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Wim li (fonstitntionalisl
BY GARDNER.
GRAND LODGE F. A. X. OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA.
The Macoo (Ga.) Journal 4- Messenger says:
" The annual communication of this Grand Lodge
will convene in this city on Wednesday of next
week—the 31st icst. A full attendance is antici
pated.”
THE NEBRASKA ELECTION.
MoRTOjf, Democrat, has been elected delegate
to Congress from Nebraska Territory by about one
hundred and fifty majority. The Legislature stands:
House—Republicans twenty-two, Democrats seven
teen. Council—Republicans six. Democrats six
doubtful, one.
FIRE AT OPELIKA, ALA.
Capt. Williams, of Adams’ Express, informs us
that a destructive fire occurred at Opelika, Ala.,
on Thursday night, and nine store houses were
destroyed. No further particulars were obtained.
FLORIDA.
We have not yet received full returns from Flor
ida. Nine or ten counties remain to hear from.
We subjoin te result, for Goverf/V, so far as re
ported : jr
Milton-, Democrat—for Goverat;- 6,466
Hopkins, opppo'n. “ “ 5,011
Democratic majority 1,455
The vote in the counties to her from, in 1858,
was as follows:
ppposition.. ; • 4SI
Bqpwcratic majority 86
IOWA CONGRESSMEN.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press says
that both of the Democratic candidates for Con
gress in lowa are of southern birth.
C. C. Cole, Esq., candidate in the First Distract,
is, we believe, a native of Kentucky; and Hoqjll.
S. Samuels, in the Second District, a native (#Vir
gia.
SOUTHERN RIGHTS —SOUTHERN INTERESTS.
A practical minded correspondent writes to us,
and says that bo would be glad to see a concen
tration of public opinion at the South, in favor of
a total non-intercourse of trade, business transac
tion, travel to northern watering places, encour
agement to northern literature, schools and col
leges. He thinks when the people of the
South exhibit suoMfeith by works, and favor pa
tronage to southeSWarms, looms, and anvils, and
sustain all our branches of home industry, schools
and colleges, be will then admit that there is some
practical meaning in, and some hope of promoting
southern rights and southern interests.
At present, our correspondent says he is groping
abcut among abstractions, fie is bothered with
the paradoxical idea of quarreling about Congres
sional protection in Territories, when he recog
nises but little encouragement given to southern
industry by southern people. If we want hats,
hoots, shoes, coats, pants, vests, shirts, handker
chiefs, or any apparel for our wives or children, it
is almost exclusively of northern manufacture.
Our dwelliugs and kitchens, no matter how
elegantly or poorly supplied, are almost eutke
ly furnished from the North; our carriages,
buggies, harness, saddles, whips, and even
cowskins, are manufactured at the North. Our
children are exercised in northern baby carriages.
Our wires and daughters consult northern periodi
cals for priuts of the fashions. School children
study out of northern school books; and almost
every family has a northern printed bible. Our
people write on northern paper, with northern ink,
and with northern pens. Our friction matches come
from the North to light our northern made candles
and ignite our Spanish segars made in Connecti
cut. We eat northern potatoes, onions, beets, car
rots, pickles, preserves, and we are now consuming
large quantities of northern corn. We shave wjth
northern razors, with northern soap, and before a
northern looking glass; and the soap cup and the
brush are of northern manufacture, and the razor
strop comes from the same regioß.
We send to Springfield, Massachusetts, for our
guns, and neglect such interests at home. We
depend upon the North for our powder, bullets
and balls. We use northern iron pipes for our
Water Works ; northern pumps and faucels, and
dig ditches with northern spades, shovels and
picks.
The truth is, we are us thoroughly northern in
our patronage as it is possible for a northern man
to be. We quarrel with the free State men ; we
threaten them ; we occasionally tar and feather
them ; sometimes hang them ; but whenever we
have a dollar to spend, we are sure to spend it
for a northern made article.
Thus we act, says our correspondent. We are
ready to fight for souihern rights, and die for
southern rights, but we show very little disposi
tion to establish southern rights and patronise
southern interests, by sustaining southern cap
ital, labor, end enterprise.
The people of the South are like confirmed ine
briates, who preach the beautiful principles of
temperance, but are always found intoxicated
themselves. Their practice does not square with
their teachings. If we sincerely hate the North,
and ardently love the South, why should we pa
tronise and lavish our money on northern produc
tions, and refuse and neglect to succor and sustain
our owd people in our own section?
We want, in theSonth, a vnWurn public opinion.
We should look South, think South, and act South.
We want no wrangles about abstractions, but we
want concentrated thought and action. We jyant
southern men to patronise southern labor, capital
and enterprise, and look for cheap prices in south
ern competition. Nothing should be regarded as
cheap and desirable that is manufactured at the
North. To be desirable, it must le southern.
