Mqmhlir
BY J GARDNER.
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AUGUSTA. GA.
WlllfX ILSDA’I. NOV 29
Money Wanted.
The approaching State Fair will bring many
persons to our city from various portions ot this
State and South Carolina. We hope all of our
debtors who come, or who have neighbors com.
ing to the city, will bear us in mind and bring
or remit the little sums respectively due us.
Never before was so much money due this office,
and never before was it as much needed.
The Fair at Augusta—Health of our City
We hope to see a large attendance from every
part of Georgia, and from the adjoining States, at
the approaching State Fair, which commences on 1
Monday, the 4th of December. Our Hotels and
Boarding Houses are in fine order and well kept, r
and preparations are being made in every depart- t
ment of business to make the city attractive to
strangers. The Fair Grounds also will be in
condition to extend ample accommodations to all (
exhibitors and visitors. Convenient arrange- I (
ments ate in readiness to convey persons, at rea- j j
souable rates, 25 cents to, and from the Fair j (
Grounds. I (
Let not the public be deceived and deterred j
from visiting us, by the false reports in circula- |
tion at a distance, in regard to the health of our 1
city. It is the impression in some quarters, that S
the Yellow Fever is still prevailing among us— 1
We were shown a letter yeterday, from Penfield, 1
dated 23d inst., stating that it was reported there 1
that there were twenty new cases of Yellow Fe- 1
ver in Augusta, and several deaths of that dis- t
ease—that a number of medical students had left I
the city, and the class attending the Lectures was
about breaking up. Nothing can Ire more un- ■ I
true. The fever has wholly ceased as an epi- r
demic, not a single case has occurred among those !
who have not been exposed to it prior to frost | §
and there is not the slightest danger of person ! e
taking the disease, who now visit us. Our at- ■j,
mosphere is restored to its former purity, and is I
as safe as it could be at midwinter. There may e
be a few cases lingering with us, where persons t j
were exposed during the summer, or returned p
prematurely, and there have been one or two a
deaths among that class. But this is no reason v
why our city may not be visited with entire im
punity. , f
The report about the Medical College is equal- !i
ly false. We are informed that no students have b
left. On the contrary, the class is daily increas- r ‘
ing. I 1
In order to show how little cause for alarm ex- 1
ists, we state that the Board of Health discon- 4
tinned its daily reports and meetings on the 6th 0
inst., at which time it reported one death from v
Yellow Fever for the 24 hours preceding. There
were, however, at that date several cases still un- 1
der treatment. We have ascertained from the s
Sexton, that there has been in all since then, only »
nine interments from that disease. Most of these j
were eld cases, and all of them cases in which 1
the disease was contracted before frost. 1
The Late Northern Elections.
The Southern Banner, after noticing the late
Northern elections, says very truly, that the fol
io wing lessons are to be learned from a survey of
the whole field:
Ist. That the Whig party, the old and respect- s
able National organization which Mr. Clay so J
long led, is utterly defunct and broken to pieces. ,
The National Intelligencer, and a few other old
fogy prints rnay continue to cling with fondness
to the name; but the hand writing is on the wall. 1
As a National party, it has fought its last battle, i
and sleeps among the things of the past.-The •
election in Massachusetts and Deleware show
this beyond dispute. Not a single overthrow 1
has the Democracy sustained, that is even claim
ed as a Whig triumph.
2d. The anti-slavery feeling has shown itself
weaker than was supposed. That the Nebras- 1
ka Bill is at present unpopular at the North there <
is no doubt; but the opposition to it has shown ,
itself powerful, only when in union with other ■
elements; never when opposed to them. The '
result in New York shows this. Analyse the
vote—study the previous canvass, and it appears i
that the great Nebraska issue was completely .
overriden and covered up, by the higher excite
ment, <. Temperance and Know-Nothir gism. 1
3d. The great democratic party remains in
tact. Though defeated almost everywhere, it
has closed up its ranks, and retired in good order.
It will be ready, with fresh vigor, lor the next
occasion. It has joined hands with no factious,
it has embraced no fanaticisms. Firm, undaunt
ed, doing battle on one side against abolitionism;
ou another against the Maine Law tyranny ; on
a third against the newly aroused spirits of reli
gious persecution, holding aloft the banner or i
the Constitution, and beating in the midst the
sacred Aik of the Union; the glorious legions
have left the field, defeated indeed, but undis
mayed, and now lie in their encampment, only
waiting for the strife sure to ensue between the
incoherent and demoralised forces of the enemy,
to return with flying colors and beating drums,
to easy and certain victory.
