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SATURDAY*, JAN. 9.
Cotton Factory for Sale.
We invite the especial attentioj of capitalists
•ad msnnfsctnrers to the advertisement in our
eolumns announcing for sale the property formerly
knoirn as the Lawrenceville Manufacturing Com
pany’s Mills.
General Railway Agency.
*ll presidents of railroads, superintendents and
tontractors, will recognise the importance of a
{•liable fountain head for information as to values,
Qualities, and kinds of rails, locomotives and ma-
Shinery, and railroad supplies generally, and the
advantage of having a well posted agent at a cen
tal point for filling orders. We therefore invite
the attention of all interested to the General Rail
way Agency of*A. G. Whiton, 72, Pine st, N. Y.,
whose card will be found in onr columns. Hav
ing had much practical experience in the construc
tion and business of railroads, being thoroughly
conversant with the railway iron and locomotive
manufacture, and with the markets for railroad
supplies and equipments; and withal, being a very
intelligent and business like man, we confidently
recommend to all needing his services. By judi
cious purchases and contracts he would save any
oompany employing him more than the moderate
commission he would charge in such cases. Rail
road men visiting New York city, wall find his of
fice a convenient point for getting reliable infor
mation on railroad matters in all sections of the
Union.
Letter of Gen. Wm. Walker.
We refer our readers to the letter of General
Walkeu, which appears in another column.
•tag* We learn from a letter from a gentleman
in Scriven county, that a difficulty occurred at
Sylvania, on Monday the 4th inst., between Benja
min Herrington and Jerry Frawley. The former
cut the latter very severely with a bowie-knife,
so much so, that Mr. Frawley’s recovery is very
doubtful.
tsr Dr. Wm. S. Bell nas been elected Mayor of
Chattanooga.
E3TG. P. BumKETT, Esq., has been elected
Mayor of Rome.
P. Houck, Esq. has been elected Mayor
of Tallahassee, Fla.
Mrs. Clary, wife of Lewis Clary, hung
berself at her residence in Spartanburg District,
S. C., on the 30th December—cause insanity.
w The telegraph news from St. Louis, in re
lation to a fight between the United States troops
and Gen. Lane, "turns out, like most of the manu
factustd outrages in Kansas, to be without founda
tion. The agent of the Associated Press at St.
Louis was quite sick at the date of the dispatch,
tod his duties devolved on a proxy, who was not
tareful enough to properly investigate the truth of
Ihe report before he sent it leaping over the tele
graph wires.
Accident to the Steamship Vanderbilt. —The i
English papers received by the Niagara state that :
the steamship Vanderbilt from New York sth De
cember, for Havre and Southampton, was passed .
off Cork, with rudder damaged by the Atlantic, i
which arrived at Liverpool 16th ult. The Atlantic
and Vanderbilt both sailed from New York on the
same day. _
An Early Trade. —The accounts from the West,
it is said, are that the merchants will take an early
start, and be in the Atlantic cities in great num
bers during the present month of January. The
stocks of goods on hand are very small, and much
more so, probably, than was ever before known,
and, generally speaking, an early and good busi
ness will be dope with the West this season.
Fir* near Portsmouth. —The “ Hermitage” at
Washington Point, directly opposite Portsmouth,
Va., owned by Y. 8. Guyot, Esq., and occupied by
him for the past four or fire years was destroyed
by fire on Sunday night, Jan. Bd,with the adjoin
ing out-houses. It was insured for four thousand
four hundred dollars, and was formerly used as a
Hebrew Synagogue.
Juogb of the Cherokee Cibcuit. —The Atlanta
Intelligencer, of the Bth instant, says: ‘‘Hon. Lean
ber W. Crook, of Whltfeld county, has been elect
ed Judge of the Superior Court of the Cherokee
Circuit, by a majority of between two and three
hundred. His opponents were Judge TRipra, the
present incumbent; Col. Dabney, of Gordon, and
Dawson A. Walker, of Hurray.
Commerce of Boston. —The value of foreign
goods imported at Boston in 1856, was forty-eight
million eight hundred and twenty-six thousand
and thirty-four dollars, and in 1857, fifty-two mil
lion thirty-three thousand nine hundred and
eight dollars, thus showing an increase of three
million two hundred and seven thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four dollars for the year just
closed over the preceding year.
A' Clearance Refused. —The Mobile Tribune,
of December 23d, says: “It was stated at the re
cent Nicaragua meeting, that a clearance would be
refused to a vessel which was then fitting out for
Greytown. Application, we learn, was made yes
terday, in form, for this clearance, and it was re
fused. No reason was given for it, except orders
from Washington. The vessel is laden with noth
ing but merchandise —coal, groceries, Ac. It was
admitted that her papers are all right, and that
there is nothing to indicate that she is not en
gaged in a legitimate commerce.”
Metiiodist Conference.— During the session of
|he Mississippi Conference at Brandon, Bishop
Early presented the resolutions of the Alabama
Conference, recommending the striking out the
general rule against “ selling men, women, and
children, Ac.” The Conference concurred in the
amendment by a vote of seventy to seven. A cor
respondent of the Miseieeippian wishes to know
who were the seven dissenting.
Walker’s Expedition. —Gen. Walker estimates
his losses, by the seizures of Davis and Paulding,
at one hundred and forty thousand dollars. It is
also stated that the fillibusters on board the Sara
toga, at Norfolk, positively refuse to go ashore, un
less they can be put off by force. They say they
are peuniless and helpless, and have no where to
go if ashore, and demand to be returned to Nicar
ragua, the home of their adoption.
Heavy Falling Of*.— The falling off in the re
ceipts of produce from the interior, at all the ports,
is very great. According to reliable calculations,
including breadstuff's, provisions, cotton, Ac., it
reaches to the value of nearly forty million dollars.
