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THE WEEKLY GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
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FRIDAY MORNING, SEPrKNIBER.28. I860. [ f3j) U3lCCtl*iC <LClCgrfl]jl).
A DISAPPOINTMENT.
Material for telegrams must be scarce when
WALKER SHOT AFTER ALL.
For the Telesrapn.
DR. HARRISON’S VINDICATION.
Macon, Sept 26, 1860.
Mil Editor :—As much lias been said about
Naw Onu.ua, Sept, 27.—A British steamer sm alIpox and its management as it existed here
last winter, and as my name has been intimate-
Onc Day Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA.
New York, Sept 27.—The Persia has ar
rived with Liverpool dates to the 15th instant
Breadstuff* and Provisions.—Flour was
steady—Wheat firm—Corn steady—Sugar
buoyant—Coffee firm.
Hacre Collou Market.—All qualities had
slightlv advanced, but middlings improved
most The advance is quoted at from one to
two francs. Sales for exportations 16.000
bales. Stock on hand at Havre 100,000 bales.
London money market was slightly easier.—
The advices from Manchester are unfavorable.
The French Minister has left Turin. The
King of Naples has gone to Spain.
BELL AND EVERETT TICKET.
Harrisburg, Sept. 27.—The Bell and Ever
ett Convention which assembled in this place,
have nominated a ticket No candidate for I
emor was nominated, the Convention believing
it inexpedient to do so.
A committee was appointed so to modify
the ticket as to secure harmonious action.—
All nationals recommend Union State Mass
Convention of all opponents of the Republi
cans as early after the October election as prac
ticable.
MARKET REPORTS.
Savannaii, Sept 27.—Sales of cotton to-day
450 bales. Markets firm, and generally un
changed. Sales of the week 2250 bales.' Sales
last week 6000 bales. Stock at Savannah 9000
bales.
Charleston, Sept27.—Sales to-day 700 bales
at a decline of $ to f cents. Sales of the week
3900 bales Receipts last week 10,000.
Augusta, Sept 27.—Market generally un
changed.
"rTIT'rZZFSZX,! ~ .
receive a eon 11 11 to t j, c ]3 t j, b v nant of Walker’s party. General Vr alkcr wan ; jy connected with it, because my party friends
shot on the 12th instant CoL Rudler is still q^osc to run me as their candidate for Mayor,
said that is not
myself as a
citizen, and my character for integrity, to show
for the benefit of those who feel an interest in
myself, and of those who have pretended to
know and who have written so much against
me, to give a full and fair statement of the whole
subject. It was my purpose not to notice it in
a public wav, but since “Old Times” in Ids'last
communication has evidently sought to place
me in a false position towards a personal and
professional friend, justice demands that I should
relieve myself from this charge and let the pub
lic know the facts just as they occurred, that
it may be seen whether “Old Times” or myself
have made false statements.
“Old Times” “says there was a hospital pur
chased and Dr. Harrisou put in charge of it with
a guard, not one of whom had ever been vac
cinated until Dr. Green called the attention of
the Mayor to the fact, when he (Dr. Green) was
requested to vaccinate them.”
He alleges that hy this neglect of Dr. Harri
son, “Pritchet, who was one of the guard, was
found to be too near the house and was accor
dingly forced into this loathsome hut for about
sixty days before 1 the disease made its appear
ance.” The unfortunate result of this neglect
was, “that a poor friendless woman was left a
widow with a house full of fatherless children
without a dime in th* inwaiy." How unfbr-
tunnte it is for “Old Times’ ” veracity that he
wrote so hastily, for the first visit I made to the
hospital after the case of small pox was carried
to it, I found Pritchett preparing his tent some
twenty’ or thirty steps from the door, immedi
ately in front under a large evergreen, and sup
posed he was bu.lding his tent there as a matter
of choice, (it being sufficiently far to prevent his
taking the disease), but learned before leaving
that on the night before, the same, that the pa
tient was carried out, he had exposed himself
directly to the case and the other guard refused
to let him remain with him, and the privilege
of returning to the'city was denied him; conse
quently he pitched his tent as abovo stated,
where he remained until he took the disease
and was removed into the house. Pritchett
said and reported it that he had been vaccina
ted. I re vaccinated him, but without effect.
When Mrs. Hughes died, Pritchett again ex
posed himself by’ assisting in carrying the corpse
to the grave. This he did as I learned of his
own accord and not by my direction, for I was
not there when she was buried. Ho was not
‘forced” into it as “Old Times” would have you
believe; On the fifteenth day after the burial
of Mrs. Hughes, Pritchett commenced complain
ing and had symptoms of pneumonia. I feared
that he was taking the small pox, but it was so
long before he had the eruption that I supposed
and hoped he would not, and stated to the Coun
cil that it had been so long since he first com
plained that he would probably not have it, and
asked them to relieve him and put him on reg
ular guard duty, which was to be done the next
day. But on my next visit, which was the
morning after, 1 found him fully erupted, or as
much so as could have taken place in a day and
night Ill's case turned out to be one of the
most malignant character; he lived sixteen days
after he was removed from his tent in the house.
Such was the malignancy’ of this case I invited
Dr. Green to sec it The Dr. was perfectly as
tounded at his appearance, and spoke of the
troubles and dangers of a physician’s life, while
the community could not from the nature of
the case know anything about it Dr. Green
proposed to have his daguerreotype taken, to
show how much physicians had to contend with
who treated small pox cases. Tan Valkcnburg
was offered fifty dollars to go and take it, but
refused to go on account of the injury that
would be done his business by going. Then
what must be the result to a physician’s practice,
who has to visit and treat such cases for four
months. Does he make anything by charging
$200 a case ? I judge not
But without remarking further on this point,
I will show that “Old Times” was right when
he acknowledge*! that he had “perverted the
truth,” and candor should make him say’ that
ho had done it intentionally, and to make his
statements feasible, he directs the public to call
on the “Mayor and Aldermen of the present
board,” of which I am one, for the truth of his
wo had Centra! American
and colX '' hon!ebv thfnext Arrival. To-day * prisoner in the hands of the Honduras au j #ml as a deal lias been said
we have a telegraphic s tatement that Walker thonties g. JBM ' true, I propose, in vindication of
* was shot on the 12th. Wc are sorry to believe
it, but the probabilities ire that the last state
ment is true, and the adventurous career of
the Filibuster, has met with a bloody end.
far* Concert Hall was crowded lasl night to
hear the Hon. H. W. Hilliard of Alabama
upon the political topics of the day.