The triumph of the opposition, will be as fruit
less, as it will be short. They will have the
of the next House of Representatives,
and will very probably pass, through that body
some sufficiently wicked and absurd enactments;
but the seriate will stand in the breach, as it has
done many a time before, and will save the coun
try from the consequences of its own mistakes.
We may rest assured that nothing objectionable
can become a law before that “sober second
thought” so often referred to, shall have an op
portunity of showing itself. The next Presiden
tial election will be the test. At least three
candidates will be in the field. A Democratic
candidate on the old principles of the party and
against a.I isms sectional or other ; a Northern
candidate combining all the Northern isms, or as
many ot them as can begot to unite ; and lastly
a southern candidate, supgiorted by the Southern
wing of the late Whig party, and standing on
tne extreme southern sectional or “ etale rights”
ground. Let every Democrat be ready for the
earnest ; let every southern man weigh well the
cont.qiiences of such a contest; let every lover
ol me Union and the Constitution reflect how
tnese priceless blessings can be best preserved.
I he great Democratic party of the country de
serves all the encomiums here bestowed upon it.
Never before did it more signally display its in
domitable nerve and devotion to its noble princi
ples than in the storm of disasters that have
swept over it. Never did it more completely
vindicate its title of being “Ms
Amidst the gloom of tho present hour, it looks
• with undaunted and hopeful eye to the future
l well knowing that it alone is the party of the
Constitution, the Union, and of Republican prin
ciples, and feeling assured that its defeat is but
temporary. The dominant factions have no co
herence of principle to keep them togelher.—
They cannot long retain power, even by the stir
ring up of furious passions, and aitful appeals to
religious intolerance and to sectional prejudice;.
To anticipate the permanence of such a triumph
is to deny the intelligence of the American peo- I
pie, and to despair of the Republic. The Union !
has survived many storms more threatening, and
it will not be home down by the present ele- |
ments of discord. In every nonslaveholding:
State there is a firm and steadfast baud ot Demo- j
crats hue to the Constitution, true to the rights i
ol the States, as well as to the union of the States !
who will, as of old, in the next great contest, ral- I
ly the people, misled for a time by passion, but I
not utterly corrupted or debased thereby, to their
time honored standard. The South wrll not be i
blind to her true interests, or be at a loss to re- j
cognize her true friends. She will stand by those j
who have stood by her. Those who have suffer
ed |iersecution for her sake, who have been pro
scribed for voting with her in the National coun
cils. and have been cloven down for their fideli
ty to those principles of State Rights and strict
construction, on which rest the ark of her safety
so long as the Union endures, will aga n march
rejoicing on with her to a common victory.|
Mastin Bridewell was on yesterday elected a
member of Council for the Fourth Ward, to fill
the vacancy of John I. Donaldson.
The Anderson Gazette and Southern Rights i
Advocate have been consolidated by an arrange- i
I ment satisfactory to all parties. Both papers :
; will be conducted under the name of the “Gazette ;
■ & Advocate.” Mr. Rice, the Editor of the Ad- |
I vocate, retires, and Samuel G. Earle Esq., takes I'
I the sole editorial control.
i Santa Anna is said to be again so short of
funds that he is making a staenuous effort to ne
gotiate or anticipate thaspayment of the remain
ing S 3 000,006 of the American indemnity, be
fore the adjustment of the boundary, upon which
it is contingent. The conscription for the pur- I
pose of filling the ranks of the army is being ac- I
tively carried on in the department of Vera j
Cruz. The people are very loth to fight for Santa I
Anna and many of the conscripts have to be i'
.tied together until properly [placed in the bar-j
racks. *
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1 nere are lorty establishments in the United |
States engaged in the manufacture of locomotive ■
engines. These shops, it is estimated, turn out
in busy times at least twelve hundred locomo- ‘
fives in a year. About nine thousand hands are !
employed, whose wages are about three million 1
five hundred thousand dollars per annum. The '
iron consumed exceeds forty-five thousand tons 1
annually. The value at the products of these 8
works is full ten million dollars per annum. 1
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A train on the Columbia railroad was thrown c
trorn the track, twenty-four miles from Harris- ;
burg, on Monday, and oue of the passenger cars t
rolled down the embankment and was broken to r
pieces, but providentially no one was killed, [
though several were severely injured. Among f
them is the Rev. W. Wheat, a Baptist minister j
of Harrisburg, who was hit on the back by a c
water tank in the car. His spine is injured. t
Arrest of an Absconding Bank Robber. *
The Macon Journal & Messengeror yesterday *■
says that information has reached that city ol the (
arrest of Samuel D. Scovjl, Book keeper of the 1
Agency of the Marine Bank of Savannah, in
Macon who absconded on the 29th ult., with ’a 1
large amount of its funds. The Journal & Mes- 1
senger has not been able to iearn any of the par- 1
ticulars of his arrest, either where, when, or iiow
it was affected.
