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SATUKDA Y,A OG. SB.
SS-BW.O.
a the Democratic candidate for Cod
f-T'fjffln tV uiexnired term of Mr. Cm
£ reSS , seated at the recent election in North Can -
hna by an American opponent. This fact has been
Be'ixid upon by the opposition press as an indica
tion of a change inthe old North State unfavorable
to the Democratic party, and from it they have
been trying to derive some little consolation and
encouragement. The following exiraCt from the
Wilmington Journal, however, takes this crumb of
comfort from their mouths by showing that the
Democratic triumph in the elections for Governor
and members of the legislature was as decisive
and overwhelming as any which the party has ever
achieved, and that the success of the Americans
in the Congressional election in the Mountain Dis
trict was the result of causes purely local and per
sonal :
Our opponents show a commendable industry
in their endeavors to extract a crumb of comfort
out of general dsaster. In this State where Ellis
gains three thousand on Bragg’s hitherto unpre
cedented majority, they find this crumb in the
result of the Congressional election in the Moun
tain District, where Vance, opposition, beats
Avery, Democrat, for the unexpired term. M>.
Vance is elected for the three months of the
short session. Beyond doubt Ibis is a source of
mortification to Democrats, and we hardly blame
our opponents for making the most of it, for they
need all the cousolation they can geu
But it is necessary to a fair understanding of
the matter, to state that this is no party triumph.
Thai it is the result of purely local and personal
considerations—that the vote for Governor and
members of the legislature shows that the
district remains largely, nay, overwhelmingly,
Democratic.
We do not now intend to go into auy examination
of the main cause of Mr. Avery’s defeat, further
than to remark that it had its origin in certain im
pressions and reports, arising out of a personal
difficulty some years since between Mr. Avery
and a Mr. Fleming, of Yancey county, said diffi
culty resulting in the death of Fleming by the
hand of Avery. A jury duly sworn and empan
nelled, acquitted Mr. Avery, and we have there
fore nothing to say, and .6 wish to go behind the
verdict. But it is certain that hundreds, vea thou
sands, did permit their minds to go behind that
verdict, and that their impressions on this point
controlled their votes. Whether they were right
or wrong in so doing, may admit of a question,
while of the fact of their doing so there can be
none; nor that the result of the election was made
to turn upon that point.
The matter is a delicate one, not lightly to be
referred to, but it has already been brought before
the public miud, and, as a consideration essential
to a proper understanding of the whole affair
we feel warranted in refering to it now, with
no feeling of unkindness to Mr. Avery, nor with
auy desire to taunt him with a failure which is
made to reflect upon his party. A full view of
the vote shows that party had nothing to do with
it. Had party controlled it, Mr. Avery would have
been elected by a large majority.
Two years ago, by a remarkable combination of
circumstances, the Democrats carried nearly every
doubtful county. This year, owing to the want of
organization, which over confidence produces,
Democrats in some counties were divided, and
some five gains in both houses were made by the
opposition—a mere trifle, due wholly to Democratic
divisions, but leaving the majority in both houses
scarcely less overwhelming than it was two years
Ago. '
We find the following items in the Macon
Telegraph of the 24th inst:
Main Trunk Railroad. —Dr. James P. Screven,
the active and intelligent President of the Mam
Trunk: road, was at the Lanier House on Wednes
day last. We understand that a meeting of the
Board of Directors has been called to assemble at
Thomasville, on the 26th inst., to take into consid
eration the settlement of differences among the
people of southern Georgia, growing out of the lo
cation of route of the road. We have confi
dence in the patriotism, discretion and ability of
Dr. Screven, and doubt not, that under his admin
istration everything will be done judiciously, to
harmonise conflicting interests, ana, at the same
time, advance the prosperity of the people of the
section through which tfiis great and important
public work is*to passf* We bef'the people pf
Gfmrgja toVecollect that the road cannot
to hear of the uppoiotaieat this Com
pany of Geo H. Hazlehurst, Esq., as General
Superintendent, and understand he has taken
charge not only of that part of the road now finish
ed, but also of the construction of the residue.
Probably to Mr. Hazlehurst more than any per
son connected with the road, the stockholders of
the New Orleans & Jackson railroad owe the
completion of their work. If perfect acquaintance
with every department of railroad operation,
added to good judgment, indefatigable industry
and energy can insure success, our people may
sely on a prompt and efficient management of the
road uow running, and also its completion to the
Mobile and Ohio, road.
Mr. Hazlehurst has filled every position on a
road from rod man up, and has shown himself
equal to all; knowing no such word as fail, be
has accomplished his own success in his profes
sion and completed the enterprises entrusted to
his charge. To his qualities m a professional line,
he adds those of the accomplished geutlemen,
Jkind fnend and good citizen.
We copy the above from the Vicksburg Daily
The position of Chief Engineer of the Trunk
Railway, in Georgia, was offered Mr. Hazlehurst,
but, as"we regret to learn, the proposition was not
reoeived by him until after he had committed
himself to the above appointment, though he
perhaps might not have accepted in any event.
We regret on many accounts that the Main Trunk
failed to obtain the valuable services of this distin
guished engineer.
Georgia Academy for tJte Blind.— Professor W.
D. Williams, late of Emory College, has been
elected Principal of the above institution, and Las
accepted the office, vice Rev. W. N. Chaudoio, re
signed. He will assume the duties of his office
•e the Ist of September, when the next session of
Ihe Academy will commence.