MAYOR’S COURT.
There was but one case up before hfa Honor
Mayor Thomson yesterday. A liccnsod retailer
of the “ardent” was arraigned, charged with
“spirit-manifestation” on the Sabbath, which
charge being proved, his license were revoked.
He lias appealed from the decision of the May or
to the Council
WARM WEATHER-FINE CHILL TIME.
The mercury yesterday at 2 P. M. indicated
ninety-one, and one’s “ feelings” still more.—
The town is hot, dry and dusty. Now is a
favorablo time to lay in a supply of intermit
tent fevers. Stand out in sunshine a good
deal during the day, and then, after sunset, idle
listlessly’ about in the night air and the chances
ore yqq will soon get all the chills and fevers
necessary to your comfort and happiness.
THE COTTON PLANTER’S FAIR.
The ship Henry sailed from Antwerp, laden
with goods for the Macon Fair on the 85th in
stant, and with ordinary luck will reach Savan
nah by the 20ti. October. There is no time to
be lost in making suitable preparations for the
storage and exhibition of so large a quantity of
goods as she will bring, If council have not ta
ken action on (he subject jt is high time to be
up and doing.
THE EUROPEAN COMPLICATIONS.
It will be seen in our telegraphic dispatches,
that France haa recalled her minister to Sardin
ia and that he h id left the Sardinian capital
This looks like a fracas, and if it comes at all
we shall probably not have to want for it long.
France has evidently’ determined to clip Victor
Emanuel’s wings.
Young Bomba, the refuge King of Naples it
seema hss finally uken Asylum in Spain.
HON. AMOS KENDALL
Is before the public again after a long inter
yak Thejjfiaftfnn~ofGoLO**-"ra n n >•»
—iisrtnrBieinatter of secession when Lincoln is
elected, seems to have drawn a private letter
from Mr. Kendall to Orr, in which the former
alluded to a remedy tcithin the Union. The
Colonel enquires about this remedy, and Mr.
Kendall rejoines in a letter of some length. In
this letter Mr. Kendall takes sides with Douglas
in the fight, and maintains that the claim for
“protection” is one of the most dangerous de
partures from democratic doctrine—a vile fed
eral heresy. He is sure that/ecession, if at
tempted, will be a failure, and the remedy for
unconstitutional aggression upon the South will
be found in a party which shall spring up in
tho great Central States on both sides the bor
der, which shall control the government on the
principle of non-intervention and maintain tho
peace, leaving the extremists of both sections
to the harmless amusement of vituperating each
other. Mr. Kendall, as head of the American
Telegraph Company, luw »large stake in main
taining the national indevisibility; but the wires
must eventually snap if the abolitionists persist
in overloading them.
OUR MAYOR.
Compliments pour in upon Dr. Thomson.—
We find the following in the Columbus Corner
Stone, of Tuesday:
A Jcst Tribute.—Indiscrimate and fulsome
eulogy has become so common with the Press
that os a general thing it serves only to give
the individuals upon whom they are lavishly
showered a little more notoriety end to make
them n little more prominently ridiculous.—
As our readers know it has not been our habit
to find great talents and great merits in men
merely’ for the purpose of gratifying their van
ity or for securing their favor. So ridicu
lous has been the excess to which this thing
lias been carried that we are sometimes almost
afraid to speak of real merit as it deserves to
be spoken of, lest we might do the object of it
harm—but even at that hazard we publish from
tho Macon Daily Telegraph the following just
tribute to a man whom we have known for twen-
%T OKTB| W in/JC UWXfcr nvtWttv-ni*tait»v4-«M«dtir
whom we have observed a remarkable devel
opment of those qualities of which tho Telegraph
speaks.
POPULATION OF CHINA.
A recent writer in China, and long a resi
dent in the country which he has carefully
studied, says there are 1,720 districts in the
Empire, of which it would come far short of the
truth to say that for each district there is at
least one city with a population ranging from
30,000 to 100,000. Taking half of the difference
between the extremes or supposing each city
to contain 05,000 inhabitants, then the seven
teen bundled and twenty would alone contain
a population of one hundred and eleven mil
lions and six hundred thousand.
A curious calculation has been made by tho
same gentleman, to give an idea of the popula
tion of China. He had not seen the census of
1842, brought to light by the Russian mission
in Pekin, but proceeds upon thatof 1812, which
gave a population of 861,000,000, adding tho
probable increase up to a few years since, and
estimating the population at 400,000,000. “The
mind cannot grasp the real import of so vast a
number. Four hundred millions! What docs
it mean ? Count it. Night and day, without
rest food or sleep, you continue the weary
work; yet eleven days have passed before vou
have counted the first million, and more than
as many years before the end of the tedious
task can be reached. He also supposes this
mighty multitude to take up its line of march
in a grand procession, placed in single file at
six feet apart, and marching at the rate of thir
ty miles a day, except on the Sabbath, which
is given to rest
Day after day the moving column advances,
the head pushing on far toward the rising sun,
“now bridge the Pacific; now bridge the Atlan
tic And now the Pacific is crossed, but still
the long procession marches on, stretching
away across high mountains, and sunny plains,
and broad rivers, through China and India, and
tho European kingdoms, and on again over the
stotny bosom of the Atlantic. But the circuit
of the world itself affords not standing room.—
The endless column will double upon itself, and 1
Correspondence of the Telegraph
Baltimore, Sept 22, 1860.
More of Mayor Stcann'* Economical Adminis
tration.
The Council have just voted some five or
eight hundred dollars out of the city treasury
to pay for a single insertion,, in each of the
daily papers, of Mayor Swann’6 financial ex
position; or, in other words, his recent elec-
"rue "getting up and publi
cation of this whole thing, is one of the mean
est and most disreputable of Know Nothing
tricks, and in perfect keeping with the thousand
other acts by which they have been robbing
the people, bolstering up their rotten organs.