Recruiting in England and Ireland.—The (
war appears to have so roused the old martial
spirit in England, that recruits are obtained in j
great numbers, without the least difficulty. A
recruiting sergeant receives Ils. for every man ] j
passing medical examination, and such is the
readiness with which men join, that one recruit
ing officer alone made £55 within three days, j
The war enthusiasm is said to be even greater
in Ireland than in England.
Death of Hiram Aldrich.
A large circle of friends have been called on to
mourn the loss of this estimable gentleman, who |
died on Saturday last in this city. His upright ■
deportment and strict integrity as a merchant '
and his social qualities and kindness of heart, had 1
won the esteem of all who knew him. He had •
resided in this city nearly a quarter of a century, |
and, now that he is summoned away, has left not i
an enemy behind. He was a native of Smith- ;
field, R. I.
Horaicido at Hamburg.
We understand that a man named Pass An
derson was killed on last Saturday night by a
pistol shot through the heart, fired by a man
named William Murphy. Murphy absconder!.
We understand that he was in this city yester
day.
Visit of Cadets to Augusta.
We are pleased to learn that the Cadets of the
Georgia Military Institute, under command of
Major Brunby, will visit our city during the I
State Fair, which commences next Monday.— |
The President of the Georgia Rail Road with j
commendable public spirit and liberality, has I
consented to pass the Cadets over the Road free -
of charge. Arrangements will be made, and |
are in progress, through other gentlemen here I
I for their accommodation while in the city. We ;
I understand that Carrie’s lot, south of the Georgia |
Rail Road Depot is selected for the Encamp- I
ment.
We had the pleasure of seeing at Milledge
ville last winter this fine corps of young citizen
soldiery. Their evolutions in Battalion drill
as infantry, and also in artillery exercise showed
admirable discipline, while their deportment
when off duty, proved them to be young gentle
men who duly feel the high obligations of
morals and chivalry which their position imposes.
We feel sure their visit will win for them the
respect and admiration of this community, and
of the large concourse of visitors who will be
here. This will furnish those among us of mili
tary tastes a pleasing treat, and no doubt propiti
!ate public sentiment in favor of their flourishing
institution—one of leading value and importance
to our State.
i Our volunteer corps will not omit the civilities
due t > the occasion.
Kansas and Sknator Atchison.—The Wash
ington Star stated some weeks since that Sena
“’tor AtcLisoa would not be io Washington the
, I ensuing winter—being occupied in Missouri
■ | with the task of securing a re-election. The St.
■ j Louis Democrat, (Benton’s Free-Soil oigan) in
t j noticing this announcement, says;
■ I I” regard to the speculations of the Star, how
. . ever, we have a cue to add that has not yet
| been made public. It is, that Senator Atchison
i is at present engaged in the upper country, or-
1 i gauizing a secret society to consist of five thou
, sand persons, pledged to repair into Kansas on the
; day et the first election held there, to voteslave
,ry into that territory. Os this we have authen
tic information, and in a few days we shall ex
pose the whole scheme; for, while we wish to
see the people ot Kansas determine the question
jot their own domestic icstitctious, in forming
l their own State constitution, we cannot and
; will not tolerate such an unlawful and iniquiti
lous rascality as that ot “Drunken Davy’s,”
I w hich proposes that a large body of men who
I are not, and do not intend to become, residents
;ot that territory, shall by force and violence
, override the sense and wishes of its legitimate
[ settlers.
Destructive Fire at Marietta.
" e are permitted to publish the following
I letter to a House in this city, giving an account
! of a destructive Fire at Marietta.
W e sincerely regret this disaster to that flour
ishing place, and to the immediate sufferers.
Especially do we sympathize with the Proprie
tors ot the Mvocate and the Journal. Besides
the immediate precuniary loss, the inconven
ience to them and to the public of such a catas
trope, is not easily estimated in dollars and cents. I
“Marietta, Nov. 25th, 1854.
Gentlemen : —1 have nothing from you to-day,
1 write toinlorm you of a serious Fire.this morn
ing about four o’clock, in the Cherokee Hall
I Block, originating in the adjoining Tin Shop,
j The entire block, Bentons Corner and two oth
j er houses and the Cherokee Hall all a comple
j ruin. And we had great difficulty in saving the
| next block North, which being all frame buil
j dings would not only' have been burnt, but the
: Webster Corner and Howard House and Block
1 must have gone also.