Mayor Wood, of New York, has vetoed the bill
for the assize of baker’s bread. He regards the
bill as an improper interference with pnvate inter
ests, and says that the quality of bread is not to
be tested by its weight.
It is stated that instructions have been sent to
the French Minister in China to co-operate effec
tively with Lord Elgin and the English naval and
military commanders.
Cotton in Natchitoches Parish. —The Natchi
toches Chronicle of Saturday last says: u The re
cent heavy rains have saved ourplanters from much
more cotton picking. The crop‘is pretty well in, and
a very considerable falling below what is deemed a
fair average crop is the result. The low price of
the sU pie, taken in connection with the small crop,
i« by no means encouraging to the planter.”
A Poor Fishixg Season.—Over one hundred
fishing vessels are now hauled up for the winter at
Provincetown, Mass. The fishing fares brought
to that port during the last season have been twen
ty-five thousand quintals less than the previous
season, and only about eighteen thousand quintals
remain unsold. Sales have been made as low as
two dollars and a per quintal, which is about
a dollar lower than the usual price.
Human wisdom has discovered nothing clearer
than this—that mall of trade above a
primitive barter, you must have a standard or
measure of values; and human ingenuity has nev
er been able to devise any standard more perfect,
in essential respects, than the precions metals.
SadMi9take. —Major Beale, the chivalrous Ver
monter, has just returned from his European tour,
but his fellow-townsmen are astonished and horri
fied at his altered appearance. When in Paris, he
challenged a French Colonel, and the weapons
being swords, at the first stroke, the major’s nose
was severed close to his face. Hastily picking up
and replacing the organ, he tied his handkerchief
over it. After leaving on the bandage for eleven
days he removed it, when to his consternation he
found that he had placed it wrong side up and it
was now healed. Although it looks ugly, he finds
it very convenient for taking snuff.
What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to
be sure, at times! Aground glass shade over a
gas lamp does not bring more solace to our daz
zled eyes than such a one to our minds.
The Press and Gov. Brown’s Veto.
Gov. Brown’s veto oi the bill legalizing the sus
pension of the banks,rests chiefly upon the following
reasons: He holds that the charters of the banks are
i wroug in principle, confering power and privileges
; upon the incorporated which is inconsistent with
the rights and interests of the people, and that,
having violated the contract to pay specie on de
mand for their bills, their charters were forfeited,
and it was the duty of the legislature in renewing
the charters or legalizing the suspension, to make
such amendments of the charters as would reme
dy former errors, and give greater security to bill
holders. He holds, that the practical workings of
the banks ha/e been contrary to the intentions of
the legislature—that they shaved paper, collected
usurious interest in the form of exchange, and
have controled the prices of property and pro
duce in away to subserve their interests. He
says that the bill is unconstitutional—that it vio
lates the contract between the bank and the bill
holder, by depriving him of one of the principal
securities for the redemption of the bills—the
right to have the assets placed in the hands of a
receiver, and the charter forfeited. He recom
mends that the banks be required to keep on hand
at all times, at least one-third of the amount of the
liabilities in specie, and the legislature should re
tain the power of amending the charter. He re
commends, as one of the means of giving stabili
ty and uniformity to the currency, that the State
should receive and pay gold and silver coin in all
its many transactions.
Gov. Brown refers to the returns of the banks in
a„way which shows that he, like thousands of other
well informed men upon the subject, does not un
derstand the mystery of bank returns. They are
a balance sheet showing the amounts of the several
general accounts which are kept, but they are really
no certain indication of the solvency of the banks.
Suppose a bank chartered with one hundred thou
sand dollars capital, with a promise that the whole
amount shall be paid in specie. A company takes
the stock, borrows the specie, pays it into the
bank, and thus commences legally. The next day
they discount their own notes for one hundred
thousaud dollars, draw out the specie, and return
it to its proper owners. At the end of six months
this bank makes a return. They have by industry
got a circulation of one hundred thousand dollars
in bills, and have accumulated in the bank one
half that amount in specie. Now, they would make ,
the following showing:
LIABILITIES. ASSETTB.
Capital Stock SIOO,OOOI Notes discounted and
Circulation 100,000 running to maturity.sloo,ooo
10 per cent, dividend.. 10,0001 Bills of Exchange.... ft),000
Reserved fund 10,0001 Specie 60,000
I Protits ‘20,000 ,
$2-10,0001 S3S»
Who can tell by looking at this return that there
was not a dollar of capitafin vested in tho concern ? ]
Gov. Brown is right in his opinion of the inhe
rent and unavoidable evils of our present banking
sastem, and he has pursued such a policy, as in his
opinion was best calculated to promote the best
interests of the State. But in our opinion, taking
things as they now are, the money affairs of the
people are so interwoven and complicated with the
banks, that any measure which would cripple or
destroy the banks, would re-act with destructive
effect upon the interests of the people.
Banks of circulation never have been, and never
can be, so restricted or regulated by law, as to
make them safe depositories of the power which
they wield, or to secure the people against their
fraud or insolvency. The very restrictions im
posed by the legislature, are the means of giving
credit to the banks and a false security to the com
munity which make them the easy victims of
fraudulently or badly managed banks.
There is but one remedy for the evils of bank
ing and for the panics which periodically follow
the fluctuations of the currency—perfect freedom
of trade in money aud credits and the adoption by
the State of the measure recommended by Gov.
Brown—an independent treasury system based up
on the constitutional currency—gold and silver
coin.
This is simple, but it would be effectual, whilst it
would interfere with no vested rights.
Albany Patriot , Jan. 7.