It was only the other day that the Mayor ve
toed a bill providing for the remuneration of a
worthy man, whose household furniture and
bar fixtures were wantonly destroyed by a
ruthless band of Know Nothing rowdies, with
out cause or the least provocation and without
let or hindrance from Mayor Swann's police,
and for no other reason than his being a Ger
man. This poor man whose business had been
broken up, and his property destroyed in open
day, had applied to the Council for redress,
which had been granted to the amount of a
couple of hundred dollars, not half the amount
destroyed, yet when the bill for his relief was
presented to Mayor Swann, that paragon of
Justice and economy, returned it with his vc-
toe. Rcvcrdy Johnson, John Glenn, John B.
Morris, and others, could, and did, and very
properly too, get damage to the amount of over
$50,000 for property destroyed by mob vio
lence, under circumstances which rendered it
next to impossible for the city authorities to
prevent, and yet this man’s house was invaded
and his property destroyed, and his means of
subsistence taken from him, and is refused a
moiety of recompense for his losses by the
man whoso simple nod might have prevented
the outrage, and the miserable reason given
for this act of mean injustice is “economy in
the expenditure of the publi c money.”
Tho Plug organ is bellowing to its now scat
tered forces, and almost bursting ita lungs in
calling upon them to re-organize the clubs and
prepare for the campaign. It knows the value
of the clubs, and calls upon them to plant their
once more for Sam Hinds. The poor
Clipper which was wont, in time past to ded
icate whole columns to the display of club
banners and (lags, is now reduced (o ~Gut one;
which flics solitary and alone over “ bvehchcat
bags."
Bate Ball Match.
A great match at base ball comes off here to
day between the Excelsior Club of Brooklyn,
and a Club of the same name belonging to this
city. Great preparation is made for the recep
tion of the Brooklyn boys, who will have a
good time generally while here. Thousands
are already on their way in the City Rail Road
cars and on foot to witness this exhibition of
skill on the part of these, said to bo the two
most expert clubs in the country in this cxhil-
irating game. Several clubs belonging to oik-
assertions. But the worst of all is, he said “that
I was pfaccd"iu cnarge urun, ami n»it
pox cases, because I had, by remarks made be
fore council against Drs. Boon and Hammond’s
bill, intimated that I would be glad to treat all
such cases for $200.” I deny ever having said
anything against Dr. Hammond’s bill, as fu
ture results will show.
All that I ever said before Council, or any
where else, was in vindication of Drs. Boon
and Hammond’s bill. I was asked by the Coun
cil what I charged Mr. Rose; I told what I had
charged him, and gave tho reason why I had
charged him no more. I did say, in connection
with ii.y murks about Mr. T.-seVensc, leal
Drs. Boon and Hammond’s ch.-rge would be no
ported in favor of the bill; Alderman Boifeuil-
j let, who was the Chairman of the Finance Com-
I tnittee, refusing to report it I was called to
visit my first case on the 30th of November,
.and was put in' charge of the case on that clay,
and the hospital on the 1st of December.
Hammond's account was received and referred
to the Finance Committee on the 29th of No
vember. The above action brought the bill be
fore the Council—the report was received nnd
adopted, and the account was paid on the 18th
of January, I860, ns the following will show:
Matoh and Council or City or Macon
To Boon <t Hammond, I)r.
1P39, XoV. To Medical services rendered -Mi;* lint-
tic Hinton, late of New Hampshire, in
a case of small Pox....7... .....$300 00
Referred 29th November.
Reported correct bjr Finance Committee, January 17tb.
Received payment, D. W. HAMMOND.
Macon, January is, 1SC0. ' -
Mayor anb Council or City or Macon
To Gabriel Harrison, Dr.
1S59 & 18G0.
Nov. 30th, To visit and treatin’- Satina Hughes,
mileage continent $30000
Dec. &, Jan. Mrs. Hughes, confluent case, mileage,
Ac 300 00
•> May Allen (in the city) 200 00
« Norse, from Montgomery, confluent
case, (In the city) S50 00
“ Gaddy (servant) in the city 20000
Jan. & Feb. Charles Knott, servant, at the Hospital
(Hild case) 20000
“ Little boy of Mrs. Hughes, mild case,
mileage, Ac. 250 00
■f* - Isaiah Pritchett, confluent case, malig
nant, mileage, Ac..............- 30000
For the Tel'
graph.
MR. BRECKINRIDGE’S LATE SPEECH,
This great speech clearly establishes the fol
lowing propositions:
1st. That Mr. Brekinridge considers Con-
j) r gressional interference for the protection of j thing serious is pending between Spaiq and
slavery in the territories, unnecessary at this \ assert jmaitively^ indeed, that
time, concurring as he says he docs, with Mr.
Davis’ Senate resolution which isas follows :
Expedition of Twenty Thousand RXcn for
XVZexico<
We learn from the New Orleans Picayune,
that letters of the highest authority were re
ceived in that city, by the Cahawba, from Ha
vana, which leave no room to doubt that scmc-
i an expedition of not less than 20,0{)0 men is
actually being fitted out in that city for Vera
Cruz. And of this no secret is made. Even
“Resolved, that if-experience should at any j the troops comprising the expedition, their l egi
time prove that the judicial and executive ments and companies, are mentioned. They
authority * nut n,,„ to inouro *. £ ££
quate protection to Constitutional rights in a | rril ; L< . M honl( , , nrl .iY n„
Amount paused hy Co;m_cilS152C 00.
$200000
Passedhy Council 13th & 20th March.
It will be seen that I never charged the city
$275 a case, as accused by “Old Times,” but
charged according to tho grade 'of the case,
specifying its character and including mileage
in every case treated out of the city. This is
another “perversion of truth by “Old Times.’
It will be seen that I treated eight cases, and
charged for them, $2,000, at an average of $250,
including mileage, and not seven, as reported
by “Old Times,” for which he says I charged
$1,900. So many “perversions” when added
together, would make a great something, and
“Old Times” may call it what he pleases, for
aught I care.
I can’t see why Dr. Green should be so much
interested ns to trouble himself about vaccina
ting tny guard, and of reporting my neglect to
his Honor, the Mayor, when his own guard (Mr.