The antecedents of Prof. Williams warrant the
prediction that he will pe an able and efficient
Principal of the Academy, and that the institution
will prosper under bis superintendence. He is a
■atire Georgian, and a graduate of Franklin
College. He has been for three years a Professor,
and for some time Treasurer also of Emory Col
lege, where, in filling those offices, he bore a high
character for competency, industry and fidelity.
He has the reputation of being a zealous officer, a
tuogressive scholar and a Christian gentleman.
In the honorable aud responsible position he is
soou to. assume, he will have the opportunity of
conducting the Academy for the Blina on a course
of distinguished usefulness. The work of erect
ing a new - building for this institution—as provi
dcu for by the last legislature—is rapidly progress
ing, and will be finished during the next year.
When completed, it will accommodate all the
nd children in the State capable of receiving
an education.
Important Mail FhcUUies to South- Water n Gear
gitz.—Mr. Adams, general superintendent of the
Soulh-Wcstera railroad, has shown us a letter
frern .President Cuyler, dated at Washington, the '
i7tn instant, in which it is announced that an ar
asngement has been effected with the General
Office Department, by which daily mail ser- ,
vice (Sundays excepted,) in four horse post coach
es, will hereafter be made from Dawson via Cuth
bert to Eufaula and Fort Gaines. We congratulate
the people of that section on the successful accom
*;*?»*<? a & object so intimately connected
*... j their social and business convenience and in
terests. Mr. Cuyier speaks highly of the disposi
uoii of the Department to accommodate the peo
ple. and says particularly of Mr. Dundas, the Sec
ond Assistant Post Master General, “he has evinc
r siace ™ deßlre improve the mail facilities
of the southern section generally, and to do ns
justic.”
Preaching to the Slaves.— An excellent Chris
• :an brother and minister from one of the north
ern States, now settled in the South, says in a re
cent letter to the editor:
‘‘l feel quite, happy iu my new field of labor
and hope to be useful here. I left i n con
sequence of an Abolition party, that considered
me pro-slavery. My removal affords me the op
portunity of doing more for the real benefit of
the colored race than the Aboliionists have ever
done. I preached Sabbath before last to a
audience of slaves in the church. The white peo
ple present took the seats in the gallery, usually
occupied by the servants, so as to leave the bodv
of the church for the latter. I expect to preach
to them perhaps regularly, aud in my Opinion it
IS the true way of blessing them.”
Philadelphia Christian Observer. I
I he Yellow Fever JEpiileauc m Charles
ton.
&n Tuesday morning last, we published the fo!-
iowing telegraphic dispatch from a reliable corres
pondent in that city:
CnAiiLESTox, August '23.— The yellow fever is
declared to be epidemic. The health officer reports
twenty-eight deaths by fever in this city during
the week ending on Saturday last.
The Charleston Mercury copied the above dis
patch, in its issue of Wednesday morning, 25th
mst., and appended to it the following comments:
W r u find the above telegraphic item in the daily
papers of the neighboring cities, and it is probably
by this time in the columns of every member of
the Associated Press of the United States, out of
Charleston. W r e beg of our to re
gard the first sentence as the declaration of the
telegraph, and without authority. Tne Board of
Health have not themselves made any such decla
ration, or authorised any one to do so for them.
The expression is singularly unfortunate, to say
the least, for one effect will be to quarantine
Charleston vessels in every port. The character
of the present fever in Charleston may be learned
from the official report of Monday last, and pub
lished in our paper of that date, wherein out of
twenty-eight deaths during the previous week, only
four Were natives of the United States, and two
of those of foreign parentage. The only reliable
reports are those of the City Register.
“ We beg of our coteinporaries,” says the Mer
cury, “to regard the first sentence as the declara
tion of the telegraph, and without authority.”
Let us test this sentence by a fair statement of
facts, and see if there is not more reason in the
belief of the announcement that “the yellow fever is
declared to be epidemic in Charleston” than in the
denial of it in the Mercury. Facts are regarded as
stubborn things.
The City Register jof Charleston, f< r the week
ending August Bth., reported one death, caused by
yellow fever; for the week ending the 15th he re
ported six deaths; and for the week ending the 22d
iust., twenty-eight deaths caused by it. It cer
tainly did not require the formal announcement
by the City Register, in precise words, that the yel
low fever is epidemic, when his report was more
emphatic in its expression than any language he
could employ, unless he reported the number of
cases which occurred in that city. Did the editor
of the Mercury desire the Register to paint the
form, color and dimensions of a horse, and then
place under it the words, “This is a horse ?” Arc
the public to understand that no epidemic exists
until it is formally and authoritatively declared to
be such, by a Board of Health ?
The fact of an increase in the weekly number of
deaths in any city, caused by any particular dis
ease, shows that the disease is assuming an epi
demic form. It makes no difference whether the
disease be yellow, scarlet or other kind of fever,
cholera, plague, small pox, or other fatul disorder.
When that increase of mortality is at the rate of
five hundred per cent per week, there can be no
longer a doubt about its epidemic character, if any
doubt previously existed. During the past two
weeks the mortality in Charleston by yellow fever
has increased at the rate of about five hundred per
cent, upon each previous week. And we have
only the reports of the mortality.
The deaths caused by any disease arc not, per
haps, strictly, the best way to test the existence of
an epidemic. Some epidemics exist without fatal
results. But, in the absence of any report of the
number and location of cases of disease, the sta
tistics of mortality can very readily be depended
on. “Epidemic diseases,” according to Dr. Han
cock, in his valuable article iu the Cyclopedia, of
Practical Medicine , “are those which attack a
number of persons, in any city, district or county,
about the same time or season. They are generally
uncertain in their recurrence. When they pro
duce great mortality, they are called pestilential.”