This is the public opinion our correspondent
desires to see established. He seems to care but
little about the preservation of our National
Union; not, however, for the causes urged for its
dissolution by souihern politicians, but because of
the southern patronage to everything northern, in
opposition to patronage to our own enterprises.
His opposition, if it may be so termed, to the Union,
has this extent and no more. He says he would
not be willing to lose one hour of sleep or one
drop of blood to maintain it, if the people of the
South continue to neglect their own southern
rights and southern interests merely to build up
the prosperity of the North at tha sacrifice of the
South.
Hon. T. C. Hindman, Bbeckinkidge maD,
has declined to canvass the lcwer part of the State
of Arkansas with Hon. Albelt Rust, Douglas
man—givmg as his excuse that it would require
so much time to provide himself with a convey
ance, prepare documents, and arrange his domes
tic affairs, that he could not overtake Col. Rust
until the 26th inst., at Arkadelphia, in Clarke
county, which would only leave five counties to be
canvassed. Col. Hinpban is ssgacious.
HOW THE FUSION GETS ALONG.
Fo far as we have been able to learn, the idea of
a union of all parties in this State is much more
popular than we expected to find it.
The Brfckinhidge press very naturally, (with
but two or exceptions,) oppose a union of
parties which may have the effect to deprive them
of the spoils of a victory which they deem already
in their grasp.
We are not at all anxious for the Union, for we
believe that the issue of immediate secession, or
delay for an overt act, will certainly arise upon the
election of Lincoln*, and the people will take sides
on that issue according to their passions, fears,
or desires, with little regard for present party lines.
Besides a fusion which looks to the possible
election of any one of three candidates, can have
little influence in obtaining for us those thirty
two northern electoral votes, which all the South
united never can make up.
The Union ticket is, we are well aware, looked
upon with suspicion. The honesty ot our purpose
is doubted, because it it supposed that we art nu
merically vefy weak, and wish t# avoid, in the
first place, a show of votes on a straight ticket;
and second, to get a chance at the “loaves aud
fishes’* with the BtroogT|tarties.
On the the Americans, or Union men,
are suspected offing incompetent to cope with
the or if not so afraid, of
wishing frieSjfy feelings with the Democratic
Legislature, in order to get their great leader,
Ben* Hill, into the Federal Senate.
There is any quantity of old prejudice between
the old Democrats and the old Americans; and we
are pretty well satisfied that a union of Bell and
Douglas men would result in a pretty general
stampede from both sides, to Breckinridge.
Somebody has been enquiring if the proprietor
of this paper did not try to get up opinion of Bell
and Douglas men to beat Breckinridge. We re
ply that the proprietor of the Constitutionalist has
not meddled with politics since the nomination,
that we know of ; but that the editorial corps of
the paper at one time, looked rather anxiously for
such a result. Both parties were, as the secession
ists have correctly surmised, afraid to do it, and
the conventions passed and both put out straight
tickets.
The desire ou our part, was to get up such a party
union us would crush at once the Democratic dis.
seuters, and so encourage our wavering ranks in
the North. There never has been any community
of feeling us and the Bell party, gave a de
sire to kill sectionalism in both sections of the
TTniou.
The union of those two parties would have ta
ken place, but from the fear that partisan feeling
was stronger than the love of the Union.
If it bad taken place, it would have been about
as cordial as the forgiveness of the dying clans
man of his ancient foe ; lio inserted a special
clause in the reconciliatiou, that if he didh’t die,
they were to be enemies as before, and all the re
conciliation count as nothing.
Our natural affiliation is with the secession Dem
ocrats, we being one in feeling save upon that
shadowy shade of protection, and limited Territo
rial rights, which the Senate declared a chimera,
by its solemn vote, and which the Toombs amend
ment reduced to the approbation of even Pugh
bimse'f.
But we couldn’t unite with the Breckinridge
wing because they had just quit us, and felt too
strong to be in a hurry to get back.
Therefore, it was ia earnest that we favored a
union with Bell men on a joint electoral ticket,
each party to stick to its own creed with a grasp
like that of death.
The Bell men are yet willing to unite; but we
want them to understand, that while we would
consent to a joint ticket instructed to vote for
Breckinridge, Hell, or Douglas— that the pro
posal of some of their leaders that we all vote for
Bell as a Union move,only meets with a polite—
“no, I thank you,” from our side.
The Breckinridge men are, we believe, willing
to re unite the old party, and then with it the
Union party, as a great party of the South, but
their leaders of course do not care to give up so
bright a prospect of State aud local spoils.
We have stated that we repudiate fusion as
simply absurd, so far as doing good in this elec
tion is concerned, and our opinion remains un
changed ; but besides the pride we would feel in
presenting a united front to the North, and the ad
vantage it would be to have all parties meet as
brothers in a great State convention, (taking the
election of Lincoln, of course, as the point of de
parture,) we have now another reason for favoring
the proposal of the proprietor of this paper ; that
is, the earnest desire to put down the reign of poli
ticians.