McGuire,) had never been vaccinated, nor has
lie as yet been vaccinated, as ho informed me
ou yesterday. Ask Mr. McGuire if I did not
propose to \ accinaU. him, and urged upon hiut
its necessity. He declined, saying, that he was
not afraid, and assured tnc that he wotild not
get near enough to take it. Dr. Green knows
tliat I had vaccinated Humphries, for he could
not help seeing when I did it, and it was offi
ciousness in him to meddle at all in the matter.
But if Dr. Green was so particular to vaccinate
my guard, and to report me to the Mayor for
neglect of duty, I will ask the Dr. why did he
not report the cases at the Messrs. Johnston’s
before Thursday evening at sun down, when
the disease had been fully developed since Sun
day, a period of five days V did he wish to spread
it and make cases for himself? or was it as Mr.
Johnston says, they didn't knme what it was?
Surely, this looks os much like meddling with
human life, and shows a disposition quite as
great to spread the disease, as tny intercourse
with poor Pritchett did.
No, Fellow-citizens, it all amounts to this.
The Mayor and Council did the very best they
could to arrest the spead of the disease, and to
protect the interest of the city, but I was
candidate, and to beat me it was necessary to
circulate all manner of reports—the truth had
to be pervetred, and my own professional
friends had to lend a helping hand. I would
remark here, that Dr. Green’s friends were
much more indulgent to him, than I have ever
found mine to be. Some of my friends would
even object to tny associating with the people
on the streets, although I changed my cloth
ing, and took every precaution to protect my
own family, and in so doing would certainly
protect my friends. But Dr. Green, as I learn
ed, made no preparation and made his visits as
ho would to any other case, and would circu
late with his friends, and visit his other cases
as though he had never seen a caso of small
pox, and for all of this conduct (that would
have been very improper in me,) I heard no com
plaint from his friends. But my fee, O! my
fee is tho trouble. Well I did not establish
the fee, the county of Bibb paid Dr. Benson,
$1000 for treating two or three cases, and the
city council of Macon paid Drs. Boon and
Hatuinond $300, for t reating a case. The city
of Griffin, paid Dr, Alexander $500 for two
visits from Atlanta, to a caso of small pox,
and the County of Oglethorpe paid a phy
sician of Augusta $500 for one visit I
Territory; and if the Territorial Goveonmcnt
should fail or refuse to provide the necessary
remedies for that purpose, it will be the duty
of Congress to supply such deficiency within
the limits of its Constitutional powers.”
He, Mr. B., also, in this speech, expressly
and in words, adopts and endorses the position
of Senator Crittenden upon this vexed ques
tion, viz: “that when the proper or extreme
case occurs—when property going there (into
a Territory) under tho sanction of the Consti
tution as interpreted by the Supreme Court of
the United States, shall require such interpo
sition, then it is the duty of Congress to inter
pose and grant protection.” And then he
joins Mr. Crittenden in the expression of the
hope, “that the time might iiera- come, when it
would be necessary for Congress to intervene
to protecta Constitutional right in a Territo
ry.” This language plainly means that in the
opinion of Mr. II. the time has not yet arriced
when it is necessary for Congress to intervene
for the protection of slavery in the Territories,
or for the protection of any other Constitu
tional right, for the reason given in his speech
of last December at Frankfort, viz: “that the
.existing machinery of the Government is ade
quate for that purpose.” Mr. B., then stands
where the laic, as pronounced by Supreme
Court in tho Dred Soott case, and holds with
the conservative men of all parties at the South,
that its proper enforcement by the Judicial
and Executive authorities will secure to the
slaveholder all bis Constitutional rights; but
should they fail to discharge their duty in the
premises, then it will become “the duty of
Congress to supply such deficiency within the
limits of its Constitutional powers." “Upon
this principle he says, we (the Democratic
party) stand this day. What then becomcs.of
the charge made against Mr. B. and his party,
that they for the purpose of slaveiy agitation,
demand that Congress shall note legislate for
the protection of slavery in the Territories, and
in advance of the slaveholder going into the
Territories ? Now that Mr. B. himself declares
it to be false, arc thcro any so mean as to pin
sist in it ? We shall see.
A National Constitutional Democrat.
charged the city of Macon $2,000, for eight
cases, an average of $250 acnsc- My ehor B « dorctruek.
cr cities are here to witness and enjoy the. .. . , _ . , r , ,
. , . , ..., „ J ... . < criterion for my government, because I had
sport. The day is beautiful and the finest that ^ ,.j t ” ...
could be desired for the athletic display of the
several clubs. H.
For the Telegraph.
Jfr. Editor:—Last Saturday, Sept 22nd,
was the timo appointed by CoL Gibson, the
Breckinridge and Lano Elector for this District,
to address bis fellow-citizens of Taylor County.
Samuel Hall, Esq., of Oglethorpe, was also pre
sent, by invitation, and addressed the people
first Mr. Hall read various extracts from the
speeches of Mr. Bell, and referred to his vote on
the Kansas bill and the abolition of the slave
more cases than he did—but said id the same
connection, that I had made it a settled matter,
that I would visit and treat no caso of Small
Pox, cither distinct or confluent for less than
$200, whether I ever got it or not. But it ts
said I made this intimation before I was put in
charge of the hospital, and that this governed
the Council in their voto on my bill. Now I
will show to tho public from tho record, that
this is a “perversion” by “Old Times,” and to
get directly at it, I will give the accounts of Dr.