It is painfully true that w a number of persons” in
Charleston have been attacked by yellow fever
“about the same time this seaflfci and it
equallygrue that the.morfality by tlmt
bee* rapidly increasing.Jiipce the occurrence of
re-
The J/erdiv'y says that the statement that the
yellow fever is declared an epidemic in that city,
“ is singularly unfortunate, to say the leas*t, for
one* effect wtll be to quarantine Charleston vessels
in every port.” Does not the editor of the Mercury
know that vessels from Charleston were virtually
quarantined at New York a week before the dis
patch he objects to was published ? If he does not
know it, then he is “singularly unfortunate”
himself.
He says: “ The character of the present fever
in Charleston may be learned from the official re
port of Monday last.” Well, when we look to
that official report, it states that there were twenty
, eight deaths from yellow fever during the week end
ing August 22d, which is an inrrearc on the mortal
ity of the previous week, by tfiu same disease, of
twenty-two. This appears to us to be a bad “charac
ter of the present fever in Charketon,” and is, very
, evidently, the “ character” which the City Regis
ter knew would be the result of the publication
| announcing twenty-eight deaths by yellow fever
for the previous week.
“ Only four were natives of the United States,”
says the Mercury. Does that make the disease
less an epidemic ? Cannot an epidemic exist in
Charleston and yet no uative born have it? But,
why is the naked statement about nativity intro
duced ? Cannot a man be acclimated by a resi
dence in Charleston ? Would it be fair to state
that a man who died by yellow fever, and who bad
resided in Charleston five, ten, twenty, or more
years, was from Ireland, or Holland, and thus
leave the impression that he had just reached that
city ? We are well satisfied that a majority of the
deaths by the fever, in Charleston, are among the
German and Irish population, who have not resi
ded there long enough to be acclimated, and whose
mode of living and habits were uusuited to a scar
son of epidemic fever. In all regions of the earth,
where epidemics have prevailed, the declaration
has been invariubly made, we believe, that the
disease preyails mostly among foreigners; those
w’lio lead a dissolute life, and among those who
arc meagerly supplied with the necessaries of life.
This kind of expression, or apology, for an epi
demic, should be discarded, and the unvarnished
truth proclaimed, that “all should take due notice
thereof, and govern themselves accordingly.”
Augusta miDgles her regrets, with her sister
city of Charleston, at the existence of yellow fever
there. The commercial prosperity and social rela
tions of both cities are intimately interwoven with
each other, and we keenly feel the infliction of any
injury to the business interests of Charleston, tlie
health of its citizens, or anything calculated to re
tard its prosperity. But we believe, from the re
ports of tbe City Register alone, that the yellow'
fever is prevailing there as an epidemic, and we
would be UDjust if we hesitated to proclaim it in
our columns. We will not be deterred from mak
ing the same announcement about Augusta, if any
ease of yellow fever should occur here, no matter
how “ singularly unfortunate” it might be to the
temporary commercial interests of this city.
A. correspondent of tbe Atlanta National
.unencan says that deer never shed tlie ; r horns.
Mr. Abkam Woolf and Mr. Samuel Penny,
worthy citizens of Mobile, Ala., died recently at
the Sulphur Springs in Virginia.
n Washington correspondent of the
baltimore Sun, in his letter of the 23d inst., says:
residents of Illinois have
vr,. L "T» i n , e » w bo express the opinion that
. filuS Wl , l succee( f by a heavy majority. He
akca twp or three speeches q day, aud by reason
firn ° a l ? obliged to change his clothes \faree
rLfr 1 ? Itiß also Btat€d asiu-
I e ccaia.l efforts, his speeches surpass any ever be
-1 fore made by him before the people.” J
J»r. Stepbeus aud In* V.«U lo (he West.
The following paragraph, m -reference to Mr.
and the object of his recent visit to the
North-west, appeared in a recent issue of the Sa
vannah EepubHoqn:
The following notice, from the Cincinnati Daily
Commercial, unravels the mystery connected with
Mr. Stephens’ journey to the North-west. When
bis intended visit was first announced, and his
friendly interview with the editor of the Cincin
nati Enquirer was blazoned to the world, we sus
pected some political management and trickery.
Baltimore Patriot.'
“The Hoa. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, is la
boring in Chicago to paeiticate the distracted
Democracy.” j
Don’t the faith of our Democratic friends In*
their recent bold contradiction, begin to shake a
little under this statement ? Or is this like the
other extract from the Commercial— a mere “roor
back*”
And the Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury, in his letter of the 13th inst.,
has a reference to the same subject in some specu
lations in which he indulges, concerning the next
Democratic nomination for the Presidency, and
the combinations which may be made to secure it.
He says:
It is understood that the next candidate for the
Presidency of the Democratic party is to be from
the South. The aspirants, secret or open, are num
bered by dozens; and then those who have hopes
of preferment ibrough the various aspirants, are
innumerable throughout the South. The chief as
pirants, however, are as follows: Hunter and Wise,
from Virginia, Stephens from Georgia, Davis from
Mississippi, Slidell from Louisiana, Breckinridge
from Kentucky.
Now, all of these aspirants must, in the first
place, r ake themselves acceptable, not only to. the
South but all over the Union. Os course, they
must be true southern men, intense Democrats
and still more intense Union men—equally true
to the South, the party and the Union. Hence
you have seen the targe professions of Unionism
with which thev cover themselves as with a man
tle.
