breakfast in
i New York, dine in San Fianoisco, and trnnsact
i ingany little business they may have on hand
I dining the afternoon return in the ‘ nigh* train,”
j and on the next day say ” good morning'’ to the
| pedestrians of Broadway. When the iocomo
| five" makes” three hundred miles an hour, this,
• of course, will be perfectly practicable, although
I the idea is enough io startle th: Jur„e him
| self.
: A speed of one hundred miles per hour, has
j been attained mi English railways; but, make
"the lailroad fix m point to point a mathemati-
I cal line; tbe rails ten times than any
i now in use; the ’ocomotrves on wheels of far
; greater diameter, say twelve or fifteen feet; the
| gnage ot a relative breadth: the signals and
I times perfectly settled; the road, walled on
I both sides, during the transit of trains having
i the gates of the walls all closed; then,” exclaims
I the Judge, “ instead of one hundred miles anhour,
! we shall more safely travel three hundred miles an
| hour.’’
I There is, certainly, very little old fogyism in
i the above quoted lines; the author deserves to
be considered tbe most “ progressive man of the
day. To our mind however there is one diffi
culty in this matter which seems to have been
entirely overlooked, and unless the Judge can
meet it, his locomotive will never run to San
Francisco “in ten hours.”
A speed of three hundred miles an hour, it
has been estimated, would require a piston ve
locity of 3,300 per minute, of eighteen inch
stroke, if the driving wheels were twenty four
feet in circumference; and these driving wheels
would have to make, 1,100 revolutions per min
ute. To acclomplish this feat the boiler would
have to evaporate a ton ot water per minute—-
Does Judge Meigs know of any locomotive that
can accomplish all this?—if not, as we have
never seen or heard of any such machine, we
cannot see how this great railroad speed is to be
obtained; and this is the difficulty to which we
have alluded.and which must make the inven
tion of the Judge’s fait locomotive an achieve
ment yet belonging to the apoehrypal future.
birii’-Bun.Dlx,, in lllK B AT h district. —The
, (Mauie) Mirror states that there have bsen
launched in that district since the Istcf Janufuy
’ v whose angri'gate tonage is 77,Uf'7 —
an m, (M 63 ( _, 28.11)8 The
' alu * of the build, ut #(!(,' a ton, <• <4 ,820.