Hammond and myself as handed in to Council
without change, that it may bo seen that “Old
Times” “perverted the truth” again, when he
trade in the District of Columbia, showing his
inconsistent course—talking one way and voting I sa H tU3< ^ 0 out a ncw kill and added mileage,
another on these, as well as on other questions "'hich «’« contrary to Thomsonian usage.” 1
connected with the public good. He then re- a ^° show that there was no City Physician
ferrod to Judge Douglas, and showed his posi-; un ^ Ike 3rd of January, and he was elected
with a special understanding, that if requested
to attend Small Pox cases, he would resign the
offica It is also true, that Pritchett was the
only case that occurred after his election, under
the care of the city. Mr. Knott’s boy was put
j under my charge by himself—the City Council
tion on the Territorial question, the right of se
cession, &c. Then turning to Gov. Johnson,
ho gave the position of the Gov. on these same
questions, and exclaimed, “How good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in
V• >i<<, Jnaq vi‘j 'an»-joc*riiit*I -*ol
....... . ....-1 After the-i. ii of Mr. Hall, Col. Gibson I •gweing to pay the Kill for the UMAifbia house
J "t ..fff?" ..*?2 arose and addressed the attentive audience ear-! a hospital. I will now put the accounts be-
cAii.i etonzetn lime* oeiore too great reservoir „ «.«••• j * . ^ .. . ..
which furnishes these numberless multitudes is I ncstly for over an hour. Neitberof tho speeches f orc t* 10 public, as rendered to Council, that it
exhausted Weeks, and months, andycarsroll j were calculated nor designed to make the boys U!a y he seen and known that I was treating the
away, and still they come, men, .and women, laugh and clap their hands, but to inform the disease before Council had any action on Drs.
and children. Since the march began tho little
child has become a man, and
come, in unfailing numbers,
of.forty-one years will the last of tho long pro-
jMpsion have passed” m|^
, ; ' i'.naiiJ.ita^popultiUcii,and.if^omcr j ofjjja ex.-ept ly-on. ami well ha- h- (’••un-il went out :.i. 1 the New came in. Nor
1 done hi work. V-m n.-, d M fear the result! was there anything said about it l.y the Wetr
Mr. Editor, in Tr.ylor. Several opposition men Council for more than a month
leu, unu nuuicu, j laugt: ana clap Uieir hands, but to intonn the : ^ ueiure luuhuii uuu oujr acuou on L/m.
:h began the little j minJs of thc peoplc on thc qucst ; ons dio- j Boon and Hammond’s account, cither pro or eon.
Not °tiil the end mussed, namely, tho existence and perpctuala® It was handed in on the 29th, and referred to
l .f ai i ' rtf* tiin nnirm innMil «a r\,,w f.»mn/ln If P/vi tlm PSninpn (’fimmiJtAf* wliftPO if. rfimfiincil irtfli.
of the government as our fathers made it Col. thc Finance Committee, where it remained with-
Gibson has now accomplished the entire round out any report or discussion on it until the Old
was reduced to $1526; I accepted it, and made
no complaint I will say, howover, that if the
same scene had to be acted over, and I put in
charge of the cases, I would make the same
charge, or for a single case I would charge
$300. So then, those who have coveted my
fee, may have no fears in future, for I assure
you I am out of the ring so far as small pox is
concerned, when it has to be treated for less
than $200 a case.
I have heard tliat some of our professional
friends have said that my charge was very
high, and that they would bo glad to treat it r.t
a hundred debars a c^se. T i all Such I wouwl
say make fair weather with Dr. Thomson, as
doubtless ho would employ you, under such
circumstances, as you have publicly expressed
your opintCD, that his “treatment would be ex
cellent in such Loses;” but before making the
arrangement, stipulate with him that you
8liouldbc allowed the use of a little iced 1cm'
onodc, for my word for it, it is much more
palatable than pepper tea In these remarks I
mean nothing derogatory to Dr. Thomson or
his practice, for I am convinced that lie had
nothing to do with any publications that ap
peared against me, but that tho whole emana
ted from my own sido of the house, and be
cause # (I think), my fee was coveted. It will
now be seen that I had nothing to do, with
placing the guard at thc hospital, that was
done by his Honor the Mayor, and he did the
best he could. Pritchett by his own impru
dence contracted the disease, I did every thing
as a physician I could to prevent its spreading,
and to cure my patients after they had con
tracted it, and for proof that I was quito as
successful as others, I refer to tho bill of mor
tality. The professional or non Professional
man, who would insinuate otherwise, Js be
neath contempt, and will receive no farther no
tice from me.
GABRIEL HARRISON.
N. B. Tho City Council paid me $1620 for
seven cases, at an average of $218, and not
$275, as Old Times would have it. G. II.
THE DUTCHMAN’S EXPERIENCE.
“Mine neighbor Wilhelm, vot you tink of pol
itics, hey?” asked Peter Von Sin of of his neigh
bor Von Swcitzel, the Twelfth Ward black
smith, one evening, as he seated himself in a
‘Bierhaus.’
“I tinks much,” said Swcitzel, giving his pipe
a long whiff.
“Veil, vot you tinks?”
“I comes to der conclusion that politics is one
big fool.”
Ah 1” exclaimed Pete, after taking a draught
from his mug, “how you make him dat?”
“Very ve’C mine fren, I tell you,” replied
Sweitzcl, after a few whifls. “I came to dis
place ten years last evening by der Dutch Al
manac, roit mine placksmit shop. I builds fine
little houses, I puts up mine hellers, I make
mine fire, I heat mine iron, I strikes mit mine
hammer. I gets blenty work, and I makes
moriish.”
“Dat is gooth," remarked Pete.
“I say dat I make much friends,” continued
Wilhelm, re-lighting his pipe. “Der peoples
all say, Von Swcitzel bees a good man; he
blows in der morning, he strikes at night, and
he minds his bisness. So dey spraken to me
many times, and it makes me feel much good
here," slapping his breast.
“Yaw, yar, dat ish gooter,” remarked Pete,
who was an attentive listener.
Yell, it goes long that way tree year. Tree ?
Let me see, one year I make tree hundred dol
lar ; der next year tree hondred and fifty, der
next four hondred and swonzey, and der next
five hundred dollar. Dat make five year; when
old Mike, the watchman, who beese such a bad
man, came to me and say, “Sweitzel, what makes
you work so hard ?”
“To make monish,” I tell him.
“I tells you how to make monish quicker as
dat,” he says.
“I ask him how, and den ho tell me to go in
to tolitics, an’ git big office. I laugh at him,
ven he tells me datShake, tho lawyer, vat makes
such burty speeches about Faderland, bees ago
ing to run for Congress, and dat Shake, the law
yer, tells him to tell me, dat if I would go among
de peoples and tell dem to vote mit him all der
vile, he would put me in von big office, where
I make twenty thousand dollar a year.”
“Twenty thousand !’’ exclaimed Pete, thun-
I emits at home and reinforcements from thc Pe
ninsula, the vanguard of which were daily ex
pected.