This country has been brought to the verge of
ruin, by a set of politicians who exercise as des.
potic a rule as ever did the nobility of any coun
try, and the President, King-like, has nominated
his successor. We would be most happy to see
all the people get together just to laugh at the im
potent rage of their would-be-rulers.
Our leaders mostly prefer a straight fight, but if
the people all want to get together in a great south
ern camp meeting, we say huzza, in spite of every
body. But we want everybody to know that we
are not anxious.
We have stood in the minority from the hour
when, as one of ten, we scorned the dictation of
Alabama, and our Kings in Congress, until now,
when from fifteen to twenty thousand as true
Democrats as ever breathed, stand by us.
We are not afraid to count out eur votes, either
against the party that was going to beat Brown
with Akin and didn’t, or the secession party, that
tried to prevent the nomination of Douglas, and
couldn’t.
We are not ashamed to meet the issue with what
we have, aed almost wish that the squad were
small enough to put every name in print, for in
victory or defeat, we shall glory in the privilege
to vote for Douglas and Johnson.
If the people want to unite, never mind the ora
tors or the papers, but just do as you please; but
we won’t urge it, because, as we have said before,
we are but supes in the drama, and the actors are
all on the northern stage. We can’t make thirty
two northern votes if we all vote for one man in
every southern State, and it is now too late for even
a moral influence, but it will re-uuite our own di
vided brotherhood, and not present to the North,
in November, the mortifying spectacle of a pack
of dunces, quarreling over a matter which the
North and North-west will settle entirely without
our assistance.
The following from the Dispatch is really all that
we have cared for in the last two months, and
whether Breckinridge beats U 3 both in the State,
or his friends hold the Legislature, if they stick (o
the following uoble text, we hail them as brothers
yet.
“To fuse c r not to fuse, that is the question.’*
Talk fast, for tl.e time is most out, and we bid you.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31,*1860.
God speed if you all uaite, and we do not care if
you do not.
As for the objection to a threatening attitude, it
strikes us that a fighting attitude would not be
much worse than the drill of the Wide Awakes,
and we don’t care how much we inflame the party
that goes for Lincoln ; and the South can ftflam*
and cut shines, if she wants to rival the Kossuth
and “Atlantic cable*’ manias of Yankeedom.
The idea that the move is for party purposes,
is doubtless not without foundation somewhere;
but wc first entered our own dissent to it on the
sole ground that we feared some one would think
that we wanted to back out and hide at this late
hour in the day. We stood by Douglas when al
the South sung praises to his Kansas act, aud
we will stand by him in victor? or defeat, in glo
ry or in shame, if shame could ever rest on one
so great.
But stick to your text to vote for toe ruau to
defeat Lincoln, you have fused with t»» ail
that yye really desne. v .
The Dispatch says: * Ar ***'. „ \
“Now, while we do not impute any but the most ;
patriotic motives to Mr. Gardner, we*believe this se- j
cond aud eleventh hour fusion movement has for
its main object more regard for party, than . rl
country, principle or practical good. Ir» the first j
place, as Mr. Gardner admits, thirty-two northern*
votes must be had to defeat Lincoln, and it is an j
insult to any party, or any party leader, at the |
South, to suppose that there would be any herniation j
to cast the electoral vote far either candidate to heal
Lincoln. A halter should await the neck of any ,
southern elector who would hesitate in such an
emergency. A union at tho»South cannot now be
effected. It is too late; and if it could, in no wise
could it affect the elections North, unless to inflame
♦he sectional struggle by assuming the appearance
of a threatening attitude in advance.”
MISSISSIPPI INTELLIGENCE.
Frost.— TheMpajority of our exchanges speak of
killing that cotton especially has been
very mamrialiy injured in many localities.
The Yazoo Banner says “ there is a considerable
quantity of fotton homing in, and sells readily at
from ten to flbvea cents.” 1 •
The Canton papers say that the # fe
ver ” has made its uppearauce is pre
vailing in an epidemic form.
From the Oxford Mercury, of the 19th, we .ex
tract the following:
A rumor prevails that a duel is on foot between
one of our Senators and a distinguished politician,
formerly of this State, but now a citizen of Ten
nessee.
There have been several rumors of contempla
ted insurrections in various portions of Mississip*
Ci recently, which have invariably turned out to
e wholly groundless, or magnified from a mole-hill
into a mountain.
Frost. —The frost on the 13th seems to have been
very general in Mississippi, in many places killing
the cotton plant. In Natchez the first white frost
seen was on the morning of the Oth inst. This,
however, did no injury.
