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Weekly constitutionalist.
BY JAMES GARDNER.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 26.
53*" Chancellor Dahgax, of South Carolina, at
last accounts, was laboring under a severe and
dangerous attack of apoplexy.
Ev" Among the list of patents recently granted
we f.nd that Mr. W u. F.caney, of Bet zelia, in this
State, has obtained one for an improvement in
ploughs.
The United States sloop of war, Lancaster,
costing seven hundred thousand dollars, was
launched at Philadelphia on the 20th inst. Miss
Harriet Lasts, the niece of President Buchanan,
christened the sloop.
Etf* It is stated, in the news t uns of the Frets
that ibelloa. Taos. Corwin, of Ohio, will soon take
the stump in Illinois against Judge Douglas. The
anti-DocGLAS papers of the South will “please make
a note of this.”
J3f The City Council of Columbia, S. C., have
recently determined to have an iron pipe twelve
inches in diameter laid in the principal street to
conduct the water through the city from the basin
on Taylor’s hill.
The New York .Journal of Commerce state*
that the Hon. Ww. Nielack, Democrat, is re-elect
ed to Congress, from Indiana, by a majority of one
thousand one hundred and fifty-eight, against his
cot.-Lecomptou competitor, Mr. Hovr.Y.
Toe Hon. W«. 11. Cn'glish's majority, in Indiana,
is . ne thousand three hundred.
p 5“ There will be a meeting of the Democracy
of Richmond county, at the City Hall, on Satur
day, the 23rd instant, a* 71; o’clock P. XL, for the
purpose of selecting delegates to a convention to
nominate a candidate for ihe office of Attorney
Pec--:.! cf the Middle Circuit. Cone or.e, come
all.
shir* The schooner E. 51. Miller, which recently
it: red at Providence, It. 1., from the coast of Af
!:ca, brings the following intelligence. Dr. Liv.
avr-STONB had gone up the Nile. The disturbances
among the native tribes continued, and the new
Gcwe: nor bad started with a force against them.
Sews had been received of a victory over the na
tives at Champanr.ee, on the Zambezi.
JS3T Another Jenny Lind f urore is raging in
New York. At the Academy of Music on the 20th
inst., all the seats for Picoolomini’s second con
cert were sold in hail an hour. In some instances
twenty dollars were paid for a single seat. It the
same enthusiasm could be excited in New
York in favor of the destitute poor of that
city, immense suflering would be prevented and
great and substantial good be effected.
y3Bf* The Black Republicans and Know Noth
ings in New York city have succeeded in effecting
a fusion in the nominations for all their county
officers. The Jribttne of the 20th instant says :
. ,-s" Wehare now only our Congressional troubles
jrf compose. Courage, friends, in and out oT our
SVnte, we have every prospect of a grand, sweep
.rg, beneficent triumph.”
The Know Nothings in tiie South must prepare
to be gratilied not, of worse, at the success of the
Black Republican party, but at the defeat of the
Democrats in New York.
The friends of the Hon. J. Olanccy Jones, at
Reading, Pa., fired one hundred guns on hearing
of his appointment ns minister to Austria.
Gas has been introduced in the city of Raleigb,
and many stores and dwellings were lighted with
gas for the first time on Monday laet.
Ex-President Fillmore and Mrs. Fillmore, and
»lon. Amos Kendall, are sojourning in New York
'i<y-
Hon. Robert J. Walxer is writing a book on
the relations of capital and labor, and not a pam
phlet on the tariff.
Suspended.—Rev. David Mills. Presbyterian,
has, it is stated, been suspended by the Presby
tery of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, from the office of
the ministry, for contumacy and heresy.
Gov. Wise, of Virginia, (says a Richmond cor
respondent of the N. Y. Herald') has written a let
ter warmly advocating the re-election of Senator
Douglas, and maintaining his old anti-Lecompton
position. It will soon be published.
Specie in ins Boston - Banks. —The banks in
• Boston are now strong in specie, there having
' been an increase every day since the 12th instant,
wheij the amont was eight and a half millions.
It ii< new a little rising of nine millions.
The Mexican De3t.—The London Tim**, which
- has long been urging the United States to annex
the whole of Mexico, now charges ns with the de
sign of repudiating the debt of that country. It
had better wait till we have assumed it.
The Amherst and Belcbertown (Mass.) rail road,
which cost two hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars, was, on Friday last, sold to the bondhold
ers for forty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
The road is twenty miles long.
lll.—Rev. S. Keener Cox, D. D., formerly pas
tor of the Methodist Protestant church, Ninth
aireet, Washington, and more recently President
of the Lynchburg (Va.) College, is said to be ly
ing dangerously ill at his residence in Lynchburg.
The Washington correspondent of the Associa
ted Press reiterates his assertion that two of the
.Society Islands have made an application for an
nexation to the United States, on additional, and
what he conceives to be reliable authority. The
action of Count Sabtiues in the matter was not in
his official capacity.
Ohio Election. —The Cincinnati Gazette con- I
tains returns from seventy-one counties in that |
State, which show a Republican majority of near- j
ly nineteen thousand: and from these returns the ,
Gazette infers that the majority in the whole State
will not fall short of twenty-two thousand, being |
a Republican gain of over twenty thousand on the
rote for Governor last year.