The Picayune thinks that the object of thc
expedition is thc extension of a protectorate
over, or thc final acquisition of the country
Which is especially foreshadowed by the late re
cognition by the Spanish Minister of thc Mira-
mon government with which no other nation
holds diplomatic relations.
Spain already has thirty-six vessels Of war in
the Gulf and others are on the way.
IJaytien Emihssarv ix Town.—Wo, learn
that a full grown and blown Hayden, black as
ebony, and bearing'extraordinary powers from
the august Jeffrard of Hayti, made his appear
ance in Mobile yesterday, and attracted consid
erable attention. His business hero was to pro
mote the emigration of free negroes to Hayti,
and represented that a vessel was in readiness
to transport such emigrants thither as might
choose to avail themselves of the opportunity.
Wo understand the agent waited npon his
Honor the Mayor, .who politely directed him to
His Worship tho Sheriff of Mobile county, who
informed him that the laws of the State of Ala
bama did not recognize or look favorably upon
the objects of his embassy, and advised him
that a speedy departure from within thc limits
of this Commonwealth, would probably best
comport with thc tenor and spirit of thc stat
utes thereof. The Hayden improved the hint,
made his way, under escort of the Chief of Po
lice, to the mail boat, and by the dme this reach
es the eye of thc reader, will probably be in the
Crescent City.—Mobile Adcertiser, 19(A. inst.
A Venerable Brideuroom.—Thc hvinenial
altar was surprised on Wednesday last by the
appearance of Walter Williams, Esq., of Larne
county, Ky., aged eighty-four years, who was
accompanied by a lady not over forty years old,
and demanded to have the rites of matrimony
solomnized, at 11 o’clock at night Mr. Wil
liams has been married three dines; once when
young, once at seventy-seven, and now again at
eighty-four. He is a grandfather and great
grandfather to more than one hundred children,
several of them older than his wife.
An Insatiable Glutton.—A man named Cor
ben appeared on Thursday at a grocery store
in New York, and offered as a wager to eat four
pounds of damaged hain, two loaves o» bread,
a pound of tallow candles, and drink two quarts
of common brandy, a pint of gin and a pint of
lamp oil. His offer was accepted and lie won
the wager, and after swallowing the aforesaid
mess, wanted more.
Drowned.—We regret to learn, says the Gcor
gia Forester of thc 20th, that James McDowell,
of Pierce county, was drowned a few days ago
whilst bathing in Big Creek. Mr. McDowell
was an intelligent gentleman and a good citizen.
Macon & Auousta Rail Road. — A called
meeting of Council was held yesterday after
noon, five o’clock. A resolution was adopted,
authorizing the Railroad Committee to repre
sent the City fn the Convention of Stockholders
of the Macon & Augusta Railroad, to be held in
this city on Monday next Messrs. Macmurphy,
Bowen, Stoughton and Snead constitute the
committee.—[True Democrat.
‘Yaw, twenty thousand. Veil, I shinks, I
must shtop der strikin’ and go to mine frents,
and all de Garmins vote for Shake, and Shake
bees elected for Congress."
Here Mynheer Sweitzel stopped, and fixing
his eye on thc floor, puffed his pipe as if in deep
thought.
“Veil, mine neighbor,” said Pete, after wait
ing a duo length of timo for him to resume, “vot
you do den, ch ?”
“Veil, I a5k Mike, der swell-head watchman,
for der office, an he tells me I get him der next
year. I wait until der kroutmakin time, and
den I say again, “Mike, yen vill Shako give me
dat twenty thousand dollar office V”
“In two years, shurc,” he say, “if you work
ioV der pdrty.”
“Veil, i bLtop'Mowing untie belkn agin’ and
I blow two years for der party mit mine mouL”
“Two years uiit your mouth ?” asked Peter
in astonishment.
“Yaw, two year. Don again I go to Mike,
der swell-head watchman, and I tell him der
twenty thousand dollar about, an’ he tells me
in von more year I get him sure. I dinks he
fool me, yet 1 blow for der party ouudder year,
and den vat you dinks ?”
“Dinks! vy, you gits him twenty thousand
dollar.”
“Gits him 1 by shinks! Mike, dc swell-head
watchman, tells me I bees von big fool, and
dat I might go to der bad place, and cat sour-
krout”
‘He tells you dat?” ■
‘Yaw, sure as my name bees Von Sweitzcl.”
‘And you do der blowin, mit your mout for
der party?”
“Yaw.”
“Vat you do den, neighbor ?”
“I makes a firo in mino placksmit shop, I
blows my own bellors again, I heat mino own
iron, and strikes mit mino own hammer.' I says
to mincself, ‘Wilhelm Von Swcitzel, do your
own blowin’, and let boliticians do theirs.’ ”
“ Vanity Fair"—which, by the way, is clev
er enough to be very popular, as we hope it is—
has the following epigram:
ON A DECOLLKTE DRESS.
That effects are the sime from a similar cause.
Is one or thef onions Sectarian laws
Whose thllacy we may discover;
For quite in the troth of the logical rale—
The style of appeal that heps Emma cool,
Jnst kindles a flame in her lover 1
Necbo Hung.—The Selma (Ala.) Issue of
Friday, learns that the negro Sam Howell, who
was charged with being the ringleader of the
insurrectionary movement in Talladega county,
was tried on Wednesday last, by thc Probate
Judge and Justices of that county, before a jury
composed of twenty-four slave-holders, and
found guilty. He was condemed to be hung
without delay, and was executed Thursday at
the town of Talladega
A Pit aver Two Miles Long.—An exchange,
describing thc doings at Cleveland, on Monday,
says: “ The procession was very fine, and near
ly two miles in length, as was also the prayer ol
Dr. Perry, the Champlain.”
Homicide.—On last Thursday, says thc Jack
sonvillc(Ala) Democrat, 13tfc inst, in the town
of Talladega, a man by the name of Kennedy
killed another whose name was Millegan, with
an axe. We have not learned thc particulars.
It is really painful to record so many homicides
around us, every week we hear of some one be
ing killed, we might almost say, in our neigh
borhood.
I'll ) OK M A.'TKKS.