The Natchez Ceuritr, of the i3tb, says:
We learn that on Tuesday morning last, ice
was formed iu one location of this city. We
hardly thought the weather cold enough for ice
that morning, yet our informant is a gentleman
reliable for veracity. It was very apparent to ev
ery one that there was a heavy white frost on the
occasion. Clear, winter weather is upon us in
earnest, aud business reviving.”
In Franklin county the frost was more severe.
The Courier says .
We learn from our worthy frieud, Wm. M. Por
ter, Esq, of Meadviile, that the citizen* of FraiJ>Hn
county experienced a heavy black frost on Tuest~.y
last. Ice was formed in many parts of the county.
White frosts had appeared for three or four morn
ings.
A Vicksburg paper chronicles the presence of
the same visitor, and speaks of damuge being done
by the same cold. In Bovina, it says :
They had a killing frost on the 13th, the earliest
they have had for many years. Every frost short
ens the cotton crop.
The Copiah Kites says :
Very heavy frosts were visible here on the morn
ings of the 13th and 14th. We supposed the young
and tender vegetation suffered.
The Yazoo Democrat chronicles damage done by
a black frost the morning of the 13th inst.
In Jackson the same complaint is made. The
cotton felt the effects of its presence.
Politics.— The whole State of Mississippi is ablaze
with political excitement. Barbecues end public
addresses are had in all the counties, and the meet
ings are spoken of as large beyond previous prece
dent.
ANOTHER LAST ISLAND DISASTER
Our readers will doubtless remember the calam
ity w hich occurred at Last Eland, on the coast of
Louisiana, some few years ago, when so many
lives were lost in a severe storm. It seems that a
similar catastrophe Las befallen that island in the
recent storms which prevailed iu that section,
though not attended with so great a loss of life as
the first mentioned. The New Orleans Picayune
of the 22d says :
Lost on List Island. —The Chic Guard gives the
following confirmation of the rumor that a family
had beeu lost on Last Island duriug the late
storm:
We have just learned from Mr. Bowie, of this
parish, that Mr. Williams, his wife and six of his
children, were drowned on Last Island during the
late storm. Messrs. Bowie and Michel searched
Tor the bodies, and found that of Mr. Williams,
his wife and two of bis children,which they buried.
Mr. Williams was lying ou the island in the house
of Mr. Prevost. Mr. Bowie informed us that the
water must have been eight feet deep over the isl
and. Mr. Blanchard saved himself in the forks of
a small backberry tree. It is said that about fif
teen persons were drowned on the island. A fine
schooner of one hundred and eighty tons burthen
was blowu on the island, and lies .high and dry.
The beach was covered with dead goats, cows,
horses and chickens, and some solubles came
ashore m too damaged a state to be of use.
The house of Mr. M. Knight stood the lashings
of the storm, showing that houses can be built to
stand the winds. This house, we understand, was
built to test the storms of ihe island, and has
stood, and is in no way injured.
PUSH ON THE COLUMN.
We have already stated that a private letter re
ceived at this office announced that the National
Democracy of Louisiana were hopeful of carrying
both New Orleans and the State for Douglas and
Johnson.
A letter to the Montgomery (Ala.) Confederation
conveys the same gratifying information.
Hon. Isaac E. Morse, formerly a member of
Congress from Louisiana, is making speeches for
Douglas and Johnson.
The Mobile Register, and other Douglas papers
in that »State, claim Alabama for Douglas. The
Montgomery Post and the Alabama State Sen tone
say that several gentlemen in Dallas county have
recently left the Breckinridge party, because at
their recent Selma mass meeting that party re
fused to instruct their State electors to vote so as
to defeat Lincoln, if possible.
£sP*Gov. Gist, of South Carolina, nominated
for United States Senator, says he would not serve
if Lincoln is elected President. Wc have some
aspirants for Senatorial honors in Georgia, who
may or may not agree with Gov. Gist of South
Carolinia.
MR CUTLER-AUGUSTA AND MACON RAIL
ROAD, AC.
We find the following article in the last num- |
ber of the Saudersrille Georgian, and as it has i
been published without comment in some of our ,
city papeis, we shall treat it in a different manner. 1
Here follows tbe article to which we refer : ,
Mr. Cuyler, President of the Central railroad |
company, has had the route from No. 12, on said ,
road, surveyed to Sparta, Ga. That a road will
be built over said route, Is not at all likely. That
the route has been surveyed to make believe the t
toad will be built, and to frighten people on other
routes, we have not the slightest doubt. Already ,
we hear it currently reported that the Macon anil '
Augusta road will be completed only to Sparta
from its connection on the Georgia road. This is (
the end sought after by the mover»in the survey
from No. 12. If the people of Macon, Mil- |
ledgeville, Sparta, and the counties aloDg the
line of said road, can be thus easily frightened,
they deserve to be without a road. If Mr. Guy- 1
ler had desired to please the people of Han
cock and Washington, he would have surveyed
the route from No. 13. llut that was not his object.
