Tight Times
This chap is around again. He has been in
town tor a week. He may be seen on ’Change
every day. He is over on the Pier, along Quay
street. up Broad-way, stalks up State-street,
ooks in at the banks, and lounges in the hotels.
He bores our merchants, ami seats himself cozdy
n lawyers' offices. He is everywhere.
A great disturber of the public quiet, a pesti
ent fellow is this same Tight Times Every
□ody talks about him, everybody looks out for
him, everybody hates him. and a great many
hard words and no little profane epithets aie bes
towed upon him. Everybody would avoid him
if they could, everybody would hiss him from
Change, hoot him off the Pier, cuase him from
Quay-street, hustle him out oi Broadway, kick
him out of the banks, throw him out of the stores,
out ol the hotels, but they can’t. Fight Times
is a bore. A burr, he w ill stick Hints are
thrown away on him, abuse lavished in vain,
kicks, cutfs, profanity are all thrown away on
him. He is impervious to them all.
An impudent fellow is Tight Time.-. Ask for
a discount, and he looks over your shoulder,
winks at the cashier, and your note is thrown
out. Ask a loan ot the usurers at one per cent,
a month, he looks over your securities and mark,
two and a half. Present a bill to your debtors
Tight Times shrugs his shoulders, rolls up his
eves, and you must call again. A wile asks for
a fashionable brocade, a daughter lor a new bon
net; he puts in his caveat, and the brocade a.id
bonnet are postponed.
A great depredator of stocks is Tight Times.
He steps in among the brokers and down goes
Central to par, to ninety-five, ninety, eighty
five. He plays the deuce with Michigan Cen
tral, with Michigan Southern, with Hudson
River, with New York and Erie. He goes along
the railroads in process of construction, and the
Irishmen throw down their shovels and walk
away. He puts his mark upon railroad bonds,
and they find no purchasers, are hissed out of
market, become obsolutely dead.
A great exploder of bubbles is Tight Times.
He looks into the affairs of gold companies, and
they fly to pieces; into kiting banks, and they
stop payment; into rickety insurance companies,
and they vanish away. He walks around corner
ots, draws aline across lithographic cities, and
they disappear. He leaves his foot-print among
mines, ami the rich metal becomes dross. He
oreatnes upon the cunningest schemes ol specu
ation, and they burst like a torpedo.
A hard master for the poor, a cruel enemy to
Hm> laboring masses, is Tight Times. He takes
the mechanic from his bench, the laborer from
his work, the hod-carrier from his ladder. He
runsup the prices of provisions, and he runs
down the wages o! labor. He runs up the price
of fuel,and he runs down the ability to purchase
it at any price. He makes little children hun
gry and cry for food—cold and cry for fire and
clothing. He makes poor women sad, makes
mothers weep, discourages the hearts of fathers,
carries care and anxiety into families, and sits a
crouching desolation in the corner and on the
hearth stones of the poor. A hard master to the
poor, is Tight Times.
A curious fellow is Tight Times, full of idiosyn
cracies and crotchets. A cosmopolite—a wan
derer too. Where he comes from nobody knows,
and where he goes nobody knows. He flashes
along the telegraph wires, he takes a free pas
sage in the ears, he seats himself in the stages or
goes along the turnpikes on foot. He is a gen
tleman on Wall-street to-day, and a back settler
on the borders of civilization to morrow. We
hear of him in London, in Paris, in St. Peters
burg, at Vienna, Berlin, at Constantinople, at
Calcutta, in China, all over the Commeicial
World, in every great city, in every rural district
—everywhere.
There is one way to avoid being bored by this
troublesome fellow, Tight Times. It is the only
way for a country, a city, a town, as well as in
dividual men to keep shut out of his presence
always. Let the country that would banish him
beware of extravagance, of speculation, ot over
trading, of embarking in visionary schemes ot
aggrandizement. Let it keep out of wars, avoid
internal commotions, and go right along, taking
care of its own interests and husbanding its re
sources. Let the city that would exclude him be
economical in its expenditures, indulging in no
schemes of speculation, making no useless im
provements, building no railroads that it cannot
pay for, withholding its credit from mushroom
corporations, keeping down its taxes, and going
right along, taking care of its own interests and
husbanding its own resources. Let the indivi
dual man who would exclude him from his do
raesrfc circle be in- itrious, Luga!, keeping out
of the whirlpool of politics, indulging no taste
for office, holding up his dish when pudding falls
from the clouds, laying by something when the
aun shines to make up for the dark days, for
“ Some days must bo dark and dreary
working on always with a heart full of confi
dence in the good providence of God, and cheer
ful in the hope of ’’the good time coming.”—
Albany Register.
[Special Corretpsudence of the Picayune.}
Baltimore, Nov. 11, 1854.
Hard times and a tight money market seem
to be the absorbing topics of conversation at pre
sent. Our merchants have been strapped to the
girt for some weeks past—the dry goods men
especially. A large amount of their paper fell
due from the Ist to the 18th inst. These were
notes given and their payment predicated on the
fall trade. Unfortunately, business has been
very dull—not more, on an average, than one
halt what it should have been. Hence, when
the time came round to meet large payments,
merchants found their old goods instead of ready
money on hand, and some of them were obliged
to suspend, whilst others borrowed, and are bor
rowing at ruinous discounts.