£y Unexpected Fobtene.— rjt is stated that a
'\- ' surviving daughter of Aabon Bob* comes enriocs
tj into possession of quite a fortune m this way: :
jgcßit held a lease from Trinity Chnrch of the j
Richmond Hill property, three or four hundred •
lot* in the centre of New York, £>r sixty-six !
years. He re-leased the land for sixty-three years j
to AiTOR and others, and their lease expires in |
Hit). The lease for three years then belongs to j
Bcrb’s daughter, and the claim is indisputable, I
and the value of the lease very great. Already ;
several of the lessees have compromised the claim ,
for from one tlmusand five hundred to two thou- j
sand dollar? per lot. j
Major Cooper's Railroad Completed.
We find the foliow ng note from the Hon.
Make A. Cooper, in the Cartersville Express cf i
the 22nd inst: 8
Etowah, Ga., Oct 10, 1555. J
To the Editor of the OirUrtßiile Express: 1
Dear Sir ; The Etowah railroad has this day
beeu completed, and the trains are regularly run- j
ning in connection wiin the passenger trains ot ,
the Western <fe Atlantic railroad. This being an (
era in our history, llie event was distinguished
bv the tiring ofa salute, from ordinance made and ,
cast at Etowah Foundry. Mr. L. Kendrick was ,
our contractor for the building of the road, and J
Eugene Leilardy the chief Engineer. (
As soon as arrangements at e made we will duly ,
celebrate the occasion. Morning guns will be
fired til! the celebration.
Yours respectfully yours,
Mark A\ Coopke,
President Etowah Railroad. .
Major Cooprr is a Napoleon of work, and does
whilst others speculate. At the last session of
the Legislature, he applied for aid to build a r 01-
road from his Iron Works at Etowah to the State
road, upon conditions which would secure the
State from the possibility of loss, and showed that
his enterprise was entitled to it, if auy is, from
the fact that he gives to the State road, from his
own business at Etowab, as much freight as it
receives from aDy of-the way stations between At
lanta and Chattanooga. His application was con
sidered and rejected, and in the mean tune, lie has
taken all the stock in the road, which is several
miles long, built it himself without aid from any
quarter, and celebrated its completion with % sa
lute from ordinance, which he has cast for the
purpose. We take great pleasure in publish
ing and endorsing the remarks which the Express
appends to bis note:
It will be seen from the above that Maj. Cooper
has completed his railroad. And while it rellects
the highest credit upon him, it stands as an evi
dence of shame to those of our citizens who re
fused him the little aid lie asked, to bring this
road to our town. The incredulous hooted at the
idea that a road would ever be built to the Etowah
works, uud this very incredulity has thrown our
town beyond the influence of its benefits. It was
• i shame, we say, that a people so vastly interested
in this movement, should have stood idly by and
allowed Maj. Cooper to bear the entire burthen,
when the benefits to them would have been so
great. The State, too, actuated by a blind policy,
has ever refused to render the least assistance to
' Maj. Cooper—a mau that has done more for her
than any other. Iler legislators will now have an
opportunity to show their statesmanship, for this
road will tie extended, aud is destined to pay more
and do more for the interests of our people than
auy enterprise we know of.
We extend to Maj. Cooper our sincere congrat
ulations that his road has reached its completion.
He certainly deserves the admiration and kindest
wishes of all who have the good of our State at
heart. Isuig may he prosper, and may this be
but the dawning of a brighter and more glorious
future for him and the enterprises he lias em
barked in. We believe that tile great heart of
cur people, with its warmest enthusiasm and sin
-1 cere admiration, will demand for him the just
cluims he so richly merits, from the hands of our
legislature. We can assure Maj. Cooper that the
Express— one of his best wishers—will gladly be
one of those to celebrate with him his jubilee.
The New York Her ltd says that the Quean of
■ Spain has agents here, who have command of two
millions of dollars, to be invested in this country,
s The same paper states that most of the crowned
! heads of Europe are doing an active business in
> the way of investments in the United States.
Louis Phii.lippe had large possessions in our Re
public, and Louis Napoleon lias sent out from
‘ three to five millions here to be invested by his
agents. It is said that the greatest operators in
this way are the petty princes of Germany, whose
investments in American securities, amount, it is
believed, to fully fifty million of dollars.
Hon. J. Glaocy Jones, Minister to
Austria.
The Washington bo fan, of Oct. 21st, confirms
the previous announcement from Harrisburg, that
the mission to Austria had been conferred on Mr.
Jones. The Union says :
“ It affords us great pleasure to announce that
the appointment of Hon. J. Glancy Jones, of Penn
sylvania, ns Minister to Austria, which w as volun
tarily tendered to him by the President, has been
adfcepted by that gentleman. The faithfulness and
. ability of his whole course in Congress as a na
tional Democrat, have been recognised and en
dorsed by the country. As chairman of the com
mittee of ways and means in the House of Repre
sentatives—the most important position in that
body—he was eminently successful. His persua
, sive manners and his admitted knowledge of finan
cial questions extended his influence among the
members of all parties, who placed full reliance
on his statements. Should tue tariff question be
before Congress at the next session, his loss will
be severely felt. But bis appointment to Austria
was eminently (it to be made, and we are glad that
he has accepted it.”
(COMMUNICATED.;
An Enigma.
I am composed of twenty-five letters.
My 1,6, 7,9, 8, was a British officer who suffer
ed the penalty of the spy.
My 2,3, 4, is the latin for law.
My 5,6, 7, is a copulative conjunction.
•My 12, 10,14, 15, IC, 17, was a great English
poet.
My 10,11,12, is a favorite article of diet.
My 10 to 17, inclusive, was “ Sir Oracle," in the
days of federalism.