Bask Bill Veto. — This bill legalising the sus
pension of the banks, passed both houses of the
General Assembly, after a long debate aud great
excitement. The ruinor soon spread over the city
that it would meet the veto of the Governor. This
produced intense excitement and alarm among the
friends of the banks. The message was received
during this state of things, returning the bill to
the Senate. The gallery was crowded with anxious
spectators to witness ihe action of this body. The
motion to pass it over the veto by the constitu
tional majority, was at once made, and carried.
The bill was at once sent to the House, and after
similar excitement received the two thirds vote.
It thus becomes the law of the State, and the banks
are protected by the strong arm of the law, against
the forfeiture of their charters.
We believe that the people will sustain Governor
Brown in his veto. It was done to arrest the
• tious transactions of our banks. They have cer
tainly been guilty of gross outrage on the people,
and merited the treatment they received at the
hands of the Governor. His message is a lucid
and able expose of the whole question, and will
appear next week in our paper.
Clarkes ville Georgian , Jan. 6.
Gov. Brown’s Veto. —We devote a considerable
portion of our space to-day, to the veto message of
Governor Brown. In the main and leading argu
ments of the message, Gov. Brown is right, and
the majority of the people of Georgia, if called upon
to decide the question, would respond in support
of the position of the Governor. We would be
speak for it an attentive perusal.
Neuman Banner <£- Sentinel, Jan. 8.
The Governor’s Vbto. —This able and sound
document, from its length and the lateness of the
hour which we received it, has been unavoidably
crowded out of our issue to-day. The Governor
applies, with no gentle hand, the scalpel of argu
ment and the overpowering weight of common
sense reasoning to any sophistorv with which the
banks haye sought to support a bill legalizing their
suspensions. He has torn away the veil of com
plicated statistics {and groundless supposition in
which they have draped themselves, and exposed
them in all their naked deformity of shaving
shops and swindling machines, asking for new
firivileges by which to grind and defraud the pub
ic. His arguments are unanswerable, and will
have such convincing power with the people, that
few, if any of the members who voted for the
passage of the bill over the veto, will be returned
to the legislature at the next election. We are
convinced that the culminating point of the crisis
has not been reached, and that w hen the period of
suspension has expired, then will the people begin
to experience some of the evils of the present
loose banking system of Georgia.
We are proud, however, of one thing, and that
is, that the able Senator and Representatives of
Coweta firmly stood by the Governor until the
last; for we regard their conduct as not only en
dorsing the arguments of the Governor, but also
the morale of his veto message.
Ntvman Blade, Jan. 9.
Wm. Walker, the proprietor of the Walker
house in Spartanburg, died on the 30th ult. He
wm an old and highly esteemed citizen.
The Recorder’s Court.
We notice that the last meeting of the City Coun
cil reduced the salary of the Recorder to the
amount specified in the act creating that office. Il
is not in the power of Council to abolish the office,
but they hare evinced some regard to the law thal
originated it, and to public opinion in this city, by
reducing the salary for that officer to the sum spe
cified in the law establishing the office of Recorder.
Eyen at the present reduction, a salary of about
ten dollars per week, for two or three hours nervine
each week, is the highest salary paid by the City
Council to any officer in their service. The salary
has not been paid for eminent legal ability, for the
several members of Council have on occasions pre
sided as Recorder, and Mayor Conley has, we be
lieve, frequently officiated.
A correspondent in the Chronicle & Sentinel, yes
terday morning, who signs his communication
Senez, (we trust he is not what his signature
imports,) ttyis refers to the recent action of the City
Council:
Mr. Editor: In this day of pressure, it is refresh
ing to witness the manifestation of a spirit of re
trenchment on the part of the City Council. I al
lude particutarly, to the reduction of the salary of
the Recorder. A principal ground of complaint
by the signers of the late petition for a change in
the city charter, was the very large salary paid to
the incumbent of that office. This opinion was also
entertained by many who signed the counter peti
tion. The discrepancy between the duty and the
pay was so obvious as to require no comment. At
the last meeting es our Couocil this salary was sized
at five hundred dollars—an amount amply ade
as compensation, and one, besides, fixed by
the legislature in the act establishing the Record
er s Court. It is to be hoped that this act of re
trenchment will be speedily followed by other acts
equally worthy of favorable notice. Sense.
The Savannah Republican.
The copartnership of Messrs. Sneed and Sms,
in the Savannah Republican, has been dissolved.
Mr. F. W. Sims has become the proprietor of the
concern, but Mr. J. R. Sneed will continue in the
editorial chair. “ The change is simply one of
proprietorship.” Mr. Sneed says :
“ The daily duties of an editor and the care of
outdoor concerns are wholly incompatible. They
mutually unfit the mind for a proper attention to
either. I have long and sensibly telt the inconve
nience and burthen of pursuits so dissimilar; and
the arrangement announced in the card above af
fords me an opportunity of making a change that
I have ardently <desirea. While it shall impair, in
no degree, the interest I feel in the Republican , it
will enable me to devote my undivided time and
efforts to the promotion of its success and useful
ness. I frust it will be entirely satisfactory to the
friends of the paper.”
We are indebted to a friend for the follow
ing election returns, of Glasscock county. The
entire Democratic ticket has been elected:
Justices Inferior Q>urt. —Jeremiah Wilcher, Jr.,
John Land, Peter Usry, Alien Kelly, and Calvin
Logue. •
Clerk Superior Richard Walden.
Clerk Inferior Court.— Daniel Glover.
Sheriff. -—Augustus Rees.
Tax Collector.— Tobias Logue.
Receiver Tax Returns.— Absulam Brassell.
Ordinary. —Francis Kelly.
Treasurer. —Dr. Wilcher.
Tbe Atlanta American has been .chaaged
from a daily to a tri-weekly publication.
TAffF The Democratic State Central Committee
of New Hampshire proclaim their opposition to
the Lecompton (Kansas) Constitution.