Welch & York are fully insured, but sated
part; Wadsworth—Tinner,lost everything stock
Books and all, no insurance ; Cherokee Mweate
office and Masonic Journal office, both burnt out
and no insurance; Cherokee Hall, insurance
i 57,000; Bentons Corner,no insurance; next door
i owned by Townsend Crane & Co., of Charleston,
! tally insured; Mills & Heeth, and Baber and oth
i era saved tneif merchandise generally ; John W.
Edgq & Phillips, and perhaps N E. Benton, At
torneys, have lost Books and papers. Wails
falling but no one hurt.”
Southern Central Agricultural Fair.
This great annual festival, which has for years 1
done so much for every department ot Agricul
ture in Georgia, is again at hand with all its ex- ,
citements and attractions. Each succeeding
year has added to the completeness of the organ
ization of the Society, to the judic’ousness ofits (
arrangements, and to the extent and variet; of ,
the objects of interest brought together for the
eye of the practical farmer, of the skillful me
chanist, of the enterprising manufacturer, or the t
industrious tradesman. The model planter and ,
the model housekeeper can here annually learn j
new lessons of husbandry and domestic thrift. '
Improved seeds for the sower, improved breeds ’
for the stock-raiser, improved implements, im
proved machinery, are all to be exhibited and i
descanted upon. Much that addresses itself to I
refined taste in the arts, as well as the io-e of ‘
the beautiful in nature, will add to the attractions |
of a scene where the ornamental is not wholly j
overshadowed by the useful. Both combine‘heir 1
attractions to Biterest, instruct and amuse.
We hope that the Fair next week will be
honored by aefull representation of the industry,
the intelligence, the wealth, the be..uty a',.4 the
refinement of this State and the adjoining States.
What the attractions of this exhibition will be,
we are not prepared to say, and must refer to
the advertisement of the Society. But judging
of this, by the past, and allowing for the usual
progressive improvement, we have a right to
look fora most creditable display. Our city, is
prepared to do all her duty in the effort to make
her visitors comfortable and happy.
Revival of the Slave Trade.
In another column will be found an article
from the N. O. Picayune, suggested by the recent
trial in New York, of Capt. Smith, lor piratical
slave dealing, in which a sharp practical lecture
is read to the Abolitionists. A fruitful etid far
more useful field for their philanthrophy is there
pointed out to them, than that which has hither
to employed their thoughts and attention. As
to the merits of the question of the revival of the
Slave Trade, we do not feel that there is occa
sion now for the discussion. If it were desira
ble for the South, as a matter of policy, there is
no chance for it. The Constitution of the Uni
ted States forbids the trade, and public sentiment
is not in favor of any change, either North or
South, if revived, there is no doubt that the
traffic would be in the hands of the people of the
North exclusively, as it was prior to its prohibi
tion. The South has never evinced any partic
ular taste for such commercial adventures. —
Even now, though made piracy by law, North
ern capital, Northern vessels and ere '.vs, are
engaged in it. But there is not the first instance
to be quoted against the Southern States, of a
cargo of Slaves having been introduced upon her
i shores, since the constitutional inhibition. Yet
I her thousands of miles of unguarded sea coast
| offer the amplest facilities for the illicit traffic.
’ As a question of philanthropy, we are clearly
I of opinion that the revival of the Slave Trade,
I by the sanction of law, would confer blessings
. innumerable upon the African race. Contrast
the happy condition of the three or four millions
! of our Southern Slaves with the brutal and mis
: erable savages of Africa, and who can doubt that
the latter would be infinitely blessed by the
change, could they be transplanted as the de
mands of agriculture might prompit, to the soil of
the Southern planting States ?
To the South the movement would give in
creased wealth and increased political strength
and importance by the rapid filling up of the
sparsely populated states, where millions of acres
still lie in their virgin freshness, awaiting the hand
of cultivation through the present slow process of
immigiation and natural increase. But it would,
temporarily at least, produce great disturbance
to the present value of property in the old states.
It would bring down very rapidly the value of
slaves, perhaps to the extent of rendering that
species of property no longer a desirable invest
ment in Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky.
While slave states would be increasing at the
South-west, they would be diminishing on our
Northern border.
The value of all labor would be depressed
j ow ing to the competition produced ty the great
i. influx among us of slaves from Africa, bought at
, less than half the present value of slaves. This
would have a bad influence on the mechanica
. and other manual pursuits at the South now
employing a large and valuable white population.
1 It would seriously check many departments of
skillful enteiprize and drive from among us many
of our hardy and useful citizens, whose labor is
now as well rewarded here as it would be in the
Northern States.
But it is unnecessary to enlarge further on this
topic, because it is merely a matter of curious
speculrtion—not one having a practical bearing.
To the North be it said, remove the beam flora
your own eye. To the Abolitionist, you have
work enough at home to fully occupy your phil
authrophy for the African race.