My 15, 16, 17, is a measure.
My 18,19, 20, 21, signifies action.
My 22, 23, 24, is a domestic fowl.
My 25,16,17, is a male offspring.
My 21, 5,15, 9,13,16,19, spells patriot.
My 18, 19, 11, 15, 23, 25,12,11, 17, spells states
man.
My 16, 9,1,19,16, 9, spells orator.
My whole is a distinguished Georgian, praised
at home and honored abroad. In the councils of the
nation his clarion voice is heard whenever the rights
of the South are invaded; fanaticism feels the
j power of bis arguments, and quails beneath the
thunders of bis eloquence. When you have solved
' the enigna, ecce ho/no, let us imitate his example
and emulate his virtues. S. Q. Lai-ius. ■
Have a Home. —Young men have lately writ- j
ten to us, asking: “Shall we marrv, possessing
only small means?''
It the means arc adequate to meet the wants |.
of the man and the future wife, why not ? But
they should be sufficient for this, else the most j :
painful consequences may ensue. Moderate ■ ]
• means are ample for the real necessaries of life, j ,
i too, which ought to satisfy unman beings, so far
| as externals are concerned; insuring social and f ;
; domestic enjoyment: meeting the real purpose of 1
existence—their own advancement and that of i
others. But have enough for ibis. Have a home, i
Have a home, yonng man. before you have a wife, t
At least have means to provide one. You have t
no basinets with an Eve till there is a paradise to t
place her in. Secure the garden, and the Eve will
fellow. If you are unable to provide an Eden, f
who ought to trust yon with an Eve? Sacred as I f
we regard lore, we” do not beiieve in divorcing it J
!rom common sense. This experiment is general- t
lv fatal to both happiness and respectability, a
Wake from mere dream life, exert your energies; p
procure means by lOtae kind of honest labor• se- s
cure a home ; then as!' your own heart, and the e
girl pbrenologically be*v adapted to you, the quet- v
lien! “Shall I marry — fife JUlustfated. in
A.TTGKCTSTYA, GLA.. S WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
The Fair in Atlauia.
We hare failed to report any of the proceedings
going on at the Fair, in consequence of not seeing
any of the Atlanta papers of This week, until the
Intelligencer, of Friday morning came to hand.
We copy the following from that issue: ,
The crowd in attendance upon the Agricultural .
Fair on yesterday, was larger than on any pre
vious day. The orator selected to deliver the an
nual nddrcss, having failed to attend, Mr. Charles
Wallace Howard, of Cass, consented to make a
few remarks, lie offered a resolution to the ef
fect, “ that a committee he appointed to memor
ialise the legislature, to establish an Agricultural (
College, with an experimental Farm attached.”
Trie speaker presented, in a very forcible light,
the defects in our system of education, as regards
that sort of instructicn which qualifies a young
man for the practical duties of the agricultural
profession. Con. Harrison, of Chatham, remarked
that this was a subject in which every man, wo
man and child, in the State, had an interest, and
propounded that the whole audience should vote
on the question. The vote wostaken, and the res
olution was unanimously adopted. We omitted
to notice that at the organization of tiie Society,
preparatory to the transaction of business, on mo
tion of Col. Wm. T. Wilson, of Atlanta, Hon. I).
W. Lewis, of Hancock, was chosen President of
the Society; Gen. Harrison, of Chatham, Ist Vice
Presidentand Gov. Joseph E. lirown, ‘2nd Vice
President.
From the Troy Evening Tuner, Oct. IS.
The Morrissey hii«l Ileenan Fight.
A considerable number of sporting men left here
on Saturday and this morning for Buffalo, and will
be followed this afternoon by mote, who lutend to
witness the fight. The number of spectators from
New York will be much greater than that of those
who witnessed the famous “ mill ” between liver
and Sullivan—indeed, the interest in the Hash cir
cles of the metropolis seems to be greater even
than here. A gentleman from New York assures
us that “it will he the ugliest party” thut has left
that city in a good many years.
The amount of money depending upon the re
sult is immense. The mania created in anticipa
tion of the light exceeds any ever before known,
for never before have belligerents been allowed to
make their arrangements with so much openness
and unreserve—been so lionised by the press,
toasted and tedied by inefficient and luvnr-seeking
officials, and countenanced by a kind and indul
gent public, who are duly proud of all such
evidences of our superior civilization, and wouldn’t
by any means be guilty of putting a damper upon
the refined sport. " We have heard of bets being
made as far South as New Orleans. In St. Louis
and Chicago there is probably more money at for
feit than in Troy.
A Spaniard tesidtng in Albany, has induced his
father, a sugar planter, to put up two thousand
dollars on Morrissey, aguinst a similar sum staked
on Ileenan by a Neiv York dry goods merchant.
Those who claim to be posted, estimate the amount
of bets in this State alone at from two hundred
thousand dollars to two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. Naturally the character of tiie betting
varies with locality. Here, it ia one hundred to
i from seventy-five to eighty on Morrissey. We
. heard of numerous offers of such odds being made
f on Saturday night, without any takers. In New
. York, on tiie other hand, the same odds are freely
t offered on Ileenan. Though both competitors—
r ami we are sorry to say it—claim Troy as their
3 home, the light seems to have resolved itself into
3 an issue bctw'een metropolitan ruffianism, personi
fied by Ileenan, and provincial bullyism, embo
died in Morrissey.
f Both men ure (as they say of fat liogs at cattle
shows) in prime condition. When Morrissy left
here he was somewhat worn. His training had
• been pushed to a point beyond his powers of en
-1 durance. Some flesh had been taken off that
i should have bceu left on. The muscles had been
strained so hard, particularly in long walks and
exercises with the bells, that they gave out readi
‘ ly. His breathing had become too short, and he
i “ winded ”so soon ns to give rise to a rumor that
i oue of his lungs was badly affected. But all this,
{ wo are told, has been overcome. The course
pursued at Buffalo has hod the ettectfof restoring
' the impaired energies of the renowned bruiser,
i and he is now in better condition todo up a job of
scientific mauling than ever before—better even
than at the time of his little epiaode-with the de
funct tutor of King Kamehameha, of the Sand
wich Islands.