£3?“ Washington letter writers state that Com
modore Paulding will be gently censured for ar- ‘
resting General Walker; but it is not probable 1
that the Commodore will be recalled from his
squadron.
The Hon. David Stewart died in Baltimore 1
on tbe sth inst. He was a prominent member of
i bar, and for a short time, U. S. Senator from
Maryland during tbe administration of Jo ns Q.
Adams. He bequeathed fifteen thousand dollars
to the Episcopal Seminary and High School of
Virginia.
E3F" A telegraphic dispatch from Norfolk, on the
sth inst. states that orders had been received from
Washington City directing that the men brought
there from Nicaragua, in the Saratoga, should be
discharged. Many of the men were seen subse
quently wandering about the streets in a destitute
condition, without money, and very poorly clad.
A Tallahassee letter writer, in the Macon
Telegraphy of sth inst., states that mail matter
could be easily forwarded from Macon to New Or
leans, in two days, if a daily line of stages wa?
established between Albany and Bainbridgc, and
connecting with lines of steamers from Bambridge,
via Apalachicola, to New Orleans.
The legislature of New York met on Tues
day, the sth instant. In the Senate the Republi
cans elected their party candidates to the several
offices in that branch. In the House, or assembly,
unsuccessful efforts were made to elect a speaker.
A dispatch from Albany, of course sent forward
in advance of the delivery of the Governor’s mes
sage, says: “It is understood that Gov. King’s
message recommends the enactment of a law com
peling the banks to keep coin to the amount of
twenty-five per cent, of all indebtedness, exclusive
of notes; also recommends a tax on railroads, and
allowing the railroads to increase their passenger
fares. He says the revenue from the canals fall
short, and recommends a tax of half a mill annual
ly, for two years, as a resource. He further sug
gests the enactment of registry laws, and (of
course) opposes the introduction of slavery in
Kansas.”
Georgia Military Institute. —Gov. Brown has
appointed the following gentlemen as Trustees of
the Institute, for the present year: Hon. David
Irvin, of Cobb; Hon. Charles J. McDonald, of
Cobb; Hon. David Ardis, of Cobb; Hon. Jno.
Milledge, of Richmond; Capt. Wm. T. Wofford,
of Cass.
Fire i* Loachapoka. —The Montgomery Mail, of
6th inst., Bays : “ A fine carriage factory was de
stroyed by tire, a few days since, in the flourishing
Tillage of Loachapoka, Macon county. The loss
was six thousand dollars, of which about four
thousand dollars was insured.
The Boston Tranteript says the following by
Oliver W. Holmes, is the finest simile ever written:
“The mind ofa bigot is like the pupil of the eye;
the more light you throw upon it, the more it con
tracts.”
The Baltimore Sun says: “The present state of
things we look upon as decidedly favorable to an
early resumption of specie payments by our banks.”
Fourteen army surgeons belonging to the Eng
lish service have perished in the disastrous revolt
in India.
A letter from Texas says: “In the eastern part
of the State they had rains, and the earth yielded
her increase. But the whole of western Texas,
from the Brazos to El Paso, has failed now for two
years to make bread. As a consequence, the peo"
pie are in the midst of the most deplorable pecu
niary trials.
The African Slave Trace.—A despatch to the
government of Great Britain from the South coast
of Africa, dated October 19, 1357, says: "The
slave trade is assuming anew aspect. The French
government has gone boldly into it, and the Bri
tish squadron are ordered not to verify the colors
of a French vessel, whether legal trader or not.
American ships, on the contrary, are searched,
seized, and confiscated, in a manner violative of
our doctrine of the right of search.” The subject
has been laid before the cabinet.
Chatham County Elections.
The following is the result of the votes cast for
county officers in Saaannah, on Monday, 4th inst.;
For Sheriff— Waring Russell, 1,008; J. T. Buck
ner, 907.
For Clerk Superior and Inferior Courts— W. H.
Bulloch, 1853.
For Tax Collector —A. F. Bennett. 992; A. Har
mon, 500; fl. Larkin, 474; J. M. Marsh, 88.
For Receiver Tax Returns —Barnard E. Bee,
I,
For County Surveyor —W. P. Bowen, Jr., 767/
J. B. Hogg, 582; j! R. Tebeau, 434.
For Coroner —Thomas Eden, 1,782.
Macon Election.
By private dispatch we learn that the following
is the result of the election which came off yester
day:
For Sheriff— Brantly, Dem., 768: Hardy, Am.,
586.
Clerk Superior Oourt —Ross, Dem., 756 ; Blayton,
Am., 469.
Clerk Inferior Court —McMannis, Dem., 716;
Burnett. Am., 568.
For Tax Collector— Bone, Dem., 685; Harper,
Am., 541; Russell, Ind., 109.
For Receiver Tax Returns — Curry, Dem., 581;
Johnson, Am., 541 ; Hodges, Ind., 145.
For Coroner —Wright, Dem., 737 ; Combs, Am.,
487.
For County Surveyor —Wood, Dem., no opposi
tion.—Savannah Georgian , Dec. 5.
Kansas Affairs.
“Ion,” of the Baltimore Sun , generally succeeds
very well in gathering up the purport of news
among the managers of political circles. The fol
lowing is from his letter of the 3d inst.:
It is thought that a majority of the Senate will
vote for the acceptance of the Lecompton Consti
tution. The result in the House is more doubtful,
and depends upon a few North-western Democrat
ic votes. But, for some weeks past, a prmect of
conciliation has been privately discussed, ana with
in a few days has taken a substantial form, which
may possibly be acceptable to the Democratic
members of Congress, as a body. If Mr. Douglas
should assent to it, the northern Democratic mem
bers will accept it; but it is to be seen whether
it will meet the views of the southern members.