It would really seem that the times are out of
joint. Confidence, too, that great cementer of
trade and safeguard of the social comfort, is sad
ly wanting—thus the upright and trustworthy
are brought to s .are in evils which they had no
hand in producing.
That there is money abundant in the country,
I mean amongst the farmers and agriculturalists
of the country, there can be no doubt. Indeed,
they have more ol it than possessed by them for
many years. The very highest prices have been
obtained for their produce; but the misfortune
is, the means of these prudent persons is kept
locked up or put away in stockings, and it does
not come to town. There is no complaint of
hard times in the country, but a want of confi
dence in their wayward city’ friends keeps the
rural inhabitants rather to themselves.
We have been living too fast. I saw a young
lady the other day who exhibited a pocket hand
kerchief, magnificently worked, that she paid
one hundred dollars for, and another who wore a
veil costing five hundred dollars. It is notat all
uncommon to see these luxuries.
A sweet maiden of sixteen boasts that her
dress cost one thousand to fifteen hundred dol
lars—her shawl probably two hundred. Whole
stomagers of gems glitter upon her person. Miss
A. is told that Miss B. has been out shopping and
gotten so and so. Miss B. is not to be outdone,
and she shops the next day, outshining them all.
Her father is reported rich, his credit good, and
thus bills are swelled to an interminable length.
Fast young men, too, go it upon the tame high
pressure principle—fast horses, fine dogs, costly
guns, a buggy driver, and other appendages must
Be had. Money gives out, and there is no re
production. Idleness absorbs life and all else.—
•• By pride, angels have fallen.” SosaysClaude
Meinotte most truthfully ; and to this system of
false pride may be traced ten thousand evils. A
day of reckoning has to come. Credits run out,
bills must be paid, and perhaps we find the pa
rents of these extremely fashionable and timo
rous young ladies and their brothers ground to
ths very earth, stripped to the girt, passing sleep
less nights and miserable days, to raise the means
to pay*for each abominable extravagancies. We
often hear complaints, amid the pressure of hard
times, that all our gold and silver is being
shipped to Europe, and that the balance ol ex
change is largely against us. Going from small
things up to larger ones, and taking in the ag
gregate, this miy easily be accounted for The
ine materials spoken of above come from Eu
rope ; they are made there. We wear them
out. ' Our gold goes to pay for them, and there
is nothing left to reproduce value. The sub
stance of a five hundred dollar veil when reduced
to its intrinsic value, (ashes) would not fructify
or produce ten grains of wheat. There is no
difficulty then in accounting for the scarcity of
money or bard times. Pride, with her con-cotn
itant lollies, is at the bottom of all.
Tha Old Town of Goliad.
Those who have lived for some years in this
State are acquainted with the history of the old
town of Goliad or La Bahia. It was founded at
an early period after the arrival of the Spaniards
in Texas. The town is on the west bank ol
tiie San Antonio river. It once contained near
thiee thousand inhabitants. During the war be
tween Spain and Mexico, Guit?rrez was besieged
in the Mission by a large Spanish force, but
beat them off. The Missionary Priests had
in charge a large number of Indians. These
were controlled by overseers and compelled to
work. Many o! them acquired considerable
property in cattle and horses. By frequent in
termarriages with Mexicans and casualties these
tribes havealmost disappeared.
Goliad was at one time a place ol business.
The trade carried on between it and the Rio
Grande towns was by no means inconsiderable.
It was a sort oi half-wav house between differ
ent points for the transfer and barter of merchan
dise and various products There was a custom
house near the old Mission tort, the ruins of
which yet remain.
S&The church proper consists of an oblong room
about 20 by 80. It is now used for worship. The
church fixtures and adornments are plain and un
ostentatious. The officiating Priest is a French
man. He complains of a want of interest in re
ligious matters on the part of his parishioners
and the inadequacy of his salary.
The roof of the church is arched and composed
of solid masonry. It is surrounded by a strong
stone wall some 350 feet square—at each corner
is a bastion out of repair. The whole com
mands the San Antonio river and the town.
It was in this place that Fannin could have
made his best defence against the Mexicans in
1536. He is said to have had an abundance ot
provisions, plenty of armsandamunition. When
he decided to retreat he burnt his provisions in
the church beneath the choir. The marks oi the
flames are still visible on the walls.
These works have been constructed many
years. On top of the church and in the bastion
at the north-west corner a couple of trees are
growing. The Mexicans call them Anacuas.
In the northwest corner ol the wail are the ruins
of a lage building once occupied as a quarter for
troops and officers, and also used as a Court
House.
Col. Fannin destroyed many of the houses and
prepared for a vigorous defence. When he re
ceived Gen. Houston’s order to fall back he de
layed his departure to concentrate the Texian
iorces. Ward & King were thirty miles distant
at Refugio. Grant on the Agua Dulco, 80 miles
distant and Pierce at San Patricio 60 miles. The
detachments were attacked and beaten in detail
by the Mexicans.
Near the Fort are the points where Fannin’s
men were butchered. He was shot inside the
wall near the guard-house, which is much dilap
idated. Near where he is said to have closed his
caieer there lies a long iron twelve pounder.
