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About Weekly Georgia constitutionalist and republic. (Augusta, Ga.) 1851-185? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1854)
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.