Ileenan is emphatically a fresh man. He has
never endured the pommeling and badgering his
opponent has passed through at the hands of
Thompson, Sullivan, Poole, and in a thousand and
one bur-room encounters. His brawny muscles
are firm and tough as sole leather, ilis sledge
' hammer lists present a tine field for the operation
of a cold chisel. His lungs are like blacksmith’s
bellows in capacity. The first trainer under whose
hands he went, came near pushing his regimen too
[ far— but Aarou Jones arrived in time to prevent
the direful catastrophe, and be has therefore hud
no errors of judgment to overcome. The refined
aud scholastic Mr. Jones, who is a connoiseur in
such matters —and from his early slaughter-house
reminiscences, a first class judge of (at cattle—
says “he never saw a man in primer trim.” In
the matter of condition, therefore, everything is
“ slap up to the pewter”—as our merry friends,
the sporting men, say.
We think that in view of the fact that each
party goes into this combat with a full knowledge
of risks, we couid bear with the most philosophi
cal serenity the intelligence that Mr. Morrissey bad
lost an eye, or the nose of Mr. Ileenan had been
resolved into the form of a spitted "sprat, by the
scientific touches of his adversary. We have no
wages to win or lose. We simply reflect public
opinion. From this we learn, on the one hand,
“that there is no chance whatever for Ileenan;
Morrissey will die sooner than be whipped ; the
battle wont be a long one; Heenan will be knocked
out of time in less than twenty-five roiuutes;” and
on the other hand, that “if Ileenan has pluck,
which is all he needs, he will whip Morrissey in a
very short time; that he is a splendid boxer; that
he is us strong us an ox and as spry as a cat; that
he hag more science than Tom Hyer ever had, and
full as much strength ; that he stands square and
solid on his feet, while Morrissey is ‘tangle-leg
§'cd.’ Either of these opinions inay be correct.
oth of them cannot be. "We do not care which
is borne out in tiie result.
Frutnthe Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, ltithlnet.
The fight is a continuation of the old Tom Hyer
and Yankee Sullivan quarrel, out of which lias
grown a deal of ill-blood The Benicia Boy is the
representatative of American, and Morrissey of
t .e foreign fancy.
Among the more notorious of the crowd are
Lewis Baker, a quiet, gentlemanly appearing fel
low, who killed Bill Poole; Bad Cunningham,
who did society a similar furor, by killing Pau
deen ; Tom Hyer, and in fact all "the great men
of the fancy.
The light is announced to come off at Long
Point, but the general currency given to this in
formation, as well Bstbe great distance thither,
leads many to suppose that some nearer point will
be selected at last. All the airangenients for leav
ing arc made in the most open manner, but there
is no power conferred on our police by law which
can prevent their going.
The result ot the fight referred to in the above,
we published in onr telegraph column a few days I
ago. Both of the parties engaged in it, we were
pleased to learn, received a very severe whipping;
j each was borne from the scene on a bed, although
Lit was decided that Morrissey was the victor.
[ ♦ I
i New Kino or Corn.— Mr. C. Trump, of Balti- i
more county, Maryland, has shown the editor of i
the American Farmer a new variety of maize, ]
termed “ Bread Corn,” and obtained origina'ly t
from .Syria. The Firmer says: t
The height of the plant is four feet ten inches i
from the roots to the top of the blossom; one foot t
four inches from the roots to the foot of ibe ear. s
Length of ear eleven inches. In this specimen
there are upon the car eight rows of grain, but up- I
on some there are fourteen. The grains are of a i
peculiar color, being ail of a purple, or purple
streaked with white. This is the uniform color of i
every ear in the whole crop. The meal is very c
white and fine. This variety of corn arrives at c
maturity quite early in the season.
BY TELEGRAPH.
The Epidemic in New Orleans.
New Orleans, Oct. 23.—The Howard Associa
tion regret to announce that the epidemic con
tinues in fatal prevnlauce, and caution the unac
climaied to keep away.
E. F. Schmidt, President.
Paraguay Expedition.
Washington, Oct. 22.— Templeton’s steamer,
Metacomet, of New Orleans, has been added to
the Paraguay expedition.
Vlce*Presldent Breckinridge for Doug.
Ins.
Washington, Oct. 22.—The Hon. John C.
Breckinridge, the Vice President of the United
States, iu a recent letter to the State Democratic
Central Committee of Illinois, urges the re-electicn
of Hon. Stephen- A. Douglas to the Senate of the
United States.
Havre Cotton Market.
Havre, Oct. 7. —per Pacific at St. Johns. —
There has been a better feeling in the Cotton trade
during the past two days, and sales to the extent
of 8,000 bales were made. Middling to Good
Middling qualities were quoted at 106 to 107
francs.
Market Reports.