The proposition is to provide in the act for the
admission of Kansas, that, a convention shall be
held in the State within a certain time, for the
purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitu
tion, which amendments shall, when adopted by i
the people, be a part of the Constitution, notwith- '
standing any : provision 4o the contrary in the Lc- ;
compton Constitution. i
The project may be opposed in the Senate by a j
North-western Democratic Senator. It cannot be <
adopted without the united support of the Demo- ]
cratic members. It does not conflict with the <
President’s position, for it brings Kansas at once i
into the Union, and transfers the entire subject of ]
dispute to that State.
News items from the Savannah Georgian,
of 6th inst:
Railroad Officers Elected.—Thu following gen
tlemen were yesterday elected Directors of the Sa
vannah, Albany & Gulf Railroad Company :
President— J. P. Screven.
Directors—R. D. Arnold, S. Cohen, W. Duncan,
John Stoddard, F. S. Bartow, Stephen Elliot, R.
Wayne, H. Roberts, C. Gieene, H. D. Weed, J. W.
AMerson*, and C. A. L. Lamar*.
♦New Directors.
Sales Yesterday. —Not many buyers seemed to
be about yesterday, and consequently sales were
dull and things bid low, around our City Court
House.
Mr. T. J. Walsh sold sixty-four negroes, at an
average of five hundred and fifty-six dollars.
These were purchased by one of our Georgia plan
ters.
Messrs. Wylly k Collins sold thirteen shares
Marine Bank stock at forty-nine dollars and fifty
cents, and ten at fifty dollars.
Messrs. Minis & Johnson sold seventy-five shares
South Western railroad stock, as follows: twenty
five at eighty-one dollars, and fifty at eighty dol
lars, al which the sale stopped.
J. 8. Montmolhn sold twenty shares Central
Railroad stock at one hundred and three dollars
and a half. City bonds at eighty-iour dollars.
Young' Metis Literary Association. —At a meet
ing held by the members of the above association
on 4th instant, for the purpose of electing officers
to serve for the ensuing year, the following gentle
men were elected: John C. Duggan,
President as. J. Walsh, Vv*» President tMtcWi
J. Doyle, Secretary and Treasurer; Jno. w. K«rn,
Librarian.
Bank Directors. —The following gentlemen have
been re-elected as President ana Directors of the
Central Railroad and Banking Company, for 1858:
President.— R. R. Cuvier.
Directors. —J. W. Anderson, Andrew Low, Thos.
Purse, W. Crabtree, J. R. Wilder, J. R. Gallie, W.
R. Fleming, F. G. Dana.
Election.— At the annual meeting of the Savan
nah Fire Company, held at the Fireman’s Hall
Friday night last, the following named gentlemen
were elected to serve the ensuing year: Montgom
ery Cummings re-elected Chief Fireman; Fraucis
Bfan* re-elected Second Chief Fireman; William
Wright, Third Chief Fireman; and 8. B. Haupt,
Esq., Clerk,
Items from the Savannah Georgian, of the
7th inst :
A New Year's Vote. — I The number of votes poll
ed on Monday, for our worty citizen, W. U. Bul
loch, Esq., as Clerk of Superior and Inferior Courts,
corresponds with the present year, namely one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
The next highest vote was one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen, for Receiver of Taxes, B.
E. Bee, Esq.
Our worthy Coroner, Thos. Eden, who has filled
that office some fifteen years, received one thous
and seven hundred ana eight-two votes —figures of
an important epoch.
Death of Another Racer. —We regret to announce
the death of another racer. Humming Bird—a
promising three year old, in Col. Hester’s stable,
died on yesterday of pneumonia.
Busvccchi, who was injured by striking the fence
in the colt race on the first day of the races, is
doubtles ruined for life. His condition has not
improved since the accident, and the physicians
' think that the bone ofhis leg is shattered above
the stifle joint.
Fickle Fortune. —Mr. J. , of Augusta, went
out to the race track on Tuesday with one hundred
and thirty dollars in his pocket. Amid the excite
• ments of wet without ana wet within, he lost it all
and had to foot it home through the mud with
“uairy red” in his pocket. Y esterday he borrowed
an “X,” went out to the races, and “ speculated,”
and returned in style with about two huudred dol
lars in pocket, whistling “Trust to Luck.” Last
night, abour ten o’clock, his pocket was picked of
his all. Hesavs he will return to the track t.n-dav
humming “ask me not why ” from the Daughter of
the Regiment, and he feels satisfied a la Micawber
that something will turn up.
Labor nc Scotland. —We find the following
paragraph in several of our exchanges:
The following is a melancholy schedule of hu
man labor in Scotland. Charles Mackay had bet
ter expose slavery in his native land, than write
twaddling songs about “ Auld Reekie.”
The undernoted figures show the rate of wages
paid by a flax spinner in Dundee, for the last sev
enteen years, to adult female spinners:
1840—55. per week for sixty-nine hours.
1842—45. 9d. per week for sixty-nine hours.
1845—55. 6d. per week for sixty-nine hours.
1847 ss. J£d. per week for sixty-three hours.
1848— 4s. B>£d. per week for fifty-nine hours, and
4s. to 4s. 11a. for fifty-eight hours.
184»—55., ss. 3d. and ss. 10a. per week for fifty
eight hours.
1850-68. per week for fifty-eight hours, and 6s.
3d. for sixty hours.
1855 ss. 9d., 6a. and 6s. 6d. per week for sixty
hours.
1856 75., 7s. 3d. and 7s. fid. per week for sixty
hours.
1857 7s. 6d. to 7s. 9d.
November, 1857—65. 6d. per week for sixty
hours.