In the second place, they must deal largely in
combinations. The chief' combination is with
some one at the North lor Vice President.
Douglas was the most powerful man in the North
west before he bolted on the Lecompton matter.
As soon as he bolted all chance for the Presidency
was lost; but not so for the Vice Presidency.
Forthwith he became a favorite object for com
bination with several of the southern aspirants for
the Vice Presidency—Stephens, Wise, Hunter—
all began personally or through their friends, to
put him on the book and become his bottle
holders at the South. Os course he was to
be brought into the fold of the party.
Hence the great forbearance towards him in the
debate in the Senate. Hence, too, the Kansas Com
promise, conceding his requirements, to put aside
this barrier between them—whilst, with great zeal
and energy for the South, both Hunter and Ste
phens proved conclusively in Congress that the
Lecompton Constitution was not submitted to the
vote of the people of Kansas. Its rejection, how
ever, the other day, by the vote of the people of
Kansas, shows better to those who wish to see what
their logic meant. Hence, too, it may.be conjec
tured, the strong impeachment of the Administra
tion by the Richmond South and Richmond En
quirer, for not knuckling to Douglas in Illinois,
and aiding him in his re-clection to the Senate
Mr. Stephens , we sec, not to be behind with his other
competitors for a co-partnership with Douglas, ijoes
himself to the Earth-west, and at Cincinnati de
nounces the Administration for wickedness and fol
ly for not helping Douglas.
These extracts, we observe, have been exten
sively copied and commented upon by the opposi
tion press in this State, which gives currency to
the unfounded statements and unworthy suspicious
which they contain, m order to place Mr. Stephens
before the people of Georgia in a position disre
putable iti itself and disagreeable to him. They
give two different explanations of the object of
Mr. Stepexs’ late visit to the West—one, that it
was to “ pacifieate the distracted Democracy” of
Illinois, and the other that it . was “ not to be be
hind with his other competitors for a co-partner
ship with Douglas,” in view of the next*noutina
tion of the Democratic party for the Presidency.
equally unjfrihorised unfounded, and un
just-so. our distinguished representative. -
We have not thought it necessary tojefer to
the matter before, but as we find these and 1 many
our exchanges, we may
that his touV to the West was projected simply
a view to recreate himself, after the excite
ment, the confinement and the labo^>/a long ses
sion of Congress, by visiting, in company-with
his brother, an interesting and important portion
of the Union, which neither of them* had ever
visited before. It was purely a visit of pleasure,
having no connection with, or reference to, the
divisions ofcthe Democracy inr Illinois, or any
combination for the next Presidency. An inci
dental object which he had in view, was to se
cure the services of the artist Healy, in the
execution of some painting which was an ob
ject of interest to him and his brother, and
to accomplish this he was compelled to visit
Chicago,and to remain in that city for several days.
But neither during his stay there or whilst in any
other portion of Illinois, did Mr. Stephens have
any communication, directly or ind.rectly, with
Mr. Dovolas— nor did he make a single political
speech, although upon the great political battle
ground of the even hold conversation
upon political subjects with any one, except when
dragged into it by political friends who sought
him out, or met him casually in his joinaieyings.
He had no mission from the Administration to ac
complish—no political views of his own to Advance
—and no political combination to make with Doug
las or anybody else. This is true, strange as it
may sound; for stranger still, Mr. Stephens is not
an aspirant for the Presidency, and we honestly
believe, would not feel much more annoyance or
mortification in finding his name paraded in a
list of suspected horse-thieves, than to find it
paraded as it has been by the Washington corres
pondent of the Charleston Mercury as tha* of a
cringing, crawling, managing, intriguing and
itinerant aspirant for that office.
tST' It is very common to bear the remark,
“mind your p's and q's, but now it is discovered
that another letter of the alphabet requires very
close watching. An instuuce of the importance
of minding your 'Vs” has lately occurred. An
exchange says at Point Clear, theformersummerre
sort on Mobile Bay, “the hotels are doing a smash,
ing business this season. On the Sth iust. seven
hundred persons died thero.” An etTutfa in a sub
sequent paper says for "tiled there" read dined
there.” A cotemporary remarks that the omis
sion of the letter “n" reported seven hundred
deaths, while its substitution would have reported
seven hundred dinners! Look out for the “n’.s"
The United States frigate Sabine, the flag
ship of the Brazil squadron, was announced to
leave New \ork for Rio Janeiro on the 23rd or
24th iust.
A Feature.—The Syracuse Journal , in
describing Tuesday’s cable jolification, says: 41 A
new feature was introduced—and such a feature !
All of a sudden, and all at once, fourteen locorno
tives sent up a shriek from their steam whistles
which shook the firmest buildings to the centre,
deafened every ear, and penetrated, as wo verily
believe, West to Lake Erie and- East to the tide
water. There is no description, in poetry or prose,
which can convey any just idea of the noise.
CtiEE for Bronchitis. —One of our cleverest and
most reliable friends, says the Holly Springs Her
ald, informs us that common rnullen leaves, smok
ed in a new pipe—one in which tobacco bus never
been used—is a sure and certain cure for bronchi
tis. The remedy is simple and innocent, aud with
in the retch of all. Recollect that this is no re
tired physician’s remedy, but is given to us bv a
citizen of our city, who has triecF it himself, and
I seen it tried on others, and has never known it to
fail in effecting a permanent cure.
'
Hater Works.