Charleston, Oct 23. — One o’clock P. M.— Sales
of cotton this forenoon 300 bales, at prices rang
ing from to 11% cents. Holders arc not of
fering freely.
New York, Oct. 22.— Sales of Cotton to-day
1,000 bales, with a dull market. Flour was firm;
sales 15,.300 barrels. Wheat declining; sales
20,000 bushels. Corn lower; sales 30,000 bushels.
Spirits of Turpentine firm at 40 a 30 cents per gal
lon. Other articles unchanged.
Additional by the Europn.
Halifax, Oct. 2".—The R. M. steamship Etiropn,
Capt. I.eitcli, from Liverpool, at ball' past ten
o’clock ou the morning of the SUh inst., arrived at
this port at twelve o’clock last night. Her dates
are tliree days later than those already received.
Amoug her passengers lire Hon. Henry ,1. Ray
mond, of the New York Timer, and Judge i’ut
nam, of ltoston.
The Etiropa reports, on the 14 inst., exchanged
signals with the British hark Emigrant, bound
East.
The ship Daniel Webster, arrived at London,
from New York, reports that on the 20th of Sep
tember, in latitude forty-three degrees thirty min
utes, longitude forty-two degrees liliy-severi min
uter., passed a number of dead bodies, supposed
to be from the burnt steamer Austria.
A deputation from the Atlantic Steam Packet
company hud had an interview with Mr. Uatntl
, ton, Secretary of the Treasury, ou the subject of
, postal subsidies between Galway, New Foundland
i and America. Ho stated that the government
, viewed, with considerable interest, the new line
of steamers between Galway and the British North
r American Colonies, by Mr. Lever, and the lmpor
, tance they attached to be able to communicate
. betweeu London and Washington in six days.
The Limerick Chronicle Bays that on the Assem
bling of Parliament the government will recom
e mend giving to Galway a grant of fifty thousand
• t pounds sterling, as the first instalment for the
1 construction of a breakwater, should the commis
sioners’ report be favorable. The commissioners
, had arrived to commence investigations.
, The Doily Sews has a hopeful editorin! article
1 on the Atlantic Cable and thinks it may yet he
rendered available. It says that professor’J'ltomp
. «on has nearly succeeded in neutralising the es
. sects of earth current which become perplexing
when the currents through the cable are so weak.
! Professor Hughes has so modified his printing ap
. paratus that a current of voltaic electricity, genera
ted by u small iton wire being beld in one hand
• moistened with water, whileacopper wire of equal
size is held in the other, the two wires being uni
ted to form a circuit, Is sufficient in intensity to
make his machine print an intelligible messuge.
‘•So sensitive is his new instrument that it will still
lirint correctly though a current as weak as we
tare described is diminished still more in intensi
ty by passing through the bodies of four individ
uals.
With the combined improvements and inven
tions of Professors Thompson and Hughes and
Mr. Henley, we are not without hope that, as soon
as their instruments can be conveyed across the
Atlantic, electric communication will bo once more
restored.
The London Glole discredits the report that
Lord Bury goes to Cuuada in connection with the
projected federation of the British provinces.
’I he Common Council of London have resedrod
to present the freedom of the city, and swords
valued at one hundred guineas each, to Lord Clyde
and Sir James Outram for their Indian services.
A! the weekly meeting of the directors of the
Bank of England, an adjournment took place
without the anticp&tcd reduction in the rate of
discount.
The half yearly meeting of the Great Western
Railroad Company of Canada bad been held in
London. The Directors’ report, which declares a
dividend of four per cent., was adopted l>y a small
majority, an amendment having been proposed,
limiting the dividend to three and a half per cent.
A resolution was agreed to, afier strong opposi
tion, authorising the Directors to advance one hun
dred thousand pounds sterling for the rolling stock
of the Detroit and Mtlwaukie railway.
At the general conference of railway delegates,
in session at London, it was resolved to give per
manent organisation to the conference, and to form
from it an association to be called the Ruiiway
Companies’ Association.
The unsatisfactory exhibit of the Western Bank
of Glasgow, and an additional call on the share
holders, had called forth the bitterest strictures of
the press, and the recommendations were that the
shareholders be prosecuted.
A!> meeting of the stockholders of the Buffalo
and £3ke Huron railway, in London, it was stated
that the gross revenue of the half year was more
than absorbed by the works in progress.
From Vic Dally S'twt City Article, Friday Evenin'/.
Latent. — Loirlon, October ttb, A. M.— Business
throughout the stock exchange remains dull, and
there is no general movement in prices. Steadi
ness generally prevails, but the late active demand
for securities has subsided. The funds closed to
day about Hie same as yesterday. Forty thousand
pounds sterling was sent into the bank. A* Ham
burg the rate of discount has risen to fire percent.,
owing to the demand for silver for Austria. As
the Austrian bank is preparing for a resumption
of specie payments, silver must be attracted from
all quarters, hence the pressure on change this
afternoon. Bills on the continent were in demand
and rates slightly less favorable for England were
established, as regards Holland, Belgium, Austria
and Madrid.
The shares of the Atlantic Telegraph Company
remain rather fiat, and closed at three hundred |
land ninety-four to four hundred and ten pounds •
sterling.