AVc.cordially endorse the following which we
extract from the editorial columns of the Savan
nah Republican. We commend the article to
the careful consideration of the owners of.slaves:
A firm and determined rule at home should
be exercised, before atteinnling to throw thc re
sponsibility upon the shoulders of others. A
svs(em ofgeneral “passes” is customary which
relieve the owners or hirer from much trouble
and secures thc servant from an investigation of
his conduct, and allows him or her a larger de
gree of liberty to roam over the city, or attend
assemblages of any kind, during the night, than
is consistent with their judicia l-government.
It is reasonable to suppose that public officers
can keep them in entire control when the means
of evading the law is furnished by the owners
themselves? There is another custom prcvail-
tng to a considerable [extent, which is equally
destructive of the interest of the owners, and the
good morals and good health of the servant • we
afiude to permitting them to hire their time.
This relieves them, at once, of the watchful
eye and prudential checks which a master ex
ercises, and establishes them :n lazy and vicious
habits. Left.to their ow:T exertions, they squan
der their time, in most instances, and lay up
nothing to meet their wages, so that when pay
day comes, they resort to thieving or some dis-
rosy check and a laughing eye, a fell of loose
brown curls round his gracelcssly graceful brow
a gay and bounding step, and inconceivable pas^
sion for pranks and pretty girls, roystcring,
reckless, generous, ready, in his warmth of heart,’
to help a fellow in distress with his purse, as he
is to comfort the landlord’s buxom daughter
with a kiss. This popular vision may bc°scen
any week at thc Adelphi, any day on the walls
in Trafalgar square. Another figure, somewhat
more close to nature and thc books, is that of
a dark old inan, bald and bewigged, eyes black
with debauchery, face sallow, staurine and
pinched, a man hobbling to the grave in the
midst of a rout cf gamesters and courtezans,
who wrangle with each other and play false to
him, a King ready to sell his country to hiscDe-
mics, and give up his religion for a bribe—a
Prince to whom uo man was ever attached—
and no woman ever true.
CHARLES THE SECOND.
In its review of John Forster’s Arrest of the
Five Members by .Charles the First, the London
Athenaeum has a pleasant passage relative to
that fascinating gentleman Charles the S«c-
oni:
“Every one who has been properly brought
up, is familiar, on the stage and in the picture-
galleries, with thc ideal image of the Merrie
Monarch. A bright young gentleman he is—
a young Apollo, blithe and debonair—with a
reputable means of obtaining thc sum necessary.
Habits of idleness and drunkenness are inculca
ted, either bringing them to an early death, or
destroying their health and usefulness. It is
a difficult matter to resist thc entreaties and fair
promises that negroes always make, when de
sirous of carryinga point, the propiety of which
is doubtful; and indulgent masters frequently
allow their good feelings to ovcrctm j theirjudg-
ment—let none such throw the blame of worth
less property on other shoulders; it belongs to
themselves, and they should apply the remedy.
We throw out these suggestions to owners in
order that their attention may be directed to
thc root of the evil, and with the hope that,
without cruelty, a firm rule should be held and
maintained. This is the true corrective, and un
til it is applied, a policeman may be stationed at
every corner and a patrol every hurdred yards
on the road, without exercising a proper re
straint
A Printer in tho Rochester Union office has
received a “fat take,” in thc shape of a girl and
a boy—twins. He says thc copy was marked
“solid” when it was given out, but thc fore
man “double-leaded" the matter when he “made
up thc forms.”
Convicted.—A friend writing to the Chron
icle from Geneva, says that thc negro owned by
J. Wilkinson, who murdered Isaac Durden, near
that place some time since, and who was erro
neously reported to have been burnt by a mob,
was tried this week in Talbot Superior Court,
found guilty, and sentenced to be hung on the
19th October.
could preach eloquently on thc vanity of man
as /. with i jiial eloquence,had ho scenor |
contemplated the millions of China, coubl he
have preached on the vanity of man as an indi-
eidual. anedo . a
At « hall, the belle of the evening had five
hundred and fifty yards of blue ribbon on licr _
have declared thorns
V
there are only live known supporters of Doug
las in the county. If there are others, strict
enquire lias failed to discover them.
DEMOCRAT.
Butler, * ^
Thc account
: for Breckinridge, and remained in the hands of tho Chairman of the
] Finance Committee until tho 17th of January,
without any report, when I called it up, and
asked thc Council to dispose of it one way or
Gov. Wise Going to take the Stumu.—The
Norfolk. Argus says: .' j-jgpl
“.Weave pleased to learn that the Ilqn. Henry
A. Wise will shortly address his fellqw-citizens
in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Petersburg, and Rich
mond in advocacy of the election of the notional
democratic nominees, Breckinridge and Lane.”
The Bible lias been translated into two hun
dred and sixty languages and dialects, and is
ready for 600,000)000 of the inhabitants of the
Arrest of Negroes from Georgia.—Wo learn
from the Memphis Avalanche that on the 19th
inst., an underground railroad agent in com-
S any with two negro men on board tho Lady
ackson were arrested at that city. They were
bound for Cincinnati. Ono of the negroes was
privately examined, and, after a slight whip
ping, lie confessed tliat he was a slave, that his
name was Matt, and that he belonged to J. r l’.
Brown, of Americus, Ga He also said that
ticeig the white man, was a carpenter, and while
working with him, lie had induced Matt to run
away, telling him that he would tako him to a
place where negroes were as good as white men.
Tho other negro was likewise made to confess,
and gave his name as Joo, and said that he be
longed to the firm of King & Walker, ol At-
A Bet of Ten Thousand.—Tho editor cf the
Albany Patriot proposes to make a bet of ten
thousand dollars that thc TTon. Jnh» Epeck-
inridgu will be tho next President ot iue '«
ted States, (provided no Provide:.Cal cause
should prevent) Thc money to be deposited
in tho hands of V. G. Rust, Esq., of the Marine
Bank of that city, within ten days.
A runaway nun was one of the visitors at
Saratoga Springs during thc late season. The
Troy Avenue says that, “sick and tired of con
fined life, she ran away from thc cloister, and is
now here with her friends, re-cuperating her
health. Her face is really beautiful, and she at
tracts no little attention by her modest, unas
suming behavior.”