The old town of Goliad is classic, venerated
around. It is consecrated in the hearts of every
Texan. Heie a bloody offering was made upon
the shrine ot liberty by the sacrifice of men bat
tling in the holiest of causes. Here perfidy com
pleted a work oppresicn had contemplated. The
funeral wail which ascended to He .veu from
many a woestricken heart made sad auddesolate
by this massacree was an overture, a prelude to
'be song of triumph which arose from the plains
of San Jacinto, where a crimson field was piled
with dead, and where the dreadful war-cry of
vengence bore back the minds of victors and
vanquished to the “ Alamo” and to" Goliad.”
The ‘ old town is inhabited principally by
Mexicans. There are some sixty or seventy
families. The houses are built in the Mexican
style, presenting quite a contrast to the architec
ture oi the new town on the west side of the
river. There are four stores.
Among the residents there are several exiles
from Mexico. There is quite a good looking old
Greek called by the inhabitants Don Pedro Villa.
He signs his .name “P. V. Sarats.” He was
born at Missoloughi in Greece and mentioned it
as remarkable for its defence against the Turks
in 1825-6, and the death-place ot Lord Byron, i
Pedro Villa has lived fifty-two years in the
United States —says he is sixty-seven years old,
but has the reputation cf being quite an hundred
There is a race track in ibe e l.ge ot the town.
On Sundays the people attend mass in the morn
ing and in the evening cock-fights and fandan
goes. The manners of the residents are essen
tially Mexican. Here are a couple of towns
divided by a small river displaying traits of
nationality as distinct and variable as it is possi
ble for them to exist.— Texas State Times.
[From the New Orleans Picayune.}
Slavers in New York.
Not long since we wrote an article on the
subject of the African slave trade, suggested by
the abusive tone of several Northern journals,on
the subject ot the apprehended effort to legalize
it again in this country. The South was assail
ed as eagerly pressing the repeal of the law by
which this traffic is prohibited with a view ot
replenishing their stock of negroes from the
coast of Africa, and thus reviving the horrors so
often and so vividly portrayed of the “detesta
ble” trade. We took occasion to show that
when the slave trade was legal, the grand bulk
of all the importations was made by Northern
men in Northern ships, on Northern account, and
that since the passing of the prohibitory laws
the illict traffic, whenever detected, has been in
variably traced to the capitalists and adventur
ers of the North, and that the South is entirely
clear of any participation in it, directly or indi
rectly. And we concluded that if the history of the
past is to be any guide to our judgment of the fu
ture, we might say with confidence the reopening
of the trade, if it were possible, would bring a rush
of Northern capital into it, thrustingout of the
way any Southern men who might desire to
embark in it. The same experience of the past
advised us that the desire to embark in the trade
is powerful at the North, and is so strong that
even now, in spite of the prohibitory laws, and
in the midst of the public clamor there against
the slaveholding South, as criminal enslaves of
the black man, the slave trade is carried on to a
great extent now, from the ports of the North.
Unexpected light has been thrown on the sub
ject, adducing the strongest possible corrobora
tion of these opinions. A case has just been
tried in the United States Circuit Court of New
York, resulting in a conviction for piratical slave
dealing. The testimony shows that the en
terprise was Northern altogether. The
brig Julia Moulton was purchased in Bos
ton, by one James Smith, in February
last, taken to New York and fitted out as
a slaver. Her crew were engaged there, and she
dared for the Cape of Good Hope. They went
however, to the coast of Africa, where they took
on board six hundred and sixty-four negroes,
who, after a voyage of sixty-five days were lan
ded on the Southern coast of Cuba; after which,
the brig was dismantled and burnt, and the cap
tain and mate returned to New York, where they
quarreled about wages, and the consequence was
the disclosure of the nature of the voyage and
the indictment and conviction of the captain.
The case is most important as demonstrating,
by the evidence produced at the trial, and by the
conclusions to which it forces the journals of the
place,that it is one of a class. It was shown
therein how easily the traffic can be carried on
from New York ; and it is asserted that it is car
ried on largely and constantly. Mr. McKeon,
the District Attorney of the United States al
fiitned in his plea tor conviction “NewYoik is
the very depot for this nafarious traffic,” and in
timates that the parties are dangerous and des
perate. He says, “there are real daggers m the
bands of the persons engaged in thia traffic in
this city, and any man's lile is in danger who at
tempts to expose them.”
The Times owns that “ scarcely a month pass
es in wbitih there are not one or more vessels
cleared at thia port, (New York) which embark
at once in the slave trade, and land their cargoes
on the coast of Cuba. The facts given in evi
dence on this trial show how easily this is done,
and with what perfect impunity,so long as all the
patties engaged in it are paid satisfactorily for
keeping silent.”
The New York Tribune says:
It is, ol course, certain that the captain and
crew of the ship are not the only pirates en
gaged in that particular transaction. There ate
ship buildets and mercantile speculators involv
ed with them, though not with them brought to
justice. It is equally clear that the case of the
Julia Moulton is one ol many, with the single
difference that this one is found out.
And he points his reprobation still more di
rectly, as follows :
There are now in New York, wallowing in
wealth, living in sumptuous palaces up town,
and driving splendid equipages, men called mer
chants, (“ merchant princes” is a term some
times applied,) who have for years, uninterrupt
edly, been engaged in the infernal slave trade,
and who, if they had their deserts, according to
law, would be swinging on a gallows as high as
Haman. By chance the way is now opened.
one villain is finally convicted; let the authori
ties do their duty, and a score or a hundred more
may be found equally guilty.