We would call the attention of our city readers
to the subjoined communication, giving some of
the results of surveys which have been mad<i under
the authority of the (jity Council, with the view
to ascertain the practicability of constructing
works which would furnish the city with a supply
of water for all purposes. The information it fur
nishes is interesting, and particularly opportune at
this time, when so many complaints are made of
the quality and quantity of the water in our hy
drants and cisterns. The result of tile investiga
tions which have beem made, thus fur, is cncour
aging, as it shows that a supply of good w.»u r
may be obtained from many studies near the city,
and at less than the generally estimated cost.
We may state, in addition to what is slated m
this communication, that every source from which
the necessary amount of water could be obtaiued
within a practicable distaoce of the city, has been
carefully examined. The engineer in charge of
the surveys, is now engaged in guageing one or
two of these sources, and as soon as that work is
finished, all the results, with all other necessary
facts to govern its action, will be laid before the
City Council.
In this connection, we may state that Mr. Wm.
Phillips, the engineer of the Augusta canal com
pany, has taken water from the canal, at all stages
of water m the river. These specimens he has
carefully preserved, and they exhibit the singular
fact, as we are creditably informed, that water
taken from the canal, at certain stages of high
water in the river, will not become clear even after
standing in glass uudisturbed for months. Those
who have been looking to the canal for a supply of
water, and desire to satisfy themselves of the cor
rectness of this statement, may do so by calling at
Mr. Phillips’ office and examining the specimens
of canal water, which he has preserved :
Mr. Editor: The proceedings of the City Coun
ci Vof the 6th, ana an article in the Evening
Dispatch , ot the 19th iustant, in reference to an
increased supply of w'ater to the city, indicates
the propriety of laying before the public, at this
time, some of the results of the investigation in
progress, under authority of the City Council,
which I trust will be considered of sufficient im
portance to occupy a place in your paper.
Last year a special committee was appointed,
by the City Council, for the purpose of ascertain
ing what addition could be made to the present
supply of water, and the best plan, and cost of
adequate water works. Undvr the direction of
tnis committee, ifcho appear to have been under
the impression that a large supply could easily be
obtained from Butler’s creek, at its intersection
with the Georgia railroad, an examination of the
locality was commenced last September, and since
that date vurious other examinations have been
made for the same purpose.
It was ascertained that Butler’s creek, at its in
tersection with the railroad was 209:38 feet above
the bottom of the third level of the Augusta canal
at Marbury street. This last mentioned point
having been selected for certain reasons as the
datum of all the levels. The surface of the water
of Wynnes’ mill pond, which is the first pond on
the creek below the railroad, was found to be
162:36 feet above the same point. But at the same
time, it was ascertained that the "'hillock” sum
mit of the railroad was 226:75 feet above datum.
The quantity of water furnished by the creek was
ascertained* at Wynnes’, and was found to be
small, compared with the quantity it was deemed
desirable to obtain. Thus it was made apparent
that it would be impracticable to use the water of
Butlers’ creek at the places mentioned, as the
quantity of wafer obtainable would not justify the
expense of the works required to convey it over
or through, or around the hillock to the city. The
distance fr >m Wynnes’ to Augusta by the railroad
is nearly eleven miles. The “hillock” just men
tioned is a ridge of high land separating the val
ley of Butlers p creek from the valley of Rocky
creek, and the summit alluded to is on the Geor
gia railroad, near Mrs. Camplield’s. This project
being considered practically a failure, attention
was then given to other points which it was sup
posed would present less difficulty.
Rowley’s spring, at the head of the branch sup
plying his mill pond, was found to be 220:57 feet
above th & datum, and only 6:18 feet below the hil
lock summit. This was found to be a bold spring,
but the branch made by it is a tributary to Butler’s
creek, and forms part of the supply to seven
ponds below it; and, although its elevation is fa
vorable to its use as & source of supply to the city,
. itjttiaconside-ed that the difficulty of negotiating
works reqSredTfor it, wJffec
reach of the City Council.
Attention was* then tamed to the creek at Belli*
ville Factory, Spring Hill works, and Hall’s mill,
with a view of ascertaining if there was any other
place on the creek which would furnish an ade
quate supply, aud which was of such elevation as
to pass over the ridge without the use of machine
ry. The pond at Belleville Factory was found to
be 90:79 feet above datum, andtheridge between it
and Augusta 295:01 feet. The pond at the Spring
Hill works was 53:38 feet above datum , and the
ridge 113:47 feet. The pond at Hall’s mill, near
the Savannah road, was 37:45 feet above datum
and the ridge 55:40 feet. Thus, it was found that
the water of the creek from the places mentioned,
could not be carried to Augusta in a direct line by
its own pressure, and would have to be forced to a
considerable elevation by machinery; Or, that it
could be conveyed dowo the valley of Butler’s
creek to some passable depression in the ridge,
whence it could be earned in a direct line to the
city. The small quantity of water lurnisbed by
the creek, the anticipated’difficulty of negotiating
for the use of it, and the great distance the water
would have to be carried, and the consequent
heavy expense of the works required, ta£eo to
gether, presentedsuck great obstacles as t» render
tne project of using the water of Butler’s creek
from any point quite uncertain.