He replied, as we are informed, to a petition sent
■to him bv the citizens of Sandersville, asking that i
;he road "might be surveyed .rtsm No. 13, “that the
people of Sandersville and Sparta would, no doubt, ,
be very willing far him to build a road from No.
IS for iheir accommodationand that “he intend
,ed to survey the route from No. 12.” We give i
■ this statement merely as report, not knowing
| whether it be true or riot. Due thing we do know :
I we signed the petition, and all the answer we have
| ever heard of being received by those having the
j business in hand, was the verbal answer quoted
i above. If he has ever sent any other, it has never
been seen or heard of by a majority of those sign
ing the petition.
There is a good deal of speculation a float about
the intentions of Mr. Cuyler, and also about the
intentions of the Macon and Warrenton Railroad
j Company. We hare never bothered ourselves by
I enquiries as to the inten lions of either.
So far as the railroad to Macon is concerned, we
presume it i.- enough to know that contractors are
progressing with the work from Warrenton to
Spartß, and it jwiii take many months, and more
than a year, to complete it to Sparta. If railroads
could be built us readily as complaints can be ut
tered, and paragraphs of enquiry be written, rail
road building would be an easy matter. It re
quires a large amount of money to build railroads;
and a large number of hands; but there are appa
rently quite a number of persons who believe that
such enterprises can be completed by an editorial;
a few country or town meetings, and some
smoothly reading resolutions. It is a sad mis
take.
We have no right or business to cartyaboul tbe
intentions of Mr. Ct'Yuni in surveying routes
from Nos. 12, 13, or any other number. He
kDows his own business, and attends to it in his
own way, us he certainly has the right to do.
We have, however, as a journalist, and as a cor
porator, something to say about home matters.
When the people of Augusta authorised the City
Council to subscribe live hundred thousand dol
lars to the stock of the .Milledgeville railroad
company (or as it is better known by the name of
the Macon and Augusta railroad) we are satisfied
they were under the impression that they were
authorising a subscription to be made to a
railroad which would be u direct one to Ma-
Icon, and not a mere branch of the Georgia railroad.
The understanding of our people was, that if we
maSj a liberal subscription, we would meet with
: reaafj active and umple co-operation T/vm capitul
| 'St. - ., companies and corporations. Augusta made
tfip subscription, but the liberal co-operation was
not obtained.
The connection at or near Warrenton was de
termined on, we are informed, because subscrip
tions sufficient to build the direct road could not
bcobtained. Thcpeople ofAugusta, however, nev
er approved of this Warrenton connection. It is
not the road our people desired; and we know they
would not authorise a subscription for any such
enterprise.
The Sandersville Georgian says that “alreudv
we hear it currently reported that the Macon and
Augusta road will be completed an/i / to Sparta."
Wc should be pleased now to know that enough
co-operation or money can be obtained to build .the
road to Sparta. The company have already found
monetary difficulties iu their way. Negotiations
for money never were more difficult to make than
at this time. Our city subscriptions of five hundred
thousand dollars is very embarrassing to our city
finance managers.
The general stringency in the money market af
fects all undertakings, and particularly that of the
Macon and Warrenton railroad, which has just
commenced with an insufficient capital. Do those
who complain about the railroad “being completed
only to Sparta,” produce the means to complete it
to any more distant point ? While we feel no kind
of interest in the railroad as at present located, or
rather no more interest than if it was being built
in any other portion of Georgia, we care not wheth
er it is stopped at Sparta, Milledgeville, or Macon
We regret that Augusta has five hundred thousand
dollars in any such enterprise, while her other
financial obligations already absorb all of her as
sets. If the railroad had been located as it was
originally intended it should be, and as Augusta
considered it would be, when she made her sub
scription, wc should have been prepared to make
all sacrifices to complete the work, if we had met
the co-operation which was expected.
If tbe city of Augusta had an overflowing trea
sttry, and it was thought prudent to invest a por
tion of her surplus funds in railroad stocks, it
might be well enough to do so. Ana it might
be piudent to use her credit iu fostering new ra.l
roads which start from, or terminate in this city.
But the idea of subscribing for five hundred thou
sand dollars in the stock of a mere branch of the
Georgia railroad, when our financial condition will
not warrant it, is a policy which, to aay the least,
is not recommended by judicious considerations of
the condition of our finances or the results to be
obtained.
These remarks are elicited by the article in tbe
Sandersville Georgian. We repeat, we know noth
ing about Mr. Covlur’s business, nor of the ob
jects of the Macon and Augusta railroad compa
ny; nor do we care where the branch railroad stops
as its construction did not commence at Augusta.
SIGHT EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK.