The State of Trade in Prussia. —The total
number of failures nr bankruptcies that have taken
filace in all Prussia since the commencement of the
ate crisis, amount to only one hundred and thirty
four, the majority of which are of a very petty and
circumscribed nature. Os the above number fifty
six took place in Berlin, chiefly, as I have men
tioned before, among manufacturers, the dealers
that supply them with materials, and petty trades
men ; only two of the number affect members of
the Exchaoge. As it is known that these two
houses were brought into difficulties bv the stop
r page < t foreign firms, it may be said that they are
the only failures that have taken place here dircot
ly in consequence of the crisis elsewhere,
i Ltrtin Oorrtfpondeni <jf th* London lima.
California G«<C—The San Francisco Timet
gires the foUowpg as ‘he annual shipments of
gold from since the discovery of the
precious me*‘ there:
184 , Z. $8,121,250
. SSo Z...... 27,678,246
}22T;... 57,337,624
n 855 „.. 43,08*>,211
1856 48,887,546
The shipments for the first six months of 1857
were twenty-three million six hundred and thirty
eight thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars—
being in excess of the amount for the same period
of any preceding year, with the exception of 1853,
1854, and 1856. the amount shipped for the tiist
nine months of 1857 was thirty-five million one
hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred and
thirty-four dollars, and it is estimated the whole
shipments of the present year will be about fortv
eight millions of dollars. It would be consider
ably mere should there bo rainy weather in the
three closing months. Galling the shipments of
the present year forty-eight millions of dollars,
the total amount of gold which has been received
from California since the discovery, foots up the
enormous sum of three hundred and eighty-three
million six hundred thousand four hunched and
fifty-seven dollars.
Heads on Coins.— At the late meeting of the
Historical Society of Charleston, the Rev. Dr.
Broadman made some remarks on our smallest
coins, which are, in part, to say the least, deserv
ing of comment:
“ I hold in my hand, said Dr. 8., a cent. This
coin is in every*respect a great improvement upon
the old cumbrous and unsightly copper penny ;
but it does not satisfy the public. YVheiher it
arises from the intrinsic difficulty of representing
an eagle volant upon so small a metahc surface,
or whether it be that the public eye has become so
perverted by looking upon the heraldic eagle of
our coinage, that it does not know the royal bird
when ‘ etched from the lifecertain it is that the
voice of the country has pronounced against this
design; and it will have to be abandoned. The
people demand, and, sooner or later, they will have
a different cent.
•‘This point being settled, it is a question in
which we have a common interest as citizens, and
which may concern us as a Historical tSociety,
what devices shall be impressed upon the new
coin. Iu my opinion it should bear the head of
Christopher Columbus. That this device would
answer all the purposes of identifying the coin
and distinguishing it from other types and denom
inations, will not be disputed. But the argument
on which the suggestion rests, and which in this
presence will certainly bear to be pressed, is that
of all the historical characters no one has been
treated with so much injustice as Christopher Co
lumbus.”
The Financial Crisis at Hamburg.—The N. Y.
correspondent of the Boston Transcript , says:
“No place abroad has suffered more from the com
mercial revulsion than Hamburg. One house
wanted but a few months of reaching its centen
nial auniversary. One of its partners declared
himself, five years ago, worth four millions, and,
having but three children, proposed to leave them
a million each, and bestow the remainder on a pub
lic charitv. Yet this ancient and most respected
house had to succumb. A gentleman not unknown
in your city, (having married there,) and who has
been many years a merchant of Hamburg, has
lost his reason from financial perplexity and dis
tress.”
Paying Up.— The sum sent in specie to England
in the month of December, from New York and
Boston, amounted to ten million dollars. The
New York Times makes the following estimate as
to the proceeds of cotton already sent forward:
“ Os the new crop of cotton, the southern States
have already sent forward the value of twenty-one
million dollars, of which fifteen million dollars
have gone to England, and the rest to France and
Germany—making thus a total of thirty-one mil
lion dollars forwarded by us, in two months’ time,
to our creditors over the' sea. So much for the
disposition of this country to meet its liabilities
and preserve its good uame untarnished. Os its
ability, some notion may be formed from the fact
that the heavy payments of December have left
our banks, m New' York city, two million five hun
dred thousand dollars stronger than they were
.tb* month bag***.”
Sale of Nb<Jroes.—The Petersburg Express of
Wednesday says; “A private sale of slaves took
place in this city on Monday, which we venture to
say is unprecedented, They were the property of
John Tilman Foster, Esq., of Amelia county, and
numbered mail fifty-six, of both sexes and of every
shape, size and age*. The purchaser was Mr. Reia,
of Mississippi, and amount agreed upon for the en
tire lot was fifty-six thousand dollars, or an aver
age of one thousand dollars apiece. Payment se
cured, on twelve months’ credit, by mortgage on
the property, and the real estate of the purchaser.
Mr. Reid left yesterday morning with his swarthy
throng in tow.”
Another &xle. —A sale of servants took place a
few days ago, at Aylctt’s, King William county,
when the following prices w ere obtained: Woman
ind five children, two thousand four hundred and
twenty-nine dollars ; woman and two children,
one thousand three hundred aud six dollars; girl
eighteen years old, nine hundred and one dollars;
man, twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old,
eight hundred dollars; man, fifty-five or sixty
years old, two hundred and eighty dollars.
Average, three hundred and eighty-five dollars and
sixty-six cents. A credit of six months was allow
ed.— Richmond Whig , of diet ult.