Under these circumstances, it was deemed ex
pedient to include several other sources fr*m which,
it was thought by some persons, a considerable
supply could be obtained. Levels were accord in i,-
ly taken to the B»rmg mill pond, by which it was
found that the surface of the water there was only
33:24 feet above datum, and therefore, onlv 0:24
feet above the water in the first level of the’ canal
at McKinnie street. Turpin’s mill pond, on the
same creek, when full, is only 10:38 feet above
<iatum. Levels were also taken across the river to
some of the sources of supply above Hamburg,
and as one point determined will give a general
idea of the elevation, it may be mentioned that
Hammond’s, formerly Harper’s, mill pond surface
is 1:65 feet below the surface of the water in the
first level of the canal, and only 10:30 fee* above
Broad street at its intersection with McKinnie
street. ' In seeking to increase the present supply
from sources whicn coold be easily connected with
the present works at Turknett spring, it was found
that some of the head waters of Rocky creek
crossing the Millcdgeville road, could be made
available, but the quantity would be very small,
compared wilh that which it was deemed* desira
ble to obtain at the commencement of the surveys.
All the examinations, which include several
points not mentioned, as far as completed, have
been carefully made, and have necesArily occu
pied much time, it was considered best to pursue
this course, and as far as practicable, to leave
nothing for guess-work in the final determination
ot a matter which is iutended to promote the
health, comfort, convenience and security of the
citizens of Augusta and their property, and for
the accomplishment of which, it is expected a
heavy expenditure of money will be required.
To complete the necessary investigation there
is still some work to be done, which the present
dry season will favor, and it is expedient that
early in October all the information required to
determine the merits of the various -projects un
der consideration will be obtained ana acted upon
by the committee and their eDgineeis.
Among the projects entertained bv the commit
tee, that of a supply from the Augusta Canal will
no doubt meet with proper attention. That a
permanent and sufficient supply can be had from
this source, seems to be certain; but there ap
pears to be an almost insurmountable repugnance
to the useof this water for dnnking and for culi
nary purposes. It tk to be hoped that the com
mittee will authorise some extensive experiments
to be made, with the view of ascertaining how far
it will be practicable to use settling and filtering
reservoirs for it on a large scale.
Respectfully, your ob’t. serv’t,
_ Hydraulics.
Tub First Balk. —The tirsi bale of new cotton
sent to this market was received yesterday by
Messrs. Fisber, Whe less & Co., from the planta
tion of Col. A. H. Ralston, of Rutherford county.
This is perhaps earlier than the new crop has
been received since 1544.
NathcVle {Tcnn.) A r ew *, Aug. 23.
Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 28.—James E. Eddv,
General Superintendent of the American Tele
graph Company, died to-day.
Health of Savannah.
The chairman of the Board of Health reports
fifteen deaths for the week ending 24th ins*t. -ten
whites and five colored. The deaths were classed
as follows : consumption, one; infantine, onej
tetanus, one : fever, one; one taken to the hbspi
talin a dying condition, but his disease not re
ported; intermittent fever, two; congestive fever,
one ; ulcerated sore throat, one ; remittent fever!
one. The colored deaths were, dropsy, one ; bil
lions fever, one; spasms, one; brain fever, one,
and lockjaw, one—total fifteen.
£3?“The Washington Union, of the 24th intrt.,
sivs: “Hon. «Jexit's Hilltsr, Solicitor of the
Treasury Department, left the city a few days
smre/fo spend a short time at his residence in
Georgia. During his absence, Col. B. P. Plea
sa.nts, for many years the very faithful and effi
cient chief clerk of that bureau, will discharge the
duties as acting Solicitor.
!-fif"One of the editors of the New Orleans
Picayune who has beeu on a business excursion
to the North this summer, on his return home,
states that comparatively few Southerners had
visited northern watering places up to the time
of bis visit.
lie thus refers to the routes to the North :
The railroad route by which we returned, is
well worth a note, and ought to be seen at least
once, by every traveller, for it is really a very beau
tiful one. It was the Memphis and Charleston
railroad, with the continnous connections through
East Tennessee and Virginia, and the scenery, as
it wound among the mountains, or through a well
cultivated country, was charming. Cornfields,
grazing farms, tobacco or cotton plantations, lay
spread around the whole route from Richmond to
Memphis, and all were full of promise. The con
nections on the line are punctually made, and the
three days and three nights travel over it, from
Baltimore to Memphis, wus made without acci
dent. t
The hotel and other accommodations on this
route are not, and cannot be expected ta be, as well
arrauged and as comfortable as they are and have
long been on the old southern route. The proper
experience is lacking, and only time and practice
can give that.
The old mail route, via Montgomery, Augusta,
Ac., is a favorite one with southern travellers, and
will always remain so. A principal reason for this
is, that two trains of cars are run on it daily, thus
affording to passengers an opportunity of lying by
every night and starting again in the morning, re
freshed by a good night’s steep and rest, and this
for families is a very important consideration.
Hon. W. A. Richardson, Governor of Nebraska,
returned to Quincy, 111., on a visit to his family,
on tlie Isth iust.
The city wharves at New Orleans hare been sold
for four years and nine months, at one million
fifty-two thousand dollars.
Col. Asa L. How ard, one of the most promi
nent citizens in Floyd county, Va., died on the
18th inst., of typhus fever.
Miss Annie M. Andrews, the “ Heroine of the
Pestilence,” was married in Baltimore recently, to
John D. Upshur, a merchant of Norfolk, Va. The
couple are now in New York on a visit.
Sale of a Watkrino Place.— The Blue Sulphur
Springs, Va., have been sold to a company of gen
tlemen for twenty-four thousaud dollars dollars—
G. W. Buster, the present manager, retaining an
interest in them.
Poisoned bi Friction Matches. —A daughter
of Prescott and Helen M. Colbt, of Bradford,
New Hampshire, two years old, died on Sunday,
22d inst., after an illness of three or fonr days,
occasioned by swallowing phosphorous from
matches.