These are significant avowals. New York
is the depot of the African slave trade, and her
“ merchant princes” are the abettois of piracy.
Here is a wide domestic field opened at once
for the exercise of the zeal, the labors and the
money, of the New York Abolitionists, where
they will meet with warm wishes for their suc
cess from all quarters. Let them extirpate the
slave trade carried on in New Y'ork ; let them
hunt out and bring to trial and punishment the
scores of" merchant princes ’’ who are wallow
ing in wealth, derived from the profits of the
slave trade; let them cleanse their own atmos
phere as this foul pollution, and drive out fiom
among themselves the traffickers in crime, even
though they sit in high seats and fare sumptu
ously, ride in splendid carriages, are millionaires
in Wall street, and nabobs on the Fifth Avenue.
The respect and the cordial sympathy of the
Southern slaveholders will go with them to the
end, cheering and applauding, in their philan
thropic effort to maintain the supremacy of the
law, and to put down this horrible trade, which
stains the free States.
But until this effort has succeeded in extirpa
ting this lawless traffic at the North, or at least
until it has been honorably made and firmly per
severed in with half the zeal with which slave
ry at a distance is denounced and hunted down,
we think that they who confess the existence
of these enormous crimes unpunished under their
own eyes, should, in decency, cease to come
abroad in order to find means (or easing their
consciences, or expending their means and their
sympathy. But in the face of these disclosures,
they must be the most audacious of hypocrites,
or the dullest of dupes, who borne away from
the evil which is at their doors, or within their
walls, and the guilty authors are sitting at their
fireside, to fill the country with clamors oi
alarms against the Southern States, as peculiar
patrons of the hated traffic. The South, which
never respected, and little practiced it, when it
was lawful, which turned from it with instinct
ive rectitude and a just pride of character when
it was forbidden, and which notwithstanding its
mighty interest in slaveholding, has refused to
respond to the suggestion among a few of her
own sons, that the reopening of the trade, under
legal restrictions to deprive it of its severities and
horrors, would contribute to her own strength
and security.
[ From the London Diogenes. |
Sebastopol Taken by the All-lies.
Who took Sebastopol?
I,says the Times ;
With telegraphic lines,
I took Sebastopol.
It may’ now be confidently stated that the forts
of Sebastopol felt successively before the com
bined powers of the assailants; that at least half
the Russian fleet perished; t at the flags of the
Allies were waving on the church of St Vladi
mir, and that on the 26th, Prince Menschikoff
surrendered the place.— 7’imes, Oct. 4.
Never since the days of Napoleon—we may
almost say since the days of Ccesar—has an ex
ploit of arms been attended with such entire or
instantaneous success.— 'Times, Oct 5.
Who saw it fall ?
I, said the Chronicle ?
With triumph sardonical,
I saw it fall.
We feel the fullest assurance that Sebastopol
has fallen,and we look to receive, at any moment,
intelligence which shall place beyond all doubt
that splendid achievment of the Allied armies.—
Morning Chronicle, Oct. 3.
Who saw the Russians run ?
I,said the Post;
I saw the host
Os beaten Russians rnn.
"Sebastopol is taken ! * * Menschikoff hav
ing betaken himself to the fleet, made with them
to the inner harbor with so much of it as re
mained.—Morning Post, Oct. 3.
Who saw them bleed ?
I, said the Daily News,
(To keep up the ruse;)
I saw them bleed.
"Let the reader fancy to himself the roaring
and reverberation ot all this artillery in a space
of some three miles long And, last of all,
let him imagine in the midst of this artitic al
volcanic eruption, masses of humau beings inter
changing sabre blows and bayonet thrusts, closing
in death grapples, panting with exhaustion, fe
vered with quenchless th.rst, writhing in mortal
agony. Ot the Russians 18,000 are said to have
been killed in this man-made heli.— Daily News.
Oct. 4.
Who’ll dig his grave?
I, said the Advertiser,
(Urquhart’s improviser;)
I’ll dig his grave.
“With the prestige of his name and arms com
pletely gone, Nicholas will not only cease to be
respected by his subjects, but his life will be in
danger from the dagger of the assassin, or the
poisoned chalice of some < rie sustaining a closer
relationship than that of subject.”— Morning
Advertiser, Oct 3.
Who’ll preach a sermon?
I, said the Globe;
I'll don the parson’s robe;
I’ll preach a sermon.
"How far too valuable to have been allowed
to think of blowing himself up to Sebastopol—as
right hand man for the Autocrat of all the Rus
sians still left to Peter’s successor, by the result
of the appeal to arms so haughtily accepted by
him—is a Menschikoff, whose bulletins are thus
planned, and thus dated!— Globe, Oct. 3.
Who’ll toll the bell?
I. said the Sun.
(Though he gloried in the fun,)
I’ll toll the bell.
“Vengeance! Yes, in this mild, sentimental
age, we deliberately call for vengeance. The
blood of our soldiers’ shed in a righteous cause,
demands it as loudly as lid the blood of the first
victim of hellish passions. Blood for blood, we
ask not, unless, indeed, a Czar could be made to
atone lor his military murders, as a Charles Stuart
once did.”— Sun, Oct. 3.
All the people in the land
Began to doubt their eyes,
To see their daily papers
Put forth such awful lies!