Friday Evening. —The Time* city article says: ,
The English funds throughout the day have been ,
firm at fbe improved quotation last evening. Pay- i
ments in the Turkish Scrip, amounting in the ag- j
gregate to seven hundred thousand pounds ster
ling,caused a slight demand for money, but not to
an extent to produce any material change in the f
current. The dividends will be payable to the ~
public on Wednesday next, and the opinion seems
to be that on the following day the bank will no
tify to two and a half per cent., instead of adopt
ing the more desirable course of allowing their *
terms to be contingent from day to day on the t<
state of the market. a
The liabilities of M. Dahant, whose failure at
Lile was announced a dav or two back, are Btated *
at two kfluidred thousand pounds sterling. 11
The jWatr, on the state of the money market, h
says it seems certain that an extraordinary increase b
of ease must be expected, since the public this tl
quarter have entirely abstained from taking c
any advance from the bank during the shutting of £
the trnnsfr- - ”' ha l?L r ** < '? obtained a celebrity j .
'w. Obd will rive and sluice from tiff •'.’dendr
Will ttier<% I’owertowi rkit.attliesiinif Tir*. iuriltei
inlet vai eLmniv-ff -HI be re
tained b y, - : ' onnts will be
require* fr. ' where the de
than ‘ L4lldcsL *»i more active
■'*“ *' “***** received tr.e f Hrw-
AlexarSrkti —The Cambria sailed this
morning '.vi'h ;he mails for England,
and gold raided one hundred and sixty live
thousand krd thirty-three pounds. The" dates
are Melhqitfhs, Aagnst ltith ; Sydney, August 12th.
The M£f and June mails reached Melbourne on
the Ist and tith 6f August, respectively. The fol
lowing the departures of gold ships.
July ,44.- Afciopoui t for London, with seventy
thnusajgjsoren hundred and eighty onnees.
Augj^fc—l.ir.crlsihire for London, with onehun
dreiuPjßirq six handled and twelve
ThHßtract btfggdn the government and the c
six bafiks for the Wgotiation of a railway loan ‘
was signed Aug. ltith. The export trnde was very 1
dull. The import market was overstocked at Syd- i
ney. The supplies ot wool were very simtll. A <
fire at Auokland had destroyed a large portion of !
the city. Jfc |
Madrid, Oat. It is announced that a reform c
in the customs tariff trill soon be published. i
France. —lt is confirmed that two French men
of-war have gone to the Tagus to support the de- c
mand of the French Minister at Lisbon for com- 1.
pensation for the seizure of the French vessel, J
Charles Georges, while transporting negroes to t
the West Indies. " j
The Emperor would remain at Chalons cr.tnp till t
the 10th of October. i
The chess match between Morphy and Harwitz f
was suddenly closed, the latter being unable to t
proceed, owing to illness. The state of the game t
at the close was: Morphy, live; llarwitz, two ;
drawn, one. I
The Tune*' correspondent says there is reason to (
hope that the difference between the French and ]
Portuguese Governments, respecting tiie seizure of
- French barque, Charles Georges, will be uniica
blv arranged.
Accounts of the great commercial catastrophe
at Lile hiul been received in Paris. A Magistrate
at Lile had grunted a warrant for the arrest of the
principal of a house there, an eminent manufac
turer.
The Prelate who is placed at the head of the
French Mission in China is to be raised to the .
rank of Cardinal.
M. Moutignv, French Consul at Bhanghae, has
been promoted to Consul General of Cuiua, at the
new port of Tien Sien.
The Independent of Turin has declared the visit
of Prince Napoleon to Warsaw an event of great
political importance, being, as it thinks, the pre
ude of an alliance between France, Russia and
Piedmont, hostile to Austria.
The Emperor of Russia has conferred on the
1 Aid de Camp who accompanied Prince Napoleon
to Warsaw the Cross of St. Vladcmer, and on Ibe
• other oti.cers of his suite that of St. Stanislaos.
Jung Bahadur, the Nepianlese Prince, was ex
f peeled in Paris rn route to London.
I Paris, Frida u. —The three per cents closed at
1 7Sf. 80c. The Bourn* had been affected by the
o Portuguese difficulty, but rallied,
a The French Admiral commanding in the Gulf
'• of Mexico hud quitted Pans for his post, with
R energetic orders to protect French citizeus.
Spain.— Purty feeling was very high in Madrid,
>- in consequence of the approaching election,
i* The Gazette publishes a royal urdiuaiice author
d ising the Government to receive tenders for a line
e of packets,"(o run between the Peninsula and the
i- Antilles; the tenders to ho adjudicated on the Urd
■s of February next.
A setni-ollicial journal says the Government is
o about to have built fouh large and eight small
R steamers, and thirty-two screw gun boats, for the
'■ suppression of piracy in the Philippine Islands.
’■ Hanover. —The English Government has dis
-1 patched a note to the Hanoverian Government,
• urging that immediate proposals may he made for
- the total abolition of the Slade Bites.
Petty. —On the 27th of September tho Pope held
1 a secret consistory court. No promotions to car-
I ilinuls were made, but twenty-five bishops have
• been nominated, of whom three are French.
i Prussia. —Advices from Berlin state that tliu
health of the King, which for some time has been
getting worse, now gires cause for serious alarm.
A Cemetery Without n .Monument.