Which Car is the Safest?— At the late rail
road accident at the Sanquoit bridge, the forward
car went down ; in the Erie railroad accident the
rear car went off the embankment ; and at the ac
cident on the Uousatonic railroad, the middle car
was entirely destroyed.
Rifciow* Work. —The large duck factory be
Village, Palmer, A!™., which stopped'*
last October, was partially put in operation
on the Ist of June, and now runs forty looms out
of two hundred. . "
Tuk Apple Chop. —While the apple in (his part
of the county is generally considered a failure, it
will be good news to learn, as we do from the
Boston Trunea ipt of the &th instaut, “that the
apple trees in that part of New England give
promises of a great crop of excellent fruit. The
early kinds will soon be in the market, and the
best winter apples will be of large size and
superior quality.”
A Good Shot. —C&pt. Travis, of Ixjnisviik-, has
acquired great reputation as a good shot, but bis
feat performed only a few days ago, is perhaps the
best shot on record. It is related that he put a
cork on top of a bottle, and on the cork a ballet,
and then putting the target thirty-four feet from
him, welded together the bullet be shot aud the
one he shot at.
—The Newborn Era, In giving the
returns for Governor, contends that Craven is the
banner county in North Carolina, and gives the
following cogent reasons for the distinction :
“Judge Ellis has done remarkably well through
out the State, but Craven is the banner counlr.
She gives him two hundred majority and a wife?’
Judge Ellis and his bride are now sojourning at
the White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia.
The election in Mississippi for a Congressman
in place of Gen. Quitman, deceased, takes place
on October sth.
Ex-Pit esiDEXT Comon roar.—One of the editors
of the Abiugdon (Va.) Democrat , who was present,
gives the following account of the way Col. Boyd
(of the Board of Public Works) gave a lesson iu
good behavior to Ex-President Comonfort, of
Mexico, a few days ago, iu Wvtheville:
*' Ex-President Comonfort, of Mexico, pa>sed
along the road the other dav., Being hAngry, per
haps, or, what is more likefy, deficient in polite
ness, his ex-Excellency made a rusk before aiiiner
was announced, and took a seat at that t*art of
the table reserved for the ladies. Boyd’s quick eye
detected the movement at once, and he walked up
to His Highness, explained the matter to him, and
very politely requested him to vacate. To this he
received a sort of half-defiant, muttering answer,
coupled with a refusal.
The Colonel repeated the request with the same
effect. Losing his patience, and beiDg u great
stickler for the observance of tlie rules of liis
house, Boyd took the old fellow by the arm, led
him away from the table, and showed him the
door—greatly to the delight of a number of Mis
sissippians, who remarked that he had been con
ducting himself in that sort of a style ever since
they had beeu in company with him. They usked
i°* v ? u he knew *'h°m he had led out? He re
plied that he neither knew nor cared; he was
determined to make him conduct himself like a
gentleman or leave. They then told him who he
was, and said, moreover, that if he had resisted
they would have readily assisted to put him out.
The ex-President’s suite conducted themselves with
propriety at the table, but he got into a huff and
would eat no dinner.
A Goi.dk>' Thought Set i.v Pearls.— ln speak
ing, of marriages for money, Miss Mci.ocii,.the
eminent writer, observes, and we think very
justly:
“ Marriage ought always to be a quesiion not of
necessity, but choice. "Every girl ought to be
taught that a hasty, loveless union stamps upon
her as foul dishonor as one of those connections
which omit the legal ceremony altogether, and
lhat, however pale, dreary and toilsome a single
life may be, unhappy life must be tenfold worse,
an ever-baumiug temptation, an incurable regret,
a torment from which there is no escape but
death.”
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BY TELEGRAPH-.
ARKIVAI.
W THK STEAMSHIP
OAK AD A.
three; iiAV.s later from Europe.
COTTON UVCHANGED.
Halifax, Aug. 25,—The British and North Amer
ican Royal mail 3leamaliip Canada, Capt, W. J. C.
L\nu, armed last night, -Irum Liverpool, with
dates to Saturday afternoon, August Hth.
Commercial Ne«us.
Liverpool Cotton Market.— The 'brokers’ circular
reports the sales of Cotton, for the week, to bo
15,000 bales. Speculators took 1,200- bales, an*
exporters 5,500 bales, leaving do the trade BS,3C*
bales. There had been no disposition on the pars
of holders to press sales, but quotations were
nominal.
The sales on Friday were T.OOO bales, of which
speculators and exporters took 2,000 bales, and the
market closed dull.
The authorised quotations were :
Fair Orleans 7%d. | Mid. 0r1ean5......74
“ Mobile 7 7-ttid. j “ Mobile.. 6 15-184
" Uplands -7j£d. I “ Uplands..,.
The stock of Cotton on hand was 031,000 bale*,
of which 555,000 were American..
' State of Trade.— Manchester advices were fa
vorable. Prices were firm, aud the demand for
manufactured goods was encouraging.
Harvest Prospects: —The weather had been very
favorable for crops, and the haivest being well
advanced, shows the yield of wheat to be good.
Liverpool Bread-tvffs Market. —The circulars re
port the Flour trade very dull, at rattier easier
prices, but quotations are unchanged. Wheat
was very dull, at from" Id. to 2d. decline. Cor*
was buoyant, and all qualities had slightly ad
vanced. The quotations were 58s. a 00s., but
holders asked 625. per quarter.
Liverpool Provision Market, —Beef was dull,
but prices steady. Pork was quiet, but the market
was bare of American. Bacon was steady, with
an improved demand.