The Austin Texas Gazette contains the letter
from Governor Pease in relation to the depo
sit by the Pacific Railroad Company of stock ot
a doubtful character in lieu of the 5300,000.
The terms of rejection are decisive and final.
Hon. Robert W. Johnson, who served in the
last session of the U. S., Senate as the represen
tative of Arkansas, by appointment of the Gov
ernor, has been unanimously elected by the
Legislature to continue in the same place.
City of Savannah.
We are indebtedjo His Honor, John E- Ward.
I Mayor, for a neat pamphlet copy ot his official
report to his fellow citizens of Savannah. It
contains a full statement of the condition of the
city, its finances, &c., together with many inter
esting statistics of the late epidemic.
The fiscal affairs of the city are sound and
flourishing. The funded liabilities amount to
$1,024,134 50. The value of the stocks and
real estate held by it, $1,637,127.09. These
figures, added to the flatering prospects of the
city fora yearly increasing trade and prosperity,
ought to place her credit on a high basis.
After elaborately discussing the subject of the
Yellow Fever, and presenting a thorough view
of the facts, the Mayor thus concludes:
“ I can only regard it as an atmospheric storm
passing over the whole southern country and
taking our city in its course. It doubtless fol
lowed certain definite laws, but so did the tem
pest that swept over our city on the Sth day of
September. They both expressed the will of
the great law giver—of Him, at whose command
the storm and the pestilence arises and pursues
its course, baffling the power or the skill of man
until it has accomplished His wise purposes. It
may be that He will again command the pesti
lence to desolate our city, and to hush the accents
in our homes, but there is no more reason to ap
prehend its return from any local cause existing
around us, than to dread another hurricane on
the Bth of September next. We must still wit
ness, every where around us, the memorials ol
our losses, but with a firm reliance on His mercy,
who has so long blessed us with uninterrupted
prosperity, and an abiding confidence in His
power who has stood between the living and the
dead, let us be true to ourselves and the prosper
ity of our city, and the happiness of her people
will soon be restored.
Attacked with the epidemic on the 7th of Sep- :
tember, I was for some time unable to discharge
the duties of my office. During that period, its
arduous labors were cheerfully and zealously
performed by Dr. James P Screven, surrounded
by death and despondency, in the midst of dan- i
gers which might well have appailed “ the bra
vest of the brave.”
Not a candidate for re election, I will avail
myself of this opportunity, to express my most
grateful acknowledgements to the people ot
Savannah, forthat confidence which has repeat
edly elevated me to offices of honor and trust, !
for that Charity with which my acts have been
judged, and for t:.at personal kindness which I
have ever received from them.”
Very respectfully and truly,
Your obedient servant,
John E. Ward, Mayor. i !
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The gasometer of the Manhattan Gas Com- I;
pany’s, at Ne v York, which was partially des- |
troyed by fire on Tuesday night, exploded on L
Wednesday evening, and occasioned some dam- '
age. Several workmen who were at the time I
employed on the ruins, in removing the rubbish,'
narrowly escaped with their lives. Samuel !
Gordon one of the party had both his legs bro- I
ken and sustained other injuries, from which be I
will scarcely recover.
James Hall, conductor of a freight train on the j
Pennsylvania rail road, had one of his legs torn I
off, on Wednesday, near Lewistown, as he was
in the act of detaching a portion of the train
while in motion. He died in a few hours after
wards.
We learn from the Columbia Times that Mr.
Henry Eggeos, an assistant upon the freight
train of cars from Charleston, on Sunday, after
the cars had started, about nine miles below Co
lumbia, attempting to pass from the tender to
the engine, slipped, fell and received injuries in
the fall which terminated his existence in a few
moments. This unfortunate individual, it is
stated, had a family residing in Nsw York.
The splended new ship Monarch of the Sea,
of 2300 tons burthern, by Capt. Wm. R. Gard
ner, will sail from New York on the 29th in
stant for Pensacola, for the purpose of testing the
floating dock lately built there for the United
States Government'
The Florida Legislature met at Tallahassee on
Monday. In the Senate there are 11 Demo
crats to 7 Whigs. In the House of Represen
tatives there are 23 Democrats and 17 Whigs.
There is a United States Senator, Comptroller of
Public Accounts,State Treasurer, State Engineer
and Geologist, to be elected by the Legislature.
Some idea of the commerce of New York may
be gathered from the fact, that the fees paid to
the pilots taking vessels to and from New York,
now amount to about two hundred thousand dol
lars a year.
After the loss of the Arctic many papers con
tained long biographical accounts of the Duke
De Grammont, who was said to be among the
number that was drowned. It appears that the
Duke De Grammont is and has been for some
time an inmate of an insane asylum in France,
and that it was his eon who was lost.