Who is Doesticks I—Doesticks, whose arti
cle*;, published in the Detroit Advertiser, have
been copied so extensively for their wit and
satire, says the New York Post, is a modest
young clerk in this city, whose lile thus far has
only spanned some twenty-three years, and he is
disinclined, at present, to part with his anony
mous obscurity. He bag nothing to offer the
publishers at present, and when he has, if ever,
he thinks it will be time enough to reveal his
whereabouts and whatabouts. He is not looking
Io literature as a profession,sees no literary merit
in what he has done, writes to tbe Detroit Ad
vertiser to oblige a younger brother who is con
nected with that journal, and tor no other object
He was one of the students ol Michigan Univer
sity, who were expelled some years ago under
the decree issued against secret societies in that
institution.
His father is a lawyer of some rank, of Ann
Arbor Michigan.
“Doestick’s on a Bender” was the first of the
series that was pubhshed. It was written in a
private letter to a friend, who gave it to the edi
tor ot the Peninsula Quarterly & University
Magazine—a periodical published at Ann Arbor,
which had a brief but creditable existence. The
attention which it attracted led to the publica
tion of others, until now, fourteen have appeared.
They all contain passages of wit apd humor
which linger in the memory, and display pow
ers of observation from which much may yet be
expected.
by TELEGRAPH.
Later from Europe.
arrival
OF THE STEAMER
B AL TIC.
Columbia, Nov. 27
The steamer Baltic arrived at New York, last
evening, with three days later advices from Eu
rope.
There had been desperate fighting at Sevasto
pol. It was believed that the allies would bft
compelled to raise the siege. Both parties claim
ed the victory.
On the sth of November, Gen. Canrober
says the Russians lost 9,000 men. Menchikoff
says, that in a sortie of the garrison on the Sth
the Russians were eminently successful—spiked
thirty French guns, and defeated the French in
an assault on the town with immense loss.
The Vienna Post says that on the 6th, the
entire gasrison, 65,000 strong assaulted the Al
lies in a iurious battle, which was not ended
when thi messenger left, but the allies had slight
advantage. It is belived that a few such vic
tories, allies would be compelled to raise
thesige Menschikoff says that it is impossible
for the allies to continue the siege if the Russians
continue to harrass them. gg®
Canmbert declares that he intends to make
immediate assaults upon the town, which the
Rusrians are in no condition to resist.
General Intelligence.
The news from Marseilles of the destruction
of the Light Cavalry, under Lord Cordigan, in
the action at Balaklava on the 25th ult., has
been confirmed. They charged a battery of
thiity guns, and lest four hundred men. Only
two hundred returned. Since then there has
been almost incessant sanguinary fighting. The
Allies are almost overpowered, and most J urgent
requests have been sent for instant reinforce
ments. Fifty thousand French will be imme
diately sent to their assistance, and every avail
able steamer has been taken lor their transporta
tion tc the Crimea, including the Europa, Alps,
Indiana, New York, and others. On the sth
inst. a terrible combat took place, which lasted
from daylight until four in the afternoon, and
both sides claimed the victory. The English
took a few hundred prisoners, and the Russians
stormed several batteries and spiked the guns.
The loss of the Allies was reported at 4000, and
that ot the Russians at 8000. The battle was
resumed by the Russians on the 6th inst., but
the result had not reached England when the
Baltic sailed. Itsaid that the Allies were pre
paring to.storm Sevastopol before the Russians
could recover their losses, but other accounts
state that the Allied forces were greatly reduced
and must abandon the siege unless large rein
forcements speedily arrived.
Commercial Intelligence.
Thk Linerpool Cotton Market.—Cotton,
after th? departure of the Canda, on the 11th
instant, was firm and in fair demand. The sales
during the three days ending on the 14th instant
comprised 27,000 bales, of which exporters took
2000 and speculators 3000 bales, leaving 22,000
bales of all descriptions to the t rade. Messrs.
Brown & Shipley quote the market quiet, at
previous rates, with a full supply. Messrs. Mil
ligan, Lempriere & Co. qute Middling Orleans
at s|d. and Middling Uplands at 6Jd. On Wed
nesday, the 15th instant, 8000 bales changed
bauds previous to the departure of the Baltic, but
foimer prices were scarcely maintained.
The Liverpool Breadstuff's Market was quiet.
Flour had declined 6d per bbl., and Western
Canal was quoted at 43s aud Ohio at 46s per bbl.
of 196 lbs. Corn had declined 6d per quarter
and Was at from 45s a 46s per 4SO lbs. Wheat
has advanced 2d per 70 lbs.
The London Money Market.—Consols
closed at 928.
Steamboat Collision.
As the steamer Canada was coming into Bos
ton harbor last evening, she came in collision
with the steamer Ocean, bound to Hallowell.
The latter had her stove upset and took fire, and
the boiler exploded, killing three persons. Eigh
ty passengers were rescued.
The Know Nothings.
The Know-Nothing Convention at Cincinna
ti, has adjourned, after adopting a new Ritual
and made important alterations in their consti
tution. The Presidential question is not con
sidered.
New Orleans, Nov. 28.
Cotton. —Sales to-day 5,000 bales. The mar
ket is unchanged. Rio Coffee 9 J cents.'
,The Election.
An election for State Senator was held to
day. The Independent candidate supported by
the Know-Nothings was elected over the Demo
cratic nominee by 2,300 majority.
From Havana.