Liverpool Produce Market,— Sugar was bnoyant,
at an advance of 6d. a Is. Coffee was firm. Rio*
was quiet, and Carolina quoted at 17s. a IBs. Sd.
Liverpool Naval /Stores. —Rosin was stoady at
from 4s. 2d. to is. sd. Spirits of Turpentine was
steady at 40s.
London Money Market.— Money was unchanged.
Consols quoted at a 26&£. The bullion in
the Bank of Englaud had decreased £102,000.
Havre Orton Market.— Orleans Tret Ordinaire
was quoted at 107 francs.
General News.
The steamship North Star reached Liverpool ca
the 13th inst.
The political news is generally uninteresting.
Queen Victoria was “visiting her daughter at
Pottsdam.
Louis Natolkos was continuing his tour through
Brittany.
The rumors of an early resumption of the diplo
matic intercourse between the Western Power*
and Nuples was doubted.
Austria has determined to concentrate troops at
the Dalmatian frontier.
There had been several riots at Kilkenny, in Ire
land, caused by the introduction of agricultural
machines. The military were called out and order
restored.
Latest — noon , Aug. 14.—Alt
the.markets urc reported quiet and unchanged.
The sales of Cotton to-day were 8,000 bales.
Consul-General of Cuba.
Washington-, Aug. 25. —Major Hzi.m, of Ken
tucky, has been appointed Consul-General at
Havana.
** ' Cable Intelligence. . *r.
Valencia, August 25 Tho^LoadpA
Ifeftrs announce that a, treaty„of ptac^^*^-"*"'
recem-d. The mutiny 'tfiTnhj; the'SqPW&£lJHfc|
ing rapidly quelled. 7*
The London papers of Tuesday 'contained a long*
and interesting report, made by Mr. Baimrr o*
the Atlantic Telegraph Company enterprise. *
The steamship Asia leaves on Saturday.
Combat Between a Tkaobdiax and an Eagle.—
A Cincinnati paper gives an amusing account of a
combat between Muiidoch, the tragedian, now
living on his farm near Loveland, and a mon
strous eagle, in which the "heavy tragedy mbit"
had to beat a rapid aud inglorious retreat.
It appears that on Suuday morning last Mur
doch, hearing a terrific noise in his barnyard,
sallied out and found an enormous eagle bad
fastened its talons on a very young calf, bad
plucked out its eyes, and was endeavoring t»
raise with its struggling aud bleeding victim.
Murdoch made a charge on the imperial bird,
bat was finally comjiefled to beat a hasty retreat
to secure his gun. The eagle’s triumph was of
short duration, for Master James Murdoch, the
tragedian’s son, an intrepid little boy, only nine
ana a half years old, appeared upon the scene
with a double barrelled gun, and at the first dis
charge brought his imperial majesty to the
ground. He measured six feet two inches froia
tip to tip of his wings, and will be preserved as a
memento of Master James’ prowess.
From Old Rivbr Lake, Ark.—The following
extracts are taken from a letter dated “Old River
Lake, Aug. 15,” written by a planter to his corres
pondent in this city :
“It is very hot here, and unusually sickly. As
the flood draws ofi* its waters, and bares the ex
posed surface to the action of the hot suu, the at
mosphere is filled with nialariu, and fever is every
where prevalent.”
“ I have to-day, for the first time since that heavy
min, the 12th or loth July, rode over my fields to
look ut the crop, and am satisfied it will turn out
a fair average where the cotton has not been in
jured by the water, and a good one, if we havedrr
weather from this to the middle of September. I
planted about five hundred acres, and have, I sup
pose, four hundred acres of good cotton left, be
sides more that is iujtfred, and think I can pretty
safely anticipate four hundred average bales.” :
There is scarcely any place that is not injured
either by the flood or the rains.”
“ The plantation that is notinjuredlmore or less,
river bottoms this year, is a rarw one, and
they are few and far between, I assure you.”
“ What is known in the upper country as the
hog cholera isspicadiug through the,country here,
with terrible fatality. Our hogs are dying ofi’ by
hundreds. It has already amounted to a total sweep
in place*, and bids fair to annihilate the stock en
tirely.”— Picayune, Aug. 22.
New York, August 23.—A despatch, received
yesterday, announced the death of James Eddv,
Esq., a gentleman who has been the general su- j
per mtendent of the Amcricau Telegraph Company 3
since it* formation—some three years ago. He j
died of the heart disease yesterday morning at the 1
American House, in Burlington, Vermont. He *
lett this city less than a week ago, on a journey to
that State, tor the benefit of his health, which had
become greatly impaired by his incessant atten
tion to the laborious duties of his office, but with
out any suspicion on the part of himself or his
friends that his condition was so critical. His
death, therefore, was quite unexpected, and its
abrupt announcement by telegraph gave a shock
to his many friends throughout the country. Mr
today was a gentleman of much energy of charac
ter, and as a telegraph manager had no superior.
In private life he wus amiable and unassuming, a
gentleman in his boartgig, and a Christian in his
daily walks. He was about forty years of age, and
a native of Ithica, in this State. lie was one of.
the pioneers in the introduction of the magnetic r
telegraph at the East, and built the first line Las*
«t Boston, and between that city and Calais, Maine,
and at the time of his death wusibe general manu
get of between three and four thousand miles of
wire, extending throughout., the New England
States, and as far South as PhiJadeltihia. We art
derstand that all the •offices connected with tfcc
American Telegraph Company will 6e draped ia*
mourning, as a mark of rcspe<;| to his memory.