We are reliably informed that the banks in
Charleston, Savannah, and Augusta, are now sell- 1
iog sight exchange on New York, at a quarter per 1
cent, premium.
An advertisement in the Charleston Courier '
announces that the Charleston and Suvanuah rail
road will be opened, so that the cars can run '
from depot to depot, ou the Ist of November. 1
The Breckinridge mass meeting, at Selma, cn '
the 18tb, were requested by their own friends to
pass a resolution authorising the electors of their
party, in case they are elected, to cast the vote 1
of the State for whoever it would elect against 1
Lincoln, and they refused to do it! 1
Montgomery (Ala.) Poet, Oet. 18. j
THE FIREMEN'S PARADE SATURDAY.
Tho Firemen’s parade Saturday was one of the
best displays made by this galtant body of men in
this community. At the appointed hour, the line
was formed on Greene street,in front of Firemen’s
Hall, and near the bell tower; and after being re
viewed by Chief Engineer Lamback and Assistants,
the procession came into Broad street in the fol
lowing order:
Pioneer Hook and Ladder, No. 1, Capt. J. Platt,
twenty-six members.
Hamburg, S. C.,Fire Company, Capt. C. H. Ken
net, twenty-two members.
Ghorgia, Independent Fire company, No! 1,
Capt. T. Boxes, twenty-four members.
Mechanic Fire company, No. 2, Capt. William
Rutherford, twenty-three members.
Washington, Augusta Fire company, No. 1,
Capt. Heilmuth, twenty-four members.
Clinch, Steam, No. 2, Capt. McCann, thirty-one
members.
Vigilant, No. 3, Capt. John* Nklssn, thirty-four
members, and nine reel boys.
Fillmore, No. 4, Capt. Wm. 11. Wheeler,twenty
six members.
Augusta, No. 5, Capt. D. Galvin, forty-eight
members.
Columbia, No. 6, Capt. Fulgum, twenty mem
bers, two reel boy 9.
Richmoud, No. 7, Capt. Siikhax, forty-four
members.
Making, altogether, a total of three hundred
and thirteen white members; aud with the Chief
and Assistant Engineers, three hundred and six
teen ; in addition to these, were forty-two colored
reel boys.
The engines were all in good order, and the
procession made quite a handso.ne display. It
was preceded by the Augusto Brass Band, which
discoursed delightful music along the route.
As the procession moved off, the new alarm bell,
“Big Stephen,” commenced tolling. We are in
formed that its performance Saturday was no evi
dence of what will be done when the necessary
machinery and ringing aparatus is completed. A
rope was tied to the tongue, stretched across the
street, and pulled by two or three men—which ar
rangement could not give it that force which it
will have with its own. A wag suggests that the
reason why it did not sound well was, because it
was “tongue tied.” Well, perhaps it was; but to
resume our account of the proceedings of the day.
The procession having marched some distance
up Broad street, countermarched aud halted in
front of the Augusta Hotel, where there was a trial
of the throwing capacity of the several enginos,
the result of which we append below. During the
time occupied by the procession, and in playing,
Broad-street presented a gay, animated, and beau
tiful scene—numbers of ladies and children occu
pying the balconies and side walks, and the crowds
of people all taking a lively interest iu the cheerful
scene before them. It was, indeed, a gala day;
. and the weather was pleasant enough to make the
pageant agreeable to participators, as well as spec
tators.
The Judges were: Messrs. I). U. Denning, J. C.
Quinn, R. S. Pass, Wm. 11. Rich, and Wm. S.
Platt.
’ The companies having arrived at the appointed
| place, nlayed.off in the following order, and with
tilt.* following results .
5 SECOND CLASS ENGINES.
feet, in.
Ist, Hamburg—first play—l in. nozzle, 139 7
“ —second “ “ “ 131 0
2d. Richmond, No. 7—first play—in. iH'Z. 149 5
“ —second “ “ “ 150 4
’ 3d. Washington, No. I—first play— % “ 14S 9
“ —second “ “ “ 105 4
“ —third “ “ “ 104 0
r 4th. Fillmore, No. 4—first play—% “ “ 147 1
“ —second “ “ “ “ 141 0
FIRST CLASS ENGINES.
r sth. Columbia, No. o—first play—l in. uoz. 150 8
\ “ —second “ “ “ 150 9
“ —third “ u “ 160 0
“ —fourth “ “ “ 101 G
“ —fifth “ “ 165 G
6th. Vigilant, No. 3—first play—l iu. noz. 185 10
1 . “ —second “ “ “ 181 9
“ —third' “ “ “ ISll}£
7th. Augusta, No. s—first play—l in. noz 195 0
“ —second “ “ “ IS7 5
“ —third “ “ “ 178 0
Bth.Mechanic,No.2,lnd. —first play—l in.noz. 181 1
“ —second “ “ “ 172 0
' 9th. Georgia,No. 1, Ind—first play—l in.noz. 189 2
(This engine burst five sectious of Lose.) Each
engine was allowed ten minutes to play.