The Crescent City has arrived from Havana,
where she sailed on the 24th inst. A private
letter says, that a rising was expected on .the
19th, but the day passed off quietly.
Later from Texas.
The Galveston Times says that the Governor
is determined to issue proposals for another con
tract to build the Pacific Railroad.
A lady of Richmond Va., was aroused from
her slumbers a few nights ago, by finding some
one endeavoring to place a vial to her nose.—
Thinking that it might be her husband, she
struck a light with matches lying on a stand
beside her bed, and to her consternation discov
ered a strange white man. She shouted murder,
and her cries arousing the servants, the scamp
beat a hasty retreat. He had entered the house
for the purpose ol robbing it, and to accomplish
his purpose without molestation, undertook to
administer cholorolorm to the lady.
SIXTY DAYS alter date application will bo
made to tho Court ol Ordinary of Lincoln coun
ty, for leave to sell a portion of tho Negroes be
longing to Joseph Btrother, a minor.
novib WILIIAM F. BTROTUBB, Guar.
The Cotton Crop Texas—The Texas
News of the 16th inst , says :
A gentleman who has just returned from a
journey through many of the interior counties,
says the fine weather is bringing out the cotton
crop wonderfully. Many planters who thought,
a lew weeks since, that they had gathered all
the cotton they had, now think the second crop,
which is rapidly maturing, will yield more than
the first. This second growth of the cotton com
menced after the late heavy rains, and appears
to be very general all over the country. The
fields are covered with cotton in all the stages of
growth, the same stalk having buds, blossoms,
formsand bolls, maturing and opening, and white
with cotton ready to pick. Our informant
thinks the total crop will be fully equal to that
of last year, though he does not think it possible
that the most favorable weather can make it an
average crop.
Southern Railroad.—The Chief Engineer
advertising to receive proposals till the 15th of
December next for the construction ol the Ala
bama and Florida Railroad, and for famishing
the locomotive, cars, &c., necessary to work it.
He announces his intention to have the entire
line of the road open for travel oi the Ist March
1856.
3. M. NEWBY & CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN PINE
READY MADE CLOTHING,
UNDER TIIE UNITED STATES HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA.
JM. NEWBY k CO., would respectfully inform their customers, and persons visiting Augusta,
• who may want Ready Made CLOTHING, that their Stock is largo and well selected, and that
they believe they can suit all who call on them.
They also have a large lot of SHIRTS ; DRAWERS ; GLOVEB ; SUSPENDERS, &c. Call and
see them. dl c 2 nov29
MARRIED.
On Tuesday evening, the 23d inst, by Wm. W.
Peters, Esq., Mr. Lewis Cronic, of Walton coun
ty, Ga., and Miss Martha Ann Sawyer, of Co
lumbus, Ga.
On Sunday night last, by the Rev. James E.
I.vans, Miss Ellen White, of Harrisburg, and
gr. William Gioron, of this place.
OBITUARY.
Died on the 18th instant, in the eighty third
year of her age. Mrs. Mary Frances Pauline
Vincendikre, widow of Louis R. A. Dugasde
Vallon. Belonging to one of the most ancient and
respectable families of the island of St. Domingo,
the deceased was among those who took refuge in
this country from the civil calamities which drove
tho inhabitants from that colony towards tho close
of tho last century. After a residence of some
years in Washington, Wilkes county, where she
became a widow, sho removed to Augusta in 1810
and has from that time been a resident of this city.
Endowed with a fine intellect, which was culti
vated to the highest degree, the deceased nobly
contended with her misfortunes, and provided for
her family by imparting knowledge to others. As
she advanced in life she found her exertions crowned
with success, and a competency secured, which
enabled her to spend her latter year in the serene
enjoyment of her favorite intellectual recreations
and the admiration of nature’s works as illustra
tive of beneficent design. Recognizing the hand
of God in all around her, she lived an enlightened
and consistent Christian, and died in the confident
hope of a blessed immortality.
Commerrid.
Augusta Market, November 29.
SiCOTTON.—During the past week wo have had ! a
steady demand for Cotton an 1 sales freely - made"at
the current rates as quoted in our last weekly.
Baltics advices which came to hand on
Monday night are of such tenor as to induce a loss
activ estate of fooling among the operators and the
market closed dull.
Inferior and Ordinary, 6| a 7
Low to Strict Middling, 7J a 8
Good Middling, a
Middling Fair, 81 a
EXCHANGE.—We have no change to notice in
rates. Our Banks continue to draw on Now York
and other Northern cities at j por cent. prom.
FREIGHTS.—Our river is still low but navi
gable for light draft steamers. We quote to Savan
nah 50 cents por bale ; to Charleston per Railroad
sl.
Augusta Division No. 7 S. of T. 1
Augusta,2sth Nov., 1854. (
At a regular meeting of this Division, held this
evening the following Preamble and Resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Your Committee have discharged tho solemn
duty assigned them, of recording a tribute to the
memory of our late deceased Brothers. Our little
band, which has been linked for many years in the
cause of Temperance and humanity, and met week
ly in the discharge of its obligations; in common
with every other interest in the City, has paused in
dismay amidst the overwhelming tide of disease
and death. The wail of anguish accompanied eve
ry day's report, and the ensigns of mourning have
thrown their gloomy shadows about many bright
and cheerfiil homes.