The noblest of cemeteries is the ocean. lln
poetry, and ill human language, ever will be un
written. its elements of sublimity are subjects of
tooling*, not description. Its records, like the re
flection mirrored on its waveless bosom, cannot he
transferred to paper. Its vastness, its eternal
heaving*, its majestic music, in a storm and in its
perils, arc tilings which I bud endeavored a thou
sand limes to conceive, but, until J was on its
mighty bosom, looking out upon its moving
mountain waves, feeling that eternity was distant
from ine the thickness of a single plar.k, I hud tried
in vain to feel and know I lie glories and grandeur
of the sea. 1 there first felt what John of f’ututos
meant when lie suid of heaven, “ There shall be
no more sea." llut there is one element of moral
sublimity which impressed my mind, and which
I should be pleased if I could transfer, in all its
vividness, to the mind of tbe reader. The sea is
the largest of cemeteries, and all its slumberers
sleep w ithout a monument. All other graveyards,
in all lauds, show some symbols of distinction be
tween the great and the small, the rich and the
poor; but in that ocean cemetery the king and tbe
clown, the prince and the peasant, are alike undis
tinguished. The same wave rollsover all, the same
requiem, by the minstrelsy of ocean, is Bung to
their honor. Over their remuins the same storm
beats and the same sun shines; and there, un
. marked, the weak and lhe powerful, the plujped
; and the unhonored, will sleep on until awakened
. by the same trump, the sea will give up its dead.
1 thought of sailing over the slumbering but de
• voted Cookmun, who after his brief but brilliant
’ career, perished in the President—over the luugh-
I ter-loving Power; who wentdown in the same ill
, fated vessel we have passed. In that cemetery
sleeps the accomplished and pious Fisher; but
, where he and thousands of others of the noble
I spirits of earth lie, no one but (Jed knowetb. No
. marble rises to point out where th.-ir ashes are
gathered, or where the lover of the good and wise
can go and shed the tears of sympathy. Who can
• tell where lies the tens of thousands of Afric’s
i sons who perished in the "middle passage t" Vet
I that cemetery hath ornaments of which no other
• are the heavenly orbs reflected in such splen-
I dor. Over no other are so many inimitable
■ traces of the power of Jehovah. Never can I
i forget my days and nights as 1 passed over the i
noblest of cemeteries, without a singlo human
monument.— Oilet.
, i
fSf New* Items from the .Savannah RrpuUican
of the fSrd inst:
The reports of our Sextons for the last three
days present n most gratifying prospect. Those
for Wednesday and Thursday contained not a
case of yellow serer, and yesterday's returns con
tain bat one case, of any kind. These exhibits
give promise of an early and complete restoration
of the wanted good health of our city.
iJrmCHul.—On Thursday morning, while the
steamer Ida was in Back river, John Bowers,
deck hand, fell overboard and was drowned. L'p
to last evening hie body bad not been recovered.
He loaves a wife and child in this city.
Gin Jfouat Jlumed.—The Gin House of Col. K.
M. Johnston, in Hancock county, together with
ten bales of cotton, was destroyed by tiro a day or
two ago.
The marriage contract between the Duke of
Maiakoff and the bride elect is said, by Paris let
ter-writers, to be a master piece cf the calligraphic
art. It is engrossed on vellum; the arms of his
grace and the future Duchess figure on the bind*
mg, and the penman has "given the whole of
bis mind to it.” A large jointure is settled on the
bride. The ceremonies will take place in
the chapel of the Senate, or, poss.bly, in the
chapel of the Tuillcries; the Marshal being the
Emperor’s pet and the bride the Empress’.”
VOL. 37—IsTO. 44.
Talk to Me of Death.
Oh! come and sit beside me cow,
Ic this calm twilight hour ;
. .The bird has sought her lofty bough,
The dev/ is on the flower;
And let roe feel thy hand In mine.
Upon my brow thy breath ;
And In this quiet evening time,
O, talk to me of death.
I feel that life Ic ebbing ftwt,
I have not long to stay :
But every fear of death is past,
My spirit chides delay:
But when I’m oh. ao not weep,
For our dear Savior saitb,
'* To those who love and serve the Lord,
There Is no fear of death/’
O, talk to me, but not in tones
Os fear and trembling dread ;
But tell me of the lowly One
Whose blood for us was shed;
The a ige! comes, I hear his voice.
Upon my brow his breath ;
O, corn* and with me now rejoice,
It. is the angel. Death.
A Theatrical Excitement.
I’lav goer* here will remember a drama pro
duced at the theatre here last season, entitled
“ Beauchamp, or the Kentucky Tragedy.” John
Savage, of Washington, recently wrote a tragedy
entitled “Sybil,” for Miss Avonia Jones, the plot
of which is nearly analogous with that of the play
first named. The young tragedienne essayed to
piny it in Louisville, Kentucky, and created sn ex
citement, of which a correspondent of the Wash
ington Union gives the following account:
We have had quite a theatrical excitement here,
caused by the new play of “ Sybil,” brought out
by Miss Avonta Jones, and written, I believe, by
Mr. John Savage, now of Washington. There is
doubtless an analogy between the incidents of this
play and the assassination (in 1520) of Col. Solo
man P. Sharpe, by Jeroboam 0. Beauchamp, to
avenge a foul wrong done Beauchamp’s wile be
fore he married her. But this is only the founda
tion of tiie most thrilling drama of our day and
time.
It so happens, however, that the surviving rela
tives of Col. Shurpe nre personal friends of the
editor of the Journal here. Jfo sooner did he com
pliment the play, as to be performed that night,
than there was a sensation. Governor Morehoad
telegraphed from Frankfort, to “ stop the represen
tation, and aCol. Sharpe, Jr., telegraphed that he
would at once leavo for I.onisville to avert this
slain on the honor of his family. This was on
Thursday, and as it wrs currently reported that
there would be nn armed demonstration of oppo
sition to the plav, Miss Jonps substituted the
“ Bride of Lammermoor.” Tr.e house had been
crowded, but halt of the nudienco-had no desire to
witness Lucia, and retired.