Population of Washington.—'Tho census of
Washington shows a population of 61,400, an
increase of 50 per cent since 1850; the num
ber of slaves has decreased to 456.
the other. Alderman Goodall and myself re- earth, but only ’ ICO,000,0C0 have, as yet re- up now
Tho Baton Rougo Gazette and Comet learns
from a gentleman who came down from thc
Plains, that on Wednesday night a fire broke
out in tho town of Port Hudson, in the North
ern part of the parish, and the entire place,
with tho exception of ono house, was reduced
to ashes.
Thc New York World’s emotions on behold
ing an Irishman arc thuse xpressed:
“AYe never see an Irishman without a series
of intense emotions, AVhetbcr he bappend to
be carrying thc hod or making a speech; wheth
er he be breaking the head or embracing the
body of his friend; whether lie be clad in the
national integument of eordury or tho effemi
nate doe-skin, symbolic, in our clime, of solven
cy and respectability, he is still the undiluted
Simon Pure patlander, as gushing in his suscep
tibilities, as warm in his affections, as violent
and unreasoning in his antagonisms, as when
from the bosom of his mother isle ho exhum
ed the succulent potatoe, or upon it wielded the
trucculcn shilletah or the peaceful spade, lie
is an emblem and a type of the race, which
lanta, Ga. He also had been induced by Groigj has given to the world its noblest orators, its
.to leave for a free State. sweetest poets, its loveliest women, its most
m* mellifious dialect, and its: only bulls. He is to
“Henry, you ought to be ashamed to throw i be cherished therefore.”
away bread like.that. You may want it some 1 "
day.” “AYell mother, would I stand any bet
ter chance of getting it then, if I should cat it. thc
nn r*/VTtrV ? - r. ' „ f £ T-w. I 111']
Thc net proceeds of the recent benefit for
e Garibaldi fund, given by the New York
Tuv'.iverin, were $25n.
A Contrast.—In 1820, says theX. O. Bulls
tin,there were twenty-three States in tlieUnion,
now there are thirty three; then its area was
1,787,159 square miles--now it is 2,936,166;
our population then was 9,638,131—now it is
33,000,000; our registered and enrolled ship
ping then was 1,280,165 tons—now it is
5,145.137; our annual imports then amounted
to $74,450,000—now they amount to $338,-
768,130; our exports were $69,691,060—now
they arc $356,789,462 ; our revenue then was
$10,779,831—now it is $70,000,000; the real
and personal estate of our citizens then was
not over $1,000,000,000—now it is estimated
at $10,000,000,000; then we had 350,000 per
sons employed in manufacturing establish
ments producing over five hundred millions of
dollars yearly—now we have 1,250,000 persons
in the business of manufacturing.
A Man Almost Devoured by a Dog.—Rich
ard Bason, a butcher owns a large bull dog,
whose savage disposition is proverbial. Not
long since he bit severely a man who chanced
to cross his path, after which Bason chained
him at home. Yesterday he had occasion to
set him on some hogs which were invading his
premises, when tho dog, becoming offended
sprang at his throat By great exertions Bs-
son kept the brute from effecting his object, but
thc doglitcrally tore his arms, tiiihgs and legs Ip
slircds. The struggle was a protected one, and
it required the assistance of ’two men to cause
him to let go his hold upon his master. Bason’s
wounds arc of a severe nature, and may prove
fatal. Mrs. Bason was also bit in trying to take
the dog off her husband.—Memphis Atalanch\
\Uh.
Millerites.—The Millentcs have just con
cluded their annual religious services in North
AVilbraham, Mass. The sect, it was stated,
now number 50,000 in the United States and
Canadas, and representatives from nearly every
State in the Union attend their annua! c&mp
meetings. Great diversity of opinion exist
among them regarding the time when thc world
shall come to nn end, Some anticipate thc uui-
vers d overthrow in sixteen weeks, others look
for it previous to tho last of March, 186i, while
others are confident that it will be postponed
ten years and tiro weeks.
The Broderick Will.—Advices irom Cali
fornia state, that thc Broderick will- was before
the Probate Court Martin McDonnell, former
ly Deputy Sheriff of New York, was sworn as
witness for the contestants. He impeached thc
reputation for truth and veracity of A. A. Phil
lips, one of the contesting witnesses. He swore
that I imputation was bail; that he u aid rot
believe him Unc,t.r oath, and that Phjliip* was a
notorious Tombs lomiger.
Condition of the Treasury.—Thc receipts
into the Treasury last week were $1,-177,000, or
$22,000 more than the previous week-.
A house-keeper having kept a hired man on
liver nearly a month, said to him one day.—
“ Why, John, you don’t seem to like liver.”—
“0, yes,” said John, “I like it very well, for fif
ty or sixty meals; but I don’t like it as a steady
diet” - : ‘
Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar.—Mr. Lamar, in a re
cent speech, said of John Bell, that, however
pure h;s motives, “liko the mariner’s needle to
the polo, always pointed Nprth, and that in
a tremor.”
Sam McCracken Dead.—This well-digger,
well known in this vicinity, says the Rome
Courier, was killed a few days since by tho ac
cidental fall of tools and rubisli, whileat work
in a well belonging to TIios. Tumlinof Cass
county.
Breckinridge in Mississippi;—Hon. B. R.
Holmes, one of the strongest Union men in Mis
sissippi, has come out strongly ic a powerful
letter for Breckinridge.
Some statistical reporter has furnished the
following: statement of the cans of milk sent
to New York daily by railroad Thc figures
arc—21,000 cans, of 40 quarts each, over the
Harlem road; 2000 over the Erie Toad; 450 over
the Hudson river road; 250 from Long Is.anu ;
100 over the New York and New Haven road,
and 40 over the Jersey Central, i lie total va.-
uc of milk consumed In thc city i.s estimated at
$4,000,000 per annum.
The Rock Kill Chronicle \carns that a
ne^ro man belonging to Jamison AVhitc, of that
District, hung himself on Sabbath evening last
because he was not permitted to pick cotton on
that day. . v •
rank Hughes, of New Eavcn, only twelve
rears of aS has been sent co the pcor-lious*.,
on application of his fa-hcr. for being a common
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