Levi Hartford, one of those patriots who suf
fered so terribly by imprisonment by the British,
in the Sugar House, at New York, during the re
volutionary war, died in the latter city a few
days ago. A few years ago be was named as one
of the four suivivors of the horrible torment en
dured in that place.
Machinery.—President Hitchcock says that
there are in Great Britain, at the present day
fifteen thousand steam engines driven by means
of coal with a power equal to that of two mil
lion of men; and thus is put into operation ma
chinery equalling the unaided power of 300,000,-
i 000 or 400,000,000 of men. The influence thence
emanating reaches the remotest portions of the
globe, and tends mightily to the civilization and
i happiness of the race.
t Naval Prefa rations. —Our distant cotempo-
S raries, says the Washington Star, have been led
i into erior by those Washington correspondents
who report that there is just now the unusual ac
tivity displayed in the United States navy yards
which betokens something more than ordinary
preparations. Between this time and spring the
Mediterranean, African coast, and West India
(home) squadrons are all to return, aud their
places have all to be supplied as usual, the vessels
now expected home, going into ordinary. The
preparations referred to above are simply to get
ready vessels to supply their places.
The United States Senate.—Twenty-seven i
Democrats have been elected or hold over in the
next United States Senate. The legislatures of
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana,
Arkansas and North Carolina, are democratic,
and will send seven demociats more from those
States, there being two to be chosen from North
Carolina, making thirty-four democrats certain
outof sixty-two members, all of whom except
tour were in favor of the Nebraska bill, and, it is
believed, will be against any attempt to disturb
it. Ihe opposition have eighteen members. In
addition, they have the control of the legisla
tures in lowa, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania.
Wisconsin, and New York, and may elect six
Senators in those States, increasing their force in
the Senate to twenty.four. The New Hamp
shire legislature, which will have to elect two j
Senators, is yet to be chosen. The Senator from i
Missouri is doubtful, and so is the Senator from!
California. It will be seen, therefore, that the
democrats will have a working majority in the
Senate in the session of 1855-6. The House will
be largely in opposition to the Admsnistration.
The President’s Message.—lt is rumored,
that the message of the President, which for some
years past has been sent to the postmasters in
advance, to be delivered to the newspapers offices
as soon as read at Washington, will be withheld
this year until it is sent to Congress. Our foreign
relations, it is said, make this course necessary, i
as it is advisable the President shall receive the j
latest European intelligence before bis message |
is submitted.
Theodore A. Gray, a scamp who called him
self a printer, was arrested in New York the
other evening, for destroying ladies dresses with
vitro!. He had in his possession what is known
to mechanics as an oil feeder or small tin case
which ejects any fluid it may contain by press
ing upon the bottom. This was filled with vitral.
He acknowledged having spoiled the dresses o f
two ladies, and it is believed that he has been
guilty of ruining hundreds of silks anJ satins
worn by ladies at the various theatres and con
cert rooms, within a few weeks. He assigned
no reason for his malicious conduct.
Samuel D. Scoville, who absconded with ten
thousand dollars in notes of the Marine Bank of
Georgia, it appears, was arrested in St. Louis,
and not Louisville, as previously reported. He
boarded at the Planter’s Hotel in St. Louis,under
the assumed name ol Louis, some days before
his capture. Between eight.and nine thousand
dollas ot the money, in the original packages,
was found in a carpet bag which he had deposi
ted in a store.
A despatch received at Philadelphia, announces
that the sloop-of-war Albany, about which ves
sel there has been considerable uneasiness of late,
has been lost. The Northern papers do not state
from whence this information was derived.
The effective British force in the Crimea is
said, by a correspondent of the London Times,
to be only sixteen thousand, so great has been
the void made by battle and disease. No less
than nine thousand men are dead or hors tie corn
hat in the eight weeks they have been in the
Crimea.
A telegraphic dispatch from Washington, to
the Baltimore Patriot, announces the absolute
failure of the banking house of Messrs. Selden,
Withers & Co., and also that fears are entertain
ed that the Spanish Minister—who was thrown
from his carriage a day or two since—will not
recover from the injuries then received.
(communicated.)
Mr. Gardner:—For the information of the
public, allow me to say, that the scoundrel, who
succeeded some months ago in so effectually
“doing” some of our citizens, under the name
here of John Kirkland, has been arrested and is
now confined in our Jail to await his trial at the
next term of our Superior Court. His leal name
is William McMullen, but his alias’s are “ too nu
merous to mention.” His former residence was
Elh rl County, then Marion Co., then the Peni
tentiary for two years. His time was out last
spring, and he is in a fairway of getting a lease
of his eld quarters for the next 21 years—“a
consummation most devoutly wished'for.” His
name in Franklin, N. C., was John Jones—in
Union Co., when arrested, John Statham, on his
way here John Smith. He seems to feel a dog
ged indifference to his fate.