That night, on dit, there was a Conttildt Theatre,
l’renticc acting ns mediator, Col. Sharpe demand
ing that the {day should be suppressed, and Mrs.
Melinda Jones, in her wav, pleading her daugh
ter’s right to {day a drama based upon a histori
cal event. Moreover, she said that it should be
performed on Saturday night, and she was us
good ns her word. Os course the announcement
created a sensation.
Such a packed house was never seen here, and
there must have beou some apprehensions behind
the scenes, for the stage manager looked as though
his last hour had come, and the poor fellow who
personated “Col. Sharpe” seemed weak in the
knees with fear. Miss Avonia performed her part
fuultlessiy, ns if unconscious that there was a sin
gle spectator. The play is replete with dramatic
etfw, and was well acted, yet there was a dead si
lence until Sybil presented a pistol at Col. Sharpe,
her seducer, when there arose a yell of “kill himl”
“shoot him!” and from thenceforth there was no
sympathy for Sharpe.
01 course the play was thus brought before the
public, and lias tilled the house night after night,
livery incident of the event upon which it is based
I has boon rernlled, an edition of the confession of
Jeroboam O. Beauchamp (executed for killing
Sharpe) lias been sold, and wherever Miss Jones
goes henceforlh, the public will insist upon see
ing her in Sybil! — Richmond Inepatch.
llttiltling nnil Loan Associations.*—Su
preme Court Decisions.
The Supreme Court of Georgia tins lately deci
ded, In the case of Mrs. Cope rs. tbo Savannah Mu
tual Loan Association, that the widow’s right to
dower out of the property tales precedence of the
Association's mortgage. The siune point was de
cided here, in the Cole case, by which decisions
the securities of Loan Associations are placed in a
somewhat critical condition. For example—the
widow is entitled to her dower, which ia one-third
of the landed property. Secondly, she and bar
children are entitled to one year's support out of
the remaining two-third*. The mortgaged pro
perty is subject to both of these claims, ana in
many instances, after they are met, there is noth
ing left for the mortgagee!
This we understand to be the settled law of the
State us interpreted by the highest tribunal of
Georgia, and, of course, must he submitted to,
until the decision of the Conjt is reversed or the
legislature interposes a remedy, which, in this age
of “ woman’s rights,” they are not likely to do.
Nor do we think tbut they ought to legislate ad
versely to the interests'of the widow and the or
phan.
It will be well, therefore, for the Mutual Loan
Associations to understand how precarious are the
securities on which they have relied and are still
relying, and take prompt measures g> wind up
their business. Every member of these Associa
tions is interested in the question—not only those
who havo not borrowed, but those who have—as
ail losses incurred from such a cause, do, to that
extent, retard the successful winding up of the
Association, and, of coarse, subjects all parties to
more or less loss. — Ueorgui Citizen, Oct. 23.
Teetotalism is America. —A German writer, M.
Grissinger, who has recently visited the United
Htatcs, says: “ The temperance mania is most at
home in the northern Sta*cs, for the clergy have
thoroughly frightened the furmers into it. Thev
mean it honestly enough. If you visit one of
them, you iiud nothing hut water on the table —
water for breakfast, dinner, and supper. After
staying a few days and becoming known to the
family, the son will tirst take you one side. He
will lead you into the stable, and express his
opinion that a dram would do no hurt such a cold
morning; but you must not say anything to father
or mother. After dinner the bouse mother will
take you hr the arm and lead you into her sanctua
ry, and, behind the clothes press, she will open a
secret door, and produce a nice bottle of the real
sort, from which she will give you some ‘ stomach
drops.’ Nhe thinks, though, the father and son
med know nothing of these drops. Last of all,
after supper, your host will conduct you into hig
study, and from one of his bottles in a medicine
chest, will pour vou ont a glass, the best of the
thrie; hut you do not drink it ae brandy, but as
medicine. He, too, warns you to keep the secret
to yourself.” _ #
A Lawyer's Storv.— Tom strikes Dick over the
shoulder with a rattan as big as .your little finger.
A lawyer in bis indictment, would tell yon the
story as follows: “And that whereas the said
Thomas, at said {dace, on the year and day afore
-1 said, in and upon the body of said Richard, against
lhe people of the State of Pennsylvania, and their
dignity, did make a most violent assault and in
flicted a great many and divers blows, kicks,
thumps, humps, contusions, gashes,hurts, wounds,
damages and injuries, in and upon the head, neck,
breast, stomach, hips, kees, shins and heels of
said Richard, with divers sticks, canes, poles,
clubs, logs of wood, stones, daggers, dirks, swords,
pistols, cutlasses, bludgeons, blunderbusses and
boarding pikes, then and there held in the hands,
fists, claws, and (clutches of him, the said
Thomas.”
Rcriiy or a Tut s Oentlkxa*.— Perhaps a gen
tleman is a rarer gentleman than some of us think
for. Which of us can point out many such in his
circle—men whose aims are generous, whose truth
is constant, and not only constant in its kind, but
eievuted in its degree, whose want of meanness
makes them simple, who can look the world hon
estly in the face with an ecpral manly sympathy
for the great and the small? We all know now a
. hundred whose coats are very well made, and a
score who have excellent manners, and one or two
happy beings who are wliat they call in the inner
circles, and have shot into the very centre and
bull’s eye of fashion, but of gentlemen how many ?
Let ns take a little scrap of paper, and each make
oit his list, — Thaelctrag.