Tiie Si amese Ambassadors at Court.—The Queen
and her Court were assembled in slate, and as soon
as the door of the audience chamber opened, the
ambassadors and their suite, eight persons alto
gether, appeared. Having made profound salaams,
they threw themselves on their hands and knees,
and in a compact body went up the roomXm all
fours to the throne. The royal gravity (her Ma
jesty is known to have as keen a sense of the ludi
crous as most people) was sorely tried by this pro
ceedtng; but when the principal ambassador, in
creasing his prostrations, laid liis chin on the step
of the throne, and in that attitude commenced to
read his address, the trial became painful. The
exit from the Queen’s presence was accomplished
by a retrogade movement on all-fours likewise, the
ambassadors keeping their faces always to her Ma
jesty. There was a luncheon served in one of the
state apartments, in the course of which their
Siamese Excellencies, to the intense horror of the
assembled court, lit their pipes and to blow
a comfortable cloud. The Queen herself, however,
very sensibly and good-naturedly laughed, and
said nothing' about it, notwithstanding her aver
sion to the fragrance of the tobacco plant.
Rubin Freeman's Journal.
The Mediterranean Telegraph. —The Malta
Times gives the following brief detail of the laying
down of the submarine cable from that island to
Corfu, already announced by telegraph: The Elba
took three days to complete the operation. The
route taken by Mr. Newall was that of keeping as
near to the coast of Italy as possible, owing to the
great depth in the direct course between Malta and
Corfu. Opposite Mount Etna the profundity was
found to be immense. The weather was very fa
vorable, and the submergence was effected most
successfully. As soon as the telegraphic commu
nication was completed the Elba fired a salute, and
the crew cheered heartily. Mr. Newall and Mr.
Liddell are expected to leave Cagliari in a few days
for England. Commander Watson, of her Majes
ty’s corvette Desperate, gave much able assistance
to Messrs. Newall in taking soundings, aud per
forming other necessary operations.
Miraculous Answer to Prayer.— Benajah Pra
ther, an orderly member of the Baptist Church of
Christ, at Rehobotb, Wilkes county, Geo., about
eight years ago, was taken sick, and although very
sick, yet there was nothing extraordinary in his
case, nor convalescence; but before he got entirely
well, he was deprived of speech entirely, notwith
standing his mental and corporal functions were
vouchsafed to him in their usual perfection; nor
has he uttered a word since until Monday night
lajf, about eleven o’clock, while reposing on his
ben, meditating upon the goodness of his God iu
. 80 ,on g sparing his life, and deploring his sad con
. dition—praying fervently for deliverance from it,
when, all of a sudden, as from an electric shock
. he was entirely restored; and could converse as
. fluently as ever in his life,
i Withes Republican , .18ft ult.
' Large Fortune.— A lady in Rahway, N. J., it is
- stated, has recently succeeded, after several fruit
less attempts, in establishing her title to a large
: amount of real estate in D&jrton, Ohio. It is said
to cover all the central part of that town, and it is
rumored that the amount is about two million
dollars.
Value of Negro Propel**.
We publish the following from many notices of
the kind in southern papers. We have not select
ed them merely because of the favorable prices
given for negroes, but have taken them just as we
found them in our exchanges:
‘Sale of Negro, Propet ty.-On the sth instant
Cicero A. Tharp, Esq., sold at phfrhc outcry in
Macon a large lot of negroes belonging to the es
tates of Beuj. May and Leroy McManus. They
were bought principally by citizens of the county,
ann most of them sold at very high figures. For
instance, a man aged twenty-six years, sold for
SI4OO ; another aged twenty-three, for $1,351, and
another of the same age, for $1,395. A boy ten
years old sold for $985, and a girl of about the
same age for SBSO. A woman nineteen years of
age brought $1351, aDd another aged sixteen
brought $1356. A man of fifty-two years sold for
SIOOS, and the rest at corresponding rates. These
prices by no means indicate the “ hard times ” so
much complained of.— Macon State Press' Jan. 7.
High Price for Negroes. —On Monday last, a fam
ily of fourteen negroes, belonging to an estate,
were sold in this place for the sum of $11,106. This
is an average of $793.21 and a fraction. Among
them were *the progenitors of the family, and five
little children. They were sold on twelve months
time. This, we venture to say, was as good a sale
as has been made lafely, and indicates that the fall
in cotton,and the suspension of the banks have not
affected the price of slaves.
Tuskegee Ala.) Republican, Jan. 7.
Price of Slaves. —The Panola (Miss.) Star
says:
“At the sale of Mrs. Bobo's estate, last week,
forty-one negroes, old and young,, brt rnght $41,000.
Some of them were mere infants, and some old
negroes brought only 5 cents apiece.
Sale of Negroes. —The negroes of several estates
were sold iu this city on Tuesday at extravagant
prices. Must of them, however, were bid in by
Legatees, and on a credit of twelve monies. Two
likely boys were offered for cash, but were with
drawn for a better market.— Macon Citizen, Jan . 8.
Price of Negro**.— We take the following items
from our exchanges at large:
At a sale of the slaves belonging to the estate of
the late Thomas G. Pettit, of Caldwell county, at
the court house in Princeton, on Monday last, the
following prices were obtained:
Fora negro man, aged twenty-three years, $1,689;
for a negro man, aged twenty-four years, $1,530;
fora negro man, aged twenty-five years, $1,615;
for a negro man, aged twenty-five years, $1,581;
for a negro man, aged twenty-six years, $1,505 ;
for a negro man, aged thirty years, $1,185; for
a negro man aged forty years, SI,OOO ; for a negro
boy, aged nineteen years, $1,650 ; for a negro boy,
aged nineteen years, $1,760; for a negro boy, aged
seven years, SBOO ; for a negro boy, aged seven
years, $816; for a negro woman, aged twenty-two
years, and infant child, $2,000; for a negro wo
man, aged sixteen years, $1,520; for a negro girl,
aged sixteen years, $1,220 u for a negro girl, aged
eight years, $355.
About thirty other negroes belonging to the same
estate were sold at proportiouably high rates. They
were all good farm hands.