The lesson he has taught Stockholders in the
“ Kirkland Bank” it is to be hoped will not be
los’—at any rate —not upon the holder of
Thirteen Shares— all paid in.
Masons must not Fight.—According to the
Masonic Register, the following resolution has
passed the Grand Lodge of California :
Resolved, That the practice of duelling is re
pugnant to the principles of Freemasonry, and
in all eases where the brethren resort to this
mode of settling their disputes, it becomes the
duty of the lodge or lodges of which they .are
members, or under whose jurisdiction they may
be, forthwith to expel them from all the rights
and privileges of Masonry, subject to the confir
mation of the grand lodge ; and no brother who
may tall in a duel shall be buried with Masonic
honors.
The following was also passed :
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this grand
lodge that the use of Masonic emblems upon
sign boards is unmasonic, and in open violation
of the spirit of Freemasonry.
Lexington, Ga, Nov. 25th, 1854. .
Would rather be in Slavery.—The Cin
cinnati Gazette of Wednesday has the follow
ing:—
In the Police Court yesterday, a colored man
named John Stewart was arrainged on charge of
stealing a quantity of clothing from an elderly
colored woman. Stewart plead guilty - , and in
mitigation that he was out of funds and food,
and had taken this course to provide himself
with the necessaries of life. He stated to the
Court that a short time since he was a slave in
Raleigh, North Carolina, and upon being inform
ed of the kind treatment he would receive from
the Abolitionists in the North, if he would be
come a free man, and concluded to purchase
himself, and did so at a cost of 8900. He left
his master and came to Ohio. “Since I came
here,” continued Stewart. “I have been kicked
about and abused by all classes of white men.
Can’t get work from no one, and to borrow mu-
I ney to get bread with, that is out of the qneetioa
I I did a great deal better there than I ever did
here.” Here tbe defendant took his seat t»
await, the sentence of the Court, which was
that be be sent to the chain gang at hard labor,
and was thankful for the prospect of getting
something to eat in jail. He declared that as
soon as he got out he would go South and be
come a slave again.
Fire in Maiieita.
We have the following extra from the Cher
okee Georgian office, giving further particulars
It becomes our painful duty to record one of
the most destructive conflagrations that has ever
occurred in this city. About four o’clock this
| morning a fire was discovered in the titove and
Tin Ware Store of Mr. W. L. Wadsworth,
w hich soon communicated to the Cherokee Hall,
on one side, and the store known as the ‘Pattillo
Bolding,’ (the store below being unoccupied)
on the other. The flames soon communicated to
tbe corner building, and the whole were entirely
consumed.
Tbe entire loss is about $30,000, of which on
ly a portion was covered by insurance.
Col. Glover’s loss is very heavy, say $l2,(X>O
—insured some 6 or 7.000
Wadsworth loss is $5,000 besides all his books
and papers. No insurance.
The goods of MIR & Heath were all saved,
also of Mr. Ruede, jeweller. Messrs. Welsh &
York lost a portion of their goods.
The Signet & Journal office, with ail the books
and valuable Masonic Library was burnt, loss
several thousand dollars. No insurance.
The Cherokee Advocate office is entirely con
sumed, with a portion of its books. Loss sl,-
I 500.
! The Law officesol Edge & Phillips, and N. E.
' Benton, with books and papers, in the second
story of the ‘Benton Building,’ are consumed.
The loss of Dr’s. Allen, Dentists, and of Mr.
Laton, Artist, whose offices were in Cherokee
Hall is small. The Masonic Hall and the sa
loon of * Cato the Tonsor’ in the same building,
are destroyed.
The loss ot the Benton estate and of the own
ers of the Patillo building, about $5,000 each.
The Fletcher House, and the old stand of
Messrs. Northcutt, now occupied by Mr. Rob
ert Baber, were in most eminent danger, and tbe
latter was saved only by the most extraordina
ry effort.
It is not known bow the fire originated.
; The blow is a most disastrous one to our eiby
and tails upon many of our best citizens.
I The Burning of Judson’s Hotel—Additional
Particulars.