We have lost our Brothers, J. A. 11. Wilcox,
W.C. Marsh and I. S. T. Parish. Their seats
arq vacant at our social meetings, their voices no
longer mingle in our councils. Although young,
surrounded by glittering blandishments and temp
tations, they were stern in their integrity, and
zealous in maintaining the great principles of our
order They wore warm in their friendship and
estimable in every relation of life. We delighted
to honor them. Although the grave has quenched
tho light of their young lives, amidst tho joyous
ness of youth, and tho buoyancy of hope, they
have left a sacred and lasting record on the mem
ory of their brethren and friends.
Amidst pestilence and panic, our Brother,
Christopher Low, was struck down with Paraly
sis. Tho weight of years and infirmities boro
heavily upon, yet he was always prompt in the dis
charge of duty, and unremitting in his attention
to his brethren. His love was ardent and abiding
Ho was the oldest and the best of all tbo Division.
His presence imparted zeal, and was always greet
ed with pleasure. Wo loved him. We wanted no
firmer Son of Temperance. No better friend. No
purer man in every circumstance of life. His star
has sot, but not behind the darkened west: but
like’tho morning star that molts away amidst the
full orbed glories of the king of day.
But wo feel that however much we miss these
Brothers, appreciate and admire their virtues and
deplore their loss, there are those who more keen
ly fool their fall. Words are too poor to convey
their grief. The heart has its own peculiar lan
guage, and it treasures there a thousand sacred
memories of the loved and lost. Time and change
may throw their lights and shadows over tho heart,
yet tho faithful record lives, and tho cherished
imago holds undisturbed its place.
We would gladly mitigate tho sorrow that rives
the heart of the relatives of our young Brothers,
and take awav tho wearing grief from her who al
most alone, and upon life's decline, bears her sad
bereavement; but we have no power to soothe tho
wounded spirit or stay tho rising tear. We will
bear this testimony, and—
Resolve, That in the decease of J. A. H. Wil
cox, W. C. Marsh and I. 8. T. Parish, the City
has lost young men of rare merit and promise, and
our Order firm and valuable members.
Resolved, That in the decease of Brother C.
Low, this community has lost an old and well
tried citizen, honest and honorable, and he has
passed away, beloved by all
Resolved, That wo sympathise with tho relatives
of tho deceased, and that the usual badge of
mourning bo placed in tho Division Room during
present term.
L. D. Lallerstsdt, j
H. M. Beach, >Committco.
Robert H. Mat, )
On motion of Brother Crump, Ordered, That
tho loregoing bo published in tho Constitutionalist
4 Ropnblio, Chronicle A Sentinel, tho Southern
Eclectic & Homo Gazette, and the Temperance
Banner. And that a copy bo furnished to tho
relatives of tho deceased Brothers, and that their
names bo inscribed each on a blank page in our
records. A. Robert, R. S.
PXTKA FAMILY FLOUR, in quarter and half
is sacks, frosh ground from tho Granite Mills.
For sale by GEORGH W. LEWIS,
nowl9 Bo I Warren Block.
AUGUSTA AGRIIt LTURAL FAIR.
THE
Southern Central Agric’l Society
OF TIIE
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Respectfully invite the citizens of Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Florida, and the adjoining States, to unite
in the exhibition of the Industrial Products of
the South, at the Ninth Annual Fair of the So
ciety, to be held in Augusta, Ga., during the
week commencing on
MONDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1864.
Ample facilities for the transportation of Live
Stock, and all articles for exhibition, will be af
forded by all Railroads leading to Augusta; and
no effort will be wanting on the part of the So
ciety, or the citizens of Augusta, to produce a«
exhibition in all respects worthy of our country
and its resources.
Come one, come all I to the Annual Agricul
tural Jubilee! and let us give an onward im
pulse to the progressive spirit of the South 1
nov29 df&wl D. W. LEWIS, See’y
GEORGIA RAILROAD. ’
Leave AUGUSTA daily at 6, A. M., and at 6,
P. M.
Arrive at Augusta daily at 5.30, A. M., aod
at 11.30, P.M.
Leave Atlanta daily at 1.30, P. M., and at 7.M,
P. M.
Arrive at Atlanta daily at 4.00, A. M., Mid
at 5.00, P. M.
Connecting with Athens Branch Trains,
Leaving Union Point daily (Sundaysexcepted) at
1.15 and at 11.20 A. M.
Arrivingat Union Point daily (Sundaysexempt
ed) at 6.50 and at 10.50 P. M.
With Washington Branch.
Leaving Cumming daily (Sundays excepted) at
9.40. P.M.
Arriving at Cumming daily, (Sundays exoeptedl
at 8.00, P. M.
With South Carolina Railroad Trains,
Leaving Augusta daily at 6.30, A. M.
Arriving at Augusta daily at 4, P. M.
With Atlanta and LaGrange Railroad Trains,
LeavingAtlantadailyat 4.30 A. M.
Arriving at Atlanta daily at 1.00, P. M.
With Macon and Western Railroad Trains,
Leaving Atlanta daily at 5, P. M.
Arrivingat Atlanta daily at 2 10, P. M.
Leaving Atlanta on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday at 7.30, A. M.
And arriving at Atlanta on Monday, Wednes
day, and Friday at 3.00, P. M.
fY With Western and Atlantic Railroad Trains,
‘ Leaving Atlanta daily at 4.50 A. M.