The farm containing fire hundred and seventy
nine acres was sold fora fracion under forty-five
dollars per acre. These sales don’t indicate the
prevalence of hard times in that region.
Louisville (Ay.) Journal, Dec. 14.
High Prices for Negroes. —On last Monday,
Messrs. Lee & Norton sold a lot of twenty-five ne
groes, under the hammer, at the Court House.
They brought very tine prices. The lot averaged
seven hundred and seventy-five dollars, and several
field hands brought from one thousand dollars to
one thousand nine hundred dollars. In spite of tho
tightness of the times, negroes continue to com
mand high prices, and our planters are, many of
them, increasing their force. This results from
their confidence in cotton’s going up.
Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, Jan. 6.
Negroes at a Premium in Coweta County.— On
Tuesday last, sale day in our county, a negro wo
man, aged about twenty and her two children, one
aged five years and the'other eight mouths, sold
for $1,728, on twelve months credit, if we have
not much cash, we have good credit in Coweta.
Newnan Blade, Jan. 8.
Hard Times. —As an evidence of the extreme
hardness of tho times, we may mention that ne-
Soes sold from the block in this city, on Tuesday
it, (twelve month’s credit,) at the following
figures:
One negro man for $1,512; negro boy $1,111;
old negro man $899; old do. $850; oue woman,
diseased, $750; with several other negroes rang
ing above $llOO. At McDonough, Henry county,
on the same day, we are told that upwards of
$50,000 worth of negro and otb*i proparty w«K
sold at enormously high prices.
Grijfth Union, Jan. 8.
Negroes Coming Down.— The Petersburg (Va.)
Express nays that a sale of negroes wus maae in
that city on the Ist inst., at the following reduced
prices:
William, a good factory hand, twenty years old,
$420; Sally, a cook, washer and ironer, thirty
years old, with two children of six and three years
age, $1250; James, a boy of eleven vears, S6OO
-a young girl, and two boys. $835; Anaca’
a woman of sixty, $170; Fanny, a woman of fiftv
tive, $250; Elizabeth, twenty-one vears old, and
boy of five years, $505; Kdney, a girl of ten vears,
$447 50; Robin, about forty years old, $423.* Ag
gregate, $4,480 50.
Hard Timet—Pricee of Kegroet, for Hire and
taU\ —There is a general complaint here of hard
times, and, if a scarcity of money is any criterion
the times are very hard. Hut these who hired
negroes, last week, and those who bought them on
Monday last, don’t feel the bard times, or they be
lieve “ there’s a better time a-coming boys.” Ne
gro men, without trades, hired for SIOO to S2OO
and upward. We understand women hired for
S2OO and over,—a high as $250.
On Monday, a large number of negroes chan-ed
hands at auction, and both the cash and credit
prices were as high as though the monev market
was flush to redundancy. Sixty-three negroes, be
longingto the estate of Alexander Ewing, deceased,
80 j*° r purchasers paying cash, or giving
good notes, on twelve months’ time, bearing inter
est from date. The average price was $643 74 a
pretty high average, when we consider that six or
eight of the negroes were over fifty years of age
about as many diseased, and prob'abiy one-halt of '
the whole were young children. A woman with
three children, the oldest scarcely four years old.
sold for $2,000—8 boy sixteen years old, for about
$1,350; small boys SI,OOO, and upward. Other
property seemed to sell in proportion. Mules sold
for $125 to S2OO.
HuntevilU (Ala.) Democrat, Jan. 6.
Sale of Xegroee.— The Petersburg Pxprees of
Wednesday, says: “A private sale of slaves took
place in this city on Mondav, which we venture to
s . a y is unprecedented. The> were the property of
John Tilman Foster, Esq., of Amelia county, and
numbered in all tifty-six, of both sexes, and of ev
ery shape size, and age. The purchaser was Mr.
Held, of Mississippi, and the amount agreed upon
for the entire lot was fifty-six thousand dollars, or
an average of one thousand dollars apiece. Pay
ment secured, on twelve months’ credit, by mor*
gage ontthe property, and the real estate of the
purchaser. Mr. Reid left yesterday morning: with
his swarthy throng m tow.”
Amther Sale. —A sale of servants took place a
few days ago, at Aylett’s, King William iountt,
when the following prices were obtained: Woma»
and five children, two thousand four hundred and
twenty nine dollars; woman and two children, ose
thousand three hundred and six dollars ■ girt
eighteen years old, nine hundred and one dollars •
man twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, eigkt
hundred dollars: man, fifty-five 01 sixty years old,
two hundred and eighty dollars. Average, three
hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixty-six cento.
A credit of six months was allowed.
Hickmohd Whig, 81»f ult.
Tuk Coax Crop. —A letter from Flemingsburg,
Ky-, gives the following unfavorable intelligence
in relation to the corn crop :
“ I regret to inform you that the corn in all this
part of Kentucky is utterly ruined with the s*t
weather ; not one bushel in ten will be fit for (toy
use, and the little that may be saved can only gn
awer for stock. Parties are going West to procirc
seed ; there will be none here suitable, that is c*r
toiin ; and from what we can learn, it is very litfle
better .in Ohio and Indiana. We have had inces
sant rains throughout the Ohio Valley, ever sidee
about the middle ol November; indeed the white
season since harvest has been unprecedentedly «*t,
and the corn has pretty much all rotted T v«n
ture to say that there will be less corn of solid
quality gathered by two-thirds, than last yefr
when you know we had a very light crop."
Sale of Georgia Railroad Stock.— We ard in
formed that thirty-nine shares of Georgia railgnd
stock were disposed of at administrator’ll salt in
this place on Tuesday last, at from ninety to nue‘7
dollars and a half per share.
Mtditon Vmtor, Jan. I-