The building in New York known as Jad
son’s Hotel, which was destroyed by fire on
Monday, was owned by Harris Stephens, Esq.,
of Montreal and w. s insured for $25,000 in va
rious offices. It wasoccupied by J. &C. O’Gra
dy, of Vermont, whose loss is sso,ooo,and insur
ance $13,000. They bought it from Mr. Judson
some time since sot $30,000. It was erected
about ten years ago, was five stories in height,
fronting on Brodway, and extending back to
Trinity Place The Commercial says :
The fire appears to have originated abont
eight o’clock in the morning, from some defect
in the furnace which was located in the centre
cellar for the purpose of heating the house, and
as the flames burned upward, they also burned
rapidly sideways towards the front and rear, so
that tbe whole structure was soon in conflagra
tion. The boarders and servants were compell
ed to make their escape in such haste that most
of their clothing and other personal baggage
was lost.
Several persons who occupied upper rooms
had their retreat cut off by fire on the stair-ca
ses, and were rescued by means of the firemen’s
ladders) It is believed that all the inmates
were saved, although it is possible in a crowded
hotel some persons may have perished unnoticed.
Scaiceiy any portion of the furniture was saved.
About 180 hoarders were stopping here when
the fire broke out, and the majority of these met
with serious personal losses. Some of them
were in bed when the fire made its appearance,
and had to escape with barely a sufficient cov
ering to protect them from the cold. One of
them lost S6OO in cash.
The servants, about twenty in number, lost
most of their clothing, and had to take shelter
in the First Ward station-house. Some of the
servant girls were the last to remain in the build
ing, and had to be rescued from the balcony and
front windows by means of .'adders. The low
of boarders probably amounts to $20,000. .' he
rear part of Adams Sc Co.’s express building was
damaged to the amount of about SIOO by the
failing of the hotel walls. They are insured. A
number of valuable stores narrowly escaped,
and one or two persons were slightly injured.
When the smoke was first seen in the hotel, ax
old man, a boarder on the fourth floor, made bis
appearance at a window on Trinity Place, in a
state of the greatest excitement. He was about
to leap out of the window, the hall passages
having been cut offby the smoke, when Adam’s
men induced him to wait until they brought a
ladder. In a second the ladder was raised
against the building and the gentleman extrica
ted from his perilous position. Three or four
other boarders were also rescued by tbe same
means.
The hotel has been for some time what is tail
ed a “ Furnished Hotel,” —that is a place where
rooms are hired, and meals given or not, as de
sired. Mr. Judson who formally kept it, is now
proprietor of the New York Hotel and the Bre
voort House in the upper section of the city.
Monetary- Affairs in New York.—The
New York Times of Monday says . “ Our mar
ket for money is something easier for loans at
cal! or on very short time, the collaterals being
unexceptionable. The bank managers, we
think, fee! more comfortable than last week,
owing to the general look of the averages which
they reported to-day. The amount of specie
going to Boston to morrow afternoon for Wed
nesday’s steamer is about 400,000.”
The New York Journal of Commerce of Mon
day says : “ Wall street is still in dumps, with
out exactly knowing what is the matter. Tbe
horizon seemed brighter early in the morning,
but, as the smoke from the fire in Broadway
came floating in the street, ‘ men’s minds failed
them for fear;’ stocks fell and money became
unusually tight. We do not desire to treat these
troubles with levity, because, however imagina
ry the cause, they ate seriously felt by those
within the grasp ot the pressure ; but, it the re
sults were less disastrous, we could hardly re
frain from smiling at the ludicrous cadaverous
ness of those who, amidst the general distress,
are suffering from nothing but panic; men with
long purses, long faces, and wo-begone counte
nances, who are all the while nervously feeling
of the buttons over their pockets, as if the con
tents of these receptacles had as many legs as a
crab and would march off’without warning if
I not constantly watched.”
The Journal of Commerce attributes the de
pression in the money market to a causeless
panic, and remarks that it is directed toward the
securities the least likely to be permanently af
fected by a i evulsion in trade, such as finished
railroads earning a divided. It also says ;
“ While the shipping interests, rents, manu
facturing establishments, insurance companies,
banks, merchandise,&c. are paying/hr less than
at th s time last year upon the capital invested,
our first-class railroads, with few exceptions, are
paying more, as a brief comparison will show.
Pork.—We notice large lots of hogs passing
almost daily through this city, intended for
Southern markets. The present idea is that
pork will be scarce and high, and we think the
idea pretty correct; at least in this section of
country, for it appears that our pork will all go
below. Messrs. C. B. Wellborn, Underwood,
and others, are now butchering tome four or five
hundred in this place, which they intend to ba
con. Several persons in the neighborhood of
Dalton, refuse to sell pork now, prelerringto ba
con it, and wait for higher prices. Prices are
> ranging from 6to 7 and 8 cts. nett. We think,
I in all conscience, that it is high enough. If it gate
much higher, it will be scarce with us next yeav,
• at all events.— Dalton Tirms.