Arriving at Atlanta daily at 6.45, P. M.
novl4 GEO. YONGE, Sup't
JUST OPENED, NEW FURNITURE
WAREROOM.
THANKFUL fortheliberalpat
ronage we have heretofore
.eived from tho citizens of Augus
ta and its vicinity, the
would respectfully announce that they have taken
the large iron front Store, under the Augusta Ho
tel, where they intend carrying on the above busi
ness exclusively, and will keep on hand the lateM
ityles of FURITUR.E, and from the best manufac
tories at the North, we are receiving by arrivals,
and shall use our efforts to keep an assortment on
hand and in store, Mahogany and Walnut Sofas,
Tufted Chairs. Sideboards, Tables,Bureaus, Wash
stands, Work Tables, Toilet do..Mahogany,Mapla,
Cane and Rush Seat Chairs, of various qualities,
Bedsteds.Matrases, Window Shades, Ac.
HENRY & SKINNER.
N.B.—Furniture (Cade to order and,* repairing
one with despatch.
OSBORNE.& WHITLOCK,
JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS,
256 Broad-st., tinder XT. S. Hotel, Augusta, Oa t
HAVE constantly on hand a fine assort- <£>
mont of Watches; Clocks; Jewelry;
Silver and Plated Ware ; Fancy Goods and ©teal
Perfumery. Just received, some very fine Watch
es, manufactured to order, and some of T. F. Coop
er’s superior time keepers in Magic Cases. Fine
Diamond Pins of beautiful designs; Fob and Vest
Chains, of now patterns, and a general assortment
of the finest and most fashionable Pine; Ear-rings,
Bracelets, Ac., which wo offer at tho loweet prises
possible, wholesale or retail. In the Optioal line,
wo are well supplied with whatever kind of Gia®
tho defects of vision may require, and we are pre
pared to fit the eye with as much accuracy as any
mechanical art can bo executed. Como and test
the fact.
Watch and Jewelry Repairing.— We still have
the services of two superior Workmen—a Watch
maker and Jeweler—all of whose work we war
rant. feb!4
ENGLISH AND CLASSICAL SCHOOL.
MR. T. H. HOLLEYMAN, assisted by Mi®
Mary F. Holleyman, proposes to open a
Schooljfor Boys aud Girls on Monday, 13th of No
vember, in the School Rooms previously used by
Mr. Symu os and Lady.
Miss Mary Holleyman, a graduate of Barham
ville Female College, S. C s will conduct the Female
Department. Mr. Holleyman is a graduate of
South Carolina College, and has boon engaged in
tho business of teaching for several years. He
proposes to prepare boys for the junior class of
any College, or for entering into the active duties
of life. Groat attention will be paid to the moral
culture of llio pupil. Mr. Holleyman refers to tho
following gentlemen, from whom he has testimo
nials :
S. B. Clark, M. D., Col. E. B. Gresham, Col. A. C.
Walker, Judge J. W. Casswoll, A. H. Anderson,
Esq. and John D. Mongin, Brothersville. Edward
A. Eve, M. D., W. J. Mims, George W. L. Twiggs,
Wm* H. Baldy and Thomas E. Greenwood, Esqrs,
Twiggs Academy. Dr. Joseph A. Evo and Rev.
J. E. Evans, Augusta,
Rates of Tuition as adopted by Mr. Symmos, SB,
sl2 and sl6 por quarter. Mr. H. respectfully
solicits encouragement. dtJanl oet24
COMBS & Cd. T S sdUTHERN EXPRESS'
TO Columbia, Charleston, and Northern Cities,
Atlanta, Macon, Montgomery, Ala , and by
Steamboats to Mobile and Now 6rlo ns, Chatta
nooga and Nashville, Tenn , Loudon and
Tonn., and all intermediate points, for the trans
portation, by Mail and Passenger Trains, of all
kinds of Merchandize, Boxes, Balos, Packages,
Parcels, Ac., valuable and otherwise. We have
now extended our line over Western and Atlantis
and East Tennessee and Georgia Roads, and can
give immediate despatch to all points on those
Roads. Wo have Agents at all important points,
and on the Roads, whose prompt attention is given
to our business.
Shipments from Northern Cities, to bo expressed
l from Charleston to tho interior, must bo plainly
marked, “ Per Combs lr Co.’s Express, Charles
ton,” and Bills Lading rendered us at that place.
This will enable us to give immediate and prompt
attention to consignments, and will be less expen
sive than by Express from New Y’ork to Charles
ton, inasmuch as weonly charge Ship Freights.
Charleston Office, 9 Hayno Street.
Augusta Office, comer Jackson and Ellis Streets.
may 26 COMBS A CO.
united"Ttates~"h6tel.
The UNDERSIGNED have this day
fomod a Copartnership under the firm .SiS
of CHAFFEE A SPEAR, to conduct the business
of tho above Hotel, and will unite thoir exertions
to deserve the patronage and good will of the
friends of this well known and favorite establish
ment DANIEL CHAFFEE,
r ' _ JOHN. W. SPEAR.
NEGROES WANTED.
I WISH to purchase a number of likely young
NEGROES, for which I will pay ray usual lib
eral prices. Any oommunioation left at tho Sta
bles of Wm. A McConnol, or through tho Foot
Office, at Augusta or Hamburg, will meet with
prompt attention- no’ 17 A WILSON,