The following are the names of the builders of
the several engines:
Hamburg, maker, Hunneman.
Richmond, No. 7, maker, “
Washington, No, 1, “ “
Fillmore, No. 4, “ “
Columbia, No. 6, “ Jeffers.
Vigilant, No. 3, “ “
Augusia, No. 5, “ “
Mechanic, 2nd div. “ AgnEw.
Georgia, Ist div. “ Button.
The First-lass Engine, which took the first
prize was Augusta, No. 5, which played one hun
dred and ninety-eight feet six inches. The prize
is a handsomely wrought silver trumpet, and cost,
we believe, about eighty dollars.
The Second Class Engine, which took the se
cond prize, was Washington, No. 1, which
played one hundred and sixty-five feet four inches
The prize is a handsome silver goblet, and cost
about twenty dollars. Both of these prizes were
presented by the City Council, aud arc well de
served by the two gallant and energetic compa
nies which had the good fortune to win them.
Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company served as a
guard within the ropes which were stretched to
inclose the playing ; and after the contest of hand
engines was over, Clinch, No. 2, took the field and
acted well her part, as she is always bound to do
with her present company.
After these exercises were concluded, the several
companies returned to their places of rendezvous,
and were dismissed.
At eight o’clock P. M., Washington and Augusta
tire Companies assembled at Firemen’s Hall, on
Greene street, where the prizes were pre
sented by Mr. S. D. Heard, in a very neat
and appropriate speech, which was eloquently
responded to, in behalf of both companies, by Mr.
L. Midlam, Assistant Engineer of the Fire Depart
ment.
Three cheers were then given for the City Coun
cil ; three for the speakers; and three for the big
bell; after which the crowd dispersed.
Altogether* the affair, as we have already said,
passed off well, and we may add very creditably
to our energetic and very efficient fire department.
Iron a Cure for the Cattle Disease. —Late
foreign papers state that marked cases of the
pleuro-pneumonia in France were completely
•ured last year in twelve days with sulphate of
iron.
VOL. 39—ISfO- 45
MONETARY AFFAIRS IN SOOTH CAROLINA.
We regret to notice in Charleston papers, severe
strictures on the course pursued by the banks in
that city, and in that State. If it is the intention
of (he press in South Carolina to urge their banks
into a suspension of specie payments, the pohcv
they are pursuing is a good one. Public opinion
may compel them to suspend. But itappearsthat
the banks are anxious to pursue a judicious course,
and avoid any troubles which may result.
A correspondent of the Utreury , “Caution,” in
view of the secession of South Carolina from’ the
Union, says :
“It is apparent, I think, that, with proper legis
lation, no crisis need be apprehended. And all
that is necessary to avoid such a state of thing* is
for the Legislature to authorise our banks to sw
pend specie paymeuts for a limited time, under
certain restrictions as to the amount of the issues
or circulation.
The Mercury, in commenting on the above ex
tract, says :
“Our correspondent suggests that our Legisla
ture, in case the State secedes from the Union
should authorise a suspension of specie payments
by the banks. One of the first expedients to
spread confusion and distress over the State, un
dountedly, may be a run upon the banks for spe
cie by northern capitalists. We trust no Caroli
nian would be guilty of such unpatriotic conduct/'
The Mstcury continues, and states that while the
suspension of specie payments is the natural rem
edy for bank panics, there is no necessity for any
alarm, and thinks that a glorious future will open
to Charleston when a Southern Confederacy is
formed.
This monetary discussion in South Carolina is
unfortunate at this time, as an active winter trade
is opening, and the public mind is already dis
tracted about the uncertainties and entanglements
of the future.
JUDGE DOUGLAS IN THE SOUTH.
Douglas at Huntsville. —The Montgomery (Ala.)
Cm federation, of October 28th, has the following:
A telegraphic dispatch, which we received on
yesterday, brought us the glad intelligence that
the gallant Douglas was in Huntsville on the 23th,
and spoke to the largest crowd ever assembled In
North Alabama. Thousands of people, mostly
; ibe honest yeomanry, the bone and sinew, all of
- whom in North Alabama are thorough going
t Douglas men, all turned out to hear living truths
, from tho lips of one who has fought and bled in
' behalf of the South, und southern institutions.
1 He is scarred ail over with blows received from
> the Black Republicans, while he was defending
. our own cherished rights, and now is marching in
, one grand triumph North, East, South, and West,
L amid the loud shouts of an entbusiascic people,
1 still battling for Constitutional liberty and the pre
-1 serration of the Union.
i, His overwhelming reasoning—his lofty argu
-3 mentative capacity—his burning eloquence, and
what is much more, the plain, straight forward
» words of truth, which fell from bis lips at Hunts
- ville, has convinced many an honest man, who
!• had been betrayed into the support of the iireck
g inridge ticket, of the utter folly and recklessness
. of such a purpose. Truly, the word of good cheer
1 conies! In Douglas the friends of true Democracy
; have an able anil honest statesman—a man who is
e bold, \et true to the Sout h - never flinching in time
of storm, and never refusing to tell the people
what he thinks to be tight. He has fought the
black Republican party from its very existence,
aud as he said openly ar.d boldly in a speech de
livered a few weeks ago in New York, ho is their
deadly enemy. He has fought the secessionists,
too. aud has got them whipped, and powerless,
• aud mangled, and bleeding at ins feet. He is a
i people’s man ready to standby the rights of a
whole people, Nor:h or South. We call upon the
Seople every where to be here on the Second,
udge Douglas wifi certainly speak on that day.
Douglas at Nashville. —The Nashville (Term.)
Patriot, of the 27th, says :
1 The Hon. Stcpheu A Douglas has couie to Nash
ville, be has spoken to the people, and has g me.
He reached tne city yesterday morning, at "eight
i o’clock, aud haviug stayed long enough to make a
two hours’ speech, and rest himself a little, left
this morning for Chattanooga, where he has an
’ appointment to speak to-day.
The Douglas Democracy have cao.-e to be proyd
» of the reception they gave their candidate for the
Presidency on bis arrival here, and he certainly
has no cause to be dissatisfied with it. He was
met at the depot by an immense crowd, who bailed
1 his coming with deafening cheers. On alighting
) from the cars, he was met by Gov. Foote, and
5 other prominent Democrats, when G<*v. Foote in*
troduced the venerable Dr. Felix K. Robertson,
’ who, in a few remarks, welcomed Mr. Douglas to
Nashville. He was then seated, with Gov. Foote,
9 Dr. Robertson, and Dr. Harley, in an elegant open
/ carriage, drawn by four splendid black horses.
~ and was escorted by his friends in procession tc*
the St. Cloud Hotel. Much curiosity was mani
-5 fested to see the great champion of popular sov
-0 ereignty, and thousands thronged the streets
1 through which he passed on his way to the hotel.
( At eleveu o’clock Mr. Douglas was driven to the
" East front of the Court House, where a stand had
- been erected for the occation. His arrival was the
tv signal for repeated cheering, which was re-reheat
ed as he mounted the stand und stepped out in lull
. view of the multitude. The balconies of the City
Hotel, the windows of the Court House, and all the
business bouses from which the stand could be
seen, were thronged with ladies. We will not at
tempt to estimate the number of people present
Some of the older inhabitants pronounced it the
largest crowd they had ever seen m Xashviile for
fit teen or twenty years.
Mr. Douglas was introduced to the people by
Gov. Foote, and spoke for about two hours. The
crowd was so very large that it was impossible for
hundreds—we may almost say th* usands—who
were present to hear him. His speech, as his
speeches always are, was a most powerful one.
t Judge Douglas at Chattanooga. —A dispatch in
- the Atlanta Confedaacy, of Saturday afternoon,
j 27th inst., says that Judge Douglas was received
at Chattauooga on that morning by over ten thou
sand persons.
Another Triumph of the South.—The Grover
k Baker Sewing machines at the late California
Siate Fair, held at Sun Francisco, was awarded the
highest premium above all other sewing machines
1 in competition.
One penny a day will buy food in China suffie
ient to enable a man to “live comfortably.”
To Make a Cow Give Down Her Milk.—A
subscriber complains that lie has a fine cow,
which has twelve quarts of milk to spare at each
milking, yet she will not let him have any until
her calf has had his supply. He wants to know
the reason of this. He strongly suspects there
is something in his looks, his hat, dress, or mor
al habits, or his way of milking, which has so
set his dumb beast against him. He is in great
tribulation. Fie, fie, sir! just try milking one
teat at a time, as the calf does, and see if that
won’t make her give down. We have known
this to answer the purpose many a time. If
that won’t do, along with it try the practice of
giving her some favourite food, just to divert her
attention when you begin to milk,
[A merican Agricultuiist.
Composititiox Cake.-—H lbs. sugar; If lbs.
butter: If lbs. flour; 1 cup of milk; 1 tea
spoonful of soda : 6 eggs; 1 wine-glass brandy;
fruit to your taste.
Jumbles.—£ lb. sugar; j lb. butter; l lb.
flour; flavour with cinnamon.
Chocolate Custard. —£ lb. chocolate; 1 qt.
milk; 2 eggs; 1 cup sugar. Grate the choco
late, and stir into the milk when nearly boing.
When it begins to thicken, add the eggs and
sugar. Let it boil a few minutes, constantly
stirring. L*